Speaker 1: You are listening to table story.
Speaker 2: Well, now, I reckon, I ought to tell you a story
at a little office that handles things nobody else? Will
you know? A supernatural super unnatural haunting sexes. The whole
list is rather long, and we don't have near enough
daylight for that. What you need to know is this
ain't no script here. We make it up as we go, music, sounds, etc.
It's all produced for you live like magic and it
being a scary story and all I'm assuming it will
have all the things scary stories do. But I'm just
guessing here because of it being improvised and all all
I know is with this cast, well, well it's probably
gonna be brutal, violent and have enough moral decay to
make our therapists quit. You got one of those, right, good,
So use your brain. Okay, it's gonna be scary, strange
and dumb as hell. Oh off you? Hey? Does anybody
know where Akachi is?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 4: My?
Speaker 3: Something go out the door a couple of days ago?
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, who wants? Who wants to do some magic?
Speaker 5: What kind of magic?
Speaker 2: I mean? You want to learn your first spell?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 2: Perfect, I want you to walk over to the door.
I want you to pick up that mail bag, walk
to the door, knob, turn the door wit her three times, sorry,
clockwise three times. Go out the door, stand there for
a second, then come right back in. See if there's
anything in the bag. You're checking the mail.
Speaker 5: You checked me.
Speaker 2: I mean it's magic.
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, cool, cool cool.
Speaker 2: Why don't just have a mailbox because it won't work
in here, right? I mean the bag, the bag was costly,
it's enchanted, So you just have to step outside and
then any mail that was sent to us will appear
in the bag, and then you come back in.
Speaker 5: Gotcha. Okay, So I go over here, I grab the
mail bag.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 5: I turned the handle. You said clockwise.
Speaker 2: Three times three times?
Speaker 5: So yep, okay, one, two, three, yep.
Speaker 2: And then open the door, step outside, okay.
Speaker 5: Here I go.
Speaker 2: Perfect.
Speaker 5: Now, then I just come back in.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 2: You can just turn around. I would turn around clockwise
as well, same direction, and then come back in.
Speaker 6: Okay, shut the door, all right, I do a clockwise
perfect three sixty, come back in perfect now, see if
there's anything in the bag. Sometimes there ain't.
Speaker 7: This has been a system of trial and error to
figure out that exact maneuver by the way, No.
Speaker 2: Actually the bag was a gift. The enchanted bag was
a gift so that people could send us things.
Speaker 5: Is clockwise just the safest direction to turn.
Speaker 7: No, that's what I was talking about. Oh yeah, That's
what I was interested in, was that, is there any
specific reason why, yeah to do that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, because magic spells will have kind of certain things
that you got to do, steps that you got to
do in order, and the person who gave us the bag,
so that that's how you do the spell, that's how
you slieve.
Speaker 7: Oh okay, so it came with instruction manuals. It wasn't
a matter of well somebody did one too many turns
and then got sent into.
Speaker 2: A blue beard. Yeah. I know, nothing like that, at
least not that I know of. Maybe they did trial
and error while they were making it, because.
Speaker 3: They wrong before.
Speaker 2: Not here anyway, But like I said, maybe the maybe
the gutter mate did it fucked up while trying to
figure out the recipe in the first place.
Speaker 5: Gutter maids, I sure, did.
Speaker 2: You know, Wizard?
Speaker 3: I don't. I don't know Wizard.
Speaker 2: Actually, well, I just mean like that.
Speaker 3: Like a mage that happens to be a vagrant.
Speaker 2: No, it's more like like gutter snipe. They do magic,
but it's not innate.
Speaker 7: It's not like paying the bills. So they work as
a handyman cleaning gutters.
Speaker 2: No, it's more like they just they can be good,
but then they could also not be good.
Speaker 5: Like what if a hedge witch? Actually, that's it.
Speaker 2: That's another term for guard as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's another that makes sense because they got a
little hedge around their place.
Speaker 2: I mean sometimes, but also it depends on what they're doing,
if they're in the kitchen or whatever, they're using herbs
and the like.
Speaker 3: Right, I mean, there's round myself, different.
Speaker 2: Things for a lot of a lot of different you know,
there's different different terms for everything. Really, you know, words
have power, names have power and all that sort of thing. Anyway,
is there anything in the bag.
Speaker 5: You're gonna teach me an actual spell after this?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean, if there's anything in there, I'll teach
you how to reply.
Speaker 5: Okay, I opened the back.
Speaker 2: Uh, there is a letter in there. It has a
it has a it just looks like plain kind of
tan paper. There's a wax seal on the back with
a symbol you may not recognize. Probably you don't recognize.
You can roll for it if you like. And the
seal kind of glows a little bit as you're looking
at it and you tilt it and you move it around.
Speaker 5: Well, I'll roll to see if I recognize it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, heck, yeah, go ahead, And why don't you roll
me a flat D one hundred. This has got to
be doubles in positive, so no omens and then we'll
have to figure something out. Forty six No luck. I
think I'm gonna show it to you here and you
can kind of you have free reign to try to
figure out why the symbol is the way that it is,
If that makes sense. Yeah, hold on, can you guys
see that?
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, oh kind of like a like a compass
star arrows coming off it. Yeah, yep, yep, Jinks some
compass rows.
Speaker 2: I'm so excited about that. Okay, fantastic.
Speaker 5: Does Jinks have power in this office?
Speaker 2: Like saying the term Jinks like you.
Speaker 5: All like like like Jinks Jinks personal Jinks?
Speaker 3: Does that?
Speaker 2: I mean it could. Magic is in the metaphors. Metaphor
is in the magic either way. So I mean, if
if it means something to you and it's like a
promise that you're making with somebody yels, then yeah, you
don't want to be an oathbreaker, trust me.
Speaker 7: Metaphor is in the magic. That's interesting. So magic works
on a basis of truth and not fact.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 2: Hmm, that's right natural at that anyway, who wants to
read the letter?
Speaker 3: Oh? Yeah, I don't give it a read? Yeah you
want to?
Speaker 2: No, No, you think you're on the luckier side. I
think you should open all letters from now on.
Speaker 3: Now you getting it, just in case.
Speaker 2: You never know. There could be a glitter bomb in
there or something.
Speaker 7: At check it if there's a bomb in there.
Speaker 3: I don't know what a glitter bomb is, but you
don't know a lot of.
Speaker 7: Well, I know what a bomby is. I mean, if
there's traps. Look, I'm familiar with you know, booby traps,
bouncing betties, shoe box mines.
Speaker 3: I'm aware of all of them.
Speaker 2: You never heard them called bouncing betties before. I would
have thought that.
Speaker 7: Was well, they're called bouncing Well, they're called bouncing betties
because when it shoots up into the air, it's about
three Well I shouldn't never mind.
Speaker 3: Yeah, right, good to know that, your explosives expert.
Speaker 5: Yeah, all right, so we agree it's my job to
open suspicious doors and it's Harry's job to open the
suspicious smell. I'm okay with that.
Speaker 3: We can split that well not I like a reading,
Yeah all right. Uh, And it's just making sure if
I break this seal ain't Maybe nothing bad gonna happen.
I'm gonna get a curse on me or something.
Speaker 5: Well, we don't know.
Speaker 2: That's why you're opening it, because you're a lucky one.
Speaker 3: I'm tracking now, all right, Okay.
Speaker 7: You don't want me opening it? I have no luck whatsoever.
Speaker 2: Open that open miss Moore's desk, that's the one by
the door. Open that drawer on the left, not the
one on the right, because that's her personal drawer, but
the one on the left should have a letter opener
in it.
Speaker 3: Right, Well, who the hell is miss Moore?
Speaker 2: Oh? She's the Can I say secretary? Sometimes I say
things and they're like that's not appropriate.
Speaker 3: Normal, But sometimes assistant depending on her assistant whom.
Speaker 2: That is our assistant? Miss Moore? She shows up sometimes
you'll meet her, all.
Speaker 7: Right, she just shows up sometimes. What does she so?
Secretary is in like organizing files? Paperwork?
Speaker 4: Yep?
Speaker 2: She keeps track of our files. I think she's wicked,
smart attempt she should be an investigator, but she keeps
saying like, oh, no, older, I don't necessarily think i'd
be very good at that. I just like flowers. I
like making the office pretty. Anyway, Yeah it does.
Speaker 5: Wat she sound like a cartoon mouse.
Speaker 2: Wait till you meet her. I guess we'll see how
good my impression is when you meet her. Anyway, be
like a hu frame her.
Speaker 3: Rosban rabbits issue anyway, classic, let's see broke the seal
here and I feel fine.
Speaker 2: Okay, who's it from?
Speaker 3: Uh? This is from? Oh it's sir, It's Oglethorpe.
Speaker 2: Oh perfect, wonderful Mark.
Speaker 3: Get we got a home safe? It seems uh did Alder, Jim, Harry,
Gus Sakachi. I congratulate all you on a job well done.
It is quite clear why the office appeared when it did.
I've worked with all manner trainees and novices in the past,
and had the for you merely all survived, it would
have made you the highest performing newcomers I ever seen.
We did, so we must be the hop high Okay,
all right, I praise However, you did not justify you excelled.
Were not for your quick thinking, I could have done
great harm to a being that meant us no harm
to us, and that is a sorrow I would not
have recovered from so quickly. Thank you for this, and
in return, know that though I am on the path
of my own, if you need my assistance, all you
need to do is open the door and I will
be there.
Speaker 2: Oh it's nice, It's very nice.
Speaker 3: I've gone on for too long, as I tend to do,
with no one to stop me, and it's all that
you make one hell of a chief. Please give Rod,
Candy Girl, and Ponytail my best when you see them.
For the rest of you, while this was only a
first case, I can already tell that you guys are
definitely where you belong. Sincerely, Ores Barkley, oglethorpe ps oglethor
not like. Oh I see, so I.
Speaker 7: Didn't hear it that I thought it was French.
Speaker 2: Maybe it is.
Speaker 3: Maybe that's just Ellis Island. Maybe it's one of.
Speaker 2: Those things where yeah, we're like, he is supposed to
be pronounced one way, and then you know it's just
easier to pronounce it oglethorpe because people continue.
Speaker 7: To miss it up is because you see the lay.
You see the lay and then it ends an e
lay for pe.
Speaker 5: I think it needs an accident cafe.
Speaker 3: That could be the case though, Yeah, yeah, there was
one more thing specific for you, g P as careful
with that coast law and coast laws and quotations. So
it may not be coast law.
Speaker 7: What kind of gives me a warning about the coast law?
Not the jar of acid that I still have.
Speaker 2: Yeah, of course I put it on top of the
filing cabinet. We may use it. That may come in
handy at some point.
Speaker 3: We should.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we should probably put that somewhere safe, maybe not
high up, Yeah.
Speaker 5: I think yeah, acid acid do not drink sounds pretty
good to me to put on put on the jar just.
Speaker 8: As yeah, yeah, I actually do not drink unless why
would we drink acid? Well, there might be a spell
at some time that requires you to drink something like
that and you'll be sign.
Speaker 2: Well it would I think it? I mean acidic? We
could just do orange juice. But in my sase, I'll listen. Well,
see magic does scale? Metaphor matters, Your intent matters, and
how far you're willing to go matters. Really, you all
aren't ready for me?
Speaker 5: Spell? Are you costing that needs you to drink caustic material?
Speaker 2: I mean I can think of maybe like twenty right
off the top of my head.
Speaker 5: Name name one.
Speaker 2: I'd love to hear one turning yourself into a bomb.
Speaker 3: You know, I suppose you wouldn't care if you're drinking
acid at that point.
Speaker 2: But this is my this is my point. I think,
like there are spells where you won't get hurt if
you do that right. You're like saving it until you
then expel it out of you in a bomb like format.
But then you're.
Speaker 5: Fine, Okay, Right, you have to.
Speaker 2: Be sometimes you have to be willing to do the
scary thing to get the thing you want done done.
Everything comes at a cost. But I think we're not
ready for magic yet other than sending a letter. So
if you want me to teach you how to do that,
I will teach you your first spell, and your first
spell will be how to respond to a letter using magic.
Speaker 5: Time.
Speaker 2: Okay, perfect?
Speaker 7: So Climb was starting off with the easy stuff first.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think anything beyond this is is, you know,
too scary. We start small. So in that cabinet you'll
find the paper and you'll find our little wax seal
that has our our symbol on it from the office,
and I point to the window that so you grab that.
You're going to go ahead and compose your letter using
that ink that's right next to the letter set. And
when you're done, oh wait, I should start. You have
to compose the letter under the full moon. So I
don't know what what time it is right now?
Speaker 5: Isn't it four thirty forever or something?
Speaker 2: Clock is just springs and whatnot. It ain't time. Pay
it no mine. But if you open the open the
blinds there you might be able to see the moon.
It depends. We move around, so you could sit by
the window. So next time you notice the moonlight is
when you write your letter. Okay, you write it under
the moonlight, then you use our seal. Then did he
leave anything else in there? He sure did. Oh it's
a postcard for the last town that we saw men.
Actually it's for the diner I think, he.
Speaker 3: Said, yeah, it's the two spoons dine of.
Speaker 2: Course called oh perfect. Okay, So this is how you
do the spell. Okay. So whoever you're writing to, you
need to have something from your last point of contact
with that person. So for us, it would be something
from that town that we were all in together. So
this postcard for the diner works. You're gonna light we
as soon as you're done writing with that special ink
under the moonlight. Then you light that on fire and
you think about Oglethorpe, you think about the last thing
he said to you, your last encounter. You just focus
on him for a couple minutes, and then you leave
the letter there and you don't mail it. You don't
put it in that bag until dawn has hit the
next day. So after then you take the letter, you go,
you put it in the bag, you turn the door,
same way, go outside. When you come back in, the
letter's gone.
Speaker 7: This isn't have to be the last conversation that we had, exactly.
Speaker 2: No, you just have to have a strong recollection of
the person you're trying to send it to, because essentially
the bag is enchanted to send and receive to the
person that you want to send and receive to, no
matter where they are in the world. Now it is where,
not when or whence. So we have to make sure
that we're trying to send it in the same year
that we're receiving or we saw him last. Right, So
if you go outside and it's like you know, nineteen
forty two, you don't want to try it.
Speaker 4: Then.
Speaker 7: Makes makes sense.
Speaker 2: Did you hear that?
Speaker 4: What was that?
Speaker 2: It might have been the intercolm that we sometimes have.
Speaker 5: We sometimes haven't.
Speaker 2: By somebody at the door, the knock after the intercom.
Then I don't know, maybe because we didn't respond. I
don't think i've ever had.
Speaker 5: Is there is there a button like an intercom button here?
Speaker 2: No, it's just sometimes I hear a voice like hello,
is anybody there? But I don't know how to respond yet?
Speaker 3: Right? Should we give the door there?
Speaker 2: Does somebody want to get the door? Maybe?
Speaker 4: You sure?
Speaker 2: Because you're lucky, you know.
Speaker 3: I like that you're saying that now instead of thief.
I appreciate you're in there.
Speaker 2: I knew what we have somebody, We need to somebody
open that door?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I got you? Hello? Why I said it that way?
Speaker 9: The Department of on solved mysteries?
Speaker 4: It sure is?
Speaker 7: Come on in, we are, in fact dumb, right, come on?
Speaker 2: He shut the door, Harry, come on and comes it down,
comes it down.
Speaker 9: I'll stand, I'll stand if you don't mind.
Speaker 4: Are you sure?
Speaker 2: We have nice comfy chairs I could get you a coffee. Okay,
I know you're probably here because you've okay over.
Speaker 5: Me, Okay, no fussin, okay, nothing, that's good. We'll all
stand a respectful distance. We can all stand.
Speaker 2: It's fine, Yeah, we can stand. It's all right. I'm older,
by the way, like the tree.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: This here is Jim, that's Harry, and that's Gus.
Speaker 9: Hey, nice too, Nice to meet you. I'm I'm Lilith West.
Speaker 2: All right, nice to meet you, ma'am, Miss West. How
can we help you today?
Speaker 9: Well, I am I'm not crazy. No, no, of course
not sure.
Speaker 10: You hear that.
Speaker 9: All the time, I have not been think I'm crazy.
Speaker 2: Well, I haven't made a single crazy person in all
my tid I'm doing this, so your odds are in
your favor, miss, And.
Speaker 7: We're all a little mad here anyways. So yeah, you're
in good company.
