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On a Monday afternoon in December of 2001, a pair of police officers walked in the side door

of a big old farmhouse in the woods in Loudoun County, Virginia. They had just received a

frantic 911 call from a man who

said he had found his neighbor horrifically injured on the kitchen floor. The police officers crept through

the house, peering cautiously around corners, in case the attacker was still in the house. But,

other than the sound of their footsteps creaking on the hardwood, the home was totally silent.

When they made it to the

kitchen, they stopped. There, lying on his stomach was the body of an older man, covered in blood.

One of the officers stepped forward and knelt down to check the man's pulse, but it was obvious to both

of them that he was dead. The officer was about to stand back up when something strange

on the back of the man's neck caught his eye.

Slowly, the officer reached out a hand and pulled down the collar of the man's shirt.

When he saw what was there, he looked back at his partner with an expression of fear,

because what he had just discovered could be a sign that there were devil-worshipping occultists

prowling their rural community.

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