In the year of our Lord 1370, a man appears in the history books. His name: William Nithsdale. Also known as the illegitimate son of Lord Douglas the Grimm of Castle Douglas in Scotland. In 1899, Dr. Vulpez from the Glasgow University did research on this Teutonic knight, who after being joined in wedlock with the daughter of the Scottish king, Egida, disappeared in Danzig, Poland, never to be see
n or heard of again. Dr. Vulpez found his tomb in Castle Douglas and after long debate with the vicar of the Saint Brides Church, they opened it. What they found, was astonishing! No corpse of the crusader knight, but artifacts. Artifacts from countries all over the world. Mermaid mummies from the Caribbean Seas, demons captured in relic holders from Mesopotamia. The head of King Charles. Strange animals from the Amazon. Vampire skulls from Transylvania. They also found the heart of Robert the Bruce and the knife and letters of Jack the Ripper. The weird thing was, that all these artifacts came from different periods, dating from 1370 to 1899. Dr. Vulpez took these artifacts and toured through the British empire with what he called: “The Nitshdale Tomb”. During World War I, Dr. Vulpez locked away all the artifacts before going into service, only to be killed in Flanders in 1918. I, his great-grandson, found the artifacts to take them on a new exhibition tour through all the great cities in Europe. Last week, a visitor asking for a private visit, intrigued me, for the man was tall and dressed in old-fashioned clothing – introducing himself as Nithsdale W. Could it be?