Speaker 9: Well, whether you're being generous or not, I thank you
for that. I Uh, I have a problem and I've
been to the police about it. They are no help.
I I've even had You've probably seen them on YouTube, these.
Speaker 10: Ghost hunting shows. You know, I've had a ghost hunter
in Well, I'll start at the beginning. I yeah, I
have a shop here in town. It's uh, it's a
special shop. It's sell books and candles and well the
herbs and crystals and.
Speaker 9: Things of that nature and metaphysical shop.
Speaker 10: Okay, we have it's it's called Ether and Earth ether
right right, you know, a few blocks away here in
Palo Alto.
Speaker 2: You know, would you believe it or not. We're new
to the area, so we haven't heard of it, but
that doesn't mean that we wouldn't appreciate it if we visited.
You said it was called what again?
Speaker 5: Is it ether and Earth? Like like ether with an
E or with that cool Greek at the front.
Speaker 9: It's the right, Yeah, you got you all the time
and say ether and Earth, which upsets me no end. Anyway,
I say it.
Speaker 2: Well, you know that must be a lovely I don't know,
because you have the ie in the ether ether sorry,
and then the Ea in the earth reverse mirrored.
Speaker 9: It's a lovely sign. Yes, sorry, mhm uh, Well, there's
nothing for it, I suppose.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 10: I've inherited the shop from my aunt who passed suddenly,
perhaps a month or so ago. And you know, it's,
despite the name and content, just sort of a book shop.
You can see it as such. A few weeks back,
I had to call the cops. There was a disturbance.
I thought someone had broken in. You see, I live
above the shop and was woken up by uh, maybe
best described as clanging.
Speaker 4: You know, this.
Speaker 10: Not a kitchen downstairs. But it sounded like pots banging
and so metal. I guess, okay, guess what it sounded like.
Speaker 2: If you don't remember, that's fine too. I'm just asking
questions that may not lie.
Speaker 9: We'll never forget it.
Speaker 10: But I do not know if it was okay metal
just again, maybe pots clanging, so yes, perhaps, but.
Speaker 9: I called, uh, some officers out and there was no
one there and and so I wrote it off.
Speaker 10: But two nights later, sounded like a bookshelf fell. This
time I just went downstairs, you know, I thought, as impossible.
It sounds maybe there is a some kind of creature
in here, cat or something that is hiding, you.
Speaker 9: Know, and no one has seen it.
Speaker 10: And when the police came, it hid and uh, there
was nothing disturbed. So for all that sound, there was
nothing disturbed and h and again the next night, so it.
Speaker 2: Goes, would have been about one gnat than two nats.
Then the next nap.
Speaker 9: Okay, Yeah, there was a This is this is the
part where you're gonna think. I I think. I don't
care what you think. It sounded like screaming, but not.
Speaker 10: A person, not a cat either. And you don't tell
me it was a fox. I can't tell you how
many times I've heard that it could have been a fox.
If I hear it could have been at fox one
more time. Anyway, I called the police again. I didn't
want to go downstairs, and it came, and I got
the look after the you know, they walked the shop
and saw nothing, and I got the yep, well, I
guess you've lost your mind. Look I've given it plenty
of times, so I would know the look. We get
a lot of interesting customers at any rate. It's just
continued now. When I'm standing at the register, sometimes candles
will fall. A bowl an insensible shifted and moved across
the counter a few days ago, and.
Speaker 2: And you, I believe you, just to be clear, I'm
being specific. You saw it move or.
Speaker 10: You I saw it, all right, saw it move. And
there was no other employee there. I was alone at
the time.
Speaker 2: You know, I would have thought fully believing that I
just was being specific because you know that matters.
Speaker 9: I have not been sleeping. Well, I'm sorry for my
short temper.
Speaker 2: I'm all right.
Speaker 10: I thought, you know, initially, that someone was playing a
prank on me, and I looked for the fishing line.
Speaker 9: I guess it is.
Speaker 10: You know, people always say perhaps someone tied fishing line
to something and they're pulling things, And of course I try,
I try, and never to go in the basement. My
aunt has. It's a wreck down there. She collected not
to tease and things, but the police did. They've searched,
and so I don't think there's anyone hiding down there
that would be perpetrating these.
Speaker 9: Stunts.
Speaker 10: So I saw your ad in the paper, and oh,
I forgot to mention the whispering sometimes it seems to
be when I'm near. This will sound silly, but we
have a seance table. We hold monthly seances.
Speaker 4: This is.
Speaker 9: Utter nonsense.
Speaker 10: Nothing has ever happened at one of these, unless my
aunt Ruth was making something happen, which I don't write.
Speaker 9: I don't know.
Speaker 10: I still don't know, but at any rate, when I go,
it's kind of this table is on kind of a
rais day are with the bookshelves around it. When I
go to retrieve a book up there, or you know,
dust or something. That's where I hear the whispers and
I don't know what they're saying.
Speaker 9: And I've looked.
Speaker 10: You can go ahead and ask, but I've looked for
like a mini recorder, someone leaving their phone, something like that.
Speaker 9: I there is nothing.
Speaker 2: Okay, miss West, would you just give us a second.
We're just gonna cram in my office for just a
moment and then we'll be wrap back.
Speaker 9: Yeah, okay, fine, I can leave if you.
Speaker 2: No right, no fussing. If we can't fuss for you,
you don't fuss for us. You stand right there, we'll
be rap back or you can see it.
Speaker 9: That's fine, understood.
Speaker 2: Y'all come on.
Speaker 9: I'll stand and.
Speaker 7: Please make yourself comfortable. We have coffee, twinkies, and just
don't touch the coleslaw.
Speaker 2: No, no, thank you, and I shuffle into the office.
I hold the door open and let y'all come in,
and then I close the door. Okay, So what do
we think?
Speaker 7: Well, sounds like there's a ghost, a poultrygeist of some
sort that's haunting her shop. I mean it could well,
I've gathered.
Speaker 9: It could be.
Speaker 2: It could also be some sort of item. I mean,
she said her aunt was collecting crazy things. It could
be something down in that basement. It could also be nothing.
So just make sure we go into it with the
mind that we try to find the supernatural if it's there,
but if it ain't, we got to set her mind
at ease and let her know that it ain't. But usually,
I mean, the office wouldn't show itself if it wasn't something,
so I've never had it not be but I think
that's an important way to go into an investigation. So
that's scary. Shit. Yeah, don't hey, listen, don't fuck around
with that.
Speaker 5: All right, don't don't fuck around at the soundstable.
Speaker 2: Don't fuck around with our sound table.
Speaker 5: Yeah sorry, just groundles real quick, gust surreal. Oh yeah,
I know this because I've because I've been hugged by
one for a really long amount of time.
Speaker 2: By the way, but well, there wasn't so much a
ghost as it was anyway. That's fine, yp so.
Speaker 7: Not my assumption that it is a ghost. But a
sounds table can theoretically open the door to all sorts
of nasty spirits.
Speaker 2: Oh it ain't theoretical. It is real as shit, So
don't fuck around with that table.
Speaker 5: Okay, Okay, so her aunt passed recently.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well hold on, before we go into the the
sorry to cut you off, Gus, but before we go
into the all of the details. Basically, what we do
now is we decide if we're going to take the
case or not, and then we go tell her that
we're going to take the case. All right, who wants
to take lead on this one? Anyone? You don't have to.
You can work together.
Speaker 3: And I thought we all was working together regards we are.
Speaker 2: But I mean, do y'all want? Usually when I hand
out assignment, sometimes we're doing multiple cases at once. Someone's
got to be the lead on this. So you're following
the paperwork. Really, everybody listening to each other, you're all equals, say,
but somebody's in charge of the paperwork.
Speaker 5: Afterward, Look, I'm happy to be in charge of the paperwork.
Speaker 3: That I was going to say, I mean, you just
mentioned that the whole you will haunted for it. Well
until now I suppose so perhaps that you would be
the expert in this particular case.
Speaker 5: Sorry, what did you say?
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 5: What the words you just use?
Speaker 3: Haunted? I was haunted said that you had a ghost
following you. That's no, no, no, no, no no no no.
Speaker 5: I was hugged by a ghost a long period of time.
Speaker 2: You lower your voices, she can hear you. And also
we need to tell her if we're taking the case
or not. She's probably thinking you're talking about how crazy
she is. So who's lead?
Speaker 7: Well, Gus, you are quite intimate with ghosts.
Speaker 5: That would go, fine, fine, let's do it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, Gus has taken lead all us. Okay, so fine.
So then you will go out and you'll say, miss West,
we're gonna take your case, and I'm taking lead, and
we're gonna help you. I think, I mean, I'm gonna
let you guys handle this. Obviously, I'm here for questions
and things like that, but I always think that it's
nice to let her know that we believe her. If
you do, don't lie.
Speaker 5: But yeah, I believe her, right, I have.
Speaker 7: No reason to doubt after some of the stuff that
I've seen in there, this is the least crazy thing
I've ever heard.
Speaker 2: Make sure to tell her that, because listen, I think
sometimes we help people by just believing them when they
tell us something that they've experienced that nobody else believes,
and then we go in and we try to help. Okay,
all right, yeah, gus the ghost guy, let's go.
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, the ghost hugged me by the way, that
wasn't a two street.
Speaker 2: Can we clarify that that wasn't a ghost so much
as it was an offshoot of a wraith. They're not
the same thing. But that's okay, we'll we'll figure it
out in the end.
Speaker 5: Go ahead in corporeal apparition. Does that work for you?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 2: That is perfect?
Speaker 5: Yep, Okay, I don't know why.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: Said about this. I'll take it if you need it's
you if.
Speaker 5: You back off, all right, I've got this.
Speaker 2: All right, I open the door. Thank you so much
for waiting, Miss.
Speaker 5: West, Hi, Miss West. Do you mind if I call
you lilif?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 9: I don't suppose I mind?
Speaker 5: No, Okay, all right, well Lilith. Uh the team we've
decided that we're going to take your case. And uh,
I just want to say, upright and outright, we fully
believe you. We don't think you're crazy. We don't know
the specifics of this, and we're going to have to
do some you know, some groundwork, some investigation on our
end just to figure out exactly what is the cause
of this. And I think by the end of it,
at the very least we can rule out for you
whether it is something supernatural or isn't. I think we
can give you that clarity by the end of this,
and hopefully that'll that'll give you some peace of mind.
If nothing else, I can't promise will solve the problem,
but we'll do our best to categorize it. If nothing else, it.
Speaker 2: Could be supernatural, super unnatural, paranormal, pair abnormal, any one
of these things. Supernatural is a wide umbrella, but it
doesn't cover everything. It could also be metaphysical, considering the
type shop you've got. Anyway, Sorry, no.
Speaker 5: What any I don't know if the categories were helpful
for her.
Speaker 2: I'm realizing that now, in this particular moment, that I
probably should have.
Speaker 3: We gonna help you.
Speaker 9: Yes, I appreciate that. I I suppose it probably costs
of fortune.
Speaker 3: No, not at all.
Speaker 7: We uh, we don't get paid.
Speaker 3: We're pro bono.
Speaker 2: Or I suppose yeah, we're in this pro bono.
Speaker 5: We do.
Speaker 2: We just were taking this pro bono. We get paid
in helping you. I mean paid would not money dollars,
but we get paid.
Speaker 3: We can intrinsic value.
Speaker 9: You have a fortune.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, I will say, though, if there is an.
Speaker 5: Object, we're kind of like remra fish, you know what
I mean, Like we get paid by the process of
doing doing the thing.
Speaker 2: I don't know what that means, but I believe that
that is true. Okay, maybe I don't believe that that
is true, but true, miss West. If we do find
an object that is potentially cursed or haunted or enchanted
or something like that, we may need to retrieve it
and remove it, but we'll make sure to ask if
it's okay with you first.
Speaker 11: But by all means okay. But the basement, though is
I didn't believe this for now, but it is.
Speaker 10: My aunt used to She would say she was doing
rituals to seal off some objects down there. She would
buy salt in great quantities and bring candle down there.
Speaker 9: And I have no idea she would when you go to.
Speaker 2: The house, chick for sea salt. If it is, then
she probably knew her she had.
Speaker 5: Yeah, did she keep ledgers perhaps of her purchases, Because
if we can narrow down the you know, the ingredients
you know that we might be able to work with that.
Speaker 2: There's the.
Speaker 9: Large book in the basement, but I don't think it's
a ledger. It's Oh no, she didn't. She didn't.
Speaker 10: She should have asked me years ago. I'm an accountant.
She should have asked for help with the books. She
should have been keeping track of these things.
Speaker 9: I should know.
Speaker 10: I should be able to answer you about what it
was and how much it costs and all of that.
But I don't, and I don't think she even has
an inventory of what is down there.
Speaker 4: She just.
Speaker 10: Didn't let anyone down there and said that things were dangerous,
and I didn't believe her. I, miss Waite, I didn't
believe any of that.
Speaker 2: This isn't your fault. Okay, I appreciate that we're going
to help you. Would you mind showing the team here
your shop.
Speaker 9: For all the good it will do. I trust me,
nothing is going to happen.
Speaker 2: I've had Oh yeah, you were saying at the beginning,
you hit some two person count. Yeah, what is that?
If you don't mind me asking for clarification on that.
Speaker 9: Okay, So are you not familiar with you tube?
Speaker 2: No, just basically consider I have no idea what anything
is at any given time. Clarifying always helps. It's sorry,
it's a it's a sight.
Speaker 3: Miss miss all, this is off the grid.
Speaker 9: Uh okay, yeah, it's a it's a website where people.
I know what that is, like the video come.
Speaker 2: Room, Okay, go on, I know what you're talking about,
like the.
Speaker 7: Greek forum or what it is.
Speaker 2: I've got trash, like the computer and the other office,
Giam with the with the things that people I should
talk about.
Speaker 9: Probably just you know, I'm gonna be fine. I'll just go.
Speaker 2: We'll help you. I just sorry that I didn't know
what the tuber you it was, but I will help you.
I just want it's YouTube.
Speaker 3: I know what it is, Geophyst It's sure.
Speaker 7: Well I think I am familiar with what a website is.
That's there's a website right over there.
Speaker 5: So the thing to know about the thing to know
about me and my team Lilith is that our understanding
of technology is a bit disparate and that can lead
to miscommunications at times. But that does not mean that
we are not excellent at our job. We have a
one hundred success rate as a team.
Speaker 2: That's true. Actually, that's a sidebar.
Speaker 7: Gus is a bit misleading. We've only done one.
Speaker 5: And with your help it will continue to be one
hundred percent success rate. We're going to have to tour
the site and I do apologe in events. There might
be some slightly uncomfortable questions at times, but just know
that anything that we ask is in the pursuit of
the pursuit of making sure that this has a good
resolution for you and your shop.
Speaker 9: If I don't mind answering questions relating to this issue.
Speaker 2: Okay, great, okay, that sounds great. Well, I'm gonna stay
here and let you lot go on your little adventure.
Just remember, ask lots of questions, take lots of notes,
and I'll be here.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: Can you handle it?
Speaker 9: It's uh, that's Gary three one four Byron. I mean,
I suppose you can look it up.
Speaker 2: But well, they'll go with you. They'll escort you if
you don't mind.
Speaker 3: Sure, we should probably get some things before we leave.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, okay, how about we just how about will
they just meet you?
Speaker 10: There?
Speaker 2: Is that worry missus West? It does Okay, we'll be
over there shortly. Thank you for trusting us with this,
By the way, I appreciate it.
Speaker 9: Thank you all.
Speaker 7: Very welcome.
Speaker 5: Dumb door has always opened.
Speaker 7: For you, thank you, So should probably grab things that
are handy for the spectral.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I was trying to establish a baseline of
confidence in us, by the way, That's what I was
attempted to you know, that.
Speaker 7: Was it's a bit dishonest, gous we've already done one.
Speaker 5: Actually, purely honest. It's the most honest thing I could
have said.
Speaker 7: Well, if I say this is the world's greatest hot
dog according to my mother, it is exact the world's
greatest hot dog.
Speaker 3: But it is according to your mother.
Speaker 5: What I mean, it's not if you if you include
the full sentence, it's still true unless your mother's lying.
Speaker 7: It's a bit subject.
Speaker 5: I would never say that.
Speaker 7: Well, my mother is a nice woman, she'd never lie.
