First of all, I am extremely sorry for not updating in like, ages. It has been like, what, one month? Two? And what else, I don't even have a good reason for not updating. You all must be waiting eagerly for the answer, right? ...feel free to yell at me.

But hey, look at the bright side: I got a break from writing! Lame, I kno. But, whatever.

So like every time, CRSW brings a mystery for YOU to solve. Ready, all of you lovely people?

Go solve!

Oopsie, we've forgotten this: The answer for the previous riddle is:

The wife died, and because the pilot HAD to do something to survive, he cooked the corpse of the wife. Whose leg was infected. Was he effin' insane!?

And the detectives who got it right: Everyone. Oh please. I'm dead tired from doing research for a sxhool assignment. I've been so busy, I forget to breathe! And the teachers are not being supportive at all! So basically, I'm doomed... to get dark circles under my eyes.

It was raining very heavily that night.

When we arrived at the spot, I stopped the car in front of the tunnel, and parked temporarily. My friends and I had heard a number of rumors and legends about the area being haunted.

They said if you drove your car through the tunnel at night, strange things would happen. We had come to test our courage and see if the rumors were true.

There was an eerie and forboding atmosphere in the air. The place was quite remote and not many cars came down this way. It didn't look the way you would expect a haunted place to look.

After a while, I started the car again and slowly advanced into the tunnel. It was the first time I had experienced something like this and I felt a strange mixture of excitement and fear.

My friends were smiling from ear to ear like children on an amusement park ride.

We drove very slowly, hoping something would happen, but we reached the end of the tunnel without experiencing anything supernatural. My friends were disappointed. They had been staring out the windows, watching the walls of the tunnel expectantly.

"Let's go through again," I said. Everyone agreed and I made a U-turn at the end of the tunnel.

Once again, we didn't notice anything out of the ordinary. We drove back and forth a few times before we started to grow bored.

The rhythm of the falling rain on the roof of the car was becoming annoying.

After about three or four round-trips, Max said, "Come on guys, let's go home."

I thought he was probably right, after all it was getting boring. But there was something strange about the tone of his voice.

Just before we came to the tunnel exit, I stopped the car and looked back. I noticed that Max was shivering as if he was very cold.

The others noticed too and stared at him in surprise.

"Hey, what's wrong, Maxie?" Tyson asked.

"Did you see something?" Kai enquired.

"Let's just get out of here," he said, his hands trembling.

The rain was getting heavier and more intense. The raindrops bouncing off the car bonnet made a harsh sound. I decided to find somewhere nearby where he could calm down. We drove out of the tunnel and turned onto the highway.

There was a family restaurant at the side of the road, so I pulled into the parking lot and brought the car to a stop. Max finally settled down.

"Alright," I turned to Max. "Now can you tell us what you saw?"

"You didn't hear it?" he asked, giving us a questioning look.

"What was it?" asked Tyson curiously. "Some kind of mysterious sound? A strange voice?"

We had no idea what Max was talking about.

"I couldn't hear anything above the noise of the rain," I replied.

"Then you heard it, too!" he said in a loud voice. He sat forward and his eyes grew wide.

"Just tell us," we demanded impatiently. "What were we supposed to hear?"

After a long silence, he spoke quietly, "It was the rain," he said. "The sound of the rain…"

So, as we're done with this, I'm going back to my research and knight-in-brown-armour caffeine.

Vut this mystery is yours alone to solve. We're getting this story back on track, and CRSW will be back with the answer and another riddle next Friday.

Till then, take care and keep sending in the love :)

CRSWoodferns~