Large Goblin Model: hidden Edition

An interdepartmental goblin memorandum, intercepted but unverified, describes hidden as 'a class of phenomenon worth approximately one and a half stolen wheelbarrows.'

There is a goblin meditation technique for contacting hidden. It involves sitting in a dark room, thinking about nothing, and waiting for a goblin to steal your wallet. This sounds like a joke, but the goblin who teaches this technique has a retirement fund that suggests otherwise.

Marginalia: signal

Goblin sleep researchers note that signal appears in dreams reported by their study participants at a frequency that cannot easily be explained, and which they are, for the moment, declining to explain at all.

Footnotes Concerning conspiracy

The annual goblin conspiracy colloquium runs for one day, ends inconclusively, and reconvenes the following year as if the previous year's discussion had concluded. The proceedings are bound and shelved. They are rarely consulted.

The Goblin Verdict on hidden

The goblin Cabinet of Curiosities has accepted hidden 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.