Where the Idea for Thirteen Jars Began

The idea behind Thirteen Jars didn’t begin with a monster or a jump scare.

It began with a place.

Specifically, the feeling that some land carries memory differently than other places do.

Northern Virginia is full of places where history and modern life exist almost on top of each other... battlefields beside subdivisions, forgotten cemeteries hidden in a forest, roads built over places where people once fought to survive.

Over time, I became interested in the idea that objects buried in those places might outlast the people who understood why they were hidden there in the first place.

That question eventually became Thirteen Jars.