So, this will be quite a whale of a tale, eh? Basically after watching various shows like Ghost Hunters and Robin Hood, I thought: 'Hey, what if a bunch of ghost hunters went to a newly Nottingham castle to investigate the hauntings occurring at the place, and bonus points being that someone makes an appearance in the story as well as a counterpart of that same character!' and thus, this was born! and as for who it would be...how about a certain...henchman? *winks*
warning: nothing in this ghost story for now, but it will get pretty spooky!
disclaimer: I only own the story and my OC's, not any Robin Hood characters or Nottingham castle, if I did, it's being redecorated YESTERDAY!
Chapter 1: The rundown and history of Nottingham castle
For Alice Gregory and her crew of fellow ghost hunters and other scholars of paranormal science and history, getting to explore Nottingham castle itself as well as staying there for the night was the equivalent of a child getting what they most desired for Christmas, it was an exciting thing for her to do. "Oh, this is going to be exciting, a night at Nottingham castle!" she squealed excitedly as they were traveling by car to where Nottingham castle had been rebuilt as much as it could. "I think this is going to be very scary, very insane….I mean at Nottingham castle, where it's said that the spirits of the occupants as well as the prisoners of the place still linger even now." Her partner and best friend Kaitlyn had pointed out as she was adjusting her cameras for their nightly stay at the haunted castle. She noticed one of her male crew members, Ben Jeffries, checking on the equipment and recorders that they needed to document proof of various spirits and entities occupying the castle. "The only way we'll know is if we use these babies to capture everything from temperature changes to thermal imaging!" he informed them as they took a turn off the freeway to Nottinghamshire, for Alice, going to England from the US was pretty cool in itself, seeing the sights and shops, but the best part were the castles, like Windsor castle, Cerrickfergus castle, and even Stirling castle. "You guys are insane, but I love you all the more for it!" Jasmine 'Jazz' Cormon had crowed as they pulled up to the parking lot where the newly restored Nottingham castle was standing. "This is going to be an insane night at the castle." Ben groaned, getting out of the van as they started unloading it after turning it off and parking it.
They went to the castle turned museum doors and met up with the historians, a man and woman who looked to be in their early 50s and dressed for the chilly autumn cold. "Hi, Alice Gregory, we spoke on the phone!" she called out before shaking their hands. "How do you do, Ms. Gregory, I'm Helen Boxley, and this is my husband, Geoff." She introduced herself and her husband as Alice shook hands. "So, what's so haunted about this castle that there's got to be signs further underground, like passed the dungeons?" Alice asked as they started browsing the castle a bit. "Well, it's said that the ghost of the Sheriff of Nottingham or his master at arms haunts the deeper parts of Nottingham castle, it's the master at arms' story that's arguably the most tragic of all despite most arguments to the contrary." Geoff began as he told the rest of the story. Guy of Gisborne, a French/English nobleman turned homeless boy turned master at arms with lands that were handed to him, had the worst childhood, nearly hanged for something he didn't commit on top of having a father with leprosy who had to be banished from the village, and rumors circulated that Guy's mother and Robin's father were secretly seeing each other which had cumulated in an illegitimate son who had to be sent away for safety, and having it crash down because of a fire that killed everyone inside. "Wow…so, what happened with Guy and his sister after all that happened?" Jazz asked, very intrigued by the story as we went to what looked like the feasting hall in the castle. "Guy and his sister were exiled from England to France where Guy had to sell his sister as a bride out of desperation and that they were homeless to top it off, but there was no way he'd known that his soon to be brother-in-law behaved like typical medieval husbands did, cruel, abusive and at times unfaithful drunkards." Helen explained as Ben looked at the tapestries that were in the back wall where the nobles would sit.
