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The Most Terrifying Demonic Hauntings Ever Told… You Shouldn’t Watch Alone | 3 Hours · Mystery Archives Episodes

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  After a terrifying encounter with a demonic entity in the
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  woods outside of their home, two brothers find themselves under
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  attack by dark and malevolent forces.
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  With no place or refuge from torment, not even their own
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  home. Will they escape the wrath of a
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  real life nightmare they have unearthed or will the darkness
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  take them? This is the untold story of the
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  demonic Shadow Man case that was experienced by brothers Tom and
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  Tim Yancey. With the majority of my audience
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  Lake Worth, FL Founded in 1913, City plays home to the arts,
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  boasting festivals, boutiques, music venues and a historic
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  theater. But amongst the songs, paintings
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  and acting, it is also the home to something evil that lurks
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  just beneath the surface. In the late 1960's the Yancey
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  family called Lake Worth their home, living near the mostly
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  underdeveloped southern woods in the town at that time.
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  Brothers Tim and Tom along with their father Sonny and mother
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  Barbara up until this. Point had lived a rather quiet.
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  Life. Tim would describe his childhood
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  home as a very peaceful and remote place to live.
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  It was fairly isolated and in the middle of nowhere.
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  His mother, Barbara was a beacon of light and joy, a woman who
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  always had a diamond smile upon her face.
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  His father was a stern man, a battle hardened Korean War
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  veteran who then worked as a Carpenter doing construction.
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  Sonny suffered from PTSD or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder as a
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  result of the war and according to Barbara, was a totally
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  different person when he came back.
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  He had been a Sergeant in charge of a mortar platoon during the
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  war and would very rarely speak of what had happened, although
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  both of the brothers later would recall that he told them a few
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  different stories of his time there.
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  One story that following a battle he had to arrange for
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  mass graves to be dug and for bulldozers to lay the dead to
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  rest. While suffering with PTSD, Sonny
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  tended to have a short fuse on his temper, but for some reason
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  this particular summer it seemed to get inexplicably worse.
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  Where the family lived was remote and surrounded by lush
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  woods, and prior to being settled, the land where the
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  house now stood had been heavily utilized during the slave trade,
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  as well as being the home to numerous bouts of violence
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  between warring Native American tribes.
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  So with the combinations of the terrors of war and those
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  experiencing persecution over the years, these heavy emotions
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  seem to leak into the earth and the woods in and of themselves
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  seem to become a beacon for darkness, almost as if the black
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  hearts of those who perpetrated the axe still rested beneath the
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  leaves, sticks and stones of the forest floor.
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  Playing together as brothers often do, Tim and Tom would
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  spend much time within those very same woods, bonding,
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  exploring and having a great time.
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  Sonny had built a Fort for the boys to enhance their time spent
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  out there and at this time Tom was 12 years old and Tim was 7.
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  One chilly fall day as Tom ventured into the woods alone.
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  As he approached the Fort he began to get an eerie feeling as
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  if someone or something was watching him with his inner
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  voice screaming. He bolted and ran inside the
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  Fort as he peered through the openings in between the various
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  boards and peeking past the cloth covered windows.
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  At first he saw nothing, but as his heart began to subside from
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  beating out of his chest, he began to hear the crunching of
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  crisp autumn leaves around him. And through the darkness of the
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  boards he sees a silhouette of a creature.
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  Although the figure appears man like something tells him that
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  it's not of this world. Tom, doing the sensible thing,
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  runs for his life, leaving the Fort behind.
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  Terrified at what he had just experienced, he decides to not
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  tell anyone about what had happened.
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  As Tom ventures back to the house, disturbed by what he had
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  been through, Tim had entered through another path in the
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  woods, blissfully unaware of his brother's plight.
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  As the boy walks the crispy path of dried leaves, he too begins
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  to feel as if he's being watched.
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  Then, in front of him, up in the tree, he sees something strange,
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  something out of place. There in the tree, with the
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  environment reacting around it. There appears to be some kind of
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  creature, but this creature is either see through or it's
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  reflecting its surroundings. Almost like a freakish
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  distortion of reality, Perhaps something that shouldn't have
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  been within the confines of our reality.
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  As his eyes grow larger with fear, this entity begins to make
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  its way down the tree and then lands in front of him, mere feet
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  away from the boy, hitting the ground with a loud thud.
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  This is enough to truly frighten the young man, and he, too
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  similar to his brother, decides to run for the house, the one
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  place a child should feel safe to be.
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  Tim frantically makes his way out of the woods and quickly
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  into the arms of his mother, who was near the front door of their
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  house. After explaining things as best
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  as he could, Barbara calms him with the love only a mother can
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  provide, asking him to calm down.
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  She tried her best to convince him that it was perhaps an
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  animal that he had startled and that things would be OK.
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  And although she did what she could, as we'll come to see,
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  this would be far from what would take place.
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  The brothers, in due time, would discuss the strangeness of their
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  experiences in the woods with one another, confiding in each
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  other and trying to make sense of just what this thing or what
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  these things were. Fearing that even talking about
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  it could prompt a visit, the boys did their best to move on
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  and shift their focus to other activities, fearing that if they
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  spoke of it they would invoke the wrath of what they began to
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  call the Shadow man. During the day things seem to
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  regain a small amount of normalcy, but at night the
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  brothers began to see the very same figure outside, usually
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  near the tree line, presenting a thick man like shadow, always
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  watching and lurking like a wild animal stalking its prey.
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  One night, as the moon peeks through the clouds overhead, Tim
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  is jolted awake out of a sound sleep.
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  With his eyes opening and slowly adjusting to the darkness of his
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  room, he tries to make sense as to why he was suddenly woke up.
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  As he glances towards his window with the faintest amount of
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  moonlight illuminating the room, he sees a shadow go past.
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  Scared beginning up to investigate, he reluctantly
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  looks and he sees nothing. Thinking that perhaps his mind
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  is playing tricks on him, Tim lays his head back down to try
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  and sleep again. But as he gets comfortable,
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  right before he closes his eyes, he again sees this menacing
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  shadow pass by his window. Attempting to wake up his
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  brother but unable to do so, he once again gathers the courage
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  to take a look through the window.
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  Peering around their yard and towards the tree line stare in
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  the mists emanating from the woods, he sees the shadowy
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  outline of a man, and this man appears to be staring directly
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  into his soul from afar. It then suddenly begins to rush
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  towards him. Absolutely petrified with fear,
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  the young man let's out a blood curdling scream.
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  His brother quickly wakes up and so do his parents, with Sunny
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  being the first inside the room. He asked just what is happening.
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  After being told by Tim that there was a man in the yard, he
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  quickly grabs a flashlight and begins sweeping the property.
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  He ultimately would find nothing.
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  Several weeks later, as the boys slept in their room, 12 year old
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  Tom starts acting strangely. Waking up to the sound of
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  footsteps, Tim sees his brother in the middle of their room as
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  he calls out to him. He receives no response and Tom
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  then begins to walk and leave their room, calling out to their
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  parents as well as his brother. Tim continues to follow him as
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  he descends the stairs headed towards their front door, with
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  Sonny and Barbara rushing close behind him.
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  They watch as Tom heads out of the front door and into the
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  yard. As Tim would describe it later,
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  it was if he was being called out to something or there was
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  something drawing him into those woods.
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  It was very frightening for me because I knew there was
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  something out there and I didn't understand why this was all
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  happening. Sonny is able to wake the boy up
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  as the four stand in the yard. Tom seemed to have been
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  sleepwalking, unaware of what was taking place.
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  Although this hadn't happened previously and was completely
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  new to the family, this incident would be far from the last.
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  For the next several weeks, Tom would continue to sleepwalk, at
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  times with other members of the family, unaware that he was
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  missing. Tom would find himself waking up
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  next to the lake out in those foreboding woods to try and keep
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  the boy from sleepwalking. His parents began to implement
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  measures to keep him from leaving the house, frustrated
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  and understandably so, having to get up late into the night.
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  What soon became night after night, with Tom often able to
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  maneuver his way out of locked rooms, they took to stacking
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  chairs in front of the boy's room in hopes that this would
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  prevent Tom from escaping and potentially hurting himself
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  under one of his spells. Later that night, after the
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  family had gone to bed, Tom took to waking up as per usual.
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  As he aimlessly tries to unlock the door to their room, he wakes
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  up Tim. Fearing that his brother would
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  wake up their father, he tries to get him to wake up and
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  realize just what he's doing. And while this is taking place,
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  the closet door directly across the room from Tom begins to
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  shudder. And then it opens by itself.
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  Then, as if he was being controlled like a marionette
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  puppet, Tom would turn around, face the closet, and then walk
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  inside. Then, with the boy inside, the
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  door would shut behind him once again, seemingly by itself, as
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  if it were operated by unseen hands.
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  Tim, scared but also transfixed on what was taking place, began
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  to hear a conversation. He heard his brother speaking.
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  Then he heard another voice, a low, gravelly, deep voice.
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  This frightens the young Tim so bad that despite his fear of his
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  father, he calls out to his parents for protection.
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  And thankfully, his parents heed the call as they rushed to push
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  the chairs aside. They finally do, and then throw
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  the door open to find out just what had happened.
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  Now Tim pointing to the closet indicates that Tom is inside.
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  Heading to the closet door and opening it, they find the boys
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  sat down inside, now apparently awake.
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  Upon asking him just what was going on, all Tom could say was
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  that there was a man in here. In later interviews, Tom would
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  say that he remembers waking up inside the darkness of the
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  closet to the voice of a man, and then upon speaking with him
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  towards the back of the closet, he saw two red eyes.
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  Staring back at him. Despite knowing of their son's
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  sleepwalking, his parents tried to argue that he was clearly
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  messing around in the closet, possibly playing with toys, and
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  they then scolded both of the boys for waking them up yet
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  again. In the weeks to come, as their
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  parents grow increasingly angry, the Yancey brothers continue to
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  experience the abyssal force that they have come to refer to
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  as the Shadow Man. One night, the entity seems to
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  find a new way of terrorizing the brothers.
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  Tim has suddenly woken up when he begins to feel small things
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  hit his comforter and mattress, feeling where the objects had
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  fallen. His hands discover rocks like
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  small pebbles and thinking it was his brother messing with
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  him, he asked him to stop and then laid his head back down
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  onto. His pillow and.
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  Then more of them started falling, pelting the blanket
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  that covered him. He now knows for certain it is
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  not Tom because he's looking directly at him and he is fast
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  asleep as the rocks continue falling onto him.
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  He then discovers leaves and then pine cones as well.
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  Then he feels something drop onto his head and this something
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  begins to crawl, prying off whatever this thing was and
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  throwing it. The boy begins to scream.
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  Barbara soon comes to his aid and upon turning on the lights,
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  she too finds the stones, pine cones, leaves, and to her
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  surprise, giant Florida cockroaches.
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  It was as if the shadow man was bringing in thanks from the
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  woods, but for what reason remained unclear.
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  It was with this incident that Barbara began to notice that
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  perhaps it wasn't just the boy's imaginations at work, perhaps
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  there was something terrorizing them.
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  In the weeks that followed this incident, Barbara too begins to
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  notice the ever growing hostile environment within the home and
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  soon begins to seek answers from any and all sources.
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  While her husband is at work and her children are at school, she
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  purchases A Ouija board and upon returning home, places it on the
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  coffee table in the living room. Not being into the occult
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  previously, she doesn't really know what she's doing, but wants
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  to do her best to communicate with whatever could be there and
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  to try and seek answers as to why it was tormenting her
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  family. She tries to make contact but
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  doesn't receive any answers. Later that day, the family
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  retires to their beds to catch some sleep.
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  Little did they know of Barbara's attempts to contact
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  the other side, and little did they know that hell was about to
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  be unleashed upon them. As everyone drifts off to
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  dreamland, Tim once again finds himself being woken up out of a
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  dead sleep. Perhaps it was his intuition.
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  It's hard to know for sure why, but as he wakes up and sits up
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  in his bed, he sees a dark hand emerge from the closet in their
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  room. As the familiar fear grips him,
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  he gets up and shakes his brother Tom awake.
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  And to Tom's disbelief, as he looks ahead where his brother is
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  pointing, he too sees the hand. And then a more fuller figure
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  begins to emerge from the closet opening before both of their
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  eyes. The shadowy figure emerges,
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  casting itself onto the wall with glowing red eyes staring at
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  them. It begins to climb horizontally
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  on the wall towards them. With the brothers absolutely
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  shaken to their core. They scream for their parents as
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  the figure dissipates as if it was never there.
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  The two then rush out of their bedroom and run up to their
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  parents bedroom and although apprehensive because of their
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  father, they would rather deal with his wrath.
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  Than that of the shadow. Man doing a knock and then
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  opening their door. Tim leads the boys and calls out
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  to their parents. He tells them that the man was
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  back and that he was on their wall like a family.
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  This bizarre statement from his son and the continuous lack of
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  sleep prompts Sonny to explode. He tells the boys that there is
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  no man, that they're dealing with the boogeyman, and that the
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  boogeyman does bad things to bad kids and if they were good, he
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  would simply just go away. With tears in his eyes, Tim and
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  his brother would make their way back to their bedroom.
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  Tim would later recall this notion that I was a bad kid,
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  that I had done something wrong, and that something had come to
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  punish me for my misdeeds is something that has stuck with me
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  my entire life. I didn't know what I had done to
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  deserve this. From that point on, the boys
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  keep silent about the nightmare experiences that they had had
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  with the entity known to them as the Shadow Man, but the entity
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  seems to grow ever stronger. But even though they have been
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  silent. The rage that dwells within
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  their father, Sunny, also continues to grow.
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  Tim later again would say he seemed to not understand what
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  was happening in the house and this led to a lot of family
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  dysfunction. Whether this attracted whatever
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  this thing was to us or it fed off of the negative emotions or
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  whatever, there was some kind of connection there.
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  These entities seem to do this and it's like a coupling.
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  The entity attaches itself to a family and then continues to
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  cause problems and seems to derive energy from this.
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  As time passes, the boys find themselves awake on the night of
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  Christmas Eve. Being rambunctious kids as some
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  of us were, they decided to sneak downstairs to take a peek
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  at some of their Christmas presents under the family tree
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  in the living room. The boys seem to be successful
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  not alerting their parents to their sneaky endeavors
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  downstairs when suddenly loud booming knocks begin to come
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  from upstairs. Trying to figure out what could
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  be causing it, they realize that they seem to be originating from
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  their room downstairs upon their mantle next to the tree.
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  Their mother had set up a nativity scene showing Mary.
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  Joseph. And baby Jesus.
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  As the banging intensifies further, the scene begins to
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  shake and move. It then drops to the floor,
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  shattering the porcelain figures, the breaking only
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  adding to the concophony of sound now reverberating all
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  throughout the house. Then the heavy footsteps of
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  their father cuts through the noise as he descends the stairs.
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  The boys are trapped, he is pissed and then he finds the
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  shattered porcelain figures and this further enrages him as he
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  interrogates the boys as to what they could have been doing.
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  The boys deny causing the sounds.
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  Or. Breaking the figures.
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  But this too only serves to deepen his rage.
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  Since the boys, quote, wanted to stay up, they could do so
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  outside. Using a scare tactic, he marches
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  the boys outside and into the yard right near the tree line of
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  the forest. He tells them that he was going
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  to get a good night's sleep and they were to stay outside all
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  night. Little does he know he has
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  inadvertently delivered his sons into the arms of perdition.
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  The air is cold and bites at their skin as a large moon
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  hovers above them and the low rustle of leaves surround them.
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  The two young men, despite their best efforts to comfort one
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  another, are absolutely paralyzed with fear.
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  As they stand in the darkness of the night, they both suddenly
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  hear the crunching of leaves from behind them.
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  Upon turning around, they are besieged by the Shadow man yet
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  again, screaming for their mother.
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  As they run up to their deck, they beg to be let back into the
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  house. Finally, their mothers woke up
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  and forces their father to come with her and let the boys back
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  in, finding the punishment to be cruel.
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  Especially since she knows herself that there are things at
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  work that none of them understand.
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  Tim would later say this when interviewed.
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  My father's anger continued to grow and he became increasingly
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  frustrated. He would blame the noises on us
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  and his punishments were severe. The goal of this monster seemed
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  to be to create more anger, more chaos, and more depression
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  within our family. The situation grew bleaker day
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  after day on a cold and stormy night, as Tim laid in his bed.
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  It was all too familiarly woken up without warning.
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  This time, however, something was different.
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  His sheets and blankets were pulled from him.
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  Miss Tim would later say, You know something's there.
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  It's in the room with you, and you've got to reach down and
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  pull those sheets back up. The boy reaches down to do just
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  that, appearing down as he grabs them off the floor.
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  He thankfully doesn't see anything, pulling them back over
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  himself. Now laying back down, he once
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  again tries to get comfortable to sleep.
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  As he starts to drift off, he then feels a sharp searing pain
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  on the right side of his ribs. Feeling this pain, his eyes pop
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  open to find what appears to be a long Bony hand coming from
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  underneath his sheets. Scared for his life, the boy
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  screeches and runs as fast as his legs will carry him.
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  But being this scared, he had his blinders on because he ran
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  directly into the door that was locked to try and prevent his
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  brother from sleepwalking and ultimately leaving the house.
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  He smacks into the door with a visceral.
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  Crack. Screaming in pain and crashing
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  to the ground. This prompted the attention of
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  his parents, who came into the room to discover their son
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  writhing in agony. They would quickly.
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  Rush him to the hospital and it would turn out that Tim had
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  broken both of his collarbones following this event.
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  As the months turn to years, things from here did not get any
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  better for the Yancey family. Tom, being the oldest when he
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  became old enough, left the house as quickly as he could, no
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  longer able to deal with the dark forces that dwelt there.
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  Tim, Sonny and Barbara would not see him for years.
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  Details past this pointer practically non existent, but I
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  will do my best to bring a conclusion to this very haunting
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  case based on what I could find over the next 30 years.
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  Tom would play college football and then become a career
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  firefighter. Tim, given all the experiences
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  he experienced before and after his brother left, would become a
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  paranormal investigator and a park Ranger.
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  Drifting apart as people do, they wouldn't reconnect until
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  after their parents were gone. Sonny and Barbara had continued
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  to live at the same house the two had grown up in and had had
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  all of their shadow man experiences.
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  When the brothers inherited the house, they came back together
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  to decide just what to do with it.
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  Tom, who had done practically everything to never return to
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  the house, would later recall that he had a sickening feeling
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  in the pit of his stomach upon entering the house again, saying
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  that it was just an evil, sickening feeling.
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  As the brothers discussed things, it would become apparent
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  that Tim wanted to move back into the home with his wife and
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  reclaim it. So after working out a deal
• 27:38
  amongst themselves, that's exactly what Tim did.
• 27:42
  And by moving back in, he intended to cleanse the home to
• 27:46
  rid themselves once and for all of this ominous presence that it
• 27:51
  caused them so much pain. The entity they knew as the
• 27:55
  Shadow Man. Prior to moving in, Tim would
• 27:59
  reach out to his friend Roy Hall, who had dealt with violent
• 28:02
  hauntings for many years, to help him perform a cleansing
• 28:06
  ritual of the home. Roy believed that the entity was
• 28:09
  demonic in nature and haunted the family because Tim's father
• 28:14
  was abusive. Sunny, who was a Korean War
• 28:18
  veteran, probably saw a good amount of the.
• 28:20
  Horrors of war. He believed that because of
• 28:23
  Sunny's PTSD that perhaps the entity had been attached to the
• 28:27
  land and had seen this and exploited these problems as an
• 28:32
  entry into their lives, where it continued to wreak havoc upon
• 28:35
  all of them. As Roy would say in later
• 28:38
  interviews, these entities seek to cause further dysfunction.
• 28:42
  They feed upon it. The two men, on a rainy and
• 28:46
  dreary afternoon, would step into the home together.
