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3 Hour Marathon Of Paranormal And Unexplained Stories · Mystery Archives Episodes

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  If the walls of certain homes could speak, some of the stories
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  they would tell would more than likely shock and amaze us, or
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  perhaps repulse and terrify us instead.
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  This is one such story that if a house could tell its own tale,
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  it would certainly be one we would never forget.
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  A family moves to the country in search of peace, but those
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  dreams are soon shattered by supernatural terror.
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  Something evil lurks within the woods outside of their home, and
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  this evil begins to stalk and wreak havoc upon everyone that
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  dwells within the home. Can they save themselves before
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  it's too late? This is the untold story of the
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  haunted Hinsdale House, also known as the Dandy House, and
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  the entities that infested it. Hinsdale, NY, a small town with
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  a rustic and rural charm, tucked deep into the countryside and
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  far away from the crime, concrete and smog of New York
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  City. Instead of gazing at
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  skyscrapers, they would rather gaze at the surrounding
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  mountains covered in dense foliage.
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  But these mountains and their surrounding woods harbor many
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  secrets and have many stories to tell.
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  This is just one of them. The year is 1970 and the Dandy
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  family is in pursuit of their American dream.
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  After years of vacationing to Hinsdale and the surrounding
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  areas to catch a break from their fast-paced life in
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  Buffalo, they finally reached a point where they can turn their
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  vacation into their daily life. Seeking their own rural
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  paradise, they come across a listing for a home that seems
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  idyllic for their family and its needs.
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  Clara Dandy, the mother of the family, believed that they all
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  got along so much better in the country, like it had some form
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  of redemption qualities about it that seemed to rejuvenate their
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  spirits and their relationships. As they wind their way through
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  the countryside, they lay eyes on the home for the first time.
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  They are not only taken aback by the beauty and the sheer size of
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  the house, but that it sat upon 8 acres of land surrounded by
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  dense and breathtaking woods. Clara would describe her
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  feelings about first seeing the house as being overcome with a
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  deep sense of peace. It was like I'd finally come
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  home after years of being elsewhere.
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  And the air, the air was like breathing champagne.
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  It was wonderful. The home is over 100 years old
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  and still had most of the original and ornate woodwork
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  intact. It just seemed to emanate charm
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  and elegance. As the children explored the
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  nearby woods, Mr. and Missus Dandy continued their tour, but
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  when they were being shown the storage space underneath the
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  stairs, the door was initially stuck, but after some elbow
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  grease from Mr. Dandy, they were finally able to get it open.
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  It revealed a dusty space of sorts with a fireplace, the one
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  that didn't seem to fit the feeling of the house at all.
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  Clara would describe her feelings towards the space like
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  this. I wasn't sure why, but I felt
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  very uneasy when we opened up the storage space.
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  I couldn't put my finger on it, but it was dark and desolate,
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  not at all like the rest of the house.
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  But she quickly would dismiss these feelings, attributing the
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  creepy factor to her city upbringing and the fact that
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  they didn't have storage rooms like that where she was from.
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  After closing the space and continuing to evaluate their
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  opportunity, the feelings of peace would return and the
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  dandies decide that they can't resist the charm of this rustic
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  100 year old home, so they decide to purchase it once
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  things are squared away. Several months later they move
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  in to start their new rural existence.
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  On move in day, Claire's brother decided to lend a helping hand
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  and had begun to move things in hours before the family was able
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  to arrive. When loading in a box of
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  belongings, as he opened the door he was greeted by a flurry
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  of insects. Both bees and flies pelted him
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  in his face, rushing past them and then unloading the box onto
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  the floor in the main room. He was startled to see hundreds
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  of dead bees scattered all over the floor, and even more
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  startled to see hundreds still alive encoding the windows.
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  It was still cold during this time of year and although he too
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  wasn't from the country, he found it rather odd that there
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  would be any kind of infestation at this time.
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  When his sister and her family finally arrive, he greets her
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  with the news and in order to continue with the move in, they
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  have to call an exterminator. Upon his arrival, he too
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  confirms the oddity of the situation.
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  He said that he had never seen so many bees and flies in one
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  spot in a home, and given this time of year, it was not normal
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  for them to swarm or infest anything during this time.
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  It takes some time, but after he finishes clearing them out, the
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  family is finally able to get moved in.
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  As time progresses, things seem to fit the dreams they had for
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  moving there in the 1st place. The family finally seems at
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  peace. They were getting along better
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  and enjoying each other's company, a far departure from
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  their city life in Buffalo. But as the old adage goes, if it
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  seems too good to be true, it is.
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  A few weeks into living and what they believed was going to be
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  their rural paradise, their son Mike has met and made friends
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  with a nearby neighbor. Together, they begin to explore
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  the woods surrounding the Dandy property.
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  As the two navigate the forest, they're startled when they hear
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  the crunching of leaves directly in front of them.
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  Stopping frozen in their tracks and fearing that it could be a
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  bear, they take refuge behind a large tree and sneak glimpses
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  from round its sides to figure out just what it could be.
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  To their shock, they spot a boy not much older than them
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  carrying a rifle and walking in the path ahead.
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  Yelling at the boy that this is private property and wanting to
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  know what he was doing there, they run towards him and try to
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  catch up to him. They again freeze in their
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  tracks when they notice that not only is the boy transparent the
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  closer they get, but half of his head is missing.
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  As the figure continues to walk and taking deep breaths, they
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  slowly continue to follow him. The three approach a small lake.
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  Within the blink of an eye, the boy vanishes.
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  Mike and his friend are at a loss for words and have no
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  explanation for what they saw. They quickly rush back to the
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  Dandy house as fast as they can to tell anyone who will listen
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  to them. They soon make contact with
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  Clara and explain to her what took place, but she's quick to
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  dismiss their experience as nothing more than overactive
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  imaginations. Another several weeks pass by
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  and Clara has all but forgotten about what her son had told her.
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  She's now walking the family dog, Madison, in the woods for
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  some fresh air and exercise. As they get deeper into the
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  forest, Clara starts to hear what can only be described as
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  chanting. As she stops to listen, it
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  sounds eerie and disembodied, as if the sound is all around her
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  but has no true origin. It's at this time that Madison
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  begins growling and barking. The longer she seems to focus on
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  the chanting, the louder it seems to become.
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  Madison by this point is losing her mind and breaks free from a
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  distracted Clara and bolts in the direction of their home.
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  Clara chases her down and she finally stops running when she
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  makes it to the front door of their estate.
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  After taking a moment to collect herself, Clara then calls her
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  husband, who, like she was to her son, was quick to dismiss
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  her feelings, thinking that she just had to adjust to rural life
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  and wasn't used to it being so different from their life in the
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  city. Frustrated and worried now about
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  what the chanting could have been, Clara talks with her son
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  about her experience while she prepares dinner for the family.
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  Mike thinks that it could have been some campers at a nearby
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  campground not too far from where their property line ends
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  that could have been the cause of the strange sounds.
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  To try and put his mother at ease, he and his friend Matt
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  once again take to the woods to explore this possibility.
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  As they venture further into the woods to the lookout point
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  towards the campsite, they see nothing.
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  There are no signs of any campers that could be nearby
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  enough to have caused such a noise.
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  Even more perplexed now that there was no explanation, the
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  boys start to make their way back to the house when suddenly
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  they hear what sounds like an axe thudding into a tree right
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  next to them, unsure of what that noise could have been.
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  Before they could even begin to ponder or investigate, they hear
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  a woman screaming to their left. This frightens them so bad, but
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  the two young men run as fast as they can all the way back to the
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  Dandy's home. When they arrive, Mike is truly
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  scared this time. He has no way of explaining his
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  mother's experience or any of his own either.
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  Upon relaying this information to Clara, both of them are left
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  beside themselves now with a chill up both of their spines.
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  But these weird events thus far would only intensify as the
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  sands of time continue to trickle into the hourglass.
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  It has now been months since the initial experiences, and besides
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  the oddities they were, the family's life continues to be
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  great. This distance from the
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  experiences only makes them ever easier to dismiss in the minds
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  of Clara and Mike. One day, Phil or Mr. Dandy
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  decides to take the children, Mike and Tina, into Buffalo for
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  the day to get some errands done.
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  Mostly being a homebody, Clara decides to forgo the trip with
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  her family and relax at home reading her latest book instead.
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  When her family departs, Clara finds herself curled up on the
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  couch and immersed in her latest story as a warm breeze drifts
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  through the open windows of the house.
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  As she reads page to page, she is suddenly startled when the
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  window closest to her slam shut. Upon investigating, it makes no
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  sense to her because the breeze was light, not forceful at all,
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  and their windows were fairly new, which made it all the
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  stranger. But as she always does, she
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  dismisses the happening as nothing more than a weird
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  coincidence and heads back to her book.
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  Several nights later, as Mike lay asleep in his bed, he's
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  suddenly woken up when a nearby box of a chess game drops onto
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  his chest. The storage shelf is directly
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  above his head, so opening his eyes he glances up to see if
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  perhaps it could have been hanging too far off the edge,
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  causing it to fall. And to his shock, he begins to
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  see several more boxes slowly shifting towards the edge by
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  themselves. The lowest one then suddenly
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  flies out from the rest and smacks him in the chest.
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  Terrified, he sits up, trying to catch his breath.
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  He has no way of explaining how the lowest box could be pulled
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  and thrown with such force without bringing the rest of the
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  boxes with it, as if someone or something had grabbed and thrown
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  it by a will of its own. Calling out to his mom in the
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  darkness, she soon arrives in the doorway of his room.
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  Being a very science and logic minded person, Mike has no way
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  to explain what has happened. Examining the pile, Clara too is
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  perplexed and becomes just as scared when another box from a
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  different pile flies across the room, causing both of them to
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  scream in terror and run out as fast as possible.
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  Trying to make sense of what was taking place, Clara fears that
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  whatever could be lurking in the woods has been stalking her
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  family and has slowly but surely, like a malignant stain,
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  invaded her home. As her fears turned into a
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  revelation, Claire decides to reach out to a local priest for
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  help, hoping her faith will help her come up with some answers
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  and better yet, some solutions. She speaks with a priest named
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  Father Alphonsus at the University of Saint Bonaventure.
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  He believes that the activity could be a poltergeist, but
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  given the intelligent nature of how it seemed to be behaving,
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  Clara has her doubts, but nonetheless, once an expert's
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  opinion and assistance. So arrangements are made for the
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  Father to come out and bless the home, and after several days he
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  arrives. On April 13th, 1975, the
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  cleansing begins. As the family and the priest
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  were all gathered together, and as he began to speak, a series
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  of horrible wailing and moaning noises began to fill the home as
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  if the house itself was crying. The scent of burning matter also
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  quickly enveloped the house. The activity reached a fever
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  pitch when the priest opened and began to pray over the crawl
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  space that was underneath the stairs.
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  But after this, a blissful silence overtook them all.
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  It was if whatever entities that dwelled within the walls of the
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  dandies home had finally been evicted.
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  Within time, the father gathered his things, exchanged
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  pleasantries and departed for the evening.
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  The family now believed that their darkest days were behind
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  them, and for all intents and purposes, that seemed to be the
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  case. But as if to mock the Holy
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  Trinity itself, three months later to the day, all hell would
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  break loose once again. That night, while her husband is
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  away on a business trip, Clara finds herself woken up out of a
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  dead sleep by a series of knocks coming from inside the walls.
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  The knocks themselves are soon accompanied with whispers from
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  someone that she can't see. As she apprehensively makes her
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  way from her room and slowly down the stairs headed towards
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  the main level, the apparition of a young girl begins to walk
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  by the stairs. She slowly makes her way to the
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  crawl space, opens the door and closes it behind her.
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  Clara's baffled at the sight. After gathering up her courage
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  she too makes her way fully down the stairs into the crawl space
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  and after a moment of bracing herself she opens the door and
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  went to be met with nothing. Claire then makes her way to her
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  daughter Tina's room to make sure it somehow wasn't her and
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  perhaps her nerves were just on edge.
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  But after opening her door, she finds her fast asleep in her
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  bed, with no signs that she had been awake for some time.
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  The following morning, while the rest of her family is still
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  asleep, Tina wakes up to begin her day.
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  As she feeds her pet bird in its cage and begins to brush her
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  hair in her Oval mirror, she notices that her bird isn't
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  doing its usual whistles. As she glances over at them, she
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  finds it staring into the corner of the room.
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  As Tina glances back up at the mirror, she's met with the
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  apparition of a young girl. Her face is sunk in and her eyes
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  were gone. She screams in terror and just
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  as quickly as it appeared, the apparition disappears.
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  The screams of her daughter startles and quickly summons
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  Clara to her daughter's room. As she consoles Tina, she
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  realizes that the priest's blessings were ineffective.
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  She quickly calls Father Al back and explains what had taken
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  place the previous night and that morning, and although he is
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  busy, he promises to come back as soon as possible and this
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  time to bring a paranormal expert with him as well to help
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  him determine the cause and hopefully find a working
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  solution. He's able to come back the
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  following week. In the meantime, Clara's
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  determined to keep her family calm.
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  If she can control her own emotions, she knows that
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  everything else will be OK. As they wait for the priest to
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  return, Claire tries her best to keep her family calm and live
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  some sort of a normal existence. That weekend, her and Phil are
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  watching a movie while Mike and Tina are out with friends.
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  As they enjoy their time together, their happiness is
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  quickly shattered by a huge crashing noise coming from
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  outside of their house. Quickly grabbing a flashlight
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  and running outside to investigate together, they
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  quietly stepped towards where they believed the noise to be
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  originating from. And suddenly they hear it again.
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  But this time, thankfully for them, the origin is not
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  paranormal. This time, there's several
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  raccoons who happened to be forging through their metal
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  trash cans for something to eat. Relieved for that moment, they
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  start to make their way back to the house when they suddenly see
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  the figure of a young girl in their living room window,
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  staring at them as they rush inside.
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  They run up into Tina's room, where they find her incoherent
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  and staring into her Oval mirror.
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  They try to get her attention, but she's entirely unresponsive.
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  Her pale blue eyes. Or Black.
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  Panicking, they shake her and yell her name, not knowing what
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  else to do when she eventually comes back.
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  In that moment, and later, Tina will not recall how she got home
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  or what exactly happened. As the family tries to gather
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  themselves from the shock of what had just taken place, they
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  hear movement coming from Mike's room.
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  Phil tells his family not to leave Tina's room.
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  As he rushes to investigate, however, the home phone begins
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  to ring. It's Mike.
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  He's asking if he can stay the night at his friend Randy's
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  house. However, when told what was
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  going on, he quickly tells her that he's coming home to help in
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  any way that he can. Rushing to his car, Randy offers
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  to come with him, to which Mike agrees.
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  Randy would later recount that Mike's hands were sweating and
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  he was shaking, gripping the steering wheel.
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  He was pale. I asked him what was wrong, and
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  he said that things were happening at the house that he
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  couldn't explain. The boys quickly arrived to find
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  the family in chaos. Phil is prepared to do battle
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  with whatever forces within the house, and the girls are staying
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  close to one another, attempting to comfort each other.
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  As they try to determine a course of action, all the lights
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  in the house go out. They then begin to hear banging
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  and scratching coming from the crawl space.
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  Flashlight still in hand, Fill with the backup of his family,
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  shines the light towards it and begins to make his way towards
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  whatever this thing is. It seems like with each step he
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  takes, the sounds become louder, and after a tense several
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  seconds, he opens the door to the crawl space.
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  Inside, they find that the fireplace that was once there
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  has been completely disassembled.
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  Its bricks have now been stacked in an elaborate pile directly in
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  the middle of the small room. The amount of effort and
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  strength required to perform such a task convinces all of
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  them that whatever they're dealing with is strong,
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  persistent, and perhaps uncleansable.
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  Nonetheless, with their spirits waning, Claire makes a desperate
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  call to Father Al, who agrees to come earlier than originally
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  planned and makes emergency arrangements for himself and his
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  paranormal expert of a friend to come out that night.
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  They arrive as soon as possible. The paranormal expert is a man
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  by the name of Alex Tennis, a well respected paranormal
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  researcher and psychic whose abilities were studied at the
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  American Society of Psychic Research.
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  Together they make their way to the door of the Dandy House,
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  hoping to help rid this family of whatever seems to be stalking
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  them. After being let in, the family
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  quickly leads the pair to the crawl space to show them just
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  what they were talking about. Although he was aware that some
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  sort of activity was taking place, Alex had not been given
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  any additional details or information in regards to the
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  home, its history, or happenings.
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  As he steps into the crawlspace room, he begins to have a
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  vision. In his vision, he sees multiple
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  dead bodies stacked within the crawlspace itself.
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  After the vision subsides, Alex begins to explain to the family
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  what he saw. He believed that many had passed
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  away within the home itself, some of natural causes and some
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  of murder. It was his conviction that based
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  on what he saw, that the house used to be a stopping point for
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  a Stagecoach or perhaps some kind of inn where people would
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  stay the night before departing the following morning.
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  It was also his belief that there was a nearby criminal or
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  gang of criminals that would often rob and kill nearby
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  travellers, and that perhaps these souls somehow became
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  trapped here when someone passed or was found dead nearby.
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  Being the only stopping point in the area, their bodies would be
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  placed in the crawl space until they could receive a proper
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  burial. It was also his belief that
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  there were seven different spirits that were trapped within
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  the home all together. With this revelation, the
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  family. Alex and the Father pray that
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  the trapped spirits within the home find peace and be released
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  so that they may go on to their final destination.
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  Upon the pair's departure, Clara once again has renewed hope.
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  The home, as it did the first time around, seemed to be
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  cleansed and to be more peaceful.
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  Meanwhile, Mike and his friend Randy were skeptical of Alex's
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  conclusions. After he left, they used an old
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  map of the area to trace where he had said the old Stagecoach
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  route was. They did indeed find what they
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  believed to be an old trail that could have been used for such a
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  thing, and the trail passed right by the Dandy home.
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  But during their search, as they were following the trail out and
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  headed back to the house, they experienced strangeness of their
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  own. As they began to trace the
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  trail, they began to see what they described as orbs of light
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  in the nearby trees, and these orbs began to come at them.
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  Randy, having never seen or experienced anything
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  supernatural before, began to have a panic attack upon
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  arriving at the house. They were fortunately able to
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  get him calmed down. By this point it was late in the
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  night and the entire family needed to try and get some form
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  of sleep in order to function the following day.
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  Randy ended up staying the night since he had rode with Mike.
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  Once everyone else was settled down for the night and fast
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  asleep, Clara sat by herself weeping.
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  She felt that her and her family were helpless in the situation
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  and that all efforts have been exhausted and that they needed
• 26:45
  to move. The only problem was that all
• 26:48
  their money, every last dime, had been sunk into the house,
• 26:53
  leaving them stranded. She would continue to
• 26:56
  contemplate the future and would cry herself to sleep that night.
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  The following morning, as the family began to wake up and
• 27:05
  start to try and resume some form of normalcy, Mike went
• 27:09
  ahead and departed with Randy to take him home.
• 27:12
  Several hours would go by and Mike hadn't returned.
• 27:16
  Finally, there was a knock on the door.
• 27:19
  It was a police officer. He informed the family that
• 27:23
  there had been an accident, that they needed to head to the
• 27:26
  hospital as soon as possible. Rushing into the car into the
• 27:30
  hospital, the Dandy family wondered just what had happened.
• 27:34
  There had been no mention of Randy by the officer at the
• 27:37
  time. Upon arriving, they were briefed
• 27:41
  that Mike had lost control of his vehicle and crashed into a
• 27:44
  nearby ditch. He was now undergoing emergency
• 27:48
  surgery, he had extensive head injuries, a ruptured spleen that
• 27:53
  may have to be removed and that he had lost a very significant
• 27:57
  amount of blood. As they waited for the outcome
• 28:00
  of their son's surgery, the dandies were once again greeted
• 28:04
  by the officer who had knocked on their door.
• 28:07
  He explained to them that Randy had indeed been dropped off and
• 28:10
  that Mike had wrecked on his way back to the Dandy residence, but
• 28:15
  as he was being loaded into the ambulance, he kept saying that
• 28:18
  there was another person in the car with him.
• 28:21
  Although they believed him to be confused on account of his
• 28:24
  injuries. They went ahead and searched the
• 28:26
  area nonetheless, but another person was never found.
• 28:31
  After two weeks of being in a coma, Mike finally wakes up, but
• 28:36
  unfortunately has no recollection as to what exactly
• 28:40
  happened to him to cause the accident.
• 28:43
  Clara, however, believes that whatever presence that's been
• 28:47
  plugging their lives had to have been responsible for what
• 28:50
  happened to her son. After months of recovery for
• 28:54
  Mike and continued paranormal activity within the home, Father
• 28:59
  Alphonsus would return with Alex one last and final time at
• 29:04
  Claire's request to try and rid the home of the evil and
• 29:08
  persistent force that had drained the life out of all of
• 29:11
  them for years now. However, this time just the
• 29:16
  Father and Alex would perform the cleansing inside the home
• 29:20
  themselves. As they moved from room to room,
• 29:24
  Alex would once again experience multiple visions of the past.
• 29:29
  His visions would tell him that of the seven spirits who he
• 29:32
  believed to be within the house, one was that of a young man who
• 29:37
  had been in some kind of a war or battle near where the
• 29:40
  property sits now. Another was that of a young girl
• 29:44
  who had passed from some sort of very painful illness in what was
• 29:48
  now Tina's room. And there was another spirit
• 29:52
  that seemed to be keeping herself and others trapped
• 29:55
  within the house. It was the spirit of a woman who
• 29:59
  was incredibly angry and resentful.
• 30:02
  She continued to be possessive, depressive and just as angry and
• 30:07
  death as she was in life. Refusing to pass on believing
• 30:13
  what they had identified to be the source of the paranormal
• 30:16
  activity, Father Al decided to take a different approach to the
• 30:20
  cleansing itself. Although an exorcism cannot be
• 30:24
  performed on a place, but rather has to be performed on an
• 30:27
  individual, the rights themselves could in theory be
• 30:31
  performed or added to a series of prayers to try and use their
• 30:35
  strong cleansing powers to clear out a home such as this one.
• 30:40
  So that's exactly what the Father did.
• 30:43
  He began to perform the rites of exorcism within the house
• 30:47
  itself. As the prayers began to exit his
• 30:50
  lips, varying with intensity as the rights often do, the home
• 30:55
  began to literally shake and the horrific moaning and wailing
• 31:00
  that had made itself present in the very first cleansing seemed
• 31:04
  to return with a vengeance. Every horrible feeling, banging,
• 31:10
  knocking and scratching noise that the family had experienced
• 31:13
  thus far was present and seemed to be magnified.
• 31:18
  It takes hours, but eventually the rides are finished.
• 31:23
  As the dust settles, so to speak, the home seems peaceful
• 31:27
  and blissful, like it did when the family had first visited and
• 31:32
  decided to buy the home. And again, for three more
• 31:35
  months, the family lives in peace.
• 31:39
  But like the persistent force that has manifested itself to
• 31:42
  be, the haunting begins again. The Dandy family, despite their
• 31:48
  best efforts, simply cannot take it anymore, decide to cut their
• 31:52
  losses and move. Unable to find a buyer for their
• 31:57
  house, they eventually declare bankruptcy.
