Something peculiar lurks in a wild pocket of overgrown scrub meadows mixed with deep, young woodland in Belmont County, Ohio. It is just off Interstate 70, and those who pass along the highway usually sense that there is more to the gutted terrain than meets the eye, more than just the strip mine that flourished greedily on the land. It was as if when peeling back the flesh of the terrain, then gouging out the soul of the land, something wicked was freed from the bowels of the earth. Something long buried. Something that should never return. Something so dreadfully evil, it still walks as if the land beneath its feet is still quite dead. And it still thrives there . . .that thing in Egypt Valley that got dug up.
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Caldwell, J. A. (1880). History of Belmont and Jefferson counties, Ohio: And incidentally historical collections pertaining to border warfare and the early settlement of the adjacent portion of the Ohio Valley. https://archive.org/details/historyofbelmont00cald/page/n413/mode/2up?q=egypt.
