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3 Hours of Real Paranormal Stories NO AI Human Narrated · Mystery Archives Episodes

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  When a man deals with a supernatural entity in his
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  youth, it seemingly never stops haunting him as its dark
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  tendrils grab a hold of his life and squeeze with unyielding
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  force. Will he finally defeat his
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  childhood nightmare come to life, or will the force consume
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  him and his family? This is the true and terrifying
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  story of Bob Baker, otherwise known as the Nightmare in
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  Bridgeport case which took place in Connecticut.
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  This is the Untold Story series where we take a look at some of
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  the most terrifying paranormal haunting cases and try to give
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  the most in depth story possible with this story.
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  I will warn you, it's been a while, but this case is
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  particularly creepy to me, especially since I dealt with
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  paranormal. Happenings in my childhood.
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  So I would, as always, recommend that you don't watch this
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  episode alone or in the dark unless you like a challenge.
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  I will also be joined in telling this harrowing story today by my
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  good friend The Tape Library. This has been a very highly
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  requested collaboration and one I've been looking forward to
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  doing for a long time since I genuinely enjoy his content.
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  I hope you all enjoy as well. And now let's get to it.
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  Our story begins in Bridgeport, CT, a town famous for its
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  manufacturing, especially in the late 19th and 20th centuries.
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  Producing goods like sewing machines, brass fittings and
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  ammunition, the town saw a population explosion with a
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  growth of more than 50% during World War One.
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  Known for many things, it would soon become known for something
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  else, something far darker. The year is 1962 and the Baker
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  family is living a rather normal and happy existence with mother
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  Dorothy, father Francis, and their two children, son Bobby
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  and daughter Robin. It has always been a dream for
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  the family to own their own home.
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  That dream would come true following Dorothy's parents,
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  giving the family some land and a home that they could finally
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  call their own. They couldn't have been more
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  excited. Dorothy's father and brother had
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  built the home by hand some years earlier and her parents
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  had originally lived there, but now it has since been gifted to
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  them to help make their lives easier and bring them all closer
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  together. Dorothy's parents would then
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  build a second home on the same land, essentially just a few
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  houses down, making for a very close and big happy family.
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  Across the board. With Dorothy being a homemaker,
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  this is exactly what she wanted for her family.
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  Francis who is an ex Marine, works at an aircraft
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  manufacturer in Stanford. With a good job, a beautiful
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  home and family close, this should have been a recipe for
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  the perfect childhood for Bobster, Bobby and Robin, who
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  were very close as brother and sister often relied on each
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  other for entertainment. The two would typically play
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  outside in the lush trees and bushes that surrounded their
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  house. One afternoon as the kids rush
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  outside as they would any other day to play, they make their way
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  towards the looming trees and green leafed bushes.
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  A man suddenly appears from behind one of the trees, asking
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  her who this man? Was he's puzzled by her reply
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  She. Asks him what man, Bobby?
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  Bobby, confused to say the least, replies to her.
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  That man over there by the tree, I'm looking at him right now.
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  Robin says she doesn't see anyone.
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  Although the man doesn't say anything or threaten the
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  children in any way, something about him terrifies the poor
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  boy. So, doing as any sensible kid or
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  person would do, he grabs his sister's hand and tells her to
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  run. The two then bolt back to the
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  family house. With the house being empty, they
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  call out for their mother and quickly make their way out of
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  their front door and into their front yard.
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  There, tending to her small garden, is Dorothy.
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  Relieved to see her. Bobby runs up and immediately
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  tries to explain. What had just happened?
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  Dorothy, thinking that her kids imaginations are just running
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  wild, tells them to stop talking about a make believe Invisible
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  Man and to quickly go and start getting ready for dinner.
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  Frustrated that his sister couldn't see him now at his
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  mother's lack of concern, Bobby remains confused and unnerved,
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  thinking back to that dark and creepy feeling he had just
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  experienced minutes earlier. But doing as he's told.
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  He makes his way back inside the house to prepare for the family
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  to eat. Later that evening.
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  Bobby is by himself in his room. He's playing with his army men
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  toys, trying to forget the creepiness from earlier in the
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  day. Over the sounds of fake
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  explosions and simulate A gunfire that the boy makes.
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  He soon begins to hear something else.
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  He suddenly begins to hear his name being.
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  Called. The first call startles him and
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  he looks around to try and find the origin of it.
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  He then hears his name again in a low, hushed tone and realizes
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  that it's coming from the air vent near his bed.
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  In later interviews, Bob himself would say that I was certainly
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  intrigued when I first heard the voice coming from the vent.
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  I was intrigued yet also afraid. As the boy apprehensively makes
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  his way towards the vent, he begins to talk back to the
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  mysterious voice as it asks him to play with him.
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  Bobby asks. Just where are you assuming the
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  vent was coming from? The cellar?
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  How did you get down? There, to which the voice would
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  reply. I live here.
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  Do you want to be my friend? Before Bobby has a chance to
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  answer, the bizarre interaction is interrupted by his mother,
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  Dorothy, asking him just who he was talking to.
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  And Bobby would reply just a friend.
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  Thinking this was weird and feeling uneasy about it, but
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  assuming it was just an imaginary friend, she doesn't
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  make a big deal out of it. She instead leans into things,
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  telling her son that he needed to tell his friend that he'd be
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  back in a little bit because his grandma was coming over to spend
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  some time with the family. As the two make their way out of
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  the bedroom, little does she know that his friend is more
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  than happy to wait for the boy's return.
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  When Bobby's grandmother arrived shortly after, they greet her in
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  the living room. As a family living so close to
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  them, she enjoys coming over to spend time with her grandkids
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  and daughter. Francis, her daughter's husband,
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  has recently also taken up a part time job alongside his main
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  job at the aircraft manufacturing plant in order to
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  help make ends meet for the family.
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  So in order to help take care of the children and relieve some
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  stress off of Dorothy, she often comes over.
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  This particular day. After she arrives, Bobby and
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  Robin ask her if she can tell them a story.
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  She agrees, and soon the four of them gathered together in the
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  living room of the house. She begins the story by asking
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  them if their grandfather had ever told them about the history
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  of the house they now lived in. With a resounding no.
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  She proceeds. Well, she says, when your
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  grandfather purchased this land and began building this very
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  house, he hired a few contractors to assist in some of
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  the construction. As they were digging up the dirt
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  to lay the foundation of the home, they made a very strange
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  discovery. As one of the men dug into the
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  earth with his shovel, he made contact with something solid.
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  Thinking it was a rock, he brushed the dirt off to the side
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  to reveal something else. Instead, there before him, he
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  found a bone. But this bone didn't seem to be
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  that of a small animal and instead seemed too big.
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  Placing it to the side, he continued to dig, only to reveal
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  more bones and eventually a skull.
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  A human skull. Quickly getting your
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  grandfather's attention. Along with the other
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  contractors, they discussed things as a group.
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  Ultimately, though, they decided that they would not report the
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  grisly discovery to the authorities.
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  If they did, it would effectively tie up the
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  construction of the house. Instead, assuming it had to have
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  been an old, previous family's grave or something similar, they
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  laid the bones back where they had found them and simply
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  covered them back up. They would then pour the
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  concrete of the home's foundation over the top of the
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  grave, effectively sealing it. Part of the reason as to why
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  they decided this, the grandmother continued, was that
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  winter was coming and if they decided to wait any longer, they
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  wouldn't have been able to pour the foundation and continue
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  building the home because the ground would be frozen.
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  With the children creeped out. The story time would be ended by
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  Dorothy, who told the kids not to worry because it was nothing
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  more than an old legend. In due time that day, Grandma
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  would leave, but something else would not.
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  As days turn to weeks and weeks to months, Bobby would continue
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  to talk to who his parents believed to be his imaginary
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  friend. His mother, by this point, had
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  become fairly acclimated to hearing her son speak to
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  someone, but she believed it was harmless.
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  One day, as her son played in the living room while she
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  cleaned, the phone would ring. Dorothy setting her duster down
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  would quickly answer. It.
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  On the other end, however, there was some kind of voice, but it
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  was masked by static. The voice then turned to
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  multiple whispers that were too heavily distorted for her to
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  understand. As she asked who is this that's.
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  Calling. The line dropped.
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  Perplexed, she slowly set the phone down and tried to go back
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  to dusting the living room. However, Bobby, who had been
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  playing, was nowhere to be found.
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  Calling out for her son, she received no reply.
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  Growing concerned, she continued calling out to him and
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  frantically started searching behind furniture.
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  Thankfully, she found Bobby laying behind a sofa but in the
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  fetal position, relieved that she had found him, but now also
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  concerned as to why he was behaving this way.
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  She asked him why he was. Hiding and Bobby ominously
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  responded because of my friend. Bobby no longer enjoyed
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  interactions with his friend. Upon hearing this, Dorothy
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  became even more concerned as she probed him for information
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  as to why he felt this way. Bobby went on to tell her that
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  this friend, this man, had turned from a friendly, playful
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  type of person to someone who had become very mean and
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  controlling, and this scared him.
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  As she heard these words, Dorothy too became scared.
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  In later interviews, Bob would say this thing became the
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  opposite of what I thought it was.
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  I dreaded hearing its voice coming from my vent and it began
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  to push me to do bad things. But despite his best efforts,
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  the boy couldn't hide from him. One night, as Bobby lay in his
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  bed asleep, he was suddenly woken up by the crashing of
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  Thunder and the flickering of lightning.
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  As the storm was salted the house, He quickly realized that
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  his window was open and rain and wind were rushing in.
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  Directly across from where his room was located, he could see
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  the family clothesline and upon it were several sheets and
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  articles of clothing that his mother had left to air dry
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  earlier in the day. Then, without a gust of wind
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  behind it, he watched as the sheet pulled away from the
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  clothesline and as if it had a mind of its own, it quickly and
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  aggressively flew through his window and on to Bobby.
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  Caught off guard, the boy stumbled backwards and fell down
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  as the sheet covered his entire body.
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  He was pinned to the ground, screaming and writhing.
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  Underneath it, the sheep began to pull tighter and tighter.
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  A face pressed itself into the sheet before him and said the
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  name. He then began to suffocate,
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  screaming for his parents. The sheep was suddenly pulled
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  away by Dorothy and Francis. They believed that their son had
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  just had a terrible nightmare, but Bobby knew otherwise.
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  In later interviews, Dorothy would say Bobby began to change,
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  and this greatly bothered me. He was becoming more timid, more
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  frightened, and I didn't know why.
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  My husband and I began to notice that he was exhausted.
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  He wasn't sleeping much at night and seemed drained during the
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  day. Something, and I didn't know
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  what, was causing this. The following morning concern
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  for her son, she called in a doctor to examine him.
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  Since he was acting so strangely, she believed that it
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  could be some kind of medical problem that was affecting him.
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  The doctor asked Bobby a series of questions and ran several
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  tests to check if the boy was healthy.
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  With his vital signs and reflexes being just fine, the
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  doctor concluded that the boy was healthy.
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  When told by Dorothy that he had been interacting with an
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  imaginary person and that he'd been having horrible nightmares,
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  the doctor again told her that it was perfectly normal for a
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  child of his age to have an imaginary friend and that the
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  nightmares were more than likely a result of an overactive
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  imagination. Although she'd been told that
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  her child was healthy, Dorothy wasn't satisfied.
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  She believed that the doctors had dismissed her and or
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  underestimated the severity of these nightmares and their
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  effects on her son, but she chose to remain hopeful that for
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  whatever reason, this phase of his life would pass and Bobby
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  would go back to normal soon. However, this would prove to be
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  far from what would happen. Over the next several weeks,
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  Bobby's behaviour would only continue to decline.
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  He developed an absolute fear of the cellar.
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  One day his mother made homemade jam and placed it into jars.
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  She asked her son to go down and grab some more jars from the
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  cellar so she could finish her batch.
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  Refusing at first, he was quickly scolded.
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  At this point, Dorothy's patience had borne fin.
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  She told her son that he was too old to be acting like this and
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  that it had to stop. Still terrified, but not wanting
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  to get into further trouble, the boy slowly and reluctantly made
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  his way to the cellar door. He opened the door and began to
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  descend the stairs, feeling the presence of someone or something
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  slowly enveloping him the deeper he went into the cellar.
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  Finally making it over to where the jars were stored, he turned
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  towards the shelf and grabbed several as he turned around and
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  started making his way back towards the stairs.
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  Before he can make it, he heard a familiar voice from behind
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  him. A dark brooding voice called his
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  name. As the boy turned around he saw
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  something that chilled him to the bone.
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  A dark figure with pale skin stood before him.
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  It's eyes were like that of a goat, it's pupils horizontally
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  elongated. Within it's mouth he could see
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  sharp and crooked teeth. It's hands contained sharp, long
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  nails at the end of each finger. The figure lifted up its hand
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  and beckoned for Bobby to cut, feeling absolutely terrified but
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  also feeling a white hot rage well up and out while
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  simultaneously throwing one of the jars in his hands at it.
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  With this, the figure vanished almost as quickly as the throne
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  jar shattered on the concrete wall behind where it once was.
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  Startled by the sound of breaking glass, Dorothy rushed
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  from the kitchen and down into the cellar to check on her son,
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  frantically asking if he was OK and what's happened.
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  She was told by Bobby that he was OK and that the man was
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  finally gone. Thankfully for the immediate
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  future, this was the last time he had to deal with the entity.
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  In later interviews he would say it's like you're standing up to
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  a bully, one you've dealt with for years and you finally have
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  your day. I basically took the house back.
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  Bobby would return to being a normal, happy child once again,
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  to much the relief of the rest of his family.
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  He started playing sports at the encouragement of his father and
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  turned around his grades and attitude.
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  He then effectively put the terrifying experiences behind
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  him and moved forward with his life.
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  The days turned to months and the months to years, and over
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  the course of the next 40 years, Bob would become a child safety
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  specialist with his career revolving around the safety of
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  children. Believing his career was born
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  out of his experiences from his own childhood.
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  He wanted each and every child to feel safe, be safe, and be
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  protected. Though this is his main career,
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  Bob has also had a lifelong fascination with the paranormal
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  as a result of those same exact experiences stemming from when
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  he was a child. So he founded the Connecticut
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  Paranormal Investigators in 2001 with several other like minded
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  colleagues. He wanted to help people who may
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  have felt the same sense of hopelessness and oppression that
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  he himself. Felt as a child.
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  Bob's parents, Francis and Dorothy, still live in the same
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  house that he and his sister grew up in.
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  Bob often stops by to check on his parents and to help his
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  mother take care of his father, who has suffered with
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  Parkinson's and dementia for the last 10 years.
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  His father, an ex Marine, had always been so strong his entire
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  life, to see him take a turn for the worse is very difficult to
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  watch. Recently he seemed to go further
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  downhill and at a faster pace. He started to complain about
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  dark figures that no one else is able to see and has developed an
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  absolute fear of the cellar, refusing to even go near the
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  door to it within the kitchen, believing that this was just the
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  progression of his father's disease.
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  Bob is disturbed but continues to do what he can.
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  In May of 2003, Francis Baker would ultimately pass away
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  following his funeral. Dorothy, after 50 years of
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  marriage, now has to adjust to living by herself after she
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  discovers some of his old belongings in their bedroom.
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  She longs for his presence as she mourns Frances.
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  She is startled when she begins to hear a series of faint
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  whispers coming from the living room.
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  Believing that it could be her departed husband, she finds a
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  sense of peace within the experience and carries on with
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  her day when the whispers cease. Although she felt as if her
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  departed love was still reaching for her from beyond the grave,
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  she would have a very different experience.
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  Later that night, as Dorothy lays sleeping in her bed with
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  the pale moonlight draping over her, she suddenly wakes up when
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  she feels a force upon her. Petrified, she feels the weight
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  of someone or something depressed the bed next to her.
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  Then the experience turns violent.
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  Whatever this thing was shoved her, then began to thrash her
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  from side to side. Though she had believed it was
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  Francis trying to communicate from beyond the grave
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  previously, this energy feels very different.
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  It feels scary, abusive and smothering, not at all like her
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  husband. And the evil presence finally
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  leaves the room. Dorothy breaks down in tears,
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  trying to come to terms with what had taken place.
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  She contemplates life for several more hours, unable to go
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  back to sleep. Finally, in the early morning
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  hours, she decides to call Bob for help.
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  Hearing his mother sobbing on the other end, Bob doesn't
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  hesitate to come over with his equipment as soon as he can.
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  After hearing his mother's testimony, he first dismisses
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  her. He thinks that it's possible she
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  had a night terror of sorts or was dealing with some kind of
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  anxiety. Now, having to live alone after
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  being with his father for so long, he agrees to visit Moore
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  and starts getting ready to leave.
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  But when Dorothy grabs his hand with tears in her eyes and tells
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  him that this presence was evil and that she was utterly
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  terrified, he can't help but reconsider what he had initially
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  thought. Now convinced that something
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  could be lurking within the confines of his childhood home,
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  he starts his investigation. Using an audio recorder, he
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  attempts to capture an EVP or electronic voice phenomena.
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  As he records, he wanders throughout the house, asking if
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  there's anything or anyone present that wishes to
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  communicate. At first, things seem to be
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  benign, but as he continues to probe, he suddenly feels a
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  tension building within his chest.
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  Then he hears footsteps cross the path in front of him.
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  With this, he feels nauseous in this very moment.
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  It's as if he's been sucked into a rift in time.
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  He is taken back to the very moment when he first encountered
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  the malevolent entity all those years ago was a boy terror
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  stricken. But not wanting to further scare
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  his mother, he decides to tell her that he believes that there
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  is something there within the home, that they should have it
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  blessed. He promises he will come back
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  shortly with his team to further dig into just what they could be
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  dealing with. Later that day, several members
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  of the Connecticut Paranormal Investigators arrived.
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  In Bob's words, it was bizarre to me because here I was, after
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  all these years back in the same exact place where it all started
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  for me. Bob is accompanied by his
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  colleague John Myers, as well as Mary Curing.
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  Mary, like Bob, was plagued by the paranormal in her childhood
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  as well and seems to have an extra sense when it comes to
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  dealing with the supernatural. As per her ability, Mary is not
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  given any details about the case and is sent in first, acting
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  almost as some kind of radar to see if there is something there
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  and if it's good or bad. Within minutes of being inside,
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  she senses a man and a woman, among several other spirits.
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  As she continues to walk throughout the house, she makes
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  her way into Bob's old bedroom, and it is here that she senses
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  something evil, but it's not coming from directly inside the
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  bedroom itself, rather seeping into the room from the vent, the
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  very same vent that leads to the cellar.
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  Notifying Bob and Joel of her findings, she tells them that
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  they need to investigate the cellar because she believes that
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  it's possible that this darker entity may have something to do
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  with the other spirits within the house.
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  In her own words, as we stepped down each step of the stairs
• 25:22
  leading into the cellar, the oppression became thicker and
• 25:26
  thicker. Finally making it down to the
• 25:28
  base level floor. She continues to walk around and
• 25:32
  pick up on numerous things as Bob and Joel take photos of the
• 25:36
  area for any potential evidence. Mary believes that something
• 25:39
  tragic occurred, something awful that now haunts the land itself.
• 25:44
  Something that when it occurred, drew this negative energy in as
• 25:49
  a beacon of sorts. In her mind's eye, she sees a
• 25:52
  vision of a man carrying bodies and burying them on the land.
• 25:58
  She now believes that perhaps these very same people are now
• 26:01
  buried underneath the house itself.
• 26:03
  Again, she has no prior knowledge about anything related
• 26:06
  to the house or the case. Following this vision, she sees
• 26:11
  something else appear before her.
• 26:14
  There, tucked in the darkest corner of the cellar, she sees
• 26:18
  an abhorrent robed figure with horrendous features.
• 26:22
  She believes that this entity is a demon.
• 26:26
  Asking Bob if he too sees the manifestation, she points to
• 26:30
  where it had appeared. After being asked to describe
• 26:33
  it, Bob is speechless. What she describes to him is the
• 26:37
  very same entity that he had stood up to when he was a child,
• 26:42
  in his own words. I never told Mary about my
• 26:45
  experiences or anything else about this house, and to have
• 26:49
  her describe to me exactly what I had seen myself was scary but
• 26:54
  also such a relief to me. It meant that what I had seen
• 26:59
  was real. The team decides to stay
• 27:02
  overnight to continue the investigation and to review the
• 27:05
  photos and recordings they had taken for any potential
• 27:08
  evidence, as well as to keep an eye on Dorothy and allow her to
• 27:12
  feel protected. As they review numerous photos,
• 27:16
  they eventually come across something peculiar in one of
• 27:19
  them that was taken in Bob's old room.
