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When a young family seeking a bright future moves into a new
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house, it seems as if their dreams have come true until a
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malevolent force makes itself known.
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Tormented visions and violent attacks leave them all
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questioning just what insidious force slithers behind the walls
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of their new home. Will they make it out alive?
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Or will the entity known as? Sally.
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Keep them as playmates forever. This is a case I have personal
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experience with and it certainly is very unnerving.
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I wouldn't recommend watching this video in the dark unless
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you like a challenge. Located in northeast Kansas is a
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town known as Atchison, situated on the Bluffs of the Missouri
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River and offering sweeping views of the River Valley
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beyond. Grand Victorian homes and
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cobblestone roads recall glorious days when wealthy
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lumber merchants and railroad magnates once occupied the town.
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But as one walks the streets today, they can't help but feel
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a tingle down their spine and a cold shutter in their soul.
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It seems to be a kind of hotspot that harbors otherworldly
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forces. The time is March of 1993.
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Newly married couple Tony and Deborah Pikman begin renting a
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house in Atchison. After weeks of unboxing their
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belongings, their new house is finally starting to feel like a
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home. In the words of Tony Pikman, we
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had finally moved into a new. Place.
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My wife was expecting and we were just very much looking
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forward to starting a family together.
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It was a good time for us and with Deborah Pikman later saying
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that we thought the home was perfect for us.
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It was spacious, it had several bedrooms, and we just knew that
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it was the perfect house. But what they failed to realize
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was that this house was far from perfect for anyone.
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After about a month of living there, strange things began to
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occur. First, the TV began to turn on
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and off by. Itself.
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And small objects like their keys began to move on their own.
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Thinking that perhaps they were misremembering where they had
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placed their keys and the TV turning on and off was possibly
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faulty wiring, they contacted their landlord about the matter.
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But after having an electrician come out, he would find nothing
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wrong with the wiring. Although old, it was functioning
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as intended. Although the Pikmons thought the
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happenings were strange, they simply overlooked them.
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Later that summer, Deborah would give birth to a baby boy who
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they would name Taylor, and when the young family comes back home
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from the hospital, Deborah's sister Karen flies in from
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Buffalo, NY to help her sister get some much needed rest as she
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begins to heal from giving birth and starts adjusting to taking
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care of a newborn. Although the help is greatly
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appreciated, it seems to pass quickly.
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Although the Pikmans are still adjusting to the late night
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cries of their newborn son, his Christ seemed to wake up more
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than just his parents. One afternoon, while Tony hangs
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pictures upstairs, he sees a shadow move out of the corner of
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his eye. He then hears the giggle.
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Of a little girl. Finding this odd, he glances
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around his general area, and it's here that he discovers
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something even stranger. There and his son's nursery on
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the floor is all of Taylor, stuffed animals neatly arranged
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in a circle. Thinking this was bizarre, they
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ultimately would laugh it off, thinking that perhaps someone
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they knew had to come into the home and played a prank on them,
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that perhaps they didn't notice it until now.
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They thought that maybe Tony's brother Alan, who was a known
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prankster, was to blame. Laughing it off, they went back
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to what they had been doing previously.
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It wasn't until a few minutes later that Deborah would walk
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back by the nursery and notice the exact same thing had
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occurred again. All of her son's stuffed toys
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were arranged in a circle and all facing outward yet again on
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the floor. Now, unsure of what was causing
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these strange happenings, they checked all their windows and
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doors. They were all locked.
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If it was Tony's brother, Alan, they don't know how he would
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have been getting in and out without any of them noticing.
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And within a matter of minutes the following morning, Tony had
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his brother come over to their house.
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It's important to note that Alan did live next door to the
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Pigments at this time. Once they'd all gotten settled
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on the couches in the living room, Tony began to ask.
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So, Alan, just how did you get in and out of our house last
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night without any of us noticing?
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It was in this moment that Tony began to worry.
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Although he and his brother had always played tricks on one
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another, his brother wasn't known to be a liar.
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Alan looked back at him, genuinely confused.
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He told Tony that he had no idea what he was talking about, that
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he wasn't even home last night. Finding an opportunity for a
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laugh, however, Allen then starts asking Tony if he thinks
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that he has a ghost. He then takes his brother's
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camera and starts snapping photos around the house while
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asking is there a presence here with us and if so, make the
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stuffed animals move again. Do something As Tony and Deborah
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follow Allen, the three are then left in utter shock as a stuffed
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bear sitting on a nearby small chair is suddenly thrown onto
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the floor by something they can't see.
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Taking what they had just seen as some kind of a warning, Tony,
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Deborah and Allen take baby Taylor and rush outside into the
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family's vehicle as the baby cries.
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As Tony buckles them into the car seat, Tony cries as well,
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but out of pain. He suddenly feels a sharp
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stinging sensation coming from his back.
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Thinking it was a bee sting or a spider bite, he finishes
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buckling the baby in and then. Closes the door.
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He figures he'll check it out later.
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Allen then heads back to his house next door and Debbie and
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Tony with their baby drive across town to Tony's parents
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house. After arriving, the stinging
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sensation on Tony's back has only grown more noticeable.
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Again thinking it was a bee sting or a spider bite, he
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finally has his wife take a look at it.
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Upon lifting up his shirt she starts to freak out.
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From Tony's lower back to up by his shoulder blades are what
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appear to be 3 very distinct and fresh claw marks.
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Her anxiety is soon felt by everyone in the house.
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After discussing what had been occurring amongst themselves,
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the Pikmans now think that what they could be experiencing may
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be evil. Coming to this conclusion leaves
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their heads spiraling, making them ponder a number of
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questions. Just what will they do?
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Will they go back to the house? Where could they go if they
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don't? And much more.
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Together, Debbie and Tony do their best to calm down and to
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face the decision that they have to make head on as a couple.
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In Tony's words, we were newly married.
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We had just started a family. We didn't have the money or the
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resources to be able to afford to move again.
