The Apocalypse Club by Craig McLay

Author:Craig McLay [McLay, Craig]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Humor & Entertainment, Humor, Satire, Literature & Fiction, Humor & Satire, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science Fiction, Post-Apocalyptic
Amazon: B00NLLPCQW
Published: 2014-10-14T22:00:00+00:00

PART III

Manhattan Underwater

From The Guardian, 14 September 1992:

GRISLY DISCOVERY DEEPENS GHENZHAI MYSTERY

(GREENLAND) – The five bodies discovered near the edge of the massive Förssagen ice sheet in a remote area of northeastern Greenland last week may belong to renowned Arctic explorer Hideki Ghenzhai and his exploration team, who vanished in the region 60 years ago.

The bodies were discovered by a small team of Norwegian climate researchers led by Dr. Lars Juningsprogen, who has been conducting research for the University of Oslo.

“It appears that the bodies were frozen in the ice sheet,” said Dr. Juningsprogen. “But as the rate of ice melt has accelerated, they have broken free, if you will, and been washed down into the giant Handleer Crevasse, which is approximately twice the depth of the Grand Canyon.”

Dr. Juningsprogen said it would be extremely difficult to estimate the original location of the bodies, which are believed to include Ghenzhai, Swedish geologist Dr. Hans Stromm, renowned Italian mountaineer Sergio “Seven Summits” Cabosta, and two unidentified research assistants. The other eight members of the expedition are still missing.

The condition of the bodies, however, has raised more questions than their sudden reappearance has answered.

“They appear to have suffered little to no decomposition at all,” said Dr. Willem Strosek, the pathologist who examined the remains at the Bethesda Medical Center in Maryland. “This is not at all what we would expect to see in cases where victims died as a result of exposure.”

Some reports, however, seem to indicate that exposure was not the cause of death.

“It looked like some of them had been, well, partially eaten,” said Dr. Juningsprogen. “Ghenzhai and Cabosta especially. Cabosta’s chest cavity was open and it appeared that his heart had been taken out. Ghenzhai’s lower jaw was missing and his tongue appeared to have been removed. One of the interns was missing eyes while the other had no ears.”

Dr. Strosek refused to comment on the apparent mutilations or whether or not they appeared to be the result of human or animal activity. “It is far too early to speculate on that,” he said. He also refused to say whether the injuries were post mortem or may have contributed to the deaths of those individuals.

The Handleer Crevasse is approximately 750 miles northeast of the last known position of the famously doomed expedition, which disappeared in August 1932.

Ghenzhai had publicly announced his intent to follow in the footsteps of previous failed expeditions, such as Luis Dornier, Smythe-Hudson and Enrico Trappicanti, to locate what many in the scientific community derisively refer to as “Eden island” below the massive Greenland ice sheet.

Following on what he claimed was “lost” research recovered from an earlier expedition mounted by Lord Tristan Smythe and George Randall Hudson, Ghenzhai claimed to have translated three ancient scrolls discovered near Yedra (the site of a former Muslim fortification during the Crusades in Syria) that pointed to Greenland as the origin of all life on earth.

Born in San Francisco to a Chinese father and Australian mother, Ghenzhai first rose to

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