They were happily in love this young couple who were engaged. They were counting down the days until their wedding. It was the evening before their wedding and they were enjoying a stroll talking as young lovers always do. However the next morning both that lady and that gentleman had vanished without a trace. The police searched high and low for them but it was all in vain. The gentleman was never seen or heard from ever again. The lady however was not found until about a month later...

There was a doctor in Cornwall at the time this couple had vanished who had great skill. Such skill had not yet been seen this doctor was very brilliant some say he was ahead of his time with his medical expertise. His name was Dr. Alastair William Higgins. Everyone had marveled at Dr.Higgins brilliance but he had a very dark secret that he dare not share. In order to know about the human body one had to see it and x-rays were not yet invented so to learn what he needed to know Dr.Higgins had hired Body Snatchers to get bodies for him to experiment on to learn more about the human body from. No one knew this secret except for Dr.Higgins and his body snatchers whom he paid very handsomely to keep quiet. The body snatchers would often get their corpses from the graveyards or the morgues but every once in a while these body snatchers would find someone living but by the time they returned to Dr.Higgins well these people would no longer be living... 

Dr.Higgins about a month after this couple had vanished had hired his body snatchers to get him another corpse as he needed to do an operation but in order to do it he would need to see a female adult corpse and dissect the corpse. The body snatchers came back with a female corpse. The doctor thanked them and one of the body snatchers a cockney man replied "no thanks necessary doctor. I done this many a time but this one was a strange one doctor." To which Dr.Higgins asked "strange in what way?" The cockney gent replied "well doctor twas strange because the coffin ya see well the inside the top under the lid ya know well it looked as though it had been scratched as if by human finger nails. Tis strange it was..." 

Little did this cockney gentleman or the doctor or anyone else know but this was the lady the police had been searching for. But she had decomposed so much she was not recognizable and her grave had no headstone to tell who had been buried there. Perhaps there were clues there to tell who had been there and who had buried the lady but the body snatchers paid no attention to their surroundings they just got the body and left...

Well the doctor dissected her and performed yet another brilliant surgery on a patient and this patient because of the surgery owed Dr.Higgins their life. Later that night he retired to bed he turned out his lamp and was almost asleep when he seemed to hear a voice. Startled awake he lit his lamp and looked around but no one was there. Thinking maybe it was the wind that had kicked up outside he was about to put out his lamp again when he seemed to hear a lady Singing. The singing sounded faint and far away. He wondered what lady would be singing in the middle of the night. He decided to get up and investigate this singing. He went to the wing of his house where all his servants slept wondering if one of them were singing but the singing wasn't coming from there. He wondered about his house and he got near his morgue where he kept the corpses he dissected and experimented on. When he got near it the singing became louder the singing of a lady was coming from the morgue. A lady was singing "now both these blood-hounds him engage, as hungry tigers filled with rage, nor did they handle axe or knife, to take away daft Jamie's life." Dr.Higgins went very pale at hearing these words being sung from a lady in his morgue. He summoned his courage however and went into his morgue to see who on earth was singing in his morgue. He entered the morgue and followed the singing and the singing came from a corpse that was laying on a table. It was the lady that had vanished and was buried a she was covered with a white sheet as Dr.Higgins always had his corpses covered with a white sheet he thought it was more respectful for the dead. The lady who had vanished now laying in his morgue it was her corpse that the singing was coming from and suddenly as he realized the singing was coming from her her corpse sat up and shrieked at the top of her lungs "NOW BOTH THESE BLOOD-HOUNDS HIM ENGAGE, AS HUNGRY TIGERS FILLED WITH RAGE, NOR DID THEY HANDLE AXE OR KNIFE, TO TAKE AWAY DAFT JAMIE'S LIFE!"  Dr.Higgins screamed himself and then he woke up  sweating profusely and yelling at the top of his lungs... 

The next morning which seemed long in the coming as Dr.Higgins never did sleep again that night he tried to put the whole thing out of his head and forget about his dream. The whole day though he kept hearing the lady keep singing that same song those same words over and over no matter how hard he tried to forget them. It got worse as he kept having that same nightmare every night and every day no matter where he went or what he did he kept hearing the lady sing that same song those same words over and over. When he asked anyone around him if they heard a lady singing when he did they only laughed at him or looked at him as if he were crazy. Dr.Higgins thought he would definitely go insane if this kept up he just couldn't take it anymore it had been a week of this same nightmare, this same singing, this same song, these same words over and over something had to be done. Dr.Higgins had an idea and he hoped it would relive him he would tell his body snatcher's to get rid of the corpse as far away from him and his home as possible and then he would go on a nice long vacation after all he was very tired. So that is exactly what he did and though confused his body snatchers did as he paid them very handsomely to do they got rid of the ladies corpse. As they were in transport taking the corpse elsewhere the body snatchers were suddenly aware of a lady singing "now both these blood-hounds him engage, as hungry tigers filled with rage, nor did they handle axe or knife, to take away daft Jamie's life." The body snatcher's hurriedly got rid of the corpse and were never seen or heard from again. They just seemed to vanish from the face of the earth....

What happened to Dr.Higgins? Well he never got rid of the singing nor the nightmares he was driven insane by them and committed suicide by hanging himself... 

We'll now fast forward into 2016. The mystery of that couple was never solved though many attempted to solve it. It wasn't that to long ago very recent in fact when an unknown man happened to come upon an empty grave in Cornwall England. You see he heard a lady singing and was trying to figure out where the singing was coming from and the singing came from the empty grave. A lady was singing "now both these blood-hounds him engage, as hungry tigers filled with rage, nor did they handle axe or knife, to take away daft Jamie's life." What happened to this man? No one knows even with today's technology not a trace of who he was or where he went was ever found...

To this day these mysteries remain unsolved. To this day whenever someone has heard this lady sing this song they have either died a violent death, driven insane and committed suicide or have vanished without a trace. Rumours fly that this lady is cursed and if you should hear a lady singing and you don't recognize her voice and you don't know where the singing is coming from don't investigate run. For whoever follows the singing ends up disappearing or in the grave... 

The mysteries above are now told as a fictional tale. Something to tell around the campfire on a Halloween night. Is this story fictional though? You be the judge just beware if you hear a lady singing that song... 

                                                  The End 

This story was entirely fictional (maybe) and all names in this story were made up (perhaps) any connection between anyone and people named in this story are entirely coincidental (maybe.) 

The song is real but it is not my song I didn't make it up. Here is the whole song