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

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Speaker 1: It's a collection of five fan favorites that are all
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Speaker 1: get into today's five stories. In twenty fourteen, the United
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Speaker 1: States Navy decided it was time to decommission one of
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Speaker 1: their old frigate ships, and so they sent it to
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Speaker 1: a dock to be broken down for scrap in order
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Speaker 1: for workers to actually be able to access the underside
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Speaker 1: of the ship and actually begin to break it down.
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Speaker 1: They would need to dry dock the ship, which meant
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Speaker 1: the ship would basically drive into this special locking corral
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Speaker 1: where the doors would shut behind it, the water would
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Speaker 1: drain out from underneath, and the ship would be left
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Speaker 1: resting on these huge wooden blocks that elevated it off
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Speaker 1: the ground. And with no water in there, workers were
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Speaker 1: able to get underneath the hall and could access every
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Speaker 1: part of the ship without obstruction. It's important to note
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Speaker 1: for this story that when a ship is in dry dock,
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Speaker 1: there is only one way on or off. It's this
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Speaker 1: ramp called a gangway, that leads from the dock onto
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Speaker 1: the deck of the ship. Besides that, there is nowhere
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Speaker 1: else for you to get on this ship, and if
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Speaker 1: for some reason you really wanted to get on and
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Speaker 1: didn't use the gangway, you could, in theory, try to
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Speaker 1: run and leap from the dock to the ship. There's
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Speaker 1: a pretty significant gap there all the way around, but
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Speaker 1: you could try the jump, but if you weren't successful
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Speaker 1: 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. 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 he
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Speaker 1: was just in. And even the creepier is the foreman
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Speaker 1: is looking at where this picture was taken, and it
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Speaker 1: was relatively early on in his photo shoot, and he
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Speaker 1: had walked past the exact area where this guy's poking
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Speaker 1: his head out of which means the whole time he
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Speaker 1: was down there, this guy with an axe was there
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Speaker 1: with him. They review the security footage of a camera
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Speaker 1: that was aimed directly at the ramp, the one entrance
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Speaker 1: in and out of the ship, and from the time
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Speaker 1: the foreman left, no one else left, so they don't
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Speaker 1: know how he got on or how he got off
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Speaker 1: without being detected, but somehow he did. In July of
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Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, a woman living in Chicago, Illinois, named Jordan
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Speaker 1: Baranskas opened her eyes and realized she had fallen asleep
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Speaker 1: on the couch the night before. She looked up and
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Speaker 1: the TV was still on, And then she looked down
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Speaker 1: at the other section of the couch and her boyfriend
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Speaker 1: met was all so asleep on the couch. As much
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Speaker 1: as she wanted to keep sleeping alongside her boyfriend, she
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Speaker 1: had work that day, so she stood up, turned the
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Speaker 1: 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. I remember rifling through my purse before going
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Speaker 1: downstairs and starting to fold laundry before ultimately falling asleep
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Speaker 1: on the couch. So, after spending about fifteen minutes looking
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Speaker 1: for the purse unsuccessfully, and now she's starting to stress
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Speaker 1: because she's gonna be late for work because she can't
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Speaker 1: find a purse, she goes downstairs and she wakes Mad
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Speaker 1: up and says, hey, I gotta find my purse. I
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Speaker 1: thought I left it upstairs. Apparently I didn't. Can you
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Speaker 1: help me look for it. Matt rolls over. He doesn't
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Speaker 1: really want to get up because he's pretty tired and
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Speaker 1: he doesn't have work, so he doesn't want to wake
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Speaker 1: up right now, and he says, well, are you sure
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Speaker 1: you didn't leave it at the restaurant last night? I mean,
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Speaker 1: if you already looked, it's probably not here. You want
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Speaker 1: to just give him all and see if he left
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Speaker 1: it there. Jordan was immediately really annoyed by his reaction,
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Speaker 1: because she just wanted him to stand up and help
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Speaker 1: her look for the purse because she had work and
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Speaker 1: he could just go back to sleep. And so it
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Speaker 1: started this argument between the two of them where Matt
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Speaker 1: just wanted her to call the restaurant because he was
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Speaker 1: convinced she had it there, and Jordan was like, no,
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Speaker 1: I know I had my purse. I'm positive I had
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Speaker 1: it last night before I fell asleep on the couch
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Speaker 1: with you. So their argument begins to escalate a little bit,
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Speaker 1: and that's when Jordan remembers that they had recently installed
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Speaker 1: a Nest camera downstairs to monitor their dogs whenever they
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Speaker 1: were gone, and she thought, we can just look at
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Speaker 1: the footage on the Nest camera. We can see me
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Speaker 1: walking into the apartment and I will either have or
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Speaker 1: not have my purse in my hand. And so Jordan
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Speaker 1: opens up her app and she calls Matt over and
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Speaker 1: they go back to the night before, right before they
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Speaker 1: left for the restaurant. She's got our person hand. They
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Speaker 1: leave the front door, and then several hours go by
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Speaker 1: and they come back in and very clearly Jordan has
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Speaker 1: her purse in her hand. And Jordan turns to Matt
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Speaker 1: and says, told you so, and Matt's 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 thirty in the morning,
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Speaker 1: when they were both clearly asleep on the couch, and
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Speaker 1: 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. After the couple had fallen asleep on
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Speaker 1: the couch with the TV on, a hooded figure emerges
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Speaker 1: from their upstairs hallway and stands at the top of
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Speaker 1: the stairs and just watches the two of them sleep.
