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Top 5 Bingeable SCARY STORIES NIGHTMARE FUEL Edition Vol. 2 · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: In twenty fourteen, the United States Navy decided it was
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  Speaker 1: time to decommission one of their old frigate ships, and
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  Speaker 1: so they sent it to a dock to be broken
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  Speaker 1: down for scrap in order for workers to actually be
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  Speaker 1: able to access the underside of the ship and actually
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  Speaker 1: begin to break it down. They would need to dry
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  Speaker 1: dock the ship, which meant the ship would basically drive
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  Speaker 1: into this special locking corral where the doors would shut
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  Speaker 1: behind it, the water would drain out from underneath, and
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  Speaker 1: the ship would be left resting on these huge wooden
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  Speaker 1: blocks that elevated it off the ground. And with no
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  Speaker 1: water in there, workers were able to get underneath the
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  Speaker 1: hall and could access every part of the ship without obstruction.
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  Speaker 2: It's important to.
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  Speaker 1: Note for this story that when a ship is in
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  Speaker 1: dry dock, there is only one way on or off.
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  Speaker 1: It's this ramp called a gangway, that leads from the
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  Speaker 1: dock onto the deck of the ship. Besides that, there
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  Speaker 1: is nowhere else for you to get on this ship,
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  Speaker 1: and if for some reason you really wanted to get
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  Speaker 1: on and didn't use the gangway, you could, in theory,
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  Speaker 1: try to run and leap from the dock to the ship.
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  Speaker 1: There's a pretty significant gap there all the way around,
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  Speaker 1: but you could try the jump, but if you weren't
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  Speaker 1: successful at grabbing onto the ship, you would fall multiple stories,
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  Speaker 1: probably to your death because there's no water in the
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  Speaker 1: dry dock. So this old frigate ship that was being
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  Speaker 1: decommissioned was officially dry docked in July of twenty fourteen.
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  Speaker 1: The first group of people that went on board the
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  Speaker 1: ship to begin dismantling it were military personnel. They were
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  Speaker 1: in charge of removing all of the sensitive equipment before
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  Speaker 1: civilians were allowed to go on board. The military personnel
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  Speaker 1: begin to wrap up, and it's getting late in the
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  Speaker 1: day and they tell the foreman who's in charge of
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  Speaker 1: all of the civilian workers that are going to be
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  Speaker 1: going on and finishing this decommissioning of the ship. They
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  Speaker 1: go to the foreman and they say, hey, we're done.
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  Speaker 1: We're wrapped up for the night. Your workers are good
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  Speaker 1: to go. They can get on here tomorrow. The foreman
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  Speaker 1: would send a message to his boss that night letting
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  Speaker 1: him know that they were on track to start work
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  Speaker 1: the next day. The boss would respond and say, hey,
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  Speaker 1: can you go on there tonight and take pictures of
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  Speaker 1: all the different workstations so we know how many people
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  Speaker 1: that we need to place in different segments of this
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  Speaker 1: big ship. So the foreman walks onto the ship and
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  Speaker 1: proceeds to take hundreds of pictures all over the inside
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  Speaker 1: of the ship. Now the ship itself was pitch black inside.
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  Speaker 1: There was no electricity, and it was nighttime, so we
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  Speaker 1: had a flashlight the whole time, but whenever he took
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  Speaker 1: a picture, he would turn his flashlight off and then
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  Speaker 1: use the flash on his camera before going back to
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  Speaker 1: his actual flashlight. So all night he's going room to
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  Speaker 1: room taking all these pictures, and at some point he
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  Speaker 1: realizes he's photographed everything he needs to, so he leaves.
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  Speaker 1: He goes back to his office, he uploads the pictures,
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  Speaker 1: and he sends them to his boss.
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  Speaker 2: His boss wrote.
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  Speaker 1: Back almost immediately and just said, who's the guy with
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  Speaker 1: the axe? Now, the foreman has no idea what he's
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  Speaker 1: talking about. He was just in the ship by himself
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  Speaker 1: for a couple of hours and didn't see anyone. So
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  Speaker 1: he reads the email again to make sure he read
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  Speaker 1: it correctly, and he sees that his boss is actually
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  Speaker 1: attached the picture he is referring to. Here is this
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  Speaker 1: guy clearly clutching an axe in a hallway that.
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  Speaker 2: He was just in.
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  Speaker 1: And even the creepier is the foreman is looking at
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  Speaker 1: where this picture was taken, and it was relatively early
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  Speaker 1: on in his photo shoot, and he had walked past
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  Speaker 1: the exact area where this guy is poking his head
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  Speaker 1: out of which means the whole time he was down there,
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  Speaker 1: this guy with an axe.
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  Speaker 2: Was there with him.
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  Speaker 1: They review the security footage of a camera that was
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  Speaker 1: aimed directly at the ramp, the one entrance in and
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  Speaker 1: out of this ship, and from the time the foreman left,
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  Speaker 1: no one else left, So they don't know how he
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  Speaker 1: got on or how he got off without being detected,
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  Speaker 1: but somehow he did. In July of twenty sixteen, a
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  Speaker 1: woman living in Chicago, Illinois, named Jordan Baranskis opened her
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  Speaker 1: eyes and realized she had fallen asleep on.
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  Speaker 2: The couch the night before.
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  Speaker 1: She looked up and the TV was still on, and
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  Speaker 1: then she looked down at the other section of the
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  Speaker 1: couch and her boyfriend met.
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  Speaker 2: Was all so asleep on the couch.
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  Speaker 1: As much as she wanted to keep sleeping alongside her boyfriend,
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  Speaker 1: she had work that day, so she stood up, turned
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  Speaker 1: the TV off, and made her way upstairs to get ready.
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  Speaker 1: As soon as she got upstairs, the first thing she
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  Speaker 1: did is go into her bedroom and get her purse
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  Speaker 1: that she left on the foot of her bed. But
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  Speaker 1: when she got in the room, her purse wasn't there.
