This year is 1646,
Matthhew Hopkins has arrested 3 women in Hemsby, for the crime of witchcraft. As with many such arrests, there was no real evidence, but that never stopped the determined Mr Hopkins! The trial took place, and all three were accused by various townsfolk, with no one standing up to any of the ridiculous charges being presented. While two of the woman sobbed hysterically at the thought of the gruesome fate was to befall them, the third woman, Annalise Shaw, was consumed by a murderous rage.
She stared at the assembled villagers, knowing that each had benefitted for her potions and brews she had concocted. Not one of them spoke in her defence. On the day of her execution, Annalise defiantly addressed the crowd. ‘Your silence may have condemned me, but it has also condemned you! I guarantee that you will not have seen or heard the last of me, and I will make sure every one of you will suffer for your complicity in my death’.
Annalise continued her threats even as the fire licked the bottom of her dress, and she screamed obscenities until the fire had burnt her lungs. In the years that followed, crops failed, animals died of disease, and more disturbingly, people have gone missing. Men, women and children have all vanished without a trace. This has continued for the last few centuries, and in the 80s, a butcher was convicted after it was discovered that not all the meat in his shop was from animals…..
He claimed that a spirit told him to do it, and that the ghostly woman had tormented him ever since he went to a cornfield in Hemsby… There is now a cornfield where the execution site was positioned. Mysterious sightings still take place, and people still go missing.
