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  Searching for the ideal place to settle a young family, moves
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  into a new home. Believing their prayers have
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  been answered. However, just a year later they
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  find themselves gone. Never to return.
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  Their left questioning just who truly answered those prayers and
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  what exactly invaded their lives and enigmatic entity that
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  perpetrated violence and Terror upon them, the Untold Story.
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  Of the black monk of pontefract. In September 1954.
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  Bill fera and his wife, Barbara moved into a new home and the
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  historic Market town of pontefract England, they were a
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  young family with a 2 year old daughter named Jane at 30 East
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  Drive with its three bedrooms. This should have been their
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  Ideal Home. Yet.
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  Less than a year later, they moved out.
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  The fairs quickly had grown terrified of their new home.
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  Their dream had seemingly become a nightmare.
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  Objects moved on the road. Voices echoed and empty rooms
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  and Halls. And large rips and tears
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  appeared on their furniture out of nowhere.
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  Forming an ominous atmosphere. That began to smother them all.
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  These events would culminate one night when Bill and Barbara
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  found their daughter crying. her small face, inexplicably covered
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  in scratches small trickles of blood dripping from each slash
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  with no, rational cause The family had no pets to blame for
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  their daughter, Jane's injuries. and even after they placed
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  cotton mitts on her hands, the wounds continued to appear the
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  poor child cried every night. Leaving her parents scared and
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  confused about what to do. And just what could be
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  happening? One day, Barbara frantically,
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  rushed up stairs at the piercing sound of her child's cries.
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  What she discovered would shake her to her core.
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  She would find a pillow place over Jane's face.
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  As if someone or something was attempting to extinguish her
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  Young Life? At that moment, the answer
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  became clear, the family had to leave and leave him immediately.
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  So they did, they would leave the house and its dark Forces.
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  Friends and neighbors of the Pharaohs.
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  The Pritchard family. Be convinced by the Pharaoh
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  family to switch home with them ultimately leaving them at the
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  mercy of whatever malevolent forces that dwelled within the
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  walls. August of 1966. the Pritchards
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  would move into the old Pharaoh residence, their new home was
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  quite a bit larger than their last And seemed to be the answer
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  to their prayers. the Pritchard family, consisted of father, Joe
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  mother Jean and their small children daughter, Diane and
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  Son, Philip shortly after moving in.
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  However, the same strange occurrences began to manifest
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  Strange sounds such as banging and knocking began to be heard,
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  reverberating throughout the house with no rational.
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  Origin. Hordes smells began to waft
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  throughout the house as well again with no explanation as to
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  what could be causing them. the children first and then the
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  parents began to be terrified by a shadowy dark figures that
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  began to make its presence known a very source of the day and
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  night, seemingly watching their every move Jean Pritchard ended
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  up giving the creepy figure several nicknames.
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  She called it Fred in Mr. Nobody But history would come to know
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  the entity by a very different and certainly a scarier Name by
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  most standards. The black Monk.
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  Of pontefract. Pritchards noticing that these
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  happenings were far from normal approached, their former
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  neighbors, the Pharaohs and asked them if they had ever
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  experienced anything weird, when they had lived there, the
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  Pharaohs would say no. In August of 1980, the Pritchard
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  family had long been suffering from The Haunting.
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  Colin Wilson a well known writer on subjects including the
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  Paranormal and mysticism visited the family after being tipped
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  off by a local historian, a man named Tom cunn of Had stumbled
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  across newspaper clippings from the late 1960s.
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  Alleging, that a pontefract family had experienced
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  Poltergeist phenomena as he dug deeper into the history of the
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  area, he discovered a rather disturbing story.
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  One that he believed could be connected to the haunting itself
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  in the 16th century among was executed for the brutal assault,
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  and murders of several young victims.
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  Upon reading that the family was being stalked by a shadowy roped
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  figure. He put two and two together.
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  During his research upon discovering that the family
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  still lived in the same house. Kind of contacted Wilson,
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  prompting Wilson, to journey, to Yorkshire, to interview them, to
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  see if perhaps they could get to the bottom of things.
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  With the information provided by Wilson's records, a more
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  detailed version of The Haunting chronologically begins to
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  emerge. According to Wilson's records,
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  and August 1966 on that Thursday.
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  Most of the family, Joe Pritchard, his wife Jean and
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  their 12 year old daughter, Diane or on holiday in Devon.
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  Leaving their 15 year old son, Philip and jeans mothers, Sarah
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  Sholes. And her sister Maria at home.
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  Philip had reached the age when family holidays had lost their
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  appeal. So, as most adolescents do he
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  spent much time to himself? Reading in the Family Garden
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  that Thursday, while outside Philip returned endorsed to get
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  himself a drink as he did this. He noticed something bizarre His
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  grandmother sitting in the living room heavily focused on
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  her knitting was completely oblivious to a great, huge Cloud
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  floating around her. Philip would later say that it
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  was a chalk like how to reconstitute and from the cloud
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  it appeared to be falling from. Not from the ceiling, the top
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  half of the room was perfectly clear.
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  And yet, curious dust seemed to materialize from nowhere.
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  Weirded out, Philip returned to the kitchen.
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  Only to find several large pools of water covering the floor.
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  With no apparent origin. Then heading back to the living
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  room. He saw the dust or Cloud had
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  continued to fall like a miniature, snowstorm forming, a
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  fine white layer, on the furniture.
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  And even on top of his grandmother.
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  Rushing to another room to get his aunt's attention.
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  He would bring her out into the living room where she would
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  notice the very same thing, unsure of just what it could be
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  she called to her mother to gain her attention.
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  And get her out of whatever the cloud or strange powder seemed
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  to be. Heading towards the kitchen to
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  get her cleaned up. She too would notice the puddles
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  of water everywhere as Marie, tried to mop up in the kitchen.
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  New puddles, supposedly manifested.
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  She would pull up the linoleum to reveal no leak underneath.
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  And the water wasn't falling from above them either.
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  So just like the dust and the other room, the puddles seemed
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  to have come from nowhere. The odd drama intensified, when
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  after the water supply, to the house was turned off by helpful
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  neighbor. The water company was called to
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  the property. Pipes were checked.
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  Linoleum. Lifted.
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  Once again and drains examined. But nothing was found to be
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  broken or blocked. The water companies suggested
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  that some strange condensation caused by the summer, weather
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  might be responsible but after about an hour, they left The
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  mysterious puddles stopped appearing. however, before the
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  day, ended more odd happenings were reported Sugar and tea
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  leaves were emptied from their dispensers in the kitchen and
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  sprinkled all across the counter tops.
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  Covers vibrated and shook. Loud bangs were hurt from
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  upstairs a plant, which was usually located at the foot of
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  the staircase was awesome. Mysteriously transported halfway
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  up. its pop found separately on the landing of unable to
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  tolerate the house and he longer Philip, and his grandmother left
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  with, and would spend the night with Anne-Marie.
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  Vic Kelly, Marie's husband on happy with the strange
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  situation. Reportedly phoned, the police to
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  check on the house. With Vic present upon law.
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  Enforcements are rifle. Everything seemed normal with no
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  Intruder being found. Nothing else seemed out of
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  place, either until they found a glass shattered on the floor?
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  And one of Joe and Gene pritchard's wedding photos.
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  The photo itself, slashed from side to side, as if with a sharp
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  knife. Chilled to his core thick simply
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  followed the officers back outside of the home.
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  And then closed the front door of 30 East, Drive and returned
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  to his home. When Gene Joe and Diane returned
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  from their holiday. Sarah related, the unsettling
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  events to them. It was a disbelief at first that
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  as she spoke everyone would hear three loud and distinct bangs
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  reverberate throughout the home then a cold wind blew through
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  the house. Almost as if the entity had
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  perhaps left, but that was far from what would happen, who was
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  merely seemingly taking a break, according to testimonies
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  recorded by Colin Wilson. The Haunting truly resumed for
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  the Pritchards in 1968. When Gene decided to redecorate
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  Diane's bedroom. as I've noticed, while studying numerous
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  other hauntings, Construction or redecoration, essentially
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  changing what once was seems to be a way to disturb or wake up,
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  whatever forces, good or bad. That could be dwelling within a
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  space. Following this mysterious
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  temperature, changes began to be experienced, inexplicable bangs
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  and knocks. Once again, plagued the family
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  and daily household items such as.
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  In one instance, a paintbrush began to be flung across the
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  room by unseen hands. One, just so happened to barely,
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  Miss Jean's face by mere inches during the remodel itself.
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  It's even been claimed that Mrs. Pritchard witnessed in the den
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  Moonlight one night as she went to the bathroom.
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  A long strip of wallpaper standing on end in swaying.
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  Like a cobra. When she attempted to grab it.
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  The strip simply fell to the floor.
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  Causing a feeling of fear to grip her.
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  That one would seldomly experience otherwise.
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  Horrifically, within the same room that was being remodeled.
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  Not too long after this occurred.
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  The family vacuum flew into the air swinging around.
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  As if wielded by Giant and visible hands.
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  Screaming Jean, dropped onto all fours and rushed back to her
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  daughter. As wallpaper and various
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  objects, continue to be thrown towards her.
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  The Unseen presence in the house had returned and it seemed more
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  aggressive than ever particularly fixated on Diane's
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  bedroom. What followed was described as
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  nine months of Chaos? and which all manner of Silent
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  activity was reported Bangs and thumps echoed from Diane's
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  bedroom with such physical aggression, that she
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  occasionally took to sleeping in her parents room.
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  Ornaments were thrown and levitated.
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  And lights flickered on and off. Repeatedly one day the entire
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  continents of the family's china cabinet were reportedly hurled
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  onto the floor. With not a single precious item
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  being smashed. Or chipped in the process.
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  One evening, a particularly chilling, incident marked an
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  escalation in the severity of the activity.
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  And Diane's room yet again. The lights randomly went out.
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  And a huge Shadow appeared on the wall before her.
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  As she witnessed this firsthand in the hallway, our mother
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  scrambled with the flashlight to try and turn the lights back on.
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  As the teenage girl watched. A heavy Oak Hall stand, floated
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  into the air and rushed towards her with Incredible speed.
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  And her attempt to escape, Diane tripped and fell her back up
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  against the stairs. With the hall, stand being
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  thrown on top of her. The weight of the piece of
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  furniture pressed down on her small body pinning, her against
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  the steps. As she struggled to breathe and
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  free herself. Another heavy object, a sewing
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  machine that had been on top of the stand was all thrown on tour
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  when the lights finally illuminated the scene.
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  Her family rushed to help but the hall stand was too heavy and
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  firmly positioned to move. Jean and Joe struggled to free
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  their daughter and yet, strangely, despite the pressure,
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  Diane was unharmed The heavy Furniture was merely being held
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  in place by some invisible force.
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  Enough to keep her trapped. But not to injure her when
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  instructed, to release her the force seemingly obliged.
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  Finally, allowing the whole stand.
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  In sewing machine to be removed. The Poltergeist, then seemed
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  particularly fascinated with Diane Prichard. in addition to
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  the hall, stand incident, It was reported that she was tossed
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  from her bed as many as four times in the Night by The Unseen
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  entity. Her bedroom, often turned icy
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  cold and she told her parents, it felt as if those someone was
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  present with her always watching her.
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  And lurking, just beyond her sight.
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  On one occasion, while standing in the living room combing, her
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  hair in front of a mirror, a brass crucifix that she found
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  comfort in with her faith. Was thrown from a shelf.
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  And struck her in the back. Sticking to her skin.
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  Like a magnet. When the crucifix finally fell
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  away, her mother inspected her. Discovered a cross-shaped red
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  mark on her skin between her shoulder blades.
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  The mark left reportedly lasted for days, showing the strong
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  force of which it had been thrown with.
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  Before long, the house at 30 East Drive gained, quite the
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  local reputation. After being featured in two
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  Yorkshire newspapers, in September of 1968, people either
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  actively avoided the house. Or sought to engage with the
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  alleged haunting. Ghost Hunters attempted to gain
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  admission into the residence. And it was even reported that a
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  group of students who requested permission to camp in the
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  garden. Were forced to settle for the
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  large round. Grass Verge in front of the
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  house when Jean Pritchard declined.
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  Their request, however even from that distance, a group claimed
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  to still have heard an assortment of bangs and crashes
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  Along with this newfound, Fame. It became commonplace for the
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  pritchard's families, neighbors to experience, disturbances
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  within their own homes. As the noises were reportedly
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  that loud emanating from the Pritchard residents.
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  When all the families possessions upstairs in the
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  bedrooms, were allegedly thrown out of Windows and onto the
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  ground below. It was impossible for anyone in
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  the area to deny that something bizarre was happening.
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  Something that no one could truly comprehend or truly
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  understand. Eventually, the family began
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  calling their unwanted house guest Mr. Nobody later.
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  Nicknamed it Fred Despite its attempts to force them out.
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  However, The Pritchard family remained.
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  When a local preacher a man named Reverend Davey advised the
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  family that something evil lurked in their home and that
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  they should move. Jean, reportedly scoffed at him.
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  Asking him. Why should I be driven out of my
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  home? By a ghost.
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  This was certainly a testament to the families resolve.
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  No Doubt. As the disturbances worsened and
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  the activity further intensified.
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  The family yet continued to persevere.
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  Perfectly good. And often newly purchased food
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  would spoil something strange. That became a calling card for
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  the entity as if whatever it was brought death and Decay along
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  with it. Aside from spoiling food.
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  Mr. Nobody as they called it, but also often smeared jam on
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  door handles, but often throw toilet paper, all over the
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  house. Fine, China, plates and cubs
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  would be thrown onto the floor sometimes shattered.
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  And other times, perfectly fine. But yet, despite being watched
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  by the dark robed figure that had plagued them for years and
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  all of its accompanying Terror, the family still refused to be
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  chased away. Even after both Jean and Jose
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  saw the tall shadowy figure with the hood.
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  Standing in their bedroom, doorway. they had been in bed
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  when they heard the door Creak open and both turned to see the
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  terrifying apparition Others, reported seeing the tall figure
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  in a long hooded garment as well.
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  At night, frightened family members heard loud labored
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  breathing outside of their doors.
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  Became clear that Mr. Nobody or as he was increasingly known as
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  the monk was gaining power. Was if the creature fed off of
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  Their Fear. the activity would Peak yet again, one evening when
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  All of the Lights Went Out And Diane along with her mother.
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  And brother would experience something dark, that none of
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  them would ever forget. As the family huddled together
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  in the dark, trying to find their way around the home.
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  Diane suddenly as if she had been grabbed by large invisible
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  hands. Was forcibly dragged up the
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  stairs by her throat. Colin Wilson, who documented the
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  events in his book, noted that Diane's cardigan was stretched
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  out in front of her. as if the monk was talking on it with one
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  hand, Oh, gripping her neck with the other.
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  Roused, by her screams and gas for air, Phillip and Jean,
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  rushed pole, die and back down the stairs.
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  But they were both repelled thrown back by what felt like
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  large clawed hands. Fighting for her life, and on
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  the verge of blacking out. As she struggled Diane,
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  fortunately would ultimately be freed.
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  Almost as quickly as she had been attacked.
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  Philip later explained that it was as though his thought of
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  trying to touch the presence had caused it to release his sister.
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  when the family inspected the profusely shaking and
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  traumatized girl, once the lights turned back on They would
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  see red hand marks around her neck.
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  To say they were terrified was perhaps an understatement.
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  Although they collectively didn't want to leave their home.
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  They desperately wished for the entity to depart.
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  The family would call intact religious figures.
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  It would pray and sprinkle holy water throughout the entire
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  property but despite their best efforts, nothing seemed to work.
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  In fact, these actions seem to exacerbate the disturbances
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  almost as if they were angering the entity itself with their
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  efforts. One of Joe's friends recently
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  returned, from Scotland recounted how people there hung
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  garlic over doors and windows to keep out spirits.
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  Fascinatingly. When the Pritchards followed
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  suit. The activity diminished.
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  Eventually disappearing altogether.
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  Thus, what began for the Pritchards in August of 1966?
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  Capped after two years, by May of 1969, when Colin met with the
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  family in 1980? He reported no ongoing activity.
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  although it's not exactly clear when the home would eventually
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  find its way into the hands of a man who was all too familiar
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  with the Paranormal, an investigator named Richard
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  Easton if these accounts are true, the events at 30 East
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  Drive appeared to be a classic case of poltergeist activity,
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  Similar to many other documented instances of spirit haunting.
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  Like the Enfield Poltergeist in 1977, the activity is often
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  centered around adolescence and there were adolescents present
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  and this case as well. First a 15 year old Philip in
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  1966 and then an aged 15. Diane in 1968 Wilson, oddly
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  noted that nothing seemed to occur in the house while Diane
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  was at school. Objects, even large and heavy
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  items, like solid oak furniture, or said to move on their own
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  accord. Food 2 appears to The Entity
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  food at 3:30 East Drive, besides rotting, and being moved.
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  And displaced would also mysteriously manifest by bite
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  marks. Appearance of Puddles of water
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  on the kitchen floor. At the beginning of the
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  pontefract case, is also a Hallmark of other Poltergeist to
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  currents. The respected parapsychology
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  researcher guideline Playfair suggested that the neat puddles
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  found in the Pritchard home and others allegedly haunted by
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  poltergeists. Might be some form of
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  condensation of the energy used by the entities.
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  The activity disappearing is the children transition from
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  adolescence to adulthood is also consistent with other
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  Poltergeist cases. Yet despite these claims many
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  argue that activity at 30 East Drive, never truly ceased.
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  Asserting that it predates, the Pritchards and their teenage
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  children by over a decade. At the beginning of this story,
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  I referenced a testimony from the Pharaoh family and their two
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  year old daughter, Jane who had lived at the property before the
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  Pritchards. This particular testimony was
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  presented in the 2019 book. The Black monk of pontefract in
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  alleges horrific events including the baby girl covered
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  in scratch marks and told of the attempted Suffocation of the
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  same Child by what is presumed to be the same black monk entity
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  that haunted the Pritchards. However, its peculiar that Gene,
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  and Joe didn't report similar experiences regarding their
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  young children, having taken over 30 East drive from the
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  fairies and the mid-1950s by the time of the alleged on set of
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  activity. In August of 1966, they had been
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  in the house for several years yet, as far as we know, it
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  didn't Target them in the same way.
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  But why would this be the case? Perhaps the Poltergeist, stir,
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  whatever it was. If he had demonic entity was in
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  a state of paranormal, hibernation for a decade or
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  more. Was woken up so to speak for one
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  reason or another. yeah, this inconsistency becomes all the
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  more intriguing when one examines the 2019 book, The
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  Black monk of pontefract Indeed, the authors of the text
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  paranormal researcher, Richard Estep, and the current owner of
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  30 East, Drive film producer. Bill Bungie argue that bill
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  Farrah and his family represent a previously Unknown Origin of
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  the pontefract case. Then their book, this new
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  starting point is ultimately used to support their
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  conclusion, that the black monk of pontefract is less likely to
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  be a poltergeist and more likely to be a demonic entity while in
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  that remains on the property to this day.
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  It is indisputable that the fair family, not only existed but
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  also lived at the property before the Pritchards and
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  there's ample record to prove this In fact, the author's
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  claims were allegedly presented from Mr. For himself.
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  But the family moved into third East, Drive in September of 1954
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  and would leave within a year due to horrific activity in the
• 28:53
  aforementioned book. The reader's treated to tales of
• 28:56
  the dark monk, which are accompanied by many photographs
• 29:00
  of dark. Demonic entities, captured
• 29:02
  within the walls of the home. Does this house still exist?
• 29:08
  In most certainly does. Today the former Council house
• 29:13
  is just as famous as it is creepy.
• 29:16
  Those who visit the site, have documented many scratches and
• 29:20
  suffocating Sensations, as well as capturing numerous
• 29:24
  photographs of the alleged, black monk, entity itself.
• 29:29
  These alleged pieces of evidence.
• 29:31
  A company with the two families who lived there and the current
• 29:35
  owners experience is we are left with more questions than
• 29:40
  answers. A few of my questions are these.
• 29:45
  Just two was this black monk if they did exist, what drove them
• 29:50
  to such Madness to abuse the Young?
• 29:54
  Are they perhaps a man of God at one point and ultimately
• 29:57
  corrupted by Darkness. The same darkness that would
• 30:01
  corrupt them in life. And consumed them in death.
• 30:05
  Perhaps this is what led to the violent, manifestations that
• 30:08
  affected, all of those who crossed the threshold of 30 East
• 30:13
  Drive was the entity of a level in human spirit.
• 30:17
  A demonic entity. Or a textbook case of
• 30:21
  poltergeist activity. All questions.
• 30:25
  We truly may never have the answers to But one thing is
• 30:29
  certain there was something that called the house at 30 East
• 30:33
  Drive in pontefract home. Something that was not of this
• 30:37
  world. A dark robed.
• 30:42
  And lurking presence that stalked, those who dwelled there
• 30:45
  and the land of the living, perhaps it's still lurks there.
• 30:50
  Stalking watching and waiting. For the right time to awake.
• 30:57
  And recap it upon those of us who still breathe. and whose
• 31:02
  hearts, Still beat. He got so much for watching this
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  special episode of mystery archives.
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  to wear. After terrifying and counter
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  with a demonic entity in the woods outside of their home.
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  Two brothers find themselves under attack by dark and
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  malevolent forces. With no place of Refuge from
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  torment, not even their own home, will they escape the wrath
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  of a real life nightmare? They have on Earth, or will the
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  darkness take them? This is the untold story of the
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  founded in 1913 City, plays home to the Arts, boasting festivals
• 33:52
  boutiques music venues and a historic theater, but amongst
• 33:58
  the songs paintings and acting. It is all the home to something
• 34:04
  evil that lurks. Just beneath the surface and the
• 34:08
  late 1960s, the Yancey family called Lake Worth their home.
• 34:13
  Living near the mostly underdeveloped, Southern Woods
• 34:17
  in the town at that time, Brothers, Tim and Tom along with
• 34:21
  their father, Sony and mother Barbara up until this point I'd
• 34:26
  lived a rather quiet life. Tim would describe his childhood
• 34:30
  home as a very peaceful and remote placed to live.
• 34:34
  It was fairly isolated and in the middle of nowhere.
• 34:38
  As mother Barbara was a beacon of light and joy a woman who
• 34:43
  always had a diamond smile upon her face.
• 34:47
  His father was a Stern man, a battle hardened Korean War
• 34:52
  veteran who then worked as a carpenter doing construction,
• 34:56
  Sonny suffered from PTSD or post-traumatic stress disorder
• 35:02
  as a result of the war. And according to Barbara, was a
• 35:06
  totally different person when he came back.
• 35:08
  He had been a sergeant in charge of a mortar platoon during the
• 35:13
  war and would very rarely speak of what it happened.
• 35:17
  Although both of the brothers later would recall that he told
• 35:20
  them a few different stories of his time there.
• 35:23
  One story that following a battle, he had to arrange for
• 35:28
  Mass Graves to be dug, and for bulldozers to lay the dead to
• 35:33
  rest. While suffering with PTSD.
• 35:36
  Sunny tended to have a short fuse on his temper but for some
• 35:40
  reason, this particular summer it seemed to get inexplicably
• 35:45
  worse. Where the family lived was
• 35:48
  remote and surrounded by Lush Woods.
• 35:51
  Prior to being settled the land, where the house now, stood had
• 35:56
  been heavily utilized during the slave trade as well as being the
• 36:00
  home to numerous bouts of violence between warring Native
• 36:04
  American tribes. So what the combinations of the
• 36:08
  Terrors of war and those experiencing persecution over
• 36:12
  the years, these heavy emotions seem to leak into the Earth and
• 36:16
  the woods and of themselves seem to become a beacon for Darkness.
• 36:21
  Almost as if the black hearts of those who perpetrated, the acts
• 36:25
  still rested beneath the leaves sticks and stones of the force
• 36:31
  floor playing together as brothers.
• 36:34
  Often do, Tim and Tom would spend much time within those
• 36:38
  very same Woods, bonding exploring and having a great
• 36:42
  time. Sonny had built a fort for the
• 36:45
  boys to enhance their time. Spin out.
• 36:47
  There and at this time Tom was 12 years old and Tim was seven
• 36:52
  one chili fall day as Tom ventured into the woods alone as
• 36:58
  he approached the fort. He began to get an eerie feeling
• 37:01
  as if someone or something, was watching him with his inner
• 37:07
  voice screaming. He bolted and ran inside the
• 37:11
  fort as he peered through the openings in between the various
• 37:15
  boards and peeking past the cloth covered windows at first.
• 37:20
  He saw nothing but as his heart began to subside from beating
• 37:24
  out of his chest, he began to hear the crunching of Chris
• 37:29
  autumn leaves around him through the darkness of the boards.
• 37:34
  He sees a silhouette of a creature although the figure
• 37:37
  appears manlike something tells him that it's not of this world
• 37:42
  Tom doing the sensible thing runs for his life.
• 37:47
  Leaving the fort behind terrified at what he had just
• 37:51
  experienced. He decides to not tell anyone
• 37:55
  about what it happened. As Tom Ventures back to the
• 37:59
  house disturbed by what he had been through.
• 38:02
  Tim had entered through another path in the woods, blissfully
• 38:06
  unaware of his brothers plight, as the boy walks the crispy path
• 38:10
  of dried leaves, he too begins to feel as if he is being
• 38:14
  watched, then in front of him up in the tree.
• 38:18
  He sees something strange. Something out of place there in
• 38:24
  the tree with the environment, reacting around it.
• 38:27
  There appears to be some kind of creature, but this creature is
• 38:32
  either see through Or it's reflecting its surroundings
• 38:36
  almost like a freakish Distortion of reality.
• 38:39
  Perhaps something that shouldn't have been within the confines of
• 38:44
  our reality, as his eyes grow, larger with fear.
• 38:48
  This entity begins to make its way down the tree and then lands
• 38:52
  in front of him. Mere feet away from the boy,
• 38:55
  hitting the ground with a loud thud.
• 38:58
  This is enough to truly frighten, the young man and he
• 39:02
  too similar to his brother decides to run for the house.
• 39:06
  The one place, a child should feel safe to be, Tim frantically
• 39:11
  makes his way out of the woods and quickly into the arms of his
• 39:15
  mother, who was near the front door of their house after
• 39:19
  explaining things as best as he could Barbara.
• 39:22
  Calms him with the love, only a mother can provide asking him to
• 39:26
  call him down. She tried her best to convince
• 39:29
  him that it was perhaps, an animal that he had startled, and
• 39:33
  that things. Would be okay.
• 39:34
  And although she did what she could as well come to see, this
• 39:39
  would be far from what would take place the brothers and due
• 39:43
  time would discuss the strangeness of their experiences
• 39:47
  in the woods with one another confiding in each other and
• 39:51
  trying to make sense of just what this thing or what these
• 39:55
  things were fearing, that even talking about, it could prompt a
• 39:59
  visit, the boys did their best to move on and shift their focus
• 40:03
  to other activities fearing that if they spoke of it, they would
• 40:07
  invoke the wrath of what they began to call the shadow, man.
• 40:13
  During the day, thanks seemed to regain a small amount of
• 40:16
  normalcy. But at night the brothers began
• 40:19
  to see the very same figure out, usually near the tree line,
• 40:24
  presenting a thick man like Shadow always watching and
• 40:30
  lurking like a wild animal. Stalking its prey one night as
• 40:36
  the moon, Peaks through the clouds.
• 40:37
  Overhead Tim is jolted awake out of a sound sleep with his eyes
• 40:44
  opening and slowly adjusting to the darkness of his room.
• 40:47
  He tries to make sense as to why he was suddenly woke up as he
• 40:52
  glances towards his window with the faintest amount of
• 40:55
  moonlight. Illuminating the room, he sees a
• 40:58
  shadow go passed. Scared beginning up to
• 41:02
  investigate. He reluctantly looks, and he
• 41:05
  sees nothing thinking that, perhaps his Mind is Playing
• 41:09
  Tricks on him. Tim laces, head back down to try
• 41:12
  and sleep again, but as he gets comfortable, right before he
• 41:17
  closes his eyes. He again sees this menacing
• 41:21
  Shadow passed by his window, attempting to wake up his
• 41:25
  brother, but unable to do. So, he once again, gathers, the
• 41:29
  courage to take a look through the window peering around their
• 41:33
  yard and towards the tree line there in The Mists emanating
• 41:38
  from the woods. He sees the shadow, we outline
• 41:41
  of a man. This man appears to be staring
• 41:46
  directly into his soul from afar it then suddenly begins to rush
• 41:52
  towards him. Absolutely petrified with fear
• 41:55
  the young man lets out a blood curdling scream his brother.
• 42:00
  Quickly wakes up and so do his parents with Sonny being the
• 42:05
  first inside the room. He asked, just what is happening
• 42:08
  after being. Told by Tim that there was a man
• 42:12
  in the yard, he quickly, grabs a flashlight and begins sweeping
• 42:16
  the property. He ultimately would find nothing
• 42:20
  several weeks later. As the boys slept in their room,
• 42:24
  12 year old, Tom starts acting strangely waking up to the sound
• 42:29
  of footsteps. Tim sees his brother in the
• 42:32
  middle of their room, as he calls out to him, he receives no
• 42:37
  response. And Tom then begins to walk and
• 42:40
  leave the room. Calling out to their parents as
• 42:44
  well as his brother. Tim continues to follow him as
• 42:48
  he descends the stairs, headed towards their front door was
• 42:52
  sunny and Barbara, rushing close behind him that watches tom
• 42:56
  heads, out of the front door and into the yard as Tim would
• 43:00
  describe it later. It was if he was being called
• 43:03
  out to something or there was something drawing him into those
• 43:06
  woods. It was very frightening for me
• 43:09
  because I knew there was something out there and I did
• 43:13
  not understand why this was all happening.
• 43:15
  Sunny's able to wake the boy up as the force stand in the yard.
• 43:19
  Tom seemed to have been sleepwalking on aware of what
• 43:23
  was taking place. Although this hadn't happened
• 43:27
  previously and was completely new to the family.
• 43:30
  The incident would be far from the last.
• 43:35
  For the next several weeks, Tom would continue to sleepwalk at
• 43:40
  times with other members of the family unaware that he was
• 43:43
  missing. Tom would find himself waking up
• 43:46
  next to the lake out in those foreboding Woods.
• 43:50
  To try and keep the boy from sleepwalking.
• 43:53
  His parents began to implement measures to keep him from
• 43:56
  leaving the house. Frustrated and understandably.
• 44:00
  So having to get up late into the night.
• 44:03
  What soon became night after night with tall often able to
• 44:07
  maneuver his way out of locked rooms, they took to stacking
• 44:11
  chairs in front of the boys room and hopes that this would
• 44:14
  prevent Tom from escaping and potentially hurting himself
• 44:18
  under one of his spells. Later that night after the
• 44:22
  family had gone to bed, Tom took to waking up as per usual, as he
• 44:28
  aimlessly tries to unlock the door to their room.
• 44:30
  He wakes up fearing that. His brother would wake up their
• 44:35
  father, he tries to get him to wake up and realize just what he
• 44:39
  is doing. And while this is taking place,
• 44:42
  the closet door directly across the room from Tom begins to
• 44:46
  shudder and then it opens by itself.
• 44:51
  Then, as if he was being controlled like a marionette
• 44:54
  puppet. Tom would turn around.
• 44:58
  Face the closet and then walk inside.
• 45:02
  Then with the boy, inside the door, would shut behind him once
• 45:08
  again seemingly by itself. As if it were operated by unseen
• 45:14
  hands. Tim scared, but also transfixed
• 45:18
  on, what was taking place began to hear a conversation.
• 45:22
  He heard his brother speaking. Then he heard another voice.
• 45:27
  Hello Gravely, deep voice. This frightens the young.
• 45:32
  Tim so bad. That despite his fear of his
• 45:35
  father, he calls out to his parents for protection.
• 45:38
  And thankfully, his parents heed, the call as they rushed to
• 45:44
  push the chairs aside they finally do.
• 45:47
  And then throw the door, open to find out, just what had
• 45:51
  happened. Now, Timing to the closet
• 45:54
  indicate that Thomas inside heading to the closet door and
• 45:59
  opening it they find the boys sat down and side now.
• 46:03
  Apparently awake upon asking him just what was going on.
• 46:08
  All Tom could say was that there was a man in here And later
• 46:13
  interviews Tom would say that he remembers waking up inside the
• 46:17
  darkness of the closet to the voice of a man.
• 46:20
  And then upon speaking with him, towards the back of the closet,
• 46:25
  he saw two red eyes staring back at him.
• 46:28
  Despite knowing of their sons sleepwalking, his parents tried
• 46:33
  to argue that he was clearly messing around in the closet.
• 46:37
  Possibly playing with toys. They then scolded, both of the
• 46:41
  boys for waking them up yet. Again, in the weeks to come as
• 46:46
  their parents growing increasingly angry, the Yancey
• 46:49
  Brothers, continued to experience the Abyssal force
• 46:52
  that they have come to refer to as the shadow man. one night,
• 46:57
  the entity seems to find a new way of terrorizing the brother's
• 47:02
  Tim, the suddenly woken up. When he begins to feel small
• 47:06
  things, hit his comforter and mattress.
• 47:10
  Feeling where the objects had fallen.
• 47:12
  His hands, discover rocks like small Pebbles.
• 47:17
  Thinking it was his brother messing with him.
• 47:19
  He asked him to stop and then laid his head back down onto his
• 47:24
  pillow. And then more of them started
• 47:27
  falling pelting, the blanket that covered him.
