They knew he was dead from the first three second clip of his feet running from whoever was holding his phone. The next couple of clips he posted were filmed through cracked glass, in one he was cowering in a corner screaming to be left alone, in another he was digging frantically through a pile of what appeared to be dead pigeons in a pile of rotting fabric.
When he didn't show up at home for two weeks, the police were called and the video was traced back to the old cinema at the arse-end of town. The only people who knew the way in were a few local bloggers who called themselves an Urbex Crew. The owners had lost the keys twenty-something years ago and with the property being so hard to sell they just left it to rot. With a generous mix of bribery and legal threats, Officer Patel and Officer Smythe were led to a staircase behind the cinema, half hidden behind dense foliage and a couple of rusting cars.
Underneath some sort of overhang was a hole in the wall with a couple of old vats and from there they made their descent. The stench of mould and urine filled the air as the pair reluctantly ducked inside, hoping they'd find a body soon. Their equally reluctant guides moved confidently in front of them, ducking under leaking pipes and squeezing between the broken remains of a door, leading them from the basement to the lower screen.
They took the first set of stairs they came too, immediately recognising a room to their left by the cracked glass, the door's faded sign reading Staff Only, and they carefully stepped past its broken hinges. Aside from the brown splatters all along the wall they declared suspected remains, they found nothing to show the missing boy had been there.
The further up they went, the more scenery they were able to match to the videos. Patel and Smythe got so caught up in establishing a timeline they failed to notice that their guides had left them. In fact, they never went any further than the basement stairs, fleeing the second the officer's backs were turned.
Three hours later the first clip was uploaded from Officer Smythe's phone to his entire social media network. It was a Gif of his terrified face ducking to hide underneath a broken seat. He was on the balcony of screen two but somehow his phone was several feet away from the ledge.
Eight hours later the second clip was uploaded in exactly the same way from Officer Patel's phone. The Gif showed that he was still inside the cinema with Smythe, cradling what was left of the man's head in his lap and sobbing hysterically.
In the far right of the video, the missing boy's face can be seen, eyes rolling rapidly as he convulses.
He is dragged away just before the Gif loops back.
No further investigations are being carried out.
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