Tuesday, May 16, 2017

The Stench

It was a sunny February day in the Utah Mesas, when we saw it.

An enormous, ancient, clouded cavern, in the face of the rocks. Slowly we approached as a dreadful stench flowed out. In one quick swoop we both made eye contact and covered our noses, but as we got closer and closer the stench became like a straight jacket, wrapping around us and not letting go. As we finally enter, we saw tools and chunks of pottery littered across the ground, but as we looked closer we saw human bones everywhere. We automatically assumed it was a Native American burial site, as the Mesas are covered in Native American ruins. However all the pottery, amulets, and wooden figures that would usually be there were gone. That's no surprise though, as that's pretty typical of grave robbers. With anger of the absolute disrespect some people have, we call tribal police.

After a couple hours they called back and said they sent some people up and that it was indeed a burial site. They also told us that the reason the smell was so rancid was because the grave was dug up only a couple hours before we stumbled upon the cave.

It's now been a couple months and the culprit still hasn't been caught.

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

This was a very alarming story. Don't get me wrong, it was awesome, but it was nothing I have ever heard before I hope to see more stories similar to this one.

Anonymous said...

I think this could be a great start to a long story. I really like how this was written. I love the phrase, "the stench became like a straight jacket, wrapping around us and not letting go."

Anonymous said...

That was so cool! I got a little scared at the end. What would've made it awesome is if you were the first people to be in that grave for over a hundred years! That would've been crazy. Or were someone was just buried.

Anonymous said...

The way you describe the grave was phenomenal!

Anonymous said...

I enjoyed this a lot the way you described things was amazing.

Anonymous said...

I really enjoyed this story! Great description.

Anonymous said...

This would be really cool as like a longer story, but good none I really enjoyed it

Anonymous said...

This story was really cool. I get the feeling it could almost be a real expeirience!

Anonymous said...

Your story had really great descriptions and had a great beginning

Anonymous said...

@Emily R. Winter it is a true experience

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