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  Speaker 1: So she leaves her bedroom and she starts searching all
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  Speaker 1: the rooms upstairs, and she can't find her purse, and
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  Speaker 1: she's thinking to herself, I'm certain I had it the
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  Speaker 1: night before.
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  Speaker 2: I remember rifling.
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  Speaker 1: Through my purse before going downstairs and starting to fold
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  Speaker 1: laundry before ultimately falling asleep on the couch. So, after
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  Speaker 1: spending about fifteen minutes looking for the purse unsuccessfully, and
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  Speaker 1: now she's starting to stress because she's gonna be late
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  Speaker 1: for work because she can't find a purse, she goes
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  Speaker 1: downstairs and she wakes Mad up and says, hey, I
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  Speaker 1: gotta find my purse. I thought I left it upstairs.
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  Speaker 1: Apparently I didn't. Can you help me look for it.
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  Speaker 2: Matt rolls over.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't really want to get up because he's pretty
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  Speaker 1: tired and he doesn't have work, so he doesn't want
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  Speaker 1: to wake up right now, and he says, well, are
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  Speaker 1: you sure you didn't leave it at the restaurant last night?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, if you already looked, it's probably not here.
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  Speaker 1: You want to just give him all and see if
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  Speaker 1: you left it there. Jordan was immediately really annoyed by
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  Speaker 1: his reaction, because she just wanted him to stand up
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  Speaker 1: and help her look for the purse because she had
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  Speaker 1: work and he could just go back to sleep.
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  Speaker 2: And so it started this argument.
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  Speaker 1: Between the two of them where Matt just wanted her
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  Speaker 1: to call the restaurant because he was convinced she had
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  Speaker 1: it there, and Jordan was like, no, I know I.
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  Speaker 2: Had my purse.
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  Speaker 1: I'm positive I had it last night before I fell
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  Speaker 1: asleep on the couch with you. So their argument begins
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  Speaker 1: to escalate a little bit, and that's when Jordan remembers
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  Speaker 1: that they had recently installed a Nest camera downstairs to
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  Speaker 1: monitor their dogs whenever they were gone, and she thought,
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  Speaker 1: we can just look at the footage on the Nest camera.
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  Speaker 1: We can see me walking into the apartment and I
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  Speaker 1: will either have.
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  Speaker 2: Or not have my purse in my hand.
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  Speaker 1: And so Jordan opens up her app and she calls
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  Speaker 1: Matt over and they go back to the night before,
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  Speaker 1: right before they left for the restaurant.
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  Speaker 2: She's got our person hand.
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  Speaker 1: They leave the front door, and then several hours go
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  Speaker 1: by and they come back in and very clearly Jordan
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  Speaker 1: has her purse in her hand. And Jordan turns to
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  Speaker 1: Matt and says, told you so, and Matt it's like, okay, fine,
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  Speaker 1: let me help you. Look, and as they're about to
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  Speaker 1: put the app down, she realizes on the nest camera
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  Speaker 1: timeline that motion was detected at three point thirty in
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  Speaker 1: the morning, when they were both clearly asleep on the couch,
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  Speaker 1: and so she calls Matt back over and says, here, look,
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  Speaker 1: there's motion detected at three thirty in the morning, and
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  Speaker 1: they hit play.
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  Speaker 2: After the couple.
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  Speaker 1: Had fallen asleep on the couch with the TV on,
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  Speaker 1: a hooded figure emerges from their upstairs hallway and stands
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  Speaker 1: at the top of the stairs and just watches the
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  Speaker 1: two of them sleep. Before he left, he stole her purse,
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  Speaker 1: along with a couple of other things from their apartment.
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  Speaker 1: And somehow this guy has never been caught, and he's
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  Speaker 1: been given the nickname Creeper Ghost. In early nineteen seventy four,
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  Speaker 1: thirty one year old Michael Taylor was living happily with
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  Speaker 1: his wife Christine and their five children in Osset, which
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  Speaker 1: is a small town in central England. Michael was described
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  Speaker 1: as a great father and a great husband who had
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  Speaker 1: an excellent sense of humor. In fact, neighbors whenever they
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  Speaker 1: would walk past the tailor household would say you could
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  Speaker 1: often hear the sound of Michael laughing or the sound
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  Speaker 1: of him telling jokes to his family. But in April
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  Speaker 1: of that year, everything changed for the Tailor family.
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  Speaker 2: Michael had been doing some.
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  Speaker 1: Home repairs when he fell off of a ladder and
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  Speaker 1: he heard his back. The injury itself was fairly minor,
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  Speaker 1: but it resulted in chronic pain, and this chronic pain.
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  Speaker 2: Quickly changed how Michael behaved.
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  Speaker 1: Michael went from being this cheerful, funny, happy guy to
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  Speaker 1: being sad and depressed, and he was so irritable that
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  Speaker 1: his family could barely be around.
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  Speaker 2: Him because he would lash out at them.
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  Speaker 1: Now, the Tailor family was not a religious family, however,
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  Speaker 1: most families who lived in Act at that time were,
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  Speaker 1: and so when one of Michael's friends found out about
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  Speaker 1: how poorly Michael was doing, they approached Michael and said,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you really ought to turn to religion for
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  Speaker 1: help and for guidance in this difficult time. And they
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  Speaker 1: also told him specifically that he really ought to check
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  Speaker 1: out this one particular Christian group.
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  Speaker 2: It was called the Christian Fellowship.
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  Speaker 1: Group, and all it was was a prayer group for
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  Speaker 1: Christians who wanted more religious support beyond just going to
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  Speaker 1: church on Sundays. But this friend of Michael's told him
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  Speaker 1: that the real draw of this group was the group's leader.
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  Speaker 1: Her name was Marie Robinson, and she was this twenty
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  Speaker 1: one year old, extremely friendly and energetic and charismatic person
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  Speaker 1: who just had this incredible way of making all of
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  Speaker 1: her members really feel like they belonged.
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  Speaker 2: And so Michael's friend.
