Dead Ringer

Dane Phillips is a weary newspaper reporter whose obsession with a long‑forgotten burial has finally yielded a bundle of unsettling documents. When he presents the evidence to his editor, he is met with ridicule and a warning that exposing the story could bring lawsuits—and possibly worse consequences. The tension between his mounting hope and the editor’s pragmatic doubt drives the opening of the tale.

Undeterred, Phillips uses his modest payoff to purchase a camera, a shovel and a bottle of scotch, then heads to Oakhaven Cemetery under an assumed name, determined to unearth whatever lies beneath the grave of the enigmatic Blanding. As he prepares to dig, the narrative hints at shadowy forces—government agents, secret societies, even the suggestion of alien involvement—ready to suppress the truth. Listeners are pulled into a pulse‑quickening race against time, wondering how far one man will go to reveal what has been hidden for a decade.