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The Untold Story Paranormal Series - Season 1 FULL · 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.
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  House could tell its own tale. It would certainly be one we
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  would never forget. A family moves to the country in
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  search of peace, but those dreams are soon shattered by
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  supernatural terror. Something evil lurks within the
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  woods outside of their home, and this evil begins to stalk and
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  wreak havoc upon everyone that dwells within the home.
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  Can they save themselves before it's too late?
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  This is the untold story of the haunted Hinsdale House, also
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  known as the Dandy House, and the entities that infested it.
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  Hinsdale, NY, A small town with a rustic and rural charm, tucked
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  deep into the countryside and far away from the crime,
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  concrete and smog of New York City.
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  Instead of gazing at skyscrapers, they would rather
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  gaze at the surrounding mountains covered in dense
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  foliage. But these mountains and their
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  surrounding woods harbor many secrets and have many stories to
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  tell. This is just one of them.
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  The years 1970 and the Dandy family is in pursuit of their
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  American dream. After years of vacationing to
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  Hinsdale and the surrounding areas to catch a break from
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  their fast-paced life in Buffalo, they finally reached a
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  point where they can turn their vacation into their daily life.
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  Seeking their own rural paradise, they come across a
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  listing for a home that seems idyllic for their family and its
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  needs. Clara Dandy, the mother of the
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  family, believed that they all got along so much better in the
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  country, like it had some form of redemption qualities about it
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  that seemed to rejuvenate their spirits and their relationships.
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  As they wind their way through the countryside, they lay eyes
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  on the home for the first time. They are not only taken aback by
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  the beauty and the sheer size of the house, but that it sat upon
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  8 acres of land surrounded by dense and breathtaking woods.
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  Clara would describe her feelings about first seeing the
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  house as being overcome with a deep sense of peace.
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  It was like I had finally come home after years of being
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  elsewhere. And the air, the air was like
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  breathing champagne. It was wonderful.
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  The home is over 100 years old and still had most of the
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  original and ornate woodwork intact.
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  It just seemed to emanate charm and elegance.
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  As the children explored the nearby woods, Mr. and Missus
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  Dandy continued their tour, but when they were being shown the
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  storage space underneath the stairs, the door was initially
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  stuck, but after some elbow grease from Mr. Dandy, they were
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  finally able to get it open. It revealed A dusty space of
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  sorts with a fireplace, the one that didn't seem to fit the
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  feeling of the house at all. Clara would describe her
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  feelings towards the space like this.
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  I wasn't sure why, but I felt very uneasy when we opened up
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  the storage space. I couldn't put my finger on it,
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  but it was dark and desolate, not at all like the rest of the
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  house. But she quickly would dismiss
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  these feelings, attributing the creepy factor to her city
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  upbringing and the fact that they didn't have storage rooms
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  like that where she was from. After closing the space and
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  continuing to evaluate their opportunity, the feelings of
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  peace would return and the dandies decide that they can't
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  resist the charm of this rustic 100 year old home, so they
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  decide to purchase it once things are squared away.
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  Several months later they move in to start their new rural
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  existence. On move in day, Claire's brother
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  decided to lend a helping hand and had begun to move things in
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  hours before the family was able to arrive.
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  When loading in a box of belongings, as he opened the
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  door he was greeted by a flurry of insects.
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  Both bees and flies pelted him in his face, rushing past them
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  and then unloading the box onto the floor in the main room.
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  He was startled to see hundreds of dead bees scattered all over
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  the floor, and even more startled to see hundreds still
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  alive encoding the windows. It was still cold during this
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  time of year and although he too wasn't from the country, he
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  found it rather odd that there would be any kind of infestation
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  at this time. When his sister and her family
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  finally arrive, he greets her with the news and in order to
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  continue with the move in, they have to call an exterminator.
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  Upon his arrival, he too confirms the oddity of the
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  situation. He said that he had never seen
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  so many bees and flies in one spot in a home, and given this
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  time of year, it was not normal for them to swarm or infest
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  anything during this time. It takes some time, but after he
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  finishes clearing them out, the family is finally able to get
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  moved in. As time progresses, things seem
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  to fit the dreams they had for moving there in the 1st place.
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  The family finally seems at peace.
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  They were getting along better and enjoying each other's
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  company. A far departure from their city
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  life in Buffalo. But as the old adage goes, if it
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  seems too good to be. True it is.
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  A few weeks into living 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 round its sides to figure out just what it could be.
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  To their shock, they spot a boy not much older than them
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  carrying a rifle and walking in the path ahead.
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  Yelling at the boy that this is private property and wanting to
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  know what he was doing there, they run towards him and try to
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  catch up to him. They again freeze in their
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  tracks when they notice that not only is the boy transparent the
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  closer they get, but half of his head is missing.
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  As the figure continues to walk and taking deep breaths, they
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  slowly continue to follow him. The three approach a small lake.
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  Within the blink of an eye, the boy vanishes.
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  Mike and his friend are at a loss for words and have no
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  explanation for what they saw. They quickly rush back to the
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  Dandy house as fast as they can to tell anyone who will listen
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  to them. They soon make contact with
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  Clara and explain to her what took place, but she's quick to
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  dismiss their experience as nothing more than overactive
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  imaginations. Another several weeks pass by
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  and Clara has all but forgotten about what her son had told her.
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  She's now walking the family dog, Madison, in the woods for
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  some fresh air and exercise. As they get deeper into the
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  forest, Clara starts to hear what can only be described as
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  chanting. As she stops to listen, it
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  sounds eerie and disembodied, as if the sound is all around her
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  but has no true origin. It's at this time that Madison
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  begins growling and barking. The longer she seems to focus on
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  the chanting, the louder it seems to become.
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  Madison by this point is losing her mind and breaks free from a
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  distracted Clara and bolts in the direction of their home.
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  Clara chases her down and she finally stops running when she
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  makes it to the front door of their estate.
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  After taking a moment to collect herself, Clara then calls her
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  husband, who, like she was to her son, was quick to dismiss
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  her feelings, thinking that she just had to adjust to rural life
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  and wasn't used to it being so different from their life in the
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  city. Frustrated and worried now about
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  what the chanting could have been, Clara talks with her son
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  about her experience while she prepares dinner for the family.
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  Mike thinks that it could have been some campers at a nearby
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  campground not too far from where their property line ends
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  that could have been the cause of the strange sounds.
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  To try and put his mother at ease, he and his friend Matt
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  once again take to the woods to explore this possibility.
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  As they venture further into the woods to lookout point towards
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  the campsite, they see nothing. There are no signs of any
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  campers that could be nearby enough to have caused such a
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  noise. Even more perplexed now that
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  there was no explanation, the boys start to make their way
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  back to the house when suddenly they hear what sounds like an
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  axe 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, and besides the oddities they were, the
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  family's life continues to be great.
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  This distance from the experiences only makes them ever
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  easier to dismiss in the minds of Clara and M1 Day, Phil or Mr.
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  Dandy decides to take the children, Mike and Tina, into
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  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 as.
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  She reads page to page. She is suddenly startled when
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  the 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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  The storage shelf is directly above his head.
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  So opening his. Eyes, he glances up to see if
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  perhaps it could have been hanging too far off the edge,
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  causing it to fall, and to his shock, he begins to see several
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  more boxes slowly 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 and closes it behind her.
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  Clara's baffled at the sight, after gathering up her courage
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  she too makes her way fully down the stairs into the crawl space
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  and after a moment of bracing herself she opens the door and
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  going to be met with nothing. Claire then makes her way to her
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  daughter Tina's room to make sure it somehow wasn't 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 as she feeds her pet
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  bird in its cage and begins to brush her.
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  Hair in her Oval. Mirror.
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  She notices that her bird isn't doing its usual whistles as she
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  glances. Over at them.
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  She 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 is
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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.
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  As they wait for the priest to return, Clara tries her best to
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  keep her family calm and live some sort of a normal existence.
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  That weekend, her and Phil are watching a movie while Mike and
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  Tina are out with friends. As they enjoy their time
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  together, their happiness is quickly shattered by a huge
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  crashing noise coming from outside of their house.
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  Quickly grabbing a flashlight and running outside to
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  investigate together, they quietly stepped towards where
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  they believed the noise to be originating from.
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  And suddenly they hear it again. But this time, thankfully for
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  them, the origin is not paranormal this time.
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  But several raccoons who happened to be forging through
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  their metal trash cans for something to eat.
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  Relieved for that moment, they start to make their way back to
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  the house when they suddenly see the figure of a young girl in
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  their living room window staring at them as they rush 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 forces within the
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  house and the girls are staying close to one another, attempting
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  to comfort each other. As they try to determine a
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  course of action, all the lights in the house go out.
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  They then begin to hear banging and scratching coming from the
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  crawl space. Flashlights still in hand, Phil,
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  with the backup of his family, shines the light towards it and
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  begins to make his way towards whatever this thing is.
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  It seems like with each step he takes, the sounds become louder,
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  and after a tense several seconds, he opens the door to
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  the crawl space. Inside, they find that the
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  fireplace that was once there has been completely
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  disassembled. Its bricks have now been stacked
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  in an elaborate pile directly in the middle of the small room.
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  The amount of effort and strength required to perform
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  such a task convinces all of them that whatever they're
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  dealing with is strong, persistent, and perhaps
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  uncleansable. Nonetheless, with their spirits
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  waning, Claire makes a desperate call to Father Al, who agrees to
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  come earlier than originally planned and makes emergency
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  arrangements for himself and his paranormal expert of a friend to
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  come out that night. They arrive as soon as possible.
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  The paranormal expert is a man by the name of Alex Tennis, a
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  well respected paranormal researcher and psychic whose
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  abilities were studied at the American Society of Psychic
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  Research. Together, they make their way to
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  the door of the Dandy House, hoping to help rid this family
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  of whatever seems to be stalking them.
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  After being let in, the family quickly leads the pair to the
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  crawlspace to show them just what they were talking about.
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  Although he was aware that some sort of activity was taking
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  place, Alex had not been given any additional details or
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  information in regards to the home, its history, or
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  happenings. As he steps into the crawlspace
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  room, he begins to have a vision.
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  In his vision, he sees multiple dead bodies stacked within the
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  crawlspace itself. After the vision subsides, Alex
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  begins to explain to the family what he saw.
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  He believed that many had passed away within the home itself,
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  some of natural causes and some of murder.
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  It was his conviction that based on what he saw, that the house
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  used to be a stopping point for a Stagecoach or perhaps some
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  kind of inn where people would stay the night before departing
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  the following morning. It was also his belief that
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  there was a nearby criminal or gang of criminals that would
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  often rob and kill nearby travellers and that perhaps
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  these souls somehow became trapped here when someone passed
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  or was found dead nearby. Being the only stopping point in
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  the area, their bodies would be placed in the crawl space until
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  they could receive a proper burial.
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  It was also his belief that there were seven different
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  spirits that were trapped within the home all together.
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  With this revelation, the family, Alex and the father pray
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  that the trapped spirits within the home find peace and be
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  released so that they may go on to their final destination.
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  Upon the pair's departure, Clara once again has renewed hope.
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  The home, as it did the first time around, seemed to be
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  cleansed and to be more peaceful.
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  Meanwhile, Mike and his friend Randy were skeptical of Alex's
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  conclusions. After he left, they used an old
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  map of the area to trace where he had said the old Stagecoach
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  route was. They did indeed find what they
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  believed to be an old trail that could have been used for such a
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  thing, and the trail passed right by the Dandy home.
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  But during their search, as they were following the trail out and
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  headed back to the house, they experienced strangeness of their
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  own. As they began to trace the
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  trail, they began to see what they described as orbs of light
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  in the nearby trees, and these orbs began to come at them.
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  Randy, having never seen or experienced anything
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  supernatural before, began to have a panic attack upon
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  arriving at the house. They were fortunately able to
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  get him calmed down. By this point it was late in the
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  night and the entire family needed to try and get some form
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  of sleep in order to function the following day.
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  Randy ended up staying the night since he had rode with Mike.
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  Once everyone else was settled down for the night and fast
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  asleep, Clara sat by herself weeping.
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  She felt that her and her family were helpless in the situation
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  and that all efforts have been exhausted and that they needed
• 27:07
  to move. The only problem was that all
• 27:10
  their money, every last dime, had been sunk into the house,
• 27:15
  leaving them stranded. She would continue to
• 27:18
  contemplate the future and would cry herself to sleep that night.
• 27:23
  The following morning, as the family began to wake up and
• 27:26
  start to try and resume some form of normalcy, Mike went
• 27:31
  ahead and departed with Randy to take him home.
• 27:34
  Several hours would go by and Mike hadn't returned.
• 27:38
  Finally, there was a knock on the door.
• 27:41
  It was a police officer. He informed the family that
• 27:45
  there had been an accident, that they needed to head to the
• 27:48
  hospital as soon as possible. Rushing into the car into the
• 27:52
  hospital, the Dandy family wondered just what had happened.
• 27:56
  There had been no mention of Randy by the officer at the
• 27:59
  time. Upon arriving, they were briefed
• 28:03
  that Mike had lost control of his vehicle and crashed into a
• 28:06
  nearby ditch. He was now undergoing emergency
• 28:10
  surgery. He had extensive head injuries,
• 28:14
  A ruptured spleen that may have to be removed, and that he had
• 28:17
  lost a very significant amount of blood.
• 28:21
  As they waited for the outcome of their son's surgery, the
• 28:24
  Dandies were once again greeted by the officer who had knocked
• 28:27
  on their door. He explained to them that Randy
• 28:30
  had indeed been dropped off and that Mike had wrecked on his way
• 28:34
  back to the Dandy residence, but as he was being loaded into the
• 28:38
  ambulance, he kept saying that there was another person in the
• 28:41
  car with him. Although they believed him to be
• 28:44
  confused on account of his injuries.
• 28:47
  They went ahead and searched the area nonetheless, but another
• 28:50
  person was never found. After two weeks of being in a
• 28:55
  coma, Mike finally wakes up, but unfortunately has no
• 29:00
  recollection as to what exactly happened to him to cause the
• 29:04
  accident. Clara, however, believes that
• 29:07
  whatever presence that's been plugging their lives had to have
• 29:11
  been responsible for what happened to her son.
• 29:14
  After months of recovery for Mike and continued paranormal
• 29:18
  activity within the home, Father Alphonsus would return with Alex
• 29:23
  one last and final time at Claire's request to try and rid
• 29:28
  the home of the evil and persistent force that had
• 29:31
  drained the life out of all of them for years now.
• 29:36
  However, this time just the Father and Alex would perform
• 29:39
  the cleansing inside the home themselves.
• 29:43
  As they moved from room to room, Alex would once again experience
• 29:48
  multiple visions of the past. His visions would tell him that
• 29:52
  of the seven spirits who he believed to be within the house,
• 29:57
  1 was that of a young man who had been in some kind of a war
• 30:01
  or battle near where the property sits now.
• 30:04
  Another was that of a young girl who had passed from some sort of
• 30:07
  very painful illness in what was now Tina's room.
• 30:11
  And there was another spirit that seemed to be keeping
• 30:15
  herself and others trapped within the house.
• 30:19
  It was the spirit of a woman who was incredibly angry and
• 30:23
  resentful. She continued to be possessive,
• 30:27
  depressive and just as angry and death as she was in life.
• 30:32
  Refusing to pass on believing what they had identified to be
• 30:36
  the source of the paranormal activity, Father Al decided to
• 30:40
  take a different approach to the cleansing itself.
• 30:44
  Although an exorcism cannot be performed on a place, but rather
• 30:47
  has to be performed on an individual, the rights
• 30:51
  themselves could in theory be performed or added to a series
• 30:55
  of prayers to try and use their strong cleansing powers to clear
• 31:00
  out a home such as this one. So that's exactly what the
• 31:03
  Father did. He began to perform the rites of
• 31:06
  exorcism within the house itself.
• 31:10
  As the prayers began to exit his lips, varying with intensity as
• 31:15
  the rights often do, the home began to literally shake, and
• 31:19
  the horrific moaning and wailing that had made itself present in
• 31:24
  the very first cleansing seemed to return with a vengeance.
• 31:29
  Every horrible feeling, banging, knocking and scratching noise
• 31:34
  that the family had experienced thus far was present and seemed
• 31:38
  to be magnified. It takes hours, but eventually
• 31:43
  the rites are finished. As the dust settles, so to
• 31:46
  speak, the home seems peaceful and blissful, like it did when
• 31:51
  the family had first visited and decided to buy the home.
• 31:56
  And again, for three more months, the family lives in
• 31:59
  peace. But like the persistent force
• 32:02
  that has manifested itself to be, the haunting begins again.
• 32:08
  The Dandy family, despite their best efforts, simply cannot take
• 32:12
  it anymore, decide to cut their losses and move.
• 32:17
  Unable to find a buyer for their house, they eventually declare
• 32:21
  bankruptcy. Shortly after this, Phil and
• 32:25
  Clara would also divorce, bringing a sad and bitter end to
• 32:30
  what was supposed to be a rural redemption for the Dandy family.
• 32:35
  However, this wouldn't be the end of the story of the Hensdale
• 32:40
  house. Eventually, the home would come
• 32:43
  into the possession of Daniel Klaus, who currently owns it.
• 32:48
  Daniel's a renowned paranormal investigator and has been
• 32:52
  involved with the likes of Nick Groff and has made appearances
• 32:56
  on tons of national TV programs centered around the paranormal
• 33:00
  over the years. Having been raised in a haunted
• 33:03
  house, this led to a lifelong fascination with the Paranormal
• 33:08
  Forum. After years of restoration, it
• 33:11
  is now available for both investigations and tours and is
• 33:16
  still considered a very active paranormal portal and is kept
• 33:20
  open as a paranormal research location.
• 33:23
  It's even staged in the 1970s period to maintain the integrity
• 33:29
  of when the hauntings were initially known to have began.
• 33:32
  But now that we know the back story of the 20th and into the
• 33:35
  21st century of the Hensdale house, just who owned it, what
• 33:40
  happened to them and who owns it now, I would like to shift your
• 33:44
  attention to some of the plausible theories as to what
• 33:48
  could have caused the haunting. Many theories of what could have
• 33:51
  caused the haunting have been formed over the years by the
• 33:54
  many people who have researched and have been interested in the
• 33:58
  case. One theory is that the home was
• 34:01
  built on top of an Indian burial mound.
• 34:03
  This of course could have disturbed the spirits of the
• 34:06
  natives that rested within the land, and although tribes who
• 34:10
  used this method of burial were present in the area back in
• 34:13
  history, there's little to no evidence to support this claim.
• 34:18
  But perhaps any evidence by this point could have long since been
• 34:22
  lost to the sands of time or could have been removed when the
• 34:25
  home was initially built. Another theory is that the home
• 34:30
  was at one point used as a Stagecoach in and passer bys
• 34:34
  were murdered either near or within the home itself, leading
• 34:38
  to their spirits being trapped within the home or on its land.
• 34:42
  Although there is evidence that a Stagecoach route did run very
• 34:46
  close to the home, there isn't direct evidence that the house
• 34:50
  itself was used as an inn, but it is possible murders also did
• 34:55
  take place in or around the area in which the home is now
• 34:58
  located, which could lend credence to the theories of
• 35:01
  criminals robbing and murdering people along the Stagecoach
• 35:05
  route. An old family from the area that
• 35:08
  used to own the home with the last name of McMahon also lends
• 35:12
  credence to the home being used as an inn at some point.
• 35:16
  The now past grandfather of the family used to tell stories of a
• 35:21
  road that passed by the house where stagecoaches travelled.
• 35:26
  Another theory is that one or several of the spirits were
• 35:29
  trapped as a result of hangings that took place there.
• 35:33
  The now famous hanging tree that sits near the residence was
• 35:37
  indeed used for executions for a time.
• 35:41
  Most famously, it seems, was the execution of a woman named
• 35:45
  Elizabeth. Elizabeth was pregnant.
• 35:49
  Could this perhaps be the spirit of the woman who was angry and
• 35:53
  refusing to leave? Other events, such as the
• 35:57
  homicide that took place in the year 2000 near the house, as
• 36:01
  well as a buzz saw incident that led to a boy's death, have led
• 36:05
  many to believe that whatever haunts the area could indeed
• 36:10
  still be there and influencing our world.
• 36:14
  It's important in my opinion to try and get the story and the
• 36:17
  facts as straight as possible, not only for the current owners
• 36:21
  benefit, but for the dandies who have suffered greatly as a
• 36:25
  result of their story becoming public, especially towards the
• 36:29
  end of their time at the property.
• 36:31
  As word got out that something strange was taking place at the
• 36:34
  house, a local paper ended up reaching out to the dandies for
• 36:38
  a statement. Thinking that they were
• 36:40
  accepting an opportunity for additional outside help, they
• 36:44
  gave their story only to be met with ridicule from the paper,
• 36:48
  which in turn led to ridicule from the public and nearby
• 36:52
  residents. Which this combined with the
• 36:54
  paranormal torment they were experiencing along with then
• 36:58
  having to file bankruptcy and then later divorce.
• 37:02
  In my opinion, they suffered greatly and did not benefit from
• 37:06
  the story especially during that time.
• 37:10
  The only benefit I've seen could be from Clara Miller, formerly
• 37:14
  Clara Dandy, who would eventually write a book known as
• 37:18
  Echoes of a Haunting. But to be fair, if I experienced
• 37:22
  even a portion of what she did, I would eventually write a book
• 37:25
  to catalog what happened as well.
• 37:28
  Not only for some monetary benefit, of course, but for my
• 37:31
  own sanity really. So as I've began to mention and
• 37:36
  will continue to mention again in the future, if you ever
• 37:39
  encounter anyone mentioned in this video or any of my other
• 37:43
  videos, whether it be in person or online, please be respectful
• 37:48
  of them and their experiences and do not ever harass anyone.
• 37:53
  And if you find yourself seemingly handed an opportunity
• 37:57
  that seems too good to be true the answer to your prayers, it's
• 38:02
  more than likely not the case. It could be a nightmare waiting
• 38:06
  to happen. It could be a haunted home
• 38:09
  infested with entities sitting. And waiting for the perfect
• 38:13
  victim. Don't let it be you.
• 38:17
  Could an item, if given enough energy, devotion and focus,
• 38:23
  begin to take on a life of its own?
• 38:25
  Could it begin to exhibit human like characteristics as if it
• 38:30
  has been imbued with or contains some kind of soul or entity
• 38:34
  inside of it? This act of magic has been
• 38:37
  practiced by multiple religions and.
• 38:40
  Cults. Throughout the ages.
