In London in 1960, quite by accident, during the renovation of the orphanage building, the builders discovered the entrance to the dungeon, which was carefully walled up so that not a single soul could enter it.
In this underground storage there were thousands of artifacts and cryptids that defy any reasonable explanation, except for the assumption that our world is not arranged at all the way scientists present it to us, moreover, of all stripes, from historians to biologists.
In the basement there were creepy skeletons of some fantastic creatures, strange gadgets and unique old manuscripts. Researchers have suggested that all of these things once belonged to Thomas Theodore Merlin. And there were certain reasons for this.
Professor and Lord Thomas Theodore Merlin
Thomas Merlin was born into an aristocratic British family in 1782. Since his mother died in childbirth, the boy was raised by his father Edward, who devoted the rest of his life to this. As a military man, he just soon retired, and since he was not a poor man, he went to travel with his son, collecting and collecting rare plants and various artifacts along the way. This was facilitated by the fact that Edward was fond of esotericism, as well as natural history.
So father and son traveled for many years, until Merlin Sr. passed away. Thomas, having barely survived the death of his father, became practically a hermit, who was fascinated only by collecting rare exhibits of plants and animals, artifacts and ancient manuscripts. However, on the other hand, all this made him a fairly well-known scientist in certain circles of England. He repeatedly (with and after his father) traveled the world, visited its most isolated corners, met with a wide variety of people, thanks to which he expanded and deepened his esoteric knowledge, received from his parent.
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Only once did Thomas Theodore Merlin make an attempt to share his knowledge and what he had collected in the world with the general public, making an attempt in 1899 to tour America with his unique collection of artifacts. However, this venture collapsed, because conservative Americans did not even understand what kind of strange things they were shown, and what interest in these ugly exhibits. Merlin had to cancel his tour before even making it to California. And although he had enough money, he abandoned his plans to "enlighten humanity." By the way, at that time he was already one hundred and seventeen years old …
The mystery of Thomas Merlin
Sir Merlin, according to the descriptions of his contemporaries, was a surprisingly not aging man. Already in old age (to say the least), he remained in excellent physical shape, while no one gave him more than forty years. It was rumored that his occult practices brought him this eternal youth and health. They began to fear and shun Merlin, after which he realized that it was time to disappear from the circle of people he knew. And he disappeared …
It was only in the spring of 1942 that rumors leaked out that someone posing as Thomas Merlin had presented (no doubt about the authenticity) documents confirming his ownership of a house in London. This gentleman, no more than forty years old, wished to transfer the property to the Tenbridge Orphanage, stating that the house would never be put up for sale.
Some researchers, who knew little about Thomas Merlin, immediately became interested in this strange person, since the owner of the house being sold at that time would have to be one hundred and sixty years old. However, the mysterious Merlin disappeared again, and now, it seems, is already forever …
The house, given to an orphanage, was not actually for sale, but in 1960, as it was said at the beginning of the article, it underwent a major overhaul, during which a basement with numerous fantastic cryptids and artifacts that Sir Merlin had collected for many years was discovered. all over the world …
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