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We recently had a semi-lost boys scenerio here in San Antonio. A mother beat her 14-month-old daugther to death on Christmas eve, and hid her under the house in a trash bag. She then claims that a couple of months later she "rolled over" her 5-month-old son and "accidentally" killed him. She hid HIS body under the house in a duffle bag. She didn't burry either of the kids, just stuffed them under their. Eventually she and the boyfriend moved out and neighbors went over there because things started smelling so bad. They found the bodies.
So in lost boys, how was it that all they had was bugs? I mean, if that many bodies were under their house, wouldn't it have smelled AWFUL? Did I miss something in the book that explained this?
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It probably would have smelled awful, but who knows. Suspension of disbelief, I guess.
I grew up in a neighborhood that had a house raised up above a crawlspace (very unusual for this area) and every few months it would stink to high heaven. We avoided that house and its occupants like the plague. The cops apparently investigated the stink every few years when enough neighbors complained, but nothing changed. I doubt they ever looked under the house. I went back to the neighborhood recently and drove past the creepy house...the crawlspace is all walled off with bricks now.
I don't even want to know.
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I agree with Scott R.. the bugs were part of the supernatural phenomenon and the bodies were buried deep enough to discourage investigation.
We can actually observe enough recent crime scenes where bodies have been buried in the walls and under houses and realize that things can be hidden for decades without detection.
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I'll never understand how anyone could do such a thing to a child, much less their own. It's just beyond my comprehension.
I think the bugs were explained at the end of "Lost Boys" when Step said something to the effect of "I suppose we had some sensitivity to the supernatural things too."
I'm sure those aren't the exact words, but that's about right.
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Right, I guess I just assumed that since Stevie (Scotti) went crawling around under the house, that he'd SEEN the bodies, thus they wouldn't have been burried very far, but I guess that's not necessarily true. Still, I wonder how he managed to dig UNDER a house. How would you use a shovel?
I can't imagine doing this to my own kids either, but obviously someone who DOES do it isn't exactly a kind, rational human being. She's only 19, and already her 4 and 5 year old had been taken away a number of years ago because she punched (punched, not slapped) the five year old (who must have only been 3 or so at the time) in the face. I don't think this really EXCUSES her, obviously someone like that should NOT be having children, and certainly shouldn't be allowed to keep any of them, but maybe it explains it a bit. One of her sisters, the one who called CPS the first time, says she wished she'd called again when she still knew where they were living, and that her little sister usually got pregnant in order to keep a guy who was slipping away... and you know, as they say in "Where the Heart Is" that's going about things the whole wrong way.
On a side note, my house has a crawl space under it. We THOUGHT we had it boarded up pretty well when we moved in, but somehow a few months later a SKUNK got underneath. Talk about a STINK!!!! We eventually went around with a caulk gun and pebbles and boards, and made the damn thing water tight, left it like that for about 36 hours, then openned up the access hatch. We had to wait and watch for the skunk to come out, then run over and close the access hatch without getting sprayed. It was not very fun.
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I don't think the fact that she was 19 either excuses it or explains it. She was a bad mother because she was a bad person. I doubt a few extra years would have made her any less likely to harm her children.
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I thought the bodies were buried under the house. If so then that should have mitigated the smell. The bugs came every time the earth was disturbed. I didn't see it as supernatural, so much as their home was disrupted so they fled. The quantity of bugs could be considered supernatural I guess, but I never lived in South Carolina, so I wouldn't know what the bug situation is like.
That's very sad that there was a real life scenario. Such events should be limited to fiction. Unfortunatly its the really good fiction that is so plausible for real life. This is very disturbing.
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IIRC, Stevie came in covered with dirt one day ... he'd been digging under the house, trying to reach his "friends", but hadn't been able to dig deep enough.
quote:I think the bugs were explained at the end of "Lost Boys" when Step said something to the effect of "I suppose we had some sensitivity to the supernatural things too."
My understanding about the bugs was that the bugs had some sensitivity to the horrible evil that was going on. It wasn't just the earth being disturbed, but like the bugs were trying to get away from the evil. I guess I did get the feeling it was a bit "supernatural" in the sense that the bugs felt the evil and were fleeing from it ... through the house.
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I happened to have my copy of Lost Boys lying around and here's what I got from Chapter 15 "New Year" page 526:
"Doug Douglas called the Fletchers only once. In going back over the records of the case, just for his own peace of mind, he had come up with a correlation between the times their house had been strangely infested by insects or spiders and the nights the boys had died. They confirmed the dates for him. Stevie hadn't been the only one to sense how the world was being torn."
That's straight from the book (which I hope isn't illegal to be copying down here). I guess it could go both ways. Either OSC meant the bugs could sense it, or he meant that Step and DeAnne did.
Not really sure.
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Is sensing evil really "super" natural? I mean, most animals can do it, most children can do it, so, in a way, isn't it rather natural?
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