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Terrifying Paranormal Stories 3 Hour Marathon · Mystery Archives Episodes

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  If the walls of certain homes could speak, some of the stories
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  they would tell would more than likely shock and amaze us, or
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  perhaps repulse and terrify us instead.
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  This is one such story that if a house could tell its own tale,
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  it would certainly be one we would never forget.
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  A family moves to the country in search of peace, but those
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  dreams are soon shattered by supernatural terror.
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  Something evil lurks within the woods outside of their home, and
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  this evil begins to stalk and wreak havoc upon everyone that
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  dwells within the home. Can they save themselves before
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  it's too late? This is the untold story of the
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  haunted Hinsdale House, also known as the Dandy House, and
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  the entities that infested it. Hinsdale, NY, A small town with
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  a rustic and rural charm, tucked deep into the countryside and
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  far away from the crime, concrete and smog of New York
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  City. Instead of gazing at
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  skyscrapers, they would rather gaze at the surrounding
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  mountains covered in dense foliage.
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  But these mountains and their surrounding woods harbor many
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  secrets and have many stories to tell.
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  This is just one of them. The year is 1970 and the Dandy
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  family is in pursuit of their American dream.
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  After years of vacationing to Hinsdale and the surrounding
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  areas to catch a break from their fast-paced life in
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  Buffalo, they finally reached a point where they can turn their
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  vacation into their daily life. Seeking their own rural
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  paradise, they come across a listing for a home that seems
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  idyllic for their family and its needs.
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  Clara Dandy, the mother of the family, believed that they all
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  got along so much better in the country, like it had some form
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  of redemption qualities about it that seemed to rejuvenate their
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  spirits and their relationships. As they wind their way through
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  the countryside, they lay eyes on the home for the first time.
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  They are not only taken aback by the beauty and the sheer size of
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  the house, but that it sat upon 8 acres of land surrounded by
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  dense and breathtaking woods. Clara would describe her
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  feelings about first seeing the house as being overcome with a
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  deep sense of peace. It was like I'd finally come
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  home after years of being elsewhere.
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  And the air, the air was like breathing champagne.
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  It was wonderful. The home is over 100 years old
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  and still had most of the original and ornate woodwork
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  intact. It just seemed to emanate charm
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  and elegance. As the children explored the
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  nearby woods, Mr. and Missus Dandy continued their tour, but
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  when they were being shown the storage space underneath the
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  stairs, the door was initially stuck, but after some elbow
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  grease from Mr. Dandy, they were finally able to get it open.
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  It revealed A dusty space of sorts with a fireplace, the one
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  that didn't seem to fit the feeling of the house at all.
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  Clara would describe her feelings towards the space like
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  this. I wasn't sure why, but I felt
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  very uneasy when we opened up the storage space.
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  I couldn't put my finger on it, but it was dark and desolate,
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  not at all like the rest of the house.
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  But she quickly would dismiss these feelings, attributing the
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  creepy factor to her city upbringing and the fact that
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  they didn't have storage rooms like that where she was from.
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  After closing the space and continuing to evaluate their
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  opportunity, the feelings of peace would return and the
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  dandies decide that they can't resist the charm of this rustic
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  100 year old home, so they decide to purchase it once
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  things are squared away. Several months later they move
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  in to start their new rural existence.
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  On move in day, Claire's brother decided to lend a helping hand
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  and had begun to move things in hours before the family was able
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  to arrive. When loading in a box of
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  belongings, as he opened the door he was greeted by a flurry
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  of insects. Both bees and flies pelted him
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  in his face, rushing past them and then unloading the box onto
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  the floor in the main room. He was startled to see hundreds
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  of dead bees scattered all over the floor, and even more
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  startled to see hundreds still alive encoding the windows.
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  It was still cold during this time of year and although he too
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  wasn't from the country, he found it rather odd that there
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  would be any kind of infestation at this time.
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  When his sister and her family finally arrive, he greets her
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  with the news and in order to continue with the move in, they
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  have to call an exterminator. Upon his arrival, he too
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  confirms the oddity of the situation.
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  He said that he had never seen so many bees and flies in one
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  spot in a home, and given this time of year, it was not normal
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  for them to swarm or infest anything during this time.
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  It takes some time, but after he finishes clearing them out, the
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  family is finally able to get moved in.
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  As time progresses, things seem to fit the dreams they had for
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  moving there in the 1st place. The family finally seems at
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  peace. They were getting along better
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  and enjoying each other's company, a far departure from
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  their city life in Buffalo. But as the old adage goes, if it
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  seems too good to be true, it is.
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  A few weeks into living in what they believed was going to be
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  their rural paradise, their son Mike has met and made friends
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  with a nearby neighbor. Together, they begin to explore
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  the woods surrounding the Dandy property.
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  As the two navigate the forest, they're startled when they hear
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  the crunching of leaves directly in front of them.
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  Stopping frozen in their tracks and fearing that it could be a
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  bear, they take refuge behind a large tree and sneak glimpses
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  from around its sides to figure out just what it could be.
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  To their shock, they spot a boy not much older than them
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  carrying a rifle and walking in the path ahead.
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  Yelling at the boy that this is private property and wanting to
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  know what he was doing there, they run towards him and try to
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  catch up to him. They again freeze in their
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  tracks when they notice that not only is the boy transparent the
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  closer they get, but half of his head is missing.
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  As the figure continues to walk and taking deep breaths, they
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  slowly continue to follow him. The three approach a small lake.
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  Within the blink of an eye, the boy vanishes.
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  Mike and his friend are at a loss for words and have no
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  explanation for what they saw. They quickly rush back to the
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  Dandy house as fast as they can to tell anyone who will listen
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  to them. They soon make contact with
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  Clara and explain to her what took place, but she's quick to
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  dismiss their experience as nothing more than overactive
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  imaginations. Another several weeks pass by
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  and Clara has all but forgotten about what her son had told her.
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  She's now walking the family dog, Madison, in the woods for
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  some fresh air and exercise. As they get deeper into the
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  forest, Clara starts to hear what can only be described as
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  chanting. As she stops to listen, it
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  sounds eerie and disembodied, as if the sound is all around her
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  but has no true origin. It's at this time that Madison
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  begins growling and barking. The longer she seems to focus on
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  the chanting, the louder it seems to become.
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  Madison by this point is losing her mind and breaks free from a
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  distracted Clara and bolts in the direction of their home.
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  Clara chases her down and she finally stops running when she
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  makes it to the front door of their estate.
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  After taking a moment to collect herself, Clara then calls her
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  husband, who, like she was to her son, was quick to dismiss
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  her feelings, thinking that she just had to adjust to rural life
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  and wasn't used to it being so different from their life in the
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  city. Frustrated and worried now about
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  what the chanting could have been, Clara talks with her son
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  about her experience while she prepares dinner for the family.
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  Mike thinks that it could have been some campers at a nearby
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  campground not too far from where their property line ends
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  that could have been the cause of the strange sounds.
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  To try and put his mother at ease, he and his friend Matt
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  once again take to the woods to explore this possibility.
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  As they venture further into the woods to a 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, but the two young men run as fast as
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  they can all the way back to the Dandy's home.
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  When they arrive, Mike is truly scared this time.
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  He has no way of explaining his mother's experience or any of
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  his own either. Upon relaying this information
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  to Clara, both of them are left beside themselves now with a
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  chill up both of their spines. But these weird events thus far
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  would only intensify as the sands of time continue to
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  trickle into the hourglass. It has now been months since the
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  initial experiences, and besides the oddities they were, the
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  family's life continues to be great.
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  This distance from the experiences only makes them ever
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  easier to dismiss in the minds of Clara and Mike.
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  One day, Phil or Mr. Dandy decides to take the children,
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  Mike and Tina, into Buffalo for the day to get some errands
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  done. Mostly being a homebody, Clara
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  decides to forgo the trip with her family and relax at home
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  reading her latest book instead. When her family departs, Clara
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  finds herself curled up on the couch and immersed in her latest
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  story as a warm breeze drifts through the open windows of the
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  house. As she reads page to page, she
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  is suddenly startled when the window closest to her slam 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, so opening his
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  eyes he glances up to see if perhaps it could have been
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  hanging too far off the edge, causing it to fall.
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  And to his shock, he begins to see several more boxes slowly
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  shifting towards the edge by themselves.
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  The lowest one then suddenly flies out from the rest and
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  smacks him in the chest. Terrified, he sits up, trying to
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  catch his breath. He has no way of explaining how
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  the lowest box could be pulled and thrown with such force
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  without bringing the rest of the boxes with it, as if someone or
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  something had grabbed and thrown it by a will of its own.
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  Calling out to his mom in the darkness, she soon arrives in
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  the doorway of his room. Being a very science and logic
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  minded person, Mike has no way to explain what has happened.
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  Examining the pile, Clara too is perplexed and becomes just as
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  scared when another box from a different pile flies across the
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  room, causing both of them to scream in terror and run out as
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  fast as possible. Trying to make sense of what was
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  taking place, Clara fears that whatever could be lurking in the
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  woods has been stalking her family and has slowly but
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  surely, like a malignant stain, invaded her home.
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  As her fears turned into a revelation, Claire decides to
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  reach out to a local priest for help, hoping her faith will help
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  her come up with some answers and better yet, some solutions.
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  She speaks with a priest named Father Alphonsus at the
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  University of Saint Bonaventure. He believes that the activity
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  could be a poltergeist, but given the intelligent nature of
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  how it seemed to be behaving, Clara has her doubts, but
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  nonetheless, once an expert's opinion and assistance.
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  So arrangements are made for the Father to come out and bless the
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  home, and after several days he arrives.
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  On April 13th, 1975, the cleansing begins.
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  As the family and the priest were all gathered together, and
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  as he began to speak, a series of horrible wailing and moaning
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  noises began to fill the home as if the house itself was crying.
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  The scent of burning matter also quickly enveloped the house.
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  The activity reached a fever pitch when the priest opened and
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  began to pray over the crawl space that was underneath the
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  stairs. But after this, a blissful
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  silence overtook them all. It was if whatever entities that
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  dwelled within the walls of the dandies home had finally been
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  evicted. Within time, the father gathered
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  his things, exchanged pleasantries and departed for
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  the evening. The family now believed that
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  their darkest days were behind them, and for all intents and
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  purposes, that seemed to be the case.
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  But as if to mock the Holy Trinity itself, three months
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  later to the day, all hell would break loose once again.
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  That night, while her husband is away on a business trip, Clara
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  finds herself woken up out of a dead sleep by a series of knocks
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  coming from inside the walls. The knocks themselves are soon
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  accompanied with whispers from someone that she can't see.
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  As she apprehensively makes her way from her room and slowly
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  down the stairs headed towards the main level, the apparition
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  of a young girl begins to walk by the stairs.
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  She slowly makes her way to the crawl space, opens the door and
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  closes it behind her. Clara's baffled at the sight.
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  After gathering up her courage she too makes her way fully down
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  the stairs into the crawl space and after a moment of bracing
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  herself she opens the door and went to be met with nothing.
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  Claire then makes her way to her daughter Tina's room to make
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  sure it somehow wasn't her and perhaps her nerves were just on
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  edge. But after opening her door, she
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  finds her fast asleep in her bed, with no signs that she had
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  been awake for some time. The following morning, while the
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  rest of her family is still asleep, Tina wakes up to begin
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  her day. As she feeds her pet bird in its
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  cage and begins to brush her hair in her Oval mirror, she
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  notices that her bird isn't doing its usual whistles.
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  As she glances over at them, she finds it staring into the corner
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  of the room. As Tina glances back up at the
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  mirror, she's met with the apparition of a young girl.
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  Her face is sunk in and her eyes were gone.
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  She screams in terror and just as quickly as it appeared, the
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  apparition disappears. The screams of her daughter
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  startles and quickly summons Clara to her daughter's room.
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  As she consoles Tina, she realizes that the priest's
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  blessings were ineffective. She quickly calls Father Al back
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  and explains what had taken place the previous night and
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  that morning, and although he is busy, he promises to come back
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  as soon as possible and this time to bring a paranormal
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  expert with him as well to help him determine the cause and
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  hopefully find a working solution.
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  He's able to come back the following week.
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  In the meantime, Clara's determined to keep her family
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  calm. If she can control her own
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  emotions, she knows that everything else will be OK.
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  As they wait for the priest to return, Claire tries her best to
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  keep her family calm and live some sort of a normal existence.
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  That weekend, her and Phil are watching a movie while Mike and
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  Tina are out with friends. As they enjoy their time
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  together, their happiness is quickly shattered by a huge
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  crashing noise coming from outside of their house.
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  Quickly grabbing a flashlight and running outside to
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  investigate together, they quietly stepped towards where
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  they believed the noise to be originating from.
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  And suddenly they hear it again. But this time, thankfully for
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  them, the origin is not paranormal.
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  This time, there's several raccoons who happened to be
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  forging through their metal trash cans for something to eat.
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  Relieved for that moment, they start to make their way back to
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  the house when they suddenly see the figure of a young girl in
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  their living room window, staring at them as they rush
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  inside. They run up into Tina's room,
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  where they find her incoherent and staring into her Oval
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  mirror. They try to get her attention,
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  but she's entirely unresponsive. Her pale blue eyes.
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  Or Black. Panicking, they shake her and
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  yell her name, not knowing what else to do when she eventually
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  comes back. In that moment, and later, Tina
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  will not recall how she got home or what exactly happened.
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  As the family tries to gather themselves from the shock of
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  what had just taken place, they hear movement coming from Mike's
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  room. Phil tells his family not to
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  leave Tina's room. As he rushes to investigate,
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  however, the home phone begins to ring.
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  It's Mike. He's asking if he can stay the
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  night at his friend Randy's house.
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  However, when told what was going on, he quickly tells her
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  that he's coming home to help in any way that he can.
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  Rushing to his car, Randy offers to come with him, to which Mike
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  agrees. Randy would later recount that
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  Mike's hands were sweating and he was shaking, gripping the
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  steering wheel. He was pale.
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  I asked him what was wrong, and he said that things were
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  happening at the house that he couldn't explain.
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  The boys quickly arrived to find the family in chaos.
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  Phil is prepared to do battle with whatever forces within the
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  house and the girls are staying close to one another, attempting
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  to comfort each other. As they try to determine a
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  course of action, all the lights in the house go out.
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  They then begin to hear banging and scratching coming from the
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  crawl space. Flashlights still in hand, fill
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  with the backup of his family, shines the light 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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  crawl space 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.
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  Alex and the Father pray that the trapped spirits within the
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  home find peace and be released so that they may go on to their
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  final destination. Upon the pair's departure, Clara
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  once again has renewed hope. The home, as it did the first
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  time around, seemed to be cleansed and to be more
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  peaceful. Meanwhile, Mike and his friend
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  Randy were skeptical of Alex's conclusions.
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  After he left, they used an old map of the area to trace where
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  he had said the old Stagecoach route was.
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  They did indeed find what they believed to be an old trail that
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  could have been used for such a thing, and the trail passed
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  right by the Dandy home. But during their search, as they
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  were following the trail out and headed back to the house, they
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  experienced strangeness of their own.
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  As they began to trace the trail, they began to see what
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  they described as orbs of light in the nearby trees, and these
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  orbs began to come at them. Randy, having never seen or
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  experienced anything supernatural before, began to
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  have a panic attack upon arriving at the house.
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  They were fortunately able to get him calmed down.
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  By this point it was late in the night and the entire family
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  needed to try and get some form of sleep in order to function
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  the following day. Randy ended up staying the night
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  since he had rode with Mike. Once everyone else was settled
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  down for the night and fast asleep, Clara sat by herself
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  weeping. She felt that her and her family
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  were helpless in the situation and that all efforts have been
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  exhausted and that they needed to move.
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  The only problem was that all their money, every last dime,
• 26:51
  had been sunk into the house, leaving them stranded.
• 26:55
  She would continue to contemplate the future and would
• 26:58
  cry herself to sleep that night. The following morning, as the
• 27:02
  family began to wake up and start to try and resume some
• 27:06
  form of normalcy, Mike went ahead and departed with Randy to
• 27:10
  take him home. Several hours would go by and
• 27:14
  Mike hadn't returned. Finally, there was a knock on
• 27:18
  the door. It was a police officer.
• 27:21
  He informed the family that there had been an accident, that
• 27:25
  they needed to head to the hospital as soon as possible.
• 27:28
  Rushing into the car into the hospital, the Dandy family
• 27:32
  wondered just what had happened. There had been no mention of
• 27:36
  Randy by the officer at the time.
• 27:39
  Upon arriving, they were briefed that Mike had lost control of
• 27:42
  his vehicle and crashed into a nearby ditch.
• 27:46
  He was now undergoing emergency surgery.
• 27:49
  He had extensive head injuries, A ruptured spleen that may have
• 27:54
  to be removed, and that he had lost a very significant amount
• 27:57
  of blood. As they waited for the outcome
• 28:00
  of their son's surgery, the Dandies were once again greeted
• 28:04
  by the officer who had knocked on their door.
• 28:07
  He explained to them that Randy had indeed been dropped off and
• 28:10
  that Mike had wrecked on his way back to the Dandy residence, but
• 28:15
  as he was being loaded into the ambulance, he kept saying that
• 28:18
  there was another person in the car with him.
• 28:21
  Although they believed him to be confused on account of his
• 28:24
  injuries. They went ahead and searched the
• 28:26
  area nonetheless, but another person was never found.
• 28:31
  After two weeks of being in a coma, Mike finally wakes up, but
• 28:36
  unfortunately has no recollection as to what exactly
• 28:40
  happened to him to cause the accident.
• 28:43
  Clara, however, believes that whatever presence that's been
• 28:47
  plugging their lives had to have been responsible for what
• 28:50
  happened to her son. After months of recovery for
• 28:54
  Mike and continued paranormal activity within the home, Father
• 28:59
  Alphonsus would return with Alex one last and final time at
• 29:04
  Claire's request to try and rid the home of the evil and
• 29:08
  persistent force that had drained the life out of all of
• 29:11
  them for years now. However, this time just the
• 29:16
  Father and Alex would perform the cleansing inside the home
• 29:20
  themselves. As they moved from room to room,
• 29:24
  Alex would once again experience multiple visions of the past.
• 29:29
  His visions would tell him that of the seven spirits who he
• 29:32
  believed to be within the house, 1 was that of a young man who
• 29:37
  had been in some kind of a war or battle near where the
• 29:40
  property sits now. Another was that of a young girl
• 29:44
  who had passed from some sort of very painful illness in what was
• 29:48
  now Tina's room. And there was another spirit
• 29:52
  that seemed to be keeping herself and others trapped
• 29:55
  within the house. It was the spirit of a woman who
• 29:59
  was incredibly angry and resentful.
• 30:02
  She continued to be possessive, depressive and just as angry and
• 30:07
  death as she was in life. Refusing to pass on believing
• 30:13
  what they had identified to be the source of the paranormal
• 30:16
  activity, Father Al decided to take a different approach to the
• 30:20
  cleansing itself. Although an exorcism cannot be
• 30:24
  performed on a place, but rather has to be performed on an
• 30:27
  individual, the rights themselves could in theory be
• 30:31
  performed or added to a series of prayers to try and use their
• 30:35
  strong cleansing powers to clear out a home such as this one.
• 30:40
  So that's exactly what the Father did.
• 30:43
  He began to perform the rites of exorcism within the house
• 30:47
  itself. As the prayers began to exit his
• 30:50
  lips, varying with intensity as the rights often do, the home
• 30:55
  began to literally shake and the horrific moaning and wailing
• 31:00
  that had made itself present in the very first cleansing seemed
• 31:04
  to return with a vengeance. Every horrible feeling, banging,
• 31:10
  knocking and scratching noise that the family had experienced
• 31:13
  thus far was present and seemed to be magnified.
• 31:18
  It takes hours, but eventually the rides are finished.
• 31:23
  As the dust settles, so to speak, the home seems peaceful
• 31:27
  and blissful, like it did when the family had first visited and
• 31:32
  decided to buy the home. And again, for three more
• 31:35
  months, the family lives in peace.
• 31:39
  But like the persistent force that has manifested itself to
• 31:42
  be, the haunting begins again. The Dandy family, despite their
• 31:48
  best efforts, simply cannot take it anymore, decide to cut their
• 31:52
  losses and move. Unable to find a buyer for their
• 31:57
  house, they eventually declare bankruptcy.
• 32:01
  Shortly after this, Phil and Clara would also divorce,
• 32:06
  bringing a sad and bitter end to what was supposed to be a rural
• 32:10
  redemption for the Dandy family. However, this wouldn't be the
• 32:15
  end of the story of the Hinsdale House.
• 32:20
  Eventually, the home would come into the possession of Daniel
• 32:23
  Klaus, who currently owns it. Daniel's a renowned paranormal
• 32:28
  investigator and has been involved with the likes of Nick
• 32:32
  Roth and has made appearances on tons of national TV programs
• 32:37
  centered around the paranormal over the years.
• 32:40
  Having been raised in a haunted house, this led to a lifelong
• 32:44
  fascination with the Paranormal Forum.
• 32:47
  After years of restoration, it is now available for both
• 32:50
  investigations and tours and is still considered a very active
• 32:56
  paranormal portal and is kept open as a paranormal research
• 33:00
  location. It's even staged in the 1970s
• 33:04
  period to maintain the integrity of when the hauntings were
• 33:08
  initially known to have began. But now that we know the back
• 33:12
  story of the 20th and into the 21st century of the Hensdale
• 33:16
  house, just who owned it, what happened to them and who owns it
• 33:20
  now, I would like to shift your attention to some of the
• 33:24
  plausible theories as to what could have caused the haunting.
• 33:28
  Many theories of what could have caused the haunting have been
• 33:31
  formed over the years by the many people who have researched
• 33:34
  and have been interested in the case.
• 33:37
  One theory is that the home was built on top of an Indian burial
• 33:41
  mound. This of course could have
• 33:43
  disturbed the spirits of the natives that rested within the
• 33:46
  land, and although tribes who used this method of burial were
• 33:50
  present in the area back in history, there's little to no
• 33:53
  evidence to support this claim. But perhaps any evidence by this
• 33:58
  point could have long since been lost to the sands of time or
• 34:02
  could have been removed when the home was initially built.
• 34:06
  Another theory is that the home was at one point used as a
• 34:09
  Stagecoach in and passer bys were murdered either near or
• 34:14
  within the home itself, leading to their spirits being trapped
• 34:18
  within the home or on its land. Although there is evidence that
• 34:22
  a Stagecoach route did run very close to the home, there isn't
• 34:26
  direct evidence that the house itself was used as an inn, but
• 34:30
  it is possible murders also did take place in or around the area
• 34:35
  in which the home is now located, which could lend
• 34:38
  credence to the theories of criminals robbing and murdering
• 34:42
  people along the Stagecoach route.
