Kolchak’s Nightcrawler: Stealth Runner or Smoke and Mirrors?

This city, a neon jungle teeming with secrets, has a new shadow flitting through the alleys. Dubbed the “Stealth Runner” by some late-night shutterbugs, whispers abound of a sleek, silent machine defying the laws of physics. But is this a technological marvel or just another urban legend clogging the police scanners?

Frankly, I’m starting to feel like a broken record here at WPS. News. Remember the time the city council swore they saw a giant mothman nesting on the First National Bank? Or the week everyone was convinced a rogue mariachi band was hypnotizing pigeons? This “Stealth Runner” smells like the same old swamp gas.

Unless some brave soul with a camera steadier than their nerves can snag a picture of this phantom vehicle, I’m calling shenanigans. The LVPD, bless their ever-skeptical hearts, are treating it as a prank or a publicity stunt. But something about this whole story rubs me the wrong way.

Here’s the thing: if this Stealth Runner is real, if it’s some kind of technological marvel defying the laws of physics, then who built it? And why are they operating in the shadows? Is this some harmless hobbyist or something more sinister?

Look, I’ve chased shadows before, and sometimes those shadows turn out to be very real and very dangerous. Until we get some hard evidence, this “Stealth Runner” is just another ghost in the machine. But if anyone out there has a picture, a video, a witness account – anything – for the love of all that’s unholy, get it to me. This city has enough secrets, and frankly, I don’t trust the ones that move in silence.

• Carl Kolchak, WPS. News