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Our Ghost Adventures
Ghost Town
AN: The location they’re going to is a real place, I have no clue if it’s haunted or not. I looked up ghost towns on wikipedia, and that’s what I got. So, I’m making up the ghostly haunting part of it. Furthermore, I would like to credit wikipedia for everything on the history of it.
We gathered people for interviews and headed for the town a short while after Zak and I returned from breakfast. However, instead of Lorelei and Ariel staying at the campsite, they came with us and were just going to wait in the car. None of us felt comfortable with those two staying behind so far away from us in the middle of nowhere. Nick, Aaron, Zak, and I were all standing and preparing for the first interview. Nick and Aaron were filming, Zak was standing with the man he was set to interview, and I was just hanging back. I was only used to using the night vision cameras we used in our lockdown anyway. Besides, we didn’t need more than two cameras filming the interview.
“We’re in Bannack, in Beaverhead County, Montana. This place is an actual ghost town,” Zak said as his opening statement to tell where we were and to set up the interview. “What did you say your name was, sir?” was the first question he asked the man with graying hair.
“Charlie Smith,” he replied. “Now, I don’t know anything about the ghosts that are said to haunt here, you’ll have to find somebody else to tell you that. I just know that town’s history.”
“It’s nice to meet you Charlie,” the two shook hands. “That’s fine, we would all love to hear the history of the place. I love knowing what the town was about before we actually do that lockdown. What can you tell us?”
“Well, it was founded in 1862 and was named after the local Bannock Indians. it was the site of a major gold discovery in 1862, and served as the capital of Montana Territory briefly in 1864, until the capital was moved to Virginia City. Bannack continued as a mining town, though with a dwindling population. The last residents left in the 1970s.”
“Really? How many people lived here at one time?”
“At its highest point, there were about ten thousand. This place was founded by Dr. Erasmus Darwin Leavitt from Cornish, New Hamshire. He gave up being a doctor to be a gold minner. He found that he would make more money staying a doctor and letting someone else turn the profit for him so that’s what he did.”
“Bannack's sheriff, Henry Plummer, was accused of secretly leading a ruthless band of road agents, with early accounts claiming that this gang was responsible for over a hundred murders in the Virginia City and Bannack gold fields and trails to Salt Lake City. However, because only eight deaths are historically documented, most people wonder what exactly Plummer's gang did, while others deny the existence of the gang altogether. But, Plummer and two gang members, both of which deputies, were hanged, without trial, at Bannack on January 10, 1864. A number of Plummer's associates were lynched and others banished on pain of death if they ever returned. Twenty-two individuals were accused, informally tried, and hanged by the Vigilance Committee of Bannack and Virginia City,” Charlie explained.
“Can you show us where they were hanged?” Charlie nodded and led us to a space near the center of town.
“They had a jail, but there wasn’t a gallows in there, so there was just this. But the original structure deterierated over time, so this is a recreation of it.” Before us was a stage type thing with a large post with a noose hanging from the top. There was even a lever that would be pulled to drop out the bottom of the floor for the person to be hanged. As everyone walked away from the reconstructed outdoor gallows—so to speak, I pulled out my digital camera and snapped two photos. I paused for a moment to look at them. When the first photo came back up on the screen, I noticed nothing odd. But the second photo was a different story. I stopped myself from outright intruping the inteview. Nick had stopped filming for a moment, something was going on with his camera, so I walked over to him and tapped his shoulder.
“Hey Nick, take a look at this,” I showed him the first photo and then the second one.
“What the fuck?” he asked. “Dude, go show Zak.” I nodded and walked over to where he, Aaron, and Charlie were standing. They were outside of the last standing saloon and Charlie was saying something. I waited for him to pause for a minute.
“Hey guys, I think I’ve got something you may want to see,” I said timidly.
“Whatcha got for us?” Zak asked. Nick was back and fliming by that point.
“Well, when we went over to the gallows and after y’all walked away, I decided to take a picture and I—take a look.” I handed him the camera. “I look two pictures so it’s not just a shadow or something. I took them so fast none of you could’ve moved and made a shadow.”
