prologue, i beg of you, save us from this hell.
synopsis: in a small suburban area of boston, a group of teenagersâmatthew sturniolo and his two triplet brothers, nick and chris, and a childhood friend of theirs, y/nâtravel to an old destination named grangerâs deathly hill; a place in which hadnât been visited merely since the early 1970s. atop of the old haunted hill, the group soon realize things arenât truly as picturesque as they imagined and conclude that they are in grave danger. as they meet people along the way, they realize that the journey home may be harder than expected. knowing that they are in a situation that could ultimately ruin their lives or end them entirely, they make up a plan to make it back home safe, or better yet, alive. amongst the chaos, while trying to save each other, matt and y/n realize that there is more to them than just friendship.
warnings: mentions of death with small description, and anxiety expressed in the prologue below.
rumor spread rapidly around the small suburban area in boston, of the old hill owned formerly by choi granger; who was recently found suspiciously deceased in the driveway of his residence. apparent witnesses in the weekly sunday newspaper state that there were ghosts and other such paranormal beings around the area over the weekend of the fifth of august, as they could hear sobs for help within the trees.Â
granger hill was something unlike any other, as some lifelong villagers say, due to the suspicion and unpredictability of mr. granger himself. it had all started around 1965â the year that mr. granger moved in, fresh to the small area of merely six-thousand people.Â
he was tall and stocky, with dark eyes that everyone he had met said that they saw the devil staring back at them when they looked directly in them. he wore old worn overalls, a black long-sleeve underneathâ even in the summer heatâ and gloves that none of the villagers remembered him taking off. locals said he held secrets beneath those dirt-stained gloves and thatâs why he never removed them out in the public eye.Â
even as a child, he was someone that nobody wanted to be around, as just his presence was enough to drain someoneâs soul for the next six months. maybe it was his fault, maybe it was someone elseâs, or maybe, he was just made like that. maybe, he was simply made with a heart that was cold as ice, a stare that could send someone into a panic, and a personality that nobody wanted to get to know, except for his wife, that left him alone even after her death.Â
that, too, was something nobody could quite understand or piece together. how did granger, one of the worst people known to this town, have a wife? how was he able to meet someone who loved hi, no matter what. nobody saw his wife much, they only knew that her hair was jet black and her cheeks had no color.Â
soon after their marriage, though, she was found in the woods.
that being said, with the mysterious death of his wife and the appearance of granger as a whole, he was an unsettling topic all by his lonesome, but the property in which he lived both on and around was something indescribably horrifying.Â
in the spring of seventy-three, a couple went on a romantic old-style picnic date within the woods of granger hill, and came out completely different people. after their picnic, the woman, coretta anderson, was placed into a psychiatric asylum due to uncontrollable anxiety, and her boyfriend, dylan russo, was rumored to have moved far out of town and hadnât been seen since.Â
it was also rumored amongst the town that an old man in the late 1800s still haunts where he was hung in the woods, near where grangerâs wife was found, as you can see his visible figure at dawn, and a little girl who was viciously killed years after the older man can still be heard singing in the distance if listened to close enough.Â
months after the rumors surfaced, more than five decomposed bodies were found in the mess of the trees. nobody knows if they are the two of those who were rumored, or who they mightâve been. it was a closed case, and not a single person was asking questions about it.Â
there were so many unanswered questions about mr. granger, his life, and his home; now put to a perpetual halt due to his death.Â
the people wondered what caused the mans death, though; he was in perfectly good health and seemed to be better than he had ever been before. now, with choi granger dead and the entirety of the community together and asking why, the hill was renamed grangerâs deathly hill.Â
now, after forty-nine years of the mystery going unsolvedâ four teens find themselves venturing to the troubled land, hoping for a good explanation to ease their worries.
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