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We were essentially bled out. We had a baby and we needed a
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place to stay. So we decided to go back that
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night. Although incredibly apprehensive
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about doing so, the Pikmins seemingly have no other choice.
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The following day, Tony meets up with his brother Alan yet again.
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Alan seems to have an idea on how to tackle the situation.
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Alan tells Debbie and Tony that his boss's sister is a psychic
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medium, and he thinks that they should invite her to try and
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figure out what could be residing within the house and if
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she's able to decipher that, finding this proposal weird
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because they've never delved into anything like this.
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Before. But feeling like it couldn't
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hurt to give it a try, they agreed to have Alan reach out
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and ask her to come to the house.
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Three days later, she would arrive.
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Her name was Barbara. Originally based out of
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California, she actively engaged in psychic work and lectured at
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various universities about parapsychology.
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Not having been given any information about the house or
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its history, she sat in the living room and explained to the
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Pikmans what it was that she did and then asked them.
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To tell her. Everything that had occurred up
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until that point so that she could fully grasp the whole
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picture. After they went through it all
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with Barbara, she then asked them to visit the nursery to
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begin. Tony would later say that I
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don't really believe in psychics, so I kind of blew her
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off at. 1st. I didn't know what to think.
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Barbara begins her process and quickly begins to lose her
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breath. She starts choking and coughing.
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She then flees the room, heading for the basement below.
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Tony later would say that she told us that whatever was here
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didn't want us here and that it doesn't like anyone in this room
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referring to the nursery. As the pigments follow Barbara
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down the stairs, she soon stops at the bottom of them, begins to
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sense another spirit, but this one doesn't seem ominous.
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She discovers that the spirit is that of a 7 year old little girl
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named Sally. She believes.
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Sally passed away. Within the home itself, she also
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would come to the conclusion that it was Sally who had
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attacked Tony, believing that baby Taylor.
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Was hers to. Protect.
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She had become territorial between Deborah and Barbara.
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They come to the consensus that Sally is a guardian of sorts,
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that it would be a good idea to set aside a space for her and to
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give her some toys of her own to appease her.
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Tony, however, thought that this wasn't a good idea at all.
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He still believed that whatever dwelled within their house was
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malevolent and evil, that it was a bad idea for them to interact
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with whatever this thing was in any way, shape or form.
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However, disregarding her husband, Deborah does exactly
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this. After the psychic departs
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several days later, Deborah would go shopping for toys for
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Sally, hoping that her offerings would appease the spirit and all
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would be well. She also picks up the developed
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film from the photos that Tony took during the psychic's visit.
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Excited to see if any of them contained an image of Sally, she
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quickly opens up the envelope to look at them.
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What she sees, however, disturbs her.
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Several of the photos are bizarrely distorted, and one
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even contains some kind of malignant looking black BLOB.
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Horrified, Deborah rushes back home with the photos and the
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toys in hand. Walking through the front door,
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she immediately shows Tony. Having been the one who took the
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photos, he doesn't know what to make of the anomalies.
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One photo in particular catches his attention in his own.
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Words the picture that really got me as we were walking down
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the stairs with Barbara. I turned around and took a
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picture and floating mid air is this thing.
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I couldn't explain it, it made me scared.
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Following looking at the photos, Deb once again references
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Barbara's convictions and continues to believe that Sally
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is a protector. She then continues with her plan
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and makes a dedicated space for Sally and adds the toys to it.
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Although Tony believes that the force haunting their home is
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evil, things do seem to go dormant for a short period of
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time following the offerings to Sally.
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However, this piece would not last.
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Several weeks later, Deb's sister Karen would return again
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for a follow up visit, and this time along with her husband.
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As the couples catch up on what's been happening in their
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lives, Deborah and Tony walk into the kitchen and grab
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themselves and their guests some more food and drinks.
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Their nice evening is soon interrupted by a piercing scream
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there before Karen and her husband, a stuffed animal, the
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same one that had fallen before, that was sitting in one of the
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chairs, had suddenly and spontaneously caught fire before
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their very eyes. As Tony and Deborah rushed back
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into the living room, they too were left flabbergasted at the
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sight. Tony then rushes in with a towel
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to extinguish the fire. In his own words, if it can do
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this, what's keeping it from setting one of us on fire or
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hurting us or harming the baby? Following the flames of the
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previous evening, Deborah tries to convince her husband that the
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fire was an isolated incident. And for the next two weeks,
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things at the house remain eerily calm.
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Tony, who works the overnight graveyard shift at a nearby
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grain elevator. Adjusts his day to his schedule.
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Upon returning home from work in the early morning hours, he
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tends to eat a meal when he gets home.
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One particular morning, following the calmness within
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the home, he grabs himself a glass of juice and something to
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eat. As he goes to place the pitcher
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of juice back in the refrigerator, he sees something
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move out of the corner of his eye.
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Turning his head, pitcher's still in hand, he sees the
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apparition of a young girl before him.
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Shocked, he drops the pitcher of juice.
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And it shatters on the floor almost as soon as the pitcher
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had broke. As it smashed into the floor
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below, the apparition vanished. Paying no mind to it, Tony
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quickly runs upstairs where he greets his wife in their
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bedroom, barely able to get a word out he's finally able to
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say to her. I just saw Sally.
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Intrigued, Deborah immediately asked just what she looked like
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and then proceeds to bombard him with many more questions.
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Rather than being scared, Deb is elated.
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She's more curious than ever before in her own words.
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I was terribly jealous Tony got to see this little girl or the
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apparition of her. She's curious just why, of all
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people, Sally would reveal herself to Tony.
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She wonders why she didn't reveal herself to her.
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For the next two months, things once again go dormant within the
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home, But this too wouldn't last.
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One night, as the moon hangs high above the Pikmin residence
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as the couple sleeps, Tony is suddenly and violently pulled
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forward and then up and out of his bed by his arms, absolutely
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petrified. Tony screams as he realizes just
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what has taken place. He then as further bewildered as
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he looks down at his wrists. There on both of them were five
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distinct finger markings, as if someone or something had grabbed
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him. But the outline themselves
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weren't just there. These outlines look like they
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were burns, as if the fingers themselves had been seared into
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his flesh. Blisters we're now starting to
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form where each invisible hand had been.
