The necklace I purchased seemed to harbour a secret…
As I browsed eBay, a piece of jewellery caught my eye.
‘Wow,’ I said to myself.
It was a pretty silver pendant in the shape of a girl.
It’s gorgeous, I thought.
I had to have it.
I put in a bid for it and eventually won it.
When it arrived, I was thrilled.
It was even prettier than in the photos.
Every day I wore my new pendant, and every night I carefully laid it on my dresser to make sure the chain wouldn’t get tangled.
One night however, as I lay in bed, I heard what sounded like little girls singing We Wish You a Merry Christmas.
As I sat up and looked over the end of my bed, there was no one there.
‘Anthony, wake up,’ I said to my husband. ‘W-what is it?’ ‘Did you hear that?
That singing?’
‘No. You’re probably just hearing things…’ he said before he rolled back over.
I was spooked, but brushed it off and forgot about it.
A few weeks later, I was cleaning my room when I accidentally knocked a red velvet ring box off my dresser.
I bent down and picked up the ring — but the box was nowhere to be seen.
I started frantically looking on the floor and under the dresser for it — but there was no sign of it.
I widened my search and eventually called Anthony to help.
‘It can’t have gone far,’ I told him. ‘I just knocked it off the dresser.’
Eventually, we pulled apart the house looking for it — without success.
A couple of months later, Anthony was in our room when he called down to me. ‘Linda, you won’t believe this!’ he said. I raced upstairs and there he stood, holding the red
