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3 Hour Marathon Of Paranormal And Unexplained Stories #4 · Mystery Archives Episodes

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  When we think of demonic possession, often times it
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  involves images of Hollywood films.
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  But according to psychiatrist Richard Gallagher, very few
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  cases are actually the real deal.
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  And of those rare few, some of them are so over the top with
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  what takes place, who sees the supernatural, manifestations and
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  truly effects all. Those involved.
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  This case is one of them. This is the untold story of the
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  Amon's family haunting, also known as the exorcism of Latoya
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  Amon's or the House of 200 Demons.
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  In November of 2011, Latoya Amons moved her three small
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  children and her mother, Rosa Campbell, into a new home in a
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  seemingly quiet neighborhood on Carolina St. in Gary.
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  IN The family was ready for a new start, and the children
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  couldn't wait to move in. What they would discover is the
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  home of their dreams would turn out to become something more
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  reminiscent of their nightmares. At first all seemed to be normal
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  and life was going well for the family.
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  It wasn't until December that they began to experience strange
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  and unexplainable happenings. In the dead of Winter Latoya,
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  Eamons had noticed the large swarms of horseflies invading
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  her screened in front porch. She and her mother would kill
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  them, that every single day they would return in what appeared to
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  be greater numbers. After some time, the flies
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  disappeared, lulling Latoya into a false sense of security and
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  filling her with a feeling of relief.
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  But despite the absence of the flies, the strange happenings
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  would persist. Every night around midnight,
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  when everybody was in bed, they would hear footsteps climbing
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  the basement stairs in a state of terrified shock.
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  Latoya and her mother would listen as the steps got louder
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  and louder, eventually reaching the top.
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  Once at the top of the stairs, the door from the basement to
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  the kitchen would open, even if the door had been previously
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  locked. But when the unexplained noises
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  were investigated, all that would be found is the basement
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  door open to the pitch black void below 1 quiet night latoya
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  was awoken by the sound of her closet door opening.
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  As she turned to inspect the source of the disturbance, she
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  saw a tall, shadowy figure emerge from her closet, and then
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  it exited through her door and into the living room.
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  Latoya leapt from her bed and followed the figure, and what
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  she would discover would make her blood run cold.
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  In the living room. She saw a silhouette of a very
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  large man who was pacing back and forth throughout her living
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  room. Who was this man?
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  What did he want? And more importantly.
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  What was he doing in her home? Latoya instinctually turned on
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  the light in an attempt to confront the intruder, but to
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  her surprise, the man had disappeared.
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  Scared and confused, Latoya investigated further, and what
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  she would find defied all logic. On the floor, in the same spot
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  where the figure had been pacing, were a series of large,
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  muddy boot prints. How could something that was
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  conceivably hallucinated have left a physical mark?
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  Was this an entity attempting to convey a message, and if so,
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  what was it trying to say? These manifestations, mysterious
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  and off putting as they were, did not scare the family.
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  If anything it just made them generally uneasy.
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  It wasn't until March 10th of 2012 that those feelings would
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  transform into pure, unadulterated horror.
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  On the date in question, Latoya and Campbell were hosting awake,
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  mourning the loss of a family member, which was attended by a
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  small group of friends and family.
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  The wake had lasted long into the night, and at around 2:00 AM
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  was abruptly interrupted by the sound of screaming.
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  Latoya had been in her mother's room.
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  With her 12 year old daughter. And her daughter's friend.
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  When suddenly Latoya began screaming for her mother, Rosa
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  sprinted into the room to find her 12 year old granddaughter
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  unconscious and levitating over the bed.
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  After gathering their bearings, the family and friends
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  surrounded the bed and began to pray.
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  As they prayed, the girl was slowly lowered back down and
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  onto the bed. What is going on?
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  Campbell thought. Why is this happening?
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  When the girl awoke, she had no recollection of what had just
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  taken place. Soon after, the visibly shaken
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  and traumatized visitors left the house and would ultimately
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  refuse to ever return. What began as a place of family
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  and safety had overnight become a place of terror and
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  loneliness. Unsure of where else to turn,
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  Latoya and Rosa called a slew of local churches, but most refused
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  to listen. Eventually, they would get a
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  hold of a church that was willing to hear their story, and
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  once it was heard, the circumstance was undeniable to
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  the family. Shock officials at the church
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  informed them that what they were dealing with was in fact a
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  demonic occupation of their home.
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  At the recommendation of the church, Latoya and her mother
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  cleaned out the entire home with bleach and ammonia, poured olive
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  oil on the children's hands and feet, and smeared oil in the
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  shape of a cross on their foreheads.
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  Seeking further guidance and expertise, they reached out to
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  two clairvoyants who told them that their home was beset by
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  over 200 demons. The family was instructed that
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  their best course of action would be to move.
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  However, they were strapped for cash and moving was not an
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  option at the time. Instead, Latoya, at the advice
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  of the clairvoyance, made an altar in the basement.
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  The altar consisted of an end table covered in a wide sheet,
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  and on the sheet was placed a candle and the statues of Mary,
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  Joseph and Jesus. She also covered the walls in
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  the basement and salt, which was believed to add an extra layer
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  of protection from the demonic. Dressed in white clothing,
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  Latoya and a friend conducted A cleansing ritual inside of the
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  house. They burned sage and sulphur,
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  starting upstairs and working their way all the way to the
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  basement, drawing crosses in the smoke in every room.
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  Her friend read Psalm 91 as they proceeded.
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  You will not fear the terror of night, or the arrow that flies
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  by day, nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the
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  plague that destroys at midday. After the ritual was performed,
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  nothing out of the ordinary happened for about 3 days.
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  But after those three days passed, the situation became
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  infinitely worse. Latoya started to notice that
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  her children were acting strange for seemingly no reason
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  whatsoever. They began talking in sinister,
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  deep voices and their smiles became twisted and curled.
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  She also reported that their eyes appeared to bulge.
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  Her children were acting like completely different people.
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  When the children's appearances would return to normal following
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  these episodes, they would have no recollection of anything ever
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  having been different. Latoya's youngest son would sit
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  in the closet and talk to another boy that nobody could
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  see. The boy would say I've been here
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  long enough, I came to kill and I'm going to kill and spoke with
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  her son so very descriptively how what it was like?
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  To be murdered. Once, Latoya's son was thrown
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  from the closet, almost as if he had been tossed, hitting his
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  sister and knocking her into a headboard, which gave her an
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  injury that required stitches. Her daughter would later tell a
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  psychiatrist that sometimes she felt as if she was being held
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  down and choked, unable to speak or move, while voices would say
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  to her that she would never see her family again and that she
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  would be dead in 20 minutes. Latoya believed that she and her
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  children were being possessed randomly.
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  Latoya's body temperature would rapidly raise and she would
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  begin to shake, falling in and out of consciousness.
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  Rosa, however, never experienced anything demonic or strange
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  towards her. To this, she credits her
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  guardian Angel. Some nights what happened to the
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  family was so severe that Latoya opted for them to spend the
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  night at a hotel, Fearing the worst for her children.
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  Latoya and her mother took the children to see their doctor in
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  April of 2012. Upon entering the exam room, the
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  doctor said he was immediately overtaken by sense of terror and
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  dread, and this was entirely unexplainable as Latoya told the
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  story of what the family had been experiencing.
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  The doctor was writing down notes that said delusional,
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  delusional ghosts in the home and hallucinations.
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  Out of nowhere, the youngest son began aggressively cursing at
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  the doctor in a demonic voice. Then he was lifted high into the
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  air and thrown into a wall without a single person having
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  touched him. The boy passed out, and at the
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  same time, so did his older brother.
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  Medical staff tried shaking them awake, but they were completely
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  unconscious. Someone working at the doctor's
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  office called 911, and eight police officers, along with
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  paramedics, arrived and took the boys to the hospital.
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  Latoya followed and asked hospital personnel to put olive
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  oil on her sons, to which they simply just laughed in her face.
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  Unable to talk to her children or even to decide what she would
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  do or where she was going to start, she began to pray.
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  At this moment, their nightmare resumed once again.
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  Both boys awoke. The oldest of the two acted
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  normally, but the youngest began screaming and attempted to
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  attack everybody near him. In total, it would take five
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  grown men to fully restrain him. A hospital employee who believed
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  that the boys were being abused contacted the Department of
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  Child Safety, citing Latoya's seemingly obvious mental
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  illness. GCS sent out family case manager
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  Valerie Washington who concluded in her report that neither
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  Latoya nor her children were in bad health or suffered from any
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  bruises cuts. Or.
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  Burns, the psychiatrist at the hospital, also evaluated Latoya
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  and found that she was, in fact, sane.
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  As Washington interviewed the family, Latoya's youngest son
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  began to growl and his eyes rolled back into his head.
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  He grabbed his brother around the neck, squeezing tightly and
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  refusing to let go until his hands were physically pried from
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  one another. Later that same day, Washington
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  and RN and the boy's grandmother took them into a small exam room
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  to interview them alone. While in the room, the youngest
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  son began to growl yet again, looking into the eyes of his
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  older brother in a deep, demonic voice.
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  He said it's time to die and I will kill you.
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  At this moment, the older brother been into a running
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  stance and sprinted directly at his grandmother, head butting
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  her on the stomach as hard as he possibly could.
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  Over and over again, Rosa grabbed the boy's hand and said
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  that you are not my grandson, you are a demon.
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  Then something terrifying happened.
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  With that same twisted smile and look of pure malevolence, he
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  walked backwards towards the wall, into the shock and awe of
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  everybody walked backwards up the wall and onto the ceiling,
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  still holding his grandmother's hand the entire time, before
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  flipping off the ceiling and back onto the floor, landing on
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  his feet. After a few moments of stunned
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  silence, Washington and the RN ran out of the room and found
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  the doctor. They explained what they had
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  just witnessed, but the doctor did not believe them, stating
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  that he thought it had to be some sort of trick.
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  The doctor entered the room and requested the boy to do the
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  trick again so that he could see it.
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  The boy replied that he did not remember what had happened and
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  was unable to recreate it. The RN, who was far from a
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  skeptic of the demonic, said that he fully believed what was
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  happening to the boys was the product of possession, and the
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  case manager agreed, stating that there was an evil influence
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  affecting the Amon's family. Latoya's youngest son was
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  admitted to the hospital and she spent the night with him, while
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  Rosa took the two older children to stay with a relative.
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  The next day was the youngest boy's 8th birthday.
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  DCS told Rosa to bring the other children back to the hospital as
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  they could further discuss what had happened.
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  The family celebrated with cake and even sang songs.
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  But once the party was over, Latoya received soul crushing
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  news. Washington told her that DCS
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  would be taking custody of her children as they believed they
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  were being spiritually and emotionally neglected.
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  The family cried together. They did not want to be
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  separated and they didn't understand why DCS had come to
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  this decision, but unfortunately there was nothing that they
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  could do. On the morning of April 20th of
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  2012, Latoya would receive some rather unexpected assistance.
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  The hospital chaplain contacted Reverend Maginel.
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  The Reverend had never performed an exorcism before, nor had he
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  ever been asked, but he agreed to help as much as he could.
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  Visiting Latoya and Rosette, their home on Carolina St. he
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  interviewed them. While they spoke.
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  Rosa commented on a flickering light in the bathroom, which
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  stopped each time the reverend walked over to it.
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  It must be scared of me, he thought.
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  The interview would be interrupted once again when Rosa
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  pointed out that the window blinds in the kitchen kept
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  swinging even at the absence of an air current in their home.
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  Maginot also said that he saw wet footprints in the living
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  room, and during the interview the Toya complained of a
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  migraine. The Reverend wondered whether
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  this could be attributed to the demonic activity, so he placed a
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  crucifix on her head. She then began convulsing.
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  After interviewing the two women for four hours, Reverend Maginel
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  was convinced that the family was being tormented by demons
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  and that they had overtaken their home.
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  He blessed the house and told them the house wasn't safe and
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  that they needed to leave immediately, so the two moved in
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  with a relative. A week later, DCS sent
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  Washington to the Carolina St. home to verify whether or not
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  the home was safe for the children to live in with her.
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  She had a Lake County police officer and two other assisting
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  officers, one being the Gary Police Captain.
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  Latoya refused to go inside, so Rosa took the group into the
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  home to inspect it in the basement.
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  Underneath the stairs was a dirt patch from which Rosa said that
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  she believed the demons emanated from.
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  The captain said that he believed in ghosts but not in
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  demons, and would later say that changed after he visited the
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  home on Carolina St. During the interview with Rosa,
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  multiple electronic devices carried by the officers
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  malfunctioned, even though the batteries had just been
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  replaced. An audio recording taken by one
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  of the officers when played back revealed A disembodied voice
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  whispering to them. They also took multiple photos
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  which contained silhouettes and when enhanced, one even
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  contained a face. At his home, the police captain
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  said that his garage door refused to open and the driver's
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  seat of his personal vehicle began moving erratically on its
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  own. After it was inspected by a
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  mechanic, it was revealed that the motor that controlled the
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  seat was broken and that if it malfunctioned while the captain
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  was driving, it could have resulted in a distraction.
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  Which would have caused a serious accident.
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  Some time would pass before the same group, accompanied by two
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  other officers as well as DCS case manager Samantha Ilik would
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  return to the home. Ilik went in place of Washington
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  as Washington refused to re enter the home.
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  As they entered the basement, Ilik noticed a strange liquid
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  dripping. When she touched it, she noticed
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  that it felt both slippery and sticky between her fingers.
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  Magineau wanted to check the dirt spot under the stairs for
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  items that may be cursed, as this would offer a solid
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  explanation as to what the family was dealing with, but
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  upon searching he would find nothing of significance.
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  Magineau blessed some salt and spread it throughout the
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  basement, and the group went back upstairs.
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  While in the living room, Ellic began to notice something
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  strange happening. Her pinky finger on her left
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  hand began to tingle and turn white.
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  She complained that her finger suddenly began to feel as if it
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  was broken. Then, out of nowhere, she began
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  to. Feel as if she was.
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  Having a panic attack and was unable to breathe, the police
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  captain, who had many times before seen the true horrors of
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  society, refused to stay in the house past dark and requested
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  that the inspection of the house be hurried.
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  A looking Latoya left the house and the officers continued their
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  investigation. On the main floor of the house
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  they noticed an oil like substance dripping from the
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  blinds. Thinking that Latoya or Rosa may
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  have poured oil on them to sell their story, they wiped it up
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  and sealed the room for 25 minutes.
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  To their confusion, the oil had reappeared.
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  Could this have been the same liquid that Ilik had encountered
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  in the basement? Upon speaking with Maginot, they
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  were told that the liquid was in fact a manifestation of the
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  demonic. The Reverend would take notes of
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  his findings and requested permission from a Bishop to
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  perform an exorcism on Latoya herself, but his request was
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  denied. Instead, the Bishop told him to
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  contact priests who have themselves performed exorcisms,
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  but they were no help either. That 9.
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  Magineau blessed the home in order to cleanse it before
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  proceeding a minor exorcism. Would follow.
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  For which he did not need church approval.
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  The ritual consisted of prayers and appeals for the demons to be
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  cast out. Ilik and the two officers were
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  in attendance after the ritual had finished.
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  Ilik said that something unexplainable was definitely
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  going on, but stopped short of admitting that it was demonic.
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  Regardless, she had chills the entire time stating that it felt
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  like something was in the room with them and breathing down
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  their necks. Within a week of attending the
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  exorcism, she too began to experience problems, but hers
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  were medical in nature. She suffered third degree burns
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  from a motorcycle, broke three ribs, jet skiing, and broke her
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  hand as well as her ankle, all within the same month.
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  It is believed that these injuries were a result of her
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  attendance during the ritual performed by the Reverend.
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  After the minor exorcism was successful, the Bishop would
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  give Maginot permission to conduct a proper exorcism on
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  Latoya. He stated that the ritual was
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  the same as the one he had originally conducted.
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  However, it was stronger because this time he had the backing of
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  the Catholic Church. Before the exorcism was to be
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  performed, Magino tasked Latoya with researching the names of
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  the demons that were tormenting her.
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  During the research, Latoya complained of a physical illness
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  and that her computer kept forcibly shutting itself down.
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  After some time, she was able to locate the names of the demons.
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  Who she believed. Were causing her and her.
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  Family so much trouble. One of them was Beelzebub, the
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  Lord of Flies. Others were demons that she
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  found which specifically torture and harm children.
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  Magineau would go on to perform 3 exorcisms on Latoya at his
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  church. The first two were conducted in
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  English and the last was in Latin.
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  During these exorcisms, Maginot pressed a crucifix to her head
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  and chanted, I cast you out on clean spirit, along with every
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  satanic power of the enemy, every specter from hell and all
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  of your companions, and the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  Each time his voice became louder and more forceful, which
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  worked in weakening the demons. Latoya convulsed violently,
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  showing off the demon's true strength to Mageno.
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  During this time, Latoya prayed with him until it became too
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  physically painful for her to continue.
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  She equated the pain that she was feeling to the pain of
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  childbirth, but stated that the pain was nowhere near natural.
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  Eventually Latoya fell asleep and the ritual had ended.
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  And between the 2nd and 3rd exorcism, which were conducted
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  several weeks apart, a woman who had helped with the rituals was
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  tasked with setting up a backup plan in case Latoya had issues.
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  The woman who wrote the name of a demon on a piece of paper put
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  it in an envelope and surrounded it with salt that had been
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  blessed. If Latoya had problems, the
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  woman was to burn the envelope containing the name of the
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  demon. Within that time, Latoya and her
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  mother had moved into a new home in Indianapolis, a home which
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  Maginot had previously blessed. One night, as a storm raged
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  outside, Latoya would call Maginot, complaining.
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  That she was. Having horrifically bad
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  nightmares pertaining to demons. So the woman was instructed to
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  burn the envelope, and after this the nightmares would cease.
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  Time would pass and new tenants would eventually occupy the home
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  on Carolina St. and the landlord would say that since the
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  incidents involving the Amons family, no other paranormal
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  activity had been reported at the residence.
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  Latoya would eventually regain custody of her children in
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  November of 2012, and DCS would regularly check up on them until
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  January of 2013, when they would ultimately close their case.
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  They noted that there were no demonic presences reported at
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  their home in Indianapolis, and that her children felt much
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  safer within its walls. Amons thanked God for guiding
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  them through, and the family would go on to live happily and
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  quietly without any semblance of demonic intervention.
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  So if we accept at face value those who witnessed these
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  bizarre and demonic manifestations, we must ask just
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  what could have caused the haunting or the summoning of the
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  entities? Did Latoya mess with something
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  that she shouldn't have? Was it something indeed invoked
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  within the property itself at some point?
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  Or could it have been generational?
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  It's hard to tell, but what is incredible is that nurses,
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  officers and other officials of the state for witness to these
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  happenings. Although not descriptive as some
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  of my other videos, the information at times is scarce,
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  so I did the best I could to piece everything together.
• 29:14
  It is believed that the other 199 demons were under or serving
• 29:19
  Beelzebub, which certainly made himself present with the swarms
• 29:24
  of flies and the depths of winter.
• 29:28
  Ultimately, I am glad that this family was able to free
• 29:32
  themselves from the ensnaring trap of the devil in his
• 29:36
  minions. Not everyone is so lucky and in
• 29:41
  due time will cover cases that reflect that.
• 29:45
  So my advice? If you enter a home, let alone
• 29:48
  live there and feel as if eyes are boring a hole into the back
• 29:53
  of your head and you feel scared for no reason, trust your gut,
• 29:59
  because ultimately it could end up saving your very soul.
• 30:05
  When a young woman. Begins to experience horrific
• 30:09
  visions. Daymares During her waking life,
• 30:14
  she will seek help from her parents.
• 30:17
  Believing the matter to be spiritual, they consult a priest
• 30:21
  who tries to drive multiple demons out of her body.
• 30:26
  However, ultimately the exorcisms would fail, the result
• 30:32
  of which has created one of the most compelling and yet
• 30:35
  controversial cases of the 20th century and possibly ever.
• 30:41
  Today we will be examining the life and death of a young woman
• 30:47
  named Annalise and the six demons and supposedly took her.
• 30:53
  This is the untold Story of The Exorcism of Annalise Michelle,
• 30:58
  and what a terrible and truly horrifying story it is.
• 31:22
  Before I begin this dark and extensive story, there's a few
• 31:26
  things that I would like to say. Whether this is a true case of
• 31:29
  demonic possession or the results of malpractice due to
• 31:33
  religious extremism is not up for me to decide.
• 31:37
  I will simply present the case as chronologically accurate and
• 31:41
  full of details. I can, and ultimately the
• 31:45
  conclusion is up to you. So let us first start at the
• 31:50
  beginning. Joseph Michel, who had served in
• 31:53
  the military during the war, was thankful to have returned to his
• 31:57
  family's small village following his imprisonment by the
• 32:01
  Americans and sequential release in late 1940.
• 32:05
  Five Having seen the horrors and ravages of combat, he thanked
• 32:10
  God that his small village of approximately 3000 souls hadn't
• 32:15
  been attacked during foreign army occupation.
