Chapter 1: The first day of investigation
It was a cool day out in Phoenix, Arizona; the forecast told of rain later in the day…thankfully I was in a SUV.
“Woooooow” a voice from behind me made me smile slightly.
“I Never thought I’d see such a place…”
“I wonder if there are any romantic places here?”
The pink alicorn looked to me for an answer.
“Hey, don’t look at me; I’m new here too Candace.”
“Is there a map?” The purple one asked.
“I’m sure there is Twilight, but I have to work…you all can explore while I do so…just don’t get lost ok?”
“I’ll stick with you~” The pristine mare Celestia teased.
“Yea-Yea just don’t hinder me alright.” I say blankly.
She deflated at my response…she didn’t know much about me since I JUST picked them up from the airport.
Oh…right you have no idea who I am…well let’s fix that.
My alias is Mr. R and I am a Paranormal investigator…meaning I deal with mostly ghosts and the more serious Demonic cases.
As for them I am to watch them closely since I was “Qualified.” To keep an eye on them since I have experience in the unknown.
That and Twilight here saw my show and was curious…unfortunately the government only showed the…lesser ones…not any with…the…yea you get it she is absolutely clueless as to what I really deal with a lot.
“Hey Show respect!” The only other male Shining Armour in the SUV barked at me.
“I did…I could’ve told her to piss off.”
*Ding* “Your destination is on the right.”
Turning to the house that had gave me a call I notice it immediately…a Very Dark presence.
“*Sigh* Son of a bitch.”
I thought that this wouldn’t be so bad…yet here I am.
OH I forgot to mention I am an Empath, in other words I sense emotional energy and other energies better than most, similar to a medium save that I don’t really see and talk to the dead in their manner.
I look back to the three in the back I notice Candace feeling the same thing I do...only she shivered in fear.
Shining saw me staring at her and noticed her fear too.
I look to Shining and gave one instruction.
“Take her away from here…this…isn’t a good place for her.”
“How would you know?” he asked skeptical of me.
“Look at her and then me…”
He did so.
“So…”
“Notice anything similar?”
He took another look at the two of us…then.
“Y-You can sense Emotion?” Candace asked.
“More or less…” I say as I open the door.
“Keep away from here until I’m done ok?” I mention to them…Celestia wasn’t keen on leaving.
“Why can’t we stay?”
I point to Candace who was shaking like a leaf.
“If she or any of you enter this place with fear like that AND accounting for who you are…it can get bad FAST…”
“Is it really that bad?” Shining asked.
“Care to find Out?” I dared him.
The one thing I know about Demons is they love fucking with skeptics.
I know how to introduce skeptics to things like this and when it’s time for them to leave.
“…Fine I’ll prove that this is just a scam.”
“Oh you’ll regret saying that.”
I went to the back of the SUV and open the back and grab my camera, EMF reader, and SB7 sprit box.
“You all stay here while me a Shining head in and speak to the owner.”
Closing the back with my equipment in hand and the Skeptic in tow I slowly head to the house.
Once at the front door I rang the doorbell.
After a few minutes, a woman comes to the door opening it to see me and a weird creature in her eyes.
“Hello, Donna, right?”
“Yes, are you Mr. R?”
“That I am.”
“Oh, thank you for coming.”
“Thank you for having me.”
I point to Shining.
“This is Shining Armour he’s with me to experience this for the first time.”
Donna gave Shining a worried glance which he picked up on instantly.
“My we enter?”
“Sure, come on in.” she welcomed us inside her home.
“Mind if I record?”
“Oh no not at all.”
“Why Ar-”
“It’ll help document if anything happens.” I cut off Shining while answering his question.
We take a seat on the living room couch while she sat on the armchair.
My camera was on the table set on the side of us recording the interview.
“So, Donna let’s start this off by asking some questions…let me know if I ask one that you can’t answer.”
Donna nodded.
“How long has this been going on.”
“About 6 years now.”
“6 years?”
“Yes; six.”
“And how long have you been in this house?”
“Five.”
“So, this has been happing for a while…”
“Yes, it’s gotten worse every year.”
“When did this start happening?”
Donna seemed to think for a moment.
“I think it was after I had an encounter with something at a place.”
“Which place?”