“Oh my God! Aaron, get over here, get this right now,” Zak said. He wasn’t bossy, he was just the leader. He was excited and I realized he was different on camera than off. I think that Nick and Aaron did too. We were all really relaxed off camera, even Zak. I think the cameras made him kind of nevous. But, maybe that was just me. “Adrina, that is so amazing,” I smiled proudly at the amazing shadow looking thing that I captured. There was a clear head in the noose and I could see arms and a torso.
“Thank you,” I laughed.
“I’m so stoked for this lockdown!” Zak exclaimed. “When you get something like this during the day,” he wrapped an arm around my shoulder. “There’s something truly amazing going on around here.”
***
Our next interview was with two very pretty blonde women. They were twins, and I wouldn’t have had a problem with them, if they hadn’t been eyeballing my fiancé.
“What are your names?” Zak asked.
“I’m Britney Allan.”
“I’m Zooey Allan. We’re twins.” The two blondes laughed.
“Oh my God, we love you’re show. We’re such huge fans!” Britney exclaimed.
“And you, you’re so…attractive!” Zooey exclaimed. I looked up at him and gave him a look. He wasn’t looking at me, but I glared at him anyway.
“You two are sweet, but my fiancée is standing right over there,” he replied. He was lucky that was what he said. “Adri, I saw that glare,” he looked at me with a grin.
“I wasn’t glaring,” I replied.
“She was giving you that wife look,” Nick said, smiling while he pointed his camera at me.
“I wasn’t giving him a ‘wife look’.”
Aaron laughed, filming Zak. “I bet she was. Adri is the jealous type.”
“No I’m not!” I argued.
“It’s okay, Zak is too,” Nick replied.
“Guys, let’s just focus on the interview,” I said, face palming myself.
“I didn’t know you two were engaged,” Zooey said.
“Yeah we are,” Zak said. I could tell that he wanted to get back to the interview too. I really hoped that all of this got edited out…I wanted to catch as much evidence as possible so that we could cut this out. “Anyway, you two have been up here for different ghost hunts, correct?”
“Yes, we’ve been on several with our little group, ‘Ghost Girls’.” It was so good that I wasn’t on camera, I rolled my eyes. They were both still eye-fucking my fiancé so it didn’t matter. That was the dumbest paranormal group name I had ever heard in my life.
“Oh yeah?” I could feel Zak’s eyes fell on me. To most, it would look like he was looking at the camera, but I knew otherwise. Even his tone told me that he thought that their name was dumb. I hated people like that—the fake ones.
“Yeah, so anyway we came up here and…” I zoned out. I couldn’t hear these girls talk anymore. I tapped Nick on the shoulder and told him I was going to go around and take pictures for a while. They could tell me the ghost stories a little later. I didn’t think that girls from Montana would be like the type of girl you would think you would find on one of the real housewives shows.
***
“You okay?” Zak asked me as we were setting up for the lockdown. Britney and Zooey had left a while ago—thank God and I had kind of continued to do my own thing. Even when we went to dinner, I sat between Ariel and the baby’s seat. And, in the car, I climbed in the very back seat and sat by Jay.
“I’m fine, Zak,” I replied.
“Hey, I didn’t even so much as look at those girls.”
“I don’t care if you look—I just want to get ready for the lockdown.” I picked up an x-cam and headed towards the gallows. I knew he was following me. I knew that he would no matter what.
“You’ve been avoiding me,” he said. “And knowing you, you’re jealous.”
“I don’t know, I’m just not used to this…You’re hot and everybody else thinks it too. How the hell am I supposed to compete with pretty girls like that? I’m so plain…”
“Hey you, look at me,” he took my shoulders and made me spin around. “You are perfect. You’re not plain. I don’t want a girl like that. I want you.”
“How do I know that’s how it’ll always be?”
“Because I love you,” he took my face in his hands and looked at me with his dark blue eyes. He had that intense look that he got so often.
“Zak…I…” He kissed me, trying to prove his point.
“Stop, okay? We’ve got a lockdown to do and I don’t want you mad at me.”
I nodded slowly and kissed him once me.
