Ghost Adventures: New Beginnings

I was watching out the window as Nick drove, my iPod in my ears. We had landed in Birmingham, Alabama not too long ago. It was still an hour or so before the clock struck noon. Everyone was pretty much sleeping because we had woken up so early, plus our drinking the night before didn’t help. Nikkie was using my shoulder as her head rest which I was fine with since I owed her from the plane ride.

I was dozing in and out, the music flowing into my ears as I watched the trees and small towns pass us by. I yawned, keeping the sunglasses over my eyes, having sensitive eyes still but thank god I didn’t really get a bad headache. Slowly looking around at everyone else, I pulled one ear bud out and looked towards Nick. “You okay to keep driving? Need me to take over or one of us to take over?” I asked softly.

Nick shook his head, “Nah I’m okay, don’t worry about it. I didn’t drink as much as everyone else. Just get some rest.” I sighed and nodded softly before leaning my head back against the window slightly.

“Okay, but if you need a break let me know.” I said before putting the ear bud back in and then slowly falling into a light sleep. I woke up to the vehicle slowing down and yawned again, looking out the window to see the hotel we would be staying at while doing this lock down. I gently shook Nikkie awake and smirked when she groaned. She always got hangovers worse then I did. For some reason, I barely ever got headaches, just sore sensitive eyes.

Once she was sitting up and not leaning on my shoulder anymore I unbuckled and opened the sliding door and stepped out, stretching and breathing fresh air. Once Nikkie was out as well as Aaron and Isaac, we started to grab our bags from the back, Zak still asleep in the front seat and Nick headed in to check us into the hotel. Aaron went around and woke Zak up while Nikkie was glaring at me for teasing her about her hangover.

“Shouldn’t drink so much then Nikkie.” I said as I guided my bags out of the way, shouldering my backpack as well. “Yeah, well, you suck. I hope you know that.” Nikkie commented as she looked around running a hand through her hair. I laughed shaking my head at her.

Once we each had all our bags, and grabbing Nicks as well, we headed in and got our room keys from him. Nikkie and I would be rooming together and the guys were each getting their own room. Nikkie and I nodded and we all some how managed to pile into the elevator and started up. All of us got off on the top floor and headed to our rooms.

I opened our door and held it open for Nikkie, telling the guys to get us when they needed us to head out. Once we were in our room I looked around, grinning at the sight, a nice large suite. “This is awesome Nikkie!” I said as I set my bags down on one of the beds and put my backpack down as well. Nikkie looked around herself before she just laid down on the bed. I walked over pulling her off, knowing if I didn’t do that she’d fall asleep and she’d never get up.

“Leave me alone!” She groaned trying to pull away. “No! You need to stay awake. It’s your own fault for drinking more than you should. Now get up before I put you in a cold shower.” She glared at me, “I’ll beat you with my shoe if you do that.” I laughed letting her go before sitting on my bed. “What do you think we’ll find tonight?” I asked already curious about the investigation. True I was a little skeptical since they already visited, but it would be good experience.

She sighed shrugging her shoulders, “Spirits, voices, unknown sounds. The usual, ya know?” I shook my head at her, “Come on be serious. Do you think we could actually get something as great as what they got last time? I mean what if we suck at this? Do you think they’d kick us off the show? It’s possible they could you know. I mean we could be repellents to ghosts or something when we’re around them. You never know. It’s possible that if osadigjoi.” She had clamped a hand over my mouth. “You really need to quit talking so much when you’re dying of anticipation. Okay?” She gave me her signature look of disapproval and amusement.

I glared at her before smirking and licking her hand. She pulled it away in disgust and I laughed as I stood up. I opened one bag and put it on one of the two stands, the other I set on the ground and opened as well. I grabbed some dark jeans and another Sinful shirt as well as a zip up hoodie for later tonight and went to go change since I was in comfortable travel clothing, not anything suitable for tonight.

Once out of the bathroom Nikkie went in to change and I pulled out a bag of pretzels from my backpack that had other snacks and started to munch on them. After Nikkie got out of the bathroom we sat down and just talked and watched tv until the guys were knocking on our door.

