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EDGEMOOR, S.C. (CNN Newsource/WSOC) — A dog in South Carolina was reunited with his owners after going missing for more than a month.

He ran off after the family crashed on Interstate-77.

Friends and family searched the woods for weeks.

Finally, on Sunday night, they found cash and were able to bring him home.

This is a picture of triumph -- despite adversity!

About one month ago, this family and their best friend, Cash, were on I-77 headed to Carowinds.

Their white pickup truck lost a trailer that soared across the median, causing a chain reaction crash.

Lee Wood and his wife, Tiffany Greene, were seriously injured, and their dog, Cash, limped off into the woods.

"it's been a process,” Wood said. “It's been a lot of sleepless nights trying to recover."

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As they've recovered this past month, Cash was nowhere to be found.

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"We kinda just put all of our heads together, and we were just hoping and praying for a miracle," said Lindsey Skinner, a neighbor.

Skinner lives in Edgemoor not far from the woods where Cash was sighted last week. She says neighbors and family members put out cameras and treats to lure Cash out into the open.

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"Christian made a casserole and named it a ‘casherole’ dish,” Skinner said. “It was just different foods in there."

And it worked!

Sunday night, Cash walked into the cage looking for food.

His reunion with a family member was captured on video.

"When he did get in the cage, it took a minute and he realized who he was around and then was licking them and wagging the tail, and he was very excited."

Soon, Cash traveled to Leesville to be reunited with the rest of the family that tragedy tried to tear him away from.

"We're just so happy he's home,” Greene said. “You know, when he walked through the door, we cried and laughed and he just licked us all, and he was just so excited to be home. We're very grateful he's home."

Cash's owners say he seems to be enjoying the air conditioning after weeks out in the heat.

As for the humans -- they are still recovering from their injuries.

For a movie that features a gruesome scalping in its opening minutes and other extremes like volcanic vomiting, eyeball chompin, and possessed killers attempting to extract an unborn baby from a pregnant woman's body, Evil Dead Rise got little pushback from the studio behind it.

The script "stopped other studios in their tracks," writer-director Lee Cronin says. But New Line Cinema, the distributor that first unleashed Sam Raimi's storied franchise on the world with 1981's terrifying The Evil Dead, was in full support of Cronin's grisly vision.

"There's a heritage and an understanding of what makes things inherently scary inside that studio," Cronin tells Yahoo Entertainment in a new interview. "There was never really was a 'tone it down' conversation at all. I think it might disappoint people down the line, but there's no director's cut of this movie where I had to leave a bunch of really extra gory or frightening stuff on the floor. I actually got to put the movie out there that I wanted to put out there, which was something that was really great."

It might also be why audiences reacted so feverishly to the film, the fifth in the series — and its highest grossing yet. Centering around a family in a derelict Los Angeles apartment building who come face-to-face with a Deadite and The Marauder when kids unearth The Book of the Dead in a vault under the parking garage, Rise earned over $146 million on a budget of less than $20 million after its April release.

"In the case of New Line, once they were on board with the idea that this would be about family and that also that the evil would target young kids or young people, once you cross that line with the story, you had to be all in at that stage," the Irish filmmaker says.

The only tweaks Cronin had to tinker with, he explains, were to made to secure only an R rating, as opposed to an NC-17, which can spell box office poison.

"There were a couple of very, very minor [changes], I'm talking less than two seconds worth of material to hit our or rating," he says. "I think we were right on the edge [and had to make cuts] just around the infamous wood chipper sequence. There was [nothing] to the detriment of the movie in any way.

"There was always the fear that we would cross over that line and then it kind of becomes slightly unmarketable property [with an NC-17], but we seem to straddle that line just about perfectly. It's a pretty hard, pretty hard in its rating and it doesn't pull its punches in any way."

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There's also the film's copious amount of blood.

In what's almost become a badge of honor for horror filmmakers in recent years, Cronin is acutely aware of just how much fake blood they used for the production, though he clarifies he needed to know purely for supply and demand.

