Chapter 14
The next day, four police officers arrived at the area where the Stauf house was. Bob Carmichael and "Old Man" John were in court while the officers were in the house to examine it. Two cars were parked in front of the groups of trees that shaded the view of the Stauf property. It was a dark, rainy day. Two police officers came out of both cars. There were two groups of a man and a woman. They went into the clearing through the trees and entered the Stauf property. As usual, most of the acres of the land Stauf owned had no trees, and there was a vast area of plains and mountains. It was raining heavily, and it was a big mystery to the police officers why the weather would suddenly change as they entered the Stauf property.
The officers ran quickly down the narrow pathway to head into the house for shelter. At last, they made it to the house's porch, and then, they opened the stained glass door and went inside. The instant they went in and closed the door, they felt uncomfortable. There was an evil presence everywhere. All the officers were going to split up individually, but instead, they decided to split up in groups.
One group went upstairs, and the other group stayed downstairs. Suddenly, just as the downstairs group was about to head into the left alcove, they were pulled through the rug in front of the stairs and found themselves in the art gallery. The police officers turned to their right and saw Stauf's portrait.
"So this is who used to own the house," the woman officer said.
On the bottom of the frame, there was a gold template that said Henry Stauf. Suddenly, Stauf's picture turned animate. It said, "GET OUT OF MY HOUSE!" Then, it returned normal.
This startled the police! They looked behind the picture and saw no gadgets that could make him move. They even searched the entire room. Nothing was there that could possibly cause such a bizarre occurrence. They used handheld machinery to find hidden machines, but there was nothing detected. They turned around and saw a picture of the music room. Suddenly, they were pulled in, and then, the plant pulled them upstairs.
Then, they met with the other team who was trembling in the coin bedroom. "We saw a supernatural event, and there was no logical explanation. We checked," the downstairs team said.
"Us too. We saw hands come out of a picture, steam traveling down the halls, and gallons of blood traveling faster than light-speed from the attic," the other team said. "We checked for explanations, too, but there weren't any."
"There must be something paranormal here, so how about we send in some scientific researchers to find out if anything is going on here?" the downstairs team suggested. Then, all four of the police officers went down the plant, opened the double doors in the music room, and left the house, going back to Greenfield Circle.
At that same time, the court case was over, and both of the men were declared innocent. The two officers who had seen the Stauf house before were at court and contacted the search team. The officers told the search team that the men were innocent. All the officers that explored the Stauf house told them of their experiences, and they explained what they planned to do.
"Good idea," the officers from the court said. "There might be some paranormal things there that might have been stuck there for the past 70 years." The officers from the Stauf house got into their cars and headed for the police station.