• 47:31
  He now knows for certain it is not Tom because he's looking
• 47:35
  directly at him, he is fast asleep, as the Rocks, continue
• 47:40
  falling onto him, he then discovers leaves and then pine
• 47:45
  cones as well. Then he feels something drop
• 47:49
  onto his head and this something begins to crawl.
• 47:54
  Crying off, whatever this thing was and throwing it.
• 47:57
  The boy begins to scream. Barbers soon.
• 48:01
  Comes to his Aid and upon turning on the lights.
• 48:04
  She too finds the Stone's pine cones leaves and to her Surprise
• 48:11
  giant. Florida cockroaches.
• 48:14
  Was as if the shadow man was bringing in things from the
• 48:17
  woods. But for what reason, remained
• 48:21
  unclear It was with this incident that Barbara began to
• 48:25
  notice that perhaps it wasn't just the boys' imaginations at
• 48:28
  work. Perhaps there was something
• 48:31
  terrorizing them. In the weeks that followed this
• 48:35
  incident Barbara tube begins to notice the ever-growing hostile
• 48:40
  environment within the home. Soon, begins to seek answers
• 48:44
  from any and all sources. While her husband is at work.
• 48:49
  And her children are at school, she purchases a Ouija board and
• 48:54
  Upon returning home. Places it on the coffee table,
• 48:58
  in the living room, Not being into the occult previously.
• 49:02
  She doesn't really know what she's doing but wants to do her
• 49:06
  best to communicate with whatever could be there and to
• 49:10
  try and seek answers as to why it was tormenting her family She
• 49:15
  tries to make contact, but doesn't receive any answers.
• 49:20
  Later that day the family retires to their beds to catch
• 49:25
  some sleep. Little did they know of
• 49:28
  Barbara's attempts to contact the other side and little?
• 49:31
  Did they know that hell was about to be Unleashed upon them?
• 49:37
  As everyone drives off to Dreamland.
• 49:39
  Tim once again, finds himself being woken up out of a dead
• 49:43
  sleep, Perhaps it was his intuition, it's hard to know for
• 49:48
  sure why. But as he wakes up and sits up
• 49:52
  in his bed, he sees a dark handy.
• 49:55
  Merge from the closet in their room.
• 49:58
  As the familiar fear grips him, he gets up and shakes his
• 50:03
  brother Tom awake. And Tom's disbelief as he looks
• 50:08
  ahead where his brothers pointing he too sees the hand
• 50:12
  and then a more Fuller figure begins to emerge from the closet
• 50:17
  opening. Before both of their eyes, a
• 50:22
  shadowy figure emerges, casting itself onto the wall with
• 50:27
  glowing, red eyes staring at them.
• 50:30
  It begins to climb horizontally on the wall towards them.
• 50:36
  With the brothers absolutely shaken to their core.
• 50:39
  They scream for their parents as the figure dissipates, as if it
• 50:44
  was never there. That you then rush out of their
• 50:48
  bedroom and run up to their parents bedroom?
• 50:52
  and all though, apprehensive because of their father, they
• 50:56
  would rather deal with his wrath then that of the shadow man.
• 51:01
  Doing a knock and then opening their door.
• 51:04
  Tim leads, the boys and calls out to their parents.
• 51:08
  He tells them that the man was back and that he was on their
• 51:12
  wall like a fly. This bizarre statement from his
• 51:16
  son and the continuous lack of sleep prompts Sunny to explode.
• 51:23
  He tells the boys that there is no man that they're dealing with
• 51:26
  the Boogeyman and that The Boogeyman does bad things to bad
• 51:31
  kids and if they were good, he would simply just go away. with
• 51:37
  tears in his eyes him, and his brother would make their way
• 51:41
  back to their bedroom, Tim would later recall, this notion that I
• 51:46
  was a bad kid that I had done something wrong and that's
• 51:50
  something had come to punish me. For my misdeeds is something
• 51:54
  that has stuck with me my entire life.
• 51:58
  I didn't know what I had done to deserve this.
• 52:01
  From that point on the boys keep silent about the nightmare
• 52:05
  experience is that they had had with the entity known to them as
• 52:09
  the shadow man. But the entity seems to grow
• 52:13
  ever stronger. But even though they have been
• 52:16
  silent, the rage that dwells within their father, Sonny also
• 52:21
  continues to grow Tim later. Again, would say he seemed to
• 52:27
  not understand what was happening in the house and this
• 52:30
  led to a lot of family, dysfunction, whether this
• 52:33
  attractive, whatever this thing was to us or fed off of the
• 52:37
  negative emotions or whatever. There was some kind of
• 52:40
  connection there. these entities seem to do this and it's like a
• 52:45
  coupling The Entity attaches itself to a family and then
• 52:50
  continues to cause problems and seems to derive energy from
• 52:54
  this. As time passes the boys, find
• 52:58
  themselves awake on the night of Christmas Eve.
• 53:03
  Being rambunctious kids is some of us, were they decided to
• 53:06
  sneak down stairs to take a peek at some of their Christmas
• 53:10
  presents under the family tree, and the living room.
• 53:15
  The boy seemed to be successful. Not alerting their parents to
• 53:18
  their sneaky Endeavors down stairs.
• 53:22
  When suddenly loud, booming Knox, begin to come from
• 53:26
  upstairs. Trying to figure out what could
• 53:29
  be causing it, they realize that they seem to be originating from
• 53:33
  their room. Downstairs upon their mantle
• 53:37
  next to the tree. Their mother had set up a
• 53:40
  nativity scene showing Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus as the
• 53:46
  banging intensifies further, the scene begins to shake and move
• 53:51
  it then drops to the floor. Shattering the porcelain
• 53:56
  figures. The braking only adding to the
• 53:59
  Conquering of sound. Now, reverberating all
• 54:02
  throughout the house. Then the heavy footsteps of
• 54:06
  their father cuts through the noise.
• 54:09
  As he descends the stairs. The boys are trapped.
• 54:13
  He is pissed that he finds the shattered porcelain figures.
• 54:18
  And this for the enrages him. As the interrogates the boys is
• 54:24
  to what they could have been doing the boys deny causing the
• 54:27
  sounds or breaking the figures this too only serves to deepen
• 54:33
  his rage. Since the boys quote wanted to
• 54:37
  stay up, they could do so outside using a scare tactic.
• 54:43
  He marches the boys outside and into the yard right near the
• 54:48
  tree line of the forest. He tells them that he was gonna
• 54:53
  get a good night's sleep and they were to stay outside all
• 54:57
  night. Little does.
• 54:59
  He know, he is inadvertently delivered his sons and to the
• 55:04
  arms of perdition The air is cold and bites at their skin as
• 55:10
  a large Moon hovers above them, and the low rustle of leaves
• 55:15
  surround them. The two young men despite their
• 55:19
  best efforts to come for one another are absolutely paralyzed
• 55:23
  with fear as they stand in the darkness of the night.
• 55:28
  They both suddenly hear the crunching of leaves from behind
• 55:32
  them upon turning around. They are besieged by the shadow,
• 55:37
  man, yet again. Screaming for their mothers,
• 55:41
  they run up to their deck, They begged to be let back into the
• 55:44
  house. Finally, their mothers woke up
• 55:48
  and forces their father to come with her and let the boys back
• 55:53
  in finding the punishment to be cruel.
• 55:56
  Especially since she knows herself that there are things at
• 56:00
  work, that none of them understand Tim would later say
• 56:05
  this, when interviewed, My father's anger continued to grow
• 56:09
  and he became increasingly frustrated.
• 56:13
  He would blame the noises on us and his punishments were severe.
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  The goal of this monster seemed to be to create more anger, more
• 56:22
  chaos, and more depression within our family.
• 56:28
  The situation grew Bleecker day after day.
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  On a cold and stormy night as Tim laid in his bed was all too
• 56:37
  familiarly woken up without warning.
• 56:41
  This time, however, something was different his sheets and
• 56:45
  blankets were pulled from him. As Tim would later say, you
• 56:50
  know, something's there. It's in the room with you and
• 56:54
  you've got to reach down and pull those sheets back up. the
• 57:00
  boy reaches down to do just that peering down as he grabs them
• 57:05
  off the floor, He thankfully doesn't see anything.
• 57:10
  Pulling them back over himself. Now laying back down.
• 57:14
  He once again, tries to get comfortable to sleep.
• 57:17
  As he starts to drift off, he then feels a sharp searing pain
• 57:23
  on the right side of his ribs. Feeling this pain, his eyes pop
• 57:27
  open to find what appears to be a long bony hand coming from
• 57:32
  underneath his sheets. Scared for his life.
• 57:36
  The boys screeches and runs as fast as his legs will carry him.
• 57:41
  But being this scared, he had his blinders on because he ran
• 57:46
  directly into the door, that was locked to try and prevent his
• 57:50
  brother from sleepwalking and ultimately leaving to house.
• 57:55
  He smacks into the door with the visceral crack.
• 57:59
  Screaming in pain and crashing to the ground.
• 58:04
  This prompted, the attention of his parents who came into the
• 58:07
  room to discover their son, riding and Agony.
• 58:10
  They would quickly Rush him to the hospital and it would turn
• 58:14
  out that Tim had broken both of his collarbone's.
• 58:18
  Following this event as the months turned to years, thanks
• 58:22
  from here did not get any better for the Yancey, family, Tom
• 58:26
  being the oldest. When he became old enough, left
• 58:29
  the house as quickly as he could no longer able to deal with the
• 58:33
  dark Forces that dwelled there Tim, Sonny and Barbara would not
• 58:39
  see him for years details passed his pointer practically
• 58:43
  non-existent, but I will do my best to bring a conclusion to
• 58:47
  this very haunting case, based on what I could find over the
• 58:52
  next 30 Years, Tom would play college football and then become
• 58:56
  a career firefighter. Tim given all the experiences he
• 59:01
  experienced before and after his brother left would become a
• 59:05
  Paranormal Investigator and a park ranger drifting apart as
• 59:09
  people do, they wouldn't reconnect until after their
• 59:12
  parents were gone sunny and Barbara had continued to live at
• 59:17
  the same house. The two had grown up in and had
• 59:20
  had all of their Shadow Man experiences.
• 59:23
  When the brothers inherited the house.
• 59:25
  They came back together to decide just what to do with it,
• 59:29
  Tom who had done practically everything to never return to
• 59:33
  the house would later recall that he had a sickening feeling
• 59:37
  in the pit of his stomach upon entering the house again, saying
• 59:42
  that it was just an evil sickening feeling as the
• 59:46
  brothers discuss things that would become apparent that Tim
• 59:49
  wanted to move back into the home with his wife and reclaim
• 59:53
  it So after working out a deal amongst themselves, that's
• 59:57
  exactly what Tim did. And by moving back in, he
• 1:00:02
  intended to cleanse the home to rid themselves once and for all
• 1:00:06
  of these ominous presence that it caused them so much pain.
• 1:00:10
  The Entity they knew as the shadow man, prior to moving in,
• 1:00:15
  Tim would reach out to his friend.
• 1:00:18
  Roy Hall who had dealt with violent haunting for many years
• 1:00:21
  to help him perform a cleansing ritual of the home.
• 1:00:25
  Roy believed that the entity was demonic in nature and haunted
• 1:00:29
  the family because Tim's father was abusive, Sunny who was a
• 1:00:35
  Korean War veteran. Probably saw a good amount of
• 1:00:38
  the horrors of War. He believed that because of
• 1:00:41
  Sonny's PTSD that perhaps The Entity had been attached to the
• 1:00:45
  land and had seen this and exploited, these problems as an
• 1:00:49
  entry into their lives. Were continued to wreak havoc
• 1:00:53
  upon all of them as Roy would say in later interviews, these
• 1:00:57
  entities seek to cause further dysfunction.
• 1:01:00
  They feed upon it. The two men on a rainy and
• 1:01:03
  dreary afternoon would step into the home together.
• 1:01:07
  Roy would began to pick up on the ominous thickness fear,
• 1:01:11
  almost immediately lighting incense and beginning various
• 1:01:16
  prayers. The two men go from room to room
• 1:01:19
  cleansing as they walk throughout the house.
• 1:01:22
  They sense that the presence is strongest in Tim and Tom's old
• 1:01:27
  room, calling out to God to cleanse the house of all evil
• 1:01:30
  and negativity. The process took about an hour
• 1:01:34
  Hour. But following it, the energy in
• 1:01:36
  the house seems to be read once and for all of the shadow, man,
• 1:01:41
  Tim recalled. That things much lighter.
• 1:01:46
  As if we had displaced the negative energy within the home
• 1:01:50
  in August of 2009, Tim his wife, Trish son, Gabriel all moved
• 1:01:58
  into the Lakewood Florida home. Although they never experienced
• 1:02:03
  anything to the degree, the boys did while growing up within it.
• 1:02:07
  There's still seemed to be an undercurrent of evil, just right
• 1:02:11
  below the surface. In closing, it is believed that
• 1:02:15
  the dysfunction of the Yancey household was more than likely
• 1:02:19
  far worse than what the sun's betrayed publicly, but to what
• 1:02:23
  extent, I'm not sure. I did my best to dig as deep as
• 1:02:27
  I could. And I believe, Tim and Tom are
• 1:02:30
  both still alive with. Tim still being a consultant to
• 1:02:35
  vary his paranormal groups across the country.
• 1:02:38
  I did want to say that their story was a terrifying and a
• 1:02:42
  harrowing one and all those somewhat anti-climactic in the
• 1:02:46
  end. As we know, here on this
• 1:02:48
  channel. Thanks, don't always work out
• 1:02:50
  the way we want them to and cases.
• 1:02:53
  Don't always have some kind of Ultimate Showdown.
• 1:02:56
  But if you questions, I was left with after researching this case
• 1:03:00
  were just what was the shadow man?
• 1:03:03
  Was it a demon? Did it exploit?
• 1:03:07
  The vulnerabilities of the family particularly sunny in
• 1:03:11
  order to create a feedback loop of negativity in which you could
• 1:03:15
  enrich itself with and all the from the outside looking in
• 1:03:19
  those that are still with us who were involved seemed to be
• 1:03:23
  doing, okay? But just how has surviving the
• 1:03:26
  haunting of affected these two men on a daily basis.
• 1:03:30
  Do they still think about it? As I occasionally do with my own
• 1:03:34
  experiences? All questions I may never have
• 1:03:38
  answers for but one thing is certain there was something evil
• 1:03:43
  that stalked. The Woodlands surrounding the
• 1:03:45
  Yancey home, something, stalking like a predator seeking prey and
• 1:03:51
  all the things seem to be dormant for.
• 1:03:53
  Now these malevolent entities may still be watching and
• 1:03:58
  lurking just beneath the surface waiting for the moment to
• 1:04:03
  strike. Don't let their victim.
• 1:04:05
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• 1:04:10
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  Today we will be deciphering the strange and complex entity known
• 1:06:45
  as Zozo. In our first episode, Zozo is
• 1:06:50
  allegedly a fallen angel. One of the original Angels, who
• 1:06:54
  sided with Lucifer and who were banished from the heavens eons
• 1:06:59
  Ago by God during the Great Fall Zozo, or at least under this
• 1:07:05
  current name. As a relatively recent
• 1:07:08
  phenomenon, only mostly emerging in the mid to late 20th, and now
• 1:07:13
  21st century. The name Zozo is attributed to
• 1:07:17
  the name Pazuzu which is a Mesopotamian demon which ancient
• 1:07:23
  Mesopotamian religion Pazuzu is a personification of the
• 1:07:28
  southwestern wind and held kingship over the lieu wind
• 1:07:33
  demons. Depending on who you ask or what
• 1:07:37
  sources you cite, Pazuzu is either considered a good or
• 1:07:41
  white magic entity or an evil or black magic entity considered as
• 1:07:48
  both a destructive and dangerous wind that allows as a repellent
• 1:07:53
  to other demons one who safe. Guards the home from their
• 1:07:57
  influence and particular. He protects pregnant women and
• 1:08:01
  mothers whom he could defend from the machinations of the
• 1:08:05
  demoness. Llamas do is rival.
• 1:08:09
  He is invoked in ritual and representations of him are used
• 1:08:14
  as Defense charms. It is known as firstly, a demon
• 1:08:19
  of the home, a domestic Spirit. Then secondly, as the wandering,
• 1:08:24
  wind demon traversing the mountains seeking to destroy the
• 1:08:29
  innocent. The main representation of the
• 1:08:32
  white magic belief is the well-documented use of Pazuzu
• 1:08:36
  and Mesopotamia is inhuman. And grotesque form was used to
• 1:08:42
  frighten away unwanted guests as well as prevent his wind demon
• 1:08:46
  subjects from entering the home and wreaking havoc, as well as
• 1:08:50
  warding off Rivals and disease. His role in ritual, and Magic is
• 1:08:56
  documented on inscriptions on the backs of his statues or in
• 1:09:01
  ritual, texts spells, incantations, and special
• 1:09:06
  artifacts, which were used to gain the favor and protection of
• 1:09:11
  the demon. Such artifacts were often placed
• 1:09:14
  in and around the home or worn on the person to achieve the
• 1:09:19
  desired effect. When favor was gained with the
• 1:09:22
  demon amulets were typically giving and warmed by pregnant
• 1:09:26
  women to protect their own born from other evil forces or
• 1:09:31
  demonic spirits. Large numbers of Pazuzu heads
• 1:09:35
  have been discovered made from a variety of materials, chiefly
• 1:09:40
  terracotta, but also bronze iron gold glass and Bone these heads
• 1:09:47
  often featured holes or Loops at the top, allowing them to be
• 1:09:52
  worn on necklaces. Occasionally, the heads would be
• 1:09:56
  attached to cylinder, seals or worn as brooches as well.
• 1:10:00
  Some of these heads have been found and varies Graves.
• 1:10:05
  The current name of Zozo is often attributed to the
• 1:10:08
  romanized naming of the ancient Mesopotamian.
• 1:10:11
  Demon possible was named in believed to have been the main
• 1:10:16
  demon that possessed rolling doe or later revealed to be a boy at
• 1:10:21
  that time. Named Ronald Edwin hunkeler, who
• 1:10:24
  was born June, the 1st of 1935 in passed away, May 10th of
• 1:10:31
  2020. Ronald had accessed or opened a
• 1:10:35
  door to the other side, using a Ouija board, the most common
• 1:10:39
  tool associated, with Conjuring, this demon in many others which
• 1:10:44
  will explore later on. The name Zozo was changed to
• 1:10:48
  Pazuzu and along with the possession were written about in
• 1:10:53
  a book called The Exorcist, which was inspired by the
• 1:10:56
  Ronald. Hunkeler, Case by now, famous
• 1:10:59
  author, William, Peter bladi. The book was later adapted to
• 1:11:04
  the infamous and also arguably cursed film of The Exorcist
• 1:11:08
  which was released in 1973. The name Zozo was also mentioned
• 1:11:14
  in the French demonic encyclopedia as one of the
• 1:11:18
  Demons whose responsible for diabolical possession and
• 1:11:23
  Corruption within the book. It tells of a case dating back
• 1:11:26
  to 1816 were girl was possessed and Zozo as well as several
• 1:11:32
  other demons are mentioned to have been present although with
• 1:11:37
  Lucius association's with older deities.
• 1:11:40
  So those notoriety as previously mentioned is relatively recent
• 1:11:45
  the first widely publicized mention of Zozo or the one that
• 1:11:50
  most people are aware of appeared in a 2009 online Forum,
• 1:11:55
  post by a man named Darren Evans, who detailed him and his
• 1:12:00
  family's terrifying in counters with the entity following weekly
• 1:12:04
  board session. And that these encounters
• 1:12:07
  persisted for years, Since then numerous individuals have
• 1:12:12
  reported similar experiences. Claiming that Zozo communicates
• 1:12:17
  through the board often spelling out its name and a repetitive an
• 1:12:22
  ominous manner. The etymology of the name, Zozo
• 1:12:26
  is unclear with some suggesting that it might be a corrupted or
• 1:12:31
  disguised form of other demonic names.
• 1:12:34
  However, its consistent appearance in spirit board
• 1:12:38
  sessions. Have cemented, its identity as a
• 1:12:41
  distinct and malevolent entity. Besides the name, Zozo it all.
• 1:12:47
  So has appeared under other names such as zoso Zaza Zuzu,
• 1:12:53
  mama and Abacus some calling cards of the demon.
• 1:12:58
  So to speak r', when using the board, the planchette is known
• 1:13:03
  to move on its own sometimes in a rainbow pattern, moving from
• 1:13:08
  side to side spelling, Zozo over and over again.
• 1:13:13
  This is all so known as the rainbow effect that is also been
• 1:13:18
  known to make a figure 8 creating an infinity symbol.
• 1:13:23
  With a more modern emergence of Zozo, some believe that its
• 1:13:27
  power could be being strengthened through what's
• 1:13:30
  known as an egregore or Collective group of thought form
• 1:13:34
  created by occultists for certain purposes.
• 1:13:38
  Although this seems unlikely because the entity does not
• 1:13:42
  appear to serve any human desires other than to destroy
• 1:13:46
  the person or people it comes into contact with if it's able
• 1:13:51
  to Agree Gores are typically formed to bring control over a
• 1:13:56
  date, 80 for the person or groups.
• 1:13:59
  Intentions Perhaps, instead of an agree Gore, there is a cult
• 1:14:04
  worshiping Zozo strengthening its reach and power through
• 1:14:08
  thought form. And with wider exposure, the
• 1:14:12
  more powerful The Entity becomes.
• 1:14:14
  This is also known as forming a total a tulpa is a beam or
• 1:14:21
  thoughtful form that is created through intense consentration
• 1:14:24
  and spiritual practice, typically emerging in the form
• 1:14:29
  of the human, Though the term is barred from Tibetan Buddhism,
• 1:14:34
  the idea of a tulpa and modern paranormal lore is slightly
• 1:14:39
  different from what is found in tibetan Traditions being added
• 1:14:43
  to Modern lore after journalist. John Keel mentioned them and his
• 1:14:47
  1975 book, The Mothman Prophecies. reports often
• 1:14:53
  describe Zozo as malevolent and deceptive using the Ouija boards
• 1:14:58
  of frightened, confused and manipulate those attempting to
• 1:15:02
  communicate with spirits, Those who have encountered The Entity
• 1:15:07
  have been asked by it to chant out, or spell phrases, or
• 1:15:11
  various words, and Hebrew, or Latin, which is convinced many
• 1:15:17
  of the intelligence of the being that they were speaking with.
• 1:15:21
  When encountering the demon one, may find Shadows appearing on
• 1:15:25
  the walls around you or the surrounding environment.
• 1:15:29
  If not endorse, almost as if you're seeing past the veil to a
• 1:15:35
  dark world that exists just beyond your normal frame of
• 1:15:40
  vision, Many users report that their session, take a dark turn
• 1:15:44
  when Zozo becomes involved. Often leading to feelings of
• 1:15:48
  dread anxiety and even physical harm.
• 1:15:53
  This connection has made Zozo was symbol of the potential
• 1:15:57
  dangers of spirit communication. And the unknown entities that
• 1:16:02
  might be encountered through such practices.
• 1:16:05
  The Ouija board. However, is not the only way
• 1:16:08
  that Zozo makes itself known. It also shows itself through
• 1:16:12
  other means such as sudden, hypnosis automatic writing
• 1:16:17
  sessions, And electronic voice phenomena otherwise known as an
• 1:16:23
  Eevee p. When it comes through as an EVP
• 1:16:26
  it may do. So masquerading is something
• 1:16:29
  positive like a deceased family member, loved one or friend
• 1:16:35
  typically mimicking. The voices of the Dead is one of
• 1:16:39
  its specialty. The entities seems to love
• 1:16:43
  watching his victims, squirm with confusion, and oftentimes
• 1:16:47
  seeming to take pleasure when the gullible human believes its
• 1:16:51
  lies. The Entity also appears to be
• 1:16:55
  sadistic in nature and loves watching friends, fall out, over
• 1:16:59
  the lies, typically revealing, half-truths or secrets to sow
• 1:17:04
  Discord, it or he is a master deceiver, which is not
• 1:17:10
  surprising, considering that the devil or Lucifer is claimed to
• 1:17:16
  be the father of all lies. And Zozo allegedly being one of
• 1:17:20
  the original demons, who fell alongside him.
• 1:17:25
  If you have truly made contact with Zozo, do your best.
• 1:17:29
  Not to panic. It feeds off of fear. if the
• 1:17:33
  contact is made during a Ouija board session, Close out the
• 1:17:37
  session by saying, goodbye. Do not use the same board again.
• 1:17:43
  And Buddy, the old board with holy water.
• 1:17:46
  Post session, do not speak his name, then Sage the area or have
• 1:17:52
  it blessed especially if it is your home and use Sage to
• 1:17:58
  cleanse yourself. To avoid Zozo set, boundaries
• 1:18:03
  for the ghosts or any Spirits before you start a Ouija board
• 1:18:06
  session. Also don't talk him or try to
• 1:18:11
  summon him. Zozo can possess you, or make
• 1:18:15
  you go crazy causing a potential mental breakdown.
• 1:18:19
  He can also make your nose, bleed.
• 1:18:21
  And he can cause bruises and cuts.
• 1:18:26
  A more recent story, I found online was a young lady named
• 1:18:30
  April. She had decided to play with a
• 1:18:33
  Ouija board with some friends. One night, after moving in, with
• 1:18:36
  her sister, she had dealt with Ouija boards before but had no
• 1:18:41
  negative impact previously. When the group sat down and put
• 1:18:45
  their fingers on the planned shed, they didn't open this
• 1:18:48
  session by saying that they mean, no disrespect and letting
• 1:18:52
  them know that they had non-believers in the group.
• 1:18:55
  They asked if anyone was there and the planchette moved to,
• 1:19:00
  yes. Then when they asked, who would
• 1:19:03
  the planchette? Spelled out Zozo. they should
• 1:19:08
  have ended the session there but in Stead they asked what the
• 1:19:12
  spirit wanted and it replied her the group asked, what do you
• 1:19:18
  mean? Who is her?
• 1:19:21
  Zozo then said, I want her. And then spelled the name April.
• 1:19:28
  The spirit then kept spelling out Zozo and I want her.
• 1:19:33
  April, who out of fear lashed out at the board, the board of
• 1:19:36
  then quickly began to spell out death.
• 1:19:39
  After being told not to provoke the spirit further by the rest
• 1:19:43
  of the group who were visibly freaked out.
• 1:19:46
  They would continue to ask questions until the planchette
• 1:19:50
  started to feel hot underneath their fingers.
• 1:19:53
  The planchette then started to spell out Mama.
• 1:19:58
  One of the friends who was too scared refused to play anymore,
• 1:20:02
  then the mood changed. April.
• 1:20:05
  No longer felt like herself. She began to laugh and cry
• 1:20:10
  uncontrollably. And she then began to lash out
• 1:20:14
  at everyone present. As the board continued to spell
• 1:20:17
  out the name of the demon. With those who were more
• 1:20:21
  experienced rushing to say goodbye.
• 1:20:25
  After doing so April, somehow would return back to her old
• 1:20:29
  self, but had no memory of what had transpired.
• 1:20:33
  She was allegedly under the entity's control.
• 1:20:38
  Other than Darren Evans and Rolando's stories, other
• 1:20:42
  possible, encounters other than those self-reported on the
• 1:20:45
  internet. Have been the doors by their
• 1:20:48
  case and Los Angeles in 1972. When after using a Ouija board
• 1:20:54
  she encountered a dark entity that, then plucked, her, and her
• 1:20:59
  family. Another case I have covered
• 1:21:02
  which I'll leave a link to the description below.
• 1:21:06
  The infamous Enfield Poltergeist case which took place in
• 1:21:10
  Enfield. England were a family was
• 1:21:13
  plagued by his Sinister and malevolent Force which occurred
• 1:21:18
  during the years of 1977 to 1979 In 2012 and Tombstone.
• 1:21:27
  Nevada a small group of soldiers were off duty and decided to
• 1:21:32
  mess around with the Ouija board just for fun.
• 1:21:35
  They allegedly made contact with the spirit who told them that he
• 1:21:39
  had died in Tombstone. And on the way back, the man who
• 1:21:44
  was driving the vehicle, allegedly, got possessed and
• 1:21:48
  almost killed the others and a deliberate car crash.
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  Before the demon left him following regaining
• 1:21:56
  Consciousness, the man had no memory of what he had done.
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  I tell Darren Evans story along with some additional information
• 1:22:05
  diving into Zozo on the untold story of the Demonic Zozo House
• 1:22:10
  of Oklahoma linked here on screen.
• 1:22:14
  If you would like to hear the terrifying and harrowing story
• 1:22:18
  of Darren and his family dealing with this entity, Something that
• 1:22:23
  I haven't said publicly until now is that I didn't speak with
• 1:22:27
  Darren directly. But rather with a verified close
• 1:22:31
  friend of his, it went by the name of Butch.
• 1:22:35
  He told me that Darren won't even speak the demons name for
• 1:22:39
  fear of its return that the experience is were very real and
• 1:22:44
  that he had dealt with them for years.
• 1:22:46
  That they nearly destroyed him. For whatever reason, whether
• 1:22:51
  it's the result of an egregore making tulpas Collective
• 1:22:56
  strengthening through a cold or just raise public consciousness.
• 1:23:01
  The demon known as Zozo as become a popular part of modern
• 1:23:06
  paranormal culture. Appearing in numerous books,
• 1:23:09
  movies videos and stories, VA internet forums, and some by
• 1:23:16
  Yours Truly. It certainly shows.
• 1:23:19
  No signs of slowing down and popularity anytime soon.
• 1:23:24
  But make no mistake, Zozo was known for being dangerous, and
• 1:23:29
  should not be sought out or summoned.
• 1:23:33
  The occult is not a joke and should not be practiced by the
• 1:23:37
  majority of people in my opinion.
• 1:23:39
  So please be safe and be smart when dealing with the
• 1:23:43
  Paranormal, especially the darker side of things or you may
• 1:23:48
  just encounter Zozo or another entity from the darkest of
• 1:23:53
  realms. Those of which we will continue
• 1:23:57
  to uncover here on the demonology archives.
• 1:24:02
  I hope you learned something new and if you enjoyed me trying out
• 1:24:05
  this new mini-series and or the video in general, give it a like
• 1:24:10
  share it around and subscribe with notifications on and leave.
• 1:24:15
  A comment letting me know your thoughts down below.
• 1:24:18
  Throughout his history. It has been speculated that many
• 1:24:22
  have been played by an ancient demonic Force.
• 1:24:27
  From Mesopotamia, to more modern times.
• 1:24:32
  The evil and terrifying entity as said to enter our world
• 1:24:36
  Enrique, have these dwell with them.
• 1:24:42
  When a seemingly normal family disregards, the warning and
• 1:24:46
  partakes in multiple Ouija boards sessions.
• 1:24:49
  What happened next nearly destroyed them This is the
• 1:24:54
  untold story of the Demonic Zozo House of Oklahoma.
• 1:25:00
  And the abhorrent creature stalks, its walls.
• 1:25:41
  Oklahoma City. A small, but growing city in the
• 1:25:45
  heartland of America. Known for Blue Collar, work, and
• 1:25:50
  brick, and mortar shops. Red Dirt at sports.
• 1:25:56
  Would soon become known for something much darker.
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  A teenager by the name of Darren Evans was growing up here.
• 1:26:06
  A normal Boy, by all accounts. Doing things that any teenagers
• 1:26:11
  would enjoy. Hanging out with friends
• 1:26:14
  Shenanigans here and there. And dating girls.
• 1:26:20
  He began dating a girl named Brandy.
• 1:26:22
  Who attended school with him. And the two often found
• 1:26:26
  themselves visiting each other as often as they could. whether
• 1:26:31
  that was walking to and from school, Between classes.
• 1:26:36
  Or visiting each other's homes. One day, while Brandy's home was
• 1:26:41
  having some Plumbing work done on some pipes, located
• 1:26:45
  underneath the house. The plumber doing the work was
• 1:26:49
  soon, make a strange Discovery located below the foundation of
• 1:26:54
  the home. Covered in dirt was an old Ouija
• 1:26:59
  board. The front letters were partially
• 1:27:01
  buried and the back of the board.
• 1:27:05
  Was solid black and color. Off to the side of where the
• 1:27:09
  board was found was an aged planchette.
• 1:27:14
  What made this finding even more bizarre was that four old jars
• 1:27:18
  sat on the corners of the board speckled with dirt as well.
• 1:27:25
  Thinking, perhaps the kids had stashed the board away and
• 1:27:28
  forgot about it. The worker told the young couple
• 1:27:31
  after his work was done about what he had found.
• 1:27:36
  And it's from here, that things seemingly take a darker turn.
• 1:27:41
  Upon examining the discovery began to brush the Dirt away
• 1:27:45
  from the jars. They were then shocked by what
• 1:27:48
  they found. Inside each one of the jars
• 1:27:52
  sitting on the four corners of the board.
• 1:27:56
  Or the decaying bodies of blackbirds.
• 1:27:59
  Congealed blood and matter, still present.
• 1:28:05
  Bewildered. But intrigued.
• 1:28:08
  They sat the jars off to the side and picked up the board. as
• 1:28:13
  soon as his fingers made contact with the board, Darren seemed to
• 1:28:17
  have an instant connection with it.
• 1:28:20
  And with this soon, came a burning curiosity to examine it.
