Secrets of the Old Church by E.A. House

Author:E.A. House
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ABDO
Published: 2018-05-05T16:00:00+00:00

IT WAS NOT POSSIBLE TO SIT IN AN AWKWARD HUDDLE in the dark of an empty cistern waiting for a ghost to appear for very long. Chris lasted fifteen minutes after the EMF meter stopped squealing before his nerves got the better of him and he started fidgeting. Carrie lasted fifteen-and-a-half minutes, at which point Chris bumped her injured ankle and she shoved him halfway across the cistern, and Maddison discreetly backed out of the altercation while they were flicking random bits of debris at each other. They didn’t actually notice that her silent preoccupation was foreboding until she finally spoke up.

“So, um, when we checked our phones for reception did you guys happen to check how much battery you had left?” Maddison interrupted when Carrie had to stop to get brick dust out of her hair.

“No,” Chris said, trying to remember when he’d last charged his phone. It had been recently, maybe.

“Yeah, I was at something like eighty percent,” Carrie said.

“And I was at seventy,” Maddison said. “I’m at six percent right now.”

“Wait, what?” Chris asked, and pulled his own phone out of his pocket to discover that he was running on three percent battery. This, he thought to himself, was unusual even if he had forgotten to charge his phone overnight again.

“Aren’t malfunctioning cell phones supposed to be a sign of paranormal activity?” Chris asked.

“Oh, I was hoping you wouldn’t know that,” Maddison said. “I’m kind of impressed that you do. I could explain away the EMF meter going haywire but this is starting to look less like a coincidence and more like a genuine haunting.”

Chris did not admit to how much research he had done into aliens and ghost hunting while worrying about Maddison storming out on him. Especially since it had probably been equal to the amount of research Carrie had done into the church.

“The phones might just have run down the battery searching for a signal,” Carrie suggested, not looking terribly convinced herself. Her own phone, since she charged it every night, was still at ten percent, and after a brief argument she left hers on and Chris and Maddison turned theirs off.

“So that we have some sort of backup,” Maddison said. “Although I hope we don’t need it.”

“And not that I don’t enjoy being stuck in a well with the both of you,” Carrie said, “but we really do need to figure a way out of here, preferably without getting arrested for trespassing.” She was holding her phone on her lap, and looked appropriately grim and glowing in the blue-white light. The same light was making Maddison look ethereal, which was just not fair. Chris sighed.

“I still think our best bet is going to be making a pile of junk and climbing up it,” he admitted. “This cistern isn’t very big, and from what I can tell it’s full of junk.”

“Yeah, did you find anything interesting when you examined every inch of this space in the dark?” Carrie asked with a hint of cheerfulness.

“No,” Chris admitted.

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