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Now time for the story.

My name is Derek Redding and I've worked at the Barlow County Medical Examiner's office

in Tennessee for about a decade.

During those years, I have seen my fair share of awful things, awful to most people anyway.

To me, every corpse that is brought into our office is like a jigsaw puzzle to work

in reverse.

Starting up a dead body and searching for the cause of death has always been a rush for

me.

I never expected them to start opening themselves.

Barlow County in the past few months had seen a sudden increase in unexplained deaths,

mostly at Tico Mine number 2, Tico 2 to the locals.

The local phosphorus mine has always been the only anchor in our economically depressed

area.

If high school kids don't manage to go to college or trade school, they end up running

heavy equipment, hauling Tennessee brownstone out of the ground.

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