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The Most Terrifying True Hauntings 3 Hour Paranormal Marathon · 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 years 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 had 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. They were getting along better
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  and enjoying each other's company, a far departure from
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  their city 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 in 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 rounded 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 after
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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 studying 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 that 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 outer class. It has now been months since the
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  initial experiences. Besides the oddities they were,
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  the 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 M1
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  Day, Phil or Mr. Dandy decides to take the children, Mike and
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  Tina, into Buffalo for the day to get some errands done.
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  Mostly being a homebody, Clara decides to forgo the trip with
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  her family and relax at home reading her latest book instead.
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  When her family departs, Clara finds herself curled up on the
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  couch and immersed in her latest story as a warm breeze drifts
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  through the open windows of the house.
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  As she reads page to page, she is suddenly startled when the
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  window closest to her slams shut.
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  Upon investigating, it makes no sense to her because the breeze
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  was light, not forceful at all, and their windows were fairly
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  new, which made it all the stranger.
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  But as she always does, she dismisses the happening as
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  nothing more than a weird coincidence and heads back to
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  her book. Several nights later, as Mike
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  lay asleep in his bed, he's suddenly woken up when a nearby
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  box of a chess game drops onto his chest.
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  A storage shelf is directly above his head, so opening his
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  eyes, he glances up to see if perhaps it could have been
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  hanging too far off the edge, causing it to fall.
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  And to his shock, he begins to see several more boxes slowly
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  shifting towards the edge by themselves.
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  The lowest one then suddenly flies out from the rest and
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  smacks him in the chest. Terrified, he sits up, trying to
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  catch his breath. He has no way of explaining how
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  the lowest box could be pulled and thrown with such force
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  without bringing the rest of the boxes with it.
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  As if someone or something had grabbed and thrown it by a will
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  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 wants 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, encloses 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. Clara then makes her way to her
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  daughter Tina's room to make sure it somehow wasn't her and
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  perhaps her nerves were just on edge.
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  But after opening her door, she finds her fast asleep in her bed
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  with no signs 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 screams in terror and just
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  as quickly as it appeared, the apparition disappears.
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  The screams of her daughter startles and quickly summons
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  Clara to her daughter's room. As she consoles Tina, she
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  realizes that the priest's blessings were ineffective.
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  She quickly calls Father Al back and explains what had taken
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  place the previous night and that morning.
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  And although he is busy, he promises to come back as soon as
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  possible, and this time to bring a paranormal expert with him as
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  well to help him determine the cause and hopefully find a
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  working solution. He's able to come back the
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  following week. In the meantime, Clara's
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  determined to keep her family calm.
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  If she can control her own emotions, she knows that
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  everything else will be OK. As they wait for the priest to
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  return, Clara tries her best to keep her family calm and live
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  some sort of a normal existence. That weekend, her and Phil are
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  watching a movie while Mike and Tina are out with friends.
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  As they enjoy their time together, their happiness is
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  quickly shattered by a huge crashing noise coming from
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  outside of their house. Quickly grabbing a flashlight
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  and running outside to investigate together, they
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  quietly step towards where they believed the noise to be
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  originating from, and suddenly they hear it again.
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  But this time, thankfully for them, the origin is not
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  paranormal. This time, there's several
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  raccoons who happened to be forging through their metal
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  trash cans for something to eat. Relieved for that moment, they
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  start to make their way back to the house when they suddenly see
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  the figure of a young girl in their living room window,
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  staring at them as they rush inside.
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  They run up into Tina's room, where they find her incoherent
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  and staring into her Oval mirror.
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  They try to get her attention, but she's entirely unresponsive.
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  Her pale blue eyes are 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 force is within
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  the house, and the girls are staying close to one another,
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  attempting to comfort each other.
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  As they try to determine a course of action, all the lights
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  in the house go out. They then begin to hear banging
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  and scratching coming from the crawl space.
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  Flashlights still in hand, Phil, with the backup of his family,
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  shines the light towards him 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 effort and
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  strength required to perform such a task convinces all of
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  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 studied at the
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  American Society of Psychic Research.
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  Together, they make their way to the door of the Dandy House,
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  hoping to help rid this family of whatever seems to be stalking
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  them. After being let in, the family
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  quickly leads the pair to the crawlspace 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 when someone passed or was found dead nearby.
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  Being the only stopping point in the area, their bodies would be
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  placed in 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 revelation, the
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  family, Alex and the father pray that the trapped spirits within
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  the home find peace and be released so that they may go on
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  to their final destination. Upon the pair's departure, Clara
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  once again has renewed hope. The home, as it did the first
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  time around, seemed to be cleansed and to be more
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  peaceful. Meanwhile, Mike and his friend
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  Randy were skeptical of Alex's conclusions.
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  After he left, they used an old map of the area to trace where
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  he had said the old Stagecoach route was.
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  They did indeed find what they believed to be an old trail that
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  could have been used for such a thing, and the trail passed
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  right by the Dandy home. But during their search, as they
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  were following the trail out and headed back to the house, they
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  experienced strangeness of their own.
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  As they began to trace the trail, they began to see what
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  they described as orbs of light in the nearby trees, and these
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  orbs began to come at them. Randy, having never seen or
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  experienced anything supernatural before, began to
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  have a panic attack upon arriving at the house.
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  They were fortunately able to get him calmed down.
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  By this point it was late in the night and the entire family
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  needed to try and get some form of sleep in order to function
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  the following day. Randy ended up staying the night
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  since he had rode with Mike. Once everyone else was settled
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  down for the night and fast asleep, Clara sat by herself
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  weeping. She felt that her and her family
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  were helpless in the situation and that all efforts have been
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  exhausted and that they needed to move.
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  The only problem was that all their money, every last dime,
• 26:56
  had been sunk into the house, leaving them stranded.
• 27:01
  She would continue to contemplate the future and would
• 27:04
  cry herself to sleep that night. The following morning, as the
• 27:08
  family began to wake up and start to try and resume some
• 27:12
  form of normalcy, Mike went ahead and departed with Randy to
• 27:16
  take him home. Several hours would go by and
• 27:20
  Mike hadn't returned. Finally, there was a knock on
• 27:23
  the door. It was a police officer.
• 27:27
  He informed the family that there had been an accident, that
• 27:30
  they needed to head to the hospital as soon as possible.
• 27:34
  Rushing into the car into the hospital, the Dandy family
• 27:38
  wondered just what had happened. There had been no mention of
• 27:41
  Randy by the officer at the time.
• 27:44
  Upon arriving, they were briefed that Mike had lost control of
• 27:48
  his vehicle and crashed into a nearby ditch.
• 27:52
  He was now undergoing emergency surgery.
• 27:55
  He had extensive head injuries, A ruptured spleen that may have
• 27:59
  to be removed, and that he had lost a very significant amount
• 28:03
  of blood. As they waited for the outcome
• 28:06
  of their son's surgery, the Dandies were once again greeted
• 28:09
  by the officer who had knocked on their door.
• 28:12
  He explained to them that Randy had indeed been dropped off and
• 28:16
  that Mike had wrecked on his way back to the Dandy residence, but
• 28:20
  as he was being loaded into the ambulance, he kept saying that
• 28:24
  there was another person in the car with him.
• 28:27
  Although they believed him to be confused on account of his
• 28:29
  injuries. They went ahead and searched the
• 28:32
  area nonetheless, but another person was never found.
• 28:37
  After two weeks of being in a coma, Mike finally wakes up, but
• 28:42
  unfortunately has no recollection as to what exactly
• 28:46
  happened to him to cause the accident.
• 28:49
  Clara, however, believes that whatever presence that's been
• 28:52
  plugging their lives had to have been responsible for what
• 28:56
  happened to her son. After months of recovery for
• 29:00
  Mike and continued paranormal activity within the home, Father
• 29:04
  Alphonsus would return with Alex one last and final time at
• 29:09
  Claire's request to try and rid the home of the evil and
• 29:13
  persistent force that had drained the life out of all of
• 29:17
  them for years now. However, this time just the
• 29:21
  Father and Alex would perform the cleansing inside the home
• 29:25
  themselves. As they moved from room to room,
• 29:30
  Alex would once again experience multiple visions of the past.
• 29:34
  His visions would tell him that of the seven spirits who he
• 29:38
  believed to be within the house, 1 was that of a young man who
• 29:42
  had been in some kind of a war or battle near where the
• 29:46
  property sits now. Another was that of a young girl
• 29:50
  who had passed from some sort of very painful illness in what was
• 29:54
  now Tina's room. And there was another spirit
• 29:58
  that seemed to be keeping herself and others trapped
• 30:01
  within the house. It was the spirit of a woman who
• 30:05
  was incredibly angry and resentful.
• 30:08
  She continued to be possessive, depressive and just as angry and
• 30:13
  death as she was in life. Refusing to pass on believing
• 30:18
  what they had identified to be the source of the paranormal
• 30:21
  activity, Father Al decided to take a different approach to the
• 30:26
  cleansing itself. Although an exorcism cannot be
• 30:29
  performed on a place, but rather has to be performed on an
• 30:32
  individual, the rights themselves could in theory be
• 30:36
  performed or added to a series of prayers to try and use their
• 30:41
  strong cleansing powers to clear out a home such as this one.
• 30:46
  So that's exactly what the Father did.
• 30:48
  He began to perform the rites of exorcism within the house
• 30:52
  itself. As the prayers began to exit his
• 30:55
  lips, varying with intensity as the rights often do, the home
• 31:01
  began to literally shake, and the horrific moaning and wailing
• 31:06
  that had made itself present in the very first cleansing seemed
• 31:10
  to return with a vengeance. Every horrible feeling, banging,
• 31:15
  knocking and scratching noise that the family had experienced
• 31:19
  thus far was present and seemed to be magnified.
• 31:24
  It takes hours, but eventually the rites are finished.
• 31:28
  As the dust settles, so to speak, the home seems peaceful
• 31:33
  and blissful, like it did when the family had first visited and
• 31:37
  decided to buy the home. And again, for three more
• 31:41
  months, the family lives in peace.
• 31:45
  But like the persistent force that has manifested itself to
• 31:48
  be, the haunting begins again. The Dandy family, despite their
• 31:53
  best efforts, simply cannot take it anymore, decide to cut their
• 31:58
  losses and move. Unable to find a buyer for their
• 32:03
  house, they eventually declare bankruptcy.
• 32:07
  Shortly after this, Phil and Clara would also divorce,
• 32:12
  bringing a sad and bitter end to what was supposed to be a rural
• 32:16
  redemption for the Dandy family. However, this wouldn't be the
• 32:21
  end of the story of the Hensdale house.
• 32:25
  Eventually, the home would come into the possession of Daniel
• 32:29
  Klaus, who currently owns it. Daniel's a renowned paranormal
• 32:34
  investigator and has been involved with the likes of Nick
• 32:37
  Groff and has made appearances on tons of national TV programs
• 32:42
  centered around the paranormal over the years.
• 32:46
  Having been raised in a haunted house, this led to a lifelong
• 32:49
  fascination with the Paranormal Forum.
• 32:52
  After years of restoration, it is now available for both
• 32:56
  investigations and tours and is still considered a very active
• 33:01
  paranormal portal and is kept open as a paranormal research
• 33:06
  location. It's even staged in the 1970s
• 33:09
  period to maintain the integrity of when the hauntings were
• 33:14
  initially known to have began. But now that we know the back
• 33:17
  story of the 20th and into the 21st century of the Hensdale
• 33:21
  house, just who owned it, what happened to them and who owns it
• 33:26
  now, I would like to shift your attention to some of the
• 33:29
  plausible theories as to what could have caused the haunting.
• 33:34
  Many theories of what could have caused the haunting have been
• 33:36
  formed over the years by the many people who have researched
• 33:40
  and have been interested in the case.
• 33:42
  One theory is that the home was built on top of an Indian burial
• 33:46
  mound. This of course could have
• 33:48
  disturbed the spirits of the natives that rested within the
• 33:51
  land, and although tribes who used this method of burial were
• 33:55
  present in the area back in history, there's little to no
• 33:59
  evidence to support this claim. But perhaps any evidence by this
• 34:03
  point could have long since been lost to the sands of time or
• 34:08
  could have been removed when the home was initially built.
• 34:11
  Another theory is that the home was at one point used as a
• 34:15
  Stagecoach in and passerby's were murdered either near or
• 34:19
  within the home itself, leading to their spirits being trapped
• 34:23
  within the home or on its land. Although there is evidence that
• 34:28
  a Stagecoach route did run very close to the home, there isn't
• 34:32
  direct evidence that the house itself was used as an inn, but
• 34:36
  it is possible murders also did take place in or around the area
• 34:41
  in which the home is now located, which could lend
• 34:44
  credence to the theories of criminals robbing and murdering
• 34:47
  people along the Stagecoach route.
• 34:50
  An old family from the area that used to own the home with the
• 34:54
  last name of McMahon also lends credence to the home being used
• 34:58
  as an inn at some point. The now past grandfather of the
• 35:02
  family used to tell stories of a road that passed by the house
• 35:07
  where stagecoaches travelled. Another theory is that one or
• 35:12
  several of the spirits were trapped as a result of hangings
• 35:15
  that took place there. The now famous hanging tree that
• 35:19
  sits near the residence was indeed used for executions for a
• 35:23
  time. Most famously, it seems, was the
• 35:27
  execution of a woman named Elizabeth.
• 35:30
  Elizabeth was pregnant. Could this perhaps be the spirit
• 35:34
  of the woman who was angry and refusing to leave?
• 35:39
  Other events, such as the homicide that took place in the
• 35:42
  year 2000 near the house, as well as a buzz saw incident that
• 35:47
  led to a boy's death, have led many to believe that whatever
• 35:51
  haunts the area could indeed still be there and influencing
• 35:56
  our world. It's important in my opinion to
• 36:00
  try and get the story and the facts as straight as possible,
• 36:03
  not only for the current owners benefit, but for the dandies who
• 36:07
  have suffered greatly as a result of their story becoming
• 36:10
  public, especially towards the end of their time at the
• 36:14
  property. As word got out that something
• 36:16
  strange was taking place at the house, a local paper ended up
• 36:20
  reaching out to the dandies for a statement.
• 36:23
  Thinking that they were accepting an opportunity for
• 36:25
  additional outside help, they gave their story only to be met
• 36:30
  with ridicule from the paper, which in turn led to ridicule
• 36:33
  from the public and nearby residents.
• 36:37
  Which this combined with the paranormal torment they were
• 36:39
  experiencing along with then having to file bankruptcy and
• 36:44
  then later divorce. In my opinion, they suffered
• 36:48
  greatly and did not benefit from the story especially during that
• 36:52
  time. The only benefit I've seen could
• 36:55
  be from Clara Miller, formerly Clara Dandy, who would
• 37:00
  eventually write a book known as Echoes of a Haunting.
• 37:03
  But to be fair, if I experienced even a portion of what she did,
• 37:07
  I would eventually write a book to catalog what happened as
• 37:10
  well. Not only for some monetary
• 37:13
  benefit, of course, but for my own sanity really.
• 37:17
  So as I've began to mention and will continue to mention again
• 37:21
  in the future, if you ever encounter anyone mentioned in
• 37:24
  this video or any of my other videos, whether it be in person
• 37:29
  or online, please be respectful of them and their experiences
• 37:34
  and do not ever harass anyone. And if you find yourself
• 37:38
  seemingly handed an opportunity that seems too good to be true
• 37:43
  the answer to your prayers, it's more than likely not the case.
• 37:48
  It could be a nightmare waiting to happen.
• 37:51
  It could be a haunted home infested with entities sitting
• 37:56
  and waiting for the perfect victim.
• 37:58
  Don't let it be you. Could an item, if given enough
• 38:03
  energy, devotion and focus, begin to take on a life of its
• 38:08
  own? Could it begin to exhibit human
• 38:11
  like characteristics as if it has been imbued with or contains
• 38:16
  some kind of soul or entity inside of it?
• 38:19
  This act of magic has been practiced by multiple religions
• 38:23
  and cults throughout the ages. This is just one very strange
• 38:27
  example that it could indeed be possible.
• 38:31
  After a gracious gift was placed into the arms of a little girl,
• 38:36
  tragedy would strike and what follows would continue to haunt
• 38:40
  the family, the citizens of the village, and would soon cross
• 38:44
  far beyond the barriers of land and sea.
• 38:48
  This is the untold story of Akiku, the haunted Japanese tall
• 38:53
  and the bizarre paranormal force that possessed it.
• 39:05
  Japan is a very mystical and spiritual place, a place where
• 39:11
  the souls of the past seem to interact with the living.
• 39:15
  Such places where this spiritual energy seems to be most visible
• 39:20
  is throughout many of Japan's spiritual temples, home to many
• 39:25
  religions, the two main ones being Buddhism and Shintoism.
• 39:30
  Thousands of temples exist all over the country, but one in
• 39:34
  particular houses a spiritual artifact that has a tragic back
• 39:39
  story and an even more terrifying story that continues
• 39:43
  to be written to this day. Located in Hokkaido, Japan at
• 39:48
  the Menenji Buddhist Temple is a doll with a bizarre and tragic
• 39:53
  back story. Indeed.
• 39:55
  Although there are several origin stories of how the doll
• 39:58
  came to be and how the temple became its final living space,
• 40:03
  so to speak, all of them have most of the main details in
• 40:07
  common. Therefore, I'll be telling the
• 40:10
  most agreed upon origin story to try and be as true to the legend
• 40:14
  as I can. The years 1918 in Hokkaido,
• 40:19
  Japan. And a 17 year old boy by the
• 40:22
  name of Ikiki Suzuki is in search of a gift for his little
• 40:27
  sister's birthday. As he pursues the different
• 40:30
  vendors and small shops, something soon catches his
• 40:34
  attention. In one of the store windows, he
• 40:38
  spots a small childlike doll wearing a traditional Japanese
• 40:43
  kimono. Knowing that he had finally
• 40:45
  found something his sister will love, Akiki quickly purchases
• 40:49
  the doll and makes his way back home through the countryside.
• 40:54
  As the family celebrates their little girl's birthday, Akiku is
• 40:59
  presented with the doll and almost immediately, as soon as
• 41:03
  her eyes meet hers, she falls in love with it.
• 41:07
  The two from this point, become inseparable.
• 41:10
  Wherever Akiku is, her doll is right by her side.
• 41:15
  She Combs her hair, bathes her, dresses her and treats her as if
• 41:20
  she was her little sister. The two even share meals and
• 41:24
  sleep side by side. The joy that the doll brought a
• 41:28
  Kiku must have filled Ekiki's heart with such happiness.
• 41:33
  But soon, that happiness would change to tragedy.
• 41:37
  One hot day, as the little girl played outside with her doll,
• 41:41
  she was bitten by a mosquito. This benign insect by it would
• 41:45
  soon manifest itself into a horrible case of malaria.
• 41:51
  Although the family did everything they could possibly
• 41:53
  do, Okiku would pass away scared and gasping for air as she
• 41:59
  clutched her special doll all the way until the moment she
• 42:03
  took her last breath devastated. The Suzuki's plan to have their
• 42:08
  little girl buried with the doll since she loved it so much, but
• 42:12
  unfortunately, due to either governmental or religious
• 42:16
  oversight at the time, this wasn't an option.
• 42:19
  Instead, after they had laid a Kiku to rest, the doll would be
• 42:24
  placed on a small family shrine located within the living
• 42:27
  quarters of their home as a tribute of sorts to their late
• 42:31
  daughter and their love for her. But shortly after the doll was
• 42:35
  placed on the shrine, very strange things began to happen.
• 42:40
  A Kiki, upon walking past the shrine one day, noticed that the
• 42:44
  doll's hair seemed significantly longer than what it had been
• 42:48
  when it was placed there. The hair which was originally
• 42:52
  shoulders length on the doll itself and black was now
• 42:56
  overgrown with differing shades of brown hair also coming
• 43:00
  through and splitting at the ends.
• 43:03
  Finding this bizarre to say the least, he brought the discovery
• 43:07
  to his parents attention and unsure of what else to do, they
• 43:11
  trimmed the dolls hair as the days came and when the family
• 43:15
  began to have distressing dreams at night of their departed
• 43:19
  Okiku. Sometimes she would be scared
• 43:22
  and alone in the darkness, calling out to them, only being
• 43:26
  recognized by her voice. Other times she would blame them
• 43:31
  for what happened to her. Each member of the family at
• 43:34
  differing times had these dreams, and they would soon lead
• 43:38
  all of them to believe that Akiku's soul wasn't peacefully
• 43:42
  resting. These disturbing dreams soon
• 43:45
  became all the stranger when the doll, which they began to refer
• 43:49
  to as Akiku and their daughter's honor, would appear by their
• 43:53
  bedsides following these nightmares.
• 43:57
  One such incident involved the father of the family waking up
• 44:01
  in a cold sweat only to be met face to face with a blank and
• 44:07
  lifeless stare of the doll. Unsure of what was taking place,
• 44:13
  the Suzuki's turn to their faith.
• 44:16
  After contacting a local Buddhist priest and having a
• 44:19
  cleansing ritual be performed on their home and the doll, the
• 44:23
  activity seemed to grow and become stronger.
• 44:27
  Accompanying their ever frequent nightmares and random movements
• 44:31
  of the doll, the chilling events grew into full blown spiritual
• 44:35
  manifestations during their waking life.
• 44:39
  They soon began to hear banging noises all throughout the house
• 44:43
  and the whispers of a little girl.
