It was several weeks before the authorities moved in to find out what happened in the small village of Yaughton, Shropshire. There had been some wild talk of the inhabitants vanishing into thin air. Nonsense, they had thought. An outbreak of Spanish flu doesn't make people vanish!

When they arrived, the first thing they noticed was how quiet it was. Too quiet. There was no birds singing; all they found was the now rotting carcases of dead birds all over the village. On the farm they found the remains of a farmer's cows. They found empty cars and buildings, a lot of bloodied tissues and an odd ash like substance on many surfaces.

Eventually they found paperwork and cassette tapes made by the scientist, Kate Collins. With these they were able to piece together what happened. Apparently she, and her husband Stephan Appleton, had discovered a strange pattern of lights in the sky that they believed to be an unknown alien life form.

Around the same time they discovered records from the local doctor, who described patients randomly succumbing to symptoms of unexplained bleeding and pressure in the brain that would be normal for brain tumours. That would explain the bloodied tissues.

Others had disappeared, from what they could gather from other pieces of information they found around the village. Those people who still kept diaries would never know how useful that was to their investigation.

The alien life form had been unintentionally killing people. Kate Collins claimed to have somehow found a way to communicate with it and had explained to it that it was causing deaths. Whilst the life form was in some ways horrified – as it was never its intention to be seen as hurting anyone – at the same time, people were now able to "be with the ones they wanted to be with". Kate had assumed this meant they could be together in spirit, in heaven or whatever else you wanted to believe.

It could only assumed that the life form hadn't spread throughout the planet as nobody else had since died. There had been a few similar deaths in some of the other local villages; but it hadn't been on the scale of an entire village like with Yaughton. Whatever Kate and Stephan had done, they must have convinced the life form to either stay put in the village or return to its home planet or location.

Nobody was really sure they would one hundred percent know happened here. Yes there was the information, but it all seemed very far fetched. Once the village was cleaned up and the derailed trains were dealt with, Yaughton was slowly opened back up. New families started to move in. The holiday park was taken over and reopened. But the stories would always remain. The new villagers took it all in good fun and even encouraged the urban legends, as they took to calling it. They didn't mind or care if any of it was true. It brought in tourists to the caravan park and to the local pubs.

Life had finally returned to the village.