A story for the holiday season.
In the early 17th century, a young woman named Anne was to be married on Christmas Day at Bramshill House in Hampshire, England.
After the ceremony and feast, as was tradition at the time, the guests were all set to carry the bride to the bedchamber. Anne suggested a game be played, and asked for a five minute head start before the guests came to find her.
Everyone searched long and hard for Anne, but no sign of her could be found.
At first they thought she had played a merry trick, but soon a sense of unease fell over the guests.
The bridegroom, Lord Lovell, was distraught, and guests began to whisper that she must have fled.
Days, weeks, months, and years passed, and Lord Lovell never stopped looking for his bride.One day, some 50 years after her disappearance, Lord Lovell was up in the huge attic of the sprawling mansion, where he began tapping on the oak paneling.
As he knocked, a long-hidden secret door sprung open, and inside he found an ornate wooden chest. He pried open the heavy wooden lid, and there, still in her wedding dress and clutching her mistletoe bouquet, were the skeleton remains of his beloved.
The scratch marks on the inside of the lid of the chest attested to her desperate, but futile, effort to free herself from her hiding place.
Thank you for reading this blog entry by contributor, Michelle Budke. Michelle’s life story as a psychic medium is chronicled in my novel, Against the Forbidden Darkness. Feel free to check out the book based on her life when she encountered the most infested places and how an attachment changed the course of her life.
The book, “Against the Forbidden Darkness” is under the heading BOOKS of this website.
Thank you to all my subscribers for reading my blog and purchasing my books! Have a beautiful holiday and a wonderful New Year full of health and cheer!
I will be taking a break from the blog until after the New Year. I will be starting my new novel, THE ISOLATIONIST about a true story of a woman who chose to live in a remote French village and what happened to her and her spouse after I departed as a guest from their home.
Until the New Year, be well, stay safe and do what matters.