Episode 9
Lost Souls

Eddie picked up a wild story in the paranormal newsgroup. Travel-writer Franchesca Dutton disappeared over 55 years ago without a trace. Two days ago, she was found entombed in the concrete walls of a New York subway tunnel. Alive. Impossible to believe, but then I read

Quatrain 19, Century 4

A maiden cut aloft from humanity
Locked in a coffin of stone
Her resurrection a coupe for the twice-blessed man
For the fate of her soul has been sealed

A medical technician said Dutton was transferred to the Maple Ridge Retreate, a small psychiatric hospital in upstate New York. I needed an excuse to visit Franchesca Dutton. Eddie worked his usual magic and got me in as her one surviving relative, her grandson, Jack.
   Did the aliens bury her alive? How did she survive that long? I can only imagine what can be waiting for me in that room.

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