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

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  Welcome my friends. This is Cody here at Mystery
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  Archives. I wanted to let you know that
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  the following video is a marathon compilation of new and
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  old episodes. I put these together for those
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  who want them. I've also gone through and done
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  my very best to remaster old audio for your enjoyment.
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  I'd greatly appreciate it if you like the video.
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  Subscribe if you're new here and leave me a comment down below.
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  I'll be posting these in between brand new episodes every now and
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  then. Thank you all and I hope you
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  enjoy. When we think of demonic
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  possession, oftentimes it involves images of Hollywood
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  films. But according to psychiatrist
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  Richard Gallagher, very few cases are actually the real
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  deal. And of those rare few, some of
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  them are so over the top with what takes place.
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  Who sees the supernatural manifestations and truly effects
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  all those involved? This case is one of them.
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  This is the untold story of the Amon's family haunting, also
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  known as the Exorcism of Latoya Amon's or the House of 200
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  Demons. In November of 2011, Latoya
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  Ammons moved her three small children and her mother, Rosa
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  Campbell, into a new home in a seemingly quiet neighborhood on
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  Carolina St. in Gary, IN. The family was ready for a new
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  start and the children couldn't wait to move in.
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  What they would discover is the home of their dreams would turn
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  out to become something more reminiscent of their nightmares.
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  At first, all seemed to be normal and life was going well
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  for the family. It wasn't until December that
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  they began to experience strange and unexplainable happenings in
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  the dead of winter. Latoya Amens had noticed the
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  large swarms of horseflies invading her screened in front
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  porch. She and her mother would kill
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  them, but every single day they would return in what appeared to
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  be greater numbers. After some time, the flies
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  disappeared, loling Latoya into a false sense of security and
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  filling her with a feeling of relief.
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  But despite the absence of the flies, the strange happenings
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  would persist. Every night around midnight,
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  when everybody was in bed, they would hear footsteps climbing
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  the basement stairs. In a state of terrified shock,
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  Latoya and her mother would listen as the steps got louder
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  and louder, eventually reaching the top.
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  Once at the top of the stairs, the door from the basement to
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  the kitchen would open, even if the door had been previously
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  locked. But when the unexplained noises
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  were investigated. All that would be found is the
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  basement door, open to the pitch black void below. 1 quiet night.
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  Latoya was awoken by the sound. Of her closet door opening.
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  As she turned to inspect the source of the disturbance, she
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  saw a tall shadowy figure emerge from her closet and then it
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  exited through her door and into the living room.
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  Latoya leapt from her bed and followed the figure and what she
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  would discover would make her blood run cold.
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  In the living room, she saw a silhouette of a very large man
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  who was pacing back and forth throughout her living room.
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  Who was this man? What did he want?
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  And more importantly. What was he?
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  Doing in her home, Latoya instinctually turned on the
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  light in an attempt to confront the intruder, but to her
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  surprise, the man had disappeared.
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  Scared and confused, Latoya investigated further, and what
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  she would find defied all logic. On the floor, in the same spot
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  where the figure had been pacing, were a series of large,
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  muddy boot prints. How could something that was
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  conceivably hallucinated have left a physical mark?
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  Was this an entity attempting to convey a message, and if so,
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  what was it trying to say? These manifestations, mysterious
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  and off putting as they were, did not scare the family.
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  If anything, it just made them generally uneasy.
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  It wasn't until March 10th of 2012 that those feelings would
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  transform into pure, unadulterated horror.
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  On the date in question, Latoya and Campbell were hosting Awake,
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  mourning the loss of a family member, which was attended by a
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  small group of friends and family.
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  The wake had lasted long into the night, and at around 2:00 AM
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  was abruptly interrupted by the sound of screaming.
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  Latoya had been in her mother. 'S room with her 12 year old
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  daughter. And her daughter's friend when
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  suddenly Latoya began screaming for her mother.
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  Rosa sprinted into the room to find her 12 year old
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  granddaughter unconscious and levitating over the bed.
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  After gathering their bearings, the family and friends
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  surrounded the bed and began to pray.
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  As they prayed, the girl was slowly lowered back.
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  Down and onto the bed. What is going on?
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  Campbell thought. Why is this happening?
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  When the girl awoke, she had no recollection of what had just
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  taken place. Soon after, the visibly shaken
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  and traumatized visitors left the house and would ultimately
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  refuse to ever return. What began as a place of family
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  and safety had overnight become a place of terror and
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  loneliness. Unsure of where else to turn,
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  Latoya and Rosa called a slew of local churches, but most refused
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  to listen. Eventually, they would get a
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  hold of a church that was willing to hear their story, and
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  once it was her, the circumstance was undeniable to
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  the family. Shock officials at the church
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  informed them that what they were dealing with was in fact a
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  demonic occupation of their home.
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  At the recommendation of the church, Latoya and her mother
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  cleaned out the entire home with bleach and ammonia, poured olive
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  oil on the children's hands and feet, and smeared oil in the
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  shape of a cross on their foreheads.
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  Seeking further guidance and expertise, they reached out to
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  two clairvoyants who told them that their home was beset by
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  over 200 demons. The family was instructed that
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  their best course of action would be to move.
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  However, they were strapped for cash and moving was not an
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  option at the time. Instead, Latoya, at the advice
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  of the clairvoyance, made an altar in the basement.
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  The altar consisted of an end table covered in a wide sheet,
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  and on the sheet was placed a candle and the statues of Mary,
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  Joseph, and Jesus. She also covered the walls in
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  the basement in salt, which was believed to add an extra layer
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  of protection from the demonic. Dressed in white clothing,
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  Latoya and a friend conducted A cleansing ritual inside of the
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  house. They burned sage and sulfur,
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  starting upstairs and working their way all the way to the
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  basement, drawing crosses in the smoke in every room.
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  Her friend read Psalm 91 as they proceeded.
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  You will not fear the terror of night.
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  Or the arrow. That flies by day, nor the
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  pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the plague that
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  destroys it midday. After the ritual was performed,
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  nothing out of the ordinary happened for about 3 days.
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  After those three days passed, the situation became infinitely
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  worse. Latoya started to notice that
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  her children were acting strange for seemingly no reason
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  whatsoever. They began talking in sinister,
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  deep voices and their smiles became twisted and curled.
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  She also. Reported that their eyes
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  appeared to bulge. Her children were acting like
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  completely different people. When the children's appearances
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  would return to normal following these episodes, they would have
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  no recollection of anything ever having been different.
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  Latoya's youngest son would sit in the closet and talk to
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  another boy that nobody could see.
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  The boy would say, I've been here long enough.
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  I came to kill and I'm going to kill and spoke with her son so
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  very descriptively. About what it was like.
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  To be murdered. Once, Latoya's son was thrown
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  from the closet, almost as if he had been tossed, hitting his
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  sister and knocking her into a headboard, which gave her an
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  injury that required stitches. Her daughter would later tell a
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  psychiatrist that sometimes she felt as if she was being held
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  down and choked, unable to speak or move, while voices would say
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  to her that she would never see her family again and that she
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  would be dead in 20 minutes. Latoya believed that she and her
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  children were being. Possessed randomly, Latoya's
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  body temperature would rapidly raise and she would begin to
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  shake, falling in and out of consciousness.
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  Rosa, however, never experienced anything demonic or strange
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  towards her. To this, she credits her
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  guardian Angel. Some nights, what happened to
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  the family was so severe that Latoya opted for them to spend
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  the night at a hotel. Fearing the worst for her
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  children, Latoya and her mother took the children to see their
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  doctor in April of 2012. Upon entering the exam room, the
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  doctor said he was immediately overtaken by sense of terror and
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  dread, and this was entirely unexplainable.
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  As Latoya told the story of what the family had been
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  experiencing, the doctor was writing down notes that said
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  delusional, delusional ghosts in the home and hallucinations.
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  Out of nowhere, the youngest son began aggressively cursing at
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  the doctor and a demonic voice. Then he was lifted high into the
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  air and thrown into a wall without a single person having
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  touched him. The boy passed out and at the
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  same time, so did his older brother.
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  Medical staff tried shaking them awake, but they were completely
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  unconscious. Someone working at the doctor's
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  office called 911 and eight police officers, along with
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  paramedics arrived and took the boys to the hospital.
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  Latoya followed and asked hospital personnel to put olive
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  oil. On her sons.
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  To which they simply just laughed in her face.
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  Unable to talk to her children or even to decide what she would
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  do or where she was going to start, she began to pray.
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  At this moment, their nightmare resumed.
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  Once again, both boys awoke. The oldest of the two acted
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  normally, but the youngest began screaming and attempted to
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  attack everybody near him. In total, it would take 5 grown
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  men to fully restrain him. A hospital employee who believed
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  that the boys were being abused contacted the Department of
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  Child Safety, citing Latoya's seemingly obvious mental
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  illness. DCS sent out family case manager
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  Valerie Washington, who concluded in her report that
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  neither Latoya nor her children were in bad health or suffered
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  from any bruises, cuts or burns. The psychiatrist at the hospital
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  also evaluated Latoya and found that she was, in fact, sane.
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  As Washington interviewed the family, Latoya's youngest son
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  began to growl. And his eyes rolled back into
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  his. Head.
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  He grabbed his brother around the neck, squeezing tightly and
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  refusing to let go until his hands were physically pried from
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  one another. Later that same day, Washington
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  and RN and the boy's grandmother took them into a small exam room
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  to interview them alone. While in the room, the youngest
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  son began to growl yet again, looking into the eyes of his
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  older brother. In a deep demonic voice he said
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  it's time to die and I. Will kill you.
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  At this moment, the older brother been into a running
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  stance and sprinted directly at his grandmother head, butting
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  her on the stomach as hard as he possibly could.
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  Over and over again. Rosa grabbed the boy's hand and
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  said that you are not my grandson, you are a demon.
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  Then something terrifying happened.
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  With that same twisted smile and look of pure malevolence, he
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  walked. Backwards towards the wall, into
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  the shock and awe of everybody. Walked backwards up the wall and
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  onto the ceiling. Still holding his grandmother's
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  hand the entire time before flipping off the ceiling and
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  back on to the floor, landing on his feet.
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  After a few moments of stunned silence, Washington and the RN
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  ran out of the room and found the doctor.
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  They explained what they had just witnessed, but the doctor
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  did not believe them. Stating that he thought it had
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  to be some sort of trick the. Doctor entered the room and
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  requested the boy to do the trick again so that he could see
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  it. The boy replied that he did not
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  remember what had happened and was unable to recreate it.
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  The RN, who was far from a skeptic of the demonic, said
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  that he fully believed what was happening to the boys was the
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  product of possession and the case manager agreed, stating
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  that there was an evil influence affecting the Amon's family.
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  Latoya's youngest son was admitted to the hospital and she
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  spent the night with him while Rosa took the two older children
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  to stay with a relative. The next day was the youngest
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  boy's 8th birthday. DCS told Rosa to bring the other
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  children back to the hospital as they could further discuss what
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  had happened. The family celebrated with cake
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  and even sang songs, but once the party was over, Latoya
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  received soul crushing news. Washington told her that DCS
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  would be taking custody of her children as they believed they
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  were being spiritually and emotionally neglected.
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  The family cried together. They did not want to be
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  separated, and they didn't understand why DCS had come to
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  this decision, but unfortunately, there was nothing
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  that they could do. On the morning of April 20th of
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  2012, Latoya would receive some rather unexpected assistance.
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  The hospital chaplain contacted Reverend Magineau.
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  The reverend had never performed an exorcism before, nor had he
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  ever been asked, but he agreed to help as much as he could.
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  Visiting Latoya and Rosa at their home on Carolina St. he
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  interviewed them. While they spoke.
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  Rosa commented on a flickering light in the bathroom, which
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  stopped each time the reverend walked over to him.
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  It must be. Scared of me, He thought the
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  interview would be interrupted once again when Rosa pointed out
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  that the window blinds in the kitchen kept swinging even at
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  the absence of an air current in their home, Maginot also said.
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  That he saw wet footprints in the living room.
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  And during the interview, Latoya complained of a migraine.
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  The reverend wondered whether this could be attributed to the
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  demonic activity, so he placed a crucifix on her head.
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  She then began convulsing. After interviewing the two women
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  for four hours, Reverend Maginell was convinced that the
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  family was being tormented by demons and that they had
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  overtaken their home. He blessed the house and told
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  them the house wasn't safe and that they needed to leave
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  immediately, so the two moved in with a relative.
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  A week later, DCS sent Washington to the Carolina St.
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  home to verify whether or not the home was safe for the
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  children to live in with her. She had a Lake County police
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  officer and two other assisting officers, one being the Gary
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  Police Captain. Latoya refused to go inside, so
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  Rosa took the group into the home to inspect it.
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  In the basement, underneath the stairs was a dirt patch from
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  which Rosa said that she believed the demons emanated
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  from. The captain said that he
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  believed in ghosts but not in demons and would later say that
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  changed after he visited the home on Carolina.
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  Street. During the interview with Rosa,
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  multiple electronic devices carried by the officers
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  malfunctioned, even though the batteries had just been
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  replaced. An audio recording taken by one
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  of the officers, when played back, revealed A disembodied
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  voice whispering to them. They also took multiple photos
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  which contained silhouettes. And when enhanced 1 even
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  contained a face at his home, the police captain said that his
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  garage door refused to open and the driver's seat of his
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  personal vehicle began moving erratically on its own.
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  After it was inspected by a mechanic it was revealed that
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  the motor that controlled the seat was broken and that if it
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  malfunctioned while the captain was driving it could have
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  resulted in a distraction which would have caused a serious
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  accident. Some time would pass before the
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  same group, accompanied by two other officers as well as DCS
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  case manager Samantha Illick would return to the home.
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  Illick went in place of Washington as Washington refused
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  to re enter the home. As they entered the basement,
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  Ilik noticed a strange liquid dripping.
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  When she touched it, she noticed that it felt both slippery and
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  sticky between her fingers. Magino wanted to check the dirt
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  spot under the stairs for items that may be cursed, as this
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  would offer a solid explanation as to what the family was
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  dealing with, but upon searching, he would find nothing
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  of significance. Magino blessed some salt and
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  spread it throughout the basement, and the group went
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  back upstairs. While in the living room, Ilik
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  began to notice something strange happening.
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  Her pinky finger on her left hand began to tingle and turn
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  white. She complained that her finger
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  suddenly began to feel as if it was broken.
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  Then, out of nowhere, she began to feel as if she was having a
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  panic attack and was unable to breathe.
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  The police captain, who had many times before seen the true
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  horrors of society, refused to stay in the house past dark and
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  requested that the inspection of the house be hurried.
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  Ilik and. Latoya left the house.
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  And the officers continued their investigation on the main.
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  Floor of the House. They noticed an oil like
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  substance dripping from the blinds.
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  Thinking that Latoya or Rosa may have poured oil on them to sell
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  their story, they wiped it up and sealed the room for 25
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  minutes. To their confusion, the oil had
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  reappeared. Could this have been the same
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  liquid that Ilik had encountered in the basement upon speaking
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  with Maginot? They were told that the liquid
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  was in fact a manifestation of the demonic.
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  The reverend would take notes of his findings and requested
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  permission from a Bishop to perform an exorcism on Latoya
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  herself, but his request was denied.
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  Instead, the Bishop told him to contact priests who have
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  themselves performed exorcisms, but they were no help either.
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  That 9 Magino blessed the home in order to cleanse it before
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  proceeding. A minor exorcism would follow,
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  for which he did not need church approval.
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  The ritual consisted of prayers and appeals for the demons to be
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  cast out. It look in the two officers were
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  in attendance. After the ritual had finished,
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  it look said that something unexplainable was definitely
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  going on, but stop short of admitting that it was demonic.
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  Regardless, she had chills the entire time, stating that it
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  felt like something was in the room with them and breathing
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  down their necks. Within a week of attending the
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  exorcism, she too began to experience problems, but hers
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  were medical in nature. She suffered third degree burns
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  from a motorcycle, broke three ribs jet skiing and broke her
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  hand as well as her ankle. All.
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  Within the same month, it is believed that these injuries
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  were a result of her attendance during the ritual performed by
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  the reverend. After the minor exorcism was
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  successful, the Bishop would give Maginot permission to
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  conduct a proper exorcism on Latoya.
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  He stated that the ritual was the same as the one he had
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  originally conducted, however, it was stronger because this
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  time he had the backing of the Catholic Church.
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  Before the exorcism was to be performed, Magino tasked Latoya
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  with researching the names of the demons that were tormenting
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  her. During the research, Latoya
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  complained of a physical illness and that her computer kept
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  forcibly shutting itself down. After some time, she was able to
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  locate. The names of the demons.
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  Who she believed were causing. Her and her.
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  Family, so much trouble. One of them was Beelzebub, the
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  Lord of Flies. Others were demons that she
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  found which specifically torture and harm children.
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  Magineau would go on to perform 3 exorcisms on Latoya at his
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  church. The first two were conducted in
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  English in the last. Was in Latin During these
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  exorcisms, Maginot pressed a crucifix to her head and
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  chanted. I cast you out unclean.
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  Spirit, along with every satanic power of the enemy, every
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  specter from hell, and all of your companions, and the name of
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  the Lord Jesus Christ. Each time his voice became
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  louder and more forceful, which worked in weakening the demons.
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  Latoya convulsed violently, showing off the demons true
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  strength to Majino. During this time, Latoya prayed
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  with him until it became too physically painful for her to
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  continue. She equated the pain that she
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  was feeling to the pain of childbirth, but stated that the
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  pain was nowhere near natural. Eventually, Latoya fell asleep
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  and the ritual had ended. And between the 2nd and 3rd
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  exorcism, which were conducted several weeks apart, a woman who
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  had helped with the rituals was tasked with setting up a backup.
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  Plan in case Latoya had issues. The woman who wrote the name of
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  a demon on a piece of paper, put it in an envelope and surrounded
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  it with salt that had been blessed.
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  If Latoya had problems, the woman was to burn the envelope
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  containing the name of the demon.
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  Within that time, Latoya and her mother had moved into a new home
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  in Indianapolis, a home which Magino had previously blessed.
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  One night, as the storm raged outside, Latoya would call
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  Magino complaining. That she was.
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  Having horrifically bad nightmares pertaining to demons,
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  so the woman was instructed to burn the envelope and after this
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  the nightmares would cease. Time would pass and new tenants
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  would eventually occupy the home on Carolina St., and the
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  landlord would say that since the incidents involving the
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  Amon's family, no other paranormal activity had been
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  reported at the residence. Latoya would eventually regain
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  custody of her children in November of 2012, and DCS would
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  regularly check up on them until January of 2013 when they would
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  ultimately close their case. They noted that there were no
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  demonic presences reported at their home in Indianapolis and
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  that her children felt much safer within its walls.
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  Amos thanked God for guiding them through, and the family
• 28:59
  would go on to live happily and quietly without any semblance of
• 29:05
  demonic intervention. So if we accept at face value
• 29:10
  those who witnessed these bizarre and demonic
• 29:13
  manifestations, we must ask just what could have caused the
• 29:17
  haunting or the summoning of the entities?
• 29:22
  Did Latoya mess with something that she shouldn't have?
• 29:26
  Was it something indeed invoked within the property itself at
• 29:29
  some point or could it have been generational?
• 29:34
  It's hard to tell, but what is incredible is that nurses,
• 29:39
  officers and other officials of the state bore witness to these
• 29:43
  happenings. Although.
• 29:45
  Not descriptive as some of my other videos, the information at
• 29:49
  times is scarce. So I did the best I could to
• 29:52
  piece everything together. It is believed that the other
• 29:56
  199 demons were under or serving Beelzebub, which certainly made
• 30:02
  himself present with the swarms of flies in the depths of
• 30:07
  winter. Ultimately, I am glad that this
• 30:11
  family was able to free themselves.
• 30:13
  From the ensnaring trap of the devil and his minions.
• 30:18
  Not everyone is so lucky. And in due time, we'll cover
• 30:22
  cases that reflect that. So my advice?
• 30:26
  If you enter a home, let alone live there, and feel as if eyes
• 30:31
  are boring a hole into the back of your head and you feel scared
• 30:36
  for no reason, trust your gut. Because ultimately it could end
• 30:42
  up saving your very. Soul.
• 30:46
  When a young woman begins to experience horrific visions
• 30:51
  damares during her waking life, she will seek help from her
• 30:56
  parents. Believing the matter to be
• 30:59
  spiritual, they consult a priest who tries to drive multiple
• 31:04
  demons out of her body. However, ultimately the
• 31:09
  exorcisms would fail. The result of which is created
• 31:14
  one of the most compelling and yet controversial cases of the
• 31:18
  20th century. And possibly ever.
• 31:22
  Today we will be examining the life and death of a young woman
• 31:28
  named Annalise and the six demons and supposedly took her.
• 31:33
  This is the untold story of the exorcism.
• 31:36
  Of Annalise Michelle, and what a terrible and truly horrifying
• 31:41
  story it is. Before I begin this dark and
• 32:04
  extensive story, there's a few things that I would like to say.
• 32:08
  Whether this is a true case of demonic possession or the
• 32:11
  results of malpractice due to religious extremism is not up
• 32:16
  for me to decide. I will simply present the case
• 32:19
  as chronologically accurate and full of details I can, and
• 32:24
  ultimately the conclusion is up to you.
• 32:29
  So let us first start at the beginning.
