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|1-The Dunhill Deaths



    The first murder on the hill happened about 15 years ago, I remember
reading  about  it,  some  kid  had gone up the hill in his car with his
girlfriend,  they  had  obviously  gone  up there to get away from their
parents,  but  I wont go in to detail about that.  Anyway it was late in
the  year  so  it  was  going  dark  at  about 7 ish and the weather was
beginning  to go chilly, so most people stayed inside and did their home
work or watched the telly, therefore there weren't many people wandering
the  streets.   So  really there were just these two people out in their
car  ( I forget their names ) enjoying themselves.  It was Halloween ( I
know  it  sounds corny but it was ) so most people were staying idoors (
is is a quite religious town this and so no one celebrated Halloween, an
fact  many  used  to put up crucifixes to ward off evil spirits that may
try to take them to the devil Beelzebub.

    Now  nobody  is  exactly  sure of what happened to those on the hill
that  night,  but one thing is for sure the guy won't be telling anyone.
For  the  next morning they found this man severely mutilated ( his head
was  found  in  the  glove  box  ), his girlfriend hwever was physically
unharmed,  although  from  that  day  she  has  to  be  kept in a mental
instituition,  for her own safety and the safety of others, and has thus
had her statement about the murder thrown out as they see that it has no
substance due to the fact that she is certifiable.

    The  Worrying  in  the  town  began when the grave of Ged Harson was
found to be dug up.  Now folklore says that as a child Ged was tormented
and  abused  by  his  parents and would regularly turn up to school with
bruises  or  scars  on  his  body,  this abuse encouraged Ged to pick on
children  at school until at the age of 9 he slashed open a teachers arm
and  so  was  immediately  expelled.   He  was never accepted at another
school and so supposedly had tuition at home.  It was then that a number
of  mutilations  of pets and animals began to happen.  For example sheep
would  be found with their wool shaved and their throats slit, and other
more  disgusting  things were found.  It was then one night on the local
common  that  a farmer found a dead body, it was the mayors son.  He had
been  decapitated  and other such things, and so the mayor vowed to hunt
down  the killer.  About a week later, when he and the police were still
searching for the killer they noticed some strange goings on in a nearby
wood  and so decided to investigate.  As they drew closer they could see
a  shadowy  figure  lying  on the floor, and above him stood Ged, a meat
cleaver  in  one  hand, the head of the body in the other.  To the chief
inspectors  disbelief  it  was his own son.  Well both the mayor and the
chief  inspector  both  lost control and set upon Ged killing him within
seconds.

    Anyway the mayor and chief inspector were sent down for manslaughter
( due to their motives ) and Ged was buried innthe local graveyard, much
to  the  distress  of  the villgaers.  for they believed that he was the
devil  incarnate and the only way to destroy his evil spirit would be to
burn  him  as a sacrifice to god.  But the reverend wouldn't have it and
so he was buried there.

    Right  back  to  the  present,  and  with  the upheval of Geds grave
speculation  was rife and rumours ran of a copy cat killer.  But after a
while  much  of  this  was forgotten and it was presumed that there must
have  been  some  grave  robbers  at  the time.  That was until the next
year.......................
                                  0O0

    For  exactly  one  year  later  on  All Hallows eve thre was another
grizly  murder  on  Dunhill.   This  was in a similar place to the other
although  this  time the victim was alone and so there were no witnesses
to the murder.  Again the body was decapitated and severe mutilation was
abound with the body being very disfigured.  Once this second murder had
happened  the  rumours  began  to fly again but once more these settled,
although this time people were a lot more scared and kept their children
indoors.

    But it was 3 years after the first murder that I had the unfortunate
timing  to  be  out  on  October  the 31st.  And at about midnight I was
strolling across the hill with a couple of mates when we were all jumped
upon  from  behind  and seent crashing to the floor, smashing my face in
the  ground  and I rolled off into a nearby ditch that was surrounded by
reeds,  and  thre I stayed, huddled in a small ball absolutely terrified
with  my  eyes  focuseed  on  the  silhouette  of  a large figure and my
friends.   Then  I  saw this figure raise his arm, in his hand he held a
knife that glinted in the moonlight.  He then began to thrust this knife
in  and  out of the bodies of my mates.  For a moment he seemed to stop,
but then he stood up, in his hand he held my mates head, I tried to look
away  but  I  was  fixated by the scene.  Suddenly he threw the head and
flames appeared beneath him, and he began to sink into the ground !.

    I  continued  to lie there, paralyzed, unable to move fearing what I
would see, eventually sleep encompased me in its web and I was unable to
stay  awake  anymore.   It was very early on that I awoke, infront of me
stood  a  policeman  and I was lifted to my feet.  It was from then on a
day  of  questioning  by the police, and so I told them about the figure
that I had seen, although I didn't tell them that the figure appeared to
disappear into the ground, as I knew that they wouldn't believe me.  One
thing  that  last  night had told me was that the first murder held some
vital  information that they wanted to keep hidden from the public.  The
key  to  this  information  was  Janice  (  the  girlfriend of the first
victim ) and so I decided that i needed to get in touch with her.  0O0

    Unfortunately  this  was  going  to  be quite difficult because ( as
stated  before  ) she was in a mental institution and therefore was only
allowed  to  see  close  family.   This  would mean that I would have to
impose  as  one  of the members of her family.  And so I got in disguise
and  retrieved  a death certificate for her grandad and then created all
of  the  I.D that I would need to get into the institution.  Luckily for
me this worked and I was able to get in and see Janice.

