Chapter 24~ Claustrophobia V.S Ghosts

And just like that, Ryan was in room 502, all alone.. doing an EVP.. crazy son of a bitch...

"Are there any children here on this floor?" Ryan announced his first question. Per usual we all collectively stand in silence, listening out for any unusual noises or responses.

After a few seconds of complete nothingness Ryan continues on to ask the second question.

"How did the nurse die here?" He openly asks, referring to the tragic event that took place in this building many years back when one of the nurses got murdered in the building.

After a few seconds he continued on with this final question.

"Are you okay with me being in this room, 502?" And with that we all routinely stood in complete silence, listening out. After a few seconds of no noise response Ryan finally makes his way out of the tiny room to join back up with us and look back on the EVP recording.

Listening through Ryan's EVP recording, we all hear unidentifiable noise coming through the EVP after Ryan's first question, leaving us all to look at each other in utter confusion, trying to make out whatever it was we just heard, but unable to do so.

"That was very difficult to even make out..." Ryan comments, confusion laced in his tone. We continue to listen to the rest of the recording, but so far no luck with getting any disembodied responses come through the EVP. Ryan decides to try one more EVP, this time with all of us asking the spirits questions to see if it'll make any difference. After Ryan openly announces to the spirits what his idea is he begins with his question.

"Who is in room 502?" A few seconds of silence goes by until it is Seth's turn to ask a question.

"Is it true that a nurse was murdered in room 502 by a doctor?" We all share the moment of silence again before Josh takes his turn to ask a question.

"Are you okay with us being on the fifth floor?" After a few seconds of complete silence River finally ends the EVP session with the final question.

"If your here right now, where exactly are you?" And with that Ryan stopped the recording after a few seconds of silence to see if we caught anything this time. While standing around in a almost circle we listen to the new recording.

Ryan's question didn't seem to get any response, however after Seth's question we all hear what almost sounded like "yes and he's crazy...". In the corner of my eye I see Josh and Ryan quietly look at each other, evidently taken aback from the unusual response captured on the EVP. As we continue listening we all briefly hear an inaudible response to Rivers question, slightly disappointed that we couldn't make out exactly what was said.

"It's saying stuff though, there's a girl talking but we can't make it out!" Josh loudly exclaimed, earning a few head shakes from the other boys.

"Since we haven't got much stuff in here I think we should move on" Ryan openly suggested to the group, easily earning all of our approval. So with that, we discuss with Seth and Josh that it's finally time to split up for the remainder of the video and finish off the rest of our video with just the twins, Wyatt and I investigating in the sanatoriums morgue, while Josh and Seth finish off their video doing whatever it is they've planned for themselves.

As the three boys and I try and discover where the morgue is within the ginormous building. After sometime of back and forth discussions on the location, we finally find the large doors belonging to the buildings morgue.

As we enter the morgue Wyatt raises the video camera in his hand and starts filming Ryan, as he begins explaining to the camera what we're going to be doing for the rest of the investigation, which so happened to be making us all crawl into one of the morgue drawers and see if we can trigger any activity by doing so.

As Ryan is explaining what we're going to be doing, I can feel my body slowly growing more and more anxious, the thought of being closed in a morgue drawer where thousands of dead bodies have laid over the years is not a pleasant thought at all to say the very least.

Once Ryan finished his explanation to the camera he immediately made his way towards the two morgue drawers, leaning down onto his knees he claimed the very bottom drawer. As Wyatt, River and I amusingly watch Ryan crawl his way into the drawer I start thinking to myself "where am I supposed to go?" I can clearly see that there are only two morgue drawers, one for Ryan and I'm guessing the other was for River, and Wyatt got the morgue table all to himself to lay on... So where did that leave me?

"Did I mention to you guys that I have claustrophobia?" Ryan announces to the camera in a anxious tone as he finally sets himself into the morgue drawer.

"Uhh Ryan, where exactly would you like me to go for this part of the investigation?" I awkwardly ask him.

"Oh yeah right I forgot to mention, your going to be stuck in the other morgue drawer with Riv" Ryan causally says with a hint of cheekiness laced in his tone. I immediately take a double take back at the second drawer, refreshing in my brain just how tiny the drawer was again.

