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3 Hour MARATHON Of PARANORMAL UNEXPLAINED Stories · Mystery Archives Episodes

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  If the walls of certain homes could speak, some of the stories
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  they would tell would more than likely shock and amaze us, or
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  perhaps repulse and terrify us instead.
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  This is one such story that if a house could tell its own tale,
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  it would certainly be one we would never forget.
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  A family moves to the country in search of peace, but those
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  dreams are soon shattered by supernatural terror.
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  Something evil lurks within the woods outside of their home, and
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  this evil begins to stalk and wreak havoc upon everyone that
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  dwells within the home. Can they save themselves before
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  it's too late? This is the untold story of the
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  haunted Hinsdale House, also known as the Dandy House, and
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  the entities that infested it. Hinsdale, NY, A small town with
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  a rustic and rural charm, tucked deep into the countryside and
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  far away from the crime, concrete and smog of New York
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  City. Instead of gazing at
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  skyscrapers, they would rather gaze at the surrounding
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  mountains covered in dense foliage.
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  But these mountains and their surrounding woods harbor many
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  secrets and have many stories to tell.
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  This is just one of them. The year is 1970 and the Dandy
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  family is in pursuit of their American dream.
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  After years of vacationing to Hinsdale and the surrounding
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  areas to catch a break from their fast-paced life in
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  Buffalo, they finally reached a point where they can turn their
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  vacation into their daily life. Seeking their own rural
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  paradise, they come across a listing for a home that seems
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  idyllic for their family and its needs.
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  Clara Dandy, the mother of the family, believed that they all
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  got along so much better in the country, like it had some form
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  of redemption qualities about it that seemed to rejuvenate their
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  spirits and their relationships. As they wind their way through
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  the countryside, they lay eyes on the home for the first time.
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  They are not only taken aback by the beauty and the sheer size of
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  the house, but that it sat upon 8 acres of land surrounded by
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  dense and breathtaking woods. Clara would describe her
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  feelings about first seeing the house as being overcome with a
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  deep sense of peace. It was like I'd finally come
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  home after years of being elsewhere.
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  And the air, the air was like breathing champagne.
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  It was wonderful. The home is over 100 years old
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  and still had most of the original and ornate woodwork
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  intact. It just seemed to emanate charm
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  and elegance. As the children explored the
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  nearby woods, Mr. and Missus Dandy continued their tour, but
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  when they were being shown the storage space underneath the
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  stairs, the door was initially stuck, but after some elbow
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  grease from Mr. Dandy, they were finally able to get it open.
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  It revealed A dusty space of sorts with a fireplace, the one
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  that didn't seem to fit the feeling of the house at all.
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  Clara would describe her feelings towards the space like
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  this. I wasn't sure why, but I felt
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  very uneasy when we opened up the storage space.
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  I couldn't put my finger on it, but it was dark and desolate,
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  not at all like the rest of the house.
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  But she quickly would dismiss these feelings, attributing the
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  creepy factor to her city upbringing and the fact that
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  they didn't have storage rooms like that where she was from.
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  After closing the space and continuing to evaluate their
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  opportunity, the feelings of peace would return and the
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  dandies decide that they can't resist the charm of this rustic
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  100 year old home, so they decide to purchase it once
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  things are squared away. Several months later they move
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  in to start their new rural existence.
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  On move in day, Claire's brother decided to lend a helping hand
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  and had begun to move things in hours before the family was able
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  to arrive. When loading in a box of
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  belongings, as he opened the door he was greeted by a flurry
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  of insects. Both bees and flies pelted him
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  in his face, rushing past them and then unloading the box onto
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  the floor in the main room. He was startled to see hundreds
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  of dead bees scattered all over the floor, and even more
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  startled to see hundreds still alive encoding the windows.
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  It was still cold during this time of year and although he too
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  wasn't from the country, he found it rather odd that there
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  would be any kind of infestation at this time.
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  When his sister and her family finally arrive, he greets her
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  with the news and in order to continue with the move in, they
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  have to call an exterminator. Upon his arrival, he too
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  confirms the oddity of the situation.
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  He said that he had never seen so many bees and flies in one
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  spot in a home, and given this time of year, it was not normal
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  for them to swarm or infest anything during this time.
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  It takes some time, but after he finishes clearing them out, the
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  family is finally able to get moved in.
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  As time progresses, things seem to fit the dreams they had for
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  moving there in the 1st place. The family finally seems at
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  peace that we're getting along better and enjoying each other's
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  company. A far departure from their city
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  life in Buffalo. But as the old adage goes, if it
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  seems too good to be true, it is.
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  A few weeks into living and what they believed was going to be
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  their rural paradise, their son Mike has met and made friends
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  with a nearby neighbor. Together, they begin to explore
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  the woods surrounding the Dandy property.
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  As the two navigate the forest, they're startled when they hear
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  the crunching of leaves directly in front of them.
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  Stopping frozen in their tracks and fearing that it could be a
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  bear, they take refuge behind a large tree and sneak glimpses
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  from around its sides to figure out just what it could be.
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  To their shock, they spot a boy not much older than them
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  carrying a rifle and walking in the path ahead.
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  Yelling at the boy that this is private property and wanting to
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  know what he was doing there, they run towards him and try to
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  catch up to him. They again freeze in their
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  tracks when they notice that not only is the boy transparent the
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  closer they get, but half of his head is missing.
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  As the figure continues to walk and taking deep breaths, they
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  slowly continue to follow him. The three approach a small lake.
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  Within the blink of an eye, the boy vanishes.
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  Mike and his friend are at a loss for words and have no
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  explanation for what they saw. They quickly rush back to the
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  Dandy house as fast as they can to tell anyone who will listen
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  to them. They soon make contact with
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  Clara and explain to her what took place, but she's quick to
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  dismiss their experience as nothing more than overactive
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  imaginations. Another several weeks pass by
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  and Clara has all but forgotten about what her son had told her.
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  She's now walking the family dog, Madison, in the woods for
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  some fresh air and exercise. As they get deeper into the
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  forest, Clara starts to hear what can only be described as
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  chanting. As she stops to listen, it
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  sounds eerie and disembodied, as if the sound is all around her
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  but has no true origin. It's at this time that Madison
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  begins growling and barking. The longer she seems to focus on
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  the chanting, the louder it seems to become.
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  Madison by this point is losing her mind and breaks free from a
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  distracted Clara and bolts in the direction of their home.
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  Clara chases her down and she finally stops running when she
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  makes it to the front door of their estate.
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  After taking a moment to collect herself, Clara then calls her
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  husband, who, like she was to her son, was quick to dismiss
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  her feelings, thinking that she just had to adjust to rural life
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  and wasn't used to it being so different from their life in the
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  city. Frustrated and worried now about
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  what the chanting could have been, Clara talks with her son
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  about her experience while she prepares dinner for the family.
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  Mike thinks that it could have been some campers at a nearby
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  campground not too far from where their property line ends
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  that could have been the cause of the strange sounds.
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  To try and put his mother at ease, he and his friend Matt
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  once again take to the woods to explore this possibility.
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  As they venture further into the woods to lookout point towards
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  the campsite, they see nothing. There are no signs of any
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  campers that could be nearby enough to have caused such a
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  noise. Even more perplexed now that
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  there was no explanation, the boys start to make their way
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  back to the house when suddenly they hear what sounds like an
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  axe thudding into a tree right next to them, unsure of what
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  that noise could have been. Before they could even begin to
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  ponder or investigate, they hear a woman screaming to their left.
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  This frightens them so bad, but the two young men run as fast as
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  they can all the way back to the Dandy's home.
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  When they arrive, Mike is truly scared this time.
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  He has no way of explaining his mother's experience or any of
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  his own either. Upon relaying this information
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  to Clara, both of them are left beside themselves now with a
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  chill up both of their spines. But these weird events thus far
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  would only intensify as the sands of time continue to
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  trickle into the hourglass. It has now been months since the
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  initial experiences, and besides the oddities they were, the
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  family's life continues to be great.
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  This distance from the experiences only makes them ever
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  easier to dismiss in the minds of Clara and Mike.
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  One day, Phil or Mr. Dandy decides to take the children,
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  Mike and Tina, into Buffalo for the day to get some errands
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  done. Mostly being a homebody, Clara
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  decides to forgo the trip with her family and relax at home
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  reading her latest book instead. When her family departs, Clara
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  finds herself curled up on the couch and immersed in her latest
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  story as a warm breeze drifts through the open windows of the
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  house. As she reads page to page, she
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  is suddenly startled when the window closest to her slams
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  shut. Upon investigating, it makes no
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  sense to her because the breeze was light, not forceful at all,
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  and their windows were fairly new, which made it all the
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  stranger. But as she always does, she
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  dismisses the happening as nothing more than a weird
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  coincidence and heads back to her book.
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  Several nights later, as Mike lay asleep in his bed, he's
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  suddenly woken up when a nearby box of a chess game drops onto
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  his chest. The storage shelf is directly
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  above his head, so opening his eyes he glances up to see if
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  perhaps it could have been hanging too far off the edge,
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  causing it to fall. And to his shock, he begins to
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  see several more boxes slowly shifting towards the edge by
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  themselves. The lowest one then suddenly
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  flies out from the rest and smacks him in the chest.
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  Terrified, he sits up, trying to catch his breath.
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  He has no way of explaining how the lowest box could be pulled
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  and thrown with such force without bringing the rest of the
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  boxes with it, as if someone or something had grabbed and thrown
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  it by a will of its own. Calling out to his mom in the
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  darkness, she soon arrives in the doorway of his room.
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  Being a very science and logic minded person, Mike has no way
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  to explain what has happened. Examining the pile, Clara too is
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  perplexed and becomes just as scared when another box from a
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  different pile flies across the room, causing both of them to
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  scream in terror and run out as fast as possible.
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  Trying to make sense of what was taking place, Clara fears that
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  whatever could be lurking in the woods has been stalking her
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  family and has slowly but surely, like a malignant stain,
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  invaded her home. As her fears turned into a
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  revelation, Claire decides to reach out to a local priest for
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  help, hoping her faith will help her come up with some answers
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  and better yet, some solutions. She speaks with a priest named
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  Father Alphonsus at the University of Saint Bonaventure.
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  He believes that the activity could be a poltergeist, but
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  given the intelligent nature of how it seemed to be behaving,
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  Clara has her doubts, but nonetheless, once an expert's
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  opinion and assistance. So arrangements are made for the
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  Father to come out and bless the home, and after several days he
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  arrives. On April 13th, 1975, the
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  cleansing begins. As the family and the priest
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  were all gathered together, and as he began to speak, a series
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  of horrible wailing and moaning noises began to fill the home as
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  if the house itself was crying. The scent of burning matter also
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  quickly enveloped the house. The activity reached a fever
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  pitch when the priest opened and began to pray over the crawl
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  space that was underneath the stairs.
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  But after this, a blissful silence overtook them all.
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  It was if whatever entities that dwelled within the walls of the
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  dandies home had finally been evicted.
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  Within time, the father gathered his things, exchanged
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  pleasantries and departed for the evening.
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  The family now believed that their darkest days were behind
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  them, and for all intents and purposes, that seemed to be the
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  case. But as if to mock the Holy
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  Trinity itself, three months later to the day, all hell would
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  break loose once again. That night, while her husband is
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  away on a business trip, Clara finds herself woken up out of a
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  dead sleep by a series of knocks coming from inside the walls.
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  The knocks themselves are soon accompanied with whispers from
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  someone that she can't see. As she apprehensively makes her
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  way from her room and slowly down the stairs headed towards
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  the main level, the apparition of a young girl begins to walk
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  by the stairs. She slowly makes her way to the
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  crawl space, opens the door and closes it behind her.
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  Clara's baffled at the sight. After gathering up her courage,
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  she too makes her way fully down the stairs into the crawl space
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  and after a moment of bracing herself, she opens the door and
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  went to be met with nothing. Claire then makes her way to her
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  daughter Tina's room to make sure it somehow wasn't.
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  Her, and perhaps her nerves were just on edge, but after opening
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  her door she finds her fast asleep in her bed with no signs
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  that she had been awake for some time.
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  The following morning, while the rest of her family is still
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  asleep, Tina wakes up to begin her day.
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  As she feeds her pet bird in its cage and begins to brush her
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  hair in her Oval mirror, she notices that her bird isn't
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  doing its usual whistles. As she glances over at them, she
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  finds it staring into the. Corner of the room.
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  As Tina glances back up at the mirror, she's met with the
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  apparition of a young girl. Her face is sunk in and her eyes
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  were gone. She.
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  Screams in terror and just as quickly as it appeared, the
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  apparition disappears. The screams of her daughter
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  startles and quickly summons Clara to her daughter's room.
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  As she consoles Tina, she realizes that the priest's
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  blessings were ineffective. She quickly calls Father Al back
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  and explains what had taken place the previous night and
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  that morning, and although he is busy, he promises to come back
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  as soon as possible and this time to bring a paranormal
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  expert with him as well to help him determine the cause and
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  hopefully find a working solution.
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  He's able to come back the following week.
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  In the meantime, Clara's determined to keep her family
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  calm. If she can control her own
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  emotions, she knows that everything else will be OK.
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  As they wait for the priest to return, Claire tries her best to
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  keep her family calm and live some sort of a normal existence.
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  That weekend, her and Phil are watching a movie while Mike and
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  Tina are out with friends. As they enjoy their time
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  together, their happiness is quickly shattered by a huge
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  crashing noise coming from outside of their house.
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  Quickly grabbing a flashlight and running outside to
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  investigate together, they quietly stepped towards where
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  they believed the noise to be originating from.
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  And suddenly they hear it again. But this time, thankfully for
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  them, the origin is not paranormal.
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  This time, there's several raccoons who happened to be
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  forging through their metal trash cans for something to eat.
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  Relieved for that moment, they start to make their way back to
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  the house when they suddenly see the figure of a young girl in
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  their living room window, staring at them as they rush
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  inside. They run up into Tina's room,
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  where they find her incoherent and staring into her Oval
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  mirror. They try to get her attention,
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  but she's entirely unresponsive. Her pale blue eyes.
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  Or Black. Panicking, they shake her and
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  yell her name, not knowing what else to do when she eventually
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  comes back. In that moment, and later, Tina
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  will not recall how she got home or what exactly happened.
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  As the family tries to gather themselves from the shock of
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  what had just taken place, they hear movement coming from Mike's
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  room. Phil tells his family not to
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  leave Tina's room. As he rushes to investigate,
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  however, the home phone begins to ring.
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  It's Mike. He's asking if he can stay the
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  night at his friend Randy's house.
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  However, when told what was going on, he quickly tells her
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  that he's coming home to help in any way that he can.
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  Rushing to his car, Randy offers to come with him, to which Mike
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  agrees. Randy would later recount that
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  Mike's hands were sweating and he was shaking, gripping the
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  steering wheel. He was pale.
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  I asked him what was wrong, and he said that things were
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  happening at the house that he couldn't explain.
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  The boys quickly arrived to find the family in chaos.
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  Phil is prepared to do battle with whatever forces within the
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  house and the girls are staying close to one another, attempting
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  to comfort each other. As they try to determine a
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  course of action, all the lights in the house go out.
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  They then begin to hear banging and scratching coming from the
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  crawl space. Flashlights still in hand, fill
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  with the backup of his family shines the light.
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  Towards it and. Begins to make his way towards
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  whatever this thing is. It seems like with each step he
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  takes, the sounds become louder, and after a tense several
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  seconds, he opens the door to the crawl space.
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  Inside, they find that the fireplace that was once there
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  has been completely disassembled.
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  Its bricks have now been stacked in an elaborate pile directly in
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  the middle of the small room. The amount of.
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  Effort and strength required to perform such a task convinces
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  all of them that whatever they're dealing with is strong,
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  persistent. And perhaps uncleansable.
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  Nonetheless, with their spirits waning, Claire makes a desperate
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  call to Father Al, who agrees to come earlier than originally
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  planned and makes emergency arrangements for himself and his
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  paranormal expert of a friend to come out that night.
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  They arrive as soon as possible. The paranormal expert is a man
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  by the name of Alex Tennis, a well respected paranormal
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  researcher. And psychic whose abilities were
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  studied at the American Society of Psychic Research.
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  Together they make their way to the door of the Dandy.
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  House, hoping to help rid this family of whatever seems to be
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  stalking them. After being let in, the family
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  quickly leads the pair to the crawl space to show them just
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  what they were talking about. Although he was aware that some
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  sort of activity was taking place, Alex had not been given
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  any additional details or information in regards to the
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  home, its history, or happenings.
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  As he steps into the crawlspace room, he begins to have a
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  vision. In his vision, he sees multiple
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  dead bodies stacked within the crawlspace itself.
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  After the vision subsides, Alex begins to explain to the family
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  what he saw. He believed that many had passed
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  away within the home itself, some of natural causes and some
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  of murder. It was his conviction that based
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  on what he saw, that the house used to be a stopping point for
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  a Stagecoach or perhaps some kind of inn where people would
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  stay the night before departing the following morning.
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  It was also his belief that there was a nearby criminal or
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  gang of criminals that would often rob and kill nearby
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  travellers, and that perhaps these souls somehow became
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  trapped. Here.
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  When someone passed or was found dead nearby, being the only
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  stopping point in the area, their bodies would be placed in
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  the crawl space until they could receive a proper.
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  Burial. It was also his belief that
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  there were seven different spirits that were trapped within
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  the home. All together with this
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  revelation, the family, Alex and the father pray that the trapped
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  spirits within the home find peace and be released so that
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  they may go on to their final destination.
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  Upon the pair's departure, Clara once again has renewed hope.
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  The home, as it did the first time around, seemed to be
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  cleansed and to be more peaceful.
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  Meanwhile, Mike and his friend Randy were skeptical of.
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  Alex's conclusions after he left.
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  They used an old map of the area to trace where he had said the
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  old Stagecoach route was. They did indeed find what they
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  believed to be an old trail that could have been used for such a
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  thing, and the trail passed right by the Dandy home.
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  But during their search, as they were following the trail out and
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  headed back to the house, they experienced strangeness of their
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  own. As they began to trace the
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  trail, they began to see what they described as orbs of light
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  in the nearby trees, and these orbs began to come at them.
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  Randy, having never seen or experienced anything
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  supernatural before, began to have a panic attack upon
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  arriving at the house. They were fortunately able to
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  get him calmed down. By this point it was late in the
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  night and the entire family needed to try and get some form
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  of sleep in order to function the following day.
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  Randy ended up staying the night since he had rode with Mike.
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  Once everyone else was settled down for the night and fast
• 26:32
  asleep, Clara sat by herself weeping.
• 26:38
  She felt that her and her family were helpless in the situation
• 26:42
  and that all efforts have been exhausted and that they needed
• 26:45
  to move. The only problem was that all
• 26:48
  their money, every last dime, had been sunk into the house,
• 26:53
  leaving them stranded. She would continue to
• 26:56
  contemplate the future and would cry herself to sleep that night.
• 27:01
  The following morning, as the family began to wake up and
• 27:05
  start to try and resume some form of normalcy, Mike went
• 27:09
  ahead and departed with Randy to take him home.
• 27:12
  Several hours would go by and Mike hadn't returned.
• 27:16
  Finally, there was a knock on the door.
• 27:19
  It was a police officer. He informed the family that
• 27:23
  there had been an accident, that they needed to head to the
• 27:26
  hospital as soon as possible. Rushing into the car into the
• 27:30
  hospital, the Dandy family wondered just what had happened.
• 27:34
  There had been no mention of Randy by the officer at the
• 27:37
  time. Upon arriving, they were briefed
• 27:41
  that Mike had lost control of his vehicle and crashed into a
• 27:44
  nearby ditch. He was now undergoing emergency
• 27:48
  surgery, He had extensive head injuries, A ruptured spleen that
• 27:53
  may have to be removed, and that he had lost a very significant
• 27:57
  amount of blood. As they waited for the outcome
• 28:00
  of their son's surgery, the dandies were once again greeted
• 28:04
  by the officer who had knocked on their door.
• 28:07
  He explained to them that Randy had indeed been dropped.
• 28:09
  Off. And that Mike had wrecked on his
• 28:12
  way back to the Dandy residence, but as he was being loaded into
• 28:16
  the ambulance, he kept saying that there was another person in
• 28:19
  the. Car with him.
• 28:21
  Although they believed him to be confused on account of his
• 28:24
  injuries, they went ahead and searched the area nonetheless,
• 28:28
  but another person was never found.
• 28:31
  After two weeks of being in a coma, Mike finally wakes up, but
• 28:36
  unfortunately has no recollection as to what exactly
• 28:40
  happened to him to cause the accident.
• 28:43
  Clara, however. Believes that whatever presence
• 28:46
  that's been plugging their lives had to have been responsible for
• 28:50
  what happened to her son. After months of recovery for
• 28:54
  Mike and continued paranormal activity within the home, Father
• 28:59
  Alphonsus would return with Alex one last and final time at
• 29:04
  Claire's request to try and rid the home of the evil and
• 29:08
  persistent force that had drained the life out of all of
• 29:11
  them for years now. However, this time just the
• 29:16
  Father and Alex would perform the cleansing inside the home
• 29:20
  themselves. As they moved from room to room,
• 29:24
  Alex would once again experience multiple visions of the past.
• 29:29
  His visions would tell him that of the seven spirits who he
• 29:32
  believed to be within the house, 1 was that of a young man who
• 29:37
  had been in some kind of a war or battle near where the
• 29:40
  property sits now. Another was that of a young girl
• 29:44
  who had passed from some sort of very painful illness in what was
• 29:48
  now Tina's room. And there was another spirit
• 29:52
  that seemed to be keeping herself and others trapped
• 29:55
  within the house. It was the spirit of a woman who
• 29:59
  was incredibly angry and resentful.
• 30:02
  She continued to be possessive, depressive and just as angry and
• 30:07
  death as she was in life, Refusing to pass on.
• 30:12
  Believing what they had identified to be the source of
• 30:15
  the paranormal activity, Father Al decided to take a different
• 30:19
  approach to the cleansing itself.
• 30:22
  Although an exorcism cannot be performed on a place, but rather
• 30:26
  has to be performed on an individual, the rights
• 30:29
  themselves could in. Theory be performed or added to
• 30:33
  a series of prayers. To try and use their strong
• 30:36
  cleansing powers to clear out a home such as this one.
• 30:40
  So that's exactly what the Father did.
• 30:43
  He began to perform the rites of exorcism within the house
• 30:47
  itself. As the prayers began to exit his
• 30:50
  lips varying with intensity as the rights often do, the home
• 30:55
  began to literally shake. And the horrific moaning and
• 30:59
  wailing that had made itself present in the very first
• 31:03
  cleansing seemed to return with a vengeance.
• 31:07
  Every horrible feeling, banging, knocking and scratching noise
• 31:12
  that the family had experienced thus.
• 31:14
  Far. Was present and seemed to be
• 31:17
  magnified. It takes hours, but eventually
• 31:21
  the rides are finished as the dust settles, so to speak, The
• 31:26
  home seems peaceful and blissful, like it did when the
• 31:30
  family had first visited and decided to buy the home.
• 31:34
  And again, for three more months, the family lives in
• 31:38
  peace. But like the persistent force
• 31:41
  that has manifested itself to be, the haunting begins again.
• 31:46
  The Dandy family, despite their best efforts, simply cannot take
• 31:50
  it anymore, decide to cut their losses and move.
• 31:55
  Unable to find a buyer for their house, they eventually declare
• 32:00
  bankruptcy. Shortly after this, Phil and.
• 32:03
  Clara would also divorce. Bringing a sad and bitter end to
• 32:08
  what was supposed to be a rural redemption for the Dandy family.