• 32:01
  Shortly after this, Phil and Clara would also divorce,
• 32:06
  bringing a sad and bitter end to what was supposed to be a rural
• 32:10
  redemption for the Dandy family. However, this wouldn't be the
• 32:15
  end of the story of the Hinsdale House.
• 32:19
  Eventually, the home would come into the possession of Daniel
• 32:23
  Klaus, who currently owns it. Daniel's a renowned paranormal
• 32:28
  investigator and has been involved with the likes of Nick
• 32:32
  Roth and has made appearances on tons of national TV programs
• 32:37
  centered around the paranormal over the years.
• 32:40
  Having been raised in a haunted house, this led to a lifelong
• 32:44
  fascination with the Paranormal Forum.
• 32:47
  After years of restoration, it is now available for both
• 32:50
  investigations and tours and is still considered a very active
• 32:56
  paranormal portal and is kept open as a paranormal research
• 33:00
  location. It's even staged in the 1970s
• 33:04
  period to maintain the integrity of when the hauntings were
• 33:08
  initially known to have began. But now that we know the back
• 33:12
  story of the 20th and into the 21st century of the Hensdale
• 33:16
  house, just who owned it, what happened to them and who owns it
• 33:20
  now, I would like to shift your attention to some of the
• 33:24
  plausible theories as to what could have caused the haunting.
• 33:28
  Many theories of what could have caused the haunting have been
• 33:31
  formed over the years by the many people who have researched
• 33:34
  and have been interested in the case.
• 33:37
  One theory is that the home was built on top of an Indian burial
• 33:41
  mound. This of course could have
• 33:43
  disturbed the spirits of the natives that rested within the
• 33:46
  land, and although tribes who used this method of burial were
• 33:49
  present in the area back in history, there's little to no
• 33:53
  evidence to support this claim. But perhaps any evidence by this
• 33:58
  point could have long since been lost to the sands of time or
• 34:02
  could have been removed when the home was initially built.
• 34:06
  Another theory is that the home was at one point used as a
• 34:09
  Stagecoach in and passer bys were murdered either near or
• 34:14
  within the home itself, leading to their spirits being trapped
• 34:18
  within the home or on its land. Although there is evidence that
• 34:22
  a Stagecoach route did run very close to the home, there isn't
• 34:26
  direct evidence that the house itself was used as an inn, but
• 34:30
  it is possible murders also did take place in or around the area
• 34:35
  in which the home is now located, which could lend
• 34:38
  credence to the theories of criminals robbing and murdering
• 34:42
  people along the Stagecoach route.
• 34:44
  An old family from the area that used to own the home with the
• 34:48
  last name of McMahon also lends credence to the home being used
• 34:52
  as an inn. At some point.
• 34:54
  The now past grandfather of the family used to tell stories of a
• 34:59
  road that passed by the house or stagecoaches traveled.
• 35:04
  Another theory is that one or several of the spirits were
• 35:08
  trapped as a result of hangings that took place there.
• 35:11
  The now famous hanging tree that sits near the residence was
• 35:16
  indeed used for executions for a time.
• 35:19
  Most famously, it seems, was the execution of a woman named
• 35:23
  Elizabeth. Elizabeth was pregnant.
• 35:27
  Could this perhaps be the spirit of the woman who was angry and
• 35:31
  refusing to leave? Other events, such as the
• 35:35
  homicide that took place in the year 2000 near the house, as
• 35:39
  well as a buzz saw incident that led to a boy's death, have led
• 35:43
  many to believe that whatever haunts the area could indeed
• 35:48
  still be there and influencing our world.
• 35:52
  It's important in my opinion to try and get the story and the
• 35:56
  facts as straight as possible, not only for the current owners
• 35:59
  benefit, but for the dandies who have suffered greatly as a
• 36:03
  result of their story becoming public, especially towards the
• 36:07
  end of their time at the property.
• 36:09
  As word got out that something strange was taking place at the
• 36:12
  house, a local paper ended up reaching out to the dandies for
• 36:16
  a statement. Thinking that they were
• 36:18
  accepting an opportunity for additional outside help, they
• 36:22
  gave their story only to be met with ridicule from the paper,
• 36:26
  which in turn led to ridicule from the public and nearby
• 36:30
  residents. Which this combined with the
• 36:32
  paranormal torment they were experiencing along with then
• 36:36
  having to file bankruptcy and then later divorce.
• 36:40
  In my opinion, they suffered greatly and did not benefit from
• 36:44
  the story especially during that time.
• 36:48
  The only benefit I've seen could be from Clara Miller, formerly
• 36:52
  Clara Dandy, who would eventually write a book known as
• 36:56
  Echoes of a Haunting. But to be fair, if I experienced
• 37:00
  even a portion of what she did, I would eventually write a book
• 37:03
  to catalogue what happened as well.
• 37:06
  Not only for some monetary benefit, of course, but for my
• 37:10
  own sanity, really. So as I've began to mention and
• 37:14
  will continue to mention again in the future, if you ever
• 37:17
  encounter anyone mentioned in this video or any of my other
• 37:21
  videos, whether it be in person or online, please be respectful
• 37:26
  of them and their experiences and do not ever harass anyone.
• 37:31
  And if you find yourself seemingly handed an opportunity
• 37:35
  that seems too good to be true the answer to your prayers, it's
• 37:40
  more than likely not the case. It could be a nightmare waiting
• 37:44
  to happen. It could be a haunted home
• 37:47
  infested with entities sitting and waiting for the perfect
• 37:51
  victim. Don't let it be you.
• 37:56
  Could an item, if given enough energy, devotion and focus,
• 38:01
  begin to take on a life of its own?
• 38:03
  Could it begin to exhibit human like characteristics as if it
• 38:08
  has been imbued with or contains some kind of soul or entity
• 38:13
  inside of it? This act of magic has been
• 38:15
  practiced by multiple religions and cults throughout the ages.
• 38:20
  This is just one very strange example that it could indeed be
• 38:24
  possible. After a gracious gift was placed
• 38:28
  into the arms of a little girl, tragedy would strike and what
• 38:32
  follows would continue to haunt the family, the citizens of the
• 38:36
  village, and would soon cross far beyond the barriers of land
• 38:41
  and sea. This is the untold story of
• 38:44
  Akiku, the haunted Japanese doll and the bizarre paranormal force
• 38:51
  that possessed it. Japan is a very mystical and
• 39:02
  spiritual place, a place where the souls of the past seem to
• 39:07
  interact with the living. Such places where the spiritual
• 39:12
  energy seems to be most visible is throughout many of Japan's
• 39:16
  spiritual temples, home to many religions, the two main ones
• 39:21
  being Buddhism and Shintoism. Thousands of temples exist all
• 39:27
  over the country, but one in particular houses a spiritual
• 39:31
  artifact that has a tragic back story and an even more
• 39:35
  terrifying story that continues to be written to this day.
• 39:40
  Located in Hokkaido, Japan at the Menenji Buddhist Temple is a
• 39:45
  doll with a bizarre and tragic back story.
• 39:48
  Indeed. Although there are several
• 39:51
  origin stories of how the doll came to be and how the temple
• 39:55
  became its final living space, so to speak, all of them have
• 40:00
  most of the main details in common.
• 40:02
  Therefore, I'll be telling the most agreed upon origin story to
• 40:07
  try and be as true to the legend as I can.
• 40:10
  The years 1918 in Hokkaido, Japan.
• 40:14
  And a 17 year old boy by the name of Ikiki Suzuki is in
• 40:19
  search of a gift for his little sister's birthday.
• 40:23
  As he pursues the different vendors and small shops,
• 40:27
  something soon catches his attention and one of the store
• 40:31
  windows. He spots a small, childlike doll
• 40:35
  wearing a traditional Japanese kimono.
• 40:38
  Knowing that he had finally found something his sister will
• 40:41
  love, the Kiki quickly purchases the doll and makes his way back
• 40:46
  home through the countryside. As the family celebrates their
• 40:50
  little girl's birthday, Okiku is presented with the doll and
• 40:55
  almost immediately, as soon as her eyes meet hers, she falls in
• 41:00
  love with it. The two from this point, become
• 41:03
  inseparable. Wherever Okiku is, her doll is
• 41:07
  right by her side. She Combs her hair, bathes her,
• 41:12
  addresses her and treats her as if she was her little sister and
• 41:17
  to even share meals and sleep side by side.
• 41:21
  The joy that the doll brought to Kiku must have filled Ekiki's
• 41:25
  heart with such happiness. But soon, that happiness would
• 41:29
  change to tragedy. One hot day, as the little girl
• 41:34
  played outside with her doll, she was bitten by a mosquito.
• 41:38
  This benign insect bite would soon manifest itself into a
• 41:42
  horrible case of malaria. Although the family did
• 41:46
  everything they could possibly do, Okiku would pass away scared
• 41:52
  and gasping for air as she clutched her special doll all
• 41:56
  the way until the moment she took her last breath devastated.
• 42:01
  The Suzuki's plan to have their little girl buried with the doll
• 42:04
  since she loved it so much, but unfortunately, due to either
• 42:09
  governmental or religious oversight at the time, this
• 42:12
  wasn't an option. Instead, after they had laid a
• 42:16
  Kiku to rest, the doll would be placed on a small family shrine
• 42:20
  located within the living quarters of their home as a
• 42:24
  tribute of sorts to their late daughter and their love for her.
• 42:28
  But shortly after the doll was placed on the shrine, very
• 42:32
  strange things began to happen. The Kiki, upon walking past the
• 42:36
  shrine one day, noticed that the dolls hair seemed significantly
• 42:40
  longer than what it had been when it was placed there.
• 42:44
  The hair which was originally shoulders length on the doll
• 42:47
  itself and black was now overgrown with differing shades
• 42:53
  of brown hair also coming through and splitting at the
• 42:56
  ends. Finding this bizarre to say the
• 42:59
  least, he brought the discovery to his parents attention and
• 43:03
  unsure of what else to do, they trimmed the dolls hair as the
• 43:08
  days came and when the family began to have distressing dreams
• 43:11
  at night of their departed Okiku.
• 43:14
  Sometimes she would be scared and alone in the darkness,
• 43:18
  calling out to them, only being recognized by her voice.
• 43:23
  Other times she would blame them for what happened to her.
• 43:27
  Each member of the family at differing times had these
• 43:30
  dreams, and they would soon lead all of them to believe that
• 43:34
  Akiku's soul wasn't peacefully resting.
• 43:37
  These disturbing dreams soon became all the stranger when the
• 43:41
  doll, which they began to refer to as Akiku and their daughter's
• 43:46
  honor, would appear by their bedsides following these
• 43:50
  nightmares. One such incident involved the
• 43:54
  father of the family waking up in a cold sweat only to be met
• 43:58
  face to face with a blank and lifeless stare of the doll.
• 44:05
  Unsure of what was taking place, the Suzuki's turn to their
• 44:09
  faith. After contacting a local
• 44:12
  Buddhist priest and having a cleansing ritual be performed on
• 44:15
  their home and the doll, the activity seemed to grow and
• 44:20
  become stronger. Accompanying their ever frequent
• 44:23
  nightmares and random movements of the doll, the chilling events
• 44:28
  grew into full blown spiritual manifestations during their
• 44:32
  waking life. They soon began to hear banging
• 44:35
  noises all throughout the house and the whispers of a little
• 44:39
  girl. Strange disembodied voices
• 44:43
  varying from high pitched like those of a child to the low
• 44:47
  groans of something unexplainable began to be heard.
• 44:52
  Their lights began to flicker on and off, and the paranormal
• 44:56
  activity seemed to happen more frequently as the calendar
• 45:00
  ticked closer to the birth and death dates of Akiku.
• 45:06
  These strange and terrifying happenings would continue over
• 45:09
  the course of the next 20 years, with multiple religious, priests
• 45:14
  and shamans being contacted and all coming to the same
• 45:18
  conclusion that after the cleansings failed time and time
• 45:21
  again, that the restless spirit of Akiku now inhabited the doll
• 45:26
  she once loved so much. Finally needing a major change
• 45:32
  and unable to deal with the ever intensifying spiritual presence
• 45:36
  that seemed to haunt their home, the Suzuki's relocated to a
• 45:40
  different district. Believing the doll to be the
• 45:43
  source of their various ailments and emotional torture that they
• 45:47
  had endured over the last two decades, they had no desire to
• 45:51
  take it with them. The family had reached the
• 45:53
  conclusion that if their daughter's soul wasn't at peace,
• 45:57
  what could perhaps be helping to fuel Akiku's power or magic was
• 46:02
  the close proximity of her grave to their home where the doll
• 46:06
  resided. So in order to distance the doll
• 46:09
  from the grave, the family approached the Meninge Buddhist
• 46:12
  Temple in Hokkaido, and over the years, the Dahl's reputation for
• 46:17
  being haunted had spread throughout the community and
• 46:21
  indeed the majority of the country.
• 46:23
  This was more than likely due to the various interactions between
• 46:27
  the spiritual community and the Suzuki family finding the Dahl
• 46:31
  to be mesmerizing and possibly a unique opportunity to commute
• 46:36
  and interact with the dead. If the stories were true, the
• 46:40
  leaders and priests of the Meninge temple agreed to home
• 46:43
  Okiku permanently. As with many legends, we find
• 46:47
  lots of details to be exaggerated over time and
• 46:51
  perhaps some of the details to not be true at all.
• 46:55
  And this is what the priests were originally thinking, that
• 46:58
  perhaps due to grief, the family was dealing with other spiritual
• 47:02
  ailments perhaps unrelated to the doll, or causing the doll to
• 47:06
  be a vessel of sorts for restless spirits.
• 47:10
  However, as the years came and went, as Akiku now called the
• 47:14
  temple her home, they began to slowly but surely experience the
• 47:19
  same strangeness the Suzuki's had.
• 47:22
  For all of those years. Akiku's hair continued to grow
• 47:27
  and this baffled the priests. They would eventually have the
• 47:30
  hair trimmed and tested, and the hair was said to belong to a
• 47:35
  little girl. They found that the entity
• 47:38
  seemed to be appeased when her hair was trimmed and combed, and
• 47:42
  this led to less activity for a time.
• 47:45
  But the same activity? The knocking, banging, and
• 47:49
  disembodied voices which soon plagued the temple as well.
• 47:54
  No, Kiku's power only seemed to grow.
• 47:58
  Any priest who seemed skeptical of the doll or attempted to
• 48:01
  cleanse it themselves soon had their dreams haunted as well,
• 48:06
  turning their sleep into restless fits.
• 48:09
  Their homes and rooms soon also began to manifest the very same
• 48:14
  activity that the temple was now exhibiting.
• 48:17
  With no remedy seeming to work, the leaders turned to
• 48:21
  appeasement instead, hoping that gestures of goodwill would keep
• 48:25
  the entity at Bay. As years turn to decades, and as
• 48:29
  we've come into the 21st century, the priests of multiple
• 48:33
  generations now have overseen and cared for the Dahl known as
• 48:38
  Akiku. And though some of the more
• 48:40
  violent activity has faded, the general consensus is that she is
• 48:45
  now just as powerful as she was, or is perhaps more powerful as
• 48:50
  she's continued to age. It seems like as the more her
• 48:53
  fame and notoriety grows, the more visitors she has, the
• 48:58
  stronger she becomes. She continues to invade the
• 49:02
  dreams of those who come to visit her, and her hair is
• 49:06
  growing faster and more frayed. She's said to drive Taurus mad
• 49:11
  who doubt her, with many people even reporting that besides
• 49:15
  seeing her strange hair and feeling a malevolent presence
• 49:19
  when visiting her, they've also had her stalk and appear in
• 49:23
  their dreams. Some more disturbing and recent
• 49:26
  reports have even suggested that her mouth is slowly opening and
• 49:31
  that if you dare to appear inside of it, you may just catch
• 49:34
  a glimpse of baby like teeth sprouting from her porcelain
• 49:38
  gums. As if whoever or whatever she is
• 49:43
  is slowly turning to flesh and bone.
• 49:48
  The paranormal displays of her power continue to occur as well.
• 49:52
  Her permanent home, located within the menaging temple, is
• 49:55
  her own private shrine where she sits in a small wooden box on
• 49:59
  display. It is here that she watches and
• 50:03
  waits for anyone and everyone who dares to play with fire and
• 50:09
  invoke the power of the entity known as a Kiku.
• 50:14
  But what are your thoughts? Was a Kiku the girl trapped
• 50:17
  inside of the doll? In my opinion, although her
• 50:21
  spirit would be much older now, at the time of her death she was
• 50:25
  either close to or was three years old, and no person at that
• 50:29
  age is capable of true malice to the point to where she would
• 50:33
  become aware enough to begin to blame her parents and then
• 50:37
  torment them for decades to come as children.
• 50:41
  Our parents, or our family, or our entire world.
• 50:45
  So I find it incredibly difficult to think that these
• 50:48
  bizarre happenings were the result of her soul being
• 50:51
  restless and imbuing the doll. What I find more likely, and all
• 50:56
  the more interesting really, is the thought of invocation or the
• 51:00
  imbuing of the doll. Like a conduit or a vessel of
• 51:04
  sorts. Akiku the girl was, as they
• 51:08
  said, inseparable from the stall.
• 51:10
  She fed it, bathed it, took naps with it, and everything else a
• 51:15
  small child would do with that wonderful imagination that they
• 51:18
  have. But could all of this dedication
• 51:21
  and focus accompanied with the tragedy that took place allow
• 51:26
  for a portal to open for an entity, whether non human or a
• 51:30
  restless human spirit to inhabit the doll?
• 51:34
  And by non human I mean a demon. This would make sense to me.
• 51:39
  Something that enjoys and grows more powerful off of pain and
• 51:42
  misfortune or the emotional torment of others.
• 51:46
  As it causes the pain, it feeds off of it and grows ever
• 51:50
  stronger. This would not only explain the
• 51:53
  malevolent manifestations of whatever entity is present, but
• 51:57
  would also explain the still present force and the alleged
• 52:01
  ever growing power of it. And depending on the entity's
• 52:04
  strength, it could also explain why the cleansings thus far have
• 52:09
  failed. However, if you find yourself
• 52:12
  taking a trip to Japan anytime soon, or you happen to call
• 52:16
  Japan home if you find yourself in Hokkaido, you may want to
• 52:20
  steer clear of the Menajin Temple.
• 52:23
  Because if you don't, the entity that inhabits the doll known as
• 52:27
  a Kiku may just use you as its next feeding source, where it'll
• 52:33
  begin to plague your dreams, making you twist and turn, sweat
• 52:39
  and fear. As it grows ever stronger and
• 52:43
  attempts to cross from its world into ours, making our plane of
• 52:49
  existence its permanent residence.
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  An unsuspecting family finds what they believe to be the
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  perfect home. But underneath the facade of
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  this charming farmhouse, there is a sinister force, dark as the
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  abyss. Lying underneath the heavy fog
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  upon the land, there lies generations of graves.
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  These graves could hold the key to solving their paranormal
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  nightmare. This is the untold story of the
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  old Arnold Estate, also known as The Conjuring House, and the
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  demonic forces that dwell within it.
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  Harrisville, RI, a small town located on America's East Coast
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  with just a population of an estimated 1800 people.
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  Like many towns across the country, you could easily
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  overlook this one at face value. But it's when we take a deeper
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  look, we discover that this little town has a dark history.
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  Its story is filled with death, from murders to drownings and
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  much more. With all these unfortunate
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  happenings in mind, it makes one beg the question, could there be
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  something evil that stalks this place?
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  Something that feeds upon suffering and misery?
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  Perhaps there is, and perhaps that is what contributed to the
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  creation of the following story. It all starts in Central Falls,
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  RI in 1970, where the Peron family, which consisted of
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  mother Carolyn, father Roger, and their five daughters Andrea,
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  Nancy, Christine, Cynthia and April, we're all living a
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  relatively normal life. Among things like school, work
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  and outdoor play. Nothing seemed quite out of the
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  ordinary, yet the children had been gifted a puppy with an
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  exceptionally unique personality and out of the ether.
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  A name came to mind when they were naming her Bathsheba.
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  A unique dog with a unique name. She was fond of all the
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  children, but especially Andrea, Now 10 years old.
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  She would often take Bathsheba for walks around their suburban
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  neighborhood. However, on one of those walks,
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  tragedy would strike and would seemingly set in motion a
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  snowball effect that would follow the family for years to
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  come. While Andrea had the puppy out
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  in the neighborhood, her sisters had come up from playing outside
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  and decided to make the walk a group activity.
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  All seemed fine until a car full of teenagers drove by at an
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  incredibly high rate of speed. They seemed to be yelling
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  something in unison and had brightly colored tassels hanging
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  out of their windows. Bathsheba was an obedient dog,
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  but the flailing and bright colored streamers caught her
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  attention and in an instant she broke loose from Andrea and
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  bolted towards the vehicle. The shocked girls then watched
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  the car miss her by mere inches as she made her way safely
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  across the road. But being the good dog that she
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  was, upon hearing Andrea call out to her again, she began to
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  run back to them and in the blink of an eye, she was struck
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  by another vehicle, an elderly couple that never even saw her.
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  Her leash had gotten caught around one of the wheels of
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  their car when they hit her and she was suffering immensely.
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  A nearby neighbor called the police, and upon removing the
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  children from the scene, they were traumatized further as they
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  heard the gunshot that ended the poor animal's life.
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  The entire family now held a deep despair at the tragedy that
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  had taken place. She wasn't just a pet, she was a
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  member of the family, and there was now an unspoken pain that
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  haunted them. The family had planned a
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  vacation months prior and hoped that a break from their normal
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  routine would help everyone. So they went and soon some of
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  their sadness turned to joy as the family experienced hotel,
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  swimming pools, ice cream and shopping.
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  But this joy would too be short lived.
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  The family also had four cats and upon returning to their home
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  with this new found sense of well-being, they would endure
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  even more trauma. They would discover that almost
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  all of their cats had been viciously killed by neighborhood
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  kids while they were gone. Several had every bone in their
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  bodies broken with a baseball bat.
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  Upon this horrific discovery, their father, Roger, rushed
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  inside the house to call the police, only to find their home
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  absolutely ransacked as well. Furniture was upside down,
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  mirrors and windows broken, all of their provisions left to
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  spoil from their tipped over fridge, and their carpet was
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  doused in motor oil. It would later be discovered
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  that two of their cats were killed by the group of the kids.
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  One would never be seen again and the other had been seriously
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  beaten but would survive. Although the neighborhood was
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  known for angsty teenagers and roughhousing kids, the family
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  wondered how could these kids conduct such evil?
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  Did the devil's foot soldiers know no bounds?
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  A police report was filed and it was shortly uncovered that the
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  demon seed who had LED these awful actions was their 12 year
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  old neighbor. The young man was seemingly a
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  born criminal. Upon being confronted, the boy's
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  mother covered for her son, and despite their best efforts, due
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  to lack of evidence, nothing much would come of the report
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  with the police, but Andrea would have her revenge.
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  She had yet to come to terms with her precious Bathsheba's
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  death, and now this, the rage inside of her built.
