**Lake Geneva, Switzerland –** A frantic search operation surrounding the Lake House, a seemingly abandoned lakeside property, concluded late last night with the discovery of a final, handwritten letter that has dramatically shifted the understanding of the bizarre temporal anomaly gripping the residents of the building. Authorities confirmed the letter, penned by the building’s original architect, Elias Thorne, provides irrefutable evidence that the repeating six-month time loop is not a random occurrence, but a deliberately constructed experiment.

For weeks, residents of the Lake House – a young couple, Kate and Bobby, and a retired naval officer, Richard – have been experiencing a disconcerting and increasingly stressful repetition of the same six-month period. Initial investigations focused on potential structural anomalies or psychological factors, but the mounting evidence of shared memories and predictive awareness quickly pointed to a more complex explanation. Yesterday’s dramatic discovery of Thorne’s letter, recovered from a hidden compartment within the building’s library, has definitively linked the phenomenon to the architect’s obsession with manipulating time.

The letter details Thorne’s ambition to create a “chronal resonance chamber,” a device designed to capture and replay moments in time. He believed, according to his own words, that by precisely replicating the environmental conditions and emotional states of a specific period, he could essentially “bookmark” that time and then revisit it indefinitely. The letter outlines the initial construction of the chamber, concealed within the Lake House’s foundations, and reveals that the building itself acted as a key component in the process.

“It’s…it’s terrifying,” stated Richard, the naval officer, visibly shaken after reviewing the document. “He wasn’t just tinkering with time; he was creating a prison. A beautiful, agonizing prison.”

Kate, who had begun exhibiting an unnerving ability to predict events within the loop, added, “I always felt…like I’d been here before. The letter confirms it. He wasn’t trying to escape time; he was trying to *contain* it.”

Authorities are now focusing on disabling the device and understanding the full extent of Thorne’s actions. The long-term implications for the residents of the Lake House, and potentially the wider area, remain uncertain. Further updates will be provided as the situation develops.