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- 0:02Speaker 1: I'm a well known psychiatrist currently residing in Michigan. Though
- 0:06Speaker 1: I do adult counseling sessions, my expertise lies in children's psychology.
- 0:11Speaker 1: And this happened last year when I visited my sister's
- 0:14Speaker 1: house in Louisville, Kentucky. She lived there with her husband
- 0:17Speaker 1: and my seven year old niece, Emily. My brother in
- 0:21Speaker 1: law works in the navy, so it's mostly my sister
- 0:24Speaker 1: and her daughter. Emily has always been a happy, energetic girl.
- 0:28Speaker 1: Whenever I would visit, she would run to me and
- 0:30Speaker 1: hang like a sloth around my neck, making all kinds
- 0:33Speaker 1: of demands. But this time I noticed something strange. I
- 0:37Speaker 1: was sipping the hot coffee when Emily's school bus pulled over.
- 0:41Speaker 1: I was getting ready to get showered with pampering and
- 0:43Speaker 1: soft giggles of Emily. When she walked in with her
- 0:47Speaker 1: school bag, she seemed strangely quiet and pale. She didn't
- 0:51Speaker 1: even notice me and went straight to her room. What's wrong,
- 0:55Speaker 1: did you scold her? My sister answered no and began
- 0:58Speaker 1: to cry. She told me how Emily had changed all
- 1:01Speaker 1: of a sudden, that she always stays in her room,
- 1:04Speaker 1: scribbling in her notebooks.
- 1:06Speaker 2: Well Emily's at overseas. I don't know what to do, Jacob,
- 1:13Speaker 2: can you help me.
- 1:14Speaker 1: I've never seen my sister break down like this before.
- 1:18Speaker 1: She had always been the strongest one in our family.
- 1:20Speaker 1: I assured her with a hug and that I'll look
- 1:23Speaker 1: into the matter myself, that I'll talk to my niece.
- 1:27Speaker 1: After dinner, I sat down with Emily in her room.
- 1:30Speaker 1: I watched her take the life out of her black
- 1:32Speaker 1: crayon to make never ending circles on white paper. You
- 1:36Speaker 1: sure love to draw em. She didn't look at me,
- 1:39Speaker 1: just kept greasing the crayon more vigorously. I picked up
- 1:44Speaker 1: a couple of her drawings to see what she scribbled.
- 1:46Speaker 1: Unlike the usual vibrant chaos, this one particular drawing caught
- 1:51Speaker 1: my attention. It was of a worn out old house
- 1:54Speaker 1: depicting a single barred window. By looking at the drawing,
- 1:59Speaker 1: I got goose bumps. Is this the house next door him?
- 2:03Speaker 1: When I asked my sister about this house, she said
- 2:06Speaker 1: it had been abandoned for years and no one goes
- 2:09Speaker 1: near it. That night, I woke up feeling thirsty and
- 2:13Speaker 1: went to the kitchen to grab some water. While navigating
- 2:15Speaker 1: to the kitchen, a faint whispering came to my ears.
- 2:19Speaker 1: Curiosity tugged at me, so I followed the sound. It
- 2:23Speaker 1: was coming from Emily's room. Pushing the door, I saw
- 2:27Speaker 1: found Emily staring out her window and whispering creepily. I
- 2:31Speaker 1: couldn't decipher what she was saying, but her small fingers
- 2:35Speaker 1: went on making circles on the window glass. Her lips
- 2:39Speaker 1: mumbled so fast that it seemed like my niece was possessed.
- 2:44Speaker 1: Taking a few steps closer, I placed a comforting hand
- 2:47Speaker 1: on Emily's shoulder. In a quick motion, Emily turned around.
- 2:51Speaker 1: Her normally bright eyes were vacant white. Her pupils rolled
- 2:55Speaker 1: back up into her head. A terrifying smile stretch to
- 3:00Speaker 1: cross her pale face, and then, just as abruptly, she
- 3:04Speaker 1: fell on the floor. All of a sudden, she just fainted.
