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

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