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3 Hour Marathon Of Paranormal And Unexplained Stories - 5 · Mystery Archives Episodes

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  When a man dabbles in the occult, he unknowingly unleashes
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  a malevolent darkness he can't control.
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  Night after night, he is tormented by the tentacles of
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  terror. Unable to keep.
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  Himself or his family safe, he consults the help of a white
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  witch as he struggles to break the chains that bind him.
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  Will he be freed or continue to be besieged by the hands of
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  hell? This is the untold story of the
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  demonic haunting of the house on Church St. in Michigan, also
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  known as the Randy Irvin Case. It's been a while since I've
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  delved into a haunting as terrifying as this one, so with
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  due caution, I wouldn't recommend watching this at night
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  or alone. Standish, Michigan, originally
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  named Granton, is a rural town near Lake Huron.
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  Long before the hustle and bustle of the modern world,
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  Native Americans used to call its land home, living, hunting,
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  and dying upon its grounds. Their descendants and the modern
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  day, like their ancestors, still very much believe in the power
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  of the spiritual realm. And with their profound sense of
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  respect for it also comes a deep respect of the dead, and a
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  belief further that disturbing their resting place can bring
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  forth horrible things. Perhaps their beliefs are true.
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  Our story begins in 1974 in Standish.
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  A then 22 year old man named Randy Irvin has lived in the
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  area his entire life. After graduating high school, he
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  decided that college wasn't the right path for him.
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  In fact, he didn't know what that path was.
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  As many young people often do, Randy was soul searching,
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  surfing couches, working random jobs for a few bucks in his
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  pocket, and not really pursuing a career, but rather trying to
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  pursue just who he was and who he wanted to be.
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  That would change, however, when one day Randy landed a job at
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  the United States Postal Service with a good income.
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  Instead of sleeping at friends homes, Randy sought a home of
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  his own. Lucky for him, his father Roy
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  bought properties and fixed them up.
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  Neither sold or rented them. He had recently acquired an old
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  fixer upper not too far from where Randy was working, and if
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  he assists him with the renovations, he'll allow him to
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  live there. Randy agrees and soon heads to
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  work for his dad. For weeks, Randy works mornings
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  and right after work heads to the house to work well into the
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  night alongside his father. One chilly afternoon, as father
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  and son are digging up the basement floor, they would
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  uncover something very unexpected.
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  As one of their shovels dug into the earth, it hits something
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  solid, pulling it back and shoving the dirt off to the
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  side, the two are astonished by what they see.
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  They pull forth from the soil what appears to be a human femur
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  bone. Struck by this unnerving
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  discovery, and as if Pandora's box had been opened, the
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  questions on to how and why someone would be buried
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  underneath their home began to be speculated on at a furious
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  pace. The home itself was over 100
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  years old. Was it a deliberate death, an
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  accident, or something else? The story of what took place was
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  perhaps lost in the sands of time.
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  However, more bones would be discovered by the pair
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  throughout the night. The following morning, Randy's
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  father contacts a local physician to come and inspect
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  the bones to make sure that they're human and to get advice
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  as to what to do next. When the physician arrives, he
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  examines the remains for several minutes and concludes that they
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  certainly are human. But judging on their aged
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  appearance and having had similar experiences in the past,
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  he explains to the men that they probably stumbled across an old
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  Indian burial ground, something that was extremely common and
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  standish. His advice was to respect the
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  dead, rebury the bones and be done with it.
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  So the two would do just that. And although neither of them
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  were happy that someone was buried underneath the home, they
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  did what they could to be as respectful as possible.
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  Feeling good about the reburial, they would continue fixing up
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  the house and several weeks later, Randy would move in.
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  This newfound sense of freedom was coupled with something
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  strange and new. Something about the discovery
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  seems to have a grip on Randy. It disturbed but also intrigued
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  him. He develops a fascination with
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  Indian burial grounds and their mysterious nature.
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  Hungry for more knowledge on his lunch break at work one day,
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  Randy decides to stop into a bookstore to see just what he
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  can find on the subject. As he perused the Isle of Books,
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  one in particular seemed to call out to him.
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  It was a leather bound book with golden lettering its title Read
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  Witchcraft and Practice and Study.
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  Drawn to it, he opens the book to reveal its contents, and the
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  first page he reads says that spirits can manifest from
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  consecrated burial grounds. Reading further, he comes across
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  the list of spirits that the book said could be communicated
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  with the most that these powerful entities had never been
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  human, but rather existed in a state between heaven and hell.
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  And if one were to conjure these spirits, each one could assist
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  in certain ways. One of those ways was the
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  discovery of buried riches. Upon reading this sentence,
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  Randy's eyes widened. In the Irvin family, it was
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  discussed that many moons ago their relatives had buried some
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  valuable goods deep within the earth, but wear remained a
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  mystery. Greatly intrigued in what this
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  book had to offer, Randy would purchase it from the store and
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  return to work to finish his shift.
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  In the words of Randy himself, I kept this purchase very secret.
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  I didn't tell my friends, family, or anybody.
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  I wanted to experiment on my own without anyone else coming in
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  and telling me not to do it or that it was dumb.
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  This was my personal decision to venture, and I wasn't going to
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  be disturbed while doing that. Later that day, Randy would
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  return home with his new book. Sitting on his couch and placing
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  it on his coffee table, he unfurled its pages and began to
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  read. The book laid out various
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  instructions for The Conjuring of spirits.
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  Prerequisites, if you will. He had to control his
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  environment. This meant no music, no light,
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  and total concentration when performing the ritual.
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  After ensuring that these prerequisites were men, he
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  places a chair in his living room, and with dusk now settling
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  on the horizon, his windows open to a light breeze.
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  Randy sits mostly in darkness, shrouded in the shadows.
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  He begins to read out loud, following the books instructions
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  to conjure 4 spirits, entities who will supposedly assist him
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  with specific tasks. If successful, he would recite
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  the following, calling forth each creature by its name.
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  I call the. Four to come to me, Anastosia
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  Lavariki, Horizonia Simasani, in this place that I dwell, to
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  bring you here with this spell, what is dark to be filled with
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  light, Bring these spirits into sight.
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  He chanced the spell multiple times and suddenly a strong gust
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  of cold wind blows through his living room windows.
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  This knocks over a shelf and a lamp.
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  The odd thing is, there is no strong wind on the forecast for
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  the day. Startled but not fully
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  convinced, he closes both of them and sits back down to
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  speculate. In his own.
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  Words. They were supposed to show up
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  immediately. I expected perhaps some voices,
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  maybe riding on the wall. I waited and waited and thought
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  maybe I did something wrong. So I decided to try again
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  another time. I closed the book and got ready
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  for bed. Randy would lay down for the
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  night and begin to sleep, thinking that no one had
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  answered his calls. However, the very next night,
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  something indeed did. As he again lays in his bed
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  sleeping, he is suddenly flung back into reality through the
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  sound of glass breaking coming from his living room.
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  Worried that someone had broken into his home, he grabs a
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  baseball bat and apprehensively makes his way towards the room.
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  Swallowing his fear, he rushes towards the sound.
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  When he gets close enough, he would come face to face with
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  nothing, Confused and on high alert Now, he glances around the
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  room but sees no intruder. Then he hears multiple footsteps
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  behind him. Rushing towards those.
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  He's once again bewildered. There's no one there after a
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  sweep of the entire home. And with this, the discovery
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  that all of its doors and windows had seemingly been
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  untouched. He spent some time pondering
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  just what exactly had happened, but finally decides to lay back
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  down to salvage what little sleep is left.
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  The following morning, he's thrust awake yet again, but this
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  time it's by the ringing of the telephone.
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  It's his mother, Belva. She's calling from Mississippi.
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  She moved there after her and Randy's father got a divorce
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  some years ago. The reason for her call is all
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  the more interesting. She had a hunch, a feeling, that
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  something was. Deeply wrong, and she felt
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  compelled to move back as soon as possible.
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  In the words of Randy, she felt like something was out of sorts
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  that she needed to come back immediately.
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  Was it a? Clairvoyant type of thing, she
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  said. Something has happened.
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  I don't know what it is, but I'm gonna find out.
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  Randy and Belva had always been very close.
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  The two have. Also had a knack for sensing
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  each other's emotions. Tammy Irvin, Randy's younger
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  sister who was 11 years old at that time, couldn't hear the
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  details, but she too sensed something was wrong with her
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  brother. The phone call would end shortly
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  after, and a month later, Belva and Tammy would arrive at
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  Randy's doorstep, finally returning to Michigan, then
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  moving in with Randy. Tammy would later describe her
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  brother when she arrived. He looked pale and sick.
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  He had lost a lot of weight and didn't look good at all.
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  He looked tired, shrugging things off as a lack of sleep.
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  Randy would begin to show his sister around the house.
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  His mother was invited as well, but she had a terrible feeling
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  in the pit of her stomach. Something about the home seemed
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  off. As she examines the front room,
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  just past the front door, she is suddenly enveloped in an icy
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  cold embrace, one that causes her to physically chatter her
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  teeth. She is only shaken out of her
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  experience by the call of Randy for her to join them in the tour
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  this afternoon would continue rather uneventfully.
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  That was until the trio laid down their heads for sleep that
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  night. As a glowing white moon hung
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  above them, they drifted off to dreamland.
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  That was until they all were abruptly woken up by the blaring
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  sound of an organ playing some kind of haunting hymn.
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  Randy panicked and sitting up out of his bed, he suddenly sees
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  the door Creek open. It's his mom.
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  She was asking what the hell was happening.
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  She asked him to please turn his radio off, but to her
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  bewilderment, Randy tells her he doesn't have a radio in this
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  room. The two then frantically begin
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  searching around the room, heading towards the origin of
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  the sound, the right hand corner, perhaps thinking a
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  friend had loved a radio or something of the sort.
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  They would find no such radio and the organ.
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  Music would cease. Upon asking just what it could
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  have been by Randy, Velva attributes the music to her late
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  mother, who had quite the affinity for playing the organ.
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  But Randy would also question back, How could it be Grandma
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  Mom? She's dead.
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  Belva still believes the sign to be something positive, thinking
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  it was her mother's way of letting them know that she was
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  still there and watching over them all.
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  She then would lay back down for the night, given the hour, and
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  Randy, left alone once again to his thoughts, sits in fear.
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  He's worried that the bizarre song had something to do with
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  the spirits he invoked that night after night.
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  His sleep has become less and less attainable, and he can't
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  bring himself to tell his mom that he's been dabbling in the
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  occult. He tries to brush things off and
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  lays his head back down on his pillow.
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  He slowly drifts back to sleep. However, he's again woken up by
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  something that he can't explain, something that grips him in pure
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  terror. A deep.
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  Gutter will growl as if someone or something is stalking him.
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  Feeling the presence of whatever this was, he would put his hand
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  out in its general direction only to feel an icy wind as if
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  he had touched death itself. Sweating profusely yet able to
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  see his breath, Randy knows that this is anything but normal.
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  He again hears the unholy growling and this time it seems
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  to inch closer to him. Feeling the weight as something
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  steps onto his bed and as his mattress begins to indent as
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  this invisible creature moves towards him, Randy is shaking.
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  He closes his eyes as the growl seems to be inches from his
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  face. He feels a cold.
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  Breath on his cheek, and right when he thinks that it's the end
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  of his earthly existence, it vanishes.
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  This leaves Randy a sweaty and emotional mess.
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  Needless to say, he cannot sleep this night.
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  The following morning, as Belva cooks breakfast for everyone, a
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  disgruntled and exhausted Randy stumbles into the kitchen.
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  He again has faced with internal thoughts of who he can tell, who
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  would be willing to listen. And he doesn't want to frighten
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  his family either, in his own words.
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  I knew I had dabbled with something dark, that I had
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  unleashed something evil. But any harm, any torment it
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  could inflict, only I wanted to endure, because it was my.
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  Fault. And I was willing to see this
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  through to the end. And although not much occurs
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  during the day, when the sun goes down and the moon rises,
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  whatever entities seem to awaken to haunt him.
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  Laying his head down to sleep petrified every night, he is
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  often woken up by ethereal growls, deep disgusting snarls
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  the likes of which one is seldomly heard before.
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  This particular night, whatever this creature was knocked over
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  his shelf and then pulled the sheets from his bed and off of
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  Randy and then walked onto his bed and began grabbing him.
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  The sensation similar to frozen claws pulling and tugging at his
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  very soul in his words. The claws or teeth never broke
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  my skin, but I could feel how sharp they were.
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  I was truly fearful. He screams, being reduced to
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  tears. The sound of her son screams
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  draw Velvet to his room, rushing in a panic to quickly see just
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  what had happened. She finds Randy pacing and
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  looking over his shoulders shaking like a leaf.
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  She asked him what is wrong, to which he would reply.
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  Every night it's something. Every night I hear the music or
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  the footsteps. I hear growling at the foot of
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  my bed and something just tried to rip me apart.
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  Almost as soon as the words left his lips, Randy and Belva both
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  would hear a growl originate from behind his TV on his
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  dresser. The temperature in the room
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  seemed to drop significantly. Believing whatever it was to be
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  evil, Belva grabs her Bible and begins to recite verses.
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  Meanwhile, Tammy in her room can only hear the growling in her
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  mother reciting the passages. She is frightened but not aware
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  of the full details of what was happening.
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  It takes several minutes, but the repeated verses seem to work
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  because the violent growls slowly subside into silence.
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  Randy prays that this will be the end of his horrible
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  affliction, but time will tell that it's far from it.
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  His days begin to be affected by his lack of sleep.
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  He's emotionally as well as physically exhausted.
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  He begins making mistakes at his job, but this is far from his
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  main worry. He tries to.
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  Regain a sense of normalcy by spending time with his sister,
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  often watching TV with her in the living room.
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  But all too often he finds his mind trailing off until the
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  inevitable mysterious sounds back in him back to reality.
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  This particular day. He heard banging coming from a
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  storage room in the hallway. Leaving Tammy to watch TV, he
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  goes to investigate. The bangs turn into scratches as
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  Randy approaches the room. The room in question is being
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  used as storage, mostly for Randy's father keeping antiques.
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  That he had recently acquired as Randy apprehensively steps
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  towards the door. And his hand grips the knob, He
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  still hears commotion coming from behind it.
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  However, the door is locked. Also hearing the commotion,
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  Velva joins him in the hallway, curious as to just what it could
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  be. Continuing to hear motion from
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  behind the door, she too tries the knob and then presses her
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  ear to the door to try and discern just what could be
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  making the noise. As she listens, she is suddenly
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  gripped by unseen hands, her body pulled against the door,
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  lifting her off of her feet and towards the ceiling, Choking
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  her. Randy desperately tries to free
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  his mother from the invisible devil's grip.
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  Tammy, hearing the commotion, rushes into the hallway as well
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  to find her mother struggling to breathe and her feet dangling
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  mid air. Not knowing what else to do,
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  Randy runs as fast as he can to obtain his mother's Bible.
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  He returns and places it against her.
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  This again seems to break the demonic chains that grip her.
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  Falling back to the ground, she begins sobbing with Tammy as
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  Randy stares, visibly shaken by what he had just witnessed in
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  his own words. This thing had her in a
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  chokehold and was lifting her off of the ground.
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  I believe it was trying to choke the life out of her.
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  This situation in particular is what truly convinced me deep
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  down that these things were evil.
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  That they were out to get us. And it wasn't just me now that
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  was experiencing the dormant as a result of what had happened,
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  Randy, Belva and Tammy rush out of the house and into Randy's
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  truck. They're unsure of where they
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  will go, but that seemed irrelevant.
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  They knew for certain that they had to get out of that house.
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  Starting the vehicle and thrusting the gas pedal to the
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  floor, the trio speeds away. The results of this night of
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  horror would lead the three of them to move.
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  They would relocate in the next week to another home, this 1A
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  newer house located on the opposite side of town.
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  Although a much smaller house, it's the only thing that they
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  could find on such short notice. Once moved in, the guilt of what
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  he had done was beginning to take its toll on Randy.
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  He blamed himself for what was happening that not only he but
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  now his family were also suffering.
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  He finally decides to come clean.
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  He confesses to his mom that he and his dad had found an old
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  Indian burial site underneath the house that he had then
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  purchased. The book on witchcraft summoned
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  these spirits and didn't think it was real until things started
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  happening. Belva is shocked and believed
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  that her son had inadvertently thrust.
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  Open a door. To the spiritual realm.
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  But she chooses to forgive him, hoping that whatever these
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  things were could no longer hurt them.
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  Later that night, as they settled down for sleep in the
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  new house, as Randy gets under the covers in hopes that his
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  mother is right, that he can finally attain a peaceful
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  night's sleep, he takes one final glance at his new room
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  before closing his eyes. But his eyes would pop open when
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  his door flung open by itself, screaming into the void.
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  Why don't you just stop? Why don't you just leave us
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  alone? He's only met with silence.
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  His cries once again summoned Tammy and Belvet into his room.
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  Upon sitting on his bed, they too begin to hear the ominous
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  sounds once again. The scratching, knocking, and
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  phantom footsteps. As before, Randy now knows that
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  these entities don't want the house, they want him.
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  Refusing to give in any longer, he begins to seek outside help
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  for the first time. Although not a religious person
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  and not a member of any church, he first meets with a local
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  Lutheran minister. Stepping into his office within
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  the church and having a seat at his desk, Randy begins to
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  explain to him what has been taking place for the past
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  several months. However, during his explanation,
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  he's interrupted by the minister and told that witchcraft doesn't
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  exist, that demons are simply a delusion.
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  Randy explains that the entities have been experienced by others,
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  that he's awake when they attack, and that they are indeed
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  real. He is met by a diatribe of
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  religious preaching, only to then be met with have you spoken
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  to a therapist? Labergasted at this and he then
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  leaves. He just can't believe the lack
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  of assistance, continuing to further search for help.
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  He didn't know who else to turn to, but he knew that he wanted
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  his life back, that he wanted his family to finally be safe
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  again. He gets to thinking, if
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  witchcraft unleash these things, could it perhaps banish them?
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  With this in mind, he stops by a local metaphysical shop to ask
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  if anyone would listen to what was happening to him.
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  It's there that he meets a man by the name of Mike Bossick
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  who's interested in his situation.
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  Mike, as he explains, is a White Witch, practitioner of Wicca, a
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  modern Pagan religion. In his own words, a White Witch
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  is someone who believes in good, believes in God, and believes in
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  trying to help people. After listening to Randy explain
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  what he had done and how it had affected him and his family,
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  Mike wanted to help. So he offers to come over to the
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  home later that day. To Randy, this seems like a
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  long-awaited answer. To his desperate prayers.
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  But will the ritual be a success?
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  Later that evening, after filling in Belva on what he
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  intended to have done, they receive a knock at their door.
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  With a thunderstorm rolling in and a light rain starting, Mike
• 30:33
  meets them with a bag in hand. After stepping in out of the
• 30:37
  drizzle, he places his bag on the kitchen table, begins to
• 30:43
  unpack its belongings while donning a black cloak, begins to
• 30:49
  explain what he intends to do. He first must create a ring of
• 30:54
  protection around the home. Braving the rain again, he does
• 30:59
  this using salt, believed to be a purifying substance.
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  He then chants a protective incantation three times as he.
• 31:10
  Circles the home. Before returning, it seems that
• 31:15
  with each chant and each lap that the storm is intensifying,
• 31:21
  as if something supernatural was attempting to stop him.
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  This is Mike's first attempt at vanishing unwanted spirits from
• 31:29
  a person's life, he hopes. He will be.
• 31:32
  Successful as his intentions are to help this family, upon
• 31:38
  completing the circle and coming back indoors, he then, in the
• 31:43
  center of the house, forms yet another circle of salt, and
• 31:47
  within this circle, a pentagram. But unlike a satanic pentagram,
• 31:53
  it is not inverted and in fact has the opposite intent.
• 31:58
  He places candles at each one of the pinnacles and explains to
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  Belva and Randy that the three of them must remain in the
• 32:07
  circle for the entirety of the ritual, otherwise their safety
• 32:12
  may be compromised. The storm outside seems to gain
• 32:16
  intensity as Mike chances banishing ritual.
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  The candles at each one of the pentagrams points begins to
• 32:25
  flicker as shadows trace the walls around them.
• 32:30
  Mike then to finish the ritual after he extinguishes them.
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  The energy in the house seemed to be lighter.
• 32:39
  This LED all three of them to smile, begin celebrating that
• 32:43
  Mike's magic had worked. That was until the lights went
• 32:48
  out, leaving only lightning to illuminate the room, and then
• 32:55
  the entire home began to shake. Unbeknownst to the three
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  downstairs, Tammy had been asleep in her room, unaware of
• 33:06
  what was taking place. She is soon woken up by the
• 33:10
  shaking of the house and sees something outside of her window.
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  Placing her glasses on her face and approaching her curtains,
• 33:21
  she pulls them back. She sees several branches
• 33:25
  scraping against her window as a result of the winds of the
• 33:29
  storm, their leaves being relentlessly pelted by the rain.
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  Then, seemingly out of nowhere, with the flicker of a lightning
• 33:41
  flash, the most Aborn creature was staring back at her.
• 33:47
  And behind the glass, a horned abomination with glowing yellow
• 33:54
  eyes, decaying looking skin as black as the abyss, with gnarled
• 34:02
  yet sharp fangs, stared at her with malice and desire.
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  The young girl panics and screams her cries for help,
• 34:16
  prompting Randy to rush upstairs.
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  He picks her up out of the corner of the room, sees the
• 34:24
  outline of the horned monstrosity outside of the
• 34:27
  window. Frantically rushing back down
• 34:30
  the stairs with his sister, he sets her down next to his mother
• 34:35
  and confronts Mike. He didn't know at the time that
• 34:39
  this was Mike's first attempt at banishment, and it now seems
• 34:44
  that he only added. Fuel.
• 34:45
  To the fire, unable to offer another solution, Ike and leaves
• 34:52
  the home, never to return. Left alone to deal with the
• 34:59
  aftermath, Randy, Velva, and Tammy sleep together in the
• 35:04
  living room to watch each other and keep one another safe.
• 35:10
  The power would return hours after Mike's departure and
• 35:14
  Needless to say, Randy, again seemingly defeated, would not
• 35:20
  sleep much this night. Following the chaos of the
• 35:24
  ritual night, Randy began to fall into a deep depression.