• 32:31
  Joseph Michelle, who had served in the military during the war,
• 32:35
  was thankful to have returned to his family's small village
• 32:39
  following his imprisonment by the Americans and sequential
• 32:43
  release in late 1945. Having seen the horrors and
• 32:48
  ravages of combat, he thanked God that his small village of
• 32:53
  approximately 3000 souls. Hadn't been attacked.
• 32:57
  During foreign army occupation or the devastating air raids
• 33:02
  that leveled most major cities in Germany, he would be reunited
• 33:06
  with his family and would assume a job within his family's
• 33:09
  business. And during this time he would
• 33:13
  meet a woman named Anna, a local girl, and within two years the
• 33:18
  couple would be married. Born as Anna Elizabeth Michelle
• 33:21
  on September 21st of 1952 and Leipfing, Bavaria, West Germany,
• 33:28
  Anna was a very shy and somewhat sickly child as she grew up.
• 33:33
  Michelle was raised along with her three sisters, as very
• 33:37
  religious and as a family they would all attend mass twice a
• 33:40
  week and although frequently sick, she was known for being
• 33:45
  very sweet but also very shy, usually keeping to herself and
• 33:50
  her studies. While at school.
• 33:52
  All was going well for Anna who would become known by the name
• 33:56
  of Annalise, a combination of her first and middle names.
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  This was until she turned 16 years old.
• 34:04
  Shortly after her birthday. Annalise had a moment where she
• 34:08
  fainted in front of her younger sister and upon her sister
• 34:12
  calling her name and poking her in the arm.
• 34:15
  When she came to, she believed that she was just exhausted from
• 34:19
  studying too much and decided to lay down for the night.
• 34:24
  But that night, little did she know that her torment would
• 34:28
  begin as she slept in her bed. Shortly after the clock had
• 34:33
  struck midnight, Annalise would awaken and a panic as a giant.
• 34:39
  Force, as she would later describe it, was.
• 34:42
  Holding her down, she felt the area around her and dent as if a
• 34:47
  very large person or creature was sitting on top of her.
• 34:52
  This entity then began to press on her stomach, which caused her
• 34:57
  to urinate. Panicking and unable to breathe,
• 35:01
  the poor woman called out to God in a desperate attempt to stave
• 35:05
  off whatever this thing was. Convinced that she was dying,
• 35:09
  she pleaded to be freed. However, upon the nearby church
• 35:14
  clock tower sounding the quarter hour, it was all over.
• 35:19
  All pressure had ceased as if it was blown away.
• 35:23
  By a wind. Whimpering in terror now,
• 35:26
  Michelle changed her linens and would barely sleep that night.
• 35:30
  She would inform her mother the following morning that she felt
• 35:34
  very. Ill and was exhausted.
• 35:37
  And who can blame her? So her mother allowed her to
• 35:39
  stay home from school. Nearly one year later, during
• 35:43
  the day of August 24th of 1969, whatever it was decided to
• 35:49
  strike again. Just as what had happened
• 35:51
  before. She had blacked out earlier in
• 35:54
  the day. And later that night, right
• 35:57
  after midnight, yet again, she felt the familiar but terrifying
• 36:02
  large force begin to hold her captive yet again.
• 36:06
  She was unable to breathe and unable to call for help again.
• 36:12
  She would be freed by the tolling of the church clock bell
• 36:16
  tower. Upon informing her mother of
• 36:18
  this second incident, her mother was unsure of what was happening
• 36:22
  to her poor daughter, so she decided to take her into the
• 36:25
  family physician, a man named Doctor Vogt.
• 36:29
  At the recommendation of Doctor Vogt, they would board a train
• 36:33
  to Afshenburg to meet with a neurologist by the name of
• 36:37
  Doctor Siegfried Luthi. Dr. Luthi that day would run a
• 36:40
  variety of tests, all which would come back negative and
• 36:44
  unsure of the results. He asked them to return on
• 36:47
  August 27th for a follow up appointment and more tests.
• 36:52
  One of the tests ran upon their return in August was an EEG
• 36:56
  which recorded normal alpha type brain activity.
• 37:00
  Coming up yet again empty handed.
• 37:02
  The doctor still had to account for the convulsive episode that
• 37:05
  his patient said she was experiencing, so he diagnosed
• 37:09
  her with temporal lobe epilepsy and from here should be placed
• 37:14
  on a drug known as Zentra pill, an anticonvulsant.
• 37:20
  And this worked for a time, but is 1969 would progress.
• 37:26
  She would become very sick. In December, she would contract
• 37:30
  pneumonia, which would be further complicated by a
• 37:33
  tuberculosis infection. She became too I'll to further
• 37:37
  attend her studies and was forced to drop out of school at
• 37:41
  that time. She would remain back at home in
• 37:43
  her bed until January of 1970, at which point her condition
• 37:49
  still hadn't improved, so as a result of this, she was
• 37:53
  transferred to the hospital in February.
• 37:56
  From here, she was placed in a sanatorium in Middleburg, one
• 38:01
  that specialized in bronchial and lung disease.
• 38:04
  She made some improvement there, but would also have other issues
• 38:08
  diagnosed. When spring came, she longed to
• 38:11
  go home to see the beautiful lush hills of her village
• 38:16
  instead of the jagged and ominously Gray mountains that
• 38:20
  surrounded her. Unfortunately for her sake, she
• 38:24
  was not yet permitted to leave due to her condition still
• 38:28
  needing to improve as well as new diagnosis of cardiovascular
• 38:34
  circulatory problems. Although sad, Michelle
• 38:37
  understood what was happening. However, this all too persistent
• 38:41
  and familiar force that. To come to plague.
• 38:44
  Her would visit her yet again on June the 3rd of 1970.
• 38:49
  The same massive paralyzing entity would grip her with ice
• 38:55
  cold and unseen hands. This time however, Annalise
• 39:01
  tried everything she could to free herself and in her
• 39:04
  desperate attempts, a lone scream would finally manage to
• 39:09
  tear loose from her lips. And this scream was heard by the
• 39:13
  night nurse as well as the young doctor that was on duty that
• 39:16
  night, both of which rushed to her aid.
• 39:20
  As the two entered the room, the specter released its grip on
• 39:23
  Michelle. By this point, all of the
• 39:26
  commotion had woken up the other girls in the wing of the
• 39:29
  sanatorium that she was in. Michelle would be assisted with
• 39:32
  changing her pyjamas and bedding and tried to sleep under nurse
• 39:36
  supervision that night. The following morning, the girls
• 39:40
  gossip had reached a fever pitch.
• 39:42
  They began to speculate if Annalise had previously had a
• 39:46
  head injury or if she had water on the brain.
• 39:49
  Annalise herself, however, didn't pay much attention to
• 39:53
  them. She was becoming withdrawn and
• 39:56
  was still weak from the previous night's episode.
• 39:59
  She was more concerned with what was going on with her health as
• 40:03
  the day progressed and dust settled on the horizon.
• 40:07
  While the other girls were headed to the cafeteria,
• 40:10
  Annalise opted to stay in her room.
• 40:12
  Stare out her window and say her evening rosary.
• 40:16
  As she prayed, the voices of the returning girls seemed louder
• 40:21
  than usual. However, what once appeared as
• 40:24
  massive and foreboding mountains appeared more beautiful this
• 40:29
  time. Their peaks glistened with pink
• 40:32
  and Violet as the sun hid them. One of the girls would approach
• 40:36
  her as she was admiring and praying and would ask if she was
• 40:40
  all right. She then would comment on her
• 40:43
  blue eyes being black. Annalise, unsure of what to make
• 40:47
  of this, shook off the girl's remarks.
• 40:50
  She would go on to finish her rosary the following day.
• 40:54
  She would be sent to another specialist who would attempt to
• 40:57
  figure out just what was going on inside of her head.
• 41:00
  After a day's worth of tests, including Eegs, yet again they
• 41:04
  would find no evidence of anything being wrong.
• 41:08
  However, with her now documented history of epileptic seizures,
• 41:13
  the doctor, Doctor Keller would recommend a new anti convulsive
• 41:17
  drug. Be prescribed to her.
• 41:19
  Upon returning to the sanatorium and Elise would begin to
• 41:23
  experience a new and terrifying manifestation in her normal
• 41:28
  waking life. She would begin to see horrible
• 41:31
  demonic looking creatures that were seemingly stalking her from
• 41:35
  the shadows. They would appear in the
• 41:37
  mountains, in her corridors, and even in her room.
• 41:43
  Upon seeing their gnarled faces, she would often fall to her
• 41:47
  knees and beg the Virgin Mary for Grace to make these terrible
• 41:52
  visions go away. After six more weeks at the
• 41:55
  sanatorium, she would be examined once again by a
• 41:58
  physician and again have more tests ran.
• 42:01
  And yet again she would be found to have no abnormalities in her
• 42:06
  brain scans. With this conclusion, she would
• 42:09
  finally be allowed to return home to her family.
• 42:13
  Her return home was happy at first, being back in her own bed
• 42:17
  surrounded by familiar faces, but yet Michelle found herself
• 42:21
  soon worrying about going back to school and readjusting, and
• 42:25
  of course, about her persistent health problems.
• 42:28
  However, she would end up returning to school to finish.
• 42:32
  This time, of course, she would be visited by multiple doctors
• 42:36
  all throughout the year to monitor her health.
• 42:38
  She would have several more seizures, although seemingly not
• 42:42
  as severe as the ones previously experienced, and although those
• 42:46
  had seemed to be pretty minor, she was still experiencing
• 42:49
  horrific disfigured visions. She began to share this with her
• 42:53
  mother and after time and time again of the doctors not finding
• 42:58
  anything abnormal about her, Anna began to think that
• 43:02
  something supernatural was taking place.
• 43:05
  One evening the two parents discussed this matter in
• 43:08
  particular and to try to convince her husband that what
• 43:13
  was plaguing their daughter was of the devil, she told him that
• 43:16
  Annalise had been seeing horrible and twisted faces all
• 43:20
  throughout the day and night, sometimes in the mirror or
• 43:24
  looking out a window, or even through the faces of other
• 43:28
  people. One vision in particular that
• 43:31
  Annalise had relayed to her mother disturbed her so much
• 43:36
  that she had to share it with her husband, Joseph.
• 43:39
  Annalise had told her that upon seeing the statue of the Virgin
• 43:43
  Mary in their living room on their mantle that her eyes
• 43:47
  turned black. A hideous grin appeared on her
• 43:50
  face and her small delicate hands began to twitch and then
• 43:56
  morph into thick, grotesque claws.
• 44:00
  Seeing the sincerity in his wife's eyes, Joseph, although
• 44:03
  silent for a few minutes, decided that the family should
• 44:07
  ask for guidance through prayer. With school finally finished for
• 44:11
  Annalise before university, a summer trip was in order.
• 44:15
  After consulting with the doctors about his daughter's
• 44:18
  condition and discovering her depressive thoughts that she had
• 44:22
  shared with them, Joseph decided to take his daughter to the
• 44:25
  Shrine of San Damiano in Italy in hopes of not only aiding her
• 44:30
  spiritually, but hopefully mentally as well.
• 44:33
  The shrine had been created by a woman named Rosa Quatrini, who
• 44:37
  overtime experienced multiple miracles and received messages
• 44:41
  from the Virgin Mary, including to have the shrine built, later
• 44:45
  becoming known as Mama Rosa. She would work alongside Padre
• 44:49
  Pio for many years. So in due time, with the
• 44:53
  assistance of a teacher, they organized a trip to the shrine
• 44:57
  and we're on a bus headed through the Italian countryside.
• 45:01
  Upon their arrival and exiting of the bus, amidst the beautiful
• 45:05
  vineyards that surrounded the location of the garden in which
• 45:09
  the shrine was located in, a dark presence would envelope
• 45:13
  Annalise. Surrounding the shrine was an
• 45:16
  open space which allowed for pilgrims to kneel and pray.
• 45:20
  A small crowd was present as Annalise approached the shrine
• 45:24
  at the insistence of her father. However, she seemed like she
• 45:29
  couldn't approach the Holy Mother.
• 45:31
  She began to walk around the shrine in a wide arc and to her
• 45:35
  her feet began to burn as if she was walking on hot coals, and
• 45:40
  each person she glanced at, although in the praying
• 45:43
  position, were gnashing their teeth and their faces were
• 45:48
  distorted and awful. This is where she began to
• 45:52
  really first display her adversion to holy objects such
• 45:56
  as medals of Saints, statues, and Insignia that represented
• 46:01
  Jesus Christ. Those present couldn't help but
• 46:04
  notice how strange the young woman was behaving, and upon
• 46:07
  heading back onto the bus, she was then being asked by the
• 46:11
  teacher, a woman named Frau Heine, about what was going on
• 46:15
  with. Her.
• 46:16
  She expressed that her will was not her own and that someone
• 46:19
  else was manipulating her. Almost as soon as those words
• 46:24
  left Michelle's mouth, her personality would completely
• 46:28
  change, and a voice that sounded like a man's Annalise began to
• 46:32
  belittle Frauhine, Making fun of her for being unsure of herself.
• 46:37
  She then snatched a blessed metal off of her neck.
• 46:40
  Simultaneously, Frau, Joseph and others present on the trip began
• 46:46
  to smell a stench exuding from Annalise unlike anything they
• 46:51
  had ever experienced before. The smell was that of fecal
• 46:55
  matter and something burning, and it permeated the entire
• 47:00
  buzz. She would eventually calm down
• 47:03
  and the occupants would return back to their native Germany
• 47:07
  after their visit to San Damiano.
• 47:09
  Annalise seemed to feel quite well despite what had taken
• 47:13
  place, but this would only last for about two weeks.
• 47:17
  She was set to attend college for the first time in several
• 47:20
  weeks time, but felt that she was in no condition to do so and
• 47:24
  she complained to her mother that she was horribly depressed
• 47:28
  and constantly plagued by these horrible faces, believing it to
• 47:32
  be a result of her daughter's seizures and it would make an
• 47:34
  appointment with Doctor Luthi. Several days later, Annalise
• 47:38
  would troop to that very appointment.
• 47:40
  It would be determined that she had been seizure free in between
• 47:43
  their appointments together and another EEG would determine that
• 47:47
  her brain was indeed normal. However, Doctor Luthi, who was
• 47:52
  non religious, would essentially belittle Annalise for telling
• 47:57
  him that she was seeing these horrible visions on a daily
• 48:00
  basis. Now he believed personally that
• 48:03
  she was an overly superstitious Catholic girl, and with this he
• 48:07
  would clear Annalise to go to university.
• 48:10
  This would be the last time that she would see Doctor Luthi and
• 48:14
  the last time she would mention the demons to any medical
• 48:17
  professional. Becoming more depressed and
• 48:20
  withdrawn, her mother would finally confront Annalise,
• 48:23
  telling her that her whole life she's wanted to be a teacher
• 48:26
  teacher and now that the opportunity is here, she's not
• 48:30
  taking it. Annalise would explain that she
• 48:33
  was depressed, empty and tired, that the drugs were not helping
• 48:38
  her and that the demons and their manifestations are only
• 48:42
  getting worse. Still considering her daughter's
• 48:45
  issues to possibly be spiritual in nature and it would arrange
• 48:49
  for her to begin meeting with priests in an effort to aid her.
• 48:53
  The two priests that would begin to receive letters from both
• 48:56
  Anna and Annalise were Father Herman and Father Alt.
• 49:01
  After reading the letters, their interest not only piqued by the
• 49:04
  descriptions of what poor Annalise was experiencing, but
• 49:08
  Father Alt began to feel very ill, seemingly out of nowhere.
• 49:12
  After this happened, he would retire back to his dormitory
• 49:15
  room for the night and would try to sleep it off.
• 49:18
  Shortly after the clock struck midnight, Father Alt would awake
• 49:22
  soaked in a cold sweat. A storm reached outside.
• 49:26
  Lightning illuminated the room around him as he laid in his
• 49:29
  bed. Feeling awful, he began to pray.
• 49:33
  But as he prayed, he would feel someone or something press on
• 49:38
  his bed as if they had walked onto it.
• 49:41
  This deeply frightened the father as he jumped off his bed,
• 49:45
  began to pray out loud. As the words left his mouth, a
• 49:49
  horrendous burning smell began to fill his room.
• 49:53
  Alt then rushed out of his door and into the hallway.
• 49:57
  His vision began to narrow and his color perception was
• 50:01
  changing as he rushed. Down the stairs and headed
• 50:05
  toward the exit door of the building.
• 50:07
  Within the shadows cascading on the walls and the stained glass
• 50:11
  that surrounded him. Horrible distorted faces.
• 50:16
  Began to reveal themselves. Father Alt now knew that what he
• 50:20
  was dealing with was indeed very real.
• 50:23
  Evil forces. He would run outside and into
• 50:27
  the rain, falling to his knees and gripping his rosary as he
• 50:32
  attempted to catch his breath. He would eventually return back
• 50:36
  to his room once he felt that the force had passed.
• 50:39
  However, the scent of burning fecal matter still filled the
• 50:43
  entire parish. Even the following day it was
• 50:47
  still there would be experienced by all of the priests and staff.
• 50:53
  This event would further the interest in Annalise's case and
• 50:57
  further motivate the priest to act quickly.
• 51:00
  Fearing that the young woman was indeed being affected by the
• 51:03
  demonic father, all would begin to meet with Annalise when he
• 51:07
  could, and it would accommodate her school schedule.
• 51:11
  At this particular point, she seemed to be doing fairly good,
• 51:15
  despite still seeing the manifestations most days.
• 51:18
  She would begin classes on November 1st of 1973, going to
• 51:23
  lectures day in and day out and seeking various churches and
• 51:27
  chapels to relax and praying as she remained A diligent student
• 51:32
  and her life, despite these awful visions that bothered her,
• 51:35
  still was about to change. At the end of November, Annalise
• 51:39
  would meet a fellow student by the name of Peter.
• 51:42
  He was somewhat like herself, was very shy and friendly, but
• 51:47
  was outgoing when you got to know him.
• 51:49
  The 2 shared many classes together and would soon fall in
• 51:52
  love. Several weeks into their
• 51:54
  relationship however, Annalise would tell Peter to stop seeing
• 51:58
  her, fearing that when the demons came back, he wouldn't
• 52:01
  want her anyways. But despite what his new
• 52:04
  girlfriend was telling him, Peter denied this and still
• 52:07
  refused to leave her side. Soon after this, Annalise would
• 52:11
  go in for a checkup evaluation or she would have an EEG yet
• 52:14
  again, except this time the doctor administering the Eega
• 52:19
  woman named Doctor. Schleipe would find patterns of
• 52:22
  epilepsy. This is significant because this
• 52:25
  is the first time out of all of the other times that any
• 52:28
  patterns of epilepsy had ever been found as a result of this.
• 52:33
  Doctor Schleip would change Annalise's medication to yet
• 52:36
  another anticonvulsant drug known as Dulontin in hopes.
• 52:40
  That it would. Improve her condition Following
• 52:43
  disappointment, Peter and Annalise would continue their
• 52:46
  relationship, which Annalise would confide in Peter more so
• 52:50
  about what she was experiencing with the demonic figures and
• 52:54
  faces that still plagued her. Peter had also become aware of
• 52:57
  the awful stench that seemed to follow her, especially when she
• 53:01
  was experiencing the supposed hallucinations and as their
• 53:05
  relationship progressed. He wanted her to join him in
• 53:08
  meeting his family and friends, but Annalise refused, worrying
• 53:12
  that they may not be as understanding as Peter.
• 53:15
  Michelle would ultimately express that she did have
• 53:18
  moments of clarity where she did feel like herself, but every so
• 53:21
  often those devils would reappear.
• 53:25
  Despite taking her medication daily rigorously, the faces
• 53:29
  would remain and soon, coupled with the faces, she would begin
• 53:33
  to experience debilitating headaches.
• 53:36
  Father Alt, checking in on her with the local Bishop there on
• 53:40
  campus, would discuss that her complaints and ailments continue
• 53:44
  to be the same despite her taking her medication every
• 53:47
  single day. He would arrange to have.
• 53:49
  Annalise meet him in a nearby town for the two to pray.
• 53:52
  Together, Peter would ultimately take Annalise to this
• 53:55
  appointment, would be surprised at how quickly she seemed
• 53:58
  relieved after the two began praying.
• 54:01
  Although very skeptical, Peter began to believe that possibly
• 54:06
  this could be a spiritual problem.
• 54:08
  I did want to take a moment here and say that there's so much
• 54:11
  information about what happened to Annalise in her life, and
• 54:15
  I've been pretty thorough up to this point.
• 54:18
  But I'm going to do a few briefer sections leading up to
• 54:21
  the paranormal manifestations that worsened her life, just
• 54:25
  because if I sat here on every painstaking detail, we'd be here
• 54:30
  all day. Following the meeting with
• 54:32
  Father Alt, Annalise's depression would return, she
• 54:36
  told. Peter that the clanking of
• 54:38
  knives and forks sickened her, that the demons wouldn't let her
• 54:43
  eat, coupled with her losing weight and becoming ever more
• 54:46
  reclusive. Other witnesses to the strange
• 54:49
  behavior she exhibited began to grow as well.
• 54:53
  One incident in particular, a mutual friend of both Annalise
• 54:57
  and Peter named Anna. Leipert.
• 54:59
  Witnessed something that she would never forget.
• 55:02
  In July of 1975, with Anna, Annalise and Peter sitting in
• 55:08
  Annalise's dorm room having a casual conversation, suddenly,
• 55:13
  out of nowhere, Annalise. 'S face contracted and contorted
• 55:18
  into something demonic in appearance.