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Speaker 1: Before he left, he stole her purse, along with a
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Speaker 1: couple of other things from their apartment. And somehow this
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Speaker 1: guy has never been caught, and he's been given the
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Speaker 1: nickname Creeper Ghost. In early nineteen seventy four, thirty one
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Speaker 1: year old Michael Taylor was living happily with his wife
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Speaker 1: Christine and their five children in Osset, which is a
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Speaker 1: small town in central England. Michael was described as a
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Speaker 1: great father and a great husband who had an excellent
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Speaker 1: sense of humor. In fact, neighbors whenever they would walk
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Speaker 1: past the tailor household would say you could often hear
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Speaker 1: the sound of Michael laughing or the sound of him
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Speaker 1: telling jokes to his family. But in April of that year,
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Speaker 1: everything changed for the Tailor family. Michael had been doing
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Speaker 1: some home repairs when he fell off of the ladder
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Speaker 1: and 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 1: quickly changed how Michael behaved. Michael went from being this cheerful, funny,
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Speaker 1: happy guy to being sad and depressed, and he was
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Speaker 1: so irritable that his family could barely be around him
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Speaker 1: because he would lash out at them. Now, the Tailor
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Speaker 1: family was not a religious family. However, most families who
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Speaker 1: lived in Aucit at that time were, and so when
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Speaker 1: one of Michael's friends found out about how poorly Michael
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Speaker 1: was doing, they approached Michael and said, you know, you
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Speaker 1: really ought to turn to religion for help and for
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Speaker 1: guidance in this difficult time. And they also told him
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Speaker 1: specifically that he really ought to check this one particular
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Speaker 1: Christian group. It was called the Christian Fellowship Group, and
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Speaker 1: all it was was a prayer group for Christians who
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Speaker 1: wanted more religious support beyond just going to church on Sundays.
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Speaker 1: But this friend of Michael's told him that the real
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Speaker 1: draw of this group was the group's leader. Her name
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Speaker 1: was Marie Robinson, and she was this twenty one year old,
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Speaker 1: extremely friendly and energetic and charismatic person who just had
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Speaker 1: this incredible way of making all of her members really
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Speaker 1: feel like they belonged. And so Michael's friend was telling
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Speaker 1: him that he really thought Marie could be the difference
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Speaker 1: maker for him, that she could help him get back
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Speaker 1: to normal. And so Michael, you know, he trusted this
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Speaker 1: friend and he really didn't have much to lose at
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Speaker 1: this point. He was already at rock bottom, and so
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Speaker 1: he agrees to go check this group out. So on
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Speaker 1: September twelfth of that year, Michael makes his way to
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Speaker 1: the church where this fellowship group is held. He goes inside,
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Speaker 1: and he makes his way to one of the back
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Speaker 1: rooms in the church, and when he goes inside, he
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Speaker 1: sees there's a ring of people sitting in a circle,
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Speaker 1: about twenty PEPs people, And as soon as they see
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Speaker 1: Michael coming in the room, they all stand up and
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Speaker 1: they open their arms up and they say, come on,
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Speaker 1: come sit down with us. 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. 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 after the meetings were over, and just those two
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Speaker 1: would sequester themselves in quiet prayer. No one knew what
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Speaker 1: they did in there, but it just seemed like they
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Speaker 1: were developing a real relationship. And in fact, many people
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Speaker 1: in this group suspected they were having an affair. And
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Speaker 1: before long the rumors in the church had spread outside
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Speaker 1: and were all over Osset. 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. Now
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Speaker 1: Christine had already suspected her husband was having an affair
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Speaker 1: with Marie because Marie was the only thing Michael talked
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Speaker 1: about when he got home. So on October first of
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Speaker 1: that year, only a couple of weeks after Michael had
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Speaker 1: first attended this group, Christine waited until Michael had left
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Speaker 1: the house to head out to one of the group meetings.
