The Killer Of Mills Creek
It was the year 1900 and in a small town in North Carolina lies Mills Creek, Mills Creek is a quiet little quaint town where nothing ever happens, there hadn’t been a murder since 1795 which was a perfect record for this little town until that record got ruined. One night when the town was asleep one of townsfolk went completely nuts and killed his family while they slept and stabbed them to death with a pitchfork then he drags the bodies into the woods and dumped the bodies into the creek. Weeks before the murder Henry began feeling weird, he had felt sick and dizzy, headaches, nightmares, there was foul stench in his house, noises, then demon began whispering to him telling him telling him to kill his family, this demon harassed every night for weeks leading to the murder and on the last night the before the murder the demon possessed Henry. The demon turned itself into a mist and went into Henry’s opened mouth and made its home in Henry. Henry began to cough and hacked. He began shaking and twisting violently in bed so bad it woke up his wife who at the time had been horrified. That next night the demon would talk to Henry and plan out the murder. Henry had driven to his work, he had worked as a farmhand where he worked in the barn taking of the animals and helping in the field and also doing handy work, he grabbed a pitchfork and he took it back home walked upstairs and he stabbed his wife, he stabbed her thirty times over and over, then he went into his daughter’s room and stabbed her, he stabbed her over thirty times as well, and he did the same with his son. Henry took the pitchfork outside with him, grabbed a shovel from his garage and dug a hole about six feet deep into the yard and buried the bloody pitchfork then went inside and took the bodies one by one put them in the back of his car and drove to Millers Creek to dump the bodies. His plan was to make this murder look like someone had done it. He laid the bodies face down to make it look like they were drowned. After he was done, he went home and wiped the blood off his car and went through the house cleaning it with bleach. Wiping away any traces of evidence left, he rips off the bloody sheets and running it through the laundry several times and dumping the bloody water down the drain and then scrubbing it out with bleach and he hid the sheets in the cellar. It had only been a couple days after the murder and the wife’s parents had come looking for their daughter for it been days since they talked to her which they found odd because their daughter called them every day and found it odd when she didn’t call and began to worry. They were worried about their grandchildren as well because when they talked to their daughter, they could hear the kids playing in the background. When the parents asked about their daughter this what the husband said, “she packed her things and the kids and just left me. Where did they go? The parents asked. I don’t know. The husband said. He walked over to the table and grabbed the note he wrote. Dear Henry, I’m leaving you to find a better life and come after me or the kids, I cannot live with you any longer the life you have provided for me is no good, I can’t take it anymore, I’m taking the kids and leaving you and not telling you where we are going. Goodbye, Susan. He walked to his in- laws and handed them the note. They looked it over and read it and to them it looked suspicious. First, they thought if she was leaving why didn’t she say goodbye, second if her and Henry were having problems why didn’t she come to them for help? Third, Susan would never leave this town because she loved it so much. This whole thing was suspicious and something wasn’t sitting right with them. And Henry was acting funny, like nervous, unsettled, he looked and the house smelled funny too. It smelled of rotting flesh and sulfur. While the parents were there talking to Henry the father of the daughter claimed to see his eyes go black just for only for a second and they went back to normal. The wife claimed to see a dark mass turn into a shadow of a demon staring at her in the corner. She could feel it staring at her with its cold, creepy, red eyes. It gave her the chills. She tugged at her husband’s arm and motioned her head in the direction of the demon, the husband took one look grabbed his wife by the arm and they left. Henry was glad they were gone he never liked his in-laws much and would rather see them dead then be around them. After about a week some local kids were playing in the woods by the creek when one of them were swimming in the creek when they stumbled upon the bodies of Ulrich family. The kids screamed and ran to tell their parents who then called the town sheriff who went to investigate with other officers. They found the bodies and took them back to the station to have the examined and the medical examiner told them they that they all had been murdered and stabbed by something long and large and with three prongs, the stab wounds were deep and large; the sheriff and officers found footprints of boots about size thirteen shoe and the prints were deep and large and it looked like the suspect had been stomping. The officer followed the footprints right to the Ulrich house and knocked on the door they knocked and knocked but no one answered After knocking on the door several times and getting no answer one of the officers had gone around back and crawled in through an opened window that went into the living room which had an awful stench. He walked into the room and began looking around the house searching for clues. The house smelled of rotten flesh, sulfur, and bleach, the air in the house felt dense and heavy and it felt weird, it felt evil. The officer could feel some type of presence in that house and it was making him feel uneasy, he could also feel eyes on him watching his every move. He continued searching through the house waving his flashlight around and keeping his firearm close at hand. He slowly walks upstairs going from room to room checking for evidence but didn’t find one single clue until he went upstairs and looked in the master bedroom closet where Henry’s Ulrich shoes were and there, they were size thirteen shoe full of mud and covered in blood. Officer Hennessey grabbed the shoes and placed in his evidence bag. He continued searching the house for evidence but didn’t find anymore. He made his way back downstairs and he is slowly walking down the steps and made his way outside the rest of the officers were outside searching the garage and land for clues. Henry Ulrich was at work at the time when the police investigated his house and he had no clue the police found his boots. After his shift ended at the farm, he’d gone home to find…. the police searching his yard. One of the of officers yelled. “Henry Ulrich, we want to ask you a few questions. Ok. Henry agreed.” Henry went willingly down to the police station to answer questions, of course he had no clue the cops had his boots and that he’d be tied to the murder of his family. The police asked him many questions regarding his family like; “ did your wife and kids really leave you? You claim someone else murdered your family and dumped their bodies into the creek but yet we found blood on your work boots, can you confirm this? Did your family really leave you? And Henry answered this, my wife and kids were kidnapped and murdered. You told your wife’s parents that there was a note from your wife saying she was leaving you and left town, now and I think you’re lying. We have your boots and we had them tested for DNA and it came back to be from your family! “ The officer yelled. Henry’s eyes went black and he became extremely agitated and angry and was flipping out and began speaking in tongues and swearing, he got up and threw the chair he sat on and the wood shattered against the wall. The demon inside of Henry began to speak. “I killed Henry’s family, I made him do it, I whispered kill your family over and over in his ear, I made him kill his family with a pitchfork and told him to dump the bodies in the woods in the creek, and I possessed him.” It hissed. The officers were frozen with fear. They were speechless. One of the officers ran over to Henry trying to place in hand cuffs, but Henry ripped his arms off and with on hand strangled him to death and he threw him against the wall and he killed the other officers. When the other remaining officers saw his strength, they backed down, within minutes Henry’s eyes went back to normal and he was himself again and didn’t remember a thing. Since the police tied the murder to Henry he was arrested and placed in jail. The officers went back to his house to search for the murder weapon and found it buried in the yard and they looked for the bloody sheets that he washed but never found them for Henry had hidden them in the basement in the walls. After a long trial Henry Ulrich was tried on all accounts of murder and was sent to a mental hospital in Mills Creek, after living out his sentence Henry remained possessed killing a lot of people while serving his sentence. About five years later Henry took his own life and jumped from the top of the mental hospital. Locals say they have seen the wife and kids by the creek, in the woods, and even at the Ulrich house. They say that the demon that possessed Henry lived and haunted the woods of Mills Creek. It’s been said that Henry haunts the house of his family and can be seen at the mental hospital.