🏮 Paper Valley
WASD / arrows — walk
drag — look around
follow the trail — the lanterns line it
climb the ridge to see the whole valley
click a lantern to read the scroll
🌲 Back to the memorial forest ✨ Look up at the sky

Hang a lantern 🏮

For someone still out there that you are in hopes of reconnecting with. Fill in what you know — leave the rest blank.

Keep this to things a stranger could recognise. Please don't post a home address, a phone number or where they work — some people are not lost, they left, and this trail must never be a way to find them. Nobody here should ever ask you for money.

Find someone 🔎

Type a name and the rabbit will take you to their lantern. Leave the name blank and use the boxes below to see everyone from one place or one year.

What people know
Is this about you, and you would rather not be here? Ask for this lantern to be taken down.

I have information

This goes only to the person searching. Nobody else sees it, and it is not posted on the lantern. If you would rather say it in the open, close this and use "what people know" instead.

Never send money to anybody who contacts you through this site, and never be asked for it. If someone offers to find a person for a fee, that is a scam. Tell the site owner.

Messages about your searches

People who walked past your lantern and knew something.

They've been found 🕯️

Their lantern turns gold and stays lit, and the story goes in the mill where people can read it. That is the thing that makes anyone else believe this works.

Off the wall

A search that ended. This is the only wall here that isn't sad.

The campfire 🔥

Not for posting about who you're looking for - that's the trail. This is where people who are searching leave what they've learned about searching. Take one, leave one.

Nobody at this fire should ever ask you for money. If they do, it's a scam - tell the site owner and it comes down.

Ask for this lantern to be taken down

You don't need an account and you don't have to explain yourself. The person who runs the site is the only one who sees this.

Paper Valley

Paper Valley is for people in hopes of reconnecting with the ones we never forgot. A brother you fell out with, a birth mother, a lost lover, a friend you lost track of thirty years ago.

Hang a lantern with their name on it and it stands on the trail where everyone walking past will read it. Somebody might know something.

Desktop: WASD + mouse. Mobile: on-screen controls.