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Real Haunting or Cover-Up? The Terrifying Case of the Lee Family - Colorado · Mystery Archives Episodes

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In 1991, Stephen Beth Lee moved with their two young sons into a
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two-story log home on A5 acre property in the Black Forest
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region of Colorado. The area was secluded and
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scenic, just what the least wanted for quiet country living.
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However, within weeks of settling in, strange occurrences
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began. The family would come home to
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flashing lights inside the house and hear inexplicable noises
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such as heavy footsteps on the roof, chains rattling in the
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night, And even more disturbing phenomena was a pungent chemical
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odor that would permeate the house at odd times, a smell so
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acrid that it burned the family's eyes and throats.
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These early events would set the stage for what would become one
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of Colorado's most infamous hauntings.
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In this video, I will cover the case in its entirety and then
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provide new information and updates at the end.
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Let us begin mere. Days after the Lee family had
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settled into their new abode nestled amongst the Pines, they
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are confronted with paranormal happenings.
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Initially, the disturbances seem harmless.
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As the couple. 'S two young sons began to voice
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concerns about peculiar lights flickering in their rooms and
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eerie shadows dancing across the walls.
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But the situation takes an ominous turn when Steve and Beth
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themselves bear witness to disturbing and terrifying
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events. This is the untold story of the
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haunted House of the Black Forest in Colorado.
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There's an undeniable, almost supernatural call to the eerie
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and the unexplained that seems to emanate from the depths of
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dense Woodlands. The Black Forest, a vast expanse
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of towering trees and shadowy undergrowth, has been a breeding
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ground for creepy tales of the otherworldly.
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Amidst this foreboding landscape lies a dilapidated house, its
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weathered walls and creaking floorboards harboring secrets
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that have captured the imagination of paranormal
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enthusiasts across the nation. This isolated dwelling nestled
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deep within the Colorado wilderness has earned A
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reputation as one of the most haunted sites in the United
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States. It's very existence A testament
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to the enduring power of mystery and the unknown.
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The region referred to as the Black Forest is an
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unincorporated area situated in El Paso County, Colorado,
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nestled near the city of Colorado Springs.
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This area was traditionally known as the Pineries, a vast
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expanse spanning over 1000 miles, aptly named for the dense
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concentration of majestic ponderosa pine trees that
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blanketed the landscape. The Black Forest's remote and
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secluded nature, coupled with its towering evergreens and
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rugged wilderness as long captivated those seeking
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solitude and a connection with the untamed beauty of nature.
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The secluded log cabin nestled deep within the Black Forest
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region of Colorado, seemed like a tranquil Oasis for the Lee
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family when they first laid eyes on it in 1991.
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Stephen and Beth, along with their two sons, had relocated
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from Louisiana, seeking A serene escape amidst the towering Pines
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and pristine wilderness. The sparsely populated area,
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known for its slow paced lifestyle, crisp air, and
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breathtaking vistas, promised a dream home surrounded by
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untouched nature. Little did they know that this
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idyllic retreat would soon become a source of explicable
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occurrences and unsettling experiences that would forever
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alter their perception of the supernatural.
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About the Lees. Steven Lee, a father, husband
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and truck driver had done well for his family and wanting a
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change of scenery they found what they believed to be their
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dream home, A6000 square foot three story cabin located within
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the Black Forest, situated on five acres of land.
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Stephen and his wife Beth, with every step as they surveyed the
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property could envision their two young sons playing and
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growing up there, their own little piece of the American
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dream. So it took a little bit of time,
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but their offer on the home was ultimately accepted and within
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the coming months, they would soon call this secluded place
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home. However, they would fail to
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realize that it wasn't just inhabited by the family of four.
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The first week at their new residence seemed like something
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out of a fairy tale. Mom, dad and the kids were all
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comfortable and very happy after making the long trek from
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Louisiana to Colorado. The family themselves seemed
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happy and content with their decision.
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However, this would change the Lee's two young sons shared a
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room as. Brothers often.
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Do at a young age and roughly after their first week, they
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began to tell their parents that something strange was happening
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in their bedroom. Bright, colorful lights flashed
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about and terrifying shadowy spectres float across their
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walls. These strange happenings
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frightened the boys and often kept them awake.
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So of course, they told their parents.
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However, often in these situations they were dismissed.