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  Speaker 1: Was telling him that he really thought Marie could be
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  Speaker 1: the difference maker for him, that she could help him
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  Speaker 1: get back to normal. And so Michael, you know, he
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  Speaker 1: trusted this friend and he really didn't have much to
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  Speaker 1: lose at this point. He was already at rock bottom,
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  Speaker 1: and so he agrees to go check this group out.
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  Speaker 1: So on September twelfth of that year, Michael makes his
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  Speaker 1: way to the church where this fellowship group is held.
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  Speaker 1: He goes inside and he makes his way to one
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  Speaker 1: of the back rooms in the church, and when he
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  Speaker 1: goes inside, he sees there's a ring of people sitting
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  Speaker 1: in a circle, about twenty pe and as soon as
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  Speaker 1: they see Michael coming in the room, they all stand
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  Speaker 1: up and they open their arms up.
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  Speaker 2: And they say, come on, come sit down with us.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome welcome to the group.
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  Speaker 1: And then the woman who had to be Marie, she
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  Speaker 1: stands up and she looks at Michael, huge smile on
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  Speaker 1: her face, and she encourages him to come over and
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  Speaker 1: sit right next to me. Welcome, We'd love to have
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  Speaker 1: you join our group. And so Michael, for the first
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  Speaker 1: time in ages, is smiling as he strides across the
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  Speaker 1: room and sits down right next to Marie. And then
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  Speaker 1: as Marie began to lead the group in prayer, Michael
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  Speaker 1: did not feel his chronic pain.
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  Speaker 2: He just felt happy again.
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  Speaker 1: But when the meeting was over and Michael went back
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  Speaker 1: home again, the pain and depression came flooding back. It
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  Speaker 1: was like the only place he could be happy was
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  Speaker 1: inside of the church at this fellowship group. And so
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  Speaker 1: over the next couple of weeks, Michael completely prioritized this group.
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  Speaker 1: He went to all of their meetings, and over the
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  Speaker 1: course of these couple of weeks, Michael became very close
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  Speaker 1: with Marie, and apparently Marie became very close with Michael,
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  Speaker 1: to the point where the two of them would stay
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  Speaker 1: after it after the meetings were over, and just those
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  Speaker 1: two would sequester themselves in quiet prayer. No one knew
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  Speaker 1: what they did in there, but it just seemed like
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  Speaker 1: they were developing a real relationship. And in fact, many
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  Speaker 1: people in this group suspected they were having an affair.
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  Speaker 1: And before long the rumors in the church had spread
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  Speaker 1: outside and were all over Asset. And then before long, Christine,
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  Speaker 1: Michael's wife, was hearing from a friend or a neighbor
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  Speaker 1: that apparently Michael was having an affair with Marie.
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  Speaker 2: Now Christine had already suspected.
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  Speaker 1: Her husband was having an affair with Marie because Marie
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  Speaker 1: was the only thing Michael talked about when he got home.
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  Speaker 1: So on October first of that year, only a couple
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  Speaker 1: of weeks after Michael had first attended this group, Christine
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  Speaker 1: waited until Michael had left the house to head out
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  Speaker 1: to one of the group meetings, and then Christine hopped
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  Speaker 1: in her car and she followed him to the church.
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  Speaker 1: And when she got there, she parked her car, she
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  Speaker 1: took a deep breath, and then she got out.
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  Speaker 2: She made her way to the.
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  Speaker 1: Front doors of the church and she stormed inside and
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  Speaker 1: she found the room where these meetings were held.
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  Speaker 2: She barges in.
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  Speaker 1: And she points said her husband, and she says, I
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  Speaker 1: know you're having an affair with Marie, and you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: admit it in front of this whole group. And Michael,
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  Speaker 1: who's sitting with his back to his wife in one
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  Speaker 1: of the chairs, he stands up and instead of addressing
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  Speaker 1: his wife, who's accused him of infidelity, he turns and
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  Speaker 1: looks at Marie on the other side of the room.
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  Speaker 1: And when Marie made eye contact with Michael, she screamed.
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  Speaker 1: She would later say Michael did not look human. He
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  Speaker 1: looked like a beast, and he had wild eyes. And
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  Speaker 1: so as Michael is standing there staring at Marie with
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  Speaker 1: this very aggressive face, he began breaking.
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  Speaker 2: Out in tongues.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking in tongues is where the speaker will be saying
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  Speaker 1: or uttering words or sounds that sound like language, but
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  Speaker 1: the speaker doesn't know what they mean. The idea is
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  Speaker 1: some entity has come inside of their body and this
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  Speaker 1: entity is dictating their speech. And so Michael is broken
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  Speaker 1: out in tongues and he's barking these words and sounds
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  Speaker 1: at Marie, and everyone inside of the room has no
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  Speaker 1: idea what to make of this. Everything has happened so suddenly,
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  Speaker 1: and it's so surprising. You have the wife suddenly coming
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  Speaker 1: in and aggressively accusing her husband of cheating, and Michael
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  Speaker 1: is not responding to it, and he's acting totally crazy.
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  Speaker 1: And then before anyone can do anything, Michael goes from
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  Speaker 1: just barking in strange languages at Marie to suddenly rushing
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  Speaker 1: across the room as if he's going to attack her.
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  Speaker 1: And when he does that, the rest of the members
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  Speaker 1: jump on top of him and hold him down, and
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  Speaker 1: despite there being like ten or fifteen people holding him down,
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  Speaker 1: Michael is still trying to get up, and he's screaming
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  Speaker 1: and snarling and yelling at Marie. And then Marie suddenly
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  Speaker 1: breaks out into tongues too, and it's only then that
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  Speaker 1: Michael stops trying to force himself up out of this
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  Speaker 1: pig pilot's on top of him, and instead he just
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  Speaker 1: continues to speak in tongues to her, and so the
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  Speaker 1: two of them are looking at each other speaking in tongues,
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  Speaker 1: and the rest of the group is just totally dumbfounded,
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  Speaker 1: and so they just begin praying, and then after about
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  Speaker 1: an hour, Michael just collapses.
