The Railway, the Mine: Lever’s Illustrated Yearbook, 1861 (1861)

Spirit Rock cemetery was founded in 1880. The rock is ten feet tall and marks the spot where the people of the surrounding villages came to see the Holy Man of those days. When the Holy Man was murdered, they buried him by this rock. It was told that after his death, people would see his spirit roaming around the rock at night. The town is named after the rock and the spirit of the Holy Man. Mason never wanted to remember that night, but on this night, the booze couldn’t even chase the memories away. This was the anniversary of the death of his wife and little girl. He drifted in his own fog as he remembered, all too clearly, walking through the front door, the awful smell that affronted his nostril’s before he reached the light switch. The house was deathly still. Something was just not right. Mingled in with the smell of candles was the rank smell of old blood.