[LOD]

Prologue
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A beautiful strawberry blond backs away and sits down on a bed with a large smile on her face. The room is a little messy with Coke cans and paperwork all over. And you can barely hear the Weather Channel deliver a forecast on the T.V. in the corner.

"Mr. Peterson it's me Claire Pierce. I'd like to present you with my final project of the year. I am doing a documentary about a local legend that's been around for ages."

She changes position now sitting Indian style on the bed. Her smile fades showing only a face that's both sad and afraid.

"I am now in a hotel room just outside of a small town by the name of **d**i*y. They say that deep in the north woods past town there is an old trail that's easy to spot. If I walk far enough down the trail I should reach a natural spring that is said to be haunted by the spirits of several people that have drowned there. One man told me not to even swim because I could be pulled under by one of the vengeful dead."

She reaches behind her and pulls out a small colorful bikini. Her smile returns as she holds it out in front of her.

"You know that I always try to do a thorough job. "

She sets the bikini down on the bed and walks back to the camera turning it off.

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"Alright I think I've got it!"

All you can see is darkness until Claire slowly pulls back. Her bountiful cleavage is your entire view before she sits down and starts the car. She drives out of the hotel parking lot and starts picking up speed before she turns for a second to smile.

"I was told that It's not too far from here. Just a few miles down the road."

After a moment of complete silence Claire turns to the camera again.

"It's funny how some of the crazier locals think that this natural spring is involved in quite a few out-of-state disappearances. They asked me if I could just forget about it and go somewhere else. This makes me wonder. Are they really afraid for my life? Or are they just hiding something?"

"I'm going to get to the bottom of this. I've got my camping equipment and enough food to last a week. I'm hoping to either disprove all this nonsense or catch the paranormal activity on tape. I guess there's a third outcome too, but I highly doubt that I'll end up being another missing person's case."

Claire continues down the road looking around the wood-line trying to find the right spot.

"I'm supposed to be able to see it from the road. It's not quite summer, but that doesn't mean the local teens haven't already came up here to swim yet this year."

All of a sudden the look of excitement comes over her face and she pulls to a stop at the side of the road. She looks right at the camera with a smile on her face.

"Just like I thought! A well worn trail."

She reaches behind the camera turning it off.

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You can see Claire's boots before she raises the camera giving a panoramic view across the entrance of a trail.

"This path has to be traveled on at least daily. There's even a few fresh footprints!"

She lowers the camera bringing into view a large set of shoe prints sunk deep in the muddy soil. Claire turns the camera around showing her award-winning smile. The backpack she was wearing looked as if it was bursting with gear.

"Well here I go."

Claire enters the path at a brisk pace. With in a minute the woods around her grew dense. The farther she walks into the forest the more it seems like the sunlight just couldn't fight it's way down to her.

"Wow, I can barely even see ten feet in front of me! It's still early in the afternoon so I should have plenty of time to set up camp and start my investigation. That is if I don't get lost out here in the dark."

It gets even darker before you can see a pinpoint of light in the distance. Slowly the spot grows revealing itself as a clearing.

"I think I'm getting close."

About a minute later Claire emerges into a rocky clearing surrounded by the dense forest. In the center was a shimmering crystal clear body of water which looked beautiful as it reflected a small amount of daylight.

"I'm going to have so much fun filming this!!!"

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You see the spring before you shining like a diamond in the rough. The clearing contained a few stray boulders, a large tree, and some bushes that seemed to grow in at just the right spots. Claire walks into vision wearing her small two-piece bikini.

"I've searched the wood-line around the spring, and it seems almost impossible to break through without a chainsaw."

She faces the camera and walks closer to it showing off her tanned skin and lean body.

"The maps of this area show that this forest goes on for miles. I'm starting to think that the spring has nothing to do with the disappearances at all. It makes more sense that these people wandered off into the woods and couldn't find their way back. But I can't conclude anything without searching the water."

Claire then begins doing a little bit of stretching before the camera. She starts by bending down to touch her toes doing so with ease. Next she does some jumping-jacks sending her confined C cup tits into a performance of their own. Finally she arches her back raising her arms back behind her head. She looks into the camera with an embarrassed smile on her face.

"Heh, I've got to make sure I don't get a muscle cramp."

Claire slowly walks up to the spring putting her toes in to test the water's temperature.

"This is fascinating! It's only sixty degrees out here, but this water feels like it is at least room temperature."

Claire stares out into the water for several seconds until diving in head first. She creates a small splash and barely even one ripple. Then she surfaces halfway across the spring and swims back to the edge looking at the camera.

"This thing is deeper than I thought. And the water just feels amazing against my skin. I'm not sure how it is possible for the water to be so warm. Maybe it's like those hot springs that have a volcanic source."

Claire casually swims around having more fun than is usually allowed when doing a collegiate project. Claire finally turns back to the camera with a wild look in her eye.

"I want to see how deep this goes. Who knows what could be down there. Maybe I'll even find one those missing people."

She swims out to the center of the spring and dives down kicking her way to the bottom. You can see bubbles rise and the water churn for a minute while she forces her way down. Then suddenly a rather large bubble pops at the surface and the churning stops making the water just as still before Claire started her swim.

Several minutes passed without any sign of Claire anywhere in the water. The surface was a calm sheet of glass not disturbed by even insects.

After thirty minutes under the water it starts to look rather gloomy for Claire who if she was down there had more than tripled the world record for holding one's breath.

Then without notice Claire burst out of the water and looks around the clearing frantically. She sees her camera still rolling and quickly swims up to the edge near it scrabbling up onto the rocky shore. She clears the gap between herself and the camera instantly shoving her face up to the lens for an ultimate close-up. The look of excitement is etched across her face as she begins to speak.

"There is no way that just happened. I had to be dreaming. I swam down as far as I could and even touched the bottom of the spring. It's water is so clean and clear that I could see the entire spring down there, and there was definitely no dead bodies."

"But, when I swam back to the surface the clearing was gone!!! Not just the clearing, but the forest vanished too. All of this was replaced by a large field of grains that surrounded me as I climbed out of the water."

She quickly takes a breath and looks around her.

"There is no way that could have happened, but I had somehow swam quite a few miles in a few minutes leaving this dense forest behind for an expansive plain. In the distance I could see a large house that sort of looked out of place without any kind of road leading to it."

"Maybe I hit my head on the bottom and imagined it all. Yeah that has to be it!!!"

She says reaching behind the camera halting it's recording.
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Claire walks around in front of the camera calmly drinking a can of Coke. She is still wearing her bathing suit which is dripping wet like she had just got back from a swim.

"Okay, well first off I just need to say that I'm pretty sure I'm not going insane. I checked the footage from my camera and was astounded. I was under the water for over 35 minutes!!!"

She starts pacing in front of the camera leaving a small trail from her dripping wet bikini.

"There is no chance that I was passed out under the water for that long. So I took a chance and dove back in."

She stops dead center in front of the camera and takes a long gulp from her Coke.

"I guess that there's no other way to say this, and you may think that I'm crazy, but ...... the spring is a gateway!!! I don't know how it is possible, but it's true!"

"This must be the find of the century!! I'm not sure what forces are at work here, but I'm pretty sure that the answers are on the other side of the spring."

"That's why I've decided to pack up camp and attempt to take it all with me this time."
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