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  After some thorough planning, she attacked the boy who was
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  responsible, beating him ferociously, breaking his nose,
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  blackening his eyes until she was pried off by a nearby
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  neighbor and told to go home. All this wouldn't bring her
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  animals back, but it felt justified to the young girl,
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  given what the boy had done. But these antics of sadness,
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  hostility, and rage would soon manifest into something much
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  darker. Ever since their home was
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  ransacked, Carolyn had wanted to move, but knowing they weren't
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  in a financial state to do so. They had little to no choice
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  other than to stay, so she kept an ever watchful eye on her
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  children, letting them out of the house rarely and mostly
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  under her supervision. Given the prior events, she
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  wanted them raised by wild nature, not wild beasts.
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  Shortly after this time, Rodger had prepared to depart for a
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  business trip which was to last several days.
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  Even amidst the turmoil of the current events, he still had to
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  provide for his large family. And while his family was just
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  waking up that morning, as he and his wife Carolyn enjoyed
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  their morning cup of coffee, they were suddenly startled by
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  the sound of a large explosion in their front yard, like
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  someone had fired a cannon towards their house.
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  Alarmed, they raced outside to discover what had happened.
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  Shortly after purchasing their humble home, Carolyn had built a
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  rock garden of sorts at the entrance of their driveway.
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  Her friends often teased her that it's centerpiece resembled
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  a tombstone without the inscription of the dearly
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  departed. Well to the family shock, their
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  neighbor from across the street had started his truck that
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  morning and had suffered a major heart attack and had died at the
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  wheel, his foot pressing down on the gas causing the truck to
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  barrel directly at the parents home to smash right into that
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  large rock. It was almost like something was
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  following them, like a living breathing Organism feeding upon
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  it. After this horrible event,
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  people began to refer to the rock garden as the graveyard.
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  Missus Curtis, the wife of the neighbor who had passed away,
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  upon being greeted and offered condolences by the family,
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  actually blamed them for what had happened, declaring that
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  Carolyn never liked them anyway and was a witch.
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  That was enough for her. Again, she begged Roger to move,
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  but they were seemingly stuck given the awful circumstances.
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  The man still had to work, so he departed for his business trip.
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  While her husband was gone, it was up to Carolyn to take care
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  of their five children. This meant taking them to and
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  from school, as well as music lessons and much more.
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  While attending her daughter Andrea's music lessons, she had
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  forgotten to bring a book to help her pass the time, so
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  Carolyn went and purchased a paper as a substitute.
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  Before too long she found herself daydreaming and looking
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  through the various ads and real estate available, wanting and
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  wishing that she could change their current predicament when
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  strangely enough, the universe seemed to glance back at her.
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  Hidden among many other homes was a nine bedroom farmhouse
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  with a barn, lots of land and seclusion.
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  It's beautiful design and elegance soon had Carolyn
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  imagining her children playing and being raised in nature as
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  she wanted that she could allow them to do so without the fear
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  of other children attempting to harm them.
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  She almost immediately became obsessed with the idea of
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  purchasing the house and although the family really
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  couldn't afford it at the time without seeking Roger's
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  permission, she made a call and went to look at the old Arnold
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  estate the following day. The owner was a very nice old
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  lady, and although she didn't have much, Carolyn asked how
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  much she would have to put down to hold the home so she could
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  purchase it once her husband had returned.
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  An agreement of $500 as a good faith payment was made, and
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  shortly after Roger arrived back home several days later, he was
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  sideswiped by his wife's decision, although his anger
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  would soon turn to understanding.
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  After all, a happy wife makes for a happy life, as most would
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  say. Even though he didn't know
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  exactly how they would make it work, he decided to placate his
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  wife and allow them to purchase the home.
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  It took some time, but before too long they found themselves
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  packing and coming into possession of the keys to their
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  future. Although they couldn't foresee
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  just how dark of the future it was to be the parent family,
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  having seemingly found the home of their dreams located on a
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  large swath of land outside of the town of Harrisville, RI,
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  what would become known as the Old Arnold Estate almost seemed
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  to perfect like an answer to their desperate prayers.
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  It's a large farmhouse which has nine bedrooms, a barn, and
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  plenty of land which they can envision their children playing
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  on and having a wonderful time. Although it's winter, they go
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  ahead and begin to move into their new house.
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  There's a massive snowstorm taking place while they're
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  moving in, but this doesn't deter the large family from
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  getting settled in to what they believe is going to be a
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  charming, nice and new home for all of them.
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  Given everything they've been through, I would have hoped for
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  the same. And for the first three months,
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  things are charming, nice and normal.
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  Their rustic farmhouse has its challenges with it being fairly
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  old, such as being very cold that winter, but it's nothing
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  they can't deal with, or so they think.
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  All around, the feeling is a happy one for the family.
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  But this happy mood would soon change.
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  Upon meeting their nearest neighbors, they seemed rather
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  strange. They offered one piece of advice
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  to Roger and Carolyn. For the love of your family,
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  keep the lights on at night. Originally written off by the
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  couple, these words would seem to be rather fitting
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  foreshadowing for the events to come.
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  When the frozen land of the farm began to thaw, it seemed like
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  something thawed along with it and began to plague them once
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  again. One night when the daughters,
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  Nancy and Andrea were asleep in their shared room, were suddenly
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  woken up by the sound of their doors slimming open and closed,
• 1:07:12
  open and closed. Petrified by the noise of the
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  door smacking the wall and it also being their only way out of
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  the room, they ran towards the door to try and escape when
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  suddenly it stopped moving and just stayed open, still creaking
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  from being moved. Catching their breath and trying
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  to come to terms with what had just happened, Thinking by this
• 1:07:40
  point maybe one of their other sisters was trying to play a
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  prank on them, the two girls looked down the hall and
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  eventually made their way to their other sisters rooms where
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  they found them asleep. Needless to say they wouldn't
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  sleep for the rest of the night. They would bring this to the
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  attention of their parents the following morning, but were
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  quickly dismissed, as is often the case, and told that they had
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  overactive imaginations. From here, things started small
• 1:08:13
  but became very noticeable as they mushroomed into much bigger
• 1:08:17
  experiences. At first, whatever spirits they
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  believed could be in the house seemed benevolent, almost
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  good-natured, with some of the younger siblings later stating
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  that they would even be tucked into bed by the spirit of a
• 1:08:32
  woman on occasion, but that was all too short lived.
• 1:08:36
  Items soon began to go missing. Car keys weren't where they had
• 1:08:40
  been hung daily. Items such as mugs, toys, and
• 1:08:45
  utensils were soon disappearing as well.
• 1:08:49
  Carolyn would hear the scraping of a broom upon the floor or the
• 1:08:53
  knocking of a kettle in the kitchen when no one else was
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  home but her. With this, upon cleaning the
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  floors, she would also find piles of dirt that would appear
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  out of nowhere, making her feel as if she was going crazy.
• 1:09:10
  But these small happenings too would soon become larger.
• 1:09:15
  The children would often play a game called Hide and Clap, a
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  version of hide and go Seek. This time, Andrea was the seeker
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  and her sisters went off hiding throughout the estate.
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  Cindy made her way into the woodshed, found a small box just
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  big enough for her to get inside.
• 1:09:33
  Being determined to win, she climbed into the box and slid
• 1:09:37
  the small lid over the top, figuring this would be an
• 1:09:40
  excellent hiding place indeed. And after several minutes, she
• 1:09:45
  realized that no one was coming for her and went to remove the
• 1:09:49
  lid. Except it wouldn't budget.
• 1:09:52
  Panicking and utter darkness, she used all means necessary to
• 1:09:57
  try and remove the lid and free herself.
• 1:10:01
  After screaming and worrying that she'd suffocate inside this
• 1:10:05
  box, she was thankfully found by Andrea, who slid the lid off no
• 1:10:10
  problem, revealed her horribly distressed younger sister
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  inside. It's important to note that this
• 1:10:18
  was a sliding cover. There was no locking mechanism.
• 1:10:23
  Along with this terrifying event, the children's rooms were
• 1:10:26
  often rearranged daily. They would leave their things
• 1:10:30
  one way in the morning and return to things either
• 1:10:33
  completely a mess, as if a small cyclone had hit their rooms, or
• 1:10:38
  all items would be smashed underneath their beds.
• 1:10:41
  And this happened to all of the girls at one point or another.
• 1:10:46
  These small whispers, bangings and movements did indeed become
• 1:10:52
  larger. Andrea, being the oldest, would
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  often be woken up by her younger siblings and would hold them as
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  they sobbed their eyes out, terrified to return to their
• 1:11:03
  rooms. Cindy, in particular, began to
• 1:11:07
  hear a sinister voice call out to her almost every night.
• 1:11:11
  The voice would tell her that there were seven dead soldiers
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  in the walls and would repeat it over and over and over again.
• 1:11:22
  The children, now terrified, begged their parents to believe
• 1:11:26
  them, and although they too were beginning to experience things
• 1:11:30
  on their own, they didn't want to frighten the children, so
• 1:11:34
  they did what could be done to placate them.
• 1:11:38
  But soon the entire family began to hear the wails of something
• 1:11:42
  inhuman calling out for its mother.
• 1:11:46
  This disturbing trend with no origin was followed by even more
• 1:11:51
  disturbing happenings. The beds of the girls would lift
• 1:11:55
  up and shake by an unseen force, almost always around 5:15 AM, as
• 1:12:02
  if something was trying to send some kind of a message, although
• 1:12:07
  it was never clear just what that message was supposed to be.
• 1:12:11
  During the day, the apparitions of spirits began to manifest and
• 1:12:16
  stock the halls of the old Arnold estate.
• 1:12:19
  These were soon coupled by the horrible stench of rotting flesh
• 1:12:24
  wafting throughout the house. Soon the girls weren't the only
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  ones whose doors were slamming open and closed and whose beds
• 1:12:33
  were lifting up on their own. Soon it was affecting their
• 1:12:37
  parents as well. One night, Carolyn woke up
• 1:12:41
  suddenly to the figure of an old woman over the foot of her bed.
• 1:12:45
  Her hair was like a sack of cobwebs with little tendrils
• 1:12:50
  hanging off. The woman's head was also bent
• 1:12:53
  and hanging off to the side of her neck as if it was horribly
• 1:12:57
  broken and mangled, her gnarled mouth screaming at her with an
• 1:13:02
  echoing voice. Get out, She shouted over and
• 1:13:08
  over again until she suddenly was no longer there.
• 1:13:14
  The parent family continued to endure a living nightmare as the
• 1:13:18
  traumatic paranormal activity persisted and continue to scale
• 1:13:22
  in intensity. How does one fight an enemy he
• 1:13:28
  can't see? Something he can't touch or
• 1:13:32
  feel, attack or defend against? This question and more must have
• 1:13:38
  ran through the heads of Rodger and Carolyn as they not only
• 1:13:42
  feared for themselves, but especially their children.
• 1:13:45
  Now as their offspring's natural protectors.
• 1:13:50
  How anxiety inducing must it have been to know that they were
• 1:13:54
  powerless to stop what was terrorizing all of them each and
• 1:13:58
  every night. In an effort to try and
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  understand what was happening to them, Carolyn began to research
• 1:14:06
  the history of their house and was shocked by what she found.
• 1:14:11
  Over 8 generations of the Arnold family had lived and died within
• 1:14:16
  the home, some by horrible means, according to the Black
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  Book of Burlville, the town's former public records book.
• 1:14:26
  These included two suicides by hanging, one within the family
• 1:14:31
  barn, one by poison, the assault and murder of a young girl named
• 1:14:36
  Prudence Arnold by a farm hint, 2 drownings in the nearby Creek,
• 1:14:43
  and four men who froze to death. Among some of the notable
• 1:14:47
  deaths, one death that caught her eye in particular was that
• 1:14:53
  of a woman named Bathsheba Sherman.
• 1:14:56
  Her name was spelled exactly like their dog that they had
• 1:14:59
  previously owned, and her story was as interesting as it was
• 1:15:04
  disturbing. Born Bathsheba there in 1812,
• 1:15:10
  she married fellow Rhode Islander Judson Sherman and
• 1:15:14
  Thompson, Connecticut on March 10th, 1844.
• 1:15:19
  According to available information from that time, the
• 1:15:23
  two had a son named Herbert, and for all intents and purposes,
• 1:15:27
  things seemed normal. But that couldn't be further
• 1:15:30
  from the truth. After losing three children
• 1:15:34
  before the age of seven, Bathsheba began to care for her
• 1:15:37
  neighbor's children, perhaps to fill the void that such sorrow
• 1:15:41
  could create. And it's here where things take
• 1:15:45
  a strange turn. While caring for the infant of a
• 1:15:48
  nearby family, the infant suddenly passed away within
• 1:15:53
  Bathsheba's care. An investigation ensued and it
• 1:15:57
  was found that the child had a puncture wound in its skull, as
• 1:16:01
  if someone had taken a large sewing needle and sent it
• 1:16:05
  through the child's head. Rumors of devil worship and
• 1:16:10
  witchcraft soon became rife, with many believing she had
• 1:16:15
  indeed sacrificed her children to Satan, robbing them of their
• 1:16:19
  young lives. Although Bathsheba was never
• 1:16:23
  punished for the child's death since there was never a trial,
• 1:16:27
  that didn't stop her behavior from becoming increasingly
• 1:16:30
  bizarre. She became incredibly reclusive,
• 1:16:35
  strange and dark. Rumors say that she supposedly
• 1:16:41
  attempted to murder other children while confessing her
• 1:16:44
  love for Satan before she then climbed atop the highest tree on
• 1:16:49
  the estate, cursing everyone before hanging herself.
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  And although that would make for a much more fascinating story,
• 1:16:58
  it doesn't seem to be true. The rumors may indeed have been
• 1:17:02
  spread and they're evidence of multiple child deaths, including
• 1:17:06
  the infant via needle like object, but her tombstone reads
• 1:17:11
  her death date as May 25th, 1885 S Odds are that she passed away
• 1:17:18
  as an old woman, but perhaps given the circumstances, she
• 1:17:22
  became more bitter with age. Another strange detail that was
• 1:17:27
  uncovered was one of the hanging deaths that took place within
• 1:17:31
  the barn on the estate. It was that of Catherine Arnold.
• 1:17:36
  She had, seemingly out of the blue one day, made her way from
• 1:17:40
  the house to the barn, gathered a rope, and hung herself from
• 1:17:45
  the rafters. She was frozen solid.
• 1:17:49
  When she was later discovered. It seemed like whatever
• 1:17:53
  paranormal force that stalked the land tormented the
• 1:17:57
  matriarchs of the families that lived there and fed upon death
• 1:18:02
  itself. These supernatural occurrences
• 1:18:06
  that now plagued the Peron family were a daily occurrence,
• 1:18:10
  and they soon also began to physically touch the family as
• 1:18:14
  well. Poking soon turned to pushing, a
• 1:18:18
  hand on the shoulder soon turned to slapping, scratching, and
• 1:18:23
  more. One day when Carolyn was reading
• 1:18:27
  a book in the living room, she felt a piercing pain in her
• 1:18:31
  calf. Upon further examination, she
• 1:18:35
  saw what appeared to be a puncture wound, like that of a
• 1:18:38
  needle, with a small dribble of blood now coming out of her leg.
• 1:18:43
  These attacks didn't stop here. Carolyn soon believed that it
• 1:18:49
  was Bathsheba who was causing the majority of her problems.
• 1:18:53
  The spirit seemed to hide her things daily, making her feel as
• 1:18:57
  if she was going insane while simultaneously lusting after her
• 1:19:02
  husband. In later interviews, Roger would
• 1:19:06
  state that he never felt threatened by her spirit and
• 1:19:10
  that he only ever saw her sweeter side, such as comforting
• 1:19:13
  touches and the feeling of an embrace.
• 1:19:17
  To the contrary, his poor wife experienced much, much worse.
• 1:19:24
  Andrea Perrin, also in later interviews, said that the whole
• 1:19:27
  family believed it was the spirit of Bathsheba who was
• 1:19:31
  mostly tormenting Carolyn, as if she saw herself as the matriarch
• 1:19:37
  or the mistress of the house, and that Carolyn was some kind
• 1:19:41
  of competition, an obstacle between her and Roger's
• 1:19:45
  affection. On the verge of losing her mind
• 1:19:49
  and being tortured daily, the family was barely holding things
• 1:19:53
  together, most of all Carolyn. She had vented to a friend of
• 1:19:59
  hers named Barbara about what she had been going through.
• 1:20:03
  And strangely enough, this friend just so happened to
• 1:20:06
  attend a lecture that was being given by renowned paranormal
• 1:20:10
  scholars and demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren.
• 1:20:15
  It was Barbara that actually told the Warrens about the
• 1:20:19
  parents and their struggles. Intrigued, they were put into
• 1:20:24
  mutual contact with one another, and before too long, the Warrens
• 1:20:28
  arrived at the front door of the old Arnold Estate.
• 1:20:33
  Upon stepping into the home for the first time, Lorraine Warren
• 1:20:37
  noticed a heavy and malevolent presence.
• 1:20:41
  Upon further convening over the course of several weeks, the
• 1:20:45
  couple told the family that they indeed were being haunted by the
• 1:20:49
  spirit of Bathsheba and that she had made a pact with Satan
• 1:20:54
  himself after sacrificing one of her children to him.
• 1:20:58
  She then hung herself on the property in order to haunt it
• 1:21:02
  forever. This is why the family was often
• 1:21:06
  seeing the mangled necked apparition of the woman with
• 1:21:09
  wispy hair. This was apparently her.
• 1:21:13
  Over the course of several months, the Warrens would visit
• 1:21:17
  the old Arnold estate in order to try and assist the family
• 1:21:20
  with riding themselves of the spirits, but it was all to no
• 1:21:24
  avail. All of these events seem to
• 1:21:27
  culminate with a Seance. 1 stormy night.
• 1:21:31
  The Perrons, Roger and Carolyn, along with the Warrens were
• 1:21:36
  joined by a priest and a fellow medium to conduct a seance to
• 1:21:41
  try and establish further contact with the entities within
• 1:21:44
  the home. To understand just why they were
• 1:21:48
  plaguing the family, the girls were confined to their rooms
• 1:21:51
  upstairs. We're not allowed to partake in
• 1:21:54
  the ritual. The ritual was conducted in the
• 1:21:57
  basement, one of the alleged sources of the dark energy
• 1:22:02
  according to Lorraine Warren, and in the middle of this
• 1:22:05
  ritual, Carolyn seemingly became possessed as she exhibited
• 1:22:11
  violent behavior. She was restrained to a chair in
• 1:22:14
  order to prevent her from hurting herself and others.
• 1:22:18
  The entity that now inhabited her body claimed to be that of
• 1:22:22
  Bathsheba and before everyone's eyes that was present, Carolyn
• 1:22:27
  began to not only speak a language that was
• 1:22:30
  unrecognizable, but in a voice that wasn't her own.
• 1:22:35
  She then began to levitate in the chair and flew across the
• 1:22:39
  room. Although they were forbid to
• 1:22:42
  witness the event, as Kiri's children often do, Andrea, along
• 1:22:48
  with her sister Cindy, snuck open the basement door and
• 1:22:51
  watched the events unfold for themselves.
• 1:22:55
  Their testimonies are also where some of these details are
• 1:22:58
  sourced from. Carolyn was now mangled and
• 1:23:03
  distorted, her body twisted in an unnatural position.
• 1:23:09
  After several hours of attempting to cast the spirit
• 1:23:11
  out, she finally went limp and laid catatonic on the floor.
• 1:23:18
  After his wife had seemingly been freed, Roger called the
• 1:23:22
  entire thing off. He was not only concerned for
• 1:23:25
  his wife's well-being, but his children's as well.
• 1:23:30
  And although the Warrens were trying to help, things just
• 1:23:33
  seemed to get so much worse when they were there.
• 1:23:37
  So disregarding their advice, he threw them out and forbid them
• 1:23:41
  and their associates from ever investigating the hauntings at
• 1:23:45
  the old Arnold estate ever again.
• 1:23:49
  Later in life, a 77 year old Roger would recall she was
• 1:23:54
  possessed. Her entire body was distorted
• 1:23:58
  and it lasted several hours until they de demonized her.
• 1:24:03
  Then I threw them out. I couldn't take it anymore.
• 1:24:08
  The family's torment would continue with varying intensity
• 1:24:12
  until 1980, when they were finally able to sell the old
• 1:24:16
  Arnold Estate and move to Georgia in a bid to rebuild
• 1:24:20
  their lives. Finally, they were free of the
• 1:24:23
  horrible events that had plagued them for nearly a decade.
• 1:24:28
  But all those happenings, all those traumatic moments would
• 1:24:32
  never be forgotten by any of them.
• 1:24:35
  They all realized that they were truly lucky to have escaped with
• 1:24:39
  their lives as well as their sanity.
• 1:24:43
  Going back and not only reading various interviews, Andrea
• 1:24:47
  Peron's books, and watching interviews with the family, they
• 1:24:51
  not only seemed genuine, but really had nothing to gain by
• 1:24:54
  claiming to have experienced these things.
• 1:24:57
  It truly seemed like they had suffered.
• 1:24:59
  I mean, they threw out the Warrens, which is interesting in
• 1:25:02
  and of itself, but if I saw my wife twisted and exhibiting
• 1:25:07
  demonic behavior, I probably would be pretty freaked out as
• 1:25:11
  well. The story of the haunting of the
• 1:25:13
  old Arnold Estate and the Peron family was used as the basis for
• 1:25:17
  The Conjuring movie, in which they were also used as
• 1:25:21
  consultants for accuracy's sake. And the film does of course take
• 1:25:26
  liberties, as most Hollywood films do, but it's a good one
• 1:25:30
  for sure. But having watched this video,
• 1:25:33
  you're now probably aware of what really happened.
• 1:25:37
  Since the selling of the home, reviews have been mixed by other
• 1:25:40
  residents, with one lady claiming that the home wasn't
• 1:25:43
  haunted at all and even condemning and suing The
• 1:25:47
  Conjuring film makers for causing her distress through
• 1:25:50
  trespassers, and others stating that the home is still very
• 1:25:54
  well, haunted indeed. More current owners, who we'll
• 1:25:59
  call Cory and Jennifer, welcomed the spirits and the history of
• 1:26:03
  the home when they moved in, claiming to have only slept in
• 1:26:07
  the smaller wing of the estate for the first four months that
• 1:26:09
  they lived there. They didn't want to overstep
• 1:26:12
  their boundaries with whatever was haunting the property.
• 1:26:16
  When they finally opened up the door to the wing of the larger
• 1:26:19
  part of the house the very same night, they both claimed to be
• 1:26:23
  woken up by a shadowy figure. Their couple would say that it
• 1:26:27
  was pitch black in color and peeking at them from behind the
• 1:26:31
  door frame. Although most people would be
• 1:26:34
  terrified at the prospect of dealing with a shadow figure of
• 1:26:37
  any sort, the couple understood that they were guests in this
• 1:26:41
  home even though they had purchased it.
• 1:26:44
  And we're just excited to have experienced anything.
• 1:26:48
  But they also admit that although they do continue to
• 1:26:50
  experience strange things from time to time, it's nothing like
• 1:26:54
  what the Perrons say. They experienced nothing quite
• 1:26:58
  as malevolent or evil by any means.