• 32:19
  Or the devastating air raids that levelled most major cities
• 32:23
  in Germany. He would be reunited with his
• 32:26
  family and would assume a job within his family's business.
• 32:31
  And during this time he would meet a woman named Anna, a local
• 32:34
  girl, and within two years the couple would be married.
• 32:39
  Born as Anna Elizabeth Michelle on September 21st of 1952 and
• 32:45
  Leipfeng, Bavaria, West Germany, Anna was a very shy and somewhat
• 32:50
  sickly child. As she grew up.
• 32:52
  Michelle was raised along with her three sisters, as very
• 32:56
  religious and as a family. They would all attend Mass twice
• 33:00
  a week, and although frequently sick, she was known for being
• 33:04
  very sweet but also very shy, usually keeping to herself and
• 33:09
  her studies. While at school, all was going
• 33:13
  well. For Anna, who would become known
• 33:15
  by the name of Annalise, a combination of her first and
• 33:19
  middle names. This was until she turned 16
• 33:23
  years. Old.
• 33:24
  Shortly after her birthday, Annalise had a moment where she
• 33:27
  fainted in front of her younger sister and upon her sister,
• 33:31
  calling her name and poking her in the arm.
• 33:35
  When she came to, she believed that she was just exhausted from
• 33:39
  studying too much and decided to lay down for the night.
• 33:43
  But that night, little did she know that her torment would
• 33:48
  begin as she slept in her bed shortly after the clock had
• 33:52
  struck midnight, Annalise would awaken in a panic as a giant
• 33:58
  force, as she would later describe it, was holding her
• 34:02
  down. She felt the area around her and
• 34:06
  dent as if a very large person or creature was sitting on top
• 34:11
  of her. This entity then began to press
• 34:14
  on her stomach, which caused her to urinate.
• 34:18
  Panicking and unable to breathe, the poor woman called out to God
• 34:22
  in a desperate attempt to stave off whatever this thing was.
• 34:27
  Convinced that she was dying, she pleaded to be freed.
• 34:32
  However, upon the nearby church clock tower sounding the quarter
• 34:36
  hour, it was all over. All pressure had ceased, as if
• 34:41
  it was blown away by a wind whimpering in terror.
• 34:45
  Now Michelle changed her linens and would barely sleep that
• 34:49
  night. She would inform her mother the
• 34:51
  following morning that she felt very ill and was exhausted, and
• 34:57
  who can blame her? So her mother allowed her to
• 34:59
  stay home from school. Nearly one year later, during
• 35:02
  the day of August 24th of 1969, whatever it was decided to
• 35:08
  strike again just as what had happened before.
• 35:12
  She had blacked out earlier in the day, and later that night,
• 35:16
  right after midnight, yet again, she felt the familiar but
• 35:21
  terrifying large force began to hold her captive.
• 35:25
  Yet again she was unable to breathe and unable to call for
• 35:29
  help. Again, she would be freed by the
• 35:33
  tolling of the church clock bell tower.
• 35:36
  Upon informing her mother of this second incident, her mother
• 35:40
  was unsure of what was happening to her poor daughter, so she
• 35:43
  decided to take her into the family physician, a man named
• 35:47
  Doctor Vogt. At the recommendation of Doctor
• 35:50
  Vogt, they would board a train to Aufschenburg to meet with a
• 35:54
  neurologist by the name of Doctor Siegfried Luthi.
• 35:58
  Dr. Luthi that day would run a variety of tests, all which
• 36:01
  would come back negative and unsure of the results, he asked
• 36:06
  them to return on August 27th for a follow up appointment and
• 36:10
  more tests. One of the tests ran upon their
• 36:13
  return in August was an EEG which recorded normal alpha type
• 36:18
  brain activity coming up yet again, empty handed.
• 36:22
  The doctor still had to account for the convulsive episode that
• 36:25
  his patient said she was experiencing, so he diagnosed
• 36:29
  her with temporal lobe epilepsy and from here she'd be placed on
• 36:34
  a drug known as Xintra Pill. An anticonvulsant.
• 36:40
  And this worked for a time, but as 1969 would progress, she
• 36:45
  would become very sick. In December she would contract
• 36:49
  pneumonia, which would be further complicated by
• 36:53
  tuberculosis infection. She became too I'll to further
• 36:57
  attend her studies and was forced to drop out of school.
• 37:00
  At that time, she would remain back at home in her bed until
• 37:04
  January of 1970, at which point her condition still hadn't
• 37:09
  improved. So as a result of this, she was
• 37:13
  transferred to the hospital in February.
• 37:16
  From here she was placed in a sanatorium in Middleburg, one
• 37:20
  that specialized in bronchial and lung disease.
• 37:24
  She made some improvement there, but would also have other issues
• 37:28
  diagnosed when spring came, she longed to go home to see the
• 37:33
  beautiful lush hills of her village instead of the jagged
• 37:37
  and ominously Gray mountains that surrounded her.
• 37:42
  Unfortunately for her sake, she was not yet permitted to leave
• 37:46
  due to her condition still needing to improve as well as
• 37:50
  new diagnosis of cardiovascular circulatory problems.
• 37:55
  Although sad, Michelle understood what was happening.
• 37:59
  However, this all too persistent and familiar force that to come
• 38:03
  to plague her would visit her yet again on June the 3rd of
• 38:08
  1970. The same massive paralyzing
• 38:12
  entity would grip her with ice cold and unseen hands.
• 38:18
  This time however, Annalise tried everything she could to
• 38:22
  free herself and in her desperate attempts a lone scream
• 38:27
  would finally manage to tear loose from her lips.
• 38:31
  And this scream was heard by the night nurse as well as the young
• 38:35
  doctor that was on duty that night, both of which rushed to
• 38:38
  her aid. As the two entered the room, the
• 38:41
  specter released its grip on Michelle.
• 38:44
  By this point all of the commotion had woken up the other
• 38:47
  girls in the wing of the sanatorium that she was in.
• 38:51
  Michelle would be assisted with changing her pajamas and bedding
• 38:54
  and tried to sleep under nurse supervision that night.
• 38:57
  The following morning the girls gossip had reached a fever
• 39:01
  pitch. They began to speculate if
• 39:03
  Annalise had previously had a head injury or if she had water
• 39:08
  on the brain. Annalise herself, however,
• 39:11
  didn't pay much attention to them.
• 39:13
  She was becoming withdrawn and was still weak from the previous
• 39:17
  night's episode. She was more concerned with what
• 39:20
  was going on with her health as the day progressed and dust
• 39:24
  settled on the horizon. While the other girls were
• 39:27
  headed to the cafeteria, Annalise opted to stay in her
• 39:31
  room, stare out her window and say her evening rosary as she
• 39:36
  prayed. The voices of the returning
• 39:39
  girls seemed louder than usual. However, what once appeared as
• 39:44
  massive and foreboding mountains appeared more beautiful this
• 39:48
  time. Their peaks glistened with pink
• 39:51
  and Violet as the sun hit them. One of the girls would approach
• 39:56
  her as she was admiring and praying and would ask if she was
• 40:00
  all right. She then would comment on her
• 40:02
  blue eyes being. Black.
• 40:05
  Annalise, unsure of what to make of this, shook off the girl's
• 40:08
  remarks. She would go on to finish her
• 40:11
  rosary The following day. She would be sent to another
• 40:15
  specialist who would attempt to figure out just what was going
• 40:18
  on inside of her head. After a day's worth of tests
• 40:22
  including Eegs, yet again they would find no evidence of
• 40:26
  anything being wrong. However, with her now documented
• 40:30
  history of epileptic seizures, the doctor, Doctor Keller, would
• 40:35
  recommend a new anti convulsive drug be prescribed to her.
• 40:39
  Upon returning to the sanatorium, Annalise would begin
• 40:42
  to experience a new and terrifying manifestation in her
• 40:47
  normal waking life. She would begin to see horrible
• 40:51
  demonic looking creatures that were seemingly stalking her from
• 40:55
  the shadows. They would appear in the
• 40:57
  mountains, within her corridors and even in her room.
• 41:03
  Upon seeing their gnarled faces, she would often fall to her
• 41:06
  knees and beg the Virgin Mary for grace to make these terrible
• 41:11
  visions go away. After six more weeks at the
• 41:14
  sanatorium, she would be examined once again by a
• 41:18
  physician and again have more tests ran, and yet again she
• 41:23
  would be found to have no abnormalities in her brain
• 41:26
  scans. With this conclusion, she would
• 41:29
  finally be allowed to return home to her family.
• 41:32
  Her return home was happy at first, being back in her own bed
• 41:37
  surrounded by familiar faces. But yet Michelle found herself
• 41:41
  soon worrying about going back to school and readjusting, and
• 41:45
  of course, about her persistent health problems.
• 41:48
  However, she would end up returning to.
• 41:50
  School to finish. This time, of course, she would
• 41:54
  be visited by multiple doctors all throughout the year to
• 41:57
  monitor her health. She would have several more
• 41:59
  seizures, although seemingly not as severe as the ones previously
• 42:03
  experienced, and although those had seemed to be pretty minor,
• 42:07
  she was still experiencing horrific, disfigured visions.
• 42:12
  She began to share this with her mother, and after time and time
• 42:15
  again of the doctors not finding anything abnormal about her,
• 42:20
  Anna began to think that something supernatural was
• 42:23
  taking place. One evening, the two parents
• 42:27
  discussed this matter. In particular, Anna tried to
• 42:30
  convince her husband that what was plaguing their daughter was
• 42:34
  of the devil. She told him that Annalise had
• 42:37
  been seeing horrible and twisted faces all throughout the day and
• 42:40
  night, sometimes in the mirror or looking out a window, or even
• 42:46
  through the faces of other people.
• 42:49
  One vision in particular that Annalise had relayed to her
• 42:52
  mother disturbed her so much that she had to share with her
• 42:57
  husband, Joseph. Annalise had told her that upon
• 43:01
  seeing the statue of the Virgin Mary in their living room on
• 43:04
  their mantle at her eyes turned black.
• 43:08
  A hideous grin appeared on her face and her small, delicate
• 43:12
  hands began to twitch and then morph into thick, grotesque
• 43:18
  clause. Seeing the sincerity in his
• 43:21
  wife's eyes, Joseph, although silent for a few minutes,
• 43:25
  decided that the family should ask for guidance through prayer.
• 43:29
  Was school finally finished for Annalise before university?
• 43:33
  A summer trip was in order. After consulting with the
• 43:36
  doctors about his daughter's condition and discovering her
• 43:40
  depressive thoughts that she had shared with them, Joseph decided
• 43:44
  to take his daughter to the shrine of San Damiano in Italy
• 43:48
  in hopes of not only aiding her spiritually, but hopefully
• 43:51
  mentally as well. The shrine had been created by a
• 43:54
  woman named Rosa Quatrini, who over time experienced multiple
• 43:58
  miracles and received messages from the Virgin Mary, including
• 44:03
  to have the shrine built, later becoming known as Mama Rosa.
• 44:07
  She would work alongside Padre Pio for many years, so in due
• 44:12
  time, with the assistance of a teacher, they organized a trip
• 44:15
  to the shrine and were on a bus headed through the Italian
• 44:19
  countryside. Upon their arrival and exiting
• 44:22
  of the bus. Amidst the beautiful vineyards
• 44:25
  that surrounded the location of the garden in which the shrine
• 44:29
  was located in a dark presence would envelope Annalise.
• 44:34
  Surrounding the shrine was an open space which allowed for
• 44:37
  pilgrims to kneel and pray. A small crowd was present as
• 44:42
  Annalise approached the shrine at the insistence of her father.
• 44:46
  However, she seemed like she couldn't approach the Holy
• 44:50
  Mother. She began to walk around the
• 44:52
  shrine in a wide arc, and to her her feet began to burn as if she
• 44:57
  was walking on hot coals, and each person she glanced at,
• 45:01
  although in the praying position, were gnashing their
• 45:05
  teeth and their faces were distorted and awful.
• 45:10
  This is where she began to really first display her
• 45:13
  aversion to holy objects such as medals of Saints, statues, and
• 45:19
  Insignia that represented Jesus Christ.
• 45:22
  Those present couldn't help but notice how strange the young
• 45:25
  woman was behaving and upon heading back onto the bus, she
• 45:29
  was then being asked. By the teacher.
• 45:31
  A woman named Frau Hein about what was going on with her.
• 45:35
  She expressed that her will was not her own and that someone
• 45:39
  else was manipulating her. Almost as soon as those words
• 45:43
  left Michelle's mouth, her personality would completely
• 45:47
  change in a voice that sounded like a man's.
• 45:51
  Annalise began to belittle Frau Hein, making fun of her for
• 45:55
  being unsure of herself. She then snatched a blessed
• 45:58
  metal off of her neck. Simultaneously, Frau Joseph and
• 46:04
  others present on the trip, they began to smell a stench, exuding
• 46:08
  from Annalise unlike anything they had ever experienced
• 46:12
  before. The smell was that of fecal
• 46:15
  matter and something burning, and it permeated the entire
• 46:19
  buzz. She would eventually calm down
• 46:22
  and the occupants would return back to their native Germany
• 46:27
  After their visit to San Dimiano.
• 46:29
  Annalise seemed to feel quite well, despite what had taken
• 46:32
  place. This would only last for about
• 46:35
  two weeks. She was set to attend college
• 46:38
  for the first time in several weeks time, but felt that she
• 46:41
  was in no condition to do so. And she complained to her mother
• 46:45
  that she was horribly depressed and constantly plagued by these
• 46:49
  horrible faces, believing it to be a result of her daughter's
• 46:52
  seizures and it would make an appointment with Doctor Luthi.
• 46:56
  Several days later Annalise would troop to that very
• 46:59
  appointment. It would be determined that she
• 47:01
  had been seizure free in between their appointments together and
• 47:05
  another EEG would determine that her brain was indeed normal.
• 47:09
  However, Doctor Luthi, who was non religious, would essentially
• 47:14
  belittle Annalise for telling him that she was seeing these
• 47:18
  horrible visions on a daily basis.
• 47:20
  Now he believed personally that she was an overly superstitious
• 47:24
  Catholic girl, and with this he would clear Annalise to go to
• 47:29
  university. This would be the last time that
• 47:31
  she would see Doctor Luthi, and the last time she would mention
• 47:35
  the demons to any medical professional, becoming more
• 47:39
  depressed and withdrawn. Her mother would finally
• 47:41
  confront Annalise, telling her that her whole life she's wanted
• 47:45
  to be a teacher and now that the opportunity is here, she's not
• 47:50
  taking it. Annalise would explain that she
• 47:52
  was depressed, empty and tired, that the drugs were not helping
• 47:58
  her, and that the demons and their manifestations were only
• 48:02
  getting worse. Still, considering her
• 48:04
  daughter's issues to possibly be spiritual in nature, Anna would
• 48:08
  arrange for her to begin meeting with priests in an effort to aid
• 48:12
  her. The two priests that would begin
• 48:14
  to receive letters from both Anna and Annalise were Father
• 48:18
  Herman and Father Alt. After reading the letters, their
• 48:22
  interests not only piqued by the descriptions of what poor
• 48:25
  Annalise was experiencing, but Father all began to feel very
• 48:29
  ill, seemingly out of nowhere. After this happened, he would
• 48:33
  retire back to his dormitory room for the night and would try
• 48:36
  to sleep it off shortly after the clock struck midnight.
• 48:40
  Father all would awake, soaked and in a cold sweat.
• 48:43
  A storm reached outside. Lightning illuminated the room
• 48:47
  around him as he laid in his bed.
• 48:50
  Feeling awful, he began to pray. But as he prayed, he would feel
• 48:55
  someone or something press on his bed as if they had walked
• 49:00
  onto it. This deeply frightened the
• 49:02
  father. As he jumped off his bed, began
• 49:05
  to pray out loud. As the words left his mouth, a
• 49:08
  horrendous burning smell began to fill His room.
• 49:13
  Alt then rushed out of his door and into the hallway.
• 49:16
  His vision began to narrow and his color perception was
• 49:21
  changing as he rushed down the stairs and headed toward the
• 49:25
  exit door of the building. Within the shadows cascading on
• 49:29
  the walls and the stained glass that surrounded him, horrible
• 49:33
  distorted faces began to reveal themselves.
• 49:37
  Father all now knew that what he was dealing with was indeed very
• 49:42
  real evil forces. He would run outside and into
• 49:46
  the rain, falling to his knees and gripping his rosary as he
• 49:51
  attempted to catch his breath. He would eventually return back
• 49:55
  to his room once he felt that the force had passed.
• 49:59
  However, the scent of burning fecal matter still filled the
• 50:03
  entire parish. Even the following day it was
• 50:07
  still there, would be experienced by all of the
• 50:10
  priests and staff. This event would further the
• 50:14
  interest in Annalise's. Case.
• 50:16
  And further motivate the priest to act quickly, fearing that the
• 50:20
  young woman was indeed being affected by the demonic father.
• 50:24
  All would begin to meet with Annalise when he could and it
• 50:28
  would accommodate. Her school schedule.
• 50:30
  At this particular point she seemed to be doing fairly good,
• 50:34
  despite still seeing the manifestations most days.
• 50:37
  She would begin classes on November 1st of 1973, going to
• 50:42
  lectures day in and day out, and seeking various churches and
• 50:46
  chapels to relax and pray in as she remained A diligent student
• 50:52
  and her life, despite these awful visions that bothered her,
• 50:55
  still, was about to change. At the end of November, Annalise
• 50:59
  would meet a fellow student by the name of Peter.
• 51:02
  He was somewhat like herself, was very shy and friendly, but
• 51:06
  was outgoing when you got to know him.
• 51:08
  The two shared many. Classes together and would soon
• 51:11
  fall in love. Several weeks into their
• 51:13
  relationship, however, Annalise would tell Peter to stop seeing
• 51:17
  her, fearing that when the demons came back he wouldn't
• 51:21
  want her anyways. But despite what his new
• 51:23
  girlfriend was telling him, Peter denied this and still
• 51:26
  refused to leave her side. Soon after this, Annalise would
• 51:30
  go in for a checkup evaluation where she would have an EEG yet
• 51:34
  again, except this time the doctor administering the EEGA
• 51:38
  woman named Doctor Schleipe, would find patterns of epilepsy.
• 51:43
  This is significant because this is the first time out of all of
• 51:46
  the other times that any patterns of epilepsy had ever
• 51:50
  been found. As a result of this, Doctor
• 51:53
  Schleipe would change Annalise's medication to yet another
• 51:56
  anticonvulsant drug known as the Lontin in Hopes.
• 52:00
  That it would. Improve her condition following
• 52:02
  disappointment. Peter and Annalise would
• 52:05
  continue their relationship, which Annalise would confide in
• 52:08
  Peter, more so about what she was experiencing with the
• 52:11
  demonic figures and faces that still plagued her.
• 52:15
  Peter had also become aware of the awful stench that seemed to
• 52:19
  follow her, especially when she was experiencing the supposed
• 52:22
  hallucinations, and as their relationship progressed, he
• 52:26
  wanted her to join him in meeting his family and friends.
• 52:29
  But Annalise refused, worrying that they may not be as
• 52:33
  understanding as Peter. Michelle would ultimately
• 52:36
  express that she did have moments of clarity where she did
• 52:39
  feel like herself, but every so often those devils would
• 52:43
  reappear, despite taking her medication daily rigorously.
• 52:48
  The faces. Would remain and soon coupled
• 52:51
  with the faces. She would begin to experience
• 52:54
  debilitating headaches. Father Alt, checking in on her
• 52:58
  with the local Bishop there on campus, would discuss that her
• 53:01
  complaints and ailments continue to be the same despite her
• 53:05
  taking her medication every single day.
• 53:08
  He would arrange to have Annalise meet him in a nearby
• 53:10
  town for the two to pray together.
• 53:13
  Peter would ultimately take Annalise to this appointment and
• 53:16
  would be surprised at how quickly she seemed relieved
• 53:19
  after the two began praying. Although very skeptical, Peter
• 53:23
  began to believe that possibly this could be a spiritual
• 53:27
  problem. I did want to take a moment here
• 53:29
  and say that there's so much information.
• 53:32
  About what happened to Annalise in her life, and I've been
• 53:35
  pretty thorough up to this point, but I'm going to do a few
• 53:38
  briefer sections leading up to the paranormal manifestations
• 53:42
  that worsened her. Life.
• 53:45
  Just because if I sat here on every painstaking detail, we'd
• 53:49
  be here all day. Following the meeting with
• 53:52
  Father Alt, Annalise's depression would return.
• 53:56
  She told Peter that the clanking of knives and forks sickened
• 53:59
  her, that the demons wouldn't let her eat.
• 54:03
  Couple. With her losing weight and
• 54:05
  becoming ever more reclusive, other witnesses to the strange
• 54:09
  behavior she exhibited began to grow as well.
• 54:13
  One incident in particular, a mutual friend of both Annalise
• 54:17
  and Peter named Anna Lypert, witness something that she would
• 54:20
  never forget. In July of 1975, with Anna,
• 54:25
  Annalise and Peter sitting in Annalise's dorm room having a
• 54:29
  casual conversation, suddenly out of nowhere, Annalise's face
• 54:35
  contracted. And contorted into something
• 54:38
  demonic, an appearance. Her entire body then went stiff
• 54:43
  as a board, as if she was entering A catatonic state.
