Our Origins

After becoming aware of a growing number of reports about supernatural anomalies in eastern Utah, Johnathan Wallace began his first anomaly investigation. Luckily for all of us, the culprit was the "Corn Man" entity; a relatively harmless lydig class entity now housed in our Utah containment site. Had this entity been more dangerous, our then-inexperienced founder might not have lived to develop the DCA's most prized technique and the basis on which this agency operates: Digitization.

Now with an anomalous entity in tow and facing the problem that no government or law enforcement organizations would take him seriously, Wallace was forced to find a way to contain the entity on his own. Wallace cites the recently released "Video Computer System" as inspiration for his idea: creating a digital 'habitat' to house the entity, then digitizing the entity to transfer it to said habitat.

At the time, creating the habitat was already a complex ask, let alone inventing a way to digitize an entity. This didn't phase our intrepid Wallace, and he set about inventing the very first SDVM (Simultaneous Digitization and Vaporization Machine). The machine, like those still in use today, scanned and copied the mind and body of the entity while, at the same time, destroying what had already been scanned. 

At first, when checking on the "Corn Man" via the containment device's display, Wallace was disheartened. Despite the habitat of an endless corn field provided, just like the entity had enjoyed in the area it was captured in, the entity was unmoving. It didn't stand and blend with the corn as expected, or hunt the crows programmed into it's habitat. Instead it laid in a heap on the ground, shaking. 

Wallace was concerned that he had constructed the digitization machine incorrectly, or worse, that the theories the design was based on had been flawed. He left the display on as he set to rechecking every aspect of his research. After three days of work that seemed to lead nowhere, Wallace noticed the "Corn Man" was no longer visible on the display.

When he checked the entity's status, he found it hidden, unmoving, in the stalks of corn and got to witness it capture a crow lured in by it's ruse. Satisfied that his machine HAD worked, and it had just taken time for the entity to acclimate, he began investigating other anomalies and recruiting aid.

Two years later the DCA was officially founded by Johnathan Wallace, his wife and esteemed researcher Alma Karlsson Wallace, and the siblings Mark and Emilia Fischer; close friends of Mr. and Mrs. Wallace and considered some of the best paranormal researchers of the time.