Maddie and Jack had been tracking the ghost boy for months. Even though it kept eluding their capture they were able to collect some data on it.
Even that became frustratingly difficult as the data they collected hardly ever stayed consistent. When they first started recording the levels were pretty weak and a little unstable, which was doubly odd when compared to how solid and sentient it appeared to be. Not to mention the size, usually entities that weak were much smaller.
As time went on the ghost got stronger, and faster, and radiated a much more powerful ecto-signature. Yet it strangely never became stable. Almost as if the being in a constant state of flux was its normal.
If these reading were just on paper the ghost theoretically should either explode or dissipate if acted on by a strong enough force, which honestly wouldn't have to be that strong to disrupt it.
Somehow, that just wasn't the case. She'd seen it take a hit, several hits, and it always just bounced back. But it shouldn't do that, ectoplasm doesn't work that way. And yet it did.
After hours of debate, the only reasonable conclusion they could come up with was that there was something else that they were missing. Some crucial information that would line up all the inconsistencies. Some core mechanic that would solve everything. If only they could get the ghost to be still long enough to truly examine it.
