**\[Click]** ### MARTIN Sorry again that [[Person of interest/The Magnus Institute/The Magnus Archives/Archive staff/Sims, Jonathan|the Archivist]] isn’t actually in today, um… but I should be… absolutely fine to take your statement if it, um, if that’s okay with you? ### LYNNE Er… yeah. ### MARTIN O-kay. Um. Are you, are you comfortable? ### LYNNE Yeah. ### MARTIN Right. Right. *He clears his throat.* Statement of [[Ripley, Celia|Lynne Hammond]], er, recorded [[2017-05-02|2nd of May 2017]], regarding… Uh, what, what’s this one about? ### LYNNE I saw a [[Fire ghost|ghost]]. ### MARTIN O-kay.. Regarding a… a [[Fire ghost|ghost]]. Statement begins. ### LYNNE … Sorry. What happens now? ### MARTIN Oh, er… *He chuckles nervously.* Well, I mean, you, you tell us what happened. ### LYNNE Well, yeah, I did. I saw a [[Fire ghost|ghost]]. ### MARTIN Er, no, I mean, I mean, you, sort of, tell the story of – ### LYNNE Yeah. The story is: I saw a [[Fire ghost|ghost]]. ### MARTIN Okay. But what, what was it like? How did it make you, er, feel? ### LYNNE Erm… it was… scary and it made me feel… scared. I’m sorry. Am I doing this wrong? ### MARTIN Ah… no, no, no, it’s okay. Erm… Let’s, let’s try this again. Try this again… When did you first see this [[Fire ghost|ghost]]? ### LYNNE Oh… God. Erm… about [[2016-05-01 - 2016-05-31|a year ago]]. ### MARTIN Anything more specific than that? ### LYNNE Er, I mean it’s been a while. I can’t really remember – ### MARTIN Er… okay, okay. Er, where? Where, where did you see the [[Fire ghost|ghost]]? ### LYNNE Uh, my old flat. ### MARTIN Okay, okay, great. Which … where’s that? ### LYNNE [[Clapton]]. ### MARTIN [[Clapton]]. [[Clapton]], okay. And, erm, what, what were you doing when you saw the, when you saw the [[Fire ghost|ghost]]? ### LYNNE Well, I was asleep. ### MARTIN … You – ### LYNNE Well, I mean – ### MARTIN …saw a [[Fire ghost|ghost]] when you were asleep? ### LYNNE No, no, obviously I woke up. ### MARTIN Right, right. ### LYNNE And… [[Fire ghost|ghost]]. ### MARTIN Right. Erm… ### LYNNE Well, first it was, like… a burning smell. ### MARTIN Oh! Okay, okay. So… Did this happen a lot? ### LYNNE Yeah, yeah. A few nights. ### MARTIN Okay, right, so, like you’re, you’d wake up in the night, and you’d smell burning, and… what did you do? ### LYNNE Well… I first checked that my house wasn’t on fire. ### MARTIN Yeah… And then? ### LYNNE Go back to sleep. ### MARTIN And when it happened again, you would…? ### LYNNE Well, after a few times I realised, my house wasn’t on fire, so I’d just go straight back to sleep. ### MARTIN O-kay. What, what happened the first time you saw the [[Fire ghost|ghost]]? ### LYNNE I mean… *She sighs* She was there… ### MARTIN Oh, it’s a ‘she’. Okay, okay. So describe the [[Fire ghost|ghost]] to me. It’s, it’s a woman? A girl? A… ### LYNNE Yeah, yeah. A young woman. ### MARTIN And, and what was she doing? ### LYNNE I mean, she was on fire. ### MARTIN … O-kay. Erm, so, so she’s on fire. So what did you do? You’ve, you, you, you’re waking up in the night, and you’re seeing a… a woman is on fire in your flat, so you…? ### LYNNE I mean… what can you do? She wouldn’t be there for long. ### MARTIN Okay. Er… so, you didn’t call the [[UK Metropolitan Police Service|police]] or…? *[[Ripley, Celia|LYNNE]] snorts.* ### LYNNE Well, no. I mean, it sounds a bit crazy, doesn’t it? ### MARTIN Okay, so…. So what is it that, sort of, made you… erm… *He sighs.* Why are you here? ### LYNNE My friend told me that, y’know, this is where you report stuff like that, so… ### MARTIN O-kay. **\[Click]**