Well, we were soon landing at the airport, it was the nearest to where we wanted to go, which is still not very close. We have another 3 hour drive out to this old abandoned house. I made one change, Jennifer will be playing my wife on this trip, I thought it would be safer. Annelie did some checking for us and got the coroner’s report on everyone that died out at this house.

It was the same coroner for each and the report for each was nearly identical. That seemed a bit strange to me. I asked Annelie to get me the coroner’s address, or where he works. She told me I was too late. Apparently he died of a heart attack last week, but at home, not at this abandoned house. But the new coroner’s report seemed nearly identical to the others.

All said it looked like the people had been scared just prior to death. Very strange. I will talk with the new coroner though, but not today. We met Hope, Lana and Patty at the airport, Hope did not look any different than she did in high school. And the way she talked sounded the same also, a bit crazy like. Lana was much like Hope, Patty was just the opposite, she was the serious one of the three.

Our vehicles were waiting for us, three 4 wheel drive jeeps from Baldwin Enterprises. These are specially made, built like a tank and large enough to carry all of us and our gear. Hope had a huge truck, kind of fitting, I guess, for her. Hope and her friends had done the shopping for our food, enough to last a week, she said. We stopped at a restaurant to have some lunch and to talk a bit.

Apparently they all enjoy camping and wanted a nice hidden and peaceful place to camp during the summer. Regular campgrounds were always too crowded and too noisy for them. This property was 200 acres for only $8,000 which they thought was a fantastic deal. But they were not told about the big old house on the property.

The real estate agent knew nothing about it, he was just told it was vacant land and he had never been out there to look around, except to put up his sign at the road into the property. They had looked at the property before buying it, but did not look around much and the trees hid the house. They did look around inside the house a bit when they found it, but it looked too creepy so they decided to leave.

We are planning to stay out there and the 3 girls are going to stay as well. I made sure to introduce Jennifer as my wife. I noticed Hope was trying to take up a lot of my time, but Jennifer kept interrupting her which I do not think Hope liked. We drove directly to the old house, but Aari, John and Mac stopped in the village to ask questions about the old house and they would join us later.

“This house looks more like an old hotel,” I said. “That is exactly what I said!” said Pinky (that is Lana’s nickname since she always has her hair dyed bright pink). The other girl has her hair dyed green. Apparently she changes color every week. Inside the old “hotel” it looked like a normal house, but big, very big, huge in fact. There is no electricity out here, though there was at one time.

No one has lived here for about 20 years, and it shows. Everything is in good condition though, which is odd. Not even one window was broken. Later that evening, Aari, Dawn and Marlena joined Jennifer and I in our bedroom. Aari said they did not find out anything we did not already know. Meow,meow.=Me hear Pinky woman say that human ghost Jennifer and Kat not look like robot.

And she say why you would marry robot anyway? “Very good Muffin,” said Jennifer smiling, “now we are getting somewhere. Why would she call us robots?” “Hmm, good point indeed,” I said, “Muffin, you and the other cats make sure these new girls do not know you can speak.” Meow,meow.=Yep, we know.

I called Annelie and asked if she found out anything more about Lana and Patty, but she said there was nothing she could find that was out of the ordinary. Then I told her what we had learned about them. “That is not good Steve,” she said, “you better be very careful.”

“We shall be,” I said, “check on any boyfriends they might have.” Meowr.=Me hear Pink girl say new boyfriend nice, but he ask lots questions about Hope girl and she not like that. Green girl also have new boyfriend and he ask questions about us.

Mewsy.=Names of boyfriends are Mark and Harvey. I quickly told this to Annelie and she began her search right away. “Good detecting cats,” I said, “keep it up!” It was soon dark so we all went to bed. The night passed much too quickly and I awoke to the smell of pancakes and coffee…and something else…

To Be Continued.

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