Unbound Spirits by Christine Pope

Author:Christine Pope [Pope, Christine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance, Paranormal, General, Fantasy, Witches, Urban, Horror, Thrillers, Supernatural
Google: u56HDwAAQBAJ
Amazon: B07NPFQS9H
Barnesnoble: B07NPFQS9H
Goodreads: 44014225
Publisher: Dark Valentine Press
Published: 2019-01-01T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

“I found it on the grounds a while back,” Edgar Samuels said as Colin stood in the corner with his camera, filming everything. They sat at one of the tables in the dining room, since that seemed like the most logical place to gather. “I planned to toss it at some point, but I guess I forgot about it. Usually, we go through the discards and donate what we can and throw out the rest, but we were having the place re-roofed this past spring, and it must have slipped my mind.”

He frowned, and his wife patted him on the arm. They were both in their late fifties, pleasant-faced, Edgar balding and his wife Jackie with brown gray-streaked hair she wore plainly in a ponytail. Now they looked over at Michael with some concern, as though they were worried he was going to chastise them for being so careless with something so potentially dangerous.

“But it’s just a toy, isn’t it?” Jackie asked. Her worried gaze slipped from Michael to Audrey, who did her best to offer a reassuring smile in return. “I mean, I remember playing with one of these things when I was a little girl and not having any problems.”

“It depends on the situation,” Michael said. The Ouija board lay on the table in front of him. Audrey guessed that it must have been outside in the elements for some time before Edgar found it, because the board was warped, the edges worn, the laminated cardboard on its face water-stained. “A lot of the time, nothing goes wrong, mostly because the kids playing with the board don’t have any ill intentions. The problem is that Ouija boards were marketed as toys, but they’re really devices for communicating with the other side. When untrained people reach out to those energies, anything can answer…and sometimes does.”

Some of the cheerful rosiness in Jackie Samuels’ cheeks seemed to fade, and her voice faltered as she asked, “But why would anyone bring one of these things here?”

“I honestly don’t know.” Michael reached out to touch the board, but carefully, by the edge, his fingers staying safely away from any of the letters or numbers printed on one side. “Best guess? Someone probably brought the Ouija board to your B&B because they’d heard it was haunted and wanted to have some kind of a seance here. It is haunted, isn’t it?”

Husband and wife exchanged a glance. “The previous owners told us it was, but we never saw much evidence of it,” Edgar said. “Once or twice, items were moved around — or at least we thought they were — but that could have just been absentmindedness on our part and nothing supernatural at all. We never felt anything bad, so to speak.”

“Not until about six months ago,” Jackie added. “But maybe that was when the Ouija board was left behind.”

“I doubt it was a coincidence,” Michael said. “Maybe you should check your records and see who was staying here at that time.”

“Even if

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