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As he tries to come to terms with his terrifying ordeal, Deb
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still refuses to believe that it has anything to do with Sally.
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She thinks that his lack of sleep from being a new father
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and working the overnight shift started to get to him.
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However, upon seeing the blisters, she's almost in a
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sense of denial, saying that surely the spirit of a 7 year
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old girl would not be able to pull a grown man out of a bed or
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leave such marks. But if she somehow did, what was
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the message that she was trying to convey?
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Given everything that had taken place?
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A resentment began to build within Tony towards his wife.
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Accompanying this, he began to hear whispers on almost a daily
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basis. This would typically occur when
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he would lay down during the day to try and sleep so he could get
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back up and work at the grain elevator.
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To him, the whispers did not sound like that of a child at
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all, but rather like 3 low voiced people speaking to one
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another. It would also seem so close as
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if they were talking simultaneously directly into his
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ears. During one particularly scary
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experience involving the whispering, Tony also begins to
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see items near the bed float and rotate by themselves as if
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suspended by an invisible force. As he screams, wanting all of it
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to stop, he is greeted by his wife after explaining what he
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had just experienced. Unfortunately, she doesn't
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believe him given what he had been saying, that he had been
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seeing shadowy figures, hearing whispers, having nightmares as
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she perceived them. She thought that lack of sleep
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and stress was causing him to make things up.
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Tony is starting to believe that whatever force that haunts the
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house is targeting him, that it's attempting to manipulate
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his feelings. Coming to terms with this, he
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also realizes just how hard it's becoming to hide his growing
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resentment towards Deborah. He keeps having feelings of a
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dark rage well up inside him, feelings that he's worried could
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turn violent. In his own words.
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These feelings were not like me. I love her so much and I would
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never do anything to hurt her. But the longer we were there,
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the stronger these feelings were becoming.
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Tony, of course, wasn't the only one to notice these changes.
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Deborah noticed them too. There had been a large shift in
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his demeanor and attitude. He seemed angry, short fused,
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and argumentative. The couple began to fight almost
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daily, which hadn't been like them at all in the past.
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The Pigmans decided they want to reach back out to Barbara for
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another consultation to see if they could potentially gain any
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new information on the presence that seemed to be everywhere and
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yet nowhere at the same time. In due time, Barbara again would
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visit them and upon her arrival would be told just how things
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had developed. She attempts to contact Sally
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once again after she believes she's made contact with her.
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She then begins to sense a second entity.
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This one however, is much older and seems to refuse to interact
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with her. She believes that this adult
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entity is a female. And the one that has been
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targeting Tony and that Sally has been taking the blame.
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However, she comes to the conviction that whatever is
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happening within the home is beyond her expertise.
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What she does offer though, is that she would contact a very
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qualified group of paranormal investigators.
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Tony's reaction at first is harsh.
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And. In his own words once again.
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At first I was like, no way, we live in a small town, we'd be
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the laughingstock. If it wasn't a spirit in the
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house, then the only other thing that I could think it could be
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was the devil, and that scared me to death.
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After discussing the matter further with his wife and
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Barbara, he finally agrees to give the Group A try.
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Within days, the paranormal group would arrive.
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The group is led by, at that time, world renowned medium and
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paranormal researcher Peter James.
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In his words, a ghost is the ethereal double of its physical
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counterpart. We become a ghost dependent on
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the circumstances in which we die.
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If we die untimely, tragically or violently, then we are
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rendered a ghost. I prefer not knowing any details
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about any specific haunting in which I investigate.
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It's my job to identify what's causing the activity, not being
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informed of the information previously, only that the family
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was young and had a young boy. As he sits in the living room
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and speaks with the Pikmans, he asked them if they had a young
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daughter as well, perhaps of seven or eight years old,
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telling him no. Peter remarked that it was
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strange because when he arrived, he saw such a young girl staring
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at them from one of the upstairs windows.
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Starting to explore the home, Peter begins to sense that there
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are two entities, one that is a child and the other an older
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adult woman who is very powerful.
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Upon asking the name of the entities out loud, he would
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reply with Sally. It's good to meet you.
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As he embarks up the stairs, he makes his way into the Pikmin's
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master bedroom and starts feeling the presence of the
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older female. As he steps further into the
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room with his crew and the Pikmin's behind him, Peter is
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suddenly thrown back against the door and almost simultaneously,
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Tony begins to scream in pain. My back, he says.
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Debbie lifts up his shirt and sees that once again his back is
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covered in fresh scratches, deep ones to the point to where they
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drew blood. Peter is astonished.
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He now knows that his older woman's presence is not a +1.
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Telling everyone not to let the entity know that they are afraid
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of it, they reluctantly press on.
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The crew spends the rest of the day investigating the home and
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during this time, Peter once again begins walking back
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upstairs as if something or someone was calling out to him
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and it's. Here that he begins to have a
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vision. In his vision he's taken back
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into the past and he begins to see the spirits as they were in
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life. He believed that the home was
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once the home and practice of a medical physician.
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His housekeeper and her daughter lived there with him as well.
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The housekeeper was also his mistress and the daughter was
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also his. The housekeeper was African
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American and their daughter half and in such racially divided
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times, the affair and their secret child were kept hidden.
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Sally was her name and she was their seven-year old daughter.
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Peter believed that Sally had contracted pneumonia and her
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father, although a doctor, was unable to save her.
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Although the secret family and Sally's death are tragic, Peter
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tells the Pikmans that it's not fair for them to be victimized
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by the dead in their own home. That in order to rid themselves
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of this torment, that they must cleanse the house.
