SEASON 3 - EMILY ROAN : The Nomen Child

She named what should never be named..and now something ancient wants to wear her voice

By Tales That Breathe at NightPublished 6 months ago • 7 min read

A young woman, Emily Roan, stands in a haunted forest as an ancient entity steals her voice, its shadowy form whispering the cursed name she should never have spoken. Supernatural horror #AncientHorror #CursedNames #SupernaturalThriller #HauntingTales

Chapter 9: “The Child Who Names Angels”

Tallowridge County Hospital - Isolating Nursery Ward - November 18th, 1985 - 2:21 AM

Filed as: Unauthorized Birthfile Incident - Cross-Contamination Alert

Submitted by: Resident Nurse Marisol Vega (Transferred on Leave)

“She wasn’t delivered.

She was conjured into being-one name at a time.”

THE WARD THAT NEVER QUIT WHISPERING

Nursery Ward C was closed three years earlier after seven stillbirths. It was repurposed..but at 2:21 AM, every incubator alarmed as if holding infants.

Nurse Vega found one crib active..though no baby was inside.

A small recorder lay beside it with a single message:

“My name is Anna Gabrielle Rowe.”

The nursery lights dimmed and flickered.

Whispered name breathes life into emptiness

Writing appeared—carved into the glass:

“She’s real when you say her name.”

THE PLAYLIST INSIDE HER WOMB

Patient Jane Doe remained in ICU, unconscious but alive. Her heart rate now matched the names written in the ledger..twenty separate beats, pulsing in long prayer rhythms.

Doctors discovered a homemade playlist hidden on her phone:

• Each track was labeled with a name

• Every name preceded by “Cried for me,” “Forgave for me,” “Screamed for me”

• Each ended with the same 7-second lullaby

Each name a track..each lullaby a rebirth

As the playlist played, Jane Doe’s belly twitched...like punches from the inside—though no baby existed.

NURSE VEGA’S NIGHTMARE

At 3:13 AM, Nurse Vega heard a child’s voice in the antechamber.

She pressed her ear to the door.

“My mother left me.

But I named her anyway.

And she came back...”

Then silence.

The next morning, her ID badge would show floors traveled: 42, though the ward only had three corridors.

Her reflection in the nurse’s station mirror showed a third name under Marisol’s ID badge:

A named nurse, carried by the name she spoke

“Anna G. Rowe”

THE LOGGED INTERVIEW

Excerpt from Cross-Contamination Interview #CD-09 (Nurse Marisol Vega):

Admin: “Why did you write the name on your badge?”

Vega: “It’s her name. I said it. And now... people look at me and see her. I’m... not entirely me anymore.”

CHAPTER 9 ENDS WITH:

Patient Jane Doe’s monitors flat-line for 7 seconds.

Then resuscitate.

When Dr. Rios enters:

One tape, one name...one new soul announced

Jane Doe sits up in the bed and recites a name in perfect whisper:

“Anna Gabrielle Rowe.”

Her eyes open.

She smiles.

Chapter 10: The Ledger of Salt

Restricted Records Archive, Tallowridge County - November 19th, 1985 - 1:44 AM

Filed under: Incident Leak Prevention Protocol Alpha...9

Retrieved from: Burned Debrief Logs (Partial Transcript Reconstruction)

“You can name a thing into truth. But you must pay with a name of your own.”

THE LEDGER NO ONE SIGNS

Hidden beneath the old pediatric oncology wing, a salt-crusted book was discovered inside a broken saline tank. The ledger held no ink...just names written in dried, bloody saline and flaked skin.

Twenty-three names, all infants.

Each name was followed by a second line:

• A full adult name.

• The word: “Traded.”

Sacred salt unseals what should remain unborn

When a nurse tried to photograph the book, the image came back blank. Only her reflection showedin the act of writing a name she never remembered knowing.

THE “SALTS OF NAMING” NURSE CIRCLE

The circle first appeared in 1933 during a stillbirth outbreak in Virginia. Six nurses began a ritual: whispering a made-up name to a dead child to “call it back.”

