(This is a rush translation. The version may not be in its final form.)
The press was careful to call them only K. and Y. because they were teenagers. One is in a state of paralysis and another is dead. The two young Japanese women bought the package to participate in a Night of the Dead in a ruined castle in Scotland.
K. and Y. have never been bullied at school, never reported parental pressure to choose careers or improve their performance, showed no excessive fear of showing emotion, or excessive zeal to show themselves competent, never presented isolation or even drowsiness in class. The only strange fact would be their fixation on eating the school lunch in the bathroom.
The trip was a kind of Halloween camp, in which they would hear macabre stories, see fabricated figures and take scares of bizarre apparitions. A manager, a tourism expert, and an assistant were in charge of the organization of the castle, with cooks, an operator, a technician (invisible), two actors and three musicians (closest to the clients).
According to police, they arrived Friday with 30 other girls from London. They wandered around the castle being led by an actor dressed in traditional clothes.
At dusk, around 4:00 p.m., the big fire was lit and everyone heard the first story.
It was about the earthquake that occurred in the city of Aleppo after the Byzantine conquest. More than half the population died and they say that their souls wandered among the ruins, and ancient rituals were done to drive them away.
They had the banquet with meat, chicken, pork, salads and a strong soup, which some girls reported having a strange taste. They heard old songs that told of terrors of castles. They walked down dark corridors in which shadows seemed to freeze the air. Two or three times they screamed to see supernatural beings come out of nowhere.
After dinner, they were told the story of the owner of the castle, a judge who won the title of nobility after a bloody battle against the English. He was always a rude man, who fiercely debated theological issues and even prayed aloud in the midst of public meetings. With the age, happened to hallucinations and ended up restricted to a room of the castle, being taken care of by the son. But the son married, his wife became pregnant, and he decided to travel the continent for the woman to give birth in a healthier environment. It is said that his ghost never forgave his son for having died without his presence.
That night, many stories were told in front of the great fireplace of the castle, stories from all over the world.
One of them concerned a border town, which had been founded by the Romans, in which the inhabitants did not celebrate the festival of the dead created by the founder of Rome to appease the spirit of his brother whom he had murdered. Centuries later, women of the city began to present a kind of dance, in which they made involuntary gestures; the authorities, frightened, did not know how to act and thought they should encourage the phenomenon with music, until six days later hundreds of people had died of exhaustion.
An early morning snack was served with cold meat and strong tea. (The organizers say they have banned any kind of alcoholic beverage, but beer cans have been found in the rooms).
Some of the girls began to sleep on the rugs and couches, but the night was still lively.
One of the last stories was about the inhuman beings who, in Eastern legends, roam the fields and live in the rubble, killing unsuspecting travelers whose flesh they eat or, in their absence, visit cemeteries to feed on the flesh of the dead, which they unearth.
K. and Y. seemed very happy with the whole party. They slept in the bedroom with two more girls when the sun came up.
Unfortunately, when everyone was getting ready for breakfast at around 10 o'clock, colleagues realized they were not among them. The searches began. K. was found wandering near the river in an altered state, singing a song.
Then she fell into a terrible state where she could barely move and no sound came from her mouth.
The body of the other young woman was found in the icy river.
We learned of the letters that K. and Y. exchanged. In them, they swore fidelity to one another and Y. tells of a dream that has recurringly about a being that appears beside her in bed. And also about having had as a child a series of visions, which made her parents take her to psychiatrists. The parents did not confirm the information and the alleged psychiatrist was not found.
Police have not come to a conclusive hypothesis yet.
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