• 34:44
  An old family from the area that used to own the home with the
• 34:48
  last name of McMahon also lends credence to the home being used
• 34:52
  as an inn at some point. The now past grandfather of the
• 34:56
  family used to tell stories of a road that passed by the house
• 35:01
  where stagecoaches traveled. Another theory is that one or
• 35:06
  several of the spirits were trapped as a result of hangings
• 35:10
  that took place there. The now famous hanging tree that
• 35:14
  sits near the residence was indeed used for executions for a
• 35:18
  time. Most famously, it seems, was the
• 35:21
  execution of a woman named Elizabeth, and Elizabeth was
• 35:26
  pregnant. Could this perhaps be the spirit
• 35:29
  of the woman who was angry and refusing to leave?
• 35:33
  Other events, such as a homicide that took place in the year 2000
• 35:38
  near the house, as well as a buzz saw incident that led to a
• 35:42
  boy's death, have led many to believe that whatever haunts the
• 35:46
  area could indeed still be there and influencing our world.
• 35:52
  It's important in my opinion to try and get the story and the
• 35:56
  facts as straight as possible, not only for the current owners
• 35:59
  benefit, but for the dandies who have suffered greatly as a
• 36:03
  result of their story becoming public, especially towards the
• 36:07
  end of their time at the property.
• 36:09
  As word got out that something strange was taking place at the
• 36:12
  house, a local paper ended up reaching out to the dandies for
• 36:16
  a statement. Thinking that they were
• 36:18
  accepting an opportunity for additional outside help, they
• 36:22
  gave their story only to be met with ridicule from the paper,
• 36:26
  which in turn led to ridicule from the public and nearby
• 36:30
  residents. Which this combined with the
• 36:32
  paranormal torment they were experiencing along with then
• 36:36
  having to file bankruptcy and then later divorce.
• 36:40
  In my opinion, they suffered greatly and did not benefit from
• 36:44
  the story especially during that time.
• 36:48
  The only benefit I've seen could be from Clara Miller, formerly
• 36:52
  Clara Dandy, who would eventually write a book known as
• 36:56
  Echoes of a Haunting. But to be fair, if I experienced
• 37:00
  even a portion of what she did, I would eventually write a book
• 37:03
  to catalog what happened as well.
• 37:06
  Not only for some monetary benefit, of course, but for my
• 37:10
  own sanity really. So as I've began to mention and
• 37:14
  will continue to mention again in the future, if you ever
• 37:17
  encounter anyone mentioned in this video or any of my other
• 37:21
  videos, whether it be in person or online, please be respectful
• 37:26
  of them and their experiences and do not ever harass anyone.
• 37:31
  And if you find yourself seemingly handed an opportunity
• 37:35
  that seems too good to be true the answer to your prayers, it's
• 37:40
  more than likely not the case. It could be a nightmare waiting
• 37:44
  to happen. It could be a haunted home
• 37:47
  infested with entities sitting and waiting for the perfect
• 37:51
  victim. Don't let it be you.
• 37:56
  Could an item, if given enough energy, devotion and focus,
• 38:01
  begin to take on a life of its own?
• 38:03
  Could it begin to exhibit human like characteristics as if it
• 38:08
  has been imbued with or contains some kind of soul or entity
• 38:13
  inside of it? This act of magic has been
• 38:15
  practiced by multiple religions and cults throughout the ages.
• 38:20
  This is just one very strange example that it could indeed be
• 38:24
  possible. After a gracious gift was placed
• 38:28
  into the arms of a little girl, tragedy would strike and what
• 38:32
  follows would continue to haunt the family, the citizens of the
• 38:36
  village, and would soon cross far beyond the barriers of land
• 38:41
  and sea. This is the untold story of
• 38:44
  Akiku, the haunted Japanese doll and the bizarre paranormal force
• 38:51
  that possessed it. Japan is a very mystical and
• 39:02
  spiritual place, a place where the souls of the past seem to
• 39:07
  interact with the living. Such places where the spiritual
• 39:12
  energy seems to be most visible is throughout many of Japan's
• 39:16
  spiritual temples, home to many religions, the two main ones
• 39:21
  being Buddhism and Shintoism. Thousands of temples exist all
• 39:27
  over the country, but one in particular houses a spiritual
• 39:31
  artifact that has a tragic back story and an even more
• 39:35
  terrifying story that continues to be written to this day.
• 39:40
  Located in Hokkaido, Japan at the Menenji Buddhist Temple is a
• 39:45
  doll with a bizarre and tragic back story.
• 39:48
  Indeed. Although there are several
• 39:51
  origin stories of how the doll came to be and how the temple
• 39:55
  became its final living space, so to speak, all of them have
• 40:00
  most of the main details in common.
• 40:02
  Therefore, I'll be telling the most agreed upon origin story to
• 40:07
  try and be as true to the legend as I can.
• 40:10
  The years 1918 in Hokkaido, Japan.
• 40:14
  And a 17 year old boy by the name of Ikiki Suzuki is in
• 40:19
  search of a gift for his little sister's birthday.
• 40:23
  As he pursues the different vendors and small shops,
• 40:27
  something soon catches his attention and one of the store
• 40:31
  windows. He spots a small, childlike doll
• 40:35
  wearing a traditional Japanese kimono.
• 40:38
  Knowing that he had finally found something his sister will
• 40:41
  love, the Kiki quickly purchases the doll and makes his way back
• 40:46
  home through the countryside. As the family celebrates their
• 40:50
  little girl's birthday, Okiku is presented with the doll and
• 40:55
  almost immediately, as soon as her eyes meet hers, she falls in
• 41:00
  love with it. The two from this point, become
• 41:03
  inseparable. Wherever Okiku is, her doll is
• 41:07
  right by her side. She Combs her hair, bathes her,
• 41:12
  addresses her and treats her as if she was her little sister and
• 41:17
  to even share meals and sleep side by side.
• 41:21
  The joy that the doll brought Akiku must have filled Ekiki's
• 41:25
  heart with such happiness. But soon, that happiness would
• 41:29
  change to tragedy. One hot day, as the little girl
• 41:34
  played outside with her doll, she was bitten by a mosquito.
• 41:38
  This benign insect by it would soon manifest itself into a
• 41:42
  horrible case of malaria. Although the family did
• 41:46
  everything they could possibly do, Okiku would pass away scared
• 41:52
  and gasping for air as she clutched her special doll all
• 41:56
  the way until the moment she took her last breath devastated.
• 42:01
  The Suzuki's plan to have their little girl buried with the doll
• 42:04
  since she loved it so much, but unfortunately, due to either
• 42:09
  governmental or religious oversight at the time, this
• 42:12
  wasn't an option. Instead, after they had laid a
• 42:16
  Kiku to rest, the doll would be placed on a small family shrine
• 42:20
  located within the living quarters of their home as a
• 42:24
  tribute of sorts to their late daughter and their love for her.
• 42:28
  But shortly after the doll was placed on the shrine, very
• 42:32
  strange things began to happen. A Kiki, upon walking past the
• 42:36
  shrine one day, noticed that the dolls hair seemed significantly
• 42:40
  longer than what it had been when it was placed there.
• 42:44
  The hair which was originally shoulders length on the doll
• 42:47
  itself and black was now overgrown with differing shades
• 42:53
  of brown hair also coming through and splitting at the
• 42:56
  ends. Finding this bizarre to say the
• 42:59
  least, he brought the discovery to his parents attention and
• 43:03
  unsure of what else to do, they trimmed the dolls hair as the
• 43:08
  days came and when the family began to have distressing dreams
• 43:11
  at night of their departed Okiku.
• 43:14
  Sometimes she would be scared and alone in the darkness,
• 43:18
  calling out to them, only being recognized by her voice.
• 43:23
  Other times she would blame them for what happened to her.
• 43:27
  Each member of the family at differing times had these
• 43:30
  dreams, and they would soon lead all of them to believe that
• 43:34
  Akiku's soul wasn't peacefully resting.
• 43:37
  These disturbing dreams soon became all the stranger when the
• 43:41
  doll, which they began to refer to as a Kiku and their
• 43:45
  daughter's honor, would appear by their bedsides following
• 43:50
  these nightmares. One such incident involved the
• 43:54
  father of the family waking up in a cold sweat only to be met
• 43:58
  face to face with a blank and lifeless stare of the doll.
• 44:05
  Unsure of what was taking place, the Suzuki's turn to their
• 44:09
  faith. After contacting a local
• 44:12
  Buddhist priest and having a cleansing ritual be performed on
• 44:15
  their home and the doll, the activity seemed to grow and
• 44:20
  become stronger. Accompanying their ever frequent
• 44:23
  nightmares and random movements of the doll, the chilling events
• 44:28
  grew into full blown spiritual manifestations during their
• 44:32
  waking life. They soon began to hear banging
• 44:35
  noises all throughout the house and the whispers of a little
• 44:39
  girl. Strange disembodied voices
• 44:43
  varying from high pitched like those of a child to the low
• 44:47
  groans of something unexplainable began to be heard.
• 44:52
  Their lights began to flicker on and off, and the paranormal
• 44:56
  activity seemed to happen more frequently as the calendar
• 45:00
  ticked closer to the birth and death dates of Akiku.
• 45:06
  These strange and terrifying happenings would continue over
• 45:09
  the course of the next 20 years, with multiple religious, priests
• 45:14
  and shamans being contacted and all coming to the same
• 45:18
  conclusion that after the cleansings failed time and time
• 45:21
  again, that the restless spirit of Akiku now inhabited the doll
• 45:26
  she once loved so much. Finally needing a major change
• 45:32
  and unable to deal with the ever intensifying spiritual presence
• 45:36
  that seemed to haunt their home, the Suzuki's relocated to a
• 45:40
  different district. Believing the doll to be the
• 45:43
  source of their various ailments and emotional torture that they
• 45:47
  had endured over the last two decades, they had no desire to
• 45:51
  take it with them. The family had reached the
• 45:53
  conclusion that if their daughter's soul wasn't at peace,
• 45:57
  what could perhaps be helping to fuel Akiku's power or magic was
• 46:02
  the close proximity of her grave to their home where the doll
• 46:06
  resided. So in order to distance the doll
• 46:09
  from the grave, the family approached the Meninge Buddhist
• 46:12
  Temple in Hokkaido, and over the years the dolls reputation for
• 46:17
  being haunted had spread throughout the community and
• 46:21
  indeed the majority of the country.
• 46:23
  This was more than likely due to the various interactions between
• 46:27
  the spiritual community and the Suzuki family finding the doll
• 46:31
  to be mesmerizing and possibly a unique opportunity to commute
• 46:36
  and interact with the dead. If the stories were true, the
• 46:40
  leaders and priests of the Meninge Temple agreed to home
• 46:43
  Okiku permanently. As with many legends, we find
• 46:47
  lots of details to be exaggerated over time and
• 46:51
  perhaps some of the details to not be true at all.
• 46:55
  And this is what the priests were originally thinking, that
• 46:58
  perhaps due to grief, the family was dealing with other spiritual
• 47:02
  ailments perhaps unrelated to the doll, or causing the doll to
• 47:06
  be a vessel of sorts for restless spirits.
• 47:10
  However, as the years came and went, as Akiku now called the
• 47:14
  temple her home, they began to slowly but surely experience the
• 47:19
  same strangeness the Suzuki's had.
• 47:22
  For all of those years. Akiku's hair continued to grow
• 47:27
  and this baffled the priests. They would eventually have the
• 47:30
  hair trimmed and tested, and the hair was said to belong to a
• 47:35
  little girl. They found that the entity
• 47:38
  seemed to be appeased when her hair was trimmed and combed, and
• 47:42
  this led to less activity for a time, but the same activity.
• 47:47
  The knocking, banging, and disembodied voices would soon
• 47:52
  plague the temple as well. No, Kiku's power only seemed to
• 47:57
  grow. Any priest who seemed skeptical
• 48:00
  of the doll or attempted to cleanse it themselves soon had
• 48:04
  their dreams haunted as well, turning their sleep into
• 48:07
  restless fits. Their homes and rooms soon also
• 48:12
  began to manifest the very same activity that the temple was now
• 48:16
  exhibiting. With no remedy seeming to work,
• 48:20
  the leaders turned to appeasement instead, hoping that
• 48:23
  gestures of goodwill would keep the entity at Bay.
• 48:27
  As years turn to decades, and as we've come into the 21st
• 48:31
  century, the priests of multiple generations now have overseen
• 48:36
  and cared for the Dahl known as Akiku.
• 48:39
  And though some of the more violent activity has faded, the
• 48:43
  general consensus is that she is now just as powerful as she was,
• 48:47
  or is perhaps more powerful as she's continued to age.
• 48:52
  It seems like as the more her fame and notoriety grows, the
• 48:56
  more visitors she has, the stronger she becomes.
• 49:01
  She continues to invade the dreams of those who come to
• 49:03
  visit her, and her hair is growing faster and more afraid.
• 49:09
  She's said to drive tourists mad who doubt her, with many people
• 49:13
  even reporting that besides seeing her strange hair and
• 49:17
  feeling a malevolent presence when visiting her, they've also
• 49:21
  had her stalk and appear in their dreams.
• 49:25
  Some more disturbing and recent reports have even suggested that
• 49:28
  her mouth is slowly opening and that if you dare to appear
• 49:32
  inside of it, you may just catch a glimpse of baby like teeth
• 49:37
  sprouting from her porcelain gums.
• 49:40
  As if whoever or whatever she is is slowly turning to flesh and
• 49:46
  bone. The paranormal displays of her
• 49:49
  power continue to occur as well. Her permanent home, located
• 49:53
  within the menaging temple, is her own private shrine, where
• 49:57
  she sits in a small wooden box on display.
• 50:01
  It is here that she watches and waits for anyone and everyone
• 50:06
  who dares to play with fire and invoke the power of the entity
• 50:11
  known as Okiku. But what are your thoughts?
• 50:16
  Was a Kiku the girl trapped inside of the doll?
• 50:19
  In my opinion, although her spirit would be much older now,
• 50:23
  at the time of her death she was either close to or was three
• 50:27
  years old, and no person at that age is capable of true malice to
• 50:32
  the point to where she would become aware enough to begin to
• 50:35
  blame her parents and then torment them for decades to come
• 50:40
  as children. Our parents, or our family, or
• 50:43
  our entire world. So I find it incredibly
• 50:46
  difficult to think that these bizarre happenings were the
• 50:50
  result of her soul being restless and imbuing the doll.
• 50:54
  What I find more likely, and all the more interesting really, is
• 50:58
  the thought of invocation or the imbuing of the doll.
• 51:02
  Like a conduit or a vessel of sorts.
• 51:05
  Akiku the girl was, as they said, inseparable from the
• 51:09
  stall. She fed it, bathed it, took naps
• 51:13
  with it, and everything else a small child would do with that
• 51:17
  wonderful imagination that they have.
• 51:19
  But could all of this dedication and focus accompanied with the
• 51:23
  tragedy that took place allow for a portal to open for an
• 51:28
  entity, whether non human or a restless human spirit to inhabit
• 51:33
  the doll? And by non human I mean a demon.
• 51:37
  This would make sense to me. Something that enjoys and grows
• 51:41
  more powerful off of pain and misfortune or the emotional
• 51:45
  torment of others. As it causes the pain, it feeds
• 51:49
  off of it and grows ever stronger.
• 51:52
  This would not only explain the malevolent manifestations of
• 51:55
  whatever entity is present, but would also explain the still
• 51:59
  present force and the alleged ever growing power of it.
• 52:03
  And depending on the entity's strength, it could also explain
• 52:06
  why the cleansings thus far have failed.
• 52:10
  However, if you find yourself taking a trip to Japan anytime
• 52:14
  soon, or you happen to call Japan home if you find yourself
• 52:19
  in Hokkaido, you may want to steer clear of the Menajin
• 52:22
  Temple. Because if you don't, the entity
• 52:25
  that inhabits the doll known as a Kiku may just use you as its
• 52:30
  next feeding source, where it'll begin to plague your dreams,
• 52:35
  making you twist and turn, sweat and fear.
• 52:41
  As it grows ever stronger and attempts to cross from its world
• 52:46
  into ours, making our plane of existence its permanent
• 52:51
  residence. An unsuspecting family finds
• 52:55
  what they believe to be the perfect home.
• 52:58
  But underneath the facade of this charming farmhouse, there
• 53:02
  is a sinister force, dark as the abyss.
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  Lying underneath the heavy fog upon the land, there lies
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  generations of graves. These graves could hold the key
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  to solving their paranormal nightmare.
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  This is the untold story of the old Arnold Estate, also known as
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  The Conjuring House, and the demonic forces that dwell within
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  it. Harrisville, RI A small town
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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 we discover that this
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  little town has a dark history. Its story is filled with death,
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  from murders to drownings and much more.
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  With all these unfortunate happenings in mind and makes one
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  beg the question, could there be something evil that stalks this
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  place? Something that feeds upon
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  suffering and misery? Perhaps there is, and perhaps
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  that is what contributed to the creation of the following story.
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  It all starts in Central Falls, RI in 1970, where the Peron
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  family, which consisted of mother Carolyn, father Roger,
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  and their five daughters Andrea, Nancy, Christine, Cynthia and
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  April, we're all living a relatively normal life.
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  Among things like school, work and outdoor play.
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  Nothing seemed quite out of the ordinary, yet the children had
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  been gifted a puppy with an exceptionally unique personality
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  and out of the ether. A name came to mind when they
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  were naming her Bathsheba. A unique dog with a unique name.
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  She was fond of all the children, but especially Andrea,
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  Now 10 years old. She would often take Bathsheba
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  for walks around their suburban neighborhood.
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  However, on one of those walks, tragedy would strike and would
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  seemingly set in motion a snowball effect that would
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  follow the family for years to come.
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  While Andrea had the puppy out in the neighborhood, her sisters
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  had come up from playing outside and decided to make the walk a
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  group activity. All seemed fine until a car full
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  of teenagers drove by at an incredibly high rate of speed.
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  They seemed to be yelling something in unison and had
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  brightly colored tassels hanging out of their windows.
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  Bathsheba was an obedient dog, but the flailing and bright
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  colored streamers caught her attention and in an instant she
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  broke loose from Andrea and bolted towards the vehicle.
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  The shocked girls then watched the car miss her by mere inches
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  as she made her way safely across the road.
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  But being the good dog that she was, upon hearing Andrea call
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  out to her again, she began to run back to them and in the
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  blink of an eye, she was struck by another vehicle, an elderly
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  couple that never even saw her. Her leash had gotten caught
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  around one of the wheels of their car when they hit her and
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  she was suffering immensely. A nearby neighbor called the
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  police, and upon removing the children from the scene, they
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  were traumatized further as they heard the gunshot that ended the
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  poor animal's life. The entire family now held a
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  deep despair at the tragedy that had taken place.
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  She wasn't just a pet, she was a member of the family, and there
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  was now an unspoken pain that haunted them.
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  The family had planned a vacation months prior and hoped
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  that a break from their normal routine would help everyone.
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  So they went and soon some of their sadness turned to joy as
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  the family experienced hotel, swimming pools, ice cream and
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  shopping. But this joy would too be short
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  lived. The family also had four cats
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  and upon returning to their home with this new found sense of
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  well-being, they would endure even more trauma.
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  They would discover that almost all of their cats had been
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  viciously killed by neighborhood kids while they were gone.
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  Several had every bone in their bodies broken with a baseball
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  bat. Upon this horrific discovery,
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  their father, Roger, rushed inside the house to call the
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  police, only to find their home absolutely ransacked as well.
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  Furniture was upside down, mirrors and windows broken, all
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  of their provisions left to spoil from their tipped over
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  fridge, and their carpet was doused in motor oil.
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  It would later be discovered that two of their cats were
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  killed by the group of the kids. One would never be seen again
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  and the other had been seriously beaten but would survive.
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  Although the neighborhood was known for angsty teenagers and
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  roughhousing kids, the family wondered how could these kids
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  conduct such evil? Did the devil's foot soldiers
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  know no bounds? A police report was filed and it
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  was shortly uncovered that the demon seed who had LED these
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  awful actions was their 12 year old neighbor.
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  The young man was seemingly a born criminal.
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  Upon being confronted, the boy's mother covered for her son, and
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  despite their best efforts, due to lack of evidence, nothing
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  much would come of the report with the police, but Andrea
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  would have her revenge. She had yet to come to terms
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  with her precious Bathsheba's death, and now this, the rage
• 59:38
  inside of her built. After some thorough planning,
• 59:43
  she attacked the boy who was responsible, beating him
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  ferociously, breaking his nose, blackening his eyes until she
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  was pried off by a nearby neighbor and told to go home.
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  All this wouldn't bring her animals back, but it felt
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  justified to the young girl, given what the boy had done.
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  But these antics of sadness, hostility, and rage would soon
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  manifest into something much darker.
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  Ever since their home was ransacked, Carolyn had wanted to
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  move, but knowing they weren't in a financial state to do so.
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  They had little to no choice other than to stay, so she kept
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  an ever watchful eye on her children, letting them out of
• 1:00:31
  the house rarely and mostly under her supervision.
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  Given the prior events, she wanted them raised by wild
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  nature, not wild beasts. Shortly after this time, Rodger
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  had prepared to depart for a business trip which was to last
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  several days. Even amidst the turmoil of the
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  current events, he still had to provide for his large family.
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  And while his family was just waking up that morning, as he
• 1:00:59
  and his wife Carolyn enjoyed their morning cup of coffee,
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  they were suddenly startled by the sound of a large explosion
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  in their front yard, like someone had fired a cannon
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  towards their house. Alarmed, they raced outside to
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  discover what had happened. Shortly after purchasing their
• 1:01:20
  humble home, Carolyn had built a rock garden of sorts at the
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  entrance of their driveway. Her friends often teased her
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  that it's centerpiece resembled a tombstone without the
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  inscription of the dearly departed.
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  Well to the family shock, their neighbor from across the street
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  had started his truck that morning and had suffered a major
• 1:01:44
  heart attack and had died at the wheel, his foot pressing down on
• 1:01:49
  the gas causing the truck to barrel directly at the parents
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  home to smash right into that large rock.
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  It was almost like something was following them, like a living
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  breathing Organism feeding upon it.
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  After this horrible event people began to refer to the rock
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  garden as the graveyard. Missus Curtis, the wife of the
• 1:02:15
  neighbor who had passed away, upon being greeted and offered
• 1:02:19
  condolences by the family, actually blamed them for what
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  had happened, declaring that Carolyn never liked them anyway
• 1:02:28
  and was a witch. That was enough for her.
