They maintained they didn't know there was a cellar. They kept denying and denying though the floorboards were new and their DNA had been found alongside the fresh bones and under the fingernails of three naturally mummified children.
The press had a field day over it - the Segchurch Serial Killer Sweethearts who'd hidden their victims right below their own quaint antiques shop. They made leaps and bounds in assumptions claiming that several of the bodies were the couple's own children, that the shop was stocked with the victim's own personal goods and anyone who'd made a purchase their had a genuine haunted item.
Only a few assumptions turned out to be correct as a string of mysterious deaths from former clientele revealed that the afterlife is much more active than previously assumed. It wasn't just the items sold there that were cursed by the dead - even the very stones of the basement held lost the souls of people who'd died hundreds of years ago.
The very foundation was built from the bricks of an old Roman temple that had been burnt by Boadicea herself, the civilians trapped inside remained with the stones all that time. It made the locals question if the murderous couple had been possessed by these vengeful souls, after all the dead do love to accompany the living to the point where,if unchecked, they begin to merge together.
For now the shop remains empty, the floorboards still dug up to reveal a thoroughly cleaned cellar, the faint sound of whispering echoes through the keyhole and the dead wait just inside for something living to let them out once more.
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