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Slade House
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Chapter 3 Summary: “Oink Oink, 1997”
A university Paranormal Society, led by postgraduate student Axel Hardwick, convenes for a field trip to investigate the Slade Alley Vanishings. The attending members of the society are Axel, Todd Cosgrove, Angelica Gibbons, Lance Arnott, Fern Penhaligon, and the narrator, Sally “Sal” Timms. Axel is disappointed that their party is so small, while Sal is relieved that Todd, her crush and society vice president, has elected to come. Too shy to talk to him, Sal tries to send Todd telegraphic messages, hoping to disprove Angelica’s claim that she had no psychic potential. Fern posits that attendance is low because the society’s last field trip was so underwhelming.
Axel briefs the group, sharing photographs of Nathan and Rita Bishop and Gordon Edmonds, with the dates and details of their disappearances. In the wake of Gordon’s disappearance, police were unable to locate Chloe Chetwynd and Slade House. This latter detail intrigues the group, who suggest that the only credible explanation is that Gordon falsified his report on Slade House before vanishing. Axel rebuts that the report is true, revealing that he is related to one of the Slade Alley witnesses—his uncle, Fred Pink, brought the information of the vanishings to him.
