GHOST AND MAGICAL STORIES

VOICES FROM NOWHERE





Even though the house was badly in need of decoration and repair, the Longs decided to buy it. It was rather big, the price was very reasonable and it was in a part of London not too far from the center. Both Mr and Mrs Longs had jobs in the City, so this was too important. There was also a good school nearby for their six-year-old daughter, Jane, to go to. It was not until that they discovered who the house had once belonged to and the terrible things that had happened there.

The first sign of trouble came when they had the house redecorated, just before they moved in. The workmen who did the job refused to work in the house after dark. "it gives me the creeps, it does," one of them said. Then, when the Longs started living in the house, they noticed how cold the rooms were, even though it was in the middle of a warm summer. Not long after that, their daughter began walking up in the middle of the night screaming. She said she could hear the strange voices and that they belonged to the dead people. They told her that they had been killed in the house and that they had been buried in the garden. "At first we thought she was just having nightmares, but then my husband and I heard more than just strange noises. "One night, just times they both heard more than just strange noises. "One night, just before George and I went to bed, we heard a woman's voice that seemed to come from nowhere. It said only a few words. "No, no! Stop!" But we both heard it very clearly." Mrs Longs claims.

Shortly after this,Mrs Long happened to learn from a neighbour more about the history of the house. It had belonged to Gordon Taplow, one of the last men to be hanged in England. He had been found guilty of the murder of three different women, and was suspected of having killed several more. He had killed the women in the house and then had dismembered the victims' bodies in the kitchen before getting rid of them. After his arrest and execution in 1959, the house was bought and sold several times, but nobody ever lived in it for very long. Months and even years, passed without anybody living in it at all. Mr and Mrs Long are convinced they know the reason for this. "what happened to the bodies of the other women the man is supposed to have killed? He must have buried them somewhere. We think it was the garden. The house was haunted by their ghosts. Neither my husband nor I are superstitious. But what other possible explanation is there?" Mrs Long says

Although the police dug uo parts of the garden more than twenty years ago and found nothing, the Longs want them to do the job again, this time more thoroughly. Mrs Long recently had an interview with a police inspector about this. "He was very polite but I could see he thought I was just being hysterical. But if they don't do it, we'll have the job done by someone else, even thogh we can hardly afford it", she says.