• 27:22
  At first glance, it appeared to be an orb.
• 27:25
  In Bob's words, it seemed to be an orb and I usually tend to
• 27:29
  dismiss those because they're more often than not a speck of
• 27:33
  dust or water vapour. But this one was different.
• 27:37
  Upon closer inspection, when zoomed in, it appeared to
• 27:41
  contain a face, one that was gnarled and rotting.
• 27:45
  It was the face of the same demon that Bob had seen all
• 27:49
  those years ago. Although this is incredibly
• 27:51
  unnerving, Bob does find solace knowing that he now has some
• 27:55
  kind of proof of its existence. As the team continues to dive
• 27:59
  into more photos, Dorothy is suddenly woken up by the feeling
• 28:03
  of two large hands pressing down on her shoulders and back,
• 28:07
  forcing her face into her pillow.
• 28:10
  Then there is a booming noise as her bed begins to shake up and
• 28:13
  down. Screaming out for her son, Bob
• 28:16
  and his team rushed to her bedroom.
• 28:19
  Whatever this thing was, it released her as they forced open
• 28:23
  the door. Dorothy would later say.
• 28:26
  I now knew that I was living in a house with something that
• 28:28
  could physically hurt me. I was terrified and I certainly
• 28:32
  didn't want to be there anymore. Bob now believes that the
• 28:36
  malevolent entity that is plaguing his mother is the very
• 28:39
  same one that plagued his childhood.
• 28:43
  Greatly concerned for his mother's welfare, they both
• 28:47
  decide at that moment that she will move out of the house and
• 28:51
  come to live with Bob. With his mother now out of the
• 28:54
  haunted house, the group has also decided to bring in a
• 28:58
  Catholic priest. Believing that whatever demonic
• 29:01
  force that dwelled within the walls of the home was far beyond
• 29:05
  their capabilities to defeat, they anxiously await his
• 29:09
  arrival. Soon, they receive a knock at
• 29:12
  the door. Upon answering it, Bishop Robert
• 29:16
  McKenna steps over the threshold and into the home.
• 29:20
  Bishop McKenna is a world renowned exorcist and no
• 29:23
  stranger to evil. They help that with his
• 29:26
  assistance, it can finally free the House of this tormentor.
• 29:31
  Wasting no time, the Bishop begins the exorcism prayer and
• 29:35
  walks from room to room throughout the house, sprinkling
• 29:39
  holy water as he consecrates the home.
• 29:42
  He's ultimately drawn to the cellar, making his way through
• 29:46
  the kitchen and opening the door leading to it.
• 29:50
  He seems to have a sixth sense as to where the entity dwelled.
• 29:54
  He was not given specific details about the case, only
• 29:58
  what had happened, not where. As he walks down, each step
• 30:03
  further descending, he is suddenly and viciously shoved by
• 30:08
  an unseen force. This violent push sends him
• 30:12
  falling down the rest of the stairs.
• 30:15
  As the group rushes to assist him at the bottom, they realize
• 30:18
  that this demon has real power. If it could shove a Bishop.
• 30:22
  Down a flight of stairs, it might be capable of much more.
• 30:28
  Thankfully, Bishop McKenna isn't seriously harmed.
• 30:32
  If anything, he's angry and further determined to attack the
• 30:36
  devil. As he continues his prayers and
• 30:39
  holds a blessed crucifix high into the air, they begin to hear
• 30:44
  sounds echo all around them in the dark cellar.
• 30:47
  This was almost certainly. Due to the agitation the Bishop
• 30:50
  was causing the demon, though, the atmosphere grows thick with
• 30:54
  animosity and the noises further intensify.
• 30:59
  The group stands their ground and begins to pray with the
• 31:02
  Bishop. With the lights flickering and
• 31:05
  the sounds louder than ever and items now being hurled around
• 31:09
  the cellar, they focus on the Bishop's words and hope their
• 31:14
  efforts will work. As the activity and the prayers
• 31:18
  both reach a synchronized crescendo, things suddenly cease
• 31:23
  as quickly as they had started. Sighing and feeling relieved,
• 31:29
  they all believe the demon has been vanquished.
• 31:32
  The environment seems lighter and calmer.
• 31:36
  They then head upstairs, thanking the Bishop for his
• 31:39
  help, believing that he was the ace in the hole for the fight
• 31:43
  itself. They would then pack up and
• 31:46
  leave for their respective homes for the rest of the day.
• 31:49
  Later that night, with his mother still at his home, Bob is
• 31:54
  greatly relieved, believing that the entity is finally gone and
• 31:59
  that he can, in good conscience, allow his mother to return to
• 32:03
  the house, knowing she'll be safe.
• 32:07
  It's lightly raining outside, and the droplets pelt the
• 32:10
  outside of his bedroom window as Bob lies in his bed, drifting
• 32:15
  off to dreamland. All seems peaceful until his
• 32:20
  sheet is suddenly wrapped around his head, screaming and gasping
• 32:25
  for air. He's being suffocated, just as
• 32:29
  he had when he was a child that stormy night all those years
• 32:34
  ago. Finally, through the thrashing,
• 32:38
  he's able to free himself from this cocoon of suffering.
• 32:41
  Shocked and upset, he now believes that their efforts have
• 32:46
  only angered the demon. It was most certainly not gone,
• 32:50
  but rather had followed him home, violating what should have
• 32:55
  been his sanctuary. With this revelation, over the
• 32:59
  course of the next several months, Bob and his team battle
• 33:03
  the demon with help from various outside organizations.
• 33:08
  Different blessings and religious groups are brought in,
• 33:12
  yet nothing seems to work. Also beginning to be attacked
• 33:16
  late at night is Bishop McKenna, who realizes that prayer alone
• 33:22
  has failed. The entity is much stronger than
• 33:26
  any of them realize. He arranges with Bob and the
• 33:30
  Connecticut Paranormal Investigators to return to
• 33:34
  Dorothy's home to try and rid the demon from the premises once
• 33:38
  again. When the day comes, the Bishop
• 33:41
  returns with Bob, Mary and Joel, and in conjunction with another
• 33:46
  exorcism. Prayer.
• 33:48
  He fills the house with thick plumes of blessed incense.
• 33:53
  This time the blessing doesn't seem to cause the entity to
• 33:57
  manifest physically. Upon finishing, they have the
• 34:01
  back and front doors open to expel the entity and allow the
• 34:06
  incense smoke to escape the home.
• 34:08
  They thank Bishop McKenna once again for his time and efforts.
• 34:14
  Following his orders. Upon the smoke departing the
• 34:17
  home, they allow it to sit for a week before returning, hoping
• 34:22
  that the demon has been vanquished back to hell.
• 34:26
  Upon returning, Bob and Joel sit at the kitchen table comparing
• 34:30
  notes and evidence. They had been there for several
• 34:34
  hours with no interruptions. That was until they heard three
• 34:39
  distinct knocks emanating from the cellar door.
• 34:43
  These knocks continued to repeat, and alongside this, they
• 34:48
  began to hear footsteps walk throughout the house.
• 34:51
  As the men glance at one another in disbelief, the footsteps
• 34:56
  begin to make their way toward the kitchen where they both are.
• 35:00
  Within seconds, both men grab their chests and fall to the
• 35:04
  floor, unable to breathe. In Bob's words, it felt like I
• 35:10
  was having a heart attack, like the weight of an elephant was
• 35:14
  sitting on my chest. I cannot breathe at all.
• 35:19
  Fearing for their lives, Bob manages to get back to his feet,
• 35:23
  begins dragging Joel toward an upright position.
• 35:26
  The two men then flee the home and utter panic.
• 35:31
  Believing this attack to not only be spiritual but also a
• 35:35
  near death experience as a result of it, Bob decides to
• 35:39
  call it a quits. Although he doesn't want to stop
• 35:42
  fighting, he believes that anyone involved may lose their
• 35:46
  lives as a result of the battle, so he vows to never return to
• 35:50
  the home. Nobody to this day has set foot
• 35:56
  back in the house feeling as though he was perhaps too close
• 36:01
  to the situation, that he should have let someone else conduct
• 36:04
  the investigation from the outside.
• 36:07
  But also now, knowing how powerful the entity is and
• 36:11
  having exhausted every effort, Bob didn't want anyone else to
• 36:15
  have their lives put at risk either.
• 36:18
  You essentially have to know when to hold them and when to
• 36:21
  fold them, as the old saying goes.
• 36:25
  Digging into this case was utterly fascinating to me and
• 36:28
  there are a few updates and opinions I'd like to share with
• 36:31
  you now. As far as updates go, Bishop
• 36:35
  Robert McKenna is no longer with us.
• 36:39
  He passed away on December 16th of 2015 at the age of 88.
• 36:45
  He had been involved in numerous famous haunting cases such as
• 36:49
  the Smurl haunting case as well as many other lesser known
• 36:53
  cases. Robin Baker married named Robin
• 36:58
  Santiago, passed away peacefully on Sunday, July 21st of 2019 at
• 37:05
  the age of 64. Lastly, Dorothy Baker passed
• 37:10
  away on February 1st of 2021 at the age of 87, never having
• 37:17
  remarried. She hopefully has now been
• 37:19
  reunited with her beloved Francis and her loving daughter
• 37:24
  Robin. I researched as deeply as I
• 37:27
  could to avoid any misinformation and I believe I
• 37:30
  found both Bob's company and his paranormal investigation
• 37:34
  website. Bob seems to still be with us
• 37:38
  and I hope wherever he is that he's thriving with his wife and
• 37:41
  family. I'm not going to share the
• 37:44
  company information or location to help maintain Bob's privacy.
• 37:49
  However, regarding his paranormal group, the
• 37:52
  Connecticut Paranormal Investigators, I'm unsure if
• 37:56
  they're still active. I was able to find their old
• 38:00
  website link. Upon clicking on it, it
• 38:03
  redirects to an archived side of a group known as Montana
• 38:07
  Paranormal. This group, at least as of last
• 38:10
  year, seems to still be active, but upon checking their staff
• 38:14
  directory, I didn't see Bob listed so I don't believe he's
• 38:19
  affiliated. Bob's story was made famous by
• 38:23
  the show A Haunting with the release of the episode An Evil
• 38:26
  in Bridgeport, which was later renamed The Nightmare in
• 38:30
  Bridgeport, which originally aired on October 26th of 2012.
• 38:36
  Shortly after this time, Bob also did an interview with AOL,
• 38:40
  their YouTube channel. As for the case details
• 38:43
  themselves, I believe that odds are there had to have been some
• 38:47
  kind of killing and the bodies buried upon the land.
• 38:51
  Perhaps with the violent nature of the deaths it could have
• 38:55
  attracted something evil like a demon, the bodies sealed
• 38:59
  underneath the foundation of the home.
• 39:01
  The poor souls trapped within never may be able to leave this
• 39:07
  and or they're being held captive as a power source by the
• 39:11
  demon itself. It certainly had to have been
• 39:15
  difficult to choose to walk away from the situation when he had
• 39:18
  been battling this creature since his childhood, but I do
• 39:22
  ultimately think that Bob made the right choice.
• 39:25
  I do think that if another group had been willing to take their
• 39:28
  chances that they should have been allowed to investigate the
• 39:31
  property, but I also respect him for not wanting other people to
• 39:35
  be put in harm's way. As far as the house goes,
• 39:39
  despite my best efforts, I'm unsure just what happened to it.
• 39:44
  If it still stands vacant today or has since been sold off, that
• 39:49
  would be something Bob himself would have to answer if he ever
• 39:52
  sees this video. And as with all the cases that
• 39:56
  we've covered here, we are sometimes left with more
• 39:58
  questions than answers. But one thing remains certain.
• 40:03
  There was some kind of dark, demonic force that stalked the
• 40:07
  walls of the Baker family home for one reason or another.
• 40:12
  One that tormented them with bated breath, seizing every
• 40:16
  opportunity to attack the weak. Stay safe out there.
• 40:22
  Stay vigilant. Don't allow yourself to become a
• 40:26
  sheep for the Devil's Wolf. Imaginary friends are generally
• 40:31
  considered to be a normal part of childhood development for
• 40:35
  some. But what would you do if your
• 40:38
  child's imaginary friend turned out to be much more than just
• 40:43
  imagination? When a woman notices that her
• 40:46
  son is speaking with a friend who she thinks doesn't exist,
• 40:52
  she dismisses it at first. However, this so-called friend
• 40:57
  would turn out to be anything but as an abhorrent force turns
• 41:02
  their lives upside down. Will they escape with their
• 41:06
  souls intact or will the entity consume them?
• 41:12
  I will warn you, as with many cases I've covered on this
• 41:16
  channel, to not watch this alone or in the dark unless you like a
• 41:22
  challenge, because this case is certainly no exception.
• 41:28
  Kentucky, a bastion of American beauty, wild and free on the
• 41:34
  surface, also harbors darkness. Home to the Mammoth Cave system,
• 41:42
  known to be the longest in the world, one can truly get lost
• 41:46
  inside its winding caverns and crevices.
• 41:51
  Kentucky contains many tales of legends, folklore, and
• 41:56
  hauntings. With caves older than bone
• 42:00
  beneath it and numerous battles fought on its surface, among
• 42:04
  other happenings, it's no surprise that this southern
• 42:09
  state holds such secrets. Our story begins in Western
• 42:14
  Kentucky with the Foster family, Jan, Dale, their five year old
• 42:20
  son Cody, and 16 year old daughter Pamela.
• 42:25
  Jan is a carrier for the US Postal Service and Dale is a
• 42:30
  contractor. Up until this point, the Fosters
• 42:33
  have been a relatively normal American family, but this would
• 42:38
  soon change. A nanny often stays with their
• 42:42
  son while the two parents work during the day, and tends to
• 42:46
  leave when one of the parents gets home from work for the day.
• 42:50
  One evening, the nanny asks for a word with Jan, with the two
• 42:56
  stepping off into the hallway for a more private word
• 42:59
  together. The nanny tells her that Cody
• 43:03
  has been using some very bad language and that she's
• 43:07
  concerned about his behavior. Jan is shocked to.
• 43:10
  Hear this because they've always considered themselves a fairly
• 43:14
  strict family on what can and can't be said in their house, so
• 43:19
  she's not sure where the boy would have heard such language.
• 43:23
  Alongside the curse words, Cody has been incredibly defiant,
• 43:28
  extremely rude and angry towards the nanny.
• 43:32
  He has also been speaking with someone who isn't there.
• 43:37
  After assuring the nanny that Cody was not exposed to this
• 43:40
  kind of behavior in their home, Jan then said she would correct
• 43:45
  his behavior and apologized for these very unexpected
• 43:48
  happenings. Several hours later, as she
• 43:52
  tucks her son into bed for the night, she asked him to tell her
• 43:56
  about his new friend. Cody tells his mother that his
• 44:00
  friend's name is Man, thinking this was strange and asking him
• 44:06
  why doesn't his friend have a real name like John or George.
• 44:11
  She is quickly corrected by her son that it is simply Man.
• 44:18
  Finding this bizarre, but believing this to be somewhat
• 44:21
  normal, that her son is simply using his active imagination to
• 44:26
  create a friend who didn't really exist, she thinks nothing
• 44:30
  of it. However, in later interviews she
• 44:35
  would have this to say. I didn't realize it then, but
• 44:39
  this was a massive warning sign and it's one I shouldn't have
• 44:44
  ignored. Shortly after putting her son to
• 44:48
  bed and laying down herself, Jan is woken up by the sound of
• 44:54
  thumping from across the hall. Stepping out into the hallway to
• 44:59
  examine just what this could be, she then hears the laughter of
• 45:03
  her son. Believing he's just playing and
• 45:07
  very tired herself, she asks him to please stop through his door
• 45:13
  and to go back to bed. She then heads back to her own
• 45:17
  bedroom once again after the laughter ceases.
• 45:22
  Several hours later, in another bedroom down the hall, 16 year
• 45:27
  old Pamela's woken up out of a sound sleep herself, but by
• 45:31
  something very different. Feeling as if she was being
• 45:35
  watched, she begins to hear scratching originating from
• 45:39
  underneath her bed. Perplexed, she rolls out of bed
• 45:44
  to look underneath it, and quickly she comes face to face
• 45:50
  with nothing. The scratching then begins to
• 45:54
  move as if it's under the floorboards.
• 45:57
  It moves from underneath the bed, through the floor and then
• 46:02
  up into the wall closest to her bedroom door.
• 46:06
  The poor teen has never experienced anything like this
• 46:09
  before. As the sounds continue, she
• 46:13
  quickly, yet cautiously makes her way out of her bedroom and
• 46:18
  into her parents room. She would later describe the
• 46:21
  scratching sounds like someone taking their fingernails and
• 46:25
  with all of their strength, grating them against the various
• 46:30
  surfaces. As the sound moved, Jan is
• 46:34
  startled awake as she sees a blackened figure standing over
• 46:39
  her. It's Pamela telling her mother
• 46:42
  that she's. Scared.
• 46:44
  Jan then, thinking she must have had a nightmare, brings her into
• 46:48
  the bed to quell her fear. Although this night was strange
• 46:53
  to say the least, it's nothing compared to what's coming the
• 46:58
  following morning. As Jan wakes up and begins
• 47:02
  getting ready for the day, she steps into the shower and begins
• 47:07
  washing herself. Several minutes into her shower,
• 47:11
  however, she hears something fall over in the bathroom with
• 47:16
  the door closed, and after examining the room from the tub,
• 47:20
  she sees no one. She does however, see a soap
• 47:25
  bottle that has fallen onto the floor from the side of the
• 47:28
  bathtub. Thinking this was weird due to
• 47:32
  its positioning, but overlooking it, she simply places the bottle
• 47:37
  back onto the ledge and continues with her shower.
• 47:41
  She then begins to hear footsteps walking all throughout
• 47:44
  the bathroom. Rinsing the soap out of her hair
• 47:48
  and making sure she doesn't get any in her eyes, she then turns
• 47:52
  around and sees the outline of a man through the steamed up
• 47:57
  shower curtain. This man was tall, much taller
• 48:01
  than her husband, and she didn't hear the door open to indicate
• 48:06
  anyone else's presence. Panicking, she pulls the curtain
• 48:11
  aside, yet no one is there yet again.
• 48:16
  She does however see small muddy child size shoe prints on the
• 48:22
  floor. Quickly finishing her shower and
• 48:26
  after drying off she finds and checks Cody's shoes but there
• 48:31
  are no signs of mud to be seen. This makes her uneasy because
• 48:37
  only his shoes would have even been close to how small the shoe
• 48:41
  prints were. Then heading to her son's room
• 48:46
  to see if he was awake or not, she finds him playing with his
• 48:50
  toy fire truck in the corner of the room.
• 48:54
  Yet he is speaking to a chair where no one is sitting.
• 48:59
  Telling his friend that he didn't want to do that, that he
• 49:03
  just wants to play with his toys.
• 49:06
  Cody is then interrupted by his mother, who asked him just who
• 49:10
  he's speaking with. Replying with man.
• 49:15
  The little boy then continues to play with his fire truck.
• 49:20
  Jandin tells Cody that he needs to tell his friend goodbye and
• 49:25
  that it's time to get ready for the day.
• 49:28
  This seems to turn a switch within the boy.
• 49:32
  Suddenly her five year old has gone from happy and playing with
• 49:37
  his toys to becoming irate at the drop of a dime, screaming at
• 49:44
  his mother that he didn't want to and that man said he didn't
• 49:48
  have to. Being countered by his mother,
• 49:52
  she tells him that he will get ready or there's going to be
• 49:56
  serious consequences. Scowling at her eventually he
• 50:01
  does as he's told, but the look behind his eyes is 1.
• 50:07
  His mother doesn't recognize and it'll become one all too common.
• 50:13
  In the near future. Over the next several weeks,
• 50:17
  Cody's behavior has shifted completely.
• 50:20
  He's gone from a fairly calm and loving child to one that is
• 50:25
  cold, angry, and sometimes violent.
• 50:30
  He doesn't want to follow commands or do things he once
• 50:34
  enjoyed doing. He only wants to spend time with
• 50:38
  his imaginary friend, someone he calls man.
• 50:44
  One afternoon as his parents sit together watching their son
• 50:49
  play, they ask him to tell them about man.
• 50:53
  Just who is he and how old is he?
• 50:57
  Cody would set down the toys that he had been playing with
• 51:01
  and tell them he's 6 and that he has brown hair and brown eyes
• 51:08
  and pale skin. Interested in what he had to
• 51:12
  say, the couple would then ask their son just where did Man
• 51:17
  come from. He would respond with from
• 51:21
  behind the park where the lake is from deep underground.
