The Truth Behind the Twisted Plot

Today's story is about a family in England They were living these totally ordinary lives. They were farmers, they were just simple people when in nineteen eighty four somethingomething really strange began happening to them basically turned their lives upside down like it was a complete nightmare In fact, in many ways, it was almost like they were living the plot of a crazy detective novel. Ecept But before we get into today's story If you're a fan of the strange Dark and mysterious delivered in story format And you've come to the right place because that's all we do We upload two, three, even four times every week If that's of interest to you, please buy the follow button a dozen jelly Duts. tell them you've secretly removed all the jelly Okay, let's get into today's story called You next So you know that uneasy, anxious feeling you get when you think about dealing with your insurance company Well, there's actually a term for that. 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On the morning of march thirtieth, nineteen eighty four A forty three year old dairy farmer named Graham Backhouse walkks slowly across this huge fenced in field on his farm in Horton, England carrying along a bucket of cow feed Gram, like usual was exhausted from all the endless daily chores on this farm that He was in charge of Five years ago, his father had died and he had inherited this farm. and so now he was, you know taking over this massive property with all these animals and all these just daily chores. It was backbreaking work And so it was like every day was a slog, just like today But Gram was actually a terrible farmer. He did the chores. He did the things he was supposed to do every day but he did not know how to run this farm. And so over the last five years that he'd inherited the B family farm He'd basically run it into the ground because he just didn't know what he was doing But he was sort of stuck because there was no one else to take over the farm. And so it's like every day he's doing all this backbreaking work and the profit for the farm is dwindling lower and lower and lower. It's like he was just trapped in this vicious cycle that he didn't know how to get out of. But in some ways, what was even worse than that is that Graham never even wanted to be a farmer. I mean, like as a kid, he grew up here on this property and He watched his dad every day do this labor and you know, work until the wee hours of the morning nearly every day. and he was an amazing farmer. He was amazing at taking care of this property. Pram didn't want to do that, Like he knew he didn't. What he really wanted to do was be a writer. That's what his passion was And so any chance he got as a kid, he was like, you know, writing things down, poetry, you know, journaling, whatever it was. But then his dad sort of suddenly died and he's handed the farm and it's the family legacy. And so here he was, just sort of saddled with in away golden handcuffs, except he was destroying those handcuffs. There was no gold in them It was about to be like an insolvent farm and it was all his fault. And then on top of all the guilt and the shame and the embarrassment of how badly this was going He also recently had begun getting into these heated disputes with his neighbors over the property lines. And so it's like all around him is just constant problems And so now as Graham dutifully trudged through the field with his Bcket of feed, his mind is swimming with all the other things he has to do that day. And as he's walking along He sees something odd on one of the fence posts up ahead And as he got closer to it He began to hear this really loud buzzing of lots of flies in the area. And then finally when he got up to the fence post, he saw Why the flies were here? onn the fence post, the thing he saw was a severed lamb's head and the flies were swarming all around it And then before Graham could process like why this lamb's head was here, which immediately appeared to be intentional. It didn't seem like a lamb had somehow trapped here or something Like somebody took this head and put it here He's sort of looking around and he sees taped to the fence right nearby. is this piece of paper with a message on? And it was basically in all capital letters and even from a distance, he could have been able to read it just said You next Now of course, this is like collectively a shocking scene. This is a very obvious threat To Graham, someone has has placed these things here to threaten Graham believe it or not, when Graham saw the letter Not so much the lambhead, but the letter He sort of D didnn't breathe a sigh of relief, not at all But he had actually gotten over the past couple of weeks, several other letters like this This is just a continuation of something that's been going on here. The animal head, That was new. That was a clear escalation here, but the letters That had been happening The notes had started around the end of the previous month when one had arrived at his house by mail which had just directly threatened Gram And then he and his wife had gotten even more messages after that and all of them. were threatening to hurt Graham and also his family. Now, Graham had gone to the police and told them and they had said, you know, do you know anyone that might want to hurt you guys? Do you have any enemies or anything? And Graham, like he wanted to say, o no, definitely not. but Realistically, he knew probably over the course of his life in this small town. I mean, Horton is like this really small village There's a good chance that he might have made some people