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The Bed of Evil Temora West Wyalong
« on: October 04, 2016, 11:07:54 AM »
Can a bed be evil? Can the soul of a sleeper soak into the very fabric and timber of a bed? Could negative emotions or past histories be recorded in such a piece of furniture?

Once such story I once heard was from a large homestead out western N.S.W. The owner was rather prominent in the Liberal country party and had a rather long established well to do family with a history in sheep farming. He had graduated in Sydney university as rather prominent lawyer. His story omits the name of the true identity of himself, under fear at the time of public ridicule of relating such events that believed to have taken place around 1925.

Yet the time came when the lure of becoming a gentleman farmer arose and a  burning desire to return to ones county roots saw this lawyer fed up with city life head back to country to take over his parents large sheep farm. Which in itself was quite a considerable operation. The Jewel in crown with this country estate was farmstead itself a rambling 8 bedroom mansion all on one level. Surrounded by a wide veranda almost on all sides.

The Lawyer having acquired a taste for luxury items acquired exotic antique furniture from his travels in Europe. This Was I believe some time in the 1920's between the two world wars. The sheep station Farmstead was lavished with exotic antique furniture by the Lawyer and his wife.

One such item was beautiful carved Gothic timbered 4 poster bed. It had allegedly came out of one of the castles from Eastern Europe. Others claimed it was from Italy? The timber was of a highly polish dark ebony timber with chubs, gargoyles of top of each of the four posts to the lower section coiled around the post carve snakes and strange imp like cherubs interlocking their hands like doing a dance around the maypole. To carved wooden dragons on the bed frame. And the bedhead had some beautiful carved landscape Gothic hunting scene hunting a strange man beast with a castle in the distance arranged around an almost hidden pentacle in the carved image. The top of the fourposter bed was a huge canopy laced with dark purple black velvet stretched over a timber frame with a strange half man beast images peering down on you as you lay of the bed.

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Re: The Bed of Evil Temora West Wyalong
« Reply #1 on: October 04, 2016, 09:33:22 PM »
Here is a picture posted below of how the bed may of looked.

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Re: The Bed of Evil Temora West Wyalong
« Reply #2 on: October 11, 2016, 01:08:52 PM »
It was a large somewhat ugly but magnificent beast of a bed to say the least. What inspired him to buy it, He had bought it rather cheap as the bed regardless was a craftsman piece of art in all its Gothic glory. It appeared to be very old? Perhaps 2 -3 hundred or maybe 400 years old? Remembering still how the vendor was so thankful of buying the bed off him.

Yet buy it he did despite his wife’s wishes as she herself had taken and instant disliking to it from day one. The bed was regulated to the guest room of the sheep station with other exotic furniture collected in his travels. There it stayed until....

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Re: The Bed of Evil Temora West Wyalong
« Reply #3 on: October 11, 2016, 01:09:45 PM »
The day came when the wives father came to visit, He only stayed a few days cutting his stay short claiming rather embarrassed that he was not feeling well? The lawyer and his wife were rather a little disappointed by the wives fathers visit cut short due to sudden unexpected  illness. On the day of his arrival he had seem perfectly well.

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Re: The Bed of Evil Temora West Wyalong
« Reply #4 on: October 11, 2016, 01:12:05 PM »
Months later the lawyers son arrived to visit back from London were he was studying to be a doctor. His stay was short also. When asked the reason why his stay was short by his father? The Son said he was rather embarrassed as he was having very vivid and lucid nightmares sleeping in the bed.

The Lawyer other son who had been working on the sheep station had been living in another bedroom of the house, out of curiosity stayed a night sleeping on the bed in the room only awake screaming the bed was alive.

This as you could imagine by now set tongues wagging around the sheep station that this rather grandiose Gothic bed was haunted. But the lawyer,, a man of science would not hear of it such nonsense.

