The coal mine out by Abbotts Mosswood was one of the most profitable ones in the whole country and at its peak it ran almost 24/7, save for Sundays of course. There was always a constant flow of workers going in and an unsteady trickle of wounded coming out but that was expected for the era.
The miners were down there for such long periods of time that they eventually built a church in one of the more central chambers so they could work Sundays too. Call it cave sickness or practicality - either way the flow of workers slowed years before the coal did.
Seems that somewhere deeper than the church, deeper than they were meant to go, they found something and it followed them back up. Now any sane person in those days would have captured it or killed it but instead, the miners kept it in the church they'd made.
Eventually they just stopped coming out at all.
The miners were down there for such long periods of time that they eventually built a church in one of the more central chambers so they could work Sundays too. Call it cave sickness or practicality - either way the flow of workers slowed years before the coal did.
Seems that somewhere deeper than the church, deeper than they were meant to go, they found something and it followed them back up. Now any sane person in those days would have captured it or killed it but instead, the miners kept it in the church they'd made.
Eventually they just stopped coming out at all.
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