Day 774

The wooden bridges that run throughout the woods are meant to keep people away from the more unsavoury areas but instead act as a voyeuristic platform for tourists to observe them. It brought in more money than the rest of the village so it was decided that guides would be placed along the bridges for safety and information.

It worked quite well for a while, the townies got to see a real police scene and watch the corpses be dragged out of the water drenched soil by the river and the villagers got to make more money than ever before. They even set up fake body-discoveries along the less popular areas to draw tourists further in. Eventually they gained the moniker of Bloodbrook instead of Rudbrook.

Of course it didn't take long before some media personality revealed them as a hoax, prompting a dramatic decrease in tourism and the worst financial crisis they'd ever seen in their little community. When money suddenly becomes short, people adjust poorly. they get desperate.

Within a month the forest became a dedicated (and official) bodyfarm. The guides promised tours walking "hand in hand with the dead" and the outsiders came flocking back in to experience real bodies once more. Their morbid little hearts eager to experience death inches from them.

As with all good plans it didn't quite go as expected, what with people not anticipating the stench of rotting flesh and lots of it. Bags of lavender and heavily scented masks were sold at the entrance, so very reminiscent of the plague doctor masks that the vendors began to dress up in suitable attire and act as though bubonic death was right past the first corner.

Aroma aside the tourists would always swear blind that some of the bodies moved, spoke and pleaded for help. With the guided groups being three guides and four tourists though, their claims were always passed off as just gas from the decomposition escaping through whatever it can or the freshly dead still having the odd electrical impulse.

Nobody ever seemed to look into where these bodies were coming from or why most of them were missing their faces, revealing bloodied muscles and bone instead of recognisable features.

If nobody questions it, then it never gets answered and the list of the missing continues to grow.