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Ghost ATTACK caught on camera! The San Pedro Haunting - MrBallen · Crime and Horror

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Speaker 1: What's going on, guys? Mr. Ballin here. Earlier, I had
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Speaker 1: been saying you probably know me from TikTok, but the
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Speaker 1: reality is the majority of people that are watching this
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Speaker 1: video or who have watched my other videos are actually
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Speaker 1: just from YouTube, which is really cool to feel like
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Speaker 1: YouTube is promoting some of my videos. I think I'm
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Speaker 1: incredibly lucky to have that be happening. I'm incredibly lucky
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Speaker 1: to have this page growing as quickly as it is.
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Speaker 1: And I'm incredibly lucky to have you paying attention, even
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Speaker 1: if it's just for a few minutes. So thank you
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Speaker 1: for tuning in. A little bit about me. I am
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Speaker 1: a former Navy SEAL. I got medically retired at the
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Speaker 1: end of 2017. I initially started making content that was
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Speaker 1: pretty much exclusively about being a Navy SEAL and my experiences.
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Speaker 1: But then when I got on TikTok at the end
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Speaker 1: of 2019, early 2020, I kind of just completely pivoted
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Speaker 1: and started sharing stories that I was just fundamentally interested in.
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Speaker 1: scary stories, true crime, mysteries, that type of content purely
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Speaker 1: because I enjoy it. I was very fortunate that it
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Speaker 1: took off on TikTok and here I am on YouTube
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Speaker 1: kind of trying to do the same thing, sharing content about,
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Speaker 1: you know, darker but really interesting, compelling stories. And it's
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Speaker 1: just something I'm passionate about, and I'm really happy that
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Speaker 1: I'm starting to grow a platform that is based on that,
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Speaker 1: because I would love to do this indefinitely. So today,
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Speaker 1: I'm going to be covering a very famous haunting. But
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Speaker 1: before I get into any details about it, I want
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Speaker 1: to be up front with the people watching this video.
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Speaker 1: This video and my channel in general are not designed
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Speaker 1: to be an attempt at convincing people that the paranormal
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Speaker 1: is real or that ghosts are real. but rather I
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Speaker 1: want to cover stories that are just plain interesting. And
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Speaker 1: I like covering things that are of the darker variety,
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Speaker 1: true crime, certainly Unsolved Mysteries falls into that. Just, I
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Speaker 1: love that genre, the kind of dark, mysterious genre. And
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Speaker 1: so this story really interests me because there's lots of
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Speaker 1: photo evidence. There's multiple witnesses that kind of corroborate not
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Speaker 1: necessarily that ghosts are real, but rather that the events
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Speaker 1: that led to people speculating it was a haunting, there
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Speaker 1: are people that corroborate the details, meaning the story is cohesive,
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Speaker 1: that the actors in the story basically corroborate one another.
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Speaker 1: And so it leads us down a path to getting
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Speaker 1: to the end of the story and we're like, well,
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Speaker 1: what the hell happened? Because if it's not a haunting,
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Speaker 1: what was it? Because a bunch of things happened that
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Speaker 1: are pretty difficult to explain. So the too long didn't
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Speaker 1: read version of this story is you have a single
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Speaker 1: mom who moves into a home with her kids and
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Speaker 1: she starts hearing noises in the walls, in the attic.
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Speaker 1: She can't make sense of it. She has friends and,
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Speaker 1: you know, the babysitter that are at the house that
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Speaker 1: also hear it. Her ex-husband starts to experience it. You
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Speaker 1: have all these people experiencing these weird phenomena happening in
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Speaker 1: the house. And then, you know, through a weird series
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Speaker 1: of events that involves priests, landlords, and child protective services,
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Speaker 1: They have a paranormal investigator come over with camera equipment
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Speaker 1: and all that. They come in the house and they
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Speaker 1: end up documenting quite a bit of startling imagery and
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Speaker 1: footage that only lends credibility to the fact that this
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Speaker 1: actually might be a real haunting. So that's the story
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Speaker 1: in a nutshell. Let's dive in. In 1989, a 23-year-old
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Speaker 1: woman named Jackie Hernandez has just broken up with her husband, Al,
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Speaker 1: It was an amicable separation. They just weren't on good terms.
