New story to get my creative juices flowing. I hate writer's block.
-Prelude-
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"The biggest secret a town can have is its history."- Boomer, (The Townsville Files)
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Life was normal for Bubbles Mackenzie Jones until she chose the subject of her history paper, 'The Townsville Files'.
What are 'The Townsville Files' you ask? Not many people know. Mostly because it is covered up with excuses: "It was just a wild animal." or "It was just a strange illness."
But they had lied.
'The Townsville Files' was the name given to a series of murders that occurred in the city of Townsville over fifty years ago. You see, in this small town, there was what you would call a cult. And they met deep in the forest and made human sacrifices. Yes, human sacrifices.
It started out like this:
On the night of June 5th, 1952, a policeman was out on patrol as per usual. He was almost done, so he started to head back to the station. Then he smelled something; something vile, something dead. He turned in that direction. He didn't think it was anything serious, "Probably just a squirrel that got run over", he thought. Because Townsville was what you would call a model environment: a nice small town, with nice people, and a nice school, what could possibly go wrong?
A body with long bloody marks all across it was what went wrong.
The policeman stumbled onto the body, hidden in the bushes. At first, he panicked. Then he ran back to the station and brought an investigative team over.
An investigation occurred. The result was that the corpse had lost too much blood from the cuts and had been left there. But the marks were not made from knifes, so; they couldn't tell how he had been killed.
The case was dismissed because they could not find the murder weapon and there were no suspects. Eventually the whole ordeal was forgotten until two months later, when a fisherman discovered six bodies washed upon the shore of the local stream. All of them had similar marks on them.
But again, there was no murder weapon and there were no clues as to how they had been killed- except for the loss of blood.
The murders went on for the next five months. About seven more people were killed, all dying of the same cause. But the murders would finally come to an end, when a young boy of seventeen disappeared on January 7th, 1953.
He was said to have gone out with his father for dinner. But neither the father nor son had come home that night.
A week after the boy disappeared, the father turned himself in to the police. He said that he and others from a group had killed the people, but when asked, refused to tell who the others were.
He was sentenced to death. The murders then became nothing but a memory, and were soon forgotten.
Only a few people remember the murders today, and they dare not speak of them for fear that the events will repeat themselves.
No details remain, only a name: 'The Townsville Files'.
~End Of Chapter~
Shall I continue?
T.C