• 55:21
  Her entire body then went. Stiff as a board.
• 55:24
  As if she was entering A catatonic state.
• 55:27
  Obviously freaked out by this, Anna asked Peter what was
• 55:31
  happening and Peter simply replied.
• 55:33
  It's the demons, she's under possession.
• 55:37
  Not knowing what else to do, the two prayed with Michelle and it
• 55:40
  would take an hour and a half for this episode to be over.
• 55:43
  Following this happening, it became clear that Annalise could
• 55:47
  no longer be by herself. And attend school.
• 55:51
  The two would reach out to her parents and several days later
• 55:54
  they would move the young woman back to Klingenberg.
• 55:58
  Upon arriving, Annalise was able to start eating again, but her
• 56:02
  other problems continued unabated.
• 56:05
  If anything, they worsened greatly in a very short period
• 56:09
  of time. During a phone call between
• 56:11
  father Alt and Michelle's mother, the two would be
• 56:15
  interrupted frequently by the horrendous screams of Annalise
• 56:20
  in her room. Screaming obscenities and
• 56:23
  overall acting abhorrent, Father All would ask a fellow priest
• 56:28
  closer to Annalise to assist him in aiding her spiritual battle.
• 56:33
  A man named Father Roth. Upon reaching out to the family
• 56:37
  to arrange his meeting with them, Father Roth was surprised
• 56:40
  when Annalise's mother answered the phone and.
• 56:43
  Said Father Roth. The two had never met before,
• 56:47
  nor had she been previously informed that Father Roth was
• 56:51
  going to call. Bewildered, he said yes.
• 56:55
  That's me, he was then informed, informed, that Annalise had told
• 56:59
  her that he was going to phone. That right there to the priest,
• 57:02
  was an indication of the demonic knowledge of the unknown.
• 57:07
  He would arrive a week later and upon entering the house, he
• 57:11
  could hear the girl scream from her room above.
• 57:14
  A horrible stench like something burning like dung and sulfur
• 57:19
  filled the room that he and Misses Michelle chatted in the
• 57:23
  main living room of the house, trying to find the source of the
• 57:26
  scent. He checked all the other rooms,
• 57:29
  he checked outside, in the kitchen, everything that he
• 57:32
  could think of, and yet he could find no explainable origin.
• 57:37
  For this horrible smell, Misses Michelle would inform him that
• 57:40
  Annalise had been in the living room roughly 20 minutes before
• 57:44
  his arrival. Stepping outside to avoid the
• 57:47
  scent, The two would chat further and Father Roth would be
• 57:51
  informed of Annalise's outbursts of rage and all around her
• 57:56
  bizarre behavior. The family would beg.
• 57:58
  Him to pray over her, to which he agreed.
• 58:02
  Reluctantly walking up stairs to Annalise's room for the first
• 58:06
  time, he couldn't help but notice the abnormal amount of
• 58:10
  dead bugs that lined the hallway.
• 58:12
  Upon opening the door, he would be besieged by the girl.
• 58:16
  She began cursing at him, screaming at the top of her
• 58:19
  lungs, telling him to not dare take the crucifix out of his
• 58:24
  pocket, which he had not told anyone.
• 58:27
  That he was carrying she ran out of the.
• 58:29
  Bed and up to his face, suddenly stopping an inch or two away as
• 58:34
  if she was frozen. Her eyes blackened and she said,
• 58:39
  O priest, you may try. She then collapsed to the floor
• 58:45
  in a catatonic state. This was more than enough for
• 58:49
  Father Roth to rush to arrange a meeting with Father Alt.
• 58:53
  To discuss what exactly had taken place, within two days
• 58:57
  they would meet in person, to which Father Roth would explain
• 59:00
  that he had no doubts that the girl was being troubled by
• 59:03
  demons, that he had no doubt that it was indeed the real
• 59:07
  deal. Therefore, the two together
• 59:09
  would seek to move forward with a formal permission to begin the
• 59:14
  exorcism process during the wait for the final set approval the
• 59:19
  course of the next. Year would weave a.
• 59:20
  Web of disgust. And.
• 59:22
  Horror as her family, Peter and the priests would experience a
• 59:28
  plethora of horrendous manifestations at the hands of
• 59:33
  Annalise. Following Father Roth's initial
• 59:36
  visit, Annalise had become extremely restless.
• 59:40
  At most she was only sleeping one maybe 2 hours a night.
• 59:45
  She would run through the house which were constant at this
• 59:47
  point. She would do knee Busters.
• 59:50
  Standing up and kneeling down at the expense of her knees.
• 59:55
  No matter how awfully she injured them, they were becoming
• 59:59
  swollen and ulcerated. She would none the less
• 1:00:02
  continue. To do this.
• 1:00:04
  Having to be moved back into her bed by Peter.
• 1:00:08
  And her family. Alongside the ever worsening
• 1:00:11
  madness, weighing 100 lbs at most at this point, she began to
• 1:00:15
  exhibit superhuman strength. Peter would watch her crush an
• 1:00:19
  apple with one frail hand and throw her sister Rasvitha across
• 1:00:24
  the room like a rag doll. She also began to smash her face
• 1:00:30
  into. Walls and floors.
• 1:00:32
  Leading to her mother placing pillows all around in an effort
• 1:00:36
  to stop her from injuring herself.
• 1:00:39
  With the Michelle family's world turning upside down, Annalise
• 1:00:43
  stopped eating and drinking all together normal food.
• 1:00:47
  That is, she began to stuff the overabundance of insects into
• 1:00:51
  her mouth, eating roaches, hordes of flies, and spiders.
• 1:00:56
  Further, her behavior became more unhinged.
• 1:00:59
  She began to chew on coal and rocks, which ultimately broke
• 1:01:03
  several of her teeth. Among the chaos, her family
• 1:01:07
  began to experience what can only be described as paranormal
• 1:01:11
  manifestations themselves. Clouds of flies would appear and
• 1:01:15
  disappear at random all over their home, and in the dead of
• 1:01:19
  winter they began to see shadowy figures that would be running
• 1:01:23
  all throughout their home and watching them around every
• 1:01:27
  corner and out of the corner of their eyes.
• 1:01:30
  This of course. Would deeply frighten them as
• 1:01:33
  Annalise raged on, her family and Peter took to alternating 2
• 1:01:37
  hour shifts in order to take care of her to the best of their
• 1:01:41
  ability in an attempt to. Prevent her from inflicting more
• 1:01:44
  wounds upon herself, Joseph. New things, given how awful they
• 1:01:48
  were, could not continue the way that they were going.
• 1:01:51
  So he's soon, out of desperation, phoned Father Alt
• 1:01:55
  and began begging for his assistance.
• 1:01:58
  Father Alt, who had been in touch with his superiors at the
• 1:02:00
  church, would inform him that he believed Annalise should be
• 1:02:04
  admitted to a psychiatric hospital for evaluation.
• 1:02:08
  However, upon sharing the slew of details that were shared
• 1:02:11
  with. Him by Joseph At the dramatic
• 1:02:14
  worsening of Annalise's behavior and overall condition with a
• 1:02:18
  fellow priest by the name of Father Rodvik, Father Rodvick
• 1:02:22
  agreed to go and see the girl for himself.
• 1:02:24
  Upon entering the Michelle house, he would be introduced to
• 1:02:27
  Annalise through her father, who had walked her into the living
• 1:02:31
  room by himself, on account that she had become very violent
• 1:02:34
  towards herself and family. Members by this point, sitting
• 1:02:38
  down beside her father, Rodvick asked her What is your name?
• 1:02:43
  Her response, and a very low, altered voice that was not her
• 1:02:47
  own, was Judas. Over the course of the next
• 1:02:51
  several hours, the father was able to have a normal
• 1:02:54
  conversation with Annalise as she went from being under an
• 1:02:57
  outside influence to herself, having no recollection of the
• 1:03:02
  latter then towards the end of the meeting.
• 1:03:05
  She would slap the father across the face and then stand up, walk
• 1:03:11
  towards the piano and begin playing it as if nothing had
• 1:03:15
  ever happened. Father Rodvick informed the
• 1:03:18
  family that he would indeed help her and support them and that he
• 1:03:22
  ultimately believed Annalise to be possessed.
• 1:03:25
  And. Would seek action immediately.
• 1:03:28
  After much deliberation, the church finally came around.
• 1:03:33
  A priest by the name of Father Renz, an experienced exorcist,
• 1:03:37
  would be tasked with the ritual and on a cold and rainy day it
• 1:03:43
  would begin. September 24th, 1975.
• 1:03:47
  He would arrive at the Michelle residence after discussing the
• 1:03:51
  plan with her family. He would proceed up the stairs
• 1:03:55
  and walk into the Vipers den that was Annalise's room.
• 1:03:59
  He would be joined by Joseph, Peter and a volunteer from their
• 1:04:03
  local congregation who wanted to assist at first.
• 1:04:08
  All was quiet. Even silent Annalise, or rather
• 1:04:13
  the demons, were not engaging Father Renz.
• 1:04:16
  But when he began the ritual, he sprinkled holy water on Annalise
• 1:04:21
  and she began to shake and scream.
• 1:04:24
  She started to bite the men who were holding her.
• 1:04:27
  Lunging at the priest, she attempted to attack him.
• 1:04:30
  It would take all three additional men to hold her down.
• 1:04:34
  We draw what we know what happened from an entry in Father
• 1:04:37
  Renz's diary. He would go on to say that she
• 1:04:40
  would sound like a man, speak Latin, and eventually be reduced
• 1:04:46
  to a catatonic state, following an all too familiar pattern from
• 1:04:50
  what we already know. Knowing that he had a long
• 1:04:53
  battle ahead of him, the priest was saddened that the first
• 1:04:56
  ritual had not been successful. He would leave for the night,
• 1:05:00
  but would ultimately return four days later on September the 28th
• 1:05:05
  and the evening. He then brought with him a
• 1:05:07
  recorder in hopes of providing a record for future study within
• 1:05:13
  the church. Due to this decision by Father
• 1:05:15
  Renz, we now have some of the most disturbing.
• 1:05:18
  Audio I've maybe ever heard, and I've heard a lot of of crazy
• 1:05:23
  stuff. This is just a portion of what
• 1:05:26
  he recorded. Yeah, issue, issue last video.
• 1:05:29
  I'm like I'm meeting it near the console justice and so she isn't
• 1:05:34
  so grouse. I.
• 1:06:27
  Annalise would again repeat the chaotic behavior that was
• 1:06:30
  exhibited within the first exorcism, and the devil that
• 1:06:34
  resided within her began to rebuttal the priest in Latin as
• 1:06:38
  well as her native tongue of German.
• 1:06:41
  Although being familiar with the Latin language, Annalise was not
• 1:06:45
  fluent, let alone fluent enough to have been able to rebuttal a
• 1:06:48
  priest in real. Time, who spoke the language
• 1:06:52
  fluently as the priest inquired as to why the girl was being
• 1:06:56
  tormented it, whatever it was, replied with.
• 1:07:02
  She was cursed. Before she was born by a woman,
• 1:07:05
  a neighbor. Of her mother, Annalise's
• 1:07:08
  parents and Peter would later check this story out, but the
• 1:07:10
  woman had since passed away so they weren't able to come up
• 1:07:13
  with anything conclusive. This second exorcism would last
• 1:07:18
  for hours and would end with a haunting sentence from Annalise
• 1:07:22
  herself. She would say damned for all
• 1:07:27
  eternity. She would then curl back up and
• 1:07:29
  do a catatonic state. Like a statue.
• 1:07:33
  Now we only have some details here and there based on the
• 1:07:36
  diary entries, interviews, and audio recordings.
• 1:07:40
  But this would ultimately continue for months, and Elise
• 1:07:44
  would undergo 67 exorcisms in total.
• 1:07:47
  She would reveal that she was possessed by 5 demons and their
• 1:07:51
  names were Cain, Judas, Nero, Fleischmann and Lucifer, the
• 1:07:59
  Devil and the flesh. There is one more demon, but
• 1:08:03
  it's a name that I feel like if I say it on YouTube I will
• 1:08:07
  probably get demonetized. You can look it up for yourself
• 1:08:10
  to simply go to her Wikipedia page, which I will also be
• 1:08:13
  linking down in the comments below.
• 1:08:15
  Cain, known from the Bible as the first murderer, the
• 1:08:19
  originator of violence. Judas as in Judas Escarat, the
• 1:08:25
  man who betrayed Christ, Nero, the crazed Roman emperor who
• 1:08:30
  tortured Christians for his own sick enjoyment, Fleischmann who
• 1:08:35
  was a disgraced priest local to the land, and finally Lucifer,
• 1:08:40
  the Prince of darkness himself. Her physical decline due to not
• 1:08:45
  being able to eat, self-inflicted injuries and
• 1:08:49
  psychosis. Due to lack of.
• 1:08:50
  Sleep would finally take their toll.
• 1:08:54
  She would inform Father Rents on June 30th, at the end of what
• 1:08:57
  would be their final exorcism, that she had spoken with the
• 1:09:01
  Virgin Mary and that she had agreed to stay on earth and
• 1:09:05
  suffer through the demons to prove to people who didn't
• 1:09:08
  believe in God that the devil was very real.
• 1:09:12
  She would then ask for absolution, in which Father
• 1:09:15
  Rents would grant her. That night, she would go silent
• 1:09:19
  for the first. Time since all of these
• 1:09:22
  horrifying episodes had began in the following morning, around
• 1:09:26
  7:00 AM on July the 1st of 1976, she would be found.
• 1:09:32
  Dead in her bed. All of the.
• 1:09:34
  Exorcisms and attempts to drive the demons out had failed, and
• 1:09:40
  upon her death she only weighed roughly 85 lbs.
• 1:09:45
  Annalise had gone from a shy but happy girl with her whole life
• 1:09:49
  ahead of her to an emaciated shell of herself.
• 1:09:54
  Just how did we get here? Was it malpractice?
• 1:09:57
  Was she mentally ill, or was it truly the hands of the demonic
• 1:10:03
  that snuffed her out? After multiple calls have been
• 1:10:06
  made by her grieving family, a man named Doctor Keller would
• 1:10:10
  perform the post mortem examination.
• 1:10:13
  And it's important to note the following details because
• 1:10:16
  honestly, it's really intriguing.
• 1:10:18
  Her death was determined to be caused by starvation and
• 1:10:21
  possibly aggravated and tremendous physical exertion.
• 1:10:25
  In the final weeks of her life, you would find that her inner
• 1:10:28
  organs surprisingly were healthy and not damaged, as well as her
• 1:10:33
  brain, which showed no signs of epilepsy, not even on a
• 1:10:37
  microscopic. Level Curiously, still no
• 1:10:40
  bruising, bed sores or ulcerations were found on her
• 1:10:44
  skin. In the ensuing aftermath, the
• 1:10:47
  priests were arrested and charged with negligent.
• 1:10:51
  Homicide, as well as Joseph and Anna.
• 1:10:54
  The trial and case overall would become a highly debated issue
• 1:10:58
  among the German people of the time, with some being convinced
• 1:11:01
  that she died at the hands of Satan himself.
• 1:11:04
  And others that it was the fault of malpractice on behalf of the
• 1:11:08
  priests and her parents. The trial would last for months,
• 1:11:12
  with doctors weighing in with their opinions, lawyers,
• 1:11:15
  witnesses and just the whole works.
• 1:11:18
  And although I have those details here, there is so much
• 1:11:22
  to it, just the trial itself that honestly, I would probably
• 1:11:26
  have to make a whole other video in total just to cover it.
• 1:11:28
  The verdict, however, in my opinion, is the important part
• 1:11:32
  of what followed her death after a much heated debate.
• 1:11:35
  Ultimately, Michelle's parents and the priests involved would
• 1:11:39
  be charged with negligent homicide and would be sentenced
• 1:11:43
  to six months in prison. The six months ultimately would
• 1:11:47
  be reduced to three years of probation as well as a fine.
• 1:11:51
  Given the unique circumstances of the case, the church would
• 1:11:55
  draw a ton of heat as a result of what happened.
• 1:11:58
  They would ultimately retract the confirmation that Annalise
• 1:12:01
  Michelle was indeed possessed. Michelle had been buried under
• 1:12:05
  hurried circumstances and as a result of this, as well as
• 1:12:09
  multiple religious people sharing.
• 1:12:11
  That they had. Visions of her body untouched by
• 1:12:14
  decay. She would be exhumed almost two
• 1:12:17
  years later with the intention being.
• 1:12:20
  To have her. Buried in a nicer coffin, her
• 1:12:23
  family and friends were discouraged from viewing her
• 1:12:26
  remains because they were consistent with the decay of a
• 1:12:30
  corpse of that age. In the end, her case will go on
• 1:12:33
  to achieve worldwide notoriety and wood forest the Catholic
• 1:12:37
  Church to all but never issue sanctioned exorcisms.
• 1:12:41
  And on June 6th of 2013, the home in which her exorcisms took
• 1:12:46
  place in mysteriously caught fire and would burn to the
• 1:12:50
  ground. The police suspected arson but
• 1:12:53
  never ultimately proved it, but many locals believe that it was
• 1:12:57
  a result of what had taken place there.
• 1:13:00
  And really, it's hard telling. Decades after her death, her
• 1:13:04
  story would go on to inspire multiple films and books
• 1:13:08
  including The Exorcism of Emily Rose being the most popular and
• 1:13:12
  honestly fairly accurate with some liberties to the original
• 1:13:16
  story. And of many of those books, the
• 1:13:20
  best and most utilized resource of them for me has been The
• 1:13:24
  Exorcism of Annalise Michelle by Felicitous D Goodman.
• 1:13:28
  All, and I mean all details you could ever want about the entire
• 1:13:32
  case are available in this book and I would highly recommend it.
• 1:13:37
  In conclusion, Annalise's case remains A terrifying and
• 1:13:41
  mysterious one. Was she demonically possessed or
• 1:13:45
  incredibly mentally ill? Did her priests and parents
• 1:13:48
  genuinely help her and being freed from Satan's grasp, or did
• 1:13:52
  they contribute to the end of her life accidentally?
• 1:13:56
  Really, the final conclusion is yours to make, but regardless of
• 1:14:01
  the 'cause I'm glad that her suffering is over and I pray now
• 1:14:05
  that she can hopefully rest. Thank you guys so much for
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• 1:14:32
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  So let me know what you think for sure and I highly appreciate
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• 1:14:55
  And I really hope that I did Annalise's story justice, and I
• 1:14:59
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• 1:15:02
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  Out of all of them has truly earned the moniker.
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  From the time the soils dug up during the Victorian era, a
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  curse seemed to be placed upon the land.
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  And when you combine terrible happenings with the cult
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  much as I could to try and provide you with the most
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  cohesive picture possible. Hartford City, IN what was
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  started as a small log cabin settlement, continued to grow
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  and eventually hit the big time in the late 1880s where itself
• 1:17:02
  and its neighbors entered a natural gas boom, resulting in
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  many factories being created during industrialization.
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  Factories that produce textiles, glass and other goods.
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  But although natural resources were widely abundant within the
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  ground. There.
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  Something else seemed to inhabit the soil.
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  Our story begins at the construction site of a rather
• 1:17:29
  unsuspecting looking Victorian home.
• 1:17:32
  The year is 1892 and the Berger family, who immigrated to the
• 1:17:37
  area from Belgium, had been successful in their business
• 1:17:41
  endeavors and thus thought a new home and their new country would
• 1:17:46
  be the ultimate earthly reward. However, the family's newfound
• 1:17:50
  happiness would be all. But short lived.
• 1:17:54
  From the time the earth was dug up and the new home erected,
• 1:17:58
  within months, John Berger, the patriarch of the family, would
• 1:18:04
  die from tuberculosis within its walls, mourning his death.
• 1:18:09
  This would be far from the last tragedy his family.
• 1:18:12
  Would endure moving forward. Shortly after John's death, a
• 1:18:17
  fire would mysteriously start the upstairs level of the house.
• 1:18:22
  And time destroying a large portion of the property and the
• 1:18:26
  majority of the Berger family would meet a truly gruesome and
• 1:18:32
  terrible fate. Following the horrific fire that
• 1:18:35
  torched what little happiness the Berger family had left, the
• 1:18:39
  widow of the family and one surviving child desperately
• 1:18:43
  needed a source of income. So the widowed Missus Berger
• 1:18:48
  decided to start renting out rooms in order to make it.
• 1:18:52
  There would be various. Tenants, but the most prominent
• 1:18:56
  were the Myers family. The head of the.
• 1:18:58
  Household A man named Ulysses Myers was a well known and
• 1:19:03
  respected member of the community.
• 1:19:06
  He was known for his kindness, compassion, and for being an all
• 1:19:11
  around amazing family man. But this reputation would soon
• 1:19:16
  fade. Shortly after moving into the
• 1:19:19
  home, Ulysses slowly began to change.
• 1:19:25
  Those who knew him believed that he had done a complete shift in
• 1:19:28
  his entire personality, all just within months.
• 1:19:33
  So much so that he became unrecognizable not only to his
• 1:19:38
  close friends, but to his family as well.
• 1:19:42
  His kindness, compassion. And care all seemed to have been
• 1:19:47
  buried. And someone new now greeted them
• 1:19:50
  each day behind the eyes of Ulysses.
• 1:19:54
  He quickly became prone to fits of rage and insanity.
• 1:19:59
  This led him to become abusive towards his once beloved family,
• 1:20:04
  verbally as well as physically. These new bursts of rage,
• 1:20:09
  however, weren't reserved strictly for his family.
