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3 Hour Marathon Of Paranormal And Unexplained Stories - 2 · Mystery Archives Episodes

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  Can a soul or the essence of an entity become trapped inside of
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  an object? Could one, channeling enough
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  energy, dedication, and care into something allow
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  anotherworldly presence to possess?
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  It attracting spirits like moths to a flame.
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  We have covered. Haunted objects here before,
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  such as a Kiku the doll, among others.
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  But this story is too infamous to not be given the time of day,
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  and although it has been told many times, perhaps you will
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  learn a detail or two that you've never heard before.
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  This is the untold story of Robert the Doll and the
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  malevolent monstrosity that stares at the world from behind
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  its beady little eyes. At first glance, most people
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  tend to agree that although dolls of all sorts can be creepy
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  to say the least, there's something particularly unnerving
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  about the doll has become known to the world as Robert.
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  But behind the initial feelings of unease at first glance lies
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  many tales of accidents, tragedy and misfortune, all supposedly
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  at Robert's hands. Far too many within his presence
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  to just be a string of awful coincidences.
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  But if an evil force supposedly lives within the confines of
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  this century old child's toy, to come to recognize and understand
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  just what it could be, we must first tell its story, and to
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  tell. Robert's story properly we must
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  first start at the very. Beginning as with many legends.
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  There are multiple versions of the origin story and how Robert
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  the Doll came to be. Having read through most if not
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  all of them, I'll be sharing with you the most agreed upon
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  origin for accuracy's sake in the beginning, and we will
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  explore other theories and origin stories later in this
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  video. The years 1904 and a man named
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  Thomas Otto is on a trip in Germany.
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  Whether it was for business or leisure, we can't say.
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  But during his trip, he decided to pick up a gift for his young
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  grandson's birthday to take back home with him to the States.
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  As he perused various shops throughout his time there, he
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  stumbled across a toy that he believed would be the perfect
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  fit for the young boy. Perched on display behind a pale
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  glass window sat a doll. The doll was about the size of a
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  young child and was accompanied by a small dog doll as well.
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  Knowing that his grandson was lonely on the large family
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  estate and was very fond of dogs as well, Thomas believed he had
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  found what he had been searching for and quickly purchased the
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  toy. In due time, he would find his
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  way back to the United States once his trip was over, bringing
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  his precious cargo with him. Making his way back to the
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  family estate located in Key West, FL to greet his family
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  after months abroad. Thomas.
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  And an act of innocence and excitement gifted the toy to his
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  grandson Eugene for his 8th birthday.
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  As soon as Eugene laid eyes on the gift he had received, he
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  became ecstatic. With no other children his own
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  age in the home or nearby, he now for once had his very own
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  friend, his own best friend, and one that could accompany him
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  wherever he went. Sitting at around 3 feet tall
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  with his little dog, Eugene named his new friend.
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  Robert But Robert, of course, needed close to fit for years of
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  adventures to come. So Eugene's mother, Maria,
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  quickly found just what he was missing, a small sailors outfit
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  that had once belonged to her son but had long since been
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  outgrown. After placing Robert and his new
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  clothes, the two were off to play and soon became
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  inseparable. Wherever Eugene Win, Robert
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  accompanied him. From hours of play inside and
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  outside of the house to the dinner table in bedtime, his new
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  best friend was everything the young man wanted, and much more
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  besides constant companionship. Eugene began to confide in the
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  doll, often speaking to him as if he was a person and his own
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  right. His parents, who were first just
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  as elated as their young son, was at his excitement over his
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  new toy. Began to grow.
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  Concerned over how close their son was to the doll, but they
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  would initially write off the behavior as most would, since
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  lonely children, with their imagination still very much
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  active, will typically invent imaginary friends or adventurous
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  stories to fill the void or lack of friends and real adventures
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  within their daily lives. But over the months since Robert
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  had arrived. They noticed a bizarre shift in
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  Eugene's personality. He began to grow extremely
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  possessive and obsessive over Robert and would lash out at his
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  parents, sometimes violently. If the doll was not in his sight
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  at all times, it would. Soon appear that.
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  Eugene's obsession with his cloth companion and shift in
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  behavior wasn't the only strange activity that was taking place
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  one night as she tucked her son into bed.
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  Maria overheard Eugene whispering to Robert, something
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  that at this point had become a daily occurrence, but as she
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  closed the door to his room and began to walk away, she heard a
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  deep, guttural voice respond to her son.
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  Shocked and terrified, she rushed back into her son's room
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  only to find him laying with the doll as per usual.
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  When she asked him just who was speaking, he simply answered.
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  Robert This scary happening wouldn't be the last.
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  About a year into Robert the Doll and Happening, their Key
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  West estate, the autos noticed yet another shift and their
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  son's behavior. But this time it was almost the
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  exact opposite of what the initial shift had been.
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  Eugene had gone from a quiet and shy but charming young man to a
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  belligerent, angry and possessive boy.
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  But now he had become one that was meek, full of anxiety, and
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  constantly seemed like he was walking on egg shells.
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  He had now also taken to violent fits on occasion, as if
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  something was trying to overtake his body and soul.
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  The guttural voice that Maria had heard a year ago could be
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  heard much more frequently now, and just as frequently almost
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  nightly. It became commonplace to hear
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  what sounded like glass breaking and constant commotion coming
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  from Eugene's room. Upon hearing the turmoil, his
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  parents would rush to discover the source.
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  Upon opening their son's door, they would find his furniture
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  dumped upside down. Other toys of his would be
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  smashed or in pieces, and Eugene would almost always be in the
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  corner of the room in his bed. Petrified while Robert the doll
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  would be in his usual space nearby.
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  Upon asking just what had happened, they would be met with
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  an all too familiar answer. At this point they would ask
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  just who did this Eugene and his answer would always be Robert
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  noticing the activity becoming more and more intense and being
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  a God fearing woman herself. Maria was deeply disturbed by
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  what was taking place in her home and what was taking place
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  to her family, particularly her son.
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  Besides the nightly terror that now plagued them, she was very
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  much disturbed by this guttural voice that she kept hearing,
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  Knowing that her son had not yet matured, she knew that there was
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  no way his voice could reach that deep level of tonality and
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  malice that she often heard. At times the Voice would even
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  shout and speak over Eugene, and unless he was exceptionally good
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  of ventriloquism, something was horrifically wrong.
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  It was if the devil himself now occupied the walls of their
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  home. Like a stain or liquid, the
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  presence had slowly seeped in and permeated throughout their
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  lives. One night, as per usual, the
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  family settles down to sleep. As the clouds spiral and the
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  moon now haunts the sky above them gleaming down overhead, the
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  family's peace is shattered by the horrific screams of their
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  son and the echoes of the sounds of things being broken.
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  Wideeyed and terrified, Eugene's parents rushed to their son's
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  aid, Lantern in hand. The closer they get to his room,
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  the louder the low and horrible voice becomes.
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  And the louder the screams of Eugene become as well.
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  The deep voice that have been growing louder suddenly was
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  silent like the winter snow as hands touched the doorknob.
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  Quickly overcoming their fear for the sake of their boy, the
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  couple throw the door open to find their son huddled
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  underneath his sheets. His room was almost completely
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  destroyed. Most of his belongings were in
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  pieces. Her tatters from what was left
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  of his toys, to his furniture, to even his clothes.
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  Poor Eugene was shaking in the corner of his room opposite his
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  bed, and Robert, along with his beady eyed companion were in his
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  bed staring at them all silently.
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  By this point Maria knew that whatever Robert was or whatever
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  inhabited him was truly evil. But unsure of how to handle the
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  situation or what exactly they were dealing with and a fit of
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  rage, she grabbed the doll and rushed to the attic, casting
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  Robert and his canine companion into the darkness above.
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  This would remain his home until a better idea presented itself
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  as to what to do with him. The low groans and screams and
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  breaking ceased in Eugene's room, but would frequently be
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  heard. In the attic, with having such a
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  large estate to care for, the family did have a team of
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  servants to care for the property.
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  But their loyal crew, having experienced the strangeness
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  themselves up and quit the servants, soon became a
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  revolving door with new faces almost always coming and going
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  just as quickly as they started, despite his banishment to the
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  attic. Alongside the occasional
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  crashing sounds and yelling, the family said that they would also
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  hear Robert walking around the pitter patter of his small feet
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  often being. Heard.
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  Echoing all throughout the house, especially at night when
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  he seemed to truly come alive, so to speak, as the years
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  passed, and despite all of the childhood trauma and fear
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  inflicted on him by the demonic doll.
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  Unbenounced to any rational mind after his parents passing,
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  Eugene would choose to take Robert back into his possession
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  as an adult. Perhaps he did this to ensure
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  that Robert wouldn't inflict terror upon anyone else.
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  Maybe he felt like he had the most experience dealing with him
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  and therefore he was the most equipped to handle anything that
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  could possibly. Happen as a result of his
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  presence, Eugene and his adult years became an artist.
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  And would later marry and have a family of his own.
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  He kept Robert propped up in the window of his art studio, known
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  as the Turret Room, which overlooked his front yard.
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  Annette Eugene's wife was said to disapprove of Robert's
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  presence in the house and demanded that he be gotten rid
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  of or banished into the attic or basement.
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  For a short time this took place, but naturally Robert
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  didn't take kindly to this. And apparently began to make
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  threats towards her by visiting her and her dreams and verbally
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  telling Eugene that if he was not moved back, horrible things
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  would happen to his family. So eventually Robert was placed
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  back in the tour room. Aside from this, I couldn't find
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  any additional information on the happenings that took place
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  during those years inside the home.
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  I would hope and imagine that perhaps Robert had gone dormant
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  during this time. Especially since Eugene did
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  eventually have children of his own and hopefully didn't allow
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  them to be compromised by having such a thing in the house.
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  There were, however, reports of passerbys, school children and
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  neighbors feeling a strange presence when passing by the
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  house on a daily basis. Others would say that they could
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  see Robert. Move, but in the blink of an eye
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  he'd be back to where he was sitting.
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  Eugene Otto will continue to spend the rest of his life
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  painting in the turret room with Robert the doll until his death
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  in 1974. However, this bizarre legend
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  does not stop with his death. Upon Eugene's passing, his
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  family sold the house to a woman named Myrtle Reuter.
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  Upon moving into the home, she noticed sitting in the window of
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  the turret room was a small doll with a sailor's uniform.
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  She thought this to be strange, since the auto family had not
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  left any other belongings behind when they'd moved, but
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  regardless, she decided to keep it.
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  Myrtle soon began to realize that there was something
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  different about this doll. Upon house cleaning, she would
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  typically notice that he moved around the room, seemingly by
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  himself. At night, she would hear what
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  she described as small footsteps.
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  All throughout the house, guess who would visit her claim to
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  that Robert would move of his own volition and that his blank
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  expression would change to one of rage if anyone discussed him
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  in a negative way. Myrtle would eventually reach
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  out and speak with the widowed Annette Otto, who would confirm
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  her worst fears that something otherworldly inhabited Robert
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  the Doll after dealing with his antics for years.
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  She finally decided to reach out to a local museum and would
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  donate Robert in 1994 to the Fort E Martello Museum in Key
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  West, FL, where he remains today.
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  But as with each previous relocation, his story does not
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  end here either. Placed inside his own glass
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  display for the public to see him each and every day, one
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  would think that perhaps Robert's antics would cease.
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  He was, of course a natural source of curiosity and would be
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  seen and admired by many people daily, but you would be very
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  wrong. Staff at the.
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  Museum have claimed to find Robert in various positions
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  within his case, as if he was attempting to break out of it or
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  had been out of it prior and had just reentered it.
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  The Phantom footsteps as previously claimed by all three
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  families, has also been reported.
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  As well as the dolls expression changing from neutral to nasty
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  and an instant, the afflictions first started with the staff
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  themselves. From horrible bouts of rare
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  diseases to relationship breakdowns and marriage
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  failures, as well as unique instances of psychosis over the
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  years the curse of Robert the doll began to take shape and
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  become a well known phenomena. But it would soon spread to many
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  others besides the staff themselves.
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  Many people, upon visiting Robert's exhibit, finding him
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  strange to say the least, but often mock him, berate him, or
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  just laugh at his appearance. Little did they know that they
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  would be inviting the wrath of something otherworldly.
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  Shortly after their visit, droves of people began to
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  experience shockingly similar happenings.
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  To that of the staff, varying in intensity, almost as if their
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  punishment was being tapered to fit their crimes.
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  From less serious experiences like paranormal activity
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  beginning in their home, horrible luck and job loss, to
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  name a few. To much more serious experiences
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  like exotic disease diagnosis, rare cancers, relationship
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  disintegration. And others, Car accidents,
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  falls, and even untimely death. Eventually, a warning would be
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  added to Robert's exhibit explaining the alleged curse and
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  the proper etiquette to approach him with.
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  Whether that's to observe or take a photo, is to not offend
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  whoever or whatever inhabits the doll itself.
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  Over the decades, an entire wall has been dedicated.
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  To the letters, people have dropped off or sent the museum
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  if they weren't able to come in person begging for Robert's
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  forgiveness, hoping to end whatever horrible situation they
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  found themselves in after their visit.
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  To this day there are over 1000 letters, with more continuing to
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  be added each and every year. But could there be more to this
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  legend, as I mentioned in the beginning of the video?
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  There is another origin story that could explain just what
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  inhabits the doll and how it got there.
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  I will also add several elements that I found interesting
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  relating to the case itself. The alternative origin story
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  says that a young woman of Bahamian descent gave Thomas
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  Otter the doll as a retaliation for a misdeed.
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  As to why this would have taken place is not known, but
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  speculation has led many to believe.
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  That the girl, or perhaps a relative, had been a member of
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  staff at some point or another at the family's Key West estate.
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  The retaliation was that the doll had been imbued with a
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  spirit that had been conjured using voodoo and by trapping the
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  entity within the doll, making it it's vessel, it became aware
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  of its surroundings and knew what it was sent there to do,
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  although with many details in this case.
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  Lots of details can't be corroborated due to the age of
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  the story itself, but there are a few details that I managed to
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  dig up that are interesting. The doll itself appears to have
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  been manufactured by the Stife Company, a German family company
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  that was headed by German designer Richard Stife, the
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  original designer of the beloved teddy bear, and the original
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  design of the doll in particular, and others that were
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  similar to it, were not designed as toys.
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  To rather stage props for the time, so it's hard to say if
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  Robert was ever intended as a toy in the 1st place.
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  The family tree of the autos also has conflicting information
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  in regards to birth and death dates as well as names, but I
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  did my best to corroborate this information and I'll be linking
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  the info of the description below Today.
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  Robert continues to be on display and his antics continue
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  to persist. He seems to be just as powerful
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  as he was all those years ago. The museum keeps a catalog
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  record of all ailments that have been reported as a result of
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  offending him for future reference.
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  His reach also continues to expand as his legend grows and
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  becomes more and more well known across the world.
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  Robert the Doll has been the inspiration behind many books,
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  movies and podcasts, as well as a local legend in Florida.
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  And this lesson truly applies to anyone and everyone.
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  Have respect when you meet someone because you never truly
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  know who or what you could be dealing with.
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  And please, if you find yourself at the East Martello Museum in
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  Key West, FL, and you happen to come into contact with the
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  entity known as Robert the Doll, be respectful.
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  Because if you're not. He may just pay the ultimate
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  price. They say that one man's trash is
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  another man's treasure, while many people accidentally
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  purchase a haunted home without knowing it was haunted.
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  This story partially is about a man who did the opposite.
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  But the home in which he purchased was way more than he
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  bargained for. Not for him, but for a family
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  whose experiences made it infamous.
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  With a one-of-a-kind strange past and a present day nasty and
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  demonic reputation known as Pennsylvania's Amityville.
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  Horror. This is the untold story of the
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  Wells House and why it's considered one of the most
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  haunted places in the state, let alone the country.
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  To properly tell this story, we must first start at the
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  beginning. The notorious home on Wells St.
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  was built by industrialist Augustus C Laning, but despite
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  his future success, Laning had not led such an easy life.
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  After arriving in the Wilkes Barre area to work for his
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  grandfather at age 14, he would soon experience tragedy.
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  His younger nephew, shortly after his arrival, would pass
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  away when the barn he was playing in was struck by
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  lightning and caught fire. Trapping him inside.
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  Shortly after this happening, one of his grandfather's
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  factories would also mysteriously catch fire and burn
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  to the ground as well. Despite a series of unfortunate
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  events, the Lanings Enterprises would eventually thrive,
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  allowing Augustus to inherit land from his mother on what is
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  today Wells St. Eventually, he would build a
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  home at 46 S Wells St. and 1861. And lived there until 1865, when
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  he eventually sold his home and business.
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  He would take his last breath in 1875.
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  The land in which Laning built the home on, as many locals
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  would say, was soaked in turmoil and blood, having been the site
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  of numerous wars and conflicts between Native American tribes
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  as well as European settlers and native tribes.
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  From the late 19th century to the mid 20th century, the house
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  went through a series of sheriff sales, which were a type of
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  public auction and would eventually sell for just $1.00
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  at auction in May of 1939, a little over $20 and today's
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  money. Although tragedy befell the
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  laning family, especially early on in Augustus's life, any
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  happenings within the home weren't documented if they did
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  occur. As far as we know, no death had
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  taken place up until this time, but it certainly starts to
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  snowball as the years progress. In 1940, the person who had
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  purchased the home so cheaply at auction would breathe their last
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  breath by their own hand, as would the next person who
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  purchased the home via auction in 1950, almost exactly 10 years
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  apart to the day after these mysterious deaths.
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  There would be four more that would take place on the
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  premises. The other three I was unable to
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  dig up additional details on. However, the most notable was
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  the 4th. A priest who was 54 years old
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  and in relatively good health, have been walking past the home
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  and passing when he glanced at the home.
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  We don't know exactly what he saw or experienced.
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  But he fell to the ground and died almost instantly.
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  From a heart attack right in the front yard, the home would be a
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  revolving door for quite some time, sometimes vacant,
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  sometimes with occupants, but only.
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  For a short. Time In March of 1975, a 27 year
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  old radio DJ by the name of Walker Bennett and his wife Mary
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  Ann purchased the home and then moved into the house from New
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  Haven with their two daughters. Almost as soon as they moved
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  into the house, bizarre activity began to manifest.
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  The family began to hear banging and scratching sounds coming
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  from inside the walls. Thinking at first they had some
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  kind of a rodent problem, Walker followed the noise and traced it
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  back to a particular bedroom wall.
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  He then knocked the wall. Down but instead of being.
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  Greeted by this supposed rodent problem, he instead saw a small.
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  Glimmering 10 box instead. After removing the box, he felt
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  a strange presence upon opening it.
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  Its contents were very weird to say the least.
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  It contained a red ribbon, a cross made of tied together
• 26:36
  chicken bones and a human molar. The first thing that struck him
• 26:41
  was that this looked like some kind of a hex or curse, but not
• 26:45
  wanting to alarm his family. He would dispose of the items.
• 26:50
  But the activity nonetheless would continue to persist.
• 26:55
  By 1976, the scratching and knocking had continued, but soon
• 27:01
  the family began to see otherworldly beings as well.
• 27:05
  On one particularly cold February morning, Bennett would
• 27:09
  hear a series of bangs and scratches on his front door.
• 27:14
  Upon slowly opening it to see just who was there, he would be
• 27:18
  shocked. Standing at the front door was
• 27:22
  the translucent figure of a man with a cane.
• 27:26
  With a vicious and crooked smile freaked out With his heart
• 27:31
  racing, he quickly slammed the door and tried to make sense of
• 27:35
  the interaction. Within seconds, he reopened the
• 27:38
  door, only to find that there was nothing there.
• 27:42
  As the days ticked by, the activity intensified.
• 27:47
  The scratches and banging noises now seem to be originating from
• 27:51
  the attic. They now were also joined by
• 27:55
  disembodied screams, some seeming to be male, others
• 28:00
  female, and some were a mix of both.
• 28:04
  In the months to come, the activity would be coupled with
• 28:07
  moaning and groaning sounds, whispering voices and the sounds
• 28:12
  of weeping coming from. Inside the walls.
• 28:16
  All still tracing back to the attic couple with these new
• 28:19
  developments were the sounds of heavy footsteps on the wooden
• 28:23
  floors. The entire family would also see
• 28:26
  several apparitions. Notably, they would experience
• 28:30
  the ghostly figure of a young woman in a night dress drifting
• 28:35
  throughout the house. Her dress seemed to be old, like
• 28:39
  those of the Victorian era, whenever she was seen following
• 28:44
  her. Would be drips or spots of blood
• 28:48
  either on the floor or on the walls.
• 28:52
  Once she began to be seen, there was a putrid, rotting type of
• 28:56
  stench that became present in the house, traveling from room
• 29:00
  to room. It was, however, usually the
• 29:03
  worst in the kitchen and living room.
• 29:07
  Not wanting to. Further frighten the girls, The
• 29:10
  Bennetts met with each other to discuss all of the bizarre
• 29:13
  happenings. And they finally had to admit
• 29:15
  that they had purchased a haunted house.
• 29:18
  Haunted by what, exactly? They couldn't be sure.
• 29:23
  Shortly after this revelation, the family began to suffer from
• 29:27
  an unexplainable physical illness, one that left them
• 29:31
  drained at all times, exhausted and aching.
• 29:36
  The doctors couldn't diagnose it, leaving the family only to
• 29:40
  continue to suffer with the symptoms.
• 29:43
  Alongside this, whether it was a result of the illness on an
• 29:47
  individual basis or the haunting itself, the whole family seemed
• 29:52
  to be thrown into a deep, dark well of depression submerged in
• 29:57
  its black waters, leaving them feeling hopeless.
• 30:02
  Things would begin to escalate further when, in January of
• 30:05
  1977, Walker and his wife would witness one of their daughters
• 30:10
  be pushed down the stairs. But to their amazement, she
• 30:15
  didn't fall and crumple on the various steps.
• 30:18
  Instead, she floated, almost in slow motion, until she landed on
• 30:23
  her. Feet.
• 30:24
  At the bottom of them, unharmed, not knowing what to make of
• 30:29
  this, The adults in the house weren't getting much sleep, and
• 30:33
  their condition continued to get worse.
• 30:36
  They would soon reach out to the church for help and guidance.
• 30:40
  Soon a Catholic priest would come out and bless the home,
• 30:44
  trying to quell whatever supernatural forces that were
• 30:47
  wreaking havoc upon the Bennetts, but these efforts were
• 30:51
  to no avail. If anything, after he left, the
• 30:56
  activity seemed to get worse. Ultimately, in March of 1978,
• 31:03
  the family who had been sound asleep in the night, was woken
• 31:06
  up by the sound of Thunder crashing.
