Post by Ellie on Jan 27, 2019 13:56:28 GMT -5
PART ONE
WOLVES DANCING IN THE NIGHT
Some houses are just evil. There is no graphic heritage that led it to destruction. It just is. The house, they say, turns people mad. The house, they say, it whispers in the night. Dark intent. The house was constructed in 1789. It was the largest structure built within the small town of Newton, Georgia, and the family that would soon dwell inside had a lively pack of only four. Thomas Ramsay was an Englishman with a vault of wealth that he never hid and his wife, Mary Ramsay, was in relation to the British king George II. Their arrival in Newton was unexpected and greater unappreciated for the sons they brought with them would carry the reputation of the town straight to hell. It started in 1804 with the death of Benedict Ramsay.
The Ramsay’s had two sons: Benedict and Maximus Ramsay. Both terrors in town, however, the younger of the two was far more ambitious. His madness bled through the very foundations of the house. Besides the constant whoring, drinking, and spending, Maximus Ramsay had a taste for danger. During an ordinary hunt out in the woods behind the house, Benedict Ramsay was mercilessly ripped apart by Maximus Ramsay’s hounds. When questioned about the death of his older brother, Maximus replied with “the hounds went rapid, there was nothing I could do”.
Without leaving an heir old enough to retain the house, the Ramsay House fell into the hands of his mad little brother. Maximus had the house and the house had him. It was said that in his later years, Maximus was completely lost to the fuel of his demented mind. His plain wide, Emma Stewart, was the poorest victim of that house: trapped in a loveless marriage with children, mad like their father.
In her years with Maximus Ramsay, the affairs never seemed to stop. Maximus had countless lovers under the same roof that he shared with his wife and children. Under a moonless sky, Emma Ramsay had decided that she had had enough of his lechery. Threatening to turn him into the council, Emma went to leave that night, but her Ramsay husband wouldn’t have his reputation tarnished over town. What was supposed to be an cowardly push turned into a deadly shove. Maximus Ramsay sent his wife down the grand stairs at the front of the house and his wife was dead. The stable boy was hanged for his ‘crimes’ for it was he that Maximus Ramsay placed the blame on.
PART TWO
INHERITANCE DISTURBED
Maximus Ramsay died not long after the chaos. His children were far too young to inherit so the house fell to Benedict’s oldest son, Maverick Ramsay, who was still a teenager at the time. He was married to a young Rose Taylor then and had an infant son to care for. The house was his and all the history of his family’s past seemed to fade away in his seemingly perfect life. Until the day that his wife tried to throw their toddler son off the balcony of the staircase because of his incessant crying. Rose was taken to the the mad house and Maverick and his young son, Thomas II, were on their own.
Several months after the incident, Maverick started to hear sounds about the house: wailing children and laughing men. He chalked it out to be his own sleep deprivation and the absence of his wife, but the sounds and noises seemed to increase with each awoken night. Unable to care for his son, Thomas II was sent to live with Maverick’s sister up north. Thomas would never see the house again.
Soon, Maverick Ramsay was driven to his madness. In two years time he had painted all the walls red and ripped the wood up from it’s foundations to expel the noise that dwelled there. He was noticed around town and the servants of the house had him committed along with his wife until he hung himself out of the window at the Newton Asylum for the Mentally Deranged, scratching at his eyes and cheeks until the skin had shredded from his bone, and then he died there... bleeding over the walkway that introduced guests and new arrivals to the house.
PART THREE
BABES CRYING IN THE WALLS
Richard Ramsay took the house after Maverick’s downfall and Lucas’s declination of the inheritance. He inherited the house in his later twenties after the birth of his son, George Ramsay. Anne was pregnant at the time; it was a stressful pregnancy that caused the house to rupture around them when the worst of the worry was in Anne’s core. Their second child, their daughter was small and fragile. Anne called her ‘Leigh’ and Leigh was always sick. She cried and whined and whimpered until she couldn’t breathe. She was always sick.
After the birth, Anne suffered from delusions. Richard feared that she had the same madness that enslaved his own father during his time in the Ramsay House. One night there was a wailing from the nursery. When Anne went to investigate, she found that her baby was covered in her own blankets, flailing about in a panic. When she pulled the blankets from her babe, there was a reptilian monster in her place. Terrified of the beast, Anne took a pillow and covered the creature until the wailing ceased.
Anne had unknowingly smothered her sick little Leigh, whom the house had disguised as a monstrous lizard. Anne hung herself from the chandelier in the ballroom for her husband and child to find her in the morning when they woke.
Richard Ramsay who had unwittingly become an actor was stabbed through the stomach during a 'performance altercation' that had somehow been replaced with a genuine blade. His partner had been enflamed when Richard made a unintelligent comment about the actor's wife and in his madness, the actor drew a sword through Richard Ramsay striking him dead during performance.
Richard Ramsay who had unwittingly become an actor was stabbed through the stomach during a 'performance altercation' that had somehow been replaced with a genuine blade. His partner had been enflamed when Richard made a unintelligent comment about the actor's wife and in his madness, the actor drew a sword through Richard Ramsay striking him dead during performance.
PART FOUR
SHARED HOUSING
The house was at a crossroad of sorts after the several mishaps that seemed to occur within the house. With the inheritance out of reach and in question for two eligible cousins, the two men made the decision to share the house in terms that they would both find accommodating. George and Joseph Ramsay moved inside the Ramsay House as equal partners in the owning of the estate, along with their wives: Elise and Stephanie.
