#alfred bartlett

Harold Silvana, 04.06.2002, Pall Mall, London.

Harold worked in restoration and had been hired to work on the basement and ground floor of the Reform club - the work was supposed to be minimal, but due to the fragility of the building they had to take extra care in the work, which meant that it stretched into a week-long gig. They also had to schedule for strange hours because the venue was constantly busy.

At 2am one morning a teenager showed up. Harold was alone with his coworker Rachel Turley, and their other colleague Alfred Bartlett was out getting coffee. In leaving, he’d likely left the door open, and while Rachel and Harold stood chatting they noticed a thin figure in the doorway. He asked them if they’d found any of “Leitner’s pages” yet. This shocked them as they’d just been talking about Leinter as a businessman - who asked for consultation in his offices in pall mall in 1987. He had asked them to dig a hole in his office, and had shouted them out of the building when they stated they needed the building owner’s permission.

The teenager (later revealed to be Gerard) knocks out a fake wall, and the four of them eventually decide to investigate. The tunnels looked to be mid-19th century, and they realised it likely connected to where Jurgen had wanted them to dig. They came to a central chamber with 13 corridors, plus the one they’d come down. One felt like they were going to fall into it, one was incredibly dark, in the centre of the chamber was a datestone. It read “Robert Smirke, 1835, Balance and Fear”.

Suddenly, Gerard took off into one of the tunnels, Alfred followed close behind, and the other two soon chased after them. They chased him, only to find him sprinting back in their direction. He evaded them easily and disappeared back the way they came. Aflred screamed in the dark, and Harold noticed small bones clattering to the ground in the corridor. They found Alfred dead in a small room at the end of the corridor. He didn’t seem hurt. On his chest were more tiny bones. They left, calling the cops. Harold thinks he went down other corridors first, he has vague memories of other entities (the spider, the stranger, the dark, the desolation).

Notes: Alfred’s death was listed as a heart attack. Jon discusses Leitner’s reputation and his collection of antique books, and that likely some were stored in his old offices. He also mentions Robert Smirke (an architect)- and that Tim know a lot about him. Smirke’s buildings have a much higher percentage of paranormal sightings than other architects of similar profile. In the post-statement section, Jon leaves to find extinguishers to kill some silver worms, and in his absence Breekon & Hope deliver a zippo lighter with a spider design to Martin to give to Jon. Sasha worked on this case. This is also likely where Gerard got the bone book for his mother. 

Entities: All

Names mentioned:

Rachel Turley

Alfred Bartlett

Harold Silvana

Gerard Keay

Mary Keay

Jurgen Leitner