• 54:47
  Obviously freaked out by this, Anna asked Peter what was
• 54:50
  happening and Peter simply replied.
• 54:53
  It's the demons, she's under possession.
• 54:56
  Not knowing what else to do, the two prayed with Michelle and it
• 54:59
  would take an hour and a half for this episode to be over.
• 55:03
  Following this happening, it became clear that Annalise could
• 55:06
  no longer be by herself and attend school.
• 55:10
  The two would reach out to her parents and several days later
• 55:14
  they would move the young woman back.
• 55:16
  To Klingenberg. Upon arriving, Annalise was able
• 55:20
  to start eating again, but her other problems continued
• 55:23
  unabated. If anything, they worsened
• 55:26
  greatly in a very short period of time.
• 55:29
  During a phone call between Father Alt and Michelle's
• 55:33
  mother, the two would be interrupted frequently by the
• 55:37
  horrendous screams of Annalise and her room, screaming
• 55:41
  obscenities and overall. Acting abhorrent.
• 55:46
  Father Alt would ask a fellow priest closer to Annalise to
• 55:50
  assist him in aiding her spiritual battle, a man named
• 55:54
  Father Roth. Upon reaching out to the family
• 55:56
  to arrange his meeting with them, Father Roth was surprised
• 56:00
  when Annalise's mother answered the phone and said Father Roth.
• 56:05
  The two had never met before, nor had she been previously
• 56:09
  informed that Father Roth was going to call.
• 56:12
  Bewildered, he said yes, that's me.
• 56:16
  He was then informed that Annalise had told her that he
• 56:19
  was going to phone. That right there to the priest
• 56:22
  was an indication of the demonic knowledge of the unknown.
• 56:27
  He would arrive a week later, and upon entering the house, he
• 56:31
  could hear the girl scream from her room above.
• 56:34
  A horrible stench, like something burning, like dung and
• 56:38
  sulphur, filled the room that he and misses Michelle chatted in.
• 56:42
  The main living room of the house.
• 56:44
  Trying to find the source of the scent, he checked all the other
• 56:48
  rooms. He checked outside, in the
• 56:51
  kitchen, everything that he could think of.
• 56:53
  And yet he could find no explainable origin for this
• 56:57
  horrible smell. Misses Michelle would inform him
• 57:00
  that Annalise had been in the living room roughly 20 minutes
• 57:03
  before his arrival. Stepping outside to avoid the
• 57:07
  scent, the two would chat further and Father Roth would be
• 57:10
  informed of Annalise's outbursts of rage and all around her
• 57:15
  bizarre behaviour. The family would beg him to pray
• 57:18
  over her, to which he agreed, reluctantly.
• 57:22
  Walking up stairs to Annalise's room for the first time, he
• 57:26
  couldn't help but notice the abnormal amount of dead bugs
• 57:30
  that lined the hallway. Upon opening the door, he would
• 57:34
  be besieged. By the girl.
• 57:36
  She began cursing at him, screaming at the top of her
• 57:39
  lungs, telling him to not dare take the crucifix out of his
• 57:43
  pocket, which he had not told anyone that he was carrying.
• 57:48
  She ran out of the bed and up to his face, suddenly stopping an
• 57:52
  inch or two away as if she was frozen.
• 57:55
  Her eyes blackened and she said, O priest, you may try.
• 58:03
  She then collapsed to the floor. In a catatonic state, this was
• 58:07
  more than enough for Father Roth to rush to arrange a meeting
• 58:11
  with Father Alt to discuss what exactly had taken place.
• 58:15
  Within two days they would meet in person, to which Father Roth
• 58:19
  would explain that he had no doubts that the girl was being
• 58:22
  troubled by demons, that he had no doubt that it was indeed the
• 58:26
  real deal. Therefore, the two together
• 58:29
  would seek to move forward with a formal permission.
• 58:33
  To begin the exorcism process, during the wait for the final
• 58:37
  set approval, the course of the next year would weave a web of
• 58:41
  disgust and horror as her family, Peter and the priests
• 58:47
  would experience a plethora of horrendous manifestations at the
• 58:51
  hands of Annalise. Following Father Roth's initial
• 58:56
  visit, Annalise had become extremely restless.
• 59:00
  At most, she was only sleeping one maybe 2 hours a night.
• 59:04
  She would run through the house on all fours, barking and
• 59:08
  screaming like an animal. She would visibly be forcibly
• 59:11
  moved by something that she couldn't see.
• 59:14
  During her prayers, which were constant at this point, she
• 59:18
  would do knee Busters, standing up and kneeling down at the
• 59:23
  expense of her knees, no matter how awfully she injured them.
• 59:28
  They were becoming swollen and ulcerated.
• 59:30
  She would none the less continue.
• 59:33
  To do this. She would scream constantly.
• 59:36
  The incessant yelling echoed all throughout the walls, day and
• 59:40
  night, rising and falling like waves against a rocky shore.
• 59:46
  She would tremble and twitch, becoming rigid and catatonic,
• 59:51
  having to be moved back into her bed by Peter and her family
• 59:56
  alongside the ever worsening madness.
• 59:59
  Weighing 100 lbs at most at this point, she began to exhibit
• 1:00:03
  superhuman strength. Peter would watch her crush an
• 1:00:07
  apple with one frail hand and throw her sister Rosvita across
• 1:00:11
  the room like a rag doll. She also began to smash her face
• 1:00:17
  into walls and floors, leading to her mother placing pillows
• 1:00:21
  all around in an effort to stop her from injuring herself.
• 1:00:26
  But the Michelle family's world turning upside down, Annalise
• 1:00:30
  stopped eating and drinking altogether.
• 1:00:32
  Normal food, that is. She began to stuff the
• 1:00:36
  overabundance of insects into her.
• 1:00:39
  Mouth eating roaches, hordes of flies and spiders.
• 1:00:44
  Further, her behavior became more unhinged.
• 1:00:47
  She began to chew on coal and rocks, which ultimately broke
• 1:00:51
  several of her teeth. Among the chaos, her family
• 1:00:54
  began to experience what can only be described as paranormal
• 1:00:58
  manifestations themselves. Clouds of flies would appear and
• 1:01:02
  disappear at random all over their home and in the dead of
• 1:01:06
  winter. They began to see shadowy
• 1:01:08
  figures that would be running all throughout their home and
• 1:01:12
  watching them around every corner and out of the corner of
• 1:01:16
  their eyes. This, of course would deeply
• 1:01:18
  frighten them. As Annalise raged on, her family
• 1:01:22
  and Peter took to alternating 2 hour shifts in order to take
• 1:01:26
  care of her to the best of their ability in an attempt to prevent
• 1:01:29
  her from inflicting more wounds upon herself.
• 1:01:32
  Joseph knew things, given how awful they were.
• 1:01:36
  Could not continue the way that they were going, So he's soon,
• 1:01:39
  out of desperation, phoned Father Alt and began begging for
• 1:01:43
  his assistance. Father Alt, who had been in
• 1:01:46
  touch with his superiors at the church, would inform him that he
• 1:01:50
  believed Annalise should be admitted to a psychiatric
• 1:01:53
  hospital for evaluation. However, upon sharing the slew
• 1:01:57
  of details that were shared with him by Joseph at the dramatic
• 1:02:01
  worsening of Annalise's behavior and overall condition with a
• 1:02:05
  fellow priest by the name of Father Rodvic, Father Rodvic
• 1:02:09
  agreed to go and see the girl for himself upon entering the
• 1:02:12
  Michelle House. He would be introduced to
• 1:02:14
  Annalise through her father, who had walked her into the living
• 1:02:18
  room by himself on account that she had become very violent
• 1:02:21
  towards herself and family members by this point, sitting
• 1:02:25
  down beside. Her father, Rodvik asked her
• 1:02:29
  What is your name? Her response and a very low,
• 1:02:33
  altered voice that was not her own, was Judas.
• 1:02:37
  Over the course of the next several hours, the father was
• 1:02:40
  able to have a normal conversation with Annalise.
• 1:02:43
  As she went from being under an outside influence to herself
• 1:02:47
  having no recollection of the latter, then towards the end of
• 1:02:52
  the meeting she would slap the father across the face and then
• 1:02:56
  stand up, walk towards the. Piano and begin playing it as if
• 1:03:01
  nothing had ever happened. Father Rhode Victoria informed
• 1:03:05
  the family that he would indeed help her and support them, and
• 1:03:09
  that he ultimately believed Annalise to be.
• 1:03:11
  Possessed. And would seek.
• 1:03:13
  Action Immediately after much deliberation, the church finally
• 1:03:18
  came around. A priest by the name of Father
• 1:03:21
  Wrens, an experienced exorcist, would be tasked with the ritual,
• 1:03:26
  and on a cold and rainy day it would begin September 24th,
• 1:03:33
  1975. He would arrive at the Michelle
• 1:03:36
  residence after discussing the plan with her family.
• 1:03:40
  He would proceed up the stairs. And walk into the Vipers Den
• 1:03:44
  that was Annalise's room. He would be joined by Joseph,
• 1:03:48
  Peter and a volunteer from their local congregation who wanted to
• 1:03:53
  assist. At first all was quiet, even
• 1:03:58
  silent. Annalise, or rather the demons,
• 1:04:01
  were not engaging Father Wrens. But when he began the ritual, he
• 1:04:06
  sprinkled holy water on Annalise and she began to shake and
• 1:04:10
  scream. She started to bite the men who
• 1:04:12
  were holding her. Lunging at the priest, she
• 1:04:16
  attempted to attack him. It would take all three
• 1:04:19
  additional men to hold her down. We draw what we know, what
• 1:04:22
  happened from an entry and Father Rince's diary.
• 1:04:26
  He would go on to say that she would sound like a man, speak
• 1:04:30
  Latin, and eventually be reduced to a catatonic state, following
• 1:04:35
  an all too familiar pattern from what we already know.
• 1:04:39
  Knowing that he had a long battle ahead of him, the priest
• 1:04:42
  was saddened that the first ritual had not been successful.
• 1:04:46
  He would leave for the night but would ultimately return four
• 1:04:49
  days later on September the 20. 8th.
• 1:04:52
  And the evening he then brought with him a recorder in hopes of
• 1:04:56
  providing a record for future study within the church.
• 1:05:01
  Due to this. Decision by Father Wrens.
• 1:05:03
  We now have some of the most disturbing audio I've maybe ever
• 1:05:07
  heard, and I've heard a lot of of crazy stuff.
• 1:05:11
  This is just a portion of what he recorded.
• 1:06:15
  Annalise would again repeat the chaotic behavior that was
• 1:06:17
  exhibited within the first exorcism, and the devil that
• 1:06:21
  resided within her began to rebuttal.
• 1:06:24
  The priest in Latin as well as her native.
• 1:06:26
  Tongue of German, Although being familiar with the Latin
• 1:06:30
  language, Annalise was not fluent, let alone fluent enough
• 1:06:34
  to have been able to rebuttal a priest in Real.
• 1:06:37
  Time, who spoke the language fluently as the priest, inquired
• 1:06:41
  as to why the girl was being tormented.
• 1:06:45
  It whatever it was replied with, she was cursed before she was
• 1:06:50
  born by a woman, a neighbor. Of her mother.
• 1:06:54
  Annalise's parents and Peter would later check the story out,
• 1:06:57
  but the woman had since passed away, so they weren't able to
• 1:07:00
  come up with anything conclusive.
• 1:07:03
  This second exorcism would last for hours.
• 1:07:06
  And would end with a haunting sentence from Annalise herself.
• 1:07:10
  She would say damned for all eternity.
• 1:07:15
  She would then crawl back up and do a catatonic state like a
• 1:07:19
  statue. Now we only have some details
• 1:07:22
  here and there based on the diary entries, interviews and
• 1:07:26
  audio recordings, but this would ultimately continue for months.
• 1:07:30
  Annalise would undergo 67 exorcisms in total.
• 1:07:34
  She would reveal that she was possessed by 5 demons and their
• 1:07:38
  names were Cain, Judas, Nero. Fleischmann and Lucifer.
• 1:07:46
  The Devil in the Flesh. There is one more demon, but
• 1:07:51
  it's a name that I feel like if I say it on YouTube I will
• 1:07:54
  probably get demonetized. You can look it up for yourself
• 1:07:58
  to simply. Go to her Wikipedia page, which
• 1:08:00
  I will also be linking down in the comments below.
• 1:08:02
  Cain, known from the Bible as the first murderer, the
• 1:08:06
  originator of violence. Judas as in Judas Iscarat, the
• 1:08:12
  man who betrayed Christ. Nero, the crazed Roman Emperor
• 1:08:17
  who tortured Christians for his own sick enjoyment.
• 1:08:20
  Fleischmann who was a disgraced priest local to the land and
• 1:08:26
  finally Lucifer, the Prince of Darkness himself.
• 1:08:30
  Her physical decline due to not being able to eat,
• 1:08:33
  self-inflicted injuries and psychosis due to lack of sleep
• 1:08:39
  would finally take their toll. She would inform Father Renz on
• 1:08:42
  June 30th, at the end of what would be their final exorcism,
• 1:08:47
  that she had spoken with the Virgin Mary and that she had
• 1:08:50
  agreed to stay on earth and suffer through the demons to
• 1:08:54
  prove to people who didn't believe in God that the devil
• 1:08:58
  was very real. She would then ask for
• 1:09:00
  absolution in which Father Renz would grant her.
• 1:09:04
  That night she would go silent for the first time since all of
• 1:09:08
  these horrifying episodes had began.
• 1:09:11
  In the following morning, around 7:00 AM on July the first of
• 1:09:16
  1976, she would be found dead in her bed.
• 1:09:21
  All of the exorcisms and attempts to drive the demons out
• 1:09:26
  had failed, and upon her death she only weighed roughly 85 lbs.
• 1:09:32
  And Elisa? Gone from a shy but happy girl
• 1:09:35
  with her whole life ahead of her to an emaciated shell of
• 1:09:39
  herself. Just how did we get here?
• 1:09:43
  Was it malpractice? Was she mentally ill?
• 1:09:47
  Or was it truly the hands of the demonic that snuffed her out?
• 1:09:52
  After multiple calls have been made by her grieving family, a
• 1:09:56
  man named Doctor Keller would perform the post mortem
• 1:09:59
  examination. And it's important to note the
• 1:10:01
  following details, because honestly, it's really
• 1:10:04
  intriguing. Her death was determined to be
• 1:10:06
  caused by starvation and possibly aggravated and
• 1:10:10
  tremendous physical exertion. In the final weeks of her life,
• 1:10:14
  you would find that her inner organs, surprisingly, were
• 1:10:17
  healthy and not damaged, as well as her brain, which showed no
• 1:10:21
  signs of epilepsy, not even on a microscopic level.
• 1:10:25
  Curiously still, no bruising bed sores or ulcerations were found
• 1:10:31
  on her skin and the ensuing aftermath.
• 1:10:34
  The priests were arrested and charged with negligent homicide,
• 1:10:39
  as well as Joseph and Anna. The trial and case overall would
• 1:10:43
  become a highly debated issue among the German people at the
• 1:10:46
  time, with some being convinced that she died at the hands of
• 1:10:50
  Satan himself and others that it was the fault of malpractice on
• 1:10:54
  behalf of the priests and her parents.
• 1:10:57
  The trial would last for months, with doctors weighing in with
• 1:11:00
  their opinions, lawyers, witnesses and just the whole
• 1:11:04
  works. And although I have those
• 1:11:07
  details here, there is so much to it, just the trial itself,
• 1:11:11
  that honestly, I would probably have to make a whole other video
• 1:11:14
  in total just to cover it. The verdict, however, in my
• 1:11:17
  opinion, is the important part of what followed her death after
• 1:11:21
  a much heated debate. Ultimately, Michelle's parents
• 1:11:25
  and the priests involved would be charged with negligent
• 1:11:28
  homicide and would be sentenced to six months in prison.
• 1:11:32
  The six months ultimately would be reduced to three years of
• 1:11:35
  probation as well as a fine. Given the unique circumstances
• 1:11:40
  of the case, the church would draw a ton of heat as a result
• 1:11:44
  of what happened. They would ultimately retract
• 1:11:46
  the confirmation that Annalise Michelle.
• 1:11:49
  Was indeed possessed. Michelle had been buried under
• 1:11:52
  hurried circumstances. And as a result of this, as well
• 1:11:56
  as multiple religious people sharing that they had visions of
• 1:11:59
  her body untouched by decay, she would be exhumed almost two
• 1:12:04
  years later with the intention being.
• 1:12:07
  To have her. Buried in a nicer coffin, her
• 1:12:10
  family and friends were discouraged from viewing her
• 1:12:13
  remains because they were consistent with the decay of a
• 1:12:17
  corpse of that age. In the end, her.
• 1:12:19
  Case will go on to achieve worldwide notoriety.
• 1:12:23
  And Wood Forest, the Catholic Church to all but never issue
• 1:12:26
  sanctioned exorcisms. And on June 6th of 2013, the
• 1:12:32
  home in which her exorcisms took place in mysteriously caught
• 1:12:36
  fire and would burn to the ground.
• 1:12:38
  The police suspected arson but never ultimately proved it, but
• 1:12:43
  many of locals believe that it was a result of what had taken
• 1:12:46
  place there. And really, it's hard telling.
• 1:12:49
  Decades after her death, her story would go on to inspire
• 1:12:52
  multiple films and books, including The Exorcism of Emily
• 1:12:57
  Rose being the most popular and honestly fairly accurate, with
• 1:13:01
  some liberties to the original story.
• 1:13:04
  And of many of those books, the best and most utilized resource
• 1:13:09
  of them for me has been The Exorcism of Annalise Michelle
• 1:13:13
  by. Felicitas de Goodman, all.
• 1:13:16
  And I mean. All details you could ever want
• 1:13:19
  about the entire case are available in this book and I
• 1:13:22
  would highly. Recommend it In conclusion,
• 1:13:25
  Annalise's case remains A terrifying and mysterious one.
• 1:13:29
  Was she demonically possessed or incredibly, mentally?
• 1:13:33
  Ill did her priests and parents genuinely help her and being
• 1:13:37
  freed from Satan's grasp? Or did they contribute to the
• 1:13:41
  end of her life accidentally? Really the final conclusion.
• 1:13:46
  Is yours to make. But regardless of the 'cause,
• 1:13:49
  I'm glad that her suffering is over and I pray now that she can
• 1:13:53
  hopefully rest in peace. Thank you guys so much for
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• 1:14:36
  This case took a. Really long time.
• 1:14:39
  I mean like probably like 2-3 weeks to research and I really
• 1:14:43
  hope that I did Annalise's story justice and I hope you guys
• 1:14:47
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• 1:14:51
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  cohesive picture possible. Hartford City, IN what was
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  and eventually hit the big time in the late 1880s, where itself
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  and its neighbors entered a natural gas boom resulting in
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  factories that produce textiles, glass, and other goods.
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  But although natural resources were widely abundant within the
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  Our story begins at the construction site of a rather
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  unsuspecting looking Victorian home.
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  The year is 1892 and the Berger family, who emigrated to the
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  area from Belgium, had been successful in their business
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  endeavors and thus thought a new home and their new country would
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  be the ultimate earthly reward. However, the family's newfound
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  happiness would be all but short lived from the time the earth
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  was dug up and the new home erected within months.
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  John. Berger.
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  The patriarch of the family would die from tuberculosis
• 1:17:53
  within its walls, mourning his death.
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  This would be far from the last tragedy his family would endure
• 1:18:00
  moving forward. Shortly after John's death, a
• 1:18:04
  fire would mysteriously start in the upstairs level of the house
• 1:18:09
  in time, destroying a large portion of the property and the
• 1:18:14
  majority of the Berger family. Would meet a truly gruesome.
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  And terrible fate following the horrific fire that torched what
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  little happiness the Burger family had left.
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  The widow of the family and one surviving child desperately
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  needed a source of income, so the widowed Misses Burger
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  decided to start renting out rooms in order to make it.
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  There would be various. Tenants, but the most prominent
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  were the Myers family. The head of the household, a man
• 1:18:47
  named Ulysses Myers, was a well known and respected member of
• 1:18:51
  the community. He was known for his kindness,
• 1:18:55
  compassion, and for being an all around amazing family man.
• 1:19:01
  But this reputation would soon fade.
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  Shortly after moving into the home, Ulysses slowly began to
• 1:19:10
  change. Those who knew him believed that
• 1:19:13
  he had done a complete shift in his entire personality, all just
• 1:19:18
  within months. So much so that he became
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  unrecognizable not only to his close friends, but to his family
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  as well. His kindness, compassion and
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  care all seemed to have been buried and someone new now
• 1:19:36
  greeted them each day. Behind the eyes of Ulysses.
• 1:19:42
  He quickly became prone to fits of rage and insanity.
• 1:19:46
  This led him to become abusive towards his once beloved family
• 1:19:51
  verbally as well as physically. These new bursts of rage,
• 1:19:56
  however, weren't reserved strictly for his family.
