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When a newlywed family finds out that they're expecting twins,
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they quickly try and find a new home that will fit their growing
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needs. They find a deal that seems.
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Straight out of a dream, but instead end up purchasing a
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nightmare. As the years wear on, they begin
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to experience numerous unexplained phenomenon
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happenings that lead them to believe that they're fighting a
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spiritual war for their very souls.
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A war against the devil himself. This is the untold story of the
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terrifying demon House of Enfield, CT.
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And this is yet another story you won't want to watch in the
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dark. In spring of 2005 in
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Connecticut, Jay and Elka Yaple, a young newlywed couple, are
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greeted with the news that they've been hoping for.
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They find out that they're pregnant, but instead of just
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one child blessing their lives, they find out that they're
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expecting twins. Quite the task for first time
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parents to tackle, but the couple are excited and eager to
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take the situation head on and embrace their babies as soon as
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they arrive. Part of tackling this situation
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is finding a new home to live and grow in.
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They know their current home just will not accommodate them
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in the future, so hoping to fix this as soon as possible before
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their children arrive into the world, the couple sets off with
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a limited budget to see what they can find in the local
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housing market. At first it seems that perhaps
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their efforts are in vain, that they were potentially priced out
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of the market. But not wanting to accept this,
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they continue searching day in and day out.
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One afternoon a miracle seems to fall right into their eager
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laps. In a town known as Enfield.
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They come across an old home for sale.
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Although the house is 200 years old and will require some work
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over time, the current condition is acceptable and the size seems
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to be everything they need and are looking for.
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Jay's first impression of the house was that he could see it
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as the start of a very good life for him and his new family.
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He sees a safe and solid place for his children to grow and
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play. His wife, however, got a very
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different impression. Upon stepping inside the house
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for the first time, she felt an uneasy, almost menacing feeling,
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like she did not want to live there, let alone raise her
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children. There, Jay, however, sees the
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opposite in the home and thinks it's a really good deal.
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Perhaps a deal that indeed was too good to be true.
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After several minutes of discussion against her better
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judgement, Elko reluctantly agrees with her husband and the
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two decide to purchase the aging home.
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In the weeks to come, they would move in and would be accompanied
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by their two Yorkie dogs Starting to settle in, the
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couple begin to make the house a home.
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However, their dogs felt very different about their new living
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arrangement. Not very vocal animals.
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Previously, the two dogs seem to go from their normal playful
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selves to something totally different.
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Instead, they now began to act skittish and jumpy and would
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aggressively bark at things that simply weren't there.
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Although the couple found this particularly odd, they simply
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chalked it up to a new environment and hoped that
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things would settle down as the two slowly got used to the
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house. However, as we'll see, this will
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not be the case. Just several months into living
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in the Enfield house, the April family begins to experience
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things that they can't explain. One afternoon, Elka opens the
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front door to head out of the house to run some errands,
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taking in the fresh air. By this point, she is fairly far
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along. She's seven months pregnant.
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She closes the door behind her and begins to descend the
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stairs. She takes one step, 2 steps, and
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out of nowhere she feels someone or something push her from
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behind. As she loses her balance, she
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feels the same force grabbed both of her hands.
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She falls down the rest of the steps and lands, hand stretched
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out directly onto her stomach, yelling from the pain and fear
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that her babies have been harmed.
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Elka screams as she lays on the concrete inside the house.
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Jay is startled as he hears the screams of his pregnant wife and
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upon rushing and discovering her, the two together begin to
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panic. Jay very quickly helps his wife
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up and the two immediately rushed to the closest hospital.
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When they arrive, Elka undergoes emergency testing and thankfully
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her babies are OK. However, both her and Jay have a
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terrible feeling brewing within them.
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Although they can't place a finger on exactly what it is.
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As a result of her fall, Elka is placed on bed rest by her doctor
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for the remainder of her pregnancy.
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This development would mean that she would inevitably end up
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spending most of her remaining days alone and in the house.
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One day Elka is laying in the bed upstairs with her two dogs,
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and although she is fairly settled, the dogs are not.
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The two are extremely restless and are moving up and down
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constantly and barking into the doorway and corner of the room.
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Not paying much attention at first, Elka continues to try and
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relax. But as she tunes out the
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animals, she can't tune out what she begins to hear out of
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nowhere. She begins to hear noise coming
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from the main level of the house below, the sounds of banging and
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creaking of the old wooden floorboards.
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Thinking this is Jay finally home from work, she tells the
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dogs to settle down because it's their dad, and she then calls
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out to Jay, asking him to answer her back.
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She called out Jay, if that's you, I need you to tell me.
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But after the sound of several more footsteps, she's met with
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nothing but I see silence in return.
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Suddenly, her dogs go ballistic. In the hallway before her very
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eyes, she sees what appears to be a black dog.
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Not just any black dog, an ominous black dog whose massive
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and it's gnashing its teeth and it is slowly heading towards
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her, Frozen with fear, Elka is unable to catch her breath at
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the side of it. Her dogs are now cowering next
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to her. When she does manage to catch
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her breath, she stands up and prepares to defend herself as
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best as she can. The hound, still staring her
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down, starts to slowly back up, and then it rounds the corner
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headed towards the stairs, Slowly creeping towards where
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she last saw the creature. Elko works up the courage to
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look over the corner, but as she does, she is startled again.
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This Hound. This.
