This is just... so far beyond the realms of bizarre that I'm .. stuck for words.
It's not just bones though, there's four little trinket-type things in there with it.. offerings? mementos?? and the whole thing's on a little bed of... get this.. HAIR.
Human hair, I think - loads of matted clumps, like you find in a hairbrush or that gets caught around the hoover spools.
The little objects are an aged mustard spoon, a brass button, a tiny pearl and a 5 cent French coin.
The coin is especially useful, as it dates the creature - 1917.
I think I'm beginning to be able to connect a few dots... it's getting more and more strange, yet exciting.
1. There's essentially a whole graveyard under the house, which shows that these creatures have been around for a good half a century, at the LEAST.
2. They seem to have developed complicated customs involving burying their dead that seem to indicate a strong famial or community-based attachment. This makes me think they are far more intelligent than your standard rodent, perhaps even self-aware
3. Yet to have survived so long in what seems to be an isolated group/area is very surprising and baffles me.. I keep coming back to what Mr. Lyman said in passing in that first conversation.. about Mr Kimball leaving his possessions 'to the pixie folk'.. Maybe he was aware if them, and how special they are. That would explain the (justified!) wariness of dogs, and the fact I was unwaware of them until his death - they would have to come looking for food if he was no longer a source..
hmmm... I need to know more; the curious part of me wants to rip up the floorboards and hunt them down, but at the same time I don't want to disturb this habitat of theirs that has provided their home for so long...
All I know is that I must find out more. I want to go back to the basement and have a proper look, see if I can find any evidence for any of this. It would be great if I could find a better-preserved body as well...
This is INSANE, seriously.
ReplyDeleteI can't believe all these rodents have been burried in little coffins... it's like something you'd get on the sci-fi channel..!
I reckon that your old landlord was doing it. The new guy said he was a bit funny right? And all that stuff about pixies, it's possible he thought they were some kind of mystical being and buried them himself with little mementos he's collected.
but that HAIR!!! that baffles me. it's SO GROSS!!