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Speaker 1: And then Christine hopped in her car and she followed
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Speaker 1: him to the church. And when she got there, she
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Speaker 1: parked her car, she took a deep breath, and then
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Speaker 1: she got out. She made her way to the front
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Speaker 1: doors of the church and she stormed inside and she
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Speaker 1: found the room where these meetings were held. She barges
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Speaker 1: in and she points said her husband, and she says,
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Speaker 1: I know you're having an affair with Marie, and you're
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Speaker 1: gonna 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 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. It's like he went unconscious,
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Speaker 1: and at that point everybody in the room just goes silent,
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Speaker 1: and they look at Michael, and then Michael kind of
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Speaker 1: opens his eyes and it's almost like he's waking up,
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Speaker 1: and he begins looking around frantically trying to figure out
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Speaker 1: what had just happened. Michael would claim he had no
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Speaker 1: memory of what had just happened to him, and so
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Speaker 1: at this point Marie would tell him and Christine that
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Speaker 1: she believed Michael was possessed by a demonic force and
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Speaker 1: the only thing they could do at this point would
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Speaker 1: be to perform an exorcism, and exorcism is an expulsion
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Speaker 1: or attempted expulsion of a supposedly evil spirit inside of
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Speaker 1: a person or a place. Michael and Christine were at
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Speaker 1: a loss. They had no idea what to do in
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Speaker 1: this situation. They were both kind of in shock for
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Speaker 1: very different reasons, and so they just kind of deferred
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Speaker 1: to Marie's judgment and said, yeah, you know, I think
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Speaker 1: an exorcism is the way to go. So Christine and
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Speaker 1: Michael just leave the church and go home, and then
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Speaker 1: the next morning Marie would get in touch with the
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Speaker 1: Anglican Church of England and would request an exorcism, and
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Speaker 1: after hearing about what was going on with Michael, the
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Speaker 1: Anglican Church would say, yeah, that does sound like he
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Speaker 1: needs an exercis and so the following day they would
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Speaker 1: send out two of their best exorcists named Peter and Raymond,
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Speaker 1: and so Peter and Raymond they get to asset, they
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Speaker 1: go to Michael's house and they observe him, and very
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Speaker 1: quickly they determined that it does seem like Michael is
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Speaker 1: possessed by at least one demonic force, and so they
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Speaker 1: tell Michael the only thing we can do here is
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Speaker 1: perform this exorcism, but we need you to agree to it.
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Speaker 1: And so Michael says, okay, yeah, I agreed to this exorcism,
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Speaker 1: and so would his wife, because she at this point
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Speaker 1: is just completely unsure what to do. She's just going
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Speaker 1: along for the ride. So a day later, on October fourth,
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Speaker 1: at ten pm, Michael, his wife, and the rest of
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Speaker 1: the members of this fellowship group, along with Peter and Raymond,
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Speaker 1: they would all meet at this other church in a
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Speaker 1: neighboring town. And as soon as Michael had been positioned
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Speaker 1: in the middle of this group in this chair, Peter
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Speaker 1: and Raymond began the ritual by praying, and as soon
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Speaker 1: as they did, Michael began streaming out in tongues, and
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Speaker 1: he began writhing around, and he fell to the ground,
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Speaker 1: and he began content awarding his body in grotesque positions,
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Speaker 1: as if the words Peter and Raymond were saying were
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Speaker 1: physically harming Michael. And so after eight hours of this,
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Speaker 1: during which they had to actually tie Michael down to
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Speaker 1: prevent him from hurting other members or hurting himself, after
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Speaker 1: eight hours, they finally just came to a stop. Peter
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Speaker 1: and Raymond were exhausted. It looked very much like Michael
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Speaker 1: two was exhausted, and as soon as they stopped the ritual,
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Speaker 1: Michael just kind of collapsed on the ground as if
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Speaker 1: he had fallen unconscious. And then at some point he
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Speaker 1: kind of wakes up. He's looking around wildly. He's still
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Speaker 1: tied down to the ground, and he's acting like he
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Speaker 1: has no idea what's just happened. And at this point,
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Speaker 1: Peter and Raymond they tell him that, you know, the
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Speaker 1: exorcism was mostly successful. We identified forty demons inside of you,
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Speaker 1: and this exorcism was able to expel thirty seven of them.
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Speaker 1: So that means there's still three demons inside of you.
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Speaker 1: Now we can't do it right now, We're too tired.
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Speaker 1: You're too exhausted. So go home, get some rap, and
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Speaker 1: tomorrow we will finish this exorcism. We will get rid
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Speaker 1: of those three demons, and you will be just fine.
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Speaker 1: And so Michael and Christine they get their things and
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Speaker 1: they leave the church and they head home. A few
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Speaker 1: hours later, around noon, a woman who lived near where
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Speaker 1: Michael Taylor and his family lived thought she heard something
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Speaker 1: strange outside of her house. It sounded like someone yelling,
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Speaker 1: and so she went to the front of the house
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Speaker 1: and she pulled the curtain aside on one of her windows,
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Speaker 1: and outside, walking down the street, completely naked, covered in blood,
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Speaker 1: was Michael Taylor, and he was saying something about Satan,
17:32
Speaker 1: and so this woman she calls the police. The police
17:34
Speaker 1: show up and they find Michael. He had curled up
17:36
Speaker 1: on the sidewalk outside of this woman's house and he
17:39
Speaker 1: was giggling like a child in the fetal position, and
17:41
Speaker 1: so the police approach him, and at some point Michael
17:43
Speaker 1: apparently snaps out of it and he starts looking up
17:46
Speaker 1: at the police like he has no idea what's going on.
