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Road?”
    “ Nothing!” I moaned.
    “ Not even with all the scientists and
their most advanced equipment?”
    “ But the paranormal scientists phoned
and told me of another major discovery at another nearby location.
While we had been investigating there it had been occurring at a
nearby hospital! There were reported encounters of something at the
Victoria Infirmary and in the middle of the night!”
    The two paranormal scientists checked out
the hospital and its hidden history and found sightings had
actually occurred there before, and before it had been built, and
they had given me a folder full of all the information to prove it
to me, and what fascinated me about it all was that all the major
occurrences seemed to occur on the same dates, and there was hardly
anything marked in between, and after going over it I noticed that
there were specific reoccurrences and the same lengths of time
between the occurrences.
    Yet, though I confirmed it, I could not
grasp what it meant! There was no sign proof of anything! Was it a
new form of haunting? And if so what the hell was happening?
    Even though it was the site of a large
famous battle, and massacre that could have caused such an
occurrence, and bodies could well be below there, or nearby, I
could not grasp what was actually happening, and really wanted
to.
    I investigated everything I could, and all
the information and history of the region, trying to grasp
something, and some clue, and found the main regions of the battle,
where I found the woman’s haunted flat and the hospital were
at.
    I wondered if it was the large amounts of
deaths, and how it had been executed, or if Mary Queen of Scots had
actually died there!
    What was incredible was I was starting to
realize and sense that what had occurred there could have been
another event, which occurred far further back in the past, before
what had happened there, centuries before, and it could have caused
the battle itself, and that something there had caused the battle
to take place.
    I decided to investigate it further and find
what had happened!
    I watched Marple playing with something
inside an envelope, and asked him, “What have you got?”
    “ It’s the 1568 map Dr Barrymore gave
me.”
    I curiously watched him play with it, and
realized he was happy about something, even though it was not the
discover of anything to do with the serial killer, and I sensed he
might tell me what it was, and I sat considering what it could
be.
    “ I’ve been searching through maps and
I have found one source with similar maps, as Dr Barrymore’s map,
which have been proven to have been made around 1568 …”
    I was surprised as I realized the date 1568
had been when Mary Queen of Scots had the battle at Langside, and
sat wondering why it was the exact date, and if the events were
linked or if it was just luck, and I recalled what happened and the
events.
    “ According to the history books,” I
replied, “the battle at the site of the woman’s house and the
hospital occurred at the same time as it!”
    “ Correct?” Marple instantly replied,
confused. “It was a clue!”
    “ So have you found something?” I
replied eagerly, seeking answers, and why he was so
joyful.
    “ Perhaps! If there is lost treasure! The lost jewels could
easily have been found by someone! If it exists! There are only a
few accounts of it! It was thought to exist there by only a few
explorers, who have carried out searches for it.”
    Marple handed
over an ancient map of Langside and I immediately scanned it and
searched where Queen’s Park was, and the rest of the hill and
wondered if someone could actually have hidden it away it the
park.
    “ So you
have found out something?” I moaned, depressed at the lack of
finding anything on the map.
    “ I’ve
recently located a form of map!” he gasped, trying to
rest.
    “ What do you want me to do?” I asked,
curiously.
    “ I discovered something of significant
importance that could be of great