Supplemental Record
Extension 000
At 02:13 on 4 March, the telephone in Wysocki’s office rang.
The internal display showed:
000
No such FSC extension exists.
Wysocki answered.
The caller gave him a room number, a personnel name, and the phrase:
Caller: “Check behind the second cabinet.”
The call lasted eleven seconds.
Security found a concealed recording device behind the cabinet at the specified location.
No record of the incoming call existed in the Base 05 telephone system.
Three weeks later, Extension 000 called again.
This time it provided the registration number of a vehicle later connected to surveillance of FSC personnel.
Over the following two years, Wysocki received seventeen calls from the number.
The information was not always important, but it was consistently accurate.
Technical personnel eventually replaced his telephone, its wiring, and the wall connection.
The calls continued.
They disconnected the office from the internal telephone network entirely.
At 01:46 the following morning, the phone rang.
Wysocki answered it.
Afterward, technicians confirmed that the telephone had no cable connected to it.
The contents of that call remain classified.
The only surviving note from Wysocki’s report reads:
Wysocki: “Until it gives us a reason not to listen, I suggest we continue answering.”
Extension 000 remains listed in Intelligence records as an unverified source.
No attempt to call the number has ever connected.
Personnel Observation
Unnaturally Quiet
Wysocki possesses the peculiar property of performing almost every ordinary physical action with remarkably little sound.
The effect extends well beyond walking quietly.
He can run across hard flooring with little audible footfall. Pencil writing that produces obvious scratching sounds when performed by another person becomes nearly inaudible in his hands. Chairs known to squeak consistently have remained silent while he moves in them. Drawers, cabinet doors, clothing, keys, dishes, and even loose objects he carries produce substantially less noise than expected.
The effect does not appear to result solely from deliberate movement. Personnel have deliberately provided him with squeaking chairs and noisy footwear and instructed him not to compensate for them.
The results remained unusually quiet.
One test involved asking Wysocki to make as much noise as possible while walking normally down a corridor. Observers agreed that he succeeded in becoming louder, but considerably less so than anyone expected.
No satisfactory mechanical explanation has been identified.
The phenomenon is mostly harmless, although Wysocki unintentionally startling coworkers by appearing beside them without an audible approach is a recurring Intelligence Branch complaint.
He has, on more than one occasion, been asked to announce himself before entering particularly quiet offices.
