Shepherds have seen figures standing just inside the arch at dusk—figures that wave, that smile too wide, that call your name in your mother's voice. Farmers have found their sheep drained white, their dogs mute with terror, their wells turned to salt.
Near the Duddo Five Stones (a stone circle older than Stonehenge), there is a natural rock formation that looks like a Gothic arch. Locals call it "The Deil’s Door" (using the Scots word for Devil). Legend states that if a virgin walks through the doorway at dawn, she will see the future. If a sinner walks through it at midnight, they will not come back out. The Devil-s Doorway
JOHN The reports said it was oil.