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The Headless Horseman of Monroe County
Chapter four
They returned to the bar later that night but learned nothing new. The girl they had hoped to talk to wasn't there so they had left early.
The next day they checked out the sites where the Horseman had been spotted but found nothing unusual. They went back to the motel and decided to do a little research on the town's history.
Early evening – motel room
Sam was sitting in front of his computer when Dean came walking in the door with food he had picked up at a fast food restaurant. He put the bag on the table then handed Sam a beer.
"Find anything out?" Dean asked.
"Not yet…..I just started going back through old newspapers but I haven't found anything." Sam looked up at Dean. "I still think it might just be a college prank. Brown getting his head cut off by that farm equipment might just be a weird coincidence."
"Maybe." Dean sat on the bed eating a hamburger as he looked through the local newspaper he had picked up at the motel's office. "Or maybe not."
Dean spread the paper out on the bed as he read an article.
"What do you got?" Sam asked as he stood up and walked over.
"Another decapitation….and guess who?" Dean turned the paper so Sam could see the article.
"Mary Ralley…" Sam said as he looked down at the article.
"Who else…..It says she was in an accident with a truck that was hauling sheet metal and a piece slipped off the truck and went through her windshield slicing her head clean off."
Sam looked over at Dean.
"Looks like we got ourselves a Horseman." Sam knew it would be too much of a coincidence for two people who claimed to have seen the Horseman to both have accidents where they were decapitated.
"Which means that everyone who sees him dies."
"So we got four others who are on his list."
"Yeah …but Ralley said she heard the horse's hoofs on the street, which means it really wasn't the Horseman but a fake."
"So it looks like the Horseman is even killing the people who saw the fake….Odd, but it's happened before."
"Why don't you keep checking those old papers and see if you can find anything that might show how the Horseman was created."
Later that night
Dean lay stretched out on the bed watching a basketball game while Sam used his computer to go back through the archives of old newspapers for the town.
"Got it!" He shouted startling Dean and causing him to reach for his gun.
"Damn it Sam!" Dean said as put the gun back under his pillow then walked over to his brother.
"Sorry….but I found something." Sam looked back at his computer. "In 1898 a man on horseback was being chased by a mob and was hit by a train. Both he and the horse were killed." Sam looked up at Dean. "He was decapitated by the train."
"That certainly gives us a reason for a Headless Horseman."
"Get this." Sam looked back at the screen. "The people of the town accused his mother of practicing black magic so they took it out on her son. They were chasing him for no reason other then they didn't like his mother…. he hadn't done anything."
"A perfect reason for wanting revenge."
"But why wait so long?"
"Maybe there's a curse on the descendants of the actual people that were involved. What better way to hurt someone then having their children or their children's children pay for what they did."
"But for a Horseman to materialize they have to be summoned by someone."
"So that's our next move, find out who summoned him."
TBC