Project 14: The Legend of Beelzebub's Bluff Chapters 1-4

“Day 13, Entry One:
No sleep last night, again. There are several reasons for this, but it is partly because the purpose of my mission continues to elude me. I know it’s down here somewhere, but sadly, my greatest discovery must wait until next time. If I even make it out of here alive. Whatever is in this cave system with me is closer than it has been in a while. What a ghastly growl it generates. It’s guttural and wet—simply awful. I don’t have much energy left— I need to dig deep. I will stop and write again in a few hours, during my first rest. Until then, Paul”

Every town has its secrets, though some aren’t supposed to be uncovered. Paul Redman knew all about the secret just south of Henley, Texas—the one locals won’t talk about, the one tourists can’t shut up about. It’s located along a stretch of river, near an anomaly in the Texas terrain—an impressive, yet ominous rock formation—known to locals as Beelzebub’s Bluff.
It was a secret that Jon Clayton knew as well, which explained his nervousness as he closed the leather-bound journal of Paul Redman and glanced up at his three children sitting around the campfire. His oldest, daughter Skylar, and sons, Noah and Cade, are accompanied by their best friends, Kyra and Timmy Garza. The children soak in every detail of their favorite camping story. It’s the same one Jon and his childhood friend, Danny Garza, have been reading to the kids for years. Every year they come to this place, the campgrounds just outside Henley, the place where Paul Redman was last seen alive over thirty years ago. Soon, the kids will crawl into their tents and will drift off into a deep slumber under a star-filled Texas sky, never imagining the following morning they will stumble upon the extraordinary secret that consumed Paul Redman. By daybreak, the security of the children’s sheltered lives will be shattered forever.