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2 Hours of Real Paranormal Encounters (100% Human Narration) · Mystery Archives Episodes

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  When a young family seeking a bright future moves into a new
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  house, it seems as if their dreams have come true until a
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  malevolent force makes itself known.
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  Tormented visions and violent attacks leave them all
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  questioning just what insidious force slithers behind the walls
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  of their new home. Will they make it out alive?
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  Or will the entity known as? Sally.
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  Keep them as playmates forever. This is a case I have personal
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  experience with and it certainly is very unnerving.
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  I wouldn't recommend watching this video in the dark unless
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  you like a challenge. Located in northeast Kansas is a
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  town known as Atchison, situated on the Bluffs of the Missouri
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  River and offering sweeping views of the River Valley
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  beyond. Grand Victorian homes and
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  cobblestone roads recall glorious days when wealthy
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  lumber merchants and railroad magnates once occupied the town.
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  But as one walks the streets today, they can't help but feel
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  a tingle down their spine and a cold shutter in their soul.
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  It seems to be a kind of hotspot that harbors otherworldly
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  forces. The time is March of 1993.
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  Newly married couple Tony and Deborah Pikman begin renting a
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  house in Atchison. After weeks of unboxing their
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  belongings, their new house is finally starting to feel like a
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  home. In the words of Tony Pikman, we
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  had finally moved into a new place.
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  My wife was expecting and we were just very much looking
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  forward to starting a family together.
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  It was a good time for us and with Deborah Pikman later saying
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  that we thought the home was perfect for us.
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  It was spacious, it had several bedrooms, and we just knew that
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  it was the perfect house. But what they failed to realize
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  was that this house was far from perfect for anyone.
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  After about a month of living there, strange things began to
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  occur. First, the TV began to turn on
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  and off by. Itself.
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  And small objects like their keys began to move on their own.
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  Thinking that perhaps they were misremembering where they had
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  placed their keys and the TV turning on and off was possibly
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  faulty wiring, they contacted their landlord about the matter.
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  But after having an electrician come out, you would find nothing
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  wrong with the wiring. Although old, it was functioning
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  as intended. Although the Pikmins thought the
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  happenings were strange, they simply overlooked them.
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  Later that summer, Deborah would give birth to a baby boy who
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  they would name Taylor. And when the young family comes
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  back home from the hospital, Deborah's sister Karen flies in
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  from Buffalo, NY to help her sister get some much needed rest
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  as she begins to heal from giving birth and starts
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  adjusting to taking care of a newborn.
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  Although the help is greatly. Appreciated, it seems to pass
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  quickly. Although the Pikmans are still
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  adjusting to the late night cries of their newborn son, his
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  Christ seemed to wake up more than just his parents.
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  One afternoon, while Tony hangs pictures upstairs, he sees a
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  shadow move out of the corner of his eye.
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  He then hears the giggle. Of a little girl.
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  Finding this odd, he glances around his general area, and
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  it's here that he discovers something even stranger.
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  There and his son's nursery on the floor is all of Taylor,
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  stuffed animals neatly arranged in a circle.
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  Thinking this was bizarre, they ultimately would laugh it off,
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  thinking that perhaps someone they knew had to come into the
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  home and played a prank on them, that perhaps they didn't notice
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  it until now. They thought that maybe Tony's
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  brother Alan, who was a known prankster, was to blame.
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  Laughing it off, they went back to what they had been doing
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  previously. It wasn't until a few minutes
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  later that Deborah would walk back by the nursery and notice
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  the exact same thing had occurred again.
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  All of her son's stuffed toys were arranged in a circle and
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  all facing outward yet again on the floor.
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  Now unsure of what was causing these strange happenings, they
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  checked all their windows and doors.
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  They were all locked. If it was Tony's brother Allen,
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  they don't know how he would have been getting in and out
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  without any of them noticing and within a matter of minutes the
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  following morning, Tony had his brother come over to their
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  house. It's important to note that
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  Allen did live next door to the Pigments at this time, once they
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  had all gotten settled on the couches in the living.
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  Room. Tony began to ask.
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  So, Allen, just how did you get in and out of our house last
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  night without any of us noticing?
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  It was in this moment that Tony began to worry.
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  Although he and his brother had always played tricks on one
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  another, his brother wasn't known to be a liar.
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  Alan looked back at him, genuinely confused.
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  He told Tony that he had no idea what he was talking about, that
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  he wasn't even home last night. Finding an opportunity for a
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  laugh, however, Allen then starts asking Tony if he thinks
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  that he has a ghost. He then takes his brother's
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  camera and starts snapping photos around the house while
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  asking is there a presence here with us and if so, make the
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  stuffed animals move again. Do something As Tony and Deborah
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  follow Allen, the three are then left in utter shock as a stuffed
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  bear sitting on a nearby small chair is suddenly thrown onto
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  the floor by something they can't see.
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  Taking what they had just seen as some kind of a warning, Tony,
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  Deborah and Allen take baby Taylor and rush outside into the
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  family's vehicle as the baby cries.
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  As Tony buckles them into the car seat, Tony cries as well,
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  but out of pain. He suddenly feels a sharp
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  stinging sensation coming from his back.
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  Thinking it was a bee sting or a spider bite, he finishes
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  buckling the baby in and then. Closes the door.
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  He figures he'll check it out later.
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  Allen then heads back to his house next door and Debbie and
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  Tony with their baby drive across town to Tony's parents
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  house. After arriving, the stinging
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  sensation on Tony's back has only grown more noticeable.
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  Again thinking it was a bee sting or a spider bite, he
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  finally has his wife take a look at it.
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  Upon lifting up his shirt she starts to freak out.
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  From Tony's lower back to up by his shoulder blades are what
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  appear to be 3 very distinct and fresh claw marks.
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  Her anxiety is soon felt by everyone in the house.
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  After discussing what had been occurring amongst themselves,
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  the Pikmans now think that what they could be experiencing may
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  be evil. Coming to this conclusion leaves
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  their heads spiraling, making them ponder a number of
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  questions. Just what will they do?
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  Will they go back to the house? Where could they go if they
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  don't? And much more.
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  Together, Debbie and Tony do their best to calm down and to
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  face the decision that they have to make head on as a couple.
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  In Tony's words, we were newly married.
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  We had just started a family. We didn't have the money or the
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  resources to be able to afford to move again.
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  We were essentially bled out. We had a baby and we needed a
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  place to stay. So we decided to go back that
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  night. Although incredibly apprehensive
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  about doing so, the Pikmins seemingly have no other choice.
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  The following day, Tony meets up with his brother Alan yet again.
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  Alan seems to have an idea on how to tackle the situation.
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  Alan tells Debbie and Tony that his boss's sister is a psychic
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  medium, and he thinks that they should invite her to try and
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  figure out what could be residing within the house and if
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  she's able to decipher that, finding this proposal weird
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  because they've never delved into anything like this.
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  Before. But feeling like it couldn't
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  hurt to give it a try, they agreed to have Alan reach out
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  and ask her to come to the house.
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  Three days later, she would arrive.
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  Her name was Barbara. Originally based out of
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  California, she actively engaged in psychic work and lectured at
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  various universities about parapsychology.
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  Not having been given any information about the house or
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  its history, she sat in the living room and explained to the
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  Pikmans what it was that she did, and then asked them to tell
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  her everything that had occurred up until that point so that she
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  could fully grasp. The whole picture.
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  After they went through it all with Barbara, she then asked
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  them to visit the nursery to begin.
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  Tony would later say that I don't really believe in
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  psychics, so I kind of blew her. Off at first.
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  I didn't know what to think. Barbara begins her process and
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  quickly begins to lose her breath.
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  She starts choking and coughing. She then flees the room, heading
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  for the basement below. Tony later would say that she
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  told us that whatever was here didn't want us here and that it
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  doesn't like anyone in this room referring to the nursery.
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  As the pigments follow Barbara down the stairs, she soon stops
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  at the bottom of them, begins to sense another spirit, but this
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  one doesn't seem ominous. She discovers that the spirit is
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  that of a 7 year old little girl named Sally.
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  She believes. Sally passed away.
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  Within the home itself, she also would come to the conclusion
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  that it was Sally who had attacked Tony, believing that
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  baby Taylor was hers to protect. She had become territorial
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  between Deborah and Barbara. They come to the consensus that
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  Sally is a guardian of sorts, that it would be a good idea to
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  set aside a space for her and to give her some toys of her own to
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  appease her. Tony, however, thought that this
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  wasn't a good idea at all. He still believed that whatever
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  dwelled within their house was malevolent and evil.
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  That it was a bad. Idea for them to interact with
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  whatever this thing was in any way, shape or form.
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  However, disregarding her husband, Deborah does exactly
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  this. After the psychic departs
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  several days later, Deborah would go shopping for toys for
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  Sally, hoping that her offerings would appease the spirit and all
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  would be well. She also picks up the developed
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  film from the photos that Tony took during the psychics visit.
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  Excited to see if any of them contained an image of Sally, she
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  quickly opens up the envelope to look at them.
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  What she sees. However, disturbs her.
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  Several of the photos are bizarrely distorted, and one
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  even contains some kind of malignant looking black BLOB.
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  Horrified, Deborah rushes back home with the photos and the
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  toys in hand. Walking through the front door,
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  she immediately shows Tony having been the one who took the
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  photos. He doesn't know what to make of
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  the anomalies. One photo in particular catches
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  his attention in his own words. The picture that really got me
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  as we were walking down the stairs with Barbara, I turned
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  around and took a picture and floating mid air is this thing.
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  I couldn't explain it, it made me scared.
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  Following looking at the photos, Deb once again references
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  Barbara's convictions and continues to believe that Sally
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  is a protector. She then continues with her plan
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  and makes a dedicated space for Sally and adds the toys to it.
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  Although Tony believes that the force haunting their home is
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  evil, things do seem to go dormant for a short period of
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  time following the offerings to Sally.
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  However, this piece would not last.
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  Several weeks later, Deb's sister Karen would return again
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  for a follow up visit, and this time along with her husband.
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  As the couples catch up on what's been happening in their
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  lives, Deborah and Tony walk into the kitchen and grab
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  themselves and their guests some more food and drinks.
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  Their nice evening is soon interrupted by a piercing scream
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  there before Karen and her husband, a stuffed animal, the
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  same one that had fallen before, that was sitting in one of the
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  chairs, had suddenly and spontaneously caught fire before
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  their very eyes. As Tony and Deborah rushed back
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  into the living room, they too were left flabbergasted at the
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  sight. Tony then rushes in with a towel
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  to extinguish the fire. In his own words, if it can do
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  this, what's keeping it from setting one of us on fire or
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  hurting us or harming the baby? Following the flames of the
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  previous evening, Deborah tries to convince her husband that the
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  fire was an isolated incident. And for the next two weeks,
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  thanks at the house remain eerily calm.
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  Tony, who works the overnight graveyard shift at a nearby
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  grain elevator. Adjusts his day to his schedule.
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  Upon returning home from work in the early morning hours, he
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  tends to eat a meal when he gets home.
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  One particular morning, following the calmness within
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  the home, he grabs himself a glass of juice and something to
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  eat. As he goes to place the pitcher
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  of juice back in the refrigerator, he sees something
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  move out of the corner of his eye.
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  Turning his head, pitcher's still in hand, he sees the
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  apparition of a young girl before him.
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  Shocked, he drops the pitcher of juice and it shatters on the
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  floor almost as soon as the pitcher had broke.
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  As it smashed into the floor below, the apparition vanished.
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  Paying no mind to it, Tony quickly runs upstairs where he
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  greets his wife in their bedroom, barely able to get a
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  word out he's finally able to say to her.
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  I just saw Sally. Intrigued, Deborah immediately
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  asked just what she looked like and then proceeds to bombard him
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  with many more questions. Rather than being scared, Deb is
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  elated. She's more curious than ever
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  before in her own words. I was terribly jealous Tony got
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  to see this little girl or the apparition of her.
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  She's curious just why, of all people, Sally would reveal
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  herself to Tony. She wonders why she didn't
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  reveal herself to her. For the next two months, things
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  once again go dormant within the home, But this too wouldn't
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  last. One night, as the moon hangs
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  high above the Pikmin residence as the couple sleeps, Tony is
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  suddenly and violently pulled forward and then up and out of
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  his bed by his arms, absolutely petrified.
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  Tony screams as he realizes just what has taken place.
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  He then as further bewildered as he looks down at his wrists.
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  There on both of them were five distinct finger markings, as if
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  someone or something had grabbed him.
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  But the outline themselves weren't just there.
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  These outlines looked like they were burns, as if the fingers
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  themselves had been seared into his flesh.
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  Blisters were now starting to form where each invisible hand
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  had been. As he tries to come to terms
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  with his terrifying ordeal, Deb still refuses to believe that it
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  has anything to do with Sally. She thinks that his lack of
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  sleep from being a new father and working the overnight shift
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  started to get to him. However, upon seeing the
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  blisters, she's almost in a sense of denial, saying that
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  surely the spirit of a 7 year old girl would not be able to
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  pull a grown man out of a bed or leave such marks.
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  But if she somehow did, what was the message that she was trying
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  to convey? Given everything that had taken
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  place? A resentment began to build
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  within Tony towards his wife. Accompanying this, he began to
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  hear whispers on almost a daily basis.
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  This would typically occur when he would lay down during the day
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  to try and sleep. So he could get.
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  Back up and work at the grain elevator.
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  To him, the whispers did not sound like that of a child at
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  all, but rather like 3 low voiced people speaking to one
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  another. They would also seem so close as
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  if they were talking simultaneously directly into
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  his. Ears.