• 1:27:02
  Despite criticism and support, the Perrons to this day remain
• 1:27:07
  adamant that their story is true, with Andrea saying in an
• 1:27:11
  interview with USA TODAY. Both my mother and I would soon
• 1:27:15
  swallow our tongue and tell a lie.
• 1:27:18
  People are free to believe whatever they want, but we know
• 1:27:21
  what we've experienced prior to her death.
• 1:27:25
  When asked about the events of the Haunting Lorraine, Warren
• 1:27:29
  claimed that she still felt traumatized all these years
• 1:27:32
  later about what had taken place that stormy night during the
• 1:27:35
  seance at the Old Arnold Estate, saying that the things that
• 1:27:40
  happened there were so incredibly frightening, but it
• 1:27:43
  still effects me to talk about it to this day.
• 1:27:46
  She, of course, was reunited with Ed on April 18th of 2019.
• 1:27:52
  God rest her soul. These days, people who have
• 1:27:56
  visited the house, such as various paranormal groups,
• 1:27:59
  researchers, and fans of The Conjuring Universe, have
• 1:28:03
  described feeling multiple things for stepping in the home.
• 1:28:07
  Some claiming to see shadow figures, others a feeling of a
• 1:28:12
  heavy presence to the points where it makes them nauseous.
• 1:28:16
  Regardless, there certainly does seem to be something there all
• 1:28:21
  around. I think the haunting, given all
• 1:28:23
  the research I've done is more than likely legitimate.
• 1:28:27
  There's too many sources backing up what took place.
• 1:28:30
  Not to mention the family didn't gain anything from experiencing
• 1:28:34
  what they did, and surviving members still claim it's all
• 1:28:38
  true to this day. If you'd like to learn more, I'm
• 1:28:42
  listing the sources I used for research in the description
• 1:28:45
  below, as well as various links to Andrea Peron's books which
• 1:28:50
  tell the full story of her and her family.
• 1:28:53
  I of course, am not affiliated with her or anyone else involved
• 1:28:57
  in any way. I just find them to be an
• 1:28:59
  interesting and very useful resource.
• 1:29:03
  So if you find yourself in hard times and are presented with
• 1:29:06
  what seems like a gift from the universe, just know that if it's
• 1:29:11
  too good to be true, it probably is.
• 1:29:15
  And the dream home that you can't wait to live in could be
• 1:29:18
  infested with generations of death and despair demons which
• 1:29:24
  could still be lurking and stalking the property.
• 1:29:29
  So my advice? If it sounds too good to be
• 1:29:32
  true, it is. And please research a home's
• 1:29:37
  history before you buy it, or you may be stuck with a decade
• 1:29:41
  of paranormal torment. Or worse, you may become its
• 1:29:46
  newest permanent resident. Can death unleash something into
• 1:29:54
  this world that isn't supposed to be here?
• 1:29:58
  Could it act like a portal, allowing something sinister and
• 1:30:01
  dark to creep in just before it closes, especially if the person
• 1:30:07
  passing is harboring dark and abhorrent secrets?
• 1:30:12
  When a young man begins to exhibit strange and demonic
• 1:30:15
  behavior and the very laws of nature seem to bend to his will,
• 1:30:20
  can a reverend work to save his very soul?
• 1:30:24
  Documented by multiple law enforcement professionals as
• 1:30:28
  unexplained to this day, this is certainly not a story you will
• 1:30:32
  want to miss. This is the untold story of Don
• 1:30:36
  Decker, also known as the Rain Man of Pennsylvania.
• 1:30:44
  The date is February 24th, 1983 and on this cold, misty day, a
• 1:30:52
  family is mourning the loss of their loved 1A man by the name
• 1:30:59
  of James Keshaw. After battling alcoholism for
• 1:31:03
  many years, the bottle finally took its toll and caused
• 1:31:07
  cirrhosis of the liver which became fatal.
• 1:31:11
  Among the pews of friends and family paying their respects
• 1:31:16
  sits a young man, the grandson of James, 21 year old Don
• 1:31:22
  Decker. Donna Be granted furlough from
• 1:31:25
  his four to 12 month jail sentence for receiving stolen
• 1:31:29
  property in order to attend the funeral.
• 1:31:32
  But as he sat facing the body of his grandfather as others paid
• 1:31:37
  their last respects and gave glowing speeches about the man,
• 1:31:42
  Don clenched his fists. Only he harbored a dark secret
• 1:31:47
  that no one else knew, and this secret is perhaps what
• 1:31:51
  contributed to his troubled adolescence.
• 1:31:55
  When it was his turn to walk up and say goodbye to James.
• 1:32:00
  As he stood over his body, the face of evil looked back at him
• 1:32:05
  with eyes closed for the first time.
• 1:32:08
  Dom would later say it felt like good triumphing over evil that
• 1:32:13
  day. And I truly felt like everything
• 1:32:16
  was going to get better, like it was a turning point in my life.
• 1:32:22
  The secret that he had been holding on to for so long was
• 1:32:26
  that James, his very own grandfather, had abused him from
• 1:32:30
  the time he was seven years old until he was a teenager and no
• 1:32:35
  one else knew. All the years of pain and fear
• 1:32:39
  were caused by that man. The very same that now laid in
• 1:32:43
  the coffin. The very same that Dawn was now
• 1:32:47
  having to hear others praise and who he was publicly obligated to
• 1:32:53
  mourn. At the conclusion of the
• 1:32:55
  funeral, when James casket was laid into its final resting
• 1:32:59
  place, he couldn't stand the way his parents had glorified the
• 1:33:03
  man's memory. But given the circumstances he
• 1:33:06
  was in, furloughed from jail and with emotions raw amongst
• 1:33:11
  everybody, he decided it would be for the best to go and stay
• 1:33:15
  the night with some family friends instead before he was
• 1:33:19
  set to return to finish out his sentence.
• 1:33:22
  Bob and Jeannie Kiefer were long time friends of the family and
• 1:33:27
  were quite fond of Dawn, so they were more than happy to have him
• 1:33:30
  join them for the night. As the night progressed, the
• 1:33:34
  three of them were enjoying each other's company, but it seemed
• 1:33:38
  like all the feelings that have been stirred up from the
• 1:33:41
  memories of his grandfather's abuse at the funeral were coming
• 1:33:45
  back to haunt Dawn. He fell on edge and uneasy when
• 1:33:50
  suddenly the air around him vibrated with a bone deep chill.
• 1:33:56
  Almost simultaneously after this occurred, water began to drip
• 1:34:00
  from the ceiling and down the living room walls.
• 1:34:04
  Don then fell into an eerie trance like state, staring at
• 1:34:09
  nothing and yet everything at the same time.
• 1:34:13
  The Kiefer's were perplexed at what was happening and tried
• 1:34:16
  examining all reasonable possibilities.
• 1:34:20
  Thinking they had a leak, they contacted their landlord, a man
• 1:34:24
  named Ron Van Wy. Upon arriving, Ron too quickly
• 1:34:29
  became perplexed. The leak, or so they thought,
• 1:34:33
  was obvious. But what was strange to him was
• 1:34:37
  that there was no piping that ran through the front part of
• 1:34:40
  the house. Certainly none that could spring
• 1:34:43
  a leak from the ceiling or the walls.
• 1:34:46
  None at all. On top of this strangeness, when
• 1:34:50
  observing the water's direction, Ron noticed that there was
• 1:34:54
  indeed no sense of direction. The water was not only coming
• 1:34:59
  from the top, down from the ceiling in the walls, but it was
• 1:35:03
  going from the floor and up the walls and direct contradiction
• 1:35:08
  to the laws of gravity and to anything that he had ever seen.
• 1:35:13
  Shocked and needing multiple witnesses to assure himself that
• 1:35:17
  he wasn't crazy, Ron phoned his wife Romaine to come and take a
• 1:35:22
  look as well. Upon her arrival, she was just
• 1:35:26
  as perplexed and became scared of what was happening since it
• 1:35:30
  defied all logic and the leak, or so they thought, only became
• 1:35:36
  worse. So the landlords did the only
• 1:35:39
  thing that they could do, they called the police.
• 1:35:43
  Shortly after that call, a patrol car arrived with Officer
• 1:35:47
  John Beaujin, who, after briefly stepping inside the home, became
• 1:35:51
  drenched in water and also witnessed the bizarre,
• 1:35:55
  otherworldly activity to which he had no explanation for
• 1:36:00
  either. So to prove his sanity and to
• 1:36:03
  back up a report, he called upon his partner, an officer named
• 1:36:09
  Richard Volbert. When Richard arrived, he wanted
• 1:36:13
  to be briefed on exactly what was going on.
• 1:36:16
  The Bojan didn't want to give him any sort of a preconceived
• 1:36:19
  notion and just told him to trust him on this one.
• 1:36:23
  After some back and forth, Richard finally conceded and
• 1:36:27
  followed John into the key for residence.
• 1:36:30
  He would later describe the incident as.
• 1:36:32
  So I walked in the door, I couldn't have gotten 2 steps in
• 1:36:37
  the door and I was pelted by water as we were discussing a
• 1:36:41
  potential leak and as we were being told that there were no
• 1:36:44
  pipes in that part of the house. As we stood just inside the
• 1:36:48
  house a droplet of water was traveling horizontally and
• 1:36:54
  passed right between US and out into the next room.
• 1:36:58
  As I retell this story I have a chill up my spine and the hair
• 1:37:03
  on my neck is standing up. John would go on to say things
• 1:37:08
  were happening in this house that I couldn't have ever
• 1:37:11
  possibly dreamed of happening and there was no way to explain
• 1:37:15
  what was going on. Shocked by what they were
• 1:37:18
  witnessing, the two officers asked the family to step outside
• 1:37:22
  of the house and out of the water while they left to report
• 1:37:25
  the incident to the chief himself.
• 1:37:28
  The Wise decided to stay at the property while the Kiefer's and
• 1:37:32
  Don walked across the street to a local restaurant for something
• 1:37:36
  to eat. Within seconds of everyone
• 1:37:39
  departing, the water suddenly stopped within the house, and
• 1:37:43
  aside from the home being drenched, it was back to normal.
• 1:37:47
  No more dripping water and no more mist.
• 1:37:52
  This left Ron and his wife, only to speculate that whatever was
• 1:37:55
  happening was coming from one of the three, because when they
• 1:37:59
  left, so did it. Pam Scrofano, who owned the
• 1:38:04
  pizzeria opposite the Kiefer's house where the three ended up
• 1:38:08
  in, was a friend of the Kiefer's and knew Dawn as well.
• 1:38:12
  Upon greeting the three of them, she noticed that Dawn was
• 1:38:16
  distant, like he was looking at you, but looking through you, a
• 1:38:22
  deeply religious woman. She sent something evil about
• 1:38:25
  him, like the devil was working through Dawn Decker and
• 1:38:30
  recommended that they contact someone at the church for help.
• 1:38:34
  Within mere seconds of mentioning this, droplets of
• 1:38:38
  water hit the table in front of them, and soon the very same
• 1:38:43
  phenomena that was originally happening in the house was also
• 1:38:47
  now taking place inside the pizzeria.
• 1:38:51
  Sensing this evil Pam ran to the cash register where she had an
• 1:38:56
  old cross necklace. She took it out and placed it
• 1:39:00
  around Don's neck. As soon as it touched his skin,
• 1:39:04
  he got burned. He began to scream and pulled
• 1:39:08
  the necklace off of him. It was charred black.
• 1:39:13
  As the trio departed the pizzeria and headed back to
• 1:39:16
  their home, the strange activity inside once again ceased.
• 1:39:22
  It's important to note that nothing like this had ever
• 1:39:25
  happened at the Kiefer residence or Pam's Pizzeria.
• 1:39:29
  No plumbing issues, nothing that could be considered even
• 1:39:33
  remotely similar. Convening inside the home once
• 1:39:36
  again, they met Ron and his wife.
• 1:39:39
  Ron suspected that Don had something to do with what was
• 1:39:42
  happening, and after some discussion, an argument erupted
• 1:39:46
  among the group. This led to Jeannie screaming at
• 1:39:50
  Don, telling him that they knew it was him, that he had to make
• 1:39:54
  all of this stop. After the words left her mouth,
• 1:39:59
  the pots and pans above the stove began to shake, and the
• 1:40:03
  lights around them began to flicker.
• 1:40:07
  Don Decker. Was no longer in control of his
• 1:40:11
  body. Everyone watched in horror as
• 1:40:15
  Don levitated multiple feet into the air and rotated several
• 1:40:20
  times. He was then thrown out of the
• 1:40:23
  kitchen where they were and into an entirely different room.
• 1:40:28
  Don himself would later recount the event like this.
• 1:40:32
  It wasn't like someone grabbing your hand or picking you up.
• 1:40:36
  I felt this force over my entire body.
• 1:40:40
  I'm a big man and I've always been assertive, but this,
• 1:40:44
  whatever this was, made me feel like a newborn child.
• 1:40:49
  I'm scared right now just thinking about it.
• 1:40:52
  Don now laid unconscious on the floor and the rain began again.
• 1:40:58
  The wise and the kiefers were an absolute shock and disbelief at
• 1:41:02
  what had just taken place. They knew it was tied to dawn,
• 1:41:07
  but they had no idea just what it was, but they felt that it
• 1:41:11
  was evil. A few hours after the strange
• 1:41:15
  incident witnessed by the police officers, they arrived back at
• 1:41:18
  the residence alongside their very heated police chief.
• 1:41:23
  As he made his way into the home with the two officers behind
• 1:41:26
  him, he too was pelted with water just as they had been.
• 1:41:30
  Now first probably feeling like he was on the spot and perhaps
• 1:41:34
  slightly embarrassed, he claimed that this wasn't even a police
• 1:41:38
  issue, but a plumbing issue, despite then being told that
• 1:41:42
  there were no pipes in that part of the house, and this was even
• 1:41:46
  confirmed by blueprints of the home.
• 1:41:49
  After taking a look around at the rest of the home, which was
• 1:41:52
  bone dry, the chief then angrily ordered the two officers to
• 1:41:56
  escort him back home. He would be the only officer
• 1:42:00
  that night to not admit to anything strange happening.
• 1:42:04
  He then directed Officers John and Richard to not file a report
• 1:42:09
  and to not speak about the incident at all, but word would
• 1:42:13
  get out the following morning. Acting against the specific
• 1:42:18
  orders from their chief, the two officers returned to the
• 1:42:21
  residence along with three veteran officers as well.
• 1:42:25
  They too would see and experience the bizarre rain
• 1:42:28
  inside the home. So they decided to try something
• 1:42:32
  to attempt to get to the bottom of what exactly was going on.
• 1:42:36
  They asked if they could place a paper bag over Don's head, to
• 1:42:40
  which Don agreed. This was so he would have no way
• 1:42:43
  of seeing anything. He'd have no preconceived
• 1:42:47
  notions of what could be placed on him or in his hands.
• 1:42:51
  They then placed a gold cross necklace from one of the
• 1:42:54
  officers into his hand. Lieutenant William Davies, one
• 1:43:00
  of the officers present who placed the cross into his hand,
• 1:43:04
  described the incident like this.
• 1:43:07
  As soon as the necklace touched his palm, he said it burned him.
• 1:43:12
  He would have had no idea what it was.
• 1:43:15
  I saw what I believe to be smoke of some sort coming from the
• 1:43:19
  necklace or his hand. As he dropped the necklace.
• 1:43:22
  I picked it up and it was hot. Not burning hot, but hot enough
• 1:43:28
  to concern me. Then suddenly with the force, as
• 1:43:33
  if a bus hit him, he lifted up and was thrown across the room,
• 1:43:38
  hitting the back wall. Upon removing the bag from him,
• 1:43:42
  he was clearly dazed and had three bloody and fresh claw
• 1:43:47
  marks across his neck. I've been a cop for 40 years and
• 1:43:51
  I've never ran into anything like this ever.
• 1:43:55
  Never before and never again after.
• 1:43:59
  There's always an explanation, but in this case there was no
• 1:44:04
  explanation. The police would later leave
• 1:44:08
  again with no answers as to what was taking place, believing it
• 1:44:12
  to be a spiritual matter. Don was placed on the couch in
• 1:44:16
  the living room where the rain continued to go from mist to
• 1:44:20
  showers at random and varying times.
• 1:44:25
  After making multiple desperate calls to every Protestant and
• 1:44:29
  Catholic religious leader in Shroudsburg, only one didn't
• 1:44:33
  turn them down. Ron was able to convince an
• 1:44:36
  evangelical preacher, who went by the name of Reverend Johnson,
• 1:44:40
  to come over and pray with Dawn. As she arrived and began to
• 1:44:45
  pray, the rest of the group held hands and vigil and did what
• 1:44:50
  they could to support her. As the first words left her
• 1:44:53
  lips, Dawn began to convulse and shake.
• 1:44:58
  The rain intensified and his body began to twist into
• 1:45:03
  unnatural positions, but as she continued, he slowly but surely
• 1:45:09
  began to relax and the rain seemed to stop.
• 1:45:15
  Although those present believed that a miracle had been
• 1:45:17
  performed, the results of that prayer session would only prove
• 1:45:22
  temporary, perhaps placing into hibernation whatever was inside
• 1:45:28
  Don Decker. Once his furlough was over, Don
• 1:45:32
  Decker returned back to jail to finish his sentence and within
• 1:45:36
  just a few days the mysterious rain returned.
• 1:45:40
  Upon his return to jail, Dom was placed in a cell with another
• 1:45:44
  inmate and had the thought enter his mind that if he could make
• 1:45:48
  it rain in the cell, perhaps he could get to be alone.
• 1:45:53
  Almost as soon as he thought that, the rain began.
• 1:45:57
  It was materializing out of the concrete floor and flowing
• 1:46:02
  upward. The other inmate was horrified
• 1:46:06
  and screamed for the guards to let him out.
• 1:46:09
  Thinking they had some kind of plumbing issue.
• 1:46:11
  The guards opened the cell and removed that inmate as well as
• 1:46:15
  Decker. At first he was accused of
• 1:46:18
  throwing water onto the walls from the sink or from the toilet
• 1:46:22
  by the guards, but upon these accusations Don rebuttal with I
• 1:46:27
  can control it. This time the feeling was
• 1:46:30
  different. This time he felt powerful and
• 1:46:34
  in control. Upon hearing this, the guard
• 1:46:38
  laughed and said if you can control this rain, make it rain
• 1:46:42
  in the warden's office. An offer that Don couldn't
• 1:46:45
  refuse. The warden would then describe
• 1:46:49
  what happened and these are the words of Lieutenant Warden David
• 1:46:53
  Keenhold. I was in my office filling out
• 1:46:56
  paperwork with no one else around.
• 1:46:58
  It was approximately 8:00 PM in the evening.
• 1:47:01
  I didn't notice it at that time, but my shirt was dripping down.
• 1:47:06
  I heard a knock at the door and little did I know that it was
• 1:47:09
  the same officer that was just with Don Decker.
• 1:47:12
  I wasn't aware of the situation at the time.
• 1:47:15
  He told me to look at my shirt and there was no explanation as
• 1:47:19
  to where the water could have come from.
• 1:47:21
  The officer then became very frightened of what had happened
• 1:47:25
  and after explaining the situation to me, I too became
• 1:47:29
  frightened. Shortly after the rain in the
• 1:47:31
  warden's office, a frantic call was placed to a local chaplain,
• 1:47:36
  a man named Reverend William Blackburn.
• 1:47:39
  He soon found himself shaking hands with the warden and
• 1:47:42
  several officers as he was escorted into the jail and into
• 1:47:46
  an empty cell. Within minutes he came face to
• 1:47:49
  face with Don Decker, who by this time was beginning to fear
• 1:47:54
  the feeling he had inside of him.
• 1:47:57
  That powerful and evil feeling. He was now asking for the
• 1:48:01
  Reverend's help and freeing him of whatever this thing was.
• 1:48:06
  Blackburn wasn't convinced at first.
• 1:48:09
  He told Decker that his life would be much easier if he just
• 1:48:12
  stopped all this nonsense and attention seeking.
• 1:48:16
  He would go on later to describe the situation like this.
• 1:48:19
  Almost immediately after I accused him, Don's demeanor
• 1:48:23
  changed. The glazed look came over him,
• 1:48:27
  and a horrible smell entered the room.
• 1:48:29
  Doctors, nurses, and medical personnel will tell you that
• 1:48:34
  when you walk into a room when there's someone dying of disease
• 1:48:37
  or of cancer, there's a smell to it.
• 1:48:41
  I smelled that smell multiplied by at least five times.
• 1:48:46
  It was evil and foreboding. Don's glazed expression then
• 1:48:51
  switched to one of malice and calculation.
• 1:48:54
  He exclaimed. I have powers that you don't and
• 1:48:58
  I can make it rain. He then raised his hand and
• 1:49:02
  rubbed his fingers together and it started to rain inside that
• 1:49:06
  cell. It was like a devil's rain, a
• 1:49:09
  mist. I was in the presence of evil.
• 1:49:13
  I started opening my Bible to begin to pray and Don said I
• 1:49:18
  don't want you to pray for me, to which I decided to anyways.
• 1:49:22
  I started to read to him and the strange thing is that even
• 1:49:26
  though I was soaked, the pages of my Bible never got wet and
• 1:49:31
  that was truly frightening. Although the session was short,
• 1:49:35
  upon uttering the words that he was now bound in the name of
• 1:49:38
  Jesus Christ, the rain stopped and a peace overtook dawn.
• 1:49:44
  When he finally came to, he thanked the reverend with tears
• 1:49:48
  in his eyes, and the two hugged and prayed together again.
• 1:49:54
  In the words of Reverend Blackburn, there is no doubt in
• 1:49:57
  my mind that he was possessed. No human being could do what he
• 1:50:01
  did in that room. There is no way that he did
• 1:50:04
  anything to fool me whatsoever. Whatever happened was spiritual
• 1:50:09
  and it was not from God. I can guarantee you that it was
• 1:50:13
  not from God. From this moment forward, the
• 1:50:16
  rain has stopped for now. Don Decker would later say that
• 1:50:21
  he takes things day by day and that fortunately, the rain
• 1:50:25
  hasn't returned. As for his grandfather, he
• 1:50:29
  thinks whatever happened was related to him.
• 1:50:32
  He thinks that considering where he thinks he ended up, maybe he
• 1:50:36
  was able to make a deal with someone and have yet another
• 1:50:40
  chance to abuse him. What makes this case so unique
• 1:50:44
  and interesting is that all the people involved are credible
• 1:50:48
  people. I mean, we have some family
• 1:50:50
  friends, sure, but they stated they had nothing take place in
• 1:50:54
  that house prior to Don's arrival that morning.
• 1:50:57
  We have the landlord of the family's home and his wife not
• 1:51:01
  only reaffirming that there weren't any prior issues, but
• 1:51:04
  that there were no pipes in that area of the house.
• 1:51:08
  We then have six police officers, including the chief
• 1:51:11
  over the case experienced the phenomena and he was the only
• 1:51:15
  one that said that nothing took place.
