THE HORROR AT LAKE HARMONY: HORROR SHORT STORY, PART VII

This story was published by Necrology Shorts in January 2010.

                      THE HORROR AT LAKE HARMONY

Out of curiosity and fear, I searched the internet when I returned home to see what areas of Pennsylvania the Lenape Indians had occupied, and if that area included the location of Lake Harmony State Park.  The tribe had indeed lived in the area of the park.  I also looked up the history of the park.  The lake where we camped was man made.  A dam was built to allow a lake to form.  I remembered that, from our campsite at site 34 we could see two islands.  Could those islands have once been the tops of hills?  Could these be the hills that were once the home of The Ancients?  Was it more than a legend?  If these hills were indeed the home of The Ancients and the area had been flooded, then the tons of earth that trapped them would have eventually washed away. 

I had these thoughts during the fall of 2001 and could not get the possibilities out of my mind.  My mind considered powers unknown, evil unimagined.  We were planning a camping trip to Lake Harmony the next year.  My wife was to make the arrangements, and unknowingly, chose to camp on the four-year anniversary of the last unexplained event.