The Forgotten Ones (Book One)

Chapter 1: The Hamilton Family Murders

This story takes place in the year 1965, but the incident occurred in the year 1940, June 3rd to be exact. I will take you back to that night but from the family's point of view I spoke with them seventeen years ago, My name is Selena Lopez and I am a medium.

~June 3rd, 1940 (9:00 PM)~

Alice Hamilton- *Prepares dinner for her family*

William Hamilton- (Alice's husband of twenty-two years [m.1918]) "What are we having for dinner, dear?"

Alice- "Beef, potatoes, string beans, and rolls."

William- "Yum!, I will go check on the children."

The two married very young seventeen years old, and had their first child two years later. Barbara, John, Mary, Lois, and Steven, in order from oldest to youngest. (20, 17, 13, 8 and 4)

William- *Enters the family room* "Children, your mother is preparing dinner I will be in my study."

William was a journalist, a well-known one.

Barbara- "Father wait! I do not know if Mom told you, but Mary is at her friend's house "Lisa" She will be there until Sunday."

William- *Nods his head and heads upstairs to his study*

~9:30 PM~ (At the dinner table)

Lois- "John, what college are you going to be attending to get your degree in Forensics Science?"

John- "I think I know, but I still have ten months to decide, I am thinking of "Bryant University."

Alice- "That is a good one my cousin attended there she pursued a teaching degree. Fun fact; she retired from there around the early 1900s I was just a baby around that time."

~9:45 PM~ (A little while after laughter and great conversations)

Alice and Mary- *Cleaning the kitchen*

Everyone else was in their bedrooms getting ready for bed.

Alice- *Phoned her neighbor's house a few blocks away to check on her daughter Mary and to tell her goodnight.*

She was sleeping over at her good friend's house for her birthday.

~11:08 PM~

A window downstairs window was broken, it could not be heard they lived in a mansion!

Many people in our small town went missing men, women, and children. The Hamilton family mansion was half an hour from our town. Could those disappearances be connected to this incident?

Anyways back to this sad tragedy...

A man broke into the mansion! Was his intention to murder this family or to steal from them?

Poor little Lois was the first victim. He had woken up to get a glass of water.

The intruder heard him come down the stairs and snuck behind him to cover his mouth, but Lois tried to scream causing the intruder to slit his throat.

Lois- *Runs to the front door making it on the front porch before collapsing to his death.*

The intruder- *Scared* "What have I done?! It is over for me."

He took many valuables, made his way to the shed, took a gas can, and poured gasoline all over the stairs and at all entrances.

The mansion was engulfed in flames. Horrifying cries were heard.

Some died from the smoke others burned alive.

~The next day (7:30 AM) ~

Mrs. Andrews was an older woman who walked her dogs every morning.

She saw the mansion and fell to her knees, hurrying home to phone 9-1-1.

No survivors except little Mary who was not home at the time...

Mary had to move in with her aunt and uncle, she was later diagnosed with depression.