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Nothing happens to you as you withdraw your arm.

As you brush the dust and debris from your arm. It occurs to you that the only remnants of culture and life for generations of creatures that called the tree home are now falling carelessly from your arm.

This leaves you feeling great remorse and irony as the real villain all along was deforestation and not a wicked cool tree blade soul hole.

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Sick burn, humanity!

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As you put your hand inside the hole, the ghosts of Mollie and Halley emerge, followed by those of the generation of animals that made the hole their home, blaming you for the dog's mesh in the tree, dragging you into the hole in revenge.

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Now that's scary!

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Tiny blades? Otherwordly beings?

Pfffft!

It's far, far worse than that: As you approach the hole, a shifty-eyed AI bro pops out to tell you about the 172 ways you're using ChatGPT wrong. Then he wraps his arms around you, puts you in a headlock, then promises to release you after you've signed up for his upcoming live stream where he'll discuss secret AI hacks Sam Altman doesn't want you to know.

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I simultaneously shuddered and threw up in my mouth a tiny bit.

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Fictional horror's got nothing on true-life horror.

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I'm not putting any arms into that hole so no comment there. Stay away! But I love exploring the tree like that; so many stories our beautiful old trees hold - the things they've seen!

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Pretty sure this is the correct answer.

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Maybe that hole is there so you can give Molly and Hallie pets.

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Least creepy answer!

But also, still creepy. <3

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1. Is there any connection between how creepy that tree is, and those two graves?

Maybe. It has a Simpson's Halloween Special kind of vibe. Creepy tree: check. Pet Cemetery: check.

2. If the two lost loves are buried under the shade of the tree, does that make the tree haunted by extension?

Did you bury them against their will? If so, then yes. If not, then maybe. They may like hanging out under the shadow of the tree. They see the leash from wherever they are and they may be waiting for you to take them for a stroll...on the other side.

3. What will happen when you reach your hand inside that tree-hole?

You get sucked into an alternate reality where you are the pet.

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These are good. I don't know all of the rules, but I'm pretty confident that the tree is automatically haunted by extension.

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HELP! I REACHED INTO THE HOLE!

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