• 1:20:12
  He soon turned on friends and colleagues too.
• 1:20:16
  His sudden heel turn for Myers led him to losing his job after
• 1:20:20
  an altercation at his workplace and shortly after this, despite
• 1:20:25
  how much he had cherished his family before, he stole what was
• 1:20:30
  left of his family's money and abandoned his wife and children
• 1:20:35
  by skipping town with a new found mistress.
• 1:20:39
  All of which was the. Polar opposite of the man that
• 1:20:42
  they thought they knew. Shatter beyond repair, the Myers
• 1:20:47
  family were left with open wounds upon their hearts and
• 1:20:51
  confusion and their minds. The only differing factor from
• 1:20:55
  their life before to what it was now was the fact that they had
• 1:20:59
  moved into this house. Now, with the home claiming the
• 1:21:03
  destruction of two families, rumors quickly began to spread
• 1:21:07
  locally throughout Hartford City that the house contains some
• 1:21:12
  kind of curse, whether it was upon the property or the land
• 1:21:17
  was uncertain. The Myers family soon moved out
• 1:21:21
  and due to the rumors, Missus Berger was unable to keep
• 1:21:24
  tenants to help support her and her surviving child.
• 1:21:29
  Thus, she was forced to sell the property at a fire sale rate in
• 1:21:33
  order to start somewhere new. What happened to the Berger's is
• 1:21:38
  unknown. With this sale a.
• 1:21:41
  Revolving door of tenants and owners.
• 1:21:44
  Would begin as soon as one family would move in.
• 1:21:48
  They would almost immediately move out again and again.
• 1:21:52
  This cycle would continue. It would go from being lived in
• 1:21:57
  by a family to being rented out and built on to eventually
• 1:22:02
  creating its triplex design that we know today.
• 1:22:06
  Those who had moved in and out often reported experiencing
• 1:22:11
  bizarre activity and others simply just didn't say anything,
• 1:22:17
  possibly not wanting to come to grips with the reality of what
• 1:22:21
  they had been through. This ever changing list of
• 1:22:24
  tenants would continue for decades.
• 1:22:29
  Along with this revolving door of people came a revolving door
• 1:22:33
  of peculiar behaviors and practices.
• 1:22:37
  Rumors began to circulate in the late 1980s and into the early
• 1:22:42
  1990s that tenants during this time frame were performing
• 1:22:47
  occult rituals and ceremonies within the home, particularly
• 1:22:52
  within the basement black magic rituals and ceremonies.
• 1:22:59
  Those conducting them attempted to harness the negative energy
• 1:23:03
  that dwelled there to conjure a demon to do their bidding.
• 1:23:08
  Although information is limited, one could assume that perhaps
• 1:23:13
  their efforts were successful. From the mid 90s onward, the
• 1:23:19
  strangeness that surrounds the house on Monroe St. only
• 1:23:23
  intensified with new stories coming from new tenants and
• 1:23:28
  neighbors alike. Stories that this old Victorian
• 1:23:33
  home housed a dark and malevolent force.
• 1:23:38
  These stories soon began to spread like wildfire.
• 1:23:41
  Those who would move into the house typically would only last
• 1:23:45
  in the home a year or less. They often fled in the middle of
• 1:23:50
  the night with nothing but the clothes upon their backs, only
• 1:23:55
  continuing to solidify that something evil dwelled within
• 1:23:59
  the house. Things in fact got so bad that
• 1:24:03
  even when the home was abandoned for a time, the windows would be
• 1:24:07
  blacked out in order to keep people from looking inside.
• 1:24:11
  But not because of vandalism problems, but due to so many
• 1:24:15
  neighbors and passer bys calling the police claiming that they
• 1:24:20
  kept seeing shadowy figures walk around the interior of the
• 1:24:24
  Monroe House. With the home providing a
• 1:24:28
  plethora of paranormal evidence and experiences, this soon drew
• 1:24:33
  the attention of paranormal scholars and investigation
• 1:24:37
  groups from all over the country.
• 1:24:41
  This is just some of the activity said to have been
• 1:24:44
  experienced by various groups over the years.
• 1:24:48
  People have reported a vast amount of supernatural
• 1:24:51
  happenings, many of which have been caught on film, photo or
• 1:24:56
  digital audio recording. These range from aggressive and
• 1:25:01
  insulting Evps or electronic voice phenomena to full bodied
• 1:25:06
  apparitions, shadow figures, and possibly in human
• 1:25:11
  manifestations. Mysterious sounds like knocking,
• 1:25:16
  banging and footsteps are common, doors and cabinets
• 1:25:22
  slamming shut with incredible amounts of force, and most of
• 1:25:27
  the activity seems to be centered around the basement as
• 1:25:31
  well as the top floor. And the top?
• 1:25:34
  Floor is speculated to be the place where the fire had started
• 1:25:39
  that engulfed the Berger family. The basement, of course, is
• 1:25:43
  where the alleged black magic rituals took place.
• 1:25:48
  In both of these locations, an eerie, shadowy specter of an old
• 1:25:53
  malicious woman is said to attack people.
• 1:25:57
  But just who could this entity be?
• 1:26:00
  Someone who had previously lived there, or something inhuman
• 1:26:04
  cloaking itself and some kind of familiar skin?
• 1:26:09
  Stories of groups panicking and fleeing too have become
• 1:26:13
  commonplace. 1 Paranormal group, which wishes to remain anonymous
• 1:26:19
  and 2014 had such a disturbing experience that they fled the
• 1:26:24
  home and fear for their lives. They arrived on site at the
• 1:26:29
  Monroe house amidst a strong thunderstorm, unpacking their
• 1:26:34
  vehicle, attempting to keep their equipment dry and safe.
• 1:26:39
  They made their way inside and in due time began documenting
• 1:26:43
  whatever they could find there. As they investigated, asking
• 1:26:48
  questions, provoking interaction and recording level by level,
• 1:26:55
  the more activity they began to experience, shadows moved out of
• 1:27:01
  the corner of their eyes. Bangs knocking and cabinets
• 1:27:07
  slamming shut could be discerned from the reverb of the Thunder
• 1:27:12
  outside. But it's when they decided to go
• 1:27:15
  down to the basement that their lives would be altered forever.
• 1:27:22
  As they descended the stairs, an eerie cold began to overtake
• 1:27:26
  them. As they asked their questions,
• 1:27:30
  attempting to catch any activity they could, their flashlights
• 1:27:35
  and devices failed. Left with only the enveloping
• 1:27:40
  darkness, with the occasional flash of lightning coming
• 1:27:44
  through the basement windows, something appeared to them that
• 1:27:48
  caused them to flee immediately. But just what or who was this
• 1:27:55
  apparition? This cannot be confirmed.
• 1:28:00
  Whatever it was terrified them so much that they fled into the
• 1:28:04
  torrential downpour and refused to ever return later when asked
• 1:28:10
  for details. Even separately, the members of
• 1:28:14
  the group thus far have refused to discuss the incident further.
• 1:28:19
  Whether this is out of fear for whatever this thing is or was re
• 1:28:23
  entering their lives, or the mere thought is so reality
• 1:28:27
  shattering, 1 cannot be sure. This incident in its aftermath
• 1:28:33
  truly makes you wonder just what they could have saw within the
• 1:28:36
  dilapidated, damp basement that occurs tonight.
• 1:28:42
  Investigations will continue with multiple groups coming in
• 1:28:45
  and out until a very peculiar discovery took place in 2016 and
• 1:28:52
  this discovery would lead to much speculation as to what
• 1:28:56
  could have happened within the house.
• 1:28:59
  While conducting an investigation for their show
• 1:29:01
  Paranormal Lockdown, Nick Groff and Katrina Weirdman found
• 1:29:06
  themselves in the basement and were slowly being drawn to the
• 1:29:10
  crawl space of the house as they traverse the damp darkness.
• 1:29:15
  What they would find? But alter the story forever.
• 1:29:19
  Located within the crawl space were human remains, bones buried
• 1:29:26
  in a shallow grave. This freaked the entire crew out
• 1:29:31
  and prompted them to stop filming and to call the police
• 1:29:34
  immediately. From here, a full scale
• 1:29:37
  investigation would be conducted and the remains excavated and
• 1:29:43
  sent to a local coroner there in Indiana for further examination.
• 1:29:48
  The bones were indeed confirmed to be human and were quote at
• 1:29:53
  least 100 years old, possibly older.
• 1:29:57
  Following the coroner, they were sent to Indiana University for
• 1:30:01
  further testing to determine the age and identification of the
• 1:30:05
  person. At this point, the final outcome
• 1:30:09
  has not yet been reported, such as the age of the individual
• 1:30:13
  found or their identity or potential cause of death.
• 1:30:18
  The presumed investigation is still underway.
• 1:30:22
  Let's put a brief. Pause on people being allowed to
• 1:30:24
  enter the now privately owned home.
• 1:30:27
  But that pause has since been lifted, with many more
• 1:30:31
  investigations taking place over the years since, and with these
• 1:30:36
  investigations even more paranormal activity and
• 1:30:41
  aggressive. Activity at that.
• 1:30:43
  Has been reported. These investigations also range
• 1:30:47
  from amateur to professional, from the average Joe to
• 1:30:52
  Youtubers and famous paranormal teams.
• 1:30:57
  Those who have entered the walls of the Monroe Demon House have
• 1:31:01
  experienced an addition to previously mentioned activity.
• 1:31:06
  Strange sights, smells and feelings.
• 1:31:11
  Demonic snarls, growls, and even full blown attacks have
• 1:31:15
  happened, and these have involved scratching, biting and
• 1:31:21
  being shoved. Often times these more intense
• 1:31:25
  manifestations are accompanied with aggressive and commanding
• 1:31:29
  Evps where people's names are often used.
• 1:31:34
  Windows slamming shoves so much force that they shatter, leaving
• 1:31:39
  fragments of glass all over the floor, just like the fragments
• 1:31:43
  left of the lives of the families who once dwelt There
• 1:31:48
  has also happened one previous owner of the home allegedly even
• 1:31:54
  jumped out a window on the top floor upon being attacked by a
• 1:31:59
  demonic apparition. Imagine that for a moment you're
• 1:32:04
  so terrified that you would rather risk diving through a
• 1:32:07
  window. At the top of your house.
• 1:32:11
  Breaking it ultimately, let alone falling however far and
• 1:32:15
  injuring yourself at a pure fear and fight or flight.
• 1:32:21
  Instead of dealing with whatever this thing was that was
• 1:32:25
  attacking you, rushing towards you, that to me is bone
• 1:32:29
  chilling. Others who have stayed more
• 1:32:32
  recently have also reported puddles of strange liquid
• 1:32:36
  throughout the house at varying times with seemingly no origin,
• 1:32:43
  horrific nightmares if they managed to sleep, and why you
• 1:32:47
  would ever choose to sleep there is beyond me.
• 1:32:51
  And even strange footprints or paw prints such as this one have
• 1:32:56
  also been discovered multiple times.
• 1:33:00
  So with all of these high strangeness manifestations, we
• 1:33:04
  must ask ourselves. Just what is it that?
• 1:33:07
  Lurks within the Monroe Demon House.
• 1:33:11
  Could it have been a curse placed upon the land?
• 1:33:14
  Something that predated the building.
• 1:33:16
  Of the house. It's certainly possible, in my
• 1:33:20
  opinion, to somewhat. Back up that.
• 1:33:22
  Claim Native American artifacts such as arrowheads have been
• 1:33:27
  found around the property, but nothing significant that would
• 1:33:31
  indicate some kind of a curse. No burial grounds or mounds from
• 1:33:37
  what I could find. What if it was a generation or
• 1:33:41
  family curse? Again, it's possible, but seems
• 1:33:46
  somewhat unlikely. From what I've seen, the Berger
• 1:33:49
  family, up until the home was built had great success in their
• 1:33:53
  endeavors and for all intents and purposes seemed happy and
• 1:33:57
  thriving. Until, of course, they weren't.
• 1:34:02
  Then there's the enigma of the Myers family.
• 1:34:05
  Did Ulysses Myers lose his mind due to the home?
• 1:34:09
  One could certainly make that connection considering his
• 1:34:12
  complete shift in personality, but what was it in particular
• 1:34:16
  that caused him to change so drastically?
• 1:34:19
  This question and more we may never truly be able to answer.
• 1:34:25
  All we can do is speculate. Then the numerous owners and
• 1:34:31
  tenants over the decades since the days of the Burgers and
• 1:34:35
  Myers, many of them reporting odd and often scary paranormal
• 1:34:41
  or poltergeist activity. Was this activity?
• 1:34:44
  Also taking place when the older families lived there.
• 1:34:49
  Or did it start after their departure?
• 1:34:52
  If this was the case, if it started afterwards.
• 1:34:56
  Was that the result of negative events attracting something
• 1:34:59
  dark, or was one of the families or family members involved in
• 1:35:05
  the occult? And Speaking of a cult, just who
• 1:35:09
  or what were those people in the late 80s and to the early 90s
• 1:35:13
  doing? What kind of black magic or
• 1:35:17
  rituals were conducted and were they responsible for conjuring
• 1:35:22
  some kind of entity into the home?
• 1:35:25
  Or. Did their practices just make
• 1:35:28
  the entire situation much worse, and did it have anything to do
• 1:35:33
  with the human remains that were found in the basement?
• 1:35:36
  And if not the Black Mages closer to modern times, someone
• 1:35:41
  in the early 1900s had to have known just who this person was
• 1:35:45
  and what happened. To them and of course.
• 1:35:49
  Will the identity and cause of death ever be determined for the
• 1:35:53
  poor soul whose remains were found within the basement?
• 1:35:57
  As you ponder all of these questions and attempt to draw
• 1:36:00
  your own conclusions, I want to leave you with several final
• 1:36:05
  questions. Will the activity ever cease and
• 1:36:10
  will the origin ever truly be determined?
• 1:36:14
  All of these questions honestly may not have answers.
• 1:36:18
  Perhaps they're out of our scope of understanding, or perhaps the
• 1:36:23
  answers have just simply been lost to the sands of time.
• 1:36:28
  The one thing I can say for certain is this.
• 1:36:33
  Given how many people have experienced dark and spine
• 1:36:36
  tingling paranormal activity within this house, and taking
• 1:36:41
  into account how long it has been occurring, this is 1 home
• 1:36:46
  that has truly earned the name the Demon House.
• 1:36:51
  Because a demon is precisely what may just be lurking within
• 1:36:56
  its depths. Curiosity is a fascinating
• 1:37:00
  element of the human condition. Our innate impulse for discovery
• 1:37:06
  has LED countless souls to scale the heights of mountains and
• 1:37:11
  dive into the deepest abysses. But can curiosity be dangerous?
• 1:37:17
  Can we stumble upon something we shouldn't have and our
• 1:37:21
  explorations into the unknown? Consider the case of former NASA
• 1:37:26
  engineer Bill Vale, who, after a chance encounter with a strange
• 1:37:30
  ritual, finds himself plagued by a merciless evil that threatens
• 1:37:36
  to ruin his life. Yet he is just as haunted by
• 1:37:40
  burning desire to know the truth.
• 1:37:43
  About what is tormenting him. Today we will be exploring the
• 1:37:47
  untold story of Bill Vale. Here on Mystery Archives, please
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  The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA,
• 1:38:19
  is an independent organization. Affiliated with the US
• 1:38:22
  government. Since its founding in 1958, the
• 1:38:27
  agency has broadened humanity's understanding of the heavens and
• 1:38:32
  the dark void that waits just outside of our planet.
• 1:38:37
  It is an agency that, from the beginning, has attracted curious
• 1:38:41
  souls, including Bill Vale. Bill had long worked in fields
• 1:38:46
  that required not just an intelligent or curious mind, but
• 1:38:50
  a logical. 1. Bill had worked as a sonar
• 1:38:54
  supervisor on a nuclear submarine, spent years as a
• 1:38:57
  pilot and a robotics engineer. He worked as an operations
• 1:39:03
  quality manager for a company that produced Space Flight
• 1:39:06
  critical hardware for NASA. All of these jobs required
• 1:39:11
  attention to detail and keen observation.
• 1:39:15
  All of them required close attention to surroundings and
• 1:39:19
  the ability to remain calm under intense pressure.
• 1:39:23
  He was gifted with a driving sense to know he never guessed.
• 1:39:28
  Instead, he would learn and do research in order to truly
• 1:39:33
  understand he was a man driven. By relentless curiosity.
• 1:39:39
  Bill and his family were not people who were easily spooked,
• 1:39:43
  and his friends would come to him if they wanted a straight
• 1:39:46
  and clear cut rational story about anything.
• 1:39:49
  However, Bill would find his life taking a sudden turn when
• 1:39:53
  he and his wife finalized their divorce in 2002.
• 1:39:57
  Feeling burned out and needing a fresh start in life, Bill quit
• 1:40:00
  his job in the aerospace industry and move back to his
• 1:40:03
  hometown in Arlington, TX to be with his little brother Bob and
• 1:40:07
  reconnect. After many years.
• 1:40:10
  He searched around for something, anything different to
• 1:40:13
  do with his life. He found an ad for a job at the
• 1:40:16
  same water purification company where his brother worked.
• 1:40:20
  Worked and decided to roll the dice and take the opportunity.
• 1:40:24
  And during this time he looked for a house and found one that
• 1:40:28
  was well within his budget. The deal seemed almost too good
• 1:40:32
  to be true. It was like they were trying to
• 1:40:34
  give the house away early. During Bill's employment at his
• 1:40:38
  new job, his employer had received a call from a client
• 1:40:42
  asking for someone to be at her house at exactly 5:00 PM, not a
• 1:40:46
  minute earlier or a minute after, but exactly on time.
• 1:40:51
  Wanting to prove his competence to his fellow Co workers, Bill
• 1:40:54
  went ahead and accepted the job. He kept an eye on his watch as
• 1:40:58
  he drove through the suburban streets of Arlington to make
• 1:41:01
  sure that he would arrive right on schedule.
• 1:41:04
  When he reached his destination, outside of an ordinary looking
• 1:41:07
  home, the first noises he heard upon approaching the door were
• 1:41:11
  the screams. Of a woman.
• 1:41:14
  Coming from inside, raising an eyebrow and feeling that
• 1:41:17
  something wasn't quite right and hoping that they would just
• 1:41:20
  cancel the appointment altogether, he went ahead and
• 1:41:22
  walked to the front door at exactly 5:00 PM.
• 1:41:26
  Upon knocking, at first there didn't appear to be any sort of
• 1:41:29
  an interruption, then the woman's yelling.
• 1:41:32
  However, through the muffled screams, he was able to
• 1:41:35
  unmistakingly make out and the name of Christ.
• 1:41:38
  I command you to leave these men.
• 1:41:40
  Which he thought was peculiar to say the least.
• 1:41:43
  Then the door opened. A strange woman stood in the
• 1:41:47
  small crack that had now been created with just a blank
• 1:41:50
  expression on her face. Without saying a word she
• 1:41:54
  pointed a long Bony finger at him and then slammed the door.
• 1:41:59
  A feeling of strangeness and dread overtook Bill and he went
• 1:42:02
  ahead and ran to his company vehicle as fast as his legs
• 1:42:06
  could carry him. He then would call his employer
• 1:42:09
  and tell him that he would never take a call from this client
• 1:42:11
  again. As he went about his day, he
• 1:42:14
  couldn't help shake the events from earlier in the day from his
• 1:42:17
  mind. Against his own rational
• 1:42:19
  judgement, he felt as though the woman had been trying to warn
• 1:42:22
  him in some strange way. After his shift ended that
• 1:42:26
  evening, he went home and got settled in for the night.
• 1:42:29
  Bill was sound asleep when he felt himself jolted awake by
• 1:42:33
  what he thought was an earthquake.
• 1:42:36
  His bed shook violently. Almost to the.
• 1:42:39
  Point of knocking him off of it. Then, as suddenly as it had
• 1:42:43
  began, the shaking stopped. Still in a daze, but now wide
• 1:42:49
  awake, Bill set about attempting to see just what had happened.
• 1:42:53
  Nothing else in his house appeared to have been shaken by
• 1:42:56
  the quake. The clocks in his home read
• 1:42:59
  around 3:00 AM and he wasn't terribly convinced that it was
• 1:43:03
  in fact an earthquake, that it caused the disturbance.
• 1:43:07
  He attempted to recreate the shaking of his bed himself, but
• 1:43:11
  was unable to. Deciding that he must have just
• 1:43:13
  been dreaming, he went ahead and just laid back down and decided
• 1:43:17
  that he would check the following day if an earthquake
• 1:43:19
  had indeed happened. However, upon checking the
• 1:43:23
  following day, no such quake had occurred.
• 1:43:26
  After this incident, doves and other birds would begin
• 1:43:29
  gathering in the trees outside of his home, so much so that the
• 1:43:33
  realtor who had sold him the house was baffled.
• 1:43:37
  He soon started to notice the pervasive, almost smothering
• 1:43:41
  smell of bacon in his home. Which is kind of odd if you
• 1:43:44
  think about it. Just something cooking and bacon
• 1:43:46
  has a very particular scent. It was if someone was
• 1:43:49
  constantly. Cooking an entire package on his
• 1:43:52
  stove. Walking through mysterious cold
• 1:43:54
  spots at his house became a regular occurrence as well.
