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A Ho-Ho Holiday Message from Santa Claus!

Merry Christmas to all the children of the Backrooms! I hope you’ve all been good this year! I’ve stacked my sleigh high with presents, and I’m getting ready to no-clip though these halls! But before I do, I have an important reminder!

Be on the lookout for Killer Christmas Trees! These naughty trees usually appear in abandoned areas and can look identical to the ones you may see at home or at the store! Be careful if you see one lurking about and make sure to tell a trusted adult!

I’m looking forward to delivering presents to all the good boys, girls and children of the Backrooms! Make sure to leave out plenty of milk, cookies and maybe a snack for my reindeer too!

Merry Christmas!
- Santa

Messages from the M.E.G, found across inhabited Backrooms Levels during Christmas.

Incident Report: Alpha-11.23.25.a
Time: Approximately 6:45 AM , Level 1 Time
Date: Monday, December 23, 2025

Summary: Administrator Bennete reported the coffee cabinet in Base Alpha’s administrative department had run out of coffee filters, and instructed Agent Carrot retrieve some from storage room A.

After approximately fifteen minutes of waiting, Bennete made his way to the storage room A, finding Carrot missing and a tree at the back of the room.

Impacts: Agent Carrot is currently considered missing; Agent Carrots wife placed on administrative leave. Administrator Bennete placed on administrative leave, pending psychological evaluation, Storage room A closed for the holidays.

+ Interview Log: Alpha-11.23.25.a

Recording Start Time: 12:02, Level 1 Time
Recording End Time: 12:13, Level 1 Time
Recording Date: Tuesday, December 24, 2025

Dr. Katherine: Thank you for coming in with such short notice. I know with the holidays and all that things can get pretty hectic.

Admin Bennete: It’s fine… I know how this shit usually goes, but we just get this over with? I have a kid waiting for me at home.

Dr. Katherine: Trust me, no one wants to work on Christmas eve, but the higher ups want this documented as soon as possible, Administrator Bennete.

[Admin Bennete sighs.]

Admin Bennete: I know, I know. Can you just get your questions over with? And you know me Kat, it’s Chip. Just call me Chip, none of this Administrator Bennete crap.

Dr. Katherine: It’s just for documentation purposes. Anyways, do you mind recapping the incident from your perspective?

Admin Bennete: Well, it was quarter to 7 if I real correctly. I was in the break room of the administrative wing, someone had drank all the coffee and I was in the process of making another pot when I noticed we were out of filters.

Admin Bennete: Carrot was passing by and I asked him to grab some filters since I was trying to get all my work done before the end of the day and didn’t have time to head to the storage room. Because I wanted the 24th though to the 26th off to spend with my family, but I guess that isn't happening now.

Dr. Katherine: Please don’t get passive aggressive with me. This is an incident report, not a work thing. There’s a difference.

Admin Bennete: Sorry, it’s not your fault. Just… pissed at the whole scenario.

Dr. Katherine: It’s fine, trust me I can sympathize with you. But please carry on.

Admin Bennete: Right. I said I asked him at a quarter to 7 right? So, it must’ve been at 7 o’clock I noticed he wasn’t back. I assumed he got side tracked or whatever, so I headed to the storage room to get the filters myself.

Dr. Katherine: What did you see when you entered the storage room?

Admin Bennete: Well, nothing at first. But I turned a corner and noticed it at the very back of the room.

Dr. Katherine: It being Entity 56 correct?

Admin Bennete: Yeah. I saw those stupid letters from Santa the M.E.G puts out each year, and I heard reports of kids going missing in the local news but I never actually saw it in person.

Admin Bennete: Hell, I thought for a second someone had just wanted to make the storage room more jolly or whatever. I’m not huge on Christmas but I know some people are.

[Admin Bennete pauses]

Admin Bennete: Anyways sorry – I was stupid as hell. I went to grab filters instead of dipping and telling the overseers. But I heard… Christmas carols. Like those carols you’d see in those old 1990’s Christmas shorts.

[Admin Bennete swallows]

Admin Bennete: It… transported me back to a time back on earth, with my sister, parents and grandparents. One second, I was in the storage room the next, I was in my grandparents’ house in 1998, opening two Gameboys and a copy of Pokémon Red and Blue with my sister.

[Admin Bennete pauses]

Admin Bennete: It felt so… nice almost? Like a time where things weren’t a total mess.

Dr. Katherine: What do you mean?

Admin Bennete: Eh, I’ve told you this story a million times over the water cooler, haven’t I? Mom passed in the spring of 99, both my grandparents didn’t see to live much longer. Dad died in 2008 and well, me and Lucy fell into the backrooms in god, winter of 2010, I think. Has it really been 15 years?

Admin Bennete: You know this story and how 56 works, I know how 56 works. It preys on memory and nostalgia. That was the last Christmas things for my family was normal. Hell, I interviewed survivors of 56 before and they told me this exact same story.

Admin Bennete: I turn to look at the tree at the center of the room and I just… wanted to touch it, get closer. To me that tree represented the last moment my family was truly together, and I never wanted to let it go.

Admin Bennete: The next thing I know, I feel Lucy grabbing onto my arms, and tearing me away from that thing, and we both run.

Dr. Katherine: Sorry just for the record, Lucy is who?

[Admin Bennete lets out a long, annoyed sigh.]

Admin Bennete: Lucinda “Lucy” Bennete, head nurse of Level 11 General Hospital. We ordered medical supplies from them, and she asked to do the delivery so she could see me. We’re both busy with work so she wanted to use it as an excuse to go and say hi.

Admin Bennete: But yeah, that’s basically all that happened.

Dr. Katherine: I see, well thank you for your time. I wasn’t exactly pleased with today of all days being the time the M.E.G asked us to meet, but you know the procedures.

Admin Bennete: This is all going into the 56 file, right?

Dr. Katherine: That is right.

Admin Bennete: Alright, good. Then in that case, can we please do away with Christmas in the backrooms completely? Santa and Christmas trees especially.

Admin Bennete: I’m fine with seeing family and giving gifts. Hell, why do you think I’m so mad about being forced here on a holiday.

Dr. Katherine: You’ve made that perfectly clear. Please just make your point.

Admin Bennete: Christmas only encourages people to put up Christmas trees, because people want to have the holidays, because people want things to feel normal here. But they’re not and will never be.

Admin Bennete: And putting up Christmas trees only confuses kids and hell even adults into getting near the damn things. That's what it wants.

Admin Bennete: Carrot is dead, not missing, not unaccounted for, dead. That thing ate him. That’s what 56 does Kat, it eats people.

Admin Bennete: Putting up Christmas trees and giving them a positive association here is only going to lead to more deaths.

Admin Bennete: So just, talk to marketing, talk to other M.E.G outposts, talk to the governments of other levels. Hell, I’ll do it if you want too. We need to do something before more people die.

[Dr. Katherine sighs.]

Dr. Katherine: You aren’t exactly wrong… I’ll. I’ll see what I can do.

Admin Bennete: Thank you.