• 31:09
  Except. There wasn't a storm outside.
• 31:13
  What followed this massive sound was a deluge of paranormal
• 31:17
  manifestations. Footsteps were pounding across
• 31:21
  the floor and in the attic. Above them, the attic door was
• 31:25
  being pounded on from the other side.
• 31:29
  Their dishes in their kitchen were being removed from their
• 31:32
  cabinets as they opened and slammed by themselves and thrown
• 31:37
  onto the floor. Shattering them.
• 31:41
  Amongst the chaos was the scratching and banging on the
• 31:44
  front door. Couple with the sounds of a
• 31:47
  child weeping coming from inside of the walls, following them as
• 31:54
  they ran throughout the house. After enduring almost three
• 31:58
  years inside the home, the Bennetts finally fled this
• 32:01
  night. Leaving with just the clothes on
• 32:04
  their backs, they left all of their belongings behind.
• 32:09
  After the family found temporary arrangements, they immediately
• 32:13
  tried to sell the home as it was, but had no luck finding a
• 32:17
  buyer. After several months, Walker
• 32:21
  Bennett reached out to a local newspaper and hopes of sharing
• 32:25
  the family story anonymously to find help or a buyer to get them
• 32:30
  out of this haunted hell in the interview under the pseudonym of
• 32:34
  Bucky Johnson. He claimed that he was now
• 32:37
  $40,000 in debt as a result of the family fleeing and being
• 32:42
  unable to live in the house and then being unable to sell the
• 32:46
  house, and that he had developed a drinking problem and now chain
• 32:51
  smoked as a result of the trauma and stress that he had endured.
• 32:56
  He also stated that he and the rest of the family were on
• 32:59
  therapy in hopes of eventually putting the past behind them.
• 33:03
  Several neighbors near the home were also interviewed, with some
• 33:07
  saying that they had never seen or heard anything and others
• 33:11
  saying that they always had an odd feeling whenever passing by
• 33:14
  the house. The article was then published
• 33:18
  on Halloween of 1979. Perfect timing for a local and
• 33:23
  terrifying story. No doubt.
• 33:25
  Following the initial publicity, word eventually made its way to
• 33:29
  Ed and Lorraine Warren. Famed paranormal investigators
• 33:33
  and demonologists who had just covered another haunting known
• 33:37
  as The Amityville Horror just three years before.
• 33:41
  The couple made a visit to the Well Street house in March of
• 33:45
  1980. But by this time, the bank had
• 33:48
  repossessed the home from the Bennetts due to their inability
• 33:51
  to make further mortgage payments on the home, so the
• 33:55
  Warrens were unable to enter the house due to it being entirely.
• 33:59
  Locked up for this reason. Lorraine, however, would say
• 34:02
  that she sensed a terrible despair emanating from the
• 34:05
  house, and that the effect it must have had on those who lived
• 34:09
  there must have been very negative.
• 34:13
  Several years later, the house would be purchased by a woman
• 34:16
  named Katherine Watkins from the bank for $20,000.
• 34:20
  In August of 1982, her purchase subsequentially prompted another
• 34:26
  newspaper article to be written. When asked, she told reporters
• 34:30
  that she was unafraid of the rumors surrounding the house and
• 34:34
  didn't fear any ghosts that could be there.
• 34:38
  She moved in with her two children shortly after her
• 34:40
  purchase and whether it was sheer determination, stubborn
• 34:45
  nature or something else, she lived in the house for the next
• 34:49
  30 years until her death on October 26th of 2012.
• 34:56
  Although shortly after moving in and over the decades to come,
• 35:00
  she and her family also experienced unexplained
• 35:03
  phenomena such as objects moving by themselves, their beds
• 35:08
  shaking, lights and appliances turning on and off by themselves
• 35:13
  and seeing those ghosts that Catherine insisted she wasn't
• 35:16
  afraid of, such as the woman and what looked like Victorian style
• 35:21
  clothing. Her daughter would inherit the
• 35:24
  home after Catherine's passing. And would place the home up for
• 35:28
  sale, where it was then purchased by a ghost hunter by
• 35:31
  the name of Tim Woods in December of 2013.
• 35:36
  Rather than repair, sell, or live in the property he had just
• 35:40
  purchased, Woods only wanted to investigate the paranormal
• 35:43
  activity that was taking place there with his team of fellow
• 35:47
  investigators, they would record hours of content in the home.
• 35:52
  And capture what they believed to be numerous supernatural
• 35:55
  manifestations. People who have joined him in
• 35:59
  the investigations have been known to have scratches manifest
• 36:03
  on their skin and have their clothing tugged on by unseen
• 36:07
  hands. Tim would later state that the
• 36:11
  Wells house is one of the scariest haunted locations that
• 36:14
  he had ever investigated due to the numerous ghost sightings
• 36:19
  that were caught on tape. And demonic attacks that
• 36:22
  occurred while he was there, he said.
• 36:25
  It is our conclusion, based upon our documented research, that
• 36:29
  the house is haunted by a demonic presence that cannot be
• 36:33
  removed, nor is it safe for anyone to live in.
• 36:38
  The strangeness of the house on Wells St. doesn't end here.
• 36:43
  In the early hours of Wednesday, July 25th of 2018, police were
• 36:49
  called to the home. To catch an intruder, Someone
• 36:52
  was outside of the house trying to get in when authorities
• 36:56
  arrived. They apprehended a man in his
• 36:59
  30s was caught in the act of prying the wooden boards off the
• 37:03
  back door of the property. He had a 24 inch sword tied to
• 37:07
  his back, had brass knuckles and a pocket knife in his pockets,
• 37:13
  and was carrying a Bible. The man seemed out of it to say
• 37:17
  the least. But claimed that he was trying
• 37:20
  to hunt for ghosts upon going through his rub sack.
• 37:24
  Police also found a loaded shotgun with 10 shells alongside
• 37:28
  of it. He would be arrested and charged
• 37:31
  with numerous offenses as a result of the episode, although
• 37:36
  we don't know who, it seems that the home was sold in 2020 to new
• 37:40
  owners and at half the price that Woods have paid.
• 37:43
  For it. There also doesn't appear to be
• 37:46
  any sort of a mention of it being haunted.
• 37:49
  It's listing reads like this, a home full of historical
• 37:53
  intrigue. With some TLC you can bring new
• 37:57
  life to this four bedroom beauty.
• 37:59
  As soon as you step over the threshold, you'll realize there
• 38:03
  is truly something out of this world with this home and it's
• 38:07
  craftsmanship. A very fitting spin if you ask
• 38:10
  me. I hope the new occupants are
• 38:13
  living peacefully, although given the home's infamous story
• 38:17
  and past seems highly unlikely. But the listing was right about
• 38:22
  one thing though. The home certainly has lots of
• 38:25
  historical intrigue and you can bring new life into this four
• 38:31
  bedroom beauty because as soon as you step over the threshold,
• 38:36
  you'll realize there's truly something out of this world with
• 38:39
  this home. Or should we say, in this home
• 38:43
  that's been watching and waiting for some new life to engorge
• 38:49
  itself? On.
• 38:52
  Could an item, if given enough energy, devotion and focus,
• 38:57
  begin to take on a life of its own?
• 39:00
  Could it begin to exhibit human like characteristics as if it
• 39:04
  has been imbued with or contains some kind of soul or entity
• 39:09
  inside of it? This act of magic has been
• 39:11
  practiced by multiple religions and cults throughout the ages.
• 39:16
  This is just one very strange example that it could indeed be
• 39:20
  possible after a gracious gift was placed into the arms of a
• 39:25
  little. Girl.
• 39:26
  Tragedy would strike and what follows would continue to haunt
• 39:30
  the family, the citizens of the village and would soon cross far
• 39:35
  beyond the barriers of land and sea.
• 39:38
  This is the untold story of a Kiku, the haunted Japanese doll
• 39:44
  and the bizarre paranormal force that possessed it.
• 39:56
  Japan is a very mystical and spiritual place, a place where
• 40:01
  the souls of the past seem to interact with the living.
• 40:06
  Such places where this spiritual energy seems to be most visible
• 40:11
  is throughout many of Japan's spiritual temples, home to many
• 40:15
  religions, the two main ones being Buddhism and Shintoism.
• 40:20
  Thousands of temples exist all over the country, but one in
• 40:25
  particular houses a spiritual artifact that has a tragic back
• 40:29
  story and an even more terrifying story that continues.
• 40:33
  To be written to this day. Located in Hokkaido, Japan at
• 40:38
  the Meninge Buddhist Temple is a doll with a bizarre and tragic
• 40:44
  back story. Indeed.
• 40:46
  Although there are several origin stories of how the doll
• 40:49
  came to be and how the temple became its final living space so
• 40:53
  to speak, all of them have most of the main details in common.
• 40:58
  Therefore, I'll be telling the most agreed upon origin story to
• 41:03
  try and be as true to the legend.
• 41:05
  As I can the year is 1918 in Hokkaido, Japan and a 17 year
• 41:11
  old boy by the name of Ikiki Suzuki is in search of a gift
• 41:17
  for his little sister's birthday.
• 41:19
  As he pursues the different vendors and small shops,
• 41:23
  something soon catches his attention and one of the store
• 41:27
  windows he spots a small childlike doll wearing a
• 41:32
  traditional Japanese kimono. Knowing that he had finally
• 41:35
  found something his sister will love, Akiki quickly purchases
• 41:40
  the doll and makes his way back home through the countryside.
• 41:45
  As the family celebrates their little girl's birthday, Okiku is
• 41:49
  presented with the doll, and almost immediately, as soon as
• 41:53
  her eyes meet hers, she falls in love with it.
• 41:57
  The two from this point become inseparable wherever Okiku is.
• 42:03
  Her doll is right by her side. She Combs her hair, bathes her,
• 42:08
  dresses her and treats her as if she was her little sister.
• 42:13
  That you even share meals and sleep side by side.
• 42:17
  The joy that the doll brought a kiku must have filled Akiki's
• 42:21
  heart with such happiness. But soon that happiness would
• 42:25
  change to tragedy 1 hot day as the little girl played outside
• 42:31
  with her doll. She was bitten by a mosquito.
• 42:34
  This benign insect by it, would soon manifest itself into a
• 42:38
  horrible case of malaria. Although the family did
• 42:42
  everything they could possibly do, Okiku would pass away scared
• 42:48
  and gasping for air as she clutched her special doll all
• 42:52
  the way until the moment she took her last breath,
• 42:56
  Devastated. The Suzuki's plan to have their
• 42:58
  little girl buried with the doll since she loved it so much, but
• 43:03
  unfortunately, due to either governmental or religious
• 43:06
  oversight at the time, this wasn't an option.
• 43:10
  Instead, after they had laid Akiku to rest, the doll would be
• 43:14
  placed on a small family shrine located within the living
• 43:18
  quarters of their home as a tribute of sorts.
• 43:21
  To their late daughter and their love for her.
• 43:24
  But shortly after the doll was placed on the shrine, very
• 43:28
  strange things began to happen. The Kiki, upon walking past the
• 43:33
  shrine one day, noticed that the doll's hair seemed significantly
• 43:37
  longer than what it had been when it was placed there.
• 43:41
  The hair, which was originally shoulders length on the doll
• 43:43
  itself and black, was now overgrown, with differing shades
• 43:49
  of brown hair also coming through and splitting at the
• 43:52
  ends. Finding this bizarre to say the
• 43:55
  least, he brought the discovery to his parents attention and
• 43:59
  unsure of what else to do, they trimmed the doll's hair as the
• 44:04
  days came and when the family began to have distressing dreams
• 44:08
  at night of their departed Okkiku.
• 44:10
  Sometimes she would be scared and alone in the darkness,
• 44:14
  calling out to them, only being recognized by her voice.
• 44:19
  Other times she would blame them for what happened.
• 44:22
  To her. Each member of the family, at
• 44:24
  differing times, had these dreams, and they would soon lead
• 44:28
  all of them to believe that Akiku's soul wasn't peacefully
• 44:32
  resting. These disturbing dreams soon
• 44:35
  became all the stranger when the doll, which they began to refer
• 44:39
  to as Akiku and their daughter's honor, would appear by their
• 44:44
  bedsides following these nightmares.
• 44:48
  One such incident involved the father of the family waking up
• 44:52
  in a cold sweat only to be met face to face with a blank and
• 44:58
  lifeless stare of the doll, unsure of what was taking place,
• 45:03
  the Suzuki's turn to their faith.
• 45:06
  After contacting a local Buddhist priest and having a
• 45:09
  cleansing ritual be performed on their home and the doll, the
• 45:14
  activity seemed to grow and become stronger.
• 45:18
  Accompanying their ever frequent nightmares and random movements
• 45:22
  of the doll, the chilling events grew into full blown spiritual
• 45:26
  manifestations. During their waking life.
• 45:29
  They soon began to hear banging noises all throughout the house
• 45:34
  and the whispers of a little girl.
• 45:37
  Strange disembodied voices varying from high pitched like
• 45:41
  those of a child to the low groans of something
• 45:45
  unexplainable. Began to be heard, their lights
• 45:49
  began to flicker on and off, and the paranormal activity seemed
• 45:53
  to happen more frequently as the calendar ticked closer to the
• 45:58
  birth and death dates of Akiku. These strange and terrifying
• 46:04
  happenings would continue over the course of the next 20 years,
• 46:08
  with multiple religious priests and shamans being contacted and
• 46:13
  all coming to the same conclusion.
• 46:15
  That after the cleansings failed time and time again, that the
• 46:19
  restless spirit of a Kiku now inhabited the doll she once
• 46:23
  loved so much. Finally needing a major change
• 46:28
  and unable to deal with the ever intensifying spiritual presence
• 46:32
  that seemed to haunt their home, the Suzuki's relocated to a
• 46:36
  different district. Believing the doll to be the
• 46:39
  source of their various ailments and emotional torture that they
• 46:43
  had endured over the last two decades, they had no desire to
• 46:47
  take it with them. The family had reached the
• 46:50
  conclusion that if their daughter's soul wasn't at peace,
• 46:53
  what could perhaps be helping to fuel Ukiku's power or magic was
• 46:58
  the close proximity of her grave to their home, where the doll
• 47:02
  resided. So in order to distance the doll
• 47:05
  from the grave. The family approached the
• 47:07
  Meninge Buddhist Temple in Hokkaido and over the years the
• 47:12
  dolls reputation for being haunted had spread throughout
• 47:15
  the community and indeed the majority of the country.
• 47:19
  This was more than likely due to the various interactions between
• 47:23
  the spiritual community and the Suzuki family finding the doll
• 47:27
  to be mesmerizing and possibly a unique opportunity to commute
• 47:32
  and interact with the dead if the stories were true.
• 47:36
  The leaders and priests of the Menaji Temple agreed to home
• 47:40
  Okiku permanently. As with many legends, we find
• 47:44
  lots of details to be exaggerated over time, and
• 47:47
  perhaps some of the details to not be true at all.
• 47:51
  And this is what the. Priests were originally.
• 47:52
  Thinking that perhaps due to grief, the family was dealing
• 47:57
  with other spiritual ailments, perhaps unrelated to the doll or
• 48:01
  causing the doll to be a vessel of swords.
• 48:05
  For restless spirits, however, as the years came, and when, as
• 48:09
  Akiku now called the temple her home, they began to slowly but
• 48:14
  surely experienced the same strangeness the Suzuki's had for
• 48:19
  all of those years. Akiku's hair continued to grow,
• 48:23
  and this baffled the priests. They would eventually have the
• 48:26
  hair trimmed and tested, and the hair.
• 48:29
  Was said to belong to a little girl.
• 48:33
  They found that the entity seemed to be appeased when her
• 48:35
  hair was trimmed and combed, and this led to less activity for a
• 48:40
  time. But the same activity, the
• 48:43
  knocking, banging, and disembodied voices, would soon
• 48:48
  plague the temple as well. No, Kiku's power only seemed to
• 48:53
  grow. Any priest who seemed skeptical
• 48:56
  of the doll or attempted to cleanse it themselves soon had
• 49:00
  their dreams haunted as well. Turning their sleep into
• 49:03
  restless fits, their homes and rooms soon also began to
• 49:08
  manifest the very same activity that the temple was now
• 49:12
  exhibiting. With no remedy seeming to work,
• 49:16
  the leaders turn to appeasement instead, hoping that gestures of
• 49:20
  goodwill would keep the entity at Bay as years turn to decades
• 49:25
  and as we've come into the 21st century.
• 49:28
  The priests of multiple generations now have overseen
• 49:32
  and cared for the doll known as a kiku, and those some of the
• 49:36
  more violent activity has faded. The general consensus is that
• 49:41
  she is now just as powerful as she was, or is perhaps more
• 49:44
  powerful as she's continued to age.
• 49:48
  It seems like as the more her fame and notoriety grows, the
• 49:52
  more visitors she has, the stronger she becomes.
• 49:57
  She continues to invade the dreams of those who come to
• 50:00
  visit her and her hair is growing faster and more afraid,
• 50:05
  she said, to drive tourists mad who doubt her, with many people
• 50:09
  even reporting that besides seeing her strange hair and
• 50:13
  feeling a malevolent presence when visiting.
• 50:16
  Her. They've also had her stock and
• 50:18
  appear in their dreams, some more disturbing, and recent
• 50:22
  reports have even suggested that her mouth is slowly opening.
• 50:27
  And that if you dare to appear inside of it, you may just catch
• 50:30
  a glimpse of baby like teeth sprouting from her porcelain
• 50:34
  gums, as if whoever or whatever she is is slowly turning to
• 50:41
  flesh and bone. The paranormal displays of her
• 50:45
  power continue to occur as well. Her permanent home, located
• 50:49
  within the managing temple is her own private shrine where she
• 50:53
  sits in a small wooden box on display.
• 50:57
  It is here that she watches and waits for anyone and everyone
• 51:02
  who dares to play with fire and invoke the power of the entity
• 51:07
  known as Okiku. But what are your thoughts?
• 51:12
  Was Akiku the girl trapped inside of the doll?
• 51:15
  In my opinion, although her spirit would be much older now,
• 51:19
  at the time of her death she was either close to or was three
• 51:23
  years. Old.
• 51:24
  And no person at that age is capable of true malice, to the
• 51:28
  point to where she would become aware enough to begin to blame
• 51:32
  her parents and then torment them for decades to come as
• 51:36
  children, our parents, or our family, our entire world.
• 51:41
  So I find it incredibly difficult to think that these
• 51:44
  bizarre happenings were the result of her soul being
• 51:47
  restless and imbuing the doll. What I find more likely and all
• 51:52
  the more interesting, really. Is the thought of invocation or
• 51:56
  the imbuing of the doll like a conduit or a vessel of sorts?
• 52:02
  Akiku the girl was, as they said, inseparable from the
• 52:05
  stall. She fed it, bathed it, took naps
• 52:09
  with it, and everything else a small child would do with that
• 52:13
  wonderful imagination that they have.
• 52:15
  But could all of this dedication and focus, accompanied with the
• 52:19
  tragedy that took place, allow for a portal to open?
• 52:23
  For an entity, whether non human or restless human spirit, to
• 52:28
  inhabit the doll, and by non human I mean a demon, This would
• 52:34
  make sense to me. Something that enjoys and grows
• 52:37
  more powerful off of pain and misfortune or the emotional
• 52:41
  torment of others as it causes the pain it feeds off of it and
• 52:46
  grows ever stronger. This would not only explain the
• 52:49
  malevolent manifestations of whatever entity is present.
• 52:53
  But would also explain the still present force and the alleged
• 52:57
  ever growing power of it. And depending on the entity
• 53:00
  strength, it could also explain why the cleansings thus far have
• 53:05
  failed. However, if you find yourself
• 53:08
  taking a trip to Japan anytime soon or you happen to call Japan
• 53:12
  home if you find yourself in Hokkaido, you may want to steer
• 53:17
  clear of the menaging temple. Because if you don't.
• 53:21
  The entity that inhabits the doll, known as a Kiku, may just
• 53:25
  use you as its next feeding source, where it'll begin to
• 53:29
  plague your dreams, making you twist and turn.
• 53:34
  Sweat and fear as it grows ever stronger and attempts to cross
• 53:40
  from its world into ours, making our plaintiff existence it's
• 53:47
  permanent residence. After a flood destroys their
• 53:51
  home, a family is forced to relocate to a new home which
• 53:56
  they believe is going to be a fresh start for them.
• 53:59
  However, it turns out to be a fresh new hell instead.
• 54:04
  From demonic attacks, nightmares, visuals, and
• 54:08
  terrifying manifestations, this is 1 haunting story you won't
• 54:13
  want to miss. This is the untold story of the
• 54:17
  smirl haunting. In Pennsylvania and the
• 54:20
  monstrous creature that stocked its walls, the timeline of
• 54:29
  events is rough at best, but I've done my best to make the
• 54:33
  most coherent retelling of the story, so please keep that in
• 54:38
  mind. Raging floods as a result of
• 54:42
  Hurricane Agnes have destroyed the homes of many families.
• 54:46
  And one such family was the SMURLS.
• 54:50
  The Smurl family consisted of Janet and Jack Smurl and their
• 54:55
  four young children, Heather, Shannon, Karen, and Don.
• 55:00
  With their home destroyed in the Wilkes Barre, PA area.
• 55:05
  Feeling as if they had been uprooted and tossed about like
• 55:08
  the rushing waters that took their house, the SMURLS decide
• 55:13
  to temporarily relocate to West Pittson.
• 55:17
  Where Jack's parents currently lived, after explaining the
• 55:21
  situation and staying with the couple for a short time, they
• 55:25
  were surprised and ultimately blessed when Jack's parents
• 55:29
  proposed an idea to them. They had found an old duplex, a
• 55:33
  bit of a fixer upper, also in West Pittson.
• 55:37
  The two of them could live on one side and Jack, Janet and the
• 55:41
  kids on the other. That way they could look out for
• 55:44
  one another. And of course, spend more time
• 55:47
  together. Not in a position to or wanting
• 55:50
  to say no, Jack and Janet humbly accepted their offer, but all
• 55:55
  too soon they would be confronted with the question,
• 55:59
  was this blessing truly a curse? With Jack's parents paying for
• 56:04
  them all to move into the new house, they soon find themselves
• 56:08
  rehomed and living in the newly purchased duplex.
• 56:12
  Located on Chase St. there in West Pittston.
• 56:16
  Although the home would need some work, the neighborhood
• 56:19
  seemed friendly and inviting. A good place to raise a family,
• 56:24
  The family collectively puts their efforts into repainting,
• 56:28
  retooling and other repairs, but in no time the slightly rundown
• 56:33
  home was feeling fresh, vibrant and modern, making the Smurls
• 56:38
  feel ever more at home. And hopeful for the future.
