John B. Allen (MrBallen)

We were just trying to contact her.

What if the seance worked?

What if mom did hear us?

Maybe she's here.

Maybe she's in the house.

Maybe she's trying to get in touch with us.

Maybe her tapping is her trying to signal us in some way.

And suddenly that hope that was dashed as their Ouija board session, their seance hadn't worked, it's all back now.

They're suddenly riveted with this idea that the sounds they're hearing could be their mom, who they just want their mom back so bad that they're prepared to believe anything at this point.

Like, oh my God, it's mom.

And so Tina and Karen, they get out of the bed.

and they walk into the hallway.

Now, to this point, they still can't quite tell where the tapping is coming from, but by the time they got into the hallway, it's clear it's not coming from the floor they're on.

It's coming from somewhere downstairs.

And so they go into the dark stairwell in the second floor hallway, and they're looking down into the stairwell, I should say, that kind of banks around down to the first floor, and all they can hear is just this periodic tapping, and it's coming from somewhere downstairs.

And the two girls are standing at the top of the stairs, like not really sure what to do,

And Tina, the older one, just suddenly goes, hey, mom, is that you?

The tapping stops for a second, and then they hear a rhythmic, and then there's silence again.

Oh, shit.

There's a clear response.