After all of the cameras were set up, we all met back up to go over everything. We all had our night vision cameras in hand and pointed on Zak.
“Okay, Billy and Jay are over in that tent at nerve center,” we all aimed the cameras toward the small structure. “I want Adrina and Nick to start out in the old saloon—there were originally four, but only one is standing now. Britney and Zooey said that their group had found different EVPs, one that said ‘get out’ and another that said ‘die’. Back in the old west there was a lot of violence, let’s see if you two can pick up on some of that.” To this day, Nick and I hadn’t been paired up on a lockdown, I guess it was time. “Aaron and I will go over to the old brewery. They frequently see shadow figures and different light anomalies. Remember, we have x’s outside of each building and two different ones set up in front of the gallows. Good luck everybody.” We did a fist pump and moved on to begin our lockdown.
“Well this is new,” I laughed to Nick.
“Yeah, usually it’s you and Zak or you and Aaron. You’ve been with us for over a year and this is the first time he’s paired us together.”
“I was thinking the exact same thing. I don’t know why now…But anyway. Is there anything I should know about the saloon?”
“Zak thought you disappeared on us earlier.”
“I’m sorry, I couldn’t stand to hear either of those girls talk anymore.”
He laughed a little. “Yeah, that’s what I told them later. But no, Zak said most of it. I’m just afraid that the only piece of evidence we’ll get is that picture from earlier. I don’t get the same vibe from this place as I usually get from the haunted ones…”
“I kinda get the sense that I’m being watched—a little bit. But other than that…I don’t feel much around here either.”
We made our way into the saloon and I didn’t feel anything. It was just a place to me. Usually there was a change in the air or something. But not here.
“Did Zak give you the spirit box?” Nick asked.
“No, I just have a digital recorder and my camera. Don’t you have the PX device?”
“Yeah,” he replied. I preferred the spirit box too. That way we could kind of get a feel for who we were communicating with. If it was a bad spirit, we could tell by the voice—usually anyway. “I’ll turn that on…”
We spent nearly an hour in the saloon. I was so tired of the silence. If this place had ghosts, I was going to get them to come out. “What were Britney and Zooey’s group doing when they got those EVPs?”
“They didn’t say.”
“Well, I’ve got some ghosts to piss off,” I was going to pull a Zak. Provocation wasn’t my thing, but I wanted evidence. I pulled myself up onto the bar to sit. “Anybody that’s in here threatening people come out and threaten me! Yell at me! You think you can just yell at people and get away with it? Come on! Don’t be cowards!” I exclaimed. “I’m sitting on your bar where you used to get alcohol, well guess what? You’re not getting any alcohol now!” I still didn’t feel anything. The room was just still…That was until…Until there was a chilling breeze right at me. “It’s cold right here.”
“Let be get the mel meter and—”
“Out!” the PX device said for the first time.
“You want me out?” I asked. “Too bad! You’re going to have to make me get out! Come over here and push me! Make me leave!” I wasn’t entirely proud of my provocation. This wasn’t me…But it was the only thing I could do here.
***Zak’s POV***
“I hope Adrina and Nick are getting something,” I said with a sigh. There had been absolutely nothing.
“I’m sure they are bro, she’s the freakin’ ghost magnet. We’ll get something, eventually.”
“I hope so…” I just hated when we didn’t catch anything because then that didn’t prove that the paranormal existed. We were just a bunch of people visiting different places and not making any progress with anything!
After another hour of nothing, Aaron and I decided to go ahead and leave to meet back up with Nick and Adrina. We were going to go out to nerve center before we radioed them, to make sure that they weren’t getting anything so that we didn’t interrupt. When we got out to nerve center, we looked at the monitors with their cameras on them.
“They get anything?”
“Well, Adrina went all ‘Zak’ on us,” Billy said.
“What’s that supposed to mean,” I looked over at Aaron, who was trying not to laugh.
“She started trying to provoke the spirits,” Jay explained. “She sounded a lot like you, actually.”
“Really?” she had never tried provocation before. She was always against it. “Did they get anything?”
