The girl who lives upstairs on Lake Street writes down every visitor, every early goodbye and every night the man across the road comes back. Newest entries first.
In short: Cathy’s Diary is an eerie, darkly comic, fictional diary by Cathy, the ghost girl of The Haunting, the haunted-house escape room by Escape This at Northbridge, Perth. It gives away no puzzles, every entry links to the real room facts, and the investigator across the road keeps his own case files on The Possession’s site.
Cathy is the ghost girl at the heart of The Haunting, a 60-minute horror escape room at Escape This Northbridge, 48 Lake Street, Perth. Groups of 4 to 12, all aged 15 or over, are trapped in Atkins House and must get past her and her broken toys within the hour.
This diary is fiction written by Escape This. It is spooky and darkly funny, safe for work and free of gore, and it tells no puzzles. The Beeping Man, Desmond Crouch, is invented too; his case files on The Possession, the sequel set ten years later, cover many of the same nights from across the road.
Cathy can’t be trusted with anything that changes: group sizes, ages, prices and how many groups escape live outside her voice, beside each entry, refreshed from Escape This’s own booking and game data.
An invented diary that Escape This writes in the voice of Cathy, the ghost girl of The Haunting. She records the visitors who climb the stairs to Atkins House, the ones who leave before her clock runs out and the man with the beeping box across Lake Street. It is eerie and darkly funny, fine to read at work, and says nothing about how the puzzles work.
No. Cathy never writes down where her things are kept, how her games are played or which way leads out of her house, so the diary hands a group nothing. Read it before you visit to meet her, or afterwards to see the night from her side.
The openings. Escape This’s booking records show The Haunting starting at Escape This Northbridge on 19 March 2021, and its sequel The Possession opening at Northbridge on 26 November 2021, at Sydney CBD on 25 October 2024 and at Melbourne CBD on 10 August 2026. Cathy’s pages for those days carry those dates; the others are dated for the story.
Desmond Crouch, an invented paranormal investigator who watches the window of The Haunting from across Lake Street with a meter that beeps at everything. He keeps case files of his own on the site of The Possession, the sequel set ten years later, covering many of the same nights from the footpath. The two never share a sentence, and neither gives away a puzzle.
The diary is spooky rather than grim: no gore, nothing unsafe for work, and no account of what happened to Cathy. The room is another matter. The Haunting itself is strictly 15+, staff may check ID, and nobody younger can play or come in to watch.
About once a month. Each new page appears on the date written at its top, so the diary keeps step with The Haunting, the real room on Lake Street, through 2027.
Book The Haunting at Escape This Northbridge. Four to twelve players, ages 15 and up, one hour in Atkins House.
