Post by zharradanmarr on Aug 3, 2017 17:02:00 GMT
The story begins with our brave investigators descending on the town of Grand Rapids, Michigan. After reading an article in in the latest issue of Occult Times about the haunted houses of Ohio and Michigan, and noticing the one of the house owners, a certain Maurice Van Laaden, was offering a reward if anyone could exorcise his home.
Our six investigators, an artiste of negligible renown, a police detective with a sharp legal mind, one of the greatest daredevil pilots of the age, two quarrelsome professors and an engineer keen on documenting the whole affair on film, their motives and interests in the supernatural varying greatly, set out to do just that.
They arrive in Grand Rapids in late October 1924. They quickly set to task, with visits to the local Library, Police station, Hall of Records before meeting with Mr. Van Laaden himself. A paunchy, unimpressive man, he could add little knowledge to what the players had already found. The house was built in 1821 by Erich Van Laaden, a recently retired merchant seaman who sailed from New England to darn near every port in the world. His northeastern roots influenced the architecture, so the house stood out among the more usual mid-western style.
Maurice drove them up to the house in the wooded hillside, but left quickly, hanging around only to introduce the party to the housekeepers, Karl and Hildegaard, an elderly married German couple who have for Mr. Van Laaden since 1911. A brief inspection of the estate, complete with family plot, revealed that while the grounds and the graves had been well tended to, the same care and attention had not been paid the buildings.
To be continued...
Our six investigators, an artiste of negligible renown, a police detective with a sharp legal mind, one of the greatest daredevil pilots of the age, two quarrelsome professors and an engineer keen on documenting the whole affair on film, their motives and interests in the supernatural varying greatly, set out to do just that.
They arrive in Grand Rapids in late October 1924. They quickly set to task, with visits to the local Library, Police station, Hall of Records before meeting with Mr. Van Laaden himself. A paunchy, unimpressive man, he could add little knowledge to what the players had already found. The house was built in 1821 by Erich Van Laaden, a recently retired merchant seaman who sailed from New England to darn near every port in the world. His northeastern roots influenced the architecture, so the house stood out among the more usual mid-western style.
Maurice drove them up to the house in the wooded hillside, but left quickly, hanging around only to introduce the party to the housekeepers, Karl and Hildegaard, an elderly married German couple who have for Mr. Van Laaden since 1911. A brief inspection of the estate, complete with family plot, revealed that while the grounds and the graves had been well tended to, the same care and attention had not been paid the buildings.
To be continued...
