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Something Sinister Visits Their Son... Then It Shows Its True Form · Mystery Archives Episodes

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Imaginary friends are generally considered to be a normal part
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of childhood development for some.
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But what would you do if your child's imaginary friend turned
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out to be much more than just imagination?
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When a woman notices that her son is speaking with a friend
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who she thinks doesn't exist, she dismisses it at first.
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However, this so-called friend would turn out to be anything
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but as an abhorrent force turns their lives upside down.
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Will they escape with their souls intact, or will the entity
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consume them? I will warn you, as with many
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cases I've covered on this channel, to not watch this alone
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or in the dark unless you like a challenge, because this case is
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certainly no exception. Kentucky, a bastion of American
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beauty, wild and free on the surface, also harbors darkness.
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Home to the Mammoth Cave system, known to be the longest in the
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world, one can truly get lost inside its winding caverns and
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crevices. Kentucky contains many tales of
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legends, folklore, and hauntings.
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With caves older than bone beneath it and numerous battles
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fought on its surface, among other happenings.
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It's no surprise that this southern state holds such
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secrets. Our story begins in Western
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Kentucky with the Foster family, Jan, Dale, their five year old
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son Cody, and 16 year old daughter Pamela.
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Jan is a carrier for the US Postal Service and Dale is a
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contractor. Up until this point, the Fosters
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have been a relatively normal American family, but this would
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soon change. A nanny often stays with their
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son while the two parents work during the day and tends to
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leave when one of the parents gets home from work for the day.
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One evening, the nanny asks for a word with Jan, with the two
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stepping off into the hallway for a more private word
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together. The nanny tells her that Cody
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has been using some very bad language and that she's
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concerned about his behavior. Jan is shocked to hear this
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because they've always considered themselves a fairly
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strict family on what can and can't be said in their house, so
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she's not sure where the boy would have heard such language.
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Alongside the curse words, Cody has been incredibly defiant,
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extremely rude, and angry towards the nanny.
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He has also been speaking with someone who isn't there.
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After assuring the nanny that Cody was not exposed to this
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kind of behavior in their home, Jan then said she would correct
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his behavior and apologized for these very unexpected
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happenings. Several hours later, as she
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tucks her son into bed for the night, she asked him to tell her
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about his new friend. Cody tells his mother that his
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friend's name is Man, Thinking this was strange and asking him
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why doesn't his friend have a real name like John or George.
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She is quickly corrected by her son that it is simply Man.
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Finding this bizarre, but believing this to be somewhat
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normal, that her son is simply using his active imagination to
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create a friend who didn't really exist, she thinks nothing
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of it. However, in later interviews she
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would have this to say. I didn't realize it then, but
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this was a massive warning sign and it's one I shouldn't have
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ignored. Shortly after putting her son to
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bed and laying down herself, Jan is woken up by the sound of
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thumping from across the hall. Stepping out into the hallway to
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examine just what this could be, she then hears the laughter of
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her son. Believing he's just playing and
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very tired herself, she asks him to please stop through his door
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and to go back to bed. She then heads back to her own
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bedroom once again after the laughter ceases.
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Several hours later, in another bedroom down the hall, 16 year
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old Pamela is woken up out of a sound sleep herself, but by
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something very different. Feeling as if she was being
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watched, she begins to hear scratching originating from
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underneath her bed. Perplexed, she rolls out of bed
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to look underneath it and quickly she comes face to face
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with nothing. The scratching then begins to
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move as if it's under the floorboards.
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It moves from underneath the bed, through the floor and then
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up into the wall closest to her bedroom door.
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The poor teen has never experienced anything like this
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before. As the sounds continue, she
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quickly, yet cautiously makes her way out of her bedroom and
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into her parents room. She would later describe the
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scratching sounds like someone taking their fingernails and
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with all of their strength, grating them against the various
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surfaces. As the sound moved, Jan is
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startled awake as she sees a blackened figure standing over
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her. It's Pamela telling her mother
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that she's scared. Jan, then thinking she must have
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had a nightmare, brings her into the bed to quell her fear.
