Distant Echoes of Forgotten Lives

By: Brian W Taylor

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

The Shropshire Hills, summer 1990. The gardens of an old house, Moorecroft House, which had stood there amongst the hills for so long, it seemed to almost be a part of them.
If the man in Elizabethan costume who had appeared out of the mist that lay across the gardens that morning was a ghost, how come no one had ever heard of any ghosts and hauntings connected to them before?
And if he wasn't a ghost, why did no one who worked in the gardens seem ever to have heard of him, or the horrific double murder he said had happened back in the 1960s,involving a man and a woman who'd worked in the gardens - a murder mystery which had remained unsolved? A paranormal mystery for which no one had ever been brought to account.
Part of the curse said to have struck the family who first built the house back in Tudor Times? A curse which had caused each succeeding generation of the family to commit the same paranormal crimes against each other over and over until none of them was left to commit such crimes anymore.
And if that was the case, what was the connection between the people who had lived in the house when it was first built, and those who were working there now the gardens were open to the public? What would the outcome be for those of them who had returned to their ancestral home?
At first sight it might have seemed that the horrific double murder, if it had happened, had been committed too long ago for anyone still alive to have any personal interest in it. But was that really the case, or did the story of paranormal hauntings the man had told, have a relevance which continued into the present day?
When young Peter started taking an interest in events leading up to the murders he'd found out about during his first day at work in a new job, it turned out there was at least one person still around with a personal stake in not wanting memories of the murders stirred up in this way.