They decided to split up—the first mistake. Bo and Jenna would stay with the Jeep, try to flag down a car. Maya, Caleb, and Leo would hike toward "Hollow Creek" to find a landline.
Around the clearing stood more of them . A family. Some wore overalls rotted with age. Others wore scraps of uniform—a postal worker's shirt, a cop's badge, a nurse's scrubs. They ranged from a child no older than ten (with empty eye sockets sewn closed) to a patriarch so old his spine curved into a question mark. All of them had the same stretched mouths. The same filed teeth. scary movies like wrong turn
Leo pointed to the garden. No flowers grew there. Instead, rows of wooden stakes held up something that looked like drying laundry—but closer inspection revealed it was human skin. Tanned. Stretched. Sewn into crude quilt squares. They decided to split up—the first mistake