You know those 80s movies where a bunch of kids wander the neighborhood on bicycles and

then stumble into a mystery?

The story starts kind of like that.

You know, growing up, there was probably, you know, a good two or three dozen kids that

lived in the park and we just roamed the place like we own the place.

That's Jesse Morgan.

In the movie version of this story, he'd probably be the leader of the group, the scrappy one,

the Corey Feldman.

The way that trailer parks work, I mean, there's a lot of people that come in and go out.

I mean, I was one of the few kids that moved in when I was two and moved out when I was

18.

In the summer of 1985, Jesse was 11 years old.

It was the year the Nintendo came to North America.

New Coke hit the shelves and Calvin and Hobb started running in newspapers.

That year, Jesse and his friends came up with a game.

It was basically hide and seek, except the seeker rode around on a four wheeler.

All the kids would hide in the last one that got found would be able to ride the four wheeler,

just do that over and over and we'd play it all summer long.

The trailer park where Jesse grew up, it's in a town so small that half of its main street

is technically in another village.

And right next to the trailer park, covering more than half of the entire town, is 15 square

miles of tall red pines and swapy tangled forest.

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