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  During one particularly scary experience involving the
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  whispering, Tony also begins to see items near the bed float and
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  rotate by themselves as if suspended by an invisible force
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  as he screams, wanting all of it to stop.
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  He. Is greeted by his wife after
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  explaining what he had just experienced.
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  Unfortunately, she doesn't believe him given what he had
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  been saying, that he had been seeing shadowy figures, hearing
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  whispers, having nightmares as she perceived them.
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  She thought that lack of sleep and stress was causing him to
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  make things up. Tony is starting to believe that
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  whatever force that haunts the house is targeting him, that
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  it's attempting to manipulate his feelings.
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  Coming to terms with this, he also realizes just how hard it's
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  becoming to hide his growing resentment towards Deborah.
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  He keeps having feelings of a dark rage well up inside him,
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  feelings that he's worried could turn violent.
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  In his own words. These feelings were not like me.
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  I love her so much and I would never do anything to hurt her.
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  But the longer we were there, the stronger these feelings were
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  becoming. Tony, of course, wasn't the only
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  one to notice these changes. Deborah noticed them too.
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  There had been a large shift in his demeanor and attitude.
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  He seemed angry, short fused, and argumentative.
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  The couple began to fight almost daily, which hadn't been like
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  them at all in the past. The Pikmans decide that they
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  want to reach back out to Barbara for another consultation
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  to see if they could potentially gain any new information on the
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  presence that seemed to be everywhere and yet nowhere at
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  the same time. In due time, Barbara again would
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  visit them and upon her arrival would be told just how things
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  had developed. She attempts to contact Sally
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  once again after she believes she's made contact.
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  With her. She then begins to sense a
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  second entity. This one, however, is much older
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  and seems to refuse to interact with her.
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  She believes that this adult entity is a female and the one
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  that has been targeting Tony and that Sally has been taking the
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  blame. However, she comes to the
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  conviction that whatever is happening within the home is
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  beyond her expertise. What she does offer though, is
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  that she would contact a very qualified group of paranormal
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  investigators. Tony's reaction at first is
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  harsh and in his own words, once again.
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  At first I was like no way, we live in a small town, we'd be
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  the laughingstock. If it wasn't a spirit in the
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  house, then the only other thing that I could think it could be
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  was the devil and that scared me to death.
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  After discussing the matter further with his wife and
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  Barbara, he finally agrees to give the Group A try.
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  Within days the paranormal group would arrive.
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  The group is led by, at that time, world renowned medium and
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  paranormal researcher Peter James.
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  In his words, a ghost is the ethereal double of its physical
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  counterpart. We become a ghost depending on
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  the circumstances in which we die.
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  If we die untimely, tragically or violently, then we are
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  rendered a ghost. I prefer not knowing any details
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  about any specific haunting in which I investigate.
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  It's my job to identify what's causing the activity, not being
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  informed of the information previously, only that the family
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  was young and had a young boy. As he sits in the living room
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  and speaks with the Pikmans, he asked them if they had a young
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  daughter as well, perhaps of seven or eight years old,
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  telling him no. Peter remarked that it was
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  strange because when he arrived, he saw such a young girl staring
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  at them from one of the upstairs windows.
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  Starting to explore the home, Peter begins to sense that there
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  are two entities, one that is a child and the other an older
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  adult woman who is very powerful.
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  Upon asking the name of the entities out loud, he would
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  reply with Sally. It's good to meet you.
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  As he embarks up the stairs, he makes his way into the Pikmin's
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  master bedroom and starts feeling the presence of the
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  older female. As he steps further into the
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  room with his crew and the Pikmin's behind him, Peter is
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  suddenly thrown back against the door and almost simultaneously,
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  Tony begins to scream in pain. My.
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  Back, he says. Debbie lifts up his shirt and
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  sees that once again his back is covered in fresh scratches, deep
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  ones to the point to where they drew blood.
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  Peter is astonished. He now knows that his older
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  woman's presence is not a +1. Telling everyone not to let the
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  entity know that they are afraid of it, they reluctantly press
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  on. The crew spends the rest of the
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  day investigating the home, and during this time, Peter once
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  again begins walking back upstairs as if something or
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  someone was calling out to him, and it's here that he begins to
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  have a vision. In his vision, he's taken back
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  into the past and he begins to see the spirits as they were in
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  life. He believed that the home was
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  once the home and practice of a medical physician.
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  His housekeeper and her daughter lived there with him as well.
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  The housekeeper was also his mistress and the daughter was
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  also his. The housekeeper was African
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  American and their daughter half and in such racially divided
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  times, the affair and their secret child were kept hidden.
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  Sally was her name and she was their seven-year old daughter.
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  Peter believed that Sally had contracted pneumonia and her
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  father, although a doctor, was unable to save her.
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  Although the secret family and Sally's death are tragic, Peter
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  tells the Pikmans that it's not fair for them to be victimized
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  by the dead in their own home. That in order to rid themselves
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  of this torment, that they must cleanse the house.
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  That they were in control, but it was ultimately up to them to
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  restore order. And with these words of advice,
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  he and his crew would depart. The Pikmans decide that they
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  will stay in the house and will do their best to set the rules
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  and stand their ground. Several weeks pass and despite
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  their best efforts, the atmosphere has only grown
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  heavier, the torment even worse. Especially for Tony, his sleep
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  has become even more scarce and his thoughts grow more and more
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  evil. He can't shake the angry
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  feelings and it's becoming more worried that he may end up
• 25:40
  harming his wife and or himself, that he feels as if this
• 25:45
  darkness is slowly consuming him.
• 25:49
  He finally confronts Deborah and explains exactly how he feels,
• 25:54
  that he believes that if they don't leave the house that
• 25:57
  something horrible may end up happening.
• 26:00
  Finally understanding the pressure her husband was under,
• 26:04
  she agrees with him and begins looking at ads for a new home
• 26:08
  for the family. In the meantime, Tony attempts
• 26:12
  to sleep due to work in the graveyard shift.
• 26:16
  As he lays in bed tossing and turning, he's once again
• 26:20
  consumed by the ever growing and almost overwhelming.
• 26:24
  Thoughts. Of wanting to harm his family.
• 26:28
  Feeling as if he was under attack, he rushes out of the
• 26:32
  room and yells for Deborah. He tells her to grab Taylor,
• 26:37
  that they were leaving, that he had finally reached his breaking
• 26:41
  point. Fortunately for the Pickman
• 26:43
  family, they find a house shortly after leaving what would
• 26:47
  become known as the Sally House. The heaviness, the anger, and
• 26:54
  the spiritual torment would cease.
• 26:58
  But given what the Pikmans had gone through, it's also
• 27:01
  important to note that the Sally House certainly has a dark and
• 27:05
  checkered history that existed long before their arrival.
• 27:10
  Originally built in 1867 by the Finney family, it served as a
• 27:16
  generational home. Several generations of the
• 27:19
  family lived there between 1867 and 1939.
• 27:25
  During that time, 5 confirmed deaths occurred within the
• 27:28
  family. Michael Finney in 1872, Charles
• 27:35
  Catherine's father, the wife of Michael Finney, Kate Finney and
• 27:40
  Richard Finney in 1874, and finally Agnes Finney in 1939.
• 27:47
  There are multiple stories about.
• 27:49
  Sally. That she passed away from
• 27:52
  pneumonia. The origin.
• 27:53
  I previously told him this story, but there is also another
• 27:57
  which I will tell you now. The story goes that Charles
• 28:01
  Finney, the son of Michael and Kate, became a doctor and made
• 28:06
  the house both his residence and his practice.
• 28:10
  The front served as an office space and an examination room
• 28:14
  while the family lived upstairs. One day a frantic mother arrived
• 28:20
  carrying her six year old daughter Sally, who had
• 28:23
  collapsed from severe abdominal pain.
• 28:26
  The doctor quickly diagnosed her with an appendicitis, and new
• 28:31
  surgery was urgent. Without delay, he prepped Sally
• 28:35
  for the operation using ether, the anesthesia that was
• 28:39
  available at that time. Tragically, Sally wasn't fully
• 28:44
  unconscious As the first incision was made.
• 28:48
  She screamed and thrashed in pain.
• 28:52
  Despite the doctor's efforts to restrain her and administer more
• 28:56
  anesthesia, Sally's condition worsened.
• 28:59
  She would go into shock and ultimately die on the operating
• 29:03
  table, her final moments filled with agony and fear.
• 29:10
  The home left the Finney family in 1939 and passed through
• 29:14
  various owners before becoming a rental property.
• 29:18
  At least one tenant may have been involved in satanic
• 29:21
  rituals, which some believe contributed to the sinister
• 29:25
  activity associated with the house.
• 29:28
  Paranormal Activity wasn't reported until Tony and Deborah
• 29:31
  Pikmin began renting the. House.
• 29:34
  Intrigued by the paranormal claims, the property owner, Les
• 29:38
  Smith, investigated and discovered a pentagram beneath
• 29:42
  the basement floorboards. Many believe that this may have
• 29:45
  been evidence of rituals that summoned something demonic.
• 29:49
  Subsequent investigations reveal blood evidence in the master
• 29:53
  bedroom closet and tattered clothing in the attic after the
• 29:57
  pigments. However, reports of electronic
• 30:00
  malfunctions, Evps, physical attacks, and other poltergeist
• 30:06
  activity have further cemented the house's reputation as a
• 30:10
  hotspot for paranormal occurrences.
• 30:14
  I've visited the Sally House myself.
• 30:16
  It was actually my very first paranormal investigation, albeit
• 30:21
  amateur at best at that time. It certainly was an excellent
• 30:24
  experience getting into the field, although for a variety of
• 30:28
  reasons, I don't think the Sally House is as haunted as it once
• 30:31
  was. However, we did experience a few
• 30:35
  strange things when I went with a few friends of mine.
• 30:38
  We arrived in the summer of 2022 and it was easily close to 100°F
• 30:44
  outside, and the home, being very old, didn't have great AC
• 30:50
  as we would later learn. However, when we stepped inside
• 30:54
  for the first time, we were taken aback because it was
• 30:57
  absolutely frigid by comparison. This blast of cold air only
• 31:02
  lasted several seconds. The temperature did not
• 31:06
  fluctuate like it had then for the rest of the night.
• 31:10
  I also remember personally checking the thermostat and it
• 31:14
  was set at like 85 or something crazy so the actual air
• 31:18
  conditioning wasn't even on until we turned it on.
• 31:21
  So I found that weird to say the least.
• 31:24
  The record player and TV turned on by themselves multiple times
• 31:28
  throughout the night, which of course we found odd.
• 31:32
  The old record player didn't have any sort of a timer
• 31:35
  whatsoever, and given the age of the CRTV as well, it didn't
• 31:39
  appear to have a timer that we could find that would have
• 31:42
  caused this. Besides some strange feelings
• 31:45
  throughout the day and then into the night, we didn't get a ton
• 31:49
  of interaction through the kitchen.
• 31:51
  Although it was blocked off, we decided to look past it and go
• 31:54
  down the stairs and witness the pentagram, which for one reason
• 31:58
  or another had been burned out on the floor in the basement.
• 32:02
  And I do have to say that the basement itself was extremely
• 32:05
  creepy. You could feel some very bad
• 32:07
  vibes originating from there. So I wouldn't be surprised if
• 32:11
  some kind of black magic ritual or rituals were potentially done
• 32:15
  down there. I almost forgot, but as I was
• 32:18
  reviewing the original footage, I did find that we did capture
• 32:22
  an EVP and I'll go ahead and play that for you now.
• 32:47
  With black mold in the walls of this very old home, we decided
• 32:51
  not to stay overnight because you weren't supposed to sleep
• 32:54
  there anyways. Having taken plenty of video and
• 32:58
  photo evidence, we began to place things we had taken from
• 33:02
  Sally's room back and when my friend, whose name is also Cody
• 33:06
  but with AC, placed one of those Magic 8 ball toys back on the
• 33:10
  bed, a touch activated toy decided to go off on its own.
• 33:14
  In this particular 1, you had to tap its head fairly hard to get
• 33:18
  it to go off. I remember all of us being
• 33:21
  freaked out by it. I remember it was extremely
• 33:24
  foggy that night, which added to the mystique, especially of my
• 33:28
  first paranormal adventure for sure.
• 33:31
  Or one that didn't occur of course, in in a home that I
• 33:34
  lived in. We took one last look at the
• 33:36
  Sally house before departing. Into our shock, all the lights
• 33:41
  decided to turn on within the home.
• 33:43
  From what we could see, both the upstairs and the main floor
• 33:47
  lights. The breaker was the original.
• 33:49
  So this too seems rather impossible to have just occurred
• 33:53
  on its own without some kind of ghostly intervention.
• 33:57
  Our code only worked for entering so we weren't able to
• 33:59
  get back into the home following this, but granted it was 2:00 AM
• 34:03
  at this point so we decided to drive home.
• 34:07
  We would hit a pothole and one of our tires kept going flat on
• 34:10
  our way home, which definitely was not fun all around.
• 34:15
  I would return, knowing what I know now and having much better
• 34:20
  equipment and resources and far more experienced friends by my
• 34:24
  side. I think we would catch a lot
• 34:27
  more. It's my belief that for one
• 34:30
  reason or another, that the Sally houses may be dormant or
• 34:33
  not as haunted as it once was, and that it's still very
• 34:37
  possible that a demonic presence still slithers within its walls,
• 34:42
  masquerading itself as the soul of a little girl named Sally.
• 34:47
  I took the original documentary down due to some copyrighted
• 34:50
  image issues earlier this year as well as the origin story that
• 34:54
  I had originally made, but I think I did a far better job
• 34:57
  this time. Anyways, some of the photos and
• 35:00
  footage I've shown you while explaining my trip there I
• 35:04
  originally took and filmed myself.