• 1:51:17
  We have a business owner where the phenomena took place at her
• 1:51:20
  establishment as well. Then several guards at the jail
• 1:51:24
  and which he goes back to finish serving his time witness things
• 1:51:28
  and the warden of the jail himself and the police officers,
• 1:51:32
  three of them were seasoned lieutenants I might add, and
• 1:51:35
  anyone with a proper reputation unless they really experienced
• 1:51:39
  something would risk that in my opinion.
• 1:51:43
  So was it demonic infestation? Possession, poltergeist
• 1:51:48
  activity, or something else entirely?
• 1:51:51
  When we have so many credible eyewitnesses recanting the same
• 1:51:55
  details, saying what they saw, experienced and felt was a
• 1:52:00
  phenomena not of this world, it truly makes you wonder.
• 1:52:05
  And if it wasn't spiritual, could Don's childhood trauma
• 1:52:09
  have allowed him to break into a part of the mind that could
• 1:52:12
  somehow 'cause these kinds of things allow him to manipulate
• 1:52:16
  the weather of his surroundings, move objects, and even cause
• 1:52:21
  harm to himself? We may never truly know the
• 1:52:24
  answers to this mystery in particular, and it very much
• 1:52:28
  still is a mystery to this day. As far as an update on Don
• 1:52:32
  Decker, besides multiple show appearances and interviews to
• 1:52:36
  discuss his story over the years, the last known activity
• 1:52:40
  that I could find of him was that back in 2012, he was
• 1:52:44
  charged with arson of a local restaurant in the Poconos
• 1:52:47
  Mountains of Pennsylvania. It seems like perhaps he was
• 1:52:51
  paid to set fire to the establishment by the owner,
• 1:52:54
  maybe for insurance fraud. As far as the outcome of the
• 1:52:57
  case, I couldn't find additional details.
• 1:53:01
  Perhaps whatever evil that was inside Dawn got the best of him
• 1:53:05
  at this time. Or, you know, we're all human,
• 1:53:09
  we do make mistakes without otherworldly influence as well.
• 1:53:12
  Just the thought. Wherever he is, I do have to say
• 1:53:16
  that his story is an amazing and intriguing one and I wish him
• 1:53:20
  nothing but the best. I'd also like to say thank you
• 1:53:24
  guys for watching this video. Without you guys, this channel
• 1:53:28
  was just me making videos that I find interesting at home at my
• 1:53:32
  computer, and I really can't hammer home how much your
• 1:53:35
  support means to me. It seems like YouTube doesn't
• 1:53:39
  always want to promote my content, and that's been a big
• 1:53:42
  uphill battle over the last four years.
• 1:53:44
  So when you choose to watch Mystery Archives, just know it
• 1:53:48
  helps me out much more than you could ever know.
• 1:54:02
  Rob and Vicki Graves had found what appeared to be their dream
• 1:54:05
  home. Looking to escape the big city
• 1:54:08
  life and take up a more rural one for themselves and their two
• 1:54:12
  teenage sons, they found Fox Hollow Farm and were shocked at
• 1:54:17
  how affordable it was for the sheer size and quality of the
• 1:54:20
  property. Sensing that it was too good to
• 1:54:22
  be true, they asked what could possibly be wrong with it
• 1:54:26
  because at a passing glance it seemed absolutely gorgeous.
• 1:54:31
  Then it came to Rob. He had remembered the name from
• 1:54:35
  a news broadcast many years ago. Unbeknownst to him and his wife,
• 1:54:40
  they were now standing on the very same grounds that were once
• 1:54:43
  owned by Herb Baumeister, the notorious serial killer.
• 1:54:48
  They immediately brought this up to the real estate agent who was
• 1:54:51
  showing them the property and were immediately told that that
• 1:54:54
  was indeed the case. That the private investor had
• 1:54:58
  indeed purchased the estate from the widow of Herb following the
• 1:55:01
  disturbing discovery of the bodies back in the 1990s, but
• 1:55:06
  that it had been completely remodeled from head to toe,
• 1:55:09
  removing any and all remnants of what it looked like when the
• 1:55:13
  murders had taken place all those years ago.
• 1:55:16
  But that's why it was indeed so affordable, because no one
• 1:55:19
  wanted to live there due to the history.
• 1:55:23
  After some further discussion among the couple, they
• 1:55:26
  ultimately decided to purchase the property.
• 1:55:29
  Within a couple weeks, the family moves in and falls in
• 1:55:33
  love with Fox Hollow Farm. The teenage sons soon make it a
• 1:55:37
  habit to play outside and then wash off in the pool in the
• 1:55:40
  basement, soon tracking dirt and gravel all throughout the home.
• 1:55:45
  One day, Vicki is vacuuming up the dirt that the boys had
• 1:55:49
  brought in from the outside around the pool when suddenly
• 1:55:54
  her vacuum loses power. Believing that perhaps she had
• 1:55:57
  accidentally unplugged it from the outlet, she plugged it back
• 1:56:00
  in and continued her work. Within several more minutes, it
• 1:56:05
  happened again. Perplexed this time because she
• 1:56:09
  was even more aware and careful about the cord in the outlet.
• 1:56:13
  She knew she hadn't unplugged it, so she plugged it back in
• 1:56:17
  and triple checked that it wasn't just falling out of the
• 1:56:19
  outlet by pulling the cord. Evermore aware this time she
• 1:56:23
  goes back to vacuuming but keeping a present eye on the
• 1:56:27
  cord itself and to her amazement it pulls out on its own as if
• 1:56:32
  someone had grabbed and pulled it out of the socket.
• 1:56:36
  Startled, she drops the vacuum and was beside herself.
• 1:56:40
  She doesn't know how to make sense of what had just happened
• 1:56:44
  and this would just be the beginning of the strangeness
• 1:56:47
  that would occur. Rob worked at a car dealership
• 1:56:51
  and one of his employees was a man named Joe Joe had been a
• 1:56:55
  great employee, but had a problem of being chronically
• 1:56:58
  late most of the time. As he probed to figure out what
• 1:57:01
  was going on, Joe informed Rob that he lived over an hour away
• 1:57:06
  and really needed the job and would be willing to move closer
• 1:57:09
  if the opportunity presented itself.
• 1:57:12
  Well, Rob thought about it and ended up offering Joe a place to
• 1:57:16
  rent. Located on Fox Hollow Farm, they
• 1:57:19
  had a guest house that they were considering renting out as
• 1:57:22
  apartments for quite some time, and this seemed like the perfect
• 1:57:26
  opportunity to benefit everyone involved.
• 1:57:29
  Joe would indeed move in just a few days later.
• 1:57:32
  It takes several hours, but within that time frame they're
• 1:57:35
  able to get everything inside and finish the move.
• 1:57:39
  Exhausted, Joe decides to retire for the night with his dog Fred.
• 1:57:44
  As he lays down to sleep in his newly set up bed, he then finds
• 1:57:48
  himself in a horrific nightmare. He's being chased throughout Fox
• 1:57:52
  Hollow Farm by something he can't see.
• 1:57:56
  The dream is so intense that it causes him to sleepwalk, which
• 1:58:00
  wasn't something that he was known to do.
• 1:58:03
  He began to run while still dreaming and ran directly into
• 1:58:07
  the door frame as he tried to escape the guest house.
• 1:58:11
  Falling back, he knocked into a nearby glass of water, which
• 1:58:15
  fell and shattered, cutting his hands.
• 1:58:18
  The impact and cutting of his hands finally woke him up and he
• 1:58:22
  was forced to sit back and ponder just what had taken
• 1:58:25
  place. And fangs would only intensify
• 1:58:28
  from here another day. Soon after, Rob was painting the
• 1:58:32
  side of their home a different color.
• 1:58:35
  As he and his wife remarked on how nice the finished job will
• 1:58:38
  be, she spots something out of the corner of her eye.
• 1:58:42
  She had seen a man in a red shirt staring at them.
• 1:58:45
  As she broke away from her husband and began to approach
• 1:58:48
  the figure, it started to walk away from her and quickly
• 1:58:52
  disappeared as if it never existed.
• 1:58:55
  The couple then called out and checked the perimeter but never
• 1:58:59
  found anyone. They dismissed the person as
• 1:59:02
  nothing more than a curious trespasser.
• 1:59:05
  I mean, after all, they did purchase a serial killer's home.
• 1:59:09
  They just had to accept that curious people may sneak up just
• 1:59:12
  to get a look at their home. Later that night, Joe was doing
• 1:59:16
  the dishes in his apartment when he suddenly gets a series of
• 1:59:20
  knocks on his front door, telling the person it'll just be
• 1:59:24
  a minute. As he drives his hands off to go
• 1:59:26
  and answer the door, the series of knocks begin to grow louder
• 1:59:31
  and more aggressive. Thinking it was extremely
• 1:59:34
  strange or extremely urgent concerning Vicki or Rob, he went
• 1:59:39
  and answered the doors. It was still being knocked upon.
• 1:59:42
  However, as he opened the door, there was no one to be found.
• 1:59:48
  Automatically on guard, he peers outside.
• 1:59:51
  The knocking had been happening when he answered the door, so no
• 1:59:54
  person could have got very far while he answered.
• 1:59:57
  Mid knock he glanced around and yet saw and heard nothing.
• 2:00:03
  He stepped outside and began to examine the roof in the nearby
• 2:00:07
  areas and still there was nothing.
• 2:00:11
  Thoroughly weirded out at this point, he made his way back
• 2:00:14
  inside and bolted, the door locked behind him.
• 2:00:18
  He started to make his way back to the kitchen to finish doing
• 2:00:20
  his dishes when he spotted a man standing in his bedroom staring
• 2:00:26
  at him. Upon spotting the figure, his
• 2:00:29
  dog begins to growl and make sounds that he's never heard him
• 2:00:33
  make before, staring directly in the direction of the bedroom.
• 2:00:38
  Already on edge, he ran into the bedroom and flipped the light on
• 2:00:43
  only to discover that there was again no one there.
• 2:00:48
  Searching the entire apartment, he again found nothing.
• 2:00:52
  Trying to rationalize and clear his mind, he decided to take his
• 2:00:56
  dog Fred for a walk to calm down and unwind for the evening.
• 2:01:02
  While on his walk around the property, he thought to check on
• 2:01:05
  Rob and Vicki's house to see if the lights were on.
• 2:01:09
  This would indicate to him that perhaps they were the ones who
• 2:01:11
  had knocked on his door and therefore he could rest easy and
• 2:01:15
  figure out what it was about. The following morning.
• 2:01:18
  However, upon arriving at their house, he found it completely
• 2:01:22
  blacked out. They had already gone to bed for
• 2:01:25
  the night. Fred, who was always a loyal and
• 2:01:28
  obedient dog, always walked with him without a leash and would
• 2:01:33
  always follow his commands. However, tonight would be a
• 2:01:37
  different story. Deciding to head back to his
• 2:01:40
  apartment, he motioned for Fred to join him, but the dog would
• 2:01:44
  not budget. He suddenly began to growl and
• 2:01:47
  then bolted into the nearby tree line.
• 2:01:51
  Instinctively, Joe ran after his dog, but not before seeing what
• 2:01:55
  his dog was running after. Before his eyes and the very
• 2:01:59
  same tree line was a man in a red shirt.
• 2:02:03
  Although he was absolutely terrified, Joe couldn't let
• 2:02:06
  anything happen to his beloved dog, so he continued to run
• 2:02:10
  towards this man, when suddenly whoever or whatever this was
• 2:02:16
  disappeared before his eyes, although slightly behind.
• 2:02:21
  He would quickly catch up to Fred and now noticed him not
• 2:02:25
  acting aggressive at all, but rather showing his belly in
• 2:02:28
  submission, staring in the direction of Joe.
• 2:02:32
  Joe, knowing his dog, knew that something very strange had to be
• 2:02:37
  up with him. He suddenly felt as if someone
• 2:02:40
  was staring directly at him. He slowly turned around to see
• 2:02:44
  the apparition of a man in a red shirt with a twisted face
• 2:02:50
  staring back at him just several feet away.
• 2:02:54
  Joe, as most of us would, ran out of there as fast as he
• 2:02:58
  could, his loyal companion following him.
• 2:03:02
  The two run as fast as they can back to the apartment, where
• 2:03:05
  they rush inside, lock and deadbolt the door, and nervously
• 2:03:10
  watch out of the blinds for the rest of the night.
• 2:03:13
  The following morning, and even more exhausted, Joe makes his
• 2:03:16
  way to Vicki and Rob's house to discuss the prior night's
• 2:03:19
  events. As he's telling both of them
• 2:03:22
  what happened, Vicki starts to become emotional.
• 2:03:26
  She too would seen the man in red just days earlier.
• 2:03:29
  She points to where she saw him and Loan, and behold, it's the
• 2:03:33
  exact same spot that Joe had encountered the entity the night
• 2:03:37
  before. As the day progressed tonight,
• 2:03:40
  Joe yet again found himself in his apartment, hoping to finally
• 2:03:44
  get some rest. But as he settled down in his
• 2:03:47
  bed, he was suddenly startled by knocking at his door.
• 2:03:52
  As he yelled out who is it? As he made his way towards the
• 2:03:55
  door, he didn't receive an audible answer back, just more
• 2:04:00
  aggressive knocking at the door. The door itself now is shaking.
• 2:04:06
  Facing his fear of the unknown, mid knock Joe throws the door
• 2:04:10
  open only to meet face to face with nothing.
• 2:04:16
  As he frantically looks around the yard while holding the door,
• 2:04:20
  he notices that the doors knocking apparatus is sticking
• 2:04:23
  straight out as if someone is holding it.
• 2:04:28
  It then drops one last time knocking the door.
• 2:04:32
  Absolutely petrified, Joe slams the door and locks it.
• 2:04:36
  As he tries to catch his breath and take several steps
• 2:04:39
  backwards, he sees the door knob begin to turn.
• 2:04:43
  Then, without warning, the door bursts open, shattering the
• 2:04:48
  lock. The open door, yet again,
• 2:04:51
  reveals no one. After a moment of frozen terror,
• 2:04:55
  Joe runs outside and into the front yard of his apartment,
• 2:04:59
  screaming and searching all around for just who could be
• 2:05:02
  doing this. After several minutes, he stares
• 2:05:06
  back into the house to the open front door and sees a man
• 2:05:10
  dressed in all white standing there.
• 2:05:12
  He soaked from head to toe in what appears to be water and is
• 2:05:16
  screaming in a muted voice as if he's being held underwater.
• 2:05:21
  He then bolts towards Joe and seemingly disappears into a
• 2:05:25
  mist, frantically calling out to his dog Fred to accompany him.
• 2:05:30
  Joe frantically makes his way to Rob and Vicki's house on the
• 2:05:33
  property. He's so terrified that he's
• 2:05:36
  shaking now, and Rob and Vicki are just as scared.
• 2:05:39
  They now truly believe that they are dealing with something
• 2:05:42
  paranormal in nature in order to rationalize the situation and
• 2:05:47
  make sense of what was taking place.
• 2:05:50
  They begin to believe that they're experiencing the results
• 2:05:53
  of the murders conducted by Herb Baumeister, and that his victims
• 2:05:58
  are either trapped here somehow, or their energy is stuck in an
• 2:06:03
  endless loop, replaying their final and tragic moments over
• 2:06:08
  and over and over again. Refusing to return to his
• 2:06:15
  apartment, Rob and Vicki, being the supportive friends they
• 2:06:18
  were, agreed that Joe could stay the night with them and together
• 2:06:22
  they would begin researching online to try and formulate some
• 2:06:25
  kind of a plan of action of what to do next.
• 2:06:29
  As they collectively scour the Baumeister case information,
• 2:06:33
  they find themselves looking at the list of identified victims.
• 2:06:37
  As they get deeper into the details, Joe is shocked.
• 2:06:41
  He stops them on a picture of a man in a white shirt.
• 2:06:45
  That was the man I saw in my apartment who was soaked from
• 2:06:48
  head to toe and screaming. Although this information still
• 2:06:53
  scares them, it does help reassure them that they are
• 2:06:56
  indeed dealing with the victims of this horrendous tragedy.
• 2:07:00
  They are especially convinced considering many of the remains
• 2:07:04
  have never been identified, so they continue to research the
• 2:07:08
  case. After several uneventful days,
• 2:07:11
  Joe finds himself almost compelled to walk around the
• 2:07:14
  property with his dog, except this time in broad daylight.
• 2:07:19
  So apprehensively, he makes his way with Fred to the area where
• 2:07:24
  both he and Vicki have seen the Man in Red on separate
• 2:07:27
  occasions. Just past the tree line on The
• 2:07:30
  Walking path, Joe is stopped by what looks to be a bone.
• 2:07:34
  He believes that it's impossible that such a bone could have been
• 2:07:37
  missed during the extensive searches over the years, but
• 2:07:41
  none the less it was right here, right now, as if it had been
• 2:07:46
  placed there for him to discover.
• 2:07:48
  Quickly consulting and showing Rob and Vicki the discovery,
• 2:07:52
  they too believed that this could be a bone belonging to the
• 2:07:55
  mysterious Man in Red. They ended up contacting the
• 2:07:58
  lead detective on the Baumeister case and submitted the bone,
• 2:08:02
  which turned out to be a human femur bone, in his evidence and
• 2:08:06
  for analysis. They then requested if the
• 2:08:09
  investigator himself could come out to the property and explain
• 2:08:13
  to them just where things had taken place so they could have a
• 2:08:17
  better understanding of what had happened, to which he obliged.
• 2:08:22
  Several days passed and Joe by this point had made his way back
• 2:08:26
  to his apartment to try and settle back in given the new
• 2:08:29
  information. While on his computer checking
• 2:08:32
  his emails, he began to hear scraping, almost metallic like
• 2:08:36
  sound originating from the kitchen.
• 2:08:39
  Upon further examination, he sees that all of his butcher
• 2:08:43
  knives from his knife block have been neatly arranged in his
• 2:08:46
  sink, placed in a row equally spaced from one another.
• 2:08:52
  Glancing around the room, he spots fresh deep cuts in the
• 2:08:55
  wood of the nearby counter cabinet.
• 2:08:58
  He believes that this could be a sign for one of the victims
• 2:09:01
  crying for help. He starts to try and figure out
• 2:09:05
  the mystery. He takes out his phone and
• 2:09:08
  begins recording, asking probing questions to whoever or whatever
• 2:09:13
  could be there and hopes of helping them in any way that he
• 2:09:16
  can. Prior to this, of course, he
• 2:09:19
  turned off any and all appliances that could interfere
• 2:09:22
  with the process. He begins by asking a series of
• 2:09:26
  questions and doesn't seem to get much of anything, at least
• 2:09:29
  not audibly. But then, towards the end of his
• 2:09:32
  questions, Fred begins to growl. The same eerie growl he had any
• 2:09:37
  time they'd experienced something previously.
• 2:09:40
  Taking this is confirmation that perhaps his companion could see
• 2:09:44
  or hear something that he couldn't, he quickly downloads
• 2:09:48
  the audio file and begins to listen to it on his computer.
• 2:09:52
  And to his shock, he did indeed receive a response.
• 2:09:57
  This is the clip of the actual EVP that was recorded who keeps
• 2:10:01
  walking in the kitchen. He believes he hears the married
• 2:10:08
  one. But in all of their research,
• 2:10:11
  all of the victims were young, single gay men.
• 2:10:15
  The only one who was married was one Herb Baumeister.
• 2:10:20
  This revelation is startling. He not only believes that the
• 2:10:23
  victims were trapped within the grounds of Fox Hollow Farm, but
• 2:10:27
  that perhaps the serial killer himself could too be trapped
• 2:10:32
  here. What would follow would be
• 2:10:34
  dozens of paranormal investigations.
• 2:10:37
  And those investigations would lead the group to believe that
• 2:10:40
  they were not only dealing with the spirits of the victims
• 2:10:43
  haunting the grounds, but either a dark entity impersonating
• 2:10:47
  Baumeister or the killer himself.
• 2:10:50
  Several years after the events, the Graves family would end up
• 2:10:54
  selling Fox Hollow Farm, and it would continue to change hands
• 2:10:58
  over the years since then, leading to multiple new owners
• 2:11:01
  of the property. And although new information
• 2:11:04
  doesn't seem to be publicly available, it's still considered
• 2:11:08
  one of the most haunted places in Indiana, if not the world,
• 2:11:13
  given its unique and gruesome history.
• 2:11:16
  An independent film will go on to be made about it called The
• 2:11:19
  Haunting of Fox Hollow Farm. And Robert Graves, along with
• 2:11:23
  another man named Richard E Step who led many paranormal
• 2:11:27
  investigations at Fox Hollow Farm, would Co write a book
• 2:11:31
  detailing the family's creepy experiences and what they
• 2:11:34
  believed to be ultimately happening.
• 2:11:37
  So in conclusion, we know that Herb Baumeister was mentally ill
• 2:11:42
  ultimately, but what makes this case so strange and so
• 2:11:45
  compelling to me is that he was an outstanding member of his
• 2:11:49
  community for the longest time. He was the smiling neighbor, the
• 2:11:54
  charitable businessman, the happy family man, and overall a
• 2:11:59
  pillar of normalcy. But behind closed doors, his
• 2:12:03
  psyche, his soul, contained a darkness that most of us will
• 2:12:08
  never be able to comprehend, yet alone unravel and understand.
• 2:12:14
  So could the murderous deeds of a twisted individual trap souls
• 2:12:18
  on a property and perhaps open some kind of a portal?
• 2:12:23
  Could the unleashing of such energy, like what is expressed
• 2:12:26
  in a violent death, contribute to something like this?
• 2:12:30
  If it wasn't what's known as an intelligent haunting, where the
• 2:12:33
  spirits are aware of what has happened to them and are indeed
• 2:12:36
  trapped there, which very well could still be the case, then
• 2:12:40
  perhaps it could be a residual haunting where the events are of
• 2:12:44
  such magnitude and strength that they play on a loop for all
• 2:12:48
  time, but the souls who were involved have long since moved
• 2:12:53
  on. These are questions that we may
• 2:12:55
  never have answers to, but all things that we should ponder.
• 2:13:00
  The one thing is for certain, the malicious calculation of
• 2:13:04
  Herb Baumeister and the horrendous things that he did to
• 2:13:07
  the suspected 25 victims at Fox Hollow Farms should never be
• 2:13:12
  forgotten. They are indeed still
• 2:13:15
  identifying and using updated technology to identify remains
• 2:13:19
  that are still being found on the grounds.
• 2:13:22
  This has happened as recent as November of 2022, so if you
• 2:13:26
  happen to be a family member of someone that you suspect could
• 2:13:30
  be connected to this case, just know that my heart truly does go
• 2:13:33
  out to you and please contact the Hamilton County Coroner's
• 2:13:38
  Office at 317-770-4415. Besides remembering what
• 2:13:46
  happened, I also urge you to please respect the victims and
• 2:13:50
  their families, as well as the family of Herb Baumeister if you
• 2:13:54
  should ever have anything to do with them.
• 2:13:57
  Throughout history, it has been speculated that many have been
• 2:14:01
  plagued by an ancient demonic force, from Mesopotamia to more
• 2:14:08
  modern times. This evil and terrifying entity
• 2:14:13
  as said to enter our world and wreak havoc upon those who dwell
• 2:14:18
  within it. When a seemingly normal family
• 2:14:23
  disregards the warnings and partakes in multiple Ouija board
• 2:14:28
  sessions, what happened next nearly destroyed them.