• 32:14
  However, this wouldn't be the end of the story of the Hinsdale
• 32:18
  house. Eventually, the home would come
• 32:21
  into the possession of Daniel Klaus, who currently owns it.
• 32:26
  Daniel's a renowned paranormal investigator and has been
• 32:30
  involved with the likes of Nick Roth and has made appearances on
• 32:34
  tons of national TV programs centered around the paranormal
• 32:38
  over the years. Having been raised in a haunted
• 32:42
  house, this led to a lifelong fascination with the Paranormal
• 32:46
  Forum. After years of restoration, it
• 32:49
  is now available for both investigations and tours and is
• 32:54
  still considered a very active paranormal portal and is kept
• 32:58
  open as a paranormal research location.
• 33:02
  It's even staged in the 1970s period to maintain the integrity
• 33:07
  of when the hauntings were initially known to have began.
• 33:11
  But now that we know the back story of the 20th and into the
• 33:14
  21st century of the Hensdale house, just who owned it, what
• 33:18
  happened to them and who owns it now?
• 33:21
  I would like to shift your attention to some of the
• 33:24
  plausible theories as. To what could have caused the
• 33:27
  haunting? Many theories of what could have
• 33:29
  caused the haunting have been formed over the years by the
• 33:32
  many people who have researched and have been interested in the
• 33:36
  case. One theory is that the home was
• 33:39
  built on top of an Indian burial mound.
• 33:42
  This of course could have disturbed the spirits of the
• 33:44
  natives that rested within the land, and although tribes who
• 33:48
  used this method of burial were present in the area back in
• 33:51
  history, there's little to no evidence to support this claim.
• 33:56
  But perhaps any evidence by this point could have long since been
• 34:00
  lost to the sands of time or could have been removed when the
• 34:04
  home was initially built. Another theory is that the home
• 34:08
  was at one point used as a Stagecoach in and passer bys
• 34:12
  were murdered either near or within the home itself, leading
• 34:16
  to their spirits being trapped within the home or on its land.
• 34:21
  Although there is evidence that a Stagecoach route did run very
• 34:24
  close to the home, there isn't direct evidence that the house
• 34:28
  itself was used as an inn, but it is possible murders also did
• 34:33
  take place in or around the area in which the home is now
• 34:36
  located, which could lend credence to the theories of
• 34:40
  criminals robbing and murdering people along the Stagecoach
• 34:43
  route. An old family from the area that
• 34:46
  used to own the home with the last name of McMahon also lends
• 34:51
  credence to the home being used as an inn.
• 34:53
  At some point. The now past grandfather of the
• 34:56
  family used to tell stories of a road that passed by the house or
• 35:01
  stagecoaches traveled. Another theory is that one or
• 35:06
  several of the spirits were trapped as a result of hangings
• 35:10
  that took place there. The now famous hanging tree that
• 35:14
  sits near the residence was indeed used for executions for a
• 35:18
  time. Most famously, it seems, was the
• 35:21
  execution of a woman named Elizabeth.
• 35:24
  Elizabeth was pregnant. Could this perhaps be the spirit
• 35:29
  of the woman who was angry and refusing to leave?
• 35:33
  Other events, such as a homicide that took place in the year 2000
• 35:38
  near the house, as well as a buzz saw incident that led to a
• 35:42
  boy's death, have led many to believe that whatever haunts the
• 35:46
  area could indeed still be there and influencing our.
• 35:50
  World. It's important in my opinion to
• 35:54
  try and get the story and the facts as straight as possible,
• 35:58
  not only for the current owners benefit, but for the dandies who
• 36:02
  have suffered greatly as a result of their story becoming
• 36:05
  public, especially towards the end of their time at the
• 36:08
  property. As word got out that something
• 36:11
  strange was taking place at the house, a local paper ended up
• 36:15
  reaching out to the dandies for a statement.
• 36:17
  Thinking that they were accepting an opportunity for
• 36:20
  additional outside help, they gave their story only to be met
• 36:24
  with ridicule from the paper, which in turn led to ridicule
• 36:28
  from the public and nearby residents.
• 36:31
  Which this combined with the paranormal torment they were
• 36:34
  experiencing along with then having to file bankruptcy and
• 36:38
  then later divorce. In my opinion, they suffered
• 36:42
  greatly and did not benefit from the story especially during that
• 36:47
  time. The only benefit I've seen could
• 36:50
  be from Clara Miller, formerly Clara Dandy.
• 36:54
  Who would eventually write a? Book known as Echoes of a
• 36:56
  Haunting. But to be.
• 36:58
  Fair. If I experienced even a portion
• 37:01
  of what she did, I would eventually write a book to
• 37:03
  catalog what happened as well. Not only for some monetary
• 37:07
  benefit, of course, but for my own sanity really.
• 37:12
  So as I've began to mention and will continue to mention again
• 37:16
  in the future. If you ever.
• 37:17
  Encounter anyone mentioned in this video or any of my other
• 37:21
  videos, whether it be in person or online, please be respectful
• 37:26
  of them and their experiences and do not ever harass anyone.
• 37:31
  And if you find yourself seemingly handed an opportunity
• 37:35
  that seems too good to be true the answer to your prayers, it's
• 37:40
  more than likely not the case. It could be a nightmare waiting
• 37:44
  to happen. It could be a haunted home
• 37:47
  infested with entities sitting and waiting for the perfect
• 37:51
  victim. Don't let it be you.
• 37:56
  Could an item, if given enough energy, devotion and focus,
• 38:01
  begin to take on a life of its own?
• 38:03
  Could it begin to exhibit human like characteristics as if it
• 38:08
  has been imbued with or contains some kind of soul or entity
• 38:13
  inside of it? This act of magic has been
• 38:15
  practiced by multiple religions and.
• 38:18
  Cults throughout the ages. This is just one very strange
• 38:22
  example that it could indeed be possible after a gracious gift
• 38:27
  was placed into the arms of a little.
• 38:29
  Girl. Tragedy would strike and what
• 38:32
  follows would continue to haunt the family, the citizens of the
• 38:36
  village, and would soon cross far beyond the barriers of land
• 38:41
  and sea. This is the untold story of
• 38:44
  Akiku, the haunted Japanese doll and the bizarre paranormal force
• 38:51
  that possessed it. Japan is a very mystical and
• 39:02
  spiritual place, a place where the souls of the past seem to
• 39:07
  interact with the living. Such places where the spiritual
• 39:12
  energy seems to be most visible is throughout many of Japan's
• 39:16
  spiritual temples, home to many religions, the two main ones
• 39:21
  being Buddhism and Shintoism. Thousands of temples exist all
• 39:27
  over the country, but one in particular houses a spiritual
• 39:31
  artifact that has a tragic back story and an even more
• 39:35
  terrifying story that continues to be written to this day.
• 39:40
  Located in Hokkaido, Japan at the Menenji Buddhist Temple is a
• 39:45
  doll with a bizarre and tragic back story indeed, although
• 39:50
  there are several origin stories of how the doll came to be and
• 39:54
  how the temple became its final living.
• 39:56
  Space, so to speak. All of them have most of the
• 40:00
  main details in common, therefore I'll be telling the
• 40:04
  most agreed upon origin story to try and be as true to the legend
• 40:09
  as I can. The years 1918 in Hokkaido,
• 40:13
  Japan. And a 17 year old boy by the
• 40:17
  name of Ikiki Suzuki is in search of a gift for his little
• 40:21
  sister's birthday. As he pursues the different
• 40:25
  vendors and small shops, something soon catches his
• 40:29
  attention and one of the store windows.
• 40:32
  He spots a small, childlike doll wearing a traditional Japanese
• 40:37
  kimono. Knowing that he had finally
• 40:39
  found something his sister will love, the Kiki quickly purchases
• 40:44
  the doll and makes his way back home through the countryside.
• 40:48
  As the family celebrates their little girl's birthday, Okiku is
• 40:53
  presented with the doll and almost immediately, as soon as
• 40:57
  her eyes meet hers, she falls in love with it.
• 41:01
  The two from this point, become inseparable.
• 41:04
  Wherever Okiku is, her doll is right by her side.
• 41:09
  She Combs her hair, bathes her, addresses her, and treats her as
• 41:14
  if she was her little sister. The two even share meals and
• 41:19
  sleep side by side. The joy that the doll brought
• 41:22
  Akiku must have filled Ekiki's heart with such happiness.
• 41:27
  But soon, that happiness would change to tragedy.
• 41:32
  One hot day, as the little girl played outside with her doll,
• 41:36
  she was bitten by a mosquito. This benign insect bite would
• 41:40
  soon manifest itself into a horrible case of malaria.
• 41:45
  Although the family did everything they could possibly
• 41:48
  do, Okiku would pass away scared and gasping for air as she
• 41:54
  clutched her special doll all the way until the moment she
• 41:57
  took her last breath devastated the Suzuki's plan to have their
• 42:02
  little girl buried. With the doll.
• 42:04
  Since she loved it so much, but unfortunately, due to either
• 42:09
  governmental or religious oversight at the time, this
• 42:12
  wasn't an option. Instead, after they had laid a
• 42:16
  kiku to rest, the doll would be placed on a small family shrine
• 42:20
  located within the living quarters of their home as a
• 42:24
  tribute of sorts to their late daughter and their love for her.
• 42:28
  But shortly after the doll was placed on the shrine, very
• 42:32
  strange things began to happen. A Kiki, upon walking past the
• 42:36
  shrine one day, noticed that the dolls hair seemed significantly
• 42:40
  longer than what it had been when it was placed there.
• 42:44
  The hair which was originally shoulders length on the doll
• 42:47
  itself and black was now overgrown with differing shades
• 42:53
  of brown hair also coming through and splitting at the
• 42:56
  ends. Finding this bizarre to say the
• 42:59
  least, he brought the discovery to his parents attention and
• 43:03
  unsure of what else to do, they trimmed the dolls hair as the
• 43:08
  days came and when the family began to have distressing dreams
• 43:11
  at night of their departed Okiku.
• 43:14
  Sometimes she would be scared and alone in the darkness,
• 43:18
  calling out to them, only being recognized by her voice.
• 43:23
  Other times she would blame them for what happened to her.
• 43:27
  Each member of the family at differing times had these dreams
• 43:31
  and they would soon lead all of them to believe.
• 43:34
  That. Akiku's soul wasn't peacefully
• 43:36
  resting. These disturbing dreams soon
• 43:39
  became all the stranger when the doll, which they began to refer
• 43:43
  to as Akiku and their daughter's honor, would appear by their
• 43:48
  bedsides following these nightmares.
• 43:52
  One such incident involved the father of the family waking up
• 43:56
  in a cold sweat only to be met face to face with a blank and
• 44:02
  lifeless stare of the doll. Unsure of what was taking place,
• 44:07
  the Suzuki's turn to their faith.
• 44:10
  After contacting a local Buddhist priest and having a
• 44:13
  cleansing ritual be performed on their home and the doll, the
• 44:18
  activity seemed to grow and become stronger.
• 44:22
  Accompanying their ever frequent nightmares and random movements
• 44:26
  of the doll, the chilling events grew into full blown spiritual
• 44:30
  manifestations during their waking life.
• 44:33
  They soon began to hear banging noises all throughout the house
• 44:37
  and the whispers of a little girl.
• 44:41
  Strange disembodied voices varying from high pitched like
• 44:45
  those of a child to the low groans of something
• 44:49
  unexplainable began to be heard. Their lights began to flicker on
• 44:54
  and off, and the paranormal activity seemed to happen more
• 44:58
  frequently as the calendar ticked closer to the birth and
• 45:03
  death dates of Akiku. These strange and terrifying
• 45:07
  happenings would continue over the course of the next 20 years,
• 45:12
  with multiple religious, priests and shamans being contacted and
• 45:17
  all coming to the same conclusion that after the
• 45:19
  cleansings failed time and time again, that the restless spirit
• 45:23
  of Akiku now inhabited the doll she once loved so much.
• 45:29
  Finally needing a major change and unable to deal with the ever
• 45:33
  intensifying spiritual presence that seemed to haunt their home,
• 45:38
  the Suzuki's relocated to a different district.
• 45:42
  Believing the doll to be the source of their various ailments
• 45:45
  and emotional torture that they had endured over the last two
• 45:49
  decades, they had no desire to take it with them.
• 45:53
  The family had reached the conclusion that if their
• 45:55
  daughter's soul wasn't at peace, what could perhaps be helping to
• 45:59
  fuel Akiku's power or magic was the close proximity of her grave
• 46:04
  to their home where the doll resided.
• 46:07
  So in order to distance the doll from the grave, the family
• 46:11
  approached the Meninge Buddhist Temple in Hokkaido, and over the
• 46:15
  years, the Dahl's reputation for being haunted had spread
• 46:19
  throughout the community and indeed the majority of the
• 46:22
  country. This was more than likely due to
• 46:25
  the various interactions between the spiritual community and the
• 46:29
  Suzuki family, finding the Dahl to be mesmerizing and possibly a
• 46:33
  unique opportunity to commute and interact with the.
• 46:37
  Dead if the stories were true. The leaders and priests of the
• 46:41
  Meninge temple agreed to home Okiku permanently.
• 46:45
  As with many legends, we find lots of details to be
• 46:49
  exaggerated over time and perhaps some of the details to
• 46:53
  not be true at all. And this is what the priests
• 46:56
  were originally thinking, that perhaps due to grief, the family
• 47:00
  was dealing with other spiritual ailments perhaps unrelated to
• 47:04
  the doll, or causing the doll to be a vessel of sorts for
• 47:09
  restless spirits. However, as the years came and
• 47:12
  when as Akiku now called the temple her home, they began to
• 47:16
  slowly but surely experience the same strangeness the Suzuki's
• 47:22
  had. For all of those years.
• 47:24
  Akiku's hair continued to grow and this baffled the priests.
• 47:29
  They would eventually have the hair trimmed and tested, and the
• 47:33
  hair was said to belong to a little girl.
• 47:37
  They found that the entity seemed to be appeased when her
• 47:39
  hair was trimmed and combed, and this led to less activity for a
• 47:44
  time. But the same activity?
• 47:47
  The knocking, banging, and disembodied voices which soon
• 47:52
  plagued the temple as well. No, Kiku's power only seemed to
• 47:57
  grow. Any priest who seemed skeptical
• 48:00
  of the doll or attempted to cleanse it themselves soon had
• 48:04
  their dreams haunted as well, turning their sleep into
• 48:07
  restless fits. Their homes and rooms soon also
• 48:12
  began to manifest the very same activity that the temple was now
• 48:16
  exhibiting. With no remedy seeming to work,
• 48:20
  the leaders turned to appeasement instead, hoping that
• 48:23
  gestures of goodwill would keep the entity at Bay.
• 48:27
  As years turn to decades, and as we've come into the 21st
• 48:31
  century, the priests of multiple generations now have overseen
• 48:36
  and cared for the Dahl known as Akiku.
• 48:39
  And though some of the more violent activity has faded, the
• 48:43
  general consensus is that she is now just as powerful as she was,
• 48:47
  or is perhaps more powerful as she's continued to age.
• 48:52
  It seems like as the more her fame and notoriety grows, the
• 48:56
  more visitors she has, the stronger she becomes.
• 49:01
  She continues to invade the dreams of those who come to
• 49:03
  visit her, and her hair is growing faster and more frayed.
• 49:09
  She's said to drive Taurus mad who doubt her, with many people
• 49:13
  even reporting that besides seeing her strange hair and
• 49:17
  feeling a malevolent presence when visiting.
• 49:19
  Her. They've also had her stalk.
• 49:22
  And appear in their dreams. Some more disturbing and recent
• 49:26
  reports have even suggested that her mouth is slowly opening and
• 49:31
  that if you dare to appear inside of it, you may just catch
• 49:34
  a glimpse of baby like teeth sprouting from her porcelain
• 49:38
  gums. As if whoever or whatever she is
• 49:43
  is slowly turning to flesh and bone.
• 49:48
  The paranormal displays of her power continue to occur as well.
• 49:52
  Her permanent home, located within the menaging temple is
• 49:55
  her own private shrine where she sits in a small wooden box on
• 49:59
  display. It is here that she watches and
• 50:03
  waits for anyone and everyone who dares to play with fire and
• 50:09
  invoke the power of the entity known as Okiku.
• 50:14
  But what are your thoughts? Was a Kiku the girl?
• 50:17
  Trapped inside of the doll. In my opinion, although her
• 50:21
  spirit would be much older now, at the time of her death she was
• 50:25
  either close to or was three years old, and no person at that
• 50:29
  age is capable of true malice to the point to where she would
• 50:33
  become aware enough to begin to blame her parents and then
• 50:37
  torment them for decades to come as children.
• 50:41
  Our parents or our family or our entire.
• 50:44
  World. So I find it incredibly
• 50:46
  difficult to think that these bizarre happenings were the
• 50:50
  result of her soul being restless and imbuing the doll.
• 50:54
  What I find more likely, and all the more interesting really, is
• 50:58
  the thought of invocation or the imbuing of the doll like a
• 51:02
  conduit. Or a vessel of sorts.
• 51:05
  Akiku, the girl, was, as they said, inseparable from the
• 51:09
  stall. She fed it, bathed it, took naps
• 51:13
  with it and everything else a small child would do with that
• 51:17
  wonderful imagination that they have.
• 51:19
  But could all of this dedication and focus, accompanied with the
• 51:23
  tragedy that took place, allow for?
• 51:26
  A portal to. Open for an entity, whether non
• 51:29
  human or a restless human spirit to inhabit the doll.
• 51:34
  And by non human I mean a demon. This would make sense to me.
• 51:39
  Something that enjoys and grows more powerful off of pain and
• 51:42
  misfortune or the emotional torment of others.
• 51:46
  As it causes the pain, it feeds off of it and grows ever
• 51:50
  stronger. This would not only explain the
• 51:53
  malevolent manifestations of whatever entity is present, but
• 51:57
  would also explain the still present force and the alleged
• 52:01
  ever growing power of it. And depending on the entity's
• 52:04
  strength, it could also explain why the cleansings thus far have
• 52:09
  failed. However, if you find yourself
• 52:12
  taking a trip to Japan anytime soon, or you happen to call
• 52:16
  Japan home if you find yourself in Hokkaido, you may want to
• 52:20
  steer clear of the Menajin Temple.
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  Because if you don't, the entity that inhabits the doll known as
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  a Kiku may just use you as its next feeding source, where it'll
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  begin to plague your dreams, making you twist and turn, sweat
• 52:39
  and fear. As it grows ever stronger and
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  attempts to cross from its world into ours, making our plane of
• 52:49
  existence its permanent residence, an unsuspecting
• 52:54
  family finds what they. Believe to be the perfect home.
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  But underneath the facade of this charming farmhouse, there
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  is a sinister force, dark as the abyss.
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  Lying underneath the heavy fog upon the land, there lies
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  generations of graves. These graves could hold the key
• 53:16
  to solving their paranormal nightmare.
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  This is the untold story of the old Arnold Estate, also known as
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  The Conjuring House, and the demonic forces that dwell within
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  it. Harrisville, RI A small town
• 53:49
  located on America's East Coast with just a population of an
• 53:53
  estimated 1800 people. Like many towns across the
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  country, you could easily overlook this one at face value.
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  But it's when we take a deeper look, we discover that this
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  little town has a dark history. Its story is filled with death,
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  from murders to drownings and much more.
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  With all these unfortunate happenings in mind, it makes one
• 54:19
  beg the question, could there be something evil that stalks this
• 54:24
  place? Something that feeds upon
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  suffering and misery? Perhaps there is, and perhaps
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  that is what contributed to the creation of the following story.
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  It all starts in Central Falls, RI in 1970, where the Peron
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  family, which consisted of mother Carolyn, father Roger,
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  and their five daughters Andrea, Nancy, Christine, Cynthia and
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  April. We're all living a relatively
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  normal life. Among things like school, work
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  and outdoor play. Nothing seemed quite out of the
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  ordinary. Yet the children had been gifted
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  a puppy with an exceptionally unique personality and out of
• 55:14
  the ether, a name came to mind when they were naming her
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  Bathsheba. A unique dog with a unique name.
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  She was fond of all the children, but especially Andrea,
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  Now 10 years old. She would often take Bathsheba
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  for walks around their suburban neighborhood.
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  However, on one of those walks, tragedy would strike and would
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  seemingly set in motion a snowball effect that would
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  follow the family for years to come.
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  While Andrea had the puppy out in the neighborhood, her sisters
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  had come up from playing outside and decided to make the walk a
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  group activity. All seemed fine until a car full
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  of teenagers drove by at an incredibly high rate of speed.
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  They seemed to be yelling something in unison and had
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  brightly colored tassels hanging out of their windows.
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  Bathsheba was an obedient dog, but the flailing and bright
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  colored streamers caught her. Attention and in an instant.
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  She broke loose from Andrea and bolted towards the vehicle.
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  The shocked girls then watched the car miss her by mere inches
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  as she made her way safely across the road.
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  But being the good dog that she was, upon hearing Andrea call
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  out to her again, she began to run back to them and in the
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  blink of an eye, she was struck by another vehicle, an elderly
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  couple that never even saw her. Her leash had gotten caught
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  around one of the wheels of their car when they hit her and
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  she was suffering immensely. A nearby neighbor called the
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  police, and upon removing the children from the scene, they
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  were traumatized further as they heard the gunshot that ended the
• 57:08
  poor animal's life. The entire family now held a
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  deep despair at the tragedy that had taken place.
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  She wasn't just a pet, she was a member of the family, and there
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  was now an unspoken pain that haunted them.
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  The family had planned a vacation months prior and hoped
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  that a break from their normal routine would help everyone, so
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  they went. And soon some of their sadness
• 57:36
  turned to joy as the family experienced hotel swimming
• 57:39
  pools, ice cream and shopping. But this joy would.
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  Too be short. Lived The family also had four
• 57:49
  cats, and upon returning to their home with this newfound
• 57:53
  sense of well-being, they would endure even more trauma.
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  They would discover that almost all of their cats had been
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  viciously killed by neighborhood kids while they were gone.
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  Several had every bone in their bodies broken with a baseball
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  bat. Upon this horrific discovery,
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  their father Roger rushed inside the house to call the police.
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  Only to find their home absolutely ransacked as well.
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  Furniture was upside down, mirrors and windows broken, all
• 58:29
  of their provisions left to spoil from their tipped over
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  fridge, and their carpet was doused in motor oil.
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  It would later be discovered that two of their cats were
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  killed by the group of the kids. One would never be seen again
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  and the other had been seriously beaten but would survive,
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  although the neighborhood was known for angsty teenagers.
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  And roughhousing kids? The family wondered.
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  How could these kids conduct such evil?
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  Did the devil's foot soldiers know no bounds?
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  A police report was filed and it was shortly uncovered that the
• 59:07
  demon seed who had LED these awful actions was their 12 year
• 59:11
  old neighbor. The young man was seemingly a
• 59:14
  born criminal upon being confronted the boy's mother.
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  Covered for her son, and despite their best efforts due to lack
• 59:23
  of evidence, nothing much would come of the report with the
• 59:26
  police. But Andrea would have her
• 59:30
  revenge. She had yet to come to terms
• 59:33
  with her precious Bathsheba's death, and now this.
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  The rage inside of her built. After some thorough planning,
• 59:43
  she attacked the boy who was responsible, beating him
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  ferociously, breaking his nose, blackening his eyes until she
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  was pried off by a nearby neighbor and told to go home.
• 59:57
  All this wouldn't bring her animals back, but it felt
• 1:00:01
  justified to the young girl, given what the boy had done.
• 1:00:05
  But these antics of sadness, hostility and rage would soon
• 1:00:09
  manifest into something much darker.
