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Waaaay
back in the mid-1800s there was this here mining town called Ghastly
Gulch. The work was hard, and the miners were poor. But they worked
regardless. They worked on and on and on. Creeepy things started to happen
in the mine...people started hearing strange things and seeing lights and
shadows in the darkness. At first, they thought it was merely the gases in
the mine playing tricks with their minds but then stranger and stranger
things began to happen. As it turned out, there was a shrewd old
prospector by the name of McManus who had discovered the “mother lode”
of gold deep down a tunnel that no one else knew about. And, being quite
creative, he had begun to try to scare the other prospectors out of the
mines by making ghostly noises in the tunnels and by hanging colored
lanterns in strange places. He wanted that gold all to himself, you see.
And for a time, his plan seemed to work. Folks said the mine was haunted
and many otherwise brave men wouldn’t dare to venture inside the Ghost
Mine of Ghastly Gulch.
But when his antics were finally discovered in the winter of 1851, he
disappeared. No one ever saw him again. But the scary thing was, the eerie
shadows and sounds STILL haunted the mines. Was McManus still alive,
lurking in the mines, trying to protect his gold? Some folks say he was.
Greed took over the townsfolk like a fever, and they searched and searched
for the gold but couldn’t find it.
Shortly after McManus vanished, luck played a nasty hand with the
townsfolk of Ghastly Gulch. In the spring of '52 there was a terrible
earthquake which gave the town and the whole region such a jolt that the
town was flooded by nearby Lucky Lode Lake and swallowed up by the earth!
All that was left was the entrance to the mine...and the lake...with the
town and the greedy townsfolk buried deep down below. Through the years,
daring adventurers such as yourselves have gone into the mine in search of
McManus' gold, never to be seen again. |