• 56:43
  However, this would not last forever, for it seemed that each
• 56:47
  time they banged a hammer, each time they drove a nail into a
• 56:51
  wall, and with every drop of paint, they woke something up
• 56:56
  within the house itself, something that perhaps had been
• 57:00
  slumbering there for quite some time.
• 57:03
  During this time, small episodes of strangeness began to
• 57:07
  manifest. Seeming rather benign at first,
• 57:12
  tools began to disappear, only to reappear hours later in
• 57:17
  different spots. Old stains that covered the
• 57:20
  walls began to seep through the fresh coats of pain, and several
• 57:25
  appliances in their kitchen had mysteriously caught fire even
• 57:30
  though they were unplugged. Along with these oddities, the
• 57:34
  family would also begin to smell awful odors that overwhelmed the
• 57:38
  entire house like an omnipresent floating cloud of rotting meat
• 57:44
  that hung over them, only to disperse mere moments later
• 57:48
  after being detected. But despite these weird events,
• 57:53
  the family didn't really think much of it.
• 57:55
  They were just thankful to have a roof over their heads.
• 57:58
  Jack and Janet continue to rebuild their lives.
• 58:02
  Jack fortunately had since gotten a better job than the one
• 58:06
  he had had previously and was promoted.
• 58:09
  During this time he was also able to coach his daughter's
• 58:12
  softball team. The children had re acclimated
• 58:15
  to a new school and we're getting good grades.
• 58:19
  And Jana had become pregnant with baby #5 and also helped
• 58:23
  organize an anti drunk driving group at the local high school.
• 58:27
  And Jack's parents were doing great as well.
• 58:31
  That all of this positivity, unfortunately, would not last.
• 58:36
  By 1974, things began to change for the smirls.
• 58:41
  It began when Mary Smirl, Jack's mother, suffered a heart attack.
• 58:46
  This led to the entire family struggling to make ends meet,
• 58:50
  and whether it was a result of the renovations or something
• 58:54
  else, something paranormal had began to manifest and make
• 58:59
  itself known. It began when Janet began to
• 59:02
  hear the voice of her motherinlaw.
• 59:05
  Who? Shortly after, her heart attack
• 59:07
  was now at home and recovering, doing what she could to help
• 59:11
  her. She would hear her name being
• 59:13
  called out from Mary and would rush to her aid to help her with
• 59:17
  anything and everything that she could possibly need.
• 59:20
  But the strange thing was, Mary at times would either be
• 59:24
  unconscious, sleeping, or wouldn't have had called for her
• 59:28
  at all. Attributing this bizarre
• 59:30
  phenomena distress at first, she writes it off.
• 59:34
  However, Mary soon starts experiencing her own
• 59:38
  strangeness. She too, as if the words had
• 59:42
  come from Janet's mouth herself, would hear her name being
• 59:45
  called. Only one confronted, Janet would
• 59:48
  have no idea what she was talking about.
• 59:51
  But that wasn't all, of course, the stains that had previously
• 59:56
  been painted over and were thought to be covered.
• 59:59
  Began to seep through yet again, and new stains began to appear
• 1:00:04
  as well, with several appearing on the hardwood floors of the
• 1:00:08
  home. As the days progressed, the
• 1:00:11
  oldest small child soon began to experience the presence as well.
• 1:00:16
  She would often be woken up in the dead of night, frozen with
• 1:00:19
  fear and unable to move. She would see translucent
• 1:00:24
  figures standing above her or at the edge of her bed, staring.
• 1:00:29
  And watching her. And although it wasn't exclusive
• 1:00:33
  to the midnight hour, the activity seemed to pick up at
• 1:00:36
  night. Often when Jack was at work or
• 1:00:40
  gone, Janet began to have violent and sickening encounters
• 1:00:44
  with the being that she couldn't see.
• 1:00:47
  She began to be molested by an unseen force.
• 1:00:52
  These interactions left her hysterical, feeling violated and
• 1:00:57
  unclean. Trying to come to terms with
• 1:01:00
  what was happening to them, the family's luck continued to
• 1:01:04
  worsen. Additional appliances, including
• 1:01:08
  a TV set, went up in flames, causing smoke and fire damage to
• 1:01:13
  the home on several occasions. And then, like the TV, the other
• 1:01:18
  appliances were not plugged in in order for the family to save
• 1:01:22
  money, which makes it all the more mysterious on top of this.
• 1:01:28
  Several water pipes, which are fairly new after the family had
• 1:01:31
  initially renovated the home, began to leak, not only causing
• 1:01:36
  water damage to the house, but adding to their financial.
• 1:01:40
  Woes as well. The string of bad luck will
• 1:01:43
  continue for the SMURLS, and by 1977 the activity in the home
• 1:01:49
  became much more aggressive. The family's radio began to turn
• 1:01:54
  itself on and. Off.
• 1:01:56
  Typically a strange hours. And almost always, when the
• 1:01:59
  family was trying to sleep, the sinks in their bathrooms began
• 1:02:04
  to turn themselves on, pouring what little money they had left
• 1:02:09
  literally down the drain, and their toilets began to flush by
• 1:02:13
  themselves. Along with this activity, the
• 1:02:16
  sounds of footsteps began to be heard all throughout the house,
• 1:02:20
  and even on the insides of the walls, drawers began to open and
• 1:02:26
  close by themselves. And coupled with these
• 1:02:29
  happenings was again the stench of rotting mean.
• 1:02:33
  But the family would begin to describe as the dead smell,
• 1:02:38
  Except instead of dissipating almost as soon as it was
• 1:02:41
  detected before or in one particular area of the house,
• 1:02:46
  the smell would permeate all throughout the house and would
• 1:02:50
  linger for minutes or sometimes even hours up until this point,
• 1:02:55
  besides seeing things being moved.
• 1:02:58
  Dealing with the stains, pipes and appliances, Jack hadn't been
• 1:03:03
  targeted, so to speak, by whatever paranormal force that
• 1:03:07
  was now fully awake within the Smurl residence.
• 1:03:11
  But one night, when he was trying to get some sleep after a
• 1:03:14
  long day's work, his side of the sheets were pulled from his body
• 1:03:20
  and the sensation of dozens of hands touching and grabbing him.
• 1:03:26
  Ensured that not only was he not going to get the rest that night
• 1:03:30
  due to sheer terror, but that perhaps his wife had been
• 1:03:34
  telling the truth. Janet, shortly after moving into
• 1:03:37
  the house had become pregnant and this time had given birth to
• 1:03:42
  two baby girls, expanding the Smurl family to six children
• 1:03:47
  shortly after the twins were brought home.
• 1:03:50
  It seemed like whatever presence that have been woken up was
• 1:03:53
  making itself known. It became more aggressive, more
• 1:03:57
  vindictive, as if it was jealous or hated the living.
• 1:04:02
  One morning, while the majority of the children were at school
• 1:04:06
  and napping and the rest of the adults were out, Janet was
• 1:04:10
  headed to the kitchen to pour herself a freshly brewed cup of
• 1:04:14
  coffee. As she turned around the corner,
• 1:04:18
  her blood ran cold, standing in the middle of the kitchen.
• 1:04:22
  With a stain seeming to materialize directly underneath
• 1:04:26
  it. It was a translucent figure with
• 1:04:30
  hollow eyes frozen in place. Upon seeing it was if she
• 1:04:34
  blinked, whatever this creature was was gone.
• 1:04:39
  Was this what was responsible for the multitude of paranormal
• 1:04:42
  happenings within their house? As time progressed, Janet again
• 1:04:48
  would continue to hear her name being called out.
• 1:04:51
  No one else was there over and over and over again, strangely
• 1:04:59
  as it was before. In the beginning, the voices
• 1:05:02
  would often sound like her motherinlaw, Mary, and even
• 1:05:06
  after double or triple checking sometimes to make sure she
• 1:05:10
  wasn't losing her mind, Mary would be nowhere to be found.
• 1:05:14
  Janet truly was alone, other strange things that were heard
• 1:05:19
  during this time. Would be heard from the other
• 1:05:21
  side of the duplex. Couples do argue, and some
• 1:05:26
  fight. That just tends to happen to
• 1:05:28
  most, unfortunately. But these fights were something
• 1:05:32
  else. Jack's parents began to hear
• 1:05:35
  yelling and screaming, sometimes even items breaking.
• 1:05:40
  Coming from the other side of the duplex where Jack and Janet
• 1:05:44
  lived, these fights became so violent.
• 1:05:47
  That not only did they think their marriage was collapsing,
• 1:05:50
  but they began to become concerned for Janet and the
• 1:05:53
  children's safety. One night, Jack's father
• 1:05:57
  couldn't take it anymore. He walked from their front door
• 1:06:01
  to the other side, and with the fight still raging, he threw the
• 1:06:05
  door open, only to be greeted with silence.
• 1:06:11
  The entire family was asleep. Not knowing what to make of this
• 1:06:17
  discovery, he simply left bewildered.
• 1:06:22
  But the supposed audio of the fights would continue shortly
• 1:06:27
  after the bizarre discovery. Mary would experience something
• 1:06:31
  that almost gave her another heart attack.
• 1:06:35
  One evening, while her husband was still at work and she was
• 1:06:38
  alone on their side of the duplex, She began to hear her
• 1:06:42
  name being whispered. And it sounded like Janet, but
• 1:06:46
  it was right within earshot, or several feet of where she had
• 1:06:50
  been weirded out, as most of us would be.
• 1:06:54
  She began to make her way towards the voice that was
• 1:06:56
  calling out to her, and that's when she saw it.
• 1:07:01
  Standing in her living room with a stain seeping underneath its
• 1:07:05
  feet was the same translucent being that Janet had claimed she
• 1:07:10
  had seen just a short while ago. And terrifyingly, its mouth was
• 1:07:16
  mimicking Janet's voice and calling out her name, Frozen and
• 1:07:22
  terror at first. With her heart.
• 1:07:24
  Racing, Mary ran to the door, exited, and immediately went
• 1:07:30
  into Jack and Janet's door, absolutely petrified with fear.
• 1:07:35
  The talks that followed. This event in particular is what
• 1:07:38
  led to most of the individual experiences being laid out in
• 1:07:41
  the open. For everyone to know, they would
• 1:07:45
  all come to the realization that whatever force that was in their
• 1:07:48
  house was not friendly. Shannon Smurl, who was only
• 1:07:53
  seven years old during this time, would be the next target.
• 1:07:58
  One day, as she casually walked through the kitchen and into the
• 1:08:02
  dining room, a large glass light fixture fell and crashed into
• 1:08:07
  her, cutting her and raising the alarm bells for the entire
• 1:08:11
  house. Again, it seemed like the
• 1:08:14
  paranormal being or force hated life and now was possibly trying
• 1:08:20
  to end it if the opportunity presented itself.
• 1:08:25
  Scared but strapped for cash, they were all seemingly stuck in
• 1:08:29
  what was supposed to be their fresh start, but instead at this
• 1:08:33
  point was becoming their fresh. Hell.
• 1:08:36
  Shannon will continue to experience strangeness of her
• 1:08:39
  own as well. And her diary.
• 1:08:42
  And later she would recount that often times she would wake up
• 1:08:46
  and find herself floating above her bed, literally levitating
• 1:08:51
  several feet above her bed. Some nights while floating, she
• 1:08:56
  would suddenly be thrown across the room and into a wall, so
• 1:09:01
  much force as she thought she would be crushed.
• 1:09:05
  The climax of these attacks on Shannon happened one night.
• 1:09:09
  When she woke up to find herself floating once again, but instead
• 1:09:14
  of being led back down or smacked into a nearby wall, her
• 1:09:18
  door was flung open and she was thrown out of her room and down
• 1:09:24
  the stairs. Her parents heard this happen
• 1:09:27
  and rushed towards the screams of their little girl to find her
• 1:09:31
  absolutely hysterical and in pain.
• 1:09:34
  Fortunately, however, she would be okay physically.
• 1:09:39
  After this event, in particular, another unfortunate sold out be
• 1:09:43
  targeted in the small duplex was the family's German shepherd,
• 1:09:47
  Simon. Simon would be found floating in
• 1:09:50
  the air, confused and concerned, and this new development and
• 1:09:55
  activity was not just exclusive to Shannon or their beloved dog.
• 1:10:01
  Alongside the intensified attacks on Janet, she too would
• 1:10:05
  begin finding herself woken up in the middle of the night.
• 1:10:09
  Floating in the air and sometimes horrifically without
• 1:10:14
  control of her body, she would then also be assaulted.
• 1:10:19
  However, Jack wasn't always gone at this time.
• 1:10:22
  Frequently at this point he would be home and sleeping
• 1:10:25
  beside her, but could never seem to wake up as if he was being
• 1:10:29
  kept asleep or in a state of paralysis.
• 1:10:33
  Why the events took place? Coupled along these intense and
• 1:10:37
  abhorrent manifestations came activity that was plain creepy.
• 1:10:43
  Not a day would go by without the family hearing scratching
• 1:10:46
  noises coming from within the. Walls or deep?
• 1:10:51
  Drawn out breaths coming from behind them, feeling the exhale
• 1:10:55
  upon their necks, making the hairs on their entire body stand
• 1:11:00
  on end. Jacket times after a hard day's
• 1:11:03
  work. Would like to unwind and
• 1:11:05
  decompress by watching some TV in the living room.
• 1:11:09
  On occasion he would fall asleep to whatever was on before
• 1:11:13
  eventually waking back up and making his way to bed.
• 1:11:18
  However, this night he found himself awake and coherent but
• 1:11:23
  unable to move, as if he was paralyzed or stuck in some kind
• 1:11:29
  of a glue trap like an insect. Unable to break free, he glanced
• 1:11:35
  around the room, trying to discover the source of his
• 1:11:38
  distress. It was here that he was met face
• 1:11:42
  to face with this being this demon that seemed to be plugging
• 1:11:47
  their lives. The creature grabbed him from
• 1:11:50
  the back and slammed him onto the floor, began repeatedly
• 1:11:55
  bashing his head into the hardwood below before
• 1:11:59
  disappearing. After.
• 1:12:01
  This. Jack didn't watch TV to unwind
• 1:12:04
  anymore. As a matter of fact, no one
• 1:12:08
  could unwind. They were petrified at whatever
• 1:12:11
  was taking place in the house, unable to afford to move between
• 1:12:16
  all the adults and seemingly stuck between a rock and a hard
• 1:12:20
  place. Scared and unable to figure out
• 1:12:23
  what to do, they began to seek help wherever they thought they
• 1:12:27
  could find it. It was now winter.
• 1:12:30
  And the family, besides their daily duties, spent most of
• 1:12:34
  their time indoors. While watching TV1 Afternoon,
• 1:12:39
  they saw an interview with Ed and Lorraine Warren, world
• 1:12:42
  renowned paranormal experts and demonologists.
• 1:12:46
  Not being particularly religious and unsure of where to turn,
• 1:12:51
  they decided to reach out to the couple and were surprised when
• 1:12:55
  they made contact after speaking with them for some time.
• 1:12:59
  The Warrens agreed to come to their house to meet in person
• 1:13:02
  with the SMURLS and to investigate, and within a week
• 1:13:06
  that's exactly what they did. After an initial meeting with
• 1:13:10
  the family, hearing their testimonies in person and after
• 1:13:14
  exploring the home, the Warrens decided seems genuine and it's
• 1:13:19
  worth investigating, and they begin their usual process of
• 1:13:23
  bringing in their team for an extended period of time to
• 1:13:27
  document. And Mull over potential
• 1:13:30
  solutions for the family. After several months of the
• 1:13:33
  documenting team, living with the family and experiencing
• 1:13:37
  strange activity themselves, such as furniture stacking on
• 1:13:41
  top of itself, along with several other previously
• 1:13:45
  mentioned happenings such as the stains and attacks on individual
• 1:13:50
  members of the home, the rain finally comes to the conclusion
• 1:13:54
  after having a vision within the house.
• 1:13:57
  That they were dealing with a total of 4 entities.
• 1:14:01
  One was that of an old woman who she believed was not a threat to
• 1:14:04
  the family but was simply being held against her will within the
• 1:14:08
  home. One was a younger woman who was
• 1:14:11
  angry and resentful and could be violent, and the other was a man
• 1:14:16
  who took the life of his wife and his lover and had been
• 1:14:20
  hanged in the same spot 100 years earlier by a vengeful
• 1:14:25
  crowd. The final entity was that of a
• 1:14:28
  demon. And this demon not only was
• 1:14:31
  strong and keeping the other three spirits under its heel of
• 1:14:35
  control, but would use them to strengthen itself and wreak
• 1:14:39
  havoc upon the family, to sow discord, anxiety and fear, all
• 1:14:46
  things to which it could feed on and continue to grow stronger
• 1:14:51
  after reaching this conclusion and having gathered sufficient
• 1:14:55
  information. The warrant spoke to Father
• 1:14:58
  McKenna, who was a Vatican sanctioned exorcist and had
• 1:15:02
  worked with them over 50 times on separate cases in the past,
• 1:15:07
  so he was no stranger to the demonic.
• 1:15:11
  But after his. Arrival and attempted exorcism.
• 1:15:14
  The activity only increased in aggression and hostility, and
• 1:15:20
  for whatever reason, it was not tied to the home anymore.
• 1:15:24
  But rather the family members themselves.
• 1:15:27
  Jack began to experience horrific visions of the creature
• 1:15:31
  at work, as did his father. And alongside the continued
• 1:15:36
  paranormal activity taking place at their home, their daughter
• 1:15:40
  Karen fell seriously ill with a fever that the doctors couldn't
• 1:15:44
  diagnose at the time and almost died.
• 1:15:48
  Several of the other girls were also visited by the sickening
• 1:15:52
  presence at night. As Janet also was and continued
• 1:15:57
  to be, the demon also began to physically attack the family
• 1:16:01
  more often, causing stinging, scratches and cuts on their
• 1:16:05
  bodies at random times. As well as.
• 1:16:08
  Deep and bruising bite marks. Still trying to help the family
• 1:16:13
  rid themselves of this creature, and fearing for the family's
• 1:16:17
  continued torment, the Warrens convinced the Smurls to allow a
• 1:16:21
  second exorcism to take place. And McKenna again would visit
• 1:16:25
  and conduct a second exorcism months later in the early
• 1:16:29
  spring. During this exorcism ritual, EV
• 1:16:33
  P's were recorded, which when played back after the fact,
• 1:16:38
  would reveal multiple entities laughing at and berating them
• 1:16:42
  for their efforts. Ed Warren would also be choked
• 1:16:46
  during this visit and would be incapacitated for multiple days
• 1:16:50
  after, unfortunately. The second exorcism also failed,
• 1:16:56
  leading to even more violent manifestations of evil trying to
• 1:17:01
  get away from it all for even just a few days.
• 1:17:04
  The family went on a camping trip to the Pocono mountains,
• 1:17:08
  but the demon would follow them there as well, tormenting them
• 1:17:12
  wherever they went, allowing for no rest, no decompression, and
• 1:17:18
  no. Peace.
• 1:17:20
  Upon returning to their home following this trip and getting
• 1:17:23
  even more desperate, they decided to reach out to a local
• 1:17:27
  TV show called People Are Talking to see if anyone could
• 1:17:31
  possibly help them. They did however remain
• 1:17:34
  anonymous during their interview and this call for help.
• 1:17:37
  However, when unanswered but the demons seemed to retaliate
• 1:17:42
  against them for it, Janet would once again be hurled against a
• 1:17:46
  wall. And Jack would experience
• 1:17:48
  something truly terrifying and new as he woke up in the early
• 1:17:53
  morning to get ready for work. Before the sun had come up, a
• 1:17:58
  light rain tapped the glass of the windows outside as he
• 1:18:02
  dressed himself and began to gather his things for his work
• 1:18:05
  day departure, he came down the stairs and was greeted by a
• 1:18:10
  disgusting and horrid creature. Standing in front of the door
• 1:18:15
  was a monstrous being. Whose head almost touched the
• 1:18:18
  ceiling. It resembled a horrible
• 1:18:21
  amalgamation of a man and a pig standing upright on 2 legs is
• 1:18:28
  screeched and rushed towards him.
• 1:18:31
  But as he fell backwards onto the stairs, hurting his back,
• 1:18:35
  the creature stood over him face to face, snarling before it
• 1:18:41
  disappeared. This manifestation disturbed and
• 1:18:45
  rattled Jack to his core. The same morning shortly after
• 1:18:49
  Jack had left for work because although terrified, he still had
• 1:18:53
  to provide for his family if they ever wanted to have a
• 1:18:56
  chance of escaping this hellscape of a home.
• 1:18:59
  Janet was woken up a short while later by a hand, reaching up
• 1:19:03
  through her mattress and grabbing the back of her neck
• 1:19:08
  and pulling her towards it and choking her.
• 1:19:11
  After these events, horrific snarling noises like that of a
• 1:19:15
  pig. Could be heard coming from
• 1:19:18
  inside the walls. The time was now August of 1986,
• 1:19:24
  and the Smurls felt that the risk of ridicule did not
• 1:19:27
  outweigh the need for their story to reach a wider audience,
• 1:19:31
  so that somehow, somewhere someone could possibly help them
• 1:19:36
  be freed from this torment. It would soon be granted an
• 1:19:39
  interview with the Wilkes Barre Sunday newspaper, but instead of
• 1:19:43
  someone reading. And immediately coming to their
• 1:19:46
  aid, their home quickly became a tourist attraction.
• 1:19:50
  Instead, the press, skeptics and curious onlookers alike began to
• 1:19:56
  visit the house and camp outside of it at all hours of the day
• 1:20:00
  and night, with some particularly weird people even
• 1:20:04
  coming up and staring into the home's windows themselves, some
• 1:20:09
  of their neighbors who had seen and heard strange things coming
• 1:20:12
  from the small residence. Began to turn on them.
• 1:20:16
  They believe that the family was concocting some kind of a story
• 1:20:20
  to try and make money. Eventually, however, despite the
• 1:20:23
  torment inside and outside of the home, now that they were
• 1:20:27
  experiencing, the SMURLS would be contacted by a medium by the
• 1:20:31
  name of Mary Alice Renkman, who offered to meet with them.
• 1:20:35
  Upon meeting the family and walking through the home, it was
• 1:20:39
  also Mary's conviction that there were four entities within
• 1:20:42
  the house. Three human spirits and one who
• 1:20:47
  had never been human, thus corroborating the Warren's
• 1:20:50
  beliefs about the situation as well.
• 1:20:52
  She would, however, take things a bit further.
