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In July of 1949, the small, backwoods town of Brundle, New Jersey went insane. Brundle’s forty-three residents had few visitors, so nobody knows exactly when it happened, or what caused it. But when the first outsider came into town on the twentieth, he found every man, woman, and child wailing, gibbering, and completely unaware of their surroundings.

The government investigated, and concluded that a viral epidemic caused mass brain damage. But they could never explain why everyone who’s ever tried to live there since has gone mad too.