• 1:43:58
  Although Bill would try his best to find a rational explanation,
• 1:44:02
  such as something being caused by his air conditioner or poor
• 1:44:06
  insulation or a draft, nothing he could come up with made
• 1:44:11
  rational sense to explain what he was experiencing.
• 1:44:15
  At night, he would experience things that would only get
• 1:44:18
  darker and more sinister as time went on.
• 1:44:22
  He would awaken the early morning hours to the sensation
• 1:44:26
  of small creatures like cats or dogs running across his feet,
• 1:44:31
  but his dogs slept in their kennels at night.
• 1:44:34
  When they were out. However, they would also growl
• 1:44:37
  and even bark at seemingly nothing at random areas in the
• 1:44:41
  house. The activity, however, began so
• 1:44:45
  slight that it could easily be ignored.
• 1:44:49
  And even if it couldn't be ignored, Bill would try to write
• 1:44:52
  it off by finding some sort of a logical explanation and just
• 1:44:56
  dismissing it in his mind. However, Bill would soon
• 1:44:59
  experience a watershed moment when he was watching TV one
• 1:45:03
  evening in his house. Suddenly, he watched as a water
• 1:45:07
  bottle, which had been sitting on his kitchen counter, flew
• 1:45:11
  across the room and bounced off the wall next to his head.
• 1:45:15
  It was at this point that Bill and all of his logic and
• 1:45:19
  experience finally had to admit that what he was dealing with
• 1:45:24
  had to fall. Under the realm of the
• 1:45:26
  paranormal. For he had no other explanation,
• 1:45:30
  no other reasoning that would make sense of the months of
• 1:45:33
  unseen forces toying with him. However, at this final
• 1:45:37
  acceptance that it was something supernatural in nature, the
• 1:45:40
  phenomena began to kick into a higher gear.
• 1:45:44
  The phenomena deepened beyond just sights and affecting Bill's
• 1:45:48
  surroundings. Electronic technicians
• 1:45:51
  frequented his house often due to the constant flickering of
• 1:45:54
  lights, failure of his computer and television, and many of them
• 1:45:59
  stated that they had never experienced anything.
• 1:46:02
  Like they did. Inside Bill's house and their
• 1:46:05
  entire careers, alongside the strange fluctuations and the
• 1:46:09
  electricity, Bill's phone also began calling people by itself
• 1:46:14
  throughout all odd hours of the night.
• 1:46:17
  Usually around 3:00 AM, Bill called his phone company to
• 1:46:21
  attempt to find a solution to the problem, and during his
• 1:46:24
  phone call with the representative, a strange and
• 1:46:28
  aggressive voice could be heard in the static, speaking in a
• 1:46:32
  language that neither of them could understand.
• 1:46:36
  The representative confirmed that he had heard it as well and
• 1:46:39
  was baffled because they used to secure a line that a third party
• 1:46:43
  could definitely not access or hijack.
• 1:46:47
  While calling his friend Michael, who happened to be a
• 1:46:49
  sound engineer, the same voice appeared on the phone line.
• 1:46:53
  Bill told Michael to hang up because he believed that there
• 1:46:56
  was something evil about this voice, but Michael had already
• 1:47:00
  began recording the conversation.
• 1:47:03
  However, upon the phone call ending and then upon Michael
• 1:47:06
  reviewing the audio that he had recorded, no such voice could be
• 1:47:11
  found. Bill soon needed more
• 1:47:13
  confirmation that other people were seeing what he was seeing
• 1:47:17
  so that he can rule out if he was crazy or not.
• 1:47:21
  He invited his brother Bob over and asked him to stand in his
• 1:47:24
  bedroom closet with the lights off.
• 1:47:27
  Bob thought it was an odd request, but he went ahead and
• 1:47:30
  agreed and went and stood in his brother's closet with the door
• 1:47:33
  closed. Bob would emerge a little while
• 1:47:35
  later, a bit disgruntled, but when Bill asked him if he had
• 1:47:39
  experienced anything, all he had to say at that time was that I
• 1:47:44
  think the closet needs to be cleaned.
• 1:47:46
  However, later Bob would reveal that during his time in the
• 1:47:50
  closet, two large boxes had fallen behind him and the cord
• 1:47:54
  for the overhead light had smacked him across the face.
• 1:47:58
  It spooked him enough at the time to where he didn't want to
• 1:48:01
  speak about it. At one point when Bob was at
• 1:48:04
  Bill's house in his den, sitting at the bar while writing down
• 1:48:08
  information for an upcoming appointment of his, he began to
• 1:48:11
  hear something rustling around in the trash can and out of his
• 1:48:15
  line of. Sight.
• 1:48:17
  He ignored it. For a time and soon thought that
• 1:48:19
  possibly it could be Bill's dogs that were getting into the
• 1:48:22
  trash. So concerned, he stood up and
• 1:48:25
  went over to inspect it. However, not only was the trash
• 1:48:29
  untouched, but as he passed by to where it was, he noticed that
• 1:48:34
  Bill's dogs were all crated in their kennels.
• 1:48:37
  On another occasion, he briefly used Bill's house as a pit stop
• 1:48:41
  on the way to an appointment, and after using the restroom,
• 1:48:44
  Bob noticed that the sway light from the ceiling was moving back
• 1:48:48
  and forth quite erratically and on its own.
• 1:48:52
  Dismissing it at the time, he thought that it was just the AC
• 1:48:55
  unit that was making it move. It was only later, upon asking
• 1:48:59
  Bill that he learned, in fact, that there was no AC unit or
• 1:49:03
  ductwork that went anywhere near where.
• 1:49:06
  That light was. On another night, Bob and his
• 1:49:09
  wife were at Bill's house for dinner and Bill watched the
• 1:49:12
  television and saw something move out of the corner of his
• 1:49:15
  eyes. He stood up immediately, wanting
• 1:49:18
  to make sure that he wasn't the only one seeing it.
• 1:49:21
  He quickly had Bob sit down and watch the TV to see if he
• 1:49:25
  noticed anything out of the corner.
• 1:49:26
  Of his eyes. Soon a look of shock came over
• 1:49:30
  Bob's face as he saw something move in his closet.
• 1:49:34
  When Bob's wife sat down, she too gasped after a moment as
• 1:49:38
  well. All three of them would sketch
• 1:49:41
  out what they saw and they all drew the same thing.
• 1:49:45
  A small 2 to 3 feet tall being that looked like an imp.
• 1:49:50
  For those unaware, Imps are demons from European.
• 1:49:53
  Folklore. And myth that are depicted as
• 1:49:56
  small and mischievous goblin like and they were familiar
• 1:50:01
  spirits of witches or even the devil's personal attendance.
• 1:50:06
  After this, Bill told him everything that he had been
• 1:50:09
  experiencing and Bob then offered to let his brother stay
• 1:50:13
  with him until they figured out just what exactly was taking
• 1:50:16
  place. However, appreciating the offer,
• 1:50:19
  Bill decided to decline it. His reasoning was that he felt
• 1:50:23
  that if he left, he would be giving in to whatever was
• 1:50:26
  tormenting him like it had won over him.
• 1:50:30
  Following these events, his bedroom became a constant source
• 1:50:34
  of torment as the bed would sometimes shake violently and
• 1:50:38
  other times just enough to keep him awake.
• 1:50:42
  Small hands would depress his mattress and even hit him from
• 1:50:46
  underneath. He would feel invisible beings
• 1:50:50
  slide into bed next to him and would often hear loud knocks,
• 1:50:54
  bangs and scratches from. Inside his walls.
• 1:50:59
  He would receive scratches and bruises without explanation, and
• 1:51:04
  he then began to see the apparition.
• 1:51:07
  Of a ghost. Cat as well as strange cold
• 1:51:10
  mists within his house. The home quickly became a place
• 1:51:16
  full of a dark and foreboding presence.
• 1:51:19
  Bill desperately wanted all of this to stop, to reclaim his
• 1:51:23
  home and his life. He began to research the occult,
• 1:51:28
  the paranormal, in anything and everything online and in
• 1:51:33
  literature that would give him a better understanding of what he
• 1:51:38
  was dealing with and possibly how to remedy it.
• 1:51:42
  Meanwhile, the activity was taking a toll on Bill's health.
• 1:51:47
  He found himself sick and often taking trips.
• 1:51:51
  To the hospital more than he was used to.
• 1:51:54
  Fearing that whatever this was was not only tormenting him but
• 1:51:57
  also affecting his health, Bill decided to reach out to a
• 1:52:01
  paranormal group for help. Going through many teams, Bill
• 1:52:06
  declined to work with many of them because they didn't seem
• 1:52:09
  scientific in their approach. This was until he found a team
• 1:52:14
  known as. Did you see that?
• 1:52:15
  Or. Dyst which to Bill, had the
• 1:52:19
  right kind of logical and rational mindset to properly
• 1:52:23
  investigate the beings that had seemingly infested his life.
• 1:52:27
  He found their number and dialed it right away.
• 1:52:30
  From here, Bill's life would only continue to go down a
• 1:52:34
  rabbit hole that he never would have found himself going down
• 1:52:37
  otherwise. It was Saturday night when Bill
• 1:52:40
  got a knock at his door. For some time now, he had been
• 1:52:44
  inviting groups of strangers into his home to investigate the
• 1:52:48
  happenings inside of his house. He had seen many come and go,
• 1:52:52
  usually only for a night, and none of them were truly.
• 1:52:56
  Able to help, when he opened the door this time, there was only
• 1:53:00
  one man. Standing there to greet him and
• 1:53:02
  his name was Brian Hall, the founder of DYSTA paranormal team
• 1:53:08
  that claimed they did not search for ghosts, but they searched
• 1:53:12
  for answers. Brian founded DYST in 2005 with
• 1:53:17
  friends in the Dallas Fort Worth area in Texas.
• 1:53:21
  They performed investigations and posted their findings on
• 1:53:25
  Myspace and began to receive emails and calls from people
• 1:53:30
  wanting their aid and expertise in the paranormal.
• 1:53:34
  Part of DYSTS procedure was to begin with a single member of
• 1:53:38
  the team giving an assessment of the location before bringing in
• 1:53:43
  the rest of the team and any of the equipment.
• 1:53:46
  Brian quickly noted the oppressive atmosphere in the
• 1:53:48
  house and once he made his rounds.
• 1:53:51
  He gave the OK. For the rest of the team to come
• 1:53:54
  in and begin the second phase, the team was full of various
• 1:53:58
  experts in their fields, with a critical eye for anything that
• 1:54:02
  could possibly cause noise or strange phenomena in an ordinary
• 1:54:06
  house. They searched the house from top
• 1:54:09
  to bottom and once they were satisfied that they had
• 1:54:12
  identified any possible areas of false evidence, they went
• 1:54:16
  outside. And returned with their
• 1:54:19
  equipment, they set up a. Command post in the living room
• 1:54:23
  with cameras and audio recorders throughout the house trying to
• 1:54:27
  pick up anything. That could be.
• 1:54:29
  Lurking within its depths that night, however, was fairly
• 1:54:33
  uneventful. After the team had departed with
• 1:54:36
  little to go on, Bill called his mother to tell her how the
• 1:54:39
  investigation had gone. During the call, Bill heard
• 1:54:42
  three distinct knocks, as if the House were declaring its own
• 1:54:47
  malevolent victory. Unlike the previous
• 1:54:50
  investigator, Dyst would eventually return, turn over
• 1:54:53
  several months to continually probe the home for its dark and
• 1:54:58
  sinister secrets. Activity began to reveal itself
• 1:55:03
  to the members of the team over time.
• 1:55:06
  Shadow people, Imps, and even the disembodied apparition of a
• 1:55:12
  ghost like Cat were experienced by the crew.
• 1:55:15
  On one occasion, the team brought in lasers for a
• 1:55:18
  particular experiment. The tech was.
• 1:55:21
  Designed to cast a laser grid and a darkened bedroom, this
• 1:55:25
  technique is intended to detect even the slightest movement that
• 1:55:30
  might be invisible to the naked eye.
• 1:55:33
  The first night came and went with nothing noteworthy
• 1:55:36
  happening. The second was much like the
• 1:55:39
  first. But the third?
• 1:55:41
  When they use the laser grid, Bill, Brian, and the team were
• 1:55:46
  sitting in the command center when they all heard a loud
• 1:55:49
  crashing noise coming from Bill's bedroom.
• 1:55:52
  Upon inspecting the bedroom, they found the laser device on
• 1:55:57
  the floor. The device had been thrown by a
• 1:56:00
  powerful and unseen force. It had been flung so hard.
• 1:56:05
  That it had struck the bed. Bounced off of it and then hit a
• 1:56:08
  nearby dresser. They first checked the cameras,
• 1:56:12
  only to find that their batteries have been drained of
• 1:56:15
  all of their power. This was a common occurrence
• 1:56:18
  during investigations at the house, and it was a pervasive
• 1:56:22
  obstacle to finding any visual evidence.
• 1:56:25
  And we often hear this in many paranormal investigations,
• 1:56:29
  especially darker ones. For some reason they tend to
• 1:56:33
  drain battery life. As if they're feeding off of it.
• 1:56:37
  The team noted times to where they could audibly hear the
• 1:56:39
  moment that their cameras were switched off by something that
• 1:56:43
  they couldn't see. Luckily, they found out that the
• 1:56:46
  audio recording devices were still functioning when the
• 1:56:50
  phenomena occurred. When they played back the audio,
• 1:56:54
  not only did they hear a loud crashing sound, but they heard
• 1:56:57
  something else entirely. They heard a disembodied voice
• 1:57:00
  say He's coming back. Time to put it back on just
• 1:57:05
  before the laser crashed and hit the floor.
• 1:57:09
  Despite the lack of visual evidence, Brian was determined
• 1:57:12
  to catch the phenomenon on video.
• 1:57:15
  The next time they arrived at the house, they brought even
• 1:57:17
  more cameras and more laser grids.
• 1:57:21
  They set up the equipment as before and let the newest
• 1:57:24
  teammate, Sean, lay in bed in the master bedroom.
• 1:57:28
  And he called out into the darkness.
• 1:57:31
  If you're there, give us a sign. Within an instant, the laser
• 1:57:36
  moved with a violent force, causing Shawn to cry out in
• 1:57:39
  surprise. The rest of the team then rushed
• 1:57:42
  into the bedroom to gather the equipment and to assess the
• 1:57:46
  evidence. All but one camera had been
• 1:57:49
  completely drained of power. The device had been pointing
• 1:57:53
  directly at the laser. The footage it caught not only
• 1:57:58
  showed the laser being shoved, but a strange miss that formed
• 1:58:02
  around the laser, turning it into a violent and aggressive
• 1:58:05
  vortex before the activity occurred and then finally
• 1:58:10
  dissipating after its conclusion.
• 1:58:13
  During another investigation, Bill and his brother Bob and his
• 1:58:17
  wife Cindy would attend and in addition he invited a friend,
• 1:58:21
  Chuck and his wife Melissa. Chuck Kelly had been long time
• 1:58:26
  friends with Bill through golfing.
• 1:58:28
  To call him a skeptic to the paranormal would be an
• 1:58:31
  understatement. His wife Melissa, however, was a
• 1:58:34
  woman who not only believed in the paranormal but was sensitive
• 1:58:38
  to it and that allowed her to see beings that were invisible
• 1:58:42
  to the naked eye. For a long time, she had refused
• 1:58:46
  to go near Bill's home for this reason, but not knowing that,
• 1:58:50
  Chuck eventually confronted her about this.
• 1:58:52
  And she said there's something in that house that's intelligent
• 1:58:56
  and evil, something that knows that I know, and I'm afraid of
• 1:59:01
  what will happen if I go there. After Bill reached out to Chuck,
• 1:59:06
  Chuck told his wife that she needed to speak with him because
• 1:59:09
  he needs her help. When she met with Bill, he
• 1:59:13
  revealed everything that had been happening.
• 1:59:15
  Despite knowing the danger of the entity in his home.
• 1:59:19
  Melissa was moved by Bill's plight and agreed to attend the
• 1:59:22
  next investigation with Chuck. The day of she fell
• 1:59:27
  apprehension. She sensed that the entity was
• 1:59:30
  furious at her coming and wanted to harm her her minds.
• 1:59:35
  I saw a beast like that of an ape throwing himself against the
• 1:59:39
  walls and windows of the house. Daring.
• 1:59:43
  Her. To come inside.
• 1:59:45
  So, with a deep breath, she did. Upon entering and being greeted
• 1:59:50
  by Bill, she saw several small and hideous creatures at his
• 1:59:55
  feet. They stood on 2 legs and they
• 1:59:57
  looked like hunched over little men disturbed.
• 2:00:01
  But seeing that no one else was noticing these beings, she
• 2:00:04
  ignored them as best she could and continued her journey
• 2:00:08
  through the home. When she got to Bill's bedroom,
• 2:00:11
  she said that the Imps were at their most comfortable in his
• 2:00:14
  room and played across the furniture.
• 2:00:17
  And on the floor halfway into the room, however, she froze.
• 2:00:22
  She searched every corner of the room, wide eyed and with her
• 2:00:26
  hair standing on end. She sent something.
• 2:00:29
  Horrible. And intelligent, lurking out of
• 2:00:32
  her sight and out of the. Corner of the room.
• 2:00:34
  In the closet. She didn't want to know what it
• 2:00:37
  was and honestly, I can't blame her.
• 2:00:41
  She left the bedroom and refused to ever set foot in it ever
• 2:00:44
  again. When the Dyst team arrived, she
• 2:00:48
  sat in the living room to wait while the team set up their
• 2:00:51
  equipment. Then she observed as the small
• 2:00:55
  creatures gathered around her in a group of six.
• 2:00:59
  They were curious, sniffing her and testing their boundaries
• 2:01:05
  while not letting her get too close.
• 2:01:07
  She believed that they were trapped by the dark entity who
• 2:01:11
  used them for more mischievous activities such as tormenting
• 2:01:16
  Bill in his bedroom, the noises and subtle happenings.
• 2:01:22
  While pondering this, she heard a commotion from the bedroom
• 2:01:25
  where the team was setting up. She saw a large black shape leap
• 2:01:29
  from that direction and onto the chandelier, causing it nearly to
• 2:01:33
  swing and collide with the ceiling.
• 2:01:36
  It jumped down into a corner to hideaway from the investigation
• 2:01:39
  team before lunging onto the chandelier again and bouncing it
• 2:01:44
  to the opposite hallway. The large figure took up the
• 2:01:47
  entire hallway entrance before it disappeared, and unsure of
• 2:01:52
  how to process what she had just witnessed, she simply.
• 2:01:55
  Collapsed into her chair. The DYST.
• 2:01:58
  Team convinced her husband, Chuck to sit in the closet in
• 2:02:01
  Bill's room and he had utter confidence that nothing would
• 2:02:06
  happen. The lights were turned off and
• 2:02:09
  Chuck just sat and waited. After several minutes, he became
• 2:02:14
  impatient and spoke loudly at whatever they told him was
• 2:02:19
  supposed to be there, attempting to provoke whatever it was.
• 2:02:24
  For a few minutes nothing changed, but eventually Chuck
• 2:02:29
  felt the atmosphere change and become heavy and oppressive.
• 2:02:34
  He heard. Bangs.
• 2:02:35
  And things clicked together around him.
• 2:02:38
  His every instinct told him to get out of there as fast as he
• 2:02:42
  possibly could. The team saw Chucky merge with
• 2:02:45
  wide eyes and a face as wide as a ghost.
• 2:02:48
  All he could. Say.
• 2:02:50
  Was that there was something in that closet and neither he nor
• 2:02:54
  Melissa stayed long after this happened.
• 2:02:58
  Brian Hall, after thorough investigation, enlisted the help
• 2:03:02
  of any experts that he could find to try and help Bill.
• 2:03:06
  Reiki Masters, Buddhists, Wiccans, Occultists, anyone and
• 2:03:12
  everyone who would attempt to drive out entities was
• 2:03:16
  contacted, but sadly none of them worked.
• 2:03:20
  Bill became used to the look of defeat upon the people's faces,
• 2:03:24
  who earnestly tried to help him but accomplished nothing.
• 2:03:28
  Eventually, Brian reached the end of his ideas and he sent a
• 2:03:32
  single e-mail to Bill. It was straightforward and to
• 2:03:35
  the point. It said you Sir, need a priest.
• 2:03:40
  Throughout the trials. That Bill was forced to face.
• 2:03:43
  He found himself struggling with borderline PTSD.
• 2:03:47
  He was constantly in a state of hyper vigilance, looking over
• 2:03:52
  his shoulder and watching his peripheral vision for even the
• 2:03:56
  slightest sign of something supernatural.
• 2:04:00
  He was dealing with an opponent he couldn't see, but one which
• 2:04:04
  could see him and even attack him at a moment's notice.
• 2:04:09
  The suspense kept him from sleeping and he met each evening
• 2:04:14
  with dread. He could no longer distinguish
• 2:04:17
  his nightmares from reality. He would have a habit of laying
• 2:04:20
  down and then closing his eyes for a few seconds, then opening
• 2:04:25
  them again to search for anything that had gone amiss.
• 2:04:30
  The fatigue would take its toll. He often took naps in the
• 2:04:33
  daytime to offset the sheer exhaustion that he was
• 2:04:36
  experiencing, but it was all getting to him.
• 2:04:39
  The months turned to years and the activity inflicted a cost
• 2:04:43
  upon Bill's health. He had two bouts of pneumonia, 2
• 2:04:47
  heart attacks requiring stents, and the emergence of cluster
• 2:04:52
  headaches which Bill had never experienced prior.