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Speaker 1: They decided it's time to get a divorce, but we
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Speaker 1: will happily co-parent our two kids together. So it's an
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Speaker 1: amicable breakup. Jackie moves into a small, modest home in
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Speaker 1: San Pedro, California with the kids. And she's working a ton.
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Speaker 1: She's a student at night. She's working multiple jobs. It's
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Speaker 1: a very hard, stressful time, but she's doing her best
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Speaker 1: to to support her family and kind of land on
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Speaker 1: her feet. So about a month after living in this house,
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Speaker 1: Jackie comes home from a long day at school and
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Speaker 1: work and she sits down, kids are asleep, and she
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Speaker 1: puts on the TV and she's just trying to decompress.
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Speaker 1: And as she's sitting there, she starts to hear what
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Speaker 1: sounds like little pebbles falling down inside of the walls.
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Speaker 1: So she mutes the TV and she's listening and it's
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Speaker 1: just periodically little pebbles are falling down the wall. She
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Speaker 1: goes up and she's listening with her ear against the
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Speaker 1: wall and she's thinking to herself, There's got to be,
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Speaker 1: you know, a mouse or some critter up in my attic, unfortunately,
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Speaker 1: that's kicking some pebbles into a gap in the wall.
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Speaker 1: And as she's listening, she thinks she hears what sounds
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Speaker 1: like footsteps in the attic. And so it startles her.
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Speaker 1: Now she's really paying close attention to the attic. She
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Speaker 1: doesn't hear it again. You know, this is the first
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Speaker 1: time she's heard anything like this. So she kind of
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Speaker 1: did the very human sort of rationalizing what she had
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Speaker 1: just heard and assumed she was just hearing things in
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Speaker 1: the attic. It's just some critter. I'll deal with it later.
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Speaker 1: So a couple of days later, Jackie has her friend
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Speaker 1: Susan over to just hang out with her at her house.
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Speaker 1: You know, the kids are asleep and they're relaxing, talking,
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Speaker 1: sitting on the couch. And as they're sitting there, they
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Speaker 1: hear a loud bang in the kitchen. It sounded like
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Speaker 1: something had fallen. And so, you know, at this point,
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Speaker 1: Jackie had mentioned to Susan this weird like, hey, I
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Speaker 1: think I got an animal up in the in the
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Speaker 1: in the attic because I heard some Rocks falling through
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Speaker 1: the walls. But the funny thing was, is I could
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Speaker 1: have sworn I heard footsteps up there, but you know,
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Speaker 1: probably just my mind playing tricks on me. So Susan
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Speaker 1: is keyed in that maybe there's a little bit of
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Speaker 1: weirdness happening in the house. So when they hear the
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Speaker 1: sound in the kitchen, it's like they both instantly go to, okay,
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Speaker 1: what's happening here? Is this more to do with the
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Speaker 1: footsteps in the attic or is there a rational explanation?
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Speaker 1: So they're on guard. They walk into the kitchen and
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Speaker 1: they find a picture that was hanging on the wall
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Speaker 1: that had fallen, which is, Honestly, that's not a cause
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Speaker 1: for a ghost is in the house. But it was
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Speaker 1: held up by a couple of nails. And the nails
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Speaker 1: were removed from the picture frame and were standing on
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Speaker 1: their head, point up, next to the picture. So imagine
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Speaker 1: if a picture falls. Are all the nails going to
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Speaker 1: come out and land perfectly on their head right next
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Speaker 1: to it? No, it's almost impossible. But sure enough, that happened.
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Speaker 1: So Susan and Jackie are staring at the picture. They're
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Speaker 1: staring at the nails and they have no idea what
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Speaker 1: to make of it. You know, Susan was a little
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Speaker 1: bit more eager to connect it to these footsteps in
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Speaker 1: the attic. But she also did not want to, you know,
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Speaker 1: frighten her friend because she knows she's living alone. And
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Speaker 1: so they kind of talked a little bit about it.
