The Hollow Truth of Ebonwood Crest

Ebonwood Crest, completed in 1860 by the wealthy amateur scientist Mr. Arthur Pendelton, was equipped with a state-of-the-art meteorological station. Pendelton, obsessed with long-range weather prediction, maintained a full-time Weather observer, Mr. Silas Quinn, whose role was to meticulously collect and record data for scientific publication. The house was abandoned suddenly in 1872 after Pendelton suffered a financial catastrophe. The entire professional archive of the Weather observer—his pressure charts, precipitation diagrams, and dated logs—should have been a consistent, invaluable record. Instead, the small quantity of surviving material is a study in contradiction, with the few remaining pressure charts and precipitation diagrams being wildly Misdated and internally inconsistent, creating a profound, Hollow gap in the scientific history of the house.

The Hollow Log and Misdated Charts

The Weather observer was bound to record data daily in his dated logs and to plot his findings on specific pressure charts and precipitation diagrams. The final entry in the recovered dated log shows the meticulous record-keeping abruptly ceasing in June 1872. However, several pressure charts—the physical output of his instruments—bear professional stamps for mid-July 1872, indicating the Weather observer was physically present and working well beyond the date he stopped recording in his official log. The complete absence of all precipitation diagrams is also a key Hollow feature, as these were considered the most valuable data. The Misdated charts, therefore, hint at a period of continued, but undocumented, scientific activity at Ebonwood Crest in the weeks immediately preceding Pendelton’s financial collapse, a period the family clearly wished to keep Hollow from the official record.

The Hollow Absence of Diagrams