The truck flipped several times into a barley field and came to a stop upside down. On the road to the Farmhouse, Zuul while invisible, attacked the truck. One evening in summer 2021, Egon captured Vinz Clortho at the Shandor Mining Company and drove back in a company truck. Ecto-1 was parked in a slowly collapsing barn on the property. At some point, a Proton Pack was worked on but he never completed it. He kept his collection of spores, molds, and fungus in petri dishes and glass jar, flightsuits, and most of his equipment stored there. Egon built an underground laboratory below a shed on the property.

In reality, Egon buried over a hundred Traps in a grid-like pattern and hooked them up to three nearby silos converted into capacitors.

He didn't interact with the residents of Summerville too often and remained enigmatic to the point they began referring to him as the 'Dirt Farmer' because he owned farmland but never harvested anything yet was seen working a piece of the land. Janine Melnitz periodically visited Egon over the years, took care of him, and made sure his bills were paid on time. He took a quote from Revelations 6:12 and painted it on improvised signs outside his property.