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Jennet Humphrey, before she became the Woman in Black, was unmarried and pregnant with a boy named Nathaniel. This made Jennet's sister, Alice Drablow, angry. Alice and her husband, then forced Jennet to let them adopt Nathaniel as their own. Choosing to raise him without the knowledge of who his biological mother (Jennet) was. Heartbroken, yet eager to have a relationship with her son, Jennet would stay at the house for a year. However, she had to agree that she could not reveal herself quite yet to the boy. On October 18th, 1889, Mr. Drablow, Mrs. Drablow, and Nathaniel took a carriage ride across the crossway (the stretch between the mainland and the Eel Marsh House). Sadly, their wagon would rear off course and start to sink into the marsh. Unfortunately, Nathaniel was unable to escape the sinking carriage and drowned. Hopeless and enraged, Jennet could only watch the entire event unfold from the nursery window. Alice's failure to save her son, would be the final wedge in their relationship, and one of the main contributing factors (besides Nathaniel's death directly) to her anger. Her grief and anger, would lead Jennet to hang herself in the nursery. Before she died, she wrote, "YOU COULD HAVE SAVED HIM." Obviously intended for Alice, whom she would later go on to terrorize until her own death years later. The Woman in Black (Jennet) would expand the terror and heartache to the townspeople. The prophecy being that whenever she is seen, anywhere by anyone at anytime, she will lead a child to kill themselves and remain "lost" along with her.


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