It's not original so I'll just leave it here. Younger Wintreans be warned, the following story may shock you.
In 2018 Wintermoot walked off to a snowy storm and was never since seen. In 2020, a group of desperate Wintrean scientists conducted a radical experiment in an undisclosed facility. The group had theorized that a human without access to any senses or ways to perceive stimuli would be able to perceive the presence of Wintermoot. They believed that the five senses clouded our awareness of the spirit of winter, and without them, a human could actually establish a spiritual connection with this realm. A young boy who claimed to have ”nothing left to live for” was the chosen test subject from plenty of volunteers. To purge him of all his senses, the scientists performed a complex operation in which every sensory nerve connection to the brain was surgically severed. Although the test subject retained full muscular function, he could not see, hear, taste, smell or feel. With no possible way to communicate with or even sense the outside world, he was alone with his thoughts.
Scientists monitored him as he spoke aloud about his state of mind in jumbled, slurred sentences that he couldn’t even hear. After four days, the man claimed to be hearing hushed, unintelligible voices in his head. Assuming it was an onset of psychosis, the scientists paid little attention to the man’s concerns.
Two days later, the man cried that he could hear his dead lover speaking with him, an even more, he could communicate back. The scientists were intrigued, but were not convinced until he subject started naming dead relatives of the scientists. He repeated personal information to the scientists that only their dead spouses and parents would have known. At this point, a sizable portion of scientists left the study.
After a week of conversing with the deceased through his thoughts, the subject became distressed, saying the voices were overwhelming. In every waking moment, his consciousness was bombarded by hundreds of voices that refused to leave him alone. he frequently threw himself against the wall, trying to elicit a pain response. he begged the scientists for sedatives, so he could escape the voices by sleeping. This tactic worked for three days, until he started having severe night terrors. The subject repeatedly said that he could see and hear the deceased in his dreams.
Only a day later, the subject began to scream and claw at his nonfunctional eyes, hoping to sense something in the physical world. The hysterical subject now said the voices of the dead were deafening and hostile, speaking of tropic and the end of the winter. At one point, he yelled ”No winter, no frost” for five hours straight. He continually begged to be killed, but the scientists were convinced that he was close to establishing contact with Wintermoot.
After another day, the subject could no longer form coherent sentences. Seemingly mad, he started to bite off chunks of flesh from his arm. The scientists rushed into the test chamber and restrained him to a table so he could not kill himself. After a few hours of being tied down, the subject halted his struggling and screaming. He stared blankly at the ceiling as teardrops silently streaked across his face. For two weeks, the subject had to be manually rehydrated due to the constant crying. Eventually, he turned his head and, despite of his blindness, made focused eye contact with a scientist for the first time in the study. He whispered ”I have spoken with Wintermoot, and has abandoned us” and his vital signs stopped. There was no apparent cause of death.
Source for my case is
here, but I'm sure the base story has been around the internet for quite a long time.
