Collyns Cove
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MatureComplete Sun, Nov 21, 202137m
After years of tabloids, media abuse, and constant questioning: Calden Blake, retired journalist, recounts his witness to his boyfriend's murder to his local paper. However, in the fashion he saw the death of his partner, it sparks an unraveling of a paranormal mystery behind the infamous: Collyns Cove caves. What lies inside these caves? Why is Calden finally telling the press? Pick up the paper and read for yourself, in The Collyns Gazette.
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