Bram Stoker wrote about the story of Dracula, a man who had died
only to come back as a vampire. Here is one he never wrote. See how
many areas of Babergh you can find in this very short story.
Officially there are 15 but there may be more
This story starts with a series of unexplained incidents that
stretched the emergency services to their absolute limit and in a
moment of inspiration they sought advice from a mild energetic man
living in a house that was surrounded by high amp electric current
fencing, to protect the work that he was doing with electricity and
research for a university.
He had a granddaughter named Lindsey but everyone she knew
called her ‘Ley’ and because of her association with a suspect that
they had been watching, called Edward Stone, the police were
concerned for her safety. Edward was suddenly aware that someone
was following him and decided to make his move on Ley. A Friend of
his called ‘Ray’ donned stones clothes and led the police away from
Ley and at this point Edward invited Ley to his boat that he lived
on. When she boarded it, she noticed that everything was perfect,
all was matching in the same wood, and all the decoration was
matching, except for one thing, a large pine wood box. It seemed so
out of place and made her wonder why it was ever there. Edward saw
her look at it and explained that it was a new toning machine to
tone up his muscles. He shot Ley a look and then thought he saw
movement in the trees beside them. Then he saw a river cop docking
beside him and two police officers boarding his boat explaining
that although he was not arrested, they would like to talk to him
about a series of incidents and as he was mentioned in some
information they received the must be seen to act on it.
After they left a Crime Scene Officer came on board called
Nardia and almost immediately spoke to Ley about the cooking of
garlic, Ley looked at her and saw that behind her was her
Grandfather, she looked a him and then at Nardia and thought either
she could smell garlic or Nardia was imagining she could. They
looked in the box and saw 3 things, some soil, a wooden stake and a
crucifix. The Professor left the scene and asked to be taken back
to the station, where after listening to Edward, he said to him
that for everything he said, he would burst all of the lies wide
open with one foul swoop, and that the law shall prevail. He turned
to the Senior Officer and said;
“Let’s box Ted up in his box and then burn it, believe me! He is
more dangerous than you think and putting him in a cell will only
leave him to cause more chaos, he will not come back if we put him
in his box”.
For D.C.I Brent Eleigh this was a most difficult decision and he
decided to follow the rules of Law and take this individual to
court.
As time went on, the professors words were proved right, and the
day came when, after a long testimony by the Professor it was
decided to send Mr Stone back to the country he had left and
arranged an extradition order to Romania. The police took him back
to his boat to collect his personal effects and waited as he sat
down to pack his bag, they suddenly heard screaming and ran on to
the boat to find the Professor watching this man burn, after a few
seconds they looked again and saw nothing to ever show that the man
was there. They both looked at the Professor who said;
“He was a vampire; he was dead and had to be destroyed, to save
the world”. With that statement, he left and went back to his
granddaughter
Lindsey.