• 1:02:32
  Again, she begged Roger to move, but they were seemingly stuck
• 1:02:37
  given the awful circumstances. The man still had to work, so he
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  departed for his business trip. While her husband was gone, it
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  was up to Carolyn to take care of their five children.
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  This meant taking them to and from school, as well as music
• 1:02:55
  lessons and much more. While attending her daughter
• 1:02:59
  Andrea's music lessons, she had forgotten to bring a book to
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  help her pass the time, so Carolyn went and purchased a
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  paper as a substitute. Before too long she found
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  herself daydreaming and looking through the various ads and real
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  estate available, wanting and wishing that she could change
• 1:03:18
  their current predicament when strangely enough, the universe
• 1:03:23
  seemed to glance back at her. Hidden among many other homes
• 1:03:27
  was a nine bedroom farmhouse with a barn, lots of land and
• 1:03:32
  seclusion. It's beautiful design and
• 1:03:36
  elegance soon had Carolyn imagining her children playing
• 1:03:40
  and being raised in nature as she wanted, and she could allow
• 1:03:44
  them to do so without the fear of other children attempting to
• 1:03:47
  harm them. She almost immediately became
• 1:03:50
  obsessed with the idea of purchasing the house and
• 1:03:54
  although the family really couldn't afford it at the time
• 1:03:57
  without seeking Roger's permission, she made a call and
• 1:04:02
  went to look at the old Arnold estate the following day.
• 1:04:06
  The owner was a very nice old lady, and although she didn't
• 1:04:09
  have much, Carolyn asked how much she would have to put down
• 1:04:13
  to hold the home so she could purchase it once her husband had
• 1:04:17
  returned. An agreement of $500 as a good
• 1:04:21
  faith payment was made, and shortly after Roger arrived back
• 1:04:25
  home several days later, he was sideswiped by his wife's
• 1:04:30
  decision, although his anger would soon turn to
• 1:04:34
  understanding. After all, a happy wife makes
• 1:04:38
  for a happy life, as most would say.
• 1:04:41
  Even though he didn't know exactly how they would make it
• 1:04:44
  work, he decided to placate his wife and allow them to purchase
• 1:04:48
  the home. It took some time, but before
• 1:04:52
  too long they found themselves packing and coming into
• 1:04:56
  possession of the keys to their future.
• 1:04:59
  Although they couldn't foresee just how dark of the future it
• 1:05:02
  was to be the parent family, having seemingly found the home
• 1:05:10
  of their dreams located on a large swath of land outside of
• 1:05:14
  the town of Harrisville, RI, what would become known as the
• 1:05:19
  Old Arnold Estate almost seemed to perfect like an answer to
• 1:05:24
  their desperate prayers. It's a large farmhouse which has
• 1:05:29
  9 bedrooms, a barn, and plenty of land which they can envision
• 1:05:34
  their children playing on and having a wonderful time.
• 1:05:38
  Although it's winter, they go ahead and begin to move into
• 1:05:42
  their new house. There's a massive snowstorm
• 1:05:46
  taking place while they're moving in, but this doesn't
• 1:05:49
  deter the large family from getting settled in to what they
• 1:05:52
  believe is going to be a charming, nice and new home for
• 1:05:57
  all of them. Given everything they've been
• 1:06:00
  through, I would have hoped for the same.
• 1:06:03
  And for the first three months, things are charming, nice and
• 1:06:07
  normal. Their rustic farmhouse has its
• 1:06:10
  challenges with it being fairly old, such as being very cold
• 1:06:15
  that winter, but it's nothing they can't deal with, or so they
• 1:06:20
  think. All around, the feeling is a
• 1:06:23
  happy one for the family. But this happy mood would soon
• 1:06:28
  change. Upon meeting their nearest
• 1:06:31
  neighbors, they seemed rather strange.
• 1:06:35
  They offered one piece of advice to Roger and Carolyn.
• 1:06:39
  For the love of your family, keep the lights on at night.
• 1:06:43
  Originally written off by the couple, these words would seem
• 1:06:47
  to be rather fitting foreshadowing for the events to
• 1:06:50
  come. When the frozen land of the farm
• 1:06:53
  began to thaw, it seemed like something thawed along with it
• 1:06:57
  and began to plague them once again.
• 1:07:01
  One night when the daughters, Nancy and Andrea were asleep in
• 1:07:05
  their shared room, they're suddenly woken up by the sound
• 1:07:09
  of their door slamming open and closed, open and closed.
• 1:07:15
  Petrified by the noise of the door smacking the wall and it
• 1:07:19
  also being their only way out of the room, they ran towards the
• 1:07:23
  door to try and escape when suddenly it stopped moving and
• 1:07:28
  just stayed open, still creaking from being moved.
• 1:07:35
  Catching their breath and trying to come to terms with what had
• 1:07:38
  just happened, Thinking by this point maybe one of their other
• 1:07:42
  sisters was trying to play a prank on them, the 2 girls
• 1:07:45
  looked down the hall and eventually made their way to
• 1:07:48
  their other sisters rooms where they found them asleep.
• 1:07:54
  Needless to say they wouldn't sleep for the rest of the night.
• 1:07:58
  They would bring this to the attention of their parents the
• 1:08:00
  following morning, but were quickly dismissed, as is often
• 1:08:05
  the case, and told that they had overactive imaginations.
• 1:08:10
  From here, things started small but became very noticeable as
• 1:08:15
  they mushroomed into much bigger experiences.
• 1:08:19
  At first, whatever spirits they believed could be in the house
• 1:08:23
  seemed benevolent, almost good-natured, with some of the
• 1:08:27
  younger siblings later stating that they would even be tucked
• 1:08:30
  into bed by the spirit of a woman on occasion, but that was
• 1:08:34
  all too short lived. Items soon began to go missing.
• 1:08:39
  Car keys weren't where they had been hung daily.
• 1:08:42
  Items such as mugs, toys, and utensils were soon disappearing
• 1:08:48
  as well. Carolyn would hear the scraping
• 1:08:51
  of a broom upon the floor or the knocking of a kettle in the
• 1:08:54
  kitchen when no one else was home but her.
• 1:08:58
  With this, upon cleaning the floors, she would also find
• 1:09:03
  piles of dirt that would appear out of nowhere, making her feel
• 1:09:07
  as if she was going crazy. But these small happenings too
• 1:09:12
  would soon become larger. The children would often play a
• 1:09:16
  game called Hide and Clap, a version of hide and go Seek.
• 1:09:20
  This time, Andrea was the seeker and her sisters went off hiding
• 1:09:25
  throughout the estate. Cindy made her way into the
• 1:09:28
  woodshed, found a small box just big enough for her to get
• 1:09:32
  inside. Being determined to win, she
• 1:09:35
  climbed into the box and slid the small lid over the top,
• 1:09:39
  figuring this would be an excellent hiding place indeed.
• 1:09:43
  And after several minutes, she realized that no one was coming
• 1:09:47
  for her and went to remove the lid.
• 1:09:50
  Except it wouldn't budget. Panicking and utter darkness,
• 1:09:55
  she used all means necessary to try and remove the lid and free
• 1:10:00
  herself. After screaming and worrying
• 1:10:03
  that she'd suffocate inside this box, she was thankfully found by
• 1:10:08
  Andrea, who slid the lid off no problem, revealed her horribly
• 1:10:13
  distressed younger sister inside.
• 1:10:16
  It's important to note that this was a sliding cover.
• 1:10:20
  There was no locking mechanism. Along with this terrifying
• 1:10:24
  event, the children's rooms were often rearranged daily.
• 1:10:29
  They would leave their things one way in the morning and
• 1:10:32
  return to things either completely a mess, as if a small
• 1:10:35
  cyclone had hit their rooms, or all items would be smashed
• 1:10:39
  underneath their beds. And this happened to all of the
• 1:10:43
  girls at one point or another. These small whispers, bangings
• 1:10:49
  and movements did indeed become larger.
• 1:10:53
  Andrea, being the oldest, would often be woken up by her younger
• 1:10:57
  siblings and would hold them as they sobbed their eyes out,
• 1:11:02
  terrified to return to their rooms.
• 1:11:05
  Cindy, in particular, began to hear a sinister voice call out
• 1:11:09
  to her almost every night. The voice would tell her that
• 1:11:13
  there were seven dead soldiers in the walls and would repeat it
• 1:11:17
  over and over and over again. The children, now terrified,
• 1:11:25
  begged their parents to believe them, and although they too were
• 1:11:29
  beginning to experience things on their own, they didn't want
• 1:11:32
  to frighten the children, so they did what could be done to
• 1:11:36
  placate them. But soon the entire family began
• 1:11:40
  to hear the wails of something inhuman calling out for its
• 1:11:45
  mother. This disturbing trend with no
• 1:11:48
  origin was followed by even more disturbing happenings.
• 1:11:53
  The beds of the girls would lift up and shake by an unseen force,
• 1:11:58
  almost always around 5:15 AM, as if something was trying to send
• 1:12:04
  some kind of a message, although it was never clear just what
• 1:12:08
  that message was supposed to be. During the day, the apparitions
• 1:12:13
  of spirits began to manifest and stock the halls of the old
• 1:12:17
  Arnold estate. These were soon coupled by the
• 1:12:21
  horrible stench of rotting flesh wafting throughout the house.
• 1:12:27
  Soon the girls weren't the only ones whose doors were slamming
• 1:12:31
  open and closed and whose beds were lifting up on their own.
• 1:12:36
  Soon it was affecting their parents as well.
• 1:12:39
  One night, Carolyn woke up suddenly to the figure of an old
• 1:12:43
  woman over the foot of her bed. Her hair was like a sack of
• 1:12:47
  cobwebs with little tendrils hanging off.
• 1:12:51
  The woman's head was also bent and hanging off to the side of
• 1:12:55
  her neck as if it was horribly broken and mangled, her gnarled
• 1:13:00
  mouth screaming at her with an echoing voice.
• 1:13:05
  Get out, She shouted over and over again until she suddenly
• 1:13:11
  was no longer there. The parent family continued to
• 1:13:15
  endure a living nightmare as the traumatic paranormal activity
• 1:13:19
  persisted and continue to scale in intensity.
• 1:13:27
  How does one fight an enemy he can't see?
• 1:13:30
  Something he can't touch or feel, attack or defend against?
• 1:13:37
  This question and more must have ran through the heads of Rodger
• 1:13:40
  and Carolyn as they not only feared for themselves, but
• 1:13:44
  especially their children. Now as their offspring's natural
• 1:13:48
  protectors. How anxiety inducing must it
• 1:13:52
  have been to know that they were powerless to stop what was
• 1:13:56
  terrorizing all of them each and every night.
• 1:14:01
  In an effort to try and understand what was happening to
• 1:14:03
  them, Carolyn began to research the history of their house and
• 1:14:08
  was shocked by what she found. Over 8 generations of the Arnold
• 1:14:13
  family had lived and died within the home, some by horrible
• 1:14:19
  means, according to the Black Book of Burlville, the town's
• 1:14:24
  former public records book. These included two suicides by
• 1:14:28
  hanging, one within the family barn, one by poison, the assault
• 1:14:35
  and murder of a young girl named Prudence Arnold by a farm hint,
• 1:14:40
  2 drownings in the nearby Creek, and four men who froze to death.
• 1:14:45
  Among some of the notable deaths, one death that caught
• 1:14:50
  her eye in particular was that of a woman named Bathsheba
• 1:14:54
  Sherman. Her name was spelled exactly
• 1:14:58
  like their dog that they had previously owned, and her story
• 1:15:02
  was as interesting as it was disturbing.
• 1:15:06
  Born Bathsheba there in 1812, she married fellow Rhode
• 1:15:11
  Islander Judson Sherman and Thompson, CT on March 10th,
• 1:15:17
  1844. According to available
• 1:15:20
  information from that time, the two had a son named Herbert, and
• 1:15:25
  for all intents and purposes, things seemed normal.
• 1:15:29
  But that couldn't be further from the truth.
• 1:15:32
  After losing three children before the age of 7, Bathsheba
• 1:15:36
  began to care for her neighbor's children, perhaps to fill the
• 1:15:40
  void that such sorrow could create.
• 1:15:43
  And it's here where things take a strange turn.
• 1:15:47
  While caring for the infant of a nearby family, the infant
• 1:15:51
  suddenly passed away within Bathsheba's care.
• 1:15:55
  An investigation ensued and it was found that the child had a
• 1:15:59
  puncture wound in its skull, as if someone had taken a large
• 1:16:03
  sewing needle and sent it through the child's head.
• 1:16:08
  Rumors of devil worship and witchcraft soon became rife,
• 1:16:14
  with many believing she had indeed sacrificed her children
• 1:16:17
  to Satan, robbing them of their young lives.
• 1:16:21
  Although Bathsheba was never punished for the child's death
• 1:16:25
  since there was never a trial, that didn't stop her behavior
• 1:16:29
  from becoming increasingly bizarre.
• 1:16:32
  She became incredibly reclusive, strange and dark.
• 1:16:39
  Rumors say that she supposedly attempted to murder other
• 1:16:42
  children while confessing her love for Satan before she then
• 1:16:47
  climbed atop the highest tree on the estate, cursing everyone
• 1:16:52
  before hanging herself. And although that would make for
• 1:16:56
  a much more fascinating story, it doesn't seem to be true.
• 1:17:00
  The rumors may indeed have been spread and their evidence of
• 1:17:04
  multiple child deaths including the infant via needle like
• 1:17:08
  object, but her tombstone reads her death date as May 25th, 1885
• 1:17:16
  S Odds are that she passed away as an old woman, but perhaps
• 1:17:20
  given the circumstances she became more bitter with age.
• 1:17:25
  Another strange detail that was uncovered was one of the hanging
• 1:17:29
  deaths that took place within the barn on the estate.
• 1:17:33
  It was that of Catherine Arnold. She had, seemingly out of the
• 1:17:37
  blue one day, made her way from the house to the barn, gathered
• 1:17:43
  a rope, and hung herself from the rafters.
• 1:17:47
  She was frozen solid when she was later discovered.
• 1:17:52
  It seemed like whatever paranormal force that stalked
• 1:17:55
  the land tormented the matriarchs of the families that
• 1:17:59
  lived there and fed upon death itself.
• 1:18:04
  These supernatural occurrences that now plagued the Perron
• 1:18:07
  family were a daily occurrence. They soon also began to
• 1:18:12
  physically touch the family as well.
• 1:18:16
  Poking soon turned to pushing, a hand on the shoulder soon turned
• 1:18:20
  to slapping, scratching, and more.
• 1:18:25
  One day when Carolyn was reading a book in the living room, she
• 1:18:29
  felt a piercing pain in her calf.
• 1:18:33
  Upon further examination, she saw what appeared to be a
• 1:18:36
  puncture wound, like that of a needle, with a small dribble of
• 1:18:40
  blood now coming out of her leg. These attacks didn't stop here.
• 1:18:48
  Carolyn soon believed that it was Bathsheba who was causing
• 1:18:51
  the majority of her problems. The spirit seemed to hide her
• 1:18:55
  things daily, making her feel as if she was going insane while
• 1:19:00
  simultaneously lusting after her husband.
• 1:19:04
  In later interviews, Roger would state that he never felt
• 1:19:08
  threatened by her spirit and that he only ever saw her
• 1:19:11
  sweeter side, such as comforting touches and the feeling of an
• 1:19:16
  embrace. To the contrary, his poor wife
• 1:19:20
  experienced much, much worse. Andrea Peron, also in later
• 1:19:26
  interviews, said that the whole family believed it was the
• 1:19:29
  spirit of Bathsheba who was mostly tormenting Carolyn, as if
• 1:19:34
  she saw herself as the matriarch or the mistress of the house,
• 1:19:39
  and that Carolyn was some kind of competition, an obstacle
• 1:19:43
  between her and Roger's affection.
• 1:19:47
  On the verge of losing her mind and being tortured daily, the
• 1:19:51
  family was barely holding things together, most of all Carolyn.
• 1:19:58
  She had vented to a friend of hers named Barbara about what
• 1:20:01
  she had been going through, and strangely enough, this friend
• 1:20:05
  just so happened to attend a lecture that was being given by
• 1:20:09
  renowned paranormal scholars and demonologists Ed and Lorraine
• 1:20:14
  Warren. It was Barbara that actually
• 1:20:17
  told the Warrens about the parents and their struggles.
• 1:20:22
  Intrigued, they were put into mutual contact with one another
• 1:20:26
  and before too long, the Warrens arrived at the front door of the
• 1:20:31
  old Arnold estate. Upon stepping into the home for
• 1:20:35
  the first time, Lorraine Warren noticed a heavy and malevolent
• 1:20:40
  presence. Upon further convening over the
• 1:20:43
  course of several weeks, the couple told the family that they
• 1:20:47
  indeed were being haunted by the spirit of Bathsheba and that she
• 1:20:52
  had made a pact with Satan himself after sacrificing one of
• 1:20:57
  her children to him. She then hung herself on the
• 1:21:00
  property in order to haunt it forever.
• 1:21:04
  This is why the family was often seeing the mangled necked
• 1:21:07
  apparition of the woman with wispy hair.
• 1:21:11
  This was apparently her. Over the course of several
• 1:21:15
  months, the Warrens would visit the old Arnold estate in order
• 1:21:19
  to try and assist the family with riding themselves of the
• 1:21:22
  spirits, but it was all to no avail.
• 1:21:26
  All of these events seem to culminate with a seance. 1
• 1:21:29
  stormy night. The Perrons, Roger and Carolyn,
• 1:21:34
  along with the Warrens were joined by a priest and a fellow
• 1:21:38
  medium to conduct a seance to try and establish further
• 1:21:42
  contact with the entities within the home to understand just why
• 1:21:47
  they were plugging the family. The girls were confined to their
• 1:21:51
  rooms upstairs and were not allowed to partake in the
• 1:21:54
  ritual. The ritual was conducted in the
• 1:21:57
  basement, one of the alleged sources of the dark energy
• 1:22:02
  according to Lorraine Warren. And in the middle of this
• 1:22:05
  ritual, Carolyn seemingly became possessed as she exhibited
• 1:22:11
  violent behavior. She was restrained to a chair in
• 1:22:14
  order to prevent her from hurting herself and others.
• 1:22:18
  The entity that now inhabited her body claimed to be that of
• 1:22:22
  Bathsheba, and before everyone's eyes that was present, Carolyn
• 1:22:27
  began to not only speak a language that was
• 1:22:30
  unrecognizable, but in a voice that wasn't her own.
• 1:22:35
  She then began to levitate in the chair and flew across the
• 1:22:39
  room. Although they were forbid to
• 1:22:42
  witness the event, as curious children often do, Andrea, along
• 1:22:48
  with her sister Cindy, snuck open the basement door and
• 1:22:51
  watched the events unfold for themselves.
• 1:22:55
  Their testimonies are also where some of these details are
• 1:22:58
  sourced from. Carolyn was now mangled and
• 1:23:03
  distorted, her body twisted in an unnatural position.
• 1:23:09
  After several hours of attempting to cast the spirit
• 1:23:11
  out, she finally went limp and laid catatonic on the floor.
• 1:23:18
  After his wife had seemingly been freed, Roger called the
• 1:23:22
  entire thing off. He was not only concerned for
• 1:23:25
  his wife's well-being, but his children's as well.
• 1:23:30
  And although the Warrens were trying to help, things just
• 1:23:33
  seemed to get so much worse when they were there.
• 1:23:37
  So disregarding their advice, he threw them out and forbid them
• 1:23:41
  and their associates from ever investigating the hauntings at
• 1:23:45
  the old Arnold estate ever again.
• 1:23:49
  Later in life, a 77 year old Roger would recall she was
• 1:23:54
  possessed. Her entire body was distorted
• 1:23:58
  and it lasted several hours until they de demonized her.
• 1:24:03
  Then I threw them out. I couldn't take it anymore.
• 1:24:08
  The family's torment would continue with varying intensity
• 1:24:12
  until 1980, when they were finally able to sell the old
• 1:24:16
  Arnold Estate and move to Georgia and a bid to rebuild
• 1:24:20
  their lives. Finally, they were free of the
• 1:24:23
  horrible events that have plagued them for nearly a
• 1:24:26
  decade. But all those happenings, all
• 1:24:30
  those traumatic moments would never be forgotten by any of
• 1:24:34
  them. They all realized that they were
• 1:24:37
  truly lucky to have escaped with their lives as well as their
• 1:24:41
  sanity. Going back and not only reading
• 1:24:45
  various interviews, Andrea Peron's books, and watching
• 1:24:49
  interviews with the family, they not only seemed genuine, but
• 1:24:53
  really had nothing to gain by claiming to have experienced
• 1:24:56
  these things. It truly seemed like they had
• 1:24:58
  suffered. I mean, they threw out the
• 1:25:00
  Warrens, which is interesting in and of itself, but if I saw my
• 1:25:05
  wife twisted and exhibiting demonic behavior, I probably
• 1:25:09
  would be pretty freaked out as well.
• 1:25:12
  The story of the haunting of the old Arnold estate and the Peron
• 1:25:15
  family was used as the basis for The Conjuring movie, in which
• 1:25:20
  they were also used as consultants for accuracy's sake.
• 1:25:24
  And the film does of course take liberties as most Hollywood
• 1:25:28
  films do, but it's a good one for sure.
• 1:25:32
  But having watched this video, you're now probably aware of
• 1:25:35
  what really happened. Since the selling of the home,
• 1:25:39
  reviews have been mixed by other residents, with one lady
• 1:25:42
  claiming that the home wasn't haunted at all and even
• 1:25:45
  condemning and suing The Conjuring film makers for
• 1:25:49
  causing her distress through trespassers, and others stating
• 1:25:53
  that the home is still, very, well, haunted indeed.
• 1:25:56
  More current owners, who we'll call Corey and Jennifer,
• 1:26:01
  welcomed the spirits and the history of the home when they
• 1:26:03
  moved in, claiming to have only slept in the smaller wing of the
• 1:26:08
  estate for the first four months that they lived there.
• 1:26:11
  They didn't want to overstep their boundaries with whatever
• 1:26:14
  was haunting the property. When they finally opened up the
• 1:26:17
  door to the wing of the larger part of the house the very same
• 1:26:21
  night, they both claimed to be woken up by a shadowy figure.
• 1:26:26
  Their couple would say that it was pitch black in color and
• 1:26:29
  peeking at them from behind the door frame.
• 1:26:33
  Although most people would be terrified at the prospect of
• 1:26:35
  dealing with a shadow figure of any sort, the couple understood
• 1:26:39
  that they were guests in this home even though they had
• 1:26:42
  purchased it. And we're just excited to have
• 1:26:45
  experienced anything. But they also admit that
• 1:26:49
  although they do continue to experience strange things from
• 1:26:52
  time to time, it's nothing like what the Perrons say they
• 1:26:55
  experienced. Nothing quite as malevolent or
• 1:26:59
  evil by any means. Despite criticism and support,
• 1:27:05
  the Prones to this day remain adamant that their story is
• 1:27:08
  true, with Andrea saying in an interview with USA TODAY.