• 1:20:55
  She identified the old woman by the name of Abigail, the
• 1:20:59
  murderous man as Patrick, and the violent and illtempered
• 1:21:03
  spirit as Patrick's wife. And the 4th entity of course
• 1:21:09
  could not be identified by name, but was indeed a very powerful
• 1:21:13
  demon. The press coverage, despite the
• 1:21:15
  ridicule and the positive acquaintance of Mary, also had
• 1:21:19
  pushed the Scranton Catholic Diocese into action as well.
• 1:21:23
  They offered to take over the investigation and the meantime
• 1:21:27
  the Warrens had not given up on the family, but rather had
• 1:21:31
  reached out to several more priests and had arranged for a
• 1:21:34
  Mass exorcism to be conducted, with four priests taking part as
• 1:21:39
  well as multiple prayer groups. Alongside this, now Bishop
• 1:21:44
  McKenna came in for a third and final time and conducted an
• 1:21:48
  exorcism on the House for the family.
• 1:21:51
  And fortunately the ritual, at least for a time, seemed to work
• 1:21:57
  because following it there were no disturbances for about 3
• 1:22:01
  months. But as winter set in that year,
• 1:22:05
  just before Christmas of 1986, Jack would again see the
• 1:22:10
  creature that had tormented him. For all of those years.
• 1:22:14
  This time, however, it beckoned him to allow it to take over,
• 1:22:19
  but clutching a rosary in his pocket that had been gifted to
• 1:22:22
  him by the church, he prayed as hard as he could, and thankfully
• 1:22:27
  this time the demon vanished, never to be seen again.
• 1:22:33
  However, the putrid smells and violent manifestations would
• 1:22:36
  return and continue day in and day out.
• 1:22:41
  Frustrated, hopeless and exhausted, the Smurls by this
• 1:22:47
  point had finally saved enough to be able to leave this dreaded
• 1:22:51
  duplex on Chase St. And decided they needed the
• 1:22:54
  closest. Thing to a fresh start as they
• 1:22:56
  could get. So when they finally did move,
• 1:23:00
  they moved to a completely new town, one where the ridicule
• 1:23:04
  would not find them, but like the terrible pattern shown
• 1:23:08
  before. The demon did not seem to be
• 1:23:11
  tied to the property, but rather the family.
• 1:23:15
  The activity started back up almost as soon as they had moved
• 1:23:19
  in and laid their heads to rest in their new home.
• 1:23:23
  It would take some time, but in 1988 the church finally
• 1:23:27
  sanctioned 1/4 exorcism, but this time at their new
• 1:23:31
  residence, and this finally seems to have given the family
• 1:23:35
  peace. A few things I would like to
• 1:23:38
  mention, however, are these. From my own personal experience
• 1:23:43
  and many other stories I've researched, it seems like
• 1:23:46
  renovations, particularly on older homes, can wake up dormant
• 1:23:50
  spirits or hauntings. Perhaps this is what happened to
• 1:23:54
  the SMURLS. It's hard to tell if the
• 1:23:56
  assaults were one or multiple demonic entities, but if they
• 1:24:00
  did truly exist, how did they get in the home to begin with?
• 1:24:05
  And my guess? Is that the collection of
• 1:24:07
  negative energy attracts them like moths to a flame.
• 1:24:11
  Perhaps they enjoy or feed off of human suffering.
• 1:24:15
  This would only make sense to me, considering that they hate
• 1:24:17
  humans, refuse to bow to them in the beginning.
• 1:24:21
  Perhaps once they're embedded in one's life, they continue to sow
• 1:24:24
  said suffering to exploit and grow stronger, ultimately trying
• 1:24:29
  to take the human's life and their soul back with them to
• 1:24:33
  hell. I would also like to mention
• 1:24:36
  that scratching on a person and inside the walls, as well as
• 1:24:40
  disembodied breathing are all signs of demonic infestation And
• 1:24:45
  for one reason or another, having actually experienced this
• 1:24:49
  personally, seeing the manifestation of a pig like
• 1:24:52
  demon or a creature, as well as hearing pigs snarling coming
• 1:24:56
  from within the walls is considered to be a serious or
• 1:25:00
  incredibly strong sign. Of a very strong demonic
• 1:25:04
  infestation as far as the initial activity, the seeping
• 1:25:08
  through of the stains, the sinks turning on, toilets flushing on
• 1:25:13
  their own and leaky pipes. Those initially could be written
• 1:25:17
  off as poor skill when the work was initially done, but it
• 1:25:20
  seemed like with this story, all of these things were working
• 1:25:23
  perfectly fine for months before they all of a sudden, almost at
• 1:25:27
  the same time, began to go wrong.
• 1:25:30
  While costing the family money that they didn't have and money
• 1:25:34
  at the time seemed to be their main issue as well as the
• 1:25:37
  paranormal. So perhaps the demon knew and
• 1:25:40
  exploited this to add to the misery it was feeding on.
• 1:25:44
  But truly at the end of the day the conclusion is yours to make.
• 1:25:48
  Was the small haunting legitimate or just another tale
• 1:25:52
  concocted for money or inside the broken minds of individuals
• 1:25:57
  who claim to have experienced it?
• 1:25:59
  Let me know down in the comments below.
• 1:26:02
  They would eventually release a book about all they had
• 1:26:04
  experienced called The Haunted in 1988, but financials, or how
• 1:26:09
  successful it was, was never released, at least not from what
• 1:26:13
  I could find. But what I do know is this.
• 1:26:16
  It's extremely important to examine a situation from all
• 1:26:20
  angles just before diving into it.
• 1:26:23
  Although a place might seem like a fresh new start, it could
• 1:26:26
  indeed be your fresh new hell. Those renovations that you think
• 1:26:31
  are going to improve your quality of life could awaken
• 1:26:34
  something that has been watching and waiting for a new host to
• 1:26:39
  attach itself to and feed upon until it can wear it down, rot,
• 1:26:45
  and eventually drag it back. To the depths.
• 1:26:48
  From where it came from when you think of the paranormal realm?
• 1:26:54
  What is the first thing that comes to your mind?
• 1:26:57
  Is it a haunted place? A person who's being tormented
• 1:27:01
  by unseen forces, or an object like a doll that is seemingly
• 1:27:06
  taken on a life of its own. Or perhaps a little of all three
• 1:27:11
  and more. But if you consider that a
• 1:27:14
  vehicle could be haunted, considering if objects could be
• 1:27:18
  haunted, it seems possible to me that this story may just
• 1:27:21
  convince you that something inhabits this vehicle, in
• 1:27:25
  particular, something malevolent.
• 1:27:29
  This strange tale over the decades has seemed to take on a
• 1:27:32
  life of its own, and not only has it been requested, but
• 1:27:35
  deserves its very own rendition here on mystery Archives.
• 1:27:39
  This is the haunting story of James Dean's cursed car and
• 1:27:43
  whether or not it continues to plague the lives of those who
• 1:27:47
  possess its parts. James Dean, both in the 50s, at
• 1:27:53
  the height of his fame, and even today, is widely considered a
• 1:27:57
  Hollywood icon. Born James Byron Dean in 1931,
• 1:28:02
  he was born into a humble background in Marion IN the only
• 1:28:07
  child of Mildred Wilson and Wynton Dean.
• 1:28:11
  Growing up, he excelled in school both academically and
• 1:28:14
  athletically, playing varsity baseball and basketball, as well
• 1:28:19
  as becoming an avid student of drama.
• 1:28:22
  His efforts would eventually land him at UCLA in 1949 after
• 1:28:27
  his high school graduation, where he began to truly pursue
• 1:28:31
  his passion for acting. He had first started out as a
• 1:28:35
  pre law major, but would soon switches major to drama.
• 1:28:39
  His first role in college that truly made him consider becoming
• 1:28:43
  an actor was when he was selected out of a group of 350
• 1:28:48
  other actors to portray Malcolm in the play Macbeth.
• 1:28:52
  Shortly after this, he also began acting in James Whitmore's
• 1:28:56
  workshop. Although he loved acting, his
• 1:29:00
  father didn't, and his choice of major would soon alienate the
• 1:29:04
  two from each other. But refusing to give up on his
• 1:29:07
  dreams, James would drop out of UCLA in January of 1951 to
• 1:29:13
  pursue a fulltime career as an actor.
• 1:29:16
  It was during this time that he began to pay his dues, so to
• 1:29:20
  speak. First starring in a Pepsi
• 1:29:22
  commercial, then landing a series of walk on roles in
• 1:29:26
  various movies such as Fixed Bayonets, Sailor Beware and Has
• 1:29:31
  Anybody Seen My Gal? While struggling to Pay the
• 1:29:34
  bills whilst chasing his dreams. James also worked as a parking
• 1:29:38
  lot attendant at CBS Studios where he would eventually meet
• 1:29:42
  Rogers Bracket, a radio director and agent who offered him
• 1:29:47
  professional advice and guidance.
• 1:29:49
  To assist him in furthering his career bracket would open a
• 1:29:53
  major door for James, a starring role in the Broadway play See
• 1:29:58
  the Jaguar, which would indeed continue to open many other
• 1:30:01
  opportunities for the aspiring actor.
• 1:30:05
  Moving from walk on roles in movies to several television
• 1:30:08
  appearances and soon a major role in a major film.
• 1:30:12
  He would finally receive his big break in 1953, where he starred
• 1:30:17
  in the movie East of Eden. It was here that his complexity
• 1:30:21
  as an actor and improv skills were finally able to shine
• 1:30:25
  almost immediately after East of Eden premiered.
• 1:30:29
  Dean would quickly pick up another and an even bigger role
• 1:30:32
  in Rebel Without a Cause, as well as another film called
• 1:30:36
  Giant Following soon after. Rebel Without a Cause is what
• 1:30:40
  seemed to make Dean a cultural icon, becoming not only an
• 1:30:44
  admired actor to many, but a heartthrob as well to thousands.
• 1:30:49
  In 1954, shortly after East of Eden had concluded being filmed,
• 1:30:54
  James began to take an interest in auto racing.
• 1:30:58
  He purchased several vehicles for the hobby, including a
• 1:31:01
  Triumph Tiger T110 and a Porsche 356.
• 1:31:06
  James competed in his first professional event at Palm
• 1:31:10
  Springs Rd. Races held in Palm Springs, CA,
• 1:31:14
  where he achieved first place in the Novice class.
• 1:31:17
  And 2nd place for the main event.
• 1:31:19
  He continued to race and would race at Bakersfield a month
• 1:31:23
  later where he would take first in his class and 3rd overall,
• 1:31:28
  really taking to the motorsport. He hoped to compete in the
• 1:31:31
  Indianapolis 500, but his busy filming schedule unfortunately
• 1:31:36
  made this impossible. His final race would occur in
• 1:31:40
  Santa Barbara on May 30th, 1955. During this race, he was
• 1:31:46
  unfortunately unable to finish due to a blown Piston.
• 1:31:50
  His racing career was then placed on hold by Warner
• 1:31:53
  Brothers, the studio in charge of the film Giant, until filming
• 1:31:57
  was finished. Dean would finish his scenes and
• 1:32:01
  while Giant was in post production with the band lifted,
• 1:32:05
  he decided that he would race again.
• 1:32:07
  However, this time he wanted something stronger and faster.
• 1:32:12
  On September 23rd, 1955, James purchased a new 1955 Porsche 550
• 1:32:20
  Spider and brought it to the legendary flimflammer George
• 1:32:24
  Barris to have it personalized before his next race.
• 1:32:29
  During the customization process, he chose Tartan Seeds,
• 1:32:33
  the number 130 emblazoned upon the hood, and the name Little
• 1:32:38
  Bastard painted on the back just underneath the Porsche emblem.
• 1:32:42
  On the engine cover, almost as soon as his car was done being
• 1:32:46
  customized and James began to drive it around, there was a
• 1:32:50
  series of omens that should have alerted him that something
• 1:32:54
  wasn't quite normal with Little Bastard.
• 1:32:57
  Later that day on September 23rd, James was driving his new
• 1:33:02
  car around Los Angeles, where he met up with British actor Alec
• 1:33:06
  Guinness to show him his new toy almost immediately.
• 1:33:10
  Alec became very wary of the car in his personal diary.
• 1:33:15
  He said this in regards to seeing it for the first time and
• 1:33:18
  this is also a summary. Of what he?
• 1:33:20
  Told James himself in person that day.
• 1:33:23
  The sports car looked sinister to me.
• 1:33:26
  Exhausted, hungry, feeling a little illtempered.
• 1:33:30
  In spite of Dean's kindness, I heard myself saying in a voice
• 1:33:34
  that I could hardly recognize as my own.
• 1:33:37
  Please, never get in it. If you get in that car, you'll
• 1:33:41
  be found dead in it by this time next week.
• 1:33:45
  After being told that his car seems sinister and that he would
• 1:33:48
  be found dead in it by this time next week, all James did was
• 1:33:53
  laugh. Exactly one week later, on
• 1:33:56
  September the 30th, James Dean and Rolf Lutherash, a former
• 1:34:01
  Luftwaffe pilot and factory trained Porsche mechanic, were
• 1:34:05
  at Competition Motors in Hollywood.
• 1:34:08
  Preparing little bastard for racing that week at the Salinas
• 1:34:12
  Rd. Races in Salinas, CA.
• 1:34:16
  The intent was for Dean to transport the car via trailer to
• 1:34:19
  Salinas behind his 1955 Ford Country Squire with his
• 1:34:24
  photographer Bill Hickman. But before it could be raced,
• 1:34:29
  the car needed some breakin miles on it to make sure
• 1:34:32
  everything was in working order. Rolf suggested driving the car
• 1:34:36
  to Salinas to break in the engine and familiarize himself
• 1:34:40
  with his new vehicle. He would also ride with him.
• 1:34:44
  After having a cup of coffee across the street from
• 1:34:47
  Competition Motors at 1:15 PM, the group departed for Salinas.
• 1:34:53
  At 3:30 PM, Patrolman OV Hunter said he stopped and wrote Dean a
• 1:34:58
  ticket just South of Bakersfield, CA, for driving 65
• 1:35:03
  mph. And a 55.
• 1:35:06
  Hickman, who was towing the trailer, would receive a ticket
• 1:35:09
  for 20 miles over the speed limit because he was towing a
• 1:35:12
  trailer in which the maximum speed allowed would have only
• 1:35:15
  been 45 mph. The crew would then stop at
• 1:35:19
  Blackwell's Corner on Route 466 for drinks.
• 1:35:23
  Here they also met up with Lance Ravendloe and Bruce Kessler, two
• 1:35:28
  other racers who would also be competing in the Salinas Rd.
• 1:35:31
  races. Once they had departed, at about
• 1:35:34
  5:15 PM, Dean and Hickman drove W towards Paso Robles 1/2.
• 1:35:40
  An hour later, a black and white 1950 Ford Tutor coupe was headed
• 1:35:45
  E on 466. The vehicle was being driven by
• 1:35:49
  a 23 year old California polytechnical student, a man
• 1:35:53
  with a strange name of Donald Turnip seed.
• 1:35:57
  Donald made a left on Route 41 and as he crossed the center
• 1:36:01
  line. Dean, who was traveling around
• 1:36:04
  85 mph, tried to avoid him. However, despite his best
• 1:36:09
  efforts, the two vehicles collided head on.
• 1:36:14
  The Ford Coupe upon the collision, slid 39 feet down
• 1:36:17
  Route 466 and the westbound lane.
• 1:36:21
  Dean bore the brunt of the collision but stayed within the
• 1:36:24
  car. Vuteraj, however, was thrown
• 1:36:27
  from the Spider and was laying on the shoulder multiple feet
• 1:36:30
  away from the scene. Upon the arrival of emergency
• 1:36:34
  personnel, with little Bastard completely totaled, they would
• 1:36:38
  have to pry James from the mangled vehicle using a crowbar.
• 1:36:43
  An unconscious and dying James Dean was then placed into the
• 1:36:46
  ambulance along with a heavily injured roof.
• 1:36:50
  The closest hospital was 30 miles away and as the ambulance
• 1:36:55
  rushed towards Paso Robles War Memorial Hospital.
• 1:36:59
  They too, as if they had been stricken with the worst luck
• 1:37:02
  imaginable, would also be involved in a car accident.
• 1:37:06
  Despite the horrible circumstances surrounding the
• 1:37:09
  initial accident, the ambulance did eventually make its way to
• 1:37:12
  the hospital roughly 45 minutes later, and although it would
• 1:37:16
  take months of recovery, Rolf would live but despite the
• 1:37:21
  emergency crews best efforts. Dean, however, would be
• 1:37:25
  pronounced dead on arrival at 6:20 PM.
• 1:37:29
  His final cause of death upon autopsy would be determined to
• 1:37:33
  be a broken neck and internal hemorrhaging as a result of the
• 1:37:36
  crash. He also had sustained multiple
• 1:37:40
  broken bones, including his legs, arms and jaw, as well as
• 1:37:46
  multiple severe external lacerations.
• 1:37:49
  Donald turnipseed, however, despite his vehicle also being.
• 1:37:53
  Totaled walked away with barely a scratch.
• 1:37:57
  After his death, James Dean would be nominated for two
• 1:38:00
  Academy Awards in 1956 and 1957 for his roles in the East of
• 1:38:07
  Eden and Giant. He would also become the first
• 1:38:10
  actor to post humanistly win an Academy Award for one in 1956,
• 1:38:17
  seemingly being cut down in his prime at the young age of 24.
• 1:38:21
  Dean's death was an unprecedented tragedy, but the
• 1:38:25
  story of Little Bastard. Despite being crumpled in, the
• 1:38:28
  crash would be far from over. A man by the name of George
• 1:38:32
  Bears purchased the wrecked Porsche remnants for $2500 later
• 1:38:37
  that year, likely with the intent to host some sort of an
• 1:38:41
  exhibit with it and to sell tickets.
• 1:38:44
  But after he purchased it while transporting the remains, upon
• 1:38:48
  arriving at his shop, the car slipped off the trailer and
• 1:38:53
  broke the leg of his mechanic. Once it was secured in one of
• 1:38:56
  the shops garages, in approximately 1 month's time,
• 1:39:01
  while Bears was arranging for the first exhibit to open the
• 1:39:05
  garage housing, the car mysteriously caught fire and
• 1:39:09
  burned to the ground. Even more mysterious, upon
• 1:39:13
  surveying the damage, the Porsche had sustained no damage
• 1:39:18
  from the fire itself. Bears would eventually arrange
• 1:39:22
  for a second exhibit. Which was held at a local high
• 1:39:25
  school in conjunction with the California Highway Patrol.
• 1:39:29
  But this showing, too, was unexpectedly cut short.
• 1:39:33
  When the car was surrounded by onlookers and students, it
• 1:39:37
  suddenly fell off of its display and broke a young student's hip.
• 1:39:42
  Getting an eerie sense that something was off.
• 1:39:44
  With this car, Bears then began to sell its parts.
• 1:39:49
  He would sell the engine to a man named Troy McHenry.
• 1:39:52
  And the drivetrain to William Eskrid.
• 1:39:56
  The two used parts to build cars of their own and had even once
• 1:40:00
  raced one another and both would experience horrendous accidents.
• 1:40:05
  During a street race, Troy would lose control of his vehicle,
• 1:40:10
  veer off the street and slammed directly into a tree.
• 1:40:14
  The impact after Troy's tragedy, William, who was casually
• 1:40:25
  driving his vehicle containing the drivetrain of Little
• 1:40:29
  Bastard, suddenly had his wheels lock up for no reason, and upon
• 1:40:34
  turning while experiencing this, the car began to roll, leaving
• 1:40:40
  him critically injured in the crash.
• 1:40:42
  He, however, despite his injuries, would live while
• 1:40:47
  parting out what was left of the car.
• 1:40:50
  Bears would also sell two of the Porsche's tires, which had been
• 1:40:53
  untouched since the accident that claimed Dean's life.
• 1:40:57
  After selling the tires, he also installed them on the customer's
• 1:41:01
  vehicle at his shop. However, upon driving home, both
• 1:41:06
  of them, not one or the other, but both simultaneously
• 1:41:12
  exploded, causing the driver to lose control and drive off the
• 1:41:16
  road. They would fortunately regain
• 1:41:19
  control of their vehicle and despite being shaken up or
• 1:41:24
  unharmed, George Barris, after selling what parts he could,
• 1:41:28
  will continue trying to arrange exhibits for the remnants of the
• 1:41:32
  car to be shown. The 3rd and final exhibit that
• 1:41:36
  was set to happen was going to be held by the Los Angeles
• 1:41:39
  chapter of the National Safety Council as a traveling display.
• 1:41:44
  However, the truck driver who was hired to transport Little
• 1:41:48
  Bastard to the exhibit on a flatbed truck, a man named
• 1:41:52
  George Barcas, would be involved in an accident.
• 1:41:55
  While heading there. He would be ejected from his
• 1:41:58
  vehicle and would land to the side of the flatbed, and whether
• 1:42:02
  it was a failure of securing the remnants or something more
• 1:42:06
  sinister, he would be crushed and killed when the Porsche
• 1:42:11
  rolled off the flatbed and onto him.
• 1:42:14
  There would be other mishaps as the twisted Porsche would be
• 1:42:17
  loaned out to various exhibits across the country and the years
• 1:42:20
  to come. But when it was on loan to a
• 1:42:23
  safety exhibit Miami, FL in 1960, following the conclusion
• 1:42:28
  of the exhibit as it was being hauled back to Los Angeles, the
• 1:42:33
  truck that was carrying what was left of the vehicle would once
• 1:42:36
  again be involved in a fatal crash, killing the driver.
• 1:42:40
  But remained of the Porsche known as Little Bastard,
• 1:42:43
  vanished from the scene that day and to this day, all these years
• 1:42:47
  later, it has never been seen again, nor has any of its parts,
• 1:42:52
  despite collectors and enthusiasts alike willing to put
• 1:42:56
  up big money for even a genuine scrap of its remains.
• 1:43:00
  But before we speculate on what could have happened to it, I
• 1:43:03
  would first like to give my take on the bizarre activity that
• 1:43:06
  surrounds this now infamous legend to me.
• 1:43:10
  If there was ever something that could be considered cursed, this
• 1:43:14
  onceprized Porsche of James Dean very much fits the bill, given
• 1:43:18
  all that we've learned. But just why would it have been
• 1:43:21
  cursed and how? These are questions that I've
• 1:43:25
  pondered while researching this topic.
• 1:43:27
  There of course doesn't seem to be a proper answer, or even a
• 1:43:31
  real speculated one that would genuinely make sense that I
• 1:43:34
  could find. There doesn't seem to be any
• 1:43:37
  crazy occult ties to anyone he was involved with.
• 1:43:40
  The one theory that I did come across could possibly explain
• 1:43:44
  why, but of course this is just a theory.
• 1:43:47
  I don't want people getting mad at me.