Speaker 2: People always lie, Okay, okay, but I mean you should
maybe go into this with that maybe in the back
of your mind.
Speaker 3: Okay, a lot of people have things.
Speaker 2: That there have about instead of lying, maybe they're hiding things.
Speaker 5: You know, you think Lilith is lying, Is that is
all you're saying?
Speaker 2: She probably will at some point. Yeah, people don't like
us rooting around it, and you you're right, you're gonna
have to ask some personal questions like how did your died?
Speaker 3: Did your own exactly?
Speaker 5: I've got the you know, like I hesitated on asking
that question because I felt like now was a bad time.
Speaker 3: Case.
Speaker 5: Mind if I take you, if I take your photo,
because I feel like you should astablish more report before
I do that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely that's a good call.
Speaker 3: We can do that with her in the shop. Maybe
it'll show with something too. There was already an inconsistency
that I caught perfect.
Speaker 5: What was that.
Speaker 3: The basement had nothing in it, just a bunch of knickknacks,
And then it followed up with there was the seance table.
Speaker 2: Yeah, sunds table in that fucking book, I ain't nothing.
Do not touch that? If that is actually some sort
of cookbook, you do not want to be touching it. Okay,
how do we know? I fucking you'll know it just
it looks you. You'll get a feeling when you look
at it. I think I hope at least I do
that that's somebody's spell book, cookbook, and you don't want
to be touching somebody else's magic stents got it?
Speaker 3: Spell book? That's more what I was thinking, Betty Krokker.
Speaker 2: All right, no, no, no, right, well, I mean I
give that kind of cooking's magic too. It's all the sime. Really,
you followed the recipe and then you.
Speaker 3: Get what you want from sure, but magical versus food.
So if it's got ruins and things.
Speaker 2: All over it, don't touch it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I get the feeling. I get the feeling if
this is a spirit or an apparition or something that
is occupying a presence, possessing whatever the case is, that
there's a couple of dozen different things it could be.
Speaker 2: It's my yeah, absolutely sure, absolutely So is there like.
Speaker 5: A troubleshooting best Jerry or like something like that that
we can use.
Speaker 2: To you, like really good idea, I should maybe start
making that. We don't have that. No, we don't have that,
but that's a really good idea, like a dumb manual,
you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that would be helpful on account if you know,
most of us are ignorant of all of the things
that you mentioned.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I mean here's the thing is, we learn
trial and error. So what I do know about spectral,
if it is spectral, is that temperature changes sounds, and
I mean like sounds like you might hear whispers like
she was saying, however.
Speaker 5: Are screams that are not quite a person's screen, not
quite an animal?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it could be a couple of different. That book
really turns me in a different direction, because that book
could be calling to her to pick it up, right,
So it could be that that's what the whispers are.
So we could have a cursed item down. There could
be nothing spectral at all. So really, y'all got to
get in there and take as many notes as possible,
and then we'll try to figure out what it is
once we get back here. The world is full as many, many,
many strange things, and we just got to do our
best to try to narrow it down. But if it
is spectral, then that's a whole other, okay hand, So.
Speaker 5: How how how do we narrow it down? It's my question.
Speaker 2: Then you got to go there, Yeah, you got to
go and find as much evidence as you can as
to what was really happening in there. For all we know,
you know, our auntie could have been running a fake
shop and somebody's you know, pulling the wool over her
eyes or something. You know, there might be a reasonable normal,
non supernatural pair, noormal pairer abnormal super abnormal explanation for it.
Speaker 7: Okay, well, here's my question. Is this going to be
like feeling for warmth, Like if this object that's causing
these issues, is it going to generate some sort of
feeling that we can kind of as we get closer
we feel more of the presence or is this something
where we're going to have to have some sort of
device that may point us in the right direction, like
a metal detector.
Speaker 3: Sphirit box of things. They were talking about those paranormal shows.
Speaker 5: I've watched those, Oh, like an EMF reader.
Speaker 2: I don't know what a spirit box is, but I'm
telling you there is a man trapped in that box
right back there, comes on once in.
Speaker 3: A while to talk to me the television that thing. Yeah,
do they talk to you directly, like refer to you
holder or are they just talking about whatever is going on?
Speaker 2: They don't use my name, but if they're talking to me, yeah,
like direct like example today over in downtown Manhattan.
Speaker 3: Mm hmm, Yeah, that's that's that's that's a visual radio.
Speaker 2: Alda Okay, Yeah, there's a man in there who talks
talks to me through it. We have we have those
we have those, by the way, magical radios. They're like
this size. You can take them with you.
Speaker 3: Okay, that might be help.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you want to do there, you can do
that because then I can respond to you here in
the office.
Speaker 3: If your questions, Yeah, sure.
Speaker 2: They're in the storage right okay door. If anyone talkies,
Oh that's what they're called. You said that last day, Yep.
Speaker 7: I did.
Speaker 3: Yes, I'm just saying that isn't the real man, that's
the recording. Remember the cameras I had that showed the images.
Remember that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know about that. I don't know.
Speaker 3: So talking about news, all right, we don't have to
believe me. It's fine.
Speaker 5: You're simultaneously the most open mind that I'm closed mind
a person that It's incredible.
Speaker 2: Thank you. I pride myself on that anyway. I think
that makes me good at my job. You don't somebody
want to try the door. You don't want to leave
Miss West waiting too long.
Speaker 5: Yeah, let's collect some equipment if we can, because em
f reader spirit box, that kind of thing could be
very helpful, is perfect. Let's let's see if we can
find some perfect right.
Speaker 3: And older by the way, when they were saying. YouTube.
That's remember the camera I had, that's the recording of that.
Just put on a website.
Speaker 2: Why do they call it YouTube?
Speaker 3: It's the website's name, like you say a forum. It's
just a name. It's a noun, just a noun. It's
a name. A name has power. YouTube.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but that's not a noun.
Speaker 3: That's just in this in the context of when it's from.
It is a noun. Okay, all right, like old of
the tree. But it's also a name.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, YouTube, it's the YouTube.
Speaker 3: All right, Okay, I think I got somewhere.
Speaker 2: I think you did. I think that was perfect one.
If you try that door and good lucket in what
you need? Yeah, slot meta. Remember you can only carry
so many things. That's three things in your character shape perfect.
Speaker 3: Got the have your ship.
Speaker 2: Then let's see what they pick, shall we. What are
you guys taking with you on this investigation?
Speaker 3: Frida or a spear of box would be good? Either
one of those or both or was it em F
electromagnetic frequency GUS and that sounds for.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, that'says little you know, things with like the
little lights lap bobs.
Speaker 2: On them, I know, yeah, just understand, just for your information.
If it's electro magnetic or anything kind of magnetic, you
might be running into Fayel like creatures as well, So
that doesn't necessarily narrow it down to spectral, but would
tell you something. It would tell you something. Yep, yep
gee sure, yeah, never mind, I'm not going to say
that out loud.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's not foreboding and nothing. Well, you go ahead, Gus,
unless you'd like me to dry the door or Jim
even help.
Speaker 5: I don't think all those things are so I feel
like what it is.
Speaker 7: I'm trying to picture what this is in my brain
and the best that I can come up with is
that it's a device similar to like a metal detector
that it can detect.
Speaker 2: No, honestly, that's pretty yeah, yeah, yeah, that's not that oft.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, I mean I'm familiar with that, but
I'm also familiar that, you know, a metal detector. Although
it can detect certain things, it isn't always reliable because
those certain things may not be I don't a false
positive also correct, yes, false positive, or it could be
there but you're getting no feedback.
Speaker 3: Also true. Yes, there could be something inter feeding with
it and making it so it's not reading correctly. You're
all correct in that that's that's spot on.
Speaker 7: So where is the margin of error when it comes
to this device, this EMF reader, How reliable is it
going to be?
Speaker 3: I don't know until you're there.
Speaker 5: I've never used one before to look for a ghost Jim,
So I'm kind of flying by the seat of my parents.
To be honest, I'm just you know, I'm just adding
to my toolkit in the hopes of something works.
Speaker 3: I watched some of these shows on on on the
TV soube okay television, but similar harnestly.
Speaker 5: We could convince these two that Ghostbusters is a documentary.
Speaker 3: Oh boy, I do not want to bring back a
VHS because that's just going to cause us too many problems.
You want to try to explain that that to them
after the computer incident, I kind of, I.
Speaker 5: Kind of do you now that you say, let's let's
check let's check this door, let's see what hold on the.
Speaker 2: Four year ROLLD for the door open and has everybody
listed their items, because this is how we're going to
do the missions. Basically, you get your gear for the
mission and you don't know take back seat. You don't
get to come back and get something else. You got
to make do with what you choose. So each person
can have three things out of this closet. What do
you want.
Speaker 3: Names, I'll go for a spirit box.
Speaker 2: Okay, spirit box.
Speaker 3: Also, I gotta clarify just because of items. I always
have my my dice on me and I put that
under the items.
Speaker 2: Is that it doesn't count.
Speaker 3: Doesn't count?
Speaker 2: I mean it does count. But there's no way you're
not going to have basically a backpack with three.
Speaker 3: Extra things, because surely fit on just a little breast pocket.
Speaker 5: So we gotcha, all right, So my my, I'm going
to assume that my that combined my polaroid in cam
quorder take up a spot.
Speaker 2: Uh no, those are two separate things. You've got your
polar camera and then your camcorder, and so you have
one extra spot for something else to bring with you.
Speaker 5: Then I'll get Then I will get an EMF reader.
That's my goal reader.
Speaker 2: And then you're looking for a spirit box. Harry, you
got your disk, but I don't think you have anything
else with you.
Speaker 3: So your recorder something, because if the whispers are there,
if we can physically record it, then that helps us
out know something versus if it's mental audible.
Speaker 2: Okay, and Jim, are you going to try to find anything.
Speaker 9: Out of here?
Speaker 7: Really? Just completely at a loss for any of the
devices that have been listed so far.
Speaker 5: So, uh, Jim, maybe bringing some like this is a suggestion,
maybe some like some salts or like anything like that
that we can use, you know too, you can try
and like draw some lines, see if we see any
like footprints or anything like that. You know, that's sort
of that's sort of vibe.
Speaker 2: You have learned that that sea salt is important or
helpful sometimes sometimes depending on what you're trying to find.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I guess then I've been looking for just sea
salt and then maybe some.
Speaker 2: Sage, all right, some sage, all right? Now, sage is
a closed practice, so you have to roll pretty well
to get that out of the fucking closet. But we're
gonna go for it. Okay. Now, who wants to do
the role for the closet? One role determines it all.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I never mind me relying people lying on my luck,
but I know that excited for us.
Speaker 2: You're the lucky one, Harry.
Speaker 3: I am the lucky one. Well, then I think I
might just uh just do that let's take a look here.
I'll ask because I feel like I should always ask.
Would you consider this a gamble?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, good, I'll get a five shift for that. Do
I think it's just a five fifth? Let me double check? Yeah,
that's something I think it is. Yeah, pure chance, Yes,
that was it was. It was sky to scroll?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 2: So what is your mark? Just so we all know
what we're aiming.
Speaker 3: For, it should be twenty five. I haven't rolled. Nothing
happened unless you see something I don't, I do not.
I almost just refresh it really sure.
Speaker 2: If not, I can roll for you to.
Speaker 3: Appreciate you, I'll let you know here in a moment.
I did it again and it's not rolling for.
Speaker 2: Me, So I do not know why you Yeah, it's
it's not. I remember you saying you are having a
hard time loading in though too.
Speaker 7: Okay, that is correct.
Speaker 3: I'll try a different browser now.
Speaker 9: Oh that's right.
Speaker 2: I was like, didn't you have some burn?
Speaker 3: Son?
Speaker 2: But you don't because.
Speaker 3: I cleared it so well you did?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 5: How how how is burn cleared out of curiosity?
Speaker 2: Such a question? It's such a great question.
Speaker 4: You have.
Speaker 3: Does it have a good answer?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Food, sleep, but real sleep, which we have not
done yet, or I guess we could say that we have.
Speaker 3: We had five days. We had five days.
Speaker 7: Would you like to have like, had some real coffee?
Is really strong? I don't know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we slept in five days.
Speaker 2: Here's here's how well, here's how I'll judge that. If
you've basically been in the office, you're not going to
feel tired. So if you took time to purposely try
to sleep, then you can clear your burn. If you've
left the office to try to go home, then you
in sleep you can clear your burn. But then we
got to talk about what happened when you did that,
So it's up to y'all.
Speaker 3: Okay, we're good to go.
Speaker 2: So I'm rolling for you. Harry, your mind right, no soul,
geez Loise, and your shift is five. I got this go.
It didn't work for me either.
Speaker 3: Yeah, something's going on here.
Speaker 7: Oh no, we're gonna have to go back the old
fashioned way.
Speaker 2: We might have to.
Speaker 3: I can I.
Speaker 7: Could do that.
Speaker 2: You have two D ten I do.
Speaker 5: Someone did mention roll twenty playing up before?
Speaker 4: That? Was it? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I think it was him. Okay, hold on, let me
try the flat. Okay, Wow, I rolled for you you
want to take that, I mean it's from your I mean,
for those listening, I.
Speaker 3: Rolled a one, I'm gonna take that, i'd be saying, not.
Speaker 2: To other worldly success. Okay, lucky. That means you get
everything on your list, and also you get two other
random objects. Actually, let's make it three because it was
a one, and I want each of you to pick
what the random object is. And it's random, right, okay,
go ahead.
Speaker 7: Why has this Robert Chicken been here? How is this important?
Speaker 2: I guess we'll find a fountain pen. A fountain pen. Okay,
all right, the.
Speaker 3: Shoelace of a left shoe, specifically.
Speaker 2: Shoelace of a left shoe. And I know you just
went away for a second, miss West, but do you
want to throw in a random at them as well?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 9: I will throw in uh flashlight.
Speaker 5: Solid eminently reasonable.
Speaker 2: Guys are also going to find six six beeswax candles
in here as well.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, didn't want to write that down, real quick,
get out, I'll put it in the thing. This is
a test, by the way, real quick, all right. So
the flats work, but our stand regulars do not. So
I suppose what we could do is just know the
shift and roll the flat from there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yep, yep, yep. Let's have to master the form now. Yeah,
it should be easy enough. We know what our mark is, okay,
exactly perfect. Okay, so that's everything that you have there.
And I said this out of character, but I'll say
that in characters. Well, so you can use the information.
Careful what that say now, because that's a close practice.
So unless you know what you're doing or somebody taught
you how to use that, you be careful with that.
It's like you know, using a weigi board if you
don't know what you're doing.
Speaker 3: Okay, So why do we want to bring that then?
If none of us know how to use it?
Speaker 2: Well, I didn't know none of you know how to
use it, I know. I mean maybe you'll run into
somebody who does know how to use it. I'm just
warning you, true, just don't go doing that shit. Willy nilly.
Speaker 5: I mean, it looks Esterica shop right, so like I
feel like.
Speaker 2: That she might know. But I'm just I'm just warning you. Okay.
You wanted me to tell you when there might be
possible explosions and the like, So I'm just I'm just
warning you Okay, possible foot man, when you.
Speaker 5: Say possible explosions with the sage?
Speaker 2: No, no, not with a sage. I don't know because
I've never used it myself, because nobody ever taught me
how to use it. But I'm just saying be careful
because I know that if you don't.
Speaker 3: Know what you're doing, you know, unpredictable, Well it could happen.
Speaker 7: You know, gee, will it cares? I mean, I hate
to admit this, but I mean I have It's not
my first time burning herbs, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, they are warning versilling.
Speaker 4: Drug.
Speaker 7: I'm not proud of it.
Speaker 2: Oh, I do drugs all the time.
Speaker 3: You ain't getting no judgment here, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Particularly any of those hallucinogenic ones. Yeah.
Speaker 7: Wow, that was not what I expected to hear.
Speaker 5: What do you mean.
Speaker 2: Open your throat eye?
Speaker 7: That means, I mean we we had our fair share
of drug. It's only the minor stuff morphine coating, uh
for just the small stuff, right?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 3: You know that cracks for the times now that I
think about that.
Speaker 7: All right, y'all, I mean, what else are you gonna use?
Speaker 3: Actually the animal marijuana. But when you said minus stuff.
Speaker 7: That was the working day. But well, actually I take it.
But there were these chocolates that we found keep me
awake for three days?
Speaker 2: Really good idea? Do we have chocolate?