• 1:27:13
  Both my mother and I would soon swallow our tongue and tell a
• 1:27:17
  lie. People are free to believe
• 1:27:19
  whatever they want, but we know what we've experienced prior to
• 1:27:24
  her death. When asked about the events of
• 1:27:27
  The Haunting Lorraine, Warren claimed that she still felt
• 1:27:30
  traumatized all these years later about what had taken place
• 1:27:34
  that stormy night during the seance at the old Arnold Estate,
• 1:27:38
  Saying that the things that happened there were so
• 1:27:41
  incredibly frightening and it still affects me to talk about
• 1:27:44
  it to this day. She, of course, was reunited
• 1:27:48
  with Ed on April 18th of 2019. God rest her soul these days.
• 1:27:55
  People who have visited the house, such as various
• 1:27:58
  paranormal groups, researchers, and fans of The Conjuring
• 1:28:02
  universe, have described feeling multiple things for stepping in
• 1:28:06
  the home, some claiming to see shadow figures, others a feeling
• 1:28:11
  of a heavy presence to the points where it makes them
• 1:28:14
  nauseous. Regardless, there certainly does
• 1:28:18
  seem to be something there all around.
• 1:28:22
  I think the haunting, given all the research I've done is more
• 1:28:25
  than likely legitimate. There's too many sources backing
• 1:28:29
  up what took place. Not to mention the family didn't
• 1:28:32
  gain anything from experiencing what they did, and surviving
• 1:28:36
  members still claim it's all true to this day.
• 1:28:40
  If you'd like to learn more, I'm listing the sources I used for
• 1:28:43
  research in the description below, as well as various links
• 1:28:47
  to Andrea Peron's books which tell the full story of her and
• 1:28:52
  her family. I, of course, am not affiliated
• 1:28:55
  with her or anyone else involved in any way, I just find them to
• 1:28:59
  be an interesting and very useful resource.
• 1:29:03
  So if you find yourself in hard times and are presented with
• 1:29:06
  what seems like a gift from the universe, just know that if it's
• 1:29:11
  too good to be true, it probably is.
• 1:29:15
  And the dream home that you can't wait to live in could be
• 1:29:18
  infested with generations of death and despair demons which
• 1:29:24
  could still be lurking and stalking the property.
• 1:29:29
  So my advice? If it sounds too good to be
• 1:29:32
  true, it is. And please research a home's
• 1:29:37
  history before you buy it, or you may be stuck with a decade
• 1:29:41
  of paranormal torment. Or worse, you may become its
• 1:29:46
  newest permanent resident. Can death unleash something into
• 1:29:54
  this world that isn't supposed to be here?
• 1:29:58
  Could it act like a portal, allowing something sinister and
• 1:30:01
  dark to creep in just before it closes?
• 1:30:05
  Especially if the person passing is harboring dark and abhorrent
• 1:30:10
  secrets? When a young man begins to
• 1:30:13
  exhibit strange and demonic behavior and the very laws of
• 1:30:18
  nature seem to bend to his will, can a reverend work to save his
• 1:30:23
  very soul? Documented by multiple law
• 1:30:26
  enforcement professionals as unexplained to this day, this is
• 1:30:30
  certainly not a story you will want to miss.
• 1:30:33
  This is the untold story of Don Decker, also known as the Rain
• 1:30:39
  Man of Pennsylvania. The date is February 24th, 1983
• 1:30:49
  and on this cold, misty day, a family is mourning the loss of
• 1:30:54
  their loved 1A man by the name of James Keshaw.
• 1:31:01
  After battling alcoholism for many years, the bottle finally
• 1:31:05
  took its toll and caused cirrhosis of the liver which
• 1:31:10
  became fatal. Among the pews of friends and
• 1:31:14
  family paying their respects sits a young man, the grandson
• 1:31:19
  of James, 21 year old Don Decker.
• 1:31:23
  Donna Be granted furlough from his four to 12 month jail
• 1:31:26
  sentence for receiving stolen property in order to attend the
• 1:31:31
  funeral. But as he sat facing the body of
• 1:31:34
  his grandfather, as others paid their last respects and gave
• 1:31:39
  glowing speeches about the man, Don clenched his fists.
• 1:31:45
  Only he harbored a dark secret that no one else knew, and this
• 1:31:50
  secret is perhaps what contributed to his troubled
• 1:31:54
  adolescence. When it was his turn to walk up
• 1:31:57
  and say goodbye to James. As he stood over his body, the
• 1:32:02
  face of evil looked back at him with eyes closed for the first
• 1:32:07
  time. Don would later say it felt like
• 1:32:11
  good triumphing over evil that day, and I truly felt like
• 1:32:15
  everything was going to get better, like it was a turning
• 1:32:19
  point in my life. The secret that he had been
• 1:32:23
  holding on to for so long was that James, his very own
• 1:32:28
  grandfather, had abused him from the time he was seven years old
• 1:32:33
  until he was a teenager and no one else knew.
• 1:32:37
  All the years of pain and fear were caused by that man.
• 1:32:42
  The very same that now laid in the coffin.
• 1:32:45
  The very same that Dawn was now having to hear others praise and
• 1:32:50
  who he was publicly obligated to mourn at the conclusion of the
• 1:32:55
  funeral when James casket was laid into its final resting
• 1:32:59
  place. He couldn't stand the way his
• 1:33:01
  parents had glorified the man's memory, but given the
• 1:33:05
  circumstances he was in furloughed from jail and with
• 1:33:09
  emotions raw amongst everybody, he decided it would be for the
• 1:33:13
  best to go and stay the night with some family friends instead
• 1:33:18
  before he was set to return to finish out his sentence.
• 1:33:22
  Bob and Jeannie Kiefer were long time friends of the family and
• 1:33:26
  were quite fond of Dawn, so they were more than happy to have him
• 1:33:30
  join them for the night. As the night progressed, the
• 1:33:34
  three of them were enjoying each other's company, but it seemed
• 1:33:38
  like all the feelings that have been stirred up from the
• 1:33:41
  memories of his grandfather's abuse at the funeral were coming
• 1:33:45
  back to haunt dawn. He fell on edge and uneasy when
• 1:33:50
  suddenly the air around him vibrated with a bone deep chill.
• 1:33:56
  Almost simultaneously after this occurred, water began to drip
• 1:34:00
  from the ceiling and down the living room walls.
• 1:34:04
  Don then fell into an eerie trance like state, staring at
• 1:34:09
  nothing and yet everything at the same time.
• 1:34:13
  The Kiefer's were perplexed at what was happening and tried
• 1:34:16
  examining all reasonable possibilities.
• 1:34:20
  Thinking they had a leak, they contacted their landlord, a man
• 1:34:24
  named Ron Van Wye. Upon arriving, Ron too quickly
• 1:34:29
  became perplexed. The leak, or so they thought,
• 1:34:33
  was obvious, but what was strange to him was that there
• 1:34:37
  was no piping that ran through the front part of the house.
• 1:34:41
  Certainly none that could spring a leak from the ceiling or the
• 1:34:45
  walls. None at all.
• 1:34:48
  On top of this strangeness, when observing the water's direction,
• 1:34:53
  Ron noticed that there was indeed no sense of direction.
• 1:34:57
  The water was not only coming from the top down from the
• 1:35:00
  ceiling, in the walls, but it was going from the floor and up
• 1:35:05
  the walls and direct contradiction to the laws of
• 1:35:09
  gravity and to anything that he had ever seen.
• 1:35:13
  Shocked and needing multiple witnesses to assure himself that
• 1:35:17
  he wasn't crazy, Ron phoned his wife, Romaine to come and take a
• 1:35:22
  look as well. Upon her arrival, she was just
• 1:35:26
  as perplexed and became scared of what was happening since it
• 1:35:30
  defied all logic and the leak, or so they thought, only became
• 1:35:36
  worse. So the landlords did the only
• 1:35:39
  thing that they could do, they called the police.
• 1:35:43
  Shortly after that call, a patrol car arrived with Officer
• 1:35:47
  John Bojan, who after briefly stepping inside the home, became
• 1:35:51
  drenched in water and also witnessed the bizarre other
• 1:35:56
  worldly activity to which he had no explanation for either.
• 1:36:01
  So to prove his sanity and to back up a report, he called upon
• 1:36:06
  his partner, an officer named Richard Volbert.
• 1:36:11
  When Richard arrived, he wanted to be briefed on exactly what
• 1:36:14
  was going on. The Bojan didn't want to give
• 1:36:17
  him any sort of a preconceived notion and just told him to
• 1:36:21
  trust him on this one. After some back and forth,
• 1:36:25
  Richard finally conceded and followed John into the key for
• 1:36:28
  residents he would later describe the incident as.
• 1:36:32
  So I walked in the door, I couldn't have gotten 2 steps in
• 1:36:37
  the door and I was pelted by water.
• 1:36:40
  As we were discussing a potential leak and as we were
• 1:36:43
  being told that there were no pipes in that part of the house.
• 1:36:47
  As we stood just inside the house, a droplet of water was
• 1:36:51
  traveling horizontally and passed right between US and out
• 1:36:56
  into the next room. As I retell this story, I have a
• 1:37:01
  chill up my spine and the hair on my neck is standing up.
• 1:37:06
  John would go on to say things were happening in this house
• 1:37:10
  that I couldn't have ever possibly dreamed of happening
• 1:37:13
  and there was no way to explain what was going on.
• 1:37:17
  Shocked by what they were witnessing, the two officers
• 1:37:20
  asked the family to step outside of the house and out of the
• 1:37:23
  water while they left to report the incident to the chief
• 1:37:27
  himself. The Wise decided to stay at the
• 1:37:30
  property while the Kiefer's and Don walked across the street to
• 1:37:34
  a local restaurant for something to eat.
• 1:37:37
  Within seconds of everyone departing, the water suddenly
• 1:37:41
  stopped within the house, and aside from the home being
• 1:37:44
  drenched, it was back to normal. No more dripping water and no
• 1:37:50
  more mist. This left Ron and his wife, only
• 1:37:53
  to speculate that whatever was happening was coming from one of
• 1:37:57
  the three, because when they left, so did it.
• 1:38:02
  Pam Scrofano, who owned the pizzeria opposite the Kiefer's
• 1:38:06
  house where the three ended up in, was a friend of the Kiefer's
• 1:38:10
  and knew Dawn as well. Upon greeting the three of them,
• 1:38:15
  she noticed that Dawn was distant, like he was looking at
• 1:38:19
  you, but looking through you, a deeply religious woman.
• 1:38:23
  She sent something evil about him, like the devil was working
• 1:38:28
  through Dawn Decker and recommended that they contact
• 1:38:32
  someone at the church for help. Within mere seconds of
• 1:38:36
  mentioning this, droplets of water hit the table in front of
• 1:38:40
  them, and soon the very same phenomena that was originally
• 1:38:45
  happening in the house was also now taking place inside the
• 1:38:50
  pizzeria. Sensing this evil Pam ran to the
• 1:38:54
  cash register where she had an old cross necklace.
• 1:38:58
  She took it out and placed it around Don's neck.
• 1:39:02
  As soon as it touched his skin, he got burned.
• 1:39:06
  He began to scream and pulled the necklace off of him.
• 1:39:10
  It was charred black. As the trio departed the
• 1:39:14
  pizzeria and headed back to their home, the strange activity
• 1:39:18
  inside once again ceased. It's important to note that
• 1:39:24
  nothing like this had ever happened at the Kiefer residence
• 1:39:27
  or Pam's Pizzeria. No plumbing issues, nothing that
• 1:39:31
  could be considered even remotely similar.
• 1:39:34
  Convening inside the home once again, they met Ron and his
• 1:39:38
  wife. Ron suspected that Don had
• 1:39:41
  something to do with what was happening, and after some
• 1:39:44
  discussion, an argument erupted among the group.
• 1:39:48
  This led to Jeannie screaming at Don, telling him that they knew
• 1:39:52
  it was him, that he had to make all of this stop.
• 1:39:56
  After the words left her mouth, the pots and pans above the
• 1:40:00
  stove began to shake, and the lights around them began to
• 1:40:06
  flicker. Don Decker.
• 1:40:09
  Was no longer in control of his body.
• 1:40:13
  Everyone watched in horror as Don levitated multiple feet into
• 1:40:17
  the air and rotated several times.
• 1:40:21
  He was then thrown out of the kitchen where they were and into
• 1:40:26
  an entirely different room. Don himself would later recount
• 1:40:30
  the event like this. It wasn't like someone grabbing
• 1:40:34
  your hand or picking you up. I felt this force over my entire
• 1:40:38
  body. I'm a big man and I've always
• 1:40:41
  been assertive, but this, whatever this was, made me feel
• 1:40:46
  like a newborn child. I'm scared right now just
• 1:40:50
  thinking about it. Dawn now laid unconscious on the
• 1:40:54
  floor and the rain began again. The wise and the kiefers were an
• 1:41:00
  absolute shock and disbelief at what had just taken place.
• 1:41:05
  They knew it was tied to dawn, but they had no idea just what
• 1:41:09
  it was, but they felt that it was evil.
• 1:41:13
  A few hours after the strange incident witnessed by the police
• 1:41:16
  officers, they arrived back at the residence alongside their
• 1:41:20
  very heated police chief. As he made his way into the home
• 1:41:24
  with the two officers behind him, he too was pelted with
• 1:41:27
  water just as they had been. Now first probably feeling like
• 1:41:32
  he was on the spot and perhaps slightly embarrassed, he claimed
• 1:41:37
  that this wasn't even a police issue, but a plumbing issue,
• 1:41:41
  despite then being told that there were no pipes in that part
• 1:41:44
  of the house, and this was even confirmed by blueprints of the
• 1:41:48
  home. After taking a look around at
• 1:41:50
  the rest of the home, which was bone dry, the chief then angrily
• 1:41:55
  ordered the two officers to escort him back home.
• 1:41:59
  He would be the only officer that night to not admit to
• 1:42:02
  anything strange happening. He then directed Officers John
• 1:42:06
  and Richard to not file a report and to not speak about the
• 1:42:10
  incident at all, but word would get out the following morning.
• 1:42:16
  Acting against the specific orders from their chief, the two
• 1:42:20
  officers returned to the residence along with three
• 1:42:23
  veteran officers as well. They too would see and
• 1:42:27
  experience the bizarre rain inside the home.
• 1:42:30
  So they decided to try something to attempt to get to the bottom
• 1:42:34
  of what exactly was going on. They asked if they could place a
• 1:42:38
  paper bag over Don's head, to which Don agreed.
• 1:42:42
  This was so he would have no way of seeing anything.
• 1:42:45
  He'd have no preconceived notions of what could be placed
• 1:42:49
  on him or in his hands. They then placed a gold cross
• 1:42:53
  necklace from one of the officers into his hand.
• 1:42:57
  Lieutenant William Davies, one of the officers present who
• 1:43:01
  placed the cross into his hand, described the incident like
• 1:43:05
  this. As soon as the necklace touched
• 1:43:08
  his palm, he said it burned him. He would have had no idea what
• 1:43:14
  it was. I saw what I believe to be smoke
• 1:43:17
  of some sort coming from the necklace or his hand.
• 1:43:21
  As he dropped the necklace. I picked it up and it was hot.
• 1:43:26
  Not burning hot, but hot enough to concern me.
• 1:43:30
  Then suddenly with the force, as if a bus hit him, he lifted up
• 1:43:36
  and was thrown across the room, hitting the back wall.
• 1:43:40
  Upon removing the bag from him, he was clearly dazed and had
• 1:43:44
  three bloody and fresh claw marks across his neck.
• 1:43:49
  I've been a cop for 40 years and I've never ran into anything
• 1:43:53
  like this ever. Never before and never again
• 1:43:58
  after. There's always an explanation,
• 1:44:02
  but in this case there was no explanation.
• 1:44:07
  The police would later leave again with no answers as to what
• 1:44:10
  was taking place, believing it to be a spiritual matter.
• 1:44:15
  Don was placed on the couch in the living room where the rain
• 1:44:18
  continued to go from mist to showers at random and varying
• 1:44:24
  times. After making multiple desperate
• 1:44:27
  calls to every Protestant and Catholic religious leader in
• 1:44:30
  Shroudsburg, only one didn't turn them down.
• 1:44:35
  Ron was able to convince an evangelical preacher, who went
• 1:44:38
  by the name of Reverend Johnson, to come over and pray with Don.
• 1:44:44
  As she arrived and began to pray, the rest of the group held
• 1:44:48
  hands and vigil and did what they could to support her.
• 1:44:52
  As the first words left her lips, dawn began to convulse and
• 1:44:57
  shake. The rain intensified and his
• 1:45:01
  body began to twist into unnatural positions.
• 1:45:05
  But as she continued, he slowly but surely began to relax in the
• 1:45:11
  rain seemed to stop. Although those present believed
• 1:45:16
  that a miracle had been performed, the results of that
• 1:45:20
  prayer session would only prove temporary, perhaps placing into
• 1:45:25
  hibernation whatever was inside Don Decker.
• 1:45:30
  Once his furlough was over, Don Decker returned back to jail to
• 1:45:33
  finish his sentence. And within just a few days, the
• 1:45:37
  mysterious rain returned. Upon his return to jail, Dom was
• 1:45:43
  placed in a cell with another inmate and had the thought enter
• 1:45:46
  his mind that if he could make it rain in the cell, perhaps he
• 1:45:51
  could get to be alone. Almost as soon as he thought
• 1:45:54
  that, the rain began. It was materializing out of the
• 1:45:59
  concrete floor and flowing upward.
• 1:46:03
  The other inmate was horrified and screamed for the guards to
• 1:46:07
  let him out. Thinking they had some kind of
• 1:46:10
  plumbing issue. The guards opened the cell and
• 1:46:13
  removed that inmate as well as Decker.
• 1:46:16
  At first he was accused of throwing water onto the walls
• 1:46:20
  from the sink or from the toilet by the guards, but upon these
• 1:46:24
  accusations Don rebuttal with I can control it.
• 1:46:29
  This time the feeling was different.
• 1:46:31
  This time he felt powerful and in control.
• 1:46:36
  Upon hearing this, the guard laughed and said if you can
• 1:46:39
  control this rain, make it rain in the warden's office.
• 1:46:44
  An offer that Don couldn't refuse.
• 1:46:47
  The warden would then describe what happened and these are the
• 1:46:50
  words of Lieutenant Warden David Keenhold.
• 1:46:54
  I was in my office filling out paperwork with no one else
• 1:46:57
  around. It was approximately 8:00 PM in
• 1:47:00
  the evening. I didn't notice it at that time,
• 1:47:03
  but my shirt was dripping down. I heard a knock at the door and
• 1:47:08
  little did I know that it was the same officer that was just
• 1:47:11
  with Don Decker. I wasn't aware of the situation
• 1:47:14
  at the time. He told me to look at my shirt
• 1:47:17
  and there was no explanation as to where the water could have
• 1:47:20
  come from. The officer then became very
• 1:47:23
  frightened of what had happened and after explaining the
• 1:47:26
  situation to me, I too became frightened.
• 1:47:30
  Shortly after the rain in the warden's office, a frantic call
• 1:47:34
  was placed to a local chaplain, a man named Reverend William
• 1:47:38
  Blackburn. He soon found himself shaking
• 1:47:41
  hands with the warden and several officers as he was
• 1:47:44
  escorted into the jail and into an empty cell.
• 1:47:47
  Within minutes he came face to face with Don Decker, who by
• 1:47:52
  this time was beginning to fear the feeling he had inside of
• 1:47:56
  him. That powerful and evil feeling.
• 1:48:00
  He was now asking for the Reverend's help and freeing him
• 1:48:04
  of whatever this thing was. Blackburn wasn't convinced at
• 1:48:08
  first. He told Decker that his life
• 1:48:10
  would be much easier if he just stopped all this nonsense and
• 1:48:14
  attention seeking. He would go on later to describe
• 1:48:17
  the situation like this. Almost immediately after I
• 1:48:21
  accused him, Don's demeanor changed.
• 1:48:25
  The glazed look came over him and a horrible smell entered the
• 1:48:28
  room. Doctors, nurses, and medical
• 1:48:32
  personnel will tell you that when you walk into a room when
• 1:48:35
  there's someone dying of disease or of cancer, there's a smell to
• 1:48:40
  it. I smelled that smell multiplied
• 1:48:43
  by at least five times. It was evil and foreboding.
• 1:48:49
  Don's glazed expression then switched to 1 of malice and
• 1:48:53
  calculation. He exclaimed.
• 1:48:56
  I have powers that you don't and I can make it rain.
• 1:49:00
  He then raised his hand and rubbed his fingers together and
• 1:49:04
  it started to rain inside that cell.
• 1:49:07
  It was like a devil's rain, a mist.
• 1:49:10
  I was in the presence of evil. I started opening my Bible to
• 1:49:15
  begin to pray and Don said I don't want you to pray for me,
• 1:49:19
  to which I decided to anyways. I started to read to him and the
• 1:49:24
  strange thing is that even though I was soaked, the pages
• 1:49:28
  of my Bible never got wet and that was truly frightening.
• 1:49:33
  Although the session was short, upon uttering the words that he
• 1:49:37
  was now bound in the name of Jesus Christ, the rain stopped
• 1:49:42
  and a peace overtook dawn. When he finally came to, he
• 1:49:46
  thanked the reverend with tears in his eyes, and the two hugged
• 1:49:51
  and prayed together again. In the words of Reverend
• 1:49:55
  Blackburn, there is no doubt in my mind that he was possessed.
• 1:49:59
  No human being could do what he did in that room.
• 1:50:02
  There is no way that he did anything to fool me whatsoever.
• 1:50:06
  Whatever happened was spiritual and it was not from God.
• 1:50:11
  I can guarantee you that it was not from God.
• 1:50:15
  From this moment forward, the rain has stopped for now.
• 1:50:19
  Don Decker would later say that he takes things day by day and
• 1:50:23
  that fortunately, the rain hasn't returned.
• 1:50:27
  As for his grandfather, he thinks whatever happened was
• 1:50:31
  related to him. He thinks that considering where
• 1:50:34
  he thinks he ended up, maybe he was able to make a deal with
• 1:50:38
  someone and have yet another chance to abuse him.
• 1:50:43
  What makes this case so unique and interesting is that all the
• 1:50:46
  people involved are credible people.
