nearby.
For centuries
the lost treasure had been thought to exist there by a few
explorers, who had carried out investigations and searches for it,
of which many had paid by losing their lives, by being in the
confines of the castle at the wrong time or place.
No real
clues to its whereabouts existed other than it was located near a
magical object! The legends gave mentions of it but the actual
details were too little and too vague and the occurrences at the
place made it too confused to establish. All the facts were
missing, but having seen what the William
Randall had been like
and that the other treasure had existed Bryson and the paranormal
scientists thought he could have had it, and it was hidden
there.
The place must
have been one of the most dangerous places in the world and nobody
attempted to live there, or even live near there. People could not
survive permanently living in its confines! Even though most of the
time its powers dwindled and some people had managed to survive and
escape after living for months there, and had given horrific
accounts of the mind-bending wonders and deadliest menaces that
they had been subjected to.
At one point,
in 1880, to which nobody knows why, its existence had become
entirely dormant and a wealthy businessman had found the castle by
accident while visiting the region and had bought it from the
owners of the land.
He had
recognized its value, historical importance, colossal architecture
and dimensions, and had seen that it was worthless in the desolate
wood, in the middle of nowhere, and had it removed in large
sections and shipped across the Atlantic, where he had intended to
reconstruct it near New York.
What occurred
next was never revealed, and there occurred an extensive amount of
lost information, and all that was known was that the owner had
died in mysterious circumstances and that the castle had ended up
at a different and secret location in the depths of an immense
desolate wood, hidden away from anyone locating it, with what was
there activated again.
Chapter 14
The Disturbances
When Bryson opened his eyes he never even
knew what he was! He had no recognition of anything or where he
was, or that he was in one of the rooms in the castle!
He was staggered and sat upright and turned
on his room light, and wondered if it was caused by his exhaustion,
done on the day before, or his lack of food, the severe cold and
snow falling outside, or something in the castle influencing
him.
The dreams that he had had been
incomprehensible and he wondered if they had actually been dreams!
They never made sense and had been made up with shimmering lights
and freakish sounds being whirled about him, and like being in a
colossal vortex, where he never thought or even did anything, and
had been like he never existed and just experienced what was
there.
He liked the room around him and how well
preserved it was after such a length of time, and how well it had
been made, especially for the era it had been from.
Merton was in the room next to his on
the left and Mortimer ’ s room was next to that, and Mitchell was in
the room next to Bryson on the other side, where he was next to his
men.
They were all sleeping in rooms at the front
of the left side of the second floor, with the stairs in the center
of the castle.
Bryson noted the air was just cold and with
no scent, and that it was cool and calm in the room, and he spotted
that there was a really thick blanket of snow covering the wood
outside. He remembered earlier and being in a huddled posture with
his blankets tightly wrapped about him, with him reacting to the
cold.
For a moment he recalled an earlier dream
and that he had thought he had died and gone to some form of
afterlife, and tried to recall everything he could about it. The
dreams that he had at Grovnor Castle had given him vision of other
places, and what could be hidden away, and he had visualized the
places the creatures sounds there were coming from
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