• 28:50
  Roy would begin to pick up on the ominous thick atmosphere
• 28:54
  almost immediately, lighting incense and beginning various
• 28:58
  prayers. The two men go from room to room
• 29:01
  cleansing as they walk throughout the house.
• 29:05
  They sense that the presence is strongest in Tim and Tom's old
• 29:09
  room, calling out to God to cleanse the House of all evil
• 29:13
  and negativity. The process took about an hour,
• 29:16
  but following it, the energy in the house seems to be rid once
• 29:21
  and for all of the shadow man. Tim recalled that things felt
• 29:26
  different. They felt much lighter, as if we
• 29:30
  had displaced the negative energy within the home.
• 29:33
  In August of 2009, Tim, his wife Trish.
• 29:38
  And. Son Gabriel all moved into the
• 29:41
  Lakewood, Florida home. Although they never experienced
• 29:45
  anything to the degree the boys did while growing up within it,
• 29:49
  there still seemed to be an undercurrent of evil just right
• 29:53
  below the surface. In closing.
• 29:56
  It. Is believed that the dysfunction
• 29:58
  of the Yancey household was more than likely far worse than what
• 30:02
  the sons portrayed publicly, but to what extent I'm not sure.
• 30:08
  I did my best to dig as deep as I could and I believe Tim and
• 30:12
  Tom are both still alive, with Tim still being a consultant to
• 30:17
  various paranormal groups across the country.
• 30:20
  I did want to say that their story was a terrifying and a
• 30:24
  harrowing 1, and although somewhat anti climactic in the
• 30:28
  end as we know here on this channel, things don't always
• 30:32
  work out the way we want them to and cases don't always have some
• 30:36
  kind of ultimate showdown. But a few questions I was left
• 30:40
  with after researching this case were just what was the shadow
• 30:45
  man? Was it a demon?
• 30:48
  Did it exploit the vulnerabilities of the family,
• 30:51
  particularly sunny, in order to create a feedback loop of
• 30:55
  negativity in which it could enrich itself with?
• 30:59
  And although from the outside looking in, those that are still
• 31:02
  with us who were involved seem to be doing OK, but just how has
• 31:08
  surviving the haunting affected these two men on a daily basis?
• 31:12
  Do they still think about it as I occasionally do with my own
• 31:16
  experiences? All questions I may never have
• 31:20
  answers for, but one thing is certain.
• 31:24
  There was something evil that stalked The Woodlands
• 31:27
  surrounding the Yancey home. Something stalking like a
• 31:30
  predator seeking prey. And all the things seem to be
• 31:35
  dormant for now. These malevolent entities may
• 31:38
  still be watching and lurking just beneath the surface,
• 31:43
  waiting for the moment to strike.
• 31:46
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• 33:03
  In the lush mountains of Taiwan, beneath the constant veil of
• 33:08
  mist and rain, a beautiful mansion promised comfort and
• 33:13
  prestige to an American family starting a new chapter abroad.
• 33:19
  But behind its glass walls and marble floors, something ancient
• 33:24
  was waiting. They were not alone.
• 33:28
  What began as whispers in the night soon grew into footsteps,
• 33:33
  voices calling from the dark, and finally, violent attacks no
• 33:39
  skeptic could dismiss. The bishops had unknowingly
• 33:43
  stepped into a battlefield between the living and the
• 33:47
  restless. Dead.
• 33:49
  Spirits starved of offerings, bound by tragedy and hungry for
• 33:55
  the energy of the living. This is their story, true,
• 34:00
  terrifying and unforgettable. In the humid nights of Taiwan,
• 34:07
  when the summer rain swell rivers and missed coils through
• 34:11
  the valleys, there is a month that no family dares to ignore.
• 34:17
  Lanterns glow at doorways, incense smoulders on sidewalks,
• 34:24
  and baskets of food are left on Stoops, not for the living but
• 34:30
  for the dead. This is Ghost Month, the time
• 34:34
  when the gates of the underworld are said to open, releasing the
• 34:39
  restless and the hungry into the world of men.
• 34:44
  In Chinese belief, these are not the honored ancestors who
• 34:48
  receive reverent offerings at family altars.
• 34:52
  These are the forgotten dead, the souls of those who perished
• 34:57
  violently or without descendants to honor them.
• 35:01
  They wander, gaunt and hollow, tormented by insatiable
• 35:07
  appetites that rice wine and paper money can only briefly
• 35:14
  ease. They are known as the Uruguay,
• 35:19
  the hungry ghosts. To neglect them is to invite
• 35:23
  disaster. Fire start without cause.
• 35:28
  Illness takes root. Misfortune stalks a household
• 35:32
  until it buckles under the weight of unseen company.
• 35:37
  So each August, families appease the hungry dead with careful
• 35:41
  rituals. The living light, the path of
• 35:45
  the forgotten, hoping that food and flame will buy peace for
• 35:50
  another year. But what of those places where
• 35:54
  violence left a scar so deep the earth itself refuses to forget?
• 36:01
  What of homes raised on soil blackened by tragedy, where
• 36:05
  spirits were never guided onward, never offered release?
• 36:12
  It was in such a valley that the Bishop family would come to
• 36:15
  live. An American father, his wife and
• 36:20
  two daughters, strangers to Taiwan's ancient customs,
• 36:25
  arrived with optimism and curiosity.
• 36:30
  They believed the house they were given was a gift, a token
• 36:34
  of success. They could not know that it was
• 36:37
  already claimed by others, souls that had not left and perhaps
• 36:46
  would never leave without taking something in return.
• 36:53
  The bishops would learn, as countless Taiwanese had
• 36:56
  whispered for centuries, that the hungry dead do not sleep.
• 37:01
  They linger, waiting for the living to feed them.
• 37:06
  And in the mountains outside Taipei, in a mansion gleaming
• 37:10
  with glass and marble, those spirits had waited long enough.
• 37:17
  The year was 1984. An opportunity had knocked for
• 37:21
  Dennis Bishop. After years of grinding the
• 37:25
  corporate ladder, he had finally been promoted to a senior
• 37:30
  position with his company, a posting that would take him and
• 37:35
  his family halfway across the world to Taipei, Taiwan.
• 37:41
  To Dennis, it was a dream. To Candace, his wife, it was a
• 37:46
  step into the unknown. For their daughters, Stacy, who
• 37:52
  was 16 at the time, and Marissa, who was just 12, it was an
• 37:57
  adventure waiting to unfold. The company spared no expense.
• 38:04
  A driver was provided, as well as housing befitting Dennis's
• 38:08
  new stature as ACEO. The bishops, accustomed to
• 38:14
  modest suburban living in the States, were stunned when they
• 38:18
  were taken to see the house that would become their home.
• 38:23
  It sat at the base of the miss draped Yang Ming mountains,
• 38:27
  massive and imposing, far from the bustle of Taipei's crowded
• 38:33
  streets. The road curved past rice
• 38:37
  paddies, scattered cemeteries and the ruins of farms until the
• 38:43
  driver slowed before the gates. Beyond them, the mansion rose
• 38:50
  like a fortress, it's large windows reflecting the Gray sky.
• 38:56
  For Marissa, it was breathtaking.
• 38:59
  The biggest house I'd ever seen, she whispered, her eyes
• 39:03
  sparkling with excitement. After years of cramped
• 39:06
  apartments, here was a palace, complete with a swimming pool
• 39:11
  shimmering in the humid air. She imagined running through its
• 39:15
  endless rooms, swimming until dusk, and playing in the gardens
• 39:20
  that seemed to stretch forever. Stacy, ever the skeptic, wasn't
• 39:25
  so easily charmed. She looked up at the upper
• 39:29
  windows, at the way that the mist pooled along the roof line.
• 39:34
  The house loomed too heavily, she thought, as though the
• 39:37
  mountain itself pressed down upon it.
• 39:40
  Something about it unsettled her and Candace.
• 39:46
  Candace's unease was immediate. As the front door was opened and
• 39:51
  the family stepped inside, a heaviness settled on her chest.
• 39:57
  The air felt different, told her, though outside the heat was
• 40:02
  oppressive. She trailed her fingers along
• 40:06
  the wall as she moved through the entryway, and that was when
• 40:10
  it struck. An unseen fist, sudden and
• 40:16
  violent, slammed into her back. She stumbled forward, catching
• 40:21
  herself against a column, her breath ragged.
• 40:25
  Dennis turned around, alarmed. Stacy froze.
• 40:30
  Marissa giggled nervously, thinking that maybe her mom had
• 40:34
  tripped. But Candace knew better.
• 40:38
  She hadn't tripped. Something had chuffed her.
• 40:43
  She turned, eyes wide, but no one stood behind her.
• 40:48
  The cavernous foyer was empty. Her skin prickled, She forced a
• 40:55
  smile for her two daughters, not wanting to frighten them.
• 40:59
  The company representative talked about all of the
• 41:02
  amenities of the property, about its prestige and how lucky the
• 41:06
  bishops were to have it. The Candace's mind was
• 41:10
  elsewhere. It kept replaying that moment
• 41:14
  over and over again. The blow, the cold, the feeling
• 41:21
  of being watched the instant she crossed the threshold for two
• 41:27
  weeks, she begged Dennis to reconsider.
• 41:30
  They toured other homes, and those homes were smaller, more
• 41:34
  humble, but were tucked in crowded neighborhoods.
• 41:39
  Nothing seemed to compare to the mansion.
• 41:42
  Nothing impressed Dennis the way the estate did.
• 41:46
  He saw in his success stability and a future for his family
• 41:51
  abroad. Candace, however, only saw
• 41:55
  shadows. In the end, her protests were
• 42:00
  drowned out by reason and responsibility.
• 42:03
  With Dennis's career on the line, she relented.
• 42:08
  It would move into the mansion, she told herself.
• 42:12
  She would find a way to make it work.
• 42:15
  Yet even as boxes were carried in, even as Marissa danced
• 42:19
  through the hallways, Candace felt the mansion looming around
• 42:24
  her. The bishops believed they were
• 42:26
  settling into a home, but in truth, they had crossed into a
• 42:32
  domain that did not belong to them.
• 42:36
  The first weeks in the mansion were filled with contradictions,
• 42:40
  opulence and unease, beauty and menace.
• 42:46
  To Marissa, the place was enchanted.
• 42:50
  She wandered its halls with awe, exploring room after room as
• 42:55
  though she had stumbled into a fairy tale palace.
• 42:59
  She swam in the pool until her fingertips wrinkled, delighted
• 43:05
  to finally have space to breathe and play.
• 43:09
  But to Candace, every corner whispered discomfort.
• 43:14
  The jungle pressed close to the estate, Humidity clung to every
• 43:19
  surface, vines crawled along the outer walls, and each night the
• 43:26
  air rang with the buzz of cicadas and the calls of unseen
• 43:32
  creatures. The house seemed less a
• 43:36
  sanctuary than a fortress standing against a wilderness
• 43:41
  that wanted to. Creep back in.
• 43:44
  It was during one of those early evenings while the family
• 43:47
  unpacked that the jungle showed its teeth.
• 43:52
  Stacy's scream rang down the staircase.
• 43:56
  Dennis and Candace rushed upward, only to freeze at the
• 43:59
  sight of a giant spider. Its body thick and black, it
• 44:07
  clung to the wall near Stacy's door.
• 44:10
  Its long legs twitched as it crept slowly and deliberately.
• 44:16
  Marissa shrieked and left onto a chair.
• 44:20
  Dennis cursed under his breath, and Candace's skin crawled as
• 44:25
  her chest tightened. Their driver, HN, hurried in,
• 44:31
  wielding a shovel. With one brutal strike, he
• 44:36
  smashed the creature and its body crumpled to the floor.
• 44:41
  He stood over the remains, his expression grim.
• 44:46
  These spiders, he said softly. They go in pairs.
• 44:51
  So if you kill. One the other is always nearby.
• 44:56
  Candace felt a chill race down her spine.
• 45:00
  She found herself glancing toward the shadowed corners of
• 45:03
  the hallway, half expecting to see another set of legs
• 45:07
  scuttling towards them. That night, she lay awake
• 45:12
  imagining the mate spider creeping silently into a
• 45:16
  bedroom. The pests were not the mansion's
• 45:20
  only gift. The rains came heavy as they did
• 45:24
  in Taiwan's monsoon season. Water streamed down the
• 45:29
  mountainside and into the house itself.
• 45:33
  The walls began to drip, then the bedrooms.
• 45:37
  Streaks of moisture traced downward, like tears soaking
• 45:41
  carpets. Candace wrapped towels around
• 45:44
  the bases of the doors to hold the water back, but the mansion
• 45:49
  seemed determined to drown itself.
• 45:52
  Then came the electricity. At first it was little shocks,
• 45:58
  light switches that snapped with static when touched, and it grew
• 46:02
  worse. A flick of a switch sent painful
• 46:05
  jolts through fingertips, strong enough to leave Candace afraid
• 46:10
  of the lights themselves. She kept lamps unplugged and
• 46:14
  would sit with her daughters in the dark.
• 46:17
  Yet despite this, the power bills rose inexplicably far
• 46:23
  beyond what they could explain with normal use.
• 46:27
  Dennis grew frustrated, convinced the family was
• 46:31
  careless with the electricity. Candace argued back furiously.
• 46:38
  The house was draining them in ways that he couldn't or
• 46:43
  wouldn't see. And still, stranger things crept
• 46:48
  in. Late at night, Stacy swore she
• 46:53
  heard footsteps in her room, soft and deliberate, as though
• 46:58
  someone circled her bed in the dark.
• 47:02
  She pulled her covers tighter, her heart pounding, too afraid
• 47:07
  to cry out. And as too felt it, the faint
• 47:12
  whisper of her name in an empty hall, the flicker of a light at
• 47:18
  the edge of her vision, She told herself it was exhaustion,
• 47:23
  stress, the strangeness of life abroad.
• 47:28
  But deep down, she knew she was being watched.
• 47:33
  The house, it seemed, had opened its eyes.
• 47:38
  Night fell differently in the mansion.
• 47:41
  The jungle pressed against the walls, the screaming of cicadas
• 47:46
  giving way to stillness that made every Creek echo louder
• 47:50
  than it should. It was in this.
• 47:53
  Silence. That the first true whispers
• 47:56
  began. Marissa noticed less, at least
• 48:01
  at first. She still tried to find wonder
• 48:04
  in the house, though even she began to ask strange questions.
• 48:11
  One evening she peered out a window toward the dark yard and
• 48:16
  asked her sister. Is a Chen here referring to
• 48:21
  their driver? But the yard was empty.
• 48:26
  There was no footsteps in the gravel, no sign of anyone.
• 48:31
  Stacy shivered at the question. The mansion was vast, but it
• 48:37
  never truly felt empty. It was as though the family had
• 48:41
  become guests in their own home, moving through rooms that belong
• 48:46
  to someone or something else. Candace's instincts screamed
• 48:52
  that something was wrong. She began to listen more
• 48:56
  carefully at night, to pause when the air shifted as though
• 49:01
  someone unseen had passed by. She didn't tell Dennis.
• 49:06
  He was already frustrated with the leaking roof, the electrical
• 49:10
  shocks, and the constant bills. To him, these were solvable
• 49:16
  problems. To her, they were symptoms of
• 49:21
  something. Far deeper.
• 49:23
  Something alive in the walls, but for the sake of her
• 49:28
  daughters, she kept her fear tucked away.
• 49:32
  She smiled when she needed to, laughed when Marissa showed
• 49:37
  excitement. Yet each time she closed her
• 49:40
  eyes at night, she felt it. The weight of unseen eyes
• 49:46
  staring at her from the darkness, and in silence.
• 49:52
  The house grew bolder. For weeks, Stacy had grown
• 49:56
  accustomed to hiding her fear. She heard footsteps that had no
• 50:01
  source, whispers that carried her name through the dark, but
• 50:06
  she kept it all inside. She told herself that it was
• 50:10
  stress or imagination, and if she spoke, she feared she'd
• 50:16
  sound crazy. Her solace was Thomas, 16.
• 50:22
  Like her, it was a local boy with an easy smile.
• 50:27
  He offered an escape from the mansion's suffocating
• 50:29
  atmosphere. Whenever she could, she spent
• 50:33
  the evenings at his home laughing, listening to music and
• 50:39
  forgetting the dread that seemed to hang like smoke over her
• 50:42
  family's new life. It was on one such evening,
• 50:46
  after Thomas dropped her off at the gate at the house revealed
• 50:51
  itself. The night was humid, the jungle
• 50:56
  thick with the sounds of frogs. Thomas waited at the end of the
• 51:01
  driveway as Stacy slipped inside.
• 51:05
  He glanced back at the looming structure, it's dark windows
• 51:09
  glinting faintly under the pale moon.
• 51:13
  And then he froze. At the top floor, a light
• 51:18
  flickered to life. Behind the glass, a woman's
• 51:21
  silhouette stood, her hair long, her figure motionless.
• 51:28
  She looked out into the night. To Thomas, she looked exactly
• 51:33
  like Candace. Bishop, alarmed, jolted through
• 51:37
  him. Something about her stillness,
• 51:41
  the way she stood in the shadow, that was wrong.
• 51:46
  He started the car, then hesitated.
• 51:50
  A cold dread whispered through him.
• 51:53
  What if she's in trouble after rushing home?
• 51:57
  He quickly grabbed. His family's phone and called
• 52:00
  Stacy. Stacy answered, surprised.
• 52:04
  Stacy. He said quickly with his voice
• 52:06
  shaking. Go check on your mom, please,
• 52:09
  right now, just please. I I saw her upstairs at the
• 52:13
  window and she didn't look right, he said.
• 52:17
  Stacy's stomach dropped. With her heart pounding, she
• 52:21
  raced through the mansion's halls, calling out for her
• 52:25
  mother. Marissa, alarmed followed,
• 52:29
  became frightened as well. Their voices echoed off.
• 52:32
  Marble and tile became increasingly desperate and
• 52:37
  urgent. Room after room lay empty, no
• 52:41
  movement, no sign of her. The house seemed to swallow
• 52:47
  their cries, as though mocking their search.
• 52:51
  Finally, a door opened and Candace stepped out of the
• 52:55
  master bedroom, startled by the commotion.
• 52:58
  She looked perfectly fine. Stacy stopped dead, her breath
• 53:03
  catching. Thomas's sighting replayed in
• 53:06
  her head, her mother's figure standing up stairs in the
• 53:10
  window, watching. When she had been here all
• 53:14
  along, the realization washed over her like ice water.
• 53:20
  It hadn't been her mother. It had been something else.
• 53:24
  That night, the fragile silence between mother and daughter
• 53:28
  cracked, trembling. Stacy confessed.
• 53:33
  The footsteps, the voices, the nights she felt something
• 53:38
  circling her in the dark. Candace's eyes widened, tears
• 53:43
  forming as she admitted the same, that she too had heard
• 53:49
  whispers, seen flickers of light, and felt the eyes of
• 53:54
  something unseen. They sat together in the heavy
• 53:57
  stillness, clinging to one another, no longer able to deny
• 54:02
  it. The house was haunted.
• 54:06
  The night after Thomas's siding, silence weighed heavy on the
• 54:10
  House. Candace could feel it in her
• 54:12
  bones. The walls were watching them.
• 54:16
  The air was listening. The admission she and Stacy had
• 54:20
  shared only sharpened the tension.
• 54:24
  They were no longer keeping secrets.
• 54:27
  Now they knew they weren't alone.
• 54:30
  But knowing did not bring peace. It brought fear.
• 54:35
  Stacy drifted uneasily into sleep, her mind tangled with
• 54:39
  dread. In her dream, the mansion's
• 54:43
  corridor stretched endlessly, their walls slick with
• 54:47
  rainwater. She wandered, crying out for her
• 54:51
  mother. In the air smelled of smoke.
• 54:55
  Then she saw her. Candace was standing in the
• 54:59
  kitchen, her face pale and hollow.
