Vigo the Carpathian

Damn I’m freaked out.

There I was scraping wallpaper off last night quite the thing. It’s taking ages because it’s layer upon layer of wallpaper with the occasional layer of paint for good measure. My spare room is more like an archeological dig charting wall decoration fashions going back to 1949.

I started one wall and was pleased to see that I’d found some text under the wallpaper. I myself have left silly messages beneath flooring, behind wallpaper or within cielings for future historians to ponder on, so I was chuffed to find an ancient message of my own.

‘Home? What Home?’, was the cryptic and disturbing message.

I scraped some more, further down and unveiled another message.

‘In case Henry scares them’.

I continued scraping the rest of the paper off. By the time I was almost finished, I had unveiled a feint blue painting. A naked woman was reclined on a sofa. Behind her, a faceless figure was just visible, only really visible because of his prominent top-hat. Behind him was an even feinter, naked and smiling figure.

The complete message was also visible,

‘Children keep out’
‘In case Henry scares them’

I scraped some more, and over to the left of the wall I found a big skull next to the word ‘HENRY’. The skull seems to be sitting on some kind of bony mass and the feint image of more skulls behind him can just be seen.

So I stopped scraping off wallpaper and had a cup of tea.

Add comment October 13th, 2004