Part IV - The Akenfield Poltergeist
A last and chilling entry in Golightly’s case book.
…June 27, 1899
I feel compelled to take up my pen again as I lie under the covers, shivering.
My most profound impression is of the absolute chill in the room.
It’s a summer’s night, and even though a little damp, the chill seems most noticeable.
And disagreeable.
The sense that had come to me in the corridor earlier, of the house, dark and gigantic around me, has returned afresh-and is intensifying as I lie, unsleeping in the bed.
I am reluctant to extinguish my candle, as then the dying embers of the fire will be the only visible thing in the profound darkness.
I think I must have fallen asleep. But, I am not sure.
Whispering.
Words.
Impossible to make out sense.
Sibilance; dust moving in dark passageways…two voices… whispering….other voices?
I have opened my eyes, and taken up my pen once again. I am hopeful that writing will help to steady my mind, and crush my creeping fear.
The candle is low and sputtering.
The whispering has continued. I am finding this most disturbing as I believed that I had been dreaming. Now I no longer have this excuse.
I have become aware of a most peculiar sense of darkness moving in and as darkness.
Golightly knocks his ink over in his panic to relight the candle at his bedside.
I have re-lit the candle.
The whispering has stopped.
Footsteps?
Coming down the corridor?
A most profound silence. Nothing. And then a crash. Very close. Inside the room.
The chair on which I had placed my clothes has been pushed over.
I will overcome my fear, and endeavour to right the chair to make sure that my clothes are not creased or damaged.
I do not believe I will sleep again tonight.
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