Most people are afraid of the dark.

And while this is something that we expect from our children, adults hold onto that fear

just as tightly.

We simply don't talk about it anymore, but it's there lurking in the backs of our minds.

This calls it nictophobia, the fear of the dark.

Since the dawn of humanity, our ancestors have stared into the blackness of caves, tunnels,

and basements, with a feeling of wrought and penic in our bellies.

HP Lovecraft, the patriarch of the horror genre, published in essay in 1927 entitled Supernatural

Horror in Literature.

And it opens with this profoundly simple statement.

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind

of fear is fear of the unknown.

People fear the unknown, the what if and the things they cannot see.

We humans are afraid of the dark.

We're afraid that our frailness and weakness might become laid bare in the presence of

whatever it is that lurks in the shadows.

We're afraid of opening up places that should remain closed.

We fear what we cannot see, and sometimes for good reason.

I'm Aaron Manky, and this is lore.

The Berkshire Mountain Range in Western Massachusetts sits in the very top left corner of the state.

This not the Rockies by any stretch of the imagination, but in 1851 those hills were

in someone's way.

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