The Apparition: The Experiment of the Apparition Page #2

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Greg! Greg!

Our effort to entrap it has failed.

I'm not sure what we've done,

but something came through.

We've brought it into our world.

Now it's loose. It's free.

We should never have done this.

Ben?

Yeah?

What?

Ben, maybe we should

just call the cops.

Where are you going?

We can't just abandon our house.

- Yes, we can!

- You're not even dressed!

There is no way I'm staying

in this house tonight!

If it were a person, we would have seen

them come in on the security cameras.

I must have left a blind spot.

Why aren't we saying

what we're both thinking?

Kel. Our house is too new to be haunted.

It has no history.

Those hangers. What could do that?

And those voices.

There's gotta be an explanation.

Hey, at least you finally got me camping.

Promise you'll stay awake?

Promise.

All night?

All night.

Hey! Listen.

I know last night was rough.

Everything is gonna be okay.

Houses make weird noises.

Maybe some animal got inside.

I'm gonna stay home today, I'll clean up...

...call someone to check out the closet.

And then what?

Do you wanna leave?

No.

My parents are counting on us

to look after their place.

I can't tell them their house is haunted.

Have a great day at work.

If anything else happens...

...I'll get us a hotel.

I promise.

Hey, neighbors.

Maggie, I'm so sorry about Pepper.

But this little guy really needs

a good home, so...

...I thought of you.

- Can I?

- Yeah, I don't see why not.

- You didn't have to.

- No, I...

I did.

Have you noticed anything weird

happening in your house lately?

Such as?

Lights going on and off,

doors opening by themselves, molds?

Sounds like shoddy construction.

- Oh, damn it.

- What?

We have the same builder.

And do you mind just letting me know

if anything happens?

- Absolutely.

- Thanks.

Maggie! You scared me.

Your house killed my dog.

Okay. Humidity levels are good.

Still need thermal and infrared, though.

Where are those guys?

Cut it out.

- Are peripherals online and ready?

- All set.

All right. Let's light this candle.

- Oh, my God!

- Sh*t!

Lydia, come on. Lydia, come on!

- Where's the flashlight?

- What the hell is that?

- Aah!

- Lydia!

Lydia! Lydia!

Oh, my God. Shut that thing off!

I said, shut that thing off!

I can explain.

This girl, Lydia?

You two were together?

Not the way you and I are, but...

...yes.

What happened to her?

She's, um...

Gone.

"Gone"?

What does that mean, "gone"?

Like she's dead?

- Is that what will happen to me?

- Nothing will happen.

How do you know that?

How can I trust you?

- What is this? What is in my house?

- I honestly don't know, okay?

We were trying to contact something

from the other side.

We were in college,

it was just an experiment.

Why didn't you tell me about this?

You knew what was happening

and you didn't tell me!

I mean, I don't know,

maybe I'm part of this experiment too.

No. This is all in the past.

I thought if you didn't know about it,

you'd be safe.

In my own way, I was trying to protect you.

I'm sorry.

How am I supposed to believe

anything you say?

Get out of my house!

Get out now!

Patrick.

It's Ben.

Call me.

What are you?

- Get off me!

- Stop! Look at me!

Stop! Stop! Look at me!

Still no answer from Patrick.

We're safe now.

What else can I do?

You can get off the bed.

Kelly!

Come on!

It's okay. It's okay.

Where are we going?

It's Patrick.

Your house isn't haunted. You are.

By the ghost we contacted.

If it is a ghost, it's not the ghost

of anything human.

What does it want from us?

Exactly what it's getting.

It wants to be in our world.

It wants us. It feeds on life.

It'll punish you, it'll manipulate the way

you see the world, and it takes you.

We opened the door and it came through.

What door?

A rift between our world and theirs.

Our second session opened it more.

What the hell were you thinking?

Yeah, at least I didn't run away,

act like it never happened.

- That's not what I did and you know it.

- We tried something new.

We tried to contain it.

Remember the psychomanteum?

I've rerouted the current so it gives off

a negative magnetic field.

Like a bomb shelter for brain waves.

I've been living in there for weeks.

That's perfect.

The only way to protect ourselves

is to live in a box.

We still have a chance to end it here.

How?

Place these transmitters

everywhere you saw it try to manifest.

Anywhere it's tried to get a foothold.

I recorded the EEG emissions

of our experiment.

We're gonna use that power against it.

We'll play the recording

of the session in reverse.

I'm gonna tap into the power lines

and feed all that energy into our system.

Four thousand minds put this together.

Four hundred thousand can destroy it.

Instead of aiming the transmitters in,

we aim them at us...

...and the house too.

With us inside, we flood every inch.

Open everything, right?

The fridge, the microwave,

the dishwasher, everything.

In the first experiment, our amplified

EEG-is, they acted like a key.

In the second, we opened a gateway.

We can reverse this process. If we can

link the two recordings, we can...

Amplify and transmit the EEGs in reverse.

And with all the additional power,

we shut the door and we turn the lock.

Okay.

Ben! Ben, help me!

Ben!

Ben!

Ben! Ben, help me!

Ben!

Ben! Ben!

Ben!

Ben! Ben, help me!

Move back!

EEG transmitters linking.

Initiating reverse playback.

Linking process complete.

Amplifying transmitter feed.

EMF readings are high.

Tapping into the main grid.

Did it work?

It's a really quiet neighborhood.

It's about 3400 square feet.

Here's directions to my house.

The safe room. Just in case.

Thanks.

- I'm gonna take this out.

- I'll help you with that.

Two days and nothing freaky at all.

We got a life again, right?

One day at a time.

I'll take that.

Don't ever say that, ever.

Patrick!

Patrick!

Patrick's gone.

We gotta go to Patrick's.

He lived in that thing you guys built,

that chamber.

Patrick said he built it to keep

this thing out. We'll be safe there.

Then what?

I don't know! But I'm not giving up.

The lack of pattern...

...leads me to believe

it's toying with us.

It toyed with the members of the '70s

sance and it's toying with Greg and I.

Of the six people who performed

the '70s experiment, two died...

...one committed suicide

and three went missing.

I didn't tell Ben or the others.

I couldn't.

This knowledge might have tainted

our results. But now I see I was wrong.

This thing is older than

any demon or ghost.

It's been trapped in purgatory

for an eternity.

But I believe that purgatory

contains not just human souls...

...but countless entities

and malevolent spirits.

I've done my best

to figure out what this is...

...but from what I can tell,

it doesn't have a name.

I've tried to understand

its attack pattern...

...a logic that I can use

for our benefit...

Patrick's journals.

...there is none.

And that scares me to death.

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