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Speaker 1: And maybe they both wanted to have that discussion about
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Speaker 1: how what's happening in the house. But they both kind
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Speaker 1: of decided without saying anything that we're going to kind
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Speaker 1: of avoid this topic. And so they put the picture away,
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Speaker 1: the nails away. Susan actually decides to just leave because
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Speaker 1: she's a little bit freaked out. And so she's gone.
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Speaker 1: The next night, Susan actually brings over a new babysitter.
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Speaker 1: It's this 16-year-old girl named Tina. And so I guess,
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Speaker 1: you know, Jackie wanted a little bit of time to
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Speaker 1: leave the house. She thought that she was kind of
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Speaker 1: losing her mind with all the stress of work and school.
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Speaker 1: And so Tina comes over. Jackie had not told Tina
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Speaker 1: anything about what was going on in the house. It
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Speaker 1: was just like, hey, take care of the kids. See
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Speaker 1: you in a little bit. She's sitting on the couch, Tina,
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Speaker 1: the babysitter. And she's just like, you know what? I'm
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Speaker 1: going to go just check on the kids. I got
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Speaker 1: a weird feeling to make sure they're okay in their bedrooms.
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Speaker 1: And as soon as she goes to push the door,
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Speaker 1: the door opens, which she remembers in an interview saying
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Speaker 1: it was strange that before I actually made contact with
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Speaker 1: the door, the door swung open. But, you know, I
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Speaker 1: didn't think anything of it. I walked in, you know,
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Speaker 1: the sun is just fine. So I walked back out
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Speaker 1: and I shut the door. But as soon as I
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Speaker 1: shut it, I turned around and it was starting to
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Speaker 1: open again. And she describes thinking that, oh, I guess,
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Speaker 1: you know, the house must be, you know, not level
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Speaker 1: or something. Jackie comes home and Tina tells her about
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Speaker 1: the door. And I think that Tina on some level
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Speaker 1: was hoping that Jackie being the adult would, you know,
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Speaker 1: hear what she was saying and have just a totally
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Speaker 1: rational explanation for what was going on. Like, oh, you know,
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Speaker 1: my door, the door always does that, you know, something
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Speaker 1: like that. But Tina was shocked when she told her
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Speaker 1: this and Jackie reacted visibly like she was concerned. And
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Speaker 1: Tina's like keying in on it. And she was like,
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Speaker 1: I mean, do you know why this could happen? Why
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Speaker 1: the door would be kind of opening on its own?
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Speaker 1: And Jackie just said, you know, honestly, there's been a
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Speaker 1: couple of weird things that have happened. And so they
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Speaker 1: talked about it a little bit, but ultimately, you know,
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Speaker 1: they both just decided, you know what? I think that
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Speaker 1: we're connecting things that don't need to be connected. It's
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Speaker 1: just a couple of strange occurrences. So Tina leaves. Jackie
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Speaker 1: goes to bed and they don't think about it. So
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Speaker 1: the next day, Jackie has Tina come back over because
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Speaker 1: she needs some more help with the kids. And so
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Speaker 1: as they're standing in the kitchen, Jackie's describing to Tina
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Speaker 1: what she needs to do that night, when to feed
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Speaker 1: the kids, what time to put them to bed. Tina
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Speaker 1: just kind of stops paying attention to Jackie and looks
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Speaker 1: up at the corner of the kitchen. And so in
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Speaker 1: the back corner of the kitchen, Tina's looking and she says,
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Speaker 1: did you put in a new light in the corner
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Speaker 1: of your kitchen? And Jackie looks too and she's like, Whoa,
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Speaker 1: what is that? And it looks like there's this like
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Speaker 1: light bulb, kind of a weird looking light bulb in
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Speaker 1: the corner of the kitchen on the ceiling, which there
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Speaker 1: wasn't a light bulb over there. And Jackie says as
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Speaker 1: much and they're looking at it and then it begins
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Speaker 1: to move not towards them. Just, it was like just
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Speaker 1: kind of moving around like a, like an orb of
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Speaker 1: light that was kind of moving around. And now had
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Speaker 1: Jackie and Tina relayed that particular experience to almost everybody
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Speaker 1: or virtually everyone would be like, yeah, okay. You saw
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Speaker 1: a floating light in your kitchen. Well, they took a
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Speaker 1: picture of it because it didn't go away. So they
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Speaker 1: went and got a camera and they took this picture.
