I held the camera, panning back and forth as the boys spoke to each other, explained what they were doing and began to attempt contact with spirits, specifically a girl named Jean.

"If anything goes bad," Sam wrapped up the explanation, "we will cut contact and stop the seance, we already had a few spooky things happen off camera and we don't want anything getting attached to us."

He did not talk about the demon, it was left completely out of the seance situation. No one would really believe it if he did talk about it. Maybe we would get some of it on film later and could get it analyzed. Maybe someone later could confirm for us that what we were seeing was a demon.

"Sam, why is your sweatshirt wet? Is the ceiling leaking or something?" Colby asked.

I looked at the spots on his sweatshirt.

"No that's just from the holy water I dumped on you guys." I said, "Its on all of us."

"Oh..., yeah guys, Lia did a little blessing ritual thing with holy water and oil to try and give us some protection from the spirits so that nothing attaches to us." Sam explained, "The holy water thing made us feel a bit more secure, especially since this is Queen Mary's Castle and the last time we had a crazy life changing experience was on the Queen Mary ship. Either way, we just want to avoid anything attaching to us, so we are taking precautions and are going to stop the seance if anything weird happens."

I wondered if I should tell them that the Queen Mary who lived in this castle isn't that same Queen Mary as the ship. Mary Stewart, Queen of Scots, lived in this castle until her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I of England, had her beheaded. Mary Tudor is the daughter of Henry VIII and she is Queen Mary of England, also known as Bloody Mary, because she tore her country apart persecuting the protestants that her half-sister and successor later protected. They all lived in the same time period and were all related to each other, they were cousins. There is a third Mary too, Mary of Teck, the wife of King George V, and that is who the ship is named after.

"Alright," Sam said, "I think we all just need to hold hands and say together that we welcome all communication with spirits here."

The boys agreed and I filmed them all as they took each other's hands and repeated the words in unison.

When the boys asked if something wanted to communicate there was a spike in the K-II.

"Jean Douglas, are you here with us in the castle?" the boys kept asking questions calling for Jean, getting small spikes here and there.

A knock on the wall behind Sam and Colby made me jump a bit. I looked up at it, angling the camera waiting for the lens to adjust, but there was nothing there. I had thought I saw something before my eyes and the lens could adjust but I guess I was wrong.

The next step by the boys to attempt contact with Jean sent shivers running down my spine. They were going to read a poem Sir Walter Scott wrote for her about the story of her and her lover.

The K-II spiked as they asked if she would like them to read the poem.

"O lovers' eyes are sharp to see,

And lovers' ears in hearing;

And love, in life's extremity,

Can lend an hour of cheering.

Disease had been in Mary's bower

And slow decay from mourning,

Though now she sits on Neidpath's tower

To watch her Love's returning. "

Nothing. No spike, just quiet. Sam continued after a quick pause.

"All sunk and dim her eyes so bright,

Her form decay'd by pining,

Till through her wasted hand, at night,

You saw the taper shining.

By fits a sultry hectic hue

Across her cheek was flying;

By fits so ashy pale she grew

Her maidens thought her dying."

Still there was nothing, just dead silence and Corey staring off into the dark at the doorway. I kept the camera trained on him for now.

"Yet keenest powers to see and hear

Seem'd in her frame residing;

Before the watch-dog prick'd his ear

She heard her lover's riding;

Ere scarce a distant form was kenn'd

She knew and waved to greet him,

And o'er the battlement did bend

As on the wing to meet him. "

I wanted so badly to turn around, to catch whatever Corey was staring at, but the thought itself was sending shakes and shivers all through out me.

"He came—he pass'd—an heedless gaze

As o'er some stranger glancing:

Her welcome, spoke in faltering phrase,

Lost in his courser's prancing—

The castle-arch, whose hollow tone

Returns each whisper spoken,

Could scarcely catch the feeble moan

Which told her heart was broken.

The End." Sam said.

Corey looked like he was tearing up in the candle light and even started wiping his eyes. I felt my breath hitch in my throat as he explained about seeing something in the corner of his eye.

When the K-II spiked, my eyes stung and I reached up with one hand to wipe them before the boys noticed I was crying.

As the boys discussed that the place Corey saw movement would be where Jean sat to wait for her lover, I did my best to keep the camera steady and to stop the tears falling down my cheeks. The glint of them on my cheeks in candle light would give me away. Soon I found I could not do both of these things at once, so I held the camera up in front of my face and the view finder became my new eyes. I left everything in my peripherals fall away into darkness.

A sound off in the room Jean would have died in made me jump a bit as I angled the camera in that direction before point back towards the boys who were discussing the sound and situation with everything that was happening.

The boys were talking about how she was the weeping woman and they asked her if they minded them speaking about her story. They asked if she wanted them to stop, if they were making her sad.

Corey asked for knocks, a scream, a sign, just something to tell them she was there.

They closed their eyes, Jake asking her to let them hear her voice.

Sam was looking off into the dark and I followed his eyes with the camera. He was the only one who had not closed his eyes.

I shook as the camera adjusted to nothing being there. I took my eyes off the camera screen and looked for myself. I could not see anything yet, it took much longer for my eyes to adjust, but as some of the darkness began to dissipate, the figure of a woman emerged.

Jake had stopped speaking at this point so when I let out a shaky breath and sniffled, blinking rapidly as my sight began to adjust even more and the woman began to fade.

"Lia?" Colby touched my shoulder, pulling me back a bit to reality.

I turned back to the group and looked at Sam, "You saw her too."

"Was Jean there?" he asked, "I didn't see anything."

"She was there..." I confirmed. The K-II started to flash all the way to red and back down.