"We ended up at 6,500 liters," the director says, which equates to over 1,700 gallons. (That's still shy of his predecessor, Fede Álvarez’s 2013 reboot The Evil Dead, which utilized somewhere between 50,000 and 70,000 gallons, making it the bloodiest film on record after passing other films like The Shining, Dead Alive, The Cabin the Woods, and It: Chapter 2.)

"It was a lot of blood and it was all real sticky, proper created stage blood. There was no cheating. We never used red water food coloring. We didn't ever find shortcuts. It was the sticky stuff all the time. And the creators of the blood for the film actually had to go and rent out an industrial kitchen to cook this stuff up," he explains. "We needed so much of it. And blood ain't cheap, man. Blood is expensive, and I think by the end of the film we were probably starting to even recycle. So 6,500 liters was what we had, but because of some of the big events, we were able to actually drain that blood away and then reuse it again."

Evil Dead Rise is now available on Digital and 4K UHD.

CHESTER COUNTY, S.C. — A family is grateful to be alive after a detached trailer caused a chain-reaction crash over the weekend.

Lee Wood and his family were heading north on Interstate 77 Saturday when the trailer on the back of a white truck came off.

Dashboard camera video from another driver shows the trailer flying across the median into the northbound lanes, hitting a truck. That caused a chain-reaction crash that injured three people.

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Wood’s car was one of those involved in the crash. He spoke with Channel 9′s Tina Terry from the hospital on Monday. He said he and his wife had some serious injuries but both of them will be OK.

Wood said they were riding with their 3-year-old daughter and their dog when that crash happened. The family was looking forward to a relaxing weekend of camping at Carowinds.

“I caught a glimpse of the trailer out of the corner of my eye but by the time I saw that, it was already too late -- it already came over in our lane,” Wood told Terry.

Wood said the trailer hit a truck in the fast lane and that truck slammed into his pickup, causing it and the camper he was towing to overturn.

“The camper hit the guardrail and disintegrated,” said T. Melton with Richburg Fire. “There was another vehicle that was to the side of the overturned truck and there was a utility trailer 100 yards south of the incident.”

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Wood, his wife, and another adult were seriously injured and rushed to the hospital. Thankfully, his 3-year-old daughter wasn’t hurt, but drivers saw the family’s dog, Cash, limping away from the scene.

“Well I’d like to get him back because we’ve had him for like 8 years so, he’s been part of our life,” Wood said, crying. “My daughter absolutely adores him and he adores my daughter.”

The dash cam video shows the driver of the white truck seemingly speed away from the scene after losing the trailer. Wood said he wants the driver to do the right thing.

“Turn yourself in. Do what you’re supposed to do,” he said.

The highway patrol is calling the crash a hit-and-run and they want to talk to the driver of that truck. If you have information that can help them find the driver, call the South Carolina Highway Patrol at 1-800-768-1503.

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AUG. 18, 2023 - CAROLINA MOMENT: Fontana Lake and the Town of Proctor, nestled in the mountains of North Carolina, have a rich history. The shores of Fontana Lake hold the stories of generations of families, both under the waters and along the shorelines. The creation of Fontana Lake uprooted many, but the legacies still live on through their ancestors. (Photo credit: WLOS staff)

SWAIN COUNTY, N.C. (WLOS) — The mountains of North Carolina are deeply rooted in fascinating history, which includes Fontana Lake. The shores of Fontana Lake hold the stories of generations of families, both under the waters and along the shorelines. The creation of Fontana Lake uprooted many, but the legacies still live on through their ancestors.

For those feeling adventurous, the town of Proctor can take one back more than 100 years.

"Proctor is the only town left above the high water mark that Fontana didn't take over. It's located across Fontana Lake on the north shore side," said Lee Woods, a local historian with generations of family ties to western North Carolina.

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As both the secretary and treasurer of the North Shore Cemetery Association, her goal is to help preserve the 26 cemeteries along the shores of Fontana, along with the vast history of the area.

Getting to Proctor is no easy task, though. The journey there requires catching a ferry from Fontana Village Marina or hiking 12 miles each way from Fontana Dam.

