It had taken most of the night to climb back up through the crumbled cave complex and so when they'd reached the surface, the sun was just starting to rise. Tori's funny joke aside, they were all exhausted and pretty well beaten up, standing together mostly in the nude, they watched the sun rise and thanked whichever gods they prayed to for bringing them out the other side of all of this.<br/><br/>Fish pointed out that the van as well as all of their other equipment had been swallowed by the sinkhole that eventually swallowed the entire mansion, but after living through the experience they'd all just encountered, loosing objects was the least of their worries.<br/><br/>"Hey...ummm I don't know how you guys wanna handle this....but What are we gonna tell the cops?" Fish asked. "I mean, we can't tell them devils came up from hell and killed all our freinds and then the Zombie dude, helped us beat it, but not before burning the house down....They'll think we are fucking nuts...We'll all end up in the looney bin..."<br/><br/>"Yeah...that's true....But the house was sitting on top of a methane vein, and we had no idea, It will probably just look like a big accident....and well....I think that's the story we should stick with." Jacob added. They all nodded in agreement, silently promising to keep their secret amongst themselves, and before long the sounds of sirens could be heard coming up the road.<br/><br/>The fire trucks were down the road, unable to bridge the gap in the destroyed levy, they'd sent rescue helicopters, as it turned  the fire and smoke pillar was more than enough to raise alarm, people said you could see it for miles.<br/><br/>The rescue team clad them in blankets and shuffled them off to the Mercy flight helicopter which took them to the hospital. Police were there, and yes they had plenty of questions, but Tori, Jacob and Fish stuck to the story; They been innocently investigating a haunted house they were legally aloud to be in, when on the second night a fire broke out and set the methane gas that had seeped up through the floor ablaze, subsequently killing Greg, Brandi, and Shanna.<br/><br/>The police found the story suspicious, but their was little they could do to prove it other wise as the crime scene was a literal disaster that was going to take months, if not years to investigate, and the small town's law enforcement budget certainly didn't have the resources for that. They did inform Jacob that because of the suspicious nature of the accident, they would be putting in an order to the insurance company to hold any payouts until conclusive evidence could be obtained, which might be years or just plain never.<br/><br/>And so, as it turned out, Ol' man Crenshaw had one final cruel joke to play on them, PSI , Jacob's baby that he'd started from the ground up was officially bankrupt, and out of business.