• 51:28
  Obviously concerned and intrigued even further, Jan
• 51:33
  asked Cody if something happened to Man.
• 51:37
  Cody with tears streaming down his face would reply that a
• 51:43
  stranger took him from his mommy and did terrible things to him,
• 51:49
  that he cried for his mommy but she never found him.
• 51:54
  With tears now falling from her eyes, Jan then asks her son who
• 52:00
  would almost be the same age as man.
• 52:03
  Is man dead Cody? His answer would cause a cold
• 52:08
  shiver to shake her entire body. He would answer with yes.
• 52:17
  Disturbed by her son's answer, Jan Foster believes that her son
• 52:22
  may have befriended the. Spirit.
• 52:24
  Of a dead child. Dan, however, is not fully
• 52:29
  convinced. Back story to his imaginary
• 52:31
  friend. He thinks that it's just that
• 52:34
  imaginary. With this revelation, Jane
• 52:39
  decides to take researching things into her own hands.
• 52:43
  She decides the following day to go to the local library and to
• 52:47
  sift through records to see if she could find anything that
• 52:51
  sounded similar to the back story of the boy that her son
• 52:56
  described to her. She avidly searches going back
• 53:01
  as far as the records do that were available about 50 years or
• 53:06
  so. Although she believes her son
• 53:09
  believes the story he told her, she begins to doubt what this
• 53:14
  entity could have told her son because no evidence materializes
• 53:21
  of the dead boy's back story. Over the next several months,
• 53:26
  Cody withdrawals completely from interacting with the family.
• 53:31
  He didn't want to spend time with anyone.
• 53:34
  He stopped playing with his toys and his only outlet seems to be
• 53:40
  man day in and day out he just continues to have full blown
• 53:47
  conversations with this invisible person.
• 53:52
  Angered and feeling as if she was losing her son, Jan decides
• 53:57
  to try anything it takes to get him back.
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  One evening she makes a phone call to an old friend of hers, a
• 54:07
  Native American medicine man who she believes could perhaps offer
• 54:12
  insight on what to do about her family situation.
• 54:17
  Within a day he arrives, speaking with Jan and Dale in
• 54:22
  their living room. He begins to hear from Jan just
• 54:26
  what all has been taking place. Dale, although skeptical of both
• 54:31
  his son's situation and now the involvement of a medicine man,
• 54:35
  remains so, but wants to support his wife, thinking that this
• 54:40
  could perhaps make her feel better about what had been
• 54:43
  happening in his own words. I was concerned that something
• 54:48
  had really scared Jan, and I knew that she was upset.
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  Although I didn't believe in this kind of stuff, I thought
• 54:56
  that maybe it could help her feel better.
• 55:00
  As Jan finishes explaining the situation as a whole to the
• 55:04
  medicine man, he comes to the conclusion that it's possible
• 55:09
  that Cody has invited the spirit into the house.
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  He explains that the only way to get rid of the spirit is to
• 55:17
  revoke the invitation by praying and forcibly cleansing the home.
• 55:24
  That the owner of the house had to do this on their own to
• 55:28
  banish the spirit. He then instructs Jan to burn
• 55:32
  sage and sweet grass and directed towards the four
• 55:37
  corners of the property. After this is done, each doorway
• 55:42
  of the home must be anointed with olive oil to finish the
• 55:47
  cleansing. He also warns that some spirits
• 55:51
  may not want to go so easily and that it's imperative that she
• 55:57
  focus and pray the entire time for the spirit to leave and most
• 56:03
  importantly, to pray for her son.
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  The following morning, after everyone else had departed for
• 56:11
  the day, Jan begins the ritual. As the sage smoke smudges the
• 56:17
  air, Jan begins to worry but tries her best to remain strong
• 56:24
  in her own words. Was I worthy enough of God to
• 56:28
  hear my prayers, my strongest pleas to Him, to help me through
• 56:32
  this, to help me cleanse this house and this property?
• 56:38
  I doubted myself for brief moments that I wouldn't be able
• 56:42
  to. It was the fear of knowing if it
• 56:45
  didn't work, what would happen Then, within due time, she
• 56:51
  finishes the cleansing. But will it be enough?
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  Later that night, once everyone else had returned home, she is
• 57:00
  brought to tears. Cody seems to be back to his old
• 57:04
  self. He's spending time with his
• 57:07
  father, having a story read to him from a book in his room
• 57:12
  before bed. Over the next three months, all
• 57:17
  is calm and well. Cody seems to be more
• 57:20
  responsive. He's much.
• 57:22
  Happier. And most importantly, there is
• 57:26
  no mention of any kind of an imaginary friend.
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  That was until one afternoon. In Jan's own words, Cody wasn't
• 57:38
  totally back, but we were certainly making great strides.
• 57:43
  All seemed to be well. And then, out of nowhere, three
• 57:46
  months after the ritual, he began speaking to man again.
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  When I heard him, I could not move.
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  I was in so much fear. He kept talking for a while and
• 58:01
  then all of a sudden he went quiet.
• 58:05
  When I went into his room, he was holding something in his
• 58:09
  hands. It was a photograph.
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  I said where did you get this? I then reached down to grab it
• 58:18
  and he went berserk. Cody screamed and clawed at her.
• 58:24
  His screams and yells seem to be layered, as if two voices were
• 58:30
  speaking through him simultaneously.
• 58:34
  As Jan examined the photo, it appeared to be an older
• 58:38
  Polaroid, possibly from the late 50s or early 60s.
• 58:45
  There was an elderly woman, perhaps a grandmother, and next
• 58:49
  to her was a small boy. As her son relents, she asked
• 58:55
  him just who was this a picture of and he responded with man.
• 59:04
  Shocked at what she was both looking at as well as hearing,
• 59:08
  Jan then asked Cody where did you get this picture?
• 59:12
  He proceeds to tell her that man gave it to him.
• 59:17
  This causes her to burst into tears.
• 59:21
  The ritual, which had seemed to work for a good portion of time,
• 59:26
  didn't seem to get rid of the entity.
• 59:29
  She now wonders what will happen now?
• 59:32
  What are the next steps that she can take for herself and her
• 59:37
  family? The following day, as Jan
• 59:41
  arrives back home from work, she walks into chaos.
• 59:46
  Cody is screaming and berating the nanny.
• 59:50
  He's throwing his food onto the floor.
• 59:53
  She immediately goes to reprimand her son and is
• 59:57
  surprised by what he does. With one hand, he shoves her,
• 1:00:03
  and he does so with so much force that she falls down into
• 1:00:07
  the wall behind her. Cody then screams at her man
• 1:00:12
  said I didn't have to listen to any of you any more.
• 1:00:16
  And then he runs out of the room.
• 1:00:19
  Stunned by both her son's strength and behavior, she gets
• 1:00:24
  back up off the ground now to see the nanny packing her
• 1:00:28
  things. She had decided that she
• 1:00:30
  couldn't deal with the child anymore.
• 1:00:33
  She suggests getting him some counseling, and although Jan
• 1:00:37
  tries her absolute best to keep her employed, she leaves.
• 1:00:43
  Later that night, Jan tries to keep herself together as the
• 1:00:47
  family sits down to eat dinner. In her own words, I was trying
• 1:00:53
  to keep things together. I needed to be an employee, a
• 1:00:57
  mother, and a wife. I was also the one bearing the
• 1:01:01
  brunt of my son's abuse. But by now, there was no love
• 1:01:06
  coming from Cody. No hugs, kisses, or real
• 1:01:11
  interactions. Just pure hatred.
• 1:01:15
  He was a total stranger to me at this point and I didn't know how
• 1:01:19
  to handle this. She begins to believe that
• 1:01:23
  something far more sinister than a little boy is manipulating her
• 1:01:28
  son. She's unsure of exactly what it
• 1:01:31
  is, but she knows deep down that it's evil.
• 1:01:36
  After losing the nanny, Jan and Dale have to start taking Cody
• 1:01:41
  to a cousin's house to be watched during the day so the
• 1:01:44
  two could work to support the family.
• 1:01:48
  After dropping Cody off for the first time at the cousin's
• 1:01:51
  house, Jan then heads to work like normal.
• 1:01:55
  Several hours into her work day, as she loads packages onto a
• 1:01:59
  mail truck, she is told she has an urgent phone call.
• 1:02:03
  It's from her cousin, in her own words.
• 1:02:08
  When I picked up the phone, she was incoherent.
• 1:02:12
  She was crying and kept repeating that I had to come get
• 1:02:15
  Cody now that she could not watch him anymore.
• 1:02:20
  Rushing from work to her cousin's house, Jan has no idea
• 1:02:24
  what could have happened but is quickly about to find out.
• 1:02:29
  She arrives and runs up to the door and is greeted by her
• 1:02:33
  cousin holding Cody by the arm. She is then told what had
• 1:02:38
  happened when Cody and her daughter were playing in the
• 1:02:41
  living room while she cleaned in the kitchen.
• 1:02:44
  She listened to make sure that everything was OK.
• 1:02:48
  She began to hear another voice, a third voice on that was deeper
• 1:02:54
  like that of a grown man, concerned but still trying to
• 1:02:59
  decipher what was happening. The air was then filled with the
• 1:03:03
  screams of her daughter running to the living room.
• 1:03:07
  She then saw Cody standing across from her daughter with
• 1:03:11
  multiple toys floating in the air around them.
• 1:03:15
  Upon seeing the scene, she covered her mouth, trying not to
• 1:03:18
  scream as the toys fell 1 by 1 and hit the ground.
• 1:03:25
  She told Jan that she was afraid of Cody and that not only could
• 1:03:29
  she not watch him anymore, but that her daughter was not
• 1:03:33
  allowed to play with him either. It's a somber drive back home.
• 1:03:38
  Jan knows that she has to have someone watch Cody during the
• 1:03:42
  day because she can't afford to lose her job.
• 1:03:46
  Once the 2 arrive, she grabs the phone book and frantically
• 1:03:50
  begins calling daycares, trying to find a reputable place that
• 1:03:54
  will take him. Finally finding one after a few
• 1:03:58
  phone calls, she sighs with relief.
• 1:04:02
  After hanging up the phone, she sits at the table with her son.
• 1:04:06
  She tells him that he is in no circumstances allowed to take
• 1:04:11
  man with him anywhere, but especially to his new daycare.
• 1:04:17
  Surprisingly, the child agrees not to.
• 1:04:21
  For the next week, all seems well during the day, with Cody
• 1:04:26
  at daycare and his parents working their jobs, but at
• 1:04:31
  night, the entity known as Man waits for him to return.
• 1:04:36
  One evening, as Dale goes to Cody's room to get him for
• 1:04:40
  supper, he finds his son cutting up stuffed animals.
• 1:04:45
  Although the incident disturbs him, he doesn't blame it on
• 1:04:49
  anything paranormal. He sits Cody in the living room
• 1:04:53
  and discusses the matter with his wife in the adjacent
• 1:04:56
  kitchen. In the meantime, Cody had other
• 1:05:00
  plans. As Dale describes, that man told
• 1:05:04
  their son that it was OK for him to cut up his toys to Jan.
• 1:05:09
  The two suddenly stop when they hear the muffled screams of the
• 1:05:13
  family cat. Pamela, heading out of her
• 1:05:17
  bedroom, then confronts her younger brother.
• 1:05:21
  She yells at him and pushes him off the couch.
• 1:05:25
  There, underneath where he had been sitting, he had.
• 1:05:28
  Trapped the cat. With a cushion and a pillow,
• 1:05:33
  seemingly trying to suffocate it as Pamela tends to the poor
• 1:05:38
  animal. Jan and Dale rush into the room
• 1:05:42
  and they see a sinister grin upon Cody's face.
• 1:05:46
  Horrified, the couple realized that they can't pretend to be
• 1:05:50
  rational anymore. Whatever that's happening to
• 1:05:53
  their son was serious, but they were unsure of just how to
• 1:05:58
  tackle the situation. The following morning as Jan
• 1:06:03
  goes to grab clothes from Cody's closet to get him ready for
• 1:06:06
  daycare, she notices that his clothes are damp and that
• 1:06:11
  wouldn't be all his toys and bed were wet as well.
• 1:06:16
  She would discover that her son had been urinating all over his
• 1:06:20
  things inside and outside of his closet.
• 1:06:25
  Further disturbed, she then confronts him and he says that
• 1:06:30
  man told him it was OK and that he didn't have to listen to her
• 1:06:34
  anymore. He then begins hitting her and
• 1:06:38
  lashing out, which only causes her more emotional torment and
• 1:06:44
  her own words. Everything started happening at
• 1:06:48
  such a fast pace, the behavior, the urinating, trying to kill
• 1:06:54
  the kitten. I just wanted my son back and I
• 1:06:59
  felt as if he was being controlled by some kind of
• 1:07:02
  monster. 1 Cold Night As wind whips the windows of the house,
• 1:07:10
  the Fosters are surprised by a visitor in their room in the
• 1:07:13
  middle of the night. It's Cody.
• 1:07:17
  He's calling out to them for the first time in a very long time.
• 1:07:23
  He said that his bed was shaking and that he needed his Mama.
• 1:07:29
  At this moment, Jan saw the glimpse of the boy she hadn't
• 1:07:33
  seen in over. A year.
• 1:07:35
  As she holds her child for the first time in what feels like an
• 1:07:39
  eternity, she knows that man is not with him.
• 1:07:44
  She also is reminded why she must keep fighting for her boy,
• 1:07:49
  that ultimately she must confront this entity.
• 1:07:54
  Waiting until Cody was fast asleep in their bed with Dale,
• 1:07:58
  Jane quietly gets out of bed and heads down the hallway and
• 1:08:03
  towards Cody's room by herself. With every step she takes, she's
• 1:08:09
  silently praying to God to give her the strength to confront
• 1:08:14
  whatever this creature is that has a grip on her family.
• 1:08:18
  Finally making it to the threshold of the room, she takes
• 1:08:23
  a deep breath and enters. Glancing around the room, she
• 1:08:29
  sees nothing. Wanting to put herself in the
• 1:08:33
  shoes of her son, she lays down where he would normally sleep in
• 1:08:37
  his bed, hoping that if she persists enough, that man would
• 1:08:43
  possibly try to communicate with.
• 1:08:45
  Her. She lays there for several
• 1:08:48
  minutes, but nothing happens. She then sees who she believes
• 1:08:54
  to be her son in the doorway, calling out to him.
• 1:08:58
  He comes to her and embraces her.
• 1:09:02
  However, Jansen senses that something is horribly wrong.
• 1:09:08
  The embrace feels all wrong, his hands are ice cold, and then
• 1:09:14
  suddenly she realizes that this isn't her son at all as she
• 1:09:19
  pushes the figure. Back.
• 1:09:21
  It begins to grow. It soon towers over her.
• 1:09:26
  Its skin is pale and its eyes a deep blood red.
• 1:09:33
  Its teeth are gnarled and rotten.
• 1:09:37
  It pushes her down onto the. Bed.
• 1:09:40
  Begins laughing in a deep demonic tone.
• 1:09:45
  In Jan's own words, he started laughing very demonically when
• 1:09:52
  this sudden realization came over me.
• 1:09:55
  This was man screaming for her life.
• 1:10:00
  The apparition disappears in the blink of an eye as soon as her
• 1:10:04
  family rushes into Cody's room to figure out just what was
• 1:10:08
  going on. Dale then holds his wife as she
• 1:10:12
  sobs uncontrollably. Once she finally regains her
• 1:10:16
  bearings, Jan calms the rest of the family down enough to get
• 1:10:20
  them all back into bed for the night.
• 1:10:23
  She, however, is unable to sleep, heading to the living
• 1:10:28
  room. Contemplating just what exactly
• 1:10:31
  to do about this grievous revelation, she begins begging
• 1:10:35
  God for guidance in her own words.
• 1:10:38
  Yet again. I was frightened beyond means,
• 1:10:42
  but another part of me, once the adrenaline started surging, knew
• 1:10:47
  that I had to face this. I had to do something to protect
• 1:10:51
  my family and to protect Cody and to keep this entity from
• 1:10:56
  taking him any further. Jane considers many things,
• 1:11:01
  including packing up her family to move, but she thinks that man
• 1:11:05
  is certainly attached to her son, that it wouldn't do any
• 1:11:09
  good. She doesn't sleep through the
• 1:11:12
  rest of the night. The following morning, as
• 1:11:16
  everyone else heads out to start their day, she takes Cody to
• 1:11:20
  daycare, as is the normal routine, but instead of heading
• 1:11:25
  to work herself, she heads back home and makes an urgent phone
• 1:11:29
  call. She calls her friend who is a
• 1:11:33
  Native American medicine man. By this time she hasn't spoken
• 1:11:38
  to him in about a year since everything started.
• 1:11:42
  Thankfully he picks up on the other end.
• 1:11:45
  She explains everything that has been transpiring and that she's
• 1:11:49
  seen the entity with her own eyes.
• 1:11:52
  That she believes it to be some kind of demon.
• 1:11:56
  That this a born entity had been masquerading as a little boy to
• 1:12:00
  gain entry into her son's life. The shaman explains that he now
• 1:12:06
  understands why the initial cleansing didn't work.
• 1:12:09
  He believed that the intent was not specific enough since they
• 1:12:13
  believed that they were revoking an invitation of a little boy
• 1:12:17
  and not something darker. He then tells her that she will
• 1:12:22
  have to bless the house again, only this time she must focus
• 1:12:27
  with all of her strength on riding the home of this evil
• 1:12:30
  spirit. Jam wonders if she's strong
• 1:12:33
  enough to be able to accomplish this alone in her own words.
• 1:12:38
  I didn't know if I was going to be able to do this myself.
• 1:12:42
  I'm just a mom. I'm not a priest.
• 1:12:45
  I'll be it. I have a spiritual side, but I
• 1:12:48
  was willing to give it my all to defend myself and my family.
• 1:12:54
  The shaman tells her that she must do this and must be brave
• 1:12:58
  and forceful with her intent to banish this demon, that she must
• 1:13:04
  not show any doubt and her efforts.
• 1:13:08
  With these parting words, Jan braces herself and then gets to
• 1:13:13
  work performing a second ritual. Starting on the four corners of
• 1:13:18
  the property, she creates A barrier using olive oil.
• 1:13:22
  She then enters a state of constant prayer while she sages
• 1:13:27
  around her property, slowly working her way inside.
• 1:13:32
  This time, instead of feeling weak, she begins to feel an
• 1:13:37
  inner strength, as if someone or something was standing beside.
• 1:13:42
  Her during her prayers. As she enters her home, she
• 1:13:48
  notices that the temperature of the house is abnormally cold,
• 1:13:53
  frigid to the point to where she can see her breath hang in the
• 1:13:57
  air as it fills with sage smoke. She knows there is a presence
• 1:14:03
  that resides within its walls. Feeling as if she's being
• 1:14:07
  watched, she continues to pray and smudge the home, going from
• 1:14:13
  room to room. As she does this, the walls and
• 1:14:18
  windows begin to shake, yet her prayers are uninterrupted.
• 1:14:25
  She knows that Man is watching her, trying to break her
• 1:14:29
  concentration. As the activity reaches a fever
• 1:14:33
  pitch, so do her prayers. She is yelling now and calling
• 1:14:40
  upon God to banish the entity known as Man from her home and
• 1:14:45
  from all of their lives. It is here that suddenly and
• 1:14:50
  violently, all of the doors within the house open, and an
• 1:14:55
  unearthly scream echoes all throughout the house.
• 1:14:59
  Then, as quickly as the doors opened, they suddenly all
• 1:15:04
  slammed closed. Breathing heavily, Jan
• 1:15:08
  immediately notices that the feeling within the home is like
• 1:15:12
  night turning. Today, in her own words, was if
• 1:15:18
  a veil had lifted, a dark veil of pain and confusion.
• 1:15:24
  I noticed the trees and I could hear the birds.
• 1:15:28
  I was back to a normal reality. Following this intense
• 1:15:34
  cleansing, the entity known as man has yet to return.
• 1:15:39
  In due time, the foster family seemed to go back to normal.
• 1:15:44
  Cody in particular ceased the horrendous behavior and was no
• 1:15:49
  longer influenced by the darkness of the demonic.
• 1:15:55
  However, this wasn't the end to the strange paranormal
• 1:15:58
  manifestations they would all experience.
• 1:16:02
  They continued to hear noises they couldn't explain and feel
• 1:16:07
  as if unseen eyes were watching them at all times.