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Beth and Steve simply believed that the boys had overactive
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imaginations and figured it would just take time for them to
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adjust their new environment. But this too would change mere
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weeks later. Upon coming home from an evening
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of fun as a family, they would arrive to see their home
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lighting inside with strange lightning like flashes of light.
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They could see the spectacle from their driveway.
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In the words of Beth. One day we came home and it was
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like the 4th of July. In our living room and bedroom.
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We had all sorts of colorful flashes of light seemingly
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everywhere. We rushed inside to figure out
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just what these things were and simultaneously it sounded like
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people were stomping across our roof and all of a sudden it
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stopped. Never having seen anything like
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this before, the Lees were simply perplexed and not sure of
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what to make of this activity. They would lay their heads down
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to sleep this night, but what they failed to realize is that
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this was just a prelude of what was to come.
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In the coming months, the activity grew in intensity.
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What started as phantom lights and flickering shadows had
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escalated into something taking place almost every single day.
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From disembodied banging sounds to whispers, the sound of chains
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dragging on the floor or even inside the walls, to pushing,
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assaulting and disturbing the family.
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Sadly, the Lee's young sons were more often than not the targets
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of this paranormal force that plagued them night after night.
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And almost every night they were harassed by shadow people, the
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reappearance of the mysterious lights, and the awful banging
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sounds of something unseen. The family did their best to
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make the situation work. They, after all, were newly tied
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up financially in the purchase of what they believed was going
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to be their forever home. But it was something big or
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small nearly every day now that was taking place during the day,
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Appliances began to turn on and off on their own accord.
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This was attributed to an electrical issue at first, but
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after having the home examined by multiple electricians, they
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found no faulty wiring. Alongside electrical appliances,
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faucets began to turn on by themselves, often making a wet
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mess in whatever room they were activated in During the night.
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The re emergence of the lights, movement of the shadow people
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and the sounds truly haunted them and these disturbing
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happenings were soon coupled by something new and equally
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terrible. A noxious chemical odor began to
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appear in the home with no rational origin.
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The smell of these mystery chemicals burned the nose, eyes
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and throats of everyone whenever it appeared.
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In the coming days, yet more professionals would be called
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out, and yet nothing, no origin of the chemicals or detection of
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them either, could be found. It seemed that whatever force
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that dwelled within the walls of the cabin home in the woods had
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a particular hatred for the Lee family, and this force soon
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began to physically hit all of them, seemingly whenever it
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could, often leaving bruises. Not a believer in the
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paranormal, Steve Lee having had professionals come out and not
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provide any rational answers to their strange ailments.
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This, coupled with the now daily torment that he and his family
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were enduring, had finally reached his wit's end.
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He wanted to prove that either there was someone or something
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messing with them, and over the coming year he invested in a
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total of $70,000 worth of camera equipment and security equipment
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to monitor every square inch of their home and property.
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Now you might think that that's an incredible amount of money to
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spend on cameras and alarm systems, and it is, but this was
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the 90's. The equipment wasn't as readily
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available or sophisticated as it is today, and it just goes to
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show that they were truly freaked out by whatever was
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taking place, that they wanted some kind of tangible proof that
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they could show the world so people didn't think that they
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were crazy. The cameras, which were mostly
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motion activated and would record when motion was detected,
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soon began to activate with no rational explanation and no
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physical means to be detected. After capturing several strange
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things on video and photograph, Steve decided to contact the
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local authorities for help. Records show that the El Paso
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police were contacted so often by the Lees in the months to
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come that they launched a formal investigation into just what was
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taking place at the cabin home in the Black Forest.
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During this time and the two years to follow, Alongside the
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cameras, their security equipment, which could detect
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motion enforced entry was triggered 62 times with no
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explanation as to what could be causing it.
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It wasn't faulty equipment or poor installation.
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It was oddly something else, something unexplainable.
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With not even the police able to rationalize what was happening
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to the Lees, Beth and Steve decided to take things one step
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further. They hired a private
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investigator. This was in part due to the
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police also growing tiresome, being contacted for assistance
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and then there being nothing that they could do about it.
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Between the cameras and security equipment and now hiring a
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private investigator, the Lees had all but spent the rest of
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their life savings. Most people, if it ever came to
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this, would simply try and cut their losses and sell the home,
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and we don't know if the lease could have sold the home and
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moved elsewhere, but they truly still believed that this massive
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cabin home was their dream home and they didn't want to give it
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up without a fight. Unfortunately though, the
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private investigator was unable to help them.