• 38:42
  This is just one very strange example that it could indeed be
• 38:46
  possible. After a gracious gift was placed
• 38:49
  into the arms of a little girl, tragedy would strike and what
• 38:54
  follows would continue to haunt the family, the citizens of the
• 38:58
  village, and would soon cross far beyond the barriers of land
• 39:03
  and sea. This is the untold story of
• 39:06
  Akiku, the haunted Japanese doll and the bizarre paranormal force
• 39:13
  that possessed it. Japan is a very mystical and
• 39:24
  spiritual place, a place where the souls of the past seem to
• 39:29
  interact with the living. Such places where the spiritual
• 39:34
  energy seems to be most visible is throughout many of Japan's
• 39:38
  spiritual temples, home to many religions, the two main ones
• 39:43
  being Buddhism and Shintoism. Thousands of temples exist all
• 39:48
  over the country, but one in particular houses a spiritual
• 39:53
  artifact that has a tragic back story and an even more
• 39:57
  terrifying story that continues to be written to this day.
• 40:02
  Located in Hokkaido, Japan at the Menenji Buddhist Temple.
• 40:07
  Is a doll with a bizarre and tragic back story.
• 40:10
  Indeed, although there are several origin stories of how
• 40:14
  the doll came to be and how the temple became its final living
• 40:18
  space, so to speak, all of them have most of the main details in
• 40:23
  common. Therefore, I'll be telling the
• 40:26
  most agreed upon origin story to try and be as true to the legend
• 40:31
  as I can. The years 1918 in Hokkaido,
• 40:35
  Japan and a 17 year old boy by the name of Ikiki Suzuki is in
• 40:41
  search of a gift for his little sister's birthday.
• 40:45
  As he pursues the different vendors and small shops,
• 40:49
  something soon catches his attention and one of the store
• 40:53
  windows. He spots a small, childlike doll
• 40:57
  wearing a traditional Japanese kimono.
• 41:00
  Knowing that he had finally found something his sister will
• 41:03
  love, the Kiki quickly purchases the doll and makes his way back
• 41:08
  home through the countryside. As the family celebrates their
• 41:12
  little girl's birthday, Okiku is presented with the doll and
• 41:17
  almost immediately, as soon as her eyes meet hers, she falls in
• 41:22
  love with it. The two from this point, become
• 41:25
  inseparable. Wherever Okiku is, her doll is
• 41:29
  right by her side. She Combs her hair, bathes her,
• 41:34
  dresses her and treats her as if she was her little sister.
• 41:38
  The two even share meals and sleep side by side.
• 41:43
  The joy that the doll brought a Kiku must have filled Ekiki's
• 41:46
  heart with such happiness. But soon, that happiness would
• 41:51
  change to tragedy. One hot day, as the little girl
• 41:56
  played outside with her doll, she was bitten by a mosquito.
• 42:00
  This benign insect by it would soon manifest itself into a
• 42:04
  horrible case of malaria. Although the family did
• 42:08
  everything they could possibly do, Okiku would pass away scared
• 42:14
  and gasping for air as she clutched her special doll all
• 42:18
  the way until the moment she took her last breath devastated
• 42:23
  the Suzuki's plan to have their little.
• 42:25
  Girl buried with. The doll since she loved it so
• 42:27
  much, but unfortunately, due to either governmental or religious
• 42:32
  oversight at the time, this wasn't an option.
• 42:36
  Instead, after they had laid a kiku to rest, the doll would be
• 42:40
  placed on a small family shrine located within the living
• 42:43
  quarters of their home as a tribute of sorts to their late
• 42:48
  daughter and their love for her. But shortly after the doll was
• 42:52
  placed on the shrine, very strange things began to happen.
• 42:57
  A Kiki, upon walking past the shrine one day, noticed that the
• 43:00
  doll's hair seemed significantly longer than what it had been
• 43:04
  when it was placed there. The hair which was originally
• 43:08
  shoulders length on the doll itself and black was now
• 43:12
  overgrown with differing shades of brown hair also coming
• 43:16
  through and splitting at the ends.
• 43:19
  Finding this bizarre to say the least, he brought the discovery
• 43:23
  to his parents attention and unsure of what else to do, they
• 43:27
  trimmed the dolls hair as the days came and when the family
• 43:32
  began to have distressing dreams at night of their departed
• 43:35
  Okiku. Sometimes she would be scared
• 43:38
  and alone in the darkness, calling out to them, only being
• 43:42
  recognized by her voice. Other times she would blame them
• 43:47
  for what happened to. Her.
• 43:49
  Each member of the family at differing times had these
• 43:52
  dreams, and they would soon lead all of them to believe that
• 43:56
  Akiku's soul wasn't peacefully resting.
• 43:59
  These disturbing dreams soon became all the stranger when the
• 44:03
  doll, which they began to refer to as Akiku and their daughter's
• 44:08
  honor, would appear by their bedsides following these
• 44:12
  nightmares. One such incident involved the
• 44:16
  father of the family waking up in a cold sweat only to be met
• 44:20
  face to face with a blank and lifeless stare of the doll.
• 44:27
  Unsure of what was taking place, the Suzuki's turn to their
• 44:31
  faith. After contacting a local
• 44:33
  Buddhist priest and having a cleansing ritual be performed on
• 44:37
  their home and the doll, the activity seemed to grow and
• 44:42
  become stronger. Accompanying their ever frequent
• 44:45
  nightmares and random movements of the doll, the chilling events
• 44:50
  grew into full blown spiritual manifestations during their
• 44:54
  waking life. They soon began to hear banging
• 44:57
  noises all throughout the house and the whispers of a little
• 45:01
  girl. Strange disembodied voices
• 45:05
  varying from high pitched like those of a child to the low
• 45:09
  groans of something unexplainable began to be heard.
• 45:14
  Their lights began to flicker on and off, and the paranormal
• 45:18
  activity seemed to happen more frequently as the calendar
• 45:22
  ticked closer to the birth and death dates of Akiku.
• 45:28
  These strange and terrifying happenings would continue over
• 45:31
  the course of the next 20 years, with multiple religious, priests
• 45:36
  and shamans being contacted and all coming to the same
• 45:40
  conclusion that after the cleansings failed time and time
• 45:43
  again, that the restless spirit of Akiku now inhabited the doll
• 45:48
  she once loved so much. Finally needing a major change
• 45:53
  and unable to deal with the ever intensifying spiritual presence
• 45:58
  that seemed to haunt their home, the Suzuki's relocated to a
• 46:02
  different district. Believing the doll to be the
• 46:05
  source of their various ailments and emotional torture that they
• 46:09
  had endured over the last two decades, they had no desire to
• 46:13
  take it with them. The family had reached the
• 46:15
  conclusion that if their daughter's soul wasn't at peace,
• 46:19
  what could perhaps be helping to fuel Akiku's power or magic was
• 46:24
  the close proximity of her grave to their home where the doll
• 46:28
  resided. So in order to distance the doll
• 46:31
  from the grave, the family approached the Meninge Buddhist
• 46:34
  Temple in Hokkaido, and over the years the dolls reputation for
• 46:39
  being haunted had spread throughout the community and
• 46:43
  indeed the majority of the country.
• 46:45
  This was more than likely due to the various interactions between
• 46:48
  the spiritual community and the Suzuki family finding the doll
• 46:53
  to be mesmerizing and possibly a unique opportunity to commute
• 46:58
  and interact with the dead. If the stories were true, the
• 47:01
  leaders and priests of the Meninge Temple agreed to home
• 47:05
  Okiku permanently. As with many legends, we find
• 47:09
  lots of details to be exaggerated over time and
• 47:13
  perhaps some of the details to not be true at all.
• 47:16
  And this is what the priests were originally thinking, that
• 47:20
  perhaps due to grief, the family was dealing with other spiritual
• 47:24
  ailments perhaps unrelated to the doll, or causing the doll to
• 47:28
  be a vessel of sorts for restless spirits.
• 47:32
  However, as the years came and when as Akiku now called the
• 47:36
  temple her home, they began to slowly but surely experience the
• 47:41
  same strangeness the Suzuki's had.
• 47:44
  For all of those years. Akiku's hair continued to grow
• 47:49
  and this baffled the priests. They would eventually have the
• 47:52
  hair trimmed and tested, and the hair was said to belong to a
• 47:57
  little girl. They found that the entity
• 48:00
  seemed to be appeased when her hair was trimmed and combed, and
• 48:04
  this led to less activity for a time.
• 48:07
  But the same activity? The knocking, banging, and
• 48:11
  disembodied voices which soon plagued the temple as well.
• 48:16
  No, Kiku's power only seemed to grow.
• 48:19
  Any priest who seemed skeptical of the doll or attempted to
• 48:23
  cleanse it themselves soon had their dreams haunted as well,
• 48:28
  turning their sleep into restless fits.
• 48:31
  Their homes and rooms soon also began to manifest the very same
• 48:36
  activity that the temple was now exhibiting.
• 48:39
  With no remedy seeming to work, the leaders turned to
• 48:42
  appeasement instead, hoping that gestures of goodwill would keep
• 48:47
  the entity at Bay. As years turn to decades, and as
• 48:51
  we've come into the 21st century, the priests of multiple
• 48:55
  generations now have overseen and cared for the Dahl known as
• 49:00
  Akiku. And though some of the more
• 49:02
  violent activity has faded, the general consensus is that she is
• 49:07
  now just as powerful as she was. Or is perhaps.
• 49:10
  More powerful as she's continued to age, it seems like as the
• 49:15
  more her fame and notoriety grows, the more visitors she
• 49:19
  has, the stronger she becomes. She continues to invade the
• 49:24
  dreams of those who come to visit her, and her hair is
• 49:28
  growing faster and more frayed. She's said to drive tourists mad
• 49:33
  who doubt her, with many people even reporting that besides
• 49:37
  seeing her strange hair and feeling a malevolent presence
• 49:41
  when visiting her, they've also had her stalk and appear in
• 49:45
  their dreams. Some more disturbing and recent
• 49:48
  reports have even suggested that her mouth is slowly opening and
• 49:53
  that if you dare to appear inside of it, you may just catch
• 49:56
  a glimpse of baby like teeth sprouting from her porcelain
• 50:00
  gums. As if whoever or whatever she is
• 50:05
  is slowly turning to flesh and bone.
• 50:09
  The paranormal displays of her power continue to occur as well.
• 50:14
  Her permanent home, located within the menaging temple, is
• 50:17
  her own private shrine where she sits in a small wooden box on
• 50:21
  display. It is here that she watches and
• 50:25
  waits for anyone and everyone who dares to play with fire and
• 50:31
  invoke the power of the entity known as a Kiku.
• 50:36
  But what are your thoughts? Was a Kiku the girl trapped
• 50:39
  inside of the doll? In my opinion, although her
• 50:43
  spirit would be much older now, at the time of her death she was
• 50:47
  either close to or was three years old, and no person at that
• 50:51
  age is capable of true malice to the point to where she would
• 50:55
  become aware enough to begin to blame her parents and then
• 50:59
  torment them for decades to come as children.
• 51:03
  Our parents or our family? Our entire world.
• 51:07
  So I find it incredibly difficult to think that these
• 51:10
  bizarre happenings were the result of her soul being
• 51:13
  restless and imbuing the doll. What I find more likely, and all
• 51:18
  the more interesting really, is the thought of invocation or the
• 51:22
  imbuing of the doll. Like a conduit or a vessel of
• 51:26
  sorts. Akiku, the girl was, as they
• 51:29
  said, inseparable from this doll.
• 51:32
  She fed it, bathed it, took naps with it, and everything else a
• 51:37
  small child would do with that wonderful imagination that they
• 51:40
  have. But could all of this dedication
• 51:43
  and focus accompanied with the tragedy that took place allow
• 51:47
  for a portal to open for an entity, whether non human or a
• 51:52
  restless human spirit to inhabit the doll?
• 51:56
  And by non human I mean a demon. This would make sense to me.
• 52:01
  Something that enjoys and grows more powerful off of pain and
• 52:04
  misfortune or the emotional torment of others.
• 52:08
  As it causes the pain, it feeds off of it and grows ever
• 52:12
  stronger. This would not only explain the
• 52:15
  malevolent manifestations of whatever entity is present, but
• 52:19
  would also explain the still present force and the alleged
• 52:23
  ever growing power of it. And depending on the entity's
• 52:26
  strength, it could also explain why the cleansings thus far have
• 52:30
  failed. However, if you find yourself
• 52:34
  taking a trip to Japan anytime soon, or you happen to call
• 52:38
  Japan home if you find yourself in Hokkaido, you may want to
• 52:42
  steer clear of the Menajin Temple, because if you don't,
• 52:46
  the entity that inhabits the doll known as a Kiku may just
• 52:51
  use you as its next feeding source.
• 52:54
  Where it'll begin to plague your dreams, making you twist and
• 52:59
  turn, sweat and fear as it grows ever stronger and attempts to
• 53:06
  cross from its world into ours, making our plane of existence
• 53:12
  its permanent residence. An unsuspecting family finds
• 53:17
  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 The small town
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  located on America's East Coast with just a population of an
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  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.
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  We discover that this little town has a dark history.
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  Its story is filled with death, from murders to drownings and
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  much more. With all these unfortunate
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  happenings in mind, it makes one beg the question, could there be
• 54:43
  something evil that stalks this place?
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  Something that feeds upon suffering and misery?
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  Perhaps there is, and perhaps that is what contributed to the
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  creation of the following story. It all starts in Central Falls,
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  RI in 1970, where the Peron family, which consisted of
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  mother Carolyn, father Roger, and their five daughters Andrea,
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  Nancy, Christine, Cynthia and April, we're all living a
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  relatively normal life. Among things like school, work
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  and outdoor play. Nothing seemed quite out of the
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  ordinary, yet the children had been gifted a puppy with an
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  exceptionally unique personality and out of the ether.
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  A name came to mind when they were naming her Bathsheba.
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  A unique dog with a unique name. She was fond of all the
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  children, but especially Andrea, Now 10 years old.
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  She would often take Bathsheba for walks around their suburban
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  neighborhood. However, on one of those walks,
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  tragedy would strike and would seemingly set in motion a
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  snowball effect that would follow the family for years to
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  come. While Andrea had the puppy out
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  in the neighborhood, her sisters had come up from playing outside
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  and decided to make the walk a group activity.
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  All seemed fine until a car full of teenagers drove by at an
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  incredibly high rate of speed. They seemed to be yelling
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  something in unison and had brightly colored tassels hanging
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  out of their windows. Bathsheba was an obedient dog,
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  but the flailing and bright colored streamers caught her
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  attention. And in an instant.
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  She broke loose from Andrea and bolted towards the vehicle.
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  The shocked girls then watched the car miss her by mere inches
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  as she made her way safely across the road.
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  But being the good dog that she was, upon hearing Andrea call
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  out to her again, she began to run back to them and in the
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  blink of an eye, she was struck by another vehicle, an elderly
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  couple that never even saw her. Her leash had gotten caught
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  around one of the wheels of their car when they hit her and
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  she was suffering immensely. A nearby neighbor called the
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  police and upon removing the children from the scene, they
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  were traumatized further as they heard the gunshot that ended the
• 57:29
  poor animal's life. The entire family now held a
• 57:34
  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.
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  And. There was now an unspoken pain
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  that haunted them. The family had planned a
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  vacation months prior and hoped that a break from their normal
• 57:51
  routine would help everyone. So they went.
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  And soon some of their sadness turned to joy as the family
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  experienced hotel swimming pools, ice cream and shopping.
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  But this joy would too be short lived.
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  The family also had four cats and upon returning to their home
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  with this new found sense of well-being, they would endure
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  even more trauma. They would discover that almost
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  all of their cats. Had been viciously killed by
• 58:25
  neighborhood kids while they were gone.
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  Several had every bone in their bodies broken with a baseball
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  bat. Upon this horrific discovery,
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  their father Roger rushed inside the house to call the police,
• 58:41
  only to find their home absolutely ransacked as well.
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  Furniture was upside down, mirrors and windows broken, all
• 58:51
  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
• 59:15
  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
• 59:27
  was shortly uncovered that the demon seed who had LED these
• 59:31
  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.
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  Nothing much would come of the report with the police, but
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  Andrea would have her revenge. She had yet to come to terms
• 59:55
  with her precious Bathsheba's death, and now this, the rage
• 1:00:00
  inside of her built. After some thorough planning,
• 1:00:04
  she attacked the boy who was responsible, beating him
• 1:00:08
  ferociously, breaking his nose, blackening his eyes until she
• 1:00:14
  was pried off by a nearby neighbor.
• 1:00:17
  And told to go home. All this wouldn't bring her
• 1:00:20
  animals back, but it felt justified to the young girl
• 1:00:24
  given what the boy had done. But these antics of sadness,
• 1:00:29
  hostility, and rage would soon manifest into something much
• 1:00:34
  darker. Ever since their home was
• 1:00:37
  ransacked, Carolyn had wanted to move, but knowing they weren't
• 1:00:42
  in a financial state to do so, they had little to no choice
• 1:00:46
  other than to stay. So she kept an ever watchful eye
• 1:00:50
  on her children, letting them out of the house rarely and
• 1:00:54
  mostly under her supervision. Given the prior events, she
• 1:00:58
  wanted them raised by wild nature, not wild beasts.
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  Shortly after this time, Roger had prepared to depart for a
• 1:01:07
  business trip which was to last several days.
• 1:01:11
  Even amidst the turmoil of the current events, he still had to
• 1:01:15
  provide for his large family. And while his family was just
• 1:01:19
  waking up that morning, as he and his wife Carolyn enjoyed
• 1:01:23
  their morning cup of coffee, they were suddenly startled by
• 1:01:27
  the sound of a large explosion in their front yard, like
• 1:01:31
  someone had fired a cannon towards their house.
• 1:01:35
  Alarmed, they raced outside to discover what had happened.
• 1:01:40
  Shortly after purchasing their humble home, Carolyn had built a
• 1:01:45
  rock garden of sorts at the entrance of their driveway.
• 1:01:49
  Her friends often teased her that it's centerpiece resembled
• 1:01:53
  a tombstone without the inscription of the dearly
• 1:01:56
  departed. Well to the family shock, their
• 1:02:01
  neighbor from across the street had started his truck that
• 1:02:04
  morning and had suffered a major heart attack and had died at the
• 1:02:08
  wheel, his foot pressing down on the gas causing the truck to
• 1:02:13
  barrel directly at the parents home to smash right into that
• 1:02:17
  large rock. It was almost like something was
• 1:02:20
  following them, like a living breathing Organism feeding upon
• 1:02:26
  it. After this horrible event people
• 1:02:30
  began to refer to the rock garden as the graveyard.
• 1:02:35
  Missus Curtis, the wife of the neighbor who had passed away,
• 1:02:39
  upon being greeted and offered condolences by the family,
• 1:02:43
  actually blamed them for what had happened, declaring that
• 1:02:47
  Carolyn never liked them anyway and was a witch.
• 1:02:52
  That was enough for her. Again, she begged Roger to move,
• 1:02:57
  but they were seemingly stuck given the awful circumstances.
• 1:03:02
  The man still had to work, so he departed for his business trip.
• 1:03:07
  While her husband was gone, it was up to Carolyn to take care
• 1:03:11
  of their five children. This meant taking them to and
• 1:03:14
  from school, as well as music lessons and much more.
• 1:03:19
  While attending her daughter Andrea's music lessons, she had
• 1:03:23
  forgotten to bring a book to help her pass the time, so
• 1:03:27
  Carolyn went and purchased a paper as a substitute.
• 1:03:30
  Before too long she found herself daydreaming and looking
• 1:03:34
  through the various ads and real estate available, wanting and
• 1:03:38
  wishing that she could change their current predicament when
• 1:03:42
  strangely enough, the universe seemed to glance back at her.
• 1:03:47
  Hidden among many other homes was a nine bedroom farmhouse
• 1:03:51
  with a barn, lots of land and seclusion.
• 1:03:56
  It's beautiful design and elegance soon had Carolyn
• 1:03:59
  imagining her children playing and being raised in nature as
• 1:04:03
  she wanted, and she could allow them to do so without the fear
• 1:04:08
  of other children attempting to harm them.
• 1:04:11
  She almost immediately became obsessed with the idea of
• 1:04:14
  purchasing the house and although the family really
• 1:04:17
  couldn't afford it at the time without seeking Roger's
• 1:04:21
  permission, she made a call and went to look at the old Arnold
• 1:04:25
  State the following day. The owner was a very nice old
• 1:04:29
  lady, and although she didn't have much, Carolyn asked how
• 1:04:34
  much she would have to put down to hold the home so she could
• 1:04:37
  purchase it once her husband had returned.
• 1:04:40
  An agreement of $500 as a good faith payment was made, and
• 1:04:45
  shortly after Roger arrived back home several days later, he was
• 1:04:50
  sideswiped by his wife's decision, although his anger
• 1:04:55
  would soon turn to understanding.
• 1:04:57
  After all, a happy wife makes for a happy life, as most would
• 1:05:02
  say, even though he didn't know exactly how they would make it
• 1:05:06
  work. He decided to placate his wife.
• 1:05:09
  And allow them to purchase the home.
• 1:05:12
  It took some time, but before too long they found themselves
• 1:05:16
  packing and coming into possession of the.
• 1:05:18
  Keys to their future. Although they couldn't.
• 1:05:21
  Foresee just how dark of the future it was to be.
• 1:05:29
  The parent family having seemingly found the home of
• 1:05:32
  their dreams located on a large swath of land outside of the
• 1:05:36
  town of Harrisville, RI, what would become known as the Old
• 1:05:41
  Arnold Estate, almost seemed to perfect like an answer to their
• 1:05:46
  desperate prayers. It's a large farmhouse which has
• 1:05:51
  9 bedrooms, a barn and plenty of land which they can envision
• 1:05:56
  their children playing on and having a wonderful time.
• 1:06:00
  Although it's winter, they go ahead and begin to move into
• 1:06:04
  their new house. There's a massive snowstorm
• 1:06:08
  taking place while they're moving in, but this doesn't
• 1:06:11
  deter the large family from getting settled in to what they
• 1:06:14
  believe is going to be a charming, nice and new home for
• 1:06:19
  all of them. Given everything they've been
• 1:06:22
  through, I would have hoped for the same.
• 1:06:24
  And for the first three months, things are charming, nice and
• 1:06:29
  normal. Their rustic farmhouse has its
• 1:06:32
  challenges with it being fairly old, such as being very cold
• 1:06:37
  that winter, but it's nothing they can't deal with, or so they
• 1:06:42
  think. All around, the feeling is a
• 1:06:45
  happy one for the family. But this happy mood would soon
• 1:06:50
  change. Upon meeting their nearest
• 1:06:52
  neighbors, they seemed rather strange.
