Paul Halliday was a 70-year-old man living on a rough, isolated farm in the town of Mamakating in Sullivan County, New York, when he vanished in the summer of 1893. Neighbors later told of a household that had long felt uneasy—fires, shouting, and a young wife whose moods could flip without warning—until Halliday simply stopped being seen in the lanes and hills around Burlingham.
The first story offered to explain his absence sounded ordinary enough to an outsider: his wife, Lizzie H
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