Viktor Brandt

Threshold Institute · Staff record

Name

Viktor Brandt

Role

Foreman of the shaft crew that found T-001

Years

Year 1

First file

T-001 The rift

Viktor Brandt was the foreman of the shaft crew that found the rift. On the first day of the calendar his crew broke into a cavity that no survey had shown, 1,140 metres down in the state's deep mine shaft (T-001). Brandt took three men to the face with lamps and found the tear in the middle of the cavity. One of them, Ove Lindqvist, put his arm into it to the elbow and drew it back cold and wet (T-001).

Brandt gave his statement five days later. The crew had thought it was gas at first, from the way the lamps went. There were tracks in the dust of the cavity floor, long ones with marks like claws, that all went to the tear and came back from it. "Nobody in my crew would go back down, either, not for any money, so you can stop asking." (T-001).

The ministry closed the mine within the week, and the crew were sworn to silence and paid for it (T-001). The tracks he described were photographed before the chamber was poured, and the first thing that made them was caught four months later (T-001, T-002).

Papers under their name

• Addendum T-001-A: from the statement of foreman Viktor Brandt, Year 1, month 1, day 6, in T-001 The rift

In the case files

Viktor Brandt is named in one case file. The last column says where in each file.

Part I: The tear

File	Found	Where named
T-001 The rift	Year 1, month 1, day 1	Discovery, Addendum T-001-A, Addendum T-001-B