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That they were in control, but it was ultimately up to them to
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restore order. And with these words of advice,
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he and his crew would depart. The Pikmans decide that they
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will stay in the house and will do their best to set the rules
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and stand their ground. Several weeks pass and despite
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their best efforts, the atmosphere has only grown
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heavier, the torment even worse. Especially for Tony, his sleep
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has become even more scarce and his thoughts grow more and more
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evil. He can't shake the angry
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feelings. It's becoming more worried that
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he may end up harming his wife and or himself, that he feels as
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if this darkness is slowly consuming.
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Him. He.
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Finally confronts Deborah and explains exactly how he feels
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that he believes that if they don't leave the house that
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something horrible may end up happening.
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Finally understanding the pressure her husband was under,
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she agrees with him and begins looking at ads for a new home
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for the family. In the meantime, Tony attempts
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to sleep due to work in the graveyard shift.
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As he lays in bed, tossing and turning, he's once again
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consumed by the ever growing and almost overwhelming thoughts of
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wanting to harm his family. Feeling as if he was under
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attack, he rushes out of the room and yells for Deborah.
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He tells her to grab Taylor, that they were leaving, that he
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had finally reached his breaking point.
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Fortunately for the Pickman family, they find a house
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shortly after leaving what would become known as the Sally House.
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The heaviness, the anger and the spiritual torment.
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Would cease. But given what the Pikmans had
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gone through, it's also important to note that the Sally
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House certainly has a dark and checkered history that existed
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long before their arrival. Originally built in 1867 by the
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Finney family, it served as a generational home.
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Several generations of the family lived there between 1867
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and 1939. During that time, 5 confirmed
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deaths occurred within the family.
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Michael Finney in 1872, Charles Catherine's father, the wife of
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Michael Finney, Kate Finney and Richard Finney in 1874, and
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finally Agnes Finney in 1939. There are multiple stories
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about. Sally that she passed away from
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pneumonia. The origin.
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I previously told him this story, but there is also another
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which I will tell you now. The story goes that Charles
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Finney, the son of Michael and Kate, became a doctor and made
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the house both his residence and his practice.
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The front served as an office space and an examination room
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while the family lived upstairs. One day a frantic mother arrived
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carrying her six year old daughter Sally, who had
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collapsed from severe abdominal pain.
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The doctor quickly diagnosed her an appendicitis and new surgery
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was urgent. Without delay, he prepped Sally
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for the operation using ether, the anesthesia that was
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available at that time. Tragically, Sally wasn't fully
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unconscious as the first incision was made.
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She screamed and thrashed in pain.
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Despite the doctor's efforts to restrain her and administer more
28:50
anesthesia, Sally's condition worsened.
28:53
She would go into shock and ultimately die on the operating
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table, her final moments filled with agony and fear.
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The home left the Finney family in 1939 and passed through
29:08
various owners before becoming a rental property.
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At least one tenant may have been involved in satanic
29:15
rituals, which some believe contributed to the sinister
29:19
activity associated with the house.
29:22
Paranormal Activity wasn't reported until Tony and Deborah
29:25
Pikmin began renting the. House.
29:28
Intrigued by the paranormal claims, the property owner, Les
29:32
Smith, investigated and discovered a pentagram beneath
29:36
the basement floorboards. Many believe that this may have
29:39
been evidence of rituals that summoned something demonic.
29:43
Subsequent investigations reveal blood evidence in the master
29:46
bedroom closet and tattered clothing in the attic after the
29:51
pigments. However, reports of electronic
29:54
malfunctions, Evps, physical attacks, and other poltergeist
30:00
activity have further cemented the house's reputation as a
30:04
hotspot for paranormal occurrences.
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I've visited the Sally House myself.
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It was actually my very first paranormal investigation.
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Albeit amateur at best at that time, it certainly was an
30:18
excellent experience getting into the field.
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Although for a. Variety of reasons.
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I don't think the Sally House is as haunted as it once was.
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However, we did experience a few strange things when I went with
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a few friends of mine. We arrived in the summer of 2022
30:35
and it was easily close to 100°F outside, and the home, being
30:41
very old, didn't have great AC as we would later learn.
30:45
However, when we stepped inside for the first time, we were
30:49
taken aback because it was absolutely frigid by comparison.
30:54
This blast of cold air only lasted several seconds.
30:58
The temperature did not fluctuate like it had then for
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the rest of the night. I also remember personally
31:05
checking the thermostat and it was set at like 85 or something
31:10
crazy so the actual air conditioning wasn't even on
31:13
until we turned it on. So I found that weird to say the
31:17
least. The record player and TV turned
31:20
on by themselves multiple times throughout the night, which of
31:24
course we found odd. The old record player didn't
31:27
have any sort of a timer whatsoever, and given the age of
31:31
the CRTV as well, it didn't appear to have a timer that we
31:35
could find that would have caused this.
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Besides some strange feelings throughout the day and then into
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the night, we didn't get a ton of interaction through the
31:44
kitchen. Although it was blocked off, we
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decided to look past it and go down the stairs and witness the
31:50
pentagram, which for one reason or another had been burned out
31:53
on the floor in the basement. And I do have to say that the
31:56
basement itself was extremely creepy.
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You can feel some very bad vibes originating from there, so I
32:03
wouldn't be surprised if some kind of black magic ritual or
32:07
rituals were potentially done down there.
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I almost forgot, but as I was reviewing the original footage,
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I did find that we did capture an EVP and I'll go ahead and
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play that for you now. With black mold in the walls of
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this very old home, we decided not to stay overnight because
32:47
you weren't supposed to sleep there anyways.
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Having taken plenty of video and photo evidence, we began to
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place things we had taken from Sally's room back.
32:57
And when my friend, whose name is also Cody but with AC, placed
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one of those Magic 8 ball toys back on the bed, a touch
33:05
activated toy decided to go off on its own.
33:08
In this particular 1, you had to tap its head fairly hard to get
33:12
it to go off. I remember all of us being
33:14
freaked out by it. I remember it was extremely
33:18
foggy that night, which added to the mystique, especially of my
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first paranormal adventure for sure.
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Or one that didn't occur of course, in in a home that I
33:28
lived in. We took one last look at the
33:30
Sally house before departing. Into our shock, all the lights
33:35
decided to turn on within the home.