• 1:28:26
  And this curiosity would manifest in to obsession with
• 1:28:32
  us. The couple took the board inside
• 1:28:35
  the home where they spoke with Brandy's mother.
• 1:28:39
  She actively practiced the Wiccan religion but had no idea
• 1:28:43
  who could have put the board there.
• 1:28:46
  Several days later, curious, as most teenagers are, Darren was
• 1:28:52
  an avid music fan. And one night after building up
• 1:28:56
  the courage to do it. He decided he was going to
• 1:29:00
  contact the deceased singer of the popular band ACDC.
• 1:29:06
  A man named, Ronald Belfort Scott, using the board.
• 1:29:11
  Scott had passed away from alcohol poisoning.
• 1:29:14
  In 1980. After lighting, several candles
• 1:29:18
  laying the board with letters facing towards him and placing
• 1:29:22
  the planchette upon the board. He began his session.
• 1:29:27
  At first, nothing seemed to happen.
• 1:29:31
  But Darren will still feeling this other worldly connection to
• 1:29:35
  something within the boards itself.
• 1:29:38
  After trying for half an hour. To his shock and amazement.
• 1:29:43
  The plant Shack began to move. Slowly at first.
• 1:29:49
  Then frantically began to move by itself. moving from Z to, oh,
• 1:29:56
  Z to owe over and over and over and over again.
• 1:30:01
  Spelling out the name Sozo. Shocked and unsure of what or
• 1:30:09
  who he had contacted. Darren said goodbye in an
• 1:30:13
  attempt to end the session. Before his eyes, he saw the
• 1:30:17
  planchette spell out. And then it threw itself across
• 1:30:24
  the room. And now terrified and
• 1:30:27
  bewildered, Darren ran out of his room.
• 1:30:29
  Tried to make sense of what it just taken place.
• 1:30:34
  But this was just the beginning. What was to come?
• 1:30:38
  it started with horrible night, terrors He would wake up on able
• 1:30:43
  to move or speak. It would hear whispering in his
• 1:30:47
  ears. These episodes that night were
• 1:30:50
  soon followed by banging and knocking throughout his house
• 1:30:54
  during the daytime. As well as a constant feeling.
• 1:30:58
  As if you was being watched by something.
• 1:31:01
  He couldn't see. But despite the presence he was
• 1:31:05
  feeling. Darren now Saudi answers his
• 1:31:08
  ever-growing list of questions. It's what exactly?
• 1:31:12
  He had uncovered. So, he continued to hold
• 1:31:16
  sessions with the board for better.
• 1:31:20
  Or For Worse. Darren would later quote, this
• 1:31:24
  the sessions now were as intense and paranormal as anything I've
• 1:31:30
  ever witnessed. A deep and terrible moaning
• 1:31:33
  could be heard emanating through the walls after these sessions.
• 1:31:38
  I developed sleep paralysis and became reclusive to society in
• 1:31:43
  general? I was once again messing with
• 1:31:46
  Zozo and Ouija Boyz, despite the tears of my early.
• 1:31:50
  Session's Which I had promised myself.
• 1:31:53
  I would never do it again. But again, and again.
• 1:31:58
  I did. When not in use the board was
• 1:32:03
  kept in a purple silk cloth and stored in his bedroom closet.
• 1:32:08
  Who would also often go missing? Sometimes for days on end.
• 1:32:14
  When checking back where he had placed it in order to set up an
• 1:32:18
  initiated a new session. The board would seemingly
• 1:32:22
  vanish. Only to reappear at random
• 1:32:25
  times. As if it was the one calling the
• 1:32:28
  shots of when it could be seen and used.
• 1:32:34
  The years came and went and the sessions on the mystical Ouija
• 1:32:38
  board. Continued.
• 1:32:41
  Darren. By this time started inviting
• 1:32:44
  his friends to partake in the sessions and all though.
• 1:32:47
  There's sessions with him. Would prove?
• 1:32:49
  He's not insane. It's of little consolation
• 1:32:52
  considering the tragedy. They would seemingly manifest
• 1:32:56
  later on. Darren's best friend was a man
• 1:33:01
  by the name of Randy. The two had bonded over their
• 1:33:04
  love for the band, ACDC in high school and had been Inseparable
• 1:33:09
  ever since. Randi's Idol also being the late
• 1:33:13
  Bond Scott. Whose lifestyle seemingly
• 1:33:16
  imprinted upon the youthful teams Once Upon a Time and
• 1:33:20
  perhaps would ultimately lead to the downfall of one of them by
• 1:33:26
  now Darren was living in his own apartment and working
• 1:33:30
  construction. At a job site he was on he would
• 1:33:35
  make a strange but familiar to Discovery.
• 1:33:39
  As he was digging down into the Earth, he found what appeared to
• 1:33:43
  be a jar. Upon picking it up to discard
• 1:33:46
  it. He wiped away the dirt and
• 1:33:49
  debris only to be shocked by its familiar contents.
• 1:33:54
  Alone and behold. Within the jar, was a congealed
• 1:33:58
  and rotting blackbird. Extremely similar if not
• 1:34:03
  identical to the ones initially found alongside the Ouija board
• 1:34:08
  underneath his high school girlfriend's home all these
• 1:34:12
  years ago. It was particularly weird, not
• 1:34:16
  just because of this but the fact that he had founded digging
• 1:34:21
  down deep into the Earth. He wandered over the odds of
• 1:34:26
  this and although he had no way of knowing for sure, His gut
• 1:34:31
  began to tell him that there was some kind of Witchcraft or cold
• 1:34:35
  expertise at play here. Perhaps someone or group of
• 1:34:40
  people or knowingly contacting, this entity known as Soso.
• 1:34:45
  But for what remained? To be known.
• 1:34:49
  One evening in 1985. Darren and Randy were relaxing
• 1:34:54
  at Darren's apartment when they decided to host a session on the
• 1:34:58
  Ouija board. Randy more than anything wanted
• 1:35:02
  to try and make contact with his late Idol.
• 1:35:05
  Bon Scott. While wearing a Highway to Hell
• 1:35:10
  AC DC shirt. Randy's intense clear.
• 1:35:14
  The two dimmed the lights, LED a couple of candles and began the
• 1:35:19
  session upon the board. They made contact within a few
• 1:35:24
  minutes. Once the planchette was moving.
• 1:35:28
  Randy exclaimed. We want to talk to bond, Scott
• 1:35:32
  of ACDC. With this sentence, the plain
• 1:35:38
  chess. Seemingly obliged.
• 1:35:41
  It moved in circles. Eventually spelling out a y e.
• 1:35:47
  M, a t e. The two looked at each other, an
• 1:35:51
  amazing. The Entity was using Australia
• 1:35:54
  and dialects. and for anyone who doesn't know, Bon Scott was
• 1:35:59
  Australia. After several more questions,
• 1:36:02
  both of the young men were convinced they were speaking
• 1:36:06
  with their Idol. The spirit seemed to know every
• 1:36:09
  little detail to any question. They asked during the session
• 1:36:14
  The Entity, then made a strange request from the men.
• 1:36:18
  It asked him to lie to cigarette.
• 1:36:20
  And place it in the hole in the plain jet.
• 1:36:24
  But proceeded to make both of them laugh.
• 1:36:26
  Also made them quite spooked as well.
• 1:36:29
  So they lit a couple cigarettes. One for each of them.
• 1:36:34
  And one for this entity. They took a few drags to keep it
• 1:36:38
  lit. and then placed it Cherry side up and the planchette hold
• 1:36:44
  The planchette and spelled out. Thanks. they then watched an
• 1:36:48
  utter amazement as the Cherry of the cigarette lit up.
• 1:36:53
  As if Bond himself was taking Puffs off of him. but this
• 1:36:58
  amusement was short lived. Once the cigarette had seemingly
• 1:37:03
  been smoked. The planchette began to spell
• 1:37:07
  something very different. It's spelled Fu, Randy, I will
• 1:37:13
  have your soul. And I'll see you in hell Zeo.
• 1:37:20
  CEO. Terrified.
• 1:37:22
  The men quickly into the session by saying goodbye and tossing
• 1:37:27
  the board outside. The second story apartment
• 1:37:29
  balcony door. Clearly scared and upset.
• 1:37:34
  Randy also didn't take kindly to threats.
• 1:37:38
  He began cussing out zoso with complete and utter rage.
• 1:37:42
  The board would later be returned by his downstairs
• 1:37:45
  neighbor. And after this session, a series
• 1:37:49
  of Lowe's for both of them seemed to manifest in the years
• 1:37:53
  to come influenced by the lifestyle of his Idol.
• 1:37:58
  Randy fell victim to alcoholism. He soon would lose his wife to
• 1:38:03
  divorce and have split custody with his son.
• 1:38:07
  And all the many opportunities presented themselves for Randy
• 1:38:11
  to better his life. For one reason or another.
• 1:38:15
  He was always just too far away to be able to grasp them.
• 1:38:19
  He often said to dare, I feel like I'm in a prison.
• 1:38:24
  And I can't escape. For Old Times Sake, the two did
• 1:38:29
  one last Ouija board session together in 2005.
• 1:38:33
  And which Randy asked the board, how he would die.
• 1:38:38
  The board responded. In a car.
• 1:38:42
  At night. Alone. in 2007, after spending
• 1:38:47
  the evening with Darren, the last words he would say to him,
• 1:38:51
  Or Darren. I will see you in hell.
• 1:38:55
  The next morning Darren received a phone call.
• 1:38:58
  From Randy's girlfriend Alicia. Saying that Randy never made it
• 1:39:02
  home after he left. Instead he had passed away in a
• 1:39:07
  violent head on collision. Ultimately passing away in a car
• 1:39:12
  at night. This devastating passing along
• 1:39:18
  with the frequent contact, with the entity known as Zozo.
• 1:39:22
  The years led to a Fascination and borderline of session with
• 1:39:27
  the search for answers for Darren Evans.
• 1:39:31
  During the time before. And after Randy's death, he had
• 1:39:35
  been living in a home in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, that
• 1:39:39
  would become synonymous with the demons name.
• 1:39:43
  It was here that the worst afflictions brought on by The
• 1:39:46
  Entity would take place to him and his family.
• 1:39:51
  Darren's fascination with the occult led him to Hanging On to
• 1:39:55
  and possessing multiple Ouija boards and other various occult
• 1:40:00
  objects. It was here that he began to
• 1:40:03
  study on a much more in-depth and organized bases.
• 1:40:08
  Just trying to figure out who or what does it was?
• 1:40:13
  But this research would soon be at erupted.
• 1:40:18
  And this home lived himself. As his wife Kathleen and their
• 1:40:22
  young daughter at the time. During a session with his wife
• 1:40:26
  Kathleen, one evening. While their daughter slept rooms
• 1:40:30
  away. Zozo would once again, make
• 1:40:34
  itself president of their lives but this time seemed to take
• 1:40:38
  possession of Darren, Kathleen trembled with fear and baited
• 1:40:44
  breath as something stared at her through Darren's eyes.
• 1:40:49
  Something that clearly wasn't human.
• 1:40:53
  He then turned violent. Attempting to attack her.
• 1:40:58
  Fortunately, for Kathleen, she was able to say goodbye and get
• 1:41:02
  away before any harm could be done to her.
• 1:41:06
  Several minutes later, Darren would come back to himself.
• 1:41:10
  With no memory of what had taken place.
• 1:41:15
  After this session, things seemed to escalate and intensity
• 1:41:20
  sounds began to wrap throughout the entire home.
• 1:41:25
  From knocking. To hissing.
• 1:41:29
  Footsteps and banging. All seemingly with no
• 1:41:34
  explainable origin, the family. Got so terrified that they
• 1:41:40
  sectioned off a particular bedroom upstairs, calling it
• 1:41:44
  their safe room. One night.
• 1:41:47
  However, not everyone was within the safe room.
• 1:41:52
  Suddenly an overwhelming sense of Terror creeped upon Darren as
• 1:41:57
  he was trying to sleep. He rushed to the safe room to
• 1:42:01
  attempt to stop what he was feeling.
• 1:42:04
  But quickly realizing he couldn't leave his family
• 1:42:06
  behind. He rushed back out of the room
• 1:42:09
  and then attempt to gather them. Bring them to safety as well.
• 1:42:15
  As he was heading towards the stairs.
• 1:42:18
  His daughter had heard his cries and was now at the foot of the
• 1:42:22
  stairs. He was here.
• 1:42:25
  That Darren saw her being lifted by invisible hands into the air.
• 1:42:30
  And carried away from him. Screaming for his child, as she
• 1:42:37
  screamed for her father. Darren ran down the stairs as
• 1:42:41
  fast as he possibly could. But couldn't see her anywhere
• 1:42:45
  inside. He then heard her muffled.
• 1:42:48
  Screams coming from the basement. at first, the door was
• 1:42:53
  locked and would open, but after adrenaline and Brute Force,
• 1:42:59
  Darren thankfully was able to open it.
• 1:43:02
  He then retrieved his hysterical child.
• 1:43:05
  And brought her to the safety of the safe room.
• 1:43:09
  Once inside the room, the family huddled together in fear, as
• 1:43:13
  they can continue to hear movement and noises all
• 1:43:16
  throughout the house. After this abhorrent nightmare
• 1:43:20
  of a situation, the family knew they had to get out of the
• 1:43:24
  house. This situation and the many
• 1:43:27
  other paranormal experiences had led to a lifelong Fascination
• 1:43:32
  for Darren Evans. With the occult finding out just
• 1:43:36
  exactly what Zozo is. The wasn't worth jeopardizing.
• 1:43:41
  His family's safety. It took some time.
• 1:43:46
  But the family would soon relocate to another home.
• 1:43:50
  Once his family was safe. Daniel was able to continue his
• 1:43:55
  deep, dive into the unknown to try and track down and Cypher,
• 1:44:00
  just what this entity could be. And where came from?
• 1:44:05
  and although he knew the topic was vast, I think it went far
• 1:44:09
  deeper than he ever anticipated. whilst trying to dig up more
• 1:44:14
  information, he posted his experiences to an old paranormal
• 1:44:18
  Forum in 2009. And since then, Many, many
• 1:44:25
  people have shared their experiences.
• 1:44:28
  The Demonic Force. Many of which have been
• 1:44:32
  documented and compared by Darren himself on his website.
• 1:44:37
  But these experiences are not just a 21st or even 20th century
• 1:44:42
  phenomenon. They date back far older than
• 1:44:45
  that. Not every fine detail will be
• 1:44:49
  mentioned here, but I will do my best to list the most important
• 1:44:52
  details that I could find in regards to the origin of Zozo.
• 1:44:58
  According to Darren and other online sources.
• 1:45:03
  Zozo in the old Bosque language means blackbird.
• 1:45:07
  Or Crow. The Zoe people of Haiti
• 1:45:11
  practiced, a form of food, do whose rituals involve horrific
• 1:45:14
  scarf vacation, as well as the intake and passing around of
• 1:45:19
  bodily fluids and bizarre rituals. there, which doctors
• 1:45:25
  are called Zozo and where demonic looking masks as part of
• 1:45:30
  their death ritual, when someone is passing away, They lift up
• 1:45:35
  the mask at the moment of death to take in the person's final
• 1:45:39
  breath. This is a parently done to
• 1:45:42
  absorb the soul of the person. To gain more spiritual power.
• 1:45:48
  Zozo also in the Malay language is the same as it is in English.
• 1:45:53
  But it translates to wandering spirit.
• 1:45:56
  Which is a spirit they believed to steal people's Souls while
• 1:46:00
  they sleep. Which is also bizarre because
• 1:46:04
  sleep is often considered the cousin of death.
• 1:46:08
  Zozo has been called the minister of deception.
• 1:46:12
  It is known to convince you that it is a deceased loved one or
• 1:46:15
  friend. Or even someone you've idolized.
• 1:46:19
  when in reality, It's not. Sessions typically start out
• 1:46:25
  friendly and inviting. But soon, turn malevolent and
• 1:46:30
  dangerous. During his research over the
• 1:46:34
  years Daren made contact with and spoke to famous
• 1:46:38
  demonologists. John zaffis who shared with him
• 1:46:42
  that his experience over 40 years of studying the Demonic in
• 1:46:46
  paranormal. The name Zozo, another students
• 1:46:50
  of its name kept coming up in his investigation, which two,
• 1:46:55
  let him see answers as to what it could be.
• 1:46:59
  And some of those investigations when questioned, the demon
• 1:47:04
  stated that it was the son of Satan himself.
• 1:47:08
  Baeza Fest thinks perhaps is with many deities that seem to
• 1:47:12
  be lurking in the shadows. So could be an entity that's
• 1:47:16
  existed far before the founding of Christianity.
• 1:47:21
  Besides evidence showing up in Africa and Egypt.
• 1:47:25
  There's all evidence found linking Zozo to ancient
• 1:47:28
  Mesopotamia as well. Other names Zozo has gone by
• 1:47:33
  throughout the ages have been Zuzu ZaZa and Mama among many
• 1:47:40
  others. The name Zuzu could refer to
• 1:47:44
  puzzles, the fame demon from the film, The Exorcist, which in
• 1:47:49
  reality was a demonic entity from ancient Mesopotamia
• 1:47:52
  religion. It's incredibly strange to not
• 1:47:57
  the fall as well. Zozo was replaced in the story
• 1:48:01
  of The Exorcist. Peter blatty was using it as a
• 1:48:06
  inspiration to write The Exorcist, he changed, Zozo to
• 1:48:11
  possess. Sozos believed to be the demon
• 1:48:15
  that possessed Rowland. It was described as a terrifying
• 1:48:20
  form that first appeared in the Neo Assyrian period roughly
• 1:48:25
  around 9:34 to 6:10 BC. It had a monstrous head
• 1:48:31
  resembling a fierce lion or a dog with horns.
• 1:48:36
  And had an emaciated human body with clawed hands.
• 1:48:41
  A scorpions. To sets of wings.
• 1:48:46
  Won translation reads. I am possessed.
• 1:48:50
  Son of the Lily demons. I have scaled the powerful
• 1:48:56
  mountains. They trembled.
• 1:49:00
  The contrary winds were headed west.
• 1:49:03
  One by one, I broke their wings. Pazuzu and other demons.
• 1:49:09
  Like it were held responsible for ailments like disease.
• 1:49:14
  Fatal death. Nightmares and much more.
• 1:49:19
  Could it be that this ancient demonic Force?
• 1:49:21
  What could be plucking people all the ways modern times.
• 1:49:27
  The demon Zozo is also mentioned in the French.
• 1:49:30
  Demonic encyclopedia is one of the demons responsible for
• 1:49:34
  diabolical possession and Corruption.
• 1:49:39
  The possession of a young girl in 1816 is noted as a documented
• 1:49:44
  case, where Zozo among several other demons were present.
• 1:49:50
  Other noteworthy possession cases over the ages, ranging
• 1:49:53
  closer to modern times that bears, as his name, then The
• 1:49:58
  Exorcism of role in do in the 1950s.
• 1:50:01
  Are the possession of doors blither in 1972 and Los Angeles?
• 1:50:08
  The Enfield Poltergeist incident in 1977 in the UK. and as recent
• 1:50:15
  as 2012 for a possession, incident led to attempted murder
• 1:50:23
  other theories with how this entity could communicate with so
• 1:50:26
  many people so quickly and across the globe over the years,
• 1:50:30
  besides Supernatural ability of its own, Would be that his own
• 1:50:35
  reach is perhaps being strengthened by an egregore.
• 1:50:40
  were Collective group of thaw form created by occultists for
• 1:50:45
  certain purpose, However, this seems unlikely considering the
• 1:50:51
  entity doesn't seem to serve any human interests other than to
• 1:50:55
  destroy the person where people's lives, it makes contact
• 1:50:59
  with. Agree.
• 1:51:02
  Gores are, typically formed to bring control over a sum and
• 1:51:05
  deity for the person or groups, bidding.
• 1:51:08
  But perhaps, instead, there is a cold worshiping.
• 1:51:13
  That would make more sense to me.
• 1:51:17
  People who have made contact with the entity vs, Spirit or
• 1:51:20
  Ouija board. They have been asked to chant,
• 1:51:23
  or spell out phrases and Hebrew a lot. which is convinced many
• 1:51:28
  of the intelligence of the being their speaking with what is also
• 1:51:34
  interesting is that the letter Z was actually removed from the
• 1:51:37
  Original Latin alphabet because it was considered too evil when
• 1:51:42
  pronouncing it Was said that once faced with make a death
• 1:51:46
  scream as like that of a quartz. And that it mimicked, the letter
• 1:51:51
  s. Like an evil twin.
• 1:51:55
  Perhaps The Entity uses this name as some sort of mocking
• 1:51:59
  whether to God. Or something else.
• 1:52:03
  One may also ask despite the origin theories and historical
• 1:52:08
  details. That could be linked to this
• 1:52:10
  ancient demonic Force. How would one know if they
• 1:52:14
  encountered such a thing? These are what's known as zozo's
• 1:52:18
  calling cards. When it's being summoned, using
• 1:52:21
  a Ouija board. The obvious is there that the
• 1:52:25
  planchette will begin to move on its own.
• 1:52:28
  But some less obvious signs are there as well as follows.
• 1:52:34
  The planchette will move in a rainbow pattern from side to
• 1:52:37
  side spelling z o z o. Over and over again.
• 1:52:44
  Also known as the rainbow effect.
• 1:52:48
  It can also move and repeating Figure 8 movements.
• 1:52:52
  Like an Infiniti sign. The planchette will spell out
• 1:52:56
  various versions of the Demon's name.
• 1:52:59
  Like Zozo. Zozo.
• 1:53:02
  Zaza The Zuzu or Mama. You may also begin to see
• 1:53:08
  Shadows moving around the area where you were hosting the
• 1:53:11
  session. Like you're seeing through the
• 1:53:14
  thinnest sheep and to a dark world that exists just behind
• 1:53:19
  your vision. And you and whoever you may be
• 1:53:23
  with and they start to feel scared.
• 1:53:26
  Uneasy. Or upset.
• 1:53:29
  Seemingly for no other reason. Before or after this takes
• 1:53:34
  place. When you tell this entity could
• 1:53:37
  buy, typically the best way to close a session.
• 1:53:42
  It may not truly be get by. Because often times.
• 1:53:47
  Depending on how long the session has been for.
• 1:53:50
  I can ever widening door. The Entity may have had just
• 1:53:54
  enough time to sneak in. To begin to wreak havoc upon
• 1:53:58
  your life. And thus begins what many
• 1:54:01
  demonologists and religious leaders alike.
• 1:54:04
  Call them obsession Which is where the entity becomes aware
• 1:54:08
  of you. And begins to Crave You.
• 1:54:12
  Which then leads to oppression. Or begins to inflict various
• 1:54:17
  forms of torture. And an effort to break you down.
• 1:54:21
  Whether that's physically psychologically.
• 1:54:25
  Or spiritually. It will also work to isolate you
• 1:54:29
  from others. Especially those who care about
• 1:54:32
  you. And finally, if you are
• 1:54:36
  incredibly unlucky. Possession.
• 1:54:39
  Or the entity finally takes control of you.
• 1:54:43
  As it's a vessel, all of which to me are absolutely terrifying
• 1:54:48
  in every imaginable way. Daren Evans to the day continues
• 1:54:53
  to research the Zozo phenomenon. Having been involved in the
• 1:54:57
  number of paranormal investigation shows and very
• 1:55:02
  Southern public and private events.
• 1:55:05
  As well as radio shows and podcasts.
• 1:55:08
  Many of which he goes into various degrees of details,
• 1:55:11
  regarding his encounters, other people's encounters, and other
• 1:55:16
  various historical details. He also in 2016 compiled, his
• 1:55:21
  years worth of research and experiences and to a book also
• 1:55:26
  titled the Zozo phenomenal. Which you can read and learn
• 1:55:29
  more about the agency in the topic is a whole if you're
• 1:55:33
  interested. I'll link it below.
• 1:55:37
  I also pulled a lot of this information from various
• 1:55:39
  interviews which I'll also be linking below as well as an
• 1:55:43
  older website. He runs that doesn't seem to
• 1:55:46
  have been updated in a while. The supplied me with much
• 1:55:49
  information to get the story as cohesive as I possibly could.
• 1:55:55
  I also sourced the photos of the apparitions from the site.
• 1:55:59
  Some of which were taken by Evans himself over the years.
• 1:56:03
  So does this demon or an ancient Force truly exist?
• 1:56:08
  Is it some kind of elder god a pre-christian deity or being?
• 1:56:14
  Or manifestation practices. To Darren Evans.
• 1:56:21
  Just make it up. And did thousands of people find
• 1:56:24
  it interesting enough to make up their own storys.
• 1:56:28
  And partake in a mass charade that was last year's.
• 1:56:32
  All of these answers may never truly be known.
• 1:56:35
  The, my opinion is the, I think not only given the wide array of
• 1:56:40
  strange, coincidences and details throughout history from
• 1:56:45
  the origins to the stories of this creature, existing and
• 1:56:48
  distant past to the present. Literally thousands of people
• 1:56:53
  from casual interest in the occult to more hardcore
• 1:56:57
  fanatics. Religious Scholars.
• 1:57:01
  Demonologists. And more.
• 1:57:04
  Climbing to have had experiences with this thing with all of
• 1:57:08
  these details in mind. I certainly think it very well
• 1:57:12
  could be real. I do think there are things that
• 1:57:15
  exist in the shadows. Things, we can't see your touch.
• 1:57:20
  That are there. Watching and waiting to strike
• 1:57:24
  when an if the opportunity presents itself.
• 1:57:29
  So, my advice to all of you to avoid any possibility of opening
• 1:57:33
  a door that you can't close. Inviting evil into your life. is
• 1:57:39
  the don't mess with Ouija boards.
• 1:57:43
  These things are not toys, whether you believe it or not,
• 1:57:46
  these entities do exist. And they believe in you.
• 1:57:51
  So, keep away from them. Because you might just let
• 1:57:54
  something in that won't want to leave.
• 1:57:58
  Even if you say goodbye. I told this story before in a
• 1:58:08
  video called NASA engineer claims demons attacked him.
• 1:58:12
  The bill fails story. After making this video, build
• 1:58:17
  personally reached out to me and thanked me for sharing his
• 1:58:20
  story. But there was some information
• 1:58:22
  that needed to be corrected. After lots of back and forth
• 1:58:27
  chatting with one another. I can say with great honor that
• 1:58:31
  bill is chosen me to help clear the air and get the most
• 1:58:34
  accurate retelling of his harrowing story out to the
• 1:58:37
  world. Builded want to include his
• 1:58:40
  reasons for sharing his story in the first place.
• 1:58:44
  To expose Satan to offer. Hope that there is a way out.
• 1:58:49
  And to pass on the lessons learned from this.
• 1:58:52
  What worked and what did not work?
• 1:58:55
  Without being said, he was also generous enough to provide a
• 1:58:59
  signed copy of his amazing book which was the source material
• 1:59:03
  for the original video, as well as this now.
• 1:59:06
  More accurate retelling, So please stay tuned till the end
• 1:59:10
  of this video for that giveaway opportunity.
• 1:59:14
  Now, let's begin telling this absolutely incredible, Tale.
• 1:59:43
  After a chance encounter with a strange ritual bill would find
• 1:59:47
  himself plagued by a merciless evil one that threatened to room
• 1:59:52
  is very existence. Yet he was just as haunted by a
• 1:59:58
  burning desire to know the truth about what was tormenting him.
• 2:00:04
  First things first, and the original video, I referenced
• 2:00:08
  that bill was a NASA scientist. However, this isn't totally
• 2:00:12
  true. He was however, an operations
• 2:00:16
  quality manager for a NASA subcontractor.
• 2:00:20
  So although there was misinformation repeated over
• 2:00:23
  many mediums, this is what he truly did.
• 2:00:26
  So there was a connection but he did not directly work for NASA.
• 2:00:32
  The claim that he worked for NASA was erroneously added to
• 2:00:36
  the television show that bill did and he tried to get the
• 2:00:39
  truth out since Bill would find his life, taking a sudden, turn
• 2:00:44
  when he and his wife finalized their divorce in 2002.
• 2:00:49
  Feeling burnt out and needing a fresh start in life.
• 2:00:52
  He quit his job in the Aerospace industry and moved to his
• 2:00:57
  hometown of Arlington, Texas. To be with his younger brother
• 2:01:01
  Bob and reconnect after many years.
• 2:01:06
  Being burned out from high-stress jobs, Bill searched
• 2:01:10
  around for something anything different to do with his life
• 2:01:13
  and his time. Before long, he accepted a job
• 2:01:17
  at a water purification company. And his brother, Bob joined him
• 2:01:21
  later. So they had the opportunity to
• 2:01:24
  work together. During this time, he looked
• 2:01:28
  around for a house and found one well within his budget that was
• 2:01:32
  a good fit for him. And the deal was made.
• 2:01:36
  In fact, the deal was so good that it seemed almost too good
• 2:01:40
  to be true. Early during bills employment.
• 2:01:44
  At his new job is employer had received a call from a client
• 2:01:48
  asking for someone to be at her house at exactly 5 p.m. not a
• 2:01:54
  minute before or a minute after wanting to prove his competence
• 2:01:59
  to his fellow co-workers, Bill accepted the job.
• 2:02:04
  He kept a Keen Eye on his watch as he drove the Suburban streets
• 2:02:08
  of Arlington. To make sure that he would
• 2:02:11
  arrive right on schedule as promised.
• 2:02:15
  When he reached his destination outside an ordinary looking
• 2:02:18
  home, the first noises he heard were the muffled screams of a
• 2:02:22
  woman from inside the house. Raising an eyebrow and feeling
• 2:02:27
  that something wasn't quite right and hoping that they would
• 2:02:31
  just cancel the appointment altogether.
• 2:02:34
  He walked to the front door and knocked at exactly five pm.
• 2:02:40
  At first, there didn't appear to be any interruption in the
• 2:02:43
  woman's yelling. he couldn't make out much of what she was
• 2:02:47
  saying, till heard on mistakenly in the Name of Christ, I command
• 2:02:54
  you to leave these men. After ring, the doorbell several
• 2:02:59
  times with no response. And knowing that the woman was
• 2:03:03
  just on the other side of the door, continuing her orders.
• 2:03:08
  He knocked. Then the door opened.
• 2:03:13
  And a strange woman stood in the small crack that had been
• 2:03:16
  created. She stared at him with a blank
• 2:03:19
  expression as though looking through him.
• 2:03:23
  Behind her. He could make out the figures of
• 2:03:25
  three men on their knees in a darkened room at that, bill
• 2:03:31
  bolted to his company van as fast as his legs could carry
• 2:03:35
  him. He called his employer and told
• 2:03:38
  them that he would never take a call from that client again.
• 2:03:42
  Although the interaction was strange Bill simply thought at
• 2:03:46
  the time that these three young men had done something terribly
• 2:03:48
  wrong and that this was the woman's way of punishing them.
• 2:03:53
  Later that night bills, heavy bed shook violently or what
• 2:03:58
  seemed like several seconds? Almost to the point of knocking
• 2:04:02
  him off of it. All he could do was be tossed
• 2:04:06
  back and forth. And hold on as best as he could.
• 2:04:11
  Still in of what had just happened.
• 2:04:13
  Bill said about attempting to see, just what it happened and
• 2:04:17
  what it caused this. Although wide awake and knowing
• 2:04:21
  what it happened was real. He somehow convinced himself
• 2:04:25
  that he must have simply been dreaming.
• 2:04:28
  So, he laid back down and slowly drifted back off into Dreamland.
• 2:04:34
  The following morning, nothing else in his house appeared to
• 2:04:37
  have been shaken by the quake. The clocks in his room.
• 2:04:41
  Read 3, mm. And he wasn't terribly convinced
• 2:04:45
  that it was in fact in earthquake that had caused the
• 2:04:48
  disturbance of the first place. later that day, you would search
• 2:04:52
  to see if an earthquake had in fact, been recorded the previous
• 2:04:56
  night But no such Quake had happened.
• 2:05:01
  After the incident, dove birds would began gathering in the
• 2:05:05
  trees outside of his home. So much so that the realtor who
• 2:05:10
  sold him, the house was baffled. Quoting bill here.
• 2:05:16
  I was on the phone with the real estate agent, when the trees in
• 2:05:19
  my yard became full of doves. There were hundreds of them.
• 2:05:24
  They were so loud that I could not hear the conversation.
• 2:05:27
  I had to call the agent back later.
• 2:05:31
  This was within a day or so of me, moving in.
• 2:05:34
  And then it never happened again.
• 2:05:37
  Strange. No doubt.
• 2:05:38
  That only the mirror, beginning of many strange things to come.
• 2:05:44
  Bill started to notice the pervasive and almost smothering
• 2:05:47
  smell of bacon in his home. As if someone were constantly
• 2:05:52
  cooking an entire package on his stove.
• 2:05:55
  Other odors began filling his home at random times as well.
• 2:06:00
  From the pervasive scent of ozone.
• 2:06:03
  To perfume. Then more intense.
• 2:06:06
  Odors like those of sulfur. And feces.
• 2:06:12
  The atmosphere from here. Would grow ever darker?
• 2:06:16
  Each time. Bill seemed to cross the
• 2:06:18
  threshold and was home day after day.
• 2:06:21
  The feeling of his house, crew more heavy and for Bode.
• 2:06:26
  With the strong feeling of Doom. And Evil.
• 2:06:30
  Mysterious areas of cold temperatures in the house became
• 2:06:34
  normal. Although bill would try his best
• 2:06:37
  to find an explanation, it was caused by the AC or pour
• 2:06:42
  insulation, or a draft. Obviously being a smart guy.
