Desolate and abandoned, the Old Farley Manor stands alone on a cliff overlooking the seaside town of Saltmarsh. Peoples of the small hamlet have noticed mysterious lights in the abandoned manor, but those brave enough to investigate have return touting eerie noises that lead many to believe the house haunted by its former owner, Old Man Farley. He was a collector of rare herbs and was known in the town as a rather creepy alchemist of sorts. Some speculate there is a small fortune left in the small mansion, but no one is brave enough to test the ghostly rumors.
In Detail:
Four miles east of Saltmarsh, just inland of the old coast road and looking out to sea, stands the Haunted House. Until twenty years ago it had been the residence of an aged alchemist/magician of sinister reputation, and even then had been shunned by reason of its owner’s mysterious occupations. Now, two decades after the sudden and unexplained disappearance of its occupant, the house has acquired an even greater air of evil and mystery with the passing years.
Dilapidated and now long-abandoned, the house presents an unwholesome appearance to the eye. Those hardy souls who have on infrequent occasion sought entry to it (for rumors of a secret hoard of alchemical gold have persisted since the old man’s disappearance) have all returned with naught save grim tales of decay presided over by monstrous perils. In more recent years there have been reports of fearsome hauntings-ghastly shrieks and eerie lights emanating from within the dismal place. Now not even the bravest dare so much as to approach the house, leave alone enter it. Indeed, such is the reputation of the house that the fields around it, though prime agricultural land, remain untended and rank with weeds
