09-12-09 Readings

09/12/09
Poltergeist (Kat Richardson)
Harper investigates Mark’s death further, and interviews all the participants in Tuckman’s study. Most of them are absolute dicks, who feel superior to everyone, or are actively hiding something. All have a strange yellow thread around them in the Grey (the ghostly otherworld), which causes strange poltergeist phenomena around them, from small objects moving to the poltergeist actively playing with one participant’s children.

There is a minor subplot introduced that one of the participants, Cara, is lying about being the grand-niece of a previous mayor of Seattle.

Harper also speaks with Ben Danziger about ways to fake a séance (once again, an interesting bit of research here...actually a cool scene), and his wife, Mara, about why she can’t see the Grey through the glass in the observation booth. There is further minor subplot introduced regarding the interactions between the Danziger's 2 year old son, Brian, and the ghost that lives in their home, Albert. I really, really hate the kid. But I'm not a big fan of children in general.