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When a family moves into a new house, they discover it's
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gruesome past and are met face-to-face with a grotesque
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horror. They must choose to fight or let
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their ever growing fear. Consume them.
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Well they make it out alive or will evil triumphs.
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This is the untold story of the terrifying snide.
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Egger family haunting better known as a haunting in
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Connecticut. Evil entities, specters of
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another world that create misery and sow Discord to engorge and
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strengthen themselves. Are they simply figments of the
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human imagination, a byproduct of The Human Condition.
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If you will this story, as well. As many others that have been
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covered here on this channel. Beg the question to evil beings
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From Another World truly exist. I'm not here to convince you
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either way, all that I ask is that you draw your own.
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Conclusions? Because this story, like others
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will make you truly Wonder just what could be lurking in the
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shadows. The day is a cold one, snow
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drifts down from the sky and covers everything in a layer of
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Frozen powder. But colder still is the
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life-altering news. The snide Ecker family has just
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received. Their son.
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Phillip has been diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma at the Of 14
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and unless something short of a miracle takes place to put the
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disease into remission, he will die in less than six months.
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He is already. Deteriorated from a strong and
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healthy boy, to a ghost of his former self for Philip to
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undergo experimental treatments. He asked to see a specialist
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located over 300 miles away, from the family home, and a
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hospital located in Connecticut, as his treatments begin.
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The family soon, realizes that the eight-hour daily round trips
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are unsustainable. Not just for the family members,
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taking Philip, but more importantly, to Philip himself,
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who was becoming weaker as a result of the cancer and the
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radiation wanting to do anything.
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They can to lessen the burden and get their son closer to his
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doctors, to give him a Fighting Chance, Alan and Carmen liquid.
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A what is left of their assets as Allen puts in.
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Transfer to move to another site with his company.
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And into the state of Connecticut has Allen handles
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the children at home, Carmen, heads to Connecticut to attempt,
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to find a suitable place to live for her family, but with two
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adults, and four children all together, this isn't the easiest
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of tasks to accomplish given their budget after dozens of
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appointments and dozens of refusals, the situation was
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becoming Bleak that was until she happened to Drive by another
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house. As she contemplated what the
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future held Carmen happened to drive by a large house with a
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for rent. Sign hanging, in the front yard
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upon inquiring. She made her way inside, to
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speak, with the owner of the property and although
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Renovations were still taking place, and it would be a short
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while before the home was ready to live in.
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She was allowed to take a tour. Almost immediately.
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She fell in love with the home. It's freshly laid.
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Hardwood flooring. And inviting interior seem to
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call out to her and with four bedrooms, two upstairs, and two
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downstairs. And plenty of room for everyone
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is seemed like the perfect fit and more importantly, it was
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just minutes away from the hospital which was the primary
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factor. Of course fearing, that the
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large size of the house would be far outside of their budget.
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Carmen decided to cut to the Chase and ask the property
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owner. Just how much Each the rent
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would be and is if a gift from the universe itself, it just
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happened to fit their budget perfectly after a handshake.
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The first day before too long. The terms are Inked and the
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family begins to move in. Finally after all of these
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months of struggle and worry, they have now secured a fighting
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chance for some kind of normalcy for the entire family and an
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even better chance for their son.
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Philip to beat his Sir. Several weeks later, as the
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children are staying with relatives Carmen and Alan, begin
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to move things into the house, just seeing the home for the
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first time Alan agrees that his wife did a great job given the
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situation and that the house would be a good fit for the
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family that was until the couple looked into the basement.
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A small room was now present that Carmen hadn't seen on her
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initial walkthrough, perhaps one that was being renovated at the
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time. As her and Alan opened the door
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and walked into it. They began to notice strange
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tools that they had never seen before laid out on several
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tables as well as the sink located in the back of the room
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as the snow falls outside and The Whispers of the Winter Wind
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make themselves. Heard the snide.
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Decker's unveil a hideous Revelation tucked in the
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basement of their new rental home.
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A home that they've moved in in order to give their son a
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fighting chance against Answer appears to have previously been
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a funeral home one where the dead have been prepared for
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burial and and unbeknownst to anyone.
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Some of the old tools and saws were still present now and the
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room as they come to this realization shocked and angry
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with herself Carmen, initially refuses to bring the children
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there, especially Philip. But after being talked down by
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Alan, who told her to consider their situation.
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The fact that they had already signed an agreement that they
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had, spent every last penny on Phillips, treatments the move
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and the rent that even if it was a funeral home, no one likely
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died there and Carmen finally relents and agrees to continue
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with the move-in process, the to vow to hide The Morbid past of
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the home and its contents from their children.
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They contact the landlord who removes the embalming and
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preparation equipment Don't believe several tables and a
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deep freeze that might be useful to the family and several weeks
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later, the rest of the family moves in as Philip.