• 1:43:49
  James Dean decides being an acclaimed actor by the young age
• 1:43:53
  of 24 was most definitely a heartthrob with the ladies.
• 1:43:57
  It's been rumored that among his various affairs with rich and
• 1:44:00
  powerful women, he also had multiple escapades per week.
• 1:44:04
  The theory I came across was this.
• 1:44:07
  Could it have been possible? That some starcrossed lover or
• 1:44:11
  fling of Deans could have placed a curse on him.
• 1:44:15
  Curses, of course, like anything paranormal in nature, are
• 1:44:18
  subject to a sense of belief in these kinds of things.
• 1:44:21
  Or so most think. Perhaps Dean broke the heart of
• 1:44:25
  the wrong person, with Dean hitting the big time and also
• 1:44:29
  taking up car racing in between films, or the filming of those
• 1:44:32
  films, perhaps one of his girlfriends rather jealous or
• 1:44:37
  heartbroken, or both. Placed a curse of sorts on him,
• 1:44:41
  either on him or something to do with his newfound love for
• 1:44:45
  Motorsports. How this would have exactly
• 1:44:48
  imprinted specifically upon the newly purchased Porsche of 1955
• 1:44:54
  goes far beyond my expertise, but it is the only explanation I
• 1:44:58
  could find that would remotely make sense aside from a horrible
• 1:45:02
  string of unfortunate coincidences.
• 1:45:05
  And strangely enough, the man who hit Dean, having the name of
• 1:45:09
  Donald turn up Seed. Turn up seed, in my opinion, is
• 1:45:13
  all too close to turn up speed. It's kind of weird, don't you
• 1:45:17
  think? With all of the darkness
• 1:45:19
  surrounding this car, Rolf had a very tragic ending as well.
• 1:45:24
  Upon his post rec recovery, he began to receive horrible
• 1:45:28
  letters from James Dean's fans blaming him for the actor's
• 1:45:32
  death. This eventually led to a
• 1:45:35
  terrible drinking problem, as he felt responsible for what had
• 1:45:38
  happened. He would eventually move back to
• 1:45:41
  Germany, where he experienced many lows, including multiple
• 1:45:45
  divorces and His final marriage, however, seemed to be at the
• 1:45:50
  lowest point in his life, having been depressed for years,
• 1:45:54
  coupled with other psychological problems stemming from the guilt
• 1:45:57
  of the accident with too much alcohol in his system in 1969.
• 1:46:03
  Rolf attempted to end his fourth wife.
• 1:46:06
  He stabbed her 14 times with a kitchen knife while she slept.
• 1:46:11
  Afterwards, he attempted to take his own but failed.
• 1:46:15
  He was however arrested and would spend a lengthy term in a
• 1:46:19
  mental institution instead of prison.
• 1:46:23
  This would also be his last and final divorce.
• 1:46:27
  He would, for a short time, bounce back as both a Porsche
• 1:46:30
  mechanic. And would also be a racer
• 1:46:32
  himself. Once again, but again as well,
• 1:46:36
  he succumbed to psychological issues, falling back on hard
• 1:46:40
  times. In July of 1981, he signed a
• 1:46:43
  contract for 20,000 Deutsche marks for a feature in a TV show
• 1:46:49
  discussing the accident and the death of James Dean.
• 1:46:52
  As he contemplated what he was going to discuss, he would
• 1:46:56
  become heavily intoxicated and later that night.
• 1:47:00
  He would crash his Honda Civic into the wall of a residence and
• 1:47:04
  coupe for sale. Ironically, like James, he too
• 1:47:08
  had to be cut from the wreck. It would be pronounced dead on
• 1:47:12
  arrival at the hospital. Now, where exactly could the
• 1:47:16
  remains of the Porsche have gone?
• 1:47:19
  The most likely explanation, in my opinion, had to have been
• 1:47:22
  bystanders who witnessed the crash, and my guess is that
• 1:47:27
  perhaps they didn't know exactly what they had.
• 1:47:30
  But rather saw dollar signs. This could perhaps explain why
• 1:47:33
  it didn't show back up. Perhaps people who owned the
• 1:47:36
  parts and or the vehicles with the parts didn't know what they
• 1:47:40
  indeed possessed. But what also makes this strange
• 1:47:44
  is that they've never shown back up at all.
• 1:47:48
  There is one transaxle that was rumored to be from James Dean's
• 1:47:52
  car that was found in a wooden box in rural Massachusetts, but
• 1:47:57
  from what I could find. It has yet to be confirmed as
• 1:48:00
  genuine. It was either that people didn't
• 1:48:03
  know what they had, or something terrible happened to them as
• 1:48:06
  well. And what remains they did
• 1:48:08
  possess or parts that they had put in their cars could have
• 1:48:12
  ended up scrapped somewhere never to be seen again.
• 1:48:16
  Although I don't want to persuade you one way or another
• 1:48:19
  with all the strange, dark and terrible events that surround
• 1:48:23
  the Porsche 550 Spider known as James Dean's Little Bastard.
• 1:48:28
  One certainly has to consider that there is something
• 1:48:31
  otherworldly or curse surrounding this case.
• 1:48:35
  But is it a curse? Is it something evil or is it
• 1:48:38
  just a horrible? String of coincidences?
• 1:48:41
  Let me know down in the comments below either way.
• 1:48:45
  This is 1 car I have. Absolutely no desire to see, let
• 1:48:49
  alone ride in one that contains any piece of it when a family
• 1:48:53
  moves into a new house. They discover its gruesome past
• 1:48:58
  and are met face to face with a grotesque horror.
• 1:49:02
  They must choose to fight or let their ever growing fear consume
• 1:49:06
  them. Will they make it out alive or
• 1:49:09
  will evil triumph? This is the untold story of the
• 1:49:13
  terrifying Snideacher family haunting, better known as a
• 1:49:17
  haunting in Connecticut. Evil entities, specters of
• 1:49:24
  another world. That create misery and sow
• 1:49:28
  discord to engorge and strengthen themselves?
• 1:49:32
  Are they simply figments of the human imagination, a byproduct
• 1:49:35
  of the human condition, if you will.
• 1:49:38
  This story, as well as many others that have been covered
• 1:49:40
  here on this channel, beg the question, Do evil beings from
• 1:49:44
  another world truly exist? I'm not here to.
• 1:49:46
  Convince you either way. All that I ask is that you draw
• 1:49:50
  your own conclusions because this story like others.
• 1:49:55
  Will make you truly wonder just what could be lurking in the
• 1:49:58
  shadows. The day is a cold one.
• 1:50:03
  Snow drifts down from the sky and covers everything in a layer
• 1:50:08
  of frozen powder. But colder still is the life
• 1:50:12
  altering news the Snydecker family has just received.
• 1:50:16
  Their son, Phillip has been diagnosed with Hodgkin's
• 1:50:19
  lymphoma at the age of 14. And unless something short of a
• 1:50:24
  miracle takes place to put the disease into remission, he will
• 1:50:28
  die in less than six months. He is already deteriorated from
• 1:50:33
  a strong and healthy boy to a ghost of his former self.
• 1:50:37
  For Phillip to undergo experimental treatments, he has
• 1:50:41
  to see a specialist located over 300 miles away from the family
• 1:50:45
  home and a hospital located in Connecticut as his treatments
• 1:50:50
  begin. The family soon realizes that
• 1:50:53
  the 8 hour daily round trips are unsustainable, not just for the
• 1:50:57
  family members taking Phillip, but more importantly to Phillip
• 1:51:02
  himself who is becoming weaker as a result of the cancer and
• 1:51:06
  the radiation. Wanting to do anything they can
• 1:51:10
  to lessen the burden and get their son closer to his doctors
• 1:51:14
  to give him a fighting chance, Allen and Carmen liquidate what
• 1:51:18
  is left of their assets. As Alan puts in a transfer to
• 1:51:21
  move to another site with his company and into the state of
• 1:51:25
  Connecticut. As Alan handles the children at
• 1:51:28
  home, Carmen heads to Connecticut to attempt to find a
• 1:51:32
  suitable place to live for her family.
• 1:51:34
  But with two adults and four children altogether, this isn't
• 1:51:38
  the easiest of task to accomplish given their budget.
• 1:51:42
  After dozens of appointments and dozens of refusals, the
• 1:51:46
  situation was becoming. Bleak.
• 1:51:49
  That wasn't until she happened to drive by another house as she
• 1:51:53
  contemplated what the future held.
• 1:51:55
  Carmen happened to drive by a large house with a four rent
• 1:51:59
  sign hanging in the front yard. Upon inquiring, she made her way
• 1:52:03
  inside to speak with the owner of the property, and although
• 1:52:06
  renovations were still taking place and it would be a short
• 1:52:10
  while before the home was ready to live in, she was allowed to
• 1:52:14
  take a tour. Almost immediately, she fell in
• 1:52:17
  love with the home. It's freshly laid hardwood
• 1:52:20
  flooring and inviting interiors seem to call out to her, and
• 1:52:24
  with four bedrooms, 2 upstairs and two downstairs, and plenty
• 1:52:29
  of room for everyone, it seemed like the perfect fit.
• 1:52:34
  And more importantly, it was just minutes away from the
• 1:52:37
  hospital which was the primary. Factor, of course.
• 1:52:41
  Fearing that the large size of the house would be far outside
• 1:52:44
  of their budget, Carmen decided to cut to the chase.
• 1:52:48
  And asked the property owner just how much the rent would be,
• 1:52:52
  and as if a gift from the universe itself, it just
• 1:52:55
  happened to fit their budget perfectly.
• 1:52:58
  After a handshake the first day, before too long the terms are
• 1:53:03
  inked and the family begins to move in.
• 1:53:06
  Finally, after all of these months of struggle and worry,
• 1:53:11
  they have now secured a fighting chance for some kind of normalcy
• 1:53:15
  for the entire family. And an even better chance for
• 1:53:18
  their son Phillip to beat his cancer.
• 1:53:21
  Several weeks later, as the children are staying with
• 1:53:24
  relatives, Carmen and Allen begin to move things into the
• 1:53:28
  house, just seeing the home for the first time.
• 1:53:31
  Allen agrees that his wife did a great job given the situation
• 1:53:35
  and that the house would be a good fit for the family.
• 1:53:38
  That was until the couple looked into the basement.
• 1:53:42
  The small room was now present that Carmen hadn't seen on her
• 1:53:45
  initial walkthrough, perhaps one that was being renovated at the
• 1:53:49
  time. As her and Alan opened the door
• 1:53:52
  and walked into it, they began to notice strange tools that
• 1:53:56
  they had never seen before, laid out on several tables, as well
• 1:54:01
  as the sink located in the back of the room as the snow falls
• 1:54:05
  outside and the whispers of the winter wind make themselves
• 1:54:09
  heard. The snidekkers unveil a hideous
• 1:54:12
  revelation tucked in the basement of their new rental
• 1:54:15
  home, A home that they've moved in in order to give their son a
• 1:54:19
  fighting chance against cancer appears to have previously been
• 1:54:23
  a Funeral Home 1, where the dead have been prepared for burial in
• 1:54:28
  an unbeknownst to anyone, some of the old tools and saws were
• 1:54:33
  still present now in the room as they come to this realization.
• 1:54:38
  Shocked and angry with herself, Carmen initially refuses to
• 1:54:42
  bring the children there, especially Phillip.
• 1:54:45
  But after being talked down by Allen, who told her to consider
• 1:54:49
  their situation, the fact that they had already signed an
• 1:54:52
  agreement that they had spent every last penny on Phillips
• 1:54:56
  treatments, the move and the rent that even if it was a
• 1:55:00
  Funeral Home, no one likely died there and Carmen finally
• 1:55:05
  relents. And agrees to continue with the
• 1:55:07
  move in process. The two vow to hide the morbid
• 1:55:11
  past of the home and its contents from their children.
• 1:55:16
  They contact the landlord, who removes the embalming and
• 1:55:19
  preparation equipment but leaves several tables and a deep freeze
• 1:55:23
  that might be useful to the family, and several weeks later
• 1:55:28
  the rest of the family moves in as Phillip and the other
• 1:55:31
  children wander. From room to room.
• 1:55:34
  Examining their new house. Carmen begins to mop the floors
• 1:55:38
  to prepare to bring in the furniture to complete their
• 1:55:41
  move. But as she fills the bucket with
• 1:55:44
  soap and hot water and begins to mop where the items will go, she
• 1:55:49
  experiences an omen of sorts. As she mops from side to side,
• 1:55:54
  the steamy and soapy water began to congeal and turn into a thick
• 1:55:59
  and dark red substance like that of dead blood.
• 1:56:03
  As the liquid smears all over the hardwood floor, within an
• 1:56:07
  instant as she blinks, things seem to be back to normal.
• 1:56:12
  Attributing the bizarre vision to intense stress and
• 1:56:14
  exhaustion, she tries to write the experience off and continues
• 1:56:19
  mopping. Meanwhile, Phillip has wandered
• 1:56:22
  into the basement stairwell and begins to descend the stairs,
• 1:56:27
  feeling an icy and cold presence overtake him the lower he gets
• 1:56:31
  into the basement. As his eyes scanned the room, he
• 1:56:35
  feels an ominous presence staring at him, when suddenly he
• 1:56:40
  hears a voice call out to him from a specific room and this
• 1:56:45
  voice knew his name. Scared and unnerved, he makes
• 1:56:50
  his way back upstairs and greets his mother in the kitchen.
• 1:56:54
  He tells her that they need to leave immediately because he
• 1:56:58
  doesn't feel like any of them are safe.
• 1:57:01
  Carmen initially wrote off the feelings of her son due to him
• 1:57:04
  having his illness, adjusting to a new environment, and believing
• 1:57:09
  that it was an inner voice, not a physical one, that he was
• 1:57:12
  hearing. But she would realize that she
• 1:57:15
  indeed was very, very wrong. As the days grow more difficult
• 1:57:21
  and long, the family began to turn to their faith for
• 1:57:24
  guidance, reaching out to the priest who had married the
• 1:57:27
  couple. Allen and Carmen have him pray,
• 1:57:30
  a prayer of healing over Philip, hoping to assist in his
• 1:57:33
  treatment, but despite their best efforts, he is only
• 1:57:37
  continuing to get worse. By this time, the entire family
• 1:57:42
  has moved into the former Funeral Home, including the
• 1:57:45
  other children, but no one has told the children that it was
• 1:57:48
  indeed a Funeral Home. Philip, unbeknownst to the rest
• 1:57:52
  of the family, had figured this out on his own.
• 1:57:56
  Carmen would eventually attribute his discovery to him
• 1:57:59
  being so close to death. At the time, she believed that
• 1:58:03
  the veil between life and death had become so thin for her boy
• 1:58:07
  that he could see what no one else could and know perhaps what
• 1:58:12
  others didn't. Working to provide as best as he
• 1:58:15
  could, Allen had long since gone back to work, leaving Carmen to
• 1:58:20
  run the strange and new house with their family and six son on
• 1:58:23
  her own. He would be home on the weekends
• 1:58:26
  until his transfer was finalized because despite the horrors of
• 1:58:30
  having a cancer ridden child, the bills unfortunately never
• 1:58:34
  stop. As the days progress, the
• 1:58:37
  strangeness within the home begins to reveal itself from the
• 1:58:41
  shadows. The youngest daughter of the
• 1:58:44
  Snyderkers is playing with her toys in her room as the wind
• 1:58:48
  whistles outside as she talks with the dolls and places them
• 1:58:52
  within their doll house. A figure grazes the background
• 1:58:57
  of her room. When the little girl looks up
• 1:58:59
  above her dollhouse, she sees the figure of a woman with pale
• 1:59:04
  skin and sunk in eyes screaming. She races to her mother as fast
• 1:59:10
  as possible. Carmen comforts the poor girl
• 1:59:14
  who is shaking. She grips her mother, wanting to
• 1:59:17
  comfort her. Carmen goes upstairs to try and
• 1:59:20
  dismiss her daughter's fears and despite her searching.
• 1:59:24
  Nothing seems out of the ordinary.
• 1:59:26
  Believing that Phillip and his brother were playing tricks on
• 1:59:29
  the poor child, Carmen angrily rushes to find and confront
• 1:59:34
  them. But despite her rage, the boys
• 1:59:37
  swear that they never told her the secret that Phillip had
• 1:59:40
  discovered, and that neither of them had played any tricks on
• 1:59:44
  her whatsoever. Bewildered, Carmen sets them
• 1:59:47
  straight and heads back to the kitchen to cook the family
• 1:59:51
  dinner. The only piece for her seems to
• 1:59:54
  come at night when the children are fast asleep in their beds
• 1:59:58
  with the crisp air holding an ever present moon above their
• 2:00:01
  home. Despite believing that all of
• 2:00:03
  her children were fast asleep and with the house being so
• 2:00:07
  calm, her boys in the basement room were not getting much sleep
• 2:00:11
  at all. The boys are often woken up by
• 2:00:14
  the sounds and then visuals of someone or something moving
• 2:00:20
  behind the closed door. At first they thought it was
• 2:00:23
  simply shadows, or their minds playing tricks on them when one
• 2:00:27
  or the other would be the only ones awake.
• 2:00:30
  But now that it was both of them, they were seeing the exact
• 2:00:34
  same thing and experiencing the same exact chill creeping up
• 2:00:39
  their spines. The two would then continue to
• 2:00:42
  confide in one another, as brothers often do about all the
• 2:00:46
  things they had experienced individually once the bizarre
• 2:00:50
  specter. Had dematerialized.
• 2:00:53
  The days grew longer and more stressful as time wore on.
• 2:00:57
  Phillip was knocking on death's door, and his lack of sleep was
• 2:01:01
  not helping. His treatment for the frigid
• 2:01:04
  nights brought the icy touch of death and the wandering
• 2:01:08
  apparitions of another world into theirs.
• 2:01:12
  Soon the boys can no longer take it.
• 2:01:15
  They approach Carmen to explain what they've been seeing.
• 2:01:19
  And that there's been a man and what they now call the lab room
• 2:01:22
  and their room in the basement. Carmen, as per usual, whether it
• 2:01:27
  was to cope with the mounting pressures and responsibilities
• 2:01:30
  of their daily lives, or to try and convince them to negate
• 2:01:34
  their fear, or both, Wrote off the boys as having nothing more
• 2:01:39
  than overactive imaginations, reminding Phillip that he was
• 2:01:42
  very sick and this could play a role in him seeing something
• 2:01:46
  that perhaps wasn't there. However, that would still not
• 2:01:50
  explain his brother experiencing the exact same thing at the
• 2:01:54
  exact same time. Another typical day in their new
• 2:01:58
  lives, Carmen begins cooking dinner for the family.
• 2:02:02
  Up until this point, she hasn't had an experience that she's
• 2:02:05
  recognized as anything truly paranormal that wasn't stress
• 2:02:10
  related, or something else that she could write off entirely.
• 2:02:14
  She had just set all the dishes out on the table for her family.
• 2:02:17
  And as she starts to make her way to the deep freeze to grab
• 2:02:20
  the protein she'd be cooking for the family's meal, she hears
• 2:02:24
  slight movement coming from the dining room.
• 2:02:26
  As she grabs and then sets the meat down in the kitchen.
• 2:02:29
  She goes to examine what the sound was.
• 2:02:32
  All of the dishes are gone without a trace, as if she never
• 2:02:37
  placed them down at all, feeling as if she was losing her mind.
• 2:02:42
  Carmen can't so easily dismiss this experience.
• 2:02:46
  Because she knows she set that table.
• 2:02:48
  Meanwhile, Phillips younger brother Bobby was down in their
• 2:02:52
  room. He knows something strange is
• 2:02:55
  happening in the house that they can't explain given the
• 2:02:58
  apparitions and the noises the two of them have heard and
• 2:03:02
  experienced together, along with whatever their younger.
• 2:03:05
  Sister had seen, but this experience seems more personal,
• 2:03:09
  he begins. To hear what first?
• 2:03:11
  Sounds like whispers coming from the lab room and sees the
• 2:03:14
  apparition of a man. Behind the closed window door,
• 2:03:19
  he can't make out any features other than a general outline and
• 2:03:22
  his size, but the closer he gets, the more audible the
• 2:03:27
  whispering becomes. And this man, this thing, slowly
• 2:03:32
  muttering the name Philip, feeling that sense of terror
• 2:03:37
  overtaken fight or flight, takes over the boy and he quickly runs
• 2:03:41
  upstairs where he bumps into his mother.
• 2:03:44
  Having just had her own experience, she's not sure what
• 2:03:48
  to say to him, so taking his hand, the two make their way to
• 2:03:52
  the basement and towards the lab room where the whispers have
• 2:03:56
  been coming from. After a tense couple seconds,
• 2:03:59
  Carmen opens the door, only to be met with silence.
• 2:04:05
  Although she believed in the spirit world, she up until this
• 2:04:09
  point did not believe that it could interact with the world of
• 2:04:12
  the living. But given what her kids have
• 2:04:15
  been telling her, and what she's just experienced that very
• 2:04:18
  night, she wasn't so sure anymore.
• 2:04:22
  She had to consider the prospect that her house may just be
• 2:04:26
  haunted. Alan would arrive.
• 2:04:28
  The following morning to spend the weekend with his family.
• 2:04:32
  At the same time, Winter Storm began to set in as he arrived
• 2:04:37
  after speaking with his wife. And knowing that Phillip has
• 2:04:40
  made the other children aware of the macabre past of the home, he
• 2:04:45
  finds it important to address the issue as a family, believing
• 2:04:49
  that the information could perhaps just be adding fuel to
• 2:04:52
  overactive imaginations. At the breakfast table, he does
• 2:04:56
  just that, finally addressing the family that they indeed were
• 2:05:00
  living in an old Funeral Home, but that there was no reason for
• 2:05:04
  the children to be scared, that there were no monsters lurking
• 2:05:08
  in the shadows. And no specters of otherworldly
• 2:05:11
  beings watching them. Although Phillip and his brother
• 2:05:15
  argue that they've seen and experienced the same things, and
• 2:05:19
  they have indeed been very real, they are once again dismissed.
• 2:05:24
  Alan would then pull Phillip aside to ask him that despite
• 2:05:28
  the entire situation with him being the oldest, if he could
• 2:05:32
  please set an example for the rest of the children and not
• 2:05:35
  scare them with ghost stories. Phillips cancer treatments
• 2:05:40
  continue day after day, slowly draining the remaining funds the
• 2:05:44
  family has left. Meanwhile, he continues to see
• 2:05:49
  and experience even more paranormal happenings within the
• 2:05:52
  home. His mother attributes this to
• 2:05:55
  his illness and the interactions between his body and medications
• 2:05:59
  he's been placed on, despite knowing that her other children
• 2:06:03
  and even herself have had their own experiences.
