THE CURSE OF CRYSTAL LAKE CONTINUES

By Gerald J. Fitzgerald, senior writer

All of us who live here in Cunningham County know the legend of Camp Crystal Lake. How, in the fifties, a boy named Jason Voorhees drowned in Crystal Lake because the camp counselors who were supposed to be watching him were off making love. And, how Mrs. Voorhees viciously murdered the counselors responsible a year later.

And, as the story goes, in 1980, when the camp was going to be reopened, Mrs. Voorhees went on a rampage and killed all the counselors, except for one. And, supposedly, Jason, somehow brought back to life, watched his mother beheaded by that very same surviving counselor.

And, the legend goes on to say that the girl who survived that Friday the thirteenth mysteriously disappeared a year later, the interior of her house splattered with blood.

We know that for years the woods around “Camp Blood” weren’t safe. How anyone who dared venture into those woods met with a deadly fate.

We heard how a young boy, named Tommy Jarvis, supposedly ended Jason’s reign of terror. But, then a few years later, somehow, Jason came back.

And, let us not forget how less than three years ago we were told that the bloodbath of Jason Voorhees had, finally, been ended for good by, amusingly enough, his own niece. And yet still the killings continue.

Our sheriff tells us that these are copycat murders, perpetrated by nuts who want to cash in on Jason’s legend. Yet we who have lived through all of this can see the hand of Jason. We know that somehow the evil that continually brought Jason back has found a new way to keep the killings going.

Why else would a local hunter suddenly go on a killing spree? And, what about Gabe and Ruth Gleason’s idiot son, Big Red? Why would he, without warning, kill his parents and murder those campers at Camp Crystal Lake. And, what about the more recent tragic events at the traveling carnival that happened to pitch its tents next to Camp Crystal Lake? Was it mere coincidence that the carnie who did most of the killings wore a hockey mask just like Jason’s?

We who live around Crystal Lake say “no”. We say that the death curse of “Camp Blood” is still going strong. We know it’s just a matter of time before it starts all over again. We know the legend still lives. And, we know that the killings will continue.

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