Human vs. Phantom

Chapter- 7 Episode- 10 The Glowing Orb

Chapter- 7

Episode- 10

The Glowing Orb

“Hey, Reeve, come here to look at this video,” Jim said, in a loud voice, sitting stiffly backed on the chair glaring at the laptop screen that was in front of him on the table. Rather to just walk to him, Reeve asked him in a loud voice,

“What is it? Something important?”

“come and have a look first,” Jim yelled back.

“what is it? Are you watching p**n? I don’t want to see you doing nasty stuff.” Reeve joked.

“get serious sometimes, will you?” Reeve walk up to him with heavy steps and sleepy eyes, he was almost naked, just boxer briefs were on his eye-pleasing body that too hanging low, just an inch more and god’s grace on him will be out in open. He brought a chair near the table and sat beside Jim. Seeing him there Jim said,

“It is kind of a vlog thing on the internet, it doesn’t have many views though.” He started speaking, when Reeve interrupted, “don’t tell me you’re into that stuff, dude grows up.”

“don’t go too ahead of yourself, listen to me first. It is from a few weeks ago when the club wasn’t in the groove or the talk of the town and it was still an abandoned place. A school kid, who supposedly called himself a paranormal investigator, went to that place at night to explore it and if possible, capture paranormal activities of the house.” Jim told him. It is irritating for him when his brother jokes like that.

“so, is there something in the video?” Reeve said uninterested, he was not in the mood to look at the crap of some teenager, he would rather go back to his springy bed.

Jim fast-forwarded the video to the part where he noticed something weird. It was almost at the end of the video. He slowed down the frame count. The kid in the video was standing in the middle of a room, it seems like; his camera was on the night mode, the screen was all green, there wasn’t much in the frame to see. just space behind him and some furniture like stuff on the sides can be seen. He was talking about something looking at the camera, but the video was muted by Jim, voice in slow-motion sounds horrible so better to just mute it. But as the boy started walking, may be out of that space, a slight flash moved somewhere behind the furniture, it looked like a flashlight or a reflection from the camera, for a normal person to look at, but as they were watching it in slow motion it was clear that the illuminating object, was not at all an object, it was a human-sized shadow like something or maybe a big glowing orb in the shape of a human.

“Reeve look here.” Jim pointed out to Reeve; his finger on the screen, the video was paused at the frame in which that thing was clearly visible, Reeve’s gaze on the screen was like he was realizing something with every passing second.

“Is this supposed to a spirit?” he finally said. “how can a camera capture a supernatural entity? I haven’t seen anything like this ever before.” He continued asking, to Jim o maybe himself or maybe just doubting the possibility.

“the figure looked like a girl. And from the speed, it can’t be of a human. And look here, this is an article by a popular gynecologist, Mathew Cyrus, he has a theory about supernatural photography, see he says that it is possible to catch a spirit or a ghost on camera, but not their regular motion, they can be even seen through the camera lens, when the frequency of the camera matches the motion frequency to that of the ghosts. It will be in either flashes or orbs, but those are in a speed unnoticeable for a normal eye, sometimes by slowing them down, it can be easily seen.” Jim explained to him.

“really then how come I didn’t know about it? Our work would have been so much easier if we can just spot ghosts through the camera lens, don’t you think?” Reeve said his hands were on his chin and his forehead a little wrinkled like he was in deep thoughts. It was hard to tell if he was serious or was just joking like he always does.

“It is still a theory, but maybe sometimes orbs can actually be seen on the camera, we can try this theory some time,” Jim said.

“we’ll do that, but if you think about it, I mean if the spirit is actually of that girl, then doesn’t it mean that maybe she is buried somewhere in that place, haunting it? And he killed anyone who has abused any of the girls in the club.” Reeve spoke. A spirit is bounded to a place or object and sometimes even to a person or a living thing, and as long as it is connected, the spirits cannot crossover to a better world, and in frustration they usually become, either poltergeists or ghosts or even vengeful or malevolent spirit over time. Sometimes a spirit is connected to its remains or something close to their heart too and as long as it can be burned or destroyed, they will have a chance to move on.

“yes, you are right. After she went missing no one bothered to look for her, not even her body, to know if she was even alive. Maybe she is buried inside that building somewhere after she was killed. We should hurry and check it out.” Jim said. “but wait I don’t think we can go there right now, it is a night club, hundreds of people come there on a normal day and today is Saturday, tenfold of them will be there, how can we even expect going there to do our thing. It will be useless.” Jim added concerned.

“we will have to do it differently this time, I think. We can’t really just barge in there easily; it is highly secured.” Reeve said he was definitely brewing something in his mind. Jim knew it too, and he also knew that Reeve will tell him when the time comes, so he didn’t ask “we will leave first thing in the morning.” Reeve added and went to sleep.

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“Are we ready to leave?” Jim asked his brother as he woke up from his bed. they planned to go to the club room this morning when there won’t be many people around, so he got ready in a flash, which was unlike him. He usually takes about half an hour to get cleaned but not today, they have work, which is more important. Suddenly he heard a knock on the door.

“Are we expecting someone?” Jim asked his brother who for some reason looked like he knew who is gonna be behind the door.

“yes!” Reeve exclaimed.

“who…?” he said but he still went to the door and he opened it. It was like his thing to go and open the door, even as a kid, he would go and answer the phone, or the door. Maybe because he was the younger one, back then it was fun to him, but now it remains a habit of his.

“Amy Berry? Hey how come you are here?” Jim’s lips stretched in a surprised smile as he saw the one standing on the other side of the door was their friend.

“hey, Jimmy the nerd Beaver.” The tall black hair beautiful girl said, as she walked into their messy room and hugged Jim. She looked around their age, maybe younger, but she had a different aura around her. Not something someone as young as her would emit.

“your brother called me, he said he needs my help. So of course, I had to come, it is rare for you guys to ask for help, so I booked the earliest flight here to help you out.” She said as she broke their hug. Jim looked to Reeve, his eyebrows furrowed, as he asked him why he called her here. She was their friend; her granny was an acquaintance to their uncle. They worked together sometimes, she was a well known psychic and Amy inherited her powers, but she doesn’t work as a psychic, she lives like a regular university student.

“We can use a psychic’s help. You know we cannot just go and start digging the body, if there is any, in the club. It will be hard and not just that, we don’t have that kind of time in our hands to dig around the place.” What Reeve was thinking was right, they can’t dig that place. They don’t even have a clue if the body was there for real or not, it was just their theory. But Amy has the ability to sense anything human if there is any, so it was a reasonable thing to call her.