• 2:06:07
  Another bizarre development recently has been that most, if
• 2:06:11
  not all of the family's crucifixes that have been placed
• 2:06:15
  all throughout their home have started to go missing with no
• 2:06:19
  indication as to where they could have gone.
• 2:06:22
  The nightly disturbances have also become regular by this
• 2:06:26
  point, with Philip and his brother seeing the man in the
• 2:06:29
  lab room ever more frequently, as well as hearing and seeing
• 2:06:34
  other apparitions circling them. As they lay in their beds, this
• 2:06:39
  night is no different. The boys wake up, their parents
• 2:06:43
  screaming in terror that the man is back, but after sweeping the
• 2:06:48
  house and ensuring that everything is locked, that there
• 2:06:51
  was no way anyone could have possibly gotten in, Alan, being
• 2:06:55
  very wary of being woken up almost every night, forces the
• 2:06:58
  boys to go back to bed again, dismissing their experiences,
• 2:07:04
  tired of not being believed. The boys began to leave the
• 2:07:08
  lights on. In their room.
• 2:07:10
  And talk amongst themselves to comfort one another as they
• 2:07:13
  would slowly but surely begin to fall asleep.
• 2:07:16
  Convinced that Phillip was seeing things due to his
• 2:07:19
  medication and then influencing the younger children, his
• 2:07:23
  parents requested that he be examined for any possible
• 2:07:26
  interactions by his doctor, and after a series of tests, the
• 2:07:31
  doctor would conclude that nothing Phillip was on could be
• 2:07:34
  causing such things. The only other possible answer
• 2:07:38
  was a psychological problem. Alongside his cancer, Alan was
• 2:07:43
  now picking up every hour he possibly could, as well as any
• 2:07:47
  side work that presented itself to try and keep up with the
• 2:07:50
  mounting debt the family was being buried in.
• 2:07:53
  On any given day, A2 inch stack of bills either lay or
• 2:07:58
  termination notices could be found on the kitchen counter
• 2:08:02
  while sorting through them. He was shocked to find an
• 2:08:04
  electric bill almost twice its average.
• 2:08:08
  To him, the children sleeping with the lights on because of
• 2:08:11
  ghost stories was not only causing them to lose sleep, but
• 2:08:15
  now is costing the family money they simply didn't have.
• 2:08:19
  So to counteract this, and of course feeling as if he was
• 2:08:23
  justified in doing so, he goes to each one of their rooms and
• 2:08:27
  removes all of their light bulbs.
• 2:08:29
  Except. For one at night, however.
• 2:08:32
  The lights that used to make them feel protected and bring
• 2:08:36
  them relief would soon contribute to a new supernatural
• 2:08:40
  horror. Sleeping in their room in the
• 2:08:43
  basement, the snide Aker boys are suddenly woken up by the
• 2:08:47
  flashing of their overhead lights.
• 2:08:50
  Glancing to find the source, they see their little sister
• 2:08:54
  flicking the lights on and off, and despite there being no light
• 2:08:57
  bulbs in their sockets, they are still flashing on and off.
• 2:09:02
  Running towards her, the youngest brother chases her up
• 2:09:05
  the stairs, but she's just too quick for him to catch her.
• 2:09:10
  Instead, he runs into his parents when he exits the
• 2:09:13
  basement door. But strangely, his mother
• 2:09:16
  explains to him that she's been asleep in her room for hours now
• 2:09:21
  and she would know because she had tucked her in and had been
• 2:09:24
  near the basement ever since. Not.
• 2:09:27
  Believing her at. First, he rushes upstairs.
• 2:09:31
  To soon find her fast asleep in her bed.
• 2:09:34
  He is now even more freaked out because whatever this thing was
• 2:09:38
  could take the form of a family member.
• 2:09:41
  Meanwhile, as his brother comes to terms with this hideous
• 2:09:45
  revelation, a voice begins to call to Philip once again.
• 2:09:49
  From the lab room. Waking him up, getting sick of
• 2:09:54
  living in fear, Philip finally decides to confront whoever.
• 2:09:59
  Or whatever has been calling out to him and approaches the room.
• 2:10:03
  Upon opening the door and stepping inside, he has met face
• 2:10:07
  to face with the entity that has been calling his name.
• 2:10:12
  The apparition appeared to him as a man with dark red, almost
• 2:10:17
  blood filled eyes began to whisper to him things about the
• 2:10:21
  homes past after this freezing winter's night.
• 2:10:26
  Philip began to undergo a radical change in personality.
• 2:10:30
  He began to pull away and isolate himself from the rest of
• 2:10:34
  the family, insisting that he be left alone in the basement and
• 2:10:38
  that his brother Bobby move upstairs, making Bobby feel
• 2:10:42
  alienated from their once close and confiding relationship.
• 2:10:48
  Despite these personality changes, a miracle seemed to
• 2:10:52
  take place, one that the family had been praying for.
• 2:10:56
  Since the very beginning of their struggle, after months of
• 2:10:59
  daily treatments, Phillips Blood labs finally came back normal.
• 2:11:04
  His cancer was in remission, but surprisingly, he almost doesn't
• 2:11:10
  seem to. Care at all?
• 2:11:12
  Later that evening, as the family prepares to celebrate the
• 2:11:15
  good news, they also welcome a guest for the first time since
• 2:11:19
  they had moved, their niece, Teresa, would be temporarily
• 2:11:22
  living with them. And it just arrived from New
• 2:11:25
  York. Her parents had been separated
• 2:11:28
  and undergoing a messy divorce, so to help her make the best of
• 2:11:32
  the situation, they've allowed her to stay with them.
• 2:11:35
  Not having seen the family in quite some time, Teresa begins
• 2:11:39
  to get reacclimated with them, but soon notices that Phillip,
• 2:11:44
  who she had previously been very close to, was missing from the
• 2:11:47
  party. She would eventually find him in
• 2:11:50
  the basement. And also noticed that something
• 2:11:53
  was very different about him. He seemed darker, more angry,
• 2:11:58
  and not at all like the boy that she used to know.
• 2:12:01
  He would eventually confide in her all the paranormal activity
• 2:12:05
  he and the others had experienced in the house it's
• 2:12:08
  past and that his parents did not believe them.
• 2:12:12
  This made him feel extremely isolated and alone, and that the
• 2:12:17
  activity had not simply gone away but had continued to get
• 2:12:21
  worse. Each and every night his
• 2:12:24
  experiences as he explained them to Teresa ranged from scratching
• 2:12:28
  on his door and inside his walls to his name being called, to
• 2:12:34
  seeing the apparitions of figures surrounding him,
• 2:12:37
  hearing, whispering, and also seeing and hearing a man in the
• 2:12:42
  suit with blood red eyes call out to him that this man would
• 2:12:47
  also visit his bedside every single night.
• 2:12:50
  And tell him things that his parents had said about him.
• 2:12:54
  Negative and terrible things. He would then encourage Philip
• 2:12:58
  to take action and to hurt his own family.
• 2:13:02
  Shortly into her stay, Teresa began to observe that the hatred
• 2:13:06
  and malice that was dwelling within Philip that seemed to
• 2:13:09
  make itself a part of the family's daily routine.
• 2:13:13
  Fights and screaming matches soon became a daily occurrence,
• 2:13:18
  especially between Philip and Allen.
• 2:13:20
  With Alan seeming to resent Philip for the family's
• 2:13:23
  financial situation and for Philip feeling isolated and not
• 2:13:28
  being believed about what he was experiencing.
• 2:13:32
  According to Philip's diary, every night when he was trying
• 2:13:35
  to sleep, this creature, this demon, would visit him and push
• 2:13:40
  him harder and harder to commit unspeakable things.
• 2:13:46
  It got to the point to where Philip wouldn't even leave his
• 2:13:49
  room. He wouldn't argue back against
• 2:13:51
  this entity and day after day, night after night, it pushed for
• 2:13:56
  him to hurt his family. Philip will continue to confide
• 2:14:00
  in Teresa that alongside this he began to see other people within
• 2:14:05
  the basement who were dead and buried as if they were trapped
• 2:14:09
  there by the man in the suit with the blood red eyes.
• 2:14:13
  And this entity would continue to threaten to do things to
• 2:14:16
  Philip if he did not listen. And do as he was told while
• 2:14:21
  explaining these newer developments to her.
• 2:14:24
  Without warning, he suddenly attacked her, grabbing her arm,
• 2:14:29
  trying to harm. Her.
• 2:14:31
  Breaking free and rushing up the stairs and into the arms of her
• 2:14:34
  Uncle Allen, she watched Phillip essentially be exiled back into
• 2:14:39
  the basement, and with that, their relationship began to
• 2:14:42
  disintegrate, upset at not only what had happened between her
• 2:14:46
  and Phillip. That the strange behavior and
• 2:14:49
  dysfunction that was taking place within the house, Teresa
• 2:14:53
  wept in her bed. She would eventually be gifted A
• 2:14:56
  rosary by Carmen who believed that it would help comfort her,
• 2:15:00
  and she wore this to bed that night as a necklace of sorts.
• 2:15:04
  However, she would quickly discover that instead of
• 2:15:07
  comfort, this holy object made her a target instead, fast
• 2:15:12
  asleep. Teresa was suddenly woken up by
• 2:15:16
  the sensation of her blankets being pulled from her body.
• 2:15:20
  She opened her eyes to find Phillip staring at her with a
• 2:15:24
  crooked smile just before he attacked her, striking her
• 2:15:28
  several times in the face. Her screams thankfully quickly
• 2:15:32
  warrant to Carmen and Allen, who subdued Phillip immediately.
• 2:15:37
  Phillip, after this unpredictable series of
• 2:15:39
  incidents, was then removed from the house due to his violence.
• 2:15:44
  Upon the arrival of law enforcement and medical
• 2:15:46
  personnel, he seemed to have no recollection of what had taken
• 2:15:50
  place and was screaming and crying as he was being forcibly
• 2:15:54
  removed from the home and sent away for a mental evaluation.
• 2:15:59
  Allen and Carmen, after securing the rest of the children in the
• 2:16:02
  house, followed the ambulance to the hospital to sign the
• 2:16:06
  necessary paperwork to have Phillip committed for the
• 2:16:10
  evaluation. But just before he was led into
• 2:16:13
  the hospital, he issued an ominous warning to the both of
• 2:16:16
  them. He said.
• 2:16:18
  Mark my words, now that I'm out of the house, it'll be after you
• 2:16:23
  and it will get worse. Shattered by what had taken
• 2:16:27
  place, the snidecker's somber drive home turned into a long
• 2:16:31
  one. Given the distance and the
• 2:16:34
  weather that they were braving by the time they arrived back
• 2:16:37
  home, it's time for Alan to head to work.
• 2:16:40
  After dropping off Carmen, he departs for the day, wanting to
• 2:16:44
  sleep, but too stressed too. Carmen sits on the edge of her
• 2:16:48
  bed, crying and contemplating what her son had said.
• 2:16:53
  What if this all truly was real? What would they even do?
• 2:16:57
  Where does one begin to fight something they can't see?
• 2:17:01
  She decides to head down into the basement to Phillips Room to
• 2:17:05
  see if she can experience anything whatsoever.
• 2:17:09
  After several minutes, despite not seeing anything, she does
• 2:17:13
  begin to feel a massive drop in temperature, so low to the point
• 2:17:18
  to where she can see her breath. She also soon begins to shake
• 2:17:21
  with fear. She can't describe fighting
• 2:17:25
  these feelings. She issues a challenge to
• 2:17:27
  whatever could be lurking there, to show itself, to prove that it
• 2:17:32
  was indeed real, that it truly did exist, but despite her
• 2:17:37
  challenge. And waiting half an hour, she
• 2:17:40
  sees nothing, so she heads back upstairs to her room to take a
• 2:17:45
  shower to try and relax herself enough to sleep.
• 2:17:49
  Meanwhile, Alan had been driving in the dark, heading to work for
• 2:17:52
  the day. During his drive, he was worried
• 2:17:55
  about his son, his family, and leaving them behind for the day
• 2:18:00
  in such a raw emotional state. But he would have no way of
• 2:18:04
  knowing that these weren't the only problems.
• 2:18:06
  He had to worry about. After his long drive, he finally
• 2:18:11
  arrives at work for the day and begins.
• 2:18:14
  He hopes to be distracted from his lack of sleep and family
• 2:18:18
  problems. As Carmen runs her shower and
• 2:18:22
  the rest of the children sleep, a horrific presence begins to
• 2:18:26
  manifest within the house. As she's washing herself, the
• 2:18:31
  shower curtain suddenly covers Carmen's face, catching her off
• 2:18:35
  guard. Out of breath, it begins to
• 2:18:39
  smother her at the same time Teresa startled awake.
• 2:18:44
  She's being strangled by the rosary she's wearing.
• 2:18:47
  She screams, pulling out her neck, and eventually frees
• 2:18:52
  herself from a stranglehold. She then runs towards the
• 2:18:55
  muffled screams of her aunt coming from her bedroom,
• 2:18:59
  seemingly having no other choice after seeing her being strangled
• 2:19:02
  by the shower curtain. She pulls it off of.
• 2:19:04
  Her as fast. And as hard as she possibly can.
• 2:19:08
  The two then share a moment of sheer terror and trauma, both
• 2:19:12
  having experienced things that they can't explain.
• 2:19:16
  However, I've announced to the two of them at home.
• 2:19:19
  Alan is about to experience an attack of his own while working
• 2:19:23
  at his job site. He begins to hear his truck turn
• 2:19:26
  over despite his keys being in his pocket, glancing out to
• 2:19:31
  figure out just what this could be.
• 2:19:33
  He watches his truck begin to move towards his small work
• 2:19:36
  building and then, as if someone had their foot on the gas, it
• 2:19:41
  began to accelerate to a high rate of speed and before he
• 2:19:45
  could run out of the way, the truck smashes directly into the
• 2:19:48
  building and straight towards where he was standing.
• 2:19:52
  Back at the house, Carmen and Teresa are still in shock when
• 2:19:56
  suddenly the phone rings. However there is nothing but a
• 2:20:01
  muffled laugh coming through. From the other side, feeling a
• 2:20:05
  burning sensation on her ear, Carmen immediately drops the
• 2:20:09
  phone to find that it's partially melted.
• 2:20:13
  Starting to scream, she finds herself frozen as she glances
• 2:20:17
  towards the ceiling after she sees something out of the
• 2:20:20
  corner. Of her eye.
• 2:20:22
  Teresa then sees it as well, and begins to scream.
• 2:20:27
  A black cloud of some kind now floated above them.
• 2:20:30
  The two are absolutely mortified by the sudden and horrendous
• 2:20:34
  manifestations of supernatural evil that are taking place and
• 2:20:39
  realize that Phillip was right. This force, this demon, has
• 2:20:44
  taken over the entire house, running out of the room and
• 2:20:48
  frantically into another. They rushed to gather the rest
• 2:20:52
  of the children, but with a snowstorm raging outside and a
• 2:20:56
  demonic storm raging inside. They seemingly have no escape.
• 2:21:01
  Carmen is unsure of what to do. She then receives another phone
• 2:21:05
  call, this time picking up another landline in the home.
• 2:21:09
  It's Allen on the other end. He explains just what had taken
• 2:21:12
  place and that he was waiting for the authorities to arrive.
• 2:21:17
  Even more shocked and scared now that this entity has now
• 2:21:20
  attacked all members of the family and has left the home and
• 2:21:24
  attacked Allen as well. Since all the events seem to
• 2:21:27
  take place roughly during the same time frame, she's convinced
• 2:21:31
  that the demon will follow them wherever they go to try and
• 2:21:34
  escape it. So although it is the middle of
• 2:21:37
  the morning during a winter storm, she makes a phone call to
• 2:21:40
  the only person who she thinks can help her in this desperate
• 2:21:44
  situation. She calls the priest who had
• 2:21:47
  married her and Allen and had blessed Philip before his cancer
• 2:21:50
  was in remission, thankfully for their sake.
• 2:21:54
  The father picked up on the other end and promised to head
• 2:21:58
  to the home as soon as possible. Given the road conditions, it
• 2:22:02
  takes him several hours to arrive, but thankfully he does.
• 2:22:08
  First things first. The father wanted to speak with
• 2:22:11
  Carmen and figure out just what exactly was taking place, and
• 2:22:15
  after discussing anything and everything, they can think with
• 2:22:18
  him, hoping for an answer to fix their situation.
• 2:22:22
  Albeit it's never that easy. The father's response leaves
• 2:22:26
  them stunned. He tells them that he does
• 2:22:29
  believe them, but if that they simply ignore the presence, what
• 2:22:34
  it's been doing, it'll go away. This is the first time her faith
• 2:22:39
  has failed Carmen. She's bewildered by his answer.
• 2:22:43
  How can you just ignore something that's tried to take
• 2:22:46
  your life, your family members lives this very day?
• 2:22:51
  Alongside everything else that has been building up to this
• 2:22:54
  point, in her opinion, she couldn't.
• 2:22:58
  So once he left, she rushed to seek other, less conventional
• 2:23:03
  options to find the answers that she desperately needed.
• 2:23:07
  While digging through a phone book and multiple newspapers to
• 2:23:11
  try and find anything she could, she stumbled across an article
• 2:23:15
  about a husband and wife team of socalled demonologists.
• 2:23:19
  Were set to give a lecture at a nearby university.
• 2:23:22
  After several additional phone calls, she makes contact with
• 2:23:26
  Lorraine Warren, which, after discussing the prospect of the
• 2:23:29
  visit with her husband Ed, agreed to come and visit Carmen
• 2:23:33
  that day to evaluate her situation.
• 2:23:36
  After their arrival, in a brief interview, Lorraine starts to
• 2:23:40
  survey the house using her gift of discernment, the supposed
• 2:23:44
  extra sense that allows a person to discover the true nature of
• 2:23:48
  the situation. A person's character, or in this
• 2:23:51
  case, a spirit or haunting. Whether it was something good
• 2:23:55
  and godly or something grotesque and not of God, she's almost
• 2:24:01
  immediately drawn to the basement.
• 2:24:03
  With no knowledge of the home prior.
• 2:24:06
  She makes her way towards the notorious lab room and soon
• 2:24:10
  begins to sense a plethora of beings.
• 2:24:13
  A sense of horrible depression and doom began to fill her
• 2:24:17
  entire soul. Among the many human spirits she
• 2:24:20
  felt, she felt something else, something sinister and
• 2:24:26
  sickening. There was a demonic force
• 2:24:29
  dwelling within the basement. She would later describe the
• 2:24:33
  feeling as if there was a doorway to Hell itself located
• 2:24:37
  in that room. To remove any such spirits
• 2:24:40
  within the house, the Warrens informed Carmen that the
• 2:24:43
  Catholic Church would have to authorize an exorcism.
• 2:24:46
  And send the appropriate personnel to make this happen, a
• 2:24:50
  process that could take weeks or even months.
• 2:24:53
  To try and expedite the process, the warrants contact their lead
• 2:24:57
  researcher, a man named John Zafis, to come in and document
• 2:25:02
  anything and everything that could be found so that a proper
• 2:25:06
  report could be submitted to the church.
• 2:25:08
  John, along with his crew, temporarily move into the home
• 2:25:12
  to try and document anything that they can find.
• 2:25:15
  That'll help prove beyond a reasonable doubt that an
• 2:25:18
  exorcism is indeed needed to be performed to help this family.
• 2:25:22
  During their time there, they relied on video, audio and
• 2:25:26
  photographic evidence to document their findings at the
• 2:25:31
  Warren's advice, so that the demon could not isolate any one
• 2:25:34
  person in the family. The entire family moves their
• 2:25:37
  beds into the living room to sleep together at night and
• 2:25:41
  protect one another. Thankfully.
• 2:25:44
  But the researchers also temporarily living there.
• 2:25:47
  At any one given point in time, there was always an additional
• 2:25:50
  person with a member of the family.
• 2:25:53
  However, with Phillip gone, the entity begins to pursue the next
• 2:25:57
  most vulnerable person, having suffered intense stress in the
• 2:26:01
  entire situation given that her son was in the side.
• 2:26:05
  Ward. Her family dynamic.
• 2:26:07
  Was in tatters, and the bills were forever continuing to pile
• 2:26:11
  up that person. Was Carmen.
• 2:26:15
  Carmen was also stricken with an overwhelming sense of guilt for
• 2:26:18
  not believing any of her children, especially Phillip,
• 2:26:22
  about what they had experienced during the entire ordeal.
• 2:26:26
  And it seems like perhaps the entity exploited this within her
• 2:26:30
  for all that it was worth. As the family discussed
• 2:26:33
  potential findings with the Warrens as well as their
• 2:26:35
  researchers around their fireplace in the living room,
• 2:26:39
  Carmen was suddenly flung backwards.
• 2:26:42
  As everyone gathered around her, their faces switched from those
• 2:26:46
  of concern to horror as her throat began to bulge and swell,
• 2:26:52
  and her face began to contort and twist.
• 2:26:57
  She would later describe what she felt while experiencing
• 2:27:00
  this, she said. I felt as if I was in a dark
• 2:27:03
  hole like a well, surrounded by black figures who I couldn't
• 2:27:08
  make out their features. I felt pure despair.
• 2:27:11
  And hopelessness to the point where if I stopped breathing, I
• 2:27:16
  knew I deserved to. Rushing to her aid but not being
• 2:27:19
  qualified to perform an exorcism themselves, the demonologists
• 2:27:24
  and their crew asked for the rest of the family to bring
• 2:27:27
  anything sacred to her to be placed upon her.
• 2:27:30
  Teresa rushes to find the rosary that she was gifted by her hand.
• 2:27:34
  The same 1 Carmen believed, would protect her.
• 2:27:36
  This was placed upon her in an effort to combat whatever was
• 2:27:40
  attacking her. After hours of praying and
• 2:27:42
  pleading, the group's prayers, along with the rosary placement
• 2:27:46
  seemed to work, at least temporarily breaking whatever
• 2:27:50
  spell Carmen was under as she came back to waking life.
• 2:27:54
  She had no idea how long she'd been out of it and the rain.
• 2:27:58
  Warren told her that she had been under attack for the last 8
• 2:28:01
  hours, as they had. Prayed over her.
• 2:28:04
  The experience seemed to last mere minutes to Carmen.
• 2:28:08
  Yet they were the longest minutes she had ever
• 2:28:10
  experienced. It took several more weeks, but
• 2:28:14
  eventually the researchers alongside the Warrens were able
• 2:28:18
  to attain enough evidence and their view to provide the
• 2:28:21
  church. But they too, just as the family
• 2:28:24
  by this point were beyond worn down.