• 2:06:48
  I'm glad took so many steps to debunk things.
• 2:06:52
  But some manifestations are just not explainable as we'll
• 2:06:57
  continue to see. At night, he'd experienced
• 2:07:00
  things. That would only get darker and
• 2:07:03
  more Sinister. He would awaken the early
• 2:07:05
  morning hours to this sensation of a small creature like that of
• 2:07:11
  a cat or a dog running across his feet.
• 2:07:16
  But his dogs were killed at night.
• 2:07:19
  They would also grow and even bark, it seemingly nothing and
• 2:07:24
  different areas of the house. I did all want to know that I
• 2:07:28
  had previously mentioned, the various smells that would invade
• 2:07:31
  bills home, one of them being that of fecal matter.
• 2:07:35
  This did not occur because of any animals that bill owned.
• 2:07:40
  The activity would continue, however, would be so slide as to
• 2:07:45
  be easily ignored. Or even if it couldn't be
• 2:07:48
  ignored. Bill would simply accept that
• 2:07:51
  even if he did not know of a logical explanation, it was out
• 2:07:55
  there somewhere. The watershed moment for bill
• 2:07:59
  came when he sat down to watch TV one evening.
• 2:08:03
  Suddenly he watched as a water bottle that had been sitting on
• 2:08:07
  his kitchen counter from the night before.
• 2:08:10
  Flew across the room and bounced off the wall next to his head.
• 2:08:15
  It was at this point that bill and all of his logic and
• 2:08:20
  intelligence and experience had to finally admit that he was
• 2:08:25
  dealing with something that fell under the realm of the
• 2:08:29
  Paranormal. For he had no other explanation.
• 2:08:33
  No, other reasoning. That would make sense of the
• 2:08:36
  months of unseen forces. Toying with him at this final
• 2:08:41
  acceptance, that this was, in fact, something Supernatural.
• 2:08:46
  The phenomenon began to kick into a much higher gear. and the
• 2:08:50
  phenomena deepened Beyond just sights, an affected bills
• 2:08:55
  surrounding Bill began to hear his he describes.
• 2:09:00
  Evil hissing. Sounds And these would wake him
• 2:09:04
  up and would be accompanied by awful scratches on various parts
• 2:09:10
  of his body. Bizarrely all white colored
• 2:09:13
  things within his home began to be turned black.
• 2:09:18
  Black stains would appear on the carpets and walls. for no
• 2:09:23
  apparent reason, and with no discernible cause As bill would
• 2:09:29
  tell me. It took a lot of effort to scrub
• 2:09:32
  these dark spots and I never did truly know why they showed up or
• 2:09:37
  what the purpose or message. They were supposed to convey
• 2:09:41
  other than just trying to unsettle me.
• 2:09:44
  Electronic technicians frequent at his house often due to the
• 2:09:48
  constant flickering of Lights. Failure of his computer and
• 2:09:53
  television. And many of them stated that
• 2:09:56
  they had never seen anything like it, and all of their
• 2:09:59
  experiences, his phone would call random people in the middle
• 2:10:04
  of the night while he slept. Always around 3 a.m. in the
• 2:10:08
  morning, they'll called his phone company to attempt to find
• 2:10:12
  a solution to the problem enduring, his phone call with
• 2:10:16
  the representative, a strange aggressive voice could be heard
• 2:10:21
  speaking in a language that neither of them could understand
• 2:10:25
  the representative confirmed that they heard it as well and
• 2:10:30
  were baffled. As they used to secure a line
• 2:10:33
  that a third party wouldn't be able to hijack.
• 2:10:37
  One night while calling his friend, Michael who happened to
• 2:10:40
  be a sound engineer. The same voice appeared on the
• 2:10:44
  phone line. Bill told Michael to hang up and
• 2:10:48
  that the voice was evil. Michael had already turned on
• 2:10:53
  his recording equipment, which he used to record plenty of
• 2:10:56
  podcasts in other, auditory material.
• 2:11:00
  However, upon reviewing the tape recording.
• 2:11:03
  He could only hear Bill, speaking on the other end of the
• 2:11:06
  line, for which he had no explanation.
• 2:11:10
  I've heard of this happening in other cases, as well. that
• 2:11:14
  demonic forces, often manipulate things to a nerve a person in
• 2:11:18
  manifest themselves, for example, over the phone And
• 2:11:23
  another video I told the story of the case of a woman named
• 2:11:27
  Julia and psychologist. Dr. Richard Gallagher Where the
• 2:11:32
  line was Secure? And yet low evil voices,
• 2:11:36
  invaded. The calls between Gallagher and
• 2:11:40
  the priest who was involved at that time.
• 2:11:44
  Bill needing more confirmation that other people were seeing
• 2:11:48
  what he was seeing that he wasn't losing his mind.
• 2:11:52
  Decided to invite his brother over and asked him to stand in
• 2:11:57
  his closet with the lights off. Bob, stood in his brother's
• 2:12:01
  closet with the door closed, he would emerge a little later
• 2:12:05
  disgruntled. And Bill had asked, if he had
• 2:12:08
  seen anything, he replied. I think your closet needs to be
• 2:12:13
  cleaned out. Bob would later reveal that
• 2:12:16
  during his time in the closet two large boxes had fallen
• 2:12:20
  behind him. And the cord for the overhead
• 2:12:23
  light at the face. as if it was grabbed by an unseen hand, it
• 2:12:30
  spooked him enough that he didn't wish to talk about if
• 2:12:33
  further. Bill and Bob loved to golf as it
• 2:12:37
  was one of the few times that they would get to come together,
• 2:12:40
  an unwind and catch up on what was going on in each other's
• 2:12:44
  lives. One day, the trunk to Bob's Car
• 2:12:48
  slams shut, while they were tempting to retrieve their golf
• 2:12:51
  clubs. They were unable to recreate the
• 2:12:54
  same occurrence on the road as the trunk required, some effort
• 2:12:58
  to close, there was no wind to speak of on that day.
• 2:13:04
  At one point when Bob was at Bill's house and his den sitting
• 2:13:08
  at his bar while riding down information for her
• 2:13:12
  appointments. He began to hear something
• 2:13:14
  rustling around in the trash can out of his sight.
• 2:13:18
  He ignored it for a time soon. Thought that possibly bills dogs
• 2:13:23
  were getting into the trash. So he stood up and walked over
• 2:13:28
  to inspected. However, Not only was the trash
• 2:13:32
  can untouched. But he also had to pass.
• 2:13:35
  The dogs were still in their kennels in order to inspected.
• 2:13:41
  On another occasion. He briefly used bills house as a
• 2:13:45
  pit stop on the way to an appointment.
• 2:13:48
  And after using the rest Forum, Bob noticed that the sway light
• 2:13:52
  hanging from the ceiling was moving back and forth.
• 2:13:55
  Quite erratically. He assumed it must have been in
• 2:13:59
  an AC unit, making it move. It was only later when asking
• 2:14:04
  Bill about it, that he learned that, in fact, there was no AC
• 2:14:09
  unit anywhere near that light. When Bob and his wife were at
• 2:14:13
  Bill's house for dinner. Bill watched the television and
• 2:14:18
  saw something move out of the corner of his eyes.
• 2:14:21
  He stood up immediately wanting to make sure that he wasn't the
• 2:14:25
  only one seeing whatever this thing was.
• 2:14:29
  He quickly had Bob sit down and watched the TV to see if he
• 2:14:33
  noticed anything out of the corner of his eyes as well.
• 2:14:36
  Soon, a look of shock came over Bob's face.
• 2:14:41
  As he saw something move in and out of his closet.
• 2:14:45
  When Bob's wife sat down, she gasped after a moment as well.
• 2:14:50
  Then all three began to sketch with what they had seen.
• 2:14:54
  And all of them, drew the same thing.
• 2:14:57
  Small. 2 to 3 foot tall beans. That looked like emps.
• 2:15:04
  For those unaware. And sardine demons from European
• 2:15:08
  folklore and myth at her depicted as small mischievous
• 2:15:13
  Goblin. Like And were the familiar
• 2:15:17
  spirits of witches. Or even the devil's personal
• 2:15:21
  attendance. After this, bill told them
• 2:15:25
  everything he had been experiencing and Bob offered to
• 2:15:29
  let him stay over to get away from it.
• 2:15:31
  All everything that was tormenting him.
• 2:15:34
  He declined. His reasoning was that he felt
• 2:15:38
  that if he left, it would be like running away and letting
• 2:15:43
  whatever was attacking him when the battle. following this, his
• 2:15:49
  bedroom became a constant source of Torment as the bed would
• 2:15:54
  Shake sometimes violently and other times only just enough to
• 2:16:00
  keep him awake. Small hands, would depress his
• 2:16:04
  mattress. And hit him from underneath.
• 2:16:08
  He would feel invisible being slide into bed next to him and
• 2:16:12
  often heard loud knocks bangs. And scratches from inside the
• 2:16:18
  walls. He would receive scratches and
• 2:16:22
  bruises without explanation. He then began to see The
• 2:16:26
  Apparition of a ghost cat and strange cold Mists in his house.
• 2:16:33
  The home at this point was a Place full of an Abyssal
• 2:16:37
  foreboding presence. Build desperately wanted.
• 2:16:41
  All of this to stop to reclaim his home.
• 2:16:45
  And his life. He began to research the occult.
• 2:16:50
  The Paranormal in anything and everything online, and in
• 2:16:55
  literature that could give him a better understanding of what he
• 2:16:59
  was dealing with and possibly how to remedy it.
• 2:17:03
  I can relate heavily with this. All though, I'm very fortunate
• 2:17:07
  that my main experience is, as I told them the Willow Street
• 2:17:11
  Nightmare and the Sedgwick horror. also known as my
• 2:17:15
  personal experience is took place when I was a child.
• 2:17:20
  It is led me down the path of a lifelong fascination with the
• 2:17:23
  Paranormal and the Demonic. I think for me anyways and
• 2:17:28
  perhaps bill as well at its part of, not only trying to find a
• 2:17:33
  solution in the act of situation.
• 2:17:35
  But to later cope, With just what we had experienced.
• 2:17:42
  The activity was also starting to take a toll on Bill's health,
• 2:17:46
  he found himself sick off often. And taking trips to the
• 2:17:50
  hospital, much more than he used to.
• 2:17:53
  Part of these new ailments included, the Searing and
• 2:17:57
  horrendous pain of cluster headaches, as bill would tell me
• 2:18:02
  in our conversations. Watch a YouTube video on them to
• 2:18:06
  get an idea of just how bad they are.
• 2:18:09
  They call them on a living headaches.
• 2:18:12
  Because they are so severe that people have on alive to end the
• 2:18:17
  pain. Cody.
• 2:18:18
  I would have tried anything to resolve them at that time. it is
• 2:18:22
  said that cluster, headaches are the worst pain, a person can
• 2:18:26
  have And trust me, they are correct.
• 2:18:30
  And continue to efforts to defeat the evil forces.
• 2:18:33
  He now was battling day in and day out.
• 2:18:37
  Build a decided to call paranormal investigators.
• 2:18:41
  Teams of people who brought state of the art equipment, to
• 2:18:45
  answer the question of if the supernatural existed.
• 2:18:49
  And if there is life after death, he went through many
• 2:18:55
  teams. None of which seemed to be very
• 2:18:58
  scientific. According to Bill, that is until
• 2:19:01
  he found the team known, as, did you see that or do you why?
• 2:19:06
  As T, which to build had the right kind of logical and
• 2:19:11
  rational mindset to properly, investigate, the beings that
• 2:19:16
  infested his life He found their number and dialed it right away.
• 2:19:22
  From here, Bill's life would only continue to go down a
• 2:19:27
  rabbit hole. He never would have found
• 2:19:29
  himself going down, otherwise, It was a Saturday night when
• 2:19:34
  Bill heard a knock at his door. Or sometime.
• 2:19:37
  Now he had been inviting groups of strangers into his home, to
• 2:19:42
  investigate the happenings in his house.
• 2:19:45
  He had seen many come and go usually only for a night and
• 2:19:49
  none of them had truly been able to help.
• 2:19:53
  When he opened the door, this time there was only one man
• 2:19:56
  standing there to greet him and his name was Brian Hull.
• 2:20:01
  The founder of d. Y s t.
• 2:20:05
  Apparel team that claimed that they did not search for ghosts.
• 2:20:08
  They searched for answers. Brian found a d y s t in 2005
• 2:20:14
  with his friends in the Dallas Fort Worth area in Texas.
• 2:20:19
  They performed investigations and posted their findings on
• 2:20:23
  MySpace, began to receive emails and calls from people wanting
• 2:20:28
  their aid and expertise in the Paranormal.
• 2:20:32
  Part of the group's procedure was to begin with a single
• 2:20:35
  member of the team, giving an assessment of the location
• 2:20:38
  before bringing in the rest of the team or any equipment.
• 2:20:43
  Brian quickly, noted the oppressive atmosphere in the
• 2:20:46
  house and once he had made his rounds.
• 2:20:50
  He gave the okay for the rest of his team to begin the second
• 2:20:53
  phase. the team was full of various experts in their fields,
• 2:20:58
  but the critical eye for anything that could possibly
• 2:21:01
  cause noises, or strange phenomena, In an ordinary house.
• 2:21:07
  They searched the house from top to bottom. and once they were
• 2:21:11
  satisfied, that they had identified any possible areas of
• 2:21:15
  false evidence They went outside and returned with their
• 2:21:19
  equipment. They set up a command post in
• 2:21:23
  the living room with cameras and audio recorders throughout the
• 2:21:27
  house. Trying to pick up anything that
• 2:21:30
  could be lurking within its dubs. that night, however, was
• 2:21:36
  relatively uneventful as we all know from studying many cases
• 2:21:41
  here on the channel, These things, the Paranormal.
• 2:21:46
  Can't always be invoked or replicated to study because of
• 2:21:51
  the pure sporadic nature of it. All After the team had departed
• 2:21:55
  with little to go on. bill called his mother to tell her
• 2:21:59
  how the investigation went during the call.
• 2:22:03
  Bill heard three distinct nox. As if the house was declaring
• 2:22:08
  its own malevolent victory. Unlike the previous
• 2:22:12
  investigators. Dysc would eventually return
• 2:22:16
  over the course of the next several months.
• 2:22:19
  To continually probe the home. For its dark.
• 2:22:23
  Sinister secrets. A variety of activity, began to
• 2:22:28
  reveal itself, to the members of the research team.
• 2:22:34
  Shadow people. and, Even the disembodied operation of a ghost
• 2:22:41
  like cat were experienced by the crew, just as Bill had been
• 2:22:46
  experiencing. On one occasion, the team
• 2:22:50
  brought in lasers for a particular experiment.
• 2:22:54
  The tech was designed to cast a laser Grid in the darkened
• 2:22:58
  broom. This technique is intended to
• 2:23:01
  detect even the slightest movement, that might be
• 2:23:04
  invisible to the naked eye. The first night came and went
• 2:23:09
  with nothing of note. the second was much like the first, but on
• 2:23:16
  the third night, where the crew used this laser grid, Bill Bryan
• 2:23:22
  and the team sat in the command center and they all heard a loud
• 2:23:27
  crash from Bill's bedroom. Upon inspecting the bedroom.
• 2:23:32
  They found the laser device on the floor.
• 2:23:36
  The device had been thrown by a powerful and unseen Force.
• 2:23:41
  It had been flung so hard that it had struck the bed.
• 2:23:46
  Bounced all. and collided with the dresser where it had been
• 2:23:51
  fastened before hitting the floor, They first checked the
• 2:23:55
  cameras, only to find their batteries drained of all power.
• 2:24:00
  This was a common occurrence during their investigations at
• 2:24:03
  the house. And it was a pervasive obstacle
• 2:24:06
  to finding any Visual Evidence. The team noted times when they
• 2:24:11
  could audibly, hear the moment when their cameras were Switched
• 2:24:15
  Off, by something that they couldn't see.
• 2:24:19
  Luckily, they found that the audio recording devices were
• 2:24:23
  still functioning the phenomena occurred.
• 2:24:27
  When they played back the audio, they not only heard the loud
• 2:24:30
  crash, but something else entirely.
• 2:24:34
  Heard a disembodied voice. Say He is coming.
• 2:24:38
  Put it back on just before the laser crashed to the floor.
• 2:24:44
  Bill was amazing enough to not only provide all the footage of
• 2:24:47
  used for the lasers. but the actual EVP is well, which all
• 2:24:52
  play for you now. Despite the lack of Visual
• 2:25:21
  Evidence. Ryan was determined to catch the
• 2:25:24
  phenomenon on video. The next time they arrived at
• 2:25:27
  the house, they brought even more cameras and Laser grids.
• 2:25:32
  They set up the equipment as before and let the newest team
• 2:25:36
  made, Sean lay in the bed in the master bedroom.
• 2:25:41
  And asked if you're here. Can you give me a sign?
• 2:25:48
  Within an instant, the laser moved with a violent Force.
• 2:25:52
  Causing Sean to cry out and surprise. the rest of the team,
• 2:25:57
  rushed into the bedroom to gather the equipment and to
• 2:26:01
  assess the evidence, All, but one camera had been completely
• 2:26:06
  drained of power. This device had been pointing
• 2:26:11
  directly at the laser footage cotton, not only the laser being
• 2:26:17
  shoved. But a strange Mist that formed
• 2:26:20
  around the laser. Turning into a violent and
• 2:26:24
  aggressive Vortex for the activity occurred.
• 2:26:29
  And finally dissipated after its conclusion.
• 2:26:33
  During another investigation bill and his brother Bob and his
• 2:26:37
  wife Cindy attended. In addition Bill, invited his
• 2:26:42
  friend, Chuck and his wife, Melissa.
• 2:26:46
  Chuck Kelly had been longtime friends with Bill through
• 2:26:48
  golfing. To call him a skeptic of the
• 2:26:51
  Paranormal would be an understatement.
• 2:26:55
  His wife, Melissa, however, was a woman who not only believed in
• 2:26:59
  the Paranormal. But was sensitive to it in a way
• 2:27:03
  that allowed her to see being what?
• 2:27:05
  Otherwise be invisible. The naked eye.
• 2:27:09
  For a long time, she had refused to ever go near bills home.
• 2:27:13
  eventually Chuck confronted her as to why she said, there is
• 2:27:18
  something in that house, that's intelligent and Evil.
• 2:27:23
  Something that knows that I know.
• 2:27:26
  And I'm afraid of what will happen if I go there.
• 2:27:30
  There is seldomly experience. As that terrify, me, personally
• 2:27:33
  these days with having studied so many cases and having had a
• 2:27:39
  good amount of my own experience as The feeling that there is not
• 2:27:43
  only something evil truly Evil Within a place.
• 2:27:48
  But that its intelligent. And that it seeks to intimidate
• 2:27:51
  or hurt you. now, when you feel that, You feel it in your core?
• 2:27:58
  You're very soul. You're being.
• 2:28:02
  And this is something that will make you truly experience.
• 2:28:05
  The feeling that we know, This fear.
• 2:28:10
  As Bill reached out to Chuck. Chuck told his wife that she
• 2:28:13
  needed to speak with him because he needed her help. when she met
• 2:28:18
  with Bill, he revealed everything that had been
• 2:28:21
  happening and despite knowing the danger of the entity and his
• 2:28:25
  home Melissa was moved by Bill's plight.
• 2:28:29
  And agreed to attend the next investigation with Chuck.
• 2:28:33
  The day of she felt apprehension.
• 2:28:36
  She sends that the entity was furious at her coming and wanted
• 2:28:40
  to harm her. Her mind's eyes saw a beast like
• 2:28:45
  that of an ape. Throwing itself against the
• 2:28:48
  walls, and windows of the house, daring her to come inside. so,
• 2:28:54
  with a deep breath, she did. Upon entering and being greeted
• 2:28:59
  by Bill. She saw several small and
• 2:29:03
  hideous creatures gathered at his feet.
• 2:29:06
  When they stood on two legs, they looked like hunched over
• 2:29:10
  little men. when on all fours, it looked similar to cats but
• 2:29:16
  with the hind legs that were thick like those of a kangaroo.
• 2:29:22
  Seeing that no one else noticed these beings.
• 2:29:25
  She ignored them as best as she could.
• 2:29:27
  As she continued, her journey throughout the home.
• 2:29:31
  She got to Bill's bedroom. She saw that the emps were out
• 2:29:35
  there most comfortable in his room.
• 2:29:37
  And played across the furniture. And the floor.
• 2:29:41
  Halfway into the room. She froze.
• 2:29:46
  She searched every corner of the room wide-eyed.
• 2:29:49
  With her hair standing on end. She sends something horrible and
• 2:29:54
  smart lurking out of her sight and a corner of the room, ruin
• 2:30:00
  the closet. She didn't want to know what it
• 2:30:03
  was. She left the bedroom and refused
• 2:30:07
  to ever set foot in and again. When the d y s t Team arrived,
• 2:30:12
  they sat in the living room to wait while the team set up their
• 2:30:16
  equipment. Then she observed as the small
• 2:30:19
  creatures, gathered around her in a group of six.
• 2:30:23
  They were curious like, wild animals.
• 2:30:27
  Sniffing her. Testing their boundaries while
• 2:30:31
  not letting her get too close. She believed they were trapped
• 2:30:35
  by the dark entity who used them for more mischievous activities.
• 2:30:41
  Such as tormenting bill in his bedroom noises and subtle
• 2:30:47
  happening. In once again, here I've come
• 2:30:51
  across many cases where this seems to be the case.
• 2:30:54
  Not necessarily the trapping of Demons, by other demons, the
• 2:30:59
  stronger ones Deeds. Or rather a dark spirit or
• 2:31:03
  demon. Holding other Spirits captive to
• 2:31:07
  invigorate or Empower themselves.
• 2:31:11
  I just find it interesting that this is yet another case that we
• 2:31:14
  can add to that list. While pondering this, she heard
• 2:31:18
  a commotion from the bedroom where the team was setting up.
• 2:31:22
  She saw large black shape, leap from that direction and onto the
• 2:31:26
  chandelier. Causing it to nearly swing and
• 2:31:31
  collide with the ceiling. It jumped down into a corner to
• 2:31:35
  hide from the investigative team.
• 2:31:37
  Before lunging onto the chandelier again.
• 2:31:40
  And then bouncing into the opposite hallway.
• 2:31:44
  The large black shape took up the entire hallway, entrance,
• 2:31:47
  before it disappeared. Unsure of how to process what
• 2:31:52
  she had witnessed she collapsed into her chair.
• 2:31:56
  The dysc team convinced her husband Chuck to sit in the
• 2:32:00
  closet and builds bedroom. He had utter confidence, that
• 2:32:04
  nothing would happen. The lights were turned off and
• 2:32:08
  Chuck just sat and waited After several minutes, he became
• 2:32:14
  impatient and spoke loudly at whatever they told him was
• 2:32:17
  supposed to be there. Attempting to provoke, whatever
• 2:32:21
  it was. For a few minutes.
• 2:32:23
  Nothing changed. But eventually shock felt the
• 2:32:27
  atmosphere change become heavy. And oppressive.
• 2:32:33
  Heard hangers begin to clink together around him.
• 2:32:36
  The team saw Chucky merge with wide eyes and a face as wide as
• 2:32:41
  a ghost. All he could say.
• 2:32:44
  Was there something in that closet?
• 2:32:47
  Neither, he nor Melissa stayed long after this occurred?
• 2:32:52
  Brian Hall after thorough investigations Enlisted.
• 2:32:57
  The help of any experts he could to try and help bill.
• 2:33:01
  Reiki Masters wiccans. Buddhists.
• 2:33:06
  Occultists. Anyone and everyone who could
• 2:33:10
  attempt to drive out these entities, but sadly, none of
• 2:33:14
  them worked. Bill became used to the look of
• 2:33:18
  defeat upon the faces of the people would earnestly try to
• 2:33:21
  help him but ultimately accomplished nothing. he
• 2:33:26
  eventually and Brian reached the end of his ideas, he sent a
• 2:33:31
  single email to build, it was straightforward and to the point
• 2:33:36
  You need a priest? Throughout the trials that bill
• 2:33:41
  was forced to face. He found himself struggling with
• 2:33:45
  borderline PTSD. He was constantly in his state
• 2:33:49
  of hyper-vigilance. Looking over his shoulder and
• 2:33:54
  watching his peripheral vision for even the slightest sign of
• 2:33:58
  something Supernatural. He was dealing with an opponent
• 2:34:02
  that he couldn't see, but one which could see him and even
• 2:34:07
  attack him at a moment's notice. The suspense, kept him from
• 2:34:12
  sleeping and he met each evening with Dread.
• 2:34:16
  He could no longer distinguish his Nightmares From Reality.
• 2:34:20
  He had a habit of laying down and closing his eyes for a few
• 2:34:24
  seconds and opening them up again to search for anything
• 2:34:29
  that had gone amiss. The fatigue would take its toll.
• 2:34:35
  And he would often nap in the daytime to offset the sheer
• 2:34:38
  exhaustion. He was experiencing on a daily
• 2:34:42
  basis. The months turned to years in
• 2:34:46
  the activity inflicted a cost upon bills health, He had two
• 2:34:50
  bouts of pneumonia. Too hard.
• 2:34:53
  Attacks requires stents. And would continue to suffer
• 2:34:58
  from cluster headaches, which Bill had never had prior.
• 2:35:02
  He only wanted the constant torment to end.
• 2:35:06
  Yet. He hit his turmoil.
• 2:35:07
  Quiet. Well.
• 2:35:09
  Became good at pretending, the things were better than they
• 2:35:13
  really were. Putting up a front of normalcy
• 2:35:16
  despite the reality of his situation.
• 2:35:21
  I feel like this is the only way that someone could continue to
• 2:35:24
  live through something that's bad.
• 2:35:27
  It also affected those who visited Bill's home to the
• 2:35:30
  point. A few stopped by effectively
• 2:35:33
  isolating him. These entities, their goals are
• 2:35:37
  often to get you isolated and buy yourself.
• 2:35:41
  So they can continue to torment. You and feed upon your fear and
• 2:35:46
  negative emotions. At night, he would hear loud.
• 2:35:50
  Crashes inches away from his head He'd awaken to find
• 2:35:54
  scratches all over his body. And always in threes.
• 2:35:59
  He'd get touched while laying in his bed and hit shoved and would
• 2:36:04
  even feel the sensation as if he was being electrocuted.
• 2:36:09
  He looked around his room. One night wandering.
• 2:36:11
  What was in the room with him as he always did?
• 2:36:15
  When suddenly the covers were torn off of his body.
• 2:36:20
  He sat up in bed and saw a large black shape at the football,
• 2:36:24
  looming over him. It stood, six feet tall with the
• 2:36:29
  body of a man. The man was wearing a trench
• 2:36:33
  coat and a fedora. All dark is the abyss.
• 2:36:38
  When Bill noticed it, it moved towards him, rather it floated.
• 2:36:44
  He felt an experience that when far beyond mere fear or dread.
• 2:36:50
  He described it as the sensation of Pure Evil.
• 2:36:55
  The shadow would travel the length of the bed getting within
• 2:36:59
  two feet of bills face. and then, Would vanish.
• 2:37:05
  During the investigations, they had taped dark mass in the very
• 2:37:09
  location. This entity had disappeared It
• 2:37:13
  dropped from the ceiling. Making an audible thought on the
• 2:37:16
  floor. But then Dart rapidly across the
• 2:37:19
  room. Rise in above the bedroom
• 2:37:22
  window. An ultimately dissipating.
• 2:37:26
  Bill was so disturbed by this new threat that he did not and
• 2:37:31
  could not speak about it even to friends.
• 2:37:35
  However, it was not the only person this entity he referred
• 2:37:39
  to as the Hat Man. Revealed itself to.
• 2:37:43
  A friend of bills, a woman named Devin claimed to have seen this
• 2:37:48
  entity and believed it was friendly.
• 2:37:51
  And as a result was not afraid of it, after apologizing for not
• 2:37:56
  warning her and showing Devin of the other examples of this same
• 2:38:00
  hatman, entity appearing to others on the internet.
• 2:38:04
  He cautioned her that if she sees it again to not communicate
• 2:38:09
  with it. It is not a friend.
• 2:38:12
  An unfortunately, Devon would not take his advice, that man
• 2:38:18
  would continue to appear to heaven.
• 2:38:21
  That one point. Devin described it appearing in
• 2:38:24
  bills clawset. With glowing red eyes.
• 2:38:28
  Uttering in a deep growling voice.
• 2:38:32
  That felt like it was scratching the interior.
• 2:38:35
  Of her skull. Kill Bill.
• 2:38:42
  My God, what a terrifying description.
• 2:38:45
  A voice so low in grading that it felt as if it was scratching
• 2:38:49
  the interior of a person's skull.
• 2:38:52
  Devin began to change after the event.
• 2:38:55
  She transitioned from frightened to angry.
• 2:38:59
  And finally, to Violent Frenzy. Bill would often come home to
• 2:39:04
  find his house, torn apart. He would later.
• 2:39:07
  Learn that the Hat Man had appeared many more times to
• 2:39:11
  Devin. It wasn't until Devin threatened
• 2:39:14
  bill with a large kitchen knife in her hand.
• 2:39:17
  That he began to see just how serious the situation had
• 2:39:21
  become. On one evening.
• 2:39:23
  After Devin had a tantrum of throwing and breaking things,
• 2:39:28
  Devin insisted to build. He is here and he wants you
• 2:39:33
  dead. Bill replied with me trying to
• 2:39:38
  keep calm. Devon responded with.
• 2:39:42
  Turn out the lights, you'll see with a malevolent grin on her
• 2:39:47
  face. Bill was unsure whether he had
• 2:39:50
  lost his fear, no longer cared. Or simply wanted to shake Devin
• 2:39:55
  out of the throws of this evil regardless.
• 2:39:58
  He shut off the lights. Although, nothing happened and
• 2:40:03
  Bill. Proved that the Hat Man had no
• 2:40:05
  authority over him. Devon's personality only grew
• 2:40:09
  more aggressive. Eventually neither Bill nor the
• 2:40:14
  police who are often seen at his home could resolve the issue.
• 2:40:19
  And their friendship came to a sudden and terrible conclusion.
• 2:40:24
  Bill believed that this hat man was the General the main source
• 2:40:28
  of evil around which all the other activity orbited.
• 2:40:32
  Perhaps, the main entity that had trapped, the others, and was
• 2:40:36
  calling the shots so to speak. Bill began to learn from his
• 2:40:40
  experience as accepting that he was an award with an unseen foe
• 2:40:44
  that had tactics and strategy. They utilize Scare Tactics and
• 2:40:51
  feared to wear him down and a war of attrition.
• 2:40:54
  But he was quickly becoming a more worthy adversary against
• 2:40:58
  their assaults. Overturned from a meeting and
• 2:41:03
  decided to lay down for a nap. He saw on tensions like hands
• 2:41:07
  and feet and his mattress. So much that it became
• 2:41:11
  impossible to sleep. Then massive crash shook the
• 2:41:16
  entire house. As if something large had hit
• 2:41:19
  the side of his home. He shot up and inspected looking
• 2:41:23
  for damage. But would find nothing.
• 2:41:27
  A second crash filled his house. He searched everywhere for any
• 2:41:32
  sign of Destruction. His kitchen is then his office.
• 2:41:38
  but the same nothingness presented itself to Heard his
• 2:41:43
  car alarm. Go off.
• 2:41:45
  And he finally stopped in his tracks.
• 2:41:48
  He felt Pure White, Hot rage build up within him.
• 2:41:53
  He screamed. I've had enough.
• 2:41:57
  You don't scare me anymore. I'm not the same person you
• 2:42:01
  picked on years ago. Show yourself and fight me, one
• 2:42:07
  of us is going to hell tonight. And it won't be me.
• 2:42:10
  This is God's house now. Leave this place.
• 2:42:17
  He heard another crash and ran towards it continuing to yell
• 2:42:21
  that the entity show itself. Hell was Unleashed inside of his
• 2:42:25
  home, like a hurricane. Crashes and Booms filled the
• 2:42:30
  air. Suddenly the missing puzzle
• 2:42:33
  piece clicked, in that no amount of anger desperation or Earthly
• 2:42:39
  knowledge would save him from the evil.
• 2:42:41
  So he called upon Christ to enter seed.
• 2:42:45
  He screamed. You were not invited.
• 2:42:48
  Or the authority of Christ. I demand you leave or be bound
• 2:42:53
  by your worst fears until final judgment.
• 2:42:58
  He repeated these words at each new crashing sound.
• 2:43:03
  Eventually, 30 minutes of unrestrained malice ceased in a
• 2:43:08
  new piece, finally filled his home.
• 2:43:12
  My God. The courage and overall
• 2:43:15
  fearlessness of Bill in the moment is truly commendable.
• 2:43:19
  I mean, just imagine putting up with these horrible things day
• 2:43:22
  in and day out and holding out for so long.
• 2:43:27
  Although terrifying, no doubt to have gone through.
• 2:43:31
  I'm glad that there was some sort of Confrontation between
• 2:43:33
  bill, whatever this entity we know is the Hat, man.
• 2:43:37
  Because I definitely feel like it needed to have.
• 2:43:39
  And The days afterwards. Bill felt a new sensation,
• 2:43:45
  amidst the peace. Like that of a chained up rabid
• 2:43:49
  dog in the distance. Just watching and waiting.
• 2:43:54
  For a chance to break free and back into his life.