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Creature has vanished. She is baffled and left without
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an explanation as to what had just happened.
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Several hours later, her husband, Jay would finally
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return home from work. Upon relaying what had happened
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to him, Jay dismissed his wife, thinking that she had been
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dreaming or that her hormones must be playing a part in what
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she had seen. Elka instead is left scared,
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wandering, and questioning her sanity to make his wife feel
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better. Jay did end up sweeping the
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house, but didn't find any trace of this hell hound that his wife
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had described. So together they both decided
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just to stop talking about it and let the whole event go.
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For the rest of the pregnancy, things within the April's home
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are quiet. There are no more paranormal
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happenings. Just two months later they're
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twins. Mackenzie and Courtney were
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born. This was truly a happy and life
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altering moment for them. Their long wait had finally come
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to an end and in its place, the long journey of parenthood had
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just begun. Things, for a time, would
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continue to be calm within the home.
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In the months to come, the couple would adjust to being
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parents and would do everything they could to provide for and
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protect their girls. This included baby proofing the
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house, placing baby monitors around and constantly checking
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on them at all hours of the day and night, and within several
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more months the young girls were already crawling.
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Elka would eventually go back to work, which required Jay and her
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to hire a babysitter. That was a woman named Michelle
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Ziegler, a preschool teacher with years of experience working
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with little ones. From the first day that she
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cared for the twins, his mom and dad were at work.
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The noises would begin. Michelle would describe the
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first day like this as I cared for the girls and laid them down
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to nap and headed back downstairs.
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I was startled to hear what sounded like someone running up
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and down the stairs. Not sure of what to make of
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this. I ran upstairs only to find that
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nothing was out of place and that the girls were still fast
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asleep. It was bizarre.
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Another day while babysitting, Michelle was playing with the
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twins in the living room when suddenly out of nowhere she
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hears a massive banging sound that shakes the entire house.
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The sounds origin is above them. The girls would make their way
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towards the stairs and begin pointing towards the top of it.
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Getting anxious, Michelle runs up to them and looks at what
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they were calling attention to before her very eyes.
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She sees the dark figure of a dog, but this dog is massive in
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comparison to the Yeaples Yorkies As the two stare down,
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Michelle also hears the creature growl.
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As she slowly backs up at the bottom of the stairs with the
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girls behind her arms, it suddenly vanishes into thin air.
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It's important to note that Michelle was not spoken to about
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any prior experiences that Elka had been through.
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The young woman is scared half to death.
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The experience impacts her so much that once the Aples come
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home from work that day, she informs them of what had taken
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place and that she had believed she had seen some kind of ghost.
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And lastly, that this would be the final week she would babysit
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for them. The Aples, soon enough would
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find a new babysitter and would carry on living their lives.
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That was until one particular night.
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In the middle of the night, as everyone in the house is asleep,
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Elka is suddenly woken up by a loud banging noise coming
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through the baby monitor. Perplexed as to just what could
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have caused the noise, she goes to check on the girls, both of
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which she finds are fast asleep. Thinking it must have been the
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monitor. Picking up some sort of
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interference, she soon heads back to bed.
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As she starts to doze off yet again, she is woken up by a deep
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demonic voice coming through the monitor.
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It said you're all going to die. Elko sits up in disbelief, and
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the monitor says the same thing again, but louder.
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This time. Both her and Jay hear it
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screaming for their children. Elka is the first to rush back
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to the girls room with Jay right behind her as they run into the
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bedroom. Thankfully they discover that
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both girls are safe and still sound asleep.
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Jay, although panicking internally, tries his best to
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stay calm while comforting his hysterical wife to be her person
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to lean on. This event in particular seemed
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to change Elka, according to Jay, and he would not be the
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only one who would notice at work.
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Elka's supervisor, a woman named Shawna, would also notice a
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complete shift in her personality.
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In her words, she was not the bubbly and easygoing person I
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admit. Two years ago, she now was
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constantly on edge. As time would go on, Elko would
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continue to change and stopped almost all socializing,
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overtaken by the paranormal events that now plagued her
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family's lives. She kept it all to herself for
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fear of ridicule that could come from others and discussing such
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a matter. Worried about his wife, and in
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an effort to try and understand just why things could be
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occurring in his home, Jay would contact and become friends with
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a local Enfield historian, a woman named Colleen Heidi.
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Jay wanted to know who had built and lived in his home.
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So with only the knowledge that the house was built in 1771, he
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went to the town hall where the records and deed histories were
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kept. Accompanied by Colleen, the two
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would be. Shocked by what they found?
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No home in all of Enfield history had as many disturbing
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deaths or tragedies as the Yaples home did.
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The house had seen over 20 deaths in the past 200 years, 24
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out of the 25 occupants to be exact.
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There have been falls, brain hemorrhages, carbon monoxide
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poisoning, complications from surgeries, the child vomiting
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and becoming aspirated and one person.
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Who was burned on over 90% of their body.
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Other deaths resulted from pneumonia and people unaliving
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themselves. These are two of the strangest
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cases I was able to track down and get details on.
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The first was that of Charles Comparado in 1930, an Italian
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immigrant named Charles Comparado who lived in the
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house. He came infatuated with his
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neighbor one evening. He got it from the table where
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he was eating dinner with his own family and grabbed A
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stiletto knife, walk down the street.
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And while her and her husband were eating, Charles walked into
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their house and then stabbed her seven times, cut her husband's
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throat and then walked back home.
