...The old colonial settlement of Saint Michael arose at the beginning of the 17th century. It existed for less than half a century and was completely depopulated due to a series of mysterious events. A dozen or more colonists died under alarming circumstances, others fled in panic, and an epidemic of mental disorders among them for a long time alienated those who wanted to explore this gloomy region. Since then, fear of the ominous region has been passed down from generation to generation in Fenner and neighboring villages ( the same one we had our eye on), adopted from the St. Michaels. People try not to visit the oxbow lake and its environs unless absolutely necessary, and God forbid anyone digs up even an inch of the earth here.....The story was included in the anthology “Return of Cthulhu” (2008).