Chapter 3
Local neighbors awakened by the gun shots, screams, and bizarre wailing called the police reporting the disturbances and some neighbors even alerted the fire department that they smelled something burning. When the police and fire personnel arrived on the scene they discovered the charred remains of what once was a man and scorch marks which were produced by proximity to intense heat. During the investigation of the odd incident the police discovered a trail of a slimy substance that led from the house to the nearby woods. The next day several children ignoring their parents warnings not to go into the woods came upon a carcass of a deer that appeared to been partially eaten and covered by some sort of strange liquid. An even stranger fact was that the animal's remains were found not too far from the trail that the police found during their investigation the night prior. The police once more were called to the area and recovered the animal's body then sent it along with the ashes that were found the night before to be examined and analyzed to see if there were any connections between the two occurrences. A few days after receiving the two remains the local pathologist revealed the finds of his examinations. His findings showed that the ashes were indeed those of a human being that had been incinerated by some type of sonic or microwave type device and the animal had been saturated with some sort of poisonous toxin. The toxin on the deer was discovered to effect the breathing, then cause paralysis, then of exposed to a large enough concentration or long period of time- death. The animal also showed signs of bite marks that the pathologist was unable to identify. Five years went by without any further unusual incidents until one day a man while out hunting wild game stumbled upon a huge, yellowish green crystal which resembled peridot covered by some brush. The hunter moved the shrubs aside and scrutinized the object then headed back to town to inform the authorities. The towns people along with the police gathered up the object and hauled it back to the town then put it on display in front of the police station. A geologist was called in by the town council to examine the unusual find.