Murder at the chatau

Others Stories | Jan 26, 2020 | 8 min read
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Murder at the chatau

?It was 1952 in a midsize town population 10,000, in this town everyone knew someone, people were humble, polite & kids could play & just get along. It was a warm summer day people were going about their daily routine, when a car rolled into town at the general store, with a man, his wife, & 2 children. He got out to talk to the store owner, the man was very well dressed polite & looking for his great aunt's chateau at the end of town, his son followed him in the store, & as any small child, he was a mischief, talkative little boy touching things, & asking a lot of questions. For the wife she sat in the car with the baby sister in her arms staring out the windshield of the car & from what the people in the store did see is she looked very dark, in ways that it made the ones looking uneased! The newborn baby girl sat in the arms of her mother sleeping as the husband talked highly of his daughter & his son & the new life they were to start in there new home that his great aunt left him. As they drove away from the store, & journeyed to there new home, the owner turned to his wife, boy just like his great aunt what a wonderful person. It's nice to have him here, but the wife looked uneased, & her husband asked what's wrong & just shook her head, & went back to work. A week went by & the husband kept coming to the store for food, supplies he even started his business of caneing chairs, & woodworking. Things were looking good for his family, & the town accepted them as great people, even though his great aunt was a superb person herself, & when her husband died a few yrs back she lived as long as she could, & the town knew her love was strong for her husband, & she just was not the same. Her great nephew was holding the memory of her strong! A year ? went by the nephew, was busy in his barn on hot summer day. He was going out to take a break from caneing a chair when all of a sudden, on top of one of the huge pine trees that towered in his yard happen to see a huge black bird perch on top of it it began to croak, & rite away new it was a Raven, & getting a bad vibe from it, but shrugged it off because he was not superstitious! As he turned his head to go in the house to get a drink, he noticed his wife stare at the black bird threw a window with pure hate & a evil glare! He couldn't understand why she was doing that so he continued to the house & broke her stance & she jumped as nothing wrong, he asked if she was alright? Then she quickly walked to the sink & said fine. Not going any further to ask about what he just saw, he got his drink & headed back to the barn. Days went by & the raven still perched on the tall pine croaking at the husband as he worked. One day the husband was in the barn hard working on a table for a new customer, as he was staining the table he heard from a distance the RAVEN croaking then it let out a insane screech! Then his wife screamed! He ran to the house, yelling her name & what happened? He got up stairs to the baby's room, the baby somehow fell on the floor from the bed she was going to pick the baby up till her husband said let me see let, me see he cradled the child has it laid limp in his arms he shook her a little & kept calling her name finally she let out a scream & the husband full of joy kept saying you poor thing. He asked his wife what had happened, she said she went to wet the cloth to wipe the baby, she turned then she was on the floor, as the husband bounced the baby, & got her calm down, the wife stood aside with no emotional vibes but yet the husband took no notice, & went about calling the doctor to check the child, & nothing was serious. A couple months went buy things seemed to be going well, the husband returned, & getting out of the car with supplies, his wife screaming out the front door! Ran into his arms historically, he was trying to calm her down but she screamed out she's missing, where's the boy?! in his room she yelled he ran throughout the house, in the yard, in the woods, losing his mind noticing his wife just standing staring at the ground, he yelled out her name as she stood looking up now at the sky, & notice the black bird back circling the house now the raven had gone for awhile but now He soared high & the feeling he once had just got worse! With looking for hours & still no daughter coming forth, the husband told his wife to bring the boy in the house & keep searching! Then all of a sudden the man who had got his life going, & was just as happy as anyone else in the town he called home, ran in the store screaming my baby girl is missing! Where is the authorities, as he was looking for the 2 police officer's who ran the town. The store owner grabbed the phone began to dial the police, the operator said they were on there way! As he sat there pulling his hair, & repeating where did she GO! The police did a full search