nothing to really be concerned with. He died several years ago in this house,” Cooper said.
Matt inched down the hall. He looked as if he wanted nothing more than to get away from the action. From over his shoulder, he said, “Okay, let’s see if you all can get one more round of evidence.”
Cooper and I made our way from room to room. As we moved through the house, the feeling only intensified. I began snapping photos one right after the other. With any luck, I’d catch something in the photo. I always liked truth to back up the things I saw. As I made a step forward, a voice sounded. Everyone froze, so I knew I wasn’t the only one who’d heard it. With any luck, we’d caught it on the recorder.
The evil spirit had seeped in and was crawling through the walls, following every move we made. The spirit might be able to take on a human form, but it was in no way human.
Cooper and I made our way up the stairs to one of the back rooms. Mindy bravely followed close behind. When I inched the door open, I spotted the thing right away. The creature was in the corner of the bedroom when I stepped through the door, snarling and growling at me.
The floor shook as the creature crawled across the old hardwood floor.
“The thing is making me sick,” I said.
“What do you mean, sick?” Mindy asked as she neared the door.
When she saw the thing she backed up, then froze as she stared at it. We were all frozen on the spot.
“I mean like I may barf on your shoes in a second.”
“We need to get out of here.” Mindy pulled my arm.
“We can’t leave yet. The cameras are rolling.” I pointed.
As the cameraman stepped forward to video the black figure we’d seen, the evil spirit disappeared. Part of me wished that he’d gotten it on tape because, like I said, I loved evidence to back of the claims of the paranormal, but the other part of me was relieved that the evil was gone.
“Larue, maybe you should leave. It’s not good if you’re getting sick.” Cooper stood beside me.
“You can leave if you want, but there is no way I’m giving up that easily.”
“You need not to try to be the hero here. You can’t put this above your health.” Cooper touched my arm.
That wasn’t what Matt would say. He’d want us to stay no matter what. Undoubtedly, the scarier the outcome, the bigger the ratings. And why did Cooper care if I stayed? So that he could be the hero? No way. I wasn’t falling for that.
We moved back down stairs and handed over any evidence that we may have captured to the tech guy. We swapped out equipment and continued our tour through the downstairs part of the house. After another hour and no additional activity, we met Matt, Jennie and Ben back at the dining room table to review the evidence.
Matt played back the recorder. “There are voices on the recorders. Did you hear the whistling?”
The angry male voice over the recorder said, “Danger, Larue.”
Ben said, “Now I have something to back up what I’m hearing.”
“That was the angry man,” I said when I heard the voice say my name across the recorder. “Did you hear the deep husky voice? It is very creepy.”
Matt played the next recording. “Get out of my house,” the male voice said again.
As we sat around the table, Cooper’s EMF detector began beeping wildly. “It’s trying to communicate with us through that.”
The heavy feeling had returned.
Mindy had been quiet for the whole investigation and rightfully so. “I am freaked out. I can’t believe something was standing there in that room. It kind of looked like a man, but I couldn’t see its face clearly. The rest of the thing was pitch-black.”
Ben shook his head. “This explains so much. We’ve heard footsteps and seen doors open and close. We’ve had people get scratched.”
While he talked, I noticed movement out of the corner of my eye in the living room. The creature growled, so I knew it was in there, but I wouldn’t give it the attention that it so dearly desired.
“We saw something dark in the bedroom upstairs,” I said.
Cooper stood and hurried out of the room as if he’d sensed something, but he didn’t give us an explanation. I focused my attention on Jennie again.
Jennie nodded as she stared at us. “I stopped sleeping in