Talk:A Diary in a Mine/@comment-24011818-20131016000137/@comment-1216259-20140110093840

Ashland Parr isn't a nonperson--it's mentioned in the introduction that his disappearance was extensively investigated. It's just, for some reason, he was unknown to the other miners. Maybe they were mind-wiped, maybe they were trapped in different sections of the mine & Ashland just imagined them, or maybe they were killed & replaced with, as you said, imposters. Or maybe they murdered him, denied it, & wrote things in the diary as a cover story.

But I'm with you in that it was a great build up, but the ending was more weird than scary.