17:48
Speaker 1: And eventually they would get him to tell them his
17:51
Speaker 1: name and where he lived. And so after calling in
17:53
Speaker 1: back up to deal with Michael. The responding officers made
17:57
Speaker 1: their way to Michael's residence and so they go inside
18:00
Speaker 1: and immediately as soon as they see what's in there,
18:03
Speaker 1: one of the officers just turns around and runs outside
18:06
Speaker 1: and begins dry heaving. The inside of the Taylor family
18:10
Speaker 1: home would become one of the most infamous crime scenes
18:13
Speaker 1: in English history. A few hours earlier, when Michael and
18:16
Speaker 1: his wife had come home from the exorcism, they had
18:19
Speaker 1: gone inside and then Michael had fallen into one of
18:22
Speaker 1: his trances and began beating his wife, and then at
18:25
Speaker 1: some point she fell to the ground and either was
18:28
Speaker 1: dead or was in the process of dying, at which
18:31
Speaker 1: point Michael jumped on top of her and using only
18:34
Speaker 1: his hands, he ripped her face off and flung it
18:37
Speaker 1: across the room. And then as she's laying there bleeding
18:40
Speaker 1: to death, he began rubbing her blood all over his body,
18:44
Speaker 1: and then after she had finally died, he tracked down
18:47
Speaker 1: the family dog and killed the dog as well. Fortunately,
18:50
Speaker 1: their five children were not home at the time of
18:53
Speaker 1: 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
19:08
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 on HBO Max. Also, you can listen
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Speaker 1: to the official IT Welcome to Dairy podcast wherever you
20:12
Speaker 1: get your podcasts. In eighteen ninety eight, a twelve year
20:30
Speaker 1: old boy was playing at this river that ran near
20:34
Speaker 1: his house. He was out in the forest. He's playing
20:36
Speaker 1: to this river, and he had a bow and arrow
20:38
Speaker 1: and he was practicing shooting his bow and arrow. And
20:40
Speaker 1: after a little while he got bored of his bow
20:42
Speaker 1: and arrow and he went to the stream itself and
20:45
Speaker 1: he started to build a little dam in the river
20:48
Speaker 1: to try to catch some fish. And as he's building
20:50
Speaker 1: this thing up, he's down on his knees building up
20:52
Speaker 1: this little dam in the river. He notices someone is
20:55
Speaker 1: walking down the river towards him, and he looks up
20:59
Speaker 1: and he would describe this person as looking normal, a
21:03
Speaker 1: normal looking stranger. It's a gentleman who shows up. He's
21:06
Speaker 1: wearing a nice suit. He walks over to Wafford and
21:09
Speaker 1: he apparently just came out of the woods and he says, hey,
21:13
Speaker 1: what are 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 could come to my house. It's just up past
21:30
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 families is sitting on the porch talking
22:19
Speaker 1: to one of the other apparently family members of the stranger.
22:22
Speaker 1: And so the boy's 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. And so
22:57
Speaker 1: as he's getting out to leave, the stranger is our
23:00
Speaker 1: already await, the one that had met him down by
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Speaker 1: the river and called him up to the house. And
23:04
Speaker 1: the boy says, hey, can you walk me down back
23:06
Speaker 1: to the river, And the stranger's like, I can take
23:08
Speaker 1: you part of the way down, sure. So the two
23:11
Speaker 1: of them they're having small talk, and you know, the
23:12
Speaker 1: boy's thanking the man for his generosity. And so as
23:16
Speaker 1: they're walking, they're passing by an orchard on one side
23:19
Speaker 1: and a cornfield on the other, and it's this beautiful morning,
23:22
Speaker 1: the sun's just coming up, and the boy remembers thinking
23:25
Speaker 1: how beautiful the setting was, but he also was thinking, like,
23:28
Speaker 1: I don't I don't even know where I am right now,
23:30
Speaker 1: and I'm assuming he's walking me back to where I live.
23:33
Speaker 1: But this doesn't look familiar at all, and the stranger stops.
23:37
Speaker 1: They get to almost a junction right at the end
23:40
Speaker 1: of the orchard and of the cornfield, and the stranger
23:43
Speaker 1: tells the boy, wofferd. He says, hey, just go straight.
23:45
Speaker 1: You're going to turn down this way, turn back and
23:47
Speaker 1: you'll be You'll be at the river again where we met.
23:49
Speaker 1: And the boy thanks the stranger, and the stranger turns
23:52
Speaker 1: and starts walking back towards his cabin and says, hey,
23:55
Speaker 1: good luck sea, and the boy starts following the man's directions.
23:59
Speaker 1: And as he's walking, you know, following the stranger's directions,
24:03
Speaker 1: he just he's suddenly curious and turns around to look
24:07
Speaker 1: back at this strange person who had brought him up
24:11
Speaker 1: to the house and then now brought him back, and
24:14
Speaker 1: he's stunned because suddenly the orchard and the cornfield are
24:19
Speaker 1: not there. There is no orchard or cornfield. It's just deep,
24:24
Speaker 1: dark forest and he's like, what's going on. He turns
24:28
Speaker 1: back and there's a search party, or it looks like
24:30
Speaker 1: a search party running up to him. Part of the
24:33
Speaker 1: search party is the family friend that he had seen
24:36
Speaker 1: at the house. And the boy's like looking at these
24:39
Speaker 1: people running towards him, like they're running to him, and
24:42
Speaker 1: he recognizes the family friend and he can tell they're
24:44
Speaker 1: like urgently looking for him, and he felt bad because
24:47
Speaker 1: he knows he slept over through the night. So he's like, hey,
24:50
Speaker 1: I'm here. I'm here, and they're like, 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 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. Pretty creepy.
