Ghost Stories Page #4

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registration, please?

Just give me one second.

AG57-EOZ.

Thank you.

And is that Mr. Rif-kind?

Rifkind. Yes.

I'm Simon. I'm his son.

Okay, Simon.

And are you with the car

right now?

[ROARING IN DISTANCE]

Hello, Simon?

Yes.

Yes, I'm right by the car.

Okay,

we have you on the GPS

so we know exactly where you

are and we'll be with you

somewhere between 10

and 45 minutes, okay?

Please come

as quickly as you can.

Thank you, Mr. Rif-kind.

Goodbye.

Rifkind!

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

[SOBS] What have I done?

What have I done?

[SOBBING]

[EXHALES DEEPLY]

[INDISTINCT TALKING]

[THUD]

[GASPING]

[INTENSE MUSIC]

Hello?

[SCREAMING]

[FOOTSTEPS]

[SNARLING]

[DOOR OPENS]

[GASPS]

[CAR DOOR CLOSES]

God, I'm... I'm so sorry.

- Stay!

- F*** that!

[INTENSE MUSIC]

[PANTING]

[GASPING]

[RUMBLING]

[SCREAMS]

[GROWLING]

The supernatural are unseen

forces that surround us.

Charles,

I've now investigated

two of your cases

quite thoroughly.

It feels quite simple

to me, really.

The brain sees

what it wants to see.

They're your words,

Charles.

Tony Matthews

is an alcoholic

who's wrestling

with unresolved grief.

And Simon

is a fragile young man

and from a deeply

dysfunctional family

who's on the edge

of psychosis.

[LEAVES RUSTLING]

I understand

all too well, Charles

how easy it is

to get confused

and to lose faith

in one's own judgment.

Especially when we're

tired and emotional..

...and unwell.

[GASPS]

What the..

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

Keep up, Goodman.

Thing is, I'm the soppy one

if you can believe that.

I wanted kids from the

moment we got together

but Maria said, "No, it's

not gonna happen, babe."

Maria is your wife, yeah?

Yeah, of course, she is.

Do you know why

she didn't want children?

Presumably, you were

comfortable financially.

Oh, Jesus.

That's all your lot ever think

about, isn't it? Money.

Sorry, what exactly

do you mean by your lot?

No way

was she getting pregnant

until she was made

a partner at the firm.

Her words, not mine.

Priorities.

Someone's got to earn

the money

so you brainy poofters

can sit around

stroking your chins

and pulling onion

out of your arses

all day long.

[CELL PHONE BEEPS]

Oh, hang on.

[CLEARS THROAT]

Yeah, I've got to do this.

Right.

[SIGHS]

Alright.

Can we, please,

talk about the incident?

Do you know what they used to

call me when I was trading?

- No.

- The prophet.

I had a sixth sense

of what was going up

and what was coming down.

This isn't about

the financial markets.

I know what it is

you're asking about.

I know.

Come on then, up there.

[CLEARS THROAT]

I made a killing

in the city.

Uh, I built the house.

Real investment property.

And that's where the incident

happened, at the house?

When Maria

finally got partnership

bingo,

time to have a baby.

But she was pushing 40

when we started though.

So, yeah,

she had left it too late.

She was drier than the

Gobi Desert down there.

Still,

I said not to worry.

A splash of IVF

get the old baby machine

working again.

I'd been to school with the

top guy in that field.

So, uh, yeah, 30 grand

later, bull's eye.

The old girl

is finally up the duff.

Oh, why is it always the last

key that unlocks everything?

Hm?

[CLEARS THROAT]

Et voila.

So, yeah, everything

was going great

and then seven months in

she suddenly

started spotting.

So we pop her into a clinic

for a couple of days.

Best care money can buy.

It was more

like the bloody Savoy!

[LAUGHS]

So I dropped her off.

Popped home

to do some paperwork.

Okay, what time was that?

It was..

Quarter to 4:
00, hm.

[INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC]

[WATER DRIPPING]

[SIGHS]

[INHALES]

[GRUNTS]

Hm.

Hm.

[SIGHS]

Hm.

[EXHALES]

[EERIE NOISES]

[SIGHS]

[CLATTERS]

[HEARTBEAT]

You're telling me you

actually saw that happen?

It's my understanding

that a poltergeist

is an evil spirit

or an angry spirit.

- Is that true?

- No, it's not.

There's absolutely no

evidence to support that.

Hm.

The guys at the hospital

took Maria in for a scan

but they didn't

wanna show us.

They said

there were distortions

on the screen

or something.

[CELL PHONE BEEPS]

Sorry.

I'm right in the middle

of this Chinese thing.

[SIGHS]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

Yeah, so the scan..

[INTENSE MUSIC]

What..

[GASPING]

A bit, uh,

bit chilly, prof?

Sorry, I, uh..

Have you ever killed

anything, Mr. Goodman?

Certainly not.

Nothing

you'll admit to, eh?

The doctors

thought it best

that Maria spend another

night in the hospital

so I went back

to the house.

I had a stack of work

to do.

You're supposed to feel

safe in your own home

aren't you, Mr. Goodman?

Do you believe in evil,

professor?

I didn't..

...until that night.

[EERIE MUSIC]

[WOOD CREAKING]

[WOOD CREAKING]

[CLATTERING]

[GLASS SHATTERS]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

Maria?

[CLATTERING]

[CLATTERING]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

[HEAVY BREATHING]

[GASPING]

Maria?

We are dead.

Why aren't you

in the hospital?

[INTENSE MUSIC]

[GROWLING]

[SCREAMING]

I managed to get out

of the room.

I don't know how long I'd been

standing there when the phone rang.

It was the hospital.

I knew what they were

going to tell me.

The prophet.

[CELL PHONE BEEPS]

Apparently,

the birth was..

He split her in two.

I'm glad

Maria never lived to see

what Barty looked like.

That would have

destroyed her.

No one believed that Barty

would have survived this long.

But somehow

life... finds a way.

It's what I've learned,

that, uh..

...life goes on.

[CHUCKLES]

What?

[GUN C*CKS]

[GUNSHOT]

[GASPING]

F***. F***.

[INTENSE MUSIC]

[COUGHING]

Um..

Mr. Cameron, I didn't know

you were here.

I know exactly

what's going on.

Oh, thank God. What?

This whole thing's a stupid,

shitty hoax to get you back on TV.

It's a way of usurping me.

You are a lonely, jealous, bitter

old man, and that's the truth.

Mr. Goodman, you wouldn't

know the truth

if it kissed you

on the lips.

Well, I know this!

There is nothing

in any of these stories

that couldn't be

explained away

by any intelligent

five-year-old.

Nothing!

You just can't find it

in yourself.

Can you, Philip?

[GRUNTS]

You can't find

the humility

to admit that perhaps,

just perhaps

things are not always

as they seem.

And that is precisely

my point.

Everything, everything

is exactly as it seems.

You sure about that?

Yes.

[INHALES DEEPLY]

[SCREAMS]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

[GROANING]

[LAUGHS]

You don't know

everything.

Do you, bubala?

[LAUGHING]

Oh.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

Sorry, can we cut?

Who are you talking to?

Philip..

...the brain sees..

...what it wants to see.

Oh, I really wanna

show you something.

May I?

[SIGHS DEEPLY]

[CHUCKLES]

Um..

In you come.

Come on.

It will just be

the four of us.

You, me, Barty and, uh..

...you know who.

[GASPS]

One last chance,

Mr. Goodman.

Anything

you want to tell me?

About what? I'm..

6, 79, 19?

Jewface

Jewface Goodman

Mommy f***ed

a dog sh*t

[CHUCKLES]

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