• 1:00:13
  Ever since their home was ransacked, Carolyn had wanted to
• 1:00:18
  move, but knowing they weren't in a financial.
• 1:00:21
  State to do so. They had little to no choice
• 1:00:24
  other than to stay, so she kept an ever watchful eye on her
• 1:00:29
  children, letting them out of the house rarely and mostly
• 1:00:33
  under her supervision. Given the prior events, she
• 1:00:36
  wanted them raised by wild nature, not wild beasts.
• 1:00:42
  Shortly after this time, Rodger had prepared to depart for a
• 1:00:45
  business trip which was to last several days.
• 1:00:49
  Even amidst the turmoil of the current events, he still had to
• 1:00:53
  provide for his large family. And while his family was just
• 1:00:57
  waking up that morning, as he and his wife Carolyn enjoyed
• 1:01:01
  their morning cup of coffee, they were suddenly startled by
• 1:01:05
  the sound of a large explosion in their front yard, like
• 1:01:09
  someone had fired a cannon towards their house.
• 1:01:13
  Alarmed, they raced outside to discover what had happened.
• 1:01:19
  Shortly after purchasing their humble home, Carolyn had built a
• 1:01:23
  rock garden of sorts at the entrance of their driveway.
• 1:01:27
  Her friends often teased her that it's centerpiece resembled
• 1:01:31
  a tombstone without the inscription of the dearly
• 1:01:34
  departed. Well to the family shock, their
• 1:01:39
  neighbor from across the street had started his truck that
• 1:01:42
  morning and had suffered a major heart attack and had died at the
• 1:01:46
  wheel, his foot pressing down on the gas causing the truck to
• 1:01:51
  barrel directly at the parents home to smash right into that
• 1:01:55
  large rock. It was almost like something was
• 1:01:59
  following them, like a living breathing Organism feeding upon
• 1:02:05
  it. After this horrible event,
• 1:02:08
  people began to refer to the rock garden as the graveyard.
• 1:02:13
  Missus Curtis, the wife of the neighbor who had passed away,
• 1:02:18
  upon being greeted and offered condolences by the family,
• 1:02:22
  actually blamed them for what had happened, declaring that
• 1:02:26
  Carolyn never liked them anyway and was a witch.
• 1:02:30
  That was enough for her. Again, she begged Roger to move,
• 1:02:35
  but they were seemingly stuck given the awful circumstances.
• 1:02:40
  The man still had to work, so he departed for his business trip.
• 1:02:46
  While her husband was gone, it was up to Carolyn to take care
• 1:02:49
  of their five children. This meant taking them to and
• 1:02:53
  from school, as well as music lessons and much more.
• 1:02:58
  While attending her daughter Andrea's music lessons, she had
• 1:03:01
  forgotten to bring a book to help her pass the time.
• 1:03:05
  So Carolyn went and purchased a paper as a substitute.
• 1:03:09
  Before too long, she found herself daydreaming and looking
• 1:03:12
  through the various ads and. Real estate available.
• 1:03:16
  Wanting and wishing that she could change their current
• 1:03:19
  predicament when strangely enough, the universe seemed to
• 1:03:23
  glance back at her. Hidden among many other homes
• 1:03:27
  was a nine bedroom farmhouse with a barn, lots of land and
• 1:03:32
  seclusion. It's beautiful design and
• 1:03:36
  elegance soon had Carolyn imagining her children playing
• 1:03:40
  and being raised in nature as she wanted that she could allow
• 1:03:44
  them to do so without the fear of other children attempting to
• 1:03:47
  harm them. She almost immediately became
• 1:03:50
  obsessed with the idea of purchasing the house and
• 1:03:54
  although the family really couldn't afford it at the time
• 1:03:58
  without seeking Roger's permission, she made a call and
• 1:04:02
  went to look at the old Arnold estate the following day.
• 1:04:06
  The owner was a very nice old lady, and although she didn't
• 1:04:09
  have much, Carolyn asked how much she would have to put down
• 1:04:13
  to hold the home so she could purchase it once her husband had
• 1:04:17
  returned. An agreement of $500 as a good
• 1:04:21
  faith payment was made, and shortly after Roger arrived back
• 1:04:25
  home several days later, he was sideswiped by his wife's
• 1:04:30
  decision, although his anger would soon turn to
• 1:04:34
  understanding. After all, a happy wife makes
• 1:04:38
  for a happy life, as most would say.
• 1:04:41
  Even though he didn't know exactly how they would make it
• 1:04:44
  work, he decided to placate his wife and allow them to purchase
• 1:04:48
  the home. It took some time, but before
• 1:04:52
  too long they found themselves packing and coming into
• 1:04:56
  possession of the keys to their future.
• 1:04:59
  Although they couldn't foresee just how dark of the future it
• 1:05:02
  was to be the parent family, having seemingly found the home
• 1:05:10
  of their dreams located on a large swath of land outside of
• 1:05:14
  the town of Harrisville, RI, what would become known as the
• 1:05:19
  Old Arnold Estate almost seemed to perfect like an answer.
• 1:05:24
  To their desperate prayers. It's a large farmhouse which has
• 1:05:29
  9 bedrooms, a barn and plenty of land which they can envision
• 1:05:34
  their children playing on and having a wonderful time.
• 1:05:38
  Although it's winter, they go ahead and begin to move into
• 1:05:42
  their new house. There's a massive snowstorm
• 1:05:46
  taking place while they're moving in, but this doesn't
• 1:05:49
  deter the large family from getting settled in to what they
• 1:05:52
  believe is going to be a charming, nice and new home for
• 1:05:57
  all of them. Given everything they've been
• 1:06:00
  through, I would have hoped for the same.
• 1:06:03
  And for the first three months, things are charming, nice and
• 1:06:07
  normal. Their rustic farmhouse has its
• 1:06:10
  challenges with it being fairly old, such as being very cold
• 1:06:15
  that winter, but it's nothing they can't deal with, or so they
• 1:06:20
  think. All around, the feeling is a
• 1:06:23
  happy one for the family. But this happy mood would soon
• 1:06:28
  change. Upon meeting their nearest
• 1:06:31
  neighbors, they seemed rather strange.
• 1:06:35
  They offered one piece of advice to Roger and Carolyn.
• 1:06:39
  For the love of your family, keep the lights on at night.
• 1:06:43
  Originally written off by the couple, these words would seem
• 1:06:47
  to be rather fitting foreshadowing for the events to
• 1:06:50
  come. When the frozen land of the farm
• 1:06:53
  began to thaw, it seemed like something thawed along with it
• 1:06:57
  and began to plague them once again one night when the
• 1:07:03
  daughters, Nancy and Andrea were asleep.
• 1:07:05
  In their shared room. Were suddenly woken up by the
• 1:07:09
  sound of their doors slimming open and closed, open and
• 1:07:14
  closed. Petrified by the noise of the
• 1:07:16
  door smacking the wall and it also being their only way out of
• 1:07:20
  the room, they ran towards the door to try and escape when
• 1:07:25
  suddenly it stopped moving and just stayed open, still
• 1:07:31
  creaking. From being moved.
• 1:07:35
  Catching their breath and trying to come to terms with what had
• 1:07:38
  just happened. Thinking by this point maybe one
• 1:07:41
  of their other sisters was trying to play a prank on them.
• 1:07:45
  The 2 girls looked down the hall and eventually made their way to
• 1:07:48
  their other sisters rooms where they found them asleep.
• 1:07:54
  Needless to say they wouldn't sleep for the rest of the night.
• 1:07:58
  They would bring this to the attention of their parents the
• 1:08:00
  following morning. But were quickly dismissed.
• 1:08:04
  As is often the case, and told that they had overactive
• 1:08:08
  imaginations. From here things started small
• 1:08:13
  but became very noticeable as they mushroomed into much bigger
• 1:08:17
  experiences. At first, whatever spirits they
• 1:08:21
  believed could be in the house seemed benevolent, almost
• 1:08:25
  good-natured, with some of the younger siblings later stating
• 1:08:29
  that they would even be tucked into bed by the spirit of a
• 1:08:32
  woman on occasion, but that was all too short lived.
• 1:08:36
  Items soon began to go missing. Car keys weren't where they had
• 1:08:40
  been hung daily. Items such as mugs, toys, and
• 1:08:45
  utensils were soon disappearing as well.
• 1:08:49
  Carolyn would hear the scraping of a broom upon the floor or the
• 1:08:53
  knocking of a kettle in the kitchen when no one else was
• 1:08:56
  home but her. With this, upon cleaning the
• 1:09:00
  floors, she would also find piles of dirt that would appear
• 1:09:05
  out of nowhere, making her feel as if she was going crazy.
• 1:09:10
  But these small happenings too would soon become larger.
• 1:09:15
  The children would often play a game called Hide and Clap, a
• 1:09:18
  version of hide and go seek. This time Andrea was the seeker
• 1:09:23
  and her sisters went off hiding throughout the estate.
• 1:09:27
  Cindy made her way into the. Woodshed.
• 1:09:29
  Found a small box, just big enough for her to get inside.
• 1:09:33
  Being determined to win, she climbed into the box and slid
• 1:09:37
  the small lid over the top, figuring this would be an
• 1:09:40
  excellent hiding place indeed. And after several minutes she
• 1:09:45
  realized that no one was coming for her and went to remove the
• 1:09:49
  lid. Except it wouldn't budget.
• 1:09:52
  Panicking and utter darkness, she used all means necessary to
• 1:09:57
  try and remove the lid and free herself.
• 1:10:01
  After screaming and worrying that she'd suffocate inside this
• 1:10:05
  box, she was thankfully found by Andrea, who slid the lid off no
• 1:10:10
  problem, revealed her horribly distressed younger sister
• 1:10:14
  inside. It's important to note that this
• 1:10:18
  was a sliding cover. There was no locking mechanism.
• 1:10:23
  Along with this terrifying event, the children's rooms were
• 1:10:26
  often rearranged daily. They would leave their things
• 1:10:30
  one way in the morning and return to things either
• 1:10:33
  completely a mess, as if a small cyclone had hit their rooms, or
• 1:10:38
  all items would be smashed underneath their beds.
• 1:10:41
  And this happened to all of the girls at one point or another.
• 1:10:46
  These small whispers, bangings and movements did indeed become
• 1:10:52
  larger. Andrea, being the oldest, would
• 1:10:56
  often be woken up by her younger.
• 1:10:57
  Siblings. And would hold them as they
• 1:11:00
  sobbed their eyes out, terrified to return to their rooms.
• 1:11:05
  Cindy, in particular, began to hear a sinister voice call out
• 1:11:09
  to her almost every night. The voice would tell her that
• 1:11:13
  there were seven dead soldiers in the walls.
• 1:11:16
  And would repeat it over and over and over again.
• 1:11:22
  The children, now terrified, begged their parents.
• 1:11:26
  To believe them. And although they too were
• 1:11:29
  beginning to experience things on their own, they didn't want
• 1:11:32
  to frighten the children, so they did what could be done to
• 1:11:36
  placate them. But soon the entire family began
• 1:11:40
  to hear the wails of something inhuman calling out for its
• 1:11:45
  mother. This disturbing trend with no
• 1:11:48
  origin was followed by even more disturbing happenings.
• 1:11:53
  The beds of the girls would lift up and shake by an unseen force,
• 1:11:58
  almost always around 5:15 AM, as if something was trying to send
• 1:12:04
  some kind of a message, although it was never clear just what
• 1:12:08
  that message was supposed to be. During the day, the apparitions
• 1:12:13
  of spirits began to manifest and stock the halls of the old
• 1:12:17
  Arnold estate. These were soon coupled by the
• 1:12:21
  horrible stench of rotting flesh wafting throughout the house.
• 1:12:27
  Soon the girls weren't the only ones whose doors were slamming
• 1:12:31
  open and closed and whose beds were lifting up on their own.
• 1:12:36
  Soon it was affecting their parents as well.
• 1:12:39
  One night, Carolyn woke up suddenly to the figure of an old
• 1:12:43
  woman over. The foot of her bed.
• 1:12:45
  Her hair was like a sack of cobwebs with little.
• 1:12:49
  Tendrils hanging off the woman's head was also bent and hanging
• 1:12:54
  off to the side of her neck as if it was horribly broken and
• 1:12:58
  mangled, her gnarled mouth screaming at her with an echoing
• 1:13:03
  voice. Get out.
• 1:13:05
  She shouted over and over again until she suddenly was no longer
• 1:13:12
  there. The parent family continued to
• 1:13:15
  endure a living nightmare as the traumatic paranormal activity
• 1:13:19
  persisted and continue to scale in intensity.
• 1:13:27
  How does one fight an enemy he can't see?
• 1:13:30
  Something he can't touch or feel, attack or defend against?
• 1:13:37
  This question and more must have ran through the heads of Rodger
• 1:13:40
  and Carolyn as they not only feared for themselves but
• 1:13:44
  especially their children now as their offsprings natural
• 1:13:48
  protectors. How anxiety inducing must it
• 1:13:52
  have been to know that they were powerless to stop what was
• 1:13:56
  terrorizing all of them each and every night?
• 1:14:01
  In an effort to try and understand what was happening to
• 1:14:03
  them, Carolyn began to research the history of their house and
• 1:14:08
  was shocked by what she found. Over 8 generations of the Arnold
• 1:14:13
  family had lived and died within the home, some by horrible
• 1:14:19
  means, according to the Black Book of Burlville, the town's
• 1:14:24
  former public records book. These included two suicides by
• 1:14:28
  hanging, one within the family barn, one by poison, the assault
• 1:14:35
  and murder of a young girl named Prudence Arnold by a farm hint,
• 1:14:40
  2 drownings in the nearby Creek, and four men who froze to death.
• 1:14:45
  Among some of the notable deaths, one death that caught
• 1:14:50
  her eye in particular was that of a woman named Bathsheba
• 1:14:54
  Sherman. Her name was spelled exactly
• 1:14:58
  like their dog that they had previously owned, and her story
• 1:15:02
  was as interesting as it was disturbing.
• 1:15:06
  Born Bathsheba there in 1812, she married fellow Rhode
• 1:15:11
  Islander Judson Sherman and Thompson, CT on March 10th,
• 1:15:17
  1840. 4. According to available
• 1:15:20
  information from that time, the two had a son named Herbert, and
• 1:15:25
  for all intents and purposes, things seemed normal.
• 1:15:29
  But that couldn't be further from the truth.
• 1:15:32
  After losing three children before the age of 7, Bathsheba
• 1:15:36
  began to care for her neighbor's children, perhaps to fill the
• 1:15:40
  void that such sorrow could create.
• 1:15:43
  And it's here where things take a strange turn.
• 1:15:47
  While caring for the infant of a nearby family, the infant
• 1:15:51
  suddenly passed away within Bathsheba's care.
• 1:15:55
  An investigation ensued and it was found that the child had a
• 1:15:59
  puncture wound in its. Skull.
• 1:16:01
  As if someone had taken a large sewing needle and sent it
• 1:16:05
  through the child's head. Rumors of devil worship and
• 1:16:10
  witchcraft soon became rife, with many believing she had
• 1:16:15
  indeed sacrificed her children to Satan, robbing them of their
• 1:16:19
  young lives. Although Bathsheba was never
• 1:16:23
  punished for the child's death since there was never a trial,
• 1:16:27
  that didn't stop her behavior from becoming increasingly
• 1:16:30
  bizarre. She became incredibly reclusive.
• 1:16:35
  Strange and dark rumors say that she supposedly attempted to
• 1:16:42
  murder. Other children.
• 1:16:43
  While confessing her love for Satan before she then climbed
• 1:16:47
  atop the highest tree on the estate, cursing everyone before
• 1:16:52
  hanging herself. And although that would make for
• 1:16:56
  a much more fascinating story, it doesn't seem to be true.
• 1:17:00
  The rumors may indeed have been spread and they're evidence of
• 1:17:04
  multiple child deaths, including the infant via needle like
• 1:17:08
  object, but her tombstone reads her death date as May 25th, 1885
• 1:17:16
  S Odds are that she passed away as an old woman, but perhaps
• 1:17:20
  given the circumstances, she became more bitter with age.
• 1:17:25
  Another strange detail that was uncovered was one of the hanging
• 1:17:29
  deaths that took place within the barn on the estate.
• 1:17:33
  It was that of Catherine Arnold. She had, seemingly out of the
• 1:17:38
  blue one day, made her way from the house to the barn, gathered
• 1:17:43
  a rope, and hung herself from the rafters.
• 1:17:47
  She was frozen solid. When she was later discovered.
• 1:17:52
  It seemed like whatever paranormal force that stalked
• 1:17:55
  the land tormented the matriarchs of the families that
• 1:17:59
  lived there and fed upon death itself.
• 1:18:04
  These supernatural occurrences that now plagued the Peron
• 1:18:07
  family were a daily occurrence, and they soon also began to
• 1:18:12
  physically touch the family as well.
• 1:18:16
  Poking soon turned to pushing, a hand on the shoulder soon turned
• 1:18:20
  to slapping, scratching, and more.
• 1:18:25
  One day when Carolyn was reading a book in the living room.
• 1:18:29
  She felt a. Piercing pain in her calf.
• 1:18:32
  Upon further examination, she saw what appeared to be a
• 1:18:36
  puncture wound like that of a needle, with a small dribble of
• 1:18:40
  blood now coming out of her leg. These attacks didn't stop here.
• 1:18:48
  Carolyn soon believed that it was Bathsheba who was causing
• 1:18:51
  the majority of her problems. The spirit seemed to hide her
• 1:18:55
  things daily, making her feel as if she was going insane while
• 1:19:00
  simultaneously lusting after. Her husband.
• 1:19:04
  In later interviews, Roger would state that he never felt
• 1:19:08
  threatened by her spirit and that he only ever saw her
• 1:19:11
  sweeter side, such as comforting touches and the feeling of an
• 1:19:16
  embrace. To the contrary, his poor wife
• 1:19:20
  experienced much, much worse. Andrea Perrin, also in later
• 1:19:26
  interviews, said that the whole family believed it was the
• 1:19:29
  spirit of Bathsheba who was mostly tormenting Carolyn, as if
• 1:19:34
  she saw herself as the matriarch or the mistress of the house,
• 1:19:39
  and that Carolyn was some kind of competition, an obstacle
• 1:19:43
  between her and Roger's affection.
• 1:19:47
  On the verge of losing her mind and being tortured daily, the
• 1:19:51
  family was barely holding things together, most of all Carolyn.
• 1:19:58
  She had vented to a friend of hers named Barbara about what
• 1:20:01
  she had been going through. And strangely enough, this
• 1:20:05
  friend just so happened to attend a lecture that was being
• 1:20:08
  given by renowned paranormal scholars and demonologists Ed
• 1:20:13
  and Lorraine Warren. It was Barbara that actually
• 1:20:17
  told the Warrens about the parents and their struggles.
• 1:20:22
  Intrigued, they were put into mutual contact with one another,
• 1:20:26
  and before too long, the Warrens arrived at the front door of the
• 1:20:31
  old Arnold Estate. Upon stepping into the home for
• 1:20:35
  the first time, Lorraine Warren noticed a heavy and malevolent
• 1:20:40
  presence. Upon further convening over the
• 1:20:43
  course of several weeks, the couple told the family that they
• 1:20:47
  indeed were being haunted by the spirit of Bathsheba and that she
• 1:20:52
  had made a pact with Satan himself after sacrificing one of
• 1:20:57
  her children to him. She then hung herself on the
• 1:21:00
  property in order to haunt it forever.
• 1:21:04
  This is why the family was often seeing the mangled necked
• 1:21:07
  apparition of the woman with Wispy.
• 1:21:09
  Hair. This was apparently her.
• 1:21:13
  Over the course of several months, the Warrens would visit
• 1:21:17
  the old Arnold estate in order to try and assist the family
• 1:21:20
  with riding themselves of the spirits, but it was all to no
• 1:21:24
  avail. All of these events seem to
• 1:21:27
  culminate with a Seance. 1 stormy night.
• 1:21:31
  The Perrons, Roger and Carolyn, along with the Warrens were
• 1:21:36
  joined by a priest and a fellow medium to conduct a seance to
• 1:21:41
  try and establish further contact with the entities within
• 1:21:44
  the home. To understand just why they were
• 1:21:48
  plugging the family, the girls were confined to their rooms
• 1:21:51
  upstairs. We're not allowed to partake in
• 1:21:54
  the ritual. The ritual was conducted in the
• 1:21:57
  basement, one of the alleged sources of the dark energy
• 1:22:02
  according to Lorraine Warren, and in the middle of this
• 1:22:05
  ritual, Carolyn seemingly became possessed as she exhibited
• 1:22:11
  violent behavior. She was restrained to a chair in
• 1:22:14
  order to prevent her from hurting herself and others.
• 1:22:18
  The entity that now inhabited her body claimed to be that of
• 1:22:22
  Bathsheba and before everyone's eyes that was present, Carolyn
• 1:22:27
  began to not only speak a language that was
• 1:22:30
  unrecognizable, but in a voice that wasn't her own.
• 1:22:35
  She then began to levitate in the chair and flew across the
• 1:22:39
  room. Although they were forbid to
• 1:22:42
  witness the event, as Kiri's children often do, Andrea, along
• 1:22:48
  with her sister Cindy, snuck open the basement door and
• 1:22:51
  watched the events unfold for themselves.
• 1:22:55
  Their testimonies are also where some of these details are
• 1:22:58
  sourced from. Carolyn was now mangled and
• 1:23:03
  distorted, her body twisted in an unnatural position.
• 1:23:09
  After several hours of attempting to cast the spirit
• 1:23:11
  out, she finally went limp and lay catatonic on the floor.
• 1:23:18
  After his wife had seemingly been freed, Roger called the
• 1:23:22
  entire thing off. He was not only concerned for
• 1:23:25
  his wife's well-being, but his children's as well.
• 1:23:30
  And although the Warrens were trying to help, things just
• 1:23:33
  seemed to get so much worse when they were there.
• 1:23:37
  So disregarding their advice, he threw them out and forbid them
• 1:23:41
  and their associates from ever investigating the hauntings at
• 1:23:45
  the old Arnold estate ever again.
• 1:23:49
  Later in life, a 77 year old Roger would recall she was
• 1:23:54
  possessed, her entire body was distorted and it lasted several
• 1:23:59
  hours until they de demonized her.
• 1:24:03
  Then I threw them out. I couldn't take it anymore.
• 1:24:08
  The family's torment would continue with varying intensity
• 1:24:12
  until 1980, when they were finally able to sell the old
• 1:24:16
  Arnold Estate and move to Georgia and a bid to rebuild
• 1:24:20
  their lives. Finally, they were free of the
• 1:24:23
  horrible events that have plagued them for nearly a
• 1:24:26
  decade. But all those happenings, all
• 1:24:30
  those traumatic moments would never be forgotten by any of
• 1:24:34
  them. They all realized that they were
• 1:24:37
  truly lucky to have escaped with their lives as well as their
• 1:24:41
  sanity. Going back and not only reading
• 1:24:45
  various interviews, Andrea Peron's books, and watching
• 1:24:49
  interviews with the family, they not only seemed genuine, but
• 1:24:52
  really had nothing to gain by claiming to have experienced
• 1:24:56
  these things. It truly seemed like they had
• 1:24:58
  suffered. I mean, they threw out the
• 1:25:00
  Warrens, which is interesting in and of itself, but if I saw my
• 1:25:05
  wife twisted and exhibiting demonic behavior, I probably
• 1:25:09
  would be pretty freaked out as well.
• 1:25:12
  The story of the haunting of the old Arnold Estate and the Peron
• 1:25:15
  family was used as the basis for The Conjuring movie, in which
• 1:25:20
  they were also used as consultants for accuracy's sake.
