Regroup and analyze the footage for evidence of a ghost

After the four paranormal investigators had split up to complete their initial surveying of the building, they were now all heading back to base to regroup. In this case, base was simply the building's foyer, as that's where the bulk of their equipment was stationed. Since they'd each filmed their part of the mansion, they each now had their cameras off for their returns.

"Welcome back fellas," Aaron said as Jason and Zack returned to the lit up foyer. "Find anything interesting?"

"I had a few minor spikes on the EMF meter," Jason said, "but nothing to indica-"

"Bupkis," Zack interrupted. "Between the two of us, we found bupkis. You?"

"I didn't go too far from the entry areas," the bald man responded, "but nothing much either. Mackenzie sounded like she was getting some serious activity, though."

"She better not have meant the kind of 'serious activity' we got at the last location," Zack complained, "because that episode barely pulled in 70% of our usual view count."

"Oh this place has much more serious activity than that!" Mackenzie called out triumphantly as she strode down the dark hall towards her teammates. "I'm talking consistently high EMF levels in the basement, and a focused epicenter to them even!"

"Mackenzie!" Jason happily exclaimed as she entered the lit foyer. "Glad you ma- Uh... what happened to your pants?"

Mackenzie's slight blush turned a deeper hue at this. She'd hoped that, with the relatively dim lighting and her leather jacket wrapped around her hips, she might have been able to somewhat avoid her male colleagues noticing that she'd lost her pants, if only for a bit. But leave it to the young enthusiastic blond man to pick up on a detail about her right away!

"They, uh, got torn up on an old crate down there, so I took them off," she muttered. She hastily recovered her enthusiasm, though, and in her leader voice said, "But don't worry about that right now! You all need to see this footage!"

The four ENF members gathered around the screen as Aaron hooked Mackenzie's camera up to his computer. Mackenzie couldn't help but feel a little nervous about being surrounded by three guys while not technically having any pants on. The leather jacket did a good job of keeping her rear covered, and the knotted dangling sleeves did a decent job of covering the front of her black panties. But in between them, two wide slivers of pale skin peeked through the leather, showing off most of Mackenzie's thighs.

"Alright, show us what you picked up," Aaron said as he began playing the footage.

The footage began with Mackenzie facing the handheld camera.

"Alright, this is Mackenzie, doing a preliminary sweep of the basement. Let's see what we can find," the redhead on the screen said.

The next several minutes of footage depicted the investigator tracking the high EMF levels around the basement.

"As you can see, the basement seems like a hot spot for spiritual activity!" she said, before setting the camera down on something.

No longer holding the camera, Mackenzie walked deeper into the room. After briefly conversing with Aaron over the radio, she began holding her EMF meter higher, noticing that's where the energy levels were highest. As the onscreen Mackenzie headed over to some wooden crates, the real life Mackenzie paused the video.

"So I think it's clear where we should focus our investigation tonight," she said. "After we record the setup segment, three of us can head down to the basement together and-"

"Hold on, let's see the rest of it," Zack interrupted, playing the video again.

A brief moment of panic washed over Mackenzie, as she was afraid that the loss of her pants might show up in the video. But she exhaled a sigh of relief when her onscreen counterpart successfully walked out of frame before struggling to climb the crates.

That was, however, until there was suddenly the sound of breaking wood, and the camera suddenly shifted positions. It spun slightly and titled sideways and upward at a steep angle.

"What the?!" "The hell was that?!" Jason and Aaron cried out at the same time.

Mackenzie's own utterance of surprise was immediately cut off, though, because the camera had somehow positioned itself perfectly to capture her ascent up the crates! While she'd been offscreen entirely a moment prior, her jean-clad ass was now perfectly centered as the camera captured her crate climb from below. And, even as the four of them watched, those jeans began to slip down, exposing Mackenzie's bikini cut panties.

"Wedon'tneedtoseetherestofthis!" she exclaimed in embarrassment. She tried to lunge forward to pause the video again, but felt a sharp tug on the back of her shirt. She whirled her head around with a confused "Huh?!" and was quite surprised to find that her shirt had gotten snagged on an old nail protruding from the wall.

As their redheaded leader began frantically trying to work her shirt free, the other three men watched as onscreen Mackenzie's pants slid even lower, all the way down to her ankles. She shrieked in embarrassment as she finally realized her pants had fallen, causing her fellow ENF members to burst out laughing at the video.

"Damn, ever heard of a belt before?" Zack asked with a laugh.

"She was wearing a belt earlier though..." Jason muttered to himself, thoughtfully.

"Stop watching that!" Mackenzie called out, still struggling to free her gray shirt.

Then, in the video, Mackenzie's jeans were suddenly whisked off her feet entirely.

"Whoa!" Aaron called out, having still been paying close attention to the video. "Did you guys see that?!"

He rolled the footage back for his teammates. Mackenzie, having finally freed her shirt with only a small hole in it, was now intently watching too, her embarrassment (mostly) forgotten. Going frame by frame, Aaron rolled through the footage. And it clearly showed the jeans being yanked off to the side, almost as if by an unseen ****, before they disappeared into the darkness. The pants falling down might have been questionable, but the way the pants were ripped right off of Mackenzie's body appeared quite definitive!

"Holy shit..." Mackenzie mumbled. "That's some pretty conclusive evidence of spiritual activity right there! Wow!!"

"Are you saying that a ghost pulled your pants off?" Zack asked, incredulously.

"No, a spiritual entity pulled them off!" Mackenzie beamed. Her earlier embarrassment was now entirely replaced by her passion for the investigation of all things paranormal. "This is amazing! You can clearly see what happened, plain as day! Oh I knew this was going to be a great location for today's shoot!"

"Are... you really okay with including a clip of you in your underwear in the show?" Jason asked.

"I..." Mackenzie felt her enthusiasm waning, and the feelings of embarrassment all came rushing back, "...did not think about that."

"Well, maybe we can crop that part of the shot out," Aaron said. "Or at the very least we can censor it."

"Either way, we'll save that for the editing work this weekend," Zack said. "We've wasted enough time watching Mackenzie lose her pants. We need to get a move on with the rest of tonight's investigation already!"

"He's right," Mackenzie said, stepping back up to her leadership role.

The next twenty minutes Mackenzie called the shots as she and Zack filmed another segment. And Mackenzie made sure Aaron knew to film her from the waist up only! The two hosts went through all of the equipment they'd had installed, and describing a bit about their plan to go investigate the basement now that the sun had set. They signed off again, and made sure the footage looked okay. Then, it was time to get back to work.

Mackenzie was still having very mixed feelings about her earlier debacle in the basement. While she was thrilled by the footage, she also felt utterly humiliated by it. And even if they cropped and censored it before airing the episode, all the viewers would still know what had happened. That, through an encounter with a spiritual entity, she'd lost her pants!

"Hey, Mackenzie, are you okay?" Jason asked.

"Huh?" she asked, snapping out of her stupor. "Oh, uh, fine, thanks Jason."

She'd been trying to ignore it, but Mackenzie was beginning to feel a bit apprehensive about returning to the basement. And now that it was almost time to actually depart, she found her nerves failing her.

"Listen, I-" Jason began, but Mackenzie didn't hear him in her distracted state of mind.

"Hey, Aaron!" she called, walking over to him, "I need a favor."