Day 1,733

They found something that worked far better than any battery, any power station, any turbine ever could. They found an almost endless supply and found a way to make it profitable, competitive and so easy to obtain that a couple million were produced every single day.

Souls.

Before we even realised the full extent of our actions, people were using their souls to pay off loans, to increase their wages and soon it became a symbol of status to have pledged your soul to big brands so that once you died you would become a part of their company in a more intimate way than any human could have dreamed of a century ago.

Now the consequences are coming through and the hauntings are just starting to begin. It was little things at first like typos on new "soultec" phones or whispering noises coming from power sockets. It didn't take long before the first poltergeist was reported and the first death followed.

The media claimed these as tragic incidents and blamed terrorists hacking phones,, using the souls inside to kill innocent people. The reality was worse. The reality was that the leap of technology increased our lifespans and quality of life to the extent that not enough people were dying.

They had to fill the need somehow and nobody could arrest a poltergeist.