Fallyn McKeough

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION CANNOT BE CONFIRMED, PURGED. Fallyn Alice McKeough, (born July 24, 1997) is a resident of Easthallow. She has connections to several missing people in town, and has been present for at least two known disappearances. Her mother, Ciara Byrne, a well known and respected nurse in the town. She is a writer, and while in high school received recognition from the Blackwell Museum of Art and History for a short story she wrote, which was featured in a temporary exhibit showing off the work of young creatives in Easthallow.

Early Life
McKeough was born in Dublin, Ireland, on July 24th 1997. She remained there with her parents until they relocated to Easthallow in 2003. Her mother was a nurse and her father an English teacher at Easthallow Blackwell's Academy. Her older brother, Iain, is a doctor at Easthallow University Hospital. Her father, who passed away in a car accident in 2013, often encouraged Fallyn in her writing and fully supported her endeavors in the arts. Fallyn and her brother, Iain, were both present in the car accident that killed their father. This took a toll on Fallyn, as she was exceptionally close to her father. Before the death of her father, she would say that she grew up in a "loving and caring home." She is known acquaintances with Leo Graves, Kitty Miller, and Miguel Rivera, all whom also have ties to various missing persons in Easthallow.

Connection to Missing Persons
Mariana L. Rivera

In 2007, Fallyn McKeough was seen going into the forest with Mariana Rivera, who did not return. Upon return, Fallyn had been confused and disoriented, as well as covered in scrapes on her palms and knees, and bruises on her shins. She had cuts on the bottom of her feet and a small gash on her cheek. When asked about what happened in the forest, her story stayed consistent. She claimed that her and Mariana went in upon a dare, and fell asleep in a "clearing" apparently deep in the forest. She said they both went to sleep in the forest, and when she woke up, Rivera had no longer been by her side. She said that she found her way out of the forest with no issue, and walked back to her family home but couldn't remember anything else about the disappearance. Due to her age, no foul play was suspected.

Clarke Higgins

In 2014, Fallyn McKeough had attended Easthallow Blackwell's Academy prom and on that night was seen, along with Kitty Miller and Clarke Higgins, she is known to be one of the last people to see her. Though no foul play was suspected, when asked about Higgins, McKeough became overcome with grief and sent into fits of inconsolable sobbing. Since no body had been found, neither girl had been questioned further.

Father Sawyer

Rumor had placed McKeough at the Heritage Hotel days before the collapse with Father Sawyer, who had been missing since 2010. Though it is true that McKeough had been held inside the hotel for at least a week, thanks to a heretical cult, there were no concrete ties to Father Sawyer himself. Father Sawyer is still considered missing, though there is no belief that McKeough is attached to his disappearance in anyway.

Heretical Cult, Kidnapping, and Escape
In 2014, it was discovered that there had been a heretical cult based inside the Heritage Hotel, which had sat abandoned since the late 1970s. McKeough, as well as several others were taken and held by the cult, and kept there for several days. McKeough has not said much about her time with the cult, much like the others who were also held there. Some of what she has said is that they kept them separately, with varying "care" of who they took care of and who not. She has explicitly said that she "uses the word 'care' very lightly here, because even though I was mostly physically okay, there is a lot that cannot be undone." Many speculate that McKeough was psychologically tormented by the cult, and use her very few statements on this to back up their claims. She has neither confirmed nor denied this. People close to McKeough have commented that after the kidnapping they did notice "changes to both her personality and demeanor" and that she seemed to be "more closed off than she had previously been."

McKeough suffered from a severe concussion and several scrapes and bruises during her time with the cult. She had begun seeing a therapist shortly after the ordeal, which further solidifies the rumor that she was psychologically tormented during the time she was kidnapped.

Using what one can assume were abandoned mine tunnels under the hotel, McKeough, as well as the other hostages, managed to escape. They had narrowly avoiding being trapped inside when the hotel collapsed due to structural integrity issues. It is assumed that most if not all of the cult died in the hotel's collapse.

Writing
A list of McKeough's works, published dates, and accolades received. She is currently working on her first novel.