The World Next Door. Is there a world beside our own? A world that is hard for us to believe exists?
Thomas Theodor Merrylin may have had the proof. A naturalist and the son of a renowned 18th-century biologist, Merrylin was isolated since he was young and exhibited an incredible “eternal youth,” making him resemble a young forty-year-old even at the threshold of 80 years old. He was accused of practicing dark arts, conversing with spirits, and making a pact with the devil. After all, these were the Victorian years, the time of Oscar Wilde and “The Picture of Dorian Gray.”
Thomas Theodor Merrylin
From the 19th century onward, the story of this man turned into legend. In 1899, theoretically at the age of 117, Thomas T. Merrylin was accused of blasphemy following a U.S. tour dedicated to sharing his discoveries. Since then, he disappeared until 1942 when, according to legend, he contacted the Tunbridge orphanage and donated his enormous house in London, on the condition that the basement never be opened and the house never be sold. In a photograph from a London newspaper, Merrylin appears as the donor, although he looks little more than forty. Theoretically, he should have been about 160 years old.
But “The World Next Door” Screams!
Several years later, during the demolition of the orphanage, a shocking discovery was made. The basement, prudently sealed by Thomas T. Merrylin with two brick walls, was opened and its contents brought to light. Fairy creatures, impressive, mysterious, fascinating, and unsettling—a priceless heritage both for their significance and for the uniqueness of the specimens—are now no more than tiny winged skeletons in various states of preservation. There were also dragons, werewolves, vampires, and other creatures of every kind, demons, terrifying animals, mummies resembling werewolves… including dragons and the incredible equipment necessary to “hunt” the specimens, as well as anatomical studies of all these beings that were previously thought to belong only to the realm of fantasy.
Today, all these artifacts are carefully guarded at the Merrylin Cryptid Museum in London, but unfortunately, it is closed to the public.
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