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Although this night was strange to say the least, it's nothing
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compared to what's coming the following morning.
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As Jan wakes up and begins getting ready for the day, she
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steps into the shower and begins washing herself.
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Several minutes into her shower, however, she hears something
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fall over in the bathroom with the door closed, and after
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examining the room from the tub, she sees no one.
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She does, however, see a soap bottle that has fallen onto the
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floor from the side of the bathtub.
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Thinking this was weird due to its positioning, but overlooking
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it, she simply places the bottle back onto the ledge and
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continues with her shower. She then begins to hear
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footsteps walking all throughout the bathroom.
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Rinsing the soap out of her hair and making sure she doesn't get
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any in her eyes, she then turns around and sees the outline of a
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man through the steamed up shower curtain.
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This man was tall, much taller than her husband, and she didn't
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hear the door open to indicate anyone else's presence.
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Panicking, she pulls the curtain aside, yet no one is there yet
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again. She does however see small muddy
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child size shoe prints on the floor.
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Quickly finishing her shower and after drying off, she finds and
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checks Cody's shoes, but there are no signs of mud to be seen.
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This makes her uneasy because only his shoes would have even
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been close to how small the shoe prints were.
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Then heading to her son's room to see if he was awake or not,
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she finds him playing with his toy fire truck in the corner of
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the room. Yet he is speaking to a chair
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where no one is sitting, telling his friend that he didn't want
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to do that, that he just wants to play with his toys.
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Cody is then interrupted by his mother, who asked him just who
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he's speaking with. Replying with man.
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The little boy then continues to play with his fire truck.
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Jan then tells Cody that he needs to tell his friend goodbye
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and that it's time to get ready for the day.
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This seems to turn a switch within the boy.
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Suddenly her five year old has gone from happy and playing with
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his toys to becoming irate at the drop of a dime, screaming at
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his mother that he didn't want to and that man said he didn't
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have to. Being countered by his mother,
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she tells him that he will get ready or there's going to be
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serious consequences. Scowling at her eventually, he
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does as he's told, but the look behind his eyes is one his
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mother doesn't recognize, and it'll become one all too common
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in the near future. Over the next several weeks,
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Cody's behavior has shifted completely.
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He's gone from a fairly calm and loving child to one that is
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cold, angry and sometimes violent.
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He doesn't want to follow commands or do things he once
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enjoyed doing. He only wants to spend time with
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his imaginary friend, someone he calls Man.
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One afternoon, as his parents sit together watching their son
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play, they ask him to tell them about man.
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Just who is he and how old is he?
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Cody would set down the toys that he had been playing with
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and tell them he's 6 and that he has brown hair and brown eyes
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and pale skin. Interested in what he had to
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say, the couple would then ask their son just where did man
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come from? He would respond with from
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behind the park where the lake is from deep underground.
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Obviously concerned and intrigued even further, Jan
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asked Cody if something happened to man.
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Cody, with tears streaming down his face, would reply that a
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stranger took him from his mommy and did terrible things to him.
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That he cried for his mommy, but she never found him.
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With tears now falling from her eyes, Jan then asks her son, who
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would almost be the same age as man is man dead Cody.
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His answer would cause a cold shiver to shake her entire body.
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He would answer with yes. Disturbed by her son's answer,
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Jan Foster believes that her son may have befriended the spirit
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of a dead child. Dan, however, is not fully
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convinced. He believes it could be simply
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his son going through some changes emotionally and that he
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was using his imagination to cope with this.
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I'll be at a strange back story to his imaginary friend.
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He thinks that it's just that imaginary.
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With this revelation, Jane decides to take researching
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things into her own hands. She decides the following day to
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go to the local library and to sift through records to see if
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she could find anything that sounded similar to the back
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story of the boy that her son described to her.
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She avidly searches going back as far as the records do that
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were available about 50 years or so.
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Although she believes her son believes the story he told her,
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she begins to doubt what this entity could have told her son
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because no evidence materializes of the dead boy's back story.