• 2:43:59
  While occasionally things would happen afterwards.
• 2:44:02
  Though no longer felt like Evil dwelled Within his home.
• 2:44:06
  Or his life. However, the encounters left
• 2:44:10
  scars. Both psychological.
• 2:44:14
  And physical. They'll still struggled with
• 2:44:17
  looking over his shoulder and being comfortable sleeping at
• 2:44:20
  night. His health effects from the
• 2:44:23
  ordeal also never truly improved.
• 2:44:26
  Whether it was from the evil presence or simply the stress of
• 2:44:30
  the events. We would never be sure.
• 2:44:34
  Although in our conversations, thankfully Bill said, he did
• 2:44:38
  Vanquish the cluster headaches, which he believes or a byproduct
• 2:44:42
  of the other worldly interactions.
• 2:44:46
  In the years since bill has studied become an expert in
• 2:44:50
  demonology, an order to help others fight against an unseen
• 2:44:54
  Foe and their own lives. He founded an association called
• 2:44:59
  the United paranormal International.
• 2:45:01
  Those story has been featured on the show Paranormal Witness in
• 2:45:05
  2013, and Abridged versions of the events have been featured
• 2:45:08
  across the internet and YouTube again.
• 2:45:12
  In our conversations, bill would tell me that he had to be talked
• 2:45:15
  into telling his story on the show Paranormal Witness by their
• 2:45:18
  producers. He's truly a man that values his
• 2:45:21
  privacy. I can tell you that for sure,
• 2:45:23
  but that he became convinced that his telling of his
• 2:45:27
  experience is, ultimately, hopefully have a positive impact
• 2:45:32
  on people who could be experiencing something similar.
• 2:45:36
  Bill has given multiple interviews on various podcasts.
• 2:45:40
  The decided to set the record straight and his 2022.
• 2:45:43
  Book satanic Warfare tactic of the demonic.
• 2:45:48
  In it. He gives his own account as well
• 2:45:51
  as the eyewitnesses in his life of the events, a transpired.
• 2:45:56
  He also includes extensive entries over.
• 2:45:59
  Just what he learned concerning the Demonic forces that stalked
• 2:46:02
  him, but he cautions anyone attempting to utilize his
• 2:46:06
  methods. They are the collections of his
• 2:46:09
  experiences. Personal beliefs.
• 2:46:12
  And convictions. Cannot be considered scientific.
• 2:46:17
  They are also not guaranteed any degree.
• 2:46:20
  To be successful. He says that spiritual warfare
• 2:46:24
  is a form of psychological warfare.
• 2:46:27
  Utilizing fear tactics to wear a Target down over time.
• 2:46:32
  So that we give up, spiritually. Obey evils power.
• 2:46:37
  It is based on negative emotions such as fear.
• 2:46:40
  Stress. Anger.
• 2:46:43
  And social disunity. As a victim, grows weaker.
• 2:46:47
  The demons begin to appear stronger.
• 2:46:50
  The first line of defense is to have no fear against demons, he
• 2:46:54
  states that as Fallen Angels demons still have rules that
• 2:46:58
  they must follow. They only enter our lives to the
• 2:47:02
  degree which we explicitly or implicitly allow.
• 2:47:07
  Their not all powerful. For if they were, they would not
• 2:47:11
  be forced to resort to scare tactics and trickery.
• 2:47:15
  To wear down the opponent. However, they have the
• 2:47:19
  experience of the entirety of human history on their side.
• 2:47:24
  When they wage war upon human Souls.
• 2:47:28
  Once you acknowledge that there is in fact, a demonic presence.
• 2:47:32
  The only recourse you have is that you must call upon the name
• 2:47:36
  of Christ. Bill has since retired and moved
• 2:47:41
  out of the house within which he suffered for so many years.
• 2:47:46
  He now lives with his wife, Carolyn Vail.
• 2:47:49
  And his steps on Ryan and Arkansas.
• 2:47:52
  And Bill's story, we have seen how curiosity can be used as a
• 2:47:56
  doorway. Doorway, that can lead to
• 2:47:59
  knowledge and understanding. However, curiosity can be used
• 2:48:05
  as another kind of doorway. While not once opened.
• 2:48:09
  Can unleash an orange Darkness into our lives.
• 2:48:13
  One, that is not always so easy. Cast out.
• 2:48:20
  I would not only like to think Bill for being amazing and
• 2:48:23
  providing the clarifying details, the evidence and
• 2:48:28
  overall, just for being. So down to earth and patient
• 2:48:31
  with me to make this video happen.
• 2:48:33
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• 2:48:37
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• 2:49:31
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  Amusement parks are meant to be the bastions of joy and wonder.
• 2:51:20
  Where families can escape the stresses of everyday life, an
• 2:51:25
  immerse themselves in a world of Thrills and laughter.
• 2:51:30
  However, there is a haunting undercurrent that lurks beneath
• 2:51:34
  the surface of these seemingly innocent playgrounds.
• 2:51:39
  Abandoned amusement parks and particular possess, a palpable
• 2:51:43
  sense of unease, that permeates the crumbling structures and
• 2:51:49
  overgrown, landscapes. The Shawnee amusement park, in
• 2:51:53
  West, Virginia stands as a testament to this unsettling
• 2:51:57
  phenomenal. Once a bustling Hub of
• 2:52:00
  entertainment, this forgotten sight now, exudes in Erie for
• 2:52:05
  boating atmosphere. Its dilapidated rides and
• 2:52:09
  decaying buildings as a start contrast to the joyful memories,
• 2:52:14
  they once held. The parks troubled, past marked
• 2:52:19
  by tragedies and misfortunes has imbued with a Sinister energy.
• 2:52:24
  That seems to linger like a specter among the shadows of its
• 2:52:30
  abandoned grounds. Whispers of the scariest
• 2:52:33
  amusement park in the world, entails of its haunted.
• 2:52:37
  Nature have only added to the Allure and trepidation
• 2:52:41
  surrounding the Forgotten place. The juxtaposition of the once
• 2:52:46
  vibrant and smiling faces of the past. and the current state of
• 2:52:50
  neglect and Decay evokes, a weird feeling as if the very
• 2:52:55
  essence of the parks former life as been consumed by the darkness
• 2:52:59
  that now shrouded, This unsettling of the past, in the
• 2:53:04
  present, the light and the dark. Creates a deeply unsettling and
• 2:53:10
  captivating experience. A continues to draw in those who
• 2:53:14
  dare to venture into his forgotten Corners, the Lake
• 2:53:20
  Shawnee. Amusement park Harbors, a dark
• 2:53:22
  history. Nestled in Mercer County, just a
• 2:53:25
  few miles from Princeton this. Once vibrant Hub of
• 2:53:29
  entertainment house, it's abandoned waiting for the next
• 2:53:33
  round of guests to Brave, to enter the haunted structures
• 2:53:36
  Within The land where the park was built?
• 2:53:39
  Has long since been a burial ground for the Shawnee Tribe.
• 2:53:43
  With archeologists estimating that the site May hold remains
• 2:53:46
  of his many as 3,000 people. This profound Connection to the
• 2:53:51
  Past, would prove to be a harbinger of the Park's troubled
• 2:53:55
  future. In 1775 a family of white,
• 2:53:59
  settlers known as the Clays. Consisting of the father
• 2:54:03
  Mitchell, clay, his wife Phoebe Belcher clay and their three
• 2:54:07
  children. Bartley Tabitha and Ezekiel
• 2:54:11
  moved into the remote area and established a homestead directly
• 2:54:16
  over the Shawnee. Burial ground This act which
• 2:54:20
  disregarded the sacred nature of the land was said in motion a
• 2:54:24
  series of events that would ultimately lead to the parks
• 2:54:27
  downfall. The Clays arrivel and their
• 2:54:31
  disrespect for their shawnese and cestrian resting place.
• 2:54:34
  Did not go unnoticed by the local tribe.
• 2:54:39
  Tensions escalated and the clay soon.
• 2:54:41
  Found themselves in broiled in a violent conflict with the
• 2:54:44
  Shawnee. Clash.
• 2:54:47
  That would leave its indelible mark on the land.
• 2:54:50
  The Echoes of this tragic history would reverberate
• 2:54:54
  through the decades shaping the dark and unsettling over that.
• 2:54:59
  Now envelops, the abandoned amusement park, The tribe
• 2:55:04
  angered by the desecration of their sacred burial ground
• 2:55:07
  repeatedly warned the clay family to leave but they
• 2:55:11
  defiantly chose to ignore the warning.
• 2:55:15
  In August of 1783 a group of Native tribesmen, descended upon
• 2:55:21
  the clay Homestead while the father was out hunting.
• 2:55:25
  The Shawnee Warrior's, proceeded to brutally murder, the youngest
• 2:55:28
  son Bartley as he worked in the fields, and then scalped his
• 2:55:33
  lifeless body. Tabitha the daughter is tracked
• 2:55:38
  down and viciously stabbed to death.
• 2:55:42
  The oldest son, Ezekiel was not killed outright.
• 2:55:46
  Or rather kidnapped dragged away from his home in later burned at
• 2:55:51
  the stake in a horrifying display of violence.
• 2:55:56
  When the patriarch of the family returned, home to find his
• 2:55:59
  children. Slaughtered His thirst for
• 2:56:02
  vengeance was immediate and unrelenting.
• 2:56:07
  He gathered a posse of other settlers and set out to hunt
• 2:56:10
  down and take out several of the Shawnee tribes people in a
• 2:56:15
  bloody Act of retaliation. The Haunting Legacy of the clay
• 2:56:20
  family Massacre would linger over the area for years.
• 2:56:26
  Casting a dark and ominous shadow that deterred.
• 2:56:29
  Most settlers from venturing, anywhere near the site.
• 2:56:35
  The tragic events that unfolded on this land.
• 2:56:37
  Have infused the abandoned amusement park with something
• 2:56:41
  Ghostly. As if there were spirits of the
• 2:56:44
  past stole lingering on willing to relinquish their, hold on the
• 2:56:49
  once vibrant but now forgotten grounds.
• 2:56:53
  By pure coincidence. The land where Conley tea snoot
• 2:56:57
  chose to erect his amusement park in 1926.
• 2:57:02
  Harbored a dark and unsettling passed.
• 2:57:06
  On be announced to him or perhaps disregarded.
• 2:57:09
  This very soil had once been stained by the blood of the
• 2:57:13
  clave family. brutally massacred by the Shawnee Tribe in
• 2:57:19
  retaliation for desecrating, their sacred burial grounds
• 2:57:24
  Initially Snow's Venture seemed innocent enough.
• 2:57:28
  A simple affair with swing sets Affairs wheel and a swimming
• 2:57:33
  Pond catering to the families of coal miners, flocking to the
• 2:57:37
  region. However, as the operation
• 2:57:41
  expanded adding a dancehall concession stands, a swimming
• 2:57:46
  pool, Motorized rides. Such as bumper cars a roller
• 2:57:50
  coaster and then paddle boats, it was as if the amusement park
• 2:57:55
  was built upon a foundation of Darkness.
• 2:57:59
  For a Time, the park thrived. A vibrant Hub of laughter in
• 2:58:04
  joy. with patrons blissfully unaware of the gruesome history
• 2:58:08
  that laid beneath their feet, Yet, the lands thirst for
• 2:58:13
  tragedy seemed insatiable. A foreboding since lingard like
• 2:58:19
  a specter lurking in the shadows waiting to cast its Sinister
• 2:58:24
  Veil, once more. in the 1950s, the first incident at the park
• 2:58:30
  and folded, when a young girl's life was abruptly, cut short on
• 2:58:35
  the circular swing ride, As this Wing hurled at Breakneck speed,
• 2:58:41
  a truck carelessly backed into its path.
• 2:58:45
  Causing the girl to collide violently against it.
• 2:58:49
  Her fragile body. No match for the unforgiving
• 2:58:53
  force. This tragic event cast a shadow
• 2:58:57
  over the entire atmosphere. And the harbinger of Darkness
• 2:59:01
  that seemed to linger within the parks.
• 2:59:03
  Very Foundation was making itself known once again.
• 2:59:09
  In 1966. The parks thirst for tragedy was
• 2:59:14
  quenched once more. when an 11 year old boy, His youthful
• 2:59:19
  spirit, filled with wonder, and excitement ventured too close to
• 2:59:24
  the parks murky pond. Only to become ensnared in a
• 2:59:29
  drainage pipes and yielding grip.
• 2:59:32
  His cries for help when on answered.
• 2:59:35
  And it wasn't until over a week later that his lifeless body was
• 2:59:39
  discovered. The pawns depths having claimed,
• 2:59:43
  another innocent victim. These high-profile incidents
• 2:59:47
  weren't merely the tip of the iceberg.
• 2:59:50
  As Whispers of other unsettling occurrences began to circulate
• 2:59:53
  Tales of a man who plunged from the dizzying heights of the
• 2:59:57
  ferris wheel. His motives unknown.
• 3:00:02
  To the accounts of six tragic, deaths, during the parks years
• 3:00:05
  of operation. As Told by the current owner,
• 3:00:09
  only added to the feelings at the park, In the wake of the
• 3:00:14
  young boys drowning, the Shawnee Lake Amusement Park, shuttered
• 3:00:17
  its gates for good. And teens 66 the crumbling
• 3:00:23
  structures and overgrown. Landscapes that now stand is
• 3:00:27
  reminders of the parks troubled past.
• 3:00:30
  That seems unwilling to relinquish its holes on the
• 3:00:33
  Forgotten grounds. Casting something ominous over
• 3:00:38
  the now abandoned site. The parks to send to abandonment
• 3:00:42
  was a haunting spectacle. It's once vibrant attractions
• 3:00:46
  reduced to rusted the king relics at Pierce through the
• 3:00:50
  overgrown landscape, like the skeletal remains of long extinct
• 3:00:55
  creatures the site lingered until 1985 when Gaylord white
• 3:01:01
  acquired the land. Harboring Ambitions of
• 3:01:05
  resurrecting. The parks former glory.
• 3:01:08
  However, his efforts were met with resistance.
• 3:01:12
  As if the sides troubled history deterred, visitors from
• 3:01:16
  embracing its revived Allure. Despite Endeavors the amusement
• 3:01:21
  park failed to recapture the magic of its heyday.
• 3:01:25
  And after a mere three years, it was forced to shutter, its
• 3:01:29
  doors, once more. In the wake of its failed,
• 3:01:32
  Revival. The land was transformed into a
• 3:01:35
  fishing lake in Campground. Yet the parks crumbling rooms
• 3:01:40
  remained their presence serving as a grim, reminder of the
• 3:01:45
  tragedy that had once unfolded within its boundaries.
• 3:01:50
  Whispers of other worldly occurrences began to circulate.
• 3:01:55
  Tales of ghostly apparitions. And unexplained phenomenon were
• 3:01:59
  told in the local bars. And on internet message boards.
• 3:02:03
  The parks ruined stood, as a haunting Testament to the
• 3:02:07
  complex, interplay between human and ambition and the lingering
• 3:02:12
  Echoes of the past. the past that seemed unwilling, Be
• 3:02:17
  buried. The abandoned grounds of the
• 3:02:20
  former Shawnee Lake. Amusement Park seemed to be a
• 3:02:23
  magnet for paranormal occurrences.
• 3:02:26
  And the tales that emerged from its crumbling runes, do not
• 3:02:29
  disappoint. Visitors often report, an
• 3:02:33
  unsettling sensation of being watched or followed.
• 3:02:37
  As if unseen eyes linger in the shadows.
• 3:02:42
  Sudden waves of Panic or overwhelming dread wash over
• 3:02:46
  some leaving them with a feeling that defies rational
• 3:02:51
  explanation. Accounts speak of disembodied.
• 3:02:56
  Hands pressing upon shoulders. Or the feeling of being pushed
• 3:03:01
  or taped. By an invisible force.
• 3:03:06
  Objects have been known to move on their own, accord defying.
• 3:03:10
  The laws of physics. While shadowy figures lurk among
• 3:03:14
  the deteriorating riots. Adding to the parks Sinister
• 3:03:18
  ambience. The swings once a symbol of
• 3:03:22
  childhood Joy. Now Creek back and forth in the
• 3:03:26
  absence of wind. As if propelled, by unseen
• 3:03:31
  hands. Orbs of light flow through the
• 3:03:35
  overgrown weeds. Their ethereal glow, beckoning
• 3:03:39
  the curious and the brave. Small child sized apparitions
• 3:03:45
  have been reported, dashing among the rustling holes of
• 3:03:48
  long, forgotten rods. As if waiting to turn in a
• 3:03:52
  ticket. For one final time.
• 3:03:56
  Even the spirits of the lands original inhabitants.
• 3:03:58
  The Native Americans are said to make their presence known.
• 3:04:03
  As shadowy figures skulking about in the Darkness.
• 3:04:07
  Their Whispers carried on the Wind.
• 3:04:10
  The sounds that permeate the abandoned Park, only add to its
• 3:04:14
  creepy feeling. With a disembodied laughter?
• 3:04:17
  Echoing the Stillness. As if the ghosts of children,
• 3:04:21
  still linger Frozen in Time. Whispers seemed to come from
• 3:04:27
  directly behind people. Sending chills down the spines
• 3:04:31
  of those brave enough to venture into the parks forgotten
• 3:04:35
  corners. Shouts, and strange chanting.
• 3:04:40
  perhaps in a Native American language, have also been
• 3:04:44
  reported Perhaps most unsettling are the accounts of those who
• 3:04:49
  have captured photographic evidence of the Park's
• 3:04:52
  Paranormal Activity. Numerous visitors have been
• 3:04:55
  shocked to discover ghostly figures.
• 3:04:58
  Or shadowy apparitions. Lurking within their
• 3:05:01
  photographs. Whispers echo through the
• 3:05:04
  abandoned grounds. Tales of a Restless Spirit bound
• 3:05:08
  to the very swings at once brought her Joy.
• 3:05:13
  It is here amidst The Rusted frames Tangled Vines.
• 3:05:18
  That the ghostly presence of a young girl, lingers.
• 3:05:22
  Her Essence forever Tethered to the tragic moment when her life.
• 3:05:27
  Was cut short. The white family and their
• 3:05:31
  pursuit to resurrect the parks former glory.
• 3:05:33
  Unwillingly invited this haunting Specter into their
• 3:05:37
  midst. They acquired the original swing
• 3:05:40
  set unaware of the dark history at carried.
• 3:05:44
  And inadvertently provided a conduit for the girls Spirit to
• 3:05:47
  manifest. Those who dare to Venture near
• 3:05:51
  the swing's, often recounts several weird encounters.
• 3:05:55
  A single swing marked by a crimson ribbon.
• 3:05:59
  Seems to beckon visitors with an unseen Force.
• 3:06:03
  Yet, it is the adjacency adorned with an owl ornament that
• 3:06:08
  appears to be her favorite haunt.
• 3:06:11
  On days, when the air hangs still.
• 3:06:14
  The owl seems to sway and dance. As if propelled, by an invisible
• 3:06:19
  Breeze. Visitors have reported feeling
• 3:06:23
  an icy, chill caress, their skin.
• 3:06:26
  Or the weight of an unseen entity settling beside them on
• 3:06:30
  the swings weather, plank. Some of even claimed to hear the
• 3:06:34
  faint Echoes of childlike laughter.
• 3:06:37
  Tinged with a melting undertone. Carried on the winds Whisperers.
• 3:06:43
  He's unsettling occurrences have left many questioning.
• 3:06:46
  The boundaries between the Realms of the living.
• 3:06:50
  And the dead in wandering. The girls spear remains bound to
• 3:06:55
  this place. Forever seeking the joy and
• 3:06:58
  innocence. It was so cruelty stolen from
• 3:07:02
  her. Also lingering with the
• 3:07:04
  abandoned parks confines is the Restless Spirit of the young
• 3:07:08
  boy, whose life was also tragically cut short.
• 3:07:12
  But by the murky depths of the lake, His ghostly presence seems
• 3:07:17
  to wander the grounds. Drawn, particularly to the front
• 3:07:21
  entrance. as if driven by a compulsion to safeguard visitors
• 3:07:27
  from the Fate that he could not Escape, Near the Lakes Edge, a
• 3:07:33
  simple white plastic pinwheel a fixed to an old ticket.
• 3:07:36
  Booth appears to serve as a conduit between his ethereal
• 3:07:41
  Realm And the world of the living.
• 3:07:45
  This unassuming pinwheel exhibits, an ability to move and
• 3:07:49
  spin without the aid of any discernible Breeze.
• 3:07:54
  Its movements. Controlled by an invisible
• 3:07:57
  force. Seemed to respond to the
• 3:08:00
  beckoning of those brave enough to engage with it.
• 3:08:04
  Witnesses of told, chilling and counters where the pain Wheels
• 3:08:07
  rotation accelerates. Slows.
• 3:08:11
  Or halts and entirely and response to spoken commands. as
• 3:08:16
  if the little boy is answering their questions, Or simply
• 3:08:21
  acknowledging their existence. Along with the apparitions.
• 3:08:25
  Another phenomena has been experienced in the park as well.
• 3:08:30
  Voices echoing from Realms, beyond our comprehension.
• 3:08:34
  These chilling recordings captured by the Intrepid poly
• 3:08:38
  gear of mountaineer, ghosts. Offer a haunting Glimpse to the
• 3:08:43
  Unseen forces. That linger emits the decaying
• 3:08:46
  structures. one such encounter occurred, when gear venture to
• 3:08:52
  knock the weather, siding of an abandoned trailer, The Silence
• 3:08:57
  that followed was shattered by a Gruff disembodied voice That
• 3:09:03
  seemingly commanded them to please leave.
• 3:09:07
  The ominous utterance and shivers down the spine of those
• 3:09:10
  present. As if the very spirits of the
• 3:09:13
  park were issuing a warning to trespassers. another bone
• 3:09:18
  chilling recording took place between the Rusted frames of the
• 3:09:22
  ferris wheel as two friends, Converse, Their voice is
• 3:09:26
  mingling within the Stillness. A sudden Interruption pierced
• 3:09:31
  the air. A shockingly.
• 3:09:34
  Clear. High pitched voice.
• 3:09:36
  Perhaps that of a young girl. Uttering, The Haunting words.
• 3:09:42
  Won't talk. Yet the unsettling phenomena
• 3:09:46
  does not end there. The same location.
• 3:09:49
  Another recording was captured. What sounded like the wistful
• 3:09:54
  plea of a child's voice. Whispering either.
• 3:09:57
  I want to swing or I'm honest. Swing.
• 3:10:02
  Above all the other haunting scenery located in the park.
• 3:10:06
  The abandoned swings stand as an unsettling Beacon, an area that
• 3:10:11
  seems to have more activity than the rest of the park combined.
• 3:10:15
  Several visitors. Tell terrifying, encounters.
• 3:10:19
  As The Rusted chains, creaking grown seemingly propelled by
• 3:10:24
  Insane forces. Sudden chills caress the skin,
• 3:10:28
  an overwhelming sense of dread washes over the unwary.
• 3:10:33
  As if they've trust passed into a realm for the boundaries
• 3:10:37
  between the living and the dead. Blur.
• 3:10:41
  At the heart of these unsettling occurrences lies, the
• 3:10:44
  persistence sightings of a ghostly, young girl performed in
• 3:10:49
  a ruffled pink dress stained with the Crimson Hues tragedy.
• 3:10:54
  More some claim to have witnessed her spectral figure,
• 3:10:57
  swing upon the swing. Others recount her haunting
• 3:11:00
  presence. Lingering, nearby.
• 3:11:03
  Her gaze piercing through the veil that separates our world.
• 3:11:07
  the parks current owner, a man who was stared into the abyss of
• 3:11:11
  the unknown, Tells his own chilling encounters with the
• 3:11:15
  girl's spirit. He speaks of moments when his
• 3:11:19
  body froze Paralyzed by her aetherial gaze.
• 3:11:24
  As if she held dominion over him.
• 3:11:26
  As words, paint a vivid picture. The strange Sensations, a
• 3:11:31
  permeate, the swings of vicinity Seeds, swing with without wind.
• 3:11:36
  I see blast of cold air. Caressing the skin.
• 3:11:40
  And in an explicable, warmth radiating from the very center.
• 3:11:45
  As if the girls Essence lingers here.
• 3:11:48
  Forever bound to the place where her life.
• 3:11:51
  Was extinguished. In a haunting recollection,
• 3:11:54
  shared with the Travel Channel. The owners words Echo with the
• 3:11:58
  weight of one, who was born witness to the unexplainable.
• 3:12:03
  Sometimes the seed will start to move her sway, her hand till you
• 3:12:07
  feel cold, air blowing through the sea.
• 3:12:10
  And then you get to the middle and you feel something warm.
• 3:12:14
  And we believe that that's her spirit.
• 3:12:18
  Certain areas seem to exert an unsettling poll, drawing in
• 3:12:22
  paranormal occurrences, like moths to a flame.
• 3:12:26
  The ferris wheel. It's rusted frame Frozen in
• 3:12:29
  Time. has become a haunting focal point for unexplained
• 3:12:33
  sightings Visitors have reported glimpsing shadowy figures seated
• 3:12:39
  within the precarious confines of its cars.
• 3:12:43
  Particularly the one locked eternally at the 9:00 position.
• 3:12:49
  Some even claimed to have witnessed ghostly apparitions
• 3:12:52
  plummeting from the heights of the fairs wheel only to vanish
• 3:12:56
  Into The Ether. Leaving on Lucas questioning the
• 3:13:00
  boundaries of reality. Could these spectral forms?
• 3:13:04
  Be the lingering essence of the Unfortunate Souls purportedly
• 3:13:08
  left to their demise from the Ferris wheels lofty perch Or are
• 3:13:13
  they merely tricks of light and Shadow?
• 3:13:17
  Cast by the encroaching. Vegetation.
• 3:13:19
  A clings to the decane metal structure.
• 3:13:23
  The uncertainty only adds to the feel of the abandoned amusement
• 3:13:28
  park. The Park's murky drained.
• 3:13:31
  Pond. Also Harbors, its share of
• 3:13:33
  hunting, Tales fishermen. Casting their lines, into the
• 3:13:38
  stagnant Waters have reported, sightings of shadowy figures
• 3:13:42
  gliding beneath the surface. Their forms distorted by the
• 3:13:48
  Rippling depths. And explicable waves and
• 3:13:52
  disturbances have been known to Ripple across the pond surface
• 3:13:55
  as if something unseen lurks below, starring The Waters with
• 3:14:01
  its presents. Some brave souls who have
• 3:14:05
  ventured into the ponds embrace. have even claimed to feel an
• 3:14:09
  unseen Force tugging at As if an entity from Beyond.
• 3:14:14
  Pulled them under and hold them within its watery embrace.
• 3:14:21
  The desolate, concession stands once bustling hubs of activity.
• 3:14:25
  Now, stand is silence Sentinels. Their empty shells, bearing
• 3:14:30
  witness to haunting apparitions. Visitors have reported sightings
• 3:14:35
  of what appear to be Native American figures.
• 3:14:38
  Aimlessly wandering, those abandoned structures.
• 3:14:42
  Their presence shrouded in mystery.
• 3:14:45
  What draws these spectral forms to the Forgotten Place their
• 3:14:50
  motives remain obscured. The history of the Unexplained
• 3:14:56
  coupled with the undeniably bizarre Ambience, that shrouds
• 3:14:59
  this place. Have transformed the abandoned
• 3:15:03
  Shawnee Lake amusement park to a mecca for those seeking a brush
• 3:15:08
  with the supernatural or the macabre.
• 3:15:12
  Is become a prime destination for parallel investigators,
• 3:15:15
  Ghost Hunters and thrill-seekers alike.
• 3:15:20
  The parks reputation is captured the attention of numerous
• 3:15:24
  television programs. Each seeking to uncover, the
• 3:15:27
  Sinister forces at lurk just beneath the surface.
• 3:15:32
  Some of these shows claimed to have encountered genuine brushes
• 3:15:35
  with Supernatural entities. But are these encounters true?
• 3:15:41
  Or mere entertainment. While these paranormal reality
• 3:15:45
  shows undoubtedly seek to amplify the spooky Factor.
• 3:15:50
  The accounts, they present cannot always be so easily,
• 3:15:53
  dismissed. They offer glimpses into the
• 3:15:56
  haunting phenomena, seem to permeate the grounds.
• 3:16:00
  Beckoning those with insatiable curiosity for the unknown to
• 3:16:05
  venture forth. The abandoned Shawnee Lake
• 3:16:09
  amusement park now Embraces. Its haunting Legacy.
• 3:16:13
  Inviting the Intrepid to unravel the Sinister secrets that lurk
• 3:16:18
  within its crumbling confines. While the parks grounds remain
• 3:16:22
  accessible for fishing and camping.
• 3:16:25
  The dilapidated riots instructions.
• 3:16:27
  The cells are off-limits for most of the year.
• 3:16:32
  Because their decaying State poses potential hazards.
• 3:16:36
  The unwary. However, from October the 25th
• 3:16:40
  to the 31st, the park opens its gates for the dark carnival
• 3:16:45
  event. Offering daring, Souls the
• 3:16:48
  opportunity, embark on haunting tours, an experienced, a
• 3:16:53
  chilling, haunted house, attraction.
• 3:16:56
  Visitors are guided through the parks crumbling rooms.
• 3:17:00
  Their footsteps. Echoing through the desolate,
• 3:17:02
  concession stands and passed the Rusted frames the ferris wheel.
• 3:17:08
  Respectful figures are still said to linger.
• 3:17:12
  To the depths of the drained pond.
• 3:17:15
  And at the heart of it all. The abandoned swings still
• 3:17:19
  stand. They're rusted, chains, creaking
• 3:17:22
  and groaning. For those unwilling to Brave,
• 3:17:26
  the guided tours, the surrounding Woods, offer camping
• 3:17:29
  opportunities. Through the looming, presence of
• 3:17:33
  the amusement parks rooms. Piercing through the tree line.
• 3:17:38
  Casting an ominous Shadow over the landscape.
• 3:17:42
  If abandoned sights invoke an unsettling chill.
• 3:17:45
  And forsaken, amusement parks must be the epitome of haunted.
• 3:17:50
  Abandoned parks with a legacy of death and tragedy are about as
• 3:17:54
  spine tingling. As It Gets Whether or not any
• 3:17:58
  authentic, spectral, entities linger here.
• 3:18:01
  An undeniable are of desolation, abandonment.
• 3:18:06
  And Bleak dread hangs, heavy in the air.
• 3:18:09
  As if accumulating a dead of fear, every child smile, once
• 3:18:14
  great East. It's now rusted, time warned
• 3:18:18
  Gates is this sense of foreboding and our tendency to
• 3:18:23
  perceive Phantoms in such locations, merely Illusions and
• 3:18:28
  Tall Tales Projections of our morbid curiosity.
• 3:18:34
  An innate aversion to the discarded.
• 3:18:38
  Unwanted places of our world or do some of these sites, truly
• 3:18:44
  Harbor or Channel forces beyond our comprehension.
• 3:18:49
  Perhaps the men whose lives become Legends.
• 3:18:54
  Then there are those whose Legends become warning.
• 3:18:59
  John Dee was many things. Mathematician Navigator advisor
• 3:19:05
  to a queen and architect of one of the greatest libraries and
• 3:19:10
  Renaissance Europe, but behind the titles and beneath the
• 3:19:14
  Brilliance was something stranger.
• 3:19:17
  Something darker. Do you believed he had spoken
• 3:19:21
  with angels? And worst still.
• 3:19:25
  He believed they had spoken back.
• 3:19:29
  This is not a tale of myth. It is a reconstruction drawn
• 3:19:33
  from d-zone words. His Diaries rituals.
• 3:19:39
  And the strange alphabet he claimed was gifted to him by
• 3:19:44
  Celestial beings. It is a journey through shadowed
• 3:19:48
  Halls. And burning visions.
• 3:19:52
  Across courts and Cathedrals and into the mind of a man who dared
• 3:19:58
  to cross the boundary between Heaven and Hell.
• 3:20:03
  But you're about to hear is non-fiction, does the account of
• 3:20:06
  a man who opened the gate? And found something staring
• 3:20:11
  back. Some called him a genius.
• 3:20:14
  Others, a heritage. But all who knew his story
• 3:20:19
  understood this once the mirrors speaks.
• 3:20:23
  It never goes silent. The fire and Morty.
• 3:20:33
  Lakes Hearth had nearly died leaving, only a faint orange
• 3:20:37
  glow that flickered across the stone walls.
• 3:20:41
  Like a breath from another world.
• 3:20:45
  Outside the tames Twisted in silence beneath the shroud of
• 3:20:49
  fog. The rivers black Waters
• 3:20:52
  Whispering secrets into the night.
• 3:20:56
  Inside among rotting books and cracked instruments, sat a man
• 3:21:01
  whose mind had once charted the heavens.
• 3:21:05
  Dr. John Dee. Aged Jolla wide and forgotten by
• 3:21:11
  the court that once exalted him. Hunched over a tattered diary.
• 3:21:18
  His hand which in youth had drafted star maps and summoned
• 3:21:23
  spirits. Now trembled on control ably.
• 3:21:28
  The inky spelled onto the parchment was more than just
• 3:21:31
  record. It was confession.
• 3:21:35
  Years had passed since he had last heard, the angels voices.
• 3:21:39
  decades since he and Edward Kelly had gazed into the black
• 3:21:43
  mirror and received language, not born of the Earth, These
• 3:21:48
  Brilliance had once commanded the year of Queen, Elizabeth her
• 3:21:52
  self. Now only ghosts remained.