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Speaker 1: And so you can see there's like this blob of light,
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Speaker 1: you know, that was in their kitchen. Between the pebbles
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Speaker 1: in the wall, the footsteps in the attic, the falling
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Speaker 1: picture with the nails standing on their head, with, you know,
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Speaker 1: Tina saying the door wouldn't shut and now this orb
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Speaker 1: of light. Now, Jackie has officially kind of gone from,
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Speaker 1: I'm going to play this rational and not worry about it,
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Speaker 1: to I have no idea what's wrong, and I can't
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Speaker 1: explain this. I can't tell people this without them thinking
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Speaker 1: I'm crazy, with the exception of Susan and Tina, because
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Speaker 1: her kids were too young to know what was going on.
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Speaker 1: There's no one that she felt comfortable sharing her anxieties
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Speaker 1: and fear about what was happening, because how do you,
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Speaker 1: a skeptical, rational person, go to, for example, the police
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Speaker 1: and say, hey, you know, there's nothing in my attic,
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Speaker 1: but I believe there's someone walking around my attic and
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Speaker 1: kicking pebbles into my walls and knocking pictures off the
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Speaker 1: wall and taking the nails out, standing them on the head.
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Speaker 1: You know, like they're going to say that, well, are
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Speaker 1: you doing this? Are your kids doing this? And so
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Speaker 1: the only person that Jackie finally felt comfortable telling was
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Speaker 1: her ex-husband because they were still amicable. She has Al
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Speaker 1: come over and she finally says to him, you know,
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Speaker 1: I have a lot of weird things happening. She showed
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Speaker 1: him the picture of the lights in the kitchen and
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Speaker 1: she describes everything that happened in the house. And Al
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Speaker 1: would say that in a way, he thought that this
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Speaker 1: was just kind of an act to maybe draw attention
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Speaker 1: to the fact that she was lonely and that she
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Speaker 1: missed him. He wasn't sure if that's what it was,
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Speaker 1: but he definitely was not ready to believe in anything
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Speaker 1: she was saying. He just kind of felt bad for
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Speaker 1: the position she was in. So he listens and he says, look,
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Speaker 1: kind of almost playing along with her. He's like, let's
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Speaker 1: just call it out. If there's something happening in your house,
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Speaker 1: we should call it out. And so he stands up
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Speaker 1: and she's saying, no, don't do that. Don't do that.
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Speaker 1: And he goes, whoever's here, show yourself. And they're looking around. Nothing.
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Speaker 1: And I think in a way, Jackie was disappointed that
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Speaker 1: there wasn't, you know, footsteps in the attic right then
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Speaker 1: and there, but there was nothing. And so Al kind
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Speaker 1: of does the, see, there's, there's nothing to worry about here.
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Speaker 1: You know, just stop worrying about it. And so he leaves. And,
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Speaker 1: you know, Jackie's disappointed, but not shocked. And she goes
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Speaker 1: to put something away in the closet. This is immediately
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Speaker 1: after he's left. And she opens this closet and inside
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Speaker 1: the closet on every wall, inside the closet on the
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Speaker 1: back of the door was written Al, A in red
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Speaker 1: and the L in blue, A-L, all over the wall.
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Speaker 1: And that had not been there before. And what she
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Speaker 1: believes was a response to the challenge by Al. So
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Speaker 1: at this point, If she had money, she said she
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Speaker 1: would have left. But she didn't. She didn't have the
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Speaker 1: resources to move. And so she's just kind of trapped.