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Over the next several months, Cody withdrawals completely from
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interacting with the family. He didn't want to spend time
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with anyone. He stopped playing with his toys
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and his only outlet seems to be man day in and day out he just
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continues to have full blown conversations with this
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invisible person. Angered and feeling as if she
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was losing her son, Jan decides to try anything it takes to get
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him back. One evening she makes a phone
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call to an old friend of hers, a Native American medicine man who
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she believes could perhaps offer insight on what to do about her
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family's situation. Within a day, he arrives,
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speaking with Jan and Dale in their living room.
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He begins to hear from Jan just what all has been taking place.
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Dale, although skeptical of both his son's situation and now the
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involvement of a medicine man, remains so, but wants to support
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his wife, thinking that this could perhaps make her feel
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better about what had been happening in his own words.
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I was concerned that something had really scared Jan, and I
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knew that she was upset. Although I didn't believe in
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this kind of stuff, I thought that maybe it could help her
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feel better. As Jan finishes explaining the
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situation as a whole to the medicine man, he comes to the
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conclusion that it's possible that Cody has invited the spirit
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into the house. He explains that the only way to
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get rid of the spirit is to revoke the invitation by praying
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and forcibly cleansing the home. That the owner of the house had
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to do this on their own to banish the spirit.
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He then instructs Jan to burn sage and sweetgrass and directed
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towards the four corners of the property.
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After this is done, each doorway of the home must be anointed
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with olive oil to finish the cleansing.
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He also warns that some spirits may not want to go so easily and
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that it's imperative that she focus and pray the entire time
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for the spirit to leave and most importantly, to pray for her
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son. The following morning, after
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everyone else had departed for the day, Jan begins the ritual.
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As the sage smoke smudges the air, Jan begins to worry but
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tries her best to remain strong in her own words.
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Was I worthy enough of God to hear my prayers, my strongest
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please to Him to help me through this, to help me cleanse this
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house and this property. I doubted myself for brief
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moments that I wouldn't be able to.
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It was the fear of knowing if it didn't work, what would happen
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Then, within due time she finishes the cleansing.
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But will it be enough? Later that night, once everyone
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else had returned home, she is brought to tears.
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Cody seems to be back to his old self.
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He's spending time with his father, having a story read to
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him from a book in his room before bed.
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Over the next three months, all is calm and well.
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Cody seems to be more responsive, he's much happier,
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and most importantly, there is no mention of any kind of an
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imaginary friend. That was until one afternoon.
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In Jan's own words, Cody wasn't totally back, but we were
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certainly making great strides. All seemed to be well.
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And then, out of nowhere, three months after the ritual, he
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began speaking to man again. When I heard him, I could not
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move. I was in so much fear.
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He kept talking for a while and then all of a sudden he went
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quiet. When I went into his room, he
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was holding something in his hands.
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It was a photograph. I said where did you get this?
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I then reached down to grab it and he went berserk.
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Cody screamed and clawed at her. His screams and yells seem to be
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layered, as if two voices were speaking through him
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simultaneously. As Jan examined the photo, it
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appeared to be an older Polaroid, possibly from the late
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50s or early 60s. There was an elderly woman,
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perhaps a grandmother, and next to her was a small boy.
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As her son relents, she asked him just who was this a picture
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of and he responded with man. Shocked at what she was both
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looking at as well as hearing, Jan then asked Cody where did
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you get this picture? He proceeds to tell her that man
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gave it to him. This causes her to burst into
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tears. The ritual, which had seemed to
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work for a good portion of time, didn't seem to get rid of the
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entity. She now wonders what will happen
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now? What are the next steps that she
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can take for herself and her family?
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The following day, as Jan arrives back home from work, she
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walks into chaos. Cody is screaming and berating
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the nanny. He's throwing his food onto the
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floor. She immediately goes to
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reprimand her son and is surprised by what he does.
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With one hand, he shoves her, and he does so with so much
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force that she falls down into the wall behind her.
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Code even screams at her. Man said I didn't have to listen
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to any of you any more. And then he runs out of the
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room. Stunned by both her son's
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strength and behavior, she gets back up off the ground now to
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see the nanny packing her things.
