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3 Hour MARATHON Of PARANORMAL And UNEXPLAINED Stories 😱 6 · Mystery Archives Episodes

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  Many homes have been given the title of Demon House, many of
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  which I have covered here on this channel, but this house out
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  of all of them has truly earned the moniker.
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  From the time the soil is dug up during the Victorian era, a
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  curse seemed to be placed upon the land.
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  And when you combine terrible happenings with the cult
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  rituals, it's truly a recipe for disaster.
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  The results of which have produced a cornucopia of
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  paranormal activity within this now infamous Indiana home.
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  This is the untold story of the frightening Monroe Demon House.
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  All information available on this
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  property is scarce at best, but I've done my best to find out as
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  much as I could to try and provide you with the most
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  cohesive picture possible. Hartford City, IN what was
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  started as a small log cabin settlement, continued to grow
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  and eventually hit the big time in the late 1880s where itself
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  and its neighbors entered a natural gas boom, resulting in
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  many factories being created during industrialization.
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  Factories that produce textiles, glass and other goods.
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  But although natural resources were widely abundant within the
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  ground there, something else seemed to inhabit the soil.
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  Our story begins at the construction site of a rather
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  unsuspecting looking Victorian home.
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  The years 1892 and the Berger family, who emigrated to the
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  area from Belgium, had been successful in their business
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  endeavors and thus thought a new home and their new country would
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  be the ultimate earthly reward. However, the family's new found
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  happiness would be all but short lived from the time the earth
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  was dug up and the new home erected.
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  Within months, John Berger, the patriarch of the family, would
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  die from tuberculosis within its walls, mourning his death.
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  This would be far from the last tragedy his family would endure
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  moving forward. Shortly after John's death, a
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  fire would mysteriously start the upstairs level of the house
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  in time destroying a large portion of the property, and the
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  majority of the Berger family would meet a truly gruesome and
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  terrible fate. Following the horrific fire that
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  torched what little happiness the Berger family had left, the
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  widow of the family and one surviving child desperately
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  needed a source of income. So the widowed Missus Berger
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  decided to start renting out rooms in order to make it.
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  There would be various tenants, but the most prominent were the
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  Myers family. The head of the household, a man
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  named Ulysses Myers, was a well known and respected member of
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  the community. He was known for his kindness,
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  compassion, and for being an all around amazing family man.
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  But this reputation would soon fade.
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  Shortly after moving into the home, Ulysses slowly began to
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  change. Those who knew him believed that
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  he had done a complete shift in his entire personality, all just
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  within months. So much so that he became
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  unrecognizable not only to his close friends, but to his family
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  as well. His kindness, compassion, and
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  care all seemed to have been buried, and someone new now
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  greeted them each day behind the eyes of Ulysses.
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  He quickly became prone to fits of rage and insanity.
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  This led him to become abusive towards his once beloved family,
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  verbally as well as physically. These new bursts of rage,
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  however, weren't reserved strictly for his family, though.
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  He soon turned on friends and colleagues too.
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  The sudden heel turn for Myers led him to losing his job after
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  an altercation at his workplace. And shortly after this, despite
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  how much he had cherished his family before, he stole what was
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  left of his family's money and abandoned his wife and children
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  by skipping town with a new found mistress.
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  All of which was the polar opposite of the man that they
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  thought they knew. Shatter beyond repair.
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  The Myers family were left with open wounds upon their hearts
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  and confusion in their minds. The only differing factor from
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  their life before to what it was now was the fact that they had
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  moved into this house. Now with the home claiming the
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  destruction of two families, rumors quickly began to spread
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  locally throughout Hartford City that the house contains some
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  kind of curse. Whether it was upon the property
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  or the land was uncertain. The Myers family soon moved out
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  and due to the rumors, Missus Berger was unable to keep
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  tenants to help support her and her surviving child.
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  Thus, she was forced to sell the property at a fire sale rate in
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  order to start somewhere new. What happened to the Berger's is
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  unknown. With this sale, a revolving door
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  of tenants and owners would begin.
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  As soon as one family would move in, they would almost
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  immediately move out again and again this cycle would continue.
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  It would go. From being lived in by a family,
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  to being rented out and built on to eventually creating its
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  triplex design that we know today.
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  Those who had moved in and out often reported experiencing
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  bizarre activity and others simply just didn't say anything,
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  possibly not wanting to come to grips with the reality of what
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  they had been through. This ever changing list of
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  tenants would continue for decades.
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  Along with this revolving door of people came a revolving door
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  of peculiar behaviors and practices.
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  Rumors began to circulate in the late 1980s and into the early
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  1990s that tenants during this time frame were performing
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  occult rituals and ceremonies within the home, particularly
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  within the basement black magic rituals and ceremonies.
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  Those conducting them attempted to harness the negative energy
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  that dwelled there to conjure a demon to do their bidding.
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  Although information is limited, one could assume that perhaps
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  their efforts were successful. From the mid 90s onward, the
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  strangeness that surrounds the house on Monroe St. only
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  intensified with new stories coming from new tenants and
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  neighbors alike. Stories that this old Victorian
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  home housed a dark and malevolent force.
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  These stories soon began to spread like wildfire.
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  Those who would move into the house typically would only last
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  in the home a year or less. They often fled in the middle of
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  the night with nothing but the clothes upon their backs, only
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  continuing to solidify that something evil dwelled within
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  the house. Things in fact got so bad that
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  even when the home was abandoned for a time, the windows would be
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  blacked out in order to keep people from looking inside.
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  But not because of vandalism problems, but due to so many
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  neighbors and passer bys calling the police claiming that they
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  kept seeing shadowy figures walk around the interior of the
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  Monroe House. With the home providing a
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  plethora of paranormal evidence and experiences, this soon drew
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  the attention of paranormal scholars and investigation
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  groups from all over the country.
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  This is just some of the activity said to have been
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  experienced by various groups over the years.
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  People have reported a vast amount of supernatural
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  happenings, many of which have been caught on film, photo or
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  digital audio recording. These range from aggressive and
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  insulting Evps or electronic voice phenomena to full bodied
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  apparitions, shadow figures, and possibly in human
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  manifestations. Mysterious sounds like knocking,
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  banging, and footsteps are common doors and cabinets
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  slamming shut with incredible amounts of force, and most of
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  the activity seems to be centered around the basement as
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  well as the top floor. And the top floor is speculated
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  to be the place where the fire had started that engulfed the
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  Berger family. The basement, of course, is
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  where the alleged black magic rituals took place.
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  In both of these locations, an eerie, shadowy specter of an
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  old, malicious woman is said to attack people.
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  But just who could this entity be?
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  Someone who had previously lived there, or something inhuman
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  cloaking itself and some kind of familiar skin?
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  Stories of groups panicking and fleeing too have become
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  commonplace. 1 Paranormal Group, which wishes to remain anonymous
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  in 2014, had such a disturbing experience that they fled the
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  home and fear for their lives. They arrived on site at the
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  Monroe House amidst a strong thunderstorm, unpacking their
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  vehicle, attempting to keep their equipment dry and safe.
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  They made their way inside and in due time began documenting
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  whatever they could find there. As they investigated, asking
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  questions, provoking interaction and recording level by level,
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  the more activity they began to experience, shadows moved out of
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  the corner of their eyes. Bangs knocking and cabinets
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  slamming shut could be discerned from the reverb of the Thunder
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  outside. But it's when they decided to go
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  down to the basement that their lives would be altered forever.
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  As they descended the stairs, an eerie cold began to overtake
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  them. As they asked their questions,
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  attempting to catch any activity they could, their flashlights
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  and devices failed. Left with only the enveloping
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  darkness, with the occasional flash of lightning coming
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  through the basement windows, something appeared to them that
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  caused them to flee immediately. But just what or who was this
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  apparition? This cannot be confirmed.
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  Whatever it was terrified them so much that they fled into the
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  torrential downpour and refused to ever return later when asked
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  for details. Even separately, the members of
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  the group thus far have refused to discuss the incident further.
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  Whether this is out of fear for whatever this thing is or was re
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  entering their lives, or the mere thought is so reality
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  shattering, 1 cannot be sure. This incident in its aftermath
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  truly makes you wonder just what they could have saw within the
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  dilapidated, damp basement that occurs tonight.
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  Investigations will continue with multiple groups coming in
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  and out until a very peculiar discovery took place in 2016 and
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  this discovery would lead to much speculation as to what
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  could have happened within the house.
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  While conducting an investigation for their show
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  Paranormal Lockdown, Nick Groff and Katrina Weirdman found
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  themselves in the basement and were slowly being drawn to the
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  crawl space of the house as they traverse the damp darkness.
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  What they would find would alter the story forever.
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  Located within the crawl space were human remains, bones buried
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  in a shallow grave. This freaked the entire crew out
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  and prompted them to stop filming and to call the police
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  immediately. From here, a full scale
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  investigation would be conducted and the remains excavated and
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  sent to a local coroner there in Indiana for further examination.
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  The bones were indeed confirmed to be human and were quote at
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  least 100 years old, possibly older.
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  Following the coroner, they were sent to Indiana University for
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  further testing to determine the age and identification of the
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  person. At this point, the final outcome
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  has not yet been reported, such as the age of the individual
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  found or their identity or potential cause of death.
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  The presumed investigation is still underway.
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  Let's put a brief pause on people being allowed to enter
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  the now privately owned home. But that pause has since been
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  lifted with many more investigations taking place over
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  the years since. And with these investigations,
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  even more paranormal activity, and aggressive activity at that,
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  has been reported. These investigations also range
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  from amateur to professional, from the average Joe to
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  Youtubers and famous paranormal teams.
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  Those who have entered the walls of the Monroe Demon House have
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  experienced an addition to previously mentioned activity.
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  Strange sights, smells and feelings.
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  Demonic snarls, growls, and even full blown attacks have
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  happened, and these have involved scratching, biting and
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  being shoved. Often times these more intense
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  manifestations are accompanied with aggressive and commanding
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  Evps where people's names are often used.
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  Windows slamming shoves so much force that they shatter, leaving
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  fragments of glass all over the floor, just like the fragments
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  left of the lives of the families who once dwelt there
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  has also happened one previous owner of the home allegedly even
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  jumped out a window on the top floor upon being attacked by a
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  demonic apparition. Imagine that for a moment you're
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  so terrified that you would rather risk diving through a
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  window at the top of your house, breaking it ultimately, let
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  alone falling however far and injuring yourself at a pure fear
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  and fight or flight instead of dealing with whatever this thing
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  was that was attacking you, rushing towards you.
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  That, to me, is bone chilling. Others who have stayed more
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  recently have also reported puddles of strange liquid
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  throughout the house at varying times and with seemingly no
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  origin, horrific nightmares if they managed to sleep, and why
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  you would ever choose to sleep there is beyond me.
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  And even strange footprints or paw prints such as this one have
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  also been discovered multiple times.
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  So with all of these high strangeness manifestations, we
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  must ask ourselves, just what is it that lurks within the Monroe
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  Demon House? Could it have been a curse
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  placed upon the land? Something that predated the
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  building of the house? It's certainly possible, in my
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  opinion, to somewhat back up that claim.
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  Native American artifacts such as arrowheads have been found
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  around the property, but nothing significant that would indicate
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  some kind of a curse. No burial grounds or mounds from
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  what I could find. What if it was a generational or
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  family curse? Again, it's possible, but seems
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  somewhat unlikely. From what I've seen, the Berger
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  family, up until the home was built, had great success in
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  their endeavors and for all intents and purposes, seemed
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  happy and thriving. Until, of course, they weren't.
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  Then there's the enigma of the Myers family.
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  Did Ulysses Myers lose his mind due to the home?
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  One could certainly make that connection considering his
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  complete shift in personality, but what was it in particular
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  that caused him to change so drastically?
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  This question and more we may never truly be able to answer.
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  All we can do is speculate. Then the numerous owners and
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  tenants over the decades since the days of the Burgers and
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  Myers, many of them reporting odd and often scary paranormal
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  or poltergeist activity. Was this activity also taking
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  place when the older families lived there or did it start
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  after their departure? If this was the case, if it
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  started afterwards, was it the result of negative events
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  attracting something dark, or was one of the families or
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  family members involved in the occult?
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  And Speaking of occult, just who or what were those people in the
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  late 80s and to the early 90s doing?
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  What kind of black magic or rituals were conducted and were
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  they responsible for conjuring some kind of entity into the
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  home? Or did their practices just make
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  the entire situation much worse? And did it have anything to do
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  with the human remains that were found in the basement?
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  And if not the Black Mages closer to modern times, someone
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  in the early 1900s had to have known just who this person was
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  and what happened to them. And of course, will the identity
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  and cause of death ever be determined for the poor soul
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  whose remains were found within the basement?
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  As you ponder all of these questions and attempt to draw
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  your own conclusions, I want to leave you with several final
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  questions. Will the activity ever cease?
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  And will the origin ever truly be determined?
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  All of these questions honestly may not have answers.
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  Perhaps they're out of our scope of understanding, or perhaps the
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  answers have just simply been lost to the sands of time, but
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  one thing I can say for certain is this.
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  Given how many? People have experienced dark and
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  spine tingling paranormal activity within this house, and
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  taking into account how long it has been occurring, this is 1
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  home that has truly earned the name the Demon House because a
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  demon is precisely what may just be lurking.
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  Within its depths, mere days after the Lee family had settled
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  into their new abode nestled amongst the Pines, they are
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  confronted with paranormal happenings.
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  Initially, the disturbances seem harmless, as the couple's two
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  young sons began to voice concerns about peculiar lights
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  flickering in their rooms and eerie shadows dancing across the
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  walls. But the situation takes an
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  ominous turn when Steve and Beth themselves bear witness to
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  disturbing and terrifying events.
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  This is the untold story of the haunted House of the Black
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  Forest in Colorado. There's an undeniable, almost
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  supernatural call to the eerie and the unexplained that seems
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  to emanate from the depths of dense Woodlands.
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  The Black Forest, a vast expanse of towering trees and shadowy
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  undergrowth, has been a breeding ground for creepy tales of the
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  otherworldly. Amidst this foreboding landscape
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  lies a dilapidated house, its weathered walls and creaking
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  floorboards harboring secrets that have captured the
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  imagination of paranormal enthusiasts across the nation.
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  This isolated dwelling nestled deep within the Colorado
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  wilderness has earned A reputation as one of the most
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  haunted sites in the United States, its very existence A
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  testament to the enduring power of mystery and the unknown.
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  The region referred to as the Black Forest is an
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  unincorporated area situated in El Paso County, Colorado,
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  nestled near the city of Colorado Springs.
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  This area was traditionally known as the Pineries, a vast
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  expanse spanning over 1000 miles.
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  Aptly named for the dense concentration of majestic
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  ponderosa pine trees that blanketed the landscape.
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  The Black Forest's remote and secluded nature, coupled with
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  its towering evergreens and rugged wilderness, has long
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  captivated those seeking solitude and a connection with
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  the untamed beauty of nature. The secluded log cabin, nestled
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  deep within the Black Forest region of Colorado, seemed like
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  a tranquil Oasis for the Lee family when they first laid eyes
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  on it in 1991. Stephen and Beth, along with
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  their two sons, had relocated from Louisiana, seeking A serene
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  escape amidst the towering Pines and pristine wilderness.
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  The sparsely populated area, known for its slow paced
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  lifestyle, crisp air, and breathtaking vistas, promised a
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  dream home surrounded by untouched nature.
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  Little did they know that this idyllic retreat would soon
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  become a source of explicable occurrences and unsettling
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  experiences that would forever alter their perception of the
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  supernatural. About the Lees.
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  Steven Lee, a father, husband and truck driver, had done well
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  for his family and wanting a change of scenery, they found
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  what they believed to be their dream home.
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  A6000. Square foot, three story cabin
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  located within the Black Forest, situated on five acres of land.
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  Steven and his wife Beth, with every step as they surveyed the
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  property could envision their two young sons playing and
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  growing up there. Their own little piece of the
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  American dream. So it took a little bit of time,
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  but their offer on the home was ultimately accepted and within
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  the coming months, they would soon call this secluded place
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  home. However, they would fail to
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  realize that it wasn't just inhabited by the family of four.
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  The first week at their new residence seemed like something
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  out of a fairy tale. Mom, dad, and the kids were all
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  comfortable and very happy after making the long trek from
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  Louisiana to Colorado. The family themselves seemed
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  happy and content with their decision.
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  However, this would change. The Lee's two young sons shared
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  a room, as brothers often do at a young age, and roughly after
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  their first week, they began to tell their parents that
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  something strange was happening in their bedroom.
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  Bright, colorful lights flashed about and terrifying shadowy
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  spectres flowed across their walls.
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  These strange happenings frightened the boys and often
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  kept them awake. So of course, they told their
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  parents. However, often in these
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  situations they were dismissed. Beth and Steve simply believed
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  that the boys had overactive imaginations and figured it
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  would just take time for them to adjust their new environment.
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  But this too would change mere weeks later.
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  Upon coming home from an evening of fun as a family, they would
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  arrive to see their home lighting inside with strange
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  lightning like flashes of light. They could see the spectacle
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  from their driveway. In the words of Beth.
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  One day we came home and it was like the 4th of July.
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  In our living room and bedroom. We had all sorts of colorful
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  flashes of light seemingly everywhere.
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  We rushed inside to figure out just what these things were and
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  simultaneously it sounded like people were stomping across our
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  roof and all of a sudden it stopped.
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  Never having seen anything like this before, the Lees were
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  simply perplexed and not sure of what to make of this activity.
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  They would lay their heads down to sleep this night, but what
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  they failed to realize is that this was just a prelude of what
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  was to come. In the coming months, the
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  activity grew in intensity. What started as phantom lights
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  and flickering shadows had escalated into something taking
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  place almost every single day. From disembodied banging sounds
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  to whispers, the sound of chains dragging on the floor or even
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  inside the walls, to pushing, assaulting and disturbing the
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  family. Sadly, the Lee's young sons were
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  more often than not the targets of this paranormal force that
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  plagued them night after night. And almost every night they were
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  harassed by shadow people, the reappearance of the mysterious
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  lights, and the awful banging sounds of something unseen.
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  The family did their best to make the situation work.
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  They, after all, were newly tied up financially in the purchase
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  of what they believed was going to be their forever home.
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  But it was something big or small nearly every day now that
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  was taking place during the day, Appliances began to turn on and
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  off on their own accord. This was attributed to an
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  electrical issue at first, but after having the home examined
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  by multiple electricians, they found no faulty wiring.
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  Alongside electrical appliances, faucets began to turn on by
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  themselves, often making a wet mess in whatever room they were
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  activated in During the night. The re emergence of the lights,
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  movement of the shadow people and the sounds truly haunted
• 31:04
  them and these disturbing happenings were soon coupled by
• 31:09
  something new and equally terrible.
• 31:13
  A noxious chemical odor began to appear in the home with no
• 31:19
  rational origin. The smell of these mystery
• 31:23
  chemicals burned the nose, eyes and throats of everyone whenever
• 31:29
  it appeared. In the coming days, yet more
• 31:33
  professionals would be called out, and yet nothing, no origin
• 31:38
  of the chemicals or detection of them either, could be found.
• 31:44
  It seemed that whatever force that dwelled within the walls of
• 31:48
  the cabin home in the woods had a particular hatred for the Lee
• 31:53
  family, and this force soon began to physically hit all of
• 31:57
  them, seemingly whenever it could, often leaving bruises.
• 32:03
  Not a believer in the paranormal, Steve Lee having had
• 32:08
  professionals come out and not provide any rational answers to
• 32:12
  their strange ailments. This, coupled with the now daily
• 32:17
  torment that he and his family were enduring, had finally
• 32:21
  reached his wit's end. He wanted to prove that either
• 32:25
  there was someone or something messing with them, and over the
• 32:30
  coming year he invested in a total of $70,000 worth of camera
• 32:36
  equipment and security equipment to monitor every square inch of
• 32:42
  their home and property. Now you might think that that's
• 32:46
  an incredible amount of money to spend on cameras and alarm
• 32:49
  systems, and it is, but this was the 90's.
