I’ve been somewhat at a loss for words since I received word from Mary Ashwood, Emery’s fiancée, with the results of Emery’s study here in my condo the weekend before last. Since no dramatic events took place during his stay, I didn’t think a lot would come of it.

I was wrong. Rose Red is nothing if not totally unpredictable.

Let me preface this by letting you know Mary has started a blog for her & Emery’s investigations (they work as a team now – a psychic and a forensic scientist, what a combination!). She also talks about some aspects of personal life, as I do here. In fact, she wrote a fantastic biography about Emery which you can (and should) read here…replete with family and childhood photos (definitely check them out). The introduction to the blog, called “Rose Red: A Haunting” can be found here. For convenience, any references to Emery will now automatically link to their blog, so you can remember to check often.

When I first read Mary’s report, I think I was mostly numb. It didn’t frighten me initially, it was almost as if I was reading something about someone else’s life. Like one of my articles about the curses surrounding Rose Red. They’re not about me, or Nick. They’re not personal, so to speak. I think my initial defense mechanism was to read the results very clinically.

But now that I’ve read them about fifteen or sixteen times, and examined the evidence Mary kindly posted for us to experience, I’m feeling a little freaked out. Read on to find out why.

Remember the stuff all over my kitchen counters that I assumed was ectoplasm? I’d never seen ectoplasm before, but I knew there was an ectoplasm-like substance once found in the solarium, and it tends to be associated with the paranormal. Mary worked her forensics magic and examined the sample Emery collected before we cleaned it up.

It wasn’t ectoplasm. And never in my wildest imaginings could I have guessed what it really was. Let me take the liberty of briefly quoting Mary’s post, then you can read the rest of the report here.

“The results were quite peculiar though, it seems that the sample, which most definitely seemed like Ectoplasm, in consistency and color, held some very unusual properties.

The data showed that the sample consisted of primarily H2O. Water being a very odd thing for one to expect to find in Ectoplasm, it also showed that it contained mucus, antibacterial compounds, electrolytes and enzymes, and all of these chemical compounds in one substance meant that the sample wasn’t ectoplasm, and that in fact, was actually Saliva.”

Saliva. Emery’s sure it’s Sukeena’s, as well. I had Sukeena’s drool explode all over my kitchen! I doubt you’ll be surprised if I tell you that I haven’t cooked a meal since Mary broke the news two days ago. It’s been cold cereal and pre-prepared meals from Whole Foods. And I’ve scrubbed the counters twice in as many days. Part of me is afraid I’ll damage them soon.

I’m not a squeamish clean freak, I fall around “normal” on the housekeeping and hygiene scale. But even the most slovenly person would flip out if their kitchen was covered in spit.

I really have no idea why this happened, but Rose Red isn’t one for offering explanations or apologies. Everything is so random and always has been. Random rooms appearing, random methods of disappearance, random manners of death – it’s all surprises with Rose Red. And now I’m positive the games are continuing. The games that slowly drove Ellen mad.

Unlike Ellen I’m armed for this battle. I understand, or at least am beginning to understand, what I’m up against. Where Ellen only had suspicions, I have anecdotal evidence and research to support my growing theories behind the poltergeist and ghostly activity on this property.

But Ellen…she may be learning through me as well. Emery told me about Connie, Joyce, and Sukeena, all of whom he felt when he was here. But we didn’t talk about Ellen. She’s a slippery one, but it may be that when dictating notes to his digital voice recorder, Emery unwittingly caught her.

A paranormal investigator named Heather, who commented on this blog recently, suggested to me that I ask Emery to analyze his recordings for EVP. Being experienced paranormal investigators themselves, Mary and Emery also had the idea. So they combed the recordings and had an extraordinary hit. When I first heard it I was fascinated, now that I listen again it gives me chills. Emery would know from firsthand experience having heard and seen her what Ellen Rimbauer sounds like. So I trust him and Mary completely in the conclusion they arrived at after studying the file.

Mary has graciously uploaded the EVP for you to hear. There are lots of format options, so you should have no problem listening.

Now comes another problem, and I’m eying my phone as I type this, because I’m expecting it to ring any moment with a rather angry (if not irate) Steven Rimbauer on the other end of the line. He reads this blog regularly and while I haven’t spoken to him in over a week (a couple days before Emery’s visit), he’s certainly up on all the news now. Cat’s out of the bag. And now the cat will be running around the room clawing the furniture. Evidence of Ellen still here? That’s not going to go down well.

Steve is one of my closest friends so I know he won’t drop me flat, even though he’s still terrified of Rose Red and his family’s heritage. But we’ve argued about my living here before, and now that he knows Joyce’s presence is here – and soon he’ll have concrete evidence his great-grandmother’s here as well – I’m bracing myself for one hell of an argument.

But what can I do? Turn and run? Leave Nick behind? I am staying here, and I am going to accept everyone’s prayers for my safety graciously and say a few prayers of my own. I am not going to be bullied by this place. I’m going to take what happens with as steady a stride as I can, and lean on my friends like Emery and Mary when I need to. I’m going to continue my research, my work has only just begun. There’s so much left to do.

Goodness. I sound rather like Joyce, don’t I? Well, if Steve was on the fence about calling me, the previous paragraph will have him dialing in a hurry. Steve, I’m sorry, but you know abandoning Nick is not an option. I need to study this place and not Connie’s wandering spirit, Joyce possessing my computer, Sukeena spitting in my kitchen, or Ellen’s disembodied voice will budge me.

I’m not stupid. I knew there was a chance this sort of thing would happen. In fact, I was counting on it – counting on Rose Red still being alive. If all these people are still here, then Nick is still here too.

At any rate, I’m going to continue to digest all this news and take what precautions I can. I’m going to try some basic paranormal investigating here too, but this is my home and I can’t turn it into a science lab – I’ll get paranoid and entirely too obsessed. I’m going to continue to do my homework in a methodical and calm manner to try to piece together the puzzle of what grips this place and I will weather any storm.

Please do visit & bookmark Emery’s blog. Fans of the paranormal (or “parafans”, as I like to call us on Twitter) will enjoy the forthcoming tales of their investigations.

As Mary closed her post with a quote from Emery, I’ll borrow a page from her book and close this post with a quote from Nick. In an article he wrote for the Wrexham Daily Courier in Wales, Nick said:

“I prefer to remain optimistic even when cold realism is the best course. I find the two do not necessarily have to exist independently. I believe that like attracts like, and to enter into a haunted domain with an open mind and open heart is to signal to whatever beings wait within that a friend, rather than a foe, has come to visit. Not all spirits may react pleasantly, but if in my soul I keep goodwill then goodwill will sustain me. I am realistic: I expect the unexpected. I am optimistic: I expect that I will handle the unexpected. I may be frightened or I may be elated; every encounter is unique. Yet I know whatever happens in my adventures, if I am true to myself, my ethics, my ideals, and my compassion I will prevail.”

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Post tags: connie fauxmanteur, ellen, emery, joyce, mary ashwood, nick, sukeena

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