"What!? There's no way that can fit two people in there!" I exclaimed, shocked that THIS was Ryan's idea. He let out an amused laugh from my disbelieved reaction and tried to make it sound so simple.

"Sure it can, I'm sure there would have been bodies that weighed both of y'all's weight put together back in the days". Hearing Ryan's attempt of persuasion I turn to look at River, giving him a 'Can you believe this guy right now?' look. River however quickly gives in to his twins persuasion and anxiously makes his way to the second drawer, with Wyatt eagerly helping him get in.

"I hope I don't break this" River anxiously laughs, but after a few seconds of hesitate attempts to get in, River finally finds a comfortable position to lay inside the morgue drawer above his twin brother.

"Your turn now Y/n" Wyatt casually turns to me. I take quick glances at both Ryan and Wyatt, noting the persistent expression on both their faces. Slowly, I start to give into their persuasion and approach the second drawer.

"You guys are fucking crazy for doing this.." I try to say in a joking way, hiding the anxiety in my voice, causing all three of the boys to simultaneously laugh at my intimidated state. Trying to ignore the boys teasing and push away my anxious thoughts, I carefully lift myself up with Wyatt's help and VERY awkwardly try and crawl into the drawer with River.

As I crawl into where River is I let out multiple apologies to him in the process, after a few moments of uncomfortable leaning I somehow manage to get myself into a somewhat bearable position next to him, now prepared for the final part of the investigation.

"This is nuts" River quietly says to me, with a small chuckle escaping his lips.

"I did not sign up for this" I respond in the same quiet tone, trying to sound polite about the situation.

"Alright guy's are we ready?" Ryan finally asks the group, receiving confirmation from the three of us that we were in fact ready. And with that River began explaining out loud to any spirits that could potentially hear him while holding his video camera up to his face that we had set up a REM Pod on a piece of metal that was above him and I. After Rivers brief explanation it earned an almost immediate and unusual knocking sound coming from the very same room we were in.

Because of this Ryan instinctively began reaching out to any spirits that could potentially hear his voice, and asking them if they could make themselves known by touching our equipment or using their voices to speak through our Spirit Talker app we had running through Ryan's phone.

A long moment of silence was shared between all of us, as we all patiently waited to witness if we would trigger any unusual activity at all. The unnerving silence felt like torture to me, especially being crammed in this very tiny morgue drawer with River, our bodies both awkwardly squished together. Instinctively, I would always ensure that I was giving him as much space as I possibly could, making it easier for him to film and hold the camera.

After a few more moments of eerie silence our REM Pod began to go crazy above River and I, causing up both to unexpectedly jump.

"That's a full grab" Ryan states, evidently trying to keep his tone calm from the situation unraveling Infront of all of us. Very shortly the REM Pod stops, causing the silence to wash over us yet again, that was until River spoke up.

"Dude that was fucking scary" he anxiously giggled as he let out his complaint.

"Ryan"

The Spirit Talker said, interrupting Rivers anxious laughter, and causing him to feel even more uneasy and evidently slightly worried for his twin brother.

"No way it just said my name" Ryan says, still trying to keep his tone calm and relaxed.

"That's the first thing it said!" His twin brother buts in, clearly amazed that one of the spirits here remember his brothers name.

"Are you one of the spirits that was up stairs with us because you did say something about my hair?" Ryan openly asks, eager for a response back.

And just like that the REM Pod above River and I went off again, this time even louder, causing us both to jump yet again in fear. As River tries to point his camera at the REM Pod it stops.

"I've never heard that device do that!" Ryan states, clearly now a little more anxious than before.

"That's twice now" Wyatt adds in. A couple seconds after he then hears what sounds like someone approaching us, causing him to jump.

"Woah... Hello?" I hear him call out, his voice filled with anxiety.

"What's going on?" Ryan checks in with him with a hint of fear in his voice.

"Someone's walking down the hallway" he answers.

