Strangetastic: The Bouncing Spirits

Given its location on the stormy Gulf Coast, it should come as no surprise that the town of River Derbane suffers a fair number of storms, many of them deadly. Just a few years before my birth, a storm blew in and killed more than a hundred people, no small disaster in a town the size of ours. Aside from their grief, the citizens of the town were quite concerned about the possibility of being overrun by ghosts, the superstition being that tragedy begets wakeful spirits. They called upon a man known as a ‘power doctor,’ a practitioner of voodoo and pagan rites, and asked if he could relocate the ghosts of their friends and loved ones. He told them he could for a price, and a they struck a deal.