• 55:03
  In her hands, a butcher's knife gleamed.
• 55:07
  Her eyes flicked upward, not her usual gentle gaze, but something
• 55:13
  feral, driven mad by terror. Without warning, Candace raised
• 55:19
  the blade, and Stacy's heart froze.
• 55:24
  She tried to scream, but no sound left her mouth.
• 55:29
  The nightmare shifted in jerks and flashes.
• 55:32
  Her mother was stalking her through the halls, knife in
• 55:35
  hand. Her father was crumpled in a
• 55:38
  corner. ERISA screamed as Candace's
• 55:41
  shadow loomed. Stacy then woke with a jolt, her
• 55:46
  body slick with sweat. The image of her mother holding
• 55:49
  the knife clung in her mind like a stain.
• 55:53
  She sat up, trembling, realizing that the dream had not been
• 55:57
  random. It had been a warning, a
• 56:00
  premonition of what the house could drive them to.
• 56:04
  While Stacy was tormented by dreams, Candace waged her own
• 56:09
  battle against the dark. With Dennis away on a business
• 56:14
  trip, the weight of protection fell solely on her.
• 56:19
  Every night she gathered her daughters into the master
• 56:22
  bedroom. They slept together in one bed,
• 56:26
  the girls pressed close while Candace kept her eyes open,
• 56:31
  listening to the house. She had placed a butcher's knife
• 56:36
  and a baseball bat under the mattress.
• 56:40
  If the spirits came, if anything tried to touch her children, she
• 56:45
  would fight. The hours crawled.
• 56:49
  Shadows stretched and moved across the walls, twisting with
• 56:54
  each flicker of the storm outside.
• 56:58
  Sometimes she swore she heard someone standing just outside
• 57:02
  the door. Other times, Stacy would bolt
• 57:06
  upright, certain that she had heard the handle rattle.
• 57:11
  Candace would grip the knife or pulse hammering, ready to face
• 57:16
  whatever endured. But nothing came, at least not
• 57:22
  yet. Returning from work, Dennis
• 57:26
  found his wife strung thin, his daughter's pale and restless,
• 57:32
  their eyes rimmed with sleepiness.
• 57:35
  He listened, but struggled to reconcile their terror with his
• 57:38
  own rationality. What do I tell my boss?
• 57:43
  He snapped. That we have to leave because
• 57:46
  the house is haunted? Candace pleaded for him to
• 57:50
  understand. Stacy begged him to believe.
• 57:54
  Even Marissa, usually innocent and carefree, grew quiet and
• 57:59
  uneasy. The mansion had become a
• 58:02
  battleground, not just between the bishops and whatever haunted
• 58:06
  them, but between their instincts and Dennis's
• 58:10
  disbelief. And in that rift, the house
• 58:14
  thrived. It seemed to feed on fear and on
• 58:18
  doubt, on the slow erosion, their strength.
• 58:23
  For Stacy, the nightmare would not leave her.
• 58:27
  Each time her mother reached for the knife at night, keeping
• 58:30
  watch with trembling hands, Stacy saw again the image of
• 58:35
  blood and madness. The house wasn't only haunting
• 58:39
  them, it was turning them against themselves.
• 58:44
  The Bishop family had come to Taiwan full of hope, but now the
• 58:49
  mansion was unraveling them thread by thread.
• 58:54
  The Bishop home had become a pressure cooker of fear.
• 58:57
  Every shadow seemed heavier, every silence more oppressive.
• 59:03
  Candace did her best to keep her daughter's clothes, to shield
• 59:08
  them from what she could no longer deny.
• 59:12
  But the house was patient. It was waiting for the moment
• 59:16
  when one of them was most vulnerable.
• 59:19
  And that moment came for Marissa.
• 59:23
  It was evening. Rain tapped against the wide
• 59:27
  windows in the jungle outside, buzzed faintly in the humid
• 59:32
  dark. Stacy was away with Thomas, and
• 59:36
  Candace had agreed to accompany Dennis to visit a neighbor's
• 59:40
  house down the road. It would be just for a little
• 59:44
  while. Marissa nodded when her mother
• 59:46
  asked if she'd be all right, but as the front door closed behind
• 59:51
  them, the mansion seemed to exhale.
• 59:55
  The vast hall stretched around her, too quiet and too still.
• 1:00:02
  She turned on the television to chase away the silence, but the
• 1:00:07
  sound only made the emptiness more noticeable.
• 1:00:11
  Shadows gathered in the corners of the room, deepening with each
• 1:00:16
  passing minute. Then came a sound, the door
• 1:00:22
  creaking open somewhere upstairs.
• 1:00:26
  Marissa's heart stuttered. She glanced towards the
• 1:00:30
  staircase, it's banister vanishing Into Darkness.
• 1:00:35
  She called out to her parents, asking if they had forgotten
• 1:00:38
  something, her voice trembling, but there was no answer, only
• 1:00:45
  the hollow echo of her own words.
• 1:00:49
  Then footsteps came, measured and heavy, descending the
• 1:00:55
  stairs. The young girl backed away,
• 1:00:58
  clutching the edge of the sofa, calling out again to see if it
• 1:01:02
  was her parents. The living room door swung open
• 1:01:06
  with a sudden force. A cold rush of air swept in,
• 1:01:12
  carrying with it the unmistakable presence of someone
• 1:01:17
  or something unseen. And then it was upon her.
• 1:01:23
  Invisible hands shoved her backwards.
• 1:01:27
  She gasped, stumbling to the floor, but it didn't stop there.
• 1:01:33
  Something pressed against her chest, heavier, stronger, until
• 1:01:38
  she couldn't breathe. Her body convulsed, as if this
• 1:01:44
  something was trying to force its way into her.
• 1:01:49
  Terror swallowed her. She felt her limbs go weak, her
• 1:01:54
  mind pulled into a darkness was not her own.
• 1:01:58
  Whispers clawed up the edges of her thoughts, hungry, desperate,
• 1:02:05
  and human. For a heartbeat, she wasn't
• 1:02:09
  herself. She was them.
• 1:02:12
  And then, silence. Arissa collapsed onto the floor,
• 1:02:17
  trembling, covered in sweat, and the house loomed above her,
• 1:02:23
  silent once more, as though satisfied.
• 1:02:28
  When Candace and Dennis returned, they found their
• 1:02:31
  daughter sprawled on the floor. Candace dropped to her knees,
• 1:02:35
  scooping Marissa into her arms, asking baby, what happened,
• 1:02:39
  what's wrong? Marissa's eyes darted around,
• 1:02:43
  wild and glassy. Her voice was hoarse.
• 1:02:47
  Someone came in and pushed me. She broke into sobs, clinging to
• 1:02:53
  her mother. Dennis's face drained of color.
• 1:02:58
  He had doubted, rationalized, resisted in every suggestion
• 1:03:03
  that something unnatural plagued their home.
• 1:03:07
  But this was. Different.
• 1:03:09
  His daughter's trembling, the sheer panic in her voice.
• 1:03:13
  He could not be dismissed. That night, the family huddled
• 1:03:18
  together in terror, with every light in the house blazing.
• 1:03:23
  Candace sat upright with a knife in her lap, too afraid to close
• 1:03:27
  her eyes. Marissa lay against her,
• 1:03:31
  shivering, whispering again and again.
• 1:03:35
  That's something had been inside.
• 1:03:37
  Her. By morning, she seemed eerily
• 1:03:41
  calm. She insisted that she felt fine
• 1:03:45
  brushing off her mother's word questions, she said.
• 1:03:49
  I I don't want to worry or think about it anymore.
• 1:03:52
  Seeming detached, but Candace knew better.
• 1:03:57
  Something had touched her daughter, and this was something
• 1:04:01
  that could not be undone. The attack on Marissa left no
• 1:04:05
  more room for denial for Dennis. Once the firm skeptic, he could
• 1:04:10
  not shake the image of his daughter trembling on the floor,
• 1:04:14
  insisting that something had entered her, a foreign entity,
• 1:04:21
  something not of this. World.
• 1:04:23
  Candace's fear had now become his own.
• 1:04:26
  The house was not simply strange, it was dangerous.
• 1:04:31
  Candace reached out to a friend, Bob Patton, an American
• 1:04:35
  journalist in Taipei with connections deep into Taiwan's
• 1:04:39
  spiritual circles, if anyone could point them to help.
• 1:04:44
  It. Was Bob.
• 1:04:46
  And he did. He told Candace of a respected
• 1:04:49
  Taoist priest, a man experienced in dealing with restless
• 1:04:54
  spirits, a man he himself had interviewed years before.
• 1:05:00
  When the priest arrived at the Bishop home, he carried himself
• 1:05:04
  with quiet authority. He was elderly, robed simply,
• 1:05:10
  with eyes that seem to Pierce through stone.
• 1:05:14
  From the moment he crossed the threshold, his demeanor
• 1:05:18
  darkened. He moved slowly through each
• 1:05:21
  room, pausing as if listening to something that the others could
• 1:05:26
  not hear. Finally, he gathered the family,
• 1:05:32
  and his words came measured, deliberate.
• 1:05:36
  This house, he said through Bob's translation, has very
• 1:05:41
  dangerous Feng shui. No Chinese architect would
• 1:05:45
  design it this way unless he wished to curse the inhabitants.
• 1:05:50
  Dennis frowned, still unused to the concept.
• 1:05:53
  He asked. What do you mean?
• 1:05:56
  The priest gestured towards the open windows, the dripping
• 1:06:00
  walls, the unnatural damp that seemed to ooze from every
• 1:06:05
  corner. The mountains, water and wind
• 1:06:08
  bring energy, but this house does not flow with it.
• 1:06:13
  It traps it, it feeds yen the negative energy, it strengthens
• 1:06:19
  the dead. Candace shuddered, remembering
• 1:06:23
  the priest's choice words. It's been designed to kill.
• 1:06:28
  Then came the most chilling revelation.
• 1:06:31
  The priest closed his eyes, breathing deeply.
• 1:06:35
  When he spoke again, his voice was heavier.
• 1:06:39
  There are two spirits here, and they're hungry.
• 1:06:44
  A man and a woman. Candace gasped.
• 1:06:48
  Her mind leapt to the apparition Thomas had seen in the upstairs
• 1:06:52
  window. She turned to their driver, who
• 1:06:56
  had lived in the valley his entire life.
• 1:06:59
  Do you know what was here before this?
• 1:07:01
  House was built. She asked.
• 1:07:04
  HN hesitated. His face tightened as though
• 1:07:09
  even Speaking of it was dangerous.
• 1:07:12
  At last, he said quietly, Pig farm.
• 1:07:17
  It burned, and the farmer and his wife were trapped.
• 1:07:22
  They died in the fire. The words clung heavy in the
• 1:07:26
  air. Candace's heart sank.
• 1:07:31
  The flickering lights, the voices calling names, the woman
• 1:07:36
  at the window, all of it pointed to those lost souls.
• 1:07:41
  They had not moved on. They had remained hungry, angry,
• 1:07:47
  seemingly tethered to the land where they had perished.
• 1:07:52
  The priest's face was grim. Hungry ghosts, he said.
• 1:07:58
  They do not have what they need in the afterlife, food, money or
• 1:08:03
  offerings, so they take energy from the living.
• 1:08:08
  They feed off of fear, particularly from your daughter.
• 1:08:14
  Nervous face was pale with tears burning in her eyes.
• 1:08:19
  The family drew closer together with fear thick between all of
• 1:08:24
  them. The priest rose.
• 1:08:27
  He said I'll help you, but you must understand what is bound
• 1:08:33
  here is strong. I will need some time to
• 1:08:36
  prepare, and even if I succeed, it will not last.
• 1:08:41
  And if you remain, they will return.
• 1:08:45
  This warning was clear. The house was not a home, was a
• 1:08:49
  trap built on ashes feeding the dead.
• 1:08:55
  For the bishops, the nightmare had finally been given a name.
• 1:09:00
  The night of the ritual arrived, heavy with anticipation.
• 1:09:04
  The bishops had spent the day in uneasy silence, waiting.
• 1:09:09
  Marissa had been sent to stay with neighbors.
• 1:09:12
  The priest would not risk her presence.
• 1:09:15
  The hungry ghosts had already singled her out once.
• 1:09:19
  If they were provoked again, she might not survive.
• 1:09:24
  Inside the mansion, the air felt charged, as though the house
• 1:09:28
  itself knew what was coming. The Taoist priest returned to
• 1:09:33
  dusk robed, simply carrying a bundle of tools, incense sticks,
• 1:09:41
  Joss paper folded into stacks of money, a basket of fruit.
• 1:09:46
  He instructed Dennis to open every door and window in the
• 1:09:50
  house. The spirits must have a way out,
• 1:09:54
  he said. As the last window was
• 1:09:57
  unlatched, a strange wind moved through the house, though the
• 1:10:02
  air outside was still. Curtains billowed, and Candace
• 1:10:07
  clutched Stacy's hand. The priest lit incense, smoke
• 1:10:13
  curling upward into thin, wide trails.
• 1:10:17
  He began to chant, his voice low and rhythmic, filling the halls
• 1:10:23
  with words the family could not understand.
• 1:10:27
  Yet they felt their meaning deep in their bones.
• 1:10:31
  Almost immediately, the house seemed to react.
• 1:10:36
  A pressure settled on the family, heavy and suffocating,
• 1:10:42
  Candace later recalled. It was a.
• 1:10:45
  Force that shook our clothes and our hair.
• 1:10:48
  Everything was moving and it became hard to breathe.
• 1:10:53
  Lights flickered violently upstairs, a door slammed shut
• 1:10:58
  with a deafening crack. The air was alive with unseen
• 1:11:02
  motion, as though invisible figures were rushing past and
• 1:11:07
  raged by the intrusion. Despite this, the priest did not
• 1:11:11
  falter. He raised his voice, commanding,
• 1:11:16
  demanding, calling upon heavenly forces to guide the spirits to
• 1:11:22
  peace. Then he turned to Stacy and his
• 1:11:27
  hands was the basket of offerings, Oranges, rice,
• 1:11:32
  bundles of paper money, all burning slowly with incense
• 1:11:37
  smoke. You, he said firmly.
• 1:11:41
  You must take this to the back, to the graves.
• 1:11:47
  Terror gripped her. Her legs trembled.
• 1:11:51
  She didn't want to go. The priest's eyes locked on
• 1:11:55
  hers, and he told her, You must be brave.
• 1:12:02
  They will follow you, but they must be fed.
• 1:12:07
  Her mother's hand squeezed hers. Her father's nod was solemn.
• 1:12:13
  With a SOB, Stacy lifted the basket.
• 1:12:17
  The smoke curled into her face, stinging her eyes.
• 1:12:23
  She then stepped into the night. The backyard was darker than she
• 1:12:27
  had ever seen it. The trees loomed beyond the
• 1:12:31
  walls and every step. Felt watched.
• 1:12:36
  She carried the basket toward the patch of earth the priest
• 1:12:40
  had identified, the place where the farmer and his wife had
• 1:12:45
  died. Her arms ached.
• 1:12:49
  Her skin prickled as though someone walked just behind her.
• 1:12:54
  She fought the urge to run. At the edge of the yard, she set
• 1:13:00
  the basket down and whispered through her tears.
• 1:13:04
  Take this, please, and leave us alone.
• 1:13:10
  For a moment the air stilled, and then, as if an answer, the
• 1:13:16
  night swallowed the offering. Inside.
• 1:13:20
  The priest moved room to room, sprinkling holy water, chanting
• 1:13:25
  at each corner, and each time he entered the lights would die
• 1:13:32
  slowly, flickering back on only as he finished his incantations.
• 1:13:38
  Candace and Dennis followed, their hearts pounding.
• 1:13:42
  They could feel it, the shift, the weakening of the presence
• 1:13:47
  that had plagued them. The chanting rose to a
• 1:13:51
  crescendo, smoke thick in the halls as a final prayer echoed
• 1:13:58
  through the house, and then silence.
• 1:14:03
  The wind ceased, the walls no longer seem to hum, and for the
• 1:14:09
  first time in months since they had arrived, the house felt
• 1:14:15
  still. Before leaving, the priest
• 1:14:19
  produced a Talisman, a mirror etched with the symbols of the I
• 1:14:24
  Ching. He fixed it above the door,
• 1:14:28
  firmly padding it into place. This will keep harmony here.
• 1:14:34
  He said, but only for a short time.
• 1:14:38
  His eyes were grave. The hungry ghosts are appeased,
• 1:14:43
  but only for two, maybe 3 months, and after that they will
• 1:14:48
  return. You must leave this house or a
• 1:14:53
  great tragedy will come. The warning settled deep into
• 1:14:57
  their hearts. The house was calm now.
• 1:15:01
  Danger, however, was far from gone.
• 1:15:06
  The house stood unnaturally quiet in the aftermath of the
• 1:15:09
  ritual. For the first time in months,
• 1:15:12
  the oppressive weight had lifted.
• 1:15:15
  The walls no longer groaned, the air the longer pressed down on
• 1:15:20
  their lungs. Candace wept with relief.
• 1:15:24
  Dennis, exhausted, finally allowed himself to believe that
• 1:15:30
  what had tormented his family was real.
• 1:15:34
  He had fought against his beliefs, against fear, clinging
• 1:15:38
  to reason and responsibility. But now there was no argument
• 1:15:43
  left. He had seen too much.
• 1:15:47
  He knew the priest was right. In the days that followed, the
• 1:15:52
  mansion remained eerily still. Nights passed without footsteps,
• 1:15:58
  without whispers. Stacy slept without hearing her
• 1:16:02
  name being called. Candace no longer felt eyes
• 1:16:06
  burning into her back, and even Marissa, who'd returned from the
• 1:16:11
  neighbors, seemed lighter, free of the strange detachment that
• 1:16:16
  had followed her from the attack.
• 1:16:19
  The Bog Way mirror gleamed above the front door, a silent
• 1:16:23
  Sentinel. The family lived in its shadow.
• 1:16:28
  Aware that the peace was only borrowed time, Candace began to
• 1:16:33
  plan. She marked the months carefully,
• 1:16:37
  watching the calendar as though it were a countdown to doom.
• 1:16:42
  Stacy would finish her schooling by June, and by then they would
• 1:16:46
  be gone. Dennis made quiet inquiries
• 1:16:49
  about transfers, careful not to draw suspicion from his
• 1:16:53
  superiors. Every decision was guided by the
• 1:16:57
  priest's warning before the hungry ghosts would return.
• 1:17:01
  It was not an easy choice. Dennis's career had brought them
• 1:17:06
  here, had promised them prosperity, But what was a
• 1:17:11
  promotion compared to the safety of his family?
• 1:17:15
  Stacy finished her final term of school that June, and her relief
• 1:17:19
  mirrored her mother's. Dennis arranged their departure
• 1:17:23
  with quiet urgency. When the time came, the family
• 1:17:28
  packed their belongings into crates, and the rooms were
• 1:17:32
  emptied one by one. On their last morning in the
• 1:17:37
  house, the air was unnervingly still.
• 1:17:41
  The jungle outside shimmered in the heat, and for once, no storm
• 1:17:46
  clouds gathered on the horizon. Candace stood at the front door,
• 1:17:52
  staring at the Bog Way mirror fixed above it.
• 1:17:55
  The Talisman glinted faintly in the light.
• 1:17:59
  For months it had kept the house calm, but she knew its power
• 1:18:04
  would soon wane. As she turned to leave, she
• 1:18:08
  glanced up at the 2nd floor window, the same place Thomas
• 1:18:13
  had once seen a figure standing, and for the briefest moment, she
• 1:18:18
  thought she saw something. The outline of a woman, her face
• 1:18:23
  hidden in the shadows. But a blink later, the window
• 1:18:29
  was empty. Candace shivered.
• 1:18:33
  She would not look back again. The bishops left Taiwan behind,
• 1:18:39
  returning to the United States with more than just suitcases.
