The Coffins in the Marsh - 1939
It was just another hunting trip.
Whitbourne, 1939. A man — just an ordinary man with a rifle and maybe a flask tucked into his jacket — took a detour through the marshlands. And what he found would never appear in the Evening Telegram, nor would it be logged by any town official or police force.
He stumbled onto four coffins, partially submerged in the s…
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