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  Speaker 2: It's like he went unconscious, and.
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  Speaker 1: At that point everybody room just goes silent and they
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  Speaker 1: look at Michael and then Michael kind of opens his
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  Speaker 1: eyes and it's almost like he's waking up, and he
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  Speaker 1: begins looking around frantically trying to figure out what had
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  Speaker 1: just happened. Michael would claim he had no memory of
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  Speaker 1: what had just happened to him, and so at this point,
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  Speaker 1: Marie would tell him and Christine that she believed Michael
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  Speaker 1: was possessed by a demonic force and the only thing
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  Speaker 1: they could do at this point would be to perform
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  Speaker 1: an exorcism, and exorcism is an expulsion or attempted expulsion
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  Speaker 1: of a supposedly evil spirit inside of a person or
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  Speaker 1: a place. Michael and Christine were at a loss. They
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  Speaker 1: had no idea what to do in this situation. They
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  Speaker 1: were both kind of in shock for very different reasons,
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  Speaker 1: and so they just kind of deferred to Marie's judgment
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  Speaker 1: and said, yeah, you know, I think an exorcism is
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  Speaker 1: the way to go. So Christine and Michael just leave
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  Speaker 1: the church and go home, and then the next morning,
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  Speaker 1: Marie would get in touch with the Anglican Church of
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  Speaker 1: England and would request an exorcism, and after hearing about
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  Speaker 1: what was going on with Michael, the Anglican Church would say, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that does sound like he needs an exercis, and so
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  Speaker 1: the following day they would send out two of their
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  Speaker 1: best exorcists named Peter and Raymond. And so Peter and
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  Speaker 1: Raymond they get to asset, they go to Michael's house
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  Speaker 1: and they observe him, and very quickly they determined that
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  Speaker 1: it does seem like Michael is possessed by at least
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  Speaker 1: one demonic force, and so they tell Michael the only
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  Speaker 1: thing we can do here is perform this exorcism, but
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  Speaker 1: we need you to agree to it. And so Michael says, okay, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I agree to this exorcism, and so would his wife,
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  Speaker 1: because she at this point is just completely unsure what
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: to do.
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: She's just going along for the ride.
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: So a day later, on October fourth, at ten pm, Michael,
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: his wife, and the rest of the members of this
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: fellowship group, along with Peter and Raymond, they would all
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: meet at this other church in a neighboring town. And
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: as soon as Michael had been positioned in the middle
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: of this group in this chair, Peter and Raymond began
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: the ritual by praying, and as soon as they did,
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: Michael began streaming out in tongues and he began writhing around,
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: and he fell to the ground and he began content
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: afarding his body in grotesque positions, as if the words
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: Peter and Raymond were saying were physically harming Michael. And
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: so after eight hours of this, during which they had
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: to actually tie Michael down to prevent him from hurting
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: other members or hurting himself, after eight hours, they finally
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: just came to a stop. Peter and Raymond were exhausted.
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: It looked very much like Michael two was exhausted, and
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: as soon as they stopped the ritual, Michael just kind
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: of collapsed on the ground as if he had fallen unconscious.
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: And then at some point he kind of wakes up.
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: He's looking around wildly.
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: He's still tied down to the ground, and he's acting
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: like he has no idea what's just happened. And at
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: this point, Peter and Raymond they tell him that, you know,
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: the exorcism was mostly successful. We identified forty demons inside
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: of you, and this exorcism was able to expel thirty
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: seven of them. So that means there's still three demons
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: inside of you. Now we can't do it right now.
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: We're too tired, you're too exhausted. So go home, get
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: some rap, and tomorrow we will finish this exorcism. We
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: will get rid of those three demons, and you will
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: be just fine. And so Michael and Christine they get
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: their things and they leave the church and they head home.
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: A few hours later, around noon, a woman who lived
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: near where Michael Taylor and his family lived thought she
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: heard something strange outside of her house. It sounded like
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: someone yelling, and so she went to the front of
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: the house and she pulled the curtain aside on one
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: of her windows, and outside, walking down the street, completely naked,
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: covered in blood was Michael Taylor, and he was saying
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: something about Satan, and so this woman she calls the police.
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: The police show up and they find Michael. He had
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: curled up on the sidewalk outside of this woman's house
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: and he was giggling like a child in the fetal position,
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: and so the police approach him, and at some point
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: Michael apparently snaps out of it and he starts looking
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: up at the police like he has no idea what's
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: going on. And eventually they would get him to tell
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: them his name and where he lived. And so after
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: calling in back up to deal with Michael. The responding
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: officers made their way to Michael's residence and so they
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: go inside and immediately as soon as they see what's
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: in there, one of the officers just turns around and
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: runs outside and begins dry heaving. The inside of the
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: Taylor family home would become one of the most infamous
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: crime scenes in English history. A few hours earlier, when
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: Michael and his wife had come home from the exorcism,
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: they had gone inside and then Michael had fallen into
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: one of his trances and began beating his wife, and
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: then at some point she fell to the ground and
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: either was dead or was in the process of dying,
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: at which point Michael jumped on top of her and
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: using only his hands, he ripped her face off and
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: flung it across the room. And then as she's laying
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: there bleeding to death, he began rubbing her blood all
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: over his body, and then after she had finally died,
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: he tracked down the family.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: Dog and killed the dog as well.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: Fortunately, their five children were not home at the time
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: of this attack, and so they were unharmed. During Michael's trial,
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: the prosecution and the defense blamed the Anglican Church of
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: England and Marie and her religious group for effectively convincing
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: Michael he was possessed with demons which caused him to
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: act out violently and kill his wife. And so ultimately
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: Michael would be found not guilty by reason of insanity
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: and after only four years of psychiatric care, he was
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: released and today he is still living free in Auset.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: But despite the legal outcomes of this case, there are
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: many people, both religious and not religious, who believe the
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: Michael Taylor case is one of the only true demonic
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: possession cases in modern history. Also, just to close the loop,
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: we don't know for sure if Michael and Marie were
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: having an affair, but it is assumed they were. It
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: begins here from the director of It comes IT Welcome
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: to Derry, the chilling new HBO original series exploring one
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: of horror's biggest terrors, Pennywise the Clown, set in nineteen
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: sixties Dairy, Maine. The new HBO original series premiere Sunday,
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: October twenty sixth.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: On HBO Max.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: Also, you can listen to the official IT Welcome to
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: Dairy podcast wherever you get your podcasts. In eighteen ninety eight,
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: a twelve year old boy was playing at this river