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In the other children, Wander from room to room examining
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their new house, Carmen begins to mop the floors to prepare to
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bring in the furniture to complete their move.
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But as she fills the bucket with soap and hot water and begins to
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mop or the items will go, she experiences a gnome Of sorts as
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she mops, from side to side, the steamy, and soapy water began to
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congeal, and turn into a thick, and dark red substance like that
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of debt blood. As the liquid smears, all over
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the hardwood floor within an instant.
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She blinks things seem to be back to normal the tributing.
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The bizarre Vision to intense stress and exhaustion.
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She tries to write the experience off and continues
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mopping. Meanwhile, Philip has wandered
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into the basement stairwell and begins to descend the stairs,
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feeling an icy and cold presence overtake him.
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The lower he gets into the basement as his eyes scanned the
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room he feels an ominous presence staring at him when
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suddenly he hears a voice call out from a specific room.
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And this voice knew his name, scared and unnerved.
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He makes His way back upstairs and greets.
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His mother in the kitchen, he tells her that they need to
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leave immediately because he doesn't feel like any of them
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are safe. Carmen initially wrote off the
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feelings of her son, due to him, having his illness adjusting to
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a new environment and believing that it was an inner voice, not
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a physical one that he was hearing.
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She would realize that she indeed was very very wrong.
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As the day's grow more difficult and long, the family began to
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turn to their faith for guidance, reaching out to the
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priest who had married the couple Allen and Carmen have
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him. Pray, a Prayer of Healing over
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Philip hoping to assist in his treatment but despite their best
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efforts, he's only continuing to get worse.
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By this time, the entire family has moved into the former
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Funeral Home, including the other children.
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But no one has told the children that It was indeed a funeral
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home, Philip unbeknownst to the rest of the family.
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Had figured this out on his own, Carmen would eventually
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attribute his Discovery to him being so close to death at the
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time. She believed that the veil
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between life and death and become so thin for her boy that
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he could see what no one else could and no, perhaps what
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others didn't working to provide, as best as he could,
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Alan had long since gone back to work.
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Leaving Carmen to run the strange and new house with their
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family and six son on her own. He would be home on the weekends
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until his transfer was finalized because despite the horrors of
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having a cancer ridden child the bills, unfortunately, never stop
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as the day's progress, the strangeness within the home
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begins to reveal itself from the Shadows, the youngest daughter
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of the snide occurs is playing with her toys in her room as the
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wind Whistles outside, as she talks, with the dolls and places
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them within their dollhouse, a figure grazes the background of
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her room. When the little girl looks up
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above her dollhouse? She sees the figure of a woman
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with pale skin and sunken eyes screaming, she races to her
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mother's fast, as possible Carmen Comforts.
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The poor girl who was shaking, she grips her mother wanting to
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comfort her car And goes upstairs to try and dismiss her
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daughter's fears. And despite her searching,
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nothing seems out of the ordinary believing that Philip,
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and his brother were playing tricks on the poor child Carmen
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angrily rushes to find and confront them.
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But despite her rage, the boys, swear that they never told her
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the secret that Philip had discovered and that neither of
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them had played any tricks on her whatsoever.
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Bewildered Carmen sets them straight.
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And heads back to the kitchen, to cook the family dinner.
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The only piece for her seems to come at night when the children
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are fast asleep in their beds with the crisp.
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Air holding an ever-present Moon above their home, just by
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believing that all of her children were fast asleep and
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with the house being so calm, her boys in the basement room.
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We're not getting much sleep at all.
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The boys are often woken up by the sounds and then visuals of
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someone or Something moving behind the closed door at first,
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they thought it was simply Shadows or their mind's playing
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tricks on them. When one or the other would be
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the only ones awake but now that it was both of them, they were
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seeing the exact same thing and experiencing the same exact
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chill creeping up their spines that you would then continue to
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confide in one. Another as brothers often do
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about all the things they had experienced.
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Ali, once the bizarre Spector had dematerialized, the day's
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grew longer and more stressful as time.
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Wore on Philip was knocking on death's door, and his lack of
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sleep was not helping his treatment for The Frigid nights.
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Brought the icy Touch of death, and the wandering apparitions of
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another world into theirs soon. The boys can no longer take it.
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They approached Carmen to explain what they've been
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seeing. And that there's been a man what
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they now call the lab room and their room in the basement
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Carmen. As per usual, whether it was to
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cope with the mounting pressures and responsibilities of their
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daily lives or to try and convince them to negate Their
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Fear or both wrote off the boys as having nothing more than
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overactive imaginations. Reminding Philip that he was
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very sick and this could play a role in him seeing something
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that perhaps wasn't there. However, that would still not
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explain his brother experiencing the exact same thing at the
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exact same time. Another typical day in their new
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lives Carmen begins cooking dinner for the family up until
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this point, she hasn't had an experience that she's recognized
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as anything truly paranormal, I wasn't stressed related or
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something else that she could write off entirely.
