2:22 A Ghost Story
Jenny and her husband Sam have recently bought a large house in Greater London that they are renovating. For several nights, at exactly 2:22 am, Jenny hears the sound of someone moving around the house and a man's voice crying, often via the baby monitor in her daughter's bedroom, and becomes convinced the house is haunted. Sam, being a sceptic and having been away on a work trip, insists there are more logical explanations for the noises. The couple hosts a dinner party for Lauren, an old university friend of Sam's, and Ben, her new boyfriend who has a belief in the supernatural. After discussing the strange noises, Jenny persuades the others to stay up until 2:22am to see what happens. Sam reveals that his work trip was to a rural island where he lost his phone, and was unable to contact Jenny leaving her and daughter Phoebe alone in the house. The two argue, and tensions arise further when she discovers one of Phoebe's toys in the bathroom drenched in white spirit. Ben suggests a seance to make contact with the spirit asking it to point out the person in the room who is most related to it, which only causes Sam to be further agitated as the table on which they conduct it begins to move towards him abruptly, setting part of the kitchen on fire. Ben, startled by what he saw in the seance, leaves the house in shock. After the commotion, Lauren has a private conversation with Sam where she confesses to having doused Phoebe's toy in spirit in an attempt to prove Sam (and his constant need to provide a scientific explanation for everything) wrong, and also confesses that she loved him back in their university days. The group are interrupted by a knock at the door, in response to which Sam leaves, and Jenny is greeted by two police officers who inform them that Sam had in fact died on the island, and that before his death he attempted to make one last call to Jenny at exactly 2:22 am. Jenny realises that the voice of the crying man over the baby monitor was in fact Sam's, and that the ghost haunting the house was him.