mboncher: Yep, that is a tale to be told around a campfire. NOW, if I were telling it, I'd make sure I turned it into something local to add believability. AND, if I had been out earlier in the day, say with my daughter and her girl scout troop, I'm make mention of a small mound (doesn't matter if they remembered seeing one or not, I'd always just say I had seen several here and there and decided not to tell them). Then I'd modify the story a bit to say that some people thought those small mounds held the remains of the people who had disappeared but no one had the nerve to dig through them. Well, I think that would scare the shit out of any 8-year-old! Nice story. DMFW: Another nice story. Easy reading. It flows well. Only thing I have to say is the mixture of the railroad, an accident, and an old man telegraphed, to me, what was likely to be the outcome of the story. Of course, in the back of my mind, I wondered if you were "baiting" me...grin. I think that story had just the right amount of descriptive text. Not too much and just the right flavor for a piece like that. Nice work guys!