“They weren’t for a while, but then the PX told yelled ‘out!’ at them and then she said she felt like she was being pushed and the PX told them to ‘get the fuck out’.”
“Angry spirits,” I said. “Anything lately?”
“No, it’s weird. Everything just stopped…”
“Okay, I’m going to radio them so we can trade off and move on,” I pulled out my walkie and pressed the button. “Hey guys, come on back to nerve center.”
“Roger, on our way,” Adrina’s voice came through the walkie. A few minutes later, the two came walking in. “You two find anything?” Aaron and I shook our heads. “Damn. We didn’t get much…I think the gallows may give us something though.”
“That’s what I was thinking,” I said. “The four of us should go and sit out there for a while.”
We all went to the gallows and were ready to catch some actual evidence. “Adrina, you should do an EVP session. You’re the one that captured the apparition.”
“Okay, sure.” She pulled out a digital recorder and stood with the noose right behind her. “Who did I see earlier?” she asked. “Was it Henry Plummer or one of his deputies? … Was there gang activity in this town?” She looked up at me expectantly, deciding that she was done with that session.
“Let’s play it back,” I said.
“What did I see earlier?” her voice asked on the recorder. Nothing. “Was it Henry Plummer or one of his deputies?” Nothing. “Was there gang activity in this town?” there was a response this time.
“Rewind it a bit,” when she did, I deciphered what it said. “We don’t do nothin’,” it said.
“I heard ‘we ain’t done nothin’.’,” Adrina said.
Yeah, that’s what I heard too,” Nick said. Adrina rewound it again.
“We ain’t done nothin’,” it said.
“Yep, I hear it now,” I agreed. “We ain’t done nothin’.” I pulled out the spirit box and turned it on. “Is there someone here with us.”
“Figure it out.” A man’s voice said, very clearly.
“Shh,” I said, before anybody in the group could say anything. “How many of you are here right now?”
“Enough.”
“What is your name?” Just like that, the voices stopped completely. All the while, Adrina was taking digital stills with her camera.
Unfortunately for us, the ‘enough’ was the last EVP we caught; we didn’t get anything else during the lockdown—not that we knew of anyway. We could only find out for sure when we went over the footage later. But, it still concluded yet another lockdown.
We gathered people for interviews and headed for the town a short while after Zak and I returned from breakfast. However, instead of Lorelei and Ariel staying at the campsite, they came with us and were just going to wait in the car. None of us felt comfortable with those two staying behind so far away from us in the middle of nowhere. Nick, Aaron, Zak, and I were all standing and preparing for the first interview. Nick and Aaron were filming, Zak was standing with the man he was set to interview, and I was just hanging back. I was only used to using the night vision cameras we used in our lockdown anyway. Besides, we didn’t need more than two cameras filming the interview.
“We’re in Bannack, in Beaverhead County, Montana. This place is an actual ghost town,” Zak said as his opening statement to tell where we were and to set up the interview. “What did you say your name was, sir?” was the first question he asked the man with graying hair.
“Charlie Smith,” he replied. “Now, I don’t know anything about the ghosts that are said to haunt here, you’ll have to find somebody else to tell you that. I just know that town’s history.”
“It’s nice to meet you Charlie,” the two shook hands. “That’s fine, we would all love to hear the history of the place. I love knowing what the town was about before we actually do that lockdown. What can you tell us?”
“Well, it was founded in 1862 and was named after the local Bannock Indians. it was the site of a major gold discovery in 1862, and served as the capital of Montana Territory briefly in 1864, until the capital was moved to Virginia City. Bannack continued as a mining town, though with a dwindling population. The last residents left in the 1970s.”
“Really? How many people lived here at one time?”
“At its highest point, there were about ten thousand. This place was founded by Dr. Erasmus Darwin Leavitt from Cornish, New Hamshire. He gave up being a doctor to be a gold minner. He found that he would make more money staying a doctor and letting someone else turn the profit for him so that’s what he did.”
