Youngsters’ Forum

The mysterious cottage.

October 11th, 2007

Are you a good detective? prove it by solving this mystery….

Deep deep into a dark gloomy forest where trees that towered high in to the sky, bushes that swayed from side to side and birds that glided high in to the sky and blended with the clouds in the sky.

The forest was alive with sounds, smells and colours but deep in the forest there was a dark and lonely cottage. It looked abandoned and very, very old. At the front of the house there was a rusty wooden door with the number 8 carved carefully onto it. Half of the doorknob was snapped off and the bottom of the door was covered in cracks.

Inside the cottage, the floor was made of muddy, black, wooden floorboards which were all covered in dust. There was also a bright red rug with a big yellow stain on it.   There was a picture which stood tall on a small rusty table. It was of an old man and an older lady standing together. The house was quiet, except for the ticking of the massive grandfather clock in the kitchen.

Also in the kitchen was a majestic, gigantic painting of one of Van Gogh’s great creations, “Sunflower.” The kitchen unit was soaking wet with an empty pot beside it, and some tubes of paints all mixed up.

Leading up to the bedroom was a deep, brown coloured bannister  and small wooden steps. There were 37 of them altogether. It was a huge hike! In the bedroom, on a high table, stood an empty whisky bottle and underneath it there was a note.

The note said:                                                                                       Dear Jim                                                            Hi. I’m just writing to see how you are doing. I’ve just come back from France. I hope you’ve stopped drinking. If you keep it up, it could get serious. Keep in touch,                             Love from James

On the pillow, there was a dark red stain. And under the bed sheet, there was something very, very disturbing……                                                         

By Jack Alexander, St peters school

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