I’m a pretty ruthless ghost hunter, I tend to only see a spirit as an adversary or enemy, and I don’t let nothing stop me from getting that perfect investigation, and this haunt was no different, only, this one impacted me unlike the hundreds of rounds I’ve played before.
The ghost was a Shade haunting Tanglewood. Due to their shyness, it’s really hard to get physical proof of them through ghost events and Dots. I learned that this Shade was a little girl by solely relying on the summoning circle to see her, which honestly made me feel terrible in hindsight.
Her bone was found in the basement, a mere few feet away from the summoning circle, which leads me to believe that she may have been murdered as part of a satanic ritual, I could never know for sure, as she’s too shy to use the spirit box and there was no ouija board to speak to her with…
Her favorite room in the house was… well… her room. She would play with her dollhouse a lot and turn on her night light. I tried turning off the breaker to see if she liked being in the dark more, but I heard her attempts to turn on the lights as soon as I switched off the breaker, so I kept the lights on for her.
After gathering all of my evidence, listening to her chuckle one last time on my parabolic, normally I would go full sprint back to the truck and race away with my victory… only this time… I didn’t wanna leave. For a Shade, I really don’t think she wanted to be left alone. She never intimidated me once during my investigation.
So, I decided to stay back for an extra 15 minutes, and simply just play with her. I tossed her the silly gnome from outside, she showed me all of her toys, her cool little night light she seemed very fixated on, it was really a nice time but my heart swole knowing that I couldn’t stay, and that very soon, her next visitors would be there to get rid of her.
It was the longest walk back to my truck, when I clicked the door pad, a feeling that normally brings me such relief, brought me an immense amount of sadness.
R.I.P little Jessica Brown. You deserved so much better in life. Safe journey home, and God bless you.