• 32:54
  The equipment wasn't as readily available or sophisticated as it
• 32:58
  is today, and it just goes to show that they were truly
• 33:02
  freaked out by whatever was taking place, that they wanted
• 33:06
  some kind of tangible proof that they could show the world so
• 33:11
  people didn't think that they were crazy.
• 33:14
  The cameras, which were mostly motion activated and would
• 33:18
  record when motion was detected, soon began to activate with no
• 33:23
  rational explanation and no physical means to be detected.
• 33:30
  After capturing several strange things on video and photograph,
• 33:35
  Steve decided to contact the local authorities for help.
• 33:39
  Records show that the El Paso police were contacted so often
• 33:44
  by the leaves in the months to come that they launched a formal
• 33:48
  investigation into just what was taking place at the cabin home
• 33:53
  in the Black Forest. During this time and the two
• 33:58
  years to follow, alongside the cameras, their security
• 34:02
  equipment, which could detect motion and forced entry, was
• 34:07
  triggered 62 times with no explanation as to what could be
• 34:13
  causing it. It wasn't faulty equipment or
• 34:17
  poor installation. It was oddly something else,
• 34:21
  something unexplainable. With not even the police able to
• 34:25
  rationalize what was happening to the Lees, Beth and Steve
• 34:29
  decided to take things one step further.
• 34:33
  They hired a private investigator.
• 34:36
  This was in part due to the police also growing tiresome of
• 34:40
  being contacted for assistance and then there being nothing
• 34:43
  that they could do about it. Between the cameras and security
• 34:48
  equipment and now hiring a private investigator, the Lees
• 34:53
  had all but spent the rest of their life savings.
• 34:57
  Most people, if it ever came to this, would simply try and cut
• 35:01
  their losses and sell the home, and we don't know if the lease
• 35:06
  could have sold the home and moved elsewhere, but they truly
• 35:10
  still believed that this massive cabin home was their dream home
• 35:15
  and they didn't want to give it up without a fight.
• 35:18
  Unfortunately though, the private investigator was unable
• 35:22
  to help them. This left the Lees to simply
• 35:25
  tough out anything and everything that they had and
• 35:29
  were continuing to experience. After moving in in 1991, the
• 35:36
  year now was 1995 and the activity had persisted despite
• 35:42
  the efforts of the Lee family to uncover just what was causing
• 35:46
  it. Steve, who still figured there
• 35:49
  had to be a rational explanation for what was taking place, had a
• 35:54
  little bit more of an open mind. After a lengthy discussion with
• 35:57
  Beth, seemingly having done everything else, the Lee's
• 36:02
  concluded that they would try and contact paranormal
• 36:05
  investigators to see if they could do anything about the
• 36:09
  otherworldly happenings taking place in their home.
• 36:13
  After some research in calling numerous numbers, the Lee's
• 36:17
  ended up getting in contact with the person who would end up
• 36:21
  being involved with the television show Sightings.
• 36:26
  Sightings was an American paranormal and new show that
• 36:29
  aired throughout the 1990s covering various unexplained and
• 36:34
  French phenomena. As a result of this pretty lucky
• 36:38
  interaction, the show became very interested in producing an
• 36:42
  episode segment about hauntings surrounding the investigation of
• 36:46
  the Lee Hung. The show would contact a
• 36:49
  paranormal investigator in a self-proclaimed psychic in
• 36:53
  Minneapolis, MN named Echo Bodine from her book The Little
• 36:59
  Book of True Ghost Stories. Echo would explain her
• 37:03
  experience as the following. I got a call from the TV show
• 37:08
  Sightings and they wanted to know if I would fly to Colorado
• 37:12
  Springs to help a family deal with some ghosts.
• 37:17
  The producers told me that the problem was the ghost mostly
• 37:20
  seemed to come out at night. So I was asked to work from
• 37:24
  midnight until the early Daybreak hours.
• 37:28
  It was a very hot day in mid-july When I arrived in
• 37:31
  Denver around 10:00 PM. It was pretty eerie.
• 37:36
  There was intense lightning all throughout the sky and rain
• 37:40
  pouring down. I remember thinking how perfect
• 37:44
  the spooky weather was for investigating hauntings.
• 37:48
  Steve, the owner of the log home, was at the airport to pick
• 37:52
  me up. He was very open about not
• 37:55
  believing in ghosts, and as we drove through several towns in
• 37:59
  Colorado, I listened to him tell me story after story about some
• 38:05
  of the things that had gone on in their house.
• 38:08
  They heard voices, footsteps, things would move from room to
• 38:14
  room. It took close to an hour to get
• 38:17
  up to their house in the mountains and alongside the
• 38:20
  rain, a fog hung about 10 feet off the ground.
• 38:25
  When we arrived and I entered their three story log cabin home
• 38:30
  from here, I was greeted by a producer who asked me if I could
• 38:34
  take a seat while the scientist they had hired told us about his
• 38:39
  thermal camera. Having been tired from the trip.
• 38:43
  I laid my head back while the explanations were continuing and
• 38:48
  suddenly I heard a voice come from behind me.
• 38:52
  It said, hey, come here. Upon turning around I saw a
• 38:59
  large ghostly man about 6 feet tall.
• 39:04
  The specter was wearing blue jeans and a blue checkered
• 39:07
  flannel shirt. I then heard in unison multiple
• 39:11
  voices tell me to look over here and now.
• 39:16
  There was 5 male spirits, all different but dressed the same
• 39:21
  as the first. The original ghost said that his
• 39:24
  name was Tom and that this was his house and that no one was
• 39:30
  going to make him leave. He ran the show around here and
• 39:35
  had for a long time. I told the producer what was
• 39:39
  happening in case he wanted to capture anything for the segment
• 39:43
  and he did. The conversation then ensued
• 39:48
  with Tom explaining why he and the boys wanted to stay in the
• 39:51
  house, that it was his land, his home, and that he would not
• 39:58
  leave. One of the cameramen then asked
• 40:01
  if it was one of them who'd been responsible for knocking over
• 40:05
  his very expensive camera off the countertop.
• 40:09
  All 5 in unison answered yes and then disappeared out of sight.
• 40:15
  The scientist with the thermal camera did in fact capture a
• 40:19
  drop in temperature just right where Tom had stood around 2:00
• 40:25
  AM in the morning. As me and Beth discussed the
• 40:28
  activity that she had experienced, the dogs the family
• 40:33
  owned would not stop barking outside.
• 40:37
  The producers, in an effort to keep their sounds from being
• 40:40
  picked up on the camera, tried to quiet them down, but simply
• 40:45
  weren't having any luck. Then upon Beth showing me a
• 40:49
  photo of what they had captured on their own cameras, we
• 40:53
  suddenly were in the midst 3 male spirits, one with a
• 40:58
  particularly angry scowl upon his face.
• 41:03
  One of them walked through both of us causing us to jump out of
• 41:07
  our chairs while the other angry looking spirit tried to take my
• 41:13
  breath away. I believe he did.
• 41:16
  This to stoke fear from me in order to grow more powerful.
• 41:20
  And this worked because I felt as if I was being suffocated by
• 41:26
  3:30 AM. We all decided to not focus on
• 41:30
  ghosts for a bit and to try and lighten the mood.
• 41:34
  We turned the cameras off and began eating some food in which
• 41:38
  Beth had prepared for us. But almost as soon as we began
• 41:42
  to relax, one of the camera women who'd been sitting on the
• 41:47
  stairs began to hyperventilate. She then jumped up and screamed.
• 41:53
  Get it out of me. As she fell down the stairs and
• 41:58
  onto the floor, writhing in pain, the producers asked for me
• 42:03
  to do something. So with the assistance of
• 42:06
  others, I helped her up and into a chair in the kitchen, and I
• 42:12
  began to burn sage encircling her in the smoke.
• 42:18
  I asked her to say back to me that she was clear until she
• 42:22
  calmed down. It took about 20 minutes, but
• 42:27
  she eventually relaxed. She then was given a ride back
• 42:32
  to the hotel and I never saw or heard from her again.
• 42:37
  By now it was 4:30 AM and we were waiting for the camera crew
• 42:42
  of the show to finish setting up their equipment in the bedrooms
• 42:46
  where the majority of activity was seeming to take place.
• 42:50
  One of Steve's friends, who had been present most of the night,
• 42:54
  came up and handed me a brochure about the history of the local
• 42:59
  area. To my surprise, he told me that
• 43:03
  a man named Tom had been the sheriff here back in the 1800s.
• 43:09
  I felt shivers up my spine as I realized that this was the same
• 43:14
  Tom that now haunted the Lee's home.
• 43:18
  Roughly 5:00 AM, as we set off to investigate the last bedroom,
• 43:23
  I walked into the room and saw there in the rocking chair in
• 43:27
  the corner who would turn out to be Beth's deceased grandmother.
• 43:32
  And on the opposite side of the room was Tom and the several
• 43:37
  male spirits under his control. We ended up burning sage and
• 43:42
  asking them all to move on to the other side.
• 43:46
  They all did leave the building, but I'm not convinced that they
• 43:50
  moved on. At about 6:00 AM, we finally
• 43:54
  finished saging the entire house.
• 43:57
  Exhausted, we packed up our equipment and went back to our
• 44:02
  respective hotels. I've spoken to Steve and Beth
• 44:06
  since and they informed me that activity at the cabin persisted
• 44:10
  shortly after our departure and that although not fully
• 44:14
  convinced, Steve is convinced that there are things in this
• 44:18
  world that we will never truly understand.
• 44:22
  Sightings would do a follow up episode segment years later with
• 44:26
  the Lees or they brought in several spiritualists and an
• 44:30
  expert in hyperdimensional studies and all would come to
• 44:35
  the conclusion that the home was indeed haunted.
• 44:39
  The expert would draw the conclusion that the home sat
• 44:42
  atop an interdimensional vortex and coinciding with his
• 44:47
  conclusion. Interestingly, A Hopi elder from
• 44:51
  the local area would also explain that the Black Forest
• 44:55
  sits on top what the Hopi call a rainbow vortex, a raging storm,
• 45:02
  a portal of sorts that contains great spiritual energy and the
• 45:07
  coming and going of many souls. Sometimes they burn out over
• 45:13
  time and sometimes they don't. They are considered gateways
• 45:19
  between the world of the living and the spirit realm.
• 45:23
  Some strange and noteworthy things that took place during
• 45:27
  the second filming of the show Sightings at the Lee's residence
• 45:31
  was that a paranormal investigator had asked anyone if
• 45:35
  the name Howard bore any significance to them.
• 45:38
  The Lee's were surprised because one of their best friends in
• 45:41
  Colorado Springs was a man named Howard.
• 45:45
  The entity then told the investigator, who relayed the
• 45:48
  information to everyone, that he was Howard's son and that he in
• 45:53
  fact had not killed himself, but rather had been murdered.
• 46:00
  This disturbed the lease a great deal because Howard's son had
• 46:04
  supposedly taken his own life by consuming deadly chemicals
• 46:09
  working as a chemist. The stories and reputation of
• 46:14
  the home got such a local buzz from the press that even a
• 46:17
  Colorado Senator by the name of Charles Duke visited the home
• 46:22
  with his own camera crew and would snap a few photographic
• 46:26
  pieces of evidence of apparitions.
• 46:29
  To his and everyone else's surprise, Senator Duke was so
• 46:34
  convinced of the Lee's haunting that he even contacted the FBI
• 46:38
  to conduct a formal investigation, but the Bureau
• 46:42
  would rebuttal with no federal laws have been broken.
• 46:47
  Years later, after everything had happened, Steve Lee, who
• 46:52
  still wasn't fully convinced of the supernatural, came to his
• 46:57
  own conclusions as to what was taking place.
• 47:00
  And for the record, it's a wild theory.
• 47:05
  He began to believe that the government was using his family
• 47:09
  and their remote location to test biological agents and
• 47:15
  psychological weapons of war. He claims he has even
• 47:19
  photographed military personnel on his property with firearms
• 47:25
  and claims that they may have been shutting off the
• 47:27
  electricity in his home so they could enter undetected.
• 47:32
  These claims, although far fetched, would be incredibly
• 47:36
  disturbing if true, and it would account for the noxious odors
• 47:40
  the family said they were experiencing, as well as the
• 47:44
  lights and some sounds. But oddly enough as well, the
• 47:50
  Air Force Base is located just a few minutes away from where the
• 47:55
  Lees live. The Lees, as far as we know
• 47:59
  after placing the home for sale in 2010, no longer live there.
• 48:04
  The current residents are unknown, but it seems as if the
• 48:08
  property has changed hands multiple times.
• 48:12
  Whether it was ghosts, the result of what the Hopi call a
• 48:16
  rainbow vortex, or more sinisterly, the result of
• 48:21
  government military Black Ops, The Haunting of Black Forest
• 48:26
  Colorado is truly an intriguing tale.
• 48:31
  And if you find yourself seduced by what you could consider your
• 48:35
  dream home, take caution because this calling might just be a
• 48:41
  siren sound. Don't let them take you.
• 48:48
  In the sleepy farming town of Kelly, Kentucky, nestled within
• 48:52
  rolling hills. In thick woods, an ordinary
• 48:57
  evening in August of 1955 unraveled into something
• 49:02
  extraordinary and horrifying. A farm stood as a modest haven
• 49:09
  amidst the rural expanse, it's tobacco fields stretching under
• 49:14
  a cloudless moonlit sky. That night, a family gathering
• 49:20
  had brought laughter and the comfort of kinship into a small
• 49:25
  farmhouse. But peace is a fragile thing,
• 49:30
  and in the quiet of night, it was shattered with a scream.
• 49:36
  I recently had the pleasure of interviewing the foremost
• 49:40
  authority on the Ghost and Me podcast, which is my new weekly
• 49:44
  podcast of what has become known as the Kelly Hopkinsville
• 49:49
  Goblins Case or Encounter author Geraldine Sutton Stith, the
• 49:56
  daughter of Cecil Lucky Sutton, who was present and intimately
• 50:02
  involved. With the encounter itself, I
• 50:05
  will link the full interview in the description as well as at
• 50:08
  the end of the video because it's truly a fascinating one and
• 50:13
  one that I was honored to be a part of along with my Co host
• 50:16
  Bob. With that being said.
• 50:20
  This video is a deep. Dive into the story itself,
• 50:23
  pulling from a variety of sources, but mostly Geraldine
• 50:27
  herself. Now let us begin.
• 50:33
  The year was 1955, in a place called Kelly, Kentucky.
• 50:39
  Kelly, a small town by any standards, was especially small
• 50:43
  at that time, boasting about 150 residents or so, with the main
• 50:50
  occupation of them all being farming.
• 50:53
  It was here that Glenny Langford, the grandmother of
• 50:57
  Geraldine and the mother of Cecil, owned a small farm
• 51:02
  measuring about 27 acres in size.
• 51:07
  The family, along with most, were poor but proud farmers.
• 51:13
  They grew tobacco and had several livestock animals there
• 51:17
  on the farm. Living alongside Glenny was her
• 51:21
  son Jesse and his wife Elaine, who helped run the farm.
• 51:26
  With their three. Children Mark, age 12, Lonnie,
• 51:32
  age 10, and Mary, who was 7. Jesse had recently came home
• 51:38
  from the Korean War and hadn't been home longer than a year or
• 51:42
  so. Adjusting back to civilian life
• 51:45
  had been hard for him, but working on the farm and looking
• 51:49
  after his family certainly helped.
• 51:52
  The particular weekend that so happened to coincide with the
• 51:57
  visit of Cecil and his first wife, Vera, as well as their
• 52:02
  friends Billy Ray and June Taylor, who were stationed in
• 52:08
  Evansville. They worked for a carnival at
• 52:11
  that time and it just so happened to be near enough to
• 52:15
  visit. A break from work sounded nice
• 52:19
  and who doesn't love some quality time with family and
• 52:21
  friends alongside some home cooking?
• 52:25
  So they would drive to the farm and spend Friday and Saturday
• 52:30
  together, enjoying the weekend. That Sunday.
• 52:35
  With Monday and their inevitable return to work incoming, the
• 52:39
  family was doing their best to enjoy the time that they had
• 52:42
  left together. Lenny, who was a very religious
• 52:46
  woman who had gone to a church service earlier in the day, was
• 52:50
  returning home together. The family ate supper and
• 52:55
  started to play cards after they had finished eating.
• 52:59
  The family didn't have plumbing at the farmhouse, so Billy Ray
• 53:03
  had gone out to the well to get some water.
• 53:06
  Stepping outside with Pale in hand, he soon hears something
• 53:11
  above him, something strange. There, in the sky before him, he
• 53:17
  sees a silver Oval shaped object with what he would later call
• 53:23
  the colors of the rainbow flowing behind it.
• 53:27
  Perplexed, he watches for a few seconds.
• 53:31
  The object, roughly 40 feet in the air or so, goes across the
• 53:36
  sky and then back behind the house itself and into the
• 53:41
  backfield. It then slowly descends and
• 53:45
  lands in the back goalie, going completely out of Billy Ray's
• 53:49
  sight. Not knowing what to make of what
• 53:52
  he had just seen, Billy Ray rushes into the house and starts
• 53:57
  telling everyone about what he had saw.
• 54:00
  Lenny tries to reason with him, telling him that he probably had
• 54:04
  just seen a shooting star, to which he would reply with no, I
• 54:10
  know what a shooting star is, and this was not it.
• 54:15
  There had been meteor showers going on earlier in the month,
• 54:18
  but not at this particular time. Cecil, noticing that Billy Ray
• 54:24
  was as wide as a ghost and sweating profusely, asked him to
• 54:29
  come with him back outside and explain to him exactly what he
• 54:34
  had seen. With both men now standing
• 54:37
  outside after Billy Ray motions to where the object had been and
• 54:43
  described it to Cecil or better known as Lucky.
• 54:47
  Lucky then tells Billy Ray that they should go look in the
• 54:50
  backfield that whatever it was was probably gone and that after
• 54:56
  they look and see that they should go back inside and enjoy
• 55:00
  what was left of the evening. But to both men, shock and
• 55:04
  amazement as they stepped behind the house headed towards the
• 55:09
  field before their very eyes. Emerging from that field was a
• 55:15
  small being. But this being is unlike
• 55:19
  anything they've ever seen before.
• 55:23
  And these were men who were very familiar with wildlife,
• 55:26
  especially around Kentucky. It was about 3 1/2 feet tall.
• 55:32
  It had a big roundhead, large glowing eyes, big pointed ears
• 55:40
  and long gangly arms that almost touched the ground.
• 55:45
  The being itself isn't walking with its legs, but rather it's
• 55:50
  floating above the grass headed towards them.
• 55:54
  Awestruck for a few seconds as the creature approaches them,
• 55:59
  the two then quickly run back to the house and rush inside,
• 56:04
  slamming the door behind them. Seeing the men rush inside
• 56:08
  startles the rest of the family, with most of them asking just
• 56:13
  what was wrong with them two. But as the men try to explain
• 56:17
  the seriousness of the situation, most of them think it
• 56:22
  was just some kind of joke. Considering these were people in
• 56:26
  their late teens and early 20s, most of the adults anyways, it
• 56:32
  wouldn't have been totally out of the realm of possibility or
• 56:35
  someone to pull a prank. However, they would quickly see
• 56:41
  this was indeed not the case. Glenny, deciding that she had
• 56:46
  heard enough, told everyone that the children needed to get to
• 56:51
  bed. A short while later, after
• 56:54
  laying them down to sleep, she sees Cecil standing at the front
• 56:59
  door next to Billy Ray. One has a shotgun and one has a
• 57:04
  rifle. Realizing that this wasn't some
• 57:07
  kind of prank, Glenny would ask Billy Ray, just what exactly did
• 57:13
  you see? You would then tell her that.
• 57:16
  Miss Glenny, I hope it's something that you never have to
• 57:21
  see. So she squats down there beside
• 57:24
  the two. It's a quiet night.
