Mary Kendall, A Ghost Story
@CravenLestat gifted me a ghost sim with a sad story. This is his story about how she became a ghost. The Mary Kendall Story :( Mary was a only child born to a poor family from the town o...
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Mary Kendall, A Ghost Story
The Visitor
Mary looks to see if the antique car is still in the garage. It is. She loves that car and works every winter trying to restore it before she is sent back to the netherworld to sleep. By the time she gets back, it is rusted again. She is very happy that no one has hauled it away to a junkyard. The radio still works too. Amazing technology! She listens to a news program to get a weather update and then tunes a music station to listen to the new music since she has been away. She finds the polisher in the tool cabinet and works on getting the rust off the body of the car. While doing this mindless activity she thinks about a news report that she heard on the radio while waiting for the weather report. "Hmmm, it seems there has been a breakthrough at the science lab in restoring life to some dimensional beings. What the heck is a dimensional being? I need to slip into the science lab and try to figure out what they mean. I majored in science at the university and have kept up with my studies with the equipment in the attic, the tablet, and books from the library. I should be able to understand this new information. I hope so. If the Fates can bring me back year after year and the other ghosts stay around all the time, perhaps there is a way to return to complete life instead of this half-life living ghost. Tomorrow evening I will visit the science lab."
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Across town, at the local lodge, a visitor arrives. He checks in at the reception desk requesting a room with a fireplace that doesn't smoke up the room. While waiting for his room to be prepared he wanders in the lobby. He finds gaming goggles and plays a holo adventure game.
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His room is finally ready and he settles in but doesn't unpack. He will only be here overnight. He does light the fire to take the chill off. He is anxious for tomorrow so he can sign the papers and finally be the owner of the lodge that is called Spring Manor.
"That's me! Damien Nazario III, yes, the third. Named after my father and his father. The almost owner of Spring Manor and newly licensed PI in Hidden Springs." He is excited at this new venture in his life. He worked with the police department for several years in Riverview after graduation. He is fascinated with mysteries and has a talent for uncovering puzzles and finding out 'whodunit'. He loves seeing justice served and he hates seeing injustice. He worked his way up in the department eventually working undercover to fight the criminal underground movement. He was not happy working undercover despite the successes of taking down several criminal organizations. He decided to take his life in a new direction. He saw an article that Spring Manor was for sale once again. He made the decision to buy it and move to Hidden Springs. He had enough money saved and knew with what he could get selling his condo he should be able to make needed repairs to make the Manor livable. He took a virtual tour, saw the extent of the damage the lodge has taken over the years, and makes a very low offer which is surprisingly accepted.
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He takes his tablet out and looks over his notes. Someday he hopes to write a book when he finishes the investigation of the Mary Kendall mystery.
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The story of Mary Kendall and her untimely death is a popular tale in her hometown of Riverview, my hometown as well. She was a smart young woman with a bright future ahead of her until her death. She was a heroine to many as she rose from a poor background to become the valedictorian of her high school and received a full scholarship to university. She excelled in University and was offered a dream job with a prestigious hospital to start her medical career. On the brink of an exciting career and full life, she died. Frozen to death. How did this happen? Why did no one come to her aid? Her death left many in the town shocked and saddened, but left me with many unanswered questions the more I delved into her story.
Her story was tragic and yet something always bothered me about the details that were related by the others staying at the lodge at the time of Mary's death. I started researching the stories and found conflicting information by several of the girls staying at the lodge. The official report was an accident. I wonder if the family wealth caused the local police to investigate poorly the inconsistencies in the story and the verdict of accidental death was never challenged. I interviewed several of her classmates and they were all surprised that Kerry would invite Mary to go skiing with her and her friends. Kerry was universally acknowledged as very jealous of Mary's brilliant mind and furious that Mary got the prestigious internship that she felt belonged to her.
I never lost my fascination with Mary's story and continued my research and updated these notes as I interviewed and read about those involved at the time of her death.
