AUTHOR'S NOTE: My first Ghost Hunt fanfiction, yay!

October 25, 3 p.m.

Naru, Mai, and the rest of the SPR team were arriving at the famous haunted house that was open at times of the Obon Festival. The house was mostly aimed at foreigners who were used to Halloween, but there were a few natives, mostly teenagers, who came for a good scare.

Naru knocked on the door, and a young woman appeared, with a worried look on her face. "Oh, thank goodness you're here."

The team entered to find that what could only be assumed to be the crew, mostly teenagers, were all sitting at a table, with a few older folks as well.

"Kenichi, explain to them what exactly you saw, on the 16th." The young woman said, sitting down at the table as the SPR sat down at the empty seats.

"Well, there was this older gentleman..." Kenichi started. "He was by himself on the tour, right? And the part where the lights go out...all of a sudden we heard this strange whimper and a loud thumping noise. The lights went on and the guy was unconscious with blood dripping down him and everything. Real creepy."

"And Hiroyuki, the 19th."

"There was a younger woman with two kids." Hiroyuki stated. "She was also on the tour, and just out of nowhere, she passed out and started foaming at the mouth. Her kids were really spooked, and so were a lot of other people on the tour."

"Lots of people think this is some sort of game we're playing, but we aren't doing this on purpose. These are real people getting hurt." The young woman said, with an upset tone in her voice.

"This is where the altar happened on the 13th, right?" Naru asked, taking notes down. It was traditional on October 13th for the Obon Festival that an altar and welcoming fires were set out to welcome the spirits.

"Yes, it was." The young woman said.

"Perhaps something done that night made the spirits angry."

"What could we have done to make them angry?" The young woman asked. "I'm sure we did the ritual perfect..."

"Or perhaps the festival caught the attention of an evil spirit." John suggested.

"I've never heard of that happening because of the Obon Festival ritual. There's a first for everything though..." Monk said. "Do you know if the people who were rendered unconscious are okay now?"

"They're both still hospitalized, but they're in stable condition as of last report." The young woman said. "I just hope we don't have to shut the house down..."

"Is there any sort of footage of the incidents?" Naru asked.

"Yes, the security cameras were on when both the incidents happened. I believe we have the footage..."

So they rolled back the footage from the security cameras.

In the first video, the lights went out, there was a scream, some whispering, and then the fore-mentioned whimpering noise and the thump. The lights went back on, and people began gathering around the man, unconscious on the floor with a pool of blood starting to form around him.

In the second video, everything seemed normal, with loud chatter as people were in line to get their tickets, then the woman fell to the ground. No warning signs, she just...fell. People started to panic and her children began crying. The woman was making a low noise as the foam was coming out of her mouth.

"That's all we have." Hiroyuki said as the footage ended. "Not sure what you can make out of that..."

"Did you see anything, Naru?" Mai asked.

"Nothing in particular." Naru replied. "We can review the footage later, though. Masako, did you sense anything?"

"I definitely know there are spirits in the house, as to whether they're good or not..." Masako started. "That's something I'm not able to figure out yet."

"Alright. Mai and I will review the footage; Lin, Monk, and Ayako, go search the house for any other reason that these people could've been rendered unconscious. John, try to see if you can get any kind of spirits out of the house."

"Thank you all so much again for your help." The young woman said.

"It's our pleasure."

Little did we know that this case was going to bring us into new levels of danger we had never experienced before.

AUTHOR'S NOTE: Short chapter, I know. Next chapter will be longer. What did you think? I'm going to start reading the manga so I can be slightly fresher on my Ghost Hunt information, as I've only seen the anime. R&R requested. :D