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These hauntings were completely real - MrBallen · Crime and Horror

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Speaker 1: Today, I'm going to tell you three stories that all,
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Speaker 1: in their own way, fall into the category of ghost stories.
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Speaker 1: today's stories. One night in April of 1919, a middle-aged
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Speaker 1: man named Eric Marth woke up in his bedroom in
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Speaker 1: the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, because his entire bed....
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Speaker 2: Was shaking.
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Speaker 1: He saw his wife, Margaret, was lying next to him
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Speaker 1: and she was thrashing around and gasping for air. But
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Speaker 1: Eric didn't panic because he knew exactly what was happening.
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Speaker 1: So Eric and Margaret had moved into this house just
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Speaker 1: a few weeks ago. But pretty much right away after
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Speaker 1: moving in, Margaret had begun having these very intense nightmares
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Speaker 1: that would wake her up almost violently, like what was
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Speaker 1: happening right now. Now, from Eric's perspective, these nightmares she
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Speaker 1: was having looked horrifying, but there really was not any
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Speaker 1: physical risk to Margaret. I mean, she would just have
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Speaker 1: these horrible visceral dreams and kind of shake around, but
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Speaker 1: that was it.
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Speaker 2: And so, like he had been doing the.
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Speaker 1: Past couple of weeks, Eric just reached over and gently
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Speaker 1: put his hands on his wife's shoulders and began repeating
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Speaker 1: her name very gently over and over again to try
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Speaker 1: to kind of get her out of this trance she
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Speaker 1: was in.
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Speaker 2: And sure enough, a moment later, Margaret, who kind of
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Speaker 2: stopped flailing.
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Speaker 1: She let out this huge gasp and then she sat
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Speaker 1: up straight and panted for air and she turned to
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Speaker 1: her husband and.
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Speaker 2: She said, I saw the ghost again. And when Eric
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Speaker 2: heard this, he wasn't like, oh my goodness, there's a ghost. Instead,
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Speaker 2: he was just kind of annoyed.
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Speaker 1: And so he did his best to comfort her, but
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Speaker 1: he's just thinking, what in the world is going on here?
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Speaker 1: So a few years ago, Margaret had joined the spiritualism movement,
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Speaker 1: which was a very popular religious.
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Speaker 2: Movement at the time. And spiritualists... thought they could contact
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Speaker 2: the dead.
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Speaker 1: Now, Eric absolutely did not believe in ghosts, and he
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Speaker 1: was pretty sure that Margaret's staunch belief in spiritualism was
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Speaker 1: now effectively causing these nightmares, that it was not the house,
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Speaker 1: it was just her belief system.
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Speaker 2: It was kind of manifesting in these nightmares. However, Margaret
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Speaker 2: felt the opposite.
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Speaker 1: She felt like it was the house itself that was haunted,
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Speaker 1: and it was haunted by a a vengeful spirit that
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Speaker 1: attacked her every night in these dreams.
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Speaker 2: Now, Eric, you know, it's the middle of the night,
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Speaker 2: he's tired, he's annoyed.
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Speaker 1: He didn't feel like discussing whatever she believed about this
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Speaker 1: ghost right now.
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Speaker 2: So after she said, you know, I saw the ghost,
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Speaker 2: I saw the spirit again, he just.
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Speaker 1: Told her to, you know, calm down, go back to sleep.
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Speaker 1: But on this night, Margaret didn't lie down. She actually
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Speaker 1: turned to Eric and she said, no, I have to
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Speaker 1: figure out what's going on. I have to figure out
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Speaker 1: who this ghost is and why they're haunting me. A
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Speaker 1: week later, a very resigned Eric sat at his kitchen
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Speaker 1: table next to Margaret, and across from them sat a medium,
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Speaker 1: which is a person who spiritualists believed could talk directly
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Speaker 1: to the dead by conducting a ritual called a seance.
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Speaker 1: The medium began to light some candles, and as they did,
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Speaker 1: they told Eric and Margaret to close their eyes because
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Speaker 1: she was ready to begin the seance, where she would
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Speaker 1: ask the spirit haunting their house what it wanted, and
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Speaker 1: they needed you know, silence and their eyes closed to
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Speaker 1: do that. So Eric fully believed that this seance would
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Speaker 1: be a waste of time and money. He didn't believe
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Speaker 1: in this stuff at all, but he knew his wife
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Speaker 1: did and it meant a lot to her. And so
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Speaker 1: he's thinking, you know, maybe this can help my wife
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Speaker 1: sleep through the night again.