• 1:06:57
  They offered one piece of advice to Roger and Carolyn.
• 1:07:01
  For the love of your family, keep the lights on at night.
• 1:07:05
  Originally written off by the couple, these words would seem
• 1:07:09
  to be rather fitting foreshadowing for the events to
• 1:07:12
  come. When the frozen land of the farm
• 1:07:15
  began to thaw, it seemed like something thought along with it
• 1:07:20
  and began to plague them once again.
• 1:07:23
  One night when the daughters, Nancy and Andrea were asleep in
• 1:07:27
  their shared room, they're suddenly woken up by the sound
• 1:07:31
  of their doors slow open and closed, open and closed.
• 1:07:37
  Petrified by the noise of the doors smacking the wall and it
• 1:07:40
  also being their only way out of the room, they ran towards the
• 1:07:44
  door to try and escape when suddenly it stopped moving and
• 1:07:50
  just stayed open, still creaking from being moved.
• 1:07:57
  Catching their breath and trying to come to terms with what had
• 1:08:00
  just happened, Thinking by this point maybe one of their other
• 1:08:04
  sisters was trying to play a prank on them, the 2 girls
• 1:08:07
  looked down the hall and eventually made their way to
• 1:08:10
  their other sisters rooms where they found them asleep.
• 1:08:16
  Needless to say they wouldn't sleep for the rest of the night.
• 1:08:20
  They would bring this to the attention of their parents the
• 1:08:22
  following morning, but were quickly dismissed, as is often
• 1:08:26
  the case, and told that they had overactive imaginations.
• 1:08:32
  From here, things started small but became very noticeable as
• 1:08:37
  they mushroomed into much bigger experiences.
• 1:08:40
  At first, whatever spirits they believed could be in the house
• 1:08:45
  seemed benevolent, almost good-natured, with some of the
• 1:08:49
  younger siblings later stating that they would even be tucked
• 1:08:52
  into bed by the spirit of a woman on occasion.
• 1:08:55
  But that was all too short lived.
• 1:08:58
  Items soon began to go missing. Car keys weren't where they had
• 1:09:02
  been hung daily. Items such as mugs, toys, and
• 1:09:07
  utensils were soon disappearing as well.
• 1:09:11
  Carolyn would hear the scraping of a broom upon the floor or the
• 1:09:15
  knocking of a kettle in the kitchen when no one else was
• 1:09:18
  home but her. With this, upon cleaning the
• 1:09:22
  floors, she would also find piles of dirt that would appear
• 1:09:26
  out of nowhere, making her feel as if she was going crazy.
• 1:09:31
  But these small happenings too would soon become larger.
• 1:09:36
  The children would often play a game called Hide and Clap, a
• 1:09:40
  version of hide and go Seek. This time, Andrea was the seeker
• 1:09:45
  and her sisters went off hiding throughout the estate.
• 1:09:49
  Cindy made her way into the woodshed, found a small box just
• 1:09:52
  big enough for her to get inside.
• 1:09:55
  Being determined to win, she climbed into the box and slid
• 1:09:59
  the small lid over the top, figuring this would be an
• 1:10:02
  excellent hiding place indeed. And after several minutes, she
• 1:10:07
  realized that no one was coming for her and went to remove the
• 1:10:10
  lid. Except it wouldn't budget.
• 1:10:14
  Panicking and utter darkness, she used all means necessary to
• 1:10:19
  try and remove the lid and free herself.
• 1:10:23
  After screaming and worrying that she'd suffocate inside this
• 1:10:27
  box, she was thankfully found by Andrea, who slid the lid off no
• 1:10:32
  problem and revealed her horribly distressed younger
• 1:10:36
  sister inside. It's important to note.
• 1:10:39
  That this was a. Sliding cover.
• 1:10:42
  There was no locking mechanism. Along with this terrifying
• 1:10:46
  event, the children's rooms were often rearranged daily.
• 1:10:51
  They would leave their things one way in the morning and
• 1:10:54
  return to things either completely a mess, as if a small
• 1:10:57
  cyclone had hit their rooms, or all items would be smashed
• 1:11:01
  underneath their beds. And this happened to all of the
• 1:11:04
  girls at one point or another. These small whispers, bangings
• 1:11:11
  and movements did indeed become larger.
• 1:11:15
  Andrea, being the oldest, would often be woken up by her younger
• 1:11:19
  siblings and would hold them as they sobbed their eyes out,
• 1:11:24
  terrified to return to their rooms.
• 1:11:27
  Cindy, in particular, began to hear a sinister voice call out
• 1:11:30
  to her almost every night. The voice would tell her that
• 1:11:35
  there were seven dead soldiers in the walls and would repeat it
• 1:11:39
  over and over and over again. The children, now terrified,
• 1:11:47
  begged their parents to believe them, and although they too were
• 1:11:51
  beginning to experience things on their own, they didn't want
• 1:11:54
  to frighten the children, so they did what could be done to
• 1:11:58
  placate them. But soon the entire family began
• 1:12:02
  to hear the wails of something inhuman calling out for its
• 1:12:06
  mother. This disturbing trend with no
• 1:12:10
  origin was followed by even more disturbing happenings.
• 1:12:15
  The beds of the girls would lift up and shake by an unseen force,
• 1:12:20
  almost always around 5:15 AM, as if something was trying to send
• 1:12:26
  some kind of a message, although it was never clear just what
• 1:12:30
  that message was supposed to. Be.
• 1:12:33
  During the day, the apparitions of spirits began to manifest and
• 1:12:38
  stalk the halls of the old Arnold Estate.
• 1:12:41
  These were soon coupled by the horrible stench of rotting flesh
• 1:12:46
  wafting throughout the house. Soon the girls weren't the only
• 1:12:50
  ones whose doors were slamming open and closed and whose beds
• 1:12:55
  were lifting up on their own. Soon it was affecting their
• 1:12:59
  parents as well. One night, Carolyn woke up
• 1:13:03
  suddenly to the figure of an old woman over the foot of her bed.
• 1:13:07
  Her hair was like a sack of cobwebs with little tendrils
• 1:13:11
  hanging off. The woman's head was also bent
• 1:13:15
  and hanging off to the side of her neck as if it was horribly
• 1:13:19
  broken and mangled, her gnarled mouth screaming at her with an
• 1:13:24
  echoing voice. Get out, She shouted over and
• 1:13:30
  over again until she suddenly was no longer there.
• 1:13:36
  The parent family continued to endure a living nightmare as the
• 1:13:39
  traumatic paranormal activity persisted and continue to scale
• 1:13:44
  in intensity. How does one fight an enemy he
• 1:13:50
  can't see? Something he can't touch or
• 1:13:54
  feel, attack or defend against? This question and more must have
• 1:14:00
  ran through the heads of Roger and Carolyn as they not only
• 1:14:04
  feared for themselves, but especially their children.
• 1:14:07
  Now as their offspring's natural protectors, how anxiety inducing
• 1:14:13
  must it have been to know that they were powerless to stop what
• 1:14:17
  was terrorizing all of them each and every night?
• 1:14:22
  In an effort to try and understand what was happening to
• 1:14:25
  them, Carolyn began to research the history of their house and
• 1:14:30
  was shocked by what she found. Over 8 generations of the Arnold
• 1:14:35
  family had lived and died within the home, some by horrible
• 1:14:40
  means, according to the Black Book of Burlville, the town's
• 1:14:46
  former public records book. These included two suicides by
• 1:14:50
  hanging, one within the family barn, one by poison, the assault
• 1:14:56
  and murder of a young girl named Prudence Arnold by a farm hint,
• 1:15:02
  2 drownings in the nearby Creek, and four men who froze to death.
• 1:15:07
  Among some of the notable deaths, one death that caught
• 1:15:12
  her eye in particular was that of a woman named Bathsheba
• 1:15:16
  Sherman. Her name was spelled exactly
• 1:15:19
  like their dog that they had previously owned, and her story
• 1:15:24
  was as interesting as it was disturbing.
• 1:15:28
  Born Bathsheba there in 1812, she married fellow Rhode
• 1:15:33
  Islander Judson Sherman and Thompson, CT on March 10th,
• 1:15:39
  1844. According to available
• 1:15:42
  information from that time, the two had a son named Herbert, and
• 1:15:47
  for all intents and purposes, things seemed normal.
• 1:15:51
  But that couldn't be further from the truth.
• 1:15:54
  After losing three children before the age of 7, Bathsheba
• 1:15:58
  began to care for her neighbor's children, perhaps to fill the
• 1:16:02
  void that such sorrow could create.
• 1:16:05
  And it's here where things take a strange turn.
• 1:16:09
  While caring for the infant of a nearby family, the infant
• 1:16:12
  suddenly passed away within Bathsheba's care.
• 1:16:17
  An investigation ensued and it was found that the child had a
• 1:16:20
  puncture wound in its skull, as if someone had taken a large
• 1:16:25
  sewing needle and sent it through the child's head.
• 1:16:29
  Rumors of devil worship and witchcraft soon became rife,
• 1:16:36
  with many believing she had indeed sacrificed her children
• 1:16:39
  to Satan, robbing them of their young lives.
• 1:16:43
  Although Bathsheba was never punished for the child's death
• 1:16:47
  since there was never a trial, that didn't stop her behavior
• 1:16:51
  from becoming increasingly bizarre.
• 1:16:54
  She became incredibly reclusive, strange and dark.
• 1:17:01
  Rumors say that she supposedly attempted to murder other
• 1:17:04
  children while confessing her love for Satan before she then
• 1:17:09
  climbed atop the highest tree on the estate, cursing everyone
• 1:17:14
  before hanging herself. And although that would make for
• 1:17:17
  a much more fascinating story, it doesn't seem to be true.
• 1:17:22
  The rumors may indeed have been spread and their evidence of
• 1:17:26
  multiple child deaths including the infant via needle like
• 1:17:30
  object, but her tombstone reads for death date as May 25th, 1885
• 1:17:38
  S Odds are that she passed away as an old woman, but perhaps
• 1:17:42
  given the circumstances she became more bitter with age.
• 1:17:47
  Another strange detail that was uncovered was one of the hanging
• 1:17:51
  deaths that took place within the barn on the estate.
• 1:17:55
  It was that of Catherine Arnold. She had, seemingly out of the
• 1:17:59
  blue one day, made her way from the house to the barn, gathered
• 1:18:04
  a rope, and hung herself from the rafters.
• 1:18:09
  She was frozen solid. When she was later discovered.
• 1:18:14
  It seemed like whatever paranormal force that stalked
• 1:18:17
  the land tormented the matriarchs of the families that
• 1:18:21
  lived there and fed upon death itself.
• 1:18:26
  These supernatural occurrences that now plagued the Peron
• 1:18:29
  family were a daily occurrence, and they soon also began to
• 1:18:34
  physically touch the family as well.
• 1:18:38
  Poking soon turned to pushing, a hand on the shoulder soon turned
• 1:18:42
  to slapping, scratching, and more.
• 1:18:47
  One day when Carolyn was reading a book in the living room, she
• 1:18:51
  felt a piercing pain in her calf.
• 1:18:54
  Upon further examination, she saw what appeared to be a
• 1:18:58
  puncture wound, like that of a needle, with a small dribble of
• 1:19:02
  blood now coming out of her leg. These attacks didn't stop here.
• 1:19:09
  Carolyn soon believed that it was Bathsheba who was causing
• 1:19:13
  the majority of her problems. The spirit seemed to hide her
• 1:19:17
  things daily, making her feel as if she was going insane while
• 1:19:22
  simultaneously lusting after her husband.
• 1:19:26
  In later interviews, Roger would state that he never felt
• 1:19:30
  threatened by her spirit and that he only ever saw her
• 1:19:33
  sweeter side, such as comforting touches and the feeling of an
• 1:19:37
  embrace. To the contrary, his poor wife
• 1:19:42
  experienced much, much worse. Andrea Peron also in later
• 1:19:48
  interviews, said that the whole family believed it was the
• 1:19:51
  spirit of Bathsheba who was mostly tormenting Carolyn, as if
• 1:19:56
  she saw herself as the matriarch or the mistress.
• 1:20:00
  Of the house. And that Carolyn was some kind
• 1:20:03
  of competition, an obstacle between her and Roger's
• 1:20:07
  affection. On the verge of losing her mind
• 1:20:11
  and being tortured daily. The family was barely holding
• 1:20:15
  things together, most of all Carolyn.
• 1:20:20
  She had vented to a friend of hers named Barbara about what
• 1:20:23
  she had been going through, and strangely enough, this friend
• 1:20:27
  just so happened to attend a lecture that was being given by
• 1:20:31
  renowned paranormal scholars and demonologists Ed and Lorraine
• 1:20:36
  Warren. It was Barbara that actually
• 1:20:39
  told the Warrens about the parents and their struggles.
• 1:20:44
  Intrigued, they were put into mutual contact with one another,
• 1:20:48
  and before too long, the Warrens arrived at the front door of the
• 1:20:52
  old Arnold Estate. Upon stepping into the home for
• 1:20:57
  the first time, Lorraine Warren noticed a heavy and malevolent
• 1:21:01
  presence. Upon further convening over the
• 1:21:05
  course of several weeks, the couple told the family that they
• 1:21:09
  indeed were being haunted by the spirit of Bathsheba and that she
• 1:21:14
  had made a pact with Satan himself after sacrificing one of
• 1:21:18
  her children to him. She then hung herself on the
• 1:21:22
  property in order to haunt it forever.
• 1:21:26
  This is why the family was often seeing the mangled necked
• 1:21:29
  apparition of the woman with wispy hair.
• 1:21:33
  This was apparently her. Over the course of several
• 1:21:36
  months, the Warrens would visit the old Arnold estate in order
• 1:21:40
  to try and assist the family with riding themselves of the
• 1:21:44
  spirits, but it was all to no avail.
• 1:21:48
  All of these events seem to culminate with a Seance 1 stormy
• 1:21:51
  night. The Perrons, Roger and Carolyn,
• 1:21:56
  along with the Warrens were joined by a priest and a fellow
• 1:22:00
  medium to conduct a seance to try and establish further
• 1:22:04
  contact with the entities within the home to understand just why
• 1:22:09
  they were plaguing the family. The girls were confined to their
• 1:22:13
  rooms upstairs and were not allowed to partake in the
• 1:22:16
  ritual. The ritual was conducted in the
• 1:22:19
  basement, one of the alleged sources of the dark energy
• 1:22:24
  according to Lorraine Warren, and in the middle of this
• 1:22:27
  ritual, Carolyn seemingly became possessed as she exhibited
• 1:22:32
  violent behavior. She was restrained to a chair in
• 1:22:36
  order to prevent her from hurting herself and others.
• 1:22:40
  The entity that now inhabited her body claimed to be that of
• 1:22:44
  Bathsheba and before everyone's eyes that was present, Carolyn
• 1:22:49
  began to not only speak a language that was
• 1:22:52
  unrecognizable, but in a voice that wasn't her own.
• 1:22:57
  She then began to levitate in the chair and flew across the
• 1:23:01
  room. Although they were forbid to
• 1:23:04
  witness the event, as curious children often do, Andrea, along
• 1:23:10
  with her sister Cindy, snuck open the basement door and
• 1:23:13
  watched the events unfold for themselves.
• 1:23:17
  Their testimonies are also where some of these details are
• 1:23:20
  sourced from. Carolyn was now mangled and
• 1:23:24
  distorted, her body twisted in an unnatural position.
• 1:23:30
  After several hours of attempting to cast the spirit
• 1:23:33
  out, she finally went limp and lay catatonic on the floor.
• 1:23:40
  After his wife had seemingly been freed, Roger called the
• 1:23:44
  entire thing off. He was not only concerned for
• 1:23:47
  his wife's well-being, but his children's as well.
• 1:23:51
  And although the Warrens were trying to help, things just
• 1:23:55
  seemed to get so much worse when they were there.
• 1:23:59
  So disregarding their advice, he threw them out and forbid them
• 1:24:03
  and their associates from ever investigating the hauntings at
• 1:24:07
  the old Arnold estate ever again.
• 1:24:11
  Later in life, a 77 year old Roger would recall she was
• 1:24:16
  possessed. Her entire body was distorted
• 1:24:20
  and it lasted several hours until they de demonized her.
• 1:24:25
  Then I threw them out. I couldn't take it anymore.
• 1:24:30
  The family's torment would continue with varying intensity
• 1:24:34
  until 1980, when they were finally able to sell the old
• 1:24:37
  Arnold Estate and move to Georgia in a bid to rebuild
• 1:24:42
  their lives. Finally, they were free of the
• 1:24:45
  horrible events that had plagued them for nearly a decade.
• 1:24:50
  But all those happenings, all those traumatic moments would
• 1:24:54
  never be forgotten by any of them.
• 1:24:57
  They all realized that they were truly lucky to have escaped with
• 1:25:01
  their lives as well as their sanity.
• 1:25:05
  Going back and not only reading various interviews, Andrea
• 1:25:09
  Peron's books, and watching interviews with the family, they
• 1:25:12
  not only seemed genuine, but really had nothing to gain by
• 1:25:16
  claiming to have experienced these things.
• 1:25:19
  It truly seemed like they had suffered.
• 1:25:22
  I mean, they threw out the Warrens, which is interesting in
• 1:25:24
  and of itself, but if I saw my wife twisted and exhibiting
• 1:25:29
  demonic behavior, I probably would be pretty freaked out as
• 1:25:32
  well. The story of the haunting of the
• 1:25:35
  old Arnold Estate and the Peron family was used as the basis for
• 1:25:39
  The Conjuring movie, in which they were also used as
• 1:25:43
  consultants for accuracy's sake. And the film does of course take
• 1:25:48
  liberties, as most Hollywood films do, but it's a good one
• 1:25:52
  for sure. But having watched this video,
• 1:25:55
  you're now probably aware of what really happened.
• 1:25:59
  Since the selling of the home, reviews have been mixed by other
• 1:26:02
  residents, with one lady claiming that the home wasn't
• 1:26:05
  haunted at all and even condemning and suing The
• 1:26:09
  Conjuring film makers for causing her distress through
• 1:26:12
  trespassers, and others stating that the home is still very well
• 1:26:16
  haunted indeed. More current owners, who we'll
• 1:26:20
  call Corey and Jennifer, welcomed the spirits and the
• 1:26:24
  history of the home when they moved in, claiming to have only
• 1:26:28
  slept in the smaller wing of the estate for the first four months
• 1:26:31
  that they lived there. They didn't want to overstep
• 1:26:34
  their boundaries with whatever was haunting the property.
• 1:26:38
  When they finally opened up the door to the wing of the larger
• 1:26:41
  part of the house the very same night, they both claimed to be
• 1:26:45
  woken up by a shadowy figure. Their couple would say that it
• 1:26:49
  was pitch black in color and peeking at them from behind the
• 1:26:53
  door frame. Although most people would be
• 1:26:56
  terrified at the prospect of dealing with a shadow figure of
• 1:26:59
  any sort, the couple understood that they were guests in this
• 1:27:02
  home even though they had purchased it.
• 1:27:06
  And we're just excited to have experienced anything.
• 1:27:10
  But they also admit that although they do continue to
• 1:27:12
  experience strange things from time to time, it's nothing like
• 1:27:16
  what the Perrons say. They experienced nothing quite
• 1:27:19
  as malevolent or evil by any means.
• 1:27:24
  Despite criticism and support, the Perrons to this day remain
• 1:27:29
  adamant that their story is true, with Andrea saying in an
• 1:27:33
  interview with USA TODAY. Both my mother and I would soon
• 1:27:37
  swallow our tongue and tell a lie.
• 1:27:40
  People are free to believe whatever they want, but we know
• 1:27:43
  what we've experienced prior to her death.
• 1:27:47
  When asked about the events of the Haunting Lorraine, Warren
• 1:27:51
  claimed that she still felt traumatized all these years
• 1:27:53
  later about what had taken place that stormy night during the
• 1:27:57
  seance at the old Arnold Estate, saying that the things that
• 1:28:02
  happened there were so incredibly frightening.
• 1:28:05
  It still effects me to talk about it to this day.
• 1:28:08
  She, of course, was reunited with Ed on April 18th of 2019.
• 1:28:14
  God rest her soul these days. People who have.
• 1:28:17
  Visited the house, such as various paranormal groups,
• 1:28:21
  researchers and fans of The Conjuring universe have
• 1:28:25
  described feeling multiple things for stepping in the home,
• 1:28:29
  some claiming to see shadow figures, others a feeling of a
• 1:28:33
  heavy presence to the points where it makes them nauseous.
• 1:28:38
  And regardless, there certainly does seem to be something there
• 1:28:42
  all around. I think the haunting, given all
• 1:28:45
  the research I've done is more than likely legitimate.
• 1:28:49
  There's too many sources backing up what took place.
• 1:28:52
  Not to mention the family didn't gain anything from experiencing
• 1:28:56
  what they did, and surviving members still claim it's all
• 1:29:00
  true to this day. If you'd like to learn more, I'm
• 1:29:04
  listing the sources I used for research in the description
• 1:29:07
  below, as well as various links to Andrea Peron's books which
• 1:29:12
  tell the full story of her and her family.
• 1:29:15
  I of course, am not affiliated with her or anyone else involved
• 1:29:19
  in any way. I just find them to be an
• 1:29:21
  interesting and very useful resource.
• 1:29:25
  So if you find yourself in hard times and are presented with
• 1:29:28
  what seems like a gift from the universe, just know that if it's
• 1:29:33
  too good to be true, it probably is.
• 1:29:37
  And the dream home that you can't wait to live in could be
• 1:29:40
  infested with generations of death and despair demons which
• 1:29:46
  could still be lurking and stalking the property.
• 1:29:50
  So my advice? If it sounds too good to be
• 1:29:54
  true, it is. And please research a home's
• 1:29:59
  history before you buy it. Or you may be stuck with a
• 1:30:03
  decade of paranormal torment. Or worse, you may become its
• 1:30:08
  newest permanent resident. Can death unleash something into
• 1:30:16
  this world that isn't supposed to be here?
• 1:30:19
  Could it act like a portal, allowing something sinister and
• 1:30:23
  dark to creep in just before it closes, especially if the person
• 1:30:28
  passing is harboring dark and abhorrent secrets?
• 1:30:34
  When a young man begins to exhibit strange and demonic
• 1:30:37
  behavior and the very laws of nature seem to bend to his will,
• 1:30:42
  can a reverend work to save his very soul?
