18 June 2027
Friday, 6.00 pm. Midwinter vigil. Objective: to time an entire visit, door to door, as no investigator has done before. Equipment: stopwatch, thermos, Noreen’s good scarf.
6.00 pm. A team arrives fifteen minutes before its session, as staff ask, for the lockers, the house rules and the briefing. 6.15 pm. Door closes. Sixty minutes on her clock, not one more.
7.15 pm. Door opens. The team does not leave at once. Staff suggest allowing another fifteen minutes or so to recover and talk it over, and they need every second. 7.30 pm. Out on the footpath. Ninety minutes, door to door. Underlined.
The next team arrived at 6.58 pm for a seven o’clock session, breathless and apologetic, and were hurried through the lockers. Arrive early, I noted. You cannot rush the entity. You can only be early for her.
— D. Crouch, Northbridge Paranormal Society (President, Treasurer and Members)