• 35:30
  Unsure of who to reach out to, he feels as if he was on the
• 35:34
  brink of insanity and that he could cross that threshold any
• 35:39
  moment. Sitting on his lunch break at
• 35:42
  work one afternoon dealing with these heavy emotions, he appears
• 35:48
  visibly upset by his dilemma. He's then approached by his Co
• 35:53
  worker, Paula. She asked him what was going on
• 35:58
  and no longer caring about his perceived craziness, Randy
• 36:02
  begins to confide in her everything that had been taking
• 36:06
  place. Surprisingly, Paula doesn't
• 36:10
  judge him, but rather she says she knows someone who can help
• 36:15
  him. She directs him to a woman named
• 36:19
  Nora Reiner. Paula explains that Nora's a
• 36:23
  healer, that she had not only assisted her in the past, but is
• 36:28
  known for helping people who are being oppressed by evil spirits.
• 36:34
  Feeling as if he's got nothing to lose, he agrees to go and see
• 36:38
  her that day. He would arrive at the address
• 36:42
  he was given shortly after departing work, a business
• 36:47
  called Nora's Hair and Nails. Unsure if Nora could help him or
• 36:51
  not, but again feeling as if he had nothing to lose, Randy makes
• 36:56
  his way inside the salon. He then meets Nora for the first
• 37:00
  time. Her first impression of Randy is
• 37:04
  the following. When I saw Randy, he was in a
• 37:08
  terrible physical state. He was very thin, very nervous,
• 37:14
  very anxious and looked sickly. She sensed that he was deeply
• 37:20
  tormented, and so she asked what was bothering him, not having
• 37:25
  been previously. Told what he was there for,
• 37:29
  Randy would give a rough explanation of what he had done.
• 37:33
  And would follow it up with I just want to die.
• 37:38
  She told him that she believed that she had received a gift
• 37:41
  from God and asked him if she could say a prayer for him out
• 37:46
  loud to try and help him. And if he could repeat this
• 37:51
  prayer with her and mean every word of what was being said.
• 37:56
  Nor then says a prayer of deliverance, calling upon Jesus
• 38:00
  to cast out demons. Randy, although desperately
• 38:05
  trying, finds himself unable to recite the prayer back to Nora.
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  He then goes unconscious, sitting in a hair cutting chair.
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  Whilst this is taking place, his head, which was folded down into
• 38:21
  his chest, picks back up, but the eyes that have been looking
• 38:26
  into Nora's were no longer there.
• 38:30
  They had instead gone entirely black.
• 38:35
  The word suicide would erupt from Randy's lips, only to be
• 38:40
  followed by a horrendous scream, one that sounded like multiple
• 38:46
  men yelling at once. The chair would then be thrust
• 38:51
  backwards and make contact with a nearby wall, throwing Randy
• 38:56
  onto the floor. He would once again open his
• 38:59
  eyes to reveal abyssal orbs staring at Nora and would let
• 39:05
  out a deep growl in Nora's words.
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  I had prayed and delivered many people before, but had never
• 39:14
  seen or experienced or ever thought that something like this
• 39:19
  could happen. Grabbing a nearby crucifix.
• 39:22
  Off the wall. Nora presented it to Randy.
• 39:27
  He then began to make what can only be described as the noise
• 39:31
  of an angry cat, but in a much lower tone, and then his throat
• 39:38
  began to bulge as if he had swallowed a grapefruit.
• 39:42
  Continuing to pray and plead with Jesus to cast out the
• 39:46
  unholy spirits out of Randy as the horrendous screams tear from
• 39:52
  his mouth. She places the crucifix to his
• 39:55
  chest. And with one final scream, the
• 40:00
  bulge in his throat disobeys, and he goes silent and still.
• 40:07
  After several tense minutes, Randy wakes up and begins to
• 40:13
  weep. He said that Jesus saved him,
• 40:17
  that he felt truly free. Accompanying Randy home,
• 40:22
  Northern meets his family and blesses their house for them.
• 40:27
  But she doesn't stop there, she convinces them to allow her to
• 40:31
  bless the original home, or she put it the place where evil had
• 40:37
  first been released. In the words of Randy, Nora had
• 40:42
  felt that a bottomless pit had been opened up within the walls
• 40:45
  of that home, and she wanted to close it.
• 40:49
  In Noor's words, there truly is a darkness that hopes to find
• 40:54
  those that seek it with curiosity so that it may take
• 40:58
  advantage of those people and wreak havoc in their lives.
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  Nora would conclude the blessing, and all four of them
• 41:07
  would leave the house, never to return.
• 41:11
  All demonic activity from there on out would cease.
• 41:16
  But before we conclude today's episode, let us first ponder
• 41:21
  some questions I found myself asking as I explored this
• 41:24
  interesting case. Do you think the Native American
• 41:28
  bones had anything to do with the initial haunting personally,
• 41:33
  aside from perhaps inspiring a darker curiosity that led to
• 41:37
  Randy seeking the occult? It doesn't seem so, unless this
• 41:42
  was the intended consequences by those whose resting place have
• 41:47
  been disturbed. I also feel this way considering
• 41:51
  how regular of a finding it was in Standish.
• 41:55
  Secondly, although I researched the supposed demons, I wasn't
• 41:59
  able to find much. Perhaps these particular deities
• 42:03
  aren't very well known, or perhaps their names had been
• 42:07
  changed to protect anyone who may seek them out as a result of
• 42:11
  the story by Randy. It's hard telling.
• 42:16
  I also think that it's interesting that those who
• 42:19
  summoned demons typically do so for their supposed powers or
• 42:24
  assistance with particular tasks.
• 42:27
  Although I obviously don't practice this, it would be
• 42:30
  interesting to hear if anyone has or have they been successful
• 42:35
  in their endeavors or if it's always just a trick.
• 42:40
  I'll weigh in if Randy was aware that these summoned spirits were
• 42:44
  tormenting him. Why would he?
• 42:46
  Allow for his mother and sister to move in with him.
• 42:50
  Don't you think this would be kind of a no brainer?
• 42:53
  Perhaps he didn't have the forethought to think that they
• 42:55
  might affect them. Then again, he was a younger man
• 42:59
  at the time. Why did the minister refused to
• 43:02
  offer real help to Randy and his attempts to free himself?
• 43:06
  How can one believe in Christian teachings and the Bible and yet
• 43:11
  not believe in demons? This one really perplexed me
• 43:16
  because it's like wanting your cake and eating it too.
• 43:19
  One can't really exist without the other.
• 43:22
  Good can't truly exist without evil.
• 43:27
  Because of the minister's failure, Randy then sought out
• 43:30
  non conventional help with Mike. Mike obviously had good
• 43:34
  intentions but was inexperienced.
• 43:38
  He certainly should have shared that with Randy prior to coming
• 43:41
  to perform a ritual. At his house.
• 43:44
  A ritual which made things exponentially worse, then to
• 43:49
  just up and leave following making things worse was
• 43:53
  certainly not a good move. And during said ritual, why in
• 43:58
  God's name did no one think to at least bring Tammy, who was 11
• 44:01
  at the time, into the protection circle, but rather just to leave
• 44:07
  her to her own devices during the supernatural battle?
• 44:11
  This one too had me questioning Randy and Belva's competency.
• 44:15
  And last but certainly not least, because I'm sure there
• 44:19
  are other questions that you guys will bring up or come up
• 44:22
  with on your own, and Randy met with Nora and an exorcism
• 44:27
  essentially began. He said the word sessage before
• 44:31
  hurling back and then out of his chair.
• 44:35
  This is Jesus spelled backwards. Do you think whatever entities
• 44:39
  that inhabited him did this to mock him?
• 44:42
  Also, the lack of sleep, no doubt in my mind, played a major
• 44:47
  role in breaking Randy down in order for him to be possessed.
• 44:52
  I would consider this the previous state of oppression.
• 44:56
  But all the speculation aside, a few things are certain.
• 45:01
  There is a Dark World that exists beyond our veil of
• 45:04
  comprehension, an abyss that hosts abhorrent and terrifying
• 45:10
  entities. And if you dabble in the occult,
• 45:14
  especially if you're an inexperienced person, you might
• 45:18
  not seek to contact them, per Southeast, but they might just
• 45:23
  take an interest in you. Think of it as sending out a
• 45:27
  beacon of light and the dead of night.
• 45:31
  They might notice you begin to crave you until they finally
• 45:37
  find a way into your life and begin to stalk, oppress, and
• 45:43
  eventually consume you. Be wary, be vigilant, and don't
• 45:50
  let that be you. How far would you go to save
• 45:55
  someone you loved? Would you spend all of your
• 45:58
  money trying to find the best treatment?
• 46:00
  Would you sacrifice a part of your very soul?
• 46:04
  When a caretaker performs what's supposed to be an ancient
• 46:07
  healing ritual on her friend's ailing grandmother, she
• 46:11
  unknowingly unleashes a terrifying and powerful demon.
• 46:16
  An entity that claim to be one of the Seven Princess of Hell.
• 46:21
  Will all those involved have their lives be torn apart as the
• 46:24
  malevolent demon haunts and torments their every waking
• 46:28
  moments? Or can they somehow be saved?
• 46:34
  This is the untold story of the Deborah Moffat case, also known
• 46:39
  as the Deadly Haunting or Mr. Entity case, which took place in
• 46:44
  California, and this is truly one you don't want to enjoy with
• 46:49
  the lights off. The following story has been
• 47:00
  sourced from Deborah Moffatt's own words as well as several
• 47:03
  outside resources to try and form the most cohesive timeline
• 47:07
  possible. Not all names were able to be
• 47:10
  found, but I've done my best to provide the most accurate story
• 47:14
  that I can. Our story begins in 1984 when
• 47:18
  the grandmother in law of another woman who will become
• 47:21
  integral to our story. A woman named Deborah Moffin
• 47:25
  suffered a terrible and debilitating stroke.
• 47:29
  As a result of this unfortunate occurrence, she required around
• 47:33
  the clock care. To compensate for this, the
• 47:37
  family all chipped in and pooled together enough money to go
• 47:40
  ahead and hire a caretaker for her, someone who they trusted.
• 47:46
  A nearby neighbor and friend of the family, a middle-aged lady
• 47:50
  from Guatemala named Juanita. This arrangement was both a
• 47:54
  godsend for Juanita as well as the family.
• 47:57
  It allowed Juanita to stay in the United States on her work
• 48:00
  visa and earn a nice living while providing aid to her
• 48:04
  friends. And it allowed the family's dear
• 48:07
  loved one to be taken care of by someone who they knew and
• 48:10
  trusted. Although this is somewhat
• 48:12
  controversial, this woman was an avid practitioner of what's
• 48:16
  known as Santeria. Santeria is an African diasporic
• 48:22
  religion that developed in Cuba during the late 19th century.
• 48:27
  It arose through a process of syncretism between the
• 48:30
  traditional Europa religion of West Africa and the Catholic
• 48:34
  form of Christianity and spiritualism.
• 48:38
  Offerings to the Eureka or various gods often included
• 48:41
  fruit, liquor, flowers, and sacrificed animals.
• 48:47
  In the months to come, Grandma's recovery was not going well.
• 48:51
  If anything, unfortunately, she was getting worse, much worse.
• 48:57
  Each day her state seemed to deteriorate more.
• 49:01
  Worried about her? Friends and their grandmother,
• 49:04
  as well as her own well-being. Thinking that perhaps if Grandma
• 49:08
  passed away that she would no longer be able to reside in
• 49:11
  California due to the loss of her job and the high cost of
• 49:15
  living and having to compete in the job market to keep her work
• 49:19
  visa, Juanita decided to take matters into her own hands.
• 49:24
  She decided to try an ancient Santeria healing spell in hopes
• 49:28
  that it would allow everyone involved, but especially for
• 49:30
  grandma, to do better. However, this ritual would prove
• 49:34
  to be anything but helpful. Grandma, in fact, would not get
• 49:39
  better. Weeks following the ritual, she
• 49:43
  would ultimately pass away. Not only did she pass away and
• 49:48
  her family was devastated, but Juanita would indeed lose her
• 49:52
  job as a result. I tried to dig to uncover any
• 49:56
  and all details as far as what happened to Juanita, but I was
• 50:00
  unable to find anything. My best guess is that perhaps
• 50:04
  with the loss of her caretaker position, she either couldn't
• 50:07
  afford to live in the area anymore and or she went back to
• 50:11
  her native country. But those are just speculation
• 50:14
  on my part. Deborah and her husband Bill
• 50:17
  would inherit the home and in due time would move into it
• 50:21
  following Grandma's funeral. At first, all would be rather
• 50:25
  normal and quiet within the house, but that would ultimately
• 50:30
  change with the birth of Debbie and Bill's first child in 1987.
• 50:35
  Their first son, Bill, was a big sports memorabilia collector and
• 50:40
  had a particular spare bedroom dedicated to his hobby.
• 50:44
  He was especially fond of bobble heads, particularly baseball
• 50:48
  bobble heads. It's important to know that they
• 50:51
  kept this room locked at all times and Bill was the only
• 50:54
  person who had a key to enter. 1 seemingly normal day, Deborah,
• 51:00
  Bill and a friend who lived nearby were headed into the
• 51:03
  house to show the Fringe just how extensive the collection had
• 51:06
  become. My best guess said this
• 51:09
  gentleman was also very much into sports as well.
• 51:12
  As they opened the door and began to walk into the room,
• 51:16
  they were shocked by what they saw.
• 51:17
  All of the bobble heads on the toys had been removed from the
• 51:22
  ones on the shelves to the walls and cabinets, and all of them
• 51:28
  had been laid together in the center of the floor to form a
• 51:31
  triangle of sorts. Not only was Bill upset and
• 51:35
  shocked by this, but the group wasn't sure of what to make of
• 51:39
  this happening. They somehow thought that
• 51:41
  someone had managed to break into the room to play a prank on
• 51:44
  them, but as to why they would have played such a prank on them
• 51:48
  and who would have done it was uncertain at best.
• 51:52
  Following this happening, only more bizarre things began to
• 51:56
  manifest. But as they typically do, these
• 52:00
  manifestations started small. Grandma had been a very
• 52:04
  religious lady, and in the room that was hers she kept a bedside
• 52:09
  table with several icons, those of which contained both Jesus
• 52:13
  and the Virgin Mary in honor of him.
• 52:16
  They had kept that table and those icons in the same place
• 52:20
  that she had left them. One morning as Deborah was
• 52:23
  cleaning house, she noticed that a pair of her husband's briefs
• 52:27
  were draped over the biggest statue of Jesus on the very same
• 52:30
  table. Not only did her husband not
• 52:32
  change in this room, but she knew how close Bill was to his
• 52:36
  grandmother and how he would never have done anything to
• 52:39
  disrespect her or her things. Thinking that somehow it must
• 52:44
  have been an accident and unnerved at the strangeness yet
• 52:47
  again, the couple was unsure of what they were dealing with and
• 52:52
  not making it a priority or jumping to conclusions since
• 52:55
  they were dealing with a newborn.
• 52:57
  I can't say I blamed them because that's always going to
• 53:00
  be at the forefront of your mind.
• 53:03
  As soon as their son was roughly a month old, yet another weird
• 53:07
  thing would occur. The couple this evening had been
• 53:10
  out at a relative's house for dinner and as food was 8 laughs
• 53:14
  were had and dusk turned into night.
• 53:18
  They would say their goodbyes and begin traversing the winding
• 53:21
  roads back home. Upon arrival they placed their
• 53:25
  keys in their door and stepped inside of their house to begin
• 53:29
  to wind down. They flicked on their living
• 53:31
  room light switch and as the lights illuminated they would
• 53:35
  see a bizarre enigmatic symbol drawn on the wall.
• 53:40
  Describing it later, Deborah would refer to it as something
• 53:43
  that she had never really seen before, like a series of
• 53:46
  triangles with tails, but yet again, a triangle was involved.
• 53:53
  As they surveyed the house, they noticed that the symbols weren't
• 53:56
  just on the 1st wall in the living room, they were on all of
• 54:00
  the walls in what would turn out to be the entire house, each of
• 54:05
  them appearing to have been drawn in some kind of a charcoal
• 54:08
  like substance. Bill and Debbie again weren't
• 54:11
  sure of what to make of this, so they went to the logical
• 54:14
  headspace that perhaps somehow someone was pranking them yet
• 54:18
  again, or they were breaking into their house, both of which
• 54:22
  were unnerving at best, and both of which didn't make any sense.
• 54:28
  The pranking because they didn't really have a relationship with
• 54:32
  anyone like that, let alone they hadn't given access to their
• 54:35
  house to anyone else and was someone intruding into their
• 54:39
  home. All of their doors and windows
• 54:41
  were locked and none of their belongings or valuables would be
• 54:45
  missing. It would take several hours, but
• 54:49
  they would eventually settle and fall asleep this very night,
• 54:53
  despite the confusion and now fear that someone was truly
• 54:57
  messing with them. Five days following this night,
• 55:01
  as Bill rearranged his sports room, Deborah had taken up the
• 55:05
  task of cleaning the living room.
• 55:07
  On one of their walls, there was a long shelf filled with little
• 55:11
  keepsakes and knickknacks. She had glanced at the shelf
• 55:15
  while sweeping the floor and then again looked back at it.
• 55:19
  And as she would describe later, it was like as if in the blink
• 55:22
  of an eye, every single item on that shelf was turned backwards
• 55:29
  upon coming out of his sports. Room.
• 55:31
  Bill was told by Deborah what had taken place, but at the time
• 55:35
  refused to believe it, saying that she couldn't have seen it
• 55:38
  right to begin with. However, Debbie knew what she
• 55:42
  had seen and just how impossible it would have been for them to
• 55:46
  all be facing backwards, but she was the only one who ever
• 55:50
  touched them. But despite trying to approach
• 55:52
  the situations logically, these logical happenings would only
• 55:57
  continue. One week later, the two would
• 56:01
  arrive home to discover a lamp sitting in the middle of their
• 56:04
  living room. With nothing else in the home
• 56:07
  out of place and nothing being wrong with any of the doors or
• 56:11
  windows, Debbie began to think that perhaps something was
• 56:15
  taking place that they couldn't understand.
• 56:19
  Bill harbored a deep fear of the paranormal and with these
• 56:23
  realizations somewhat went to a state of denial, utterly
• 56:27
  refusing to believe that something even remotely close as
• 56:30
  such could be taking place, let alone to them.
• 56:35
  The lamp would be placed back on the shelf where it was supposed
• 56:38
  to be, and following this the two headed into the kitchen.
• 56:43
  This Bill continued to try and rationalize and come up with
• 56:46
  excuses as to what was happening to them.
• 56:50
  After having a brief discussion and without hearing so much as
• 56:53
  the smallest of sounds, the couple would re emerge into
• 56:57
  their living room after roughly 2 to 3 minutes and would be
• 57:01
  shaken to their core. Before their very eyes they
• 57:06
  would find all of their furniture rearranged and stacked
• 57:10
  one piece on top of the other. It was if the entire room had
• 57:14
  been shifted upside down, but all within mere minutes and
• 57:19
  essentially and dead silence. At this point, there was no way
• 57:25
  to deny that they were indeed dealing with something beyond
• 57:28
  their normal realm of comprehension.
• 57:30
  But with this realization, the two had completely different
• 57:34
  thoughts about the matter. Deborah was apprehensive yet
• 57:38
  fascinated as to what could be happening, and Bill,
• 57:42
  surprisingly was done denying what was taking place and was
• 57:47
  ready to move immediately and leave everything behind.
• 57:52
  Debbie would end up placing the furniture back to normal in the
• 57:54
  living room. Bill didn't even want to be
• 57:57
  inside of the house, so he stood outside.
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  He would then refuse to have anything to do with the activity
• 58:04
  from this point onward, essentially heading back into
• 58:08
  denial. To Deborah, the feeling wasn't a
• 58:11
  malevolent one. At first, she saw it as almost a
• 58:15
  game of sorts. Whether this would prove to be
• 58:18
  detrimental or not later, it's up to you.
• 58:22
  With these feelings, she would begin to try and communicate
• 58:25
  with the presents daily, asking it to move things around to
• 58:29
  prove that it was there and incredibly it whatever it was,
• 58:35
  would oblige. This action would begin a cat
• 58:38
  and mouse game that went on for roughly a week or so until one
• 58:42
  day it randomly ceased. Eventually, due to Bill's lack
• 58:48
  of comfort, the couple would purchase and move into the house
• 58:51
  next door and would keep their old home as a rental property
• 58:55
  for several years. This decision would result in an
• 59:00
  eventual revolving door of tenants, some of them staying a
• 59:04
  year or so, but most of them just staying several months and
• 59:09
  leaving without giving a reason. It's important to note here that
• 59:13
  Bill would actually mention that the property could possibly be
• 59:16
  haunted, but most people laughed at the idea.
• 59:20
  Perhaps it was the times. Perhaps people back then weren't
• 59:23
  as open minded to the world of the paranormal as they are now.
• 59:28
  After several years of renting out their home, Bill and Debbie
• 59:32
  and several other surviving family members decided that they
• 59:35
  would sell their current homes and rental properties and
• 59:38
  purchase one large home and share the space as one big
• 59:42
  family. Once this was tackled after
• 59:46
  several days of moving their own belongings to the new home, on
• 59:50
  the final day at their old house, something peculiar
• 59:54
  happened. Deborah and a relative were
• 59:57
  gathering the final boxes from a room in the back of the house
• 1:00:01
  when suddenly they heard what they described as an explosion
• 1:00:07
  come from the kitchen, dropping the boxes and bolting to the
• 1:00:11
  origin of the noise to see just what had happened.
• 1:00:15
  The two ladies were left speechless.
• 1:00:18
  All of the cabinets, the countertops, everything had been
• 1:00:23
  ripped from the walls and pieces of them now lay all over the
• 1:00:28
  floor. Before they could begin to
• 1:00:30
  process what had just taken place, they would hear another
• 1:00:33
  loud explosion, but this time it came from the bedroom that they
• 1:00:37
  had just ran from. Running back there they again
• 1:00:41
  would be astonished. Every window in the back bedroom
• 1:00:45
  had been blown out with absolutely no explanation.
