From the Journal of Josephine Maxwell
October 17, 1875
6:17
We were awoken in the early hours of the morning by a shrieking scream. It seemed to have come from many voices. We rushed across the town to find a horrible crime has taken place in the home of one of the homestead couples.
I was able to deduce that the man murdered his wife by stabbing her and then almost cut off her head with a butcher knife. Then he took the kife and stabbed himself in the neck with it. He has scrawled the word "TESTIFY" on the wall in his wife's blood.
As far as the towspeople knew, this man could not write.
We look around and find a journal in the house. In the journal there doesn't seem to be any English writing. It is covered in pentagrams and seems to be written in some Indian language, with the word "Silence" repeating over and over.
Out side we found all the mans' dogs still in their pens, except for one. It barks at us and then stares until it runs into the darkness.
We investigated thoroughly and then debated what we should do with the bodies.
I took a black male dog with me.
8:09
In the morning light we collect the bodies and apparently the Doctor cut the head off the man. He claimed it was so the devil could not use the body as a puppet. The sheriff and Jakey Wales became enraged and punched the Doctor in the face.
8:30
I was awoken by the sound of a woman singing in the middle of the town. I stayed in my bed. After an ear-splitting shriek, the singing stopped.
I went to the saloon, and there were several other people there. They decided with me after a story from Rusty Shackleford that it must have been a "banshee".
Kyle Barton has asked if some of the townsfolk would ride out to a place that he has been told about. When we get out to the middle of no place, he told us that he is looking for the encampment of his friend Simon Drake. At that point we hear a lot of livestock nearby.
We go to see what the sound is, and we see five to six men with a mixed herd of animals.