• 44:46
  Strange disembodied voices varying from high pitched like
• 44:51
  those of a child to the low groans of something
• 44:54
  unexplainable began to be heard. Their lights began to flicker on
• 45:00
  and off, and the paranormal activity seemed to happen more
• 45:04
  frequently as the calendar ticked closer to the birth and
• 45:08
  death dates of Akiku. These strange and terrifying
• 45:13
  happenings would continue over the course of the next 20 years,
• 45:18
  with multiple religious, priests and shamans being contacted and
• 45:22
  all coming to the same conclusion that after the
• 45:25
  cleansings failed time and time again, that the restless spirit
• 45:29
  of Akiku now inhabited the doll she once loved so much.
• 45:34
  Finally needing a major change and unable to deal with the ever
• 45:39
  intensifying spiritual presence that seemed to haunt their home,
• 45:43
  the Suzuki's relocated to a different district.
• 45:48
  Believing the doll to be the source of their various ailments
• 45:51
  and emotional torture that they had endured over the last two
• 45:54
  decades, they had no desire to take it with them.
• 45:58
  The family had reached the conclusion that if their
• 46:00
  daughter's soul wasn't at peace, what could perhaps be helping to
• 46:04
  fuel Akiku's power or magic was the close proximity of her grave
• 46:10
  to their home where the doll resided.
• 46:13
  So in order to distance the doll from the grave, the family
• 46:16
  approached the Meninge Buddhist Temple in Hokkaido, and over the
• 46:20
  years, the Dahl's reputation for being haunted had spread
• 46:25
  throughout the community and indeed the majority of the
• 46:28
  country. This was more than likely due to
• 46:30
  the various interactions between the spiritual community and the
• 46:34
  Suzuki family finding the Dahl to be mesmerizing and possibly a
• 46:39
  unique opportunity to commute and interact with the dead.
• 46:43
  If the stories were true, the leaders and priests of the
• 46:47
  Meninge temple agreed to home Okiku permanently.
• 46:51
  As with many legends, we find lots of details to be
• 46:54
  exaggerated over time and perhaps some of the details to
• 46:58
  not be true at all. And this is what the priests
• 47:01
  were originally thinking, that perhaps due to grief, the family
• 47:06
  was dealing with other spiritual ailments perhaps unrelated to
• 47:10
  the doll, or causing the doll to be a vessel of sorts for
• 47:14
  restless spirits. However, as the years came and
• 47:18
  went, as Akiku now called the temple her home, they began to
• 47:22
  slowly but surely experience the same strangeness the Suzuki's
• 47:27
  had. For all of those years.
• 47:30
  Akiku's hair continued to grow and this baffled the priests.
• 47:35
  They would eventually have the hair trimmed and tested, and the
• 47:38
  hair was said to belong to a little girl.
• 47:42
  They found that the entity seemed to be appeased when her
• 47:45
  hair was trimmed and combed, and this led to less activity for a
• 47:50
  time. But the same activity?
• 47:52
  The knocking, banging, and disembodied voices which soon
• 47:57
  plagued the temple as well. No, Kiku's power only seemed to
• 48:02
  grow. Any priest who seemed skeptical
• 48:05
  of the doll or attempted to cleanse it themselves soon had
• 48:09
  their dreams haunted as well, turning their sleep into
• 48:13
  restless fits. Their homes and rooms soon also
• 48:17
  began to manifest the very same activity that the temple was now
• 48:22
  exhibiting. With no remedy seeming to work,
• 48:25
  the leaders turned to appeasement instead, hoping that
• 48:29
  gestures of goodwill would keep the entity at Bay.
• 48:33
  As years turn to decades, and as we've come into the 21st
• 48:36
  century, the priests of multiple generations now have overseen
• 48:41
  and cared for the Dahl known as Akiku.
• 48:45
  And though some of the more violent activity has faded, the
• 48:48
  general consensus is that she is now just as powerful as she was,
• 48:53
  or is perhaps more powerful as she's continued to age.
• 48:57
  It seems like as the more her fame and notoriety grows, the
• 49:01
  more visitors she has, the stronger she becomes.
• 49:06
  She continues to invade the dreams of those who come to
• 49:09
  visit her, and her hair is growing faster and more frayed.
• 49:15
  She's said to drive Taurus mad who doubt her, with many people
• 49:19
  even reporting that besides seeing her strange hair and
• 49:23
  feeling a malevolent presence when visiting her, they've also
• 49:26
  had her stalk and appear in their dreams.
• 49:30
  Some more disturbing and recent reports have even suggested that
• 49:34
  her mouth is slowly opening and that if you dare to appear
• 49:37
  inside of it, you may just catch a glimpse of baby like teeth
• 49:42
  sprouting from her porcelain gums.
• 49:45
  As if whoever or whatever she is is slowly turning to flesh and
• 49:52
  bone. The paranormal displays of her
• 49:55
  power continue to occur as well. Her permanent home, located
• 49:59
  within the menaging temple, is her own private shrine where she
• 50:03
  sits in a small wooden box on display.
• 50:06
  It is here that she watches and waits for anyone and everyone
• 50:12
  who dares to play with fire and invoke the power of the entity
• 50:17
  known as a Kiku. But what are your thoughts?
• 50:21
  Was a Kiku the girl trapped inside of the doll?
• 50:24
  In my opinion, although her spirit would be much older now,
• 50:29
  at the time of her death she was either close to or was three
• 50:33
  years old, and no person at that age is capable of true malice to
• 50:38
  the point to where she would become aware enough to begin to
• 50:41
  blame her parents and then torment them for decades to come
• 50:45
  as children. Our parents, or our family, or
• 50:49
  our entire world. So I find it incredibly
• 50:52
  difficult to think that these bizarre happenings were the
• 50:55
  result of her soul being restless and imbuing the doll.
• 51:00
  What I find more likely, and all the more interesting really, is
• 51:04
  the thought of invocation or the imbuing of the doll.
• 51:08
  Like a conduit or a vessel of sorts.
• 51:11
  Akiku, the girl was, as they said, inseparable from this
• 51:15
  doll. She fed it, bathed it, took naps
• 51:19
  with it, and everything else a small child would do with that
• 51:22
  wonderful imagination that they have.
• 51:25
  But could all of this dedication and focus accompanied with the
• 51:29
  tragedy that took place allow for a portal to open for an
• 51:33
  entity, whether non human or a restless human spirit to inhabit
• 51:38
  the doll? And by non human I mean a demon.
• 51:43
  This would make sense to me. Something that enjoys and grows
• 51:47
  more powerful off of pain and misfortune or the emotional
• 51:50
  torment of others. As it causes the pain, it feeds
• 51:54
  off of it and grows ever stronger.
• 51:57
  This would not only explain the malevolent manifestations of
• 52:00
  whatever entity is present, but would also explain the still
• 52:04
  present force and the alleged ever growing power of it.
• 52:09
  And depending on the entity's strength, it could also explain
• 52:12
  why the cleansings thus far have failed.
• 52:15
  However, if you find yourself taking a trip to Japan anytime
• 52:19
  soon, or you happen to call Japan home if you find yourself
• 52:24
  in Hokkaido, you may want to steer clear of the Menajin
• 52:27
  Temple. Because if you don't, the entity
• 52:31
  that inhabits the doll known as a Kiku may just use you as its
• 52:36
  next feeding source, where it'll begin to plague your dreams,
• 52:41
  making you twist and turn, sweat and fear.
• 52:47
  As it grows ever stronger and attempts to cross from its world
• 52:52
  into ours, making our plane of existence its permanent
• 52:57
  residence. An unsuspecting family finds
• 53:01
  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
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  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
• 53:54
  located on America's East Coast with just a population of an
• 53:58
  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
• 54:25
  beg the question, could there be something evil that stalks this
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  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 normal life.
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  Among things like school, work and outdoor play.
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  Nothing seemed quite out of the ordinary, yet the children had
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  been gifted a puppy with an exceptionally unique personality
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  and out of the ether. A name came to mind when they
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  were naming her 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 she
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  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
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  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.
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  So they went and soon some of their sadness turned to joy as
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  the family experienced hotel swimming pools, ice cream and
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  shopping. But this joy would too be short
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  lived. The family also had four cats
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  and upon returning to their home with this newfound sense of
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  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
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  police, only to find their home absolutely ransacked as well.
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  Furniture was upside down, mirrors and windows broken, all
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  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 and
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  roughhousing kids, the family wondered how could these kids
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  conduct such evil? Did the devil's foot soldiers
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  know no bounds? A police report was filed and it
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  was shortly uncovered that the demon seed who had LED these
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  awful actions was their 12 year old neighbor.
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  The young man was seemingly a born criminal.
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  Upon being confronted, the boy's mother covered for her son, and
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  despite their best efforts, due to lack of evidence, nothing
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  much would come of the report with the police, but Andrea
• 59:35
  would have her revenge. She had yet to come to terms
• 59:39
  with her precious Bathsheba's death, and now this, the rage
• 59:43
  inside of her built. After some thorough planning,
• 59:48
  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.
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  And told to go home. All this wouldn't bring her
• 1:00:04
  animals back, but it felt justified to the young girl
• 1:00:08
  given what the boy had done. But these antics of sadness,
• 1:00:12
  hostility, and rage would soon manifest into something much
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  darker. Ever since their home was
• 1:00:20
  ransacked, Carolyn had wanted to move, but knowing they weren't
• 1:00:25
  in a financial state to do so, they had little to no choice
• 1:00:30
  other than to stay. So she kept an ever watchful eye
• 1:00:34
  on her children, letting them out of the house rarely and
• 1:00:38
  mostly under her supervision. Given the prior events, she
• 1:00:42
  wanted them raised by wild nature, not wild beasts.
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  Shortly after this time, Rodger had prepared to depart for a
• 1:00:51
  business trip which was to last several days.
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  Even amidst the turmoil of the current events, he still had to
• 1:00:59
  provide for his large family. And while his family was just
• 1:01:03
  waking up that morning, as he and his wife Carolyn enjoyed
• 1:01:06
  their morning cup of coffee, they were suddenly startled by
• 1:01:11
  the sound of a large explosion in their front yard, like
• 1:01:15
  someone had fired a cannon towards their house.
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  Alarmed, they raced outside to discover what had happened.
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  Shortly after purchasing their humble home, Carolyn had built a
• 1:01:28
  rock garden of sorts at the entrance of their driveway.
• 1:01:33
  Her friends often teased her that it's centerpiece resembled
• 1:01:36
  a tombstone without the inscription of the dearly
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  departed. Well to the family shock, their
• 1:01:44
  neighbor from across the street had started his truck that
• 1:01:47
  morning and had suffered a major heart attack and had died at the
• 1:01:52
  wheel, his foot pressing down on the gas causing the truck to
• 1:01:56
  barrel directly at the parents home to smash right into that
• 1:02:01
  large rock. It was almost like something was
• 1:02:04
  following them, like a living breathing Organism feeding upon
• 1:02:10
  it. After this horrible event people
• 1:02:13
  began to refer to the rock garden as the graveyard.
• 1:02:19
  Missus Curtis, the wife of the neighbor who had passed away,
• 1:02:23
  upon being greeted and offered condolences by the family,
• 1:02:27
  actually blamed them for what had happened, declaring that
• 1:02:31
  Carolyn never liked them anyway and was a witch.
• 1:02:35
  That was enough for her. Again, she begged Roger to move,
• 1:02:40
  but they were seemingly stuck given the awful circumstances.
• 1:02:45
  The man still had to work, so he departed for his business trip.
• 1:02:51
  While her husband was gone, it was up to Carolyn to take care
• 1:02:55
  of their five children. This meant taking them to and
• 1:02:58
  from school, as well as music lessons and much more.
• 1:03:03
  While attending her daughter Andrea's music lessons, she had
• 1:03:07
  forgotten to bring a book to help her pass the time, so
• 1:03:10
  Carolyn went and purchased a paper as a substitute.
• 1:03:14
  Before too long she found herself daydreaming and looking
• 1:03:18
  through the various ads and real estate available, wanting and
• 1:03:22
  wishing that she could change their current predicament when
• 1:03:26
  strangely enough, the universe seemed to glance back at her.
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  Hidden among many other homes was a nine bedroom farmhouse
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  with a barn, lots of land and seclusion.
• 1:03:40
  It's beautiful design and elegance soon had Carolyn
• 1:03:43
  imagining her children playing and being raised in nature as
• 1:03:47
  she wanted that she could allow them to do so without the fear
• 1:03:51
  of other children attempting to harm them.
• 1:03:54
  She almost immediately became obsessed with the idea of
• 1:03:57
  purchasing the house and although the family really
• 1:04:01
  couldn't afford it at the time without seeking Roger's
• 1:04:04
  permission, she made a call and went to look at the old Arnold
• 1:04:09
  State the following day. The owner was a very nice old
• 1:04:13
  lady, and although she didn't have much, Carolyn asked how
• 1:04:17
  much she would have to put down to hold the home so she could
• 1:04:21
  purchase it once her husband had returned.
• 1:04:24
  An agreement of $500 as a good faith payment was made, and
• 1:04:29
  shortly after Roger arrived back home several days later, he was
• 1:04:33
  sideswiped by his wife's decision, although his anger
• 1:04:38
  would soon turn to understanding.
• 1:04:41
  After all, a happy wife makes for a happy life, as most would
• 1:04:46
  say. Even though he didn't know
• 1:04:48
  exactly how they would make it work, he decided to placate his
• 1:04:52
  wife and allow them to purchase the home.
• 1:04:56
  It took some time, but before too long they found themselves
• 1:05:00
  packing and coming into possession of the keys to their
• 1:05:03
  future. Although they couldn't foresee
• 1:05:06
  just how dark of the future it was to be the parent family,
• 1:05:14
  having seemingly found the home of their dreams located on a
• 1:05:18
  large swath of land outside of the town of Harrisville, RI,
• 1:05:23
  what would become known as the Old Arnold Estate almost seemed
• 1:05:27
  to perfect like an answer to their desperate prayers.
• 1:05:32
  It's a large farmhouse which has 9 bedrooms, a barn, and plenty
• 1:05:38
  of land which they can envision their children playing on and
• 1:05:42
  having a wonderful time. Although it's winter, they go
• 1:05:46
  ahead and begin to move into their new house.
• 1:05:50
  There's a massive snowstorm taking place while they're
• 1:05:53
  moving in, but this doesn't deter the large family from
• 1:05:56
  getting settled in to what they believe is going to be a
• 1:06:00
  charming, nice and new home for all of them.
• 1:06:04
  Given everything they've been through, I would have hoped for
• 1:06:07
  the same. And for the first three months,
• 1:06:10
  things are charming, nice and normal.
• 1:06:14
  Their rustic farmhouse has its challenges with it being fairly
• 1:06:18
  old, such as being very cold that winter, but it's nothing
• 1:06:23
  they can't deal with, or so they think.
• 1:06:28
  All around, the feeling is a happy one for the family.
• 1:06:31
  But this happy mood would soon change.
• 1:06:35
  Upon meeting their nearest neighbors, they seemed rather
• 1:06:39
  strange. They offered one piece of advice
• 1:06:42
  to Roger and Carolyn. For the love of your family,
• 1:06:46
  keep the lights on at night. Originally written off by the
• 1:06:50
  couple, these words would seem to be rather fitting
• 1:06:54
  foreshadowing for the events to come.
• 1:06:57
  When the frozen land of the farm began to thaw, it seemed like
• 1:07:01
  something thawed along with it and began to plague them once
• 1:07:05
  again. One night when the daughters,
• 1:07:09
  Nancy and Andrea were asleep in their shared room, they're
• 1:07:13
  suddenly woken up by the sound of their doors slamming open and
• 1:07:17
  closed, open and closed. Petrified by the noise of the
• 1:07:22
  doors smacking the wall and it also being their only way out of
• 1:07:26
  the room, they ran towards the door to try and escape when
• 1:07:31
  suddenly it stopped moving and just stayed open, still creaking
• 1:07:37
  from being moved. Catching their breath and trying
• 1:07:42
  to come to terms with what had just happened, Thinking by this
• 1:07:46
  point maybe one of their other sisters was trying to play a
• 1:07:49
  prank on them, the 2 girls looked down the hall and
• 1:07:53
  eventually made their way to their other sisters rooms where
• 1:07:56
  they found them asleep. Needless to say they wouldn't
• 1:08:01
  sleep for the rest of the night. They would bring this to the
• 1:08:04
  attention of their parents the following morning, but were
• 1:08:08
  quickly dismissed, as is often the case, and told that they had
• 1:08:13
  overactive imaginations. From here, things started small
• 1:08:18
  but became very noticeable as they mushroomed into much bigger
• 1:08:22
  experiences. At first, whatever spirits they
• 1:08:26
  believed could be in the house seemed benevolent, almost
• 1:08:31
  good-natured, with some of the younger siblings later stating
• 1:08:35
  that they would even be tucked into bed by the spirit of a
• 1:08:37
  woman on occasion, but that was all too short lived.
• 1:08:42
  Items soon began to go missing. Car keys weren't where they had
• 1:08:46
  been hung daily. Items such as mugs, toys, and
• 1:08:51
  utensils were soon disappearing as well.
• 1:08:55
  Carolyn would hear the scraping of a broom upon the floor or the
• 1:08:59
  knocking of a kettle in the kitchen when no one else was
• 1:09:02
  home but her. With this, upon cleaning the
• 1:09:06
  floors, she would also find piles of dirt that would appear
• 1:09:10
  out of nowhere, making her feel as if she was going crazy.
• 1:09:15
  But these small happenings too would soon become larger.
• 1:09:20
  The children would often play a game called Hide and Clap, a
• 1:09:24
  version of hide and go Seek. This time, Andrea was the seeker
• 1:09:29
  and her sisters went off hiding throughout the estate.
• 1:09:32
  Cindy made her way into the woodshed, found a small box just
• 1:09:36
  big enough for her to get inside.
• 1:09:38
  Being determined to win, she climbed into the box and slid
• 1:09:42
  the small lid over the top, figuring this would be an
• 1:09:46
  excellent hiding place indeed. And after several minutes, she
• 1:09:51
  realized that no one was coming for her and went to remove the
• 1:09:54
  lid. Except it wouldn't budget.
• 1:09:58
  Panicking and utter darkness, she used all means necessary to
• 1:10:03
  try and remove the lid and free herself.
• 1:10:07
  After screaming and worrying that she'd suffocate inside this
• 1:10:10
  box, she was thankfully found by Andrea, who slid the lid off no
• 1:10:16
  problem, revealed her horribly distressed younger sister
• 1:10:20
  inside. It's important to note that this
• 1:10:23
  was a sliding cover. There was no locking mechanism.
• 1:10:28
  Along with this terrifying event, the children's rooms were
• 1:10:32
  often rearranged daily. They would leave their things
• 1:10:35
  one way in the morning and return to things either
• 1:10:39
  completely a mess, as if a small cyclone had hit their rooms, or
• 1:10:43
  all items would be smashed underneath their beds.
• 1:10:47
  And this happened to all of the girls at one point or another.
• 1:10:52
  These small whispers, bangings and movements did indeed become
• 1:10:57
  larger. Andrea, being the oldest, would
• 1:11:01
  often be woken up by her younger siblings and would hold them as
• 1:11:05
  they sobbed their eyes out, terrified to return to their
• 1:11:09
  rooms. Cindy, in particular, began to
• 1:11:12
  hear a sinister voice call out to her almost every night.
• 1:11:17
  The voice would tell her that there were seven dead soldiers
• 1:11:20
  in the walls and would repeat it over and over and over again.
• 1:11:28
  The children, now terrified, begged their parents to believe
• 1:11:32
  them, and although they too were beginning to experience things
• 1:11:36
  on their own, they didn't want to frighten the children, so
• 1:11:40
  they did what could be done to placate them.
• 1:11:44
  But soon the entire family began to hear the wails of something
• 1:11:48
  inhuman calling out for its mother.
• 1:11:52
  This disturbing trend with no origin was followed by even more
• 1:11:56
  disturbing happenings. The beds of the girls would lift
• 1:12:00
  up and shake by an unseen force, almost always around 5:15 AM, as
• 1:12:08
  if something was trying to send some kind of a message, although
• 1:12:12
  it was never clear just what that message was supposed to be.
• 1:12:17
  During the day, the apparitions of spirits began to manifest and
• 1:12:22
  stalk the halls of the old Arnold estate.
• 1:12:25
  These were soon coupled by the horrible stench of rotting flesh
• 1:12:29
  wafting throughout the house. Soon the girls weren't the only
• 1:12:34
  ones whose doors were slamming open and closed and whose beds
• 1:12:39
  were lifting up on their own. Soon it was affecting their
• 1:12:43
  parents as well. One night, Carolyn woke up
• 1:12:47
  suddenly to the figure of an old woman over the foot of her bed.
• 1:12:51
  Her hair was like a sack of cobwebs, with little tendrils
• 1:12:55
  hanging off. The woman's head was also bent
• 1:12:59
  and hanging off to the side of her neck, as if it was horribly
• 1:13:03
  broken and mangled. Her gnarled mouth screaming at
• 1:13:07
  her with an echoing voice. Get out, She shouted over and
• 1:13:13
  over again until she suddenly is no longer there.
