There's a pool, in the middle of a small copse of trees in Worcestershire, that is locals call the Silent Pool. The water is always very still, and very dark. No insects skate across its surface, and no birds sing in the trees around it.
Local legend has it that the pool is haunted by the ghosts of two children that drowned in it, back in mediaeval times.
With it being so still, you’d think you could look into it and see your reflection, but if you find yourself there, you won’t see yourself. Just dark, unmoving blackness that makes you feel dizzy, as if you might fall in. If you look in it for more than a few seconds, you will, and then you’ll fall and fall and fall and fall until a long time later and many millions of miles away you reach the bottom, and meet what haunts the pool, which is not two children, but something which has been down there for longer than there have been children.
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