• 2:14:33
  This is the untold story of the demonic Zozo House of Oklahoma
• 2:14:39
  and the abhorrent creature stalks its walls.
• 2:14:57
  Oklahoma City, a small but growing city in the heartland of
• 2:15:02
  America known for blue collar work and brick and mortar shops,
• 2:15:08
  red dirt and sports would soon become known for something much
• 2:15:15
  darker. A teenager by the name of Darren
• 2:15:19
  Evans was growing up here, a normal boy by all accounts,
• 2:15:25
  doing things that any teenagers would enjoy, hanging out with
• 2:15:29
  friends, shenanigans here and there, and dating girls.
• 2:15:36
  He began dating a girl named Brandy who attended school with
• 2:15:39
  him, and the two often found themselves visiting each other
• 2:15:44
  as often as they could, whether that was walking to and from
• 2:15:48
  school and between classes or visiting each other's homes.
• 2:15:55
  One day, while Brandy's home was having some plumbing work done
• 2:15:59
  on some pipes located underneath the house, the plumber doing the
• 2:16:04
  work would soon make a strange discovery.
• 2:16:08
  Located below the foundation of the home, covered in dirt, was
• 2:16:13
  an old Ouija board. The front letters were partially
• 2:16:17
  buried and the back of the board was solid black in color.
• 2:16:23
  Off to the side of where the board was found was an aged
• 2:16:27
  planchette. What made this finding even more
• 2:16:31
  bizarre was that 4 old jars sat on the corners of the board,
• 2:16:37
  speckled with dirt as well. Thinking perhaps the kids had
• 2:16:42
  stashed the board away and forgot about it, the worker told
• 2:16:46
  the young couple after his work was done about what he had
• 2:16:50
  found. And it's from here that things
• 2:16:53
  seemingly take a darker turn. Upon examining the discovery,
• 2:16:59
  they began to brush the dirt away from the jars.
• 2:17:03
  They were then shocked by what they found Inside each one of
• 2:17:07
  the jars. Sitting on the four corners of
• 2:17:10
  the board were the decaying bodies of blackbirds, congealed
• 2:17:16
  blood and matter still present. Bewildered but intrigued, they
• 2:17:23
  sat the jars off to the side and picked up the board.
• 2:17:29
  As soon as his fingers made contact with the board, Darren
• 2:17:33
  seemed to have an instant connection with it.
• 2:17:36
  And with this soon came a burning curiosity to examine it.
• 2:17:41
  And this curiosity would manifest into obsession with
• 2:17:48
  this. The couple took the board inside
• 2:17:50
  the home where they spoke with Brandy's mother.
• 2:17:54
  She actively practiced the Wiccan religion, but had no idea
• 2:17:59
  who could have put the board there Several days later.
• 2:18:04
  Curious as most teenagers are, Darren was an avid music fan.
• 2:18:10
  And one night, after building up the courage to do it, he decided
• 2:18:15
  he was going to contact the deceased singer of the the
• 2:18:18
  popular band ACDC, a man named Ronald Belford Scott, using the
• 2:18:25
  board. Scott had passed away from
• 2:18:28
  alcohol poisoning in 1980. After lighting several candles,
• 2:18:34
  laying the board with letters facing towards him, and placing
• 2:18:38
  the planchette upon the board, he began his session.
• 2:18:43
  At first, nothing seemed to happen.
• 2:18:47
  The Darem was still feeling this otherworldly connection to
• 2:18:50
  something within the board itself.
• 2:18:53
  After trying for half an hour, to his shock and amazement, the
• 2:18:58
  plant Chet began to move. Slowly at first.
• 2:19:03
  It then frantically began to move by itself, moving from Z to
• 2:19:10
  OZ to O over and over and over again, spelling out the name
• 2:19:19
  Sozo. Shocked and unsure of what or
• 2:19:24
  who he had contacted, Darren said goodbye in an attempt to
• 2:19:29
  end the session. Before his eyes he saw the plain
• 2:19:34
  chat spell out See you in Hell and then it threw itself across
• 2:19:40
  the room. A now terrified and bewildered
• 2:19:43
  Darren ran out of his room try to make sense of what had just
• 2:19:47
  taken place. But this was just the beginning
• 2:19:51
  of what was to come. It started with horrible night
• 2:19:56
  terrors. He would wake up unable to move
• 2:20:00
  or speak and would hear whispering in his ears.
• 2:20:04
  These episodes at night were soon followed by banging and
• 2:20:08
  knocking throughout his house during the daytime, as well as a
• 2:20:12
  constant feeling. As if he was being watched by
• 2:20:15
  something, he couldn't see you. But despite the presence he was
• 2:20:21
  feeling, Darren now sought answers to his ever growing list
• 2:20:25
  of questions. Just what exactly he had
• 2:20:28
  uncovered. So he continued to hold sessions
• 2:20:33
  with the board. For better or for worse.
• 2:20:38
  Darren would later quote this. The sessions now were as intense
• 2:20:43
  and paranormal as anything I've ever witnessed.
• 2:20:47
  A deep and terrible moaning could be heard emanating through
• 2:20:51
  the walls. After these sessions I developed
• 2:20:54
  sleep paralysis and became reclusive to society in general.
• 2:21:00
  I was once again messing with Zozo and Ouija boards, despite
• 2:21:05
  the terrors of my earlier sessions in which I had promised
• 2:21:09
  myself I would never do it again.
• 2:21:11
  But again, and again I did. When not in use, the board was
• 2:21:18
  kept in a purple silk cloth and stored in his bedroom closet.
• 2:21:22
  It would also often go missing, sometimes for days on end.
• 2:21:30
  When checking back where he had placed it in order to set up and
• 2:21:33
  initiate a new session, the board would seemingly vanish,
• 2:21:39
  only to reappear at random times as if it was the one calling the
• 2:21:44
  shots of when it could be seen and used.
• 2:21:50
  The years came in when and the sessions on the mystical Ouija
• 2:21:54
  board continued. Darren by this time started
• 2:21:59
  inviting his friends to partake in the sessions, and although
• 2:22:03
  their sessions with him would prove he's not insane, it's of
• 2:22:07
  little consolation considering the tragedy it would seemingly
• 2:22:11
  manifest later on. Darren's best friend was a man
• 2:22:16
  by the name of Randy. The two had bonded over their
• 2:22:20
  love for the band ACDC in high school and had been inseparable
• 2:22:25
  ever since. Randy's idol also being the late
• 2:22:29
  Bond Scott, whose lifestyle seemingly imprinted upon the
• 2:22:33
  youthful teens Once Upon a time and perhaps would ultimately
• 2:22:38
  lead to the downfall of one of them.
• 2:22:42
  By now, Darren was living in his own apartment and working
• 2:22:46
  construction at a job site he was on.
• 2:22:50
  He would make a strange but familiar discovery.
• 2:22:54
  As he was digging down into the earth, he found what appeared to
• 2:22:58
  be a jar. Upon picking it up to discard
• 2:23:02
  it, he wiped away the dirt and debris, only to be shocked by
• 2:23:07
  its familiar contents. Loan.
• 2:23:10
  And behold, within the jar was a congealed and rotting Blackbird,
• 2:23:17
  extremely similar if not identical to the ones initially
• 2:23:21
  found alongside the Ouija board underneath his high school
• 2:23:25
  girlfriend's home all those years ago.
• 2:23:29
  It was particularly weird, not just because of this, but the
• 2:23:34
  fact that he had found it digging down deep into the
• 2:23:38
  earth. He wondered what were the odds
• 2:23:41
  of this, and although he had no way of knowing for sure, his gut
• 2:23:46
  began to tell him that there was some kind of witchcraft or a
• 2:23:50
  cult expertise at play here. Perhaps someone or a group of
• 2:23:56
  people were knowingly contacting this entity known as Zozo.
• 2:24:01
  But for what remained to be known, one evening in 1985,
• 2:24:08
  Darren and Randy were relaxing at Darren's apartment when they
• 2:24:12
  decided to host a session on the Ouija board.
• 2:24:15
  Randy, more than anything, wanted to try and make contact
• 2:24:19
  with his late idol Bon Scott, while wearing a Highway to Hell
• 2:24:25
  ACDC shirt. Randy's intent was clear.
• 2:24:30
  The two dimmed the lights, lit a couple of candles, and began the
• 2:24:35
  session upon the board. They made contact within a few
• 2:24:39
  minutes once the planchette was moving.
• 2:24:44
  Randy exclaimed. We want to talk to Bon Scott of
• 2:24:49
  ACDC. With this sentence, the
• 2:24:53
  planchette seemingly obliged. It moved in circles, eventually
• 2:24:59
  spelling out Aye MATE. The two looked at each other in
• 2:25:06
  amazement. The entity was using Australian
• 2:25:09
  dialects and for anyone who doesn't know, Bon Scott was
• 2:25:14
  Australian. After several more questions,
• 2:25:19
  both of the young men were convinced they were speaking
• 2:25:21
  with their idol. The spirit seemed to know every
• 2:25:24
  little detail to any question they asked and during the
• 2:25:29
  session the entity then made a strange request from the men.
• 2:25:34
  It asked them to light a cigarette and place it in the
• 2:25:37
  hole in the planchette. What proceeded to make both of
• 2:25:41
  them laugh also made them quite spooked as well.
• 2:25:45
  So they lit a couple cigarettes, one for each of them and one for
• 2:25:50
  this entity. They took a few drags to keep it
• 2:25:54
  lit and then placed it cherry side up in the planchette hole.
• 2:25:59
  The Blanchett then spelled out thanks.
• 2:26:03
  They then watched an utter amazement as the cherry of the
• 2:26:06
  cigarette lit up as if Bon himself was taking puffs off of
• 2:26:12
  it. But this amusement was short
• 2:26:15
  lived. Once the cigarette had seemingly
• 2:26:19
  been smoked, the Blanchett began to spell something very
• 2:26:23
  different. It's spelled FU, Randy.
• 2:26:28
  I will have your soul and I'll see you in hell, Zio.
• 2:26:36
  Zio terrified the men quickly into the session by saying
• 2:26:41
  goodbye and tossing the board outside the second story
• 2:26:44
  apartment balcony door. Clearly scared and upset, Randy
• 2:26:50
  also didn't take kindly to threats.
• 2:26:53
  He began cussing out Zozo with complete and utter rage.
• 2:26:58
  The board would later be returned by his downstairs
• 2:27:01
  neighbor, and after this session, a series of lows for
• 2:27:05
  both of the men seemed to manifest in the years to come.
• 2:27:10
  Influenced by the lifestyle of his idol, Randy fell victim to
• 2:27:15
  alcoholism. He soon would lose his wife to
• 2:27:18
  divorce and have split custody with his son.
• 2:27:23
  And although many opportunities presented themselves for Randy
• 2:27:26
  to better his life, for one reason or another, he was always
• 2:27:31
  just too far away to be able to grasp them, He often said to
• 2:27:35
  Darren, I feel like I'm in a prison and I can't escape for
• 2:27:42
  old time's sake. The two did one last Ouija board
• 2:27:45
  session together in 2005, in which Randy asked the board how
• 2:27:52
  he would die. The board responded in a car at
• 2:27:57
  night alone. In 2007, after spending the
• 2:28:02
  evening with Darren. The last words he would say to
• 2:28:06
  him were Darren, I will see you in hell.
• 2:28:11
  The next morning, Darren received a phone call from
• 2:28:14
  Randy's girlfriend Alicia, saying that Randy never made it
• 2:28:18
  home after he left. Instead, he had passed away in a
• 2:28:23
  violent head on collision, ultimately passing away in a car
• 2:28:28
  at night and alone. This devastating passing, along
• 2:28:34
  with the frequent contact with the entity known as Zozo over
• 2:28:37
  the years, led to a fascination and borderline obsession with
• 2:28:42
  the search for answers for Darren Evans.
• 2:28:47
  During the time before and after Randy's death, he had been
• 2:28:51
  living in a home in Oklahoma City, OK that would become
• 2:28:55
  synonymous with the demon's name.
• 2:28:59
  It was here that the worst afflictions brought on by the
• 2:29:02
  entity would take place to him and his family.
• 2:29:07
  Darren's fascination with the occult led him to hanging on to
• 2:29:11
  and possessing multiple Ouija boards and other various occult
• 2:29:15
  objects. It was here that he began to
• 2:29:19
  study on a much more in depth and organized basis, just trying
• 2:29:24
  to figure out who or what Zozo was.
• 2:29:29
  But this research would soon be interrupted and this home lived
• 2:29:34
  himself, his wife Kathleen, and their young daughter at the
• 2:29:39
  time. During a session with his wife
• 2:29:42
  Kathleen one evening while their daughter slept rooms away, Zozo
• 2:29:48
  would once again make itself present in their lives, but this
• 2:29:53
  time seemed to take possession of Darren.
• 2:29:57
  Kathleen trembled with fear and bated breath as something stared
• 2:30:02
  at her through Darren's eyes, something that clearly wasn't
• 2:30:07
  human. He then turned violent,
• 2:30:11
  attempting to attack her. Fortunately for Kathleen, she
• 2:30:16
  was able to say goodbye and get away before any harm could be
• 2:30:19
  done to her. Several minutes later, Darren
• 2:30:23
  would come back to himself with no memory of what had taken
• 2:30:28
  place. After this session, things
• 2:30:32
  seemed to escalate in intensity. Sounds began to rap throughout
• 2:30:38
  the entire home, from knocking to hissing, footsteps and
• 2:30:46
  banging, all seemingly with no explainable origin.
• 2:30:52
  The family got so terrified that they sectioned off a particular
• 2:30:57
  bedroom upstairs, calling it their safe room.
• 2:31:02
  One night, however, not everyone was within the safe room.
• 2:31:07
  Suddenly, an overwhelming sense of terror creeped upon Darren as
• 2:31:12
  he was trying to sleep. He rushed to the safe room to
• 2:31:16
  attempt to stop what he was feeling.
• 2:31:19
  Quickly realizing he couldn't leave his family behind, he
• 2:31:23
  rushed back out of the room in an attempt to gather them and
• 2:31:27
  bring them to safety as well. As he was heading towards the
• 2:31:32
  stairs, his daughter had heard his cries and was now at the
• 2:31:37
  foot of the stairs. It was here that Darren saw her
• 2:31:42
  being lifted by invisible hands into the air and carried away
• 2:31:47
  from him, screaming for his child as she screamed for her
• 2:31:53
  father. Darren ran down the stairs as
• 2:31:56
  fast as he possibly could but couldn't see her anywhere.
• 2:32:01
  Insight. He then heard her muffled
• 2:32:04
  screams coming from the basement.
• 2:32:08
  At first the door was locked and wouldn't open, but after
• 2:32:12
  adrenaline and brute force, Darren thankfully was able to
• 2:32:16
  open it. He then retrieved his hysterical
• 2:32:19
  child and brought her to the safety of the safe room.
• 2:32:25
  Once inside the room, the family huddled together in fear as they
• 2:32:29
  continued to hear movement and noises all throughout the house.
• 2:32:34
  After this abhorrent nightmare of a situation, the family knew
• 2:32:38
  they had to get out of the house.
• 2:32:41
  This situation and the many other paranormal experiences had
• 2:32:45
  led to a lifelong fascination for Darren Evans with the occult
• 2:32:51
  and finding out just exactly what Sozo is.
• 2:32:55
  But was it worth jeopardizing his family's safety?
• 2:33:00
  It took some time but the family would soon relocate to another
• 2:33:04
  home and once his family was safe, Darren was able to
• 2:33:09
  continue his deep dive into the unknown to try and track down
• 2:33:14
  and decipher just what this entity could be and where it
• 2:33:19
  came from. And although he knew the topic
• 2:33:22
  was vast, I think it went far deeper than he ever anticipated.
• 2:33:28
  Whilst trying to dig up more information, he posted his
• 2:33:32
  experiences to an old paranormal form in 2009 and since then
• 2:33:39
  many, many people have shared their experiences with the
• 2:33:44
  demonic force, many of which have been documented and
• 2:33:49
  compared by Darren himself on his website.
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  But these experiences are not just the 21st or even 20th
• 2:33:57
  century phenomena, they date back far older than that.
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  Not every fine detail will be mentioned here, but I will do my
• 2:34:07
  best to list the most important details that I could find in
• 2:34:11
  regards to the origin of Zozo. According to Darren and other
• 2:34:16
  online sources, Zozo in the old Basque language means Blackbird
• 2:34:23
  or crow. The Zo people of Haiti practiced
• 2:34:27
  a form of voodoo whose rituals involve horrific scarification
• 2:34:32
  as well as the intake and passing around of bodily fluids
• 2:34:37
  and bizarre rituals. Their witch doctors are called
• 2:34:41
  Zozo and wear demonic looking masks as part of their death
• 2:34:47
  ritual. When someone is passing away,
• 2:34:50
  they lift up the mask at the moment of death to take in the
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  person's final breath. This is apparently done to
• 2:34:58
  absorb the soul of the person to gain more spiritual power.
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  Zozo also in the Malay language is the same as it is in English,
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  but it translates to wandering spirit, which is a spirit they
• 2:35:13
  believe to steal people's souls while they sleep, which is also
• 2:35:18
  bizarre because sleep is often considered the cousin of death.
• 2:35:24
  Zozo has been called the minister of deception.
• 2:35:27
  It is known to convince you that it is a deceased loved one or
• 2:35:31
  friend or even someone you've idolized, when in reality, it's
• 2:35:37
  not. Sessions typically start out
• 2:35:41
  friendly and inviting, but soon turned malevolent and dangerous.
• 2:35:48
  During his research over the years, Darren made contact with
• 2:35:53
  and spoke to famous demonologist John Zapis who shared with him
• 2:35:57
  that in his experience with over 40 years of studying the demonic
• 2:36:02
  and paranormal, the name Zozo and other pseudonyms of its name
• 2:36:07
  kept coming up in his investigations, which too led
• 2:36:11
  him to seek answers as to what it could be.
• 2:36:15
  And some of those investigations, when questioned,
• 2:36:19
  the demon stated that it was the son of Satan himself.
• 2:36:24
  But Zapfis thinks perhaps is with many deities that seem to
• 2:36:28
  be lurking in the shadows. Zozo could be an entity that's
• 2:36:32
  existed far before the founding of Christianity.
• 2:36:37
  Besides evidence showing up in Africa and Egypt, there's also
• 2:36:41
  evidence found linking Zozo to ancient Mesopotamia as well.
• 2:36:47
  Other names Zozo has gone by throughout the ages have been
• 2:36:51
  Zuzu, Zaza, and Mamo, among many others.
• 2:36:58
  The name Zuzu could refer to Puzzuzu, the famed demon from
• 2:37:02
  the film The Exorcist, which in reality was a demonic entity
• 2:37:07
  from ancient Mesopotamian religion.
• 2:37:10
  It's incredibly strange to note the following as well.
• 2:37:14
  Zozo was replaced in the story of the exorcism of Rolling
• 2:37:18
  Dough, and Peter Blatty was using it as inspiration to write
• 2:37:23
  The Exorcist. He changed Zozo to Pazuzu.
• 2:37:28
  Zozo is believed to be the demon that possessed Roland.
• 2:37:34
  It was described as a terrifying form that first appeared in the
• 2:37:38
  Neo Assyrian period, roughly around 934 to 610 BC.
• 2:37:45
  It had a monstrous head resembling a fierce lion or a
• 2:37:49
  dog with horns, and had an emaciated human body with clawed
• 2:37:55
  hands, a scorpion's tail, and two sets of wings.
• 2:38:01
  One translation reads. I am Pazuzu, the son of Hambu,
• 2:38:08
  king of the Lilu demons. I have scaled the powerful
• 2:38:12
  mountains. They trembled.
• 2:38:15
  The contrary winds were headed West 1 by 1.
• 2:38:20
  I broke their wings. Pezuzu and other demons like it
• 2:38:25
  were held responsible for ailments like disease, fetal
• 2:38:30
  death, nightmares, and much more.
• 2:38:34
  Could it be that this ancient demonic force is what could be
• 2:38:38
  plaguing people all the way into modern times?
• 2:38:42
  The demon Zozo is also mentioned in the French Demonic
• 2:38:46
  Encyclopedia is one of the demons responsible for
• 2:38:50
  diabolical possession and corruption.
• 2:38:55
  The possession of a young girl in 1816 is noted as a documented
• 2:39:00
  case where Zozo, among several other demons were present.
• 2:39:05
  Other noteworthy possession cases over the ages ranging
• 2:39:09
  closer to modern times that bears Zozo's name other than the
• 2:39:13
  exorcism of rolling dough in the 1950s, are the possession of
• 2:39:18
  Doris Blither in 1972 in Los Angeles, the Enfield Poltergeist
• 2:39:25
  incident in 1977 in the UK, and as recent as 2012 where a
• 2:39:33
  possession incident led to an attempted murder.
• 2:39:38
  Other theories with how this entity could communicate with so
• 2:39:42
  many people so quickly and across the globe over the years,
• 2:39:46
  besides supernatural ability of its own, would be that its own
• 2:39:51
  reach is perhaps being strengthened by an agrigor or
• 2:39:56
  collective group of thought form created by occultists for a
• 2:40:00
  certain purpose. However, this seems unlikely
• 2:40:06
  considering the entity doesn't seem to serve any human interest
• 2:40:11
  other than to destroy the person or people's lives it makes
• 2:40:14
  contact with. Agrigors are typically formed to
• 2:40:19
  bring control over a summoned deity for the person or groups
• 2:40:23
  bidding. But perhaps instead there is a
• 2:40:26
  cold worshipping Zozo? I mean, that would make more
• 2:40:30
  sense to me. People who have made contact
• 2:40:34
  with the entity via spirit or Ouija board have also been asked
• 2:40:38
  to chant or spell out phrases in Hebrew or Latin, which has
• 2:40:43
  convinced many of the intelligence of the being that
• 2:40:46
  they're speaking with. What is also interesting is that
• 2:40:51
  the letter Z was actually removed from the original Latin
• 2:40:54
  alphabet because it was considered too evil when
• 2:40:58
  pronouncing it. It was said that one's face
• 2:41:01
  would make a death's grimace like that of a corpse, and that
• 2:41:06
  it mimicked the letter S like an evil twin.
• 2:41:10
  Perhaps the entity uses this name as some sort of mocking,
• 2:41:15
  whether to God or something else.
• 2:41:19
  One may also ask, despite the origin, theories and historical
• 2:41:24
  details that could be linked to this ancient demonic force, how
• 2:41:28
  would one know if they encountered such a thing?
• 2:41:32
  These are what's known as Zozo's calling cards when it's being
• 2:41:35
  summoned using a Ouija board. The obvious is there that the
• 2:41:41
  planchette will begin to move on its own, but some less obvious
• 2:41:45
  signs are there as well, and are as follows.
• 2:41:50
  The planchette will move in a rainbow pattern from side to
• 2:41:53
  side, spelling ZOZO over and over again, also known as the
• 2:42:01
  rainbow effect. It can also move in repeating
• 2:42:05
  Figure 8 movements like an Infinity sign.
• 2:42:10
  The planchet will spell out various versions of the demon's
• 2:42:13
  name, like Zozo, Zozo, Zaza, Zuzu, or Mama.
