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SEASON OF THE WITCH

TRAIL CAMERA MYSTERY

Having found a dead deer at the bottom of her garden in Powell River, Canada, Corinea Stanhope, 36, rigged up a trail camera trained on the carcass to record any wildlife it might attract overnight. Reviewing the recorded footage the next day, Stanhope and her grandfather, Bob, 76, spotted a bobcat visiting the remains, but also something more unusual.

“Grandpa said he’d got naked people on the camera, and I said ‘No, no you didn’t. Bullshit!’ So he showed me,” said Stanhope. Ten minutes after sunset, two half-naked women, one wearing just a loincloth, the other ragged trousers, with long, matted black hair covering their faces come into shot. They squat down next to the carcass and probe it

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