Ghosts and Hauntings by Sims Maynard

Author:Sims, Maynard
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-09-03T04:00:00+00:00

Julie was in bed when Noble got back to the house but he knocked loudly at her bedroom door and waited impatiently for her to answer.

She was wearing a silk dressing gown when she opened her door and she didn’t seem to be surprised to see him.

“Do you want to come in and sit or shall I come downstairs?”

“What kinds of things were stolen during the construction of the chapel?”

She sighed and leaned against the door. Behind her, on the bedside table, Noble could see a whisky bottle and empty glass. Grief was often a thirsty bedfellow. “Tools at first, some bricks and stones, though naturally they were heavy. Oh, and coats, yes of course the coats.”

“What about them?”

“Please, Anthony, just let me sit down.” She moved away from the doorway and Noble followed her into a sweetly scented bedroom. She sat on the bed while he seated himself on a sofa near the window.

“Did Adam think the coats were significant?”

“Not at first, why would he? But then he began to find evidence that they were related to the deaths.”

“Deaths?”

“The interference with the building work certainly wasn’t having any effect, and the chapel was all but half completed. Then one of the builders died. It takes some weeks for the records to catch up with what Adam suspected because why would anyone now, or at the time, connect the theft of a coat with the subsequent death from pneumonia of the owner.”

“And there were more?”

Julie laid down backwards on the bed as if the weight of what she was saying was physically pressing down on her. “At least three more, and each had been the victim of…the coats…this sounds so ridiculous but if it wasn’t for Adam.”

“Adam?”

“The chapel was never used. Superstition reigned strongly in those days and the builder never appeared one day. Communication with him ceased and he was never heard of again. Alistair was already tiring of the project, and the bad publicity associated with unexplained deaths on his land. He instructed the building to be sealed and the half completed chapel remained open to the elements and as the years marched on the countryside reclaimed the building.”

Noble stood and walked to the door. “Adam lost a coat didn’t he?”

Julie nodded sadly. “He was determined to tear down the chapel and see it removed completely from our land.”

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