On a fateful night in February, 2023, our committee stumbled upon a case that would change everything we thought we knew about socks.
It began with a series of reports from citizens claiming that their socks had gone missing in the dead of night, only to reappear in the morning, neatly paired and seemingly without explanation.
We assembled a team of top-notch investigators, armed with nothing but determination and a healthy dose of skepticism.
The evidence was piling up: a trail of lint, a few stray threads, and an inexplicable sense of déjà vu.
We followed the clues to a seedy underground lair hidden beneath the city's main laundry facility.
There, we found the mastermind behind the missing socks: a rogue sock goblin, known only as "The Sock Whisperer."
The Sock Whisperer, it turned out, was not only collecting and reorganizing the world's socks, but also manipulating the global supply chain to create an empire of single, solitary socks, each one more tantalizing than the last.
But why? Ah, the why.
It was then that we discovered the shocking truth: the Sock Whisperer's ultimate goal was not world domination, but a perfectly organized sock drawer.
As we stood there, frozen in awe, the Sock Whisperer's minions - a legion of fluffy, fluffy minions - emerged from the shadows, each one holding a lone sock, a symbol of the Sock Whisperer's unrelenting quest for order in a chaotic world.
We returned to our committee, our minds racing with the implications of this revelation.
And so, we made the difficult decision to... well, not really do anything, because, let's be real, who are we to stand in the way of a well-organized sock drawer?
And so, the Sock Whisperer remains at large, free to continue their mission to bring order to the world, one sock at a time.
Or so we're told.
Read the full case file here for more information.
Or, if you'd rather not, here's a sneak peek.