Pay the Ghost Page #3

He was taken

last year on Halloween.

Gracias, amigo.

I gotta pay the ghost.

Did your daughter say that?

I was there,

at Devon Bodega.

And she said to me,

"Papa, podemos pagar

nosotros a phantasma."

"Can we pay the ghost?"

I was distracted.

I can't remember

she's in front of me.

Next thing I know,

she's just gone.

And one year after,

I started to hear things.

And then I see her.

It's just flashes.

It's real quick.

But she's there.

It's her, I know it's her.

What happened?

It stopped.

Just like that.

She disappeared on Halloween

two years before Charlie.

Just before she vanished,

she said to her father,

"Can we pay the ghost?"

Now that,

is exactly what Charlie

said to me before

he disappeared.

What the hell

you talking about?

Look it up.

On every other

night of the year,

more missing children

are eventually found.

But on Halloween it's different.

On Halloween, more missing

children are never found.

I know how I sound,

but there is

something different,

something mysterious out there,

and it's taking

children on Halloween.

I'm sorry, Mike, but I really

don't have time for this.

He believe you?

Would you?

Carol,

I need you to search

the city database.

I need a printout of all

the missing children cases

from October 31st in

the last five years.

Just get me the ones

that haven't come back.

Well, you're home.

Want to come in?

It's your house, too.

Order dinner, have some wine.

Sure.

Mrs. Wen?

NYPD.

It's about your daughter, Mia.

You find something about Mia?

Can we talk in private?

Just for a minute.

Mrs. Wen, it's possible

that there may be a

link to another case.

It may help us find

out who took Mia.

Two days ago,

something else happened.

Tell me.

I saw her.

Mia?

It was late at night,

I was closing store.

And I think to hear

Mia's voice calling,

"Mama..."

I ran through traffic

to get to her,

but when I arrived,

Mia was gone.

Is it possible that

you just imagined it?

It must have

been somebody else.

Mia would not have

run away from me.

What does that mean?

What you heard her calling?

"Mama..."?

Yes.

Mama, save me from the ghost.

I don't know.

They were wearing old costumes.

Was Charlie one of them?

I mean, there were so

many of them, I don't know.

Maybe it's time to bring

someone into the house.

Like a psychic or a

medium or something.

Those people are frauds.

On the phone I asked if

you could locate an object?

Yes, uh...

He used to take this

everywhere with him.

He still sleeps with it.

He used to.

So, how does this work?

It's about tapping into the

right frequency, that's all.

If something was here,

I won't need to find it.

I just need to let it find me.

No, nothing.

Is there any other rooms

that he spent a significant

amount of time in?

When we first moved in

he had a hard time sleeping.

He spent a lot of time

in our room, sure.

It's here.

What's here?

It has all the children.

What children?

Do you... Charlie?

She saw it.

The thing that

takes the children.

The thing that has my son.

That thing

that has your son.

You told me that woman was

flying around your ceiling.

I believe in facts, logic.

And all I know is that a lot of

bad sh*t happens

around you, Mike.

And until I figure out what

the hell happened around here,

don't be leaving

town any time soon.

I'm sorry, are you implying

that my husband had

anything to do with this?

I'm just doing my job.

I'm really sorry.

I can't sleep.

Can you?

Yeah, I'm gonna try.

I'm just gonna...

I'll be downstairs.

Hey, Mike...

Mike.

Good night.

Kristen?

Hey...

Kristen?

You okay?

I'm cold, Dad.

It's cold here.

Charlie?

She's coming, Dad.

I'm scared.

Please save me.

I will.

I will, Charlie.

Tell me where you are.

Kristen!

Kristen!

It's okay, it's okay, it's okay.

It's okay.

What happened?

You were cutting yourself.

You don't remember?

No.

I heard Charlie's voice.

He said, "Come and save me."

Where? Where is he?

Mike, what is that?

Jesus Christ.

It doesn't

appear to be Greek or Roman.

Interesting.

"The Celtic Goddess,

the most revered of

all Celtic symbols."

There were no

Celts in America.

And their original culture

ceased to exist over

1,000 years ago, so...

There was a small group of

Celtic reconstructionalists

that immigrated from Ireland.

New York was a big

trading post by then.

What happened to them?

The influenza epidemic

in New York, 1679.

"When it struck,

it devastated the population.

Some colonists

accused an Irish woman

of using black magic to bring

about the deadly epidemic.

They burned her at the stake."

Does it say in

there what her name was?

Not in this document,

but I'm sure I could find it.

I'll check the archives tonight.

This happened when New York

was still a rural

settlement, 300 years ago.

At that time, the trading

post would've been

just along this park, right?

Yes.

There's an old

church in that area.

Saint Joseph's.

It's here.

A small Irish community

still gathers there each year

to celebrate Halloween

in the Celtic tradition.

- Tonight.

- Can we go there?

What do you think you're

going to find there?

I don't know.

Happy Halloween, Jordan.

What've you got for me?

You're not gonna believe it.

Got a real trick

or treat for you.

You ready for this?

What the hell am I

looking at, Ray?

Her organs or what's

left of them anyway.

It's like she's

been set on fire,

from the inside,

like spontaneous combustion.

Excuse us.

Hello, welcome, welcome.

I don't think I've seen

you folks here before.

We were wondering

about the song.

Can you tell us about it?

Of course.

It's the Portal song,

it's played during Sawan.

It's meant to honor and

welcome the spirits.

This place was home

to the first Sawan

celebration in the country.

The first Halloween.

Our son was abducted

last year on Halloween.

I'm sorry to hear that.

For almost a year after he

disappeared, there was nothing.

Then two days ago,

we began to hear his voice.

Moments when we could see him.

I'm just a school

teacher from Bayside.

We get together here

every Halloween for fun.

I'm truly sorry, but I don't

know anything about your son.

No, no, please.

No, wait, please

can you tell us about

the Celtic Goddess?

I did something to

myself last night

without having any memory of it.

Do you recognize this symbol?

This is the waxing moon.

You can tell because

the crescent faces left.

It means Maiden.

And the waning moon?

The crescent faces right.

It means Crone.

It's the most devastating

of all the Pagan symbols.

Why?

It is said that hate made her

forget her true

nature as a mother.

Could she have taken our son?

It is believed that

there was one day a year,

when the Crone could take

someone to the other side.

The final day of Sawan,

when the boundary between

the two worlds dissolves

and she returns to take three

children on Halloween night.

So, the Crone is a ghost

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