Ghost Ahead by Spike Black

Author:Spike Black
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: High Concept Books
Published: 2016-05-11T05:00:00+00:00

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Garth pulled onto the shoulder on Eldham Road and parked the car two hundred feet from the bus stop. He pulled out a pair of binoculars and looked through them at the shelter and the surrounding gravel path.

Wendy shifted in her seat. “Shouldn’t we get closer?”

“Can’t risk it. Not with you in the car.”

Garth had an uneasy feeling about this. What if the ghost was a no-show? What then? Wendy simply had to see it for herself - he needed her on his side. He scanned the area, almost expecting Eddie to suddenly appear at the corner of his limited view, making him jump. Or maybe, when he lowered the binoculars, Eddie’s rotting face would be pressed up against the windshield.

He shivered, creeping himself out. They sat there in silence for some time, the temperature inside the vehicle plummeting, a mist coming off the fields and obscuring his view somewhat. This stakeout could last all night, he realized, and he was deeply regretting not bringing any doughnuts.

Even if Eddie did show, though, what made him think that Wendy would be able to see him? Nobody at the scene of Juha’s accident saw him. Garth sunk into his seat. This was a fool’s errand, he suspected. And he’d put his wife in danger unnecessarily.

“You want to tell me about the station?” he asked. “I think we’ll be here a while.”

Wendy sighed. “There’s not much to tell, to be honest.”

“Still, I’d like to hear it. If, you know… if you’re up to it.”

She shifted in her seat. “Well, you know the place. It’s a creepy old building. Not somewhere you particularly want to be alone at night, or any other time of day, for that matter. And it really doesn’t help that there’s a panic alarm that goes off regularly in the old cell block. Or at least it used to, I think they’ve taken care of that now. Anyway, one night the alarm went off, and there were only four of us in the building. And you can’t turn it off remotely, you have to actually go down there.”

“Ugh.”

“Yeah, exactly. I mean, these are abandoned cells, at the other end of the station, haven’t been used for years, other than to store junk and old paperwork. And there were all these tales going around about the ghost in the cell block. People had seen him in solitary, apparently. So everybody on shift that night, they started drawing straws. It was ridiculous. So I just said, ‘oh, for goodness sake,’ snatched the keys and went down there.”

Garth shivered. “You really don’t have to tell this story, you know. If you don’t want to.”

“I’m pretty good at that sort of thing though, don’t you think? I’ve never been a scaredy-cat kind of person. So I unlocked the door, and went inside, and yeah, it’s spooky and cold and smells of damp, but it’s not all that bad. I found the key to the alarm behind the custody desk and turned it, and, well, I should have left then.

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