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The Untold Story Of The Terrifying Pennington Family Haunting - North Carolina · Mystery Archives Episodes

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Cemeteries are supposed to be places of eternal rest, but what
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happens when the dead become restless?
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When a family believes they have found their next chapter to
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happily ever after, they soon realize that they've been
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enshrouded in a fog of darkness. As the paranormal torment
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intensifies, will they survive the demonic barrage or will hell
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take them? This is the untold story of the
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Pennington Family haunting which took place in North Carolina,
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also known as the Back from the Grave case.
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This is a story I would not suggest you listen to if you're
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alone or in the dark, unless you like a challenge.
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Winston Salem, NC, often called the Twin City, is most famous
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for its deep roots in the tobacco and textile industries.
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It's also known as the City of the Arts, given its unique
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cultural background. But this seemingly normal place
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on the surface, like many outwardly normal places, has an
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underbelly of darkness. Our story begins in 2008.
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Jamie Bruce and Aaron Pennington are a longtime couple who,
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through teamwork, have decided to purchase their first house.
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They find a deal that seems to be straight out of their dreams.
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The home they find is in the historic Jackson Acres area and
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is right in their budget, and although it'll take a little
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work with some small fixes, it's perfect for them.
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It was a good size, close to Jamie's family, and overall a
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solid start for the couple. Upon moving in, all seemed
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normal and quiet, but lurking within the shadows, something
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unseen was watching them. The couple enjoyed their new
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neighborhood and often took advantage of the local
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playgrounds and parks. 1 Park in particular, which was just a few
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homes down and across the street from them, seemed to become
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their children's favorite and interestingly, it was attached
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to a cemetery. The cemetery, which dated back
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to the Civil War, was family owned and kept.
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One afternoon, as the couple was spending time with their two
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children, daughter Laci, who was a year old, and son Mason, who
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was three, at the park and on their way headed back to their
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house, they decided to take a look inside the cemetery as
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well. As Jamie steps inside to look at
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the various graves and headstones, she can't help but
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notice after a moment that her son seems to be staring at
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something from beyond the cemetery gates.
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It's almost as if he sees something that she can't.
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As she walks back towards her son, his eyes seem firmly locked
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towards the direction of a large tree within the cemetery itself.
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She calls his name, but yet his attention stays locked.
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Finally, she approaches him and taps him on the shoulder, asking
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just what he was looking at. The young boy seems startled at
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his mother's touch and in response, he replies with.
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I just want to go home, mom. Jamie, finding this odd but not
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dwelling on it too much, obliges him.
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That night, as the moon hangs high over the Pennington
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household, the family slept soundly, but something else,
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however, was wide awake and watching.
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Aaron, who worked for a trucking company as a manager, works 2nd
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and occasionally 3rd shift depending on when the trucks
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would finally arrive. As one can imagine, this puts
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the majority of the responsibilities of raising the
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children and the house duties on Jamie, as well as makes the
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couple seeing one another more difficult, but they do what they
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can to make it all work. One night, after putting the
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children to bed and laying down in bed herself, as her eyes
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close and she begins to drift off to dreamland, Jamie is
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suddenly woken up by the sounds of her young daughter crying in
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her crib. Her cries, however, escalate
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from normalcy to a fever pitch unlike any she's heard before.
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Jamie then quickly rushes out of bed and sprints towards her
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children's room, trying to figure out just what was going
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on. As she reaches the doorway, she
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sees that her son is also awake alongside her daughter.
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As she quiets baby Laci, she asks Mason just what had
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happened to prompt both of them waking up, and to her horror,
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the young boy answered with a man came out of the mirror.
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Thinking that perhaps the young boy had had a nightmare and
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maybe woke up with a sound or a cry which then startled the
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baby. She tries to quell his fears by
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investigating the room and showing him by opening the
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closets and checking underneath the bed that there was no such
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man in the room, nor was there anyone hiding anywhere.
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The kids eventually fall back asleep, but Jamie, finding the
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whole thing strange to say the least, decided to stay up to see
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and talk to her husband. Several hours later, when Aaron
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arrives back home, she greets him in the living room and tells
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him just what had occurred in Aaron's own words.
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I found this to be very strange because it was completely out of
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the ordinary for my son to be making something up like this.
