| The Man of Her Dreams!!!!!! |
| In the city of Liverpool,England in 1927, a wealthy factory-owner named Samuel Devlin bought a large masion on Edge Lane, near to what is now the Devonshire Hotel. Mr.Devlin seemed to be a man without a past. He never mentioned where he was from, and spoke in an educated voice devoid of a regional accent. All we Know is that he owned a string of factories across Lancashire and Cheshire but the early origins of his wealth were never determined. He was very tall and boyishly handsome, of indeterminate age, with a full head of raven black hair, although his complecion was pale and anaemic. His eyes, which were of an unusual dark emerald color, were said to be hypnotic. Some maintained that Devlin was in his fifties, but he didn't look a day over 35. During September 1927, Mr.Devlin held a ball for the high society of Liverpool in his palatail home, and the champagne party went on until four in the morning. Most of the men had paired off with girls left, but Mr. Devlin remained alone in the mansion, supervising the cleaning up after all the merrymaking. Two women- Ann Ryan and Enid Johnson who were both 21 years of age, had been hired as cleaners, and both of them were quite attractive-looking. Mr. Devlin paid the girls for cleaning up after the partygoers, but then he made a very lewd suggestion to the duo. The girls were disgusted at his rude suggestion and got ready to leave. Mr.Devlin was furious, and in a grim voice he told the girls " You'll be very Sorry." The girls left in a hurry. Ann went home to Stamford Street, and her friend went home in CotsWold Street. Both of these streets are off Holt Road in the Kensington area of Liverpool. That night, the two girls had terrible vivid nightmares about being chased by a man in black who wore a mask. It looked like the mask a highwayman would wear. In the dream, the man in black caries a bayonet amd threatened he was going to slit the girls throats. Throughout the dream, the girls were running from the masked maniac, and when they woke up they would be out of breath, as if they really had been running. Sometimes when the girls woke up in the middle of the night, they were unable to move for a long period of time. How two girls living so far apart could have the exact same nightmare is a mystery, but the dreams went on for two months. The girls would dread going to bed, and would try and fight the onset of sleep. They became so distressed, the girls told a nun named Susan from a convent near Edge Lane about a week, but came back with a vengeance. Enid dreamt that the man in black had hold of her and was trying to cut her throat with the bayonet, and in the struggle she ripped off the attacker's mask- and saw it was Mr. Devlin, who swore at her. She then woke up. Enid told Ann and the nun. Susan the nun confronted Mr. Devlin at his Edge Lane mansion and told him she thought he was a devil, and this os where the mystery takes a very weird turn. Devlin never replied to the nun's accusation, he simply threw her out of the house. Two day's later, four business associates of Samuel Devlin called at his mansion- and found it completely empty. In the attic, they found an old World War One bayonet and a black velvet mask with an elasticated band.The girls stopped having the wierd nightmares and years later a women in Brae Street told the nun she had suffered terrible nightmares about a masked man, and that the dreams were so realistic she had almost lost the baby she'd been carrying. The whole case was never satisfactorily solved. |
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