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"Let's start over from the beginning." A demanding voice says. A young woman, bloodied and bruised, sits at a metal table across from a police detective, who places a recorder device and hits the record button on it. "This is Detective Davis Horace and I am here with a young woman that had a run-in with a serial killer. The cuts and bruises and her ripped clothing speak for themselves." He says into the recorder. "Let's start with your name." He says, clicking his pin, but the woman just sits there in obvious shock of what she went through prior before. She looks at her hands covered in dried blood. Her brunette hair a mess, her pink short sleeve square neck top partly torn while her denim jeans appear to have suffered the same fate. The gruesome gash on her right cheek that has been stitched up and bandaged, a nasty bruise on the upper right side of her head that reveals the brutality she endured. "My- my name is Jennifer. Jennifer Baker." She finally speaks, taking a long drink of water. "Take your time. Tell me everything you remember." Detective Horus says as Jennifer looks at him. "He tried to kill me. He murdered my friends. What the fuck do you think happened?!" She says, raising her voice a bit louder. "I just need the details. We can't find this guy if you don't fill us in on what took place." He tells her, trying to calm her down.

(2 days prior)

Jennifer was a part of a ghost hunting team that traveled the entire country, visiting some of the most haunted locations and sometimes will travel to parts of the world to do the same. Her team consisted of herself, team leader Gregory, Sandra, Lucas, Mark, Allison, Peyton and Lawrence. The team arrives at the infamous Waverly Hills Sanatorium, a hotspot for paranormal activity. The team quickly sets up multiple cameras around the enormous building and then waits for nightfall to begin their investigation. They all split into four teams of two in an effort to cover enough ground. Jennifer and Lucas go to the third floor and set up a device that can detect movement in the dark. They ask questions and try to make contact with any spirits that could be in the area, but so far they get nothing. On the second floor and on the far side is Sandra and Allison, investigating one of the hospital rooms that was used for shock treatment. Rumors were spread that one of the doctors liked to use patients for sinister experiments and ended up killing them when it failed. He was investigated himself, but never arrested due to lack of evidence. He was, however, discovered two days later in his home, disemboweled and dismembered. The killer was never caught. Locals say that the killer is still alive and lives inside the hospital, while many shoot this down as the killer would either be very old or dead since the murder happened back in 1955. The women use EVP devices in hopes of catching a disembodied voice on it as they try to make contact. Gregory and Mark search the other side of the second floor while Peyton and Lawrence scan half of the first floor. The hospital is enormous on all ends and is going to take more than one night to investigate, but Gregory already knew this and has the team staying for three nights. As they investigate their area of the third floor, Lucas gets the feeling they are being watched but tries to brush it off.

The night begins to get late and hardly any activity happens, so they begin to break everything down and wrap up all the equipment. Jennifer goes to empty her bladder while Lucas proceeds to pack up the camera and other gadgets. She squats down in the corner of one of the rooms and relieves herself while listening to the empty silence around her. Since they've been there, she has noticed that there are no outside noises. No crickets chirping, no frogs, nothing. She finishes up and goes to help Lucas, but finds him nowhere. The cameras are still set up. "Hey Greg?" She calls as Greg responds. "Is Lucas with you?" She asks. "No? I thought he was with you?" He asks in response. "Probably went to go pee." She says and gathers up all the equipment as Peyton and Lawrence aid her. They load all the equipment into the vehicles, but Lucas is nowhere to be found. They try to call him, but he doesn't answer and yet they are not aware of him crawling along the floor on the third floor, blood pouring from his mouth and open throat. He struggles to call to them and gasps for breaths, but the slit open throat keeps him from doing so. The group decide to leave and go back to the hotel as Lucas dies on the floor.

(Present day)

Police officers, detectives and FBI agents scan the building while Detective Adam Parsons lifts the sheet up covering Lucas' body, his face already pale, lips purple and eyes white as he looks at his throat and the dried blood covering his purple, dead lips. Parsons covers his face and stands up to call Davis. "Ask Ms. Baker if they ever saw their friend again after the first night. Thanks." Adam ends the call as Davis places his phone down on the table. "Ms. Baker, did you ever see Lucas anymore that first night?" He asks her as tears begin to fall and she starts to cry after hearing him ask her that. She nods "no" to him as he writes in his notepad. "Go ahead." He tells her.

