Spirits of the Storm by Thomas Kingsley Troupe

Author:Thomas Kingsley Troupe
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: JUVENILE FICTION / Ghost Stories / Paranormal, Occult & Supernatural / Historical / United States / General
Publisher: North Star Editions
Published: 2019-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

Sara clicked back to read the story that accompanied the map. According to this source, the orphaned children were huddled together with the nuns who took care of them as the storm hit. The nuns had tied clothesline rope around each child’s waist as well as their own, so they wouldn’t be separated when disaster struck.

Reading on, Sara learned that around ninety children and ten nuns, or “sisters,” died when the orphanage was destroyed by the high winds and crashing waves. One of the nuns was found across the bay on the mainland, still clutching two children, as if even in death she refused to let go. Only three boys survived the storm.

Sara put the tablet down and gasped, stunned by what she’d read.

All those poor children, just taken away in a single swoop with nowhere to run from the devastating storm, and very little chance to survive.

She felt tears well up in her eyes.

“And now they’re stuck,” Sara whispered, wiping her watery eyes with her arm. “Trapped on the site ever since.”

She wondered what other places had been erected on the site after the orphanage was decimated by the Great Storm. Sara didn’t think there was anything “great” about it. If the children were stuck where they’d died back in 1900, did they haunt the other places that had been built where the orphanage had stood?

Sara picked up her tablet again. She did another search for St. Mary’s Orphanage. Sites that came up talked about the hurricane and what happened to the children. Unable to read about it without tearing up again, Sara clicked on a link to display pictures. Images appeared that showed buildings before they were destroyed. Though she knew the orphanage was built a long time ago, it didn’t look like the building could survive a thunderstorm, let alone a hurricane.

As she scrolled down a little further, she saw old black-and-white pictures of the children who lived in the orphanage. Most of them were wearing bright white shirts. They squinted in the sunlight as their photo was being taken.

To Sara they looked angelic.

She zoomed in on their faces, wondering if she could recognize any of them. The ten nuns who had died trying to save the children were lined up behind them. The nuns had serious looks on their faces. A single priest stood among them, his white collar popping out from his dark robe.

Sara studied every face in the photo. Some of them looked eerily familiar, but she hadn’t found any mention of their names in her research. They were a group of doomed, nameless kids who had no idea what fate awaited them.

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