• 1:50:49
  I mean we have some family friends sure, but they stated
• 1:50:52
  they had nothing take place in that house prior to Don's
• 1:50:55
  arrival that morning. We have the landlord of the
• 1:50:59
  family's home and his wife not only reaffirming that there
• 1:51:02
  weren't any prior issues, but that there were no pipes in that
• 1:51:06
  area of the house. We then have 6 police officers
• 1:51:10
  including the chief over the case experienced the phenomena
• 1:51:14
  and he was the only one that said that nothing took place.
• 1:51:17
  We have a business owner where the phenomena took place at her
• 1:51:20
  establishment as well. Then several guards at the jail
• 1:51:24
  and which she goes back to finish serving his time witness
• 1:51:27
  things and the warden of the jail himself and the police
• 1:51:31
  officers. Three of them were seasoned
• 1:51:33
  lieutenants I might add and anyone with a proper reputation
• 1:51:37
  unless they really experienced something would risk that in my
• 1:51:42
  opinion. So was it demonic infestation?
• 1:51:45
  Possession, poltergeist activity, or something else
• 1:51:50
  entirely? When we have so many credible
• 1:51:53
  eyewitnesses recanting the same details, saying what they saw,
• 1:51:57
  experienced and felt was a phenomena not of this world, it
• 1:52:03
  truly makes you wonder. And if it wasn't spiritual,
• 1:52:07
  could Don's childhood trauma have allowed him to break into a
• 1:52:10
  part of the mind that could somehow 'cause these kinds of
• 1:52:14
  things allow him to manipulate the weather of his surroundings,
• 1:52:18
  move objects, and even cause harm to himself?
• 1:52:23
  We may never truly know the answers to this mystery in
• 1:52:26
  particular, and it very much still is a mystery to this day.
• 1:52:30
  As far as an update on Don Decker, besides multiple show
• 1:52:34
  appearances and interviews to discuss his story over the
• 1:52:37
  years, the last known activity that I could find of him was
• 1:52:42
  that back in 2012, he was charged with arson of a local
• 1:52:46
  restaurant in the Poconos Mountains of Pennsylvania.
• 1:52:49
  It seems like perhaps he was paid to set fire to the
• 1:52:52
  establishment by the owner, maybe for insurance fraud.
• 1:52:56
  As far as the outcome of the case, I couldn't find additional
• 1:52:59
  details. Perhaps whatever evil that was
• 1:53:02
  inside Dawn got the best of him at this time.
• 1:53:06
  Or, you know, we're all human, we do make mistakes without
• 1:53:10
  otherworldly influence as well. Just the thought.
• 1:53:14
  Wherever he is, I do have to say that his story is an amazing and
• 1:53:18
  intriguing 1 and I wish him nothing but the best.
• 1:53:22
  I'd also like to say thank you guys for watching this video.
• 1:53:26
  Without you guys, this channel was just me making videos that I
• 1:53:29
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• 1:53:34
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• 1:53:37
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• 1:53:40
  content, and that's been a big uphill battle over the last four
• 1:53:43
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• 1:53:46
  Mystery Archives, just know it helps me out much more than you
• 1:53:49
  could ever know. Rob and Vicki Graves had found
• 1:54:04
  what appeared to be their dream home.
• 1:54:06
  Looking to escape the big city life and take up a more rural
• 1:54:10
  one for themselves and their two teenage sons, they found Fox
• 1:54:15
  Hollow Farm and were shocked at how affordable it was for the
• 1:54:18
  sheer size and quality of the property.
• 1:54:21
  Sensing that it was too good to be true, they asked what could
• 1:54:24
  possibly be wrong with it because at a passing glance it
• 1:54:28
  seemed absolutely gorgeous. Then it came to Rob.
• 1:54:33
  He had remembered the name from a news broadcast many years ago.
• 1:54:38
  Unbeknownst to him and his wife, they were now standing on the
• 1:54:41
  very same grounds that were once owned by Herb Baumeister.
• 1:54:46
  Tory is serial killer. They immediately brought this up
• 1:54:49
  to the real estate agent who was showing them the property and
• 1:54:53
  were immediately told that that was indeed the case.
• 1:54:56
  That the private investor had indeed purchased the estate from
• 1:55:00
  the widow of Herb following the disturbing discovery of the
• 1:55:03
  bodies back in the 1990s, but that it had been completely
• 1:55:07
  remodeled from head to toe, removing any and all remnants of
• 1:55:11
  what it looked like when the murders had taken place all
• 1:55:15
  those years ago. But that's why it was indeed so
• 1:55:18
  affordable, because no one wanted to live there due to the
• 1:55:21
  history. After some further discussion
• 1:55:24
  among the couple, they ultimately decided to purchase
• 1:55:28
  the property. Within a couple weeks, the
• 1:55:31
  family moves in and falls in love with Fox Hollow Farm.
• 1:55:35
  The teenage sons soon make it a habit to play outside and then
• 1:55:39
  wash off in the pool in the basement, soon tracking dirt and
• 1:55:43
  gravel all throughout the home. One day, Vicki is vacuuming up
• 1:55:48
  the dirt that the boys had brought in from the outside
• 1:55:51
  around the pool when suddenly her vacuum loses power.
• 1:55:56
  Believing that perhaps she had accidentally unplugged it from
• 1:55:58
  the outlet, she plugged it back in and continued her work.
• 1:56:03
  Within several more minutes, it happened again.
• 1:56:07
  Perplexed this time because she was even more aware and careful
• 1:56:11
  about the cord in the outlet. She knew she hadn't unplugged
• 1:56:14
  it, so she plugged it back in and triple checked that it
• 1:56:18
  wasn't just falling out of the outlet by pulling the cord.
• 1:56:21
  Evermore aware this time she goes back to vacuuming but
• 1:56:25
  keeping a present eye on the cord itself and to her amazement
• 1:56:30
  it pulls out on its own as if someone had grabbed and pulled
• 1:56:34
  it out of the socket. Startled, she drops the vacuum
• 1:56:38
  and was beside herself. She doesn't know how to make
• 1:56:41
  sense of what had just happened and this would just be the
• 1:56:45
  beginning of the strangeness that would occur.
• 1:56:49
  Rob worked at a car dealership and one of his employees was a
• 1:56:52
  man named Joe Joe had been a great employee, but had a
• 1:56:56
  problem of being chronically late most of the time.
• 1:57:00
  As he probed to figure out what was going on, Joe informed Rob
• 1:57:04
  that he lived over an hour away and really needed the job and
• 1:57:08
  would be willing to move closer if the opportunity presented
• 1:57:11
  itself. Well, Rob thought about it and
• 1:57:14
  ended up offering Joe a place to rent.
• 1:57:17
  Located on Fox Hollow Farm, they had a guest house that they were
• 1:57:21
  considering renting out his apartments for quite some time,
• 1:57:24
  and this seemed like the perfect opportunity to benefit everyone
• 1:57:27
  involved. Joe would indeed move in just a
• 1:57:30
  few days later. It takes several hours, but
• 1:57:34
  within that time frame they're able to get everything inside
• 1:57:37
  and finish the move. Exhausted, Joe decides to retire
• 1:57:41
  for the night with his dog Fred. As he lays down to sleep in his
• 1:57:46
  newly set up bed, he then finds himself in a horrific nightmare.
• 1:57:51
  He's being chased throughout Fox Hollow Farm by something he
• 1:57:54
  can't see. The dream is so intense that it
• 1:57:58
  causes him to sleepwalk, which wasn't something that he was
• 1:58:01
  known to do. He began to run while still
• 1:58:04
  dreaming and ran directly into the door frame as he tried to
• 1:58:08
  escape the guest house. Falling back, he knocked into a
• 1:58:13
  nearby glass of water, which fell and shattered, cutting his
• 1:58:17
  hands. The impact and cutting of his
• 1:58:20
  hands finally woke him up and he was forced to sit back and
• 1:58:23
  ponder just what had taken place and things would only intensify
• 1:58:28
  from here another day. Soon after, Rob was painting the
• 1:58:32
  side of their helm a different color.
• 1:58:35
  As he and his wife remarked on how nice the finished job will
• 1:58:38
  be. She spots something out of the
• 1:58:40
  corner of her eye. She had seen a man in a red
• 1:58:43
  shirt staring at them. As she broke away from her
• 1:58:46
  husband and began to approach the figure, it started to walk
• 1:58:50
  away from her and quickly disappeared as if it never
• 1:58:54
  existed. The couple then called out and
• 1:58:57
  checked the perimeter but never found anyone.
• 1:59:01
  They dismissed the person as nothing more than a curious
• 1:59:03
  trespasser. I mean, after all, they did
• 1:59:06
  purchase a serial killer's home. They just had to accept that
• 1:59:10
  curious people may sneak up just to get a look at their home.
• 1:59:14
  Later that night, Joe was doing the dishes in his apartment when
• 1:59:18
  he suddenly gets a series of knocks on his front door,
• 1:59:22
  telling the person it'll just be a minute.
• 1:59:25
  As he dries his hands off to go and answer the door, the series
• 1:59:28
  of knocks begin to grow louder and more aggressive.
• 1:59:33
  Thinking it was extremely strange or extremely urgent
• 1:59:36
  concerning Vicki or Rob, he went and answered the doors.
• 1:59:40
  It was still being knocked upon. However, as he opened the door,
• 1:59:45
  there was no one to be found. Automatically on guard, he peers
• 1:59:50
  outside. The knocking had been happening
• 1:59:52
  when he answered the door, so no person could have got very far
• 1:59:57
  while he answered. Mid knock he glanced around and
• 2:00:01
  yet saw and heard nothing. He stepped outside and began to
• 2:00:05
  examine the roof in the nearby areas and still there was
• 2:00:10
  nothing. Thoroughly weirded out at this
• 2:00:12
  point, he made his way back inside and bolted, the door
• 2:00:16
  locked behind him. He started to make his way back
• 2:00:19
  to the kitchen to finish doing his dishes when he spotted a man
• 2:00:23
  standing in his bedroom staring at him.
• 2:00:27
  Upon spotting the figure, his dog begins to growl and make
• 2:00:31
  sounds that he's never heard him make before, staring directly in
• 2:00:36
  the direction of the bedroom. Already on edge, he ran into the
• 2:00:41
  bedroom and flipped the light on only to discover that there was
• 2:00:45
  again no one there. Searching the entire apartment,
• 2:00:50
  he again found nothing. Trying to rationalize and clear
• 2:00:54
  his mind, he decided to take his dog Fred for a walk to calm down
• 2:01:00
  and unwind for the evening. While on his walk around the
• 2:01:03
  property, he thought to check on Rob and Vicki's house to see if
• 2:01:07
  the lights were on. This would indicate to him that
• 2:01:10
  perhaps they were the ones who had knocked on his door and
• 2:01:13
  therefore he could rest easy and figure out what it was about.
• 2:01:17
  The following morning. However, upon arriving at their
• 2:01:20
  house, he found it completely blacked out.
• 2:01:24
  They had already gone to bed for the night.
• 2:01:26
  Fred, who was always a loyal and obedient dog, always walked with
• 2:01:30
  him without a leash and would always follow his commands.
• 2:01:35
  However, tonight would be a different story.
• 2:01:39
  Deciding to head back to his apartment, he motioned for Fred
• 2:01:42
  to join him, but the dog would not budget.
• 2:01:45
  He suddenly began to growl and then bolted into the nearby tree
• 2:01:49
  line. Instinctively, Joe ran after his
• 2:01:53
  dog, but not before seeing what his dog was running after.
• 2:01:57
  Before his eyes and the very same tree line was a man in a
• 2:02:01
  red shirt. Although he was absolutely
• 2:02:04
  terrified, Joe couldn't let anything happen to his beloved
• 2:02:08
  dog, so he continued to run towards this man, when suddenly
• 2:02:13
  whoever or whatever this was disappeared before his eyes,
• 2:02:19
  although slightly behind. He would quickly catch up to
• 2:02:23
  Fred and now noticed him not acting aggressive at all, but
• 2:02:27
  rather showing his belly in submission, staring in the
• 2:02:30
  direction of Joe. Joe, knowing his dog, knew that
• 2:02:35
  something very strange had to be up with him.
• 2:02:38
  He suddenly felt as if someone was staring directly at him.
• 2:02:42
  He slowly turned around to see the apparition of a man in a red
• 2:02:47
  shirt with a twisted face staring back at him just several
• 2:02:52
  feet away. Joe, as most of us would, ran
• 2:02:56
  out of there as fast as he could, his loyal companion
• 2:03:00
  following him. The two run as fast as they can
• 2:03:04
  back to the apartment, where they rush inside, lock and
• 2:03:07
  deadbolt the door, and nervously watch out of the blinds for the
• 2:03:11
  rest of the night. The following morning, and even
• 2:03:15
  more exhausted, Joe makes his way to Vicki and Rob's house to
• 2:03:18
  discuss the prior night's events.
• 2:03:21
  As he's telling both of them what happened, Vicki starts to
• 2:03:24
  become emotional. She too would seen the man in
• 2:03:27
  red just days earlier. She points to where she saw him
• 2:03:32
  and Loan, and behold, it's the exact same spot that Joe had
• 2:03:35
  encountered the entity the night before.
• 2:03:38
  As the day progressed tonight, Joe yet again found himself in
• 2:03:42
  his apartment, hoping to finally get some rest.
• 2:03:46
  But as he settled down in his bed, he was suddenly startled by
• 2:03:50
  knocking at his door. As he yelled out who is it?
• 2:03:54
  As he made his way towards the door, he didn't receive an
• 2:03:58
  audible answer back, just more aggressive knocking at the door.
• 2:04:03
  The door itself now is shaking. Facing his fear of the unknown,
• 2:04:08
  mid knock Joe throws the door open only to meet face to face
• 2:04:15
  with nothing. As he frantically looks around
• 2:04:18
  the yard while holding the door, he notices that the doors
• 2:04:21
  knocking apparatus is sticking straight out as if someone is
• 2:04:26
  holding it. It then drops one last time
• 2:04:30
  knocking the door. Absolutely petrified, Joe slams
• 2:04:34
  the door and locks it. As he tries to catch his breath
• 2:04:38
  and take several steps backwards, he sees the door knob
• 2:04:42
  begin to turn. Then, without warning, the door
• 2:04:46
  bursts open, shattering the lock.
• 2:04:50
  The open door, yet again, reveals no one.
• 2:04:53
  After a moment of frozen terror, Joe runs outside and into the
• 2:04:57
  front yard of his apartment, screaming and searching all
• 2:05:01
  around for just who could be doing this.
• 2:05:04
  After several minutes, he stares back into the house to the open
• 2:05:08
  front door and sees a man dressed in all white standing
• 2:05:11
  there. He soaked from head to toe in
• 2:05:14
  what appears to be water and is screaming in a muted voice as if
• 2:05:19
  he's being held underwater. He then bolts towards Joe and
• 2:05:24
  seemingly disappears into a mist, frantically calling out to
• 2:05:28
  his dog Fred to accompany him. Joe frantically makes his way to
• 2:05:32
  Rob and Vicki's house on the property.
• 2:05:34
  He's so terrified that he's shaking now, and Rob and Vicki
• 2:05:38
  are just as scared. They now truly believe that they
• 2:05:41
  are dealing with something paranormal in nature in order to
• 2:05:45
  rationalize the situation and make sense of what was taking
• 2:05:48
  place. They begin to believe that
• 2:05:51
  they're experiencing the results of the murders conducted by Herb
• 2:05:55
  Baumeister, and that his victims are either trapped here somehow,
• 2:06:01
  or their energy is stuck in an endless loop, replaying their
• 2:06:05
  final and tragic moments over and over and over again.
• 2:06:13
  Refusing to return to his apartment, Rob and Vicki, being
• 2:06:17
  the supportive friends they were, agreed that Joe could stay
• 2:06:20
  the night with them and together they would begin researching
• 2:06:23
  online to try and formulate some kind of a plan of action of what
• 2:06:27
  to do next. As they collectively scour the
• 2:06:31
  Baumeister case information, they find themselves looking at
• 2:06:35
  the list of identified victims. As they get deeper into the
• 2:06:38
  details, Joe is shocked. He stops them on a picture of a
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  man in a white shirt. That was the man I saw in my
• 2:06:46
  apartment who was soaked from head to toe and screaming.
• 2:06:51
  Although this information still scares them, it does help
• 2:06:55
  reassure them that they are indeed dealing with the victims
• 2:06:58
  of this horrendous tragedy. They are especially convinced
• 2:07:02
  considering many of the remains have never been identified, so
• 2:07:06
  they continue to research the case.
• 2:07:09
  After several uneventful days, Joe finds himself almost
• 2:07:12
  compelled to walk around the property with his dog, except
• 2:07:16
  this time in broad daylight. So apprehensively, he makes his
• 2:07:22
  way with Fred to the area where both he and Vicki have seen the
• 2:07:25
  Man in Red on separate occasions.
• 2:07:28
  Just past the tree line on The Walking path, Joe is stopped by
• 2:07:32
  what looks to be a bone. He believes that it's impossible
• 2:07:36
  that such a bone could have been missed during the extensive
• 2:07:39
  searches over the years, but nonetheless, it was right here,
• 2:07:44
  right now, as if it had been placed there for him to
• 2:07:47
  discover. Quickly consulting and showing
• 2:07:50
  Rob and Vicki the discovery, they too believed that this
• 2:07:53
  could be a bone belonging to the mysterious Man in Red.
• 2:07:57
  They ended up contacting the lead detective on the Baumeister
• 2:08:00
  case and submitted the bone, which turned out to be a human
• 2:08:04
  femur bone, in his evidence and for analysis.
• 2:08:08
  They then requested if the investigator himself could come
• 2:08:11
  out to the property and explain to them just where things had
• 2:08:15
  taken place so they could have a better understanding of what
• 2:08:18
  happened, to which he obliged. Several days passed and Joe by
• 2:08:24
  this point had made his way back to his apartment to try and
• 2:08:27
  settle back in given the new information.
• 2:08:30
  While on his computer checking his emails, he began to hear a
• 2:08:34
  scraping, almost metallic like sound originating from the
• 2:08:38
  kitchen. Upon further examination he sees
• 2:08:42
  that all of his butcher knives from his knife block have been
• 2:08:45
  neatly arranged in his sink, placed in a row equally spaced
• 2:08:50
  from one another. Glancing around the room, he
• 2:08:53
  spots fresh deep cuts in the wood of the nearby counter
• 2:08:57
  cabinet. He believes that this could be a
• 2:09:00
  sign for one of the victims crying for help.
• 2:09:03
  He starts to try and figure out the mystery.
• 2:09:07
  He takes out his phone and begins recording, asking probing
• 2:09:11
  questions to whoever or whatever could be there and hopes of
• 2:09:15
  helping them in any way that he can.
• 2:09:18
  Prior to this, of course, he turned off any and all
• 2:09:21
  appliances that could interfere with the process.
• 2:09:24
  He begins by asking a series of questions and doesn't seem to
• 2:09:28
  get much of anything, at least not audibly.
• 2:09:31
  But then, towards the end of his questions, Fred begins to growl.
• 2:09:35
  The same eerie growl he had any time they'd experienced
• 2:09:39
  something previously. Taking this is confirmation that
• 2:09:42
  perhaps his companion could see or hear something that he
• 2:09:45
  couldn't, he quickly downloads the audio file and begins to
• 2:09:50
  listen to it on his computer. And to his shock, he did indeed
• 2:09:55
  receive a response. This is the clip of the actual
• 2:09:58
  EVP that was recorded who keeps walking in the kitchen.
• 2:10:06
  He believes he hears the married one.
• 2:10:09
  But in all of their research, all of the victims were young,
• 2:10:13
  single gay men. The only one who was married was
• 2:10:17
  one Herb Baumeister. This revelation is startling.
• 2:10:22
  He not only believes that the victims were trapped within the
• 2:10:25
  grounds of Fox Hollow Farm, but that perhaps the serial killer
• 2:10:29
  himself could too be trapped here.
• 2:10:33
  What would follow would be dozens of paranormal
• 2:10:35
  investigations. And those investigations would
• 2:10:39
  lead the group to believe that they were not only dealing with
• 2:10:41
  the spirits of the victims haunting the grounds, but either
• 2:10:45
  a dark entity impersonating Baumeister or the killer
• 2:10:49
  himself. Several years after the events,
• 2:10:52
  the Graves family would end up selling Foxhall Farm, and it
• 2:10:56
  would continue to change hands over the years since then,
• 2:11:00
  leading to multiple new owners of the property.
• 2:11:03
  And although new information doesn't seem to be publicly
• 2:11:06
  available, it's still considered one of the most haunted places
• 2:11:10
  in Indiana, if not the world, given its unique and gruesome
• 2:11:15
  history. An independent film will go on
• 2:11:18
  to be made about it called The Haunting of Fox Hollow Farm.
• 2:11:21
  And Robert Graves, along with another man named Richard Ustep
• 2:11:26
  who led many paranormal investigations at Fox Hollow
• 2:11:29
  Farm, would Co write a book detailing the family's creepy
• 2:11:32
  experiences and what they believed to be ultimately
• 2:11:36
  happening. So in conclusion, we know that
• 2:11:40
  Herb Baumeister was mentally ill ultimately, but what makes this
• 2:11:44
  case so strange and so compelling to me is that he was
• 2:11:47
  an outstanding member of his community for the longest time.
• 2:11:52
  He was the smiling neighbor, the charitable businessman, the
• 2:11:56
  happy family man, and overall a pillar of normalcy.
• 2:12:01
  But behind closed doors, his psyche, his soul, contained a
• 2:12:06
  darkness that most of us will never be able to comprehend, yet
• 2:12:11
  alone unravel and understand. So could the murderous deeds of
• 2:12:16
  a twisted individual trap souls on a property and perhaps open
• 2:12:20
  some kind of a portal? Could the unleashing of such
• 2:12:24
  energy, like what is expressed in a violent death, contribute
• 2:12:28
  to something like this? If it wasn't what's known as an
• 2:12:31
  intelligent haunting, where the spirits are aware of what has
• 2:12:34
  happened to them and are indeed trapped there, which very well
• 2:12:38
  could still be the case. And perhaps it could be a
• 2:12:41
  residual haunting where the events are of such magnitude and
• 2:12:46
  strength that they play on a loop for all time, but the souls
• 2:12:50
  who were involved have long since moved on.
• 2:12:54
  These are questions that we may never have answers to, but all
• 2:12:58
  things that we should ponder. The one thing is for certain,
• 2:13:02
  the malicious calculation of Herb Baumeister and the
• 2:13:05
  horrendous things that he did to the suspected 25 victims at Fox
• 2:13:10
  Hollow Farms should never be forgotten.
• 2:13:14
  They are indeed still identifying and using updated
• 2:13:17
  technology to identify remains that are still being found on
• 2:13:20
  the grounds. This has happened as recent as
• 2:13:23
  November of 2022, so if you happen to be a family member of
• 2:13:28
  someone that you suspect could be connected to this case, just
• 2:13:32
  know that my heart truly does go out to you and please contact
• 2:13:36
  the Hamilton County Coroner's Office at 317-770-4415.
