Joanna reluctantly visits Miss MacDonald again and requests for more information.

the last 3 owners all killed themselves by jumping from upstairs windows. the last owners of the house died 20 years ago. The last owners of Birtley House were the Whalley family. Then the Smith family just disappears from records. This continued in operation until 1923, when the brewery chimney was demolished. His son William established a brewery in Bramley High Street before 1865. Heidi does a quick online search and discovers:Ī Charles Smith purchased a site from a Elizabeth Street and built Birtley House in 1848. However, she focuses on debunking mysterious phenomena and Joanna plays along, not telling her it’s all real. Heidi is also an amateur paranormal sleuth. or was it directed specifically at her? Joanna can't get it out of her mind and and visits an old friend who's now a post-grad student named Heidi. She doesn’t want to meet up with the real thing again. She just wants to do some light work, calming little old ladies who think there’s a poltergeist in the house. Furthermore, most of the bad omens in the village emanate from a derelict house in the next parish, one that borders her own Chiddingfold.Īfter hastily drinking her tea Joanna makes her excuses and leaves. She knows the effect she can sometimes have on people and reluctantly tells Joanna that she can sometimes pass messages from the other side. Miss MacDonald is dismayed when she sees Joanna's face. Miss MacDonald lives several hours away in a little village named Chiddingfold that's south of the city and is a typical little old lady who looks a bit like a kinder, gentler Maggie Smith all prim and proper and you couldn't imagine her saying a cross word to anyone.Īs Miss MacDonald is passing Joanna a cup of tea, she says, 'Here you are dear.' Their hands accidentally brush and suddenly Miss MacDonald's eyes go all black and her voice changes to a harsh, almost animalistic growl, 'YOU ARE MARKED FOR DEATH.' then her eyes go back to normal again and in her normal voice continues, '.would you like some sugar with your tea?' It’s always useful to have some contacts who can do what they say they can do. Joanna wants to check out her credentials as a mystic/medium. One of the items on her check list is meeting up with a Miss MacDonald who says she’s a medium. returns to the city and is in the process of re-establishing herself. After several years away, paranormal investigator Joanna C.

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