Donna stayed silent…
“Donna?”
“Bobby Mackey’s.”
That sent chills down my spine…
Shining saw my face pale and he grew nervous.
“You mean THE Bobby Mackey’s Music World?”
“Yes.” She started to get emotional.
“Why did you go?” I asked wondering her reason.
“I-I was curious in the Paranormal…”
‘Ah…she let this thing enter her body or it followed her from the location…or the least it left her open to something else.’
“It’s fine to have an interest in the Paranormal but going into a place so notorious for Negative activity especially since you never done it before is a VERY BAD Idea, you realize that right?”
She started to tear up and she nodded.
*tomp,tomp,tomp,tomp.*
The sound of heavy footsteps moved above us.
“Is anyone up there?” I ask her.
Donna stayed silent.
“Back to the questions…”
“When did you go to bobby’s?”
“About 7 years when I was visiting my sister.”
‘7 years…that doesn’t add up, she’s been dealing with this for 6 years but only lived in the house for 5…it could’ve followed her but it could be something else.’
“7 years?”
“I was there for a year before I went to bobby’s”
“Ah, So…do you mind showing us where all the hotspots or the places that have activity.”
She stood up and we followed suit.
She led us to the kitchen first.
“So, what happened here.”
“One night I was cutting some carrots and I had a feeling like something was breathing down my neck…”
“Like someone was behind you?”
“Yes and when I turn around…there was no one there and it scared me, but that wasn’t it…”
She grabbed my attention at that statement.
“I continued cutting the food for prep and I set the knife down.” She points to the countertop.
“And I went to the fridge to grab some lettuce and when I open the fridge door I hear and feel something hit the fridge and when I looked; the knife that I set on the countertop was on the floor with the tip bent.”
I look between the counter to the fridge and it was a good few feet from each other.
“So, it would have to fly from here to there…”
“Yes, and I have the knife still.”
“May we see it?”
She went to the counter and grabbed a knife and low and behold it was bent…and unnaturally too, the knife was bent at perfect 90° angle, like if I were to try to bend it back it would snap.
Now most would believe that she did it, but for it to end up like this would be hard for her to do since she isn’t the strong type.
Still need more to believe that she is dealing with something.
“Well anything else?”
“Yes…I get pinched.”
“Pinched where?”
“On my butt.”
“Oh…I see.”
“It happens a lot and I never feel it outside.”
“One would think your wearing tight clothes or something-”
“-Yea I thought the same too but I could be wearing shorts and it happens…I also thought it was my muscle just kept twitching but it felt more like a hand was doing it than my body just acting weird.”
“Any more physical things.”
She nods.
“Like what?”
“From groping to scratches.”
“You’ve been scratched-?”
“Mhmm-”
“-Where-?”
“-Right up my back, on my thighs, across my chest, arms, so pretty much everywhere.”
“How often does this happen?”
“It used to happen monthly, but it recently became weekly.”
“So, it’s escalating.”
“It is and it’s becoming scary.”
“I would imagine…do you have photos of any scratches?”
“I do.”
She pulled out her phone
When I took a look a chill ran down my spine again, she was scratched alright…really badly…some on her back that was unexplainable.
“Ouch…” one looked to draw blood from her side…it looked bad enough that if not treated it could cause infection.
“These look bad.”
“And I’m not the only one who’s been scratched.”
“Who else has been?”
“My Daughter…her friends and my friends…My husband and his friends-”
“-So, anyone and everyone? -”
“-Yea even guests have experiences.”
“Anywhere else?”
“My bedroom.”
We went to her room and the air got even heavier…Shining noticed it as he suddenly got cold.
“Chilly in here.”
“It’s always this cold.”
“Always?”
“Yes, no matter how hard I try it is so cold in here…”
“It’s like an ice box.” Shining commented.
“And I have had professionals come in and check my heating and they say that it’s something they can’t explain…they even told me that they couldn’t find out why it was so cold.”
Taking my EMF reader that has a temp gauge I turn it on and it spiked up instantly…making they color indicator green.
The temp of the room read 32° Fahrenheit
“Wow that is low…”
Shining was trying to see my hand…noticing his curious look I lower it to his face and he saw the temp…it was Really low.
“Here can you hold this and keep it on me?” I hand Donna my camera and she did what I asked.