• 1:30:46
  Documented by multiple law enforcement professionals as
• 1:30:50
  unexplained to this day, this is certainly not a story you will
• 1:30:54
  want to miss. This is the untold story of Don
• 1:30:58
  Decker, also known as the Rain Man of Pennsylvania.
• 1:31:06
  The date is February 24th, 1983 and on this cold, misty day, a
• 1:31:14
  family is mourning the loss of their loved 1A man by the name
• 1:31:20
  of James Keshaw. After battling alcoholism for
• 1:31:25
  many years, the bottle finally took its toll and caused
• 1:31:29
  cirrhosis of the liver which became fatal.
• 1:31:33
  Among the pews of friends and family paying their respects
• 1:31:38
  sits a young man, the grandson of James, 21 year old Don
• 1:31:43
  Decker. Donna Be granted furlough from
• 1:31:46
  his four to 12 month jail sentence for receiving stolen
• 1:31:51
  property in order to attend the funeral.
• 1:31:54
  But as he sat facing the body of his grandfather as others paid
• 1:31:59
  their last respects and gave glowing speeches about the man,
• 1:32:04
  Don clenched his fists. Only he harbored a dark secret
• 1:32:09
  that no one else knew, and this secret is perhaps what
• 1:32:13
  contributed to his troubled adolescence.
• 1:32:17
  When it was his turn to walk up and say goodbye to James.
• 1:32:22
  As he stood over his body, the face of evil looked back at him
• 1:32:27
  with eyes closed for the first time.
• 1:32:30
  Dom would later say it felt like good triumphing over evil that
• 1:32:35
  day. And I truly felt like everything
• 1:32:38
  was going to get better, like it was a turning point in my life.
• 1:32:44
  The secret that he had been holding on to for so long was
• 1:32:47
  that James, his very own grandfather, had abused him from
• 1:32:52
  the time he was seven years old until he was a teenager and no
• 1:32:57
  one else knew. All the years of pain and fear
• 1:33:01
  were caused by that man. The very same that now laid in
• 1:33:05
  the coffin. The very same that Dawn was now
• 1:33:09
  having to hear others praise and who he was publicly obligated to
• 1:33:15
  mourn. At the conclusion of the
• 1:33:17
  funeral, when James casket was laid into its final resting
• 1:33:21
  place, he couldn't stand the way his parents had glorified the
• 1:33:25
  man's memory. But given the circumstances he
• 1:33:28
  was in, furloughed from jail and with emotions raw amongst
• 1:33:32
  everybody, he decided it would be for the best to go and stay
• 1:33:37
  the night with some family friends instead before he was
• 1:33:41
  set to return to finish out his sentence.
• 1:33:44
  Bob and Jeannie Kiefer were long time friends of the family and
• 1:33:48
  were quite fond of Dawn, so they were more than happy to have him
• 1:33:52
  join them for the night. As the night progressed, the
• 1:33:56
  three of them were enjoying each other's company, but it seemed
• 1:34:00
  like all the feelings that had been stirred up from the
• 1:34:03
  memories of his grandfather's abuse at the funeral were coming
• 1:34:06
  back to haunt Dawn. He fell on edge and uneasy when
• 1:34:12
  suddenly the air around him vibrated with a bone deep chill.
• 1:34:18
  Almost simultaneously after this occurred, water began to drip
• 1:34:22
  from the ceiling and down the living room walls.
• 1:34:26
  Don then fell into an eerie trance like state, staring at
• 1:34:30
  nothing and yet everything at the same time.
• 1:34:35
  The Kiefer's were perplexed at what was happening and tried
• 1:34:38
  examining all reasonable possibilities.
• 1:34:42
  Thinking they had a leak, they contacted their landlord, a man
• 1:34:45
  named Ron Van Wy. Upon arriving, Ron too quickly
• 1:34:51
  became perplexed. The leak, or so they thought,
• 1:34:55
  was obvious. But what was strange to him was
• 1:34:59
  that there was no piping that ran through the front part of
• 1:35:02
  the house. Certainly none that could spring
• 1:35:05
  a leak from the ceiling or the walls.
• 1:35:08
  None at all. On top of this strangeness, when
• 1:35:12
  observing the water's direction, Ron noticed that there was
• 1:35:16
  indeed no sense of direction. The water was not only coming
• 1:35:21
  from the top, down from the ceiling in the walls, but it was
• 1:35:25
  going from the floor and up the walls and direct contradiction
• 1:35:30
  to the laws of gravity and to anything that he had ever seen.
• 1:35:35
  Shocked and needing multiple witnesses to assure himself that
• 1:35:39
  he wasn't crazy, Ron phoned his wife Romaine to come and take a
• 1:35:44
  look as well. Upon her arrival, she was just
• 1:35:48
  as perplexed and became scared of what was happening since it
• 1:35:52
  defied all logic and the leak, or so they thought, only became
• 1:35:58
  worse. So the landlords did the only
• 1:36:01
  thing that they could do, they called the police.
• 1:36:05
  Shortly after that call, a patrol car arrived with Officer
• 1:36:09
  John Bojan, who, after briefly stepping inside the home, became
• 1:36:13
  drenched in water and also witnessed the bizarre,
• 1:36:17
  otherworldly activity to which he had no explanation for
• 1:36:22
  either. So to prove his sanity and to
• 1:36:25
  back up a report, he called upon his partner, an officer named
• 1:36:30
  Richard Volbert. When Richard arrived, he wanted
• 1:36:34
  to be briefed on exactly what was going on, but Beaujan didn't
• 1:36:39
  want to give him any sort of a preconceived notion and just
• 1:36:42
  told him to trust him on this one.
• 1:36:45
  After some back and forth, Richard finally conceded and
• 1:36:49
  followed John into the key for residence.
• 1:36:52
  He would later describe the incident as.
• 1:36:54
  So I walked in the door, I couldn't have gotten 2 steps in
• 1:36:59
  the door and I was pelted by water as we were discussing a
• 1:37:03
  potential leak and as we were being told that there were no
• 1:37:06
  pipes in that part of the house. As we stood just inside the
• 1:37:10
  house a droplet of water was traveling horizontally and
• 1:37:15
  passed right between US and out into the next room.
• 1:37:20
  As I retell this story I have a chill up my spine and the hair
• 1:37:25
  on my neck is standing up. John would go on to say things
• 1:37:30
  were happening in this house that I couldn't have ever
• 1:37:33
  possibly dreamed of happening and there was no way to explain
• 1:37:37
  what was going on. Shocked by what they were
• 1:37:40
  witnessing, the two officers asked the family to step outside
• 1:37:44
  of the house and out of the water while they left to report
• 1:37:47
  the incident to the chief himself.
• 1:37:50
  The Wise decided to stay at the property while the Kiefer's and
• 1:37:54
  Don walked across the street to a local restaurant for something
• 1:37:58
  to eat. Within seconds of everyone
• 1:38:00
  departing, the water suddenly stopped.
• 1:38:03
  Within the house and. Aside from the home being
• 1:38:06
  drenched, it was back to normal. No more dripping water and no
• 1:38:12
  more mist. This left Ron and his wife, only
• 1:38:15
  to speculate that whatever was happening was coming from one of
• 1:38:19
  the three, because when they left, so did it.
• 1:38:24
  Pam Scrofano, who owned the pizzeria opposite the Kiefer's
• 1:38:28
  house where the three ended up in, was a friend of the Kiefer's
• 1:38:32
  and knew Dawn as well. Upon greeting the three of them,
• 1:38:36
  she noticed that Dawn was distant, like he was looking at
• 1:38:41
  you, but looking through you, a deeply religious woman, she
• 1:38:45
  sensed something evil about him, like the devil was working
• 1:38:50
  through Dawn Decker and recommended that they contact
• 1:38:54
  someone at the church for help. Within mere seconds of
• 1:38:58
  mentioning this, droplets of water hit the table in front of
• 1:39:02
  them, and soon the very same phenomena that was originally
• 1:39:07
  happening in the house was also now taking place inside the
• 1:39:12
  pizzeria. Sensing this evil Pam ran to the
• 1:39:16
  cash register where she had an old cross necklace.
• 1:39:20
  She took it out and placed it around Don's neck.
• 1:39:24
  As soon as it touched his skin, he got burned.
• 1:39:28
  He began to scream and pull the necklace off of him.
• 1:39:32
  It was charred black. As the trio departed the
• 1:39:36
  pizzeria and headed back to their home, the strange activity
• 1:39:40
  inside once again ceased. It's important to note that
• 1:39:46
  nothing like this had ever happened at the Kiefer residence
• 1:39:49
  or Pam's Pizzeria. No plumbing issues, nothing that
• 1:39:53
  could be considered even remotely similar.
• 1:39:56
  Convening inside the home once again, they met Ron and his
• 1:40:00
  wife. Ron suspected that Don had
• 1:40:03
  something to do with what was happening, and after some
• 1:40:06
  discussion, an argument erupted among the group.
• 1:40:10
  This led to Jeannie screaming at Don, telling him that they knew
• 1:40:14
  it was him, that he had to make all of this stop.
• 1:40:18
  After the words left her mouth, the pots and pans above the
• 1:40:22
  stove began to shake, and the lights around them began to
• 1:40:27
  flicker. Don Decker was no longer in
• 1:40:31
  control of his body. Everyone watched in horror as
• 1:40:37
  Don levitated multiple feet into the air and rotated several
• 1:40:42
  times. He was then thrown out of the
• 1:40:45
  kitchen where they were and into an entirely different room.
• 1:40:50
  Don himself would later recount the event like this.
• 1:40:54
  It wasn't like someone grabbing your hand or picking you up.
• 1:40:58
  I felt this force over my entire body.
• 1:41:02
  I'm a big man and I've always been assertive, but this,
• 1:41:06
  whatever this was, made me feel like a newborn child.
• 1:41:11
  I'm scared right now just thinking about it.
• 1:41:14
  Dawn now laid unconscious on the floor and the rain began again.
• 1:41:20
  The wise and the kiefers were an absolute shock and disbelief at
• 1:41:24
  what had just taken place. They knew it was tied to dawn,
• 1:41:29
  but they had no idea just what it was, but they felt that it
• 1:41:33
  was evil. A few hours after the strange
• 1:41:37
  incident witnessed by the police officers, they arrived back at
• 1:41:40
  the residence alongside their very heated police.
• 1:41:44
  Chief. As he made his way into the home
• 1:41:46
  with the two officers behind him, he too was pelted with
• 1:41:49
  water just as they had been. Now first probably feeling like
• 1:41:54
  he was on the spot and perhaps slightly embarrassed, he claimed
• 1:41:58
  that this wasn't even a police issue, but a plumbing issue,
• 1:42:03
  despite then being told that there were no pipes in that part
• 1:42:06
  of the house, and this was even confirmed by blueprints of the
• 1:42:09
  home. After taking a look around at
• 1:42:12
  the rest of the home, which was bone dry, the chief then angrily
• 1:42:17
  ordered the two officers to escort him back home.
• 1:42:21
  He would be the only officer that night to not admit to
• 1:42:24
  anything strange happening. He then directed Officers John
• 1:42:28
  and Richard to not file a report and to not speak about the
• 1:42:32
  incident at all, but word would get out the following morning.
• 1:42:38
  Acting against the specific orders from their chief, the two
• 1:42:42
  officers returned to the residence along with three
• 1:42:45
  veteran officers as well. They too would see and
• 1:42:48
  experience the bizarre rain inside the home.
• 1:42:52
  So they decided to try something to attempt to get to the bottom
• 1:42:56
  of what exactly was going on. They asked if they could place a
• 1:43:00
  paper bag over Don's head, to which Don agreed.
• 1:43:04
  This was so he would have no way of seeing anything.
• 1:43:07
  He'd have no preconceived notions of what could be placed
• 1:43:10
  on him or in his hands. They then placed a gold cross
• 1:43:15
  necklace from one of the officers into his hand.
• 1:43:19
  Lieutenant William Davies, one of the officers present who
• 1:43:23
  placed the cross into his hand, described the incident like
• 1:43:27
  this. As soon as the necklace touched
• 1:43:30
  his palm, he said it burnt him. He would have had no idea what
• 1:43:35
  it was. I saw what I believe to be smoke
• 1:43:39
  of some sort coming from the necklace or his hand.
• 1:43:43
  As he dropped the necklace. I picked it up and it was hot.
• 1:43:47
  Not burning hot, but hot enough to concern me.
• 1:43:52
  Then suddenly with the force, as if a bus hit him, he lifted up
• 1:43:58
  and was thrown across the room, hitting the back wall.
• 1:44:02
  Upon removing the bag from him, he was clearly dazed and had
• 1:44:06
  three bloody and fresh claw marks across his neck.
• 1:44:11
  I've been a cop for 40 years and I've never ran into anything
• 1:44:15
  like this ever. Never before and never again
• 1:44:20
  after. There's always an explanation,
• 1:44:24
  but in this case there was no explanation.
• 1:44:28
  The police would later leave again with no answers as to what
• 1:44:32
  was taking place, believing it to be a spiritual matter.
• 1:44:37
  Don was placed on the couch in the living room where the rain
• 1:44:40
  continued to go from mist to showers at random and varying
• 1:44:45
  times. After making multiple desperate
• 1:44:49
  calls to every Protestant and Catholic religious leader in
• 1:44:52
  Shroudsburg, only one didn't turn them down.
• 1:44:57
  Ron was able to convince an evangelical preacher who went by
• 1:45:00
  the name of Reverend Johnson to come over and pray with Don.
• 1:45:06
  As she arrived and began to pray, the rest of the group held
• 1:45:09
  hands and vigil and did what they could to support her.
• 1:45:14
  As the first words left her lips, dawn began to convulse and
• 1:45:19
  shake. The rain intensified and his
• 1:45:22
  body began to twist into unnatural positions.
• 1:45:27
  But as she continued, he slowly but surely began to relax, and
• 1:45:33
  the rain seemed to stop. Although those present believed
• 1:45:38
  that a miracle had been performed, the results of that
• 1:45:42
  prayer session would only prove temporary, perhaps placing into
• 1:45:46
  hibernation whatever was inside Don Decker.
• 1:45:51
  Once his furlough was over, Don Decker returned back to jail to
• 1:45:55
  finish his sentence and within just a few days the mysterious
• 1:46:00
  rain returned. Upon his return to jail, Don was
• 1:46:05
  placed in a cell with another inmate and had the thought enter
• 1:46:08
  his mind that if he could make it rain in the cell, perhaps he
• 1:46:13
  could get to be alone. Almost as soon as he thought
• 1:46:16
  that, the rain began. It was materializing out of the
• 1:46:21
  concrete floor and flowing upward.
• 1:46:25
  The other inmate was horrified and screamed for the guards to
• 1:46:29
  let him out. Thinking they had some kind of
• 1:46:32
  plumbing issue, the guards opened the cell and removed that
• 1:46:36
  inmate as well as Decker. At first, he was accused of
• 1:46:40
  throwing water onto the walls from the sink or from the toilet
• 1:46:44
  by the guards, but upon these accusations, Don rebuttal.
• 1:46:48
  With. I can control it.
• 1:46:51
  This time the feeling was different.
• 1:46:53
  This time he felt powerful and didn't control.
• 1:46:57
  Upon hearing this, the guard laughed and said if you can
• 1:47:01
  control this rain, make it rain in the warden's office.
• 1:47:05
  An offer that Don couldn't refuse.
• 1:47:09
  The warden would then describe what happened and these are the
• 1:47:12
  words of Lieutenant Warden David Keenhold.
• 1:47:16
  I was in my office filling out paperwork with no one else
• 1:47:19
  around. It was approximately 8:00 PM in
• 1:47:22
  the evening. I didn't notice it at that time,
• 1:47:25
  but my shirt was dripping down. I heard a knock at the door and
• 1:47:30
  little did I know that it was the same officer that was just
• 1:47:32
  with Don Decker. I wasn't aware of the situation
• 1:47:36
  at the time. He told me to look at my shirt
• 1:47:39
  and there was no explanation as to where the water could have
• 1:47:42
  come from. The officer then became very
• 1:47:45
  frightened of what had happened and after explaining the
• 1:47:48
  situation to me, I too became frightened.
• 1:47:52
  Shortly after the rain in the warden's office, a frantic call
• 1:47:56
  was placed to a local chaplain, a man named Reverend William
• 1:48:00
  Blackburn. He soon found himself shaking
• 1:48:03
  hands with the warden and several officers as he was
• 1:48:06
  escorted into the jail and into an empty cell.
• 1:48:09
  Within minutes he came face to face with Don Decker, who by
• 1:48:14
  this time was beginning to fear the feeling he had inside of
• 1:48:18
  him. That powerful and evil feeling.
• 1:48:22
  He was now asking for the Reverend's help and freeing him
• 1:48:26
  of whatever this thing was. Blackburn wasn't convinced at
• 1:48:30
  first. He told Decker that his life
• 1:48:32
  would be much easier if he just stopped all this nonsense and
• 1:48:36
  attention seeking. He would go on later to describe
• 1:48:39
  the situation like this. Almost immediately after I
• 1:48:43
  accused him, Don's demeanor changed.
• 1:48:46
  The glazed look came over him and a horrible smell entered the
• 1:48:50
  room. Doctors, nurses, and medical
• 1:48:54
  personnel will tell you that when you walk into a room when
• 1:48:57
  there's someone dying of disease or of cancer, there's a smell to
• 1:49:02
  it. I smelled that smell multiplied
• 1:49:05
  by at least five times. It was evil and foreboding.
• 1:49:11
  Don's glazed expression then switched to 1 of malice and
• 1:49:15
  calculation. He exclaimed.
• 1:49:18
  I have powers that you don't, and I can make it rain.
• 1:49:22
  He then raised his hand and rubbed his fingers together and
• 1:49:26
  it started to rain inside that cell.
• 1:49:29
  It was like a devil's rain, a mist.
• 1:49:32
  I was in the presence of evil. I started opening my Bible to
• 1:49:37
  begin to pray and Don said I don't want you.
• 1:49:40
  To pray for me. To which I decided to anyways.
• 1:49:44
  I started to read to him and the strange thing is that even
• 1:49:48
  though I was soaked, the pages of my Bible never got wet and
• 1:49:53
  that was truly frightening. Although the session was short,
• 1:49:57
  upon uttering the words that he was now bound in the name of
• 1:50:00
  Jesus Christ, the rain stopped and a peace overtook dawn.
• 1:50:06
  When he finally came to, he thanked the Reverend with tears
• 1:50:10
  in his eyes, and the two hugged and prayed together again.
• 1:50:16
  In the words of Reverend Blackburn, there is no doubt in
• 1:50:19
  my mind that he was possessed. No human being could do what he
• 1:50:23
  did in that room. There is no way that he did
• 1:50:26
  anything to fool me whatsoever. Whatever happened was spiritual
• 1:50:31
  and it was not from God. I can guarantee you that it was
• 1:50:35
  not from God. From this moment forward, the
• 1:50:38
  rain has stopped for now. Don Decker would later say that
• 1:50:43
  he takes things day by day and that fortunately, the rain
• 1:50:47
  hasn't returned. As for his grandfather, he
• 1:50:51
  thinks whatever happened was related to him.
• 1:50:54
  He thinks that considering where he thinks he ended up, maybe he
• 1:50:58
  was able to make a deal with someone and have yet another
• 1:51:02
  chance to abuse him. What makes this case so unique
• 1:51:06
  and interesting is that all the people involved are credible
• 1:51:09
  people. I mean we have some family
• 1:51:12
  friends sure, but they stated they had nothing take place in
• 1:51:16
  that house prior to Don's arrival that morning.
• 1:51:19
  We have the landlord of the family's home and his wife not
• 1:51:23
  only reaffirming that there weren't any prior issues, but
• 1:51:26
  that there were no pipes in that area of the house.
• 1:51:29
  We then have 6 police officers including the chief over the
• 1:51:33
  case experience the phenomena and he was the only one that
• 1:51:37
  said that nothing took place. We have a business owner where
• 1:51:41
  the phenomena took place at her establishment as well.
• 1:51:44
  Then several guards at the jail and which he goes back to finish
• 1:51:48
  serving his time witness things and the warden of the jail
• 1:51:51
  himself and the police officers. Three of them were seasoned
• 1:51:55
  lieutenants I might add and anyone with a proper reputation
• 1:51:59
  unless they really experienced something would risk that in my
• 1:52:03
  opinion. So was it demonic infestation?
• 1:52:07
  Possession, poltergeist activity, or something else
• 1:52:12
  entirely? When we have so many credible
• 1:52:15
  eyewitnesses recanting the same details, saying what they saw,
• 1:52:19
  experienced and felt was a phenomena not of this world, it
• 1:52:25
  truly makes you wonder. And if it wasn't spiritual,
• 1:52:29
  could Don's childhood trauma have allowed him to break into a
• 1:52:32
  part of the mind that could somehow 'cause these kinds of
• 1:52:35
  things allow him to manipulate the weather of his surroundings,
• 1:52:40
  move objects, and even cause harm to himself?
• 1:52:45
  We may never truly know the answers to this mystery in
• 1:52:47
  particular, and it very much still is a mystery to this day.
• 1:52:52
  As far as an update on Don Decker, besides multiple show
• 1:52:56
  appearances and interviews to discuss his story over the
• 1:52:59
  years, the last known activity that I could find of him was
• 1:53:03
  that back in 2012, he was charged with arson of a local
• 1:53:07
  restaurant in the Poconos Mountains of Pennsylvania.
• 1:53:11
  It seems like perhaps he was paid to set fire to the
• 1:53:14
  establishment by the owner, maybe for insurance fraud.
• 1:53:18
  As far as the outcome of the case, I couldn't find additional
• 1:53:21
  details. Perhaps whatever evil that was
• 1:53:24
  inside Dawn got the best of him at this time.
• 1:53:28
  Or, you know, we're all human, we do make mistakes without
• 1:53:32
  otherworldly influence as well. Just the thought.
• 1:53:35
  Wherever he is, I do have to say that his story is an amazing and
• 1:53:40
  intriguing 1 and I wish him nothing but the best.
• 1:53:44
  I'd also like to say thank you guys for watching this video.
• 1:53:48
  Without you guys, this channel was just me making videos that I
• 1:53:51
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• 1:53:56
  hammer home how much your support means to me.
• 1:53:59
  It seems like YouTube doesn't always want to promote my
• 1:54:01
  content, and that's been a big uphill battle over the last four
• 1:54:05
  years. So when you choose to watch
• 1:54:08
  Mystery Archives, just know it helps me out much more than you
• 1:54:11
  could ever know. Rob and Vicki Graves had found
• 1:54:25
  what appeared to be their dream home, looking to escape the big
• 1:54:29
  city life and take up a more rural.
