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I'm not sure what buildings they were in.

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Is anybody else freaking out?

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In a library, some girl was killed there.

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I heard somebody was murdered recently in a stacks.

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That's a really big one.

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I've heard that since I've been here.

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Somebody was stabbed.

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Oh.

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Have you heard about any haunted dorms?

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There's some stuff going on in my dorm room.

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I'm going to tell you guys something about me

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that I've never told anyone else.

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My name is Ryan, and I'm a paranormal investigator.

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When I was a kid, my experiences with the supernatural

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terrified me, and I've been searching for answers ever since.

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When I got to Penn State, I realized I wasn't alone

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in my quest.

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So I founded the Paranormal Research Society,

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dedicated to helping those who are haunted like I was.

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We are students.

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We are seekers.

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And sometimes we're warriors.

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And each time we help someone, I feel like I'm one step closer

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to finding the truth.

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This is Paranormal State.

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So why don't you give me a little background on how you got involved in the Paranormal?

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I had an experience when I was young.

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It wasn't fun by any means.

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I tried talking to my mom.

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She just preferred that it didn't happen.

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So you can identify with a lot of your clients?

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I mean, that's why I worked so hard with PRS,

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is because I wanted answers.

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I wanted a group.

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I wanted people around me who can help me understand

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what was going on with me in the past.

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And that's what inspired you to create the Paranormal Research Society?

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There are people who need help.

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There are people who are experiencing things now.

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There are people who have questions now, who want answers now.

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And that's when I said, you know what, this is what I need to do.

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I need to be an investigator.

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So what were some of those early investigations like?

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Penn State has a lot of unique paranormal history.

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There were a few unsolved deaths here.

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My first two cases were those of Betsy Yardsma, a grad student killed in the stacks.

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And then there's Cindy Song, a girl who went missing on Halloween night in 2001.

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That case caught national tension and landed me in the newly formed PRS in the spotlight.

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This was our first, like, publicized case that we did.

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It's kind of the one that really people heard started hearing about the Paranormal Research Society.

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But despite my best efforts, both of these cases remain unsolved to this day.

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Our home base was the stage.

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The place where we got a few weird things is in the attic.

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You guys all know the legend, right?

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No.

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The spirit of Frances Adlerton, the wife of one of the school's founders,

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they say she still haunts the attic of old Botany.

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I've always wanted to do a proper dead time here now that I've had more experience.

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But it will have to wait.

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Now we have a case to deal with right here on campus.

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As you know, we're doing a case here at Penn State this weekend in East Halls.

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Lauren, who's a girl who's experiencing a haunting.

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Visual apparitions, voices, movement of objects.

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And it all seemed to start when she played this Japanese candle game.

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She says she's afraid, yet she keeps wanting to play these spiritual occult games.

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She wants to do the candle game again.

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Common sense would say that if you're experiencing things and it's actually frightening you,

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why would you want to keep doing it?

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But that's typical.

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So many people, they don't think, come here and they just realize it's not a smart move.

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She's a freshman, so it could be that Lauren's having a difficult time adjusting to college life

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and being away from home for the first time.

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It seemed like a lot of things started happening at once like a couple weeks ago.

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I woke up getting ready for school and I looked over and I noticed that a girl's in my roommate's bed.

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And whenever I turned around again, she started shaking her head back and forth like this.

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And she just kind of disappeared about a month later.

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I woke up around the same time and I look over and the same girl was in my roommate's bed

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and she had her elbows propped up looking at me.

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And I was thinking, not again.

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So tell me about the game that you were playing.

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The easy English phrase where it's 100 candles or 100 tales of horror.

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You're supposed to tell different horror stories and each time you tell a horror story, you blow out the candle.

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It said that whenever you're done playing the game, there should be 100 spirits in the room with you.

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But did you notice an increase in activity after you did the game?

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Yeah.

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Have you heard any stories about hauntings on campus?

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Yeah, I went on the lantern tours.

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They showed us Atherton's grave and then the library, how that one girl was ice-picked in the heart.

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You're a freshman, right?

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So you've only been here for a few months.

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And have you told your parents about this?

