They tore the damn thing apart and burned what was left in the Chickitaw town square.  It's easy to destroy the physical parts: it's much harder to erase the sins of an entire community.  For a long time, things were quiet.  The townsfolk thought they had put the whole grisly episode behind them, and then the strange sightings began.  Folks can dismiss things glimpsed out of the corner of their eyes and the ramblings of a drunk, but when people start disappearing - that's a different story.