• 1:13:19
  The parent family continue to endure a living nightmare as the
• 1:13:23
  traumatic paranormal activity persisted and continue to scale
• 1:13:28
  in intensity. How does one fight an enemy he
• 1:13:34
  can't see? Something he can't touch or
• 1:13:37
  feel, attack or defend against? This question and more must have
• 1:13:44
  ran through the heads of Rodger and Carolyn as they not only
• 1:13:47
  feared for themselves, but especially their children.
• 1:13:51
  Now as their offspring's natural protectors.
• 1:13:55
  How anxiety inducing must it have been to know that they were
• 1:13:59
  powerless to stop what was terrorizing all of them each and
• 1:14:04
  every night. In an effort to try and
• 1:14:07
  understand what was happening to them, Carolyn began to research
• 1:14:11
  the history of their house and was shocked by what she found.
• 1:14:17
  Over 8 generations of the Arnold family had lived and died within
• 1:14:21
  the home, some by horrible means, according to the Black
• 1:14:27
  Book of Burlville, the town's former public records book.
• 1:14:32
  These included two suicides by hanging, one within the family
• 1:14:36
  barn, one by poison, the assault and murder of a young girl named
• 1:14:42
  Prudence Arnold by a farm hint, 2 drownings in the nearby Creek,
• 1:14:48
  and four men who froze to death. Among some of the notable
• 1:14:52
  deaths, one death that caught her eye in particular was that
• 1:14:58
  of a woman named Bathsheba Sherman.
• 1:15:02
  Her name was spelled exactly like their dog that they had
• 1:15:04
  previously owned, and her story was as interesting as it was
• 1:15:10
  disturbing. Born Bathsheba there in 1812,
• 1:15:15
  she married fellow Rhode Islander Judson Sherman and
• 1:15:19
  Thompson, CT on March 10th, 1844.
• 1:15:25
  According to available information from that time, the
• 1:15:28
  two had a son named Herbert, and for all intents and purposes,
• 1:15:33
  things seemed normal. But that couldn't be further
• 1:15:36
  from the truth. After losing three children
• 1:15:39
  before the age of 7, Bathsheba began to care for her neighbor's
• 1:15:43
  children, perhaps to fill the void that such sorrow could
• 1:15:47
  create. And it's here where things take
• 1:15:50
  a strange turn. While caring for the infant of a
• 1:15:54
  nearby family, the infant suddenly passed away within
• 1:15:58
  Bathsheba's care. An investigation ensued and it
• 1:16:03
  was found that the child had a puncture wound in its skull, as
• 1:16:07
  if someone had taken a large sewing needle and sent it
• 1:16:11
  through the child's head. Rumors of devil worship and
• 1:16:15
  witchcraft soon became rife, with many believing she had
• 1:16:21
  indeed sacrificed her children to Satan, robbing them of their
• 1:16:25
  young lives. Although Bathsheba was never
• 1:16:28
  punished for the child's death since there was never a trial,
• 1:16:33
  that didn't stop her behavior from becoming increasingly
• 1:16:36
  bizarre. She became incredibly reclusive,
• 1:16:40
  strange and dark. Rumors say that she supposedly
• 1:16:46
  attempted to murder other children while confessing her
• 1:16:50
  love for Satan before she then climbed atop the highest tree on
• 1:16:54
  the estate, cursing everyone before hanging herself.
• 1:17:00
  And although that would make for a much more fascinating story,
• 1:17:04
  it doesn't seem to be true. The rumors may indeed have been
• 1:17:07
  spread and they're evidence of multiple child deaths, including
• 1:17:12
  the infant via needle like object, but her tombstone reads
• 1:17:16
  her death date as May 25th, 1885 S Odds are that she passed away
• 1:17:23
  as an old woman, but perhaps given the circumstances, she
• 1:17:28
  became more bitter with age. Another strange detail that was
• 1:17:32
  uncovered was one of the hanging deaths that took place within
• 1:17:36
  the barn on the estate. It was that of Catherine Arnold.
• 1:17:42
  She had, seemingly out of the blue one day, made her way from
• 1:17:45
  the house to the barn, gathered a rope, and hung herself from
• 1:17:51
  the rafters. She was frozen solid.
• 1:17:55
  When she was later discovered. It seemed like whatever
• 1:17:59
  paranormal force that stalked the land tormented the
• 1:18:03
  matriarchs of the families that lived there and fed upon death
• 1:18:07
  itself. These supernatural occurrences
• 1:18:11
  that now plagued the Perron family were a daily occurrence,
• 1:18:16
  and they soon also began to physically touch the family as
• 1:18:19
  well. Poking soon turned to pushing, a
• 1:18:24
  hand on the shoulder soon turned to slapping, scratching, and
• 1:18:29
  more. One day when Carolyn was reading
• 1:18:33
  a book in the living room, she felt a piercing pain in her
• 1:18:36
  calf. Upon further examination, she
• 1:18:41
  saw what appeared to be a puncture wound, like that of a
• 1:18:44
  needle, with a small dribble of blood now coming out of her leg.
• 1:18:49
  These attacks didn't stop here. Carolyn soon believed that it
• 1:18:55
  was Bathsheba who was causing the majority of her problems.
• 1:18:59
  The spirit seemed to hide her things daily, making her feel as
• 1:19:03
  if she was going insane while simultaneously lusting after her
• 1:19:08
  husband. In later interviews, Roger would
• 1:19:12
  state that he never felt threatened by her spirit and
• 1:19:15
  that he only ever saw her sweeter side, such as comforting
• 1:19:19
  touches and the feeling of an embrace.
• 1:19:23
  To the contrary, his poor wife experienced much, much worse.
• 1:19:29
  Andrea Peron also in later interviews, said that the whole
• 1:19:33
  family believed it was the spirit of Bathsheba who was
• 1:19:37
  mostly tormenting Carolyn, as if she saw herself as the matriarch
• 1:19:42
  or the mistress of the house, and that Carolyn was some kind
• 1:19:46
  of competition, an obstacle between her and Roger's
• 1:19:51
  affection. On the verge of losing her mind
• 1:19:55
  and being tortured daily, the family was barely holding things
• 1:19:59
  together, most of all Carolyn. She had vented to a friend of
• 1:20:05
  hers named Barbara about what she had been going through, and
• 1:20:09
  strangely enough. This friend just so happened to
• 1:20:12
  attend a lecture that was being given by renowned paranormal
• 1:20:16
  scholars and demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren.
• 1:20:21
  It was Barbara that actually told the Warrens about the
• 1:20:24
  parents and their struggles. Intrigued, they were put into
• 1:20:29
  mutual contact with one another, and before too long, the Warrens
• 1:20:34
  arrived at the front door of the old Arnold Estate.
• 1:20:39
  Upon stepping into the home for the first time, Lorraine Warren
• 1:20:43
  noticed a heavy and malevolent presence.
• 1:20:47
  Upon further convening over the course of several weeks, the
• 1:20:51
  couple told the family that they indeed were being haunted by the
• 1:20:55
  spirit of Bathsheba and that she had made a pact with Satan
• 1:20:59
  himself after sacrificing one of her children to him.
• 1:21:04
  She then hung herself on the property in order to haunt it
• 1:21:08
  forever. This is why the family was often
• 1:21:11
  seeing the mangled necked apparition of the woman with
• 1:21:14
  wispy hair. This was apparently her.
• 1:21:19
  Over the course of several months, the Warrens would visit
• 1:21:22
  the old Arnold estate in order to try and assist the family
• 1:21:26
  with riding themselves of the spirits, but it was all to no
• 1:21:30
  avail. All of these events seem to
• 1:21:33
  culminate with a Seance 1 stormy night.
• 1:21:36
  The Perrons, Roger and Carolyn, along with the Warrens were
• 1:21:41
  joined by a priest and a fellow medium to conduct a seance to
• 1:21:47
  try and establish further contact with the entities within
• 1:21:50
  the home to understand just why they were plaguing the family.
• 1:21:55
  The girls were confined to their rooms upstairs and were not
• 1:21:59
  allowed to partake in the ritual.
• 1:22:02
  The ritual was conducted in the basement, one of the alleged
• 1:22:05
  sources of the dark energy according to Lorraine Warren,
• 1:22:10
  and in the middle of this ritual, Carolyn seemingly became
• 1:22:13
  possessed as she exhibited violent behavior.
• 1:22:18
  She was restrained to a chair in order to prevent her from
• 1:22:21
  hurting herself and others. The entity that now inhabited
• 1:22:25
  her body claimed to be that of Bathsheba and before everyone's
• 1:22:31
  eyes that was present, Carolyn began to not only speak a
• 1:22:34
  language that was unrecognizable, but in a voice
• 1:22:38
  that wasn't her own. She then began to levitate in
• 1:22:42
  the chair and flew across the room.
• 1:22:47
  Although they were forbid to witness the event, as curious
• 1:22:50
  children often do, Andrea, along with her sister Cindy, snuck
• 1:22:55
  open the basement door and watched the events unfold for
• 1:22:58
  themselves. Their testimonies are also where
• 1:23:02
  some of these details are sourced from.
• 1:23:05
  Carolyn was now mangled and distorted, her body twisted in
• 1:23:11
  an unnatural position. After several hours of
• 1:23:15
  attempting to cast the spirit out, she finally went limp and
• 1:23:20
  lay catatonic on the floor. After his wife had seemingly
• 1:23:25
  been freed, Roger called the entire thing off.
• 1:23:30
  He was not only concerned for his wife's well-being, but his
• 1:23:33
  children's as well. And although the Warrens were
• 1:23:36
  trying to help, things just seemed to get so much worse when
• 1:23:40
  they were there. So disregarding their advice, he
• 1:23:45
  threw them out and forbid them and their associates from ever
• 1:23:49
  investigating the hauntings at the old Arnold estate ever
• 1:23:53
  again. Later in life, a 77 year old
• 1:23:57
  Roger would recall she was possessed, her entire body was
• 1:24:02
  distorted and it lasted several hours until they de demonized
• 1:24:08
  her. Then I threw them out.
• 1:24:11
  I couldn't take it anymore. The family's torment would
• 1:24:15
  continue with varying intensity until 1980, when they were
• 1:24:20
  finally able to sell the old Arnold Estate and move to
• 1:24:23
  Georgia and a bid to rebuild their lives.
• 1:24:27
  Finally, they were free of the horrible events that had plagued
• 1:24:31
  them for nearly a decade. But all those happenings, all
• 1:24:35
  those traumatic moments would never be forgotten by any of
• 1:24:40
  them. They all realized that they were
• 1:24:42
  truly lucky to have escaped with their lives as well as their
• 1:24:46
  sanity. Going back and not only reading
• 1:24:50
  various interviews, Andrea Peron's books, and watching
• 1:24:54
  interviews with the family, they not only seemed genuine but
• 1:24:58
  really had nothing to gain by claiming to have experienced
• 1:25:01
  these things. They truly seemed like they had
• 1:25:04
  suffered. I mean, they threw out the
• 1:25:06
  Warrens, which is interesting in and of itself, but if I saw my
• 1:25:11
  wife twisted and exhibiting demonic behavior, I probably
• 1:25:15
  would be pretty freaked out as well.
• 1:25:18
  The story of the haunting of the old Arnold Estate and the Peron
• 1:25:21
  family was used as the basis for The Conjuring movie, in which
• 1:25:25
  they were also used as consultants for accuracy's sake.
• 1:25:30
  And the film does of course take liberties, as most Hollywood
• 1:25:34
  films do, but it's a good one for sure.
• 1:25:37
  But having watched this video, you're now probably aware of
• 1:25:40
  what really happened. Since the selling of the home,
• 1:25:44
  reviews have been mixed by other residents, with one lady
• 1:25:48
  claiming that the home wasn't haunted at all and even
• 1:25:51
  condemning and suing The Conjuring film makers for
• 1:25:54
  causing her distress through trespassers, and others stating
• 1:25:58
  that the home is still very well haunted indeed.
• 1:26:02
  More current owners, who we'll call Corey and Jennifer,
• 1:26:06
  welcomed the spirits and the history of the home when they
• 1:26:09
  moved in, claiming to have only slept in the smaller wing of the
• 1:26:13
  estate for the first four months that they lived there.
• 1:26:16
  They didn't want to overstep their boundaries with whatever
• 1:26:19
  was haunting the property. When they finally opened up the
• 1:26:23
  door to the wing of the larger part of the house the very same
• 1:26:27
  night, they both claimed to be woken up by a shadowy figure.
• 1:26:31
  Their couple would say that it was pitch black in color and
• 1:26:34
  peeking at them from behind the door frame.
• 1:26:38
  Although most people would be terrified at the prospect of
• 1:26:41
  dealing with a shadow figure of any sort, the couple understood
• 1:26:45
  that they were guests in this home even though they had
• 1:26:48
  purchased it. And we're just excited to have
• 1:26:51
  experienced anything. But they also admit that
• 1:26:54
  although they do continue to experience strange things from
• 1:26:57
  time to time, it's nothing like what the Perrons say.
• 1:27:01
  They experienced nothing quite as malevolent or evil by any
• 1:27:06
  means. Despite criticism and support,
• 1:27:11
  the Perrons to this day remain adamant that their story is
• 1:27:14
  true, with Andrea saying in an interview with USA TODAY.
• 1:27:19
  Both my mother and I would soon swallow our tongue and tell a
• 1:27:22
  lie. People are free to believe
• 1:27:25
  whatever they want, but we know what we've experienced prior to
• 1:27:30
  her death. When asked about the events of
• 1:27:32
  the Haunting Lorraine, Warren claimed that she still felt
• 1:27:36
  traumatized all these years later about what had taken place
• 1:27:39
  that stormy night during the seance at the Old Arnold Estate,
• 1:27:44
  saying that the things that happened there were so
• 1:27:47
  incredibly frightening that it still effects me to talk about
• 1:27:50
  it to this day. She, of course, was reunited
• 1:27:53
  with Ed on April 18th of 2019. God rest her soul.
• 1:28:00
  These days, people who have visited the house, such as
• 1:28:03
  various paranormal groups, researchers and fans of The
• 1:28:07
  Conjuring Universe, have described feeling multiple
• 1:28:10
  things for stepping in the home. Some claiming to see shadow
• 1:28:14
  figures, others a feeling of a heavy presence to the points
• 1:28:19
  where it makes them nauseous. And regardless, there certainly
• 1:28:23
  does seem to be something there all around.
• 1:28:27
  I think the haunting, given all the research I've done is more
• 1:28:31
  than likely legitimate. There's too many sources backing
• 1:28:34
  up what took place. Not to mention the family didn't
• 1:28:38
  gain anything from experiencing what they did, and surviving
• 1:28:42
  members still claim it's all true to this day.
• 1:28:45
  If you'd like to learn more, I'm listing the sources I used for
• 1:28:49
  research in the description below, as well as various links
• 1:28:53
  to Andrea Peron's books which tell the full story of her and
• 1:28:57
  her family. I of course, am not affiliated
• 1:29:00
  with her or anyone else involved in any way.
• 1:29:04
  I just find them to be an interesting and very useful
• 1:29:06
  resource. So if you find yourself in hard
• 1:29:10
  times and are presented with what seems like a gift from the
• 1:29:14
  universe, just know that if it's too good to be true, it probably
• 1:29:19
  is. And the dream home that you
• 1:29:21
  can't wait to live in could be infested with generations of
• 1:29:27
  death and despair demons which could still be lurking and
• 1:29:32
  stalking the property. So my advice?
• 1:29:36
  If it sounds too good to be true, it is.
• 1:29:40
  And please research a home's history before you buy it, or
• 1:29:45
  you may be stuck with a decade of paranormal torment.
• 1:29:49
  Or worse, you may become its newest permanent resident.
• 1:29:57
  Can death unleash something into this world that isn't supposed
• 1:30:02
  to be here? Could it act like a portal,
• 1:30:05
  allowing something sinister and dark to creep in just before it
• 1:30:09
  closes, especially if the person passing is harboring dark and
• 1:30:15
  abhorrent secrets? When a young man begins to
• 1:30:19
  exhibit strange and demonic behavior and the very laws of
• 1:30:23
  nature seem to bend to his will, can a reverend work to save his
• 1:30:28
  very soul? Documented by multiple law
• 1:30:31
  enforcement professionals as unexplained to this day, this is
• 1:30:36
  certainly not a story you will want to miss.
• 1:30:39
  This is the untold story of Don Decker, also known as the Rain
• 1:30:44
  Man of Pennsylvania. The date is February 24th, 1983
• 1:30:55
  and on this cold, misty day, a family is mourning the loss of
• 1:31:00
  their loved 1A man by the name of James Keshaw.
• 1:31:07
  After battling alcoholism for many years, the bottle finally
• 1:31:11
  took its toll and caused cirrhosis of the liver which
• 1:31:15
  became fatal. Among the pews of friends and
• 1:31:19
  family paying their respects sits a young man, the grandson
• 1:31:24
  of James, 21 year old Don Decker.
• 1:31:28
  Donna Be granted furlough from his four to 12 month jail
• 1:31:32
  sentence for receiving stolen property in order to attend the
• 1:31:37
  funeral. But as he sat facing the body of
• 1:31:40
  his grandfather as others paid their last respects and gave
• 1:31:45
  glowing speeches about the man, Don clenched his fists.
• 1:31:51
  Only he harbored a dark secret that no one else knew, and this
• 1:31:55
  secret is perhaps what contributed to his troubled
• 1:31:59
  adolescence. When it was his turn to walk up
• 1:32:03
  and say goodbye to James. As he stood over his body, the
• 1:32:08
  face of evil looked back at him with eyes closed for the first
• 1:32:13
  time. Dom would later say it felt like
• 1:32:17
  good triumphing over evil that day.
• 1:32:20
  And I truly felt like everything was going to get better, like it
• 1:32:24
  was a turning point in my life. The secret that he had been
• 1:32:29
  holding on to for so long was that James, his very own
• 1:32:33
  grandfather, had abused him from the time he was seven years old
• 1:32:38
  until he was a teenager and no one else knew.
• 1:32:42
  All the years of pain and fear were caused by that man.
• 1:32:47
  The very same that now laid in the coffin.
• 1:32:50
  The very same that Dawn was now having to hear others praise and
• 1:32:55
  who he was publicly obligated to mourn.
• 1:33:00
  At the conclusion of the funeral, when James casket was
• 1:33:03
  laid into its final resting place, he couldn't stand the way
• 1:33:07
  his parents had glorified the man's memory.
• 1:33:10
  But given the circumstances he was in, furloughed from jail and
• 1:33:15
  with emotions raw amongst everybody, he decided it would
• 1:33:18
  be for the best to go and stay the night with some family
• 1:33:22
  friends instead before he was set to return to finish out his
• 1:33:26
  sentence. Bob and Jeannie Kiefer were
• 1:33:29
  longtime friends of the family and were quite fond of Dawn, so
• 1:33:34
  they were more than happy to have him join them for the
• 1:33:37
  night. As the night progressed, the
• 1:33:40
  three of them were enjoying each other's company, but it seemed
• 1:33:44
  like all the feelings that had been stirred up from the
• 1:33:46
  memories of his grandfather's abuse at the funeral were coming
• 1:33:50
  back to haunt Dawn. He fell on edge and uneasy when
• 1:33:56
  suddenly the air around him vibrated with a bone deep chill.
• 1:34:02
  Almost simultaneously after this occurred, water began to drip
• 1:34:06
  from the ceiling and down the living room walls.
• 1:34:10
  Don then fell into an eerie trance like state, staring at
• 1:34:14
  nothing and yet everything at the same time.
• 1:34:18
  The Kiefer's were perplexed at what was happening and tried
• 1:34:22
  examining all reasonable possibilities.
• 1:34:25
  Thinking they had a leak, they contacted their landlord, a man
• 1:34:29
  named Ron Van Wy. Upon arriving, Ron too quickly
• 1:34:34
  became perplexed. The leak, or so they thought,
• 1:34:39
  was obvious. But what was strange to him was
• 1:34:42
  that there was no piping that ran through the front part of
• 1:34:45
  the house. Certainly none that could spring
• 1:34:48
  a leak from the ceiling or the walls.
• 1:34:52
  None at all. On top of this strangeness, when
• 1:34:56
  observing the water's direction, Ron noticed that there was
• 1:35:00
  indeed no sense of direction. The water was not only coming
• 1:35:04
  from the top, down from the ceiling in the walls, but it was
• 1:35:08
  going from the floor and up the walls and direct contradiction
• 1:35:14
  to the laws of gravity and to anything that he had ever seen.
• 1:35:19
  Shocked and needing multiple witnesses to assure himself that
• 1:35:23
  he wasn't crazy, Ron phoned his wife Romaine to come and take a
• 1:35:27
  look as well. Upon her arrival, she was just
• 1:35:32
  as perplexed and became scared at what was happening since it
• 1:35:36
  defied all logic and the leak, or so they thought, only became
• 1:35:41
  worse. So the landlords did the only
• 1:35:44
  thing that they could do, they called the police.
• 1:35:48
  Shortly after that call, a patrol car arrived with Officer
• 1:35:52
  John Beaujin, who, after briefly stepping inside the home, became
• 1:35:57
  drenched in water and also witnessed the bizarre,
• 1:36:01
  otherworldly activity to which he had no explanation for
• 1:36:05
  either. So to prove his sanity and to
• 1:36:09
  back up a report, he called upon his partner, an officer named
• 1:36:14
  Richard Volbert. When Richard arrived, he wanted
• 1:36:18
  to be briefed on exactly what was going on, but Beaujan didn't
• 1:36:22
  want to give him any sort of a preconceived notion and just
• 1:36:26
  told him to trust him on this one.
