Thread: Black House (Casket & Black Lotus)

Harry, probably mildly offended that Lily had chosen to sit next to handsome Jacks instead of his own rotund form spoke up as soon as she'd contested the teams results. You wanna explain what this is then, lil lady? He asked with slight indigents in his tone and pulled out his Ipad and pulled up the footage they'd captured during their investigation of the Dandy House in Hinsdale New York. The video he displayed was mostly dark, but the night vision setting on their camera had illuminated the scene in an eerie green. For several seconds there was nothing, but just then what appeared to be a semi translucent humanoid form drifted across the screen from left to right. No real features could be made out as it only appears for maybe three frames of digital film but it was unmistakably human shaped and seemed to fade away where and actual human's feet would have normally met the ground. Wait for it... Harry put in and held the Ipad out close to Lily's face letting her know his point wasn't quite made yet. Another several seconds pass and then from out of frame, a chachki from the mantle of the fireplace is thrown across the room and comes to a rattling stop on the floor in front of the camera. See that? We were all outside the house during this event. We have collaborating footage from this exact time if you'd like to see that too! Harry was almost shouting by this point but Jacks put a halt to it. HARRY, knock it off and put that away. We aren't here to convince Miss Daniels of paranormal activity. The network hired her on as a skeptic and that's what they want. If she happens to see or hear something during one of our investigations that might change her mind, then fine, but otherwise it's business as usual, am I making myself clear? Jacks said, scolding the older man and putting him in his place. Tessa, who was sitting on the other side of Lily leaned in close, placing a hand on the prudishly dress woman's leg and said Harry gets worked up pretty easily, don't mind him though, he's harmless. She said with another dark lipstick smile and a wink, although didn't remove her hand from Lily's thigh for several seconds. Alright, back to business. This is the Black House case, we accepted it because many of the other paranormal groups have passed on this one and the network seems to think we might have something to offer on the subject. Trisha, what's your research brought up? Jacks spoke with authority and his commanding presence made it clear to everyone in the room why he was in charge. Uhhhmmm, let's see. Well from what I could find the House itself was built in the 1800's but the land surrounding it had been settled since the 1600's by the Dutch. Apparently it's had a bit of a nasty reputation from it's inception. Although the Roanoke Virginia incident took it's limelight a very similar event happened there in New York just a few years after. Dutch settlers landed and built a fort, of course things didn't go well and they had to send their ship back to Europe for supplies. When the ship returned, there was no sign of the settlers or their fort. Trisha finished her first page of research and turned to the second, but paused and looked under the table like something was bothering her leg. HARRY, Get your foot out from between my legs! Your old enough to be my father for fucks sake! She hollared across the table at the blushing older man. Let's stay focused team! Jacks scolded. Trish please continue. Ok so the land eventually was settled by the Dutch around 30 years later, but even with the new fort built and this time properly stocked with supplies they are reports of strange stuff, which included two confirmed woman being burned as witches. Trish continued but was this time cut off by Contessa. Fucking Puritan Bigots! She spoke up, her manicured black line eyebrows furling into a hateful glare. I don't think the Dutch were puritans, but bigotry isn't ever acceptable, thankfully that was hundreds of years ago....Trish continue please. Well the governor of the new settlement eventually did well enough to pass his children's children down enough dough and their family is who eventually built the house. It was called the Black house because of the black slate they used on the exterior walls. That was eventually stuccoed over and the house is actually a dull white currently. Trish added in, but could see the impatience growing on her boss's face and skipped ahead. OK so modern occurrences range all over the place. There are several owners who had nothing out of the ordinary happen to them while they owned the joint but there are also several murders that happened on the grounds as well a cadre of police reports about being called out there to investigate but no tangible evidence could be found of anyone breaking into the place. Most recently the Smith family purchased the place. They happen to be in the group of people who are convinced that the place is either haunted or possessed by some sort of evil entity more specifically. Mrs. Andrea Smith is currently doing a stint in the local nut house thanks to her husband having her committed for some extremely strange behavior. He claimed that shortly after moving into the residence her personality drastically changed, first suffering from some sort of nymphomania and then changing to something far more dangerous like a psychosis before he had her committed and firmly believes the entity in the house has something to do with it.....And that's all I found. Trish concluded and turned smiling back toward her boss. Good job Trish, but remember, Houses can't be possessed only people, and when we are on camera don't call it a 'nut house'. Ok does anybody have anything to put in before we pack up and get on the road? What about you Miss Daniels and thoughts on what you've heard? Jacks asks.