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He filled his glass about half full of the cognac. Michael got some brandy.

“Hey Vanderholdt, you got any peanuts or pretzels or something?” Alan asked.

“Peanuts or pretzels ...” Vanderholdt said slowly.

“Yeah, you know,” Alan said, “something crunchy. Popcorn?”

“I only like popcorn at the movies,” Michael said.

“Peanuts,” Alan said. “C’mon.”

“Let me go to the kitchen and see what I can find,” Vanderholdt ...

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On the morning of Wednesday, September 26, 1928, Michael O’Shea woke up in the same guestroom he’d woken in the last time he’d passed out at Vanderholdt’s house. A cool Atlantic breeze blew through the slightly open window and he took a deep breath. His mouth was dry but otherwise, he felt fine. He went into the fancy bathroom and took a quick bath. Then he went looking for Alan, who he found in the connecting bathroom to another guest room, sitting in a steaming bathtub ...

In the end, it was decided that they would take Professor Loomis’ brand-new Chevrolet National AB 4-door sedan. Alan whistled when he saw the automobile. It had a hard top with all the bells and whistles, including an electric starter. It even had a nice, new-car smell.

“That’s a car!” Alan said.

“Just got it,” Professor Loomis said.

There was a lot of room in the back and Alan climbed in. Michael got into the passenger seat while Vanderholdt got ...

She went back to her desk and he started to look through the September and October newspapers for 1927. He soon found an article in the Wednesday, November 2, 1927, newspaper. He guessed it was the original of the article from the Globe. It read:


VILLAGE VANISHES
Population of Town Gone
Police Baffled

TOLUCA COUNTY ― The entire population of the small Maine town of Silent
Hill vanished without a trace Monday night.

...

The man was able to give him some complex instructions on taking the back roads through Maine. Michael wrote down the instructions. The county roads had numbers but not all of them were marked so some of the directions were confusing and relied on local landmarks.

They headed out of town around noon and, after getting lost a couple of times, taking a few wrong turns, and having to ask directions at some of the stark and sinister-looking farms that they passed, they managed to get ...