Title: The Lantern of Hollow Brook 🎃
Stake ID: mrbelphy
Every Halloween, the villagers of Hollow Brook whispered the same warning: Never follow the light in the fog.
It began one century ago, when a miner named Elias vanished during a stormy October night. They said he carried a lantern to guide him home through the mist, but he never made it. The next morning, only the lantern was found burning cold blue, its flame unmoved by wind or rain.
Now, every year as October’s last night creeps in, the blue lantern flickers through the fog again. Those who follow it vanish too drawn by faint whispers calling their name, always in a familiar voice.
Some claim the light leads to gold buried beneath the hills. Others say Elias still searches for his way home and mistakes the living for the lost.
But last night, for the first time in a hundred years, the fog reached the village square.
And this morning, the lantern burns on my doorstep. 💀