scratches help

<<The game begins on a Saturday morning in October, and Michael first arrives at the mansion. After unloading his personal items, he commences his search of the Blackwood estate. During this time, he learns that the household consisted of James Blackwood, his wife Catherine, and their housekeeper, Eva Mariani. Blackwood was a mechanical engineer by profession, and his wife a schoolteacher. Michael reads that James Blackwood spent an excursion in South Africa to build a bridge. During that time, he encountered a furtive group of people that engaged in bloody sacrifice, cannibalism, eugenics, and total war. A small party of witnessed a sacrificial ceremony that involved the rendering of its victims before cult mask. This mask intrigued Blackwood and he stole it back to England, along with many other African objects d'art.

Later, after speaking to Jerry Carter on the phone, Michael learns that Blackwood supposedly murdered his wife. Miss Mariani accused him of the murder, according to some newspapers from 1963. Afer reading about the murder, Michael realizes that due to a number of unfortunate events, he must spend his first night in the mansion with no lights, no candles, and his dead car battery has completely cut him off from civilization.

That night he first encounters the "scratches" that drove the previous residents to the brink of madness. He finds that they are coming from the fireplaces that are spread throughout the mansion. He ultimately tracks the source to the basement.

On the next day, a thunderstorm confines Michael to the house, where he comes across the mask that James Blackwood stole. Blackwood then believed that he was under a curse that seemed to emanate from the mask, and wrote to his friend, Dr. Christopher Milton, to come to the mansion. Michael further discovers that a room has been boarded up. Climbing down from the tower, he finds the remains of a nursery. From a birth certificate, it is learned that the Blackwoods had a son. The name, however, had been blacked out. Michael's hopes of learning the identity of the child were dashed when he finds a newspaper detailing the boy's pre-birth death.

Michael is once again awoken by the scratches that night. He tracks it to the basement and into the giant furnace system. There he catches a glimpse of someone walking around a chamber. The next day he calls Jerry and tells him he believes that James Blackwood is still alive. Jerry scoffs at the notion and tells him that Blackwood died of heart failure the same year as his wife. Michael then contacts the police officer who investigated the murder. Bailey says the housekeeper caught him with his wife's corpse, and that it "looked like its throat had been torn out." Michael discovers Blackwood's body in the crypt along with the name of the dead child: Robin. He then digs up Catherine's in the yard. In the family chapel, he learns that the mask imprisoned a primordial evil spirit, which the african tribe kept in check by a sacred totem. On his way, Michael learns that Jerry had sold him the property by illegal means, and he was about to be evicted. Before he left, Michael decides to cleanse the mask with the totem. On his way out, however, he continues to hear the scratches under the fireplace. He finds a trap door and a prison under the drawing room. The cell has a teddy bear with its throat ripped open and leftover raw meat. In a hole, he sees what appears to be cateyes. On further inspection, the form jumps out, revealing an extremely malformed boy: the presumed-dead Blackwood son, Robin. Robin chases Michael out of the cell, and Michael drives away.>>