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Yeah.

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What did they say?

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I think it's stupid.

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Oh yeah?

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Yeah.

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Director's log.

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I just finished my preliminary interview with Lauren.

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Although I'm not sure how serious her case is, I can definitely relate since my parents didn't believe me when I told them my experiences either.

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We're heading back to our dorm to see if we can learn more.

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So this is your area right here?

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Yeah.

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When you were sleeping here, you experienced something over there?

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That's where you saw the apparition.

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She was laying down in her bed.

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Wow.

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And what did this girl look like?

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I couldn't really tell.

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I can't really describe any features that stood out to me or anything.

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Okay.

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Now, does it seem like everything is always coming from over here?

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Yeah, like my friend saw someone in the reflection in the window.

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He said she was standing right there.

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Oh.

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Who was in the room with you when that happened?

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My boyfriend.

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What does he think of all this?

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He's scared of my room now.

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So he understands why I don't want to be alone in here.

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Yeah.

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When I'm in here, I always look around because I'm always expecting something to happen now.

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What did Lauren tell you about seeing the girl on Texas' bed?

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Oh, she told me right after it happened, everything.

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Lauren told me that she saw a girl sitting with her legs kind of over mine,

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just like with her hands on her face.

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Has anybody else on the floor come to you to tell you anything weird?

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I was laying on Texas' bed when we were just watching TV and then all of a sudden I saw this form over here,

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like this white, wispy thing.

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And he turned around and nobody was there.

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That's the first time that anyone else saw a human form other than Lauren.

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Did you notice any of the activity increasing after you played the game?

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Little weird things happen in this room, but I kind of just dismissed them as normal happenings.

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Since Lauren's dorm room is too small and far too noisy to do an effective dead time,

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I think the next step is to research the 100 Candles game and play it ourselves.

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Only then will we know how dangerous it can be.

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100 Candles will be placed in a circle and the players would each tell a ghoulish tale,

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often a story from their local village, or perhaps a more personal experience.

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As each tale ended, their storyteller would douse a single candle,

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the lights slowly fading as the tension rose.

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The game was said to be a ritual of evocation,

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the expiration of each story in each candle,

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summoning more spiritual energy,

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transforming the room into a beacon for the dead.

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With the vanishing of the final light,

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someone or something terrible would be waiting in the darkness.

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My sister was going downstairs one day and I just remember being deathly afraid to be upstairs by myself

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and I would never sleep in my own bedroom.

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So she was going downstairs one day and she was looking through the banister to make sure I was upstairs

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and she saw a girl sitting on my bed who looked exactly like me.

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And when she came down the stairs I was at the foot of the stairs.

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And I remember that since she was like, how'd you do that?

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I'm like, what are you talking about?

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And we went upstairs and there was nobody there.

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You guys know I drive very, very fast.

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I was cruising along and just out of the corner of my eye,

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I saw this elderly woman just walking across.

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She was blue, like glowing blue, but I figured, okay, I'm gonna slow down for once.

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And there was a pack of deer in front of me and if I would have been going my normal speed,

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I'd have, yeah, I wouldn't be here.

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Okay, I'm gonna tell you guys something about me that I've never told anyone else.

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When I was young I had a bunk bed.

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I was on the top bunk and I heard someone counting below me

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and I thought it was my little brother Jordan and that was nothing there.

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And then instantly just like bam!

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It's like all the hair on my arm stood up.

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Instinct told me there was something there that I should have moved away from.

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My bunk bed would look towards the doorway and I saw like a four-foot, scary-looking,

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trolled demon, very wide grin.

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You could see its teeth and it went like all the way up to here, to here, and just black eyes.

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And it would peek from around the corner of the door.

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So I told my mom, I said, mom, I think this house might be haunted or something.

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And she's like, no, no, no, it's something that stayed with me ever since.

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The sun voice.

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Did you guys hear the sounds?

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What's that noise?

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I don't know.

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Oh my God.

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Something just touched me.

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What's that noise?

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What's going on?

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Oh no.

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John!

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Gotcha!

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I'm starting to see the point of this game.