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She had just said all the dishes out on the table for her family
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and she starts to make Way to the Deep Freeze to grab the
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protein, should be cooking for the families meal, she hears
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slight movement coming from the dining room as she grabs and
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then sets the meat down in the kitchen.
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She goes to examine what the sound was all of the dishes are
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gone Without a Trace as if she never placed them down at all
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feeling. As if she was losing her, mind,
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Carmen can't. So easily dismissed.
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This experience because she knows she set that table.
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Meanwhile, Phillips younger brother, Bobby was down in their
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room. He knows something strange is
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happening in the house that they can't explain given the
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apparitions and the noises, the two of them have heard and
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experienced together along with whatever their younger sister
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had seen. But this experience seems more
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personal. He begins to hear what first
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sounds like Whispers coming from the lab room and sees The
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Apparition of a man behind the closed window door.
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He can't make out any features other than a general outline and
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his size but the closer he gets the more audible, the whispering
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becomes. And this man, this thing slowly,
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muttering the name Feeling that sense of Terror overtaking fight
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or flight takes over the boy. And he quickly runs upstairs,
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where he bumps into his mother, having just had her own
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experience, she's not sure what to say to him.
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So taking his hand, the to make their way to the basement and
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towards the lab room for The Whispers.
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I've been coming from after a tense.
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Couple seconds, Carmen opens the door.
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Only to be met with silence. Once, although she believed in
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the spirit world, she up until this point did not believe that
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it could interact with the world of the living.
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But given what her kids have been telling her and what she's
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just experienced that very night.
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She wasn't so sure anymore. She had to consider the prospect
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that her house. May just be haunted, Alan would
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arrive the following morning to spend the weekend with his
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family, at the same time, winter storm.
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And is set in as he arrived after speaking with his wife and
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knowing that Philip has made the other children aware of the
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McCobb. Past of the home, he finds it
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important to address the issue as a family believing that the
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information could perhaps just be adding fuel to overactive
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imaginations at The Breakfast Table.
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He does just that finally addressing the family that they
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indeed were living in an old funeral home but that there was
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no reason for The children to be scared at the were no monsters
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lurking in the shadows and no specters of Otherworldly beings
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watching them. Although Philip and his brother
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argue that they've seen and experienced the same things and
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they have indeed been very real. They are once again, dismissed
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Alan would then pull Philip aside to ask him a, despite the
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entire situation with him being the oldest.
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If he could, please set an example for the rest of the
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children. And not scare them with ghost
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stories. Phillips, Cancer Treatments,
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continue day after day slowly draining the remaining funds to
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family has left. Meanwhile, he continues to see
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and experience even more paranormal happenings within the
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home. His mother attributes, this to
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his illness and the interactions between his body and
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medications. He's been placed on despite
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knowing that her other children and even herself I've had their
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own experiences. Another bizarre development
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recently has been that most, if not all of the families
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crucifixes that have been placed all throughout their home, have
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started to go missing with no indication as to where they
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could have gone. The nightly disturbances have
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also become regular by this point with Philip, and his
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brother, seeing the man in the lab room ever more frequently as
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well as hearing and seeing other Operations circling them as they
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lay in their beds. This night is no different.
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The boys wake up their parents screaming Terror that the man is
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back after, sweeping the house, and ensuring that everything is
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locked, that there was no way. Anyone could have possibly
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gotten in Allen being very wary of being woken up, almost every
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night forces. The boys to go back to bed
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again, dismissing their experiences.
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Tired of not being believed, the boys began to leave the lights
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on in their room and talk amongst themselves to comfort
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one another, as they would slowly, but surely begin to fall
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asleep. Convinced that Philip was seeing
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things due to his medication and then influencing the younger
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children. His parents requested that he be
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examined for any possible interactions by his doctor.
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After a series of tests, the doctor will conclude that
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nothing Philip was on, could be Using such things.
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The only other possible answer was a psychological problem.
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Alongside his cancer Allen was now picking up every hour he
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possibly could as well as any side work.
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That presented itself to try and keep up with the mounting debt,
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the family was being buried in on any given day.
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A 2 inch stack of bills either lay or termination notices,
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could be found on the kitchen counter while sorting through
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them. He was shocked.
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To find an electric bill almost twice.
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Its average to him the children sleeping with the lights on
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because of ghost stories. It's not only causing them to
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lose sleep but now it was costing the family money.
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They simply didn't have so to counteract this and of course,
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feeling as if he was justified in doing.
