ghosted

7

they just stared at me while corey moved his hand towards the knob that turns on the shower. he slowly turned it while i held the sliding doors shut. as soon as corey turned the water on brandon tried to slide the door open and let out a scream when he realized he was trapped. elton laughed as the four of them got progressively more wet.

"i didn't think corbin was gonna get wet this early"

"i think you and elton helped with that a little"

the guys laughed and we followed cathy through the house for the last part of the tour. when we finished up the tour we decided to set up equipment in a room. i sat down on the floor and closed my eyes, hoping that something is there and isn't there at the same time. cathy's spirit box picked up some kind of mumble.

"who are you?"

"i can hear you, is this the same gentleman i talk to in here?"

"im here, i hear them"

"can you talk to us?"

almost instantly the rempod next to me went off. i looked at corey whos eyes were starting to water. corbin and brandon both pointed at the catball behind me. i turned and looked over in the doorway and saw a tall figure. my stomach sunk and chills ran through my body and i shivered. as soon as i looked back over to the guys, the rempod started going off and corey's eyes were watering again.

"corey are you ok?"

"i thought that coat was a person"

"which coat?"

"that one, over there"

"oh, wait lillith did you see it too?"

"it was just the coat, but then someone stepped closer and covered the jacket"

"that has to freak you out a little bit right?"

"this spirit seems calm and nice, so not really"

"maybe we should go down to the basement. check things out down there"

we picked up our equipment and followed her into the basement. at first everything was fine, i felt completely normal but as soon as we walked into the back room where they held the bodies, i was hit with intense nausea.

"lilli, are you ok?"

"i was, im gonna go upstairs and just wait for you guys to be done"

"you sure? we can just skip investigating down here"

"no, its fine. ill just take a nap or something"

"we'll make it quick down here, feel better"

"thanks elton"

he nodded at me and i smiled at the others before going back upstairs. evan ended up going upstairs with me to switch out the batteries for the camera and asked me some questions.

"so just that the viewers know what happened, could you explain why you had to come up here?"

"i was fine until i walked into that back room where elton sat in the chair. behind him was this huge, thing. it was hunched over because the ceiling was too low but it was just standing there. it wasn't harmful but it definitely didn't like that i could see it."

"well, that sounds terrifying"

"it was, a little bit terrifying but at least i feel like it cant leave the basement"

"thats good to know"

"yeah, so for now im ok"

we relaxed for a little, waiting for the guys to come back upstairs. when they did come back up we had a little debrief before splitting up to investigate the different areas. corbin lost the game of rock, paper, scissors which meant he gets to sit in the scrying room on his own for ten minutes. brandon got sent upstairs and has to wait for corbin to find him. the rest of us went upstairs to the brothel, where we sat in silence for a while. as we waited for the equipment to go off, pressure began to build up on my throat. i tried to speak but the pressure was so strong that all i could do was get up and walk away. corey followed me down and checked up on me, making sure i was ok. as soon as i got down to the main floor the pressure was gone. just sitting on the couch i could hear their devices going off, which meant that whoever was up there, wanted me gone. i walked into the gentleman's quarters and grabbed a change of clothes before heading to the bathroom. i pulled on my sweatpants and tank top before going back into the room. i climbed into the bed the furthest from the door and tried to fall asleep.