• 2:28:27
  At night they slept on mattresses alongside the family
• 2:28:31
  altogether. In the living room around the
• 2:28:33
  fireplace, their mattresses would breathe.
• 2:28:37
  An alternating breath to their own not only waking and scaring
• 2:28:42
  them, but behaving as if they themselves were living,
• 2:28:46
  breathing creatures being laid on.
• 2:28:49
  Although they had researched and dealt with dozens if not
• 2:28:52
  hundreds of paranormal cases, they believed what they
• 2:28:55
  experienced in the Snydecker home in Connecticut was by far
• 2:28:59
  the strongest demonic presence they had ever come into contact
• 2:29:03
  with, close to what was supposed to be the final night.
• 2:29:07
  Had researcher John Zaffis made the mistake of leaving the
• 2:29:11
  safety of the living room when he was suddenly woke up out of a
• 2:29:14
  sound sleep? He went and sat in the kitchen,
• 2:29:17
  unable to go back to sleep. Within minutes he felt as if he
• 2:29:22
  had been placed in a freezer. All the warmth quickly left his
• 2:29:26
  body and he began to see his own breath hang in the air.
• 2:29:30
  Having experienced this before, he knew he was being targeted as
• 2:29:35
  fear began to overtake him. He began to call out to anyone
• 2:29:39
  and everyone that was sleeping just feet away in the living
• 2:29:42
  room, but was met with no response.
• 2:29:45
  He rushed to the living room where he began to see the
• 2:29:47
  mattresses breathing, but everyone who laid upon them was
• 2:29:51
  completely unresponsive. He then hears the basement door
• 2:29:55
  creak open as he slowly walks to where he can see the entrance to
• 2:30:00
  the basement. He sees a man wearing a suit
• 2:30:05
  with a contorted face. In Blood Red Eyes, the
• 2:30:10
  experience terrifies John so much to the point where he runs
• 2:30:14
  into the living room shaking his crew awake and telling them that
• 2:30:18
  he has to get out. Having only spoken about the
• 2:30:21
  situation a handful of times since then, he would go on to
• 2:30:25
  say I have never, in the decades upon decades of investigating
• 2:30:30
  the paranormal experience something to that degree of evil
• 2:30:34
  since that night. And I pray I never do again.
• 2:30:38
  Days after John vacates the home, the Warrens finally
• 2:30:42
  managed to convince the Connecticut diocese to grant the
• 2:30:45
  family a priest to determine if an exorcism would be granted.
• 2:30:50
  Exorcism in the Catholic faith, especially these days, and Even
• 2:30:55
  so in the 20th century, are only conducted in absolute secrecy
• 2:30:59
  and are extremely rare. To be granted, evil must be
• 2:31:03
  proven to be present. Beyond a reasonable doubt
• 2:31:06
  through a variety of methods and rarer still is performing an
• 2:31:11
  exorcism on a building or place rather than a person, A priest
• 2:31:16
  by the name of Father Frank soon arrives to execute the church's
• 2:31:20
  orders and conduct an investigation on their behalf.
• 2:31:24
  Having viewed the evidence given to the church by the Warrens, he
• 2:31:28
  also listens to the snide actors about their experiences and
• 2:31:31
  tours the home. By the end of the interview, the
• 2:31:35
  family cannot tell if the father will be for or against advising
• 2:31:39
  the Church to grant them what they so desperately believed
• 2:31:42
  they needed. Several agonizing weeks would go
• 2:31:45
  by until word was received from the church, and to the family's
• 2:31:49
  relief, they decided to grant them an exorcism.
• 2:31:53
  Another priest by the name of Father Richard was sent to
• 2:31:57
  conduct the ritual upon arriving during an exceptionally bad
• 2:32:01
  snowstorm. Father Richard is almost
• 2:32:04
  immediately drawn to the basement.
• 2:32:06
  As he descends the steps. With Carmen behind him, he turns
• 2:32:10
  to her. His stone face, which has been
• 2:32:12
  relatively void of emotion, turns into a grimace, almost as
• 2:32:17
  if he sensed that there was something truly evil lurking
• 2:32:21
  within the shadows. Within seconds, he asked to step
• 2:32:25
  into the lab room and to close the doors behind him so that he
• 2:32:30
  may begin. As he starts to flick droplets
• 2:32:33
  of holy water into the space, the energy in the house seems to
• 2:32:38
  become darker and the air heavier.
• 2:32:42
  Despite feeling a malevolent presence surrounding him, Father
• 2:32:46
  Richard continued with the ritual.
• 2:32:48
  He went from room to room conducting the exorcism and
• 2:32:52
  exalting God's blessings, until finally he was in the living
• 2:32:57
  room in the presence of the Snydaker family.
• 2:33:00
  As well as Ed and Lorraine Warren, now several hours in as
• 2:33:05
  he was making his way towards the rituals conclusion, the
• 2:33:08
  demonic presence that had plagued the family all of these
• 2:33:11
  days since they had first arrived at the beginning of this
• 2:33:15
  harsh winter in Connecticut refused to be ignored and was
• 2:33:19
  ready for a fight. Seen by everyone present, all
• 2:33:24
  objects in the room that weren't nailed down or being sat in
• 2:33:28
  began to shake. And be thrown.
• 2:33:32
  Books, knickknacks, statues, and ornaments shattered as the snow
• 2:33:38
  and ice slapped the windows outside of the house.
• 2:33:41
  The more they prayed, the more they seemed to provoke the
• 2:33:44
  entity, and the more intense the activity became amidst the
• 2:33:50
  turmoil, And again witnessed by everyone, Teresa's lifted into
• 2:33:54
  the air by what she would later describe as massive, unseen
• 2:33:59
  hands. And is choked.
• 2:34:02
  It seems as if the entity is attempting to shock and break
• 2:34:06
  the prayers of those present, but Father Richard refuses to
• 2:34:10
  give in. Then within the blink of an eye,
• 2:34:13
  it was if whatever had been stocking the walls inside of the
• 2:34:17
  Snydecker home was gone, and despite the mess that now
• 2:34:22
  surrounded them, they could not be more relieved or thankful for
• 2:34:26
  their newfound freedom. Several days after the exorcism,
• 2:34:31
  they started the process of selling the house, not only to
• 2:34:34
  try and put their past experiences behind them to move
• 2:34:37
  forward, but to also not take a chance of the door that they
• 2:34:42
  believe they closed with the help of their faith being
• 2:34:45
  reopened and reigniting their own personal paranormal hell.
• 2:34:51
  Philip would be released from the mental hospital about a
• 2:34:54
  month later, after the exorcism had transpired.
• 2:34:58
  He not only seemed to be in stable condition, but appeared
• 2:35:01
  much healthier and was truly happy to see his family again.
• 2:35:05
  His cancer, thankfully, would never return.
• 2:35:09
  What happened in the Snydecker home is open to interpretation.
• 2:35:13
  Those who believe them believe the exorcism to be a resounding
• 2:35:17
  success, while those who don't believe see it as some kind of
• 2:35:21
  attention grabbing hoax. The warns themselves back then
• 2:35:25
  and even now, long after their own deaths.
• 2:35:28
  Continue to be polarizing figures, with some believing
• 2:35:31
  them to be legitimate demonologists and paranormal
• 2:35:34
  experts, with others believing that they were charlatans,
• 2:35:39
  nothing more than profiteers of people's fears, as stated in the
• 2:35:43
  beginning. I'm not here to convince you one
• 2:35:46
  way or the other. My job is to provide as many
• 2:35:49
  details as I can of what happened with the particular
• 2:35:52
  case, and the rest is up for you to decide.
• 2:35:56
  Some additional details I would like to add however, are these.
• 2:36:00
  After investigating the home, the warns did launch a large
• 2:36:04
  media campaign promoting the home is majorly possessed.
• 2:36:08
  Whether this was for good or bad intentions, I can't say because
• 2:36:12
  I simply don't know. Phillip, unfortunately would
• 2:36:16
  later develop a drug habit and would also later be diagnosed
• 2:36:19
  with schizophrenia, whether this was a result of drug use or
• 2:36:23
  something that was there all along.
• 2:36:25
  You'll never know, but it did not appear to be his condition
• 2:36:29
  prior or even after his stent in the mental hospital.
• 2:36:33
  The story would go on to inspire a dramatized documentary with
• 2:36:37
  altered names of the family and with hidden interviews of the
• 2:36:40
  family in 2002, known as A Haunting in Connecticut.
• 2:36:44
  It would then again be popularized in 2009 when the
• 2:36:48
  horror film The Haunting in Connecticut was released.
• 2:36:52
  Upon moving out in 1987, the Snydekkers did not experience
• 2:36:56
  any other paranormal activity in their lives, and subsequent
• 2:36:59
  owners of the home say they haven't experienced any activity
• 2:37:03
  either. This is perhaps due to the
• 2:37:05
  successful exorcism of the home, or the demons simply existing
• 2:37:10
  within the minds of those involved.
• 2:37:13
  Again, the interpretation is up to you.
• 2:37:17
  The part of me still wonders. Could hell still be locked away
• 2:37:21
  within the basement of that house, watching, lurking, and
• 2:37:25
  waiting for the right person to stumble upon its locked door and
• 2:37:29
  to pry it open again? Could the blood red eyes of the
• 2:37:32
  demonic man in the suit still be lusting for more souls?
• 2:37:37
  If so, this is 1. Door I pray, stays locked for
• 2:37:42
  good if the walls of certain homes could speak.
• 2:37:49
  Some of the stories they would tell would more than likely
• 2:37:52
  shock and amaze us, or perhaps repulse and terrify us instead.
• 2:37:59
  This is one such story that if a house could tell its own tale,
• 2:38:04
  it would certainly be one we would never forget.
• 2:38:07
  A family moves to the country in search of peace, but those
• 2:38:11
  dreams are soon shattered by supernatural terror.
• 2:38:16
  Something evil lurks within the woods outside of their home, and
• 2:38:20
  this evil begins to stalk and wreak havoc upon everyone that
• 2:38:24
  dwells within the home. Can they save themselves before
• 2:38:29
  it's too late? This is the untold story of the
• 2:38:32
  haunted Hinsdale House, also known as the Dandy House, and
• 2:38:37
  the entities that infested it. Hinsdale, NY A small town with a
• 2:38:49
  rustic and rural charm, tuck deep into the countryside and
• 2:38:54
  far away from the crime, concrete and smog of New York
• 2:38:59
  City. Instead of gazing at
• 2:39:01
  skyscrapers, they would rather gaze at the surrounding
• 2:39:04
  mountains covered in dense foliage.
• 2:39:08
  But these mountains and their surrounding woods harbor many
• 2:39:11
  secrets and have many stories to tell.
• 2:39:16
  This is just one of them, the years 1970 and the Dandy family
• 2:39:22
  is in pursuit of their American Dream.
• 2:39:26
  After years of vacationing to Hinsdale and the surrounding
• 2:39:29
  areas to catch a break from their fastpaced life in Buffalo,
• 2:39:34
  they finally reached a point where they can turn their
• 2:39:37
  vacation. Into their daily life, seeking
• 2:39:41
  their own rural paradise, they come across a listing for a home
• 2:39:45
  that seems idyllic for their family and its needs.
• 2:39:49
  Clara Dandy, the mother of the family, believed that they all
• 2:39:53
  got along so much better in the country, like it had some form
• 2:39:57
  of redemption qualities about it that seemed to rejuvenate their
• 2:40:01
  spirits and their relationships as they wind their way through
• 2:40:06
  the countryside. They lay eyes on the home for
• 2:40:09
  the first time. They are not only taken aback by
• 2:40:13
  the beauty and the sheer size of the house, but that it's sat
• 2:40:17
  upon 8 acres of land surrounded by dents, breathtaking woods.
• 2:40:22
  Clara would describe her feelings about first seeing the
• 2:40:25
  house as being overcome with a deep sense of peace.
• 2:40:30
  It's like I'd finally come home after years of being elsewhere.
• 2:40:34
  And the air. The air was like breathing
• 2:40:36
  champagne. It was wonderful.
• 2:40:39
  The home is over 100 years old and still had most of the
• 2:40:43
  original and ornate woodwork intact.
• 2:40:46
  It just seemed to emanate charm and elegance as the children
• 2:40:51
  explored the nearby woods. Mr. and Missus Dandy continued
• 2:40:56
  their tour, but when they were being shown the storage space
• 2:41:00
  underneath the stairs, the door was initially stuck but after
• 2:41:04
  some elbow grease from Mr. Dandy.
• 2:41:07
  They were finally able to get it open.
• 2:41:10
  It revealed A dusty space of sorts with a fireplace.
• 2:41:15
  The one that didn't seem to fit the feeling of the house at all.
• 2:41:18
  Clara would describe her feelings towards the space like
• 2:41:21
  this. I wasn't sure why, but I felt
• 2:41:25
  very uneasy when we opened up the storage space.
• 2:41:29
  I couldn't put my finger on it, but it was dark and desolate,
• 2:41:34
  not at all like the rest. Of the house.
• 2:41:37
  But she quickly would dismiss these feelings, attributing the
• 2:41:40
  creepy factor to her city upbringing and the fact that
• 2:41:44
  they didn't have storage rooms like that where she was from.
• 2:41:48
  After closing the space and continuing to evaluate their
• 2:41:51
  opportunity, the feelings of peace would return and the
• 2:41:55
  Dandies decide that they can't resist the charm of this rustic
• 2:42:00
  100 year old home, so they decide to purchase it.
• 2:42:04
  Once things are squared away several months later, they move
• 2:42:08
  in to start their new rural existence on Movein Day.
• 2:42:13
  Claire's brother decided to lend a helping hand and had begun to
• 2:42:16
  move things in hours before the family was able to arrive When
• 2:42:21
  loading in a box of belongings, as he opened the door, he was
• 2:42:26
  greeted by a flurry of insects. Both bees and flies pelted him
• 2:42:31
  in his face. Rushing past.
• 2:42:33
  Them. And then, unloading the box onto
• 2:42:35
  the floor in the main room, he was startled to see hundreds of
• 2:42:39
  dead bees scattered all over the floor, and even more startled to
• 2:42:45
  see hundreds still alive and coating the windows.
• 2:42:49
  It was still cold during this time of year, and although he
• 2:42:53
  too wasn't from the country, he found it rather odd that there
• 2:42:57
  would be any kind of infestation at this time when his sister and
• 2:43:01
  her family finally arrive. He greets her with the news and
• 2:43:06
  in order to continue with the move in, they have to call an
• 2:43:09
  exterminator. Upon his arrival, he too
• 2:43:12
  confirms the oddity of the situation.
• 2:43:16
  He said that he had never seen so many bees and flies in one
• 2:43:19
  spot in a home and given this time of year, it was not normal
• 2:43:24
  for them to swarm or infest anything during this time.
• 2:43:28
  It takes some time, but after he finishes clearing them out.
• 2:43:32
  The family is finally able to get moved in.
• 2:43:35
  As time progresses, things seem to fit the dreams they had for
• 2:43:40
  moving there in the 1st place. The family finally seems at
• 2:43:43
  peace. They were getting along better
• 2:43:46
  and enjoying each other's company, a far departure from
• 2:43:50
  their city. Life in Buffalo.
• 2:43:52
  But as the old adage goes, if it seems too good to be true, it
• 2:43:57
  is. A few weeks into living and what
• 2:44:01
  they believed was going to be their rural paradise, their son
• 2:44:05
  Mike has met and made friends with a nearby neighbor.
• 2:44:09
  Together, they begin to explore the woods surrounding the dandy
• 2:44:12
  property. As the two navigate the forest,
• 2:44:16
  they're startled when they hear the crunching of leaves directly
• 2:44:20
  in front of them, stopping frozen in their tracks and
• 2:44:24
  fearing that it could be a bear. They take refuge behind a large
• 2:44:28
  tree and sneak glimpses from rounded sides to figure out just
• 2:44:33
  what it could be. To their shock, they spot a boy
• 2:44:37
  not much older than them carrying a rifle and walking in
• 2:44:41
  the path ahead, yelling at the boy that this is private
• 2:44:45
  property and wanting to know what he was doing.
• 2:44:48
  There they run. Towards him and try to.
• 2:44:51
  Catch up to him, they again freeze in their tracks.
• 2:44:55
  When they noticed that not only is the boy transparent the
• 2:44:58
  closer they get, but half of his head is missing.
• 2:45:03
  As the figure continues to walk and taking deep breaths, they
• 2:45:08
  slowly continue to follow him. The three approach a small lake.
• 2:45:13
  Within the blink of an eye, the boy vanishes.
• 2:45:18
  Mike and his friend are at a loss for words and have no
• 2:45:21
  explanation for what they saw. They quickly rush back to the
• 2:45:25
  dandy house as fast as they can to tell anyone who will listen
• 2:45:30
  to them. They soon make contact with
• 2:45:32
  Clara and explain to her what took place, but she's quick to
• 2:45:36
  dismiss their experience as nothing more than overactive
• 2:45:40
  imaginations. Another several weeks passed by,
• 2:45:45
  and Clara has all but forgotten about what her son had told her.
• 2:45:49
  She's now walking the family dog, Madison, in the woods.
• 2:45:53
  Some fresh air. And exercise.
• 2:45:56
  As they get deeper into the forest, Clara starts to hear
• 2:46:00
  what can only be described as chanting.
• 2:46:04
  As she stops to listen, it sounds eerie and disembodied, as
• 2:46:09
  if the sound is all around her, but has no true origin.
• 2:46:15
  It's at this time that Madison begins growling and barking.
• 2:46:21
  The longer she seems to focus on the chanting, the louder it
• 2:46:25
  seems to become. Madison, by this point, is
• 2:46:28
  losing her mind and breaks free from a distracted Clara and
• 2:46:33
  bolts in the direction of their home.
• 2:46:35
  Clara chases her down and she finally stops running when she
• 2:46:39
  makes it to the front door of their estate.
• 2:46:42
  After taking a moment to collect herself, Clara then calls her
• 2:46:46
  husband, who like she was to her son.
• 2:46:50
  Is quick to dismiss her feelings, thinking that she just
• 2:46:53
  had to adjust to rural life and wasn't used to it being so
• 2:46:57
  different from their life in the city.
• 2:47:00
  Frustrated and worried now about what?
• 2:47:02
  The chanting. Could have been.
• 2:47:04
  Clara talks with her son about her experience while she
• 2:47:07
  prepares dinner for the family. Mike thinks that it could have
• 2:47:11
  been some campers at a nearby campground, not too far from
• 2:47:15
  where their property line ends. That could have been the cause
• 2:47:17
  of the strange sounds. To try and put his mother at
• 2:47:21
  ease, he and his friend Matt once again take to the woods to
• 2:47:24
  explore this possibility. As they venture further into the
• 2:47:28
  woods to lookout point towards the campsite, they see nothing.
• 2:47:33
  There are no signs of any campers that could be nearby
• 2:47:36
  enough to have caused such a noise.
• 2:47:40
  Even more perplexed, now that there was no explanation, the
• 2:47:44
  boys start to make their way back to the house when suddenly.
• 2:47:49
  They hear what sounds like an axe studying into a tree right
• 2:47:53
  next to them, unsure of what that noise could have been.
• 2:47:57
  Before they could even begin to ponder or investigate, they hear
• 2:48:01
  a woman screaming to their left. This frightens them so bad, but
• 2:48:07
  the two young men run as fast as they can all the way back to the
• 2:48:10
  Dandys home when they arrive. Mike is truly scared this time.
• 2:48:16
  He has no way of explaining his mother's experience or any of
• 2:48:21
  his own either. Upon relaying this information
• 2:48:24
  to Clara, both of them are left beside themselves now with a
• 2:48:29
  chill up both of their spines. But these weird events thus far
• 2:48:34
  would only intensify as the sands of time continue to
• 2:48:38
  trickle into the outer class. It has now been months since the
• 2:48:44
  initial experiences. Besides the oddities they were,
• 2:48:49
  the family's life continues to be great.
• 2:48:52
  This distance from the experiences only makes them ever
• 2:48:55
  easier to dismiss in the minds of Clara and M1 Day.
• 2:49:01
  Phil or Mr. Dandy decides to take the children, Mike and
• 2:49:05
  Tina, into Buffalo for the day to get some errands done.
• 2:49:10
  Mostly being a homebody, Clara decides to forgo the trip with
• 2:49:14
  her family. And relax at home, reading her
• 2:49:17
  latest book instead. When her family departs, Clara
• 2:49:21
  finds herself curled up on the couch and immersed in her latest
• 2:49:25
  story as a warm breeze drifts to the open windows of the house.
• 2:49:31
  As she reads page to page, she is suddenly startled when the
• 2:49:35
  window closest to her slams shut upon investigating.
• 2:49:41
  Makes no sense to her because the breeze was light.
• 2:49:45
  Not forceful at all, and their windows were fairly new, which
• 2:49:50
  made it all the stranger. But as she always does, she
• 2:49:54
  dismisses the happening. There's nothing more than a
• 2:49:57
  weird coincidence, and heads back to her book.
• 2:50:01
  Several nights later, as Mike lay asleep in his bed, he's
• 2:50:06
  suddenly woken up when a nearby box of a chess game.
• 2:50:10
  Drops onto his chest. The storage shelf is directly
• 2:50:14
  above his head, so opening his eyes he glances up to see if
• 2:50:19
  perhaps it could have been hanging too far off the edge,
• 2:50:22
  causing it to fall, and to his shock he begins to see several
• 2:50:28
  more boxes slowly shifting towards the edge by themselves.
• 2:50:34
  The lowest one then suddenly flies out from the rest and
• 2:50:38
  smacks him in the chest, terrified.
• 2:50:42
  He sits up trying to catch his breath.
• 2:50:45
  He has no way of explaining how the lowest box could be pulled
• 2:50:49
  and thrown with such force without bringing the rest of the
• 2:50:53
  boxes with him, as if someone or something had grabbed and thrown
• 2:50:59
  it by a will of its own. Calling out to his mom in the
• 2:51:03
  darkness, she soon arrives in the doorway of his room, being a
• 2:51:08
  very science and logicminded person.
• 2:51:11
  Like has no way to explain what has happened.
• 2:51:15
  Examining the pile, Clara too is perplexed and becomes just as
• 2:51:19
  scared when another box from a different pile flies across the
• 2:51:24
  room, causing both of them to scream and terror and run out as
• 2:51:29
  fast as possible, trying to make sense of what was taking place.
• 2:51:35
  Clara fears that whatever could be lurking in the woods has been
• 2:51:39
  stalking her family. And has slowly but surely, like
• 2:51:44
  a malignant stain, invaded her home.
• 2:51:48
  As her fears turned into a revelation, Claire decides to
• 2:51:52
  reach out to a local priest for help, hoping her faith will help
• 2:51:56
  her come up with some answers and better yet, some solutions.
