Interlude

One Saturday the Atlanta Paranormal Society goes to South Georgia to find an old cemetery to do more grave stone rubbings. The group pairs off and searches the wooded area, and Percival and John, Daniels new assistant, end up pairs together.

As they walk the woods, they come across a man leaning up against a tree, as the approach him they see he is eating eggs and occasionally licking a frog.

He’s in his sixties and as they speak with him, it’s become apparent that he is mentally disabled. He won’t tell his name, just says he’s “the eggman,” which Percival responds each and every time with “goo goo g’joob” but which gone un-understood by the man. Eventually he tells them that there is a near by house before you reach the old cemetary and he walks way to disappear after six to ten steps.

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John and Percival after a short discussion around ghosts, spirits, psychic emanations continue on searching their section and eventually come across grown over roadway, with the water runoff ditches filled with broken bottles, beer cans, syringes etc and just beyond that a ten foot high chainlink fence with cardboard “slats” added to it.

Percival takes pictures of everything before they enter the opening in the fence so that they might examine the house, but once inside they find and old dilapidated car, rusted out and with plants growing up through it, upon closer inspection they notice that what appeared to be branches from the shrubs are actually the limbs of a mannequin.

The house is two stories tall and has al it’s windows boarded up with cartoonish looking fire painted on the plywood coverings if the windows

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Inside John and Percival found rooms separated by black plastic. On the ground floor rooms were made to look like a school scene promoting a party, a room where lots of drinking was happening, an abortion clinic, and a room with three pulpits and a table with a rotting box with a slat in it, containing rotten pieces of paper and an old wasp nest.

As they searched the rooms they found both a staircase going up to the second floor and which was separated down the middle by plywood, and another stairway into the basement. They flipped a coin and went downstairs.

As they began to walk down the stair case, John noticed a man in the doorway behind them, as Percival turned quickly and pointed his pistol at him the man disappeared.

Downstairs the entire basement was splashed in something like looks to be old dried up blood, and runes, like those on the archway found at the Montgomery estate, drawn all over the floor in not particular order.

In the center of the basement was a pedestal, made of wood, with an odd silver box placed upon fit.

Percival, eventually caved to his curiosity and began messing with then silver box, after turning the faucet style knob a bunch, flipping the switch down with his hand upon the box he felt his essence drain and the area became misty/foggy ...

As Percival stood there shapes began to appear in the mist. First, what looked to be eye floaters, which slowly became more solid and which took on the appearance of eels or snakes with tiny wings and sharp teeth filled maws, followed by a larger figure appearing in the mist, that began to take the shape of something to reminded Percival of a Sumerian/Babylonian god.

John was waiting on the stairs as we heard someone shout “hello” from upstairs, and then we saw Karen come down the stairs and run towards Percival shouting “no! Stop, don’t do that!” Then they placed their hand on the box and flipped the switch and screamed “this isn’t supposed t-“ and disappeared.

John and Percival left, taking the silver box with them. As they did the house began shaking.

Once outside the house seemed to be completely quiet, the fog still emanating from the house for a couple feet. Not really knowing what to do, and with Percival feeling tired and drained they left.

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Eventually meeting up with the rest of the members of the Atlanta paranormal society at the old church graveyard. He decided to speak with Karen about their meeting in the house, which she said she was with the rest of the group.

Late Percival and Karen talked about the church, the hell house, her experiences growing up in the nearby town, the silver box and some of what happened there.

That is where she admitted that she has been leading the paranormal society away from doing real paranormal study and investigation because she know all to well the things that can happen to people.