mad somewhere along the lines. You know, he wasn't perfect In his mind, he basically got along with everyone, and so he said, No, I don't think so But the police, after getting Graham's statement, They didn't really do any investigating. fromrom what Graham knew They basically just filed a report and called it a day. But now as Graham is standing here by his fence and there's this this animal head here Again, this is like a clear escalation. It's no longer just notes. We now have a dead animal involved. This is like Re threat Graham at this point is mad, feeling like the police really let him down the note off the fence and he headed back to his house to call the police again Ten days later, on the morning of april ninth, nineteen eighty four Graham was inside one of his barns and he was milking a cow and he had the radio on and the music turned all the way up as he worked Graham, ten days before, had called the police and told them about the severed lamb head and the note. At this point, they said that they would actually start an investigation Graham had not heard anything from them since they said that But at the same time, he also hadn't gotten any other threatening notes since So even though Graham didn't feel like whatever was going on was over He still felt like, you know, he and his family did need to find a way to just, you know, try to live their lives like normal, because what else could they really do And so today was just gonna to be a day where he and his family just tryed to go about their business as they normally would kids were at school and Margaret hiss wife had some errands to do in town, and Graham was on milking duty. And today, the cows were really lively, and so they're mooing constantly in the The music, the gram's playing is really loud. so the barn is like just full of noise. In fact, it was so noisy. that Graham didn't hear the barn doors open up behind him However did hear voices suddenly begin shouting inside the barn. And he turned around just as two locals that he recognized from his village charged into the barn, waving their arms frantically at him, telling him something. And so Graham, he lunges and turns off his radio and he turns to these locals and he said, like, what? what's going on? And they told him like, your wife, she's been in this terrible accident. You need to come outside right now. And so Graham, he's shocked by what they're saying, but he's thinking like I thought my wife was in town running errands, likeike, what do you mean come outside And so he jumps up and he runs with the locals outside and he looks towards his house, the farmhouse, and he sees there's all this this gray smoke curling up into the air. 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Terms apply Tw minutes later, Graham stood by his front steps with a police officer. while a team of paramedics loaded his wife into an ambulance. Amazingly, despite her horrible injuries, especially to her legs She was still alive, but Graham couldn't actually go with her to the hospital right now because he had to give a statement to the officer because it would turn out there had been a bomb underneath one of the car seats in the car Graham's wife was driving that had detonated and it nearly killed his wife. And so now they needed to figure out how the heck this happened. so Rram needed to give this statement. while the bomb squad, which was swarming his property, looked everywhere to make sure there weren't more bombs here. And so of course, like Graham at this point is shocked. He's so worried about his wife. He doesn't really know the state of her injuries. You know, she was just kind of whisked away and he wasn't allowed to go with her And so his mind is very occupied with his wife, but then also There was a part of him that was just furious. Like he had told the police about these threats to him and his family that had only really been escalating over the past several weeks. I mean, ten days ago, there's that severed lamb head on his post with the words you next, like Clearly, this was getting worse. and the police seem to have done nothing. and now here they are, demanding he explain what happened. And so he's furious. And so Graham again reiterates to this officer that there had been all these threats to he and his family over the past several weeks And really it seemed like the threats had been directed at him And he actually pointed out to the officer that The car that had the bomb in it that you know, nearly killed his wife That was actually his car. It was his Volvo. And his wife never drove that car. The only reason she was driving it today is because her car had an ignition issue. So this was like anomalous that she was in the car. And so obviously The bomb was intended for him. And so as Graham is relaying all these details to this officer They both start hearing all this shouting coming from sort of far away in the front of the property, like towards the front of the driveway turn and they see a mailman has driven his van onto the driveway and is driving right up towards the house. And remember, this is now a crime scene and it's sort of a new crime scene. And there's all these officers everywhere and they haven't fully roped everything off yet And this fan is basically just driving up into the crime scene. And so all the officers down in front are like, whoa whoa, whoa, stop, stop, stop And they stop the mailman who's like, what is going on here And he's like, hey, I I just have the mail for them hands a stack of letters to one of the police officers who then tells the mailman to turn around and get out of here he drives out of