Stories about family secrets usually remain simple rumors. But in Daniel’s case, a note written by his deceased grandfather led him to make a discovery he could never have imagined. Under the newly placed tombstone there was much more than a coffin: there was a whole hidden life waiting to be revealed.
A posthumous message that changed everything
The rain had been falling relentlessly for two days when Daniel arrived at the cemetery with a shovel in his hand. His grandfather Arthur had died just three days earlier. He was a lonely man, considered eccentric by the villagers, who had spent most of his life locked up in a large house on a hill, filling notebooks with strange drawings and talking about the so-called “secrets of human life”.
After the burial, Daniel found an old photograph with a handwritten message on the back:
“Daniel. If you’re reading this, you’re short on time. On the third night, dig up my grave. Look under the casket. Don’t let the secret be buried.”
At first he thought it was a final joke of the old man. However, the words did not stop running through his mind. On the third night, he decided to comply with his grandfather’s wishes.
A trapdoor hidden under the coffin
After several hours digging in the rain, the shovel hit the wood of the coffin. Daniel pushed the dirt aside with his hands and managed to open the lid with a crowbar. There was the old man’s body, his face pale and motionless. But something caught his attention: the bottom of the coffin was not made of wood.