• 1:18:44
  They carried with them the memory of the mansion, the
• 1:18:47
  unseen blows, the whispers from the darkness in the night.
• 1:18:53
  Marissa collapsed on the floor, seemingly invaded by something
• 1:18:59
  malicious. In interviews years later,
• 1:19:03
  Candace admitted that the experience had shattered the
• 1:19:07
  boundaries of her world. I had learned that there are
• 1:19:10
  powers that we don't understand, she said.
• 1:19:14
  Energies, spirits, things that can touch our lives in ways that
• 1:19:20
  you can't imagine unless it happens to you.
• 1:19:25
  The family never returned to that valley.
• 1:19:28
  They never sought the mansion again.
• 1:19:31
  Whether the house still stands, whether others live there
• 1:19:36
  unaware, no one can say. But in Taiwan or the Hungry
• 1:19:43
  Ghost Festival still burns bright each summer, the belief
• 1:19:47
  endures. The dead remain among us, if not
• 1:19:52
  given rest. And in the shadow of the Yang
• 1:19:56
  Ming Mountain, where fire once consumed a farmer and his wife,
• 1:20:02
  where a foreign family came seeking a home and only found
• 1:20:06
  terror, the hungry ghosts still linger, waiting for the living
• 1:20:14
  to feed them. So it took some digging but I
• 1:20:20
  was able to figure out what the Bishops are up to these days.
• 1:20:25
  I haven't seen or come across any updates on them from other
• 1:20:28
  creators, so I decided to try and find out for myself.
• 1:20:33
  And to my surprise I did indeed discover the details.
• 1:20:38
  The Bishops case was made famous by the TV show A Haunting, which
• 1:20:42
  is one of my all time favourites.
• 1:20:44
  Their episode was amply titled Hungry Ghosts.
• 1:20:48
  My version is essentially a retelling of their harrowing
• 1:20:51
  case with additional details that I could find.
• 1:20:55
  With that being said, what are the Bishops up to these days?
• 1:20:59
  Well, I'm going to tell you, but I will omit some details as to
• 1:21:03
  respect their privacy. It seems like Dennis and Candace
• 1:21:08
  are no longer married. I'm not sure what happened to
• 1:21:12
  Candace, but I hope wherever she is that she's doing well.
• 1:21:17
  Dennis has since remarried and is a COO of a major global
• 1:21:22
  company. Albeit, I'm not sure if it's the
• 1:21:24
  same company that he worked for during the family's experiences,
• 1:21:28
  but he continues to work abroad in Asia and other.
• 1:21:32
  Parts of the world. And him and his wife seem to
• 1:21:35
  have adopted a son. Everyone, from what I can tell,
• 1:21:38
  has moved on and returned to a sense of normalcy and seems to
• 1:21:43
  be happy and prosperous. I truly hope that is the case.
• 1:21:47
  And I don't know about you, but I love a happy ending with me
• 1:21:51
  providing those details. Again, please respect the
• 1:21:55
  Bishop's privacy and that goes for anyone whose cases I've
• 1:21:58
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• 1:22:03
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• 1:23:03
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  This has been Cody here at Mystery Archives.
• 1:23:21
  Remember to stay safe out there from hungry ghosts and other
• 1:23:25
  spectres that may haunt the night, and take care.
• 1:23:30
  I'll see you next time. Imaginary friends are generally
• 1:23:37
  considered to be a normal part of childhood development for
• 1:23:41
  some. But what would you do if your
• 1:23:44
  child's imaginary friend turned out to be much more than just
• 1:23:49
  imagination? When a woman notices that her
• 1:23:52
  son is speaking with a friend who she thinks doesn't exist,
• 1:23:57
  she dismisses it at first. However, this so-called friend
• 1:24:03
  would turn out to be anything but as an abhorrent force turns
• 1:24:08
  their lives upside down while they escape with their souls
• 1:24:12
  intact. Or will the entity consume them?
• 1:24:18
  I will warn you, as with many cases I've covered on this
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  channel, to not watch this alone or in the dark unless you like a
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  challenge, because this case is certainly no exception.
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  Kentucky, a bastion of American beauty, wild and free on the
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  surface, also harbors darkness. Home to the Mammoth Cave system,
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  known to be the longest in the world, one can truly get lost
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  inside its winding caverns and crevices.
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  Kentucky contains many tales of legends, folklore, and
• 1:25:02
  hauntings. With caves older than bone
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  beneath it and numerous battles fought on its surface, among
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  other happenings, it's no surprise that this southern
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  state holds such secrets. Our story begins in Western
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  Kentucky with the Foster family, Jan, Dale, their five year old
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  son Cody, and 16 year old daughter Pamela.
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  Jan is a carrier for the US Postal Service and Dale is a
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  contractor. Up until this point, the Fosters
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  have been a relatively normal American family, but this would
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  soon change. A nanny often stays with their
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  son while the two parents work during the day, intends to leave
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  when one of the parents gets home from work for the day.
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  One evening, the nanny asks for a word with Jan, with the two
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  stepping off into the hallway for a more private word
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  together. The nanny tells her that Cody
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  has been using some very bad language and that she's
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  concerned about his behavior. Jan is shocked to hear this
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  because they've always considered themselves a fairly
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  strict family on what can and can't be said in their house, so
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  she's not sure where the boy would have heard such language.
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  Alongside the curse words, Cody has been incredibly defiant,
• 1:26:33
  extremely rude, and angry towards the nanny.
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  He has also been speaking with someone who isn't there.
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  After assuring the nanny that Cody was not exposed to this
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  kind of behavior in their home, Jan then said she would correct
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  his behavior and apologized for these very unexpected
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  happenings. Several hours later, as she
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  tucks her son into bed for the night, she asked him to tell her
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  about his new friend. Cody tells his mother that his
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  friend's name is Man, thinking this was strange and asking him
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  why doesn't his friend have a real name like John or George.
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  She is quickly corrected by her son that it is simply Man.
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  Finding this bizarre, but believing this to be somewhat
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  normal, that her son is simply using his active imagination to
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  create a friend who didn't really exist, she thinks nothing
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  of it. However, in later.
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  Interviews. She would have this to say.
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  I didn't realize it then, but this was a massive warning sign
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  and it's one I shouldn't have ignored.
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  Shortly after putting her son to bed and laying down herself, Jan
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  is woken up by the sound of thumping from across the hall.
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  Stepping out into the hallway to examine just what this could be,
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  she then hears the laughter of her son.
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  Believing he's just playing and very tired herself, she asks him
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  to please stop through his door and to go back to bed.
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  She then heads back to her own bedroom once again after the
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  laughter ceases. Several hours later, in another
• 1:28:30
  bedroom down the hall, 16 year old Pamela's woken up out of a
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  sound sleep herself, but by something very different.
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  Feeling as if she was being watched, she begins to hear
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  scratching originating from underneath her bed.
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  Perplexed, she rolls out of bed to look underneath it, and
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  quickly she comes face to face with nothing.
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  The scratching then begins to move as if it's under the
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  floorboards. It moves from underneath the
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  bed, through the floor and then up into the wall closest to her
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  bedroom door. The poor teen has never
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  experienced anything like this before.
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  As the sounds continue, she quickly, yet cautiously makes
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  her way out of her bedroom and into her parents room.
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  She would later describe the scratching sounds like someone
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  taking their fingernails and with all of their strength,
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  grating them against the various surfaces.
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  As the sound moved, Jan is startled awake as she sees a
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  blackened figure standing over her.
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  It's Pamela telling her mother that she's.
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  Scared. Jan then, thinking she must have
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  had a nightmare, brings her into the bed to quell her fear.
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  Although this night was strange to say the least, it's nothing
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  compared to what's coming the following morning.
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  As Jan wakes up and begins getting ready for the day, she
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  steps into the shower and begins washing herself.
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  Several minutes into her shower, however, she hears something
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  fall over in the bathroom with the door closed, and after
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  examining the room from the tub, she sees no one.
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  She does, however, see a soap bottle that has fallen onto the
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  floor from the side of the bathtub.
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  Thinking this was weird due to its positioning, but overlooking
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  it, she simply places the bottle back onto the ledge and
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  continues with her shower. She then begins to hear
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  footsteps walking all throughout the bathroom, rinsing the soap
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  out of her hair and making sure she doesn't get any in her eyes.
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  She then turns around and sees the outline of a man through the
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  steamed up shower curtain. This man was tall, much taller
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  than her husband, and she didn't hear the door open to indicate
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  anyone else's presence. Panicking, she pulls the curtain
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  aside, yet no one is there yet again.
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  She does however see small Muddy child size shoe prints on the
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  floor. Quickly finishing her shower and
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  after drying off she finds and checks Cody's shoes but there
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  are no signs of mud to be seen. This makes her uneasy because
• 1:31:43
  only his shoes would have even been close to how small the shoe
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  prints were. Then heading to her son's room
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  to see if he was awake or not, she finds him playing with his
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  toy fire truck in the corner of the room.
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  Yet he is speaking to a chair where no one is sitting.
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  Telling his friend that he didn't want to do that, that he
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  just wants to play with his toys.
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  Cody is then interrupted by his mother, who asked him just who
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  he's speaking with. Replying with man, the little
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  boy then continues to play with his fire truck.
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  Jandin tells Cody that he needs to tell his friend goodbye and
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  that it's time to get ready for the day.
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  This seems to turn a switch within the boy.
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  Suddenly her five year old has gone from happy and playing with
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  his toys to becoming irate at the drop of a dime, screaming at
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  his mother that he didn't want to and that man said he didn't
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  have to. Being countered by his mother,
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  she tells him that he will get ready or there's going to be
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  serious consequences. Scowling at her eventually he
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  does as he's told, but the look behind his eyes is 1.
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  His mother doesn't recognize, and it'll become one all too
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  common in the near future. Over the next several weeks,
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  Cody's behavior has shifted completely.
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  He's gone from a fairly calm and loving child to one that is
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  cold, angry, and sometimes violent.
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  He doesn't want to follow commands or do things he once
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  enjoyed doing. He only wants to spend time with
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  his imaginary friend, someone he calls Man.
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  One afternoon as his parents sit together watching their son
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  play, they asked him to tell them about Man.
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  Just who is he and how old is he?
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  Cody would set down the toys that he had been playing with
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  and tell them he's 6 and that he has brown hair and brown eyes
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  and pale skin. Interested in what he had to
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  say, the couple would then ask their son just where did man
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  come from. He would respond with from
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  behind the park where the lake is from deep underground.
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  Obviously concerned and intrigued even further, Jan
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  asked Cody if something happened to man.
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  Cody, with tears streaming down his face, would reply that a
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  stranger took him from his mommy and did terrible things to him.
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  That he cried for his mommy but she never found him.
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  With tears now falling from her eyes, Jan then asks her son, who
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  would almost be the same age as man.
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  Is man dead, Cody? His answer would cause a cold
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  shiver to shake her entire body. He would answer with yes.
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  Disturbed by her son's answer, Jan Foster believes that her son
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  may have befriended the spirit of a dead child.
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  Dan, however, is not fully convinced.
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  He believes it could be simply his son going through some
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  changes emotionally and that he was using his imagination to
• 1:35:44
  cope with this. I'll be at a strange back story
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  to his imaginary friend. He thinks that it's just that,
• 1:35:52
  imaginary. With this revelation, Jane
• 1:35:57
  decides to take researching things into her own hands.
• 1:36:01
  She decides the following day to go to the local library and to
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  sift through records to see if she could find anything that
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  sounded similar to the back story of the boy that her son
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  described to her. She avidly searches going back
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  as far as the records do that were available about 50 years or
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  so, although she believes her son believes the story he told.
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  Her. She begins to doubt what this
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  entity could have told her son because no evidence materializes
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  of the dead boy's back story. Over the next several months,
• 1:36:44
  Cody withdrawals completely from interacting with the family.
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  He didn't want to spend time with anyone, he stopped playing
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  with his toys and his only outlet seems to be man.
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  Day in and day out he just continues to have full blown
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  conversations with this invisible person.
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  Angered and feeling as if she was losing her son, Jan decides
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  to try anything it takes to get him back.
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  One evening she makes a phone call to an old friend of hers, a
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  Native American medicine man, who she believes could perhaps
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  offer insight on what to do about her family situation.
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  Within a day he arrives, speaking with Jan and Dale in
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  their living room. He begins to hear from Jan just
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  what all has been taking place. Dale, although skeptical of both
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  his son's situation and now the involvement of a medicine man,
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  remains so, but wants to support his wife, thinking that this
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  could perhaps make her feel better about what had been
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  happening in his own words. I was concerned that something
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  had really scared Jan, and I knew that she was upset.
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  Although I didn't believe in this kind of stuff, I thought
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  that maybe it could help her feel better.
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  As Jan finishes explaining the situation as a whole to the
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  medicine man, he comes to the conclusion that it's possible
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  that Cody has invited the spirit into the house.
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  He explains that the only way to get rid of the spirit is to
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  revoke the invitation by praying and forcibly cleansing the home.
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  That the owner of the house had to do this on their own to
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  banish the spirit. He then instructs Jan to burn
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  sage and sweetgrass and directed towards the four corners of the
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  property. After this is done, each doorway
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  of the home must be anointed with olive oil to finish the
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  cleansing. He also warns that some spirits
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  may not want to go so easily and that it's imperative that she
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  focus and pray the entire time for the spirit to leave and most
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  importantly, to pray for her son.
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  The following morning, after everyone else had departed for
• 1:39:29
  the day, Jan begins the ritual. As the sage smoke smudges the
• 1:39:35
  air, Jan begins to worry but tries her best to remain strong
• 1:39:42
  in her own words. Was I worthy enough of God to
• 1:39:46
  hear my prayers? My strongest please to Him to
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  help me through this, to help me cleanse this house and this
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  property. I doubted myself for brief
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  moments that I wouldn't be able to.
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  It was the fear of knowing if it didn't work, what would happen.
• 1:40:05
  Then, within due time she finishes the cleansing.
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  But will it be enough? Later that night, once everyone
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  else had returned home, she is brought to tears.
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  Cody seems to be back to his old self.
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  He's spending time with his father, having a story read to
• 1:40:28
  him from a book in his room before bed.
• 1:40:33
  Over the next three months, all is calm and well.
• 1:40:37
  Cody seems to be more responsive, he's much happier,
• 1:40:42
  and most importantly, there is no mention of any kind of an
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  imaginary friend. That was until one afternoon.
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  In Jan's own words, Cody wasn't totally back, but we were
• 1:40:58
  certainly making great strides. All seemed to be well.
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  And then, out of nowhere, three months after the ritual, he
• 1:41:07
  began speaking to man again. When I heard him, I could not
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  move. I was in so much fear.
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  He kept talking for a while and then all of a sudden he went
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  quiet. When I went into his room, he
• 1:41:25
  was holding something in his hands.
• 1:41:28
  It was a photograph. I said where did you get this?
• 1:41:34
  I then reached down to grab it and he went berserk.
• 1:41:39
  Cody screamed and clawed at her. His screams and yells seemed to
• 1:41:45
  be layered, as if two voices were speaking through him
• 1:41:50
  simultaneously. As Jan examined the photo, it
• 1:41:55
  appeared to be an older Polaroid, possibly from the late
• 1:41:59
  50s or early 60s. There was an elderly woman,
• 1:42:05
  perhaps a grandmother, and next to her was a small boy.
• 1:42:11
  As her son relents she asked him just who was this a picture of
• 1:42:17
  and he responded with Man shocked at what she was both
• 1:42:23
  looking at as well as hearing. Jan then asked Cody where did
• 1:42:28
  you get this picture? He proceeds to tell her that Man
• 1:42:33
  gave it to him. This causes her to burst into
• 1:42:37
  tears. The ritual, which had seemed to
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  work for a good portion of time, didn't seem to get rid of the
• 1:42:46
  entity. She now wonders what will happen
• 1:42:49
  now. What are the next steps that she
• 1:42:52
  can take for herself and her family?
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  The following day, as Jan arrives back home from work, she
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  walks into chaos. Cody is screaming and berating
• 1:43:07
  the nanny. He's thrown his food onto the
• 1:43:10
  floor. She immediately goes to
• 1:43:12
  reprimand her son and is surprised by what he does.
• 1:43:18
  With one hand, he shoves her, and he does so with so much
• 1:43:22
  force that she falls down into the wall behind her.
• 1:43:27
  Code even screams at her man said I didn't have to listen to
• 1:43:32
  any of you anymore. And then he runs out of the
• 1:43:36
  room. Stunned by both her son's
• 1:43:39
  strength and behavior, she gets back up off the ground now to
• 1:43:44
  see the nanny packing her things.
• 1:43:47
  She had decided that she couldn't deal with the child
• 1:43:50
  anymore. She suggests getting him some
• 1:43:53
  counseling. Now that Jan tries her absolute
• 1:43:56
  best to keep her employed, she leaves.
• 1:44:01
  Later that night, Jan tries to keep herself together as the
• 1:44:06
  family sits down to eat dinner. In her own words, I was trying
• 1:44:11
  to keep things together. I needed to be an employee, a
• 1:44:15
  mother, and a wife. I was also the one bearing the
• 1:44:19
  brunt of my son's abuse. But by now, there was no love
• 1:44:24
  coming from Cody. No hugs, kisses, or real
• 1:44:29
  interactions. Just pure hatred.
• 1:44:33
  He was a total stranger to me at this point and I didn't know how
• 1:44:37
  to handle this. She begins to believe that
• 1:44:41
  something far more sinister than a little boy is manipulating her
• 1:44:46
  son. She's unsure of exactly what it
• 1:44:49
  is, but she knows deep down that it's evil.
• 1:44:54
  After losing the nanny, Jan and Dale have to start taking Cody
• 1:44:59
  to a cousin's house to be watched during the day so the
• 1:45:02
  two could work to support the family.
• 1:45:06
  After dropping Cody off for the first time at the cousin's
• 1:45:09
  house, Jan then heads to work like normal.
• 1:45:13
  Several hours into her work day, as she loads packages onto a
• 1:45:17
  mail truck, she is told she has an urgent phone call.
• 1:45:22
  It's from her cousin, in her own words.
• 1:45:26
  When I picked up the phone, she was incoherent.
• 1:45:30
  She was crying and kept repeating that I had to come get
• 1:45:33
  Cody now that she could not watch him anymore.
• 1:45:38
  Rushing from work to her cousin's house, Jan has no idea
• 1:45:42
  what could have happened but is quickly about to find out.
• 1:45:47
  She arrives and runs up to the door and is greeted by her
• 1:45:51
  cousin holding Cody by the arm. She is then told what had
• 1:45:56
  happened when Cody and her daughter were playing in the
• 1:45:59
  living room while she cleaned in the kitchen, she listened to
• 1:46:03
  make sure that everything was OK.
• 1:46:06
  She began to hear another voice, a third voice on that was deeper
• 1:46:12
  like that of a grown man, concerned but still trying to
• 1:46:17
  decipher what was happening. The air was then filled with the
• 1:46:21
  screams of her daughter running to the living room.
• 1:46:25
  She then saw Cody standing across from her daughter with
• 1:46:29
  multiple toys floating in the air around them.
• 1:46:33
  Upon seeing the scene, she covered her mouth, trying not to
• 1:46:37
  scream as the toys fell 1 by 1 and hit the ground.
• 1:46:43
  She told Jan that she was afraid of Cody and that not only could
• 1:46:47
  she not watch him anymore, but that her daughter was not
• 1:46:51
  allowed to play with him either. It's a somber drive back home.
• 1:46:57
  Jan knows that she has to have someone watch Cody during the
• 1:47:00
  day because she can't afford to lose her job.
• 1:47:04
  Once the 2 arrive, she grabs the phone book and frantically
• 1:47:09
  begins calling daycares, trying to find a reputable place that
• 1:47:13
  will take him. Finally finding one after a few
• 1:47:16
  phone calls, she sighs with relief.
