Chapter 39

I booked myself in for a 2 hour computer slot at the front desk of the library and while I waited for my timeslot I quickly made my way to the religion section. As I was looking around I had no clue what I was looking for but there were a lot of fiction books here. It seemed this was more like the religious story section rather than religious texts. Typical I thought as I headed to the computer. I logged in with my library card number and the password. I opened up google and typed in “rosewood mental health and wellbeing ward”. I found a lot of results, some being newspaper articles and one of them being a history review. It read

“Rosewood mental health and well being facility: a brief history

Constructed in 1950 this building housed many mentally disturbed patients. It was a high tier private facility all though many of the people staying there were pleasant there were a few documented cases of killers and religious extremists being kept here. One such resident was father thompson. He was well renowned in the area having been the minister of the local church however after serving faithfully for many years he experienced what some would describe as a crisis of faith in which he lost all reason. Another resident of the rosewood mental health and well being facility was jenny hastings, she was admitted within the last few years of the facilities functioning period. Her stay overlapped with that of father Thomas and the 2 of them had to be kept separate due to the fact that he and many others believed that she was possessed by a demon.”

The article continued on

“ after its construction and many guests the reputation and bad staff ultimately led to its demise and with newer better facilities rising rosewood had to adapt and change its name in a rebranding effort and so it went from rosewoods asylum became known as rosewood mental health ward and eventually rosewoods mental health and wellbeing. However even with its rebranding the building soon became empty there were better facilities in other areas and the reputation due to killers and other psycho and sociopaths having suffered and subsequently died within the walls the facility was shut down in 1994. Many, including the residents, said the building was haunted. This did not help with the mental health of patients. Although no solid sighting has ever been recorded residents would often say they saw a little girl and the minister father thompson walking the halls at night or they could hear the shouts and yells of them both. Subsequently upon closure the land and building could not be sold off and were left to fall into disrepair. Many talks have been held about what to do with this now decrepit building however the fact still remains that with people believing it to be haunted no one is willing to take the risk of purchasing it.”

As I finished reading this I scrolled back up the page as I saw there was a hyperlink attached to the name jenny hastings. I clicked it and was taken to a page on a self made wikipedia. It listed her basic details and then a newspaper article quote in bold

“ girl aged 10 kills whole family” i scrolled further down and opened up the bio section

“ Jenny Hastings was a young girl who lived in a small town in the English countryside, she was admitted to rosewood mental asylum when she was 10 years old. Her family life was always believed to be good and Jenny had never shown any signs of the horrible act she committed one day. It was a late summer evening when she would commit what some believe to be one of the most atrocious acts a child has ever committed. Not much is known about what actually happened or when the event took place but from police reports and courtroom information jenny had taken a knife from the kitchen and had stabbed both her mum her dad her sister and her brother, to make matters worse when the police found her it appeared she had been eating their flesh and had made some form of an alter out of the bones she had eaten the meat from. Their family where pretty much whole with each person missing either a leg or an arm and such. It was due to the fact she had made this altar that many believe she was possessed. Due to this common belief she was sentenced to the mental asylum rather than a prison for young offenders. When she was admitted father thompson had been in the foyer and immediately became hysterical screaming at her that she was the unholy. One who had betrayed god. A few days later they found her tied to her bed with father Thompson trying to perform an exorcism. It was at this stage staff decided to keep both of them apart. Jenny went on to live another 10 years in the asylum before one day she was found in her room dead. Not much is known about how Jenny came about her demise. The coroner's report just lists suspicious circumstances. Due to the nature of her stay and the trouble that occurred while she was there many people believe she left her spirit behind walking the halls each night and screaming as if possessed by a force of great evil. All though no sighting of jenny has ever been confirmed you can often hear her at night if you choose to go looking for her”