A self-appointed paranormal investigator has watched Cathy’s houses from the footpath since 2021, and has been wrong about almost everything. Newest files first.
In short: The Possession Case Files are a comic, fictional casebook by Desmond Crouch, an investigator who follows Cathy’s haunting through The Possession’s three houses in Northbridge, Sydney and Melbourne. They give away no puzzles, every file links to the real room facts, and Cathy’s own diary is on the site of The Haunting.
The Possession is a 60-minute horror escape room by Escape This and the sequel to The Haunting: ten years after escaping Cathy’s house, a team of 2 to 8, all aged 15 or over, goes back in. It plays at Escape This Northbridge, Sydney CBD and Melbourne CBD.
These case files are fiction written by Escape This. Desmond Crouch, his society and his sister Noreen are invented; Cathy is the ghost of both rooms, and her own diary, which calls Desmond ‘the Beeping Man’, is on the site of The Haunting. The files are safe for work and give away no puzzles.
Desmond is not trusted with anything that changes: team sizes, ages, prices, access and how many teams escape live outside his notes, beside each file, refreshed from Escape This’s own booking and game data.
A comic, invented casebook that Escape This writes in the voice of Desmond Crouch, a self-appointed paranormal investigator who has watched Cathy’s houses from the footpath since 2021 and been wrong about nearly everything. He logs The Possession’s openings in Northbridge, Sydney and Melbourne and quizzes teams on their way out. Safe for work, and no puzzle is given away.
No. Desmond, his one-man Northbridge Paranormal Society, his sister Noreen and his beeping meter are all made up for the case files. He is not part of The Possession and won’t be waiting outside your session, though nobody can promise the same about Cathy.
No. Desmond spends the files on the footpath, at the lockers or interviewing teams after the fact, and never records how Cathy’s house works or how anyone got out. Read them before your session or after; The Possession will still surprise you.
Three of them. Escape This’s booking records show The Possession opening at Escape This Northbridge on 26 November 2021, Sydney CBD on 25 October 2024 and Melbourne CBD on 10 August 2026. Desmond’s files for those days carry those dates; the rest are dated for the story.
She does. Cathy writes a diary on the site of The Haunting, the first chapter, and calls Desmond “the Beeping Man”. Many of her pages describe the same nights as his files, seen from the upstairs window instead of the footpath, without repeating a word, and neither one spoils The Possession.
Roughly monthly. Each new file appears on the date at its top, so the case files keep pace with The Possession’s real houses in Northbridge, Sydney and Melbourne through 2027.
Book The Possession in Perth, Sydney or Melbourne. Two to eight players, 15 and over, one hour with Cathy.
