Apartment 143 Page #4

Helzer:

Lights, quickly! Lights up!

Paul:

Check over here.

Are you both okay?

What was that?

I'm sorry, I'm sorry,

I just need to--

one--

Aha.

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Please report

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There you go.

I'm sorry, I just need

to fix your microphones.

Just say one-two,

one-two.

One-two, one-two.

It's an anechoic Faraday chamber.

We use it to carry out

psychophonic recordings.

The cage ensures

the authenticity of the psychophony

by completely isolating the recorder

from possible spurious radio wavelengths

and atmospheric sounds.

You got it?

Basically

if it picks something up,

it means there really is

something to pick up.

Whenever you're ready, doctor.

Mr. White, it's gonna be okay.

I'm going to recite

a series of questions out loud,

and I'm going to leave several seconds

of silence in-between.

- Understood?

- White:
Sure.

Later we're gonna analyze

the tape and we'll check it in detail

to see if there's any sounds

other than my voice.

Sometimes it happens.

Not often.

Do you give us permission

to carry out this procedure?

White:
Yeah. Can I take

Benny out of the room first?

If it's okay,

I'd rather everybody stays.

It's gonna be fine.

Don't worry.

Who are you?

Why are you here?

Are you dead?

Do you mean to do us harm?

All right, Mr. White.

Is there anything you want to add?

Caitlin:

Who killed you?

Helzer on tape:

Who are you?

Why are you here?

Are you dead?

Do you mean to do us harm?

Nothing.

I've listened to it 1 00 times.

There's just nothing there.

You want to do

another recording?

Don't worry.

It's just like I expected.

Mr. White, may I join you?

Sure.

- Oh, do you mind?

- No, go ahead.

Ellen:
Can you feel it?

White:

What is it? What's happening?

Something is about to happen.

Paul:
Look!

Ellen:

The temperature has dropped by 14

in a matter of seconds

in the kids' room.

Better plug in, guys.

Batteries are about to die.

Dr. Helzer,

I have to go check on my kids.

White:
Stay where you are.

Don't move.

Dr. Helzer, I've got

to go check on my kids.

Don't worry.

Stay where you are.

- Fire 'em up.

- Paul:
Let me open up the program here.

Uhhh...

damn!

What is that?

- White:
I've got to go. I've got to--

- Stay where you are. I told you!

- Can you get any closer?

- Not with the optic zoom.

I can try with the electronic one,

but we're going to lose definition.

- Helzer:
Do it.

- Okay.

Yep.

White:

Oh my God. What's doing that?

What the hell is happening here?

I have to go and save her.

Helzer:

Stay where you are, for the final time!

- That's my daughter! My daughter!

- Mr. White!

Caitlin!

White:

I guess I just want to know why the...

ghost hasn't left.

I'm sorry, I'm just having

- a hard time saying this.

- Don't worry.

There is no ghost.

Look, I don't care what you call it,

but something weird is living here,

something that's...

I don't know.

Something supernatural.

What is it?

I can assure you there's nothing

supernatural in the universe, Mr. White,

because nature can't transcend itself.

These are just unexplained phenomena.

I'm afraid that parapsychology is really

just a collection of events

in search of a theory.

Perhaps the key lies

in finding a hypothesis

which can be applied

to each individual case

instead of insisting on one

that can be applied wholesale.

I can't understand a word

that you're saying.

I just want to know how we ended up

in a haunted house.

What did I miss?

That's precisely my point.

Your house isn't haunted.

We can rule that out.

Now I'd say that this is

a case of spontaneous

and recurring psychokinesis.

- A case of...?

- It's a poltergeist syndrome.

A poltergeist syndrome?

So we have...

spirits living in our house?

No no no.

It has nothing to do with that.

The phenomenon

of a haunted house

is always associated with a place.

It occurs in the same place

and over a long period of time.

In a haunted house,

we're up against ghosts,

specters--

dead people. in a word.

Now a ghost,

that's a dead person who has

died but they're not able to move on

or they don't want to for some reason.

A specter, that's different. It's...

it's like a recording,

a recording in light,

like an old film.

The poltergeist,

on the other hand,

that's always associated

with the psychism of someone alive.

After all, this phenomena started

in your other house

and followed you to this one.

It's kind of hard to believe

we'd be up against

two haunted houses,

wouldn't you say?

But we're scientists,

so we had to make sure.

But my-- my wife?

I'm afraid we can rule that out too.

Yeah, like I was saying,

the poltergeist syndrome?

That's associated

with the psychism of someone alive.

The phenomena are often violent,

but they're not supernatural.

The good news is

they don't last very long.

- The good news?

- Yeah.

They recur over

a relatively short period of time.

The cause isn't exactly known,

but they would seem

to come about with people

that are going through

periods of acute stress,

as if their subconscious rage

or sense of anxiety

or guilt is manifesting itself,

mobilizing substantial amounts

of psychic energy

and then channeling it

in extremely violent ways.

Girls-- adolescents

in the full flush of hormonal change

are often from where it stems,

but it can be the case

with little boys

or even adults under

a great deal of pressure.

This family-- and forgive me

for being so flippant--

has a number of odds-on favorites.

Hi, Lamson.

Thank you so much for coming.

It's no problem.

So how are you doing?

How are you doing?

White:

Caitlin, Benny! Grandpa is here.

- Why don't you come and say hi?

- Grandpa!

Lamson:
Hey!

Benny:
I packed all by myself.

I packed my train and my truck--

Caitlin, please come

say hi to your grandpa.

Caitlin, will you please come

and say hi to your grandpa?

I'm sorry. She hasn't

quite been herself lately.

So this is just for tonight.

I will come and get him tomorrow

first thing in the morning, I promise.

You know that Margaret

can barely move.

You know that, right?

I wouldn't have called you

if it wasn't important.

Benny:

Daddy, can I take Zelda with me?

You know, I don't think

it's a good idea, Benny.

Grandpa's got a lot on his plate.

I hope you know what you're doing.

Zelda. Zelda.

Come on.

Zelda, come on. Come on.

Helzer:
It's the only way of determining

the cause of the anomalous events.

If the occurrences cease,

the boy's the cause.

If not,

it's for the best.

That boy's seen more

than enough already.

- That's fine, yeah. Take a seat.

- Thank you.

Helzer:

There are times when science seems

to have run out of answers,

and we have to turn

to those with a special gift.

Heseltine is one of the most

renowned psychics in the country.

- Sensitive.

- Helzer:
Sensitive.

Now...

we're gonna try

an exercise in mediumship.

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