A disturbance in the aether

 The world was in turmoil as scientists tried to make sense of the rifts... scolars in the major universities of the world as portents continued to multiply. In Newhaven, in the offshoot of Miskatonic University, candles burned as strange tomes and artifacts were studied...

Then one of the 'experiments' seems to have given a response...

A quiet weekend in the Miskatonic University buildings in Newhaven.

A strange, unearthly sound filled the air - a high pitched whining sound that cut through the atmosphere in an unnatural fashion as tendrils of vaporous light swirled out of the upstairs windows in the West Wing of the Paranormal Science block...

Tendrils of light that changed colour in a disconcerting way as they seemed to seek out passers bye.

Tendrils of light that travelled as far as the park and nearby tenements.

Then, travelling along the light filaments drifted strange, unwordly jellyfish-like creatures, canopies of shimmering ever-changing colours over orange tendrils.

Into the tenements as if engaged in an intelligent search for bodies.

And the people... as the aethereal creatures sought people, so to were the people drawn to the creatures.

Police from the nearbye station house rushed to the sceme but there was nothing they could do.

Then each jellyfish seemed to...merge... into a human before the two collapsed together...

Leaving slimy, pulsating masses that seemed to just... sink... into the ground before vanishing completely...