Chapter 4

3:17 pm

Finally I got back into my spirit cabinets at down inside.

"Are you ready Ben?" asked Dr. Rand.

"Yes doc," I told him, "I'm ready. I must warn all of you, you must not touch the spirit company unless you were told to do so. you run the risk of getting electrical shock and maybe giving me one too."

Dr. Rand nodded.

Rand and Graham tried my hands down to the arms of the chair tightly as Grace began to chant The Lord's Prayer.

I began to relax my mind as I went into a kind of trance.

Then a thick white at the plasma begin to pour out of my mouth and ears and gather around the spirit trumpet.

"It's Ben's spirit guide." said Grace, " the spirit is using the spirits trumpet as an artificial voice box."

" Ectoplasm begins to manifest at exactly 3:20 PM" said dr. Rand into the microphone of his tape recorder.

As usual my Consciousness hovered above my body is so I could see and hear what was going on.

" greetings" said my spirit guide a very thick Chinese accent, "I Shi Quan Chan, Royal Physician to emperor Zuu woo Wang. Me bring greetings from ancestors beyond the realm of life."

"Greetings Shi Quan Chan," said Dr Graham said in a loud voice as if he was talking to someone who was hard of hearing, " you honor us with your presence."

Shi Quan Chan grunted, "no honor in this house. Only shame!"

"What do you mean Shi Quan Chan?"

"Not good here. Take boy and leave."

"Uh Shi Quan Chan? What can you tell us about the spirits that haunt this house?" Professor Finchley asked.

" this house like mouth of dragon, very hungry dragon. Many spirits here, very very sick; ask me to heal; too sick to know that they are dead."

Dr. Graham leaned over and whispered something to dr. Rand that did not catch.

Then dr. Rand left his seat at the table and begin to turn on the movie camera.

I could hear the 16-millimeter windup whirling around as my Consciousness continue to hover above my own body.

Then the spirit trumpet began to hover in mini air and then spin around with the needle on a compass.

After a few seconds to Spirit trumpets stopped and began to point towards dr. Rand.

"What is noise?" asked Shi Quan Chan.

"Oh that is just a machine." Grace explained, " there is nothing to worry about Shi Quan Chan."

"No no... Not that noise..." said Shi Quan Chan with a hint of irritation.

"Other noise... Like roaring of tiger... it's getting louder..."

"I don't understand." said Grace, " what is wrong?"

Shi Quan Chan's voice began to grow to panic.

"He comes! The Giant! He comes!"

Before anybody can say anything else a strong wind began to blow around the room.

For some reason I can feel my Consciousness fading out, it had never happened before.

Whatever this force was in began to lift some of the heavy tapestries around the room as if they were very light curtains.

The camera tripod began to Rattle until it finally fell, fortunately dr. Rand caught the camera before it could fall to the ground and be smashed to several pieces.

And then a loud howl could be heard!

The others cover their ears just as the trumpet began to spin out of control like a leaf caught in a tornado.

And then the spirit trumpet flew at dr. Graham knocking him to the ground very hard.

As I looked up I knew they were the green mist opposite of myself that was forming before the others.

"Oh God! The stink!" yelled Dr Rand, "Smells like an open sewer!"

"More like the bog." said Finchley

The large table began to rumble causing all of the recording instruments on top of it to roll off of the table in onto the floor.

It was as if something from underneath the table was trying to lift it up, like Atlas trying to balance the world on his shoulders!

"Ben!" Grace cried, "Wake up!"

"No don't stop him!" yelled Dr Rand, " this is genuine Poltergeist activity! This is what we came here for!"

That fool! He really believed that we were not in any danger!

" you don't understand!" yelled professor Finchley over the howling noise, " we are all in danger! Whatever is in this house is using him as a portal!"

One of the Holy statues in the room hobbled over as it being pushed by an unseen hand and then several of the books on some of the various bookshelves around the Great Hall began to fly around the room in random patterns.

Dr. Graham was still lying on the floor as one of the books hit him in his shoulder very hard.

I had to wake up! Somehow I had to wake up!

I screamed as I regain Consciousness again!

The lights came back on and all was quiet.

Dr. Graham still alive in the ground clutching his shoulder blade, " are you alright Nelson?" asked Dr Rand.

" I think my collarbone is broken." said Graham.

For a second I saw a vision of a giant white hand trying to grab me as I sat in the chair but then it faded away almost immediately. My entire body was drenched in sweat!

Grace hurried over to the spirit cabinet where she untied my hands, " do you remember anything that happened after you went to the trance?" she asked.

"Well, Shi Quan Chan appeared," I said and I begin to massage the circulation back into my wrists, " after that my vision started to get blurry but I did see what was going on. I've never seen a spirit that strong in my life!"

"I have had enough of this whore shit!" Yelp dr. Rand has helped dr. Gray him over to one of the sofas inside the Great Hall.

" take it easy Edgar," said Graham, " there's no need to make things worse by upsetting the boy."

" I don't care Nelson! The person responsible for all of that is sitting right over there!"

Unsurprisingly dr. Rand pointed at me, after also not the first time I've ever been accused of deliberately harming someone with my own power.

" are you saying that young men did all of that?" said Grace in shock.

" no not intentionally." said Rand, " I believe that he tapped into some sort of major psychic energy here and it got the best of him."

I frowned for a moment as dr. Rand walked over to me sternly.

"Tell me Ben! How do you ever ask yourself why an ancient Chinese doctor would communicate to you in English? Granted it is Pigeon English but English nevertheless."

I was beginning to get very frustrated with dr. Rand.

"You heard the voice, didn't you?" asked Grace.

"Yes I did and I recognized it as belonging to Sidney Toler, or better known as Charlie Chan."

How dare he! If not enough he had to accuse me of doing all of that stuff but I also had to insult my friend as well?

Although I did have to admit my spirit guide did sound a lot like the famous detective.

" now calm down everyone." said Finchley, " we can have Miss Lauter her sitting a little bit later on. First I would like to check out the quarters of mr. Belasco"