that occurred over the course of two weeks in the year 2011.

These strange and unnerving happenings took place

in Greene County, Illinois, a rural, sparsely-populated area

located on the southwestern part of the state.

The incidents have yet to be explained.

Many theories have circulated as to what may have ensued,

but at the time of this writing,

nothing has been corroborated.

The events in question are presented in chronological order.

Feel free to draw your own conclusions.

(somber music)

Monday, February 28th, 2:10 P.M.

The accident is the biggest anyone in the area

has seen in 27 years.

A school bus full of Greenfield Elementary third graders,

on its way back from a field trip to a local farm,

collides with a dump truck and loses control.

After impact, its wheels skid off the road.

That's when momentum takes over,

causing it to roll three times before coming to a stop

upside down in an irrigation ditch.

Six children and one teacher are killed,

14 others are injured.

When police arrive on the scene, alcohol is detected

on the breath of the dump truck driver, Ray Peck.

He is arrested on site and booked at the local jail

in Carrollton, Illinois.

Wednesday, March 2nd.

The only hotel in Carrollton, the Cat's Inn,

is booked to capacity.

Family and friends begin arriving in the town

to attend funerals and memorial services.

A brown van is spotted in the parking lot of the Inn.

Thursday, March 3rd, 10:00 A.M.

The funeral of Lily North, one of the girls

who died in the accident, occurs on this morning.

Lily's mother Candace does not attend.

Her husband, Jared, tells those who ask

that she's taken Lily's death very hard.

Thursday, March 3rd, 2:00 P.M.

A funeral for David Frost,

another casualty of the accident, happens.

It is a small service, only intimate friends

of the family are invited.

Alan Spencer, David's schoolmate and closest friend,

is said to look the worse for wear at the event,

even more so than the Frost family.

Spencer was in the bus during the accident

and even though he was sitting next to David,

he managed to escape with only a few bumps and scratches.

However, the tragedy has taken a psychological toll

on the young boy.

He has complained of nightmares as of late.

In these dreams, he mentions seeing his friend David,

head dangling from a loose, broken neck,

walking into his bedroom and whispering horrible things

to him in the night.

His parents have begun discussing taking him

to a child psychologist in order to help him cope

with his guilt and grief surrounding this accident.

(somber music)

Thursday, March 3rd, 4:00 P.M.

Mourners set up a road-side memorial at the spot

where the accident occurred as a way to commemorate those

who had tragically lost their lives.

About seven people visit the site between 4:00 and 7:00 P.M.

The mourners park their cars along the side of the road.

A brown van is seen amongst them.

There are songs and prayers.

Flowers, teddy bears and hand-written letters

are placed at the spot of the accident.

Candles are lit.

It is said to be a beautiful memorial.

Friday, March 4th, 11:00 A.M.

John Mayhew, the teacher who was killed in the accident,

is cremated, there is no service.

Lisa Mayhew, John's wife, takes the urn

containing her husband's ashes back home with her.

Friday, March 4th, 6:00 P.M.

The first death is reported that evening

when Jared North returns home from the grocery store

to find his wife, Candice, dead,

the top half of her skull removed with near-surgical

precision, her scalp is nowhere to be found.

In her hand, she is clenching her daughter's brush.

Police find no sign of forced entry

and hardly any evidence of scuffle.

A full investigation into the death of Candace North

is launched.

On the brush, Jared would later tell the papers...

- [Jared] She was holding Lily's brush,

it meant a lot to her.

Every night she would brush Lily's hair before bed.

I used to joke that Candace treated her

like one of those American Girl dolls, you know?

Now they're both gone.

- [Narrator] Saturday, March 5th, 3:00 P.M.

A memorial service is held on the football field

of North Greene High School that is attended

by over 700 people, including friends and family

of the deceased who had come in from out of town.

News of Candace North's murder

begins to spread throughout the event.

Sunday, March 6th, 10:10 A.M.

Alan Spencer's parents bring him to church,

but rather than forcing him to attend the service

where the accident would be discussed,

they let him use the playground at the park next door.

He is last seen climbing a tree at 10:30 A.M.,

when Janet Finch cuts through the parking lot

on her way into the church.

15 minutes later, the congregation hears the scream

of Margaret Peters, who had been walking her dog

down the sidewalk.

The churchgoers empty into the street and find Alan

lying on the ground, his head twisted a full 180 degrees.

At the time it is believed Alan had fallen from the tree

and landed face first onto the asphalt, snapping his neck.

Investigators on the scene found a note in his back pocket,

it reads: "If you yourself cannot release,

"then it will come to take a piece."

Alan Spencer's parents later confirm that the note

is not written in his handwriting.

