Girl, Haunted (An Ella Dark FBI Suspense Thriller—Book 22) by Blake Pierce

Author:Blake Pierce [Pierce, Blake]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2024-10-24T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY

‘What?’ Ella asked. Luca’s manic tone had summoned her from the other end of the precinct back into her office. She'd spent the last two hours putting out and dodging verbal bullets from every disgruntled business owner in town. Between the irate haunt owners, the apoplectic mayor, and the general public's sudden fascination with pitchforks, she was running on fumes.

‘Ell, I think I've got something. You’re not gonna believe this.’ The words tumbled out like a verbal avalanche. Ella couldn’t remember the last time she’d seen Luca so hyper.

'Hit me. Every haunt is closed down, but that doesn't mean our guy isn't going to strike.'

‘HangingLangley,’ Luca blurted, like that explained everything.

Ella blinked. ‘Bless you?’

‘No, no. HangingLangley. He's this vlogger, a real piece of work. But get this – he's got videos of himself trying to break into Shadowland and the Crypt of Despair. Right before the murders.’

Ella felt her blood pressure spike. She leaned over Luca's shoulder and squinted at his laptop screen. Sure enough, there was a string of videos, each thumbnail more clickbaity than the last.

‘Who is this guy?’

'I don't know, but in this one video, he's talking about seeing a masked man run out of Shadowland. The same night Natasha Langston died.'

‘He was at Shadowland the same night?’

Luca pointed to the screen. ‘Look at the date and tell me I’m making this up.’

Ella double-checked her partner's maths. 'You're right. What's this guy look like?'

‘Tall and gangly, if that’s what you’re thinking.’

‘That’s exactly what I was thinking.’ Ella jumped to her laptop with renewed focus. The world of pissed-off business owners suddenly seemed a million miles away. ‘Let’s find this guy’s real name.’

‘It’s Carter Langley. It’s right here in his description.’

‘Perfect.’ Ella navigated to the police database and threw in the name Carter Langley. One result popped up. ‘Got him.’

‘What’s the score?’

‘Twenty-four years old. Minor criminal record. Trespassing charges. Seems he got busted violating a few old buildings. Seems he takes urban exploration pretty seriously.’

‘Job?’

Ella scrolled through the details. ‘Unemployed.’

‘Obviously.’

'Yeah. The address listed is 1313 Wrekin Heights. See how far away that is.'

Luca hammered his keyboard then said, ‘Four miles from here. One mile from the Screamatorium too. Just checking his page to see if he’s tried to break into that too.’

Ella straightened up, grabbed her jacket and got ready to kick down some doors. Luca was oddly still at his laptop. ‘You coming or what? We’ve got enough to go on.’

‘Wait,’ Luca said. He flicked his laptop screen. ‘Look at this.’

Ella followed Luca’s gaze. There, next to Langley's smug mug on his videos page, was a little red dot. Pulsing, insistent.

The ‘Live’ tab on his videos page was flashing. ‘What’s that mean?’

Luca clicked into it. There was a single video with a thumbnail of a dilapidated building. The title read: OLD SANATORIUM SOLO HAUNT - LIVE AT 8PM. The little box below said 43 people were waiting in the lobby to watch.

‘A live stream of some old mental hospital,’ Luca said. ‘Going live in… one hour.’

‘That old sanitorium.

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