Speaker 3: No, that's not a no, that's ampheta means probably that's
a bad idea. Why were those in chocolate?
Speaker 2: Chocolate?
Speaker 4: That?
Speaker 3: Holy?
Speaker 5: You know what soldiers ration?
Speaker 4: Wasn't it?
Speaker 3: Keep you?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 7: It was it was a soldier's ration, But we didn't
get that ration. That was something we found from you know.
Speaker 5: The other guys.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean god, okay, yeah, Now, don't eat more
of those, jim you find those, don't eat that. You'll
want to keep your teeth.
Speaker 7: I'm sorry. Oh, I'm not worried about cavities.
Speaker 3: It's not a.
Speaker 5: That's solve a mystery.
Speaker 3: Gang, Yes, Gus, would you mind taking the lead, as
you are the lead in this case?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 4: To hear that?
Speaker 2: There we go, Good luck, y'all. Don't forget to turn
the door on the right way.
Speaker 3: Well, I thought that was just the male.
Speaker 2: No, winter three times is for the male. But you
still also want to No.
Speaker 5: No, no, you said clockwise to rettached.
Speaker 2: For the mail, Ye waders clockwise towards the sun.
Speaker 3: Right, what's the anti clockwise, the counterclockwise?
Speaker 5: Then wait is it? Is it winner Shin's counterclockwise? Am
I crazy?
Speaker 2: I think? Am I wrong? Have I been wrong this
whole time? Which whichever way is clockwise? Jesus Christ, I've
been telling people to do it the wrong way this
whole time. It's a surprise nobody's died.
Speaker 3: Well, now we know that apparently both ways work.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, because I know here's the thing. Because
I tell them to do it winter and go towards
the sun, which is clockwise, and so I've just been
telling them that that's the wrong thing. So I hope
to God nobody's exploded doing a spell or something that's
do it water and then they do it the way
I taught them. Maybe that's what happened to the rest
of the crew. Oh God, I'm sure it's fun. At
least we found out now, So then DI will be.
Speaker 5: That way with the most blank white face, I'm gonna.
Speaker 3: Wise, well, I hope we survived this.
Speaker 9: Yeah, me too.
Speaker 5: Good lads, I'm gonna opening the front door.
Speaker 2: Forget the magic talk boxes.
Speaker 7: Oh right, right, okay, I can be radio man. I've
done that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, that'd be great. Uh, we are these the
random things are just clarifying. Are those on a person
that we find it? Then there what this is?
Speaker 5: A bag of This is a bag of junk we
get to bring with us, and a random.
Speaker 2: Thring it with you.
Speaker 3: Yep, and those don't count toward the three that we
can hold normally.
Speaker 2: That's right. You basically have a backpack equipment you want.
Speaker 3: I wanted to check because we couldn't fit them otherwise.
Speaker 2: All right, I'll have myself a little change depending on
the investigation, but for this one you can bring whatever
you are.
Speaker 3: Right, These are extras from the lovely role that I
most have made on my own.
Speaker 2: Yep, exactly.
Speaker 3: It was all right, count on it. Well you are.
I guess you're gonna open that door?
Speaker 5: I hope, yeah. I mean, I mean the process as
I opened the door, just.
Speaker 3: Just checking your pawse there, and I was a little
worried that you had given up.
Speaker 4: I have to.
Speaker 3: Pun say, I see.
Speaker 5: I opened the door, I profuse perfect.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 7: If he goes through the door, I follow, I'll follow
shortly after nobody's exploded yet, right.
Speaker 2: Y'all good, Although Gus, I do need you to roll
a D one hundred place.
Speaker 3: It definitely don't explode.
Speaker 2: Just a flat yep, just a flat D one hundred.
I'm not going to tell you what it means.
Speaker 5: Eighteen eighteen.
Speaker 2: How are you feeling today? Guess are you feeling lucky?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Yeah, I feel lucky.
Speaker 2: All right, good to know, Thank you so much. All Right,
y'all make it out, miss West. What time of the
year is it for you?
Speaker 3: For us?
Speaker 9: Let's say that it is October.
Speaker 2: Okay, it is October, and it is we are in
pala Alto, that's right, California, southern California, So it is
even though it's October, it's pretty warm. Yeah, all right,
and we'll say that it is evening time. So as
you all step outside, you're gonna feel like a wave
of kind of humidity here. As you step out, those
of you maybe never been to California, it's gonna feel
kind of like a dry dry heat year.
Speaker 3: When dry heat humid. I wanted.
Speaker 2: I think there's a little bit of humidity. But then
I think you do still feel a dry heat sometimes too, right.
Speaker 3: Because I mean I'm from Vegas that oh yeah, okay,
so that's why I'm checking.
Speaker 2: I think it's a little bit you have more humidity
here than you do in Vegas, right, because yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: All of wine being so nitpicky about this.
Speaker 2: But it's important. We got people listening to that, like
want to really be immersed. And I don't even think
we've described what we all look like, so anyway.
Speaker 3: Not today, we have before?
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh good.
Speaker 3: You had you give us all interviews and you had
us discribe to make sure that there were no inconsistency.
Speaker 2: Right, did we describe what Miss West looks like?
Speaker 3: Not at all?
Speaker 2: Perfect? Miss West? Would you please describe what you look like?
Speaker 9: Certainly?
Speaker 4: I am.
Speaker 10: I love this show about five five pail uh, somewhat
stern looking woman with brown hair and glasses, green eyes, and.
Speaker 9: I commonly wear turtlenecks. I'm wearing a beige.
Speaker 10: One today and I have an amulet around my neck
that looks a little incongruous for something sort of a
stiff accountant would wear.
Speaker 9: And yeah, I think that sums it up nicely. Hair
is what I want to back kind of severely.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's perfect. I gotta remember to do that. I
don't think I ever described what I look like, but
that's fine. You all use your imagination.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well you did at one point I must have.
Speaker 2: Maybe I did, maybe I didn't. Anyway, continue, I'm not here.
Stop talking all the.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 9: That's my that's that's lilith list.
Speaker 2: All right, So you all walk who you rolled it
at eighteen? So you guys are light. Yeah, you guys
are like talking and walking, and all of a sudden,
you're you're going to be there. You're going to look
up and be like, oh, how did we get here.
You don't have to consult a map. It's just happening
naturally as you go mm hmm. And there you are
at the door of what was the address again, Miss
West three one four Byron Streets, Rite of down detectives.
All right, here we go.
Speaker 3: I feel like Jim's a wonderful note taker.
Speaker 2: Last one way to pass the book.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, I don't write a shit down.
Speaker 5: I'm I'm visibly watching them taking notes.
Speaker 2: All right, I'm shutting up because I'm not here. You
go go ahead, but if you have any questions you
can ask. Go ahead.
Speaker 3: I do have one question. Yeah, maybe this may be
for for for Miss West just in general. When we
step out into California, those of us who may have
at one time been here due to proximity of where
we were before. I'm thinking a Wentz question, because yeah,
buildings and style do change over time, and I'm curious,
are we walking saying to the wild West?
Speaker 7: Perhaps?
Speaker 3: Is that see one of the buildings? Is that what
the cars look like? That's a great looking at the
cause specifically, I kind of want to.
Speaker 2: Make your roll for this because would be a good guess.
I think here's the thing I'm happy to it's have
we discussed exactly whence or sorry, when you are from? Harry?
Speaker 3: No, not really. I know some people have put things
too and two together due to seeing some some articles,
but no, we have not.
Speaker 2: Okay, the cars don't look too far off from where
when you're from, but they are a bit on the
newer side, like you haven't seen them before. But then right,
you haven't gone backwards. You see some stuff you don't recognize, maybe.
Speaker 3: A little forward or at least yeah, all right, yep.
Speaker 2: Maybe does anybody else use something to try to identify
when you are?
Speaker 5: I think I'm just assuming it's past my It's that
it's beyond my years, that's for sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
I take a take quick leans. I think what I
say is like, oh it feels like Perth. It's like
comment on the weather.
Speaker 3: The Perth. I what when or what.
Speaker 5: One of the city in my country?
Speaker 7: Oh well, I would have no.
Speaker 3: Idea the fair now Ado.
Speaker 7: Right, well, already get myself into a place in the future,
you know, talking about youtubes and websites, But I don't
see any of that around here. I just see really
ugly cars, and.
Speaker 3: You know, I can't quite disagree. I do like myself
a classic, which for you would just be modern.
Speaker 7: And I think about that, Why are they so small?
Speaker 3: Because we got too many people and we never made
the roads bigger.
Speaker 7: Hmm, shame, and we just.
Speaker 5: Did We just show up on the street, like did
we walk out of a doorway?
Speaker 2: And the logic of this, yeah, when you open the
office door. So what happened with Oglethorpe is extremely well,
I guess it doesn't matter. You wouldn't know either way.
You open the door and it's like we are on
the I guess the downtown street area of Palo Alto,
and it looks like we have an office here. So
if you turn around, you'll see, yeah, you'll see we're
we are taking up an office space along this downtown stretch.
Somehow and we've got the you know, it's got our
little symbol on the door and it says, do you
am you may find it all that. She said, there
was an ad in the paper, because that's weird for
a place that just showed up. She also called it
the Department of Unsolved Mysteries, which alder has. I think
of it like that, but we actually have no idea
what it is actually called. But yeah, i'd say it's
not time. The street's busy. There are cars driving by, bustling,
lots of people. I think I'll have to do a
quick a goog to see how big alo Alto is.
Speaker 3: Decent meeting.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, yeah that looks that's nice. Okay, okay,
I'm gonna put a little picture here in our discord.
This is crazy.
Speaker 4: What is this?
Speaker 5: What is that?
Speaker 2: Is that some sort of like a hell there's like
a is that? Oh that's the Apple campus? Holy crap. Okay,
it's just like a ring. That is crazy. Oh yeah, okay,
it's pretty ticky here, Okay, interesting. Of course she's an accountant,
all right, Okay, anyway, there you go, thank you much.
Speaker 7: It's not far in the future. I don't see any
flying cars.
Speaker 3: The Justins didn't quite get it right.
Speaker 7: Who get that?
Speaker 3: Damn, I'll mak it.
Speaker 5: It was a good effort, it was, I know.
Speaker 3: I was getting close, but not a little too far off. Still, hey,
a car brand it comes.
Speaker 7: All I know is Ford and Chevy and culture of
the American motor Company pop culture reference.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, apologies, Jim.
Speaker 7: Well anyways, Well, if.
Speaker 9: You're putting me on, or if you're is this some sort.
Speaker 3: Of act, it's not an act. Thank you for meeting
us us out of the shop. We did find our
way here fairly easily.
Speaker 7: Yeah, And I'm just from out of town, so none
of this is really well. I come from a place
that's far less advanced than this. Have you heard of Stamford, Connecticut?
Speaker 9: I have, It's fairly advanced.
Speaker 3: Him.
Speaker 7: I can assure you it isn't.
Speaker 3: What what what year is it?
Speaker 9: It's twenty and twenty five? Why are you asking me that?
Is that part of the standard question? You do think
that I'm I've.
Speaker 2: Lost my mind?
Speaker 3: Honestly, truly, No, this isn't the first time that this
has happened. No, no, no, no, no, no no no,
no no no no.
Speaker 5: I I have to as part of my investigation. Ask
everyone what year it is. I guarantee you it's actually
part of part of my protocol.
Speaker 3: I parent think paranormal and think of time being. Oh
sometimes all right, just that truly we may need no disrespect.
Speaker 7: So anyways, I love.
Speaker 5: If we didn't respect you, we wouldn't have shown up.
Speaker 7: I have to be honest.
Speaker 5: So there's being here is a pretty big photo confidence.
Speaker 7: And we want to get down to the bottom of this.
Speaker 9: Would you like to come in?
Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you, thank you, thank.
Speaker 10: You, And if if I may, I'd like to describe
the shop please. So there's a little step up, like
half a flight of stairs, maybe five or six stairs
concrete to step up into this place, and it's you
know how often you'll see like dentist's office.
Speaker 9: In a house. This is kind of like that.
Speaker 10: It's it's basically it was a house at some point
and has been many offices over the years, but at
this point it is that one step or that, you know,
those five steps walk up to an open room with
a room to its left and a room to its right.
So you walk into this open space and there's a
counter directly in front of you where you would bring
your purchases. And to the left and raised up is
a giant round table, the seance table, presumably surrounded by bookshelves.
Speaker 9: And then to the right you can see a room
that's just filled with candles.
Speaker 10: Books, herbs, stones, crystals, necklaces, you name it, anything sort
of you know, to do with maybe casting minor spells
or you know, metaphysical or paranormal interests, which my aunt
was all about. And then beyond the counter where you
would purchase things is a door you don't know to wear.
And to the right of it is an open vestibule
with stairs just going up, and presumably that's where I
live above the shop.
Speaker 5: So the very first thing I do, you know, when
you say to come inside, is I take out my
polaroid camera. And I's not a photo of like the sign,
like the store front, basically before I step inside. So
the first thing I do is I take a photo
there and I'll check it later. You know, I'm just
gonna unless something happens.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, I'm gesturing because we talked about this,
but I don't know if those listening or the watch
and know that we have double check, we have fact
checked how many polaroid pictures you get to have, and
it's eight in a set, not ten, So it's eight.
We decided it's a magic number, so we're going eight
per packs. Now you have seven left.
Speaker 5: So I take that photo and I'm going to tuck
it way. I'll take a look at it later. Probably
want to have a few more to compare against you.
Speaker 10: Got it nice? In that photo is the sign out front,
which is Ether and Earth, and there's a little crystal
next to a globe in the upper right of it,
just beyond the text.
Speaker 3: Now I want to clarify something with the description that
he was just given. I must have misunderstood. Then the
seance table is not in the basement?
Speaker 4: Is out?
Speaker 3: I thought it was, But it's out in the open
on the left side. Is it in its own separate
rooms in the left room or is in the left
side of the main room?
Speaker 10: Yeah, so it's the left side of the main room.
So it isn't in the basement. In fact, nobody goes
in the basement. Okay, okay, that's not a trafficked space.
Speaker 3: Got it? So that I No, that's quite why I
wanted to clarify exactly that.
Speaker 9: So then that speeds, so it has in between I'd
love for it to have those beads.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it does.
Speaker 10: What it has to separate it from the main space
is its elevation of about three feet.
Speaker 9: It's also visible from the street.
Speaker 10: There's a window looking right into this table and the
bookshelves that surround it and in between you when you
walk in the door on your left, immediately there are
shelves with all kinds of you know, crystals and things
you can purchase on it and you can see through
them to that table there. So it's kind of a neat,
little cozy nook that it's raised up in a way.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's a giant.
Speaker 3: Table and most specific, it's just for Funsies'd say your
aunt was having one of them sessions with the table.
Do they have, say, blackout curtains or do they just
leave it open for everybody to see while they're doing
the thing.
Speaker 10: They would close the curtains to the street and they
would just have candles in the shop. But the seances
that she held were always at night.
Speaker 3: Okay, so not and the curtains will be closed. I
just was getting a visual here. If it's just someone
walking down the street, anyone can see right.
Speaker 9: No, Aunt Ruth was concerned with.
Speaker 10: Appearances, for sure, but she also loved a good atmosphere,
so she would have made certain that it was, you know,
the setting was appropriate.
Speaker 7: I'm not sure if we touched on this, but did
your aunt offer these services as it was a part
of her shop experience? People come in to pay for
this sort of thing. In particular, because I noticed that
you have it displayed, you know, as an attraction, just
the way that it's raised up and everybody can see
it from the street.
Speaker 10: This was an unpaid service meant to build community, and
Ruth thought it would foster friendships and potentially get people
interested in telling friends about the spending more time here,
maybe reading up more about, you know, the paranormal. If
something should happen during one of these, I didn't attend them.
I don't believe in this kind of thing. In fact,
I'm hoping you'll tell me there's something to explain this away.
There's a magnet and a recorder that I don't see
something anything.
Speaker 9: But Aunt Ruth knows she she believed she wouldn't have
charged for this sort.
Speaker 7: Of thing, okay, And I'm not going to make any
accusations here. However, as a business owner, seeing that she
provided this as a free service, trying to bring people
into the belief of the supernatural. Would you mind that
we inspect the table at all I have in the
past seen I'll put this as lightly because I don't
mean to disparage your aunt's character, but the word hoax
hoaxes scams of the like to try and convince people
of the supernatural in order to sell them on certain things.
