The Noogan. The Mysterious Disappearance of Evacuee, Rosie Linden

All Michael cares about is that school be over. All Mr. Gerrard cares about is the young attractive English teacher, Miss Bramble.
It is the summer holiday in 1976. Michael and three other children, while trespassing through a rambling garden, stumble on the old den. What they find inside is at first curious. But there are keepsakes and writings that speak of something unsettling. It appears the evacuees were dabbling in some kind of witchcraft. There is a diary. Old, dilapidated and written by children. Michael decides to take it home. With the mention of the evacuees’ names, Michael soon discovers older people in the village remember them well enough. Rosie Linden's beauty had apparently stirred up jealousies and fingers were pointed after her disappearance. A mentally retarded boy had been implicated. But then, always lingering in the back of those minds is the old Abbeyton Lacey myth. The Noogan. In a modern age, its plausibility is relegated to superstition. But even the soberest of Abbeyton Lacey’s locals won’t deny-something is out there at Bryony woods.
This and other tales Wally, the old fisherman will occasionally share with young Michael Pendleton. But it is the diary that leads Michael into that which the evacuees had dabbled. Abbeyton Lacey’s occult past.