When a real estate agent begins staying the night in one of his properties he begins experiencing mysterious dreams which tell the story of the all too real past.

-I will stop in town and try and get more information from the old woman again.  The study was full of books, they might be worth something they are very old.  However most of them turn into dust when you pick them up… I can’t find another journal.  Perhaps in one of these other books there is a clue as to what happened to them or at least what they did when they were here. 

-the waitress at the diner was greedier today than I expected.  She demanded 50 dollars for her services as “storyteller” but I think it a good investment.  For how much is a good night sleep worth, really?  She told me that it was long ago, she was only a child.  But the town’s people found out what the couple was.  She said that they were an eternally young couple.  “Witches and demons” she called them…                   strange… I do only see them at night…           She said they sold their soul to the devil for everlasting youth and beauty.  So the townspeople, herself included, with her “papa” went to their house and pulled the couple out.  They broke down the front door telling the “filthy witches to show themselves”.  The old waitress had a disturbing smile as she told me this horrific story.  She said that the two of them went crazy, summoning spirits, calling on Satan to give them the power and strength to kill townsfolk.  They even managed to kill 3 or 4 of them, but in the end… they BURNED the couple at the stake in their own yard. 

The waitress says that they use to hold celebrations in honor of the event, but time has changed the people.  She says they have no respect for the heroes like her father who risked his life to kill the evil witches.  Crazy old broad, hasn’t woken up from the nineteenth century yet.  The other townsfolk now expect it was only a nasty rumor that they died for.  Their own little Salem Witch Trial… but that doesn’t really say much.  I mean… it says everything, but, I don’t … it doesn’t give me closure.  I have chosen to return to the house. 

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  • jenny on May 4, 2009

    some nights

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