I'm not saying that's what your aunt did, but I
can't roll it out. Is not a possibility that maybe
there's something to this seance table that isn't all that
it appears, and that the reason why she did this,
or at least one of the reasons why she did this,
was to get people interested in to sell her wares.
Speaker 2: Look, Jim, is it jim Jim, jimmy for you.
Speaker 10: To investigate the table or any other props if you
will merchandise.
Speaker 9: As thoroughly as you'd like.
Speaker 7: Okay, are there any areas that remain off limits? We
want to respect your privacy.
Speaker 10: Formerly I would have said please stay out of the
basement for respect for my aunt Ruth.
Speaker 9: She had a lot of things down there that she
valued highly. Not because I believed you would be in danger.
Speaker 10: Okay, Now, however, I feel I must warn you. At
least she would have that she believed that several of
the objects being kept down there held power or spirits
or I don't remember the language used, but she thought
there was danger down there, So I will give you
that warning. I live upstairs. I don't mind you looking
around upstairs. You know my experiences? Is that what you
call them in this situation? Yeah, I've been doing some reading,
have been centered in the shop itself, but you folks
may know more about what you'd find in the basement anyway, So.
Speaker 9: You are welcome. You're welcome to look anywhere.
Speaker 3: Thank you, and appreciate it.
Speaker 7: By extension, you would be fine with me doing a
thorough investigation of the seance table itself. Absolutely, I think
I know what I want to work on, guts, it
would be the seance table. If you know, mind, I
can take lead on that.
Speaker 5: Sure?
Speaker 3: Do you mind me? I don't mean to be insensitive, ma'am,
but do you mind if I ask a personal question?
Speaker 9: Have at it?
Speaker 2: Harry?
Speaker 9: I believe.
Speaker 3: Yes, your your aunt Ruth. Did she pass recently?
Speaker 9: It was about a month ago?
Speaker 3: Okay, all right? And when when? Exactly did these encounters
take place?
Speaker 9: Experience weeks A couple of weeks ago. Who started, all right?
Speaker 3: Was there? Did you happen to get anything say in
the mail? Was maybe your aunts will delivered at that time?
Anyone visit you around then? An interesting customer, anything of
note that you could think of that happened to have
a lot.
Speaker 10: Sorry to cut you off of interesting customers. I would
not be able to begin in that regard.
Speaker 3: No one stood out the day that it happened to
you had the the what sounded like something breaking and
knocking things over. No customer that day that just happened
to stand out, you.
Speaker 9: Know, it was Betty on the counter that day. I
have two part time employees.
Speaker 4: So oh.
Speaker 9: Ummm, I wouldn't be able to tell you I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: And that's all right. Do you happen to did she
give you a will?
Speaker 4: She did?
Speaker 3: And in mind if we review that.
Speaker 9: Of course not.
Speaker 10: I don't know how it would help. But I at
this point honestly open to anything. She left me the shop,
and she left me this amulet which she asked that
I always wear, and well I haven't haven't taken it off.
Speaker 3: Was that around the time the experiences started happening when
you received this or was it the dacy dad you
got the day she died.
Speaker 9: She gave me the amulet and then told me the
shop was mine, and I said she would send a message.
Speaker 2: I'm so sorry I have to come in in and
rope because we have people listening. Rep And I think
it was important that missus Lilith looked away from Harry
when she said it was the day she died. Would you, Lilith,
would you be able to describe your body language right
now for those.
Speaker 10: Listening, certainly tense, shoulders, risen, not meeting people's gaze, except
for occasionally.
Speaker 9: I tensely grabbed.
Speaker 10: The amulet that's around my neck and you know, kind
of showed it off for a moment. And that is
on a black cord, a disk of amethyst.
Speaker 9: Which is smooth and as no metal near the top,
no metal, no metal.
Speaker 2: Interesting. Thank you. Those are for the detectives listening at home,
Thank you.
Speaker 10: And Willith at the best of times is kind of
stern and stiff and tight lipped, but especially right now,
I am feeling, uh, well, I'm embarrassed, and you know,
and and there are people that are about to be
crawling all over my home and my aunt's belongings.
Speaker 2: So are your arms crossed or anything like? Is your
body language very physically like.
Speaker 9: Absolutely crossed?
Speaker 7: Okay?
Speaker 3: And did that happen more specifically around the time I
started asking about the will of the day she died,
and when you had the ambulant.
Speaker 10: Arms got crossed at about the time you started asking
the more personal question?
Speaker 5: Okay, right, Lilith, Can I ask you a question that
might seem insignificant, but maybe you might have noticed. Has
the ambulete changed at all at any point in time?
Like is it always looked about the same or anything?
But it's color like lightened, darkened?
Speaker 9: No, No, there's been no change. It looks the same
as when my aunt Ruth wore it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, listen, I know this is a difficult time at
the best of times, if these circumstances weren't happening to
you time of loss and a time of grief. But
we're going to try and make this as painless as
possible and give you a professional, consummate experience. As I
say that, I fire up the EMF reader and I
started scaring around to.
Speaker 9: Ghost hunters in here all Again.
Speaker 4: I did not.
Speaker 9: I should have known.
Speaker 2: That is the one sound effect I did not source, So.
Speaker 3: You'll just have to do your own, babes, I didn't
just for you.
Speaker 5: That was it.
Speaker 2: Perfectly, Okay, you fired up the EMF reader. Jim, you
are investigating the sounds table. Can you make a role
for me? Unless you're using your ability, which I think
you might, you're probably using your Devil in the details.
Speaker 7: Right, Yeah, I want to use Devil in the details.
I'd see if there's any trick to this table, right,
because some Souance tables will have magnets, like something hollow
and like people levitated using their feet. You know, Jim
would have a little knowledge about this. Uh, you know
because Houdini was a big thing back then and he
used to bust sound or psychics as well, uncovering that
sort of stuff.
Speaker 2: Yep, okay, uh mind right, yep, that sure, he's right.
Speaker 7: What do I want to five or ten shift?
Speaker 2: You're doing five for that first year of deal in
the details now, I do think so we're rolling because
you can roll a one or or you know, thirty
three or something crazy. But also you do have an
innate ability here with Devil in the details. If I'm
not mistaken where you just get to see something that
other people wouldn't. So that'll still happen, but I'm having
you roll just in case you get something crazy as well.
Speaker 7: I want to clarify I might have to roll a
flat because oh that's right.
Speaker 3: Sorry, you could try again, but more than likely I
question and maybe I copied devil in details wrong. I
don't think it gave you a natural shift. I don't
mean to lawyer against usself.
Speaker 2: Oh no, sorry. His five shift is because he said
he has had experience with this sort of thing and
he was able to list like.
Speaker 3: Making sure that it wasn't the skill itself.
Speaker 2: The skill itself gives him a free free bee thing.
But I'm having him roll anyway, just in case he
finds the same thing.
Speaker 3: That's why I wanted to make sure I wasn't missing.
Speaker 2: You're all right, Thank you for being refine, gotcha.
Speaker 7: So I just want to make a.
Speaker 2: Flat D one hundred and then your it looks like
your mark at the moment, Jim for your mind, so
it would be twenty five. So you got to roll
twenty five or under for extra bullshit?
Speaker 7: All right?
Speaker 2: Forty okay, So your ability naturally lets you say things
other people would miss. So I'm going to give you something.
As soon as you step up onto that raised platform,
it's hollow, and I think you you know, you hear
the difference when you step on it. There's also a
little bit of a bend and a give. Now, it
could just be that it's a shoddy platform added, you know,
to to raise and make it look cool, but I
think you might go Okay, that's interesting. But as far
as the table itself, I have to clarify I do
touch it, Yeah, I.
Speaker 7: Would be inspecting it, so if there's any hollow points,
kind of seeing if there's any secret levers that can
be pulled.
Speaker 2: Okay, are you are you like knocking on it or anything.
You're just just running your.
Speaker 7: Hand over it, Yeah, running my hand over it and
then also kind of putting my ear up to it
and knocking to see if there's any hollow points that
I can find in the table itself. Okay, And that's
particularly on the side of where Aunt Ruth would have sat,
So I'm assuming on the left side of the table.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, do another random flat? Do you one hundred
for me?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 2: Under? Okay? Ninety? All right, let's see. When you get
over to where Auntie Ruth would normally see it, you
feel the temperature markedly change. It's really chilly.
Speaker 9: In that area.
Speaker 2: But other than that, you don't notice anything else odd
about the table, unless miss West has anything to add.
I don't imagine Altie Ruth carved anything in there, but
it is possible that she did.
Speaker 9: Okay, yeap, where did you?
Speaker 7: Where did your aunt get this table?
Speaker 10: I couldn't tell you. I wasn't around the shop a lot.
It was actually quite a shock that she left it
to me.
Speaker 7: She knew I beaving any of this okay, and she
didn't have any I don't know. She was always a
straightforward kind of person. Wouldn't really strike you as a
somebody would have something to hide.
Speaker 9: Not necessarily. She, like I said, believed in this sort
of thing.
Speaker 10: She lived it, okay, So when she said things that
seemed incredible to me, I took.
Speaker 9: Her at her word, all right.
Speaker 7: And these seances that she provided for the community, it
seems like a very certainly an interesting thing to provide
for free seeing. Is usually these siances would cost quite
a bit. You know, would she be contacting the dead
or did you know what sort of seances went on.
Speaker 9: It wasn't privy to the seances. I thought they were
to be frank bullshit.
Speaker 7: Okay, I think you never told you of any experiences
that she had while doing a seance, or like, hey,
I just connected this couple to their you know, their grandfather,
one of their grandfathers, or you know, ancestors of the
past or.
Speaker 9: She knew better than to say things like that to me.
Speaker 7: Okay, And in fear of you judging her or.
Speaker 9: I was closed off to all of this.
Speaker 5: I I.
Speaker 9: I thought she was bored. I thought she was lonely,
and I thought.
Speaker 10: That she needed this, so she made things happened. She
didn't seem to have a duplicitous nature. She just seemed
to want this.
Speaker 7: Okay.
Speaker 2: For those listening at home, Miss West flinched when she
said bored.
Speaker 7: Well, it's all the questions I have for now. It
seems like this table isn't hiding anything. It just seems
to be normal, although marketedly re markedly. I would say
that it is colder on her side, and with that,
I would I would kind of look around and see
if there's any vents or like any like, any reason
why it would be cold. None that you can sew
on that side.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no that you can say no vans or nothing,
no fan going m.
Speaker 7: Interesting. Well, I don't think she was pulling any tricks.
I think she was being genuine when she was offering
her services, and she did believe this. She doesn't come
off to me as somebody who would scam others and
try to get people to buy into this just for
her benefit of people buying more crystals and product from
her store. So I do think this was something that
she genuinely believed in, and I think the services that
she was offering, as far as I can tell, she
offered them in sincerity. So no trick so far here,
as far as I can tell.
Speaker 2: Let's take a look at the EMF reader. Do you
want to make a roll for me?
Speaker 3: I guess for sure.
Speaker 2: When am I rolling, you're going to roll your flat
D one hundred. But do you have any I don't
think you have any abilities yet for the tech side
of things like period. I don't think I've given them
to you yet. So let's just do a flat roll.
But let's do either soul or your main aspect of
your mind. Right, Yeah, let's roll your mind then, because
that's that's your main stat there, and no shift. I
just want to see what happens.
Speaker 5: Today, all right, thirty by the way.
Speaker 2: So okay, yep, okay.
Speaker 9: So when you.
Speaker 2: Do, you know what you're expecting to happen here. You're
expecting it to like light.
Speaker 5: Up and go, you know, and you know in theory
you wave it around and it would fluctuate in some sense,
but it could equally fluctuate just because the wiring isn't
perfect in the building, you know what I mean. So
it's not necessarily like supernatural only you know it's looking
for I.
Speaker 2: Think it is fluctuating a little bit. I think it'll
fluctuate if you're going near the table and maybe one
particular bookshop or book bookshelf, and then as you start
to walk around, you're like you might have a moment
where you're like, hey, this is working, and then you
walk over and then it does it again in another area.
So at the moment, it's inconclusive.
Speaker 5: Gotcha. Yeah, I sort of give it, you know, just
like the general sweep to see if anything, you know,
reliably is setting it off. And I don't seem I'm
not giving it like like my full faith. If that
makes sense. I'm not like, and this will be the thing,
you know, I'm sort of giving it like the college.
Try based on what I this is how a ghost
hunter operates, I believe, So I'll try that. I'll try
and mimic that somewhat, but I'd probably check the Is
it stairs leading down to the basement. Is it like
an open staircase or is it like a door that.
Speaker 10: Leads doors there there's a door behind the counter when
you walk in. The counter is opposite the door you
walked in, and then behind that is a closed door.
Speaker 9: That leads to the basement. To the right of that
is an open door with stairs going up that goes upstairs.
Speaker 5: Yeah, gotcha. Well, I think checking the basement seems like
a pretty logical step.
Speaker 7: I would concur and maybe that device could help point
us in the right direction whatever it might be emitting
these what did you call them again? What are we
looking for? Exactly?
Speaker 5: It's just magnetic frequencies. It's not the most you know,
electricians use them, you know, so, but you know, sometimes
maybe ghosts do too.
Speaker 3: The idea is that ghosts have you can put off
kind of an electromagnetic field that it interferes with electronics.
So you have this sort of thing reading for electronics.
If it fluctuates and has discrepancies, it could be another
worldly being nearby interfering.
Speaker 7: Yeah, okay, I think I'm following along here. All right, Well,
so that's the.
Speaker 3: Next step then, right, let me get real quick before
I grabbed the cassette recorder, and if I'm not mistaken,
and correct me if I'm wrong, is west that near
the seance table? That is also where that big book was?
Speaker 9: Yes, the big book is in the basement.
Speaker 3: Ah, all right, thank you for correcting that. But the
whispers were near the sands table. Were they near the
big book?
Speaker 9: They were near the science table?
Speaker 3: All right? So wherever Harry whoever Jim had mentioned the
coldness showing up? I pull out the recorder, I turn
it on, and I said it, I'd say, in the
space in front of the chair, like on the table
in front of the chair that Aunt Ruth would sit.
And I have a record, and I leave it for now. Right, Well,
who once do you want to open the door? Ahead?
Investigated Gus and Lilith.
Speaker 5: You're more than welcome to accompanying us, but you're also
welcome to, you know, let us do our thing. It's
your call.
Speaker 9: I think I'd rather not go down there.
Speaker 5: No problem with that at all, all right, Oh, we'll
let you know right away I find anything, and away
I go.
Speaker 2: I open the door down the basement.
Speaker 5: Do you have doing clockwise?
Speaker 2: Just in case you bless you? Do you have an
idea of what this basement looks like? Miss with I do.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 10: It's an older house. So right away you open the door.
You are hit with a bit of cold, damp air
and not super musty smell, but you can smell kind
of like you know, iron in the dirt. You can
smell soil and a bit of mustiness. As you go
down these wooden steps, and they are central to the room,
so you descend into it and the room is the
base is about as big as the room you were
in upstairs.
Speaker 9: Above it. There are a lot of shelves in here.
Some of them just have.
Speaker 10: You know, tools and drills and things, and those are
over off on the left hand side. But then on
the right hand side and behind the stairs that you
just came down are just tables. It's almost like a
yard sail, big old tables, probably old dining tables that
she picked up and they didn't cost much and you
know she picked up it maybe a yard sail, and
these are filled with you name it. I mean there
is junk jewelry, there are statues, there are little chests
with you know, mysterious objects in you know, there's there
are hats, almost any type of object you can think
of outside of maybe electronics, just sort of spread out
in a yard sale fashion, and there would be remnants
of salt on the ground. There would be this large
book that was mentioned. And it's not the best lighting
down here. You're you're going to pull a cord and
you know a.
Speaker 9: Light bulb is gonna come on, but it's it's a
little bit dimly lit.
Speaker 5: So I find a cord that hangs down it is yeh,
you're getting.
Speaker 10: Light from upstairs spilling down and your your head would
hit this little rope cord if you didn't.
Speaker 5: Yeah, stop, Yeah, I would definitely turn that on. And
then's back up the Harry and Jim and continue on
down into this. Is there any signage or like notes
like on all the objects or is this the vibe
of like the person that organized this lived in chaos
and they knew what it all was. But there's not
there's nothing for anybody else. There's no lifeline for it's
the latter. Yeah, this is chaos and okay, yeah, and
isn't she go ahead? Is it hoarder's level? Like is
it like completely like difficult to look at level? Or
is it is it a little more sigmented than that?
