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The Crain Family’s Tragedy

August 24, 1973 – 11:27 PM

It’s been two months that the noises in the basement started. My husband said that
he listens to whispers, but I can’t listen anything, just some beats and scratches on the
wood. It’s too weird, because, since we move to this house, 10 months ago, someone has
left flowers in our door every two months. Yesterday, the person left again, but I couldn’t
talk to him, because I was sleeping. In the next time I will wait for him, so we can talk,
and I will ask if the flowers have any relation with the noises. My husband doesn’t want
that I wait for the person, because he is apprehensive and he wants to protect us, our
daughters and I, by hook or by crook.
Ashley Crain

October 23, 1973 – 10:53 AM

I got it! I finally got it! I woke up at 4:30 AM and I waited next to the door, hoping
that I could finally talk to the mysterious person and clarify things. It was about 5 AM
when she came. She is an old woman, with white hair and seemed so kind to me. So, I
decided to invite her for a coffee, so that we could talk in my kitchen.
First, I asked her about the flowers. Why does she leave they every two months?
So, she told me all the story.
“When I was younger, 50 years ago, I fall in love. He worked with my brother in
a mining field. However, we hid our romance from everybody, because my brother, as
the only man in family, was so jealous and possessive. As the excavation was so deep,
my love and my brother only could visit me every two months. The last time I saw my
darling was in the dawn of October 23 in 1923. We met each other, hidden, in a garden
next to my house, because in the same day, in the morning, he would back for the mining
field. However, what we didn’t know is that my brother was following us, because he
discovered our romance. He only asked me about Peter, my boyfriend, when I came back
home. He discussed a lot with me and asked me to never see Peter again. I thought that
his angry was temporary, so I didn’t care, I just ignored him. But, in the next day, a
tragedy happened. According to the investigators, a fight started in the mining field,
between Peter and my brother. In the middle of the fight, my brother pushed Peter, and
he fall on the activator of the dynamite, what caused a huge landslip. 67 people died and
they didn’t find the bodies of 21 miners. The 4 survivors of the disaster told to the police
that my brother was extremely angry, and he was saying something like “I need to protect
her of all the dangers of the world. She is all my life.”. So, in short, that is the reason why
I bring those flowers every two months. The ground of the mining field was here, below
your house.”
 I don’t know what to think or to say. I just know that the old woman told me to
get out here faster than I can, but I can’t do this, because we spend all our money buying
this house.
Ashley Crain

October 23, 1973 – 9:47 PM

The day is increasingly weird. It was not enough the macabre visit of the old
woman, my husband is so weird too. He left word earlier than the normal and came home.
So, he locked all the house and had a psychotic break, saying that he needed to protect us
from all the dangers of the world. It’s been a few months since his paranoia started, and
we tried many psychologists, but it didn’t work. He got to the point of sleep with a knife
below the pillow. My daughters are so scared, and I don’t know what to say to them.
Today was the apex of his insane. I hope that things get better tomorrow.
Ashley Crain
 LOCAL NEWSPAPER
October, 26th , 1973

The Crain
family’s tragedy
At down on the October 23rd
from the 24th, in Aberdeen’s
city, a family man killed
his two daughters and his
wife.
The neighbors heard female The killer survived, but now
screams and cries and the he is in a psychiatric
man shouting something like hospital, because of a
“I need to protect you of psychotic outbreak. He doesn’t
all the dangers of the have consciousness about what
happened, and he asks all the
world. You are all my
time “What year are we? Are we
life”. still in 1923?”.
They called the police, but At the time, he can’t be
when they arrived, the judged as a healthy person.
tragedy was already. The investigation continues.
happened.