The Case of Tommy Ferguson

This file was compiled by Alva Keel through witness interviews.

      Mr. Paul Callan, a seminary student in Boston, Massachusetts, investigated miracles for the Catholic church to gauge their authenticity. The more cases that he found had a mundane explanation, the more he questioned his faith. An example of such a case would be one involving a nun's body that had been perfectly preserved for 104 years by apricots rotting in the soil of her grave. The local clergy and townspeople were convinced she was a saint, so it was quite upsetting to Mr. Callan to have to be the one to dash their hopes. To clear his head, Mr. Callan took a sabbatical lasting approximately three months, which abruptly ended the day two mysterious things happened.
      First, he dreamed of taking a train ride, where he encountered a young boy quietly playing with a baseball and glove. Outside the train's window, he beheld a red-painted water tower with the words, "God Is Coming" spray-painted on it in white lettering. When he again looked at the boy, the boy's face had a deathlike pallor, with blood-red eyes, and a tear of blood trickling from his left eye. The boy said, "I'm waiting for you." Thus, the dream ended.
      The second mysterious incident was that Mr. Callan received a phone call from an associate, Father Calero, who informed him of a case in Arizona that needed investigating immediately. (The reason this call was mysterious will be explained later in the casefile.) A young boy could apparently heal the sick. On a side note, Mr. Callan noticed the water tower from his dream, sans spray-painted message, on the way into the town. When he arrived at the home of Thomas Ferguson, he discovered that this boy who it was claimed could heal people was the very same boy from his dream - the boy also recognized him. Tommy, as he wished to be known, had the same dream, only from the opposite view. It also turned out that Tommy was, in fact, a baseball fan.
      Mr. Callan was told how Tommy was sick with a rare genetic blood disorder. After interviewing at least one person the boy had cured, and his attending physician, he began to do his own research on this disorder. He found it to be impossible that Tommy could have this sickness, and so came to the conclusion that it was most likely the healing of others that was the cause of the child's illness.
      During this time, Mr. Callan experienced another dream of Tommy. In this dream, as he walked down a deserted road speaking to Father Calero on the phone about the boy's condition, it began to rain blood. He then saw Tommy standing on nearby railroad tracks as a train approached rapidly. Mr. Callan attempted to save the boy, but he was too late - the train overcame Tommy.
      This dream is very significant because of what happened next: Mrs. Ferguson tried to take her son away because she feared for his declining health. Mr. Callan followed. It was raining quite heavily that night, and Mrs. Ferguson eventually stopped her car at a railroad crossing because of an oncoming train. Mr. Callan became distracted by indistinct voices coming from his car radio, then looked up to see that the water tower did indeed now have the words from his dream spray-painted on it: "God Is Coming." By the time he realized he was about to rear-end Mrs. Ferguson's now stalled car, it was nearly too late, so he swerved blindly around her and into the path of the train. The train totaled Mr. Callan's car, knocking it off the tracks and into a side ditch, leaving him in a state of near death.
      While Mrs. Ferguson went to acquire help, Tommy made his way down to the battered car against her expressed wishes. Although Mr. Callan asked him to refrain, the boy crawled inside the car and healed him of his mortal injuries. Just prior to this, both Mr. Callan and Tommy witnessed a phenomena called hemography. Mr. Callan's blood ran out onto the broken windshield and formed itself into readable words. These words were: "God Is Now Here." Mr. Callan discovered that he was healed, and that Tommy Ferguson had stopped breathing. The child could not be revived. He had given his own life to heal another.
      It was at Tommy's funeral that Mr. Callan beheld the spirit of a deceased person for the first time. As he turned to look at the entrance into the church, he saw Tommy standing there, appearing happy and healthy. Tommy smiled directly at him, then vanished.
      Mr. Callan returned to the Boston area church for which he worked to present them with his report on Tommy Ferguson. He had declared the case a true miracle. This report was soundly rejected by Monsignor Andrade for sufficient lack of "proof," and so Mr. Callan felt compelled to resign from his position.
      On his way from the building, Mr. Callan encountered Father Calero, the man who had purportedly called him about Tommy's case in the first place. This is where the second mystery comes into play: Father Calero claimed he had never called Mr. Callan about this case. Phone records back up his claim; it is unknown who actually made the call, as the phone company has no record of it ever taking place.
      It was shortly after these events that I got in touch with Mr. Callan and asked him to join Sodalitas Quaerito.

Related Cases: See Callan, Paul; Hemography; G., Chad

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