“Bannack's sheriff, Henry Plummer, was accused of secretly leading a ruthless band of road agents, with early accounts claiming that this gang was responsible for over a hundred murders in the Virginia City and Bannack gold fields and trails to Salt Lake City. However, because only eight deaths are historically documented, most people wonder what exactly Plummer's gang did, while others deny the existence of the gang altogether. But, Plummer and two gang members, both of which deputies, were hanged, without trial, at Bannack on January 10, 1864. A number of Plummer's associates were lynched and others banished on pain of death if they ever returned. Twenty-two individuals were accused, informally tried, and hanged by the Vigilance Committee of Bannack and Virginia City,” Charlie explained.
“Can you show us where they were hanged?” Charlie nodded and led us to a space near the center of town.
“They had a jail, but there wasn’t a gallows in there, so there was just this. But the original structure deterierated over time, so this is a recreation of it.” Before us was a stage type thing with a large post with a noose hanging from the top. There was even a lever that would be pulled to drop out the bottom of the floor for the person to be hanged. As everyone walked away from the reconstructed outdoor gallows—so to speak, I pulled out my digital camera and snapped two photos. I paused for a moment to look at them. When the first photo came back up on the screen, I noticed nothing odd. But the second photo was a different story. I stopped myself from outright intruping the inteview. Nick had stopped filming for a moment, something was going on with his camera, so I walked over to him and tapped his shoulder.
“Hey Nick, take a look at this,” I showed him the first photo and then the second one.
“What the fuck?” he asked. “Dude, go show Zak.” I nodded and walked over to where he, Aaron, and Charlie were standing. They were outside of the last standing saloon and Charlie was saying something. I waited for him to pause for a minute.
“Hey guys, I think I’ve got something you may want to see,” I said timidly.
“Whatcha got for us?” Zak asked. Nick was back and fliming by that point.
“Well, when we went over to the gallows and after y’all walked away, I decided to take a picture and I—take a look.” I handed him the camera. “I look two pictures so it’s not just a shadow or something. I took them so fast none of you could’ve moved and made a shadow.”
“Oh my God! Aaron, get over here, get this right now,” Zak said. He wasn’t bossy, he was just the leader. He was excited and I realized he was different on camera than off. I think that Nick and Aaron did too. We were all really relaxed off camera, even Zak. I think the cameras made him kind of nevous. But, maybe that was just me. “Adrina, that is so amazing,” I smiled proudly at the amazing shadow looking thing that I captured. There was a clear head in the noose and I could see arms and a torso.
“Thank you,” I laughed.
“I’m so stoked for this lockdown!” Zak exclaimed. “When you get something like this during the day,” he wrapped an arm around my shoulder. “There’s something truly amazing going on around here.”
***
Our next interview was with two very pretty blonde women. They were twins, and I wouldn’t have had a problem with them, if they hadn’t been eyeballing my fiancé.
“What are your names?” Zak asked.
“I’m Britney Allan.”
“I’m Zooey Allan. We’re twins.” The two blondes laughed.
“Oh my God, we love you’re show. We’re such huge fans!” Britney exclaimed.
“And you, you’re so…attractive!” Zooey exclaimed. I looked up at him and gave him a look. He wasn’t looking at me, but I glared at him anyway.
“You two are sweet, but my fiancée is standing right over there,” he replied. He was lucky that was what he said. “Adri, I saw that glare,” he looked at me with a grin.
“I wasn’t glaring,” I replied.
“She was giving you that wife look,” Nick said, smiling while he pointed his camera at me.
“I wasn’t giving him a ‘wife look’.”
Aaron laughed, filming Zak. “I bet she was. Adri is the jealous type.”
“No I’m not!” I argued.
“It’s okay, Zak is too,” Nick replied.
“Guys, let’s just focus on the interview,” I said, face palming myself.
“I didn’t know you two were engaged,” Zooey said.
“Yeah we are,” Zak said. I could tell that he wanted to get back to the interview too. I really hoped that all of this got edited out…I wanted to catch as much evidence as possible so that we could cut this out. “Anyway, you two have been up here for different ghost hunts, correct?”
“Yes, we’ve been on several with our little group, ‘Ghost Girls’.” It was so good that I wasn’t on camera, I rolled my eyes. They were both still eye-fucking my fiancé so it didn’t matter. That was the dumbest paranormal group name I had ever heard in my life.