• 1:47:20
  After hanging up the phone, she sits at the table with her son.
• 1:47:24
  She tells him that he is in no circumstances allowed to take
• 1:47:29
  man with him anywhere, but especially to his new daycare.
• 1:47:35
  Surprisingly, the child agrees not to.
• 1:47:40
  For the next week, all seems well during the day, with Cody
• 1:47:44
  at daycare and his parents working their jobs, but at
• 1:47:49
  night, the entity known as Man waits for him to return.
• 1:47:54
  One evening, as Dale goes to Cody's room to get him for
• 1:47:58
  supper, he finds his son cutting up stuffed animals.
• 1:48:03
  Although the incident disturbs him, he doesn't blame it on
• 1:48:07
  anything paranormal. He sits Cody in the living room
• 1:48:11
  and discusses the matter with his wife in the adjacent
• 1:48:15
  kitchen. In the meantime, Cody had other
• 1:48:18
  plans. As Dale describes, that man told
• 1:48:22
  their son that it was OK for him to cut up his toys to Jan.
• 1:48:27
  The two suddenly stop when they hear the muffled screams of the
• 1:48:31
  family cat. Pamela, heading out of her
• 1:48:35
  bedroom, then confronts her younger brother.
• 1:48:39
  She yells at him and pushes him off the couch.
• 1:48:43
  There. Underneath where he had been
• 1:48:45
  sitting, he had trapped the cat with a cushion and a pillow,
• 1:48:51
  seemingly trying to suffocate it.
• 1:48:54
  As Pamela tends to the poor animal, Jan and Dale rush into
• 1:48:59
  the room and they see a sinister grin upon Cody's face.
• 1:49:05
  Horrified, the couple realized that they can't pretend to be
• 1:49:08
  rational anymore. Whatever that's happening to
• 1:49:12
  their son was serious, but they were unsure of just how to
• 1:49:16
  tackle the situation. The following morning as Jan
• 1:49:21
  goes to grab clothes from Cody's closet to get him ready for
• 1:49:24
  daycare, she notices that his clothes are damp and that
• 1:49:29
  wouldn't be all, his toys and bed were wet as well.
• 1:49:35
  She would discover that her son had been urinating all over his
• 1:49:38
  things inside and outside of his closet.
• 1:49:43
  Further disturbed, she then confronts him and he says that
• 1:49:48
  man told him it was OK and that he didn't have to listen to her
• 1:49:52
  anymore. He then begins hitting her and
• 1:49:56
  lashing out, which only causes her more emotional torment in
• 1:50:02
  her own words. Everything started happening at
• 1:50:06
  such a fast pace, the behavior, the urinating, trying to kill
• 1:50:13
  the kitten. I just wanted my son back and I
• 1:50:17
  felt as if he was being controlled by some kind of
• 1:50:20
  monster. 1 Cold Night As wind whips the windows of the house,
• 1:50:28
  the Fosters are surprised by a visitor in their room in the
• 1:50:32
  middle of the night. It's Cody.
• 1:50:35
  He's calling out to them for the first time in a very long time.
• 1:50:41
  He said that his bed was shaking and that he needed his Mama.
• 1:50:47
  At this moment, Jan saw the glimpse of the boy she hadn't
• 1:50:51
  seen in over a year. As she holds her child for the
• 1:50:55
  first time in what feels like an eternity, she knows that man is
• 1:51:00
  not with him. She also is reminded why she
• 1:51:04
  must keep fighting for her boy, that ultimately she must
• 1:51:09
  confront this entity. Waiting until Cody was fast
• 1:51:13
  asleep in their bed with Dale, Jane quietly gets out of bed and
• 1:51:19
  heads down the hallway and towards Cody's room by herself.
• 1:51:25
  With every step she takes, she's silently praying to God to give
• 1:51:30
  her the strength confront whatever this creature is that
• 1:51:34
  has a grip on her family. Finally making it to the
• 1:51:38
  threshold of the room, she takes a deep breath and enters.
• 1:51:45
  Glancing around the room, she sees nothing.
• 1:51:49
  Wanting to put herself in the shoes of her son, she lays down
• 1:51:54
  where he would normally sleep in his bed, hoping that if she
• 1:51:58
  persists enough, that man would possibly try to communicate with
• 1:52:03
  her. She lays there for several
• 1:52:06
  minutes, but nothing happens. She then sees who she believes
• 1:52:12
  to be her son in the doorway, calling out to him.
• 1:52:16
  He comes to her and embraces her.
• 1:52:20
  However, Jansen senses that something is horribly wrong.
• 1:52:26
  The embrace feels all wrong. His hands are ice cold.
• 1:52:31
  And then suddenly she realizes that this isn't her son at all.
• 1:52:37
  As she pushes the figure back, it begins to grow.
• 1:52:42
  It soon towers over her. Its skin is pale and its eyes a
• 1:52:48
  deep blood red. Its teeth are gnarled and
• 1:52:54
  rotten. It pushes her down onto the bed,
• 1:52:58
  begins laughing in a deep demonic tone.
• 1:53:04
  In Jan's own words, he started laughing very demonically when
• 1:53:10
  this sudden realization came over me.
• 1:53:13
  This was man screaming for her life.
• 1:53:18
  The apparition disappears in the blink of an eye as soon as her
• 1:53:22
  family rushes into Cody's room to figure out just what was
• 1:53:26
  going on. Dale then holds his wife as she
• 1:53:30
  sobs uncontrollably. Once she finally regains her
• 1:53:34
  bearings, Jan calms the rest of the family down enough to get
• 1:53:39
  them all back into bed for the night.
• 1:53:41
  She, however, is unable to sleep, heading to the living
• 1:53:46
  room. Contemplating just what exactly
• 1:53:49
  to do about this grievous revelation, she begins begging
• 1:53:53
  God for guidance in her own words.
• 1:53:56
  Yet again. I was frightened beyond means,
• 1:54:00
  but another part of me, once the adrenaline started surging, knew
• 1:54:05
  that I had to face this. I had to do something to protect
• 1:54:09
  my family and to protect Cody and to keep this entity from
• 1:54:14
  taking him any further. Jane considers many things,
• 1:54:19
  including packing up her family to move, but she thinks that man
• 1:54:23
  is certainly attached to her son, that it wouldn't do any
• 1:54:27
  good. She doesn't sleep through the
• 1:54:30
  rest of the night. The following morning, as
• 1:54:34
  everyone else heads out to start their day, she takes Cody to
• 1:54:38
  daycare, as is the normal routine, but instead of heading
• 1:54:43
  to work herself, she heads back home and makes an urgent phone
• 1:54:48
  call. She calls her friend who is a
• 1:54:51
  Native American medicine man. By this time she hasn't spoken
• 1:54:56
  to him in about a year since everything started.
• 1:55:00
  Thankfully he picks up on the other end.
• 1:55:03
  She explains everything that has been transpiring and that she's
• 1:55:07
  seen the entity with her own eyes.
• 1:55:10
  That she believes it to be some kind of demon.
• 1:55:14
  That this a born entity had been masquerading as a little boy to
• 1:55:19
  gain entry into her son's life. The shaman explains that he now
• 1:55:24
  understands why the initial cleansing didn't work.
• 1:55:27
  He believed that the intent was not specific enough since they
• 1:55:31
  believed that they were revoking an invitation of a little boy
• 1:55:35
  and not something darker. He then tells her that she will
• 1:55:40
  have to bless the house again, only this time she must focus
• 1:55:45
  with all of her strength on riding the home of this evil
• 1:55:48
  spirit. Jam wonders if she's strong
• 1:55:51
  enough to be able to accomplish this alone in her own words.
• 1:55:56
  I didn't know if I was going to be able to do this myself.
• 1:56:00
  I'm just a mom. I'm not a priest.
• 1:56:04
  I'll be it. I have a spiritual side, but I
• 1:56:07
  was willing to give it my all to defend myself and my family.
• 1:56:12
  The shaman tells her that she must do this and must be brave
• 1:56:17
  and forceful with her intent to banish this demon, that she must
• 1:56:22
  not show any doubt and her efforts.
• 1:56:26
  With these parting words, Jan braces herself and then gets to
• 1:56:31
  work performing a second ritual. Starting on the four corners of
• 1:56:36
  the property, she creates A barrier using olive oil.
• 1:56:41
  She then enters a state of constant prayer while she sages
• 1:56:45
  around her property, slowly working her way inside.
• 1:56:50
  This time, instead of feeling weak, she begins to feel an
• 1:56:55
  inner strength, as if someone or something was standing beside
• 1:57:01
  her during her prayers. As she enters her home, she
• 1:57:06
  notices that the temperature of the house is abnormally cold,
• 1:57:11
  frigid to the point to where she can see her breath hang in the
• 1:57:15
  air as it fills with sage smoke. She knows there is a presence
• 1:57:21
  that resides within its walls. Feeling as if she's being
• 1:57:25
  watched, she continues to pray and smudge the home, going from
• 1:57:32
  room to room. As she does this, the walls and
• 1:57:36
  windows begin to shake, yet her prayers are uninterrupted.
• 1:57:43
  She knows that Man is watching her, trying to break her
• 1:57:47
  concentration. As the activity reaches a fever
• 1:57:51
  pitch, so do her prayers. She is yelling now and calling
• 1:57:58
  upon God to banish the entity known as Man from her home and
• 1:58:03
  from all of their lives. It is here that suddenly and
• 1:58:08
  violently, all of the doors within the house open, and an
• 1:58:13
  unearthly scream echoes all throughout the house.
• 1:58:17
  Then, as quickly as the doors opened, they suddenly all
• 1:58:22
  slammed closed. Breathing heavily, Jan
• 1:58:26
  immediately notices that the feeling within the home is like
• 1:58:30
  night turning. Today, in her own words, was if
• 1:58:36
  a veil had lifted, a dark veil of pain and confusion.
• 1:58:42
  I noticed the trees and I could hear the birds.
• 1:58:46
  I was back to a normal reality. Following this intense
• 1:58:52
  cleansing, the entity known as man has yet to return.
• 1:58:57
  In due time, the foster family seemed to go back to normal.
• 1:59:02
  Cody in particular ceased the horrendous behavior and was no
• 1:59:07
  longer influenced by the darkness of the demonic.
• 1:59:13
  However, this wasn't the end to the strange paranormal
• 1:59:16
  manifestations they would all experience.
• 1:59:20
  They continued to hear noises they couldn't explain and feel
• 1:59:25
  as if unseen eyes were watching them at all times.
• 1:59:30
  Was this the demon known as Man? Slytherin around them, watching
• 1:59:35
  and waiting to devour their very souls.
• 1:59:41
  This case has been requested numerous times for me to cover
• 1:59:45
  and I'm glad to have finally given it its time of day.
• 1:59:48
  It's certainly a terrifying and very intriguing one to say the
• 1:59:52
  least. The names within the case were
• 1:59:55
  changed to protect the anonymity of the family who was involved.
• 1:59:59
  Therefore updates as hard as I looked are unavailable.
• 2:00:04
  I can only hope that the foster family or whoever they may be
• 2:00:09
  are good and safe today, that Cody and Pamela have grown up to
• 2:00:14
  be decent, functioning people, and I truly wish them all the
• 2:00:19
  best. With that being said, I do have
• 2:00:23
  several questions and statements I'd like to share with you.
• 2:00:26
  Now, these are my thoughts on the case as a whole.
• 2:00:30
  First of all, just how did man enter Cody's life?
• 2:00:35
  Was it a demon that was stalking or haunting the land itself?
• 2:00:40
  Was it picked up somewhere else and then brought back with the
• 2:00:43
  child? It obviously posed itself as a
• 2:00:46
  child in order to gain Cody's trust to begin with.
• 2:00:51
  This reminds me a lot of the Sally House case, which I've
• 2:00:53
  just covered several weeks ago now, and it goes to show that
• 2:00:57
  the demonic has no qualms about masquerading itself as the
• 2:01:01
  ultimate innocence in order to prey upon us.
• 2:01:05
  Do you think the native banishing was sufficient, or do
• 2:01:09
  you think a Catholic priest should have been involved?
• 2:01:12
  I'm always curious to hear people's feedback on situations
• 2:01:15
  like this because I have personally seen a banishing
• 2:01:19
  happen in real time using sage, but the entity was just forced
• 2:01:23
  outside of the house. They continued to try to get
• 2:01:26
  back in, but if cleansing using sage on the property as a whole
• 2:01:31
  as well as the house was done, maybe it would have forced the
• 2:01:34
  spirit out entirely. Considering Jan used Christian
• 2:01:39
  prayer alongside sage and sweetgrass smudging, it
• 2:01:42
  certainly makes for a very interesting hybrid cleansing
• 2:01:46
  that in my opinion would have worked if her faith was strong
• 2:01:50
  enough. If man gave Cody an old Polaroid
• 2:01:53
  of who he supposedly was in life as the one shown to Jan by Cody
• 2:01:59
  with the little boy and the elderly lady.
• 2:02:02
  Just where did this picture come from and who did it end up
• 2:02:06
  being? Did it come from inside the
• 2:02:09
  house or somewhere else? And lastly, as to not pose too
• 2:02:14
  many questions, if the family continued to experience
• 2:02:18
  paranormal happenings such as unexplained noises and the
• 2:02:23
  feelings of being watched, was man ever truly banished or just
• 2:02:28
  weakened by Jan's cleansing efforts?
• 2:02:31
  Or if man was banished, did perhaps something else happen on
• 2:02:37
  the land where the home now sits that could have potentially
• 2:02:41
  scarred it, such as a tragic event?
• 2:02:44
  With this being said, could there possibly be a portal on
• 2:02:48
  the land or now within the house itself?
• 2:02:52
  One where the veil between our world and the next is much
• 2:02:56
  thinner, allowing entities, especially dark ones, to sneak
• 2:03:02
  through? Ultimately, your conclusions are
• 2:03:06
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• 2:03:09
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  This has been Cody here at Mystery Archives.
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  Please make sure to stay safe out there and take care.
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  I'll see you. Next time, after exploring a
• 2:05:10
  tunnel with a dark in terrifying history, a couple soon learns
• 2:05:16
  that their home has been invaded by an uninvited darkness.
• 2:05:22
  The Presence toys with them, but in due time it would reveal the
• 2:05:27
  true horror of its nature. Will they survive or will the
• 2:05:33
  Abyss take them? This is the.
• 2:05:36
  True and terrifying story of Candace and John St.
• 2:05:40
  Clair's Haunting, which took place in Appalachia in 2010 and
• 2:05:47
  this one. As with most of the stories I've
• 2:05:49
  researched and covered on this channel, I wouldn't recommend
• 2:05:53
  watching this episode in the dark unless you like looking
• 2:05:57
  over your shoulder and jumping at every small noise that goes
• 2:06:03
  bump in the night. Nestled on the banks of the
• 2:06:07
  Lovisa River and surrounded by the mountains of Appalachia lies
• 2:06:12
  the small town of Grundy, Virginia.
• 2:06:17
  A place now known for community pride and also has a dark
• 2:06:21
  history from slavery to mine explosions and other accidents.
• 2:06:30
  These events weave a complicated web of despair, despair that
• 2:06:35
  could have perhaps played a role in the story that I'm about to
• 2:06:39
  tell. Candace St.
• 2:06:42
  Clair shivered despite the warm Virginia air as she and her
• 2:06:46
  husband, John. Stood before the gaping mouth of
• 2:06:50
  an abandoned tunnel. A jagged arch of crumbling stone
• 2:06:55
  loomed over them, covered in streaks of Moss and graffiti.
• 2:07:01
  The surrounding forest was eerily quiet, as if even the
• 2:07:05
  animals avoided this place. Crippy as hell, huh?
• 2:07:10
  John smirked, his flashlight cutting through the darkness.
• 2:07:15
  The beam barely penetrated the tunnel's interior.
• 2:07:19
  It was. Swallowed almost immediately by
• 2:07:23
  thick blackness within. Yeah, let's just get this over
• 2:07:27
  with, Candace murmured, gripping his arm.
• 2:07:32
  Their friend Stacy had told them about the tunnel's legend, a
• 2:07:36
  story that intrigued the couple, the one that almost made them
• 2:07:40
  air on the side of caution. The story.
• 2:07:44
  Was that a wealthy man back in the 1800s had built this tunnel
• 2:07:49
  using slave labor. One night he had caught one of
• 2:07:53
  the slaves with his wife. Angered at this discovery, he
• 2:07:58
  punished the slave responsible, and as a result, the other
• 2:08:03
  slaves had begun to rebel against him.
• 2:08:07
  In an act of rage and malice. The slave master then took the
• 2:08:12
  majority of his slaves and had them sealed within the walls of
• 2:08:16
  the tunnels, alive, forever encasing the human souls.
• 2:08:24
  Within the tunnel itself, the whispered stories of phantom
• 2:08:29
  voices in the dark, feeling unseen hands brushing against
• 2:08:33
  visitors, and worst of. All the belief that something
• 2:08:38
  unexplained lurked inside, watching and waiting for the
• 2:08:44
  unsuspecting. It was just a legend.
• 2:08:48
  They had told themselves a story.
• 2:08:52
  But even standing at the entrance, Candace felt an
• 2:08:56
  inexplicable weight pressing on her chest.
• 2:09:00
  Candace adjusted the recorder in her hand.
• 2:09:03
  She'd always been sensitive to the paranormal, and while John
• 2:09:08
  treated their ghost hunting adventures as a joke, she felt
• 2:09:12
  drawn to this place, as if something was calling her.
• 2:09:17
  As they stepped inside, the temperature plummeted then, as
• 2:09:22
  John whispered A mocking. Come out, come out wherever you
• 2:09:26
  are. Almost as soon as the words left
• 2:09:30
  his lips, A rush of chilly wind blasted past them, and the
• 2:09:35
  couple believed that they had heard a series of whispers, ones
• 2:09:40
  that were just beyond their ability to make out what they
• 2:09:44
  were saying. Candace's stomach twisted.
• 2:09:49
  They weren't alone. Frightened, she then asked John
• 2:09:53
  to leave. That night, when they returned
• 2:09:57
  home, things felt off. Their new house had felt warm
• 2:10:04
  and inviting, but that night, the air inside felt stagnant,
• 2:10:10
  damp and heavy, like the inside of a tomb.
• 2:10:16
  It felt smothering, as if an unseen weight pressed against
• 2:10:20
  their chests. The couple had recently
• 2:10:23
  purchased and moved into their home, which was located on the
• 2:10:27
  outskirts of town. Just close enough to town for
• 2:10:32
  errands and just far out enough for peace.
• 2:10:36
  And things hadn't at all felt this way before.
• 2:10:40
  Deciding that perhaps their nerves were getting the best of
• 2:10:43
  them, the couple, along with their daughter, decided to lay
• 2:10:47
  down for the night for some much needed rest.
• 2:10:52
  But as the moonlight cast its shadow upon the rocky exterior
• 2:10:56
  of the mountains surrounding them, and nocturnal predators
• 2:11:01
  haunted their prey, perhaps a different hunter of swords now.
• 2:11:06
  Also stalked its prey. Within the walls of the Saint
• 2:11:10
  Clair home, their five year old daughter Jaycee tossed and
• 2:11:15
  turned in her sleep. She seemed to be calling out to
• 2:11:18
  someone or something. Her cries caught the attention
• 2:11:23
  of her mother. Who quickly got out of.
• 2:11:26
  Bed herself and began to head toward her room.
• 2:11:30
  However, when Candace entered her room, expecting to see her
• 2:11:35
  daughter laying in her bed, perhaps having a nightmare, she
• 2:11:39
  instead found the little girl sitting straight up in bed.
• 2:11:44
  She was staring at the corner of her room by her closet.
• 2:11:49
  Sweetie. Candace whispered, stepping
• 2:11:52
  closer. Are you OK?