After a few failed questions with the K-II and random spikes when there was nothing to answer, Corey picked up the dowsing rods.

I felt my right hand begin to go numb as I shifted most of the camera weight into my left hand. The tingling felt like millions of pricks of pins and needles across my forearm, from my elbow to the tips of my fingers. It was excruciating, but I held the camera back in front of my face, hiding the few tears that fell down my cheeks and filmed Corey as he began to ask questions with the dowsing rods.

My right wrist felt stiff, like I couldn't bend it and I wondered what the heck was happening, but I let it go, moving on to my job once again. It was easier to focus on filming than the actual situation I was in. It felt like watching a scary movie instead of sitting in on a seance when I watched through the camera's screen.

"If you live in this castle make these rods cross right now." Corey told the spirits, but nothing happened.

The boys told the spirit to take battery from the camera, any of their devices that it wanted just to see it communicate, whatever it was. Corey held the rods up again and the crossed. The water in the bowl on the table had splashed out, but none of us had touched the table except Corey when he reached for the dowsing rods. The water wouldn't still be splashing out from that. Something was moving the water.

Corey got scared as the rods were crossed again and stood up stepping outside the circle. The K-II started to go off like crazy and all of a sudden it stopped.

The boys were asking if the spirit was Jean and that was the moment the K-II stopped.

I felt a burning sensation on my wrist and felt more tears begin to fall from my eyes as my breathing became extremely labored. I was nearly suffocating as I set the camera down on the table roughly and grabbed onto Colby's right shoulder with my left hand.

"Lia? Are you okay?" he looked at me.

I let go of him and put my left hand up to my neck, clawing at it as I tried to breath.

The burning in my wrist made me whine unintelligibly as I moved from scratching at my closing throat to scratching at the burning red ring forming on my right arm.

"Holy shit." Sam jumped up, nearly knocking the candles over, "What is happening right now?"

"What the fuck?!" Corey's sight was narrowing in on the mark on my arm and I cried silently pointing with my left hand to the salt line.

"Line" I finally managed to croak.

"Line? What line-" Jake seemed confused.

"The salt line?"Sam interrupted, "Did someone break it?

I motioned over toward Corey. He, Sam and Jake inspected the line and found it broken from when Corey left the circle. I was seeing spots in my vision by the time it was finally fixed.

Colby held my shoulders and was shaking me relentlessly. The suffocation had stopped and I was gasping for air but my arm was still burning.

"Water..." I reached for the holy water. Jake grabbed it from the other side of the table and gave it to me.

I twisted off the cap, wetting a tissue with it and holding that against the burn on my arm. It hurt even more, but eventually the sting went away and by that time I was breathing normally.

"Lia, do you want to call this off for now?" Sam asked.

I shook my head, "No, let's just get it over with."

"Are you sure?" Corey said, "Nothing else bad will happen so long as we don't break the line?"

I nodded.

"I'll hold the camera for a bit, you just try to calm down." Colby took the camera and I let him.

I stopped listening, holding my head down between my knees as I tried to get a hold of myself.

I only started to pay attention again when the boys picked up the dowsing rods and asked more questions.

After a while, it became very clear what was happening, even just based off the history I knew, that this was a trickster or a serious demon.

The boys started to freak out when they started to question their past with this spirit. Eventually, I couldn't take it anymore.

"Stop!" I yelled and they all looked up at me as I jumped to my feet, "You, demonic bitch, I know you're lying! These idiots might not know history as well as I do, but that doesn't mean I'll let you trick them!" I felt shadows moving in my peripheral vision again.

"Lia?" Jake was pulling on my sweatshirt sleeve to try and get me to sit down, "Are you sure you're okay?"

"This thing is lying to you!" I told them, "You have your history all messed up. There are two Queen Marys. They were alive at the same time. Queen Mary Tudor ruled England after her younger half-brother, the only male heir of their father King Henry VIII died. She was Bloody Mary because of the amount of people she had killed in a purge of Protestants in England when she was trying to return the country to its status as Catholic. Her younger half-sister, Elizabeth ruled next. Elizabeth had the other Mary, their cousin, the Queen of Scots, killed. This was the castle where Elizabeth held her for over 20 years before her execution."

"Holy shit..." Sam's eyes went wide.

"Whatever you are talking to is trying to trick you. It can't be the Mary that lived in this castle, Bloody Mary, and the Mary the ship is named after because those three titles are held by three different people. Mary that lived in this Castle was Queen Mary of Scotland, Bloody Mary is Queen Mary Tudor, and Queen Mary as in the ship is Mary of Teck, the wife of England's King George V."

"This is like on the Queen Mary ship when Aaron flipped out and said we needed to stop asking questions to whatever we were talking to." Corey said.

"What?" I asked, if he was saying what I thought he was saying, I would have out right told them to stop the moment Queen Mary was brought up.

"On the Queen Mary ship, we talked to something and it started telling us answers to afterlife questions, denying the existence of God and heaven. Aaron said that is a sign we were talking to a demon." Sam explained.

"Aaron was right. Demons are, as I've said, tricksters. They love to stir up trouble when God and heaven and human existence is brought into the mix. You should never ask the answer to an existential type question that you are not sure you already know the answer to." I said.

"What should we do now?" Jake asked, "Keep going?"

"If you're the same thing that was fucking with us at the Queen Mary make this spike to red?" Corey demanded.

It spiked, just how he asked.

We packed up the cameras, turned on the lights, blew out the candles, and left for the night.

Outside, we smudged ourselves. I anointed each of them with oil, administered holy water, and we headed inside the guest house.