Phantom Writer

[Phantom Writer @MysteryStory]

Counting down 12 and across 15 brought me right to the stone with the strange marking. I went in for a closer look...

[Phantom Writer @MysteryStory]

I could see something on one of the stones in the wall I was looking at, what if 12:15 was a grid reference, not a time of day?

[Phantom Writer @MysteryStory]

I arrived at 12:15 nobody at all arrived for over an hour. I sat on part of the old ruin and stared over my grandfather's favourite view...

[Phantom Writer @MysteryStory]

There was only one way to find out. It was 1:30am now so the next 12:15 would be noon, I had to chance it. I showered and tried to sleep

[Phantom Writer @MysteryStory]

The message read: Tintagel Gridwall, sea view, 38 by 27 stones - 12:15. What happens at 12:15? Could it be 12:15 up at the castle today?

[Phantom Writer @MysteryStory]

I removed the elastic band and unrolled the paper. It was a page torn out of a small note pad with a message scribbled on it.

[Phantom Writer @MysteryStory]

I stood on the bed and slowly unfastened the light fitting. Sure enough there was something rolled up with an elastic band. I reached in...

[Phantom Writer @MysteryStory]

While staring into space I noticed the silhouette of something in the glass orb style light shade on the ceiling. A small tube maybe?

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[Phantom Writer @MysteryStory]

I looked everywhere, bed side tables, under the bed, in the bins, every single draw and found nothing. Frustrated, I collapsed on the bed.

[Phantom Writer @MysteryStory]

After two hours in the car and heavy rain, I arrived at the hotel and checked in. Could there be something hidden in the room I wondered?

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I was about to hang up but I had a thought, what about a reservation for Simmonds, my grandfather's name? There was a booking for tonight!

[Phantom Writer @MysteryStory]

Somewhat puzzled, I called the hotel and asked if they had and reservations or messages in my name. No luck.

[Phantom Writer @MysteryStory]

Our grandparents would take us there often. My grandfather adored painting the landscape views from the castle

[Phantom Writer @MysteryStory]

The address was a hotel near Tintagel Castle, Cornwall on the South West English coast. My sister and I used to vistit there as kids...

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The card, business card size, had a logo depicting a blue angel on the back and an address on the front. An address I knew well...

[Phantom Writer @MysteryStory]

The print was of a woman sitting infront of a sunlit window wearing a flowing white dress. There were random dots and dashes on the skirt...

[Phantom Writer @MysteryStory]

It all started when I got an anonymous parcel in the mail containing a colour print of an oil painting and a card with an address on it...