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This left the Lee's to simply tough out anything and
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everything that they had and were continuing to experience.
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After moving in in 1991, the year now was 1995 and the
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activity had persisted despite the efforts of the Lee family to
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uncover just what was causing it.
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Steve, who still figured there had to be a rational explanation
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for what was taking place, had a little bit more of an open mind.
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After a lengthy discussion with Beth, seemingly having done
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everything else, the Lee's concluded that they would try
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and contact paranormal investigators to see if they
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could do anything about the otherworldly happenings taking
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place in their home. After some research in calling
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numerous numbers the Lee's ended up getting in contact with the
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person would end up being involved with the television
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show Sightings. Sightings was an American
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paranormal and new show that aired throughout the 1990s
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covering various unexplained and French phenomena.
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As a result of this pretty lucky interaction, the show became
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very interested in producing an episode segment about hauntings
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surrounding the investigation of the Lee Hung.
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The show would contact a paranormal investigator in a
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self-proclaimed psychic in Minneapolis, MN named Echo
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Bodine from her book The Little Book of True Ghost Stories.
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Echo would explain her experience as the following.
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I got a call from the TV show Sightings and they wanted to
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know if I would fly to Colorado Springs to help a family deal
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with some ghosts. The producers told me that the
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problem was the ghost mostly seemed to come out at night.
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So I was asked to work from midnight until the early
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Daybreak hours. It was a very hot day in
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mid-july When I arrived in Denver around 10:00 PM.
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It was pretty eerie. There was intense lightning all
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throughout the sky and rain pouring down.
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I remember thinking how perfect the spooky weather was for
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investigating hauntings. Steve, the owner of the log
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home, was at the airport to pick me up.
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He was very open about not believing in ghosts, and as we
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drove through several towns in Colorado, I listened to him tell
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me story after story about some of the things that had gone on
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in their house. They heard voices, footsteps,
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things would move from room to room.
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It took close to an hour to get up to their house in the
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mountains and alongside the rain, a fog hung about 10 feet
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off the ground. When we arrived and I entered
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their three story log cabin home from here, I was greeted by a
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producer who asked me if I could take a seat while the scientists
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they had hired told us about his thermal camera.
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Having been tired from the trip. I laid my head back while the
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explanations were continuing and suddenly I heard a voice come
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from behind me. It said hey, come here.
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Upon turning around, I saw a large ghostly man about 6 feet
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tall. The specter was wearing blue
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jeans and a blue checkered flannel shirt.
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I then heard in unison multiple voices tell me to look over here
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and now. There was 5 male spirits, all
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different but dressed the same as the first.
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The original ghost said that his name was Tom and that this was
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his house and that no one was going to make him leave.
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He ran the show around here and had for a long time.
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I told the producer what was happening in case he wanted to
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capture anything for the segment and he did.
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The conversation then ensued with Tom explaining why he and
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the boys wanted to stay in the house, that it was his land, his
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home, and that he would not leave.
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One of the cameramen then asked if it was one of them who'd been
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responsible for knocking over his very expensive camera off
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the countertop. All 5 in unison answered yes and
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then disappeared out of sight. The scientist with the thermal
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camera did in fact capture a drop in temperature just a right
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where Tom had stood around 2:00 AM in the morning.
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As me and Beth discussed the activity that she had
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experienced, the dogs the family owned would not stop barking
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outside. The producers, in an effort to
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keep their sounds from being picked up on the camera, tried
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to quiet them down, but simply weren't having any luck.
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Then, upon Beth showing me a photo of what they had captured
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on their own cameras, we suddenly were in the midst. 3
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male spirits, one with a particularly angry scowl upon
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his face. One of them walked through both
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of us, causing us to jump out of our chairs.
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While the. Other angry looking spirit tried
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to take my breath away. I believe he did this to stoke
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fear from me in order to grow more powerful, and this worked
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because I felt as if I was being suffocated.
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By 3:30 AM, we all decided to not focus on ghosts for a bit
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and to try and lighten the mood. We turned the cameras off and
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began eating some food in which Beth had prepared for us.
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But almost as soon as we began to relax, one of the camera
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women who'd been sitting on the stairs began to hyperventilate.
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She then jumped up and screamed. Get it out of me.
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As she fell down the stairs and onto the floor, writhing in
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pain, the producers asked for me to do something.
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So with the assistance of others, I helped her up and into
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a chair in the kitchen. And I began to burn sage.
