Haunted Echoes Page #2

I'd had a bad dream,

and I came downstairs,

and then l,

there's this girl standing here,

and then l, I heard the water,

and then I went

into the bathroom and,

and then I went to turn it off,

and she touched me.

Well, who was it?

I don't know. I didn't see her face.

I just felt her.

[Unintelligible]

I'm scared.

All right, okay, well, come here.

See what's going on.

Oh, Laura.

-What?

-Come here.

What?

Come on.

How did that get in here?

Well, I don't know,

we left the windows open,

probably just climbed in.

It was not the cat, Guy.

I felt her, I saw her.

[Phone rings]

Yeah, hello.

Okay, great.

All right. See ya.

LAURA:

I see we have a landline now.

Huh? Oh, uh, yeah.

That was the, uh, movers.

They're over at our old house.

I think maybe I'll, uh,

go over and supervise.

[Laughs]

I'll go.

Uh, I don't think there's a need

for both of us to go.

Why don't you stay here

and finish up?

I mean,

unless you really want to go.

Okay, that's all right.

Uh, run along, I can be fine here.

-You're sure?

-Yeah.

All right, I'll see ya, honey.

[Phone rings]

Hello.

Hello?

MALE:
Yeah, who is this?

Laura, who's this?

MALE:
Kenneth.

Did you just call me?

No.

MALE:
Sorry. Never mind.

[Hangs up]

Hello?

Guy!

Guy!

Excuse me, I beg your pardon,

I was looking for my cat.

Cat?

Yeah, kind of a big white thing,

uh, I live a couple of houses down,

and, uh, she used to belong

to the previous owner.

Yes, we've seen her.

You have?

Well, not right now,

but, uh, the other night she got in,

and she nearly scared me to death.

Oh, I'm sorry about that.

I try not to let her out,

but, you know,

she still thinks Mrs. Gitchell owns

the house, and, uh, you know.

Uh, l, you know,

she, she had a lot of cats,

and she gave me a couple

just before she, her son put her in...

uh, are you okay?

No.

[Breathing heavily]

I was... yes, l, just a minute ago

l, I was in there and--

I'm sorry, what were you saying?

Mrs. Gitchell gave you--

Yeah, a couple of her cats.

I mean, she had about 20 of them,

uh, she was a batty old thing.

Why?

Well, l, you know, I only moved

in here a couple of years ago,

but, uh, you know,

she never came out of the house.

She used to stay in there,

and, you know,

even in the middle of the night

you'd see all the lights blazing.

And, and I'd hear her in there

screamin', talkin' to herself.

And I'd come over, you know,

just to make sure she was okay.

Even then, she never let me inside.

Then, of course, the, the kids

all started talkin' about that.

They would?

Well, you know how kids are.

You know, they got an old house,

an old lady livin' in it,

so they, they say she's a witch,

you know, things like that.

[Laughs]

You know kids.

I imagine your daughter's

the same way.

What are you talking about?

Oh, uh, isn't that your daughter,

uh, the girl I saw in the window

lookin' down?

Where?

Well, uh, right up, right up there.

I saw her lookin' in the window

down here just before you ran out.

Sweetheart, are you okay?

But...

Uh, it was almost

seven months ago,

and we had just gotten back from

a recital that my daughter had given,

and I heard the dog barking,

and, you know, my daughter,

she loved that dog so much,

so we think that maybe

she went down and let him in.

And then she vanished.

And it was ten days

before we knew where she was.

NEIL:
But you did find her.

Well, we didn't.

We had a lot of strangers

helping us look for her,

and two of them found her.

They were two kids

that lived not that far away,

and one of them was the one

that killed her.

[Gasps]

Oh, my God!

Guys, we found her!

Oh, no!

Oh, no! Oh, God!

Oh, no!

Oh! Oh!

[Cries]

He had molested

other kids in the past,

and he was a minor at the time,

so the police

never really did anything.

[Sighs]

And he only lived four blocks away,

but I'd never seen him.

But he'd seen us, that's for sure.

And the police think that he

was probably stalking Kimberly

for quite some time.

Was he convicted?

No.

They arrested him.

And they found a lot of circumstantial

evidence linking him to Kimberly,

but the case never came to trial.

Right after the arraignment,

he hung himself,

which is something

I still don't understand

because how could the police

not have known

that he was a risk for suicide,

but they left him alone,

and he killed himself,

and we never got our day in court.

And that was really important,

you know?

I just wanted to hear him say

that he had done it,

just so I could...

Know for sure he had.

Yeah.

Well, I'm very sorry

you had to go through that.

I realize it's not the same, but, uh,

my wife, uh, she died

about five years ago,

that, that's why I moved here.

Uh, I couldn't stay

in the other place, uh,

too many memories.

Yeah, us, too.

Would you mind looking

at a picture of my daughter?

I, I know you only saw that girl for--

But I don't really see

how it could be your daughter.

To a fresh start.

GUY:
Here, here.

Now, uh, if you have any complaints

about the food,

don't blame Laura,

this is my own little creation.

I call it Chicken Guy.

I made a plate of vegetables

for you, Claire.

I remember another creation

with, uh, with lamb.

GUY:
You didn't like the lamb?

Not especially.

-GUY:
What?

-LAURA:
Oh, good Lord.

Well, you can't be great

at everything.

-I mean, this house is fantastic.

-LAURA:
Thank you.

You and Laura continue to outdo

me and Claire in every way.

-LAURA:
Oh, not really.

-GUY:
Oh, no, that's not true.

You don't think, sweetheart?

And, uh, a little broccoli

and carrots and everything.

-JASON:
Are you still...?

-LAURA:
Oh, thank you, thank you.

I think this house is haunted.

I'm sorry, Laura, but I do.

There's something...

There's a very peculiar energy here.

I felt it the second I walked in.

I told you.

GUY:
Well, you coached her.

LAURA:
No, I didn't.

I didn't say a word.

You're right.

There is a strange energy here.

The very first night we were here,

I felt something or someone standing

next to me in the bathroom.

I felt it there, too.

I feel it everywhere.

Well, I don't feel anything.

How about you, Guy?

No, I don't,

which I find very interesting.

LAURA:
Really?

You find that so interesting.

What's that supposed to mean?

It just means, why are you always

the one who feels it?

Why doesn't it ever happen to me?

LAURA:
It just happened to Claire.

JASON:
I wouldn't take that

very seriously.

-Claire's always feeling things.

-GUY:
Hm.

LAURA:
Jason.

Thank you so much, Jason.

JASON:
It's true.

I just wish she'd feel more

buying some lottery tickets.

[Laughing]

GUY:
I'm sorry.

Claire, it was funny. Come on.

LAURA:
Look, she's not the only one

who has seen stuff.

Neil.

The other day,

he saw a girl standing up in the

window upstairs in that bedroom.

GUY:
Neil.

-LAURA:
Neil, that's our new neighbor.

-GUY:
Oh.

And it was the same day

that that happened in the bathroom.

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