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After getting back to his own house, he would then unalive
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himself, leaving his body's blood stained image on the
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living room floor. The second was that of a woman
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named Elizabeth Arnett. She was a woman that had owned
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the house in 1919, but only for a short time 1 evening.
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As she was heading out the front door, she fell or was pushed,
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leading to her, breaking both of her arms and smashing her skull
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on the steps. She would breathe her last
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breath on the stairs, the very same stairs that Elka had been
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pushed down when she was pregnant with the twins, a
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similarity that was all too familiar to the Aples.
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Given all the darkness of the home's past, it truly seemed
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that something evil inhabited its walls.
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But despite believing that their home was indeed haunted, the
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Aples weren't in a position to sell their house.
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Over the time being, they tried to keep things in order to live
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the best way that they could. One night, as the moon hung
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above the Yaple House, Elka was working this night and the girls
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already in bed, Jay was watching some TV with the couple's dogs.
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An hour or so into watching, one of the Yaple's Yorkies named
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Gizmo, began to run towards the kitchen as if someone had walked
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in. Within seconds he began to bark,
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which further caught Jay's attention as Jay got up and
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began to approach the kitchen where Gizmo was causing a ruckus
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before his very eyes. He could see a black mass in the
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back corner of the kitchen. This is what Gizmo was barking
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at, continuing to head towards his dog, but more cautiously.
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He then is shocked when Gizmo's thrown backwards towards him.
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Going from all fours to seeing his back arch up to him,
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launching at him several feet as if the small dog has been kicked
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and kicked very hard. Running towards the kitchen, Jay
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sees nothing. The apparition is gone.
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His poor dog is now gripped with fear and begs to be picked up.
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Not wanting to leave his father's side, he curls up by
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his neck. The remainder of the night when
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Elka gets home in the morning, Jay tells her what took place
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and the two begin a deep discussion about what they
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thought was going on in the house.
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After talking about the history, how dark it was, and how vicious
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this force seemed to be, the couple comes to the conclusion
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that whatever it is, is certainly paranormal, and this
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paranormal force was malevolent. Seemed to hate anything that was
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alive, fearing for themselves as well as their children and pets.
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The April, shortly after their discussion, would contact a
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group called the Infield Paranormal Society in hopes that
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perhaps they could help decipher what was going on and perhaps
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still could assist them in getting rid of whatever this
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thing was. They speak with the man who
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founded the society, Matt Kondrake, someone who was all
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too familiar with the spirit world and had investigated
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hundreds of cases all over the state of Connecticut.
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The Apples agreed to have Matt and his team conduct an
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investigation of their home, and shortly after their call he
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would arrive, equipment in hand. This was his first impression in
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his own words. Upon arriving, the neighborhood
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seemed completely normal, but the minute you walked in the
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house and closed the door behind you, it became difficult to
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breathe, like the air was heavy. An ominous dark feeling
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overtook. You and I certainly would not
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want to live there. Over the course of the team's
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investigation, they began to ask the entity questions to try and
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make some sort of contact. They started upstairs.
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When asking why are you trying to hurt this family?
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They would receive the following EVP or Electronic voice
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phenomenon. To them it sounded like an angry
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or territorial dog that was barking, as if to warn someone
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not to take another step towards them or their turf.
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Shortly after this recording, the room began to heat up.
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The temperature would read close to 100 degrees.
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Worried that this creature was going to manifest for a physical
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attack, Matt and his crew rush downstairs and into the kitchen
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in hopes of avoiding this as well as cooling down.
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Meanwhile, as they visit with the Aples, their children are
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upstairs, sound asleep in their room, roughly 20 minutes into
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talking in the kitchen, everyone hears a massive boom above them,
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as if a huge object has crashed into the house.
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The first to run up the stairs is Elka with Matt close behind
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her, heading up to the baby's room.
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As they throw the door open to check on the girls, they see
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blood all over the room on their cribs, their mobile and the
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walls in the floor. A large lamp that was in the
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corner of the room was upside down on the floor and its light
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bulb was shattered. Jay and Elka examined their
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children for any sort of injury that could have been caused, but
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mysteriously they find nothing. Not a single cut or scratch
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whatsoever. But where did this blood come
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from? The couple defaults to searching
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the entire home with the team for signs of an intruder, but
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after half an hour of clearing the home there is no evidence of
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a break in and no one to be found.
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After this, Matt, his team and the Aples would speak again in
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their kitchen about what they thought was taking place, and
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Matt was honest with them. He believed that what they were
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dealing with was a non human spirit, a demon, a creature that
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has never walked the earth, one that has never lived in our
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plane of existence, and that this demon was manifesting as
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this black dog. He was also fairly certain that
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whatever it was did not want the family there, and despite all of
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his experiences up until this point, he had never dealt with
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something like this so he wouldn't be able to assist them
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further. After the paranormal team leaves
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for the night, Jay and Elka clean up the mystery blood in
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their children's room and then discuss what their next moves
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will be. They consider trying to sell the
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house, but Jay felt obligated to disclose to any potential buyer
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the history and experiences in the house and truly didn't want
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anyone living. There especially someone who had
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kids or pets or both. But with this he deep down was
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in fear of what this thing was and just what it wanted to do to
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him and his family. So ultimately, not seeing
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another option, the Yples would make contact with another
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paranormal group in the area, one that specializes in dealing
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with demonic hauntings. This group was Connecticut
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Paranormal, and the man they spoke with was named Bob Baker.
