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Journals: Book 1, Entry 08 “Book Of Shadows” Quatrain 42, Century 6. "The dark craft shall slay the dragons, conjured by the humble raven / Justice shall be blind to history, until windswept leaves return to the barren tree" This Nostradamus quatrain brought me to Salem, Oregon, where high school cheerleader, Diana Black, was charged with multiple first-degree murders. She killed three prominent Salem citizens with poisoned cookies, a helluva fundraiser for the cheerleading squad. Diana claimed to be a witch... I came to see if her dark powers were of the alien variety. The defense needed an investigator, so Crazy Eddie created the credentials, and guess who got the job? It was time to see what was brewing… The courthouse was crawling with shutterbugs, so I had to keep my profile low. One picture could put me in a headlock with the long arm of the law. This investigation was not going to be easy. District Attorney Warren Phips was taking the witch hunt as far as he could. The case was stacked up against Diana – she was facing death row. When I spoke to her alone, she told me something surprising: the people she killed with her witch’s recipe were not actually people. She said they were demons… Eddie came up with the information from the coroner’s report. The ingredients in the cookie recipe didn’t contain anything harmful or poisonous, and yet three people – out of hundreds who tried the cookies – bit the dust. In court, the prosecution elicited damning testimonies from Diana’s friends. They recounted how Diana cast spells, one of which caused a girl’s boyfriend to catch fire when he got sexually aggressive with her. But the testimonies also mentioned a special spell book – a Book of Shadows that Diana used in her witchcraft. I let myself into the Historical Society later to check the book out, but it was gone. Something in this Book of Shadows was important enough to get the book seized and sealed tight by the prosecution. Then more testimony clarified the picture: Diana and her four friends attended a Sabbat – a witch’s séance. Diana had a horrific vision: a man transformed into a demon. I talked to Diana to get more information. I realized she didn’t see a demon. She saw the man in her vision flash like an alien. It clicked into place: the aliens were here in Salem. Diana sensed them. The spell from the Book of Shadows was able to kill three of them. But the book was gone. The prosecution had it and they were prepared to protect it at all costs. And they were onto me, following me at every turn. Gut instinct said the prosecution was holding the book tightly in their grasp for a reason. The same reason they were leading the witch hunt. They were the aliens. And they were fightin’ scared. The spell in the book was the ticket to beating these devils. It had the recipe for alien death…and my salvation. And this defense wasn’t gonna rest till I got that book back. “Book Of Shadows” Writer: Dan Fesman, Harry Victor Director: Michael Robison Executive Producers: Francis Ford Coppola, Larry Sugar Created by: Chris Brancato Guest Stars: Camille Sullivan as Diana Black, William S. Taylor as D.A. Warren Phips, Rob Lee as henchman Bert Samuel, L. Harvey Gold as Judge Maxwell. |
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