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So he goes to each one of their rooms removes all of their light
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bulbs. Except for one at night,
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however, the lights that used to make them feel Protected and
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bring them relief. Would soon contribute to a new
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supernatural horror sleeping in their room in the basement?
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The snide, Ecker boys are suddenly woken up by the
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flashing of their overhead lights, glancing to find the
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source. They see their little sister,
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flicking, the lights on and off. And despite there being no light
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bulbs in their sockets, they are still flashing on and off
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running towards her the youngest Brother chases her up the
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stairs, but she's just too quick for him to catch her instead, he
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runs into his parents when he exits the basement or but
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strangely, his mother explains to him that she's been asleep in
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her room for hours now. And she would know because she
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had tucked her in and had been near the basement.
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Ever since not believing her at first, he rushes upstairs to
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soon, find her fast asleep in her bed.
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He is now even more freaked out, because, whatever this thing
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was, it could take the form of a family member.
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Meanwhile, as his brother comes to terms with this hideous,
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Revelation a voice begins to call to Philip once again from
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the lab room, waking him up getting sick of living in fear
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Phil of finally, decides to confront whoever or whatever is
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been calling out to him and approaches the room upon Meaning
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the door and stepping inside, he is met face-to-face with the
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entity that has been calling his name.
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The Apparition appeared to him as a man with dark red, almost
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blood-filled eyes began to whisper to him.
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Things about the homes passed after this freezing Winters
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night, Philip began to undergo a radical change in personality,
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he began to pull away and isolate himself from the rest.
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Rest of the family. Insisting that he be left alone
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in the basement. And that his brother Bobby move
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upstairs. Making Bobby feel alienated from
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their once close and confiding relationship.
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Despite these personality changes Americans seem to take
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place one that the family had been praying for since the very
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beginning of their struggle, after months of daily treatments
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Phillips, blood Labs. Finally came back normal His
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cancer was in remission. But surprisingly, he almost
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doesn't seem to care at all later that evening as the family
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prepares to celebrate the good news.
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They also welcome a guest for the first time since they had
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moved their knees. Theresa would be temporarily
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living with them and it just arrived from New York.
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Her parents had been separated and undergoing a messy divorce.
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So to help her make the best of the situation they've allowed.
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Her to stay with them. Now, having seen the family in
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quite some time, Teresa begins to get re-acclimated with them,
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but soon, notices, that Philip who she had previously been very
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close to was missing from the party.
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She would eventually find him in the basement and also noticed
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that something was very different about him.
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He seemed darker, more angry and not at all.
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Like the boy that she used to know he would eventually confide
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in her, all the parents. Normal activity.
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He and the others had experienced in the house.
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It's past and that his parents did not believe them.
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This made him feel extremely isolated and alone.
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And that the activity had not simply gone away, but I continue
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to get worse each and every night his experiences as he
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explained them to Teresa ranged from scratching on his door and
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inside his walls, to his name, being called to Seeing the
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apparitions of figures surrounding him, hearing
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whispering, and also seeing hand, hearing a man in a suit
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with blood-red eyes, call out to him that this man would also
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visit his bedside, every single night, and tell him things that
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his parents had said about him - and terrible things.
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He would then encourage Philip to take action and to her his
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own family Shortly into her. Stay Teresa began to observe
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that the hatred and Malice that was dwelling within Philip that
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seemed to make itself a part of the family's daily routine
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fights and screaming matches soon became a daily occurrence
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especially between Phillip and Allen with Allen seeming to
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resent Philip for the family's financial situation.
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And for Philip feeling isolated and not being believed about
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what he was experiencing. According to Phillips diary
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every night when he was trying to sleep, this creature, this
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demon would visit him and push him harder and harder to commit
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unspeakable things. He got to the point to where
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Philip wouldn't even leave his room, he would not argue back
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against this entity, and day after day night, after night, it
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pushed for him to hurt his family.
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Philip will continue to confide in to Risa that alongside add
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this, he began to see other people within the basement who
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were dead and buried as if they were trapped there, by the man
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in the suit at the blood-red eyes, this entity would continue
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to threaten to do things to Phillip.
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If he did not, listen and do as he was told, while explaining
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these newer developments to her without warning, he suddenly
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attacked her grabbing her arm trying to harm her Breaking
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Free, and rushing up the stairs and into the arms of her, uncle
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Alan she watched. Phillip essentially be exiled
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back into the basement and with that their relationship began to
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disintegrate. Upset at.
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Not only what had happened between her and Philip that the
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strange behavior and dysfunction that was taking place within the
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house to Risa wept in her bed. She would eventually be gifted a
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rosary by Carmen who believed that it would help comfort her
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and she This to bed that night as a necklace of sorts.
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However she would quickly discover that instead of comfort
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this holy object made her Target.