- 3:08Speaker 1: My sister and I rushed to the nearest emergency room
- 3:11Speaker 1: at the hospital. Emily was burning with fever, her tiny
- 3:15Speaker 1: body shivering in her sleep. She just kept repeatedly saying,
- 3:20Speaker 1: I saw him. I sign him, the house, the house,
- 3:27Speaker 1: the abandoned house. Emily's drawings, her terrifying state, They all
- 3:32Speaker 1: started to form a disturbing picture telling my sister to
- 3:35Speaker 1: stay by Emily's side. I decided to take a look
- 3:38Speaker 1: at the house next door. Something told me my answers
- 3:42Speaker 1: would be there. A thick layer of cobwebs and dirt
- 3:50Speaker 1: was covering the furniture, and any traces of life were lost.
- 3:54Speaker 1: The air felt heavy with the smell of decay. I
- 3:58Speaker 1: walked to the room upste the one with the barred window.
- 4:02Speaker 1: I pushed open the door while dust rained over me
- 4:05Speaker 1: from the ceiling. Moonlight shined through the window, illuminating the
- 4:09Speaker 1: room just enough for me to see clearly, and that's
- 4:13Speaker 1: when my heart stopped. A woman's lifeless, pale body was
- 4:17Speaker 1: lying on the floor. I couldn't see her face, but
- 4:19Speaker 1: her lifeless bony hand stood evidence that she had been
- 4:23Speaker 1: dead for quite some days. I almost threw myself up
- 4:26Speaker 1: and ran till I lost my breath. Once the cops
- 4:30Speaker 1: arrived at the scene, they told us that the woman's
- 4:32Speaker 1: name was Jeanine and she had been missing for two weeks.
- 4:36Speaker 1: Her parents said that she had ran away with her
- 4:39Speaker 1: boyfriend from a front party. It unfolded that her boyfriend
- 4:43Speaker 1: brought her to this abandoned house in a heavily intoxicated state.
- 4:47Speaker 1: The guy must have tried to take advantage of her.
- 4:49Speaker 1: When she said no, he silenced her for life. After
- 4:53Speaker 1: Emily got a little bit better, the cops questioned her
- 4:56Speaker 1: about this house, and my poor niece broke down crying.
- 5:00Speaker 1: Emily told the cops that she saw a man hurting
- 5:03Speaker 1: a girl from her window a couple of days back. Eventually,
- 5:07Speaker 1: the cops traced Janine's boyfriend, and my niece shifted back
- 5:10Speaker 1: to her normal, cheerful self and no time. Sometimes it
- 5:14Speaker 1: scares me how secretive kids can be, but then again,
- 5:18Speaker 1: as adults we must listen to them. Moving to Manhattan
- 5:26Speaker 1: was supposed to be a fresh start for us. Julie,
- 5:29Speaker 1: Timothy and I were finally settled in our new flat,
- 5:32Speaker 1: twenty one floors up, with the city scape sprawled beneath us.
- 5:36Speaker 1: Life in the Big Apple was a dream come true,
- 5:39Speaker 1: and we were thrilled about the future. Timothy was a
- 5:42Speaker 1: shy kid. He didn't talk much, but his mom was
- 5:45Speaker 1: stoked that he would become a great artist when he'd
- 5:48Speaker 1: grow up. He'd spent hours scribbling in his new drawing book, Mountains, waterfalls,
- 5:54Speaker 1: giant dragons. Timmy had always been imaginative, but soon his
- 5:59Speaker 1: art began to tell a different story. It started innocently enough.