• 3:21:57
  Around him, the shadow shifted with strange deliberation as if
• 3:22:01
  animated by forces unseen. Books creaked open on their own
• 3:22:06
  accord. The walls exhaled.
• 3:22:10
  Mirrors long covered in cloth. Pulsed beneath their wrappings.
• 3:22:17
  Still drove. For whom no one knew.
• 3:22:22
  He claimed, the words were not his.
• 3:22:24
  That something else, guided his hand that the veil Between
• 3:22:30
  Worlds had thin too far and what once was whispered now walked
• 3:22:35
  freely in his home, he no longer wrote for Kings or Scholars.
• 3:22:41
  His diary smudged with aging, Greece or words meant for the
• 3:22:46
  unknown reader. The one who might someday follow
• 3:22:50
  the same path. And that final winter of his
• 3:22:55
  life. D remained convinced of one
• 3:22:58
  truth. That the Divine had spoken to
• 3:23:01
  him. And so it's something else. the
• 3:23:05
  boundary between Angel and Demon, he feared had never been
• 3:23:10
  clear. And if he had opened the gate,
• 3:23:13
  they were still watching. John Dee was born in London
• 3:23:20
  during the winter of 1527. A season marked by biting winds
• 3:23:25
  and thick cold East fog. His father rolandi served in the
• 3:23:32
  court of King Henry, the 8th. affording his son accessed to an
• 3:23:37
  education that Fue in English could dream of even as a boy,
• 3:23:42
  John was strange. Brilliant.
• 3:23:46
  But distant. His mother highest and soft
• 3:23:50
  spoke in worried early on that her child's mind was reaching
• 3:23:55
  into places, not meant for the living.
• 3:23:59
  By the age of 15, D had entered Saint John's College at
• 3:24:02
  Cambridge. Where he devoured classical
• 3:24:05
  texts at a feverish pace. He studied geometry astronomy.
• 3:24:12
  Theology, the laws of fee and everything that he could find
• 3:24:16
  that touched the edges of the known world.
• 3:24:20
  His peers. Feared him his professors,
• 3:24:23
  admired him. They whispered that he never
• 3:24:27
  slept. That he solved theorems in his
• 3:24:31
  dreams. It was that Cambridge that
• 3:24:34
  deconstructed a mechanical Scarab.
• 3:24:38
  An automaton powered by Clockwork which crawled across
• 3:24:41
  the table like a living thing. It terrified the servants.
• 3:24:47
  Some accused him of witchcraft. He laughed in their faces and
• 3:24:52
  quoted Archimedes. Give me a place to stand.
• 3:24:57
  And I will move the world. In 1548 seeking broader minds
• 3:25:04
  and older secrets. D left for Louvin.
• 3:25:08
  There the cautious boundaries of English accademia.
• 3:25:13
  He found the Forbidden texts. He had long desired.
• 3:25:17
  He poured over a group of us, the occulta philosophia.
• 3:25:22
  Studied the Pikachus and salt meaning and half lost fragments
• 3:25:27
  a tributed to Hermes Tricia's. What he found was in Madness.
• 3:25:35
  It was order. A design beneath reality.
• 3:25:39
  A Divine structure hidden in number language and star.
• 3:25:45
  The Stars. He began to believe were not
• 3:25:48
  just lights. They were symbols.
• 3:25:51
  Keys. Upon his return to England.
• 3:25:54
  He carried with him, not just books, but a reputation, some
• 3:25:59
  called him a genius. Others.
• 3:26:02
  A heritage. Queen Mary's Coeur, briefly in
• 3:26:06
  prisoned him on suspicion of sorcery and treason.
• 3:26:10
  His astrological calculations had been misread as Omens of her
• 3:26:15
  death. and after weeks of solitary confinement, he was
• 3:26:20
  released. But the fire in his mind at only
• 3:26:25
  grown. when Elizabeth ascended, the throne in 1558, these
• 3:26:31
  fortunes changed the new Queen song him not a threat, but an
• 3:26:37
  asset. She summoned him to court
• 3:26:39
  insulted him in private. And tasked him with reading, the
• 3:26:44
  heavens for signs, a political tides.
• 3:26:49
  To the world. He appeared as a learned, man, a
• 3:26:53
  scholar and astrologer a servant of crown and Country, but in the
• 3:27:00
  quiet hours, when the mirrors were uncovered and the stars
• 3:27:04
  were in alignment, The pursued, something else entirely.
• 3:27:10
  He was not simply a man of learning.
• 3:27:13
  He was a seeker of the Divine. among John's early as surviving
• 3:27:18
  notebooks lies, a curious annotation on related to
• 3:27:23
  equations or anything else. It is a short unstructured,
• 3:27:28
  passage scrolled between pages of euclidian geometry.
• 3:27:35
  It's Inc is faded. Its tone uncharacteristically
• 3:27:39
  unsettled. At the time D was 17.
• 3:27:45
  The notation describes a peculiar moment during his
• 3:27:48
  studies. While working late into the
• 3:27:51
  night, he'd begun to perceive patterns behind the diagrams.
• 3:27:56
  Geometric shapes not drawn by his own hand, but somehow
• 3:28:00
  embedded in the margins as if waiting to be discovered.
• 3:28:05
  One in particular. A star and verted upon itself,
• 3:28:09
  surrounded by seven. I like, nodes seized his
• 3:28:15
  attention. He traced the symbol absolutely
• 3:28:18
  into the wood of his desk. Hours passed.
• 3:28:22
  When he awoke, his fingers were stained with ink and blood and
• 3:28:29
  the symbol had been etched into the oak grain as though burned
• 3:28:33
  there and no one could explain how that night, he dreamed of a
• 3:28:39
  staircase, spiraling downward and to a vast Library, where the
• 3:28:44
  shelves were alive and the books was whispered, as they breathed
• 3:28:50
  At the bottom beneath Candlelight.
• 3:28:53
  That gave no warmth. Satire robed figure with d-zone
• 3:28:58
  face. Smiling.
• 3:29:01
  And waiting. The symbol appeared again in
• 3:29:04
  later notebooks. Always subtle.
• 3:29:08
  And always incomplete. He never spoke of the dream.
• 3:29:14
  then the years that followed, he would return to that symbol
• 3:29:18
  again and again, Redrawing. It refining it.
• 3:29:24
  Searching for its meaning across dozens, of languages.
• 3:29:29
  And forgotten grimoires. Even then something had marked
• 3:29:34
  him. And whatever it was.
• 3:29:37
  It did not come from the world. By the time Queen Elizabeth
• 3:29:42
  ascended, the throne John Dee had become more than a scholar.
• 3:29:47
  He was a name that stirred awe, and fear and equal measure.
• 3:29:52
  Her Majesty summoned him early in her reign.
• 3:29:56
  The young Queen poised an unshaken met with d and her
• 3:30:01
  lavender scented chamber out. Whitehall It was said she asked
• 3:30:06
  only one question. Is it true?
• 3:30:09
  You can read the Stars. To which he replied.
• 3:30:14
  I do not read them your majesty. I listened to what they sing.
• 3:30:19
  So began his rise as England Celestial advisor.
• 3:30:24
  He chose the date of Elizabeth's coronation.
• 3:30:28
  He aligned treaties by planetary hour.
• 3:30:31
  War diplomacy, even Royal marriage is passed through these
• 3:30:37
  calculations before. They passed through Parliament.
• 3:30:41
  But beyond his duties to the crown.
• 3:30:44
  These Ambitions stretched far deeper.
• 3:30:47
  Is a state at mortlake transformed into a Labyrinth of
• 3:30:51
  Scrolls Globes. Instruments and mirrors. books
• 3:30:57
  lined the walls, many forbidden Most written in tongues, No
• 3:31:03
  Ordinary man, could translate. It was said his Library rivaled
• 3:31:08
  oxfords. Explorers and captains sought
• 3:31:12
  his counsel before Crossing Seas.
• 3:31:15
  Francis Drake visited him more than once and returned.
• 3:31:18
  Haunted. Speaking in hushed tones of
• 3:31:22
  spectral lights above strange, Waters.
• 3:31:26
  Foreign diplomats left, more Lake Whispering that he had not
• 3:31:30
  merely observed the future. He had spoken to it.
• 3:31:35
  To some, he was a visionary. To others a heretic in disguise.
• 3:31:43
  At the center of it all, stood d.
• 3:31:45
  Measuring orbits composing and vacations.
• 3:31:50
  Drawing complex sigils by candlelight.
• 3:31:53
  Mathematics became music. Music became vibration.
• 3:31:59
  Vibration became prayer and then prayer became something else
• 3:32:04
  entirely. He began constructing ritual
• 3:32:08
  circles in secret. Fasting.
• 3:32:11
  Reciting ancient names while gazing into obsidian mirrors,
• 3:32:16
  and calling out to the Beyond. For a time.
• 3:32:20
  Nothing answered then one evening a strange mirror black
• 3:32:27
  glassy and cold as Stone began to home It had been delivered by
• 3:32:34
  a Trader from Venice who claimed it came from a jungle temple in
• 3:32:39
  the New World. The man refused to enter the
• 3:32:43
  house. and fled, as soon as the mirror crossed, the threshold, D
• 3:32:49
  placed the artifact in a western corner of his chamber.
• 3:32:53
  And soon after strange, things began to happen.
• 3:32:59
  A whisper in the dead of night. the shattered Inkwell without
• 3:33:04
  cause unintelligible symbols drawn by unseen hands and to the
• 3:33:11
  dust of his windows seals. He began dreaming of faceless
• 3:33:17
  women crawling across ceiling's. Drawing sigils with their
• 3:33:23
  bleeding fingers. His hand would move without his
• 3:33:28
  will. Riding phrases.
• 3:33:30
  He did not understand. Jane D is wife Ruppel and
• 3:33:37
  fearful once she stood motionless before, the mirror
• 3:33:42
  for nearly an hour. When deed touched her shoulder,
• 3:33:45
  she screamed. Claiming a voice had spoken her
• 3:33:50
  name from inside the glass. Their youngest child cried out
• 3:33:55
  each night. Insisting an angel Without Eyes
• 3:34:00
  stood at the foot of his bed. Yes.
• 3:34:03
  Still. He persisted.
• 3:34:06
  He believed he had reached the edge of Heaven's Veil.
• 3:34:10
  He did not yet understand that the veil once torn.
• 3:34:15
  Lets anything through. The servants would later say the
• 3:34:20
  man, never knocked. One moment, the estate at more
• 3:34:25
  Lake was quiet. It's Halls filled with the usual
• 3:34:28
  Creeks of old Timbers and rustling manuscripts.
• 3:34:34
  The next The Stranger stood just beyond the threshold. cloaked
• 3:34:39
  and what looked like Starlight woven and silk, He did not walk
• 3:34:46
  up the lane. No one saw carriage.
• 3:34:50
  There were no footprints in the frost.
• 3:34:55
  He asked for John Dee by name. D met him at the door.
• 3:35:01
  And what followed remains one of the few events he never
• 3:35:05
  attempted to explain. The visitor carried.
• 3:35:10
  No Satchel or scroll. Only a peculiar object in his
• 3:35:15
  hands. A brass, timepiece.
• 3:35:19
  Smooth is bone. Its face covered in glass that
• 3:35:23
  shimmered like water. Its hands turned counter at a
• 3:35:28
  time. It ticked Softly.
• 3:35:32
  Not like a clock. But like water dripping into an
• 3:35:36
  empty basin. The man asked D where he had
• 3:35:40
  been born. De told him.
• 3:35:43
  The Stranger corrected him. He then took these hand and
• 3:35:48
  whispered something so softly that no one else heard it.
• 3:35:53
  But whatever was said, caused the scholar to be pale.
• 3:35:58
  He turned to fetch ink and parchment. and when he returned
• 3:36:02
  to the doorway, the visitor advantage.
• 3:36:08
  No Trace. No footprints.
• 3:36:12
  And no ticking clock. Later that night Darrow to
• 3:36:17
  cryptic, note in the margin of his astrological chart.
• 3:36:21
  A man of no Century came to remind me, not all Visions are
• 3:36:25
  called. Some.
• 3:36:28
  Are sinned. The mirror in the West Chamber.
• 3:36:32
  Began to hum again. Edward Kelly entered these life,
• 3:36:37
  like a crack of thunder across a Still Pond.
• 3:36:41
  A man of Shifting pasts and uncertain intentions.
• 3:36:47
  He arrived with Rumours trailing behind him of grave-robbing.
• 3:36:52
  Forgery. And whispered sale onces and
• 3:36:55
  forgot and chapels. It was a scryer, he claimed.
• 3:37:01
  A man who Could See Beyond the Veil.
• 3:37:05
  D ever, the Seeker did not hesitate.
• 3:37:10
  Their first invocation took place in a consecrated room
• 3:37:13
  within morally Lake. He had drawn the necessary
• 3:37:17
  circles and powdered silver. Added Center an obsidian
• 3:37:23
  Schuster Stone rested, a top of a carved pedestal.
• 3:37:27
  Kelly trembling. Sat before.
• 3:37:32
  Baldy, recited Aladdin and vacation.
• 3:37:35
  That did not been heard aloud. For centuries.
• 3:37:40
  At first. There was only silence.
• 3:37:44
  And Kelly's, mouth opened. Not in speech. but in all, His
• 3:37:51
  eyes rolled back. His breathing changed.
• 3:37:57
  He began to describe what he saw.
• 3:38:00
  An enormous being a fire and geometry.
• 3:38:04
  Crowned with 12 wings. Speaking with a voice that
• 3:38:09
  fractured the air, like glass. The being called itself, your
• 3:38:15
  real. From that moment, the sessions
• 3:38:19
  became daily. D, feverish, with purpose,
• 3:38:24
  transcribed, everything as Kelly channel did.
• 3:38:28
  Names of celestial beings, warnings of judgment.
• 3:38:33
  Encrypted prophecies. And the foundations of what they
• 3:38:38
  came to call the Anarchy and language. a Divine tongue said
• 3:38:43
  to have proceeded Babel, The spirits demanded obedience.
• 3:38:50
  They dictated exact rituals and fasts that required.
• 3:38:54
  The construction of wax sigils called LeMans.
• 3:38:59
  And requested tables of letters setting grids.
• 3:39:03
  That shifted as they spoke. Some symbols appeared in
• 3:39:07
  Kelly's, skin overnight. Blistered into his forearms.
• 3:39:12
  Without pain. Or cause.
• 3:39:16
  The most frequent visitor was madami.
• 3:39:20
  She first appeared as a young girl in a crimson gown.
• 3:39:24
  Speaking with a Singsong voice. But in later vision.
• 3:39:30
  She took the form of a winged woman.
• 3:39:32
  Crowned, with blood and serpents.
• 3:39:37
  Delivering, paradoxes and riddles.
• 3:39:41
  Sometimes weeping. Another times.
• 3:39:44
  Laughing. You see the throne she told them
• 3:39:48
  once but you walk the serpents spying.
• 3:39:52
  Kelly suffered frequent collapses.
• 3:39:56
  Once he did not rise for two days. he claimed that in this
• 3:40:01
  space between breaths, it seen the edge of creation.
• 3:40:06
  A library of Ash watched over by angels.
• 3:40:11
  Whose faces had no mouths. The house grew colder with each
• 3:40:17
  ritual. Servants refused to enter
• 3:40:20
  certain rooms. Jane, D began sleeping in the
• 3:40:25
  Eastern wing. Strange marks appeared on the
• 3:40:28
  children's bed sheets. Shapes.
• 3:40:31
  No one had drawn. One of the mirrors in the whole
• 3:40:35
  way shattered inward. Though, no one was near.
• 3:40:41
  Still, the Angels Came. With each new session, he
• 3:40:46
  believed he was closer. To something.
• 3:40:49
  Holy But something was watching even then?
• 3:40:55
  From Beyond the mirrors Edge. One Night in late Autumn during
• 3:41:00
  a particularly grueling in vacation.
• 3:41:03
  At Edward Kelly's Body, when unnaturally still.
• 3:41:07
  The candlelight flickered violently.
• 3:41:10
  The air through thick and metallic.
• 3:41:15
  As if the room itself have been buried underground.
• 3:41:19
  Then without warning. Kelly convulsed.
• 3:41:24
  His eyes rolled upward. And his lips parted as if to
• 3:41:28
  speak, but no sound came. His hand ink stained and
• 3:41:35
  trembling reached for a piece of chalk and Drew a spiral onto the
• 3:41:40
  wooden floor. The symbol expanded.
• 3:41:44
  Slowly precisely until the circle of invocation was covered
• 3:41:51
  and curling Ash. John Dee watching from across
• 3:41:55
  the ritual, boundary dare to speak.
• 3:41:59
  What do you see? He said, Kelly's voice returned
• 3:42:03
  Hollow and slow as if echoing from a great depth.
• 3:42:09
  A throne. Black.
• 3:42:13
  Carved from Stone that bleed shadow.
• 3:42:17
  His eyes remained on focused. It rests in avern beneath the
• 3:42:22
  world. There are eyes on the walls.
• 3:42:27
  A hundred. Maybe more.
• 3:42:31
  Watching. But Blind.
• 3:42:35
  Dealing forward. Who sits upon it.
• 3:42:40
  Kelly began to shake. It.
• 3:42:44
  It wears your name. He wept as he spoke.
• 3:42:49
  It has your hands. Your voice.
• 3:42:53
  But its face, it's gone. Kelly collapsed before he could
• 3:42:59
  say more. For three days.
• 3:43:02
  He did not rise. During that time the spiral on
• 3:43:06
  the floor could not be removed. They tempted to wash her scrub.
• 3:43:11
  It away. The chocolate only darkened.
• 3:43:15
  Staining the wood like soot. on the second night, the spiral
• 3:43:21
  began to Glow faintly under the moonlight Even through the
• 3:43:25
  clothes shutters. Do attempted prayers and ritual
• 3:43:29
  purification. But nothing worked.
• 3:43:33
  At sunrise on the fourth day. The spiral had vanished.
• 3:43:38
  But only from sight. Its presence, lingard.
• 3:43:43
  Like, pressure in the mind. Later, when D reviewed the notes
• 3:43:48
  from that night. He found several pages had been
• 3:43:52
  overridden by unseen hands. Each contained the same phrase
• 3:43:58
  repeated again. And again.
• 3:44:02
  I sit where you would stand. The following entries were
• 3:44:08
  recovered from a sealed compartment in John, Dee's
• 3:44:11
  library at mortlake bounding calfskin.
• 3:44:14
  The pages were splattered with candle wax.
• 3:44:18
  Scorched at the corners. And in places smeared with what
• 3:44:22
  appeared to be blood. There were also not ridden in
• 3:44:26
  Deez typical meticulous hand. March, 4th, 1581 mortlake.
• 3:44:34
  They come now, even when I do not call them.
• 3:44:37
  The scratching Behind the Walls, has begun again.
• 3:44:41
  I hear Wings above my bed. Though, the roof is still.
• 3:44:46
  The language flows through me like a fever, but I cannot stop
• 3:44:51
  riding. The phrase is burn.
• 3:44:54
  I do not know who watches me. I fear, they never stopped.
• 3:45:01
  March, 21st. 1581 Vernal equinox.
• 3:45:06
  Madami appeared tonight with blood staining, her mouth.
• 3:45:10
  When I demanded to know what offering had been taken, she
• 3:45:14
  smiled and pointed towards the nursery.
• 3:45:18
  Jane claims. She heard only foxes in the
• 3:45:20
  night but I know better. There are no foxes and mortally.
• 3:45:27
  April 2nd 1582. Kelly has drawn something he
• 3:45:33
  claims was dictated by Raphael himself.
• 3:45:37
  A Sigil. Unlike any I have seen too sharp
• 3:45:41
  to living. It burned into the desk.
• 3:45:44
  Is he Inked it. The wood ISD.
• 3:45:49
  When I buried the parchment in the garden, I heard his scream
• 3:45:53
  beneath the soil. In these entries, these usual
• 3:45:58
  confidence had frayed. He no longer questioned the
• 3:46:01
  veracity of the voices. He questioned only their intent.
• 3:46:08
  yet asked the spirits, if they served the light, They had not
• 3:46:13
  answered. Only medium.
• 3:46:16
  He returned transfigured. Her eyes Hollow.
• 3:46:21
  Her wings weeping fire. She told him.
• 3:46:26
  There is light in the pit but it is not holy.
• 3:46:31
  By 1582. John Dee had left England
• 3:46:34
  behind. He travelled across Europe,
• 3:46:37
  caring trunks of Scrolls and Angelic tablets.
• 3:46:42
  Trailing behind him, the lingering scent of burnt wax and
• 3:46:46
  scorched face. At his side walked at Edward
• 3:46:50
  Kelly. The longer just described but
• 3:46:54
  something more. Something darker.
• 3:46:57
  The spirits had told them to go eat.
• 3:47:00
  To the land of fire and Crystal to the place where men dream
• 3:47:05
  beneath stones. It went first to crack up and to
• 3:47:10
  Prague and to the court of brutal off the second.
• 3:47:14
  A monarch enthralled by the occult.
• 3:47:17
  A man who collected philosophers like weapons.
• 3:47:22
  There, Dee and Kelley were received with awe and suspicion.
• 3:47:28
  They conducted ceremonies behind veiled doors.
• 3:47:32
  Priests watched them with clenched rosaries.
• 3:47:36
  It was in Prague that things began to change.
• 3:47:40
  The Angels, if that's what they were no longer waited to be
• 3:47:44
  summoned, maybe began appearing at will through mirrors and
• 3:47:50
  reflections. And voices rising from Ink.
• 3:47:55
  Guess at the palace reported, the are turning cold during
• 3:47:58
  Dee's. Session's others claimed to see
• 3:48:01
  pale shapes moving across as walls, flickering like flames.
• 3:48:07
  Behind curtains. Kelly grew on stable.
• 3:48:12
  He stopped sleeping, he spoke in tongues, even outside of the
• 3:48:16
  ritual. He carved sigils into his arms.
• 3:48:20
  Claiming they had been dictated by Medina herself.
• 3:48:25
  He drank heavily. Some nights.
• 3:48:28
  He stared at the shoe stone for hours.
• 3:48:30
  Even after the ceremony had ended muttering they are
• 3:48:36
  watching They are inside me now. Once he disappeared for three
• 3:48:41
  days. When he returned, he was
• 3:48:45
  barefoot. Cloaked and bloodied robes.
• 3:48:49
  And smelled of Ash and Rose Water.
• 3:48:53
  He refused to speak of where he had been.
• 3:48:56
  D recorded Visions more disturbing than anything before.
• 3:49:01
  One Spirit declared that the Throne of Heaven had been empty.
• 3:49:05
  Another Whisper of a Divine war that had already ended in
• 3:49:09
  failure. That Mankind's creation was a
• 3:49:13
  correction of a Celestial error. And then came the demand that
• 3:49:20
  destroyed them. and a voice that turned glassed Frost, The
• 3:49:26
  supposed Angel nowadays. Spoke.
• 3:49:30
  The bind yourself and unity. You must share the vessel of
• 3:49:35
  Flesh. He must share your wives.
• 3:49:40
  Dew wept. Jane D faithful and
• 3:49:45
  long-suffering collapsed and grief.
• 3:49:49
  Kelly said, nothing his face unreadable.
• 3:49:54
  But D obeyed. What happened?
• 3:49:57
  That night in the upper chamber of the estate was recorded in no
• 3:50:02
  Journal. But something shifted Forever
• 3:50:04
  After. Jane never looked D in the eye
• 3:50:09
  again. Kelly became hostile erratic and
• 3:50:14
  paranoid. their work, faltered And Poland Kelly began.
• 3:50:20
  Refusing rituals. He accused of manipulation of
• 3:50:25
  twisting, the will of the angels to serve his own ego.
• 3:50:31
  During one final and vacation. He rose with a warning.
• 3:50:36
  And smashed the shoe Stone. The hammer made of mediocre
• 3:50:40
  iron. They are devils.
• 3:50:43
  He screamed and you are there, scribe.
• 3:50:48
  He fled the next morning, taking stolen manuscripts and Angelic
• 3:50:53
  tablets with him. Years later, word, reached D.
• 3:50:57
  That Kelly had fallen from a tower and Prague.
• 3:51:01
  Some said he had jumped others that he had been thrown.
• 3:51:06
  His body was never recovered. but even in mortlake, Swore, he
• 3:51:13
  could still hear Kelly's voice. It came in the dark.
• 3:51:18
  Just beyond the edges of sleep. Whispering their shattered
• 3:51:23
  reflections. John.
• 3:51:26
  You opened the gate? You never close it. when John D
• 3:51:33
  returned award Lake in the waning years of the 16th
• 3:51:36
  century, he found nothing as he had left it.
• 3:51:40
  The once glorious Library. His life's work had been
• 3:51:45
  ransacked. Scrolls and sacred volumes were
• 3:51:49
  gone. Precious Square Moore's been
• 3:51:53
  torn apart their Pages used to stoke fires.
• 3:51:59
  What remained lay scattered across the floors, like bones
• 3:52:03
  after a feast. His telescope had been
• 3:52:07
  shattered. His Angelic instruments.
• 3:52:11
  Desecrated. Jane greeted him in the silence.
• 3:52:16
  His children now. Older offered him, wary glances.
• 3:52:22
  Some refused to stay in the house after Nightfall.
• 3:52:26
  The servants was whispered behind doors.
• 3:52:29
  Locals crossed themselves when he walked through town.
• 3:52:33
  The Dee Allred IDE and gone resumed his work.
• 3:52:39
  He began to reconstruct the innocent tablets from memory.
• 3:52:43
  Though, the letters came broken twisted.
• 3:52:47
  Sometimes reverse. you know, longer spoke aloud the Angelic
• 3:52:52
  names His voice cracked, when he tried.
• 3:52:57
  The spirits no longer required in vacation, they came on their
• 3:53:01
  own accord. At first, they appeared in the
• 3:53:05
  reflections. Eyes flickering and silver
• 3:53:08
  trays. Faces behind mirrors that moved
• 3:53:12
  too quickly to see. But soon, the manifestations
• 3:53:17
  became physical. Books flew from shelves.
• 3:53:21
  Candles extinguished without wind.
• 3:53:24
  Voices. Whispered to his children,
• 3:53:27
  through the walls. He sealed The West Wing of the
• 3:53:30
  house. Jane avoided, the library
• 3:53:34
  entirely. She slept in a separate room,
• 3:53:37
  clutching a crucifix beneath her pillow.
• 3:53:41
  One night Duo woke to find mademe standing in the garden.
• 3:53:46
  Her form had changed. Her eyes all of.
• 3:53:52
  Her hair blackened with soot. Or Wings draped through the
• 3:53:57
  soil. Like, what silk?
• 3:54:00
  She did not speak. She only pointed Towards the
• 3:54:04
  Sky. The next morning D discovered
• 3:54:08
  Pages, he had never ridden lying on his desk.
• 3:54:12
  They were in his hand but born, no memory.
• 3:54:16
  The language was unlike anything that he had studied.
• 3:54:20
  Even the spirits had not spoken this way.
• 3:54:24
  He locked the pages away. Later.
• 3:54:28
  He tried to burn them. They would not burn.
• 3:54:33
  And 1605. Jane died.
• 3:54:37
  There were no last words. No blessings.
• 3:54:41
  Only a mirrored in red cloth left on the mantle.
• 3:54:46
  D, buried in the garden. But for weeks afterward, he
• 3:54:51
  heard her voice in the night. Calling from beneath the Earth.
• 3:54:57
  Why did you choose Heaven over me?
• 3:55:01
  The by then even D knew it had not been Heaven.
• 3:55:05
  He chose It had been something that wore the Divine like a
• 3:55:10
  mass. And the final days of his life,
• 3:55:14
  John deese, spoke little. He wandered the dark and Halls
• 3:55:18
  of mortal Lake mumbling to himself.
• 3:55:22
  His hands forever stained with ink and wax. most believed his
• 3:55:27
  age had finally unraveled the man once hailed, as England's
• 3:55:32
  greatest mind, But those who saw him closely.
• 3:55:37
  Who dared to look into his eyes. Since something else.
• 3:55:42
  He had not been abandoned by his visions.
• 3:55:45
  They had returned. At 9 described furiously and
• 3:55:51
  notebooks that no one was allowed to see.
• 3:55:54
  He left the lamps lit until morning.
• 3:55:57
  And sealed mirrors behind iron, lace cloths.
• 3:56:02
  A candle burned constantly in the room for the shoe Stone had.
• 3:56:06
  Once rested though, the stone itself was long gone.
• 3:56:11
  One evening, neighbor's reported a sound low in Residence, like a
• 3:56:17
  pipe organs buried deep underground.
• 3:56:21
  These home shook zip From A Distant Thunder.
• 3:56:26
  Yet no storm had passed. What happened inside the house
• 3:56:30
  that night was never recorded in full.
• 3:56:33
  But the last page of his surviving diary, tell part of
• 3:56:37
  the tale. He wrote a voices returning.
• 3:56:41
  Not as distant, Whispers. But as shapes in the room.
• 3:56:47
  They walked beside him. Sat across from him at his desk.
• 3:56:53
  They no longer spoken symbols. They spoke in memory.
• 3:56:59
  He claimed medium, he had come one final time.
• 3:57:04
  Her form shifting with each breath.
• 3:57:07
  From child to Woman. Skeleton and Flame.
• 3:57:13
  She told him. You have ridden the seals now.
• 3:57:19
  We unseal you. That night every mirror and
• 3:57:24
  Morty cracked from corner to corner.
• 3:57:28
  Books. Bled ink onto the floors.
• 3:57:31
  While shook. Light poured from beneath closed
• 3:57:35
  doors. In a wind rose from nowhere.
• 3:57:40
  The final entry D, have eroded scribbled in an unsteady hand
• 3:57:45
  read. It did not find me.
• 3:57:50
  They were waiting. and now that I have opened the gate, They are
• 3:57:55
  not leaving. This is not a warning.
• 3:58:00
  This is a map. After John Dee's death, no
• 3:58:05
  priest came to bless the home. His manuscripts were locked away
• 3:58:09
  or burned. His name was spoken only in
• 3:58:13
  hushed tones by those who remembered the strange lights
• 3:58:17
  that once flickered behind his windows.
• 3:58:21
  But for those who dared to examine what remained Those who
• 3:58:26
  opened his Diaries. Deciphered.
• 3:58:29
  His sigils. And translated the ravings.
• 3:58:32
  Scrawled into the margins of his final days.
• 3:58:37
  A terrifying Vision emerged. He had believed that he had
• 3:58:41
  unlocked something beyond the bounds of human reason.
• 3:58:45
  Not simply Divine knowledge, but the architecture of reality
• 3:58:50
  itself. He had spoken with entities
• 3:58:53
  claiming to be angels. Being of immense wisdom, Beauty
• 3:58:58
  and Terror. And in doing so.
• 3:59:03
  He had torn a hole. And the fabric of the world.
• 3:59:08
  He wrote of gardens made of Fire.
• 3:59:11
  Of libraries, that whispered. Of Thrones surrounded by
• 3:59:17
  watching eyes. Of souls that sang and
• 3:59:21
  languages. No living man should ever know.
• 3:59:27
  Those who study these work today, still argue over the
• 3:59:30
  truth of his Visions were they hallucinations born of obsession
• 3:59:35
  and sleep deprivation. Or were they something more?
• 3:59:40
  Something real. Her, perhaps ancient.
• 3:59:45
  One line found inscribed in fading Inc, Behind The Binding
• 3:59:49
  of his journal Remains the most debated.
• 3:59:53
  The spirits do not lie. That they do not tell the whole
• 3:59:58
  truth. And beneath that written and
• 4:00:02
  trembling script. Walk lightly dear reader.
• 4:00:07
  The path to Heaven is lying with fire.
• 4:00:12
  Long after his bones turned to dust his work, lived on.
• 4:00:17
  Studied by Kings. Feared by priests.
• 4:00:21
  Whispered about secret orders is still used his sigils to open
• 4:00:27
  locked doors Between Worlds. What he saw may never be fully.
• 4:00:32
  Understood. but one thing is certain, once you called it the
• 4:00:37
  other side, it listens. And sometimes.
• 4:00:43
  It answers. They called it corpsewood.
• 4:00:48
  Manor. A name born from dead trees and
• 4:00:52
  Gothic Whimsy. Whispered Through The Pines of
• 4:00:55
  Taylor Ridge, like an Unholy him.
• 4:00:59
  It wasn't just a house. It was a handmade Fortress of
• 4:01:03
  eccentricity nestled Deep In the Backwoods of North Georgia.
• 4:01:09
  Where brick walls held no one salesian in strange.
• 4:01:13
  Sigils glared from stained glass.
• 4:01:15
  Like watchful eyes to the locals.
• 4:01:19
  It was the home of two devil worshipers.
• 4:01:22
  A castle of sin where wine flowed like blood and forbidden
• 4:01:27
  Pleasures curled in the dark. To its owners Dr. Charles
• 4:01:32
  Scudder, and Joseph Odom. It was a refuge from judgment.
• 4:01:37
  A dream carved out of isolation and Earth.
• 4:01:41
  A sanctuary far from the reach of society's scorn, but dreams
• 4:01:47
  when misread by the cruel or the ignorant.
• 4:01:51
  Can become nightmares. On a bitter, December night in
• 4:01:55
  1982 that dream was shattered by four gunshots.
