An Inner Darkness Book 5 Bay City paranormal

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    Lee let out a humorless laugh. “You and me both. Unfortunately, I have a feeling that what we’ve experienced here is true paranormal activity. Things have happened far too often for me to brush it off as just imagination. I only wish I knew exactly what we were dealing with.” “That’s what we’re here to figure out.” Glancing up from his camera, Andre touched Lee’s elbow. “Let’s go see the family room.” Nodding, Lee led them down the hallway. Bo grabbed Sam’s hand and gave it a reassuring squeeze as he passed. Sam took the warmth of Bo’s touch with him when he went back to his work.

    By the time Bo, Andre and Lee returned, Sam and the rest of the team had all the equipment ready to go. David jumped up from the bottom step as the trio approached.

    “We’re all set, Bo. Y’all know where you want the cameras?” Bo raised his eyebrows at Andre, who shut off his video camera and sauntered over to stand beside David. “At least one camera in each room, and one in the attic. Bo’s got the list of the best spots to put cameras in each room.” “I think we have enough cameras to go around,” Bo mused, handing a sheet of scribbled notes to David. “Once we get them all set up, I’d like to split into three teams.

    One will stay and monitor the central computer, the other two will do a sweep with EMF

    and video. One team upstairs, one downstairs. After that, we’ll switch teams and sweep again with thermal and recorders for EVP work. Sound good?” Everyone nodded. The group broke up to begin setting up cameras. Lee followed Andre, asking questions about the investigative process. “Lee seems really interested in everything,” Sam noted half an hour later, as he and Bo headed off to begin their sweep of the downstairs areas. “It’s cool that he wants to learn more about what we do.”
    Bo nodded. “Hopefully some of his enthusiasm will rub off on Janine.”
“I’m not holding my breath.”
“Neither am I. But you never know.”
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Sam shot him a grin. “That’s what I love about you, Bo. Your penchant for unfounded optimism.”
    Bo smacked Sam’s rear. “Okay, funny guy, let’s go see what we can find in the family room, since that seems to be one of the hot spots.” Switching on the video camera, Sam followed Bo down the short hallway to where a doorless archway on their left led to the family room. “Bo and Sam, downstairs at Lee and Janine’s house, nine twenty p.m. October twenty-first, two thousand and five,” he recited for the record.
    “There seems to be a fairly strong electromagnetic field.” Bo stopped just inside the doorway and moved the EMF meter in a slow arc. “Four point oh seven here. It was three even in the foyer.”
    The reading wasn’t dangerously high, but high enough to make Sam nervous.
Especially since every portal case they’d faced so far involved an elevated baseline EMF.
Not that there was any indication of there being a potential portal here.
    Without saying anything to Bo, Sam relaxed his conscious mind and sent cautious psychic feelers through the house. All he felt was the vibrant life force of the people gathered here. He found not a trace of the cold, malevolent energy he’d come to associate with the inhabitants of whatever universe lay on the other side of the portals.
    Opening his mind wider, he searched for the skin-tingling feel of an intelligent entity or the low electric hum of a residual haunting. He encountered neither.

    Maybe it’s just their imaginations after all.
    Reassured, Sam walked into the room and panned the camera around the smoky gray walls. The room was small, but stylish. A huge built-in entertainment center containing a plasma-screen TV, DVD player and several other electronics took up most of the wall opposite the doorway. A squashy black leather sofa lay along the wall across from the TV, its matching chair tucked into the corner next to the door. The love seat was situated along the back wall of the room. Long, dark red curtains covered the two tall, narrow windows in the outside corner, providing the only color in an otherwise unrelieved palette of black and gray.
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“Where’s that go?”