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Speaker 2: And so Margaret and Eric did as they were told
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Speaker 2: and Eric, you.
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Speaker 1: Know, he closed his eyes and he listened as the
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Speaker 1: medium began clearly rocking back and forth in her chair
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Speaker 1: and began sort of dramatically calling out to the ghost
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Speaker 1: and telling him to reveal himself.
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Speaker 2: And at first, nothing happened, which was exactly what Eric
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Speaker 2: had expected.
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Speaker 1: But after a minute, Margaret suddenly jumped up from the
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Speaker 1: table and ran out of the kitchen across the living room.
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Speaker 1: And Eric, not knowing any better, just got up and
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Speaker 1: followed her. And Margaret, she ran down the hallway and
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Speaker 1: she threw open a door that led down to their
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Speaker 1: cellar and she raced down the steps. Now, Eric was
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Speaker 1: doing his best to not to ridicule what was happening
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Speaker 1: here and just to play along. But it's like, what
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Speaker 1: is his wife doing? What's happening here? And so as
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Speaker 1: he's chasing after his wife, he starts saying like, honey,
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Speaker 1: what's going on here?
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Speaker 2: Where are you going? What is this? But she didn't respond.
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Speaker 2: It was like she was on a mission.
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Speaker 1: And then finally, when Eric got down the steps and
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Speaker 1: he's in the cellar, he saw his wife who was
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Speaker 1: now standing in the middle of the cellar with her
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Speaker 1: arms out wide.
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Speaker 2: And slowly she began to point to a spot on
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Speaker 2: the floor.
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Speaker 1: And in this really weird and hollow voice with this
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Speaker 1: sort of vacant expression on her face, she told Eric
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Speaker 1: to dig.
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Speaker 2: Now at this point, Eric was totally freaked out. Not
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Speaker 2: because he believed.
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Speaker 1: That the seance had worked or that there was a
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Speaker 1: ghost here, but because his wife genuinely was acting totally bizarre.
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Speaker 2: I mean, she was acting possessed.
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Speaker 1: And even if that was an act, it was a
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Speaker 1: terrifying one. And so he just said no. There was
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Speaker 1: no way he was just going to start digging up
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Speaker 1: the cellar floor. Like, what is going on here? But
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Speaker 1: then the medium came rushing down the stairs as well.
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Speaker 1: And they said that Margaret was in a trance. That
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Speaker 1: the ghost in this house was channeling her. And that basically,
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Speaker 1: Eric had to do whatever the ghost said. Suddenly, Margaret's
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Speaker 1: voice cut across the room again. And she said to
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Speaker 1: Eric to dig, dig up the floor.
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Speaker 2: And this time, she was more forceful and almost desperate. Like,
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Speaker 2: you must do this. And so Eric, he's looking at
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Speaker 2: his wife. He's looking at the medium. Like, what in
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Speaker 2: the world is happening here?
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Speaker 1: But.
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Speaker 2: He's like, you know what?
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Speaker 1: I don't know what's happening. I'm just going to dig.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to do what they tell me to. So
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Speaker 1: he grabbed a shovel and just began digging up the cellar.
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Speaker 1: And after just a few minutes, Eric's shovel hit something
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Speaker 1: in the ground, something hard. He thought it was just
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Speaker 1: maybe like a big rock or something. But a few
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Speaker 1: minutes later, after he and the medium and also Margaret,
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Speaker 1: who's now come over at this point, they'd kind of
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Speaker 1: cleared off whatever it was. They saw in the ground,
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Speaker 1: you know, what had previously been covered by the earth
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Speaker 1: and was this rotten wooden box.
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Speaker 2: And so he and Margaret.
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Speaker 1: And the medium, they pulled it out of the hole
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Speaker 1: and they opened up the lid and all three of
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Speaker 1: them immediately recoiled because inside of the box was a
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Speaker 1: human skeleton. And so after a minute of just, again,
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Speaker 1: stunned silence, Eric just looked up at Margaret, who did
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Speaker 1: not seem shocked by what she was looking at.