• 4:02:00
  Then five more a harp gold leafed and Silent watched as its
• 4:02:07
  Master fell. To Loyal Mastiffs died, trying
• 4:02:10
  to protect him. when the Killer's fled into the Shadows,
• 4:02:14
  they left behind, not just a scene of unspeakable violence,
• 4:02:18
  the something else, something colder than blood and quieter
• 4:02:24
  than death, what happened at corpsewood was more than murder.
• 4:02:29
  It was an exorcism of The Unwanted cloaked in bigotry and
• 4:02:34
  greed and in its aftermath the landed self would not rest.
• 4:02:40
  The manner burned. The bricks refused to stay
• 4:02:44
  quiet. Those who returned spoke of eyes
• 4:02:48
  in the forest, Phantom house and music with no source.
• 4:02:55
  This is the true story of corpsewood Manor, a tale of
• 4:02:59
  sanctuary turned slaughterhouse. Of men hunted for who they were.
• 4:03:05
  Of murder that bred myth. And perhaps something Beyond
• 4:03:10
  myth. The facts are real.
• 4:03:14
  A horror is undeniable. And the dead.
• 4:03:19
  Some say that they never left. In December 1982, a gruesome.
• 4:03:27
  Double murder. And Rural.
• 4:03:28
  North Georgia shocked the nation.
• 4:03:31
  Dr. Charles Scudder, a retired University professor and his
• 4:03:36
  partner. Joseph, Joey.
• 4:03:39
  Odom were found brutally slain at their hand-built home and
• 4:03:44
  isolated brick mini castle that they called corpsewood, Manor.
• 4:03:50
  The murders and the bizarre circumstances surrounding the
• 4:03:53
  crime scene quickly became the stuff of local Legend.
• 4:03:59
  To this day, the tale of corpse would man, her hands Chateau
• 4:04:03
  County. A blend of True Crime horror and
• 4:04:07
  whispered paranormal, folklore. It's a story of two eccentric
• 4:04:11
  men seeking peace. Made a violent end.
• 4:04:16
  A pair of drifters driven by greed and hate and a crime scene
• 4:04:21
  so lurid that had fed tabloid headlines about devil worship
• 4:04:27
  and sparked to go stories that linger for decades.
• 4:04:33
  Dr. Charles Lee Scott, her was an accomplished scientist and
• 4:04:37
  academic before he ever set foot in the Georgia Woods.
• 4:04:42
  Born in 1926 Scudder earned a PhD in Pharmacology and spent
• 4:04:48
  over a decade as an associate. Professor at low Yola University
• 4:04:52
  in Chicago by the late 1970s, however, he had grown
• 4:04:58
  disillusioned with urban life and Academia, He was weary of
• 4:05:03
  University politics. The chaos of the city.
• 4:05:08
  And what he perceived as the moral Decay around him.
• 4:05:12
  Scudder had also. Undergone personal changes.
• 4:05:16
  He had been married fathering, four sons and divorced.
• 4:05:21
  And by 1959, he had met Joseph Odom.
• 4:05:26
  A gentle soul, 12 years. His Junior originally worked as
• 4:05:30
  gutters housekeeper and cook. Over time Scudder and Odom
• 4:05:35
  became devoted Companions and lovers.
• 4:05:39
  Seeking a simpler more fulfilling life together.
• 4:05:43
  The pair dreamed of leaving Chicago's turmoil behind and
• 4:05:47
  retreating somewhere quiet remote.
• 4:05:51
  An open-minded enough to tolerate two openly gay men.
• 4:05:56
  Scudders vision of an idealic. Sanctuary was vividly described
• 4:06:00
  in a Mother Earth News article. He wrote He longed for some
• 4:06:05
  place in hilly country with the glamour of Four Seasons, but
• 4:06:10
  without super cold Winter's. And with a good Supply, a pure
• 4:06:15
  water and wood for heating. Most importantly.
• 4:06:19
  With a measure of isolation. On this 50th birthday in October
• 4:06:24
  1976. Dr. Scutter turned that dream
• 4:06:29
  into a reality. He resigned from his faculty
• 4:06:33
  position. Auctioned off most of his Posh
• 4:06:36
  belongings and shed modern conveniences even giving away.
• 4:06:41
  All of his appliances in preparation for an off-grid
• 4:06:46
  live. With a modest inheritance from
• 4:06:49
  his mother's recent passing. Scudder, purchased a 48 acre.
• 4:06:53
  Wooded tracked on Taylor's Ridge and Chateau County Georgia.
• 4:06:59
  That winter. He, in Odom packed their two
• 4:07:02
  beloved English Mastiff, dogs, and to a Jeep and drove South
• 4:07:07
  through a blizzard to their new home side.
• 4:07:11
  The journey was arduous. A lost their way in the
• 4:07:15
  Appalachian. Foothills, and even camped in a
• 4:07:18
  tent amid, a snowstorm, but when the skies cleared, They be held
• 4:07:24
  in other worldly seen. Of bare bone wide trees on the
• 4:07:29
  ridge. The abundance of leafless,
• 4:07:32
  lifeless trees looked like Corpses.
• 4:07:36
  Inspiring the Macabre name, corpsewood.
• 4:07:40
  Their Homestead. Charles Scudder and Joey Odom
• 4:07:44
  set out to build their own little castle in the wilderness.
• 4:07:48
  Entirely by hand. They lived out of a cramped
• 4:07:52
  camper as they broke ground on the new house in early 1977.
• 4:07:59
  With determination and labor, the couple spent roughly two
• 4:08:03
  years Lang 45,000 bricks on by one, to construct, a two-story,
• 4:08:10
  brick, home with walls, three layers thick.
• 4:08:14
  Scutter Drew up unconventional, plans inspired by medieval
• 4:08:19
  architecture. In fact, there are no square
• 4:08:22
  corners in the whole place. An investigator later, remarked
• 4:08:27
  of the oddly rounded turret like design.
• 4:08:31
  The first floor finished by the end of summer, of 1977
• 4:08:36
  contained. A kitchen dining room and living
• 4:08:41
  area. By the next year, the second
• 4:08:44
  floor. Two, cozy bedrooms reached by a
• 4:08:48
  circular staircase. Lit by stained glass.
• 4:08:51
  Windows was topped with a roof. They dug a deep.
• 4:08:55
  Well and built a small brick, pump house for it.
• 4:08:59
  Installed a wood burning stove for heat.
• 4:09:02
  And erected a brick Outhouse for a chemical toilet.
• 4:09:07
  All of this was achieved with no electricity and using only hand
• 4:09:12
  tools. Truly living off the grid long
• 4:09:16
  before it was trendy. From the outside Scudders Flair
• 4:09:21
  for the occult and dramatic was embedded in corpsewood to
• 4:09:25
  design. He crowned, the arch front
• 4:09:27
  entrance with a lingering pink gargoyles statue made of
• 4:09:32
  concrete. A guardian demon watching over
• 4:09:36
  the door. Inside.
• 4:09:38
  He crafted stained glass windows, depicting a human
• 4:09:42
  skull, and the Goat. Headed Baphomet.
• 4:09:46
  An emblem of the Church of Satan.
• 4:09:50
  Scutter was indeed in official member of Anton lavey's Church
• 4:09:54
  of Satan and atheist philosophy rather than a literal duffle
• 4:09:59
  worshiping. One And his new home was filled
• 4:10:03
  with Arcane and unsettling decor.
• 4:10:07
  He kept human skulls from his days in medical research.
• 4:10:11
  A black and gold statue of the demon, Mephistopheles stood on
• 4:10:16
  display. And each of the manners, for
• 4:10:20
  Brick chimneys was adorned with an inverted pentagram symbol.
• 4:10:26
  Life at corpses would manner, was deliberately primitive which
• 4:10:30
  gave the place and even more Gothic atmosphere.
• 4:10:34
  The Manor had. No, we looked electricity.
• 4:10:37
  No phone. And no Plumbing.
• 4:10:40
  At night, the couple rallied on oil lands and candles that caste
• 4:10:46
  dancing Shadows across the walls decorated with a cold artwork.
• 4:10:52
  A wood stove in the kitchen provided heat and a place to
• 4:10:55
  cook the vegetables that they grew in their Garden.
• 4:10:59
  Odom. Tended a small rose garden out
• 4:11:01
  front in a patch of muscadine grape Vines out back for making
• 4:11:07
  homemade wine. By day, the two men tended to a
• 4:11:12
  manager of animals in projects on their land.
• 4:11:16
  Besides their two Mastiffs, aptly named Biels above and
• 4:11:21
  Arsenal, they kept chickens and even build a small Lake Orchard.
• 4:11:27
  And Opie area over time. In a 1981 letter, Scudder,
• 4:11:32
  described an idealic daily routine at corpsewood.
• 4:11:37
  At 10 a.m. we had tea in the gazebo.
• 4:11:41
  Tonight, I may practice my harp. Or perhaps, I'll sit in the
• 4:11:46
  courtyard and listen to the tree frogs.
• 4:11:50
  And whipper Wills. While bats fly and clouds drift
• 4:11:54
  across the full moon. The world thoughts around me
• 4:11:58
  now. This fresh quiet.
• 4:12:02
  And very beautiful. Indeed Scutter brought a lavish
• 4:12:07
  Gold Leaf harp to this Winter's. And often played music under the
• 4:12:12
  stars. Adding to the sights of the
• 4:12:15
  worldly aura. Beyond the main house, Scudder
• 4:12:19
  and Odom. Erected several outbuildings
• 4:12:22
  including a three-story brick chicken coop.
• 4:12:26
  That would gain infamy and local lore.
• 4:12:30
  The first floor of this structure, housed their poultry
• 4:12:33
  and stored food. The second floor held supplies
• 4:12:37
  and reportedly part of the couples, extensive pornography
• 4:12:42
  collection. The top floor was painted
• 4:12:46
  entirely in a Rosy, Hue, and decked out as a den of
• 4:12:50
  pleasures. Soon known as the pink room.
• 4:12:54
  Inside this Loft space were mattresses draped in pink.
• 4:12:58
  Candles and lanterns for light. Assorted with and chains hung on
• 4:13:04
  the walls and a log book for visitors to sign in.
• 4:13:09
  This was scatter in Odom's private retreat for entertaining
• 4:13:13
  guests. A secluded loft where they
• 4:13:16
  offered guest. Homemade wine marijuana.
• 4:13:20
  And an escape from prying eyes. Locals whispered that sexual
• 4:13:25
  party took place in the pink room.
• 4:13:28
  An indeed Scudder. Did not hide his free spirited
• 4:13:32
  sexuality. The pair were not monogamous.
• 4:13:36
  And Scott was known to correspond with pen pals.
• 4:13:39
  Including prison inmates about a rod erotic interests.
• 4:13:44
  Even keeping notes on various lovers Kinks.
• 4:13:49
  Rumors later claimed that the pink rooms guest book contained
• 4:13:52
  names of up to 300 visitors. Including supposedly some
• 4:13:57
  prominent local men. Though, The Ledger mysteriously
• 4:14:01
  vanished during the murder investigation. whether or not
• 4:14:05
  local VIPs indulged in Corpse Woods, offerings, Such rumors
• 4:14:10
  only fueled, the dark legend that grew around the place.
• 4:14:15
  Despite their quest for seclusion.
• 4:14:18
  Stutter and Odom did not entirely shun the outside world.
• 4:14:22
  A frequently drove their black Jeep, and to the Tiny Town of
• 4:14:26
  Tryon were groceries and supplies.
• 4:14:30
  Their vehicle turned heads. It was emblazoned with a cold
• 4:14:35
  symbols including a large Pentacle on the side.
• 4:14:40
  In the conservative rural south of the early 1980s, the Salome
• 4:14:44
  caused a stir. Townsfolk began to go up about
• 4:14:48
  the two peculiar devil worshipers living up on the
• 4:14:52
  ridge. Whispered of Satanic rituals.
• 4:14:57
  Orgies in a pleasure castle and other lured imaginings.
• 4:15:03
  Some locals used homophobic slurs referring to scatter, and
• 4:15:08
  Odom as the queer devil worshipers on the mountain yet,
• 4:15:13
  those who actually met the men often came away with a different
• 4:15:16
  impression. By all accounts, Scudder.
• 4:15:20
  Odom were friendly and accommodating to curious folk
• 4:15:23
  and wandering deer hunters. The couple did not brandish
• 4:15:27
  weapons or threatened trespassers.
• 4:15:31
  They welcome to neighbors and adventurers alike.
• 4:15:34
  With flasks of their potent. Homemade wine and marijuana
• 4:15:38
  joints by the fire. One of those visitors was
• 4:15:43
  Kenneth Avery Brock. A local teenager who stumbled
• 4:15:47
  onto corpsewood Manor while hunting deer in the woods in
• 4:15:51
  1982. Brock was 17 years old.
• 4:15:56
  A high school, dropout doing odd jobs.
• 4:15:59
  And he had heard the fearful Whisperers about the gay devil
• 4:16:03
  worshipers on Taylor's Ridge. But curiosity got the better of
• 4:16:08
  him. When he encountered Dr. Scutter
• 4:16:12
  on a hunting for Ray. The professor turned Homesteader
• 4:16:15
  greeted him warmly. Scudder, even gave Brock
• 4:16:19
  permission to hunt on the property.
• 4:16:21
  And invited him to the pink room.
• 4:16:23
  For a taste of homemade. Muscadine wine and conversation
• 4:16:29
  by Brock's later account. These visits turned sexual.
• 4:16:34
  Then he returned several times for intimate encounters with the
• 4:16:37
  men. At the time, the age of consent
• 4:16:41
  in Georgia was just 14. But sodomy even between
• 4:16:45
  consenting adults was still lead legal.
• 4:16:50
  Bronx secretly Azan with the two.
• 4:16:52
  Men would have been scandalous of revealed.
• 4:16:55
  And he reportedly kept them hidden from his friends.
• 4:16:59
  On the last is experienced, as a corpsewood planted a seed in his
• 4:17:04
  mind. Won that would soon grow into a
• 4:17:08
  deadly plot. In the fall of 1982.
• 4:17:13
  Kainthe Avery Brock moved into a trailer home in the nearby
• 4:17:17
  Halls, Valley with the new roommate.
• 4:17:21
  Samuel Tony West, each 30. West was considerably older than
• 4:17:27
  Brock and had a far more troubled past.
• 4:17:31
  Hailing from the same area. West had spent much of his life
• 4:17:35
  in and out of prisons. In mental institutions, in fact,
• 4:17:41
  his criminal history was already littered with violence.
• 4:17:46
  Chillingly West's career in crime had begun years earlier
• 4:17:50
  when he shot and killed his own 2 year old nephew and what was
• 4:17:56
  described as an execution-style murder.
• 4:18:00
  He had also been implicated and other serious crimes over the
• 4:18:04
  years. By 1982, Tony West was an
• 4:18:08
  unemployed ex-con living in a rundown trailer.
• 4:18:13
  A volatile man described as wild and prone to bouts of Cruelty,
• 4:18:18
  by those who knew him. Brock. 15 and aimless became
• 4:18:24
  West's roommate in an unlikely friend.
• 4:18:29
  It wasn't long before young Brock told West all about the
• 4:18:33
  Oddball couples living up on Taylor's Ridge.
• 4:18:38
  And Brock's telling. Corpsewood.
• 4:18:40
  Manor. Must have sounded like a
• 4:18:42
  tempting Target. He spun Tales of Rich satanists
• 4:18:46
  who dwelled in a remote Brick Mansion filled with antiques who
• 4:18:52
  drank fine, wine, and most importantly who Brock believed
• 4:18:57
  or hiding, a fortune somewhere in the walls of their house.
• 4:19:03
  Brock had seen enough to tantalize him.
• 4:19:06
  Scudders, gold and crusted harp valuable looking artwork in
• 4:19:10
  furniture. And perhaps even vials of Ella's
• 4:19:14
  D and drugs, that might fetch a price.
• 4:19:19
  An indeed Scutter kept a supply of LSD old lap samples on hand.
• 4:19:26
  Though, it turns out they were mostly and nerd.
• 4:19:30
  Neither Brock Norwest had much money to their name.
• 4:19:34
  And the prospect of robbing the couple promised a windfall, the
• 4:19:37
  wildest dreams. so, in the privacy of that trailer, The two
• 4:19:44
  men began to plan. As West later, admitted to
• 4:19:49
  investigators. He planned the crime days in
• 4:19:53
  advance. They would gain entry under
• 4:19:56
  friendly pretenses, then subdue the victims.
• 4:20:01
  Torture them if necessary. And force them to reveal where
• 4:20:06
  their money and treasures were hidden.
• 4:20:11
  Brock even attempted a reconnaissance mission in
• 4:20:14
  November of 1982. He visited corpsewood several
• 4:20:18
  times that month. Ostensibly to socialize. but
• 4:20:24
  with an older motive of learning the layout of the house, And
• 4:20:28
  where valuables might be catched.
• 4:20:32
  However, Scudder and Odom. Never let the teenager inside
• 4:20:36
  the main house beyond the vegetable All of Brock's and her
• 4:20:40
  actions took place in outdoor areas or in the pink room Loft.
• 4:20:46
  Remained. Largely unaware that the Brick
• 4:20:49
  Mansion had no safe full of cash.
• 4:20:52
  No, ElectroCity, which might have tipped him off that high
• 4:20:56
  value Electronics, or appliances were absent.
• 4:21:01
  And in fact, there was very little money on the side at all.
• 4:21:05
  The homesteaders lived simply on about 200 dollars a month with
• 4:21:10
  any savings kept in a local bank.
• 4:21:13
  Brock's imagination, fueled by Town gossip and Youthful greed,
• 4:21:18
  filled in the blanks with fantasies of hidden riches,
• 4:21:24
  Frustrated, by his limited knowledge of the interior.
• 4:21:28
  Broken West decided that they would simply have to storm
• 4:21:32
  corpsewood Manor and find the loot by force.
• 4:21:36
  It prepared weapons and tools for the deed.
• 4:21:40
  Brock borrowed, a 22 caliber rimington rifle from his mother
• 4:21:45
  under the ruse of needing it the hunt.
• 4:21:49
  Rabbits. West, meanwhile, mixed up a
• 4:21:53
  batch of Homebrew and toxicant called toodaloo.
• 4:21:58
  Auctions cocktail of alcohol. Paint thinner.
• 4:22:02
  And glue. Huffed to produce a cheap high.
• 4:22:07
  On December 12th of 1982. The conspirators set their plan
• 4:22:13
  into motion. They invited two teenagers.
• 4:22:17
  Joey Wells West 18 year old nephew and his girlfriend Teresa
• 4:22:23
  Hudgens. Both of whom were unaware of the
• 4:22:27
  plot to ride along with them. Under the pretense of a casual
• 4:22:32
  double date. Brock and West suggested they
• 4:22:35
  all drive up into the mountains to visit those Folks at
• 4:22:40
  corpsewood, for some homemade wine, a proposition which
• 4:22:44
  sounded harmless enough to the teens Though, Theresa was uneasy
• 4:22:49
  about visiting devil worshipers. But she was eventually coaxed
• 4:22:54
  into it. The four loaded into West's car
• 4:22:58
  bringing along the rifle, a jug of tutu.
• 4:23:03
  And a couple of empty wine flasks.
• 4:23:06
  They rumbled up the winding dirt road and formerly known as Dead
• 4:23:11
  Horse Road. Toward corpsewood Manor as dusk
• 4:23:15
  fell. As they neared the property,
• 4:23:18
  Theresa later recalled seeing the rifle wedge between the
• 4:23:22
  front two seats, and ominous sign, that something was amiss.
• 4:23:30
  Charles Scudder and Joey Odom were relaxing on that Chile
• 4:23:34
  Sunday evening on aware of the danger that approached them.
• 4:23:41
  Earlier, Odom had prepared a chicken dinner.
• 4:23:45
  And the couple likely spent the early night and routine.
• 4:23:49
  Perhaps listening to music or reading by Lamplight.
• 4:23:54
  They had no telephone and no electricity.
• 4:23:57
  So surprise, visitors were not uncommon and usually welcomed.
• 4:24:04
  Sometime after dark the sound of car tires.
• 4:24:07
  Crunching up the leaf strewn Drive announced the arrival of
• 4:24:11
  guests. Dr. Scutter stepped outside to
• 4:24:15
  greet the unexpected guests. Even bombed a cigarette from the
• 4:24:20
  young men to take inside to Joey Odom, who was tidying up the
• 4:24:24
  kitchen after supper? The group explained that they
• 4:24:28
  were just out joy, riding and thought that they'd stop by.
• 4:24:33
  being the ever gracious hosts, that he was Scutter invited all
• 4:24:37
  four visitors to climb the 40 foot ladder up to the pink room
• 4:24:41
  for some plum wine conversation. He had no reason to suspect
• 4:24:47
  anything sinister. Brock was a familiar face by
• 4:24:51
  now. And the presence of a young
• 4:24:53
  woman likely, put the couple further at ease.
• 4:24:57
  Up in the drafty pink room. Illuminated by a single kerosene
• 4:25:02
  lantern and a propane heater. Scudder, poured glasses of his
• 4:25:07
  homemade muscadine wine for everyone.
• 4:25:11
  Rock passed around a plastic bag of the tutu cocktail, which
• 4:25:15
  Teresa and Joey Wells sniffed. Though.
• 4:25:19
  Doctors Scudder himself politely declined, the huffing in favor
• 4:25:24
  of sipping wine. The Gathering must have seemed
• 4:25:27
  surreal. Five people huddled in the dimly
• 4:25:31
  lit, attic Loft, painted Pepto, Bismol pink.
• 4:25:35
  Surrounded by whips and eccentric.
• 4:25:40
  With the Winter, Wind howling outside.
• 4:25:43
  For a few minutes. They engaged in small talk.
• 4:25:47
  In Scudders 2, English Mastiff sparked occasionally down below.
• 4:25:52
  Uneasy at the unfamiliar commotion.
• 4:25:56
  Perhaps to break the ice skater, played host, and his quirky way.
• 4:26:02
  By showing off some pornography and making jokes.
• 4:26:06
  And he semblance of normalcy. However, Was short lived.
• 4:26:11
  After 15 or 20 minutes. Kenneth Brock excused himself.
• 4:26:17
  saying that he needed to go down to the car to get more party,
• 4:26:21
  drink He clamored down the ladder back into the cold night.
• 4:26:27
  In truth. This was the moment that he and
• 4:26:30
  West had been waiting for their Ambush was about to begin.
• 4:26:37
  Rock retrieved the loaded. 22 caliber rifle from the vehicle
• 4:26:41
  and returned to the base of the ladder. when the young man
• 4:26:46
  emerged again through the trapdoor in the pink room armed
• 4:26:50
  with the rifle, Dr. Scott's eyes caught the glint of the Gun
• 4:26:55
  Barrel. Incredibly Scutter laughed.
• 4:27:00
  Perhaps thinking that it was a prank.
• 4:27:03
  The gray-haired professor, calmly joked.
• 4:27:06
  Bang Bang. As if playing cops and robbers.
• 4:27:11
  His relaxed reaction, maybe born of intoxication or disbelief
• 4:27:16
  momentarily. Threw Brock off guard.
• 4:27:20
  But Tony West eyes, blazing pulled out a knife.
• 4:27:26
  In a Flash Brock lunged at Scudder.
• 4:27:29
  Yanking the slight 50 year old man, by his long grey hair.
• 4:27:35
  While Wes pressed, the knife blade hard against Cutters
• 4:27:39
  throat? At this moment, in the illusion
• 4:27:43
  of a harmless, visit evaporated. To Risa Hudgins.
• 4:27:47
  Let out a scream. And Joey, Wells Frozen Terror.
• 4:27:52
  West barked orders. Shoving scattered face down and
• 4:27:57
  binding his hands with the robe. The attackers demanded that
• 4:28:01
  Scudder, tell them where the money was.
• 4:28:05
  Though, startled and roughed up. Scutter remained, eerily calm.
• 4:28:11
  He insisted that there was no fortune hidden here.
• 4:28:15
  The house held. No cash and only a few
• 4:28:18
  valuables. At their modest funds were all
• 4:28:22
  kept in a bank account instead. Not believing him bruh.
• 4:28:28
  Crew agitated. He decided to force Joey Odom to
• 4:28:32
  hand over money instead. Brock clamored back down.
• 4:28:37
  The ladder shouting for Odom to come out of the main house with
• 4:28:41
  the dogs. Frightened Teresa and Joey Wells
• 4:28:46
  saw their chance and bolted down the ladder as well.
• 4:28:50
  Hoping to run to the car. But Tony West chased after them.
• 4:28:56
  Catching the teens before they could Escape.
• 4:28:59
  But Tony, West chased after them catching the teens before they
• 4:29:04
  could Escape. At gunpoint, he cared them back.
• 4:29:09
  Even attempting to start the getaway car himself at one
• 4:29:13
  point. But the car stalled?
• 4:29:16
  Leaving them. No choice but to drag the
• 4:29:19
  trembling teenagers back up into the loft.
• 4:29:23
  As hostages. meanwhile, at the foot of the ladder, Kenneth
• 4:29:28
  Brock was already kicking in the kitchen door of the manor.
• 4:29:32
  Joey Odom, heard the commotion and his lovers distant voice.
• 4:29:38
  How to unlocked the door to see what was happening.
• 4:29:42
  He was greeted by the muzzle of Brock's 22 rifle.
• 4:29:47
  Without hesitation Brock opened fire.
• 4:29:52
  A crack of gunfire than echoed throughout the trees.
• 4:29:56
  Odom was struck multiple times in crumpled to the floor of the
• 4:30:01
  kitchen. Rock then turned the rifle on
• 4:30:06
  the two Mastiffs. Shooting both dogs at Point
• 4:30:10
  Blank Range as they cowered by the wood stove.
• 4:30:15
  The loyal Mastiff that had been the pride of corpsewood.
• 4:30:18
  Now, laid dying alongside Odom. and the pink room of West, in
• 4:30:26
  the teens heard the gunshots ring out in quick succession.
• 4:30:31
  Theresa later said that it was a barrage of bullets.
• 4:30:36
  And then a terrible silence. West Force, the bounds Scudder,
• 4:30:41
  and the two shocked teenagers down the ladder and then marched
• 4:30:46
  them. A gun Point toward the main
• 4:30:48
  house. It was a chaotic scene.
• 4:30:53
  The ones Cozy home. Now had a bullet riddle door.
• 4:30:57
  Blood splattered on the walls. And the smell of gunpowder and
• 4:31:02
  death in the air. Joey Odom, though.
• 4:31:06
  Mortally wounded was still clinging to life on the kitchen
• 4:31:10
  floor. And he had managed to drag
• 4:31:13
  himself a short distance. Smearing blood across the stone
• 4:31:17
  tiles. Charles gutters eyes fell on the
• 4:31:21
  horrifying sight of his Partners sprawled in blood the professors
• 4:31:27
  composure finally cracked. He lurched forward, muffling, a
• 4:31:33
  cry through the gag that West had shoved over his mouth.
• 4:31:38
  West ripped the gag off, and again, demanded Wares the damn
• 4:31:44
  money. He also snarled the Brock to
• 4:31:48
  fetch a soldering iron from the tools.
• 4:31:50
  Apparently, intending to torture Scutter for information.
• 4:31:55
  Scudder, even now managed a dark quip.
• 4:32:00
  We don't have electricity out here.
• 4:32:03
  So what good, what a soldering iron do?
• 4:32:06
  In raged at the Defiance West, threatened, more violence.
• 4:32:12
  In that moment. Dr. Scutter looked around at the
• 4:32:15
  Carnage. His lifelong partner dying.
• 4:32:20
  their beloved dogs, slain their dream home violated.
• 4:32:27
  And he spoke quietly. I asked for this, he said,
• 4:32:31
  cryptically. Perhaps those words reflected
• 4:32:36
  regret for inviting these dangerous young men and his
• 4:32:40
  Haven. Or regret for moving to a place
• 4:32:44
  where such a tolerance. Festered Those would be his
• 4:32:48
  final words. Scatter made a desperate lunge
• 4:32:53
  toward Joey. Odom's prone body.
• 4:32:56
  Reaching out to comfort his partner.
• 4:32:59
  Even as West aimed the gun. A shot exploded from West's
• 4:33:04
  rifle. And Dr. Scutter fell a bullet
• 4:33:08
  wound searing through his face. Incredibly Scudder did not die
• 4:33:15
  instantly. Despite a severe wound.
• 4:33:19
  The 50 year old man was still moving.
• 4:33:22
  Stubbornly attempting to crawl toward Odom.
• 4:33:26
  Brock and West stood over him. And coldly fired for more rounds
• 4:33:32
  and to cut his head. At close range.
• 4:33:37
  At last Dr. Charles Scudder, lay still His blood pooling onto the
• 4:33:43
  floor near his cherished library of a cult books.
• 4:33:49
  And the Fallen Christmas tree. the castle in the woods had
• 4:33:54
  truly become a corpse would Its Keeper's now, corpses within its
• 4:34:01
  walls. And a grimstroke of Irani
• 4:34:04
  hanging on the wall. Not far from Scudders.
• 4:34:08
  Body was a self-portrait that he had painted of himself some
• 4:34:12
  months early earlier. In the painting scattered
• 4:34:16
  depicted himself bound and gagged.
• 4:34:20
  And with five bleeding bullet wounds in his head.
• 4:34:25
  Was as if the scene now playing out had been four toll on the
• 4:34:29
  canvas and Eerie premonition realized in blood.
• 4:34:35
  Even The Killers would later remark on the spooky accuracy of
• 4:34:40
  that artwork. Its paint.
• 4:34:42
  Now, flecked the very Gore, it predicted.
• 4:34:48
  Joey, Odom was still gasping weekly.
• 4:34:51
  Terribly wounded but not yet dead.
• 4:34:55
  Rock approached the crawling man.
• 4:34:58
  And ended Odom's life. But the final Point Blank
• 4:35:03
  gunshot executing him on the spot.
• 4:35:08
  The brutal deed was done. Nami.
• 4:35:11
  A few explosive minutes. The quiet of the Georgia Woods,
• 4:35:15
  had given way to gunfire and screams and two innocent men
• 4:35:20
  along with their dogs had been slaughtered in their own
• 4:35:25
  Sanctuary. The terrified teen Witnesses,
• 4:35:28
  Joey, Wells and Theresa Hudgens huddled together in shock
• 4:35:34
  weeping and begging for their lives.
• 4:35:38
  Brockton West, spared them. But only because they might
• 4:35:41
  prove useful and could be intimidated and to silence.
• 4:35:47
  With Scutter and Odom Dead. The Intruders ransacked
• 4:35:51
  corpsewood, Manor in a frenzy. They tore through drawers.
• 4:35:56
  Flipped mattresses. And pride of floorboards.
• 4:36:01
  Desperately searching for cash. And valuables.
• 4:36:06
  They found almost nothing of the riches that they had imagined.
• 4:36:11
  In the end, the murderers grabbed a handful of personal
• 4:36:14
  items. A few pieces of jewelry.
• 4:36:19
  A gold plated ceremonial dagger. A couple of silver candlesticks.
• 4:36:25
  A pistol. And a leather jacket.
• 4:36:29
  They also IDE doctor scouters, big harp.
• 4:36:33
  Perhaps the single most valuable item in the house.
• 4:36:37
  And even logged it out to the car.
• 4:36:40
  But it proved too large to fit into the vehicle.
• 4:36:44
  Frustration and disappointment set in as a dawned on them.
• 4:36:48
  That there was no hidden Fortune. this whole Massacre had
• 4:36:53
  been for a few meager trinkets, time was running out before
• 4:36:57
  someone might come along, so the men decided to flee They forced
• 4:37:03
  to Risa and Joey Wells back into their own car.
• 4:37:07
  And left the crime scene in shambles.
• 4:37:10
  Crimson blood splashed across the manners brick walls.
• 4:37:15
  And bookshelves. Outside, west issued a chilling
• 4:37:20
  warning to the teens. if they told anyone what had happened
• 4:37:24
  here, he would kill them to in fact, according to later
• 4:37:30
  reports, Teresa was essentially held hostage by the extended
• 4:37:35
  Wells family for the next several days. they were
• 4:37:40
  terrified that if she went to the police, West, my return.
• 4:37:45
  And harm them all. Brock and Weston transferred.
• 4:37:49
  Their stolen goods. Into doctor's black Jeep
• 4:37:52
  Killer's decided to use the victims own V vehicle for their
• 4:37:56
  getaway since. West car was not running
• 4:37:59
  reliably since it had stalled early earlier.
• 4:38:04
  They started the Jeep barreled off down the mountain.
• 4:38:08
  Leaving corpsewood, Manor. Littered with bodies bully.
• 4:38:12
  Casing spilled wine. In their haste, they had
• 4:38:17
  abandoned some incriminating evidence.
• 4:38:21
  Notably West had left behind his bloody knife.
• 4:38:25
  And Brock his rifle. The stock of which had broken
• 4:38:30
  during the assaults. But any concerns about covering
• 4:38:34
  their tracks were secondary to escape?
• 4:38:38
  Brought in West drove through the night.
• 4:38:40
  Heading Westward, out of Georgia.
• 4:38:43
  Their fanciful plan was to Fleet in Mexico.
• 4:38:48
  Far from the reach of Southern Justice.
• 4:38:52
  Little did they know their nightmare was not over?
• 4:38:57
  They were about to add another victim to their bloody tally.
• 4:39:02
  His brocken West sped away from the dark and woods of Chattooga
• 4:39:06
  County on the night of December 12th 1982.
• 4:39:11
  News of the murders had not yet, reached anyone.