• 1:36:29
  After some back and forth, Richard finally conceded and
• 1:36:32
  followed John into the key for residents he would later
• 1:36:36
  describe the incident as. So I walked in the door, I
• 1:36:41
  couldn't have gotten 2 steps in the door and I was pelted by
• 1:36:44
  water as we were discussing a potential leak and as we were
• 1:36:49
  being told that there were no pipes in that part of the house.
• 1:36:52
  As we stood just inside the house a droplet of water was
• 1:36:57
  traveling horizontally and passed right between US and out
• 1:37:02
  into the next room. As I retell this story I have a
• 1:37:06
  chill up my spine and the hair on my neck is standing up.
• 1:37:12
  John would go on to say things were happening in this house
• 1:37:15
  that I couldn't have ever possibly dreamed of happening
• 1:37:19
  and there was no way to explain what was going on.
• 1:37:22
  Shocked by what they were witnessing, the two officers
• 1:37:25
  asked the family to step outside of the house and out of the
• 1:37:29
  water while they left to report the incident to the chief
• 1:37:32
  himself. The Wise decided to stay at the
• 1:37:35
  property while the Kiefer's and Don walked across the street to
• 1:37:40
  a local restaurant for something to eat.
• 1:37:43
  Within seconds of everyone departing, the water suddenly
• 1:37:46
  stopped within the house, and aside from the home being
• 1:37:50
  drenched, it was back to normal. No more dripping water and no
• 1:37:55
  more mist. This left Ron and his wife, only
• 1:37:59
  to speculate that whatever was happening was coming from one of
• 1:38:03
  the three, because when they left, so did it.
• 1:38:08
  Pam Scrofano, who owned the pizzeria opposite the Kiefer's
• 1:38:11
  house where the three ended up in, was a friend of the Kiefer's
• 1:38:16
  and knew Dawn as well. Upon greeting the three of them,
• 1:38:20
  she noticed that Dawn was distant, like he was looking at
• 1:38:24
  you, but looking through you, a deeply religious woman.
• 1:38:29
  She sent something evil about him, like the devil was working
• 1:38:34
  through Dawn Decker and recommended that they contact
• 1:38:37
  someone at the church for help. Within mere seconds of
• 1:38:41
  mentioning this, droplets of water hit the table in front of
• 1:38:45
  them, and soon the very same phenomena that was originally
• 1:38:50
  happening in the house was also now taking place inside the
• 1:38:55
  pizzeria. Sensing this evil Pam ran to the
• 1:39:00
  cash register where she had an old cross necklace.
• 1:39:04
  She took it out and placed it around Don's neck.
• 1:39:08
  As soon as it touched his skin, he got burned.
• 1:39:12
  He began to scream and pull the necklace off of him.
• 1:39:16
  It was charred black. As the trio departed the
• 1:39:20
  pizzeria and headed back to their home, the strange activity
• 1:39:24
  inside once again ceased. It's important to note that
• 1:39:29
  nothing like this had ever happened at the Kiefer residence
• 1:39:32
  or Pam's Pizzeria. No plumbing issues, nothing that
• 1:39:37
  could be considered even remotely similar.
• 1:39:40
  Convening inside the home once again, they met Ron and his
• 1:39:43
  wife. Ron suspected that Don had
• 1:39:46
  something to do with what was happening, and after some
• 1:39:50
  discussion, an argument erupted among the group.
• 1:39:54
  This led to Jeannie screaming at Don, telling him that they knew
• 1:39:58
  it was him, that he had to make all of this stop.
• 1:40:02
  After the words left her mouth, the pots and pans above the
• 1:40:06
  stove began to shake, and the lights around them began to
• 1:40:11
  flicker. Don Decker.
• 1:40:14
  Was no longer in control of his body.
• 1:40:18
  Everyone watched in horror as Don levitated multiple feet into
• 1:40:23
  the air and rotated several times.
• 1:40:27
  He was then thrown out of the kitchen where they were and into
• 1:40:31
  an entirely different room. Don himself would later recount
• 1:40:35
  the event like this. It wasn't like someone grabbing
• 1:40:39
  your hand or picking you up. I felt this force over my entire
• 1:40:44
  body. I'm a big man and I've always
• 1:40:47
  been assertive, but this, whatever this was, made me feel
• 1:40:52
  like a newborn child. I'm scared right now just
• 1:40:56
  thinking about it. Dawn now laid unconscious on the
• 1:40:59
  floor and the rain began again. The wise and the kiefers were an
• 1:41:06
  absolute shock and disbelief at what had just taken place.
• 1:41:11
  They knew it was tied to dawn, but they had no idea just what
• 1:41:14
  it was, but they felt that it was evil.
• 1:41:19
  A few hours after the strange incident witnessed by the police
• 1:41:22
  officers, they arrived back at the residence alongside their
• 1:41:26
  very heated police chief. As he made his way into the home
• 1:41:30
  with the two officers behind him, he too was pelted with
• 1:41:33
  water just as they had been. Now first probably feeling like
• 1:41:38
  he was on the spot and perhaps slightly embarrassed, he claimed
• 1:41:42
  that this wasn't even a police issue, but a plumbing issue,
• 1:41:47
  despite then being told that there were no pipes in that part
• 1:41:50
  of the house, and this was even confirmed by blueprints of the
• 1:41:53
  home. After taking a look around at
• 1:41:56
  the rest of the home, which was bone dry, the chief then angrily
• 1:42:00
  ordered the two officers to escort him back home.
• 1:42:04
  He would be the only officer that night to not admit to
• 1:42:07
  anything strange happening. He then directed Officers John
• 1:42:12
  and Richard to not file a report and to not speak about the
• 1:42:15
  incident at all, but word would get out the following morning.
• 1:42:22
  Acting against the specific orders from their chief, the two
• 1:42:25
  officers returned to the residence along with three
• 1:42:28
  veteran officers as well. They too would see and
• 1:42:32
  experience the bizarre rain inside the home.
• 1:42:35
  So they decided to try something to attempt to get to the bottom
• 1:42:39
  of what exactly was going on. They asked if they could place a
• 1:42:43
  paper bag over Don's head, to which Don agreed.
• 1:42:47
  This was so he would have no way of seeing anything.
• 1:42:51
  He'd have no preconceived notions of what could be placed
• 1:42:54
  on him or in his hands. They then placed a gold cross
• 1:42:58
  necklace from one of the officers into his hand.
• 1:43:03
  Lieutenant William Davies, one of the officers present who
• 1:43:07
  placed the cross into his hand, described the incident like
• 1:43:11
  this. As soon as the necklace touched
• 1:43:14
  his palm, he said it burnt him. He would have had no idea what
• 1:43:19
  it was. I saw what I believe to be smoke
• 1:43:23
  of some sort coming from the necklace or his hand.
• 1:43:26
  As he dropped the necklace. I picked it up and it was hot.
• 1:43:31
  Not burning hot, but hot enough to concern me.
• 1:43:35
  Then suddenly with the force, as if a bus hit him, he lifted up
• 1:43:41
  and was thrown across the room, hitting the back wall.
• 1:43:45
  Upon removing the bag from him, he was clearly dazed and had
• 1:43:50
  three bloody and fresh claw marks across his neck.
• 1:43:54
  I've been a cop for 40 years and I've never ran into anything
• 1:43:59
  like this ever. Never before and never again
• 1:44:03
  after. There's always an explanation,
• 1:44:07
  but in this case there was no explanation.
• 1:44:12
  The police would later leave again with no answers as to what
• 1:44:16
  was taking place, believing it to be a spiritual matter.
• 1:44:20
  Don was placed on the couch in the living room where the rain
• 1:44:24
  continued to go from mist to showers at random and varying
• 1:44:29
  times. After making multiple desperate
• 1:44:33
  calls to every Protestant and Catholic religious leader in
• 1:44:36
  Shroudsburg, only one didn't turn them down.
• 1:44:40
  Ron was able to convince an evangelical preacher, who went
• 1:44:44
  by the name of Reverend Johnson, to come over and pray with Don.
• 1:44:49
  As she arrived and began to pray, the rest of the group held
• 1:44:53
  hands and vigil and did what they could to support her.
• 1:44:57
  As the first words left her lips, dawn began to convulse and
• 1:45:02
  shake. The rain intensified and his
• 1:45:06
  body began to twist into unnatural positions.
• 1:45:11
  But as she continued, he slowly but surely began to relax in the
• 1:45:17
  rain seemed to stop. Although those present believed
• 1:45:22
  that a miracle had been performed, the results of that
• 1:45:25
  prayer session would only prove temporary, perhaps placing into
• 1:45:30
  hibernation whatever was inside Don Decker.
• 1:45:35
  Once his furlough was over, Don Decker returned back to jail to
• 1:45:39
  finish his sentence and within just a few days the mysterious
• 1:45:44
  reign returned. Upon his return to jail, Don was
• 1:45:48
  placed in a cell with another inmate and had the thought enter
• 1:45:52
  his mind that if he could make it rain in the cell, perhaps he
• 1:45:56
  could get to be alone. Almost as soon as he thought
• 1:46:00
  that, the rain began. It was materializing out of the
• 1:46:05
  concrete floor and flowing upward.
• 1:46:09
  The other inmate was horrified and screamed for the guards to
• 1:46:13
  let him out. Thinking they had some kind of
• 1:46:15
  plumbing issue, the guards opened the cell and removed that
• 1:46:19
  inmate as well as Decker. At first he was accused of
• 1:46:24
  throwing water onto the walls from the sink or from the toilet
• 1:46:27
  by the guards, but upon these accusations Don rebuttal with I
• 1:46:33
  can control it. This time the feeling was
• 1:46:36
  different. This time he felt powerful and
• 1:46:39
  didn't control. Upon hearing this, the guard
• 1:46:43
  laughed and said if you can control this rain, make it rain
• 1:46:47
  in the warden's office. An offer that Don couldn't
• 1:46:51
  refuse. The warden would then describe
• 1:46:54
  what happened and these are the words of Lieutenant Warden David
• 1:46:58
  Keenhold. I was in my office filling out
• 1:47:01
  paperwork with no one else around.
• 1:47:04
  It was approximately 8:00 PM in the evening.
• 1:47:07
  I didn't notice it at that time, but my shirt was dripping down.
• 1:47:11
  I heard a knock at the door and little did I know that it was
• 1:47:14
  the same officer that was just with Don Decker.
• 1:47:18
  I wasn't aware of the situation at the time.
• 1:47:21
  He told me to look at my shirt and there was no explanation as
• 1:47:25
  to where the water could have come from.
• 1:47:27
  The officer then became very frightened of what had happened
• 1:47:31
  and after explaining the situation to me, I too became
• 1:47:34
  frightened. Shortly after the rain in the
• 1:47:37
  warden's office, a frantic call was placed to a local chaplain,
• 1:47:42
  a man named Reverend William Blackburn.
• 1:47:45
  He soon found himself shaking hands with the warden and
• 1:47:48
  several officers as he was escorted into the jail and into
• 1:47:51
  an empty cell. Within minutes he came face to
• 1:47:55
  face with Don Decker, who by this time was beginning to fear
• 1:48:00
  the feeling he had inside of him.
• 1:48:03
  That powerful and evil feeling. He was now asking for the
• 1:48:07
  Reverend's help and freeing him of whatever this thing was.
• 1:48:12
  Blackburn wasn't convinced at first.
• 1:48:14
  He told Decker that his life would be much easier if he just
• 1:48:18
  stopped all this nonsense and attention seeking.
• 1:48:21
  He would go on later to describe the situation like this.
• 1:48:25
  Almost immediately after I accused him, Don's demeanor
• 1:48:29
  changed. The glazed look came over him
• 1:48:32
  and a horrible smell entered the room.
• 1:48:35
  Doctors, nurses and medical personnel will tell you that
• 1:48:39
  when you walk into a room when there's someone dying of disease
• 1:48:43
  or of cancer, there's a smell to it.
• 1:48:46
  I smelled that smell multiplied by at least five times.
• 1:48:51
  It was evil and foreboding. Don's glazed expression then
• 1:48:56
  switched to 1. Of malice and calculation.
• 1:49:00
  He exclaimed. I have powers that you don't and
• 1:49:04
  I can make it rain. He then raised his hand and
• 1:49:08
  rubbed his fingers together and it started to rain inside that
• 1:49:11
  cell. It was like a devil's rain, a
• 1:49:15
  mist. I was in the presence of evil.
• 1:49:19
  I started opening my Bible to begin to pray and Don said I
• 1:49:23
  don't want you to pray for me, to which I decided to anyways.
• 1:49:28
  I started to read to him and the strange thing is that even
• 1:49:32
  though I was soaked, the pages of my Bible never got wet and
• 1:49:36
  that was truly frightening. Although the session was short,
• 1:49:41
  upon uttering the words that he was now bound in the name of
• 1:49:44
  Jesus Christ, the rain stopped and a peace overtook dawn.
• 1:49:49
  When he finally came to, he thanked the reverend with tears
• 1:49:54
  in his eyes, and the two hugged and prayed together again.
• 1:49:59
  In the words of Reverend Blackburn, there is no doubt in
• 1:50:02
  my mind that he was possessed. No human being could do what he
• 1:50:07
  did in that room. There is no way that he did
• 1:50:09
  anything to fool me whatsoever. Whatever happened was spiritual
• 1:50:14
  and it was not from God. I can guarantee you that it was
• 1:50:19
  not from God. From this moment forward, the
• 1:50:22
  rain has stopped for now. Don Decker would later say that
• 1:50:26
  he takes things day by day and that fortunately, the rain
• 1:50:31
  hasn't returned. As for his grandfather, he
• 1:50:34
  thinks whatever happened was related to him.
• 1:50:38
  He thinks that considering where he thinks he ended up, maybe he
• 1:50:42
  was able to make a deal with someone and have yet another
• 1:50:45
  chance to abuse him. What makes this case so unique
• 1:50:50
  and interesting is that all the people involved are credible
• 1:50:53
  people. I mean we have some family
• 1:50:55
  friends sure, but they stated they had nothing take place in
• 1:50:59
  that house prior to Don's arrival that morning.
• 1:51:03
  We have the landlord of the family's home and his wife not
• 1:51:07
  only reaffirming that there weren't any prior issues, but
• 1:51:10
  that there were no pipes in that area of the house.
• 1:51:13
  We then have 6 police officers including the chief over the
• 1:51:17
  case experience the phenomena and he was the only one that
• 1:51:21
  said that nothing took place. We have a business owner where
• 1:51:24
  the phenomena took place at her establishment as well.
• 1:51:28
  Then several guards at the jail and which he goes back to finish
• 1:51:31
  serving his time witness things and the warden of the jail
• 1:51:35
  himself and the police officers. Three of them were seasoned
• 1:51:39
  lieutenants I might add and anyone with a proper reputation
• 1:51:43
  unless they really experienced something would risk that in my
• 1:51:47
  opinion. So was it demonic infestation?
• 1:51:51
  Possession, poltergeist activity, or something else
• 1:51:56
  entirely? When we have so many credible
• 1:51:58
  eyewitnesses recanting the same details, saying what they saw,
• 1:52:03
  experienced and felt was a phenomena not of this world, it
• 1:52:08
  truly makes you wonder. And if it wasn't spiritual,
• 1:52:12
  could Don's childhood trauma have allowed him to break into a
• 1:52:16
  part of the mind that could somehow 'cause these kinds of
• 1:52:19
  things allow him to manipulate the weather of his surroundings,
• 1:52:24
  move objects, and even cause harm to himself?
• 1:52:28
  We may never truly know the answers to this mystery in
• 1:52:31
  particular, and it very much still is a mystery to this day.
• 1:52:36
  As far as an update on Don Decker, besides multiple show
• 1:52:40
  appearances and interviews to discuss his story over the
• 1:52:43
  years, the last known activity that I could find of him was
• 1:52:47
  that back in 2012, he was charged with arson of a local
• 1:52:51
  restaurant in the Poconos Mountains of Pennsylvania.
• 1:52:55
  It seems like perhaps he was paid to set fire to the
• 1:52:58
  establishment by the owner, maybe for insurance fraud.
• 1:53:02
  As far as the outcome of the case, I couldn't find additional
• 1:53:05
  details. Perhaps whatever evil that was
• 1:53:08
  inside Dawn got the best of him at this time.
• 1:53:12
  Or, you know, we're all human, we do make mistakes without
• 1:53:16
  otherworldly influence as well. Just the thought.
• 1:53:19
  Wherever he is, I do have to say that his story is an amazing and
• 1:53:23
  intriguing 1 and I wish him nothing but the best.
• 1:53:28
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• 1:53:31
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• 1:53:35
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• 1:53:40
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• 1:53:43
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• 1:53:45
  content, and that's been a big uphill battle over the last four
• 1:53:49
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• 1:53:51
  Mystery Archives, just know it helps me out much more than you
• 1:53:55
  could ever know. Rob and Vicki Graves had found
• 1:54:09
  what appeared to be their dream home.
• 1:54:12
  Looking to escape the big city life and take up a more rural
• 1:54:15
  one for themselves and their two teenage sons, they found Fox
• 1:54:20
  Hollow Farm and were shocked at how affordable it was for the
• 1:54:24
  sheer size and quality of the property.
• 1:54:27
  Sensing that it was too good to be true, they asked what could
• 1:54:30
  possibly be wrong with it because at a passing glance it
• 1:54:34
  seemed absolutely gorgeous. Then it came to Rob.
• 1:54:39
  He had remembered the name from a news broadcast many years ago.
• 1:54:43
  Unbeknownst to him and his wife, they were now standing on the
• 1:54:47
  very same grounds that were once owned by Herb Baumeister.
• 1:54:51
  Tory is serial killer. They immediately brought this up
• 1:54:55
  to the real estate agent who was showing them the property and
• 1:54:58
  were immediately told that that was indeed the case.
• 1:55:02
  That the private investor had indeed purchased the estate from
• 1:55:05
  the widow of Herb following the disturbing discovery of the
• 1:55:08
  bodies back in the 1990s, but that it had been completely
• 1:55:13
  remodeled from head to toe, removing any and all remnants of
• 1:55:17
  what it looked like when the murders had taken place all
• 1:55:20
  those years ago. But that's why it was indeed so
• 1:55:23
  affordable, because no one wanted to live there due to the
• 1:55:27
  history. After some further discussion
• 1:55:30
  among the couple, they ultimately decided to purchase
• 1:55:33
  the property. Within a couple weeks, the
• 1:55:36
  family moves in and falls in love with Fox Hollow Farm.
• 1:55:41
  The teenage sons soon make it a habit to play outside and then
• 1:55:44
  wash off in the pool in the basement, soon tracking dirt and
• 1:55:49
  gravel all throughout the home. One day, Vicki is vacuuming up
• 1:55:53
  the dirt that the boys had brought in from the outside
• 1:55:56
  around the pool when suddenly her vacuum loses power.
• 1:56:01
  Believing that perhaps she had accidentally unplugged it from
• 1:56:04
  the outlet, she plugged it back in and continued her work.
• 1:56:09
  Within several more minutes, it happened again.
• 1:56:12
  Perplexed this time because she was even more aware and careful
• 1:56:16
  about the cord in the outlet. She knew she hadn't unplugged
• 1:56:20
  it, so she plugged it back in and triple checked that it
• 1:56:23
  wasn't just falling out of the outlet by pulling the cord.
• 1:56:27
  Evermore aware this time she goes back to vacuuming but
• 1:56:31
  keeping a present eye on the cord itself and to her amazement
• 1:56:35
  it pulls out on its own as if someone had grabbed and pulled
• 1:56:40
  it out of the socket. Startled, she drops the vacuum
• 1:56:44
  and is beside herself. She doesn't know how to make
• 1:56:47
  sense of what had just happened and this would just be the
• 1:56:50
  beginning of the strangeness that would occur.
• 1:56:55
  Rob worked at a car dealership and one of his employees was a
• 1:56:58
  man named Joe Joe had been a great employee, but had a
• 1:57:02
  problem of being chronically late most of the time.
• 1:57:05
  As he probed to figure out what was going on, Joe informed Rob
• 1:57:09
  that he lived over an hour away and really needed the job and
• 1:57:13
  would be willing to move closer if the opportunity presented
• 1:57:16
  itself. Well, Rob thought about it and
• 1:57:20
  ended up offering Joe a place to rent.
• 1:57:23
  Located on Fox Hollow Farm, they had a guest house that they were
• 1:57:26
  considering renting out as apartments for quite some time,
• 1:57:30
  and this seemed like the perfect opportunity to benefit everyone
• 1:57:33
  involved. Joe would indeed move in just a
• 1:57:36
  few days later. It takes several hours, but
• 1:57:39
  within that time frame they're able to get everything inside
• 1:57:43
  and finish the move. Exhausted, Joe decides to retire
• 1:57:47
  for the night with his dog Fred. As he lays down to sleep in his
• 1:57:51
  newly set up bed, he then finds himself in a horrific nightmare.
