have been so hard to believe that they were the Sorrow has been the constant lot of the
result of the curse of the poor farmer’s wife.
family since the curse was laid on it. Down
But they were real and any attempt to break
through the generations, the chateau has
them or get rid of them met with the most
passed from one hand to another. None of the
vehement resistance in the form of uncanny,
families have ever been able to live in it for unearthly screaming.
any great length of time. It cannot be sold, for Misfortune followed close upon the nobody will buy it; and the skulls make it so
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uncomfortable for anybody but the Bouillards
servants left in terror, and my poor mother
that nobody will rent it.
was almost scared to death with the awful
The skulls are still there, but they moaning and shrieking that kept up all night.
remain quiet unless somebody makes an Next morning, there were the skulls, perched attempt to get rid of them. Then they scream.
on the staircase again.
They have not been heard in years; in fact,
Since that time the skulls have
since my father, when he was a young man,
remained at Lavignac undisturbed and far be it threw them into the Lugre. That night all the
from me to ever touch them.
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