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Instead fast asleep Teresa was suddenly woken up by the
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sensation of her, blankets being pulled from her body.
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She opened her eyes to find Philip staring at her with the
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Crooked Smile just before he attacked, her striking her
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several times in the face. Her screams, thankfully quickly
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warned to Carmen and Alan, who subdued Philip immediately
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Philip. After this unpredictable series
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of incidents was then removed from the house due to his
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violence upon the arrival of law enforcement and medical
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personnel. He seemed to have no
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recollection of what had taken place and was screaming and
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crying as he was being forcibly removed from the home and sent
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away for a mental evaluation, Alan and Carmen.
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After securing the rest of the children in the house, follow
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the ambulance to the hospital to sign the necessary paperwork to
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have Philip committed for the evaluation.
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But just before he was led into the hospital, he issued an
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ominous warning to the both of them.
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He said, mark my words now that I'm out of the house it'll be
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after you and it will get worse Shattered by what had taken
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place, the snide ecers, somber drive home, And into a long one,
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given the distance and the weather that they were braving
27:42
by the time. They arrived back home.
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It's time for Alan to head to work.
27:47
After dropping off Carmen, he departs for the day, wanting to
27:51
sleep, the to stress, to Carmen sits on the edge of her bed,
27:56
crying, and contemplating. What?
27:59
Her son had said, what if this all truly was real?
28:03
What would they even do? Where does one begin to fight
28:06
something? They can't.
28:07
See, she decides to head down into the basement to Philips
28:11
room to see if she can experience anything whatsoever.
28:16
After several minutes, despite not seeing anything, she does
28:20
begin to feel a massive drop in temperature.
28:23
So, low to the point to, where she can see her breath.
28:27
She also soon begins to shake with fear.
28:29
She can't describe fighting these feelings, she issues a
28:34
challenge to whatever, could be lurking there to show, what's
28:37
Off to prove that it was indeed real.
28:41
That it truly did exist, but despite her Challenge and
28:45
waiting half an hour, she sees nothing.
28:49
So she heads back upstairs to her room, to take a shower to
28:53
try and relax herself enough to sleep.
28:56
Meanwhile Allen had been driving in the dark heading to work for
28:59
the day during his drive, he was worried about his son, his
29:04
family and leaving them behind for the day.
29:07
And such a raw, emotional state, but he would have no way of
29:11
knowing that these weren't the only problems he had to worry
29:14
about, after his long drive. He finally arrives at work for
29:19
the day and begins. He hopes to be distracted from
29:23
his lack of sleep and family problems.
29:27
As Carmen runs her shower and the rest of the children.
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Sleep horrific presence begins to manifest within the house as
29:36
she's washing. Herself the shower curtain
29:39
suddenly covers Carmen's face catching her off guard out of
29:44
breath and begins to smother her at the same time.
29:49
Teresa startled awake. She's being strangled by the
29:53
rosary. She's wearing.
29:54
She screams pulling out her neck and eventually freeze herself
29:59
from the strangle. She then runs towards the
30:02
muffled screams of her, aunt coming from her bedroom.
30:06
Seemingly having no other choice after seeing her being
30:09
strangled, by the shower curtain.
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She pulls it off of her as fast and as hard as she possibly can.
30:15
The to then share a moment of sheer Terror and Trauma, both
30:19
having experienced things that they can't explain.
30:23
However, the announce to the two of them at home, Alan is about
30:27
to experience an attack of his own while working at his job
30:31
site. He begins to hear his truck
30:33
turnover, despite his keys being in His pocket, glancing out to
30:38
figure out just what this could be.
30:40
He watches his truck begin to move towards his small work
30:43
building and then as if someone had their foot on the gas they
30:48
began to accelerate to a high rate of speed and before he
30:52
could run out of the way, the truck smashes directly into the
30:55
building and straight towards where he was standing.
30:59
Back at the house Carmen and Teresa are still in shock when
31:03
suddenly the phone rings. However, there is nothing but a
31:08
muffled laugh coming through from the other side, feeling a
31:12
burning sensation on her ear Carmen immediately drops the
31:16
phone to find that it's partially melted, starting to
31:20
scream, she finds herself Frozen as she glances towards the
31:25
ceiling after she sees something out of the corner of her eye.
31:29
Teresa then sees it as well, and begins to scream a black cloud
31:34
of some kind of floated above them.
31:37
The two are absolutely mortified by these sudden and horrendous
31:41
manifestations of Supernatural evil that are taking place and
31:46
realize that Philip was right this Force.
31:49
This demon has taken over the entire house running out of the
31:54
room and frantically into another they rushed to gather
31:58
the rest of the children. Children.
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But with a snow storm raging outside and it demonic storm
32:04
raging inside. They seemingly have no Escape.