• 1:57:56
  He's being chased throughout Fox Hollow Farm by something he
• 1:58:00
  can't see. The dream is so intense that it
• 1:58:03
  causes him to sleepwalk, which wasn't something that he was
• 1:58:07
  known to do. He began to run while still
• 1:58:10
  dreaming and ran directly into the door frame as he tried to
• 1:58:14
  escape the guest house. Falling back, he knocked into a
• 1:58:18
  nearby glass of water, which fell and shattered, cutting his
• 1:58:22
  hands. The impact and cutting of his
• 1:58:25
  hands finally woke him up and he was forced to sit back and
• 1:58:29
  ponder just what had taken place and things would only intensify
• 1:58:34
  from here another day. Soon after, Rob was painting the
• 1:58:38
  side of their helm a different color.
• 1:58:40
  As he and his wife remarked on how nice the finished job will
• 1:58:43
  be. She spots something out of the
• 1:58:45
  corner of her eye. She had seen a man in a red
• 1:58:49
  shirt staring at them. As she broke away from her
• 1:58:52
  husband and began to approach the figure, it started to walk
• 1:58:55
  away from her and quickly disappeared as if it never
• 1:58:59
  existed. The couple then called out and
• 1:59:03
  checked the perimeter but never found anyone.
• 1:59:06
  They dismissed the person as nothing more than a curious
• 1:59:09
  trespasser. I mean, after all, they did
• 1:59:12
  purchase a serial killer's home. It has had to accept that
• 1:59:15
  curious people may sneak up just to get a look at their home.
• 1:59:20
  Later that night, Joe was doing the dishes in his apartment when
• 1:59:24
  he suddenly gets a series of knocks on his front door,
• 1:59:28
  telling the person it'll just be a minute.
• 1:59:30
  As he dries his hands off to go and answer the door, the series
• 1:59:34
  of knocks begin to grow louder and more aggressive.
• 1:59:38
  Thinking it was extremely strange or extremely urgent
• 1:59:42
  concerning Vicki or Rob, he went and answered the doors.
• 1:59:46
  It was still being knocked upon. However, as he opened the door,
• 1:59:51
  there was no one to be found. Automatically on guard, he peers
• 1:59:55
  outside. The knocking had been happening
• 1:59:58
  when he answered the door, so no person could have got very far
• 2:00:02
  while he answered. Mid knock he glanced around and
• 2:00:06
  yet saw and heard nothing. He stepped outside and began to
• 2:00:10
  examine the roof in the nearby areas and still there was
• 2:00:15
  nothing. Thoroughly weirded out at this
• 2:00:18
  point, he made his way back inside and bolted, the door
• 2:00:22
  locked behind him. He started to make his way back
• 2:00:24
  to the kitchen to finish doing his dishes, but he spotted a man
• 2:00:28
  standing in his bedroom staring at him.
• 2:00:32
  Upon spotting the figure, his dog begins to growl and make
• 2:00:37
  sounds that he's never heard him make before, staring directly in
• 2:00:41
  the direction of the bedroom. Already on edge, he ran into the
• 2:00:46
  bedroom and flipped the light on only to discover that there was
• 2:00:51
  again no one there. Searching the entire apartment,
• 2:00:56
  he again found nothing. Trying to rationalize and clear
• 2:01:00
  his mind, he decided to take his dog Fred for a walk to calm down
• 2:01:05
  and unwind for the evening. While on his walk around the
• 2:01:09
  property, he thought to check on Rob and Vicki's house to see if
• 2:01:13
  the lights were on. This would indicate to him that
• 2:01:16
  perhaps they were the ones who had knocked on his door and
• 2:01:19
  therefore he could rest easy and figure out what it was about.
• 2:01:22
  The following morning. However, upon arriving at their
• 2:01:26
  house, he found it completely blacked out.
• 2:01:29
  They had already gone to bed for the night.
• 2:01:32
  Fred, who was always a loyal and obedient dog, always walked with
• 2:01:36
  him without a leash and would always follow his commands.
• 2:01:41
  However, tonight would be a different story.
• 2:01:44
  Deciding to head back to his apartment, he motioned for Fred
• 2:01:47
  to join him, but the dog would not budget.
• 2:01:51
  He suddenly began to growl and then bolted into the nearby tree
• 2:01:55
  line. Instinctively, Joe ran after his
• 2:01:58
  dog, but not before seeing what his dog was running after.
• 2:02:03
  Before his eyes and the very same tree line was a man in a
• 2:02:07
  red shirt. Although he was absolutely
• 2:02:10
  terrified, Joe couldn't let anything happen to his beloved
• 2:02:13
  dog, so he continued to run towards this man, when suddenly
• 2:02:19
  whoever or whatever this was disappeared before his eyes,
• 2:02:25
  although slightly behind. He would quickly catch up to
• 2:02:28
  Fred and now noticed him not acting aggressive at all, but
• 2:02:32
  rather showing his belly in submission, staring in the
• 2:02:36
  direction of Joe. Joe, knowing his dog, knew that
• 2:02:40
  something very strange had to be up with him.
• 2:02:44
  He suddenly felt as if someone was staring directly at him.
• 2:02:48
  He slowly turned around to see the apparition of a man in a red
• 2:02:52
  shirt with a twisted face staring back at him just several
• 2:02:58
  feet away. Joe, as most of us would, ran
• 2:03:02
  out of there as fast as he could, his loyal companion
• 2:03:06
  following him. The two run as fast as they can
• 2:03:09
  back to the apartment, where they rush inside, lock and
• 2:03:13
  deadbolt the door, and nervously watch out of the blinds for the
• 2:03:17
  rest of the night. The following morning, and even
• 2:03:20
  more exhausted, Joe makes his way to Vicki and Rob's house to
• 2:03:24
  discuss the prior night's events.
• 2:03:26
  As he's telling both of them what happened, Vicki starts to
• 2:03:30
  become emotional. She too had seen the man in red
• 2:03:33
  just days earlier. She points to where she saw him
• 2:03:37
  and Loan, and behold, it's the exact same spot that Joe had
• 2:03:41
  encountered the entity the night before.
• 2:03:43
  As the day progressed tonight, Joe yet again found himself in
• 2:03:47
  his apartment, hoping to finally get some rest.
• 2:03:51
  But as he settled down in his bed, he was suddenly startled by
• 2:03:55
  knocking at his door as he yelled out who is it?
• 2:04:00
  As he made his way towards the door, he didn't receive an
• 2:04:03
  audible answer back, just more aggressive knocking at the door,
• 2:04:08
  the door itself now shaking, facing his fear of the unknown.
• 2:04:14
  Mid knock, Joe throws the door open only to meet face to face
• 2:04:20
  with nothing. As he frantically looks around
• 2:04:23
  the yard while holding the door, he notices that the doors
• 2:04:27
  knocking apparatus is sticking straight out as if someone is
• 2:04:32
  holding it. It then drops one last time,
• 2:04:36
  knocking the door. Absolutely petrified, Joe slams
• 2:04:40
  the door and locks it. As he tries to catch his breath
• 2:04:44
  and take several steps backwards, he sees the door knob
• 2:04:47
  begin to turn. Then, without warning, the door
• 2:04:51
  bursts open, shattering the lock.
• 2:04:55
  The open door, yet again, reveals no one.
• 2:04:58
  After a moment of frozen terror, Joe runs outside and into the
• 2:05:02
  front yard of his apartment, screaming and searching all
• 2:05:06
  around for just who could be doing this.
• 2:05:09
  After several minutes, he stares back into the house to the open
• 2:05:13
  front door and sees a man dressed in all white standing
• 2:05:17
  there. He soaked from head to toe in
• 2:05:19
  what appears to be water and is screaming in a muted voice as if
• 2:05:25
  he's being held underwater. He then bolts towards Joe and
• 2:05:29
  seemingly disappears into a mist, frantically calling out to
• 2:05:34
  his dog Fred to accompany him, Joe frantically makes his way to
• 2:05:37
  Rob and Vicki's house on the property.
• 2:05:40
  He's so terrified that he's shaking now, and Rob and Vicki
• 2:05:43
  are just as scared. They now truly believe that they
• 2:05:46
  are dealing with something paranormal in nature in order to
• 2:05:50
  rationalize the situation and make sense of what was taking
• 2:05:54
  place. They begin to believe that
• 2:05:56
  they're experiencing the results of the murders conducted by Erb
• 2:06:00
  Baumeister, and that his victims are either trapped here somehow,
• 2:06:06
  or their energy is stuck in an endless loop, replaying their
• 2:06:10
  final and tragic moments over and over and over again.
• 2:06:19
  Refusing to return to his apartment, Rob and Vicki, being
• 2:06:22
  the supportive friends they were, agreed that Joe could stay
• 2:06:25
  the night with them and together they would begin researching
• 2:06:28
  online to try and formulate some kind of a plan of action of what
• 2:06:33
  to do next. As they collectively scour the
• 2:06:36
  Baumeister case information, they find themselves looking at
• 2:06:40
  the list of identified victims. As they get deeper into the
• 2:06:44
  details, Joe is shocked. He stops them on a picture of a
• 2:06:48
  man in a white shirt. That was the man I saw in my
• 2:06:52
  apartment who was soaked from head to toe and screaming.
• 2:06:57
  Although this information still scares them, it does help
• 2:07:00
  reassure them that they are indeed dealing with the victims
• 2:07:04
  of this horrendous tragedy. They are especially convinced
• 2:07:08
  considering many of the remains have never been identified, so
• 2:07:12
  they continue to research the case.
• 2:07:14
  After several uneventful days, Joe finds himself almost
• 2:07:18
  compelled to walk around the property with his dog, except
• 2:07:22
  this time in broad daylight. So apprehensively, he makes his
• 2:07:27
  way with Fred to the area where both he and Vicki have seen the
• 2:07:31
  Man in Red on separate occasions.
• 2:07:34
  Just past the tree line on The Walking path, Joe has stopped by
• 2:07:38
  what looks to be a bone. He believes that it's impossible
• 2:07:42
  that such a bone could have been missed during the extensive
• 2:07:44
  searches over the years, but none the less it was right here,
• 2:07:49
  right now, as if it had been placed there for him to
• 2:07:53
  discover. Quickly consulting and showing
• 2:07:55
  Rob and Vicki the discovery, they too believed that this
• 2:07:59
  could be a bone belonging to the mysterious Man in Red.
• 2:08:02
  They ended up contacting the lead detective on the Baumeister
• 2:08:05
  case and submitted the bone, which turned out to be a human
• 2:08:09
  femur bone, in his evidence and for analysis.
• 2:08:13
  They then requested if the investigator himself could come
• 2:08:17
  out to the property and explain to them just where things had
• 2:08:20
  taken place so they could have a better understanding of what
• 2:08:24
  happened, to which he obliged. Several days passed and Joe by
• 2:08:29
  this point had made his way back to his apartment to try and
• 2:08:33
  settle back in given the new information.
• 2:08:36
  While on his computer checking his emails, he began to hear
• 2:08:39
  scraping, almost metallic like sound originating from the
• 2:08:43
  kitchen. Upon further examination he sees
• 2:08:47
  that all of his butcher knives from his knife block have been
• 2:08:51
  neatly arranged in his sink, placed in a row equally spaced
• 2:08:56
  from one another. Glancing around the room, he
• 2:08:59
  spots fresh deep cuts in the wood of the nearby counter
• 2:09:02
  cabinet. He believes that this could be a
• 2:09:05
  sign for one of the victims crying for help.
• 2:09:09
  He starts to try and figure out the mystery.
• 2:09:12
  He takes out his phone and begins recording, asking probing
• 2:09:16
  questions to whoever or whatever could be there and hopes of
• 2:09:21
  helping them in any way that he can.
• 2:09:23
  Prior to this, of course, he turned off any and all
• 2:09:26
  appliances that could interfere with the process.
• 2:09:30
  He begins by asking a series of questions and doesn't seem to
• 2:09:33
  get much of anything, at least not audibly.
• 2:09:37
  But then, towards the end of his questions, Fred begins to growl.
• 2:09:41
  The same eerie growl he had any time they'd experienced
• 2:09:44
  something previously. Taking this as confirmation that
• 2:09:48
  perhaps his companion could see or hear something that he
• 2:09:51
  couldn't, he quickly downloads the audio file and begins to
• 2:09:55
  listen to it on his computer. And to his shock, he did indeed
• 2:10:00
  receive a response. This is the clip of the actual
• 2:10:04
  EVP that was recorded who keeps walking in the kitchen.
• 2:10:11
  He believes he hears the married one, but in all of their
• 2:10:15
  research, all of the victims were young, single gay men.
• 2:10:20
  The only one who was married was one Herb Baumeister.
• 2:10:25
  This revelation is startling. He not only believes that the
• 2:10:29
  victims were trapped within the grounds of Fox Hollow Farm, but
• 2:10:33
  that perhaps the serial killer himself could too be trapped
• 2:10:37
  here. What would follow would be
• 2:10:39
  dozens of paranormal investigations.
• 2:10:43
  And those investigations would lead the group to believe that
• 2:10:46
  they were not only dealing with the spirits of the victims
• 2:10:48
  haunting the grounds, but either a dark entity impersonating
• 2:10:52
  Baumeister or the killer himself.
• 2:10:56
  Several years after the events, the Graves family would end up
• 2:10:59
  selling Fox Hollow Farm, and it would continue to change hands
• 2:11:03
  over the years since then, leading to multiple new owners
• 2:11:07
  of the property. And although new information
• 2:11:10
  doesn't seem to be publicly available, it's still considered
• 2:11:14
  one of the most haunted places in Indiana, if not the world,
• 2:11:18
  given its unique and gruesome history.
• 2:11:22
  An independent film will go on to be made about it called The
• 2:11:25
  Haunting of Fox Hollow Farm. And Robert Graves, along with
• 2:11:29
  another man named Richard Estep who led many paranormal
• 2:11:33
  investigations at Fox Hollow Farm, will Co write a book
• 2:11:36
  detailing the family's creepy experiences and what they
• 2:11:40
  believe to be ultimately happening.
• 2:11:43
  So in conclusion, we know that Herb Baumeister was mentally ill
• 2:11:47
  ultimately, but what makes this case so strange and so
• 2:11:51
  compelling to me is that he was an outstanding member of his
• 2:11:55
  community for the longest time. He was the smiling neighbor, the
• 2:11:59
  charitable businessman, the happy family man, and overall a
• 2:12:04
  pillar of normalcy. But behind closed doors, his
• 2:12:09
  psyche, his soul, contained a darkness that most of us will
• 2:12:14
  never be able to comprehend, yet alone unravel and understand.
• 2:12:20
  So could the murderous deeds of a twisted individual trap souls
• 2:12:24
  on a property and perhaps open some kind of a portal?
• 2:12:28
  Could the unleashing of such energy, like what is expressed
• 2:12:31
  in a violent death, contribute to something like this?
• 2:12:35
  If it wasn't what's known as an intelligent haunting, where the
• 2:12:38
  spirits are aware of what has happened to them and are indeed
• 2:12:42
  trapped there, which very well could still be the case, then
• 2:12:46
  perhaps it could be a residual haunting where the events are of
• 2:12:50
  such magnitude and strength that they play on a loop for all
• 2:12:54
  time, but the souls who were involved have long since moved
• 2:12:59
  on. These are questions that we may
• 2:13:01
  never have answers to, but all things that we should ponder.
• 2:13:06
  The one thing is for certain, the malicious calculation of
• 2:13:10
  Herb Baumeister and the horrendous things that he did to
• 2:13:13
  the suspected 25 victims at Fox Hollow Farms should never be
• 2:13:18
  forgotten. They are indeed still
• 2:13:20
  identifying and using updated technology to identify remains
• 2:13:25
  that are still being found on the grounds.
• 2:13:27
  This has happened as recent as November of 2022.
• 2:13:31
  So if you happen to be a family member of someone that you
• 2:13:34
  suspect could be connected to this case, just know that my
• 2:13:38
  heart truly does go out to you and please contact the Hamilton
• 2:13:42
  County Coroner's Office at 317-770-4415.
• 2:13:50
  Besides remembering what happened, I also urge you to
• 2:13:53
  please respect the victims and their families as well as the
• 2:13:57
  family of Herb Baumeister if you should ever have anything to do
• 2:14:01
  with them. Throughout history, it has been
• 2:14:05
  speculated that many have been plagued by an ancient demonic
• 2:14:10
  force. From Mesopotamia to more modern
• 2:14:14
  times, This evil and terrifying entity as said to enter our
• 2:14:20
  world and wreak havoc upon those who dwell within it.
• 2:14:26
  When a seemingly normal family disregards the warnings and
• 2:14:31
  partakes in multiple Ouija board sessions, what happened next
• 2:14:36
  nearly destroyed them. This is the untold story of the
• 2:14:41
  demonic Zozo House of Oklahoma and the abhorrent creature that
• 2:14:47
  stalks its walls. Oklahoma City, a small but
• 2:15:05
  growing city in the heartland of America known for blue collar
• 2:15:10
  work and brick and mortar shops, red dirt and sports would soon
• 2:15:18
  become known for something much darker.
• 2:15:23
  A teenager by the name of Darren Evans was growing up here, a
• 2:15:27
  normal boy by all accounts, doing things that any teenagers
• 2:15:32
  would enjoy, hanging out with friends, shenanigans here and
• 2:15:37
  there, and dating girls. He began dating a girl named
• 2:15:43
  Brandy who attended school with him, and the two often found
• 2:15:47
  themselves visiting each other as often as they could, whether
• 2:15:52
  that was walking to and from school and between classes or
• 2:15:57
  visiting each other's homes. One day, while Brandy's home was
• 2:16:03
  having some plumbing work done on some pipes located underneath
• 2:16:07
  the house, the plumber doing the work would soon make a strange
• 2:16:12
  discovery. Located below the foundation of
• 2:16:16
  the home, covered in dirt, was an old Ouija board.
• 2:16:21
  The front letters were partially buried and the back of the board
• 2:16:26
  was solid black in color. Off to the side of where the
• 2:16:30
  board was found was an aged planchette.
• 2:16:35
  What made this finding even more bizarre was that 4 old jars sat
• 2:16:40
  on the corners of the board, speckled with dirt as well.
• 2:16:46
  Thinking perhaps the kids had stashed the board away and
• 2:16:49
  forgot about it, the worker told the young couple after his work
• 2:16:53
  was done about what he had found.
• 2:16:57
  And it's from here that things seemingly take a darker turn.
• 2:17:02
  Upon examining the discovery, they began to brush the dirt
• 2:17:06
  away from the jars. They were then shocked by what
• 2:17:10
  they found inside each one of the jars.
• 2:17:14
  Sitting on the four corners of the board were the decaying
• 2:17:18
  bodies of blackbirds, congealed blood and matter still present.
• 2:17:26
  Bewildered but intrigued, they sat the jars off to the side and
• 2:17:32
  picked up the board. As soon as his fingers made
• 2:17:36
  contact with the board, Darren seemed to have an instant
• 2:17:40
  connection with it. And with this soon came a
• 2:17:43
  burning curiosity to examine it. And this curiosity would
• 2:17:49
  manifest into obsession. With this, the couple took the
• 2:17:55
  board inside the home where they spoke with Brandy's mother.
• 2:18:00
  She actively practiced the Wiccan religion but had no idea
• 2:18:05
  who could have put the board there several days later.
• 2:18:09
  Curious as most teenagers are, Darren was an avid music fan and
• 2:18:16
  one night, after building up the courage to do it, he decided he
• 2:18:21
  was going to contact the deceased singer of the popular
• 2:18:24
  band ACDC, a man named Ronald Belfort Scott, using the board.
• 2:18:32
  Scott had passed away from alcohol poisoning in 1980.
• 2:18:37
  After lighting several candles, laying the board with letters
• 2:18:41
  facing towards him, and placing the planchette upon the board,
• 2:18:46
  he began his session. At first, nothing seemed to
• 2:18:50
  happen, but Darren was still feeling this otherworldly
• 2:18:54
  connection to something within the board itself.
• 2:18:59
  After trying for half an hour, to his shock and amazement, the
• 2:19:04
  planchette began to move. Slowly at first, it then
• 2:19:10
  frantically began to move by itself, moving from Z to OZ to O
• 2:19:19
  over and over and over again, spelling out the name Sozo.
• 2:19:27
  Shocked and unsure of what or who he had contacted, Darren
• 2:19:33
  said goodbye in an attempt to end the session.
• 2:19:37
  Before his eyes he saw the plain chat spell out See you in hell
• 2:19:43
  and then it threw itself across the room.
• 2:19:47
  A now terrified and bewildered Darren ran out of his room and
• 2:19:51
  tried to make sense of what had just taken place.
• 2:19:55
  But this was just the beginning of what was to come.
• 2:20:00
  It started with horrible night terrors.
• 2:20:03
  He would wake up unable to move or speak.
• 2:20:07
  And would hear whispering in his ears.
• 2:20:10
  These episodes at night were soon followed by banging and
• 2:20:13
  knocking throughout his house during the daytime, as well as a
• 2:20:18
  constant feeling as if he was being watched by something he
• 2:20:22
  couldn't see. But despite the presence he was
• 2:20:26
  feeling, Darren now sought answers to his ever growing list
• 2:20:30
  of questions. Just what exactly he had
• 2:20:34
  uncovered. So he continued to hold sessions
• 2:20:38
  with the board, for better or for worse.
• 2:20:44
  Darren would later quote this. The sessions now were as intense
• 2:20:49
  and paranormal as anything I've ever witnessed.
• 2:20:53
  A deep and terrible moaning could be heard emanating through
• 2:20:56
  the walls. After these sessions, I
• 2:20:59
  developed sleep paralysis and became reclusive to society in
• 2:21:04
  general. I was once again messing with
• 2:21:07
  Zozo and Ouija boards, despite the terrors of my earlier
• 2:21:12
  sessions, which I had promised myself I would never do it
• 2:21:16
  again. But again, and again I did.