• 1:00:49
  Shards of glass littered the carpet and covered the final
• 1:00:53
  boxes they sought to move out. Wasting no time, Debbie grabbed
• 1:00:58
  the relative by the arm and the two fled to the car, leaving the
• 1:01:02
  final boxes behind. They would leave the property as
• 1:01:06
  quickly as they could. It was within these moments that
• 1:01:10
  Deborah now knew that whatever the force was, that they had
• 1:01:13
  been dealing. With.
• 1:01:15
  Was not benevolent and in fact seemed hostile, trying to come
• 1:01:21
  to terms with what had just happened.
• 1:01:23
  Shaking with fear, she drove to the new house and the two would
• 1:01:27
  spend the rest of the day trying to forget what had just
• 1:01:30
  happened. For the first several days,
• 1:01:33
  everything seemed to be quiet and calm in the new house as the
• 1:01:36
  family altogether unpacked and got settled into their new life
• 1:01:40
  together. The dynamic consisted of Deborah
• 1:01:43
  and Bill and the master bedroom downstairs, and Bill's mother
• 1:01:47
  and father upstairs, and the other master bedroom.
• 1:01:51
  Two other relatives lived there as well, but I wasn't able to
• 1:01:54
  find additional details as to their exact relation or the time
• 1:01:58
  frame in which they ended up staying or leaving.
• 1:02:01
  But sometimes it's people that are haunted, not places.
• 1:02:07
  So yet again, the Moffitts would find themselves plagued by the
• 1:02:11
  same malevolent force that had previously stalked them from the
• 1:02:15
  shadows. The entity, like a feral beast
• 1:02:19
  who had simply been wounded, had nursed those wounds and seemed
• 1:02:24
  hell bent on revenge. With the reappearance of this
• 1:02:29
  malevolent force, certain members of the family were
• 1:02:32
  opposed to seeking assistance, while others felt that it was
• 1:02:37
  necessary to do. Those opposing believed that
• 1:02:41
  they would be made a mockery of, considered crazy, and dismissed,
• 1:02:46
  leaving their reputations in shambles.
• 1:02:49
  But together, they all believed that this problem was way too
• 1:02:53
  far out of their scope of normalcy to be able to tackle
• 1:02:56
  themselves. As the family stood divided
• 1:02:59
  against one another, the entity began to further isolate them
• 1:03:03
  individually. Not only could they certainly
• 1:03:06
  not have any guests over for fear that they too would be
• 1:03:09
  affected, but wherever they seem to go, it would follow.
• 1:03:15
  It continuously made them so uncomfortable that they soon
• 1:03:19
  quit going places altogether, except for their essentials.
• 1:03:23
  For example, on one occasion Deborah and Bill had been at one
• 1:03:27
  of Bill's friends homes for dinner.
• 1:03:30
  They would have a nice time, but this would be all too short
• 1:03:34
  lived. Upon their return to the house,
• 1:03:37
  on the kitchen table was the friend's wallet.
• 1:03:41
  They had just been inside of his house and as one might imagine,
• 1:03:46
  this would be more than enough to chill someone to the bone.
• 1:03:51
  It was if the entity was telling them to stop or else someone
• 1:03:55
  else might get hurt. The Moffatt's, now beside
• 1:04:00
  themselves with fear, were also worried just how they would
• 1:04:04
  explain to their friend why they had his wallet or just what he
• 1:04:08
  would say or think in an effort to try and seek some sort of
• 1:04:13
  help. Deborah was able to convince
• 1:04:16
  most of her family to go and visit a local but well known
• 1:04:20
  psychologist to make sure it wasn't some kind of mass
• 1:04:23
  hysteria or that someone, herself included, hadn't somehow
• 1:04:28
  convinced themselves and everyone else that something
• 1:04:32
  paranormal was taking place when it wasn't.
• 1:04:37
  The psychologist, whose name was never disclosed, was based out
• 1:04:41
  of Rancho Cucamonga, CA and was apprehensive at first, but who
• 1:04:46
  can blame them? But after much explaining and
• 1:04:50
  meeting with the members of the family, together and separately,
• 1:04:54
  the psychologist would come to the conclusion that something
• 1:04:57
  strange was indeed taking place, something that they couldn't
• 1:05:01
  help with. Unable to assist the family
• 1:05:04
  further, they told them that they needed to seek the help of
• 1:05:07
  a parapsychologist, a religious institution, or some other party
• 1:05:13
  that studies these kinds of things.
• 1:05:16
  So following the psychologist's advice, with most of Bill's
• 1:05:19
  family being religious, Catholic specifically, they would seek
• 1:05:24
  the help of the church that they attended.
• 1:05:27
  The church agreed to help them and would send a priest to bless
• 1:05:30
  their home and after several weeks after their meeting, an
• 1:05:34
  older priest would arrive at their house.
• 1:05:37
  Upon crossing the threshold of the home and into the four year,
• 1:05:41
  the priest would take out his holy water and begin to sprinkle
• 1:05:45
  it on the walls around him and make the sign of the cross
• 1:05:48
  towards the hallway. Oddly though, you refuse to go
• 1:05:52
  any further into the home when asked.
• 1:05:55
  Aren't you supposed to bless every room?
• 1:05:58
  The priest would rebuttal. No, no this should be more than
• 1:06:01
  enough. I have to go now and further
• 1:06:05
  effort to get him to do what he was supposed to do.
• 1:06:08
  The family explained all of what had been taking place.
• 1:06:12
  The priest would make eye contact with Deborah and say
• 1:06:17
  women when they get older they tend to get a little crazy.
• 1:06:22
  Now excuse me, I have to go then without another.
• 1:06:26
  Word. He exited the door and left in
• 1:06:29
  his vehicle. The family noticed he had seemed
• 1:06:33
  unnerved or slightly scared while he was at the house, but
• 1:06:37
  they were also totally flabbergasted at his odd
• 1:06:40
  response to them and their legitimate attempts to seek
• 1:06:44
  assistance. Thus, they were again left
• 1:06:47
  without any real help, believing the blessing to be rather
• 1:06:51
  subpar. Bill's mother, Lee, who was the
• 1:06:54
  most religious out of all of them, was simply crushed at the
• 1:06:58
  church's response and never truly seemed the same.
• 1:07:01
  Following this incident, the entity seemed to latch onto this
• 1:07:06
  and began to feed upon her negativity following what had
• 1:07:09
  taken place. It began to torment her day in
• 1:07:13
  and day out. Some examples of what it would
• 1:07:16
  do to her would be to destroy her belongings.
• 1:07:20
  It would make her shoes disappear, as in one shoe would
• 1:07:23
  go missing from a pair. It destroyed her purse, wallet,
• 1:07:28
  credit cards, and licenses multiple times, and it would
• 1:07:32
  hide things from her if it didn't destroy them.
• 1:07:36
  It was if to say that I'm the one that's in control, and
• 1:07:39
  you'll own things only if I say that you can.
• 1:07:43
  Having very bad eyesight most of her life, the creature would
• 1:07:47
  take Lee's glasses away from her or smash them, and while she was
• 1:07:52
  unable to see, it would manifest itself as a large, terrifying,
• 1:07:58
  foreboding figure, which without her glasses to Lee seemed like a
• 1:08:03
  massive black mist. Then it would often touch or
• 1:08:07
  abuse her. The demon also began to have a
• 1:08:11
  peculiar obsession with knives. Knives began appearing stuck in
• 1:08:16
  the walls and frighteningly under chairs, so if someone sat
• 1:08:20
  down they would greatly injure themselves.
• 1:08:24
  And these knives, strangers still, were not the family's
• 1:08:28
  knives. They had absolutely no idea
• 1:08:31
  where they came from. The intensity of the knife
• 1:08:35
  situation wouldn't escalate to the point to where they were
• 1:08:38
  being placed upright under pillows, and Lee again seemed to
• 1:08:42
  bear the brunt of the abuse. The Moffits were seemingly beat
• 1:08:46
  down into a corner, and as they sat there, they collectively
• 1:08:51
  wandered just how they could defend themselves against
• 1:08:54
  something that they couldn't see.
• 1:08:57
  Just how could they defeat an entity that shouldn't exist?
• 1:09:02
  The torture would continue for the family as a whole, but it
• 1:09:05
  was being done as if the demon was wanting to communicate some
• 1:09:08
  kind of message. One day an unmistakable sign
• 1:09:13
  would appear indeed communicating the 1st and what
• 1:09:17
  would become many. The entity began to ride on
• 1:09:21
  various mirrors throughout the house and soap, its first
• 1:09:26
  message appearing to Lee saying talk to me.
• 1:09:30
  And this particular message appeared shortly after the
• 1:09:33
  family had come home from getting groceries together.
• 1:09:37
  Trying to regain some sense of normalcy at first, wanting to
• 1:09:42
  make sure it wasn't one of the family members playing a trick
• 1:09:45
  on the others, which would be pretty horrible at this point to
• 1:09:48
  be honest. They cleaned the mirror
• 1:09:50
  thoroughly and then everyone convened in the bedroom together
• 1:09:55
  saying that if there was additional riding on the mirror
• 1:09:58
  following them cleaning it within the next several minutes,
• 1:10:01
  then the event is indeed real. After approximately 15 minutes
• 1:10:06
  of waiting, they reluctantly reentered the bathroom to find
• 1:10:10
  the words Nene, don't go into the Attic written on the mirror.
• 1:10:17
  Upon reading this, Lee froze in her tracks.
• 1:10:21
  There was only one person whoever called her that nickname
• 1:10:24
  or was even aware of it, and that was her long deceased
• 1:10:29
  sister. From here, the days would turn
• 1:10:33
  into nights and the messages would continue becoming more
• 1:10:38
  sadistic, controlling, and abusive.
• 1:10:43
  For the next year, the family would be held hostage by what
• 1:10:46
  they now believed to be a demonic entity.
• 1:10:50
  The messages were more or less commands or insults, and the
• 1:10:54
  spear wouldn't answer any of their questions in response to
• 1:10:58
  them. It got to the point that when if
• 1:11:00
  they sought to go places for any reason, they had to ask
• 1:11:04
  permission. Otherwise, they would have car
• 1:11:07
  issues or damage such as broken windshields, headlights, or even
• 1:11:14
  engine failure. Eventually, out of frustration,
• 1:11:19
  Bill's father would ask the name of the entity in hopes that they
• 1:11:23
  could figure out just what it was and what it wanted and why
• 1:11:27
  it tormented them all in an effort to put a stop to it.
• 1:11:32
  And upon asking, they all would finally receive an answer.
• 1:11:37
  There, scribbled on the mirror was the name Prince, and
• 1:11:43
  following them receiving this name, they would hear a
• 1:11:46
  commotion coming from all over the house below them.
• 1:11:50
  Rushing down the stairs they would find many of their items
• 1:11:53
  and furniture broken in pieces and several symbols scribbled on
• 1:11:58
  the walls and floors. The symbol, as vaguely mentioned
• 1:12:03
  before, involved triangles and small offshoot characters.
• 1:12:09
  The shape over time would be scribbled, carved, and even
• 1:12:13
  burned into walls, floors, and furniture within the home.
• 1:12:19
  Following this, even each day seemed to mirror the last.
• 1:12:24
  It almost always started with the family having to put the
• 1:12:27
  home back together. Everything would be in complete
• 1:12:30
  disarray upon them waking up each and every morning and
• 1:12:35
  wherever they went, it went. If they went out to eat, even
• 1:12:42
  upon asking permission, and they would return the name tag of the
• 1:12:47
  waiter, her waitress would be on the table.
• 1:12:51
  And one time, a massive bite was taken out of the mother in law's
• 1:12:55
  stake just mere seconds after she received it, with no
• 1:12:59
  rational origin as to how it happened.
• 1:13:04
  This state of utter imprisonment and constant battle with an
• 1:13:07
  enemy that they couldn't see led the family to seek additional
• 1:13:11
  help to try and free themselves of the hell that they now lived
• 1:13:15
  in. They would go through a long
• 1:13:18
  list of reputable people and organizations to try and escape,
• 1:13:24
  but nothing. Seemed to work.
• 1:13:27
  Some of these included Lloyd Auerbach and his connections to
• 1:13:31
  various paranormal societies. One such society consisted of
• 1:13:37
  Christopher Chacon, another well known name in the paranormal
• 1:13:41
  world, and his investigation team.
• 1:13:44
  They were unable to make sense of the situation and ultimately
• 1:13:49
  couldn't help the Moffits. The Moffits would reach out to
• 1:13:53
  various religious organizations of differing faiths.
• 1:13:57
  They tried having magicians come out and they would even make
• 1:14:00
  contact with Thelma Moss who would send Carrie Gaynor out to
• 1:14:04
  investigate. The very same Thelma Moss and
• 1:14:08
  Carrie Gaynor that were involved in the San Pedro haunting as
• 1:14:12
  well as the entity or better known as the Doris Bither Case.
• 1:14:17
  And yet no one could get rid of it.
• 1:14:20
  No amount of blessings, rituals or investigations seemed to
• 1:14:26
  work. They would have shamans out,
• 1:14:30
  Wiccans, and even the Warrens, and still no one could help
• 1:14:36
  them. As the years trickled by, ever
• 1:14:39
  slowly, agonizingly, things had not improved.
• 1:14:45
  Rather, it had become so violent and dangerous within the house
• 1:14:49
  that the entire family, both Bill's parents, Bill and
• 1:14:53
  Deborah, and their son were all sleeping in the lower living
• 1:14:57
  room together and would not separate.
• 1:15:00
  For fear of what would happen. The demon known as Prince had
• 1:15:06
  taken over the entire upstairs one night.
• 1:15:11
  Deborah, on behalf of her mother-in-law, decided to risk
• 1:15:15
  it and head upstairs to grab some medication that had been
• 1:15:18
  left behind that she desperately needed.
• 1:15:22
  Upon opening the door and walking into this now claimed
• 1:15:25
  domain, every fiber of her being was telling her to turn around
• 1:15:31
  and run. Persisting, she made her way
• 1:15:35
  past all the broken furniture and utter chaos to wear the
• 1:15:39
  medication was, and after grasping the bottle in her palm,
• 1:15:45
  turning around to head back downstairs, she heard a low
• 1:15:50
  growling noise behind her. Originally from the attic.
• 1:15:56
  There in the flesh was the disembodied head of a grotesque
• 1:16:02
  creature, grayish in appearance, with the blackest, most soulless
• 1:16:08
  eyes imaginable. A twisted horn emerged from its
• 1:16:12
  temple and up over its head. This caused an involuntary
• 1:16:17
  scream to erupt from Deborah's mouth, straight from the depths
• 1:16:22
  of her soul. She then, with everything she
• 1:16:25
  had, ran back downstairs. She believed that this indeed
• 1:16:31
  was the entity known as Prince's true form.
• 1:16:36
  Things from here continue to go downhill.
• 1:16:38
  As they do. And would escalate in intensity
• 1:16:42
  and torture. Lee one morning went to grab
• 1:16:46
  something from the pantry in the kitchen, a place for the most
• 1:16:49
  part where they felt safe. And since it was on the ground
• 1:16:52
  level of the house. As she opened the door and
• 1:16:56
  stepped into the walk in pantry to grab the item that she was
• 1:16:59
  after. Suddenly.
• 1:17:02
  Behind her, the door slammed shut.
• 1:17:06
  She then felt invisible hands grab her throat and squeeze,
• 1:17:12
  picking her up her feet, leaving the floor and dangling as she
• 1:17:19
  struggled to breathe, feeling as if it was the end.
• 1:17:23
  When everything began to go black, the hands suddenly
• 1:17:28
  released and she collapsed down to the.
• 1:17:31
  Floor. Her husband would be the first
• 1:17:34
  to rush to her aid, and she would be hysterical after coming
• 1:17:38
  back to consciousness. Prince clearly had the power to
• 1:17:43
  take a human life, or so it seemed, but chose not to.
• 1:17:49
  Was this because it wanted to feed upon misery versus taking
• 1:17:52
  the soul or for some other reason?
• 1:17:56
  The demons perhaps have rules they had to abide by.
• 1:18:00
  Deborah had finally reached her breaking point.
• 1:18:03
  She stormed into the upstairs bathroom and demanded answers
• 1:18:07
  from Prince. She told the being that the
• 1:18:10
  family was no longer to be touched, that they would respect
• 1:18:14
  its space if it would respect theirs, and surprisingly, she
• 1:18:20
  began to receive replies on the mirror in the same fashion as
• 1:18:24
  the entity had always communicated by riding on it.
• 1:18:29
  Prince said that he would no longer bother any other member
• 1:18:32
  of the family, but that Lee had been promised to him many moons
• 1:18:36
  ago and that he had come to collect.
• 1:18:41
  Deborah would ask the creature to elaborate, and for the next
• 1:18:45
  hour the entity would write on the mirror.
• 1:18:48
  Deborah would erase the writing, wait, go back, read and repeat
• 1:18:55
  until the full story had been told.
• 1:18:58
  Not wanting to allow Prince to have any sort of power over,
• 1:19:02
  Deborah decided to start referring to as Mr. Entity,
• 1:19:07
  essentially leaving him a nameless face but with a
• 1:19:11
  respectable title as they had agreed upon.
• 1:19:15
  Here I wanted to mention a few of the smaller details I
• 1:19:18
  uncovered from the time of Grandma's old house till now.
• 1:19:23
  The family did also experience paranormal manifestations that
• 1:19:26
  we commonly come across, such as putrid odors, knocking and
• 1:19:32
  banging throughout the home, all with no rational origin and
• 1:19:37
  rarely seen, but somewhat indicative of a more powerful
• 1:19:41
  entity. They also experienced an
• 1:19:44
  infestation. Some people experience insects
• 1:19:47
  from what I've come across. The Moffitts, however, had a
• 1:19:51
  terrible rat problem, but one that came out of nowhere and
• 1:19:55
  then disappeared roughly 2 weeks later, again with no 'cause.
• 1:20:02
  Another disturbing thing that Mister Entity had taken to doing
• 1:20:06
  was ending the lives of the family's dogs if it didn't get
• 1:20:09
  what it wanted. There are more.
• 1:20:11
  Details on what happened to several of the pets, but the
• 1:20:15
  details are gruesome and if I've learned anything from my prior
• 1:20:19
  videos, it's that it's really not necessary to include this
• 1:20:22
  kind of information. I just wanted to say that it
• 1:20:26
  happened, and it happened more than once in this case.
• 1:20:30
  Often times the ending to these kinds of cases can be anti
• 1:20:33
  climactic, and this one, despite how incredible of a story it is,
• 1:20:38
  is no exception. After six agonizing years with
• 1:20:43
  dozens of seasoned paranormal investigators, religious
• 1:20:47
  leaders, shamans, occult magicians, and more assisting
• 1:20:54
  the Moffitts with the demon known as Prince, no relief was
• 1:20:58
  provided. For all of those years, Prince
• 1:21:02
  continued to plague their lives until one day the entity simply
• 1:21:08
  was no longer there. Following the creature's
• 1:21:11
  departure, Debbie, Bill, and the family would destroy lots of
• 1:21:16
  photos but keep some in storage but stored in the attic.
• 1:21:22
  They would also for years stop speaking about what they had
• 1:21:24
  endured for fear of whatever it was would come back.
• 1:21:29
  But thankfully, for whatever reason, I never did.
• 1:21:35
  Debbie and Bill would go on to raise their family and
• 1:21:38
  eventually move on, with Debbie becoming an author and spiritual
• 1:21:42
  advisor not only to assist others who may have experienced
• 1:21:46
  something similar, but to also share her extensive knowledge
• 1:21:50
  and hellish waking life that her and her family endured under the
• 1:21:55
  reign of Prince. I'll be leaving links to her
• 1:21:59
  books on this video as well as in the description because
• 1:22:03
  they're certainly worth checking out, as well as several other
• 1:22:06
  resources I used to research this case as we conclude our
• 1:22:11
  story. As always, I'd like to give some
• 1:22:14
  of my thoughts I've had while researching this very unhinged
• 1:22:18
  but perplexing case. Was this spirit demonic?
• 1:22:23
  A familiar of sort? A Gen., as we'll see in a
• 1:22:26
  moment, or perhaps something pretending to be more than what
• 1:22:30
  it was. We will never have definitive
• 1:22:33
  answers for these questions. But in my opinion, Prince or Mr.
• 1:22:39
  Entity, whatever it was, was certainly incredibly powerful,
• 1:22:44
  especially given the destruction it was alleged to have
• 1:22:47
  perpetrated given the descriptions given by Debbie in
• 1:22:50
  various interviews, her own books and photos both provided
• 1:22:55
  by her. And again, in my opinion, the
• 1:22:58
  entity was certainly demonic. I think true demonic hauntings
• 1:23:02
  are not only extremely rare, but incredibly dangerous, with the
• 1:23:07
  spirits having the ability to cause tangible physical and
• 1:23:11
  mental harm to all involved. Demons aren't all powerful, but
• 1:23:16
  they are more intelligent than we are and can foresee things
• 1:23:20
  that we simply cannot. When explaining the story as to
• 1:23:24
  why it's sawed and tormented Lee so hard that apparently she had
• 1:23:28
  been promised many moons or years ago.
• 1:23:32
  This is what leads me to believe that perhaps someone in their
• 1:23:34
  lineage promised their descendants in exchange for
• 1:23:37
  something. Whether it was money, fame, or
• 1:23:41
  what have you. Perhaps the entity had finally
• 1:23:44
  come to collect its dead, the soul that was bartered during
• 1:23:48
  said exchange. Now I don't think that it was a
• 1:23:52
  human spirit pretending to be something it wasn't, a Prince of
• 1:23:56
  Hell I'm not totally convinced of, but most hauntings, the
• 1:24:01
  beings don't have half the ability of what Prince
• 1:24:04
  supposedly did. Many years following the events
• 1:24:08
  of the Moffitt family haunting, during an interview with the
• 1:24:11
  late great Art Bell, Debbie would speak with the guest who
• 1:24:15
  seemingly identified the symbol that Prince or Mr. Entity had
• 1:24:19
  supposedly used. It was a symbol he had come
• 1:24:23
  across during his time in the army while in Afghanistan.
• 1:24:27
  Further investigation revealed on his behalf that this symbol
• 1:24:31
  was that of Iblis, which is known as a jinn from the Quran.
• 1:24:36
  It's known as the leader of the devils in Islam.
