Timothy Koppe

History buried it. The dark remembered. For thousands of years, humanity has feared the dark. We tell ourselves that fear is instinct, superstition, the lingering imagination of childhood. But what if the fear is older than civilization itself? What if something once lived there - and remembers us still?In 1673, natural philosopher Robert Hooke, pirate captain William Kidd, and engineer Thomas Bushell descend beneath Oak Island to bury a discovery capable of unraveling human history.
Deep below Nova Scotia, they construct a labyrinth of traps, flood tunnels, and hidden mechanisms designed to keep one terrible truth sealed forever. Three centuries later, a modern salvage operation breaches the shaft. As historians, scientists, and treasure hunters begin uncovering fragments of a forgotten conspiracy stretching from prehistoric North America to the Royal Society of London, they realize the legends surrounding Oak Island were never about treasure.
Something was imprisoned there. And after centuries in the dark, it has begun to wake. Blending historical mystery, literary horror, and speculative thriller, I Have Been Here is a haunting novel about fear, memory, and the ancient things humanity was never meant to uncover.