Personal Essay: What Makes A Haunted Mountain

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Justin started home when he noticed the mountain in the distance and felt the urge to visit once more. "After today, I am not going back up here," he promised riding across the field to the flat where he had left his bike on previous visits. Slipping and sliding he scurried up the steep mountainside while trying to be quiet. From time to time, he grabbed the bushes to keep from sliding backward. When he arrived at the mines, he moved the boards covering the entrance. He stepped inside, shined a flashlight on the wall and the ceiling, he never saw the open shaft in front him. Then he noticed the odor was worse than on previous trips, he rushed outside holding his fingers over his nose and sat down in the leaves with his face in his hands. …show more content…
Look at all those bones and old clothes,” David said shining the flashlight while holding his fingers over his nose. “So this is what makes a haunted mountain. Please, let’s get of here before we pass out from that smell.”
David called the officer waiting with the family to tell them Justin was okay and he would be coming off the hill soon.
Later that afternoon the coroner and his staff returned, to remove the remains, and deliver them to the county morgue for identification using clothing, wallets and DNA tests. They were surprised when they identified the remains of Mrs. Whiteside, Silva Martinez, Steven O’Brien, Mrs. Stevens, Detective Jackson, Mark Russell and Chuck Wilson. They needed to do more testing before they could identify the others. However, they were surprised when they identified the remains of Darrell Josickly, President of the cosmetic company.
The detectives began their investigation immediately to learn who committed those ghastly crimes. They spoke with neighbors living near Downing Avenue, the main street leading to the mountain, but no one had seen or heard anything that could help them solve the case. Later they discovered several paths on the other side, which they were sure the perpetrators had
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After a few minutes Larry and his friends walked into the office, “What’s going on with you?” Larry asked when he saw Ernest was upset.
“What’s the problem?” Frank asked. “You look as if you lost your best friend.”
“Sit down!” Ernest ordered and watched the three men sit on chairs in front of the desk as if they were schoolchildren in trouble. “This morning three men threw a boy in a shaft inside an old abandoned coal mines on top of the hill.”
“Sure we did that,” John spoke up quickly and pointed toward Dr. Kelly. “Wait a minute, Don told us to wait up there, when we discovered who was messing around to take care of them and, that’s what we did,” John said proudly. “What’s the problem?”
“We went up there this morning, saw the kid messing around the mines, and threw him in the shaft. I’m sure no one saw us, and by now, he 's dead,” Frank said. He knew by the look on Ernest’s face, that there was more to the story than he had told them, and it was not

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