Sunday, March 6th, 3:34 P.M.

Examiners discover that aside from a broken neck,

Alan Spencer's corpse is missing four incisors

and two molars from his mouth,

none of which were recovered.

Strangely enough, his injuries mirror those

of his good friend, David Frost,

right down to the missing teeth.

Monday, March 7th, 11:19 P.M.

Cartoonist Dan Colb's Chevy Tahoe

is found on the side of the road

after running head first into a telephone pole.

When paramedics arrive, they discover him unconscious

in the driver's seat but breathing.

Colb doesn't have any relation to anyone

who died in the bus accident on the 28th

but his wife passed on from breast cancer two years prior.

The widower, who lives alone in Carrollton, has attended

therapy twice a week since the death of his wife.

And those close to him later claim that he never took off

his wedding band.

His injuries include a separated shoulder,

a head contusion and a missing finger,

specifically the ring finger of his left hand.

His wedding band is also missing.

He was taken to Saint Mary's General

and treated for his injuries.

Tuesday, March 8th, 2:45 A.M.

Neighbors report screaming coming from

the house of Lisa Mayhew.

Police arrive to the home to find Mayhew in shock,

her speech is erratic and incoherent,

she is trembling uncontrollably

and she has an injury, deep cuts on her left arm

that appear to have been left by an animal.

Mayhew is given a sedative and treated,

but she does not answer any questions when asked

about where her injuries came from.

Police notice the urn that once contained

her husband's ashes in the bathroom, it is empty.

And it appears, by the look of things,

that she flushed them down the toilet.

Police find no evidence of forced entry into her home

but don't estimate the possibility of a break in

due to her bizarre babblings.

Some of the things she is quoted in saying

are outlined in the police report.

- [Lisa] I had to forget him or it would've killed me.

Its mouth was so wide.

So many teeth.

Its face,

a face like patches of skin.

John's gone now.

(tape recorder clicking)

(somber music)

- [Narrator] Lisa is taken to Saint Mary's where she's

treated for her injuries and kept under surveillance.

But police call her sister, Ava, who lives in Chicago

and inform her of the situation.

She agrees to catch a flight down the following day.

(somber music)

Tuesday, March 8th, 3:35 P.M.

Dan Colb awakes in the hospital,

he is lucid but unresponsive to questions.

In fact, he refuses to speak at all.

Doctors decide to keep him for an extra day

to monitor him for brain trauma before releasing him.

A nurse, Margo Johnson, gives him a pencil

and a pad of paper in case he might want to

write down his thoughts since he doesn't wish to talk.

Wednesday, March 9th, 8:55 P.M.

Police find Ray Peck dead in his cell,

he's been horribly maimed.

There was a hole in his side the size of a softball.

It was later discovered that his liver was removed

and taken by whoever had committed the heinous murder.

On the wall, written in Peck's own blood, is the phrase,

"If you yourself cannot release,

"then it will come to take a piece."

Police have no leads on who snuck into Peck's cell

and murdered him.

The security footage is of little use,

the camera pointed at his cell cuts to black

roughly between the times of 8:40 and 8:43 P.M.

It is believed that the murder occurred

during these three minutes,

but the speed in which it must've happened is astounding.

None of the other security cameras at the jail

show anything out of the ordinary.

Given the note found in his back pocket, with a phrase

matching the one written on the wall of Peck's cell,

a murder investigation is now opened up

into Alan Spencer's death.

Thursday, March 10th, 10:05 A.M.

Nurse Margaret Johnson enters Dan Colb's hospital room

to find that he is missing.

It appears, at some point during the morning,

he changed into his clothes and exited the hospital

without anyone noticing.

She finds the notebook that she gave him

had been left behind.

Johnson would later tell reporters.

- [Margaret] There were these weird pictures

that he had drawn in it.

The man, or thing, I don't know,

it wore a suit but it had like a big,

wide smile and these sharp teeth.

The drawings were really good but they

gave me the creeps.

And that smile was all there was to its face,

the rest of the thing's face was nonexistent.

He must've drawn it over a dozen times.

There were also pictures of a pocket watch with

like a kind of eye on it.

To tell you the truth, for some reason I can't explain,

that bothered me more than the man thing.

(tape recorder clicking)

- [Narrator] The only words that Colb had managed to write

was the familiar phrase, "If you yourself cannot release,

"then it will come to take a piece."

Colb would not be seen again for three months.

It is not known what he was doing during this time.

Margaret reported Colb's disappearance to the hospital staff

and left the notebook on the counter.

It would sit there for four hours until it was picked up

by Lisa Mayhew while she was being checked out