• 1:24:39
  Iblis was thrown out of heaven after he refused to prostate
• 1:24:43
  himself before Adam. It's also known as the father of
• 1:24:48
  bitterness. This certainly would explain the
• 1:24:51
  power behind Prince, that's for sure.
• 1:24:55
  All around, this case is incredible, perplexing and
• 1:24:59
  terrifying. Taking things at Deborah
• 1:25:01
  Moffitt's word, I can only vaguely relate to just how
• 1:25:05
  terrible her and her family's experience dealing with this
• 1:25:08
  must have been. And one thing is for certain,
• 1:25:11
  whether Prince was indeed a Prince of Hell as it claimed to
• 1:25:14
  be, or just a very powerful entity, it certainly tormented
• 1:25:19
  this family as if they had been sent to the 7th circle.
• 1:25:24
  Themselves, deep within the shadows of our collective
• 1:25:30
  consciousness lies the eerie concept of demonic possession, a
• 1:25:36
  haunting notion that has lingered through the ages,
• 1:25:40
  weaving its tendrils into the tapestry of our faiths.
• 1:25:46
  The horrendous thought of being consumed, of succumbing to
• 1:25:51
  inscrutable forces that dwell beyond the veil of our
• 1:25:55
  comprehension. This idea seems to resonate
• 1:25:59
  within the darkest corners of the human mind and even within
• 1:26:05
  our very souls. Within this pitch black realm, a
• 1:26:10
  profound event unfolds involving a young woman, and what occurs
• 1:26:16
  would blur the delicate boundary between the world of the
• 1:26:20
  supernatural and the tangible, scaring the curious minds of
• 1:26:26
  those who experienced it, causing them to ponder if there
• 1:26:30
  certainly is a devil that lurks within the darkness.
• 1:26:35
  So join me as I explore the untold story of the terrifying
• 1:26:41
  exorcism of Martha Brozier, which took place in the 16th
• 1:26:46
  century and France the mid 1550s, a time fraught
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  with prevalent superstitions and deep seated fears of witches and
• 1:27:09
  demons, creatures that hovered over mankind as menacing
• 1:27:15
  threats. A young woman named Martha
• 1:27:19
  Brozier, also known as Martha Brozier, emerged as a mysterious
• 1:27:25
  figure in an era characterized by the realms of black magic and
• 1:27:31
  the supernatural. Initially perceived as an
• 1:27:35
  unremarkable individual, she was merely seen as an eccentric
• 1:27:40
  girl, often keeping to herself, avoiding her neighbors, and
• 1:27:45
  preferring her own company. However, this unassuming, shy
• 1:27:50
  facade was shattered one rainy night.
• 1:27:55
  Martha, 20 years old at the time, and began to act
• 1:27:59
  exceptionally strange weeks prior to this night, drawing
• 1:28:05
  further and further into herself.
• 1:28:08
  She began to seem oppressed by something, something that she
• 1:28:12
  couldn't see, often being attacked or harassed at night.
• 1:28:19
  This night in particular, however, something very
• 1:28:22
  different took place. The petite woman, as lightning
• 1:28:26
  crashed and rain pelted the outside walls of her home,
• 1:28:32
  unleashed a bone chilling demonic howl.
• 1:28:37
  This alerted her parents who ran to see just what was happening.
• 1:28:42
  Upon opening the door to her room, they found their daughter
• 1:28:46
  perched in the. Corner of her room.
• 1:28:48
  Upon her night stand contorted, her limbs twisting in unnatural
• 1:28:55
  directions. She then again opened her mouth
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  and screeched, her God awful screams being so loud that they
• 1:29:07
  even pierced the ears of nearby neighbors to the chaos of the
• 1:29:13
  storm. Little did the family realize
• 1:29:16
  that night that this event would reverberate throughout the
• 1:29:21
  tumultuous year of 1576. Word spread like wildfire, and
• 1:29:28
  with the heavily religious lives of most Europeans at that time,
• 1:29:32
  these rumored otherworldly screams soon sparked immediate
• 1:29:37
  suspicion. Suspicion that the young woman
• 1:29:41
  could have perhaps been involved in witchcraft.
• 1:29:45
  That the devil had made his way inside Martha Brogere.
• 1:29:51
  The out of the blue emergence of Martha's inexplicable behavior
• 1:29:55
  soon cast a sinister shadow over her neighbor, a woman named Anne
• 1:30:01
  Chevreaux. Suddenly, this calm and
• 1:30:05
  relatively charming woman found herself unjustly accused of
• 1:30:10
  bewitching Martha. Soon the accusations spiraled
• 1:30:15
  into a web of superstition, and this paranoia would ultimately
• 1:30:20
  lead to Anne's imprisonment. She would be charged with the
• 1:30:24
  crime of practicing sorcery, a grim fate sealed by the village
• 1:30:30
  folk, whose fear seemed to further taint the air with an
• 1:30:34
  aura of malevolence and terror. The bizarre behavior of Martha,
• 1:30:41
  which had begun to escalate that rainy night in her room just
• 1:30:45
  weeks before, had seemed to only get worse.
• 1:30:49
  Alongside screaming in dual octaves and contorting into
• 1:30:54
  abhorrent twisted positions, she began manifesting violent
• 1:30:59
  outbursts. She would try and attack anyone
• 1:31:03
  and everyone near her. Even while contorted, her teeth
• 1:31:08
  would gnash. Her voice emitted insults in a
• 1:31:13
  deep and guttural tone, as if several men were attempting to
• 1:31:18
  speak through her at once. Alongside this, blood curdling
• 1:31:23
  screams occasionally burst from her.
• 1:31:26
  She began to roll her eyes into the back of her skull.
• 1:31:30
  She would extend her tongue to inhuman links, often biting in
• 1:31:36
  and laughing. She would also begin to converse
• 1:31:40
  in unfamiliar languages she couldn't have possibly known.
• 1:31:44
  These included English and Greek alongside her native French.
• 1:31:51
  And even more disturbingly, she could speak these languages with
• 1:31:56
  her mouth closed, as if Martha was being used as a puppet.
• 1:32:01
  And alongside all of these unnatural symptoms, she also
• 1:32:07
  would boastfully move items without touching them.
• 1:32:10
  And when assaulting people or fighting restraints, she would
• 1:32:15
  show extraordinary strength, often taking multiple men to
• 1:32:20
  hold her down. And not without great struggle.
• 1:32:25
  As word spread about Martha, whispers of her alleged
• 1:32:29
  possession by demons or even the devil himself began to
• 1:32:34
  circulate. And in a surprising and
• 1:32:37
  extremely odd move, instead of recoiling in fear, her family
• 1:32:43
  embarked on a unique journey with Martha.
• 1:32:46
  They transformed her affliction into a macabre spectacle.
• 1:32:51
  They began travelling with her village to village to showcase
• 1:32:56
  the possessed woman they all kept hearing about and all of
• 1:33:01
  her grotesque glory. The alleged entity that
• 1:33:04
  inhabited Martha began to induce convulsions, terrifying roars,
• 1:33:11
  and a series of otherworldly displays that left spectators
• 1:33:16
  both mesmerized and petrified. The bizarre nature of her
• 1:33:20
  manifestations, including her ability to speak with a sealed
• 1:33:25
  mouth, extending her tongue to unnatural lengths, contorting
• 1:33:29
  her body in unimaginable ways, and exhibiting superhuman leaps
• 1:33:35
  even while lying down, defied logical explanation and
• 1:33:40
  solidified her reputation as a genuine supernatural enigma.
• 1:33:46
  This spectacle drew increasingly larger crowds, propelling Martha
• 1:33:51
  into celebrity status. King Henry the Fourth was not
• 1:33:56
  merely informed of these freakish displays and rumors,
• 1:34:00
  but rather he received a detailed account of Martha's
• 1:34:04
  manifestations and the growing whispers of alleged demonic
• 1:34:09
  possession that surrounded her. Intrigued by the escalating
• 1:34:13
  tales of the tormented girl, the king took decisive action and
• 1:34:17
  issued a royal decree for an exorcism.
• 1:34:21
  This decree set into motion a chain of events that led to
• 1:34:25
  Martha being escorted to the hallowed grounds of the Abbey of
• 1:34:31
  Saint Junisu, where a sense of anticipation and apprehension
• 1:34:36
  hung heavy in the air. It's important to note that I
• 1:34:40
  couldn't find information on any prior exorcisms, but rather her
• 1:34:45
  family seemed to be profiting off of her spiritual dilemma
• 1:34:49
  like a deformed creature at some kind of carnival or circus.
• 1:34:55
  Awaiting Martha's arrival at the Abbey was the eminent Bishop of
• 1:34:59
  Paris, a figure of authority and piety who stood ready to
• 1:35:04
  confront the story that had captured the attention of the
• 1:35:09
  entire Kingdom. Accompanying the Bishop was none
• 1:35:13
  other and the King's personal physician, Michelle Maryscott, a
• 1:35:19
  man whose skepticism towards the supernatural was well known.
• 1:35:24
  However, as Martha's case unfolded before him, Maryscott
• 1:35:29
  found himself embroiled in a unique experiment that would
• 1:35:33
  test the very boundaries of his beliefs and challenge the
• 1:35:38
  established notions demonic possession for Maryscott.
• 1:35:44
  This. Extraordinary situation
• 1:35:45
  presented an unparalleled opportunity to delve into the
• 1:35:49
  realms of the unknown, a chance to scrutinize the phenomena of
• 1:35:53
  possession with a keen eye for scientific inquiry.
• 1:35:59
  This exorcism, unlike any before it, became a Crucible of
• 1:36:03
  investigation where each detail, each reaction in each utterance
• 1:36:10
  were meticulously observed and analyzed.
• 1:36:14
  As Martha stood on the precipice between the earthly and the
• 1:36:18
  ethereal, Mary Scott found himself at the forefront of a
• 1:36:23
  ground breaking study that would ignite debates and discussions
• 1:36:29
  for years to come. The results of this
• 1:36:32
  unprecedented exorcism were not merely contentious, they became
• 1:36:37
  a focal point of scholarly discourse and theological
• 1:36:41
  deliberation, shaping the very fabric of beliefs and
• 1:36:46
  superstitions that permeated society.
• 1:36:50
  The revelations that emerged from this bizarre event continue
• 1:36:54
  to echo through the halls of history, leaving a lingering
• 1:36:58
  mystery that defies easy explanation and challenges the
• 1:37:03
  perceptions of those who bore witness to Martha's ordeal.
• 1:37:09
  The Physician, driven by his growing suspicions, meticulously
• 1:37:13
  orchestrated a covert plan to validate his doubts.
• 1:37:18
  With the utmost secrecy, he carried out a daring swap,
• 1:37:22
  exchanging the sacred relic, believed to be a piece of the
• 1:37:26
  True Cross, with a piece of mundane wood.
• 1:37:31
  The strategic maneuver aimed to unravel the tale surrounding
• 1:37:35
  Martha's eerie episodes and delve into the depths of her
• 1:37:39
  unsettling manifestations. Upon Martha's arrival at the
• 1:37:43
  solemn Abbey and the subsequent confrontation with the Bishop,
• 1:37:48
  the stage was set for a dramatic unfolding of events.
• 1:37:53
  As anticipated, with the presentation of holy objects,
• 1:37:58
  Martha's demeanor swiftly transformed.
• 1:38:02
  In the blink of an eye, she plunged into a tumultuous
• 1:38:05
  whirlwind of violence. Her rageful movements shook the
• 1:38:11
  very foundations of the Abbey. The contorted form of her body
• 1:38:17
  convulsed as she unleashed a torin of vile and profane
• 1:38:24
  utterances in multiple languages and in that horrible deep
• 1:38:30
  tonality, each syllable dripping with an ominous malevolence.
• 1:38:36
  The priests, taken aback by the chilling display before them,
• 1:38:40
  struggled to contain Martha, resorting to allegedly using a
• 1:38:45
  piece of the real True Cross to subdue her erratic behavior to
• 1:38:51
  essentially Dr. the demonic entities back to the point where
• 1:38:55
  she could be restrained. Yet after this occurred, the
• 1:38:59
  situation escalated once more to full blown intensity, objects
• 1:39:05
  hurling about as screams echoed once again.
• 1:39:11
  Amidst the chaos, the alleged piece of the True Cross was
• 1:39:15
  brought near Martha, and this triggered another visceral
• 1:39:19
  reaction, one that sent shivers throughout the witnesses.
• 1:39:25
  As the relic touched her, Martha recoiled in sheer terror, her
• 1:39:30
  face wincing in agony. Whilst being restrained and
• 1:39:35
  having the demon commanded to leave her body, a powerful and
• 1:39:40
  final scream came from her lips. She then fell limp.
• 1:39:46
  Upon regaining consciousness, tears began streaming down
• 1:39:51
  Martha's face. She was seemingly freed from the
• 1:39:55
  evil that had taken her. Those who witnessed the events
• 1:40:00
  were forever scarred by what they had seen.
• 1:40:03
  It was as if they had looked into the eyes of the devil
• 1:40:06
  himself. While the Bishop interpreted
• 1:40:10
  this harrowing scene as conclusive evidence of demonic
• 1:40:14
  possession, skepticism loomed the mind of the astute Mariska.
• 1:40:21
  His analytical gaze honed in on the discrepancy and the pieces
• 1:40:25
  of the cross that were presented to Martha and how she had
• 1:40:30
  reacted to the swapped items. She had, interestingly, seemed
• 1:40:34
  to have a much more profound reaction to the Decoy cross than
• 1:40:39
  that of the True Cross. This perplexing disparity
• 1:40:43
  fuelled Mara Scott's doubts, prompting a deeper introspection
• 1:40:48
  and to the complexities of the woman's affliction and the
• 1:40:52
  underlying forces at play. The intricate interplay of
• 1:40:56
  faith, skepticism, and the supernatural unfolded within the
• 1:41:02
  hallowed walls of the Abbey, setting the stage for a riveting
• 1:41:07
  clash of beliefs and interpretations.
• 1:41:11
  As the veil of uncertainty shrouded Martha's condition, the
• 1:41:16
  physician's clandestine experiment sparked a contentious
• 1:41:19
  debate that reverberated through the corridors of power and piety
• 1:41:26
  amidst the lingering cries of doubt and conviction.
• 1:41:30
  The true nature of Martha's plight remained veiled in
• 1:41:34
  mystery, awaiting further revelation as to what indeed had
• 1:41:39
  taken place. That night, Mary Scott informed
• 1:41:42
  the Bishop and other priests about his actions, stating that
• 1:41:47
  Martha's condition might be due to severe mental distress rather
• 1:41:52
  than possession. He considered this as evidence
• 1:41:56
  that there was no demonic influence involved.
• 1:42:00
  Despite Mary Scott's belief, the Bishop adamantly maintained that
• 1:42:04
  Martha was under demonic possession, going to the extent
• 1:42:09
  of accusing the physician of blasphemy for suggesting
• 1:42:13
  otherwise, another horrible charge that carried heavy
• 1:42:17
  consequences for that time. The debate raged on and
• 1:42:22
  consequently, although Mary Scott held strong suspicions
• 1:42:26
  that Martha's affliction was either a.
• 1:42:28
  Charade. Or a result of mental
• 1:42:30
  instability, he struggled to sway the Church's opinion.
• 1:42:35
  Thus, the experiment at this juncture faced a set back in
• 1:42:40
  achieving its intended outcome. Despite the outcome, Mary Scott
• 1:42:46
  in the coming months would find unexpected allies and his
• 1:42:49
  beliefs within the Church. Unbeknownst to him, the
• 1:42:54
  Archbishop of Lyon, Charles Meron, shared Mary Scott's
• 1:42:59
  conviction and chose to push the boundaries of the experiment.
• 1:43:02
  Further devised an elaborate plan to test his suspicions by
• 1:43:08
  concealing a key in red silk and presenting it to Martha as a
• 1:43:12
  fragment of the True Cross. Additionally, he proposed
• 1:43:17
  swapping holy water with regular water to observe her reactions,
• 1:43:23
  adding to the intrigue. He recited passages.
• 1:43:26
  From Virgils and Aid and Latin, intended to be nonsensical to a
• 1:43:31
  demon, but potentially misconstrued as potent scripture
• 1:43:36
  by an ordinary individual. In essence, the entire exorcism
• 1:43:42
  would be a meticulously orchestrated charade.
• 1:43:46
  Martha stood before the Archbishop, her body wracked by
• 1:43:51
  spasmatic convulsions that seemed to ripple through her
• 1:43:55
  being like violent tremors. As she stood in his presence, a
• 1:44:00
  sense of foreboding hung heavy in the air, shrouding the room
• 1:44:05
  in silence. Unbeknownst to Martha, the small
• 1:44:10
  vial of holy water was discreetly offered to her
• 1:44:13
  trembling hand, it's sanctified essence shimmering faintly in
• 1:44:18
  the dim light of the chamber. With a trembling grasp, she
• 1:44:23
  ingested the holy. Water.
• 1:44:25
  Her movements almost mechanical in their desperation for solace.
• 1:44:31
  However, the fateful moment arrived when a seemingly
• 1:44:35
  identical. Vial of water, carefully
• 1:44:37
  disguised as holy water, was presented to Martha As the
• 1:44:42
  liquid touched her lips, a Primal Scream tore through the
• 1:44:46
  stillness of the. Room reverberating with a raw
• 1:44:51
  agony that seemed to sear her very soul.
• 1:44:56
  The Archbishop, his gaze now piercing and unwavering,
• 1:45:01
  observed these events, his mind a maelstrom of conflicting
• 1:45:06
  thoughts and conjecture. Why did the ordinary water evoke
• 1:45:10
  such visceral distress, while the holy water remained
• 1:45:15
  untouched by the flames of her torment?
• 1:45:20
  What sinister forces lurked beneath the surface of Martha
• 1:45:24
  that they weave a web of fear and uncertainty around her very
• 1:45:28
  being? Moreover, the moment of truth
• 1:45:32
  arrived as a relic resembling a fragment of the revered True
• 1:45:37
  Cross was presented to Martha. The mere side of this sacred
• 1:45:42
  object triggered a reaction so intense.
• 1:45:46
  That it laid. Bare the depths of her inner
• 1:45:48
  turmoil with a stark clarity and sent terror through the hearts
• 1:45:53
  of those present. From here, the verses were read.
• 1:45:58
  Martha's reaction mirrored her encounter with the deceptive
• 1:46:02
  waters, blurring the lines between the sacred and the
• 1:46:06
  profane in a dance of otherworldly revelation.
• 1:46:12
  In the wake of these unexplainable events, Archbishop
• 1:46:15
  Miron found himself standing at the crossroads of disbelief and
• 1:46:21
  conviction. Is resolve tested by the
• 1:46:24
  inexplicable nature of Martha's responses?
• 1:46:28
  The intricate puzzle of her reactions to seemingly mundane
• 1:46:32
  stimuli raised questions that transcended the boundaries of
• 1:46:37
  the natural world, hinting at a presence that defied
• 1:46:40
  conventional explanation. As the Archbishop delved deeper
• 1:46:45
  into the labyrinth of Martha's eerie manifestations, a cold
• 1:46:50
  realization began to dawn upon him.
• 1:46:52
  The revelations, unearthed in the Crucible of faith and
• 1:46:55
  skepticism marked a watershed moment where the veil of alleged
• 1:47:00
  demonic possession was lifted to reveal a complex framework of
• 1:47:06
  human frailty or deception. The implications of this
• 1:47:11
  groundbreaking revelation resonated far beyond the
• 1:47:15
  confines of the Abbey, challenging the very fabric of
• 1:47:19
  beliefs that had held sway over the minds of the faithful for
• 1:47:24
  centuries. Despite the apparent conclusion
• 1:47:28
  and the suggestion that Martha Brogier might have been a mere
• 1:47:32
  fraud, a charlatan, or possibly not completely sound of mind,
• 1:47:38
  her case still continued to stir controversy.
• 1:47:43
  Numerous witnesses attested to witnessing her bizarre episodes
• 1:47:47
  first hand, insisting that her actions surpassed human
• 1:47:51
  capabilities, making it implausible for her to fabricate
• 1:47:56
  everything. Rozier herself maintained her
• 1:47:59
  assertion of being possessed and would ultimately persist in her
• 1:48:04
  tours and tell her death. Now before we go, the twists and
• 1:48:10
  turns of this case have churned up many questions.
• 1:48:14
  It's my conviction that this particular case could have
• 1:48:17
  influenced the Catholic Church all the way to the modern day,
• 1:48:21
  because nowadays a person must be examined by a doctor as well
• 1:48:26
  as a psychologist before an exorcism can even be considered.
• 1:48:31
  Could Martha's case have caused this?
• 1:48:34
  All around pretty interesting in my opinion.
• 1:48:37
  If the young woman was possessed, just how did this
• 1:48:41
  occur? Was she cursed, bewitched by
• 1:48:44
  someone else? Or was she herself dabbling with
• 1:48:48
  the dark arts? Despite her anguish and apparent
• 1:48:52
  pain, her family took her around like a travelling circus act and
• 1:48:57
  no doubt profited from the spectacle.
• 1:49:00
  This to me is obscene. If she indeed was under demonic
• 1:49:03
  influence, to think that her own flesh and blood could be so
• 1:49:08
  exploitative, it's just heartbreaking.
• 1:49:12
  Unless she was in on it after word got out and she was
• 1:49:16
  properly exercised on the King's orders, just how or why would
• 1:49:22
  she show aversion to non holy relics such as the piece of wood
• 1:49:26
  resembling the True Cross or the non blessed water?
• 1:49:31
  And lastly, if she was seemingly freed during this event, why did
• 1:49:36
  she then return to touring as the possessed woman after the
• 1:49:40
  debacle? To me, this makes me question
• 1:49:43
  whether she was a charlatan or a fake, or perhaps someone who was
• 1:49:48
  very mentally disturbed or sick with some kind of illness that
• 1:49:53
  was unknown to physicians at the time.
• 1:49:55
  Or if she. Was truly possessed in
• 1:49:58
  possession. Like most paranormal things we
• 1:50:02
  can never fully grasp the truth is up to you to decide.
• 1:50:07
  Was the devil in the darkness or was he unmasked to reveal a very
• 1:50:13
  clever woman just trying to make a living through strange means?
