An unmarked grave sits in the burying ground of St. Mary’s Church on Harlow Hill - also the location of Horsingdon’s famed private school, and the borough’s most affluent neighbourhood. St. Mary’s has, therefore, never been one of the more affordable sites for a final resting place. The lack of a name or marker, and the unusually squat proportions of the tomb (suggesting that whoever - or whatever - was once interred within was possessed of anomalous anatomical properties) are also curious in this regard.
Taken together, these facts might point to the tomb as housing the remains of a scion of the Boreham lineage - a notion supported by obscure regional legendry and witchlore, which maintains that not only did the Boreham family have a long history of involvement in sorcerous practices, but that they also trafficked with monstrous and unwholesome powers from Outside, whose essence became intermingled with the Boreham bloodline as a consequence of the terrible pacts made by the family. Local tales thus tell of members of the Boreham line who, presumably as a result of their praeternatural heredity, were never seen in public and who, on their passing, were buried secretly in unmarked graves - albeit at sites known to have considerable significance in relation to the unearthly and occult properties of region’s topography (and St. Mary’s church is said to be one such site).
The reason for this latter practice is not explained in the region’s folklore - though in relation to what seems to be the partially-disturbed condition of this particular tomb, one might hope that it’s positioning upon such lines of power was not meant to affect some strange and horrible resurrection…
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