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Speaker 1: And she's expressing her concerns and her anxiety to her
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Speaker 1: friend Susan. And the two of them are actually out
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Speaker 1: for a walk in their neighborhood. And she's telling Susan
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Speaker 1: how scared she is. And like, what do I even do?
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Speaker 1: And it just so happens that the landlord, her landlord,
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Speaker 1: Jackie's landlord, was walking down the street at the same time.
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Speaker 1: And they bump into each other. They have some pleasantries.
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Speaker 1: And Susan... just kind of without even asking Jackie's permission,
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Speaker 1: says to the landlord, hey, there's some weird stuff happening
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Speaker 1: in our house. She doesn't want to tell anyone because
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Speaker 1: she thinks people will think she's crazy. And so they
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Speaker 1: go into describing to the landlord all the strange happenings
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Speaker 1: in the house, the lights that they got a picture of,
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Speaker 1: the pebbles, the footsteps, all of it. And the landlord
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Speaker 1: is very religious and is very concerned and says, would
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Speaker 1: you allow me to have two priests come to your
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Speaker 1: house and check your house out? And Jackie is, she
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Speaker 1: is a religious person, but to be honest, was a
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Speaker 1: little skeptical of the idea of introducing religion to what
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Speaker 1: was going on. I think that for her, she just
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Speaker 1: wanted it to go away. But then again, she had
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Speaker 1: nowhere to turn. And so she was like, okay, yeah,
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Speaker 1: we'll have the priest come over and check it out.
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Speaker 1: So the next day, these two priests show up to
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Speaker 1: her house and Jackie's house was very much in disarray.
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Speaker 1: She had two young kids. She was working multiple jobs.
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Speaker 1: doing school late. And she had all this weirdness happening
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Speaker 1: in her house. And so when they showed up, her
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Speaker 1: house was a total mess. Her kids are crying. It's just,
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Speaker 1: it's a madhouse. And ultimately what happened from this visit
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Speaker 1: is the priest walked around, you know, offered to bless
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Speaker 1: her children. But really they didn't have any sort of
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Speaker 1: like conclusion. And then they leave. And Jackie was like, well,
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Speaker 1: you know, that didn't really do anything for me, but okay.
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Speaker 1: The next day, She gets a visit from Child Protective
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Speaker 1: Services because the priest had actually filed a complaint saying
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Speaker 1: that this was all a hallucination by an incompetent mother.
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Speaker 1: This notion that the house was haunted combined with when
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Speaker 1: they showed up, the house was a total mess. They
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Speaker 1: just said, I don't think the kids are safe. And
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Speaker 1: so Child Protective Services gets called, who basically threatened Jackie
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Speaker 1: to clean it up. literally clean up your house, but
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Speaker 1: like we're going to be checking in on you to
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Speaker 1: make sure you're a fit mother. And so this is
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Speaker 1: a huge blow because now Jackie is seeing what happens
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Speaker 1: when you bring up that your house is haunted, right?
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Speaker 1: That this is what can happen. And so now she
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Speaker 1: is not prepared to share this with anybody. So over
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Speaker 1: the next couple of weeks, Jackie brings her kids into
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Speaker 1: the living room and they all start sleeping in the
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Speaker 1: same room. She's increasingly paranoid. you know, she's overworked and
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Speaker 1: she's not sleeping enough and she's just kind of really spiraling. And,
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Speaker 1: you know, Susan, who's her friend, is really taking a notice,
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Speaker 1: is noticing this. And she also knows the sensitivity of
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Speaker 1: being able to really share this with, you know, authority
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Speaker 1: because she knows what the Child Protective Service is called
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Speaker 1: and she knows that Jackie is really afraid to share
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Speaker 1: the story with anyone. But she goes over and she
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Speaker 1: tells her, You have to call a paranormal investigator. It
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Speaker 1: is probably the only group of people that if you
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Speaker 1: reach out to them with a story, they're not going
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Speaker 1: to treat you like they're crazy. And if nothing else,
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Speaker 1: that is a reason to call them. Even if what
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Speaker 1: they provide is worthless to you, that it doesn't accomplish anything,
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Speaker 1: they're at least a group of people that are going
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Speaker 1: to take you seriously. And so finally, Jackie just says, okay,
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Speaker 1: let's do it. So a couple days go by, and
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Speaker 1: this team shows up at their house, this paranormal investigator team.