• 1:16:12
  Was this the demon known as Man? Slytherin around them, watching
• 1:16:17
  and waiting to devour their very souls.
• 1:16:22
  This case has been requested numerous times for me to cover
• 1:16:26
  and I'm glad to have finally given it its time of day.
• 1:16:30
  It's certainly a terrifying and very intriguing one to say the
• 1:16:34
  least. The names within the case were
• 1:16:37
  changed to protect the anonymity of the family who was involved,
• 1:16:41
  therefore, updates as hard as I looked are unavailable.
• 1:16:46
  I can only hope that the foster family or whoever they may be,
• 1:16:51
  are good and safe today. That Cody and Pamela have grown
• 1:16:56
  up to be decent, functioning people, and I truly wish them
• 1:17:00
  all the best. With that being said, I do have
• 1:17:05
  several questions and statements I'd like to share with you.
• 1:17:08
  Now, these are my thoughts on the case as a whole.
• 1:17:12
  First of all, just how did man enter Cody's life?
• 1:17:16
  Was it a demon that was stalking or haunting the land itself?
• 1:17:22
  Was it picked up somewhere else and then brought back with the
• 1:17:25
  child? It obviously posed itself as a
• 1:17:28
  child in order to gain Cody's trust to begin with.
• 1:17:32
  This reminds me a lot of the Sally House case which I had
• 1:17:35
  just covered several weeks ago now, and it goes to show that
• 1:17:39
  the demonic has no qualms about masquerading itself as the
• 1:17:43
  ultimate innocence in order to prey upon us.
• 1:17:47
  Do you think the native banishing was sufficient, or do
• 1:17:51
  you think a Catholic priest should have been involved?
• 1:17:54
  I'm always curious to hear people's feedback on situations
• 1:17:57
  like this because I have personally seen a banishing
• 1:18:00
  happen in real time using sage, but the entity was just forced
• 1:18:05
  outside of the house. It continued to try to get back
• 1:18:08
  in, but if cleansing using sage on the property as a whole as
• 1:18:13
  well as the house was done, maybe it would have forced the
• 1:18:16
  spirit out entirely. Considering Jan used Christian
• 1:18:20
  prayer alongside sage and sweetgrass smudging, it
• 1:18:24
  certainly makes for a very interesting hybrid cleansing
• 1:18:28
  that in my opinion, would have worked if her faith was strong
• 1:18:31
  enough. If man gave Cody an old Polaroid
• 1:18:35
  of who he supposedly was in life as the one shown to Jan by Cody
• 1:18:41
  with the little boy and the elderly lady, just where did
• 1:18:45
  this picture come from and who did it end up being?
• 1:18:49
  Did it come from inside the house or somewhere else?
• 1:18:54
  And lastly, as to not pose too many questions, if the family
• 1:18:59
  continued to experience paranormal happenings such as
• 1:19:02
  unexplained noises and the feelings of being watched, was
• 1:19:07
  man ever truly banished or just weakened by Jan's cleansing
• 1:19:12
  efforts? Or.
• 1:19:14
  If man was banished, did perhaps something else happen on the
• 1:19:19
  land where the home now sits that could have potentially
• 1:19:23
  scarred it, such as a tragic event?
• 1:19:26
  And with this being said, could there possibly be a portal on
• 1:19:30
  the land or now within the house itself?
• 1:19:33
  One where the veil between our world and the next is much
• 1:19:38
  thinner, allowing entities, especially dark ones.
• 1:19:43
  To sneak through. Ultimately, your conclusions are
• 1:19:48
  up to you. When a young family seeking a
• 1:19:51
  bright future moves into a new house, it seems as if their
• 1:19:56
  dreams have come true until a malevolent force makes itself
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  known. Tormented visions and violent
• 1:20:04
  attacks leave them all questioning just what insidious
• 1:20:07
  force slithers behind the walls of their new home.
• 1:20:12
  Will they make it out alive or will the entity known as Sally
• 1:20:17
  keep them as playmates forever? This is a case I have personal
• 1:20:22
  experience with and it certainly is very unnerving.
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  I wouldn't recommend watching this video in the dark unless
• 1:20:29
  you like a challenge. Located in northeast Kansas is a
• 1:20:36
  town known as Atchison, situated on the Bluffs of the Missouri
• 1:20:40
  River and offering sweeping views of the River Valley
• 1:20:43
  beyond. Grand Victorian homes and
• 1:20:47
  cobblestone roads recall glorious days when wealthy
• 1:20:50
  lumber merchants and railroad magnates once occupied the town.
• 1:20:55
  But as one walks the streets today, they can't help but feel
• 1:20:59
  a tingle down their spine and a cold shutter in their soul.
• 1:21:04
  It seems to be a kind of hot spot that harbors otherworldly
• 1:21:08
  forces. The time is March of 1993.
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  Newly married couple Tony and Deborah Pikman begin renting a
• 1:21:16
  house in Atchison. After weeks of unboxing their
• 1:21:20
  belongings, their new house is finally starting to feel like a
• 1:21:24
  home. In the words of Tony Pikman, we
• 1:21:27
  had finally moved into a new place my wife was expecting, and
• 1:21:32
  we were just very much looking forward to starting a family
• 1:21:35
  together. It was a good time for us and
• 1:21:39
  with Deborah Pikman later saying that, we thought the home was
• 1:21:42
  perfect for us. It was spacious, it had several
• 1:21:46
  bedrooms, and we just knew that it was the perfect house.
• 1:21:50
  But what they failed to realize was that this house was far from
• 1:21:54
  perfect for anyone. After about a month of living
• 1:21:59
  there, strange things began to occur.
• 1:22:02
  First the TV began to turn on and off by itself, and small
• 1:22:07
  objects like their keys began to move on their own.
• 1:22:11
  Thinking that perhaps they were misremembering where they had
• 1:22:14
  placed their keys and the TV turning on and off was possibly
• 1:22:18
  faulty wiring, they contacted their landlord about the matter.
• 1:22:23
  But after having an electrician come out, you would find nothing
• 1:22:27
  wrong with the wiring. Although old, it was functioning
• 1:22:31
  as intended. Although the Pikmans thought the
• 1:22:34
  happenings were strange, they simply overlooked them.
• 1:22:39
  Later that summer, Deborah would give birth to a baby boy who
• 1:22:42
  they would name Taylor, and when the young family comes back home
• 1:22:46
  from the hospital, Deborah's sister Karen flies in from
• 1:22:49
  Buffalo, NY to help her sister get some much needed rest as she
• 1:22:54
  begins to heal from giving birth and starts adjusting to taking
• 1:22:58
  care of a newborn. Although the help is greatly
• 1:23:01
  appreciated. It seems to pass.
• 1:23:04
  Quickly, although the Pikmans are still adjusting to the late
• 1:23:07
  night cries of their newborn son, his Christ seemed to wake
• 1:23:11
  up more than just his parents. One afternoon, while Tony hangs
• 1:23:16
  pictures upstairs, he sees a shadow move out of the corner of
• 1:23:20
  his eye. He then hears the giggle of a
• 1:23:24
  little girl. Finding this odd, he glances
• 1:23:27
  around his general area and it's here that he discovers something
• 1:23:31
  even stranger. There and his son's nursery on
• 1:23:35
  the floor, is all of Taylor, stuffed animals neatly arranged
• 1:23:40
  in a circle. Thinking this was bizarre, they
• 1:23:44
  ultimately would laugh it off, thinking that perhaps someone
• 1:23:47
  they knew had to come into the home and played a prank on them,
• 1:23:51
  that perhaps they didn't notice it until now.
• 1:23:54
  They thought that maybe Tony's brother Allen, who was a known
• 1:23:57
  prankster, was to blame. Laughing it off, they went back
• 1:24:01
  to what they had been doing previously.
• 1:24:04
  It wasn't until a few minutes later that Deborah would walk
• 1:24:07
  back by the nursery and notice the exact same thing had
• 1:24:11
  occurred again. All of her son's stuffed toys
• 1:24:14
  were arranged in a circle and all facing outward yet again on
• 1:24:19
  the floor. Now, unsure of what was causing
• 1:24:23
  these strange happenings, they checked all their windows and
• 1:24:26
  doors. They were all locked.
• 1:24:29
  If it was Tony's brother Alan, they don't know how he would
• 1:24:33
  have been getting in and out without any of them noticing.
• 1:24:36
  And within a matter of minutes the following morning, Tony had
• 1:24:41
  his brother come over to their house.
• 1:24:43
  It's important to note that Alan did live next door to the
• 1:24:46
  pigments at this time. Once they had all gotten settled
• 1:24:50
  on the couches in the living room, Tony began to ask.
• 1:24:54
  So, Alan, just how did you get in and out of our house last
• 1:24:57
  night without any of us noticing?
• 1:25:00
  It was in this moment that Tony began to worry.
• 1:25:04
  Although he and his brother had always played tricks on one
• 1:25:06
  another, his brother wasn't known to be a liar.
• 1:25:11
  Allen looked back at him, genuinely confused.
• 1:25:14
  He told Tony that he had no idea what he was talking about, that
• 1:25:18
  he wasn't even home last night. Finding an opportunity for a
• 1:25:22
  laugh, however, Allen then starts asking Tony if he thinks
• 1:25:26
  that he has a ghost. He then takes his brother's
• 1:25:29
  camera and start snapping photos around the house while asking is
• 1:25:33
  there a presence here with us? And if so, make the stuffed
• 1:25:38
  animals move again. Do something.
• 1:25:42
  As Tony and Deborah follow Allen, the three are then left
• 1:25:45
  in utter shock as a stuffed bear sitting on a nearby small chair
• 1:25:50
  is suddenly thrown onto the floor by something they can't
• 1:25:54
  see. Taking what they had just seen
• 1:25:57
  as some kind of a warning, Tony, Deborah and Allen take baby
• 1:26:02
  Taylor and rush outside into the family's vehicle as the baby
• 1:26:07
  cries. As Tony buckles them into the
• 1:26:09
  car seat, Tony cries as well, but out of pain.
• 1:26:13
  He suddenly feels a sharp stinging sensation coming from
• 1:26:17
  his back. Thinking it was a bee sting or a
• 1:26:20
  spider bite, he finishes buckling the baby in and then.
• 1:26:24
  Closes the door. He figures he'll check it out
• 1:26:27
  later. Allen then heads back to his
• 1:26:29
  house next door and Debbie and Tony with their baby drive
• 1:26:34
  across town to Tony's parents house.
• 1:26:37
  After arriving, the stinging sensation on Tony's back has
• 1:26:41
  only grown more noticeable. Again.
• 1:26:44
  Thinking it was a bee sting or a spider bite, he finally has his
• 1:26:48
  wife take a look at it. Upon lifting up his shirt she
• 1:26:53
  starts to freak out. From Tony's lower back to up by
• 1:26:57
  his shoulder blades are what appear to be 3 very distinct and
• 1:27:02
  fresh claw marks. Her anxiety is soon felt by
• 1:27:06
  everyone in the house. After discussing what had been
• 1:27:10
  occurring amongst themselves, the Pikmins now think that what
• 1:27:14
  they could be experiencing may be evil.
• 1:27:18
  Coming to this conclusion leaves their heads spiraling, making
• 1:27:22
  them ponder a number of questions.
• 1:27:25
  Just what will they do? Will they go back to the house?
• 1:27:29
  Where could they go if they don't, and much more.
• 1:27:34
  Together, Debbie and Tony do their best to calm down and to
• 1:27:38
  face the decision that they have to make head on as a couple.
• 1:27:42
  In Tony's words, we were newly married, we had just started a
• 1:27:47
  family. We didn't have the money or the
• 1:27:49
  resources to be able to afford to move again.
• 1:27:53
  We were essentially bled out. We had a baby and we needed a
• 1:27:57
  place to stay. So we decided to go back that
• 1:28:01
  night. Although incredibly apprehensive
• 1:28:04
  about doing so, the Pikmins seemingly have no other choice.
• 1:28:09
  The following day, Tony meets up with his brother Alan yet again.
• 1:28:13
  Alan seems to have an idea on how to tackle the situation.
• 1:28:17
  Alan tells Debbie and Tony that his boss's sister is a psychic
• 1:28:21
  medium and he thinks that they should invite her to try and
• 1:28:24
  figure out what could be residing within the house and if
• 1:28:27
  she's able to decipher that. Finding this proposal weird
• 1:28:31
  because they've never delved into anything like this before,
• 1:28:35
  but feeling like it couldn't hurt to give it a try, they
• 1:28:38
  agree to have Alan reach out and ask her to come to the house.
• 1:28:42
  Three days later she would arrive.
• 1:28:45
  Her name was Barbara. Originally based out of
• 1:28:48
  California, she actively engaged in psychic work and lectured at
• 1:28:52
  various universities about parapsychology.
• 1:28:56
  Not having been given any information about the house or
• 1:28:59
  its history, she sat in the living room and explained to the
• 1:29:02
  Pikmans what it was that she did and then asked them.
• 1:29:06
  To tell her. Everything that had occurred up
• 1:29:08
  until that point so that she could fully grasp the whole
• 1:29:11
  picture. After they went through it all
• 1:29:14
  with Barbara, she then asked them to visit the nursery to
• 1:29:17
  begin. Tony would later say that I
• 1:29:20
  don't really believe in psychics, so I kind of blew her
• 1:29:24
  off at first, I didn't know what to think.
• 1:29:27
  Barbara begins her process and quickly begins to lose her
• 1:29:31
  breath. She starts choking and coughing.
• 1:29:34
  She then flees the room, heading for the basement below.
• 1:29:38
  Tony later would say that she told us that whatever was here
• 1:29:42
  didn't want us here and that it doesn't like anyone in this room
• 1:29:46
  referring to the nursery. As the pigments follow Barbara
• 1:29:50
  down the stairs, she soon stops at the bottom of them begins to
• 1:29:55
  sense another spirit, but this one doesn't seem ominous.
• 1:30:00
  She discovers that the spirit is that of a 7 year old little girl
• 1:30:03
  named Sally. She believes Sally passed away
• 1:30:06
  within the home itself. She also would come to the
• 1:30:09
  conclusion that it was Sally who had attacked Tony, believing
• 1:30:14
  that baby Taylor was hers to protect.
• 1:30:17
  She had become territorial between Deborah and Barbara.
• 1:30:21
  They come to the consensus that Sally is a guardian of sorts,
• 1:30:25
  that it would be a good idea to set aside a space for her and to
• 1:30:29
  give her some toys of her own to appease her.
• 1:30:33
  Tony, however, thought that this wasn't a good idea at all.
• 1:30:36
  He still believed that whatever dwelled within their house was
• 1:30:40
  malevolent and evil, that it was a bad idea for them to interact
• 1:30:45
  with whatever this thing was in any way, shape or form.
• 1:30:49
  However, disregarding her husband, Deborah does exactly
• 1:30:53
  this. After the psychic departs
• 1:30:57
  several days later, Deborah would go shopping for toys for
• 1:31:01
  Sally, hoping that her offerings would appease the spirit and all
• 1:31:06
  would be well. She also picks up the developed
• 1:31:09
  film from the photos that Tony took during the psychics visit.
• 1:31:14
  Excited to see if any of them contained an image of Sally, she
• 1:31:18
  quickly opens up the envelope to look at them what she sees.
• 1:31:22
  However, disturbs her. Several of the photos are
• 1:31:27
  bizarrely distorted. And one even contains some kind
• 1:31:31
  of malignant looking black BLOB. Horrified, Deborah rushes back
• 1:31:37
  home with the photos and the toys in hand.
• 1:31:41
  Walking through the front door, she immediately shows Tony
• 1:31:45
  having been the one who took the photos.
• 1:31:48
  He doesn't know what to make of the anomalies.
• 1:31:51
  One photo in particular catches his attention in his own words.
• 1:31:57
  The picture that really got me as we were walking down the
• 1:32:00
  stairs with Barbara, I turned around and took a picture and
• 1:32:05
  floating mid air is this thing. I couldn't explain it, it made
• 1:32:11
  me scared. Following looking at the photos,
• 1:32:15
  Deb once again references Barbara's convictions and
• 1:32:18
  continues to believe that Sally is a protector.
• 1:32:21
  She then continues with her plan and makes a dedicated space for
• 1:32:26
  Sally and adds the toys to it. Although Tony believes that the
• 1:32:30
  force haunting their home is evil, things do seem to go
• 1:32:34
  dormant for a short period of time following the offerings to
• 1:32:38
  Sally. However, this piece would not
• 1:32:41
  last. Several weeks later, Deb's
• 1:32:45
  sister Karen would return again for a follow up visit, and this
• 1:32:49
  time along with her husband. As the couples catch up on
• 1:32:52
  what's been happening in their lives, Deborah and Tony walk
• 1:32:56
  into the kitchen and grab themselves and their guests some
• 1:32:59
  more food and drinks. Their nice evening is soon
• 1:33:03
  interrupted by a piercing scream.
• 1:33:07
  There, before Karen and her husband, a stuffed animal, the
• 1:33:11
  same one that had fallen before, that was sitting in one of the
• 1:33:15
  chairs, had suddenly and spontaneously caught fire before
• 1:33:20
  their very eyes. As Tony and Deborah rushed back
• 1:33:24
  into the living room, they too were left.
• 1:33:26
  Flabbergasted at the site. Tony then rushes in with a towel
• 1:33:31
  to extinguish the fire. In his own words, if it can do
• 1:33:36
  this, what's keeping it from setting one of us on fire or
• 1:33:40
  hurting us or harming the baby? Following the flames of the
• 1:33:45
  previous evening, Deborah tries to convince her husband that the
• 1:33:49
  fire was an isolated incident. For the next two weeks, things
• 1:33:54
  at the house remain eerily calm. Tony, who works the overnight
• 1:33:59
  graveyard shift at a nearby grain elevator.
• 1:34:02
  Adjusts his day to his schedule. Upon returning home from work in
• 1:34:07
  the early morning hours, he tends to eat a meal when he gets
• 1:34:11
  home. One particular morning,
• 1:34:14
  following the calmness within the home, he grabs himself a
• 1:34:18
  glass of juice and something to eat.
• 1:34:21
  As he goes to place the pitcher of juice back in the
• 1:34:23
  refrigerator, he sees something move out of the corner of his
• 1:34:27
  eye. Turning his head, pitcher's
• 1:34:30
  still in hand, he sees the apparition of a young girl
• 1:34:34
  before him. Shocked, he drops the pitcher of
• 1:34:38
  juice and it shatters on the floor almost as soon as the
• 1:34:42
  pitcher had broke. As it smashed into the floor
• 1:34:46
  below, the apparition vanished. Paying no mind to it, Tony
• 1:34:52
  quickly runs upstairs where he greets his wife in their
• 1:34:54
  bedroom. Barely able to get a word out,
• 1:34:57
  he's finally able to say to her. I just saw Sally.
• 1:35:02
  Intrigued, Deborah immediately asked just what she looked like
• 1:35:07
  and then proceeds to bombard him with many more questions.
• 1:35:11
  Rather than being scared, Deb is elated.
• 1:35:14
  She's more curious than ever before, in her own words.
• 1:35:20
  I was terribly jealous Tony got to see this little girl or the
• 1:35:25
  apparition of her. She's curious just why of all
• 1:35:28
  people, Sally would reveal herself to Tony.
• 1:35:32
  She wonders why she didn't reveal herself to her.
• 1:35:35
  For the next two months, things once again go dormant within the
• 1:35:39
  home. But this too wouldn't last.
• 1:35:42
  One night, as the moon hangs high above the Pikmin residence
• 1:35:47
  as the couple sleeps, Tony is suddenly and violently pulled
• 1:35:52
  forward and then up and out of his bed by his arms, absolutely
• 1:35:57
  petrified. Tony screams as he realizes just
• 1:36:00
  what has taken place. He then is further bewildered as
• 1:36:05
  he looks down at his wrists. There on both of them were five
• 1:36:10
  distinct finger markings, as if someone or something had grabbed
• 1:36:15
  him. But the outline themselves
• 1:36:17
  weren't just there, these outlines looked like they were
• 1:36:20
  burns, as if the fingers themselves had been seared into
• 1:36:25
  his flesh. Blisters were now starting to
• 1:36:28
  form where each invisible hand had been.
• 1:36:31
  As he tries to come to terms with his terrifying ordeal, Deb
• 1:36:35
  still refuses to believe that it has anything to do with Sally.
• 1:36:39
  She thinks that his lack of sleep from being a new father
• 1:36:42
  and working the overnight shift started to get to him.