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: that ran near his house. He was out in the forest.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: He's playing to this river, and he had a bow
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: and arrow and he was practicing shooting.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: His bow and arrow.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: And after a little while he got bored of his
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: bow and arrow, and he went to the stream itself
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: and he started to build a little dam in the
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: river to try to catch some fish. And as he's
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: building this thing up, he's down on his knees building
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: up this little dam in the river. He notices someone
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: is walking down the river towards him, and he looks
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: up and he would describe this person as looking normal,
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: a normal looking stranger.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: It's a gentleman who shows up. He's wearing a nice suit.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: He walks over to Wafford and he apparently just came
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: out of the woods and he says, hey, what are
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: you doing. And the boy, you know, he's like, oh,
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: I'm making this fish trap. And he's like, man, it's
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: like a lot of work, Like, you know, you should
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: take a break. And the boy's like, yeah, I guess
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: I could take a break. And the gentleman just says, well,
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: if you want, you know, while you're taking this break,
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: you can come to my house. It's just up past
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: the bend here. My family's there. You can have a
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: meal with us, and then you can come back and
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: you can finish your fish trap. And so, you know,
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: this is a different time. This is the late eighteen hundreds,
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: and I'm not suggesting that at the time it was
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: totally cool to go with strangers into weird houses in
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: the forest. But the boy felt compelled to say yes.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: He didn't want to be rude, and maybe his fear
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: of strangers is less extreme than it is, you know,
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: for us today in twenty twenty, And so he agrees
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: to go with the man. They make their way up
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: past the river into the forest a little bit, and
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: they come up to this cabin. Now, the boy played
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: in the woods here, and he had never seen this
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: house before. But he's not he's not too concerned because
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: as soon as he gets to the house, this cabin
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: in the woods, he sees that the lights are on
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: and he hears kids playing inside, and a close family
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: friend of his family he is sitting on the porch
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: talking to one of the other.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: Apparently family members of the stranger.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: And so the boys put at ease and he says
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: hi to the family friend and the family friend you know,
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: waves back. The boy goes inside and he sees that
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: this family has a couple of kids roughly his age.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: They're playing gooping around. They have dinner in this wonderful meal,
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: and the boy waffered, is like, man, this is so great.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: And after the meal he lays down and falls asleep.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: He kind of loses track of time. The boy falls
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: asleep at this cabin, and so he wakes up early
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: the next morning and he feels horrible because he didn't
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: mean to fall asleep and he didn't tell anyone from
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: his family where he was going, and he's thinking, man,
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: they're going to be so worried about me.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: And so as he's getting out to.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: Leave, the stranger is already awake, the one that had
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: met him down by the river and called him up
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: to the house. And the boy says, hey, can you
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: walk me down back to the river, And the stranger's like,
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: I can take you part of the way down, sure.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: So the two of them they're having small talk, and
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: you know, the boy's thanking the man for his generosity.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: And so as they're walking, they're passing by an orchard
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: on one side and a cornfield on the other and
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: it's this beautiful morning, the sun's just coming up, and
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: the boy remembers thinking how beautiful the setting was, but
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: he also was thinking, like, I don't I don't even
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: know where I am right now, and I'm assuming he's
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: walking me back to where I live. But this doesn't
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: look familiar at all, and the stranger stops. They get
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: to almost a junction right at the end of the
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: orchard and of the cornfield, and the stranger tells the
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: boy wafferd. He says, hey, just go straight. You're gonna
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: turn down this way, turn back and you'll be You'll
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: be at the river again where we met. And the
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: boy thanks the stranger, and the stranger turns and starts
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: walking back towards his cabin and says, hey, good luck sea,
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: and the boy starts following the man's directions. And as
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: he's walking, you know, following the stranger's directions, he just
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: he's suddenly curious and turns around to look back at
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: this strange person who had brought him up to the
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: house and then now brought him back, and he's stunned
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: because suddenly the orchard and the cornfield are not there.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: There is no orchard or cornfield. It's just deep dark
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: forest and he's like, what's going on. He turns back
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: and there's a search party, or it looks like a
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: search party running up to him. Part of the search
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: party is the family friend that he had seen at
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: the house. And the boy's like looking at these people
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: running towards him, like they're running to him, and he
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: recognizes the family friend and he can tell they're like
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: urgently looking for him, and he felt bad because he
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: knows he slept over through the night.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: So he's like, hey, I'm here. I'm here, and they're like,
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: where have you been?
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: And the boy turns to the family friend and he's like,
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: didn't you tell them I was with you? And the
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: family friend is like, what are you talking about? And
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: he's like, yeah, the house with the family. We ate
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: dinner together last night. And the guy, the family friend,
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: is like, I've been looking for you for the past
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: several days. I've been with your family looking for You've
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: been gone for three days, and.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: The boy is like what.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: And as he's describing the kind of general vicinity of
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: where this cabin was, he's kind of pointing back up
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: towards where it was and describing it from where the
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: river was. The family says to him that since you've
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: been missing, we've heard rhythmic drumming non stop coming from
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: the section of the forest that you just described. We
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: can never pinpoint where it was coming from. And now
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: that you just showed up, the drumming has stopped, and
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: so the kid's terrified, but there's no answers.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: Pretty creepy.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: My early night nine, Christopher Case was living his best life.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: He was thirty five years old. He had moved out
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: to Seattle to pursue a career in music, and he
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: had landed a job at a music company in Seattle,
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: and he had risen to the rank of executive at
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: that company. He was incredibly fit. You know, he was
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: known for being at the gym seven days a week.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: You know, he took vitamins, He took his health very seriously.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: He had loads of friends, people really liked him. He
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: was very close with his family. And you know, despite
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: all that, despite his popularity and success, he had been
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: single for years. And even though he was not actively
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: seeking a companion, his friends and family were continuously trying
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: to set.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: Him up on dates. But Chris would prefer.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: To not go on a date and actually stay home
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: by himself and listen to music, because Chris had an
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: obsession with a very.
