Learn about the unsettling beginnings of Centre Town, right here!

Long before paved roads and streetlamps, back when the region was nothing but dense, whispering pinewoods and fog-swept marshland. Early settlers recorded the land as strangely quiet—no birdsong at dawn, no signs of typical woodland life. Some wrote that the forest seemed to be “holding its breath,” as though waiting for intruders to overstep.

The first ‘settlers’ were a logging crew, a group of twenty men hired to clear the area for the future township. Their disappearance remains one of Centre Town’s oldest and most chilling mysteries. The crew set up camp near what is now Centre Point Hill, but within three nights, all signs of their presence vanished—tools left rusting in the soil, tents collapsed as if abandoned in haste, and a half-finished message carved into a tree: “We awoke it—”
The rest of the message appeared to be clawed away.

In the aftermath, the founders constructed myths to explain the eerie emptiness left behind. Oral traditions spoke of ancient forces beneath the soil, older than any settlement, older perhaps than the forest itself. Early accounts describe strange lights drifting between trees, rhythmic tremors deep underground, and shadows cast by no visible being. Some settlers believed the land rejected human disturbance, while others insisted something hidden—something hungry—had simply been stirred.

The uneasy decision the founders made: to build Centre Town anyway, convincing themselves that the darkness under the earth could be forgotten if never spoken of. But the myths lingered, passed down in hushed warnings, hinting that Centre Town’s foundations rest atop something that may still be listening, waiting for the town to grow careless.

Where is Centre Town now? It’s gone. No one knows how, or where, but it is believed that the dark twisted entities and creatures that tormented the residents still exist and have spread beyond the pinewoods, maybe, even, to your neighborhood.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR: S.R. Coleman has been writing short stories for the past forever years. A well seasoned author and horror fan, ‘Tales of the Parabelievable’ tell of his frightfully fearful experiences.