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I could just see how this game would terrify people scaring themselves or scaring someone else.

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My first case was an impossible case to solve.

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How can you solve Betsy Yardsma's murder?

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Same time, Cindy Song.

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But now we have a case that we could possibly solve and help.

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That's what I've been thinking about so far this week is,

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you gotta kind of let the past go like Cindy Song and Betsy

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and just focus on the current case where someone currently needs help.

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You just gotta put faith in the fact that Cindy Song and Betsy Yardsma are in good places

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and they're fine.

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But Lauren's not, you know, she's afraid.

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Directors Log.

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Last night we played the ancient Japanese game of 100 Candles.

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Even though no paranormal activity occurred, it was enough to stir my team.

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So I'm sure it was enough to frighten Lauren and add to any anxiety she may already be experiencing.

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Nevertheless, I think we should investigate Lauren's room in the dormitory itself.

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I've asked for the help of a local investigative psychic named Cherie.

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She has worked with numerous missing persons cases in the state.

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Since having a client meet with a psychic can often influence their readings,

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I decided to have Alfie meet with Cherie instead of Lauren.

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Something has occurred with an individual that was in one of these rooms that there's a death.

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And the activity that's left behind here would be a female.

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I see a maroon car on the outskirts of the building

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as if one would be leaving this premises to go off in that vehicle.

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There's also a young man, Michael.

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I hear the name Michael.

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I hear that name and the name John.

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So we have two names.

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So what you're saying is whatever happened to this girl took place outside this room.

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I feel like there is no real closure to the things that I am picking up.

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Cherie has given us some leads but they're pretty loose.

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We'll need to investigate further to see if we can find any conclusive evidence.

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We're trying to look up records doing with missing persons who might have gone to the spa hall.

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Any major accidents?

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Like if a student had lived there, they had gotten in a car accident while they were living there.

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There was an accident in the dorm.

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We'd have no way of knowing unless I had a name to look up.

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The only names we were given were John and Michael.

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Well that's some place to go. Let me see if I can just look and see what we've got.

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We know there's a maroon car involved.

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Red and maroon?

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Yeah, maroon-ish.

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Do you know what kind of incident the red car might have been involved in?

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There was a girl from the dorm that got in a car accident.

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Involved in an accident?

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Yeah, like a car accident.

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Nope, I'm sorry, nothing like that's coming up.

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So you guys found nothing at the police station?

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Nope.

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So we officially have nothing to go on.

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Now what?

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How do you connect this case then to all the other cases happening on campus?

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Maybe she heard urban legend stories with like Schwab and Obotany and maybe...

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I don't know, that got to her.

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They're freshmen. This first time they're probably away from mom and dad and on their own.

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Then you're saying that they're not really scared of the spirits.

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They're just projecting their fear from other things onto a legend.

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Since the leads the psychic gave us have hit a dead end,

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I think it's time we redirect our focus.

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Penn State has a lot of urban legends and ghost stories.

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Something that attracted me to the school,

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and I make others a little nervous.

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It's entirely possible that Lauren is an anxious freshman,

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whose fears may have been amplified by campus lore and an intense spirit communications game.

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So I want to look more closely at the power of these stories.

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First of all, what is an urban legend?

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An urban legend is a story that people believe to be true,

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and usually is reported to have happened in a local area and in the recent past.

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So what about campus legends?

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Well, campuses are a great place as a mystery,

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and so you can understand why urban legends arise,

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because after all, you have a large part of the campus population,

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which is new to this environment.

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They're trying to figure out what may seem unknown to them.

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So with a freshman coming in, you're saying that they might be more susceptible to these stories.

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A lot of the story telling that goes on come from new students,

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to share among each other as a form of bonding in this new environment.

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Interesting.

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So now that we know why urban legends are so powerful,

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I've assigned Heather the task of going out with her camera

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to see which one of these stories is the most prevalent on campus.

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Old May Night here is haunted. Mrs. Atherton.

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Apparently if you go around Old May Night at night, you can hear footsteps.

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Around midnight every night, if you go to the side of Atherton's grave,

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and you look to the building, you can kind of see,

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supposedly his wife in the window looking towards his grave.