Speaker 10: You you can walk down here, But in terms of
the tables themselves, they are covered okay, got you got.
Speaker 3: Scha final with that and covered, covered in stacked or
like coveed is in like a single layer. I see
what horde is though, Like it's piles of things versus
everything's laid out. Whether or not there's organization don't matter,
just that kind of thing. We have to dig through stuff.
Speaker 10: There is no organization. There isn't much in the way
of strata, so things aren't laid on top. There aren't
layers per se, but maybe over twenty percent of it,
like you know, a hat thrown on top of something else.
There's that kind of thing going on shelter and have
to dig to get to most objects, right that thing?
Speaker 7: How much dust in a cobwebs are we looking at here?
Has this just been untouched for a while or has
there been at least good question recent activity.
Speaker 9: Yeah, the tools and things appear to have a layer
of dust and cobwebs.
Speaker 10: The items there, they get looked at and fussed over occasionally,
so they're not quite as dusty, and some of them
lack dust altogether. And we're probably quite recently acquired before
she passed.
Speaker 5: Okay, is there enough furniture that God, how do I
explain this? O? There are like faux corridors down here.
Is it going to be like a thing where like
you turn down a corner and you're out of sight
of like the rest.
Speaker 3: Of the group. Is it that sort of like shelving walking?
Speaker 10: Yeah, see one of those towards the back. So you
came down the stairs and then I described that to
the right there was all this stuff. And also behind
the stairs, in the back of this basement room there's
a large wardrobe.
Speaker 9: There are bigger pieces.
Speaker 10: Of furniture, and those do create a bit of a
space that you know, you can't see behind unless you
are the one going back over there.
Speaker 7: Gotcha, Sorry, Jim, you were saying, I've just done began
to notice that some of these things don't look like
I have mutch of a layer of dust on them.
And since this kind of feels like finding a needle
in a haystack, maybe we should start with the more
recent things. Additions down here, anything that doesn't look so
dust laden, that could possibly be the culprit.
Speaker 3: Newly acquired thing. We don't know the we didn't ask,
didn't ask cause of death, and that's very personal, but
whether it was, well, see, if we get there.
Speaker 5: It might depend on if you know, we hit any roadblocks.
Speaker 3: I'm going to check out that book. Don't touch it.
Speaker 5: I'm not gonna touch it.
Speaker 7: It just just look at it. And you know, you
bring that up, Harry and the Amulet of Protection. I
am curious if that ambulant was recent, was previously worn
by her aunt, and if that that's what she said,
I believe Yeah, okay, then but could I don't want
to assume, but if she was aware of some sort
of let's say, nefarious entity, knew that the necklace would
ward offset entity, I mean, could we rule out that, Well, again,
we don't know how she perished, but that this entity
killed her if she was in fact wearing that amulant.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm sure all they would say something along
the line. So well, that depends so something like that,
because who knows, maybe it's too strong, it's stronger than
the ambulant door or something like that, any any of
the above, and blow. But did you notice and I
lowered my voice a little in case that the door's
up to the top open. You notice she got a
little stiff the moment I started asking about time of
death and the ambulance specifically. Yeah, I'm not there her man. No, no, no, no,
but I'm aware of that. I mean, if there's a
change in body language. I'm not the best at reading, say,
if people lying and things like that, that's not my thing.
But I can tell when someone's suspicious, right, that's more
my thing. And there was a body language change. I
don't know if that was because yes, sensitive topic, but
she knew I was gonna ask about that, and it
wasn't until I started asking those specifics is when she
started tensing.
Speaker 5: She was okay, so you think she knows something about
how her aunt died?
Speaker 4: That is that or.
Speaker 5: Okay, something that's great, we'll get to that if we
If we could all pretend that I had a much
more normal reaction to that. That don't mean the world
to me.
Speaker 3: Oh no, we're gonna we're gonna get well, we'll above
into that later, guys. Uh, I'm just saying I asked
if there was a description. I said, the two weeks
when she she started here, and then when the ambulance
she put on. There seemed to be something off about that.
The time of death, and when she got the ambulet,
when the wheel was here, and when she started being
working here. There's there's a discrepancy there that she knows something. Huh,
she's hiding something. I don't know what it could be, innoculars.
I'm just saying I agree with you.
Speaker 7: I mean, she said to herself that she didn't believe
in any of this, and this is something that she
so recently.
Speaker 3: You know why she's wearing that amulet this whole time.
Speaker 7: She's having a hard time believing that any of this
is real. I mean, you did you know hear her.
She's fighting in this. She's fighting to accept the reality
of what really going on here.
Speaker 3: That's not fair.
Speaker 5: She's fighting to believe any of it's real. It's kind
of weird that she grabbed us, isn't it.
Speaker 3: Well, she was the only one.
Speaker 7: This is the last resort.
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, that I'm not but but what I'm
saying is that it was two weeks ago the incident
started occurring. One month ago her aunt passed, and one
month ago she put the amulet on. Why would she
do that if you thought it was all a bunch
of bull hockey.
Speaker 7: Well, I mean it is something to remember her aunt by,
and I mean there was they aren't, but it could
hold sentimental value more than just an amulet of protection code.
Speaker 3: But the way she reacted, grabbed it and everything makes
me think otherwise.
Speaker 7: Well, I think her experiences recently have reinforced that that
is possibility.
Speaker 5: Some people believe, but they don't want to believe, you
know what I mean. Some people are definitely fighting against
wanting to be, you know, in that space. So it
could be more in that camp. You know, she could,
it could come into the belief as it is.
Speaker 3: It could be innoculous. I'm just saying I noticed a
thing and body language changed. Whereas she talked about the
experience in the incident, there was nothing there, but this
specific thing had something. That's what I'm getting at. The
amulet didn't have any issues, it was the shop, and
yet she reacted about the ambulet in r un not
the shop.
Speaker 5: Listen. I'm taking your word for it, Harry, because usually
I deal with crime scenes. You know, I don't have
to like interview people. Usually it's just, you know, the
the scene of the crime that I'm investigating, rather than
you know what.
Speaker 3: Okay, we'll have to talk about that later, you would. Yeah, man,
that's my man, this book, look at this, I'll ask
about we'll talk about that late, especially all the photographs
you had in your kitchen regarding crime.
Speaker 5: Hey, I didn't go into your kitchen in question your polaroids.
Speaker 3: I would have been happy if you did. I don't
have any polaroids, but not there. I'm just saying it's
an interesting thing that I'm willing to talk to you
about because I mean, I'm curious, not a judgment.
Speaker 7: I'm curious speak of the kitchen. Did you go back
any I didn't notice? Did did you head back to
the kitchen? Was your light bulb missing?
Speaker 5: I haven't been back yet. I uh, you know we
were staying in.
Speaker 3: Were we nowhere.
Speaker 7: In between? I know which one you're talking about, but
Hollow Bend?
Speaker 3: No, it was Hollow Bend, that's right. Yes, we did
stay there a little bit.
Speaker 7: So Yeah, But anyway, Anyways, we should probably go investigate
what that sound was something. Yeah, yeah, probably just maybe
like a book fell off the shelf or I mean,
there's no draft down here, so I have no idea.
Speaker 5: How all right, Well I can look I could look
at the book, and you can investigate the noise.
Speaker 3: Sure, you look at the book. The two of us
will go because noises and pairs versus, you know, stick
it together.
Speaker 7: Yeah, might as well split up this. Okay, what's the
worst that can happen? Yeah, well, you and I'll stay together.
Gus gets to figure that part out. Well, it's a
good thing. I'm sticking next to the lucky one, always
the unlucky one.
Speaker 5: So maybe I don't think no one would ever describe
me as jumpy.
Speaker 3: No, I never would.
Speaker 2: All right, how are you investigating this book?
Speaker 5: I get up real close to it. In spite of
being feld not to touch it, I get pretty close
to it, to be honest.
Speaker 2: And do you know what this book looks like? Would
you like? Yeah?
Speaker 9: Kind of a.
Speaker 10: Camelish color, leather bound book that's a couple of inches
thick and probably eight by eleven ish and it's a
little beat up, looking like it's been around the block and.
Speaker 9: Yeah, just kind of sitting there.
Speaker 5: So is it placed in some semblance of prominence? Is
it on like a lectern? Is it like here's the book?
Speaker 4: Or is it?
Speaker 2: Kind of questions in private d M so that I
kind of see a stiff need be okay, go ahead, sorry,
got it?
Speaker 5: Is it sitting Is it sitting on like a desk? Score?
Speaker 7: Is it?
Speaker 5: Is it? I suppose?
Speaker 4: Is it?
Speaker 5: Is it like haphazardly out there or does it seem
to be placed in some kind of prominence like this
is referred to quite often, So it's it's here, It's
it's right in the open.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's right toward the edge of the table.
Speaker 10: So it's definitely like it's one of the more noticeable
objects that you'd encounter.
Speaker 5: Is there any writing on the cover or anything that indicates,
you know, like ownership or symbol Perhaps.
Speaker 10: It's embossed, so not necessarily it's like in relief, you know,
And there are some symbols on.
Speaker 5: It, symbols that I would recognize, perchance.
Speaker 9: Let's roll for it.
Speaker 2: Hell yeah, Mike, that flat D one hundred. I think
you're Marcus thirty at the moment. Do you have any
special bullshit or lawyer orgaining you want to make with
me as to why you would recognize symbols or how
you would recognize him? Yep, okay, a plot. Sorry I
was saying I was I was planned to miss West. Sorry.
Speaker 5: Sorry, that was the most haunted part of the episode
for me personally. Sorry, So you responded to like my
thoughts for a second, I don't know if I don't
know if this is the world for applied cognition, because
I don't know if that if that's like a cross
referencing of things that I might have seen around the office.
That's the only place I would have maybe seen symbols before.
Speaker 2: Okay, So follow up question, I will always say yes
and to anything. Do you think you would have been
rooting around in the office files or the books in
the office.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I think anytime that Gus is not accounted for that
he is using the terminal and trying to find whatever
he can find there. That is like yep, adding to
the computer in the in the office, anything that'll add
to his is listen, and if Older is going to
let him, he would be like I'm going to try
and grab a book every now and then from the
shelf and just sort of leaf through it.
Speaker 2: She would have told you any of the books on
the magic book shelf is fine, just don't touch that
one behind my desk. God, did you do it? That's
the question, because that's what older would have said. But
whether you listened or not is entirely up to Gus.
Would he have listened?
Speaker 5: Based based on who Guss is as a person at
this point.
Speaker 2: Justification let's go.
Speaker 5: Is a justification I'm trying to we're out. I'm sort
of I'm sort of discovering who Guss is as a
person in this process. And I think Gus, by definition,
is a once spit and twice shy kind of guy.
I think he sort of has to I think he
has to touch the stove to know it's hot.
Speaker 2: Okay, truly, I do think by the way I love,
nobody has a shocked face at that. I just want
everybody listening to know they all dead dead Pam, Yeah, it's.
Speaker 5: Just gotta I gotta tell you. I've touched the stuff
to make sure it's hot. I've touched the mouse traps
to see you know, I've I've made a lot of
betch So this is a sort of bio as far
as I'm concerned as well.
Speaker 2: Well, you did touch the book on the shelf behind
Alder's desk.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I probably felt bad about it. Yeah, but I
reckon what I reckon? I spent about ten minutes leaping
through a random book.
Speaker 4: So when you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's all right. When you open it, the pages
of blank they look used water stained in some places,
but other than that, there's no text for you to read.
Speaker 5: Gotcha.
Speaker 2: Okay, And now I want you to roll on the
when did this happen? Can we say it was recent?
Speaker 5: It was that it happened like in the last forty
eight hours.
Speaker 2: Perfect, perfect, Yeah, roll on the major burn table for me.
Speaker 4: You got it.
Speaker 5: I don't know how to do that.
Speaker 2: Oh oh, this may or may not work, because it's
not working right now. But let's see. It's on your
character sheet down at the bottom model list on the
hand major burn major burn. You just hit that button
on the palm of the hand there.
Speaker 3: Oh this one.
Speaker 5: Yep, it does not appear to be working.
Speaker 2: Gosh, damn it. Okay, that's all right, go ahead and
roll me. Let me see if it works for me.
It did not, damn it. Okay, that's all right. We'll
go old school. Roll me a one D ten please,
or you can either do roll one D ten or
do the flat D one hundred. I'll just take the
first number three, okay, all right, I'll look that up.
You continue doing what you're doing, but you have basically
a major burn condition for touching that book, and I'll
give that to you in a second. You keep doing
what you're doing. Oh so that's just now we're rolling
to see if you recognize the symbols. So go ahead
and do another flat roll for me. Sorry.
Speaker 5: Sure, Uh you can have a shift though.
Speaker 2: I will allow a ten shift for roaming around the
office looking for things.
Speaker 5: All right, so my mark is going to be forty
I believe if that's right. Angles six.
Speaker 2: Ship, Yeah, you recognize these from the office. Uh, let's see.
Speaker 3: Damned it to you.
Speaker 2: Oh thank you so much? Oh wow, Oh I love fate.
I love the rolls. Would you like to know what
your major burn condition is?
Speaker 3: Easy?
Speaker 2: Pray, easy prey, No immediately rolls against you gain ten shift.
Speaker 5: Oh wow. If that doesn't describe us in a nutshell,
I don't know what.
Speaker 2: Okay, so yeah, put that on in your there's a
conditioned spot on your sheet. Just add that in that
you're easy prey, got it? Okay, easy prey. I lost
my train of thought here, though you're yes, you're gonna
go ahead and roll your Marcus forty. You did recognize
the things in the office because you got a six.
I'm going to actually six is really good. So I'm
going to say that on the front of the book,
you recognize a sigil, and you know the difference between
a symbol and a sigil, and a sigil is usually
customized and has some sort of ritual background for it,
and you actually may be spent a whole hour and
a half losing yourself in the idea of sigils and
how people can create their own sign and their own
signature with a sigil in it. And that's what's on
the front of this book. Now, it's using some elements
from other symbols in it to make the sigul. But
you can tell that this is like don't open it,
don't touch it kind of thing, or it may do
something to you this sigil here. But also this sigil
has a power of its own, so it seems like
the book itself may be I'm going to say this
because I don't know if Gus would understand this means yet,
But the book itself is enchanted. Like if you were
to use a spell out of this book, it's going
to give you a shift just for using the book.
The book itself is an anchor. It's going to give
you an extra shift for doing using it. Now, interpret
that however Gus would interpret that at the moment. But
it does feel magical.
Speaker 7: Yeah, do you know?
Speaker 3: I think why did you ask that.
Speaker 5: That? It's a symbol that says, don't open this.
Speaker 2: It's a personal schigule that's like magic, but also like
don't come in here, or something might happen the.
Speaker 3: Red button do not press.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry Gus.
Speaker 4: This one.
Speaker 5: Whatever the case is, The outside perspective is that Guss
is like a half inch away from touching his book
in this moment, right is like it's like it's like
hovering over it. I'm having a battle within myself. Okay,
I kind of want to roll this.
Speaker 3: I want to roll.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's but let's give you a second and see
what happens to the guys down here, and see if
there's maybe any chance that something stops you from doing this,
you know, kiss me?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Sure that makes sense?
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, boys, what are you up to?
Speaker 3: Well, I have bought out the spirit box. Yeah, okay,
have it on. Not asking it anything yet, but just
just have it on. Just while we're walking towards wherever
that noise came from which to clarify, was that back
in one of those areas that was un you know,
like the furnish your cover doors, so to speak. Or
was it out in the open. That's sort of question.
Speaker 2: Uh, well, I don't think there were any real corridors.
I think it was just like false corridors made by
books by by shell.
Speaker 3: Right, I mean like is it out of sight or
is it in the main area where it can be
we could still see Gus for instance.
Speaker 2: No, I think the bookshelves and stuff. I think it's
kind of making an illusion that makes the space feel
very claustrophobic.
Speaker 3: Kind of what I figured. So we would end up
going around the corner, so to speak, to find the sound.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so, yep, around a corner around in
one of the staks. You basically have stacks down here.
Speaker 3: Sure, what did that? Did that sound like something like
a book fallen gym or or something else?