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The following morning, while Aaron takes Mason with him to
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run errands, Jamie is doing chores around the house.
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As she finishes up the dishes and begins walking out of the
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kitchen towards the hallway, she suddenly begins hearing a
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strange series of banging noises emanating from the kitchen
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behind her. Turning around to see just what
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those sounds could be, she cautiously makes her way back
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into the room. A chill soon overtakes her very
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soul. All the windows in every single
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cabinet door, including the ones at the very top towards the
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ceiling, were all open. Weirded out but trying to cope
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with hearing and seeing something she couldn't explain,
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she tries to tell herself that surely she had just accidentally
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opened them during her tasks and forgot about it.
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But deep down, she would later admit in interviews, she knew
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something was very wrong. Attempting to brush off the
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incident, she continues on with her day.
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Later that evening, as the sun settled on the horizon, Jamie is
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giving Mason a bath. As she gets up from the tub to
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grab her son a towel, she goes from the bathroom and into the
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hallway towards one of the closets.
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As she takes several steps towards it, she hears her son
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talking in the bathroom. He's not just saying a few words
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to himself, it seems as if he's having a very serious
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conversation with someone. However, there is no one there
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with him. Calling out to him, she asked
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Mason are you talking to someone?
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In which he replied with yes. Finding this extremely odd, she
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grabs the towel and quickly makes her way back to the
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bathroom. Upon asking just who her son was
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speaking with, the young boy replied with Gable.
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Thinking that maybe her son was just using his overactive
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imagination, she asked him if Gable was one of his toys, to
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which he replied with no, he's a man.
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He was just here talking to me, and he left just before you came
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back. A chill runs down Jamie's spine.
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Could it be possible that her son was speaking with someone
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that she couldn't hear or see? Could they all be experiencing A
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haunting? That night, as the family spends
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time together in the living room, Aaron decides to ask his
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son just where did he hear the name Gable, expecting to hear
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that perhaps his son had heard it elsewhere, such as from
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another child or from something on TV.
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He becomes far more concerned when Mason tells him that Gable
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himself had told him that that was his name as they further
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question the boy. Expecting for this whole thing
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to be some kind of imaginary friend situation, Mason instead
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insists that Gable is a very real person and one that he sees
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and speaks with daily. Aaron then asked Mason that if
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Gable is real, then where was he, to which his son pointed
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towards his room. He then asked his son to go and
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get him. In later interviews, Aaron would
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say that in that moment, my heart dropped a bit when my son
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said that Gable was in the back bedroom.
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Mason then proceeds to walk into the back bedroom and begins
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having what seems like a coherent conversation with
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someone or something that they can't hear respond back to him.
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He then returns to the living room.
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When Aaron asks him just where Gable was, the boy eerily
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responds with He's right here beside me.
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The young boy seems adamant that there was someone there with
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him. She asks him just what was 7 +
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4, knowing that her son couldn't add numbers quite yet like that.
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To her shock and amazement, after several seconds, he
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answers with 11. In Jamie's words, our mouths
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just dropped. What were we to think now?
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Just what were we even supposed to do or believe?
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Do we believe him now or not? Not sure what else to say or
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think, the couple sits for a moment in silence, with
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goosebumps overtaking them in the weeks that follow, it's not
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just Mason's parents who come to believe that perhaps their son
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is telling the truth. A longtime friend and babysitter
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by the name of Pam Marsh is also becoming a believer in her own
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words. Mason's demeanor let us all know
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that this was something very serious by the look on his face.
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We questioned him and the answers he gave us, just how he
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gave them to US-led us to believe that he really believed
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that Gable was real and was there.
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It was truly odd that he believed so intensely, and it
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was pretty weird that this young boy was so deadly serious.
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In an effort to seek some kind of rational answer to this whole
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thing, Jamie visits Mason's preschool teacher.
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She asked several general questions about how her son was
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doing and performing, which was all good, and then she asked if
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the name Gable meant anything to the teacher, to which the
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teacher would reply with a very confused no.
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She also confirmed that the name didn't belong to any student, or
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faculty for that matter, nor had it come from any of the stories
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that she had read to the class in the days to come following
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meeting with Mason's teacher. As Jamie is home, she's alert
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and watching for any signs of anything unusual.
