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"This is downright creepy"

"Meh" Iroup of people who chattered in excited whispers, occasional startled gasps punctuating their conversation

Sarah stopped to give imlet eye "Meh? Meh! This is not in the least bitto someone who has been to hell itself, and had a chat with the auntlet of Hashmallim, which in my humble opinion is a thousand ti so simple as a haunted house holds no fear to the likes of headed skeptic," she answered,a face

"Oh, I&039;s I am There are some I won&039;t dispute fall well out of the bounds of what can be explained by existing science," I answered, obediently stopping when the ghost-hunting group leader waved everyone to a halt "I haven&039;t seen any proof yet that this house is anything other than extremely old and" - I sniffed the air - "evidently inhabited by a very large family of rodents I wish Theo was here"

"That&039;s the third time in an hour you&039;ve said that - ooh, as that?"

"Sorry, that was roup called out, sheepishly answering a cell phone that hadnoise

"Fine, I&039;ll take it back I don&039;t wish Theo was here - I wish I ith him, instead"

"We&039;ll wait here for the two roup leader announced in a loud whisper "They&039;re just outside the building I&039;ll go meet the, let&039;s take a few baseline readings of this upper floor Those of you on the coet into your meditative states and see if any entities contact you"

"People in a new relationship are always so cloying," Sarah said as she sank down gracefully into a lotus position, adopting a peaceful look on her face despite the cold, damp, and rodent-infested ambiance of the three-hundred-year-old"You don&039;t see Anthony andto each other"

I plopped down next to her with considerably less elegance "You&039;ve been married sixteen years I assu, I won&039;t s that he refuses to tell ive us so the whole Hope situation"

"Hush I&039;edslightly in the cold ht air We were on the top floor of one of the oldest standing land, a notoriously haunted mill which had a checkered past that supposedly included severalthe 1970s, a rash of Satanic rituals The interior of thespecial to look at - for the last hundred years it had alternately been used as office space, aparth I didn&039;t have the paranormal radar that Theo assuredin the building that felt re Sarah with htly at all the stairs, eed from the staircase with the two latecomers in tow "It&039;s Milo froroup, I believe"

"I&039;ot up and went over to the newcoavethat she wanted to spend a fewwith the spirits of the mill

"The wife is a believer," Milo said to me in a quiet voice Weourselves on a rickety metal table that lurked in a corner "I&039;ve tried to reason with her, but" He shrugged

"I kno that can be I&039;s that seeiven now that ic "but most people don&039;t even try to look for a reason that things happen If they see a light in the sky, it roup as they sat in a circle for a group ic, that&039;s the key to it You seeoes with the territory I&039;ic is more or less my forte"

"Really?" He turned an interested face on me "You don&039;t happen to like puzzles, do you? The brain teasers? I am mad for them, but seldom have anyone to share the"

"Logic puzzles, you eles at thirty o at sixty, that sort of thing?"

"Wellsoroup in university, but have lost touch with most of the mes seem to me to be set up to be easily solved if you just take the proper steps"

"That they are" He looked thoughtful for a moment, then a sroup in front of us "Would you like to try one out?"

"A puzzle?"

"Yes One to do with this group?"

I looked at the six people in front of us "You&039;re kidding Logical ghost hunters?"

"So "Look, there are five s of a logic puzzle"

"I&039;ll take your word for that" I sat back on the table, pleased there was so with spirits "I don&039;t know if I can ive it a shot"

"That&039;s the ticket! Let&039;s seeyou know their names, don&039;t you?"

"Actually, I don&039;t I missed the introductions because I was in the restroom when everyone met at the local restaurant"

"Perfect I&039;ve known these folks for the last eight years, and I can tell you that each of the your friend, of course - live in different towns Now, letyou can&039;t tell by looking at theot it Each one of these teams has members with a different supposed psychic specialty"

I raised ain With s paranorns in them that they were also "in the know," so to speak "OK So I&039;uess who has what psychic ability?"

"Supposed psychic ability," he said with a wink "Name, psychic ability, and town, how&039;s that sound?"

"Better than being bored," I laughed "Let&039;s do it"

"Right, then The psychometrist and Mr Brand both like their tea without , thewell The mind reader comes fro around in my purse "I need so, o on"

"Now then, Susannah, Mr Bitters, Michael, the Ouijist, and the person froether Mrs Lee and Ti in a local choir"

"Ohit all down "It&039;s just like a logic class I had eons ago in college"

"Daniel Richings doesn&039;t live in Bartleby Carol doesn&039;t live in Leewardstone"

"England has the best town naot it Any more?"

"Just one If you asked Mrs Lee if she had been with the club longest, she&039;d say no, that was her friend frorown up in her town of Newberry"

"Hmm OK Let me see here" I eyeballed the info I&039;d written down, decided it was nothing ned each bit of infore the as you need, although it looks like the roup

"I almost have itno, wait, that won&039;t workhmmshe can&039;t be there and there at the saured it out, did you?" Milo asked, a twinkle in his eye

"I think so I a a bit in that I can see there are only toroup, but even so, it makes sense that since the telepathist is from Newberry, and Mrs Lee claims the town of Newberry, Mrs Lee must be the telepath Since she doesn&039;t arrive with Susannah, then by the process of elimination, Mrs Lee&039;s first na, the medium, is Susannah She can&039;t co-on-Bent, but could live in Leewardstone or Edmonds"

Milo smiled My confidence rose

"Since Mrs Lee&039;s friend is fro, that s doesn&039;t live in Bartleby, nor can he live in Newberry or Leewardstone Thus he has to live in Ed?" Sarah frowned atto conduct a very serious scientific investigation?"

"Just passing a little ti ?"

"It isn&039;t just hu ourselves up tooh, why do I bother? Honestly, Portia, I&039;d think you could display a little iven the fact that you are what you now are," she said with a veheroup