• 2:42:22
  You may also begin to see shadows moving around the area
• 2:42:26
  where you were hosting the session, like you're seeing
• 2:42:29
  through the thinnest sheet and to a Dark World that exists just
• 2:42:34
  behind your vision, and you and whoever you may be with may
• 2:42:39
  start to feel scared, uneasy, or upset, seemingly for no other
• 2:42:46
  reason. Before or after this takes
• 2:42:49
  place. When you tell this entity
• 2:42:53
  goodbye, typically the best way to close a session, it may not
• 2:42:58
  truly be goodbye because often times depending on how long the
• 2:43:03
  session has been for, like an ever widening door, the entity
• 2:43:08
  may have had just enough time to sneak in to begin to wreak havoc
• 2:43:13
  upon your life. And thus begins what many
• 2:43:17
  demonologists and religious leaders alike call demonic
• 2:43:20
  obsession, which is where the entity becomes aware of you and
• 2:43:25
  begins to crave you, which then leads to oppression or begins to
• 2:43:31
  inflict various forms of torture upon you in an effort to break
• 2:43:36
  you down, whether that's physically, psychologically, or
• 2:43:41
  spiritually. It will also work to isolate you
• 2:43:45
  from others, especially those who care about you.
• 2:43:49
  And finally, if you're incredibly unlucky, possession
• 2:43:55
  or the entity finally takes control of you as its vessel.
• 2:44:01
  All of which to me are absolutely terrifying in every
• 2:44:04
  imaginable way. Darren Evans to this day
• 2:44:08
  continues to research the Zozo Phenomena, having been involved
• 2:44:13
  in the number of paranormal investigations, shows, and
• 2:44:17
  various other public and private events, as well as radio shows
• 2:44:22
  and podcasts, many of which he goes into various degrees of
• 2:44:26
  details regarding his encounters, other people's
• 2:44:30
  encounters, and other various historical details.
• 2:44:35
  He also in 2016 compiled his year's worth of research and
• 2:44:38
  experiences into a book also titled The Zozo Phenomena, which
• 2:44:44
  you can read and learn more about the entity and the topic
• 2:44:47
  as a whole. If you're interested, I'll link
• 2:44:50
  it below. I also pulled a lot of this
• 2:44:53
  information from various interviews which I'll also be
• 2:44:57
  linking below, as well as an older website he runs that
• 2:45:01
  doesn't seem to have been updated in a while but supplied
• 2:45:04
  me with much information to get the story as cohesive as I
• 2:45:08
  possibly could. I also sourced the photos of the
• 2:45:12
  apparitions from the site, some of which were taken by Evans
• 2:45:16
  himself over the years. So does this demon or ancient
• 2:45:21
  force truly exist? Is it some kind of elder God, a
• 2:45:27
  pre Christian deity or being or manifestation of occult or
• 2:45:33
  Luciferian practices? Did Darren Evans just make it up
• 2:45:38
  and did thousands of people find it interesting enough to make up
• 2:45:42
  their own stories and partake in a mass charade that has lasted
• 2:45:46
  years? All of these answers may never
• 2:45:49
  truly be known, but my opinion is this I think not only given
• 2:45:55
  the wide array of strange coincidences and details
• 2:45:59
  throughout history. From the origins, to the stories
• 2:46:02
  of this creature existing in distant past to the present, to
• 2:46:07
  literally thousands of people. From casual interest in the
• 2:46:11
  occult to more hardcore fanatics, religious scholars,
• 2:46:17
  demonologists, and more claiming to have had experiences with
• 2:46:22
  this thing. With all of these details in
• 2:46:24
  mind, I certainly think it very well could be real.
• 2:46:29
  I do think there are things that exist in the shadows, things we
• 2:46:33
  can't see or touch that are there watching and waiting to
• 2:46:39
  strike when and if the opportunity presents itself.
• 2:46:44
  So my advice to all of you to avoid any possibility of opening
• 2:46:49
  a door that you can't close and inviting evil into your life is
• 2:46:54
  this. Don't mess with Ouija boards.
• 2:46:58
  These things are not toys. Whether you believe it or not,
• 2:47:02
  these entities do exist and they believe in you.
• 2:47:07
  So keep away from them because you might just let something in
• 2:47:11
  that won't want to leave. Even if you say goodbye.
• 2:47:22
  Lying dormant within the streets of suburbia, there is an unseen
• 2:47:27
  evil. Like a mouse falling into a pit
• 2:47:30
  of snakes, an unsuspecting family disturbed a slumbering
• 2:47:35
  force and became enshrouded in a fog of darkness.
• 2:47:41
  This is the untold story of the Bel Air House and the
• 2:47:46
  terrifying, malevolent entities that dwell within its walls.
• 2:47:53
  Bellaire, OH, an area rich in history, was once known as Glass
• 2:47:58
  City. Having once been a major glass
• 2:48:01
  production hub in the late 1800s, is now known as the All
• 2:48:06
  American town, having been used in many Hollywood productions as
• 2:48:12
  a backdrop for lots of movies, some of which you've probably
• 2:48:16
  seen over the years. The town that epitomizes small
• 2:48:20
  America's daily life has long since moved past its industrial
• 2:48:25
  days and has become known for something else.
• 2:48:29
  On the outskirts of the town lies an old two-story Victorian
• 2:48:33
  home that has become famous over the recent years, both among
• 2:48:38
  locals as well as across the country, with some saying it
• 2:48:43
  could be the most haunted place in the United States, if not the
• 2:48:47
  world. This is a bold statement to say
• 2:48:50
  the least, but the countless visitors to the house have
• 2:48:53
  reported strange, disturbing, and unexplainable encounters
• 2:48:59
  within its antique walls. But just how did the story
• 2:49:02
  begin? Where did the legend of the Bel
• 2:49:05
  Air house originate from? Let us first take a look at the
• 2:49:09
  home's dark history. Built in 1887 by a coal tycoon
• 2:49:16
  named Jacob Hetherington, the house sits adjacent from ancient
• 2:49:20
  Native American burial caves. It is also located where the
• 2:49:25
  scene of a massacre took place during the French and Indian
• 2:49:29
  War. It would sit on top of an active
• 2:49:33
  coal mine for years before there was a major explosion that took
• 2:49:38
  place within the mine, killing multiple men working deep within
• 2:49:42
  the earth directly underneath the house.
• 2:49:46
  Could the culmination of these tragic deaths have opened up a
• 2:49:50
  portal within the Bel Air House? A portal that allowed something
• 2:49:54
  to come through that wasn't supposed to be here?
• 2:49:58
  Shortly after this explosion is when the strange activity began.
• 2:50:03
  Jacob's son Alex moved into the home with his daughter, lied,
• 2:50:08
  but was soon stricken with seizures and hallucinations.
• 2:50:13
  He would ultimately be committed to an insane asylum for the rest
• 2:50:17
  of his life, claiming that demons were trying to kill him.
• 2:50:23
  As time progressed, Lyde would take charge of the family
• 2:50:26
  business, being helped by her younger brother Edwin.
• 2:50:31
  Lyde would tragically and unexpectedly pass away one
• 2:50:35
  morning in the kitchen of the home.
• 2:50:38
  Edwin, now alone and grief stricken, descended into
• 2:50:42
  mysticism and the occult in search of answers.
• 2:50:47
  He began to regularly host seances in the kitchen where his
• 2:50:51
  sister had passed away to attempt to make contact with her
• 2:50:56
  on the other side, and it is believed that contact was indeed
• 2:51:00
  made, but with who or what is uncertain.
• 2:51:06
  In 2005, Kristen Lee and her family are desperate for a new
• 2:51:11
  home. Like a curse, for the second
• 2:51:14
  time in less than two years, a flash flood has destroyed their
• 2:51:18
  home and all of their possessions.
• 2:51:22
  Kristen, her two sons, Nicholas and Lane, along with their
• 2:51:26
  father Hefe, have been fortunate enough to room with friends
• 2:51:30
  during this difficult time. Kristen has continued to try and
• 2:51:34
  get the family back on their feet and no longer wants to
• 2:51:38
  burden her friends with the boarding of her family.
• 2:51:42
  So she constantly checks the real estate listings hoping to
• 2:51:45
  find a home that her and her family can finally settle down
• 2:51:49
  into. Given the circumstances, the
• 2:51:53
  family didn't have a big budget and would have to rebuild their
• 2:51:56
  lives from scratch. But soon her determination seems
• 2:52:01
  to pay off. While at work, Kristen often
• 2:52:05
  browses real estate websites for new listings as well as
• 2:52:08
  foreclosures and a new listing soon catches her eye.
• 2:52:14
  Recently foreclosed on but now available for purchase, she lays
• 2:52:18
  eyes on the old Victorian home for the first time.
• 2:52:22
  It's 4 bedrooms and two bathroom setup along with plenty of room
• 2:52:27
  would be perfect for her family. The price seems almost too good
• 2:52:31
  to be true for her budget as well, and although the listing
• 2:52:35
  lacks more details, it's like her prayers had finally been
• 2:52:40
  answered. But by what?
• 2:52:43
  Not wanting to lose the property, Kristen arranges a
• 2:52:47
  showing of the home as soon as possible and before too long
• 2:52:51
  finds herself on the front steps of the Bel Air house.
• 2:52:56
  She is immediately taken in by the beautiful craftsmanship of
• 2:53:00
  the woodwork. The wrap around porch facing the
• 2:53:03
  Ohio River soon has her imagining peaceful evenings
• 2:53:07
  watching the water flow. Upon entering the home, she
• 2:53:11
  continues to be impressed. Old marble and cherry wood
• 2:53:16
  ordain the interior of the home and it seems almost too perfect,
• 2:53:21
  like something straight out of her dreams.
• 2:53:24
  The family also has a dog named Bella, and the large fenced in
• 2:53:29
  backyard is perfect for her to run in and the boys to play in.
• 2:53:34
  Dumbfounded by her luck, Kristen puts in an offer on the House
• 2:53:38
  that evening and it's accepted the following morning.
• 2:53:42
  After two years of chaos and uncertainty, the Lee family can
• 2:53:47
  finally breathe again and start living a normal life.
• 2:53:51
  But just as all seems quiet and settled, the family begins to
• 2:53:55
  discover that the house is anything but normal at first.
• 2:54:01
  Upon hearing odd noises in the night, the family wrote off the
• 2:54:05
  sounds as nothing more than anxiety and an old house.
• 2:54:09
  Being slightly scared or anxious upon moving into a new place,
• 2:54:13
  particularly following a very uncertain time in one's life, is
• 2:54:17
  not out of the ordinary. But these sounds soon become too
• 2:54:21
  much to dismiss. They soon begin to hear
• 2:54:24
  footsteps at all hours of the day and night.
• 2:54:27
  Kristen would later describe the activity as so.
• 2:54:30
  I would hear footsteps above and sometimes below me, even when
• 2:54:34
  there was no one else home but me.
• 2:54:37
  And I always felt as if there were thousands of eyes staring
• 2:54:40
  at me at all times, watching my every move.
• 2:54:46
  Along with the strange noises, items soon begin to go missing.
• 2:54:50
  From keys to towels to trinkets. One moment they would be there
• 2:54:55
  and within seconds they would vanish.
• 2:54:59
  And Kristen isn't the only one experiencing strange happenings
• 2:55:02
  within the Bel Air house at the time.
• 2:55:05
  Her 12 year old son Nicholas begins to experience a
• 2:55:08
  malevolent force that seems to dwell within his bedroom.
• 2:55:13
  At first, he too begins to feel as if he's being watched at all
• 2:55:17
  times, and it seems to get exponentially worse at night.
• 2:55:22
  He begins to have night terrors, feeling someone or something
• 2:55:26
  covering his mouth and nose, forcing him to suffocate.
• 2:55:31
  One night, he wakes up in a cold sweat.
• 2:55:35
  It's storming outside. Flashes of lightning
• 2:55:38
  occasionally light up the room. What he sees disturbs him to his
• 2:55:44
  core. In the corner of his room
• 2:55:47
  towards his closet. As a burst of light fills the
• 2:55:50
  room, he sees a blackened figure staring at him and shaking
• 2:55:57
  profusely. The young boy is utterly
• 2:56:00
  terrified, rushing out of his room as fast as he possibly can.
• 2:56:05
  He wakes up his mother and refuses to sleep there any
• 2:56:08
  longer. The boy is so hysterical, the
• 2:56:12
  only solution was to send him to his grandmother's house, located
• 2:56:16
  30 minutes away. What makes this case all the
• 2:56:20
  more compelling is that Kristen has a master's degree in
• 2:56:24
  psychology and works as a mental health physician.
• 2:56:28
  With this, her professional opinion of what Nicholas had
• 2:56:32
  experienced was initially contributed to stress and
• 2:56:35
  fatigue, both common factors that tend to make the human mind
• 2:56:39
  see and experience things that aren't really there.
• 2:56:43
  And these probably could explain many similar situations, and
• 2:56:47
  most would agree. However, Kristen's view would
• 2:56:51
  soon undergo a radical change after one terrifying experience
• 2:56:56
  of her own. After months of strange
• 2:56:59
  happenings within the home, it was now winter and the Lee
• 2:57:04
  family, still tied on finances, was sleeping in the basement
• 2:57:08
  near the fireplace to save money on the gas bill.
• 2:57:13
  Hefe was asleep in a recliner and Lane as well as Kristen were
• 2:57:17
  asleep on the wrap around couch located in the corner of the
• 2:57:21
  room. All seemed normal until Kristen
• 2:57:25
  was woken up by the feeling of the couch cushion being pressed
• 2:57:29
  down near her legs. She then found herself face to
• 2:57:33
  face with a terrifying figure of a man staring directly at her.
• 2:57:39
  She would later describe the encounter as So I woke up being
• 2:57:43
  face to face with this Gray figure of a man.
• 2:57:47
  He was translucent, almost like a mist, but the mist had
• 2:57:52
  features like a person. The face was completely
• 2:57:56
  emotionless and had dark sunken in eyes.
• 2:58:01
  Kristen asked who are you? What are you doing here?
• 2:58:05
  What do you want? But to no response, just a
• 2:58:10
  blank, lifeless stare. Within seconds the apparition
• 2:58:16
  disappears, but before she can ponder what had just taken
• 2:58:20
  place, the silence is once again shattered.
• 2:58:24
  But by this time it was the family dog, Bella, who was
• 2:58:28
  barking and running around the room.
• 2:58:31
  Kristen, attempting to keep her family asleep through the
• 2:58:34
  ordeal, tries to quiet the dog down and notices that she can
• 2:58:39
  see her breath in the air, and although it's cold outside, it's
• 2:58:43
  not nearly that cold near the fireplace.
• 2:58:47
  She then sees the figure materialize once more and
• 2:58:51
  silently moved from one side of the room and through the wall on
• 2:58:55
  the other side, vanishing completely.
• 2:58:58
  No longer wanting to face whatever this was alone, she
• 2:59:02
  woke up her husband and told him what had just taken place.
• 2:59:07
  His response, however, was that she was too tired and needed to
• 2:59:11
  go back to sleep. Could what Kristen had
• 2:59:15
  experienced been a stress or fatigue induced hallucination?
• 2:59:19
  Perhaps, but someone with a professional background such as
• 2:59:23
  herself surely would know how to differentiate, wouldn't you
• 2:59:27
  think? Finally, knowing she's not crazy
• 2:59:31
  and totally convinced that the home was haunted, Kristen begins
• 2:59:36
  to try and make plans to get her family out of the Bel Air house
• 2:59:40
  and to safety elsewhere. As soon as she can, she puts the
• 2:59:45
  home up for sale and moves the family to a nearby rental home.
• 2:59:50
  Although she's relieved to no longer physically be in the
• 2:59:53
  house, no one is buying it to try and cover expenses.
• 2:59:58
  She has no other choice other than to make the house a rental
• 3:00:01
  property. But almost as soon as the first
• 3:00:04
  family moves in, they move out. And this kick starts a revolving
• 3:00:09
  door of tenants seemingly stuck with the house.
• 3:00:14
  Kristen comes to the conclusion that no family will or should
• 3:00:17
  live there. So what should be done with a
• 3:00:20
  haunted property? Needing to make ends meet, she
• 3:00:24
  comes up with a unique idea. She turns the home into an
• 3:00:28
  afterlife research property. This would allow various groups
• 3:00:32
  to come in conduct their own research on just what exactly
• 3:00:36
  was taking place within the Bel Air House.
• 3:00:40
  And the idea works. Soon groups from all over the
• 3:00:44
  United States and Canada are travelling to temporarily live
• 3:00:48
  within the home to conduct research.
• 3:00:52
  And from here we gain some more interesting stories, to say the
• 3:00:56
  least. One group, who calls themselves
• 3:01:00
  the Armchair Researchers from upstate New York, consists of
• 3:01:04
  two women, one being a birthing nurse and the other a nurse who
• 3:01:09
  works with dying patients. They found paranormal and
• 3:01:13
  afterlife research to be a natural extension of their day
• 3:01:17
  jobs for the last 15 years. After hearing about the Bel Air
• 3:01:22
  house, they soon find themselves driving to Ohio to investigate
• 3:01:27
  the phenomena for themselves. First impressions tend to go a
• 3:01:31
  long way, and the first impression the women got upon
• 3:01:34
  their arrival was very creepy. The home by this point was in a
• 3:01:40
  moderate state of decay. The fence that had once
• 3:01:43
  surrounded the backyard was mostly blown down, and the
• 3:01:47
  exterior of the home as well as the porch was weathered and
• 3:01:52
  rotting. But despite the odd feelings
• 3:01:55
  initially, they make their way inside now.
• 3:01:59
  At first they actually felt welcomed, almost invited in,
• 3:02:04
  greeted by the same cherry wood interior that has greeted
• 3:02:07
  everyone. But as soon as they set up their
• 3:02:10
  equipment and prepare for their stay, as day turns to night,
• 3:02:15
  there seems to be a shift in energy within the home.
• 3:02:19
  The shift went from warm and inviting to dark and ominous.
• 3:02:25
  Then began the noises, banging, footsteps and the moving of
• 3:02:31
  furniture. The ladies also noted the
• 3:02:34
  feeling of being watched everywhere they went while
• 3:02:38
  asking probing questions. As they wandered throughout the
• 3:02:40
  house, they would soon also witness strange lights in
• 3:02:44
  various parts of the home. And along with the lights, there
• 3:02:49
  soon also came full blown apparitions, all of which seem
• 3:02:53
  to be centered around the basement.
• 3:02:56
  And as the night progressed, so did their feelings of anxiety.
• 3:03:01
  While taking a short break and sitting down on one of the
• 3:03:03
  couches in the basement, the two heard what they described as a
• 3:03:07
  large crashing noise above them, as if someone or something had
• 3:03:13
  thrown a bookshelf across the house itself, shaking the entire
• 3:03:17
  home. Absolutely terrified and
• 3:03:20
  panicked, the women apprehensively made their way up
• 3:03:24
  the stairs and rushed out of the home as fast as they possibly
• 3:03:27
  could, leaving behind equipment and personal items they were too
• 3:03:33
  frightened to go back. Upon learning of what had taken
• 3:03:37
  place, Kristen wasn't at all surprised.
• 3:03:40
  Over the years, there have been dozens of teams of people who
• 3:03:43
  couldn't seem to last the night for one experience or another.
• 3:03:48
  People have been scratched, pushed down stairs, punched,
• 3:03:53
  bitten, and even in one instance thrown across the room by a
• 3:03:58
  violent and unseen force. Another noteworthy story comes
• 3:04:03
  from a team located locally there in Ohio.
• 3:04:06
  They have had the opportunity to visit the home and conduct
• 3:04:10
  investigations numerous times over the years, but their
• 3:04:14
  experience, in particular one night, truly makes me question
• 3:04:18
  just what exactly haunts the Bel Air House.
• 3:04:22
  There was three of them this time, and it was shortly after
• 3:04:25
  midnight when they made their way into the attic to continue
• 3:04:28
  their investigation. During their questioning, they
• 3:04:32
  seemed to be getting direct interaction with something
• 3:04:35
  through their spirit box. Then towards the corner of the
• 3:04:39
  attic, a mist seemed to materialize coming up from the
• 3:04:44
  attic floor, slowly enveloping the group.
• 3:04:48
  Glancing down, they were now too stunned to speak.
• 3:04:53
  They saw what appeared to be thousands of black snake like
• 3:04:56
  creatures, Slytherin, over their feet and onto their legs.
• 3:05:02
  The creatures then began to form a figure standing in front of
• 3:05:06
  one of the attic windows, a creature of pure darkness that
• 3:05:11
  seemed to stare at them with thousands of tiny beady eyes.
• 3:05:17
  The crew, which consisted of two men and a woman, ran for their
• 3:05:21
  lives, descending the attic stairs as quickly as possible,
• 3:05:26
  leaving behind anything and everything that they had brought
• 3:05:29
  with them that wasn't located on their person and out of the home
• 3:05:33
  for good. All of these stories and
• 3:05:36
  experiences have led many to believe that the Bel Air House
• 3:05:40
  is some kind of magnet for paranormal activity.
• 3:05:44
  A magnet or a host to a portal for spirits, whether that portal
• 3:05:49
  was opened by the tragedy that took place within the mind that
• 3:05:52
  once existed below its foundation, or one that was open
• 3:05:57
  due to seances being conducted within the house on multiple
• 3:06:01
  occasions. But over the years, many
• 3:06:04
  different entities have been documented, from what appear to
• 3:06:08
  be human ghosts to perhaps something more sinister.
• 3:06:12
  One such entity goes by the name of Emily Davis.
• 3:06:16
  It is believed that Emily Davis was a child that drowned in the
• 3:06:20
  Ohio River that flows right by the home.
• 3:06:24
  Her room is allegedly the same room that Kristin's son Nicholas
• 3:06:28
  once stayed in. And besides the basement, it
• 3:06:32
  also seems to be a hotspot for paranormal activity.
• 3:06:37
  Through various investigations, one's contact has been made and
• 3:06:41
  trust seems to be gained. People are often attacked, which
• 3:06:46
  have led many to believe that Emily isn't a child at all, but
• 3:06:51
  a demon. Perhaps it could be the same
• 3:06:54
  demonic creature that frightened Nicholas so bad that he moved
• 3:06:58
  out of the home. As previously mentioned, many
• 3:07:02
  investigators also have claimed to have some activity follow
• 3:07:06
  them home and even haunt their dreams, as if the house or the
• 3:07:11
  beings within the house are calling out to them to come back
• 3:07:16
  for one reason or another. Although many questions may
• 3:07:20
  never be answered surrounding the Bel Air House, one thing is
• 3:07:24
  for certain, it continues to be considered one of the most
• 3:07:28
  haunted places in America, if not the world.
• 3:07:33
  It also continues to serve as a place of study for those wanting
• 3:07:36
  to investigate the supernatural forces that dwell within its
• 3:07:41
  walls. But if you find yourself being
• 3:07:44
  drawn to the old Victorian, just know that if you're not careful,
• 3:07:49
  you too could find yourself being made a part of its
• 3:07:52
  history, whether you like it or not.