• 1:36:46
  However, upon seeing the blisters, she's almost in a
• 1:36:50
  sense of denial, saying that surely the spirit of a 7 year
• 1:36:54
  old girl would not be able to pull a grown man out of a bed or
• 1:36:58
  leave such marks. But if she somehow did, what was
• 1:37:02
  the message that she was trying to convey?
• 1:37:06
  Given everything that had taken place?
• 1:37:08
  A resentment began to build within Tony towards his wife.
• 1:37:12
  Accompanying this, he began to hear whispers on almost a daily
• 1:37:16
  basis. This would typically occur when
• 1:37:19
  he would lay down during the day to try and sleep so he could get
• 1:37:23
  back up and work at the grain elevator.
• 1:37:27
  To him, the whispers did not sound like that of a child at
• 1:37:30
  all, but rather like 3 low voiced people speaking to one
• 1:37:35
  another. They would also seem so close as
• 1:37:38
  if they were talking simultaneously directly into his
• 1:37:42
  ears. During one particularly scary
• 1:37:45
  experience involving the whispering, Tony also begins to
• 1:37:49
  see items near the bed float and rotate by themselves as if
• 1:37:54
  suspended by an invisible force. As he screams, wanting all of it
• 1:37:59
  to stop, he is greeted by his wife after explaining what he
• 1:38:04
  had just experienced. Unfortunately, she doesn't
• 1:38:09
  believe him given what he had been saying, that he had been
• 1:38:13
  seeing shadowy figures, hearing whispers, having nightmares as
• 1:38:18
  she perceived them. She thought that lack of sleep
• 1:38:21
  and stress was causing him to make things up.
• 1:38:25
  Tony is starting to believe that whatever force that haunts the
• 1:38:28
  house is targeting him, that it's attempting to manipulate
• 1:38:32
  his feelings. Coming to terms with this, he
• 1:38:35
  also realizes just how hard it's becoming to hide his growing
• 1:38:40
  resentment towards Deborah. He keeps having feelings of a
• 1:38:43
  dark rage well up inside him, feelings that he's worried could
• 1:38:48
  turn violent. In his own words.
• 1:38:52
  These feelings were not like me. I love her so much and I would
• 1:38:56
  never do anything to hurt her. But the longer we were there,
• 1:39:01
  the stronger these feelings were becoming.
• 1:39:04
  Tony, of course, wasn't the only one to notice these changes.
• 1:39:08
  Deborah noticed them too. There had been a large shift in
• 1:39:12
  his demeanor and attitude. He seemed angry, short fused,
• 1:39:18
  and argumentative. The couple began to fight almost
• 1:39:21
  daily, which hadn't been like them at all in the past.
• 1:39:26
  The Pikmans decide that they want to reach back out to
• 1:39:28
  Barbara for another consultation to see if they could potentially
• 1:39:32
  gain any new information on the presence that seemed to be
• 1:39:36
  everywhere and yet nowhere at the same time.
• 1:39:41
  In due time, Barbara again would visit them and upon her arrival
• 1:39:46
  would be told just how things had developed.
• 1:39:49
  She attempts to contact Sally once again after she believes
• 1:39:54
  she's made contact. With her.
• 1:39:56
  She then begins to sense a second entity.
• 1:39:59
  This one, however, is much older and seems to refuse to interact
• 1:40:04
  with her. She believes that this adult
• 1:40:06
  entity is a female. And the one that has been
• 1:40:09
  targeting Tony and that Sally has been taking the blame.
• 1:40:15
  However, she comes to the conviction that whatever is
• 1:40:18
  happening within the home is beyond her expertise.
• 1:40:22
  What she does offer though, is that she would contact a very
• 1:40:26
  qualified group of paranormal investigators.
• 1:40:29
  Tony's reaction at first is. Harsh.
• 1:40:32
  And in his own words once again. At first I was like, no way.
• 1:40:37
  We live in a small town. We'd be the laughingstock.
• 1:40:41
  If it wasn't a spirit in the house, then the only other thing
• 1:40:44
  that I could think it could be was the devil, and that scared
• 1:40:48
  me to death. After discussing the matter
• 1:40:51
  further with his wife and Barbara, he finally agrees to
• 1:40:55
  give the Group A try. Within days, the paranormal
• 1:41:00
  group would arrive. The group is led by, at that
• 1:41:03
  time, world renowned medium and paranormal researcher Peter
• 1:41:08
  James. In his words, a ghost is the
• 1:41:12
  ethereal double of its physical counterpart.
• 1:41:15
  We become a ghost depending on the circumstances in which we
• 1:41:19
  die. If we die untimely, tragically
• 1:41:23
  or violently, then we are rendered a ghost.
• 1:41:27
  I prefer not knowing any details about any specific haunting in
• 1:41:31
  which I investigate. It's my job to identify what's
• 1:41:34
  causing the activity, not being informed of the information
• 1:41:39
  previously, only that the family was young and had a young boy.
• 1:41:44
  As he sits in the living room and speaks with the Pikmans, he
• 1:41:48
  asked them if they had a young daughter as well, perhaps of
• 1:41:51
  seven or eight years old, telling him no.
• 1:41:56
  Peter remarked that it was strange because when he arrived,
• 1:42:00
  he saw such a young girl staring at them from one of the upstairs
• 1:42:04
  windows. Starting to explore the home,
• 1:42:08
  Peter begins to sense that there are two entities, one that is a
• 1:42:13
  child and the other an older adult woman who is very
• 1:42:17
  powerful. Upon asking the name of the
• 1:42:21
  entities out loud, he would reply with Sally.
• 1:42:26
  It's good to meet you. As he embarks up the stairs, he
• 1:42:31
  makes his way into the Pikmin's master bedroom and starts
• 1:42:34
  feeling the presence of the older female.
• 1:42:37
  As he steps further into the room with his crew and the
• 1:42:41
  Pikmin's behind him, Peter is suddenly thrown back against the
• 1:42:45
  door and almost simultaneously, Tony begins to scream in pain.
• 1:42:51
  My. Back, he says.
• 1:42:53
  Debbie lifts up his shirt and sees that once again his back is
• 1:42:58
  covered in fresh scratches, deep ones to the point to where they
• 1:43:02
  drew blood. Peter is astonished.
• 1:43:06
  He now knows that his older woman's presence is not a +1.
• 1:43:11
  Telling everyone not to let the entity know that they are afraid
• 1:43:15
  of it, they reluctantly press on.
• 1:43:18
  The crew spends the rest of the day investigating the home, and
• 1:43:22
  during this time, Peter once again begins walking back
• 1:43:25
  upstairs as if something or someone was calling out to him,
• 1:43:30
  and it's here that he begins to have a vision.
• 1:43:35
  In his vision, he's taken back into the past and he begins to
• 1:43:39
  see the spirits as they were in life.
• 1:43:43
  He believed that the home was once the home and practice of a
• 1:43:46
  medical physician. His housekeeper and her daughter
• 1:43:50
  lived there with him as well. The housekeeper was also his
• 1:43:55
  mistress and the daughter was also his.
• 1:43:59
  The housekeeper was African American and their daughter half
• 1:44:03
  and in such racially divided times, the affair and their
• 1:44:08
  secret child were kept hidden. Sally was her name and she was
• 1:44:14
  their seven-year old daughter. Peter believed that Sally had
• 1:44:18
  contracted pneumonia and her father, although a doctor, was
• 1:44:23
  unable to save her. Although the secret family and
• 1:44:27
  Sally's death are tragic, Peter tells the Pikmins that it's not
• 1:44:31
  fair for them to be victimized by the dead in their own home.
• 1:44:35
  That in order to rid themselves of this torment, that they must
• 1:44:39
  cleanse the house. That they were in control, but
• 1:44:43
  it was ultimately up to them to restore order.
• 1:44:46
  And with these words of advice, he and his crew would depart.
• 1:44:52
  The Pikmans decide that they will stay in the house and will
• 1:44:55
  do their best to set the rules and stand their ground.
• 1:45:00
  Several weeks pass and despite their best efforts, the
• 1:45:04
  atmosphere has only grown heavier, the torment even worse.
• 1:45:09
  Especially for Tony, his sleep has become even more scarce and
• 1:45:15
  his thoughts grow more and more evil.
• 1:45:18
  He can't shake the angry feelings.
• 1:45:21
  It's becoming more worried that he may end up harming his wife
• 1:45:25
  and or himself, that he feels as if this darkness is slowly
• 1:45:31
  consuming him. He finally confronts Deborah and
• 1:45:35
  explains exactly how he feels, that he believes that if they
• 1:45:39
  don't leave the house that something horrible may end up
• 1:45:42
  happening. Finally understanding the
• 1:45:45
  pressure her husband was under, she agrees with him and begins
• 1:45:50
  looking at ads for a new home for the family.
• 1:45:53
  In the meantime, Tony attempts to sleep due to work in the
• 1:45:57
  graveyard shift. As he lays in bed, tossing and
• 1:46:02
  turning, he's once again consumed by the ever growing and
• 1:46:07
  almost overwhelming thoughts of wanting to harm his family.
• 1:46:11
  Feeling as if he was under attack, he rushes out of the
• 1:46:15
  room and yells for Deborah. He tells her to grab Taylor,
• 1:46:20
  that they were leaving. That he had.
• 1:46:22
  Finally reached his breaking point.
• 1:46:25
  Fortunately for the Pickman family, they find a house
• 1:46:29
  shortly after leaving what would become known as the Sally House.
• 1:46:35
  The heaviness, the anger, and the spiritual torment would
• 1:46:40
  cease. But given what the Pikmans had
• 1:46:43
  gone through, it's also important to note that the Sally
• 1:46:47
  House certainly has a dark and checkered history that existed
• 1:46:51
  long before their arrival. Originally built in 1867 by the
• 1:46:57
  Finney family, it served as a generational home.
• 1:47:01
  Several generations of the family lived there between 1867
• 1:47:06
  and 1939. During that time, 5 confirmed
• 1:47:11
  deaths occurred within the family.
• 1:47:13
  Michael Finney in 1872, Charles Catherine's father, the wife of
• 1:47:20
  Michael Finney, Kate Finney and Richard Finney in 1874, and
• 1:47:27
  finally Agnes Finney in 1939. There are multiple stories about
• 1:47:33
  Sally that she passed away from pneumonia.
• 1:47:36
  The origin. I previously told him this
• 1:47:38
  story, but there is also another which I will tell you now.
• 1:47:43
  The story goes that Charles Finney, the son of Michael and
• 1:47:47
  Kate, became a doctor and made the house both his residence and
• 1:47:52
  his practice. The front served as an office
• 1:47:55
  space and an examination room while the family lived upstairs.
• 1:48:01
  One day a frantic mother arrived carrying her six year old
• 1:48:05
  daughter. Sally.
• 1:48:06
  Who had collapsed from severe abdominal pain, the doctor
• 1:48:10
  quickly diagnosed her with an appendicitis, and new surgery
• 1:48:15
  was urgent. Without delay, he prepped Sally
• 1:48:19
  for the operation using ether, the anesthesia that was
• 1:48:22
  available at that time. Tragically, Sally wasn't fully
• 1:48:27
  unconscious as the first incision was made.
• 1:48:32
  She. Screamed and thrashed in pain.
• 1:48:35
  Despite the doctor's efforts to restrain her and administer more
• 1:48:39
  anesthesia, Sally's condition worsened.
• 1:48:43
  She would go into shock and ultimately die on the operating
• 1:48:47
  table, her final moments filled with agony and fear.
• 1:48:53
  The home left the Finney family in 1939 and passed through
• 1:48:58
  various owners before becoming a rental property.
• 1:49:02
  At least one tenant may have been involved in satanic
• 1:49:05
  rituals, which some believe contributed to the sinister
• 1:49:08
  activity associated with the house.
• 1:49:12
  Paranormal activity wasn't reported until Tony and Deborah
• 1:49:15
  Pikmin began renting the house. Intrigued by the paranormal
• 1:49:19
  claims, the property owner, Les Smith, investigated and
• 1:49:24
  discovered a pentagram beneath the basement floorboards.
• 1:49:28
  Many believe that this may have been evidence of rituals that
• 1:49:30
  summoned something demonic. Subsequent investigations
• 1:49:34
  revealed blood evidence in the master bedroom closet and
• 1:49:38
  tattered clothing in the attic after the pigments.
• 1:49:41
  However, reports of electronic malfunctions, Evps, physical
• 1:49:47
  attacks, and other poltergeist activity have further cemented
• 1:49:52
  the house's reputation as a hotspot for paranormal
• 1:49:56
  occurrences. I've visited the Sally House
• 1:49:59
  myself. It was actually my very first
• 1:50:01
  paranormal investigation, albeit amateur at best at that time.
• 1:50:06
  It certainly was an excellent experience getting into the
• 1:50:09
  field, although for a variety of reasons, I don't think the Sally
• 1:50:13
  House is as haunted as it once was.
• 1:50:16
  However, we did experience a few strange things when I went with
• 1:50:21
  a few friends of mine. We arrived in the summer of 2022
• 1:50:25
  and it was easily close to 100°F outside, and the home, being
• 1:50:30
  very old, didn't have great AC as we would later learn.
• 1:50:35
  However, when we stepped inside for the first time, we were
• 1:50:39
  taken aback because it was absolutely frigid by comparison.
• 1:50:44
  This blast of cold air only lasted several seconds.
• 1:50:48
  The temperature did not fluctuate like it had then for
• 1:50:52
  the rest of the night. I also remember personally
• 1:50:55
  checking the thermostat and it was set at like 85 or something
• 1:51:00
  crazy so the actual air conditioning wasn't even on
• 1:51:03
  until we turned it on. So I found that weird to say the
• 1:51:06
  least. The record player and TV turned
• 1:51:09
  on by themselves multiple times throughout the night, which of
• 1:51:14
  course we found odd. The old record player didn't
• 1:51:17
  have any sort of a timer whatsoever, and given the age of
• 1:51:20
  the CRTV as well, it didn't appear to have a timer that we
• 1:51:24
  could find. That would have caused.
• 1:51:26
  This besides some strange feelings throughout the day and
• 1:51:30
  then into the night, we didn't get a ton of interaction through
• 1:51:34
  the kitchen. Although it was blocked off, we
• 1:51:36
  decided to look past it and go down the stairs and witness the
• 1:51:39
  pentagram, which for one reason or another had been burned out
• 1:51:43
  on the floor in the basement. And I do have to say that the
• 1:51:46
  basement itself was extremely creepy.
• 1:51:49
  You could feel some very bad vibes originating from there.
• 1:51:53
  So I wouldn't be surprised if some kind of black magic ritual
• 1:51:56
  or rituals were potentially done down there.
• 1:52:00
  I almost forgot, but as I was reviewing the original footage,
• 1:52:04
  I did find that we did capture an EVP and I'll go ahead and
• 1:52:08
  play that for you now. With black mold in the walls of
• 1:52:32
  this very old home, we decided not to stay overnight because
• 1:52:37
  you weren't supposed to sleep there anyways.
• 1:52:40
  Having taken plenty of video and photo evidence, we began to
• 1:52:44
  place things we had taken from Sally's room back and when my
• 1:52:48
  friend, whose name is also Cody but with AC, placed one of those
• 1:52:52
  Magic 8 ball toys back on the bed, a touch activated toy
• 1:52:56
  decided to go off on its own. In this particular 1, you had to
• 1:53:00
  tap its head fairly hard to get it to go off.
• 1:53:03
  I remember all of us being freaked out by it.
• 1:53:06
  I remember it was extremely foggy that night, which added to
• 1:53:09
  the mystique, especially of my first paranormal adventure for
• 1:53:13
  sure. Or one that didn't occur of
• 1:53:16
  course, in in a home that I lived in.
• 1:53:19
  We took one last look at the Sally house before departing.
• 1:53:22
  Into our shock, all the lights decided to turn on within the
• 1:53:26
  home. From what we could see, both the
• 1:53:28
  upstairs and the main floor lights.
• 1:53:31
  The breaker was the original. So this too seems rather
• 1:53:35
  impossible to have just occurred on its own without some kind of
• 1:53:38
  ghostly intervention. Our code only worked for
• 1:53:41
  entering so we weren't able to get back into the home following
• 1:53:44
  this, but granted it was 2:00 AM at this point so we decided to
• 1:53:49
  drive home. We would hit a pothole and one
• 1:53:52
  of our tires kept going flat on our way home, which definitely
• 1:53:56
  was not fun all around. I would return, knowing what I
• 1:54:01
  know now and having much better equipment and resources and far
• 1:54:06
  more experienced friends by my side.
• 1:54:09
  I think we would catch a lot more.
• 1:54:12
  It's my belief that for one reason or another, that the
• 1:54:14
  Sally Houses may be dormant or not as haunted as it once was,
• 1:54:20
  and that it's still very possible that a demonic presence
• 1:54:22
  still slithers within its walls, masquerading itself as the soul.
• 1:54:28
  Of a little girl named Sally. I took the original documentary
• 1:54:32
  down due to some copyrighted image issues earlier this year.
• 1:54:36
  As well as the. Origin story that I had
• 1:54:37
  originally made, but I think I did a far better job this time.
• 1:54:41
  Anyways, some of the photos and footage I've shown you while
• 1:54:45
  explaining my trip there I originally took and filmed
• 1:54:49
  myself. The Sally House was made famous
• 1:54:52
  in part by the old show Sightings, who filmed a segment
• 1:54:55
  for an episode on it, which was picked up by local and then
• 1:54:59
  later national media. As well as Deborah.
• 1:55:02
  Pikman would go on to write a book which I found to be a great
• 1:55:05
  read called The Sally House Haunting, which you can.
• 1:55:09
  Find on Amazon and I'll link it below.
• 1:55:13
  Today we cover a legend, one that whispers of a truly dark
• 1:55:17
  and strange place. The story surrounds a group of
• 1:55:22
  friends who venture into an abandoned and supposedly haunted
• 1:55:26
  town hidden within the misty mountains of Spain, and it's
• 1:55:31
  here that they collectively experience something that would
• 1:55:36
  make even the bravest of us shudder and would chill every
• 1:55:40
  single one of them to their core.
• 1:55:44
  Will they make it out alive or will the mist claim them?
• 1:55:50
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• 1:55:54
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  we explore the unexplained paranormal tales of this world
• 1:56:23
  and possibly the next. Now let's get to today's story.
• 1:56:29
  It was the afternoon of October 16th, 1991.
• 1:56:35
  A 36 year old man by the name of Enrique Martinez knelt by a Moss
• 1:56:40
  covered log. He had been admiring a lovely
• 1:56:44
  looking mushroom forging for fungi.
• 1:56:48
  He placed it gently into his Wicker basket, adding it to the
• 1:56:52
  others that he had gathered. As he stood, he took in the view
• 1:56:58
  of the verdant valley below, untouched and silent, beautiful
• 1:57:05
  yet eerie at the same time. Enrique was mushroom hunting
• 1:57:10
  with his wife, Anna, and two of their friends, a couple by the
• 1:57:15
  name of Jorge and Sophia. They were exploring near an
• 1:57:19
  ancient abandoned town known as La Masura, perched high in the
• 1:57:25
  northwestern mountains of Spain. It was Jorge who had suggested
• 1:57:30
  coming here, lured by legends of hauntings and sinister folklore.
• 1:57:36
  Enrique, however, cared little for ghost stories.
• 1:57:41
  If anything, he was here for the mushrooms and the peace and
• 1:57:45
  quiet. Enrique worked as a bartender in
• 1:57:48
  the bustling port city of Tarragonia, where every night he
• 1:57:53
  was surrounded by crowds. Loud noises and voices coupled
• 1:57:59
  with the clanking of bottles and glasses was his norm.
• 1:58:03
  The peace and solitude of the mountains were a bomb for his
• 1:58:07
  chaotic life, a chance to immerse himself in the quiet
• 1:58:11
  pursuit of mushroom hunting, a hobby he truly enjoyed.
• 1:58:16
  His mind focused on finding a prized local mushroom known as
• 1:58:21
  the Bloody Milk. Cap didn't dwell on La Messura's
• 1:58:25
  dark history, albeit it may seem ironic given the name.
• 1:58:30
  But as they reached the town's outskirts, he felt a shift in
• 1:58:34
  energy. A prickling on ease crept over
• 1:58:38
  him, and he became unnerved, to say the least.
• 1:58:43
  La Masura was over 900 years old, its crumbling remnants
• 1:58:48
  littering the mountainside with many runes older than its memory
• 1:58:53
  itself. The town had once been home to
• 1:58:56
  around 300 residents, yet now had been deserted for decades,
• 1:59:03
  the last souls fleeing some 40 years prior.