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It had become all too familiar to her, whether the children
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were there or if she was completely alone, that something
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was watching her, something that she couldn't see.
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The house that had once felt like a home was feeling more and
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more like a prison. One night while the children are
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sleeping and Aaron is away at work, Jamie seeks comfort and
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advice from her friend Pam as she talks with her on the phone
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just about everything that had been taking place.
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Her conversation is soon interrupted by the sound of
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rattling chains. Believing that someone had
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broken into the house, she very cautiously, with her friends
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still on the phone, begins to walk towards where the noise is
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coming from. Unnervingly, it's originating
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from her children's room. As she quietly makes her way
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towards the room and gets within a foot or so of the cracked
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door, the rattling suddenly stops.
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Gently, she pushes the door open, only to reveal the sight
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of both of her children fast asleep.
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Not only did Pam on the phone also hear the strange noises,
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she's not totally sure how the kids didn't wake up due to how
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loud it all was. Scared now and not sure of what
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to make of the strange situation, she lets her friend
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go and decides to call Aaron. Aaron, who is a skeptic in
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general, tries to calm his wife down by telling her that he
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believed that she had indeed heard something, but that surely
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there had to be an explanation for it.
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And surely it wasn't any kind of ghostly chains rapping against
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the floor, that perhaps it had been something rattling within
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the air ducts of the house. He manages to calm her down
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enough to settle down, but deep inside Jamie knows that
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something is wrong with this house and really this entire
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situation. And it truly bothers her that
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despite her best efforts, there is seemingly no explanation for
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the bizarre things that have been happening.
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And little would she know that these events would be far from
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the last to occur. Several days later, as Jamie is
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doing laundry in another part of the house, she has a baby
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monitor video tablet on the dryer to watch her kids in the
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minutes that she's away doing chores.
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Upon loading some clothes into the washer, she glances up at
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the monitor and sees something very concerning in her own
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words. I looked up from the laundry at
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the baby monitor and saw what appeared to be a thick smoke
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enveloping the room. It was going from one side of
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the screen to the next. Panicking, believing that there
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was a fire in the house, she runs from the laundry room at a
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dead Sprint to her children's room to ensure their safety.
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As she rushes down the hallway, she throws open the door to
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their room. However, there's no smoke, no
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smell of fire, and her children are completely fine, still
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asleep in their beds. In her own words, there was no
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smell, no smoke, there was nothing.
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I called Aaron and he said that if I saw smoke that there had to
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be an explanation as to why. When Aaron returns that morning,
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he quickly begins to try and troubleshoot just how or why his
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wife would have seen smoke that wasn't there.
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His conclusion was that it had to have been some kind of glitch
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or static on the baby monitor that perhaps his wife had
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misinterpreted as smoke at a glance.
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Jamie, however, is convinced of what she saw, and her conviction
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was that perhaps this had something to do with Gable, that
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some kind of unseen force was trying to communicate with her.
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Later that night, in order to have Peace of Mind, the couple
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brings their two children to sleep with them in their room.
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However, in the middle of the night, baby Lacey is restless.
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As Erin and Jamie try to quell her cries, she seems
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inconsolable. Jamie believes that it could
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have something to do with what has been happening in the house,
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that they're all, in one way or another, being stalked by this
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unexplained presence. In the weeks to come, Jamie
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begins to hear the sound of disembodied laughter when she
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tries to sleep, often when Aaron is gone at work.
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This laughter sounds like a child, but would often morph
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into something darker and it's pitch would go higher and lower
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an octave, something that terrified the poor woman.
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Jamie, confiding in her friend Pam about what had continued to
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take place at their house, tells her that although she didn't
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believe in ghosts before, she's starting to now, and that she's
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not so sure that Gable is the only entity that could be
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stalking her family. One night, she's woken up once
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again by the sound of laughter emanating from around her in the
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darkness of her room, in her own words.
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When I heard the laugh, it was loud and was only about two or
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three feet away from me, and it was just so real.
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And that's when I finally realized that all of this was
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real, that there was something in my house, and I was
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terrified. Later that night, when Aaron
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returns from work, he comes home to find his wife and children
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asleep in the living room. Figuring that something else had
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to have happened, he sits down next to them in one of their
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chairs and contemplates just what they'll do next.