there and then the officer with the mail comes up the driveway. and he hands it over to Graham And so Graham has just told the officer, the guy he gave a statement to about all these threats he's been getting and how he thinks it's all tied to this bomb. And wouldn't you know it? The letter sitting at the top of this stack of mail that he was just handed veryery familiar handwriting on It looked just like all the other threatening letters that he and his family had gotten over the previous few weeks. And so Graham, he turns to the officer And he's like I know This is another threat. This envelope, it contains another threat for sure the officer, he's like, do not open it We're going to take that. It's now evidence Fifteen days later, on april twenty fourth Graham left his house and began walking down the road The fresh air was really helpful to Graham because right now he was feeling very anxious Margaret miraculously had survived, but she was still in the hospital She was still getting surgeries because you know, the bomb had done quite a bit of damage to particularly her lower half There was all the shrapnel that had been embedded in her legs and her hips And so she'd be there for quite some time As for the children, I mean, they were not affected directly by the bomb, but of course they were you know, so upset because their mom's been hurt and they're scared because of all these threats. like is there going to be another attack? Like it was awful for them Graham, you know did his best to be strong for them, but it just didn't make sense to have them at the home with him. I mean, it was it was dangerous. They were scared all the time. He had sent them to stay with his mother Basically to keep them safe and keep them calm and sort of away from him until this whole thing sort of blew over, or whatever this was until it ended And so Graham is just stuck at this farm by himself basasically spiraling twenty four seven likeike he hates being here. He's always hated this farm He resented the fact that he had to look after it and it was just going so badly. and now it's like He has an actual like active threat against him and his family and his wife's almost been killed. Like life is just, it couldn't be worse right now. And then on top of that You know, the police were clearly investigating what happened here and investigating these threats But so far, Graham had not gotten any answers Now, immediately following the bombing for like the few days that followed The police gave Graham and his family around the clock physical protection because again, there's like this active threat out there But after a few days when nothing else happened You know, it was really, you know, taxing the police to be constantly monitoring this family They throttled that back and instead just gave Graham a panic button. press in case he or his family had some emergency at the property And so the police are gone and Graham just has this panic button is His wife's at the hospital, his kids are away, and he's just again stuck at this farm. And he's just so upset. he's so stressed out and in this place, this mental place he's in where he's just wondering what's going happen in the future, he began to think about who really would want to do this to him. Who could he really fixate on that would want to cause he and his family harm And he actually came up with one suspect that began to make more and more sense. the more he thought about them his neighbor Graham's neighbor was a guy named Colin, and in town, it was no secret that Graham and Colin didn't get along, primarily because they bickkeered over property lines Graham and Collins's arguments never actually escalated into violence, but Graham knew that sometimes their fights got really heated And it seemed entirely plausible that Colin might want to exact some physical violence on Graham. And so now Graham was actually walking over to Colin's house And he was just going to talk to him because even though these two really didn't get along, like They were capable of speaking to each other. This was not totally unusual And so his plan was he was just going to go over there and intentionally not bring up sort of like the elephant in the room here, which is, you know, bombing and the threats and the ongoing criminal investigation Graham was just going to go over there and basically just make his presence known and just sort of see Colin reacted to him, see if he acted strange, see if he could pick up on any suspicious behavior by Colin. And so he turn the corner and he walks up Colin's driveway and Colin was actually out in front, and Colin sort of turned and saw Graham did not look pleased to see him and he didn't walk up to greet him or anything. He just stood there staring at him Graham confidently strode up the driveway and he just started talking to Colin And they had this sort of weird stilted conversation where neither man really wanted to see the other, but really didn't talk about anything of substance. You know, Graham didn't really explain why he was there. They just had this Weird small talk They said their goodbyes and Turned and And as Graham walked back to his property It started to become more and more clear in his mind like how bizarre it was that in this conversation, which, you know, of course it was awkward. These guys don't get along weird it was that Colin didn't ask why Gram had come over didn't bring up he didn't ask about Graham's wife. He didn't ask about anything. It was like Weird, super neutral conversation Ram, it just made Colin feel that much more suspicious. A few days later, on the night of april thirtieth