Red flag (44) - Robert Murat made a living buying and selling properties, including the purchasing of derelict buildings. This is of particular interest to me insofar as, he inherited that line of business from his father who once owned the derelict building (5 Ave Dos Pescadores, Lagos..) located directly opposite the village church in Praia de Luz. This building was originally a bank, owned by his father or a relative of his which has been passed down from relative or family member to another over the passing of time..
This is the derelict building and its rear garden containing the only ever shallow grave found in Praia de luz, dug out inside a hollow at the rear left hand corner of the garden and its stone constructed sea wall. It was whilst I was examining the rear garden that I stumbled upon what I believed to be part of a human bone, which I took photographs of after I placed it on top of a flat surface of a sawn piece of tree trunk amongst heaps and heaps of piled high garden waste and rubbish. I took photographs of everything I touched or found, which was when I stumbled on what appeared to be a shallow grave in a hollow of the rear garden, that it struck me as being out of the ordinary simply because garden waste , logs and rubbish, etc, had carelessly been tossed lacksidaisically all over the place, which formed piles and piles of discarded waste. But the grave in the hollow puzzled me, as to why anybody would go to the trouble of burying something in a garden were everything else was heaped in piles above ground. Also laid close by to this shallow grave was a rusty iron bar (Jemmy) which led me to believe it had been used to prize up stones or rocks out of the ground beneath the surface of the grave to create sufficient space to conceal something of interest that whoever had dug out the grave did not want anyone to find easily. Also laid out in a sort of line which ran from close to the edge of the grave along a constructed stone wall which ran in a direction as though it was pointing towards the open sea beyond the gardens sea wall which itself ran parallel to the back edge of the garden. It struck me as odd that these large stones had been laid out as though it had some symbolic meaning. I took photographs of it all. At one point I made my way to where both of these walls met which perfectly was where the line of places stones terminated, or thereabouts, and took in the gaze beyond the sea wall, and it was then that I looked down only to see sea water splashing hard against rocks below. It was whilst I was gaping in awe of the magnificent views that my eyes fixed on what appeared to be a concrete ledge that ran parallel along the sea wall, from right to left, or left to right, and I saw a number of rusty and circular storm drain covers embedded in different places along the ledge. I decided that I would take a closer look at the ledge and these storm drain covers which were positioned in a somewhat precarious location for any human to attend without risk of falling to a possible death onto the rocks and into the angry tide of the sea...