• 1:59:08
  As they approached the town, the friends paused by a rune on the
• 1:59:11
  town's edge and suddenly, out of nowhere, the air thickened
• 1:59:17
  around them and an ever growing mist gathered at their feet.
• 1:59:24
  This mist or fog, and slowly creeped up the abandoned dirt
• 1:59:29
  Rd. that led through La Messiera's heart.
• 1:59:34
  At the road's end was a massive, dilapidated church, its presence
• 1:59:40
  casting a shadow over the overgrown cemetery behind it, as
• 1:59:45
  well as the murky pond brimming with frogs.
• 1:59:49
  The eerie silence was only occasionally broken by the
• 1:59:53
  distant croaks echoing through the mist.
• 1:59:57
  Jorge led the way, a mischievous smile on his face as he grasped
• 2:00:02
  Sophia's hand, pulling her toward the church.
• 2:00:07
  Enrique and Anna followed, but something made Enrique glance
• 2:00:11
  back. The mist had swallowed the rune
• 2:00:14
  behind them entirely, as if they had crossed an unseen threshold.
• 2:00:20
  With this, an inexplicable chill ran through him, and the air
• 2:00:25
  suddenly became heavy and thick. The mist, Jorge had said, was La
• 2:00:32
  Messura's infamous shroud, a fog that enveloped the town night
• 2:00:37
  after night. But here it was smothering them
• 2:00:41
  in the daylight, which bothered him.
• 2:00:45
  Yet despite this, he brushed it off and followed his friends,
• 2:00:50
  though a gnawing sense of impending doom clung to him.
• 2:00:54
  They stopped beside a peculiar rectangular stone jutting from
• 2:00:58
  the ground. Jorge placed a hand on its
• 2:01:01
  surface, his voice low and eager.
• 2:01:06
  This is the sixth stone, he said.
• 2:01:09
  It's one of the oldest relics here.
• 2:01:12
  They say it has dark powers. His voice took on a hushed,
• 2:01:17
  reverent tone. La Misura, he explained, was
• 2:01:22
  once a weigh station for ancient armies.
• 2:01:26
  They believed that the Six Stone held a magic of sorts that was
• 2:01:30
  capable of winning battles, but only for a price.
• 2:01:36
  Legend claimed that those who touched it risked being pulled
• 2:01:39
  into a twisted, parallel world, a darkened hellscape that was
• 2:01:45
  teeming with demonic entities. As Jorge relayed this, he kept
• 2:01:52
  his hand on the stone, grinning as he dared someone else to
• 2:01:56
  touch it. Sofia, uneasy, shook her head,
• 2:02:03
  but Anna, laughing, stepped forward and placed her hand on
• 2:02:07
  the stone. They held their breath,
• 2:02:11
  expecting something dreadful to happen, but nothing did.
• 2:02:16
  Just then, the frogs by the church erupted in a concophony,
• 2:02:22
  their croaks deafening. Enrique turned toward the sound,
• 2:02:27
  peering through the fog at the shadowy outline of the church.
• 2:02:32
  For a moment, he caught a glimpse of a dark figure
• 2:02:36
  standing in one of the windows, motionless and watching.
• 2:02:42
  The image burned into his mind, but yet in a blink it vanished.
• 2:02:49
  Was this figure real, or just a trick of the fog, perhaps, His
• 2:02:54
  imagination running wild, Before he could speak, Anna called to
• 2:02:59
  him, laughing. Come on, Enrique, your turn.
• 2:03:05
  Her voice jolted him from his thoughts.
• 2:03:09
  Pacing himself yet feeling some kind of pull towards the object,
• 2:03:14
  he reached for the 6th stone. The second his fingers touched
• 2:03:19
  it, a wave of unnatural cold washed over him, yet the stone
• 2:03:25
  burned beneath his skin. Time seemed to slow, as if
• 2:03:30
  something sinister seeped into his mind, something that urged
• 2:03:34
  him to keep touching it, to never let it go.
• 2:03:39
  In the depths of his mind, a small voice clinging to reason
• 2:03:44
  whispered frantically for him to let go.
• 2:03:47
  With great effort, he released the stone, his skin tingling as
• 2:03:54
  he backed away. His friends were grinning, but
• 2:03:58
  Sophia was pale. Let's leave the stone alone, she
• 2:04:01
  said with her voice trembling. We are tempting things that we
• 2:04:06
  don't understand. Jorge chuckled, trying to brush
• 2:04:10
  off her concern, and then LED them further into La Misera.
• 2:04:16
  As the group ventured deeper, the fog grew denser, smothering
• 2:04:21
  the world around them as though drawing them into its depths.
• 2:04:27
  Enrique couldn't shake the lingering dread, the feeling of
• 2:04:31
  someone or something watching them.
• 2:04:35
  He slowly trailed behind, casting wary glances at the
• 2:04:39
  church as they passed by the pond.
• 2:04:43
  The frog's croaking reached an almost unbearable volume,
• 2:04:47
  pulsing like a heartbeat. With this, Enrique's gaze
• 2:04:53
  drifted involuntarily toward the window where he had originally
• 2:04:57
  seen the dark figure. It was empty now, but he noticed
• 2:05:03
  something peculiar. He felt a pole, something
• 2:05:07
  coaxing him closer, daring him to peer inside.
• 2:05:13
  Despite his soul screaming, he obeyed, stepping toward the
• 2:05:18
  church, unable to resist the compulsion.
• 2:05:23
  With each step, his breath grew more shallow as he leaned closer
• 2:05:29
  and closer to the broken window, peering into the darkness
• 2:05:34
  within. Inside, shadows pooled in every
• 2:05:39
  corner, shrouding the remnants of pews, the pulpit, the frogs.
• 2:05:45
  Croaks continued to swell, reaching an overwhelming
• 2:05:49
  crescendo as his gaze locked onto the inky black void just
• 2:05:54
  beyond the altar. It felt as if the darkness
• 2:05:58
  itself was alive, twitching and writhing, beckoning him closer.
• 2:06:06
  Suddenly, a hand gripped his shoulder, jerking him back to
• 2:06:10
  reality. Anna was beside him, her face
• 2:06:14
  puzzled. Come on, she said, leading him
• 2:06:18
  toward the cemetery. They joined Jorge and Sophia
• 2:06:22
  amongst the graves, each stone worn and nameless.
• 2:06:28
  Trying to shake off the lingering terror, Enrique turned
• 2:06:32
  his focus to the headstones. Anna backed into an old cross,
• 2:06:38
  toppling it to the ground with a sickening crack.
• 2:06:42
  With the fog ever thickening around them, Enrique swore he
• 2:06:46
  heard whispers in the mist. They seemed faint and pleading.
• 2:06:53
  He glanced back at the church, still feeling that dark presence
• 2:06:58
  there, lurking, watching and waiting.
• 2:07:03
  Something in La Masira did not want them to leave.
• 2:07:07
  Jorge and Sophia turned toward Anna as they heard the snap of
• 2:07:11
  the stone breaking in two. Realizing what had happened,
• 2:07:16
  Jorge burst out laughing, teasing her by saying, Oh boy,
• 2:07:22
  now you've upset the evil spirits here, you better put
• 2:07:25
  that back together. Anna tried to laugh along, but
• 2:07:30
  panic crept in as she attempted to reassemble the gravestone she
• 2:07:34
  had accidentally broken, but the stone was beyond repair.
• 2:07:40
  Jorge continued to chuckle, while Sophia, standing close
• 2:07:44
  beside him, grew uneasy. Jorge, is this place truly
• 2:07:49
  haunted? She asked.
• 2:07:51
  Like, actually haunted? Her voice hushed with worry.
• 2:07:57
  Jorge paused, his laughter fading.
• 2:08:00
  Yeah, I think it really is. And with that, he launched into
• 2:08:05
  the legend that haunted La Misura in October of 1873,
• 2:08:11
  during a fierce civil war in the region of Spain, rival armies
• 2:08:16
  used the nearby mountainside caves as makeshift field
• 2:08:20
  hospitals. One night, a reverend general
• 2:08:25
  named Serkos, mortally wounded in battle, was brought into one
• 2:08:30
  of these caves. There, surrounded by his closest
• 2:08:34
  men, he passed away. His death was kept secret,
• 2:08:41
  revealing the loss of their beloved leader would crush the
• 2:08:44
  morale of his troops and give the enemy an easy victory.
• 2:08:49
  At dawn, Cerso's six loyal men carried him silently up to the
• 2:08:54
  cemetery in La Misura and buried him in a shallow grave.
• 2:09:01
  Knowing a villager was to be interred in that spot soon, they
• 2:09:05
  laid him under a thin layer of dirt to be hidden by another
• 2:09:09
  coffin and marked only by a simple unnamed headstone with a
• 2:09:16
  single horizontal line. Weeks later, 5 enemy soldiers
• 2:09:22
  scaled the mountain, unaware of Cirso's death.
• 2:09:26
  Convinced he was hiding in La Misura, they forced their way
• 2:09:30
  into homes, demanding the villagers reveal his location.
• 2:09:36
  The poor townspeople were terrified.
• 2:09:39
  Finally, a weary elderly man stepped forward and revealed
• 2:09:44
  Cirsos was buried behind the church.
• 2:09:48
  Suspicious, the soldiers forced the townspeople to dig up every
• 2:09:52
  grave in the cemetery to prove his death.
• 2:09:57
  Amid the chaos, the eerie sound of croaking frogs from a nearby
• 2:10:01
  pond grew louder and louder. Frustrated by the deafening
• 2:10:07
  noise, the soldiers leader strode to the pond, firing shots
• 2:10:12
  into the water to silence the frogs.
• 2:10:16
  But their croaking only intensified.
• 2:10:20
  The soldiers finally realized that the only grave left
• 2:10:23
  undisturbed was marked by the simple line.
• 2:10:28
  The villagers warned them that this grave belonged to a feared
• 2:10:31
  witch, but the soldiers didn't care.
• 2:10:36
  They forced the villagers to dig it up, and when they opened the
• 2:10:41
  coffin, the townspeople gasped in horror.
• 2:10:46
  The witch looked as if she had just died, her skin unnervingly
• 2:10:51
  smooth and her eyes wide open, gazing out at them as if an
• 2:10:59
  warning. Enraged at not finding Sirsos,
• 2:11:03
  the soldiers dragged the witch's body from her coffin, hung her
• 2:11:08
  from a tree, and riddled her with bullets until the town fell
• 2:11:13
  silent once more. But as soon as they stopped
• 2:11:17
  shooting, they noticed that the frogs, which had filled the air
• 2:11:22
  with sound, we're now silent too.
• 2:11:26
  The soldiers, unsettled by the sudden stillness, fled La
• 2:11:31
  Misera, leaving the villagers to rebury the dead.
• 2:11:36
  When a townsperson climbed into the desecrated grave, they
• 2:11:40
  discovered another coffin below the secret resting place of
• 2:11:46
  General Sirsos. The curse of the Witch was said
• 2:11:50
  to linger over the town ever since, with death, disease, and
• 2:11:57
  failed harvest plaguing the town until its last residence finally
• 2:12:02
  abandoned it in the 1950s. As Jorge finished, Anna's gaze
• 2:12:09
  dropped to the shattered gravestone in her hands.
• 2:12:13
  A terrible realization had dawned on her.
• 2:12:17
  The headstone she had accidentally knocked over bore a
• 2:12:20
  simple horizontal line. She had inadvertently desecrated
• 2:12:27
  the witch's grave. Terrified, she then spotted the
• 2:12:33
  perfect bloody milk cap mushroom at the base of a nearby wall,
• 2:12:39
  the very type her husband Enrique had been hunting for the
• 2:12:44
  entire time the group had been out there.
• 2:12:47
  Trying not to focus on what had just occurred, she plucked it
• 2:12:52
  and turned to show him, only to find that he was gone.
• 2:12:58
  Puzzled, she called out to him but received no reply.
• 2:13:03
  Growing anxious, she turned to Jorge and Sophia, who, when
• 2:13:08
  asked, shrugged, saying that they hadn't seen him.
• 2:13:14
  Panicked, Anna sprinted out of the cemetery with Sophia and
• 2:13:18
  Jorge trailing behind her. In the dense fog, shadows
• 2:13:23
  shifted and eerie silhouettes loomed, but when they got close,
• 2:13:30
  they only found empty air. Sophia clung tighter to Jorge,
• 2:13:36
  fear building as the fog grew thicker and the croaking of
• 2:13:41
  frogs once again swelled around them.
• 2:13:45
  Following Anna's cries, Jorge and Sophia finally found her
• 2:13:49
  crouched in the churchyard, clutching Enrique's Wicker
• 2:13:53
  basket with tears streaking down her face as she whispered.
• 2:13:59
  He's gone. The trio spent the next hour
• 2:14:04
  frantically searching La Misera, the fog becoming blinding as
• 2:14:09
  darkness fell. When they finally conceded
• 2:14:12
  defeat, they would make their way back to civilization and
• 2:14:17
  report the disappearance. Following this, a week long
• 2:14:22
  search ensued, but despite the authority's best efforts, not a
• 2:14:28
  trace of Enrique was ever found. Months later, in January of
• 2:14:34
  1992, Anna, still grieving her husband's disappearance, would
• 2:14:41
  return to Lao Misura along with. Sofia.
• 2:14:44
  And Jorge determined to search once more.
• 2:14:49
  As the group passed by the old church window, they would be
• 2:14:53
  shocked by what they would see. There within the church, they
• 2:14:58
  saw six dark hooded figures standing in a circle inside,
• 2:15:05
  motionless and silent. Anna's fear and sorrow seem to
• 2:15:11
  turn to anger. Mistaking the figures for ghost
• 2:15:15
  hunters, disrespecting the tragedy of her husband's
• 2:15:19
  disappearance, she approached the window, ready to scream at
• 2:15:24
  them. But as she approached, one of
• 2:15:28
  the robed figures slowly turned to face her.
• 2:15:32
  And when this occurred, it disturbed the poor woman, the
• 2:15:36
  very depths of her mourning soul.
• 2:15:40
  Anna stumbled backward. The figure who would turn
• 2:15:44
  towards her revealed that it had no face, instead only a
• 2:15:51
  swirling, inky black void staring into her eyes.
• 2:15:57
  Before the group could react, the silence would be shattered
• 2:16:01
  at the sound of galloping hooves erupting from behind them.
• 2:16:07
  This was then followed by a cacophony of frog croaks that
• 2:16:12
  grew impossibly loud. Spinning around, they saw only
• 2:16:17
  morphing fog. Paralyzed with fear, they would
• 2:16:22
  turn back towards the church, only to realize that the
• 2:16:26
  sinister robed figures had vanished.
• 2:16:31
  The three friends could no longer stand being anywhere near
• 2:16:34
  this horrible place any longer. In terror, they fled, never to
• 2:16:41
  return. To this day, no one knows what
• 2:16:45
  became of Enrique or why. Others too have vanished in La
• 2:16:50
  Misura, a ghost town that is seemingly cursed by a tumultuous
• 2:16:56
  past. But are these terrifying legends
• 2:16:59
  true? I originally came across an
• 2:17:03
  article about La Misura and found the main story which I
• 2:17:07
  have now researched and retold. This article, originally in
• 2:17:12
  Spanish, touched upon some very interesting details of the case
• 2:17:17
  and added a few hypotheticals which I'll discuss with you now.
• 2:17:23
  One of the beliefs as to what happened to this man was that he
• 2:17:28
  chose this moment as an opportunity to voluntarily
• 2:17:32
  disappear for one reason or another.
• 2:17:35
  I, however, don't personally agree with this theory.
• 2:17:39
  Disappearing of your own volition without a trace is very
• 2:17:43
  difficult to do even back in the early 1990s, let alone today.
• 2:17:49
  But it is still. Possible if someone knew what
• 2:17:51
  they were doing, but to do so you'd need a good amount of
• 2:17:56
  money and some kind of infrastructure or plan to do it.
• 2:18:01
  With this being said, other theories are that he possibly
• 2:18:05
  got confused and went off the trail and died by accident,
• 2:18:10
  perhaps by falling. Although this seems like a much
• 2:18:13
  more plausible potential cause for the man's disappearance, it
• 2:18:18
  too to me is pretty unlikely to be what happened.
• 2:18:21
  I say this because there was a week long exhaustive search that
• 2:18:25
  was carried out both with volunteers and the authorities.
• 2:18:30
  If Enrique had fallen in past, surely his body would have been
• 2:18:34
  discovered during this time while the search was taking
• 2:18:38
  place. When the authorities began to go
• 2:18:41
  through all possibilities, his wife and friends were questioned
• 2:18:45
  as to what happened to him but would be ruled out as not having
• 2:18:49
  anything to do with his disappearance.
• 2:18:53
  Some other interesting details would be that if he had
• 2:18:56
  disappeared in any capacity on his own.
• 2:18:59
  He had left his vehicle, which also.
• 2:19:02
  Contained his medications and his identifying documents.
• 2:19:07
  Strangely, apparently, Enrique has not been the only one to
• 2:19:11
  disappear here. Many others have said to have
• 2:19:14
  vanished without a trace, yet despite this, oddly, the missing
• 2:19:20
  tend to be referred to in the plural, but often times no
• 2:19:24
  specific names are mentioned. What I do know is that in 1995 a
• 2:19:31
  German engineer decided to visit La Misura and ultimately went
• 2:19:35
  missing for three hours. He returned upset and
• 2:19:39
  disoriented, completely unable to explain where he had been and
• 2:19:44
  just what had happened to him. Various mayors and community
• 2:19:49
  leaders in nearby towns have said that these stories are
• 2:19:52
  nothing but fairy tales, but this seems to have been said in
• 2:19:57
  hopes of quelling fears in order to not disrupt the crucial
• 2:20:01
  tourism to the area. The issue of missing persons has
• 2:20:06
  no political ideology, yet these things are usually only briefly
• 2:20:11
  covered by the mainstream media outlets and local news.
• 2:20:16
  Occasionally a case may be picked up by a content creator
• 2:20:19
  on YouTube for wider exposure, but these are few and far
• 2:20:24
  between. At the end of the day, only
• 2:20:26
  friends and families of the missing person are truly
• 2:20:29
  affected. It seems like society as a whole
• 2:20:33
  may pause for a brief second, but seem to go back to business
• 2:20:37
  as usual after that second has passed.
• 2:20:41
  To keep things relevant to this story, in November of 2019 /
• 2:20:47
  12,000 people were missing in Spain alone.
• 2:20:51
  Some have turned up over time, but the number who haven't is
• 2:20:55
  still very high, posing a very real enigma and one that affects
• 2:21:01
  many lives alongside these fear inducing statistics.
• 2:21:06
  Just what has happened to these people?
• 2:21:09
  What happened to Enrique? And is there truly something
• 2:21:13
  otherworldly, possibly a portal to another dimension located the
• 2:21:19
  abandoned ghost town known as La Misura?
• 2:21:23
  These, as with many stories I've covered, are questions that I or
• 2:21:28
  anyone else may never have the answers to.
• 2:21:32
  But despite the horror, sorrow and terror, it does go to show
• 2:21:38
  that there are many things in this world that are truly
• 2:21:41
  unexplained, and these things may just remain as such.
• 2:21:49
  Things were so bad that Michael's parents, Jackie and
• 2:21:51
  Esther, and his sister Martha had to leave the house along
• 2:21:55
  with Martha's baby daughter Sarah Louise.
• 2:21:58
  It happened about 100 years ago. It was a baby boy that was
• 2:22:02
  smothered at birth and she said this baby like was just a
• 2:22:08
  newborn baby. Can we just get that clear?
• 2:22:12
  Michael did. Did you see it?
• 2:22:13
  Yes. You saw it.
• 2:22:15
  I did see it, yes. Galway, a city on Ireland's West
• 2:22:35
  Coast, sits where the River Korub meets the Atlantic Ocean.
• 2:22:41
  The city's hub is an 18th century Ire Square, a popular
• 2:22:46
  meeting spot surrounded by shops and traditional pubs that offer
• 2:22:51
  live Irish folk music. But Galway is known for much
• 2:22:55
  more than just beauty and entertainment.
• 2:22:59
  Like many places, it harbors dark and mysterious secrets.
• 2:23:05
  Underneath the bustle of feet walking and music playing, if
• 2:23:10
  you listen hard enough, you can hear the faint whispers of the
• 2:23:15
  dead. Our story begins here in 1996
• 2:23:21
  with the Fahey family. The last 30 years, they've
• 2:23:26
  called this council house home Living is 1 big happy family
• 2:23:31
  altogether. There's Jackie Fahey, a bus
• 2:23:35
  driver for special needs children, his wife Esther, who
• 2:23:41
  works as a cook at a nearby child care center.