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Speaker 2: This was like confirmation in some ways. And he says
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Speaker 2: to Margaret, is this the skeleton of the ghost that's
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Speaker 2: been haunting you?
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Speaker 1: And Margaret, with that same hollow voice, like it wasn't
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Speaker 1: her voice, looked at Eric and just said, no. It
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Speaker 1: would turn out, according to the story that has been
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Speaker 1: passed down about whatever happened in this house, that the
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Speaker 1: ghost was a doctor who used to live in the
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Speaker 1: house that Eric and Margaret moved into. And 18 years earlier,
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Speaker 1: this doctor had performed an illegal surgery on a young
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Speaker 1: woman And this woman had died during this procedure. But again,
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Speaker 1: because this surgery had been illegal, the doctor knew if
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Speaker 1: word of what happened here got.
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Speaker 2: Out, he would be arrested. So what did he do?
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Speaker 1: He dismembered the girl's body and shoved it into this
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Speaker 1: wooden box, filled the box with quicklime, and then he
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Speaker 1: buried it in his basement. And amazingly, the doctor never
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Speaker 1: got caught for what he did. And so he basically
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Speaker 1: spent the rest of his life feeling very ashamed and
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Speaker 1: guilty and And then finally, when he did die, it
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Speaker 1: was like his spirit couldn't actually rest.
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Speaker 2: Until he confessed.
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Speaker 1: And so this haunting was basically to get Margaret to
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Speaker 1: go down into the basement and see what he had done.
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Speaker 1: One afternoon in April of 1925... A wealthy teenager named
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Speaker 1: Lacey raced his horse around the huge estate where he
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Speaker 1: lived in eastern Hungary and took in all the land
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Speaker 1: that he knew he.
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Speaker 2: Would inherit someday.
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Speaker 1: He stopped when he reached the gardens on the far
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Speaker 1: side of the estate. But before he could ride his
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Speaker 1: horse into the gardens as he wanted to, a field
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Speaker 1: worker ran up to Lacey and asked him to stop
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Speaker 1: and turn around. The field worker, who was about Lacey's age,
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Speaker 1: explained that Lacey was not allowed to ride his horse
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Speaker 1: through the garden anymore because the last time he had
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Speaker 1: rode through some flowerbeds, And Lacey's father was really mad
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Speaker 1: about it. And at this, Lacey felt totally exasperated because
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Speaker 1: he was tired of his father always bossing him around.
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Speaker 1: And it embarrassed him to be reminded of this by
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Speaker 1: someone as low class as a field worker. So Lacey's
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Speaker 1: family was part of the noble class. His dad was
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Speaker 1: a baron and his mother was a baroness. And they
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Speaker 1: lived together in an old castle on this beautiful estate.
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Speaker 1: And for the most part, Lacey loved his noble life.
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Speaker 1: But his father could be harsh and really controlling. And
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Speaker 1: sometimes Lacey dreamed of the day that he would inherit
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Speaker 1: his dad's title because then he, Lacey, would be in
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Speaker 1: charge of the estate and he could finally run things
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Speaker 1: the way he wanted. And so Lacey decided he wanted
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Speaker 1: to show his father and this field worker and the
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Speaker 1: other field workers that they couldn't order him around all
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Speaker 1: the time. And so he rode his horse right into
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Speaker 1: the gardens and intentionally rode all over their prized flower beds.
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Speaker 1: Lacey's plan was to head back home and go into
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Speaker 1: the castle and talk to his father about that field
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Speaker 1: worker's rudeness. But when Lacey got back to the castle,
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Speaker 1: he didn't have a chance to even speak to his
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Speaker 1: father because that whole day his dad was very busy
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Speaker 1: with estate matters.
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Speaker 2: And then that night, his father died of a heart attack.
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Speaker 1: A week after his father's death, Lacey walked through the
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Speaker 1: crowded banquet hall in his family's castle looking for his
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Speaker 1: mother because he wanted to make sure that she was okay.
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Speaker 1: He and his mom had just gotten home from his
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Speaker 1: dad's funeral, and now they were hosting a reception for
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Speaker 1: everyone who had attended. But Lacey couldn't find his mother
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Speaker 1: anywhere inside of this banquet hall. And with a sinking feeling,
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Speaker 1: he realized there was only one place she could be.