of the property, for 5 days & no baby girl! The police apologized multiple times because they couldn't find the baby! The mother of the wife came to stay with her daughter & son n' law, & things were getting intense! The wife would sit looking out the window speechless, the husband would ask his wife what happened she would not say a word. The police did interview her, & she told them the baby took a nap, & after tending to her son & went to check on the girl, she was gone! The police left it at that due to her not talking much, & not eating, they did follow up to anyone seeing any drifter may be past through town but nothing,3 weeks went by still no sighting of the child. The husband standing in his barn one day staring at the chair he was trying to Finish, the Raven landed at the barn doors croaking at him in a bit of rage he stood up & began to scream at the Bird, be off you devil bird you came here now my daughter is gone!! He ran to kick the Bird,but it took off up to the top off the tree! Croaking, a few more days of this continued, until one day his wife stood to the same window glazing the bird with her eyes bugging out of her head! The husband could not believe his wife was looking at the bird in that manner. She kept to herself all this time, & now that he has been yelling at this bird she was taking notice? The husband began to watch his wife towards this bird & it was insane! She was trying to kill it! She was starting to not even acknowledge their son the grandmother was getting frustrated with her daughter, she was showing a side her & her stepson couldn't understand! Then one day the RAVEN landed back at the barn door croaking the husband stood up & slowly walked towards the bird walked out the door the bird croaked then flew on the first branch on the tall pine, like it was trying to tell him something, he looked up the tree & to his surprise saw a huge nest almost at the top of the tree, thinking it was the Raven's nest, but a blast of knowledge kicked in, & realised that ravens did not live in nests they live in or around cliffs, small caves! As the husband started to point to the Bird & try to understand why he was flying around? his wife stormed out the door screaming & swinging a large stick! Kill it kill it a demonic look on her face, swinging to kill the bird the Raven flew to the nest, the husband grabbed his wife in total shock to his wife's behavior!! He yelled what are you doing?!! Must kill it she snarled !! He got her back in the house thinking maybe the daughter thing was getting to her! He called the doctor to have her checked the doctor gave her a relaxing drug to sleep & get some rest, they talked about what happened confused the next day came & the Raven came to visit once more, the husband once again lead to the tree, & thinking what the doctor said that the Raven brings you to death, not bring death upon you! What did that mean? over & over he ran it through his head! Then it happened again the bird making himself known again! Flew to the top of the tree & the wife all rested woke up & the rage she showed scared her husband now!! She tried to burn the tree down! The grandmother called the doctor while the husband fought to stop his wife by burning the tree a strait jacket was brought & the wife was strapped up, as she was being strapped she screamed at everyone the devils bird must die!!! & sent to the hospital! More went on of talking on of what to do?! The wife was now 4 days locked up & the husband sat trying to pull himself together, his son was with the grandmother, at her house, & the husband once again got his visitor! He followed the Raven to the tree up on the branch, trying to figure out what this bird wanted, so out of instinct he climbed the tree the Raven flew to the nest croaking loudly, more than before! As the husband kept climbing he reached the nest & to his surprise there in the nest was his daughters decomposed body, he screamed in horror, noooooooooo!!!! His echoes plowed thru the town to where everyone heard him! He cradled the baby all the way down yelling her name going horse as he screamed! The doctor, & the police came to the screams, they were told by the wife what had happened. She knew it was over hearing her husband's cry's & screaming! He took awhile but when he came around the doctor told him why the baby had to die, the wife was jealous! Ever since that thing she said was born! She claims you lost interest in her spent more time with that little bitch, but the doctor reinsured that his wife had lost her mind! Sometimes mothers don't know how to deal with another female in there life, sometimes it goes bad & this kind of thing happens. Oh so that's why you said the Raven pretty much shows death not make death! The RAVEN is a sacred native American bird, this was to show that they are a messenger!
1/16/2018 Archie
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Meraj ahmed Jan 27, 2020

nice one

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