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: Specific type of music.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: He loved music from ancient times, specifically from Egypt, and
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: so he was stay home instead of go out on
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: dates and you know, crush ancient Egyptian music.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: That was like his idea of a great night.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: On April eleventh of nineteen ninety nine, Chris was on
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: a business trip because part of his job required a
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: ton of travel, and he was on a trip with
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: a couple of his co workers who were also.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: Friends of his.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: They go out to San Francisco and on the eleventh,
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: they decided to go out for dinner that night, and
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: one of his co workers decides to bring along a
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: friend who was someone that lived in the area. So
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: they get to dinner and one of them has their
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: friend who's an older woman, very attractive, very kind of
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: intense looking woman. She was about twenty years older than Chris.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: That was his guest, and she sits down and the
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: four of them are just kind of having a nice
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: conversation and at some point, the older woman really takes
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: an interest in Chris, and Chris takes an interest in
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: her because it would turn out that they had a
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: lot in common.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: And then she.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: Actually admitted to him that she was really into music
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: from ancient times and actually has a specific interest in
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: music from ancient Egypt. And so to Chris, he's like,
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: how can this be? And he's like, this is my passion.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: I love that type of music, and they really hit
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: it off. Now, Chris was not looking for any sort
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: of romantic involvement with this woman. He was just so
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: excited to talk about something he loved. And so all
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: night Chris and this older woman are chatting it up
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: and they're super into each other.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: He was looking at her purely from.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: A platonic sense, but it was becoming clear by the
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: end of the night, at least Chris was realizing this
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: that she was looking at him with a romantic angle.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: She was interested in Chris, and in fact, right as
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: he's kind of realizing this, she asked him if he
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: wants to leave with her and go back to her place,
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: and he politely declines because he's not interested. He loved
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: chatting with her about music and other things they had
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: in common, but he wasn't interested in her romantically, and
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: she became a little bit more aggressive and said, no,
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: come on, come on, let's get out of here. I
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: got a place right down the road. We can go
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: listen to music and hang out in my place. And
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: he felt really uncomfortable and he kept saying no, but
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: she wouldn't let it go. And so finally, as she's
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: literally trying to get him to say yes, he says, hey,
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: you know what, I've had a long night.
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: I'm going to go.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: And so he stands up to leave, and the woman
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: goes from being very flirtatious and friendly to very angry
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: at Chris. And she looks at him and kind of
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: abruptly says to him.
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: I'm actually a witch and I'm going to put a
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: curse on you. You're going to be dead within a week, okay,
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: And he just leaves.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: So the next morning, on April twelfth, Chris gets up
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: and he heads to the airport and he flies.
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: Back to Seattle.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: When he lands in Seattle, he calls his friend Sammy,
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: who was one of his very close friends back when
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: he lived on the East Coast. He just wanted to
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: share this weird experience with a close friend and so
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: they're kind of laughing about the whole thing. Neither of
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: them are taking the curse seriously at all. It was like,
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: you really dodged a bullet. It's good you to not
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: go home with her. So in good spirits, Chris hangs
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: up the phone with Sammy, and for the next twenty
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: four hours, Chris would fall right back into his regular
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: daily life in Seattle. Nothing out of the ordinary happened,
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: but all that would change starting the night of April thirteenth,
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: which would have been forty eight hours after his encounter
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: with this woman in San Francisco. So Chris lives alone,
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: he doesn't have pets, and he gets into bed that
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: night and he's laying there and before he falls asleep,
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: he hears whispering coming from outside of his bedroom in
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: the kitchen area, kind of near the front door. And
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: he's thinking to himself, like, I didn't just hear whispering?
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: What no one's in here? What's going on? And he's
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: hearing the whispering and then it kind of stops, and
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: before he gets up to investigate, he's like, Okay, I
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: probably was just hearing things that wasn't real. He's just
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: kind of laying there, trying to go to sleep, and
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: then he hears it again, except now it's not coming
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: from the kitchen area. It's coming from a separate area
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: in his apartment outside of the room he's in. And
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: so now he's wondering, like, is someone did someone sneak
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: into my house? Like is there a burglar in my
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: house right now? And so he quietly gets out of
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: his bed and he walks over his door. He opens
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: it up, and he can still hear the whispering, and
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: it's coming from his laundry room a little ways away.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: But as soon as he opens the door and he
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: pokes his head out, the whispering stops.
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: And he's just standing there like.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: Looking around, like hoping that there isn't anything in his apartment.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: And then out of the corner of his eye, near
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: the front door, he sees something dash across his periphery,
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: like a shadowy figure basically darts across the room, and
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: so he looks over and he's immediately afraid that it
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: really is a burglar in his room. And as he's looking,
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: he's turning the light on next to him. He's looking around,
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: and he starts turning the whispering again, and now it's
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: coming from another section of his house. So he just
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: starts turning on all the lights and looking around to
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: try to like make sure no one's in his apartment.
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: He's not even thinking about the whispering.
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: He's just looking for the shadowy figure that he saw
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: run past him. And so he's looking all over his apartment,
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: all the lights are on. It's a small apartment. And
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: as soon as he feels comfortable that the door's locked
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: still everything's locked and there's nobody here, that's when he
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: realizes that that whispering is still happening. And so he
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: turns back around, and now the whisperings coming from his
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: bedroom where he was, and so he walks over to
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: his bedroom and looks inside, and he just he can't
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: pinpoint the whispering. He keeps hearing it and walking to
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: wherever it's coming from, and as soon as he gets
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: near it, the whispering stops. And he's thinking to himself, like,
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: am I dreaming? Is this a dream? Am I losing
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: my mind? Did somebody slip me something like last night? Like?