"When you walk into Proctor, even as a stranger, I'll tell you this: You feel at home," Woods shared. "There's something about that area. There's a calming, peaceful feeling that makes you feel like maybe you belong, too."

Founded in 1886, Proctor quickly became a bustling logging town when William Ritter brought his operations to town.

"It provided jobs for everybody. Whether you were a first lumberjack, as they called them back then, or you worked in the office. They had their own rolling post office. This gave them the opportunity to earn more money," Woods said. "They were big enough that they had a school, they had churches, they had houses. They had a theatre, which not many people know there was a theatre back in the 1900's."

Unfortunately, most of Proctor has been torn down over the years.

"The only thing left in Proctor is the Calhoun House," Woods said. "You'll find remnants of the houses that were in there, remnants of the store. If you know where to look, you can go on top of a hill and find the foundation left of Proctor School, which housed first grade through high school."

With the construction of the dam during World War 2, dozens of communities and thousands of families had to relocate due to the creation of Fontana Lake.

"In Proctor, there were 1,200 families with two to 10 children that had to move out. When they left, they left their homeplace, and they left with the promise that there would be a road built back in to the 26 cemeteries with over 1,000 graves," Woods said.

Lee Woods takes a lot of pride in preserving her own family's history.

"The Calhouns, the Proctors and the Cables were all prominent families in Proctor. My daddy was born in 1923 and my mother was born in 1926," Woods said. "Their families were good friends, and they were born a house apart on Calico Street in Proctor. They never met until their families were forced to relocate to Sylva in 1944. They met at Lovedale Baptist Church and realized their families had known each other all these years. He was 20 and she was 17."

Even though Proctor looks drastically different than it did a century ago, Lee is grateful for what remains.

"Today, thanks to the Parks preservation, I can go home again. It's sort of bittersweet. If they had built the road, what would it be like today?" she said. "You don't know, but I am glad it's preserved because I can take my grandchildren, my great grandchildren, one of these days to that area and say, 'This is is where your family lived.'"

She said she hopes that future visitors will tread lightly and take some time to appreciate the families that used to call the banks of Hazel Creek home.

"I hope everybody that goes to Proctor will remember all the people that did move out or were forced to move out and didn't want to go," she said. "People did live there, and they gave up their home so we can have what we have today in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park."

Glenn and Gennia Wetherington are leaving Down on Mainstreet in the hands of Beaufort County natives who have a long history at the restaurant.

The Wetheringtons have owned the restaurant since 2005. They also own a gift shop across from the restaurant called NautiLife. Gennia said NautiLife will continue to be open and operate as usual, except she will work full-time there.

Down on Mainstreet was started as a casual dining restaurant. The Wetheringtons started the restaurant because at the time, they felt Washington had several high-end restaurants, but it needed a place with a fun atmosphere where people could come from their boat wearing board shorts and flip flops and not feel out of place.

The new owners Lee and Marina Wood are from Beaufort County like the Wetheringtons. Marina worked at the restaurant for eight years starting when she was 16. Down on Mainstreet is where she met her husband. It has been her dream to own a restaurant.

“I wanted to own a restaurant, but it’s so hard to do from the ground up,” Marina said. “[The Wetheringtons] have had a pretty good one for the past 17 years. I heard they were wanting to sell so we contacted them.”

Lee added the Wetheringtons have helped them transition into new ownership. “They could have said ‘alright here you go. Fly.’ But they have helped us out a lot through this whole transition. We really appreciate that.”

It’s bittersweet for the Wetheringtons to transition out of ownership.

“I’d say it’s bittersweet, but at the same time the great thing is we love the idea that these two bought it for the simple fact that they are local and they have some history with Down on Mainstreet. To me, that’s very important,” Glenn said.

It’s a “weird” feeling for Glenn to not be an owner of Down on Mainstreet, but he said “it was time” for him and Gennia as well as the Woods.

Wetherington likened watching the City of Washington grow over the last 17 years to watching a child grow up. He believes Washington is “definitely starting to prosper and heading in a great direction.”

The main thing Lee and Marina Wood want residents to know is that nothing about Down on Mainstreet will change. Everything will remain the same.