Scarecrows — David A. Rollins

Not many people remember Amberville, though it was once a thriving farm community. The town, located on Maryland's eastern shore no longer exists, or at least not on any maps. However, some people think that it's still there, even though you can't get within fives miles of it now from any direction. All of the roads leading into that community have been ripped up and covered over, and the newer roads have been designed to go around the town so it can't be seen from the road.

The reason for this strange deception lies with the Army, who cordoned off the area in 1964 for what it said were national security reasons, top-secret matters, no civilian access. Why would they do that you ask? That's the question they have never answered, nor have they explained what happened to the people of that town, who all mysteriously disappeared without a trace. Something happened to those people in Amberville, something horrible, something so terrible that the Army has kept it hidden from the public for decades.

This is their story, or at least an honest attempt to reconstruct the events that led up to the demise of the town. Keep in mind though that this story does not attempt to explain "how" these horriffic events took place, only "why" they took place, because anything else would only be useless conjecture.