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Chapter 71 - Stone Coffin

"So how do we get rid of the ghosts?" Ingrid asked.

Jenny looked at her with a frown. 

"We are supposed to salt and burn their remains," Mark said.

"Yeah, that will be a little difficult since there is no remaining to burn. Based on the family tree they might have died in the nineteen hundreds," Nathan argued.

"There must be something left, a femur or tooth," Mark said.

"Do we even know where they were buried?" Jenny asked.

"Probably somewhere in the cave," Nathan replied.

"Where are you going?" Jenny asked as Nathan walked away.

"To the cave. The quicker we end this the better," Nathan said.

Mark went to get two more shotguns from the armory and handed them to Abed and Bobby.

"Yeah, I don't like guns," Bobby said and handed it back to Mark.

Jenny collected it from Mark.

"Do you know how to use that?" Mark asked.

She collected a couple of shells from Mark and loaded them into the chamber. She pulled back the foreshock and Mark nodded.

Mark wanted those without a gun to stay behind but they did not think it was safe.

After some persuasion, Mark agreed to. tag along. Nathan was already in the tunnel. He fired at them they only disappeared for seconds and appeared again.

The others ran down when they heard the gunshots. 

Nathan was loading his gun when he dropped the shells. He quickly reached into his pocket but before he could place them in the chamber. The female ghost grabbed him by the neck and started to choke him.

Nathan dropped his gun as he gurgled. He was slammed against the wall and lifted a few inches off the ground.

He held onto his neck as he struggled. When the others got there Jenny ran to Nathan.

"Let go," she screamed as she tried to stop him from choking himself.

Nathan's eyes were teary and red. They popped out revealing well-defined vein streaks.

"Step aside," Mark yelled and Jenny did as she was told.

He fired and rocksalt flew across a large portion of the room. Nathan touched down and started coughing.

He rubbed his neck as he thanked Mark.

"I found it," Jenny screamed.

"Give us Marcus," a voice whispered in the distance.

"Did you hear that?" Bobby asked and they all nodded as they looked around for the origin of the voice.

Ingrid knelt by a hollow in the ground of the cave. Since the whole cave was rocky, Who ever kill the women dug into the rock.

Creating a rock coffin which was covered with a stone slab.

"I don't think all this was the work of one man," Nathan mentioned.

"Why do you say that?" Jenny asked.

"One man will not be able to lift this slab," Nathan explained.

"Who cares, just salt and burn whatever is in there," Abed ordered.

Mark poured salt into the human-sized hole in the hollow rock. Nathan poured some lighter fluid and tossed a lit match.

A flame erupted and they all turned away. They then watched as whatever was in the stone coffin burned.

"Is that it?" Jenny asked

"I think so," Mark replied.

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