• 1:25:24
  And the film does of course take liberties, as most Hollywood
• 1:25:28
  films do, but it's a good one for sure.
• 1:25:32
  But having watched this video, you're now probably aware of
• 1:25:35
  what really happened. Since the selling of the home,
• 1:25:39
  reviews have been mixed by other residents, with one lady
• 1:25:42
  claiming that the home wasn't haunted at all and even
• 1:25:45
  condemning and suing The Conjuring film makers for
• 1:25:49
  causing her distress through trespassers, and others stating
• 1:25:53
  that the home is still very well, haunted indeed.
• 1:25:56
  More current owners, who we'll call Cory and Jennifer, welcomed
• 1:26:01
  the spirits and the history of the home when they moved in,
• 1:26:05
  claiming to have only slept in the smaller wing of the estate
• 1:26:08
  for the first four months that they lived there.
• 1:26:11
  They didn't want to overstep their boundaries with whatever
• 1:26:14
  was haunting the property. When they finally opened up the
• 1:26:17
  door to the wing of the larger part of the house the very same
• 1:26:21
  night, they both claimed to be woken up by a shadowy figure.
• 1:26:26
  Their couple would say that it was pitch black in color and
• 1:26:29
  peeking at them from behind the door frame.
• 1:26:33
  Although most people would be terrified at the prospect of
• 1:26:35
  dealing with a shadow figure of any sort, the couple understood
• 1:26:39
  that they were guests in this home even though they had
• 1:26:42
  purchased it. And we're just excited to have
• 1:26:45
  experienced anything. But they also admit that
• 1:26:49
  although they do continue to experience strange things from
• 1:26:52
  time to time, it's nothing like what the Perrons say.
• 1:26:55
  They experienced nothing quite as malevolent or evil by any
• 1:27:00
  means. Despite criticism and support,
• 1:27:05
  the Prones to this day remain adamant that their story is
• 1:27:08
  true, with Andrea saying in an interview.
• 1:27:11
  With USA TODAY. Both my mother and I would soon
• 1:27:15
  swallow our tongue and tell a lie.
• 1:27:18
  People are free to believe whatever they want, but we know
• 1:27:21
  what we've. Experienced prior to her.
• 1:27:25
  Death. When asked about the events of
• 1:27:27
  the haunting Lorraine, Warren claimed that she still felt
• 1:27:30
  traumatized all these years later about what had taken place
• 1:27:34
  that stormy night during the seance at the old Arnold Estate,
• 1:27:38
  saying that the things that happened there were so
• 1:27:41
  incredibly frightening. But it still effects me to talk
• 1:27:44
  about it to this day. She, of course, was reunited
• 1:27:48
  with Ed on April 18th of 2019. God rest her soul.
• 1:27:54
  These days, people who have. Visited the house, such as
• 1:27:57
  various paranormal groups, researchers and fans of The
• 1:28:01
  Conjuring universe have described feeling multiple
• 1:28:05
  things for stepping in the home, some claiming to see shadow
• 1:28:09
  figures, others a feeling of a heavy presence to the points
• 1:28:13
  where it makes them nauseous. Regardless, there certainly does
• 1:28:18
  seem to be something there all around.
• 1:28:22
  I think the haunting given all the research I've done is more
• 1:28:25
  than likely legitimate. There's too many sources backing
• 1:28:29
  up what took place. Not to mention the family didn't
• 1:28:32
  gain anything from experiencing what they did and surviving
• 1:28:36
  members still claim. It's all true to this day.
• 1:28:40
  If you'd like to learn more, I'm listing the sources I used for
• 1:28:43
  research in the description below, as well as various links
• 1:28:47
  to Andrea Peron's books which tell the full story of her and
• 1:28:52
  her family. I, of course, am not affiliated
• 1:28:55
  with her or anyone else involved in any way, I just find them to
• 1:28:59
  be an interesting and very useful resource.
• 1:29:03
  So if you find yourself in hard times and are presented with
• 1:29:06
  what seems like a gift from the universe, just know that if it's
• 1:29:11
  too good to be true, it probably is.
• 1:29:15
  And the dream home that you can't wait to live in could be
• 1:29:18
  infested with generations of death and despair demons which
• 1:29:24
  could still be lurking and stalking the property.
• 1:29:29
  So my advice? If it sounds too good to be
• 1:29:32
  true, it is. And please research a home's
• 1:29:37
  history. Before you buy it.
• 1:29:40
  Or you may be stuck with a decade of paranormal torment.
• 1:29:43
  Or worse, you may become its newest permanent resident.
• 1:29:52
  Can death unleash something into this world that isn't supposed
• 1:29:56
  to be? Here could it act like a portal,
• 1:29:59
  allowing something sinister and dark to creep in just before it
• 1:30:04
  closes, especially if the person passing is harboring dark and a
• 1:30:10
  born secrets. When a young man begins to
• 1:30:13
  exhibit strange and demonic behavior and the very laws of
• 1:30:18
  nature seem to bend to his will, can a reverend work to save his
• 1:30:23
  very soul? Documented by multiple law
• 1:30:26
  enforcement professionals as unexplained to this day, this is
• 1:30:30
  certainly not a story you will want to miss.
• 1:30:33
  This is the untold story of Don Decker, also known as the Rain
• 1:30:39
  Man of Pennsylvania. The date is February 24th, 1983
• 1:30:49
  and on this cold, misty day, a family is mourning the loss of
• 1:30:54
  their loved 1A man by the name of James Keshaw.
• 1:31:01
  After battling alcoholism for many years, the bottle finally
• 1:31:05
  took its toll and caused cirrhosis of the liver which
• 1:31:10
  became fatal. Among the pews of friends and
• 1:31:14
  family paying their respects sits a young man, the grandson
• 1:31:19
  of James, 21 year old Don Decker.
• 1:31:23
  Donna Be granted furlough from his 4 to 12 month jail sentence
• 1:31:27
  for receiving stolen property in order to attend the funeral.
• 1:31:32
  But as he sat facing the body of his grandfather as others paid
• 1:31:37
  their last respects and gave glowing speeches about the man,
• 1:31:42
  Don clenched his fists. Only he harbored a dark secret
• 1:31:47
  that no one else knew, and this secret is perhaps what
• 1:31:51
  contributed to his troubled adolescence.
• 1:31:55
  When it was his turn to walk up and say goodbye to James.
• 1:32:00
  As he stood over his body, the face of evil looked back at him
• 1:32:05
  with eyes closed for the first time.
• 1:32:08
  Dom would later say it felt like good triumphing over evil that
• 1:32:13
  day. And I truly felt like everything
• 1:32:16
  was going to get better, like it was a turning point in my life.
• 1:32:22
  The secret that he had been holding on to for so long was
• 1:32:26
  that James, his very own grandfather, had abused him from
• 1:32:30
  the time he was seven years old until he was a teenager and no
• 1:32:35
  one else knew. All the years of pain and fear
• 1:32:39
  were caused by that man. The very same that now laid in
• 1:32:43
  the coffin. The very same that Dawn was now
• 1:32:47
  having to hear others praise and who he was publicly obligated to
• 1:32:53
  mourn. At the conclusion of the
• 1:32:55
  funeral, when James casket was laid into its final resting
• 1:32:59
  place, he couldn't stand the way his parents had glorified the
• 1:33:03
  man's memory. But given the circumstances he
• 1:33:06
  was in, furloughed from jail and with emotions raw amongst
• 1:33:11
  everybody, he decided it would be for the best to go and stay
• 1:33:15
  the night with some family friends instead before he was
• 1:33:19
  set to return to finish out his sentence.
• 1:33:22
  Bob and Jeannie Kiefer were long time friends of the family and
• 1:33:26
  were quite fond of Dawn, so they were more than happy to have him
• 1:33:30
  join them for the night. As the night progressed, the
• 1:33:34
  three of them were enjoying each other's company, but it seemed
• 1:33:38
  like all the feelings that have been stirred up from the
• 1:33:41
  memories of his grandfather's abuse at the funeral were coming
• 1:33:45
  back to haunt Dawn. He fell on edge and uneasy when
• 1:33:50
  suddenly the air around him vibrated with a bone deep chill.
• 1:33:56
  Almost simultaneously after this occurred, water began to drip
• 1:34:00
  from the ceiling and down the living room walls.
• 1:34:04
  Don then fell into an eerie trance like state, staring at
• 1:34:09
  nothing and yet everything at the same time.
• 1:34:13
  The Kiefer's were perplexed at what was happening and tried
• 1:34:16
  examining all reasonable possibilities.
• 1:34:20
  Thinking they had a leak, they contacted their landlord, a man
• 1:34:24
  named Ron Van Wy. Upon arriving, Ron too quickly
• 1:34:29
  became perplexed. The leak, or so they thought,
• 1:34:33
  was obvious. But what was strange to him was
• 1:34:37
  that there was no piping that ran through the front part of
• 1:34:40
  the house. Certainly none that could spring
• 1:34:43
  a leak from the ceiling or the walls.
• 1:34:46
  None at all. On top of this strangeness, when
• 1:34:50
  observing the water's direction, Ron noticed that there was
• 1:34:54
  indeed no sense of direction. The water was not only coming
• 1:34:59
  from the top, down from the ceiling in the walls, but it was
• 1:35:03
  going from the floor and up the walls and direct contradiction
• 1:35:08
  to the laws of gravity and to anything that he had ever seen.
• 1:35:13
  Shocked and needing multiple witnesses to assure himself that
• 1:35:17
  he wasn't crazy, Ron phoned his wife Romaine to come and take a
• 1:35:22
  look as well. Upon her arrival, she was just
• 1:35:26
  as perplexed and became scared of what was happening since it
• 1:35:30
  defied all logic and the leak, or so they thought, only became
• 1:35:36
  worse. So the landlords did the only
• 1:35:39
  thing that they could do, they called the police.
• 1:35:43
  Shortly after that call, a patrol car arrived with Officer
• 1:35:47
  John Bojan, who, after briefly stepping inside the home, became
• 1:35:51
  drenched in water and also witnessed the bizarre,
• 1:35:55
  otherworldly activity to which he had no explanation for
• 1:36:00
  either. So to prove his sanity and to
• 1:36:03
  back up a report, he called upon his partner, an officer named
• 1:36:09
  Richard Volbert. When Richard arrived, he wanted
• 1:36:13
  to be briefed on exactly what was going on.
• 1:36:16
  The Bojan didn't want to give him any sort of a preconceived
• 1:36:19
  notion and just told him to trust him on this one.
• 1:36:23
  After some back and forth, Richard finally conceded and
• 1:36:27
  followed John into the key for residence.
• 1:36:30
  He would later describe the incident as.
• 1:36:32
  So I walked in the door, I couldn't have gotten 2 steps in
• 1:36:37
  the door and I was pelted by water as we were discussing a
• 1:36:41
  potential leak and as we were being told that there were no
• 1:36:44
  pipes in that part of the house. As we stood just inside the
• 1:36:48
  house a droplet of water was traveling horizontally and
• 1:36:54
  passed right between US and out into the next room.
• 1:36:58
  As I retell this story I have a chill up my spine and the hair
• 1:37:03
  on my neck is standing up. John would go on to say things
• 1:37:08
  were happening in this house that I couldn't have ever
• 1:37:11
  possibly dreamed of happening and there was no way to explain
• 1:37:15
  what was going on. Shocked by what they were
• 1:37:18
  witnessing, the two officers asked the family to step outside
• 1:37:22
  of the house and out of the water while they left to report
• 1:37:25
  the incident to the chief himself.
• 1:37:28
  The Wise decided to stay at the property while the Kiefer's and
• 1:37:32
  Don walked across the street to a local restaurant for something
• 1:37:36
  to eat. Within seconds of everyone
• 1:37:39
  departing, the water suddenly stopped within the house, and
• 1:37:43
  aside from the home being drenched, it was back to normal.
• 1:37:47
  No more dripping water and no more mist.
• 1:37:52
  This left Ron and his wife, only to speculate that whatever was
• 1:37:55
  happening was coming from one of the three, because when they
• 1:37:59
  left, so did it. Pam Scrofano, who owned the
• 1:38:04
  pizzeria opposite the Kiefer's house where the three ended up
• 1:38:08
  in, was a friend of the Kiefer's and knew Dawn as well.
• 1:38:12
  Upon greeting the three of them, she noticed that Dawn was
• 1:38:16
  distant, like he was looking at you, but looking through you, a
• 1:38:22
  deeply religious woman. She sent something evil about
• 1:38:25
  him, like the devil was working through Dawn Decker and
• 1:38:30
  recommended that they contact someone at the church for help.
• 1:38:34
  Within mere seconds of mentioning this, droplets of
• 1:38:38
  water hit the table in front of them, and soon the very same
• 1:38:43
  phenomena that was originally happening in the house was also
• 1:38:47
  now taking place inside the pizzeria.
• 1:38:51
  Sensing this evil Pam ran to the cash register where she had an
• 1:38:56
  old cross necklace. She took it out and placed it
• 1:39:00
  around Don's neck. As soon as it touched his skin,
• 1:39:04
  he got burned. He began to scream and pulled
• 1:39:08
  the necklace off of him. It was charred black.
• 1:39:13
  As the trio departed the pizzeria and headed back to
• 1:39:16
  their home, the strange activity inside once again ceased.
• 1:39:22
  It's important to note that nothing like this had ever
• 1:39:25
  happened at the Kiefer residence or Pam's Pizzeria.
• 1:39:29
  No plumbing issues, nothing that could be considered even
• 1:39:33
  remotely similar. Convening inside the home once
• 1:39:36
  again, they met Ron and his wife.
• 1:39:39
  Ron suspected that Don had something to do with what was
• 1:39:42
  happening, and after some discussion, an argument erupted
• 1:39:46
  among the group. This led to Jeannie screaming at
• 1:39:50
  Don, telling him that they knew it was him, that he had to make
• 1:39:54
  all of this stop. After the words left her mouth,
• 1:39:59
  the pots and pans above the stove began to shake, and the
• 1:40:03
  lights around them began to flicker.
• 1:40:07
  Don Decker. Was no longer in control of his
• 1:40:11
  body. Everyone watched in horror as
• 1:40:15
  Don levitated multiple feet into the air and rotated several
• 1:40:20
  times. He was then thrown out of the
• 1:40:23
  kitchen where they were and into an entirely different room.
• 1:40:28
  Don himself would later recount the event like this.
• 1:40:32
  It wasn't like someone grabbing your hand or picking you up.
• 1:40:36
  I felt this force over my entire body.
• 1:40:40
  I'm a big man and I've always been assertive, but this,
• 1:40:44
  whatever this was, made me feel like a newborn child.
• 1:40:49
  I'm scared right now just thinking about it.
• 1:40:52
  Don now laid unconscious on the floor and the rain began again.
• 1:40:58
  The wise and the kiefers were an absolute shock and disbelief at
• 1:41:02
  what had just taken place. They knew it was tied to dawn,
• 1:41:07
  but they had no idea just what it was, but they felt that it
• 1:41:11
  was evil. A few hours after the strange
• 1:41:15
  incident witnessed by the police officers, they arrived back at
• 1:41:18
  the residence alongside their very heated police chief.
• 1:41:23
  As he made his way into the home with the two officers behind
• 1:41:26
  him, he too was pelted with water just as they had been.
• 1:41:30
  Now first probably feeling like he was on the spot and perhaps
• 1:41:34
  slightly embarrassed, he claimed that this wasn't even a police
• 1:41:38
  issue, but a plumbing issue, despite then being told that
• 1:41:42
  there were no pipes in that part of the house, and this was even
• 1:41:46
  confirmed by blueprints of the home.
• 1:41:49
  After taking a look around at the rest of the home, which was
• 1:41:52
  bone dry, the chief then angrily ordered the two officers to
• 1:41:56
  escort him back home. He would be the only officer
• 1:42:00
  that night to not admit to anything strange happening.
• 1:42:04
  He then directed Officers John and Richard to not file a report
• 1:42:09
  and to not speak about the incident at all, but word would
• 1:42:13
  get out the following morning. Acting against the specific
• 1:42:18
  orders from their chief, the two officers returned to the
• 1:42:21
  residence along with three veteran officers as well.
• 1:42:25
  They too would see and experience the bizarre rain
• 1:42:28
  inside the home. So they decided to try something
• 1:42:32
  to attempt to get to the bottom of what exactly was going on.
• 1:42:36
  They asked if they could place a paper bag over Don's head, to
• 1:42:40
  which Don agreed. This was so he would have no way
• 1:42:43
  of seeing anything. He'd have no preconceived
• 1:42:47
  notions of what could be placed on him or in his hands.
• 1:42:51
  They then placed a gold cross necklace from one of the
• 1:42:54
  officers into his hand. Lieutenant William Davies, one
• 1:43:00
  of the officers present who placed the cross into his hand,
• 1:43:04
  described the incident like this.
• 1:43:07
  As soon as the necklace touched his palm, he said it burned him.
• 1:43:12
  He would have had no idea what it was.
• 1:43:15
  I saw what I believe to be smoke of some sort coming from the
• 1:43:19
  necklace or his hand. As he dropped the necklace.
• 1:43:22
  I picked it up and it was hot, not burning hot, but hot enough
• 1:43:28
  to concern me. Then suddenly with the force, as
• 1:43:33
  if a bus hit him, he lifted up and was thrown across the.
• 1:43:37
  Room. Hitting the back wall upon
• 1:43:40
  removing the bag from him, he was clearly dazed and had three
• 1:43:45
  bloody and fresh claw marks across his neck.
• 1:43:49
  I've been a cop for 40 years and I've never ran into anything
• 1:43:53
  like this ever. Never before and never again
• 1:43:58
  after. There's always an explanation,
• 1:44:02
  but in this case there was no explanation.
• 1:44:06
  The police would later leave again with no answers as to what
• 1:44:10
  was taking place, believing it to be a spiritual matter.
• 1:44:15
  Don was placed on the couch in the living room where the rain
• 1:44:18
  continued to go from mist to showers at random and varying
• 1:44:24
  times. After making multiple desperate
• 1:44:27
  calls to every Protestant and Catholic religious leader in
• 1:44:30
  Shroudsburg, only one didn't turn them down.
• 1:44:35
  Ron was able to convince an evangelical preacher, who went
• 1:44:38
  by the name of Reverend Johnson, to come over and pray with Dawn.
• 1:44:44
  As she arrived and began to pray, the rest of the group held
• 1:44:48
  hands and vigil and did what they could to support her.
• 1:44:52
  As the first words left her lips, Dawn began to convulse and
• 1:44:57
  shake. The rain intensified and his
• 1:45:01
  body began to twist into unnatural positions, but as she
• 1:45:06
  continued, he slowly but surely began to relax and the rain
• 1:45:13
  seemed to stop. Although those present believed
• 1:45:16
  that a miracle had been performed, the results of that
• 1:45:20
  prayer session would only prove temporary, perhaps placing into
• 1:45:25
  hibernation whatever was inside Don Decker.
• 1:45:30
  Once his furlough was over, Don Decker returned back to jail to
• 1:45:33
  finish his sentence and within just a few days the mysterious
• 1:45:38
  rain returned. Upon his return to jail, Dom was
• 1:45:43
  placed in a cell with another inmate and had the thought enter
• 1:45:46
  his mind that if he could make it rain in the cell, perhaps he
• 1:45:51
  could get to be alone. Almost as soon as he thought
• 1:45:54
  that, the rain began. It was materializing out of the
• 1:45:59
  concrete floor and flowing upward.
• 1:46:04
  The other inmate was horrified and screamed for the guards to
• 1:46:07
  let him out. Thinking they had some kind of
• 1:46:10
  plumbing issue, the guards opened the cell and removed that
• 1:46:14
  inmate as well as Decker. At first, he was accused of
• 1:46:18
  throwing water onto the walls from the sink or from the toilet
• 1:46:22
  by the guards, but upon these accusations, Don rebuttal with.
• 1:46:27
  I can control it. This time the feeling was
• 1:46:30
  different. This time he felt powerful and
• 1:46:34
  in control. Upon hearing this, the guard
• 1:46:38
  laughed and said if you can control this rain, make it rain
• 1:46:42
  in the warden's office. An offer that Dawn couldn't
• 1:46:45
  refuse. The warden would then describe
• 1:46:49
  what happened. And these are the words of
• 1:46:51
  Lieutenant Warden David Keenhold.
• 1:46:54
  I was in my office filling out paperwork with no one else
• 1:46:57
  around. It was approximately 8:00 PM in
• 1:47:00
  the evening. I didn't notice it at that time,
• 1:47:03
  but my shirt was dripping down. I heard a knock at the door and
• 1:47:08
  little did I know that it was the same officer that was just
• 1:47:11
  with Don Decker. I wasn't aware of the situation
• 1:47:14
  at the time. He told me to look at my shirt
• 1:47:17
  and there was no explanation as to where the water could have
• 1:47:20
  come from. The officer then became very
• 1:47:23
  frightened of what had happened and after explaining the
• 1:47:26
  situation to me, I too became frightened.
• 1:47:30
  Shortly after the rain in the warden's office, a frantic call
• 1:47:34
  was placed to a local chaplain, a man named Reverend William
• 1:47:38
  Blackburn. He soon found himself shaking
• 1:47:41
  hands with the warden and several officers as he was
• 1:47:44
  escorted into the jail and into an empty cell.
• 1:47:47
  Within minutes he came face to face with Don Decker, who by
• 1:47:52
  this time was beginning to fear the feeling he had inside of
• 1:47:56
  him. That powerful and evil feeling.
• 1:48:00
  He was now asking for the Reverend's help and freeing him
• 1:48:04
  of whatever this thing was. Blackburn wasn't convinced at
• 1:48:08
  first. He told Decker that his life
• 1:48:10
  would be much easier if he just stopped all this nonsense and
• 1:48:14
  attention seeking. He would go on.
• 1:48:16
  Later, to describe the situation like this, almost immediately
• 1:48:20
  after I accused him, Don's demeanor changed.
• 1:48:25
  The glazed look came over him, and a horrible smell entered the
• 1:48:28
  room. Doctors, nurses, and medical
• 1:48:32
  personnel will tell you that when you walk into a room when
• 1:48:35
  there's someone dying of disease or of cancer, there's a smell to
• 1:48:40
  it. I smelled that smell multiplied
• 1:48:43
  by at least five times. It was evil and foreboding.
• 1:48:49
  Don's glazed expression then switched to 1 of malice and
• 1:48:53
  calculation. He exclaimed.
• 1:48:56
  I have powers that you don't and I can make it rain.
• 1:49:00
  He then raised his hand and rubbed his fingers together and
• 1:49:04
  it started to rain inside that cell.
• 1:49:07
  It was like a devil's rain, a mist.
• 1:49:10
  I was in the presence of evil. I started opening my Bible to
• 1:49:15
  begin to pray and Don said I don't want you to pray for me,
• 1:49:19
  to which I decided to anyways. I started to read to him and the
• 1:49:24
  strange thing is that even though I was soaked, the pages
• 1:49:28
  of my Bible never got wet and that was truly frightening.
• 1:49:33
  Although the session was short, upon uttering the words that he
• 1:49:37
  was now bound in the name of Jesus Christ, the rain stopped
• 1:49:42
  and a peace overtook dawn. When he finally came to, he
• 1:49:46
  thanked the reverend with tears in his eyes, and the two hugged
• 1:49:51
  and prayed together again. In the words of Reverend
• 1:49:55
  Blackburn, there is no doubt in my mind that he was possessed.
• 1:49:59
  No human being could do what he did in that room.
• 1:50:02
  There is no way that he did anything to fool me whatsoever.
• 1:50:06
  Whatever happened was spiritual and it was not from God.