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His impression of Jay was that he seemed truthful and
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consistent, something he looked for in order to weed out any
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particular pranksters. Because when someone is making
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things up, their stories tend to change over time.
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And Jays didn't change then and it hasn't changed now.
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The three would arrange for an investigation to take place in
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the next week when they arrive upon crossing the threshold of
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the centuries old house. Bob Baker immediately knew that
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this force was sinister and that they would need a priest if they
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were to make any headway and frame the family from this
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hellish prison. He immediately calls 1A man
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named Bob Bailey, a priest who has helped his group and others
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with demonic hauntings for many years.
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Bob deemed this case severe due to believing it was a demonic
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haunting and with having a demon in the house.
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It was especially a threat to the children upon receiving
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permission from the church. Father Bailey arrives within
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hours of the call and his own words.
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From the moment I walked in, I could tell that the air was
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thick with oppression, and with the priest's arrival the
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investigation began. First, Bob Baker began to
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inquire if there was anything non human or demonic in the
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house and commanded it show itself since it now had no place
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to hide. With these series of questions,
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the tool they had brought to measure the EMF or electronic
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magnetic field began to shoot up into the red.
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This is believed to be indicative of a high level of
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spiritual activity. After this took place, they
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began to try and make contact with anyone who had passed
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within the house, seeking to speak with any lost souls that
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could potentially be trapped inside.
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During this EVP session, they did not receive any answers to
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their questions. However, the EMF reader was
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again fully in the red. The team decided to call in an
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additional asset to assist them, a spiritual medium by the name
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of Paula O'Brien. Paula had years of experience
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dealing specifically with demonic hauntings as well.
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When she arrives, she begins to provoke the entity.
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From the moment she stepped into the house, she could sense that
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there was something nasty there. As she attempts to make contact,
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the crew begins to head upstairs.
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It's here, on the second level that they felt the oppressive
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feeling to be the strongest. Paula believed that the entity
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was hiding there. As they wander into the girls
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room to continue to ask the entity just what it was, they
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catch an orb on their footage. The orb then traveled from the
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closet and out into the hallway and then made its way towards
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the yaples dog, Mandy. Mandy then began to have a
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coughing fit that would turn into convulsions.
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The father believed that the demon was attacking the animal
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in an effort to distract them from trying to figure out its
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motive. Mandy wasn't just a beloved pet,
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she had moved with Elka from Germany and had been her parents
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dog. Both of her parents were gone
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now. So Mandy like the last living
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link to her past. Perhaps the demon sensed this
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and attacked her for this reason.
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As Mandy suffered, they quickly picked her up and rushed her
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down to the main level of the home.
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From here they laid her on the floor and began to pray over
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her. Thankfully, within about 15
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minutes, little Mandy would sit her head up and begin to walk
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normal once again. Both Father Haley and Paula no
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longer sensed the entity, relieved that their dog was OK
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and that the entity had either been severely weakened or had
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gone totally. The Apples thanked everyone
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there for their incredible work as they packed up and prepared
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to leave. The crew warned them, however,
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that if the entity had just been weakened, that it would indeed
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come back stronger than before and with a vengeance that every
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drop of fear they felt would fuel the demons return.
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So, as a precaution, they agree to return in two weeks.
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Just several days after the initial assistance from the
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Connecticut Paranormal Society, Elka was again working the night
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shift, leaving Jay by himself with the girls and dogs.
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Jay lays his girls down to bed for the night while him, Gizmo
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and Mandy lay together to relax and watch TV in the living room.
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As he flicks through the channels trying to find
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something entertaining to watch, he suddenly hears what sounds
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like a large animal running up and down the stairs.
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This disturbs both him and the dogs, and the three bolt up and
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head towards the stairs to see just what it could be.
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As they approach the bottom of the stairs Gizmo when Mandy
30:50
began barking with such ferociousness as if they were
30:54
fending something off with their very lives.
30:58
There at the top of the stairs was once again an apparition,
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but this time it was much more terrifying.
31:06
Before Jay's very eyes he sees a creature with pale skin, bat
31:12
like wings and glistening fangs. It keeps lurching at them
31:18
menacingly from the top of the stairs, standing his ground.
31:23
Although petrified with fear, Jay is much more worried about
31:27
his kids. He begins to get closer to the
31:30
stairs, not yielding any ground to the demon.
31:34
It snarls fangs out, but as he climbs the stairs it slowly
31:41
begins to back up and then it dissipates completely, just as
31:47
the Hell Hound had previously. But were the creatures one and
31:51
the same? Jay then runs upstairs to his
31:54
girl's room and takes them down into the living room with him.
31:59
He will not even think about sleep until his wife is back at
32:03
home. Bob Baker, his team with
32:06
Connecticut Paranormal alongside Paul of the Medium and Father
32:11
Bailey, returned to assist the Yaples family.
32:15
Having felt like they exhausted all of their efforts, the
32:18
family, team, and priest all decide that it was time for
32:23
spiritual warfare. As Father Bailey presented A
32:27
crucifix embedded with an exercise to Medal of Saint
32:30
Benedict, the demon quickly began to show them all its deep
32:35
displeasure as he prayed within the girl's room and commanded
32:40
the entity to show itself. The crew suddenly captured this
32:44
EVPA demonic whisper of sorts, saying get out.