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As he thinks from within the darkness of the house, he begins
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to hear what appears to be music in his words.
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I was sitting there and suddenly I began to hear 3 distinct notes
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repeat over and over again. This continued for at least 5
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minutes. As a result of this, he
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cautiously gets up and begins approaching the basement as the
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notes continue to ring out from its depths.
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As he slowly descends the stairs and reaches the bottom, the
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music continues to be played. He searches everywhere but
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continues to hear the music, so he then returns to the upper
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level of the house and still searching, he finds nothing, yet
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the haunting melody continues. He very gently wakes his wife
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and has her verify that he's not crazy, and after she confirms
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that she hears it as well, the melody suddenly ceases.
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Finding this creepy to say the least, but accepting the fact
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that they had no ability to determine what or why since it
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was out of their scope of understanding, the couple
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decides to lay down together to try and get some rest for the
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night. However, as light rain tapped
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the windows outside of their home, something from inside its
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walls continued to lurk. Shortly after dozing off, both
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Jamie and Aaron are woken up, but this time by a very
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different sound. This time it was a muffled
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series of conversations seemingly intertwined with some
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kind of strange yet terrifying chanting.
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Similar to the melody. They have no idea where it's
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coming from. As the chant oscillates between
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lower and higher pitches, it hits a part of their souls that
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beyond horrifies them. They both now, beyond a shadow
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of a doubt, know that whatever they were experiencing was
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paranormal and that they needed help immediately.
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The following day and into the night, Jamie, using her laptop,
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scours the Internet seeking any help, or information really that
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could help her figure out just what was happening in their
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house. She's not having much luck,
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however, Hope seems to find her. Aaron, while on his lunch break
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at work, overhears a radio program discussion with an
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author and paranormal researcher by the name of Bill James.
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And through this interview, he begins to gain some knowledge on
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just how these things work. One of the ways these entities
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feed off you, James said, is by creating havoc in your life.
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Any anger or sorrow or strong emotions they feed off of to
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gain energy for themselves. That if you cut this off, that
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it effectively starves them in the cycle of constant provoking
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and torment over time will cease.
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That one, through self regulation must effectively
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retake their space and face their fears.
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Interested in figuring that they had nothing to lose, Aaron calls
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his wife and tells her just what he had heard.
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Although the prospect of anything otherworldly messing
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with her and her family terrifies Jamie deeply, her love
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for Aaron and the kids far outweighs her fear.
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She decides that she must be brave and stand up to whatever
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these things were, particularly when Aaron was at work.
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Activity seemed to flare up, almost as if she was being
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targeted, that perhaps her emotions were some of the
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strongest that these entities could feed off of.
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Shortly after this phone call, as Jamie sits in the living room
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on her laptop as her children sleep, Mason suddenly wakes up
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as she heads over to ask him why he was awake.
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Thinking that perhaps the boy had a bad dream, he says that
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Gable had touched his shoulder and woke him up to play.
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Remembering what she and her husband had just discussed,
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Jamie then asks Mason if Gable was there and with them, after
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which he points to his room and says that that's where he went.
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She decides that she will make a stand here and face him.
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Gathering herself, she calls out towards the room, telling Gable
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that he needed to leave. After a moment of silence, Mason
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tells her that Gable hurt her and was leaving.
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In the weeks following this night, the house becomes quiet,
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almost peaceful. However, what they don't realize
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is that they're like a mouse in a den of snakes.
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Jamie, meanwhile, continued to reclaim her house.
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One night, as she does laundry, she feels the sensation of
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someone or something grabbing the back of her pant leg.
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She becomes startled, but tries to ignore whatever it could be
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as to not give it more fuel. As she walks over and starts the
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dryer, however, is when all hell breaks loose.
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Within moments, an invisible force grabs her calf and then,
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lifting it up, begins to pull. Jamie, who of course is
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petrified at what's happening, screams out while grabbing onto
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nearby shelves and the dryer itself for stability.
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The attack then suddenly stops. Frantic now, she runs across the
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house and calls Aaron and demands that he come home.
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They both now knew that whatever this thing or these things were,
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that they could physically interact with them and that this
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was now an immediate threat. Aaron hangs up the phone with
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his wife and immediately rushes home.