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And circling her in the smoke, I asked her to say back to me that
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she was clear until she calmed down.
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It took about 20 minutes, but she eventually relaxed.
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She then was given a ride back to the hotel and I never saw or
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heard from her again. By now it was 4:30 AM and we
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were waiting for the camera crew of the show to finish setting up
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their equipment in the bedrooms where the majority of activity
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was seeming to take place. One of Steve's friends, who had
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been present most of the night, came up and handed me a brochure
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about the history of the local area.
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To my surprise, he told me that a man named Tom had been the
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sheriff here back in the 1800s. I felt shivers up my spine as I
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realized that this was the same Tom that now haunted the Lee's
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home. Roughly 5:00 AM, as we set off
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to investigate the last bedroom, I walked into the room and saw
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there in the rocking chair in the corner who would turn out to
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be Beth's deceased grandmother. And on the opposite side of the
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room was Tom and the several male spirits under his control.
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We ended up burning sage and asking them all to move on to
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the other side. They all did leave the building,
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but I'm not convinced that they moved on.
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At about 6:00 AM, we finally finished saging the entire
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house. Exhausted, we packed up our
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equipment and went back to our respective hotels.
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I've spoken to Steve and Beth since and they informed me that
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activity at the cabin persisted shortly after our departure and
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that although not fully convinced, Steve is convinced
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that there are things in this world that we will never truly
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understand. Sightings would do a follow up
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episode segment years later with the Lees or they brought in
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several spiritualists and an expert in hyperdimensional
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studies and all would come to the conclusion that the home was
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indeed haunted. The expert would draw the
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conclusion that the home sat atop an interdimensional vortex
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and coinciding with his conclusion.
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Interestingly, A Hopi elder from the local area would also
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explain that the Black Forest sits on top what the Hopi call a
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rainbow vortex, a raging storm, a portal of sorts that contains
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great spiritual energy and the coming and going of many souls.
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Sometimes they burn out over time and sometimes they don't.
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They are considered gateways between the world of the living
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and the spirit realm. Some strange and noteworthy
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things that took place during the second filming of the show
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Sightings at the Lee's residence was that a paranormal
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investigator had asked anyone if the name Howard bore any
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significance to them. The Lee's were surprised because
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one of their best friends in Colorado Springs was a man named
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Howard. The entity then told the
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investigator, who relayed the information to everyone, that he
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was Howard's son and that he in fact had not killed himself, but
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rather had been murdered. This disturbed the Lees a great
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deal because Howard's son had supposedly taken his own life by
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consuming deadly chemicals working as a chemist.
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The stories and reputation of the home got such a local buzz
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from the press that even a Colorado senator by the name of
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Charles Duke visited the home with his own camera crew and
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would snap a few photographic pieces of evidence of
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apparitions. To his and everyone else's
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surprise, Senator Duke was so convinced of the Lee's haunting
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that he even contacted the FBI to conduct a formal
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investigation, but the Bureau would rebuttal with no federal
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laws have been broken. Years later, after everything
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had happened, Steve Lee, who still wasn't fully convinced of
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the supernatural, came to his own conclusions as to what was
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taking place. And for the record, it's a wild
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theory. He began to believe that the
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government was using his family and their remote location to
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test biological agents and psychological weapons of war.
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He claims he has even photographed military personnel
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on his property with firearms and claims that they may have
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been shutting off the electricity in his home so they
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could enter undetected. These claims, although far
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fetched, would be incredibly disturbing if true, and it would
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account for the noxious odors the family said they were
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experiencing as well as the lights and some sounds.
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But oddly enough as well, the Air Force Base is located just a
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few minutes away from where the leaves live.
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The Lees, as far as we know after placing the home for sale
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in 2010, no longer live there. The current residents are
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unknown, but it seems as if the property has changed hands
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multiple times. Whether it was ghosts, the
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result of what the Hopi call a rainbow vortex, or more
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sinisterly, the result of government military Black Ops,
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The Haunting of Black Forest Colorado is truly an intriguing
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tale. And if you find yourself seduced
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by what you could consider your dream home, take caution because
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this calling might just be a siren sound.
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Don't let them take you. My original video, which I put
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out in 2024, called The Untold Story of the Black Forest
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Haunting in Colorado, presented the above narrative.
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However, as with any story, there are additional layers to
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this case, including official investigations, later
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statements, and alternative theories.
