Horror Stories from Horrified - Volume One (2)

I called for the war den to r etur n to the chur ch, so I could ask him w her e the paper s had
been found and if ther e was any chance of ther e being any mor e that I could see. He
explained that, as far as he knew , all the paper s that had been found w er e now in my
possession and that they had been discover ed hidden behind a gr avestone outside. The
gr ave stone had long been fixed to one of the outer walls of the chur ch and then all of a
sudden, one mor ning it appear ed to have fallen over in the night. It pulled out some
sections of masonr y and r evealed a small hole in the wall, w her ein the paper s w er e found.
The war den took me outside to see the hole. The light was beginning to fade, so I quickly
made my way to w her e it was and got dow n on my knees to see in.
The hole w ent some way into the wall but was ver y low dow n, so view ing was not easy.
The war den lent me his cigar ette lighter to illuminate things. I popped my head inside, my
ar m str etched out befor e me, lighting the way. Ther e, at the ver y end of the hole, I thought I
saw a piece of paper folded up quite small and tucked almost entir ely behind a br ick. I
picked at one of the cor ner s and managed to manoeuvr e the paper out, just enough for me
to gr ab the w hole thing and r etr ieve.
"Well I never ," said the war den. "I was sur e w e had gotten ever ything out that was
ther e."
"It was quite w ell hidden at the ver y back," I said. "Thank you for your help. I shan't
need anything fur ther."
"Right you ar e," he said and tur ned to walk away. As he did, I looked past him into the
adjoining field w her e I again saw the flicker ing light and the faint sound of music.
"What is going on over ther e?? I asked.
"Over w her e, sir ?" he said.
"In that field," and I pointed towar ds the lights.
"Over ther e? Why, ther e's nothing in ther e excepting the big dip."
He explained that in the next field ther e was a peculiar dip in the gr ound, quite the
opposite of a hill he said. It dipped some seven or eight feet and was, he had been told, the
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