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: Is what's wrong with me? So he has this horrible
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: night where he's up all night.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: Chasing down the whispers in his apartment that keep vanishing
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: and then seeing shadowy figures running around and lurking in corners,
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: but he can't ever see them when he looks at them.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: And so the next morning, on April fourteenth, when the
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: sun comes up, he hasn't slept. The first phone call
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: he makes is to Sammy, his friend, and he's totally panicked.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: And we know about this phone call because Sammy would
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: tell police about all her interactions with with Chris over
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: the course of this week.
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: She would say that he was totally panicked.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: And she even thought, as she's taking this phone call
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: that it's just so weird, you know that Chris is
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: scared of noises in his apartment and like figures moving
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: around in his apartment, because it's so unlike Chris. He's
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: i mean, definitely a skeptic. He's just like a he's
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: a no bs kind of guy. So the idea that
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: he would suddenly be terrified at something paranormal running around
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: his apartment just seemed so unlike him.
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: But as she's listening to.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: Him, he was so scared about what was in his apartment.
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: He knew it wasn't a person because he looked everywhere
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: there was no people. And that's the only reason he
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: didn't call the police is because he didn't want to
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: tell the police that some shadow figure that's whispering in
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: my apartment is harassing me.
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: Like, what are the police gonna do?
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: So Sammy hangs up the phone with Chris after trying
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: to reassure him and just hopes.
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: That whatever that was doesn't happen again.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: But unfortunately for Chris the night of the fourteenth, now
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: he's going to bed again and he starts hearing the
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: whispers and immediately he's out there looking lights on. He's
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: looking for these whispers. They keep disappearing. He can't find
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: the source. He's getting frustrated, he's scared. He keeps seeing
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: that thing dart around his apartment. Except this night, he
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: also noticed that he would look and he could get
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: close enough to where he could break out the silhouette
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: of what looked like a person, you know, like lingering
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: in the corner of his apartment. But he'd go closer
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: to it and it would disappear. It was like the
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: manifestations of what he was seeing, the whispers and this
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: figure running around his apartment were becoming more vivid.
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: But he's also.
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: Thinking, like, I didn't sleep the night before this could
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: be my imagination. I don't know if this is happening,
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: but he's spiraling and he knows it. So the next day,
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: on the fifteenth, he doesn't call Sammy, but he calls
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: a couple of his other friends that are anonymous, and
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: they would all tell police that they got a similar
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: story that Sammy had gotten.
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: That first night after the fourteenth.
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: No matter what was happening, Chris believed it was happening,
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: and Chris was terrified.
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: But this wasn't even the worst of it yet.
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: So that night on the fifteenth, Chris gets in bed
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: and now he's barely slept for two consecutive nights, and
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: he's determined to just go to sleep. That he's trying
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: to tell himself that everything that you've experienced the past
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: couple nights is probably brought on by stress, it's brought
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: on by now certainly a lack of sleep. So he's
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: telling himself, like, just go to sleep, Just get in
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: bed and go to sleep. So he gets in bed
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: and he's laying there and he does fall asleep, but
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: he wakes up in the middle of the night and
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: he can't move his body. He's paralyzed. He can't move,
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: and he's totally awake, and he starts hearing whispering, and
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: now his level of fear is so high because now
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: he's immobile. But the past two nights, he's heard that
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: whispering in his apartment and he's seen that figure moving
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: around his apartment. And so he's laying there in darkness
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: because he went to bed in darkness, and he starts
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: hearing whispering outside his room and then it stops, and
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: then he starts hearing whispering inside of his closet and
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: then it stops, and then he hears whispering right underneath
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: his bed, and he can't move, and he's just laying there,
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: praying that nothing horrible it's gonna happen to him, that
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: this is just a dream. And then out from underneath
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: his bed, right next to him, he can only turn
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: his eyes. This black figure, this shadowy black figure, emerges
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: right next to his bed, and it's looking down at him.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: He can't make out any facial expressions, but he can
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: clearly define a figure. This is hovering over him, and
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: it reaches down and puts its hands around his neck
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: and begins to throttle him.
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: And Chris is like gagging.
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: He can't breathe, but he can't move, and at some
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: point the thing begins to lift him off of his
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: bed by his neck and then throws him back down,
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: and then the figure vanishes. Chris still couldn't move. He's
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: choking to breathe, but he can't move, and he's just
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: waiting for this thing to come back. And he knows
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: that more than likely, whatever this is is probably going
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: to kill him this night. So he's laying there just thinking,
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: oh my god, I'm about to die.
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: I'm about to die.
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: But the thing doesn't come back, and Chris can't move,
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: and at some point Chris probably at a just pure,
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: you know, adrenaline crash or something, he falls asleep. And
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: so when Chris wakes up and he can move again,
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: he notices there's blood inside of his bed, on his sheets,
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: and then he looks at his hands and at the
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: tips of all ten fingers are these incisions, like someone
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: had intentionally cut open the top of every.
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: Finger, something he certainly didn't do.
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: And his bed is covered in blood from these ten
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: cuts on his hands. And then he feels his neck
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: and it feels tender, and turns out he had marks.
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: In his neck.
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: It was all bruised up from this thing choking him out,
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: and it brought him back to like that really happened.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: He's now like actually in fear for his life. Chris
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: immediately calls Sammy and tells Sammy everything that happened, and
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: Sammy can't believe any of it's she felt helpless because
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: she's on the other side of the country.
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: She can't help him, and Chris is just petrified, and.
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: He's like he can barely speak, you know, he's like
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: unable to articulate what's happening. You know, He's he's describing
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: these cuts on his hand and his neck, but there's
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: no one in his apartment, and Samy's trying to get
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: him to call the police, but Chris is like, I
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: can't call the police.
