Haunting of Sorority Row, The Page #5

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Hello?

She's right here.

Who is it?

Collin. Jena Thorne's ex-boyfriend.

Why is he calling here?

Wait...

...put it on speakerphone.

Hello?

I'm sorry to call so late.

I-I couldn't let it wait.

I owe you an apology.

Excuse me?

About Jena. All the things I said,

that I accused you of...

Jena just left me a message.

She's in California.

She... she said she felt overwhelmed

and confused about our relationship,

and after what happened,

she needed to get away.

She says she's sorry for

causing so much trouble.

Yeah, that's great, jackass.

Maybe now you can

stop your harassment.

It's gotten a little out of hand.

I don't know

what you're talking about.

Look, I said I was sorry.

That's all I have to say.

We buried her.

Outside in those woods. She was dead.

Are you sure?

Leslie, let's call the police!

Tell them everything!

If she's alive,

then there wasn't a murder.

She's not alive.

It's all part of her plan.

Leslie... Let's not do this!

Amanda... She's here.

She's here. Jena's here.

Leslie!

Leslie!

Sam! Sam, help!

Jane? Jane? Jane!

Sam!

We can't leave her! Jane!

Get inside! Now! Come on!

Jane!

The front door.

There's no dial tone.

There's no signal.

How can there be no signal?

Call the police.

Call the pol-

Leslie, what are you doing?

Getting out of here.

Forget that stuff!

I think she knows

what you did last summer.

We have to find Jane.

No, look, wait.

You can't go outside.

Jena's still out there.

No, she was dead.

We buried her in the ground.

Well, obviously not deep enough,

because she's not dead.

Maybe... she's not totally dead.

Can you explain that, please?

Can you explain any of this?

No.

Except you're the last one

on the list. Get out.

It's not just her anymore.

What about Jane?

We have to stay together.

All right.

Oliver...

Get in.

Did you call the police?

No, you just said call,

and your phone's off.

There's no signal. I was writing,

"Call the police." My computer froze.

Well, the message I got said,

"Help. Call."

I'm not a mind reader, Sam.

Yet.

Why? What's going on?

You're not messing with me?

Does it look like we're having

a slumber party here?

This is incredible.

I mean, this just doesn't

happen every day.

You have to tell me again,

and you have to be very accurate.

When you thought she was dead,

did any of you actually check her pulse?

No. I told you, she wasn't breathing.

And you know this how?

The fact that

she wasn't frickin' breathing.

It was pretty obvious.

So just by looking at her

you determined she was dead.

You know why

certain religions have wakes?

Do you know where that comes from?

For hundreds of years,

it wasn't uncommon for

people to be buried alive.

Okay, coffins would be dug up,

and they would find scratches inside,

fingernails ground to the bone.

You see, people were

too ignorant to know

whether someone was actually dead.

Sometimes breathing is so shallow

it's undetectable without instruments.

That's what a wake was for,

so people could watch the body

for three days to make sure

it didn't wake before

somebody put it in the ground.

Okay, so I think

we have a consensus here

that our girl might not

actually be dead... or mostly dead.

Based on what you've told me,

I agree. I mean, this is great.

Other than the killing stuff,

but this proves so many things

that we don't have answers to, okay?

God, life after death,

the paranormal...

Is this amusing for you?

Yeah, Oliver...

Right. Sorry.

I've been doing some research.

From what you've told me, I think

we're dealing with a spirit wraith.

You see, it's a question

of degree of death...

Is this a joke?

Just hear me out, okay?

Jena Thorne went through a horrible,

traumatic experience.

You thought she was dead,

but what if she was

only brought to the brink of death,

cheated it at the last possible moment,

but had already gone too far

to come all the way back?

Look at this... 1968...

Murdered... Mmm...

Not quite murdered.

Local police believed

a"non-living entity"

caused the mysterious

deaths of the three men

who killed Janelle exactly

one year after her death.

Four other people who came to

the defense of the men were also killed.

Now, a witness to this event,

a university professor,

no less, theorized, quote,

"It was a spirit wraith,

needing neither food, nor sleep,

using telekinetic powers caused

by extreme rage to enact revenge.

She was able to manipulate

the physical plane, including...

her physical appearance."

What do you mean

by physical appearance?

Spirit wraiths are shape-shifters.

This girl was able to

change how she looked.

She walked among them, blending

in so they didn't recognize her.

The professor says here,

"When she looked these men in the eye,

she made them see their own death.

She took their souls."

You're not making this up?

Dude... I'm into this stuff.

It's all here,

and your girl fits the profile.

Turns out, Jena Thorne

had a MySpace blog.

Pretty pathetic stuff.

Uh, she lived with her Aunt.

Mom and dad killed

in a car accident.

No friends.

She wrote a whole bunch of

stuff about wanting to start over.

One more traumatic event

in her life

was bound to

have serious consequences.

Oh, yeah, get this...

she lived next to a funeral home.

Some kids shoved her into

a coffin with a body inside.

Guess whose body?

Her mom's. No wonder

she was claustrophobic.

Jane told me

the same thing happened to her,

and she told me that her mom

and dad died in a car accident.

Look at these.

They're all empty.

She hasn't been to a single class.

Is this her journal?

Yes.

She's always writing in it.

She never sleeps.

What are you looking for?

Her keepsake box.

What's in it?

I'm not sure, but I know

it's something important to her.

I can't open it.

Here. My grandmother

gave me one of these.

A ring... What?

It's Jena Thorne's engagement ring.

Wait...

You said she could change

her physical appearance.

Jena... Thorne.

It's an anagram.

Jane... Horten.

Look, guys, you're forgetting...

Jena called her boyfriend.

She was in California,

and Jane was with us

the whole time in the room.

It could have been

Jane on the phone.

I already told you, dude,

she can manipulate her surroundings.

This is great.

You know, you hear horror stories

about college roommates,

but this one, this takes the prize.

The undead spirit has

a different perception of time.

She was waiting, observing for

the right moment to avenge her death.

But you said she wasn't dead!

She was supposed to die!

That's the point.

That is her only purpose,

to avenge her death.

Come on, let's get

the hell out of here.

We have to help her!

Look, we will get help, all right?

We'll call the frickin' Ghostbusters.

Let's just get out of here now.

I can't.

Do you think Leslie

would do the same for you?

She killed that girl.

She buried her,

and then acted like nothing happened.

She deserves what's coming to her.

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