Experiment #1

The experiments I have been attempting have only been partially successful.

Experiment number one focused on a theory about the Fears.

What we fear becomes a Fear.

Fear needs fear to survive.

Throughout history, what folk have feared takes on different appearances. For example, in the Medieval Age, the Bubonic Plague spread. People were terrified of this mysterious unknown disease, because they did not know how to combat it. The doctors would brick up houses of victims to prevent the spread if the disease reached a stage where it was no longer treatable, and wore masks with a beak to filter the 'bad air' that supposedly caused it. Today we have the Fear of disease and plague. He wears a bird beak mask and is known as the Plague Doctor, because this was the one time when all were in terror at disease, even more so than today's HIV and AIDS.

Another example is what is today called EAT. It represents the fear of water, drowning and obsession. This fits equally well in other times as it does today, with our drug addictions and alcohol dependence. Of course, water has been around all this time so no new form has had to be taken. The fear of a vicious predator such as the Rake has been around for many years.

But what of Fears such as the Slender Man? Has his suit changed with the centuries? If you could travel to Ancient Egypt would you find him in a loincloth, or in fancy nobleman dress? Some Fears change with the times, to become what that culture fears the most.

The most interesting part of this theory is that the Fears themselves may have influenced the development of culture. Had an Egyptian looked through a door to the Empty City and striven to replicate its buildings as best they could? Could it, in fact, have been the Empty City guiding humanity’s architectural progress all along?

We may never know. 

So. This is the theory I've been using.

If the Fears are our fears manifest, logically the only way to kill them is to remove those fears.

Most are irrational, such as drowning. It's not likely to happen.

The Dying Man... well, we all die in the end. You'd have thought humanity would be used to it by now.

The hypothesis I'm currently working on is that phobias are stored somewhere in the mind. All you have to do is enter the subconscious, find it, and remove it.

...it's not that easy.

For one, most people don't even know about their own subconscious mind. They only access it when sleeping.

There's a pseudo-Hypnotism method known as NLP, Neuro-Linguistic Programming. I've been using it.

More info later.