32:57
Despite this, Father Bailey continued his cleansing of the
33:01
home, moving from room to room, binding and commanding the
33:06
spirits in the name of Jesus to go back from whence it had came.
33:11
Paula believed the entity, no longer having a place to hide,
33:14
fled down to the one place that had yet to be cleansed, the
33:19
basement. Upon descending the stairs, the
33:22
Father thought to himself, this is a perfect place for evil to
33:27
hide. As he resumed his cleansing,
33:31
everyone slowly began to make their way towards the back of
33:34
the basement. And at the end of the basement
33:38
on that back wall, a section of the wall has been removed and
33:42
when lighting the space, everyone witnesses a large black
33:48
mass float into this cracked section of the wall.
33:52
It was here that Paula and Father Bailey felt the most
33:56
oppressive energy they had ever experienced.
33:59
A feeling of emptiness, A desolate crypt far away from
34:05
God. They believed that this is where
34:08
the demon resided. Having discovered its hiding
34:11
place, they restart their efforts to finish the cleansing
34:15
of the home, and during this process, multiple people become
34:20
violently I'll a sign that the demon, once cornered, was
34:24
fighting with every possible weapon it had, and it seemed
34:28
like it wasn't going to leave, no matter how hard the priest
34:32
commanded it to. But finally, after several tense
34:37
hours, Father Bailey and Paula finally feel the heavy pressure
34:42
of the demon's presence vanish. In the months following the
34:48
cleansing, the Aples would continue to have several
34:52
paranormal experiences, but Bob Baker had informed them that as
34:57
if their home was a living body and the cancer of the demon had
35:01
been removed, that it was in the process of healing in a sense,
35:06
and that the residuals should eventually go away.
35:10
I tried my best to get a current update on the Yaple family, but
35:14
the most recent update I found was from October of 2015.
35:19
As of that date, the Yaples still owned and lived in the
35:23
house and were still experiencing multiple things not
35:27
of this world. Alongside that, I tried my best
35:31
to find out just how this demon could have made its way into the
35:34
home in the 1st place. And according to several
35:37
articles, the children of Charles Comporado were believed
35:41
to have dabbled with a Ouija board in the basement of the
35:45
house. And when wallpaper was stripped
35:48
back in certain areas, strange and occult drawings could be
35:52
found. But did their meddling with the
35:55
unknown conjure something that previously hadn't been there?
35:59
Or with the prior tragic events? Had the entity already been
36:03
there, and perhaps all they did was pour fuel on the fire?
36:08
It's hard to say. All of this at the end of the
36:11
day, is just speculation. But what do you think?
36:16
Is this case legitimate? What would you have done if you
36:19
encountered a Hellhound? Or a vampiric looking creature?
36:23
Let me know down in the comments below and remember that
36:27
something seems too good to be true, and almost always is.
36:32
And that gift that you've been hoping for for your future
36:37
sometimes can be a Trojan horse for something desolate, dark,
36:43
and evil. Can death unleash something into
36:47
this world that isn't? Supposed to be here?
36:51
Could it act like a portal, allowing something sinister and
36:55
dark to creep in just before it closes?
36:59
Especially if the person passing.
37:01
Is harboring dark and abhorrent secrets.
37:05
When a young man begins to exhibit strange and demonic
37:09
behavior and the very laws of nature seem to bend to his will.
37:14
Can irreverent work to save his very soul.
37:18
Documented by multiple law enforcement professionals as
37:21
unexplained to this day, this is certainly not a story you will
37:25
want to miss. This is the untold story of Don
37:29
Decker. Also known as the Rain Man of
37:33
Pennsylvania, the date is February 24th, 1983, and on this
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cold, misty day, a family is mourning the loss of their loved
37:48
1A man by the name of James Cashaw.
37:54
After battling alcoholism for many years, the bottle finally
37:59
took its toll. And caused cirrhosis of the
38:02
liver which became fatal. Among the pews of friends and
38:07
family paying their respects sits a young man, the grandson
38:12
of James, 21 year old Don Decker.
38:16
Don had been granted furlough from his four to 12 month jail
38:20
sentence for receiving stolen property in order to attend the
38:24
funeral, but as he sat facing the body of his grandfather.
38:29
As others paid their last respects and gave glowing
38:33
speeches about the man, Don clenched his fists.
38:38
Only he harbored a dark secret that no one else knew.
38:43
And this secret is perhaps what contributed to his troubled
38:47
adolescence when it was his turn to walk up and say goodbye to
38:52
James. As he stood over his body, the
38:56
face of evil looked back at him. With eyes closed for the first
39:01
time, Don would later say it felt like good triumphing over
39:06
evil that day, and I truly felt like everything was going to get
39:10
better, like it was a turning point in my life.
39:15
The secret that he had been holding on to for so long was
39:19
that James, his very own grandfather, had abused him from
39:23
the time he was seven years old until he was a teenager.
39:28
And no one else knew. All the years of pain and fear
39:33
were caused by that man. The very same that now laid in
39:37
the coffin, The very same that Dawn was now having to hear
39:41
others praise, and who he was publicly obligated to mourn.
39:48
At the conclusion of the funeral, when James Casket was
39:51
laid into its final resting place, he couldn't stand the way
39:55
his parents had glorified the man's memory.
