It's time to turn off the lights and turn on the dark.

Chilling tales for dark nights. The

The Good evening listener.

You're listening to Chilling Tales for Dark Nights.

On tonight's edition, we invite you to leave behind your safe reality and descend with us into the frightening depths of the most terrifying imaginations, with an audio adaptation of frightening fiction about summoned spirits.

I'm your host, Paul J. McSorley, and tonight and every other Wednesday night, I'll be your guide as we traverse the dimly lit corridors of your darkest dreams.

Joining us tonight to help bring to life the frightening fiction of Eric Fisher is myself, voice talent Paul J. McSorley.

Now get your ticket ready.

Take your seat in our theater of the minds and brace yourself.

It's time to turn off the lights and turn on the dark.

Our tale this evening is written by Eric Fisher and is performed by me, Paul J. McSorley.

In this tale, we travel back to a time before many of us were even born. Sit back as we listen to

the horrors of a generation since past. Now without further ado, I present to you,

thus I invoked Niscus.

Part 1, Elevation 461.

Buchanan County, Indiana, August, 1933

Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal investments were coming into full effect.

As shiftless and work-hungry men left the bread lines for any job they could get

to put food on their

family's tables and stave off evictions and car repossessions.

Building dams, roads and sidewalks, trails, national parks, massive tree planting and land

of reclamation efforts, the federal money flowed into communities large and small as land

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