• 2:21:22
  When not in use, the board was kept in a purple silk cloth and
• 2:21:26
  stored in his bedroom closet. It would also often go missing,
• 2:21:32
  sometimes for days on end. When checking back where he had
• 2:21:37
  placed it in order to set up and initiate a new session, the
• 2:21:41
  board would seemingly vanish, only to reappear at random
• 2:21:46
  times, as if it was the one calling the shots of when it
• 2:21:51
  could be seen and used. The years came and when and the
• 2:21:57
  sessions on the Mystical Ouija board continued.
• 2:22:02
  Darren by this time started inviting his friends to partake
• 2:22:06
  in the sessions, and although their sessions with him would
• 2:22:10
  prove he's not insane, it's of little consolation considering
• 2:22:15
  the tragedy they would seemingly manifest later on.
• 2:22:20
  Darren's best friend was a man by the name of Randy.
• 2:22:24
  The two had bonded over their love for the band ACDC in high
• 2:22:28
  school and had been inseparable ever since.
• 2:22:32
  Randy's idol also being the late Bon Scott, whose lifestyle
• 2:22:37
  seemingly imprinted upon the youthful teens Once Upon a time
• 2:22:41
  and perhaps would ultimately lead to the downfall of one of
• 2:22:46
  them. By now, Darren was living in his
• 2:22:49
  own apartment and working construction at a job site he
• 2:22:54
  was on. He would make a strange but
• 2:22:57
  familiar discovery. As he was digging down into the
• 2:23:01
  earth, he found what appeared to be a jar.
• 2:23:05
  Upon picking it up to discard it, he wiped away the dirt and
• 2:23:10
  debris only to be shocked by its familiar contents.
• 2:23:15
  Loan and behold, within the jar was a congealed and rotting
• 2:23:21
  Blackbird, extremely similar if not identical to the ones
• 2:23:26
  initially found alongside the Ouija board under underneath his
• 2:23:30
  high school girlfriend's home all those years ago.
• 2:23:35
  It was particularly weird not just because of this, but the
• 2:23:40
  fact that he had found it digging down deep into the
• 2:23:43
  earth. He wondered what were the odds
• 2:23:47
  of this, and although he had no way of knowing for sure, his gut
• 2:23:52
  began to tell him that there was some kind of witchcraft or a
• 2:23:56
  cult expertise at play here. Perhaps someone or a group of
• 2:24:01
  people were knowingly contacting this entity known as Zozo.
• 2:24:06
  But for what remained to be known, one evening in 1985,
• 2:24:13
  Darren and Randy were relaxing at Darren's apartment when they
• 2:24:17
  decided to host a session on the Ouija board.
• 2:24:21
  Randy, more than anything, wanted to try and make contact
• 2:24:25
  with his late idol, Bon Scott while wearing a Highway to Hell
• 2:24:31
  ACDC shirt. Randy's intent was clear.
• 2:24:36
  The two dimmed the lights, lit a couple of candles, and began the
• 2:24:40
  session upon the board. They made contact within a few
• 2:24:45
  minutes once the planchette was moving.
• 2:24:50
  Randy exclaimed. We want to talk to Bon Scott of
• 2:24:54
  ACDC. With this sentence, the planchet
• 2:24:59
  seemingly obliged. It moved in circles, eventually
• 2:25:05
  spelling out a YEMATE. The 2 looked at each other in
• 2:25:11
  amazement. The entity was using Australian
• 2:25:15
  dialects, and for anyone who doesn't know, Bon Scott was
• 2:25:20
  Australian. After several more questions,
• 2:25:24
  both of the young men were convinced they were speaking
• 2:25:27
  with their idol. The spirit seemed to know every
• 2:25:30
  little detail to any question they asked and during the
• 2:25:34
  session the entity then made a strange request from the men.
• 2:25:39
  It asked them to light a cigarette and place it in the
• 2:25:43
  hole in the plane shed. What proceeded to make both of
• 2:25:46
  them laugh also made them quite spooked as well.
• 2:25:50
  So they lit a couple cigarettes, one for each of them and one for
• 2:25:56
  this entity. They took a few drags to keep it
• 2:26:00
  lit and then placed it cherry side up in the Blanchette hole.
• 2:26:05
  The Blanchette then spelled out thanks.
• 2:26:08
  They then watched an utter amazement as the cherry of the
• 2:26:12
  cigarette lit up as if Bon himself was taking puffs off of
• 2:26:17
  it. But this amusement was short
• 2:26:21
  lived. Once the cigarette had seemingly
• 2:26:24
  been smoked, the playing chat began to spell something very
• 2:26:29
  different. It's spelled F you Randy.
• 2:26:34
  I will have your soul and I'll see you in hell.
• 2:26:39
  Zo Zo terrified the men quickly into the session by saying
• 2:26:46
  goodbye and tossing the board outside the second story
• 2:26:50
  apartment balcony door. Clearly scared and upset, Randy
• 2:26:55
  also didn't take kindly to threats.
• 2:26:59
  He began cussing out Zozo with complete and utter rage.
• 2:27:03
  The board would later be returned by his downstairs
• 2:27:06
  neighbor and after this session, a series of lows for both of the
• 2:27:12
  men seemed to manifest in the years to come.
• 2:27:16
  Influenced by the lifestyle of his idol, Randy fell victim to
• 2:27:20
  alcoholism. He soon would lose his wife to
• 2:27:24
  divorce and have split custody with his son.
• 2:27:28
  And although many opportunities presented themselves for Randy
• 2:27:32
  to better his life, for one reason or another, he was always
• 2:27:36
  just too far away to be able to grasp them, he often said to
• 2:27:41
  Darren, I feel like I'm in a prison and I can't escape for
• 2:27:48
  old time's sake. The two did one last Ouija board
• 2:27:51
  session together in 2005, in which Randy asked the board how
• 2:27:57
  he would die. The board responded in a car at
• 2:28:03
  night alone. In 2007, after spending the
• 2:28:08
  evening with Darren, the last words he would say to him were
• 2:28:13
  Darren, I will see you in hell. The next morning, Darren
• 2:28:18
  received a phone call from Randy's girlfriend Alicia,
• 2:28:22
  saying that Randy never made it home after he left.
• 2:28:26
  Instead, he had passed away in a violent head on collision,
• 2:28:31
  ultimately passing away in a car at night and alone.
• 2:28:38
  This devastating passing, along with the frequent contact with
• 2:28:41
  the entity known as Zozo over the years, led to a fascination
• 2:28:46
  and borderline obsession with the search for answers for
• 2:28:50
  Darren Evans. During the time before and after
• 2:28:54
  Randy's death, he had been living in a home in Oklahoma
• 2:28:58
  City, OK that would become synonymous with the demon's
• 2:29:03
  name. It was here that the worst
• 2:29:06
  afflictions brought on by the entity would take place to him
• 2:29:10
  and his family. Darren's fascination with the
• 2:29:14
  occult led him to hanging on to and possessing multiple Ouija
• 2:29:18
  boards and other various occult objects.
• 2:29:23
  It was here that he began to study on a much more in depth
• 2:29:27
  and organized basis, just trying to figure out who or what Zozo
• 2:29:32
  was. But this research would soon be
• 2:29:36
  interrupted, and this home lived himself, his wife Kathleen, and
• 2:29:43
  their young daughter at the time.
• 2:29:46
  During a session with his wife Kathleen one evening while their
• 2:29:50
  daughter slept rooms away, Zozo would once again make itself
• 2:29:55
  present in their lives, but this time seemed to take possession
• 2:30:00
  of Darren. Kathleen trembled with fear and
• 2:30:05
  bated breath as something stared at her through Darren's eyes,
• 2:30:10
  something that clearly wasn't human.
• 2:30:14
  He then turned violent, attempting to attack her.
• 2:30:19
  Fortunately for Kathleen, she was able to say goodbye and get
• 2:30:23
  away before any harm could be done to her.
• 2:30:27
  Several minutes later, Darren would come back to himself with
• 2:30:32
  no memory of what had taken place.
• 2:30:36
  After this session, things seemed to escalate in intensity.
• 2:30:42
  Sounds began to rap throughout the entire home, from knocking
• 2:30:48
  to hissing, footsteps and banging, all seemingly with no
• 2:30:55
  explainable origin. The family got so terrified that
• 2:31:01
  they sectioned off a particular bedroom upstairs, calling it
• 2:31:05
  their safe room. One night.
• 2:31:08
  However, not everyone was within the safe room.
• 2:31:13
  Suddenly, an overwhelming sense of terror creeped upon Darren as
• 2:31:18
  he was trying to sleep. He rushed to the safe room to
• 2:31:22
  attempt to stop what he was feeling, but quickly realizing
• 2:31:26
  he couldn't leave his family behind, he rushed back out of
• 2:31:30
  the room in an attempt to gather them and bring them to safety as
• 2:31:34
  well. As he was heading towards the
• 2:31:38
  stairs, his daughter had heard his cries and was now at the
• 2:31:42
  foot of the stairs. It was here that Darren saw her
• 2:31:47
  being lifted by invisible hands into the air and carried away
• 2:31:53
  from him, screaming for his child as she screamed for her
• 2:31:59
  father. Darren ran down the stairs as
• 2:32:02
  fast as he possibly could but couldn't see her anywhere.
• 2:32:06
  Insight. He then heard her muffled
• 2:32:09
  screams coming from the basement.
• 2:32:13
  At first the door was locked and wouldn't open, but after
• 2:32:18
  adrenaline and brute force, Darren thankfully was able to
• 2:32:22
  open it. He then retrieved his hysterical
• 2:32:25
  child and brought her to the safety of the safe room.
• 2:32:30
  Once inside the room, the family huddled together in fear as they
• 2:32:35
  continue to hear movement and noises all throughout the house.
• 2:32:40
  After this abhorrent nightmare of a situation, the family knew
• 2:32:44
  they had to get out of the house.
• 2:32:47
  This situation and the many other paranormal experiences had
• 2:32:51
  led to a lifelong fascination for Darren Evans with the occult
• 2:32:57
  and finding out just exactly what Sozo is.
• 2:33:01
  But was it worth jeopardizing his family's safety?
• 2:33:05
  It took some time but the family would soon relocate to another
• 2:33:10
  home and once his family was safe, Darren was able to
• 2:33:15
  continue his deep dive into the unknown to try and track down
• 2:33:20
  and decipher just what this entity could be and where it
• 2:33:24
  came from. And although he knew the topic
• 2:33:27
  was vast, I think it went far deeper than he ever anticipated.
• 2:33:33
  Whilst trying to dig up more information, he posted his
• 2:33:37
  experiences to an old paranormal forum in 2009.
• 2:33:43
  And since then many, many people have shared their experiences
• 2:33:49
  with the demonic force, many of which have been documented and
• 2:33:55
  compared by Darren himself on his website.
• 2:33:59
  But these experiences are not just a 21st or even 20th century
• 2:34:03
  phenomena, they date back far older than that.
• 2:34:08
  Not every fine detail will be mentioned here, but I will do my
• 2:34:12
  best to list the most important details that I could find in
• 2:34:17
  regards to the origin of Zozo. According to Darren and other
• 2:34:22
  online sources, Zozo in the old Basque language means Blackbird
• 2:34:28
  or crow. The Zo people of Haiti practiced
• 2:34:32
  a form of voodoo whose rituals involve horrific scarification
• 2:34:38
  as well as the intake and passing around of bodily fluids
• 2:34:42
  and bizarre rituals. Their witch doctors are called
• 2:34:47
  Zozo and wear demonic looking masks as part of their death
• 2:34:52
  ritual. When someone is passing away,
• 2:34:56
  they lift up the mask at the moment of death to take in the
• 2:34:59
  person's final breath. This is apparently done to
• 2:35:04
  absorb the soul of the person to gain more spiritual power.
• 2:35:09
  Zozo, also in the Malay language, is the same as it is
• 2:35:13
  in English, but it translates to wandering spirit, which is a
• 2:35:18
  spirit they believe to steal people's souls while they sleep,
• 2:35:23
  which is also bizarre because sleep is often considered the
• 2:35:27
  cousin of death. Zozo has been called the
• 2:35:31
  minister of deception. It is known to convince you that
• 2:35:35
  it is a deceased loved one or friend or even someone you've
• 2:35:39
  idolized, when in reality it's not.
• 2:35:45
  Sessions typically start out friendly and inviting but soon
• 2:35:50
  turn malevolent and dangerous. During his research over the
• 2:35:55
  years, Darren made contact with and spoke to famous demonologist
• 2:36:00
  John Zappos, who shared with him that in his experience of over
• 2:36:05
  40 years of studying the demonic and paranormal, the name Zozo
• 2:36:11
  and other pseudonyms of its name kept coming up in his
• 2:36:14
  investigations, which too led him to seek answers as to what
• 2:36:19
  it could be. And some of those
• 2:36:22
  investigations, when questioned, the demon stated that it was the
• 2:36:26
  son of Satan himself. But Zapfis thinks perhaps is
• 2:36:31
  with many deities that seem to be lurking in the shadows, Zozo
• 2:36:36
  could be an entity that's existed far before the founding
• 2:36:40
  of Christianity. Besides evidence showing up in
• 2:36:44
  Africa and Egypt, there's also evidence found linking Zozo to
• 2:36:49
  ancient Mesopotamia as well. Other names Zozo has gone by
• 2:36:54
  throughout the ages have been Zuzu, Zaza, and Mama, among many
• 2:37:01
  others. The name Zuzu could refer to
• 2:37:05
  Pazuzu, the famed demon from the film The Exorcist, which in
• 2:37:10
  reality was a demonic entity from ancient Mesopotamian
• 2:37:14
  religion. It's incredibly strange to note
• 2:37:18
  the following as well. Zozo was replaced in the story
• 2:37:22
  of the exorcism of Roland Doe and Peter Blatty was using it as
• 2:37:27
  inspiration to write The Exorcist.
• 2:37:30
  He changed Zozo to Pazuzu. Zozo is believed to be the demon
• 2:37:36
  that possessed Roland. It was described as a terrifying
• 2:37:41
  form that first appeared in the Neo Assyrian period, roughly
• 2:37:46
  around 934 to 610 BC. It had a monstrous head
• 2:37:52
  resembling A fierce lion or a dog with horns, and had an
• 2:37:57
  emaciated human body with clawed hands, a scorpion's tail, and
• 2:38:04
  two sets of wings, One translation reads.
• 2:38:10
  I am Pazuzu, the son of Hambu, king of the Lilu demons.
• 2:38:16
  I have scaled the powerful mountains.
• 2:38:19
  They trembled. The contrary winds were headed
• 2:38:23
  West 1 by 1. I broke their wings.
• 2:38:29
  Pazuzu and other demons like it were held responsible for
• 2:38:32
  ailments like disease, fetal death, nightmares, and much
• 2:38:38
  more. Could it be that this ancient
• 2:38:41
  demonic force is what could be plaguing people all the way into
• 2:38:45
  modern times? The demon Zozo is also mentioned
• 2:38:50
  in the French Demonic Encyclopedia.
• 2:38:53
  Is one of the demons responsible for diabolical possession and
• 2:38:58
  corruption. The possession of a young girl
• 2:39:02
  in 1816 is noted as a documented case where Zozo, among several
• 2:39:08
  other demons, were present. Other noteworthy possession
• 2:39:12
  cases over the ages ranging closer to modern times that
• 2:39:17
  bears Zozo's name other than the exorcism of Rolling Doe in the
• 2:39:21
  1950s are the possession of Doris Blither in 1972 in Los
• 2:39:27
  Angeles, the Enfield Poltergeist incident in 1977 in the UK, and
• 2:39:36
  as recent as 2012 where a possession incident led to an
• 2:39:41
  attempted murder. Other theories with how this
• 2:39:45
  entity could communicate with so many people so quickly and
• 2:39:49
  across the globe over the years, besides supernatural ability of
• 2:39:54
  its own, would be that its own reach is perhaps being
• 2:39:58
  strengthened by an agrigor or a collective group of thaw form
• 2:40:04
  created by occultists for a certain purpose.
• 2:40:09
  However, this seems unlikely considering the entity doesn't
• 2:40:13
  seem to serve any human interest other than to destroy the person
• 2:40:19
  or people's lives it makes contact with.
• 2:40:22
  Agrigors are typically formed to bring control over a summoned
• 2:40:26
  deity for the person or groups bidding.
• 2:40:30
  But perhaps instead there is a cold worshipping Zozo?
• 2:40:34
  I mean, that would make more sense to me.
• 2:40:38
  People who have made contact with the entity via spirit or
• 2:40:41
  Ouija board have also been asked to chant or spell out phrases in
• 2:40:46
  Hebrew or Latin, which has convinced many of the
• 2:40:50
  intelligence of the being that they're speaking with.
• 2:40:54
  What is also interesting is that the letter Z was actually
• 2:40:58
  removed from the original Latin alphabet because it was
• 2:41:02
  considered too evil when pronouncing it.
• 2:41:05
  It was said that one's face would make a death's grimace
• 2:41:08
  like that of a corpse, and that it mimicked the letter S like an
• 2:41:14
  evil twin. Perhaps the entity uses this
• 2:41:18
  name as some sort of mocking, whether to God or something
• 2:41:23
  else. One may also ask, despite the
• 2:41:27
  origin, theories, and historical details that could be linked to
• 2:41:31
  this ancient demonic force, how would one know if they
• 2:41:35
  encountered such a thing? These are what's known as Zozo's
• 2:41:39
  calling cards when it's being summoned using a Ouija board.
• 2:41:44
  The obvious is there that the planchette will begin to move on
• 2:41:48
  its own, but some less obvious signs are there as well and are
• 2:41:53
  as follows. The planchette will move in a
• 2:41:57
  rainbow pattern from side to side, spelling ZOZO over and
• 2:42:04
  over again, also known as the rainbow effect.
• 2:42:09
  It can also move in repeating Figure 8 movements like an
• 2:42:13
  Infinity sign. The planchet will spell out
• 2:42:17
  various versions of the demon's name, like Zozo, Zoso, Zaza,
• 2:42:24
  Zuzu, or Mama. You may also begin to see
• 2:42:29
  shadows moving around the area where you were hosting the
• 2:42:32
  session, like you're seeing through the thinnest sheet and
• 2:42:37
  to a Dark World that exists just behind your vision.
• 2:42:42
  And you and whoever you may be with may start to feel scared,
• 2:42:47
  uneasy, or upset, seemingly for no other reason.
• 2:42:53
  Before or after this takes place when you tell this entity
• 2:42:58
  goodbye. Typically the best way to close
• 2:43:01
  a session, it may not truly be goodbye because often times,
• 2:43:08
  depending on how long the session has been for, like an
• 2:43:11
  ever widening door, the entity may have had just enough time to
• 2:43:16
  sneak in to begin to wreak havoc upon your life.
• 2:43:21
  And thus begins what many demonologists and religious
• 2:43:24
  leaders alike call demonic obsession, which is where the
• 2:43:28
  entity becomes aware of you and begins to crave you, which then
• 2:43:34
  leads to oppression or begins to inflict various forms of torture
• 2:43:39
  upon you in an effort to break you down, whether that's
• 2:43:43
  physically, psychologically, or spiritually.
• 2:43:48
  It will also work to isolate you from others, especially those
• 2:43:53
  who care about you. And finally, if you're
• 2:43:57
  incredibly unlucky, possession or the entity finally takes
• 2:44:02
  control of you as its vessel. All of which to me, are
• 2:44:07
  absolutely terrifying in every imaginable way.
• 2:44:12
  Darren Evans to this day continues to research the Zozo
• 2:44:16
  Phenomena, having been involved in the number of paranormal
• 2:44:20
  investigations, shows, and various other public and private
• 2:44:25
  events, as well as radio shows and podcasts, many of which he
• 2:44:30
  goes into various degrees of details regarding his
• 2:44:33
  encounters, other people's encounters, and other various
• 2:44:38
  historical details. He also in 2016 compiled his
• 2:44:43
  year's worth of research and experiences into a book, also
• 2:44:47
  titled The Zozo Phenomena, which you can read and learn more
• 2:44:51
  about the entity and the topic as a whole.
• 2:44:53
  If you're interested, I'll link it below.
• 2:44:58
  I also pulled a lot of this information from various
• 2:45:00
  interviews, which I'll also be linking below, as well as an
• 2:45:04
  older website he runs that doesn't seem to have been
• 2:45:07
  updated in a while, but supplied me with much information to get
• 2:45:12
  the story as cohesive as I possibly could.
• 2:45:16
  I also sourced the photos of the apparitions from the site, some
• 2:45:20
  of which were taken by Evans himself over the years.
• 2:45:25
  So does this demon or ancient force truly exist?
• 2:45:30
  Is it some kind of elder God, a pre Christian deity or being or
• 2:45:36
  manifestation of occult or Luciferian practices?
• 2:45:41
  Did Darren Evans just make it up and did thousands of people find
• 2:45:45
  it interesting enough to make up their own stories and partake in
• 2:45:50
  a mass charade that has lasted years?
• 2:45:53
  All of these answers may never truly be known, but my opinion
• 2:45:57
  is this I think not only given the wide array of strange
• 2:46:02
  coincidences and details throughout history.