32:08
Carmen is unsure of what to do. She then receives another phone
32:12
call. This time picking up another
32:14
landline in the home. It's Alan on the other end, he
32:18
explains just what had taken place and that he was waiting
32:21
for the authorities to arrive. Even more shocked and scared now
32:26
that this entity has, now attacked all members of the
32:28
family. And it's left the home and
32:31
attacked Allen's well, since all the events seem to take place
32:35
roughly during the same time frame, she's convinced that the
32:38
demon will follow them wherever they go to try and Escape it.
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So, although it is the middle of the morning during the winter
32:45
storm, she makes a phone call to the only person who she thinks
32:49
can help her in this desperate situation.
32:52
She calls the priest who had married her and Alan had blessed
32:56
Philip before his cancer was in remission.
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Thankfully for their sake, the father picked up on the other
33:03
end and promised to head to the home as soon as possible.
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Given the road conditions, it takes him several hours to
33:11
arrive, but thankfully, he does first things first, the father
33:17
wanted to speak with Carmen and figure out.
33:19
Just what? Exactly was taking place.
33:22
And after discussing anything and everything, they can think
33:25
with him hoping for an answer to fix their situation.
33:29
Albeit, it's never that easy the father's response, leaves them
33:33
stunned, he tells them that he does believe them, but if that
33:38
they simply ignore the presence, what it's been doing, it'll go
33:43
away. This is the first time her faith
33:46
is failed Carmen. She's bewildered by his answer.
33:50
How can you just ignore something that's tried to take
33:53
your life? Your family members lives this
33:56
very day, alongside everything else.
33:59
Else that has been building up to this point and her opinion,
34:04
she couldn't. So once he left, she rushed to
34:08
seek other less conventional options to find the answers that
34:12
she desperately needed while digging through a phone book and
34:16
multiple newspapers to try and find anything.
34:19
She could, she stumbled across an article about a husband and
34:23
wife team. So called demonologists, we're
34:26
set to give a lecture at a nearby University.
34:29
Several additional phone calls she makes contact with Lorraine
34:33
Warren, which after discussing the prospect of the visit with
34:37
her husband, Ed agreed to come and visit Carmen that day to
34:41
evaluate her situation, after their arrival, in a brief
34:45
interview. The rain starts to survey the
34:47
house using her gift of discernment, the supposed extra
34:51
sense that allows a person to discover the true nature of a
34:55
situation, a person's character or in this case.
34:59
A spirit or haunting. Whether it was something good
35:03
and godly or something grotesque and not of God, she's almost
35:08
immediately drawn to the basement, with no knowledge of
35:11
the home prior, she makes her way towards the notorious lab
35:15
room and soon begins to sense a plethora of beings.
35:20
A sense of horrible depression and doom began to fill her
35:24
entire song among the many human Spirit.
35:27
She felt she felt Something else, something sinister and
35:33
sickening, there was a demonic Force dwelling within the
35:37
basement. She would later describe the
35:40
feeling as if there was a doorway to Hell itself located
35:44
in that room. To remove any such Spirits
35:47
within the house. The Warrens informed Carmen that
35:50
the Catholic Church would have to authorize an exorcism and
35:54
send the appropriate personnel to make this happen.
35:57
A process that could take weeks or even months to try and
36:01
expedite the process. The Warrens contact their lead
36:04
researcher, a man named John zaffis to come in and document
36:09
anything and everything that could be found.
36:12
So that a proper report could be submitted to the church.
36:15
John along with his crew temporarily move into the home
36:19
to try and document anything that they can find.
36:22
That will help prove Beyond a reasonable doubt.
36:25
That an exorcism is indeed needed to be performed to help
36:28
this family. During their time there, they
36:31
relied on video audio and photographic evidence to
36:35
document their findings at the Warren's advice so that the
36:39
demon could not isolate. Any one person in the family,
36:43
the entire family moves, their beds, and Leaving to sleep
36:47
together at 9 and protect one. Another thankfully with the
36:51
researchers, also temporarily living there any one given point
36:55
in time, there was always an additional person with the
36:58
member of the family. However, with Philip gone, The
37:02
Entity begins to pursue the next most vulnerable person.
37:06
Having suffered intense stress from the entire situation given
37:10
that her son was in the psych ward, her family Dynamic was in
37:14
tatters. And the bills were forever
37:17
continuing to pile up. That person was Carmen.
37:22
Carmen was also stricken with an overwhelming sense of guilt for
37:25
not believing any of her children, especially Philip
37:29
about what they had experienced during the entire ordeal.
37:33
And it seems like perhaps The Entity exploited, this within
37:36
her, for all that, it was worth as the family discussed
37:40
potential findings with the warrants as well as their
37:42
researchers around their fireplace in the living.
