I have a story idea about a group of friends go on a road trip and discover a hidden town with a dark secret.
The friends will be driving to get to one of the friends' vacation house. While on the way, they stop in a small, dreary looking town because of a flat tire. Everyone there seems.......distant. No one interacts with the group of friends, and the cashier at the gas stations seems scared of them. They soon figure out that the town did something dark and bad together as a community and don't like/are scared of outsiders because they are afraid they will find out their secret.
What did the community of this dreary town do that was really bad? How do the group of friends find out? How do the group of friends deal with thier newfound information?
The community of this dreary town had committed a mass murder of a group of people who had come to the town looking for help. The group of friends find out about this when they stumble upon a hidden graveyard in the woods near the town. They also find out that the townspeople had been covering up the crime for years.
The group of friends are horrified by what they discover and decide to confront the townspeople about it. They demand that the townspeople come clean about what they did and make amends for their actions. The townspeople reluctantly agree and the group of friends help them to make reparations for their crime. In the end, the townspeople are able to move on from their dark past and the group of friends are able to continue on their road trip.