39:58
But given the circumstances he was in furloughed from jail and
40:03
with emotions raw amongst everybody, he decided it would
40:06
be for the best to go and stay the night with some family
40:09
friends instead before he was set to return to finish out his
40:14
sentence. Bob and Jeannie Kiefer were long
40:18
time friends of the family and were quite fond of Dawn, so they
40:22
were more than happy to have him join them for the night.
40:26
As the night progressed, the three of them were enjoying each
40:29
other's company, but it seemed like all the feelings that have
40:33
been stirred up from the memories of his grandfather's
40:36
abuse at the funeral were coming back to Han Dawn.
40:40
He fell on edge and uneasy when suddenly the air around him
40:46
vibrated with a bone deep chill almost simultaneously.
40:51
After this occurred, water began to drip from the ceiling and
40:55
down the living room walls. Dawn then fell into an eerie
41:00
trance like state, staring at nothing and yet everything at
41:05
the same time. The Kiefers were perplexed at
41:08
what was happening and tried examining all reasonable
41:11
possibilities. Thinking they had a leak, they
41:15
contacted their landlord, a man named Ron Van Wy.
41:19
Upon arriving, Ron too quickly became perplexed.
41:24
The leak, or so they thought, was obvious.
41:28
But what was strange to him was that there was no piping that
41:32
ran through the front part of the house.
41:35
Certainly none that could spring a leak from the ceiling or the
41:38
walls. None at all.
41:41
On top of this strangeness, when observing the water's direction,
41:46
Ron noticed that there was indeed no sense of direction.
41:50
The water was not only coming from the top, down from the
41:54
ceiling and the walls, but it was going from the floor and up
41:58
the walls and direct contradiction to the laws of
42:02
gravity into anything that he had ever seen.
42:07
Shocked and needing multiple witnesses to assure himself that
42:11
he wasn't crazy, Ron phoned his wife Romaine to come and take a
42:15
look as well. Upon her arrival, she was just
42:19
as perplexed and became scared of what was happening since it
42:23
defied all logic and the leak, or so they thought, only became
42:29
worse. So the landlords did the only
42:32
thing that they could do. They called the police.
42:36
Shortly after that call, a patrol car arrived with Officer
42:40
John Bojan, who, after briefly stepping inside the home, became
42:45
drenched in water and also witnessed the bizarre,
42:49
otherworldly activity to which he had no explanation for
42:53
either. So to prove his sanity and to
42:57
back up a report, he called upon his partner, an officer named
43:02
Richard Volbert. When Richard arrived, he wanted
43:06
to be briefed on exactly what was going on.
43:08
The Bojan didn't want to give him any sort of a preconceived
43:12
notion and just told him to trust him on this one.
43:16
After some back and forth, Richard finally conceded and
43:20
followed John into the key for residents.
43:23
He would later describe the incident as so I walked in the
43:28
door. I couldn't have gotten 2 steps
43:30
in the door and I was pelted by water as we were discussing a
43:34
potential leak and as we were being told that there were no
43:38
pipes in that part of the house. As we stood just inside the
43:42
house, a droplet of water was traveling horizontally and
43:47
passed right between US and out into the next room.
43:52
As I retell this story, I have a chill up my spine and the hair
43:56
on my neck is standing up. John would go on to say things
44:02
were happening in this house that I couldn't have ever
44:04
possibly dreamed of happening and there was no way to explain
44:08
what was going on. Shocked by what they were
44:11
witnessing, the two officers asked the family to step outside
44:15
of the house and out of the water while they left to report
44:19
the incident to the chief himself.
44:21
The Wise decided to stay at the property while the Kiefers and
44:25
Don walked across the street to a local restaurant for something
44:29
to eat. Within seconds of everyone
44:32
departing, the water suddenly stopped within the house and
44:37
aside from the home being drenched, it was back to normal.
44:41
No more dripping water and no more mist.
44:45
This left Ron and his wife only to speculate that whatever was
44:48
happening was coming from one of the three, because when they
44:52
left, so did it. Pam Scrofano, who owned the
44:57
pizzeria opposite the Kiefer's house where the three ended up
45:01
in, was a friend of the Kiefer's and knew Don as well.
45:06
Upon greeting the three of them, she noticed that Don was
45:09
distant, like he was looking at you, but looking through you.
45:15
A deeply religious woman, she sensed something evil about him,
45:20
like the devil was working through Don Decker, and
45:23
recommended that they contact someone at the church for help.
45:28
Within mere seconds of mentioning this, droplets of
45:31
water hit the table in front of them and soon the very same
45:36
phenomena that was originally happening in the house was also
45:41
now taking place inside the pizzeria.
45:45
Sensing this evil, Pam ran to the cash register where she had
45:50
an old cross necklace. She took it out and placed it
45:53
around Don's neck. As soon as it touched his skin,
45:58
he got burned. He began to scream and pull the
46:02
necklace off of him. It was charred black as the trio
46:07
departed the pizzeria and headed back to their home.
46:11
The strange activity inside once again ceased.
46:16
It's important to note that nothing like this had ever
46:18
happened at the Kiefer residence or Pam's Pizzeria.
46:22
No plumbing issues, nothing that could be considered even
46:26
remotely similar. Convening inside the home once
46:29
again, they met Ron and his wife.
46:33
Ron suspected that Don had something to do with what was
46:36
happening, and after some discussion, an argument erupted
46:40
among the group. This led to Jeannie screaming at
46:43
dawn, telling him that they knew it was him, that he had to make
46:48
all of this stop. After the words left her mouth,
46:52
the pots and pans above the stove began to shake and the
46:56
lights around them began to flicker.