33:37
From what we could see, both the upstairs and the main floor
33:40
lights. The breaker was the original.
33:43
So this too seems rather impossible to have just occurred
33:47
on its own without some kind of ghostly intervention.
33:51
Our code only worked for entering so we weren't able to
33:53
get back into the home following this, but granted it was 2:00 AM
33:57
at this point so we decided to drive home.
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We would hit a pothole and one of our tires kept going flat on
34:04
our way home, which definitely was not fun all around.
34:09
I would return, knowing what I know now and having much better
34:14
equipment and resources and far more experienced friends by my
34:18
side. I think we would catch a lot
34:21
more. It's my belief that for one
34:23
reason or another, that the Sally Houses may be dormant or
34:27
not as haunted as it once was, and that it's still very
34:31
possible that a demonic presence still slithers within its walls,
34:35
masquerading itself as the soul. Of a little.
34:39
Girl named Sally. I took the original documentary
34:43
down due to some copyrighted image issues earlier this year
34:46
as well as the origin story that I had originally made, but I
34:50
think I did a far better job this time.
34:52
Anyways, some of the photos and footage I've shown you while
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explaining my trip there I originally took and filmed
34:59
myself. The Sally House was made famous
35:02
in part by the old show Sightings who filmed a segment
35:06
for an episode on it which was picked up by local and then
35:09
later national media. As well as Deborah Pikman would
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go on to write a book which I found to be a great read called
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The Sally House Haunting, which you can find on Amazon and I'll
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link it below. With that being said, would you
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like to see me return to the Sally House for a proper
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investigation and what are your thoughts on the case?
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What do you think is still haunting this Topeka, KS house?
35:36
Let me know down in the comments below.
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Searching for the ideal place to settle, a young family moves
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into a new home, believing their prayers have been answered.
36:50
However, just a year later, they find themselves gone, never to
36:56
return. They're left questioning just
36:59
who truly answered those prayers and what exactly invaded their
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lives. An enigmatic entity that
37:06
perpetrated violence and terror upon them.
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The Untold story of the Black Monk of Pontifract.
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In September 1954, Bill Farrah and his wife Barbara moved into
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a new home in the historic market town of Pontefract,
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England. They were a young family with a
37:51
2 year old daughter named Jane. At 30 E Drive with its three
37:57
bedrooms, this should have been their ideal home.
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Yet less than a year later they moved out.
38:05
The fairs quickly had grown terrified of their new home.
38:09
Their dream had seemingly become a nightmare.
38:13
Objects moved on their own, voices echoed and empty rooms
38:18
and halls, and large rips and tears appeared on their
38:23
furniture out of nowhere, forming an ominous atmosphere
38:28
that began to smother them. All these events would culminate
38:32
one night when Bill and Barbara found their daughter crying, her
38:37
small face inexplicably covered in scratches, small trickles of
38:42
blood dripping from each slash with no rational cause.
38:49
The family had no pets to blame for their daughter Jane's
38:52
injuries, and even after they placed cotton mitts on her
38:56
hands, the wounds continued to appear.
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The poor child cried every night, leaving her parents
39:05
scared and confused about what to do and just what could be
39:10
happening. One day, Barbara frantically
39:14
rushed upstairs at the piercing sound of her child's cries.
39:18
What she discovered would shake her to her core.
39:23
She would find a pillow placed over Jane's face as if someone
39:28
or something was attempting to extinguish her young life.
39:34
At that moment, the answer became clear.
39:38
The family had to leave, and leave immediately.
39:42
So they did. They would leave the house and
39:46
its dark forces, friends and neighbors of the Pharaohs.
39:50
The Pritchard family would be convinced by the Pharaoh family
39:55
to switch homes with them, ultimately leaving them at the
39:58
mercy of whatever malevolent forces that dwelt within the
40:02
walls. August of 1966, the Pritchards
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would move into the old Pharaoh residence.
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Their new home was quite a bit larger than their last and
40:14
seemed to be the answer to their prayers.
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The Prichard family consisted of father Joe, mother Jean, and
40:22
their small children, daughter Diane and son Philip.
40:27
Shortly after moving in, however, the same strange
40:30
occurrences began to manifest. Strange sounds such as banging
40:36
and knocking began to be heard, reverberating throughout the
40:41
house with no rational origin. Horde's smells began to waft
40:47
throughout the house as well, again with no explanation as to
40:52
what could be causing them. The children 1st and then the
40:56
parents began to be terrified by a shadowy dark figure that began
41:02
to make its presence known at various hours of the day and
41:07
night, seemingly watching their every move.
41:12
Gene Pritchard ended up giving the creepy figure several
41:15
nicknames. She called it Fred and Mr.
41:19
Nobody but history would come to know the entity by a very
41:23
different and certainly a scarier name by most standards,
41:28
the black Monk of Pontefract. The Pritchards, noticing that
41:34
these happenings were far from normal, approached their former
41:38
neighbors, the Pharaohs, and asked them if they had ever
41:42
experienced anything weird when they had lived there.
41:46
The Pharaohs would say no in August of 1980.
41:53
The Prichard family had long been suffering from the
41:56
haunting. Colin Wilson, a well known
42:00
writer on subjects including the paranormal and mysticism,
42:05
visited the family after being tipped off by a local historian,
42:09
a man named Tom Kuniff. Kuniff had stumbled across
42:13
newspaper clippings from the late 1960s alleging that a
42:18
Pontifract family had experienced poltergeist
42:21
phenomena. As he dug deeper into the
42:24
history of the area, he discovered a rather disturbing
42:28
story, one that he believed could be connected to the
42:32
haunting itself. In the 16th century, a monk was
42:36
executed for the brutal assault and murders of several young
42:41
victims. Upon reading that the family was
42:44
being stalked by a shadowy roped figure, he put two and two
42:49
together during his research. Upon discovering that the family
42:54
still lived in the same house, couldn't have contacted Wilson,
42:58
prompting Wilson to journey to Yorkshire to interview them to
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see if perhaps they could get to the bottom of things.