• 1:54:32
  One for themselves and their two teenage sons.
• 1:54:36
  They found Fox Hollow Farm and were shocked at how affordable
• 1:54:39
  it was for the sheer size and quality of the property.
• 1:54:43
  Sensing that it was too good to be true, they asked what could
• 1:54:46
  possibly be wrong with it because at a passing glance it
• 1:54:50
  seemed absolutely gorgeous. Then it came to Rob.
• 1:54:55
  He had remembered the name from a news broadcast many years ago.
• 1:54:59
  Unbeknownst to him and his wife, they were now standing on the
• 1:55:03
  very same grounds that were once owned by Herb Baumeister, the
• 1:55:07
  notorious serial killer. They immediately brought this up
• 1:55:11
  to the real estate agent who was showing them the property and
• 1:55:14
  were immediately told that that was indeed the case.
• 1:55:18
  That the private investor had indeed purchased the estate from
• 1:55:21
  the widow of Herb following the disturbing discovery of the
• 1:55:25
  bodies back in the 1990s, but that it had been completely
• 1:55:29
  remodeled from head to toe, removing any and all remnants of
• 1:55:33
  what it looked like when the murders had taken place all
• 1:55:36
  those years ago. But that's why it was indeed so
• 1:55:39
  affordable, because no one wanted to live there due to the
• 1:55:43
  history. After some further discussion
• 1:55:46
  among the couple, they ultimately decided to purchase
• 1:55:50
  the property. Within a couple weeks, the
• 1:55:52
  family moves in and falls in love with Fox Hollow Farm.
• 1:55:57
  The teenage sons soon make it a habit to play outside and then
• 1:56:01
  wash off in the pool in the basement, soon tracking dirt and
• 1:56:05
  gravel all throughout the home. One day, Vicky is vacuuming up
• 1:56:10
  the dirt that the boys had brought in from the outside
• 1:56:13
  around the pool when suddenly her vacuum loses power.
• 1:56:18
  Believing that perhaps she had accidentally unplugged it from
• 1:56:20
  the outlet, she plugged it back in and continued her work.
• 1:56:25
  Within several more minutes, it happened again.
• 1:56:29
  Perplexed this time because she was even more aware and careful
• 1:56:33
  about the cord in the outlet. She knew she hadn't unplugged
• 1:56:36
  it, so she plugged it back in and triple checked that it
• 1:56:40
  wasn't just falling out of the outlet by pulling the cord.
• 1:56:43
  Evermore aware this time she goes back to vacuuming but
• 1:56:47
  keeping a present eye on the cord itself and to her amazement
• 1:56:52
  it pulls out on its own as if someone had grabbed and pulled
• 1:56:56
  it out of the socket. Startled, she drops the vacuum
• 1:57:00
  and is beside herself. She doesn't know how to make
• 1:57:03
  sense of what had just happened and this would just be the
• 1:57:07
  beginning of the strangeness that would occur.
• 1:57:11
  Rob worked at a car dealership and one of his employees was a
• 1:57:14
  man named Joe Joe had been a great employee, but had a
• 1:57:18
  problem of being chronically late most of the time.
• 1:57:22
  As he probed to figure out what was going on, Joe informed Rob
• 1:57:26
  that he lived over an hour away and really needed the job and
• 1:57:29
  would be willing to move closer if the opportunity presented
• 1:57:32
  itself. Well, Rob thought about it and
• 1:57:36
  ended up offering Joe a place to rent.
• 1:57:39
  Located on Fox Hollow Farm, they had a guest house that they were
• 1:57:43
  considering renting out as apartments for quite some time,
• 1:57:46
  and this seemed like the perfect opportunity to benefit everyone
• 1:57:49
  involved. Joe would indeed move in just a
• 1:57:52
  few days later. It takes several hours, but
• 1:57:56
  within that time frame they're able to get everything inside
• 1:57:59
  and finish the move. Exhausted, Joe decides to retire
• 1:58:03
  for the night with his dog Fred. As he lays down to sleep in his
• 1:58:08
  newly set up bed, he then finds himself in a horrific nightmare.
• 1:58:13
  He's being chased throughout Fox Hollow Farm by something he
• 1:58:16
  can't see. The dream is so intense that it
• 1:58:19
  causes him to sleepwalk, which wasn't something that he was
• 1:58:23
  known to do. He began to run while still
• 1:58:26
  dreaming and ran directly into the door frame as he tried to
• 1:58:30
  escape the guest house. Falling back, he knocked into a
• 1:58:34
  nearby glass of water, which fell and shattered, cutting his
• 1:58:39
  hands. The impact and cutting of his
• 1:58:42
  hands finally woke him up and he was forced to sit back and
• 1:58:45
  ponder. Just what had taken place and
• 1:58:48
  things would only intensify. From.
• 1:58:50
  Here, another day soon after, Rob was painting the side of
• 1:58:55
  their helm a different color. As he and his wife remarked on
• 1:58:58
  how nice the finished job will be, she spots something out of
• 1:59:02
  the corner of her eye. She had seen a man in a red
• 1:59:05
  shirt staring at them. As she broke away from her
• 1:59:08
  husband and began to approach the figure, it started to walk
• 1:59:12
  away from her and quickly disappeared as if it never
• 1:59:15
  existed. The couple then called out and
• 1:59:19
  checked the perimeter but never found anyone.
• 1:59:23
  They dismissed the person as nothing more than a curious
• 1:59:25
  trespasser. I mean, after all, they did
• 1:59:28
  purchase a serial killer's home. They just had to accept that
• 1:59:32
  curious people may sneak up just to get a look at their home.
• 1:59:36
  Later that night, Joe was doing the dishes in his apartment when
• 1:59:40
  he suddenly gets a series of knocks on his front door,
• 1:59:44
  telling the person it'll just be a minute.
• 1:59:46
  As he drives his hands off to go and answer the door, the series
• 1:59:50
  of knocks begin to grow louder and more aggressive.
• 1:59:55
  Thinking it was extremely strange or extremely urgent
• 1:59:58
  concerning Vicki or Rob, he went and answered the doors.
• 2:00:02
  It was still being knocked upon. However, as he opened the door,
• 2:00:07
  there was no one to be found. Automatically on guard, he peers
• 2:00:12
  outside. The knocking had been happening
• 2:00:14
  when he answered the door, so no person could have got very far
• 2:00:18
  while he answered. Mid knock he glanced around and
• 2:00:22
  yet saw and heard nothing. He stepped outside and began to
• 2:00:27
  examine the roof in the nearby areas and still there was
• 2:00:31
  nothing. Thoroughly weirded out at this
• 2:00:34
  point, he made his way back inside and bolted, the door
• 2:00:38
  locked behind him. He started to make his way back
• 2:00:41
  to the kitchen to finish doing his dishes when he spotted a man
• 2:00:45
  standing in his bedroom staring at him.
• 2:00:49
  Upon spotting the figure, his dog begins to growl and make
• 2:00:53
  sounds that he's never heard him make before, staring directly in
• 2:00:58
  the direction of the bedroom. Already on edge, he ran into the
• 2:01:03
  bedroom and flicked the light on, only to discover that there
• 2:01:07
  was again no one there. Searching the entire apartment,
• 2:01:12
  he again found nothing. Trying to rationalize and clear
• 2:01:16
  his mind, he decided to take his dog Fred for a walk to calm down
• 2:01:22
  and unwind for the evening. While on his walk around the
• 2:01:25
  property, he thought to check on Rob and Vicki's house to see if
• 2:01:29
  the lights were on. This would indicate to him that
• 2:01:32
  perhaps they were the ones who had knocked on his door and
• 2:01:35
  therefore he could rest easy and figure out what it was about.
• 2:01:39
  The following morning, however, upon arriving at their house, he
• 2:01:43
  found it completely blacked out. They had already gone to bed for
• 2:01:47
  the night. Fred, who was always a loyal and
• 2:01:50
  obedient dog, always walked with him without a leash.
• 2:01:53
  And. Would always follow his
• 2:01:55
  commands, however, tonight. Would be a.
• 2:01:59
  Different story. Deciding to head back to his
• 2:02:02
  apartment, he motioned for Fred to join him, but the dog would
• 2:02:06
  not budget. He suddenly began to growl and
• 2:02:09
  then bolted into the nearby tree line.
• 2:02:12
  Instinctively, Joe ran after his dog, but not before seeing what
• 2:02:17
  his dog was running after. Before his eyes and the very
• 2:02:21
  same tree line was a man in a red shirt.
• 2:02:25
  Although he was absolutely terrified, Joe couldn't let
• 2:02:28
  anything happen to his beloved dog, so he continued to run
• 2:02:32
  towards this man, when suddenly whoever or whatever this was
• 2:02:38
  disappeared before his eyes, although slightly behind.
• 2:02:43
  He would quickly catch up to Fred and now noticed him not
• 2:02:47
  acting aggressive at all, but rather showing his belly in
• 2:02:50
  submission, staring in the direction of Joe.
• 2:02:54
  Joe, knowing his dog, knew that something very strange had to be
• 2:02:58
  up with him. He suddenly felt as if someone
• 2:03:02
  was staring directly at him. He slowly turned around to see
• 2:03:06
  the apparition of a man in a red shirt with a twisted face
• 2:03:11
  staring back at him just several feet away.
• 2:03:15
  Joe, as most of us would, ran out of there as fast as he
• 2:03:19
  could, his loyal companion following him.
• 2:03:24
  The two run as fast as they can back to the apartment, where
• 2:03:27
  they rush inside, lock and deadbolt the door, and nervously
• 2:03:32
  watch out of the blinds for the rest of the night.
• 2:03:35
  The following morning, and even more exhausted, Joe makes his
• 2:03:38
  way to Vicki and Rob's house to discuss the prior night's
• 2:03:41
  events. As he's telling both of them
• 2:03:44
  what happened, Vicki starts to become emotional.
• 2:03:48
  She too had seen the man in red just days earlier.
• 2:03:51
  She points to where she saw him and Loan, and behold, it's the
• 2:03:55
  exact same spot that Joe had encountered the entity the night
• 2:03:58
  before. As the day progressed tonight,
• 2:04:02
  Joe yet again found himself in his apartment, hoping to finally
• 2:04:05
  get some rest. But as he settled down in his
• 2:04:09
  bed, he was suddenly startled by knocking at his door as he
• 2:04:14
  yelled out who is it? As he made his way towards the
• 2:04:17
  door, he didn't receive an audible answer back, just more
• 2:04:22
  aggressive knocking at the door, the door itself now shaking,
• 2:04:28
  facing his fear of the unknown. Mid knock, Joe throws the door
• 2:04:32
  open only to meet face to face with nothing.
• 2:04:38
  As he frantically looks around the yard while holding the door,
• 2:04:42
  he notices that the doors knocking apparatus is sticking
• 2:04:45
  straight out as if someone is holding it.
• 2:04:50
  It then drops one last time, knocking the door.
• 2:04:54
  Absolutely petrified, Joe slams the door and locks it.
• 2:04:58
  As he tries to catch his breath and take several steps
• 2:05:01
  backwards, he sees the door knob begin to turn.
• 2:05:05
  Then, without warning, the door bursts open, shattering the
• 2:05:10
  lock. The open door, yet again,
• 2:05:13
  reveals no one. After a moment of frozen terror,
• 2:05:17
  Joe runs outside and into the front yard of his apartment,
• 2:05:21
  screaming and searching all around for just who could be
• 2:05:24
  doing this. After several minutes, he stares
• 2:05:28
  back into the house through the open front door and sees a man
• 2:05:31
  dressed in all white standing there.
• 2:05:34
  He's soaked from head to toe in what appears to be water and is
• 2:05:38
  screaming in a muted voice as if he's being held underwater.
• 2:05:43
  He then bolts towards Joe and seemingly disappears into a
• 2:05:47
  mist, frantically calling out to his dog Fred to accompany him,
• 2:05:52
  Joe frantically makes his way to Rob and Vicki's house on the
• 2:05:55
  property. He's so terrified that he's
• 2:05:57
  shaking now, and Rob and Vicki are just as scared.
• 2:06:01
  They now truly believe that they are dealing with something
• 2:06:04
  paranormal in nature in order to rationalize the situation and
• 2:06:09
  make sense of what was taking place.
• 2:06:12
  They begin to believe that they're experiencing the results
• 2:06:15
  of the murders conducted by Erb Baumeister, and that his victims
• 2:06:20
  are either trapped here somehow, or their energy is stuck in an
• 2:06:25
  endless loop, replaying their final and tragic moments over
• 2:06:30
  and over and over again. Refusing to return to his
• 2:06:36
  apartment, Rob and Vicki, being the supportive friends they
• 2:06:40
  were, agreed that Joe could stay the night with them and together
• 2:06:43
  they would begin researching online to try and formulate some
• 2:06:47
  kind of a plan of action of what to do next.
• 2:06:51
  As they collectively scour the Baumeister case information,
• 2:06:55
  they find themselves looking at the list of identified victims.
• 2:06:59
  As they get deeper into the details, Joe is shocked.
• 2:07:03
  He stops them on a picture of a man in a white shirt.
• 2:07:07
  That was the man I saw in my apartment who was soaked from
• 2:07:10
  head to toe and screaming. Although this information still
• 2:07:14
  scares them, it does help reassure them that they are
• 2:07:18
  indeed dealing with the victims of this horrendous tragedy.
• 2:07:22
  They are especially convinced considering many of the remains
• 2:07:26
  have never been identified, so they continue to research the
• 2:07:29
  case. After several uneventful days,
• 2:07:33
  Joe finds himself almost compelled to walk around the
• 2:07:36
  property with his dog, except this time in broad daylight.
• 2:07:41
  So apprehensively, he makes his way with Fred to the area where
• 2:07:46
  both he and Vicki have seen the Man in Red on separate
• 2:07:49
  occasions. Just past the tree line on The
• 2:07:52
  Walking path, Joe is stopped by what looks to be a bone.
• 2:07:56
  He believes that it's impossible that such a bone could have been
• 2:07:59
  missed during the extensive searches over the years, but
• 2:08:03
  nonetheless, it was right here, right now, as if it had been
• 2:08:08
  placed there for him to discover.
• 2:08:10
  Quickly consulting and showing Rob and Vicki the discovery,
• 2:08:14
  they too believed that this could be a bone belonging to the
• 2:08:17
  mysterious Man in Red. They ended up contacting the
• 2:08:20
  lead detective on the Baumeister case and submitted the bone,
• 2:08:24
  which turned out to be a human femur bone, in his evidence and
• 2:08:28
  for analysis. They then requested if the
• 2:08:31
  investigator himself could come out to the property and explain
• 2:08:35
  to them just where things had taken place so they could have a
• 2:08:39
  better understanding of what happened, to which he obliged.
• 2:08:44
  Several days passed and Joe by this point had made his way back
• 2:08:48
  to his apartment to try and settle back in given the new
• 2:08:51
  information. While on his computer checking
• 2:08:54
  his emails, he began to hear scraping, almost metallic like
• 2:08:58
  sound originating from the kitchen.
• 2:09:01
  Upon further examination he sees that all of his butcher knives
• 2:09:05
  from his knife block have been neatly arranged in his sink,
• 2:09:09
  placed in a row equally spaced from one another.
• 2:09:13
  Glancing around the room, he spots fresh deep cuts in the
• 2:09:17
  wood of the nearby counter cabinet.
• 2:09:20
  He believes that this could be a sign for one of the victims
• 2:09:23
  crying for help. He starts to try and figure out
• 2:09:27
  the mystery. He takes out his phone and
• 2:09:30
  begins recording, asking probing questions to whoever or whatever
• 2:09:35
  could be there and hopes of helping them in any way that he
• 2:09:38
  can. Prior to this, of course, he
• 2:09:41
  turned off any and all appliances that could.
• 2:09:43
  Interfere with the. Process.
• 2:09:46
  He begins by asking a series of questions and doesn't seem to
• 2:09:49
  get much of anything, at least not audibly.
• 2:09:53
  But then towards the end of his questions, Fred begins to growl.
• 2:09:57
  The same eerie growl he had any time they'd experienced
• 2:10:00
  something previously. Taking this is confirmation that
• 2:10:04
  perhaps his companion could see or hear something that he
• 2:10:07
  couldn't, he quickly downloads the audio file and begins to
• 2:10:11
  listen to it on his computer. And to his shock, he did indeed
• 2:10:17
  receive a response. This is the clip of the actual
• 2:10:20
  EVP that was recorded. Who keeps walking in the
• 2:10:24
  kitchen? He believes he hears the married
• 2:10:30
  one. But in all of their research,
• 2:10:33
  all of the victims were young, single gay men.
• 2:10:37
  The only one who was married was one Herb Baumeister.
• 2:10:41
  This revelation is startling. He not only believes that the
• 2:10:45
  victims were trapped within the grounds of Fox Hollow Farm, but
• 2:10:49
  that perhaps the serial killer himself could too be trapped
• 2:10:53
  here. What would follow would be
• 2:10:56
  dozens of paranormal investigations.
• 2:10:59
  And those investigations would leave the group to believe that
• 2:11:02
  they were not only dealing with the spirits of the victims
• 2:11:05
  haunting the grounds, but either a dark entity impersonating
• 2:11:08
  Baumeister. Or the killer.
• 2:11:10
  Himself Several years after the events, the Graves family would
• 2:11:15
  end up selling Fox Hollow Farm, and it would continue to change
• 2:11:19
  hands over the years since then, leading to multiple new owners
• 2:11:23
  of the property. And although new information
• 2:11:26
  doesn't seem to be publicly available, it's still considered
• 2:11:30
  one of the most haunted places in Indiana, if not the world,
• 2:11:35
  given its unique and gruesome history.
• 2:11:38
  An independent film will go on to be made about it called The
• 2:11:41
  Haunting of Fox Hollow Farm. And Robert Graves, along with
• 2:11:45
  another man named Richard E Step who led many paranormal
• 2:11:49
  investigations at Fox Hollow Farm, will Co write a book
• 2:11:53
  detailing the family's creepy experiences and what they
• 2:11:56
  believed to be ultimately happening.
• 2:11:59
  So in conclusion, we know that Herb Baumeister was mentally ill
• 2:12:04
  ultimately, but what makes this case so strange and so
• 2:12:07
  compelling to me is that he was an outstanding member of his
• 2:12:11
  community for the longest time. He was the smiling neighbor, the
• 2:12:16
  charitable businessman, the happy family man, and overall a
• 2:12:21
  pillar of normalcy. But behind closed doors, his
• 2:12:25
  psyche, his soul, contained a darkness that most of us will
• 2:12:30
  never be able to comprehend, yet alone unravel and understand.
• 2:12:36
  So could the murderous deeds of a twisted individual trap souls
• 2:12:40
  on a property and perhaps open some kind of a portal?
• 2:12:45
  Could the unleashing of such energy, like what is expressed
• 2:12:48
  in a violent death, contribute to something like this?
• 2:12:51
  If it wasn't what's known as an intelligent haunting, where the
• 2:12:55
  spirits are aware of what has happened to them and are indeed
• 2:12:58
  trapped there, which very well could still be the case.
• 2:13:02
  And perhaps it could be a residual haunting where the
• 2:13:05
  events are of such magnitude and strength that they play on a
• 2:13:09
  loop for all time, but the souls who were involved have long
• 2:13:14
  since moved on. These are questions that we may
• 2:13:17
  never have answers to, but all things that we should ponder.
• 2:13:22
  The one thing is for certain, the malicious calculation of
• 2:13:26
  Herb Baumeister and the horrendous things that he did to
• 2:13:29
  the suspected 25 victims at Fox Hollow Farms should never be
• 2:13:34
  forgotten. They are indeed still
• 2:13:37
  identifying and using updated technology to identify remains
• 2:13:41
  that are still being found on the grounds.
• 2:13:44
  This has happened as recent as November of 2022.
• 2:13:48
  So if you happen to be a family member of someone that you
• 2:13:50
  suspect could be connected to this case, just know that my
• 2:13:54
  heart truly does go out to you. And please contact the Hamilton
• 2:13:59
  County Coroner's Office. At 317-770-4415.
• 2:14:07
  Besides remembering what happened, I also urge you to
• 2:14:10
  please respect the victims and their families, as well as the
• 2:14:13
  family of her Baumeister if you should ever have anything to do
• 2:14:17
  with them. Throughout history, it has been
• 2:14:21
  speculated that many have been plagued by an ancient demonic
• 2:14:26
  force from Mesopotamia. To more modern times, this evil
• 2:14:33
  and terrifying entity has said to enter our world and wreak
• 2:14:38
  havoc upon those who dwell within it.
• 2:14:43
  When a seemingly normal family disregards the warnings and
• 2:14:47
  partakes in multiple Ouija board sessions, what happened next
• 2:14:52
  nearly destroyed them. This is the untold story of the
• 2:14:57
  demonic Zozo House of Oklahoma and the abhorrent creature that
• 2:15:03
  stalks its walls. Oklahoma City, a small but
• 2:15:22
  growing city in the heartland of America, known for blue collar
• 2:15:27
  work and brick and mortar shops, red dirt and sports would soon
• 2:15:34
  become known for something much darker.
• 2:15:39
  A teenager by the name of Darren Evans was growing up here, a
• 2:15:44
  normal boy by all accounts, doing things that any teenagers
• 2:15:48
  would enjoy, hanging out with friends, shenanigans here and
• 2:15:54
  there, and dating girls. He began dating a girl named
• 2:15:59
  Brandy who attended school with him, and the two often found
• 2:16:04
  themselves visiting each other as often as they could, whether
• 2:16:08
  that was walking to and from school and between classes or
• 2:16:14
  visiting each other's homes. One day, while Brandy's home was
• 2:16:19
  having some plumbing work done on some pipes located underneath
• 2:16:23
  the house, the plumber doing the work would soon make a strange
• 2:16:28
  discovery. Located below the foundation of
• 2:16:32
  the home, covered in dirt, was an old Ouija board.
• 2:16:37
  The front letters were partially buried and the back of the board
• 2:16:42
  was solid black in color. Off to the side of where the
• 2:16:47
  board was found was an aged planchette.
• 2:16:51
  What made this finding even more bizarre was that 4 old jars sat
• 2:16:56
  on the corners of the board, speckled with dirt as well.
• 2:17:02
  Thinking perhaps the kids had stashed the board away and
• 2:17:06
  forgot about it, the worker told the young couple after his work
• 2:17:10
  was done about what he had found.
• 2:17:13
  And it's from here that things seemingly take a darker turn.