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Upon stepping through the door and consoling her, he now knows
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that he must confront the darkness that has infested his
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house. He makes his way to the laundry
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room and feeling a rage building inside, he begins to call the
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entities out, demanding that they show themselves, saying
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that they were weak for targeting his wife and children.
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He lets them have it, so to speak.
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The entities this time, however, decide to remain elusive and
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within the shadows. They do not reveal themselves.
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Jamie, the following day, once again confides in her friend Pam
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about the ongoing and worsening paranormal experiences within
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her home. Pam then does some research of
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her own and makes contact with paranormal investigators by the
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name of Pam, Nance and Ashley Field.
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Within the coming days, she's able to meet with them both and
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they decide to make their way to Jamie and Aaron's house.
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As they approach the home and they're driving past to the old
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cemetery, the investigators ask Pam if the family has ever
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visited this place. Remembering the several times in
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which they had, she answered yes, and that to the
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investigator seemed to be the possible catalyst for what was
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now plugging them, that they had, perhaps unknowingly,
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brought an attachment home with them.
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As they all park and approach the residence, there was a
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general feeling of anxiety that hung in the air like humidity.
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Upon entering and speaking with the couple, the group then
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begins their investigation. One of the first things they
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noticed was that there were high levels of electromagnetic
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energy. They tried to debunk just how
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this would be, but didn't seem to find any explainable reason.
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Following this, the two decide to place a video camera to
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record themselves as they then simultaneously record with a
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digital recorder as they try to communicate with anything that
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could be present there with them.
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As the EVP or Electronic voice phenomena session began, the
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group started asking questions to whatever presence could be
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there. The energy.
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Then the entire home began to shift.
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It began to feel similar as when electricity charges in the
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moments just before a thunderstorm is unleashed.
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Something was bubbling just below the surface.
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As their questions rang out, they soon began to receive
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answers. Different words that manifested
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through the static. Different voices, that of a man
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and that of a little girl seemed to come through first in the
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words of Ashley Field. I rarely, if ever, hear words
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with my naked ear during an investigation, but this one was
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different. The feeling of unease by this
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point could be felt by everyone present.
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The session was taking place in the children's room.
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There was a large mirror within it, and this mirror seemed to be
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a focal point of dark energy. It is believed that mirrors can
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serve as portals or doorways between our world and others.
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Stories of mimics and other figures showing themselves
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through them have been reported by many, as well as entities
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manifesting and physically stepping through them.
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Could this mirror be serving as just that, a means for those who
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aren't meant to be here to access our realm?
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Feeling as though there was an otherworldly and potentially
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malicious presence surrounding the mirror, the investigators
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decide to take action. Ashley Field, using an old
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folklore cleansing technique that originated in Appalachia,
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takes a lemon water mixture and pours it onto a towel.
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She then wipes the glass surface of the mirror.
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It is believed that this technique seals portals within
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the mirror, rendering them closed, thus trapping the power
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within and effectively blocking anything that could be trying to
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come through. In Ashley's own words, cleansing
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is all about intent. It's not a power that someone
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gives to you, it's what you're putting out into the world.
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If you're putting out good and pushing away the bad, it's like
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getting away from bad people but leaving the portal to be sealed.
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The team now focuses on what could be remaining that had
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already come through. They decide to utilize smudging
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or the burning of sage to cleanse the House of any
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remaining entities and their negative energy.
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After cracking several windows to allow airflow starting in the
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center of the room. As the smoke billows from the
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sage bundle and begins to fill the air, Ashley then fans it
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outward to push anything that could be there away and out of
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the house. She does this room by room.
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Upon finishing, she utilizes a Christian Southern technique for
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cleansing spirits. She takes blessed salt and
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combines it with holy water in a bowl and then starting in the
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center of the room, begins flicking it outward.
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This technique is based off of baptism tides that by pushing
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the negative energy away, it mimics tides that are utilized
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to wash one's sins away. Upon finishing this, the group
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decides to resume their efforts, investigating to see if anything
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remains within the home. To their shock, as they resume
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the EVP session and call out, they further receive answers.
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The entities, despite their efforts, remain.
