13 August 2027
Friday, 6.40 pm. Noreen has used her voucher. Not on The Possession: on the first room, The Haunting, because, she says, you start a story at the beginning. She is right, which is irritating.
She went up with three friends to what staff call the Hall of Horrors, where the old room and the new one sit a few doors apart. I remained across the road with the meter, as agreed with myself.
7.50 pm. They came out. Noreen was laughing. She said the girl in the house was ‘a sweetheart, really, just lonely’. Her friends looked at her as if she had grown a second head. One of them said she had said goodbye to the nursery on the way out. Aloud.
Noreen says she will do The Possession next, and that I am coming. I have bought a new notebook. I tell myself it is for the files.
— D. Crouch, Northbridge Paranormal Society (President, Treasurer and Members)