• 35:07
  The Sally House was made famous in part by the old show
• 35:10
  Sightings who filmed a segment for an episode on it which was
• 35:14
  picked up by local and then later national media.
• 35:18
  As well as Deborah Pikman would go on to write a book which I
• 35:21
  found to be a great read called The Sally House Haunting, which
• 35:25
  you can find on Amazon and I'll link it below.
• 35:29
  With that being said, would you like to see me return to the
• 35:32
  Sally House for a proper investigation and what are your
• 35:36
  thoughts on the case? What do you think is still
• 35:39
  haunting this Topeka, KS house? Let me know down in the comments
• 35:43
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• 35:53
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• 35:56
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• 35:59
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• 36:03
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• 36:33
  This has been Cody here at Mystery Archives.
• 36:36
  Remember to please stay safe out there and take care.
• 36:40
  I'll see you next time. Searching for the ideal place to
• 36:49
  settle, a young family moves into a new home, believing their
• 36:54
  prayers have been answered. However, just a year later, they
• 37:00
  find themselves gone, never to return.
• 37:04
  They're left questioning just who truly answered those prayers
• 37:07
  and what exactly invaded their lives.
• 37:11
  An enigmatic entity that perpetrated violence and terror
• 37:15
  upon them. The Untold story of the Black
• 37:19
  Monk of Pontifract. In September 1954, Bill Farah
• 37:47
  and his wife Barbara moved into a new home in the historic
• 37:51
  market town of Pontefract, England.
• 37:55
  They were a young family with a 2 year old daughter named Jane.
• 38:00
  At 30 E Drive with its three bedrooms, this should have been
• 38:05
  their ideal home. Yet less than a year later they
• 38:09
  moved out. The fairs quickly had grown
• 38:13
  terrified of their new home. Their dream had seemingly become
• 38:18
  a nightmare. Objects moved on their own,
• 38:22
  voices echoed and empty rooms and halls, and large rips and
• 38:27
  tears appeared on their furniture out of nowhere,
• 38:32
  forming an ominous atmosphere that began to smother them.
• 38:36
  All these events would culminate one night when Bill and Barbara
• 38:40
  found their daughter crying, her small face inexplicably covered
• 38:46
  in scratches, small trickles of blood dripping from each slash
• 38:52
  with no rational cause. The family had no pets to blame
• 38:57
  for their daughter Jane's injuries, and even after they
• 39:01
  placed cotton mitts on her hands, the wounds continued to
• 39:05
  appear. The poor child.
• 39:08
  Cried every night, leaving her parents scared and confused
• 39:13
  about what to do and just what could be happening.
• 39:18
  One day, Barbara frantically rushed upstairs at the piercing
• 39:22
  sound of her child's cries. What she discovered would shake
• 39:27
  her to her core. She would find a pillow placed
• 39:31
  over Jane's face as if someone or something was attempting to
• 39:37
  extinguish her young life. At that moment, the answer
• 39:42
  became clear. The family had to leave, and
• 39:46
  leave immediately. So they did.
• 39:50
  They would leave the house and its dark forces, friends and
• 39:55
  neighbors of the Pharaohs. The Pritchard family would be
• 39:59
  convinced by the Pharaoh family to switch homes with them,
• 40:03
  ultimately leaving them at the mercy of whatever malevolent
• 40:06
  forces that dwelt within the walls.
• 40:10
  August of 1966, the Pritchards would move into the old Pharaoh
• 40:15
  residence. Their new home was quite a bit
• 40:18
  larger than their last and seemed to be the answer to their
• 40:22
  prayers. The Pritchard family consisted
• 40:25
  of father Joe, mother Jean, and their small children, daughter
• 40:30
  Diane and son Philip. Shortly after moving in,
• 40:35
  however, the same strange occurrences began to manifest.
• 40:40
  Strange sounds such as banging and knocking began to be heard
• 40:45
  reverberating throughout the house with no rational origin.
• 40:51
  Horrid's smells began to waft throughout the house as well,
• 40:55
  again with no explanation as to what could be causing them.
• 41:00
  The children 1st and then the parents began to be terrified by
• 41:05
  a shadowy dark figure that began to make its presence known at
• 41:11
  various hours of the day and night, seemingly watching.
• 41:16
  Their every move. Gene Pritchard ended up giving
• 41:20
  the creepy figure several nicknames.
• 41:23
  She called it Fred and Mr. Nobody, but history would come
• 41:28
  to know the entity by a very different and certainly a
• 41:31
  scarier name by most standards. The black monk of Pontefract.
• 41:38
  The Pritchards, noticing that these happenings were far from
• 41:42
  normal, approached their former neighbors, the Pharaohs, and
• 41:47
  asked them if they had ever experienced anything weird when
• 41:51
  they had lived there. The Pharaohs would say no in
• 41:56
  August of 1980. The Pritchard family had long
• 42:01
  been suffering from the haunting.
• 42:04
  Colin Wilson, a well known writer on subjects including the
• 42:08
  paranormal and mysticism, visited the family after being
• 42:13
  tipped off by a local historian, a man named Tom Kun of.
• 42:18
  Kun of had stumbled across newspaper clippings from the
• 42:21
  late 1960s alleging that a Pontifract family had
• 42:26
  experienced poltergeist phenomena.
• 42:29
  As he dug deeper into the history of the area, he
• 42:32
  discovered a rather disturbing story, one that he believed
• 42:37
  could be connected to the haunting itself.
• 42:40
  In the 16th century, a monk was executed for the brutal assault
• 42:45
  and murders of several young victims.
• 42:49
  Upon reading that the family was being stalked by a shadowy,
• 42:52
  roped figure, he put two and two together during his research.
• 42:58
  Upon discovering that the family still lived in the same house,
• 43:02
  couldn't have contacted Wilson, prompting Wilson to journey to.
• 43:06
  Yorkshire to interview them. To see if perhaps they could get
• 43:10
  to the bottom of things. With the information provided by
• 43:14
  Wilson's records, a more detailed version of the haunting
• 43:18
  chronologically begins to emerge.
• 43:22
  According to Wilson's records, in August 1966, on that Thursday
• 43:28
  most of the family Joe Pritchard, his wife Jean and
• 43:33
  their 12 year old daughter Diane were on holiday in Devon,
• 43:38
  leaving their 15 year old son Philip and Jean's mother Sarah
• 43:42
  Scholes and her sister Marie at home.
• 43:46
  Philip had reached the age when family holidays had lost their
• 43:49
  appeal, so as most adolescents do, he spent much time to
• 43:54
  himself reading in the family garden.
• 43:58
  That Thursday, while outside, Philip returned indoors to get
• 44:02
  himself a drink. As he did this, he noticed
• 44:06
  something bizarre. His grandmother, sitting in the
• 44:10
  living room heavily focused on her knitting, was completely
• 44:14
  oblivious to a Gray hued cloud floating around her.
• 44:19
  Philip would later say that it was a chalk like powdery
• 44:23
  substance, and from this cloud it appeared to be falling from,
• 44:28
  not from the ceiling. The top half of the room was
• 44:31
  perfectly clear, and yet curious dust seemed to materialize from
• 44:37
  nowhere. Weirded out, Philip returned to
• 44:40
  the kitchen only to find several large pools of water covering
• 44:44
  the floor with no apparent origin.
• 44:48
  Then heading back to the living room, he saw the dust or a cloud
• 44:54
  had continued to fall like a miniature snowstorm, forming a
• 44:58
  fine white layer on the furniture and even on top of his
• 45:03
  grandmother. Rushing to another room to get
• 45:06
  his aunt's attention, he would bring her out into the living
• 45:09
  room or she would notice the very same thing.
• 45:13
  Unsure of just what it could be, she called to her mother to gain
• 45:17
  her attention and get her out of whatever the cloud or strange
• 45:22
  powder seemed to be. Heading towards the kitchen to
• 45:25
  get her cleaned up, she too would notice the puddles of
• 45:28
  water everywhere. As Marie tried to mop up in the
• 45:32
  kitchen, new puddles supposedly manifested.
• 45:36
  She would pull up the linoleum to reveal no leak underneath,
• 45:40
  and the water wasn't falling from above them either.
• 45:44
  So just like the dust in the other room, the puddles seemed
• 45:48
  to have come from nowhere. The odd drama intensified when,
• 45:52
  after the water supply to the house was turned off by a
• 45:55
  helpful neighbor, the water company was called to the
• 45:59
  property. Pipes were checked, the linoleum
• 46:03
  lifted once again and drains examined, but nothing was found
• 46:08
  to be broken or blocked. The water companies suggested
• 46:12
  that some strange condensation caused by the summer weather
• 46:16
  might be responsible, but after about an hour they left and the
• 46:22
  mysterious puddles stopped appearing.
• 46:26
  However, before the day ended, more odd happenings were
• 46:29
  reported. Sugar and tea leaves were
• 46:32
  emptied from their dispensers in the kitchen and sprinkled all
• 46:36
  across the countertops. Cupboards vibrated and shook and
• 46:41
  loud bangs were heard from upstairs.
• 46:44
  A plant which was usually located at the foot of the
• 46:47
  staircase was also mysteriously transported halfway up it's pot,
• 46:52
  found separately on the landing above.
• 46:56
  Unable to tolerate the house any longer, Philip and his
• 46:59
  grandmother left with and would spend the night with Aunt Marie
• 47:04
  Vick Kelly. Marie's husband, unhappy with
• 47:08
  the strange situation, reportedly phoned the police to
• 47:12
  check on the House with Victoria present.
• 47:16
  Upon law enforcement's arrival, everything seemed normal, with
• 47:21
  no intruder being found. Nothing else seemed out of place
• 47:25
  either, until they found a glass shattered on the floor and one
• 47:31
  of Joe and Gene Pritchard's wedding photos.
• 47:34
  The photo itself slashed from side to side as if with a sharp
• 47:40
  knife. Chilled to his.
• 47:42
  Core Victoria simply followed the officers back outside of the
• 47:47
  home and then closed the front door of 30 E Drive and returned
• 47:54
  to his home. When Jean, Joe and Diane
• 47:58
  returned from their holiday, Sarah relayed the unsettling
• 48:02
  events to them. There was a disbelief at first
• 48:06
  that as she spoke, everyone would hear three loud and
• 48:10
  distinct bangs reverberate throughout the home.
• 48:15
  Then a cold wind blew through the house, almost as if the
• 48:20
  entity had perhaps left. But that was far from what would
• 48:27
  happen. It was merely seemingly taking a
• 48:31
  break. According to testimonies
• 48:34
  recorded by Colin Wilson, the haunting truly resumed for the
• 48:38
  Pritchards in 1968 when Jean decided to redecorate Diane's
• 48:44
  bedroom. As I've noticed while studying
• 48:47
  numerous other hauntings, construction or redecoration are
• 48:52
  essentially changing. What once was seems to be a way
• 48:56
  to disturb or wake up whatever forces, good or bad, that could
• 49:02
  be dwelling within a space. Following this, mysterious
• 49:06
  temperature changes began to be experienced.
• 49:10
  Inexplicable bangs and knocks once again plagued the family
• 49:15
  and daily household items such as, in one instance, a
• 49:19
  paintbrush began to be flung across the room by unseen hands.
• 49:25
  One just so happened to barely miss Jean's face by mere inches
• 49:30
  during the remodel itself. It's even been claimed that
• 49:34
  Missus Pritchard witnessed in the dim moonlight one night as
• 49:39
  she went to the bathroom, a long strip of wallpaper standing on
• 49:44
  end and swaying like a cobra. When she attempted to grab it,
• 49:51
  the strip simply fell to the floor, causing a feeling of fear
• 49:56
  to grip her that one would seldomly experience otherwise
• 50:02
  horrifically within the same room that was being remodeled.
• 50:07
  Not too long after this occurred, the family vacuum flew
• 50:11
  into the air, swinging around as if wielded by giant and visible
• 50:18
  hands. Screaming, Jean dropped onto all
• 50:23
  fours and rushed back to her daughter as wallpaper and
• 50:28
  various objects continued to be thrown towards her.
• 50:32
  The unseen presence in the house had returned and it seemed more
• 50:36
  aggressive than ever, particularly fixated on Diane's
• 50:41
  bedroom. What followed was described as
• 50:44
  nine months of chaos in which all manner of violent activity
• 50:49
  was reported. Bangs and thumps echoed from
• 50:53
  Diane's bedroom with such physical aggression that she
• 50:57
  occasionally took to sleeping in her parents room.
• 51:01
  Ornaments were thrown and levitated, and lights flickered
• 51:05
  on and off repeatedly. One day, the entire contents of
• 51:11
  the family's China cabinet were reportedly hurled onto the
• 51:15
  floor, with not a single precious item being smashed or
• 51:20
  chipped in the process. One evening, a particularly
• 51:25
  chilling incident marked an escalation in the severity of
• 51:29
  the activity and Diane's room. Yet again, the lights randomly
• 51:34
  went out and a huge shadow appeared on the wall before her.
• 51:40
  As she witnessed this first hand in the hallway, her mother
• 51:44
  scrambled with a flashlight to try and turn the lights back on.
• 51:49
  As the teenage girl watched, a heavy oak hall stand floated
• 51:54
  into the air and rushed towards her with incredible speed.
• 52:00
  In her attempt to escape, Diane tripped and fell her back up
• 52:04
  against the stairs, with the hall stand being thrown on top
• 52:09
  of her. The weight of the piece of
• 52:11
  furniture pressed down on her small body, pinning her against
• 52:15
  the steps as she struggled to breathe and free herself.
