MrBallen

And so quickly, they, along with Patricia, walked over to one of the windows.

And Patricia reached out, and she opened up the shutters, and then shut the shutters, and then did it a few more times.

But there were no strange sounds.

There certainly were no sounds of footsteps running around inside of the castle.

Like, there was no way that the shutters were making sounds that you could confuse for footsteps.

Like, this was not it.

However, Patricia decided she would, just in case, try another shutter.

You know, see if maybe one of the other shutters made strange sounds, just to confirm, really, this is not the case.

But as she reached for this other shutter, before she even touched it, there was this loud, sudden, high-pitched shrieking sound that echoed all through the castle from upstairs.

And then it just went deadly silent.

And immediately the hairs on the back of Patricia's neck stood up.

I mean, this was like an unmistakable sound.

And Patricia, she turns to Remy and Beranger, and they're obviously spooked.

I mean, they've experienced stuff like this, but this is still just so terrifying.

And Patricia, you know, she's standing there not even sure what to do.

But then she kind of, she tells herself like, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.

That couldn't have been what we thought it was.

There's no way that that was like some screech coming from some ghost upstairs.

Like there has to be a logical explanation here.

And part of the reason she was thinking this is even in, you know, her time as a psychic medium, nothing this visceral had ever happened in her career.