• 2:04:57
  He only wanted the constant torment to stop, yet he did his
• 2:05:01
  turmoil quite well and became good at pretending that things
• 2:05:05
  were better than they really were.
• 2:05:08
  Putting up a. Front of normalcy despite the
• 2:05:10
  reality of his situation. It also affected those who
• 2:05:14
  visited Bill's home to the point that few stopped by effectively
• 2:05:19
  isolating. Him.
• 2:05:21
  At night he would hear loud crashes inches away from his
• 2:05:25
  head. He'd awakened to find scratches
• 2:05:28
  all over his body and always in threes.
• 2:05:32
  He'd get touched while laying in bed, would be hit and shoved,
• 2:05:38
  and even felt the sensation of being electrocuted.
• 2:05:42
  He would look around his room one night just wondering just
• 2:05:46
  what this entity. Was that was plaguing him?
• 2:05:49
  Suddenly his covers were torn off his body.
• 2:05:54
  He sat up in bed and saw black shape at his foot board looming
• 2:05:59
  over him. It stood about 6 feet tall with
• 2:06:03
  the body of a man, and the man was wearing a large trench coat
• 2:06:09
  and the fedora hat, all as dark as the abyss.
• 2:06:14
  When he noticed it, it moved towards him, or rather, it
• 2:06:19
  floated. He felt an experience that went
• 2:06:22
  beyond mere fear or dread. He described it as the sensation
• 2:06:28
  of pure evil. It traveled the length of the
• 2:06:31
  bed, got within 2 feet of his face and then vanished.
• 2:06:37
  During the investigations, they had taped a dark mass in the
• 2:06:41
  very location that this entity had just disappeared.
• 2:06:45
  At it darted rapidly across the room.
• 2:06:48
  Rose above the bedroom window and then simply dissipated.
• 2:06:53
  Bill was so. Disturbed by this new threat
• 2:06:55
  that he could not and did not speak about it to any of his
• 2:06:59
  friends or family at the time. However, Bill was not the only
• 2:07:04
  person that this entity that he referred to as the Hat.
• 2:07:08
  Man would reveal itself to. A friend of Bill's name, Devin,
• 2:07:13
  claimed to see the entity, it had revealed itself to him, but
• 2:07:17
  he believed it to be friendly and as a result of this, he
• 2:07:21
  wasn't scared of it. After apologizing for not
• 2:07:24
  warning him and showing Devin other examples of the Hat Man
• 2:07:28
  entity appearing to others on the Internet, he cautioned him
• 2:07:31
  that if he sees it again to not communicate with it.
• 2:07:35
  It is not a friend. And unfortunately, Devin did not
• 2:07:40
  take his advice. The Hat Man will continue to
• 2:07:43
  appear to Devon, and at one point, Devon described it as
• 2:07:47
  appearing in Bill's closet with glowing red eyes uttering and a
• 2:07:52
  deep growling voice that felt like it was scratching the
• 2:07:56
  interior of his skull, and it kept saying Kill Bill.
• 2:08:02
  After this, Devon began to change.
• 2:08:04
  He transitioned from frightened to angry and finally to violent
• 2:08:10
  frenzy. Bill would often come home to
• 2:08:13
  find his house torn apart, and he would later learn that the
• 2:08:18
  hat man had appeared more times to Devon and had motivated him
• 2:08:23
  to do this. It wasn't until Devon threatened
• 2:08:26
  Bill with a large kitchen knife in his hand that he began to see
• 2:08:30
  just how serious the situation had become.
• 2:08:34
  One evening after Devon had a tantrum of throwing and breaking
• 2:08:39
  things within Bill's house, he told Bill that he's here and
• 2:08:45
  he's come to kill you. Bill saying to himself that this
• 2:08:49
  creature can't kill me, was trying to keep calm.
• 2:08:53
  Devin responded with turn out the lights and you'll see.
• 2:08:58
  With a malevolent and evil grin on his face.
• 2:09:02
  Bill was unsure whether he had lost his fear or no longer
• 2:09:06
  cared, simply wanted to shake Devon out of the throes of this
• 2:09:10
  strangeness. Regardless, he shut off the
• 2:09:14
  lights. Although nothing happened and
• 2:09:17
  Bill proved that the hat man had no authority over him, Devon's
• 2:09:21
  personality only grew more aggressive.
• 2:09:26
  Eventually, neither Bill nor the police, who were often seen at
• 2:09:30
  his home, could resolve the issue, and their friendship came
• 2:09:35
  to a sudden and terrible conclusion.
• 2:09:38
  Bill believed that the hat man was the general, the main source
• 2:09:42
  of evil power to which all the other activity orbited around.
• 2:09:46
  He began to learn from his experiences, accepting that he
• 2:09:50
  was in a war with an unseen foe that was using tactics and
• 2:09:54
  strategy as well, that it utilized scare tactics and fear
• 2:10:00
  to wear him down and a war of attrition.
• 2:10:03
  But the more Bill learned, the more that he was becoming an
• 2:10:06
  adversary against their assault. Bill returned from a meeting and
• 2:10:11
  decided to lay down for a nap. He saw indentions like hands and
• 2:10:16
  feet and his mattress, so much that it became impossible to
• 2:10:21
  sleep. Then he heard a massive crash,
• 2:10:25
  as if something had hit the side of his house.
• 2:10:28
  He shot up and went inspecting, looking for damage, but
• 2:10:33
  ultimately found nothing. Feeling a pure white rage well
• 2:10:37
  up within him, he screamed. I've had enough and you don't
• 2:10:41
  scare me anymore. I'm not the same person that you
• 2:10:45
  picked on years ago. Show yourself and fight me.
• 2:10:49
  One of us is going to hell tonight.
• 2:10:52
  He then heard another crash and ran towards it, continuing to
• 2:10:56
  yell at the entity to show itself.
• 2:10:59
  Hell was unleashed inside of his home like a hurricane.
• 2:11:02
  Crashes and booms filled the air.
• 2:11:05
  Suddenly, the missing puzzle piece clicked into place.
• 2:11:10
  He knew that no amount of anger or desperation or earthly
• 2:11:14
  knowledge would save him from this evil, so he called upon
• 2:11:18
  Christ to intercede. He screamed.
• 2:11:21
  You're not invited and under the authority of Christ.
• 2:11:24
  I demand you leave or be bound by your worst fears until final
• 2:11:29
  judgement. He kept repeating these words as
• 2:11:33
  new crashing sounds emanated around him.
• 2:11:36
  Eventually, 30 minutes of unrestrained malice ceased and a
• 2:11:40
  new peace finally filled his home.
• 2:11:43
  In the days afterwards, he felt a new sensation amidst the
• 2:11:47
  peace, like that of a chained up rabid dog in the distance.
• 2:11:52
  Just. Watching and waiting.
• 2:11:54
  For a chance to break those chains and come back into his
• 2:11:58
  life. While occasional things would
• 2:12:00
  happen afterwards, Bill no longer felt the evil that
• 2:12:04
  dwelled within his home or his life.
• 2:12:07
  However, the encounter left scars both physically and
• 2:12:12
  mentally. He still struggled with looking
• 2:12:15
  over his shoulder and being comfortable sleeping at night.
• 2:12:19
  His health effects from the ordeal also never truly
• 2:12:22
  improved. Whether it was from the evil
• 2:12:25
  presence or simply the stress of the events, one can't be sure.
• 2:12:30
  In the years since, Bill has studied and become an expert in
• 2:12:35
  demonology. In order to help others fight
• 2:12:38
  against an unseen foe in their own lives, he founded an
• 2:12:42
  association called United Paranormal International.
• 2:12:47
  Bill's story has been featured on the show Paranormal Witness
• 2:12:51
  in 2013 and abridged versions of the events have been featured
• 2:12:56
  across the Internet. Bill has given multiple
• 2:12:59
  interviews on various podcasts but decided to set the record
• 2:13:03
  straight in 2022 with his book Satanic Warfare Tactics of the
• 2:13:10
  Demonic. In it, he gives his own account
• 2:13:13
  as well as the eyewitnesses in his life of the events that
• 2:13:17
  transpired. He also includes extensive
• 2:13:20
  entries over just what he had learned concerning the demonic
• 2:13:23
  forces that stocked him and others.
• 2:13:27
  But he cautions anyone attempting to utilize his
• 2:13:30
  methods. He says that spiritual warfare
• 2:13:33
  is a form of psychological warfare that he utilizes fear
• 2:13:37
  tactics to wear target down. So that over time, you
• 2:13:41
  spiritually breakdown and obey the evil 1's power.
• 2:13:45
  It is based on negative emotions such as fear, stress, anger, and
• 2:13:51
  social disunity. And as a victim grows weaker,
• 2:13:54
  the demon begins to grow stronger.
• 2:13:57
  The first line of defense is to have no.
• 2:13:59
  Fear against demons. He states that his fallen
• 2:14:03
  angels, demons, still have rules that they must follow.
• 2:14:07
  They only enter lives to the degree which we explicitly or
• 2:14:11
  implicitly allow. They are not all powerful, for
• 2:14:15
  if they were, they would be not. Forced to resort to scare.
• 2:14:18
  Tactics and trickery to wear down their opponent, however.
• 2:14:23
  They have the. Experience of the entirety of
• 2:14:26
  human history on their side when they wage war on us.
• 2:14:30
  Once you acknowledge that there is in fact a demonic presence,
• 2:14:33
  the only recourse that you have is to call upon the name of
• 2:14:36
  Christ. Bill has since retired and moved
• 2:14:39
  out of the house in which he suffered for many years.
• 2:14:43
  He now lives with his wife Caroline Vale and his son
• 2:14:47
  Richard in Arkansas. And Bill's story, we can see how
• 2:14:51
  curiosity was used as a doorway. A doorway that can lead to
• 2:14:55
  knowledge and understanding. However, curiosity can be used
• 2:15:00
  as another kind of doorway, one that, once it's opened, can
• 2:15:05
  unleash a terrible darkness into our.
• 2:15:08
  Lives that isn't easily cast out.
• 2:15:12
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  Remember to stay safe out there, especially from demons and and
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  others. Many things.
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  And take care. Hidden deep within the walls of
• 2:16:23
  an old home, something ethereal is lurking and watching.
• 2:16:30
  For years. The family who calls this place
• 2:16:32
  home thinks the entity is harmless, but they would soon
• 2:16:37
  discover, after an accidental provocation, that this was not
• 2:16:42
  the case. Evil will rise and it's tendrils
• 2:16:46
  will infect everything they touch.
• 2:16:50
  Will they make it out alive and with their souls intact?
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  This is the chilling untold story of the Demon of
• 2:16:59
  Brownsville Rd. Our story begins with the Kramer
• 2:17:13
  family. Bob, who was an officer in the
• 2:17:16
  Army, and his wife Lisa married in 1980.
• 2:17:21
  They would soon start their family, and upon leaving the
• 2:17:24
  service in 1986, Bob would take up a job with AT&T and the
• 2:17:31
  family would find themselves living in the New Jersey area.
• 2:17:35
  Having always wanted to relocate back to Pennsylvania where they
• 2:17:39
  grew up. An unexpected opportunity for a
• 2:17:42
  transfer presented itself, and the Cramers seized it.
• 2:17:49
  Although having just built a house in 1987, the couple now
• 2:17:53
  found themselves shopping for homes in Brentwood, PA.
• 2:17:57
  While looking at potential buys, Bob comes across a home that he
• 2:18:02
  never thought he'd be able to live in for sale an old historic
• 2:18:07
  home from his childhood. This wasn't just any home,
• 2:18:11
  however. It was the home that Bob himself
• 2:18:14
  grew up seeing almost every day. He'd always felt a pull to the
• 2:18:18
  home, to what it represented to him, the history, its style and
• 2:18:25
  way of living, as well as it being a symbol of success.
• 2:18:31
  Bob would make contact with the sellers and arrange a
• 2:18:34
  walkthrough for him and his family.
• 2:18:37
  As the crane MERS arrived and began to tour the inside of the
• 2:18:40
  house, their son, Bobby Junior wandered off by himself as the
• 2:18:46
  group went into the basement. When they returned, they found
• 2:18:51
  the poor young man crying and hyperventilating as if he had
• 2:18:55
  seen a ghost, thinking that perhaps due to the boy's young
• 2:18:59
  age and imagination, that he had just scared himself in such a
• 2:19:04
  big house. Bob and Lisa wrote the behavior
• 2:19:08
  off as they concluded the tour. Despite his wife's misgivings
• 2:19:13
  about the size and feel of the house that he gave her the
• 2:19:16
  creeps, Bob dismissed her, seeming almost mesmerized by the
• 2:19:22
  home. He continued to question the
• 2:19:24
  realtor and would ask the question almost no one asks in
• 2:19:28
  these types of situations. Is there anything wrong with the
• 2:19:32
  house? Understanding exactly what he
• 2:19:35
  was hinting at, the realtor said that nothing was wrong with the
• 2:19:39
  house and that Catholic Mass had been conducted several times in
• 2:19:43
  the living. Room.
• 2:19:45
  Realtor would then simply move on with the conversation.
• 2:19:49
  Bob found this response to be odd, but none the less took the
• 2:19:52
  reassurance that had been implied later.
• 2:19:56
  According to Bob, the couple seemed very anxious to move out,
• 2:20:01
  almost as if their very lives depended on it.
• 2:20:04
  Thinking initially that they would want to haggle, he
• 2:20:07
  submitted A lowball offer to them and to his shock and
• 2:20:11
  amazement, they accepted it. Without any further
• 2:20:14
  negotiations, not only excited to live in the childhood home of
• 2:20:19
  his dreams, but to get it at such a good price almost seemed
• 2:20:23
  too good to be true to Bob. And perhaps it was.
• 2:20:29
  The year was 1988 and it's a cold December day, but this day
• 2:20:35
  is filled with warm feelings. The Cranmer family has just
• 2:20:40
  closed on the purchase of their new home, a designated
• 2:20:44
  historical landmark by Pittsburgh History and
• 2:20:48
  Landmarks, and in due time they would travel from New Jersey.
• 2:20:54
  Bob, Lisa and their four kids, Jessica who was four years old
• 2:20:59
  at this time, Bobby Junior who was 3, David who was two, and
• 2:21:06
  Charles who was just two months old, would move into and begin
• 2:21:10
  living in the home on Brownsville Rd.
• 2:21:14
  All seemed normal at first, but this calm normalcy would not
• 2:21:19
  last. The family began to notice small
• 2:21:23
  but bizarre things happening at their home.
• 2:21:26
  Doors began to open on their own, objects began to move and
• 2:21:31
  go missing, faucets would turn on by themselves, and many of
• 2:21:38
  times, even if the family had been out during the evening when
• 2:21:42
  they would leave the home with the lights being off, they would
• 2:21:46
  return to not only the lights being on, but after a quick
• 2:21:51
  sweep of the house, every door and window being secured would
• 2:21:56
  have no rational explanation for it.
• 2:21:59
  Every single light, including those in the basement, would be
• 2:22:03
  on, and this was enough to make the family think, although it
• 2:22:09
  was weird, they weren't really scared at the time.
• 2:22:12
  Lisa and Bob did come to the conclusion that they had a
• 2:22:15
  ghost, thinking it could have been due to the age and
• 2:22:19
  potential history of the home they were in, but they simply
• 2:22:23
  considered it to be Casper the Friendly ghost.
• 2:22:27
  Not a threat and nothing to worry about.
• 2:22:30
  Or so they thought. Things weren't always incredibly
• 2:22:34
  active though. Soon, things calm down somewhat.
• 2:22:37
  In the months that followed, the family started to settle into
• 2:22:41
  their normal everyday lives. The occasional strange happening
• 2:22:46
  here and there quickly became commonplace, but every so often
• 2:22:51
  things would pick back up. Alongside the previously
• 2:22:55
  mentioned activity. They soon began to hear
• 2:22:58
  mysterious banging noises all throughout their house and at
• 2:23:03
  all hours of the day and night, as well as disembodied footsteps
• 2:23:09
  echoing all around. And although weird, the family
• 2:23:13
  ultimately grew to accept these happenings again as normal.
• 2:23:18
  Over the years, Bob would go into politics and would hold
• 2:23:22
  political office in the 1990s, first as a Councilman and then a
• 2:23:27
  county commissioner, gaining local notoriety and status in
• 2:23:32
  the Western Pennsylvania area. But despite his career
• 2:23:36
  achievements, his family was slowly falling apart.
• 2:23:41
  Year by year, it seemed as though things became
• 2:23:44
  increasingly dysfunctional for the Kramer family.
• 2:23:48
  Bob and Lisa would fight frequently, and all of which
• 2:23:52
  would contribute to Lisa and two of the children experiencing
• 2:23:56
  serious mental health issues that would require
• 2:23:59
  hospitalization. During the ensuing chaos that
• 2:24:03
  was becoming his family, Bob had the fleeting thought that
• 2:24:07
  whatever was in the house perhaps had contributed to the
• 2:24:11
  mental distress of his family, but whenever this feeling would
• 2:24:15
  come up, he would simply dismiss it.
• 2:24:19
  One night in 2003, his oldest son, Bob Junior, would attack
• 2:24:25
  Bob in his sleep, a vicious and unprovoked attack as if his son
• 2:24:31
  was in the throes of madness. At this time, it was Bob, Lisa,
• 2:24:37
  and all of the kids except for Jessica living at the house
• 2:24:42
  along with Bob's elderly aunt. Bob Junior would be restrained
• 2:24:47
  and arrested following the aftermath of this night.
• 2:24:51
  The next morning, Bob's aunt would be found deceased of
• 2:24:56
  natural causes in her bed. Thankfully for Bob Junior, all
• 2:25:02
  charges would be dropped associated with the attack.
• 2:25:06
  But these series of unfolding events seem to break the dam
• 2:25:10
  that have been holding back the paranormal within the Cranmer
• 2:25:14
  home. As if the levees had been
• 2:25:16
  breached, A tidal wave of spiritual energy would now be
• 2:25:22
  unleashed the following year in 2004.
• 2:25:27
  Despite her chaotic and scary childhood, Jessica, the oldest,
• 2:25:33
  moves back home with her husband Tom and her son Colin.
• 2:25:38
  There was an apartment up on the top floor of the house that Bob
• 2:25:41
  felt like would be a good fit for the young family.
• 2:25:45
  He offered to let them live there so they could save money,
• 2:25:49
  get everything they needed to in order, and eventually.
• 2:25:53
  Buy a house. Of their own, something that was
• 2:25:56
  becoming increasingly more difficult to do.
• 2:25:59
  He also felt that this was a good healing opportunity for the
• 2:26:02
  family, allowing them all to be united and together once again.
• 2:26:10
  As his daughter and family moved their things in, Bob would take
• 2:26:14
  off his coat and go to hang it in the large walk in closet
• 2:26:18
  underneath the main staircase. But as he opens the closet door,
• 2:26:24
  he notices that the pull chain for the light is wrapped all the
• 2:26:28
  way around the fixture. Thinking it was just a usual
• 2:26:32
  weirdness and being rather used to the unusual by this point,
• 2:26:37
  Bob dismisses it and unwraps the chain.
• 2:26:40
  Being raised Catholic and continuing to be a spiritual man
• 2:26:44
  into his adulthood, Bob for the first time decides to do
• 2:26:47
  something about the activity. On a side table near the closet,
• 2:26:52
  he had a Bible and a rosary. Believing that this would calm
• 2:26:56
  things down, he took the rosary beads and tied them to the chain
• 2:27:01
  of the light. Upon closing the door and
• 2:27:05
  starting to walk away, he hears the clinking of beads.
• 2:27:11
  Rushing back to the door, he opens it only to find the rosary
• 2:27:16
  and the chain wrapped completely around the fixture yet again.
• 2:27:22
  Dismissing things at first, but now thoroughly alarmed, Bob
• 2:27:26
  grabs his Bible, steps into the closet and begins to pray out
• 2:27:31
  loud. He continues to do so for half
• 2:27:35
  an hour. During his time in the closet,
• 2:27:39
  he can't help but notice that he feels a heavyweight upon his
• 2:27:42
  body and the sensation of eyes boring a whole to the back of
• 2:27:48
  his skull. After the half.
• 2:27:50
  Hour he finishes and leaves the closet, closing the door behind
• 2:27:56
  him. In the weeks that follow,
• 2:27:59
  Jessica and her family begin to settle into their new home, the
• 2:28:03
  apartment on the 3rd floor. As Tom goes to check on his
• 2:28:07
  stepson, he opens his door to find a woman standing over him.
• 2:28:14
  Believing it to be his wife calls out to her.
• 2:28:18
  The woman then turns and takes several steps towards him and
• 2:28:24
  then disappears before his eyes. Tom wastes no time in protecting
• 2:28:31
  the boy. He rushes and scoops Colin up
• 2:28:35
  and quickly rushes to him and Jessica's room.
• 2:28:39
  Jessica at the time, tried to dismiss what Tom had seen.
• 2:28:43
  She thought that if she didn't acknowledge it as reality, then
• 2:28:48
  it couldn't be real. Tom rushes down the stairs and
• 2:28:52
  consults Bob immediately. Bob, not wanting to take any
• 2:28:56
  chances with his grandson, decides to sleep in the room for
• 2:29:00
  the night. After going up the stairs into
• 2:29:05
  Colin's room and closing the door behind him, he turns on the
• 2:29:09
  lamp and takes a seat in a nearby chair and begins to pray.
