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Jeremiah Stone, also known as the 49er, is the titular main antagonist of the 2002 horror film The Curse Of The Forty Niner, also known as The Miner's Massacre. He is an undead 49er who kills anyone who tries to steal his gold.

He was portrayed by Vernon Wells, who also portrayed Bennett in Commando, Wez in Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, and Mr. Igoe in Innerspace.

Biography[]

Jeremiah Stone was a prospector during the Gold Rush, known as a forty-niner. He was driven mad by his need for gold and began murdering towns of people to steal their gold. After he captured a preacher's daughter, however, an entire county of people hunted him down. After he killed the preacher's daughter, the county gunned him down. Jeremiah somehow survived and, having sold his soul to the devil, cursed anyone who finds his gold before jumping into a mine shaft.

Jeremiah is shown to have died with gold, for his skeleton is shown in the mine shaft in which he jumped. After a man named Jared stole some of the gold and even sent a piece to his sister, Jeremiah is resurrected. He kills the man by chaining him up with a hook and killing him off-screen with a machete.

After recieving the piece of gold and a map to find the rest of the gold. Jared's sister, her husband, and 4 friends embark on a journey to find the gold. Axl and Rox Ann stop at a souvenir shop to use the restroom, where Axl buys a wanted poster of Jeremiah Stone from the old man who runs the place, believing that it was an antique. However, after they leave it's revealed that the old man, who's name is Prichard, scams people by making Jeremiah Stone wanted posters and passing them off as genuine. Presumably offended by this, Jeremiah shows up and kills him.

The friends arrive at Sutterville where they go exploring and meet a local woman named Eve. Axl, who's been increasingly getting fed up with Rox Ann, decides to dump her to flirt with Eve. Rox Ann angered, leaves with the piece of gold, but as she's driving away, Jeremiah walks out in front of her and makes her swerve into a tree. After the crash, Stone pulls her out of the car and decapitates her with a machete. Meanwhile, the rest of the group are told to leave by Eve. She runs away, but later returns to the last spot they were. There, she finds the decapitated head of the friend, cooking in a pot. Stone grabs Eve and hits her in the stomach with a pickaxe, killing her.

Sometime after, the group finds and loots Jeremiah's mine shaft of any gold. While they're sitting around the campfire, he attacks the group. Hayden tries to shoot him, but it is ineffective. Tori tries to start up the car, but Stone throws a shovel through the windshield and into her neck. Hayden grabs the bag of gold and loads up into his car, leaving the others behind. As he's driving away, Stone steps in front of the car and hangs onto the windshield, blocking Hayden's view and causing him to crash into a truck. The car explodes and Hayden burns to death.

While running away in the forest, the group come across Eve's aunt Nelly. She tells them to come with her and they go back to her lakehouse. She tells them of the story of Jeremiah Stone and tells them that he can be killed via explosives or fire. Suddenly, Stone bursts through the door and attacks the group. Nelly tries to throw a lantern at him, but he throws his pickaxe at it and ignites it. She burns as the group manages to sever Stone's hand and take the dynamite. While the group creates a bomb in Stone's mine shaft, Stone inserts his pickaxe into his right hand's bloody stump.

Stone attacks Axl and Nick while they're setting the bomb and stabs Axl in the shoulder with his pickaxe. Suddenly, Claire fires a flare at Stone and sets him ablaze. Two of them escape, while the injured friend sacrifices himself by pushing Stone into the dynamite, killing them both.

List of Victims[]

  • 1. Unnamed Prospector - Killed by Stone, depicted in a drawing.
  • 2. Seven Unknown People - Killed by Stone, skulls shown.
  • 3. Stone’s Wife and Child - Killed and eaten by Stone.
  • 4. Lilly Sutter - Stabbed in the back by Stone with a pickaxe in 1851, shown in flashback.
  • 5. Jared - Stabbed in the back by Stone with a hooked chain, hanged from a pipe, and stomach sliced open.
  • 6. Zeb Prichard - Stabbed by Stone with a pickaxe off-screen.
  • 7. Tori - Decapitated with knife by Stone.
  • 8. Eve - Stabbed in the stomach by Stone with a pickaxe.
  • 9. Rox Ann - Killed by Stone when a shovel was thrown into her throat.
  • Hayden - Burned alive when Stone caused his car to crash.
  • Aunt Nelly - Set on fire by Stone with her handheld lamp.

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