CADAVER, NEVADA

  BACK THEN…

  Years past, at the time of cowboys and

  Indians, a fellow named Billy Blaze came across

  an area of Nevada, that was constantly covered in

  a smell so terrible the area was called Cadaver.

  You see, Billy was the son of a mortician and

  had spent his childhood surrounded by that

  smell, it was no big deal to him. When he asked

  about Cadaver to people in the nearby village,

  they told him, no one had ever bothered to find

  out what the source of the smell was…

  Lover of adventures, Billy went back to

  Cadaver that same day.

  The area was completely deserted other than a

  large mountain. They called it Mount Cadaver.

  Billy went there and found a cave, with an

  entrance not taller than 7 feet.

  The cave intrigued him. No ray of light went

  in, even when the sun was shining up in the sky

  pointing at the cave, it seemed, the sunlight was

  too scared to enter. Why didn’t Billy enter the

  cave alone? No one knows till this day...

  We know for sure that Billy ran back to town

  and spoke about this cave to the people. They

  were as intrigued as he was.

  ‘Take us there! Take us there!’

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  A handful of men followed Billy back but, as

  soon as they inhaled the air of Cadaver, they

  backed off, some puked.

  Billy didn’t give up. The next months were

  spent looking for someone who’d sponsor his

  excursion. A man called Austin Boone sent him a

  letter one day.

  “Dear Mr Blaze,

  I am intrigued by the place you described and

  would very much like to lend a hand as much as

  you require for an excursion inside the cave, at

  one condition...

  Anything you find inside the cave is my

  property.”

  Just a month after, Billy stood in front of the

  cave. Two men from out of state had volunteered

  to join, they too didn’t mind the smell, which,

  Billy noticed, would get stronger when you were

  close to the cave.

  News outlets at the time had sent their

  photographers to take black and white pictures of

  the men. Most of them wore multiple bandanas

  around their noses and mouths, in hopes, it

  would keep the stench away - it didn’t work.

  Billy and the two men were dressed formally,

  with black suits and tall hats.

  They entered the cave with smiles. Neither of

  them was ever seen alive again.

  In fact, no one remembered them at all.

  Mr Boone found it strange that he couldn’t

  remember whom he had given money to for an

  expedition in the cave.

  He did remember that the cave was a place of

  intrigue and mystery, so he turned Cadaver into a

  tourist attraction. For a fee, men and women

  could enter the cave and find out the source of

  the smell.

  Slowly a little town developed around the

  tourist attraction.

  Although, owners of the shops, bars and

  amenities which sprouted in town saw the money

  come in, but they never remembered the faces or

  the names of those who handed them the money.

  It seemed as though they made their

  livelihoods from ghosts...