Glen's fight with the Dark Side...

APPI had a very interesting tour on Saturday night, at the Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre.  It’s strange, one month we’ll get nothing – maybe someone will feel like somebody whispered something in their ear, or maybe the equipment will be particularly active – and then the next month, things get REAL.

Our tour started as normal.  Nic and I went down to the foyer, after assisting with the set up in the theatre, to greet our guests.  Unbeknownst to us, Adam and Glen had decided to provoke a little in the theatre.  Adam had “met” our resident theatre ghost before (and nicknamed him Crispy), and he mentioned to me earlier on that he felt like ‘Crispy’ was around that night.

Our tour commenced, and we had just begun the outside part of the tour, when Sascha discretely approached us, asking if Nic could please go and talk to Glen.  I had no idea what was going on, but continued the tour as Nic went over to Glen.

Nic eventually caught up, and as we were walking, explained to me that Glen was feeling ‘effected’.  He seemed to be harbouring a deep anger for Nic.  She told me that when she touched him, in an effort to ‘ground’ him, he was so tense he was vibrating.

We thought it was over.  We were wrong.

Our tour continued, and eventually, as we do with all tours, we ended up in the theatre.  We put on the videos that our guests watch, and Nic and I sat down and discussed the events with each other, in whispered voices of course.  Every now and then I would glance over at Glen, and he seemed to be frozen in place.  One time he was looking back at me.  As I watched, he smirked at me, in quite an unpleasant way.

I discussed this with Nic, who discretely made her way to Darrin (who we like to call Mr Big Guns because of his muscles).  She asked Darrin to go down and stand with Glen – there was just something about him we didn’t like.

The videos finished, and Nic and I continued the final leg of our tour.  As we were talking, there was an extremely loud ‘BANG’ which seemed to come from the gangplanks above us.  Immediately Glen and Darrin went out the back of the theatre to investigate.  Darrin later told us that once we were out of the theatre, Glen was fine.  Talking about the noise, looking for its source etc.  They returned to the theatre, and the second they did, Glen’s strange behaviour resumed.

The tour concluded, and it was time for the guests to begin their treasure hunt.  I walked over to Glen, and saw he had a very strange expression on his face.  I leaned towards him, and it appeared his eyes were going to pop out of his head.  I immediately felt like I was in danger, and backed away.

After a quick consultation, we decided that Adam and Darrin should try and get Glen out of the theatre, as quickly and quietly as possible.  Ha.

They both took one of his arms each, and suddenly Glen started struggling against them.  Glen isn’t a small man, but he’s nothing compared to the combined strength of Darrin and Adam, and yet they struggled immensely, getting him out of there.  Glen growled and hissed the entire way out, and once out on the first floor corridor, he collapsed to the ground and begin dry retching.

I found them outside of the building, and gave Glen a piece of cake and orange juice, in an attempt to ground him and bring him back.  One of our guests also came out and said some prayers over him.  I’m not sure if it was the food and drink, the prayers, or just being out of the vicinity, but Glen eventually did return, and although a bit shaken, was no worse for wear.

In Glen’s words, written the day after the tour:

“After 10hrs of sleep and cleansing I still feel exhausted, but I have been writing every thing i can remember. I feel he was on the property when CPAC (Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre) was built and made himself known to workers. Fire was the cause of death or the injuries from it cause - right now my lungs are still burning. It was brought up a while ago that it could be a possible elemental but it's not the case he was just a nasty in life and has continued to be.

The woman aspect is interesting the ones on tours he doesn't care for, its the ones he knows he wants to destroy, to me I honestly felt Nic had betrayed me in some way and had to pay.

I don't remember the bangs in the theatre, but the rage leading up to it… I wanted to throw something at a wall or knock over a cupboard or stack of chairs in frustration.”

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