In 1934, all six gave birth on the same day...without conception.

Each child’s mouth was full of salt when delivered.

By 1935, five of those nurses were dead. The sixth...Ruth Calbraith...was institutionalized.

She left behind a single note:

“Names are doors. Salt keeps them shut.

Don’t say the name if you want the door to stay locked.”

The phrase was repeated in the whisper-tapes found beside Jane Doe’s crib.

A NAME TO UN-BE

Nurse Vega began speaking in her sleep.

Her roommate logged 14 nights of whispered names.

Each name was followed by a phrase:

“She doesn’t belong in the skin she’s wearing.”

A video taken during the final night showed Vega drawing something in salt on the wall. When played back, the salt formation formed a mirror image of the hospital’s birthing ward—yet twisted.

The ultrasound machine appeared not as equipment but as a black-stained mirror.

In it, a child moved...but its limbs flickered, like a television’s lost signal.

THE BLACK ALPHABET

Dr. Rios found a typewritten page under Jane Doe’s mattress.

It listed 26 “incorrect letters,” each paired with:

• A Latin-sounding name

• A common emotion (grief, shame, hunger)

• An act (drown, cut, forget)

This “Black Alphabet” was said to be the opposite of creation...each letter assigned to a name meant to erase something.

“To name something in the Black Alphabet is to give it a memory that never happened.”

“To remember it is to lose yourself.”

The final line?

“Emily has learned three letters.”

CHAPTER 10 ENDS WITH:

Nurse Vega disappears. Her last badge swipe reads:

“FLOOR ∅”

Security footage shows her walking into a locked furnace room.

Her salt ring, left behind, is burning from the inside out.

Names soaked in silence, sealed in saline

As her reflection fades, we see one final word form in scorched salt:

“Unbecome.”

Chapter 11: The Girl in the Salt Drawer

Tallowridge County Pediatric Hospital — Restricted Sub-Ward B, Room 103

Date: November 21, 1985

Time: 3:11 AM

Filed under: Sensory-Anomalous Manifestation (Category: Identity Split Event)

“Some children are born once. Others are remembered into being.”

THE FORBIDDEN CABINET

Room 103 had been abandoned since 1969, after three births and two deaths occurred on the same table within an hour.

A rusted steel drawer inside the pediatric exam unit had been sealed shut with layers of surgical gauze hardened by crystallized saline.

When reopened, it revealed:

• A mirror-polished bone handle

• A pair of hospital ID tags melted together

• And a child’s drawing

A name remembered wrong...burned into forgotten cloth

The drawing was done in red ink and white crayon:

• A girl holding her own severed head

• A nurse with no face

• A bed surrounded by salt stick figures labeled “NOISE”

WHO IS ANNA GABRIELLE ROWE?

According to county birth archives, Anna Gabrielle Rowe:

• Never existed

• Yet appeared in eleven patient ledgers from 1980–1985

• All entries list her blood type as: “Memory Negative”

What is "Memory Negative"?

It implies the patient retains memories of things they were never part of, and erases memories in others simply through presence.

Emily Roan spoke Anna’s name aloud during a sleep state.

Within 14 minutes, three hospital staff forgot their own children's names.

SHARED GENOME, SPLIT SKIN

Genetic testing on blood found in Room 103 confirmed:

• It matched Emily’s DNA profile

• But with inverted methylation patterns, typically found in forensic cases of chimera birth...a rare biological phenomenon where one twin absorbs the other in utero.

Except Emily was born an only child.

When asked, Emily said:

“She wasn’t born. I opened the drawer and she climbed out of me.”

VHS TAPE: "WHERE NAMES GO"

Recovered from the security nurse’s locker, the VHS tape is labeled:

“DO NOT WATCH IF YOU REMEMBER HER.”

When played, the tape shows:

• A blank hospital bed

• A shadow moving under the sheets without a body

• Whispered humming: “Anna, Anna, where did you go? Back to the salt, back to the snow.”