• 1:50:20
  Can a toy be haunted, let alone cause harm to anyone who comes
• 1:50:25
  into contact with it or views its image with seemingly unknown
• 1:50:31
  origins but possessing an energy that radiates pure evil?
• 1:50:36
  The item, specifically the doll that we will be discussing
• 1:50:39
  today, is rumoured to be able to not only affect people who come
• 1:50:44
  into contact with it in the flesh, but to even have the
• 1:50:47
  ability to reach you through the screens of your device.
• 1:50:52
  So if this is something you fear, a risk you potentially
• 1:50:56
  don't want to take, then I highly suggest you find another.
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  Video to watch. This is the untold story of
• 1:51:04
  Peggy the doll and the malevolent presence that
• 1:51:08
  surrounds it. If you enjoy my content then I
• 1:51:15
  know you'll enjoy a very similar style over at The Missing
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  Chapter. This video was made possible by
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  Bob Hicks and his amazing research and studio which I used
• 1:51:25
  while visiting. Every case is unique and covered
• 1:51:29
  in an incredible style that makes the channel.
• 1:51:31
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  Take a few moments to go and check out his content.
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  There's only so much information available on this particular
• 1:51:40
  case. All information has been
• 1:51:42
  researched using a variety of sources including books,
• 1:51:46
  websites and first hand accounts.
• 1:51:49
  Please be aware that some names have been changed to protect the
• 1:51:52
  identity of those involved and with such little information
• 1:51:55
  found, I've done my best to form the most cohesive story
• 1:51:59
  possible. I would also like to warn you
• 1:52:02
  that supposedly viewing photos of Peggy or videos have caused
• 1:52:07
  distress, physical issues, and more.
• 1:52:11
  Shrouded in mysterious allure, the toy known as Peggy the Doll
• 1:52:15
  is said to house an otherworldly essence that radiates a profound
• 1:52:20
  feeling of evil intertwined with chilling terrors that have
• 1:52:24
  ensnared the collective curiosity of the public.
• 1:52:28
  Believed to be in a perpetual state of unrest, it has
• 1:52:32
  captivated the minds of many since its initial discovery.
• 1:52:36
  Now nine years ago, the true origin of Peggy is unknown, but
• 1:52:41
  the world became aware of its existence in 2015.
• 1:52:46
  This very year, a woman who wishes for her identity to
• 1:52:50
  remain anonymous have been out at a local garage sale in her
• 1:52:54
  area in search of something cool to take home at a fair price.
• 1:52:59
  As she perused the various bins sat upon tables seeing if
• 1:53:03
  anything interested her, out of the corner of her eye she
• 1:53:07
  spotted an adorable looking doll with blonde hair, beaded blue
• 1:53:12
  eyes and a small white dress adorning her.
• 1:53:16
  Feeling some kind of pull towards the doll and feeling as
• 1:53:19
  if she would enjoy the presence of a new companion, she quickly
• 1:53:23
  purchased the toy that in due time she would start.
• 1:53:26
  Calling Peggy. But almost as soon as Peggy
• 1:53:29
  entered her life and was placed inside of her home, strange
• 1:53:34
  things began to happen. The woman began to have
• 1:53:37
  horrendous nightmares every single night, ones that were so
• 1:53:42
  bad that when she woke up, she'd be laying in a pool of her own
• 1:53:46
  sweat, unable to catch her breath.
• 1:53:50
  Day after day, the increasingly ominous, empty gaze of Peggy
• 1:53:54
  stared into her. Soul.
• 1:53:56
  Slowly but surely increasing her anxiety and night after night
• 1:54:03
  these horrendous nightmares would continue to induce terror.
• 1:54:08
  In a short period of time, the persistent force made the air so
• 1:54:12
  thick that you could cut it with a knife.
• 1:54:16
  Roughly 3 weeks upon the purchase of the doll and the.
• 1:54:19
  Start of the. Nightmares.
• 1:54:21
  The woman dreaded inevitably falling asleep each night.
• 1:54:26
  She had also come to the personal conclusion that
• 1:54:29
  something was indeed very wrong with Peggy.
• 1:54:32
  Each night in her nightmares she was being pursued by some kind
• 1:54:37
  of entity that for the longest time she was unable to see.
• 1:54:43
  And yet, each night's sleep would mirror the last, and each
• 1:54:46
  one the story seemed to progress.
• 1:54:50
  Upon drifting off into dreamland, she would find
• 1:54:53
  herself back in the same terrifying circumstances in
• 1:54:57
  which she had been in previously, and what she saw was
• 1:55:01
  truly disturbing. Slowly, the entity that pursued
• 1:55:05
  her, which at first was masked by darkness, began to reveal
• 1:55:10
  itself. It formed a figure, the figure
• 1:55:15
  of a doll, and over time the doll began to become a hideous
• 1:55:20
  amalgamation between that of a doll and an old woman.
• 1:55:25
  A grotesque monstrosity, one that would leave her shaking in
• 1:55:29
  utter distress. This shook this poor lady to her
• 1:55:33
  core, especially since she had never experienced anything like
• 1:55:37
  this before. Believing this to be a
• 1:55:40
  manifestation of evil, she tried various methods to quell the
• 1:55:44
  abyss that seemed to take such great interest in her.
• 1:55:48
  After Peggy entered her life, she tried moving the doll to
• 1:55:51
  various spots within her home, but that didn't seem to work.
• 1:55:56
  She consulted 2 priests at two different churches, both of
• 1:56:00
  which whose blessings didn't seem to work.
• 1:56:04
  If anything, it seemed to make the circumstances so much worse.
• 1:56:09
  Peggy began to move around on her own and in conjunction with
• 1:56:13
  this she began breaking multiple items within the home as well.
• 1:56:17
  She finally out of desperation moved Peggy into her shed,
• 1:56:21
  hoping that with the doll being outside of the home that her
• 1:56:24
  torment would cease. This however failed and if
• 1:56:30
  anything seemed to anger whatever entity was present,
• 1:56:35
  seemingly exhausting all known options at the time and out of
• 1:56:39
  desperation and hours of research, she found and emailed
• 1:56:43
  someone who she believed would be equipped to help her and or
• 1:56:47
  figure out just what was taking place.
• 1:56:50
  A renowned British paranormal investigator, a woman by the
• 1:56:54
  name of Jane Harris who ran the organization Haunted Dolls.
• 1:56:59
  After a brief correspondence, Harris agreed to accept Peggy
• 1:57:03
  the doll, so it was placed in the post and mailed to her.
• 1:57:08
  But as the doll made its long journey to Harris's residence,
• 1:57:12
  little did she know that she too would become one of the entity's
• 1:57:16
  victims. The doll would arrive in a tan
• 1:57:20
  box upon Harris's doorstep roughly 3 weeks later when she
• 1:57:25
  brought the box inside of her home as soon as her foot crossed
• 1:57:28
  the threshold, she would later say that it was as if the whole
• 1:57:32
  energy seemed to shift within her house.
• 1:57:35
  As she unboxed the toy and presented it to the first rays
• 1:57:38
  of light it had seen in nearly a month, she almost immediately
• 1:57:42
  began the induction process. She set aside a space for Peggy
• 1:57:47
  and attempted to establish a baseline to see if anything
• 1:57:50
  abnormal seemed to be coming from the doll.
• 1:57:53
  Placing her within a glass stand, her and several of her
• 1:57:56
  colleagues began to set up night vision cameras, digital cameras,
• 1:58:01
  and motion detectors. After this was done, they
• 1:58:05
  examined it with an EMF meter, but nothing at first seemed to
• 1:58:09
  be odd about the doll other than the feeling Harris had upon
• 1:58:13
  bringing it into her home. They left the doll for an
• 1:58:16
  overnight examination to see if any of their cameras or motion
• 1:58:20
  detectors picked up on anything, but after the first night they
• 1:58:24
  would discover nothing. Despite the lack of findings,
• 1:58:28
  the team's protocol would dictate that the next step would
• 1:58:31
  be to bring in several mediums to try and see if they felt
• 1:58:35
  anything in regards to the object.
• 1:58:38
  This, however, takes time and schedule, so in the meantime it
• 1:58:42
  would have to essentially sit on the back burner.
• 1:58:45
  It was now November of 2015, In approximately 6 weeks after
• 1:58:50
  Peggy the doll had arrived on the doorsteps of Jane Harris,
• 1:58:54
  Strangely, almost out of the blue because she wasn't known to
• 1:58:59
  have issues like these before, Jane was suddenly hit with an
• 1:59:02
  unyielding, debilitating fatigue.
• 1:59:06
  Barely able to move, she remained bedridden for roughly 2
• 1:59:10
  weeks and that's when her body began to be wracked with
• 1:59:13
  horrible migraines accompanied with nausea.
• 1:59:17
  This would cause her to not only put a pause on her normal
• 1:59:20
  paranormal works, but she was also unable to care for her two
• 1:59:24
  young children. Despite getting 8 to 9 hours of
• 1:59:28
  solid sleep at night plus naps due to the exhaustion and
• 1:59:32
  suffering for several weeks, Harris's condition was not
• 1:59:36
  improving. 3 doctors had ran all sorts of tests and yet nothing
• 1:59:41
  was coming back. Abnormal blood tests ruled out
• 1:59:44
  thyroid issues. She had no signs of anemia or
• 1:59:48
  any other kind of illness for that matter.
• 1:59:51
  Left with no other explanation, Jane had to consider the
• 1:59:54
  possibility, since it was the only factor that had recently
• 1:59:58
  changed in her life, that perhaps her ailed state.
• 2:00:02
  Was a result of the presence. Of Peggy the doll wanting an
• 2:00:07
  outside opinion, she decided to contact a friend and clairvoyant
• 2:00:12
  whom she had worked with on other cases, a medium named
• 2:00:16
  Patricia Redman. On November 13th, roughly a week
• 2:00:20
  after being asked, Patricia would agree to take.
• 2:00:24
  And examine Peggy. And for the first time in over a
• 2:00:27
  month, Jane. Slowly but surely.
• 2:00:30
  Began to feel better. She wasn't drained of energy,
• 2:00:33
  her constant migraines and nausea were gone, and her skin,
• 2:00:38
  which had taken quite the Gray tone since she had fallen I'll
• 2:00:41
  began to go back to normal. Redmond would have the doll for
• 2:00:45
  approximately 3 weeks and agreed to return it to Harris, but not
• 2:00:50
  before casting a spell of protection upon it in hopes that
• 2:00:53
  if the doll was affecting her that it would no longer bother
• 2:00:57
  her during her studies. Her conclusion, and strangely
• 2:01:02
  what would become the conclusion of three other sidekicks over
• 2:01:05
  the course of the investigation, was that Peggy contained the
• 2:01:08
  spirit of a woman from London, England.
• 2:01:12
  It is thought that she is possessed by the spirit of a
• 2:01:15
  woman born in 1946 and London's Holland Park who died of a chest
• 2:01:20
  related condition, possibly an asthma attack.
• 2:01:24
  The readings would further uncover that the woman was
• 2:01:27
  persecuted and had a very hard life, that she disliked clowns
• 2:01:32
  and cats, and that she died horribly and alone of
• 2:01:37
  asphyxiation, cold and by herself.
• 2:01:41
  Could this perhaps be why she was so angry and death?
• 2:01:45
  And why did she inhabit the doll to begin with?
• 2:01:48
  These. Questions perhaps will never be
• 2:01:50
  answered or have yet to be uncovered.
• 2:01:54
  During the course of the investigation through her social
• 2:01:57
  media for haunted dolls, Jane began to post updates regarding
• 2:02:01
  Peggy the doll, as she would with any of the items or other
• 2:02:04
  objects the group would be involved with.
• 2:02:08
  The photos and videos of Peggy began to draw visceral reactions
• 2:02:12
  from those who viewed them in conjunction with strange
• 2:02:15
  manifestations of the paranormal.
• 2:02:19
  And not just a handful of people.
• 2:02:20
  Over the years, hundreds have poured in, leading most to
• 2:02:24
  believe that there has to be some kind of correlation.
• 2:02:27
  These experiences people have had range from horrible
• 2:02:31
  headaches, anxiety and nausea to shortness of breath, abnormal
• 2:02:37
  heartbeat and more. With others their computers
• 2:02:41
  freezing upon the image of Peggy, light bulbs exploding,
• 2:02:45
  and in one instance a candle falling over and causing a small
• 2:02:49
  fire. These are just some of the
• 2:02:52
  comments that have been said upon viewing the images and
• 2:02:56
  videos. Upon viewing the doll I had a
• 2:02:59
  full blown asthma attack which hasn't occurred in almost a
• 2:03:02
  decade. Are tromans.
• 2:03:05
  I've had a migraine and palpitation since seeing your
• 2:03:08
  doll. Please contact me.
• 2:03:11
  Jay Claire, this is so strange. Can dogs and cats since evil?
• 2:03:17
  Since I opened the photo of that doll, my little terrier Molly
• 2:03:22
  has been snarling and growling at the screen.
• 2:03:25
  I'm a bit freaked out. Jay Carlton, One woman, upon
• 2:03:29
  viewing an image of Peggy, had a dream that some kind of figure
• 2:03:33
  was chasing her cat and eventually caught it as it was
• 2:03:37
  running up to her door. Upon waking up and going to
• 2:03:41
  check on her beloved pet after not finding it within her home,
• 2:03:45
  she checked her front door and found the cat no longer alive.
• 2:03:49
  It was if it had been mauled. Eventually, the doll would find
• 2:03:54
  a new home at the Haunted Museum, owned by controversial
• 2:03:58
  paranormal investigator Zach Pagans.
• 2:04:01
  He or she resides in her own space in a glass display where
• 2:04:05
  people continue to experience strange feelings and occurrences
• 2:04:10
  as a result of being within her presence.
• 2:04:14
  But before we go, this case to me poses several questions which
• 2:04:18
  I'd like to address. First of which, if we take
• 2:04:21
  things at face value, if Peggy was possessed.
• 2:04:25
  Why would the Spirit choose? To inhabit a doll and then also
• 2:04:28
  cause so much torment. I found that if a spirit is
• 2:04:32
  restless and angry in life then odds are they become lost souls
• 2:04:36
  when they die. They may seek something to
• 2:04:39
  inhabit that would allow them to gain access to people and or
• 2:04:43
  their homes to which they can take out their frustration just
• 2:04:47
  like people which they were. If they're evil or angry in
• 2:04:51
  life, odds are they will be in death as well.
• 2:04:55
  Were the nightmares the result of an overactive imagination?
• 2:04:59
  It is pretty well known that some entities like to infiltrate
• 2:05:02
  dreams. Why this is a thing this
• 2:05:04
  uncertain? Perhaps to cause distress in
• 2:05:07
  which they can feed upon. And what about the physical
• 2:05:10
  ailments? This perhaps could have been a
• 2:05:12
  coincidence if it hadn't affected so many people over the
• 2:05:16
  years, or so they claim. The odds that.
• 2:05:19
  So many people would express physical issues or strange
• 2:05:23
  manifestations as a result of seeing or being in contact with
• 2:05:27
  the doll is indeed odd. And lastly, was it even a human
• 2:05:31
  spirit inhabiting the vessel at all?
• 2:05:34
  Or perhaps something inhuman? These questions and more of
• 2:05:37
  course, will likely never be able to answer, which leaves
• 2:05:41
  this case shrouded and yet more mystery.
• 2:05:44
  So if you find yourself being pulled towards a particular
• 2:05:47
  item, unless you are vastly experienced, you may want to
• 2:05:51
  give its allure a second thought.
• 2:05:53
  Because this calling could potentially open up a
• 2:05:57
  nightmarish world of torment, harassment, and terror.
• 2:06:02
  During the 1980s, Houston, TX, a city brimming with vibrancy,
• 2:06:08
  experienced a substantial increase in its population as
• 2:06:12
  new residents eagerly migrated to the region.
• 2:06:16
  To meet the demand generated by this population boom, there was
• 2:06:20
  a widespread construction effort focused on creating housing
• 2:06:24
  subdivisions in the areas surrounding the city.
• 2:06:27
  Among these newly minted neighborhoods stood the
• 2:06:30
  prestigious Newport subdivision, nestled on the fringes of
• 2:06:34
  Houston and Crosby, TX. This distinguished community
• 2:06:38
  radiated elegance and refinement, showcasing splendid
• 2:06:43
  new homes and Florida State groomed lawns, epitomizing the
• 2:06:48
  ultimate American Dream and all of its glory.
• 2:06:52
  However, hidden beneath the gleaming exterior of this
• 2:06:56
  prosperous sanctuary of peaceful suburban life, mysterious
• 2:07:01
  secrets and intense supernatural forces were quietly at play.
• 2:07:07
  This is the untold story of the Haunting of Black Hope Cemetery.
• 2:07:16
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  Mystery Archives. Among the earliest settlers in
• 2:07:51
  the just developed Newport subdivision were Sam and Judith
• 2:07:55
  Haney, who in 1982 claimed their dream residence.
• 2:08:02
  Initially, their joy knew no bounds, for they had acquired
• 2:08:06
  the home they had long envisioned for themselves,
• 2:08:10
  blissfully unaware of the dark secrets that lurked beneath its
• 2:08:14
  surface. However, their contentment began
• 2:08:18
  to unravel when they opted to add a swimming pool to their
• 2:08:21
  property. As the construction team set
• 2:08:24
  about the preliminary work for the pool, an unexpected and
• 2:08:29
  rather eerie visitation occurred.
• 2:08:32
  An aged gentleman, introducing himself as Jasper Norton,
• 2:08:37
  approached them with a bone chilling warning.
• 2:08:41
  He insisted that beneath the very spot where they had planned
• 2:08:44
  to construct their pool lay hidden graves advising against
• 2:08:50
  the continuation. Of their project.
• 2:08:53
  Reflecting on this peculiar and unsettling encounter, Sam Haney
• 2:08:58
  recounted one day an elderly gentleman approached me, noting
• 2:09:03
  that he had seen us planning to install a swimming pool in our
• 2:09:06
  backyard. He mentioned that there was
• 2:09:09
  something important about our backyard that I needed to know.
• 2:09:12
  Curious, I followed him around back where he pointed to the
• 2:09:16
  ground and ominously announced that there were some graves
• 2:09:20
  beneath us. He even went as far to mark the
• 2:09:24
  exact location of these alleged graves.
• 2:09:27
  I didn't know what to make of this information.
• 2:09:30
  The possibility that he was making up this story crossed my
• 2:09:33
  mind, but I was as puzzled to why anyone would invent such a
• 2:09:37
  disturbing tale. Norton proceeded to share a
• 2:09:40
  haunting revelation. He personally had buried the
• 2:09:43
  bodies at that very location during his teenage years.
• 2:09:48
  He divulged to the Haneys, who were oblivious to the fact that
• 2:09:53
  their land, their subdivision, stood on what used to be a
• 2:09:58
  cemetery primarily for African American former slaves.
• 2:10:04
  This burial ground was known as Black Hope Cemetery, with its
• 2:10:09
  final Interment dating back to 1939.
• 2:10:13
  Norton claimed there remained no fewer than 60 indingent graves
• 2:10:17
  scattered across the vicinity over which the housing
• 2:10:21
  subdivision was constructed. The developers, in their haste,
• 2:10:27
  had built directly atop the old cemetery, neglecting to relocate
• 2:10:32
  the bodies, effectively erasing any trace of the cemetery's
• 2:10:37
  existence under layers of new construction and collective
• 2:10:42
  amnesia. Despite the eerie nature of
• 2:10:45
  Norton's tale, it barely shook Haney's skepticism towards these
• 2:10:50
  ghostly narratives. However, driven by a blend of
• 2:10:54
  curiosity and a need for certainty, Haney took it upon
• 2:10:58
  himself to verify Norton's claims.
• 2:11:01
  Armed with a shovel, he began to excavate the area Norton had
• 2:11:05
  marked, Soon to discover that the chilling stories were rooted
• 2:11:12
  in a grim reality far surpassing mere folklore.
• 2:11:18
  As Haney began digging, his shovel struck an unexpected
• 2:11:22
  wooden resistance beneath the earth.
• 2:11:24
  It wasn't long before he and his wife uncovered 2 antiquated
• 2:11:28
  wooden coffins cradling the skeletal remains of individuals
• 2:11:35
  long past. One of whom was adorned with two
• 2:11:39
  wedding bands, silently narrating a tale of eternal
• 2:11:43
  union, even in death. The discovery prompted an urgent
• 2:11:48
  call to the authorities, who, after delving into historical
• 2:11:52
  records, unveiled that the unearthed remains were those of
• 2:11:57
  Betty and Charles Thomas, two individuals who had lived their
• 2:12:01
  lives as freed slaves, their earthly journeys concluding in
• 2:12:06
  the 1930s. The revelation that they had
• 2:12:10
  inadvertently disturbed these resting souls left the couple
• 2:12:13
  deeply unsettled, prompting them to tenderly re enter the remains
• 2:12:19
  in their original resting places.
• 2:12:22
  However, unbeknownst to them and the Marriott of families who had
• 2:12:27
  made their homes in the seemingly serene locale, this
• 2:12:31
  act would unfurl the crew to a series of Erie unexplained
• 2:12:36
  occurrences ensnaring the entire subdivision and a web of
• 2:12:41
  spectral happenings. The strange occurrences for the
• 2:12:45
  Haney family commenced shortly after they had respectfully
• 2:12:49
  reburied 2 unearthed bodies. Judith Haney experienced a
• 2:12:54
  peculiar incident when she observed their wall clock
• 2:12:58
  emitting a blue glow and producing unusual sparks.
• 2:13:03
  The situation made even more bizarre upon discovering that it
• 2:13:08
  had been disconnected from its power source.
• 2:13:11
  Following this, Judith encountered additional eerie
• 2:13:15
  phenomena, such as an unsettling feeling of being watched and the
• 2:13:20
  sound of the sliding door opening and shutting when she
• 2:13:24
  was certain that she was alone in the house.
• 2:13:27
  In another bewildering event, Judith saw her red shoes from
• 2:13:31
  the closet, only to find them missing.
• 2:13:35
  Despite an exhaustive search by the couple, the shoes were
• 2:13:39
  eventually located in the most unexpected blaze imaginable,
• 2:13:44
  resting atop the graves they had recently disturbed.
• 2:13:49
  Adding to the eeriness, they would later ascertain that the
• 2:13:53
  day coincided with Betty Thomas's birthday.
