The Haunted_Edit Copy 4-7-17

movie and bolted from the room. That was fear. These grown people
were afraid of the ghost in their house.
On one hand, this was sort of reassuring, because it showed
me I wasn’t a total baby for being afraid. On the other hand, it
completely shattered the security I had been building in the car ride
and after the grounding out front. If whatever was in their house
could have scared them that much, then it had to be bad. Didn’t it?
“Hi, Mr. and Mrs. Mason. I’m Tucker Hamilton. I’m the
team leader for the group today.” Tucker was using the same voice
that he did to reassure me.
Mrs. Mason stayed behind her husband, but Mr. Mason
shook the hand that Tucker offered him. “Thank you so much for
coming. What can we do?”
“We’d like to set up base camp in the kitchen, if that’s all
right with you. Then we would like to do a walkthrough of your
house so we know where we’re going tonight.”
We filed into the kitchen and the team set down their cases
on the empty table. Then, the Masons led us through the rooms one
by one. The tour probably took about half an hour. They had four
bedrooms, a kitchen, a dining room, and thirty thousand bathrooms.
Well, that was a slight exaggeration, but only slight. The whole time,
Adrian had an EMF meter out and she stuck the device in every last
corner of every room. I actually remembered from the class that this
was just taking note of any spots in the house that had naturally high
readings. This way the investigators would know the difference
between a natural cause and a paranormal cause.
Once Tucker seemed satisfied that we would all know our
way around, he took us back to the kitchen. Everyone began opening
their cases and picking out the equipment that they wanted to use.
Brad and Ethan pulled out a massive camera on a tripod and started
discussing the best place to position it. Tucker took the Masons into
another room, leaving me feeling very stranded in a sea of technical
gadgets.
Susannah shifted her case so she could stand next to me as
she unloaded it. “You want to take both flashlights, in case one runs
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