I walked over and opened it, still munching on my pretzels, the bag in one hand. Isaac was the one standing there, “They told me to come get you guys. So grab what you need ‘cause we’re heading out to the location now.” I nodded and turned to Nikkie and wiggled my eyebrows at her. “Come on in while we get the few things we need.” I said to Isaac while I moved to my bag and put a few other things into the backpack. Once I zipped it up, I shouldered it and kept the bag of pretzels out.

Once we had the things we needed, he walked out with Isaac and headed down the hall and met up with the guys and got onto the elevator. We got out, headed out and into the van before driving to Sloss Furnaces to start the interviews of a few of the people that had encountered the newest spirits. After the ten minute drive there we piled out of the van and Nikkie and I helped grab the equipment from the back of the van and we headed to where we were gonna set up base.

Nikkie and I were just following them and once in the room for home base we started to unpack, well the guys did, Nikkie and I stayed to the side, talking softly about past things we have done and things we could do for this time and once they were done setting up we headed out to wait for the first person to arrive for the interview.

Outside we waited and soon saw a vehicle pull up. The guy got out and headed over to us. Introducing ourselves to him and then got him set up with a mic and then got mics on the rest of us as well. The mans name was George Williams and once we were all set up Zak stood next to him and motioned for Aaron to start rolling the camera.

“Thanks for taking the time to come and do this with us George. Now, you say that you were here about a month after the last time we were here and it was more active then before we were here?” Zak asked, his hands motioning as he spoke while glancing at the Sloss Factory behind them. I watched as he looked back to George.

“Yes there was. Truthfully, there have been countless number of people reporting that they have been pushed, touched, breathed on, hearing noises, and hearing voices as well as seeing apparitions.” George said as he nodded. “I was in here making my normal rounds before locking the place up for the night and no one else was here, just me. Over near the tower I saw what looked to be a man standing up there. I headed up there with my flashlight and looked around, not hearing anyone walking around or seeing anyone come down. And you can clearly hear people walking around on the walkways and stairs. So I got up there and no one was there and I just felt a heavy boding feeling.”

Zak looked up at the area he was talking about then back to George and then to the camera. “We should put an X camera up there. Remember that spot Aaron.” He said before turning back to George again and motioned for him to continue.

“Down in the tunnel, I saw a few apparitions walking around and talking as well. But they only lasted a few moments before vanishing.”

“Wait, so there have been more apparitions and shadow people since we where here last?” When he got a nod in confirmation, Zak grinned and looked into the camera that Nick was holding. “This is one of the reasons why we are coming back, and only one of the many.” He clapped his hands together and then pointed them back to George.

“In the main building, there have been EVP’s captured mentioning you guys and there have been more people mentioning about being touched, having their hair pulled, feeling like they are being watched and hearing footsteps behind them when no one is there.”

I looked over at Nikkie while George was describing this all and I couldn’t help but smile slightly. Tonight was going to be hot from what we were being told and this was what we have been waiting for. A lockdown with the guys, that had great outcomes. She bumped her shoulder lightly against mine and grinned back.

After they were done talking about the occurrences, George was going to take us around and show us more active places where we could set up some of our X cameras for tonight. Nick and Aaron continued to roll their cameras as normal while Isaac, Zak, myself and Nikkie walked behind George towards the main building to walk through and look around.

The full walk through took about forty five minutes to do but to the people watching at home it would only be minutes probably after editing. With most of our X’s down we decided to just kick back and wait around for a while in case another person came to interview.

Nick was sitting down in the front passenger seat of the van, with the door open, sipping on his bottle of water while Zak and Isaac were talking adamantly about all the occurrences that had been happening since last time. And Zak was also filling the three of us in on things that weren’t on the episode that was aired. Nick would chime in now and then with things while Aaron was just doing a few last minute checks on some of the equipment.

I noticed that Zak had his bottle of water sticking out of his back right jeans pocket as he always did. I smirked and nudged Nikkie and then pointed it out with my eyes who in turn started to laugh softly. I found it kind of cute and quirky that he did that, and she just found it odd and made fun of him for it.

“What are you girls giggling about over there?” Zak asked as he raised an eyebrow, all four of the guys having paused what they were doing to look at us, waiting for an answer apparently.