Speaker 7: I don't know. We were kind of talking with a
sound happened, and I mean probort of gas.
Speaker 3: I mean.
Speaker 7: That would be something that had fell at least that's
what we can lean off.
Speaker 4: What what.
Speaker 7: I mean? Maybe maybe it was a book. I mean,
I don't know.
Speaker 3: Well, I asked the obvious. Is there an item of
any kind just sitting in the middle of the pathway
as was noted that it's not, it's what is it?
Organized clutter? You could say it's not holding piles, but
it's it's in its place. So is like the path
is the clear? That was noted?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna have you roll your lucky bullshit and
see if you get looky and find something that matters.
All right, it is, And I cannot help myself. Gus,
are you here? I think maybe Internet may have drunk
for a second. Okay, Oh no, I'm here. Okay, perfect,
because I'm imagining Abou from Aladdin and I know that's
a pop culture reference and I'm going to suffer a
week long rash for this, but like I'm a majing
right now. Well, they're like, where's this sound? We're just
seeing guess his eyes like light up as he's looking
at this magic book.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, looking at the gem don't touch the lamp?
Speaker 2: Yeah, right now? Okay, do you want to make your roll? Guss?
Speaker 5: Just absolutely give me one soon?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 9: Sorry?
Speaker 2: Am I hearing that?
Speaker 5: Was that?
Speaker 4: Just me? Am?
Speaker 2: I going crazy? What the fuck was that?
Speaker 3: Did you hear that?
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 7: What noise?
Speaker 2: It sounded like someone was talking through radio. Okay, No,
it's cool, it's fine. That's a great I love it.
I love that so much, all right?
Speaker 5: Just a flat roll?
Speaker 2: Okay, it just a flat roll? Yeah, because this is
you wanted to roll to see if you would touch it.
So it's up to you whether how you're gonna interpret this.
Speaker 5: I mean, I'm just gonna go fifty to fifty.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's do it. Yeah, I'm fine with that, all right.
I love chance.
Speaker 5: I love under fifty means I don't touch it? How
about that?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Because that's success. You've you've all look at that at thirteen.
You don't touch it? I can I ask you a question, though, narratively,
why don't you touch it? What happens? What do we see?
Because you're definitely tempted? What stops you?
Speaker 5: I think I I think I hear something or I
believe I hear something in the last moment, that like,
it's sort of like the it's it's the horror movie
moment of the person's about to do the really dumb thing. Yeah, so,
and I pull my hand back as if I have
touched the stove. I think like that's the psychological Like, actually, Lincoln.
Speaker 2: When you look at your hand too, it looks like
your fingertips are burned. For a second, you don't feel
any pain, and then maybe you do for a second,
and then it's gone, and then your fingers look fine.
Speaker 5: They're just red to the touch.
Speaker 2: They were rid. And I had like a sting like
you maybe got burned. But then a second goes by
and it's gone.
Speaker 9: Okay, I.
Speaker 5: Mutter something under my breath about universal truths and then
I I I take up my camera and I'm gonna
take a photo of this, of this book instead.
Speaker 2: Love that. Okay, back to the boys. All right, you
guys are looking for what was your role there, Harry,
You didn't have me roll yet? Oh sorry, go ahead
and make your roll. This is your your luck stuff
to see if you find something.
Speaker 3: Oops. Sorry, that's all right. Any shifts for this I
don't have any, because the ability don't have none.
Speaker 2: Nope, not yet. Maybe you upgrade it at some point.
Speaker 3: Perhaps all right, still don't work. We'll have to have
good old Well that's an eighty one.
Speaker 2: It's an eighty one. So nothing really stands out to you.
I mean, I think there's like the way that she
described it, I feel like, and please miss West correct
me if I'm wrong, but it sounds like Auntie would
just grab anything that she felt might be magical. So
you might see like a basket of toy cars in here,
like little hot hot wheels or something like. It just
seems to be no real rhyme or reason as to
some of these things.
Speaker 3: I think that you're saying, sure, I might need to
clarify my question because there was the thing in between.
That's all right, and its going.
Speaker 2: To be about that because the you've missed a detail.
I'm just going to re clarify for you. You're so
swat me. Go ahead, I try.
Speaker 3: I mean you you're horrible to me, But that's all right,
it's not.
Speaker 2: Anyway.
Speaker 3: That's what thieves call me, you know. Don't be that
I misspoke there, but it's still hit hit right U.
I had asked if anything had fallen in the pathway
that we were walking in.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's what I was looking for. If anything see
a fallen book. You don't see anything was okay, sorry.
Speaker 3: It's with the role. Nonetheless, that's what I was looking for.
Is anything that may have made that noise when it fail?
Speaker 2: Yep, nope, not that you can identify.
Speaker 3: All right, cool, that's thank you. But I do see
something because of the devil in the details perfect that
others would have missed.
Speaker 2: Okay, do you have your spirit box on?
Speaker 3: I did? I did specifically say I had.
Speaker 2: It all okay perfect? Then I think you noticed something
from your spirit box. It goes on. Mmm, it's true.
Speaker 4: H m hm hm hmm.
Speaker 7: You're hearing that too, It's not just me right.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, hear him that.
Speaker 7: I won't do the thing.
Speaker 3: That is terrible idea. But because you say that again,
it was hard to hear you.
Speaker 4: M m.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I can't make head the tails of that, Jim if
you could. But also sound like I heard something fall
again or get bumped. What did that sound like it
came from?
Speaker 7: I have no idea. I mean, from what I can tell,
it sounds like a female voice. But that thing, I
have no idea. That mumbling, No, there.
Speaker 3: Was mumbling there, But I heard another noise, That's what
I mean, And I'm looking around trying to pinpoint where
I may have heard it. That would be for you
all if you haven't that, I'm sorry. That's all right.
The noise that I heard, the bump, the bump of
the noise that I heard, not the spavorite box. There
was another noise. Was that intentional? Or was that a okay,
I'm making so that wasn't someone bumping.
Speaker 2: The microphone, so nice of you. No, it was something
like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what I heard, roughly, Was that, like I'm
trying to pinpoint via heroin, if it was vaguely far
of us, behind us, to the left, front of the
left at that gym, somewhere over there, there was another noise?
Speaker 7: All right, that's a little that came pretty that was clear.
Speaker 3: How How des she?
Speaker 7: What dare she? Okay, that's sensing anger?
Speaker 3: What did she do?
Speaker 9: Betrayed? I feel so betrayed?
Speaker 7: Trade how dare she betrayed?
Speaker 3: Can we help?
Speaker 5: Why?
Speaker 3: Why? That's our job. We want you to be at peace.
Speaker 2: Guess you would definitely hear this now too. By the way,
take a picture of the photo and then you start
hearing some ship, and you'd hear the spirit box as well.
You're in a small space down.
Speaker 5: Here, guys. Everything okay, yeah, hold on, now I didn't
touch the book, so we should be good.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 7: Well, I hear that got in contact with the spirit
down here. We've deduced so far that's a female spirit.
She seems angry. She's saying that she has been betrayed
and her betrayer is also a she. How dare she? Yeah,
there is a betrayal. But now here's a good question.
Speaker 3: Why would we want to help them? It puts you
to help you be at peace?
Speaker 7: Who are we speaking to? Who is this? We're dumb?
Speaker 3: We go, Oh, it's telling us to leave? So you
want us to leave?
Speaker 9: She doesn't understand? She does, She doesn't understand.
Speaker 3: I don't understand.
Speaker 7: Okay, understand, doesn't understand.
Speaker 3: Who betrayed you?
Speaker 4: She did?
Speaker 7: She did?
Speaker 3: Who is she? Lilith?
Speaker 4: She did?
Speaker 3: If it's Lilith, you want to.
Speaker 7: How did you die?
Speaker 2: Not dead?
Speaker 3: Not dead?
Speaker 7: Not dead?
Speaker 3: Okay, that's fun. Where are you?
Speaker 9: Everybody?
Speaker 2: Roll for me? Please? Said D one hundred. That roll.
Speaker 3: Sixteen lucky as hell?
Speaker 2: That's crazy?
Speaker 4: Good?
Speaker 2: What else we got?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 2: Everyone?
Speaker 5: Everyone rolling?
Speaker 2: Yep? Fourteen. Holy shit, and yeah, that's what are we surprised?
Okay ninety seven? Okay, I will interrupt when it is appropriate,
but in the means, for now, nothing really happens other
than an immediate temperature drop. And you all feel it.
It is now freezing in here, so freezing you can
see your breath. It starts as you inhale.
Speaker 3: That's brisk.
Speaker 5: I I'm gonna shake the photo that I just took,
you know, as it's sort of finished developing. Can I
see anything on this photo that is out of the ordinary?
Speaker 2: Oh, do you have a devil in the details or
some magic bullshit for this ability?
Speaker 5: No, it is my It is your polar my perceptive camera.
Speaker 2: Okay, so you just go ahead and roll roll again
your flat D one hundred. You've got a ten shift.
I know that is saying that out loud for myself.
Don't worry about this mind, Oh nope, Ilan, just do
your flat D one hundred for fifty seven fifty seven.
There is like a light leak on the side of
the photograph, but not coming from the book or nothing,
but it does look like, and you're smart, it's from
where the boys are standing, like there's a lot coming
in on that side. Lot's bill that should not be there.
There's a lot in here that will cause that.
Speaker 5: I'm going to walk towards the two of them, and
I'm going to I'm going to prep the flash on
my camera and raise it up towards where Harry and
Jim are standing. As I go, I'm going to take
another snap. The second I hear from her again, all right,
all right.
Speaker 3: How can we hail.
Speaker 4: Be trade?
Speaker 7: Are you trapped?
Speaker 9: Why would she? Why would she do it?
Speaker 3: We're trying to find that out.
Speaker 7: So she's not dead. She was betrayed, yeah, wondering why
she would betray her, So there was a close relation
between the two for that betrayal to really sting. But
what I'm now standing, yeah, there.
Speaker 3: Was a reaction to something when I asked, why would she?
Speaker 5: Yeah that Okay, I'm going to take a picture as
that is this happens. I'm going to snap a photo
trying to capture something.
Speaker 2: Okay, go ahead and make another D one please.
Speaker 5: M seventy one.
Speaker 9: She shouldn't.
Speaker 2: As you take this photograph, you're here in another Let's
say that when you took that first one, the second
you heard something is when you then heard the other one.
Immediately after that something like that. Another thing falls and
as you're turning around, you are now starting to actually
see these things fall off the shelves and it is
happening all around you.
Speaker 3: We should maybe back out of here. We're gonna figure
this out for you, and I turn around and stop
going to the stairs, whether they do or not with me.
Speaker 7: All right, I think it's about time we take her leave.
Speaker 5: I think I'm closer to the stairs right eight.
Speaker 3: You would definitely do so.
Speaker 5: I'm kind of beckoning to you guys towards being late, like, yeah,
let's let's let's let's get out of here. And I'm
waiting at the base of the stairs for you too.
Speaker 3: The the items that weren't so dusty, we never actually
looked at those carefully. I'm doing a quick glance as
we're walking by, and if there's something that stands out
to me, I'm gonna grab it and take it up
with us.
Speaker 2: Okay, you make a roll for your look, all right,
nothing stands out.
Speaker 3: To you, all right, I look at I don't grab
anything that hmm.
Speaker 7: The three convene upstairs. I think it'd be better if
we get out of here. For now, we're not gonna
get any more information, not.
Speaker 3: Not the moment, not until we get something else to
come down with.
Speaker 7: But I do have an idea.
Speaker 3: I have one too, but we'll talk about it then later.
Speaker 7: You must talk about that upside cold in here?
Speaker 1: Can we can?
Speaker 3: That's yep, yep, just the old you old go up
those stands faster than Gus, don't you.
Speaker 7: See? I've been this cold and quite a while.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're here to help, here to help. Let's go now.
And I'm like, if Gus isn't blawl the gag and
I'm pushing Gus up those stairs as I'm moving.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'll move up the stairs because Harry is ushering me.
This clearly instick for me. I want to I want
these two on the stairs first. But then like we're
all kind of like, no, I'll be the last one up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, you guys clamber up the stairs. Where is
Miss West when they get up there? She been kind
of like nearby listening to the or has she been
like fucked off?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 9: I don't think she was hovering?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Probably?
Speaker 10: Yeah, okay, yeah, she's has been scared and is happy
to pass the torch here in terms of not dealing
with this. So okay, let's say she was idly tidying things,
trying to busy room or something.
Speaker 2: Hmm okay, yep, all right, you guys head on up
and as uh as soon as you like it up there,
and all three of you go through, like the door
is gonna slam behind so much so that it splinters
and everyone will witness this door to the basement will slam.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so you probably got a ghost.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Liluth, super sayan, you're very sane just seeing u.
Speaker 7: But we're also not sure if we can categorize it
as a ghost quite yet.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I said, probably super phenomena.
Speaker 3: Again, we believe you, and we continue to believe you.
Speaker 9: So do you have do I hold something? Do something?
Speaker 3: How do we don't go down there for now? We'll
figure that out. Yeah, well, we gotta collect.
Speaker 9: What's down there.
Speaker 3: No, it's been up in here, it's probably been.
Speaker 7: How How again, have your experience has been here upstairs?
Have they been? Have you felt a malicious present sort
of anger?
Speaker 9: I'd not specifically, just you know, yeah, I wouldn't say
the scream sounded happy, but.
Speaker 3: Hmmm, you know where was that?
Speaker 4: Will? What? What do I do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're not sure yet because we don't know what
it is. Oh, but where was the will before? I forget.
Speaker 2: With the will?
Speaker 9: The will? The will?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll get it right, go get that real quick.
Well we're not going to leave.
Speaker 2: Hm.
Speaker 7: She does that.
Speaker 3: I walk over the seance table, grab the recorder, shut
it off, don't play it yet, but I put it
in my pocket. I forget it there.
Speaker 7: You know, guys, as I am wondering if she's had
different experiences up here then the experiences that we had
down in the basement, I'm curious if they because this
spirit seems very very aggressive and very vengeful.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, And I didn't touch the book, so
it's not about that.
Speaker 9: There you go, what do you mean aggressive?
Speaker 1: But book?
Speaker 3: The things were falling down there, and it was whatever
that thing was, it didn't like us down there. Hence
while we left, and even more so while the doors
slammed behind us without us touching it. So what if
it's down there? Isn't too keen on anyone going down there,
So I suggests you don't for now, that'd be stipple normal.
Speaker 9: Do you deal with this ship all the time? I
don't understand why this is happening to me.
Speaker 5: I don't want that's I don't That's that's our next step.
We're gonna to figure out why this is happening to you.
And then once we know why this is happening to you,
that's a pretty good through line for us to figure
out how to stop it from happening to you. They're
all kind of compartment parcels.
Speaker 9: That's I can't sleep, I can't stay here.
Speaker 3: That's okay, you could got do you have a hotel
or a friend you could stay with that? There's nothing
wrong with that. Maybe one of your your your employees
would take you in for the night, Betty, you said, Betty, Yeah,
that just if you're uncomfortable, and that would be wise.
Speaker 7: There's something I meant, Betty, I'm sorry to cut you
off at home. Has has Betty experienced any of what
you've been experiencing too? Can she coroborate?
Speaker 4: Uh? No?
Speaker 5: Hey, you said you have two people that work the counter.
Speaker 9: Yeah, that's Harvey, Betty, and Harvey got you and your aunt.
Speaker 3: They did, they did right before you were here.
Speaker 7: Taken over, okay, Jim, Yeah, so neither of them have
experienced any supernatural phenomenon here. Have you ever been in
the same room with your employees experience something out of
the ordinary? You noticed it, but they didn't. No, so
no supernatural phenomenons have happened with you and your employees
in the same room.
Speaker 9: There's not often a need for them to be here
at the same time.
Speaker 3: But no, I see, all right, so you don't necessarily
work to well, you work together, but not at the
same time. I see what you mean.
Speaker 9: Overlap a little as needed, sure.
Speaker 3: Like chick changes and such.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I know this is gonna suck as a question,
so I'm just gonna ask this outright. Did your aunt
have any enemies anybody? She was on bad bad terms,
but she didn't like feed with anyone in the town?
Speaker 3: No, No, okay, no one thought she was a charlatan
and accused to of such, even if they didn't feud me, right,
but not the.
Speaker 9: Fact everyone here believes this sort of thing.
