Donn's Hill by Caryn Larrinaga

Author:Caryn Larrinaga [Larrinaga, Caryn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-04-04T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

Now this is what a haunted house should look like.

I stood in front of the dilapidated log cabin, holding a case of equipment in each hand. From the front, it looked as if it had a face: two large windows for eyes and a door for a mouth. Its roof was sagging, and there was a large hole where the shingles drooped inward. Most of the windowpanes were broken, if not missing entirely. Ancient oaks towered above the squat building. It looked exactly like the sort of place I’d seen in a dozen scary movies when I’d screamed, “Don’t go in there, you idiot! That’s where the ax murderer lives!”

Kit nudged me with one of the cases she was carrying. “Ready for this?”

I shivered, remembering the grinning, smoky face in the video. The front door suddenly seemed like the mouth of a hungry bear, hanging open and waiting for its next meal to stumble into its jaws. The fear in my stomach slowly gnawed away at the enthusiasm I’d woken up with that morning. I wished I’d brought Striker with me, but I was terrified she’d run off into the woods and get eaten by a wild dog, so I left her at home.

“Ready as I’ll ever be.” I smiled at Kit. “I’m not sure what I want to find in there. A big part of me hopes there’s nothing but a bunch of broken beer bottles.”

Yuri came over and handed me a clipboard. “This is going to be a little different than what we did at the library,” he said. “We’ll need to cover a lot more ground. Why don’t you start the sweep in the house then move on to the surrounding woods?”

“What, alone?” My knees turned to jelly.

Yuri smiled. “Don’t worry, I’ll never send you anywhere dangerous. Mark will be shooting some B-roll out here while Kit and I set up the equipment inside, so you won’t be alone. And I don’t want you going deep into the woods at all, so stay near the edges of the cabin.”

I tucked the clipboard under my arm and nodded. Taking a deep breath, I followed Kit into the house.

It was a simple cabin with an open layout that was probably really pleasant in its heyday. But decades of parties and hasty exits had left piles of garbage everywhere, and the hole in the roof granted access to snow and rain. It smelled of mildew—like clothing that’s been left in the washing machine for a few days. Everything from the wide pine floorboards to the rustic log walls was covered in graffiti.

Wanting to get through the sweep as quickly as possible, I pulled out my EMF meter and turned it on. Even in broad daylight, the cabin gave me the creeps. I couldn’t imagine hanging out in here for a party, and I was dreading having to spend the night for the main part of the investigation. Maybe Yuri would let me help get everything set up, and then I could sleep in the van.

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