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Ghost Hampton By Ken McGorry The public clamor over a purported haunted house in the middle of Bridgehampton has not died down, as much as Lyle Hall wishes it would—he’s the unlikely discoverer of whatever’s been going on inside the decrepit Victorian everyone calls Old Vic. Since Lyle’s near-death experience killing kindly Elsie Cronk with his Hummer in a grisly car crash, he hasn’t been the same. He’s seen the error of his ways, his misspent adulthood, his career as the town’s greediest la ...
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The barn burning furiously now, the possum reappears and attacks Lyle again. As he fends it off, it catches fire. But Lyle cannot figure out how to save his friend Matteo—or whatever he’s become. The roof collapses around him. Passing out in the smoke, he hears banshees cry in the night and sees a new monster approach. It’s a first responder. Outsi…
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Lyle is shocked by Matteo’s appearance. The barn has caught fire thanks to Lyle’s Molotov cocktail, and they debate which of them must leave. Matteo agrees to attempt to bring down the sordid old barn with a farm mallet he finds, then uses it to slam the rabid possum attacking Lyle. Suddenly Matteo collapses, only to rise again transformed into a d…
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Lyle gets “Fred,” his old van driver, to pick him up. Fred stops for gas, and winds up filling Lyle’s empty scotch bottle instead. Suspicious now, Fred delivers him to Old Vic. His legs aching, Lyle uses a wheelchair to roll into the old barn next door with his full bottle and his gun. Suddenly Matteo appears. At the Limo Service, Berto is dancing …
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After a huge blowup on camera, Lyle deserts the TV set and passes out in his room. Awakening later, he realizes Iko could actually be right about him. Distraught, he calls Silk to attempt an apology, waking her. Fumbling to speak to her, Lyle hears her snotty director is in bed with her, and freaks, hanging up. Frank calls Georgie and learns Berto …
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Her televised memorial to Flo complete, Silk shocks Lyle by introducing her replacement, live on air. “Iko” is a Haitian mambo with deep supernatural understanding. Based on that, Iko has it in for Lyle. She suggests a demonic force is after Lyle because he’s a kindred spirit, and a weak one at that. Lyle has been drinking scotch and now feels has …
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Big Frank is on duty at Old Vic tonight, but first visited the precinct house. He tells Georgie over the phone that Internal affairs is there, and all over Sgt. Swanson’s locker. He got to go through some very old files and discovered something quite curious. He adds that, passing by the Montauk motel/bar, there’s a big network TV presence, and her…
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Chantale visits Berto at his shabby limo service office and he stashes away his cocaine and his AR-15 military rifle. Once again, she is dressed for an evening out. Chantale taunts Berto about his additional duty—to father children with her. Leaving, she taunts him: if he is a good boy, he can be sure his children are his. Georgie discusses Berto o…
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Silk, outraged, barges into Lyle’s Montauk motel room to excoriate him for trying to back out of his exclusive media contract. Lyle pushes back, stressing how his daughter, Georgie, is being harassed by cops at the station house over her father’s involvement in “Ghost Hampton.” But Lyle reports to the motel bar; the crew is there, preparing for thi…
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Seated at the diner, Matteo tells Lyle how his two young friends suffered during his experience of demonic possession. One boy died horribly. Disowned by his father, Matteo attended the local Maltese seminary school, eventually becoming a priest. On the ride to Montauk with Noah, Lyle shares a theory: Old Vic’s ownership has been kept secret by Pol…
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In the morning, Fr. Matteo comes to pick up Lyle from his house. He’s packed a bag. They drive to a diner and commence their first deep discussion of issues—while Lyle drinks scotch. The men recount their experience inside Old Vic. Did Matteo truly set free a coven of ghostly prostitutes? Did Lyle really succumb to a possessive demon? Matteo descri…
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Detective Georgie Hall meets Berto outside his limo service. Berto, secretly upset that he’s not surveilled by a male cop, puts on a show of chivalry, cutting a weird voodoo doll free from its perch on Georgie’s windshield wiper. In her hand it pricks her finger. They exchange business cards and Berto is gratified that Georgie’s bears a spot of her…
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Seductive Chantale Benoit has a tete e tete with Berto Pena, the new, but weak head of the drugs and prostitution ring based in Hampton Bays. Chantale exploits Berto’s weakness for her and elicits a pledge: he will make her a lot of money, buy her a big house and more. Flo delivers Lyle to his front porch and they’re shocked to find a dead old man …
