 According to Shiban, his father-in-law kept looking around the room, as if gazing at other people; however, Shiban and his partner were the only visitors in the room.Eventually, Shiban's father-in-law asked the two who else was in the room, and when they responded that only they were visiting him, he seemed perplexed and kept looking around the room.Shiban began to wonder if "a dying person might be able to look through the cracks […] into the next world", which he developed into a story about a "haunted bowling alley" because "it just seemed right".