Johor Bahru Explosion

The Midnight Article "Explosion in Johor Bahru" was written by u/Roblox838 and posted to r/MidnightPaper.

The text of the Article was as follows:

EXPLOSION IN JOHOR BAHRU

In the Malaysian city of Johor Bahru, an explosion has been seen and heard. The only thing it left behind was empty fields where there had been previously several buildings, 5 main roads and a park.

The smog was carried by wind to Singapore, which caused Singaporean drivers to crash everywhere, and the airport to close down. Planes were crashing everywhere, and in the end the smog left around 500,000 alive, wondering where the others went. They disappeared.

An interviewee, Hoo Chuee Huee, claimed that now "Singapore feels like a ghost town". The army were left wondering where their troops went, and several businesses are open without anyone in them.

Description:

The " Johor Bahru Explosion" is an Event-Type Oddity. It appears to be an explosion of monstrous proportions, large enough to level 5 city blocks, including presumably dozens of buildings, and a public park.

Destruction:

As an Oddity, the "Johor Bahru Explosion" possesses several bizarre qualities. Firstly, its destructive capabilities are far more extreme than any that have been witnessed in history. Even the atomic blasts that leveled large portions of Hiroshima and Nagasaki left behind buildings and rubble. The "Johor Bahru Explosion" however, was described to have left behind only "empty fields." It is not known if these fields were damaged or razed by the blast, or if they were spotless and appeared to have grown without being hampered by an kind of construction, as if the buildings had never been there.

Disappearances:

The smog caused by the "Johor Bahru Explosion" drifted across the Johor Strait and into the neighboring nation of Singapore. The smog was so heavy that it caused nearly every kind of vehicle to crash or be forced to stop or land, including airplanes. After the smog cleared, Singaporean nationals reported hundreds of thousands of people missing.

Indeed, the scale of the disappearances is unprecedented in the entirety of human history. The population of Singapore, pre Johor Bahru Explosion, was estimated to be around 5,703,600 people. The Article states that after the Explosion, only 500,000 people remained. Where these people disappeared to, and why, is entirely unknown.

Theories:

It is likely that the Johor Bahru Explosion is tied to another Oddity. Given its similarities with the Jönköping Incident, it is possible that these two events are tied to the same Oddity.

It is possible that, given the destruction of matter at an atomic level, that the Explosion was actually not an explosion at all. Perhaps the sound of a blast and the smog caused witnesses to think of the event as an explosion, when in reality, it was a vaporization of some kind. If a kind of weapon capable of destroying matter at the molecular level existed, it is not a stretch to imagine that whoever was in possession of it would choose to test it in an urban environment. Thus, both the Johor Bahru Explosion and the Jönköping Incident could have been test fires of this weapon.