The lodge was eventually sold by the family after many strange incidents occurred. The first affected Kerry and several of her friends who stayed at the lodge the first winter after Mary's death. The lodge caught fire during that stay and Kerry suffered severe burns that disfigured her and scarred her to the extent no plastic surgery could repair the damage. She fell down the stairs trying to escape the fire but claimed she was pushed. She broke her leg in several places and was left with a permanent limp. The other girls suffered similar injuries during the fire. They were able to pull Kerry out of the home to await rescue. The fire was mysteriously extinguished before the fire department arrived. Kerry and her friends refused to set foot in the lodge ever again claiming it was haunted and the ghost was trying to kill them. The lodge was repaired and the family tried renting it out during the skiing season to make up the money for repairs. They ended up losing money as the tenants would leave in the middle of the night screaming that the place was haunted and demanding their money back. No one was ever injured among the tenants other than psychically.
Kerry's family lived in Sunset Valley and continued to be struck with misfortune as poor decisions were made in the family business, stocks crashed and several of their businesses went bankrupt. Her father and mother died in a car crash and her brother took off with what was left of the valuables in the home and has not been seen since. Trying to recoup some cash to reinvest into the business Kerry made contact with Nick Alto. She signed a contract with him and was unable to pay him back at the specified time. The last of her family's businesses were taken over. I tried to contact the friends that stayed at the lodge when Mary died. They all suffered misfortune and 2 are dead and the last is bedridden. Kerry is living in a tiny trailer in a trailer park, poorer than Mary ever was. Nick and his wife Vita are living in her family's former estate. Kerry refused to speak of that time at the lodge when Mary died when I interviewed her. She did cryptically tell me "that was the beginning of the end for us. Karma will bite you no matter how hard you try to run."
Damien closes his tablet and turns it off. He walks outside on the balcony hoping to see Spring Lodge. The trees are too dense to get a good look at it.
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He is hungry and decides to go to town and find a place to eat. On the way, he stops at Spring Lodge and walks up to the gate looking up at the house that will be his tomorrow. He swears he saw movement in one of the upper rooms. Probably a trick of the light.
Mary senses someone on the property. She looks out the window. "Go away! Go away! I don't care how good looking you are, go away!" She sighs when he turns and leaves. "He sure looked cute."
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The Visitor
Mary looks to see if the antique car is still in the garage. It is. She loves that car and works every winter trying to restore it before she is sent back to the netherworld to sleep. By the time she gets back, it is rusted again. She is very happy that no one has hauled it away to a junkyard. The radio still works too. Amazing technology! She listens to a news program to get a weather update and then tunes a music station to listen to the new music since she has been away. She finds the polisher in the tool cabinet and works on getting the rust off the body of the car. While doing this mindless activity she thinks about a news report that she heard on the radio while waiting for the weather report. "Hmmm, it seems there has been a breakthrough at the science lab in restoring life to some dimensional beings. What the heck is a dimensional being? I need to slip into the science lab and try to figure out what they mean. I majored in science at the university and have kept up with my studies with the equipment in the attic, the tablet, and books from the library. I should be able to understand this new information. I hope so. If the Fates can bring me back year after year and the other ghosts stay around all the time, perhaps there is a way to return to complete life instead of this half-life living ghost. Tomorrow evening I will visit the science lab."
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50122329406_9f81fcb3ae_o.jpg
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50126339488_64287d0b28_o.jpg
Across town, at the local lodge, a visitor arrives. He checks in at the reception desk requesting a room with a fireplace that doesn't smoke up the room. While waiting for his room to be prepared he wanders in the lobby. He finds gaming goggles and plays a holo adventure game.
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His room is finally ready and he settles in but doesn't unpack. He will only be here overnight. He does light the fire to take the chill off. He is anxious for tomorrow so he can sign the papers and finally be the owner of the lodge that is called Spring Manor.