I walked to the hallway and the EMF stopped spiking and the temp rose.
“Can you zoom in on the EMF?”
“Yea, How do I-Oh here.”
I held the EMF to the camera view and it read a 35° rise from the room I was just in.
“Ok Zoom out…” she did.
I walk in the room and the temp went back to 32°
“For those who don’t know that if a change in temperature albeit if lower or higher means that something is in the room…or someone or both…the fact that this here reads from a 67 to a 32 is a really significant change.”
“And one of the AC repairmen had an experience.”
“Oh really?”
“Yes, he didn’t tell me what happened only that he wasn’t staying and left right after.”
“Do you remember his Name?”
“Yes it was Jake.”
‘Ok note to call the air conditioning company.’
“And his company…the one he worked for?”
“I…think it was Larson Air Conditioning.”
“Ah so they sent him and he had an experience.”
“Yes the look on his face was so vivid-”
“-What did his face-?”
“-Just PURE Terror like he saw something and it tried to attack him.”
“Any other places…?”
“Yep the Basement.”
“Ooh~ the basement.” I gave a slight excitement.
“Come with me.” She led us to the basement.
Down in the basement was a different feel; More tense.
“Ooh boy Nasty in here.”
“Yes this is the worst spot.”
“The worst?” Shining asked somewhat nervous.
She nodded.
“Here everything changes, you feel like you’re being watched to being, threatened, to even full on attacked.”
*Whistle* “Sounds intense.”
“I have a recording from my daughter’s phone who went down here and caught something.”
She pulled her phone out again but it didn’t turn on.
“Oh…Right electronics die down here.”
“What?” Shining was confused.
“She means that things like phones, cameras, and other devices lose their battery life quickly…speaking of which.”
I look at the camera display and notice the battery life.
“Yep my camera is almost dead.”
Shining stared at me with some skepticism
“I put new batteries in each camera RIGHT before I picked you guys up from the airport.”
Shining was surprised of what I said.
“As in Brand new?”
“Yep I just got these replaced after the 4 of them were a year or two past their life expectancy.”
That gave Shining the chills.
We heard a crash next to us which gave us a scare.
I raise my hand before either of them could talk.
I waited for something to happen…but nothing did.
Grabbing my SB7 I turn the device on as static came from it.
“Anyone here?”
…
“State your name…”
…
“Why are you here?”
…
…
…
“Let’s head back upstairs.”
I turn off the SB7 when nothing comes through.
Once we entered and sat down on the couch.
“Ok then so here’s what I’m thinking.”
Donna stares at me for an answer.
“You went to bobby’s experienced something and that caused you to open yourself unknowingly to any other energy.”
“So there is one thing we can do to confirm, I’ll stay here with my team and investigate tomorrow; for tonight I want to ask if I can set up some cameras to watch over at night to see if anything happens.”
“You’re leaving her here for a night?” Shining sounded concerned for the woman.
“She has my number, I have a hotel about 4 miles from here, and my team along the rest of the Main 6 and Luna won’t arrive until tomorrow…”
Shining sighed he knew that this would be a weird experience.
“If that’s alright with you.”
“Well I don’t mind too much…”
“I won’t put any in the bathroom~” I gave a slight disappointed tone to lighten her mood, which did.
“Ok.” she giggled.
Smiling I motion for Shining to follow.
We head back outside where the royal group was waiting.
Candace being worried she looked over Shining with care.
“D-Did anything happen?” She asked him.
Sighing he looked at her with a stern look.
“You all Aren’t heading in there.”
That caught them off guard.
“Why?” Twilight asked.
“When I was in there I could feel the heavy weight of dread, I Felt like I was being watched…and when I entered the basement…That…was the darkest place I have ever been in.”
I snickered.
“What?” he asked slightly offended.
“Not to bruise your ego…but I have visited places that would make this place seem like a playground for kids.”
That made Shining do a double take.
Twilight was out of the loop.
“But I have only seen a few spooky things in your show.”
“Yes…The TAME things.”
“Tame?” Celestia questioned.
“If you think that this job has only a few spooks here and there…then you are DEAD wrong.”
“You can feel the darkness?” Candace asked me.
