Ghosts on the Red Line by Peter David Shapiro

Author:Peter David Shapiro
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ghosts, ghost story, paranormal, boston, cambridge, subway, MIT, Red Line, visitation, novel, spiritualism, psychic
Publisher: PenLane Press
Published: 2011-09-12T00:00:00+00:00

Twenty Six

Dr. Frances Gourmelon dropped her cellphone into her capacious cloth bag and returned thoughtfully to her cup of strong black tea at the Horse and Plow Café. Her nephew Teddie Bulger, an engineer at the MBTA, had just shared very interesting information, confirming her suspicion that the MBTA was blocking visitations on the Red Line.

Teddie said that the MBTA had installed some sort of electromagnetic barrier in the tunnel but was keeping it quiet to avoid attracting attention. Apparently the MBTA barrier was working because Dr. Gourmelon’s clients were telling her that neither they, nor anyone else they knew, were seeing loved ones anymore on the Red Line. People were getting discouraged.

Jeremy, the Horse and Plow manager, came by frequently to Dr. Gourmelon’s table to offer more tea and to check that she was enjoying her breakfast. Dr. Gourmelon tried to put him at ease by accepting the tea with a big smile. “Thank you so much, Jeremy, I’d love some more,” she said, adding, “Breakfast this morning was splendid. Much appreciated!”

“You’re most welcome,” Jeremy said. “Just give me a wave if you need anything.”

If only she had been visited by her own darlings on the Red Line! But she was too famous as a psychic and spiritualist to be seen in Red Line train cars looking for them. She’d have wanted the privacy and quiet of her own train car, which she didn’t need the MBTA’s consultant, Harry West, Ph.D., to tell her would be difficult to arrange.

In an interview with the Boston Globe, she had warned the MBTA against blocking the visitations, while also raising public awareness about the MBTA’s plan to do so. In that piece, the Globe had quoted her directly without its customary tone of snide condescension, finally recognizing that this topic was, after all, her area of expertise. And she’d tried to persuade Harry West to stop helping the MBTA.

Dr. Gourmelon resolved to do more even though she had not received additional reminders from the spirits, those painful slaps on the backs of her hands, since her earlier episode in the Horse and Plow Café.

Thus Teddie’s other news was even more intriguing. He was one of the two engineers assigned by the MBTA to help a young MIT hot-shot named Steve Cheng to collect measurements in the Red Line tunnels and on the train cars. They recorded electrical energy levels and the chemical elements in the air and, he told his aunt, he believed that Cheng wanted these data for reasons that went beyond mere scientific curiosity. When Teddie asked Cheng about it, he received a vague answer, like “we’re trying to work out what is going on.” Then Teddie was tasked to deliver a bench of Red Line car seats to a special new room being built at MIT. He hung around for a while until someone noticed him and he was asked to leave. He asked why, and they would tell him only that what they were doing was confidential. But

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