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e okay, he led the way out of the room and back into the kitchen,<br />
where Ethan was perched on a stool.<br />
I was about to ask where Susannah was, since I knew they<br />
had a rule of never leaving an investigator alone, but then her voice<br />
came from one corner. “We just want to ask you some questions.<br />
We want to learn a little about who you are. Is that okay?”<br />
Tucker didn’t say a word, so I figured he was just observing.<br />
I tried <strong>no</strong>t to shine my flashlight in Ethan’s eyes as I scanned the<br />
kitchen. Had anything changed? Had a ghost moved a chair or a<br />
candle or something? Nope, everything looked the same. Gunner<br />
had told me that it didn’t happen all at once. He said the TV shows<br />
were very misleading in that hardly any cases could get that much<br />
information in one night. An investigation was almost never finished<br />
with just one visit. Most of them yielded little, if any, information.<br />
“Are you a man or a woman?” Susannah asked. <strong>The</strong>n, after<br />
about a thirty second pause, “What’s your name?”<br />
After a little while of listening to her asking a lot of simple<br />
questions, Tucker started to move again. This time, we made our<br />
way upstairs, which wasn’t as challenging as I expected it to be. We<br />
found Adrian and Brad in the master bedroom. Adrian was sitting<br />
on the floor with her back against the front of the massive bed, and<br />
Brad was standing in a corner with some equipment in his hands.<br />
“This thing just spiked to a ‘9.’ Will you take a picture?” His partner<br />
complied, but she must have been using an infrared camera, because<br />
<strong>no</strong> flash went off.<br />
“Is there someone here with us?” Adrian asked. I caught a<br />
voice recorder resting on the ground in front of her in the beam of<br />
my flashlight.<br />
“Are you over by me?” Brad pressed.<br />
We waited in silence, but <strong>no</strong> response came. <strong>The</strong>y asked a<br />
lot more questions, but Brad’s EMF reading didn’t rise again.<br />
Eventually, Tucker an<strong>no</strong>unced, “Alright, the first hour’s up.<br />
I’ll radio the two downstairs and we’ll switch up rooms. You guys<br />
done up here?”<br />
Adrian <strong>no</strong>dded. “We went through most of the bedrooms<br />
before we came in here and didn’t feel anything. We’ll see if<br />
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