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Speaker 1: So after Lacey's father had died, his mother had gone
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Speaker 1: a little bit crazy. She refused to believe that her
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Speaker 1: husband had died of a heart attack, and instead kept
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Speaker 1: insisting that he had been murdered. More specifically, she thought
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Speaker 1: he had been scared to death. because when she had
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Speaker 1: seen his body for the first time, his facial expression
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Speaker 1: looked horrified, like he was actually scared as he died. Now,
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Speaker 1: the doctor had explained to her that, you know, it
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Speaker 1: was entirely possible that his heart attack came on suddenly,
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Speaker 1: and he was scared about what was happening to him,
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Speaker 1: and so, you know, was scared when he died. But
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Speaker 1: the Baroness wouldn't listen. She said this was intentional. Somebody
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Speaker 1: did this to him. And so ever since, she had
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Speaker 1: basically spent all of her time in the Lacey's father's bedroom,
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Speaker 1: searching for clues about her husband's supposed killer. So now,
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Speaker 1: Lacey left the banquet hall and climbed the stairs up
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Speaker 1: the castle up to his father's bedroom. And just as
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Speaker 1: he suspected, when he knocked on the door, his mom answered,
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Speaker 1: looking totally frantic. Lacey told her to come downstairs and
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Speaker 1: say hello to their guests, but she said no, that
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Speaker 1: she was too busy looking for evidence. Then, before Lacey
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Speaker 1: could say anything, his mom just shut the door in
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Speaker 1: his face. The next six months went by basically the
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Speaker 1: same way. Lacey's mother spent all her time locked up
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Speaker 1: in the Baron's bedroom around the clock, and Lacey spent
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Speaker 1: most of his time riding his horse, including in the garden,
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Speaker 1: because he didn't like going home anymore. His mother was
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Speaker 1: now technically in charge of the family estate, but she
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Speaker 1: had really let things go since her husband had died.
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Speaker 1: She basically had not taken up any of the responsibilities
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Speaker 1: that she was now in charge of. And so at
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Speaker 1: this point, Lacey really couldn't wait until he was on
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Speaker 1: his own and in charge of the castle and the
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Speaker 1: estate himself. One night in mid-October, so this is at
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Speaker 1: the six-month mark from when Lacey's father had died, Lacey
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Speaker 1: ate dinner alone, which was common at this point since
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Speaker 1: his mom basically still refused to come downstairs at all.
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Speaker 1: And then after he ate dinner, Lacey began making his
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Speaker 1: way upstairs to get ready for bed. And as he
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Speaker 1: walked upstairs, Lacey just felt overcome with anger and desperation
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Speaker 1: and just kind of general angst about the current situation.
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Speaker 1: He longed so desperately to just be alone and in
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Speaker 1: charge of the estate. He hated the current setup with
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Speaker 1: his mother in charge, but not really doing anything. I mean,
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Speaker 1: the whole, whole estate was just falling apart here. But eventually,
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Speaker 1: you know, despite feeling kind of riled up, Lacey, you know,
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Speaker 1: got into bed and closed his eyes and did eventually
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Speaker 1: begin to drift off to sleep. But right after he
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Speaker 1: had fallen asleep, he was suddenly awoken by this ear
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Speaker 1: piercing scream that was echoing down the hallway. And he
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Speaker 1: realized it was his mother and she was screaming for help.
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Speaker 1: And so Lacey jumped out of bed and he raced
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Speaker 1: down the hallway to his father's bedroom. And as he ran,
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Speaker 1: other servants were flooding the hallway, racing towards the room
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Speaker 1: as well. And Lacey, he got to the door, he
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Speaker 1: unlocked it and he rushed inside. And when he got
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Speaker 1: in there, he saw his mother pointing at the foot
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Speaker 1: of the baron's bed. And she was saying that a
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Speaker 1: demon had appeared in the bedroom and had loomed over
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Speaker 1: her like it wanted to kill her. And so she
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Speaker 1: told Lacey that the demon had to be what scared
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Speaker 1: his father to death.
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Speaker 2: The demon was the murderer.
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Speaker 1: Lacey's mother looked absolutely convinced here. But Lacey and really
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Speaker 1: all the servants as well just kind of collectively sighed
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Speaker 1: because there was obviously no demon at the foot of
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Speaker 1: the bed here. And his mom clearly had just had
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Speaker 1: a bad dream or, you know, was just basically acting crazy.