• 1:20:00
  He soon turned on friends and colleagues too.
• 1:20:03
  This sudden heel turn for Myers led him to losing his job after
• 1:20:07
  an altercation at his workplace. And shortly after this, despite
• 1:20:12
  how much he had cherished his family before, he stole what was
• 1:20:17
  left of his family's money and abandoned his wife and children
• 1:20:22
  by skipping town with a newfound mistress.
• 1:20:26
  All of which was the polar opposite of the man that they
• 1:20:30
  thought they knew shatter beyond repair.
• 1:20:33
  The Myers family were left with open wounds upon their hearts
• 1:20:37
  and confusion and their minds. The only differing factor from
• 1:20:42
  their life before to what it was now was the fact that they had
• 1:20:47
  moved into this house. Now with the home claiming the
• 1:20:50
  destruction of two families, rumors quickly began to spread
• 1:20:54
  locally throughout Hartford City that the house contains some
• 1:20:59
  kind of curse. Whether it was upon the property
• 1:21:03
  or the land was uncertain. The Myers family soon moved out.
• 1:21:08
  Due to the rumors, Missus Burger was unable to keep tenants to
• 1:21:12
  help support her and her surviving child.
• 1:21:16
  Thus, she was forced to sell the property at a fire sale rate in
• 1:21:21
  order to start somewhere new. What happened to the burgers is
• 1:21:25
  unknown. With this sale, a revolving door
• 1:21:29
  of tenants and owners would begin.
• 1:21:32
  As soon as one family would move in, they would almost
• 1:21:36
  immediately move out again and again this cycle would continue.
• 1:21:42
  It would go from being lived in by a family to being rented out
• 1:21:46
  and built onto eventually creating its triplex design that
• 1:21:51
  we know today. Those who had moved in and out
• 1:21:56
  often reported experiencing bizarre activity and others
• 1:22:01
  simply just didn't say anything, possibly not wanting to come to
• 1:22:06
  grips with the reality of what they had been through.
• 1:22:10
  This ever changing list of tenants would continue for
• 1:22:14
  decades. Along with this revolving door
• 1:22:17
  of people came a revolving door of peculiar behaviors and
• 1:22:22
  practices. Rumors began to circulate in the
• 1:22:26
  late 1980s and into the early 1990s that tenants during this
• 1:22:32
  time frame were performing occult rituals and ceremonies
• 1:22:36
  within the home, particularly within the basement.
• 1:22:42
  Black magic rituals and ceremonies those conducted them,
• 1:22:48
  attempted to harness the negative energy that dwelled
• 1:22:51
  there to conjure a demon to do their bidding.
• 1:22:56
  Although information is limited, one could assume that perhaps
• 1:23:00
  their efforts were successful. From the mid 90s onward, the
• 1:23:06
  strangeness that surrounds the house on Monroe St. only
• 1:23:10
  intensified, with new stories coming from new tenants and
• 1:23:15
  neighbors alike. Stories that this old Victorian
• 1:23:20
  home housed a dark and malevolent force.
• 1:23:25
  These stories soon began to spread like wildfire.
• 1:23:28
  Those who would move into the house typically would only last
• 1:23:32
  in the home a year or less. They often fled in the middle of
• 1:23:37
  the night with nothing but the clothes upon their backs, only
• 1:23:42
  continuing to solidify that something evil dwelt within the
• 1:23:46
  house. Things in fact got so bad that
• 1:23:50
  even when the home was abandoned for a time, the windows would be
• 1:23:54
  blacked out in order to keep people from looking inside, but
• 1:23:58
  not because of vandalism problems, but due to so many
• 1:24:02
  neighbors and Passer bys calling the police claiming that they
• 1:24:07
  kept seeing shadowy figures walk around the interior of the
• 1:24:11
  Monroe house. With the home providing a
• 1:24:15
  plethora of paranormal evidence and experiences, the soon drew
• 1:24:20
  the attention of paranormal scholars and investigation
• 1:24:24
  groups from all over the country.
• 1:24:28
  This is just some of the activity said to have been
• 1:24:31
  experienced by various groups over the years.
• 1:24:35
  People have reported a vast amount of supernatural
• 1:24:38
  happenings, many of which have been caught on film, photo or
• 1:24:43
  digital audio recording. These range from aggressive and
• 1:24:48
  insulting Evps or Electronic Voice Phenomena to full bodied
• 1:24:53
  apparitions, shadow figures, and possibly inhuman manifestations.
• 1:25:01
  Mysterious sounds like knocking, banging, and footsteps are
• 1:25:06
  common. Doors and cabinets slamming shut
• 1:25:10
  with incredible amounts of force, and most of the activity
• 1:25:15
  seemed to be centered around the basement as well as the top
• 1:25:19
  floor. And the top.
• 1:25:21
  Floor has speculated to be the place where the fire had started
• 1:25:26
  that engulfed the Berger family. The basement, of course, is
• 1:25:31
  where the alleged black magic rituals took place.
• 1:25:35
  In both of these locations, an eerie, shadowy spectre of an
• 1:25:40
  old, malicious woman is said to attack people.
• 1:25:44
  But just who could this entity be?
• 1:25:47
  Someone who? Had previously lived there.
• 1:25:50
  Or something inhuman cloaking itself and some kind of familiar
• 1:25:54
  skin. Stories of groups.
• 1:25:57
  Panicking and fleeing too, have become commonplace. 1 Paranormal
• 1:26:03
  Group which wishes to remain anonymous and 2014 had such a
• 1:26:08
  disturbing experience that they fled the home and fear for their
• 1:26:13
  lives. They arrived on site at the
• 1:26:16
  Monroe House amidst a strong thunderstorm, unpacking their
• 1:26:21
  vehicle, attempting to keep their equipment dry and safe.
• 1:26:26
  They made their way inside, and in due time began documenting
• 1:26:30
  whatever they could find there as they investigated, asking
• 1:26:35
  questions, provoking interaction and recording level by level,
• 1:26:42
  the more activity they began to experience.
• 1:26:47
  Shadows moved out of the corner of their eyes, bangs knocking
• 1:26:53
  and captain slamming shut could be discerned from the reverb of
• 1:26:58
  the Thunder outside. But it's when they decided to go
• 1:27:02
  down to the basement that their lives would be altered forever.
• 1:27:09
  As they descended the stairs, an eerie cold began to overtake
• 1:27:13
  them as they asked their questions, attempting to catch
• 1:27:18
  any activity they could. Their flashlights and devices
• 1:27:24
  failed, left with only the enveloping darkness, with the
• 1:27:29
  occasional flash of lightning coming through the basement
• 1:27:32
  windows, Something appeared to them that caused them to flee
• 1:27:37
  immediately. But just what or who was this
• 1:27:42
  apparition? This cannot be confirmed.
• 1:27:47
  Whatever it was terrified them so much that they fled into the
• 1:27:51
  torrential downpour and refused to ever return.
• 1:27:56
  Later, when asked for details, even separately, the members of
• 1:28:01
  the group thus far have refused to discuss the incident further.
• 1:28:06
  Whether this is out of fear for whatever this thing is or was re
• 1:28:10
  entering their lives, or the mere thought is so Reality
• 1:28:15
  shattering 1 cannot be sure this incident in its aftermath truly
• 1:28:20
  makes you wander just what they could have saw within the
• 1:28:23
  dilapidated damp basement at a curse tonight.
• 1:28:29
  Investigations will continue with multiple groups coming in
• 1:28:32
  and out until a very peculiar discovery took place in 2016,
• 1:28:39
  and this discovery would lead to much speculation as to what
• 1:28:43
  could have happened within the house.
• 1:28:46
  While conducting an investigation for their show
• 1:28:48
  Paranormal Lockdown, Nick Groff and Katrina Weirdman found
• 1:28:53
  themselves in the basement and were slowly being drawn to the
• 1:28:57
  crawl space of the house. As they traverse the damp
• 1:29:01
  darkness, what they would find would alter the story forever.
• 1:29:06
  Located within the crawl space where human remains, bones
• 1:29:13
  buried in a shallow grave. This freak the entire crew out
• 1:29:18
  and prompted them to stop filming and to call the police
• 1:29:21
  immediately. From here a full scale
• 1:29:24
  investigation would be conducted and the remains excavated and
• 1:29:30
  sent to a local coroner there in Indiana for further examination.
• 1:29:35
  The bones were indeed confirmed to.
• 1:29:37
  Be human. And were.
• 1:29:39
  Quote. At least 100 years old, possibly
• 1:29:43
  older. Following the coroner, they were
• 1:29:46
  sent to Indiana University for further testing to determine the
• 1:29:50
  age and identification of the person.
• 1:29:54
  At this point, the final outcome has not yet been reported, such
• 1:29:59
  as the age of the individual found or their identity or
• 1:30:03
  potential cause of death. The presumed investigation is
• 1:30:07
  still under way. Let's put a brief.
• 1:30:10
  Pause on people being allowed to enter the now privately owned
• 1:30:13
  home. But that pause has since been
• 1:30:16
  lifted, with many more investigations taking place over
• 1:30:20
  the years since. And with these investigations,
• 1:30:25
  even more paranormal activity and aggressive activity at that
• 1:30:30
  has been reported. These investigations also range
• 1:30:34
  from amateur to professional, from the average Joe to
• 1:30:39
  Youtubers and famous paranormal teams.
• 1:30:45
  Those who have entered the walls of the Monroe Demon House have
• 1:30:48
  experienced an addition to previously mentioned activity.
• 1:30:53
  Strange sights, smells and feelings.
• 1:30:58
  Demonic snarls, growls, and even full blown attacks have happened
• 1:31:04
  and these have involved scratching, biting and being
• 1:31:08
  shoved. Often times these more intense
• 1:31:12
  manifestations are accompanied with aggressive and commanding
• 1:31:16
  Evps where people's names are often used, windows slamming
• 1:31:22
  shut with so much force that they shatter, leaving fragments
• 1:31:27
  of glass all over the floor, just like the fragments left of
• 1:31:31
  the lives of the families who once dwelt.
• 1:31:34
  There has also happened. One previous owner of the home
• 1:31:40
  allegedly even jumped out a window on the top floor upon
• 1:31:45
  being attacked by a demonic apparition.
• 1:31:48
  Imagine that for a moment. You're so terrified that you
• 1:31:53
  would rather risk diving through a window at the top of your
• 1:31:56
  house, breaking it ultimately, let alone falling however far
• 1:32:02
  and injuring yourself at a pure fear and fight or flight instead
• 1:32:08
  of dealing with whatever this thing was that was attacking
• 1:32:13
  you, rushing towards you. That to me is bone chilling.
• 1:32:18
  Others who have stayed more recently, I've also reported
• 1:32:22
  puddles of strange liquid throughout the house at varying
• 1:32:26
  times and with seemingly no origin.
• 1:32:30
  Horrific nightmares if they managed to sleep and why you
• 1:32:34
  would ever. Choose to sleep.
• 1:32:36
  There is beyond me. And even strange footprints or
• 1:32:40
  paw prints such as this one have also been discovered multiple
• 1:32:45
  times. So with all of these high
• 1:32:48
  strangeness manifestations, we must ask ourselves, just what is
• 1:32:53
  it that lurks within the Monroe Demon House?
• 1:32:58
  Could it have been a curse placed upon the land?
• 1:33:01
  Something that predated the building of the house?
• 1:33:05
  It's certainly possible, in my opinion, to somewhat.
• 1:33:09
  Back up that. Claim Native American artifacts
• 1:33:12
  such as arrowheads have been found around the property, but
• 1:33:16
  nothing significant that would indicate some kind of a curse.
• 1:33:21
  No burial grounds or mounds from what I could find.
• 1:33:26
  What if it was a generation or family curse?
• 1:33:30
  Again, it's possible, but seems somewhat unlikely.
• 1:33:34
  From what I've seen, the Berger family up until the home was
• 1:33:38
  built had great success in their endeavors.
• 1:33:41
  And for all. Intents and purposes seemed
• 1:33:44
  happy and thriving. Until, of course, they weren't.
• 1:33:49
  Then there's the enigma of the Myers family.
• 1:33:53
  Did Ulysses Myers lose his mind due to the home?
• 1:33:56
  One could certainly make that connection considering his
• 1:33:59
  complete shift in personality. But what was it in particular
• 1:34:03
  that caused him to change so drastically?
• 1:34:06
  This question and more we may never.
• 1:34:10
  Truly be able to answer. All we can do is speculate then
• 1:34:16
  the numerous owners and tenants over the decades since the days
• 1:34:20
  of the burgers and Myers, many of them reporting odd and often
• 1:34:26
  scary paranormal or poltergeist activity.
• 1:34:31
  Was this activity? Also taking place when the older
• 1:34:34
  families lived there, Or did it start after their departure?
• 1:34:39
  If this was the case, if it started afterwards, was at the
• 1:34:43
  result of negative events attracting something dark, or
• 1:34:47
  was one of the families or family members involved?
• 1:34:51
  In the occult. And Speaking of a cult, just who
• 1:34:56
  or what were those people in the late 80s and to the early 90s
• 1:35:00
  doing? What kind of black magic or
• 1:35:04
  rituals were conducted, and were they responsible for conjuring
• 1:35:09
  some kind of entity into the home?
• 1:35:12
  Or. Did their practices just make
• 1:35:15
  the entire situation much worse? And did it have anything to do
• 1:35:20
  with the human remains that were found in the basement?
• 1:35:23
  And if not the Black Mages closer to modern times?
• 1:35:27
  Someone in the early 1900s had to have known just who this
• 1:35:31
  person was and what happened. To them and of course.
• 1:35:36
  Will the identity and cause of death ever be determined for the
• 1:35:40
  poor soul whose remains were found within the basement?
• 1:35:45
  As you ponder all of these questions and attempt to draw
• 1:35:48
  your own conclusions, I want to leave you with several final
• 1:35:52
  questions. Will the activity ever cease,
• 1:35:57
  And will the origin ever truly be determined?
• 1:36:01
  All of these questions honestly may not have answers.
• 1:36:06
  Perhaps they're out of our scope of understanding.
• 1:36:09
  Or perhaps the answers have just simply been lost to the sands of
• 1:36:14
  time. But one thing I can say for
• 1:36:17
  certain is this. Given how many people have
• 1:36:21
  experienced dark and spine tingling paranormal activity
• 1:36:25
  within this house, and taking into account how long it has
• 1:36:29
  been occurring, this is one home that has truly earned the name
• 1:36:35
  The Demon House. Because a demon is precisely.
• 1:36:41
  It may just be lurking within its depths.
• 1:36:45
  Curiosity is a fascinating element of the human condition.
• 1:36:50
  Our innate impulse for discovery has LED countless souls to scale
• 1:36:56
  the heights of mountains and dive into the deepest abysses.
• 1:37:01
  But can curiosity be dangerous? Can we stumble upon something we
• 1:37:06
  shouldn't have in our explorations into the unknown?
• 1:37:11
  Consider the case of former NASA engineer Bill Vale, who, after a
• 1:37:16
  chance encounter with a strange ritual, finds himself plagued by
• 1:37:20
  a merciless evil that threatens to ruin his life.
• 1:37:24
  Yet he is just as haunted by burning desire.
• 1:37:28
  To know the truth about what is tormenting him.
• 1:37:32
  Today we will be exploring the untold story of Bill Vale here
• 1:37:38
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• 1:38:02
  The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA,
• 1:38:06
  is an independent organization affiliated with the US
• 1:38:09
  government. Since its founding in 1958, the
• 1:38:14
  agency has broadened humanity's understanding of the heavens and
• 1:38:19
  the dark void that waits just outside of our planet.
• 1:38:24
  It is an agency that, from the beginning, has attracted curious
• 1:38:28
  souls, including Bill Vale. Bill had long worked in fields
• 1:38:33
  that required not just an intelligent or curious mind, but
• 1:38:37
  a logical one. Bill had worked as a sonar
• 1:38:41
  supervisor on a nuclear submarine, spent years as a
• 1:38:44
  pilot and a robotics engineer. He worked as an operations
• 1:38:50
  quality manager for a company that produced spaceflight
• 1:38:53
  critical hardware for NASA. All of these jobs.
• 1:38:58
  Required attention to detail and keen observation.
• 1:39:02
  All of them required close attention to surroundings and
• 1:39:06
  the ability to remain calm under intense pressure.
• 1:39:10
  He was gifted with a driving sense to know.
• 1:39:13
  He never guessed. Instead, he would learn and do
• 1:39:17
  research in order to truly understand he was a man driven
• 1:39:23
  by relentless curiosity. Bill and his family were not
• 1:39:28
  people who were easily spooked, and his friends would come to
• 1:39:31
  him if they wanted a straight and clear cut, rational story
• 1:39:35
  about anything. However, Bill would find his
• 1:39:38
  life taking a sudden turn when he and his wife finalized their
• 1:39:42
  divorce in 2002. Feeling burned out and eating a
• 1:39:45
  fresh start in life, Bill quit his job in the aerospace
• 1:39:49
  industry and moved back to his hometown in Arlington, TX to be
• 1:39:53
  with his little brother Bob and reconnect.
• 1:39:55
  After many years, he searched around for something, anything
• 1:40:00
  different to do with his life. He found an ad for a job at the
• 1:40:03
  same water purification company where his brother worked and
• 1:40:07
  decided to roll the dice and take the opportunity.
• 1:40:11
  And during this time, he looked for a house and found one that
• 1:40:15
  was well within his budget. The deal seemed almost too good
• 1:40:19
  to be true. It was like they were trying to
• 1:40:21
  give the house away early. During Bill's employment at his
• 1:40:25
  new job, his employer had received a call from a client
• 1:40:29
  asking for someone to be at her house at exactly 5:00 PM.
• 1:40:33
  Not a minute earlier or a minute after, but exactly on time.
• 1:40:38
  Wanting to prove his competence to his fellow Co workers, Bill
• 1:40:42
  went ahead and accepted the job. He kept an eye on his watch as
• 1:40:45
  he drove through the suburban streets of Arlington to make
• 1:40:48
  sure that he would arrive right on schedule.
• 1:40:51
  When he reached his destination outside of an ordinary looking
• 1:40:54
  home, the first noises he heard upon approaching the door were
• 1:40:58
  the screams of a woman coming from inside.
• 1:41:02
  Raising an eyebrow and feeling that something wasn't quite
• 1:41:05
  right and hoping that they would just cancel the appointment
• 1:41:08
  altogether, he went ahead and walked to the front door at
• 1:41:11
  exactly 5:00 PM. Upon knocking, at first there
• 1:41:15
  didn't appear to be any sort of an interruption.
• 1:41:18
  Then the woman's yelling. However, through the muffled
• 1:41:20
  screams, he was able to unmistakenly make out.
• 1:41:24
  In the name of Christ, I command you to leave these men, which he
• 1:41:27
  thought was peculiar to say the least.
• 1:41:30
  Then the door opened. A strange woman stood in the
• 1:41:34
  small crack that had now been created with just a blank
• 1:41:37
  expression on her face, without saying a.
• 1:41:40
  Word. She pointed a long, Bony finger
• 1:41:43
  at him and then slammed the door.
• 1:41:46
  A feeling of. Strangeness and dread overtook
• 1:41:49
  Bill and he went ahead and ran to his company vehicle as fast
• 1:41:52
  as his legs could carry him. He then would call his employer
• 1:41:56
  and tell him that he would never take a call from this client
• 1:41:58
  again. As he went about his day, he
• 1:42:01
  couldn't help shake the events from earlier in the day from his
• 1:42:04
  mind. Against his own rational
• 1:42:06
  judgement, he felt as though the woman had been trying to warn
• 1:42:09
  him in some strange way. After his shift ended that
• 1:42:13
  evening, he went home and got settled in for the night.
• 1:42:16
  Bill was sound asleep when he felt himself jolted awake by
• 1:42:20
  what he thought was an earthquake.
• 1:42:23
  His bed shook violently, almost to the point of knocking him off
• 1:42:27
  of it. Then, as suddenly as it had
• 1:42:30
  began, the shaking stopped. Still in a daze but now wide
• 1:42:36
  awake, Bill set about attempting to see just what had happened.
• 1:42:40
  Nothing else in his house appeared to have been shaken by
• 1:42:43
  the quake. The clocks in his home right
• 1:42:46
  around 3:00 AM, and he wasn't terribly convinced that it was,
• 1:42:50
  in fact an earthquake. That it caused the.
• 1:42:52
  Disturbance. He attempted to recreate the
• 1:42:55
  shaking of his bed himself, but was unable to.
• 1:42:59
  Deciding that he must have just been dreaming, he went ahead and
• 1:43:02
  just laid back down and decided that he would check the
• 1:43:05
  following day if an earthquake had indeed happened.
• 1:43:08
  However, upon checking the following day, no such quake had
• 1:43:12
  occurred. After this incident, doves and
• 1:43:15
  other birds would begin gathering in the trees outside
• 1:43:18
  of his home, so much so that the realtor who had sold him the
• 1:43:22
  house was baffled. He soon started to notice the
• 1:43:26
  pervasive, almost smothering smell of bacon in his home,
• 1:43:30
  which is kind of odd if you think about it, just something
• 1:43:32
  cooking. And bacon has a very particular
• 1:43:34
  scent. It was if someone was constantly
• 1:43:37
  cooking an entire package on his stove.