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Speaker 1: They have cameras and recorders. I mean, they are in
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Speaker 1: it to try to capture footage. And even though they
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Speaker 1: were ready to listen to Jackie and had obviously taken
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Speaker 1: her seriously enough that they had shown up at her house,
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Speaker 1: they were fairly skeptical. By their own admission afterwards, after
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Speaker 1: this whole case had happened, They had said that they
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Speaker 1: had covered over 3,000 cases prior to this and brought
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Speaker 1: their recording equipment and all that, had never once found
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Speaker 1: anything usable that would even hint at the existence of
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Speaker 1: ghosts or the paranormal. And so you could say that
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Speaker 1: they were sympathetic to people that had these experiences, but
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Speaker 1: usually either there was nothing going on or they found
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Speaker 1: a rational explanation for whatever incident. whatever the person was
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Speaker 1: claiming to happen. They didn't have any paranormal footage. So
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Speaker 1: they're interviewing Jackie on camera, the three investigators that are there.
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Speaker 1: They're kind of asking her some questions about what's going
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Speaker 1: on and filming it. And Jackie had actually invited her ex-husband, Al,
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Speaker 1: to be there with the kids. So he's in the
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Speaker 1: other room with the kids and they're interviewing her. And
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Speaker 1: then the power goes out, which it sounds pretty cliche.
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Speaker 1: And I get that. But the power goes off and
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Speaker 1: then the power comes back on. And it visibly shakes Jackie.
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Speaker 1: She had been living in this house with all these
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Speaker 1: weird occurrences, and it was like she had this feeling
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Speaker 1: that something bad was going to happen. And so she
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Speaker 1: starts acting really, really scared. And she says, you know,
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Speaker 1: I'm telling you there's something going on with the attic.
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Speaker 1: And so they kind of stop the interview, and they're like,
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Speaker 1: all right, let's just go have a look at the attic.
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Speaker 1: We'll go look. There won't be anything there. We'll come
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Speaker 1: back down, and we'll chat with her some more. And so...
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Speaker 1: one of the three investigators gets a ladder and crawls
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Speaker 1: through this little crawl space into the attic. And so
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Speaker 1: he goes up. And so while he's doing that, Al,
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Speaker 1: who's in the other room with the kids, he's wide awake,
18:21
Speaker 1: laying with his son. He's just like waiting. He's not
18:23
Speaker 1: really expecting anything to happen. And as he's laying there,
18:26
Speaker 1: he could have sworn he heard someone whisper in his ear,
18:30
Speaker 1: tell them to get the hell out of here. And
18:33
Speaker 1: he has an interview he does where he describes this moment.
18:36
Speaker 1: And you can tell that Al is as skeptical as
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Speaker 1: they come. And he's like, I just don't know how
18:42
Speaker 1: to explain it. I heard it clear as day. And
18:44
Speaker 1: right after I heard it, I heard a scream from
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Speaker 1: the attic. The guy, the photographer who had gone up
18:50
Speaker 1: into the attic, he was alone up there and he
18:52
Speaker 1: had brought his expensive camera and he comes running downstairs
18:56
Speaker 1: or jumps to the hold and practically falls out of
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Speaker 1: the attic. And he tells them something grabbed my camera.
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Speaker 1: There's no one up there, but something grabbed my camera.
19:06
Speaker 1: And his heart's racing, his face is pale, and the
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Speaker 1: other investigators, they're starting to feel like, what's going on?
19:10
Speaker 1: Al comes bursting out of the room, and he's like,
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Speaker 1: what's going on? And the photographer's like, my camera. And
19:17
Speaker 1: he goes from being scared of what happened to now
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Speaker 1: being like, that's my livelihood. I need to get that
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Speaker 1: camera back. So he goes back up into the attic
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Speaker 1: to retrieve his camera, and he finds the body of
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Speaker 1: the camera in a crate in one side of the attic.
