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Chapter 9

The Monkey Who Cried & Died

Berners Family Coat of Arms
With Monkey Crest

Sunday 4 December 1994, Pecheys Manor, Finchingfield, Essex
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The ancient manorial estate of Pecheys and its equally aged Manor House, lie some two miles
distant outside of the even older Domesday settlement of Fincingefelda in the county of
Essex. It was to here that I went this day, whether it be by reason of coincidence or design, I
then did not know. My visit was one intended to enter again into gainful employment, which
I had of late so badly neglected, much to my almost financial ruin. And yet it cannot be
denied that fate did guide my path. For it provided me with many missing pieces in the dark
puzzle, that had so baffled my very being these past days. I had been contacted by its present
owner in order that I may shed some light on a series of what can only be described as bizarre
and frightening events; which if the truth be known, I did feel to be outside of my own
particular realm of expertise. It was my firm belief that the medieval Benedictine exorcism of
‘Vade Retro Satana’ would be infinitely more appropriate in the circumstances. But in fact, it
was I alone, who could or ever would make sense of all that happened here; when the ghostly
apparition of a monkey did appear; one that cried a riddle within a tale; a tale beyond any
sane comprehension of its meaning.

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