- 6:05Speaker 1: Timmy would draw scenes from our house, family dinners, game nights,
- 6:09Speaker 1: et cetera. But there was always an additional figure in
- 6:13Speaker 1: his sketches, a man with red eyes, a big belly,
- 6:17Speaker 1: and a thick, unkempt beard. When we asked him about
- 6:20Speaker 1: the strange figure, Timmy would simply say, it's angel. He
- 6:24Speaker 1: lives under my bed. Julie and I brushed it off
- 6:28Speaker 1: as an imaginary friend, a face he would outgrow. But
- 6:32Speaker 1: one evening, Julie brought me his drawing book and it
- 6:35Speaker 1: sent a shiver down my spine. It depicted our bedroom,
- 6:40Speaker 1: would Julie and me asleep, and the same red eyed
- 6:43Speaker 1: figure standing over us watching. Julie tried to laugh it off,
- 6:48Speaker 1: saying kids in their imaginations, right, but the unease had
- 6:53Speaker 1: already settled deep within me. Soon Timmy's drawings grew more disturbing.
- 7:00Speaker 1: One showed me working on my laptop late in the night,
- 7:03Speaker 1: with the angel peeking from behind the door. Another captured
- 7:07Speaker 1: Julie in the shower with the angel peeping through the
- 7:09Speaker 1: crack in the door. I blamed Timmy's vivid imagination, but
- 7:14Speaker 1: Julie pointed out that even the color of her shampoo bottle.
- 7:18Speaker 2: Was the same.
- 7:19Speaker 1: I sat Timmy down one afternoon holding one of the drawings, Timmy,
- 7:25Speaker 1: where do you see Angel? Is he really under your bed? Yes, Daddy,
- 7:29Speaker 1: he says he likes our home. That night, I checked
- 7:33Speaker 1: under his bed thoroughly, flashlight in hand.
- 7:36Speaker 2: Nothing.
- 7:37Speaker 1: I even checked the closets, behind the curtains, every conceivable
- 7:41Speaker 1: hiding spot. I was met with nothing but empty spaces
- 7:44Speaker 1: and shadows. Still, I couldn't shake the feeling of being watched.
- 7:49Speaker 1: Then one dreadful morning, our world shattered. Julie and I
- 7:54Speaker 1: woke up to find Timmy's bed empty. Panics surged through
- 7:58Speaker 1: us as we tore through the apart, calling his name.
- 8:02Speaker 1: The windows were shut tight. We were on the twenty
- 8:04Speaker 1: first floor, so we couldn't have climbed out. The main
- 8:08Speaker 1: door was locked from the inside, and he couldn't yet
- 8:10Speaker 1: reach the latch. Then where did our son vanish? We
- 8:14Speaker 1: called the police immediately as they arrived. They began a
- 8:18Speaker 1: thorough search, calmbing through every inch of our flat. Julie
- 8:22Speaker 1: was in tears. The officer searched, questioned, and I hypothesized,
- 8:27Speaker 1: but there was no sign of our son. One of
- 8:30Speaker 1: the officers, named Detective Harper, took particular interest in Timmy's drawings.
- 8:35Speaker 1: He studied each one carefully. This angel, your son mentioned
- 8:40Speaker 1: him to you. Yes, he said that angel lived under
- 8:44Speaker 1: his bed. We thought it was just a figment of
- 8:46Speaker 1: his imagination. Harper's expression turned grim. We needed to take
- 8:51Speaker 1: a closer look at the bed. The officers pulled the
- 8:54Speaker 1: bed out and started removing the wallpaper, which suddenly revealed
- 8:58Speaker 1: a small false space behind it. My heart pounded as
- 9:02Speaker 1: they pulled back the wooden slats, revealing a narrow cavity
- 9:06Speaker 1: leading into the darkness. Harper's flashlight beam revealed a shocking sight.
- 9:12Speaker 1: It was connected to our neighbor's apartment. They burst into
- 9:15Speaker 1: the neighbor's flat a certain mister d. Santos, and there,
- 9:20Speaker 1: in a cramped, dimly lit room, was Timmy. He was
- 9:23Speaker 1: sitting on the floor, nibbling on a slice of cheesecake,
- 9:27Speaker 1: looking dazed but unharmed. Beside him, a man who fit
- 9:32Speaker 1: Timmy's drawings perfectly, big belly, unkempt beard, and bloodshot eyes
- 9:38Speaker 1: stared blankly at us de Santos. You're under arrest. Desantos
- 9:44Speaker 1: didn't resist. He just smiled, a sickening, knowing smile that
- 9:48Speaker 1: made my skin crawl. As the officers led him away,
- 9:52Speaker 1: I gathered Timmy in my arms, trembling with relief and horror.