"That's me! Damien Nazario III, yes, the third. Named after my father and his father. The almost owner of Spring Manor and newly licensed PI in Hidden Springs." He is excited at this new venture in his life. He worked with the police department for several years in Riverview after graduation. He is fascinated with mysteries and has a talent for uncovering puzzles and finding out 'whodunit'. He loves seeing justice served and he hates seeing injustice. He worked his way up in the department eventually working undercover to fight the criminal underground movement. He was not happy working undercover despite the successes of taking down several criminal organizations. He decided to take his life in a new direction. He saw an article that Spring Manor was for sale once again. He made the decision to buy it and move to Hidden Springs. He had enough money saved and knew with what he could get selling his condo he should be able to make needed repairs to make the Manor livable. He took a virtual tour, saw the extent of the damage the lodge has taken over the years, and makes a very low offer which is surprisingly accepted.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50152603867_0d5bd6ed86_b.jpg
He takes his tablet out and looks over his notes. Someday he hopes to write a book when he finishes the investigation of the Mary Kendall mystery.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50151884967_056435e11b_b.jpg
The story of Mary Kendall and her untimely death is a popular tale in her hometown of Riverview, my hometown as well. She was a smart young woman with a bright future ahead of her until her death. She was a heroine to many as she rose from a poor background to become the valedictorian of her high school and received a full scholarship to university. She excelled in University and was offered a dream job with a prestigious hospital to start her medical career. On the brink of an exciting career and full life, she died. Frozen to death. How did this happen? Why did no one come to her aid? Her death left many in the town shocked and saddened, but left me with many unanswered questions the more I delved into her story.
Her story was tragic and yet something always bothered me about the details that were related by the others staying at the lodge at the time of Mary's death. I started researching the stories and found conflicting information by several of the girls staying at the lodge. The official report was an accident. I wonder if the family wealth caused the local police to investigate poorly the inconsistencies in the story and the verdict of accidental death was never challenged. I interviewed several of her classmates and they were all surprised that Kerry would invite Mary to go skiing with her and her friends. Kerry was universally acknowledged as very jealous of Mary's brilliant mind and furious that Mary got the prestigious internship that she felt belonged to her.
I never lost my fascination with Mary's story and continued my research and updated these notes as I interviewed and read about those involved at the time of her death.
The lodge was eventually sold by the family after many strange incidents occurred. The first affected Kerry and several of her friends who stayed at the lodge the first winter after Mary's death. The lodge caught fire during that stay and Kerry suffered severe burns that disfigured her and scarred her to the extent no plastic surgery could repair the damage. She fell down the stairs trying to escape the fire but claimed she was pushed. She broke her leg in several places and was left with a permanent limp. The other girls suffered similar injuries during the fire. They were able to pull Kerry out of the home to await rescue. The fire was mysteriously extinguished before the fire department arrived. Kerry and her friends refused to set foot in the lodge ever again claiming it was haunted and the ghost was trying to kill them. The lodge was repaired and the family tried renting it out during the skiing season to make up the money for repairs. They ended up losing money as the tenants would leave in the middle of the night screaming that the place was haunted and demanding their money back. No one was ever injured among the tenants other than psychically.
Kerry's family lived in Sunset Valley and continued to be struck with misfortune as poor decisions were made in the family business, stocks crashed and several of their businesses went bankrupt. Her father and mother died in a car crash and her brother took off with what was left of the valuables in the home and has not been seen since. Trying to recoup some cash to reinvest into the business Kerry made contact with Nick Alto. She signed a contract with him and was unable to pay him back at the specified time. The last of her family's businesses were taken over. I tried to contact the friends that stayed at the lodge when Mary died. They all suffered misfortune and 2 are dead and the last is bedridden. Kerry is living in a tiny trailer in a trailer park, poorer than Mary ever was. Nick and his wife Vita are living in her family's former estate. Kerry refused to speak of that time at the lodge when Mary died when I interviewed her. She did cryptically tell me "that was the beginning of the end for us. Karma will bite you no matter how hard you try to run."
Damien closes his tablet and turns it off. He walks outside on the balcony hoping to see Spring Lodge. The trees are too dense to get a good look at it.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50151817958_74611c4bd8_b.jpg
He is hungry and decides to go to town and find a place to eat. On the way, he stops at Spring Lodge and walks up to the gate looking up at the house that will be his tomorrow. He swears he saw movement in one of the upper rooms. Probably a trick of the light.
Mary senses someone on the property. She looks out the window. "Go away! Go away! I don't care how good looking you are, go away!" She sighs when he turns and leaves. "He sure looked cute."
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