On the afternoon of August 18, 1973 five young people in a Volkswagon van ran out of gas on a farm road in Central Texas
Four of them were never seen again
Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, six, six
The next morning the one survivor, Sally Hardesty Enright,
Was picked up wandering in a roadside rest area on I-35
She said "she had broken out of a window in Hell"
The girl babbled a mad tale
A cannibal family in a isolated farmhouse
Chain sawed fingers and bones
Her brother and her friends hacked up for barbeque
Chairs made of human skeletons
Then she sank into catatonia
Chairs made of human skeletons
Texas lawmen mounted a month-long manhunt,
But could not locate the macabre farmhouse.
They could find no killers and no victims.
No facts; no crime. Officially, on the records,
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre never happened.