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She had decided that she couldn't deal with the child
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anymore. She suggests getting him some
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counseling, and although Jan tries her absolute best to keep
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her employed, she leaves. Later that night, Jan tries to
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keep herself together as the family sits down to eat dinner.
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In her own words, I was trying to keep things together.
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I needed to be an employee, a mother, and a wife.
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I was also the one bearing the brunt of my son's abuse.
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But by now, there was no love coming from Cody.
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No hugs, kisses, or real interactions.
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Just pure hatred. He was a total stranger to me at
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this point and I didn't know how to handle this.
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She begins to believe that something far more sinister than
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a little boy is manipulating her son.
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She's unsure of exactly what it is, but she knows deep down that
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it's evil. After losing the nanny, Jan and
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Dale have to start taking Cody to a cousin's house to be
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watched during the day so the two could work to support the
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family. After dropping Cody off for the
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first time at the cousin's house, Jan then heads to work
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like normal. Several hours into her work day,
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as she loads packages onto a mail truck, she is told she has
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an urgent phone call. It's from her cousin, in her own
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words. When I picked up the phone, she
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was incoherent. She was crying and kept
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repeating that I had to come get Cody now that she could not
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watch him anymore. Rushing from work to her
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cousin's house, Jan has no idea what could have happened but is
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quickly about to find out. She arrives and runs up to the
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door and is greeted by her cousin holding Cody by the arm.
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She is then told what had happened when Cody and her
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daughter were playing in the living room while she cleaned in
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the kitchen. She listened to make sure that
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everything was OK. She began to hear another voice,
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a third voice on that was deeper like that of a grown man,
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concerned but still trying to decipher what was happening.
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The air was then filled with the screams of her daughter running
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to the living room. She then saw Cody standing
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across from her daughter with multiple toys floating in the
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air around them. Upon seeing the scene, she
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covered her mouth, trying not to scream as the toys fell 1 by 1
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and hit the ground. She told Jan that she was afraid
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of Cody and that not only could she not watch him anymore, but
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that her daughter was not allowed to play with him either.
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It's a somber drive back home. Jan knows that she has to have
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someone watch Cody during the day because she can't afford to
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lose her job. Once the two arrive, she grabs
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the phone book and frantically begins calling daycares, trying
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to find a reputable place that will take him.
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Finally finding one after a few phone calls, she sighs with
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relief. After hanging up the phone, she
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sits at the table with her son. She tells him that he is in no
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circumstances allowed to take man with him anywhere, but
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especially to his new daycare. Surprisingly, the child agrees
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not to. For the next week, all seems
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well during the day with Cody at daycare and his parents working
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their jobs, but at night, the entity known as Man waits for
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him to return. One evening, as Dale goes to
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Cody's room to get him for supper, he finds his son cutting
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up stuffed animals. Although the incident disturbs
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him, he doesn't blame it on anything paranormal.
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He sits Cody in the living room and discusses the matter with
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his wife in the adjacent kitchen.
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In the meantime, Cody had other plans.
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As Dale describes, that man told their son that it was OK for him
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to cut up his toys to Jan. The two suddenly stop when they
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hear the muffled screams of the family cat.
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Pamela, heading out of her bedroom, then confronts her
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younger brother. She yells at him and pushes him
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off the couch. There, underneath where he had
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been sitting, he had trapped the cat with a cushion and a pillow,
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seemingly trying to suffocate it.
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As Pamela tends to the poor animal, Jan and Dale rush into
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the room and they see a sinister grin upon Cody's face.
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Horrified, the couple realized that they can't pretend to be
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rational anymore. Whatever that's happening to
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their son was serious, but they were unsure of just how to
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tackle the situation. The following morning as Jan
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goes to grab clothes from Cody's closet to get him ready for
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daycare, she notices that his clothes are damp and that
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wouldn't be all his toys and bed were wet as well.
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She would discover that her son had been urinating all over his
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things inside and outside of his closet.