• 2:13:45
  Besides remembering what happened, I also urge you to
• 2:13:48
  please respect the victims and their families, as well as the
• 2:13:51
  family of Herb Baumeister if you should ever have anything to do
• 2:13:55
  with them. Throughout history, it has been
• 2:13:59
  speculated that many have been plagued by an ancient demonic
• 2:14:04
  force. From Mesopotamia to more modern
• 2:14:09
  times, this evil and terrifying entity has said to enter our
• 2:14:14
  world and wreak havoc upon those who dwell within it.
• 2:14:21
  When a seemingly normal family disregards the warnings and
• 2:14:25
  partakes in multiple Ouija board sessions, what happened next
• 2:14:30
  nearly destroyed them. This is the untold story of the
• 2:14:35
  demonic Zozo House of Oklahoma, and the abhorrent creature
• 2:14:41
  stalks its walls. Oklahoma City, a small but
• 2:15:00
  growing city in the heartland of America known for blue collar
• 2:15:05
  work and brick and mortar shops, red dirt and sports would soon
• 2:15:12
  become known for something much darker.
• 2:15:17
  A teenager by the name of Darren Evans was growing up here, a
• 2:15:22
  normal boy by all accounts, doing things that any teenagers
• 2:15:27
  would enjoy, hanging out with friends, shenanigans here and
• 2:15:32
  there, and dating girls. He began dating a girl named
• 2:15:37
  Brandy who attended school with him, and the two often found
• 2:15:42
  themselves visiting each other as often as they could, whether
• 2:15:46
  that was walking to and from school and between classes or
• 2:15:52
  visiting each other's homes. One day, while Brandy's home was
• 2:15:57
  having some plumbing work done on some pipes located underneath
• 2:16:01
  the house, the plumber doing the work would soon make a strange
• 2:16:06
  discovery. Located below the foundation of
• 2:16:10
  the home, covered in dirt, was an old Ouija board.
• 2:16:15
  The front letters were partially buried and the back of the board
• 2:16:20
  was solid black in colour. Off to the side of where the
• 2:16:25
  board was found was an aged planchette.
• 2:16:30
  What made this finding even more bizarre was that 4 old jars sat
• 2:16:34
  on the corners of the board, speckled with dirt as well.
• 2:16:40
  Thinking perhaps the kids had stashed the board away and
• 2:16:44
  forgot about it, the worker told the young couple after his work
• 2:16:48
  was done about what he had found.
• 2:16:51
  And it's from here that things seemingly take a darker turn.
• 2:16:57
  Upon examining the discovery, they began to brush the dirt
• 2:17:01
  away from the jars. They were then shocked by what
• 2:17:04
  they found Inside each one of the jars.
• 2:17:08
  Sitting on the four corners of the board were the decaying
• 2:17:12
  bodies of blackbirds, congealed blood and matter still present.
• 2:17:21
  Bewildered but intrigued, they sat the jars off to the side and
• 2:17:26
  picked up the board. As soon as his fingers made
• 2:17:30
  contact with the board, Darren seemed to have an instant
• 2:17:34
  connection with it. And with this soon came a
• 2:17:38
  burning curiosity to examine it. And this curiosity would
• 2:17:43
  manifest into obsession with this.
• 2:17:49
  The couple took the board inside the home where they spoke with
• 2:17:52
  Brandy's mother. She actively practiced the
• 2:17:56
  Wiccan religion, but had no idea who could have put the board
• 2:18:00
  there Several days later. Curious as most teenagers are,
• 2:18:07
  Darren was an avid music fan. And one night, after building up
• 2:18:12
  the courage to do it, he decided he was going to contact the
• 2:18:16
  deceased singer of the the popular band ACDC, a man named
• 2:18:22
  Ronald Belford Scott, using the board.
• 2:18:26
  Scott had passed away from alcohol poisoning in 1980.
• 2:18:32
  After lighting several candles, laying the board with letters
• 2:18:35
  facing towards him, and placing the planchette upon the board,
• 2:18:40
  he began his session. At first, nothing seemed to
• 2:18:45
  happen. The Durham was still feeling
• 2:18:48
  this otherworldly connection to something within the board
• 2:18:51
  itself. After trying for half an hour,
• 2:18:56
  to his shock and amazement, the planchette began to move.
• 2:19:02
  Slowly at first. It then frantically began to
• 2:19:06
  move by itself, moving from Z to OZ to O over and over and over
• 2:19:16
  again, spelling out the name Sozo.
• 2:19:22
  Shocked and unsure of what or who he had contacted, Darren
• 2:19:27
  said goodbye in an attempt to end the session.
• 2:19:31
  Before his eyes he saw the plain chat spell out See you in Hell
• 2:19:38
  and then it threw itself across the room.
• 2:19:41
  A now terrified and bewildered Darren ran out of his room.
• 2:19:45
  He tried to make sense of what had just taken place, but this
• 2:19:50
  was just the beginning of what was to come.
• 2:19:54
  It started with horrible night terrors.
• 2:19:57
  He would wake up unable to move or speak and would hear
• 2:20:02
  whispering in his ears. These episodes at night were
• 2:20:06
  soon followed by banging and knocking throughout his house
• 2:20:09
  during the daytime, as well as a constant feeling.
• 2:20:14
  As if he was being watched by something, he couldn't see you.
• 2:20:19
  But despite the presence he was feeling, Darren now sought
• 2:20:23
  answers to his ever growing list of questions.
• 2:20:27
  Just what exactly he had uncovered.
• 2:20:30
  So he continued to hold sessions with the board.
• 2:20:34
  For better or for worse. Darren would later quote this.
• 2:20:41
  The sessions now were as intense and paranormal as anything I've
• 2:20:45
  ever witnessed. A deep and terrible moaning
• 2:20:49
  could be heard emanating through the walls.
• 2:20:51
  After these sessions I developed sleep paralysis and became
• 2:20:57
  reclusive to society in general. I was once again messing with
• 2:21:01
  Zozo and Ouija boards, despite the terrors of my earlier
• 2:21:06
  sessions in which I had promised myself I would never do it
• 2:21:10
  again. But again, and again I did.
• 2:21:16
  When not in use, the board was kept in a purple silk cloth and
• 2:21:21
  stored in his bedroom closet. It would also often go missing,
• 2:21:27
  sometimes for days on end. When checking back where he had
• 2:21:31
  placed it in order to set up and initiate a new session, the
• 2:21:36
  board would seemingly vanish, only to reappear at random times
• 2:21:42
  as if it was the one calling the shots of when it could be seen
• 2:21:47
  and used. The years came in when and the
• 2:21:52
  sessions on the mystical Ouija board continued.
• 2:21:57
  Darren by this time started inviting his friends to partake
• 2:22:01
  in the sessions, and although their sessions with him would
• 2:22:05
  prove he's not insane, it's of little consolation considering
• 2:22:09
  the tragedy it would seemingly manifest later on.
• 2:22:14
  Darren's best friend was a man by the name of Randy.
• 2:22:18
  The two had bonded over their love for the band ACDC in high
• 2:22:22
  school and had been inseparable ever since.
• 2:22:26
  Randy's idol also being the late Bond Scott, whose lifestyle
• 2:22:31
  seemingly imprinted upon the youthful teens Once Upon a time
• 2:22:36
  and perhaps would ultimately lead to the downfall of one of
• 2:22:40
  them. By now, Darren was living in his
• 2:22:44
  own apartment and working construction at a job site he
• 2:22:48
  was on. He would make a strange but
• 2:22:52
  familiar discovery. As he was digging down into the
• 2:22:56
  earth, he found what appeared to be a jar.
• 2:23:00
  Upon picking it up to discard it, he wiped away the dirt and
• 2:23:04
  debris, only to be shocked by its familiar contents.
• 2:23:10
  Loan. And behold, within the jar was a
• 2:23:13
  congealed and rotting Blackbird, extremely similar if not
• 2:23:19
  identical to the ones initially found alongside the Ouija board
• 2:23:24
  underneath his high school girlfriend's home all those
• 2:23:27
  years ago. It was particularly weird, not
• 2:23:32
  just because of this, but the fact that he had found it
• 2:23:36
  digging down deep into the earth.
• 2:23:39
  He wondered what were the odds of this, and although he had no
• 2:23:44
  way of knowing for sure, his gut began to tell him that there was
• 2:23:48
  some kind of witchcraft or a cult expertise at play here.
• 2:23:53
  Perhaps someone or a group of people were knowingly contacting
• 2:23:58
  this entity known as Zozo. But for what remained to be
• 2:24:03
  known, one evening in 1985, Darren and Randy were relaxing
• 2:24:10
  at Darren's apartment when they decided to host a session on the
• 2:24:13
  Ouija board. Randy, more than anything,
• 2:24:18
  wanted to try and make contact with his late idol Bon Scott,
• 2:24:23
  while wearing a Highway to Hell ACDC shirt.
• 2:24:27
  Randy's intent was clear. The two dimmed the lights, lit a
• 2:24:32
  couple of candles, and began the session upon the board.
• 2:24:38
  They made contact within a few minutes once the planchette was
• 2:24:42
  moving. Randy exclaimed.
• 2:24:46
  We want to talk to Bon Scott of ACDC.
• 2:24:51
  With this sentence, the planchette seemingly obliged.
• 2:24:56
  It moved in circles, eventually spelling out Aye MATE.
• 2:25:05
  The 2 looked at each other in amazement.
• 2:25:07
  The entity was using Australian dialects and for anyone who
• 2:25:12
  doesn't know, Bon Scott was Australian.
• 2:25:16
  After several more questions, both of the young men were
• 2:25:20
  convinced they were speaking with their idol.
• 2:25:23
  The spirit seemed to know every little detail to any question
• 2:25:26
  they asked and during the session the entity then made a
• 2:25:31
  strange request from the men. It asked them to light a
• 2:25:35
  cigarette and place it in the hole in the planchette.
• 2:25:39
  What proceeded to make both of them laugh also made them quite
• 2:25:43
  spooked as well. So they lit a couple cigarettes,
• 2:25:48
  one for each of them and one for this entity.
• 2:25:52
  They took a few drags to keep it lit and then placed it cherry
• 2:25:56
  side up in the planchette hole. The blanchette then spelled out
• 2:26:01
  thanks. They then watched an utter
• 2:26:04
  amazement as the cherry of the cigarette lit up as if Bon
• 2:26:09
  himself was taking puffs off of it.
• 2:26:13
  But this amusement was short lived.
• 2:26:17
  Once the cigarette had seemingly been smoked, the planchette
• 2:26:21
  began to spell something very different.
• 2:26:25
  It's spelled FU, Randy. I will have your soul and I'll
• 2:26:31
  see you in hell, Zio. Zio terrified the men quickly
• 2:26:39
  into the session by saying goodbye and tossing the board
• 2:26:43
  outside the second story apartment balcony door.
• 2:26:47
  Clearly scared and upset, Randy also didn't take kindly to
• 2:26:51
  threats. He began cussing out Zozo with
• 2:26:55
  complete and utter rage. The board would later be
• 2:26:59
  returned by his downstairs neighbor, and after this
• 2:27:03
  session, a series of lows for both of the men seemed to
• 2:27:07
  manifest in the years to come. Influenced by the lifestyle of
• 2:27:12
  his idol, Randy fell victim to alcoholism.
• 2:27:17
  He soon would lose his wife to divorce and have split custody
• 2:27:21
  with his son. And although many opportunities
• 2:27:25
  presented themselves for Randy to better his life, for one
• 2:27:29
  reason or another, he was always just too far away to be able to
• 2:27:33
  grasp them, He often said to Darren, I feel like I'm in a
• 2:27:38
  prison and I can't escape for old time's sake.
• 2:27:44
  The two did one last Ouija board session together in 2005, in
• 2:27:49
  which Randy asked the board how he would die.
• 2:27:54
  The board responded in a car at night alone.
• 2:28:00
  In 2007, after spending the evening with Darren.
• 2:28:04
  The last words he would say to him were Darren, I will see you
• 2:28:09
  in hell. The next morning, Darren
• 2:28:12
  received a phone call from Randy's girlfriend Alicia,
• 2:28:16
  saying that Randy never made it home after he left.
• 2:28:20
  Instead, he had passed away in a violent head on collision,
• 2:28:25
  ultimately passing away in a car at night and alone.
• 2:28:32
  This devastating passing, along with the frequent contact with
• 2:28:36
  the entity known as Zozo over the years, led to a fascination
• 2:28:41
  and borderline obsession with the search for answers for
• 2:28:44
  Darren Evans. During the time before and after
• 2:28:49
  Randy's death, he had been living in a home in Oklahoma
• 2:28:52
  City, OK that would become synonymous with the demon's
• 2:28:57
  name. It was here that the worst
• 2:29:00
  afflictions brought on by the entity would take place to him
• 2:29:05
  and his family. Darren's fascination with the
• 2:29:08
  occult led him to hanging on to and possessing multiple Ouija
• 2:29:13
  boards and other various occult objects.
• 2:29:18
  It was here that he began to study on a much more in depth
• 2:29:21
  and organized basis, just trying to figure out who or what Zozo
• 2:29:27
  was. But this research would soon be
• 2:29:31
  interrupted and this home lived himself, his wife Kathleen, and
• 2:29:38
  their young daughter at the time.
• 2:29:41
  During a session with his wife Kathleen one evening while their
• 2:29:44
  daughter slept rooms away, Zozo would once again make itself
• 2:29:50
  present in their lives, but this time seemed to take possession
• 2:29:55
  of Darren. Kathleen trembled with fear and
• 2:29:59
  bated breath as something stared at her through Darren's eyes,
• 2:30:05
  something that clearly wasn't human.
• 2:30:08
  He then turned violent, attempting to attack her.
• 2:30:13
  Fortunately for Kathleen, she was able to say goodbye and get
• 2:30:18
  away before any harm could be done to her.
• 2:30:21
  Several minutes later, Darren would come back to himself with
• 2:30:26
  no memory of what had taken place.
• 2:30:30
  After this session, things seemed to escalate in intensity.
• 2:30:37
  Sounds began to rap throughout the entire home, from knocking
• 2:30:42
  to hissing, footsteps and banging, all seemingly with no
• 2:30:49
  explainable origin. The family got so terrified that
• 2:30:55
  they sectioned off a particular bedroom upstairs, calling it
• 2:30:59
  their safe room. One night, however, not everyone
• 2:31:04
  was within the safe room. Suddenly, an overwhelming sense
• 2:31:10
  of terror creeped upon Darren as he was trying to sleep.
• 2:31:15
  He rushed to the safe room to attempt to stop what he was
• 2:31:18
  feeling. Quickly realizing he couldn't
• 2:31:21
  leave his family behind, he rushed back out of the room in
• 2:31:25
  an attempt to gather them and bring them to safety as well.
• 2:31:31
  As he was heading towards the stairs, his daughter had heard
• 2:31:35
  his cries and was now at the foot of the stairs.
• 2:31:40
  It was here that Darren saw her being lifted by invisible hands
• 2:31:44
  into the air and carried away from him, screaming for his
• 2:31:52
  child as she screamed for her father.
• 2:31:54
  Darren ran down the stairs as fast as he possibly could but
• 2:31:59
  couldn't see her anywhere. Insight.
• 2:32:02
  He then heard her muffled screams coming from the
• 2:32:05
  basement. At first the door was locked and
• 2:32:10
  wouldn't open, but after adrenaline and brute force,
• 2:32:15
  Darren thankfully was able to open it.
• 2:32:18
  He then retrieved his hysterical child and brought her to the
• 2:32:22
  safety of the safe room. Once inside the room, the family
• 2:32:27
  huddled together in fear as they continued to hear movement and
• 2:32:31
  noises all throughout the house. After this abhorrent nightmare
• 2:32:36
  of a situation, the family knew they had to get out of the
• 2:32:40
  house. This situation and the many
• 2:32:43
  other paranormal experiences had led to a lifelong fascination
• 2:32:48
  for Darren Evans with the occult and finding out just exactly
• 2:32:53
  what Sozo is. But was it worth jeopardizing
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  his family's safety? It took some time but the family
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  would soon relocate to another home and once his family was
• 2:33:07
  safe, Darren was able to continue his deep dive into the
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  unknown to try and track down and decipher just what this
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  entity could be and where it came from.
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  And although he knew the topic was vast, I think it went far
• 2:33:25
  deeper than he ever anticipated. Whilst trying to dig up more
• 2:33:29
  information, he posted his experiences to an old paranormal
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  form in 2009 and since then many, many people have shared
• 2:33:42
  their experiences with the demonic force, many of which
• 2:33:47
  have been documented and compared by Darren himself on
• 2:33:51
  his website. But these experiences are not
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  just a 21st or even 20th century phenomena, they date back far
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  older than that. Not every fine detail will be
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  mentioned here, but I will do my best to list the most important
• 2:34:08
  details that I could find in regards to the origin of Zozo.
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  According to Darren and other online sources, Zozo in the old
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  Basque language means Blackbird or crow.
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  The Zo people of Haiti practiced a form of voodoo whose rituals
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  involve horrific scarification as well as the intake and
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  passing around of bodily fluids and bizarre rituals.
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  Their witch doctors are called Zozo and wear demonic looking
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  masks as part of their death ritual.
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  When someone is passing away, they lift up the mask at the
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  moment of death to take in the person's final breath.
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  This is apparently done to absorb the soul of the person to
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  gain more spiritual power. Zozo also in the Malay language
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  is the same as it is in English, but it translates to wandering
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  spirit, which is a spirit they believe to steal people's souls
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  while they sleep, which is also bizarre because sleep is often
• 2:35:20
  considered the cousin of death. Zozo has been called the
• 2:35:25
  minister of deception. It is known to convince you that
• 2:35:29
  it is a deceased loved one or friend or even someone you've
• 2:35:33
  idolized, when in reality, it's not.
• 2:35:39
  Sessions typically start out friendly and inviting, but soon
• 2:35:44
  turned malevolent and dangerous. During his research over the
• 2:35:49
  years, Darren made contact with and spoke to famous demonologist
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  John Zappos who shared with him that in his experience with over
• 2:36:00
  40 years of studying the demonic and paranormal, the name Zozo
• 2:36:05
  and other pseudonyms of its name kept coming up in his
• 2:36:08
  investigations, which too led him to seek answers as to what
• 2:36:13
  it could be. And some of those
• 2:36:16
  investigations, when questioned, the demon stated that it was the
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  son of Satan himself. But Zapfis thinks perhaps is
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  with many deities that seem to be lurking in the shadows.
• 2:36:30
  Zozo could be an entity that's existed far before the founding
• 2:36:35
  of Christianity. Besides evidence showing up in
• 2:36:38
  Africa and Egypt, there's also evidence found linking Zozo to
• 2:36:44
  ancient Mesopotamia as well. Other names Zozo has gone by
• 2:36:49
  throughout the ages have been Zuzu, Zaza, and Mamo, among many
• 2:36:56
  others. The name Zuzu could refer to
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  Pazuzu, the famed demon from the film The Exorcist, which in
• 2:37:05
  reality was a demonic entity from ancient Mesopotamian
• 2:37:09
  religion. It's incredibly strange to note
• 2:37:12
  the following as well. Zozo was replaced in the story
• 2:37:16
  of the exorcism of Rolling Dough, and Peter Blatty was
• 2:37:20
  using it as inspiration to write The Exorcist.
• 2:37:25
  He changed Zozo to Pazuzu. Zozo is believed to be the demon
• 2:37:31
  that possessed Roland. It was described as a terrifying
• 2:37:35
  form that first appeared in the Neo Assyrian period, roughly
• 2:37:40
  around 934 to 610 BC. It had a monstrous head
• 2:37:46
  resembling A fierce lion or a dog with horns, and had an
• 2:37:52
  emaciated human body with clawed hands, a scorpion's tail, and
• 2:37:58
  two sets of wings. One translation reads.
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  I am Pazuzu, the son of Hambu, king of the Lilu demons.
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  I have scaled the powerful mountains.
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  They trembled. The contrary winds were headed
• 2:38:17
  West 1 by 1. I broke their wings.
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  Pazuzu and other demons like it were held responsible for
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  ailments like disease, fetal death, nightmares, and much
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  more. Could it be that this ancient
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  demonic force is what could be plaguing people all the way into
• 2:38:39
  modern times? The demon Zozo is also mentioned
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  in the French Demonic Encyclopedia is one of the
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  demons responsible for diabolical possession and
• 2:38:52
  corruption. The possession of a young girl
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  in 1816 is noted as a documented case where Zozo, among several
• 2:39:03
  other demons were present. Other noteworthy possession
• 2:39:07
  cases over the ages ranging closer to modern times that
• 2:39:11
  bears Zozo's name other than the exorcism of rolling dough in the
• 2:39:15
  1950s, are the possession of Doris Blither in 1972 in Los
• 2:39:22
  Angeles, the Enfield Poltergeist incident in 1977 in the UK, and
• 2:39:30
  as recent as 2012 where a possession incident led to an
• 2:39:36
  attempted murder. Other theories with how this
• 2:39:40
  entity could communicate with so many people so quickly and
• 2:39:44
  across the globe over the years, besides supernatural ability of
• 2:39:48
  its own, would be that its own reach is perhaps being
• 2:39:52
  strengthened by an agrigor or collective group of thought form
• 2:39:58
  created by occultists for a certain purpose.
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  However, this seems unlikely considering the entity doesn't
• 2:40:08
  seem to serve any human interest other than to destroy the person
• 2:40:13
  or people's lives it makes contact with.
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  Agrigors are typically formed to bring control over a summon
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  deity for the person or groups bidding.
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  But perhaps instead there is a cold worshipping Zozo?
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  I mean that would make more sense to me.
• 2:40:32
  People who have made contact with the entity via spirit or
• 2:40:36
  Ouija board have also been asked to chant or spell out phrases in
• 2:40:40
  Hebrew or Latin, which has convinced many of the
• 2:40:44
  intelligence of the being that they're speaking with.
• 2:40:49
  What is also interesting is that the letter Z was actually
• 2:40:52
  removed from the original Latin alphabet because it was
• 2:40:56
  considered too evil when pronouncing it.
• 2:40:59
  It was said that one's face would make a death grimace like
• 2:41:03
  that of a corpse, and that it mimicked the letter S like an
• 2:41:08
  evil twin. Perhaps the entity uses this
• 2:41:12
  name as some sort of mocking, whether to God or something
• 2:41:17
  else. One may also ask, despite the
• 2:41:22
  origin, theories and historical details that could be linked to
• 2:41:25
  this ancient demonic force, how would one know if they
• 2:41:29
  encountered such a thing? These are what's known as Zozo's
• 2:41:33
  calling cards when it's being summoned using a Ouija board.