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This is a window that according to legend,

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people will walk outside and they'll see a face just like this,

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staring at them or outside, looking across at Schwab Auditorium at Mr. Atherton's grave,

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which is exactly across from where I'm standing.

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Since this is the site of Penn State's most popular ghost story,

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I think it's the perfect place to try and contact any spirits lingering on campus,

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including the one that may or may not be haunting Lauren.

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We'd like to communicate with whoever is here in this building.

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We mean you know harm whatsoever.

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We want to help you if we can in any way, just know that you cannot harm us.

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Are you Mrs. Atherton?

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Are you the spirit that haunts Lauren?

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Do you know that you're dead?

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Are you trapped in this building?

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Whoa, whoa, whoa.

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It got really hot all of a sudden.

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I feel like I got blasted with heat.

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There's definitely a correlation between heat and supernatural activity.

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Can you give us a sign?

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Can you make this lantern go out?

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Can you knock on something or move something?

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Oh, I don't know.

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It just turned off?

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Holy cow.

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Is anybody else freaking out?

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It's dead.

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That was completely charged when I brought it up here.

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They say that with spirits, because they don't have any physical means of manifesting,

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they suck energy and heat from the atmosphere.

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We're in a very nice hot spot for that.

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And we have electronic devices and now they're starting to fail.

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It's possible that something's sucking energy to prepare to communicate.

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We have electronic devices and now they're starting to fail.

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All right, we've got one source of light left.

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Oh.

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Whoa, whoa, whoa.

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What's that noise?

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Static.

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Static?

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Ah.

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You okay?

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What's it doing that?

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It was quite loud over here.

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That sounded really weird.

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It sounded like voices.

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Hello?

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The microphone just died.

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Okay, that's two battery operated devices down.

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It just died, literally.

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Directors log, we experienced some unique audio and electrical activity during dead time,

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but I can't say for sure whether this was due to the spirit of Mrs. Atherton

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or Campus Legend biasing our perception of the activity.

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At the risk of adding another unsolved mystery to my files,

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my opinion at this point is that there are simply too many factors here to draw a solid conclusion in Lauren's case.

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Her experiences could be the product of her own anxiety or influenced by Campus Legend,

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or they could be real.

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Right now, I think the most important thing we can do for Lauren is to make sure she knows that we're here for her

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and we don't think she's crazy.

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Have you ever thought about maybe requesting to move from that room?

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Yeah, people told me like there's always the option of moving out

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but it kind of seems like I'm running away from my problems if I do that.

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Yeah.

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So...

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Playing the games, that'll definitely help if you don't do that.

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I think you know that now.

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As an added measure, I'm introducing Lauren to Jamie, a counselor and former Penn State student.

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That way, no matter what the rest of the semester holds, she'll have somebody to turn to.

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So how are you feeling after this weekend, after the group was there?

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I think I'm gonna try and not be so anxious and stuff.

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Okay, because like if I keep going through that, like it's not healthy, I guess.

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I think it's important for you to just feel really empowered about being in your room

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and about feeling safe there and not feeling scared.

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I'm basically gonna try and just, I guess, overcome whatever's going on and put it behind me.

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Again, we're always here.

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Okay.

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And then I want to give you this.

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It's a Benedictine medal.

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It's been blessed and it's helped us out a lot.

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So I wanted you to have it.

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Okay, thank you.

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And take care, Lauren.

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Thanks.

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This is the closing director's log for the East Halls case.

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Though it's impossible to isolate one cause for what Lauren is experiencing,

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freshman fear would have to factor into any realistic conclusion.

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Campus legends that serve as cautionary tales to new students can create an environment of anxiety and fear.

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Lauren is just very impressionable, very scared.

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And I think this is what happens when scary stories go wrong.

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You can convince yourself that you're being haunted or that you are scared by telling scary stories.

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I think she learned a lot, which was if you're experiencing something scary,

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the logical thing to do is not to go, okay, let me scare myself more.

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This is a weird kind of case.

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It wasn't one client.

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We were investigating a bunch of urban legends.

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To Penn State and its legends?

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To the unknown.