• 1:43:40
  Walking through mysterious cold spots into his house became a
• 1:43:43
  regular occurrence as well. Although Bill would try his best
• 1:43:47
  to find a rational explanation, such as something being caused
• 1:43:51
  by his air conditioner or poor insulation or a draft, nothing
• 1:43:56
  he could come up with made rational sense to explain what
• 1:44:00
  he was experiencing. At night.
• 1:44:03
  He would experience things that would only get darker and more
• 1:44:06
  sinister as time went on. He would awaken the early
• 1:44:10
  morning hours to the sensation of small creatures like cats or
• 1:44:15
  dogs running across his feet, but his dogs slept in their
• 1:44:20
  kennels at night. When they were out, however,
• 1:44:23
  they would also growl and even bark at seemingly nothing at
• 1:44:27
  random areas. In the house.
• 1:44:29
  The activity, however, began so slight that it could easily be
• 1:44:35
  ignored. And even if it couldn't be
• 1:44:38
  ignored, Bill would try to write it off by finding some sort of a
• 1:44:41
  logical explanation and just dismissing it.
• 1:44:44
  In his mind, however, Bill would soon experience a watershed
• 1:44:48
  moment when he was watching TV one evening in his house.
• 1:44:52
  Suddenly he watched as a water bottle which had been sitting on
• 1:44:56
  his kitchen counter. Flew across the room.
• 1:44:59
  And bounced off the wall next to his head.
• 1:45:02
  It was at this point that Bill and all of his logic and
• 1:45:06
  experience finally had to admit that what he was dealing.
• 1:45:10
  With. Had to fall.
• 1:45:12
  Under the realm of the paranormal, for he had no other
• 1:45:15
  explanation, no other reasoning that would make sense of the
• 1:45:19
  months of unseen forces toying with him.
• 1:45:22
  However, at this final acceptance that it was something
• 1:45:25
  supernatural in nature, the phenomena began to kick into a
• 1:45:30
  higher gear. The phenomena deepened beyond
• 1:45:33
  just sights and affecting Bill's surroundings.
• 1:45:36
  Electronic technicians frequented his house, often due
• 1:45:40
  to the constant flickering of lights, failure of his computer
• 1:45:44
  and television, and many of them stated that they had never
• 1:45:48
  experienced anything like they did inside Bill's house and
• 1:45:52
  their entire careers. Alongside the strange
• 1:45:55
  fluctuations in the electricity, Bill's phone also began calling
• 1:46:00
  people by itself throughout all odd hours of the night, usually
• 1:46:04
  around 3:00 AM. Bill called his phone company to
• 1:46:08
  attempt to find a solution to the problem, and during his
• 1:46:11
  phone call with the representative, a strange and
• 1:46:15
  aggressive voice could be heard in the static, speaking in a
• 1:46:19
  language that neither of them could understand.
• 1:46:23
  The representative confirmed that he had heard it as well and
• 1:46:26
  was baffled because they used to secure a line that a third party
• 1:46:30
  could definitely not access or hijack.
• 1:46:34
  While calling his friend Michael, who happened to be a
• 1:46:36
  sound engineer, the same voice appeared on the phone line.
• 1:46:40
  Bill told Michael to hang up because he believed that there
• 1:46:43
  was something evil. About this voice.
• 1:46:46
  But Michael had already began recording the conversation.
• 1:46:50
  However, upon the phone call ending, and upon Michael
• 1:46:53
  reviewing the audio that he had recorded, no such voice could be
• 1:46:58
  found. Bill soon needed more
• 1:47:00
  confirmation that other people were seeing what he was seeing
• 1:47:04
  so that he could rule out if he was crazy or not.
• 1:47:08
  He invited his brother Bob over and asked him to stand in his
• 1:47:11
  bedroom closet with the lights off.
• 1:47:14
  Bob thought it was an odd request, but he went ahead and
• 1:47:17
  agreed and went and stood in his brother's.
• 1:47:19
  Closet with the door closed. Bob would emerge a little while
• 1:47:22
  later, a bit disgruntled, but when Bill asked him if he had
• 1:47:26
  experienced anything, all he had to say at that time was that, I
• 1:47:31
  think, the closet. Needs to be cleaned.
• 1:47:33
  However, later Bob would reveal that during his time in the
• 1:47:37
  closet, two large boxes had fallen behind him and the cord
• 1:47:41
  for the overhead light had smacked him across the face.
• 1:47:45
  It spooked him enough at the time to where he didn't want to
• 1:47:48
  speak. About it.
• 1:47:49
  At one point when Bob was at Bill's.
• 1:47:52
  House in his. Den sitting at the bar while
• 1:47:54
  writing down information for an upcoming appointment of his, He
• 1:47:58
  began to hear something rustling around in the trash can and out
• 1:48:02
  of his line of sight. He ignored it for a time and
• 1:48:05
  soon thought that possibly it could be Bill's dogs that were
• 1:48:09
  getting into the trash. So concerned, he stood up and
• 1:48:12
  went over to inspect it. However, not only was the trash
• 1:48:16
  untouched, but as he passed by to where it was, he noticed that
• 1:48:21
  Bill's dogs were all created in their kennels.
• 1:48:24
  On another occasion, he briefly used Bill's house as a pit stop
• 1:48:28
  on the way to an appointment, and after using the restroom,
• 1:48:31
  Bob noticed that the sway light from the ceiling was moving back
• 1:48:35
  and forth quite erratically and on its own, dismissing it at the
• 1:48:40
  time. He thought that it was just.
• 1:48:42
  The AC unit that was making it move.
• 1:48:44
  It was only later, upon asking Bill that he learned in fact,
• 1:48:48
  that there was no AC unit or ductwork that went anywhere near
• 1:48:53
  where that light was. On another night, Bob and his
• 1:48:56
  wife. Were at Bill's house.
• 1:48:57
  For dinner, and Bill watched the television and saw something
• 1:49:01
  move out of the corner of his eyes.
• 1:49:03
  He stood up immediately, wanting to make sure that he wasn't the
• 1:49:06
  only one seeing it. He quickly had Bob sit down and
• 1:49:10
  watch the TV to see if he noticed anything out of the
• 1:49:13
  corner. Of his eyes.
• 1:49:15
  Soon a look of shock came over Bob's face as he saw something
• 1:49:19
  move in his closet. When Bob's wife sat down, she
• 1:49:23
  too gasped after a moment as well.
• 1:49:26
  All three of them would sketch out what they saw, and they all
• 1:49:30
  drew the same thing, a small 2 to 3 feet tall being that looked
• 1:49:36
  like an imp. For those unaware, Imps are
• 1:49:39
  demons from European. Folklore and myth.
• 1:49:42
  That are depicted as small and mischievous goblin like and they
• 1:49:47
  were familiar spirits of witches or even the devil's personal
• 1:49:52
  attendance. After this, Bill told him
• 1:49:55
  everything that he had been experiencing and Bob then
• 1:49:58
  offered to let his brother stay with.
• 1:50:00
  Him until they figured out just what exactly was taking place,
• 1:50:04
  however appreciating the offer. Bill decided to decline it.
• 1:50:08
  His reasoning was that he felt that if he left, he would be
• 1:50:12
  giving in to whatever was tormenting him like it had won
• 1:50:16
  over him. Following these events, his
• 1:50:19
  bedroom became a constant source of torment as the bed would
• 1:50:23
  sometimes shake violently and other times just enough to keep
• 1:50:28
  him awake. Small hands would depress his
• 1:50:31
  mattress and even hit him from underneath.
• 1:50:35
  He would feel invisible beings slide into bed next to him and
• 1:50:39
  would often hear loud knocks, bangs, and scratches from inside
• 1:50:45
  his walls. He would receive scratches and
• 1:50:48
  bruises without explanation, and he then began to see the
• 1:50:52
  apparition of a ghost cat as well as strange cold mists
• 1:50:58
  within his house. The home quickly became a place
• 1:51:03
  full of a dark and foreboding presence.
• 1:51:06
  Bill desperately wanted all of this to stop, to reclaim his
• 1:51:11
  home and his life. He began to research the occult,
• 1:51:15
  the paranormal, and anything and everything online and in
• 1:51:20
  literature that would give him a better understanding of what he
• 1:51:25
  was dealing with and possibly how to remedy it.
• 1:51:29
  Meanwhile, the activity was taking a toll on Bill's health.
• 1:51:34
  He found himself sick and often taking trips to the hospital
• 1:51:39
  more than he was used to. Fearing that whatever this was
• 1:51:42
  was not only tormenting him but also affecting his health, Bill
• 1:51:46
  decided to reach out to a paranormal group for help.
• 1:51:51
  Going through many teams, Bill declined to work with many of
• 1:51:55
  them because they didn't seem scientific in their approach.
• 1:51:59
  This was until he found a team known as Did You See That?
• 1:52:02
  Or Dyst? Which to Bill had the right kind
• 1:52:06
  of logical and rational mindset to properly investigate the
• 1:52:11
  beings that had seemingly infested his life.
• 1:52:14
  He found their number and dialed it right away.
• 1:52:17
  From here, Bill's life would only continue to go down a
• 1:52:21
  rabbit hole that he never would have found himself going down
• 1:52:24
  otherwise. It was Saturday night when Bill
• 1:52:27
  got a knock at his door. For some time now he had been
• 1:52:31
  inviting groups of strangers into his home to investigate the
• 1:52:35
  happenings inside of his house. He had seen many come and go,
• 1:52:40
  usually only for a night, and none of them.
• 1:52:42
  Were truly able to help when he opened.
• 1:52:45
  The door this. Time.
• 1:52:46
  There was only one man standing there to greet him and his name
• 1:52:50
  was Brian Hall, the founder of DYSTA paranormal team that
• 1:52:55
  claimed they did not search for ghosts, but they searched for
• 1:53:00
  answers. Brian founded Dyst in 2005 with
• 1:53:04
  friends in the Dallas Fort Worth area in Texas.
• 1:53:08
  They performed investigations and posted their findings on
• 1:53:12
  Myspace and began to receive emails and calls from people
• 1:53:17
  wanting their aid and expertise and the paranormal.
• 1:53:21
  Part of Dyst's procedure was to begin with a single member of
• 1:53:26
  the team giving an assessment of the location before bringing in
• 1:53:30
  the rest of the team and any of the equipment.
• 1:53:33
  Brian quickly noted the oppressive atmosphere in the
• 1:53:35
  house, and once he made his rounds he gave the OK for the
• 1:53:39
  rest of the team to come in and begin the second phase.
• 1:53:44
  The team was full of various experts in their fields with a
• 1:53:47
  critical eye for anything that could possibly cause noise or
• 1:53:51
  strange phenomena in an ordinary house.
• 1:53:54
  They searched the house from top to bottom.
• 1:53:57
  Once they were satisfied that they had identified any possible
• 1:54:01
  areas of false evidence, they went outside and returned with
• 1:54:05
  their equipment. They set up a command post in
• 1:54:08
  the. Living room with cameras and
• 1:54:11
  audio recorders throughout the house trying to pick up anything
• 1:54:15
  that could be. Lurking within its depths that
• 1:54:18
  night, however, was fairly uneventful.
• 1:54:21
  After the team had departed with little to go on, Bill called his
• 1:54:25
  mother to tell her how the investigation had gone.
• 1:54:28
  During the call, Bill heard three distinct knocks, as if the
• 1:54:32
  House were declaring its own malevolent victory.
• 1:54:36
  Unlike the previous investigator, Dyst would
• 1:54:39
  eventually return over several months to continually probe the
• 1:54:43
  home for its dark and sinister secrets.
• 1:54:48
  Activity began to reveal itself to the members of the team.
• 1:54:52
  Over time, Shadow people, Imps, and even the disembodied
• 1:54:57
  apparition of a ghost like cat were experienced by the crew.
• 1:55:02
  On one occasion, the team brought in lasers for a
• 1:55:05
  particular experiment. The tech was.
• 1:55:08
  Designed to cast a laser grid and a darkened bedroom, this
• 1:55:12
  technique is intended to detect even the slightest movement that
• 1:55:17
  might be invisible to the naked eye.
• 1:55:20
  The first night came and went with nothing noteworthy
• 1:55:23
  happening. The second was much like the
• 1:55:26
  first, but the third. When they used the laser grid,
• 1:55:30
  Bill, Brian and the team were sitting in the command center
• 1:55:35
  when they all. Heard.
• 1:55:36
  A loud crashing noise coming from Bill's bedroom.
• 1:55:39
  Upon inspecting the bedroom, they found the laser device on
• 1:55:44
  the floor. The device had been thrown by a
• 1:55:47
  powerful and unseen force. It had been flung so hard.
• 1:55:52
  That it had struck the bed. Bounced off of it and then hid a
• 1:55:56
  nearby dresser. They first checked the cameras,
• 1:55:59
  only to find that their batteries have been drained of
• 1:56:02
  all of their power. This was a common occurrence
• 1:56:05
  during investigations at the house, and it was a pervasive
• 1:56:09
  obstacle to finding any visual evidence.
• 1:56:12
  And we often hear this in many paranormal investigations,
• 1:56:16
  especially darker ones. For some reason, they tend to
• 1:56:20
  drain battery life as if they're feeding off of it.
• 1:56:24
  The team noted times to where they could audibly hear the
• 1:56:26
  moment that their cameras were switched off by something that
• 1:56:30
  they couldn't see. Luckily, they found out that the
• 1:56:33
  audio recording devices were still functioning when the
• 1:56:37
  phenomena occurred. When they played back the audio,
• 1:56:41
  not only did they hear a loud crashing sound, but they heard
• 1:56:44
  something else entirely. They heard a disembodied voice.
• 1:56:47
  Say. He's coming back.
• 1:56:50
  Time to put it back on just before the laser crashed and hit
• 1:56:55
  the floor. Despite the lack of visual
• 1:56:57
  evidence, Brian was determined to catch the phenomena on video.
• 1:57:02
  The next time they arrived at the house, they brought even
• 1:57:04
  more cameras and more laser grids.
• 1:57:08
  They set up the equipment as before, and let the newest
• 1:57:11
  teammate, Sean lay in bed in the master bedroom, and he called
• 1:57:16
  out into the darkness. If you're there, give us a sign.
• 1:57:21
  Within an instant, the laser moved with a violent force,
• 1:57:25
  causing Sean to cry out in surprise.
• 1:57:28
  The rest of the. Team then rushed into the
• 1:57:29
  bedroom to gather the equipment and to assess the evidence.
• 1:57:34
  All but one camera had been completely drained of power.
• 1:57:38
  The device had been pointing directly at the laser.
• 1:57:43
  The footage you caught not only showed the laser being shoved,
• 1:57:47
  but a strange mist that formed around the laser, turning it
• 1:57:50
  into a violent and aggressive vortex before the activity
• 1:57:55
  occurred and then finally dissipating after its
• 1:57:58
  conclusion. During another investigation,
• 1:58:01
  Bill and his brother Bob and his wife Cindy would attend and in
• 1:58:06
  addition he invited a friend, Chuck and his wife Melissa.
• 1:58:11
  Chuck Kelly had been long time friends with Bill through
• 1:58:14
  golfing. To call him a skeptic to the
• 1:58:16
  paranormal would be an understatement.
• 1:58:19
  His wife Melissa, however, was a woman who not only believed in
• 1:58:23
  the paranormal, but was sensitive to it and that allowed
• 1:58:26
  her to see beings that were invisible to the naked eye.
• 1:58:31
  For a long time. She had refused to go near
• 1:58:33
  Bill's home for this reason, but not knowing that.
• 1:58:37
  Chuck eventually confronted her about this and she said there's
• 1:58:41
  something in that house that's intelligent and evil.
• 1:58:44
  Something that knows that I know and I'm afraid of what will
• 1:58:48
  happen if I go there. After Bill reached out to Chuck,
• 1:58:53
  Chuck told his wife that she needed to speak with him because
• 1:58:56
  he needs her help. When she met with Bill, he
• 1:59:00
  revealed everything that had been happening.
• 1:59:02
  Despite knowing the danger of the entity in his home, Melissa
• 1:59:06
  was moved by Bill's plight and agreed to attend the next
• 1:59:10
  investigation with Chuck. The day of she felt
• 1:59:14
  apprehension. She sensed that the entity was
• 1:59:17
  furious at her coming and wanted to harm her.
• 1:59:21
  Her mind's eye saw a beast like that of an ape throwing itself
• 1:59:26
  against the walls and windows of the house, daring her to come
• 1:59:31
  inside. So with a deep breath she did.
• 1:59:35
  Upon entering and being greeted by Bill, she saw several small
• 1:59:39
  and hideous creatures at his feet.
• 1:59:43
  They stood on 2 legs and they looked like hunched over little
• 1:59:46
  men, disturbed. But seeing that no one else was
• 1:59:50
  noticing these beings, she ignored them as best.
• 1:59:52
  She could. And continued her journey
• 1:59:55
  through the home. When she got to Bill's bedroom,
• 1:59:58
  she said that the Imps were at their most comfortable in his
• 2:00:01
  room and played across the furniture and on the floor.
• 2:00:05
  Halfway into the room, however, she froze.
• 2:00:09
  She searched every corner of the room, wide eyed.
• 2:00:12
  And with her hair standing on end, she sent something horrible
• 2:00:16
  and intelligent lurking out of her sight and out of the corner
• 2:00:20
  of the room in the closet. She didn't want to know what it
• 2:00:24
  was, and honestly, I can't blame her.
• 2:00:28
  She left the bedroom and refused to ever set foot in it ever
• 2:00:31
  again. When the DYST team arrived, she
• 2:00:35
  sat in the living room to wait while the team set up their
• 2:00:38
  equipment. Then she observed as the small
• 2:00:42
  creatures gathered around her in a group of six.
• 2:00:46
  They were curious, sniffing her and testing their boundaries
• 2:00:52
  while not letting her get too close.
• 2:00:54
  She believed that they were trapped by the dark entity who
• 2:00:58
  used them for more mischievous activities such as tormenting
• 2:01:03
  Bill in his bedroom, the noises and subtle happenings.
• 2:01:09
  While pondering this, she heard a commotion from the bedroom
• 2:01:12
  where the team was setting up. She saw a large black shape leap
• 2:01:16
  from that direction and onto the chandelier, causing it nearly to
• 2:01:20
  swing and collide with the ceiling.
• 2:01:23
  It jumped down into a corner to hideaway from the investigation
• 2:01:26
  team before lunging onto the chandelier again and bouncing it
• 2:01:31
  to the opposite. Hallway.
• 2:01:33
  The large figure took up the entire hallway entrance before
• 2:01:37
  it disappeared, and, unsure of how to process what she had just
• 2:01:40
  witnessed, she simply collapsed into her chair.
• 2:01:44
  The DYST team convinced her husband, Chuck, to sit in the
• 2:01:48
  closet in Bill's room, and he had utter confidence that
• 2:01:52
  nothing would happen. The lights were turned off and
• 2:01:56
  Chuck just sat and waited. After several minutes, he became
• 2:02:02
  impatient and spoke loudly at whatever they told him was
• 2:02:06
  supposed to be there, attempting to provoke whatever it was.
• 2:02:11
  For a few minutes nothing changed, but eventually Chuck
• 2:02:16
  felt the atmosphere change and become heavy and oppressive.
• 2:02:21
  He heard bangs and things click together around him.
• 2:02:25
  His every instinct told him to get out of there as fast as he
• 2:02:29
  possibly could. The team saw Chuck emerge with
• 2:02:32
  wide eyes and a face as wide as a ghost.
• 2:02:35
  All he could say was that there was something in that closet and
• 2:02:40
  neither he nor Melissa stayed long after this happened.
• 2:02:45
  Brian Hall, after thorough investigation, enlisted the help
• 2:02:49
  of any experts that he could find to try and help.
• 2:02:52
  Bill, Reiki, Masters, Buddhists, Wiccans, occultists, anyone and
• 2:02:59
  everyone who would attempt to drive out entities was
• 2:03:03
  contacted, but sadly none of them worked.
• 2:03:07
  Bill became used to the look of defeat upon the people's faces,
• 2:03:11
  who earnestly tried to help him but accomplished nothing.
• 2:03:15
  Eventually, Brian reached the end of his ideas and he sent a
• 2:03:19
  single e-mail to Bill. It was straightforward and to
• 2:03:22
  the point, it said. You Sir.
• 2:03:26
  Need a priest? Throughout the trials that Bill
• 2:03:28
  was forced to face, he found himself struggling with
• 2:03:32
  borderline PTSD. He was constantly in a state of
• 2:03:37
  hyper vigilance, looking over his shoulder and watching his
• 2:03:41
  peripheral vision for even the slightest sign of something
• 2:03:46
  supernatural. He was dealing with an opponent
• 2:03:49
  he couldn't see, but one which could see him and even attack
• 2:03:54
  him at a moment's notice. The suspense kept him from
• 2:03:58
  sleeping, and he met each evening with dread he could no
• 2:04:03
  longer distinguish his nightmares from.
