The Haunting

This game is based on real events that happened here in Waxhaw. In the late 1700s, Reverand William Richardson was the local church’s pastor. One day, his wife, Agnes, found him strangled to death in his study. Although some thought he had killed himself, others became suspicious. There were whispers that Agnes was a witch. The body was exhumed and, in one of the last witch trials in America, Agnes was forced to put her hand on his skull. Supposedly, if her hand came back bloody, this would prove that she was a witch. Of course, it did not, and to this day, no one knows what actually happened to poor Rev Richardson. Did he kill himself, or was it someone else … and if so, who? From Rev Richardson’s gravestone: He lived to Purpose He preach’d with Fidelity He pray’d for his People And being dead, he speaks