• 52:21
  Another heavy object, a sewing machine that had been on top of
• 52:25
  the stand, was also thrown onto her.
• 52:29
  When the lights finally illuminated the scene, her
• 52:32
  family rushed to help, but the hall stand was too heavy and
• 52:37
  firmly positioned to move. Gene and Jo struggled to free
• 52:42
  their daughter, and yet, strangely, despite the pressure,
• 52:47
  Diane was unharmed. The heavy furniture was merely
• 52:52
  being held in place by some invisible force, enough to keep
• 52:57
  her trapped, but not to injure her.
• 53:01
  When instructed to release her, the force seemingly obliged,
• 53:07
  finally allowing the hall stand and sewing machine to be
• 53:11
  removed. The poltergeist then seemed
• 53:14
  particularly fascinated with Diane Pritchard.
• 53:17
  In addition to the hall stand incident, it was reported that
• 53:21
  she was tossed from her bed as many as four times in a night by
• 53:26
  the unseen entity. Her bedroom often turned icy
• 53:30
  cold, and she told her parents it felt as if though someone was
• 53:35
  present with her, always watching her and lurking just
• 53:40
  beyond her sight. On one occasion, while standing
• 53:44
  in the living room, combing her hair in front of a mirror, a
• 53:48
  brass crucifix that she found comfort in with her faith was
• 53:53
  thrown from a shelf and struck her in the back, sticking to her
• 53:58
  skin like a magnet. When the crucifix finally fell
• 54:03
  away, her mother inspected her and discovered a cross shaped
• 54:08
  red mark on her skin between her shoulder blades.
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  The mark left reportedly lasted for days, showing the strong
• 54:17
  force of which it had been thrown with.
• 54:21
  Before long. The house at 30 E Dr. gained
• 54:25
  quite the local reputation after being featured in 2 Yorkshire
• 54:30
  newspapers in September of 1968. People either actively avoided
• 54:36
  the house or sought to engage with the alleged haunting.
• 54:41
  Ghost hunters attempted to gain admission into the residence and
• 54:45
  it was even reported that a group of students who requested
• 54:49
  permission to camp in the garden were forced to settle for the
• 54:53
  large round grass verge in front of the house when Gene Pritchard
• 54:58
  declined their request. However, even from that
• 55:02
  distance, the group claimed to still have heard an assortment
• 55:05
  of bangs and crashes. Along with this new found fame,
• 55:11
  it became commonplace for the Pritchard's family's neighbors
• 55:15
  to experience disturbances within their own homes, as the
• 55:19
  noises were reportedly that loud emanating from the Pritchard
• 55:23
  residence. When all the family's
• 55:26
  possessions upstairs in the bedrooms were allegedly thrown
• 55:30
  out of windows and onto the ground below, it was impossible
• 55:35
  for anyone in the area to deny that something bizarre was
• 55:39
  happening, something that no one could truly comprehend or truly
• 55:45
  understand. Eventually, the family began
• 55:48
  calling their unwanted houseguest Mr. Nobody, later
• 55:53
  nicknaming it Fred. Despite its attempts to force
• 55:56
  them out, however, the Prichard family remained.
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  When a local preacher, a man named Reverend Davy, advised the
• 56:04
  family that something evil lurked in their home and that
• 56:08
  they should move, Gene reportedly scoffed at him,
• 56:12
  asking him why should I be driven out of my home by a
• 56:17
  ghost? This was certainly a testament
• 56:21
  to the family's resolve. No doubt.
• 56:25
  As the disturbances worsened and the activity further
• 56:28
  intensified, the family yet continued to persevere.
• 56:34
  Perfectly good and often newly purchased food would spoil
• 56:38
  something strange that became a calling card for the entity, as
• 56:42
  if whatever it was brought death and decay along with it.
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  Aside from spoiling food, Mr. Nobody, as they called it, but
• 56:54
  also often smear jam on door handles and would often throw
• 56:58
  toilet paper all over the house. Fine China plates and cups would
• 57:03
  be thrown onto the floor, sometimes shattered and other
• 57:07
  times perfectly fine. But yet, despite being watched
• 57:12
  by the dark, robed figure that had plagued them for years and
• 57:16
  all of its accompanying terror, the family still refused to be
• 57:21
  chased away, even after both Jean and Joe saw the tall,
• 57:26
  shadowy figure with a hood standing in their bedroom
• 57:30
  doorway. They had been in bed when they
• 57:33
  heard the door creak open, and both turned to see the
• 57:37
  terrifying apparition. Others reported seeing the tall
• 57:41
  figure in a long hooded garment as well.
• 57:45
  At night, frightened family members heard loud, labored
• 57:49
  breathing outside of their doors.
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  It became clear that Mister Nobody, or as he was
• 57:56
  increasingly known as the Monk, was gaining power.
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  It was if the creature fed off of their fear.
• 58:05
  The activity would peak yet again one evening when all of
• 58:09
  the lights went out and Diane, along with her mother and
• 58:13
  brother, would experience something dark that none of them
• 58:18
  would ever forget. As the family huddled together
• 58:21
  in the dark, trying to find their way around the home, Diane
• 58:26
  suddenly, as if she had been grabbed by large, invisible
• 58:30
  hands, was forcibly dragged up the stairs by her throat.
• 58:36
  Colin Wilson, who documented the events in his book, noted that
• 58:40
  Diane's cardigan was stretched out in front of her as if the
• 58:44
  monk was tugging on it with one hand while gripping her neck
• 58:49
  with the other. Roused by her screams and gasps
• 58:53
  for air, Philip and Jean rushed to pull Diane back down the
• 58:57
  stairs, but they were both repelled, thrown back by what
• 59:02
  felt like large, clawed hands. Fighting for her life and on the
• 59:08
  verge of blacking out as she struggled, Diane fortunately
• 59:13
  would ultimately be freed almost as quickly as she had been
• 59:17
  attacked. Philip later explained that it
• 59:21
  was as though his thought of trying to touch the presence had
• 59:24
  caused it to release his sister. When the family inspected the
• 59:29
  profusely shaking and traumatized girl, once the
• 59:32
  lights turned back on, they would see red hand marks around
• 59:36
  her neck. To say they were terrified was
• 59:39
  perhaps an understatement. Although they collectively
• 59:43
  didn't want to leave their home, they desperately wished for the
• 59:47
  entity to depart. The family would contact
• 59:51
  religious figures, they would pray and sprinkle holy water
• 59:55
  throughout the entire property. But despite their best efforts,
• 1:00:00
  nothing seemed to work. In fact, these actions seem to
• 1:00:04
  exacerbate the disturbances, almost as if they were angering
• 1:00:09
  the entity itself with their efforts.
• 1:00:13
  One of Joe's friends. Recently returned from Scotland
• 1:00:17
  recounted how people there hung garlic over doors and windows to
• 1:00:22
  keep out spirits. Fascinatingly, when the
• 1:00:26
  Pritchards followed suit, the activity diminished, eventually
• 1:00:31
  disappearing altogether. Thus, what began for the
• 1:00:37
  Pritchards in August of 1966 ceased after two years by May of
• 1:00:44
  1969. When Colin met with the family
• 1:00:47
  in 1980, he reported no ongoing activity, although it's not
• 1:00:53
  exactly clear when the home would eventually find its way
• 1:00:56
  into the hands of a man who's all too familiar with the
• 1:01:00
  paranormal, an investigator named Richard Estep.
• 1:01:05
  If these accounts are true, the events at 30 E Drive appear to
• 1:01:09
  be a classic case of poltergeist activity, similar to many other
• 1:01:14
  documented instances of spirit hauntings like the Enfield
• 1:01:19
  Poltergeist in 1977. The activity is often centered
• 1:01:24
  around adolescence, and there were adolescents present in this
• 1:01:28
  case as well. First a 15 year old Philip in
• 1:01:32
  1966 and then an aged 15 Diane in 1968.
• 1:01:39
  Wilson oddly noted that nothing seemed to occur in the house
• 1:01:43
  while Diane was at school. Objects, even large and heavy
• 1:01:47
  items like solid oak furniture, were said to move on their own
• 1:01:51
  accord, Food too appearing irresistible to the entity.
• 1:01:57
  Food at 30 E Drive, besides rotting and being moved and
• 1:02:00
  displaced, would also mysteriously manifest bite
• 1:02:04
  marks. The appearance of puddles of
• 1:02:07
  water on the kitchen floor at the beginning of the Pontifrag
• 1:02:11
  case is also the hallmark of other poltergeist occurrences.
• 1:02:16
  The respected parapsychology researcher Guy Lyon Playfair
• 1:02:20
  suggested that the neat puddles found in the Prichard home and
• 1:02:24
  others allegedly haunted by poltergeists might be some form
• 1:02:28
  of condensation of the energy used by the entities.
• 1:02:33
  The activity disappearing is the children.
• 1:02:35
  Transition from adolescence to adulthood is also consistent
• 1:02:40
  with other poltergeist cases. Yet despite these claims, many
• 1:02:45
  argue that activity at 30 E Drive never truly ceased,
• 1:02:51
  asserting that it predates the Pritchards and their teenage
• 1:02:54
  children by over a decade. At the beginning of this story,
• 1:02:59
  I referenced A testimony from the Farrah family and their two
• 1:03:02
  year old daughter Jane, who had lived at the property before the
• 1:03:06
  Pritchard's. This particular testimony was
• 1:03:09
  presented in the 2019 book The Black Monk of Pomtefract and
• 1:03:14
  alleges horrific events, including the baby girl covered
• 1:03:18
  in scratch Marks and told of the attempted suffocation of the
• 1:03:22
  same child by what is presumed to be the same black monk entity
• 1:03:27
  that haunted the Pritchards. However, it's peculiar that Gene
• 1:03:31
  and Joe didn't report similar experiences regarding their
• 1:03:34
  young children having taken over 30 E Drive from the Pharaohs in
• 1:03:39
  the mid 1950s. By the time of the alleged onset
• 1:03:43
  of activity in August of 1966, they'd been in the house for
• 1:03:47
  several years. Yet, as far as we know, it
• 1:03:51
  didn't target them in the same way.
• 1:03:53
  But why would this be the case? Perhaps the poltergeist, or
• 1:03:57
  whatever it was, maybe a demonic entity, was in a state of
• 1:04:02
  paranormal hibernation for a decade or more and was woken up,
• 1:04:07
  so to speak, for one reason or another.
• 1:04:11
  Yet this inconsistency becomes all the more intriguing when one
• 1:04:14
  examines the 2019 book The Black Monk of Pontefract.
• 1:04:19
  Indeed, the authors of the text, paranormal researcher Richard
• 1:04:23
  Estep and the current owner of 30 E Drive, film producer Bill
• 1:04:28
  Bungie, argue that Bill Farah and his family represent a
• 1:04:32
  previously unknown origin of the Pontefract case in their book.
• 1:04:37
  This new starting point is ultimately used to support their
• 1:04:41
  conclusion that the Black Monk of Pontefract is less likely to
• 1:04:46
  be a poltergeist and more likely to be a demonic entity, one that
• 1:04:51
  remains on the property to this day.
• 1:04:55
  It is indisputable that the Farrah family not only existed
• 1:04:58
  but also lived at the property before the Pritchard's, and
• 1:05:02
  there's ample record to prove this.
• 1:05:04
  In fact, the author's claims were allegedly presented from
• 1:05:08
  Mr. Farrah himself, but the family moved into 30 E Drive in
• 1:05:13
  September of 1954 and would leave within a year due to
• 1:05:18
  horrific activity. In the aforementioned book, the
• 1:05:22
  readers treated to tales of the dark monk, which are accompanied
• 1:05:25
  by many photographs of dark demonic entities captured within
• 1:05:30
  the walls of the home. Does this house still exist?
• 1:05:35
  It most certainly does Today. The former council house is just
• 1:05:40
  as famous as it is creepy. Those who visit the site have
• 1:05:45
  documented many scratches and suffocating sensations as well
• 1:05:50
  as capturing numerous photographs of the alleged black
• 1:05:53
  monk entity itself. These alleged pieces of evidence
• 1:05:58
  accompanied with the two families who lived there and the
• 1:06:02
  current owners experiences, we are left with more questions
• 1:06:07
  than answers. A few of my questions are these
• 1:06:12
  just who was this black monk? If they did exist, what drove
• 1:06:17
  them to such madness to abuse the young?
• 1:06:21
  Are they perhaps a man of God at one point and ultimately
• 1:06:24
  corrupted by darkness? The same darkness that would
• 1:06:28
  corrupt them in life and consume them in death?
• 1:06:32
  Perhaps this is what led to the violent manifestations that
• 1:06:35
  affected all of those who crossed the threshold of 30 E
• 1:06:40
  Drive. Was the entity A malevolent
• 1:06:43
  human spirit? A demonic entity or a textbook
• 1:06:47
  case of poltergeist activity. All questions we truly may never
• 1:06:53
  have the answers to. But one thing is certain.
• 1:06:57
  There was something that called the house at 30 E Drive in
• 1:07:00
  Pontefract Home. Something that was not of this
• 1:07:04
  world. A dark, robed and lurking
• 1:07:09
  presence that stalked those who dwelt there in the land of the
• 1:07:13
  living. Perhaps it still lurks there,
• 1:07:17
  stalking, watching, and waiting for the right time to awake and
• 1:07:24
  wreak havoc upon those of us who still.
• 1:07:27
  Breathe. And whose hearts still beat in
• 1:07:34
  the quiet rural town of Lamar, AR Tucked among cotton fields
• 1:07:38
  and crumbling barns, stands a white colonial farmhouse that
• 1:07:43
  once promised a dream life for the Shea family.