“Nothing, just an inside joke about something that you wouldn’t get.” I commented with an innocent grin. Which in turn only made Aaron shrug and go back to what he was doing, and Nick shake his head with a smile and start on the sandwich he had been unwrapping. While Zak and Isaac just looked at us with a ‘try us’ look.

“Really, you wouldn’t get it. It’s girl humor and something only we understand.” Nikkie put in and I laughed at that and nodded. “If your not a woman you wouldn’t know. Trust us.” She said with a grin.

Of course that probably just made them more curious which made it all the more funny for the two of us. And soon we were leaning against each other slightly, our cheeks hurting from laughing and grinning so much, and our sides sore. By this point, Zak and Isaac had just decided to try and get it out of us later and let it be so that we could actually breath and not continue to laugh like we had been to the point of not being able to talk.

“Aarons Vlog, we are here at Sloss Furnaces and we have a few hours before we get locked in but at the moment we are just hanging out here.” I heard as I finally managed to breath properly and not feel like my side was going to break. I moved to the van and pulled out my bag of pretzels from my backpack and started to munch on them while leaning against the side of the van.

Apparently the sound of me munching and the rustling of the bag got some attention because before I knew it, there was another hand digging into my bag. And it had the classic skull ring on the pointer finger. I pulled my bag back and looked at Zak like he was a three headed monster.

“What are you doing? These are mine.” I said as I curled my other arm around the bag.

“This is going to be great.” Nikkie said, starting to laugh again. Aaron hearing this decided to turn the camera on Zak and I. Seeing if what he got was good. After all, he knew Zak loved pretzels.

“I just wanted some pretzels.” He shrugged as he ate the few he had gotten out of my bag. Zak reached his hand out for the bag and I darted a few steps away from him. My eyes staying on him the entire time.

“Mine.” I said once again as I continued to hold the bag protectively. Zak’s eyes got slightly wide before narrowing in on the bag, a smirk slowly growing on his face as if it were a challenge now to him. As he started to step closer, I backed away from him. Matching him step for step. I turned and darted away, hearing him running after me by the crunching of the gravel under his boots.

I was doing well until I glanced back, and that made me almost loose my footing so I slowed down, and he quickly caught up, picking me up and grinning in triumph.

“Zak! Put me down!” I cried out, trying not to laugh. When he shook his head no, I started to squirm around in his arms, trying to get free. That wasn’t working so well though because he had a good grip on me. I pouted and stopped squirming around. He grinned, having won and put me down.

Before I knew what had happened, he had snatched the bag out of my hands and took off. I growled softly before taking off after him, right on his heels, though both of us were laughing.

“Apparently Pretzels are the big prize here. And that right there is proof that we never have a dull moment between filming. Aaron’s Vlog out!” He grinned, Nick, Isaac, and Nikkie joining in and getting their own ‘Out’s in before the camera was shut off.

Zak quickly made it back to the van, munching on my pretzels the entire time. A few moments after he got there I slid to a stop as well and snatched my bag back. He just leaned against the van, happy for now apparently with the large handful he had.

I moved into the van and sat in the second row seats, legs stretched out and continued to happily eat at my snack. Though I did shoot pretend glares at Zak for daring to touch my precious snack. Nick just chuckled and asked to have a few, to which I nodded and held the back out for him.

“What? How come he gets some without hassle and yet I’m chased down, glared at, and treated like I’m diseased when I want some!?” Zak’s blue eyes stared at me in a puppy dog manor.

“Well for one, you didn’t ask nicely like he did, you just assumed you could have some and dug in. And two, I don’t easily share with people.” I grinned and set the bag in my lap. I glanced over to see Nikkie, Aaron, and Isaac watching us but talking at the same time with each other.

“Can I please have some then?” He asked as he leaned into the van slightly. I pretended to think for a few moments before nodding and motioning for him to sit in the row behind me so he could reach the bag. I would share just about any food with him if he wanted, though only Nikkie knew that and I could see it in her smirk she was shooting me at the moment.

Not to long after we all finally calmed down and were just happily talking and relaxing did the second witness drive up to recount their story of their paranormal happenings. Getting out of the van, I went and stood next to Nikkie while the guys moved forwards to greet the other worker of the furnaces that would be interviewed.

