As the old Scottish prayer says, the night is dark and filled with ghoulies and ghosties and long-legged beasties and things that go bump in the night. Everyone knows that.
What you eventually learn is that it is generally safer to try to limit your contact to those long-legged beasties that you’ve bought drinks for.
Garrick Blake is a certified paranormal cynic, the kind of invaluable person to go on a ghost-hunting adventure when everyone else is eager to believe.