Llewelyn+Markwick

Llewelyn Markwick

Llewelyn Markwick was twenty-four when he arrived in Wilmington, North Carolina. He came from a rich family and had two possession that had high value. His first item was an Arabian stallion that that was trained very well. If he would turn the horse to the barn and tap it on the neck and it would return on its own. His second item was his family ring, which was one of a kind. The ring was two snakes that each held a huge diamond in their mouth. These both made Markwick very popular very quickly.

One day in 1760, Markwick decided to go out for a ride.Before leaving he told the stable manager he would be going for a short ride. Later that day Markwick's horse came back, but without a rider. The stable manager though that maybe he just sent the horse home, and decided to stay somewhere else. The next few days nobody saw Markwick and soon search parties were organized.

There was no trace of Markwick found until a heavy rainstorm eight years later. The rain was so strong and rain poured down for twenty-four hours. Part of one street by the ocean partially caved in. When the rain stopped and people were looking at the damage, they saw something sparkling in the dirt. When they went to go and look closer they saw that it looked like part of a ring. When they went to go and pick the ring up it would not budge. They tried to dig around the ring and saw that the ring was attached to a skeleton.

They recognized that the ring belonged to Llewelyn Markwick, and after DNA tests it was confirmed to be his skeleton. The skull had a bullet in the back and was cracked. It was assumed that when Markwick was riding his horse through the that someone shot him in the back of the head. Once he was shot the shooter must had cracked his skull. The reason for the skull being cracked is unknown, since the bullet should has killed him. The odd thing about the murder was that he was not robbed. All of his jewelry and valuables that he carried with him where still there. It not known why he was killed, and thought that it may have been a case of mistaken identity.

Markwick now haunts the street that his body was found on which is called Dock Street. People have seen him walking down the street, walk up to them, and then disappear. He has also has been seen riding down the road on his horse. After he travels about two hundred feet and the the horse rears and they both disappear. People believe that when the horse rears and he disappears is where he got shot in the back of the head. One couple was driving down the road and they saw a man walking in the middle of the road. They swerved to avoid hitting him, though he was not out of the way. Just before they were about to hit him the man disappeared.

The strangest thing about Markwick's story was the spot he was found. When they fixed the road, the one spot where he was buried always tends to cave in, despite all of the attempts to cover it back up. This is also suspected to be the work of Markwick, trying to raise awareness of himself.

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