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I'm going to go ahead and cover those now.
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The El Paso County Sheriff's Office was heavily involved in
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the early 1990s when the incidents were first reported.
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As mentioned, deputies responded to dozens of and when one calls
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from the Lees Sheriff. Records show an investigation
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was formerly opened in April of 1993.
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After Steve reported phenomena like laser like lights in the
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house at night, unexplained noises on the roof and strange
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chemical loaders in his truck. Officers conducted 45 follow up
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visits to the property, treating it as a possible prowler or
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harassment case. In an unusually thorough effort,
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the Sheriff's Department even gathered physical samples for
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analysis. They sent a bed sheet, some
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clothing and a rag, which had a particularly strong odor to the
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Colorado Bureau of Investigation forensic lab to test for
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volatile chemicals or substances.
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One detective got a whiff of the mysterious rag and experienced
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burning sensations in his nose and throat, confirming the Lee's
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description of the irritation. Yet the lab results came back
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negative for no noxious chemicals.
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Nothing abnormal was detected on the items.
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The Sheriff's Office also examined ACB radio from Steve's
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truck after he complained it malfunctioned during during the
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disturbances. Have found that it operated
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normally under test conditions with no hard evidence of a crime
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or culprit. The Sheriff's Office eventually
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shoved the case. We've never been able to
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determine that there was a crime, Sergeant Stan Ross
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explained, noting that despite the least frequent complaints,
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deputies couldn't find any human instigator or lawful violation
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to pursue. Essentially, law enforcement had
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reached a dead end, officially classifying the incidents as
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unexplained but with no further action possible.
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Frustrated by the lack of resolution, Steve Lee sought
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help from outside local law enforcement.
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In 1996, he contacted his state representative, Colorado State
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Senator Charles Duke, who lived in the area.
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Senator Duke was initially skeptical, but agreed to visit
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Lee at his home as a constituent service.
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Armed with his own 35mm camera, Duke toured the house in July of
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1996 to witness the phenomena himself.
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He took a number of photos of the interior, aiming at nothing
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in particular, just to see what might show up.
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He saw anomalies in the photos, including a bright light beam
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streaking through one image that had not been visible to his
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eyes. At the time.
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He also captured faint, cloudy humanoid shapes very similar to
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the light forms the leaves had shown him on their own pictures.
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One of Duke's photos even revealed a clear apparition of a
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dog that was not present physically, visual evidence of
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the ghost dog that the family had reported seeing.
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Experiencing this convinced him that something very odd was
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occurring at the Lee home. Concern for his constituents and
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intrigued by his own findings, Senator Duke took an
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unprecedented step and he reached out to the FBI for
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assistance. Duke had contacts in the FBI due
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to unrelated work on a high profile standoff in Montana, and
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he cautiously broached the subject of the Lee property with
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a senior agent by the name of Greg Groves.
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The FBI did not launch a formal investigation.
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After all, there was still no evidence of a federal crime.
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But Agent Roves did assign someone to speak with the lease
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and review their claims for a brief time.
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The Bureau analyzed the information to determine if any
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federal law, for instance, illegal surveillance or
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trespassing on federal land, misuse of military equipment,
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etcetera, that would warrant FBI jurisdiction.
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In the end, the FBI concluded that there was no federal
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violation to pursue. According to Senator Duke, the
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FBI essentially told him that their hands were tied unless
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something concrete like a criminal hoax or national
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security issue emerged. However, in an intriguing twist,
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one FBI agent allegedly suggested off record that
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poltergeists might be the cause of the Lee House disturbances.
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Beyond the sightings television investigations featured in the
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video, the Black Forest haunting continued to draw interest from
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paranormal researchers through the late 1990s and into the
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2000s. One notable investigator, Dennis
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William Huck, visited the Lee home in October of 1996.
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Huck, an author of Haunted Places, the National Directory,
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recorded additional unexplained phenomena during his visit,
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further corroborating the early findings.
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In March 1998, Fate magazine, a long running journal on
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paranormal topics, published an article titled The Black Forest
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Haunting, which featured infrared photographs taken in
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the Lee house that showed some of the apparitions and life
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forms in vivid detail. Copies of the Fate issue
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circulated among enthusiasts, and it cemented the case's
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reputation as a uniquely well documented haunting.