• 1:50:11
  I can guarantee you that it was not from God.
• 1:50:15
  From this moment forward, the rain has stopped for now.
• 1:50:19
  Don Decker would later say that he takes things day by day and
• 1:50:23
  that fortunately, the rain hasn't returned.
• 1:50:27
  As for his grandfather, he thinks whatever happened was
• 1:50:31
  related to him. He thinks that considering where
• 1:50:34
  he thinks he ended up, maybe he was able to make a deal with
• 1:50:38
  someone and have yet another chance to abuse him.
• 1:50:43
  What makes this case so unique and interesting is that all the
• 1:50:46
  people involved are credible people.
• 1:50:48
  I mean we have some family friends sure, but they stated
• 1:50:52
  they had nothing take place in that house prior to Don's
• 1:50:55
  arrival that morning. We have the landlord of the
• 1:50:59
  family's home and his wife not only reaffirming that there
• 1:51:02
  weren't any prior issues, but that there were no pipes in that
• 1:51:06
  area of the house. We then have 6 police officers
• 1:51:10
  including the chief over the case experienced the phenomena
• 1:51:14
  and he was the only one that said that nothing took place.
• 1:51:17
  We have a business owner where the phenomena took place at her
• 1:51:20
  establishment as well. Then several guards at the jail
• 1:51:24
  and which he goes back to finish serving his time witness things
• 1:51:28
  and the warden of the jail himself and the police officers.
• 1:51:32
  Three of them were seasoned lieutenants I might add and
• 1:51:35
  anyone with a proper reputation unless they really experienced
• 1:51:39
  something would risk that in my opinion.
• 1:51:43
  So was it demonic infestation? Possession, poltergeist
• 1:51:48
  activity, or something else entirely?
• 1:51:51
  When we have so many credible eyewitnesses recanting the same
• 1:51:55
  details, saying what they saw, experienced, and felt was a
• 1:52:00
  phenomena not of this world, it truly makes you wonder.
• 1:52:05
  And if it wasn't spiritual, could Don's childhood trauma
• 1:52:09
  have allowed him to break into a part of the mind that could
• 1:52:12
  somehow? 'Cause these kinds of things.
• 1:52:15
  Allow him to manipulate the weather of his surroundings,
• 1:52:18
  move objects, and even cause harm to himself.
• 1:52:23
  We may never truly know the answers to this mystery in
• 1:52:26
  particular, and it very much still is a mystery to this day.
• 1:52:30
  As far as an update on Don Decker, besides multiple show
• 1:52:34
  appearances and interviews to discuss his story over the
• 1:52:37
  years, the last known activity that I could find of him was
• 1:52:42
  that back in 2012, he was charged with arson of a local
• 1:52:46
  restaurant in the Poconos Mountains of Pennsylvania.
• 1:52:49
  It seems like perhaps he was paid to set fire to the
• 1:52:52
  establishment by the owner, maybe for insurance fraud.
• 1:52:56
  As far as the outcome of the case, I couldn't find additional
• 1:52:59
  details. Perhaps whatever evil that was
• 1:53:02
  inside Dawn got the best of him at this time.
• 1:53:06
  Or, you know, we're all human, we do make mistakes without
• 1:53:10
  otherworldly influence as well. Just the thought.
• 1:53:14
  Wherever he is, I do have to say that his story is an amazing and
• 1:53:18
  intriguing 1 and I wish him nothing but the best.
• 1:53:22
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• 1:53:26
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• 1:53:29
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• 1:53:34
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• 1:53:37
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• 1:53:40
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• 1:53:43
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• 1:53:46
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• 1:53:49
  could ever know. Rob and Vicki Graves had found
• 1:54:04
  what appeared to be their dream home.
• 1:54:06
  Looking to escape the big city life and take up a more rural
• 1:54:10
  one for themselves and their two teenage sons, they found Fox
• 1:54:15
  Hollow Farm and were shocked at how affordable it was for the
• 1:54:18
  sheer size and quality of the property.
• 1:54:21
  Sensing that it was too good to be true, they asked what could
• 1:54:24
  possibly be wrong with it because at a passing glance it
• 1:54:28
  seemed absolutely gorgeous. Then it came to Rob.
• 1:54:33
  He had remembered the name from a news broadcast many years ago.
• 1:54:38
  Unbeknownst to him and his wife, they were now standing on the
• 1:54:41
  very same grounds that were once owned by Herb Baumeister, the
• 1:54:45
  notorious serial killer. They immediately brought this up
• 1:54:49
  to the real estate agent who was showing them the property and
• 1:54:53
  were immediately told that that was indeed the case.
• 1:54:56
  That the private investor had indeed purchased the estate from
• 1:54:59
  the widow of Herb following the disturbing discovery of the
• 1:55:03
  bodies back in the 1990s, but that it had been completely
• 1:55:07
  remodeled from head to toe, removing any and all remnants of
• 1:55:11
  what it looked like when the murders had taken place all
• 1:55:15
  those years ago. But that's why it was indeed so
• 1:55:18
  affordable, because no one wanted to live there due to the
• 1:55:21
  history. After some further discussion
• 1:55:24
  among the couple, they ultimately decided to purchase
• 1:55:28
  the property. Within a couple weeks, the
• 1:55:31
  family moves in and falls in love with Fox Hollow Farm.
• 1:55:35
  The teenage sons soon make it a habit to play outside and then
• 1:55:39
  wash off in the pool in the basement, soon tracking dirt and
• 1:55:43
  gravel all throughout the home. One day, Vicki is vacuuming up
• 1:55:48
  the dirt that the boys had brought in from the outside
• 1:55:51
  around the pool, when suddenly her vacuum loses.
• 1:55:55
  Power. Believing that perhaps she had
• 1:55:57
  accidentally unplugged it from the outlet, she plugged it back
• 1:56:00
  in and continued her work within several more minutes.
• 1:56:05
  It happened again, perplexed. This time, because she was even
• 1:56:09
  more aware and careful about the cord in the outlet, she knew she
• 1:56:13
  hadn't unplugged it, so she plugged it back in and triple
• 1:56:17
  checked that it wasn't just falling out of the outlet by
• 1:56:20
  pulling the cord. Evermore aware this time she
• 1:56:23
  goes back to vacuuming, but keeping a present eye on the
• 1:56:27
  cord itself, and to her amazement, it pulls out on its
• 1:56:31
  own. As if someone had grabbed and
• 1:56:34
  pulled it out of the socket. Startled, she drops the vacuum
• 1:56:38
  and was beside herself. She doesn't know how to make
• 1:56:41
  sense of what had just happened and this would just be the.
• 1:56:45
  Beginning of the strangeness that would occur.
• 1:56:49
  Rob worked at a car dealership and one of his employees was a
• 1:56:52
  man named Joe Joe had been a great employee, but had a
• 1:56:56
  problem of being chronically late most of the time.
• 1:57:00
  As he probed to figure out what was going on, Joe informed Rob
• 1:57:04
  that he lived over an hour away and really needed the job and
• 1:57:08
  would be willing to move closer if the opportunity presented
• 1:57:11
  itself. Well, Rob thought about it and
• 1:57:14
  ended up offering Joe a place to rent.
• 1:57:17
  Located on Fox Hollow Farm, they had a guest house that they were
• 1:57:21
  considering renting out as apartments for quite some time,
• 1:57:24
  and this seemed like the perfect opportunity to benefit everyone
• 1:57:27
  involved. Joe would indeed move in just a
• 1:57:30
  few days later. It takes several.
• 1:57:33
  Hours. But within that time frame
• 1:57:35
  they're able to get everything inside and finish the move.
• 1:57:39
  Exhausted, Joe decides to retire for the night with his dog Fred.
• 1:57:44
  As he lays down to sleep in his newly set up bed, he then finds
• 1:57:48
  himself in a horrific nightmare. He's being chased.
• 1:57:52
  Throughout Fox Hollow Farm by something he can't see.
• 1:57:56
  The dream is so intense that it causes him to sleepwalk, which
• 1:58:00
  wasn't something that he was known to do.
• 1:58:03
  He began to run while still dreaming and ran directly into
• 1:58:07
  the door frame as he tried to escape the guest house.
• 1:58:11
  Falling back, he knocked into a nearby glass of water, which
• 1:58:15
  fell and shattered, cutting his hands.
• 1:58:18
  The impact and cutting of his hands finally woke him up and he
• 1:58:22
  was forced to sit back and ponder just what had taken
• 1:58:25
  place. And fangs would only intensify
• 1:58:28
  from here another day. Soon after, Rob was painting the
• 1:58:32
  side of their home a different color As he and his wife
• 1:58:36
  remarked on how nice the finished job will be.
• 1:58:39
  She spots something out of the corner of her eye.
• 1:58:42
  She had seen a man in a red shirt staring at them.
• 1:58:45
  As she broke away from her. Husband and began to approach
• 1:58:48
  the figure. It started to walk away from her
• 1:58:51
  and quickly disappeared as if it never existed.
• 1:58:55
  The couple then called out and checked the perimeter but never
• 1:58:59
  found anyone. They dismissed the person as
• 1:59:02
  nothing more than a curious trespasser.
• 1:59:05
  I mean, after all, they did purchase a serial killer's home.
• 1:59:09
  They just had to accept that curious people may sneak up just
• 1:59:12
  to get a look at their home. Later that night, Joe was doing
• 1:59:16
  the dishes in his apartment when he suddenly gets a series of
• 1:59:20
  knocks on his front door, telling the person it'll just be
• 1:59:24
  a minute. As he dries his hands off to go
• 1:59:26
  and answer the door, the series of knocks begin to grow louder
• 1:59:31
  and more aggressive. Thinking it was.
• 1:59:33
  Extremely strange or extremely urgent concerning Vicki or Rob,
• 1:59:38
  he went and answered the doors. It was still being knocked upon.
• 1:59:42
  However, as he opened the door, there was no one to be found
• 1:59:48
  automatically on guard. He.
• 1:59:49
  Peers outside the knocking had been happening when he answered
• 1:59:53
  the door, so no person could have got very far while he
• 1:59:57
  answered. Mid knock he glanced around and
• 2:00:01
  yet saw and heard nothing. He stepped outside.
• 2:00:04
  And began to examine the roof in the nearby areas.
• 2:00:08
  And still there was nothing. Thoroughly weirded out at this
• 2:00:12
  point, he made his way back inside and bolted, the door
• 2:00:16
  locked behind him. He started to make his way back
• 2:00:19
  to the kitchen to finish doing his dishes when he spotted a man
• 2:00:23
  standing in his bedroom staring at him.
• 2:00:27
  Upon spotting the figure, his dog begins to growl and make
• 2:00:31
  sounds that he's never heard him make before, staring directly in
• 2:00:36
  the direction of the bedroom. Already on edge, he ran into the
• 2:00:41
  bedroom and flipped the light on, only to discover that there
• 2:00:45
  was again no one there. Searching the entire apartment,
• 2:00:50
  he again found nothing. Trying to rationalize and clear
• 2:00:54
  his mind, he decided to take his dog Fred for a walk to calm down
• 2:01:00
  and unwind for the evening. While on his walk around the
• 2:01:03
  property, he thought to check on Rob and Vicki's house to see if
• 2:01:07
  the lights were on. This would indicate to him that
• 2:01:10
  perhaps they were the ones who had knocked on his door and
• 2:01:13
  therefore he could rest easy. And figure out what it was about
• 2:01:17
  the following morning. However, upon arriving at their
• 2:01:20
  house, he found it completely blacked out.
• 2:01:24
  They had already gone to bed for the night.
• 2:01:26
  Fred, who was always a loyal and obedient dog, always walked with
• 2:01:30
  him without a leash and would always follow his commands.
• 2:01:35
  However, tonight would be a different story.
• 2:01:39
  Deciding to head back to his apartment, he motioned for Fred
• 2:01:42
  to join him, but the dog would not budget.
• 2:01:45
  He suddenly began to growl and then bolted into the nearby tree
• 2:01:49
  line. Instinctively, Joe ran after his
• 2:01:53
  dog, but not before seeing what his dog was running after.
• 2:01:57
  Before his eyes and the very same tree line was a man in a
• 2:02:01
  red shirt. Although he was absolutely
• 2:02:04
  terrified, Joe couldn't let anything happen to his beloved
• 2:02:08
  dog, so he continued to run towards this man, when suddenly
• 2:02:13
  whoever or whatever this was disappeared before his eyes,
• 2:02:19
  although slightly behind. He would quickly catch up to
• 2:02:23
  Fred and now noticed him not acting aggressive at all, but
• 2:02:27
  rather showing his belly in submission, staring in the
• 2:02:30
  direction of Joe. Joe, knowing his dog, knew that
• 2:02:35
  something very strange had to be up with him.
• 2:02:38
  He suddenly felt as if someone was staring directly at him.
• 2:02:42
  He slowly turned around to see the apparition of a man in a red
• 2:02:47
  shirt with a twisted face staring back at him just several
• 2:02:52
  feet away. Joe, as most of us would, ran
• 2:02:56
  out of there as fast as he could, his loyal companion
• 2:03:00
  following him. The two run as fast as they can
• 2:03:04
  back to the apartment, where they rush inside, lock and
• 2:03:07
  deadbolt the door, and nervously watch out of the blinds for the
• 2:03:11
  rest of the night. The following morning, and even
• 2:03:15
  more exhausted, Joe makes his way to Vicki and Rob's house to
• 2:03:18
  discuss the prior night's events.
• 2:03:21
  As he's telling both of them what happened, Vicki starts to
• 2:03:24
  become emotional. She too would seen the man in
• 2:03:27
  red just days earlier. She points to where she saw him
• 2:03:32
  and Loan, and behold, it's the exact same spot that Joe had
• 2:03:35
  encountered the entity the night before.
• 2:03:38
  As the day progressed tonight, Joe yet again found himself in
• 2:03:42
  his apartment, hoping to finally get some rest.
• 2:03:46
  But as he settled down in his bed, he was suddenly startled by
• 2:03:50
  knocking at his door. As he yelled out who is it?
• 2:03:54
  As he made his way towards the door, he didn't receive an
• 2:03:58
  audible answer back, just more aggressive knocking at the door.
• 2:04:03
  The door itself now is shaking. Facing his fear of the unknown,
• 2:04:08
  mid knock Joe throws the door open only to meet face to face
• 2:04:15
  with nothing. As he frantically looks around
• 2:04:18
  the yard while holding the door, he notices that the doors
• 2:04:21
  knocking apparatus is sticking straight out as if someone is
• 2:04:26
  holding it. It then drops one last time
• 2:04:30
  knocking the door. Absolutely petrified, Joe slams
• 2:04:34
  the door and locks it. As he tries to catch his breath
• 2:04:38
  and take several steps backwards, he sees the door knob
• 2:04:42
  begin to turn. Then, without warning, the door
• 2:04:46
  bursts open, shattering the lock.
• 2:04:50
  The open door yet again, reveals no one.
• 2:04:53
  After a moment of frozen terror, Joe runs outside and into the
• 2:04:57
  front yard of his apartment, screaming and searching all
• 2:05:01
  around for. Just who could be doing?
• 2:05:03
  This after several minutes. He stares back into the house to
• 2:05:07
  the open front door and sees a man dressed in all white
• 2:05:11
  standing there. He soaked from head to toe in
• 2:05:14
  what appears to be water and is screaming in a muted voice as if
• 2:05:19
  he's being held underwater. He then bolts towards Joe and
• 2:05:24
  seemingly disappears into a mist, frantically calling out to
• 2:05:28
  his dog Fred to accompany him, Joe frantically makes his way to
• 2:05:32
  Rob and Vicki's house on the property.
• 2:05:34
  He's so terrified that he's shaking now, and Rob and Vicki
• 2:05:38
  are just as scared. They now truly believe that they
• 2:05:41
  are dealing with something paranormal in nature in order to
• 2:05:45
  rationalize the situation and make sense of what was taking
• 2:05:48
  place. They begin to believe that
• 2:05:51
  they're experiencing the results of the murders conducted by Herb
• 2:05:55
  Baumeister and that his victims are either.
• 2:05:59
  Trapped. Here somehow or their energy is
• 2:06:02
  stuck in an endless loop, replaying their final and tragic
• 2:06:06
  moments over and over and over again.
• 2:06:13
  Refusing to return to his apartment, Rob and Vicki, being
• 2:06:17
  the supportive friends they were, agreed that Joe could stay
• 2:06:20
  the night with them and together they would begin researching
• 2:06:23
  online to try and formulate some kind of a plan of action of what
• 2:06:27
  to do next. As they collectively scour the
• 2:06:31
  Baumeister case information, they find themselves looking at
• 2:06:35
  the list of identified victims. As they get deeper into the
• 2:06:38
  details, Joe is shocked. He stops them on a picture of a
• 2:06:43
  man in a white shirt. That was the man I saw in my
• 2:06:46
  apartment who was soaked from head to toe and screaming.
• 2:06:51
  Although this information still scares them, it does help
• 2:06:55
  reassure them that they are indeed dealing with the victims
• 2:06:58
  of this horrendous tragedy. They are especially convinced
• 2:07:02
  considering many of the remains have never been identified, so
• 2:07:06
  they continue to research the case.
• 2:07:09
  After several uneventful days, Joe finds himself almost
• 2:07:12
  compelled to walk around the property with his dog, except
• 2:07:16
  this time in broad daylight. So apprehensively, he makes his
• 2:07:22
  way with Fred to the area where both he and Vicki have seen the
• 2:07:25
  Man in Red on separate occasions.
• 2:07:28
  Just past the tree line on The Walking path, Joe is stopped by
• 2:07:32
  what looks to be a bone. He believes that it's impossible
• 2:07:36
  that such a bone could have been missed during the extensive
• 2:07:39
  searches over the years, but none the less it was right here,
• 2:07:44
  right now, as if it had been placed there for him to
• 2:07:47
  discover. Quickly consulting and showing
• 2:07:50
  Rob and Vicki the discovery, they too believed that this
• 2:07:53
  could be a bone belonging to the mysterious Man in Red.
• 2:07:57
  They ended up contacting the lead detective on the Baumeister
• 2:08:00
  case and submitted the bone, which turned out to be a human
• 2:08:04
  femur bone, in his evidence and for analysis.
• 2:08:08
  They then requested if the investigator himself could come
• 2:08:11
  out to the property and explain to them just where things had
• 2:08:15
  taken place so they could have a better understanding of what had
• 2:08:18
  happened, to which he obliged. Several days passed and Joe by
• 2:08:24
  this point had made his way back to his apartment to try and
• 2:08:27
  settle back. In given the new information,
• 2:08:30
  while on his computer checking his emails, he began to hear
• 2:08:34
  scraping, almost metallic like sound originating from the
• 2:08:38
  kitchen. Upon further examination, he
• 2:08:41
  sees that all of his butcher knives from his knife block have
• 2:08:45
  been neatly arranged in his sink, placed in a row equally
• 2:08:49
  spaced from one another. Glancing around the room, he
• 2:08:53
  spots fresh deep cuts in the wood of the nearby counter
• 2:08:57
  cabinet. He believes that this could be a
• 2:09:00
  sign for one of the victims crying for help.
• 2:09:03
  He starts to try and figure out the mystery.
• 2:09:07
  He takes out his phone and begins recording, asking probing
• 2:09:11
  questions to whoever or whatever could be there and hopes of
• 2:09:15
  helping them in any way that he can.
• 2:09:18
  Prior to this, of course, he turned off any and all
• 2:09:21
  appliances that could. Interfere with the process.
• 2:09:24
  He begins by asking a series of questions and doesn't seem to
• 2:09:28
  get much of anything, at least not audibly.
• 2:09:31
  But then towards the end of his questions, Fred begins to growl.
• 2:09:35
  The same eerie growl he had any time they'd experienced
• 2:09:39
  something previously. Taking this is confirmation that
• 2:09:42
  perhaps his companion could see or hear something that he
• 2:09:45
  couldn't, he quickly downloads the audio file and begins to
• 2:09:50
  listen to it on his computer. And to his shock, he did indeed
• 2:09:55
  receive a response. This is the clip of the actual
• 2:09:58
  EVP that was recorded who keeps walking in the kitchen.
• 2:10:06
  He believes he hears the married one.
• 2:10:09
  But in all of their research, all of the victims were young,
• 2:10:13
  single gay men. The only one who was married was
• 2:10:17
  one Herb Baumeister. This revelation is startling.
• 2:10:22
  He not only believes that the victims were trapped within the
• 2:10:25
  grounds of Fox Hollow Farm, but that perhaps the serial killer
• 2:10:29
  himself could too be trapped here.
• 2:10:33
  What would follow would be dozens of paranormal
• 2:10:35
  investigations. And those investigations would
• 2:10:39
  lead the group to believe that they were not only dealing with
• 2:10:41
  the spirits of the victims haunting the grounds, but either
• 2:10:45
  a dark entity impersonating Baumeister or the killer
• 2:10:49
  himself. Several years after the events,
• 2:10:52
  the Graves family would end up selling Fox Hollow Farm, and it
• 2:10:56
  would continue to change hands over the years since then,
• 2:11:00
  leading to multiple new owners of the property.
• 2:11:03
  And although new information doesn't seem to be publicly
• 2:11:06
  available, it's still considered one of the most haunted places
• 2:11:10
  in Indiana, if not the world, given its unique and gruesome
• 2:11:15
  history. An independent film will go on
• 2:11:18
  to be made about it called The Haunting of Fox Hollow Farm.
• 2:11:21
  And Robert Graves, along with another man named Richard E Step
• 2:11:26
  who led many paranormal investigations at Fox Hollow
• 2:11:29
  Farm, would Co write a book detailing the family's creepy
• 2:11:32
  experiences of what they believed to be ultimately
• 2:11:36
  happening. So in conclusion, we know that
• 2:11:40
  Herb Baumeister was mentally ill ultimately, but what makes this
• 2:11:44
  case so strange and so compelling to me is that he was
• 2:11:48
  an outstanding member of his community for the longest time.
• 2:11:52
  He was the smiling neighbor, the charitable businessman, the
• 2:11:56
  happy family man, and overall a pillar of normalcy.
• 2:12:01
  But behind closed doors, his psyche, his soul, contained a
• 2:12:06
  darkness that most of us will never be able to comprehend, yet
• 2:12:11
  alone unravel and understand. So could the murderous deeds of
• 2:12:16
  a twisted individual trap souls on a property and perhaps open
• 2:12:20
  some kind of a portal? Could the unleashing of such
• 2:12:24
  energy, like what is expressed in a violent death, contribute
• 2:12:28
  to something like this if it wasn't what's known as an
• 2:12:31
  intelligent haunting where the spirits are aware of what has
• 2:12:34
  happened to them? And are indeed trapped.
• 2:12:36
  There, which very well could still be the case.
• 2:12:40
  Then perhaps it could be a residual haunting where the
• 2:12:43
  events are of such magnitude and strength that they play on a
• 2:12:48
  loop for all time, but the souls who were involved have long
• 2:12:52
  since moved on. These are questions that we may
• 2:12:55
  never have answers to, but all things that we should ponder.
• 2:13:00
  The one thing is for certain, the malicious calculation of
• 2:13:04
  Herb Baumeister and the horrendous things that he did to
• 2:13:07
  the suspected 25 victims at Fox Hollow Farms should never be
• 2:13:12
  forgotten. They are indeed still
• 2:13:15
  identifying and using updated technology to identify remains
• 2:13:19
  that are still being found on the grounds.
• 2:13:22
  This has happened as recent as November of 2022, so if you
• 2:13:26
  happen to be a family member of someone that you suspect could
• 2:13:30
  be connected to this case, just know that my heart truly does go
• 2:13:33
  out to you and please contact the Hamilton County Coroner's
• 2:13:38
  Office at 317-770-4415. Besides remembering what
• 2:13:46
  happened, I also urge you to please respect the victims and
• 2:13:50
  their families, as well as the family of Herb Baumeister if you
• 2:13:54
  should ever have anything to do with them.