• 2:29:15
  After an hour or so of reading scripture, he decides to try and
• 2:29:20
  get some sleep. Laying on his grandson's bed, he
• 2:29:25
  slowly drifts off, sound asleep. He is soon woke up by massive
• 2:29:32
  bangs coming from inside the walls near his head.
• 2:29:36
  Waking up in a panic at the sound, his eyes dart back and
• 2:29:40
  forth searching for the source. He then feels a sharp stinging
• 2:29:47
  sensation on the side of his neck.
• 2:29:51
  Jumping up, he runs over to the mirror in the room and what he
• 2:29:55
  sees shocks him. From underneath the right side
• 2:29:59
  of his ear, down his neck and onto his torso, there were three
• 2:30:06
  long and now bloody scratch marks, as if something had
• 2:30:11
  clawed him. Frightened and unsure of how to
• 2:30:15
  deal with this new situation and the emotions he felt himself
• 2:30:19
  experiencing, Bob, for the time being, decides to not discuss
• 2:30:24
  the matter with his family, not wanting to further concern them.
• 2:30:30
  The following day, Bobby Junior, the oldest son of the family,
• 2:30:35
  was in the living room studying for an exam.
• 2:30:38
  As he sat on the couch taking notes from his textbook, he
• 2:30:43
  suddenly began to feel as if he was being watched.
• 2:30:47
  This made him uncomfortable, so he decided to step outside to
• 2:30:52
  get some fresh air. He made his way towards the
• 2:30:55
  front door, and as he got several feet away from the door,
• 2:31:00
  he heard something fly past his head with a sharp tone and crash
• 2:31:05
  into the wall beside him. Bewildered and glancing down at
• 2:31:09
  his feet, he finds ACD from a nearby stack near the
• 2:31:13
  entertainment center, shattered into a dozen fragments.
• 2:31:19
  There is no one else in the room.
• 2:31:23
  Unsure of what else to do, he quickly heads to the front door
• 2:31:28
  and leaves. Fearing for the safety of their
• 2:31:31
  family, the Cranmer's now at their wit's end with the
• 2:31:35
  reoccurring supernatural events taking place in their home,
• 2:31:40
  decide to contact a Catholic priest for help.
• 2:31:44
  A man named Father Mike Sylvania is who they speak with and he
• 2:31:49
  agrees to assist them by coming to bless their house.
• 2:31:54
  In due time. He arrives as the priest begins
• 2:31:59
  his blessings in an effort to sanctify the home.
• 2:32:04
  He travels from level to level, in room to room, starting from
• 2:32:09
  the main floor to the basement and then to the upstairs.
• 2:32:15
  But it's when he heads upstairs and he begins to realize just
• 2:32:19
  what this family has been dealing with.
• 2:32:22
  As he walks up each step, he too begins to feel the Stair of 1000
• 2:32:27
  eyes upon him and the hair on the back of his neck stands on
• 2:32:32
  end. He knows then that they're
• 2:32:35
  dealing with an infestation, whether it's human spirits or
• 2:32:41
  non human, he can't discern at the time.
• 2:32:45
  He finishes his blessings and encourages the family to
• 2:32:48
  persevere. And then he leaves.
• 2:32:53
  Weeks later, when the rest of the family is out, Jessica finds
• 2:32:58
  herself alone and asleep in the upstairs apartment.
• 2:33:02
  As she lays in her bed with the large moon hanging overhead,
• 2:33:08
  it's light piercing the windows, she is suddenly ripped out of a
• 2:33:13
  dream state. Her eyes open, but she is unable
• 2:33:18
  to move. It's as if she is paralyzed but
• 2:33:23
  completely coherent. Along with being frozen, she
• 2:33:28
  suddenly feels as if someone or something is sitting on her
• 2:33:33
  chest. Then she sees it.
• 2:33:38
  A large shadowy figure is at the foot of her bed as it starts to
• 2:33:45
  climb on top of her. She tries with every fiber of
• 2:33:49
  her being to scream, but all that comes out is silence to her
• 2:33:56
  anyways. Her mother, who had just
• 2:34:00
  returned from running errands, heard her screams from the
• 2:34:03
  moment she entered the house. Running upstairs, she finds her
• 2:34:08
  grown daughter almost inconsolable.
• 2:34:12
  She's shaking and crying. Whatever it was that is
• 2:34:16
  tormenting her. It disappeared.
• 2:34:20
  However, regardless of age, the love of a mother eventually
• 2:34:25
  brings her back to reality. The family is now beyond
• 2:34:29
  worried. Petrified is almost an
• 2:34:32
  understatement. Their every waking moments are
• 2:34:36
  filled with anxiety and dread. They had hoped that word
• 2:34:41
  wouldn't get out, but unbeknownst to them, their
• 2:34:45
  situation had caught the attention of the Bishop of the
• 2:34:49
  Catholic Church of Pittsburgh, who in response, assigns an
• 2:34:53
  experienced priest by the name of Ron Linguin to their case.
• 2:34:59
  Upon reaching out to Bob on behalf of the church, Father
• 2:35:03
  Linguin concluded that based on what Bob had told him and the
• 2:35:07
  sound of his voice, the overall feel of the call, that this case
• 2:35:12
  needed to be investigated further, that this family needed
• 2:35:16
  help. He gave the Cranmer family two
• 2:35:20
  options. One, they could stay and fight
• 2:35:24
  and have the backing of the church.
• 2:35:27
  Or two, they could leave, but it wouldn't be guaranteed that
• 2:35:31
  whatever these entities were wouldn't continue to haunt them.
• 2:35:36
  So as a family, they decide to stay and fight.
• 2:35:41
  As preparations are made by the church to send help, the family
• 2:35:46
  tries to hold on. One morning shortly after the
• 2:35:51
  phone call, as the family convenes in the dining room for
• 2:35:54
  breakfast, Bobby Junior comes down and sits at the table.
• 2:35:59
  As he explains to his mom that he didn't sleep much that night,
• 2:36:03
  that he tossed and turned, he started to feel a burning
• 2:36:07
  sensation on his back. Before Lisa's very eyes.
• 2:36:12
  She watched as scratches formed on her son's back like an
• 2:36:17
  invisible hand had taken a razor and sliced him.
• 2:36:22
  Each one was approximately 6 inches long.
• 2:36:27
  Calling for Bob, he takes one look at his son's back and
• 2:36:31
  immediately begins to panic. He then starts checking all of
• 2:36:36
  the children's bags and all of the boys have the same 3
• 2:36:41
  markings. Remembering back to when he was
• 2:36:45
  scratched, he asked the children calmly to go and wash their cuts
• 2:36:50
  while he spoke to Lisa. He then finally comes clean
• 2:36:55
  about his own attack. He discovers that it's not just
• 2:36:59
  him and the children who have been physically marked.
• 2:37:03
  His wife, who had been nursing her own wound, comes clean as
• 2:37:08
  well. Located on her left shoulder was
• 2:37:12
  a bite mark, one that was. So deep that it drew blood.
• 2:37:18
  It, in fact, had continued to bleed underneath her shirt.
• 2:37:22
  Upon further analysis, the bite wasn't like that of a human.
• 2:37:27
  It was as if whatever the creature was had fangs of some
• 2:37:31
  sort. They were puncture wounds.
• 2:37:35
  Refusing to wait, Bobby immediately calls the priest
• 2:37:39
  back. Later that day, after receiving
• 2:37:43
  special permission, Father Mike returns to perform Mass inside
• 2:37:47
  the Brownsville home, believing the scratches to be 1 of several
• 2:37:52
  indications that the infestation within the home was demonic
• 2:37:57
  rather than human spirits. Following Mass, as Bob and Lisa
• 2:38:03
  are sitting at the dinner table eating together, they receive a
• 2:38:07
  call from upstairs. Jessica not wanting to intrude
• 2:38:11
  on their time together. Passive Colin can come down.
• 2:38:15
  He wanted to see his grandpa and grandma.
• 2:38:18
  Saying that it was no problem, Jessica sends him headed
• 2:38:22
  downstairs. From the top floor to the second
• 2:38:26
  level is three sets of stairs, and as the young man descends
• 2:38:30
  headed towards his grandparents, they suddenly hear him shriek.
• 2:38:37
  Bob gets to him first and finds Colin shaking like a leaf.
• 2:38:42
  The poor child is screaming monster and pointing at an open
• 2:38:47
  door. It was at this moment that Bob
• 2:38:49
  knew that whatever this thing was wasn't going to stop, That
• 2:38:54
  in order to keep part of his family safe, he would have to
• 2:38:58
  move them out of the house. The feeling is bittersweet.
• 2:39:03
  The family has grown to love the house, but at the same time,
• 2:39:08
  Jessica's relieved to get her son out of the situation remain.
• 2:39:13
  Several days after Jessica and her family depart the house, Bob
• 2:39:18
  returns home from work. Walking through the hallway
• 2:39:22
  headed towards the kitchen, he gets that sense that he's being
• 2:39:27
  watched. He stops dead in his tracks and
• 2:39:31
  slowly turns around to face whatever could be there.
• 2:39:35
  However, he sees no figure. Instead he sees streams of what
• 2:39:41
  appears to be blood on the walls, fresh blood leaking down
• 2:39:48
  as if to mimic how the priest had blessed the home using holy
• 2:39:52
  water. Wanting to make sure he wasn't
• 2:39:56
  crazy, Bob calls out to Bobby Junior to come and see what he
• 2:40:01
  was seeing. The two share a moment of shock
• 2:40:05
  and am ease. The walls were indeed bleeding,
• 2:40:11
  and it was unlike anything that they had ever seen before.
• 2:40:15
  Bob, at the wit's end of his wit's end, again calls the
• 2:40:20
  Church. He speaks with Father Linguine,
• 2:40:23
  who tells him that he's about ready to make the recommendation
• 2:40:26
  to the Bishop to sanction a proper exorcism of the house,
• 2:40:31
  but that the family had to endure one more test.
• 2:40:35
  He told him that they needed to have an outside third party non
• 2:40:40
  religious group come in and document their findings and then
• 2:40:45
  turn those findings into the church.
• 2:40:49
  So Bob makes several calls and arranges for such a group to
• 2:40:53
  come out. A paranormal investigation crew
• 2:40:58
  that originated out of Penn State.
• 2:41:01
  They would arrive in January of 2005.
• 2:41:05
  As the two other members set things up, the main leader, a
• 2:41:10
  man named Adam Bly, finished up a tour of the home with Bob.
• 2:41:15
  Unbeknownst to Bob, his main job was to perform an informal psych
• 2:41:20
  evaluation on the family to determine that they were of
• 2:41:24
  sound mind and not just spinning fantasies.
• 2:41:29
  He would determine that they were indeed sane.
• 2:41:33
  Upon further inquiry, he asked Bob when things started to get
• 2:41:37
  bad, if there was a catalyzing moment or area of the home.
• 2:41:43
  Bob, thinking back, immediately thought about the closet.
• 2:41:49
  Upon explaining what had taken place and how things had
• 2:41:52
  escalated since that day, Adam believed that this demon was
• 2:41:57
  originating from underneath the stairs in or near the closet.
• 2:42:03
  Knocking on the wood exterior of the stairs, it sounded hollow.
• 2:42:09
  Believing that the origin could potentially be found there, Bob
• 2:42:13
  agreed and assisted him with opening it up to look inside.
• 2:42:19
  It was no easy task, but the best way was to cut the wall
• 2:42:23
  from the inside of the closet. So they did.
• 2:42:28
  Among the cobwebs and dust was indeed an open space, a hidden
• 2:42:34
  room of sorts. And in the center of this room,
• 2:42:39
  covered in even more dust as if it had been sealed in, was a
• 2:42:44
  strange looking altar. And to the right side of this
• 2:42:48
  altar was an incredibly old piece of paper.
• 2:42:53
  Upon further examination, the paper contained drawings the
• 2:42:58
  name of the original owner, as well as the name the word Malik.
• 2:43:05
  Malik would turn out to be the last name of the original owner
• 2:43:09
  of the home. It's also just one letter off
• 2:43:12
  from Moloch, a demon from the Old Testament most commonly
• 2:43:16
  associated with the Canaanites who worshipped this deity and
• 2:43:21
  sacrifice children to it. After making this discovery,
• 2:43:25
  Adam wanted to take a moment, so he wandered off back into the
• 2:43:29
  main living room space to breathe.
• 2:43:32
  He then suddenly, out of nowhere, began to see the
• 2:43:35
  letters SATHI appear before him, and then something invisible
• 2:43:45
  scratched his forehead. Adam screams quickly garnered
• 2:43:50
  the attention of the rest of the crew who quickly rushed to his
• 2:43:53
  aid. They try to console him, but
• 2:43:57
  he's more driven to figure out what the word may mean.
• 2:44:00
  Running to the home base set up for the investigation, he
• 2:44:04
  quickly begins searching the Internet, and what he finds
• 2:44:08
  bewilders him further. Sati is the name of a female
• 2:44:14
  demon that is said to serve under Moloch.
• 2:44:17
  Her primary function was to encourage women to sacrifice
• 2:44:21
  their children to him. Based off of this new
• 2:44:24
  information, Bob begins searching the history of the
• 2:44:28
  home for anything that could be out of sorts, and one such piece
• 2:44:33
  of history soon catches his eye. Where the property now stood was
• 2:44:38
  once the site of a grizzly native in settler war, which
• 2:44:43
  took place in the 1790s. One such story was that a woman
• 2:44:50
  and her two children had been killed by the tribesman near
• 2:44:54
  Fort Pitt, and her house was roughly 6 miles from the Fort,
• 2:45:01
  placing it almost directly where their home would be now.
• 2:45:06
  All of his death and sorrow, Bob wasn't surprised that a demon
• 2:45:10
  now called the land its home and further efforts to uncover the
• 2:45:14
  cause. Bob also hired professionals who
• 2:45:18
  scanned the property with ground penetrating radar and an effort
• 2:45:23
  to ensure that no bodies were buried there.
• 2:45:27
  However, as the crew scanned the earth, they would find the
• 2:45:31
  remains of four bodies and what appeared to be a burial plot in
• 2:45:36
  the front yard near the old oak tree that stood there.
• 2:45:41
  Not wanting to further disturb the dead, Bob opts to
• 2:45:45
  commemorate them instead by placing crosses into the ground
• 2:45:50
  to hopefully lay their souls to rest.
• 2:45:53
  Although the death and despair more than likely attracted a
• 2:45:55
  demon and still didn't answer the question as to why it came
• 2:46:00
  inside the house. 1 theory was that a disgruntled worker back
• 2:46:05
  when the home was being built placed a curse on it, which
• 2:46:09
  would account for the hidden shrine underneath the stairs.
• 2:46:13
  However, this couldn't be confirmed.
• 2:46:17
  Several months after the investigation and turning in the
• 2:46:20
  information to the church, Bob and Lisa finally received some
• 2:46:24
  much needed good news. The church has finally approved
• 2:46:29
  an exorcism on their home. In September of 2005, an
• 2:46:35
  exorcist arrives to begin his work.
• 2:46:39
  All appeared to be quiet and truthfully things went on
• 2:46:43
  without a hitch. The following day the feel of
• 2:46:48
  the home was different, but Bob still felt as if something was
• 2:46:52
  lurking within its walls. Roughly 3 months would pass
• 2:46:56
  without incident. One night, Bob was in the
• 2:47:00
  basement doing some work to the hot water heater when he
• 2:47:04
  suddenly was imbued with that age-old feeling of being watched
• 2:47:09
  yet again, something that he had hoped was a thing of the past.
• 2:47:15
  Glancing up, he spots the figure of a woman who then quickly
• 2:47:19
  darts into another basement room.
• 2:47:22
  Rushing into the room the woman had gone into, he sees nothing.
• 2:47:28
  Rushing up the stairs, he runs into Lisa and quickly tells her
• 2:47:33
  that he saw something down there, that they needed another
• 2:47:36
  mass as soon as possible. So together they once again call
• 2:47:42
  Father Mike, who agrees to assist them.
• 2:47:46
  The following evening, as the priest is mid mass, all three of
• 2:47:50
  them begin to hear scratching coming from inside the walls.
• 2:47:56
  During the consecration of the wine, 3 distinct knocks are
• 2:48:00
  heard coming from inside the wall nearest the priest,
• 2:48:04
  something that should be an impossibility.
• 2:48:08
  The mass would conclude, but the war had not yet been won.
• 2:48:14
  It would ultimately take another two years of frequent blessings
• 2:48:19
  to finally rid the House of the demon that inhabited it with
• 2:48:25
  this somewhat anticlimactic ending.
• 2:48:28
  Because of course, not every story is going to be over the
• 2:48:31
  top. There are still many details I'd
• 2:48:34
  like to share with you, as well as pose several questions.
• 2:48:39
  The reason they believed that a disgruntled worker may have
• 2:48:42
  placed a curse on the home during its construction was that
• 2:48:46
  the worker was jealous of the wealth of the man who built it,
• 2:48:50
  a doctor and his beautiful wife. However, apparently this doctor
• 2:48:57
  had a dark secret. He was locally known for
• 2:49:01
  performing illegal abortions within the house, ultimately
• 2:49:07
  tying back into the demon Moloch and his consort Sati.
• 2:49:13
  The book in which Bob Cranmer wrote is known as The Demon of
• 2:49:17
  Brownsville Rd. Wasn't received without
• 2:49:20
  criticism, However, the most valid would be that some of the
• 2:49:24
  historical matters referenced as well as the bodies in the front
• 2:49:29
  yard hadn't been confirmed by outside sources.
• 2:49:34
  The doctor, however, was confirmed to be real and his
• 2:49:37
  name was Doctor James Merton Mahan.
• 2:49:40
  However, there is no record of any illegal activity such as
• 2:49:44
  abortions tied back to his name taking place at that time or his
• 2:49:50
  house. The Cranmer's following their
• 2:49:53
  experiences in the home haven't been without tragedy.
• 2:49:57
  In March of 2015, their son David passed away unexpectedly,
• 2:50:03
  sending both Bob and his wife into a deep depression.
• 2:50:07
  They would divorce in 2018, ending their 37 year marriage to
• 2:50:12
  one another. After a decade of the house
• 2:50:15
  being fully cleansed of evil, Bob has now opened it as a bed
• 2:50:20
  and breakfast since 2019. It is now known as the
• 2:50:25
  Brownsville. Roadhouse, I truly wish all
• 2:50:29
  those involved the very best. The entire situation seemed not
• 2:50:33
  only traumatic to have to endure, but the more recent
• 2:50:37
  tragedy as well is just terrible.
• 2:50:40
  With that being said, the story is a well documented and
• 2:50:45
  textbook demonic haunting, and a terrifying one at that.
• 2:50:50
  Sometimes when you walk into a new environment and you get a
• 2:50:54
  terrible feeling, no matter how good the deal is, you have to
• 2:50:59
  trust your gun. Because it might just save you
• 2:51:03
  years of anguish and spiritual despair.
• 2:51:09
  Considered to be one of the most terrifying films of all time,
• 2:51:13
  the movie The Exorcist paralyzed the masses upon its release.
• 2:51:17
  And brought the devil home to millions of people, although the
• 2:51:22
  horror and special effects enhance the story being
• 2:51:25
  portrayed. What if I told you that the
• 2:51:27
  story itself was inspired by a true story of demonic
• 2:51:32
  possession? When a young boy loses his
• 2:51:35
  beloved aunt, he starts to dabble with the occult and makes
• 2:51:40
  contact with the other side. But what he contacts isn't what
• 2:51:45
  he bargained for. What follows not only terrified
• 2:51:48
  a family, but by proxy, thousands of people all over the
• 2:51:52
  world. This is the terrifying story of
• 2:51:56
  the exorcism of Roland Doe and the demons that plagued him.
• 2:52:12
  Our story starts in 1949 in a small town known as Cottage City
• 2:52:19
  in Maryland. A boy who we'll call Roland Doe
• 2:52:23
  is mourning the death of his beloved aunt.
• 2:52:27
  Aunt Millie's passing was very sudden and the two had been
• 2:52:31
  extremely close. Millie was known for being an
• 2:52:36
  avid spiritualist, perhaps a new age person of her time, and was
• 2:52:41
  always very interested in things like spirits, the afterlife and
• 2:52:47
  Ouija boards. Seeing this activity, the young
• 2:52:51
  Roland became very interested as well, and alongside his Aunt
• 2:52:56
  Millie, he was taught by her how to properly use a Ouija.
• 2:52:59
  Board. To contact the other side.
• 2:53:03
  Following her sudden death over the summer of 1948, as Roland
• 2:53:09
  mourned her tucked away in a trunk of her belongings, he
• 2:53:13
  rediscovers the Ouija board that Aunt Millie had given him.
• 2:53:18
  In a moment of desperation, he laid the board on her nearby
• 2:53:22
  table and attempted to speak with Aunt Millie once again.
• 2:53:27
  But alas, despite his best efforts, no movement came from
• 2:53:32
  the board. It is this moment that is
• 2:53:36
  believed to be the catalyst for what would follow.
• 2:53:40
  Just days after Roland had used the board, things started
• 2:53:44
  happening, but not with the board itself.
• 2:53:49
  The entire family started hearing a steady dripping sound
• 2:53:53
  with seemingly no origin, and after this continued for about a
• 2:53:58
  week, they called in a plumber who ultimately would find no
• 2:54:03
  evidence of any sort of a pipe leak.
• 2:54:06
  Then the drips turned into thumps and scratches, both of
• 2:54:11
  which were seemingly coming from inside.
