The Backyard Box
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The Backyard Box
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In 2014, a Tulsa family digging a hole for a new tree hit something solid. Buried beneath their lawn was a rusted metal box. Inside were journals, Polaroid photographs, and a revolver wrapped in oilcloth.
The journals belonged to Robert Hensley, a quiet printing press worker who had lived in the house during the 1970s. The entries mentioned a young woman named Linda Garcia, who had vanished in 1976. One chilling note read: “She’s gone. I didn’t mean for it to happen. I buried what I could not carry.”
The photographs showed Linda — smiling in some, frightened in others. For nearly forty years, her family had believed she might have run away. The box revealed the truth: she had been taken, and her ghost lingered just beneath the grass, hidden in the earth until a shovel struck metal.
A reminder that the past doesn’t always stay buried — sometimes it waits, quietly, to be unearthed.