Caufield Farm

It is 10:35 am on Crows Crossing Road, it is on the eastern end near junction 35 where a young couple that are hitchhiking through the area have found themselves. It is a fall day and as usual, it is cold and brisk. A slight mist hangs in the morning air preventing the sun from warming them, they are both carrying backpacks that have become a bit heavy and they are looking for a place to stop and rest. The young woman has spotted a building sitting off in the woods by itself, its allure is over whelming to the curious young couple and they go to investigate it further. The house is old and abandoned and there is a small barn down the hill behind it. The young man thinks out loud that this was once a farm of sorts, and they decide to stop and rest here for a time. Unaware that This farm. Has a history.

Caulfield Farm..




It is in the summer of nineteen hundred and sixty seven, and young Annie Bartholomew has agreed to become the bride of one Aaron Caulfield. She is twenty four years old and even though, he is seventeen years her senior the couple wed and she takes her place by her new husbands side at his small house at Caulfield Farm. By the turning of the first fall she begins to realize that the life of a farmer is not one of romance, but of back breaking work that requires a large amount of dedication and time. By the turning of her second fall there she has become a bitter and lonely woman, and has lost interest in helping her husband with the business of running the farm and he has fallen behind with the chores. Caulfield Farm is slowly slipping into ruin and desperate to prevent it Aaron Caulfield has taken to hiring drifters that he picks up on Crows Crossing Road to help him. The first ones name is Andrew, he is tall, young, blond and muscular, and it doesn’t take Annie Caulfield long to notice. The first time that Aaron Caulfield leaves them alone for the morning, young Andrew finds himself between the thighs of Annie Caulfield’s naked body, the pair begin a torrid affair that lasts three weeks before Andrew becomes fearful of discovery and leaves in the middle of the night. Annie becomes distraught over Andrew, and begs Aaron to find him, but Aaron Caulfield has already hired another drifter as a replacement.


That same night Annie steals her way into the barn where the drifter sleeps and slips out of her dress and lays on top of him, without a word spoken between them they make love and immediately afterward Annie thinks of Andrew and immediately becomes fearful that her new lover will leave her too, so she returns to the barn that same night and murders him while he sleeps with a small sledgehammer. She buries him in the barn in a shallow grave. Fall turns into winter at the farm and Aaron Caulfield has hired all in all seven different drifters along Crows Crossing Road, all that have met with the same desperate fate. It is winter. and Aaron Caulfield while working in the barn alone, has discovered the first body. Alarmed by the gruesome sight, he decides to confront his wife with this evidence, but never gets the chance. Annie has been watching Aaron dig up the first body.. And he never leaves the barn alive. The following summer the resident’s that live around junction 35 just off of Crows Crossing Road have all heard about how Aaron Caulfield had deserted his young wife and left her alone to run the farm. People feeling sorry for her bring her food and offer condolences, but as with everything The visits to Caulfield Farm become fewer and fewer. And by winter Annie Caulfield lonely and desperate commits suicide to be with her lovers. Her body was discovered by a neighbor along with a note that simply read.. “I love You Andrew.” no one has ever lived in the house since.



Present day, the young couple has ventured to the very doorstep of Caulfield Farm before stopping, they look around at their surroundings and the young man thinks better of resting here, they decide to head back to the road to try to hitch a ride. As they leave the young girl sees the silhouette of a woman that has been watching them from the window of the farmhouse. But when she tries to show her boyfriend, the woman disappears from view. They continue on their way and soon catch a ride away from the place with the strange chill that clings to the air, and carries with it the faint whispers of lives long since past. And where the crows fly free, with all of the spirits. Here on Crow’s Crossing Road.

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