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It was a hot summer day and a car with exactly seven seats, a huge amount of suitcases and five young people, accompanied by an adult man at the wheel, was traveling along a road to a little-known country town, so much so that many ignored it on maps, practically a ghost town, as it was known by few.

The young people were a rather peculiar group of friends who had studied together for more than five years, with a very strong relationship, and with so much to do in a month's vacation they decided to go to this little-known town to looking for information about a local "legend", which they learned of from a video of mysterious cases they saw on the internet. As if there was nothing good left to research or enjoy on vacation.

The group consisted of three girls and two boys, aged between seventeen and twenty, Natasha, nineteen, Ahiley, seventeen and dating Zeke (one of the members) who was eighteen, Troy, twenty, and Maquense, twenty-eight. one, not counting his thirty-two-year-old brother Chris, who was driving the car. It was she, Maquense, who came up with the brilliant idea of ​​going to the city.

The five were fanatical about seeing criminal stories and cases, especially unsolved ones, Maquense, Troy and Natasha were studying criminal expertise, and as this situation was in the same state they lived in, nothing else stopped them, other than a little fear , to go to the site to investigate for themselves why that same incident had occurred.

The video about the case said that in that small town, with few residents, where almost no accidents happened, such a sudden one shocked all the residents there: two brothers, sons of a widow in the city died after their car fell down the road. in a gorge that followed that path from the entrance to the place, the same one the young people were passing through at that exact moment. The case gained greater repercussion when, while searching for the bodies, the men who went to the rescue died five hours after leaving the scene. Each one for a different reason, while one had a cardiac arrest, another had an instantaneous combustion while sleeping, and the many others also had tragic, sudden and terrifying deaths, which made everyone in that city go into total despair and the residents were left afraid to go out on that same path, because they believed that it would be disrespectful to the poor souls of those boys who were brutally massacred by death that day and that with this disrespect they would be punished.

As they transported themselves on the way down that cursed road, the group played and talked normally, as if that situation wasn't tense. Ashiley then, curious about what they would do in that city, asked Maquense, who was practically the leader of the group:

-Maque what are we going to see first in the city?

-uhm... I was thinking of interviewing the locals, especially the older ones...

-More importantly, where are we going to stay? you said the city wasn't that far, but we've been traveling for eight hours, your brother is already a 'scrap'... -complained Zeke, which was practically only because Ashiley was there.

-shut up annoying, Chris is just the 'shard', but at least he has his mouth shut -Natasha thought Zeke was a useless retard, so she always felt bad for everything he did.

And just that line from Natasha started an intrigue between her and Zeke inside the car, where the two started arguing and yelling. Chris had put up with it five times during the trip. "ah...why don't they just keep quiet...? how can they enjoy arguing so much...?"

An unprepared move, Zeke ended up bumping Chris' arm accidentally, which made him lose control of the car that slid down the track, everyone went into despair. Trying to hold on to some corner of the car, Maquense glanced in the rearview mirror and saw the silhouette of a child. Chris managed to stop the car, but at a loss, he had to hit the hill next to the track, and dented the rear of the car.

-... Chris...? are you ok there partner?

- you retard! Why did you hit my arm?!

-It was not on purpose.!

- oh swear? well, so next time try to explain it to our dead bodies when they're down there! at the bottom of the canyon!!

-Do you know what that incident was now?

-... what Zeke?...

-it was the ghost of the lost souls of those young people...! woohoo!

Chris:

"seriously, how many neurons does he have?..."

Natasha:

"I don't think there's anything else in his head but shit..."

Chris wasn't one to get angry easily, but in that moment he was absolutely right. Maquense got out of the car and started looking around. The others came out too and looking along with her, but without understanding anything, Troy then asked what she was looking for and the answer startled them, and they all stood transfixed looking at her, while their heartbeats could be felt in their throats:

-the boy was there... the boy who fell from the canyon... he was in the middle of the road, watching us...

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