• 2:04:05
  Reality. He would have a habit of laying
• 2:04:07
  down and then closing his eyes for a few seconds, then opening
• 2:04:12
  them again to search for anything that had gone amiss.
• 2:04:17
  The fatigue would take its toll. He often took naps in the
• 2:04:20
  daytime to offset the sheer exhaustion that he was
• 2:04:23
  experiencing, but it was all getting to him.
• 2:04:26
  The months turned to years and the activity inflicted a cost.
• 2:04:30
  Upon Bill's health, he had two bouts of pneumonia, 2 heart
• 2:04:34
  attacks requiring stents, and the emergence of cluster
• 2:04:39
  headaches, which Bill had never experienced prior.
• 2:04:44
  He only wanted the constant torment to stop.
• 2:04:47
  Yet he did his turmoil quite well and became good at
• 2:04:51
  pretending that things were better than they really were,
• 2:04:55
  putting up a front of normalcy despite the reality of his
• 2:04:58
  situation. It also affected those who
• 2:05:01
  visited Bill's home to the point that few stopped by, effectively
• 2:05:06
  isolating him at night. He would hear loud crashes
• 2:05:10
  inches away from his head. He'd awaken to find scratches
• 2:05:15
  all over his body and always and threes.
• 2:05:19
  He'd get touched while laying in bed, would be hit and shoved,
• 2:05:25
  and even felt the sensation of being electrocuted.
• 2:05:29
  He would look around his room one night just wondering just
• 2:05:33
  what this entity was that was plaguing him.
• 2:05:36
  Suddenly his covers were torn off his body.
• 2:05:41
  He sat up in bed and saw black shape had his footboard looming
• 2:05:46
  over him. It stood about 6 feet tall with
• 2:05:50
  the body of a man and the man. Was wearing a large trench.
• 2:05:55
  Coat and a fedora hat. All his dark is the abyss.
• 2:06:02
  When he noticed it, it moved towards him.
• 2:06:04
  Or rather, it floated. He felt an experience that went
• 2:06:09
  beyond mere fear or dread. He described it as the sensation
• 2:06:15
  of pure evil. It travelled the length of the
• 2:06:18
  bed, got within 2 feet of his face, and then vanished.
• 2:06:24
  During the investigations, they had taped a dark mass in the
• 2:06:28
  very location that this entity had just disappeared at.
• 2:06:33
  It darted rapidly across the room, rose above the bedroom
• 2:06:37
  window, and then simply dissipated.
• 2:06:40
  Bill was so. Disturbed by this new threat
• 2:06:42
  that he could not and did not speak about it to any of his
• 2:06:46
  friends or family at the time, However, Bill was not the only
• 2:06:51
  person that this entity. That he referred.
• 2:06:54
  To as the hat man would reveal itself to.
• 2:06:58
  A friend of Bill's named Devin claimed to see the entity.
• 2:07:02
  It had revealed itself to him, but he believed it to be
• 2:07:05
  friendly and as a result of this he wasn't scared of it.
• 2:07:10
  After apologizing for not warning him and showing Devin
• 2:07:13
  other examples of the Hat Man entity appearing to others on
• 2:07:16
  the Internet, he cautioned him that if he sees it again to not
• 2:07:21
  communicate with it. It is not a friend and
• 2:07:24
  unfortunately Devin and did not take his advice.
• 2:07:28
  The hat man will continue to appear to Devin and at one point
• 2:07:32
  Devin described it as appearing in Bill's closet with glowing
• 2:07:36
  red eyes uttering and a deep growling voice that felt like it
• 2:07:41
  was scratching the interior of his skull and it kept saying
• 2:07:47
  kill Bill. After this, Devin began to
• 2:07:50
  change. He transitioned from frightened
• 2:07:54
  to angry and finally to violent frenzy.
• 2:07:58
  Bill would often come home to find his house torn apart, and
• 2:08:03
  he would later learn that the hat man had appeared more times
• 2:08:07
  to Devon and had motivated him to do this.
• 2:08:12
  It wasn't until Devon threatened Bill with a large kitchen knife
• 2:08:15
  in his hand that he began to see just how serious the situation
• 2:08:20
  had become. One evening, after Devon had a
• 2:08:23
  tantrum of throwing and breaking things within Bill's house, he
• 2:08:29
  told Bill that he's here and he's come to kill you.
• 2:08:34
  Bill saying to himself that this creature can't kill me, was
• 2:08:38
  trying to keep calm. Devin responded with Turn out
• 2:08:42
  the lights and you'll see with a malevolent and evil grin on his
• 2:08:48
  face. Bill was unsure whether he had
• 2:08:50
  lost his fear or no longer cared, simply wanted to shake
• 2:08:55
  Devin out of the throes of this strangeness.
• 2:08:59
  Regardless, he shut off the lights.
• 2:09:02
  Although nothing happened and Bill proved that the hat man had
• 2:09:06
  no authority over him, Devin's personality only grew more
• 2:09:11
  aggressive. Eventually, neither Bill nor the
• 2:09:15
  police, who were often seen at his home, could resolve the
• 2:09:19
  issue, and their friendship came to a sudden and terrible
• 2:09:24
  conclusion. Bill believed that the hat man
• 2:09:26
  was the general, the main source of evil power to which all the
• 2:09:31
  other activity orbited around. He began to learn from his
• 2:09:34
  experiences, accepting that he was in a war with an unseen foe,
• 2:09:39
  that was using tactics and strategy as well, that it
• 2:09:43
  utilized scare tactics and fear to wear him down and a war of
• 2:09:49
  attrition. But the more Bill learned, the
• 2:09:52
  more that he was becoming an adversary against their assault.
• 2:09:56
  Bill returned from a meeting and decided to lay down for a nap.
• 2:10:01
  He saw indentions like hands and feet and his mattress so much
• 2:10:06
  that it became. Impossible to sleep.
• 2:10:09
  Then he heard a massive crash, as if something had hit the side
• 2:10:14
  of his house. He shot up and went inspecting,
• 2:10:18
  looking for damage that ultimately found nothing,
• 2:10:22
  feeling a pure white rage well up within him.
• 2:10:25
  He screamed. I've had enough and you don't
• 2:10:29
  scare me anymore. I'm not the same person that you
• 2:10:32
  picked on years ago. Show yourself and fight me.
• 2:10:36
  One of us is going to hell tonight.
• 2:10:39
  He then heard another crash and ran towards it, continuing to
• 2:10:43
  yell at the entity to show itself.
• 2:10:46
  Hell was unleashed inside of his home like a hurricane.
• 2:10:49
  Crashes and booms filled the air.
• 2:10:52
  Suddenly, the missing puzzle piece clicked into place.
• 2:10:57
  He knew that no amount of anger or desperation or earthly
• 2:11:01
  knowledge would save him from this evil, so he called upon
• 2:11:05
  Christ to intercede. He screamed.
• 2:11:08
  You're not invited, and under the authority of Christ, I
• 2:11:12
  demand you leave or be bound by your worst fears until final
• 2:11:16
  judgement. He kept repeating these words as
• 2:11:20
  new crashing sounds emanated around him.
• 2:11:23
  Eventually, 30 minutes of unrestrained malice ceased and a
• 2:11:27
  new peace finally filled his home.
• 2:11:30
  In the days afterwards, he felt a new sensation amidst the
• 2:11:34
  peace, like that of a chained up rabid dog in the distance.
• 2:11:39
  Just. Watching and waiting for a
• 2:11:41
  chance to break those chains and come back into his life.
• 2:11:46
  While occasional things would happen afterwards, Bill no
• 2:11:49
  longer felt the evil that dwelled within his home or his
• 2:11:53
  life. However, the encounter left
• 2:11:56
  scars both physically and mentally.
• 2:12:00
  He still struggled with looking over his shoulder and being
• 2:12:03
  comfortable sleeping at night. His health effects from the
• 2:12:07
  ordeal also never truly improved.
• 2:12:11
  Whether it was from the evil presence or simply the stress of
• 2:12:14
  the events can't be sure. In the years since, Bill has
• 2:12:20
  studied and become an expert in demonology and ordered to help
• 2:12:24
  others fight against an unseen foe in their own lives.
• 2:12:29
  He founded an association called United Paranormal International.
• 2:12:34
  Bill's story has been featured on the show Paranormal Witness
• 2:12:38
  in 2013 and abridged versions of the events have been featured
• 2:12:43
  across the Internet. Bill was given multiple
• 2:12:46
  interviews on various podcasts, but decided to set the record
• 2:12:50
  straight in 2022 with his book Satanic Warfare Tactics of the
• 2:12:57
  Demonic. In it, he gives his own account
• 2:13:00
  as well as the eyewitnesses in his life of the events that
• 2:13:04
  transpired. He also includes extensive
• 2:13:07
  entries over just. What he had learned concerning
• 2:13:10
  the demonic forces that stalked him and others.
• 2:13:14
  But he cautions anyone attempting to utilize his
• 2:13:17
  methods. He says that spiritual warfare
• 2:13:20
  is a form of psychological warfare, that it utilizes fear
• 2:13:24
  tactics to wear a target down so that over time you spiritually
• 2:13:29
  breakdown and obey the evil one's.
• 2:13:31
  Power. It is based on negative emotions
• 2:13:34
  such as fear, stress, anger and social disunity, and as a victim
• 2:13:40
  grows weaker, the demon begins to grow stronger.
• 2:13:44
  The first line of defense is to have No Fear against demons.
• 2:13:48
  He states that his fallen angels demons still have rules that
• 2:13:52
  they must follow. They only enter lives to the
• 2:13:55
  degree which we explicitly or implicitly allow.
• 2:13:59
  They are not all powerful, for if they were, they would be not
• 2:14:04
  forced to resort to scare tactics and trickery to wear
• 2:14:07
  down their opponent, however. They have the.
• 2:14:10
  Experience of the entirety of human history on their side and
• 2:14:15
  they wage war on us. Once you acknowledge that there
• 2:14:18
  is in fact a demonic presence, the only recourse that you have
• 2:14:22
  is to call upon the name of Christ.
• 2:14:24
  Bill has since retired and moved out of the house in which he
• 2:14:28
  suffered for many years. He now lives with his wife,
• 2:14:32
  Caroline Vale, and his son Richard in Arkansas.
• 2:14:36
  In Bill's story, we can see how curiosity was used as a doorway,
• 2:14:41
  A doorway that can lead to knowledge and understanding.
• 2:14:45
  However, curiosity can be used as another kind of doorway, one
• 2:14:50
  that, once it's opened, can unleash a terrible darkness into
• 2:14:55
  our lives that isn't easily cast out.
• 2:14:59
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  Archives. Remember to stay safe out there,
• 2:15:57
  especially from demons and and other spooky things.
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  And take care. Hidden deep within the walls of
• 2:16:10
  an old home, something ethereal is lurking and watching for
• 2:16:17
  years. The family who calls this place
• 2:16:19
  home thinks the entity is harmless, but they would soon
• 2:16:24
  discover, after an accidental provocation, that this was not
• 2:16:29
  the case. Evil will rise and its tendrils
• 2:16:33
  will infect everything they touch.
• 2:16:37
  Will they make it out alive and with their souls intact?
• 2:16:41
  This is the chilling, untold story of the Demon of
• 2:16:46
  Brownsville Rd. Our story begins with the Kramer
• 2:17:00
  family. Bob, who was an officer in the
• 2:17:03
  Army, and his wife Lisa married in 1980.
• 2:17:08
  They would soon start their family, and upon leaving the
• 2:17:11
  service in 1986, Bob would take up a job with AT&T and the
• 2:17:18
  family would find themselves living in the New Jersey area,
• 2:17:22
  having always wanted to relocate back to Pennsylvania where they
• 2:17:26
  grew up. An unexpected opportunity for a
• 2:17:29
  transfer presented itself, and the Kramers seized it.
• 2:17:36
  Although having just built a house in 1987, the couple now
• 2:17:40
  found themselves shopping for homes in Brentwood, PA While
• 2:17:45
  looking at potential buys, Bob comes across a home that he
• 2:17:49
  never thought he'd be able to live in for sale, an old
• 2:17:53
  historic home from his childhood.
• 2:17:57
  This wasn't just any home, however.
• 2:17:59
  It was the home that Bob himself grew up seeing almost every day.
• 2:18:04
  He'd always felt a pole to the home to what it represented to
• 2:18:08
  him, the history, its style and way of living, as well as it
• 2:18:15
  being a symbol of success. Bob would make contact with the
• 2:18:19
  sellers and arrange a walkthrough for him and his
• 2:18:23
  family. As the Craners arrived and began
• 2:18:26
  to tour the inside of the house, their son Bobby Junior, wandered
• 2:18:32
  off by himself as the group went into the basement.
• 2:18:36
  When they returned, they found the poor young man crying and
• 2:18:40
  hyperventilating as if he had seen a ghost.
• 2:18:44
  Thinking that perhaps due to the boy's young age and imagination,
• 2:18:49
  that he had just scared himself in such a big house, Bob and
• 2:18:53
  Lisa wrote the behavior off as they concluded the tour.
• 2:18:58
  Despite his wife's misgivings about the size and feel of the
• 2:19:01
  house that he gave her the creeps, Bob dismissed her.
• 2:19:07
  Seeming almost mesmerized by the home, he continued to question
• 2:19:11
  the realtor and would ask the question almost no one asks.
• 2:19:15
  In these types of situations, is there anything wrong with the
• 2:19:19
  house? Understanding exactly what he
• 2:19:22
  was hinting at, the realtor said that nothing was wrong with the
• 2:19:26
  house and that Catholic mass had been conducted several times in
• 2:19:30
  the living. Room.
• 2:19:32
  The realtor would then simply move on with the conversation.
• 2:19:36
  Bob found this response to be odd, but none the less took the
• 2:19:39
  reassurance that had been implied later.
• 2:19:43
  According to Bob, the couple seemed very anxious to move out,
• 2:19:48
  almost as if their very lives depended on it.
• 2:19:51
  Thinking initially that they would want to haggle, he
• 2:19:54
  submitted A lowball offer to them and to his shock and
• 2:19:58
  amazement, they accepted it. Without any further
• 2:20:01
  negotiations, not only excited to live in the childhood home of
• 2:20:06
  his dreams, but to get it at such a good price almost seemed
• 2:20:10
  too good to be true to Bob. And perhaps it was.
• 2:20:16
  The year was 1988 and it's a cold December day, but this day
• 2:20:22
  is filled with warm feelings. The Cranmer family has just
• 2:20:27
  closed on the purchase of their new home, a designated
• 2:20:31
  historical landmark by Pittsburgh history and
• 2:20:35
  landmarks, and in due time they would travel from New Jersey,
• 2:20:41
  Bob, Lisa and their four kids. Jessica, who was four years old
• 2:20:46
  at this time, Bobby Junior, who was three.
• 2:20:50
  David, who was two, and Charles, who was just two months old,
• 2:20:56
  would move into and begin living in the home on Brownsville Rd.
• 2:21:01
  All seemed normal at first, but this calm normalcy would not
• 2:21:07
  last. The family began to notice small
• 2:21:10
  but bizarre things happening at their home.
• 2:21:13
  Doors began to open on their own.
• 2:21:16
  Objects began to move and go missing.
• 2:21:20
  Faucets would turn on by themselves, and many of times,
• 2:21:26
  even if the family had been out during the evening when they
• 2:21:30
  would leave the home with the lights being off, they would
• 2:21:33
  return to not only the lights being on, but after a quick
• 2:21:38
  sweep of the house, every door and window being secured would
• 2:21:43
  have no rational explanation for it.
• 2:21:46
  Every single light, including those in the basement would be
• 2:21:50
  on and this was enough to make the family think.
• 2:21:55
  Although it was weird, they weren't really scared at the
• 2:21:58
  time. Lisa and Bob did come to the
• 2:22:01
  conclusion that they had a ghost, thinking it could have
• 2:22:05
  been due to the age and potential history of the home
• 2:22:08
  they were in, but they simply considered it to be Casper the
• 2:22:12
  friendly ghost. Not a threat and nothing to
• 2:22:16
  worry about. Or so they thought.
• 2:22:19
  Things weren't always incredibly active, though.
• 2:22:22
  Soon things calmed down somewhat.
• 2:22:24
  In the months that followed, the family started to settle into
• 2:22:28
  their normal, everyday lives. The occasional strange happening
• 2:22:33
  here and there quickly became commonplace, but every so often
• 2:22:38
  things would pick back up alongside the previously
• 2:22:42
  mentioned activity. They soon began to hear
• 2:22:45
  mysterious banging noises all throughout their house and at
• 2:22:50
  all hours of the day and night, as well as disembodied footsteps
• 2:22:56
  echoing all around. And although weird, the family
• 2:23:00
  ultimately grew to accept these happenings again as normal over
• 2:23:06
  the years. Bob would go into politics and
• 2:23:08
  would hold political office in the 1990s, first as a Councilman
• 2:23:14
  and then a county commissioner, gaining local notoriety and
• 2:23:18
  status in the western Pennsylvania area.
• 2:23:22
  But despite his career achievements that his family was
• 2:23:26
  slowly falling apart year by year, it seemed as though things
• 2:23:31
  became increasingly dysfunctional for the Kramer
• 2:23:33
  family. Bob and Lisa would fight
• 2:23:36
  frequently, and all of which would contribute to Lisa and two
• 2:23:41
  of the children experiencing serious mental health issues
• 2:23:46
  that would require hospitalization.
• 2:23:48
  During the ensuing chaos that was becoming his family, Bob had
• 2:23:53
  the fleeting thought that whatever was in the house
• 2:23:56
  perhaps had contributed to the mental distress of his family,
• 2:24:01
  but whenever this feeling would come up, he would simply dismiss
• 2:24:05
  it. One night in 2003, his oldest
• 2:24:09
  son, Bob Junior, would attack Bob in his sleep, a vicious and
• 2:24:15
  unprovoked attack as if his son was in the throes of madness.
• 2:24:21
  At this time, it was Bob, Lisa, and all of the kids except for
• 2:24:26
  Jessica living at the house along with Bob's elderly aunt.
• 2:24:32
  Bob Junior would be restrained and arrested following the
• 2:24:37
  aftermath of this nine. The next morning, Bob's aunt
• 2:24:41
  would be found deceased of natural causes in her bed.
• 2:24:47
  Thankfully for Bob Junior, all charges would be dropped
• 2:24:50
  associated with the attack, but these series of unfolding events
• 2:24:55
  seem to break the dam that have been holding back the paranormal
• 2:25:00
  within the Cranmer home, as if the levees had been breached.
• 2:25:05
  A tidal wave of spiritual energy would now be unleashed the
• 2:25:11
  following year, in 2004, Despite her chaotic and scary childhood,
• 2:25:17
  Jessica, the oldest, moves back home with her husband Tom and
• 2:25:23
  her son Colin. There was an apartment up on the
• 2:25:26
  top floor of the house that Bob felt like would be a good fit
• 2:25:30
  for the young family. He offered to let them live
• 2:25:33
  there so they could save money, get everything they needed to in
• 2:25:37
  order, and eventually. Buy a house.
• 2:25:40
  Of their own, something that was becoming increasingly more
• 2:25:44
  difficult to do. He also felt that this was a
• 2:25:48
  good healing opportunity for the family, allowing them all to be
• 2:25:52
  united and together once again as his daughter and family move
• 2:25:58
  their things in. Bob would take off his coat and
• 2:26:02
  go to hang it in the large walk in closet underneath the main
• 2:26:06
  staircase, but as he opens the closet door he notices that the
• 2:26:12
  pull chain for the light is wrapped all the way around the
• 2:26:15
  fixture. Thinking it was just the usual
• 2:26:19
  weirdness and being rather used to the unusual by this point,
• 2:26:24
  Bob dismisses it and unwraps the chain.
• 2:26:27
  Being raised Catholic and continuing to be a spiritual man
• 2:26:31
  into his adulthood, Bob for the first time decides to do
• 2:26:34
  something about the activity on a side table near the closet.
• 2:26:39
  He had a Bible and a rosary. Believing that this would calm
• 2:26:43
  things down, he took the rosary beads and tied them to the chain
• 2:26:48
  of the light. Upon closing the door and
• 2:26:52
  starting to walk away, he hears the clinking of beads rushing
• 2:26:58
  back to the door. He opens it, only to find the
• 2:27:02
  rosary and the chain wrapped completely around the fixture
• 2:27:07
  yet again. Dismissing things at first, but
• 2:27:11
  now thoroughly alarmed, Bob grabs his Bible, steps into the
• 2:27:15
  closet and begins to pray out loud.
• 2:27:20
  He continues to do so for half an hour.
• 2:27:24
  During his time in the closet, he can't help but notice that he
• 2:27:28
  feels a heavyweight upon his body and the sensation of eyes
• 2:27:33
  boring a hole into the back of his skull.
• 2:27:37
  After the half hour, he finishes and leaves the closet, closing
• 2:27:42
  the door behind him. In the weeks that follow,
• 2:27:46
  Jessica and her family begin to settle into their new home, the
• 2:27:50
  apartment on the third floor. As Tom goes to check on his
• 2:27:54
  stepson, he opens his door to find a woman standing over him.