47:01
Don Decker was no longer in control of his body.
47:06
Everyone watched in horror as Don levitated multiple feet into
47:11
the air and rotated several times.
47:15
He was then thrown out of the kitchen where they were and into
47:19
an entirely different room. Don himself would later recount
47:23
the event like this. It wasn't like someone grabbing
47:27
your hand or picking you up. I felt this force over my entire
47:32
body. I'm a big man and I've always
47:35
been assertive, but this, whatever this was, made me feel
47:40
like a newborn child. I'm scared right now just
47:43
thinking about it. Dawn not laid unconscious on the
47:47
floor and the rain began again. The Wise and the Kiefers were in
47:54
absolute shock and disbelief at what had just taken place.
47:58
They knew it was tied to dawn, but they had no idea just what
48:02
it was. But they felt that it was evil.
48:07
A few hours after the strange incident witnessed by the police
48:10
officers, they arrived back at the residence alongside.
48:14
They're very heated police chief.
48:16
As he made his way into the home with the two officers behind
48:19
him, he too was pelted with water, just as they had been now
48:23
first, probably feeling like he was on the spot and perhaps
48:27
slightly embarrassed. He claimed that this wasn't even
48:31
a police issue, but a plumbing issue, despite then being told
48:36
that there were no pipes in that part of the house, and this was
48:39
even confirmed by blueprints of the home.
48:42
After taking a look around at the rest of the home, which was
48:45
bone dry, the chief then angrily ordered the two officers to
48:50
escort him back home. He would be the only officer
48:53
that night to not admit to anything strange happening.
48:58
He then directed officers John and Richard to not file A.
49:01
Report and to not speak about the incident at all.
49:05
But word would get out the following morning, acting
49:10
against the specific orders from their chief, the two officers
49:14
returned to the residence along with three veteran officers as
49:17
well. They too would see and
49:20
experience the bizarre rain inside the home, so they decided
49:24
to try something to attempt to get to the bottom of what
49:27
exactly? Was going on.
49:30
They asked if they could place a paper bag over Don's head, to
49:33
which Don agreed this was so. He would have no way of seeing
49:37
anything. He'd have no preconceived
49:40
notions of what could be placed on him or in his hands.
49:45
They then placed a gold cross necklace from one of the
49:48
officers into his hand. Lieutenant William Davies, one
49:53
of the officers present who placed the cross into his hand,
49:57
described the incident like this.
50:00
As soon as the necklace touched his palm, he said it burned him.
50:05
He would have had no idea what it was.
50:08
I saw what I believe to be smoke of some sort coming from the
50:12
necklace or his hand. As he dropped the necklace, I
50:16
picked it up and it was hot. Not burning hot, but hot enough
50:21
to concern me. Then suddenly, with the Force,
50:26
as if a bus hit him, he lifted up and was thrown across the
50:30
room, hitting the back wall. Upon removing the bag from him,
50:35
he was clearly dazed and had three bloody and fresh claw
50:40
marks across his neck. I've been a cop for 40 years and
50:45
I've never ran into anything like this ever, Never before and
50:50
never again after. There's always an explanation,
50:55
but in this case there was no explanation.
51:00
The police would later leave again with no answers as to what
51:03
was taking place. Believing it to be a spiritual
51:07
matter, Don was placed on the couch in the living room.
51:11
Or the rain continued to go from mist to showers at random and
51:16
varying times. After making multiple desperate
51:20
calls to every Protestant and Catholic religious leader in
51:24
Shroudsburg, only one didn't turn them down.
51:28
Ron was able to convince an evangelical preacher who went by
51:32
the name of Reverend Johnson to come over and pray with Dawn.
51:37
As she arrived and began to pray, the rest of the group held
51:41
hands and vigil and did what they could to support her.
51:45
As the first words left her lips, dawn began to convulse and
51:50
shake. The rain intensified, and his
51:54
body began to twist into unnatural positions.
51:59
But as she continued, he slowly but surely began to relax, and
52:05
the rain seemed to stop. Although those present believed
52:10
that a miracle had been performed, the results of that
52:13
prayer session would only prove temporary, perhaps placing into
52:18
hibernation whatever was inside Don Decker.
52:23
Once his furlough was over, Don Decker returned back to jail to
52:27
finish his sentence. Within just a few days, the
52:31
mysterious rain returned. Upon his return to jail, Dom was
52:36
placed in a cell with another inmate and had the thought enter
52:40
his mind that if he could make it rain in the cell, perhaps he
52:44
could get to be alone. Almost as soon as he thought
52:48
that the rain began, it was materializing out of the
52:53
concrete floor and flowing upward.
52:57
The other inmate was horrified and screamed for the guards to
53:01
let him out. Thinking they had some kind of
53:03
plumbing issue, the guards opened the cell and removed that
53:07
inmate as well as Decker. At first he was accused of
53:11
throwing water onto the walls from the sink or from the toilet
53:15
by the guards, but upon these accusations, Don rebuttal.
53:20
With I can control it. This time the feeling was
53:23
different. This time he felt powerful and
53:27
in control. Upon hearing this, the guard
53:31
laughed and said, if you can control this rain, make it rain
53:35
in the warden's office, an offer that dawn couldn't refuse.