- 9:56Speaker 1: Later we learned the full story. De Santo's had been
- 10:00Speaker 1: sneaking into our apartment at night through the hidden passage.
- 10:04Speaker 1: He had befriended Timmy, feeding him cheesecakes and earning him trust.
- 10:08Speaker 1: He got a kick out of watching us to fulfill
- 10:10Speaker 1: some sadistic voyeuristic tendencies. I filled me with rage to
- 10:16Speaker 1: imagine that he was secretly watching my wife bathing. God
- 10:21Speaker 1: knows what all he had seen, completely shattering any privacy
- 10:25Speaker 1: that we thought we had. Police informed us that he
- 10:30Speaker 1: had already had a previous arrest four years ago and
- 10:33Speaker 1: had recovered multiple recordings of him filming the tenants who
- 10:37Speaker 1: used to occupy our house. It was assumed at the
- 10:40Speaker 1: time that the man had broken into the flat, but
- 10:43Speaker 1: no one had any clue that he had a secret
- 10:45Speaker 1: space to enter our flat. We also learned his first name, Angel.
- 10:53Speaker 1: We were a normal, happy family. My wife Linda and I,
- 10:57Speaker 1: along with our daughter Anna, lived in a quaint two
- 11:00Speaker 1: story house in the suburbs. Everything seemed perfect on the
- 11:04Speaker 1: surface level until the day Anna's teacher, Missus White, assigned
- 11:09Speaker 1: a harmless project that changed our lives forever. Anna had
- 11:13Speaker 1: always loved drawing, and her colorful creations adorned our refrigerator
- 11:18Speaker 1: door like metals. One day, when Missus White gave the
- 11:21Speaker 1: assignment to her students the topic our happy family. I
- 11:25Speaker 1: expected nothing out of the ordinary, But when Anna turned
- 11:29Speaker 1: in her project, Missus White called us in for a meeting.
- 11:32Speaker 2: Urgently missed on Missus Thompson, I wanted to discuss Anna's
- 11:37Speaker 2: race and drawings.
- 11:39Speaker 1: I glanced at the paper she handed us. It was
- 11:42Speaker 1: a typical family portrait, but with an unsettling addition. There
- 11:47Speaker 1: in the background was a hooded figure, barely visible but
- 11:51Speaker 1: undeniably present.
- 11:53Speaker 2: Who is that supposed to be? Anna calls it the visitor,
- 11:59Speaker 2: She says. At night.
- 12:01Speaker 1: We exchanged uneasy glances, but shrugged it off as a
- 12:05Speaker 1: product of an active imagination. Anna was only seven, after all.
- 12:10Speaker 1: I didn't believe in spirits, but I started to keep
- 12:13Speaker 1: a track of her drawings. Over the next few days,
- 12:16Speaker 1: they became more disturbing. The hooded figure started appearing in
- 12:20Speaker 1: almost every image, inching closer to our family. Sometimes it
- 12:25Speaker 1: loomed behind us at dinner. Other times it stood at
- 12:28Speaker 1: the foot of Anna's bed. Each new drawing tightened the
- 12:32Speaker 1: knot of fear in my stomach. Concerned, we talked to Anna.
- 12:37Speaker 2: Sweetie, who is this visitor you keep drawing? He comes
- 12:41Speaker 2: at night, Daddy. She says he likes to watch us.