• 2:11:55
  Jaycee turned to look at her, blinking slowly as if waking
• 2:12:00
  from a dream. The man in the tunnel is here,
• 2:12:04
  Mommy. Candace's blood turned to ice.
• 2:12:08
  They had not taken JC with them to the tunnel, nor had they
• 2:12:12
  mentioned it to her or around her.
• 2:12:16
  Following that night's events, JC would have nightmares night
• 2:12:20
  after night. She would say that the man from
• 2:12:23
  the tunnel was there with her and it scared her.
• 2:12:28
  Accompanying these nightmares, the young girl also soon started
• 2:12:32
  sleepwalking, often times startling her parents awake in
• 2:12:37
  their own room by standing next to their bed with a glazed look
• 2:12:41
  in her eyes. But when she'd be asked by her
• 2:12:45
  parents what she was doing, she wouldn't be able to remember
• 2:12:49
  what had happened. Trying to playoff the mention of
• 2:12:54
  any man from the tunnel, they figured their poor daughter was
• 2:12:58
  just struggling to get used to a new environment.
• 2:13:02
  That perhaps the. Stress of the move, alongside
• 2:13:05
  other changes, had caused the sudden development that she
• 2:13:10
  would get used to things in due time.
• 2:13:14
  Perhaps she would, or perhaps not.
• 2:13:18
  With her husband working on a project in the basement and her
• 2:13:22
  daughter at dance practice. Candace, who sewed pageant
• 2:13:27
  clothes for Jaycee in her spare time, was doing so one evening.
• 2:13:32
  As she toiled away on her sewing machine, the calm, rhythmic hum
• 2:13:37
  was abruptly shattered by a deafening crashing noise that
• 2:13:42
  echoed all throughout the house. Unsure of just what on earth the
• 2:13:47
  sound was, with her heart hammering inside of her chest
• 2:13:52
  and her adrenaline surging, she made her way from the upstairs
• 2:13:56
  sewing room down the stairs, apprehensively checking all
• 2:14:01
  around with each step as she descended.
• 2:14:05
  She then heard it again, the sound of glass breaking.
• 2:14:11
  It seemed to be originating from the kitchen, but just what or
• 2:14:16
  who was doing this as she approached the kitchen?
• 2:14:21
  She would be. Shocked by what she would find
• 2:14:25
  before her very eyes, every single cabinet door stood open
• 2:14:30
  their contents. Her dishes lay in shattered
• 2:14:35
  remains on the floor. Bowls, plates and cups of every
• 2:14:40
  kind lay in pieces everywhere, scattered as if someone or
• 2:14:46
  something had removed them from the cabinets and with great
• 2:14:51
  force threw them down with incredible impact.
• 2:14:57
  In her own words, every single cabinet door was open and every
• 2:15:03
  single dish I had was broken. I didn't have a plate or a glass
• 2:15:09
  left. Everything I had was completely
• 2:15:13
  smashed. That was except a small
• 2:15:17
  decorative plate that was on display there in her kitchen.
• 2:15:22
  However, before her very eyes, she watched as it began to move
• 2:15:28
  on its own, wobbling back and forth.
• 2:15:32
  It then flew across the room towards her and shattered on the
• 2:15:37
  wall next to her. With her daughter and husband
• 2:15:40
  nowhere near the general vicinity and in a state of
• 2:15:44
  shock, Candace screamed for her husband.
• 2:15:49
  Hearing the cries of his wife, John soon arrived by her side
• 2:15:53
  from elsewhere in the house. He too couldn't believe what he
• 2:15:57
  was witnessing, asking her just how this happened, with her
• 2:16:02
  telling him that she came downstairs to this his mind
• 2:16:07
  immediately. Thought that there could
• 2:16:09
  perhaps? Be an intruder within the home.
• 2:16:12
  Quickly going into protector mode, John began sweeping the
• 2:16:16
  house. Not only did he not find anyone,
• 2:16:21
  but all of the doors and windows were still locked.
• 2:16:25
  This just further added to the mystery.
• 2:16:29
  JC, who has continued to struggle with nightmares and
• 2:16:33
  apparent sleep walking, has begun sleeping with her parents
• 2:16:38
  in an effort to quell everyone's fears.
• 2:16:42
  A few nights later, following the kitchen incident as the moon
• 2:16:47
  hung high over the Saint Clair residence, Candace wakes up out
• 2:16:51
  of a sound sleep. The air in the house felt heavy
• 2:16:56
  and damp yet again. She was sweating and there
• 2:17:01
  didn't seem to be any circulation in the air.
• 2:17:04
  Getting up to turn on the air conditioner, she walks down the
• 2:17:08
  stairs and towards the thermostat on the wall at the
• 2:17:11
  bottom. Wiping sweat from her brow, she
• 2:17:15
  then reaches out to turn it on and adjust the temperature of
• 2:17:19
  the house. When all of a sudden she felt a
• 2:17:23
  hand grip her wrist and her own words yet again.
• 2:17:29
  I felt something grab my wrist and I knew my family was asleep
• 2:17:34
  upstairs. My heart skipped a beat.
• 2:17:39
  I turned around and there was nothing there.
• 2:17:43
  I was terrified. I looked down the hallway and I
• 2:17:48
  didn't see anything. There was nothing there.
• 2:17:53
  I thought, am I going crazy? Am I just really sleepy?
• 2:17:59
  I wasn't sure. So, not knowing what to make of
• 2:18:04
  the bizarre experience, she slowly starts walking back up
• 2:18:08
  the stairs. Still scared, but certainly
• 2:18:13
  unsure, she decides that this time she'll keep the experience
• 2:18:18
  to herself. But whatever force that seemed
• 2:18:22
  to lurk in the shadows was far from finished.
• 2:18:27
  Over the next several weeks to come, Candace continues to
• 2:18:31
  experience strange manifestations within her home,
• 2:18:36
  things that begin to make her second guess herself and
• 2:18:40
  question her own sanity. One night, while John is at
• 2:18:45
  work, Candace puts Jaycee to bed in her own room this time.
• 2:18:51
  Or so she thinks. As she folds laundry downstairs,
• 2:18:56
  she hears her daughter, still awake, heading back upstairs and
• 2:19:01
  approaching her room to tell her that it's time for bed.
• 2:19:05
  She instead comes face to face with nothing.
• 2:19:11
  The room is empty. Then from behind her she begins
• 2:19:16
  to hear multiple things that are very odd to say the least.
• 2:19:21
  She begins to hear the sound of her daughter giggling and
• 2:19:25
  laughing from the other room. Now she walks towards these
• 2:19:29
  sounds. She begins to hear something
• 2:19:32
  else, The sounds of labored, heavy breathing.
• 2:19:38
  Continuing to follow the sounds of her daughter's laughter, she
• 2:19:42
  finds herself approaching her own bedroom.
• 2:19:46
  Upon opening the door, thinking her daughter is playing some
• 2:19:49
  sort of trick on her, she instead finds her fast asleep in
• 2:19:55
  her and John's bed. Unsure yet again what to make of
• 2:19:59
  this very unnerving experience, she turns around and quietly
• 2:20:05
  shuts the door behind her after doing so.
• 2:20:10
  She takes several steps down the hallway toward the direction of
• 2:20:14
  the stairs. The lights begin to flicker.
• 2:20:18
  Looking around, slightly disoriented at first, she finds
• 2:20:24
  her eyes landing on a figure at the end of the hallway.
• 2:20:29
  This figure is much too large to be a man.
• 2:20:33
  It stands at least 10 feet tall, and at first, given its distance
• 2:20:38
  from her, it appears dark as the night.
• 2:20:43
  However, as it begins slowly and menacingly walking towards her,
• 2:20:49
  she starts to make out horrid features and Candace's own
• 2:20:54
  words. This thing was huge, easily 10
• 2:20:58
  feet tall. It had horns and scales.
• 2:21:04
  I began to freeze. It's like everything froze my
• 2:21:09
  thoughts and everything. There was just this one moment
• 2:21:13
  of absolute silence. Time stands still briefly and
• 2:21:19
  then you're jerked back into reality and then you go into
• 2:21:24
  survival mode. As the creature gets closer to
• 2:21:28
  her, she makes out it's abhorrent and terrifying
• 2:21:31
  features. It then, staring at her with jet
• 2:21:36
  black eyes, protruding teeth and horns, reaches towards her with
• 2:21:43
  clawed hands. Almost as soon as it makes
• 2:21:47
  contact with her skin, a scream erupts from her lips.
• 2:21:52
  She is touched, but not by this creature.
• 2:21:57
  Instead, her screams are interrupted by her husband, who
• 2:22:03
  has found her screaming at the end of the hallway in front of
• 2:22:07
  their bedroom door. In John's words, I had worked
• 2:22:13
  late that evening and when I had got home I found her like that
• 2:22:18
  and she was incredibly upset. Asking his wife Candace what's
• 2:22:23
  wrong, she then tries to explain what she had seen and
• 2:22:28
  experienced. But words can only do so much,
• 2:22:33
  with first their daughters night terrors and their dishes being
• 2:22:37
  broken and now this. She believes that there is
• 2:22:42
  something here in the house and that she may have just seen what
• 2:22:47
  it is. John, however, feels
• 2:22:50
  differently. He just thought his.
• 2:22:53
  Wife may have been having a bit of an emotional breakdown, not
• 2:22:58
  only from being overworked, but with him having to often times
• 2:23:01
  work long hours. He thought maybe she just needed
• 2:23:05
  a break to recuperate. But Candace knows what she saw.
• 2:23:10
  She tells him. You know what, you can take it
• 2:23:13
  or leave it. But I know what I saw and I know
• 2:23:17
  that there's something in this house.
• 2:23:20
  There's something going on here that's deeper than either of us
• 2:23:24
  can imagine, and I don't feel safe here anymore.
• 2:23:28
  This event proves to be a diverging event for the couple
• 2:23:32
  following it. Candace finds it hard to confide
• 2:23:36
  in her husband and the two grow distant.
• 2:23:40
  One afternoon, shortly after Candace had seen the creature,
• 2:23:45
  she was measuring her daughter for a new pageant dress in the
• 2:23:48
  family living room. John, who was off work that day,
• 2:23:54
  was watching TV. Occasionally the TV had done
• 2:23:59
  strange things such as cycle through the channels, emit a
• 2:24:04
  loud high pitched noise or turn itself on and off without any
• 2:24:10
  involvement of the remote or the physical pressing of buttons.
• 2:24:16
  It started doing this again as the three were in the room
• 2:24:20
  together, believing it to be an electrical short within that
• 2:24:24
  part of the. House.
• 2:24:26
  John dismisses the TV's strange behavior.
• 2:24:30
  He then goes and unplugs it as it's cycling through the
• 2:24:34
  channels and making the high pitched noise.
• 2:24:38
  The screen then goes black. As he gets back up to head to
• 2:24:43
  get some of his tools to take a look at the wiring in front of
• 2:24:47
  all three of them, the TV turns back on, with Jaycee asking just
• 2:24:54
  what the television was doing as Candace and John stare and
• 2:24:58
  bewilderman at it. Or it's on and acting erratic
• 2:25:04
  with no power source at all. At that, neither of them know
• 2:25:09
  what to tell her, or even what to say for that matter.
• 2:25:14
  Finally, after a few seconds that feel like hours, Candace
• 2:25:19
  breaks the silence. She says I don't feel safe here,
• 2:25:25
  we need to leave. She then tells Jaycee that the
• 2:25:28
  two of them are going to go to the park.
• 2:25:32
  In her own words, that was my breaking point with John.
• 2:25:37
  He was looking around and thinking what do I check now
• 2:25:41
  because he had checked everything and the TV was on
• 2:25:45
  without being plugged in. Several weeks would pass by
• 2:25:49
  after this event and the once happy couple had further drifted
• 2:25:54
  apart. Their once thriving marriage and
• 2:25:58
  relationship were practically non existent.
• 2:26:02
  Communication had broken down and a blanket of sorrow now
• 2:26:07
  covered them all. One night, as John had some
• 2:26:12
  beers downstairs by himself while his wife and child slept
• 2:26:16
  upstairs, Candace is suddenly and brutally woken up by large
• 2:26:24
  clawed hands strangling her. She can't scream and she can't
• 2:26:29
  breathe. She's then thrown from her side
• 2:26:33
  of the bed to the other. As she rolls, gasping for air,
• 2:26:39
  she looks up and sees what she describes as a.
• 2:26:43
  Gargoyle like creature. The same one she had seen in the
• 2:26:47
  hallway a good while ago now. Its skin was like leather, its
• 2:26:55
  eyes were black as the abyss and its face was semi human in
• 2:27:01
  appearance. She would later say that while
• 2:27:05
  she was in that moment, I felt as if this thing had taken
• 2:27:09
  everything else from me and now it was going to take my life.
• 2:27:14
  All I could think about was that I'm going to die, I'm not going
• 2:27:18
  to be here anymore, my family isn't going to have me anymore.
• 2:27:24
  And it was the most terrifying feeling imaginable.
• 2:27:28
  Now off the bed and her back against the bedroom wall, the
• 2:27:32
  creature once again comes after her.
• 2:27:35
  As John sits downstairs, he is soon called to action when he
• 2:27:40
  hears the shrill screams of his wife upstairs.
• 2:27:44
  Rushing to their bedroom as fast as he possibly can, he finds
• 2:27:49
  Candace crying out in pain and in a ball on the floor.
• 2:27:55
  After helping her back onto the bed, she tells him that this
• 2:27:59
  thing, this creature attacked her.
• 2:28:02
  She then, when singing pain, lifts up her shirt to reveal 3
• 2:28:09
  long and huge bleeding scratch marks across her stomach.
• 2:28:14
  John doesn't know what to make of the situation.
• 2:28:18
  Candace is now far past the point of trying to convince him
• 2:28:22
  that something is haunting their home.
• 2:28:25
  She instead puts her faith in her higher power.
• 2:28:29
  But after reaching out to dozens of churches and religious
• 2:28:32
  organizations and having no help.
• 2:28:36
  Or the offer of. Assistance from any of them she
• 2:28:40
  knows. That it's up to.
• 2:28:41
  Her to fight this battle. For the sake of herself and her
• 2:28:46
  family, without their assistance.
• 2:28:50
  After doing research on the Internet, she puts together a
• 2:28:54
  list of specific prayers and gets several bottles of anointed
• 2:28:59
  oil. She then, after a deep breath,
• 2:29:03
  begins the cleansing of her house.
• 2:29:06
  She goes room to room, putting the anointed oil on each doorway
• 2:29:12
  and calling out from her Bible for God to clear the home of any
• 2:29:17
  negative beings that could be there uninvited from the.
• 2:29:21
  Back of the house. To the front, she is cleansing
• 2:29:26
  and reclaiming her home. Following her efforts, she
• 2:29:30
  immediately notices that the environment as a whole feels so
• 2:29:34
  much lighter. The air seemed fresher and
• 2:29:38
  easier to breathe. In the coming weeks this would
• 2:29:42
  continue to be the case, but in the back of her mind she was
• 2:29:48
  frightened that whatever this entity was could potentially
• 2:29:52
  come back. Life for a time seemed to go
• 2:29:56
  back to normal for the Saint Claire's and although weary they
• 2:30:01
  all tried to resume their normal day-to-day activities.
• 2:30:05
  That was until 1 solemn night. John is in the bedroom changing
• 2:30:12
  his clothes after a work day, when he soon gets the sneaking
• 2:30:16
  suspicion that someone is watching him.
• 2:30:21
  Turning around and expecting to perhaps see his wife standing in
• 2:30:25
  the room, he is instead greeted by something very different.
• 2:30:31
  In his words, it looked like a person in the face, but it was
• 2:30:37
  distorted that had these long horns and teeth and these
• 2:30:43
  scales. It just kept getting closer and
• 2:30:47
  closer to me, and the closer it got to me, the hotter I got.
• 2:30:54
  Now sweating profusely with the creature mere inches away from
• 2:30:58
  him, it then points its clawed finger towards his chest and
• 2:31:04
  within seconds it's holding his beating heart.
• 2:31:10
  As he stands there, petrified with fear and struggling to
• 2:31:14
  breathe, this creature is just staring back at him with black
• 2:31:20
  eyes, holding his heart. John suddenly wakes up out of a
• 2:31:26
  dead sleep. Thankfully, it was just a dream.
• 2:31:31
  I'll be it. A horrible one at that.
• 2:31:35
  After calming himself down, which takes several minutes, he
• 2:31:40
  finally lays his head back down to try and rest again.
• 2:31:44
  But when his head hits the pillow, he then starts hearing
• 2:31:49
  footsteps from somewhere else in the house.
• 2:31:54
  With his adrenaline surging and already on the edge from his
• 2:31:57
  nightmare, he quickly gets up to investigate.
• 2:32:02
  Peering out into the hallway, he sees nothing.
• 2:32:07
  With Candace still asleep in their bed and now checking on
• 2:32:11
  their daughter, she too is asleep.
• 2:32:15
  Continuing to hear footsteps downstairs, he slowly makes his
• 2:32:20
  way down to the base level further fearing what he may
• 2:32:24
  find. Glancing around at first he sees
• 2:32:29
  nothing yet again, but turning back after looking behind
• 2:32:33
  himself, he is suddenly face to face with a massive figure.
• 2:32:40
  It's skin is rough and cracked, like aged leather stretched too
• 2:32:46
  tight over jagged bones. The eyes were pits of blackness,
• 2:32:52
  voids that seem to drink the light around them.
• 2:32:57
  It didn't move, and it didn't blink.
• 2:33:01
  It only watched, but in an instant, with incredible speed,
• 2:33:07
  it surged toward him and grabbed him by his throat with its
• 2:33:12
  gnarled, clawed hand. In John's words, in the blink of
• 2:33:18
  an eye, it grabbed my neck and lifted me straight up and off
• 2:33:23
  the ground. It seemed like it was letting me
• 2:33:27
  know that it was there, that it was in control, and I wasn't.
• 2:33:33
  Then, almost as quickly as the attack had begun, it was over.
• 2:33:40
  John was thrown to the ground, discarded like garbage as he lay
• 2:33:46
  alternating between gasping and screaming.
• 2:33:50
  Candace soon rushes to his aid. The touch of her hand on his arm
• 2:33:56
  causes his adrenaline to spike and he shoots up to the sitting
• 2:34:00
  position. Then, realizing that it was his
• 2:34:04
  wife and not that thing, he begins to apologize profusely.
• 2:34:11
  After validating one another, with John now absolutely
• 2:34:15
  convinced that there is something malevolent and
• 2:34:18
  paranormal dwelling within the walls of their home, the Saint
• 2:34:22
  Claire's know that they must try and seek help immediately.
• 2:34:28
  Together, they begin researching and eventually come across the
• 2:34:32
  Southern Highlands Paranormal Investigation Group.
• 2:34:36
  Upon speaking with one of its members, a man named Stacy
• 2:34:41
  Kuchner, the group soon agrees to come and conduct a formal
• 2:34:45
  investigation of the property. Upon arrival, Stacy and one of
• 2:34:51
  his colleagues decide to conduct a series of questions to
• 2:34:56
  whatever force may be lurking there using the flashlight
• 2:35:00
  method in conjunction with an audio device in the hopes of
• 2:35:04
  capturing Evps or electronic voice phenomena.
• 2:35:09
  The flashlight method. That one places a flashlight
• 2:35:13
  upright on a table and asks the spirits to reply using yes or no
• 2:35:18
  responses through turning off and on the light.
• 2:35:23
  For a good while, the team is unsuccessful in making any sort
• 2:35:28
  of contact. However, upon asking if whatever
• 2:35:33
  stalked the family had followed them from another place, the
• 2:35:38
  flashlight suddenly turns itself on.
• 2:35:43
  A follow up question is then asked.
• 2:35:46
  Are you a malevolent force? The flashlight once again lights
• 2:35:50
  up these questions and the following frighten and confirm
• 2:35:56
  what Candace and John already knew.