• 2:17:19
  Upon examining the discovery, they began to brush the dirt
• 2:17:22
  away from the jars. They were then shocked by what
• 2:17:26
  they found. Inside each one of the jars,
• 2:17:30
  sitting on the four corners of the board, were the decaying
• 2:17:34
  bodies of blackbirds, congealed blood and matter still present.
• 2:17:42
  Bewildered but intrigued, they sat the jars off to the side and
• 2:17:48
  picked up the board. As soon as his fingers made
• 2:17:52
  contact with the board, Darren seemed to have an instant
• 2:17:56
  connection with it. And with this soon came a
• 2:18:00
  burning curiosity to examine it. And this curiosity would
• 2:18:05
  manifest into obsession with this, The couple took the board
• 2:18:12
  inside the home where they spoke with Brandy's mother.
• 2:18:16
  She actively practiced the Wiccan religion, but had no idea
• 2:18:21
  who could have put the board there.
• 2:18:24
  Several days later. Curious as most teenagers are,
• 2:18:29
  Darren was an avid music fan. And one night after, for
• 2:18:34
  building up the courage to do it, he decided he was going to
• 2:18:37
  contact the deceased singer of the popular band ACDC, a man
• 2:18:43
  named Ronald Belfort Scott, using the board.
• 2:18:48
  Scott had passed away from alcohol poisoning in 1980.
• 2:18:53
  After lighting several candles, laying the board with letters
• 2:18:57
  facing towards him, and placing the planchette upon the board,
• 2:19:02
  he began his session. At first nothing seemed to
• 2:19:07
  happen, but Darren was still feeling this otherworldly
• 2:19:11
  connection to something within the board itself.
• 2:19:15
  After trying for half an hour, to his shock and amazement, the
• 2:19:20
  planchette began to move slowly at 1st and then frantically
• 2:19:27
  began to move by itself, moving from Z to OZ to O over and over
• 2:19:37
  and over again, spelling out the name Sozo.
• 2:19:44
  Shocked and unsure of what or who he had contacted, Darren
• 2:19:49
  said goodbye in an attempt to end the session.
• 2:19:53
  Before his eyes he saw the plain chat spell out.
• 2:19:57
  See. You in hell?
• 2:20:00
  And then it threw itself across the room.
• 2:20:03
  A now terrified and bewildered Darren ran out of his room and
• 2:20:07
  tried to make sense of what had just taken place.
• 2:20:11
  But this was just the beginning of what was to come.
• 2:20:16
  It started with horrible night terrors.
• 2:20:19
  He would wake up unable to move or speak and would hear
• 2:20:24
  whispering in his ears. These episodes at night were
• 2:20:28
  soon followed by banging and knocking throughout his house
• 2:20:31
  during the daytime, as well as a constant feeling as if he was
• 2:20:36
  being watched by something he couldn't see.
• 2:20:41
  But despite the presence he was feeling, Darren now sought
• 2:20:45
  answers to his ever growing list of questions, just what exactly
• 2:20:49
  he had uncovered. So he continued to hold sessions
• 2:20:54
  with the board, for better or for worse.
• 2:21:00
  Darren would later quote this. The sessions now were as intense
• 2:21:05
  and paranormal as anything I've ever witnessed.
• 2:21:09
  A deep and terrible moaning could be heard emanating through
• 2:21:12
  the walls. After these sessions I developed
• 2:21:16
  sleep paralysis and became reclusive to society in general.
• 2:21:22
  I was once again messing with Zozo and Ouija boards, despite
• 2:21:27
  the terrors of my earlier sessions in which I had promised
• 2:21:30
  myself I would never do it again.
• 2:21:33
  But again. And again I did.
• 2:21:38
  When not in use, the board was kept in a purple silk cloth and
• 2:21:43
  stored in his bedroom closet. It would also often go missing,
• 2:21:49
  sometimes for days on end. When checking back where he had
• 2:21:53
  placed it in order to set up and initiate a new session, the
• 2:21:58
  board would seemingly vanish, only to reappear at random times
• 2:22:04
  as if it was the one calling the shots of when it could be seen
• 2:22:09
  and used. The years came in when and the
• 2:22:14
  sessions on the Mystical Ouija board continued.
• 2:22:19
  Darren by this time started inviting his friends to partake
• 2:22:22
  in the sessions, and although their sessions with him would
• 2:22:26
  prove he's not insane, it's of little consolation considering
• 2:22:31
  the tragedy they would seemingly manifest later on.
• 2:22:36
  Darren's best friend was a man by the name of Randy.
• 2:22:40
  The two had bonded over their love for the band ACDC in high
• 2:22:44
  school and had been inseparable ever since.
• 2:22:48
  Randy's idol also being the late Bon Scott, whose lifestyle
• 2:22:53
  seemingly imprinted upon the youthful teens Once Upon a time
• 2:22:58
  and perhaps would ultimately lead to the downfall of one of
• 2:23:02
  them. By now, Darren was living in his
• 2:23:06
  own apartment and working construction at a job site he
• 2:23:10
  was on. He would make a strange but
• 2:23:13
  familiar discovery. As he was digging down into the
• 2:23:18
  earth, he found what appeared to be a jar.
• 2:23:22
  Upon picking it up to discard it, he wiped away the dirt and
• 2:23:26
  debris only to be shocked by its familiar contents.
• 2:23:32
  Loan and behold, within the jar was a congealed and rotting
• 2:23:37
  Blackbird, extremely similar if not identical to the ones
• 2:23:42
  initially found alongside the Ouija board under underneath his
• 2:23:47
  high school girlfriend's home all those years ago.
• 2:23:51
  It was particularly weird, not just because of this, but the
• 2:23:56
  fact that he had found it digging down deep into the
• 2:24:00
  earth. He wondered what were the odds
• 2:24:03
  of this, and although he had no way of knowing for sure, his gut
• 2:24:08
  began to tell him that there was some kind of witchcraft or a
• 2:24:12
  cold expertise at play here. Perhaps someone or a group of
• 2:24:18
  people were knowingly contacting this entity known as Zozo.
• 2:24:23
  But for what remained to be known, one evening in 1985,
• 2:24:30
  Darren and Randy were relaxing at Darren's apartment when they
• 2:24:34
  decided to host a session on the Ouija board.
• 2:24:37
  Randy, more than anything, wanted to try and make contact
• 2:24:41
  with his late idol, Bon Scott while wearing a Highway to Hell
• 2:24:47
  ACDC shirt. Randy's intent was clear.
• 2:24:52
  The two dimmed the lights, lit a couple of candles, and began the
• 2:24:57
  session upon the board. They made contact within a few
• 2:25:01
  minutes once the planchette was moving.
• 2:25:06
  Randy exclaimed. We want to talk to Bon Scott of
• 2:25:11
  ACDC. With this sentence, the planchet
• 2:25:15
  seemingly obliged. It moved in circles, eventually
• 2:25:21
  spelling out a YEMATE. The 2 looked at each other in
• 2:25:28
  amazement. The entity was using Australian
• 2:25:31
  dialects, and for anyone who doesn't know, Bon Scott was
• 2:25:36
  Australian. After several more questions,
• 2:25:41
  both of the young men were convinced they were speaking
• 2:25:43
  with their idol. The spirit seemed to know every
• 2:25:46
  little detail to any question they asked during the session.
• 2:25:52
  The entity then made a strange request from the men.
• 2:25:55
  It asked them to light a cigarette and place it in the
• 2:25:59
  hole in the planchette. What proceeded to make both of
• 2:26:03
  them laugh also made them quite spooked as well.
• 2:26:07
  So they lit a couple cigarettes, one for each of them and one for
• 2:26:12
  this entity. They took a few drags to keep it
• 2:26:16
  lit and then placed it cherry side up in the Blanchette hole.
• 2:26:21
  The Blanchette then spelled out thanks.
• 2:26:24
  They then watched an utter amazement as the cherry of the
• 2:26:28
  cigarette lit up as if Bon himself was taking puffs off of
• 2:26:34
  him. But this amusement was short
• 2:26:37
  lived. Once the cigarette had seemingly
• 2:26:41
  been smoked, playing Chet began to spell something very
• 2:26:45
  different. It's spelled F you Randy.
• 2:26:50
  I will have your soul and I'll see you in hell, Zeo.
• 2:26:57
  Zeo terrified the men quickly into the session by saying
• 2:27:02
  goodbye and tossing the board outside the second story
• 2:27:06
  apartment balcony door. Clearly scared and upset, Randy
• 2:27:12
  also didn't take kindly to threats.
• 2:27:15
  He began cussing out Zozo with complete and utter rage.
• 2:27:20
  The board would later be returned by his downstairs
• 2:27:23
  neighbor and after this session, a series of lows for both of the
• 2:27:28
  men seemed to manifest in the years to come.
• 2:27:32
  Influenced by the lifestyle of his idol, Randy fell victim to
• 2:27:36
  alcoholism. He soon would lose his wife to
• 2:27:40
  divorce and have split custody with his son.
• 2:27:45
  And although many opportunities presented themselves for Randy
• 2:27:48
  to better his life, for one reason or another, he was always
• 2:27:53
  just too far away to be able to grasp them.
• 2:27:56
  He often said to Darren, I feel like I'm in a prison and I can't
• 2:28:02
  escape for old time's sake. The two did one last Ouija board
• 2:28:07
  session together in 2005, in which Randy asked the board how
• 2:28:13
  he would die. The board responded in a car at
• 2:28:19
  night alone. In 2007, after spending the
• 2:28:24
  evening with Darren, the last words he would say to him were
• 2:28:29
  Darren, I will see you in hell. The next morning, Darren
• 2:28:34
  received a phone call from Randy's girlfriend Alicia,
• 2:28:38
  saying that Randy never made it home after he left.
• 2:28:42
  Instead, he had passed away in a violent head on collision,
• 2:28:47
  ultimately passing away in a car at night and alone.
• 2:28:54
  This devastating passing, along with the frequent contact with
• 2:28:57
  the entity known as Zozo over the years, led to a fascination
• 2:29:03
  and borderline obsession with the search for answers for
• 2:29:06
  Darren Evans. During the time before and after
• 2:29:11
  Randy's death, he had been living in a home in Oklahoma
• 2:29:14
  City, OK that would become synonymous with the demon's
• 2:29:19
  name. It was here that the worst
• 2:29:22
  afflictions brought on by the entity would take place to him
• 2:29:27
  and his family. Darren's fascination with the
• 2:29:30
  occult led him to hanging on to and possessing multiple Ouija
• 2:29:35
  boards and other various occult objects.
• 2:29:39
  It was here that he began to study on a much more in depth
• 2:29:43
  and organized basis, just trying to figure out who or what Zozo
• 2:29:49
  was. But this research would soon be
• 2:29:52
  interrupted and this home lived himself, his wife Kathleen, and
• 2:29:59
  their young daughter at the time.
• 2:30:02
  During a session with his wife Kathleen one evening while their
• 2:30:06
  daughter slept rooms away, Zozo would once again make itself
• 2:30:12
  present in their lives, but this time seemed to take possession
• 2:30:17
  of Darren. Kathleen trembled with fear and
• 2:30:21
  bated breath as something stared at her through Darren's eyes.
• 2:30:27
  Something that clearly wasn't human.
• 2:30:30
  He then turned violent, attempting to attack her.
• 2:30:35
  Fortunately for Kathleen, she was able to say goodbye and get
• 2:30:40
  away before any harm could be done to her.
• 2:30:43
  Several minutes later, Darren would come back to himself with
• 2:30:48
  no memory of what had taken place.
• 2:30:52
  After this session, things seemed to escalate in intensity.
• 2:30:59
  Sounds began to rap throughout the entire home, from knocking
• 2:31:04
  to hissing, footsteps and banging, all seemingly with no
• 2:31:11
  explainable origin. The family got so terrified that
• 2:31:17
  they sectioned off a particular bedroom upstairs, calling it
• 2:31:21
  their safe room. One night, however, not everyone
• 2:31:26
  was within the safe room. Suddenly, an overwhelming sense
• 2:31:32
  of terror creeped upon Darren as he was trying to sleep.
• 2:31:36
  He rushed to the safe room to attempt to stop what he was
• 2:31:40
  feeling, but quickly realizing he couldn't leave his family
• 2:31:44
  behind, he rushed back out of the room and then attempt to
• 2:31:48
  gather them and bring them to safety as well.
• 2:31:53
  As he was heading towards the stairs, his daughter had heard
• 2:31:56
  his cries and was now at the foot of the stairs.
• 2:32:02
  It was here that Darren saw her being lifted by invisible hands
• 2:32:06
  into the air and carried away from him, screaming for his
• 2:32:13
  child as she screamed for her father.
• 2:32:16
  Darren ran down the stairs as fast as he possibly could but
• 2:32:21
  couldn't see her anywhere. Insight.
• 2:32:24
  He then heard her muffled screams coming from the
• 2:32:27
  basement. At first the door was locked and
• 2:32:32
  wouldn't open, but after adrenaline and brute force,
• 2:32:36
  Darren thankfully was able to open it.
• 2:32:39
  He then retrieved his hysterical child and brought her to the
• 2:32:44
  safety of the safe room. Once inside the room, the family
• 2:32:49
  huddled together in fear as they continued to hear movement and
• 2:32:53
  noises all throughout the house. After this abhorrent nightmare
• 2:32:58
  of a situation, the family knew they had to get out of the
• 2:33:01
  house. This situation and the many
• 2:33:05
  other paranormal experiences had led to a lifelong fascination
• 2:33:09
  for Darren Evans with the occult and finding out just exactly
• 2:33:15
  what Sozo is. But was it worth jeopardizing
• 2:33:19
  his family's safety? It took some time, but the
• 2:33:24
  family would soon relocate to another home.
• 2:33:27
  And once his family was safe, Darren was able to continue his
• 2:33:32
  deep dive into the unknown to try and track down and decipher
• 2:33:37
  just what this entity could be and where it came from.
• 2:33:42
  And although he knew the topic was vast, I think it went far
• 2:33:47
  deeper than he ever anticipated. Whilst trying to dig up more
• 2:33:51
  information, he posted his experiences to an old paranormal
• 2:33:56
  forum in 2009. And since then many, many people
• 2:34:03
  have shared their experiences with the demonic force, many of
• 2:34:09
  which have been documented and compared by Darren himself on
• 2:34:13
  his website. But these experiences are not
• 2:34:17
  just a 21st or even 20th century phenomenon, they date back far
• 2:34:23
  older than that. Not every fine detail will be
• 2:34:26
  mentioned here, but I will do my best to list the most important
• 2:34:30
  details that I could find in regards to the origin of Zozo.
• 2:34:36
  According to Darren and other online sources, Zozo in the old
• 2:34:42
  Basque language means Blackbird or crow.
• 2:34:46
  The Zoe people of Haiti practiced a form of voodoo whose
• 2:34:50
  rituals involve horrific scarification as well as the
• 2:34:55
  intake and passing around of bodily fluids and bizarre
• 2:34:59
  rituals. Their witch doctors are called
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  Zozo and wear demonic looking masks as part of their death
• 2:35:08
  ritual. When someone is passing away,
• 2:35:12
  they lift up the mask at the moment of death to take in the
• 2:35:16
  person's final breath. This is apparently done to
• 2:35:20
  absorb the soul of the person to gain more spiritual power.
• 2:35:25
  Zozo, also in the Malay language, is the same as it is
• 2:35:29
  in English, but it translates to wandering spirit, which is a
• 2:35:34
  spirit they believe to steal people's souls while they sleep,
• 2:35:39
  which is also bizarre because sleep is often considered the
• 2:35:43
  cousin of death. Zozo has been called the
• 2:35:47
  minister of deception. It is known to convince you that
• 2:35:51
  it is a deceased loved one or friend or even someone you've
• 2:35:55
  idolized, when in reality it's not.
• 2:36:01
  Sessions typically start out friendly and inviting but soon
• 2:36:06
  turn malevolent and dangerous. During his research over the
• 2:36:11
  years, Derren made contact with and spoke to famous demonologist
• 2:36:16
  John Zappos, who shared with him that in his experience of over
• 2:36:22
  40 years of studying the demonic and paranormal, the name Zozo
• 2:36:27
  and other pseudonyms of its name kept coming up in his
• 2:36:30
  investigations, which too led him to seek answers as to what
• 2:36:35
  it could be. And some of those
• 2:36:38
  investigations, when questioned, the demon stated that it was the
• 2:36:42
  son of Satan himself. But Zapfis thinks perhaps is
• 2:36:48
  with many deities that seem to be lurking in the shadows, Zozo
• 2:36:52
  could be an entity that's existed far before the founding
• 2:36:56
  of Christianity. Besides evidence showing up in
• 2:37:00
  Africa and Egypt, there's also evidence found linking Zozo to
• 2:37:05
  ancient Mesopotamia as well. Other names Zozo has gone by
• 2:37:11
  throughout the ages have been Zuzu, Zaza, and Mama, among many
• 2:37:17
  others. The name Zuzu could refer to
• 2:37:22
  Pazuzu, the famed demon from the film The Exorcist, which in
• 2:37:27
  reality was a demonic entity from ancient Mesopotamian
• 2:37:30
  religion. It's incredibly strange to note
• 2:37:34
  the following as well. Zozo was replaced in the story
• 2:37:38
  of the exorcism of Roland Doe and Peter Blatty was using it as
• 2:37:43
  inspiration to write The Exorcist.
• 2:37:46
  He changed Zozo to Pazuzu. Zozo is believed to be the demon
• 2:37:53
  that possessed Roland. It was described as a terrifying
• 2:37:57
  form that first appeared in the Neo Assyrian period, roughly
• 2:38:02
  around 934 to 610 BC. It had a monstrous head
• 2:38:08
  resembling A fierce lion or a dog with horns, and had an
• 2:38:14
  emaciated human body with clawed hands, a scorpion's tail, and
• 2:38:20
  two sets of wings, One translation reads.
• 2:38:26
  I am Pazuzu, the son of Hambu, king of the Lilu demons.
• 2:38:33
  I have scaled the powerful mountains.
• 2:38:35
  They trembled. The contrary winds were headed
• 2:38:39
  West 1 by 1. I broke their wings.
• 2:38:45
  Pazuzu and other demons like it were held responsible for
• 2:38:49
  ailments like disease, fetal death, nightmares, and much
• 2:38:55
  more. Could it be?
• 2:38:57
  That this ancient demonic force is what could be plaguing people
• 2:39:00
  all the way into modern times. The demon Zozo is also mentioned
• 2:39:07
  in the French Demonic Encyclopedia is one of the
• 2:39:10
  demons responsible for diabolical possession and
• 2:39:14
  corruption. The possession of a young girl
• 2:39:18
  in 1816 is noted as a documented case where Zozo, among several
• 2:39:25
  other demons were present. Other noteworthy possession
• 2:39:29
  cases over the ages, ranging closer to modern times that
• 2:39:33
  bears Ozo's name other than the exorcism of Rolling Doe in the
• 2:39:37
  1950s, are the possession of Doris Blither in 1972 in Los
• 2:39:44
  Angeles, the Enfield Poltergeist incident in 1977 in the UK, and
• 2:39:52
  as recent as 2012 where a possession incident led to an
• 2:39:57
  attempted murder. Other theories with how this
• 2:40:02
  entity could communicate with so many people so quickly and
• 2:40:06
  across the globe over the years besides supernatural ability of
• 2:40:10
  its own, would be that its own reach is perhaps being
• 2:40:14
  strengthened by an agrigor or a collective group of thought form
• 2:40:20
  created by occultists for a certain purpose.
• 2:40:26
  However this seems unlikely considering the entity doesn't
• 2:40:29
  seem to serve any human interest other than to destroy the person
• 2:40:35
  or people's lives it makes contact with.
• 2:40:39
  Agrigors are typically formed to bring control over a summon
• 2:40:42
  deity for the person or groups bidding.
• 2:40:47
  But perhaps instead there is a cold worshipping Zozo?
• 2:40:50
  I mean, that would make more sense to me.
• 2:40:54
  People who have made contact with the entity via spirit or
• 2:40:58
  Ouija board have also been asked to chant or spell out phrases in
• 2:41:02
  Hebrew or Latin, which has convinced many of the
• 2:41:06
  intelligence of the being they're speaking with.
• 2:41:10
  What is also interesting is that the letter Z was actually
• 2:41:14
  removed from the original Latin alphabet because it was
• 2:41:18
  considered too evil when pronouncing it.
• 2:41:21
  It was said that one's face would make a death's grimace
• 2:41:25
  like that of a corpse, and that it mimicked the letter S like an
• 2:41:30
  evil twin. Perhaps the entity uses this
• 2:41:34
  name as some sort of mocking, whether to God or something
• 2:41:39
  else. One may also ask, despite the
• 2:41:43
  origin, theories, and historical details that could be linked to
• 2:41:47
  this ancient demonic force, how would one know if they
• 2:41:51
  encountered such a thing? These are what's known as Zozo's
• 2:41:55
  calling cards when it's being summoned using a Ouija board.
• 2:42:00
  The obvious is there that the planchette will begin to move on
• 2:42:04
  its own, but some less obvious signs are there as well and are
• 2:42:10
  as follows. The planchette will move in a
• 2:42:13
  rainbow pattern from side to side, spelling ZOZO over and
• 2:42:20
  over again, also known as the rainbow effect.
• 2:42:25
  It can also move in repeating Figure 8 movements like an
• 2:42:30
  Infinity sign. The planchet will spell out
• 2:42:33
  various versions of the demon's name, like Zozo, Zoso, Zaza,
• 2:42:41
  Zuzu, or Mama. You may also begin to see
• 2:42:45
  shadows moving around the area where you were hosting the
• 2:42:48
  session, like you're seeing through the thinnest sheet and
• 2:42:53
  to a Dark World that exists just behind your vision.
• 2:42:58
  And you and whoever you may be with may start to feel scared,
• 2:43:03
  uneasy, or upset, seemingly for no other reason.
• 2:43:09
  Before or after this takes place when you tell this entity
• 2:43:14
  goodbye. Typically the best way to close
• 2:43:18
  a session, it may not truly be goodbye because often times,
• 2:43:24
  depending on how long the session has been for, like an
• 2:43:28
  ever widening door, the entity may have had just enough time to
• 2:43:32
  sneak in to begin to wreak havoc upon your life.
• 2:43:37
  And thus begins what many demonologists and religious
• 2:43:41
  leaders alike call demonic obsession, which is where the
• 2:43:44
  entity becomes aware of you and begins to crave you, which then
• 2:43:50
  leads to oppression or begins to inflict various forms of torture
• 2:43:55
  upon you in an effort to break you down, whether that's
• 2:43:59
  physically, psychologically, or spiritually.