25:59
Speaker 1: My early nineteen 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 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 specific type of music. He loved
26:53
Speaker 1: music from ancient times, specifically from Egypt, and so he
26:58
Speaker 1: was stay home instead of go out on dates and
27:00
Speaker 1: you know, crush ancient Egyptian music. That was like his
27:03
Speaker 1: idea of a great night. On April eleventh of nineteen
27:06
Speaker 1: ninety nine, Chris was on a business trip because part
27:09
Speaker 1: of his job required a ton of travel, and he
27:12
Speaker 1: was on a trip with a couple of his co
27:14
Speaker 1: workers who were also friends of his. They go out
27:17
Speaker 1: to San Francisco and on the eleventh, they decide to
27:20
Speaker 1: go out for dinner that night, and one of his
27:23
Speaker 1: co workers decides to bring along a friend who was
27:25
Speaker 1: someone that lived in the area. So they get to
27:27
Speaker 1: dinner and one of them has their friend who's an
27:30
Speaker 1: older woman, very attractive, very kind of intense looking woman.
27:34
Speaker 1: She was about twenty years older than Chris. That was
27:36
Speaker 1: his guest, and she sits down and the four of
27:39
Speaker 1: them are just kind of having a nice conversation and
27:42
Speaker 1: at some point, the older woman really takes an interest
27:45
Speaker 1: in Chris, and Chris takes an interest in her because
27:48
Speaker 1: it would turn out that they had a lot in common.
27:52
Speaker 1: And then she actually admitted to him that she was
27:55
Speaker 1: really into music from ancient times and actually has a
27:59
Speaker 1: specific interest in music from ancient Egypt. And so to Chris,
28:03
Speaker 1: he's like, how can this be? And he's like, this
28:06
Speaker 1: is my passion. I love that type of music, and
28:09
Speaker 1: they really hit it off. Now, Chris was not looking
28:12
Speaker 1: for any sort of romantic involvement with this woman. He
28:15
Speaker 1: was just so excited to talk about something he loved.
28:18
Speaker 1: And so all night Chris and this older woman are
28:22
Speaker 1: chatting it up and they're super into each other. He
28:24
Speaker 1: was looking at her purely from a platonic sense, but
28:27
Speaker 1: it was becoming clear by the end of the night,
28:29
Speaker 1: at least Chris was realizing this that she was looking
28:32
Speaker 1: at him with a romantic angle. She was interested in Chris,
28:35
Speaker 1: and in fact, right as he's kind of realizing this,
28:38
Speaker 1: she asked him if he wants to leave with her
28:40
Speaker 1: and go back to her place, and he politely declines
28:43
Speaker 1: because he's not interested. He loved chatting with her about
28:47
Speaker 1: music and other things they had in common, but he
28:51
Speaker 1: wasn't interested in her romantically, and she became a little
28:54
Speaker 1: bit more aggressive and said, no, come on, come on,
28:56
Speaker 1: let's get out of here. I got a place right
28:57
Speaker 1: down the road. We can go listen to music and
28:59
Speaker 1: hang out in my place. And he felt really uncomfortable,
29:02
Speaker 1: and he kept saying no, but she wouldn't let it go.
29:04
Speaker 1: And so finally, as she's literally trying to get him
29:07
Speaker 1: to say yes, he says, hey, you know what, I've
29:10
Speaker 1: had a long night. I'm going to go. And so
29:12
Speaker 1: he stands up to leave, and the woman goes from
29:14
Speaker 1: being very flirtatious and friendly to very angry at Chris.
29:18
Speaker 1: And she looks at him and kind of abruptly says
29:21
Speaker 1: to him, I'm actually a witch and I'm going to
29:25
Speaker 1: put a curse on you. You're going to be dead
29:27
Speaker 1: within a week, okay, And he just leaves. So the
29:32
Speaker 1: next morning, on April twelfth, Chris gets up and he
29:35
Speaker 1: heads to the airport and he flies 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 could 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.
30:37
Speaker 1: No one's in here, what's going on? And he's hearing
30:39
Speaker 1: the whispering and then it kind of stops, and before
30:42
Speaker 1: he gets up to investigate, he's like, Okay, I probably
30:44
Speaker 1: was just hearing things that wasn't real. He's just kind
30:47
Speaker 1: of laying there trying to go to sleep, and then
30:49
Speaker 1: he hears it again, except now it's not coming from
30:52
Speaker 1: the kitchen area. It's coming from a separate area in
30:55
Speaker 1: his apartment, outside of the room he's in. And so
30:58
Speaker 1: now he's wondering, like, is does someone sneak into my house?
31:03
Speaker 1: Like is there a burglar in my house right now?
31:05
Speaker 1: And so he quietly gets out of his bed and
31:07
Speaker 1: he walks over his door. He opens it up, and
31:09
Speaker 1: he can still hear the whispering, and it's coming from
31:11
Speaker 1: like his laundry room a little ways away. But as
31:14
Speaker 1: soon as he opens the door and he pokes his
31:15
Speaker 1: head out, the whispering stops, and he's just standing there
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 1: He's not even thinking about the whispering. He's just looking
31:52
Speaker 1: for the shadowy figure that he saw run past him.
