The group stays at the mansion, searching for Leota. In the attic, Ben runs afoul of ghostly bride Constance Hatchaway and finds a locked trunk containing a crystal ball holding Leota herself. Leota reveals that William Gracey recruited her to contact the spirit of his late wife every night for an entire year, resulting in the mansion's ghosts taking up residence. An evil spirit tricked Gracey into committing suicide and trapped Leota inside her crystal ball; having acquired 999 souls throughout the years, the spirit needs one more death inside the mansion in order to escape. When Harriet performs an astral projection, Ben is sent out of his body instead and encounters Gracey's ghost, as well as the malevolent spirit, whose head appears within a hatbox he carries.