• 2:13:57
  Throughout history, it has been speculated that many have been
• 2:14:01
  plagued by an ancient demonic force, from Mesopotamia to more
• 2:14:08
  modern times. This evil and terrifying entity
• 2:14:13
  as said to enter our world and wreak havoc upon those who dwell
• 2:14:18
  within it. When a seemingly normal family
• 2:14:23
  disregards the warnings and partakes in multiple Ouija board
• 2:14:28
  sessions, what happened next nearly destroyed them.
• 2:14:33
  This is the untold story of the demonic Zozo House of Oklahoma,
• 2:14:39
  and the abhorrent creature stalks its walls.
• 2:14:57
  Oklahoma City, a small but growing city in the heartland of
• 2:15:02
  America known for blue collar work and brick and mortar shops,
• 2:15:08
  red dirt and sports would soon become known for something much
• 2:15:15
  darker. A teenager by the name of Darren
• 2:15:19
  Evans was growing up here, a normal boy by all accounts,
• 2:15:25
  doing things that any teenagers would enjoy, hanging out with
• 2:15:29
  friends, shenanigans here and there, and dating girls.
• 2:15:36
  He began dating a girl named Brandy who attended school with
• 2:15:39
  him, and the two often found themselves visiting each other
• 2:15:44
  as often as they could, whether that was walking to and from
• 2:15:48
  school and between classes or visiting each other's homes.
• 2:15:55
  One day, while Brandy's home was having some plumbing work done
• 2:15:59
  on some pipes located underneath the house, the plumber doing the
• 2:16:04
  work would soon make a strange discovery.
• 2:16:08
  Located below the foundation of the home, covered in dirt, was
• 2:16:13
  an old Ouija board. The front letters were partially
• 2:16:17
  buried and the back of the board was solid black in color.
• 2:16:23
  Off to the side of where the board was found was an aged
• 2:16:27
  planchette. What made this finding even more
• 2:16:31
  bizarre was that 4 old jars sat on the corners of the board,
• 2:16:37
  speckled with dirt as well. Thinking perhaps the kids had
• 2:16:42
  stashed the board away and forgot about it, the worker told
• 2:16:46
  the young couple after his work was done about what he had
• 2:16:50
  found. And it's from here that things
• 2:16:53
  seemingly take a darker turn. Upon examining the discovery,
• 2:16:59
  they began to brush the dirt away from the jars.
• 2:17:03
  They were then shocked by what they found Inside each one of
• 2:17:07
  the jars. Sitting on the four corners of
• 2:17:10
  the board were the decaying bodies of blackbirds, congealed
• 2:17:16
  blood and matter still present. Bewildered but intrigued, they
• 2:17:23
  sat the jars off to the side and picked up the board.
• 2:17:29
  As soon as his fingers made contact with the board, Darren
• 2:17:33
  seemed to have an instant connection with it.
• 2:17:36
  And with this soon came a burning curiosity to examine it.
• 2:17:41
  And this curiosity would manifest into obsession with
• 2:17:48
  this. The couple took the board inside
• 2:17:50
  the home, where they spoke with Brandy's mother.
• 2:17:54
  She actively practiced the Wiccan religion but had no idea.
• 2:17:59
  Who could have put the board there several days later?
• 2:18:04
  Curious as most teenagers are, Darren was an avid music fan and
• 2:18:10
  one night, after building up the courage to do it, he decided he
• 2:18:15
  was going to contact the deceased singer of the the
• 2:18:18
  popular band ACDC, a man named Ronald Belford Scott, using the
• 2:18:25
  board. Scott had passed away from
• 2:18:28
  alcohol poisoning in 1980. After lighting several candles,
• 2:18:34
  laying the board with letters facing towards him, and placing
• 2:18:38
  the planchette upon the board, he began his session.
• 2:18:43
  At first, nothing seemed to happen.
• 2:18:47
  The Durham was still feeling this otherworldly connection to
• 2:18:50
  something within the board itself.
• 2:18:53
  After trying for half an hour, to his shock and amazement, the
• 2:18:58
  plant Chet began to move. Slowly at first.
• 2:19:03
  It then frantically began to move by itself, moving from Z to
• 2:19:10
  OZ to O over and over and over again, spelling out the name
• 2:19:19
  Sozo. Shocked and unsure of what or
• 2:19:24
  who he had contacted, Darren said goodbye in an attempt to
• 2:19:29
  end the session. Before his eyes he saw the plain
• 2:19:34
  chat spell out See you in Hell and then it threw itself across
• 2:19:40
  the room. A now terrified and bewildered
• 2:19:43
  Darren ran out of his room. He tried to make sense of what
• 2:19:47
  had just taken place, but this was just the beginning of what
• 2:19:52
  was to come. It started with horrible night
• 2:19:56
  terrors. He would wake up unable to move
• 2:20:00
  or speak and would hear whispering in his ears.
• 2:20:04
  These episodes at night were soon followed by banging and
• 2:20:08
  knocking throughout his house during the daytime, as well as a
• 2:20:12
  constant feeling. As if he was being watched by
• 2:20:15
  something, he couldn't see you. But despite the presence he was
• 2:20:21
  feeling, Darren now sought answers to his ever growing list
• 2:20:25
  of questions. Just what exactly he had
• 2:20:28
  uncovered. So he continued to hold sessions
• 2:20:33
  with the board. For better or for worse.
• 2:20:38
  Darren would later quote this. The sessions now were as intense
• 2:20:43
  and paranormal as anything I've ever witnessed.
• 2:20:47
  A deep and terrible moaning could be heard emanating through
• 2:20:51
  the walls. After these sessions I developed
• 2:20:54
  sleep paralysis and became reclusive to society in general.
• 2:21:00
  I was once again messing with Zozo and Ouija boards, despite
• 2:21:05
  the terrors of my earlier sessions in which I had promised
• 2:21:09
  myself I would never do it again.
• 2:21:11
  But again. And again I did.
• 2:21:16
  When not in use, the board was kept in a purple silk cloth and
• 2:21:21
  stored in his bedroom closet. It would also often go missing,
• 2:21:27
  sometimes for days on end when checking.
• 2:21:30
  Back where he had. Placed it in order to set up and
• 2:21:33
  initiate a new session. The board would seemingly vanish
• 2:21:39
  only to reappear at random times as if it was the one calling the
• 2:21:44
  shots of when it could be seen and used.
• 2:21:50
  The years came in when and the sessions on the mystical Ouija
• 2:21:54
  board continued. Darren by this time started
• 2:21:59
  inviting his friends to partake in the sessions, and although
• 2:22:03
  their sessions with him would prove he's not insane, it's of
• 2:22:07
  little consolation considering the tragedy it would seemingly
• 2:22:11
  manifest later on. Darren's best friend was a man
• 2:22:16
  by the name of Randy. The two had bonded over their
• 2:22:20
  love for the band ACDC in high school and had been inseparable
• 2:22:25
  ever since. Randy's idol also being the late
• 2:22:29
  Bond Scott, whose lifestyle seemingly imprinted upon the
• 2:22:33
  youthful teens Once Upon a time and perhaps would ultimately
• 2:22:38
  lead to the downfall of one of them.
• 2:22:42
  By now, Darren was living in his own apartment and working
• 2:22:46
  construction at a job site he was on.
• 2:22:50
  He would make a strange but familiar discovery.
• 2:22:54
  As he was digging down into the earth, he found what appeared to
• 2:22:58
  be a jar. Upon picking it up to discard
• 2:23:02
  it, he wiped away the dirt and debris, only to be shocked by
• 2:23:07
  its familiar contents. Loan.
• 2:23:10
  And behold, within the jar was a congealed and rotting Blackbird,
• 2:23:17
  extremely similar if not identical to the ones initially
• 2:23:21
  found alongside the Ouija board underneath his high school
• 2:23:25
  girlfriend's home all those years ago.
• 2:23:29
  It was particularly weird, not just because of this, but the
• 2:23:34
  fact that he had found it digging down deep into the
• 2:23:38
  earth. He wondered what were the odds
• 2:23:41
  of this, and although he had no way of knowing for sure, his gut
• 2:23:46
  began to tell him that there was some kind of witchcraft or a
• 2:23:50
  cult expertise at play here. Perhaps someone or a group of
• 2:23:56
  people were knowingly contacting this entity known as Zozo.
• 2:24:01
  But for what remained to be known, one evening in 1985,
• 2:24:08
  Darren and Randy were relaxing at Darren's apartment when they
• 2:24:12
  decided to host a session on the Ouija board.
• 2:24:15
  Randy, more than anything, wanted to try and make contact
• 2:24:19
  with his late idol Bon Scott, while wearing a Highway to Hell
• 2:24:25
  ACDC shirt. Randy's intent was clear.
• 2:24:30
  The two dimmed the lights, lit a couple of candles, and began the
• 2:24:35
  session upon the board. They made contact within a few
• 2:24:39
  minutes once the planchette was moving.
• 2:24:44
  Randy exclaimed. We want to talk to Bon Scott of
• 2:24:49
  ACDC. With this sentence, the
• 2:24:53
  planchette seemingly obliged. It moved in circles, eventually
• 2:24:59
  spelling out Aye MATE. The 2 looked at each other in
• 2:25:06
  amazement. The entity was using Australian
• 2:25:09
  dialects and for anyone who doesn't know, Bon Scott was
• 2:25:14
  Australian. After several more questions,
• 2:25:19
  both of the young men were convinced they were speaking
• 2:25:21
  with their idol. The spirit seemed to know every
• 2:25:24
  little detail to any question they asked and during the
• 2:25:29
  session the entity then made a strange request from the men.
• 2:25:34
  It asked them to light a cigarette and place it in the
• 2:25:37
  hole in the planchette. What proceeded to make both of
• 2:25:41
  them laugh also made them quite spooked as well.
• 2:25:45
  So they lit a couple cigarettes, one for each of them and one for
• 2:25:50
  this entity. They took a few drags to keep it
• 2:25:54
  lit and then placed it cherry side up in the planchette hole.
• 2:25:59
  The blanchette then spelled out thanks.
• 2:26:03
  They then watched an utter amazement as the cherry of the
• 2:26:06
  cigarette lit up as if Bon himself was taking puffs off of
• 2:26:12
  it. But this amusement was short
• 2:26:15
  lived. Once the cigarette had seemingly
• 2:26:19
  been smoked, the planchette began to spell something very
• 2:26:23
  different. It's spelled FU reinde.
• 2:26:28
  I will have your soul and I'll see you in hell, Zeo.
• 2:26:36
  Zeo terrified the men quickly into the session by saying
• 2:26:41
  goodbye and tossing the board outside the second story
• 2:26:44
  apartment balcony door. Clearly scared and upset.
• 2:26:49
  Randy also didn't take kindly to threats.
• 2:26:53
  He began cussing out Zozo with complete and utter rage.
• 2:26:58
  The board would later be returned by his downstairs
• 2:27:01
  neighbor, and after this session, a series of lows for
• 2:27:05
  both of the men seemed to manifest in the years to come.
• 2:27:10
  Influenced by the lifestyle of his idol, Randy fell victim to
• 2:27:15
  alcoholism. He soon would lose his wife to
• 2:27:18
  divorce and have split custody with his son.
• 2:27:23
  And although many opportunities presented themselves for Randy
• 2:27:26
  to better his life, for one reason or another, he was always
• 2:27:31
  just too far away to be able to grasp them, He often said to
• 2:27:35
  Darren, I feel like I'm in a prison and I can't escape for
• 2:27:42
  old time's sake. The two did one last Ouija board
• 2:27:45
  session together in 2005, in which Randy asked the board how
• 2:27:52
  he would die. The board responded in a car at
• 2:27:57
  night alone. In 2007, after spending the
• 2:28:02
  evening with Darren. The last words he would say to
• 2:28:06
  him were Darren, I will see you in hell.
• 2:28:11
  The next morning, Darren received a phone call from
• 2:28:14
  Randy's girlfriend Alicia, saying that Randy never made it
• 2:28:18
  home after he left. Instead, he had passed away in a
• 2:28:23
  violent head on collision, ultimately passing away in a car
• 2:28:28
  at night and alone. This devastating passing, along
• 2:28:34
  with the frequent contact with the entity known as Zozo over
• 2:28:37
  the years, led to a fascination and borderline obsession with
• 2:28:42
  the search for answers for Darren Evans.
• 2:28:47
  During the time before and after Randy's death, he had been
• 2:28:51
  living in a home in Oklahoma City, OK that would become
• 2:28:55
  synonymous with the demon's name.
• 2:28:59
  It was here that the worst afflictions brought on by the
• 2:29:02
  entity would take place to him and his family.
• 2:29:07
  Darren's fascination with the occult led him to hanging on to
• 2:29:11
  and possessing multiple Ouija boards and other various occult
• 2:29:15
  objects. It was here that he began to
• 2:29:19
  study on a much more in depth and organized basis, just trying
• 2:29:24
  to figure out who or what Zozo was.
• 2:29:29
  But this research would soon be interrupted and this home lived
• 2:29:34
  himself, his wife Kathleen, and their young daughter at the
• 2:29:39
  time. During a session with his wife
• 2:29:42
  Kathleen one evening while their daughter slept rooms away, Zozo
• 2:29:48
  would once again make itself present in their lives, but this
• 2:29:53
  time seemed to take possession of Darren.
• 2:29:57
  Kathleen trembled with fear and bated breath as something stared
• 2:30:02
  at her through Darren's eyes, something that clearly wasn't
• 2:30:07
  human. He then turned violent,
• 2:30:11
  attempting to attack her. Fortunately for Kathleen, she
• 2:30:16
  was able to say goodbye and get away before any harm could be
• 2:30:19
  done to her. Several minutes later, Darren
• 2:30:23
  would come back to himself with no memory of what had taken
• 2:30:28
  place. After this session, things
• 2:30:32
  seemed to escalate in intensity. Sounds began to rap throughout
• 2:30:38
  the entire home, from knocking to hissing, footsteps and
• 2:30:46
  banging, all seemingly with no explainable origin.
• 2:30:52
  The family got so terrified that they sectioned off a particular
• 2:30:57
  bedroom upstairs, calling it their safe room.
• 2:31:02
  One night, however, not everyone was within the safe room.
• 2:31:07
  Suddenly, an overwhelming sense of terror creeped upon Darren as
• 2:31:12
  he was trying to sleep. He rushed to the safe room to
• 2:31:16
  attempt to stop what he was feeling.
• 2:31:19
  Quickly realizing he couldn't leave his family behind, he
• 2:31:23
  rushed back out of the room in an attempt to gather them and
• 2:31:27
  bring them to safety as well. As he was heading towards the
• 2:31:32
  stairs, his daughter had heard his cries and was now at the
• 2:31:37
  foot of the stairs. It was here that Darren saw her
• 2:31:42
  being lifted by invisible hands into the air and carried away
• 2:31:47
  from him, screaming for his child as she screamed for her
• 2:31:53
  father. Darren ran down the stairs as
• 2:31:56
  fast as he possibly could but couldn't see her anywhere.
• 2:32:01
  Insight. He then heard her muffled
• 2:32:04
  screams coming from the basement.
• 2:32:08
  At first the door was locked and wouldn't open, but after
• 2:32:12
  adrenaline and brute force, Darren thankfully was able to
• 2:32:16
  open it. He then retrieved his hysterical
• 2:32:19
  child and brought her to the safety of the safe room.
• 2:32:25
  Once inside the room, the family huddled together in fear as they
• 2:32:29
  continued to hear movement and noises all throughout the house.
• 2:32:34
  After this abhorrent nightmare of a situation, the family knew
• 2:32:38
  they had to get out of the house.
• 2:32:41
  This situation and the many other paranormal experiences had
• 2:32:45
  led to a lifelong fascination for Darren Evans with the occult
• 2:32:51
  and finding out just exactly what Sozo is.
• 2:32:55
  But was it worth jeopardizing his family's safety?
• 2:33:00
  It took some time but the family would soon relocate to another
• 2:33:04
  home and once his family was safe, Darren was able to
• 2:33:09
  continue his deep dive into the unknown to try and track down
• 2:33:14
  and decipher just what this entity could be and where it
• 2:33:19
  came from. And although he knew the topic
• 2:33:22
  was vast, I think it went far deeper than he ever anticipated.
• 2:33:28
  Whilst trying to dig up more information, he posted his
• 2:33:32
  experiences to an old paranormal form in 2009 and since then
• 2:33:39
  many, many people have shared their experiences with the
• 2:33:44
  demonic force, many of which have been documented and
• 2:33:49
  compared by Darren himself on his website.
• 2:33:53
  But these experiences are not just the 21st or even 20th
• 2:33:57
  century phenomena, they date back far older than that.
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  Not every fine detail will be mentioned here, but I will do my
• 2:34:07
  best to list the most important details that I could find in
• 2:34:11
  regards to the origin of Zozo. According to Darren and other
• 2:34:16
  online sources, Zozo in the old Basque language means Blackbird
• 2:34:23
  or crow. The Zo people of Haiti practiced
• 2:34:27
  a form of voodoo whose rituals involve horrific scarification
• 2:34:32
  as well as the intake and passing around of bodily fluids
• 2:34:37
  and bizarre rituals. Their witch doctors are called
• 2:34:41
  Zozo and wear demonic looking masks as part of their death
• 2:34:47
  ritual. When someone is passing away,
• 2:34:50
  they lift up the mask at the moment of death to take in the
• 2:34:54
  person's final breath. This is apparently done to
• 2:34:58
  absorb the soul of the person to gain more spiritual power.
• 2:35:03
  Zozo also in the Malay language is the same as it is in English,
• 2:35:09
  but it translates to wandering spirit, which is a spirit they
• 2:35:13
  believe to steal people's souls while they sleep, which is also
• 2:35:18
  bizarre because sleep is often considered the cousin of death.
• 2:35:24
  Zozo has been called the minister of deception.
• 2:35:27
  It is known to convince you that it is a deceased loved one or
• 2:35:31
  friend or even someone you've idolized, when in reality, it's
• 2:35:37
  not. Sessions typically start out
• 2:35:41
  friendly and inviting, but soon turned malevolent and dangerous.
• 2:35:48
  During his research over the years, Darren made contact with
• 2:35:53
  and spoke to famous demonologist John Zapis who shared with him
• 2:35:57
  that in his experience with over 40 years of studying the demonic
• 2:36:02
  and paranormal, the name Zozo and other pseudonyms of its name
• 2:36:07
  kept coming up in his investigations, which too led
• 2:36:11
  him to seek answers as to what it could be.
• 2:36:15
  And some of those investigations, when questioned,
• 2:36:19
  the demon stated that it was the son of Satan himself.
• 2:36:24
  But Zapfis thinks perhaps is with many deities that seem to
• 2:36:28
  be lurking in the shadows. Zozo could be an entity that's
• 2:36:32
  existed far before the founding of Christianity.
• 2:36:37
  Besides evidence showing up in Africa and Egypt, there's also
• 2:36:41
  evidence found linking Zozo to ancient Mesopotamia as well.
• 2:36:47
  Other names Zozo has gone by throughout the ages have been
• 2:36:51
  Zuzu, Zaza, and Mamo, among many others.
• 2:36:58
  The name Zuzu could refer to Pazuzu, the famed demon from the
• 2:37:02
  film The Exorcist, which in reality was a demonic entity
• 2:37:07
  from ancient Mesopotamian religion.
• 2:37:10
  It's incredibly strange to note the following as well.
• 2:37:14
  Zozo was replaced in the story of the exorcism of Roland Doe,
• 2:37:19
  and Peter Blatty was using it as inspiration to write The
• 2:37:23
  Exorcist. He changed Zozo to Pazuzu.
• 2:37:28
  Zozo is believed to be the demon that possessed Roland.
• 2:37:34
  It was described as a terrifying form that first appeared in the
• 2:37:38
  Neo Assyrian period, roughly around 934 to 610 BC.
• 2:37:45
  It had a monstrous head resembling A fierce lion or a
• 2:37:49
  dog with horns, and had an emaciated human body with clawed
• 2:37:55
  hands, a scorpion's tail, and two sets of wings.
• 2:38:01
  One translation reads. I am Pazuzu, the son of Hambu,
• 2:38:08
  king of the Lilu demons. I have scaled the powerful
• 2:38:12
  mountains. They trembled.
• 2:38:15
  The contrary winds were headed West 1 by 1.
• 2:38:20
  I broke their wings. Pazuzu and other demons like it
• 2:38:25
  were held responsible for ailments like disease, fetal
• 2:38:30
  death, nightmares, and much more.
• 2:38:34
  Could it be that this ancient demonic force is what could be
• 2:38:38
  plaguing people all the way into modern times?
• 2:38:42
  The demon Zozo is also mentioned in the French Demonic
• 2:38:46
  Encyclopedia is one of the demons responsible for
• 2:38:50
  diabolical possession and corruption.
• 2:38:55
  The possession of a young girl in 1816 is noted as a documented
• 2:39:00
  case where Zozo, among several other demons were present.
• 2:39:05
  Other noteworthy possession cases over the ages ranging
• 2:39:09
  closer to modern times that bears Zozo's name other than the
• 2:39:13
  exorcism of Rolling Doe in the 1950s, are the possession of
• 2:39:18
  Doris Blither in 1972 in Los Angeles, the Enfield Poltergeist
• 2:39:25
  incident in 1977 in the UK, and as recent as 2012 where a
• 2:39:33
  possession incident led to an attempted murder.
• 2:39:38
  Other theories with how this entity could communicate with so
• 2:39:42
  many people so quickly and across the globe over the years,
• 2:39:46
  besides supernatural ability of its own, would be that its own
• 2:39:51
  reach is perhaps being strengthened by an agrigor or
• 2:39:56
  collective group of thought form created by occultists for a
• 2:40:00
  certain purpose. However, this seems unlikely
• 2:40:06
  considering the entity doesn't seem to serve any human interest
• 2:40:11
  other than to destroy the person or people's lives it makes
• 2:40:14
  contact with. Agrigors are typically formed to
• 2:40:19
  bring control over a summoned deity for the person or groups
• 2:40:23
  bidding. But perhaps instead there is a
• 2:40:26
  cold worshipping Zozo? I mean, that would make more
• 2:40:30
  sense to me. People who have made.
• 2:40:33
  Contact with the entity via spirit or Ouija board have also
• 2:40:37
  been asked to chant or spell out phrases in Hebrew or Latin,
• 2:40:43
  which has convinced many of the intelligence of the being that
• 2:40:46
  they're speaking with. What is also interesting is that
• 2:40:51
  the letter Z was actually removed from the original Latin
• 2:40:54
  alphabet because it was considered too evil when
• 2:40:58
  pronouncing it. It was said that one's face
• 2:41:01
  would make a death's grimace like that of a corpse, and that
• 2:41:06
  it mimicked the letter S like an evil twin.
• 2:41:10
  Perhaps the entity uses this name as some sort of mocking,
• 2:41:15
  whether to God or something else.
• 2:41:19
  One may also ask, despite the origin, theories and historical
• 2:41:24
  details that could be linked to this ancient demonic force, how
• 2:41:28
  would one know if they encountered such a thing?
• 2:41:32
  These are what's known as Zozo's calling cards when it's being
• 2:41:35
  summoned using a Ouija board. The obvious is there that the
• 2:41:41
  planchette will begin to move on its own, but some less obvious
• 2:41:45
  signs are there as well, and are as follows.
