So the Pillar of New York exists in your world? Fascinating. Did the slime have any psychokinetic properties, or were you able to get a reading on it?

[Egon opens his mouth to speak and then closes it again. He scratches the back of his head, pulling a Twinkay from his bag and unwrapping it.]

I conducted extensive research when I was younger, and I logically concluded that spirits and other supernatural phenomena existed. [...] I also wanted to be able to harness the psychokinetic energy for my own purposes--such untapped energy could be highly beneficial to the furthering of human technology, if it was able to be stabilized.