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After a suspiciously detailed Ghost Tour through the Old Withers Manor, tourists were unsettled when tour guide Paxton Humphrey knew a little too much about the gruesome murder that took place in the manor to not have been there.
“This is the very spot where the sisters Margaret and Lorraine Withers clung to the bannister, begging for their lives as the killer swung his vintage, collector’s 1926 Scout Ax at their heads,” said Humphrey, reenacting the proper ax swing form like he had been the ax-wielding murderer there on the day of the crime. “No one truly knows how the murderer had entered the manor, but I can personally tell you there was a slightly ajar window on the third floor that if you scaled the garden lattice and swung yourself up the window ledges the murderer could have easily snuck into unnoticed.”
“The murder had no witnesses and the killer was never caught, but you can trust me when I say, blood was everywhere,” continued Humphrey, gazing at his hands almost as if they had once been coated in the blood of the Withers Sisters. “The blood poured over the bannister, cascading down onto the foyer below, smelling slightly of Margaret’s sweet potato pie she used to bake as a child.”
“Today, the ghosts of Margaret and Lorraine Withers still roam these very halls biding their time to seek revenge on the man who ended their lives so tragically,” stated Humphrey as a nearby vase levitated and smashed into the wall just shy of Humphrey’s ear. “We may never know who committed these crimes that day, but what we do know is that the killer probably had his reasons.”
At the end of the Ghost Tour, Humphrey sharpened his vintage, collector’s 1926 Scout Ax on the kitchen sharpening stone.
