What Happened That Night Was Indescribable Analysis

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What happened that night was indescribable. We just wanted to have fun, we didn't know who it was…… we didn't know….what it was. Let me start from the beginning….. About 40 years ago when I was just a boy, I turned 12 that year.
As we all knew Tom Mcsayers was the madman of our town, he was an old war vet. Everyone knew he went crazy after the war, he would claim to see bloody soldiers in the grave yard wandering about calling his name…….waiting for him. Haunting him. He'd scream at night waiting for the soldiers to drag him into the fog, into his death.
He said at first he could just hear them crying out in agony, screaming for him to help. As it grew worse he could see the bloody soldiers wandering about in the endless fog.
Of course no

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