• 2:28:01
  Believing it to be his wife, he calls out to her.
• 2:28:05
  The woman then turns and takes several steps towards him and
• 2:28:11
  then disappears before his eyes. Tom wastes no time in protecting
• 2:28:18
  the boy. He rushes and scoops, calling up
• 2:28:22
  and quickly rushes to him and Jessica's room.
• 2:28:26
  Jessica, at the time, try to dismiss what Tom had seen.
• 2:28:30
  She thought that if she didn't acknowledge it as reality, then
• 2:28:35
  it couldn't be real. Tom rushes down the stairs and
• 2:28:39
  consults Bob immediately. Bob, not wanting to take any
• 2:28:43
  chances with his grandson, decides to sleep in the room for
• 2:28:48
  the night. After going up the stairs into
• 2:28:52
  Colin's room and closing the door behind him, he turns on the
• 2:28:56
  lamp and takes a seat in a nearby chair and begins to pray.
• 2:29:02
  After an hour or so of reading scripture, he decides to try and
• 2:29:07
  get some sleep. Laying on his grandson's bed, he
• 2:29:12
  slowly drifts off, sound asleep. He is soon woke up by massive
• 2:29:19
  bangs coming from inside the walls near his head.
• 2:29:23
  Waking up in a panic at the sound, his eyes dared back and
• 2:29:27
  forth. Searching for the source, he
• 2:29:31
  then feels a sharp stinging sensation on the side of his
• 2:29:36
  neck. Jumping up, he runs over to the
• 2:29:40
  mirror in the room and what he sees shocks him from underneath
• 2:29:46
  the right side of his ear, down his neck and onto his torso.
• 2:29:52
  There were three long and now bloody scratch marks, as if
• 2:29:57
  something had clawed him, frightened and unsure of how to
• 2:30:02
  deal with this new situation and the emotions he felt himself
• 2:30:06
  experiencing. Bob, for the time being, decides
• 2:30:10
  to not discuss the matter with his family, not wanting to
• 2:30:14
  further concern them. The following day, Bobby Junior,
• 2:30:20
  the oldest son of the family, was in the living room studying
• 2:30:23
  for an exam. As he sat on the couch taking
• 2:30:27
  notes from his textbook, he suddenly began to feel as if he
• 2:30:32
  was being watched. This made him uncomfortable, so
• 2:30:37
  he decided to step outside to get some fresh air.
• 2:30:41
  He made his way towards the front door, and as he got
• 2:30:44
  several feet away from the door, he heard something fly past his
• 2:30:49
  head with a sharp tone and crash into the wall beside him.
• 2:30:54
  Bewildered and glancing down at his feet, he finds ACD from a
• 2:30:59
  nearby stack near the entertainment center, shattered
• 2:31:03
  into a dozen fragments. There is no one else in the
• 2:31:08
  room. Unsure of what else to do, he
• 2:31:12
  quickly heads to the front door and leaves, fearing for the
• 2:31:17
  safety of their family. The Craners, now at their wits
• 2:31:21
  end with the reoccurring supernatural events taking place
• 2:31:25
  in their home, decided to contact a Catholic priest for
• 2:31:29
  help. A man named Father Mike Sylvania
• 2:31:34
  is who they speak with, and he agrees to assist them by coming
• 2:31:39
  to bless their house in due time.
• 2:31:43
  He arrives as the priest begins his blessings in an effort to
• 2:31:49
  sanctify the home. He travels from level to level
• 2:31:53
  and room to room, starting from the main floor to the basement
• 2:31:59
  and then to the upstairs, But it's when he heads upstairs that
• 2:32:05
  he begins to realize just what this family has been dealing
• 2:32:08
  with. As he walks up each step, he too
• 2:32:12
  begins to feel the stare of 1000 eyes upon him and the hair on
• 2:32:17
  the back of his neck stands on end.
• 2:32:21
  He knows then that they're dealing with an infestation.
• 2:32:25
  Whether it's human spirits or non human, he can't discern at
• 2:32:30
  the time. He finishes his blessings and
• 2:32:34
  encourages the family to persevere, and then he leaves.
• 2:32:40
  Weeks later, when the rest of the family is out, Jessica finds
• 2:32:45
  herself alone and asleep in the upstairs apartment as she lays
• 2:32:50
  in her bed with the large moon hanging overhead, it's light
• 2:32:55
  piercing the windows. She is suddenly ripped out of a
• 2:33:00
  dream state. Her eyes open, but she is unable
• 2:33:05
  to move. It's as if she is paralyzed but
• 2:33:10
  completely coherent. Along with being frozen, she
• 2:33:15
  suddenly feels as if someone or something is sitting on her
• 2:33:20
  chest. Then she sees it.
• 2:33:25
  A large, shadowy figure is at the foot of her bed as it starts
• 2:33:32
  to climb on top of her. She tries with every fiber of
• 2:33:36
  her being to scream, but all that comes out is silence to her
• 2:33:43
  anyways. Her mother, who had just
• 2:33:47
  returned from running errands, heard her screams from the
• 2:33:50
  moment she entered the house. Running upstairs, she finds her
• 2:33:55
  grown daughter almost inconsolable.
• 2:33:59
  She's shaking and crying. Whatever it was that is
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  tormenting her had disappeared. However, regardless of age, the
• 2:34:10
  love of a mother eventually brings her back to reality.
• 2:34:15
  The family is now beyond worried.
• 2:34:17
  Petrified is almost an understatement.
• 2:34:21
  Their every waking moments are filled with anxiety and dread.
• 2:34:27
  They had hoped that word wouldn't get out, but
• 2:34:30
  unbeknownst to them, their situation had caught the
• 2:34:33
  attention of the Bishop of the Catholic Church of Pittsburgh,
• 2:34:38
  who in response assigns an experienced priest by the name
• 2:34:43
  of Ron Linguin to their case. Upon reaching out to Bob on
• 2:34:48
  behalf of the Church, Father Linguin concluded that based on
• 2:34:52
  what Bob had told him and the sound of his voice, the overall
• 2:34:56
  feel of the call, that this case needed to be investigated
• 2:35:00
  further, that this family needed help.
• 2:35:05
  He gave the Kramer family two options.
• 2:35:08
  One, they could stay and fight and have the backing of the
• 2:35:12
  church. Or two, they could leave, but it
• 2:35:17
  wouldn't be guaranteed that whatever these entities were
• 2:35:20
  wouldn't continue to haunt them. So as a family, they decide to
• 2:35:25
  stay and fight as preparations are made by the church to send
• 2:35:31
  help, the family tries to hold on.
• 2:35:35
  One morning shortly after the phone call, as the family
• 2:35:40
  convenes in the dining room for breakfast, Bobby Junior comes
• 2:35:44
  down and sits at the table as he explains to his mom that he
• 2:35:48
  didn't sleep much that night, that he tossed and turned.
• 2:35:52
  He started to feel a burning sensation on his back Before
• 2:35:57
  Lisa's very eyes. She watched as scratches formed
• 2:36:01
  on her son's back like an invisible hand had taken a razor
• 2:36:07
  and sliced him. Each one was approximately 6
• 2:36:12
  inches long. Calling for Bob.
• 2:36:16
  He takes one look at his son's back and immediately begins to
• 2:36:20
  panic. He then starts checking all of
• 2:36:23
  the children's backs and all of the boys have the same 3
• 2:36:28
  markings. Remembering back to when he was
• 2:36:32
  scratched, he asked the children calmly to go and wash their cuts
• 2:36:37
  while he spoke to Lisa. He then finally comes clean
• 2:36:42
  about his own attack. He discovers that it's not just
• 2:36:46
  him and the children who have been physically marked.
• 2:36:50
  His wife, who had been nursing her own wound, comes clean as
• 2:36:55
  well. Located on her left shoulder was
• 2:36:59
  a bite mark, one that was so deep that it drew blood.
• 2:37:05
  It in fact had continued to bleed underneath her shirt.
• 2:37:09
  Upon further analysis, the bite wasn't like that of a human.
• 2:37:14
  It was as if whatever the creature was had fangs of some
• 2:37:18
  sort. They were puncture wounds.
• 2:37:22
  Refusing to wait, Bobby immediately calls the priest
• 2:37:26
  back. Later that day, after receiving
• 2:37:30
  special permission, Father Mike returns to perform Mass inside
• 2:37:34
  the Brownsville home, believing the scratches to be one of
• 2:37:38
  several indications that the infestation within the home was
• 2:37:43
  demonic rather than human spirits.
• 2:37:47
  Following Mass, As Bob and Lisa are sitting at the dinner table
• 2:37:52
  eating together, they receive a call from upstairs.
• 2:37:56
  Jessica, not wanting to intrude on their time together, asks if
• 2:38:00
  Colin can come down. He wanted to see his grandpa and
• 2:38:04
  grandma. Saying that it was no problem,
• 2:38:07
  Jessica sends him. Headed downstairs from the top
• 2:38:12
  floor to the second level is three sets of stairs and as the
• 2:38:16
  young man descends headed towards his grandparents, they
• 2:38:20
  suddenly hear him shriek. Bob gets to him first and finds
• 2:38:26
  Colin shaking like a leaf. The poor child is screaming
• 2:38:31
  monster and pointing at an open door.
• 2:38:35
  It was at this moment that Bob knew that whatever this thing
• 2:38:38
  was wasn't going to stop, that in order to keep part of his
• 2:38:43
  family safe, he would have to move them out of the house.
• 2:38:48
  The feeling is bittersweet. The family has grown to love the
• 2:38:52
  house, but at the same time, Jessica's relieved to get her
• 2:38:56
  son out of the situation. Bob, Lisa and their three sons,
• 2:39:02
  however, remain. Several days after Jessica and
• 2:39:07
  her family depart the house, Bob returns home from work.
• 2:39:13
  Walking through the hallway headed towards the kitchen, he
• 2:39:17
  gets that sense that he's being watched.
• 2:39:21
  He stops dead in his tracks and slowly turns around to face
• 2:39:24
  whatever could be there. However, he sees no figure.
• 2:39:30
  Instead, he sees streams of what appears to be blood on the
• 2:39:34
  walls, fresh blood leaking down, as if to mimic how the priest
• 2:39:42
  had blessed the home using holy water.
• 2:39:47
  Wanting to make sure he wasn't crazy.
• 2:39:50
  Bob calls out to Bobby Junior to come and see what he was seeing.
• 2:39:55
  The two share a moment of shock and unease.
• 2:40:00
  The walls were indeed bleeding and it was unlike anything that
• 2:40:04
  they had ever seen before. Bob, at the wits end of his wits
• 2:40:10
  end again, calls the church. He speaks with Father Linguin,
• 2:40:15
  who tells him that he's about ready to make the recommendation
• 2:40:18
  to the Bishop. To sanction a proper exorcism of
• 2:40:21
  the House. But that the family had to
• 2:40:24
  endure one more test. He told him that they needed to
• 2:40:29
  have an outside third party, non religious group come in and
• 2:40:35
  document their findings and then turn those findings into the
• 2:40:39
  church. So Bob makes several calls and
• 2:40:44
  arranges for such a group to come out.
• 2:40:48
  The paranormal investigation crew that originated out of Penn
• 2:40:52
  State. They would arrive in January of
• 2:40:55
  2005. As the two other members set
• 2:40:59
  things up, the main leader, a man named Adam Bly, finished up
• 2:41:04
  a tour of the home with Bob on benounced to Bob.
• 2:41:09
  His main job was to perform an informal psych evaluation on the
• 2:41:13
  family to determine that they were of sound mind and not just
• 2:41:18
  spinning fantasies. He would determine that they
• 2:41:22
  were indeed sane. Upon further inquiry, he asked
• 2:41:27
  Bob when things started to get bad if there was a catalyzing
• 2:41:31
  moment or area of the home. Bob, thinking back, immediately
• 2:41:38
  thought about the closet upon explaining what had taken place
• 2:41:43
  and how things. Had escalated since that day.
• 2:41:47
  Adam believed that this demon was originating from underneath
• 2:41:51
  the stairs in or near the closet.
• 2:41:55
  Knocking on the wood exterior of the stairs, it sounded hollow.
• 2:42:01
  Believing that the origin could potentially be found there, Bob
• 2:42:05
  agreed and assisted him with opening it up to look inside.
• 2:42:11
  It was no easy task, but the best way was to cut the wall
• 2:42:15
  from the inside of the closet. So they did.
• 2:42:20
  Among the cobwebs and dust was indeed an open space, a hidden
• 2:42:26
  room of sorts. And in the center of this room,
• 2:42:31
  covered in even more dust as if it had been sealed in, was a
• 2:42:36
  strange looking altar. And to the right side of this
• 2:42:41
  altar was an incredibly old piece of paper.
• 2:42:45
  Upon further examination, the paper contained drawings the
• 2:42:50
  name of the original owner, as well as the name of the word
• 2:42:56
  Malik. Malik would turn out to be the
• 2:42:59
  last name of the original owner of the home.
• 2:43:02
  It's also just one letter off from Moloch, a demon from the
• 2:43:06
  Old Testament most commonly associated with the Canaanites,
• 2:43:11
  who worshipped this deity and sacrificed children to it.
• 2:43:15
  After making this discovery, Adam wanted to take a moment, so
• 2:43:20
  he wandered off back into the main living room space to
• 2:43:22
  breathe. He then suddenly, out of
• 2:43:25
  nowhere, began to see the letters SATHI appear before him,
• 2:43:35
  and then something invisible scratched his forehead.
• 2:43:40
  Adam Screams quickly garnered the attention of the rest of the
• 2:43:43
  crew, who quickly rushed to his aid.
• 2:43:47
  They try to console him, but he's more driven to figure out
• 2:43:50
  what the ward may mean. Running to the home base set up
• 2:43:54
  for the investigation, he quickly begins searching the
• 2:43:57
  Internet, and what he finds bewilders him further.
• 2:44:03
  Sati is the name of a female demon that is said to serve
• 2:44:08
  under Moloch. Her primary function was to
• 2:44:11
  encourage women to sacrifice their children to him.
• 2:44:15
  Based off of this new information, Bob begins
• 2:44:19
  searching the history of the home for anything that could be
• 2:44:22
  out of sorts, and one such piece of history soon catches his eye.
• 2:44:29
  Where the property now stood was once the site of a grizzly
• 2:44:33
  native in Settler War, which took place in the 1790s.
• 2:44:39
  One such story was that a woman and her two children had been
• 2:44:44
  killed by the tribesmen near Fort Pitt, and her house was
• 2:44:49
  roughly 6 miles from the Fort, placing it almost directly where
• 2:44:55
  their home would be now. All of this death and sorrow.
• 2:45:00
  Bob wasn't surprised that a demon now called the land its
• 2:45:03
  home and further efforts to uncover the cause.
• 2:45:08
  Bob also hired professionals who scanned the property with ground
• 2:45:12
  penetrating radar in an effort to ensure that no bodies were
• 2:45:17
  buried there. However, as the crew scanned the
• 2:45:21
  earth, they would find the remains of four bodies and what
• 2:45:26
  appeared to be a burial plot in the front yard near the old oak
• 2:45:31
  tree that stood there. Not wanting to further disturb
• 2:45:35
  the dead, Bob opts to commemorate them instead by
• 2:45:39
  placing crosses into the ground to hopefully lay their souls to
• 2:45:43
  rest. Although the death and despair
• 2:45:46
  more than likely attracted a demon, it still didn't answer
• 2:45:50
  the question as to why it came inside the house.
• 2:45:54
  One theory was that a disgruntled worker, back when
• 2:45:57
  the home was being built, placed a curse on it which would
• 2:46:01
  account for the hidden shrine underneath the stairs.
• 2:46:05
  However, this couldn't be confirmed.
• 2:46:09
  Several months after the investigation and turning in the
• 2:46:12
  information to the church, Bob and Lisa finally received some
• 2:46:16
  much needed good news. The church has finally approved
• 2:46:21
  an exorcism on their home. In September of 2005, an
• 2:46:27
  exorcist arrives to begin his work.
• 2:46:31
  All appeared to be quiet and truthfully, things went on
• 2:46:35
  without a hitch. The following day.
• 2:46:39
  The feel of the home was different, but Bob still felt as
• 2:46:43
  if something was lurking within its walls.
• 2:46:47
  Roughly 3 months would pass without incident.
• 2:46:50
  One night, Bob was in the basement doing some work to the
• 2:46:54
  hot water heater when he suddenly was imbued with that
• 2:46:58
  age-old feeling of being watched yet again, something that he had
• 2:47:03
  hoped a thing of the past. Glancing up, he spots the figure
• 2:47:09
  of a woman, who then quickly darts into another basement
• 2:47:13
  room. Rushing into the room the woman
• 2:47:16
  had gone into, he sees nothing. Rushing up the stairs, he runs
• 2:47:22
  into Lisa and quickly tells her that he saw something down
• 2:47:26
  there, that they needed another Mass as soon as possible.
• 2:47:31
  So together they once again call Father Mike who agrees to assist
• 2:47:36
  them. The following evening, as the
• 2:47:39
  priest is mid Mass, all three of them begin to hear scratching
• 2:47:45
  coming from inside the walls. During the consecration of the
• 2:47:49
  wine, 3 distinct knocks are heard coming from inside the
• 2:47:53
  wall nearest the priest, something that should be an
• 2:47:57
  impossibility. The Mass would conclude that the
• 2:48:02
  war had not yet been won. It would ultimately take another
• 2:48:08
  two years of frequent blessings to finally rid the House of the
• 2:48:12
  demon that inhabited it with this somewhat anticlimactic
• 2:48:19
  ending, because of course not every story is going to be over
• 2:48:23
  the top. There's still many details I'd
• 2:48:26
  like to share with you, as well as pose several questions.
• 2:48:31
  The reason they believe that a disgruntled worker may have
• 2:48:34
  placed a curse on the home during its construction was that
• 2:48:38
  the worker was jealous of the wealth of the man who built it,
• 2:48:42
  a doctor, and his beautiful wife.
• 2:48:46
  However, apparently this doctor had a dark secret.
• 2:48:52
  He was locally known for performing illegal abortions
• 2:48:56
  within the house, ultimately time back into the demon Moloch
• 2:49:02
  and his consort Sati. The book in which Bob Cranmer
• 2:49:06
  wrote is known as The Demon of Brownsville Rd.
• 2:49:11
  Wasn't received without criticism.
• 2:49:14
  However, the most valid would be that some of the historical
• 2:49:17
  matters referenced, as well as the bodies in the front yard,
• 2:49:22
  hadn't been confirmed by outside sources.
• 2:49:25
  The doctor, however, was confirmed to be real and his
• 2:49:29
  name was Doctor James Merton Mahan.
• 2:49:32
  However, there is no record of any illegal activity, such as
• 2:49:36
  abortions, tied back to his name taking place at that time or his
• 2:49:42
  house. The Craners, following their
• 2:49:45
  experiences in the home, haven't been without tragedy.
• 2:49:49
  In March of 2015, their son David passed away unexpectedly,
• 2:49:55
  sending both Bob and his wife into a deep depression.
• 2:49:59
  They would divorce in 2018, ending their 37 year marriage to
• 2:50:04
  one another. After a decade of the house
• 2:50:08
  being fully cleansed of evil, Bob has now opened it as a bed
• 2:50:12
  and breakfast since 2019. It is now known as the
• 2:50:17
  Brownsville Roadhouse. I truly wish all those involved
• 2:50:21
  the very best. The entire situation seemed not
• 2:50:25
  only traumatic to have to endure, but the more recent
• 2:50:29
  tragedy as well is just terrible.
• 2:50:32
  With that being said, the story is a well documented and
• 2:50:37
  textbook demonic haunting, and a terrifying one at that.
• 2:50:42
  Sometimes when you walk into a new environment and you get a
• 2:50:46
  terrible feeling, no matter how good the deal is, you have to
• 2:50:51
  trust your gut because it might just save you years of anguish.
• 2:50:58
  In spiritual despair, considered to be one of the most terrifying
• 2:51:03
  films of all time, the movie The Exorcist paralyzed the masses
• 2:51:08
  upon its release and brought the devil home to millions of
• 2:51:12
  people. Although the horror and special
• 2:51:15
  effects enhanced the story being portrayed, what if I told you
• 2:51:19
  that the story itself was inspired by a true story of
• 2:51:24
  demonic possession? When a young boy loses his
• 2:51:27
  beloved aunt, he starts to dabble with the occult and makes
• 2:51:32
  contact with the other side. But what he contacts isn't what
• 2:51:37
  he bargained for. What follows not only terrified
• 2:51:40
  a family, but by proxy, thousands of people all over the
• 2:51:44
  world. This is the terrifying story of
• 2:51:48
  the exorcism of Roland Doe and the demons that plagued him.
• 2:52:04
  Our story starts in 1949 in a small town known as Cottage City
• 2:52:11
  in Maryland. A boy, who we'll call Roland
• 2:52:14
  Doe, is mourning the death of his beloved aunt.
• 2:52:19
  Aunt Millie's passing was very sudden and the two had been
• 2:52:23
  extremely close. Millie was known for being an
• 2:52:28
  avid spiritualist, perhaps a new age.
