Our story begins in 1903 with Dr. Blake from Miskatonic University in Arkham, Essex County, Massachusetts. Dr. Blake was assigned by his University to write an article to investigate the Old Greybriar House and the mystery around the murders that had occurred. It has been 10 years since the famous 1893 murder that occurred at the Old Greybriar House. The story goes that a trespasser was found dead in the barn, a pitchfork driven through his skull. Nobody knows exactly what occurred that night, but they believe that Hiram Greybriar’s ghost did it. Dr. Blake took interest in this story as he is a skeptic of any supernatural activity and wanted to get to the bottom of what happened that night. It is 7 pm on a windy and rainy night and the crew has just arrived at the Old Greybriar House. “I guess this is it.” Says Dr. Blake. “The legendary Old Greybirar House, let’s see what all the drama is about.”
The house from the outside obviously shows its age, windows all shattered, paint color all washed away, cobwebs everywhere, overrun by weeds, and an overall eerie vibe given off. Dr. Blake pulls out his camera and begins to survey even more of the property. Blake sees a young man walking on the other side of the street from the house and decides to approach him. “Excuse me young man do you know anything about the murder that occurred here 10 years ago?” The boy with a shuttered look and a glazed look in his eyes responds with a clear short “Yes.” Dr. Blake with a concerned look asks, “Can you tell me anything you know about this house and what happened hear?” The boy slowly nods his head and then responds. “I used to live across the street from here. My older brother was dared by a couple of his classmates to try to spend the night at the Old Greybriar House. The house was thought to be abandoned after all the previous owner widow Hiram Greybriar committed suicide there after her husband had died in a car accident.
Many other high school students had chickened out on the dare, because they thought the house was haunted. My brother wasn’t afraid though. The night was getting late, so all the other classmates went home after my brother had been in the house a while and seemed like he was fine. It was around 4 am when out of the complete silence of the night we heard a blood curdling scream. My family all rushed over to see what had happened only to find my older brothers was dead. There were no witnesses, no suspects, and no leads. The local police force had given up. They could not find any evidence of who caused my brother's death, but all the locals think it was the ghost of Hirm Greybriar who killed him.” Blake looking visibly concerned looks to the boy and says, “Thanks for the help son.” The boy replies, “Your welcome, I better get home it is getting late.” Blake goes back to looking around the house for evidence. He eyes back to the house at one of the windows and sees a shadowy figure. He sees what looks to be a shadowy figure. Blake squints to see what is behind the window.
Suddenly, a loud crack of lightning strikes near the house. Blake surprised by how the close the storm was falls to the ground in fear. Blake looks back up to the window to see woman that looks almost floating. Blake out loud screams, “That can’t be!” Blake sees that is the ghost of Hrim Greybriar not just standing there but holding a pitchfork pointed up with another impaled head. Blake’s entire body trembles as it looks like he sees his own head impaled on the pitchfork. The lightning strikes again, Blake looks away from the light, then back to the window. The ghost is gone, but the on the window in blood is written, “Leave Dr. Blake!” Blake sees this and screams while sprinting back to his car. Blake drove like his life depended on it and never returned to the Greybriar house! The house is said to be still haunted by the Greybriar ghost and will kill any trespassers.
- Many storytellers have given their own iteration and twist on the story
- a story of kings and queens and heroes and villains and a story of an all consuming war
- an account of how karma functions
- every result is based on what happened before and impacts what happens after
- shantanu asks ganga said yes
- Shantanu was made to promise to never question her.
- they became married
- She drowned their first child and she killed their next 6.
- He stepped in before she could kill the 8th.
- She explains
- she had been tasked to give birth to the 8 celestial spirits
- After telling him the truth she left him and took with her his one remaining son.
- 16 years after Ganga had left, Shantinu returned to where he met his past wife
- His wife appeared before him as he was shocked to see his son again who had become an amazing archer (Devarat)
- Shantanu brought back his son to the kingdom and made him a prince
- time passed and Shantanu fell in love with a different woman
- Shantanu was miserable
- Devarat went out to find the fisherman's daughter in an attempt to bargain
- Devarat went out and begged for the fisherman to have his daughter marry his father
- Devarat gave an oath and vowed to never marry and never have children
- He did this to make his father happy and he became Bhishma
- The father was not happy, but he was actually heartbroken and felt a sense of doom
- He was still proud of his son
- Bhisma kept his promise
- After his father passed Devarat acted as a father to his two step brothers
- three princesses are brought back after the death
- oldest sister named Amba was allowed to leave, but the other two had to stay
- King could not accept Amba as she was taken by a different man
- Amba accuses bishna of ruining her life
- Amba seeked out revenge
- Parashuram fought with Bhisma for 23 days
- they were evenly matched
- Parahuram ended up giving up
- Amba still wanted Bhisma dead and wanted to be the reason for his death
- King Vichitraviyra died due to illness
- the kingdom was left with no king or prince
- It was decided that Bhisma was to end his celibacy and become married with kids
- He refused
- Vyasa is summoned by his mother Satyavati
- She asked him to father the children of ambika and ambalika
- Vyasa was not a good looking guy
- Because Ambika closed her eyes when she layed with Vyasa the child would be born blind
- Ambalika turned pale with fear when Vyasa too her, he tells her that her child will be born pale and will have poor health
- Amabalika asks for another chance, but she sends a servant girl in her place
- The servant girl accepted him with no fear
- All 3 women gave birth
- Vidura was the child of the servant
- Bhisma raised the 3 boys
- there was an unspoken rivalry between the 3 brothers
- blind Dhritrashtra became king
- Pandu had no ill feelings, but Pandu was supposed to be the king
- Gandari blind folded herself for life to marry Dhritrashtra and they would both be blind
- Gandari wanted to repair this injustice that had occurred in his eyes