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Speaker 1: And so as the servants kind of, you know, went
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Speaker 1: back to their rooms to allow the family to deal
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Speaker 1: with this, Lacey told his mother to just go back
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Speaker 1: to sleep here. And then he turned and walked back
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Speaker 1: down to his room, feeling completely defeated. Because to Lacey,
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Speaker 1: his mom was basically losing her mind here. And he
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Speaker 1: had no idea how he was going to help. Or really,
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Speaker 1: how much longer this current setup was going to last.
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Speaker 2: But this was awful.
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Speaker 1: On both of the next two nights, Lacey woke up
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Speaker 1: yet again to the sound of his mother screaming about
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Speaker 1: a demon inside of the Baron's bedroom.
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Speaker 2: And so by the third morning, Lacey had just had enough.
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Speaker 1: He decided he was going to force his mother out
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Speaker 1: of that bedroom and insist that she come downstairs and
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Speaker 1: eat breakfast with him and just.
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Speaker 2: Act normal for once.
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Speaker 1: However, when he walked to the baron's bedroom and knocked
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Speaker 1: on the door to speak to his mother, it was
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Speaker 1: not his mom who answered.
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Speaker 2: It was a police detective. Lacey was stunned.
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Speaker 1: And he walked into the bedroom and saw his mother
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Speaker 1: who was standing there with two more detectives And Lacey asked, like,
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Speaker 1: what's going on here? Lacey's mother explained that she had
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Speaker 1: called the police to help her catch the demon that
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Speaker 1: was haunting her at night and very likely was responsible
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Speaker 1: for killing her husband. And at this point, Lacey thought
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Speaker 1: he might die of embarrassment. I mean, this was unbelievable
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Speaker 1: that now the police were involved. But instead of talking
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Speaker 1: about that, he just begged his mother to please send
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Speaker 1: the police home.
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Speaker 2: They do not need to be here. But his mother refused.
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Speaker 2: She was fully.
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Speaker 1: Committed to the idea that There was a demon here,
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Speaker 1: and the police were going to help her find it.
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Speaker 1: And the police, to be honest, looked like they didn't
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Speaker 1: really know what was going on. They were just kind
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Speaker 1: of trying to figure out if this was serious or not,
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Speaker 1: or if there was some sort of intruder, but they
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Speaker 1: were just kind of like, well, we'll see. And so
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Speaker 1: Lacey finally just turned, left, hopped on his horse, and
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Speaker 1: went for his daily ride. That night, as Lacey crawled
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Speaker 1: into his own bed, he knew that down the hallway,
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Speaker 1: his mom was already in bed, and that three detectives
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Speaker 1: were watching over her room in case a demon appeared. Again,
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Speaker 1: Lacey felt unbelievably embarrassed by this. To even be affiliated
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Speaker 1: with this was just excruciating, but he managed.
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Speaker 2: To close his eyes and go to sleep.
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Speaker 1: But, like normal, at some point in the middle of
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Speaker 1: the night, he woke up because his mother was screaming.
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Speaker 2: And Lacey, I mean, he's like, oh my gosh, this
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Speaker 2: is so embarrassing.
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Speaker 1: It's only getting worse, but he got out of bed,
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Speaker 1: he went into the hallway, and he began walking down
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Speaker 1: towards where his mother was, where she was screaming, inside
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Speaker 1: of the Baron's bedroom, expecting that, you know, once again...
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Speaker 1: The room would be empty and the police would see,
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Speaker 1: you know, this is just complete delusion here.
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Speaker 2: There's no demon. There's no problem.
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Speaker 1: However, when Lacey got to the doorway and looked inside,
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Speaker 1: he saw one of the detectives running across the room
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Speaker 1: and then tackle something that really did look like a
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Speaker 1: demon to the floor. And then Lacey's mother turned on
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Speaker 1: the light. It would turn out that even though Lacey
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Speaker 1: fully expected to inherit his father's title, he was actually
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Speaker 1: not the Baron's firstborn son. Before the baron had met
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Speaker 1: the baroness, Lacey's mother, he'd had a relationship with a
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Speaker 1: local peasant woman.
