The Ghosts of Red Bank

It was the height of the Revolutionary War, and the tide was about to turn in favor of the colonists, despite help the British were receiving from Hessian mercenaries from Germany. Thanks to a heroic run through the shadows and across mucky streams by the young Jonas Cattell to warn the Americans of the enemy's approach, the colonists are ready. A fierce, bloody battle breaks out on the land of a merchant along the banks of the Delaware River, with colonists hoping to prevent a British navy assault on Philadelphia. Enemy soldiers who died were hurriedly buried and, as legend has it, their spirits were aroused and unsettled by the haphazard state of their remains. Notable are the two soldiers whose heads it is said, were not placed with their bodies. Fast forward to the 1960s, in the small town of Woodbury not far from the battlefield. While playing around the railroad tracks with his buddies, a local boy finds what he calls his "lucky coin," which he grows to cherish and carries around as amid his adventures to various haunts such as an abandoned patent medicine factory and the town's bell tower. But things start to turn weird, starting with a visit from a "headless" visitor who sets the stage for a return to the scene of the Battle of Red Bank and an encounter with a familiar figure who begins the process of addressing past injustices. A harrowing march down the road used by the Hessians so many years earlier brings the tale to its conclusion.

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