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Address: 23 Old Hope Road, Savannah, GA

He moved back here briefly for a few months between March 1933 and February 1934.

Investigators Visit 3 November 1934

At the request of Douglas Henslowe, the investigators visited his estate on 3 Novermber 1934 with a view to finding his notebook and the key used to access it. Henslowe gave them a note for the groundskeeper, telling him to allow them access. They meet the groundskeeper at the gate. Despite his initial unfriendliness, the note persuades him to put his dogs away and admit the group.

The estate is terribly maintained and overrun by nature, being slowly reclaimed by the swamp - several outer buildings lie in ruins already.

The house is huge, plantation-style, with big white columns, shuttered windows, etc. Mud and moss strains are everywhere and the building looks like it is starting to sink. The interior walls have water damage.

The investigators are taken to meet Mother Henslowe in her bedroom. She is pleased to see friends of her son. She fills in the gaps about Douglas's return to the property. He spent most of the time in his study writing, sometimes yelling and hollering. He would sometimes have unexplained cuts and bruises. He took to wandering the property at dark with his camera, a shovel and a ball of twine. He started to become aggressive. He was taken away once more.

The investigators tell her about Douglas's request and she allows them free rein of the house. Currothers leads them out and tells them that Mother Henslowe is not long for this world and how he fears for the future of the estate. He thinks Douglas is wishy-washy, with no head for work.

The investigators went to look in Henslowe's study. It has a shelf full of books. There is a shovel and flashlight, caked with dried mud, next to a desk which has a camera (without film), a ball of twine, a jar of blue ink and a brush stained with blue ink. Searching the bookcase reveals one called "Communion Rites of Victorian Death Cults" by Francis J Hickering. It contains a photograph:

The back of the photo contained this information:

Examing the twine reveals it is knotted in various places. The twine consists of 1-2 feet of twine dyed blue by ink, then a longer section not dyed but containing a knot. In total there are 4 knots in the twine. They are not evenly distributed.

The team entered the grounds of the estate and tried to locate the place shown in the picture. It proved to show the rear of the house and was taken from the old cemetery on the property, from David

Using the key on the read of the photo, the investigators examines graves 8, 15 and 13, relating to the graves of Grant, John & Mary, Zacharian and Millicent. These graves all showed markings of blue ink on them, as did grave 6, from where the photo was taken. The twine was arranged so that the blue areas on the twine matched the graves, giving the following arrangement:

Extrapolating a line through opposite notes, and digging where these lines crossed, yielded a small metallic box, roughly the size of a cigar box, containing:

A notebook, wrapped in plastic along with a key. The handwriting is Henslowe's.
A flat piece of stone, roughly square, decorated with a glyph of a lidded eye. It has rough corners as though it had been ripped off from something. This appears to be an Aksum Empire warding symbol, matching one of the warding synmbols found at the Joy Grove Sanitarium.
A very thin envelope containing a letter addressed to W. The handwriting is Henslowe's.

The investigators also discovered the Henslowe accounts in an office on in the house.

After searching the attic and finding nothing, the team left.