- 12:46Speaker 1: Her innocent tones sent chills down my spine. I tried
- 12:49Speaker 1: to dismiss it, but Linda couldn't shake the feeling that
- 12:52Speaker 1: something was wrong. One night, we heard noises coming from
- 12:56Speaker 1: Anna's room. We found her sleep walking in a room
- 12:59Speaker 1: while she saying a rhyme, clutching the fresh drawing in
- 13:02Speaker 1: her hands. It showed the visitor standing right next to
- 13:06Speaker 1: her bed. As I looked at the place, suddenly the
- 13:09Speaker 1: lights in the room started flickering.
- 13:12Speaker 2: That was the last straw.
- 13:13Speaker 1: Linda pulled her out, and the very next day I
- 13:16Speaker 1: installed cameras in her room, hoping to catch any signs
- 13:19Speaker 1: of what was disturbing our daughter. The next afternoon, Linda
- 13:24Speaker 1: showed me the drawing. The visitor was wearing a ring
- 13:27Speaker 1: with a big red ruby in it. Coincidentally, Linda's ruby
- 13:31Speaker 1: ring had been missing for a few days for two nights,
- 13:35Speaker 1: we saw nothing unusual. Then as we reviewed the footage
- 13:38Speaker 1: on the third one, our blood ran cold. The camera
- 13:42Speaker 1: became grainy. We suddenly saw Anna's bedcover slowly lift and settle.
- 13:47Speaker 2: Back down, as if someone was tucking her in.
- 13:50Speaker 1: Then the room seemed to have grown cold because we
- 13:53Speaker 1: could see Anna's breath in the air like a mist.
- 13:57Speaker 2: It was impossible because we were in summers.
- 14:00Speaker 1: Finally, the cloaked figure appeared standing by Anna's bed. It
- 14:05Speaker 1: was translucent, almost invisible, but it kept oscillating front and
- 14:10Speaker 1: back while standing in its place, as if watching her,
- 14:14Speaker 1: and then it suddenly looked towards the camera before instantly vanishing.
- 14:19Speaker 1: Linda used to visit our community church on Sundays, so
- 14:22Speaker 1: she showed the footage to the pastor, desperate for any help.
- 14:27Speaker 2: What he told us was chilling.
- 14:29Speaker 1: The man who lived there before us, Harold Grayson, was
- 14:32Speaker 1: a mentally disturbed man who believed that he was the
- 14:35Speaker 1: key to a battle between the angels and demons. He
- 14:38Speaker 1: was infamously spotted in a gray hooded robe buying odd
- 14:42Speaker 1: items from local community stores, which he used for some rituals.
- 14:47Speaker 1: One day, he was caught loading lots of cans of
- 14:50Speaker 1: gasoline behind his truck. When the police inquired, he said
- 14:54Speaker 1: that he had to burn the church down because the
- 14:56Speaker 1: devil lurks there. The lease broke into his house found
- 15:00Speaker 1: that he was performing rituals and storing dead animals and
- 15:03Speaker 1: his refrigerator, which he planned to burn with the church
- 15:07Speaker 1: to cleanse the place of spirits. He was arrested and
- 15:11Speaker 1: later put in a mental institution, and no one had
- 15:14Speaker 1: seen him since. Linda and I packed our bags and
- 15:18Speaker 1: decided to move away immediately. We decided to stay with
- 15:21Speaker 1: relatives until we could sell the house. Before leaving, I
- 15:25Speaker 1: saw that Anna kept looking back towards her bedroom, so
- 15:28Speaker 1: I asked her what it was, Anna, do you still
- 15:32Speaker 1: see him? Anna nodded, her eyes teary. She says, she
- 15:38Speaker 1: has returned your belongings. I rushed my family out towards
- 15:42Speaker 1: the car, without stopping to look back at the house. Strangely,
- 15:46Speaker 1: as soon as I put my hand in my pant
- 15:48Speaker 1: pocket to pull out the car keys, I found Linda's
- 15:52Speaker 1: ruby ring there. My eyes were wide and shock. I
- 15:56Speaker 1: looked back towards the house. The light and Anna's rooms
- 16:00Speaker 1: suddenly lit up for a few seconds before turning off.
- 16:03Speaker 2: Again. We never returned to that place