• 57:28
  There's a full. Moon and it's light is
• 57:31
  illuminating everything surrounding this small
• 57:34
  farmhouse. With this light, you can see
• 57:38
  nearly everything and there's an obvious tension.
• 57:43
  Everyone there is certainly on edge, especially Billy Ray, who
• 57:48
  seems to be jumping at every sound made in the shadows.
• 57:54
  While Glenny sits there, hearing the banter between everyone, she
• 57:59
  suddenly sees something that shakes her to her core.
• 58:03
  There, before her very eyes, she sees this small entity rounding
• 58:09
  the corner of the house. Its eyes are massive and
• 58:13
  glowing, as a matter of fact, its whole body seems
• 58:18
  bioluminescent. And as most of us would do, she
• 58:23
  lets out a blood curdling scream, chattering the quiet
• 58:28
  tension that had previously existed within the stillness of
• 58:33
  this strange night. Everybody quickly comes running
• 58:38
  to where she's at. She had been so startled that
• 58:42
  the shock had caused her to fall to the floor.
• 58:46
  Cecil or Lucky quickly helps her up, and she frantically tells
• 58:52
  him that I just saw it. There is something out here.
• 58:57
  As Glennie tries to explain what she saw in detail, her
• 59:02
  explanation is soon cut short by the rapturous sound a gun being
• 59:08
  fired. Running to the source, they find
• 59:12
  Jesse and he shot one through the window of the house.
• 59:17
  Billy Ray goes rushing out the front door, looking for anything
• 59:21
  out of the ordinary that could be a threat.
• 59:25
  As he's standing there below the little stoop over the front
• 59:28
  door, everyone else watching him soon sees a little clawed hand
• 59:36
  descend from the top of the stoop.
• 59:39
  This clawed hand then seems to try and grab his hair as the
• 59:44
  others scream. Before the hand can grab him,
• 59:48
  Lucky runs and grabs Billy Ray and pulls him into the house.
• 59:55
  He then rushes outside with his gun.
• 59:58
  There on top of the stoop is one of these large eyed beings.
• 1:00:04
  Without hesitation, being a country boy and all, Lucky
• 1:00:09
  raises his gun and shoots this creature.
• 1:00:14
  Bizarrely, however, when it's shot, he hears the impact and
• 1:00:20
  sees the creature roll, but instead of falling off the
• 1:00:25
  stoop, it slowly floats down to the ground instead.
• 1:00:31
  Following the shooting of this first creature, someone else
• 1:00:35
  screams that there's another one in the tree beside him.
• 1:00:39
  Turning around, Lucky then sees another one of these odd
• 1:00:43
  entities on one of the large trees branches.
• 1:00:48
  He then quickly acts again and he shoots.
• 1:00:52
  He hits it, and he hears the impact.
• 1:00:57
  When he hits it, as with the first one, it makes a pinging
• 1:01:01
  sound, like the bullet has hit something metallic.
• 1:01:07
  The creature then floats to the ground, rolls, and scurries off
• 1:01:14
  into the nearby Bush. They don't know what these
• 1:01:17
  things are. They're certainly not dying.
• 1:01:22
  They're getting up and rolling away.
• 1:01:25
  So what are they to do? What else can they do?
• 1:01:30
  All of the commotion, of course, woke the children up out of
• 1:01:33
  their sleep, and all the kids as well have now seen these
• 1:01:37
  creatures alongside the adults. Except for the youngest, June.
• 1:01:44
  She's absolutely petrified. She refuses to look, she's
• 1:01:50
  crying, she's screaming, and is hiding in the corner of the
• 1:01:55
  living room with all the children crying.
• 1:01:59
  These things, these creatures start coming up to the windows
• 1:02:06
  and doors. The family, although fear
• 1:02:11
  struck, do notice that if they keep the lights on, the
• 1:02:15
  creatures seem to stay in the darker shadows outside.
• 1:02:20
  That momentarily seems to keep them away from the house, but
• 1:02:24
  they seem to still keep coming up.
• 1:02:28
  Not knowing exactly what to do from here, Lenny suggests to
• 1:02:32
  Lucky that, well, if we quit shooting, maybe they'll stop
• 1:02:36
  coming up to the windows and doors.
• 1:02:39
  And Lucky replies with Mom. I don't know.
• 1:02:44
  I don't know what these things are, and I'm not about to let
• 1:02:48
  them in the house to find out. To add to the weirdness of the
• 1:02:52
  situation, when these beings would come up to the house, they
• 1:02:57
  had their little hands up in the air, almost as if they were
• 1:03:01
  surrendering, like they knew what that meant.
• 1:03:06
  Lenny even told Lucky that maybe something's wrong.
• 1:03:10
  They've got their hands up in the air.
• 1:03:13
  But Lucky would say that I don't care, Mom, we're not letting
• 1:03:18
  them in. We don't know what these are.
• 1:03:22
  And honestly, who can blame him? As this episode continued, Lucky
• 1:03:28
  tried to keep everyone calm. He told them we're going to
• 1:03:33
  Hopkinsville, we're going to try and get help and this is going
• 1:03:38
  to be OK. As he got them all quiet, and
• 1:03:43
  just as he thought it was the right time to run out the door,
• 1:03:46
  it would freeze in his tracks. They all of them would hear
• 1:03:51
  something peculiar, what they believed to be one of the
• 1:03:55
  creatures going across the tin roof.
• 1:04:00
  As it went across, its nails were clicking and scratching,
• 1:04:06
  making everyone's skin crawl and their hair stand on end.
• 1:04:13
  June started screaming again and then all of the kids began
• 1:04:17
  crying. Vera asked Lucky what are we
• 1:04:22
  going to do and he would tell her, listen we're going to get
• 1:04:27
  out of here, we're going to get help, just calm down.
• 1:04:32
  It takes some time but he once again manages to calm everyone
• 1:04:36
  down yet again. He then tells Billy Ray let's go
• 1:04:41
  out the back and take a quick look.
• 1:04:43
  But the two step out into the yard which is still glowing with
• 1:04:48
  the radiant light of the full moon.
• 1:04:51
  The two men are looking around, guns in hand.
• 1:04:55
  Billy Ray then turns around and grabs Lucky's arm and says look,
• 1:05:01
  there's one going up the side of the house.
• 1:05:05
  There before the men was indeed one of the oddities climbing up
• 1:05:08
  the house, headed toward the roof.
• 1:05:12
  Lucky the named his shotgun and pulled the trigger.
• 1:05:17
  He was successful. In hitting one of these things
• 1:05:20
  again, it. Fell to the ground and popped up
• 1:05:25
  and floated from the back of the house over to a fence post about
• 1:05:31
  40 feet away. Lucky then fires and hits this
• 1:05:36
  one a second time. Seeing this really gave the men
• 1:05:41
  pause. This thing floated in front of
• 1:05:44
  them across the yard like it defied the laws of physics.
• 1:05:49
  Lucky then tells Billy Ray let's get back in the house and let's
• 1:05:55
  try to get out of here. Just don't tell everyone what
• 1:05:58
  you saw. And he more than likely was
• 1:06:01
  saying this as to not further upset the family.
• 1:06:05
  However, when they go back inside, of course everyone
• 1:06:09
  inside had heard the gunshots. Glenny, demanding to know, asks
• 1:06:17
  what did you just shoot at, with Lucky replying it's OK and Billy
• 1:06:24
  Ray chiming in as well. We just had to shoot one of them
• 1:06:28
  off the house, but it's OK, we're OK.
• 1:06:34
  After the family is settled again, the night seems to get
• 1:06:38
  quiet. Nothing comes up to the windows
• 1:06:42
  or the doors. It's almost an eerie stillness.
• 1:06:48
  Lucky had thought maybe when he shot that one, but it had
• 1:06:52
  finally been injured. When it finally got to the fence
• 1:06:56
  post. When he had shot it again, it
• 1:06:59
  fell off. This time it didn't scurry off
• 1:07:04
  as quickly as before. So he was thinking maybe he had
• 1:07:09
  finally got one. Feeling like things had calmed
• 1:07:13
  down enough, everyone all together would rush to their
• 1:07:16
  trucks, load up in them, and start the trip straight to
• 1:07:21
  Hopkinsville, looking nervously behind them the whole way.
• 1:07:28
  They would make it there to the small police station in the
• 1:07:31
  middle of the night again. The year is 1955.
• 1:07:38
  There's just one officer on duty and suddenly 11 people ages 7 to
• 1:07:45
  50 burst in, utterly terrified. The officer is just awestruck.
• 1:07:54
  They're all trying to explain what happened.
• 1:07:58
  The officer tries to make sense of it all and says, wait a
• 1:08:02
  minute, you're telling me that you're shooting little men at
• 1:08:06
  your farm? To which Lucky responds with You
• 1:08:10
  don't understand what I'm trying to tell you.
• 1:08:14
  The officer telling them all to calm down says that he's going
• 1:08:18
  to call the chief. He dials on the phone and soon
• 1:08:23
  is on the line with Chief Russell Greenwell.
• 1:08:27
  He tells him call Fort Campbell Army base, which was about 10
• 1:08:32
  miles from Hopkinsville. Call the newspaper and see if
• 1:08:36
  you can get every state trooper that's out tonight find them and
• 1:08:41
  get them to Kelly. We're going to see what's
• 1:08:44
  really. Going on.
• 1:08:46
  The chief's wife overhears all of this too, but she gets up and
• 1:08:51
  goes with him. They then head to the station as
• 1:08:54
  well. When they arrive, they see 11
• 1:08:58
  terrified people. It's obvious that something has
• 1:09:02
  happened. The chief and his wife try to
• 1:09:06
  calm them within due time. All the additional authorities
• 1:09:11
  would arrive by the time they do, there's approximately 25
• 1:09:16
  people, including the police, military and reporters.
• 1:09:23
  There's soon a caravan of vehicles now headed to the small
• 1:09:27
  town of Kelly in the dead of this strange night, and they all
• 1:09:33
  arrive at the farm. They step out of their vehicles
• 1:09:37
  and immediately feel that something is off the place.
• 1:09:43
  The overall environment just feels creepy.
• 1:09:48
  As they search, some of the police officers see a glowing
• 1:09:52
  substance. On the ground around the back of
• 1:09:55
  the house, it was believed to be the spot where Lucky had shot
• 1:10:01
  one of the creatures. They run back there to look, but
• 1:10:06
  when they get close, the glow disappears.
• 1:10:11
  They call Chief. Greenwell over and he too looks
• 1:10:15
  at the spot. He says, well, I don't see any
• 1:10:19
  glow, but there's evidence that the grass is different in that
• 1:10:23
  spot than it is around it. They continue searching for
• 1:10:28
  about two to three hours, but nothing could be found.
• 1:10:34
  Glennie was beside herself. She was afraid to go.
• 1:10:38
  Back in the house, the chief would go up to her and say, Miss
• 1:10:43
  Glenny, I'm so sorry, but there's nothing here.
• 1:10:48
  Nothing, except for evidence that y'all did some shooting.
• 1:10:52
  And indeed, rifle and shotgun shells were all over the outside
• 1:10:56
  of the house and even in the inside of the house.
• 1:11:00
  The woodwork was shot up, screens were shot through.
• 1:11:05
  There was nothing there to show what they had shot at.
• 1:11:10
  So with nothing left to do, the authorities would go ahead and
• 1:11:14
  leave. Lenny was left there with the
• 1:11:17
  rest of the family, with nobody. Else to help if these things
• 1:11:22
  came back and she was truly hoping that they wouldn't
• 1:11:27
  return. Once the family is back inside,
• 1:11:32
  it does take some time yet again, but the kids eventually
• 1:11:36
  settle down. And finally head back to bed.
• 1:11:40
  Lucky sits in a rocking chair beside Glenny with a shotgun
• 1:11:44
  across his lap. They're all exhausted, both
• 1:11:48
  physically. And mentally, Glenny closes her
• 1:11:53
  eyes, trying to get some rest. But then something, and she's
• 1:11:58
  not sure what, causes her to open them yet again.
• 1:12:03
  Air before her or her horror. One of these creatures is yet
• 1:12:09
  again at the window, thinking that she's just tired and
• 1:12:13
  possibly hallucinating, and then closes her eyes again.
• 1:12:17
  But when she opens them for a second time and this bang, this
• 1:12:23
  being is still standing there. It's at this time that she
• 1:12:27
  screams to Lucky that they're back.
• 1:12:31
  Everyone then jumps up once again.
• 1:12:34
  They're trying to keep these creatures out of the house, and
• 1:12:38
  these efforts would continue until around 4:30 or 5:00 AM in
• 1:12:43
  the morning. But as the family struggled with
• 1:12:47
  the morning sun starting to come up, the creatures seemingly out
• 1:12:52
  of nowhere disappeared. In the words of Geraldine's
• 1:12:57
  sudden stiff. So sure enough, when that bright
• 1:13:01
  sunshine came up, they disappeared.
• 1:13:05
  Mom and dad got the family down and he told them all.
• 1:13:09
  He says, listen, he says, I heard them last night.
• 1:13:12
  They were laughing at us. No good can come of this, so
• 1:13:16
  don't even say another word about it.
• 1:13:17
  We're just going to have to go on with our lives, forget this
• 1:13:21
  ever happened. And Vera asked him and says,
• 1:13:22
  well, well, how are we supposed to forget this?
• 1:13:26
  He says, I know it's going to be hard.
• 1:13:28
  I don't know, but we got to forget this happened.
• 1:13:33
  What followed the events of August 21st of 1955 would
• 1:13:38
  effectively be a circus of unwanted publicity and tourism.
• 1:13:45
  A massive amount of people would descend upon the Sutton Farm and
• 1:13:49
  make this case infamous. For better or for worse.
• 1:13:56
  And so, you know, word got out. I mean, it was, it had gotten
• 1:14:00
  out. It didn't take long at all.
• 1:14:01
  Everybody from everywhere was coming from everywhere wanting
• 1:14:05
  to see the little beans and camping out in the yard and
• 1:14:07
  wanting to talk to the family. And they got no rest.
• 1:14:13
  Of course, my dad and Billy Ray and the girls had to go back to
• 1:14:16
  work. They were able to stay another
• 1:14:18
  day or two, but then they had to leave and my grandmother was
• 1:14:22
  going to be left there, you know, her three kids and Uncle
• 1:14:25
  JC and Aunt Eileen. Would they be able to take care
• 1:14:27
  of, you know, these things if they were to come back?
• 1:14:31
  Because that was the big fear, Would they come back?
• 1:14:36
  Why were they there in the 1st place?
• 1:14:38
  And if they didn't get what they wanted the first time, would
• 1:14:40
  they come back to get it? You know, that was a fear in
• 1:14:43
  Kelly. People that lived around there
• 1:14:45
  had this fear. My mom lived in Kelly with her
• 1:14:48
  first husband and seven kids at the time.
• 1:14:52
  And she says it was terrifying. Everyone was scared.
• 1:14:57
  Well, my grandmother thought the best of it.
• 1:14:58
  And she sold the farm within two weeks and moved into
• 1:15:01
  Hopkinsville to an apartment complex.
• 1:15:03
  So did my uncle JC and Aunt Eileen got out of there because
• 1:15:08
  she was afraid. She didn't know what else to do.
• 1:15:10
  She didn't want to leave her farm.
• 1:15:13
  But you know, she was terrified. Geraldine herself goes in depth
• 1:15:19
  not only of the encounter itself, but lots of additional
• 1:15:22
  details surrounding it as well as the circus that followed.
• 1:15:27
  In my interview with her on the Ghost and Me podcast, which I'll
• 1:15:31
  link here as well as in the description below, I would
• 1:15:35
  further explain the details. But she just adds so much
• 1:15:39
  herself that it would be an injustice not to let you hear it
• 1:15:42
  from the horse's mouth, so to speak.
• 1:15:46
  What is ultimately important to remember is that this was a
• 1:15:49
  family. They didn't ask for this to
• 1:15:52
  happen. They didn't seek financial
• 1:15:55
  compensation or try to make a spectacle in order to profit in
• 1:16:00
  any. Way.
• 1:16:02
  They simply were overwhelmed by what they were experiencing
• 1:16:05
  together and sought help through appropriate means.
• 1:16:10
  A publicity or potential publicity would have been an
• 1:16:14
  afterthought. Again, Geraldine very much goes
• 1:16:17
  in depth on this as well as how the night affected her father as
• 1:16:22
  well as other members of her family.
• 1:16:24
  In our interview and between the interview, as well as diving
• 1:16:28
  into some of Geraldine's books surrounding the case and doing
• 1:16:32
  my own research online, I did find another case that is eerily
• 1:16:36
  similar in some respects, albeit not in Appalachia.
• 1:16:42
  I wanted to share it with you before giving my thoughts on the
• 1:16:44
  case as a whole. In July of 1692, amidst the
• 1:16:50
  turmoil of the Salem Witch Trials, the town of Gloucester,
• 1:16:54
  MA experienced a series of mysterious events that left its
• 1:17:00
  residents both alarmed and perplexed.
• 1:17:04
  For approximately 2 weeks, the town was reportedly besieged by
• 1:17:09
  enigmatic figures, believed to be the spectral apparitions of
• 1:17:13
  indigenous people and Frenchmen emerging from the swamps and
• 1:17:19
  cornfields. These entities approached the
• 1:17:22
  local Garrison, often in groups. Attempts to defend against them
• 1:17:27
  proved futile. Firearms frequently misfired,
• 1:17:31
  and when they did discharge, bullets seemed to have no
• 1:17:35
  effect. The intruder spoke in an
• 1:17:38
  unfamiliar language and while they carried functional weapons,
• 1:17:43
  or so it seemed, evident later by bullets found later embedded
• 1:17:47
  in trees, they caused no physical harm to the
• 1:17:50
  townspeople. The situation escalated to the
• 1:17:54
  point where Major Samuel Appleton of Ipswich dispatched
• 1:17:59
  approximately 60 men on July 18th to assist Gloucester during
• 1:18:04
  these inexplicable disturbances. Reverend John Emerson of
• 1:18:09
  Gloucester documented these occurrences in a letter to
• 1:18:13
  Cotton Mather, suggesting that the town's afflictions were the
• 1:18:17
  work of the devil and his agents, appearing as small
• 1:18:21
  creatures with large eyes and big ears rather than tangible
• 1:18:27
  French and indigenous attackers. Mather and his work.
• 1:18:33
  Magnalia. Christie.
• 1:18:34
  Americana noted that even a decade later, respected
• 1:18:39
  individuals in the region believed these events were a
• 1:18:43
  significant manifestation of the unseen.
• 1:18:46
  World. This account, among others,
• 1:18:49
  indicates the pervasive atmosphere of fear and
• 1:18:53
  superstition that characterized the period, leading communities
• 1:18:57
  to interpret unexplained phenomena as supernatural
• 1:19:00
  threats. Other than the apparitions
• 1:19:03
  appearing as alleged people, others described the beings as
• 1:19:07
  small devils with large eyes and large ears, a glaring similarity
• 1:19:14
  to the Kelly Hopkinsville case that I've covered here today.
• 1:19:18
  Albeit not completely the same, I did find it noteworthy enough
• 1:19:22
  to mention. I also don't believe that the
• 1:19:25
  creatures experienced by Geraldine's family members
• 1:19:29
  wielded any sort of weapons, at least from what we know.
• 1:19:33
  While I'm leaving many details to Geraldine herself, and for
• 1:19:37
  good reason, including myths and misconceptions about the case,
• 1:19:41
  all of which again we have covered on the Ghost to Me
• 1:19:44
  podcast episode with her as well as in her books, which I'll tell
• 1:19:49
  you about here shortly, I did want to share my thoughts on the
• 1:19:52
  case as a. Whole.
• 1:19:54
  In no particular order, I remember hearing about the case
• 1:19:58
  from my good friend Bob, as well as watching the show Hellyer.