• 2:46:06
  From the origins to the stories of this creature existing in
• 2:46:09
  distant past to the present, to literally thousands of people.
• 2:46:15
  From casual interests in the occult to more hardcore
• 2:46:19
  fanatics, religious scholars, demonologists, and more claiming
• 2:46:26
  to have had experiences with this thing.
• 2:46:28
  With all of these details in mind, I certainly think it very
• 2:46:33
  well could be real. I do think there are things that
• 2:46:36
  exist in the shadows, things we can't see or touch that are
• 2:46:41
  there watching and waiting to strike when and if the
• 2:46:47
  opportunity presents itself. So my advice to all of you to
• 2:46:52
  avoid any possibility of opening a door that you can't close and
• 2:46:57
  inviting evil into your life is this.
• 2:47:01
  Don't mess with Ouija boards. These things are not toys.
• 2:47:06
  Whether you believe it or not, these entities do exist and they
• 2:47:10
  believe in you. So keep away from them, because
• 2:47:15
  you might just let something in that won't want to leave even if
• 2:47:19
  you say goodbye. Lying dormant within the streets
• 2:47:30
  of suburbia, there is an unseen evil.
• 2:47:34
  Like a mouse falling into a pit of snakes, an unsuspecting
• 2:47:38
  family disturbed a slumbering force and became enshrouded in a
• 2:47:44
  fog of darkness. This is the untold story of the
• 2:47:49
  Bel Air House and the terrifying malevolent entities that dwell
• 2:47:54
  within its walls. Bellaire, OH, an area rich in
• 2:48:01
  history, was once known as Glass City.
• 2:48:05
  Having once been a major glass production hub in the late 1800s
• 2:48:11
  is now known as the All American town, having been used in many
• 2:48:15
  Hollywood productions as a backdrop for lots of movies,
• 2:48:20
  some of which you've probably seen over the years.
• 2:48:24
  The town that epitomizes small America's daily life has long
• 2:48:28
  since moved past its industrial days and has become known for
• 2:48:33
  something else. On the outskirts of the town
• 2:48:36
  lies an old two-story Victorian home that has become famous over
• 2:48:41
  the recent years, both among locals as well as across the
• 2:48:46
  country, with some saying it could be the most haunted place
• 2:48:50
  in the United States, if not the world.
• 2:48:54
  This is a bold statement to say the least, but the countless
• 2:48:58
  visitors to the house have reported strange, disturbing,
• 2:49:02
  and unexplainable encounters within its antique walls.
• 2:49:07
  But just how did the story begin?
• 2:49:09
  Where did the legend of the Bel Air House originate from?
• 2:49:13
  Let us first take a look at the home's dark history.
• 2:49:17
  Built in 1887 by a coal tycoon named Jacob Hetherington, the
• 2:49:23
  house sits adjacent from ancient Native American burial caves.
• 2:49:29
  It is also located where the scene of a massacre took place
• 2:49:33
  during the French and Indian War.
• 2:49:36
  It would sit on top of an active coal mine for years before there
• 2:49:42
  was a major explosion that took place within the mine, killing
• 2:49:46
  multiple men working deep within the earth directly underneath
• 2:49:50
  the house. Could the culmination of these
• 2:49:53
  tragic deaths have opened up a portal within the Bel Air house?
• 2:49:58
  A portal that allowed something to come through that wasn't
• 2:50:02
  supposed to be here? Shortly after this explosion is
• 2:50:06
  when the strange activity began. Jacob's son Alex moved into the
• 2:50:11
  home with his daughter. Lied, but was soon stricken with
• 2:50:15
  seizures and hallucinations. He would ultimately be committed
• 2:50:20
  to an insane asylum for the rest of his life, claiming that
• 2:50:25
  demons were trying to kill him. As time progressed, Lyde would
• 2:50:30
  take charge of the family business, being helped by her
• 2:50:34
  younger brother Edwin. Lyde would tragically and
• 2:50:38
  unexpectedly pass away. 1 morning and the kitchen of the
• 2:50:42
  home. Edwin, now alone and grief
• 2:50:46
  stricken, descended into mysticism and the occult in
• 2:50:50
  search of answers. He began to regularly host
• 2:50:54
  seances in the kitchen where his sister had passed away to
• 2:50:59
  attempt to make contact with her on the other side, and it is
• 2:51:03
  believed that contact was indeed made, but with who or what is
• 2:51:10
  uncertain. In 2005, Kristen Lee and her
• 2:51:14
  family are desperate for a new home.
• 2:51:18
  Like a curse, for the second time in less than two years, a
• 2:51:22
  flash flood has destroyed their home and all of their
• 2:51:26
  possessions. Kristen, her two sons, Nicholas
• 2:51:30
  and Lane, along with their father Hefe, have been fortunate
• 2:51:34
  enough to room with friends during this difficult time.
• 2:51:38
  Kristen has continued to try and get the family back on their
• 2:51:41
  feet and no longer wants to burden her friends with the
• 2:51:45
  boarding of her family. So she constantly checks the
• 2:51:49
  real estate listings hoping to find a home that her and her
• 2:51:53
  family can finally settle down into.
• 2:51:56
  Given the circumstances, the family didn't have a big budget
• 2:52:00
  and would have to rebuild their lives from scratch.
• 2:52:04
  But soon her determination seems to pay off.
• 2:52:08
  While at work, Kristen often browses real estate websites for
• 2:52:12
  new listings as well as foreclosures and a new listing
• 2:52:17
  soon catches her eye. Recently foreclosed on but now
• 2:52:22
  available for purchase, she lays eyes on the old Victorian home
• 2:52:26
  for the first time. It's 4 bedrooms and two bathroom
• 2:52:30
  setup along with plenty of room would be perfect for her family.
• 2:52:35
  The price seems almost too good to be true for her budget as
• 2:52:39
  well, and although the listing lacks more details, it's like
• 2:52:44
  her prayers had finally been answered.
• 2:52:47
  But by what? Not wanting to lose the
• 2:52:50
  property, Kristen arranges a showing of the home as soon as
• 2:52:54
  possible and before too long finds herself on the front steps
• 2:52:59
  of the Bel Air house. She is immediately taken in by
• 2:53:04
  the beautiful craftsmanship of the woodwork.
• 2:53:07
  The wrap around porch facing the Ohio River soon has her
• 2:53:11
  imagining peaceful evenings watching the water flow.
• 2:53:15
  Upon entering the home, she continues to be impressed.
• 2:53:20
  Old marble and cherry wood ordain the interior of the home
• 2:53:24
  and it seems almost too perfect, like something straight out of
• 2:53:28
  her dreams. The family also has a dog named
• 2:53:32
  Bella, and the large fenced in backyard is perfect for her to
• 2:53:36
  run in and the boys to play in. Dumbfounded by her luck, Kristen
• 2:53:42
  puts in an offer on the House that evening and it's accepted
• 2:53:46
  the following morning. After two years of chaos and
• 2:53:50
  uncertainty, the Lee family can finally breathe again and start
• 2:53:54
  living a normal life. But just as all seems quiet and
• 2:53:58
  settled, the family begins to discover that the house is
• 2:54:03
  anything but normal at first. Upon hearing odd noises in the
• 2:54:08
  night, the family wrote off the sounds as nothing more than
• 2:54:12
  anxiety and an old house. Being slightly scared or anxious
• 2:54:16
  upon moving into a new place, particularly following a very
• 2:54:20
  uncertain time in one's life, is not out of the ordinary.
• 2:54:24
  But these sounds soon become too much to dismiss.
• 2:54:28
  They soon begin to hear footsteps at all hours of the
• 2:54:31
  day and night. Kristen would later describe the
• 2:54:34
  activity as so. I would hear footsteps above and
• 2:54:37
  sometimes below me, even when there was no one else home but
• 2:54:41
  me. And I always felt as if there
• 2:54:44
  were thousands of eyes staring at me at all times, watching my
• 2:54:49
  every move. Along with the strange noises,
• 2:54:53
  items soon begin to go missing. From keys to towels to trinkets.
• 2:54:59
  1 moment they would be there and within seconds they would
• 2:55:03
  vanish. And Kristen isn't the only one
• 2:55:06
  experiencing strange happenings within the Bel Air house at the
• 2:55:10
  time. Her 12 year old son Nicholas
• 2:55:12
  begins to experience a malevolent force that seems to
• 2:55:16
  dwell within his bedroom. At first, he too begins to feel
• 2:55:21
  as if he's being watched at all times, and it seems to get
• 2:55:25
  exponentially worse at night. He begins to have night terrors,
• 2:55:30
  feeling someone or something covering his mouth and nose,
• 2:55:34
  forcing him to suffocate. One night, he wakes up in a cold
• 2:55:39
  sweat. It's storming outside.
• 2:55:42
  Flashes of lightning occasionally light up the room.
• 2:55:46
  What he sees disturbs him to his core.
• 2:55:51
  In the corner of his room towards his closet.
• 2:55:54
  As a burst of light fills the room, he sees a blackened figure
• 2:55:59
  staring at him and shaking profusely.
• 2:56:04
  The young boy is utterly terrified, rushing out of his
• 2:56:08
  room as fast as he possibly can. He wakes up his mother and
• 2:56:12
  refuses to sleep there any longer.
• 2:56:15
  The boy is so hysterical, the only solution was to send him to
• 2:56:20
  his grandmother's house, located 30 minutes away.
• 2:56:24
  What makes this case all the more compelling is that Kristen
• 2:56:28
  has a master's degree in psychology and works as a mental
• 2:56:32
  health physician. With this, her professional
• 2:56:36
  opinion of what Nicholas had experienced was initially
• 2:56:39
  contributed to stress and fatigue, both common factors
• 2:56:43
  that tend to make the human mind see and experience things that
• 2:56:47
  aren't really there. And these probably could explain
• 2:56:51
  many similar situations, and most would agree.
• 2:56:55
  However, Kristin's view would soon undergo A radical change
• 2:56:59
  after one terrifying experience of her own.
• 2:57:03
  After months of strange happenings within the home, it
• 2:57:07
  was now winter and the Lee family, still tied on finances,
• 2:57:12
  was sleeping in the basement near the fireplace to save money
• 2:57:16
  on the gas bill. Hefe was asleep in a recliner
• 2:57:21
  and Lane as well as Kristen were asleep on the wrap around couch
• 2:57:25
  located in the corner of the room.
• 2:57:28
  All seemed normal until Kristen was woken up by the feeling of
• 2:57:32
  the couch cushion being pressed down near her legs.
• 2:57:37
  She then found herself face to face with a terrifying figure of
• 2:57:41
  a man staring directly at her. She would later describe the
• 2:57:46
  encounter as So I woke up being face to face with this Gray
• 2:57:51
  figure of a man. He was translucent, almost like
• 2:57:55
  a mist, but the mist had features like a person.
• 2:58:01
  The face was completely emotionless and had dark sunken
• 2:58:05
  in eyes. Kristen asked who are you?
• 2:58:09
  What are you doing here? What do you want?
• 2:58:13
  But to no response, just a blank, lifeless stare.
• 2:58:19
  Within seconds the apparition disappears, but before she can
• 2:58:24
  ponder what had just taken place, the silence is once again
• 2:58:28
  shattered. But by this time it was the
• 2:58:31
  family dog, Bella, who was barking and running around the
• 2:58:35
  room. Kristen, attempting to keep her
• 2:58:38
  family asleep through the ordeal, tries to quiet the dog
• 2:58:42
  down and notices that she can see her breath in the air, and
• 2:58:47
  although it's cold outside, it's not nearly that cold near the
• 2:58:50
  fireplace. She then sees the figure
• 2:58:54
  materialize once more and silently moved from one side of
• 2:58:58
  the room and through the wall on the other side, vanishing
• 2:59:02
  completely. No longer wanting to face
• 2:59:05
  whatever this was alone, she woke up her husband and told him
• 2:59:10
  what had just taken place. His response, however, was that
• 2:59:14
  she was too tired and needed to go back to sleep.
• 2:59:19
  Could what Kristen had experienced been a stress or
• 2:59:22
  fatigue induced hallucination? Perhaps, but someone with a
• 2:59:27
  professional background such as herself surely would know how to
• 2:59:31
  differentiate, wouldn't you think?
• 2:59:35
  Finally, knowing she's not crazy and totally convinced that the
• 2:59:38
  home was haunted, Kristen begins to try and make plans to get her
• 2:59:43
  family out of the Bel Air house and to safety elsewhere.
• 2:59:49
  As soon as she can, she puts the home up for sale and moves the
• 2:59:53
  family to a nearby rental home. Although she's relieved to no
• 2:59:57
  longer physically be in the house, no one is buying it to
• 3:00:02
  try and cover expenses. She has no other choice other
• 3:00:05
  than to make the house a rental property.
• 3:00:08
  But almost as soon as the first family moves in, they move out.
• 3:00:13
  And this kick starts a revolving door of tenants seemingly stuck
• 3:00:18
  with the house. Kristen comes to the conclusion
• 3:00:21
  that no family will or should live there.
• 3:00:25
  So what should be done with a haunted property?
• 3:00:28
  Needing to make ends mean she comes up with a unique idea.
• 3:00:32
  She turns the home into an afterlife research property.
• 3:00:36
  This would allow various groups to come in conduct their own
• 3:00:39
  research on just what exactly was taking place within the Bel
• 3:00:44
  Air House. And the idea works.
• 3:00:48
  Soon groups from all over the United States and Canada are
• 3:00:52
  travelling to temporarily live within the home to conduct
• 3:00:56
  research. And from here we gain some more
• 3:01:00
  interesting stories, to say the least.
• 3:01:03
  One group, who calls themselves the Armchair Researchers from
• 3:01:07
  upstate New York, consists of two women, one being a birthing
• 3:01:12
  nurse and the other a nurse who works with dying patients.
• 3:01:17
  They found paranormal and afterlife research to be a
• 3:01:21
  natural extension of their day jobs for the last 15 years.
• 3:01:26
  After hearing about the Bel Air house, they soon find themselves
• 3:01:30
  driving to Ohio to investigate the phenomena for themselves.
• 3:01:35
  First impressions tend to go a long way, and the first
• 3:01:38
  impression the women got upon their arrival was very creepy.
• 3:01:43
  The home by this point was in a moderate state of decay.
• 3:01:47
  The fence that had once surrounded the backyard was
• 3:01:51
  mostly blown down, and the exterior of the home as well as
• 3:01:55
  the porch was weathered and rotting.
• 3:01:59
  But despite the odd feelings initially, they make their way
• 3:02:03
  inside now. At first they actually felt
• 3:02:06
  welcomed, almost invited in, greeted by the same cherry wood
• 3:02:11
  interior that has greeted everyone.
• 3:02:14
  But as soon as they set up their equipment and prepare for their
• 3:02:17
  stay, as day turns to night, there seems to be a shift in
• 3:02:22
  energy within the home. The shift went from warm and
• 3:02:26
  inviting to dark and ominous. Then began the noises, the
• 3:02:33
  banging footsteps and the moving of furniture.
• 3:02:38
  The ladies also noted the feeling of being watched
• 3:02:41
  everywhere they went while asking probing questions.
• 3:02:45
  As they wandered throughout the house, they would soon also
• 3:02:48
  witness strange lights in various parts of the home.
• 3:02:52
  And along with the lights, there soon also came full blown
• 3:02:56
  apparitions, all of which seem to be centered around the
• 3:03:00
  basement. And as the night progressed, so
• 3:03:03
  did their feelings of anxiety. While taking a short break and
• 3:03:08
  sitting down on one of the couches in the basement, the two
• 3:03:11
  heard what they described as a large crashing noise above them,
• 3:03:16
  as if someone or something had thrown a bookshelf across the
• 3:03:20
  house itself, shaking the entire home.
• 3:03:24
  Absolutely terrified and panicked, the women
• 3:03:28
  apprehensively made their way up the stairs and rushed out of the
• 3:03:31
  home as fast as they possibly could, leaving behind equipment
• 3:03:36
  and personal items they were too frightened to go back.
• 3:03:41
  Upon learning of what had taken place, Kristen wasn't at all
• 3:03:44
  surprised. Over the years, there have been
• 3:03:47
  dozens of teams of people who couldn't seem to last the night
• 3:03:51
  for one experience or another. People have been scratched,
• 3:03:55
  pushed down stairs, punched, bitten, and even in one instance
• 3:04:01
  thrown across the room by a violent and unseen force.
• 3:04:07
  Another noteworthy story comes from a team located locally
• 3:04:11
  there in Ohio. They have had the opportunity to
• 3:04:13
  visit the home and conduct investigations numerous times
• 3:04:17
  over the years, but their experience, in particular one
• 3:04:21
  night truly makes me question just what exactly haunts the Bel
• 3:04:25
  Air House. There was three of them this
• 3:04:29
  time and it was shortly after midnight when they made their
• 3:04:32
  way into the attic to continue their investigation.
• 3:04:36
  During their questioning, they seem to be getting direct
• 3:04:39
  interaction with something through their spirit box.
• 3:04:43
  Then towards the corner of the attic, a mist seemed to
• 3:04:47
  materialize coming up from the attic floor, slowly enveloping
• 3:04:52
  the group. Glancing down, they were now too
• 3:04:56
  stunned to speak. They saw what appeared to be
• 3:04:59
  thousands of black snake like creatures, Slytherin, over their
• 3:05:04
  feet and onto their legs. The creatures then began to form
• 3:05:09
  a figure standing in front of one of the attic windows, a
• 3:05:14
  creature of pure darkness that seemed to stare at them with
• 3:05:18
  thousands of tiny beady eyes. The crew, which consisted of two
• 3:05:25
  men and a woman, ran for their lives, descending the attic
• 3:05:29
  stairs as quickly as possible, leaving behind anything and
• 3:05:33
  everything that they had brought with them that wasn't located on
• 3:05:37
  their person and out of the home for good.
• 3:05:40
  All of these stories and experiences have led many to
• 3:05:43
  believe that the Bel Air House is some kind of magnet for
• 3:05:47
  paranormal activity. A magnet or a host to a portal
• 3:05:52
  for spirits, whether that portal was opened by the tragedy that
• 3:05:56
  took place within the mind that once existed below its
• 3:05:59
  foundation, or one that was open due to seances being conducted
• 3:06:05
  within the house on multiple occasions.
• 3:06:08
  But over the years, many different entities have been
• 3:06:11
  documented, from what appear to be human ghosts to perhaps
• 3:06:15
  something more sinister. One such entity goes by the name
• 3:06:20
  of Emily Davis. It is believed that Emily Davis
• 3:06:24
  was a child that drowned in the Ohio River that flows right by
• 3:06:28
  the home. Her room is allegedly the same
• 3:06:32
  room that Kristin's son Nicholas once stayed in.
• 3:06:36
  And besides the basement, it also seems to be a hotspot for
• 3:06:40
  paranormal activity. Through various investigations,
• 3:06:45
  1's contact has been made and trust seems to be gained.
• 3:06:49
  People are often attacked, which have led many to believe that
• 3:06:53
  Emily isn't a child at all, but a demon.
• 3:06:58
  Perhaps it could be the same demonic creature that frightened
• 3:07:01
  Nicholas so bad that he moved out of the home.
• 3:07:05
  As previously mentioned, many investigators also have claimed
• 3:07:09
  to have some activity follow them home and even haunt their
• 3:07:13
  dreams, as if the house or the beings within the house are
• 3:07:19
  calling out to them to come back for one reason or another.
• 3:07:24
  Although many questions may never be answered surrounding
• 3:07:28
  the Bel Air House, one thing is for certain, it continues to be
• 3:07:32
  considered one of the most haunted places in America, if
• 3:07:36
  not the world. It also continues to serve as a
• 3:07:40
  place of study for those wanting to investigate the supernatural
• 3:07:44
  forces that dwell within its walls.
• 3:07:48
  But if you find yourself being drawn to the old Victorian, just
• 3:07:53
  know that if you're not careful, you too could find yourself
• 3:07:56
  being made a part of its history, whether you like it or
• 3:08:01
  not. Over the years I've covered a
• 3:08:05
  wide array of mysteries from The Mothman to UFOs, conspiracies to
• 3:08:12
  cold cases, and one topic that seemed to resonate more with all
• 3:08:16
  of you, and one that I've always found fascinating is hauntings.
• 3:08:21
  Whether that's haunted places, haunted people, or experiences
• 3:08:26
  that people have had that they would consider paranormal in
• 3:08:29
  nature. So today I'm trying something
• 3:08:33
  new. And don't worry, this is adding
• 3:08:35
  content here on Mystery Archives, so there will still be
• 3:08:38
  episodes of The Untold Story for you to enjoy.
• 3:08:42
  Those just take a good chunk of time to produce.
• 3:08:44
  So in between those episodes, I'd really like to share stories
• 3:08:49
  from you guys, the community, to bring awareness that these kinds
• 3:08:53
  of experiences really do happen. And having grown up in a haunted
• 3:08:57
  home myself, I know that often times people are hesitant to
• 3:09:01
  share their stories for fear of ridicule or for fear of whatever
• 3:09:05
  they've experienced flaring up again and reigniting their
• 3:09:10
  personal nightmare. This platform will hopefully
• 3:09:13
  give their stories justice, have them heard, and give you a
• 3:09:17
  glimpse into what people like yourselves have experienced.
• 3:09:22
  These are your paranormal encounters when a young family
• 3:09:30
  encounters the devil and the flesh.