• 2:23:45
  And they are joined by their daughter Martha, who has
• 2:23:49
  recently given birth to a baby girl by the name of Sarah
• 2:23:53
  Louise, and their son Michael with his fiance Anne.
• 2:24:00
  In the words of Michael Fahey, with the birth of Sarah Louise,
• 2:24:05
  when she came into the house, we felt as if it was a new
• 2:24:09
  beginning. Me and Anne were in the process
• 2:24:12
  of getting married and I had just started my own business.
• 2:24:16
  It was a very happy time for the family.
• 2:24:20
  But as the family loves one another and cares for the
• 2:24:24
  newborn Sarah Louise, something else seemed to be watching them
• 2:24:30
  lurking within the walls of their home.
• 2:24:35
  A few months after Sarah Luis is born, their next door neighbors
• 2:24:40
  begin a series of renovations. The construction and it's noises
• 2:24:46
  begin to bleed over into their house as well.
• 2:24:50
  But it seems as though the baby is not the only entity that is
• 2:24:54
  disturbed several days after the renovations began.
• 2:24:59
  As Michael walks into the living room, he is hit seemingly out of
• 2:25:03
  nowhere by a horrendous smell. Describing it as smelling like
• 2:25:09
  rotten meat or rotting flesh in later interviews.
• 2:25:13
  But thinking it had to have been a deceased rodent or something
• 2:25:17
  to do with the pipes, he brings it to the attention of his
• 2:25:21
  father. Jackie too was taken aback by
• 2:25:25
  the noxious smell. Although the two do their
• 2:25:28
  absolute best to discern where the smell is coming from, it
• 2:25:33
  seems to be everywhere yet is spawning from nowhere.
• 2:25:38
  Concerned, Jackie contacts the local property authority to have
• 2:25:43
  their pipes examined for the potential cause.
• 2:25:48
  The following morning, with a knock at the door, two plumbers
• 2:25:52
  arrived to hopefully begin to figure out the cause of the
• 2:25:56
  smells and come up with a solution for the family.
• 2:26:00
  Walking inside, they asked Jackie and Michael just what
• 2:26:04
  seems to be the problem, as they explained that the smell seems
• 2:26:09
  to be everywhere yet nowhere, oftentimes being stronger in
• 2:26:14
  certain parts of the home versus other times as if it's moving.
• 2:26:19
  They think it could have something to do with the pipes.
• 2:26:23
  They tell the men that it smells like rotting flesh or death or
• 2:26:28
  both. Pinching their noses in disgust,
• 2:26:32
  they ask the plumbers if they smell it.
• 2:26:36
  Unfazed, neither men can smell anything.
• 2:26:40
  This very much confuses the fahes.
• 2:26:43
  Telling the men that the sin is often stronger upstairs, they
• 2:26:47
  lead them there and into the restroom.
• 2:26:51
  Michael and Jackie continue to cringe in discomfort, but the
• 2:26:55
  plumbers can't seem to smell what they're smelling.
• 2:26:59
  Confused and becoming angry, considering they've been
• 2:27:02
  smelling this rot for several days now, they ask the plumbers
• 2:27:07
  to check everything anyways, since they're already there.
• 2:27:11
  So the men do just that. They examine the toilets, pipes
• 2:27:17
  and drains, however everything is fine and in working order.
• 2:27:23
  Never once did they smell what the Fahey's had described.
• 2:27:28
  Finding this incredibly odd and realizing that if they were the
• 2:27:32
  only ones smelling whatever this was, the two plumbers must have
• 2:27:36
  thought that they were crazy. They were now more concerned
• 2:27:41
  because if the smell wasn't coming from any place checked by
• 2:27:44
  the plumbers, then just where was it coming from and just what
• 2:27:49
  was it? The smell, however, is not just
• 2:27:53
  experienced by Jackie and Michael.
• 2:27:57
  Over the next several days, it is experienced on varying levels
• 2:28:02
  by all members of the family. Feeling as if they were losing
• 2:28:06
  their minds, they begin to clean most hours of the day when they
• 2:28:11
  are home, disinfect the sinks and drains regularly.
• 2:28:16
  Alongside this, they open the windows for the fresh air.
• 2:28:21
  And yet, whether they're open or not, whether they are cleaning
• 2:28:25
  or not, the smell only continues to get worse.
• 2:28:30
  It starts to affect the family, causing them to feel sick,
• 2:28:35
  nauseous and dizzy at varying times, suffering with the smell
• 2:28:41
  for almost a month. One day it mysteriously
• 2:28:46
  vanishes, but something else equally bizarre would take its
• 2:28:51
  place. One night, as the moon hangs
• 2:28:55
  high and large over the Fahey residence and the wind rustles
• 2:29:00
  the trees outside in the darkness, Michael and his fiance
• 2:29:05
  Anne are woken up by the sounds of a baby crying.
• 2:29:10
  This normally wouldn't be a problem, but the crying is
• 2:29:13
  persistent and continuing to grow louder with each passing
• 2:29:18
  minute. Concerned as to why Martha
• 2:29:21
  wasn't taking care of her baby and irritated as most would be
• 2:29:26
  given the hour, Michael decides to get up and check on just what
• 2:29:30
  was going on. Walking down the hall, the cries
• 2:29:35
  of the infants seem to grow louder with each step he takes,
• 2:29:39
  finally reaching a fever pitch when he reaches the room that
• 2:29:43
  Sarah Louise was in. Opening the door to check on
• 2:29:48
  her, he sees Sarah fully awake and looking around the room in
• 2:29:52
  her crib. But she has a Binky in her mouth
• 2:29:56
  and the cries, which he had believed were coming from his
• 2:30:00
  niece, were still echoing all throughout and hadn't eased in
• 2:30:06
  volume or intensity. Even stranger, his sister Martha
• 2:30:11
  was sleeping as if there was nothing out of the ordinary.
• 2:30:16
  The cries continued despite Sarah Louise not making them.
• 2:30:21
  Thoroughly freaked out but unsure of how to tackle the
• 2:30:24
  situation, Michael slowly makes his way back to his bedroom
• 2:30:29
  where Anne asked him just why he didn't get Martha to take care
• 2:30:32
  of her baby. He responds with I did, I
• 2:30:37
  checked on her and it's not Sarah Louise who's crying and
• 2:30:42
  Martha is asleep. As they both look at each other
• 2:30:46
  confused and concerned, Michael suddenly begins to choke.
• 2:30:51
  He tries to scream and grabs at his throat, but nothing but
• 2:30:57
  struggle. Gasps of air come out.
• 2:31:00
  In later interviews he would say it felt as if someone was
• 2:31:04
  choking me and sitting on my chest.
• 2:31:08
  I couldn't speak, I couldn't breathe.
• 2:31:12
  Feeling as if he was going to pass out, he makes his way
• 2:31:16
  towards the mirror where on the dresser it was connected to, it
• 2:31:20
  was a rosary. Reaching desperately for it,
• 2:31:24
  he's able to clutch it just barely, and in this moment,
• 2:31:29
  whatever invisible hand that was smothering him pulled away.
• 2:31:34
  Terrified. As the cries that go all around
• 2:31:37
  them, Michael and Anne hold each other with the rosary and pray
• 2:31:42
  as hard as they possibly can in Michael's own words.
• 2:31:48
  As we prayed, the crying seemed to get worse.
• 2:31:52
  It got louder and louder, almost as if we were physically hurting
• 2:31:57
  the spirits. As the couple continues, the
• 2:32:01
  screams go from sounding like those of a young baby to
• 2:32:05
  something much scarier. It sounds as if a low toned
• 2:32:10
  person is screaming alongside the baby, as if whatever was
• 2:32:15
  mimicking this sound was being harmed by their prayers.
• 2:32:20
  They then stopped praying to listen and suddenly the crying
• 2:32:25
  had vanished. This concludes this utter horror
• 2:32:29
  of a night, but little did they know that it would be far from
• 2:32:34
  the last that the family would have to endure.
• 2:32:39
  The following morning, as Michael and Anne head into the
• 2:32:42
  kitchen together before they have a chance to speak with
• 2:32:46
  anyone, they are concerned with Jackie and Esther frantically
• 2:32:50
  searching through the drawers, asking both of them if they had
• 2:32:55
  seen the baby's bottles. The answer?
• 2:32:58
  No. Michael then asked his parents
• 2:33:01
  if they had heard the baby crying last night as well,
• 2:33:05
  saying that Sarah Luis was quiet last night.
• 2:33:09
  Jackie looks concerned, believing his son to be
• 2:33:13
  withdrawn and unlike his normal self, he asked him what he
• 2:33:17
  means. Michael answers him with there
• 2:33:21
  was a baby crying last night, but it wasn't Sarah Louise
• 2:33:28
  asking what he was talking about because the neighbors don't have
• 2:33:31
  any babies. Jackie once again inquires.
• 2:33:36
  Michael responds with saying that he believes that there may
• 2:33:39
  be something in the house and whatever this thing was may have
• 2:33:44
  just hidden the bottles as well. Jackie and Esther didn't really
• 2:33:48
  believe in any sort of an afterlife and aren't religious.
• 2:33:53
  They seem to essentially laugh off any sort of a notion that
• 2:33:57
  any of this could be attributable to a ghost,
• 2:34:01
  especially Jackie. And after Michael calls out into
• 2:34:05
  the room if there is a ghost, show us a sign.
• 2:34:11
  Receiving zero response, he walks away from his parents,
• 2:34:16
  confused and slightly embarrassed by their reactions.
• 2:34:21
  He then gets ready for work for the day.
• 2:34:24
  Later that night, however, what the couple experiences yet again
• 2:34:29
  is no laughing matter. The ghostly wails of an unseen
• 2:34:34
  child echo all throughout the house and all around Michael and
• 2:34:38
  Anne's room. Huddled together, holding one
• 2:34:42
  another yet again and praying with Michael's rosary, their
• 2:34:46
  prayers grow louder in an attempt to compete with the
• 2:34:50
  volume of the cries. Their prayers are soon
• 2:34:53
  interrupted, however, by their door opening.
• 2:34:56
  Suddenly It's Jackie asking them just what was going on, why were
• 2:35:03
  they praying and becoming louder and louder.
• 2:35:06
  Michael asked him if he too heard the baby's cries.
• 2:35:10
  Jackie would respond with all I hear is you 2 praying.
• 2:35:16
  He then scolds them both, obviously having heard nothing.
• 2:35:21
  He slams the door behind him. When he exits their room,
• 2:35:26
  Michael is left speechless. It seems like whatever entity
• 2:35:30
  residing within the home is possibly targeting him and Anne,
• 2:35:35
  and somehow, some way, the rest of his family wasn't
• 2:35:39
  experiencing what they were. Needless to say, the two
• 2:35:43
  wouldn't get much sleep that night either.
• 2:35:47
  Roughly a week later, as Jackie and Martha come back home with
• 2:35:51
  baby Sarah Louise following a doctor's appointment for her
• 2:35:55
  while the rest of the family is out of the house, the two take
• 2:35:59
  the baby upstairs to lay her down in her crib for her
• 2:36:03
  afternoon nap. Opening the door to her bedroom
• 2:36:07
  though, they are shocked by what they see.
• 2:36:11
  They're on the floor, surrounded by all of her toys, is a music
• 2:36:16
  box, and it's eerily playing it's song.
• 2:36:21
  At first Jackie blames his son and fiance, thinking they must
• 2:36:26
  be playing a trick on them to try and convince them of their
• 2:36:29
  ghost theory. He then begins to feel something
• 2:36:34
  else, something he can't so easily explain, as if he's being
• 2:36:39
  watched. He then begins to wonder if
• 2:36:43
  perhaps they could be right. The rest of the day would come
• 2:36:48
  and go. The sun would fall below the
• 2:36:51
  horizon and the moon would once again rise, casting its ethereal
• 2:36:58
  glow over the Fahey residence. As the rest of the family sleeps
• 2:37:03
  in their beds, Michael and Anne are suddenly woken up by a
• 2:37:08
  bright flashing light. Opening their eyes and
• 2:37:13
  simultaneously seeing a floating orb of swords pulsing with a
• 2:37:18
  white and yellow light within their room.
• 2:37:22
  They huddled together with Michael clutching his rosary as
• 2:37:27
  hard as he can, watching this thing move and flash before
• 2:37:32
  their very eyes. In Michael's own words, it was
• 2:37:37
  like a bright orb. It slowly dissipated, and then
• 2:37:42
  it just disappeared. Following the sighting of this
• 2:37:46
  orb, the unearthly cries begin again.
• 2:37:50
  The couple again would not sleep much this night.
• 2:37:55
  The following morning, as the Fahey sit down at the table for
• 2:38:00
  breakfast together, Michael and Anne describe to everyone just
• 2:38:05
  what they had experienced the night before.
• 2:38:09
  This starts a bit of family drama.
• 2:38:11
  Esther, although not religious, was still scared of even the
• 2:38:16
  thought of the paranormal. She begins to scold Michael as a
• 2:38:20
  result. The arguing is soon interrupted
• 2:38:23
  by Jackie, who says to his son, You promised that you didn't
• 2:38:28
  touch those toys. Michael hadn't yet been Privy to
• 2:38:32
  the information that his father and sister came home the other
• 2:38:36
  day to the toys being in a circle surrounding the music box
• 2:38:41
  in Martha and Sarah Louise's room.
• 2:38:44
  You would reply with what toys? I never touched any toys.
• 2:38:50
  In Jackie's own words. That's when I realized we have
• 2:38:54
  something going on in the house, something not normal.
• 2:38:59
  The tide of the conversation quickly shifts with this hideous
• 2:39:03
  revelation. Jackie suggests consulting a
• 2:39:06
  priest for help. Michael is worried that no one
• 2:39:09
  will believe them, so to meet somewhat in the middle, they
• 2:39:14
  decide that they will place a tape recorder in the baby's room
• 2:39:17
  to see if they can capture the supernatural cries of this ghost
• 2:39:21
  baby. That way they would have
• 2:39:23
  tangible proof that could be heard alongside their testimony
• 2:39:28
  in an effort to seek help. Later that night, as Michael and
• 2:39:33
  Jackie head upstairs to place the tape recorder in the room,
• 2:39:37
  they realize that they've left the tapes downstairs.
• 2:39:41
  They then set the recorder on one of the dressers while they
• 2:39:45
  head back downstairs. After retrieving the tapes, they
• 2:39:50
  would then hear a violent commotion coming from upstairs.
• 2:39:54
  Rushing back upstairs and back into the room as fast as they
• 2:39:58
  could would come face to face was something that neither of
• 2:40:02
  them could explain. There on the floor before them
• 2:40:07
  was the tape recorder. However, it had been completely
• 2:40:12
  destroyed, mangled. As if someone had deliberately,
• 2:40:17
  with a strong hand, torn it apart.
• 2:40:21
  While father and son try and decipher the mystery of the
• 2:40:24
  destroyed tape recorder, cries suddenly erupt from downstairs.
• 2:40:30
  There, before Esther and Anne's eyes, the curtains, as if with a
• 2:40:36
  mind of their own, begin opening and closing rapidly.
• 2:40:41
  Jackie and Michael would soon rush downstairs to see just what
• 2:40:45
  had happened. In Jackie's words, that moment
• 2:40:50
  of fear. Seeing the pure fear in Esther's
• 2:40:54
  eyes was just horrible. With everyone terrified by what
• 2:41:00
  was taking place, Jackie decides that enough is enough.
• 2:41:05
  Without grabbing much of anything, the entire family runs
• 2:41:09
  out of the house and takes refuge with nearby neighbors who
• 2:41:13
  have been close friends for years.
• 2:41:16
  The neighbors are extremely helpful and supportive.
• 2:41:20
  They allow the family to stay the night with them.
• 2:41:23
  They all have collectively decided that they will call the
• 2:41:27
  church in the morning to seek assistance.
• 2:41:31
  It takes several days after the initial phone call, but a local
• 2:41:36
  parish priest does come to conduct a blessing within the
• 2:41:40
  Fahey house. As the father reads his prayers
• 2:41:44
  out loud with the Fahey surrounding him, they all begin
• 2:41:49
  to hear the wailing of a baby. However, young Sarah Louise once
• 2:41:55
  again is not making the cries. Jackie would later say that the
• 2:42:02
  more prayers that the priest was saying, the more that the ghost
• 2:42:06
  baby screamed. It was if it was saying get out,
• 2:42:11
  we don't want you here. The priest although putting up a
• 2:42:15
  strong front and acting as if he wasn't hearing the cries that
• 2:42:20
  the rest of the family were. Michael can tell by the look in
• 2:42:24
  his eyes that he is absolutely petrified.
• 2:42:28
  Esther begins shaking because she is so frightened.
• 2:42:33
  After the priest blesses the living room area downstairs, he
• 2:42:37
  then begins heading upstairs and blessing each room 1 by 1.
• 2:42:43
  Meanwhile, the storm is brewing outside.
• 2:42:47
  The dark and swollen clouds are nearly ready to unleash when
• 2:42:53
  it's time for the priest to bless Sarah Louise and Martha's
• 2:42:57
  room. As Jackie goes to open the door,
• 2:43:01
  it won't budget first. As he shoves into it, he
• 2:43:05
  realizes that the crib has been placed in front of the door.
• 2:43:10
  After pushing it open, he tells the Father that there has to be
• 2:43:14
  something within their house. Although the priest seems to be
• 2:43:18
  in a state of denial, he continues with the blessing.
• 2:43:24
  He says several more prayers, inflicts some holy water around
• 2:43:28
  the room. As he finishes, he quickly,
• 2:43:33
  almost frantically, leaves the house.
• 2:43:35
  As Michael would later say in regards to the situation, it was
• 2:43:41
  as if he couldn't wait to get out of the house.
• 2:43:44
  He nearly ran out the door. The clouds which had gathered
• 2:43:49
  earlier finally began to rain down upon the earth, healing.
• 2:43:55
  Hopeful that the blessing done by the priest perhaps cast out
• 2:43:59
  whatever was dwelling within their home, the Fahey's returned
• 2:44:04
  to their home. However, to be on the safe side,
• 2:44:08
  they decide to sleep in the living room together.
• 2:44:12
  As Thunder and lightning crackle outside while everyone else
• 2:44:18
  sleeps, Jackie suddenly wakes up to the cries of the ghost baby
• 2:44:23
  yet again. Oddly though, he seems to be the
• 2:44:28
  only one disturbed back to consciousness by its cries.
• 2:44:34
  As he follows the cries upstairs, they suddenly cease
• 2:44:38
  for a moment and feeling as if he was being watched from
• 2:44:42
  behind, he quickly turns around to see something that sends a
• 2:44:47
  cold shiver down his spine. There on a nearby table was a
• 2:44:54
  small face right before his eyes.
• 2:44:58
  He watches it levitate as if picked up by invisible hands.
• 2:45:05
  It slowly tilts and then drops to the floor, shattering it into
• 2:45:11
  many pieces. The shock of what he had just
• 2:45:14
  witnessed causes Jackie to try and run away, but he trips
• 2:45:18
  backwards and partially falls down the stairs.
• 2:45:23
  Scrambling, he gets back to his feet and runs through the living
• 2:45:27
  room. He then throws open the front
• 2:45:30
  door and collapses off the porch and into the front yard.
• 2:45:35
  As the rest of his family surrounds him, he finally comes
• 2:45:40
  back to his senses. The family once again takes
• 2:45:44
  refuge with their neighbors and friends several houses away.
• 2:45:48
  It is here in their living room that they debate just how
• 2:45:52
  exactly to tackle this situation.
• 2:45:55
  Whether to travel 4 hours away to stay with Jackie's sister
• 2:45:59
  temporarily, or to stay here somehow, but where?
• 2:46:05
  They can't move in with their neighbors.
• 2:46:08
  As they discuss what they should do, Jackie and Michael decide to
• 2:46:12
  go back together to the house and pack necessary items or
• 2:46:17
  whatever the future may hold. Thankfully, they encounter no
• 2:46:22
  paranormal resistance to their presence.
• 2:46:25
  When they obtained these items from the house, Jackie would
• 2:46:29
  call his sister and arrange for him and Esther to travel to her
• 2:46:33
  four hours away for the weekend. Although he wants his kids,
• 2:46:38
  Sarah, Louise, and Anne to join them, they have jobs that they
• 2:46:42
  must get to in the morning. Martha also says that the entity
• 2:46:46
  has never bothered her or the baby, which is true.
• 2:46:50
  He doesn't feel great about their decision but decides to go
• 2:46:54
  ahead and go after. He's reassured by Michael that
• 2:46:58
  he will keep them in the loop with anything and everything and
• 2:47:02
  will do his best to keep them all safe.