• 2:13:57
  Sam shared his reflections on the odd occurrence.
• 2:14:01
  Struggling to believe what was happening, I went through every
• 2:14:05
  spot. She usually kept her things, but
• 2:14:08
  the shoes were nowhere to be found.
• 2:14:11
  It was only when we got away from the graves that I noticed
• 2:14:14
  something on top of the grave. The shoes were neatly placed
• 2:14:18
  next to one another, almost as if someone had intentionally
• 2:14:22
  carried them over. This gave me a strong feeling
• 2:14:25
  that this was some kind of message or symbolic act.
• 2:14:30
  It felt like in a very mystical way, Charlie was giving Betty a
• 2:14:34
  birthday present. I thought that stayed with me
• 2:14:38
  for its unique kind of sweetness.
• 2:14:41
  During this time, the phenomenon wasn't limited to the Haney
• 2:14:44
  family. It had begun to permeate
• 2:14:47
  throughout the neighborhood, touching the lives of other
• 2:14:50
  residents as well. Among them were Ben and Gene
• 2:14:54
  Williams, a couple residing nearby who found themselves
• 2:15:00
  embroiled in their own unsettling mystery.
• 2:15:04
  They observed a perplexing and continuous demise of the flowers
• 2:15:08
  in their garden, which withered away inexplicably, immune to any
• 2:15:14
  efforts of revival. Adding to the mystery, their
• 2:15:19
  property became the site of coffin shaped sinkholes that,
• 2:15:23
  despite numerous attempts to fill them, would ominously re
• 2:15:27
  emerge as if refusing to be erased.
• 2:15:33
  Their home turned into a hotbed for a spectrum of terrifying
• 2:15:38
  occurrences, leaving a tapestry of the paranormal that was both
• 2:15:43
  intriguing and unnerving. The ambience of their household
• 2:15:48
  was occasionally sliced by inexplicable cold drafts,
• 2:15:53
  chilling to the bone even on the warmest of summer days, creating
• 2:15:58
  a stark contrast to the outside world.
• 2:16:02
  Plumbing fixtures seemed to develop a life of their own,
• 2:16:06
  with faucets and toilets operating independently of human
• 2:16:11
  intervention. The silence of their home was
• 2:16:15
  often broken by the sound of footsteps echoing through the
• 2:16:19
  corridors. Absent of any physical presence
• 2:16:23
  to account for them, doors would swing open and slam shut,
• 2:16:29
  untouched by human hands, while ethereal shadowy figures darted
• 2:16:35
  out of the corner of their eyes only to vanish one face
• 2:16:39
  directly. The air was occasionally filled
• 2:16:43
  with the murmur, disembodied voices whispering secrets from
• 2:16:48
  beyond, and on occasion, a foul, unexplainable.
• 2:16:53
  Stench. As mysteriously as it had
• 2:16:56
  appeared, all these phenomena culminated in a pervasive
• 2:17:01
  atmosphere of dread and. Unease.
• 2:17:03
  That hung over their home like a dense fog, a constant reminder
• 2:17:08
  of the unseen and unfathomable forces at play.
• 2:17:13
  Jean later expressed her firm. Belief.
• 2:17:15
  In the connection between their experiences.
• 2:17:18
  And the. Historical backdrop of their
• 2:17:20
  home stating that I absolutely believe that all of these things
• 2:17:25
  happened to us. Because we were.
• 2:17:27
  On that graveyard and that we were simply going to be
• 2:17:30
  tormented until we left, the possibility of relocating was a
• 2:17:35
  topic of conversation. Yet the.
• 2:17:38
  Financial. Constraint of affording a new
• 2:17:40
  place tethered them to their current predicament, compelling
• 2:17:44
  them to endure and seek solutions amidst the growing
• 2:17:48
  displeasure of the entities haunting them.
• 2:17:52
  As the intensity and malevolence of the occurrences escalated,
• 2:17:57
  Ben Williams recounted one particularly harrowing episode
• 2:18:01
  with vivid detail. Returning home well past
• 2:18:05
  midnight from my shift, I made a bee line for the.
• 2:18:08
  Kitchen. Craving a late night snack The
• 2:18:11
  moment? I swung.
• 2:18:12
  The refrigerator door open, I was met with a startling sight
• 2:18:17
  of two spectral figures. They glided.
• 2:18:20
  Backward into the den. With an eerie grace before
• 2:18:24
  making. Their way to the hallway towards
• 2:18:26
  Jean. 'S room, one of them.
• 2:18:29
  Lingered menacingly close to the bed.
• 2:18:32
  Barely. More than a foot.
• 2:18:34
  Away, a protective instinct surged through me, driven by the
• 2:18:39
  thought they ain't messing with me and my wife.
• 2:18:43
  And with that, I charged through the apparition.
• 2:18:47
  A chilling, vicious cold seeped deep into my very bones as a
• 2:18:53
  result. Upon uncovering the unsettling
• 2:18:57
  truth that their property was established atop an old
• 2:19:01
  cemetery, the Williams family grew increasingly suspicious of
• 2:19:06
  an ancient oak tree in their backyard.
• 2:19:09
  This tree distinguished by its twisted form and bearing.
• 2:19:13
  Carvings. Of an arrow accompanied by
• 2:19:16
  several lines soon took on a sinister significance.
• 2:19:22
  Initially overlooked, these markings now seem to ominously
• 2:19:26
  suggest that the trees served as a marker for a grave.
• 2:19:31
  This revelation cast a shadow over their perception of their
• 2:19:35
  home, transforming the once innocuous tree into a symbol of
• 2:19:41
  the. Land's grim.
• 2:19:42
  History Compelled by a sense of injustice, the Williams's
• 2:19:48
  decided to. Take legal action.
• 2:19:49
  Against the developers of their housing estate, they accused the
• 2:19:54
  developers of egregiously admitting to inform them.
• 2:19:58
  That their. Dream Home was erected on what
• 2:20:01
  used to be a graveyard, however, their legal challenge hit a
• 2:20:05
  roadblock when they were informed.
• 2:20:08
  That their. Case would only hold water if
• 2:20:11
  they could conclusively prove the presence of graves on their
• 2:20:14
  property. Undeterred, Ben, alongside his
• 2:20:18
  wife and their daughter Tina, embarked on a mission to
• 2:20:22
  excavate the area surrounding the foreboding oak tree.
• 2:20:27
  They were driven by a firm belief that they would uncover
• 2:20:30
  human remains, thereby substantiating their claims.
• 2:20:35
  However, as they dug deeper, both Jean and Tina were suddenly
• 2:20:40
  afflicted by a mysterious illness, the cause of which
• 2:20:45
  eluded understanding the situation.
• 2:20:48
  Took a dire. Turn when Tina was rushed to the
• 2:20:51
  hospital only to succumb to a severe heart attack, convinced.
• 2:20:57
  That these. Tragic events were the cause of
• 2:20:59
  malevolent forces. Linked to the desecrated.
• 2:21:02
  Burial Ground The Williams family made the difficult
• 2:21:07
  decision to leave behind their haunted home.
• 2:21:11
  Seeking solace and a fresh start, they relocated to
• 2:21:16
  Montana, but the memories of their harrowing experiences
• 2:21:21
  lingered, compelling them to eventually return to Texas,
• 2:21:26
  where. They.
• 2:21:28
  Channelled their ordeal into a book.
• 2:21:31
  Titled The Black. Hope Horror, A detailed account
• 2:21:35
  of their supernatural encounters.
• 2:21:38
  Their story? Captured the public's
• 2:21:40
  imagination to such an extent that it was adapted into a film
• 2:21:45
  known as The Grave Secrets. Bringing their chilling
• 2:21:48
  experiences to a wider audience and immortalizing the haunting
• 2:21:54
  legacy of their former home, the Haney's decided to pursue legal
• 2:22:00
  recourse against the developers, seeking justice for their
• 2:22:04
  unsettling ordeal. Initially, their efforts
• 2:22:08
  appeared to bear fruit and they were granted a substantial
• 2:22:12
  financial compensation of $142,000.
• 2:22:17
  However, this moment of victory was short lived.
• 2:22:22
  In a surprising turn of events, the verdict was reversed after.
• 2:22:27
  A judge. Concluded that the developer was
• 2:22:29
  not at fault. Consequently, the Haney's found
• 2:22:33
  themselves burdened with a significant amount of legal
• 2:22:35
  expenses running into 10s of thousands of dollars.
• 2:22:41
  This financial strain. Left.
• 2:22:42
  Them with no choice other than to declare bankruptcy, devoid of
• 2:22:47
  any financial resources they were compelled to leave behind.
• 2:22:51
  The land. That had turned their
• 2:22:53
  aspirations into a harrowing nightmare.
• 2:22:58
  Their pursuit of the American Dream had tragically
• 2:23:01
  metamorphosized into a devastating ordeal, leaving them
• 2:23:06
  drained of their savings and facing a future filled with
• 2:23:10
  uncertainty. It appears that the series.
• 2:23:13
  Of. Peculiar events linked to this
• 2:23:15
  land didn't conclude here, however, despite reports from
• 2:23:19
  the current occupants of the Haney's previous residents
• 2:23:23
  indicate no unusual experiences. Tales of the bazaar continue to
• 2:23:29
  circulate among other households in the vicinity, and an
• 2:23:33
  intriguing account from a resident now living in what once
• 2:23:37
  was the. Williams Home.
• 2:23:39
  She describes an eerie incident involving a sound resembling
• 2:23:45
  that of a cougar emanating from outside her window.
• 2:23:50
  However, upon investigation, she found nothing that could explain
• 2:23:55
  the mysterious noise. Meanwhile, a few houses away,
• 2:24:01
  occupants have reported experiencing unexplained
• 2:24:04
  electrical anomalies, adding an element of the unordinary to
• 2:24:09
  their daily lives. Another neighbor has shared
• 2:24:13
  tales of doors slamming shut. Without any apparent.
• 2:24:17
  Cause such as drafts or wind and even recounting the feeling that
• 2:24:24
  seemed like an invisible hand. Had been.
• 2:24:26
  Resting on their shoulder and further adding to the collection
• 2:24:31
  of mystifying stories, Jan. Clark.
• 2:24:34
  The mother of one home's owner relayed her granddaughter's
• 2:24:39
  unsettling experiences. The young girl claimed to have
• 2:24:42
  seen a shadowy figure she referred to as the Brown Man in
• 2:24:48
  her room and recounted another peculiar incident, all of which
• 2:24:53
  contribute. To the ongoing.
• 2:24:55
  Mystery surrounding this neighborhood.
• 2:24:59
  Another time, I had gone to the restroom with my granddaughter,
• 2:25:02
  Taylor. She had run.
• 2:25:04
  Out leaving me in the restroom alone and something like a man's
• 2:25:09
  voice breathed really heavy and really close to me.
• 2:25:15
  I got out of there and quick and to this day I try.
• 2:25:20
  Not to go. Back in there and use that
• 2:25:22
  restroom anymore. There is something.
• 2:25:25
  To this, some people won't talk about it because they don't want
• 2:25:29
  to be considered crazy or they just don't care to know the
• 2:25:33
  truth. Another nearby family would also
• 2:25:37
  share their eerie experiences. Vinay Luna, who recounts
• 2:25:42
  multiple unexplained events in their home.
• 2:25:45
  Among these, she vividly remembers an incident where her
• 2:25:49
  husband's slippers leapt from his grip in an even more
• 2:25:54
  startling moment when their pet dog appeared to be suspended mid
• 2:25:58
  air. Moreover, the Nay reveals that
• 2:26:03
  her grandmother has encountered mysterious figures within the
• 2:26:06
  home. She elaborates on her
• 2:26:09
  grandmother's experiences by saying, my grandma consistently
• 2:26:13
  tells us about a shadowy man who visits her for reasons unknown.
• 2:26:19
  Then there are times she talks about children's presences, her
• 2:26:23
  room, which prevent her from getting any rest.
• 2:26:28
  Because of their continuous disturbances.
• 2:26:31
  In contrast, there are households in the area that
• 2:26:35
  report a complete. Absence of.
• 2:26:37
  Any peculiar activities presenting a stark difference to
• 2:26:41
  the accounts of paranormal encounters?
• 2:26:44
  And leaving the. Community puzzled over the true
• 2:26:47
  nature this phenomena. It's undeniable that this
• 2:26:51
  location was once a cemetery, a fact overlooked or even ignored
• 2:26:57
  by the developers. When they transformed it.
• 2:27:00
  Into a residential area and this raises several critical
• 2:27:04
  questions. Could the ghostly occurrences
• 2:27:07
  reported by the residents be a direct consequence of the
• 2:27:12
  disturbed spirits due to the desecration of their final
• 2:27:16
  resting places? Is it possible that these souls
• 2:27:20
  are expressing their unrest? Or even anger.
• 2:27:24
  Towards the violation of their graves, the true 'cause remains
• 2:27:29
  shrouded in enigma, yet it underscores.
• 2:27:32
  A. Crucial consideration for future
• 2:27:34
  developments the importance of respecting burial grounds by
• 2:27:39
  ensuring the proper relocation of remains before proceeding
• 2:27:44
  with construction. This principle not only honors
• 2:27:48
  those who have passed, but also may prevent the unfolding of
• 2:27:54
  such mysterious. And.
• 2:27:56
  Unsettling events in the serene suburb of Seaford, NY the.
• 2:28:03
  Hermann family's dreamy life. Is upended as their ordinary
• 2:28:07
  home becomes the epicenter of an extraordinary poltergeist
• 2:28:12
  phenomenon. With no prior history of
• 2:28:15
  hauntings or misfortune. Their residence suddenly erupts
• 2:28:20
  with unexplained activities, bottles popping open, objects
• 2:28:25
  moving on their own in an eerie sense of an unseen presence.
• 2:28:31
  Despite skepticism and attempts to find rational explanations,
• 2:28:36
  the events transcend understanding, drawing the
• 2:28:39
  attention of paranormal experts, the media, and a curious public.
• 2:28:45
  This is the untold story of Popper, the poltergeist of New
• 2:28:50
  York. Tucked away in the peaceful
• 2:29:02
  surroundings of Long Island is Seaford, NY.
• 2:29:06
  A place of subtle beauty and calm where the 1950s depicted an
• 2:29:12
  image of suburban peace. It was in this heavenly setting
• 2:29:17
  that James Herman created a tranquil life with his wife
• 2:29:22
  Lucille and their two children, Lucille, aged 13, and James, a
• 2:29:28
  year younger, at 12. Their home, a simple ranch
• 2:29:33
  painted in shades of white and green, served as a symbol of the
• 2:29:36
  typical American dream. With three bedrooms, a small
• 2:29:41
  kitchen and straightforward simplicity, there was little to
• 2:29:46
  indicate it was any different from the other homes and the
• 2:29:49
  charming neighborhood, all of which were graced with the
• 2:29:54
  picturesque allure of tree lined streets.
• 2:29:57
  Yen Beneath the surface of normality, a sense of mystery
• 2:30:02
  persisted. The Hermann residence, with no
• 2:30:05
  dark history or stories of bad luck, was for some reason on the
• 2:30:11
  brink of becoming the center. Of a paranormal.
• 2:30:15
  Happening, This unassuming house against the calm backdrop of
• 2:30:19
  Seaford streets was about to inscribe its name in the halls
• 2:30:23
  of the supernatural. For unknown reasons, it was
• 2:30:27
  faded to be the site of a poltergeist phenomena, one that
• 2:30:31
  was so distinctive and captivating that its tail would
• 2:30:35
  be forever intertwined with the paranormal realm, casting a veil
• 2:30:39
  of fascination over the once peaceful existence of the
• 2:30:44
  Hermann family. And seemingly out of the blue,
• 2:30:48
  things began to happen on February the third of 1958.
• 2:30:53
  Until this point, the Hermann family had not encountered
• 2:30:56
  anything out of the ordinary within their home.
• 2:31:00
  However, on this day, while Lucille was in the kitchen
• 2:31:04
  accompanied. By her two.
• 2:31:05
  Children, an uncanny phenomenon, folded before their very eyes.
• 2:31:10
  Bottles scattered throughout their kitchen without any
• 2:31:14
  apparent cause, began to spontaneously unseal themselves.
• 2:31:19
  The caps were forcibly ejected, resulting in their contents
• 2:31:24
  erupting and spring across the room, each bottle cap producing
• 2:31:29
  a distinct and resounding pop as it flew.
• 2:31:32
  Off. Some of the bottles allegedly
• 2:31:36
  engaged in an eerie dance, moving about with no visible
• 2:31:41
  support, a sight that understandably terrified them
• 2:31:45
  all. When James Herman walked through
• 2:31:47
  the door of his home, he was immediately confronted with a
• 2:31:51
  confounding narrative of the day's events.
• 2:31:54
  Carrying a deep seated skepticism, James entertained
• 2:31:58
  the possibility that the curious happenings might be the result
• 2:32:02
  of natural environmental fluctuations, perhaps a
• 2:32:05
  significant rise in humidity levels, or an unforeseen
• 2:32:09
  chemical reaction within the confines of the bottles
• 2:32:12
  themselves. Such hypotheses briefly offered
• 2:32:15
  a comforting veil of normalcy over the situation, yet the
• 2:32:20
  semblance of explanation rapidly disintegrated as the full scope
• 2:32:26
  of the phenomena revealed itself to be far reaching,
• 2:32:30
  indiscriminately affecting almost every container in the.
• 2:32:33
  Kitchen. Notably even bottles secured
• 2:32:37
  with screw on caps, which under normal circumstances.
• 2:32:40
  Would. Require human intervention to
• 2:32:42
  open had mysteriously unscrewed themselves.
• 2:32:46
  The entire scene defied logic, standing in stark contrast to
• 2:32:51
  the mundane reality James had expected to return to a mere two
• 2:32:56
  days after this bewildering introduction.
• 2:32:59
  The bizarre occurrences not only persisted but escalated, casting
• 2:33:04
  a wider net over the household's collection of containers.
• 2:33:09
  This time, the activity was not limited to the kitchen or to a
• 2:33:13
  specific. Type of.
• 2:33:14
  Bottle jars of all sizes. Bottles.
• 2:33:18
  Brimming with a variety of household liquids such as
• 2:33:21
  shampoo, bleach, and even luxurious perfumes alongside
• 2:33:27
  tubes of toothpaste began to manifest the same inexplicable
• 2:33:31
  behavior that had initially perplexed the Hermann family.
• 2:33:35
  Each container, as if acting on an unseen cue, would suddenly.
• 2:33:40
  And. Violently burst open.
• 2:33:43
  Their contents, once neatly contained, were now subjects of
• 2:33:47
  an uncontrollable frenzy, spilling, spraying and
• 2:33:52
  splattering across the room without any apparent trigger or
• 2:33:57
  discernible pattern. The randomness of the incidents
• 2:34:00
  only deepened the mystery, as did the diversity of the
• 2:34:04
  containers involved. Glass and plastic bottles alike,
• 2:34:09
  regardless of their contents, viscosity or the containers
• 2:34:13
  design, we're equally susceptible to this unseen
• 2:34:17
  force. The phenomena seemed to mock.
• 2:34:20
  The. Very laws of physics, with caps
• 2:34:23
  and lids that should have remained securely fastened,
• 2:34:26
  instead becoming agents of chaos.
• 2:34:29
  The scene within the Hermann household transformed from one
• 2:34:33
  of domestic tranquility to a bewildering spectacle of
• 2:34:37
  uncontrolled disarray, leaving the family and eventually the
• 2:34:42
  wider community grappling for explanations in the face of such
• 2:34:47
  unfathomable occurrences. As time went on, the mysterious
• 2:34:52
  events escalated in intensity, Co founding the Hermann family
• 2:34:56
  and leaving the wider community searching for logical reasons.
• 2:35:00
  These occurrences baffled all attempts at rational
• 2:35:04
  explanation, with comprehensive investigations yielding no
• 2:35:08
  satisfactory scientific or environmental understanding.
• 2:35:13
  This sequence of bewildering events signaled the start of an
• 2:35:17
  exceptionally captivating and perplexing episode in the realm
• 2:35:21
  of paranormal mysteries, positioning the Hermann
• 2:35:24
  household at the heart of it all.
• 2:35:27
  James Hermann, as mentioned before, was inherently skeptical
• 2:35:32
  by nature, always seeking a logical explanation for the
• 2:35:35
  unexplained. He was not one to hastily
• 2:35:38
  attribute events to paranormal activities.
• 2:35:41
  When the peculiar happenings first began to unfold within
• 2:35:45
  their household, his mind gravitated towards a more
• 2:35:48
  earthly explanation. He pondered whether his son
• 2:35:51
  Jimmy, with a youthful penchant for mischief, might have devised
• 2:35:56
  an elaborate prank, potentially using carbonated capsules or
• 2:36:01
  some other mechanism to cause the bottles to spontaneously
• 2:36:04
  erupt. With this theory in mind, James
• 2:36:08
  embarked on a discreet observation of Jimmy,
• 2:36:11
  scrutinizing his every move in search of any hint of evidence.
• 2:36:15
  That might link. Him to the strange occurrences.
• 2:36:18
  However, despite his vigilant watch over the boy, James
• 2:36:22
  uncovered not a shred of evidence implicating Jimmy and
• 2:36:26
  the bizarre events. Meanwhile, the mystery within
• 2:36:30
  the Hermann household deepened the phenomena.
• 2:36:33
  Escalated. In intensity and variety,
• 2:36:36
  transcending beyond mere bottles, it seemed as though
• 2:36:40
  every manner of container within their home was.
• 2:36:43
  Susceptible to this force. Bottles of all types would burst
• 2:36:47
  open without. Warning their contents propelled
• 2:36:50
  across. The room in the chaotic display,
• 2:36:54
  each eruption accompanied by a distinct crisp popping sound
• 2:36:59
  that had become all too familiar to the now bewildered family.
• 2:37:04
  However, the disconcerting phenomena within the Hermann
• 2:37:07
  home extended beyond. The.
• 2:37:09
  Peculiar antics of their containers.
• 2:37:11
  The family began to observe a bewildering array of household
• 2:37:15
  items seemingly taking on a life of their own, as if manipulated
• 2:37:20
  by something they couldn't see. Toys and books, Even larger
• 2:37:25
  pieces of furniture began to exhibit this kind of strange
• 2:37:29
  behavior. Chairs that have been stationary
• 2:37:32
  for years suddenly skidded across the floor.