(The next night at the Sanatorium)

The team arrives, moving ahead with the investigation despite not seeing or hearing from Lucas all day. Jennifer goes with Peyton and Lawrence while the other teams remain the same. The three go to the fourth floor since they didn't investigate it the previous night. Gregory and Mark scan the first floor when a sudden scraping noise startles them. "What the hell was that?" Mark asks and the two go to investigate, when a dark figure steps out of the shadows, watching them menacingly. The wall into what looked to be an old operating room and tested some of the old furniture, but can't debunk the sound they heard. The dark figure glides across the doorway, undetected by the two men. The noise is heard again, this time on the other side of the floor. They leave the room and try to figure out what it could be when suddenly a blood curdling scream echoes throughout the hospital! It's Allison! The men run as fast as they can to the second floor to find the two girls backed into a corner, terrified of something. "What? What happened?" Gregory asks, as Allison, hysterical, points to the floor. Gregory and Mark shine their flashlights to the pool of blood on the floor. "The fuck?" Mark says. They get closer and see that it is fresh blood. "It's fresh." Mark says. "Think it was an animal or something?" Gregory asks. "Sure as shit seems possible. Lots of wildlife in this area, man." Mark replies, as they shine their flashlights everywhere when Peyton, Lawrence and Jennifer join them. Sandra and Peyton take Allison outside while the others stay inside the sanatorium. Jennifer and Lawrence go back to the fourth floor while Gregory and Mark stay on the second. Activity begins to pick up such as unexplained noises, footsteps, EVPs pick up disembodied voices etc. Sandra leaves Allison with Peyton as she goes to pee near the trees. Peyton and Allison watch the camera feeds and as Sandra finishes, she begins walking back when the same dark figure clamps a hand over her mouth and pulls her away. The figure stabs Sandra in the back as she falls to the ground and stabs her to death, unbeknownst to Peyton and Allison. Gregory and Mark decide to sit in one of the rooms and try to communicate when Mark spots something moving from one room to the other. "Hey, you see that?" He asks Gregory, but he never saw it. "Looked like a shadow moving across the hall." He says, shining his light, but sees nothing. It went into the third room on the right." The two go into that same room and again find nothing in there. "Well, they say you will see things here. Especially on this floor." Gregory says and leaves the room as Mark looks around for anything.