• 2:35:59
  The final question is are you demonic or non human in nature?
• 2:36:06
  To which the flashlight, once again brighter than ever,
• 2:36:10
  illuminates the room. Stacy then tells the couple that
• 2:36:16
  it's important that they try and figure out why this entity
• 2:36:19
  followed them and from where, in order to try and rid themselves
• 2:36:24
  of the attachment. Candace tells him that ever
• 2:36:28
  since she was little, she seemed to be able to sense certain
• 2:36:33
  things, almost as if she's in tune with the other side.
• 2:36:39
  This is not information she has ever shared out loud before with
• 2:36:43
  anyone believing that Candace could perhaps be sensitive to
• 2:36:47
  the paranormal, and upon further inquiry, the couple remembers
• 2:36:53
  the tunnel all those months ago. With this information, Stacy
• 2:36:59
  thinks that it's possible that a demonic entity may have attached
• 2:37:03
  itself to Candace while they were there due to her abilities.
• 2:37:09
  In Stacy's words, due to all the evil that had taken place there,
• 2:37:14
  and also due to its secluded nature, it was really a prime
• 2:37:18
  breeding ground for something dark to manifest itself.
• 2:37:22
  Someone who is psychic may inadvertently be open in a
• 2:37:26
  spiritual sense and must be extra careful when traveling to
• 2:37:31
  different locations because any negative forces may realize
• 2:37:35
  their presence and seek them out, leading to attachments but
• 2:37:41
  leaving the presence to be demonic.
• 2:37:44
  He tells the couple that they must cleanse the home
• 2:37:46
  immediately, that only good can conquer evil.
• 2:37:52
  In the coming days. He puts them in contact with the
• 2:37:55
  Catholic priest that he has worked with in the past to come
• 2:37:59
  and bless the home. Upon the priest's arrival, he
• 2:38:03
  debriefs the family. He tells them that they must be
• 2:38:07
  in solidarity with one another and with him.
• 2:38:12
  He hands them prayer cards to assist him with the cleansing
• 2:38:15
  itself. Then all together, they begin to
• 2:38:20
  pray. They call upon Saint Michael the
• 2:38:23
  Archangel and ask for his assistance in riding the home of
• 2:38:29
  demonic forces. At the end of the blessing, the
• 2:38:35
  house feels better to everyone, lighter, as if whatever dark
• 2:38:40
  force that had infested their lives had perhaps been
• 2:38:45
  vanquished. In the coming months, the family
• 2:38:49
  slowly begins to slip back into a life of normalcy, one they had
• 2:38:54
  craved, but it almost all but forgotten.
• 2:38:58
  Beauty, pageants, closeness, and love had returned.
• 2:39:04
  One day as the Saint Claire's get ready to go out to dinner,
• 2:39:09
  Candace tells JC to quickly finish getting ready while
• 2:39:12
  standing outside her room. JC is sitting on her bed with
• 2:39:17
  one of her toys facing away from her mother.
• 2:39:21
  Almost as quickly as the phrase exits Candace's mouth, she hears
• 2:39:26
  her daughter reply to her, but not from the top of her bed in
• 2:39:30
  front of her eyes, but rather from behind her at the bottom of
• 2:39:36
  the stairs with John. Confused because she was hearing
• 2:39:41
  and seeing her daughter behind her, but also seeing her
• 2:39:45
  daughter in front of her, Candace tells Jaycee to stay
• 2:39:49
  with her father. The Jaycee sitting before her
• 2:39:53
  then slowly begins to turn its head towards Candace.
• 2:39:58
  In her words, this child's face was almost hazy, like blurry, as
• 2:40:05
  if there was something missing. As the being stares at Candace,
• 2:40:10
  its eyes begin to turn a familiar black color, just like
• 2:40:15
  the very same light absorbing abyssal spheres that have
• 2:40:19
  belonged to the demon that had plagued them just months ago.
• 2:40:25
  It then vanishes. But as it does.
• 2:40:30
  Candace hears the scream of her daughter at the bottom of the
• 2:40:33
  stairs, rushing down to her. It quickly becomes apparent that
• 2:40:38
  she has a long and now bleeding scratch across her face.
• 2:40:43
  This was the last straw for the Saint Claire's.
• 2:40:47
  It was horrible enough that the demon had attacked the two of
• 2:40:50
  them, but to attack their child? They could no longer handle it.
• 2:40:57
  Although the demon could potentially follow them, they
• 2:41:00
  decide to take their chances. Seeing no other alternative, the
• 2:41:06
  family abandons. What was supposed?
• 2:41:08
  To be their dream home, leaving behind all of their belongings
• 2:41:13
  and fleeing with just the clothes on their backs.
• 2:41:18
  In the months to come, the family would find another place
• 2:41:22
  to live. Fortunately, although they
• 2:41:26
  believed that the demon had attached itself to Candace
• 2:41:29
  initially, they now believed that it had attached itself to
• 2:41:33
  the home because no further activity plagued them.
• 2:41:38
  No more horrendous manifestations, day or
• 2:41:42
  nightmares or hellish attacks. Although I did my best to try
• 2:41:48
  and find an update on the family, I wasn't able to find
• 2:41:52
  out exactly how they're doing now, but I hope wherever they.
• 2:41:56
  Are that they are safe. And truly no longer tormented by
• 2:42:01
  the demonic. I'm not sure if they still own
• 2:42:05
  the original home in which the case took place, but I do know
• 2:42:09
  that following their departure as soon as 2016, the house has
• 2:42:14
  remained vacant. In the aftermath, Candace and
• 2:42:18
  John turned their frightening experience into a calling.
• 2:42:23
  They founded a group called Spirit Seekers Paranormal
• 2:42:26
  Investigation Research Team in 2012, aiming to help other
• 2:42:31
  families deal with hauntings. This is their team's website,
• 2:42:37
  spiritseekersteam.wixside.com. By forming Spirit Seekers, the
• 2:42:44
  couple sought to do more than document ghostly activity.
• 2:42:48
  They wanted to actively seek and help remove evil entities and
• 2:42:53
  protect others from suffering like they did during their own
• 2:42:58
  experiences with their haunting. Candace discovered she had a
• 2:43:03
  spiritual gift, and as previously explained, they
• 2:43:07
  believed that the demon targeted her because she is sensitive to
• 2:43:11
  the spirit world. She has since embraced her role
• 2:43:15
  as a psychic medium, becoming the team's resident medium.
• 2:43:20
  Candace is described as a medium psychic and a magnet for
• 2:43:23
  paranormal activity who can communicate with spirits and
• 2:43:28
  help them move on. This marks a dramatic personal
• 2:43:32
  change from haunted victim to healer as she channels her gift
• 2:43:38
  to ensure others don't have to flee their homes like she once
• 2:43:43
  did. Before we go, I did want to
• 2:43:47
  share some of my thoughts on the case as a whole, in no
• 2:43:50
  particular order. I do think it's possible that
• 2:43:54
  the demon followed them from the tunnel.
• 2:43:56
  The tunnel, along with many others in that area, and really
• 2:44:00
  the area as a whole has a lot of dark history associated with it.
• 2:44:05
  I think Stacy said it well when he said it seemed to be a
• 2:44:09
  breeding ground for evil. I think that traumatic events
• 2:44:14
  like the legend the Saint Clair's were originally told by
• 2:44:17
  their friend that prompted their interest in going in the 1st
• 2:44:20
  place could very well have attracted a creature of hell in
• 2:44:25
  my opinion. It always amazes me how often
• 2:44:28
  husbands don't believe their wives or have to literally be
• 2:44:32
  mauled by an entity in order to believe that what they've been
• 2:44:36
  told is actually taking place. Referring to John and many
• 2:44:41
  others in cases I've covered. It's not always the case, but it
• 2:44:45
  certainly occurs enough that it's become a bit of a trope in
• 2:44:49
  these stories. I also find it interesting how
• 2:44:53
  Candace was experiencing these daymare type experiences with
• 2:44:57
  the demon. The way she describes time
• 2:45:00
  essentially standing still as if she's entered a different plane
• 2:45:03
  of reality or is frozen in her own time while this entity is in
• 2:45:08
  proximity to her. I've heard of this in other
• 2:45:12
  cases and figured it was worth mentioning.
• 2:45:15
  Is there truly is interesting. I've heard about this in other
• 2:45:19
  cases and figured it was worth mentioning.
• 2:45:23
  It is also very interesting that Candace's cleansing as well as
• 2:45:27
  the priests ultimately both didn't work.
• 2:45:30
  Albeit they both seem to stave off the demon for a short period
• 2:45:34
  of time, but they didn't banish it all together.
• 2:45:38
  I wonder personally if they tried any other methods or
• 2:45:41
  belief systems, or if they would be open to doing so if they
• 2:45:45
  still own the house. Also, I'm curious if they dealt
• 2:45:50
  with a mimic considering it masqueraded itself in various
• 2:45:54
  forms throughout their experiences.
• 2:45:57
  The whole concept of mimics terrifies me personally.
• 2:46:02
  There's just something about it that's just creepy.
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  Could rebuilding your life cause destruction?
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  Could it stir up an old evil? When a family loses their father
• 2:46:51
  in a blaze, the widow and her two children are looking for a
• 2:46:55
  fresh start. But after moving into what was
• 2:46:59
  supposed to be their next chapter, they soon would
• 2:47:02
  discover that they aren't. It's only inhabitants.
• 2:47:06
  As entities emerge from the walls to collect their very
• 2:47:11
  souls, Will they survive or be consumed by the darkness that
• 2:47:16
  surrounds them? This is the untold story of the
• 2:47:20
  demonic Long Island Haunting, also known as the Long Island
• 2:47:25
  Terror of New York. This one, even for me, is such
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  an insane story. Again, I will advise you to not
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  watch this episode alone or in the dark.
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  Please subscribe to the channel with notifications on and leave
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  this video alike. Now let's get to the Compton.
• 2:47:52
  Our story begins as a building blazes in the Bronx, NY.
• 2:47:57
  Firefighters attempting to extinguish the blaze have become
• 2:48:01
  trapped inside the four story complex right at the very top.
• 2:48:10
  Sadly, all six of them are forced to choose between jumping
• 2:48:15
  or succumbing to the flames. Several of the men survive and
• 2:48:21
  several do not. Lieutenant Curtis Mayran of
• 2:48:25
  Battalion 26, the husband of Jeanette Mayran, did not.
• 2:48:31
  Kurt wasn't just a firefighter. He was a family man, a loving
• 2:48:36
  husband, and a father of two. His passing was not only
• 2:48:40
  completely unexpected, but downright devastating to all
• 2:48:45
  those involved. The saddening events shatter any
• 2:48:53
  resemblance of a planned future that Jeanette foresaw following
• 2:48:58
  the tragedy. She had to tell her 2 girls that
• 2:49:02
  they would never see their father again.
• 2:49:05
  The two are inconsolable. To make things worse, every day
• 2:49:10
  following the public announcement of what had
• 2:49:12
  happened, her home has been besieged by the media.
• 2:49:17
  No care, no compassion. They just wanted a word and a
• 2:49:21
  picture to sell their latest headline.
• 2:49:25
  The harassment was constant during this time.
• 2:49:28
  So thinking of how to solve a crisis, Jeanette begins to ask
• 2:49:32
  herself, should she try and find a little small place somewhere
• 2:49:37
  for her and the girls to escape to, to start over at, to start
• 2:49:41
  fresh? With snow still melting outside,
• 2:49:45
  she takes them for a car ride one afternoon and seems to
• 2:49:48
  stumble across a deal that was an answer to her prayers.
• 2:49:53
  Located outside the city and with the rarity of an acre of
• 2:49:57
  land sits a rather large home. It will need some work, but she
• 2:50:02
  thinks she could make that happen.
• 2:50:05
  From the moment she lays eyes on it, Jeanette feels that this is
• 2:50:09
  the one. This could be a way to give her
• 2:50:12
  girls and herself a new life. She jumps on the opportunity.
• 2:50:18
  Into her bewilderment, her offers accepted.
• 2:50:22
  Within a month, the Mayrans move from the home that Curtis built
• 2:50:26
  to a new home, a fresh start outside of the city.
• 2:50:34
  With the transfer of each bag and each box of belongings, they
• 2:50:38
  feel as if they're that much closer to peace, the thing that
• 2:50:42
  they really all wanted. The homes mentioned needed some
• 2:50:46
  restoration, but with Curtis being a firefighter, his
• 2:50:50
  brothers in service took it upon themselves to look out for his
• 2:50:54
  family. With all the manpower, the work
• 2:50:57
  should be done within a couple weeks.
• 2:51:00
  However, with the restoration of the home, devastation would
• 2:51:05
  follow as the construction toils on and unfamiliar with the area
• 2:51:15
  with valuable tools being left around on occasion, as well as
• 2:51:19
  their own safety to worry about, Jen decides to put up security
• 2:51:23
  cameras to monitor things. In total, they have 7 cameras
• 2:51:28
  installed around the property. The first night that the cameras
• 2:51:32
  go live, Jen is curious just what all they can see and
• 2:51:36
  detect. So with this being new
• 2:51:38
  technology to her, she sits in the living room on her computer,
• 2:51:43
  tuning into just what was taking place outside of her walls.
• 2:51:48
  It's night time and the cameras are in night vision mode,
• 2:51:52
  portraying black and white. As she clicks through the
• 2:51:55
  different cameras as the evening progresses, she doesn't see
• 2:51:59
  much. That was until in the middle of
• 2:52:02
  a frame, she sees a man. This man is standing and staring
• 2:52:08
  at her home. Given the quality of the cameras
• 2:52:12
  at the time, she didn't panic, thinking perhaps that her eyes
• 2:52:17
  were playing tricks on her. To be safe, she makes sure that
• 2:52:21
  the home is entirely secure and eventually relaxes enough to be
• 2:52:27
  able to try and get some sleep. As an icy wind blows outside and
• 2:52:33
  the light snow trickles down and coats the earth, Jeanette and
• 2:52:38
  her 2 girls lay in their beds. Her mother and sister are
• 2:52:42
  asleep. To her knowledge that Angela is
• 2:52:46
  particularly restless, she can't seem to sleep.
• 2:52:51
  Tossing and turning, she has an uneasy feeling in the pit of her
• 2:52:55
  stomach. As she toils away in her room,
• 2:52:59
  she is suddenly interrupted by a strange banging sound.
• 2:53:07
  As she sits up and listens, she hears it again.
• 2:53:12
  However, these thumps or knocks seem to be originating from
• 2:53:18
  inside the walls. Turning on her lamp and standing
• 2:53:22
  up out of bed, Angela begins to investigate as the noises
• 2:53:27
  progress in intensity. Meanwhile, unbeknownst to her,
• 2:53:34
  her younger sister Danine is woken up by the sound of someone
• 2:53:38
  banging on the outside of her closed bedroom door.
• 2:53:43
  Calling out to whoever was there, she has met with the
• 2:53:47
  reply of silence. Finding this strange to say the
• 2:53:52
  least, and confused after being woken up out of a sound sleep,
• 2:53:58
  the young girl gets out of bed slowly and apprehensively makes
• 2:54:03
  her way towards the door. As she turns the knob and peers
• 2:54:08
  through the opening, she soon swings the door open to reveal
• 2:54:15
  nothing, just an empty hallway leading to her sister's room
• 2:54:19
  across the way. At the same time, her sister
• 2:54:23
  Angela is still investigating the sounds coming from within
• 2:54:27
  the walls of her room. The banging has become more
• 2:54:33
  rhythmic, more aggressive. It seems as if someone or
• 2:54:38
  something is trying to get her attention.
• 2:54:42
  The sounds have been moving around her room and trying to
• 2:54:46
  pinpoint its location. She walks up to the wall beside
• 2:54:50
  her dresser and slowly places her ear close to the wall to
• 2:54:55
  listen. The banging instead, has found
• 2:55:00
  her. With eyes wide, she steps back
• 2:55:04
  from the wall as the mysterious sound continues.
• 2:55:09
  Danin, meanwhile, unable to hear her sister's situation, closes
• 2:55:15
  her door and sits back on her bed.
• 2:55:19
  And almost as soon as she sits down, the knocking begins again.
• 2:55:24
  But this time it's shaking her entire tore.
• 2:55:29
  Scared, she rushes to put her head under her covers as each
• 2:55:34
  situation crescendos late into the night.
• 2:55:38
  The 2 poor girls are terrified and Needless to say, they don't
• 2:55:44
  end up getting much rest. The activity seems to cease at
• 2:55:50
  dawn the following morning as their mom serves them breakfast,
• 2:55:56
  she notices that her 2 girls look exhausted asking what was
• 2:56:01
  going on with them. She is soon met with a series of
• 2:56:05
  questions such as was she the one knocking on the walls or on
• 2:56:11
  their doors, was she walking all around the house and did she do
• 2:56:16
  these things all night long? Unsure of what to make of this,
• 2:56:20
  Jeanette hadn't heard anything throughout the night.
• 2:56:24
  She chalks it up to the girls dealing with the emotions of
• 2:56:27
  everything, moving homes and experiencing a new environment.
• 2:56:34
  She hoped that with due time they would warm up to the house
• 2:56:38
  and all would be well. The girls don't fully express
• 2:56:42
  their fear for lack of belief from their mom.
• 2:56:46
  So for this morning they continue to eat their breakfast
• 2:56:50
  together and try to move on to another topic as the girls go
• 2:56:55
  about their day. Jen would go upstairs to her
• 2:56:59
  girls rooms and investigate but would uncover nothing out of the
• 2:57:05
  ordinary. The renovations would continue
• 2:57:09
  and soon the firemen would find themselves within the basement
• 2:57:12
  of the home, described as unique with lots of debris.
• 2:57:18
  They demolish old boards and clear things out.
• 2:57:23
  As work toils on, the girls examine the backyard.
• 2:57:27
  They've never seen an area so big and although it's freezing
• 2:57:32
  outside, they've opted to explore.
• 2:57:36
  However, they began to discover some strange things about their
• 2:57:40
  new playground. They first noticed strange
• 2:57:43
  symbols carved into numerous trees on the property.
• 2:57:48
  Unsure of what to make of this as kids do, they use their
• 2:57:52
  imaginations. They decide that they want to
• 2:57:55
  design a map to help them hide things.
• 2:57:59
  They will use these stars, as they call them, as markers on
• 2:58:04
  their map. The two continue to explore and
• 2:58:08
  soon make another even stranger discovery.
• 2:58:12
  What appears to be several chipped bones tied together with
• 2:58:16
  a lace like material is dangling from a low hanging branch of one
• 2:58:22
  of the trees. Thinking it was really weird,
• 2:58:26
  but again unsure of what to make of it, the two continue to play
• 2:58:33
  as previous items, debris and old demolition waste is removed
• 2:58:38
  from the basement. Those firefighters volunteering
• 2:58:42
  soon make a discovery of their own.
• 2:58:45
  There, underneath the old floorboards etched into the
• 2:58:50
  concrete below, is an inverted pentagram.
• 2:58:54
  They soon call Jen to take a look, curious as to just what it
• 2:58:59
  could be. She comes down and sees it for
• 2:59:03
  the first time. As she glances at it, she begins
• 2:59:08
  to feel sick to her stomach. She instructs the men that she
• 2:59:13
  would like it covered back up, that she didn't want the girls
• 2:59:17
  to see it. The men would agree and simply
• 2:59:21
  lay new concrete over it. This way, her girls will never
• 2:59:26
  even know that it was there. The girls, however, still
• 2:59:30
  playing outside in their winter Wonderland, soon make yet
• 2:59:35
  another discovery. They begin to find several more
• 2:59:39
  stars made out of bones upon the ground.
• 2:59:44
  Thinking this was part of some game, they soon incorporate them
• 2:59:48
  into their play as well The innocence of the child.