• 2:37:36
  Tables tilted without warning, spilling their contents, and
• 2:37:40
  doors slammed shut with no one near them.
• 2:37:44
  Among the smaller objects, dolls were found in different rooms
• 2:37:49
  from where they had been left, as though they had moved by
• 2:37:52
  their own accord. Books would not only fall from
• 2:37:56
  shelves, but sometimes would. Fly across the room.
• 2:38:01
  As if thrown by something or someone, picture frames that had
• 2:38:06
  hung peacefully on walls for years would suddenly crash to
• 2:38:09
  the floor in the middle of the night, their glass shattering
• 2:38:14
  again without any discernible cause.
• 2:38:17
  The velocity which these objects moved was astonishing on
• 2:38:21
  several. Occasions.
• 2:38:23
  Toys rocketed from one end of the room to the other, often
• 2:38:27
  narrowly missing family members as they passed.
• 2:38:30
  Furniture that required the strength of two adults to move
• 2:38:33
  would slide or even lift and then crash back down with
• 2:38:38
  significant force, leaving indents in the hardwood floors
• 2:38:42
  or marks on the walls. The impact of these movements
• 2:38:46
  was so intense that it not only caused physical.
• 2:38:49
  Damage to the. Structure of the home but also
• 2:38:52
  left emotional scars on the family who were increasingly
• 2:38:56
  frightened by these occurrences. This escalation of activity
• 2:39:00
  heightened the atmosphere of tension in disbelief within the
• 2:39:04
  household. The Hermans, already struggling
• 2:39:07
  to comprehend the mysterious behavior of the containers, were
• 2:39:12
  now faced with a broader, more intense range of disturbances.
• 2:39:16
  These events seem to defy all logic, suggesting that the
• 2:39:21
  presence of an invisible hand was guiding the chaos.
• 2:39:26
  The force and precision in which these items moved suggested
• 2:39:30
  something. More than a mere.
• 2:39:31
  Coincidence or natural forces being at play, instilling a deep
• 2:39:36
  sense of unease and apprehension among the family members.
• 2:39:40
  As. They pondered the source and
• 2:39:42
  intent behind these manifestations.
• 2:39:46
  James, still clinging to a sliver of doubt about the
• 2:39:49
  paranormal nature of these events, decided to confront
• 2:39:53
  Jimmy directly, hoping to glean some confession or explanation
• 2:39:58
  from him. However, Jimmy vehemently denied
• 2:40:02
  any involvement. It was during this tense
• 2:40:05
  confrontation that an incident occurred which shook James's
• 2:40:09
  skepticism to its core. Mid conversation, a bottle that
• 2:40:14
  had been sitting idle on the shelf began to tremble before
• 2:40:19
  gliding across the surface. And then?
• 2:40:23
  With the now familiar popping sound, its cap flew off right
• 2:40:27
  before their eyes. This event witnessed first hand
• 2:40:31
  by both James and Jimmy. Served as a Stark.
• 2:40:34
  Indication that the situation was far more complex and
• 2:40:39
  inexplicable than James had originally conceived.
• 2:40:43
  It was a moment that marked a turning point, compelling James
• 2:40:47
  to reconsider. His.
• 2:40:48
  Stance on the possibility of paranormal involvement and the
• 2:40:53
  disturbances that have been plaguing their home.
• 2:40:57
  Perplexed by this point and desperate for answers, James
• 2:41:01
  reached out. To the local.
• 2:41:02
  Police Department His call was met with skepticism, yet the
• 2:41:07
  gravity of his plea convinced them to dispatch an investigator
• 2:41:10
  to the scene. The officer assigned to the case
• 2:41:14
  was James Hughes, a man known for his pragmatic approach and
• 2:41:19
  skeptical outlook on anything that veered into the realm of
• 2:41:22
  the supernatural. Upon entering the Hermann
• 2:41:26
  residence, Hughes's skepticism was put.
• 2:41:29
  To an immediate. Test as he witnessed an
• 2:41:32
  extraordinary spectacle himself. Bottles not only popped but
• 2:41:37
  exploded as if charged with an unknown energy source,
• 2:41:42
  propelling shards of glass across the room like shrapnel
• 2:41:46
  hues. Those shaken documented these
• 2:41:50
  occurrences meticulously, marking the beginning of an
• 2:41:53
  official inquiry into the strangeness.
• 2:41:57
  Following Hughes's initial observations, the case caught
• 2:42:01
  the attention of Detective Joseph Tozi, a seasoned
• 2:42:04
  investigator with a keen interest and phenomena that
• 2:42:08
  defied. Easy.
• 2:42:09
  Explanation Tozi, determined to uncover the truth, orchestrated
• 2:42:15
  a comprehensive. Surveillance operation.
• 2:42:17
  Within the Hermann home, over several days and nights, Tozee
• 2:42:23
  and his team kept a vigilant watch, documenting each incident
• 2:42:27
  with a rigor that bordered on the obsessive.
• 2:42:31
  The phenomena that they would observe was varied, but also
• 2:42:35
  similar to what had already taken place.
• 2:42:38
  Bottles. Previously at rest would
• 2:42:40
  suddenly animate their contents, frothing and spewing forth as if
• 2:42:45
  under pressure, and a particularly unnerving incident
• 2:42:49
  involved a bottle of perfume that, in full view of
• 2:42:53
  investigators, glided across the table with deliberate slowness
• 2:42:58
  before overturning to release its fragrant essence.
• 2:43:02
  Occasionally, bottle caps would detach and zip through the air
• 2:43:07
  with targeted precision, narrowly missing the observers
• 2:43:11
  and adding an element of personal threat to the
• 2:43:13
  occurrences. Tozi noted that each object
• 2:43:17
  involved in these incidents, upon examination, radiated an
• 2:43:22
  abnormal warmth, as if it was infused with an unseen energy.
• 2:43:27
  The climax of Tozi's observation came on a substantially heavy.
• 2:43:32
  Bureau. Desk, An object of considerable
• 2:43:35
  mass and unwieldy nature abruptly flipped over on its
• 2:43:40
  own. The desk crashed to the floor
• 2:43:43
  with a thunderous impact, leaving the investigators
• 2:43:46
  bewildered and alarmed. This event was complemented by
• 2:43:51
  other startling manifestations. A figurine and a bowl were seen
• 2:43:56
  to launch across the room. As if propelled.
• 2:43:59
  By the same force, and their trajectories seemed to be marked
• 2:44:03
  with intent to harm. Also throughout this intensive
• 2:44:07
  period of observation, Todzi made a curious observation at
• 2:44:12
  the presence of one of the Hermann children seemed to be a
• 2:44:15
  common denominator in the timing of these phenomena. yen.
• 2:44:20
  Despite his exhaustive efforts to uncover any form of
• 2:44:23
  deception, no evidence of trickery or manipulation could
• 2:44:29
  be found. The meticulous documentation of
• 2:44:32
  these events, coupled with the lack of any rational
• 2:44:35
  explanation, LED Tozzi to a profound realization, the
• 2:44:39
  realization that what he had witnessed transcended the
• 2:44:42
  boundaries of conventional understanding, firmly planting
• 2:44:46
  the seed of belief in his mind that the disturbances at the
• 2:44:50
  Hermann residence were indeed a manifestation of the
• 2:44:54
  unexplained. In their quest for solace, the
• 2:44:58
  Hermann family sought the spiritual intervention.
• 2:45:01
  Of Father. William McLeod from the Church
• 2:45:04
  of Saint William the Abbot. He visited their home and
• 2:45:08
  conducted a solemn ceremony infused with prayers and the
• 2:45:13
  sprinkling of holy water in every corner, hoping to cleanse
• 2:45:17
  the space of its unsettling disturbances.
• 2:45:20
  But despite Father Mcleod's honest efforts and the family's
• 2:45:24
  hopeful anticipation, the turmoil within the household
• 2:45:28
  persisted, as if the blessing had merely passed through an
• 2:45:32
  invisible barrier, leaving the chaos untouched.
• 2:45:37
  As the events within the Hermann residence escalated, word of
• 2:45:41
  their plight began to seep into the public consciousness,
• 2:45:45
  igniting a wildfire of media interest.
• 2:45:49
  The story, sensationalized under the moniker of Popper the
• 2:45:54
  Poltergeist, a nod to the mysterious popping of bottles
• 2:45:58
  that have become a hallmark of the haunting, capture the
• 2:46:02
  imagination of the nation esteemed.
• 2:46:04
  Publications such as. Time and Life magazines featured
• 2:46:09
  in depth articles on the phenomenon, catapulting the
• 2:46:12
  Hermann family into an unwelcome spotlight.
• 2:46:16
  The surge of attention drew a flood of curious onlookers,
• 2:46:20
  paranormal enthusiasts and skeptics to their doorstep.
• 2:46:25
  Reporters and a motley crew of self-proclaimed experts besieged
• 2:46:30
  the once peaceful home. Letters ranging from expressions
• 2:46:34
  of sympathy to outlandish theories bombarded the Family
• 2:46:38
  Day and night. Amidst this chaotic intrusion,
• 2:46:42
  James Herman remains steadfast in his determination to unearth
• 2:46:46
  a logical explanation for the events that had disrupted their
• 2:46:50
  lives. In a bid to capture empirical
• 2:46:53
  evidence of the disturbances, he went to the extent of installing
• 2:46:58
  sophisticated monitoring equipment in the basement.
• 2:47:01
  Of their. Home these devices designed to
• 2:47:04
  detect even the slightest vibrations.
• 2:47:07
  Ethan might help shed light on the source of the activity, but
• 2:47:11
  unfortunately they would yield no conclusive findings,
• 2:47:15
  deepening the mystery rather than dispelling it.
• 2:47:19
  Journalists who ventured into the Hermann residence hoping to
• 2:47:23
  capture a glimpse of the supernatural, often left with
• 2:47:26
  more questions and answers. Many were first hand witnesses
• 2:47:31
  to the bizarre occurrences that have become.
• 2:47:33
  Part of the daily fabric. Of the family's lives, in one
• 2:47:38
  particular startling incident, a reporter's camera became an.
• 2:47:42
  Unwilling. Participant in the phenomenon,
• 2:47:45
  the flashbulbs in his camera exploded as he prepared to
• 2:47:50
  document the scene, adding a tangible, albeit unnerving
• 2:47:55
  dimension to his story. As time progressed, the enigma
• 2:48:00
  of the Hermann household eventually attracted the
• 2:48:03
  attention of Robert Zeider, a physicist affiliated with Long
• 2:48:09
  Island's Brookhaven National Laboratory.
• 2:48:12
  Intrigued by the possibility of a scientific explanation, Zeider
• 2:48:16
  conducted an array of tests and analysis within the home.
• 2:48:21
  His investigations led him to theorize that the root of the
• 2:48:25
  disturbances might lie in the natural world, specifically the
• 2:48:30
  presence of underground streams beneath their property.
• 2:48:34
  He said that these hidden waterways could be generating an
• 2:48:37
  unusual magnetic field, a freak magnetic field that somehow
• 2:48:43
  triggered these unexplained activities.
• 2:48:46
  Despite the intriguing nature of his hypothesis, it did, however,
• 2:48:50
  offer. Little in the.
• 2:48:51
  Way of an immediate solace or solutions?
• 2:48:55
  To the. Hermann family, who yet still
• 2:48:57
  remained ensnared in a web of mystery in public fascination,
• 2:49:03
  perplexed by the ongoing mystery and at a loss for additional
• 2:49:07
  explanations. Detective.
• 2:49:09
  Totsi reached out to Doctor JB Rhine, a renowned expert from
• 2:49:14
  the Parapsychology Laboratory at Duke University in North
• 2:49:18
  Carolina, seeking insights into the baffling phenomena at the
• 2:49:23
  Hermann residence. Doctor.
• 2:49:25
  Rhine, along with his team, delved into the case.
• 2:49:30
  They would. Hypothesize that the source of
• 2:49:32
  the disturbances might be rooted in the psychic energy emanating
• 2:49:37
  from an individual within the household.
• 2:49:40
  Through careful observation and analysis, they identified Jimmy.
• 2:49:44
  The Son. Was consistently present during
• 2:49:47
  these occurrences as the likely epicenter of this psychic
• 2:49:52
  activity. To explore this theory further.
• 2:49:56
  Doctor Rhine. Introduced Dr. Pratt A.
• 2:49:59
  Specialist in psychokinetic phenomena into the equation.
• 2:50:04
  Doctor Pratt engaged Jimmy in a series of interactions,
• 2:50:08
  including conversations and recreational activities, in an
• 2:50:12
  effort to establish a rapport and observe any changes in the
• 2:50:16
  frequency or intensity of the paranormal events.
• 2:50:20
  Remarkably, it was noted that during these periods of
• 2:50:24
  engagement, the manifestations of the unexplained phenomena
• 2:50:28
  significantly diminished, suggesting a direct correlation
• 2:50:33
  between Jimmy's state of mind and the occurrences.
• 2:50:37
  This led the investigative team to a ground breaking theory that
• 2:50:42
  Jimmy was unknowingly channeling his psychic energy in a way that
• 2:50:46
  manifested has the mysterious events that have been plaguing
• 2:50:51
  him and his family. They postulated that Jimmy was a
• 2:50:54
  conduit for reoccurrence. Spontaneous Psychokinesis or
• 2:51:00
  better known as the acronym RSPK.
• 2:51:04
  A rare condition. Where an individual without
• 2:51:08
  conscious intent triggers paranormal activities, the sheer
• 2:51:12
  force of their subconscious mind.
• 2:51:15
  This involuntary projection of psychokinetic energy was
• 2:51:19
  believed to be the culprit behind the series of unexplained
• 2:51:22
  occurrences, and these findings were considered ground breaking
• 2:51:27
  because it would prove that the Hermann family wasn't the
• 2:51:30
  subject to trickery or the workings of an unknown
• 2:51:34
  supernatural entity. Instead, they represented a
• 2:51:38
  profound expression of human psychology, exceptional and
• 2:51:42
  remarkable in nature. The concept that the human brain
• 2:51:46
  could exert influence over physical objects without any
• 2:51:51
  tangible interaction was a radical departure from the
• 2:51:55
  established norms at the time. This perspective suggested that
• 2:51:59
  under certain conditions, perhaps related to emotional
• 2:52:03
  stress or psychological factors, that an individual could trigger
• 2:52:08
  manifestations of psychokinetic activity.
• 2:52:12
  This theory poised that the mysterious occurrences within
• 2:52:15
  the Hermann home. From the.
• 2:52:17
  Spontaneous popping of bottles to the unexplained movements of
• 2:52:21
  household items could be directly linked to the
• 2:52:25
  subconscious outpourings of a young man's psychic energy.
• 2:52:29
  And although this seemed to be a pretty decent theory for
• 2:52:33
  explaining exactly what was taking place, things within the
• 2:52:37
  Hermann household continued to unfold.
• 2:52:39
  An array of television crews managed to penetrate the once
• 2:52:44
  peaceful abode, their cameras ready to document the
• 2:52:47
  bewildering phenomena that had taken residence.
• 2:52:50
  Alongside. The family This pivotal moment
• 2:52:54
  in the saga of the Hermans not only brought the eerie
• 2:52:57
  disturbances into the living rooms of people across the
• 2:53:01
  country, but also set a precedent marking the pauper
• 2:53:05
  incident as one of the first hauntings to ever be broadcast
• 2:53:09
  on national television. Audiences from coast to coast
• 2:53:13
  were drawn into the mystifying world of the Hermans, witnessing
• 2:53:17
  first hand the unexplainable events that had disrupted their
• 2:53:21
  lives for years. Amid the whirlwind of attention,
• 2:53:25
  the Hermann family found themselves longing for a
• 2:53:28
  semblance of normalcy. The constant presence of camera
• 2:53:32
  crews, the relentless scrutiny, and the unpredictable chaos that
• 2:53:37
  had become their daily. Lives.
• 2:53:39
  Left them yearning for the quiet, an eventful life they
• 2:53:42
  once knew. They sought solace in the hope
• 2:53:46
  that the mysterious disturbances that had trusted.
• 2:53:49
  Them into the. Spotlight would soon dissipate,
• 2:53:52
  allowing them to reclaim the peace that they had once had.
• 2:53:57
  Their hopes would not be in vain, a turn of events as sudden
• 2:54:01
  and unexplained. As the.
• 2:54:02
  Onset of the disturbances strange happenings that had
• 2:54:06
  helped the nation's attention came to an abrupt halt in August
• 2:54:11
  of 1958 the. Bottles.
• 2:54:13
  Ceased their spontaneous eruptions.
• 2:54:16
  The objects remained still, and the eerie atmosphere that had
• 2:54:21
  enveloped their home lifted, seemingly without reason or
• 2:54:26
  warning. The end of the disturbances was
• 2:54:30
  as much of A mystery as their beginning, leaving many to
• 2:54:33
  speculate on the forces that could bring about such cessation
• 2:54:37
  of activity. The ending of the haunting
• 2:54:40
  brought a profound sense of relief to the Hermann family,
• 2:54:44
  who were finally able to turn the page on this bizarre chapter
• 2:54:47
  of their lives. However, the legacy of Popper
• 2:54:51
  lived on, its mysteries unresolved but forever etched
• 2:54:57
  into the halls of paranormal history.
• 2:55:00
  The. Unprecedented media.
• 2:55:01
  Coverage it had. Received and not only brought
• 2:55:04
  the phenomenon to public consciousness, but also had set
• 2:55:08
  a new standard for how such occurrences could be shared and
• 2:55:13
  analyzed on a national scale. The mystery of the Popper
• 2:55:17
  poltergeist remains a source of enduring intrigue.
• 2:55:21
  And. Fascination among paranormal
• 2:55:23
  experts standing as a cryptic puzzle that continues to elude
• 2:55:28
  any form of definitive explanation, such as the depth
• 2:55:32
  of the mystery that had prompted speculation among cultural
• 2:55:36
  historians and cinema scholars that the bizarre occurrences
• 2:55:40
  which had unfolded in the Hermann household might have
• 2:55:43
  ignited the creative inspiration with the iconic film poltergeist
• 2:55:49
  this connection underscores the profound impact that the.
• 2:55:53
  Story has had not with just. The confines of the paranormal
• 2:55:56
  study, but also its influence on popular culture and cinematic
• 2:56:02
  storytelling. In conclusion, the mystery that
• 2:56:06
  is Popper the poltergeist. Not only.
• 2:56:09
  Remains a bizarre. Case that puzzles and fascinates
• 2:56:13
  us. It also serves as a beacon,
• 2:56:16
  drawing attention to the vast unexplored territories of human
• 2:56:21
  experience and the natural world.
• 2:56:25
  It challenges observers to question the limits of their
• 2:56:28
  understanding and to remain open to the possibilities that lie
• 2:56:33
  beyond the conventional frameworks of knowledge.
• 2:56:37
  The story of the Hermann family and the inexplicable.
• 2:56:40
  Events. That occurred within their home.
• 2:56:43
  The stand is a testament to the enduring allure of the unknown
• 2:56:48
  and the perpetual quest for answers in the face of the
• 2:56:53
  inexplicable in the midst of a lush, vibrant green expanse.
• 2:56:59
  Located in a quaint rural stretch of Essex, close to the
• 2:57:03
  eastern shores of England, there once resided an imposing Gothic
• 2:57:10
  inspired bric edifice known as Borley Rectory.
• 2:57:15
  This architectural marvel, erected in the year 1863 under
• 2:57:20
  the guidance of Reverend Henry Dawson Ellis Bull, soon became
• 2:57:26
  the cherished dwelling for him and his extensive family of 14.
• 2:57:32
  The plot of land upon which this rectory was constructed born
• 2:57:36
  enigmatic in lengthy history, stretching back well before its
• 2:57:42
  foundations were laid. Legend has it that this very
• 2:57:46
  sight was once graced by a monastery in the 14th century, a
• 2:57:52
  place shrouded in dark allure. Local folklore whispers of a
• 2:57:58
  tragic love story that unfolded within this historical backdrop.
• 2:58:04
  A monk residing in the monastery reportedly fell deeply in love
• 2:58:09
  with a nun from a neighboring convent.
• 2:58:13
  Their love, forbidden and clandestine, blossomed in secret
• 2:58:19
  until their affair was tragically uncovered.
• 2:58:22
  The aftermath was grim. The monk faced a dire fate,
• 2:58:28
  being executed by hanging at the exact location where Borley
• 2:58:34
  Rectory would later stand. As for the nun, her punishment
• 2:58:39
  was equally harsh and more narrowing, as she was condemned
• 2:58:45
  to a living tomb sealed alive within the convent walls.
• 2:58:52
  It is against the. Backdrop of love, betrayal and
• 2:58:56
  tragedy that the spectral occurrences at Poorly Rectory
• 2:59:02
  are believed to have originated casting a long shadow over the
• 2:59:07
  property. These chilling tales and
• 2:59:10
  witnessed apparitions have catapulted Borley Rectory into
• 2:59:15
  the halls of paranormal history, marking it as one of the globe's
• 2:59:21
  most infamously haunted locations.
• 2:59:24
  Almost immediately after Henry Bull and his family made the
• 2:59:29
  estate their home, they found themselves engulfed in a barrage
• 2:59:34
  of mysterious occurrences. The onset was marked by
• 2:59:39
  inexplicable sounds, footsteps echoing in empty corridors, the
• 2:59:45
  persistent murmur of flowing water where there should be
• 2:59:50
  none, disembodied voices whispering in the dead of night,
• 2:59:56
  bells chiming independently despite severed connections and
• 3:00:04
  objects that seem to move of their own volition.
• 3:00:08
  However, these initial oddities. Quickly intensified in
• 3:00:13
  frequency, the children, particularly vulnerable and
• 3:00:18
  perceptive, reported the reoccurring vision of a
• 3:00:23
  sinister, ghostly nun wandering the premises.
• 3:00:28
  This eerie figure wasn't a fleeting glimpse.
• 3:00:33
  It manifested itself repeatedly, observed by multiple members of
• 3:00:39
  the Bull family. Among the children, the youngest
• 3:00:44
  daughter, Ethel, bore the brunt of the spectral harassment.