• 1:20:02
  And coincidentally, when we were visiting the area together about
• 1:20:06
  two years ago, for reasons that were unrelated to the case
• 1:20:10
  itself, we did end up finding the coordinates of where the
• 1:20:13
  farm was located. And albeit it was at night, we
• 1:20:17
  did find ourselves at the exact location where the goblin
• 1:20:21
  encounter took place, which was surreal to say the least.
• 1:20:26
  I'm sure lots has changed since 1955, but they're in the flesh
• 1:20:31
  and to try to put yourself in the shoes of the family who
• 1:20:34
  endured the event, it really just adds another layer to this
• 1:20:38
  incredible story that I can't truly put into words.
• 1:20:42
  And even with much development taking place over the decades,
• 1:20:46
  the area of where the farm is located is still extremely
• 1:20:50
  rural, with one having to take several back roads to even find
• 1:20:55
  its location. Something that I noticed in
• 1:20:58
  Geraldine's recounting of the story was the metallic sound or
• 1:21:03
  pinging of the bullets as they hit the creatures, or as most
• 1:21:08
  refer to them now, as goblins. Was this perhaps due to some
• 1:21:13
  kind of force field or armor they had?
• 1:21:17
  That's where my mind tends to wander.
• 1:21:20
  And if this was the case, did they perhaps have that armor
• 1:21:23
  weakened as a result of multiple shots, as with Lucky shooting
• 1:21:28
  the other goblin for a second time near the post, they did
• 1:21:33
  also mention that these things were bioluminescent, that they
• 1:21:37
  seem to have a sort of glow about them.
• 1:21:40
  But if perhaps they weren't truly glowing, that they maybe
• 1:21:44
  have had metallic skin or armor on, perhaps this metallic
• 1:21:49
  coating or what have you could have been reflecting the glow of
• 1:21:54
  the full moonlight that night. It would explain the pinging
• 1:21:57
  sounds, however I tend to lean into it.
• 1:22:00
  Could have been a bit of both because during the research with
• 1:22:04
  the authorities, several cops saw a glowing residue near where
• 1:22:09
  the goblin had been shot near the post for the second time.
• 1:22:14
  That leads me to believe that maybe they could have had
• 1:22:17
  glowing blood, although that's just mere speculation on my
• 1:22:21
  part. I mean, if they were
• 1:22:24
  bioluminescent, but only makes sense, right?
• 1:22:28
  And with the concept of a force field fresh in our minds, did
• 1:22:32
  these goblins have some sort of telekinetic abilities?
• 1:22:37
  I mean, they were floating instead of falling, as if they
• 1:22:40
  defied the laws of physics themselves.
• 1:22:44
  Was this perhaps due to acute mental abilities or was it the
• 1:22:48
  result of foreign technology that we're just not aware of
• 1:22:52
  yet? When the creatures initially hid
• 1:22:55
  after their arrival and then hid after the first interaction and
• 1:23:00
  then after. I asked Geraldine if there were
• 1:23:04
  or are any caves where the farm is, and albeit she didn't know,
• 1:23:09
  there have been rumors of people finding goblin like beings in
• 1:23:13
  the caves throughout Appalachia, which is a terrifying prospect
• 1:23:17
  indeed to think that these things could ultimately perhaps
• 1:23:22
  be interconnected. With that being said, are these
• 1:23:26
  goblins, these entities, a manifestation of what we call
• 1:23:32
  the phenomenon, for lack of a better term, the mysterious
• 1:23:37
  supernatural force that seems to present itself just beyond the
• 1:23:42
  veil of our conscious minds, only seeping?
• 1:23:46
  Through for a brief. Time and that very said veil is
• 1:23:50
  thinner than normal. Are they interdimensional
• 1:23:54
  creatures coming from another plane of existence?
• 1:23:58
  Or are they, as many believe them to be, given the
• 1:24:02
  unidentified flying object that Billy Ray saw, extraterrestrial
• 1:24:07
  in nature? Are they from another planet?
• 1:24:11
  All interesting thoughts to ponder, no doubt, as we've let
• 1:24:15
  our minds run wild and be immersed in this perplexing
• 1:24:19
  case. I wonder why the goblins
• 1:24:22
  approached the family as if they were surrendering, but then
• 1:24:26
  ultimately would end up scaling the house and then trying to
• 1:24:30
  grab Billy Ray from the stoop. Above the porch.
• 1:24:34
  Did they need help? Were they trying to convey this
• 1:24:37
  via their hands up signaling or were they trying to lure the
• 1:24:41
  family into a false sense of security?
• 1:24:45
  Also I do have to say the thought of the little clawed
• 1:24:48
  hand and then the clanking of one on top of the roof, both of
• 1:24:52
  those instances are so creepy to me.
• 1:24:56
  Now the authorities did do a thorough search that very
• 1:24:58
  morning using both men on the ground as well as I believe
• 1:25:02
  helicopters doing grid searches, but they didn't find any
• 1:25:07
  creatures themselves, albeit allegedly they found evidence of
• 1:25:12
  their existence. Which ties into a whole other
• 1:25:15
  alien conspiracy rabbit hole. Geraldine goes extensively into
• 1:25:19
  this in several of her books, but most recently in the Kelly
• 1:25:24
  Green Men Alien Legacy Revisited, where she adds
• 1:25:29
  numerous details as well as photos of the alleged footprints
• 1:25:34
  found of the creatures. I can't stress that there's only
• 1:25:38
  so much I can add without mentioning both my interview
• 1:25:41
  with Geraldine as well as her books.
• 1:25:44
  She truly is the foremost authority on the case itself,
• 1:25:47
  and I find it very admirable how much effort she puts into
• 1:25:51
  keeping what has become local Kentucky folklore, now very much
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  alive for not only the folklore aspect, but her family's
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  this was a family they didn't ask for.
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  And he happens to be coming out of his bedroom.
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  He came upstairs and he heard, 'cause he heard footsteps and
• 1:29:01
  nobody was here. They went back downstairs and
• 1:29:05
  when he went down he happened to look and he seen this Flack.
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  He describes it as something that wasn't.
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  Or. How did he say it?
• 1:29:14
  I said I don't even know where you came up with that word.
• 1:29:16
  Organically natural. And then he said it flashed, and
• 1:29:19
  then it went away. While trying to recover from
• 1:29:22
  multiple surgeries over nearly a decade, a woman and her family
• 1:29:28
  are tormented by dark entities that invade their home.
• 1:29:32
  Seemingly out of nowhere, after asking multiple paranormal
• 1:29:37
  investigators and a priest to help her clear her dwelling of
• 1:29:42
  these unexplained and terrifying entities, will she and her
• 1:29:47
  family be freed or will they continue to be prisoners in
• 1:29:52
  their own home? This is the.
• 1:29:55
  Untold story of the Raric family haunting in Pennsylvania.
• 1:30:00
  And it truly is a terrifying, haunting indeed.
• 1:30:05
  So grab a drink or a snack or both, and prepare to get scared.
• 1:30:12
  And I wouldn't recommend watching or listening to this in
• 1:30:16
  the dark unless you like a challenge.
• 1:30:24
  The house at the edge of the forest that stood for decades,
• 1:30:29
  its weathered facade blending seamlessly with the quiet town
• 1:30:34
  of Montandon. From the outside it seemed no
• 1:30:39
  different from any other home, a modest structure with a well
• 1:30:45
  kept yard and windows that reflected the golden hues of
• 1:30:49
  dusk. Those who passed by in the dead
• 1:30:53
  of nine often swore that they felt something watching them.
• 1:30:59
  The air around the property seemed heavier, colder, as if
• 1:31:03
  the house itself held secrets it refused to share.
• 1:31:10
  For the Rorik family, it was a dream come true, a step up from
• 1:31:15
  the cramped mobile home. Where they had.
• 1:31:18
  Spent years scraping by. Todd and Jacinda Rarick had
• 1:31:23
  worked tirelessly to make it theirs, pouring love and labor
• 1:31:28
  into every corner, but no amount of paint or Polish could erase
• 1:31:34
  the sense of unease that seemed to linger just beneath the
• 1:31:38
  surface. It was subtle at first, the way
• 1:31:43
  the shadows in the hallway stretched longer than they
• 1:31:46
  should, or how certain rooms. Always felt a few degrees
• 1:31:51
  colder. No matter the season, by the
• 1:31:54
  time they realized that, their sanctuary had become a prison.
• 1:31:59
  It was too. Late This is not a story of
• 1:32:03
  flickering lights or misplaced keys.
• 1:32:07
  It is a. Story of something older,
• 1:32:10
  darker, and far more insidious. A force that thrived on fear and
• 1:32:16
  despair, eating on the cracks of the Roric's lives until it
• 1:32:22
  threatened to consume them entirely.
• 1:32:26
  The events that unfolded within those walls would forever mark
• 1:32:30
  them, leaving scars that no amount of time could fully heal.
• 1:32:36
  And to think, it all began with one small light.
• 1:32:42
  The small town of Montandon in the heart of Pennsylvania, a
• 1:32:48
  place where life ambled quietly through the sunlit afternoons
• 1:32:54
  and starry nights. The Rarag family, Jacinda and
• 1:33:00
  her husband Todd, and their 20 year old son Justin had called
• 1:33:05
  it home for nearly 14 years. Their modest 3 bedroom house was
• 1:33:11
  tucked at the edge of a forest, a place where shadows seem to
• 1:33:15
  linger just a little bit too long.
• 1:33:20
  Montandem was the kind of place where everyone knew each other,
• 1:33:24
  the tight knit community bound by shared traditions and
• 1:33:29
  familiarity. The grocery clerk knew which
• 1:33:33
  brand of coffee you liked before you asked, and neighbors always
• 1:33:37
  waved from their porches. It was a place that felt safe,
• 1:33:43
  ordinary even, which made the events that unfolded within the
• 1:33:47
  Roric household all the more chilling.
• 1:33:51
  Jacinda was in recovery from major back surgery, the
• 1:33:56
  aftermath of years of hard work and determination catching up to
• 1:34:00
  her body. The procedure had been grueling
• 1:34:06
  and to repair herniated discs, but it left her with more pain
• 1:34:10
  than relief. Her days were now filled with a
• 1:34:14
  restless idleness, an unfamiliar state for someone so used to
• 1:34:20
  motion. She spent much of her time in
• 1:34:23
  the living room, gazing out at the trees that bordered their
• 1:34:27
  yard, their leaves whispering the secrets in the breeze.
• 1:34:34
  Her husband, Todd, a repairman at a local brewery, had taken on
• 1:34:39
  the dual role of caregiver and provider, his demeanor
• 1:34:44
  oscillating between steadfast support and quiet exhaustion.
• 1:34:50
  Todd was a practical man, his faith rooted in what he could
• 1:34:54
  see and fix with his hands. He tried to assure Jacinda with
• 1:34:59
  humor and routine. Though he could see the toll her
• 1:35:03
  recovery was. Taking on her spirit, Justin,
• 1:35:07
  fresh from high school and nursing a shoulder injury from a
• 1:35:11
  summer mishap, found himself housebound as well.
• 1:35:15
  The injury had sidelined his plans to work full time at the
• 1:35:18
  local hardware store, leaving him with hours to fill and a
• 1:35:23
  growing sense of frustration. He spent his days flipping
• 1:35:27
  through old magazines, scrolling aimlessly on his phone, and
• 1:35:32
  helping his mother as much as his limited mobility allowed.
• 1:35:36
  The first sign came in the form of light.
• 1:35:39
  Jacinda, leafing through photographs of Justin's
• 1:35:43
  graduation, noticed something peculiar.
• 1:35:47
  Small, luminous orbs scattered the images.
• 1:35:52
  Some glowed a soft white, others a spectral purple.
• 1:35:58
  They hovered in the corners, barely visible, yet
• 1:36:03
  unmistakingly present. At first, she thought it was a
• 1:36:07
  trick of light, but as she flipped through more photos, the
• 1:36:12
  pattern persisted. Jacinta's heart leapt at the
• 1:36:16
  thought that these could be her parents, long gone but never
• 1:36:22
  forgotten. Their presence, if real, was a
• 1:36:26
  comfort, a balm against the isolating monotony for recovery.
• 1:36:33
  Look at this. Todd, she said one morning,
• 1:36:35
  holding a photograph up to the light.
• 1:36:39
  These orbs, they're in every picture.
• 1:36:42
  Don't you think it's strange? Todd glanced over, his
• 1:36:47
  expression a mix of amusement and exasperation.
• 1:36:53
  Camera flares, he said, brushing it off.
• 1:36:57
  You're overthinking it. You gissed her on the forehead
• 1:37:01
  and then left for work, leaving Jacinda alone with her thoughts.
• 1:37:07
  But Jacinda couldn't let it go. She began documenting the orbs,
• 1:37:11
  obsessively, taking picture after picture, each new snapshot
• 1:37:17
  only deepening her conviction. The orbs appeared in the
• 1:37:21
  kitchen, the hallway, even her bedroom.
• 1:37:26
  Some seem to shimmer with a faint inner light, their edges
• 1:37:30
  blurring like tiny stars caught on film.
• 1:37:35
  As the days turned into weeks, the orbs became more active.
• 1:37:40
  Jacinda began noticing subtle movements within the shimmering
• 1:37:44
  lights. They seemed to drift closer when
• 1:37:48
  she was alone, as if trying to communicate something just
• 1:37:53
  beyond the edge of her perception.
• 1:37:55
  Occasionally, she would hear faint whispers accompanying
• 1:37:59
  their presence, indecipherable but undeniably there.
• 1:38:05
  The whispers became louder over time, escalating into fragmented
• 1:38:10
  phrases that would flit away just as she tried to focus on
• 1:38:15
  them. But the house held more than
• 1:38:17
  just playful flickers of light. There was a wait in the air, the
• 1:38:23
  suffocating heaviness that seemed to press down on her
• 1:38:26
  chest. She felt it most acutely within
• 1:38:30
  the quiet hours of the night, when the world outside fell
• 1:38:35
  silent and the shadows within seemed to grow restless.
• 1:38:41
  The sound of creaking floorboards, faint knocking at
• 1:38:45
  odd hours, and sudden cold drafts became a nightly
• 1:38:50
  occurrence. The temperature would drop
• 1:38:54
  dramatically in certain rooms, and the family's pets, a loyal
• 1:38:59
  dog and two skittish cats, would refuse to enter those spaces.
• 1:39:06
  One evening, while Justin lay in the living room, he heard it.
• 1:39:12
  The distinct sound of footsteps above him.
• 1:39:15
  Heavy and deliberate, they moved across the ceiling, each step a
• 1:39:22
  dagger of dread stabbing into his mind.
• 1:39:27
  His parents weren't home, and the house should have been
• 1:39:31
  silent. Mom.
• 1:39:34
  Dad, he called out his voice. Trembling, there was no response
• 1:39:41
  when he mustered the courage to investigate.
• 1:39:45
  He. Found nothing.
• 1:39:48
  The doors were locked, the lights off.
• 1:39:53
  Yet the sense of unease lingered, settling deep into his
• 1:39:57
  bones. I heard footsteps, he told his
• 1:40:01
  mother the next morning. Someone was in the house.
• 1:40:05
  Jacinda's eyes widened. It's the shadow, she whispered.
• 1:40:11
  I've seen it too. Justin's skepticism melted into
• 1:40:15
  fear. He dismissed his mother's tales
• 1:40:19
  of orbs and presences. Chalking them up to the side
• 1:40:23
  effects of medication or the imagination of a mind left idle
• 1:40:28
  for too long. But now the reality of her words
• 1:40:31
  clawed at him. The sightings grew bolder.
• 1:40:36
  A pool table in the basement, untouched for weeks, suddenly
• 1:40:41
  erupted into sound. A sharp crack of billyard balls
• 1:40:45
  breaking echoed throughout the house.
• 1:40:49
  When Justin went to investigate, he saw the balls scattered, as
• 1:40:54
  if a game had been interrupted mid play.
• 1:40:58
  Then there was the shadow. A dark, formless silhouette that
• 1:41:04
  loomed in the corner of his vision, its presence oppressive
• 1:41:09
  and consuming. Though it had no discernible
• 1:41:13
  features, he felt it staring into him.
• 1:41:17
  Peeling back the layers of his mind to expose his deepest
• 1:41:22
  fears, the entity then began to rush at him.
• 1:41:27
  But before another scream could erupt from his mouth, almost as
• 1:41:32
  if in the blink of an eye, it vanished.
• 1:41:37
  The room, his bedroom was up to the side.
• 1:41:39
  We had a pool table down there in the bar.
• 1:41:41
  So like we hung out there all the time.
• 1:41:44
  Like that's where we live and. He happened to be coming out of
• 1:41:48
  the bedroom. He came upstairs and he heard
• 1:41:51
  because he heard footsteps and nobody was here.
• 1:41:54
  They went back downstairs and he heard the footsteps again.
• 1:41:58
  So he came back up and then he heard the pool table.
• 1:42:00
  Balls. Break downstairs and when he
• 1:42:02
  went down he happened to look and he seen this black.
• 1:42:06
  He described it as something that wasn't.
• 1:42:09
  Or. How did he say it?
• 1:42:11
  I said, I don't even know where you came up with that word.
• 1:42:13
  Organically, natural. And then he said it flashed and
• 1:42:16
  then it went away. And then he finally came to me.
• 1:42:19
  At that time, he had graduated from high school and he was
• 1:42:22
  working at a local hardware store.
• 1:42:24
  And he had came to me. He was like, Mom, I finally
• 1:42:27
  believe you. And I was just like, so happy
• 1:42:29
  that somebody was finally, you know, on the same page with me.
• 1:42:34
  Jacinda's paintings wants her escape.
• 1:42:39
  Began to betray her. One night, as she gazed at a
• 1:42:43
  completed piece, she saw the color shifting, melting as if
• 1:42:50
  consumed by an unseen force. The patterns twisted
• 1:42:56
  unnaturally, forming faces and eyes as seemed to watch her with
• 1:43:02
  malevolence. A sharp pain lanced through her
• 1:43:06
  head. She collapsed, gasping for air.
• 1:43:12
  Along with these more intense manifestations of something
• 1:43:16
  evil, the family, along with terrible sleep within the home
• 1:43:22
  due to almost constant feelings of anxiety, began to experience
• 1:43:27
  something else as well lapses in time.
• 1:43:31
  In one instance, Lucinda had been laying in bed 1 moment, and
• 1:43:38
  almost as if waking up from a dream, she found herself at the
• 1:43:42
  top of the stairs, ready to step and descend into the basement.
• 1:43:49
  A move that, if it had gone wrong, would have led to even
• 1:43:53
  more catastrophic pain and injury given her state of
• 1:43:58
  health. One night, Jacinda finally
• 1:44:02
  broke. It's the house, she sobbed to
• 1:44:06
  Todd. It's trying to kill us.
• 1:44:10
  Todd's patients wore thin. You're stressed, he said, his
• 1:44:16
  voice laced with frustration. You're recovering from surgery,
• 1:44:21
  and you're letting your mind run wild.
• 1:44:24
  But even he couldn't ignore the signs forever.
• 1:44:28
  One night, during a rare family dinner, Todd clutched his chest,
• 1:44:33
  his face contorting in pain, his skin turned ashen, his breaths
• 1:44:40
  shallow and labored. They rushed him to the emergency
• 1:44:44
  room, but the tests would reveal nothing.
• 1:44:50
  Yet Todd's near collapse left an indelible mark on the family, a
• 1:44:55
  lingering sense that the house was exacting its toll on each of
• 1:45:00
  them. Desperate for answers, Jacinda
• 1:45:04
  reached out to the Central Pennsylvania Paranormal Research
• 1:45:08
  Association A-Team, led by two sidekicks named Christine and
• 1:45:15
  Liz. After speaking with them, it
• 1:45:18
  would soon arrive at the house. Upon stepping inside,
• 1:45:24
  Christine's face would darken. There's a presence here, she
• 1:45:28
  said. It's ancient and it's angry.
• 1:45:33
  Prior to arriving at the home, the team's investigation had
• 1:45:38
  unearthed a chilling history. It was their belief alongside
• 1:45:43
  their research, as centuries ago a group of Eastern European
• 1:45:49
  travelers had camped on the property, performing rituals
• 1:45:54
  that had opened a gateway to something dark.