19:32
Speaker 1: And then the lens of the camera had been removed
19:35
Speaker 1: and placed on the other side of the attic. He
19:37
Speaker 1: comes down with his camera and you can tell that
19:40
Speaker 1: what he's just discovered is really shaking him up. And
19:43
Speaker 1: the other investigators are also very shaken up. And whatever
19:47
Speaker 1: they planned to do that night, whether it was finishing
19:49
Speaker 1: the interview with Jackie or whatever, has now gone out
19:52
Speaker 1: the window. They're ready to leave. Jackie is pleading with
19:55
Speaker 1: them to stay. Al's freaked out. No one knows what's happening.
19:59
Speaker 1: And the investor's like, yep, yep, yep, we're good. We'll
20:01
Speaker 1: be back soon. We'll be back soon, I promise. But really,
20:03
Speaker 1: they're just like, let's get out of here. And they bolt.
20:07
Speaker 1: After they leave, Al sticks around for a little bit longer,
20:09
Speaker 1: but ultimately has to go back because he has to
20:11
Speaker 1: work early the next day. And so Jackie is left
20:13
Speaker 1: all alone with the kids. She is totally freaked out.
20:17
Speaker 1: She feels like the investigators had upset the entity in
20:20
Speaker 1: the house. And so she's pretty much on edge for
20:23
Speaker 1: something bad to happen. And sure enough, it does. So
20:26
Speaker 1: that night, Jackie is laying on the sofa. She's in
20:29
Speaker 1: full crisis mode. She has no idea what's going on
20:32
Speaker 1: in her house. watching the investigators who are supposed to
20:36
Speaker 1: be investigating this stuff be obviously spooked and leave really
20:40
Speaker 1: unsettled her. She felt like she didn't have any support
20:43
Speaker 1: from Al. She just felt like the whole situation had
20:45
Speaker 1: just completely fallen apart, and she's so scared for her kids,
20:49
Speaker 1: and she's laying on the sofa, and at some point
20:51
Speaker 1: she must have passed out. And then she wakes up suddenly,
20:56
Speaker 1: and she looks at the foot of her sofa, and
20:58
Speaker 1: she believes she sees what appears to be the figure
21:01
Speaker 1: of an old man standing there looking at her kids.
21:04
Speaker 1: She screams, it vanishes. She grabs her kids and she
21:07
Speaker 1: runs out of the house. The first people she calls
21:11
Speaker 1: is the investigators, because again, she's worried about telling the
21:14
Speaker 1: police in fear that they would think it was her
21:17
Speaker 1: being crazy and have her kids taken from her. So
21:19
Speaker 1: she calls the investigators and they don't pick up, but
21:22
Speaker 1: she leaves a voicemail and on the voicemail, she is in,
21:26
Speaker 1: she's completely desperate. She's like, please come back. I am,
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Speaker 1: I am out of the house. I can't go back in.
21:32
Speaker 1: I don't know what to do. Like, I can't go
21:33
Speaker 1: back in. Please help me. And one of the photographers
21:37
Speaker 1: who was there heard the voicemail and decides, you know what?
21:40
Speaker 1: We got to go back. It's super late at night.
