Bury the Dead

❝ some ghosts shouldn't be messed with. ❞

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A group of friends who are about to graduate stumble upon a yearbook while spending time at the beach for one more night of fun. They think nothing of it, and write down their names to go along with the few who they think discovered the secret book too.

But soon after, reality begins to change.

Visions and sights haunt them, and it all leads back to this book, one which they soon realise had the names of all the students who met their end last year. And the ones before them. And the ones before them. All on graduation day.

With the clock ticking, they need to find an end to the curse, before it takes them too. Because there's a darkness to their school, and it may very well consume them if they don't find a way to rid themselves of it.

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