LITERAL REMAINS

In the summer of 1958, two young counselors, identified only as Barry and Claudette, were murdered at Camp Crystal Lake, a summer camp in New York State.  Their murderer was one Pamela Voorhees, camp cook and grieving mother who blamed her son’s death the previous year on the two amorous young adults.  The camp closed after the double homicide, and various attempts in the ensuing years to reopen it were thwarted by Pamela Voorhees until it was partially revived in 1979 with disastrous results.

Pamela’s son, Jason, born physically deformed, and most likely mentally handicapped, in 1946, died in the tragic accident at Crystal Lake.  A lonely child, with little to no contact outside the family unit (practically nothing is known of his father and siblings), Jason was teased and tormented by the other children at the camp.  The derision from the other campers led to Jason falling into the lake and, apparently, drowning (his body was never recovered).

Mrs. Voorhees soon learned that the counselors who were supervising the children at the time, Barry and Claudette, had secreted away to satisfy their teenage lusts.  Pamela later returned and slaughter the two counselors.

Having been closed for several years, and failing to open anew, Camp Crystal Lake was given the moniker “Camp Blood” by locals.  In 1979, Steve Christy intended to open the camp once more for area youths; his parents had owned the camp at one time in years passed.  Pamela Voorhees infiltrated Camp Crystal Lake one last time in retribution, murdering Steve Christy and six of the young adults he had hired as counsellors for the summer.  One counsellor, Alice Hardy, managed to not only survive Mrs. Voorhees’ rampage, but Alice killed Pamela in a defiant act of self-defense.  Alice decapitated the charging Pamela.

When the authorities were finally alerted and arrived, Alice was found unconscious in a canoe floating in the middle of the lake.  Once aroused in the hospital, Alice told authorities that a boy rose out of the lake to attack her, at which point she lost consciousness.  Upon a preliminary search, the police reported no boy being found.  It was speculated that Alice had hallucinated the surfacing boy, or had dreamed it.  If it had been Jason Voorhees, he would have been a grown man, but for the child to have survived in the wild to adulthood was believed impossible.

Two months after surviving the latest, and all hoped last, Camp Blood massacre, Alice Hardy was found murdered in her apartment.  She had been killed with an ice pick.  Jason Voorhees is believed to be the culprit.  After the murder of Pamela Voorhees, Jason sightings began.  It is believed that he witnessed the murder of his mother, and that that incident has triggered an unprecedented homicidal rampage.

The people of Crystal Lake avoid the former campgrounds, which now stands in ruins.  Subsequent attempts to open the camp since the murder of Steve Christy and his employees have ultimately met with failure.  Jason Voorhees is the reason.  Time after time, Jason resurfaces long enough to stop campers and trespassers from what has become his home.  The residents of Crystal Lake know to avoid the old camp, and the surrounding woods, and advise tourists and sightseers to do likewise.  Over the years Jason has been stopped, but death seems to be a mild hindrance, a small inconvenience, to Jason Voorhees.

The people of Crystal Lake do not know if Jason is really dead.  They pray he is, but live as if he still stalks the night.

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