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Kate finds the girl from the video alive and working at a local restaurant. When Kate returns with the rest of the family, the girl is nowhere to be seen and she is told that she's "gone off-shift". Sheriff
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Lester who says the town does exist and the unseen force is possibly the mutated, deformed offspring of the townspeople who refused evacuation before the bomb was dropped or the spirits of
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