urse From the Dead

ome time ago Baron Von Lodge was the head of a small country near Switzerland known as Lilliland.

There was one strange rumor that kept coming up and went in five-year cycles. The rumor that kept being repeated by the older member of Lilliland’s citizens was that there was a curse on the area that was occupied by the country known as Lilliland. All of Lilliland, that is. The curse was made by a man now dead, David Dalton. David Dalton lived many years long before Lilliland was founded. He was a farmer and his animals grazed all around the area since there were no fences to restrict them.

Many years before David Dalton passed away, he said that there was a curse on the land and that it was to be devoured by a natural force.

And so the rumor persisted and began to grow larger with each passing year and each year there were more believers in the curse from the dead, as it was known.

Finally the Baron asked Professor Hamblin to investigate this rumor to see how it got started and whether there was anything to it. Professor Hamblin, following the Baron’s directions, called in a distinguished group of researchers to help in the investigation.

The first findings concluded that any records on Mr. Dalton had been kept in the church where all the early records had been stored. But a fire had destroyed the records and all seemed hopelessly lost.

But a church historian said that in those early days a duplicate record was always made and kept at the central branch of the church in case of fire or looting.

Those early duplicated records were found and they proved that there was no David Dalton; he never existed. His brother confessed to the hoax in the records that he made up the story and the curse so that he could keep others away from his grazing farmland.

I all proved to be a hoax to keep other people from settling in Lilliland.