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  The obvious is there that the planchette will begin to move on
• 2:41:42
  its own, but some less obvious signs are there as well, and are
• 2:41:48
  as follows. The planchette will move in a
• 2:41:51
  rainbow pattern from side to side, spelling ZOZO over and
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  over again, also known as the rainbow effect.
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  It can also move in repeating Figure 8 movements like an
• 2:42:08
  Infinity sign. The planchat will spell out
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  various versions of the demon's name, like Zozo, Zozo, Zaza,
• 2:42:19
  Zuzu, or Mama. You may also begin to see
• 2:42:23
  shadows moving around the area where you were hosting the
• 2:42:27
  session, like you're seeing through the thinnest sheet and
• 2:42:31
  to a Dark World that exists just behind your vision.
• 2:42:37
  And you and whoever you may be with, They start to feel scared,
• 2:42:41
  uneasy, or upset, seemingly for no other reason before or after
• 2:42:49
  this takes place. When you tell this entity
• 2:42:53
  goodbye, typically the best way to close a session, they may not
• 2:42:58
  truly be goodbye because often times depending on how long the
• 2:43:03
  session has been for, like an ever widening door, the entity
• 2:43:08
  may have had just enough time to sneak in to begin to wreak havoc
• 2:43:13
  upon your life. And thus begins what many
• 2:43:17
  demonologists and religious leaders alike call demonic
• 2:43:20
  obsession, which is where the entity becomes aware of you and
• 2:43:25
  begins to crave you, which then leads to oppression or begins to
• 2:43:31
  inflict various forms of torture upon you in an effort to break
• 2:43:36
  you down, whether that's physically, psychologically, or
• 2:43:41
  spiritually. It will also work to isolate you
• 2:43:45
  from others, especially those who care about you.
• 2:43:49
  And finally, if you're incredibly unlucky, possession
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  or the entity finally takes control of you as its vessel.
• 2:44:01
  All of which to me are absolutely terrifying in every
• 2:44:04
  imaginable way. Darren Evans to this day
• 2:44:08
  continues to research the Zozo Phenomena, having been involved
• 2:44:13
  in the number of paranormal investigations, shows, and
• 2:44:17
  various other public and private events, as well as radio shows
• 2:44:22
  and podcasts, many of which he goes into various degrees of
• 2:44:26
  details regarding his encounters, other people's
• 2:44:30
  encounters, and other various historical details.
• 2:44:35
  He also in 2016 compiled his year's worth of research and
• 2:44:38
  experiences into a book also titled The Zozo Phenomena, which
• 2:44:44
  you can read and learn more about the entity and the topic
• 2:44:47
  as a whole. If you're interested, I'll link
• 2:44:50
  it below. I also pulled a lot of this
• 2:44:53
  information from various interviews which I'll also be
• 2:44:57
  linking below, as well as an older website he runs that
• 2:45:01
  doesn't seem to have been updated in a while but supplied
• 2:45:04
  me with much information to get the story as cohesive as I
• 2:45:08
  possibly could. I also sourced the photos of the
• 2:45:12
  apparitions from the site, some of which were taken by Evans
• 2:45:16
  himself over the years. So does this demon or ancient
• 2:45:21
  force truly exist? Is it some kind of elder God, a
• 2:45:27
  pre Christian deity or being or manifestation of occult or
• 2:45:33
  Luciferian practices? Did Darren Evans just make it up
• 2:45:38
  and did thousands of people find it interesting enough to make up
• 2:45:42
  their own stories and partake in a mass charade that has lasted
• 2:45:46
  years? All of these answers may never
• 2:45:49
  truly be known, but my opinion is this I think not only given
• 2:45:55
  the wide array of strange coincidences and details
• 2:45:59
  throughout history. From the origins, to the stories
• 2:46:02
  of this creature existing in distant past to the present, to
• 2:46:07
  literally thousands of people. From casual interest in the
• 2:46:11
  occult to more hardcore fanatics, religious scholars,
• 2:46:17
  demonologists, and more claiming to have had experiences with
• 2:46:22
  this thing. With all of these details in
• 2:46:24
  mind, I certainly think it very well could be real.
• 2:46:29
  I do think there are things that exist in the shadows, things we
• 2:46:33
  can't see or touch that are there watching and waiting to
• 2:46:39
  strike when and if the opportunity presents itself.
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  So my advice to all of you to avoid any possibility of opening
• 2:46:49
  a door that you can't close and inviting evil into your life is
• 2:46:54
  this. Don't mess with Ouija boards.
• 2:46:58
  These things are not toys. Whether you believe it or not,
• 2:47:02
  these entities do exist and they believe in you.
• 2:47:07
  So keep away from them because you might just let something in
• 2:47:11
  that won't want to leave. Even if you say goodbye.
• 2:47:22
  Lying dormant within the streets of suburbia, there is an unseen
• 2:47:27
  evil. Like a mouse falling into a pit
• 2:47:30
  of snakes, an unsuspecting family disturbed a slumbering
• 2:47:35
  force and became enshrouded in a fog of darkness.
• 2:47:41
  This is the untold story of the Bel Air House and the
• 2:47:46
  terrifying, malevolent entities that dwell within its walls.
• 2:47:53
  Bellaire, OH, an area rich in history, was once known as Glass
• 2:47:58
  City. Having once been a major glass
• 2:48:01
  production hub in the late 1800s, is now known as the All
• 2:48:06
  American town, having been used in many Hollywood productions as
• 2:48:12
  a backdrop for lots of movies, some of which you've probably
• 2:48:16
  seen over the years. The town that epitomizes small
• 2:48:20
  America's daily life has long since moved past its industrial
• 2:48:25
  days and has become known for something else.
• 2:48:29
  On the outskirts of the town lies an old two-story Victorian
• 2:48:33
  home that has become famous over the recent years, both among
• 2:48:38
  locals as well as across the country, with some saying it
• 2:48:43
  could be the most haunted place in the United States, if not the
• 2:48:47
  world. This is a bold statement to say
• 2:48:50
  the least, but the countless visitors to the house have
• 2:48:53
  reported strange, disturbing, and unexplainable encounters
• 2:48:59
  within its antique walls. But just how did the story
• 2:49:02
  begin? Where did the legend of the Bel
• 2:49:05
  Air house originate from? Let us first take a look at the
• 2:49:09
  home's dark history. Built in 1887 by a coal tycoon
• 2:49:16
  named Jacob Hetherington, the house sits adjacent from ancient
• 2:49:20
  Native American burial caves. It is also located where the
• 2:49:25
  scene of a massacre took place during the French and Indian
• 2:49:29
  War. It would sit on top of an active
• 2:49:33
  coal mine for years before there was a major explosion that took
• 2:49:38
  place within the mine, killing multiple men working deep within
• 2:49:42
  the earth directly underneath the house.
• 2:49:46
  Could the culmination of these tragic deaths have opened up a
• 2:49:50
  portal within the Bel Air House? A portal that allowed something
• 2:49:54
  to come through that wasn't supposed to be here?
• 2:49:58
  Shortly after this explosion is when the strange activity began.
• 2:50:03
  Jacob's son Alex moved into the home with his daughter, lied,
• 2:50:08
  but was soon stricken with seizures and hallucinations.
• 2:50:13
  He would ultimately be committed to an insane asylum for the rest
• 2:50:17
  of his life, claiming that demons were trying to kill him.
• 2:50:23
  As time progressed, Lyde would take charge of the family
• 2:50:26
  business, being helped by her younger brother Edwin.
• 2:50:31
  Lyde would tragically and unexpectedly pass away 1 morning
• 2:50:36
  in the kitchen of the home. Edwin, now alone and grief
• 2:50:40
  stricken, descended into mysticism and the occult in
• 2:50:45
  search of answers. He began to regularly host
• 2:50:49
  seances in the kitchen where his sister had passed away to
• 2:50:54
  attempt to make contact with her on the other side, and it is
• 2:50:58
  believed that contact was indeed made, but with who or what is
• 2:51:04
  uncertain. In 2005, Kristen Lee and her
• 2:51:09
  family are desperate for a new home.
• 2:51:12
  Like a curse, for the second time in less than two years, a
• 2:51:17
  flash flood has destroyed their home and all of their
• 2:51:20
  possessions. Kristen, her two sons, Nicholas
• 2:51:25
  and Lane, along with their father Hefe, have been fortunate
• 2:51:29
  enough to room with friends during this difficult time.
• 2:51:33
  Kristen has continued to try and get the family back on their
• 2:51:36
  feet and no longer wants to burden her friends with the
• 2:51:39
  boarding of her family. So she constantly checks the
• 2:51:43
  real estate listings hoping to find a home that her and her
• 2:51:47
  family can finally settle down into.
• 2:51:50
  Given the circumstances, the family didn't have a big budget
• 2:51:54
  and would have to rebuild their lives from scratch.
• 2:51:59
  But soon her determination seems to pay off.
• 2:52:03
  While at work, Kristen often browses real estate websites for
• 2:52:07
  new listings as well as foreclosures and a new listing
• 2:52:11
  soon catches her eye. Recently foreclosed on but now
• 2:52:16
  available for purchase, she lays eyes on the old Victorian home
• 2:52:20
  for the first time. It's 4 bedrooms and two bathroom
• 2:52:24
  setup along with plenty of room would be perfect for her family.
• 2:52:30
  The price seems almost too good to be true for her budget as
• 2:52:33
  well, and although the listing lacks more details, it's like
• 2:52:38
  her prayers had finally been answered.
• 2:52:41
  But by what? Not wanting to lose the
• 2:52:45
  property, Kristen arranges a showing of the home as soon as
• 2:52:48
  possible and before too long finds herself on the front steps
• 2:52:54
  of the Bel Air house. She is immediately taken in by
• 2:52:58
  the beautiful craftsmanship of the woodwork.
• 2:53:01
  The wrap around porch facing the Ohio River soon has her
• 2:53:05
  imagining peaceful evenings watching the water flow.
• 2:53:10
  Upon entering the home, she continues to be impressed.
• 2:53:14
  Old marble and cherry wood ordain the interior of the home
• 2:53:18
  and it seems almost too perfect, like something straight out of
• 2:53:22
  her dreams. The family also has a dog named
• 2:53:26
  Bella, and the large fenced in backyard is perfect for her to
• 2:53:31
  run in and the boys to play in. Dumbfounded by her luck, Kristen
• 2:53:36
  puts in an offer on the House that evening and it's accepted
• 2:53:40
  the following morning. After two years of chaos and
• 2:53:44
  uncertainty, the Lee family can finally breathe again and start
• 2:53:49
  living a normal life. But just as all seems quiet and
• 2:53:53
  settled, the family begins to discover that the house is
• 2:53:57
  anything but normal at first. Upon hearing odd noises in the
• 2:54:03
  night, the family wrote off the sounds as nothing more than
• 2:54:06
  anxiety and an old house. Being slightly scared or anxious
• 2:54:11
  upon moving into a new place, particularly following a very
• 2:54:15
  uncertain time in one's life, is not out of the ordinary.
• 2:54:19
  But these sounds soon become too much to dismiss.
• 2:54:22
  They soon begin to hear footsteps at all hours of the
• 2:54:25
  day and night. Kristen would later describe the
• 2:54:28
  activity as so. I would hear footsteps above and
• 2:54:32
  sometimes below me, even when there was no one else home but
• 2:54:36
  me. And I always felt as if there
• 2:54:38
  were thousands of eyes staring at me at all times, watching my
• 2:54:44
  every move. Along with the strange noises,
• 2:54:47
  items soon begin to go missing. From keys to towels to trinkets.
• 2:54:53
  1 moment they would be there and within seconds they would
• 2:54:57
  vanish. And Kristen isn't the only one
• 2:55:00
  experiencing strange happenings within the Bel Air house at the
• 2:55:05
  time. Her 12 year old son Nicholas
• 2:55:07
  begins to experience a malevolent force that seems to
• 2:55:11
  dwell within his bedroom. At first, he too begins to feel
• 2:55:15
  as if he's being watched at all times, and it seems to get
• 2:55:19
  exponentially worse at night. He begins to have night terrors,
• 2:55:24
  feeling someone or something covering his mouth and nose,
• 2:55:29
  forcing him to suffocate. One night, he wakes up in a cold
• 2:55:33
  sweat. It's storming outside.
• 2:55:37
  Flashes of lightning occasionally light up the room.
• 2:55:40
  What he sees disturbs him to his core.
• 2:55:45
  In the corner of his room towards his closet.
• 2:55:49
  As a burst of light fills the room, he sees a blackened figure
• 2:55:53
  staring at him and shaking profusely.
• 2:55:59
  The young boy is utterly terrified, rushing out of his
• 2:56:02
  room as fast as he possibly can. He wakes up his mother and
• 2:56:07
  refuses to sleep there any longer.
• 2:56:10
  The boy is so hysterical, the only solution was to send him to
• 2:56:14
  his grandmother's house, located 30 minutes away.
• 2:56:19
  What makes this case all the more compelling is that Kristen
• 2:56:22
  has a master's degree in psychology and works as a mental
• 2:56:26
  health physician. With this, her professional
• 2:56:30
  opinion of what Nicholas had experienced was initially
• 2:56:34
  contributed to stress and fatigue, both common factors
• 2:56:37
  that tend to make the human mind see and experience things that
• 2:56:41
  aren't really there. And these probably could explain
• 2:56:45
  many similar situations, and most would agree.
• 2:56:49
  However, Kristen's view would soon undergo A radical change
• 2:56:54
  after one terrifying experience of her own.
• 2:56:58
  After months of strange happenings within the home, it
• 2:57:02
  was now winter and the Lee family, still tied on finances,
• 2:57:07
  was sleeping in the basement near the fireplace to save money
• 2:57:11
  on the gas bill. Hefe was asleep in a recliner
• 2:57:15
  and Lane as well as Kristen were asleep on the wrap around couch
• 2:57:20
  located in the corner of the room.
• 2:57:22
  All seemed normal until Kristen was woken up by the feeling of
• 2:57:27
  the couch cushion being pressed down near her legs.
• 2:57:31
  She then found herself face to face with a terrifying figure of
• 2:57:36
  a man staring directly at her. She would later describe the
• 2:57:40
  encounter as So I woke up being face to face with this Gray
• 2:57:45
  figure of a man. He was translucent, almost like
• 2:57:49
  a mist, but the mist had features like a person.
• 2:57:55
  The face was completely emotionless and had dark sunken
• 2:57:59
  in eyes. Kristen asked who are you?
• 2:58:04
  What are you doing here? What do you want?
• 2:58:07
  But to no response, just a blank, lifeless stare.
• 2:58:13
  Within seconds the apparition disappears, but before she can
• 2:58:18
  ponder what had just taken place, the silence is once again
• 2:58:22
  shattered. But by this time it was the
• 2:58:25
  family dog, Bella, who was barking and running around the
• 2:58:30
  room. Kristen, attempting to keep her
• 2:58:33
  family asleep through the ordeal, tries to quiet the dog
• 2:58:36
  down and notices that she can see her breath in the air, and
• 2:58:41
  although it's cold outside, it's not nearly that cold near the
• 2:58:45
  fireplace. She then sees the figure
• 2:58:48
  materialize once more and silently moved from one side of
• 2:58:52
  the room and through the wall on the other side, vanishing
• 2:58:57
  completely. No longer wanting to face
• 2:59:00
  whatever this was alone, she woke up her husband and told him
• 2:59:04
  what had just taken place. His response, however, was that
• 2:59:09
  she was too tired and needed to go back to sleep.
• 2:59:14
  Could what Kristen had experienced been a stress or
• 2:59:17
  fatigue induced hallucination? Perhaps, but someone with a
• 2:59:21
  professional background such as herself surely would know how to
• 2:59:25
  differentiate, wouldn't you think?
• 2:59:29
  Finally, knowing she's not crazy and totally convinced that the
• 2:59:33
  home was haunted, Kristen begins to try and make plans to get her
• 2:59:37
  family out of the Bel Air house and to safety elsewhere.
• 2:59:43
  As soon as she can, she puts the home up for sale and moves the
• 2:59:47
  family to a nearby rental home. Although she's relieved to no
• 2:59:51
  longer physically be in the house, no one is buying it to
• 2:59:56
  try and cover expenses. She has no other choice other
• 3:00:00
  than to make the house a rental property.
• 3:00:03
  But almost as soon as the first family moves in, they move out.
• 3:00:08
  And this kick starts a revolving door of tenants seemingly stuck
• 3:00:12
  with the house. Kristen comes to the conclusion
• 3:00:15
  that no family will or should live there.
• 3:00:19
  So what should be done with a haunted property?
• 3:00:22
  Needing to make ends meet, she comes up with a unique idea.
• 3:00:26
  She turns the home into an afterlife research property.
• 3:00:30
  This would allow various groups to come in conduct their own
• 3:00:34
  research on just what exactly was taking place within the Bel
• 3:00:38
  Air House. And the idea works.
• 3:00:42
  Soon groups from all over the United States and Canada are
• 3:00:46
  travelling to temporarily live within the home to conduct
• 3:00:50
  research. And from here we gain some more
• 3:00:54
  interesting stories, to say the least.
• 3:00:58
  One group, who calls themselves the Armchair Researchers from
• 3:01:02
  upstate New York, consists of two women, one being a birthing
• 3:01:07
  nurse and the other a nurse who works with dying patients.
• 3:01:12
  They found paranormal and afterlife research to be a
• 3:01:15
  natural extension of their day jobs for the last 15 years.
• 3:01:21
  After hearing about the Bel Air house, they soon find themselves
• 3:01:24
  driving to Ohio to investigate the phenomena for themselves.
• 3:01:30
  First impressions tend to go a long way, and the first
• 3:01:33
  impression the women got upon their arrival was very creepy.
• 3:01:38
  The home by this point was in a moderate state of decay.
• 3:01:42
  The fence that had once surrounded the backyard was
• 3:01:45
  mostly blown down, and the exterior of the home as well as
• 3:01:50
  the porch was weathered and rotting.
• 3:01:54
  But despite the odd feelings initially, they make their way
• 3:01:57
  inside now. At first they actually felt
• 3:02:01
  welcomed, almost invited in, greeted by the same cherry wood
• 3:02:06
  interior that has greeted everyone.
• 3:02:08
  But as soon as they set up their equipment and prepare for their
• 3:02:12
  stay, as day turns to night, there seems to be a shift in
• 3:02:16
  energy within the home. The shift went from warm and
• 3:02:21
  inviting to dark and ominous. Then began the noises, banging,
• 3:02:29
  footsteps and the moving of furniture.
• 3:02:32
  The ladies also noted the feeling of being watched
• 3:02:35
  everywhere they went while asking probing questions.
• 3:02:39
  As they wandered throughout the house, they would soon also
• 3:02:43
  witness strange lights in various parts of the home.
• 3:02:47
  And along with the lights, there soon also came full blown
• 3:02:50
  apparitions, all of which seem to be centered around the
• 3:02:54
  basement. And as the night progressed, so
• 3:02:58
  did their feelings of anxiety. While taking a short break and
• 3:03:02
  sitting down on one of the couches in the basement, the two
• 3:03:06
  heard what they described as a large crashing noise above them,
• 3:03:10
  as if someone or something had thrown a bookshelf across the
• 3:03:14
  house itself, shaking the entire home.
• 3:03:19
  Absolutely terrified and panicked, the women
• 3:03:22
  apprehensively made their way up the stairs and rushed out of the
• 3:03:26
  home as fast as they possibly could, leaving behind equipment
• 3:03:30
  and personal items they were too frightened to go back.
• 3:03:35
  Upon learning of what had taken place, Kristen wasn't at all
• 3:03:39
  surprised. Over the years, there have been
• 3:03:41
  dozens of teams of people who couldn't seem to last the night
• 3:03:45
  for one experience or another. People have been scratched,
• 3:03:49
  pushed down stairs, punched, bitten, and even in one instance
• 3:03:56
  thrown across the room by a violent and unseen force.
• 3:04:01
  Another noteworthy story comes from a team located locally
• 3:04:05
  there in Ohio. They have had the opportunity to
• 3:04:08
  visit the home and conduct investigations numerous times
• 3:04:12
  over the years, but their experience, in particular one
• 3:04:16
  night, truly makes me question just what exactly haunts the Bel
• 3:04:20
  Air House. There was three of them this
• 3:04:23
  time, and it was shortly after midnight when they made their
• 3:04:26
  way into the attic to continue their investigation.
• 3:04:30
  During their questioning, they seemed to be getting direct
• 3:04:33
  interaction with something through their spirit box.
• 3:04:37
  Then towards the corner of the attic, a mist seemed to
• 3:04:42
  materialize coming up from the attic floor, slowly enveloping
• 3:04:47
  the group. Glancing down, they were now too
• 3:04:51
  stunned to speak. They saw what appeared to be
• 3:04:54
  thousands of black snake like creatures, Slytherin, over their
• 3:04:59
  feet and onto their legs. The creatures then began to form
• 3:05:04
  a figure standing in front of one of the attic windows, a
• 3:05:08
  creature of pure darkness that seemed to stare at them with
• 3:05:13
  thousands of tiny beady eyes. The crew, which consisted of two
• 3:05:19
  men and a woman, ran for their lives, descending the attic
• 3:05:24
  stairs as quickly as possible, leaving behind anything and
• 3:05:28
  everything that they had brought with them that wasn't located on
• 3:05:31
  their person and out of the home for good.
• 3:05:35
  All of these stories and experiences have led many to
• 3:05:38
  believe that the Bel Air House is some kind of magnet for
• 3:05:41
  paranormal activity. A magnet or a host to a portal
• 3:05:46
  for spirits, whether that portal was opened by the tragedy that
• 3:05:51
  took place within the mind that once existed below its
• 3:05:54
  foundation, or one that was open due to seances being conducted
• 3:05:59
  within the house on multiple occasions.
• 3:06:02
  But over the years, many different entities have been
• 3:06:05
  documented, from what appear to be human ghosts to perhaps
• 3:06:10
  something more sinister. One such entity goes by the name
• 3:06:15
  of Emily Davis. It is believed that Emily Davis
• 3:06:19
  was a child that drowned in the Ohio River that flows right by
• 3:06:23
  the home. Her room is allegedly the same
• 3:06:26
  room that Kristin's son Nicholas once stayed in.
• 3:06:29
  And besides the basement, it also seems to be a hotspot for
• 3:06:34
  paranormal activity. Through various investigations,
• 3:06:39
  1's contact has been made and trust seems to be gained.
• 3:06:43
  People are often attacked, which have led many to believe that
• 3:06:47
  Emily isn't a child at all, but a demon.