• 1:07:47
  Instead, it delivered something else entirely, something cold,
• 1:07:52
  intelligent and malevolent. For months in 2002 to 2003, this
• 1:08:00
  unsuspecting home became the stage for one of the most
• 1:08:03
  terrifying and well documented hauntings in modern American
• 1:08:06
  history. A descent into chaos, violent
• 1:08:11
  manifestations, shadow figures, and so much more.
• 1:08:16
  This is the terrifying story of the Shea family haunting, also
• 1:08:20
  known as a haunting in Arkansas. This is not a story you want to
• 1:08:24
  listen to alone or in the dark. A home is supposed to be a
• 1:08:39
  sanctuary, but what happens when it turns on you?
• 1:08:44
  The Ozark River Valley was once considered the gateway to the
• 1:08:47
  West, perhaps more so now. It is a gateway to the great
• 1:08:53
  beyond, a place where life and death collide and sometimes,
• 1:08:58
  just maybe, don't always stay separate from one another.
• 1:09:02
  In October of 2003, hard working couple Ben and Jamie Shay
• 1:09:08
  searched for a new place to live.
• 1:09:11
  Originally from Little Rock, their search takes them to
• 1:09:14
  Markham, Arkansas. They're hoping to find a house
• 1:09:18
  that they can make a home for themselves as well as their
• 1:09:21
  young children. As the couple drives to look at
• 1:09:24
  their next prospect purchase, they are taken back by what they
• 1:09:28
  see standing before them. There, in front of their eyes,
• 1:09:32
  lies a historical home. In Jamie's words from later
• 1:09:36
  interviews. The house was absolutely
• 1:09:39
  beautiful and large. It had old trees all around it
• 1:09:44
  and it was just the picture of the house that I had been
• 1:09:46
  wanting all my life. The house the couple is looking
• 1:09:50
  at buying is indeed old. Built in the 1700s, it is one of
• 1:09:55
  the oldest in the state. Together, Ben and Jamie seem to
• 1:09:59
  collectively fall in love with it.
• 1:10:02
  They can already imagine raising their three children upon its
• 1:10:05
  grounds. Ben, who had grown up playing in
• 1:10:08
  the woods, truly wanted to share that with his children as well.
• 1:10:13
  The house was in the perfect location for the couple,
• 1:10:16
  directly in between two towns the two separately worked in.
• 1:10:21
  If they lived here, their commutes would be significantly
• 1:10:24
  reduced and therefore they could spend more time together as a
• 1:10:28
  family. Deciding to take a closer look,
• 1:10:32
  the Shays step inside the home. But as their feet cross the
• 1:10:36
  threshold, little do they know that something else is taking a
• 1:10:40
  closer look at them as well, perhaps from the protection of
• 1:10:45
  the shadows. Regardless, the couple loves
• 1:10:49
  what they see, in the words of Jamie Shay in later interviews.
• 1:10:55
  I knew as soon as I saw that house that we had to have it.
• 1:10:59
  It seemed as if it spoke directly to their souls, almost
• 1:11:03
  as if something supernatural was drawing them in.
• 1:11:08
  Together they continue to examine the rest of the home
• 1:11:11
  before fully committing to purchasing.
• 1:11:14
  But as they ascend the stairs and take a look inside the first
• 1:11:17
  room, they perhaps aren't quite as sure as they once were.
• 1:11:22
  Inside the bedroom lies something strange.
• 1:11:26
  There's a fireplace at its center, and on and within it are
• 1:11:30
  all sorts of strange markings in graffiti.
• 1:11:34
  A local boy named Clayton, who had passed away in an accident's
• 1:11:38
  name, was spray painted across the stone.
• 1:11:42
  Pentagrams were carved and painted on it, as well as the
• 1:11:45
  names the couple didn't seem to recognize, names that appeared
• 1:11:50
  to be in a language that neither of them knew.
• 1:11:54
  But despite being creeped out at first, the two thought that
• 1:11:57
  perhaps some teens had broken into the property at some point
• 1:12:00
  during its vacancy and committed the defacing.
• 1:12:04
  So with that conclusion, they decide that the deal is too good
• 1:12:08
  to pass up. They decide to make an offer on
• 1:12:11
  the home and to their surprise, it's accepted almost
• 1:12:15
  immediately. The couple are absolutely
• 1:12:18
  elated. The deal they got on the home
• 1:12:21
  seems to be too good to be true, and perhaps for one reason or
• 1:12:26
  another, it truly was. Within several weeks the Shays
• 1:12:32
  wife Jamie, husband Ben and three young children, 8 month
• 1:12:37
  old Jackson. Five year old Bridger.
• 1:12:40
  And 11 year old daughter Tori move into their colonial home to
• 1:12:44
  begin a new chapter in their lives.
• 1:12:47
  But little did they know that something else, something much
• 1:12:51
  more sinister, may just be beginning.
• 1:12:54
  The family quickly settles into a busy routine.
• 1:12:57
  They decide to hire an experienced and well reviewed
• 1:13:00
  babysitter to watch Jackson during the day.
• 1:13:03
  A woman named Molly Ben, who works third shift, sleeps
• 1:13:07
  throughout the morning, then wakes up to attend class and
• 1:13:11
  then heads to work after. One morning, as he sleeps in his
• 1:13:15
  bed shortly after hiring the sitter, he is suddenly woken up
• 1:13:20
  by the sound of his baby son screaming through the baby
• 1:13:24
  monitor he's placed beside his pillow on his night stand.
• 1:13:28
  As he sleepily calls out to Molly to take care of Jackson,
• 1:13:32
  he is met with no response from her.
• 1:13:35
  Meanwhile, the screams of the child only continue to grow in
• 1:13:39
  intensity. Growing frustrated, Ben sits up
• 1:13:43
  to go and see just what exactly was going on.
• 1:13:47
  He continues to call out to Molly, but is meant with no
• 1:13:50
  responses. As the infant screams erupt out
• 1:13:54
  of the baby monitor, Ben seeks out Molly within the house, but
• 1:13:59
  his calls are only continuing to be in vain.
• 1:14:03
  Molly is seemingly not around and is not answering him, yet
• 1:14:07
  his son's cries grow ever louder as he makes his way into the
• 1:14:11
  nursery whilst carrying the monitor.
• 1:14:14
  The screams suddenly stop as he breaches the room's doorway.
• 1:14:19
  Then a deep chill manifests down his spine.
• 1:14:24
  The room itself is empty, The crib is barren.
• 1:14:29
  There's not a single soul dwelling within the room.
• 1:14:33
  Something was very wrong here. Confused and a bit freaked out,
• 1:14:38
  but not one to be the superstitious type, Ben then
• 1:14:42
  heads downstairs and continues to call out for Molly to try and
• 1:14:46
  get to the bottom of whatever was going on.
• 1:14:49
  It's when he gets into the living room that he finds a note
• 1:14:51
  on the coffee table. The note reads.
• 1:14:54
  I went shopping and took Jackson with me.
• 1:14:57
  Will be back soon. In later interviews, Ben would
• 1:15:01
  say that I knew for a fact that I wasn't dreaming.
• 1:15:04
  There was a baby crying on that monitor and yet there was nobody
• 1:15:08
  else home. It was a very creepy moment.
• 1:15:12
  Unsure what to make of the whole event, he decides to keep things
• 1:15:16
  to himself. Several nights later, as Ben
• 1:15:20
  heads to work at the hospital and a large harvest moon hangs
• 1:15:24
  high over the Shea residence, something not of this world seem
• 1:15:28
  to be permeating the air within its walls.
• 1:15:32
  Bridger Shay is suddenly woken up out of a sound sleep by a
• 1:15:37
  chorus of strange voices emanating from nowhere, yet they
• 1:15:41
  seem to be everywhere. A cold gust of wind accompanies
• 1:15:46
  them, seemingly also with no origin.
• 1:15:49
  The young man is absolutely terrified as things are blown
• 1:15:53
  around his room. He gets up and begins running
• 1:15:56
  towards his parents room. Jamie too is suddenly woken up
• 1:16:01
  but by the fear stricken pleas of her young son.
• 1:16:05
  Believing that perhaps he had just had a nightmare, she brings
• 1:16:08
  the scared boy into bed with her to console him.
• 1:16:12
  Trying to quell his fears, she gets up out of bed and decides
• 1:16:16
  to take a look around the house. Her first thought was that
• 1:16:20
  perhaps one of the other children had left the television
• 1:16:23
  on in the living room, but upon examining it, it was turned off.
• 1:16:28
  She listens for any other signs of activity but doesn't hear
• 1:16:33
  anything. Tired, she returns to bed and
• 1:16:37
  attempts to get more sleep. The night, however, her what
• 1:16:41
  dwelled within it seemingly had other plans.
• 1:16:46
  Tory Shea is woken up by the sound of toys being played with.
• 1:16:50
  Confused, she glances around her room as her clock reads 3:00 AM
• 1:16:55
  on the nearby night stand. The sounds seem to be
• 1:16:59
  originating from her brother Bridger's room just across the
• 1:17:02
  hallway from hers. Calling out to him, thinking
• 1:17:06
  that perhaps he had woken up and was entertaining himself, but at
• 1:17:10
  her expense, she tells him that he needs to go back to bed.
• 1:17:15
  As she opens the door to the young boy's room, she sees what
• 1:17:18
  appears to be practically any and all of his toys on the
• 1:17:23
  floor, and all of them are acting on their own accord and
• 1:17:27
  operating as if unseen hands are meddling with them.
• 1:17:31
  What strikes fear under her heart, however, is that her
• 1:17:34
  brother is nowhere to be seen. Stepping back into the hallway,
• 1:17:39
  she's met with a rush of cold wind and hears a chorus of
• 1:17:43
  voices. Voices that she doesn't
• 1:17:46
  recognize. It was as if multiple people
• 1:17:49
  with differing tonalities were speaking over one another, and
• 1:17:53
  the concophony enveloped the atmosphere around her.
• 1:17:57
  Unsure and freaked out to say the least, she decides to run
• 1:18:01
  back to her bedroom. Shutting the door behind her,
• 1:18:05
  she runs to her bed and quickly hides underneath the covers.
• 1:18:10
  It takes her quite some time, but she eventually manages to
• 1:18:14
  fall back asleep. The following morning, as the
• 1:18:18
  children wait outside to head to school, they begin to talk among
• 1:18:22
  each other about the previous night's events.
• 1:18:25
  Tori, who perhaps was initially trying to rationalize what she
• 1:18:29
  had seen. Had thought that Bridger had
• 1:18:31
  hid. From her when she had come to
• 1:18:33
  confront him about playing in the middle of the night.
• 1:18:36
  When she asked the young boy why he hid and why he had been
• 1:18:40
  awake, he seems confused. He quickly tells her that he had
• 1:18:45
  slept with their mom and father and hadn't been in his room at
• 1:18:49
  all at that time. Further confused, Tori asks him
• 1:18:53
  just why he had gone to sleep in their mother's bed and hadn't
• 1:18:56
  stayed in his own. With this question, the boy goes
• 1:19:00
  silent. Upon further prodding, he tells
• 1:19:04
  his sister that he had heard lots of scary voices and that it
• 1:19:09
  had got windy, so he ran. Being a good older sister, Tori
• 1:19:14
  decides not to further add to her brother's fear.
• 1:19:18
  She can tell that he genuinely meant what he was saying.
• 1:19:21
  She doesn't tell him that she too experienced the very same
• 1:19:25
  things he had just described during the night.
• 1:19:29
  Later that evening, before heading to work, Ben spends
• 1:19:33
  quality time with. Bridger, the 2.
• 1:19:35
  Lay in the boy's bed as Ben reads his son a children's book
• 1:19:39
  to relax him. For now, Ben is stuck working
• 1:19:43
  later hours while he earns his degree.
• 1:19:46
  He hopes that in due time, once the process is over, that he'll
• 1:19:50
  be able to adjust his hours so he can spend more time with his
• 1:19:53
  family. As he heads back out into the
• 1:19:56
  darkness of night to provide for them, something lurks within the
• 1:20:00
  shadows of the Shay household. As the children sleep, Jamie is
• 1:20:06
  busy crunching numbers and budgeting.
• 1:20:10
  As she clicks away on her calculator and jots down notes
• 1:20:13
  in a notebook, her concentration is abruptly broken by the sounds
• 1:20:18
  of children giggling. Considering the hour, she knows
• 1:20:23
  that her children should not be awake, let alone playing, so she
• 1:20:28
  sets things down and decides to investigate.
• 1:20:32
  Glancing towards the stairs from the kitchen where she had been,
• 1:20:36
  she continues to hear her children giggle and laugh and
• 1:20:39
  then also begins to hear loud thumping sounds as if they were
• 1:20:43
  running up and down the stairs in rapid succession.
• 1:20:47
  She calls out to them multiple times, yet is meant with no
• 1:20:51
  response. Finally deciding to get up and
• 1:20:54
  go scold her children for not only being up past their
• 1:20:57
  bedtime, but also for running around the house like gremlins,
• 1:21:01
  Jamie heads towards the stairs where the sounds are originating
• 1:21:04
  from. However, instead of coming face
• 1:21:07
  to face with ornery children, she's instead met with nothing
• 1:21:12
  but the now cold dead silence of the house.
• 1:21:15
  The thumping, giggling and horseplay sounds have seemingly
• 1:21:20
  ceased out of nowhere. Finding this unnerving to say
• 1:21:24
  the least, Jamie then quietly makes her way upstairs to check
• 1:21:28
  on them. She's very surprised, given what
• 1:21:31
  she had just heard, to find them all asleep in their beds.