• 1:45:59
  The presence that now haunted the Rarick family was no benign
• 1:46:03
  spirit but a demonic force, one that was drawn to the house by
• 1:46:09
  the vulnerabilities its inhabitants.
• 1:46:13
  It's attached itself to you, Christine told Jacinda.
• 1:46:17
  Your illness made you an easy target, and now it's feeding on
• 1:46:23
  your family's fear and pain. In an attempt to free the
• 1:46:27
  family, the team would conduct a cleansing of the home.
• 1:46:32
  As they got underway, their prayers began to fill the house
• 1:46:36
  with light and sound. But as this happened, the air
• 1:46:42
  seemed to shiver. As the entity began to fight
• 1:46:46
  back its rage. Palpable shadows thickened and
• 1:46:52
  writhed, taking on grotesque shapes that lunged at the
• 1:46:56
  investigators before dissolving into nothingness.
• 1:47:02
  The furniture creaked ominously, and objects flew from shelves
• 1:47:07
  with a violent force towards the tail end of the cleansing
• 1:47:11
  ritual. A deafening silence fell over
• 1:47:15
  the room, like that of snow falling within a forest.
• 1:47:21
  The entity then let out one last burst of furious energy.
• 1:47:27
  This burst shook the house to its foundation, with windows and
• 1:47:31
  doors shuddering and its vibration.
• 1:47:35
  Following this display of power, however, a calm descended.
• 1:47:40
  The oppressive weight seemed to be lifted, the shadows receded,
• 1:47:46
  and for the first time in months, the house felt like a
• 1:47:50
  home again. In the aftermath, the Raricks
• 1:47:54
  began to heal, their bonds stronger for having faced the
• 1:47:58
  darkness together. Todd, once skeptical, now spoke
• 1:48:04
  with quiet reverence of the ordeal.
• 1:48:07
  There are things we don't understand, he admitted.
• 1:48:11
  But that doesn't mean that they aren't real.
• 1:48:15
  Jacinda, though still scarred by the experience, found solace in
• 1:48:21
  the belief that her parents had been watching over her all
• 1:48:24
  along, their love a shield against the malevolent force
• 1:48:30
  that had invaded their lives. As she stood at the edge of the
• 1:48:35
  forest one evening, gazing up at the stars, she whispered a quiet
• 1:48:41
  thank you to the spirits that she hoped were still near.
• 1:48:47
  And in the silence that followed, she felt an embrace, a
• 1:48:53
  warm and reassuring one, like the arms of a mother and father
• 1:49:00
  who would always protect their child.
• 1:49:04
  Months later, life in the Roric household had found a semblance
• 1:49:08
  of normalcy. The memories of their harrowing
• 1:49:12
  experience lingered, but so did a renewed sense of gratitude and
• 1:49:19
  strength. Their story remained A
• 1:49:22
  cautionary tale in the community, whispered over cups
• 1:49:26
  of coffee and told in hushed tones by neighbors.
• 1:49:31
  For the Rorics. It was a reminder of the thin
• 1:49:35
  veil that separates the scene from the unseen.
• 1:49:41
  Though they thought it was the end of their ordeal, it was
• 1:49:45
  unfortunately not the case for them.
• 1:49:48
  The months following the cleansing seemed to just be a
• 1:49:51
  respite from the chaos, for it would resume with horrendous
• 1:49:56
  vigor and it seemed to further pursue Jacinda, perhaps
• 1:50:02
  believing her to be the weakest link of the family.
• 1:50:05
  Due to her. Health.
• 1:50:08
  The family tried cleansings from priests, from paranormal groups,
• 1:50:14
  but nothing seemed to work. Jacinda, through reaching out
• 1:50:18
  for help, would hear from a psychic that it wasn't just one
• 1:50:23
  entity that haunted her and her family.
• 1:50:26
  That it was multiple, 4 to be exact.
• 1:50:30
  That these entities were indeed ancient.
• 1:50:34
  That they were demons. Demons who had been summoned
• 1:50:38
  through various rituals many moons ago and that haunted the
• 1:50:44
  land itself, but had attached themselves to her due to her
• 1:50:49
  vulnerable state, feeding off of her fear, anxiety, and
• 1:50:55
  ultimately her life force. This was almost identical to the
• 1:51:00
  theory the Central Pennsylvania Paranormal Research Association
• 1:51:05
  team had as well. More strange and scary
• 1:51:09
  manifestations would take place over the years.
• 1:51:13
  All the trees and vegetation surrounding the home would die.
• 1:51:18
  Distortions and time would continue to take place.
• 1:51:23
  Their nightmares. Would bleed over into day
• 1:51:26
  mirrors as the shadows would contort and twist, morphing into
• 1:51:32
  non organic monstrosities before their very eyes before then
• 1:51:38
  dissipating into nothing. What makes this all the more
• 1:51:44
  disturbing is that through my research on this case, I believe
• 1:51:49
  the family still lives there and continues to deal with these
• 1:51:53
  dark and horrendous entities. The last interview I could find
• 1:51:59
  with Jacinda was with the Grave Talks podcast, which I'll link
• 1:52:03
  below, and that was posted in 2019.
• 1:52:08
  It's also where the beginning audio segment came from.
• 1:52:12
  It really is a fascinating interview and I highly recommend
• 1:52:15
  that you go check it out. And I would also like to thank
• 1:52:19
  Tony from Real Ghost Stories Online and the Grave Talks
• 1:52:23
  Podcast for allowing me to. Use that segment.
• 1:52:27
  The thought of being so vulnerable like following a
• 1:52:30
  surgery or in this case surgeries, and having to deal
• 1:52:36
  with spiritual manifestations on top of physical pain and mental
• 1:52:41
  turmoil as a result of both is just harrowing to try and
• 1:52:45
  fathom. I really have to say that
• 1:52:49
  Jacinda truly seems to be a strong willed person and I pray
• 1:52:53
  that wherever her and her family are now, whether it's still in
• 1:52:57
  the same home or not, that they've found peace.
• 1:53:02
  Albeit that doesn't seem to be the case based off of my
• 1:53:05
  research. The wishing someone the best
• 1:53:09
  certainly never did any harm. There's a lot of small details
• 1:53:13
  in this case as well, but I tried my best to touch on major
• 1:53:17
  points. And as always, I recommend you
• 1:53:20
  dive into your own research if you'd like to know more for
• 1:53:26
  years it. Stood in silence, its walls
• 1:53:29
  swollen with secrets, its halls thick with shadows.
• 1:53:36
  Mark and Claire Sullivan never planned to return, but after
• 1:53:40
  their mother's death, they had no choice.
• 1:53:44
  Ashwood House was their inheritance, a place of
• 1:53:47
  childhood memories long buried under dust and something darker.
• 1:53:54
  Now, as they step across the threshold, the air is heavy with
• 1:53:59
  something unseen. The past lingers here,
• 1:54:03
  whispering in the walls, watching from the corners, and
• 1:54:08
  it has been waiting for them. I did want to let you guys know
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  Thank you. For years, decades perhaps
• 1:54:47
  longer than anyone living could remember, it stood at the edge
• 1:54:52
  of the forest, shrouded and tangled Ivy and the wait of
• 1:54:58
  forgotten years, its walls swollen with secrets.
• 1:55:04
  Some places are simply abandoned, left to decay in
• 1:55:08
  silence, But others? Others are forsaken, left behind
• 1:55:15
  not by choice but by necessity. Ashwood House was the latter.
• 1:55:24
  Mark Sullivan never thought he'd return here.
• 1:55:27
  Neither did his sister Claire. Yet in the wake of their
• 1:55:30
  mother's passing, duty called them back to the place where
• 1:55:34
  they had spent their childhood summers, the place where
• 1:55:38
  something had changed their family forever.
• 1:55:42
  It had been a house full of loved ones, filled with the
• 1:55:46
  scent of old books and their grandmother's lavender perfume.
• 1:55:51
  But that warmth had long since faded, swallowed by whispers in
• 1:55:56
  the walls and shadows that stretch too long at night.
• 1:56:03
  Now, as their car rumbled up the overgrown Dr. the house loomed
• 1:56:08
  ahead, it's gaping windows like vacant eyes watching them.
• 1:56:15
  Mark gripped the steering wheel tighter.
• 1:56:18
  Claire, beside him, exhaled a breath that she hadn't realized
• 1:56:23
  she was holding. Neither of them spoke.
• 1:56:28
  Somewhere deep inside the house felt them arrive, and somewhere
• 1:56:33
  even deeper, something else stirred.
• 1:56:39
  The car's headlights cut through the dusk as Mark Sullivan
• 1:56:42
  steered up a winding dirt lane, dense woods pressing in on
• 1:56:47
  either side. Beside him, his younger sister
• 1:56:51
  Claire sat quietly, hands twisting in her lap.
• 1:56:56
  The old Ashwood house finally loomed into view, A2 story
• 1:57:01
  silhouette against a moonless night sky.
• 1:57:05
  Mark killed the engine, and in the sudden silence, both
• 1:57:10
  siblings gazed at the darkened house.
• 1:57:14
  It's windows were black and empty, and the timber frame
• 1:57:19
  seemed to lean toward them as if in greeting.
• 1:57:23
  A once grand porch sagged under the weight of years of disuse.
• 1:57:30
  Claire shivered, pulling her jacket tighter.
• 1:57:34
  Welcome home. Mark murmured, attempting a wry
• 1:57:38
  tone, but his voice cracked slightly.
• 1:57:42
  Neither of them had visited this property since they were
• 1:57:45
  children. This was Grandma Rose's house,
• 1:57:49
  inherited by their mother. And now, after their mother's
• 1:57:53
  recent passing, left to the two of them.
• 1:57:57
  It might have been a lovely inheritance if it wasn't for the
• 1:58:01
  whispers of tragedy tied to it. The same tragedy that haunted
• 1:58:06
  their family for decades. Mark pushed open the car door,
• 1:58:12
  and the Creek of its hinge was unnaturally loud.
• 1:58:17
  Gravel crunched under his boots. Claire hesitated, staring at the
• 1:58:22
  house's front window. In her memory, that door had
• 1:58:27
  always been painted a cheerful blue.
• 1:58:31
  Now it was faded to appealing Gray, reminding her of a gaping
• 1:58:37
  mouth. They ascended the porch
• 1:58:40
  together. The wood planks groaned under
• 1:58:43
  foot. Mark fumble with the old key
• 1:58:46
  their mother had left and the lock finally gave with a loud
• 1:58:52
  crack, making Claire jump. He shot her a reassuring smile
• 1:58:57
  he didn't feel. It's just a house.
• 1:59:01
  He said softly. She nodded, but her eyes
• 1:59:05
  remained wide. Stepping inside they were
• 1:59:09
  greeted by a stale chill. The air smelled of dust, mold,
• 1:59:14
  and something indefinably sweet, like flowers long since dried
• 1:59:20
  and dead. Claire found a light switch and
• 1:59:23
  flicked it. Nothing.
• 1:59:26
  The power was off. Mark swept the beam of his
• 1:59:29
  flashlight across the foyer. Sheets draped over furniture
• 1:59:34
  like ghostly forms, wallpaper peeling into long strips, and an
• 1:59:40
  old grandfather clock stood guard in the corner, its
• 1:59:45
  pendulum still as they ventured further, the quiet was thick and
• 1:59:51
  unbroken. They were truly alone in this
• 1:59:55
  House of echoes. Mark set down their bags in what
• 2:00:00
  used to be the parlor. The flashlights narrow beam
• 2:00:04
  painted long shadows on the walls.
• 2:00:08
  I'll go find the breaker box. He said, trying to sound upbeat.
• 2:00:12
  Claire nodded and knelt to unzip one of the bags, producing 2
• 2:00:18
  thick candles. And a lighter.
• 2:00:21
  Within minutes, a small flame cast a trembling glow, pushing
• 2:00:26
  back the darkness a few feet in each direction.
• 2:00:31
  The siblings exchanged a glance and gave each other small smiles
• 2:00:35
  of encouragement. While Mark went to restore the
• 2:00:39
  power, Claire remained in the parlor.
• 2:00:42
  The candles glow, her only company.
• 2:00:45
  She scanned the room, heart thumping.
• 2:00:49
  Here stood the old rocking chair where Grandma Rose used to sit
• 2:00:53
  and knit. It rocked gently, as if nudged
• 2:00:58
  by an unseen hand. She stepped closer, the floor
• 2:01:04
  board sighing beneath her chair. The chair was still now was
• 2:01:10
  probably just a draft, she told herself.
• 2:01:14
  She wrapped her arms around herself and wandered toward a
• 2:01:17
  side table covered in a dusty sheet.
• 2:01:21
  On it sat a framed photograph. Lifting the sheet, Claire
• 2:01:26
  revealed the photo and felt a pang in her chest.
• 2:01:31
  It was her mother as a young girl.
• 2:01:34
  She was smiling brightly on this very porch, Rose's arm around
• 2:01:38
  her shoulders. They both looked so happy.
• 2:01:43
  Claire bit her lip, recalling how that happiness had drained
• 2:01:47
  from her mother in the later years, replaced by sorrow and
• 2:01:52
  ramblings about voices in the house.
• 2:01:57
  A sudden thud from upstairs shattered the silence.
• 2:02:01
  Claire gasped, nearly dropping the frame.
• 2:02:05
  Her candle flickered. Mark.
• 2:02:08
  She called out with her voice tight.
• 2:02:11
  No answer. Mark was in the basement, not
• 2:02:15
  upstairs. The thud sounded again, louder,
• 2:02:20
  as if something heavy had fallen onto the floor in an upper room.
• 2:02:25
  Claire's mind raced. And intruder, possibly, Or
• 2:02:30
  something else. With her heart continuing to
• 2:02:33
  pound, she took a tentative step into the hall.
• 2:02:38
  That staircase rose before her, it's upper landing swallowed in
• 2:02:42
  the darkness. She stared into that void,
• 2:02:46
  candlelight quivering, and for a moment she thought she had heard
• 2:02:51
  a faint whisper filtering down a small murmur just out of the
• 2:02:57
  edge of hearing. It almost sounded like her name
• 2:03:00
  was being said, and the hairs on her neck rose up at the thought.
• 2:03:07
  Before she could call for Mark again, he appeared at the end of
• 2:03:11
  the hall, flashlight in hand. Power's out for good, the wires
• 2:03:18
  are shot. He said, then he noticed her
• 2:03:21
  stance. What's wrong?
• 2:03:24
  Claire turned to him, her face pale.
• 2:03:28
  I heard something upstairs. She whispered.
• 2:03:32
  Mark frowned, stepping forward protectively.
• 2:03:36
  Together they climb the stairs, the wood moaning under each
• 2:03:41
  footstep. At the top, Mark swept his
• 2:03:45
  flashlight. Around the corridor was empty,
• 2:03:50
  doors to bedrooms and storage rooms ajar.
• 2:03:55
  Dust motes danced in the beam, and there was no sign of
• 2:03:59
  anything out of place. Mark checked each room briskly,
• 2:04:05
  opening closets, peering under old furniture, but there was
• 2:04:10
  nothing. It was probably an animal on the
• 2:04:14
  roof. He reassured Claire, who nodded
• 2:04:17
  uncertainly. Yet as they stared back down,
• 2:04:21
  she caught one last sound, one that was so soft she thought she
• 2:04:27
  might have imagined it, a distant sobbing of a woman.
• 2:04:32
  She didn't tell Mark though, not yet.
• 2:04:37
  They set up camp for the night in the parlor, preferring to
• 2:04:40
  stay together on the ground floor.
• 2:04:43
  Mark managed to get the fireplace in the parlor lit with
• 2:04:47
  some dry wood that he had found, and soon a small fire crackled,
• 2:04:52
  easing the chill. The siblings sat on the dusty
• 2:04:56
  rug with blankets wrapped around them, the warm light painted
• 2:05:01
  flickering shapes on the walls. It should have been cozy, but
• 2:05:06
  unease clung to them. Mark was fiddling with a
• 2:05:10
  handheld radio he had brought, but it only hissed with static.
• 2:05:16
  There was no signal in these deep woods.
• 2:05:19
  He shut it off, and for a moment the only sounds heard were the
• 2:05:24
  pop of embers and the tick of that old grandfather clock which
• 2:05:30
  had inexplicably began ticking again.
• 2:05:34
  Claire broke the silence. Do you remember much about
• 2:05:38
  coming here as kids? She asked quietly.
• 2:05:42
  Mark stared into the fire. Bits and pieces, he said.
• 2:05:47
  Mostly happy times until that last visit.
• 2:05:52
  Claire nodded. That final visit over 15 years
• 2:05:56
  ago when she was only a child of seven.
• 2:06:01
  The night that she had been sent home early with an uncle while
• 2:06:04
  Mark stayed with Mom, something happened that night.
• 2:06:09
  Their mother had never spoken directly of it, but her behavior
• 2:06:14
  changed forever. She became anxious, depressive,
• 2:06:20
  muttering about seeing her father, who had died in Ashwood
• 2:06:25
  House years before, wandering the halls.
• 2:06:30
  It was as if part of her had never left this place.
• 2:06:34
  Claire remembered waking at her home to her mother's screams
• 2:06:37
  from nightmares about Ashwood. Mark's jaw tightened.
• 2:06:43
  Mom always said that this house was special to our family, but
• 2:06:48
  after grandmother died here, she refused to return and I never
• 2:06:54
  understood why. Claire hesitated, then admitted
• 2:06:58
  in a small voice. I think Mom saw things here and
• 2:07:03
  heard things. She used to tell me at night
• 2:07:06
  that Grandma Rose was watching us.
• 2:07:09
  At the time I thought she meant as an Angel or something, but
• 2:07:14
  now I'm not so sure. Mark turned to her, surprise in
• 2:07:19
  his eyes. He hadn't known that.
• 2:07:23
  Before he could respond, a sharp clatter came from the kitchen
• 2:07:28
  adjoining the parlor. It sounded like a metal pot
• 2:07:32
  falling, and both of them jumped up.
• 2:07:36
  Stay here. Mark ordered, Grabbing the
• 2:07:38
  flashlight. He stepped to the dark kitchen
• 2:07:41
  doorway. The fire light didn't reach that
• 2:07:45
  room, and its interior was pitch black.
• 2:07:50
  As he swung the beam across the kitchen, something skittered
• 2:07:54
  across the floor. A raccoon it seemed, and it then
• 2:07:59
  disappeared through a broken lower cabinet panel.
• 2:08:03
  Mark exhaled with his pulse calming.
• 2:08:06
  Probably it had knocked over a pin.
• 2:08:09
  Just a critter. He reported, relief evident.
• 2:08:13
  Claire managed A shaky smile. They then settled again by the
• 2:08:16
  fire. Mark poked at the embers, adding
• 2:08:20
  another log. Will clean up, sort through
• 2:08:24
  things tomorrow and be out of here by tomorrow evening.
• 2:08:27
  He said decisively. Claire agreed readily, neither
• 2:08:32
  wanted to spend more time there than necessary.
• 2:08:36
  Later that night, Claire was dozing off under her blanket
• 2:08:41
  while Mark kept first watch. He wasn't sure what he was
• 2:08:45
  watching for, the house was abandoned after all, yet he felt
• 2:08:51
  unwilling to fully sleep. His eyes grew heavy as the fire
• 2:08:56
  died down, and just as he was about to nod off, a Creek
• 2:09:02
  sounded from the hallway, like a footstep on the wooden floor.
• 2:09:08
  Mark's eyes snapped open. The hall lay beyond the parlor
• 2:09:12
  door, and he could just make out the edge of the grandfather
• 2:09:16
  clock and the faint firelight. It, strangely, was no longer
• 2:09:21
  ticking. He rose silently, straining to
• 2:09:25
  listen. Another Creek, unmistakable this
• 2:09:30
  time, and then a gentle series of knocks on the front door.
• 2:09:36
  Mark's heart lurched into his throat.
