You wander back towards where you saw the old man, finding him and his chair across from where you were before. You approach him again, and he eyes you warily before giving you a look of recognition.
"Oh, it's you again. Couldn't resist the allure of immortality, eh? Like I said before, I'm not telling." Ted says.
You say you wanted to ask about something else. You ask the man if he's lived here for a while, and if he knows anything about the Gravel Family.
"Lived my whole life here, and yeah I know about Ol' Otto and Jess. People say they were murdered, or just up and left one day. I know what really happened though." He says, leaning forward conspiratorially. "The mines were too successful. They were digging too deep. Too greedily."
You ask what happened.
"Taken by the mole men." Ted says with a serious glare. "After that I don't know what happened, but it probably wasn't something good. Those things aren't very found of surface dwellers."
You heard there was no sign of a struggle or break in, and ask if it could have been the ghost. Or that the Gravel Family themselves became ghosts.
"The mole men are clever, and well equipped. They've teamed up with the aliens and they've swapped technology." He says, giving a piteous shake of the head like this was the most obvious thing in the world. "Like I said, I haven't personally seen this ghost so I don't know if it's any of the family returned from the grave. Heck, maybe the ghost everyone is talking about is just a mole man? Like I said they are pretty smart."