• 1:21:36
  With a sinking feeling in the pit of her stomach growing, the
• 1:21:39
  concerned mother decides to double check the house for
• 1:21:42
  safety. All windows and doors are
• 1:21:45
  locked. There are no other souls present
• 1:21:48
  within the house. This very creepy happening would
• 1:21:52
  be far from the last. In the coming days and headed
• 1:21:56
  into the following weekend, Jamie and the children have
• 1:22:00
  continued to experience strange activity in the home.
• 1:22:04
  Jamie decides that she can no longer keep the details to
• 1:22:07
  herself, and although she doesn't want to add anything
• 1:22:11
  further to her husband's already full plate at this point, she
• 1:22:14
  feels like she must talk to him about what's been taking place,
• 1:22:18
  beginning to share the various occurrences, including one that
• 1:22:22
  had taken place that very day. Their babysitter had heard
• 1:22:26
  crying on the baby monitor, and upon checking it, there was no
• 1:22:30
  child weeping. Ben looks up from his studying
• 1:22:33
  and freezes as he hears his wife's words.
• 1:22:37
  He then tells her that several weeks ago, he too had heard the
• 1:22:41
  cries of a child, and upon checking, discovered that his
• 1:22:45
  child and their babysitter weren't even physically in the
• 1:22:48
  house. And what puts a chill shivering
• 1:22:51
  down his spine is that he had kept the experience a secret
• 1:22:55
  from everyone. Almost as soon as the words
• 1:22:58
  leave his lips, the sound of banging starts to fill the
• 1:23:02
  stillness of the house. Thinking at 1st that it was
• 1:23:06
  their children, but quickly realizing that the sounds were
• 1:23:09
  coming from downstairs, then springs into action and begins
• 1:23:13
  heading towards where the sounds are coming from.
• 1:23:16
  The sounds themselves cease upon his approach.
• 1:23:21
  Then, to add to his suspicion, he goes and checks on the kids
• 1:23:26
  and finds each one sound asleep in their beds.
• 1:23:30
  As he descends the stairs and approaches his wife in the
• 1:23:33
  living room, he seems visibly stricken and confused.
• 1:23:38
  He seems to know that something deep down is wrong with the
• 1:23:41
  entire situation, but tries to take a rational approach.
• 1:23:46
  He starts trying to explain away the sounds as an old house
• 1:23:49
  settling. Whether this was a way to help
• 1:23:52
  calm his wife or himself is unclear.
• 1:23:56
  It at least works for Ben in the short term.
• 1:23:59
  He somewhat convinces himself that it was indeed the house
• 1:24:02
  settling and starts to head off for bed.
• 1:24:05
  Jamie, however, is feeling very differently about the situation.
• 1:24:10
  In later interviews, she would say it was at that moment that I
• 1:24:14
  truly began to feel like we might be living in a haunted
• 1:24:17
  house. The following morning, consumed
• 1:24:21
  by a newly found interest to discover just what she and her
• 1:24:25
  family might be dealing with, Jamie decides to visit the local
• 1:24:29
  library. While browsing the aisles, she
• 1:24:32
  accumulates a good amount of books on ghosts and hauntings.
• 1:24:37
  As she checks out at the front, the librarian who's assisting
• 1:24:41
  her can't help but notice just what she's interested in.
• 1:24:45
  She then tells Jamie that she herself grew up in a haunted
• 1:24:48
  house when she was younger. Jamie then asked the woman if
• 1:24:52
  the home was there in the local area or somewhere else.
• 1:24:56
  The woman, whom she had never met before, then tells her that
• 1:25:00
  it was indeed in her town. She then tells her the address.
• 1:25:05
  Jamie's eyes swell larger than the harvest moon when the words
• 1:25:09
  leave the woman's lips. It is the very same address that
• 1:25:14
  she and her family now live in. The woman then begins to fill
• 1:25:19
  Jamie in on the conclusions that she and her family had come to
• 1:25:23
  while living in the residence. They had believed that a young
• 1:25:27
  boy had accidentally fallen to his death from the second room
• 1:25:31
  in the middle of the upstairs section of the house, The room
• 1:25:35
  now that her son Bridger occupies.
• 1:25:38
  The drive home for Jamie is surreal.
• 1:25:42
  The following morning, as she waits for her husband to get
• 1:25:45
  home so she can tell him what she had been told regarding the
• 1:25:48
  house and their situation, she begins to worry just how living
• 1:25:52
  in such an environment could affect her children.
• 1:25:55
  Upon Ben's arrival, she begins to divulge to him just exactly
• 1:26:00
  what she had learned. Ben began to believe that
• 1:26:03
  perhaps if this haunting was indeed real, that it would quiet
• 1:26:07
  down eventually and wouldn't have a large impact on their
• 1:26:11
  lives. As the Christmas season
• 1:26:13
  approaches, the paranormal activity within the Shea
• 1:26:17
  household seems to dwindle to a drop of its former self. 1 cold
• 1:26:22
  and snowy night. As Jamie researches on the
• 1:26:25
  family computer, she suddenly begins to feel as if she's being
• 1:26:29
  watched. Out of the glare of her monitor,
• 1:26:33
  she sees a dark, shadowy figure linger behind her.
• 1:26:37
  Startled, she turns around almost as quickly as it appeared
• 1:26:43
  it vanished. Mortified, Jamie rushes out of
• 1:26:47
  the room and runs to the nearest phone to call Ben.
• 1:26:51
  As he picks up on the other line, he is hearing his wife be
• 1:26:55
  hysterical. Becoming frustrated because he
• 1:26:58
  can't simply leave work on a whim.
• 1:27:00
  Ben is saddened about the whole situation.
• 1:27:04
  In later interviews, Jamie would say this.
• 1:27:07
  That was the. First time I ever truly felt
• 1:27:09
  scared or threatened by whatever was in the house and most
• 1:27:13
  certainly did not feel like the energy of a small child.
• 1:27:18
  The following day, Jamie would return to the library, seeking
• 1:27:22
  the woman that she had spoken to in regards to her current
• 1:27:25
  predicament and happening within the house.
• 1:27:29
  But as she glances around the library's front desk, she
• 1:27:32
  doesn't see her. She asks another librarian just
• 1:27:36
  where the woman was. She was then informed that she
• 1:27:40
  no longer worked for the library.
• 1:27:42
  Digging further as to what happened, Jamie is told that the
• 1:27:46
  woman left with no warning and no contact information and no
• 1:27:51
  forwarding address. Albeit it could have been a very
• 1:27:54
  unfortunate coincidence, the timing of it all just seems to
• 1:27:58
  add to the suspicion that something otherworldly was
• 1:28:02
  influencing the situation. The family now found themselves
• 1:28:06
  in something dark. Over the next several weeks, the
• 1:28:11
  presence within the Shea home has seemingly continued to go
• 1:28:14
  dormant, yet the heaviness of its existence continued to
• 1:28:19
  plague Jamie. In another interview later on,
• 1:28:23
  she would say that I really had an eerie, sick feeling in my
• 1:28:26
  stomach. I really dreaded going home and
• 1:28:30
  it was starting to not feel like my home anymore.
• 1:28:33
  One day after picking up Tori from a friend's house as she's
• 1:28:37
  driving through a construction zone, Jamie suddenly sees a
• 1:28:41
  flash before her eyes within the blink of an eye.
• 1:28:45
  She hits a pothole. And crashes her vehicle.
• 1:28:50
  Upon coming to, she begins to panic.
• 1:28:53
  She sees that her daughter is pinned face down underneath the
• 1:28:57
  minivan. Emergency personnel rushed
• 1:29:00
  toward the hospital after arrival on the scene.
• 1:29:03
  She's in critical condition. Ben soon arrives to greet his
• 1:29:08
  wife at the hospital and the two weep and hold each other.
• 1:29:12
  The doctors believed that Tori had a broken back, but to what
• 1:29:16
  extent was yet to be seen. They were unsure if she would
• 1:29:20
  survive, and if she did survive, they weren't sure if she'd ever
• 1:29:25
  be able to walk again. In a miraculous turn of events,
• 1:29:29
  just two weeks after the accident, the hospital releases
• 1:29:33
  Tori just in time for Christmas. Although she will be bedridden
• 1:29:38
  for several months, she's expected to make a full
• 1:29:41
  recovery. Several more weeks pass and with
• 1:29:45
  them the holidays. Jamie, who had taken a leave of
• 1:29:49
  absence from work to be able to care for her recovering
• 1:29:52
  daughter, barely notices any paranormal activity taking place
• 1:29:57
  in the house. As she gets Tory to bed one
• 1:30:00
  night, she's called to by her son.
• 1:30:04
  Standing at the bottom of the stairs, he tells his mother that
• 1:30:07
  people are talking in his room and it's keeping him from
• 1:30:11
  sleeping. Jamie goes to check on baby
• 1:30:13
  Jackson. She soon finds him fast asleep
• 1:30:17
  in his crib, fortunately unaffected by the sounds or
• 1:30:22
  people talking. However, upon exiting his room,
• 1:30:27
  she makes her way towards Bridgers as she gathers some
• 1:30:31
  stuffed toys for her son to sleep with that night.
• 1:30:34
  She can't shake the eerie feeling as if someone or
• 1:30:38
  something is watching her as she makes her way back into her and
• 1:30:42
  Ben's bedroom. She tells Ben that she no longer
• 1:30:46
  feels safe within their home. The couple are torn though,
• 1:30:50
  because they know that they can't go anywhere until Tori is
• 1:30:54
  fully recovered due to her condition.
• 1:30:57
  That before anything was their number one priority.
• 1:31:01
  They didn't want to have to focus on selling and then buying
• 1:31:04
  a home amidst her healing journey.
• 1:31:07
  After drifting off to dreamland as a large amber moon hangs in
• 1:31:11
  the sky overhead, something sinister stirred within the
• 1:31:15
  walls of the Shea family home. Jamie is woken up to the strange
• 1:31:21
  sensation of her hair being pulled and toyed with.
• 1:31:25
  At first, thinking it was her husband, she asked him to please
• 1:31:29
  knock it off. Her words then wake Ben up, who
• 1:31:33
  has no idea what she's talking about.
• 1:31:36
  Then, as if invisible hands are grabbing it, she feels her hair
• 1:31:41
  being toyed with yet again, but this time she's staring directly
• 1:31:45
  at her husband. She knows for a fact that it's
• 1:31:48
  not him. Then all hell seems to break
• 1:31:52
  loose. The entire house begins to
• 1:31:55
  shake. Picture frames begin falling off
• 1:31:58
  walls, the bed itself rocks back and forth, and the lights
• 1:32:03
  flicker as if toggled on and off by unseen forces.
• 1:32:08
  Bending grabs Bridger and Jamie grabs Jackson, and all together
• 1:32:13
  they rush downstairs to be with Tori.
• 1:32:16
  The only way the Shays feel safe now is to collectively sleep in
• 1:32:20
  one room, and with this realization, Jamie says out loud
• 1:32:25
  that they have to find some kind of spiritual help.
• 1:32:29
  The family then tries to salvage any rest that's left through the
• 1:32:33
  night, despite various bangs in the ominous presence that seemed
• 1:32:38
  to bear down upon the mall. In the days to come, the family
• 1:32:42
  contacts the Central Arkansas Society for Paranormal Research.
• 1:32:47
  The group agrees to come to the house as soon as Tory is well
• 1:32:51
  enough to be moved and within the next several weeks.
• 1:32:55
  The day finally comes. After getting the children a
• 1:32:58
  sitter for the night, the Shays are then greeted by the
• 1:33:01
  paranormal team. It takes some time, but they
• 1:33:05
  quickly set up their equipment and prepare for the night to
• 1:33:08
  come. The group includes a family,
• 1:33:11
  Alan Lowe, whose primary goal is gathering physical evidence
• 1:33:16
  alongside his wife Angela and daughter Violet, who are both
• 1:33:20
  sensitive to the supernatural. The presence within the home
• 1:33:24
  makes almost an immediate impression upon Angela and
• 1:33:27
  Violet. In later interviews, Violet
• 1:33:30
  would say that I felt a heavy and depressing vibe almost
• 1:33:34
  immediately. Within the group is another
• 1:33:38
  woman by the name of Karen Shillings.
• 1:33:40
  Her job is to try and connect the paranormal happenings with
• 1:33:44
  historical factors such as the house's history.
• 1:33:48
  Through her research, she's able to determine that the home
• 1:33:51
  itself was built in the year 1780 and was once a Stagecoach
• 1:33:57
  and hotel. It then later became a jail.
• 1:34:00
  As part of the group's routine. Angela and Violet begin a
• 1:34:04
  walkthrough of the home to see if they can sense any entities
• 1:34:08
  that could perhaps be lurking inside.
• 1:34:11
  Going room to room, the two sense the same dark and
• 1:34:14
  depressive energy. They also start sensing the
• 1:34:18
  spirit of a small child who's too scared to approach them.
• 1:34:23
  They then also pick up on not one, but many entities.
• 1:34:28
  It's as if a sea of spirits surround them.
• 1:34:32
  They are not happy in the slightest.
• 1:34:35
  As the two continue to explore, they would pick up on something
• 1:34:39
  else. Amidst the sea, they begin to
• 1:34:42
  sense a dark and foreboding presence that seemed to permeate
• 1:34:47
  the air around them. Something that wasn't human and
• 1:34:51
  perhaps never was, as Angela would describe in her later
• 1:34:56
  interviews. I hadn't been scared of his
• 1:34:59
  spirit since I was a small child, but this one truly scared
• 1:35:03
  me. While walking, the two
• 1:35:06
  simultaneously see a brief apparition of the creature.
