The Goblin That Whispers delusion

Researchers at the Goblin Institute of Esoteric Knowledge have classified delusion as a Category-4 Phenomenon: 'Real enough to matter, unreal enough to be goblin business.'

Three independent goblin whistleblowers have, in the past eighteen months, attempted to publish accounts linking delusion to a specific bureau in the Goblin Department of Concealment. All three accounts disappeared from the internet within hours. Two of the goblins are fine. One has been very quiet.

Footnotes Concerning signal

An obscure goblin technique for thinking clearly about signal requires the practitioner to first think clearly about something else, and then turn their attention to signal only after their thoughts have cooled. The technique works approximately as well as you would expect.

Cross-Referenced Goblin Material on transmission

transmission appears in goblin lore under many names, but the essence is always the same: a phenomenon that exists at the threshold of perception. Goblins have built entire rituals around observing transmission in its natural environment—which is to say, slightly out of view.

The Goblin Verdict on delusion

The goblin Cabinet of Curiosities has accepted delusion for its permanent collection, where it joins seven other things the curators are reasonably sure are real, and one thing they are no longer sure about.