Graham was in his office inside of his farmhouse, staring down at a blank noteepad Graham was trying to write because that used to be something he loved doing you know, tonight, he just couldn't be creative. I mean, no arrests had been made in this case. His wife was still at the hospital, his kids are still out with his mom. You know, no progress has been made on this case. like he still feels like there's this imminent threat out there. And also, the police had very recently interviewed Colin and nothing came of it. So it just sort of seemed like nothing was going on All the problems he had were still very much there. And so as Graham is sitting there feeling terrible He hears this loud, sudden knocking on his front door. and immediately, you know, Gram's on edge. One, he wasn't expecting visitors, and two, really, generally he didn't get guests, especially this late at night And considering everything going on right now and the fact that no arrests have been made, I mean, he's fearful. He's paranoid You know, he's here all alone. He can't just ignore the fact that somebody's here. And so very apprehensively he gets up and He begins making his way out to the front door. When Graham was about to open the door, there was another pounding on the door, like whoever was out there was really eager to talk to him Rram like his pulse is racing and he Grabs the doorknob, he turns it open s Instant he saw who was standing out there. Graham knew he had to turn. R and press that panic button Just a few minutes later Detective superintendent Tom Evans with the local police Hardge shut up the walkway of Graham's farmhouse with a team of officers right behind him Evans was the lead investigator on Graham's case, like the entire ongoing, you know, threat and bomb case And he'd been notified that the panic button that they had installed in the farmhouse had just gone off. So his team was responding to see if, you know, maybe the person or people who were targeting Grham and his family had struck again When Evans got up to the front door, he tried the handle and found that it was open. So he opened the door and he announced that police were here and they were coming inside, answer And so, Evans and his team went inside pretty much immmediately when he stepped inside He saw a dead body. There was a man laying on his back in the hallway and his chest was covered in blood However, when Evans approached him He realized that this was not Graham. this was someone else. This man was much older than Graham He was in his sixties and At first, he just had no idea who it was, but then after a second, Evans actually recognized him It was Colin, Graham's neighbor who' actually interviewed fairly recently during their investigation Colin, in addition to having what appeared to be, you know, one or several gunshot wounds to the chest was holding a knife in his right fist. Before Evans and his team could take note of anything else here They began to hear moaning coming from the kitchen Hevan told a few of his officers to stay with the body And then Evans and another officer slowly made their way, you know guns drawn into the kitchen to see what was going on When they turned the corner and looked into the kitchen, I mean it was a bloody mess bllood really on everything, chairs, tables overturned. And then lying on the ground in the center of all the chaos, cradling a shotgun was Graham Backhouse. And Graham was a mess. He was the one who was moaning. He had this just horrible knife wound on his face and he was bleeding profusely And he also appeared to have a gash across his chest and also across his stomach. Evans and his partner, they run over to Graham Neel down next to him and you know, Graham, he's in rough shape, but he's clearly, you know, stable. he can talk is in a lot of pain And Evans asks him like, hey What happened? And Graham, who again, like he's in quite a bit of physical pain here. so every time he speaks, he's sort of like gritting his teeth But he was able to explain to Evans that heard a knock on his door, he opened it up, and there's Colin his neighbor. And it was unclear what he was doing here. and before long, the two men are getting in this argument And then Graham said that Colin sort of inexplicably admitted that he was the one who planted the bomb. He was the one who was leaving all these threats And then Graham, who was about to run and press the panic button, right before he did, he said Colin pulled out a knife and then started chasing after him And at that point, Graham said he bolted, he grabbed his shotgun. He was able to get a shot off in self defense. and then he did press the panic. 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Paramedics eventually arrived and it was determined that you know, Graham's injuries were serious, but he would survive. However, he was still ushered out into an ambulance and brought to the hospital And then after Graham was gone The police once again roped off the farmhouse and began processing the scene, taking pictures of everything and collecting evidence. And then after they were done doing that, the police also went next door to Collin's property Rped that off and searched that as well to look for evidence And they discovered under some leaves on his property was actually a piece of pipe. that exactly matched the bomb that was used to blow up the car that nearly killed Margaret So at this point, it seemed extremely likely Collin really was the bomber. Over the next few days, as Evans and his team analyzed all the other forensics and items and photographs that they'd collected They notice something strange thenen