31:55
Speaker 1: And so he's looking all over his apartment, all the
31:57
Speaker 1: lights are on. It's a small apartment. And as soon
32:00
Speaker 1: as he feels comfortable that the door's locked, still everything's
32:03
Speaker 1: locked and there's nobody here, that's when he realizes that
32:06
Speaker 1: that whispering is still happening. And so he turns back
32:09
Speaker 1: around and now the whisperings coming from his bedroom where
32:12
Speaker 1: he was, and so he walks over his bedroom and
32:14
Speaker 1: looks inside and just he can't pinpoint the whispering, like,
32:18
Speaker 1: he keeps hearing it and walking to wherever it's coming from,
32:22
Speaker 1: and as soon as he gets near it, the whispering stops,
32:25
Speaker 1: and he's thinking to himself, like, am I dreaming? Is
32:28
Speaker 1: this a dream? Am I losing my mind? Did somebody
32:30
Speaker 1: slip me something like last night? Like? Is what's wrong
32:33
Speaker 1: with me? So he has this horrible night where he's
32:35
Speaker 1: up all night chasing down whispers in his apartment that
32:39
Speaker 1: keep vanishing and then seeing shadowy figures running around and
32:43
Speaker 1: lurking in corners, but he can't ever see them when
32:45
Speaker 1: he looks at them. And so the next morning, on
32:47
Speaker 1: April fourteenth, when the sun comes up, he hasn't slept.
32:50
Speaker 1: The first phone call he makes is to Sammy, his friend,
32:54
Speaker 1: and he's totally panicked. And we know about this phone
32:56
Speaker 1: call because Sammy would tell police about all her interactions
32:59
Speaker 1: with with Chris over the course of this week. She
33:02
Speaker 1: would say that he was totally panicked, and she even thought,
33:05
Speaker 1: as she's taking this phone call that it's just so weird,
33:09
Speaker 1: you know that Chris is scared of noises in his
33:11
Speaker 1: apartment and like figures moving around in his apartment, because
33:15
Speaker 1: it's so unlike Chris. He's i mean, definitely a skeptic.
33:20
Speaker 1: He's just like a he's a nobs kind of guy.
33:23
Speaker 1: So the idea that he would suddenly be terrified of
33:26
Speaker 1: something paranormal running around his apartment just seems so unlike him.
33:30
Speaker 1: But as she's listening to him, he was so scared
33:34
Speaker 1: about what was in his apartment. He knew it wasn't
33:36
Speaker 1: a person because he looked everywhere there was no people.
33:39
Speaker 1: And that's the only reason he didn't call the police
33:41
Speaker 1: is because he didn't want to tell the police that
33:44
Speaker 1: some shadow figure that's whispering in my apartment is harassing me. Like,
33:47
Speaker 1: what are the police going to do? So Sammy hags
33:49
Speaker 1: up the phone with Chris after trying to reassure him
33:51
Speaker 1: and just hopes 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
34:00
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. But
34:34
Speaker 1: he's also thinking like, I didn't sleep the night before.
34:36
Speaker 1: This could be my imagination. I don't know if this
34:39
Speaker 1: is happening, but he's spiraling and he knows it. So
34:41
Speaker 1: the next day, on the fifteenth, he doesn't call Sammy,
34:44
Speaker 1: but he calls a couple of his other friends that
34:46
Speaker 1: are anonymous, and they would all tell police that they
34:49
Speaker 1: got a similar story that Sammy had gotten that first
34:53
Speaker 1: night after the fourteenth. No matter what was happening, Chris
34:56
Speaker 1: believed it was happening, and Chris was terrified. This wasn't
35:00
Speaker 1: even the worst of it yet. So that night on
35:02
Speaker 1: the fifteenth, Chris gets in bed and now he's barely
35:05
Speaker 1: slept for two consecutive nights, and he's determined to just
35:10
Speaker 1: go to sleep. That he's trying to tell himself that
35:13
Speaker 1: everything that you've experienced the past couple nights is probably
35:16
Speaker 1: brought on by stress, it's brought on by now certainly
35:19
Speaker 1: a lack of sleep. So he's telling himself, like, just
35:22
Speaker 1: go to sleep, Just get in bed and go to sleep.
35:25
Speaker 1: So he gets in bed and he's laying there and
35:26
Speaker 1: he does fall asleep, but he wakes up in the
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Speaker 1: middle of the night and he can't move his body.
35:32
Speaker 1: He's paralyzed. He can't move, and he's totally awake, and
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Speaker 1: he starts hearing whispering, and now his level of fear
35:40
Speaker 1: is so high because now he's immobile. But the past
35:44
Speaker 1: two nights, he's heard that whispering in his apartment and
35:46
Speaker 1: he's seen that figure moving around his apartment. And so
35:50
Speaker 1: he's laying there in darkness because he went to bed
35:52
Speaker 1: in darkness, and he starts hearing whispering outside his room
35:55
Speaker 1: and then it stops, and then he starts hearing whispering
35:58
Speaker 1: inside of his closet, and then it stops, and then
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Speaker 1: he hears whispering right underneath his bed, and he can't move,
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Speaker 1: and he's just laying there, praying that nothing horrible it's
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Speaker 1: gonna happen to him, that this is just a dream.