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Further disturbed, she then confronts him and he says that
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man told him it was OK and that he didn't have to listen to her
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anymore. He then begins hitting her and
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lashing out, which only causes her more emotional torment and
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her own words. Everything started happening at
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such a fast pace, the behavior, the urinating, trying to kill
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the kitten. I just wanted my son back and I
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felt as if he was being controlled by some kind of
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monster. 1 Cold Night As wind whips the windows of the house,
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the Fosters are surprised by a visitor in their room in the
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middle of the night. It's Cody.
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He's calling out to them for the first time in a very long time.
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He said that his bed was shaking and that he needed his Mama.
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At this moment, Jan saw the glimpse of the boy she hadn't
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seen in over a year. As she holds her child for the
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first time in what feels like an eternity, she knows that man is
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not with him. She also is reminded why she
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must keep fighting for her boy, that ultimately she must
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confront this entity. Waiting until Cody was fast
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asleep in their bed with Dale, Jan quietly gets out of bed and
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heads down the hallway and towards Cody's room by herself.
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With every step she takes, she's silently praying to God to give
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her the strength to confront whatever this creature is that
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has a grip on her family. Finally making it to the
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threshold of the room, she takes a deep breath and enters.
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Glancing around the room, she sees nothing.
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Wanting to put herself in the shoes of her son, she lays down
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where he would normally sleep in his bed, hoping that if she
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persists enough, that man would possibly try to communicate with
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her. She lays there for several
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minutes, but nothing happens. She then sees who she believes
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to be her son in the doorway, calling out to him.
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He comes to her and embraces her.
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However, Jansen senses that something is horribly wrong.
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The embrace feels all wrong, his hands are ice cold.
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And then suddenly she realizes that this isn't her son at all.
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As she pushes the figure back, it begins to grow.
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It soon towers over her. It's skin is pale and it's eyes
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a deep blood red. Its teeth are gnarled and
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rotten. It pushes her down onto the bed
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and begins laughing in a deep demonic tone.
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In Jan's own words, he started laughing very demonically when
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this sudden realization came over me.
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This was man screaming for her life.
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The apparition disappears in the blink of an eye as soon as her
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family rushes into Cody's room to figure out just what was
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going on. Dale then holds his wife as she
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sobs uncontrollably. Once she finally regains her
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bearings, Jan calms the rest of the family down enough to get
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them all back into bed for the night.
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She, however, is unable to sleep, heading to the living
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room. Contemplating just what exactly
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to do about this grievous revelation, she begins begging
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God for guidance in her own words.
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Yet again. I was frightened beyond means,
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but another part of me, once the adrenaline started surging, knew
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that I had to face this. I had to do something to protect
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my family and to protect Cody and to keep this entity from
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taking him any further. Jane considers many things,
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including packing up her family to move, but she thinks that man
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is certainly attached to her son, that it wouldn't do any
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good. She doesn't sleep through the
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rest of the night. The following morning, as
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everyone else heads out to start their day, she takes Cody to
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daycare, as is the normal routine, but instead of heading
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to work herself, she heads back home and makes an urgent phone
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call. She calls her friend who is a
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Native American medicine man. By this time she hasn't spoken
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to him in about a year since everything started.
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Thankfully he picks up on the other end.
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She explains everything that has been transpiring and that she's
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seen the entity with her own eyes.
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That she believes it to be some kind of demon.
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That this a born entity had been masquerading as a little boy to
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gain entry and to her son's life.
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The shaman explains that he now understands why the initial
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cleansing didn't work. He believed that the intent was
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not specific enough since they believed that they were revoking
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an invitation of a little boy and not something darker.
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He then tells her that she will have to bless the house again,
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only this time she must focus with all of her strength on
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riding the home of this evil spirit.
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Jam wonders if she's strong enough to be able to accomplish
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this alone in her own words. I didn't know if I was going to
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be able to do this myself. I'm just a mom.
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I'm not a priest, albeit I have a spiritual side, but I was
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willing to give it my all to defend myself and my family.
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The shaman tells her that she must do this and must be brave
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and forceful with her intent to banish this demon, that she must
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not show any doubt and her efforts.
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With these parting words, Jan braces herself and then gets to
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work performing a second ritual. Starting on the four corners of
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the property, she creates a barrier using olive oil.