Elise was rather quiet, but terribly disturbed and paranoid even before her life trapped in the Ramsay House. Her heart was scarred with abuse from father’s and brother’s that never seemed to heal properly. She started in a jealous rage, accusing her husband of fondling his cousin’s younger and prettier wife. When these accusations never faltered, George Ramsay attempted to have her condemned to her chambers, but before the arrangements were made, Elise stabbed Joseph’s wife while she slept. Joseph, sleeping in the bed next to her, arose when he heard his wife scream. He kicked Elise to the floor and turned the knife on her, but it was too late. Stephanie was dead and so was Elise.
Joseph and George Ramsay never spoke of the incident again, they both moved from the house after the memorial for their wives and never saw one another again, nor were they ever heard from again. Some accounts say that they drove off a bridge and drowned together, but no one ever knew the truth of what happened to them… all they knew is that they left their children behind when departed.
PART FIVE
BLOODLINES ARE CUT
Daniel Ramsay was almost a man when he inherited the house. He was engaged to a woman new to town. His reign in the house was even more short than his predecessors. His died in childbirth, having given birth to one healthy girl and one dead girl, she had wanted to call Annabelle. Daniel, aware of the cruelty of childbirth, put his sorrow aside and put efforts into raising his God-given daughter. But it didn’t last. She died herself of causes unknown. The doctor said she was ‘very sick’ and that was the end of Daniel’s line. He grief drove him to the grave and the inheritance continued to follow to the next male in bloodline.
PART SIX
SHARE SORROW COUSIN
The most Ramsay living under the same roof was in the beginning of the 20th century. By the time the ‘Roaring 20’s’ were making headlines, there were THREE Ramsay bloodlines living under the same protection. The house came into the care of James Ramsay, who had recently suffered his own violent loss. After his wife died giving birth to their third child, he invited his cousin to live in the house to ‘liven it up’. Adam and his wife, Margaret, moved in with their little son, Ansel, who was only a few years younger than James’s son.
The two boys got along splendidly, but the same could not be said for the cousins. Problems arose when Adam’s brother reached out to the two homeowners in need of some support. His wife Eleanor, the crazed, they called her. She gave birth to a daughter so sick and weak that it was hard to tend to anything. Pamela was three years old and unable to walk or feed herself. She was wheeled around and coughed incessantly.
Allowing Thatcher to move in with his mad wife and sick child, the families fell into complete disarray. Arguments spewed about family ties and where loyalties out to lie. Meanwhile, the absence of Eleanor’s mind seemed to fall to the background. She was mad even before the house. When she was a child she was volatile and possessive. Her mannerisms, wild and reckless, were shamed throughout all of town. Thatcher ideal to marry her was because of her wildness, but he soon found that marriage was not suited for the wild. She had countless affairs and rumours were that Pamela was so sick because her mother had sinned so scornfully against their God.
James attempted to remove Thatcher and his wife from the estate, but to avoid a scandal, Thatcher promised his brother, Adam full control of the estate if he assisted in disposing of the oldest cousin. Thatcher and Adam formed an alliance that eventually brought the murder of their eldest surviving cousin. Their murder, however, extended to his twelve-year-old son, who was set to inherit the house.
Thus the legend of the Cousin Killers was birthed.
PART SEVEN
A WOMAN IN RULE
Adam, riddled with guilt over owning the house, ripped apart the rooms in which his cousin had slept and boarded up the rooms in which were deemed ‘the favourite’ and closed off the house to staff. The house became dark and dirty and one day Adam never left his room. He was found dead four days later with a poisoned brandi in the grip his dead hands.
Thatcher took control of the house and adopted his brother’s son Ansel. His own daughter’s health still deteriorating, Thatcher thought to take Ansel and call him his own and continue his succession through his brother. Except that, his wife was still mad and fear struck her when Thatcher suddenly took over. Fearing that he might murder her and her daughter like he did his cousin, Eleanor Cromwell had him trampled by the horse in a ‘horrible accident’.
Eleanor was the only surviving adult to reign over the Ramsay estate. Her cripple daughter suddenly grew strong and Eleanor saw it as a sign. A sign to stop it there-- let her be healthy and not let her falter anymore. That night she called her daughter up the an unfinished room off of the library. She locked her daughter there and never went back up. Pamela’s crippled body is still festering in the attic above, unknown to the occupants of the Ramsay House.
Eleanor lived to be a very old woman her adopted soon took care of her up until she died. She stayed in the bedroom marked for the sick and elderly and yelled at servants that no longer walked around the Ramsay Halls. Servants had been there since Thatcher had them all sent away. She died alone, calling out for her daughter, who was watching from the space above and grinning.
PART EIGHT
THE LAST RAMSAY
Ansel moved his family out of the Ramsay House. He returned to the birthplace of the Ramsay dynasty: England. His son married a British woman and had a British son, called Andrew. The line ended there. No more stories were written and no more accounts were found. The Ramsay’s disappeared and so did the house’s terror. But the town still remembers. The entire town knows the stories of the Ramsay House and whoever you might ask, whoever you might see, they all have a different story to tell you about the Ramsay House… all the same and yet all different. The Ramsay House is truly a place of evil.
I hope you all had an amazing summer