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That said, in medieval times peasants going missing wasn’t all that unusual. It is a bit concerning that a bunch of peasants have gone missing over the years.

Our narrator takes much less notice of those stories.

There are other stories too, like graveyard stenches and wails and howlings.

Implication being, the boys in this family tend to kill their own fathers in order to be the boss of the joint.

According to rumours, the family in that house have a history of losing the men early, replaced by a ‘more typical scion’.

Norrys is the friend he lived with while the restoration was going on.

His friend, Norrys, learns before he dies that the place is built on top of some (ante-) Druid thing which would date back to the time of Stonehenge.

That said, a couple of years later he decided to devote himself to it. But his son’s return from the war distracted him from the restoration job. Narrator purchased Exham Priory in 1918.In the war, before he died, the son heard a few things about his own ancestry which had been lost within the lore of the family concerned.Basically, this narrator is all alone in the world. His only son died two years after returning injured from WW1.After that they all moved North where his mother had come from.Their home burned down when he was seven. Narrator lost everything in the civil war.It’s been studied for its interesting Gothic architecture.The crown took possession of the property after that.The only one left alive (the third son) is the narrator’s direct ancestor. There has been some horrible tragedy take place in this mansion.(Exham Priory.) See this post on Gothic tropes, including Gothic houses. The first person narrator has spent lots of time and money restoring an ancestral castle which has fallen into disrepair.See also: Will the Piltdown Man Hoax Finally be Solved? from Mysterious Universe WHAT HAPPENS IN THE STORY? These fragments consisted of parts of a skull and jawbone, said to have been collected in 1912 from a gravel pit at Piltdown, East Sussex, England. The Piltdown Man was a hoax in which bone fragments were presented as the fossilised remains of a previously unknown early human. “ The Rats In The Walls” is a great example of a story which has been woven out of an Urban Legend: The Piltdown Man. Other short stories that have had this same effect on me: “ Singing My Sister Down” by Margo Lanagan and “ The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson.Ī lot has already been said about “ The Rats In The Walls“, not least in the Wikipedia entry. Kingsley Amis said that this story achieves ‘a memorable nastiness’. I Moved To A NEW HOUSE, BAD IDEA - Horror Dark Web Stories - Creepy Story Time Videos - Darkpedia