Operation Wildwood
The U.S. detonates its largest above-ground test. Within forty-eight hours, Forest Service field reports catalogue four distinct cryptid populations. The program is sealed in 1961. Its files sleep for seventy years.
- Wildwood Pact — old-growth, shamanic
- Deep Current — aquatic, patient
- Signal Corps — aerial, information-warfare
- Biosynth Collective — atomic-age hybrids