• 3:07:58
  Over the years I've covered a wide array of mysteries from The
• 3:08:02
  Mothman to UFOs, conspiracies to cold cases, and one topic that
• 3:08:09
  seemed to resonate more with all of you, and one that I've always
• 3:08:13
  found fascinating is hauntings. Whether that's haunted places,
• 3:08:18
  haunted people, or experiences that people have had that they
• 3:08:22
  would consider paranormal in nature.
• 3:08:25
  So today I'm trying something new.
• 3:08:28
  And don't worry, this is adding content here on Mystery
• 3:08:31
  Archives, so there will still be episodes of The Untold Story for
• 3:08:35
  you to enjoy. Those just take a good chunk of
• 3:08:37
  time to produce. So in between those episodes,
• 3:08:42
  I'd really like to share stories from you guys, the community, to
• 3:08:46
  bring awareness that these kinds of experiences really do happen.
• 3:08:50
  And having grown up in a haunted home myself, I know that often
• 3:08:54
  times people are hesitant to share their stories for fear of
• 3:08:58
  ridicule or for fear of whatever they've experienced flaring up
• 3:09:02
  again and reigniting their personal nightmare.
• 3:09:06
  This platform will hopefully give their stories justice, have
• 3:09:10
  them heard, and give you a glimpse into what people like
• 3:09:14
  yourselves have experienced. These are your paranormal
• 3:09:18
  encounters when a young family encounters the devil and the
• 3:09:26
  flesh. Told from the perspective of a
• 3:09:29
  young girl, this terrifying tale will have you questioning just
• 3:09:34
  what could be happening across the street from you, next door,
• 3:09:38
  or even in your very own home. I was almost seven when these
• 3:09:45
  events took place and I'll be 40 later this year.
• 3:09:49
  I lived in the Glendale Apartments in Rock Hill, SC.
• 3:09:54
  My baby brother at the time wasn't quite even a year old
• 3:09:58
  now. My mom was young when she had me
• 3:10:00
  at 17, and my stepdad Keith was exactly 2 months to the day
• 3:10:05
  older than her. My mom has been gone for 14
• 3:10:09
  years now, but I still remember this day like it was yesterday.
• 3:10:14
  We had left to get dinner that night and by the time we had
• 3:10:17
  gotten back, Keith was passed out in the front seat of his
• 3:10:21
  little hatchback Mustang in the parking lot.
• 3:10:24
  This was the first of two that would find themselves wrapped
• 3:10:26
  around trees in my town. Keith was suffering from what
• 3:10:30
  would later be diagnosed as schizophrenia with bipolar
• 3:10:34
  tendencies and had seemingly been self medicating to
• 3:10:39
  alleviate his symptoms since he was asleep.
• 3:10:43
  My mom urged me not to wake him as I helped her get my infant
• 3:10:47
  brother at the time out of the car and into our apartment.
• 3:10:51
  As we began to wind down for the evening, our phone began to
• 3:10:55
  ring, shattering the calm peace that was our lives.
• 3:11:01
  It was Keith's mom, Mary. She lived on the other side of
• 3:11:04
  the complex, which mostly housed old people and people with
• 3:11:09
  disabilities. She sounded panicked, screaming
• 3:11:13
  that something was happening in her apartment, that she needed
• 3:11:17
  help immediately. My mom rushed to go wake Keith
• 3:11:20
  up out in the parking lot, but upon running up to the car, he
• 3:11:25
  was nowhere to be found. She rushed back into our
• 3:11:28
  apartment saying that she couldn't find Keith when he
• 3:11:32
  suddenly appeared in the hallway and neither of us had seen him
• 3:11:36
  come into the apartment. He seemed completely out of it
• 3:11:41
  and was terrified, saying that something was taking him over
• 3:11:46
  and that he couldn't control himself.
• 3:11:49
  I saw his eyes, they were black. My mother didn't have time to
• 3:11:54
  deal with or process his antics and gathered us to walk to his
• 3:11:59
  mother's apartment. In the meantime, as we rushed
• 3:12:02
  over there as fast as we could, I remember getting a skin
• 3:12:05
  crawling feeling every time Keith looked at me, like it was
• 3:12:09
  something completely foreign to this world peering into my soul.
• 3:12:14
  We arrived and were quickly let into Mary's apartment.
• 3:12:18
  Her lights were flickering and her pictures were swaying back
• 3:12:22
  and forth on the walls. A heavy presence could be felt
• 3:12:26
  by all of us. Mary was deeply religious and
• 3:12:30
  couldn't understand just what was taking place, but she
• 3:12:33
  believed it to be evil. Keith was now standing in the
• 3:12:37
  living room and began to sway back and forth as the activity
• 3:12:42
  seemed to intensify. As my mother approached him to
• 3:12:46
  ask what he was doing, he began to laugh.
• 3:12:50
  This was the deepest, most maniacal laugh I have ever heard
• 3:12:55
  and I still get chills thinking about it.
• 3:12:57
  This voice was not his own. My mother quickly backed up,
• 3:13:02
  unsure of what to do, and he then began to point at me saying
• 3:13:08
  I'm going to sacrifice that child tonight.
• 3:13:11
  His eyes were now blood red. Mary by this time had grabbed
• 3:13:17
  some of her belongings from her room and happened to have some
• 3:13:20
  blessed oil along with her Bible.
• 3:13:23
  She threw the oil on Keith's face and it began to boil.
• 3:13:27
  The sound of sizzling and screaming was horrific.
• 3:13:33
  My mother's love for Keith quickly overpowered her fear and
• 3:13:37
  she pulled him into the bathroom to examine his face.
• 3:13:40
  She was freaking out to say the least, partially because of how
• 3:13:44
  unbelievable the circumstances were and just how badly he was
• 3:13:49
  burnt on his face. His eyes at this point were
• 3:13:53
  rolled into the back of his head.
• 3:13:56
  Then suddenly, without warning, he rushed my mom and pinned her
• 3:14:01
  against the wall. His younger sister, Nikki and
• 3:14:05
  his mother quickly rushed in to help free her, with Mary dumping
• 3:14:09
  more oil on him each time. His skin literally sizzled where
• 3:14:15
  it landed. This fortunately worked.
• 3:14:18
  Keith now laid catatonic on the bathroom floor.
• 3:14:22
  So all together, us girls moved him into a nearby bedroom and
• 3:14:26
  restrained him to the bed using anything we could find for our
• 3:14:31
  own safety. Shortly after we did this, his
• 3:14:35
  mother called the nearby oratory and asked for a priest to assist
• 3:14:38
  us immediately. Nikki, who was a teenager at the
• 3:14:43
  time, was trying to comfort me, telling me that Keith was just
• 3:14:47
  really sick and not to be scared.
• 3:14:50
  She encouraged me to try and get some sleep and I of course
• 3:14:54
  couldn't and wouldn't. I didn't dare close my eyes for
• 3:14:58
  fear of that thing hurting my mom.
• 3:15:02
  And this room with Keith was a picture of Jesus kneeling on top
• 3:15:06
  of a mountain. I heard Keith laughing in that
• 3:15:09
  other worldly voice. He called out to me.
• 3:15:13
  He said, you know, little girl, I used to be an Angel with the
• 3:15:18
  most beautiful wings until that bastard was born.
• 3:15:22
  Then I was cast from atop that mountain and banished.
• 3:15:28
  I asked who are you, the devil? He perked up, looked me dead in
• 3:15:34
  my eyes and said I am Lucifer, the light bringer here in the
• 3:15:40
  flesh. I'm not only taking Keith with
• 3:15:43
  me, but all of you as well. Now untie me.
• 3:15:49
  I ran hysterically to my mother who was having a cigarette to
• 3:15:52
  calm her nerves. She ran into the room to comfort
• 3:15:55
  him when he said do you want to see proof?
• 3:15:59
  And against her will, my mother then extinguished the cigarette
• 3:16:03
  into his arm with Keith exclaiming it feels so good.
• 3:16:09
  You'll have to adjust to the searing flames, but in due time,
• 3:16:13
  you too. We'll call it home.
• 3:16:16
  She then rushed out of the room and closed the door.
• 3:16:20
  We waited with bated breath for the priest to arrive when
• 3:16:24
  shortly after 3:00 AM there was a knock on the door.
• 3:16:27
  Thank God it was him. For the next several hours, they
• 3:16:31
  attempted to cast this thing out of Keith, probably for the best.
• 3:16:36
  They kept me in the living room, away from the demonic terror
• 3:16:40
  that was inhabiting his body. But my God, the smells that
• 3:16:44
  wafted throughout the complex like putrid meat and sulfur.
• 3:16:50
  I soon also heard moaning and growling from dogs that didn't
• 3:16:56
  exist. There was a strange fog that had
• 3:16:59
  enveloped the apartment itself, and a strange flickering light
• 3:17:04
  that now emanated from the room or the exorcism was taking
• 3:17:08
  place. I began to close my eyes and
• 3:17:12
  pray to God harder than I'd ever prayed before, wanting and
• 3:17:16
  wishing for all of it to end, when suddenly it did.
• 3:17:22
  Keith had seemingly been freed of these spiritual shackles, and
• 3:17:26
  although I was terrified, I was more than wanting to finally get
• 3:17:30
  some sleep. So after the priest departed and
• 3:17:34
  all seemed fine, we slowly made our way back home through the
• 3:17:38
  damp misty morning that was now upon us.
• 3:17:43
  Upon arriving home and heading inside, we all began to make our
• 3:17:47
  way to our bedrooms to try and sleep.
• 3:17:51
  I found myself in my bed, comfy and finally about to rest when I
• 3:17:57
  felt my bed shake. I quickly opened my eyes to find
• 3:18:01
  my bed off the floor and my bedpost balls screwed off each
• 3:18:07
  one in the corner of each post. Floating there.
• 3:18:12
  I screamed harder than I've ever screamed before, alerting my
• 3:18:15
  mother who rushed to save me. Upon her running in, my bed
• 3:18:20
  suddenly slammed to the ground and my bedpost balls all fell to
• 3:18:25
  the floor. The events of that night and the
• 3:18:29
  following morning can never be forgotten by me and my family.
• 3:18:33
  For the next year and a half, we dealt with similar smells
• 3:18:36
  wafting throughout our apartment, unseen snarls and
• 3:18:40
  growls, and a feeling of anxiety as if our every move was being
• 3:18:45
  watched. But thank God it all eventually
• 3:18:49
  faded. I had since asked Keith how he
• 3:18:52
  came to be in that state, but I could never really get a clear
• 3:18:56
  answer. He often drank moonshine and was
• 3:18:59
  in a bad state mentally and spiritually at the time.
• 3:19:03
  Perhaps this weakened him enough to let something in somehow.
• 3:19:08
  I've since moved on from that place, but heard something very
• 3:19:11
  interesting that I'd also like to share in regards to him.
• 3:19:15
  This was the apartment we lived in, and a young boy mysteriously
• 3:19:18
  passed away within it not too long ago.
• 3:19:21
  The details of the case are hard to find, but I believe he was
• 3:19:25
  about as old as I was when everything had taken place to
• 3:19:29
  us. There has also been multiple
• 3:19:31
  shootings, stabbings, and murders that have taken place
• 3:19:36
  near and in the complex itself. It seems like whatever possessed
• 3:19:41
  Keith and stalked us maybe never truly left.
• 3:19:46
  I'm glad to share my story with all of you and I just want you
• 3:19:49
  to know that these things are very real.
• 3:19:52
  The paranormal is real and please do not meddle with it
• 3:19:58
  because you just don't know what you could be inviting in this
• 3:20:02
  energy, this evil. Wanted my soul and it seems like
• 3:20:08
  it may have taken multiple lives and pursuit of whatever
• 3:20:12
  notfarious things it wanted. Leia.
• 3:20:19
  I would like to thank Leia for submitting this chilling story
• 3:20:22
  of an exorcism that took place to her stepfather when she was a
• 3:20:26
  child. The entire situation must have
• 3:20:29
  been terrifying to endure, to say the least, and I commend her
• 3:20:34
  for being willing to share this with us and warn others that
• 3:20:38
  these things are very real indeed.
• 3:20:41
  I also believe it's important to bring awareness to these kinds
• 3:20:44
  of topics for a number of reasons.
• 3:20:47
  I am curious just how Keith became possessed, however, and
• 3:20:52
  if it was truly by Lucifer himself or something pretending
• 3:20:56
  to be him. All around a terrifying tale
• 3:21:00
  from Leia. Upon laying her head down to
• 3:21:05
  sleep, a young woman is seemingly transported to another
• 3:21:10
  time or place where she interacts with malevolent
• 3:21:14
  spirits. This one may just make you
• 3:21:17
  wonder if the very same has ever happened to you.
• 3:21:22
  One hot Saturday morning in 2001, my ex-husband Dean and I
• 3:21:28
  went to the grocery store. By the time we returned home and
• 3:21:31
  put everything away, it was almost noon.
• 3:21:35
  I prepared some lunch for us and by two PMI announced that the
• 3:21:39
  heat had made me feel so very tired and that I would need to
• 3:21:43
  lie down. Dean would go on to watch TV
• 3:21:46
  with the volume on low and I closed the bedroom door.
• 3:21:50
  As soon as my head hit the pillow, I went out like a light.
• 3:21:55
  Then in what seemed like only 5 minutes later I was woken up by
• 3:22:00
  a lady speaking beside my bed. It was if she was addressing
• 3:22:04
  another person but yet in a crystal clear voice across the
• 3:22:08
  room she said something along the lines of don't disturb her,
• 3:22:13
  let her sleep. This startled me.
• 3:22:17
  I immediately sat up in my bed and I looked around but saw
• 3:22:21
  nothing. I knew I wasn't dreaming as the
• 3:22:24
  voice was real and yet spoke at an audible enough level even to
• 3:22:28
  wake me up. Regardless whether a dream or
• 3:22:32
  real, I was too exhausted and quickly fell asleep again.
• 3:22:37
  Now this is where things took a stranger turn.
• 3:22:40
  I felt my soul leave my body. It rose up to where the wall met
• 3:22:45
  the ceiling. I crossed through the wall and
• 3:22:48
  into another place in time. I was no longer within my home,
• 3:22:53
  but found myself in a scene from the 18th century.
• 3:22:58
  It was similar to watching a black and white film, but in
• 3:23:02
  varying shades of Gray. I saw a few people who were
• 3:23:06
  extravagantly dressed and wore coiffed and powdered wigs,
• 3:23:10
  sitting on a plush Steven and some armchairs.
• 3:23:14
  They sat almost motionless by a small low lying table.
• 3:23:18
  Only the woman slowly looked about, but nobody seemed to
• 3:23:22
  notice me. I looked to my left and saw a
• 3:23:26
  couple standing still, arms held in an arch above in the air,
• 3:23:31
  hands touching, poised, as if waiting for music to start for
• 3:23:36
  their dance. I looked past them and saw a few
• 3:23:41
  men, one at each small table, just sitting quietly and
• 3:23:45
  motionless. Then I looked to my right, past
• 3:23:49
  the few people I initially saw and looked in awe at the sight
• 3:23:54
  before me. I realized I was in a vast hall
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  as far as the eye could see. I saw no other people, and the
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  next thing I knew I was back in my body, seemingly asleep, yet
• 3:24:08
  aware of my surroundings. I was made aware of the large
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  crowd of people outside of my bedroom door.
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  The sound was similar to what you would hear in a crowded bar,
• 3:24:20
  many people talking amongst themselves.
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  However, there was one woman's voice that could be heard
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  slightly above the rest of the crowd.
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  I didn't pay it any special attention as I wasn't focusing
• 3:24:32
  on anyone in particular, nor catch what she had said.
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  And what was only a moment later, that same voice was
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  louder and closer, this time just on the other side of my
• 3:24:44
  bedroom door. Although I paid a little more
• 3:24:47
  attention now, what she said was still indiscernible, and the
• 3:24:52
  voice was yet to be one that I recognized.
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  A voice belonging to a stranger. And what seemed just another
• 3:24:59
  moment again, she opened the door, stepped into my room, and
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  then shut the door behind her. I laid frozen in my bed, unable
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  to move, yet I felt real terror at this point, although I
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  couldn't move at all, my eyes were fixed at top of the wall.
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  Somehow, with my mind's eye, I saw her.
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  It was my mother who had passed away 21 years earlier.
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  She wore a long white shroud, which I never got to see her in,
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  but I knew that she had been buried in one by now.
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  I was totally terrified. I wanted to scream out for help.
• 3:25:39
  Better still to get out of there, but I wasn't able to move
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  a muscle. I watched my mother pace to and
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  fro past the foot of my bed in absolute rage.
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  She was so angry with me. She was literally spitting mad
• 3:25:56
  while she was scolding me. Never had I seen her this angry.
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  The one thing I did notice once my mother's spirit had entered
• 3:26:03
  the room was that while my eyes were fixed near the ceiling, it
• 3:26:08
  was within my range of sight that I'd seen a soft white
• 3:26:13
  gashes ball of light appear to my right at the corner of the
• 3:26:16
  ceiling. It was about the size of a
• 3:26:18
  basketball, though not quite as spherical.
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  It was so very slow moving, like a swirl of white smoke within
• 3:26:26
  itself. Somehow I felt like it was
• 3:26:29
  protecting me from this evil, like a guardian Angel.
• 3:26:33
  Once my mother was done raging at me, she faced the door and
• 3:26:37
  held the door slightly open. She paused and told me that I'd
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  be dead by midnight tonight. She then shut the door behind
• 3:26:46
  her and left. As soon as she was out the door,
• 3:26:50
  the ball of light had dissipated too, and I felt instant relief.
• 3:26:56
  I looked at the clock and it was now 3:00 PM.
• 3:26:59
  All of this strangeness took place in the space of one
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  terrifying hour. I still don't know if that was
• 3:27:06
  the spirit of my mother or something evil imitating her.
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  All I know is that I jumped out of bed and rushed to the lounge
• 3:27:14
  room, telling Dean what I had seen.
• 3:27:17
  Though I didn't mention my mother's parting words, Dean
• 3:27:21
  wasn't remotely interested. He only mumbled as I interrupted
• 3:27:25
  him watching his program. Well, that was the end of the
• 3:27:28
  nap I wasn't quite able to get. As evening approached, I
• 3:27:32
  constantly glanced at my watch. Although we retired for the day
• 3:27:36
  at about 10:00 PM that night, I was fearful yet resigned in my
• 3:27:41
  fate. I hadn't told the soul about my
• 3:27:43
  mother's message in case it tempted fate.
• 3:27:47
  On waking the next morning, I couldn't have felt more relieved
• 3:27:50
  and thrilled to still be alive now that it felt safe to do so.
• 3:27:55
  I told Dean and later my neighbor about it all.
• 3:27:58
  They showed me the goosebumps on their arms and expressed fear as
• 3:28:02
  I recounted my experience. This was 22 years ago and I
• 3:28:07
  still think of that day and the sheer terror that it brought me.
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  It's a day that I can never forget.
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  Johanna. That story was chilling.
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  Johanna. I too am curious if it was some
• 3:28:20
  kind of spirit impersonating your mother or if it was somehow
• 3:28:24
  her. The detail of what she was
• 3:28:27
  wearing also happened to be what she was buried in.
• 3:28:30
  Literally gave me goosebumps. So thank you so much for sharing
• 3:28:34
  your story and continuing to bring awareness to these topics.
• 3:28:41
  A young man seemingly interacts with his grandmother who has
• 3:28:44
  long since passed away, but he isn't the only one that sees and
• 3:28:50
  feels her presence. This was in reference to
• 3:28:55
  watching one of my videos. Watching this video reminded me
• 3:28:59
  of something that's been going on in my house.
• 3:29:02
  My wife's grandmother died before we got together and her
• 3:29:06
  son was the last person in the hospital room with her when she
• 3:29:10
  passed. Now, my work schedule varies,
• 3:29:13
  but generally I'm up between 3:00 and 4:00 AM every day.
• 3:29:18
  Sometimes I feel a presence or I thought I saw what was a shadow
• 3:29:23
  and my peripheral vision. I finally told my wife about
• 3:29:28
  this a while back and she proceeded to tell me that her
• 3:29:31
  autistic son regularly speaks to his deceased grandmother.
• 3:29:36
  We've both spoken to him multiple times and apparently
• 3:29:40
  she visits him constantly. My wife admitted that she's seen
• 3:29:44
  her in our house a couple of times as well.
• 3:29:47
  I've offered to have the house cleansed, but my wife said no.
• 3:29:52
  Apparently his grandmother visits him all the time and
• 3:29:55
  watches over him and he's admitted that he still sees her.
• 3:29:59
  He's autistic, so he's very honest with everything.
• 3:30:04
  I'd like your guys's input about this.
• 3:30:06
  Thank you caveman. Well, caveman especially since
• 3:30:12
  he's autistic. That really does convince me of
• 3:30:15
  his sincerity and honesty. The young man clearly doesn't
• 3:30:18
  have a motivation to gain anything by saying this.
• 3:30:22
  And when you have felt this presence, is it as she was in
• 3:30:26
  life? Is it more of a benevolent
• 3:30:29
  energy or something else? It's also very interesting that
• 3:30:33
  your wife has seen her on multiple occasions as well.
• 3:30:37
  Perhaps she is watching over her grandson.
• 3:30:40
  Children often have an extra sense it seems like, to be able
• 3:30:44
  to interact with the spirit world.
• 3:30:46
  Reading your story reminded me of when my brother was younger
• 3:30:50
  and we had a very similar situation.
• 3:30:54
  My mom's father, Paul, had passed away in their family home
• 3:30:57
  in 2002, when my brother was just two years old.
• 3:31:02
  Prior to his passing, Paul seemed to be motioning for
• 3:31:06
  things to go away, things that we couldn't see, perhaps trying
• 3:31:11
  to state that he wasn't ready to go yet.
• 3:31:14
  Several months after his passing, with my grandmother
• 3:31:17
  Agnes still inhabiting the very same house, my brother Kaden had
• 3:31:21
  started to interact with something that we couldn't see.
• 3:31:25
  He would often play around the living room, which was the same
• 3:31:28
  room my grandfather passed away in.
• 3:31:31
  One day when he was in a full conversation with this person,
• 3:31:36
  my mother asked him who he was talking to and he said Grandpa
• 3:31:40
  Paul. It took the very breath out of
• 3:31:43
  her lungs. These interactions were fairly
• 3:31:47
  frequent until he was about four or five years old.
• 3:31:51
  The name suddenly went away one day.
• 3:31:54
  It truly makes one beg the question, just how often do our
• 3:31:57
  loved ones truly watch over us? Thanks for sharing this one,
• 3:32:02
  Caveman. Thank you all for watching.
• 3:32:05
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  mentioned in the beginning of this video, I think it's very
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  important to bring awareness to the paranormal question.
• 3:32:24
  It, in a sense, is the ultimate question in my opinion.
• 3:32:28
  What truly happens when you pass through the veil of this reality
• 3:32:32
  and into the afterlife? I appreciate all of you as
• 3:32:36
  always. I hope all of you are doing well
• 3:32:38
  mentally, physically, and spiritually.
• 3:32:42
  And I hope your year is heading in a vibrant and positive
• 3:32:45
  direction, and I wish you all nothing but the best.
• 3:32:49
  Until next time, this has been Cody here at Mystery Archives.
• 3:32:53
  Stay safe out there and take care.