The woman got out and headed to the group. She shook their hands and smiled greeting them. As Aaron and Nick got their cameras ready to film the interview/walk through, Isaac grabbed the tape and the normal digital recorder, a mel meter, and a touchless thermometer and slid them into pockets of his pants.

Within minutes we were walking around behind Nick and Aaron so not to get into the shot while Zak talked to Hannah. She was showing us where she had been pushed, had her hair grabbed and also saw apparitions. Aaron went along marking X’s in spots as we moved along.

I sighed softly but stopped short when I thought I had heard something that sounded like someone walking behind me as well as getting a feeling of what seemed to be spiritual energy. I looked over at Nikkie, staying silent, wondering if she had heard and felt it as well. Seeing she was feeling it as well, I looked behind us, nothing there.

“Guys?” I said as I held my arms up, seeing the goosebumps forming up and down both my arms. Nikkie did the same and her arms looked just like mine. The guys turned around, Nick being closest to us moved over to us and filmed our arms before reaching out and telling Zak he felt the cool space near us.

Zak being Zak, moved over and stuck his hand out feeling the area Nick’s hand was at and his eyes opened just a bit wider as he nodded in agreement. He held his other hand out towards Isaac. “Give me the digital recorder, lets see if we can get anything.”

He then looked to Nicks camera. “Here we are, one in the afternoon and we are getting activity. This is what we are here for. This is going to be a great night.” Zak said before taking the digital recorder. “Rolling the Digital recorder, Zak, Nick, Aaron, Isaac, Sarah, Nikkie and Hannah. Is anyone here with us?” He said then held it out and waited.

After a few minutes he spoke again. “If your here, I want you to make a noise to show us you are here with us.” A few moments after he said that, a soft bang came from behind Aaron and Isaac. We all quickly turned that way when we heard it. “Come over here and talk into this little red light. Tell us your name.” Zak said, pointing to the red recording light on the recorder before holding it out again.

I felt a chill run up my spine and what felt like a hand brush the back of my neck through my hair as well as hearing ‘Welcome back.’ I whipped around, my eyes looking where it would have been but nothing was there. “It just said welcome back. Clear as day to me and touched the back of my neck.”

Zak moved over but the cold air was now gone and I couldn’t feel anything anymore. After a few more minutes of trying to get answers and responses, Zak stopped recording and rewound to see what all he had gotten on tape. He held it up to his ear as he listened. He grinned when he heard the bang in response to his question and then looked over at Nikkie and I when the recording got to where he asked it to tell us it’s name and heard ‘Welcome back.’

He rewound the tape, and turned it up louder and held it out for us all to hear. Hearing it over gave me chills again but in a good way. I was excited for tonight, if we were getting this much activity right now in the middle of the day, it was bound to be so much better tonight when we got locked in. Everyone was excited after getting this class a EVP.

Continuing on, we put down a few more X’s and concluded the interview before heading back towards the van. We were still all buzzing about the activity, smiling and talking about it. Zak moved over to me and walked along side me.

“I forgot to ask earlier, but did it just brush the back of your neck, or was it like resting there?” He asked, curiosity lacing his voice as his blue eyes glanced to me.

His cologne wafted to my nose and I breathed it in with a smile, that was half from the experience I just had, and half from his scent. “I was walking next to Nikkie when I thought I had heard footsteps. So I stopped and Nikkie stopped as well, hearing them like I did. Then we got that charged feeling and called to you guys. When you had asked about a name, I felt as if it had trailed it’s fingers through my hair long the back of my neck. Like this.” I said reaching up and trailing my fingers lightly over the back of his neck. God his hair was soft as could be. ‘Focus! Now’s not the time!’ I screamed in my mind.

Zak’s eyes glinted showing his excitement as I described this to him and showed him how it felt. “Tonight is going to be very active and I have a feeling with you and Nikkie here joining us now, it may bring out even more activity where ever we go.”

“Lets hope so.” I said nodding with a smile, getting more activity because we were girls and being in certain places, would be amazing. I couldn’t wait for tonight. This was going to be the best night ever for Nikkie and I with activity hopefully.

We reached the van and all climbed in after deciding to go to a local place to have dinner before getting locked in.