The Vanishing of Millbrook

This cult convinced an entire town to disappear in one night. My grandmother lived

in Millbrook when it happened in 1987. She said the Eternal Light followers had been recruiting

quietly for months, going door to door with their strange blue candles. Everyone thought

they were harmless. Then one October evening, every single person in town just vanished.

Houses were left with dinner still warm on tables, TVs still playing, front doors wide

open. The only thing left behind were hundreds of those blue candles, all burned down

to nothing. Search teams found the cult's compound completely empty except for one message

carved into the altar: "We have ascended to the true light." My grandmother was