Piedmont, Oregon was a small silver mining town owned by the Patterson Mining Company, which also owned the nearby mine. For two months, the town was isolated, cut off from the outside. A relief party which was sent to investigate found the town devastated as if in a war. Many houses were burned, and those that weren't were strangely riddled with bullet holes, which were determined to have been fired from the inside, as if a battle had taken place inside them. An even more bizarre and gruesome discovery was when twenty seven mutilated and partly eaten skeletons were found. Initial guesses about cannibalism was refuted when Piedmont's warehouses were discovered to have more than enough food stockpiled within them for the winter. When the party investigated the mine itself, they made their l