• 3:06:52
  Perhaps it could be the same demonic creature that frightened
• 3:06:56
  Nicholas so bad that he moved out of the home.
• 3:06:59
  As previously mentioned, many investigators also have claimed
• 3:07:04
  to have some activity follow them home and even haunt their
• 3:07:08
  dreams, as if the house or the beings within the house are
• 3:07:13
  calling out to them to come back for one reason or another.
• 3:07:19
  Although many questions may never be answered surrounding
• 3:07:22
  the Bel Air House, one thing is for certain, it continues to be
• 3:07:27
  considered one of the most haunted places in America, if
• 3:07:31
  not the world. It also continues to serve as a
• 3:07:34
  place of study for those wanting to investigate the supernatural
• 3:07:38
  forces that dwell within its walls.
• 3:07:42
  But if you find yourself being drawn to the old Victorian, just
• 3:07:47
  know that if you're not careful, you too could find yourself
• 3:07:51
  being made a part of its history, whether you like it or
• 3:07:55
  not. Over the years I've covered a
• 3:08:00
  wide array of mysteries from The Mothman to UFOs, conspiracies to
• 3:08:06
  cold cases, and one topic that seemed to resonate more with all
• 3:08:11
  of you, and one that I've always found fascinating is hauntings.
• 3:08:16
  Whether that's haunted places, haunted people, or experiences
• 3:08:20
  that people have had that they would consider paranormal in
• 3:08:24
  nature. So today I'm trying something
• 3:08:27
  new. And don't worry, this is adding
• 3:08:30
  content here on Mystery Archives, so there will still be
• 3:08:33
  episodes of The Untold Story for you to enjoy.
• 3:08:36
  Those just take a good chunk of time to produce.
• 3:08:39
  So in between those episodes, I'd really like to share stories
• 3:08:43
  from you guys, the community, to bring awareness that these kinds
• 3:08:48
  of experiences really do happen. And having grown up in a haunted
• 3:08:52
  home myself, I know that often times people are hesitant to
• 3:08:55
  share their stories for fear of ridicule or for fear of whatever
• 3:09:00
  they've experienced flaring up again and reigniting their
• 3:09:04
  personal nightmare. This platform will hopefully
• 3:09:07
  give their stories justice, have them heard, and give you a
• 3:09:12
  glimpse into what people like yourselves have experienced.
• 3:09:16
  These are your paranormal encounters when a young family
• 3:09:24
  encounters the devil and the flesh.
• 3:09:28
  Told from the perspective of a young girl, this terrifying tale
• 3:09:32
  will have you questioning just what could be happening across
• 3:09:35
  the street from you, next door, or even in your very own home.
• 3:09:43
  I was almost 7 when these events took place and I'll be 40 later
• 3:09:48
  this year. I lived in the Glendale
• 3:09:50
  apartments in Rock Hill, SC. My baby brother at the time
• 3:09:56
  wasn't quite even a year old now.
• 3:09:59
  My mom was young when she had me at 17, and my stepdad Keith was
• 3:10:03
  exactly 2 months to the day older than her.
• 3:10:07
  My mom has been gone for 14 years now, but I still remember
• 3:10:11
  this day like it was yesterday. We had left to get dinner that
• 3:10:16
  night and by the time we had gotten back, Keith was passed
• 3:10:19
  out in the front seat of his little hatchback Mustang in the
• 3:10:22
  parking lot. This was the first of two that
• 3:10:25
  would find themselves wrapped around trees in my town.
• 3:10:29
  Keith was suffering from what would later be diagnosed as
• 3:10:32
  schizophrenia with bipolar tendencies and had seemingly
• 3:10:37
  been self medicating to alleviate his symptoms since he
• 3:10:41
  was asleep. My mom urged me not to wake him
• 3:10:45
  as I helped her get my infant brother at the time out of the
• 3:10:48
  car and into our apartment. As we began to wind down for the
• 3:10:53
  evening, our phone began to ring, shattering the calm peace
• 3:10:59
  that was our lives. It was Keith's mom, Mary.
• 3:11:03
  She lived on the other side of the complex, which mostly housed
• 3:11:07
  old people and people with disabilities.
• 3:11:11
  She sounded panicked, screaming that something was happening in
• 3:11:15
  her apartment, that she needed help immediately.
• 3:11:19
  My mom rushed to go wake Keith up out in the parking lot, but
• 3:11:23
  upon running up to the car, he was nowhere to be found.
• 3:11:27
  She rushed back into our apartment saying that she
• 3:11:30
  couldn't find Keith when he suddenly appeared in the hallway
• 3:11:35
  and neither of us had seen him come into the apartment.
• 3:11:39
  He seemed completely out of it and was terrified, saying that
• 3:11:43
  something was taking him over and that he couldn't control
• 3:11:48
  himself. I saw his eyes, they were black.
• 3:11:53
  My mother didn't have time to deal with or process his antics
• 3:11:57
  and gathered us to walk to his mother's apartment.
• 3:11:59
  In the meantime, as we rushed over there as fast as we could,
• 3:12:04
  I remember getting a skin crawling feeling every time
• 3:12:07
  Keith looked at me, like it was something completely foreign to
• 3:12:11
  this world peering into my soul. We arrived and were quickly let
• 3:12:16
  into Mary's apartment. Her lights were flickering and
• 3:12:20
  her pictures were swaying back and forth on the walls.
• 3:12:24
  A heavy presence could be felt by all of us.
• 3:12:28
  Mary was deeply religious and couldn't understand just what
• 3:12:31
  was taking place, but she believed it to be evil.
• 3:12:36
  Keith was now standing in the living room and began to sway
• 3:12:39
  back and forth as the activity seemed to intensify.
• 3:12:44
  As my mother approached him to ask what he was doing, he began
• 3:12:48
  to laugh. This was the deepest, most
• 3:12:51
  maniacal laugh I have ever heard and I still get chills thinking
• 3:12:56
  about it. This voice was not his own.
• 3:13:00
  My mother quickly backed up, unsure of what to do, and he
• 3:13:05
  then began to point at me saying I'm going to sacrifice that
• 3:13:09
  child tonight. His eyes were now blood red.
• 3:13:15
  Mary by this time had grabbed some of her belongings from her
• 3:13:18
  room and happened to have some blessed oil along with her
• 3:13:21
  Bible. She threw the oil on Keith's
• 3:13:24
  face and it began to boil. The sound of sizzling and
• 3:13:29
  screaming was horrific. My mother's love for Keith
• 3:13:34
  quickly overpowered her fear and she pulled him into the bathroom
• 3:13:38
  to examine his face. She was freaking out to say the
• 3:13:42
  least, partially because of how unbelievable the circumstances
• 3:13:46
  were and just how badly he was burnt on his face.
• 3:13:51
  His eyes at this point were rolled into the back of his
• 3:13:54
  head. Then suddenly, without warning,
• 3:13:59
  he rushed my mom and pinned her against the wall.
• 3:14:03
  His younger sister, Nikki and his mother quickly rushed in to
• 3:14:07
  help free her, with Mary dumping more oil on him each time.
• 3:14:12
  His skin literally sizzled where it landed.
• 3:14:16
  This fortunately worked. Keith now laid catatonic on the
• 3:14:20
  bathroom floor. So all together, us girls moved
• 3:14:24
  him into a nearby bedroom and restrained him to the bed using
• 3:14:28
  anything we could find for our own safety.
• 3:14:33
  Shortly after we did this, his mother called the nearby oratory
• 3:14:37
  and asked for a priest to assist us immediately.
• 3:14:41
  Nikki, who was a teenager at the time, was trying to comfort me,
• 3:14:45
  telling me that Keith was just really sick and not to be
• 3:14:49
  scared. She encouraged me to try and get
• 3:14:52
  some sleep and I of course couldn't and wouldn't.
• 3:14:56
  I didn't dare close my eyes for fear of that thing hurting my
• 3:15:00
  mom. And this room with Keith was a
• 3:15:04
  picture of Jesus kneeling on top of a mountain.
• 3:15:07
  I heard Keith laughing in that other worldly voice.
• 3:15:11
  He called out to me. He said, you know, little girl,
• 3:15:16
  I used to be an Angel with the most beautiful wings until that
• 3:15:20
  bastard was born. Then I was cast from atop that
• 3:15:25
  mountain and banished. I asked who are you, the devil?
• 3:15:32
  He perked up, looked me dead in my eyes and said I am Lucifer,
• 3:15:38
  the light bringer here in the flesh.
• 3:15:42
  I'm not only taking Keith with me, but all of you as well.
• 3:15:46
  Now untie me. I ran hysterically to my mother
• 3:15:51
  who was having a cigarette to calm her nerves.
• 3:15:54
  She ran into the room to comfort him when he said do you want to
• 3:15:58
  see proof? And against her will, my mother
• 3:16:01
  then extinguished the cigarette into his arm with Keith
• 3:16:05
  exclaiming it feels so good. You'll have to adjust to the
• 3:16:10
  searing flames, but in due time you too will call it home.
• 3:16:16
  She then rushed out of the room and closed the door.
• 3:16:20
  We waited with bated breath for the priest to arrive when
• 3:16:24
  shortly after 3:00 AM there was a knock on the door.
• 3:16:27
  Thank God it was him. For the next several hours they
• 3:16:31
  attempted to cast this thing out of Keith, probably for the best.
• 3:16:36
  They kept me in the living room away from the demonic terror
• 3:16:40
  that was inhabiting his body. But my God, the smells that
• 3:16:44
  wafted throughout the complex like putrid meat and sulfur.
• 3:16:50
  I soon also heard moaning and growling from dogs that didn't
• 3:16:56
  exist. There was a strange fog that had
• 3:16:59
  enveloped the apartment itself, and a strange flickering light
• 3:17:04
  that now emanated from the room or the exorcism was taking
• 3:17:08
  place. I began to close my eyes and
• 3:17:12
  pray to God harder than I'd ever prayed before, wanting and
• 3:17:16
  wishing for all of it to end, when suddenly it did.
• 3:17:22
  Keith had seemingly been freed of these spiritual shackles, and
• 3:17:26
  although I was terrified, I was more than wanting to finally get
• 3:17:30
  some sleep. So after the priest departed and
• 3:17:34
  all seemed fine, we slowly made our way back home through the
• 3:17:38
  damp misty morning that was now upon us.
• 3:17:43
  Upon arriving home and heading inside, we all began to make our
• 3:17:47
  way to our bedrooms to try and sleep.
• 3:17:51
  I found myself in my bed, comfy and finally about to rest when I
• 3:17:57
  felt my bed shake. I quickly opened my eyes to find
• 3:18:01
  my bed off the floor and my bedpost balls screwed off each
• 3:18:07
  one in the corner of each post. Floating there.
• 3:18:12
  I screamed harder than I've ever screamed before, alerting my
• 3:18:15
  mother who rushed to save me. Upon her running in, my bed
• 3:18:20
  suddenly slammed to the ground and my bedpost balls all fell to
• 3:18:25
  the floor. The events of that night and the
• 3:18:29
  following morning can never be forgotten by me and my family.
• 3:18:33
  For the next year and a half, we dealt with similar smells
• 3:18:36
  wafting throughout our apartment, unseen snarls and
• 3:18:40
  growls, and a feeling of anxiety as if our every move was being
• 3:18:45
  watched. But thank God it all eventually
• 3:18:49
  faded. I had since asked Keith how he
• 3:18:52
  came to be in that state, but I could never really get a clear
• 3:18:56
  answer. He often drank moonshine and was
• 3:18:59
  in a bad state mentally and spiritually at the time.
• 3:19:03
  Perhaps this weakened him enough to let something in somehow.
• 3:19:08
  I've since moved on from that place, but heard something very
• 3:19:11
  interesting that I'd also like to share in regards to him.
• 3:19:15
  This was the apartment we lived in, and a young boy mysteriously
• 3:19:18
  passed away within it not too long ago.
• 3:19:21
  The details of the case are hard to find, but I believe he was
• 3:19:25
  about as old as I was when everything had taken place to
• 3:19:29
  us. There has also been multiple
• 3:19:31
  shootings, stabbings, and murders that have taken place
• 3:19:36
  near and in the complex itself. It seems like whatever possessed
• 3:19:41
  Keith and stalked us maybe never truly left.
• 3:19:46
  I'm glad to share my story with all of you and I just want you
• 3:19:49
  to know that these things are very real.
• 3:19:52
  The paranormal is real and please do not meddle with it
• 3:19:58
  because you just don't know what you could be inviting in this
• 3:20:02
  energy, this evil. Wanted my soul and it seems like
• 3:20:08
  it may have taken multiple lives and pursuit of whatever
• 3:20:12
  nefarious things it wanted. Leia.
• 3:20:19
  I would like to thank Leia for submitting this chilling story
• 3:20:22
  of an exorcism that took place to her stepfather and she was a
• 3:20:26
  child. The entire situation must have
• 3:20:29
  been terrifying to endure, to say the least, and I commend her
• 3:20:34
  for being willing to share this with us and warn others that
• 3:20:38
  these things are very real indeed.
• 3:20:41
  I also believe it's important to bring awareness to these kinds
• 3:20:44
  of topics for a number of reasons.
• 3:20:47
  I am curious just how Keith became possessed, however, and
• 3:20:52
  if it was truly by Lucifer himself or something pretending
• 3:20:56
  to be him. All around a terrifying tale
• 3:21:00
  from Leia. Upon laying her head down to
• 3:21:05
  sleep, a young woman is seemingly transported to another
• 3:21:10
  time or place where she interacts with malevolent
• 3:21:14
  spirits. This one may just make you
• 3:21:17
  wonder if the very same has ever happened to you.
• 3:21:22
  One hot Saturday morning in 2001, my ex-husband Dean and I
• 3:21:28
  went to the grocery store. By the time we returned home and
• 3:21:31
  put everything away, it was almost noon.
• 3:21:35
  I prepared some lunch for us and by two PMI announced that the
• 3:21:39
  heat had made me feel so very tired and that I would need to
• 3:21:43
  lie down. Dean would go on to watch TV
• 3:21:46
  with the volume on low, and I closed the bedroom door as soon
• 3:21:51
  as my head hit the pillow. I went out like a light.
• 3:21:55
  Then in what seemed like only 5 minutes later I was woken up by
• 3:22:00
  a lady speaking beside my bed. It was if she was addressing
• 3:22:04
  another person but yet in a crystal clear voice across the
• 3:22:08
  room she said something along the lines of don't disturb her,
• 3:22:13
  let her sleep. This startled me.
• 3:22:17
  I immediately sat up in my bed and I looked around but saw
• 3:22:21
  nothing. I knew I wasn't dreaming as the
• 3:22:24
  voice was real and yet spoke at an audible enough level even to
• 3:22:28
  wake me up. Regardless whether a dream or
• 3:22:32
  real, I was too exhausted and quickly fell asleep again.
• 3:22:37
  Now this is where things took a stranger turn.
• 3:22:40
  I felt my soul leave my body. It rose up to where the wall met
• 3:22:45
  the ceiling. I crossed through the wall and
• 3:22:48
  into another place in time. I was no longer within my home,
• 3:22:53
  but found myself in a scene from the 18th century.
• 3:22:58
  It was similar to watching a black and white film, but in
• 3:23:02
  varying shades of Gray. I saw a few people who were
• 3:23:05
  extravagantly dressed and wore coiffed and powdered wigs,
• 3:23:10
  sitting on a plush Steven and some armchairs.
• 3:23:14
  They sat almost motionless by a small low lying table.
• 3:23:18
  Only the woman slowly looked about, but nobody seemed to
• 3:23:22
  notice me. I looked to my left and saw a
• 3:23:26
  couple standing still, arms held in an arch above in the air,
• 3:23:31
  hands touching, poised, as if waiting for music to start for
• 3:23:36
  their dance. I looked past them and saw a few
• 3:23:41
  men, one at each small table, just sitting quietly and
• 3:23:45
  motionless. Then I looked to my right, past
• 3:23:49
  the few people I initially saw and looked in awe at the sight
• 3:23:54
  before me. I realized I was in a vast hall
• 3:23:57
  as far as the eye could see. I saw no other people, and the
• 3:24:02
  next thing I knew I was back in my body, seemingly asleep, yet
• 3:24:08
  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,
• 3:24:20
  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
• 3:24:32
  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
• 3:24:44
  bedroom door. Although I paid a little more
• 3:24:47
  attention now, what she said was still indiscernible, and the
• 3:24:52
  voice was yet to be one that I recognized.
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  A voice belonging to a stranger. And what seemed just another
• 3:24:59
  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.
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  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.
• 3:25:39
  Better still to get out of there, but I wasn't able to move
• 3:25:43
  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
• 3:25:55
  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
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  was within my range of sight that I'd seen a soft white
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  gashes ball of light appear to my right at the corner of the
• 3:26:16
  ceiling. It was about the size of a
• 3:26:18
  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
• 3:26:29
  protecting me from this evil, like a guardian Angel.
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  Once my mother was done raging at me, she faced the door and
• 3:26:37
  held the door slightly open. She paused and told me that I'd
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  be dead by midnight tonight. She then shut the door behind
• 3:26:46
  her and left. As soon as she was out the door,
• 3:26:50
  the ball of light had dissipated too and I felt instant relief.
• 3:26:56
  I looked at the clock and it was now 3:00 PM.
• 3:26:59
  All of this strangeness took place in the space of 1
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  terrifying hour. I still don't know if that was
• 3:27:06
  the spirit of my mother or something evil imitating her.
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  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.
• 3:27:17
  Though I didn't mention my mother's parting words, Dean
• 3:27:21
  wasn't remotely interested. He only mumbled as I interrupted
• 3:27:25
  him watching his program. Well, that was the end of the
• 3:27:28
  nap I wasn't quite able to get. As evening approached, I
• 3:27:32
  constantly glanced at my watch. Although we retired for the day
• 3:27:36
  at about 10:00 PM that night, I was fearful yet resigned in my
• 3:27:41
  fate. I hadn't told the soul about my
• 3:27:43
  mother's message in case it tempted fate.
• 3:27:47
  On waking the next morning, I couldn't have felt more relieved
• 3:27:50
  and thrilled to still be alive now that it felt safe to do so.
• 3:27:55
  I told Dean and later my neighbor about it all.
• 3:27:58
  They showed me the goosebumps on their arms and expressed fear as
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  I recounted my experience. This was 22 years ago and I
• 3:28:07
  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.
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  Johanna. That story was chilling.
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  Johanna. I too am curious if it was some
• 3:28:20
  kind of spirit impersonating your mother or if it was somehow
• 3:28:24
  her. The detail of what she was
• 3:28:27
  wearing also happened to be what she was buried in.
• 3:28:30
  Literally gave me goosebumps. So thank you so much for sharing
• 3:28:34
  your story and continuing to bring awareness to these topics.
• 3:28:41
  A young man seemingly interacts with his grandmother who has
• 3:28:44
  long since passed away, but he isn't the only one that sees and
• 3:28:50
  feels her presence. This was in reference to
• 3:28:55
  watching one of my videos. Watching this video reminded me
• 3:28:59
  of something that's been going on in my house.
• 3:29:02
  My wife's grandmother died before we got together and her
• 3:29:06
  son was the last person in the hospital room with her when she
• 3:29:10
  passed. Now, my work schedule varies,
• 3:29:13
  but generally I'm up between 3:00 and 4:00 AM every day.
• 3:29:18
  Sometimes I feel a presence or I thought I saw what was a shadow
• 3:29:23
  and my peripheral vision. I finally told my wife about
• 3:29:28
  this a while back and she proceeded to tell me that her
• 3:29:31
  autistic son regularly speaks to his deceased grandmother.
• 3:29:36
  We've both spoken to him multiple times and apparently
• 3:29:40
  she visits him constantly. My wife admitted that she's seen
• 3:29:44
  her in our house a couple of times as well.
• 3:29:47
  I've offered to have the house cleansed, but my wife said no.
• 3:29:52
  Apparently his grandmother visits him all the time and
• 3:29:55
  watches over him and he's admitted that he still sees her.
• 3:29:59
  He's autistic, so he's very honest with everything.
• 3:30:04
  I'd like your guys's input about this.
• 3:30:06
  Thank you caveman. Well, caveman especially since
• 3:30:12
  he's autistic. That really does convince me of
• 3:30:15
  his sincerity and honesty. The young man clearly doesn't
• 3:30:18
  have a motivation to gain anything by saying this.
• 3:30:22
  And when you have felt this presence, is it as she was in
• 3:30:26
  life? Is it more of a benevolent
• 3:30:29
  energy or something else? It's also very interesting that
• 3:30:33
  your wife has seen her on multiple occasions as well.
• 3:30:37
  Perhaps she is watching over her grandson.
• 3:30:40
  Children often have an extra sense it seems like, to be able
• 3:30:44
  to interact with the spirit world.
• 3:30:46
  Reading your story reminded me of when my brother was younger
• 3:30:50
  and we had a very similar situation.
• 3:30:53
  My mom's father, Paul, had passed away in their family home
• 3:30:57
  in 2002, when my brother was just two years old.
• 3:31:02
  Prior to his passing, Paul seemed to be motioning for
• 3:31:06
  things to go away, things that we couldn't see, perhaps trying
• 3:31:11
  to state that he wasn't ready to go yet.
• 3:31:14
  Several months after his passing, with my grandmother
• 3:31:17
  Agnes still inhabiting the very same house, my brother Kaden had
• 3:31:21
  started to interact with something that we couldn't see.
• 3:31:25
  He would often play around the living room, which was the same
• 3:31:28
  room my grandfather passed away in.
• 3:31:31
  One day when he was in a full conversation with this person,
• 3:31:36
  my mother asked him who he was talking to and he said Grandpa
• 3:31:40
  Paul. It took the very breath out of
• 3:31:43
  her lungs. These interactions were fairly
• 3:31:47
  frequent until he was about four or five years old.
• 3:31:51
  The name suddenly went away one day.
• 3:31:54
  It truly makes one beg the question, just how often do our
• 3:31:57
  loved ones truly watch over us? Thanks for sharing this one,
• 3:32:02
  Caveman. Thank you all for watching.
• 3:32:05
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  mentioned in the beginning of this video, I think it's very
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  important to bring awareness to the paranormal question.
• 3:32:24
  It, in a sense, is the ultimate question in my opinion.
• 3:32:28
  What truly happens when you pass through the veil of this reality
• 3:32:32
  and into the afterlife? I appreciate all of you as
• 3:32:36
  always. I hope all of you are doing well
• 3:32:38
  mentally, physically, and spiritually.
• 3:32:42
  And I hope your year is heading in a vibrant and positive
• 3:32:45
  direction, and I wish you all nothing but the best.
• 3:32:49
  Until next time, this has been Cody here at Mystery Archives.
• 3:32:53
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