Meanwhile, Jennifer and Lawrence are not getting anything on the fourth floor so they move down to the third, the floor where Lucas disappeared. "Hey guys, is Sandra with any of you?" Peyton radios in. "No. Not with us." Gregory replies. "Not with us either." Lawrence confirms. "So, first Lucas wonders off and now Sandra?" Peyton questions. "You don't think there's someone else in the building, do you?" Lawrence asks. Before anyone can answer, a scream echoes and everyone runs to the second floor! "It was Mark! First, he was here and then he wasn't!" Gregory explains. "Help!" Mark screams only now sounding like it's from downstairs. "Downstairs. Downstairs!" Allison screams and runs down the steps as everyone follows, but when they get there, they don't see anyone. "Mark!" Gregory yells as his yell echoes. "Sandra!" Allison calls out. "Mark!" Lawrence calls, but again no reply. "Help me!" They all hear Mark calling for them coming from the second floor again. "Peyton, Lawrence, stay with Allison. Jennifer, come with me." Gregory orders as they both run to the second floor to search for Mark. "Mark!" Gregory says as they walk down the long hallway, looking for their friend. "Please. Help me." Mark's voice was turning into cries of agony. Jennifer began to cry in fear of her friend's life. "Mark." Gregory called out, his voice breaking from the same fear. The entered the room where they heard his cry, but Mark was nowhere. "Mark!" Gregory yells, louder this time. Gregory looks to Jennifer and can see the absolute terrified look on her on face. "Jennifer? What is it?" He asks, but she is too terrified to reply and when he turns around, he is greeted by a pale white face! The person then stabs Gregory in his stomach, twists the knife and rips it out to stab him again, right in front of Jennifer as she runs from the room. The killer rips the knife out as Gregory stumbles out of the room as Jennifer screams for him, but all he can do is give her an expression of horror as the killer slices his throat wide open, causing blood to spray everywhere like a sprinkler. His body falls to the ground and the killer, revealed to be wearing a pale white death mask, begins to walk towards her as she runs away from him and as she reaches the stairs, trips and takes a nasty fall. The killer stands at the top, looking down at her, tilting his head like a curious animal. Jennifer stands to her feet and hurries down to the main floor but finds Peyton, Lawrence and Allison gone. The killer comes down the steps and stands there, looking at her, holding the blood soaked knife. Jennifer runs down the long hallway as the killer pursues her when she ducks into one of the rooms and tries her best to hide as the killer enters. The killer walks around the room, looking for her as she carefully picks up a brick off the ground. As the killer approaches her, she jumps up and bashes him in the face with the brick then takes off running! She runs out of the building to the vehicles, but discovers that all the tires have been slashed. The killer appears in one of the windowless windows, but doesn't seem to see her as she takes the crowbar from the trunk for defense. She goes over to the second vehicle to hide, but upon opening the passenger side door, Peyton's corpse slumps out, his throat sliced open. She opens the backseat door behind him to have Lawrence's corpse fall out, he too having his throat sliced open and eyes gouged out. Allison, though, remains missing. Jennifer, not wanting to leave her, cautiously goes back into the old hospital to find her. Terrified, she grips the crowbar in her hands tightly while the killer is nowhere in sight. "Allison?" She calls out in a trembling voice. Hot tears roll down her face as she breathes heavily, looking in every direction for both her friend and the killer. "Jennifer?" She hears Allison and runs to where she hears her. As she walks into one of the rooms again, the masked killer stabs her in the arm! Jennifer lets out a painful cry as she falls to the ground, pressing her hand against the wound as the killer approaches her. She picks the crowbar off the ground and hits him in the leg with it, then again until he falls to his knees and she smacks him in the face with it! "Help!" Allison screams, now more clear as Jennifer runs from the room to find Allison strapped to a chair and hurries to free her, but the killer suddenly grabs her by the throat and throws her down. The killer starts to go after Jennifer as Allison is able to free herself and jumps on the killer's back to distract him. Jennifer picks the crowbar off the ground and hits the killer in the rib section as he drops the knife, allowing her to pick it up just as the killer throws Allison off. Jennifer goes to stab him, but the killer stops her and punches her in the face. As Allison stands up, the killer stabs her in the gut, rips it out and stabs her a second time then a third and fourth. Blood pours from her mouth as she collapses and falls dead. Jennifer gets up and runs away as the killer pursues her down the hallway. Running to the second floor, she hides as the killer comes into view and she begins to walk behind him, trying to remain unseen as they walk by each window when she steps onto some glass making him turn around and she hits him in the face with so much force, he stumbles against one of the windows and she hits him once more, making him fall out of it. Cautiously approaching, she begins to peer down when the killer leaps up and grabs her! They struggle as Jennifer holds onto the edge of the window then uses the crowbar to impale him in the shoulder and the killer falls to the ground below, appearing to be dead. Exhausted, Jennifer falls against the wall and loses consciousness from blood loss. "And then I woke up to see all of you. I thought I was dead." Jennifer says. "Had the owner of the place showed up an hour too late, you would have been." Davis tells her as she wipes the tears from her eyes. "Did you catch him?" She asks. "Who? The killer?" Davis asks as she nods to him. "Well, when we got there, we didn't find a body where you said he fell. "No, no, that's impossible! I impaled him with the crowbar and watched him hit the ground! There's no way he survived that!" She says hysterically as a knock on the door interrupts them. "One moment." Davis says as he gets up and exits the room. Jennifer stands up and walks to the two way mirror, looking at herself and the cuts and gashes in her face all the while not aware that the masked killer is standing on the other side, looking at her as Davis lays on the ground after having his throat sliced open. The killer looks at the door knob and places his hand on it.