• 2:09:39
  Who would come here at this hour?
• 2:09:42
  He grabbed the flashlight and crept forward.
• 2:09:46
  Claire stirred awake, whispering.
• 2:09:49
  What is it? Someone's at the door, Mark said
• 2:09:52
  under his breath. Claire sat up, fear jolting
• 2:09:56
  through her drowsiness. Mark approached the door, every
• 2:10:01
  instinct screaming that something was wrong.
• 2:10:04
  The knock then came again, a polite tapping.
• 2:10:09
  He mustered courage and called Hello, who's there?
• 2:10:15
  But there was no answer, just silence, thick enough to choke
• 2:10:20
  on. He glanced back at Claire, who
• 2:10:23
  had risen, clutching her blanket around her.
• 2:10:26
  He grasped the doorknob and slowly turned it, the latch
• 2:10:31
  clicking. Opening the door just a few
• 2:10:34
  inches, he peered out with his flashlight.
• 2:10:38
  The beam illuminated an empty porch and the yard beyond.
• 2:10:43
  There was no one. The night was deathly still.
• 2:10:48
  Not even a breeze stirred. Mark's breath fogged in the cold
• 2:10:52
  air. He stepped onto the porch,
• 2:10:55
  shining the light all around. There was nothing but overgrown
• 2:10:59
  weeds in the gravel driveway, the one that their car was
• 2:11:03
  quietly parked on. A chill crawled over his skin.
• 2:11:08
  He shut and re bolted the door. No one's there.
• 2:11:12
  He said softly. Claire had come up behind him.
• 2:11:17
  I heard a 2 mark, clear as day. They then exchanged uneasy
• 2:11:22
  looks. Something unseen was toying with
• 2:11:26
  them. By the next day's Gray morning
• 2:11:29
  light, Mark and Claire were eager to finish their business.
• 2:11:34
  They spent hours sorting through what was salvageable photo
• 2:11:38
  albums, some antique Knick knacks of grandma roses, and
• 2:11:43
  important papers. Both tried to act as though the
• 2:11:46
  previous night had just been nerves and natural noises, but
• 2:11:51
  each knew that it was more. They moved mostly in silence,
• 2:11:55
  the tension between them taut. Claire could sense Mark's
• 2:11:59
  skepticism wavering. He looked strained, eyes darting
• 2:12:04
  to empty doorways, as if expecting to see someone
• 2:12:07
  standing there. In the afternoon, they ventured
• 2:12:11
  into the master bedroom, the very room where Grandma Rose had
• 2:12:15
  died in her sleep decades ago. Dust laid thick on the vanity
• 2:12:20
  and the framed mirror above it. As Claire wiped a circle clean
• 2:12:25
  on the mirror with a rag. She paused, seeing her
• 2:12:29
  reflection and marks behind her. For an instant, she thought she
• 2:12:34
  saw a third figure reflected over her shoulder, a gaunt old
• 2:12:39
  woman and a lace nightgown standing between them with
• 2:12:44
  hollow eyes. Claire whirled around with a
• 2:12:47
  gasp, but no one else was there. But the mirror's surface, now
• 2:12:54
  cleared of dust, suddenly splintered with a web of cracks
• 2:12:59
  radiating from the center. Mark dropped the box he was
• 2:13:03
  carrying. The siblings stared at the
• 2:13:05
  mirror, their hearts thudding in their chests.
• 2:13:09
  The cracks in the glass vaguely formed a shape almost like that
• 2:13:14
  of a spider or a human esque figure.
• 2:13:17
  Claire's hand shook. We need to go, Mark.
• 2:13:21
  She whispered with her voice quivering.
• 2:13:24
  This house, it's angry or something.
• 2:13:28
  Mark swallowed, picking up the box again to mask his own fear.
• 2:13:33
  Soon as we finish mom's paperwork.
• 2:13:35
  He muttered. They found what they needed in
• 2:13:37
  an old roll top desk in the corner.
• 2:13:40
  The deed, some letters and a leather bound diary that
• 2:13:45
  belonged to Grandma Rose. Curious, Claire opened the diary
• 2:13:51
  and the siblings skimmed through brittled Yellow Pages.
• 2:13:55
  Rose's neat cursive detailed her daily life, gardening, cooking.
• 2:14:00
  But the final entries grew erratic.
• 2:14:04
  One entry caught their eye. I hear him at night.
• 2:14:09
  Thomas knocks on the door. But I know he's been dead for 10
• 2:14:13
  years. He wants me to join him.
• 2:14:17
  Last night I saw him at the foot of my bed, smiling.
• 2:14:21
  I'm not afraid to go. The entry was dated the night
• 2:14:25
  before Rose died. Thomas was their grandfather,
• 2:14:30
  who indeed had died years prior in the very same house.
• 2:14:35
  Claire read the words aloud, tears in her eyes.
• 2:14:39
  She was seeing Grandfather's ghost, and she wasn't afraid.
• 2:14:44
  Mark exhaled with a shaky breath.
• 2:14:47
  Their mother had hinted at similar experiences, seeing her
• 2:14:51
  father's specter in the halls. It's like all the Sullivans get
• 2:14:55
  called back here by the dead. Mark said with his voice hushed.
• 2:15:01
  A sudden bang then echoed from downstairs, as if a door had
• 2:15:06
  slammed itself shut. They both jumped.
• 2:15:09
  That was enough. They gathered the essential
• 2:15:12
  papers and decided to leave the rest.
• 2:15:16
  It was growing dark again. The day had slipped away faster
• 2:15:19
  than expected, and neither relished a second night.
• 2:15:24
  But fate had other plans. When Mark tried the front door,
• 2:15:30
  he found it stuck fast. He yanked at the knob and it
• 2:15:35
  wouldn't budget. It was as if it was held by an
• 2:15:38
  unseen force. No, he said, not now.
• 2:15:43
  With his adrenaline spiking. He and Claire together pulled,
• 2:15:48
  and suddenly the door flew open with such force that Claire
• 2:15:53
  staggered back. A frigid wind blasted into the
• 2:15:56
  foyer, extinguishing their candle and Lantern.
• 2:16:02
  The darkness that fell was absolute, and in it they heard a
• 2:16:07
  soft giggle, a child's giggle echoing from somewhere above.
• 2:16:14
  Claire's trembling hand found marks.
• 2:16:17
  Did you hear that? She whispered, and he nodded,
• 2:16:22
  though she could barely see him through the dim light from the
• 2:16:25
  clouded dusk outside. They had opened the door, but
• 2:16:30
  outside was now pitch black and uninviting, an early night
• 2:16:35
  descending with storm clouds gathering.
• 2:16:39
  The giggle then sounded again, this time from the hallway
• 2:16:44
  behind them. Blair's eyes welled with tears.
• 2:16:48
  We have to get out. She insisted.
• 2:16:51
  Mark agreed wholeheartedly, grabbing their bag and the
• 2:16:55
  documents. They stepped onto the porch only
• 2:16:59
  to have the door slammed shut behind them with a boom that
• 2:17:03
  seemed to cause the entire house to shudder.
• 2:17:06
  Mark fumble with the car keys as Thunder rumbled in the distance.
• 2:17:11
  Claire was already halfway to the car when she realized that
• 2:17:15
  Mark wasn't following. He stood at the foot of the
• 2:17:18
  porch steps staring at the car. All four tires were now
• 2:17:23
  completely flat, as if slashed in the fading.
• 2:17:28
  Light. They could see deep gashes in
• 2:17:30
  the rubber. How?
• 2:17:33
  Claire stammered. Mark spun around, scanning the
• 2:17:36
  area, but there was no sign of another person, no footprints.
• 2:17:42
  The air then felt suddenly oppressive, heavy with the
• 2:17:46
  promise of a storm and something more malevolent.
• 2:17:51
  A fat raindrop then splashed. On Claire's cheek, they were
• 2:17:55
  stranded. The keys to the old shed, Mark
• 2:17:59
  said, thinking aloud. There been an old pickup truck
• 2:18:02
  in the shed years ago. Maybe, just maybe, it still
• 2:18:08
  worked. It was a slim hope.
• 2:18:12
  The shed was behind the house, past an overgrown garden.
• 2:18:16
  With flashlights in hand, they dashed through the yard as the
• 2:18:21
  sky split with lightning. The Thunder that followed was so
• 2:18:25
  loud it rattled in their chests. Rain lashed down as Mark and
• 2:18:31
  Claire pried open the shed's swollen doors.
• 2:18:35
  Inside, the smell of gasoline and dust filled their noses.
• 2:18:40
  Mark's flashlight found the shape of the old pickup truck
• 2:18:43
  under a tarp. He yanked the tarp aside,
• 2:18:47
  coughing at the billow of dust. The truck sat like a fossil of
• 2:18:52
  another age, rusted blue paint and flat tires.
• 2:18:58
  It wouldn't be going anywhere tonight.
• 2:19:01
  Claire's hope sank Mark, We might have to wait out the storm
• 2:19:06
  and walk by morning, she said, wiping rain from her eyes.
• 2:19:11
  Mark cursed under his breath, frustrated and scared.
• 2:19:17
  He knew staying men facing whatever was inside the house,
• 2:19:21
  but stumbling blindly through a stormy forest.
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  Could be just. As dangerous.
• 2:19:27
  A sudden noise made both of them freeze.
• 2:19:30
  Through the roar of the rain, they heard music.
• 2:19:34
  A faint tinkling melody was coming from inside the house,
• 2:19:40
  audible even outside. What made things stranger?
• 2:19:45
  Zach Clair recognized it. It was a lullaby tune from an
• 2:19:49
  old music box their mother used to have, one that also had
• 2:19:53
  belonged to their Grandma Rose. They had left it on the mantle
• 2:19:58
  in the parlor earlier, and now it was playing by itself.
• 2:20:04
  Each note carried through the night eerily slow.
• 2:20:09
  Claire felt tears mixed with the rain on her face.
• 2:20:12
  It's Mom's lullaby, she whispered.
• 2:20:15
  Mark said his jaw. No, it's not Mom, Claire, don't
• 2:20:20
  listen to it. But Claire was already stepping
• 2:20:24
  back toward the house, entranced by the memories.
• 2:20:28
  On countless nights as children, that lullaby had soothed them to
• 2:20:32
  sleep. Hearing it now tugged at her
• 2:20:35
  heartstrings. It'd be their mother's spirit.
• 2:20:39
  Was she there trying to comfort them?
• 2:20:42
  Or was something else luring them?
• 2:20:45
  Without realizing, they had both moved back toward the house.
• 2:20:50
  The front door stood open despite having slammed when they
• 2:20:54
  initially exited the house. A warm light glowed from within.
• 2:20:59
  The fireplace was roaring, casting flickers onto the porch.
• 2:21:04
  Mark's mind then began to race. They had put the fire out before
• 2:21:08
  packing up, hadn't they? Yes, they definitely did.
• 2:21:14
  So who rekindled it, they wondered.
• 2:21:18
  The siblings exchanged a look of fear and resolve.
• 2:21:21
  They had to confront whatever it was.
• 2:21:24
  There was no escaping it now. Hand in hand, they crossed the
• 2:21:29
  threshold once more. The front door drifted shut
• 2:21:33
  behind them, as if guided by invisible hands, but softly this
• 2:21:39
  time. Inside the music box, Lullaby
• 2:21:42
  chimed from the parlor. The fire danced high, far too
• 2:21:47
  vigorous for an unattended flame.
• 2:21:51
  In front of the hearth stood a figure.
• 2:21:53
  Claire's breath. Caught as she saw the silhouette
• 2:21:57
  of a woman in a modest dress, Gray hair and a loose bun.
• 2:22:03
  Grandma. She whispered incredulously.
• 2:22:07
  The figure then turned. Even with her spectral
• 2:22:10
  translucent form, the resemblance was clear.
• 2:22:15
  It was Grandma Rose, just as she had looked in the old photos,
• 2:22:20
  eyes Milky and distant. Rose's lips curved into a gentle
• 2:22:26
  smile. Mark felt a lump in his throat.
• 2:22:30
  Could it truly be her Gran? He began taking a step forward,
• 2:22:36
  and then, bang. A door somewhere upstairs
• 2:22:39
  slammed violently, cutting him off.
• 2:22:43
  Rose's apparition suddenly flickered, her kindly smile
• 2:22:47
  twisting into an expression of terror.
• 2:22:51
  She lifted an arm and pointed. Towards the stairs.
• 2:22:55
  Claire and Mark both turned to look, and at the top of the
• 2:22:59
  staircase stood another figure, shrouded in darkness.
• 2:23:04
  Lightning flashed through a window, illuminating the form.
• 2:23:09
  A tall man in an old fashioned suit, half his face cast in the
• 2:23:14
  shadow. Their grandfather Thomas, or
• 2:23:19
  what remained of him. His eyes were fixed on rows with
• 2:23:24
  a look of longing and rage combined.
• 2:23:28
  Claire realized they were witnessing an echo of the past,
• 2:23:33
  the final night of Rose's life, perhaps.
• 2:23:37
  Rose's ghostly form backed away toward the earth.
• 2:23:41
  I won't go with you, she whispered, voice thin and
• 2:23:46
  warbling with age and fear. The man at the stairs.
• 2:23:51
  Thomas's ghost descended step by step, each footfall A dole thud.
• 2:24:00
  The house reacted with creaks and a sudden gust that whisked
• 2:24:04
  papers off the tables. Mark grabbed Claire's arm.
• 2:24:09
  We need to stop this. He yelled over the rising wind
• 2:24:12
  that seemed to swirl inside the house.
• 2:24:15
  The siblings placed themselves between the ghosts.
• 2:24:19
  Claire, with tears streaming, shouted to the man.
• 2:24:23
  Leave her alone, she's not yours to take.
• 2:24:28
  Thomas's ghost paused, as if noticing the living for the
• 2:24:31
  first time. His eyes black pits, bore into
• 2:24:37
  Claire. She felt a stab of ice in her
• 2:24:40
  chest and staggered. Mark moved in front of her
• 2:24:45
  protectively. The music box melody warped and
• 2:24:49
  slowed and then stopped. She is mine, Thomas's voice
• 2:24:55
  rumbled, sounding like dry leaves.
• 2:24:59
  With a burst of speed, his spirit lunged.
• 2:25:04
  Rose's ghost wailed, and suddenly the room exploded in
• 2:25:09
  chaos. The fire blew out, plunging
• 2:25:13
  everything into strobing darkness, lit only by the
• 2:25:17
  flashes of lightning. Picture frames flew from the
• 2:25:21
  walls, chattering around them. An unseen force shoved Mark hard
• 2:25:28
  and he crashed against the wall, knocking the breath out of him.
• 2:25:32
  Claire screamed as an antique vase lifted and hurled toward
• 2:25:36
  her. She ducked and it smashed on the
• 2:25:40
  wall behind. Amidst the frenzy, Thomas's
• 2:25:44
  apparition advanced on roses, driving her into a corner.
• 2:25:50
  His form growing larger and more menacing with each step.
• 2:25:56
  Summoning courage, Claire scrambled up and did the only
• 2:26:00
  thing that she could think of. She grabbed the music box from
• 2:26:04
  the Mantel. It was still open, the key
• 2:26:08
  turning on its own. Grandpa Thomas.
• 2:26:12
  She screamed out. The dark figure halted and
• 2:26:17
  twisted his head toward her unnaturally.
• 2:26:20
  Claire's voice shook, but she pressed on.
• 2:26:25
  You don't belong here anymore, and Grandma doesn't want to go
• 2:26:29
  with you. In response, Thomas's ghost let
• 2:26:34
  out a growl that resonated through the floorboards.
• 2:26:38
  Mark regained his feet and rushed to Claire's side.
• 2:26:43
  Together, they faced the entity. Claire, in a burst of defiance,
• 2:26:49
  began to wind down the toy box, forcing it to stop.
• 2:26:53
  The lullaby's notes slowed to a crawl.
• 2:26:57
  The raging activity in the house seemed to falter uncertainly.
• 2:27:02
  Rose's ghost, quivering, took the chance to slip away from the
• 2:27:06
  corner and move near the siblings, as if seeking shelter
• 2:27:10
  behind them. You can't have her.
• 2:27:13
  Mark shouted. And you can't have us either.
• 2:27:17
  He grabbed an iron poker from beside the fireplace,
• 2:27:20
  brandishing it. The iron glinted.
• 2:27:24
  Traditionally, iron was said to ward off spirits.
• 2:27:28
  Thomas's ghost recoiled at the side of the poker, his form
• 2:27:33
  flickering. The Thunder outside built into a
• 2:27:37
  crescendo as the storm peaked. The Dark Specter's face
• 2:27:42
  contorted with fury and a rasping voice that no longer
• 2:27:47
  resembled their grandfathers. It hissed.
• 2:27:51
  All of you are mine. Blood of my blood.
• 2:27:56
  You belong to this house. With that, Thomas's spirit
• 2:28:01
  surged forward in a final furious attempt, the wind of his
• 2:28:06
  passing dousing even the embers and the earth.
• 2:28:10
  Mark instinctively thrust the poker out.
• 2:28:13
  There was a sound like a scream mixed with a howl, and the metal
• 2:28:17
  passed through the apparition, which shrieked and burst apart
• 2:28:23
  into a cloud of black, swirling smoke.
• 2:28:27
  The force of it knocked both siblings backward on the floor.
• 2:28:31
  The cloud of darkness swirled violently around the ceiling and
• 2:28:36
  then streamed up the staircase and vanished into the attic with
• 2:28:41
  a final ear splitting shriek. Silence fell, broken only by the
• 2:28:48
  distant patter of rain on the roof.
• 2:28:51
  The furniture settled. The house stood calm and still,
• 2:28:57
  as if nothing had happened. Claire and Mark sat up,
• 2:29:01
  trembling and clinging to each other.
• 2:29:05
  The only light now came from the occasional flicker of lightning.
• 2:29:09
  Rose's ghost stood before them, her form now gentle and sad.
• 2:29:16
  Thank you, she whispered, her voice clearer now.
• 2:29:21
  Her eyes meant Claire's, and marks in turn.
• 2:29:24
  They felt a warmth, a grandmother's love emanate from
• 2:29:30
  her. Rose drifted closer, reaching
• 2:29:34
  out a translucent hand. Claire felt a soft touch brush
• 2:29:38
  her hair. It felt like a cool breeze,
• 2:29:42
  stroking her, yet comforting her as well.
• 2:29:46
  Mark heard a faint echo of his name in Rose's voice.
• 2:29:51
  Rose's ghost pointed once more, this time toward the diary on
• 2:29:55
  the floor, as if urging them to remember what they had learned.
• 2:30:00
  Then she gazed upward toward the attic where the darkness had
• 2:30:04
  fled. Her task was unfinished.
• 2:30:08
  Thomas's tormented spirit was still up there, but dawn was
• 2:30:13
  approaching. Through a window, the siblings
• 2:30:16
  could see the storm was passing and the black of the night was
• 2:30:21
  giving way to early grey. Rose's figure started to fade
• 2:30:26
  with the coming light. Claire found herself crying out.
• 2:30:31
  Grandma, wait, what should we do?
• 2:30:35
  Rose turned to them one last time.
• 2:30:38
  Her face was peaceful. Live, she whispered, the word
• 2:30:43
  echoing in the air. And then she was gone, her form
• 2:30:49
  dissolving into the first ray of morning sun that peeked through
• 2:30:55
  the broken clouds. Morning light flooded the ruined
• 2:30:59
  parlor. The aftermath was evident.
• 2:31:04
  Shattered glass, toppled furniture, water dripping from a
• 2:31:09
  broken window pane so it smeared across the walls.
• 2:31:15
  Mark and Claire sat amid the debris, exhausted and bewildered
• 2:31:21
  but alive. The oppressive heaviness that
• 2:31:24
  had plagued Ashwood House seemed lifted.
• 2:31:29
  The air felt lighter, cleansed by the rain and perhaps by the
• 2:31:34
  departure of Rose's ghost. Thomas's presence was no longer
• 2:31:40
  palpable, though an uneasy feeling lingered, knowing some
• 2:31:44
  part of him remained trapped in the attic.
