October’s 13/#6 - What Lies Beneath

[Paul de Denus]

October 31, 1947: 

We, who live in the small hamlets along the northern territory shoreline may have seen something fall from the sky, crash into the deep bowl that was our lake; if we did see, nothing was said, only whispered.

 

October 31, 1960:

New housing developments overshadowed our lodgings when investors cashed in on the wilderness and wine colored lake; over the years we listened to their complaint - lack of wildlife to hunt, the poor fishing catch - and we told them it was just the way of nature.

 

October 31, 1973:

The mysterious disappearance of four boaters and their boats brought about an investigation by federal authorities but the cases remained unsolved as the lake - - a deep crater 2000 feet deep - - left no clues; we who knew left offerings near the water’s edge; the disappearances stopped.

 

October 31, 1986: 

The developments went the way of ghost towns as strange sightings were reported on the lake and in the surrounding woods; several locals went missing and were dismissed as ‘runaways’ but we knew what we’d done; there were no investigations by the local authority.

 

October 31, 1999:

Only a few families remained on the lake and those who stayed and understood continued to leave what was necessary beside the water’s edge.

 

October 31, 2012:

Our skates cut the thin veil over the ice pond and we follow the blowing tornados of snow across the glass surface; something wide knifes beneath the ice and I sense the deep water below about to boil but I am not afraid.

[Angela]

Truly spooky, but spooky is too much a fun sounding word.  Creepy seems light as well.  Lets just say it could give one the heebie-jeebies.

[Paul de Denus]

Thanks Robert

[Robert Crisman]

I like "we knew what we'd done" in the fourth sentence. Sometimes the aliens need a little help. Nice.