Speaker 3: Sure, okay? And how did she die?
Speaker 9: Massive heart attack?
Speaker 3: Heart attack? I say.
Speaker 9: She died in the hospital.
Speaker 3: I was there, well, brought her into the hospital. If
you don't, was it the heart attack?
Speaker 9: The heart attack?
Speaker 5: Where was she and she experienced the heart attack?
Speaker 2: Was she here?
Speaker 9: She was here?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 7: I know you said that you will as you didn't ask,
all right, you know, I know you said that you've
had a hard time believing in what she believes. And
did she ever specifically tell you not to do something?
But then you did it? Anyways.
Speaker 9: No, I didn't go in the basement. I didn't. I mean,
I've been down there, but I didn't touch anything. Did
you put No, I didn't. I didn't. I didn't.
Speaker 7: Okay, it's curious.
Speaker 3: No, we didn't touch anything. We didn't. We didn't touch
anything when went on. We're gonna mess with things we
don't get get yet, So no, nothing was touched.
Speaker 9: But like the door here, you saw things move, you
saw oh.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeh ye, things will fallen, and that door slams.
So that's why we decided we should probably turn around
and come back up here.
Speaker 5: We also heard some things.
Speaker 3: Like the screen was, yeah, yeah, it was. There was
all sorts of no, yeah exactly, just whispering a nonsense.
We're still figuring that out.
Speaker 4: Right, Hm.
Speaker 9: I need something to do.
Speaker 4: What do we do? Is?
Speaker 10: Can I drink something, hold something, say something? Nothing we
know of you, clergy, do we nothing we know of yet?
Speaker 3: We need to talk with our heads like our chief,
we're gonna we're gonna compare what we found. We're gonna
figure basically, we gotta we gotta figure out what the
entity is. Is it actually a ghost? Is I think
probably it could be something else. You don't want to
mess with things the wrong way, if that makes sense, right?
Speaker 2: Okay, Well is.
Speaker 9: There besides ghosts? Don't answer that.
Speaker 3: We don't know exactly. I won't answer it, and we
don't know yet, so we don't want to cause you
any distress, so understand, but we will.
Speaker 7: Go ahead and confer with her chief. Well, like Harry said,
will go ahead and explain the situation here and see
if we can't come up with a solution to move forward.
Speaker 3: All right, if you wouldn't mind, yes, staying with with
Betty would be wise. Or another friend if he would
wouldn't mind. We'd love to talk to both of them,
just in case. Maybe they were maybe they did experience something,
but they felt maybe embarrassed. They thought it was the
playing tricks on them, right, and they didn't want to
tell you because they didn't want to worry you. There
was a possibility of that they would tell Well, maybe
they wouldn't tell you because you said you didn't believe
in it, and they had hid that you think they
were crazy, so they didn't want us to mention anything.
I'm not accusing you, but that that could happen, so
it'd be good to talk with them as well. I'm
sure we can't get them run this second. So yeah,
if you could reach out and ask them to meet
us here when we come.
Speaker 9: Back, I can do that. I can have them both
be here, right, okay.
Speaker 3: All right, anything else.
Speaker 5: You don't mind, if we take a look around the
place when we come back, we might do a more
thorough investigation of the whole whole building.
Speaker 3: Wonderful.
Speaker 9: Yeah, did your don't give.
Speaker 5: Any photo albums? Many chance?
Speaker 4: But I think.
Speaker 9: I don't know. I suppose in the attic I have
an there.
Speaker 3: Okay, that'd be a your place for us to check
as well next time we're here. I'm right, okay, uh
the uh do you do you mind giving us Betty's
address so that if you're not here when we come back,
we can pop over and retrieve y'all.
Speaker 9: I'll write it down for you.
Speaker 3: Great, thank you.
Speaker 7: Hmm, that's Jim.
Speaker 3: I'm out.
Speaker 5: I Uh, I think I think that's all we need
from now, Lilith. So uh yeah, I again, i'd recommend
that you don't stay here for the time being, but
you know, it's.
Speaker 3: Okay, listen, if you're not here, don't worry about it.
Speaker 5: The thing about using security measures or you know, warding
and things like that is like I could tell you
to do this, this and that, but like, until we
know exactly what we're dealing with, you could just be
exacerbating a situation. You could be antagonizing an entity. It's
just I think distance is the safest thing for the
time being, if nothing else. And do you mind if
I take photo of you for the sake of the
case files. It's a little unusual a question.
Speaker 4: But.
Speaker 9: Okay is that necessary.
Speaker 5: From my perspective?
Speaker 9: Yeah, Stealing my information?
Speaker 4: Is that what this is? No?
Speaker 3: No, And I think the door, the door behind us
chat like splintering may speak to that. We're here to
look into this.
Speaker 5: Clarify. If I was stealing your identity, it'd be kind
of weird for you to come to me first and
then for me to try it. You know, it's you know,
you came into our office. We're trying to help you.
I promise you this is part of us helping it.
Speaker 9: I'm sorry, I just no, I get it, all right.
Speaker 3: It's a nerve wracking situation.
Speaker 9: We do not blame you, Okay, yeah you can. You
can take the picture style.
Speaker 5: You whatever, whatever, whatever feels natural. You don't even have
to be looking at the camera if you don't want,
say it's just for the sake of my record keeping. Yeah,
I'm fine if I if I take this photo, I'm
going to try and get the best focus I can
on the amulet itself is my goal. You know, I'm
definitely taking a photo of her. The focal point would
be the amulet.
Speaker 2: There is I mean it's a Polari camera, so there's
there's like a two foot focal point and then everything
in that too, what ranges and focus, So you're getting her,
you're getting the amulet.
Speaker 5: Just saying like weeble thirds. The emphasis is.
Speaker 2: All right, you take that. You're at what six?
Speaker 5: Now? Used?
Speaker 3: Four?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 9: Four out of it?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Four? Left? Okay? You take the flash goes off, y'all,
Maybe feel mild drop in temperature, but nothing like what
you felt downstairs, and then nothing else happens.
Speaker 5: All right, thanks less, I appreciate that, sir.
Speaker 7: All right, We don't actually have to go back to
the office. We can just go ahead and radio in.
Speaker 2: Over.
Speaker 3: True, So we'll go ahead and take that call real quick,
just to confer with her, and we'll step out, get
out of your hair. Well we might, we might.
Speaker 5: We might get a cup of coffee at the diner
or something, and then I'm not going to come back.
Speaker 3: Oh, if you're not going to stay here anyway, No, yeah,
that's that makes sense.
Speaker 7: I don't blame it here. If you're going to step out,
then that's fine. Just conduct call here.
Speaker 9: I'll just step outside if we need to leave.
Speaker 3: You want us to lock up? Do you the keys
or do you not.
Speaker 9: Get Just step outside. I'll lock when you leave.
Speaker 3: Oh oh right, I see what you mean.
Speaker 7: Yeah, alrighty uh.
Speaker 2: You don't have to miss that role anymore, miss with.
Speaker 3: Gotcha?
Speaker 2: Okay, flavor, Jim, don't forget you're going to get down
for that all right? Now, what do y'all do?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 7: I want to get in contact with the chief and
see if she might have any idea what we're dealing with,
because it seems obvious that it's a ghost, but the
spirit said that they weren't dead, which I find odd.
Because I'm a ghost, you gotta die right or in
other way.
Speaker 5: I think that and a lot of ghost stories, the
dead are often unaware of the fact that they've passed.
I think is actually quite quite a common theme from
what I've seen. Obviously, I haven't encountered that many ghosts
in the real world, but it's not impossible. Or this
person might be trapped in a state between life and death.
Speaker 3: Very x files lack is stepping into the other side
sort of thing, or being shoved into the other side.
Who knows.
Speaker 7: What we should call if you dug into those I mean,
if you have those files, I'd like to read them too.
Speaker 3: I'll look into it see if I can find copies
for you.
Speaker 7: Jim mhmm, Yeah, that'd be excellent. Yeah, if you so,
what what about the what are those files? Do you think?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 5: I was just like it was, let's let's talk some
of the files that we got right now. I'm gonna yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was just that thing that reminded me of
in this situation. Nothing related side of that.
Speaker 7: Was there a case in those files that you read
about this particular one.
Speaker 3: No, No, That's why I was saying. It kind of
reminded me of but was not the same. It was
just a just a thought, just to pass and thought
nothing necessary.
Speaker 2: Right now, Jim, we'll watch that doc later.
Speaker 3: With the man that talks directly to Alda.
Speaker 7: Let's I didn't talk to the chief.
Speaker 5: Then I didn't roll a D hundred for that last
photo that I took. I don't know if you if
you don't, if you want to, Okay, awesome.
Speaker 3: Right, fantastic, But yeah, go ahead, Jim. You've got the
walking Okay, the two way radio.
Speaker 7: I'm assuming you press this one down and then.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the one that says talk Just click and hold
that with your ahole, right, you can talk right into it.
Speaker 7: Well, this is simple, Hell, it really is, Older, can
you read me? This is Jim over.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll reach your land clear.
Speaker 7: Older. We've gotten some evidence so far about we could
possibly be haunting the shop, but we're we're not quite
sure what it is.
Speaker 4: Over Okayrie, you got so far?
Speaker 7: Uh, so far, We've got It has the ability to
interact with the physical world, things being thrown from tables
and shelves. It seems to have a claimed to not
be dead, and it h it keeps saying how she
was betrayed. It's a female spirit. As far as we understand,
she hasn't given her name or how she's died, but
she keeps repeating, how dare she? How dare she? She's
talking about betrayal over.
Speaker 4: Okay, Yeah, that's really odd.
Speaker 3: Uh, temperature drops Jim. And when we mentioned the name,
we mentioned the niece's name. Usually there was something that
dropped around that time as well.
Speaker 7: I don't know if you pick that up. I put
the pretty up to Harry. Did you did you get
that over?
Speaker 4: Yeah? I could hear that, and I mean it depends.
It could be a lot of things, but it does sound,
you know, spectral to me. Here's the thing, if we
if we're dealing with a ghost hare, you know, you
gotta be really really careful because the next steps are
and I know I said, don't do anything stupid like
the sounds or anything, but that is an option. We
could also maybe try a couple of other spills. You said, sorry,
did you say it was aggressive?
Speaker 3: Aggressive in its tonly aggressive?
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: When we mentioned the name of the niece as well
as things started falling and getting knocked around around that too.
Speaker 4: Okay, did you question her about it? Over?
Speaker 3: Fried?
Speaker 7: Over there?
Speaker 4: You go okay, Well, Tom, I think we could maybe
try to I mean, I guess ask her some more questions,
maybe use some of the phrases that it used.
Speaker 7: Do you feel think it would I hope if we
did a seance.
Speaker 4: Over, I mean you could do that, but again, you
have to be extremely careful. I would really recommend, don't
better that you come back to the office before you
do anything like that, because you have to be you
have to be very fucking particular. Okay, said that magic.
Speaker 3: Means we should get out of here, by the way,
but we'll hold on. We're hearing things. It's talking while
this is going on.
Speaker 4: Wait, wait, it's talking. Well I'm talking to you. Yeah,
what's what's it saying?
Speaker 5: Hard to make out? Actually, okay, when you might.
Speaker 4: Be in danger, so maybe you okay, so maybe.
Speaker 5: Don't leave, don't leave?
Speaker 4: I mean, it depends, it could go either way.
Speaker 7: Really older, I swear to God, getting mixed signals here.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's fifty to fifty. You're either gonna die
or be safe. You know, that's just how it is sometimes.
Speaker 5: But listen, that's not how odds work. That's not how
odds work.
Speaker 4: It is. It is, in fact, how it works, and
I'll explain it to you later. It's philosophy, but I
don't think now is the time to go over that.
But listen, here's the thing with the Sunces, right is
magic is in the metaphor. So if you try it,
you can't just do the thing that you've seen on TV,
because that's not gonna do shit. It's just gonna open
a door for a bunch of things. You have to
do something very specific that means something. But to do that,
you need to figure out for sure who the fuck
that is if it is.
Speaker 2: A sparing.
Speaker 4: Because you will, you could do the wrong thing and
that would be very bad. And I think Sunces might
be might be beyond your capabilities right now?
Speaker 3: I agree? I agree.
Speaker 4: Okay, do you want to try to head back to
the office and I can help you.
Speaker 3: I would like that very much personally.
Speaker 7: Okay, you're getting big signals here.
Speaker 5: Over.
Speaker 7: You told us to stay, Now you're telling us to
go back. Which one is it?
Speaker 2: Over?
Speaker 4: If it were me, I would stay.
Speaker 3: Yeah, But you're experienced, over, I know, and we're not you.
You asked me what you.
Speaker 4: Asked me, You asked me what I thought. If it
were me, I would stay.
Speaker 3: I think it was us.
Speaker 5: If it was us, you would over make a rule
for me.
Speaker 2: At one person for the whole team, is it me?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Sure it okay, Yeah, you want to do it?
Lucky man, I was, I was gonna say I can.
Speaker 7: It's kind of all the luck is yours.
Speaker 3: There's a thirty four. I don't know what shifts would
be here if it's gambling and have at least the
other side.
Speaker 4: You know what, Just come back to the office. I'll come,
I'll come back with you.
Speaker 3: Okay, sounds great. Okay, sounds great.
Speaker 4: Don't let her stay there.
Speaker 3: No, No, we're not having us. She's already out. We're going. No, No,
she's just coming back. We're gonna help you. We're coming back.
We're gonna help you.
Speaker 4: Stay.
Speaker 3: I'm definitely leaving now.
Speaker 7: I go for the door and get outside. Okay, Hold
on a second, Harry, I mean you didn't hear what
it said.
Speaker 3: It's sane, don't go and stay Alder. That makes me
feel like I should do the opposite.
Speaker 4: Well, it depends if it's doesn't mean you any arm
fifty Yeah, I mean everything's really fifty fifty when you
think about it.
Speaker 5: But I mean, we'll stay we'll stay. That's fine. Hey, ghosts,
I want to help you. So if you could meet
us in the middle with the communication, that'd be great.
How do we communicate with you more effectively?
Speaker 2: Holy shit, make a roll for me, gus, Holy shit, sir?
Speaker 3: Just anything?
Speaker 2: Uh, nope, just going to do to flat D one
hundred c is oar thing he's broken at the moment.
Then all the lights start flickering when you start to
yell at whatever whoever this is.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 2: And then and then the power goes out and everything
goes quiet, and the front door unlocks and open slowly.
Speaker 7: Well, that certainly gave us an answer, miss uh.
Speaker 2: Miss West, do you come inside when that happens?
Speaker 9: I would I would have to come back in to
get stuff to you know, go elsewhere anyway, so I
would stroll back in.
Speaker 2: Okay, So when she comes back in, the door is
gonna slam shut behind her and then all the lights
come back on. Anybody trying to leave needs to roll
a D one hundred right, Oh my god.
Speaker 3: Okay, well, miss West, you grab what you need to.
We're gonna head out from now. Probably would have been
beat if you hadn't come back in.
Speaker 9: I have to get my things.
Speaker 3: Well, get you? Now, you did get you.
Speaker 5: I decided I'm staying here. I'm gonna stay here so
you could.
Speaker 3: Yeah, now things got a little weird. Things got a
little weird.
Speaker 9: Great, that's great, that's really frigging great.
Speaker 3: Go get you.
Speaker 9: I'm I'm just gonna get my stuff.
Speaker 4: Hold on.
Speaker 7: This might be a sign Gus. You did ask hey,
we need a better way to communicate. And look who
strolls in coincidence? I think not it me? Yes, ma'am,
I believe you might be the key to helping us
solve this case.
Speaker 5: Lilith, how would you feel about making contact with your
deceased aunt?
Speaker 9: Okay, this is crazy, this is hey, we promise not to.
Speaker 5: Call you crazy. I'm asking for professional courtesy. Witherin fair?
Speaker 9: I how does this happen?
Speaker 2: I I can't believe.
Speaker 7: We knew, we would explain, but right now we are
led to believe that the best opportunity that we have
in communicating with this well, what we will call a spirit,
is possibly through you. He said's the running theory, right, Okay,
I mean.
Speaker 9: If that will fix this, then?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 9: Is this like a seance? Thing?
Speaker 3: Is that it might be something like that?
Speaker 5: It'll fix automatic right, definitely will fix something.
Speaker 9: This is my life now.
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