21:42
Speaker 1: They find Jackie outside of her property in pajamas with
21:45
Speaker 1: her kids. She's totally freaked out. They bring her inside
21:49
Speaker 1: and the house is totally calm. There's no sign of
21:52
Speaker 1: anything going on. And so they're kind of walking around
21:55
Speaker 1: the house. No one goes in the attic, but they're
21:57
Speaker 1: just walking around and it's silent. It's calm, and after
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Speaker 1: a little bit of time, maybe because it was so
22:04
Speaker 1: calm in the house, they decide, you know what, just because,
22:07
Speaker 1: let's go back up into the attic, and just for sanity,
22:10
Speaker 1: let's just take some pictures and video and see what's
22:12
Speaker 1: up there. So two of the investigators go up into
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Speaker 1: the attic. One has a flashlight and a camera, and
22:18
Speaker 1: then the other just has his camera. And so they
22:22
Speaker 1: go up there, and Jackie and the third investigator are
22:26
Speaker 1: kind of anxiously standing at the foot of the attic
22:28
Speaker 1: looking up. And the guys who are up in the
22:32
Speaker 1: attic walking around, they're reporting down to them. You know,
22:34
Speaker 1: we don't see anything. We don't hear anything. It's quiet
22:37
Speaker 1: up here. But like the tension is building, right? And
22:41
Speaker 1: they stop at some point, the two in the attic,
22:44
Speaker 1: and it's just like silence. And all of them reported
22:48
Speaker 1: hearing a snap and then another snap and then a
22:52
Speaker 1: third snap and then silence. And Jackie begins having this
22:57
Speaker 1: overwhelming sense of dread. The guys in the attic are
23:00
Speaker 1: trying to stay calm. They're like kind of trying to talk. Oh,
23:02
Speaker 1: there could have been the roof. Oh, it could have
23:04
Speaker 1: been this. But the investigator who's down below with Jackie
23:08
Speaker 1: and Jackie herself, they start kind of panicking. They're like, hey,
23:11
Speaker 1: come on, come back down. Let's not risk it. Something's
23:12
Speaker 1: about to happen. Come back down. So as they're making
23:15
Speaker 1: their way back over to the exit of the attic,
23:18
Speaker 1: and it's totally pitch black up there, minus whatever light
23:21
Speaker 1: source they had, all of a sudden, one of the
23:23
Speaker 1: investigators just gets yanked backwards into the attic. And it
23:27
Speaker 1: was actually the guy holding the flashlight in. So they
23:30
Speaker 1: hear a tumbling of the flashlight, a tumbling of the camera,
23:33
Speaker 1: and silence from this other investigator. The other investigator who's
23:38
Speaker 1: up in the attic with him that was not yanked back,
23:41
Speaker 1: he turns around and the guy is gone. And that guy,
23:44
Speaker 1: who has not been yanked suddenly, all he has is
23:47
Speaker 1: this camera. The other guy had the flashlight. So he
23:50
Speaker 1: instinctively starts clicking pictures with his camera to use the flash.
23:54
Speaker 1: Jackie and the guy on the ground, they're screaming, what's
23:56
Speaker 1: going on? What's going on? And he's just clicking pictures,
23:59
Speaker 1: not looking in the viewfinder, just flashing. And he sees
24:02
Speaker 1: one of the, the investigator has been hoisted up into
24:05
Speaker 1: the rafters of the attic and he's been tied to
24:08
Speaker 1: a post and they have a picture of it. And
24:10
Speaker 1: so they run over the investigator who's up there with him.
24:14
Speaker 1: He runs over, he unties him, pulls him down. And
24:17
Speaker 1: that guy's, you know, totally freaked out. He doesn't know
24:20
Speaker 1: how he got up there. They collect their stuff and
24:22
Speaker 1: they practically fall out of the attic And it's just
24:25
Speaker 1: pure mayhem because the guy is, he's freaked out. He's
24:28
Speaker 1: ashen faced. He's got these marks on his neck, like
24:31
Speaker 1: something was holding onto his neck and they run out
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Speaker 1: of the house, never to go back in. Jackie says
24:37
Speaker 1: that she's not experienced anything paranormal since this instance and
24:41
Speaker 1: swears that this was not a hoax, that in fact,
24:44
Speaker 1: this is one of the lowest points of her life.
24:46
Speaker 1: And it made her look like an incompetent mother. And
24:49
Speaker 1: it makes her look crazy. And a lot of people
24:50
Speaker 1: still think she's crazy. And for her, this was just
24:53
Speaker 1: a traumatic experience that she has no explanation for. So
24:57
Speaker 1: I'd love to hear what you guys think. If there's
24:59
Speaker 1: a better explanation than ghosts, let me know in the comments.
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