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Speaker 1: And then out from underneath his bed, right next to him,
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Speaker 1: he can only turn his eyes, this black figure, this
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Speaker 1: shadowy black figure, emerges right next to his bed, and
36:19
Speaker 1: it's looking down at him. He can't make out any
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Speaker 1: facial expressions, but he can clearly define a figures hovering
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Speaker 1: over him, and it reaches down and puts its hands
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Speaker 1: around his neck and begins to throttle him and Chris
36:33
Speaker 1: is like gagging. He can't breathe, but he can't move,
36:35
Speaker 1: and at some point the thing begins to lift him
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Speaker 1: off of his bed by his neck and then throws
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Speaker 1: him back down, and then the figure vanishes. Chris still
36:45
Speaker 1: couldn't move. He's choking to breathe, but he can't move,
36:47
Speaker 1: and he's just waiting for this thing to come back.
36:50
Speaker 1: And he knows that more than likely, whatever this is
36:52
Speaker 1: is probably going to kill him this night. So he's
36:54
Speaker 1: laying there just thinking, oh my god, I'm about to die.
36:57
Speaker 1: I'm about to die. But the thing doesn't come back,
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Speaker 1: and Chris can't move, and at some point Chris probably
37:02
Speaker 1: out a just pure, you know, adrenaline crash or something.
37:05
Speaker 1: He falls asleep. And so when Chris wakes up and
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Speaker 1: he can move again, he notices there's blood inside of
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Speaker 1: his bed, on his sheets, and then he looks at
37:13
Speaker 1: his hands and at the tips of all ten fingers
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Speaker 1: are these incisions, like someone had intentionally cut open the
37:20
Speaker 1: top of every finger, something he certainly didn't do. And
37:24
Speaker 1: his bed is covered in blood from these ten cuts
37:27
Speaker 1: on his hands. And then he feels his neck and
37:29
Speaker 1: it feels tender, and it turns out he had marks
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Speaker 1: on his neck. It was all bruised up from this
37:34
Speaker 1: thing choking him out, and it brought him back to
37:37
Speaker 1: like that really happened. He's now like actually in fear
37:40
Speaker 1: for his life. Chris immediately calls Sammy and tells Sammy
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Speaker 1: everything that happened, and Sammy can't believe any of it's
37:48
Speaker 1: she felt helpless because she's on the other side of
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Speaker 1: the country. She can't help him, and Chris is just petrified,
37:54
Speaker 1: and he's like he can barely speak, you know, he's
37:56
Speaker 1: like unable to articulate what's happening. You know, He's he's
38:00
Speaker 1: describing these cuts on his hand and his neck, but
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Speaker 1: there's no one in his apartment, and Samy's trying to
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Speaker 1: get him to call the police, but Chris is like,
38:06
Speaker 1: I can't call the police. What am I gonna tell
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Speaker 1: him that a shadowy figure is coming in my apartment
38:12
Speaker 1: and just choking me. They're gonna think I'm crazy. Chris
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Speaker 1: decides he's gonna approach this head on. Maybe that woman
38:21
Speaker 1: in San Francisco did put some curse on me. I
38:24
Speaker 1: need to at least research it. And so there was
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Speaker 1: a religious bookstore right near his house that he figured
38:30
Speaker 1: might have some things on demonic possession and demons the occult,
38:35
Speaker 1: and he goes in there and he kind of awkwardly
38:38
Speaker 1: approaches the store owner and is like, I'm looking for,
38:42
Speaker 1: you know, books about demons and witchcraft and like how
38:47
Speaker 1: to protect yourself against that, and the guy points him
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Speaker 1: towards the section of the store, and so Chris goes
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Speaker 1: over there. He scoops up a whole bunch of books.
38:54
Speaker 1: He also buys like a whole bundle of crucifixes, so
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Speaker 1: like at least ten, so he's got all all these crucifixes,
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Speaker 1: He's got all these books about demonic possession and witchcraft.
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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
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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
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Speaker 1: the baseboard of every wall in the house, and at
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Speaker 1: every corner of the house he pile up little piles
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Speaker 1: of salt. He was going to do all the things
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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
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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 the
39:47
Speaker 1: full panic, he runs out of his apartment and he
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Speaker 1: checks into a hotel and does not stay at his apartment.
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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
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Speaker 1: at his apartment to check on him. There's no answer
40:06
Speaker 1: because he's not there. He's at the hotel. And Sammy,
40:08
Speaker 1: who's been speaking to Chris and other friends that have
40:11
Speaker 1: been speaking to Chris, and everyone's concerned about his mental
40:14
Speaker 1: health and what's going on with him. When she doesn't
40:17
Speaker 1: get Chris to pick up his phone, she calls the
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Speaker 1: police and she says, Hey, I'm concerned about my friend.
