Murder most fowl

I witnessed a murder today, personified by dark sinister beings challenging any who would cross the bridge, with more gathered on the beaches below on both sides of the river, more yet along the water's edge to the west. Easily visible against the background of new fallen snow. Black and white, evil and good, the eternal struggle.

They gathered in a place where the movie was being shot just a few days before, a movie based in the evil that stalked this place a quarter century before, an evil that left its victims in unmarked graves, many of them never found.

Was the murder recent, of course it was, but was it also founded in that time and now its victims rise on All Hallow's Eve to torment those who paid little attention to their fate because they were considered less than worthy of a proper investigation by authorities.

Like a lawman facing unbelievable odds, the eagle stared from his perch in the old cottonwood at the gang gathered below perhaps wondering too, what evil brought this murder out on this particular day. Maybe with his vision he can see the spirits of those long-dead souls drifting through the forests seeking salvation or retribution, or both.

And this is the mystery, my friends and the new challenge. Can anyone define this murder? Muwaaaa haaaaa haaaaa!