For some reason, three of the wall writings had stood out when I first read about the Rectory. (Note that two of them were perhaps the ones most often talked about in the books.) One evening I took some time to ponder if the position of these three wall writings possibly meant anything. After carefully considering the locations of the writings and the activity that was known to happen in those areas, it turns out that I had once again understestimated the ghost nun.

All three wall writings not only played on something that had taken place in the area where the writing was put but they all concerned an object in water, the ghost nun's way of telling about her fall down a well. Two of the writings made use of domestic things in the Rectory where water was regularly used. These two places were the scullery and the wall outside the bathtub room. The third writing "recycled" a section of the Rectory that the nun had been using to symbolize her fall into the well. This was the cold spot at the top landing of the main stairwell. This was a logical location for symbolizing the well because it was directly over the spot in the celler where Harry Price had noted that the ground was sinking. It later made sense to me that this sinking ground might be the remains of the actual abandoned well that the nun had fallen into.

The first of the drawings that I want to show actually clued me in on one of the more elaborate charades that the ghost nun had pulled off. This was written in the arched opening that separated the main stairwell landing from the chapel. The floor plans are a bit busy so take your time in finding things. With respect to the first charade that we are examining you are looking for a small circled 7. However, note that there are two circled 7's, one of them being in the legend at the top right part of the plan. The location you want to examine is the to the left of the center of the picture.

In this charade "act 1" shows Marianne Foyster near the chapel with Edwin Whitehouse. If you consider the personal profiles of Marianne and Edwin act 1 can be construed to reflect on the social relationship of the nun to her murderer and implies that they may have initially been romantically involved.

"Act 1" took place on the right side of the "light mass and prayers" wall writing and "act 2" took place on the left side of this wall writing, on the other side of the arched opening. In act 2 Marianne "falls" down the well symbocally by simply walking between the arched openings at both ends of the landing. By doing so Marianne walks over the cold spot, and goes into haunted room 7, the ghost nun having used both of these places in other charades to depict the well.

The next wall writing not only contains the message that ultimately led to the discovery of the other charades, but I later concluded that it had also been placed in a strategic location. Wall writing #3 is denoted by a small circled 3 and is a bit below the center of the picture.

Wall writing #3 seems to be a call from help from someone at the bottom of a well. Although the contents of this message do not suggest a nun per se, consider where this writing was located. It was in the part of a hallway that the servants generally used. More specifically, it connected the maids quarters (room 3) to the bathtub room. In other words, the ghost nun was suggesting her fall into the well by bringing to mind the maids dressed in their night gowns who regularly walked through this end of the hallway to take a bath. I can imagine the flamelight that the maids held low to look for the bathroom doornob to have lit the very spot on the wall where wall writing #3 later appeared.

The other place where water was regularly used was the scullery. The scullery was one room of the Rectory's huge, three room kitchen where the maids washed pots, pans and dishes. I'll admit that I had seen all the mysterious wall writings in the Locked Book and I knew that some of them were seemingly meaningless squiggles. But the aspect of the scullery that came to mind with respect to the nun hilighting a known activity to reflect on her falling into the well was the siphons that would form in the drains of the sinks. I don't know how these sinks worked, if they had a drain for the dirty water or not. I just associate sinks with drains. But surely enough, the one wall scribble that arguably suggested a siphon was the one associated with the scullery.

The scullery is located to the right of the center of the ground floor plan. I don't know the exact location that this spiral-like line was found.