‘If you speak to us after,’ says Uncle Randy, ‘we can arrange a time to come out to your place for a thorough investigation. Once we bring our equipment and test the area, we’ll know exactly what’s happening.’ And that’s when I heard Stella for the first time. ‘Ha!’ erupted a cackle from the rear auditorium darkness. I could tell it made everyone immediately uncomfortable by the sudden reactions. People in the crowd looked at...
I don’t think the couple has any idea that anyone else is even in here. I wonder if they even know where they are or just accidentally showed up. I can tell they each only have one thing on their mind and when the lights go out I don’t think either one of them is going to care about ghosts. In the front row there’s a family of a husband and wife, a little baby, and an old woman in her eighties. The old lady looks impatient and sad at the...
Cherie has cheerleading practice and doesn’t even stick around to wait for things to start. While Dad and Uncle Randy anxiously pace backstage, Ted and I stand off to the left hand side of the stage and watch the people entering the auditorium. ‘How come no hot girls come to these things?’ asks Ted. ‘It’s always old people.’ I’m scanning the crowd and realizing he does make kind of a good point. It’s mostly people over fifty....
I always think adults are weird in that way. I have a few friends whose parents are divorced and they won’t even sit in the same room together. In a way I think that seems childish. Like, how many times growing up are we forced to be in class every day with other kids we can’t stand? Kids that try to act like bullies or little miss perfects. We’re able to get through it. What’s up with old people? Dad and Uncle Randy are standing at a...
Uncle Randy was reluctant to get involved at first. I remember having my ear pressed to the floor with Cherie and Ted while we listened to our Dads talking about it downstairs. Uncle Randy’s wife, my Aunt Lola, she never wanted them to do it. She ended up lasting the first four years but left after that. Sometimes Cherie and Ted go and visit her on the weekends. When they first got started up, Dad and Uncle Randy went online to shop for...