• 2:31:48
  With unspoken agreement, the siblings began to clean up as
• 2:31:52
  best as they could. It felt almost like tending to a
• 2:31:56
  grave, a sign of respect for the house and their ancestors.
• 2:32:04
  They worked quietly, side by side.
• 2:32:07
  Claire's hands still shook when she picked up the remnants of
• 2:32:11
  the music box, its hinge broken from when she wrenched it.
• 2:32:18
  She found the tiny photograph that had been inside the lid, a
• 2:32:23
  picture of Grandma Rose and Grandfather Thomas and happier
• 2:32:28
  times long before death and despair overtook them.
• 2:32:36
  Mark gently took it from her and set it aside carefully.
• 2:32:41
  By the afternoon, the sky was clear and pale.
• 2:32:46
  Mark had repaired one of the car's tires with the spare and
• 2:32:49
  patch kit. The others he managed to inflate
• 2:32:53
  just enough with a portable pump would be a slow, careful drive
• 2:32:59
  back to town, but it was possible.
• 2:33:03
  They packed with few items they were taking, notably the diary
• 2:33:08
  and papers. As they stood on the porch,
• 2:33:11
  ready to depart, Claire turned to look back into the house.
• 2:33:17
  Sunbeams slanted through the open door, illuminating motes of
• 2:33:22
  dust dancing in the air. In the daylight, the house
• 2:33:27
  looked merely old and sad, not frightening.
• 2:33:32
  Her eyes landed on the staircase and followed it up to the
• 2:33:35
  shadows of the attic door. A chill ran through her.
• 2:33:39
  She remembered the inky cloud of Thomas's spirit fleeing there.
• 2:33:45
  Would he still be lurking and waiting there for them?
• 2:33:50
  We could burn it down. Mark said abruptly, reading her
• 2:33:54
  thoughts. His voice was flat, but Claire
• 2:33:58
  heard the conflict in it. This house held so much pain.
• 2:34:03
  Perhaps destroying it would end Thomas's curse.
• 2:34:07
  She considered the idea. Strike a match and let the old
• 2:34:12
  wood and all of its ghosts turn into ash.
• 2:34:16
  She even imagined Rose's spirit might approve freeing Thomas and
• 2:34:21
  herself from this limbo. Claire stepped off the porch and
• 2:34:26
  looked at the weathered facade one last time.
• 2:34:29
  No, she said quietly. This was home to those we loved.
• 2:34:35
  It's part of us. She reached and took Mark's
• 2:34:38
  hand. We'll let it stand, We'll let it
• 2:34:43
  rest. Maybe in time, what haunts it
• 2:34:46
  will fade. Mark searched her eyes and then
• 2:34:51
  nodded. They locked the front door and
• 2:34:54
  walked to the car. The Sullivan's siblings drove
• 2:34:58
  away from the Ashwood house as the afternoon light grew golden.
• 2:35:03
  The tires crunched over gravel, then found the main road.
• 2:35:08
  Neither spoke for a long while, each replaying the night's
• 2:35:13
  events feeling unreal yet etched in their minds forever.
• 2:35:19
  Finally, Mark broke the silence. Claire, about what happened last
• 2:35:26
  night, what we saw. She placed a hand on his arm
• 2:35:30
  gently. I know it was real.
• 2:35:35
  We'll figure it out together. For the first time in years,
• 2:35:40
  Mark allowed himself to feel the grief of their mother's death
• 2:35:44
  and the weight of their family's history.
• 2:35:48
  He blinked back tears. Claire, resting her head on his
• 2:35:52
  shoulder briefly as he drove, offered him solace.
• 2:35:57
  They had faced the darkness and survived, and in doing so had
• 2:36:03
  repaired something in their own relationship that had long been
• 2:36:06
  strained by unspoken fears. As the car rounded a bend,
• 2:36:13
  Ashwood House vanished from the rear view mirror.
• 2:36:16
  Claire let out a long breath. Do you think he'll ever find
• 2:36:20
  peace? She asked softly, referring to
• 2:36:23
  their grandfather's angry spirit.
• 2:36:26
  Mark was quiet for a moment. I hope so, he said.
• 2:36:31
  Maybe Grandma will help him wherever they are now.
• 2:36:35
  Claire nodded. She like to think of Rose
• 2:36:38
  guiding Thomas into the light, forgiving him for whatever sins
• 2:36:42
  kept him bound. The alternative, that his spirit
• 2:36:46
  remained in the attic, forever mad and vengeful, was too grim.
• 2:36:53
  However, she couldn't help but imagine in her mind's eye that
• 2:36:57
  back at the house, a curtain moved in the upper window, as if
• 2:37:02
  a person unseen watched them leave.
• 2:37:05
  And for a brief second, the pale face, Thomas's gaunt visage
• 2:37:11
  pressed to the glass. But as the Sullivan siblings
• 2:37:15
  drove further away, heading toward a new dawn, that face
• 2:37:20
  melted back into the shadows. For now.
• 2:37:24
  The house then truly fell silent.
• 2:37:28
  The cycle of anguish that had gripped it for generations was
• 2:37:32
  broken at last, or at least suspended.
• 2:37:38
  On the road ahead, sunlight broke through the trees, and
• 2:37:42
  Claire cracked her window to feel the fresh breeze.
• 2:37:46
  It felt like a blessing, the cool.
• 2:37:49
  Wind of freedom. Mark reached over and squeezed
• 2:37:53
  her hand, and she squeezed back. Whatever lay ahead, be it
• 2:37:58
  healing or nightmares from what they had endured, they would not
• 2:38:03
  face it alone. In the distance, Thunder rumbled
• 2:38:07
  one last time, but it was moving off, leaving clearer skies
• 2:38:12
  behind. Ashwood House stood quietly
• 2:38:15
  against the horizon, a silent witness to both the sorrows of
• 2:38:20
  the past and the courage of the living.
• 2:38:24
  And though its shadows still held echoes of yesterday's
• 2:38:27
  ghosts, new light had begun to Pierce the darkness. 1 ray of
• 2:38:33
  hope at a time after. Exploring a tunnel with a dark
• 2:38:42
  and terrifying history, a couple soon learns that they're home
• 2:38:47
  has been invaded by an uninvited darkness.
• 2:38:52
  The Presence toys with them, but in due time it would reveal the
• 2:38:57
  true horror of its nature. Will they survive or will the
• 2:39:03
  Abyss take? Them.
• 2:39:05
  This is the true and terrifying story of Candace and John St.
• 2:39:10
  Clair's Haunting, which took place in Appalachia in 2010.
• 2:39:16
  And this one. As with most of the stories I've
• 2:39:19
  researched and covered on this channel, I wouldn't recommend
• 2:39:23
  watching this episode in the dark unless you like looking
• 2:39:27
  over your shoulder and jumping at every small noise that goes
• 2:39:33
  bump in the night. Nestled on the banks of the
• 2:39:37
  Lavisa River and surrounded by the mountains of Appalachia lies
• 2:39:43
  the small town of Grundy, Virginia, a place now known for
• 2:39:48
  community pride and also has a dark history from slavery to
• 2:39:55
  mine, explosions and other accidents.
• 2:40:00
  These events weave a complicated web of despair.
• 2:40:04
  Despair that could have perhaps played a role in the story that
• 2:40:08
  I'm about to tell. Candace St.
• 2:40:12
  Clair shivered despite the warm Virginia air as she and her
• 2:40:16
  husband, John, stood before the gaping mouth of an abandoned
• 2:40:21
  tunnel. A jagged arch of crumbling stone
• 2:40:25
  loomed over them, covered in streaks of Moss and graffiti.
• 2:40:31
  The surrounding forest was eerily quiet, as if even the
• 2:40:36
  animals avoided this place. Grippy as hell, huh?
• 2:40:40
  John smirked, his flashlight cutting through the darkness.
• 2:40:46
  The beam barely penetrated the tunnel's interior.
• 2:40:50
  It was swallowed almost immediately by thick blackness
• 2:40:54
  within. Yeah, let's just get this over
• 2:40:57
  with. Candace murmured, gripping his
• 2:41:00
  arm. Their friend Stacy had told them
• 2:41:03
  about the tunnel's legend, a story that intrigued the couple,
• 2:41:08
  the one that almost made them air on the side of caution.
• 2:41:13
  The story was that a wealthy man back in the 1800s had built this
• 2:41:18
  tunnel using slave labor. One night he had caught one of
• 2:41:23
  the slaves with his wife. Angered at this discovery, he
• 2:41:28
  punished the slave responsible, and as a result the other slaves
• 2:41:34
  had begun to rebel against him in an act of rage and malice.
• 2:41:40
  The slave master then took the majority of his slaves and had
• 2:41:44
  them sealed within the walls of the tunnels, alive forever
• 2:41:51
  encasing the human souls within the tunnel itself.
• 2:41:57
  The whispered stories of phantom voices in the dark, feeling
• 2:42:01
  unseen hands brushing against visitors, and worst of all, the
• 2:42:06
  belief that something unexplained lurked inside,
• 2:42:11
  watching and waiting for the unsuspecting.
• 2:42:16
  It was just a legend, they had told themselves.
• 2:42:20
  A story. But even standing at the
• 2:42:23
  entrance, Candace felt an inexplicable weight pressing on
• 2:42:28
  her chest. Candace adjusted the recorder in
• 2:42:32
  her hand. She'd always been sensitive to
• 2:42:35
  the paranormal, and while John treated their ghost hunting
• 2:42:39
  adventures as a joke, she felt drawn to this place, as if
• 2:42:44
  something was calling her. As they stepped inside, the
• 2:42:49
  temperature plummeted then, as John whispered A mocking.
• 2:42:55
  Come out, come out wherever you are.
• 2:42:58
  Almost as soon as the words left his lips, A rush of chilly wind
• 2:43:03
  blasted past them, and the couple believed that they had
• 2:43:07
  heard a series of whispers, ones that were just beyond their
• 2:43:12
  ability to make out what they were saying.
• 2:43:16
  Candace's stomach twisted. They weren't alone.
• 2:43:21
  Frightened, she then asked John to leave.
• 2:43:26
  That night, when they returned home, things felt off.
• 2:43:32
  Their new house had felt warm and inviting, but that night,
• 2:43:37
  the air inside felt stagnant, damp and heavy, like the inside
• 2:43:44
  of a tomb. It felt smothering, as if an
• 2:43:48
  unseen weight pressed against their chests.
• 2:43:52
  The couple had recently purchased and moved into their
• 2:43:55
  home, which was located on the outskirts of town.
• 2:44:00
  Just close enough to town for errands and just far out enough
• 2:44:04
  for peace. And things hadn't at all felt
• 2:44:08
  this way before. Deciding that perhaps their
• 2:44:12
  nerves were getting the best of them, the couple, along with
• 2:44:15
  their daughter, decided to lay down for the night for some much
• 2:44:20
  needed rest. But as the moonlight cast its
• 2:44:23
  shadow upon the rocky exterior of the mountains surrounding
• 2:44:28
  them, and nocturnal predators haunted their prey, perhaps a
• 2:44:33
  different hunter of swords now also stalked its prey within the
• 2:44:39
  walls of the Saint Clair home, their five year old daughter
• 2:44:44
  Jaycee tossed and turned in her sleep.
• 2:44:47
  She seemed to be calling out to someone or something.
• 2:44:52
  Her cries caught the attention of her mother, who quickly got
• 2:44:56
  out of bed herself and began to head toward her room.
• 2:45:00
  However, when Candace entered her room, expecting to see her
• 2:45:05
  daughter laying in her bed, perhaps having a nightmare, she
• 2:45:10
  instead found the little girl sitting straight up in bed.
• 2:45:14
  She was staring at the corner of her room by her closet.
• 2:45:19
  Sweetie. Candace whispered, stepping
• 2:45:22
  closer. Are you OK?
• 2:45:25
  Jaycee turned to look at her, blinking slowly as if waking
• 2:45:30
  from a dream. The man in the tunnel is here,
• 2:45:34
  Mommy. Candace's blood turned to ice.
• 2:45:38
  They had not taken Jaycee with them to the tunnel, nor had they
• 2:45:42
  mentioned it to her or around her.
• 2:45:46
  Following that night's events, Jaycee would have nightmares
• 2:45:50
  night after night. She would say that the man from
• 2:45:53
  the tunnel was there with her and it scared her.
• 2:45:58
  Accompanying these nightmares, the young girl also soon started
• 2:46:02
  sleepwalking, often times startling her parents awake in
• 2:46:07
  their own room by standing next to their bed with a glazed look
• 2:46:11
  in her eyes. But when she'd be asked by her
• 2:46:15
  parents what she was doing, she wouldn't be able to remember
• 2:46:19
  what had happened. Trying to play off the mention
• 2:46:24
  of any man from the tunnel, they figured their poor daughter was
• 2:46:28
  just struggling to get used to a new environment.
• 2:46:32
  That perhaps the stress of the move alongside other changes had
• 2:46:37
  caused the sudden development, that she would get used to
• 2:46:41
  things in due time. Perhaps she would, or perhaps
• 2:46:47
  not. With her husband working on a
• 2:46:50
  project in the basement and her daughter at dance practice,
• 2:46:55
  Candace, who sewed pageant clothes for Jaycee in her spare
• 2:46:58
  time, was doing so. One evening, as she toiled away
• 2:47:03
  on her sewing machine, the calm, rhythmic hum was abruptly
• 2:47:08
  shattered by a deafening crashing noise that echoed all
• 2:47:13
  throughout the house. Unsure of just what on earth the
• 2:47:17
  sound was, with her heart hammering inside of her chest
• 2:47:22
  and her adrenaline surging, she made her way from the upstairs
• 2:47:26
  sewing room down the stairs, apprehensively checking all
• 2:47:31
  around with each step as she descended.
• 2:47:35
  She then heard it again, the sound of glass breaking.
• 2:47:41
  It seemed to be originating from the kitchen, but just what or
• 2:47:46
  who was doing this? As she approached the kitchen,
• 2:47:51
  she would be shocked by what she would find before her very eyes.
• 2:47:57
  Every single cabinet door stood open their contents.
• 2:48:02
  Her dishes lay in shattered remains on the floor.
• 2:48:07
  Bowls, plates and cups of every kind lay in pieces everywhere,
• 2:48:13
  scattered as if someone or something had removed them from
• 2:48:19
  the cabinets and with great force threw them down with
• 2:48:24
  incredible impact. In her own words, every single
• 2:48:30
  cabinet door was open and every single dish I had was broken.
• 2:48:37
  I didn't have a plate or a glass left.
• 2:48:41
  Everything I had was completely smashed.
• 2:48:45
  That was except a small decorative plate that was on
• 2:48:49
  display there in her kitchen. However, before her very eyes,
• 2:48:55
  she watched as it began to move on its own, wobbling back and
• 2:49:01
  forth. It then flew across the room
• 2:49:04
  towards her and shattered on the wall next to her.
• 2:49:09
  With her daughter and husband nowhere near the general
• 2:49:12
  vicinity and in a state of shock, Candace screamed for her
• 2:49:17
  husband. Hearing the cries of his wife,
• 2:49:21
  John soon arrived by her side from elsewhere in the house.
• 2:49:26
  He too couldn't believe what he was witnessing, asking her just
• 2:49:30
  how this happened. With her telling him that she
• 2:49:33
  came downstairs to this, his mind immediately thought that
• 2:49:38
  there could perhaps be an intruder within the home.
• 2:49:42
  Quickly going into protector mode, John began sweeping the
• 2:49:46
  house. Not only did he not find anyone,
• 2:49:51
  but all of the doors and windows were still locked.
• 2:49:55
  This just further added to the mystery.
• 2:49:59
  Jaycee, who has continued to struggle with nightmares and
• 2:50:03
  apparent sleepwalking, has begun sleeping with her parents in an
• 2:50:08
  effort to quell everyone's fears.
• 2:50:12
  A few nights later, following the kitchen incident as the moon
• 2:50:17
  hung high over the Saint Clair residence, Candace wakes up out
• 2:50:22
  of a sound sleep. The air in the house felt heavy
• 2:50:26
  and damp yet again. She was sweating and there
• 2:50:31
  didn't seem to be any circulation in the air.
• 2:50:34
  Getting up to turn on the air conditioner, she walks down the
• 2:50:38
  stairs and towards the thermostat on the wall at the
• 2:50:41
  bottom. Wiping sweat from her brow, she
• 2:50:45
  then reaches out to turn it on and adjust the temperature of
• 2:50:49
  the house. When all of a sudden she felt a
• 2:50:53
  hand grip her wrist and her own words yet again.
• 2:50:59
  I felt something grab my wrist and I knew my family was asleep
• 2:51:04
  upstairs. My heart skipped a beat.
• 2:51:09
  I turned around and there was nothing there.
• 2:51:13
  I was terrified. I looked down the hallway and I
• 2:51:18
  didn't see anything. There was nothing there.
• 2:51:23
  I thought, am I going crazy? Am I just really sleepy?
• 2:51:29
  I wasn't sure. So, not knowing what to make of
• 2:51:34
  the bizarre experience, she slowly starts walking back up
• 2:51:38
  the stairs. Still scared, but certainly
• 2:51:43
  unsure, she decides that this time she'll keep the experience
• 2:51:48
  to herself. But whatever force that seemed
• 2:51:52
  to lurk in the shadows was far from finished.
• 2:51:57
  Over the next several weeks to come, Candace continues to
• 2:52:01
  experience strange manifestations within her home,
• 2:52:06
  things that begin to make her second guess herself and
• 2:52:10
  question her own sanity. One night, while John is at
• 2:52:15
  work, Candace puts Jaycee to bed, in her own room this time,
• 2:52:21
  Or so she thinks. As she folds laundry downstairs,
• 2:52:26
  she hears her daughter, still awake, heading back upstairs and
• 2:52:31
  approaching her room to tell her that it's time for bed.
• 2:52:35
  She instead comes face to face with nothing.
• 2:52:41
  The room is empty. Then from behind her, she begins
• 2:52:46
  to hear multiple things that are very odd to say the least.
• 2:52:51
  She begins to hear the sound of her daughter giggling and
• 2:52:55
  laughing from the other room. Now she walks towards these
• 2:52:59
  sounds. She begins to hear something
• 2:53:02
  else, The sounds of labored, heavy breathing.
• 2:53:08
  Continuing to follow the sounds of her daughter's laughter, she
• 2:53:12
  finds herself approaching her own bedroom.
• 2:53:16
  Upon opening the door, thinking her daughter is playing some
• 2:53:19
  sort of trick on her, she instead finds her fast asleep
• 2:53:25
  and her in John's bed. Unsure yet again what to make of
• 2:53:29
  this very unnerving experience, she turns around and quietly
• 2:53:35
  shuts the door behind her. After doing so, she takes
• 2:53:40
  several steps down the hallway toward the direction of the
• 2:53:44
  stairs. The lights begin to flicker.
• 2:53:48
  Looking around, slightly disoriented at first, she finds
• 2:53:54
  her eyes landing on a figure at the end of the hallway.
• 2:53:59
  This figure is much too large to be a man.
• 2:54:03
  It stands at least 10 feet tall, and at first, given its distance
• 2:54:08
  from her, it appears dark as the night.
• 2:54:13
  However, as it begins slowly and menacingly walking towards her,
• 2:54:19
  she starts to make out horrid features and Candace's own
• 2:54:24
  words. This thing was huge, easily 10
• 2:54:28
  feet tall. It had horns and scales.
• 2:54:34
  I began to freeze. It's like everything froze my
• 2:54:39
  thoughts and everything. There was just this one moment
• 2:54:43
  of absolute silence. Time stands still briefly and
• 2:54:49
  then you're jerked back into reality.
• 2:54:53
  And then you go into survival mode.
• 2:54:56
  As the creature gets closer to her, she makes out it's
• 2:55:00
  abhorrent and terrifying features.
