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Ritualistic Grave Desecration Disturbs Residents

Clinton: Geoffrey Dawson, sexton of Hauntown's picturesque Bethel Lutheran Church arrived early Sunday morning, February 2, to discover that one of the oldest graves in the church yard had been disturbed.	State Criminal Investigator examines disinterred bones in Hauntown.
The hundred year old remains of Theobald Issac Barnes had been disinterred, arranged into a crude alter at the bottom of the grave and bedecked with red candles. The mutilated remains of a baby pig lay in the midst of the grisly alter along with what has turned out to be snippets of human hair, finger nails, and a strip of human skin approximately six inches long. The State Department of Criminal Investigation said that while it has no suspects, it had received similar reports of ritual grave desecrations occurring at four other locations in the county that night, all commited at or near midnight. What is truly disturbing is that when all five locations are plotted on a map, and lines are drawn to connect them, the form of a perfect pentagram is readily discovered. Dr. Patricia Rohr, a specialist in occult activity working with the DCI, explains the incidents were most likely the work of a group of male youths involved in some gang-related initiation rite. Asked about the relationship between the location of the incidents and their resemblance to a pentagram on a map, she shakes her head. "Anyone can connect three or more points with lines and find a pattern; five makes it easier. " Other are not so certain. Peter Rondale, Hauntown's Civil Engineer, knows the town attracts the peculiar. "During the 1920's, Hauntown used to attract a lot of occultists because they believed the town lay right on top of the intersection of five ley lines. Now, no one remembers exactly where that location is, but there is talk of Thornson building his grain elevator either ontop of it or right near it back in 1927 (see: Hauntown's Grain Elevator of Death, August , 1996: vol. 3, issue# 8). Now, I don't believe in 'em; they're just stories. But, something's very peculiar under this town. We recently started surveying the streets to install a new sewer system. We use a laser transit to get our measurements and our benchmark is a marble punchblock set in the steps of the town hall. That punchblock is precisely 100 feet due north of an iron pin in the middle the town square. Now, on some days, that punchblock isn't due north; sometimes it's off by as much as ten degrees on the compass! Some days it's 100 feet and six inches due north! Next day, it's back to normal. If it were natural, we'd be sittin' inside a very active volcano." Geoffrey Dawson, meanwhile, says a lot of the church's members are deeply concerned. "There's been talk about staking out the church yard, but I guess it's too late for that. People just feel outraged at what happened but they also feel helpless. All we can do now is pray that don't happen again."
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Ritualistic Grave Desecration Disturbs Residents