• 2:41:50
  The planchette will move in a rainbow pattern from side to
• 2:41:53
  side, spelling ZOZO over and over again, also known as the
• 2:42:01
  rainbow effect. It can also move in repeating
• 2:42:05
  Figure 8 movements like an Infinity sign.
• 2:42:10
  The planchet will spell out various versions of the demon's
• 2:42:13
  name, like Zozo, Zozo, Zaza, Zuzu, or Mama.
• 2:42:22
  You may also begin to see shadows moving around the area
• 2:42:26
  where you were hosting the session, like you're seeing
• 2:42:29
  through the thinnest sheet and to a Dark World that exists just
• 2:42:34
  behind your vision, and you and whoever you may be with may
• 2:42:39
  start to feel scared, uneasy, or upset, seemingly for no other
• 2:42:46
  reason. Before or after this takes
• 2:42:49
  place. When you tell this entity
• 2:42:53
  goodbye, typically the best way to close a session, it may not
• 2:42:58
  truly be goodbye because often times depending on how long the
• 2:43:03
  session has been for, like an ever widening door, the entity
• 2:43:08
  may have had just enough time to sneak in to begin to wreak havoc
• 2:43:13
  upon your life. And thus begins what many
• 2:43:17
  demonologists and religious leaders alike call demonic
• 2:43:20
  obsession, which is where the entity becomes aware of you and
• 2:43:25
  begins to crave you, which then leads to oppression or begins to
• 2:43:31
  inflict various forms of torture upon you in an effort to break
• 2:43:36
  you down, whether that's physically, psychologically, or
• 2:43:41
  spiritually. It will also work to isolate you
• 2:43:45
  from others, especially those who care about you.
• 2:43:49
  And finally, if you're incredibly unlucky, possession
• 2:43:55
  or the entity finally takes control of you as its vessel.
• 2:44:01
  All of which to me are absolutely terrifying in every
• 2:44:04
  imaginable way. Darren Evans to this day
• 2:44:08
  continues to research the Zozo Phenomena, having been involved
• 2:44:13
  in the number of paranormal investigations, shows, and
• 2:44:17
  various other public and private events, as well as radio shows
• 2:44:22
  and podcasts, many of which he goes into various degrees of
• 2:44:26
  details regarding his encounters, other people's
• 2:44:30
  encounters, and other various historical details.
• 2:44:35
  He also in 2016 compiled his year's worth of research and
• 2:44:38
  experiences into a book also titled The Zozo Phenomena, which
• 2:44:44
  you can read and learn more about the entity and the topic
• 2:44:47
  as a whole. If you're interested, I'll link
• 2:44:50
  it below. I also pulled a lot of this
• 2:44:53
  information from various interviews which I'll also be
• 2:44:57
  linking below, as well as an older website he runs that
• 2:45:01
  doesn't seem to have been updated in a while but supplied
• 2:45:04
  me with much information to get the story as cohesive as I
• 2:45:08
  possibly could. I also sourced the photos of the
• 2:45:12
  apparitions from the site, some of which were taken by Evans
• 2:45:16
  himself over the years. So does this demon or ancient
• 2:45:21
  force truly exist? Is it some kind of elder God, a
• 2:45:27
  pre Christian deity or being or manifestation of occult or
• 2:45:33
  Luciferian practices? Did Darren Evans just make it up
• 2:45:38
  and did thousands of people find it interesting enough to make up
• 2:45:42
  their own stories and partake in a mass charade that has lasted
• 2:45:46
  years? All of these answers may never
• 2:45:49
  truly be known, but my opinion is this I think not only given
• 2:45:55
  the wide array of strange coincidences and details
• 2:45:59
  throughout history. From the origins, to the stories
• 2:46:02
  of this creature existing in distant past to the present, to
• 2:46:07
  literally thousands of people. From casual interest in the
• 2:46:11
  occult to more hardcore fanatics, religious scholars,
• 2:46:17
  demonologists, and more claiming to have had experiences with
• 2:46:22
  this thing. With all of these details in
• 2:46:24
  mind, I certainly think it very well could be real.
• 2:46:29
  I do think there are things that exist in the shadows, things we
• 2:46:33
  can't see or touch that are there watching and waiting to
• 2:46:39
  strike when and if the opportunity presents itself.
• 2:46:44
  So my advice to all of you to avoid any possibility of opening
• 2:46:49
  a door that you can't close and inviting evil into your life is
• 2:46:54
  this. Don't mess with Ouija boards.
• 2:46:58
  These things are not toys. Whether you believe it or not,
• 2:47:02
  these entities do exist and they believe in you.
• 2:47:07
  So keep away from them, because you might just let something in
• 2:47:11
  that won't want to leave even if you say goodbye.
• 2:47:22
  Lying dormant within the streets of suburbia, there is an unseen
• 2:47:27
  evil. Like a mouse falling into a pit
• 2:47:30
  of snakes, an unsuspecting family disturbed a slumbering
• 2:47:35
  force and became enshrouded in a.
• 2:47:39
  Fog of darkness. This is the untold story of the
• 2:47:44
  Bel Air House and the terrifying, malevolent entities
• 2:47:48
  that dwell within its walls. Bellaire, OH.
• 2:47:55
  An area rich in history was once known as Glass City.
• 2:47:59
  Having once been a major glass production hub in the late
• 2:48:03
  1800s, is now known as the All American Town, having been used
• 2:48:09
  in many Hollywood productions as a backdrop for lots of movies,
• 2:48:14
  some of which you've probably seen over the years.
• 2:48:18
  The town that epitomizes small America's daily life has long
• 2:48:23
  since moved past its industrial days and has become known for
• 2:48:28
  something else. On the outskirts of the town
• 2:48:31
  lies an old two-story Victorian home that has become famous over
• 2:48:36
  the recent years, both among locals as well as across the
• 2:48:40
  country, with some saying it could be the most haunted place
• 2:48:44
  in the United States. If not the.
• 2:48:47
  World This is a bold statement to say the least, but the
• 2:48:51
  countless visitors to the house have reported strange,
• 2:48:55
  disturbing, and unexplainable encounters within its antique
• 2:49:00
  walls. But just how did the story
• 2:49:02
  begin? Where did the legend of the Bel
• 2:49:05
  Air house originate from? Let us first take a look at the
• 2:49:09
  home's dark history. Built in 1887 by a coal tycoon
• 2:49:16
  named Jacob Hetherington, the house sits adjacent from ancient
• 2:49:20
  Native American burial caves. It is also located where the
• 2:49:25
  scene of a massacre took place during the French and Indian
• 2:49:29
  War. It would sit on top of an active
• 2:49:33
  coal mine. For years before.
• 2:49:36
  There was a major explosion that took place within the mine,
• 2:49:40
  killing multiple men working deep within the earth directly
• 2:49:44
  underneath the house. Could the culmination of these
• 2:49:48
  tragic deaths have opened up a portal within the Bel Air house?
• 2:49:52
  A portal that allowed something to come through that wasn't
• 2:49:56
  supposed to be here? Shortly after this explosion is
• 2:50:00
  when the strange activity began. Jacob's son Alex moved into the
• 2:50:06
  home with his daughter, lied, but was soon stricken with
• 2:50:10
  seizures and hallucinations. He would ultimately be committed
• 2:50:15
  to an insane asylum for the rest of his life, claiming that
• 2:50:19
  demons were trying to kill him. As time progressed, Lyde would
• 2:50:25
  take charge of the family business, being helped by her
• 2:50:29
  younger brother Edwin. Lyde would tragically and
• 2:50:33
  unexpectedly pass away one morning in the kitchen of the
• 2:50:37
  home. Edwin.
• 2:50:39
  Now alone and grief stricken. Descended into mysticism and the
• 2:50:44
  occult in search of answers, he began to regularly host seances
• 2:50:50
  in the kitchen where his sister had passed away to attempt to
• 2:50:54
  make contact with her on the other side, and it is believed
• 2:50:58
  that contact was indeed made. But with who?
• 2:51:02
  Or? What is uncertain?
• 2:51:06
  In 2005, Kristen Lee and her family are desperate for a new
• 2:51:11
  home. Like a curse, for the second
• 2:51:14
  time in less than two years, a flash flood has destroyed their
• 2:51:18
  home and all of their possessions.
• 2:51:22
  Kristen, her two sons, Nicholas and Lane, along with their
• 2:51:26
  father Hefe, have been fortunate enough to room with friends
• 2:51:30
  during this difficult time. Kristen has continued to try and
• 2:51:34
  get the family back on their feet and no longer wants to
• 2:51:38
  burden her friends with the boarding of her family.
• 2:51:42
  So she constantly checks the real estate listings hoping to
• 2:51:45
  find a home that her and her family can finally settle down
• 2:51:49
  into. Given the circumstances, the
• 2:51:53
  family didn't have a big budget and would have to rebuild their
• 2:51:56
  lives from scratch. But soon her determination seems
• 2:52:01
  to pay off. While at work, Kristen often
• 2:52:05
  browses real estate websites for new listings as well as
• 2:52:08
  foreclosures and a new listing soon catches her eye.
• 2:52:14
  Recently foreclosed on but now available for purchase, she lays
• 2:52:18
  eyes on the old Victorian home for the first time.
• 2:52:22
  It's 4 bedrooms and two bathroom setup along with plenty of room
• 2:52:27
  would be perfect for her family. The price seems almost too good
• 2:52:31
  to be true for her. Budget as well.
• 2:52:34
  And although the listing lacks more details, it's like her
• 2:52:38
  prayers had finally been answered.
• 2:52:41
  But by what? Not wanting to lose the
• 2:52:45
  property, Kristen arranges a showing.
• 2:52:47
  Of the home as soon as possible, and before too long finds
• 2:52:52
  herself on the front steps of the Bel Air house.
• 2:52:56
  She is immediately taken in by the beautiful craftsmanship.
• 2:53:00
  Of the woodwork. The wrap around porch facing the
• 2:53:03
  Ohio River soon has her imagining peaceful evenings
• 2:53:07
  watching the water flow. Upon entering the home.
• 2:53:11
  She continues to be impressed. Old marble and cherry wood
• 2:53:16
  ordain the interior. Of the home.
• 2:53:18
  And it seems almost too perfect, like something straight out of
• 2:53:22
  her dreams. The family also has a dog named
• 2:53:26
  Bella, and the large fenced in backyard is perfect for her to
• 2:53:31
  run in and the boys to play in. Dumbfounded by her luck, Kristen
• 2:53:36
  puts in an offer on the House that evening and it's accepted
• 2:53:40
  the following morning. After two years of chaos and
• 2:53:44
  uncertainty, the Lee family can finally breathe again and start
• 2:53:49
  living a normal life. But just as all seems quiet and
• 2:53:53
  settled, the family begins to discover that the house is
• 2:53:57
  anything but normal at first. Upon hearing odd noises in the
• 2:54:02
  night, the family wrote off the sounds as nothing more than
• 2:54:06
  anxiety and an old house. Being slightly scared or anxious
• 2:54:11
  upon moving into a new place, particularly following a very
• 2:54:15
  uncertain time in one's life, is not out of the ordinary.
• 2:54:19
  But these sounds soon become too much to dismiss.
• 2:54:22
  They soon begin to hear footsteps at all hours of the
• 2:54:25
  day and night. Kristen would later describe the
• 2:54:28
  activity as so. I would hear footsteps above and
• 2:54:32
  sometimes below me, even when there was no one else home but
• 2:54:36
  me. And I always felt as if there
• 2:54:38
  were thousands of eyes staring at me at all times, watching my
• 2:54:44
  every move. Along with the strange noises,
• 2:54:47
  items soon begin to go missing. From keys to towels to trinkets.
• 2:54:53
  1 moment they would be there and within seconds they would
• 2:54:57
  vanish. And Kristen isn't the only one
• 2:55:00
  experiencing strange happenings within the Bel Air house at the
• 2:55:05
  time. Her 12 year old son Nicholas
• 2:55:07
  begins to experience a malevolent force that seems to
• 2:55:11
  dwell within his bedroom. At first, he too begins to feel
• 2:55:15
  as if he's being watched at all times, and it seems to get
• 2:55:19
  exponentially worse at night. He begins to have night terrors,
• 2:55:24
  feeling someone or something covering his mouth and nose,
• 2:55:29
  forcing him to suffocate. One night, he wakes up in a cold
• 2:55:33
  sweat. It's storming outside.
• 2:55:37
  Flashes of lightning occasionally light up the room.
• 2:55:40
  What he sees disturbs him to his core, in the corner of his room
• 2:55:47
  towards his closet as a burst of light fills the.
• 2:55:50
  Room. He sees a blackened figure
• 2:55:53
  staring at. Him.
• 2:55:55
  And shaking profusely, The young boy is utterly terrified.
• 2:56:02
  Rushing out of his room as fast as he possibly can, he wakes up
• 2:56:06
  his mother and refuses to sleep there any longer.
• 2:56:10
  The boy is so hysterical, the only solution was to send him to
• 2:56:14
  his grandmother's house, located 30 minutes away.
• 2:56:19
  What makes this case all the more compelling is that Kristen
• 2:56:22
  has a master's degree in psychology and works as a mental
• 2:56:26
  health physician. With this, her professional
• 2:56:30
  opinion of what Nicholas had experienced was initially
• 2:56:34
  contributed to stress and fatigue, both common factors
• 2:56:37
  that tend to make the human mind see and experience things.
• 2:56:41
  That aren't really there. And these probably could explain
• 2:56:45
  many similar situations, and most would agree.
• 2:56:49
  However, Kristin's view would soon undergo A radical change
• 2:56:54
  after one terrifying experience of her own.
• 2:56:58
  After months of strange happenings within the home, it
• 2:57:02
  was now winter and the Lee family, still tied on finances,
• 2:57:07
  was sleeping in the basement near the fireplace to save money
• 2:57:11
  on the gas bill. Hefe was asleep in a recliner
• 2:57:15
  and Lane as well as Kristen were asleep on the wrap around couch
• 2:57:20
  located in the corner of the room.
• 2:57:22
  All seemed normal until Kristen was woken up by the feeling of
• 2:57:27
  the couch cushion being pressed down near her legs.
• 2:57:31
  She then found herself face to face with a terrifying figure of
• 2:57:36
  a man staring directly at her. She would later describe the.
• 2:57:40
  Encounter as so. I woke up being face to face
• 2:57:44
  with this Gray figure of a man. He was translucent, almost like
• 2:57:49
  a mist, but the mist had features like a person.
• 2:57:55
  The face was completely emotionless and had dark sunken
• 2:57:59
  in eyes. Kristen asked.
• 2:58:02
  Who are you? What are you doing here?
• 2:58:05
  What do you want but to? No response, just a blank,
• 2:58:11
  lifeless stare. Within seconds the apparition
• 2:58:16
  disappears, but before she can ponder what had just taken
• 2:58:20
  place, the silence is once again shattered.
• 2:58:24
  But by this time it was the family dog, Bella, who was
• 2:58:28
  barking and running around the room.
• 2:58:31
  Kristen, attempting to keep her family asleep through the
• 2:58:34
  ordeal, tries to quiet the dog down and notices that she can
• 2:58:39
  see her. Breath in the air.
• 2:58:41
  And although it's cold outside, it's not nearly that cold near
• 2:58:45
  the fireplace. She then sees the figure
• 2:58:48
  materialize once more and silently moved from one side of
• 2:58:52
  the room and through the wall on the other side, vanishing
• 2:58:57
  completely. No longer wanting to face
• 2:59:00
  whatever this was alone, she woke up her husband and told him
• 2:59:04
  what had just taken place. His response, however?
• 2:59:09
  Was that she was too tired. And needed to go back to sleep.
• 2:59:14
  Could what Kristen had experienced been a stress or
• 2:59:17
  fatigue induced hallucination? Perhaps.
• 2:59:21
  But someone with a professional background such as herself
• 2:59:24
  surely would know how to differentiate, wouldn't you
• 2:59:27
  think? Finally, knowing she's not crazy
• 2:59:31
  and totally convinced that the home was haunted, Kristen begins
• 2:59:36
  to try and make plans to get her family.
• 2:59:38
  Out of the Bel Air house. And to safety elsewhere.
• 2:59:43
  As soon as she can, she puts the home up for sale and moves the
• 2:59:47
  family to a nearby rental home. Although she's relieved to no
• 2:59:51
  longer physically be in the house, no one is buying it to
• 2:59:56
  try and cover expenses. She has no other choice other
• 3:00:00
  than to make the house a rental property.
• 3:00:03
  But almost as soon as the first family moves in.
• 3:00:06
  They move out. And this kick starts a revolving
• 3:00:09
  door of tenants seemingly stuck with the house.
• 3:00:14
  Kristen comes to the conclusion that no family will or should
• 3:00:17
  live there. So what should be done with a
• 3:00:20
  haunted property? Needing to make ends meet, she
• 3:00:24
  comes up with a unique idea. She turns the home into an
• 3:00:28
  afterlife research property. This would allow various groups
• 3:00:32
  to come in conduct their own research on just what exactly
• 3:00:36
  was taking place within the Bel Air House.
• 3:00:40
  And the idea works. Soon groups from all over the
• 3:00:44
  United States and Canada are travelling to temporarily live
• 3:00:48
  within the home to conduct research.
• 3:00:52
  And from here we gain some more interesting stories, to say the
• 3:00:56
  least. One group, who calls themselves
• 3:01:00
  the Armchair Researchers from upstate New York, consists of
• 3:01:04
  two women, one being a birthing nurse and the other a nurse who
• 3:01:09
  works with dying patients. They found paranormal and
• 3:01:13
  afterlife research to be a natural extension of their day
• 3:01:17
  jobs for the last 15 years. After hearing about the Bel Air
• 3:01:22
  house, they soon find themselves driving to Ohio to investigate
• 3:01:27
  the phenomena for themselves. First impressions tend to go a
• 3:01:31
  long way, and the first impression the women got upon
• 3:01:34
  their arrival was very creepy. The home by this point was in a
• 3:01:40
  moderate state of decay. The fence that had once
• 3:01:43
  surrounded the backyard was mostly blown down, and the
• 3:01:47
  exterior of the home as well as the porch was weathered and
• 3:01:52
  rotting. But despite the odd feelings
• 3:01:55
  initially, they make their way inside now.
• 3:01:59
  At first they actually felt welcomed, almost invited in,
• 3:02:04
  greeted by the same cherry wood interior that has greeted
• 3:02:07
  everyone. But as soon as they set up their
• 3:02:10
  equipment and prepare for their stay, as day turns to night,
• 3:02:15
  there seems to be a shift in energy within the home.
• 3:02:19
  The shift went from warm and inviting to dark and ominous.
• 3:02:25
  Then began the noises, banging, footsteps and the moving of
• 3:02:31
  furniture. The ladies also noted the
• 3:02:34
  feeling of being watched everywhere they went while
• 3:02:38
  asking probing questions. As they wandered throughout the
• 3:02:40
  house, they would soon also witness strange lights in
• 3:02:44
  various parts of the home. And along with the lights, there
• 3:02:49
  soon also came full blown apparitions, all of which seem
• 3:02:53
  to be centered around the basement.
• 3:02:56
  And as the night progressed, so did their feelings of anxiety.
• 3:03:01
  While taking a short break and sitting down on one of the
• 3:03:03
  couches in the basement, the two heard what they described as a
• 3:03:07
  large crashing noise above. Them.
• 3:03:10
  As if someone or something had thrown a bookshelf across the
• 3:03:14
  house itself, shaking the entire home.
• 3:03:19
  Absolutely terrified and panicked, the women
• 3:03:22
  apprehensively made their way up the stairs and rushed out of the
• 3:03:26
  home as fast as they possibly could, leaving behind equipment
• 3:03:30
  and personal items they were too frightened to go back.
• 3:03:35
  Upon learning of what had taken place, Kristen wasn't at all
• 3:03:39
  surprised. Over the years, there have been
• 3:03:41
  dozens of teams of people who couldn't seem to last the night
• 3:03:45
  for one experience or another. People have been scratched,
• 3:03:49
  pushed down stairs, punched, bitten, and even in one instance
• 3:03:56
  thrown across the room by a violent and unseen force.
• 3:04:01
  Another noteworthy story comes from a team located locally
• 3:04:05
  there in Ohio. They have had the opportunity to
• 3:04:08
  visit the home and conduct investigations numerous times
• 3:04:12
  over the years, but their experience, in particular one
• 3:04:16
  night, truly makes me question just what exactly haunts the Bel
• 3:04:20
  Air House. There was three of them this
• 3:04:23
  time, and it was shortly after midnight when they made their
• 3:04:26
  way into the attic to continue their investigation.
• 3:04:30
  During their questioning, they seemed to be getting direct
• 3:04:33
  interaction with something through their spirit box.
• 3:04:37
  Then towards the corner of the attic, a mist seemed to
• 3:04:42
  materialize coming up from the attic floor, slowly enveloping
• 3:04:47
  the group. Glancing down, they were now too
• 3:04:51
  stunned to speak. They saw what appeared to be
• 3:04:54
  thousands of black snake like creatures, Slytherin, over their
• 3:04:59
  feet and onto their legs. The creatures then began to form
• 3:05:04
  a figure standing in front of one of the attic windows, a
• 3:05:08
  creature of pure darkness that seemed to stare at them with
• 3:05:13
  thousands of tiny beady eyes. The crew, which consisted of two
• 3:05:19
  men and a woman, ran for their lives, descending the attic
• 3:05:24
  stairs as quickly as possible, leaving behind anything and
• 3:05:28
  everything that they had brought with them that wasn't located on
• 3:05:31
  their person and out of the home for good.
• 3:05:35
  All of these stories and experiences have led many to
• 3:05:38
  believe that the Bel Air House is some kind of magnet for
• 3:05:41
  paranormal activity. A magnet or a host to a portal
• 3:05:46
  for spirits, whether that portal was opened by the tragedy that
• 3:05:51
  took place within the mind that once existed below its
• 3:05:54
  foundation, or one that was open due to seances being conducted
• 3:05:59
  within the house on multiple occasions.
• 3:06:02
  But over the. Years, many different entities
• 3:06:05
  have been documented, from what appear to be human ghosts to
• 3:06:09
  perhaps something more sinister. A child that drowned in the Ohio
• 3:06:13
  River that flows right by the home.
• 3:06:17
  Her room is allegedly the same room that Kristen's son Nicholas
• 3:06:21
  once stayed in. And besides the basement, it
• 3:06:25
  also seems to be a hotspot for paranormal activity.
• 3:06:29
  Through various. Investigations once contact has
• 3:06:33
  been made and trust seems to be gained.
• 3:06:36
  People are often. Attacked, which have led many to
• 3:06:39
  believe that Emily isn't a child at all, but a demon.
• 3:06:45
  Perhaps it could be the same demonic creature that frightened
• 3:06:48
  Nicholas so bad. That he moved out of the home as
• 3:06:52
  previously mentioned. Many investigators also have
• 3:06:56
  claimed to have some activity follow them home and even haunt
• 3:07:00
  their. Dreams.
• 3:07:02
  As if the house or the beings within the house.
• 3:07:06
  Are calling out to them. To come back for one reason or
• 3:07:10
  another. Although many questions may
• 3:07:13
  never be answered surrounding the Bel Air House, one thing is
• 3:07:17
  for certain, it continues to be considered one of the most
• 3:07:21
  haunted places in America, if not the world.
• 3:07:25
  It also continues to serve as a place of study for those wanting
• 3:07:29
  to investigate the supernatural forces that dwell within its
• 3:07:33
  walls. But if you find yourself being
• 3:07:37
  drawn to the old Victorian, just know that if you're not,
• 3:07:40
  careful. You too could find yourself
• 3:07:44
  being made a part of its history, whether you'd.
• 3:07:47
  Like it or not, over the years I've covered a wide.
