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Susannah and Ethan spend a lot of time in here, too.” She turned on<br />
her flashlight and started scratching something on a <strong>no</strong>tepad I hadn’t<br />
<strong>no</strong>ticed at her side.<br />
“We try to log everything,” Tucker explained. “From <strong>no</strong>ises<br />
or sights to just feelings. Even if you randomly feel hungry, that<br />
might <strong>no</strong>t mean anything to you, but if we tell the Masons, they<br />
might always get hungry in this same spot. And that might be<br />
something worth <strong>no</strong>ticing.”<br />
“I see,” I murmured.<br />
After a few moments, Adrian and Brad had packed up their<br />
things, and they traded places with Susannah and Ethan.<br />
Surprisingly, the first place the pair decided to come was the master<br />
bedroom. Had there been a ghost there? I hadn’t <strong>no</strong>ticed anything<br />
unusual about the room at all. I might have just been in the same<br />
room as a spirit and <strong>no</strong>thing bad had happened at all. Interesting.<br />
Tucker led me out of the room again and into a different<br />
bedroom. It looked like it belonged to a child; there were toys in a<br />
corner and the bed was a twin covered in Toy Story sheets. He sat<br />
down on it lightly and patted the spot next to him. “You feel like<br />
trying to have a little conversation with whoever’s here?”<br />
I took the seat at his side and pulled my digital voice recorder<br />
out of my pocket. “<strong>The</strong>y keep asking questions but getting <strong>no</strong>thing.”<br />
“Not necessarily. <strong>The</strong>y could be getting EVPs. I k<strong>no</strong>w<br />
you’ve heard of that. It stands for Electronic Voice Phe<strong>no</strong>mena. All<br />
it means is a sound we don’t hear at the time, but when we play it<br />
back on the recording, it’s there. That’s really what we’re trying for<br />
— something caught on the recording.”<br />
“What would I do without you?” I laughed nervously.<br />
“Well, you probably wouldn’t be here in the first place. Do<br />
you realize you’ve been in the dark in a haunted house for an hour<br />
<strong>no</strong>w and you’re completely fine?”<br />
This was relatively true. While I was <strong>no</strong>t completely fine —<br />
there was something of a hurricane going on inside me, specifically<br />
in the fearful section of my brain — I had <strong>no</strong>t run screaming as I<br />
half-expected to. I had stuck it out, and <strong>no</strong>w that he pointed it out, I<br />
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