Come back inside with me and have a look in the mirror!”

I followed Elizabeth back inside and as I looked into the mirror I could hear screams of horror echo through the house, but the echoes sounded far away. I yelled, “This is preposterous, and cannot be happening. I want everything changed back to normal this instant.”

I was hysterical, rambling on and on like a lunatic, a nut case, like a 5150 patient committed into a mental institute. When I felt a sharp stinging sensation on my face, which finally snapped me out of the craze I was in. Calming me down enough to realize that I was being cradled in an old woman’s arms, now listening to her comforting voice as she said, “It is alright Mason, after 3 o’clock a.m. things will go back to normal again.”

I looked, turned away, and looked again, focusing deeply into the mirror, now seeing a very old man that I did not recognize as myself. I truly thought that I would never regain the physical attributes that I had before entering the Blackwood Manor, and become my normal self again. It surly was an unbelievable sight that one would never believe unless it had happened to them.

Elizabeth leaned in closer to me, slowly turning her head to face me, with what seemed to be an apologetic facial expression, fixedly staring into my eyes, which looked as if she had been wondering if she should have never contacted me for my services. Quite frankly, I was too, wondering if this case was going to be more than I could handle on my own. However, I knew that I had Ambriel, my guardian angel on my side if things got too bad. Well at least I hope I did. I remember Ambriel had once told me that I would have to fulfill my destiny one day, but he never told me when that day would come. I felt a feeling come over me that I had never felt before in my life! I felt as if I had truly gone insane, figuratively speaking, and would never be my normal self again. My facial expressions must have indicated that I was going to freak out again because Elizabeth suddenly squeezed me tightly, cradling me, and then whispered soothingly into my ear.

“It will be alright Mason, go ahead and let it all out, get rid of all your pent up emotions. It will surely make you feel better, and then maybe the two of us can begin to take a closer look at what is happening here within the Blackwood Manor with some perspective.”

My body seemed as if was frozen in time when I said, “Elizabeth, how in the world could this be happening? I have never encountered anything like this in my line of work.”

The immense thunderstorms rolling through that had started just the day before continued, and placed the both of us in an even more depressed mental state. The house shook and rattled as the thunder fiercely roared out of control. It would have been the perfect haunted house, with the storm and all the supernatural activity. However, this was real and something that I have never encountered. I also knew that Elizabeth needed my help more than ever with whatever was happening here at the Blackwood Manor. I did not know what was going on at the moment, but I sure was going to find out. I knew that whatever was doing this was very powerful and no ordinary supernatural force. This was not a ghost that was caught between two spiritual realms and decided to haunt the Blackwood Manor, oh no! This was something more sinister.

The only thought that was going through my head was what a horrible experience this must be for Elizabeth. However, the only explanation that I could come up with at the time being was that the Blackwood Manor was under some sort of demonic possession, but deep down I had the gut feeling that it was much worse than that. Could it be a poltergeist? Yes that must be what it is. No! This entity is much too powerful for even a poltergeist. The only entity that is powerful enough to change the form of an entire mansion along with all its occupants could only be one of the fallen angels. That narrows it down to two-hundred fallen angels that it could be. It did not matter which one it was because they all have immense powers.