• 2:44:05
  It will also work to isolate you from others, especially those
• 2:44:09
  who care about you. And finally, if you're
• 2:44:13
  incredibly unlucky, possession or the entity finally takes
• 2:44:18
  control of you as its vessel. All of which to me, are
• 2:44:24
  absolutely terrifying in every imaginable way.
• 2:44:29
  Darren Evans to this day continues to research the Zozo
• 2:44:32
  Phenomena, having been involved in the number of paranormal
• 2:44:36
  investigations, shows, and various other public and private
• 2:44:41
  events, as well as radio shows and podcasts, many of which he
• 2:44:47
  goes into various degrees of details regarding his
• 2:44:49
  encounters, other people's encounters, and other various
• 2:44:54
  historical details. He also in 2016 compiled his
• 2:44:59
  year's worth of research and experiences into a book, also
• 2:45:03
  titled The Zozo Phenomena, which you can read and learn more
• 2:45:07
  about the entity and the topic as a whole.
• 2:45:10
  If you're interested, I'll link it below.
• 2:45:14
  I also pulled a lot of this information from various
• 2:45:17
  interviews, which I'll also be linking below, as well as an
• 2:45:21
  older website he runs that doesn't seem to have been
• 2:45:24
  updated in a while, but supplied me with much information to get
• 2:45:28
  the story as cohesive as I possibly could.
• 2:45:32
  I also sourced the photos of the apparitions from the site, some
• 2:45:36
  of which were taken by Evans himself over the years.
• 2:45:41
  So does this demon or ancient force truly exist?
• 2:45:46
  Is it some kind of elder God, a pre Christian deity or being or
• 2:45:52
  manifestation of occult or Luciferian practices?
• 2:45:57
  Did Darren Evans just make it up and did thousands of people find
• 2:46:02
  it interesting enough to make up their own stories and partake in
• 2:46:06
  a mass charade that has lasted years?
• 2:46:09
  All of these answers may never truly be known, but my opinion
• 2:46:13
  is this I think not only given the wide array of strange
• 2:46:18
  coincidences and details throughout history.
• 2:46:22
  From the origins to the stories of this creature existing in
• 2:46:26
  distant past to the present, to literally thousands of people.
• 2:46:31
  From casual interest in the occult, to more hardcore
• 2:46:35
  fanatics, religious scholars, demonologists, and more claiming
• 2:46:42
  to have had experiences with this thing.
• 2:46:45
  With all of these details in mind, I certainly think it very
• 2:46:49
  well could be real. I do think there are things that
• 2:46:52
  exist in the shadows, things we can't see or touch that are
• 2:46:57
  there watching and waiting to strike when and if the
• 2:47:03
  opportunity presents itself. So my advice to all of you to
• 2:47:08
  avoid any possibility of opening a door that you can't close and
• 2:47:13
  inviting evil into your life is this.
• 2:47:17
  Don't mess with Ouija boards. These things are not toys.
• 2:47:22
  Whether you believe it or not, these entities do exist and they
• 2:47:27
  believe in you. So keep away from them, because
• 2:47:31
  you might just let something in that won't want to leave even if
• 2:47:36
  you say goodbye. Lying dormant within the streets
• 2:47:46
  of suburbia, there is an unseen evil.
• 2:47:50
  Like a mouse falling into a pit of snakes, an unsuspecting
• 2:47:55
  family disturbed a slumbering force and became enshrouded in a
• 2:48:00
  fog of darkness. This is the untold story of the
• 2:48:06
  Bel Air House and the terrifying malevolent entities that dwell
• 2:48:11
  within its walls. Bellaire, OH, an area rich in
• 2:48:18
  history, was once known as Glass City.
• 2:48:21
  Having once been a major glass production hub in the late 1800s
• 2:48:27
  is now known as the All American town, having been used in many
• 2:48:32
  Hollywood productions as a backdrop for lots of movies,
• 2:48:36
  some of which you've probably seen over the years.
• 2:48:40
  The town that epitomizes small America's daily life has long
• 2:48:45
  since moved past its industrial days and has become known for
• 2:48:49
  something else. On the outskirts of the town
• 2:48:53
  lies an old two-story Victorian home that has become famous over
• 2:48:57
  the recent years, both among locals as well as across the
• 2:49:02
  country, with some saying it could be the most haunted place
• 2:49:06
  in the United States, if not the world.
• 2:49:10
  This is a bold statement to say the least, but the countless
• 2:49:14
  visitors to the house have reported strange, disturbing,
• 2:49:18
  and unexplainable encounters within its antique walls.
• 2:49:23
  But just how did the story begin?
• 2:49:26
  Where did the legend of the Bel Air House originate from?
• 2:49:29
  Let us first take a look at the home's dark history.
• 2:49:34
  Built in 1887 by a coal tycoon named Jacob Hetherington, the
• 2:49:40
  house sits adjacent from ancient Native American burial caves.
• 2:49:45
  It is also located where the scene of a massacre took place
• 2:49:49
  during the French and Indian War.
• 2:49:53
  It would sit on top of an active coal mine for years.
• 2:49:56
  Before. There was a major explosion that
• 2:50:00
  took place within the mine, killing multiple men working
• 2:50:04
  deep within the earth directly underneath the house.
• 2:50:08
  Could the culmination of these tragic deaths have opened up a
• 2:50:11
  portal within the Bel Air house? A portal that allowed something
• 2:50:16
  to come through that wasn't supposed to be here?
• 2:50:20
  Shortly after this explosion is when the strange activity began.
• 2:50:25
  Jacob's son Alex moved into the home with his daughter.
• 2:50:29
  Lied, but was soon stricken with seizures and hallucinations.
• 2:50:35
  He would ultimately be committed to an insane asylum for the rest
• 2:50:39
  of his life, claiming that demons were trying to kill him.
• 2:50:45
  As time progressed, Lyde would take charge of the family
• 2:50:48
  business, being helped by her younger brother Edwin.
• 2:50:53
  Lyde would tragically and unexpectedly pass away. 1
• 2:50:56
  morning and the kitchen of the home.
• 2:51:00
  Edwin, now alone and grief stricken, descended into
• 2:51:04
  mysticism and the occult in search of answers.
• 2:51:09
  He began to regularly host seances in the kitchen where his
• 2:51:13
  sister had passed away to attempt to make contact with her
• 2:51:18
  on the other side, and it is believed that contact was indeed
• 2:51:22
  made, but with who or what is uncertain.
• 2:51:28
  In 2005, Kristen Lee and her family are desperate for a new
• 2:51:33
  home. Like a curse, for the second
• 2:51:36
  time in less than two years, a flash flood has destroyed their
• 2:51:40
  home and all of their possessions.
• 2:51:43
  Kristen, her two sons, Nicholas and Lane, along with their
• 2:51:48
  father Hefe, have been fortunate enough to room with friends
• 2:51:52
  during this difficult time. Kristen has continued to try and
• 2:51:56
  get the family back on their feet and no longer wants to
• 2:52:00
  burden her friends with the boarding of her family.
• 2:52:04
  So she constantly checks the real estate listings hoping to
• 2:52:07
  find a home that her and her family can finally settle down
• 2:52:11
  into. Given the circumstances, the
• 2:52:14
  family didn't have a big budget and would have to rebuild their
• 2:52:18
  lives from scratch. But soon her determination seems
• 2:52:23
  to pay off. While at work, Kristen often
• 2:52:27
  browses real estate websites for new listings as well as
• 2:52:30
  foreclosures and a new listing soon catches her eye.
• 2:52:36
  Recently foreclosed on but now available for purchase, she lays
• 2:52:40
  eyes on the old Victorian home for the first time.
• 2:52:44
  It's 4 bedrooms and two bathroom setup along with plenty of room
• 2:52:49
  would be perfect for her family. The price seems almost too good
• 2:52:53
  to be true for her budget as well, and although the listing
• 2:52:57
  lacks more details, it's like her prayers had finally been
• 2:53:02
  answered. But by what?
• 2:53:05
  Not wanting to lose the property, Kristen arranges a
• 2:53:09
  showing of the home as soon as possible and before too long
• 2:53:13
  finds herself on the front steps of the Bel Air house.
• 2:53:18
  She is immediately taken in by the beautiful craftsmanship of
• 2:53:22
  the woodwork. The wrap around porch facing the
• 2:53:25
  Ohio River soon has her imagining peaceful evenings
• 2:53:29
  watching the water flow. Upon entering the home, she
• 2:53:33
  continues to be impressed. Old marble and cherry wood
• 2:53:38
  ordained the interior. Of the home.
• 2:53:40
  And it seems almost too perfect, like something straight out of
• 2:53:44
  her dreams. The family also has a dog named
• 2:53:48
  Bella, and the large fenced in backyard is perfect for her to
• 2:53:52
  run in and the boys to play in. Dumbfounded by her luck, Kristen
• 2:53:58
  puts in an offer on the House that evening and it's accepted
• 2:54:02
  the following morning. After two years of chaos and
• 2:54:06
  uncertainty, the Lee family can finally breathe again and start
• 2:54:11
  living a normal life. But just as all seems quiet and
• 2:54:15
  settled, the family begins to discover that the house is
• 2:54:19
  anything but normal at first. Upon hearing odd noises in the
• 2:54:24
  night, the family wrote off the sounds as nothing more than
• 2:54:28
  anxiety and an old house. Being slightly scared or anxious
• 2:54:33
  upon moving into a new place, particularly following a very
• 2:54:36
  uncertain time in one's life, is not out of the ordinary.
• 2:54:41
  But these sounds soon become too much to dismiss.
• 2:54:44
  They soon begin to hear footsteps at all hours of the
• 2:54:47
  day and night. Kristen would later describe the
• 2:54:50
  activity as so. I would hear footsteps above and
• 2:54:54
  sometimes below me, even when there was no one else home but
• 2:54:58
  me. And I always felt as if there
• 2:55:00
  were thousands of eyes staring at me at all times, watching my
• 2:55:05
  every move. Along with the strange noises,
• 2:55:09
  items soon begin to go missing. From keys to towels to trinkets.
• 2:55:15
  1 moment they would be there and within seconds they would
• 2:55:19
  vanish. And Kristen isn't the only one
• 2:55:22
  experiencing strange happenings within the Bel Air house at the
• 2:55:26
  time. Her 12 year old son Nicholas
• 2:55:29
  begins to experience a malevolent force that seems to
• 2:55:32
  dwell within his bedroom. At first, he too begins to feel
• 2:55:37
  as if he's being watched at all times, and it seems to get
• 2:55:41
  exponentially worse at night. He begins to have night terrors,
• 2:55:46
  feeling someone or something covering his mouth and nose,
• 2:55:51
  forcing him to suffocate. One night, he wakes up in a cold
• 2:55:55
  sweat. It's storming outside.
• 2:55:59
  Flashes of lightning occasionally light up the room.
• 2:56:02
  What he sees disturbs him to his core.
• 2:56:07
  In the corner of his room towards his closet.
• 2:56:11
  As a burst of light fills the room, he sees a blackened figure
• 2:56:15
  staring at him and shaking profusely.
• 2:56:20
  The young boy is utterly terrified, rushing out of his
• 2:56:24
  room as fast as he possibly can. He wakes up his mother and
• 2:56:29
  refuses to sleep there any longer.
• 2:56:32
  The boy is so hysterical, the only solution was to send him to
• 2:56:36
  his grandmother's house, located 30 minutes away.
• 2:56:40
  What makes this case all the more compelling is that Kristen
• 2:56:44
  has a master's degree in psychology and works as a mental
• 2:56:48
  health physician. With this, her professional
• 2:56:52
  opinion of what Nicholas had experienced was initially
• 2:56:55
  contributed to stress and fatigue, both common factors
• 2:56:59
  that tend to make the human mind see and experience things that
• 2:57:03
  aren't really there. And these probably could explain
• 2:57:07
  many similar situations, and most would agree.
• 2:57:11
  However, Kristin's view would soon undergo A radical change
• 2:57:16
  after one terrifying experience of her own.
• 2:57:20
  After months of strange happenings within the home, it
• 2:57:23
  was now winter and the Lee family, still tied on finances,
• 2:57:29
  was sleeping in the basement near the fireplace to save money
• 2:57:33
  on the gas bill. Hefe was asleep in a recliner
• 2:57:37
  and Lane as well as Kristen were asleep on the wrap around couch
• 2:57:41
  located in the corner of the room.
• 2:57:44
  All seemed normal until Kristen was woken up by the feeling of
• 2:57:49
  the couch cushion being pressed down near her legs.
• 2:57:53
  She then found herself face to face with a terrifying figure of
• 2:57:58
  a man staring directly at her. She would later describe the
• 2:58:02
  encounter as So I woke up being face to face with this Gray
• 2:58:07
  figure of a man. He was translucent, almost like
• 2:58:11
  a mist, but the mist had features like a person.
• 2:58:17
  The face was completely emotionless and had dark sunken
• 2:58:21
  in eyes. Kristen asked who are you?
• 2:58:25
  What are you doing here? What do you want?
• 2:58:29
  But to no response, just a blank, lifeless stare.
• 2:58:35
  Within seconds the apparition disappears, but before she can
• 2:58:40
  ponder what had just taken place, the silence is once again
• 2:58:44
  shattered. But by this time it was the
• 2:58:47
  family dog, Bella, who was barking and running around the
• 2:58:52
  room. Kristen, attempting to keep her
• 2:58:55
  family asleep through the ordeal, tries to quiet the dog
• 2:58:58
  down and notices that she can see her breath.
• 2:59:01
  In the air. And although it's cold outside,
• 2:59:05
  it's not nearly that cold near the fireplace.
• 2:59:09
  She then sees the figure materialize once more and
• 2:59:12
  silently moved from one side of the room and through the wall on
• 2:59:16
  the other side, vanishing completely.
• 2:59:20
  No longer wanting to face whatever this was alone, she
• 2:59:24
  woke up her husband and told him what had just taken place.
• 2:59:28
  His response, however, was that she was too tired and needed to
• 2:59:33
  go back to sleep. Could what Kristen had
• 2:59:37
  experienced been a stress or fatigue induced hallucination?
• 2:59:41
  Perhaps, but someone with a professional background such as
• 2:59:45
  herself surely would know how to differentiate, wouldn't you
• 2:59:49
  think? Finally, knowing she's not crazy
• 2:59:53
  and totally convinced that the home was haunted, Kristen begins
• 2:59:57
  to try and make plans to get her family out of the Bel Air house.
• 3:00:02
  And to safety elsewhere. As soon as she can, she puts the
• 3:00:07
  home up for sale and moves the family to a nearby rental home.
• 3:00:12
  Although she's relieved to no longer physically be in the
• 3:00:15
  house, no one is buying it to try and cover expenses.
• 3:00:20
  She has no other choice other than to make the house a rental
• 3:00:23
  property. But almost as soon as the first
• 3:00:26
  family moves in, they move out and this kick starts a revolving
• 3:00:31
  door of tenants seemingly stuck with the house.
• 3:00:36
  Kristen comes to the conclusion that no family will or should
• 3:00:39
  live there. So what should be done with a
• 3:00:42
  haunted property? Needing to make ends meet, she
• 3:00:46
  comes up with a unique idea. She turns the home into an
• 3:00:49
  afterlife research property. This would allow various groups
• 3:00:54
  to come in conduct their own research on just what exactly
• 3:00:58
  was taking place within the Bel Air House.
• 3:01:02
  And the idea works. Soon groups from all over the
• 3:01:06
  United States and Canada are travelling to temporarily live
• 3:01:10
  within the home to conduct research.
• 3:01:14
  And from here we gain some more interesting stories, to say the
• 3:01:18
  least. One group, who calls themselves
• 3:01:22
  the Armchair Researchers from upstate New York, consists of
• 3:01:26
  two women, one being a birthing nurse and the other a nurse who
• 3:01:31
  works with dying patients. They found paranormal and
• 3:01:35
  afterlife research to be a natural extension of their day
• 3:01:39
  jobs for the last 15 years. After hearing about the Bel Air
• 3:01:44
  house, they soon find themselves driving to Ohio to investigate
• 3:01:49
  the phenomena for themselves. First impressions tend to go a
• 3:01:53
  long way, and the first impression the women got upon
• 3:01:56
  their arrival was very creepy. The home by this point was in a
• 3:02:01
  moderate state of decay. The fence that had once
• 3:02:05
  surrounded the backyard was mostly blown down, and the
• 3:02:09
  exterior of the home as well as the porch was weathered and
• 3:02:14
  rotting. But despite the odd feelings
• 3:02:17
  initially, they make their way inside now.
• 3:02:21
  At first they actually felt welcomed, almost invited in,
• 3:02:26
  greeted by the same cherry wood interior that has greeted
• 3:02:29
  everyone. But as soon as they set up their
• 3:02:32
  equipment and prepare for their stay, as day turns to night,
• 3:02:37
  there seems to be a shift in energy within the home.
• 3:02:41
  The shift went from warm and inviting to dark and ominous.
• 3:02:47
  Then began the noises, the banging footsteps and the moving
• 3:02:53
  of furniture. The ladies also noted the
• 3:02:56
  feeling of being watched everywhere they went while
• 3:02:59
  asking probing questions. As they wandered throughout the
• 3:03:02
  house, they would soon also witness strange lights in
• 3:03:06
  various parts of the home. And along with the lights, there
• 3:03:10
  soon also came full blown apparitions, all of which seem
• 3:03:15
  to be centered around the basement.
• 3:03:17
  And as the night progressed, so did their feelings of anxiety.
• 3:03:23
  While taking a short break and sitting down on one of the
• 3:03:25
  couches in the basement, the two heard what they described as a
• 3:03:29
  large crashing noise above them, as if someone or something had
• 3:03:34
  thrown a bookshelf across the house itself, shaking the entire
• 3:03:39
  home. Absolutely terrified and
• 3:03:42
  panicked, the women apprehensively made their way up
• 3:03:45
  the stairs and rushed out of the home as fast as they possibly
• 3:03:49
  could, leaving behind equipment and personal items they were too
• 3:03:55
  frightened to go back. Upon learning of what had taken
• 3:03:59
  place, Kristen wasn't at all surprised.
• 3:04:02
  Over the years, there have been dozens of teams of people who
• 3:04:05
  couldn't seem to last the night for one experience or another.
• 3:04:09
  People have been scratched, pushed down stairs, punched,
• 3:04:14
  bitten, and even in one instance thrown across the room by a
• 3:04:20
  violent and unseen force. Another noteworthy story comes
• 3:04:25
  from a team located locally there in Ohio.
• 3:04:28
  They have had the opportunity to visit the home and conduct
• 3:04:32
  investigations numerous times over the years, but their
• 3:04:36
  experience, in particular one night, truly makes me question
• 3:04:40
  just what exactly haunts the Bel Air House.
• 3:04:44
  There was three of them this time, and it was shortly after
• 3:04:47
  midnight when they made their way into the attic to continue
• 3:04:50
  their investigation. During their questioning, they
• 3:04:54
  seemed to be getting direct interaction with something
• 3:04:57
  through their spirit box. Then towards the corner of the
• 3:05:01
  attic, a mist seemed to materialize coming up from the
• 3:05:06
  attic floor, slowly enveloping the group.
• 3:05:10
  Glancing down, they were now too stunned to speak.
• 3:05:14
  They saw what appeared to be thousands of black snake like
• 3:05:18
  creatures, Slytherin, over their feet and onto their legs.
• 3:05:24
  The creatures then began to form a figure standing in front of
• 3:05:28
  one of the attic windows, a creature of pure darkness that
• 3:05:32
  seemed to stare at them with thousands of tiny beady eyes.
• 3:05:39
  The crew, which consisted of two men and a woman, ran for their
• 3:05:43
  lives, descending the attic stairs as quickly as possible,
• 3:05:48
  leaving behind anything and everything that they had brought
• 3:05:51
  with them that wasn't located on their person and out of the home
• 3:05:55
  for good. All of these stories and
• 3:05:58
  experiences have led many to believe that the Bel Air House
• 3:06:02
  is some kind of magnet for paranormal activity.
• 3:06:06
  A magnet or a host to a portal for spirits, whether that portal
• 3:06:11
  was opened by the tragedy that took place within the mind that
• 3:06:14
  once existed below its foundation, or one that was open
• 3:06:18
  due to seances being conducted within the house on multiple
• 3:06:23
  occasions. But over the years, many
• 3:06:26
  different entities have been documented from what appear to
• 3:06:29
  be human ghosts to perhaps something more sinister.
• 3:06:34
  One such entity goes by the name of Emily Davis.
• 3:06:38
  It is believed that Emily Davis was a child that drowned in the
• 3:06:42
  Ohio River that flows right by the home.
• 3:06:46
  Her room is allegedly the same room that Kristin's son Nicholas
• 3:06:50
  once stayed in. And besides the basement, it
• 3:06:54
  also seems to be a hotspot for paranormal activity.
• 3:06:59
  Through various investigations, once contact has been made and
• 3:07:03
  trust seems to be gained, people are often attacked, which have
• 3:07:08
  led many to believe that Emily isn't a child at all, but a
• 3:07:12
  demon. Perhaps it could be the same
• 3:07:16
  demonic creature that frightened Nicholas so bad that he moved
• 3:07:20
  out of the home. As previously mentioned, many
• 3:07:24
  investigators also have claimed to have some activity follow
• 3:07:27
  them home and even haunt their dreams, as if the house or the
• 3:07:33
  beings within the house are calling out to them to come back
• 3:07:38
  for one reason or another. Although many questions may
• 3:07:42
  never be answered surrounding the Bel Air House, one thing is
• 3:07:46
  for certain, it continues to be considered one of the most
• 3:07:50
  haunted places in America, if not the world.
• 3:07:54
  It also continues to serve as a place of study for those wanting
• 3:07:58
  to investigate the supernatural forces that dwell within its
• 3:08:03
  walls. But if you find yourself being
• 3:08:06
  drawn to the old Victorian, just know that if you're not careful,
• 3:08:11
  you too could find yourself being made a part of its
• 3:08:14
  history, whether you like it or not.
• 3:08:20
  Over the years, I've covered a wide array of mysteries, from
• 3:08:24
  The Mothman to UFOs, conspiracies to cold cases.
• 3:08:30
  And one topic that seemed to resonate more with all of you,
• 3:08:33
  and one that I've always found fascinating is hauntings,
• 3:08:37
  whether that's haunted places, haunted people, or experiences
• 3:08:42
  that people have had that they would consider paranormal in
• 3:08:46
  nature. So today I'm trying something
• 3:08:49
  new. And don't worry, this is adding
• 3:08:51
  content here on Mystery Archives, so there will still be
• 3:08:55
  episodes of The Untold Story for you to enjoy.
