The Creature of Spooky Lake

By Josie Jaye

The creature is as old as a dinosaur and lives in the muck and silt of Spooky Lake. Every eleven years, on the eleventh of August, it takes a living being. When four college students stumble across the legend (or is it), they find out it's not a legend. They become inspired to stop the creature from taking again.

Will they be able to figure out how to stop it when their predator couldn't?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Page Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Jan 6, 2023
• ISBN: 9781646282463

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The Creature of Spooky Lake

Josie Jaye

Copyright © 2022 Josie Jaye

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PAGE PUBLISHING

Conneaut Lake, PA

First originally published by Page Publishing 2022

This is a work of fiction. Any names, city, state, place of business, event, or incident is a pure figment of the author’s imagination and is used in a fictitious mannerism. Any resemblance to a living or deceased is purely coincidental.

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ISBN 978-1-64628-242-5 (pbk)

ISBN 978-1-64628-246-3 (digital)

Printed in the United States of America

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Disclaimer

About the Author

Introduction

Spooky Lake, PA, back in the 1860s, they built several cottages to house the insane.

In all there were four cottages with tunnels leading to each other and from the doctor's home for easy access—slip in and slip out.

The cottages were large, like a resort kind of look to them, to house the mentally insane. There seems to be more men than women at the time. The cottages were three stories high with bedrooms on the top two floors and living area on the main floor along with a kitchen and bathrooms. First two floors had wrapped around porches for them to relax and enjoy whenever they could.

Over time these building have been demolished and destroyed; however, the lakes and woods still stand with the lingering of souls that were left unrest.

It all started decades ago; the purchase of the land by the first settlers in the area with a bountiful water and a few animals. The young settlers began to build roots—raising their children, harvesting their crops, and surviving the harsh winters. They were homeschooling their children to be hard working and educated as possible.

And finally as the last one left the nest to go to college, the elderly couple, satisfied with what