40:22
Speaker 1: Can you do a welfare check on this guy? And
40:24
Speaker 1: they go over to his apartment and it's locked and
40:25
Speaker 1: they kind of look in the windows and everything just
40:27
Speaker 1: seems kind of quiet, and so they leave and they
40:30
Speaker 1: tell Sammy like, hey, look it's locked. We can't really
40:32
Speaker 1: do anything, you know, let us know if you don't
40:35
Speaker 1: hear from him in the next couple of days. And
40:37
Speaker 1: so that was it, and so Sammy's like super concerned,
40:39
Speaker 1: and so she goes to work on the seventeenth, and
40:42
Speaker 1: then when she gets back, she has a voicemail from Chris,
40:46
Speaker 1: who had called her at some point during the day
40:47
Speaker 1: while she was out, and on the voicemail, Chris tells
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Speaker 1: her in a voice that was different than the past
40:53
Speaker 1: few days. The past few days he was scared, He
40:56
Speaker 1: was really scared. This time he is defeated, you know,
41:01
Speaker 1: he was like resigned to whatever was going on. And
41:04
Speaker 1: he says to Sammy on the voicemail, he's under attack
41:08
Speaker 1: and that tonight they're gonna kill me and there's nothing
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Speaker 1: I can do. As soon as she's done listening to
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Speaker 1: the message, Sammy calls Chris, but she can't get in
41:16
Speaker 1: touch with him. She knows she just talked to the
41:19
Speaker 1: police were they are at his apartment that day. They're
41:21
Speaker 1: probably just gonna tell her like, hey, wait until tomorrow.
41:24
Speaker 1: We just told you, you know, earlier, just give it
41:26
Speaker 1: a couple of days. And so she just decides that
41:29
Speaker 1: she's gonna go to bed and she's gonna try calling
41:31
Speaker 1: him again on April eighteen. On the morning of April eighteenth,
41:35
Speaker 1: Chris didn't show up for work, and word got back
41:38
Speaker 1: to Sammy, who was already gonna reach out to Chris
41:40
Speaker 1: that morning anyways, but now the friends and family are
41:43
Speaker 1: talking about what's going on with Chris, and so word
41:45
Speaker 1: got back to her that Chris had missed work, and
41:49
Speaker 1: so she calls Chris. He's not picking up from his landline.
41:52
Speaker 1: And now she calls the police back and she says, hey,
41:54
Speaker 1: you were there yesterday. I know it was locked, but
41:57
Speaker 1: he hasn't shown up for work today. Everybody's concerned about him.
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Speaker 1: Can you please go over and check. And so the
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Speaker 1: police go back over to Chris's apartment and this time
42:06
Speaker 1: the front door is unlocked, and they go inside and
42:09
Speaker 1: they're met with this very strange scene. You know, you
42:11
Speaker 1: have all these crucifixes that are on the wall, You
42:14
Speaker 1: have the salt that lines every room in the house.
42:17
Speaker 1: There are all these candles that have burned down to
42:20
Speaker 1: the wick. There are little scraps of paper all over
42:24
Speaker 1: the apartment that were handwritten little messages that Chris was
42:28
Speaker 1: leaving all over the house warding off spirits and demons.
42:33
Speaker 1: I mean, it just looked like out of a Hollywood
42:34
Speaker 1: set for some demonic movie or something. And they search
42:38
Speaker 1: the house and there's no sign of Chris. They're yelling
42:41
Speaker 1: for him, there's no sign of him, and they make
42:43
Speaker 1: their way into the bathroom where they discover Chris's body.
42:47
Speaker 1: Chris was in his bathtub, no water in the bathtub,
42:50
Speaker 1: He's fully clothed. There's all these candles all around the
42:53
Speaker 1: outside of this bathtub. There's you know, more crucifixes and
42:58
Speaker 1: weird relics that are in the bathroom with him, and
43:01
Speaker 1: he's on his knees and he's slouched up against the
43:05
Speaker 1: wall with his hands kind of tucked against his chest.
43:07
Speaker 1: He had no external injuries. He was just dead. And
43:11
Speaker 1: so the police take Chris's body, and the coroner comes
43:14
Speaker 1: in and does a report, and it comes out that
43:18
Speaker 1: Chris died of natural causes. He died of a heart attack.
43:21
Speaker 1: And so when friends and family saw that that was
43:23
Speaker 1: his cause of death, they didn't buy it. They're like,
43:25
Speaker 1: I don't know how to describe what happened to him.
43:28
Speaker 1: But over the past seven days, Chris went from this happy, healthy,
43:33
Speaker 1: successful guy to a complete, raving, paranoid lunatic, and no
43:38
Speaker 1: one knows why. You know, it's I mean, it's certainly
43:41
Speaker 1: possible that it was just a very poorly timed heart attack,
43:44
Speaker 1: you know, mixed in with someone having a psychotic break
43:48
Speaker 1: or some people say that he really was cursed by
43:52
Speaker 1: that woman in San Francisco and that that was the result.
43:55
Speaker 1: I mean, she said you're going to die within the week,
43:57
Speaker 1: and he literally died within the week. And he described
44:01
Speaker 1: regularly over the phone to his friends and family as
44:04
Speaker 1: this was happening, these horrible experiences at night, with these
44:07
Speaker 1: shadow beings in his room and attacking him. I mean,
44:10
Speaker 1: it's just this crazy story that to this day leaves friends,
44:14
Speaker 1: family and investigators baffled. Thank you so much for watching.
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