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She then enters a state of constant prayer while she sages
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around her property, slowly working her way inside.
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This time, instead of feeling weak, she begins to feel an
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inner strength, as if someone or something was standing beside
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her during her prayers. As she enters her home, she
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notices that the temperature of the house is abnormally cold,
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frigid to the point to where she can see her breath hang in the
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air as it fills with sage smoke. She knows there is a presence
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that resides within its walls. Feeling as if she's being
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watched, she continues to pray and smudge the home, going from
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room to room. As she does this, the walls and
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windows begin to shake, yet her prayers are uninterrupted.
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She knows that Man is watching her, trying to break her
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concentration. As the activity reaches a fever
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pitch, so do her prayers. She is yelling now and calling
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upon God to banish the entity known as Man from her home and
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from all of their lives. It is here that suddenly and
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violently, all of the doors within the house open, and an
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unearthly scream echoes all throughout the house.
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Then, as quickly as the doors opened, they suddenly all
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slammed closed. Breathing heavily, Jan
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immediately notices that the feeling within the home is like
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night turning. Today, in her own words, was if
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a veil had lifted, a dark veil of pain and confusion.
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I noticed the trees and I could hear the birds.
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I was back to a normal reality. Following this intense
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cleansing, the entity known as man has yet to return.
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In due time, the foster family seemed to go back to normal.
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Cody in particular ceased the horrendous behavior and was no
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longer influenced by the darkness of the demonic.
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However, this wasn't the end to the strange paranormal
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manifestations they would all experience.
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They continued to hear noises they couldn't explain and feel
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as if unseen eyes were watching them at all times.
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Was this the demon known as Man? Slytherin around them, watching
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and waiting to devour their very souls.
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This case has been requested numerous times for me to cover
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and I'm glad to have finally given it its time of day.
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It's certainly a terrifying and very intriguing one to say the
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least. The names within the case were
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changed to protect the anonymity of the family who was involved,
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therefore, updates as hard as I looked are unavailable.
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I can only hope that the foster family or whoever they may be,
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are good and safe today. That Cody and Pamela have grown
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up to be decent, functioning people, and I truly wish them
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all the best. With that being said, I do have
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several questions and statements I'd like to share with you.
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Now, these are my thoughts on the case as a whole.
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First of all, just how did man enter Cody's life?
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Was it a demon that was stalking or haunting the land itself?
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Was it picked up somewhere else and then brought back with the
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child? It obviously posed itself as a
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child in order to gain Cody's trust to begin with.
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This reminds me a lot of the Sally House case which I had
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just covered several weeks ago now, and it goes to show that
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the demonic has no qualms about masquerading itself as the
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ultimate innocence in order to prey upon us.
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Do you think the native banishing was sufficient, or do
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you think a Catholic priest should have been involved?
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I'm always curious to hear people's feedback on situations
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like this because I have personally seen a banishing
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happen in real time using sage, but the entity was just forced
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outside of the house. It continued to try to get back
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in, but if cleansing using sage on the property as a whole as
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well as the house was done, maybe it would have forced the
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spirit out entirely. Considering Jan used Christian
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prayer alongside sage and sweetgrass smudging, it
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certainly makes for a very interesting hybrid cleansing
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that in my opinion would have worked if her faith was strong
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enough. If man gave Cody an old Polaroid
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of who he supposedly was in life as the one shown to Jan by Cody
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with the little boy and the elderly lady.
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Just where did this picture come from and who did it end up
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being? Did it come from inside the
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house or somewhere else? And lastly, as to not pose too
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many questions, if the family continued to experience
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paranormal happenings such as unexplained noises and the
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feelings of being watched, was man ever truly banished or just
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weakened by Jan's cleansing efforts?
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Or if man was banished, did perhaps something else happen on
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the land where the home now sits that could have potentially
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scarred it, such as a tragic event?
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And with this being said, could there possibly be a portal on
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the land or now within the house itself?
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One where the veil between our world and the next is much
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thinner, allowing entities, especially dark ones, to sneak
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through? Ultimately, your conclusions are
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I'll see you next time.