• 2:59:56
  Several days later, Jen has returned to work and has left
• 3:00:02
  Angela in charge of her younger sister.
• 3:00:05
  Angela has also been tasked with cleaning up the house as she
• 3:00:11
  makes her way around checking off her list.
• 3:00:14
  She feels as if she's not alone. She keeps looking over her
• 3:00:19
  shoulder but nothing seems to be there.
• 3:00:24
  Turning once again to get back to cleaning, within seconds she
• 3:00:29
  hears an ear shattering noise. Her eyes shoot to the origin of
• 3:00:35
  where she believed the sound had come from, and the poor girl
• 3:00:40
  can't believe what she's seeing. The entire kitchen has been
• 3:00:44
  flipped upside down, pans and dishes thrown out of their
• 3:00:50
  cabinets. Silverware that was inside the
• 3:00:53
  drawer is now all over the place.
• 3:00:57
  Not knowing what else to do, she screams and flees.
• 3:01:03
  Hours later, Jen, upon arriving home from work, walks into an
• 3:01:09
  eerily quiet house in her own words.
• 3:01:14
  When I walked inside, everything was very quiet.
• 3:01:19
  I glanced into the kitchen and every cabinet, every drawer was
• 3:01:24
  emptied. The place looked like it had
• 3:01:27
  been ransacked. I called out for Angela but got
• 3:01:32
  no response, thinking her daughter had had a tantrum of
• 3:01:37
  sorts. Jing goes on the hunt for Angela
• 3:01:40
  after not receiving a verbal response from her.
• 3:01:44
  Running up the stairs, she finds her holding a stuffed animal and
• 3:01:50
  staring blankly ahead in her room.
• 3:01:54
  When confronted, Angela tells her mother what had happened and
• 3:01:59
  thankfully Jen believes her. She recognizes the sincerity in
• 3:02:04
  her child's eyes and voice. The following day, when both of
• 3:02:10
  the children are out, Jen greets a few workers down in the
• 3:02:14
  basement who are putting the finishing touches on things.
• 3:02:19
  One of them had found something while working.
• 3:02:23
  It was several old looking pieces of paper tied together
• 3:02:28
  with some kind of white lace. Handing the papers to Jen, she
• 3:02:33
  begins to unfurl the pages. The opening date goes back to
• 3:02:38
  the year 1927, the year that the home was originally built.
• 3:02:45
  Scouring the pages For more information from what she
• 3:02:49
  gathers, Jen makes out that the person who wrote this diary of
• 3:02:54
  sorts seems to be a young girl, perhaps the daughter of someone
• 3:03:00
  who had lived at the house in the past.
• 3:03:03
  As she continues to read, she finds out that the girl's name
• 3:03:07
  was Christina, and Christina's story took a rather dark turn
• 3:03:15
  within the diary. She began to describe how her
• 3:03:19
  father would hurt animals upon A star in the basement, and the
• 3:03:26
  descriptions became darker and more graphic as the pages
• 3:03:32
  progressed. Disturbed by what she had just
• 3:03:35
  read, Jen decides that no one needs to know about what went on
• 3:03:40
  here. That if the things written were
• 3:03:43
  true. But the past tenants were very
• 3:03:47
  sick people and she, now living there, wanted to wash her hands
• 3:03:53
  of all of their doings and pretend, essentially, that
• 3:03:57
  nothing happened in this place that her and her children now
• 3:04:01
  call home. And who can blame her?
• 3:04:04
  Except some things don't stay buried.
• 3:04:09
  The following day, as Jen is cleaning house, she is suddenly
• 3:04:14
  startled by a massive boom that rocks the entire house.
• 3:04:20
  Shocked initially by the unexpected blast, she realizes
• 3:04:24
  that it's coming from the basement below her.
• 3:04:28
  Worried that something had exploded, she apprehensively
• 3:04:33
  makes her way to the door with flashlight in hand slowly begins
• 3:04:39
  her dissension down the stairs. Reaching the concrete floor she
• 3:04:45
  scans the room for any signs of what could potentially have
• 3:04:50
  caused the commotion. Stepping forward and peering
• 3:04:54
  around her flashlight suddenly dies Gin and begins to feel as
• 3:05:02
  if the oxygen in the room. She's being consumed at a rapid
• 3:05:07
  pace and an overwhelming sense of dread begins to overtake her.
• 3:05:13
  Running up the stairs as fast as she can and slamming the door
• 3:05:18
  behind her, she felt as if she was in the presence of pure
• 3:05:23
  evil. Still worried and not knowing if
• 3:05:27
  it was something to do with the plumbing or what have you, Jen
• 3:05:31
  needs to address the potential cause but is too frightened to
• 3:05:35
  continue, so she lays it on the back burner, so to speak.
• 3:05:41
  Later that night, after she's fed the family dinner, Jen is
• 3:05:45
  busy cleaning up while Angela is in her room and Danine is taking
• 3:05:51
  a shower. Angela, who had been sitting on
• 3:05:54
  her bed and reading a magazine, suddenly begins to hear the
• 3:06:00
  faintest of whispers. It sounds like multiple people
• 3:06:04
  whispering at once from a distance.
• 3:06:08
  Perplexed, the child gets up and attempts to seek the origin of
• 3:06:14
  where these mysterious whispers are coming from.
• 3:06:18
  As she steps towards her door, the whispers are louder to the
• 3:06:23
  point to where some discernment is possible.
• 3:06:27
  The whispering seems to be a back and forth conversation
• 3:06:31
  amongst 2 people, but in a very secretive manner.
• 3:06:36
  Sounding like it's just outside of her door, Angela throws the
• 3:06:40
  door open only to reveal nothing but the hallway, and as she does
• 3:06:47
  this, the whispers simultaneously cease.
• 3:06:53
  Perplexed further, she closes the door and begins to head back
• 3:06:58
  to her bed, but the whispers start again.
• 3:07:02
  Heading back towards the door, she listens in on the 2 again,
• 3:07:07
  and this time she begins to hear the name of her sister mentioned
• 3:07:13
  in this secretive conversation. Meanwhile, as Angela is having
• 3:07:18
  her own experience, the neem who is showering began to have her
• 3:07:24
  own experience as well, feeling as if she was being watched.
• 3:07:29
  Trying to shake the feeling off, she tries to finish her shower,
• 3:07:35
  but hearing the bathroom door creak open puts the poor girl on
• 3:07:39
  edge. Calling out of the steam tinted
• 3:07:42
  glass asking if it was her mother or Angela who had entered
• 3:07:47
  the bathroom, she is soon met with something horrifying.
• 3:07:53
  Although blurred by the steam on the glass, she sees the
• 3:07:57
  silhouette, a large creature. This thing appeared to have
• 3:08:02
  pointed ears and grotesque features.
• 3:08:07
  The scared young woman is reduced to terror in the corner
• 3:08:11
  of the shower, screaming for her mother.
• 3:08:16
  Across the hallway upstairs, Angela, who had overheard what
• 3:08:21
  sounded like two people whispering about her sister,
• 3:08:25
  pulls the door open when she hears her sister's cries and
• 3:08:29
  rushes towards the bathroom. At the same time, Jen also runs
• 3:08:35
  upstairs, startled by the cries of her daughter.
• 3:08:39
  They try to open the bathroom door, but it won't budget.
• 3:08:44
  It seemingly locks from the other side as the women
• 3:08:48
  frantically try to get inside to save Damin.
• 3:08:52
  She continues to scream for them as this creature presses its
• 3:08:57
  face and hand against the glass, unveiling black rotting skin,
• 3:09:06
  yellow eyes, and sharp teeth. Finally, the door opens as if
• 3:09:13
  the unseen hands keeping it closed vanished.
• 3:09:18
  Rushing inside to assist the poor girl, they find her shaking
• 3:09:23
  with the shower still running. Turning off the water and
• 3:09:27
  placing a towel on her, Jane quickly gets all of them out of
• 3:09:31
  the bathroom. But now as they stand in the
• 3:09:35
  hallway, all of the doors within the home that were open close on
• 3:09:40
  their own. Simultaneously, a dark demonic
• 3:09:46
  chanting begins to fill the house as it grows louder and
• 3:09:53
  more oppressive, as if some abomination from their worst
• 3:09:58
  nightmare was inching ever closer.
• 3:10:01
  The fear amongst them exponentially grows.
• 3:10:06
  Running to Jen's bedroom, opening the door and rushing
• 3:10:10
  inside before closing the door behind them to barricade
• 3:10:15
  themselves from whatever was approaching.
• 3:10:18
  Jen holds the door shut in case Whatever this thing is tries to
• 3:10:24
  come inside with. All three of them, in hysterical
• 3:10:28
  tears, begin to cry for their father, Jen's husband, their
• 3:10:34
  slain protector. Something begins to slam into
• 3:10:38
  the door, trying to break it down as the noise outside
• 3:10:43
  intensifies. All three of them are
• 3:10:47
  desperately calling out for Curtis, although they don't feel
• 3:10:51
  his presence. Just as quickly as it had begun,
• 3:10:56
  the evil outside of the door and all of its chaos abruptly stop.
• 3:11:04
  The following day, desperate to talk to someone but feeling like
• 3:11:09
  she'd be judged for being crazy, Jen contemplates who she can
• 3:11:15
  confide in. A longtime friend of her husband
• 3:11:19
  named Tony had been there for her and the girls since
• 3:11:23
  everything had happened. If anyone was going to believe
• 3:11:27
  her, it would be him. So she gives him a call.
• 3:11:33
  Within 1/2 hour. He arrives at the house after
• 3:11:37
  sitting down together at the kitchen table.
• 3:11:40
  Jen explains everything to him, from the discovery of the
• 3:11:44
  pentagram in the basement to what they've been experiencing,
• 3:11:49
  and especially the horror that had taken place just the night
• 3:11:54
  before. After hearing Jin's synopsis,
• 3:11:59
  Tony decides to go into the basement to take a look around.
• 3:12:04
  After guiding him to the door, Jin refuses to go down with him,
• 3:12:09
  so after being handed a flashlight, Tony descends the
• 3:12:13
  stairs alone. In his own words, he didn't fear
• 3:12:17
  much in life. The wall in the basement.
• 3:12:21
  He couldn't help but get the feeling that something was
• 3:12:24
  watching him, as if there was an oppressive atmosphere of sorts.
• 3:12:30
  He had trouble breathing and wanted to get out of there as
• 3:12:33
  soon as he could. Suddenly, as he walks around, he
• 3:12:39
  is spooked by the sound of a door rattling.
• 3:12:44
  As he approaches the door, the rattling continues, further
• 3:12:49
  unnerving Tony. Not wanting to delay the
• 3:12:53
  inevitable, he decides to throw the door open, and when he does,
• 3:13:00
  he reveals an empty room. There's absolutely nothing
• 3:13:05
  physically there. Already freaked out, he steps
• 3:13:09
  outside of the small room that the door concealed, and the
• 3:13:13
  moment that he gets outside of the doorway, the door itself
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  slam shut. It was with this extra action
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  that Tony decides it's time for him to get the hell out of
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  there. Tony, who had worked over 25
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  years as a corrections officer, truly feared very little, but
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  what he had experienced down in that basement that day rattled
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  him to the core. He explains what happened to
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  Jen, but decides to leave shortly after the experience,
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  moving forward to try and ease one another.
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  While someone was showering, they decided to post someone
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  outside of the door to keep the other company in case anything
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  else happened. And interestingly, I've had to
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  do the same thing in one of the homes that I lived in that was
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  haunted, but that's a story for another day.
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  But just so you know, I know exactly how they felt.
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  With all of their money tied up in the house, Jen is desperate
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  to try and find some kind of solution.
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  Not a very religious person, but going on what she knew, she
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  decides to call the Catholic Church for help.
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  The following day, a priest arrives to assess the situation,
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  conduct a blessing for the family.
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  He not only agrees that there is something evil within the home,
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  but strategizes with Jen on how to try and get rid of whatever
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  this thing was. He conducts a blessing of the
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  home, but also believes that it's important for Jen to find
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  her inner faith and conduct blessings on a regular basis
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  herself. So he provides her with gallons
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  worth of holy water since the property is rather large, in
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  which she places into spray bottles to try and cover every
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  square inch of the home during these blessings.
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  One night after conducting her blessing, Angela would become
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  fairly withdrawn given the stress and trauma of the
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  situation she found herself in. Went outside to the swing set
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  they had in their backyard. With it being night time, Jen
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  decides to keep an eye on her using the cameras that she had
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  previously installed. As Angela contemplates life and
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  swings by herself, it soon becomes apparent that she is not
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  alone. Jen, who was occasionally
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  looking up at the laptop screen where the cameras were being
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  monitored, soon sees something strange surrounding Angela.
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  Out of nowhere were several dark hooded figures.
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  Jen, whose heart had felt as if it was going to explode, rushes
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  as fast as she can towards the back door and towards her
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  daughter's location. Angela was unaware of the
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  figures her mother had seen had been keeping us steady normal
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  pace on the swing set when suddenly she is thrust out of
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  her seat at a furious pace causing her to smack the snow
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  packed ground incredibly hard. Upon impact she hears A
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  horrendous crack. Crying out in pain and for her
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  mother, Angela is greeted by Jen who begins to throw holy water
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  all around where the 2 are screaming and cursing at the
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  figures who had hurt her daughter.
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  Scrambling to get her to their vehicle as fast as she can, Jen
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  then drives her immediately to the hospital.
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  Upon arrival and examination, they discover that her foot and
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  ankle are shattered. The following day, after
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  returning from the hospital, Angela now wears a boot on her
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  leg and is forced to stay in bed, further isolating her and
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  keeping her within the confines of the house.
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  Things seem to be relatively OK during the day, but when the sun
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  goes down, the home begins to come alive. 19, Incapacitated in
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  her room and with Jen out running errands with her sister.
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  Jen is alone on her bed. It's lightly snowing outside and
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  the moonlight is peeking through her blinds.
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  She begins to hear a faint knocking noise originating from
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  her closet. Looking over, she notices her
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  mirror looks strange, almost liquid.
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  She then sees something that strikes absolute fear into her
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  soul. A charred, black clawed hand
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  begins emerging from her mirror, slowly and menacingly, coming
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  out more and more. Beginning to scream.
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  Angela does the only thing that she can do because she can't
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  physically run away. Not only is her foot broken, but
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  the mirror is right in front of her door.
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  She quickly throws herself onto the floor and rolls underneath
• 3:18:57
  her bed, pinning herself as far back against the wall as she
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  possibly can. The smell of decay fills the
• 3:19:07
  entire room as a creature slowly comes out of the mirror.
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  From Angela's perspective, all she can see now is the gnarled
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  feet of this entity as it steps towards the bed.
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  Angela, grasping the home phone, frantically begins to dial her
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  mother's number. On the other end, Jen picks up.
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  She had been at the grocery store, but upon hearing her
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  daughter screams, she leaves everything and immediately
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  rushes towards the house. But she is 45 minutes away,
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  pleading with her daughter to pray as she speeds on the slick
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  roads, desperately trying to get home.
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  She then hears A horrendous scream, something unearthly
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  unlike anything she had ever heard before on the other end.
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  And then the phone call drops. Angela, who had been uttering
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  Hell Mary while on the phone with her mother, was suddenly
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  met face to face with a demon. After rushing home as fast as
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  she could, Jen opens the door to a dark and silent house.
• 3:20:28
  All the lights are off and she doesn't hear anyone or anything.
• 3:20:35
  Running up the stairs to Angela's room, she doesn't see
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  her. With tears streaming down her
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  face, she fears that the worst has happened, that whatever this
• 3:20:47
  horror was had hurt her daughter.
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  She then hears the faintest whimper coming from underneath
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  the bed. It's Angela.
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  She's so weak and feeble that Jen has to drag her out from
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  underneath the bed, relocating the girls to her room.
• 3:21:07
  Jen then searches for help online.
• 3:21:10
  She knows that her and the girls deserve a future, and at this
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  rate, one of them may end up hurt again or worse.
• 3:21:20
  She discovers the number of a paranormal investigator by the
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  name of Liz, calling the number out of desperation at
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  approximately 3:00 in the morning.
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  At this point, surprisingly, Liz picks up on the other end.
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  After hearing Jen's harrowing story, she decides that she
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  wants to help her and her family.
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  Having researched the paranormal for over 15 years, she believes
• 3:21:48
  that she must conduct a cleansing of the home.
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  So within several hours, shortly after Daybreak, Liz arrives
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  accompanied by her friend and colleague, a woman who was a
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  psychic medium by the name of Don Jolie.
• 3:22:07
  As soon as the ladies greet Jen at her door and step inside, Don
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  begins to receive flashes of the past.
• 3:22:17
  She quickly believes that Colts conducted many rituals within
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  the home, specifically in the basement, information that she
• 3:22:27
  had not been given ahead of time.
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  She believes that these dark Colts communicated with and
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  purposefully conjured demonic entities, that the recent
• 3:22:39
  renovations had disturbed all the energy within the home.
• 3:22:43
  And on a side note, ironically, I also have experienced this as
• 3:22:48
  far as renovations disturbing any energy that can be within a
• 3:22:52
  home. But again, I'll share this at
• 3:22:55
  another time. After discussing what she
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  believed to have happened within the house, the ladies decide to
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  lay a circle of salt around the property.
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  The idea being that it forms a barrier of sorts that no spirit
• 3:23:09
  can cross in or out of. To Jin, this was the beginning
• 3:23:15
  of the final showdown with these malevolent forces.
• 3:23:21
  After laying the circle whilst praying, the three head back
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  inside where they light several bundles of sage.
• 3:23:29
  The three of them then, room by room, bless and cleanse,
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  allowing the sage smoke to fill the air.
• 3:23:40
  Slowly but surely. They do this for the entire
• 3:23:44
  house until they ultimately reach the basement, the apparent
• 3:23:50
  epicenter and the origin of the demonic activity.
• 3:23:55
  Together they descend the stairs, their chance of prayer
• 3:24:00
  filling the sage saturated air. Continuing throughout the
• 3:24:05
  basement, they began to hear what Jen and the children had
• 3:24:09
  previously heard. The loud chants, something in a
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  language that they couldn't understand.
• 3:24:17
  And with each flick of holy water and prayer cast, they soon
• 3:24:23
  also begin to hear screams accompanying the chanting.
• 3:24:27
  The whole episode slowly is reaching a crescendo.
• 3:24:33
  They finally approached the last space yet to be cleansed, the
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  small room concealed by a door, the very same room that Tony had
• 3:24:45
  had his experience in. The door once again begins to
• 3:24:51
  violently shake. Wanting to finally end this, Jen
• 3:24:57
  approaches the door and throws it open, allowing the sage smoke
• 3:25:03
  to infiltrate the last remaining air of the home.
• 3:25:07
  All the three women prayed and flicked holy water into the
• 3:25:11
  space. Suddenly, flames erupted from
• 3:25:16
  the floor, revealing a screaming, charred demonic
• 3:25:22
  figure within, but only for the briefest of moments.
• 3:25:29
  Almost as soon as the screams were finished, leaving the
• 3:25:32
  women's mouths upon the side of this creature, the fire would
• 3:25:38
  extinguish and this long battle with the demonic would finally
• 3:25:45
  be over. The cleansing conducted by Liz
• 3:25:49
  and Dawn was indeed successful and her daughter still live in
• 3:25:54
  the home to this day. It just goes to show that evil
• 3:25:58
  forces that dwell just beyond the veil of this world have
• 3:26:03
  nothing but contempt for us. No tragedy, no sorrow can be
• 3:26:09
  grounds to be left alone, but rather they use these as
• 3:26:15
  exploits ways to weaken, attack and consume those who are the
• 3:26:22
  most vulnerable. This family banded together and
• 3:26:27
  we're able to overcome the terror of the demonic, and for
• 3:26:31
  that I commend them. Just goes to show that love
• 3:26:37
  truly does conquer hate.