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Speaker 2: And they had had a son together.
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Speaker 1: And the baron had given that peasant woman a plot
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Speaker 1: of land on the edge of the estate to raise
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Speaker 1: their son in secret. And then the baron had basically
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Speaker 1: abandoned them both. He had given them the opportunity to,
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Speaker 1: you know, work on the estate and sort of make
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Speaker 1: a living for themselves. But functionally, he didn't interact with
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Speaker 1: them at all. He didn't recognize them at all. They
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Speaker 1: were on their own. Now, the peasant woman, the mother
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Speaker 1: of this child, had sort of accepted that this was
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Speaker 1: their reality. But the secret son had sort of buried
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Speaker 1: that feeling forever until Lacey rode his horse through the
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Speaker 1: gardens despite being told not to and destroyed those flower beds.
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Speaker 1: Because the secret son was that field worker. His job
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Speaker 1: was looking out for the gardens. And it just felt
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Speaker 1: like a step too far. And so the secret son,
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Speaker 1: the field worker, decided he was going to teach this
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Speaker 1: family a lesson. He was going to kill the Baron
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Speaker 1: and the Baroness by scaring them to death.
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Speaker 2: That was his plan. And it sort of worked.
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Speaker 1: He went into the castle and pretended to be a
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Speaker 1: demon in the middle of the night. And he scared
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Speaker 1: the father, the Baron, so badly, he literally had a
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Speaker 1: heart attack and died. However, the secret son continued pretending
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Speaker 1: to be a demon around the Baroness after killing the Baron.
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Speaker 1: And the Baroness would get really, really scared and would
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Speaker 1: scream and claim there's a demon in here.
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Speaker 2: But she didn't die from this.
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Speaker 1: She did not have a heart attack. And so ultimately,
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Speaker 1: the plan was foiled. And so in the end, there
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Speaker 1: was no demon. It was just Lacey's half-brother wrapped in
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Speaker 1: a cloak wearing a horrifying mask. One morning in early
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Speaker 1: August of 1927, A 24-year-old woman named Inez Perry walked
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Speaker 1: in the back door of the farmhouse where her parents
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Speaker 1: lived in rural Vermont. And as soon as she walked in,
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Speaker 1: she went into the kitchen where her father was at
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Speaker 1: the kitchen table with a man she had never seen before.
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Speaker 1: And the two were shaking hands and she heard her
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Speaker 1: father say, we have a deal. And then right after that,
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Speaker 1: Inez's father looked over and saw her and he explained
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Speaker 1: that this man's name was Clarence Sinclair and that he
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Speaker 1: and Clarence had just agreed to swap houses. And for
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Speaker 1: a second, Inez was confused, but then it all clicked
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Speaker 1: into place. So Inez's parents had raised her and her
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Speaker 1: other three siblings in this farmhouse, but Inez and her
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Speaker 1: siblings had all moved away and her parents were getting older.
19:34
Speaker 1: Her dad's health in particular was starting to fail and
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Speaker 1: keeping up the farmhouse was getting to be too much
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Speaker 1: for him. And so her father had been trying to
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Speaker 1: sell the property for a while, but nobody seemed to
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Speaker 1: want it. However, now it seemed like he had finally
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Speaker 1: found a solution. Her dad explained to her that Clarence
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Speaker 1: and his family would move into this farmhouse and take
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Speaker 1: over the farm. And in exchange, he and Inez's mom
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Speaker 1: would move into Clarence's house just a few towns over.
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Speaker 1: Now to Inez, this arrangement did seem a little strange,
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Speaker 1: but it also did solve her parents' problem. And so
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Speaker 1: even though she was going to be sad to say
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Speaker 1: goodbye to her childhood home, She decided that this had
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Speaker 1: to be the right move for her parents, and so
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Speaker 1: she said, that's great. A few weeks later, Inez was
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Speaker 1: inside of her parents' new house, helping to get them
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Speaker 1: settled in and organize their living room, when she heard
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Speaker 1: the clattering sound of a horse-drawn wagon coming down the
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Speaker 1: street and coming to a stop right outside. So she
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Speaker 1: walked to the door and she opened it up, but
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Speaker 1: the second she saw who it was that was getting
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Speaker 1: out of the carriage, she slammed the door and locked it.
