A house in Liverpool has sparked everyone's curiosity and fear as it carries with it a mysterious warning and a curse telling people to not touch the pictures affixed to its front gates.
An Abandoned House In Liverpool Has A 'Curse' At The Gates
There are many abandoned houses in the world and all of them creepy. This one however decided it needed to up the ante.
An abandoned cottage that leads next to a popular garden site, it sees a lot of passersby that barely even notice it while on their journeys.
Number 43 of Southwood Road is the last house before the woods begin and is clearly derelict. It’s grounds now overgrown with bushes and thorns and the gates secured with a locked chain.
It is evident that there was once a fire here and the front door has been boarded up.
There is however more to the creepiness than the fire damage.
A mysterious picture rests on the locked gates with an eerie message underneath. It is a picture of a smiling woman and allegedly her last will and testament.
She peers on at the world as the ominous words ‘Whoever removes this from its position will receive 48 hours of regret’ send a warning to any who might dare touch it.
The word ‘Kanmah’ also appears on the page multiple times.
If one were to move towards the other side of the cottage, there is another picture of the same woman with different messages. ‘Remain loyal to you Paula.’ And ‘Extraordinary person who will live on.’
Signed at the bottom is ‘To Kanmah, your loyal servant.’
Many have speculated about the history of the house and found out that the owners of the house were ‘Arthur Robert McKay and Paula Marjatta McKay'. It appears that this is the same Paula from the picture.
Having bought the house in 1977, they lived there with their son Erik who later died in the same house when he was 57.
An obituary read, "Aged 57 years, peacefully at home. Funeral service to take place at Springwood Crematorium (Rosemary Chapel) on Monday 25th November 2019, 2.30pm followed by interment at Allerton Cemetery. Will be sadly missed by all who knew him."
The Liverpool Echo managed to track a friend down who revealed that he had originally lost touch and only found out of Erik’s death many years later.
He revealed that Erik had a troubled life when his father who worked in the Train Police had passed away when he was little, leaving Paula and Little Erik in the house.
"Erik and his mum were together for a long time, he was quite well known in south Liverpool - not everyone liked him but we always got on, he was my friend.
"We used to play in the big cottage garden, shooting targets with air rifles."
Commenters speculated that it was perhaps just someone who was heartbroken and wanted to preserve their memories forever.
Another was concerned about the interest that people had into someone else's private life.
Mostly commenters thought that the entire story was ridiculous and not to be taken too seriously.