• 2:54:13
  Of the walls. The family, trying to make sense
• 2:54:17
  of the activity, first suspected mice so as they had with the
• 2:54:22
  potential leak situation they scheduled and then had a well
• 2:54:26
  known exterminator come out. He too would find no evidence of
• 2:54:32
  any sort of infestation. Over the next several months,
• 2:54:36
  things would continue to escalate.
• 2:54:39
  Furniture began to move by itself and other items were
• 2:54:43
  hurled across the room by an invisible force.
• 2:54:48
  The portrait of Jesus that hung on the wall began to rattle and
• 2:54:52
  shake, as if it was being hit from behind.
• 2:54:57
  The happenings continued to grow with intensity, leading to a
• 2:55:00
  crescendo. The force seemed to move out of
• 2:55:03
  the walls and then to Roland's room and then into his bed.
• 2:55:09
  One night he was violently awakened to his bed, shaking
• 2:55:14
  profusely. He screamed for his.
• 2:55:16
  Mother who came in and experienced the terror as well,
• 2:55:21
  leaving both of them at a loss for words.
• 2:55:25
  The family tried to decipher what was happening.
• 2:55:29
  They soon had Roland examined by a doctor and then a
• 2:55:33
  psychiatrist, both of whom concluded that the young man was
• 2:55:37
  very stressed out but otherwise healthy.
• 2:55:41
  Day after day, the poor boy was being plagued by forces that he
• 2:55:45
  couldn't see or defend himself against.
• 2:55:49
  Markings began to materialize on his body.
• 2:55:53
  The first markings spelled out the word bowdern.
• 2:55:58
  Beyond frightened and trying to find a resolution, the family
• 2:56:02
  used the Ouija board to try and contact Aunt Millie.
• 2:56:07
  They would indeed contact something.
• 2:56:10
  When the board began to interact with him on its own and the
• 2:56:13
  atmosphere of the room changed, they asked the spirit to prove
• 2:56:18
  that it was real. It obliged by hurling a chair
• 2:56:23
  across the living room. And this wasn't the only sign.
• 2:56:29
  The following morning, long burning welts appeared on
• 2:56:32
  Roland's legs, just as the previous markings had.
• 2:56:37
  This time it spelled out the words Saint Louis.
• 2:56:42
  The family now had to consider the unthinkable, that their son
• 2:56:47
  was perhaps in the grip of something demonic.
• 2:56:52
  They quickly contacted their local pastor who was a Lutheran
• 2:56:56
  who came to the house to pray with the family.
• 2:56:59
  But after he too witnessed the marks appear on the young man's
• 2:57:02
  body, he suggested that the family contact the Catholic
• 2:57:06
  Church since they tend to deal with these kinds of things.
• 2:57:12
  The family went ahead and fled the area and hopes that the
• 2:57:15
  activity would stay at the house.
• 2:57:18
  But after relocating with a family member in the suburb of
• 2:57:21
  St. Louis, MO, the paranormal
• 2:57:24
  happenings continued. Terrified and not knowing what
• 2:57:29
  else to do, the family reached out to Father Bowdern at the
• 2:57:34
  local Catholic parish, who, after a lengthy discussion,
• 2:57:38
  wasn't convinced that the boy was possessed.
• 2:57:42
  Bowdern, who was a World War 2 combat veteran, was a hardened.
• 2:57:46
  Man. Very practical and religious no
• 2:57:50
  doubt. Not convinced but wanting to
• 2:57:53
  help ease the family's stress, he agrees to pray over the boy.
• 2:57:58
  In due time he would arrive at the house and he would also be
• 2:58:02
  joined by a fellow priest by the name of Raymond Bishop.
• 2:58:07
  After meeting Roland, they all decided to pray together and to
• 2:58:12
  the. Priest.
• 2:58:13
  Great surprise. As soon as the first several
• 2:58:16
  sentences of prayer were uttered, the boy began to scream
• 2:58:21
  that his chest was burning. Upon opening the boy's shirt,
• 2:58:26
  they could see red cuts and his skin begin to appear.
• 2:58:31
  Now scared, the priest began to pray over the boy more
• 2:58:35
  intensely, lasting from about 11:00 PM to 6:00 AM.
• 2:58:40
  At the conclusion of this session, Roland finally fell
• 2:58:44
  into a restful sleep, or so it seemed.
• 2:58:49
  After explaining to the family their thoughts on what could be
• 2:58:51
  taking place, they decided that they would convene among
• 2:58:55
  themselves to try and decide how to move forward to better assist
• 2:59:00
  Roland and his family. The priest returned to their
• 2:59:04
  homes and then met the following morning.
• 2:59:08
  It was here that both men decided that they were dealing
• 2:59:11
  with the real deal. Together they made the decision
• 2:59:15
  to pursue an exorcism. Father Bowder, a senior priest,
• 2:59:21
  reached out to the Archbishop of Saint Louis to ask permission to
• 2:59:25
  perform the rites of exorcism, which he was granted under one
• 2:59:30
  request. That request being that he
• 2:59:33
  provided a day-to-day account for the church to which he
• 2:59:37
  agreed. Each segment of this story from
• 2:59:40
  here on out is written with excerpts of what the priest
• 2:59:44
  documented during his experiences.
• 2:59:48
  Father Bowdern and Father Bishop returned to the residence one
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  week later. They went upstairs and entered
• 2:59:55
  the boy's frigid room and began the ritual.
• 3:00:00
  Roland began to violently act out, so with the help of the
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  boy's father subduing him, they were able to continue.
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  It would be written out that the boy's blows were beyond that of
• 3:00:11
  his age. Each punch had the strength of
• 3:00:15
  one or more grown men behind it. Father Bishop found this out the
• 3:00:21
  hard way. Mid prayer, Roland managed to
• 3:00:24
  break loose from his father and punched the priest in the face.
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  It would later be discovered that he broke his nose following
• 3:00:34
  the aftermath of this. First night.
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  All, for the first time in a long time, seemed calm.
• 3:00:41
  The boy did not act out, but rather was unconscious and just
• 3:00:46
  peacefully slept. Perhaps they thought the prayers
• 3:00:51
  were beginning to work. However, that was until the
• 3:00:55
  priests left. Almost as quickly as their feet
• 3:00:59
  crossed the threshold of the residence, the boy began to yell
• 3:01:04
  and scream. At the top of his lungs this
• 3:01:08
  belligerent rage would last for hours at the desperation of the
• 3:01:13
  parents. Once they were able to re
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  contact them, both priests returned as.
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  Quickly as they could, and with the assistance of both the boy's
• 3:01:22
  father and now mother, they had no other choice other than to
• 3:01:26
  continue the ritual hour after hour for approximately 4 hours.
• 3:01:33
  Roland screamed and contorted. Suddenly the boy began to lurch
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  as if he was going to throw up. He quickly asked for the window
• 3:01:44
  near his bed to be opened, which his mother did.
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  Roland rushed to the window and vomited a thick black looking
• 3:01:53
  substance. Within minutes he seemed to be
• 3:01:56
  normal, like his old self. For the first time in a long
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  time. The family and the priests knelt
• 3:02:04
  down and thanked God. Kneeling beside him, they gave
• 3:02:08
  thanks for what seemed like a triumph of good over evil.
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  But from the ritual Romanum, the Catholic rites of exorcism,
• 3:02:18
  sometimes the devil will leave the possessed person in peace to
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  make it appear as if he is departed.
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  The exorcist must see through this with the power of God and
• 3:02:30
  realize this is a trap. The boy seems to rest for the
• 3:02:34
  first time and the family feels a true sense of relief.
• 3:02:39
  Or so they think. It's now 2:00 AM and an uneasy
• 3:02:44
  quiet fills the house. The priests have been gone for
• 3:02:48
  several hours when suddenly Roland screams begin to fill the
• 3:02:54
  house once again. Deep, guttural screams, as if
• 3:03:01
  something otherworldly is trying to breakthrough his physical
• 3:03:05
  vessel. There is no rest for the wicked,
• 3:03:09
  nor is there rest for the good. Priests are called back yet
• 3:03:14
  again by Roland's parents and arrive yet again around 3:15 AM.
• 3:03:22
  Shortly into the bewitching hour, they returned back to
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  Roland's bedside, where he begins taunting and screaming at
• 3:03:31
  them. And all too familiar happening
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  now. After several more hours of
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  intense prayer out of nowhere, the young man goes catatonic
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  around 6:00 AM, frozen like a statue.
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  For all intents and purposes, he appears to be sleeping, but with
• 3:03:53
  his eyes wide open. The priests, not wanting to
• 3:03:56
  leave the home in case the devil decides to reappear yet again,
• 3:04:01
  take to visiting with the family for several more hours and
• 3:04:05
  conserving what little energy they have left.
• 3:04:09
  And it's a good thing that they did, because bizarre activity
• 3:04:12
  resumes around 8:30 AM with a vengeance.
• 3:04:18
  Various knocking noises accompanied by Roland's screams
• 3:04:23
  resume a seemingly never ending hell.
• 3:04:26
  There is now more violence than ever before.
• 3:04:30
  Roland is exerting strength beyond his normal capacity.
• 3:04:34
  He begins barking and multiple octaves as if there are two
• 3:04:39
  voices inside of him fighting to escape.
• 3:04:43
  Amidst the chaos, his mother breaks down and has to leave the
• 3:04:48
  room for her own sanity. The boy she's looking at, she no
• 3:04:53
  longer recognizes as her son. Within due time, thankfully,
• 3:05:00
  Roland yet again goes catatonic. Following this event, Father
• 3:05:06
  Bowden suggests that the boy be sent away to a worthy place
• 3:05:10
  where the exorcism can continue, an unfamiliar and sanctified
• 3:05:16
  place that will assist them, and calling upon God to intervene,
• 3:05:22
  and what is quickly being seen as the most intense case of
• 3:05:26
  possession that either of them had ever seen.
• 3:05:31
  This way, Roland is away from his mother and can no longer
• 3:05:34
  'cause her any further distress as well.
• 3:05:37
  Ultimately, it's decided that he'll be sent to a hospital he
• 3:05:42
  ran by an order of Catholic monks not too far from his
• 3:05:45
  current home, as well as the Church and which the priests
• 3:05:49
  operate out of. A bit of a crossroads of sorts.
• 3:05:54
  After strange happenings and his terrifying behavior his first
• 3:05:59
  night there, Roland is placed in a private room on a private
• 3:06:03
  floor above the psychiatric. Ward not only for his own
• 3:06:07
  protection, but to keep him from scaring the other patients.
• 3:06:12
  Within the hospital walls, Father Bowden returns the
• 3:06:16
  following evening with Father Bishop and now with the
• 3:06:19
  additional help of Father Halloran.
• 3:06:22
  Halloran, who is a young seminarian then was tasked with
• 3:06:26
  the main job of restraining the boy if need be during the
• 3:06:31
  prayers and during times where things were calm, it was his job
• 3:06:35
  to visit with him and keep his spirits up.
• 3:06:40
  As the priest made their way to the top floor and entered
• 3:06:43
  Roland's room, Father Halloran began visiting with Roland and
• 3:06:48
  his father Batter, and then blessed them with a small vial
• 3:06:52
  of holy water and then placed the vial on the dresser next to
• 3:06:56
  the bed. Just a few seconds after this,
• 3:07:00
  the vial flew across the room and smashed into the wall,
• 3:07:05
  shattering it into multiple pieces.
• 3:07:09
  In a later interview, as the only surviving priest who
• 3:07:12
  witnessed the activity, Father Halloran stated that that's how
• 3:07:17
  I knew we were dealing with the real deal when that vial flew by
• 3:07:21
  itself across the room and smashed into the wall opposite
• 3:07:25
  of the dresser it was placed on. You read about these kinds of
• 3:07:29
  things, but they never really happen.
• 3:07:33
  Realizing that they needed to begin to do battle with the
• 3:07:35
  darkness that resided within the young man known as Roland Doe,
• 3:07:40
  the ritual formerly began yet again.
• 3:07:44
  The boy began screaming and cursing the priests.
• 3:07:48
  He also revealed one of the tell tale signs of possession as
• 3:07:52
  things began to escalate. Father Halloran's mother had
• 3:07:56
  recently passed away, something that Roland had no way of being
• 3:08:00
  able to know, especially since the two had only met for the
• 3:08:04
  first time before the prayers began this very day.
• 3:08:09
  He looked over at the priest and with a dark and sinister smile
• 3:08:13
  across his face, said that his mother said hello, that she was
• 3:08:18
  rotting within the depths of hell.
• 3:08:21
  This both angered and scared the young priest, but also served as
• 3:08:25
  a distinguishing factor for him personally that there indeed was
• 3:08:29
  another entity inhabiting the body of the boy that sat within
• 3:08:33
  this very room with them, something dark and malevolent.
• 3:08:39
  As many of you may or may not know, exorcism typically
• 3:08:43
  speaking isn't A1 and done kind of situation.
• 3:08:47
  It can take months or even years to fully rid someone of one or
• 3:08:52
  several demonic entities, if at all.
• 3:08:56
  In this case is no different. The prayers continued until
• 3:09:01
  Roland went catatonic and was laid peacefully back into his
• 3:09:06
  bed, wanting to take an aggressive stance to rid the boy
• 3:09:10
  as fast as they could. All three priests along with
• 3:09:14
  Roland's father, but again returned the following day.
• 3:09:18
  Roland by this time was so violent that all four men were
• 3:09:23
  having a hard time holding him down.
• 3:09:26
  Aside from the multiple voices and curses, he began spitting a
• 3:09:31
  foul smelling liquid at them as well.
• 3:09:33
  As the day continued, the boy was screaming that Father
• 3:09:37
  Halloran was hurting him as he was restraining him, the young
• 3:09:41
  priest loosened his grip and was instantly punched in the face,
• 3:09:46
  breaking his nose, leaving him a bloody mess.
• 3:09:50
  This concluded the ritual for that day.
• 3:09:53
  The ordeal for all those involved was quickly becoming an
• 3:09:56
  excruciating nightmare that they couldn't wake up from every day,
• 3:10:01
  all day. There was very little sign of
• 3:10:04
  progress. As for the priests, the task is
• 3:10:08
  exhausting, soul draining and at times faith breaking.
• 3:10:15
  But despite the discouraging signs, like any battle that has
• 3:10:19
  to reach an inevitable conclusion, the ritual must go
• 3:10:24
  on. With each exorcism, Roland
• 3:10:27
  becomes more violent, more angry, and also begins
• 3:10:31
  spontaneously urinating on top of his other abhorrent behaviors
• 3:10:37
  as more objects begin to move more regularly as the paranormal
• 3:10:41
  manifestations continue. On day 18 of Roland being in the
• 3:10:46
  hospital he asked for a pen and paper from the priests and upon
• 3:10:51
  receiving it he writes I am the devil himself and within 10 days
• 3:10:58
  I will give you a sign. Shortly after writing this Down
• 3:11:03
  begins to scream as the Roman numeral 10 carves itself into
• 3:11:08
  the skin on his chest. Witnessing this, Father Bowden
• 3:11:13
  decides to baptize the boy to hopefully aid his crusade
• 3:11:17
  against the demons that plague. Him.
• 3:11:20
  The following day, with Roland's permission, he performs A
• 3:11:25
  baptism, which seems to calm him down.
• 3:11:29
  But this calm was all too short lived.
• 3:11:32
  After just about 10 minutes, he returns to his fits of anger and
• 3:11:37
  curses. Night after night the prayers
• 3:11:41
  continue and night after night the boy is still overwhelmed.
• 3:11:48
  Roland screams and the word in capital letters.
• 3:11:52
  This seemed carved into his chest Exit.
• 3:11:57
  Horrified, the priests continue on with their prayers.
• 3:12:02
  The devil now seems to be speaking through Roland's body
• 3:12:07
  as he says you need to say one more word, but you never say it.
• 3:12:14
  After the night's end at the hospital, the priests were
• 3:12:17
  puzzled as they pondered what this strange statement could
• 3:12:20
  have meant. But as they read through the
• 3:12:23
  book of Exorcism, they realized that Father Bowder was
• 3:12:28
  forgetting to read the word Lord time and time again.
• 3:12:33
  It's not only frightened the men further, but also affirmed their
• 3:12:37
  suspicions as well. The following night, it was an
• 3:12:42
  ice cold, rainy night. As the priests arrived at the
• 3:12:46
  facility, they could immediately sense that something wasn't
• 3:12:51
  right. From the parking lot, they could
• 3:12:55
  see that the lights on the floor that Roland was placed or
• 3:12:59
  flickering on and off and in different rooms.
• 3:13:04
  As they checked in at the front desk, the clerk broke down in
• 3:13:08
  tears, trying to explain that things were especially bad, that
• 3:13:14
  she was very scared. As they approached the boys room
• 3:13:19
  they noted a strong sulphuric smell coming from inside and
• 3:13:24
  unlike previous nights as soon as they entered the room Roland
• 3:13:29
  began cursing at them, but this time and flew in Latin, a
• 3:13:35
  language he had never been exposed to prior to the
• 3:13:38
  exorcisms beginning, let alone one that he should have been
• 3:13:42
  fluent in. He also had never displayed
• 3:13:45
  foreign tongues before. As the priest began the ritual
• 3:13:49
  again Roland stated that this was their sign Father Bowder and
• 3:13:55
  then commanded the spirit to prove itself and as the words
• 3:13:59
  left the priest lips the boy smiled and touched the priest
• 3:14:04
  purple vestments that were draped over his shoulders.
• 3:14:09
  They then burst into hundreds of individual fibers.
• 3:14:14
  Now with their worst fears realized, the priests began to
• 3:14:18
  pray harder than they had ever prayed before.
• 3:14:22
  During the struggle, Roland broke a bed spring and attempted
• 3:14:26
  to stab Father Bowdern, but thankfully was restrained before
• 3:14:31
  he could do so. He thrashed, urinated,
• 3:14:36
  threatened and screamed and dual octaves. 5 hours into the
• 3:14:42
  prayers this night, he began to exhibit a new and frightening
• 3:14:46
  behavior before everyone's eyes. Roland tilted his head back and
• 3:14:52
  slowly began to float up and towards the ceiling.
• 3:14:57
  Before he could reach the ceiling, the men forced
• 3:15:00
  themselves to power through their fear and grab the boy,
• 3:15:05
  bring him back down to the bed where new restraints were then
• 3:15:08
  placed, tethering him from further floating.
• 3:15:13
  After 7 grueling hours of fighting, praying and nerve
• 3:15:18
  racking spiritual warfare, the boy gasped and exclaimed.
• 3:15:25
  He said he saw Saint Michael the Archangel use a flaming sword to
• 3:15:30
  drive the devil away, that he hit him and drove him back into
• 3:15:36
  the darkest abyss one could ever imagine.
• 3:15:40
  With these words, he fell silent and finally closed his eyes,
• 3:15:47
  truly and peacefully asleep. After this long and arduous
• 3:15:53
  night, what began over 28 days ago seemed to have finally been
• 3:15:59
  worth it. Rolling slowly but surely
• 3:16:02
  returned to normal and in fact went on to.
• 3:16:05
  Live a rather ordinary life. The records of the events from
• 3:16:09
  those 28 days were somehow leaked to the press and became
• 3:16:13
  an embarrassment for both the priests involved and the Church.
• 3:16:19
  Father Bowden had always regretted Roland's
• 3:16:21
  confidentiality being violated. William Peter Blatty, who had
• 3:16:26
  heard about the case, became extremely intrigued and reached
• 3:16:30
  out to the priest to discuss it with him.
• 3:16:33
  When asked about if he knew the whole thing was real or not, out
• 3:16:37
  and replied. I had no doubt about it then and
• 3:16:41
  I have no doubt about it now, that what was in that room that
• 3:16:45
  night was the other worldly source we call the Devil in the
• 3:16:50
  flesh. William Peter Blatty took his
• 3:16:53
  inspiration from this case and wrote the book The Exorcist.
• 3:16:58
  So was the possession case of Roland Doe a genuine one?
• 3:17:03
  It has in fact been considered to be one of the most
• 3:17:05
  substantial cases, if not the most substantial case, by the
• 3:17:10
  Catholic Church in the last 300 years in regards to the
• 3:17:14
  existence of satanic forces and the existence of demonic
• 3:17:19
  possession by others. However, it was just an
• 3:17:23
  emotionally compromised adolescent who was acting out
• 3:17:27
  after the death of a close. Loved one, but what do you?
• 3:17:32
  Think make sure to let me know down in the comments below.
• 3:17:36
  And if this case indeed was the real deal, those implications
• 3:17:40
  have far reaching convictions in and of themselves that the
• 3:17:44
  existence of true evil also implies the existence of true
• 3:17:49
  good. And I would say regardless, with
• 3:17:53
  the on screen inspiration and then adaptation of The Exorcist,
• 3:17:58
  these deep reaching questions were then brought forth to
• 3:18:00
  thousands if not millions of people all over the world,
• 3:18:05
  perhaps leading to a wider impact than anticipated.
• 3:18:10
  I think a deeper moral of this story is that the occult is not
• 3:18:13
  only very real and I can say that speaking from personal
• 3:18:17
  experience that it is not for the non experienced or the
• 3:18:22
  spiritually weak. You can never be truly sure.
• 3:18:25
  Of what you're communicating with.
• 3:18:28
  And for the majority of people I would say this, just don't
• 3:18:32
  dabble. It will greatly benefit you if
• 3:18:35
  you don't, because you might just speak with something that
• 3:18:39
  may turn out to be your worst nightmare come to life.