Entry 5: The Summer Camp

Summer Camp – Shed / Footage

Dad said it would be good for us to “be around people.” So he sent us to a summer camp on a small island—only reachable by boat. Lena and I spent most days locked inside a shed full of dolls. I secretly recorded footage.

Our room was run-down and filthy, the food disgusting. The supervisors were cruel, especially to Lena. At night we sometimes heard screams from the other end of the property. In recent years several children have disappeared there—no one talks about it.

I never want to go back there. The organizer is a distant relative—he sits with us at the Easter table every year as if nothing happened. Dad doesn’t believe a word we say. I hate him.

Official promotional photo of the summer camp – sunset at the pier
Lena’s dormitory.

Who locks us in?

In the footage you keep seeing the same beds and the same shed full of dolls. Later, Lena whispered to me that it’s always the same uncle who turns the key when we’re being locked in.

Compare the dolls in the shed with the ones in the beds. The letters above the beds form a name.

During the summer camp, Lena was locked in the shed during the day. In the footage you can recognize the same dolls later in the beds.
Compare: Which doll appears in the shed—and in which bed is it lying? Read the letters above those beds from left to right.

The locked locker

Can you crack the mechanical lock in the supervisor’s room without alerting the camp director?

Later, when Carrie is walking the corridors alone, she discovers a heavy metal cabinet in the camp director’s office. It bears the same nameplate as the bed from the shed— but this time only as a scratched symbol: four dials with notches.
In her diary she notes: “In the desk drawer I find a note: North, East, South, West—always in the same order.”

Metal bolt on the camp locker Goal: Align the notches to N, E, W, S—in the correct order.
Bolt A
Bolt B
Bolt C
Bolt D
Each dial turns two bolts: the one you click and the bolt to its right.
You must align all four notches so they match the directions from Carrie’s note: read left to right: N – E – W – S.
The lock snaps open. Between yellowed files, Carrie finds lists of names, payment schedules, and a familiar family crest. Someone in the family is profiting from the “summer camp”—and from the missing children.
She closes the diary. The name that appeared in the mirror won’t leave her mind.