“Oh yeah?” I could feel Zak’s eyes fell on me. To most, it would look like he was looking at the camera, but I knew otherwise. Even his tone told me that he thought that their name was dumb. I hated people like that—the fake ones.
“Yeah, so anyway we came up here and…” I zoned out. I couldn’t hear these girls talk anymore. I tapped Nick on the shoulder and told him I was going to go around and take pictures for a while. They could tell me the ghost stories a little later. I didn’t think that girls from Montana would be like the type of girl you would think you would find on one of the real housewives shows.
***
“You okay?” Zak asked me as we were setting up for the lockdown. Britney and Zooey had left a while ago—thank God and I had kind of continued to do my own thing. Even when we went to dinner, I sat between Ariel and the baby’s seat. And, in the car, I climbed in the very back seat and sat by Jay.
“I’m fine, Zak,” I replied.
“Hey, I didn’t even so much as look at those girls.”
“I don’t care if you look—I just want to get ready for the lockdown.” I picked up an x-cam and headed towards the gallows. I knew he was following me. I knew that he would no matter what.
“You’ve been avoiding me,” he said. “And knowing you, you’re jealous.”
“I don’t know, I’m just not used to this…You’re hot and everybody else thinks it too. How the hell am I supposed to compete with pretty girls like that? I’m so plain…”
“Hey you, look at me,” he took my shoulders and made me spin around. “You are perfect. You’re not plain. I don’t want a girl like that. I want you.”
“How do I know that’s how it’ll always be?”
“Because I love you,” he took my face in his hands and looked at me with his dark blue eyes. He had that intense look that he got so often.
“Zak…I…” He kissed me, trying to prove his point.
“Stop, okay? We’ve got a lockdown to do and I don’t want you mad at me.”
I nodded slowly and kissed him once me.
After all of the cameras were set up, we all met back up to go over everything. We all had our night vision cameras in hand and pointed on Zak.
“Okay, Billy and Jay are over in that tent at nerve center,” we all aimed the cameras toward the small structure. “I want Adrina and Nick to start out in the old saloon—there were originally four, but only one is standing now. Britney and Zooey said that their group had found different EVPs, one that said ‘get out’ and another that said ‘die’. Back in the old west there was a lot of violence, let’s see if you two can pick up on some of that.” To this day, Nick and I hadn’t been paired up on a lockdown, I guess it was time. “Aaron and I will go over to the old brewery. They frequently see shadow figures and different light anomalies. Remember, we have x’s outside of each building and two different ones set up in front of the gallows. Good luck everybody.” We did a fist pump and moved on to begin our lockdown.
“Well this is new,” I laughed to Nick.
“Yeah, usually it’s you and Zak or you and Aaron. You’ve been with us for over a year and this is the first time he’s paired us together.”
“I was thinking the exact same thing. I don’t know why now…But anyway. Is there anything I should know about the saloon?”
“Zak thought you disappeared on us earlier.”
“I’m sorry, I couldn’t stand to hear either of those girls talk anymore.”
He laughed a little. “Yeah, that’s what I told them later. But no, Zak said most of it. I’m just afraid that the only piece of evidence we’ll get is that picture from earlier. I don’t get the same vibe from this place as I usually get from the haunted ones…”
“I kinda get the sense that I’m being watched—a little bit. But other than that…I don’t feel much around here either.”
We made our way into the saloon and I didn’t feel anything. It was just a place to me. Usually there was a change in the air or something. But not here.
“Did Zak give you the spirit box?” Nick asked.
“No, I just have a digital recorder and my camera. Don’t you have the PX device?”
“Yeah,” he replied. I preferred the spirit box too. That way we could kind of get a feel for who we were communicating with. If it was a bad spirit, we could tell by the voice—usually anyway. “I’ll turn that on…”
We spent nearly an hour in the saloon. I was so tired of the silence. If this place had ghosts, I was going to get them to come out. “What were Britney and Zooey’s group doing when they got those EVPs?”
“They didn’t say.”