• 1:35:10
  It's skin is dry and dead, it's eyes hollow and soulless.
• 1:35:16
  It's as if it thrived on pain and misery.
• 1:35:20
  This thing, whatever it was, had never experienced A singular
• 1:35:24
  breath of humanity. As they finished their
• 1:35:27
  walkthrough, the mother and daughter then head back down to
• 1:35:31
  the base level of the home to tell the chaise what they had
• 1:35:34
  discovered and felt. They tell them that they
• 1:35:37
  believed a small boy was present within the house, as well as a
• 1:35:41
  multitude of other human spirits.
• 1:35:44
  They believed that these were the ones frequently speaking and
• 1:35:48
  were responsible for keeping their son up late at night.
• 1:35:52
  They then informed them of the very dark energy that they had
• 1:35:55
  felt and seen. The two were unsure of exactly
• 1:36:00
  just what the creature was, but asked for the family's
• 1:36:03
  permission to try and attempt to contact it via Ouija board.
• 1:36:08
  The chaise reluctantly agree and soon the team lays out the board
• 1:36:13
  within the dining room of the house.
• 1:36:15
  Ben, who is unsure about the Ouija board method, is in
• 1:36:19
  control of the planchet alongside Alan.
• 1:36:23
  The group then begins to ask questions as they attempt to
• 1:36:27
  speak with the negative entity. Upon asking for its name, the
• 1:36:32
  planchette begins to move. It then letter by letter spells
• 1:36:37
  out Seth. When asked when it was alive,
• 1:36:45
  the planchette again, letter by letter, spells out the word
• 1:36:49
  never. The answers seem to confirm
• 1:36:52
  everyone's worst fears. They believed that they had been
• 1:36:56
  dealing with a demon. Then the planchette, without any
• 1:37:01
  assistance from Alan or Ben, starts moving erratically across
• 1:37:06
  the board. To everyone's shock and horror,
• 1:37:09
  it then flies off the board and towards the crew's cameras.
• 1:37:14
  Feeling like this was a sign, the group then reviews the
• 1:37:18
  footage into further horror. Everyone sees the grotesque
• 1:37:23
  figure on the monitor as it floats eerily down the hallway
• 1:37:27
  and then dissipates into nothingness, asking the Shays
• 1:37:31
  just what could have perhaps summoned a demon into their
• 1:37:34
  home. They are at. 1st at a loss for
• 1:37:37
  words. However, Ben and Jamie quickly
• 1:37:40
  remember that when they had first seen the house there had
• 1:37:44
  been strange symbols and pentagrams within its walls.
• 1:37:49
  Could this have perhaps been the cause?
• 1:37:52
  The group concludes that even if it was some teens experimenting
• 1:37:56
  with the occult as first thought, that they still could
• 1:37:59
  have opened up a gateway or a portal to the other side and
• 1:38:03
  allowed this entity to come in and infest.
• 1:38:07
  Angela believed that the family was in imminent danger, and if
• 1:38:11
  something wasn't done immediately, that this demon
• 1:38:14
  could inflict very real harm upon them, as shown with the
• 1:38:18
  potential tie to the previous car accident.
• 1:38:22
  She then suggests A ritual cleansing of the house.
• 1:38:27
  Almost as soon as the words leave her mouth, the planchette
• 1:38:30
  begins to violently move in a Figure 8 motion, whipping back
• 1:38:35
  and forth with rage. Then, in a ritualistic fashion,
• 1:38:40
  Angela begins to burn sage within the home, attempting to
• 1:38:44
  cleanse it of any and all negative forces.
• 1:38:48
  As the smoke and prayers fill the air, the windows open and
• 1:38:52
  close by themselves, the lights flicker, and almost everything
• 1:38:57
  it seems like within the home begins to move and shake with
• 1:39:01
  energy. Violet sees visions of all the
• 1:39:04
  souls that appear to be within the house itself or bound to the
• 1:39:08
  land. She now believes that the entity
• 1:39:11
  set was perhaps drawn to their energy and has been feeding upon
• 1:39:16
  it as a source. As well as the turmoil being
• 1:39:19
  caused to the Shea family following the saging, the raging
• 1:39:25
  atmosphere continues like a storm.
• 1:39:29
  Angela and her daughter then make their way outside and begin
• 1:39:32
  pouring a ring of blessed salt around the property, creating a
• 1:39:36
  barrier to protect the home and all who dwell within it.
• 1:39:42
  With the circle connected around the home, almost the minute the
• 1:39:45
  granules meet one another, the movement within ceases.
• 1:39:51
  In her later interviews, Jamie would say this in regards to
• 1:39:55
  this very night after the cleansing, I felt an immediate
• 1:39:59
  change. Instead of feeling a sense of
• 1:40:02
  evil, I felt a sense of peace in the air.
• 1:40:06
  I felt that the sense of evil had been lifted.
• 1:40:09
  Following these night's events, the next several months life of
• 1:40:14
  the chaise returns to normal. Tori makes a full recovery and
• 1:40:18
  the family seems relatively happy all things considered.
• 1:40:23
  That was until one very strange evening.
• 1:40:27
  As Ben and Jamie discuss things they needed to take care of,
• 1:40:31
  their son, Bridger walks into the room.
• 1:40:34
  However, something seems very off about the young boy.
• 1:40:39
  He's just standing there and staring at them, almost in a
• 1:40:43
  trance like state. He then opens his mouth and
• 1:40:47
  begins to speak, but what comes through him is not his own
• 1:40:52
  voice. Instead, a dark, raspy and
• 1:40:57
  menacing tone comes through 1/2 laughing, half wicked sound that
• 1:41:03
  deeply disturbs his parents. Jamie runs up and gives him a
• 1:41:08
  small shake, trying to get her son to come too, and thankfully
• 1:41:14
  he does. However, he doesn't remember
• 1:41:17
  wandering into their room at all.
• 1:41:20
  Freaking out as anyone would, Jamie then asks her son to stay
• 1:41:24
  with his father as she quickly runs to grab baby Jackson.
• 1:41:29
  Upon picking him up out of his crib, she begins to hear 2 very
• 1:41:33
  distinct voices floating around her.
• 1:41:36
  They seem to be getting louder and louder as she makes her way
• 1:41:40
  back towards the bedroom door, headed out of the room into the
• 1:41:45
  hallway. She then finds a scared looking
• 1:41:48
  Tori standing before her as she asks her to quickly come with
• 1:41:52
  her. Tori points to the end of the
• 1:41:54
  hallway behind them. There mere feet away.
• 1:41:59
  It's large and robed, with the same cracked skin and glassy
• 1:42:05
  black pits for eyes. Screaming and grabbing her
• 1:42:09
  daughter as well, Jamie then runs them all down the stairs
• 1:42:13
  and back towards Ben and Bridger.
• 1:42:16
  These series of. Events left the chaise with
• 1:42:18
  seemingly no other choice out of fear for their lives.
• 1:42:23
  They would jump into the family minivan and leave behind what
• 1:42:26
  was once their dream home. As a result of this, they would
• 1:42:31
  quietly put their home upon the market and move to a nearby
• 1:42:34
  apartment. Ben would Graduate School in the
• 1:42:38
  months to come, and upon the sale of the house, the couple
• 1:42:42
  would take the money and move to a brand new town where they
• 1:42:46
  started life anew. Before we go, I wanted to share
• 1:42:50
  my thoughts on this case and some of the details that I
• 1:42:53
  noticed. The whole ordeal, contrary to
• 1:42:56
  what most typically occurs, seemed to make the chaise a much
• 1:42:59
  stronger family unit instead of tearing them apart, which is
• 1:43:03
  always a positive thing to see come out of these hauntings.
• 1:43:07
  From what I could find, it seems that the chaise are still
• 1:43:10
  thriving, and thank God for that.
• 1:43:12
  Given all that they've been through, this case strikes me as
• 1:43:16
  more genuine compared to many others that I've seen.
• 1:43:19
  I've drawn those conclusions not only from the Shay's actions
• 1:43:22
  throughout their story, but from listening to interviews years
• 1:43:25
  after. They seem like very credible and
• 1:43:29
  decent people, to me at least. Did a portal exist within the
• 1:43:33
  Shay home? I certainly think that it's
• 1:43:35
  possible, considering they found a coal related symbolism and
• 1:43:39
  other ritual items within the home before they even officially
• 1:43:42
  lived there. It's hard to tell if it was some
• 1:43:45
  kids playing around or something more methodical.
• 1:43:49
  Regardless, a door could have been opened inadvertently or
• 1:43:52
  otherwise, allowing these entities to come in and wreak
• 1:43:56
  havoc upon lives. Upon having the paranormal
• 1:44:00
  research group come in and attempt to communicate with the
• 1:44:03
  dark entity within the home, it's interesting that the name
• 1:44:06
  that came out of the Ouija board session was Seth or Set.
• 1:44:11
  Interestingly, those names are the same names for the Egyptian
• 1:44:15
  God of Chaos. This figure is also.
• 1:44:18
  Known as a trickster figure at times.
• 1:44:21
  Could the entity and the God be one in the same?
• 1:44:24
  I mean, it's certainly possible, albeit unlikely in my opinion.
• 1:44:28
  But I found this element pretty interesting and I needed to
• 1:44:32
  share it with you all. They also mentioned that the
• 1:44:35
  plane chat on the Ouija board moved in a Figure 8 pattern.
• 1:44:38
  This is also very interesting because it's also a
• 1:44:41
  characteristic of the demon Zozo.
• 1:44:44
  I think this is the first case outside of that original story
• 1:44:48
  and the first hand accounts of interactions with set demon that
• 1:44:51
  I've heard of this phenomena manifesting.
• 1:44:54
  And I do have to say, all seriousness aside, this case is
• 1:44:57
  covered on one of my all time favorite shows which is called A
• 1:45:00
  Haunting and I went back and rewatched the episode that
• 1:45:04
  features the story which is called Where Evil Lurks.
• 1:45:07
  And dude the acting, the parts that feature the creatures
• 1:45:11
  betrayal on the show are absolutely hilarious.
• 1:45:28
  Like what even is that? Like come on guys you could have
• 1:45:31
  done better. I'll be it.
• 1:45:32
  I always enjoy the show and the stories being told.
• 1:45:35
  That part was just way too funny for me.
• 1:45:37
  Not to mention now saging is a very ancient and useful
• 1:45:41
  practice. I've seen it work with my own
• 1:45:43
  eyes and one of the most disturbing and violent hauntings
• 1:45:46
  that I've ever experienced, and it literally forced the entity
• 1:45:49
  outside where it then proceeded to bang on the walls and windows
• 1:45:53
  and occasionally the floor and ceiling.
• 1:45:56
  It's a whole saga of a story. If you guys aren't familiar with
• 1:45:59
  it, maybe I'll go into it more so here another day, but that
• 1:46:03
  convinced me that saging can very much work.
• 1:46:06
  The particular cleansing ritual that was used in this case
• 1:46:10
  combined saging with Christian prayer, which I'm sure could be
• 1:46:13
  effective. However, if the portal was left
• 1:46:16
  open, which I think it was, the entity just made its way back
• 1:46:20
  into the home and or another or multiple other entities made
• 1:46:25
  their way back in because the chaise continue to be haunted
• 1:46:28
  and it was that that ultimately led to them leaving.
• 1:46:31
  I also can't judge them for selling the house as it was.
• 1:46:35
  They tried to handle things the best way that they knew how, and
• 1:46:38
  I hope whoever ended up with it after and up to present day were
• 1:46:42
  able to get things more spiritually calmed down, so to
• 1:46:45
  speak, and weren't nearly as haunted and plagued as the Shays
• 1:46:49
  were. I hope wherever the Shay family
• 1:46:51
  is today that they're happy, safe, and thriving.
• 1:46:55
  And I always mention this just to be on the safe side.
• 1:46:59
  Please. Respect their privacy and anyone
• 1:47:02
  else's privacy of stories that we've covered here.
• 1:47:05
  With that being said, unfortunately, sometimes when we
• 1:47:09
  think we've found our happily ever after, it ends up being
• 1:47:12
  nothing more than a trap. A lurid false sense of security
• 1:47:17
  that when our guard is finally down, the monster within the
• 1:47:20
  darkness strikes like a Viper from the shadows.
• 1:47:24
  So be wary and take precautions and don't let this be you.
• 1:47:30
  After a terrifying encounter with a demonic entity in the
• 1:47:34
  woods outside of their home, two brothers find themselves under
• 1:47:39
  attack by dark and malevolent forces.
• 1:47:44
  With no place a refuge from torment, not even their own
• 1:47:48
  home, will they escape the wrath of a real life nightmare they
• 1:47:53
  have unearthed or will the darkness take them?
• 1:47:57
  This is the untold story of the demonic Shadow Man case that was
• 1:48:02
  experienced by brothers Tom and Tim Yancey.
• 1:48:32
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  Thank you. Lake Worth, FL Founded in 1913,
• 1:48:54
  City plays home to the arts, boasting festivals, boutiques,
• 1:48:59
  music venues and a historic theater.
• 1:49:03
  But amongst the songs, paintings and acting, it is also the home
• 1:49:09
  to something evil that lurks just beneath the surface.
• 1:49:13
  In the late 1960's, the Yancey family called Lake.
• 1:49:17
  Worth their home? Living near the mostly
• 1:49:21
  underdeveloped southern woods in the town at that time.
• 1:49:25
  Brothers Tim and Tom, along with their father Sonny and mother
• 1:49:29
  Barbara up until this point. Had lived a rather quiet.
• 1:49:33
  Life. Tim would describe his childhood
• 1:49:36
  home as a very peaceful and remote place to live.