43:06
With the information provided by Wilson's records, a more
43:10
detailed version of the haunting chronologically begins to
43:14
emerge. According to Wilson's records,
43:18
in August 1966, on that Thursday most of the family Joe
43:24
Pritchard, his wife Jean and their 12 year old daughter Diane
43:29
were on holiday in Devon, leaving their 15 year old son
43:33
Philip and Jean's mother Sarah Scholes and her sister Marie at
43:39
home. Philip had reached the age when
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family holidays had lost their appeal, so as most adolescents
43:46
do, he spent much time to himself reading in the family
43:50
garden. That Thursday, while outside,
43:54
Philip returned indoors to get himself a drink.
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As he did this, he noticed something bizarre.
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His grandmother, sitting in the living room heavily focused on
44:06
her knitting, was completely oblivious to a Gray hued cloud
44:10
floating around her. Philip would later say that it
44:15
was a chalk like powdery substance, and from this cloud
44:20
it appeared to be falling from, not from the ceiling.
44:24
The top half of the room was perfectly clear, and yet curious
44:28
dust seemed to materialize from nowhere.
44:32
Weirded out, Philip returned to the kitchen only to find several
44:36
large pools of water covering the floor with no apparent
44:40
origin. Then heading back to the living
44:43
room, he saw the dust or a cloud had continued to fall like a
44:49
miniature snowstorm, forming a fine white layer on the
44:53
furniture and even on top of his grandmother.
44:58
Rushing to another room to get his aunt's attention, he would
45:02
bring her out into the living room or she would notice the
45:05
very same thing. Unsure of just what it could be,
45:09
she called to her mother to gain her attention and get her out of
45:13
whatever the cloud or strange powder seemed to be.
45:17
Heading towards the kitchen to get her cleaned up, she too
45:21
would notice the puddles of water everywhere.
45:24
As Marie tried to mop up in the kitchen, new puddles supposedly
45:29
manifested. She would pull up the linoleum
45:32
to reveal no leak underneath, and the water wasn't falling
45:36
from above them either. So just like the dust in the
45:39
other room, the puddles seemed to have come from nowhere.
45:44
The odd drama intensified when, after the water supply to the
45:47
house was turned off by a helpful neighbor, the water
45:51
company was called to the property.
45:54
Pipes were checked, the linoleum lifted once again and drains
45:59
examined, but nothing was found to be broken or blocked.
46:04
The water companies suggested that some strange condensation
46:08
caused by the summer weather might be responsible, but after
46:13
about an hour they left and the mysterious puddles stopped
46:18
appearing. However, before the day ended,
46:22
more odd happenings were reported.
46:25
Sugar and tea leaves were emptied from their dispensers in
46:28
the kitchen and sprinkled all across the countertops.
46:32
Cupboards vibrated and shook, and loud bangs were heard from
46:36
upstairs. A plant which was usually
46:39
located at the foot of the staircase, was also mysteriously
46:43
transported halfway up it's pot found separately on the landing
46:48
above. Unable to tolerate the house any
46:51
longer, Phillip and his grandmother left with and would
46:55
spend the night with Aunt Marie Victoria Kelly.
46:59
Marie's husband, unhappy with the strange situation,
47:04
reportedly phoned the police to check on the House with Victoria
47:09
present. Upon law enforcement's arrival,
47:12
everything seemed normal, with no intruder being found.
47:17
Nothing else seemed out of place either, until they found a glass
47:21
shattered on the floor and one of Joe and Gene Pritchard's
47:26
wedding photos. The photo itself slashed from
47:31
side to side as if with a sharp knife, chilled to his core.
47:37
Victoria simply followed the officers back outside of the
47:40
home and then closed the front door of 30 E Drive and returned
47:48
to his home. When Jean, Joe and Diane
47:52
returned from their holiday, Sarah relayed the unsettling
47:56
events to them. There was a disbelief at first,
48:00
but as she spoke, everyone would hear three loud and distinct
48:05
bangs reverberate throughout the home.
48:09
Then a cold wind blew through the house, almost as if the
48:14
entity had perhaps left. But that was far from what would
48:21
happen. It was merely seemingly taking a
48:24
break. According to testimonies
48:27
recorded by Colin Wilson, the haunting truly resumed for the
48:32
Pritchards in 1968 when Jean decided to redecorate Diane's
48:38
bedroom. As I've noticed while studying
48:41
numerous other hauntings, construction or redecoration are
48:46
essentially changing. What once was seems to be a way
48:50
to disturb or wake up whatever forces, good or bad, that could
48:55
be dwelling within a space. Following this, mysterious
49:00
temperature changes began to be experienced.
49:03
Inexplicable bangs and knocks once again plagued the family
49:09
and daily household items such as, in one instance a paintbrush
49:14
began to be flung across the room by unseen hands.
49:19
One just so happened to barely miss Jean's face by mere inches
49:24
during the remodel itself. It's even been claimed that
49:28
Missus Pritchard witnessed in the dim moonlight one night as
49:33
she went to the bathroom, a long strip of wallpaper standing on
49:38
end and swaying like a cobra. When she attempted to grab it,
49:45
the strip simply fell to the floor, causing a feeling of fear
49:50
to grip her that one would seldomly experience otherwise
49:56
horrifically within the same room that was being remodeled.
50:00
Not too long after this occurred, the family vacuum flew
50:05
into the air, swinging around as if wielded by giant invisible
50:12
hands. Screaming, Jean dropped onto all
50:16
fours and rushed back to her daughter as wallpaper and
50:22
various objects continued to be thrown towards her.
50:26
The unseen presence in the house had returned and it seemed more
50:30
aggressive than ever, particularly fixated on Diane's
50:34
bedroom. What followed was described as
50:38
nine months of chaos in which all manner of violent activity
50:43
was reported. Bangs and thumps echoed from
50:47
Diane's bedroom with such physical aggression that she
50:51
occasionally took to sleeping in her parents room.
