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Ghosts at Drayson Schoolhouse
Ghosts at Drayson Schoolhouse
Ghosts at Drayson Schoolhouse
Category:
Horror
Publisher: RB Publishing
Type: Fiction
Pages: 140
Copyright: October 30, 2015
Price: $2.99 (eBook)
Ghosts are haunting the Drayson Schoolhouse in a rural Ohio town near Cincinnati. The school secretary hires three siblings to rid the ghosts by fall or risk losing students to other schools.
Three teen paranormal investigators, Dylan, Mike and Sarah McCauliffe, are hired to investigate the ghostly hauntings at Drayson Schoolhouse, an old building in a rural Ohio town that’s been around since the 1860s. Seventeen year-old Dylan is the camera and equipment expert, who captures ghost sightings and voices, while his fifteen year-old brother Mike researches the history of haunted locations. But neither can solve the mysteries surrounding the hauntings without their thirteen year-old sister Sarah, a psychic medium who sees and speaks with the dead.
It’s early June and Drayson’s secretary, Joyce Fletcher, begs the three teenagers to take the case. She’s desperate to stop a series of hauntings before the school year starts in August, because parents are threatening to yank their kids from the school and send them elsewhere. But the hauntings have gotten worse since construction workers started remodeling. Water faucets go on and off when nobody’s around, lights flicker and people are getting shoved by invisible forces. One worker even got pushed off a ladder. Worst of all, people are scared to death of the dozen or more ghosts they’re seeing.
The kids start their all-night investigation on a Sunday night. They turn the lights out and use night-vision goggles, magnetic field and motion detectors, cameras and recorders to search and communicate with the ghosts. After getting chased by a large male spirit and pursued by another, they soon discover nine child ghosts in the basement who’ve been in the school for many decades. Sarah and her brothers struggle to determine what’s causing the hauntings and how to help the innocent spirits move on. But a much more evil entity lurks in the darkness and tries to ruin their plans. Can the three siblings survive the investigation, get rid of the evil spirit and help the innocent ones move on? Find out in this scary thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat till the end. Just make sure you keep the lights on.
Ghosts at Drayson Schoolhouse is the first book of the paranormal series entitled, “The McCauliffe Adventures.” The second book in the series, “Hauntings at Black Shadow Ridge” is due out late December 2015. The author plans to write up to eight books in the series.
Excerpt
My heart was pounding. I took a deep breath and stepped back toward the walkie-talkie. I don’t what possessed me to do it. But just when it came to life again, I slammed the heel of my gym shoe on it. I stomped on it again and crushed the plastic casing. I then continued down the corridor.
I must’ve walked fifty feet but still couldn’t find the office that Sarah said was down here. I turned and gazed behind me. The door by the classroom now appeared no more than a foot high. Was it getting smaller? My breath grew shallower. Sweat poured from my forehead to my eyebrows. Some leaked into my left eye. It stung. I wiped my eye with my forefinger.
“Sarah. It’s Dylan. Are you down here? Please answer me.”
The hallway curved to the left . . . and then back to the right. Given the apparent new dimensions of the door, it felt as if I were getting buried alive in here. The ceiling even seemed lower. After slowly making my way forward another five feet . . . and then ten, I spotted a door to the left. It appeared to be a small office. I approached it.
Just then, I heard someone speak. It was a girl’s voice, but it didn’t sound like Sarah’s. I couldn’t see the girl. I took another step—almost expecting to see one of the ghoul-like kids appear from behind the wall.
That’s when I spotted the blue tennis shoe and white socks. It was Sarah. She was seated on the floor with her knees propped up, leaning against the wall.
“Please tell me where my mommy is,” she said.
“What? . . . You’re mom’s at home. Sarah, it’s me. Dylan.” Sarah was in another trance. That’s when I realized someone else was talking through her. I raised the pitch in my voice, as if I were talking to a young child.
“Who are you, little girl?” She sounded as if she were five or six, or perhaps it was a boy. I wasn’t sure. I stepped into the office and watched Sarah for several seconds. She looked up—still in her trance.
“Please help us,” she said. “We need help.” That child sounded older—and it was definitely a girl’s voice.
“Okay, sweetie. That’s what we’re here for—to help you. What’s your name?”
“Tur . . .”
Sarah coughed and rubbed her throat. She looked up at me.
“What’s my name?” she said, as her voice returned. “What are you talking about, Dylan? Are you on dope?”
“Someone else was talking through you.”
“Oh. Did she say anything?”
“One child wanted to know where her mommy was. And then the other one started to tell me her name.”
Sarah coughed again. The air was musty and lacked movement.
“What happened to you back here?” I said. “Your walkie-talkie’s broken.”
I bent down and helped Sarah stand. She brushed the dust off the back of her shorts. She looked pale against the green cast of my goggles. She coughed and patted her chest as she tried to speak.
“I dropped it. I was in one of my hypnotic states, but then saw the man—the one who chased us down the hall. But he seemed scared, too.”
“The first man we saw?”
“Uh huh.”
“Did he tell you his name?”
“No. But I think he needs our help. He was trying to get our attention earlier, not harm us.”
“Did he say anything?” Sarah lost her balance and fell against me. I grabbed both of her shoulders.
“He’s not talking. I can’t get him talk.” Sarah held onto the wall for balance as we stepped out of the office. “That’s his choice.”
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