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THE HORROR AT LAKE HARMONY: HORROR SHORT STORY, PARTVI

May 28, 2024 at 12:32 pm Leave a comment

This story was published by Necrology Shorts in January 2010.

                      THE HORROR AT LAKE HARMONY

I carefully closed the book and felt a shiver as I recalled some newspaper accounts of horrible occurrences that happened at Lake Harmony remembering that they took place at four year intervals.

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The latest incident occurred on June 12, 1998.  A group of four friends came to the campsite where we enjoyed camping.  Pitching their tent, they settled in for a few days of hiking and fishing.  It was reported that they were to leave the morning of June 13.  The morning of June 13 arrived and the surrounding campsites awoke to find that site 35 was empty.  The men were gone, along with their belongings.  They were never seen again.  They had disappeared with no word to their family or friends.  I remembered in the article about the fishermen, an earlier incident was mentioned of a horrifying occurrence that had never been solved. 

It was June 12, 1994.  A family of four, a mom, dad and two young sons were camping at site 34.  On the morning of their departure, no one stirred.  Finally, the time to vacate the site arrived and their tent was still standing with all their gear spread around the campsite.  A ranger stopped at the campsite and called out, “Time to pack-up and leave”.  There was no response.  He shouted that he was opening the tent and did so.  The poor fellow lost his mind with the sight that greeted him.  The mother and boys were there, murdered and horribly mutilated.  The father was gone and suspected of the crimes.  He was never found.

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