The Haunting of Crow House by Eve Evans

Author:Eve Evans [Evans, Eve]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-04-11T16:00:00+00:00

Neil

“Two fires?”

“Yeah, that’s what I could pull from the records,” Jem said from the other end of the phone. “The house was destroyed twice by fire. It has quite the tragic history.”

I let her words sink in, chewing anxiously on a fingernail. Two fires… tragic history. “What else did you find?”

“Well, it was difficult to find, but I managed to get some articles from the period that gave me a few more details. The house, as you probably know, was built in 1905 by a man called Howard Crow. He was a blacksmith and had built quite a reputation for his wealth and skill. He and his wife, as well as their daughter, lived there until 1913. That’s when the first fire broke out. The details were a little hazy, but the paper reported it to have been an accident. It took all three lives.”

“All of them?” I repeated incredulously. “The whole family died?”

“Yeah, that’s what it says,” Jem said. In the background, I could hear the shuffle of papers. She worked as a librarian at the public library, and her clearance gave her access to some of the archives that were off-limits to even the public. She was the perfect person to ask for information about this sort of thing. “A man called Phillip Owens bought the house in 1917. He rebuilt the parts of the house that were destroyed by the fire and moved his brother’s family in with him. Uh, there isn’t much about the family itself, but there’s a picture. It looks like there was a man and wife, and two daughters. All five of them lived in the house until 1919.”

“Another fire?” I asked, my voice sounding strangely far away.

“Yes, sadly. There was a terrible storm that night. The house was struck with lightning, the article says, and the whole family apart from one child was killed.”

“There was a survivor?”

Jem cleared her throat, shuffling paper again. “Yes. A child called Lucy Owens.”

I didn’t recognize the name Lucy, but Owens was Abi’s family name. She hadn’t told me much about her family’s history, but I had begun to suspect she didn’t know much about it herself.

I shifted the phone to the other ear, using my free hand to scroll down the article I was reading. I’d been doing some research of my own, but I hadn’t found nearly the amount of detail Jemma had. “What happened after that?”

“Uhh, things get a little hazy after that. The house doesn’t really come up in the news, but from residency documents, it seems that Lucy is the official inheritor of the house. The Owens were a small family, and all of her relatives were dead by that point. I’m presuming she lived with a guardian until she was old enough, but I can’t corroborate that. The next time the house resurfaces in any form of documentation is in the 1940s. I have construction plans, commissioned by Lucy, for the rebuilding of the house in 1947. It looks like she lived there for a short period, before eventually renting the house out to tenants.

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