• 3:07:53
  Array of mysteries from the Mothman to UFOs, conspiracies to
• 3:07:59
  cold cases. And one topic that seemed to
• 3:08:02
  resonate more with all of you and one that I've always found
• 3:08:05
  fascinating is hauntings, whether that's haunted places,
• 3:08:10
  haunted people, or experiences that people have had that they
• 3:08:14
  would consider paranormal in nature.
• 3:08:18
  So today I'm trying something new.
• 3:08:20
  And don't worry, this is adding content here on Mystery
• 3:08:23
  Archives. So there will still be episodes
• 3:08:26
  of the Untold Story for you to enjoy.
• 3:08:29
  Those just take a good chunk of time to produce.
• 3:08:31
  So in between those episodes, I'd really like to share stories
• 3:08:36
  from you guys, the community, to bring awareness that these kinds
• 3:08:40
  of experiences really do happen. And having grown up in a haunted
• 3:08:44
  home myself, I know that oftentimes people are hesitant
• 3:08:48
  to share their stories for fear of ridicule or for fear of
• 3:08:52
  whatever they've experienced flaring up again and reigniting
• 3:08:56
  their personal nightmare. This platform will hopefully
• 3:09:00
  give their stories justice, have them heard and give you a
• 3:09:04
  glimpse into what people like yourselves have experienced.
• 3:09:09
  These are your paranormal encounters when a young family
• 3:09:17
  encounters the devil and the flesh.
• 3:09:20
  Told from the perspective of a young girl.
• 3:09:23
  This terrifying tale will have you questioning just what could
• 3:09:27
  be happening across the street from you, next door, or even in
• 3:09:32
  your very own home. I was almost 7 when these events
• 3:09:38
  took place and I'll be 40 later this year.
• 3:09:42
  I lived in the Glendale. Apartments in Rock Hill, SC.
• 3:09:47
  My baby brother at the time wasn't quite even a year old.
• 3:09:51
  Now my mom was young when she had me at 17, and my stepdad
• 3:09:55
  Keith was exactly 2 months to the day older than her.
• 3:10:00
  My mom has been gone for 14 years now, but I still remember
• 3:10:04
  this day like it was yesterday. We had left to get dinner that
• 3:10:08
  night and by the time we had gotten back, Keith was passed
• 3:10:12
  out in the front seat of his little hatchback Mustang in the
• 3:10:15
  parking lot. This was the first of two that
• 3:10:18
  would find themselves wrapped around trees in my town.
• 3:10:21
  Keith was suffering from what would later be diagnosed as
• 3:10:25
  schizophrenia with bipolar tendencies and had seemingly
• 3:10:29
  been self medicating to alleviate his symptoms since he
• 3:10:34
  was asleep. My mom urged me not to wake him
• 3:10:38
  as I helped her get my infant brother at the time out of the
• 3:10:41
  car and into our apartment. As we began to wind down for the
• 3:10:45
  evening, our phone began to ring, shattering the calm.
• 3:10:50
  Peace. That was our lives.
• 3:10:53
  It was Keith's mom, Mary. She lived on the other side of
• 3:10:57
  the complex, which mostly housed old people and people with
• 3:11:01
  disabilities. She sounded panicked, screaming
• 3:11:06
  that something was happening in her apartment, that she needed
• 3:11:09
  help immediately. My mom rushed to go wake Keith
• 3:11:13
  up out in the parking lot, but upon running up to the car, he
• 3:11:17
  was nowhere to be found. She rushed back into our
• 3:11:21
  apartment, saying that she couldn't find Keith when he
• 3:11:25
  suddenly appeared in the hallway and neither of us had seen him
• 3:11:29
  come into the apartment. He seemed completely out of it
• 3:11:33
  and was terrified, saying that something was taking him over
• 3:11:39
  and that he couldn't control himself.
• 3:11:41
  I saw his eyes, they were black. My mother didn't have time to
• 3:11:47
  deal with or process his antics and gathered us to walk to his
• 3:11:51
  mother's apartment. In the meantime.
• 3:11:54
  As we rushed over there as fast as we could, I remember getting
• 3:11:58
  a skin crawling feeling every time Keith looked at me, like it
• 3:12:02
  was something completely foreign to this world peering into my
• 3:12:06
  soul. We arrived and we're quickly let
• 3:12:09
  into Mary's apartment. Her lights were flickering and
• 3:12:13
  her pictures were swaying back and forth on the walls.
• 3:12:17
  A heavy presence could be felt by all of us.
• 3:12:21
  Mary was deeply religious and couldn't understand just what
• 3:12:24
  was taking place, but she believed it to be evil.
• 3:12:28
  Keith was now standing in the living room and began to sway
• 3:12:32
  back and forth as the activity seemed to intensify.
• 3:12:37
  As my mother approached him to ask what he was doing, he began
• 3:12:41
  to laugh. This was the deepest, most
• 3:12:44
  maniacal laugh I have ever heard and I still get chills thinking
• 3:12:49
  about it. This voice was not his own.
• 3:12:53
  My mother quickly backed up, unsure of what to do, and he
• 3:12:57
  then began to point at me. Saying.
• 3:13:00
  I'm going to sacrifice that child tonight.
• 3:13:04
  His eyes were now blood red. Mary, by this time had grabbed
• 3:13:09
  some of her belongings. From her room.
• 3:13:12
  And happened to have some blessed oil along with her
• 3:13:14
  Bible. She threw the oil on Keith's
• 3:13:17
  face and it began to boil. The sound of sizzling and
• 3:13:22
  screaming was horrific. My mother's love for Keith
• 3:13:27
  quickly overpowered her fear and she pulled him into the bathroom
• 3:13:30
  to examine his face. She was freaking out to say the
• 3:13:34
  least, partially because of how unbelievable the circumstances
• 3:13:39
  were and just how badly he was burnt on his face.
• 3:13:44
  His eyes at this point were rolled into the back of his
• 3:13:47
  head. Then suddenly, without warning,
• 3:13:51
  he rushed my mom and pinned her against the wall.
• 3:13:55
  His younger sister Nikki and his mother quickly rushed in to help
• 3:13:59
  free her, with Mary dumping more oil on him each time.
• 3:14:05
  His skin literally sizzled where it landed.
• 3:14:09
  This fortunately worked. Keith now laid catatonic on the
• 3:14:13
  bathroom floor so all together as girls moved him into a nearby
• 3:14:18
  bedroom and restrain him to the bed using anything we could find
• 3:14:23
  for our own safety. Shortly after we did this, his
• 3:14:27
  mother called the nearby oratory and asked for a priest to assist
• 3:14:31
  us. Immediately.
• 3:14:33
  Nikki, who was a teenager at the time, was trying to comfort me,
• 3:14:38
  telling me that Keith was just really sick and not to be
• 3:14:41
  scared. She encouraged me to try and get
• 3:14:44
  some sleep and I of course couldn't and wouldn't.
• 3:14:49
  I didn't dare close my eyes for fear of that thing hurting my
• 3:14:53
  mom. And this room with Keith was a
• 3:14:56
  picture of Jesus kneeling on top of a mountain, I heard.
• 3:15:00
  Keith laughing in that. Otherworldly voice.
• 3:15:04
  He called out to me. He said, you know, little girl,
• 3:15:09
  I used to be an Angel with the most beautiful wings until that
• 3:15:13
  bastard was born. Then I was cast from atop that
• 3:15:18
  mountain and banished. I asked who are you?
• 3:15:23
  The Devil? He perked up, looked me dead in
• 3:15:27
  my eyes, and said I am Lucifer the Lightbringer.
• 3:15:32
  Here in the flesh. I'm not only taking Keith with
• 3:15:36
  me, but all of you as well. Now untie me.
• 3:15:42
  I ran hysterically to my mother who was having a cigarette to
• 3:15:45
  calm her nerves. She ran into the room to comfort
• 3:15:48
  him when he said do you want to see proof and against her will.
• 3:15:53
  My. Mother then extinguished the
• 3:15:55
  cigarette into his arm with Keith exclaiming, It feels so
• 3:16:00
  good. You'll have to adjust to the
• 3:16:03
  searing flames, but in due time, you too will call it home.
• 3:16:09
  She then rushed out of the room and closed the door.
• 3:16:12
  We waited with bated breath for the priest to arrive when
• 3:16:16
  shortly after 3:00 AM there was a knock on the door.
• 3:16:20
  Thank God it was him. For the next several hours they
• 3:16:24
  attempted to cast this thing out of Keith.
• 3:16:27
  Probably for the best. They kept me in the living room
• 3:16:30
  away from the demonic terror that was inhabiting his body.
• 3:16:34
  But my God, the smells that wafted throughout the complex
• 3:16:39
  like putrid meat and sulfur. I soon also heard moaning and
• 3:16:45
  growling from dogs that didn't exist.
• 3:16:50
  There was a strange fog that had enveloped the apartment itself,
• 3:16:54
  and a strange flickering light that now emanated from the room
• 3:16:59
  or the exorcism was taking place.
• 3:17:02
  I began to close my eyes and pray to God harder than I'd ever
• 3:17:06
  prayed before, wanting and wishing for all of it to end,
• 3:17:12
  when suddenly it did. Keith had seemingly been freed
• 3:17:16
  of these spiritual shackles and although I was terrified, I was
• 3:17:21
  more than wanting to finally get some sleep.
• 3:17:25
  So after the priest departed and all seemed fine, we slowly made
• 3:17:29
  our way back home through the damp, misty morning that was now
• 3:17:34
  upon us. Upon arriving home and heading
• 3:17:37
  inside, we all began to make our way to our bedrooms to try and
• 3:17:42
  sleep. I found myself in my bed, comfy
• 3:17:47
  and finally about to rest when I felt my bed shake.
• 3:17:52
  I quickly opened my eyes to find my bed off the floor and my
• 3:17:56
  bedpost balls screwed off each one in the corner of each post.
• 3:18:02
  Floating there. I screamed harder than I've ever
• 3:18:06
  screamed before, alerting my mother who rushed to save me.
• 3:18:11
  Upon her running in, my bed suddenly slammed to the ground
• 3:18:15
  and my bedpost balls all fell to the floor.
• 3:18:20
  The events of that night and the following morning can never be
• 3:18:23
  forgotten by me and my family for the next.
• 3:18:26
  Year and a half we. Dealt with similar smells
• 3:18:29
  wafting throughout our apartment, unseen snarls and
• 3:18:32
  growls, and a feeling of anxiety as if our every move was being
• 3:18:38
  watched. But thank God it all eventually
• 3:18:42
  faded. I had since asked Keith how he
• 3:18:44
  came to be in that state, but I could never really get a clear
• 3:18:49
  answer. He often drank moonshine and was
• 3:18:52
  in a bad state mentally and spiritually at the time.
• 3:18:56
  Perhaps this weakened him enough to let something in somehow.
• 3:19:00
  I've since moved on from that place, but heard something very
• 3:19:04
  interesting that I'd also like to share in regards to him.
• 3:19:08
  This was the apartment we lived in and a young boy mysteriously
• 3:19:11
  passed away within it not too long ago.
• 3:19:14
  The details of the case are hard to find, but I believe he was
• 3:19:18
  about as old as I was when everything had taken place to
• 3:19:21
  us. There has also been multiple
• 3:19:24
  shootings, stabbings, and murders that have taken place
• 3:19:28
  near and in the complex itself. It seems like whatever possessed
• 3:19:33
  Keith and stalked us may be never truly left.
• 3:19:39
  I'm glad to share my story with all of you and I just want you
• 3:19:42
  to know that these things are very real.
• 3:19:45
  The paranormal is real and please do not meddle with it
• 3:19:51
  because you just don't know what you could be inviting in this
• 3:19:55
  energy. This evil wanted my soul and it
• 3:20:00
  seems like it may have taken multiple lives and pursuit of
• 3:20:04
  whatever nefarious things it wanted.
• 3:20:09
  Leia I would like to thank Leia for submitting this chilling
• 3:20:14
  story of an. Exorcism.
• 3:20:16
  That took place. To her stepfather, when she.
• 3:20:19
  Was a child. The entire situation must have
• 3:20:22
  been terrifying to endure, to say the least, and I commend her
• 3:20:27
  for being willing to share this with us and warn others that
• 3:20:30
  these things are very real indeed.
• 3:20:34
  I also believe it's important to bring awareness to these kinds
• 3:20:37
  of topics for a number of reasons.
• 3:20:40
  I am curious just how Keith became possessed, however, and
• 3:20:44
  if it was. Truly.
• 3:20:45
  By Lucifer himself or something? Pretending to be him all around
• 3:20:51
  a terrifying tale from Leia upon laying her head down to sleep, a
• 3:20:59
  young woman is seemingly. Transported to another time.
• 3:21:03
  Or place where she interacts with malevolent spirits.
• 3:21:08
  This one may just make you wonder if the very same has ever
• 3:21:12
  happened to you. One hot Saturday morning in
• 3:21:16
  2001, my ex-husband Dean and I went to the grocery store.
• 3:21:22
  By the time we returned home and put everything away, it was
• 3:21:26
  almost noon. I prepared some lunch for us and
• 3:21:30
  by two PMI announced that the heat had made me feel so very
• 3:21:34
  tired and that I would need to lie down.
• 3:21:37
  Dean would go on to watch TV with the volume on low and I
• 3:21:41
  closed the bedroom door. As soon as my head hit the
• 3:21:44
  pillow I went out like a light. Then in what seemed like only 5
• 3:21:49
  minutes later I was woken up by a lady speaking beside my bed.
• 3:21:55
  It was if she was addressing another person, but yet in a
• 3:21:59
  crystal clear voice across the room, she said something along
• 3:22:03
  the lines of don't disturb her, let her sleep this.
• 3:22:08
  Startled me. I immediately sat up in my bed
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  and I looked around but saw nothing.
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  I knew I wasn't dreaming as the voice was real and yet spoke at
• 3:22:19
  an audible enough level even to wake me up.
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  Regardless whether a dream or real, I was too exhausted and
• 3:22:27
  quickly fell asleep again. Now this is where things took a
• 3:22:31
  stranger turn. I felt my soul leave my body.
• 3:22:36
  It rose up to where the wall met the ceiling.
• 3:22:39
  I crossed through the wall and into another place.
• 3:22:42
  In time, I was no longer within my home but found myself in a
• 3:22:47
  scene from the 18th century. It was similar to watching a
• 3:22:52
  black and white film, but in varying Shades of Grey.
• 3:22:57
  I saw a few people who were extravagantly dressed and wore
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  coiffed and powdered wigs, sitting on a plush Steven and
• 3:23:04
  some armchairs. They sat almost motionless by a
• 3:23:08
  small, low lying table. Only the woman slowly looked
• 3:23:12
  about, but nobody seemed to notice me.
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  I looked to my left and saw a couple standing still, arms held
• 3:23:21
  in an arch above in the air, hands touching, poised, as if
• 3:23:27
  waiting for music to start for their dance.
• 3:23:31
  I looked past them and saw a few men, one at each small table,
• 3:23:36
  just sitting quietly and motionless.
• 3:23:40
  Then I looked to my right, past the few people I initially saw
• 3:23:45
  and looked in awe at the sight before me.
• 3:23:48
  I realized I was in a vast hall, as far as the eye could see.
• 3:23:52
  I saw no other people and the next thing I knew I was back in
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  my body, seemingly asleep yet aware of my surroundings.
• 3:24:04
  I was made aware of the large crowd of people outside of my
• 3:24:07
  bedroom door. The sound was similar to what
• 3:24:10
  you would hear in a crowded bar, many people talking amongst
• 3:24:14
  themselves. However, there was one woman's
• 3:24:17
  voice that could be heard slightly above the rest of the
• 3:24:20
  crowd. I didn't paid any special
• 3:24:23
  attention as I wasn't focusing on anyone in particular, nor
• 3:24:27
  catch what she had said. And what was only a moment
• 3:24:30
  later, that same voice was louder and closer, this time
• 3:24:35
  just on the other side of my bedroom door.
• 3:24:38
  Although I paid a little more attention now, what she said was
• 3:24:42
  still indiscernible and the voice was yet to be one that I
• 3:24:47
  recognized. A voice belonging to a stranger.
• 3:24:51
  In what seemed just another moment.
• 3:24:52
  Again, she opened the door, stepped into my room, and then
• 3:24:57
  shut the door behind her. I laid frozen in my bed, unable
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  to move, yet I felt real terror at this point, although I
• 3:25:07
  couldn't move at all, my eyes were fixed atop of the wall.
• 3:25:10
  Somehow, with my mind's eye, I saw her.
• 3:25:14
  It was my mother, who had passed away 21 years earlier.
• 3:25:19
  She wore a long white shroud which I never got to see her in,
• 3:25:23
  but I knew that she had been buried in one by now.
• 3:25:27
  I was totally terrified. I wanted to scream out for help,
• 3:25:32
  better still to get out of there, but I wasn't able to move
• 3:25:35
  a muscle. I watched my mother pace to and
• 3:25:39
  fro past the foot of my bed in absolute rage.
• 3:25:44
  She was so angry with me, she was literally spitting mad while
• 3:25:48
  she was scolding me. Never had I seen her this angry.
• 3:25:52
  The one thing I did notice once my mother's spirit had entered
• 3:25:56
  the room was that while my eyes were fixed near the ceiling, it
• 3:26:00
  was within my range of sight that I'd seen a soft white
• 3:26:05
  gaseous ball of light appear to my right at the corner of the
• 3:26:09
  ceiling. It was about the size of a
• 3:26:11
  basketball, though not quite as spherical.
• 3:26:14
  It was so very slow moving, like a swirl of white smoke within
• 3:26:19
  itself. Somehow I felt like it was
• 3:26:21
  protecting me from this evil, like a guardian Angel.
• 3:26:25
  Once my mother was done raging at me, she faced the door and
• 3:26:29
  held the door slightly open. She paused and told me that I'd
• 3:26:35
  be dead by midnight tonight. She then shut the door behind
• 3:26:39
  her and left. As soon as she was out the door,
• 3:26:43
  the ball of light had dissipated too, and I felt instant relief.
• 3:26:48
  I looked at the clock and it was now 3:00 PM.
• 3:26:52
  All of this strangeness took place in the space of 1
• 3:26:56
  terrifying hour. I still don't know if that was
• 3:26:59
  the spirit of my mother or something evil imitating her.
• 3:27:03
  All I know is that I jumped out of bed and rushed to the lounge
• 3:27:06
  room, telling Dean what I had seen.
• 3:27:10
  Though I didn't mention my mother's parting words, Dean
• 3:27:13
  wasn't remotely interested. He only mumbled as I interrupted
• 3:27:17
  him watching his program. Well, that was the end of the
• 3:27:21
  nap I wasn't quite able to get. As evening approached, I
• 3:27:25
  constantly glanced at my watch. Although we retired for the day
• 3:27:29
  at about 10:00 PM that night, I was fearful yet resigned in my
• 3:27:33
  fate. I hadn't told the soul about my
• 3:27:36
  mother's message in case it tempted fate.
• 3:27:39
  On waking the next morning, I couldn't have felt more relieved
• 3:27:43
  and thrilled to still be alive now that it felt safe to do so.
• 3:27:47
  I told Dean and later my neighbor about it all.
• 3:27:51
  They showed me the goosebumps on their arms and expressed fear as
• 3:27:55
  I recounted my experience. This was 22 years ago and I
• 3:28:00
  still think of that day and the sheer terror that it brought me.
• 3:28:03
  It's a day that I can never forget, Johanna.
• 3:28:09
  That story was chilling. Johanna, I too am curious if it
• 3:28:13
  was some kind of spirit impersonating your mother or if
• 3:28:16
  it was somehow her. The detail of what she was
• 3:28:20
  wearing also happened to be what she was buried in.
• 3:28:23
  Literally gave me goosebumps. So thank you so much for sharing
• 3:28:27
  your story and continuing to bring awareness to these topics.
• 3:28:33
  A young man seemingly interacts with his grandmother who has
• 3:28:37
  long since passed away, but he isn't the only one that sees and
• 3:28:42
  feels her presence. This was in reference to
• 3:28:47
  watching one of my videos. Watching this video reminded me
• 3:28:52
  of something. That's been going on.
• 3:28:53
  In my house, my wife's grandmother died before we got
• 3:28:57
  together and her son was the last person in the hospital room
• 3:29:01
  with her when she passed. Now my work schedule varies, but
• 3:29:06
  generally I'm up between 3:00 and 4:00 AM every day.
• 3:29:10
  Sometimes I feel a presence or I thought I saw what was a shadow
• 3:29:16
  and my peripheral vision. I finally told my wife about
• 3:29:20
  this a while back and she proceeded to tell me that her
• 3:29:24
  autistic son regularly speaks to his deceased grandmother.
• 3:29:29
  We've both spoken to him multiple times and apparently
• 3:29:32
  she visits him constantly. My wife.
• 3:29:35
  Admitted that she's. Seen her in our house a couple
• 3:29:38
  of times as well. I've offered to have the house
• 3:29:41
  cleansed. But.
• 3:29:42
  My wife said no. Apparently his grandmother
• 3:29:45
  visits him all the time and watches over him and he's
• 3:29:49
  admitted that he still sees her. He's autistic so he's very
• 3:29:54
  honest with everything. I'd like your guys's input about
• 3:29:58
  this. Thank you caveman.
• 3:30:03
  Well caveman especially since he's autistic.
• 3:30:06
  That really does convince me of his sincerity and honesty.
• 3:30:10
  The young man clearly doesn't have a motivation to gain
• 3:30:13
  anything by saying this. And when you have felt this
• 3:30:16
  presence, is it as she was in life?
• 3:30:20
  Is it more of a benevolent energy or something else?
• 3:30:24
  It's also very interesting that your wife has seen her on
• 3:30:27
  multiple occasions as well. Perhaps she is watching over her
• 3:30:31
  grandson. Children often have an extra
• 3:30:34
  sense, it seems like, to be able to interact with the spirit
• 3:30:38
  world. Reading your story reminded me
• 3:30:41
  of when my brother was younger and we had a very similar
• 3:30:44
  situation. My mom's father, Paul, had
• 3:30:48
  passed away in their family home in 2002 when my brother was.
• 3:30:52
  Just two years. Old Prior to his passing, Paul
• 3:30:57
  seemed to be motioning for things to go away, things that
• 3:31:01
  we couldn't see, perhaps trying to state that he wasn't ready to
• 3:31:05
  go yet. Several months after his
• 3:31:07
  passing, with my grandmother Agnes still inhabiting the very
• 3:31:11
  same house, my brother Kaden had started to interact with
• 3:31:15
  something that we couldn't see. He would often play around the
• 3:31:19
  living room, which was the same room my grandfather passed away
• 3:31:23
  in One day when he was in a full conversation with this person,
• 3:31:28
  my mother asked him who he was talking to and he said Grandpa
• 3:31:33
  Paul. It took the very breath out of
• 3:31:36
  her lungs. These interactions were fairly
• 3:31:40
  frequent until he was about four or five years old.
• 3:31:43
  Then they suddenly. Went away 1.
• 3:31:45
  Day it truly makes one beg the question just how often do our
• 3:31:50
  loved ones truly watch over us? Thanks for sharing this one
• 3:31:54
  caveman. Thank you all for watching.
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  important to bring awareness to the paranormal question.
• 3:32:17
  It, in a sense, is the ultimate question in my opinion, what
• 3:32:21
  truly happens when we pass through the veil of this reality
• 3:32:24
  and into the afterlife. I appreciate all of you as
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  always. I hope all of you are doing well
• 3:32:31
  mentally, physically, and spiritually, and I hope your
• 3:32:35
  year is heading in a vibrant and positive direction and I wish
• 3:32:39
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