37:45
Room Carmen was suddenly flung backwards as everyone gathered
37:50
around her, their faces switched from those of concern to horror
37:56
as her throat began to bulge and swell and her face began to
38:01
contort and twist. She would later describe what
38:05
she felt while experiencing this she said I felt as if I was in a
38:10
dark hole like a well surrounded by black figures who I could
38:15
make out. Their features.
38:17
I felt pure Despair and hopelessness to the point where
38:21
if I stopped breathing, I knew I deserve to rushing to her aid
38:26
but not being qualified to perform an exorcism themselves.
38:30
The demonologists and their crew asked for the rest of the family
38:33
to bring anything sacred to her. To be placed upon.
38:36
Her Teresa rushes to find the rosary that she was gifted by
38:40
her hand, the same one Carmen believed would protect her.
38:43
This was placed upon her in an Effort to combat, whatever was
38:47
attacking her, after hours of praying and plead their groups
38:51
prayers. Along with the rosary placement,
38:53
seem to work, at least temporarily breaking.
38:57
Whatever spell Carmen was under. As she came back to Waking Life,
39:01
she had no idea how long she had been out of it.
39:04
And the rain Warren told her that she had been under attack
39:07
for the last eight hours as they had prayed over her.
39:11
The Experience seemed last mere minutes to Carmen yet, they were
39:15
the longest minutes she had ever experienced.
39:19
It took several more weeks but eventually the researchers
39:23
alongside the Warrens, we're able to attain enough evidence
39:26
and their view to provide the church but they to just as the
39:31
family. By this point we're Beyond worn
39:33
down at night. They slept on mattresses
39:36
alongside the family all together in the living room
39:40
around the fireplace. He's their mattresses would
39:43
breathe and alternating breath to their own.
39:47
Not only waking and scaring them.
39:50
But behaving, as if they themselves were living breathing
39:53
creatures being laid on. Although they had researched and
39:57
dealt with dozens, if not hundreds of paranormal cases
40:01
they believed what they experienced in.
40:03
The snide. Ecker home in Connecticut, is by
40:06
far, the strongest demonic presence they had ever come into
40:09
contact with. Close to what was supposed to be
40:13
the final night had researcher. John zaffis made the mistake of
40:18
leaving the safety of the living room when he was suddenly woke
40:21
up out of a sound sleep, he went and sat in the kitchen, unable
40:25
to go back to sleep within minutes.
40:28
He felt as if he had been placed in a freezer all the warmth
40:32
quickly left his body and he began to see his own breath,
40:35
hang in the air, having experienced this.
40:38
Before he knew he was being targeted.
40:41
Added as fear began to overtake him.
40:44
He began to call out to anyone and everyone that was sleeping
40:48
just feet away in the living room but was met with no
40:51
response. He rushed to the living room
40:53
where he began to see the mattresses breathing but
40:56
everyone who laid upon them was completely unresponsive.
41:00
He then here's the basement door, Creeks open as he slowly
41:05
walks to where he can see the entrance to the basement.
41:09
He sees a man, wearing a suit, With the contorted face and
41:14
blood-red eyes. The Experience terrifies, John
41:18
so much to the point where he runs into the living room,
41:22
shaking, his crew awake and telling them that he has to get
41:26
out. Having only spoken about the
41:28
situation a handful of times since then, he would go on to
41:32
say I have never and the decades upon Decades of investigating
41:37
the Paranormal experience, something to that, degree of
41:40
evil, Since that night and I pray I never do again days after
41:46
John vacates the home. The warns finally managed to
41:49
convince the Connecticut, diocese to Grant, the family of
41:53
priests to determine. If an exorcism would be granted
41:57
exorcism in the Catholic faith, especially these days and even.
42:02
So, in the 20th century are only conducted in absolute secrecy
42:06
and are extremely rare to be granted, evil must be proven to
42:10
be present. Beyond A Reasonable Doubt
42:13
through a variety of methods and rarer.
42:16
Still is performing an exorcism on a building or place rather
42:21
than a person a priest by the name of Father.
42:24
Frank soon, arrives to execute the church's orders and conduct
42:28
an investigation on their behalf.
42:31
Having viewed, the evidence, given to the church by the
42:34
Warrens. He also listens to the snide
42:36
occurs about their experiences and towards the home.
42:40
By the end of the interview, the family cannot tell.
42:43
If the father will be for or against advising the church to
42:47
grant them what they. So desperately believed they
42:49
needed several agonizing weeks would go by until word was
42:53
received from the church. And to the families relief, they
42:58
decided to grant them an exorcism, another priest by the
43:02
name of Father, Richard was sent to conduct the ritual upon
43:06
arriving during an exceptionally bad snowstorm father.
