The giant pumpkins are the most normal part

Farther afield and just... grimly weird: the Watershed Post has been covering a story in Walton that includes what appears to be a recent murder/suicide + arson + a body found in a barrel, apparently there for three years, and the person was never reported missing + giant pumpkins.

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