Comeback

Hello dear readers.

It seems my Church investigation has started something of a comeback tour.
I got a call from the Midlands' priest, first thanking me for the result of my work, then mentioning a friend with a similar problem of sorts.
As my burger flipping life doesn't afford long breaks from work, the good priest got his friend to pay me for my services. I feel bad charging, but if it's the only way to accomplish that, so be it.

So, off to the Midlands once again, and once again I can't say where exactly. This time I was going to a different kind of temple, a cinema.
Apparently patrons and staff have seen a couple of apparitions in two of their auditoriums. The place is an old classic theatre turned one big cinema screen turned 4 screens multiplex. I had a long chat with the owner, where I got a lot of details but asked him not to tell me which screens were the haunted ones. I then visited all auditoriums to set baseline readings for the whole place and immediately could see on my tri-meter that two rooms had some big electromagnetic pull. I had a few nights, so I decided to do a thorough investigation.
First night I stayed on one of the more active screen and set my camera in one of the supposed calm ones. I heard noises, felt sudden cold drafts and picked up some sound disturbances on my EVP recorder. By morning I had one positively identified room. The camera picked up nothing unusual, so I discarded that room.
Second night I set up the camera on the same room I was the night before, screen 3, while I stayed on another supposed problematic one, screen 4. I had a quiet night, registering only a few disturbances on the tri-meter and a few changes of temperatures that seemed out of the ordinary. By morning I checked the camera recordings and was not surprised to see a ceiling light swinging around a couple of times during the night. According to the time, it was around the same time I picked up EVP sounds the night before. My investigation in that room was complete, all I had left was to figure it out who or what was doing it all.
Third night was a busy night for the cinema and there were complaints of voices during the film, but strangely enough no one admitted to talking. Guess which screen that was? There were also more people losing things in the screen, mostly hats, which the owner told me about had been happening for a while. The staff was investigated but nothing was found. We picked up some lost property found in other screens and left scattered in the room for the night. I set up my camera in that room, tempted by the idea of capturing some escaping clothing. I spent the night on the same screen as the previous night, as it was the day it usually recorded more activity, according to the info I was given. Patrons had not seen anything strange, but I found strange that most people left the screen with the same bored and sleepy expressions, which I found odd since they were watching a high paced action film. Maybe it was just a shit movie, but something seemed wrong. Not more than an hour in the room and I started to fell the same, some weight put on me that seemed to take away my energy. I had to get up and pace the room not to fall asleep. This time around I heard footsteps from the back rows and could swear I heard whispers. Busy night.
In the morning I curiously checked the lost property and it was all gone. I was the first in the screen and the place was unusually cold. I went through the video recordings and could not see anything, but picked up what seemed to be orbs appearing a few times on a corner of the image/room. I checked the location and it was the air conditioning vent, coming down from the ceiling. When the owner arrived I asked him to double check inside the vent and on the vertical one we saw nothing, but there was a smell of burning clothes, similar to when you just ironed a jumper. As the air came from the vents high in the ceiling, the owner picked up his ladder and to our surprise we found about two dozens of hats and scarves scattered across the air vent at the ceiling. He was positively freaked out and I had to hide my amusement at seeing him lose it a bit. It's understandable when one's not used to dealing with these situations. As nothing as unusual was happening on the other screens I set up camp on this one, armed with all I brought with me, to try and contact this entity and hopefully capture on video.

It didn’t take long for the entity to announce itself to me, by making noises rattling seats. I kept my cool and started to talk to it, trying to establish its intentions. That didn’t take long either, with a hat I left somewhere in the room flying towards me. I was startled a bit by that one, but happy to have captured it on camera, I’ll post that video on YouTube someday. I then announced my intentions to clear this building of all negative activity, asking it to go away peacefully or to be forced out by me. More rattling of seats and another hat flying the room. Both of us seemed to know what we were doing, as I prepared some of my items to scare it off I was presented by an apparition, right in front of me. That certainly made me jump and left me with a taste of revenge against this poltergeist. I believe it felt my anger as things started to fly around again. I took my Holy Water spray gun and I think it felt how serious I was about this. It appeared in front of me again and it wasn’t happy. Another hat hit me in the face, but none of that stopped me from spraying Holy Water all over the seats. The more I did, more noise and rattling happened. It all stopped once I got to the back row. The only place left to spray was the small stage in front of the screen. As I approached it I heard a crying, sort of a wailing noise. I sprayed the stage and around the screen and immediately felt lighter, as if I’ve been holding my breath all this time. I moved to the other screens and without any interruption or resistance I sprayed the rest of the building. In the morning the manager asked me where the water comes from and he was happy to know it came from our mutual friend, the priest who got me this investigation. We came to the conclusion that the entity was once a theatre person who didn’t want to leave this place and was upset that the theatre gave way to the four screens.
I was well tired after these last few nights, but also very happy to be back to my real work.
Until my next job I’ll have to go back to flipping burgers, waiting for another haunting to get out of hand so I can be summoned again. I feel like a Paranormal Indiana Jones, minus the hat.

Till next week, hopefully.

Love,

Miles.