• 2:52:02
  She speaks with a priest named Father Alphonsus at the
• 2:52:06
  University of Saint Bonaventure. He believes that the activity
• 2:52:10
  could be a poltergeist, but given the intelligent nature of
• 2:52:14
  how it seemed to be behaving, Clara has her doubts but
• 2:52:18
  nonetheless wants an expert's opinion and assistance.
• 2:52:23
  So arrangements are made for the father to come out and bless the
• 2:52:27
  home, and after several days he arrives on April 13th. 1975, the
• 2:52:36
  cleansing begins. As the family and the priest
• 2:52:40
  were all gathered together, and as he began to speak, a series
• 2:52:45
  of horrible wailing and moaning voices began to fill the home,
• 2:52:51
  as if the house itself was crying.
• 2:52:55
  The scent of burning matter also quickly enveloped the house.
• 2:53:00
  The activity reached a fever pitch when the priest opened.
• 2:53:04
  And began to pray over the crawl space that was underneath the
• 2:53:07
  stairs. But after this, a blissful
• 2:53:11
  silence overtook them all. It was if whatever entities that
• 2:53:16
  dwelled within the walls of the dandies home had finally been
• 2:53:20
  evicted. Within time, the father gathered
• 2:53:24
  his things, exchanged pleasantries, and departed for
• 2:53:29
  the evening. The family now believed that
• 2:53:32
  their darkest days were behind them.
• 2:53:34
  And for all intents and purposes, that seemed to be the
• 2:53:38
  case. But as if to mock the Holy
• 2:53:41
  Trinity itself, three months later to the day, all hell would
• 2:53:46
  break loose once again. That night, while her husband is
• 2:53:51
  away on a business trip, Clara finds herself woken up out of
• 2:53:56
  the dead sleep by a series of knocks coming from inside the
• 2:54:00
  walls. The knocks themselves are soon
• 2:54:03
  accompanied with whispers from someone that she can't see As
• 2:54:09
  she apprehensively makes her way from her room and slowly down
• 2:54:13
  the stairs headed towards the main level, the apparition of a
• 2:54:17
  young girl begins to walk by the stairs.
• 2:54:21
  She slowly makes her way to the crawl space, opens the door and
• 2:54:27
  closes it behind her. Clara is baffled at the site.
• 2:54:32
  After gathering up her courage, she too makes her way fully down
• 2:54:37
  the stairs into the crawl space, and after a moment of bracing
• 2:54:41
  herself, she opens the door to be met with nothing.
• 2:54:49
  Clara then makes her way to her daughter Tina's room to make
• 2:54:52
  sure it somehow wasn't her, and perhaps her nerves were just on
• 2:54:56
  edge, but after opening her door.
• 2:54:59
  She finds her fast asleep in her bed with no signs that she had
• 2:55:04
  been awake for some time. The following morning, while the
• 2:55:08
  rest of her family is still asleep, Tina wakes up to begin
• 2:55:12
  her day. As she feeds her pet bird in its
• 2:55:16
  cage and begins to brush her hair in her Oval mirror, she
• 2:55:20
  notices that her bird isn't doing its usual whistles.
• 2:55:25
  As she glances over at them, she finds it staring into the corner
• 2:55:28
  of the room. As Tina glances back up at the
• 2:55:32
  mirror, she's met with the apparition of a young girl.
• 2:55:36
  Her face sunk in and her eyes were gone.
• 2:55:42
  She. Screams in terror, and just as
• 2:55:45
  quickly as it appeared, the apparition disappears.
• 2:55:50
  The screams of her daughter startles and quickly summons
• 2:55:53
  Claire at her daughter's room. As she consoles Tina, she
• 2:55:57
  realizes that the priest's blessings were ineffective.
• 2:56:02
  She quickly calls Father Al back and explains what had taken
• 2:56:06
  place the previous night and that morning.
• 2:56:10
  And although he is busy, he promises to come back as soon as
• 2:56:13
  possible, and this time to bring a paranormal expert with him as
• 2:56:18
  well to help him determine the cause and hopefully find a
• 2:56:22
  working solution. She's able to come back the
• 2:56:25
  following week. In the meantime, Claire is
• 2:56:29
  determined to keep her family calm.
• 2:56:32
  If she can control her own emotions, she knows that
• 2:56:35
  everything else will be okay as they wait for the priest to
• 2:56:39
  return. Claire tries her best to keep
• 2:56:42
  her family calm and live some sort of a normal existence.
• 2:56:47
  That weekend, her and Phil are watching a movie while Mike and
• 2:56:51
  Tina are out with friends. As they enjoy their time
• 2:56:55
  together, their happiness is quickly shattered by a huge
• 2:56:59
  crashing noise coming from outside of their house.
• 2:57:04
  Quickly grabbing a flashlight and running outside to
• 2:57:06
  investigate together, they quietly stepped towards where
• 2:57:10
  they believed the noise to be originating from, and suddenly
• 2:57:15
  they hear it again. But this time, thankfully for
• 2:57:19
  them, the origin is not paranormal.
• 2:57:24
  This time with several raccoons who happened to be foraging
• 2:57:28
  through their metal trash cans for something to eat.
• 2:57:32
  Relieved for that moment, they start to make their way back to
• 2:57:35
  the house when they suddenly see the figure of a young girl in
• 2:57:40
  their living room window staring at them.
• 2:57:44
  As they rush inside, they run up into Tina's room where they find
• 2:57:49
  her incoherent. And staring into her Oval
• 2:57:52
  mirror, they try to get her attention, but she's entirely
• 2:57:57
  unresponsive. Her pale blue eyes are black.
• 2:58:03
  Panicking, they shake her and yell her name, not knowing what
• 2:58:07
  else to do when she eventually comes back In that moment, and
• 2:58:13
  later, Tina will not recall how she got home or what exactly
• 2:58:18
  happened. As the family tries to gather
• 2:58:21
  themselves from the shock of what had just taken place, they
• 2:58:26
  hear movement coming from Mike's room.
• 2:58:29
  Phil tells his family not to leave Tina's room.
• 2:58:32
  As he rushes to investigate, however, the home phone begins
• 2:58:38
  to ring. It's Mike.
• 2:58:41
  He's asking if he can stay the night at his friend Randy's
• 2:58:44
  house, however, when told what was going on.
• 2:58:48
  He quickly tells her that he's coming home to help in any way
• 2:58:51
  that he can. Rushing to his car, Randy offers
• 2:58:55
  to come with him, to which Mike agrees.
• 2:58:58
  Randy would later recount that Mike's hands were sweating and
• 2:59:03
  he was shaking, gripping the steering wheel.
• 2:59:06
  He was pale. I asked him what was wrong, and
• 2:59:09
  he said that things were happening at the house that he
• 2:59:12
  couldn't explain. The boys quickly arrived to find
• 2:59:16
  the family in chaos. Phil is prepared to do battle
• 2:59:20
  with whatever forces within the house and the girls are staying
• 2:59:24
  close to one another, attempting to comfort each other as they
• 2:59:28
  try to determine a course of action.
• 2:59:31
  All the lights in the house go out.
• 2:59:35
  They then begin to hear banging and scratching coming from the
• 2:59:39
  crawl space, flashlight still in hand, Fill with the backup of
• 2:59:44
  his family shines the light towards it.
• 2:59:47
  And begins to make his way towards whatever this thing is.
• 2:59:52
  It seems like with each step he takes, the sounds become louder,
• 2:59:57
  and after a tense several seconds, he opens the door to
• 3:00:01
  the crawl space. Inside, they find that the
• 3:00:04
  fireplace that was once there has been completely
• 3:00:07
  disassembled. Its bricks have now been stacked
• 3:00:11
  in an elaborate pile directly in the middle of the small room.
• 3:00:16
  The amount of effort and strength required to perform
• 3:00:19
  such a task convinces all of them that whatever they're
• 3:00:23
  dealing with is strong, persistent, and perhaps
• 3:00:28
  uncleansable. Nonetheless, with their spirits
• 3:00:32
  waning, Claire makes a desperate call to Father Al, who agrees to
• 3:00:36
  come earlier than originally planned, and makes emergency
• 3:00:40
  arrangements for himself and his paranormal expert of a friend to
• 3:00:44
  come out that night. They arrive as soon as possible.
• 3:00:49
  The paranormal expert is a man by the name of Alex Tennis, a
• 3:00:54
  well respected paranormal researcher and psychic whose
• 3:00:58
  abilities were studied at the American Society of Psychic
• 3:01:02
  Research. Together they make their way to
• 3:01:05
  the door of the Dandy house, hoping to help rid this family
• 3:01:09
  of whatever seems to be stalking them after being let in.
• 3:01:14
  The family quickly leads the pair to the crawl space to show
• 3:01:17
  them just what they were talking about.
• 3:01:20
  Although he was aware that some sort of activity was taking
• 3:01:23
  place, Alex had not been given any additional details or
• 3:01:27
  information in regards to the home, its history or happenings.
• 3:01:33
  As he steps into the crawl space room, he begins to have a vision
• 3:01:38
  and his vision he sees. Multiple dead bodies stacked
• 3:01:42
  within the crawl space itself. After the vision subsides, Alex
• 3:01:47
  begins to explain to the family what he saw.
• 3:01:50
  He believed that many had passed away within the home itself,
• 3:01:54
  some of natural causes and some of murder.
• 3:01:59
  It was his conviction that, based on what he saw, that the
• 3:02:02
  house used to be a stopping point for a Stagecoach or
• 3:02:06
  perhaps some kind of inn where people would stay the night
• 3:02:09
  before departing the following morning.
• 3:02:12
  It was also his belief. That there was a nearby criminal
• 3:02:15
  or gang of criminals that would often rob and kill nearby
• 3:02:19
  travelers, and that perhaps these souls somehow became
• 3:02:23
  trapped. Here.
• 3:02:25
  When someone passed or was found dead nearby, being the only
• 3:02:29
  stopping point in the area, their bodies would be placed in
• 3:02:32
  the crawl space until they could receive a proper burial.
• 3:02:36
  It was also his belief that there were seven different
• 3:02:39
  spirits that were trapped within the home altogether.
• 3:02:43
  With this revelation, the family, Alex and the Father pray
• 3:02:48
  that the trapped spirits within the home find peace and be
• 3:02:52
  released so that they may go on to their final destination.
• 3:02:56
  Upon the pair's departure, Clara once again has renewed hope.
• 3:03:01
  The home, as it did the first time around, seemed to be
• 3:03:04
  cleansed and to be more peaceful meanwhile.
• 3:03:08
  Mike and his friend Randy were skeptical of Alex's conclusions.
• 3:03:13
  After he left, they used an old map of the area to trace where
• 3:03:17
  he had said the old Stagecoach route was.
• 3:03:21
  They did indeed find what they believed to be an old trail.
• 3:03:24
  That could have been. Used for such a thing and the
• 3:03:27
  trail passed. Right by the.
• 3:03:28
  Dandy home, but during their search, as they were following
• 3:03:32
  the trail out and headed back to the house, they experienced
• 3:03:36
  strangeness of their own as they began to trace the trail.
• 3:03:40
  They began to see what they described as orbs of light in
• 3:03:43
  the nearby trees, and these orbs began to come at them.
• 3:03:48
  Randy, having never seen or experienced anything
• 3:03:52
  supernatural before, began to have a panic attack upon
• 3:03:56
  arriving at the house. They were fortunately able to
• 3:03:59
  get him calmed down by this point.
• 3:04:02
  It was late in the night and the entire family needed to try and
• 3:04:06
  get some form of sleep in order to function the following day.
• 3:04:11
  Randy ended up staying the night since he had rode with Mike.
• 3:04:15
  Once everyone else was settled down for the night and fast
• 3:04:18
  asleep, Claire sat by herself, weeping.
• 3:04:23
  She felt that her and her family were helpless in the situation,
• 3:04:26
  and that all efforts have been exhausted and that they needed
• 3:04:30
  to move. The only problem was that all
• 3:04:33
  their money, every last dime, had been sunk into the house.
• 3:04:38
  Leaving them stranded. She would continue to
• 3:04:41
  contemplate the future and would cry herself to sleep that night.
• 3:04:46
  The following morning, as the family began to wake up and
• 3:04:50
  start to try and resume some form of normalcy, Mike went
• 3:04:54
  ahead and departed with Randy to take him home.
• 3:04:57
  Several hours would go by and Mike hadn't returned.
• 3:05:01
  Finally, there was a knock on the door.
• 3:05:04
  It was a police officer. He informed the family that
• 3:05:08
  there had been an accident. That they needed to head to the
• 3:05:11
  hospital as soon as possible. Rushing into the car, into the
• 3:05:15
  hospital, the Dandy family wondered just what had happened.
• 3:05:20
  There had been no mention of Randy by the officer at the
• 3:05:22
  time. Upon arriving, they were briefed
• 3:05:26
  that Mike had lost control of his vehicle and crashed into a
• 3:05:30
  nearby ditch. He was now undergoing emergency
• 3:05:33
  surgery. He had extensive head injuries,
• 3:05:37
  A ruptured spleen that may have to be removed.
• 3:05:40
  And that he had lost a very significant amount of blood.
• 3:05:44
  As they waited for the outcome of their son's surgery, the
• 3:05:47
  Dandies were once again greeted by the officer who had knocked
• 3:05:51
  on their door. He explained to them that Randy
• 3:05:53
  had indeed been dropped off and that Mike had wrecked on his way
• 3:05:57
  back to the Dandy residence. But as he was being loaded into
• 3:06:01
  the ambulance, he kept saying that there was another person in
• 3:06:05
  the car with him. Although they believed him to be
• 3:06:08
  confused on account of his injuries, they went ahead and
• 3:06:11
  searched the area nonetheless, but another person was never
• 3:06:15
  found. After two weeks of being in a
• 3:06:18
  coma, Mike finally wakes up, but unfortunately has no
• 3:06:23
  recollection as to what exactly happened to him to cause the
• 3:06:27
  accident. Clara, however, believes that
• 3:06:31
  whatever presence that's been plugging their lives.
• 3:06:34
  Had to have been responsible for what happened to her son.
• 3:06:38
  After months of recovery for Mike and continued paranormal
• 3:06:42
  activity within the home, Father Alfonsus would return with Alex
• 3:06:47
  one last and final time at Claire's request to try and rid
• 3:06:51
  the home of the evil and persistent force that had
• 3:06:54
  drained the life out of all of them for years now.
• 3:06:59
  However, this time. Just the father and Alex would
• 3:07:02
  perform the cleansing inside the home themselves.
• 3:07:07
  As they moved from room to room, Alex would once again experience
• 3:07:11
  multiple visions of the past. His visions would tell him that
• 3:07:15
  of the seven spirits who he believed to be within the house,
• 3:07:20
  one was that of a young man who had been in some kind of a war
• 3:07:24
  or battle near where the property sits now.
• 3:07:27
  Another was that of a young girl.
• 3:07:29
  Who had passed from some sort of very painful illness and what
• 3:07:33
  was now Tina's room. And there was another spirit
• 3:07:37
  that seemed to be keeping herself and others trapped
• 3:07:41
  within the house. It was the spirit of a woman who
• 3:07:44
  was incredibly angry and resentful.
• 3:07:47
  She continued to be possessive depressive and just as angry and
• 3:07:52
  death as she was in life, refusing to pass on.
• 3:07:58
  Believing what they had identified to be the source of
• 3:08:00
  the paranormal activity, Father Al decided to take a different
• 3:08:04
  approach to the cleansing itself.
• 3:08:07
  Although an exorcism cannot be performed on a place, but rather
• 3:08:11
  has to be performed on an individual, the rights
• 3:08:14
  themselves could in theory be performed or added to a series
• 3:08:18
  of prayers to try and use their strong cleansing powers to clear
• 3:08:23
  out a home such as this one. So that's exactly what the
• 3:08:27
  father did. He began to perform the rights
• 3:08:30
  of exorcism within the house itself.
• 3:08:33
  As the prayers began to exit, his lips varying with intensity
• 3:08:38
  as the rights often do, the home began to literally shake, and
• 3:08:43
  the horrific moaning and wailing that had made itself present in
• 3:08:47
  the very first cleansing seemed to return with a vengeance,
• 3:08:52
  every horrible feeling banging. Knocking and scratching noise
• 3:08:57
  that the family had experienced thus far was present and seemed
• 3:09:02
  to be magnified. It takes hours, but eventually
• 3:09:06
  the rides are finished as the dust settles, so to speak.
• 3:09:11
  The home seems peaceful and blissful, like it did when the
• 3:09:15
  family had first visited and decided to buy the home.
• 3:09:19
  And again, for three more months, The family lives in
• 3:09:23
  peace. They like the persistent force
• 3:09:26
  that has manifested itself to be.
• 3:09:29
  The haunting begins again. The Dandy family, despite their
• 3:09:33
  best efforts, simply cannot take it anymore, decide to cut their
• 3:09:38
  losses and move. Unable to find a buyer for their
• 3:09:42
  house, they eventually declare bankruptcy.
• 3:09:46
  Shortly after this, Phil and Clara would also divorce.
• 3:09:51
  Bringing a sad and bitter end to what was supposed to be a rural
• 3:09:55
  redemption for the Dandy family. However, this wouldn't be the
• 3:10:01
  end of the story of the Hinsdale house.
• 3:10:05
  Eventually, the home would come into the possession of Daniel
• 3:10:09
  Klaus, who currently owns it. Daniel's a renowned paranormal
• 3:10:13
  investigator and has been involved with the likes of Nick
• 3:10:17
  Groff and has made appearances. On tons of national TV programs
• 3:10:22
  centered around the paranormal over the years.
• 3:10:25
  Having been raised in a haunted house, this led to a lifelong
• 3:10:29
  fascination with the paranormal forum.
• 3:10:32
  After years of restoration, it is now available for both
• 3:10:36
  investigations and tours and is still considered a very active
• 3:10:41
  paranormal portal and is kept open as a paranormal research
• 3:10:45
  location. It's even staged in the 1970s
• 3:10:49
  period to maintain the integrity of when the hauntings were
• 3:10:53
  initially known to have began. But now that we know the back
• 3:10:57
  story of the 20th and into the 21st century of the Hinsdale
• 3:11:01
  House, just who owned it, what happened to them, and who owns
• 3:11:05
  it now, I would like to shift your attention to some of the
• 3:11:09
  plausible theories as to what could have caused the haunting.
• 3:11:13
  Many theories of what could have caused the haunting have been
• 3:11:16
  formed over the years by the many people who have researched
• 3:11:20
  and have been interested in the case.
• 3:11:22
  One theory is that the home was built on top of an Indian burial
• 3:11:26
  mount. This, of course, could have
• 3:11:28
  disturbed the spirits of the natives that rested within the
• 3:11:31
  land, and although tribes who use this method of burial were
• 3:11:35
  present in the area back in history, there's little to no
• 3:11:39
  evidence to support this claim. But perhaps any evidence by this
• 3:11:43
  point could have long since been lost to the sands of time, or
• 3:11:47
  could have been removed when the home was initially built.
• 3:11:51
  Another theory is that the home was at one point used as a
• 3:11:55
  Stagecoach in and passerbys were murdered either near or within
• 3:11:59
  the home itself, leading to their spirits being trapped
• 3:12:03
  within the home or on its land, although there is evidence that
• 3:12:07
  a Stagecoach route did run very close to the home.
• 3:12:11
  There isn't direct evidence that the house itself was used as an
• 3:12:14
  end, but it is possible murders also did take place in or around
• 3:12:19
  the area in which the home is now located, which could lend
• 3:12:23
  credence to the theories of criminals robbing and murdering
• 3:12:27
  people along the Stagecoach route.
• 3:12:30
  An old family from the area that used to own the home with the
• 3:12:33
  last name of McMahon also lends credence to the home being used
• 3:12:38
  as an end at some point. The now past grandfather of the
• 3:12:41
  family used to tell stories of a road that passed by the house or
• 3:12:46
  stagecoaches traveled. Another theory is that one or
• 3:12:51
  several of the spirits were trapped as a result of hangings
• 3:12:55
  that took place there. The now famous hanging tree that
• 3:12:59
  sits near the residence was indeed used for executions for a
• 3:13:03
  time. Most famously, it seems, was the
• 3:13:06
  execution of a woman named Elizabeth.
• 3:13:10
  Elizabeth was pregnant. Could this perhaps be the spirit
• 3:13:14
  of the woman who was angry and refusing to leave?
• 3:13:19
  Other events, such as a homicide that took place in the year 2000
• 3:13:23
  near the house, as well as a buzz saw incident that led to a
• 3:13:27
  boy's death, have led many to believe that whatever haunts,
• 3:13:31
  the area could indeed still be there and influencing our world.
• 3:13:37
  It's important in my opinion. To try and get the story and the
• 3:13:41
  facts as straight as possible, not only for the current owners
• 3:13:44
  benefit, but for the Dandies who have suffered greatly as a
• 3:13:48
  result of their story becoming public, especially towards the
• 3:13:52
  end of their time at the property.
• 3:13:54
  As word got out that something strange was taking place at the
• 3:13:57
  house, a local paper ended up reaching out to the Dandies for
• 3:14:01
  a statement. Thinking that they were
• 3:14:03
  accepting an opportunity for additional outside help, they
• 3:14:07
  gave their story. Only to be met with ridicule
• 3:14:10
  from the paper, which in turn led to ridicule from the public
• 3:14:14
  and nearby residents. Which this combined with the
• 3:14:18
  paranormal torment they were experiencing along with then
• 3:14:21
  having to file bankruptcy and then later divorce.
• 3:14:25
  In my opinion, they suffered greatly and did not benefit from
• 3:14:30
  the story, especially during that time.
• 3:14:33
  The only benefit I've seen could be from Clara Miller, formerly
• 3:14:37
  Clara Dandy. Who would eventually write a
• 3:14:40
  book known as Echoes of a Haunting?
• 3:14:43
  But to be fair, if I experienced even a portion of what she did,
• 3:14:47
  I would eventually write a book to catalog what happened as
• 3:14:50
  well. Not only for some monetary
• 3:14:52
  benefit, of course, but for my own sanity, really.
• 3:14:57
  So, as I've began to mention, and will continue to mention
• 3:15:00
  again in the future, if you ever encounter anyone mentioned in
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  this video or any of my other videos, whether it be in person.
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  Or online. Please be respectful of them and
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  their experiences and do not ever harass anyone.
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  And if you find yourself seemingly handed an opportunity
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  that seems too good to be true, the answer to your prayers, it's
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  more than likely not the case. It could be a nightmare waiting
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  to happen. It could be a haunted home
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  infested with entities sitting and waiting for the perfect
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  victim. Don't let it be you.