"No shot.." River quickly responded, looking at me with a hint of disbelief in his eyes. A few minutes passed, with Ryan trying to communicate with whoever it was we were in contact with, and a few unusual noises were heard, on top of that they even made the REM Pod go off again after Ryan explained what the device was for, leaving us all impressed with the intelligent responses we were receiving.

After a few more moments of uncomfortably laying there next to River we then begin to hear unusual tapping on the side of our drawer, causing me to keep my eyes on River, too anxious to look out to the other side of the morgue drawer just in case I saw something.

"Riv, Y/n are you's moving?" I hear Ryan ask in a unsure tone, showing that he also heard what River and I heard.

"We're not moving" River replied to his brother in a serious tone.

"Who's in here?" Wyatt calls out, now sounding unsure whether or not the noises are something paranormal or perhaps just Josh and Seth being possibly near by.

"Creature"

The Spirit Talker suddenly breaks the silence.

"Creature!?.... Come in the morgue room, please" Ryan openly ordered, quickly earning a loud, long and piercing confirmation from the REM Pod causing me to unintentionally grab onto Rivers arm out of fear. River gently turns his head to look over at me and give me a silent comforting look before putting his attention back into his filming.

"Why the fuck did we put that right above us?" He openly questions, his tone filled with a hint of regret.

"I don't know I thought it was a good idea" his brother casually responded, trying not to sound bothered by it either.

As we all stayed in your usual positions, simultaneously waiting on silence for any further activity Ryan decides to break the chain of silence and moves slightly more up, asking River if we could both see him down there below us. River slowly began to move a little, now facing his camera down at the crack above both of our heads, were Ryan and easily spotted. As both twins let out amused laughter I decide to take my chance to adjust some more and try to get comfortable, still having one of my arms around River's free arm. Knowingly, I chose to keep my arm around his because it's the only thing that's keeping me from freaking out inside of this enclosed dark drawer.

"Dude I keep feeling like someone's about to grab my legs.." River states in a low and uneasy tone.

"Please don't say that!" I practically whisper shout at him, clearly not having a good time in here at all. And just like that, Ryan's Spirit Talker decides to speak up.

"He'll get you"

Great, just my fucking luck... Hastily, I bring my feet up closer to me, now very awkwardly resting my knees on top of Rivers upper leg, not risking having anyone or anything touch me. As I do so I can also hear Wyatt quickly sit up from the morgue table, clearly as freaked out as me.

"Who? Who is it?" Ryan openly calls out, determined to get to the bottom of the creepy threat.

"I was sick"

His phone almost immediately replies, giving us a clearer understanding on how this spirit passed away.

"Tuberculosis... The white death is what they would call it, is that what you had?" Wyatt openly asks in an unusual calm voice. Immediately our REM Pod went off yet again, making all of us unexpectedly jump at the sudden increase of noice once again. The REM Pod went crazy for a good 15 seconds before stopping and leaving all of us speechless.

"Woah... What's your name?" Ryan openly asks.

"Let me rest"

The Spirit Talker immediately replied back.

"Imagine a ghost just pulls out our fucking drawer... I would fucking die" River openly comments, causing me to quickly look at him and vigorously shake my head.

"Don't say that shit!" I quietly say to him in a worried tone. Just then I begin to hear Ryan let out evil sounding giggles, causing me to feel a mix of confusion and unease. I quickly learn that I had every right to feel uneasy when I begin to feel Ryan cheekily move mine and River's drawer slowly forward, the sudden unexpected movement causing me to hold onto River even more.

"Ryan, don't you fucking do it" he says, letting out playful chuckles as his twin continued pulling out our drawer some more so he can lift himself up, poking his head up and now spying the two of us more clearly. The two brothers share amused laughter together, finding some entertainment in Ryan's goofy act.

I on the other hand let out a almost silent sigh before saying to myself under my breath.

"This is going to be a long fucking night..."

(A/n)

Hey everyone, I am finally back after taking a break from writing for a few months.

So sorry you all had to wait for another chapter for so long I feel so bad about that! I have read everyone's comments over the past couple of months I have seen how many of you have been waiting for another chapter in this story, which has caused me to regain my motivation to release this chapter for you all :)

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