Tyburn Tree: A Short Story

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Tyburn, England was notorious for its “Tyburn Tree.” Countless people have been hanged there. Murderers, highwaymen, arsonists, and robbers are few of the many criminal variants who had their lives brutally ended. The gallows, still in use, are said to be a shuddersome place that would raise one’s hairs. Several supernatural occurrences have been reported by those who pass by the defunct execution ground. Ghostly figures, eerie noises, and jesuitic occurrences have affrighted the weak-hearted. Of all the residents of Tyburn, not one local resident had dared to go past the site with its troubled past, except one. His profession, a painter. The painter was alone. Alone in the solitude of his rosewood chamber, he stared blankly and swiped away

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