“Isn’t it just another so-called haunted house?” she asked, using his phrase. “I’m afraid it isn’t,” he admitted. “It’s the Mount Everest of haunted houses, you might say. There were two attempts to investigate it, one in 1931, the other in 1940. Both were disasters. Eight people involved in those attempts were killed, committed suicide, or went insane. Only one survived, and I have no idea how sound he is—Benjamin Fischer, one of the two who’ll be with me. “It’s not that I fear the ultimate effect of the house,” he continued, trying to ameliorate his words. “I have confidence in what I know.
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