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Gertie the old barmaid detests Lyle and resists serving him a second drink at closing despite the “Twenty” he offers her. Flo starts pressuring Lyle to give up his pathetic longing for Silk when suddenly the bar owner appears and throws them both out. Walking to Lyle’s house, Flo notes the cemetery across from his home, which is totally toilet-pape…
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Silk and her TV crew drag Lyle along to revisit Old Vic—but it’s locked tight by police. So they choose to shoot in the adjacent barn where they are confronted with horrid creatures; especially the coven of bats that disrupt the shoot and send them running. Outside Lyle, temporarily heroic, frees one bat from Flo’s hair and she agrees to buy him a …
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Cameras rolling, Silk connects Lyle’s history as a ladies’ man with how a girl from a brothel chose him to talk to. She posts the police sketch of Jewel onscreen for all to see. Flo adds that Jewel promised a return of “full function” to his injured legs. Silk suggests that could be sexual. She asks what Lyle and Fr. Matteo experienced inside Old V…
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Rooney provides his old customer Lyle with his favorite scotch. He’s “over-served” before he sits down with Silk, his head full of bad TV news reports about Old Vic. Frank alerts Georgie that TV trucks are at the motel. Georgie is angry and calls Lyle, demanding he end his Old Vic antics. Just then Lyle is summoned to sit before the cameras. Silk i…
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At Gurney’s Inn, Lyle cleans up and changes into the resort’s “leisure wear.” Flo notes how inappropriate his sweatsuit’s color–peach–is for TV. Riding back to the motel, Flo tells Lyle he had a near death experience driving past the site of his deadly crash and Lyle shares personal details about the incident. At the motel taproom/TV set, bartender…
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In her police car, Georgie vents to Sgt. Frank, her secret boyfriend, about the workplace harassment Lyle is causing. Frank tells her Lyle has been spirited away in a van marked FEAR.com and Georgie freaks. At the motel in Montauk, Lyle is unhappy with the accommodations but Flo takes him to his favorite spot, Gurney’s, for lunch. Lyle orders wine …
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Meeting Silk is all Lyle imagined: She’s gorgeous and focused on success. But she abruptly leaves him to Flo and the guys in the FEAR.com van. They’re taking Lyle to Montauk to shoot an interview with Silk for “Entertainment Tonight.” Passing the scene of his deadly crash, Lyle re-lives it, and clairvoyant Flo can also observe the violent accident.…
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Alone finally, late at night, Lyle calls “Linder,” a police-sketch expert. Lyle offers him cash to recreate “Jewel” from Lyle’s memory: a young girl dressed in adult Victorian garb. Lyle has a fitful dream, seeing Jewel again, this time holding a newborn. Next morning, Fraser calls to berate Lyle and remind him his court date is this morning! Court…
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Exhausted but smitten with the striking photo of “Silk,” Lyle signs Flo’s exclusive FEAR.com contract without reading it. Flo, a clairvoyant, grills sleepy Lyle about his daughter, Georgie, picking up on their estrangement and Lyle’s belief that she is in mortal danger. Once Flo leaves, elderly, kindly “Glen” appears offering insights into the “Bel…
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Overnight, ghost fanatics who’ve learned of a haunting online, have set up a tent city around Lyle’s house. A strange middle-aged woman named “Flo” appears at Lyle’s door proposing an exclusive media contract with FEAR.com. Lyle refuses, until he sees a photo of the TV show’s gorgeous host… meanwhile, Georgie is charged with surveilling a limo busi…
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Matteo convinces Lyle to take him to Old Vic to explore. Inside, both men have deeply disturbing yet revealing paranormal experiences—Matteo is confronted by a roomful of dead prostitutes while Lyle is overcome by a demonic presence trying to kill him. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Not a religious man, Lyle decides he can obtain insight into the afterlife from an old parish priest who’s also a former client. Monsignor Hannan resists any notions of haunted houses, instead foisting a strange young priest from Malta on Lyle. Over coffee, Lyle realizes handsome Fr. Matteo is not an exorcist—rather, he’s had exorcism performed on …
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Lyle is now obsessed with saving the abandoned “Old Vic,” but before taking legal steps, he visits his wise guy former partner to pay off his ex’s beach house. Lyle then visits an old priest for moral support and gets more than expected. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesΑπό τον Ken McGorry
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Lyle Hall, a greedy Hamptons real estate lawyer, has been sidelined by a deadly car crash most people think he caused. Adding to his many issues, Lyle is convinced a ghost is speaking to him from inside an abandoned Victorian house—informing him his daughter will soon die. It seems only an old nemesis can help him investigate. Learn more about your…
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