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<strong>The</strong> rest of the drive didn’t take very long; Rhodesville was<br />
only half an hour west of my house. I had never been there before,<br />
but it turned out to be a very upscale neighborhood. <strong>The</strong> houses were<br />
big e<strong>no</strong>ugh for Godzilla to live comfortably in. In fact, he probably<br />
could have had a T-Rex and King Kong as roommates and they<br />
would all have had plenty of space.<br />
We pulled up in front of this massive white mansion with<br />
about ten billion windows and two stone lions on either side of the<br />
door, which was probably a mile away from the sidewalk across a<br />
perfect green lawn. Its pristine condition made it look brand new,<br />
which confused me until I remembered what Tucker had said about<br />
ghosts <strong>no</strong>t always haunting where they died. <strong>The</strong> house didn’t have<br />
to be old to be haunted.<br />
“Welcome to the home of the Masons,” Tucker introduced<br />
me as he unbuckled his seatbelt. “I’m <strong>no</strong>t going to give you any<br />
information on the activity they’ve reported, this way any evidence<br />
you find will be unbiased. Nobody else in the group k<strong>no</strong>ws anything<br />
about the family’s claims, either. Just me.”<br />
I <strong>no</strong>dded. “Fair e<strong>no</strong>ugh.”<br />
We parked in the street right behind a black Mazda 3, and<br />
<strong>no</strong>w people were starting to climb out of it. Before I had time to get<br />
a good look at them, Tucker was opening his door and stepping out,<br />
so I followed his lead.<br />
“Hi, guys,” he greeted his teammates casually as he went<br />
around to the trunk of his car. “This is Chelsea.”<br />
“Hi, Chelsea,” one girl greeted me brightly. If I needed<br />
anyone to disprove the image of pale, creepy ghost hunters who<br />
sacrificed animals in their mom’s basements by candlelight, she was<br />
it. She had bleach-blonde hair that was almost as long as Michelle’s,<br />
and she was actually super tan. On top of that, she was totally<br />
gorgeous, with these dainty little sharp features and a good amount<br />
of makeup coating her eyes. She looked more like someone you’d<br />
see in Playboy than someone who spent her time running around<br />
talking to things she couldn’t see. “Tucker told us you’d be coming<br />
to observe. I’m Susannah.”<br />
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