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: What am I gonna tell him that a shadowy figure
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: is coming in my apartment and just choking me.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: They're gonna think I'm crazy. Chris decides he's gonna approach
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: this head on. Maybe that woman in San Francisco did
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: put some curse on me. I need to go at
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: least research it. And so there was a religious bookstore
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: right near his house that he figured might have some
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: things on demonic possession and demons the occult, and he
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: goes in there and he kind of awkwardly approaches the
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: store owner and is like, I'm looking for, you know,
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: books about demons and witchcraft and like how to protect
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: yourself against that. And the guy points him towards the
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: section of the store, and so Chris goes over there.
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: He scoops up a whole bunch of books.
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: He also buys like a whole bundle of crucifixes, so
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: like at least ten, So he's got all these crucifixes,
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: He's got all these books about demonic possession and witchcraft.
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: He buys all of that and he leaves and he
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: goes back to his apartment. When he gets back after
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: doing some research, he ends up putting these crucifixes all
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: over his apartment, like every room, and he takes salt
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: and he draws a line all through his apartment against
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: the baseboard of every wall in the house, and at
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: every corner of the house. He'd pile up little piles
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: of salt. He was going to do all the things
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: that people say to do if you're dealing with demons
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: or ghosts or anything through witchcraft. He was kind of
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: grasping at straws a little bit, so he went out
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: and did everything he thought he could possibly do to
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: protect himself. That night, which was April sixteenth. We don't
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: know what happened to Chris, but something scared him so
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: badly that in the middle of the night, in a
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: full panic, he runs out of his apartment and he
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: checks into a hotel and does not stay at his apartment.
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: The next morning, April seventeenth, when Sammy called Chris to
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: check on him. Now, remember this is nineteen ninety nine,
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: it was just landline phones, so she calls his landline
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: at his apartment to check on him.
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: There's no answer because he's not there. He's at the hotel.
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: And Sammy, who's been speaking.
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: To Chris, and other friends that have been speaking to Chris,
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: and everyone's concerned about his mental health and what's going
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: on with him. When she doesn't get Chris to pick
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: up his phone, she calls the police and she says, Hey,
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: I'm concerned about my friend. Can you do a welfare
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: check on this guy? And they go over to his
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: apartment and it's locked, and they kind of look in
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: the windows and everything just seems kind of quiet, and
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: so they leave and they tell Sammy like, hey, look
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: it's locked. We can't really do anything, you know, let
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: us know if you don't hear from him in the next.
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: Couple of days. And so that was it.
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: And so Sammy's like super concerned, and so she goes
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: to work on the seventeenth, and then when she gets back,
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: she has a voicemail from Chris, who had called her
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: at some point during the day while she was out,
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: and on the voicemail, Chris tells her in a voice
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: that was different than the past few days. The past
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: few days he was scared, He was really scared. This
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: time he is defeated, you know, he was like resigned
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: to whatever was going on. And he says to Sammy
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: on the voicemail, he's under attack and that tonight they're
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: gonna kill me and there's nothing I can do. As
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: soon as she's done listening to the message, Sammy calls Chris,
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: but she can't get in touch with him. She knows
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: she just talked to the police were there at his
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: apartment that day. They're probably just gonna tell her like, hey,
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: wait until tomorrow.
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: We just told you, you know, earlier just give it
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: a couple of days.
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: And so she just decides that she's gonna go to
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: bed and she's gonna try calling him again on April eighteen.
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: On the morning of April eighteenth, Chris didn't show up
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: for work, and word got back to Sammy, who was
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: already gonna reach out to Chris that morning anyways, but
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: now the friends and family are talking about what's going
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: on with Chris, and so word got back to her
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: that Chris had missed work, and so she calls Chris.
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: He's not picking up from his landline. And now she.
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: Calls the police back and she says, hey, you were
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: there yesterday. I know it was locked, but he hasn't
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: shown up for work today. Everybody's concerned about him. Can
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: you please go over and check. And so the police
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: go back over to Chris's apartment and this time the
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: front door is unlocked, and they go inside and they're
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: met with this very strange scene. You know, you have
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: all these crucifixes that are on the wall. You have
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: the salt that lines every room in the house. There
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: are all these candles that have burned down to the wick.
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: There are little scraps of paper all over the apartment
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: that were handwritten little messages that Chris was leaving all
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: over the house warding off spirits and demons. I mean,
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: it just looked like out of a Hollywood set for
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: some demonic movie or something. And they search the house
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: and there's no sign of Chris. They're yelling for him,
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: there's no sign of him, and they make their way
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: into the bathroom where they discover Chris's body. Chris was
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: in his bathtub, no water in the bathtub, He's fully clothed.
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: There's all these candles all around the outside of this bathtub.
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: There's you know, more crucifixes and weird relics that are
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: in the bathroom with him. And he's on his knees
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: and he's slouched up against the wall with his hands
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: kind of tucked against his chest.
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: He had no external injuries. He was just dead.
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: And so the police take Chris's body and the coroner
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: comes in and does a report, and it comes out
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: that Chris died of natural causes. He died of a
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: heart attack, and so when friends and family saw that
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: that was his cause of death, they didn't buy it.
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: They're like, I don't know how to describe what happened
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: to him.
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: But over the past.
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: Seven days, Chris went from this happy, healthy, successful guy
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: to a complete, raving, paranoid lunatic, and no one knows why.
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: You know, it's I mean.
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: It's certainly possible that it was just a very poorly
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: timed heart attack, you know, mixed in with someone having
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: a psychotic break or some people say that he really
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: was cursed by that woman in San Francisco and that
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: that was the result. I mean, she said you're going
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: to die within the week, and he literally died within
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: the week. And he described regularly over the phone to
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: his friends and family as this was happening, these horrible
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: experiences at night, with these shadow beings in his room
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: and attacking him. I mean, it's just this crazy story
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: that to this day leaves friends, family and investigators baffled.
• 44:23
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• 44:26
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• 44:29
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• 44:32
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