Jennet Humfrye

Jennet Humfrye (1859 - 23 November 1889) was an unmarried woman who gave birth to a child, Nathaniel.

But, because she was unmarried when she became pregnant, she was forced to give her child to her sister.

Alice Drablow and her husband adopted the boy insisting he never knew that Jennet was his real mother.

Jennet went away for a year; however, she could no longer stay away from the boy, she made an agreement to stay at Eel Marsh House with them.

The agreement was that she never reveals her true identity to the boy.

One day, a pony and trap carrying the boy across the causeway got lost and sank in the marshes, killing all aboard apart from Alice Drablow.

Jennet had been watching all of this from a window from the house as she was waiting for him because she had planned to run away with him as they were becoming very close.

Jennet was so distraught and heartbroken that she hung herself in the house's nursery.

Before she hung herself, she wrote 'You Could Have Saved Him' on the wall written in her blood.

Jennet came back as an evil, vengeful ghost dressed in black. She was known as by the locals, 'The Woman in Black'.

Whenever she has been seen; anywhere, whenever and whoever by, a child nearby kills themselves as she forces them to.

If an adult sees her, their first born child would die.

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