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Pam is part of the investigation, take several
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photos of the house, and upon review sees several dark and
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eerie shadows within them. Refusing to give up and
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believing that perhaps the original haunting did indeed
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originate at the cemetery, they decide to take a trip there with
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Jamie, Aaron and Pam. As they scour the graves and
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read the names written upon the old stones, they come across one
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that stands out to them. It belonged to a man named
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Gabriel Jackson. From here, they decide to depart
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the cemetery and embark on seeing if they can find out any
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more information about Gabriel and anything else that could be
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contributing to this haunting. The team, through those efforts,
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were able to discover that a plantation once existed on the
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land where their house now sat, that Gabriel was the son of the
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man who had owned the plantation, and that he had
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fought and died in the Civil War.
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They believed that Mason had possibly been mispronouncing his
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name or communicating it the best way he could to those
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around him. The voice they had captured of a
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little girl they believed could be possibly linked to that of a
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young girl who had drowned on the property back during its
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plantation days. With this knowledge, the team
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arranged for another visit with the family to attempt to fully
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cleanse and hopefully solve their haunting.
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But will they be successful? Upon arrival, the team explains
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to the family that they must reclaim their space using the
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knowledge of who they believed the entities to be, along with
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their intent and prayer. Since Jamie had been the main
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person to experience the phenomena, they believed that
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she should do the cleansing. As she began to say the Our
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Father prayer out loud, images of all her experiences within
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the home began to flash in her mind's eye, feeling fearful at
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first but pushing through. However, she completes the
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prayer through her resilience with the utmost intent.
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With the final words leaving her lips, she and the rest of those
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present began to feel an overwhelming change of energy
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within the home, and they all would come to the conclusion
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that the entities had moved on. Following this, the team and the
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family exchanged goodbyes, and Aaron and Jamie are finally able
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to move on with their lives. Interestingly, through
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conversations with their neighbors, they would come to
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find out that they weren't the only ones experiencing
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paranormal activity. This revelation leads them to
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believe that it is the land itself that's haunted.
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The land itself perhaps carried the scars and trauma of the
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living, and thus those buried beneath it never truly got to
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rest. Before we conclude this
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harrowing story, I did want to share my thoughts and some
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updated information in regards to the family.
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This case, like so many, just goes to show that many people,
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myself as well, even within suburbia, have experienced
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paranormal activity that these happenings or these hauntings
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can occur just about anywhere and to anyone.
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While I found a lot of details of this case interesting, I'm
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just going to touch on a few of them.
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I find the whole notion of otherworldly entities passing
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through mirrors as if they were portals to be absolutely
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terrifying, considering my own father saw a demonic
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manifestation in the mirror at one of the haunted homes I grew
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up in. I've always just been terrified
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that I'd go to look into the mirror one day and something
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that wasn't my own reflection might be staring back at me, and
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that thought is beyond unnerving.
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I did also find the cleansing methods and the folklore or
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reasoning behind them to be very interesting as well.
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I'm curious just why a lemon would work in particular or what
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the belief behind it is. And I did find the use of
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blessed salts in holy water to be pretty cool as well.
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I personally utilize sage in my cleansings and really all of it
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combined with the intent aspect I found fascinating.
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I'm curious if any of you have used any of these methods.
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If you've cleansed a space, let me know down in the comments
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below. In regards to the family, I
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tried my absolute best to find updates on them and to be able
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to share ones that wouldn't compromise their privacy.
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And all that I could find was that Aaron, if it was indeed the
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same one I found that was involved in the case, seems to
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be active in the paranormal community in his specific neck
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of the woods. It's always cool to see a
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skeptic become a believer through their own experiences
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and then want to help enlighten others about the paranormal.
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I believe he and Jamie continued to live at the house after the
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cleansing and reclamation. Whether they're still there or
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not, I'm not sure. But regardless of wherever they
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are, I hope they're doing well and thriving and I hope my
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rendition of their story did it justice.
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I did also look into the paranormal investigators that
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were featured on this case and to my knowledge they're still
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active and doing what they did in this case and that's
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investigating the paranormal and potentially helping people which
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is always commendable. This story has been covered on a
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few platforms including the show A Haunting, which is one of my
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all time favorites and I enjoyed re watching this episode as I
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delved into the case alongside my research.
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So with that all being said, what are your thoughts on the
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case as a whole? Do you have any additional
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insider details that you could add?
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Or have you yourself experienced A haunting?
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Let me know down in the comments below.
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