• 4:39:16
  The remote location of corpsewood meant that the bodies
• 4:39:19
  of Charles Scudder and Joey Odom would lie undiscovered her days.
• 4:39:26
  Meanwhile, the two fugitives drove Dr. Scudder's Jeep across
• 4:39:31
  state lines. Chain-smoking and nervously
• 4:39:35
  planning their next moves. They swapped out the Jeeps
• 4:39:39
  distinctive license plate to avoid detection.
• 4:39:43
  By the next day December 13th, they had reached rural
• 4:39:47
  Mississippi. Low on fuel and money.
• 4:39:52
  The pair decided to ditch the very identifiable black Jeep for
• 4:39:56
  another vehicle. That would not attract
• 4:39:59
  attention. Later that day, the duo pulled
• 4:40:04
  into a rest area near Vicksburg where alone car sat with a man
• 4:40:09
  sleeping inside. The man was Navy, Lieutenant
• 4:40:14
  Herbie Ken Phelps aged 26. Is on his way home to Georgia
• 4:40:20
  for the holidays. In West crept up to Phelps small
• 4:40:25
  toyoto. And in a maneuver is cold
• 4:40:28
  blooded as the corpse would attack.
• 4:40:31
  They woke the groggy Navy Lieutenant at gunpoint.
• 4:40:35
  And forced him to walk into the woods beside the rest stop.
• 4:40:40
  As they prepared to time to a tree.
• 4:40:44
  Lieutenant Phelps made a desperate attempt to flee.
• 4:40:48
  Tony West did not hesitate. He shot the young officer dead.
• 4:40:54
  Firing multiple bullets and developes before he could
• 4:40:57
  Escape. Rock and west then stole Phelps
• 4:41:01
  wallet. Netting, only a bit of cash and
• 4:41:05
  his car abandoning Scudders Jeep there at the rest stop.
• 4:41:10
  The senseless murder of Lieutenant Phelps a stranger to
• 4:41:13
  them demonstrated that Brock in West, where willing to kill
• 4:41:17
  anyone who got in their way. Even when it was completely
• 4:41:21
  unnecessary. It was an act of pure callus
• 4:41:26
  violence. That would later, horrify the
• 4:41:28
  public even more than the initial murders.
• 4:41:33
  After switching to phelps's car, The Fugitive continued West for
• 4:41:37
  a Time. Possibly considering heading
• 4:41:40
  toward California or Mexico. Potentials were Rising between
• 4:41:45
  the two accomplices. It had been on the run for days.
• 4:41:50
  They were hungry tired and growing increasingly distrustful
• 4:41:55
  one another. They argued in Austin, Texas,
• 4:41:59
  over their next steps. And ended up splitting up around
• 4:42:04
  December 17th or 18th. Kenneth Brock.
• 4:42:09
  The younger of the two was cracking under the weight of
• 4:42:13
  guilt and fear. He ultimately decided to turn
• 4:42:17
  back toward Georgia, perhaps hoping to surrender and blame
• 4:42:22
  everything on West. Rock hitchhiked his way East
• 4:42:26
  reaching Georgia, by December 20th of 1982.
• 4:42:31
  Near Maryetta, just outside of Atlanta.
• 4:42:35
  He called his mother from a payphone. she informed him that
• 4:42:39
  the police were looking for him that the whole horrific story
• 4:42:43
  had started to come out Brock quickly hung up resigned to his
• 4:42:49
  fate. He walked into a nearby gas
• 4:42:52
  station and calmly confessed to the attendant that he was
• 4:42:57
  involved in the corpsewood murders.
• 4:43:01
  The clerk kept him talking until law enforcement, who by then had
• 4:43:06
  an arrest warrant out for him arrived within minutes.
• 4:43:11
  They then took him into custody without incident.
• 4:43:16
  Tony West's Journey took a different turn.
• 4:43:19
  After parting from Brock in Texas.
• 4:43:22
  West, meandered through, Oklahoma, and Missouri
• 4:43:25
  apparently. Unsure of where to go.
• 4:43:29
  On Christmas Eve. 1982. West was in Chattanooga,
• 4:43:34
  Tennessee. Just a short drive from the
• 4:43:37
  Georgia state line. When his stolen car ran out of
• 4:43:42
  gas. Exhausted broke and desperate.
• 4:43:48
  West walked through cold rain into a highway truck stop Lounge
• 4:43:52
  on the outskirts of Chattanooga. There.
• 4:43:56
  He actually approached a uniformed, police officer and
• 4:44:00
  said, Go ahead and take me in. West, essentially surrendered.
• 4:44:07
  Confessing on the spot that he was wanted for murders back in
• 4:44:10
  Georgia. The officer startled by this
• 4:44:14
  unsolicited confession checked for warrants, but initially
• 4:44:19
  couldn't find one for West in the system.
• 4:44:22
  Likely due to some administrative delay.
• 4:44:26
  Regardless West refused to leave.
• 4:44:29
  He was shivering and exhausted. He clearly wanted to give
• 4:44:34
  himself up. So, the Tennessee officer,
• 4:44:37
  detained him and contacted Georgia authorities.
• 4:44:42
  By the early hours of Christmas morning.
• 4:44:45
  Tony West was handed over to the Chateau County, deputies and
• 4:44:50
  formally arrested for the murders of Charles Scudder and
• 4:44:55
  Joey Odom. Back on Taylor's Ridge, several
• 4:45:00
  days had passed. And nobody had seen or heard
• 4:45:03
  from Dr. Scutter or Joey Odom. the first sign of trouble came
• 4:45:09
  on December 6th, when a couple of locals noticed something odd
• 4:45:14
  at corpsewood, One neighbor, spotted bullet holes riddling,
• 4:45:19
  the door of the manor. And got an uneasy feeling.
• 4:45:24
  That same day Teresa Hudgens could no longer contain her
• 4:45:28
  trauma. Having been effectively kept
• 4:45:31
  under watch by Joey wells's family since the night of the
• 4:45:35
  murders. Teresa finally managed to reach
• 4:45:39
  out to her own family. And then the police.
• 4:45:44
  Overwhelmed and shaking. The young woman told sheriff's
• 4:45:48
  deputies about the horrific events that she had witnessed.
• 4:45:53
  With this eyewitness information.
• 4:45:56
  Chateau County, Sheriff Gary McConnell and his deputies.
• 4:46:00
  Raced up to corpsewood Manor, on December 16th.
• 4:46:05
  Meanwhile, a family friend of Scudder and odums worried after
• 4:46:11
  days of Silence also came by the property that day.
• 4:46:15
  Only to flee in Terror after glimpsing, the gruesome scene
• 4:46:19
  inside. And smelling decay in the air.
• 4:46:25
  Authorities would describe it as a crime scene.
• 4:46:27
  Unlike any other The quiet brick home was now a Tablo of Horror.
• 4:46:34
  Investigators found bloodstained walls.
• 4:46:37
  Overturned furniture. And spent bullet casings Strahan
• 4:46:42
  about. In the kitchen, lay the body of
• 4:46:45
  Joseph Odom. Collapsed in a pool of his own
• 4:46:48
  blood near the stove, but the carcasses of the two large
• 4:46:52
  Mastiffs at his side. Deeper in the house Dr. Charles
• 4:46:57
  gutters body was discovered on the floor.
• 4:46:59
  His hands still bound. The violence of his end was
• 4:47:04
  obvious. It's got her had been gagged and
• 4:47:07
  shot multiple times in the head. And fragments of his shattered,
• 4:47:11
  eye glasses in teeth or scattered nearby.
• 4:47:16
  Hanging on the wall above him detectives noted with the shiver
• 4:47:20
  was Scott her own self-portrait depicting almost tonight's
• 4:47:25
  scene. truly a chilling detail that many would consider to be a
• 4:47:30
  premonition The Bloodshed the contents of the house fascinated
• 4:47:35
  in shocked law enforcement, the remote Castle was filled with an
• 4:47:40
  odd collection of items. These range from satanic and a
• 4:47:45
  cold artwork. The ritual daggers.
• 4:47:48
  Whips and chains. A tiara and a wig.
• 4:47:53
  Stacks of pornography into human skulls. deputies even came
• 4:47:59
  across three small vials labeled lsd-25 later determined to be
• 4:48:04
  old mostly inactive samples that Scudder had taken from his lab
• 4:48:09
  in Chicago years prior the pink room and the outbuilding with
• 4:48:15
  its mattresses and bondage gear further confirmed, the rumors of
• 4:48:20
  the couples libertine lifestyle The scene was a detective's
• 4:48:25
  nightmare but a tabloid reporters dream.
• 4:48:29
  Sheriff McConnell wisely summoned, the Georgia Bureau of
• 4:48:32
  Investigation or chibi in state crime lab technicians to
• 4:48:38
  meticulously process the site. Evidence was collected including
• 4:48:43
  the rifle and knife of behind by The Killers.
• 4:48:48
  Fingerprints in the guest log book though.
• 4:48:52
  Intriguingly the infamous guest book of names was reported
• 4:48:56
  missing possibly pilfered as a scandalous keepsake.
• 4:49:01
  Word of the double murder of two eccentric, recluses spread
• 4:49:06
  quickly, and law enforcement circles.
• 4:49:08
  And then, to the media, On December 18th of 1982, the
• 4:49:14
  Atlanta Constitution ran a headline that captured The
• 4:49:18
  Sensational tone that would pervade the coverage.
• 4:49:22
  Slain devil worshipers were ex-college teacher and
• 4:49:26
  companion. The article quoted Sheriff
• 4:49:29
  McConnell who noted. It is a very bizarre murder.
• 4:49:33
  The gentleman that lived in the house were devil worshipers.
• 4:49:38
  Were very small town in, we had known about that.
• 4:49:42
  But that's just freedom of religion.
• 4:49:46
  To McConnell's credit. He appeared to recognize that
• 4:49:49
  her and Odom's unorthodox beliefs where their own
• 4:49:52
  businesses. But once that detail was out the
• 4:49:56
  Press ran with its sensationally.
• 4:49:59
  The next day's paper, spoke breathlessly the bizarre killing
• 4:50:03
  of two reclusive devil worshipers.
• 4:50:06
  And their homosexual, activity alluding to the whips and
• 4:50:11
  unusual sexual devices found at the scene.
• 4:50:15
  The salacious details of the skulls satanic symbols?
• 4:50:20
  And paraphernalia were splashed across headlines from Georgia to
• 4:50:24
  California as the Associated Press and other outlets picked
• 4:50:28
  up the story. Small towns, Chattooga County
• 4:50:32
  suddenly found itself at the center of a national media
• 4:50:35
  frenzy that mixed genuine horror at the crime.
• 4:50:40
  With a puree and Fascination for the victims' lifestyles.
• 4:50:45
  Sheriff McConnell, meanwhile had a triple homicide to solve.
• 4:50:50
  Scudder. Odom.
• 4:50:52
  And the unknown third victim from the Jeep.
• 4:50:54
  Who would soon be identified as lieutenant felps Thanks to
• 4:51:00
  Theresa Hudgens statement an Evidence of the scene.
• 4:51:04
  Warrants were swiftly issued for Kenneth Avery.
• 4:51:06
  Brock and Tony West on the charges of murder.
• 4:51:12
  The abandoned Jeep recovered by police in Mississippi for the
• 4:51:16
  tied into the case. Once its Georgia plates were
• 4:51:19
  traced back to corpsewood Manor. with Brock already in custody by
• 4:51:24
  December 20th and West captured by the 25th, The Manhunt was
• 4:51:30
  relatively short-lived but intense Brock had confessed his
• 4:51:35
  role almost immediately upon surrender.
• 4:51:38
  Providing investigators with a detailed timeline of events.
• 4:51:43
  West after initially trying to blame Brock alone, also gave a
• 4:51:48
  full confession of the shootings including the murder of
• 4:51:52
  Lieutenant Phelps. To a gbi agent.
• 4:51:56
  All I can say is, they were devils and I killed them.
• 4:52:01
  That's how I feel about it. West said coldly.
• 4:52:05
  Speaking of Scudder and Odom. By Christmas 1982, the killers
• 4:52:11
  were behind bars. And a community was left to
• 4:52:15
  Grapple with the aftermath. On December 26th, Atlanta
• 4:52:20
  Constitution printed a particularly dramatic summary.
• 4:52:25
  Scutter and Odom were described by authorities as homosexual
• 4:52:29
  devil worshipers who lived in a dank castle like home clutter
• 4:52:34
  with skulls pornographic materials, and an extensive
• 4:52:39
  occult Library. Along with statues of Satan
• 4:52:42
  serpentines. Lizards and frogs.
• 4:52:48
  The tone of some coverage verged on vilifying the victims more
• 4:52:52
  than the perpetrators. A fact that did not go unnoticed
• 4:52:56
  by outside observers. The Church of Satan's founder
• 4:53:00
  Anton LaVey for instance, expressed anger at the Injustice
• 4:53:05
  of what happened to them. Noting that this case was proof
• 4:53:10
  that in parts of America, people could still be persecuted and
• 4:53:14
  even killed or being different. Among many locals in Chateau
• 4:53:19
  County. However, there was a conflicted
• 4:53:21
  response. Some viewed Brock in West, with
• 4:53:25
  a degree of Grimm's, sympathy. Seeing their act.
• 4:53:28
  As in their eyes, a cleansing of perceived evil in the community.
• 4:53:35
  This dark notion that the murderers were justifiable in
• 4:53:38
  the eyes of the public would later be remarked upon
• 4:53:42
  underscoring? The Prejudice Scott earned Odom
• 4:53:46
  had quietly lived among The legal aftermath of the
• 4:53:50
  corpsewood manor. Murders moved quickly.
• 4:53:53
  By February of 1983, just two months after the killings case,
• 4:53:59
  was on the Chattooga County docket.
• 4:54:02
  Facing overwhelming evidence and his own confession.
• 4:54:05
  Kenneth Avery Brock accepted a plea deal.
• 4:54:10
  On February 15th of 1983. Rock pleaded guilty to his role
• 4:54:15
  in The Murders. Specifically admitting to
• 4:54:19
  shooting Joey Odom in exchange for avoiding the death penalty.
• 4:54:24
  He was sentenced to three consecutive life.
• 4:54:26
  Terms in prison one for each murder including Lieutenant
• 4:54:31
  Phelps. As 17 years old, Brock would
• 4:54:35
  have no chance for parole for decades.
• 4:54:38
  Effectively spending the rest of his life Behind Bars.
• 4:54:42
  Tony West, however, chose to stand trial.
• 4:54:46
  And late February of 1983. West was tried for the murder in
• 4:54:51
  a Georgia courtroom with judge, Joseph Loggins presiding, A
• 4:54:56
  judge known for being tough on criminals.
• 4:54:59
  The trial lasted about a week and a half.
• 4:55:02
  And it was as Sensational as expected.
• 4:55:05
  West defense team. Floated multiple sometimes
• 4:55:08
  contradictory explanations in a bid to avoid a capital
• 4:55:12
  conviction. Initially Wes claimed that the
• 4:55:16
  slangs were an act of Revenge on Scudder, her supposedly
• 4:55:20
  corrupting Brock. Essentially saying that Brock
• 4:55:24
  had been embarrassed by the sexual encounters with Scudder.
• 4:55:28
  And that they saw Payback. This was a dubious rationale for
• 4:55:33
  a robbery murder and it didn't gain much traction.
• 4:55:37
  The defense then shifted tactics asserting that doctors Scudder.
• 4:55:41
  Had drugged Brock in West with LSD laced, wine causing them to
• 4:55:47
  hallucinate and go temporarily insane.
• 4:55:51
  West even alleged that he saw Scudders Golden Harp pulsing
• 4:55:55
  with an evil glow. And that the professor had
• 4:55:59
  Bewitched him somehow. However forensic tests on the
• 4:56:04
  leftover wine. Found no trace of Ellis d.
• 4:56:08
  Investigators had already learned that while Scutter owned
• 4:56:11
  old LSD samples, he hadn't actually dosed anyone that
• 4:56:15
  night. The only drugs consumed were
• 4:56:18
  voluntary. Alcohol marijuana and huffed
• 4:56:23
  Sullivan's. The prosecution countered with
• 4:56:26
  evidence of premeditation. Witnesses.
• 4:56:30
  And Brock's own statements, showed the duo plan, the robbery
• 4:56:34
  while Stone Cold Sober days beforehand.
• 4:56:39
  At one point West's attorney even resorted to inflaming
• 4:56:43
  anti-gay sentiments in the courtroom.
• 4:56:46
  Making homophobic insinuations about the victims and an attempt
• 4:56:51
  to justify the violence. The courtroom drama was intense,
• 4:56:56
  but in the end, the facts were clear.
• 4:57:00
  And the jury remained unswayed by the defenses.
• 4:57:05
  After just two hours of deliberation.
• 4:57:08
  The jury found Tony West guilty on all counts.
• 4:57:13
  He was sentenced to death by electrician for the murders of
• 4:57:17
  Scudder and Odom and effectively for lieutenant phelps's.
• 4:57:22
  Well, For a brief time. It looked like West.
• 4:57:26
  My Face Georgia, electric chair. However, an appeals court later
• 4:57:31
  found in issue with the composition of the jury.
• 4:57:35
  Reportedly not enough, women, jurors were included among other
• 4:57:39
  concerns. And overturned, the death
• 4:57:42
  sentence on procedural grounds. Rather than face a retrial and
• 4:57:48
  the possibility of a new death sentence.
• 4:57:51
  West agreed, in March of 1985 to a plea deal. he accepted two
• 4:57:57
  consecutive life sentences plus additional years in exchange for
• 4:58:02
  the state, dropping the pursuit of execution Thus by 1985 both
• 4:58:09
  Brock and West were securely in Georgia's prison system for
• 4:58:13
  life. In the decades, since neither
• 4:58:17
  man has ever been paroled. As of the 40th anniversary of
• 4:58:22
  the crime in 2022. Brock whose 57 years old?
• 4:58:27
  Now remains incarcerated at a Georgia.
• 4:58:30
  Correctional Facility and West around age. 70 is also still
• 4:58:36
  behind bars. Each having been denied parole
• 4:58:39
  multiple times. The law had done its work, but
• 4:58:45
  the court of public opinion was left.
• 4:58:46
  Deeply divided about the case for years.
• 4:58:50
  Sheriff McConnell bluntly summed up what he believed were the
• 4:58:53
  killers duel motives. Robbery was probably about 50%
• 4:58:58
  of the motive, the rest likely the devil worshiping and
• 4:59:03
  homosexuality. In other words, Prejudice and
• 4:59:08
  hatred played as much of a role as greed.
• 4:59:12
  Tony West's own an apologetic. Post-conviction statement
• 4:59:15
  underscored that ugly truth They were devils and I killed them.
• 4:59:20
  That's how I feel about it. Such sentiments were made clear
• 4:59:26
  that Scudder and Odom were victimized not only by the
• 4:59:29
  bullets that killed them. But also by the bigotry that
• 4:59:33
  followed them even in death. With the trials over the focus
• 4:59:38
  turned to what would become of corpsewood Manor in the
• 4:59:42
  property. Neither Scudder, nor Odom had
• 4:59:45
  surviving Partners or spouses. So their families squabbled over
• 4:59:50
  their modest estate. Dr. Scutter had willed
• 4:59:53
  everything to Joey Odom, but since Odom, 2 was deceased.
• 4:59:59
  Scudders for adults sons and Odom's sister, each laid claim
• 5:00:03
  to the land and what remained of The Possession.
• 5:00:08
  A notable legal battle ensued over artifacts like scudder's
• 5:00:12
  harp. And the bronze Mephistopheles
• 5:00:15
  statue. In 1983 Fame, Georgia, defense
• 5:00:19
  attorney Bobby, Lee, Cook was hired by scudder's sons and
• 5:00:24
  ultimately secured the harp and statue on their behalf.
• 5:00:29
  These pieces curiously ended up in display and Cooks law office
• 5:00:34
  for some time. The 48, acre property itself was
• 5:00:38
  sold off relatively soon after the murders.
• 5:00:42
  Passing into private hands. The new owner did not relish the
• 5:00:48
  sights darker to. Trespassers were discouraged.
• 5:00:54
  However, corpsewood Manor, did not stand intact for long.
• 5:00:59
  In January of 1983, barely a month after the murderers.
• 5:01:05
  A fire of mysterious origin, Goddard the three-story chicken
• 5:01:09
  house. Destroying the infamous pink
• 5:01:12
  room in which the nightmare had begun.
• 5:01:17
  Locals suspected that it was arson.
• 5:01:19
  Perhaps Revenge by someone, outraged at the devil worship
• 5:01:23
  that had allegedly occurred there.
• 5:01:27
  Or simply vandalism by Thrill Seekers. then in late 1983,
• 5:01:33
  another Blaze almost certainly arson as well.
• 5:01:38
  Earned the main manor house to ruins.
• 5:01:41
  Consuming the wooden roof, floors and exterior.
• 5:01:46
  The brick walls sturdy to the end.
• 5:01:49
  It did not entirely collapse. But the ones Cozy home was now a
• 5:01:55
  black and shell open to the sky. over the years, whether neglect
• 5:02:02
  took their toll Ivy and wild vines crept over the remaining
• 5:02:07
  brick arches and walls. And the forest began to reclaim
• 5:02:12
  the sight. By the 1990s and 2000s.
• 5:02:17
  All that was left of corpsewood. Manor were piles of bricks
• 5:02:21
  partial walls. And the skeletal brick pillars
• 5:02:25
  of what had been the front gazebo or Scutter and Odom, one
• 5:02:31
  strength or morning tea. A pair of Stonegate pillars that
• 5:02:35
  marked the entry to the property still stand.
• 5:02:38
  And the foundation outline of the manor is barely visible
• 5:02:42
  Beneath The Vines and fallen leaves.
• 5:02:46
  Locals say the ruins exude. An eerie calm now.
• 5:02:50
  Like a tomb sealed off in the woods.
• 5:02:54
  The land remains privately owned and is considered off limits to
• 5:02:59
  visitors. But that is not stopped curious
• 5:03:03
  souls, for making pilgrimages. Hikers, paranormal investigators
• 5:03:10
  in True Crime. Enthusiast frequently sneaked
• 5:03:14
  down the overgrown Logging Road. Dead Horse Road.
• 5:03:18
  A Scutter had grimly named it. To Glimpse the place, the
• 5:03:23
  infamous events occurred. In the wake of the tragedy, the
• 5:03:28
  remains of the victims were handled according to their
• 5:03:31
  family's wishes. And a small private ceremony at
• 5:03:35
  corpsewood. Friends scattered Joey, Odom's
• 5:03:38
  ashes and his beloved Rose Garden on the property.
• 5:03:42
  Granting his wish to forever. Be a part of the place he loved.
• 5:03:48
  Dr. Scudder's body was claimed by his family and returned to
• 5:03:52
  Milwaukee Wisconsin, where he was buried and the Scudder
• 5:03:56
  family plot by his sister in April 1983.
• 5:04:01
  Thus, even in death, the couple were separated.
• 5:04:06
  One laid to rest and the soil of corpsewood.
• 5:04:10
  The other. Returned to his Midwestern
• 5:04:13
  roots. Porsche tuga County, the corpse
• 5:04:17
  would manage case, became a cautionary, tale told for
• 5:04:20
  Generations. It highlighted, the extreme
• 5:04:24
  culture clash between two free, living Northern transplants.
• 5:04:30
  In the insular religious community.
• 5:04:33
  They settled in The words of one commentator.
• 5:04:38
  Two innocent men were brutally murdered.
• 5:04:41
  Then victimized again for their sexual orientation.
• 5:04:45
  And religious beliefs. Over time some measure of
• 5:04:50
  re-examination occurred. People began to recognize that
• 5:04:54
  Scutter and Odom Hurt. No One.
• 5:04:57
  And that the real evil that visited Taylor's Ridge that
• 5:05:00
  night was not satanic at all. But rather human greed and
• 5:05:06
  intolerance. The site however would never
• 5:05:10
  escape the shadow of its dark Lore.
• 5:05:14
  Evolving into a local Legend of a haunted place.
• 5:05:19
  Almost immediately after the murders.
• 5:05:22
  Tales of Paranormal Activity, a corpse would manner began to
• 5:05:25
  circulate. Even the sheriff's deputies in
• 5:05:29
  gbi agents, who processed the crime scene felt an uncanny
• 5:05:33
  vibe. Some officers later said that
• 5:05:37
  they felt as if they were being watched in the empty Woods.
• 5:05:41
  Or since the strange presents as they worked the case.
• 5:05:47
  Given the occult trapping of the house.
• 5:05:50
  It's perhaps not surprising. That imaginations ran Wild.
• 5:05:54
  Locals already primed with rumors of devil worship and
• 5:05:59
  black magic soon. Began spinning ghost stories
• 5:06:02
  about Taylor's Ridge. 1 persistence, that anyone who
• 5:06:08
  takes a brick or artifact from the rooms.
• 5:06:12
  Will suffer horrible, bad love or a curse?
• 5:06:17
  This lore may have been started because several people who
• 5:06:20
  grabbed souvenirs from corpsewood.
• 5:06:23
  Reported sudden, misfortunes and became convinced the objects
• 5:06:28
  were cursed. There is the story of a young
• 5:06:32
  man who stole a decorative brick from the rubble, only to
• 5:06:36
  experience a string of personal disasters until he returned it.
• 5:06:41
  Whether by coincidence or psychological suggestion.
• 5:06:46
  The cursed brick tail endures. Many refused to disturb anything
• 5:06:51
  at the sight, her fear of angering wrestlers spearheads.
• 5:06:57
  visitors to the ruins over the years frequently, describe Eerie
• 5:07:00
  sights and sounds their reports of shadowy figures fitting
• 5:07:05
  between the trees and apparitions believed to resemble
• 5:07:09
  Charles Scudder or Joey Odom wandering the grounds Some of
• 5:07:16
  claim to smell roses, perhaps Odom's Garden.
• 5:07:21
  Or whiffs of pipe, tobacco with no logical source.
• 5:07:26
  Auditory phenomenon are specially common in these Tales.
• 5:07:31
  Many have reported hearing the distant echo of gunshots in the
• 5:07:35
  woods. as if replaying the violence of that night, Others,
• 5:07:42
  swear they've heard the fierce barking of dogs when no dogs are
• 5:07:46
  present. Perhaps the loyal Mastiffs still
• 5:07:51
  guarding their masters. Even in death.
• 5:07:56
  One chilling account, even describes the tinkling sound of
• 5:08:00
  a harp playing a Melancholy tune.
• 5:08:03
  From somewhere among the ruins. Despite no instrument being
• 5:08:08
  there. Campers who have snuck onto the
• 5:08:11
  property at night. Televan, oppressive silence
• 5:08:15
  falling. In the sudden shatter of unseen
• 5:08:19
  glass. Or a guttural scream, that sends
• 5:08:23
  them fleeing. after Nightfall, multiple Witnesses have reported
• 5:08:29
  seeing pairs of glowing red eyes and the forest Darkness eyes at
• 5:08:34
  some believe belong to the spectral Mastiff BLS of Still
• 5:08:39
  standing watch with Prater natural Frosty.
• 5:08:44
  Local folklore is also grafted older Legends onto the
• 5:08:48
  corpsewood story. Some say the area was haunted
• 5:08:52
  even before Scudder and Odom arrived.
• 5:08:55
  Tales of a Civil War soldiers, ghost roaming the ridge or
• 5:09:00
  curses, tied to the Cherokee who once lived on that land.
• 5:09:05
  These unrelated Legends, sometimes get mixed in with the
• 5:09:08
  corpse with narrative during retellings creating a kind of
• 5:09:12
  Legends stew. However, the ghost story
• 5:09:16
  specific to the murders are the ones most often repeated around
• 5:09:20
  campfires and teenage sleepovers in the region.
• 5:09:25
  The side is so notorious at among local youth, it earned
• 5:09:29
  nicknames like Devil worshipers Mountain.
• 5:09:33
  Parents would warn their kids to stay away, an indeed, some who
• 5:09:37
  ventured up Dead? Horse Road recounted scary and
• 5:09:41
  counters. In one case, a group of visitors
• 5:09:45
  claimed. They were chased off by unknown
• 5:09:47
  men brandishing machetes and guns, leading to Whispers that
• 5:09:54
  either violence squatters or some secretive coal.
• 5:09:57
  Now, guards the rooms. Over the years, paranormal
• 5:10:03
  investigators, and occult. Enthusiasts have been drawn to
• 5:10:06
  corpsewood. Some self-proclaimed witches
• 5:10:10
  have held midnight, rituals among the crumbling walls.
• 5:10:14
  Attempting to communicate with the dead or to conjure ghosts
• 5:10:18
  out of tragedy. Ghost hunting groups, who visit
• 5:10:23
  often? Come Away convinced that the
• 5:10:26
  side is a hotspot of Supernatural energy.
• 5:10:29
  Siting, their EVP recordings of disembodied, voices.
• 5:10:34
  Or inexplicable, EMF spikes. One paranormal author, even
• 5:10:39
  noted, that after researching the case thoroughly.
• 5:10:43
  The combination of the gruesome murder scene and creepy isolated
• 5:10:47
  rooms. Was so chilling.
• 5:10:50
  At him from sleeping without the lights on after he visited. and
• 5:10:56
  yet, for all the spooky lore, there is a rational perspective
• 5:11:00
  that tempers the legend Skeptics point out that any cold spots or
• 5:11:06
  odd noises that corpsewood. In easily be attributed to the
• 5:11:10
  natural environment. The scouring of animals or the
• 5:11:14
  echo of distant Hunters gunfire and these Deep Woods. as one
• 5:11:19
  journalist wrote after visiting the overgrown side, Storytellers
• 5:11:24
  imbue corpsewood with a demonic energy. but the only thing that
• 5:11:28
  remains here, Is an expired crime scene.
• 5:11:33
  Indeed walking among the graffiti marked Briggs and
• 5:11:37
  Tangled brush. One may simply feel a profound
• 5:11:40
  sadness or than any malevolent Force.
• 5:11:45
  It is as if the land itself from Members the blood spilled.
• 5:11:49
  And Mourns the senseless loss of life.
• 5:11:54
  One tantalizing paranormal footnote often discussed his
• 5:11:59
  doctors Cutters own role. and what many see as him for telling
• 5:12:03
  his own fate, the fact that he painted a portrait of himself
• 5:12:07
  bound and shot before it happened as led to much
• 5:12:12
  speculation. Did her have a genuine psychic
• 5:12:16
  premonition. Or was it a morbid artistic
• 5:12:20
  Fantasy? A coincidentally came true.
• 5:12:24
  We may never know. It said that in the weeks
• 5:12:28
  leading up to his death, Scudder told a friend that he had
• 5:12:31
  finally achieved peace on his Mountain.
• 5:12:34
  And that life was perfect. Almost tempting fate.
• 5:12:40
  He also famously said that out in the country I asked for this.
• 5:12:45
  After all. Which he then eerily repeated
• 5:12:48
  under duress during the attack? Such details feed the idea that
• 5:12:55
  dark Forces were circling. However, a more grounded
• 5:12:59
  interpretation is that Scudder, a devotee of the occult.
• 5:13:04
  Perhaps accepted the possibility of violence as karma or
• 5:13:09
  consequence for his choices. Like moving to an intolerant
• 5:13:13
  area or fraternizing with unstable people.
• 5:13:18
  It is an area where fact and myth blur. leaving ample
• 5:13:22
  material for ghost stories and what is local storytellers have
• 5:13:29
  been shy about layering on Embellishments.
• 5:13:33
  In dorm rooms and campgrounds. Corpses would tale, was told in
• 5:13:37
  hushed tone. How the two Satanist?
• 5:13:40
  Gay lovers? Allegedly made a pact with the
• 5:13:42
  Devil? Or how one of them supposedly
• 5:13:45
  uttered occurs with his dying breath, that haunts the
• 5:13:50
  mountain. These are folkloric Editions.
• 5:13:54
  There's no evidence of an actual curse. yet, the string of
• 5:13:58
  misfortunes that befell, the perpetrators right after
• 5:14:02
  crashing the car. Fighting each other and getting
• 5:14:06
  caught. Sometimes get spun as the curse
• 5:14:09
  of corpsewood. And sure that they didn't Escape
• 5:14:13
  Justice. In reality, those events were
• 5:14:18
  The Logical, Fallout of the botched crime spree.
• 5:14:22
  But the timing certainly makes her a good ghost story.
• 5:14:27
  In the end corpsewood. Manor, has achieved a kind of
• 5:14:30
  Infamous immortality. It stands alongside other Eerie
• 5:14:35
  Southern Legends. A place where true crime in the
• 5:14:40
  Supernatural intersect and popular imagination.
• 5:14:45
  For those inclined to believe. The ghosts of Charles stutter
• 5:14:49
  and Joey Odom, do roam the rooms.
• 5:14:53
  Perhaps playing Phantom harp music under the moonlight.
• 5:14:57
  Or staring out from the trees was sorrowful eyes.
• 5:15:02
  For others, the power of the sight lies in, its symbolism as
• 5:15:07
  a reminder of how Prejudice, and fear of the other can lead to
• 5:15:13
  real evil Acts. One thing is certain.
• 5:15:18
  Anyone who visits the remnants of corpsewood Manor, today will
• 5:15:22
  find it hard to not feel a chill.
• 5:15:24
  Whether that is the chill of the Mountain Air.
• 5:15:28
  Or The Whispers of restless spirits.
• 5:15:31
  Is for each person to decide. Thank you guys so much for
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• 5:15:37
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• 5:15:41
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