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THE BLACK-EYED CHILDREN: Why Law Enforcement Encounter Reports Are Now Surfacing — And the Witnesses Are Not Who You Would Expect The Lore: The Black-Eyed Children phenomenon first entered public consciousness in 1998 when journalist Brian Bethel published an account of two children who approached his car in a Texas parking lot — children with eyes that were entirely, unnaturally black, no iris, no white sclera, only an absolute obsidian void. They asked to be let inside. He refused. The compulsion to comply, Bethel wrote, was almost physical. For two decades the phenomenon lived in paranormal forums and creepypasta threads. Then something changed. In 2019, a retired sheriff's deputy in rural Oregon filed an incident report — later leaked — describing a nearly identical encounter outside ...