50:55
Ornaments were thrown and levitated, and lights flickered
50:59
on and off repeatedly. One day, the entire contents of
51:05
the family's China cabinet were reportedly hurled onto the
51:09
floor, with not a single precious item being smashed or
51:14
chipped in the process. One evening, a particularly
51:18
chilling incident marked an escalation in the severity of
51:23
the activity and Diane's room. Yet again, the lights randomly
51:28
went out and a huge shadow appeared on the wall before her.
51:34
As she witnessed this first hand in the hallway, her mother
51:38
scrambled with a flashlight to try and turn the lights back on.
51:42
As the teenage girl watched, a heavy oak hall stand floated
51:47
into the air and rushed towards her with incredible speed.
51:53
In her attempt to escape, Diane tripped and fell her back up
51:58
against the stairs, with the hall stand being thrown on top
52:03
of her. The weight of the piece of
52:05
furniture pressed down on her small body, pinning her against
52:09
the steps as she struggled to breathe and free herself.
52:14
Another heavy object, a sewing machine that had been on top of
52:19
the stand, was also thrown onto her.
52:22
When the lights finally illuminated the scene, her
52:26
family rushed to help, but the hall stand was too heavy and
52:31
firmly positioned to move. Gene and Jo struggled to free
52:36
their daughter, and yet, strangely, despite the pressure,
52:41
Diane was unharmed. The heavy furniture was merely
52:45
being held in place by some invisible force, enough to keep
52:51
her trapped, but not to injure her.
52:55
When instructed to release her, the force seemingly obliged,
53:01
finally allowing the hall stand and sewing machine to be
53:05
removed. The poltergeist then seemed
53:08
particularly fascinated with Diane Pritchard.
53:11
In addition to the hall stand incident, it was reported that
53:15
she was tossed from her bed as many as four times in a night by
53:20
the unseen entity. Her bedroom often turned icy
53:24
cold, and she told her parents it felt as if though someone was
53:28
present with her, always watching her and lurking just
53:34
beyond her sight. On one occasion, while standing
53:38
in the living room, combing her hair in front of a mirror, a
53:42
brass crucifix that she found comfort in with her faith was
53:47
thrown from a shelf and struck her in the back, sticking to her
53:52
skin like a magnet. When the crucifix finally fell
53:57
away, her mother inspected her and discovered a cross shaped
54:02
red mark on her skin between her shoulder blades.
54:06
The mark left reportedly lasted for days, showing the strong
54:11
force of which it had been thrown with.
54:15
Before long. The house at 30 E Dr. gained
54:18
quite the local reputation after being featured in 2 Yorkshire
54:23
newspapers in September of 1968. People either actively avoided
54:29
the house or sought to engage with the alleged haunting.
54:34
Ghost hunters attempted to gain admission into the residence and
54:39
it was even reported that a group of students who requested
54:43
permission to camp in the garden were forced to settle for the
54:47
large round grass verge in front of the house when Gene Pritchard
54:52
declined their request. However, even from that
54:56
distance, the group claimed to still have heard an assortment
54:59
of bangs and crashes. Along with this new found fame,
55:05
it became commonplace for the Pritchard's family's neighbors
55:08
to experience disturbances within their own homes, as the
55:13
noises were reportedly that loud emanating from the Pritchard
55:17
residence. When all the family's
55:20
possessions upstairs in the bedrooms were allegedly thrown
55:23
out of windows and onto the ground below, it was impossible
55:28
for anyone in the area to deny that something bizarre was
55:33
happening, something that no one could truly comprehend or truly
55:38
understand. Eventually, the family began
55:42
calling their unwanted houseguest Mr. Nobody, later
55:46
nicknaming it Fred. Despite its attempts to force
55:50
them out, however, the Prichard family remained.
55:54
When a local preacher, a man named Reverend Davy, advised the
55:58
family that something evil lurked in their home and that
56:02
they should move, Gene reportedly scoffed at him,
56:06
asking him why should I be driven out of my home by a
56:11
ghost? This was certainly a testament
56:14
to the family's resolve. No doubt.
56:18
As the disturbances worsened and the activity further
56:22
intensified, the family yet continued to persevere.
56:28
Perfectly good and often newly purchased food would spoil
56:32
something strange that became a calling card for the entity, as
56:36
if whatever it was brought death and decay along with it.
56:42
Aside from spoiling food, Mr. Nobody, as they called it, but
56:47
also often smear jam on door handles and would often throw
56:52
toilet paper all over the house. Fine China plates and cups would
56:56
be thrown onto the floor, sometimes shattered and other
57:01
times perfectly fine. But yet, despite being watched
57:05
by the dark, robed figure that had plagued them for years and
57:10
all of its accompanying terror, the family still refused to be
57:15
chased away, even after both Gene and Joe saw the tall,
57:20
shadowy figure with a hood standing in their bedroom
57:24
doorway. They had been in bed when they
57:27
heard the door creak open, and both turned to see the
57:31
terrifying apparition. Others reported seeing the tall
57:35
figure in a long hooded garment as well.
57:38
At night, frightened family members heard loud labored
57:42
breathing outside of their doors became clear that Mister Nobody,
57:48
or as he was increasingly known as the Monk, was gaining power.
57:55
It was if the creature fed off of their fear.
57:59
The activity would peak yet again one evening when all of
58:03
the lights went out and Diane, along with her mother and
58:07
brother, would experience something dark that none of them
58:12
would ever forget. As the family huddled together
58:15
in the dark, trying to find their way around the home, Diane
58:20
suddenly, as if she had been grabbed by large invisible
58:24
hands, was forcibly dragged up the stairs by her throat.