• 3:00:50
  She was subjected to physical assaults by an invisible
• 3:00:54
  assailant and during pushes slabs.
• 3:01:00
  It was such force they left behind physical evidence of her
• 3:01:05
  encounters. Adding to the atmosphere of
• 3:01:09
  dread was the legend of a ghostly carriage hold by horses
• 3:01:16
  and driven by two headless spectres.
• 3:01:20
  These spectres raced through the surrounding area with reckless
• 3:01:24
  abandoned. This and other chilling
• 3:01:28
  encounters persisted, weaving a tapestry that seemed to grow
• 3:01:33
  more complex with time, enduring well past the death of Henry
• 3:01:38
  Bull in 1892 when he passed the property onto his son, Harry
• 3:01:46
  Bull. The legacy of unsettling
• 3:01:49
  phenomena thus continued during Harry Bull's tenure.
• 3:01:56
  The Erie manifestations at the estate not only persisted, but
• 3:02:01
  seemed to intensify with numerous bizarre occurrences
• 3:02:06
  recorded. On a particularly unsettling
• 3:02:10
  day, while Harry was tending to his garden, his dog suddenly
• 3:02:15
  erupted into a frenzy of barks, displaying a mix of terror and
• 3:02:23
  confusion, hiding behind a tree for reasons that weren't
• 3:02:28
  immediately apparent. Upon investigating the cause of
• 3:02:32
  his dog's distress, Harry reported a chilling sight, a
• 3:02:38
  headless figure emerging from behind the voyage, proceeding to
• 3:02:45
  board a phantom carriage that eerily glided to silence.
• 3:02:52
  This was not a solitary encounter.
• 3:02:56
  Harry experienced several such unnerving incidents with the
• 3:03:00
  ghostly carriage, which appeared to race by only to dissolve into
• 3:03:06
  thin air moments later. Amidst these spectral
• 3:03:11
  happenings, the figure of the ghostly nun remained a constant.
• 3:03:18
  She was often observed in full daylight, roaming the grounds
• 3:03:23
  and unsettlingly peering through windows.
• 3:03:27
  On numerous occasions, Harry and his family's dining experiences
• 3:03:33
  were interrupted by the unwelcome side of her face,
• 3:03:38
  often gazing in through the window, an occurrence that
• 3:03:43
  became so frequent and disturbing that Harry eventually
• 3:03:48
  took measures to break up the dining room window in an attempt
• 3:03:53
  to shield his family from her intrusive stares.
• 3:03:57
  These ongoing supernatural events under Harry's watch
• 3:04:02
  contributed to a thickening atmosphere of terror.
• 3:04:07
  Following Harry Bull's death in 1927, the rectory found itself
• 3:04:12
  draped in silence, temporarily forsaken until Reverend Guy Eric
• 3:04:19
  Smith and his wife decided to call it their home.
• 3:04:24
  No sooner had they unpacked their belongings and they found
• 3:04:28
  themselves plunged into a realm of unexplained phenomena,
• 3:04:34
  phenomena that defied rational explanation.
• 3:04:39
  Their new abode seemed to pulsate with a life of its own,
• 3:04:44
  illuminated by wandering orbs of light that dance through the
• 3:04:48
  darkness and haunted by the spectral vision of a nun.
• 3:04:55
  Whose? Presence was as persistent as it
• 3:04:58
  was unsettling. The ghostly carriage with its
• 3:05:02
  headless drivers continued its nocturnal journeys, accompanied
• 3:05:08
  by shadowy figures that flooded just beyond the corner of one's
• 3:05:14
  eye. The air was often pierced by the
• 3:05:17
  echo of footsteps and the mournful tolling of bells that
• 3:05:22
  rang from nowhere. The most chilling discovery,
• 3:05:27
  however, came at the hands of Smith's wife.
• 3:05:30
  During an ordinary day of household chores, hidden within
• 3:05:35
  the depths of an old cupboard wrapped in a forgotten paper
• 3:05:39
  package, she stumbled upon a discovery that sent shivers down
• 3:05:44
  her spine. A human skull, its empty sockets
• 3:05:49
  seemingly staring back at her. This macabre find was soon
• 3:05:53
  accompanied by auditory disturbances.
• 3:05:56
  Horse whispers filled the air, and the sound of heavy footsteps
• 3:06:02
  resonated through the empty halls, creating an atmosphere
• 3:06:07
  thick with tension and unanswered questions.
• 3:06:11
  Reverend Smith found himself compelled to arm himself with a
• 3:06:15
  stick as he moved about his own home, a testament to the
• 3:06:20
  unsettling presence that seemed to stalk them from the shadows.
• 3:06:25
  Driven to the brink of insanity by these chilling experiences,
• 3:06:29
  The Smiths reached out to the Daily Mirror in 1929, desperate
• 3:06:35
  for answers. The newspaper responded by
• 3:06:39
  dispatching a man named Harry Price, a renowned paranormal
• 3:06:44
  researcher. Along with his team, they were
• 3:06:47
  tasked with unraveling the secrets that lay hidden within
• 3:06:50
  the walls. Of the borderly.
• 3:06:52
  Rectory, A mission that promised to delve deep into the unknown.
• 3:06:59
  Shortly after his arrival at Borley Rectory, Harry Price
• 3:07:03
  found himself. Quickly.
• 3:07:04
  Immersed and the intense paranormal activities that
• 3:07:08
  seemed to permeate out of nowhere.
• 3:07:12
  Throughout his investigation, Price documented witnessing
• 3:07:16
  several unexplainable events that defied logic.
• 3:07:21
  Objects were observed levitating and hurling through the air,
• 3:07:26
  propelled by something that they couldn't see, while cryptic
• 3:07:31
  messages eerily formed on mirrors, seemingly tapped out by
• 3:07:37
  ghostly fingers. In a particularly chilling
• 3:07:41
  incident, Price and his assistant watched in disbelief
• 3:07:46
  as a glass Candlestick floated ominously before them, only to
• 3:07:51
  violently shatter against the wall, sending a cascade of glass
• 3:07:56
  fragments scattering in all directions.
• 3:08:01
  Moreover, Price reported encounters with the spectral
• 3:08:04
  figures. That had become almost.
• 3:08:06
  Legendary at Borley Rectory, he claimed to have seen the
• 3:08:10
  haunting visage of the nun headless coach, drivers eerily
• 3:08:15
  navigating the night and even. The.
• 3:08:18
  Ghost of Henry Bull himself looming within the shadow filled
• 3:08:24
  corridors. They even purported to capture
• 3:08:27
  photographic evidence of an apparition, adding a tangible,
• 3:08:33
  albeit ghostly, chapter to the Rectory's story history.
• 3:08:38
  However, it's worth noting that many of the extraordinary
• 3:08:42
  phenomena reported by Price was not collaborated by the
• 3:08:47
  experiences of The Smiths, leading to skepticism at the
• 3:08:52
  veracity of some events. Despite this, The Smiths had
• 3:08:57
  encountered enough unexplained disturbances to make the
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  decision to leave the rectory in 1929, less than a year after
• 3:09:06
  they had made it their home Prices.
• 3:09:08
  Detailed accounts of the bizarre occurrences of Borley Rectory
• 3:09:12
  were widely publicized, catapulting the story into the
• 3:09:17
  realm of public fascination and debate.
• 3:09:21
  This was the moment that the haunting of Borley Rectory
• 3:09:24
  transcended mere local folklore to become a captivating mystery
• 3:09:29
  that captured the imagination of the wider public and viewing the
• 3:09:34
  rectory with a mystique that continues to intrigue and baffle
• 3:09:39
  to this day. Following Harry Price's
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  investigation, which earned the property the title of the most
• 3:09:47
  haunted house in England, the residents welcomed its new
• 3:09:52
  occupants in 1930. The incoming family comprised of
• 3:09:57
  Reverend Lionel Foster. A relative of the initial
• 3:10:02
  proprietor, Henry Bull. Alongside his wife Marianne and
• 3:10:07
  their adopted daughter Adelaide, the transition into their new
• 3:10:12
  home was anything but ordinary, as it seemed that they also took
• 3:10:17
  possession of its lingering spectral residence, inheriting a
• 3:10:22
  legacy of encounters that would defy explanation.
• 3:10:27
  Once again, the Foysters were. Plunged into a realm of
• 3:10:31
  mysterious occurrences. That seemed to.
• 3:10:34
  Intensify with time. Their daily lives were
• 3:10:38
  interrupted by an array of inexplicable events that would
• 3:10:42
  test the skepticism of even the staunchest doubter.
• 3:10:47
  Objects with minds of their own would be thrown through the air.
• 3:10:51
  Rocks, glasses, and bottles quickly became projectiles used
• 3:10:58
  by unseen forces. Windows shattered spontaneously,
• 3:11:03
  as if struck by invisible stones, while doors developed
• 3:11:07
  wills of their own, locking and unlocking in a whimsical dance
• 3:11:12
  that left the family often stranded or intrusively barred
• 3:11:17
  from their own rooms. The household's furniture seemed
• 3:11:20
  to partake in a silent conspiracy, shifting positions
• 3:11:24
  when no one was watching, contributing to the discerning
• 3:11:28
  atmosphere that pervaded the estate.
• 3:11:31
  Objects would mysteriously vanish as well, only to reappear
• 3:11:36
  in the most unlikely places, as if the house itself was playing
• 3:11:41
  a macabre game of hide and seek, with the living adding to the
• 3:11:46
  eerie ambience. Or once again, the inexplicable
• 3:11:50
  sounds of non existent ringing bells, and these were
• 3:11:56
  accompanied by unsettling sounds of heavy breathing by no one
• 3:12:02
  that could be seen. Footsteps echoed in the halls,
• 3:12:07
  which again suggested the presence of unseen visitors,
• 3:12:11
  visitors that were treading the corridors alongside the living.
• 3:12:16
  Perhaps the most chilling aspect of the haunting was the apparent
• 3:12:20
  fixation of the malevolent presence on Mary Ann.
• 3:12:24
  This unseen force seemed to single her out for torment more
• 3:12:28
  than anyone else in the household.
• 3:12:31
  On numerous occasions, she experienced the sensation being
• 3:12:36
  pushed, poked and even slapped. Objects would be hurled directly
• 3:12:42
  at her, making her the unfortunate focus of these
• 3:12:47
  paranormal attacks. In one particularly harrowing
• 3:12:51
  incident, Marianne. Woke up in the dead of night.
• 3:12:56
  Only to find herself struggling to breathe under the oppressive
• 3:13:00
  weight of a mattress, as if the entity was attempting to
• 3:13:06
  suffocate her in her own bed. Following this terrifying event,
• 3:13:13
  the walls of the rectory. Began to bear.
• 3:13:16
  Cryptic messages, phrases like Marianne please help and
• 3:13:23
  Marianne light mass prayers and appearing mysteriously.
• 3:13:30
  There were also moments when she was violently thrown from her
• 3:13:33
  bed or pinned down by the invisible oppressor, experiences
• 3:13:40
  so disturbing that they convinced Foster to undertake
• 3:13:44
  exorcisms on two separate occasions.
• 3:13:49
  Unfortunately though, these attempts would not only fail,
• 3:13:54
  but seem to anger the spirit even further, resulting in a
• 3:13:59
  frenzy of this size stones being thrown at him.
• 3:14:03
  Adding yet another layer, Marianne reported sightings of
• 3:14:08
  the Spectral. Figure of Bull.
• 3:14:11
  Suggesting his lingering presence still was there.
• 3:14:16
  Within the. Confines of the Rectory Numerous
• 3:14:20
  paranormal investigators captivated by the increasingly
• 3:14:24
  famous tale hypothesized that the unsettling poltergeist
• 3:14:29
  manifestations might have. Been.
• 3:14:31
  Emanating from Marianne, or perhaps their daughter, heading
• 3:14:36
  down the true source, however, remained an elusive task as the
• 3:14:42
  Foysters vacated the property in 1935.
• 3:14:47
  Price seized the moment to re enter the scene, eager to delve
• 3:14:52
  deeper into the mysteries and Borley Rectory seemed to
• 3:14:56
  jealously guard. Armed with the latest in ghost
• 3:15:00
  hunting technology and a keen sense of determination, Price
• 3:15:05
  embarked on an extensive recruitment Dr. gathering a
• 3:15:09
  diverse group of 48 individuals. Together they were to join him
• 3:15:15
  in his investigative quest, taking turns to stay overnight
• 3:15:20
  at the haunted premises. Each one.
• 3:15:24
  Hoping to witness first hand peculiar occurrences that it
• 3:15:28
  captured the attention the supernatural community.
• 3:15:33
  Price's ambition didn't stop there.
• 3:15:36
  He envisioned spending an entire year within the walls of the
• 3:15:40
  rectory. To thoroughly.
• 3:15:42
  Document its myriad of mysteries.
• 3:15:46
  This wasn't just another ghost hunting expedition, it was a
• 3:15:50
  meticulously. Planned.
• 3:15:52
  Operation aimed at peeling. Back the layers of secrecy that
• 3:15:56
  shrouded the house. With a.
• 3:15:59
  Mix of anticipation and a touch of the unknown, Price and his
• 3:16:04
  team prepared to embark on what promised to be an unprecedented
• 3:16:09
  exploration of the supernatural adventure, brimming with the
• 3:16:13
  potential to unlock the secrets of one of the most hauntingly
• 3:16:18
  captivating locations known. Throughout the duration of their
• 3:16:24
  year long investigation at the property, the team reported a
• 3:16:28
  series of extraordinary findings, among which a
• 3:16:33
  particularly compelling seance conducted 1 evening stands out.
• 3:16:39
  In this session, the psychic medium Helen Glanville allegedly
• 3:16:44
  established communication with the spirit who introduced itself
• 3:16:49
  as Mary Laurie. This spirit claimed a past life
• 3:16:53
  as a nun in France before making the life altering decision leave
• 3:16:58
  her convent journey to England and enter into marriage with a
• 3:17:04
  wealthy individual named Henry Waldegrave.
• 3:17:08
  Tragically, the tale took a dark turn, with Mary Laurie
• 3:17:12
  recounting how she was brutally strangled by her husband and her
• 3:17:17
  body disgracefully abandoned in the cellar of the rectory.
• 3:17:23
  It was Mary's spirit, according to the narrative, that sought
• 3:17:27
  out Mary Anne, pleading for assistance from beyond the
• 3:17:32
  grave. In a subsequent chilling
• 3:17:35
  encounter, Glanville made contact with another spirit,
• 3:17:40
  this one identifying itself as Sunay Emura.
• 3:17:45
  Displaying a more ominous intent, it issued a dire
• 3:17:49
  prophecy declaring its plan to set the entire structure ablaze
• 3:17:55
  in 1938, with the aftermath revealing the remains of a
• 3:18:00
  murdered man amidst the rules, in addition to these startling
• 3:18:05
  communications the team encountered.
• 3:18:08
  Frequent. Poltergeist activities, areas of
• 3:18:11
  intense unexplainable cold, bizarre non human footprints in
• 3:18:17
  the snow and purported sightings of the ghostly nun would become
• 3:18:22
  a figure of intrigue while stood elving into Borley Rectory's
• 3:18:27
  past. Taking on the role of
• 3:18:29
  chronicler, Price meticulously documented these investigations,
• 3:18:35
  their findings and the haunting tales woven into the fabric of
• 3:18:40
  the rectory. The culmination of this
• 3:18:43
  exhaustive research was presented to the public in two
• 3:18:48
  volumes, The Most Haunted House in England, 1940 and The End of
• 3:18:55
  Borley Rectory in 1946. In what could only be described
• 3:19:00
  as a peculiar twist of fate, closely aligning with the
• 3:19:04
  ominous prediction made by the spirit they had contacted, the
• 3:19:09
  year 1939 unfolded with a startling incident.
• 3:19:15
  The Borley Rectory's new proprietor, Captain WH Gregson,
• 3:19:20
  accidentally dropped an oil lamp, igniting a fierce blaze
• 3:19:24
  that swept through the structure.
• 3:19:27
  The resulting inferno severely damaged the Manor, leaving it a
• 3:19:32
  charred shell of its former glory.
• 3:19:36
  In the aftermath, during an exploration in 1943, Price
• 3:19:41
  ventured into the remnants of the cellar.
• 3:19:44
  In the midst the debris, he discovered what he believed to
• 3:19:49
  be the remains of a young woman. This claim sparked controversy,
• 3:19:55
  with some skeptics questioning the human origin of these
• 3:19:58
  remains. Following the fire, an array of
• 3:20:02
  occurrences were reported in the vicinity of the now abandoned
• 3:20:06
  and fire scarred rectory. Residents and visitors spoke of
• 3:20:11
  hearing inexplicable ghostly laughter echoing through the
• 3:20:15
  night, witnessing eerie lights with no discernible source.
• 3:20:20
  And encountering frequent malfunctions of electrical
• 3:20:24
  devices. Moreover, the spectral figure of
• 3:20:28
  the nun, who had become a haunting staple of the Borley
• 3:20:32
  lore, was sided with unsettling regularity.
• 3:20:37
  Additional reports came from individuals, including World War
• 3:20:41
  Two soldiers stationed nearby, who experienced the sensation of
• 3:20:46
  unseen assailants hurling stones at them.
• 3:20:50
  These mysterious events persisted until the rectory met
• 3:20:54
  its ultimate fate, being demolished in 1944.
• 3:20:59
  However, the demolition did not mark the end.
• 3:21:04
  Rather, it seemed to dilute the frequency and intensity the
• 3:21:08
  paranormal phenomena as the years progressed leading up to
• 3:21:13
  Harry Price's death in 1948. The tales of Borley Rectory's
• 3:21:18
  haunted legacy gradually receded into the shadows of history.
• 3:21:23
  The once vivid accounts of supernatural occurrences and
• 3:21:27
  ghostly sightings transitioned into whispered legends.
• 3:21:32
  This shift consigned Borley Rectory and its ghostly
• 3:21:36
  inhabitants to the realm of folklore, transforming it into a
• 3:21:41
  haunting echo of the past and the years that followed.
• 3:21:45
  Since its peak of notoriety, the tale of a haunted Borley Rectory
• 3:21:51
  became embroiled in controversy, attracting the level of scrutiny
• 3:21:56
  that far exceeded expectations. Harry Price's Foundation Report,
• 3:22:02
  once a cornerstone of paranormal literature, found itself under
• 3:22:06
  the critical microscope of the Society for Psychical Research,
• 3:22:12
  or SPR. Upon its release, this
• 3:22:16
  organization steeped in investigations of the
• 3:22:19
  supernatural. Raised.
• 3:22:21
  Doubts about the authenticity of the sightings reported by Price.
• 3:22:26
  They poised that a significant number of these incidents could
• 3:22:30
  be attributed to natural explanations, or could have been
• 3:22:34
  overly dramatized, or were outright fabrications crafted by
• 3:22:39
  Price himself. The skepticism surrounding
• 3:22:43
  Price's work intensified notably after his passing, when a Daily
• 3:22:48
  Mail journalist who had accompanied Prize during his
• 3:22:51
  explorations at the rectory stepped forward with allegations
• 3:22:56
  that cast a shadow over the entirety of the findings.
• 3:23:01
  These allegations accused Price. Of.
• 3:23:03
  Concocting the entire narrative, this claim was compounded by an
• 3:23:09
  even more startling revelation. Or Marianne Forster, a central
• 3:23:14
  figure in the Borley Rectory saga, would later confess that
• 3:23:19
  the haunting that they had experienced was a fabrication.
• 3:23:24
  The narrative took yet another twist with the publication of a
• 3:23:28
  book, 2000 by Louis meyerling, boldly titled we faked the
• 3:23:35
  ghosts of borley rectory. Meyerling's work delves into the
• 3:23:40
  heart of the controversy, suggesting that the.
• 3:23:43
  Stories of the. Haunting that he captivated the
• 3:23:46
  public were the result of elaborate deceptions.
• 3:23:50
  By the Bulls, the Foyers. Harry Bryce and his
• 3:23:55
  investigative team. According to this account, these
• 3:23:59
  individuals were not the honest secrets of truth they claimed to
• 3:24:02
  be, but rather skilled illusionists and storytellers,
• 3:24:09
  weaving a complex web of ghostly tales that blurred the lines
• 3:24:14
  between reality and the supernatural.
• 3:24:18
  This perspective cast the Borley Rectory in a new light,
• 3:24:22
  suggesting. That its.
• 3:24:23
  Legacy may be more about the human penchant for crafting
• 3:24:27
  narratives that captivate and intrigue rather than tangible
• 3:24:32
  encounters. The Supernatural Realm Despite
• 3:24:37
  this whirling vortex of skepticism, it's fascinating to
• 3:24:41
  observe that a substantial number of individuals still
• 3:24:44
  staunchly. Stand.
• 3:24:45
  Behind the authenticity of the Borley Rectory case, it strikes
• 3:24:51
  one as peculiar almost beyond belief that such a diverse group
• 3:24:56
  could mastermind an elaborate hoax spanning several decades
• 3:25:01
  with such precision. Numerous witnesses have
• 3:25:05
  passionately contended that the events witnessed.
• 3:25:09
  Could not have. Been the product of mere
• 3:25:11
  trickery, adding layers of intrigue to the narrative, this
• 3:25:17
  conviction. Among many, has.
• 3:25:18
  Ensured that the Erie saga. A Borley rectory.
• 3:25:22
  Continues to captivate and bewitch minds, securing its
• 3:25:28
  place as a timeless, haunting narrative that ignites fervent
• 3:25:33
  discussions, debates even to this day.
• 3:25:38
  But the question still looms large, what truly unfolded
• 3:25:42
  within those walls? Was there any substance to the
• 3:25:46
  tails or are we merely chasing shadows of a long standing
• 3:25:52
  urban? Myth.
• 3:25:54
  Meticulously woven by cunning fabricators, the truth is up to
• 3:26:00
  you to decide. With the principal characters
• 3:26:04
  and investigators of these mysterious events long past and
• 3:26:09
  the rectory itself erased from the physical world, we find
• 3:26:14
  ourselves ensnared and a web speculation.
• 3:26:20
  It appears that the tale of Borley Rectory is destined to
• 3:26:23
  hover in the. Realms of the.
• 3:26:25
  Unknown. A ghostly whisper from the past
• 3:26:30
  that continues to puzzle and mesmerize those dare to delve do
• 3:26:36
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