• 3:08:58
  Those just take a good chunk of time to produce.
• 3:09:00
  So in between those episodes, I'd really like to share stories
• 3:09:05
  from you guys, the community, to bring awareness that these kinds
• 3:09:09
  of experiences really do happen. And having grown up in a haunted
• 3:09:14
  home myself, I know that often times people are hesitant to
• 3:09:17
  share their stories for fear of ridicule or for fear of whatever
• 3:09:22
  they've experienced flaring up again and reigniting their
• 3:09:26
  personal nightmare. This platform will hopefully
• 3:09:29
  give their stories justice, have them heard, and give you a
• 3:09:34
  glimpse into what people like yourselves have experienced.
• 3:09:38
  These are your paranormal encounters when a young family
• 3:09:46
  encounters the devil and the flesh.
• 3:09:50
  Told from the perspective of a young girl, this terrifying tale
• 3:09:54
  will have you questioning just what could be happening across
• 3:09:57
  the street from you, next door, or even in your very own home.
• 3:10:05
  I was almost 7 when these events took place and I'll be 40 later
• 3:10:10
  this year. I lived in the Glendale
• 3:10:12
  Apartments in Rock Hill, SC. My baby brother at the time
• 3:10:17
  wasn't quite even a year. Old.
• 3:10:20
  Now my mom was young when she had me at 17, and my stepdad
• 3:10:25
  Keith was exactly 2 months to the day older than.
• 3:10:28
  Her. My mom has been gone for 14
• 3:10:31
  years now, but I still remember this day like it was yesterday.
• 3:10:36
  We had left to get dinner that night and by the time we had
• 3:10:39
  gotten back, Keith was passed out in the front seat of his
• 3:10:43
  little hatchback Mustang in the parking lot.
• 3:10:45
  This was the first of two that would find themselves wrapped
• 3:10:48
  around trees in my town. Keith was suffering from what
• 3:10:52
  would later be diagnosed as schizophrenia with bipolar
• 3:10:56
  tendencies and had seemingly been self medicating to
• 3:11:01
  alleviate his symptoms since he was asleep.
• 3:11:04
  My mom urged me not to wake him as I helped her get my infant
• 3:11:08
  brother at the time out of the car and into our apartment.
• 3:11:13
  As we began to wind down for the evening, our phone began to
• 3:11:17
  ring, shattering the calm peace that was our lives.
• 3:11:23
  It was Keith's mom, Mary. She lived on the other side of
• 3:11:26
  the complex, which mostly housed old people and people with
• 3:11:31
  disabilities. She sounded panicked, screaming
• 3:11:35
  that something was happening in her apartment, that she needed
• 3:11:39
  help immediately. My mom rushed to go wake Keith
• 3:11:42
  up out in the parking lot, but upon running up to the car, he
• 3:11:47
  was nowhere to be found. She rushed back into our
• 3:11:50
  apartment saying that she couldn't find Keith when he
• 3:11:54
  suddenly appeared in the hallway and neither of us had seen him
• 3:11:58
  come into the apartment. He seemed completely out of it
• 3:12:03
  and was terrified, saying that something was taking him over
• 3:12:08
  and that he couldn't control himself.
• 3:12:11
  I saw his eyes, they were black. My mother didn't have time to
• 3:12:16
  deal with or process his antics and gathered us to walk to his
• 3:12:20
  mother's apartment. In the meantime, as we rushed
• 3:12:24
  over there as fast as we could, I remember getting a skin
• 3:12:27
  crawling feeling every time Keith looked at me, like it was
• 3:12:31
  something completely foreign to this world peering into my soul.
• 3:12:36
  We arrived and we're quickly let into Mary's apartment.
• 3:12:40
  Her lights were flickering and her pictures were swaying back
• 3:12:44
  and forth on the walls. A heavy presence could be felt
• 3:12:48
  by all of us. Mary was deeply religious and
• 3:12:52
  couldn't understand just what was taking place, but she
• 3:12:55
  believed it to be evil. Keith was now standing in the
• 3:12:59
  living room and began to sway back and forth as the activity
• 3:13:04
  seemed to intensify. As my mother approached him to
• 3:13:08
  ask what he was doing, he began to laugh.
• 3:13:12
  This was the deepest, most maniacal laugh I have ever heard
• 3:13:16
  and I still get chills thinking about it.
• 3:13:19
  This voice was not his own. My mother quickly backed up,
• 3:13:24
  unsure of what to do, and he then began to point at me saying
• 3:13:30
  I'm going to sacrifice that child tonight.
• 3:13:33
  His eyes were now blood red. Mary by this time had grabbed
• 3:13:38
  some of her belongings from her room and happened to have some
• 3:13:42
  blessed oil along with her Bible.
• 3:13:45
  She threw the oil on Keith's face and it began to boil.
• 3:13:49
  The sound of sizzling and screaming was horrific.
• 3:13:55
  My mother's love for Keith quickly overpowered her fear and
• 3:13:58
  she pulled him into the bathroom to examine his face.
• 3:14:02
  She was freaking out to say the least, partially because of how
• 3:14:06
  unbelievable the circumstances were and just how badly he was
• 3:14:11
  burnt on his face. His eyes at this point were
• 3:14:15
  rolled into the back of his head.
• 3:14:17
  Then suddenly, without warning, he rushed my mom and pinned her
• 3:14:23
  against the wall. His younger sister, Nikki and
• 3:14:27
  his mother quickly rushed in to help free her, with Mary dumping
• 3:14:31
  more oil on him each time. His skin literally sizzled where
• 3:14:36
  it landed. This fortunately worked.
• 3:14:40
  Keith now laid catatonic on the bathroom floor so all together
• 3:14:45
  as girls moved him into a nearby bedroom and restrained him to
• 3:14:49
  the bed using anything we could find for our own safety.
• 3:14:54
  Shortly after we did this, his mother called the nearby oratory
• 3:14:59
  and asked for a priest to assist us immediately.
• 3:15:03
  Nikki, who was a teenager at the time, was trying to comfort me,
• 3:15:07
  telling me that Keith was just really sick and not to be
• 3:15:11
  scared. She encouraged me to try and get
• 3:15:13
  some sleep and I of course couldn't and wouldn't.
• 3:15:18
  I didn't dare close my eyes for fear of that thing.
• 3:15:21
  Hurting my mom. And this room with Keith was a
• 3:15:26
  picture of Jesus kneeling on top of a mountain.
• 3:15:29
  I heard Keith laughing in that other worldly voice.
• 3:15:33
  He called out to me. He said, you know, little girl,
• 3:15:38
  I used to be an Angel with the most beautiful wings until that
• 3:15:42
  bastard was born. Then I was cast from atop that
• 3:15:47
  mountain and banished. I asked who are you?
• 3:15:52
  The devil? He perked up, looked me dead in
• 3:15:56
  my eyes and said I am Lucifer, the light bringer here in the
• 3:16:02
  flesh. I'm not only taking Keith with
• 3:16:05
  me, but all of you as well. Now untie me.
• 3:16:11
  I ran hysterically to my mother who was having a cigarette to
• 3:16:14
  calm her nerves. She ran into the room to comfort
• 3:16:17
  him when he said do you want to see proof?
• 3:16:21
  And against her will, my mother then extinguished the cigarette
• 3:16:25
  into his arm with Keith exclaiming it feels so good.
• 3:16:31
  You'll have to adjust to the searing flames, but in due time
• 3:16:35
  you too will call it home. She then rushed out of the room
• 3:16:40
  and closed the door. We waited with bated breath for
• 3:16:43
  the priest to arrive when shortly after 3:00 AM there was
• 3:16:47
  a knock on the door. Thank God it was him.
• 3:16:52
  For the next several hours they attempted to cast this thing out
• 3:16:55
  of Keith, probably for the best. They kept me in the living room
• 3:17:00
  away from the demonic terror that was inhabiting his body.
• 3:17:04
  But my God, the smells that wafted throughout the complex
• 3:17:09
  like putrid meat and sulfur. I soon also heard moaning and
• 3:17:15
  growling from dogs that didn't exist.
• 3:17:19
  There was a strange fog that had enveloped the apartment itself,
• 3:17:23
  and a strange flickering light that now emanated from the room
• 3:17:28
  or the exorcism was taking place.
• 3:17:32
  I began to close my eyes and pray to God harder than I'd ever
• 3:17:35
  prayed before, wanting and wishing for all of it to end,
• 3:17:41
  when suddenly it did. Keith had seemingly been freed
• 3:17:46
  of these spiritual shackles, and although I was terrified, I was
• 3:17:51
  more than wanting to finally get some sleep.
• 3:17:54
  So after the priest departed and all seemed fine, we slowly made
• 3:17:58
  our way back home through the damp misty morning that was now
• 3:18:03
  upon us. Upon arriving home and heading
• 3:18:07
  inside, we all began to make our way to our bedrooms to try and
• 3:18:11
  sleep. I found myself in my bed, comfy
• 3:18:16
  and finally about to rest when I felt my bed shake.
• 3:18:21
  I quickly opened my eyes to find my bed off the floor and my
• 3:18:26
  bedpost balls screwed off each one in the corner of each post
• 3:18:32
  floating there. I screamed harder than I've ever
• 3:18:35
  screamed before, alerting my mother who rushed to save me.
• 3:18:40
  Upon her running in, my bed suddenly slammed to the ground
• 3:18:45
  and my bedpost balls all fell to the floor.
• 3:18:49
  The events of that night and the following morning can never be
• 3:18:52
  forgotten by me and my family. For the next year and a half we
• 3:18:56
  dealt with similar smells wafting throughout our
• 3:18:59
  apartment, unseen snarls and growls, and a feeling of anxiety
• 3:19:05
  as if our every move was being watched.
• 3:19:09
  But thank God it all eventually faded.
• 3:19:12
  I had since asked Keith how he came to be in that state, but I
• 3:19:16
  could never really get a clear answer.
• 3:19:19
  He often drank moonshine and was in a bad state mentally and
• 3:19:23
  spiritually at the time. Perhaps this weakened him enough
• 3:19:27
  to let something in somehow. I've since moved on from that
• 3:19:31
  place, but heard something very interesting that I'd also like
• 3:19:35
  to share in regards to him. This was the apartment we lived
• 3:19:38
  in and a young boy mysteriously passed away within it not too
• 3:19:42
  long ago. The details of the case are hard
• 3:19:45
  to find, but I believe he was about as old as I was when
• 3:19:49
  everything had taken place to us.
• 3:19:52
  There has also been multiple shootings, stabbings, and
• 3:19:56
  murders that have taken place near and in the complex itself.
• 3:20:01
  It seems like whatever possessed Keith and stalked us maybe never
• 3:20:06
  truly left. I'm glad to share my story with
• 3:20:09
  all of you and I just want you to know that these things are
• 3:20:12
  very real. The paranormal is real and
• 3:20:17
  please do not meddle with it because you just don't know what
• 3:20:22
  you could be inviting in. This energy, this evil wanted my
• 3:20:27
  soul and it seems like it may have taken multiple lives and
• 3:20:32
  pursuit of whatever nefarious things it wanted.
• 3:20:38
  Leia. I would like to thank Leia for
• 3:20:42
  submitting this chilling story of an exorcism that took place
• 3:20:46
  to her stepfather when she was a child.
• 3:20:50
  The entire situation must have been terrifying to endure, to
• 3:20:53
  say the least, and I commend her for being willing to share this
• 3:20:57
  with us and warn others that these things are very real
• 3:21:02
  indeed. I also believe it's important to
• 3:21:04
  bring awareness to these kinds of topics.
• 3:21:07
  For a number of reasons. I am curious just how Keith
• 3:21:11
  became possessed, however, and if it was truly by Lucifer
• 3:21:15
  himself or something pretending to be him.
• 3:21:19
  All around a terrifying tale from Leia.
• 3:21:25
  Upon laying her head down to sleep, a young woman is
• 3:21:29
  seemingly transported to another time or place where she
• 3:21:34
  interacts with malevolent spirits.
• 3:21:37
  This one may just make you wonder if the very same has ever
• 3:21:41
  happened to you. One hot Saturday morning in
• 3:21:46
  2001, my ex-husband Dean and I went to the grocery store.
• 3:21:51
  By the time we returned home and put everything away, it was
• 3:21:55
  almost noon. I prepared some lunch for us and
• 3:21:59
  by two PMI announced that the heat had made me feel so very
• 3:22:03
  tired and that I would need to lie down.
• 3:22:06
  Dean would go on to watch TV with the volume on low and I
• 3:22:10
  closed the bedroom door. As soon as my head hit the
• 3:22:13
  pillow I went out like a light. Then in what seemed like only 5
• 3:22:18
  minutes later I was woken up by a lady speaking beside my bed.
• 3:22:24
  It was if she was addressing another person but yet in a
• 3:22:28
  crystal clear voice across the room she said something along
• 3:22:32
  the lines of don't disturb her, let her sleep.
• 3:22:37
  This startled me. I immediately sat up in my bed
• 3:22:41
  and I looked around but saw nothing.
• 3:22:44
  I knew I wasn't dreaming as the voice was real and yet spoke at
• 3:22:48
  an audible enough level even to wake me up.
• 3:22:52
  Regardless whether a dream or real, I was too exhausted and
• 3:22:57
  quickly fell asleep again. Now this is where things took a
• 3:23:00
  stranger turn. I felt my soul leave my body.
• 3:23:05
  It rose up to where the wall met the ceiling.
• 3:23:08
  I crossed through the wall and into another place.
• 3:23:11
  In time. I was no longer within my home
• 3:23:15
  but found myself in a scene from the 18th century.
• 3:23:20
  It was similar to watching a black and white film, but in
• 3:23:23
  varying Shades of Grey. I saw a few people who were
• 3:23:27
  extravagantly dressed and wore coiffed and powdered wigs,
• 3:23:31
  sitting on a plush Steven and some armchairs.
• 3:23:36
  They sat almost motionless by a small low lying table.
• 3:23:40
  Only the woman slowly looked about, but nobody seemed to
• 3:23:44
  notice me. I looked to my left and saw a
• 3:23:47
  couple standing still, arms held in an arch above in the air,
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  hands touching, poised, as if waiting for music to start for
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  their dance. I looked past them and saw a few
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  men, one at each small table, just sitting quietly and
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  motionless. Then I looked to my right, past
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  the few people I initially saw and looked in awe at the sight
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  before me. I realized I was in a vast hall
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  as far as the eye could see. I saw no other people, and the
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  next thing I knew I was back in my body, seemingly asleep yet
• 3:24:30
  aware of my surroundings. I was made aware of the large
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  crowd of people outside of my bedroom door.
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  The sound was similar to what you would hear in a crowded bar,
• 3:24:42
  many people talking amongst themselves.
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  However, there was one woman's voice that could be heard
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  slightly above the rest of the crowd.
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  I didn't pay it any special attention as I wasn't focusing
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  on anyone in particular, nor catch what she had said.
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  And what was only a moment later, that same voice was
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  louder and closer, this time just on the other side of my
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  bedroom door. Although I paid a little more
• 3:25:09
  attention now, what she said was still indiscernible, and the
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  voice was yet to be one that I recognized.
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  A voice belonging to a stranger. In what seemed just another
• 3:25:21
  moment again, she opened the door, stepped into my room, and
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  then shut the door behind her. I laid frozen in my bed, unable
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  to move, yet I felt real terror at this point, although I
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  couldn't move at all, my eyes were fixed at top of the wall.
• 3:25:39
  Somehow, with my mind's eye, I saw her.
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  It was my mother who had passed away 21 years earlier.
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  She wore a long white shroud, which I never got to see her in,
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  but I knew that she had been buried in one by now.
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  I was totally terrified. I wanted to scream out for help.
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  Better still to get out of there, but I wasn't able to move
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  a muscle. I watched my mother pace to and
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  fro past the foot of my bed in absolute rage.
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  She was so angry with me. She was literally spitting mad
• 3:26:17
  while she was scolding me. Never had I seen her this angry.
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  The one thing I did notice once my mother's spirit had entered
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  the room was that while my eyes were fixed near the ceiling, it
• 3:26:30
  was within my range of sight that I'd seen a soft white
• 3:26:34
  gashes ball of light appear to my right at the corner of the
• 3:26:38
  ceiling. It was about the size of a
• 3:26:40
  basketball, though not quite as spherical.
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  It was so very slow moving, like a swirl of white smoke within
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  itself. Somehow I felt like it was
• 3:26:50
  protecting me from this evil like a guardian Angel once my
• 3:26:55
  mother was done raging. At me.
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  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.
• 3:27:06
  She then shut the door behind her and left.
• 3:27:10
  As soon as she was out the door, the ball of light had dissipated
• 3:27:14
  too and I felt instant relief. I looked at the clock and it was
• 3:27:19
  now 3:00 PM. All of this strangeness took
• 3:27:23
  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
• 3:27:30
  something evil imitating. Her.
• 3:27:32
  All I know is that I jumped out of bed and rushed to the lounge
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  room, telling Dean what I had seen.
• 3:27:39
  Though I didn't mention my mother's parting words, Dean
• 3:27:43
  wasn't remotely interested. He only mumbled as I interrupted
• 3:27:47
  him watching his program. Well, that was the end of the
• 3:27:50
  nap I wasn't quite able to get. As evening approached, I
• 3:27:54
  constantly glanced at my watch. Although we retired for the day
• 3:27:58
  at about 10:00 PM that night, I was fearful yet resigned in my
• 3:28:03
  fate. I hadn't told the soul about my
• 3:28:05
  mother's message in case it tempted fate.
• 3:28:09
  On waking the next morning, I couldn't have felt more relieved
• 3:28:12
  and thrilled to still be alive now that it felt safe to do so.
• 3:28:17
  I told Dean and later my neighbor about it all.
• 3:28:20
  They showed me the goosebumps on their arms and expressed fear as
• 3:28:24
  I recounted my experience. This was 22 years ago and I
• 3:28:29
  still think of that day and the sheer terror that it brought me.
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  It's a day that I can never forget.
• 3:28:36
  Johanna. That story was chilling.
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  Johanna. I too am curious if it was some
• 3:28:42
  kind of spirit impersonating your mother or if it was somehow
• 3:28:46
  her. The detail of what she was
• 3:28:49
  wearing also happened to be what she was buried in.
• 3:28:52
  Literally gave me goosebumps. So thank you so much for sharing
• 3:28:56
  your story and continuing to bring awareness to these topics.
• 3:29:03
  A young man seemingly interacts with his grandmother who has
• 3:29:06
  long since passed away, but he isn't the only one that sees and
• 3:29:12
  feels her presence. This was in reference to
• 3:29:17
  watching one of my videos. Watching this video reminded me
• 3:29:21
  of something that's been going on in my house.
• 3:29:24
  My wife's grandmother died before we got together and her
• 3:29:28
  son was the last person in the hospital room with her when she
• 3:29:32
  passed. Now, my work schedule varies,
• 3:29:35
  but generally I'm up between 3:00 and 4:00 AM every day.
• 3:29:40
  Sometimes I feel a presence or I thought I saw what was a shadow
• 3:29:45
  and my peripheral vision. I finally told my wife about
• 3:29:50
  this a while back and she proceeded to tell me that her
• 3:29:53
  autistic son regularly speaks to his deceased grandmother.
• 3:29:58
  We've both spoken to him multiple times and apparently
• 3:30:02
  she visits him constantly. My wife admitted that she's seen
• 3:30:06
  her in our house a couple of times as well.
• 3:30:09
  I've offered to have the house cleansed, but my wife said no.
• 3:30:13
  Apparently his grandmother visits him all the time and
• 3:30:16
  watches over him and he's admitted that he still sees her.
• 3:30:21
  He's autistic, so he's very honest with everything.
• 3:30:26
  I'd like your guys's input about this.
• 3:30:28
  Thank you caveman. Well, caveman especially since
• 3:30:34
  he's autistic. That really does convince me of
• 3:30:37
  his sincerity and honesty. The young man clearly doesn't
• 3:30:40
  have a motivation to gain anything by saying this.
• 3:30:44
  And when you have felt this presence, is it as she was in
• 3:30:48
  life? Is it more of a benevolent
• 3:30:51
  energy or something else? It's also very interesting that
• 3:30:55
  your wife has seen her on multiple occasions as well.
• 3:30:59
  Perhaps she is watching over her grandson.
• 3:31:02
  Children often have an extra sense it seems like, to be able
• 3:31:06
  to interact with the spirit world.
• 3:31:08
  Reading your story reminded me of when my brother was younger
• 3:31:12
  and we had a very similar situation.
• 3:31:15
  My mom's father, Paul, had passed away in their family home
• 3:31:19
  in 2002 when my brother was just two years old.
• 3:31:24
  Prior to his. Passing Paul seemed to be
• 3:31:27
  motioning for things to go away, things that we couldn't see,
• 3:31:32
  perhaps trying to state that he wasn't ready to go yet.
• 3:31:36
  Several months after his passing, with my grandmother
• 3:31:39
  Agnes still inhabiting the very same house, my brother Kaden had
• 3:31:43
  started to interact with something that we couldn't see.
• 3:31:47
  He would often play around the living room, which was the same
• 3:31:50
  room my grandfather passed away in.
• 3:31:53
  One day when he was in a full conversation with this person,
• 3:31:57
  my mother asked him who he was talking to and he said Grandpa
• 3:32:02
  Paul. It took the very breath out of
• 3:32:05
  her lungs. These interactions were fairly
• 3:32:09
  frequent until he was about four or five years old, then they
• 3:32:13
  suddenly went away one day. It truly makes one beg the
• 3:32:17
  question, just how often do our loved ones truly watch over us?
• 3:32:22
  Thanks for sharing this one, Caveman.
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  Thank you all for watching. If you'd like to hear more
• 3:32:28
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• 3:32:37
  If you're new here, as I mentioned in the beginning of
• 3:32:41
  this video, I think it's very important to bring awareness to
• 3:32:44
  the paranormal question. It, in a sense, is the ultimate
• 3:32:48
  question in my opinion. What truly happens when we pass
• 3:32:51
  through the veil of this reality and into the afterlife?
• 3:32:56
  I appreciate all of you as always.
• 3:32:58
  I hope all of you are doing well mentally, physically, and
• 3:33:02
  spiritually. And I hope your year is heading
• 3:33:05
  in a vibrant and positive direction, and I wish you all
• 3:33:09
  nothing but the best. Until next time, this has been
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  Cody. Here at Mystery Archives.
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  Stay safe out there and take care.