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Re: The Bed of Evil Temora West Wyalong
« Reply #5 on: October 11, 2016, 01:14:02 PM »
Until his son challenged him to sleep one night in the bed. You could imagine the tension between father and son over the matter. Yet the Lawyer was practical man if he proved to the family and servants he could spend the night in the bed that he would bust this myth about this expensive antique Gothic bed being haunted.

And thus began this unusual experiment with the supernatural way out on a country sheep station in rural N.S.W. On the night of this journey into Dante's inferno on an experiment in sleeping with the dead. The lawyer arranged for his head station hand and his son to sleep in turn in the adjoining bedroom while one of them keep awake.

But as with all good plans like all good country lads the young men both fell asleep. Unbeknown to the Lawyer who sat in the bed for the first time now smug in his own self righteous, that after a good nights sleep he would put this tom foolery to bed, pardon the pun , for once and for all.

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Re: The Bed of Evil Temora West Wyalong
« Reply #6 on: October 11, 2016, 01:16:35 PM »
As he stared into the cackling wood fire from the bed he drifted off into sleep himself. However as you imagine his slumber was not as peaceful as expected? At first he drifted off into normal dreams one has. But as the lucid dream went on the lawyer became something else as the was being hunted as his heart raced. There he was running over forested mountain slopes with men on horses chasing him as he panted running through a dark Romanian forest.

Most terrifying of all he realized he was not human at all but of some thing else covered in hair. And with that realization it awoke him with a start.

But was he awake? As the sensation of being paralyzed racked his body realizing only his eyes could move. Staring up at the canopy of bed which seemed in the dark much taller, like  if he was lying on the forest floor and posts where tall trees around him.

Then came the sensation of his arms and legs being pulled in the four directions of these treelike bedposts who seemed tree like figures. The sensation of him floating like stretched out between each bedposts and strange garbled unintelligible sounds of voices whispering in his ears, coming from all around him. The curtains of bed now seemed like a host of shadow people whispering over the fate of their captor. And the captor was him.

The imps and cherubs on the bedpost all turned and stared at him in a evil grin of glee in anticipation of some terrible fate to come? The snakes on the bed posts had come alive and weaved themselves around his arms and legs leaving him with his legs and arms stretched out in star fashion between the bedposts. His heart pounded like if his chest was going explode as he floated up stretched out between the four bedposts paralyzed awaiting some thing terrible to happen?

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Re: The Bed of Evil Temora West Wyalong
« Reply #7 on: October 11, 2016, 01:37:23 PM »
Then he heard a demonic laughter of some one or some thing. A image of a man dressed as a monk but with no face with a mallet and wooden stake, started to insert the  wooden stake into his rectum. Somewhere in his brain he realized what was happening? He remembered in history class telling of terrible executions done in the 15th century Romania of people being impaled on long wooden stakes and left to die a horrible slow agonizing deaths.

But mercy came as on the point of impact as he screamed loud enough to wake the devil himself. His Son and Station hand awoke as well as the household awoke with such a start they raced into the room where the lawyer had slept. They gaped with horror as they saw the Lawyer floating in between the four bedposts only to fall back into the bed on his back as they opened the windows and doors to let the early morning light in. The snakes and Cherubs and gargoyles slivered back into place on the bedposts.

That morning the shocked and traumatized lawyer ordered all the farmhands to instantly dismantle the Gothic bed as it was an abomination of God. They dragged the old antique bed on the lawn of station homestead and poured gasoline over it and set it alight. As it burned the ancient carved timber roared with horrible screeching and screaming noises, like if some one was being burned to death.

Thus ended the curse of the Bed of Evil and the story was passed down through the family as their own private horror story to the events they had witnessed. The Lawyer forbid anything to be said of the story. Until years later one of sons wrote a letter to the newspapers. and I believe a story version of it was published as time went by.

Urban or rural legend I leave that to you as always.... But indeed regardless if such a event happened or not . The story defies our preconceived notions asking the question can evil infest inanimate objects and manifest such evil memories of a dark past?

I sadly only have questions as the answers are out there for those daring to seek.

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