43:10
Richard is almost immediately drawn to the basement as he
43:14
descends, the steps with Carmen behind him.
43:16
He turns to her his Stone Face, which has been relatively void
43:20
of emotion. Turns into a Grimace almost as
43:24
if he sensed that there was something truly evil lurking
43:28
within the Shadows within seconds, he asked to step into
43:33
the lab room and to close the doors behind him so that he may
43:37
begin. As he starts to flick droplets
43:40
of holy water, into the space, the energy in the house seems to
43:45
become darker and the are heavier, despite feeling a
43:50
malevolent presence surrounding Him.
43:52
Father, Richard continued with the ritual.
43:55
He went from room to room conducting, the exorcism and
43:59
exalting God's blessings. Until finally, he was in the
44:03
living room and the presence of the Snyder family, as well as
44:08
edit. Warren.
44:10
Now several hours in as he was making his way towards the
44:13
rituals conclusion, the Demonic presence that it plugged the
44:17
family, all of these days since they had first arrived at the
44:21
beginning of this harsh, winter in Connecticut refuse to be
44:25
ignored and was ready for a fight scene by everyone present
44:31
all objects in the room that were nailed down or being satin
44:35
began to shake and be thrown Books, knickknacks statues and
44:42
ornaments shattered as the snow and ice slap, the windows
44:46
outside of the house. The more they prayed, the more
44:50
they seem to provoke The Entity and the more intense, the
44:54
activity became amidst the turmoil.
44:58
And again witnessed by everyone Teresa's, lifted into the air by
45:02
what she would later. Describe as massive.
45:05
Unseen hands and is choked. It seems as if the entity is
45:11
attempting to shock and break the prayers of those present.
45:15
But Father, Richard refuses to give in, then within the blink
45:20
of an eye, it was of whatever. Had been stalking the walls
45:23
inside of the Snyder, home was gone and despite the mess that
45:28
now surrounded them, they could not be more relieved or thankful
45:33
for their Newfound, freedom. Several days after the exorcism,
45:38
they started the process of selling the house.
45:41
Not only to try and put their past experiences behind them to
45:44
move forward, but to also not take a chance of the door that
45:49
they believe they closed with the help of their faith being
45:52
reopened and reigniting their own personal paranormal hell.
45:58
Philip would be released from the mental hospital about a
46:01
month later. After the exorcism had
46:03
transpired, he not only seem to be in stable condition, but
46:08
appeared much healthier was, truly happy to see his family.
46:11
Again, his cancer, thankfully would never return what happened
46:17
in the snide, Ecker homes open to interpretation.
46:20
Those who believe them, believe the exorcism to be a resounding
46:24
success while those who don't believe see it as some kind of a
46:28
Russian grabbing hoax the warns themselves back then, and even
46:33
now long after their own deaths, continue to be polarizing
46:36
figures with some believing them to be legitimate demonologist
46:41
and paranormal experts with others.
46:43
Believing that they were charlatans nothing.
46:46
More than profit ears of people's fears as stated in the
46:50
beginning. I'm not here to convince you one
46:53
way or the other. My job is to provide as many
46:56
details as I can. What happened?
46:58
With the particular case and the rest is up for you to decide
47:03
some additional details. I would like to add however, are
47:06
these after investigating the home, the warns did launch a
47:10
large media, campaign promoting, the homes, majorly possessed.
47:15
Whether this was for good or bad.
47:16
Intentions, I can't say, because I simply don't know.
47:21
Philip, unfortunately, would later develop a drug habit and
47:25
would also later be diagnosed with schizophrenia, Whether this
47:29
was a result of drug use or something.
47:31
That was there all along, we'll never know.
47:34
But it did not appear to be as condition prior or even after
47:37
his stint in the mental hospital.
47:40
The story would go on to inspire dramatized, documentary with
47:44
altered names of the family and with hidden interviews of the
47:47
family and 2002 known as The Haunting in Connecticut.
47:52
It would then again, be popularized in 2009.
47:55
When the horror film The Haunting in Connecticut was
47:58
Least upon moving out. In 1987, the snide ecers did not
48:02
experience any other paranormal activity in their lives and
48:06
subsequent owners of the home. Say, they haven't experienced
48:09
any activity either. This is perhaps due to the
48:12
successful Exorcism of the home or the demons simply existing
48:17
within the minds of those involved.
48:19
Again, the interpretation is up to you, but part of me, still
48:25
wanders, could he'll still be locked away.
48:28
With in the basement of that house watching lurking and
48:32
waiting for the right person to stumble upon its locked door and
48:36
to pry it open again. Could the blood-red eyes of the
48:39
Demonic man in the suit, still be lusting for more souls if.
48:44
So this is one door, I pre stays locked for good.
48:52
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