58:30
Colin Wilson, who documented the events in his book, noted that
58:34
Diane's cardigan was stretched out in front of her as if the
58:38
monk was tugging on it with one hand while gripping her neck
58:43
with the other. Roused by her screams and gasps
58:46
for air, Philip and Jean rushed to pull Diane back down the
58:50
stairs, but they were both repelled, thrown back by what
58:56
felt like large, clawed hands. Fighting for her life and on the
59:01
verge of blacking out as she struggled, Diane fortunately
59:07
would ultimately be freed almost as quickly as she had been
59:11
attacked. Philip later explained that it
59:14
was as though his thought of trying to touch the presence had
59:18
caused it to release his sister. When the family inspected the
59:23
profusely shaking and traumatized girl, once the
59:26
lights turned back on, they would see red hand marks around
59:30
her neck. To say they were terrified was
59:33
perhaps an understatement. Although they collectively
59:37
didn't want to leave their home, they desperately wished for the
59:41
entity to depart. The family would contact
59:45
religious figures, they would pray and sprinkle holy water
59:49
throughout the entire property. But despite their best efforts,
59:53
nothing seemed to work. In fact, these actions seem to
59:58
exacerbate the disturbances, almost as if they were angering
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the entity itself with their efforts.
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One of Joe's friends. Recently returned from Scotland
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recounted how people there hung garlic over doors and windows to
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keep out spirits. Fascinatingly, when the
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Pritchards followed suit, the activity diminished, eventually
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disappearing all together. Thus, what began for the
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Pritchards in August of 1966 ceased after two years by May of
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1969. When Colin met with the family
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in 1980, he reported no ongoing activity, although it's not
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exactly clear when the home would eventually find its way
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into the hands of a man who's all too familiar with the
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paranormal, an investigator named Richard Estep.
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If these accounts are true, the events at 30 E Drive appear to
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be a classic case of poltergeist activity, similar to many other
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documented instances of spirit hauntings like the Enfield
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Poltergeist in 1977. The activity is often centered
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around adolescence, and there were adolescents present in this
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case as well. First a 15 year old Philip in
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1966 and then an aged 15 Diane in 1968.
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Wilson oddly noted that nothing seemed to occur in the house
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while Diane was at school. Objects, even large and heavy
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items like solid oak furniture, were said to move on their own
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accord, Food too appearing irresistible to the entity.
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Food at 30 E Drive, besides rotting and being moved and
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displaced, would also mysteriously manifest bite
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marks. The appearance of puddles of
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water on the kitchen floor at the beginning of the Pontifrag
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case is also a hallmark of other poltergeist occurrences.
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The respected parapsychology researcher Guy Lyon Playfair
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suggested that the neat puddles found in the Prichard home and
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others allegedly haunted by poltergeists might be some form
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of condensation of the energy used by the entities.
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The activity disappearing is the children.
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Transition from adolescence to adulthood is also consistent
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with other poltergeist cases. Yet despite these claims, many
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argue that activity at 30 E Drive never truly ceased,
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asserting that it predates the Prichards and their teenage
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children by over a decade. At the beginning of this story,
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I referenced A testimony from the Farrah family and their two
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year old daughter Jane, who had lived at the property before the
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Prichard's. This particular testimony was
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presented in the 2019 book The Black Monk of Pontifract and
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alleges horrific events, including the baby girl covered
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in scratch Marks and told of the attempted suffocation of the
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same child at what is presumed to be the same black monk entity
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that haunted the Pritchards. However, it's peculiar that Jean
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and Joe didn't report similar experiences regarding their
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young children having taken over 30 E Drive from the Pharaohs in
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the mid 1950s. By the time of the alleged onset
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of activity in August of 1966, they'd been in the house for
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several years, Yet as far as we know, it didn't target them in
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the same way. But why would this be the case?
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Perhaps the poltergeist, or whatever it was, maybe a demonic
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entity, was in a state of paranormal hibernation for a
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decade or more and was woken up, so to speak, for one reason or
1:04:03
another. Yet this inconsistency becomes
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all the more intriguing when one examines the 2019 book The Black
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Monk of Pontifract. Indeed, the authors of the text,
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paranormal researcher Richard Estep and the current owner of
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30 E Drive, film producer Bill Bungie, argue that Bill Farah
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and his family represent a previously unknown origin of the
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Pontefract case in their book. This new starting point is
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ultimately used to support their conclusion that the Black Monk
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of Pontefract is less likely to be a poltergeist and more likely
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to be a demonic entity, one that remains on the property to this
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day. It is indisputable that the
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Farrah family not only existed but also lived at the property
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before the Pritchard's, and there's ample record to prove
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this. In fact, the author's claims
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were allegedly presented from Mr. Farrah himself, but the
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family moved into 30 E Drive in September of 1954 and would
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leave within a year due to horrific activity.
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In the aforementioned book, the readers treated to tales of the
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dark monk, which are accompanied by many photographs of dark
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demonic entities captured within the walls of the home.
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Does this house still exist? It most certainly does Today.
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The former council house is just as famous as it is creepy.
1:05:37
Those who visit the site have documented many scratches and
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suffocating sensations as well as capturing numerous
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photographs of the alleged black monk entity itself.
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These alleged pieces of evidence accompanied with the two
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families who lived there and the current owners experiences, we
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are left with more questions than answers.
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A few of my questions are these just who was this black monk?
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If they did exist, what drove them to such madness to abuse
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the young? Are they perhaps a man of God at
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one point and ultimately corrupted by darkness?
1:06:20
The same darkness that would corrupt them in life and consume
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them in death? Perhaps this is what led to the
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violent manifestations that affected all of those who
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crossed the threshold of 30 E Drive.
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Was the entity A malevolent human spirit?
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A demonic entity or a textbook case of poltergeist activity.
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All questions we truly may never have the answers to.
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But one thing is certain. There was something that called
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the house at 30 E Drive in Pontefract Home.
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Something that was not of this world.
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A dark, robed and lurking presence that stalked those who
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dwelt there in the land of the living.
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Perhaps it still lurks there, stalking, watching and waiting
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for the right time to awake and wreak havoc upon those of us who
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still breathe and whose hearts still beat.
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Thank you guys so much for watching this special episode of
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He said that they would have enjoyed the episode as well that
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had recently passed away. I hope I did the story justice
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