“Well, I’ve got some ghosts to piss off,” I was going to pull a Zak. Provocation wasn’t my thing, but I wanted evidence. I pulled myself up onto the bar to sit. “Anybody that’s in here threatening people come out and threaten me! Yell at me! You think you can just yell at people and get away with it? Come on! Don’t be cowards!” I exclaimed. “I’m sitting on your bar where you used to get alcohol, well guess what? You’re not getting any alcohol now!” I still didn’t feel anything. The room was just still…That was until…Until there was a chilling breeze right at me. “It’s cold right here.”
“Let be get the mel meter and—”
“Out!” the PX device said for the first time.
“You want me out?” I asked. “Too bad! You’re going to have to make me get out! Come over here and push me! Make me leave!” I wasn’t entirely proud of my provocation. This wasn’t me…But it was the only thing I could do here.
***Zak’s POV***
“I hope Adrina and Nick are getting something,” I said with a sigh. There had been absolutely nothing.
“I’m sure they are bro, she’s the freakin’ ghost magnet. We’ll get something, eventually.”
“I hope so…” I just hated when we didn’t catch anything because then that didn’t prove that the paranormal existed. We were just a bunch of people visiting different places and not making any progress with anything!
After another hour of nothing, Aaron and I decided to go ahead and leave to meet back up with Nick and Adrina. We were going to go out to nerve center before we radioed them, to make sure that they weren’t getting anything so that we didn’t interrupt. When we got out to nerve center, we looked at the monitors with their cameras on them.
“They get anything?”
“Well, Adrina went all ‘Zak’ on us,” Billy said.
“What’s that supposed to mean,” I looked over at Aaron, who was trying not to laugh.
“She started trying to provoke the spirits,” Jay explained. “She sounded a lot like you, actually.”
“Really?” she had never tried provocation before. She was always against it. “Did they get anything?”
“They weren’t for a while, but then the PX told yelled ‘out!’ at them and then she said she felt like she was being pushed and the PX told them to ‘get the fuck out’.”
“Angry spirits,” I said. “Anything lately?”
“No, it’s weird. Everything just stopped…”
“Okay, I’m going to radio them so we can trade off and move on,” I pulled out my walkie and pressed the button. “Hey guys, come on back to nerve center.”
“Roger, on our way,” Adrina’s voice came through the walkie. A few minutes later, the two came walking in. “You two find anything?” Aaron and I shook our heads. “Damn. We didn’t get much…I think the gallows may give us something though.”
“That’s what I was thinking,” I said. “The four of us should go and sit out there for a while.”
We all went to the gallows and were ready to catch some actual evidence. “Adrina, you should do an EVP session. You’re the one that captured the apparition.”
“Okay, sure.” She pulled out a digital recorder and stood with the noose right behind her. “Who did I see earlier?” she asked. “Was it Henry Plummer or one of his deputies? … Was there gang activity in this town?” She looked up at me expectantly, deciding that she was done with that session.
“Let’s play it back,” I said.
“What did I see earlier?” her voice asked on the recorder. Nothing. “Was it Henry Plummer or one of his deputies?” Nothing. “Was there gang activity in this town?” there was a response this time.
“Rewind it a bit,” when she did, I deciphered what it said. “We don’t do nothin’,” it said.
“I heard ‘we ain’t done nothin’.’,” Adrina said.
Yeah, that’s what I heard too,” Nick said. Adrina rewound it again.
“We ain’t done nothin’,” it said.
“Yep, I hear it now,” I agreed. “We ain’t done nothin’.” I pulled out the spirit box and turned it on. “Is there someone here with us.”
“Figure it out.” A man’s voice said, very clearly.
“Shh,” I said, before anybody in the group could say anything. “How many of you are here right now?”
“Enough.”
“What is your name?” Just like that, the voices stopped completely. All the while, Adrina was taking digital stills with her camera.
Unfortunately for us, the ‘enough’ was the last EVP we caught; we didn’t get anything else during the lockdown—not that we knew of anyway. We could only find out for sure when we went over the footage later. But, it still concluded yet another lockdown.