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In fact, by the beginning of 1997, the lease had accumulated
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so much evidence that it was being described in summary as
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3000 plus photos and hundreds of hours of video, something that
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is almost unheard of in a typical ghost case.
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With so many things taking place at once, psychic Peter James
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went so far as to speculate that some entities might be what he
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termed alien ghosts, suggesting A crossover between ghostly
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activity and extraterrestrial or interdimensional visitation.
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While this idea is highly conjectural, it shows how
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extraordinary the manifestations were.
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Even experienced mediums and ghost hunters found themselves
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grasping for new theories. Echo, Bodine and others
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consistently describe kept the haunting as unusually intense.
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Boding later reflected that in her career, the Lee case was
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standout for the sheer quantity and consistency of evidence.
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Phenomena occurred not just once or twice, but repeatedly and on
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command, in some instances allowing documentation to take
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place. Another development post video
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is the continued historical research into the land itself.
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Some researchers looked into whether the Lee property had any
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tragic history or prior hauntings.
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Black Forest, Colorado, has a long history dating back to
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Native American tribes hundreds of years ago.
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No specific violent event or an exact plot of the Lee house was
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ever uncovered, though. But the broader area itself has
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seen its share of history, from frontier skirmishes to an
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intense wildfire in 1988 and another in 2013.
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There are other features, like geological developments such as
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large quartz deposits and underground water in the region,
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that could also potentially be playing roles.
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For example, one theory suggests that the combination of such
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mineral deposits and flowing groundwater under the house
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might have created a natural energy that spirits used to
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manifest. And while I was more personally
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convinced of paranormal interpretation taking place,
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it's important to highlight that Steve Lee himself did not remain
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fully convinced. That it was ghosts.
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He explored alternate theories that at times contradicted the
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paranormal narrative. By the late 1990s, after
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witnessing psychic evidence and strange photos, Steve publicly
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voiced suspicions that the haunting was a cover for
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something else clandestine government activity on his
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property. In interviews with the local
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press. Steve famously said that this
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ain't no poltergeist, this is the government.
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How can someone do this and continue to get away with it?
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He theorized that his family was unwittingly subjected to
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experimental weapons testing, possibly by the US military or
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intelligence agencies. Given their homes remote forest
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location, it seemed like it would be the ideal place for
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secret tests. Steve noted the proximity of
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military installations, and indeed Black Forest sits east of
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the US Air Force Academy and not far from Fort Carson and other
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bases. He also speculated about
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technologies like laser beams, chemical agents, or
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psychological warfare devices causing the phenomena.
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And it's not totally out of the realm of possibility, albeit I
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don't know, they're both plausible in my opinion.
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Steve reported on occasion seeing figures and camouflage
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fatigues with guns on the edge of his property, which he took
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as possible Special Forces operatives.
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During some incidents, the household electricity would.
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Cut out, which Steve thought was a tactic.
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To allow intruders in undetected, he even claimed to
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have snapped photos of what looked like armed soldiers
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hiding among trees, though he never showed these publicly.
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Furthermore, he suspected that the chemical smell could have
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actually been a biochemical agent sporadically released in
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the home, yet no known chemical was ever found.
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These theories certainly venture into conspiracy territory, and
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even Steve's wife, Beth, and others were not fully on board
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with them. Stevens claims, while
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intriguing, sometimes border on fanatical.
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There is, of course, no evidence to support the idea of secret
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agents playing ghostly pranks in the black.
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Forest. Now that I've recapped the story
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and given some updates, in summary, The Black Forest
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haunting of the Lee Family remains A potent modern ghost
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story 1, where the lines between legend and investigation blur.
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My original video capture the dramatic essence of the tale,
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and further research only adds to its mystique.
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Whether one leans towards the paranormal explanation, multiple
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restless spirits drawn by a vortex, or the more skeptical
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angles and undiscovered human agency or psychological
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phenomenon, the fact is that something highly unusual
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transpired in that house in the woods of Colorado.
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As Steve Lee pointedly asked, where could this be coming from
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and for what purpose? Those questions linger
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unanswered. What the Lee family and many
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witnesses experienced in the Black Forest challenges our
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understanding of the world, and This is why the haunting
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continues to be discussed, studied, and shrouded in both
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fear and fascination. Thank you guys so much for
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watching this latest video. It is a bit of a revisited case
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with some additional details that I missed in the original
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video, and I tried to find some new information on it as well.
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So definitely keep an eye out for that.
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Archives. Make sure to stay safe out there
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