"On top of that, Robin of Locksley, as he had been called at the time, came back from what could be now known as Israel to find the Sheriff of Nottingham, a cruel and sadistic fellow indeed, taxing the poor out of every coin they had in their house, not to mention their teeth, and Robin had ultimately refused to accept that sheriff as a guardian of Nottinghamshire and was outlawed as a result of this, and Guy happily got the lands rather permanently…" Geoff continued as it went on, with how Marian was the center of the most deadly and forbidden love triangles in England's history, Marian of Knighton was a stubborn and a 'modern woman stuck in the medieval times' kind of woman as she was fighting for her people and country, Guy was pretty much arrogant, a bit sexist, misunderstood, insecure, and was power-hungry as well as greedy, all stemming from that childhood, and how it all came to a dramatic end when in the holy land, Marian finally revealed who she really was to Guy and in a fit of rage, had stabbed the woman he claimed to love fatally and Robin Hood had been barely married before she had died from her wounds. "While I don't condone leading Guy of Gisborne on in terms of getting information, I mean he was crazy about this woman and wanted to marry her…he was close the first time around, Guy was no better, I mean I wouldn't want to marry a guy obsessed with money and power on top of being somewhat sexist and arrogant, god no!" Jazz had shuddered at the thought as it continued on to where Guy eventually joined the very bunch he had tried to kill off after the truth about their childhood was revealed to them and they had been in a siege of the castle when Sheriff Vasey was still somehow alive and how a great deal died, including Robin, Isabella, Alan, and Guy. "I'd say he's the example of a very complicated man who went through bad times and wants to feel self-respect because the only reason he was doing those things was because he had no father figure in his life other than the Sheriff himself, and…yeah he's a very complex man indeed!" Ben commented as they got to the prisons, now lit with some electric lights that had been installed in the place.
"And here we are today, at the newly restored Nottingham castle." Alice had concluded as they went to the kitchens where Helen had mentioned that Guy had a child with one of the kitchen hands, but as for whether or not the Gisborne bloodline had continued was a totally different mystery in itself as it probably faded with time passing. "Yes, and if the nobles visited for a noble's luncheon or dinner, a grand feast would be laid out, roasting pig to name one of the many dishes put out for the nobles to feast upon!" Helen jovially explained as we noticed tapestries with birds on it before we explored where the living quarters normally were for those in the castle, the higher the floor for a room, the higher the ranking of that person residing or staying in the castle. "So where is the most haunted location in this castle?" Ben asked when we got to what looked like Guy's residential chambers, which was taped off. "That would be in the secret passageway towards the castle that Sheriff Vasey had built in paranoia after the failed attempt in the holy land to kill Richard the Lionhearted, the ones who were clearing the rubble from the castle remains had reported hearing swords clashing in the dead of the night and sounds coming from a male fellow with a deep voice while others reported seeing a tall entity who had made off an aura of someone who had a rough life and resigned to their fate." Geoff explained as Alice was getting excited.
"Whoa, seriously?!" Kaitlyn asked as surprised as Jazz was, to capture audio and video footage of this ghost would seriously be the ultimate jackpot for a ghost hunter anywhere. "They also mentioned that the ghost resides in a specific location in the newly repaired tunnel to the castle itself, like the remains may still be there, but they could have been turned to dust or even moved to a cemetery upon first discovering it." Helen added as Alice was getting excited about the nightly stay in the castle.
"I think this will be a scary, yet very exciting stay in Nottingham castle, to see an actual ghost of a resident of this very castle I'm standing in front of would be a spooky yet rewarding experience, so we better get to the hotel and get some shuteye before we get to the castle, because we're going to seriously need it." Alice talked to the camera crew who went with them before they all drove to the hotel they were staying at and checked in before hauling their things to their hotel room. "I don't know about you guys, but I'm getting pretty freaked the hell out about staying in that castle the whole blooming night! Encountering ghost and entities is one thing, we've felt a lot of them, but to see an actual ghost without a picture involved, holy god will that panic me!" Jazz had moaned before flopping on the bed. "Still, we better rest up for tonight, because we'll be in for a long night!" Kaitlyn had reminded the group before Ben got started checking on the equipment for tonight's investigation as the girls started climbing into the beds in their hotel room to rest up for the night as they were seriously going to need it. "Nottingham castle, here we go…" Alice yawned before she slept as did the girls and Ben after he checked over the equipment and found nothing wrong with those items. "I'm not sure which will be more traumatizing, the Tower of London or this place…." He said to himself worried before he went to sleep on the bed that folded out of the sofa near the TV.
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