• 3:09:33
  Told from the perspective of a young girl, this terrifying tale
• 3:09:37
  will have you questioning just what could be happening across
• 3:09:41
  the street from you, next door, or even in your very own home.
• 3:09:49
  I was almost 7 when these events took place and I'll be 40 later
• 3:09:53
  this year. I lived in the Glendale
• 3:09:56
  apartments in Rock Hill, SC. My baby brother at the time
• 3:10:01
  wasn't quite even a year old now.
• 3:10:04
  My mom was young when she had me at 17, and my stepdad Keith was
• 3:10:09
  exactly 2 months to the day older than her.
• 3:10:13
  My mom has been gone for 14 years now, but I still remember
• 3:10:17
  this day like it was yesterday. We had left to get dinner that
• 3:10:21
  night and by the time we had gotten back, Keith was passed
• 3:10:25
  out in the front seat of his little hatchback Mustang in the
• 3:10:28
  parking lot. This was the first of two that
• 3:10:31
  would find themselves wrapped around trees in my town.
• 3:10:34
  Keith was suffering from what would later be diagnosed as
• 3:10:38
  schizophrenia with bipolar tendencies and had seemingly
• 3:10:42
  been self medicating to alleviate his symptoms since he
• 3:10:47
  was asleep. My mom urged me not to wake him
• 3:10:51
  as I helped her get my infant brother at the time out of the
• 3:10:54
  car and into our apartment. As we began to wind down for the
• 3:10:58
  evening, our phone began to ring, shattering the calm peace
• 3:11:04
  that was our lives. It was Keith's mom, Mary.
• 3:11:09
  She lived on the other side of the complex, which mostly housed
• 3:11:13
  old people and people with disabilities.
• 3:11:16
  She sounded panicked, screaming that something was happening in
• 3:11:20
  her apartment, that she needed help immediately.
• 3:11:24
  My mom rushed to go wake Keith up out in the parking lot, but
• 3:11:28
  upon running up to the car, he was nowhere to be found.
• 3:11:33
  She rushed back into our apartment saying that she
• 3:11:35
  couldn't find Keith when he suddenly appeared in the hallway
• 3:11:40
  and neither of us had seen him come into the apartment.
• 3:11:44
  He seemed completely out of it and was terrified, saying that
• 3:11:49
  something was taking him over and that he couldn't control
• 3:11:53
  himself. I saw his eyes, they were black.
• 3:11:59
  My mother didn't have time to deal with or process his antics
• 3:12:03
  and gathered us to walk to his mother's apartment.
• 3:12:05
  In the meantime, as we rushed over there as fast as we could,
• 3:12:10
  I remember getting a skin crawling feeling every time
• 3:12:13
  Keith looked at me, like it was something completely foreign to
• 3:12:16
  this world peering into my soul. We arrived and we're quickly let
• 3:12:22
  into Mary's apartment. Her lights were flickering and
• 3:12:26
  her pictures were swaying back and forth on the walls.
• 3:12:30
  A heavy presence could be felt by all of us.
• 3:12:34
  Mary was deeply religious and couldn't understand just what
• 3:12:37
  was taking place, but she believed it to be evil.
• 3:12:41
  Keith was now standing in the living room and began to sway
• 3:12:45
  back and forth as the activity seemed to intensify.
• 3:12:50
  As my mother approached him to ask what he was doing, he began
• 3:12:54
  to laugh. This was the deepest most
• 3:12:57
  maniacal laugh I have ever heard and I still get chose thinking
• 3:13:02
  about it. This voice was not his own.
• 3:13:06
  My mother quickly backed up unsure of what to do and he then
• 3:13:10
  began to point at me saying I'm going to sacrifice that child
• 3:13:15
  tonight. His eyes were now blood red.
• 3:13:20
  Mary by this time had grabbed some of her belongings from her
• 3:13:24
  room and happened to have some blessed oil along with her
• 3:13:27
  Bible. She threw the oil on Keith's
• 3:13:30
  face and it began to boil. The sound of sizzling and
• 3:13:35
  screaming was horrific. My mother's love for Keith
• 3:13:40
  quickly overpowered her fear and she pulled him into the bathroom
• 3:13:43
  to examine his face. She was freaking out to say the
• 3:13:47
  least, partially because of how unbelievable the circumstances
• 3:13:52
  were and just how badly he was burnt on his face.
• 3:13:57
  His eyes at this point were rolled into the back of his
• 3:14:00
  head. Then suddenly, without warning,
• 3:14:04
  he rushed my mom and pinned her against the wall.
• 3:14:08
  His younger sister, Nikki and his mother quickly rushed in to
• 3:14:12
  help free her, with Mary dumping more oil on him each time.
• 3:14:18
  His skin literally sizzled where it landed.
• 3:14:22
  This fortunately worked. Keith now laid catatonic on the
• 3:14:26
  bathroom floor so all together as girls moved him into a nearby
• 3:14:31
  bedroom and restrained him to the bed using anything we could
• 3:14:35
  find for our own safety. Shortly after we did this, his
• 3:14:40
  mother called the nearby oratory and asked for a priest to assist
• 3:14:44
  us immediately. Nikki, who was a teenager at the
• 3:14:48
  time, was trying to comfort me, telling me that Keith was just
• 3:14:52
  really sick and not to be scared.
• 3:14:56
  She encouraged me to try and get some sleep and I of course
• 3:14:59
  couldn't and wouldn't. I didn't dare close my eyes for
• 3:15:04
  fear of that thing hurting my mom.
• 3:15:07
  And this room with Keith was a picture of Jesus kneeling on top
• 3:15:11
  of a mountain. I heard Keith laughing in that
• 3:15:15
  other worldly voice. He called out to me.
• 3:15:19
  He said, you know, little girl, I used to be an Angel with the
• 3:15:23
  most beautiful wings until that bastard was born.
• 3:15:28
  Then I was cast from atop that mountain and banished.
• 3:15:34
  I asked who are you, the devil? He perked up, looked me dead in
• 3:15:40
  my eyes and said I am Lucifer, the light bringer here in the
• 3:15:46
  flesh. I'm not only taking Keith with
• 3:15:49
  me, but all of you as well. Now untie me.
• 3:15:55
  I ran hysterically to my mother who was having a cigarette to
• 3:15:58
  calm her nerves. She ran into the room to comfort
• 3:16:01
  him when he said do you want to see proof?
• 3:16:05
  And against her will, my mother then extinguished the cigarette
• 3:16:09
  into his arm with Keith exclaiming it feels so good.
• 3:16:14
  You'll have to adjust to the searing flames, but in due time
• 3:16:19
  you too will call it home. She then rushed out of the room
• 3:16:24
  and closed the door. We waited with bated breath for
• 3:16:27
  the priest to arrive when shortly after 3:00 AM there was
• 3:16:31
  a knock on the door. Thank God it was him.
• 3:16:35
  For the next several hours they attempted to cast this thing out
• 3:16:38
  of Keith, probably for the best. They kept me in the living room,
• 3:16:43
  away from the demonic terror that was inhabiting his body.
• 3:16:47
  But my God, the smells that wafted throughout the complex
• 3:16:52
  like putrid meat, then sulfur. I soon also heard moaning and
• 3:16:58
  growling from dogs that didn't exist.
• 3:17:03
  There was a strange fog that had enveloped the apartment itself,
• 3:17:07
  and a strange flickering light that now emanated from the room
• 3:17:12
  where the exorcism was taking place.
• 3:17:15
  I began to close my eyes and pray to God harder than I'd ever
• 3:17:19
  prayed before, wanting and wishing for all of it to end,
• 3:17:25
  when suddenly it did. Keith had seemingly been freed
• 3:17:29
  of these spiritual shackles, and although I was terrified, I was
• 3:17:34
  more than wanting to finally get some sleep.
• 3:17:38
  So after the priest departed and all seemed fine, we slowly made
• 3:17:42
  our way back home through the damp misty morning that was now
• 3:17:47
  upon us. Upon arriving home and heading
• 3:17:50
  inside, we all began to make our way to our bedrooms to try and
• 3:17:55
  sleep. I found myself in my bed, comfy
• 3:18:00
  and finally about to rest when I felt my bed shake.
• 3:18:05
  I quickly opened my eyes to find my bed off the floor and my
• 3:18:09
  bedpost balls screwed off each one in the corner of each post
• 3:18:15
  floating there. I screamed harder than I've ever
• 3:18:19
  screamed before, alerting my mother who rushed to save me.
• 3:18:24
  Upon her running in, my bed suddenly slammed to the ground
• 3:18:28
  and my bed post balls all fell to the floor.
• 3:18:33
  The events of that night and the following morning can never be
• 3:18:36
  forgotten by me and my family. For the next year and a half, we
• 3:18:40
  dealt with similar smells wafting throughout our
• 3:18:42
  apartment, unseen snarls and growls, and a feeling of anxiety
• 3:18:49
  as if our every move was being watched.
• 3:18:52
  But thank God it all eventually faded.
• 3:18:56
  I had since asked Keith how he came to be in that state, but I
• 3:19:00
  could never really get a clear answer.
• 3:19:03
  He often drank moonshine and was in a bad state mentally and
• 3:19:07
  spiritually at the time. Perhaps this weakened him enough
• 3:19:10
  to let something in somehow. I've since moved on from that
• 3:19:15
  place, but heard something very interesting that I'd also like
• 3:19:19
  to share in regards to him. This was the apartment we lived
• 3:19:22
  in, and a young boy mysteriously passed away within it not too
• 3:19:26
  long ago. The details of the case are hard
• 3:19:29
  to find, but I believe he was about as old as I was when
• 3:19:33
  everything had taken place to us.
• 3:19:36
  There has also been multiple shootings, stabbings, and
• 3:19:39
  murders that have taken place near and in the complex itself.
• 3:19:44
  It seems like whatever possessed Keith and stalked us maybe never
• 3:19:50
  truly left. I'm glad to share my story with
• 3:19:53
  all of you and I just want you to know that these things are
• 3:19:56
  very real. The paranormal is real and
• 3:20:01
  please do not meddle with it because you just don't know what
• 3:20:05
  you could be inviting in this energy, this evil.
• 3:20:10
  Wanted my soul and it seems like it may have taken multiple lives
• 3:20:16
  and pursuit of whatever nefarious things it wanted.
• 3:20:22
  Leia. I would like to thank Leia for
• 3:20:26
  submitting this chilling story of an exorcism that took place
• 3:20:30
  to her stepfather when she was a child.
• 3:20:33
  The entire situation must have been terrifying to endure, to
• 3:20:37
  say the least, and I commend her for being willing to share this
• 3:20:41
  with us and warn others that these things are very real
• 3:20:45
  indeed. I also believe it's important to
• 3:20:48
  bring awareness to these kinds of topics for a number of
• 3:20:52
  reasons. I am curious just how Keith
• 3:20:55
  became possessed, however, and if it was truly by Lucifer
• 3:20:59
  himself or something pretending to be him.
• 3:21:03
  All around a terrifying tale from Leia.
• 3:21:09
  Upon laying her head down to sleep, a young woman is
• 3:21:13
  seemingly transported to another time or place where she
• 3:21:18
  interacts with malevolent spirits.
• 3:21:21
  This one may just make you wonder if the very same has ever
• 3:21:25
  happened to you. One hot Saturday morning in
• 3:21:29
  2001, my ex-husband Dean and I went to the grocery store.
• 3:21:35
  By the time we returned home and put everything away, it was
• 3:21:39
  almost noon. I prepared some lunch for us and
• 3:21:43
  by two PMI announced that the heat had made me feel so very
• 3:21:47
  tired and that I would need to lie down.
• 3:21:50
  Dean would go on to watch TV with the volume on low, and I
• 3:21:54
  closed the bedroom door as soon as my head hit the pillow.
• 3:21:58
  I went out like a light. Then in what seemed like only 5
• 3:22:02
  minutes later I was woken up by a lady speaking beside my bed.
• 3:22:08
  It was if she was addressing another person but yet in a
• 3:22:12
  crystal clear voice across the room she said something along
• 3:22:16
  the lines of don't disturb her, let her sleep.
• 3:22:21
  This startled me. I immediately sat up in my bed
• 3:22:25
  and I looked around but saw nothing.
• 3:22:28
  I knew I wasn't dreaming as the voice was real and yet spoke at
• 3:22:32
  an audible enough level even to wake me up.
• 3:22:35
  Regardless whether a dream or real, I was too exhausted and
• 3:22:40
  quickly fell asleep again. Now this is where things took a
• 3:22:44
  stranger turn. I felt my soul leave my body.
• 3:22:49
  It rose up to where the wall met the ceiling.
• 3:22:52
  I crossed through the wall and into another place in time.
• 3:22:56
  I was no longer within my home but found myself in a scene from
• 3:23:01
  the 18th century. It was similar to watching a
• 3:23:05
  black and white film, but in varying Shades of Grey.
• 3:23:09
  I saw a few people who were extravagantly dressed and wore
• 3:23:13
  coiffed and powdered wigs, sitting on a plush Steven and
• 3:23:17
  some armchairs. They sat almost motionless by a
• 3:23:21
  small low lying table. Only the woman slowly looked
• 3:23:25
  about, but nobody seemed to notice me.
• 3:23:29
  I looked to my left and saw a couple standing still, arms held
• 3:23:34
  in an arch above in the air, hands touching, poised, as if
• 3:23:40
  waiting for music to start for their dance.
• 3:23:44
  I looked past them and saw a few men, one at each small table,
• 3:23:49
  just sitting quietly and motionless.
• 3:23:53
  Then I looked to my right, past the few people I initially saw
• 3:23:58
  and looked in awe at the sight before me.
• 3:24:00
  I realized I was in a vast hall as far as the eye could see.
• 3:24:05
  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.
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  I was made aware of the large crowd of people outside of my
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  bedroom door. The sound was similar to what
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  you would hear in a crowded bar, many people talking amongst
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  themselves. However, there was one woman's
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  voice that could be heard slightly above the rest of the
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  crowd. I didn't pay it any special
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  attention as I wasn't focusing on anyone in particular, nor
• 3:24:40
  catch what she had said. And what was only a moment
• 3:24:43
  later, that same voice was louder and closer, this time
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  just on the other side of my bedroom door.
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  Although I paid a little more attention now, what she said was
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  still indiscernible, and the voice was yet to be one that I
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  recognized. A voice belonging to a stranger.
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  And what seemed just another moment again, she opened the
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  door, stepped into my room, and then shut the door behind her.
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  I laid frozen in my bed, unable to move, yet I felt real terror
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  at this point, although I couldn't move at all, my eyes
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  were fixed at top of the wall. Somehow, with my mind's eye, I
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  saw her. It was my mother who had passed
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  away 21 years earlier. She wore a long white shroud,
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  which I never got to see her in, but I knew that she had been
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  buried in one by now. I was totally terrified.
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  I wanted to scream out for help. Better still to get out of
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  there, but I wasn't able to move a muscle.
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  I watched my mother pace to and fro past the foot of my bed in
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  absolute rage. She was so angry with me.
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  She was literally spitting mad while she was scolding me.
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  Never had I seen her this angry. The one thing I did notice once
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  my mother's spirit had entered the room was that while my eyes
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  were fixed near the ceiling, it was within my range of sight
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  that I'd seen a soft white gashes ball of light appear to
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  my right at the corner of the ceiling.
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  It was about the size of a basketball, though not quite as
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  spherical. It was so very slow moving, like
• 3:26:30
  a swirl of white smoke within itself.
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  Somehow I felt like it was protecting me from this evil,
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  like a guardian Angel. Once my mother was done raging
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  at me, she faced the door and held the door slightly open.
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  She paused and told me that I'd be dead by midnight tonight.
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  She then shut the door behind her and left.
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  As soon as she was out the door, the ball of light had dissipated
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  too and I felt instant relief. I looked at the clock and it was
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  now 3:00 PM. All of this strangeness took
• 3:27:06
  place in the space of 1 terrifying hour.
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  I still don't know if that was the spirit of my mother or
• 3:27:14
  something evil imitating her. All I know is that I jumped out
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  of bed and rushed to the lounge room, telling Dean what I had
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  seen. Though I didn't mention my
• 3:27:24
  mother's parting words, Dean wasn't remotely interested.
• 3:27:29
  He only mumbled as I interrupted him watching his program.
• 3:27:32
  Well, that was the end of the nap I wasn't quite able to get.
• 3:27:36
  As evening approached, I constantly glanced at my watch.
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  Although we retired for the day at about 10:00 PM that night, I
• 3:27:44
  was fearful yet resigned in my fate.
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  I hadn't told the soul about my mother's message in case it
• 3:27:51
  tempted fate. On waking the next morning, I
• 3:27:54
  couldn't have felt more relieved and thrilled to still be alive
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  now that it felt safe to do so. I told Dean and later my
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  neighbor about it all. They showed me the goosebumps on
• 3:28:05
  their arms and expressed fear as I recounted my experience.
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  This was 22 years ago and I still think of that day and the
• 3:28:14
  sheer terror that it brought me. It's a day that I can never
• 3:28:18
  forget. Johanna.
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  That story was chilling. Johanna.
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  I too am curious if it was some kind of spirit impersonating
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  your mother or if it was somehow her.
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  The detail of what she was wearing also happened to be what
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  she was buried in. Literally gave me goosebumps.
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  So thank you so much for sharing your story and continuing to
• 3:28:42
  bring awareness to these topics. A young man seemingly interacts
• 3:28:48
  with his grandmother who has long since passed away, but he
• 3:28:53
  isn't the only one that sees and feels her presence.
• 3:28:59
  This was in reference to watching one of my videos.
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  Watching this video reminded me of something that's been going
• 3:29:06
  on in my house. My wife's grandmother died
• 3:29:09
  before we got together and her son was the last person in the
• 3:29:13
  hospital room with her when she passed.
• 3:29:17
  Now, my work schedule varies, but generally I'm up between
• 3:29:21
  3:00 and 4:00 AM every day. Sometimes I feel a presence or I
• 3:29:27
  thought I saw what was a shadow and my peripheral vision.
• 3:29:31
  I finally told my wife about this a while back and she
• 3:29:35
  proceeded to tell me that her autistic son regularly speaks to
• 3:29:39
  his deceased grandmother. We've both spoken to him
• 3:29:43
  multiple times and apparently she visits him constantly.
• 3:29:48
  My wife admitted that she's seen her in our house a couple of
• 3:29:51
  times as well. I've offered to have the house
• 3:29:54
  cleansed, but my wife said no. Apparently his grandmother
• 3:29:58
  visits him all the time and watches over him and he's
• 3:30:02
  admitted that he still sees her. He's autistic, so he's very
• 3:30:07
  honest with everything. I'd like your guys's input about
• 3:30:11
  this. Thank you caveman.
• 3:30:16
  Well, caveman especially since he's autistic.
• 3:30:19
  That really does convince me of his sincerity and honesty.
• 3:30:23
  The young man clearly doesn't have a motivation to gain
• 3:30:25
  anything by saying this. And when you have felt this
• 3:30:29
  presence, is it as she was in life?
• 3:30:33
  Is it more of a benevolent energy or something else?
• 3:30:37
  It's also very interesting that your wife has seen her on
• 3:30:40
  multiple occasions as well. Perhaps she is watching over her
• 3:30:44
  grandson. Children often have an extra
• 3:30:47
  sense it seems like, to be able to interact with the spirit
• 3:30:51
  world. Reading your story reminded me
• 3:30:54
  of when my brother was younger and we had a very similar
• 3:30:57
  situation. My mom's father, Paul, had
• 3:31:01
  passed away in their family home in 2002, when my brother was
• 3:31:05
  just two years old. Prior to his passing, Paul
• 3:31:10
  seemed to be motioning for things to go away, things that
• 3:31:14
  we couldn't see, perhaps trying to state that he wasn't ready to
• 3:31:18
  go yet. Several months after his
• 3:31:20
  passing, with my grandmother Agnes still inhabiting the very
• 3:31:24
  same house, my brother Kaden had started to interact with
• 3:31:28
  something that we couldn't see. He would often play around the
• 3:31:32
  living room, which was the same room my grandfather passed away
• 3:31:36
  in. One day when he was in a full
• 3:31:39
  conversation with this person, my mother asked him who he was
• 3:31:43
  talking to and he said Grandpa Paul.
• 3:31:47
  It took the very breath out of her lungs.
• 3:31:51
  These interactions were fairly frequent until he was about four
• 3:31:54
  or five years old. The name suddenly went away one
• 3:31:58
  day. It truly makes one beg the
• 3:32:01
  question, just how often do our loved ones truly watch over us?
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  Thanks for sharing this one, Caveman.
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  Thank you all for watching. If you'd like to hear more
• 3:32:12
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• 3:32:21
  If you're new here, as I mentioned in the beginning of
• 3:32:24
  this video, I think it's very important to bring awareness to
• 3:32:28
  the paranormal question. It, in a sense, is the ultimate
• 3:32:31
  question in my opinion. What truly happens when we pass
• 3:32:35
  through the veil of this reality and into the afterlife?
• 3:32:40
  I appreciate all of you as always.
• 3:32:42
  I hope all of you are doing well mentally, physically, and
• 3:32:46
  spiritually. And I hope your year is heading
• 3:32:49
  in a vibrant and positive direction, and I wish you all
• 3:32:52
  nothing but the best. Until next time, this has been
• 3:32:57
  Cody here at Mystery Archives. Stay safe out there and take
• 3:33:01
  care.