• 2:47:06
  After the parents depart, Michael and Martha and Sarah
• 2:47:11
  Louise return to the Fahey house.
• 2:47:15
  The rest of the night is surprisingly quiet for the first
• 2:47:19
  time in what feels like forever. The following morning, with
• 2:47:25
  Michael and Anne at work, Martha relaxes on the couch and reads a
• 2:47:30
  book while her baby sleeps. But not for long.
• 2:47:36
  The peace is soon shattered by the cries of her daughter.
• 2:47:40
  Placing the book on the coffee table, she quickly heads
• 2:47:43
  upstairs to tend to her. The door however, is closed and
• 2:47:49
  she didn't close it. Finding this strange to say the
• 2:47:53
  least, she grabs the handle and goes to open it, but it won't
• 2:47:59
  move. It's as if a large, invisible
• 2:48:03
  person is pushing it on the other side.
• 2:48:07
  As Sarah Louise cries for her mother, Martha frantically
• 2:48:11
  begins to throw her entire body into the door in an effort to
• 2:48:15
  open it. It doesn't move whatsoever.
• 2:48:20
  Panicking now, she runs to a neighbor for help as her and the
• 2:48:25
  neighbor rush back to her house and upstairs to the room.
• 2:48:29
  The neighbor searches through their toolbox to try and find
• 2:48:32
  something, anything that'll help open the door.
• 2:48:36
  When it's suddenly and gently opens.
• 2:48:40
  The two then look at each other in awe.
• 2:48:43
  Quickly grabbing her baby, Martha then grabs her bag and
• 2:48:47
  together with the neighbor, they all flee the house.
• 2:48:51
  Later that evening, as Michael and Anne both return home from
• 2:48:55
  work, they notice that there's a note on the door.
• 2:48:59
  It tells them that Martha and the baby are at a nearby
• 2:49:02
  neighbor's house. Thinking nothing of it, it's
• 2:49:06
  Michael goes to fetch his sister and his niece.
• 2:49:09
  Anne stays back at the house. As she sits in the living room
• 2:49:13
  waiting for her fiance to return, she suddenly hears the
• 2:49:17
  sound of something moving. Glancing around the room for the
• 2:49:22
  source, she realizes that a picture of Sarah Louise on a
• 2:49:26
  nearby table is shaking profusely.
• 2:49:30
  Then, as if aggressively thrown, it's the nearby wall and falls
• 2:49:37
  to the floor, shattering the glass that once held the photo
• 2:49:41
  in the frame. Upon seeing this, and screams
• 2:49:46
  and bolts out the front door as fast as she can.
• 2:49:49
  Upon doing this, she runs into Michael, Martha, and the baby.
• 2:49:55
  She then frantically tries to explain to Michael just what had
• 2:49:59
  taken place. She feels that if they go back
• 2:50:02
  into the house that whatever presence that was there would
• 2:50:06
  harm Sarah Louise. With Martha agreeing that she
• 2:50:10
  didn't want to return either after what had happened earlier,
• 2:50:13
  Michael relents and tells them to get in the car.
• 2:50:17
  Martha then lets him know that she needs diapers from the
• 2:50:21
  baby's room before they go. Agreeing to fetch them, Michael
• 2:50:25
  runs inside and grabs them as well as the baby's car carrier.
• 2:50:31
  Before leaving the house, however, he picks up the phone
• 2:50:34
  to make a phone call to his parents to let them know just
• 2:50:38
  what had happened. Upon dialing his aunt's number
• 2:50:42
  to call them, he hears several dial tones, but then begins to
• 2:50:46
  hear faint voices on the other end.
• 2:50:49
  These voices then began to change in pitch, going from
• 2:50:54
  higher to lower in a very unsettling way, hanging up the
• 2:50:59
  phone and then trying again. The phone begins to call and
• 2:51:04
  then suddenly emits A horrendous eye pitched noise directly into
• 2:51:11
  his ear, throwing the phone down.
• 2:51:14
  He's absolutely stricken by what he sees.
• 2:51:18
  The phone itself is completely melted and is still smoking with
• 2:51:25
  eyes wide. Michael then runs out of the
• 2:51:27
  house, but upon exiting the door is then shoved out as the door
• 2:51:33
  slams behind him. You would later say that I was
• 2:51:38
  utterly shocked and I didn't know how, but the phone itself
• 2:51:42
  was melted. I then felt like someone was
• 2:51:45
  shoving me, like I was being forced out of the house.
• 2:51:50
  Disturbed and taking the hint that they were unwanted, the
• 2:51:54
  four of them depart and drive the four hours to stay with
• 2:51:59
  Jackie and Esther at Jackie's sister's house for the rest of
• 2:52:04
  the weekend. Several days later, the Fahey's
• 2:52:09
  reluctantly returned to the house.
• 2:52:12
  But none of them want to. Esther felt as if the house
• 2:52:16
  wasn't hers anymore, that it had been taken over by whatever this
• 2:52:21
  thing was. With a long wait list for
• 2:52:24
  housing, the family is effectively stuck where they
• 2:52:28
  are. Trying to make the best of it,
• 2:52:31
  they decide to go inside. Upon opening the door, however,
• 2:52:36
  they come face to face with utter destruction.
• 2:52:40
  It's as if a cyclone has hit the inside of their house.
• 2:52:45
  The curtains are ribbed, the pictures are broken, furniture
• 2:52:50
  and items disheveled, Things of all kinds are thrown everywhere
• 2:52:57
  with reckless abandoned. In the words of Michael, it was
• 2:53:02
  as if someone had come in and ransacked the place.
• 2:53:06
  There was nothing missing, no evidence of a break in.
• 2:53:11
  Angry and upset, the Fahey's begin to try and pick up the
• 2:53:15
  mess that was their lives. Now.
• 2:53:18
  It seemed as if the stress of it all was tugging at the seams.
• 2:53:22
  That we're holding them all together.
• 2:53:25
  Tired of dealing with it all, the family tries to brainstorm
• 2:53:29
  just how they could get help. The blessing of a Catholic
• 2:53:33
  priest didn't seem to work. They ponder, what if they
• 2:53:36
  contact the papers? Will they be made fun of?
• 2:53:41
  Maybe. But could someone potentially
• 2:53:44
  hear of their story and reach out to help them?
• 2:53:48
  That was also a very real possibility.
• 2:53:52
  Deciding to take the risk, hoping that it'll result in some
• 2:53:55
  real help, they decide to reach out to a Dublin radio station
• 2:54:01
  with their story. As a result, a local paper
• 2:54:05
  decides to come and interview the Fahey's and see just what
• 2:54:10
  exactly is happening. The family agrees to the
• 2:54:13
  interview and it is decided. That a reporter will come.
• 2:54:18
  Not only to interview the family, but they'll stay the
• 2:54:21
  night with them to see if they experience any ghostly
• 2:54:25
  phenomenon. The reporter they send is
• 2:54:29
  skeptical and doesn't believe in anything like the paranormal,
• 2:54:34
  but decides to stay anyways. The phase of notice certain
• 2:54:38
  changes that would signal that something was about to occur
• 2:54:42
  within the home. One of those signals was that it
• 2:54:46
  would grow exceptionally cold beforehand.
• 2:54:50
  This very thing would happen with the reporter present
• 2:54:54
  sitting at the dining room table, beginning to write her
• 2:54:57
  story. She didn't believe that anything
• 2:55:00
  was going to occur. As she speaks, the family
• 2:55:04
  conversation is suddenly shattered by the sound of
• 2:55:09
  something breaking. Rushing to the living room where
• 2:55:12
  the sounds seem to have originated from, they find a
• 2:55:16
  shattered porcelain figure on the floor.
• 2:55:19
  It's small, minute fragments thrown everywhere.
• 2:55:24
  Upon seeing this, the reporter is shaken to her core.
• 2:55:29
  It's clear that she's convinced that there's something in the
• 2:55:33
  home now, considering everyone was all together in the kitchen
• 2:55:37
  when the figure was broken. Deciding to take a photo of the
• 2:55:42
  broken figure, she keeps riding in the kitchen and she doesn't
• 2:55:46
  sleep through the night. As a result of her article, the
• 2:55:51
  story begins to get picked up by more local newspapers, and soon
• 2:55:55
  press from all over Europe is intrigued by what is dubbed the
• 2:56:00
  Galway Ghost. Naturally.
• 2:56:03
  But the press came. Harassment reporters, news
• 2:56:06
  stations and onlookers soon flocked to the Fahey residence
• 2:56:12
  hoping to catch a glimpse of the alleged haunting for themselves.
• 2:56:16
  With this new found fame that they didn't ask for, the Fahey's
• 2:56:20
  begin to worry that they will only be the subject of ridicule
• 2:56:24
  and that no one will hear their cries for help.
• 2:56:27
  Fortunately, they would be dead wrong.
• 2:56:31
  Several weeks after the story broke and gained traction.
• 2:56:35
  A reporter would reach out to the family and offer the
• 2:56:39
  assistance of a professional they knew, a woman named Sandra
• 2:56:43
  Ramdani. Sandra's a well known
• 2:56:46
  parapsychologist and. Healer.
• 2:56:49
  She has stated that psychic abilities are an innate part of
• 2:56:52
  the human consciousness and that they are not supernatural
• 2:56:56
  powers. She also rejects the term
• 2:56:59
  psychic as she said it is misappropriated by frauds.
• 2:57:05
  After speaking with the family within a week, they welcome.
• 2:57:09
  Her at their door. Michael would describe meeting
• 2:57:13
  her like this when Sandra arrived and stepped in the door.
• 2:57:18
  We got this. Warm, feeling as if we had known
• 2:57:21
  her for 100 years, after introducing herself to the
• 2:57:26
  family, Sandra begins to ask them just what all they had been
• 2:57:30
  experiencing. So the family started at the
• 2:57:34
  beginning. One thing she really took to was
• 2:57:37
  that the activity began shortly after the arrival of Sarah
• 2:57:41
  Louise and to their lives and home.
• 2:57:45
  Asking the family to take her to the room where they felt the
• 2:57:48
  most activity in. They would lead her to the
• 2:57:51
  baby's room, walking around the room and feeling it out to see
• 2:57:56
  if she could decipher just what kind of.
• 2:57:58
  Spirit they were dealing with. She picks up on something else
• 2:58:02
  as well. He asks the family if there's
• 2:58:05
  been any recent construction in the house.
• 2:58:08
  Surprised by her question, Michael would answer her.
• 2:58:12
  With a yes. That the neighbors have been
• 2:58:15
  doing some work on their home and it had occurred right around
• 2:58:18
  the same time that Sarah Louise was born and came to live with
• 2:58:23
  them. In Jackie's words, it freaked me
• 2:58:26
  out when she was able to tell me that the neighbors were doing
• 2:58:30
  construction, asking to be alone in the room for a time to see if
• 2:58:35
  she could gather any more information.
• 2:58:38
  The family leaves Sandra within as she closes her eyes and
• 2:58:43
  begins to focus, hoping to make contact with whatever.
• 2:58:46
  Could be there. She starts to.
• 2:58:49
  Feel a cold? Air on her skin, causing her to
• 2:58:52
  get goosebumps. And then she begins to smell as
• 2:58:56
  if there's smoke within the room.
• 2:58:58
  She is then drawn into a vision. In this vision, she's in an
• 2:59:03
  entirely different room. There's a young woman screaming.
• 2:59:08
  She seems to be giving birth. Within the room, there appears
• 2:59:12
  to be a man, possibly her father.
• 2:59:16
  His eyes seemed angry, yet sad. Glancing around the room, then
• 2:59:22
  she sees a second man lurking within the shadows.
• 2:59:26
  His face is stern, and he too seems as if he could be angry.
• 2:59:32
  The screams continue for a short while, and then they turn into
• 2:59:36
  heavy breathing. As the cries of a newborn baby.
• 2:59:40
  Fill the air. They then start up again, but
• 2:59:44
  these screams are different. They seem desperate in a sense.
• 2:59:50
  The young mother seems to be reaching forward for her baby,
• 2:59:54
  but the child seems to be in one of the men's arms.
• 2:59:58
  It's her father, but instead of nurturing, the infant instead
• 3:00:03
  has placed some kind of cloth over its face and is smothering
• 3:00:08
  it. The other man then restrains the
• 3:00:11
  mother as she continues to scream.
• 3:00:15
  Sandra gasping and opens her eyes.
• 3:00:19
  The vision has ceased. Warm tears are slowly trickling
• 3:00:24
  down her face. She is shocked at what has been
• 3:00:28
  revealed to her. Walking down stairs to greet the
• 3:00:31
  family, they can tell she's obviously shook up.
• 3:00:35
  She then sits down with them in the living room to explain just
• 3:00:39
  what all she saw and was. Able to figure out, she tells
• 3:00:44
  the. Family that she believes the
• 3:00:46
  baby was born out of wedlock and out of shame its life was taken
• 3:00:50
  by the girl's father that the ghost baby.
• 3:00:54
  Wasn't haunting the house. That the Fahey.
• 3:00:56
  'S now lived in, but rather the land itself.
• 3:01:01
  She also believes that the construction by the neighbors
• 3:01:04
  inadvertently. Disturbed the spirit.
• 3:01:06
  Causing it to become active again and because it never.
• 3:01:10
  Got to live. Or feel the love and affection
• 3:01:12
  of its mother that had desperately wanted to get close
• 3:01:15
  to Martha since she had just become a new mother herself.
• 3:01:19
  Asking what could be done now, Sandra offers to conduct a
• 3:01:23
  healing ceremony in hopes of allowing the spirit to find
• 3:01:27
  peace. And move on to the other side.
• 3:01:30
  The family would agree. First things first, Sandra asked
• 3:01:35
  them to please get Sarah Louise out of the house before the
• 3:01:38
  ceremony. Needing Martha to be a part of
• 3:01:41
  the ritual, it is decided that the baby will be taken on the
• 3:01:45
  stroll by Esther and Jackie. The rest of the family,
• 3:01:50
  alongside Sandra, then heads upstairs to the child's room to
• 3:01:54
  begin the ceremony. What she did was then she went
• 3:01:58
  up to the baby's room and she placed rose rose quartz crystal
• 3:02:03
  and Snow White quartz crystal in the cot as focal point as the
• 3:02:08
  baby in the cot. Then what she did was then she
• 3:02:11
  actually communicated with the ghost by telepathic abilities
• 3:02:16
  and she found out that it happened about 100 years ago.
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  It was a baby boy that was smothered at birth.
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  This baby, like was just a newborn baby.
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  And who killed the baby? The mother and father.
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  And this happened not in the house, but on on that bit of.
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  Land where the house is now built.
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  That's right. It is explained that amber
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  incense will be burned to protect them during the event
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  and to promote spiritual healing of the ghost as well.
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  She then lays down quartz crystals in the four corners of
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  the room in order to purify and recharge the home itself.
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  They then place an empty baby carrier on the ground in the
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  center of the room and join hands surrounding it.
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  They all then close their eyes and begin to take deep breaths
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  to focus on the task at hand. Sandra tells them to imagine the
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  ghost baby laying in the bassinet before them, surrounded
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  by a golden light. To focus on him, to tell him
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  it's time to move forward and move on.
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  And. Then you see the the very last
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  part of the ceremony was actually, well, it was the most
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  important part. And I, I saw the spirit actually
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  been lifted up and taken away into what?
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  The firefight, if she called it, or into heaven, whatever what
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  else, whatever you want to call it.
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  You saw that yourself. Yeah, and.
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  What, what? What exactly did you see?
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  Well, what she did, first, she put us all into a circle, right?
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  And she said, imagine the baby in the circle.
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  And then she, she telepathically linked with us by moving energy
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  around the circle. And then she told us, think,
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  like, think we're breathing in golden sunlight and bringing out
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  tears and unhappiness and sadness and just keep
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  concentrating. And I could actually see the
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  baby on the floor. Can we just get that clear,
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  Michael? Did you see it?
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  Yes. You saw it.
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  I did see it, yes. And we're doing the exercise,
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  breathing and concentrating. And then she said just keep
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  concentrating. And then she said, imagine the
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  golden light going out to the top of your head.
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  And at that moment I saw the baby being lifted up into life
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  and then it just disappeared. And it left peacefully.
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  It left peacefully. Yeah, upon the ghost baby
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  crossing over, the feeling is almost immediately night and
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  day. It's as if everyone and
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  everything could breathe again. With everyone amazed and so very
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  happy that the infant had crossed over.
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  The feeling of joy and peace build the home once again.
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  Jackie and Esther, who had been outside walking with Sarah
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  Louise, returned as well, and they too could instantly sense
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  that the ghost was gone. This is what would be considered
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  a happy ending for most, but the Galway ghost still haunts the
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  minds of the Fahey family. Every time they hear a knock or
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  something seems out of place, they fear that perhaps what
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  should be gone isn't that maybe it's always there, watching and
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  waiting to return. This was a highly requested case
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  and a very interesting one in that I did have some of my
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  personal takes on this case, as well as some resources and
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  questions that I'd like to share with you.
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  Now before we go, and this will be in no particular order, so
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  this case apparently has been tied to a scandal that took
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  place between a priest and a family, with the priest having
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  impregnated the daughter a long, long time ago.
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  This information comes from Jackie, whose real name actually
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  appears to be Jonathan Fahey from his book Cry From Beyond.
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  If this is true, it would very much corroborate the ghost baby
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  story in the you know, in my opinion.
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  I however am a little more skeptical of this ghost baby
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  having felt the energy in a home supposedly haunted by a little
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  girl, AKA the Sadly house. Albeit things may vary on a case
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  by case basis, I do believe that entities and or demons can
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  masquerade themselves as children in order to exploit the
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  vulnerable. Ask yourself this, why would a
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  child, an innocent newborn baby, cause such dread and fear among
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  the Fahey's? For this very reason, although
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  they may have crossed over a baby's spirit makes me believe
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  that something more sinister haunted their home.
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  That perhaps following this event, for one reason or
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  another, this entity went dormant.
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  It seems that construction kicked off the activity by
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  disturbing the ghost that was already dormant there in the
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  beginning. I believe this probably played a
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  role, having had constructions wake up ghosts in an old home of
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  mine. This led to some very strange
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  experiences such as hearing a chorus of whispers and having
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  night terrors, which was not a fun time.
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  I also like how the plumbers couldn't smell any of the smells
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  that the Fahey's were, as in the disgusting ones.
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  I think perhaps they were desensitized to an extent.
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  Maybe this played a role in that.
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  As a former painter, I mean Meg can tell you that my sense of
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  smell is pretty much cooked. I'm sure you know depending on
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  your profession, for one reason or another people get nose
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  blind. I dug as much as I could, but I
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  could not find any updates on the Fahey's past 2006.
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  The initial case took place from 1996 into 1997 and it seemed as
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  if the family still lives in the same residence as of 2006.
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  I hope wherever they are now that they're peaceful and happy.
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  I was only able to find one photo that I believe is the real
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  residence in which the case took place in and I will show it to
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  you now. But on the off chance that
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  someone still lives there, whether it's the Fahey's or
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  anyone, please respect people's privacy and do not harass or
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  bother them. Thank you.
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  With how the home was designed, it would be nearly impossible
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  for someone to have accessed the window in that room on the 2nd
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  floor to have been able to move the crib in front of the door
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  and then close it to cause resistance to the door being
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  opened. Just how did the?
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  Phone end up melting. I do know that in most of Europe
• 3:08:53
  the power is much stronger than it is here in the United States,
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  but there would have been some kind of serious malfunction or a
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  surge to be that powerful that it melted the phone.
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  I always found that aspect of the case to be exceptionally
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  creepy. It doesn't surprise me that
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  Ireland has so many folk and ghost tales.
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  It seems to be such a mysterious yet beautiful place that I'd
• 3:09:17
  certainly like to visit one day. I did want to give a shout out
• 3:09:20
  to my Irish fans. I hope I did this infamous story
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  justice for you guys. And I did want to ask, had you
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  heard of this case before? I covered it with that.
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  stuff really helps me out tremendously.
• 3:09:48
  I did want to let you know that I did revamp my store with some
• 3:09:50
  new and much cooler merchandise as well, and I restocked on
• 3:09:54
  books. So if you wanted to pick
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  anything up, now would definitely be the time.
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  Other than that, guys, I love and appreciate all of you truly.
• 3:10:04
  Thank you so much for your patience as always.
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  And this has been Cody here at Mystery Archives.
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  Remember to please stay safe out there and take care.
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  I'll see you next time.