• 2:52:31
  Person of her time. And was always very interested
• 2:52:35
  in things like spirits, the afterlife and Ouija boards.
• 2:52:41
  Seeing this activity, the young Roland became very interested as
• 2:52:45
  well, and alongside his Aunt Millie, he was taught by her how
• 2:52:50
  to properly use a Ouija board to contact the other side.
• 2:52:55
  Following her sudden death over the summer of 1948, as Roland
• 2:53:01
  mourned her, tucked away in a trunk of her belongings, he
• 2:53:05
  rediscovers the Ouija board that Aunt Milly had given him.
• 2:53:10
  In a moment of desperation, he laid the board on her nearby
• 2:53:14
  table and attempted to speak with Aunt Milly once again.
• 2:53:19
  But alas, despite his best efforts, no movement came from
• 2:53:24
  the board. It is this moment that is
• 2:53:28
  believed to be the catalyst for what would follow.
• 2:53:32
  Just days after Roland had used the board, things started
• 2:53:36
  happening, but not with the board itself.
• 2:53:41
  The entire family started hearing a steady dripping sound
• 2:53:45
  with seemingly no origin, and after this continued for about a
• 2:53:50
  week, they called in a plumber who ultimately would find no
• 2:53:55
  evidence of any sort of a pipe leak.
• 2:53:58
  Then the drips turned into thumps and scratches, both of
• 2:54:03
  which were seemingly coming from inside of the walls.
• 2:54:07
  The family, trying to make sense of the activity first suspected
• 2:54:11
  mice, so as they had with the potential leak situation they
• 2:54:16
  scheduled, and then had a well known exterminator come out, he
• 2:54:21
  too would find no evidence of any sort of infestation.
• 2:54:26
  Over the next several months, things would continue to
• 2:54:30
  escalate. Furniture began to move by
• 2:54:33
  itself, and other items were hurled across the room by an
• 2:54:38
  invisible force. The portrait of Jesus that hung
• 2:54:41
  on the wall began to rattle and shake as if it was being hit
• 2:54:47
  from behind. The happenings continued to grow
• 2:54:50
  with intensity, leading to a crescendo.
• 2:54:54
  The force seemed to move out of the walls and into Roland's
• 2:54:58
  room, and then into his bed. One night he was violently
• 2:55:03
  awakened to his bed, shaking profusely.
• 2:55:08
  He screamed for his mother, who came in and experienced the
• 2:55:12
  terror as well. Leaving both of them at a loss
• 2:55:16
  for words. The family tried to decipher
• 2:55:19
  what was happening. They soon had Roland examined by
• 2:55:23
  a doctor and then a psychiatrist, both of whom
• 2:55:27
  concluded that the young man was very stressed out but otherwise
• 2:55:31
  healthy. Day after day, the poor boy was
• 2:55:35
  being plagued by forces that he couldn't see or defend himself
• 2:55:39
  against. Markings began to materialize on
• 2:55:43
  his body. The first markings spelled out
• 2:55:47
  the word Bowden. Beyond frightened and trying to
• 2:55:51
  find a resolution, the family used the Ouija board to try and
• 2:55:56
  contact Aunt Millie. It would indeed contact
• 2:56:00
  something. When the board began to interact
• 2:56:03
  with them on its own and the atmosphere of the room changed,
• 2:56:08
  they asked the spirit to prove that it was real.
• 2:56:12
  It obliged by hurling a chair across the living room.
• 2:56:17
  And this wasn't the only sign. The following morning, long
• 2:56:23
  burning welts appeared on Roland's legs, just as the
• 2:56:26
  previous markings had. This time it spelled out the
• 2:56:31
  words Saint Louis. The family now had to consider
• 2:56:36
  the unthinkable, that their son was perhaps in the grip of
• 2:56:41
  something demonic. They quickly contacted their
• 2:56:45
  local pastor, who was a Lutheran, who came to the house
• 2:56:49
  to pray with the family. But after he too witnessed the
• 2:56:53
  marks appear on the young man's body, he suggested that the
• 2:56:57
  family contact the Catholic Church since they tend to deal
• 2:57:01
  with these kinds of things. The family went ahead and fled
• 2:57:05
  the area in hopes that the activity would stay at the
• 2:57:08
  house. But after relocating with a
• 2:57:11
  family member in the suburb of St.
• 2:57:14
  Louis, MO, the paranormal happenings continued.
• 2:57:20
  Terrified and not knowing what else to do, the family reached
• 2:57:24
  out to Father Bowden at the local Catholic parish, who,
• 2:57:28
  after a lengthy discussion, wasn't convinced that the boy
• 2:57:32
  was possessed. Bowden, who was a World War 2
• 2:57:36
  combat veteran, was a hardened man, very practical and
• 2:57:41
  religious. No doubt not convinced, but
• 2:57:44
  wanting to help ease the family's stress, he agrees to
• 2:57:48
  pray over the boy. In due time he would arrive at
• 2:57:51
  the house and he would also be joined by a fellow priest by the
• 2:57:56
  name of Raymond Bishop. After meeting Roland, they all
• 2:58:01
  decided to pray together, and to the priest's great surprise, as
• 2:58:07
  soon as the first several sentences of prayer were
• 2:58:09
  uttered, the boy began to scream that his chest was burning.
• 2:58:16
  Upon opening the boy's shirt, they could see red cuts in his
• 2:58:20
  skin begin to appear. Now scared, the priest began to
• 2:58:25
  pray over the boy more intensely, lasting from about
• 2:58:29
  11:00 PM to 6:00 AM. At the conclusion of this
• 2:58:34
  session, Roland finally fell into a restful sleep, Or so it
• 2:58:39
  seemed. After explaining to the family
• 2:58:42
  their thoughts on what could be taking place, they decided that
• 2:58:46
  they would convene among themselves to try and decide how
• 2:58:49
  to move forward. To better assist Roland and his
• 2:58:53
  family, the priests returned to their homes and then met the
• 2:58:58
  following morning. It was here that both men
• 2:59:01
  decided that they were dealing with the real deal.
• 2:59:05
  Together, they made the decision to pursue an exorcism.
• 2:59:10
  Father Bowden, a senior priest, reached out to the Archbishop of
• 2:59:14
  Saint Louis to ask permission to perform the rites of exorcism,
• 2:59:20
  which he was granted under one request, that request being that
• 2:59:25
  he provided a day-to-day account for the church to which he
• 2:59:29
  agreed. Each segment of this story from
• 2:59:32
  here on out is written with excerpts of what the priest
• 2:59:36
  documented during his experiences.
• 2:59:40
  Father Bowdern and Father Bishop returned to the residence one
• 2:59:43
  week later. They went upstairs and entered
• 2:59:47
  the boy's frigid room and began the ritual.
• 2:59:52
  Roland began to violently act out, so with the help of the
• 2:59:55
  boy's father subduing him, they were able to continue.
• 3:00:00
  It would be written out that the boy's blows were beyond that of
• 3:00:03
  his age. Each punch had the strength of
• 3:00:07
  one or more grown men behind it. Father Bishop found this out the
• 3:00:13
  hard way. Mid prayer, Roland managed to
• 3:00:16
  break loose from his father and punched the priest in the face.
• 3:00:21
  It would later be discovered that he broke his nose.
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  Following the aftermath of this first night, all for the first
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  time in a long time, seemed calm.
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  The boy did not act out, but rather was unconscious and just
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  peacefully slept. Perhaps they thought the prayers
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  were beginning to work. However, that was until the
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  priests left. Almost as quickly as their feet
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  crossed the threshold of the residence, the boy began to yell
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  and scream at the top of his lungs.
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  This belligerent rage would last for hours at the desperation of
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  the parents. Once they were able to re
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  contact them, both priests returned as quickly as they
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  could and with the assistance of both the boy's father and now
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  mother, they had no other choice other than to continue the
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  ritual hour after hour for approximately 4 hours.
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  Roland screamed and contorted. Suddenly the boy began to lurch
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  as if he was going to throw up. He quickly asked for the window
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  near his bed to be opened, which his mother did.
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  Roland rushed to the window and vomited a thick, black looking
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  substance. Within minutes he seemed to be
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  normal, like his old self. For the first time in a long
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  time, the family and the priests knelt down and thanked God
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  kneeling beside him. They gave thanks for what seemed
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  like a triumph of good over evil, but from the ritual
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  Romanum, the Catholic rites of exorcism.
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  Sometimes the devil will leave the possessed person in peace to
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  make it appear as if he is departed.
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  The exorcist must see through this with the power of God and
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  realize this is a trap. The boy seems to rest for the
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  first time, and the family feels a true sense of relief, or so
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  they think. It's now 2:00 AM and an uneasy
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  quiet fills the house. The priests have been gone for
• 3:02:40
  several hours when suddenly Roland screams begin to fill the
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  house once again. Deep guttural screams, as if
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  something otherworldly is trying to breakthrough his physical
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  vessel. There is no rest for the wicked,
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  nor is there rest for the good. Priests are called back yet
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  again by Roland's parents and arrive yet again around 3:15 AM
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  Shortly into the bewitching hour, they return back to
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  Roland's bedside, where he begins taunting and screaming at
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  them and all too familiar happening now.
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  After several more hours of intense prayer.
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  Out of nowhere, the young man goes catatonic around 6:00 AM,
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  frozen like a statue. For all intents and purposes.
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  He appears to be sleeping, but with his eyes wide open, the
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  priests, not wanting to leave the home in case the devil
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  decides to reappear yet again, take to visiting with the family
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  for several more hours and conserving what little energy
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  they have left. And it's a good thing that they
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  did, because bizarre activity resumes around 8:30 AM with a
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  vengeance. Various knocking noises
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  accompanied by Roland's screams resume a seemingly never ending
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  hell. There's now more violence than
• 3:04:20
  ever before. Roland is exerting strength
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  beyond his normal capacity. He begins barking in multiple
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  octaves, as if there are two voices inside of him fighting to
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  escape. Amidst the chaos, his mother
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  breaks down and has to leave the room for her own sanity.
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  The boy she's looking at she no longer recognizes as her son.
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  Within due time, thankfully, Roland yet again goes catatonic.
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  Following this event, Father Bowden suggests that the boy be
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  sent away to a worthy place where the exorcism can continue.
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  An unfamiliar and sanctified place that will assist them in
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  calling upon God to intervene in what is quickly being seen as
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  the most intense case of possession that either of them
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  had ever seen. This way, Roland is away from
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  his mother and can no longer cause her any further distress
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  as well. Ultimately, it's decided that
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  he'll be sent to a hospital ran by an order of Catholic monks
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  not too far from his current home, as well as the church and
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  which the priest operate out of a bit of a crossroads of sorts.
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  After strange happenings and his terrifying behaviour his first
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  night there, Roland is placed in a private room on a private
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  floor above the psychiatric ward, not only for his own
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  protection, but to keep him from scaring the other patients
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  within the hospital walls. Father Bowden returns the
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  following evening with Father Bishop and now with the
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  additional help of Father Halloran.
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  Halloran, who is a young seminarian then, was tasked with
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  the main job of restraining the boy if need be.
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  During the prayers and during times where things were calm.
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  It was his job to visit with him and keep his spirits up as the
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  priest made their way to the top floor and entered Roland's room.
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  Father Halloran began visiting with Roland and his father bowed
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  and then blessed them with a small vial of holy water and
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  then placed the vial on the dresser next to the bed.
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  Just a few seconds after this, the vial flew across the room
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  and smashed into the wall, shattering it into multiple
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  pieces. In a later interview, as the
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  only surviving priest who witnessed the activity, Father
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  Halloran stated that that's how I knew we were dealing with the
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  real deal when that vial flew by itself across the room and
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  smashed into the wall opposite of the dresser it was placed on.
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  You read about these kinds of things, but they never really
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  happened. Realizing that they needed to
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  begin to do battle with the darkness that resided within the
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  young man known as Roland Doe, the ritual formally began yet
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  again. The boy began screaming and
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  cursing the priests. He also revealed one of the
• 3:07:42
  telltale signs of possession as things began to escalate.
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  Father Halloran's mother had recently passed away, something
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  that Roland had no way of being able to know, especially since
• 3:07:55
  the two had only met for the first time before the prayers
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  began this very day. He looked over at the priest and
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  with a dark and sinister smile across his face, said that his
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  mother said hello, that she was rotting within the depths of
• 3:08:12
  hell. This both angered and scared the
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  young priest, but also served as a distinguishing factor for him
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  personally that there indeed was another entity inhabiting the
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  body of the boy that sat within this very room with them,
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  something dark and malevolent. As many of you may or may not
• 3:08:33
  know. Exorcism, typically speaking,
• 3:08:36
  isn't A1 and done kind of situation.
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  It can take months or even years to fully rid someone of one or
• 3:08:44
  several demonic entities, if at all.
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  In this case is no different. The prayers continued until
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  Roland went catatonic and was laid peacefully back into his
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  bed, wanting to take an aggressive stance to rid the boy
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  as fast as they could. All three priests along with
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  Roland's father would again return the following day.
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  Roland by this time was so violent that all four men were
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  having a hard time holding him down.
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  Aside from the multiple voices and curses, he began spitting a
• 3:09:23
  foul smelling liquid at them as well.
• 3:09:25
  As the day continued, the boy was screaming that Father
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  Halloran was hurting him. As he was restraining him, the
• 3:09:33
  young priest loosened his grip and was instantly punched in the
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  face, breaking his nose, leaving him a bloody mess.
• 3:09:42
  This concluded the ritual for that day.
• 3:09:45
  The ordeal for all those involved was quickly becoming an
• 3:09:48
  excruciating nightmare that they couldn't wake up from.
• 3:09:52
  Every day, all day, there was very little sign of progress.
• 3:09:58
  As for the priests, the task is exhausting, soul draining and at
• 3:10:03
  times faith breaking. But despite the discouraging
• 3:10:08
  signs, like any battle that has to reach an inevitable
• 3:10:12
  conclusion, the ritual must go on.
• 3:10:17
  With each exorcism, Roland becomes more violent, more
• 3:10:21
  angry, and also begins spontaneously urinating on top
• 3:10:26
  of his other abhorrent behaviors as more objects begin to move
• 3:10:31
  more regularly as the paranormal manifestations continue.
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  On day 18 of Roland being in the hospital?
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  He asked. For a pen and paper.
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  From the priests and upon receiving it he writes, I am the
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  devil himself and within 10 days I will give you a sign.
• 3:10:52
  Shortly after writing this down begins to scream as the Roman
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  numeral 10 carves itself into the skin on his chest.
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  Witnessing this, Father Bowden decides to baptize the boy to
• 3:11:08
  hopefully aid his crusade against the demons that plague
• 3:11:11
  him. The following day, with Roland's
• 3:11:15
  permission, he performs A baptism which seems to calm him
• 3:11:20
  down. But this calm was all too short
• 3:11:23
  lived. After just about 10 minutes, he
• 3:11:27
  returns to his fits of anger and curses.
• 3:11:31
  Night after night the prayers continue and night after night
• 3:11:37
  the boy is still overwhelmed. Roland screams and the word in
• 3:11:43
  capital letters is seen carved into his chest.
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  Exit horrified. The priests continue on with
• 3:11:52
  their prayers. The devil now seems to be
• 3:11:56
  speaking through Roland's body. As he says, you need to say one
• 3:12:02
  more word, but you never say it. After the night's end, at the
• 3:12:07
  hospital, the priests were puzzled as they pondered what
• 3:12:11
  this strange statement could have meant.
• 3:12:14
  But as they read through the Book of Exorcism, they realized
• 3:12:18
  that Father Bowdern was forgetting to read the word Lord
• 3:12:22
  Time and time again. This not only frightened the men
• 3:12:27
  further, but also affirmed their suspicions as well.
• 3:12:31
  The following night it was an ice cold, rainy night.
• 3:12:37
  As the priests arrived at the facility, they could immediately
• 3:12:41
  sense that something wasn't right.
• 3:12:45
  From the parking lot, they could see that the lights on the floor
• 3:12:48
  that Roland was placed were flickering on and off and in
• 3:12:53
  different rooms as they checked in at the front desk, the clerk
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  broke down in tears, trying to explain that things were
• 3:13:04
  especially bad, that she was very scared.
• 3:13:09
  As they approached the boy's room, they noted a strong
• 3:13:12
  sulphuric smell coming from inside.
• 3:13:16
  And unlike previous nights, as soon as they entered the room,
• 3:13:21
  Roland began cursing at them, but this time in fluent Latin, a
• 3:13:27
  language he had never been exposed to prior to the
• 3:13:30
  Exorcism's beginning, let alone one that he should have been
• 3:13:34
  fluent in. He also had never displayed
• 3:13:37
  foreign tongues before. As the priest began the ritual
• 3:13:41
  again, Roland stated that this was their sign.
• 3:13:46
  Father bowed her and then commanded the Spirit to prove
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  itself. And as the words left the
• 3:13:52
  priest's lips, the boy smiled and touched the priest's purple
• 3:13:57
  vestments that were draped over his shoulders.
• 3:14:01
  They then burst into hundreds of individual fibers.
• 3:14:06
  Now, with their worst fears realized, the priests began to
• 3:14:10
  pray harder than they had ever prayed before.
• 3:14:14
  During the struggle, Roland broke a bed spring and attempted
• 3:14:18
  to stab Father Bowdern, but thankfully was restrained.
• 3:14:23
  Before he could do so, he thrashed, urinated, threatened
• 3:14:29
  and screamed in dual octaves. 5 hours into the prayers this
• 3:14:34
  night, he began to exhibit a new and frightening behaviour before
• 3:14:40
  everyone's eyes. Roland tilted his head back and
• 3:14:44
  slowly began to float up and towards the ceiling.
• 3:14:49
  Before he could reach the ceiling, the men forced
• 3:14:52
  themselves to power through their fear and grab the boy,
• 3:14:57
  bring him back down to the bed where new restraints were then
• 3:15:00
  placed, tethering him from further floating.
• 3:15:05
  After 7 grueling hours of fighting, praying and nerve
• 3:15:10
  racking spiritual warfare, the boy gasped and exclaimed.
• 3:15:17
  He said he saw Saint Michael the Archangel use a flaming sword to
• 3:15:22
  drive the devil away that he hid him and drove him back into the
• 3:15:28
  darkest abyss one could ever imagine.
• 3:15:32
  With these words he fell silent and finally closed his eyes,
• 3:15:39
  truly and peacefully asleep. After this long and arduous
• 3:15:45
  night, what began over 28 days ago seemed to have finally been
• 3:15:51
  worth it. Roland slowly but surely
• 3:15:54
  returned to normal and in fact went on to live a rather
• 3:15:58
  ordinary life. The records of the events from
• 3:16:01
  those 28 days were somehow leaked to the press and became
• 3:16:05
  an embarrassment for both the priests involved and the Church.
• 3:16:11
  Father Bowden had always regretted Roland's
• 3:16:13
  confidentiality being violated. William Peter Blatty, who had
• 3:16:18
  heard about the case, became extremely intrigued and reached
• 3:16:22
  out to the priest to discuss it with him.
• 3:16:25
  When asked about if he knew the whole thing was real or not,
• 3:16:29
  bowed and replied. I had no doubt about it then,
• 3:16:33
  and I have no doubt about it now, that what was in that room
• 3:16:36
  that night was the otherworldly source we call the Devil in the
• 3:16:42
  flesh. William Peter Blatty took his
• 3:16:45
  inspiration from this case and wrote the book The Exorcist.
• 3:16:50
  So was the possession case of Roland Doe a genuine one?
• 3:16:55
  It has in fact been considered to be one of the most
• 3:16:57
  substantial cases, if not the most substantial case by the
• 3:17:02
  Catholic Church in the last 300 years in regards to the
• 3:17:06
  existence of Satanic forces and the existence of demonic
• 3:17:11
  possession by others. However, it was just an
• 3:17:15
  emotionally compromised adolescent who was acting out
• 3:17:19
  after the death of a close loved one.
• 3:17:23
  But what do you think? Make sure to let me know down in
• 3:17:26
  the comments below. And if this case indeed was the
• 3:17:30
  real deal, those implications have far reaching convictions in
• 3:17:34
  and of themselves that the existence of true evil also
• 3:17:39
  implies the existence of true good.
• 3:17:43
  And I would say regardless with the on screen inspiration and
• 3:17:47
  then adaptation of The Exorcist, these deep reaching questions
• 3:17:51
  were then brought forth to thousands if not millions of
• 3:17:55
  people all over the world, perhaps leading to a wider
• 3:17:59
  impact than anticipated. I think A.
• 3:18:02
  Deeper moral of this story is that the occult is not only very
• 3:18:06
  real and I can say that speaking from personal experience that it
• 3:18:11
  is not for the non experienced or the spiritually weak.
• 3:18:16
  You can never be truly. Sure of what you're
• 3:18:18
  communicating with. And for the majority of people I
• 3:18:22
  would say this, just don't dabble.
• 3:18:25
  It will greatly benefit you if you don't, because you might
• 3:18:29
  just speak with something that may turn out to be your worst
• 3:18:33
  nightmare come to life.