• 2:55:04
  It then, staring at her with jet black eyes, protruding teeth and
• 2:55:10
  horns, reaches towards her with clawed hands.
• 2:55:16
  Almost as soon as it makes contact with her skin, a scream
• 2:55:20
  erupts from her lips. She is touched, but not by this
• 2:55:25
  creature. Instead, her screams are
• 2:55:29
  interrupted by her husband, who has found her screaming at the
• 2:55:35
  end of the hallway in front of their bedroom door.
• 2:55:40
  In John's words, I had worked late that evening and when I had
• 2:55:45
  got home I found her like that and she was incredibly upset.
• 2:55:51
  Asking his wife Candace what's wrong, she then tries to explain
• 2:55:56
  what she had seen and experienced.
• 2:56:00
  But words can only do so much, with first their daughters night
• 2:56:05
  terrors and their dishes being broken and now this.
• 2:56:11
  She believes that there is something here in the house and
• 2:56:15
  that she may have just seen what it is.
• 2:56:19
  John, however, feels differently.
• 2:56:22
  He just thought his wife. May have been having a bit of an
• 2:56:25
  emotional breakdown, not only from being overworked but with
• 2:56:30
  him having to often times work long hours.
• 2:56:33
  He thought maybe she just needed a break to recuperate.
• 2:56:37
  But Candace knows what she saw. She tells him.
• 2:56:42
  You know what, you can take it or leave it.
• 2:56:45
  But I know what I saw, and I know that there's something in
• 2:56:48
  this house. There's something going on here
• 2:56:51
  that's deeper than either of us can imagine.
• 2:56:55
  And I don't feel safe here anymore.
• 2:56:59
  This event proves to be a diverging event for the couple
• 2:57:02
  following it. Candace finds it hard to confide
• 2:57:06
  in her husband and the two grow distant.
• 2:57:10
  One afternoon, shortly after Candace had seen the creature,
• 2:57:15
  she was measuring her daughter for a new pageant dress in the
• 2:57:18
  family living room. John, who was off work that day,
• 2:57:24
  was watching TV. Occasionally the TV had done
• 2:57:29
  strange things such as cycle through the channels.
• 2:57:33
  He meant a loud high pitched noise or turn itself on and off
• 2:57:40
  without any involvement of the remote or the physical pressing
• 2:57:44
  of buttons. It started doing this again as
• 2:57:48
  the three were in the room together.
• 2:57:52
  Believing it to be an electrical short within that part of the
• 2:57:55
  house, John dismisses the TV's strange behavior.
• 2:58:00
  He then goes and unplugs it as it's cycling through the
• 2:58:04
  channels and making the high pitched noise.
• 2:58:08
  The screen then goes black as he gets back up to head to get some
• 2:58:13
  of his tools to take a look at the wiring in front of all three
• 2:58:18
  of them. The TV turns back on with Jaycee
• 2:58:24
  asking just what the television was doing as Candace and John
• 2:58:28
  stare and bewilderment at it, for it's on and acting erratic
• 2:58:34
  with no power source at all at that.
• 2:58:38
  Neither of them know what to tell her, or even what to say
• 2:58:42
  for that matter. Finally, after a few seconds
• 2:58:47
  that feel like hours, Candace breaks the silence.
• 2:58:52
  She says I don't feel safe here, we need to leave.
• 2:58:57
  She then tells Jaycee that the two of them are going to go to
• 2:59:00
  the park. In her own words, that was my
• 2:59:05
  breaking point with John. He was looking around and
• 2:59:08
  thinking what do I check now because he had checked
• 2:59:12
  everything and the TV was on without being plugged in.
• 2:59:18
  Several weeks would pass by after this event and the once
• 2:59:22
  happy couple had further drifted apart.
• 2:59:26
  Their once thriving marriage and relationship were practically
• 2:59:30
  non existent. Communication had broken down in
• 2:59:35
  a blanket of sorrow now covered them all.
• 2:59:40
  One night, as John had some beers downstairs by himself
• 2:59:45
  while his wife and child slept upstairs, Candace is suddenly
• 2:59:51
  and brutally woken up by large clawed hands strangling her.
• 2:59:57
  She can't scream and she can't breathe.
• 3:00:01
  She's then thrown from her. Side of the bed to the other.
• 3:00:05
  As she rolls gasping for air, she looks up and sees what she
• 3:00:11
  describes as a gargoyle like creature, the same one she had
• 3:00:17
  seen in the hallway a good while ago now.
• 3:00:22
  Its skin was like leather, its eyes were black as the abyss and
• 3:00:28
  its face was semi human in appearance.
• 3:00:33
  She would later say that while she was in that moment I felt as
• 3:00:38
  if this thing had taken everything else from me and now
• 3:00:42
  it was going to take my life. All I could think.
• 3:00:45
  About was that. I'm going to die, I'm not going
• 3:00:48
  to be here anymore. My family isn't going to have me
• 3:00:52
  anymore. And it was the most terrifying
• 3:00:55
  feeling imaginable. Now off the bed and her back
• 3:01:00
  against the bedroom wall, the creature once again comes after
• 3:01:04
  her. As John sits downstairs, he is
• 3:01:08
  soon called to action when he hears the shrill screams of his
• 3:01:12
  wife upstairs rushing to their bedroom.
• 3:01:16
  As fast as he possibly. Can he finds Candace crying out
• 3:01:20
  in pain and in a ball on the floor.
• 3:01:25
  After helping her back on to the bed she tells him that this
• 3:01:29
  thing, this creature attacked her.
• 3:01:33
  She then when singing pain lifts up her shirt to reveal 3 long
• 3:01:39
  and huge bleeding scratch marks across her stomach.
• 3:01:44
  John doesn't know what to make of the situation.
• 3:01:48
  Candace is now far past the point of trying to convince him
• 3:01:52
  that something is haunting their home.
• 3:01:55
  She instead puts her faith in her higher power.
• 3:01:59
  But after reaching out to dozens of churches and religious
• 3:02:03
  organizations and having no help or the offer of assistance from
• 3:02:08
  any of them, she knows that it's up to her to fight this battle
• 3:02:14
  for the sake of herself and her family without their assistance.
• 3:02:20
  After doing research on the Internet, she puts together a
• 3:02:24
  list of specific prayers and gets several bottles of anointed
• 3:02:29
  oil. She then, after a deep breath,
• 3:02:33
  begins the cleansing of her house.
• 3:02:37
  She goes room to room, putting the anointed oil on each doorway
• 3:02:42
  and calling out from her Bible for God to clear the home of any
• 3:02:47
  negative beings that could be there uninvited.
• 3:02:51
  From the back of the house to the front, she is cleansing and
• 3:02:56
  reclaiming her home. Following her efforts, she
• 3:03:00
  immediately notices that the environment as a whole feels so
• 3:03:04
  much lighter. The air seemed fresher and
• 3:03:08
  easier to breathe. In the coming weeks this would
• 3:03:12
  continue to be the case, but in the back of her mind she was
• 3:03:18
  frightened that whatever this entity was could potentially
• 3:03:22
  come back. Life for a time seemed to go
• 3:03:26
  back to normal for the Saint Claire's and although weary they
• 3:03:31
  all tried to resume their normal day-to-day activities.
• 3:03:36
  That was until 1 solemn night. John is in the bedroom, changing
• 3:03:42
  his clothes after a work day when he soon gets the sneaking
• 3:03:46
  suspicion that someone is watching him.
• 3:03:51
  Turning around and expecting to perhaps see his wife standing in
• 3:03:55
  the room, he is instead greeted by something very different.
• 3:04:01
  In his words, it looked like a person in the face, but it was
• 3:04:07
  distorted. It had these Longhorns and teeth
• 3:04:12
  and these scales. It just kept getting closer and
• 3:04:17
  closer to me, and the closer it got to me, the hotter I got.
• 3:04:24
  Now sweating profusely with the creature mere inches away from
• 3:04:28
  him, it then points its clawed finger towards his chest and
• 3:04:35
  within seconds it's holding his beating heart.
• 3:04:40
  As he stands there, petrified with fear and struggling to
• 3:04:45
  breathe, this creature is just staring back at him with black
• 3:04:50
  eyes holding his heart. John suddenly wakes up out of a
• 3:04:56
  dead sleep. Thankfully it was just a dream.
• 3:05:01
  I'll be it. A horrible one at that.
• 3:05:05
  After calming himself down, which takes several minutes, he
• 3:05:10
  finally lays his head back down to try and rest again.
• 3:05:14
  But when his head hits the pillow, he then starts hearing
• 3:05:19
  footsteps from somewhere else in the house.
• 3:05:24
  With his adrenaline surging and already on the edge from his
• 3:05:27
  nightmare, he quickly gets up to investigate.
• 3:05:32
  Peering out into the hallway, he sees nothing.
• 3:05:37
  With Candace still asleep in their bed and now checking on
• 3:05:41
  their daughter, she too is asleep.
• 3:05:45
  Continuing to hear footsteps downstairs, he slowly makes his
• 3:05:50
  way down to the base level, further fearing what he may
• 3:05:54
  find. Glancing around at first he sees
• 3:05:59
  nothing yet again, but turning back after looking behind
• 3:06:03
  himself, he is suddenly face to face with a massive figure.
• 3:06:10
  It's skin is rough and cracked, like aged leather stretched too
• 3:06:16
  tight over jagged bones. The eyes were pits of blackness,
• 3:06:23
  voids that seemed to drink the light around them.
• 3:06:27
  It didn't move, and it didn't blink.
• 3:06:31
  It only watched. But in an instant, with
• 3:06:35
  incredible speed, it surged toward him and grabbed him by
• 3:06:40
  his throat with its gnarled, clawed hand.
• 3:06:45
  In John's words, in the blink of an eye, it grabbed my neck and
• 3:06:51
  lifted me straight up and off the ground.
• 3:06:55
  It seemed like it was letting me know that it was there, that it
• 3:06:59
  was in control, and I wasn't. Then, almost as quickly as the
• 3:07:06
  attack had begun, it was over. John was thrown to the ground,
• 3:07:12
  discarded like garbage as he lay alternating between gasping and
• 3:07:19
  screaming. Candace soon rushes to his aid.
• 3:07:24
  The touch of her hand on his arm causes his adrenaline to spike
• 3:07:28
  and he shoots up to the sitting position.
• 3:07:32
  Then, realizing that it was his wife and not that thing, he
• 3:07:38
  begins to apologize profusely. After validating one another
• 3:07:43
  with John now absolutely convinced that there is
• 3:07:46
  something malevolent and paranormal dwelling within the
• 3:07:50
  walls of their home, the Saint Clair's know that they must try
• 3:07:54
  and seek help immediately. Together, they begin researching
• 3:08:00
  and eventually come across the Southern Highlands Paranormal
• 3:08:04
  Investigation Group. Upon speaking with one of its
• 3:08:08
  members, a man named Stacy Kuchner, the group soon agrees
• 3:08:13
  to come and conduct a formal investigation of the property.
• 3:08:19
  Upon arrival, Stacy and one of his colleagues decide to conduct
• 3:08:24
  a series of questions to whatever force may be lurking
• 3:08:27
  there using the flashlight method in conjunction with an
• 3:08:32
  audio device in the hopes of capturing Evps or electronic
• 3:08:37
  voice phenomena. The flashlight method that one
• 3:08:42
  places a flashlight upright on a table and asks the spirits to
• 3:08:46
  reply using yes or no responses through turning off and on the
• 3:08:52
  light for a good while. The team is unsuccessful in
• 3:08:57
  making any sort of contact, however upon asking if whatever
• 3:09:03
  stalked the family had followed them from another place, the
• 3:09:08
  flashlight suddenly turns itself on.
• 3:09:13
  A follow up question is then asked.
• 3:09:16
  Are you a malevolent force? The flashlight once again lights
• 3:09:20
  up these questions and the following frighten and confirm
• 3:09:26
  what Candace and John already knew.
• 3:09:29
  The final question is are you demonic or non human in nature?
• 3:09:36
  To which the flashlight, once again brighter than ever,
• 3:09:41
  illuminates the room. Stacy then tells the couple that
• 3:09:46
  it's important that they try and figure out why this entity
• 3:09:49
  followed them and from where, in order to try and rid themselves
• 3:09:54
  of the attachment. Candace tells him that ever
• 3:09:59
  since she was little, she seemed to be able to sense certain
• 3:10:03
  things, almost as if she's in tune with the other side.
• 3:10:09
  This is not information she has ever shared out loud before with
• 3:10:13
  anyone believing that Candace could perhaps be sensitive to
• 3:10:18
  the paranormal, and upon further inquiry, the couple remembers
• 3:10:23
  the tunnel all those months ago. With this information, Stacy
• 3:10:29
  thinks that it's possible that a demonic entity may have attached
• 3:10:33
  itself to Candace while they were there due to her abilities.
• 3:10:39
  In Stacy's words, due to all the evil that had taken place there,
• 3:10:44
  and also due to its secluded nature, it was really a prime
• 3:10:48
  breeding ground for something dark to manifest itself.
• 3:10:52
  Someone who is psychic may inadvertently be open in a
• 3:10:56
  spiritual sense and must be extra careful when traveling to
• 3:11:01
  different locations because any negative forces may realize
• 3:11:05
  their presence and seek them out, leading to attachments.
• 3:11:11
  Believing the presence to be demonic, he tells the couple
• 3:11:15
  that they must cleanse the home immediately, that only good can
• 3:11:20
  conquer evil. In the coming days, he puts them
• 3:11:24
  in contact with the Catholic priest that he has worked with
• 3:11:27
  in the past to come and bless the home.
• 3:11:31
  Upon the priest's arrival, he debriefs the family.
• 3:11:36
  He tells them that they must be in solidarity with one another
• 3:11:40
  and with him. He hands them prayer cards to
• 3:11:43
  assist him with the cleansing itself.
• 3:11:47
  Then all together, they begin to pray.
• 3:11:51
  They call upon Saint Michael the Archangel and ask for his
• 3:11:56
  assistance in riding the home of demonic forces.
• 3:12:02
  At the end of the blessing, the house feels better to everyone,
• 3:12:08
  lighter, as if whatever dark force that had infested their
• 3:12:12
  lives had perhaps been vanquished.
• 3:12:17
  In the coming months, the family slowly begins to slip back into
• 3:12:22
  a life of normalcy, one they had craved, but it almost all but
• 3:12:27
  forgotten. Beauty, pageants, closeness, and
• 3:12:31
  love had returned. One day as the Saint Claire's
• 3:12:36
  get ready to go out to dinner, Candace tells JC to quickly
• 3:12:40
  finish getting ready while standing outside her room.
• 3:12:45
  JC is sitting on her bed with one of her toys facing away from
• 3:12:50
  her mother. Almost as quickly as the phrase
• 3:12:53
  exits Candace's mouth, she hears her daughter reply to her, but
• 3:12:58
  not from the top of her bed in front of her eyes, but rather
• 3:13:03
  from behind her at the bottom of the stairs with John.
• 3:13:09
  Confused because she was hearing and seeing her daughter behind
• 3:13:13
  her, but also seeing her daughter in front of her,
• 3:13:17
  Candace tells Jaycee to stay with her father.
• 3:13:21
  The Jaycee sitting before her then slowly begins to turn its
• 3:13:26
  head towards Candace. In her words, this child's face
• 3:13:31
  was almost hazy, like blurry, as if there was something missing.
• 3:13:38
  As the being stares at Candace, its eyes begin to turn a
• 3:13:42
  familiar black color, just like the very same light absorbing
• 3:13:47
  abyssal spheres that have belonged to the demon that had
• 3:13:52
  plagued them just months ago. It then vanishes, but as it
• 3:13:58
  does, Candace hears the scream of her daughter at the bottom of
• 3:14:03
  the stairs, rushing down to her. It quickly becomes apparent that
• 3:14:08
  she has a long and now bleeding scratch across her face.
• 3:14:13
  This was the last straw for the Saint Claire's.
• 3:14:17
  It was horrible enough that the demon had attacked the two of
• 3:14:20
  them, but to attack their child? They could no longer handle it.
• 3:14:27
  Although the demon could potentially follow them, they
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  decide to take their chances. Seeing no other alternative, the
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  family abandons what was supposed to be their dream home,
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  leaving behind all of their belongings and fleeing with just
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  the clothes on their backs. In the months to come, the
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  family would find another place to live.
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  Fortunately, although they believed that the demon had
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  attached itself to Candace. Initially, they now believed
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  that it had attached itself to the home.
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  Because no further activity plagued them, no more horrendous
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  manifestations day or nightmares or hellish attacks.
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  Although I did my best to try and find an update on the
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  family, I wasn't able to find out exactly how they're doing
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  now. But I hope wherever they.
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  Are that they are safe. And truly no longer tormented by
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  the demonic. I'm not sure if they still own
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  the original home in which the case took place, but I do know
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  that following their departure as soon as 2016, the house has
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  remained vacant. In the aftermath, Candace and
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  John turned their frightening experience into a calling.
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  They founded a group called Spirit Seekers Paranormal
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  Investigation Research Team in 2012, aiming to help other
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  families deal with hauntings. This is their team's website,
• 3:16:07
  spiritseekersteam.wixside.com. By forming Spirit Seekers, the
• 3:16:14
  couple sought to do more than document ghostly activity.
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  They wanted to actively seek and help remove evil entities and
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  protect others from suffering like they did during their own
• 3:16:29
  experiences with their haunting. Candace discovered she had a
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  spiritual gift, and as previously explained, they
• 3:16:37
  believed that the demon targeted her because she is sensitive to
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  the spirit world. She has since embraced her role
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  as a psychic medium, becoming the team's resident medium.
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  Candace is described as a medium psychic and a magnet for
• 3:16:53
  paranormal activity who can communicate with spirits and
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  help them move on. This marks a dramatic personal
• 3:17:02
  change from haunted victim to healer as she channels her gift
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  to ensure others don't have to flee their homes like she once
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  did. Before we go, I did want to
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  share some of my thoughts on the case as a whole, in no
• 3:17:20
  particular order. I do think it's.
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  Possible that the demon followed them from the tunnel.
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  The tunnel along with many others in that area, and really
• 3:17:30
  the area as a whole has a lot of dark history associated with it.
• 3:17:35
  I think Stacy said it well when he said it seemed to be a
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  breeding ground for evil. I think that traumatic events
• 3:17:44
  like the legend the Saint Clairs were originally told by their
• 3:17:47
  friend that prompted their interest in going in the 1st
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  place could very well have attracted a creature of hell in
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  my opinion. It always amazes me how often
• 3:17:58
  husbands don't believe their wives or have to literally be
• 3:18:02
  mauled by an entity in order to believe that what they've been
• 3:18:06
  told is actually taking place. Referring to John and many
• 3:18:11
  others in cases I've covered. It's not always the case, but it
• 3:18:15
  certainly occurs enough that it's become a bit of a trope in
• 3:18:19
  these stories. I also find it interesting how
• 3:18:23
  Candace was experiencing these Damir type experiences with the
• 3:18:27
  demon. The way she describes time
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  essentially standing still as if she's entered a different plane
• 3:18:33
  of reality or is frozen in her own time while this entity is in
• 3:18:38
  proximity to her. I've heard of this in other
• 3:18:42
  cases and figured it was worth mentioning.
• 3:18:45
  Is there truly is interesting. I've heard about this in other
• 3:18:49
  cases and figured it was worth mentioning.
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  It is also very interesting that Candace's cleansing as well as
• 3:18:57
  the priests ultimately both didn't work.
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  Albeit they both seem to stave off the demon for a short period
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  of time, but they didn't banish it altogether.
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  I wonder personally if they tried any other methods or
• 3:19:11
  belief systems, or if they would be open to doing so if they
• 3:19:15
  still own the house. Also, I'm curious if they dealt
• 3:19:20
  with a mimic considering it masqueraded itself in various
• 3:19:24
  forms throughout their experiences.
• 3:19:27
  The whole concept of mimics terrifies me personally.
• 3:19:32
  There's just something about it that's just creepy.
• 3:19:36
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• 3:19:39
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