“Yes, I Am Physic Medium; But more accurately…I’m an Empath…It’s similar to your magic in a sense but I can feel emotions and life energy but not really invoke it.”
“Are there others like you?” Celestia asked.
“Yes a few…in fact one of my team of 6 members is a Physic Medium.”
“What’s the difference?” Twilight asked as she got a pen and paper.
“Physic Mediums can not only Feel spirits…but also see and communicate with them.”
Twilight scribbled down that as a note, she is a slight skeptic of the Paranormal but from watching my show she did started to get interested…she even asked if she and her friends could join in an investigation.
But with the Government breathing down my neck about their safety I have to limit them to the ‘Kiddy’ stuff as most investigators call it.
Kiddy like in weird occurrences small and less dangerous investigations.
NOTHING like the Evil or Demonic cases I get called about…
Now before you try to berate me for being too scared to take them on a ‘Real’ Investigation let me ask you…Have you ever SEEN an Exorcism preformed…I have…Several times…some that will NEVER leave my memories.
Shaking the bad memory out of my head I continue to answer some of the questions.
Soon we head to the hotel that was given to us by the government as to keep tabs of where we are.
Unloading the equipment for the next evening I notice Celestia in my room waiting for me to address her.
“What is it?” I asked in a dull tone.
“You told Shining that the place wasn’t as bad as the places you’ve been…so I want to know HOW Bad can it get.”
“…I Can’t say.”
“But-”
“Not because I can’t…it’s just that it’s easier seen…rather then told.”
Grabbing my phone, I search the videos of one my past investigations…I chose one that gives me the chills every time…why…
It was the first time I got Possessed…even a little.
I gave the phone to Celestia and she watched the video…when she got the part where I suddenly changed in attitude…well she is lucky that she is already white.
“I’M GONNA FUCKING KILL YOU!” I don’t even remember saying that…or grabbing my best friend by his neck.
The other members of my team who are also my friends had to jump me to get me off of Chris…the one I grabbed.
They kept calling my name to snap me out…which I did…the look on my face was truth enough…I only came too when I started to breath heavy.
Celestia noticed my sullen expression.
“It’s dangerous work…you can see why my government only showed the less…vivid stuff.”
I expected her to lash out me for trying to hurt my friend…
Which got suddenly changed to a near bone crushing hug by the mare.
“You’ve must’ve been scared…”
I gave a sigh…
“It was…I took a week off to gather my thoughts after that…my friend forgave me…which helped, plus he kept saying that it wasn’t me that tried to harm him but the entity that ‘Momentarily’ took hold of me.”
She didn’t let up the hug…which started to get awkward for me.
“Umm…can I…”
Celestia moved slightly then quickly pulled away…Blushing.
“S-Sorry I just had an impulse to…”
“I get it…its fine.”
I continued to unpack everything…but Celestia still was in the room.
“Umm…”
“Right the second reason…We only got 3 rooms…for now since two others won’t open until tomorrow…”
“Right…” I knew what she was asking…but in My room.
“Couldn’t you sleep with Twilight?”
“Yes…but she…how to put this nicely…”
Giving a thought…I speculated what she was getting at.
“She Snores?”
“Yes…LOUDLY.”
“Ah…*Sigh* FINE Just for tonight…AND DON’T TRY ANYTHING.”
She giggled at me.
“Oh don’t worry Mr. R I don’t bite...not unless you ask.” She teased.
Rolling my eyes at the notion as I kept unpacking.
She slightly deflated at my lack of response to her…advance…if you could call it that.
“Most ponies would be stammering to hear me suggest such a thing.” She pointed out.
“Do I Look like one?” I ask her.
“No”
“Do I Act like one.”
“No…”
“Then don’t be surprised if I don’t respond the way you expect me too.”
“You’re no fun.”
“I Am…When I’m not working.”
“This is work?”
“I have to unpack everything AND call the AC company about a man who had an experience…plus find out if there is a history about the property…so yea pretty busy.”
She giggled again.
“Doesn’t sound too bad compared to what we do.”
“…Not to mention keep an eye on you guys without the government biting my ass off if you so happen to get a bruise.”
That made Celestia quite…I wasn’t wrong she did know about the agreement between me and my U.S. CIA head officer.
‘Going to a LONG DAY….’