53:40
The warden would then describe what happened.
53:43
And these are the words of Lieutenant Warden David
53:46
Keenhold. I was in my office filling out
53:49
paperwork with no one else around.
53:52
It was approximately 8:00 PM in the evening.
53:55
I didn't notice it at that time, but my shirt was dripping down.
53:59
I heard a knock at the door and little did I know that it was
54:02
the same officer that was just with Don Decker.
54:05
I wasn't aware of the situation at the time.
54:09
He told me to look at my shirt and there was no explanation as
54:12
to where the water could have come from.
54:15
The officer then became very frightened of what had happened,
54:18
and after explaining the situation to me, I too became
54:22
frightened. Shortly after the rain in the
54:25
warden's office, a frantic call was placed to a local chaplain,
54:30
a man named Reverend William Blackburn.
54:32
He soon found himself shaking hands with the warden and
54:35
several officers as he was escorted into the jail and into
54:39
an empty cell. Within minutes he came face to
54:43
face with Don Decker, who by this time was beginning to fear
54:48
the feeling he had inside of him, that powerful and evil
54:52
feeling. He was now asking for the
54:55
reverend's help and freeing him of whatever this thing was.
54:59
Blackburn wasn't convinced at first.
55:02
He told Decker that his life would be much easier if he just
55:06
stopped all this nonsense and attention seeking.
55:09
He would go on later to describe the situation like this.
55:13
Almost immediately after I accused him, Don's demeanor
55:16
changed. A glazed look came over him, and
55:20
a horrible smell entered the room.
55:23
Doctors, nurses, and medical personnel will tell you that
55:27
when you walk into a room, when there's someone dying of disease
55:31
or of cancer, there's a smell to it.
55:34
I smelled that smell, multiplied by at least five times.
55:39
It was evil and foreboding. Dawn's glazed expression.
55:44
Then switch to one of malice and calculation.
55:48
He exclaimed. I have powers that you don't,
55:52
and I can make it rain. He then raised his hand and
55:55
rubbed his fingers together and it started to rain inside that
55:59
cell. It was like a devil's rain, a
56:02
mist. I was in the presence of evil.
56:06
I started opening my Bible to begin to pray and Don said I
56:11
don't want you. To pray for me, to which I
56:14
decided to anyways. I started to read to him, and
56:18
the strange thing is that even though I was soaked, the pages
56:22
of my Bible never got wet, and that was truly frightening.
56:26
Although the session was short, upon uttering the words that he
56:30
was now bound in the name of Jesus Christ, the rain stopped
56:35
and a peace overtook dawn. When he finally came to, he
56:39
thanked the Reverend with tears in his eyes, and the two hugged
56:44
and prayed together again. In the words of Reverend
56:48
Blackburn, there is no doubt in my mind that he was possessed.
56:53
No human being could do what he did in that room.
56:56
There is no way that he did anything to fool me whatsoever.
57:00
Whatever happened was spiritual, and it was not from God can
57:05
guarantee you that it was not from God.
57:08
From this moment forward the rain has stopped for now.
57:13
Don Decker would later say that he takes things day by day and
57:17
that fortunately the rain hasn't returned.
57:20
As for his grandfather, he thinks whatever happened was
57:24
related to him. He thinks that considering where
57:27
he thinks he ended up, maybe he was able to make a deal with
57:31
someone and have yet another chance to abuse him.
57:36
What makes this case so unique and interesting is that all the
57:39
people involved are credible people.
57:42
I mean, we have some family, friends, sure, but they stated
57:46
they had nothing take place in that house prior to Dawn's
57:49
arrival that morning. We have the landlord of the
57:52
family's home and his wife not only reaffirming that there
57:56
weren't any prior issues, but that there were no pipes in that
57:59
area of the house. We then have six police
58:02
officers, including the chief over the case, experience the
58:06
phenomena, and he was the only one that said that nothing took
58:10
place. We have a business owner where
58:12
the phenomena took place at her establishment as well, then
58:16
several guards at the jail and which she goes back to finish
58:19
serving his time, witness things and the warden of the jail
58:23
himself. And the police officers.
58:25
Three of them were seasoned lieutenants, I might add, and
58:29
anyone with a proper reputation, unless they really experience
58:33
something, would risk that in my opinion.
58:36
So was it demonic infestation, possession, poltergeist
58:41
activity, or something else entirely?
58:45
When we have so many credible eyewitnesses recanting the same
58:48
details, saying what they saw, experienced and felt was a
58:53
phenomenon not of this world, it truly makes you wonder.
58:58
And if it wasn't spiritual, could Dawn's childhood trauma
59:02
have allowed him to break into a part of the mind that could
59:05
somehow 'cause these kinds of things, allow him to manipulate
59:09
the weather of his surroundings, move objects, and even cause
59:14
harm to himself? We may never truly know the
59:17
answers to this mystery in particular, and it very much
59:21
still is a mystery to this day. As far as an update on Don
59:25
Decker, besides multiple show appearances and interviews to
59:29
discuss his story over the years, the last known activity
59:33
that I could find of him was that back in 2012, he was
59:37
charged with arson of a local restaurant in the Poconos
59:41
Mountains of Pennsylvania. It seems like perhaps he was
59:44
paid to set fire to the establishment by the owner,
59:47
maybe for insurance fraud. As far as the outcome of the
59:51
case, I couldn't find additional details.