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Echoes of the Past and the Quest for Truth - Scary Paranormal Story · Shallow Nights: Scary Bedtime Stories

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  Albert sat quietly, waiting his turn along with the rest of the
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  crowd gathered on the town common.
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  He had been selected as one of the townspeople who would
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  contribute to the contents of the city's 200th anniversary
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  time capsule. It would be placed at the foot
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  of the new statue commemorating the soldiers that had perished
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  in the various wars over the years.
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  He wasn't a member of the military, although he did have
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  family members who served and died.
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  He was denied admission to the military because he had lost two
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  fingers in a farm accident when he was just a young boy.
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  After learning of his rejection, many of his classmates took to
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  pointing with the fingers he lacked and making jokes at his
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  expense. His family was one of the first
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  families to settle in the small town that would become a mid
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  sized city in the Midwest. His great grandfather started a
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  farm and a lumber business that became a success.
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  The family fortune and name would grow along with the town.
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  When his parents passed away he became the richest man in the
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  city, but that did nothing to improve his social standing.
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  He was still quietly shunned by the more active social groups.
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  He was only invited to events where donations were important.
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  They always needed money and he had more than most of them
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  combined. He hated the affairs but felt
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  obligated to attend out of respect to his family.
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  No matter his age. Whenever he was there, he always
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  felt like the little boy that everyone pointed fingers at and
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  laughed. Other than his family name,
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  Albert was as forgettable a man as anyone could ever meet.
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  He was short, plain and frail. He led a quiet life running a
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  business his grandfather had started back in the early 20s.
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  He was happy for a few years when he met his wife.
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  She was the only person in his life that ever truly loved him
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  for who he was, not what he had. They married when he was 32 and
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  she was 27. She was a social gadfly and was
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  loved by everyone that met her. They both wanted a family, but
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  his wife passed away before they had children.
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  After she passed away, he lost interest in life in general.
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  He was recognized as a pillar of his community.
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  He was active in every social group and contributed what money
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  he could whenever asked. But he was active because he
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  knew his wife would have wanted him to be.
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  He volunteered whenever the need arose.
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  He volunteered as a firefighter. When hikers, children or
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  residents from the surrounding towns were lost, he would guide
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  the search parties. Sometimes they were successful
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  in finding those lost. Most times, they weren't.
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  He was only 17 the first time he joined the search party.
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  He was 71 when he joined the last one.
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  The searches found many of the missing, but there were many
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  dozens over the years that were never found.
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  Adults, children, males and females.
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  Cases that were never solved. Cold cases as they were referred
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  to by law enforcement. There were many theories that
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  followed the cases. People believed it was the work
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  of cultists or sex perverts. Many suspected a jealous
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  husband, but the murders were done in different ways with
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  different weapons that made it impossible for the task forces
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  that were formed to catch the killer or killers.
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  The last unsolved murder was committed almost five years ago.
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  By now the people had almost forgotten it.
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  No one seemed interested in discovering the identity of the
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  mysterious monster. Only the killer was still
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  craving the fame and notoriety he felt he deserved.
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  He had expected to be discovered years ago.
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  He had even taken to leaving small clues at the crime scenes,
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  hoping the detectives would put them together.
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  Despite the years and the abundance of forensic evidence,
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  the authorities never came close to identifying the killer.
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  The media never even gave the killer a name.
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  Despite the killer's efforts to give the police clear clues to
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  help them find him. He wasn't even sure they ever
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  linked the crimes together. Albert had volunteered to work
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  on the task forces and had done his best to track down the
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  killer. No matter how hard he worked, no
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  investigation ever came close to finding the killer.
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  What the people who had been chosen to contribute added to
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  the time capsule would remain a secret.
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  The contents were intended for the residents that would be
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  there 100 years from now. He had decided that the string
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  of murders were a vital, even if embarrassing, part of the town's
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  history. Maybe he could contribute in a
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  way so that people in the future would be able to finally reveal
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  the identity of the person that terrified their town over 100
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  years ago. He ratherly placed the small
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  metal box into the concrete container, along with all the
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  other trinkets, baubles and mementos.
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  He stepped back and stared at the box as it was lowered and
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  covered, enshrined in the soil for the next 100 years.
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  The box he had placed in the capsule was very special.
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  It was a box that his grandfather had kept all of his
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  prized possessions in. The contents he had placed in
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  the box where every bit is special.
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  The capsule would be opened in 100 years.
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  It meant that it would be another 100 years before the
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  town before the world finally knew who the killer was.
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  In the box he had placed in the capsule were 12 different
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  fingers from 12 different victims.
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  They were his favorite trophies from the 73 victims that he had
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  kidnapped, tortured, and killed over his lifetime.
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  He had cut off many pieces from his victims over the years, but
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  fingers were his favourites. More than a few of them were
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  from people that had enjoyed pointing their fingers at him.
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  He made sure to point their fingers at them when he was done
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  cutting them to pieces. Along with the fingers was a map
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  indicating where what remains still survived could be found
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  after 100 years. On the map was the location of
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  the home he'd lived in all his life and a signed confession.
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  Maybe in some distant lifetime, he would finally get his own
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  name in the papers.