    As  soon  as  I  walked into the room I recognised her, but she also
seemed  to  know who I was and the reason that I had come to see her, so
immediately  we sat down and began to discuss what had happened to her 3
years ago on October the 31st.  I could see that this was very traumatic
for  her  and  so didn't want to push her over the edge so to speak, but
she  insisted  that we continued and conveyed her story.  After doing so
she gave me a description of the murderer and I scribbled down her notes
and  drew up a sketch of what this may look like.  As I turned my sketch
pad  towards  her  she  screamed and then collapsed to the floor, I took
this  as meaning I had done a pretty accurate sketch.  Suddenly the room
was  filled  with  porters and nurses so I shoved my pad into my bag and
was  ushered out of the room.  I now decided to do some research on this
character.

    By the time I got home it was about 9:00 pm and so I decided that it
would  be  too late to go into the police station, therefore I booted up
my  Amiga.  I used my amiga for graaphical work and tv special effects (
PC's  are  shite  at  this,  and  the  equipment would cost an arm and a
leg....opps  sorry  ), But I was also linked to the net and surfed a few
bbs's.   Any  way I decided to get the vital information I needed and so
hacked  into  the  mainframe  at police H.Q and then obtain the relevant
files  from  the  photofit  programs,  as  well  as scanning through and
criminal  files.  Well after about half an hour of searching I found the
man   I   had   drawn,   and   so   I   looked  down  at  the  name,  it
said..............GED HARSON, No fixed abode.......deceased!.

    "Is  he  fuck  deceased" I thought and quickly copied the files to a
spare floppy.  I couldn't sleep at all that night.

    The next day at the crack of dawn I rushed down to the local library
to  see  what  I  could  find  on  Ged.  All I could find were his death
records but strangely there was no cause of death given, so I gave up on
the library and set off to the church.

    Now  the father at the church had been around for many years, he had
indeed conducted Geds burial and so i was hoping the he would be able to
relay  some  more  information to me.  I found Father Jones and began to
tell  him  exactly  what  had happened to me, as well as Janice.  I also
showed  him  the  sketch  that  I  had made from Janice's details.  Well
father  Jones  went  as  white  as  a  sheet and began to fumble for his
inhaler.   Once  composed  he told me something that hadn't been part of
the myth we were told as children.  For apparently Geds lasts words were
about  making  a  pact  with the devil so that he could come back and he
would  murder  all of the men in the town, the story then went that then
he  would have a child with one of the women.  This child would be taken
over by him so that he could walk the earth once again.  This really did
shit  me  up  but  I began to wonder if there was anything that could be
done to stop him, but Father Jones was one step ahead of me.

    "The  only  thing  that  can stop him" he said "is, when the moon is
full  he  must be positioned over a cross and then doused in holy water,
this  will  trap his body but free his soul".  And so we decided to bide
our time and wait for him to appear.

                                  0O0

    It  was  now  the  30th  of  October  and  it was the eve of another
gruesome  murder  by  who we now knew was Ged.  And by our good luck the
moon  was  going  to be at its fullest tommorrow and so the Father and I
had  to  work  quickly  otherwise we may lose our only chance to dispell
this evil demon.  We had to make sure that we were ready.

    So  on  the  afternoon  of  the  31st  we went up to Dunhill and lay
hundreds  of small crosses in the grass, these were placed near to or on
the  murder  sites.  And then we made sure that we had enough holy water
to soak him, as well as some matches and petrol to burn his body once we
had  eradicated  the  spirit  from  him.   Then  it was just a matter of
waiting for Ged to arrive and attack me.

                                  0O0

    Well it was now getting on for midnight and there was no sign of Ged
and  so  I  was  obviously  becoming a bit worried, but suddenly I heard
father  Jones  shout  to  me,  as  I spun round I could see that Ged had
materialised  else  where and was away from the crucifixes, the bastard.
Immediately  I  began to run for him and as I did so I could see that he
was  going  after  some people who had just begun the ascent up Dunhill.
So  as  I  ran I bent down and at full sprint I stretched down to grab a
cross,  I then continued my chase after Ged.  As I neared him I began to
shout  to  get  his  attention,  and  when I was about 20 metres away he
turned  round so that I could see that his face was covered with rotting
flesh,

    "Oh  Shit,  what  the  buggery  have  I  done",  I thought but still
continued to go towards him.

    When  I  got  within six feet of him he lifted up his right arm, the
blood  stained  meat  cleaver  shone  in  the  full moon, and he sent it
crashing  into  my  forearm  so  that  the  blade  came  out of the side
splitting  the  bone in two and sending a sharp pain throughout my body,
so  strong  was  this blow that my body nearly crumbled under the force.
But  I  couldn't  give  up  and  with every ounce of energy that I could
muster  I  smashed  the long point of the crucifixe into his forehead so
that  his  decomposed head shook and split .  He stumbled back wards but
didn't  seem  to  be particularly hurt, and so he came back with another
attempt to kill me and so I again thought

    "Oh shit"

    Fortunately  though  by  now Father Jones had managed to catch me up
and  he  threw  another  cross  at Ged, this time Ged was stopped in his
tracks  and  didn't know what to do.  I instinctively grabbed the bucket
of holy water and covered Ged with it.

    With  that  the  sky was alight, spirits were flying about our heads
and  screams of the previous victims, these were so shrill that our ears
hurt,  then  in  front of us the ground began to open and flames came up
from  below  us, the spirits were pulled into this gorge as was Geds and
then  it  was  gone,  only  Geds  body reamained.  We doused this in the
petrol and set it alight.  The flames lit up the night sky as the Father
and I hoped that we had seen the last of Ged Harson.....

DEAD HEAD

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