Log 13 Archives

“Log 13” was a Quotev fanfiction that detailed the tragic events of the author known as “Valerian”. Each chapter appears to be in a journal/blog format regarding the author’s family’s disappearances and his own identity being erased, as well as being kidnapped by the government and, for some reason, aliens.

Valerian, himself, seems to be an adult man possibly in his late 20s based on the information given by him. His ethnicity is Russian American, also due to the information given. His family was made up of a mother, father, and little sister. Later on in the story, his extraterrestrial friend, Dmitri, serves as his companion. Valerian is inflicted with paranoia and trauma due to what has happened to him. However, he is still human with human interests, such as horror films, classic rock, and art.

The entries are posted at random, but fortunately have the date in which they were posted. They either range from short to long, ramblings to coherent paragraphs regarding his situation, and are a mix of English and Russian.

Reasons

The contents, whether true or not, are of interest for several reasons:

There is little to no discussion about the fanfiction or author outside of Quotev. It’s strange since it seems to greatly fall under Creepypasta, which may have surged again around 2018, the time it was first opened.

Valerian has stopped posting as of 2020, around the time the COVID-19 Pandemic hit. I’ll be honest, I’ve assumed the worst has happened.

I felt like a close companion to Valerian since we would speak with each other directly about the contents of his journal, but also him as a person. In one of his entries he mentions something about his story becoming a Creepypasta or internet horror story. I feel it’s almost my duty to go ahead and bring this into the light once more.

In short

I will be re-reading each entry and analyzing my thoughts on it as I go along. I will make sure to link the story here on the main post, but also the chapters that I’m discussing. Any comments that were made under it will be analyzed as well to see what else I can dig up.

However, I highly encourage anyone else who decides to follow along in this investigation to comment their thoughts and theories. However, please be kind and courteous.

Also this will be a VERY informal blog because I honestly don’t have time to make it look aesthetically pleasing.

Chapter Logs

Ok so hi it’s been awhile. I’ve been busy with way too much these past few months, but for some reason my mind suddenly remembered this blog and Valerian again…

It made me realize how much of a friend I was to him at the time. We had such great conversations together beyond just his situation. Now it feels just distant again after he disappeared. I think this blog is more of a way for me to move on and accept the worst.

Anyways onto the entry!

My notes and thoughts

A cliffhanger was certainly an understatement. It was more like…watching a car crash and you keep watching because it’s so shocking that you can’t turn away. I still don’t remember who “they” are. Repetition can be helpful in stressful situations.

This part gets tricky. He states he was 25 at the time. Yet I don’t know how long ago it was from the time of the entry to that point? I believe I remember what he meant by having to lockdown a few days. It’s a later entry, but very soon. I’m guessing Valerian was still 25 if I remember the entries right since I think this happened over a span of a few months. At least I imagine it would. How old he’d be now? I’m not too sure. Let’s figure it out: 25 in 2017 since we’re dealing with an event that happened in the past before the entry. It’s 2025 now and WELL past the date of entry. 2025-2017= about 8 years. 25 + 8= would make him roughly 33 right now. A 33 year old man now somewhere either alive or…well I don’t want to think about it.

A dodecahedron? How? And a line through one side…I’m trying to imagine it but that part makes me feel a bit conflicted. How is it possible to draw that? I tried to do a recreation but it’s hard to find many dodecahedrons. Also I’m not sure about the drawing of the humanoid? Anyways, the number 13 is vital here. I mean, it’s the name of the book? Blog? I’m not sure what it’d be called on Quotev… I will say the way I drew it makes it seem like a warning. “No [insert humanoid]”

Now one may wonder why he didn’t call the police. From my understanding, he may be an immigrant from Russia. It was also 2018, mind you…do you think that’d have flied well with the state of things? Yeah I don’t think so.

Huh what a coincidence. I took the screenshots at 10:30. However, mine are at PM while his were at AM.

The keys. Who would need the car keys? Why? Unless something happened to his father and sisters and someone managed to take them out before driving them home…but that wouldn’t make sense either. Also, I feel like after washing the marks, Valerian would have noticed maybe some sort of marks of a needle on their body if there was a struggle. I suspect chloroform or a similar inhalant to knock them unconscious.

The car. He never mentions a car before. I’m guessing a family car hence why he couldn’t drive home from wherever he was coming from that last night. And maybe my theory about the keys could be true.

I think the next chapter talks about what he heard. As for being on the run, I could be wrong about what entry comes next or soon. It’s been awhile. Also, no one has asked me about him, even that whole time I was invested in the story. Maybe it’s because I had no one really to trust and talk to about it? I was going through a rough patch at the time. Maybe now something may come up…but I doubt it with where I am.

This is pretty much a short entry because uh

Yeah that’s pretty much the chapter, plus a few other things as well. You can check the chapter yourself if you’d like.

These are the comments on the entries.

I’m sure the first comment is probably a bug from the website itself.

As for the other comments, just more of concern and even willing to reach out for help.

This chapter is the one that introduces everything starting at the very beginning of this incident. The first thing that catches the eye is the introduction or the "blurb" of the story.

Quotev, at the time, was somewhat going down in use as people started to move on to other big websites like AO3, Instagram, and so on. As you can also see, Valerian did not list this under any sort of specific tag or type of fan-fiction. I would categorize this myself as a a Sci-Fi Creepypasta. Looking at this now, I am concerned that maybe Valerian could have been dealing with something mentally that he felt he needed to express in this format. Maybe he was dealing with some form of schizophrenia where his mind led him to believe he was being watched.

Either way, I'm going to still look at this with an open-mind because I still consider Valerian to be someone I grew close with at the time.

Continuing on with the "meat" of it all, I will be discussing the chapters with some notes and what I think. If you wish to read the chapter yourself prior to these notes to better understand, the story is posted on the pinned "About" post.

The introduction to the chapter is still the same as the blurb

It starts to feel or read like your usual creepypasta from 2013. A bit cringe-worthy. Why would anyone think they're safe with a pocket knife and a lighter, I haven't a clue, but I guess you make due with what you have.

I think it's set somewhere else in another country, because the woman says she's from the states (USA). Maybe Valerian was located in Russia or another country close by at the time. What place would be that warm at the time though? 24 C is about 75 F, so that's warm, even for that late at night. Unless it's the morning if we're going 24hr time.

There's trees and woods where he was. Where is this place? It's definitely someplace in the North, but not too far where it's warm in the evenings. Wisconsin and most Northern USA states like this along the border of Canada were like this in 2018 (I'm accounting for the year because we ALL know this planet is getting worse in climate).

He's 25 at the time. calculate it to about now, (2024-2018)+25=31 years. He is or would've been about 31 present day. I was only 17 at the time he wrote this, but I don't think I started interacting until much later? The details are fuzzy, but the comment section will help me set a time-frame. I will state now that he never once asked for anything beyond just usual conversation before any weird assumptions are made. If you're going to have those assumptions and message me about them, please do not and just leave.

Valerian lived with his family (mother, father, and a sister) during this time. Past tense because spoiler alert: bad times ahead.

Who is after him?

The last bit translates to: If not Goodbye to you too. Help me, if you hear or if you can.

The comments on this chapter do not give much insight. They're the usual ones that believe the story to be false or think it's another creepypasta. Valerian doesn't try to be aggressive in his replies to these comments, and only replies to two people. He almost seems like he still hopes to entertain and provide information despite his dire situation.