Hot Time in the Heights - Hansen Boys Mystery (Part 2)

It was 6:30am, Tuesday morning and Jeff, Paul, and Brad were getting up and ready for the day's activities and a meeting with Roger Healy and his Telephone Company line crew which consisted of Jack Bailey, Bill Peters, and Mark Hansen, Brad's older brother. While the boys were getting showered, dressed and ready for breakfast, A friend of theirs, Dave Harmon, 19, was walking over the bridge on Libby Road from the east, carrying a tape player, playing the jazz music of the Vince Guaraldi Trio, when he walked past an open manhole at which a 'ghost crew was present, with a Midnite Express drone van parked nearby, the safety railing set up and the ventilator machine with hose arcing down into the manhole.

He called out to what he thought was a line crew at work, not knowing the true nature, for the ' line crew was three pair of light brown cotton twill pants in a crouching position, each being worn by a pair of rubber ball like aliens. All had black belts and the twin antennae were fully extended, and the sight flabberghasted Dave Harmon, who was wearing a light blue sport shirt and pair of khakis similar to what the alien balls on the ghost crew were wearing.

Unbenownst to Dave, there was a single "chaser" ball sitting by the ventilator machine and as the jazz blared out of his tape player, the chaser ball began to bounce wildly and soon came after him, bouncing off the seat of his pants as he ran toward Brad's house. The chaser ball returned to the open manhole and the ghost crew it was accompanying. While he approached the house, the ghost crew was about to have an addition to it, for a duplicate of Dave's khakis emerged from the drone van worn by a pair of the alien balls and climbed down into the manhole, with twin antennae clearly visible.

As Dave Harmon entered the house, Paul, Jeff and Brad, said, "Good morning, Dave, how is everything this morning?" Dave replied," I am not sure, the wierdest thing happened to me as I was passing an open manhole on this end of the bridge over the NS tracks. I called out to what I thought was a line crew and got no answer. I saw three pairs of light brown pants similar to what I am wearing now crouched down around the manhole with stick like things sticking straight up and a single ball, dark green in color, came after me after evidently hearing my jazz tape. What is going on here?" Paul said," what you saw and encountered is called a ghost crew and the pants you saw crouching down were being worn by pairs of rubber ball like aliens that apparantly have minds of their own." Jeff and I encountered these in Buffalo and Rochester, and from what you just told me, the single balls seem to be a lot more aggressive than what we encountered in either Buffalo or Rochester. Our phone company contact, Roger Healy, told us by phone that he and his crew have been encountering quite a few of these 'crews' particularly late at night and in the wee hours of the morning."