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Speaker 1: Because the person getting out of that carriage was Clarence Sinclair.
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Speaker 1: the man who Inez's dad had swapped homes with. And
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Speaker 1: the home swap had not gone how Inez and her
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Speaker 1: family had hoped. Inez's parents were thrilled with their new house,
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Speaker 1: so everything on their side was good. But pretty much
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Speaker 1: immediately after actually doing the swap, Clarence had started acting
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Speaker 1: totally unhinged. He had come back to his old home
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Speaker 1: repeatedly without being invited, and he would beg Inez's dad
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Speaker 1: to switch houses back that he had made a horrible mistake.
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Speaker 1: But Clarence would never elaborate. He would never really explain
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Speaker 1: why he felt this way. He would just, you know, demand, please,
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Speaker 1: you know, I've made a horrible mistake. We have to
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Speaker 1: switch back. But Inez's dad had said no. You know,
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Speaker 1: a deal was a deal. And he just had too
21:17
Speaker 1: many health issues to live at that farmhouse anymore. And
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Speaker 1: Clarence couldn't actually cite any real problems with the farmhouse
21:23
Speaker 1: that he so desperately wanted to, you know, give back.
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Speaker 1: And so as far as Inez's dad was concerned, you know,
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Speaker 1: the subject here was closed. You know, he had not
21:31
Speaker 1: given him a faulty property and there was no real
21:33
Speaker 1: reason here to go back to the way it was.
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Speaker 2: And so It was a no.
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Speaker 1: So now Inez and her parents watched from the window
21:40
Speaker 1: as Clarence hopped out of his wagon and came rushing
21:43
Speaker 1: onto the porch.
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Speaker 2: And he looked absolutely crazy.
21:46
Speaker 1: His hair was messed up and greasy and there were
21:49
Speaker 1: dark circles under his eyes. And he really looked like
21:52
Speaker 1: he hadn't slept in weeks. And Clarence promptly began pounding
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Speaker 1: on the front door, shouting that his family could not
21:59
Speaker 1: live in their farmhouse.
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Speaker 2: And that this was now a matter of life and death.
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Speaker 1: But eventually, when Inez and her family refused to come out,
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Speaker 1: Clarence finally gave up, turned around, got in his wagon,
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Speaker 1: and drove away.
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Speaker 2: Now, that was the last time that Clarence came to
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Speaker 2: their house.
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Speaker 1: But it was not the last time that Inez and
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Speaker 1: her family would hear about their old farmhouse. A few
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Speaker 1: weeks later, on November 4th, after several days of very
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Speaker 1: heavy rainfall, Inez picked up the newspaper and saw that
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Speaker 1: their old neighborhood had been basically.
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Speaker 2: Washed away by historic flooding.
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Speaker 1: And that included their old farmhouse that had literally been
22:37
Speaker 1: carried off. And the family that had been living in
22:41
Speaker 1: the farmhouse were dead. But that family was not Clarence
22:45
Speaker 1: Sinclair's family. It would turn out that after Clarence and
22:48
Speaker 1: his family had moved into said farmhouse, Clarence began having
22:53
Speaker 1: these horrible dreams where his.
22:56
Speaker 2: Dead mother would appear to him and tell him to.
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Speaker 1: Move out of this farmhouse right now because something terrible
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Speaker 1: is going to happen here. Now at first, Clarence ignored
23:05
Speaker 1: this and chalked it up to a bad dream, you know,
23:08
Speaker 1: but the dream kept happening over and over and over again.
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Speaker 2: Then it was driving him mad.
23:14
Speaker 1: And so eventually he did go to Inez and Inez's
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Speaker 1: parents and tried to switch it back because he just,
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Speaker 1: he felt like this dream really meant something. But Inez's
23:23
Speaker 1: father just kept saying no and said, no, that's your
23:26
Speaker 1: house now. So Clarence never elaborated to the family about
23:29
Speaker 1: why he wanted this back because it made no sense
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Speaker 1: to him either. But he ultimately listened to his dead
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Speaker 1: mother in his dream and he wound up just selling
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Speaker 1: the farmhouse just to not live there anymore. So that
23:40
Speaker 1: decision would ultimately save Clarence and his family. But it
23:44
Speaker 1: would also condemn to death the family who moved in.
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