"That's what we're trying to figure out," she said. "It's hard to tell. It feels like just a... dark energy, but it's hard to tell where it came from. Several organizations in town, including my Historical Society, have been trying to do separate research on what the cause could be."

"As far as dying, the bodies just tend to vanish when no one is looking and reappear elsewhere, healed. A lot of the time there's a scar of some kind, or other marking, so it would appear to be the same body, but with such an odd phenomenon it's really hard to say for sure."