• 1:49:39
  It was fairly isolated and in the middle of nowhere.
• 1:49:44
  His mother, Barbara was a beacon of light and joy, a woman who
• 1:49:49
  always had a diamond smile upon her face.
• 1:49:53
  His father was a stern man, a battle hardened Korean War
• 1:49:58
  veteran who then worked as a Carpenter doing construction.
• 1:50:03
  Sonny suffered from PTSD or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder as a
• 1:50:08
  result of the war and according to Barbara, was a totally
• 1:50:12
  different person when he came back.
• 1:50:15
  He had been a Sergeant in charge of a mortar platoon during the
• 1:50:18
  war and would very rarely speak of what had happened, although
• 1:50:23
  both of the brothers later would recall that he told them a few
• 1:50:26
  different stories of his time there.
• 1:50:29
  One story that following a battle he had to arrange for
• 1:50:33
  mass graves to be dug and for bulldozers to lay the dead to
• 1:50:38
  rest. While suffering with PTSD, Sonny
• 1:50:42
  tended to have a short fuse on his temper, but for some reason
• 1:50:47
  this particular summer it seemed to get inexplicably worse.
• 1:50:52
  Where the family lived was remote and surrounded by lush
• 1:50:56
  woods, and prior to being settled, the land where the
• 1:51:00
  house now stood had been heavily utilized during the slave trade,
• 1:51:05
  as well as being the home to numerous bouts of violence
• 1:51:09
  between warring Native American tribes.
• 1:51:12
  So with the combinations of the terrors of war and those
• 1:51:15
  experiencing persecution over the years, these heavy emotions
• 1:51:20
  seem to leak into the. Earth.
• 1:51:22
  And the woods in and of themselves seem to become a
• 1:51:25
  beacon for darkness, almost as if the black hearts of those who
• 1:51:29
  perpetrated the axe still rested beneath the leaves, sticks and
• 1:51:35
  stones of the forest floor. Playing together as brothers
• 1:51:39
  often do, Tim and Tom would spend much time within those
• 1:51:43
  very same woods, bonding, exploring, and having a great
• 1:51:48
  time. Sonny had built a Fort for the
• 1:51:50
  boys to enhance their time spent out there, and at this time Tom
• 1:51:55
  was 12 years old and Tim was 71. Chilly fall day as Tom ventured
• 1:52:01
  into the woods, alone as he. Approached the Fort.
• 1:52:05
  He began to get an eerie feeling as if someone or something was
• 1:52:11
  watching him with his inner voice screaming.
• 1:52:14
  He bolted and ran inside the Fort as he peered through the
• 1:52:19
  openings in between the various boards and peeking past the
• 1:52:23
  cloth covered windows. At first he saw nothing.
• 1:52:28
  But as his heart began to subside from beating out of his
• 1:52:31
  chest, he began to hear the crunching of crisp autumn leaves
• 1:52:35
  around him. And through the darkness of the
• 1:52:38
  boards he sees a silhouette of a creature.
• 1:52:42
  Although the figure appears manlike, something tells him
• 1:52:46
  that it's not of this world. Tom, doing the sensible thing,
• 1:52:51
  runs for his life, leaving the Fort behind.
• 1:52:55
  Terrified at what he had just experienced, he decides to not
• 1:52:59
  tell anyone about what had happened.
• 1:53:03
  As Tom ventures back to the house, disturbed by what he had
• 1:53:07
  been through, Tim had entered through another path in the
• 1:53:10
  woods, blissfully unaware of his brother's plight.
• 1:53:14
  As the boy walks the crispy path of dried leaves, he too begins
• 1:53:19
  to feel as if he's being watched.
• 1:53:21
  Then in front of him, up in a tree, he sees something strange,
• 1:53:27
  something out of place. There in the tree, with the
• 1:53:31
  environment reacting around it. There appears to be some kind of
• 1:53:35
  creature, but this creature is either see through or it's
• 1:53:39
  reflecting its surroundings. Almost like a freakish
• 1:53:43
  distortion of reality. Perhaps something that shouldn't
• 1:53:47
  have been within the confines of our reality.
• 1:53:51
  As his eyes grow larger with. Fear.
• 1:53:54
  This entity begins to make its way down the tree and then lands
• 1:53:58
  in front of him, near feet away from the boy, hitting the ground
• 1:54:03
  with a loud thud. This is enough to truly frighten
• 1:54:06
  the young man, and he, too similar to his brother, decides
• 1:54:11
  to run for the house, the one place a child should feel safe
• 1:54:15
  to be. Tim frantically makes his way
• 1:54:18
  out of the woods and quickly into the arms of his mother, who
• 1:54:22
  was near the front door of their house after explaining things as
• 1:54:25
  best as he. Could.
• 1:54:27
  Barbara calms him with the love only a mother can provide,
• 1:54:31
  asking him to calm down. She tried her best to convince
• 1:54:35
  him that it was perhaps an animal that he had startled.
• 1:54:38
  And that things would. Be OK.
• 1:54:40
  And although she did what she could, as we'll come to see,
• 1:54:44
  this would be far from what would take place.
• 1:54:48
  The brothers, in due time, would discuss the strangeness of their
• 1:54:51
  experiences in the woods with one another, confiding in each
• 1:54:56
  other and trying to make sense of just what this thing or what
• 1:55:00
  these things were. Fearing that even talking about
• 1:55:04
  it could prompt a visit, the boys did their best to move on
• 1:55:08
  and shift their focus to other activities, fearing that if they
• 1:55:12
  spoke of it they would invoke the wrath of what they began to
• 1:55:16
  call the Shadow man. During the day things seem to
• 1:55:20
  regain a small amount of normalcy, but at night the
• 1:55:24
  brothers began to see the very same figure outside, usually
• 1:55:29
  near the tree line, presenting a thick man like shadow, always
• 1:55:34
  watching and lurking like a wild animal stalking its prey.
• 1:55:40
  One night as the moon peeks through the clouds overhead, Tim
• 1:55:45
  is jolted awake out of a sound sleep.
• 1:55:49
  With his eyes opening and slowly adjusting to the darkness of his
• 1:55:52
  room, he tries to make sense as to why he was suddenly woke up.
• 1:55:57
  As he glances towards his window with the faintest amount of
• 1:56:01
  moonlight illuminating the room, he sees a.
• 1:56:04
  Shadow go past scared. But getting up to investigate,
• 1:56:09
  he reluctantly looks and he sees nothing.
• 1:56:13
  Thinking that perhaps his mind is playing tricks on him, Tim
• 1:56:16
  lays his head back down to try and sleep again.
• 1:56:20
  But as he gets comfortable, right before he closes his eyes,
• 1:56:24
  he again sees this menacing shadow pass by his window.
• 1:56:30
  Attempting to wake up his brother but unable to do so, he
• 1:56:33
  once again gathers the courage to take a look through the
• 1:56:37
  window, peering around their yard and towards the tree line
• 1:56:42
  they're in the mists emanating from the woods, he sees the
• 1:56:46
  shadowy outline of a man, and this man appears to be staring
• 1:56:51
  directly into his soul from afar.
• 1:56:55
  It then suddenly begins to rush towards him.
• 1:56:59
  Absolutely petrified with fear, the young man lets out a blood
• 1:57:03
  curdling scream. His brother quickly wakes up and
• 1:57:07
  so do his parents, with Sunny being the first inside the room.
• 1:57:12
  He asks just what is happening. After being told by Tim that
• 1:57:17
  there was a man in the yard, he quickly grabs a flashlight and
• 1:57:21
  begins sweeping the property. He ultimately would find
• 1:57:25
  nothing. Several weeks later, as the boys
• 1:57:29
  slept in their room, 12 year old Tom starts acting strangely.
• 1:57:34
  Waking up to the sound of footsteps, Tim sees his brother
• 1:57:38
  in the middle of their room as he calls out to him.
• 1:57:41
  He receives no response and Tom then begins to walk and.
• 1:57:46
  Leave their room. Calling out to their parents as
• 1:57:50
  well as his brother, Tim continues to follow him as he
• 1:57:53
  descends the stairs headed towards their front door with
• 1:57:57
  Sonny and Barbara rushing close behind him.
• 1:58:00
  They watch as Tom heads out of the front door and into the
• 1:58:04
  yard. As Tim would describe it later,
• 1:58:07
  it was if he was being called out to something or there was
• 1:58:10
  something drawing him into those woods.
• 1:58:13
  It was very frightening for me because I knew there was
• 1:58:17
  something out there and I didn't understand why this was all
• 1:58:20
  happening. Sonny is able to wake the boy up
• 1:58:23
  as the four stand in the yard. Tom seemed to have been
• 1:58:27
  sleepwalking, unaware of what was taking place.
• 1:58:31
  Although this hadn't happened previously and it was completely
• 1:58:35
  new to the family, this incident would be far from the last.
• 1:58:40
  For the next several weeks, Tom would continue to sleepwalk, at
• 1:58:45
  times with other members of the family.
• 1:58:48
  Unaware that he was missing. Tom would find himself waking up
• 1:58:52
  next to the lake, out in those foreboding woods.
• 1:58:56
  To try and keep the boy from sleepwalking, his parents began
• 1:59:00
  to implement measures to keep him from leaving the house,
• 1:59:04
  frustrated and understandably so, having to get up late into
• 1:59:08
  the night. What soon became night after
• 1:59:11
  night. With Tom often able to maneuver
• 1:59:13
  his way out of locked rooms, they took to stacking chairs in
• 1:59:17
  front of the boy's room in hopes that this would prevent Tom from
• 1:59:21
  escaping and potentially hurting himself under one of his spells.
• 1:59:26
  Later that night, after the family had gone to bed, Tom took
• 1:59:30
  to waking up as per usual. As he aimlessly tries to unlock
• 1:59:35
  the door to their room, he wakes up Tim.
• 1:59:38
  Fearing that his brother would wake up their father, he tries
• 1:59:42
  to get him to wake up and realize just what he's doing.
• 1:59:46
  And while this is taking place, the closet door directly across
• 1:59:50
  the room from Tom begins to shudder, and then it opens by
• 1:59:55
  itself. Then, as if he was being
• 1:59:58
  controlled like a marionette puppet, Tom would turn around.
• 2:00:03
  Face the closet and then walk inside.
• 2:00:08
  Then, with the boy inside, the door would shut behind him once
• 2:00:13
  again, seemingly by itself, as if it were operated by unseen
• 2:00:19
  hands. Tim, scared but also transfixed
• 2:00:24
  on what was taking place, began to hear a conversation.
• 2:00:29
  He heard his brother speaking. Then he heard another voice, a
• 2:00:33
  low, gravelly, deep voice. This frightens the young Tim so
• 2:00:38
  bad that despite his fear of his father, he calls out to his
• 2:00:43
  parents for protection. And thankfully his parents heed
• 2:00:47
  the call as they rush to push the chairs aside.
• 2:00:51
  They finally do, and then throw the door open to find out just
• 2:00:56
  what had happened. Now, Tim pointing to the closet
• 2:01:00
  indicates that Tom is inside. Heading to the closet door and
• 2:01:05
  opening it, they find the boys sat down inside, now apparently
• 2:01:10
  awake. Upon asking him just what was
• 2:01:13
  going on, all Tom could say was that there was a man in here.
• 2:01:18
  In later interviews, Tom would say that he remembers waking up
• 2:01:22
  inside the darkness of the closet to the voice of a man,
• 2:01:26
  and then upon speaking with him towards the back of the closet,
• 2:01:31
  he saw two red eyes. Staring back at him.
• 2:01:35
  Despite knowing of their son's sleepwalking, his parents tried
• 2:01:39
  to argue that he was clearly messing around in the closet,
• 2:01:43
  possibly playing with toys. They then scolded both of the
• 2:01:47
  boys for waking them up yet again.
• 2:01:50
  In the weeks to come, as their parents grow increasingly angry,
• 2:01:54
  the Yancey brothers continued to experience the abyssal force
• 2:01:58
  that they have come to refer to. As the shadow.
• 2:02:01
  Man. One night the entity seems to
• 2:02:05
  find a new way of terrorizing the brothers.
• 2:02:08
  Tim has suddenly woken up when he begins to feel small things
• 2:02:13
  hit his comforter and mattress, feeling where the objects had
• 2:02:17
  fallen. His hands discover rocks like
• 2:02:21
  small pebbles and thinking it was his brother messing with
• 2:02:25
  him, he asked him to stop and then laid his head back down
• 2:02:29
  onto. His pillow and.
• 2:02:31
  Then more of them started falling, pelting the blanket
• 2:02:35
  that covered him. He now knows for certain it is
• 2:02:38
  not Tom because he's looking directly at him and he is fast
• 2:02:43
  asleep as the rocks continue falling onto him.
• 2:02:48
  He then discovers leaves and then pine cones as well.
• 2:02:52
  Then he feels something drop onto his head and this something
• 2:02:58
  begins to crawl. Prying off whatever this thing
• 2:03:01
  was and throwing it, the boy begins to scream.
• 2:03:06
  Barbara soon comes to his aid and upon turning on the lights,
• 2:03:10
  she too finds the stones, pine cones, leaves, and to her
• 2:03:16
  surprise, giant Florida cockroaches.
• 2:03:20
  It was as if the shadow man was bringing in things from the
• 2:03:23
  woods, but for what reason remained unclear.
• 2:03:28
  It was with this incident that Barbara began to notice that
• 2:03:31
  perhaps it wasn't just the boy's imaginations at work, perhaps
• 2:03:36
  there was something terrorizing them.
• 2:03:39
  In the weeks that followed this incident, Barbara too begins to
• 2:03:43
  notice the ever growing hostile environment within the home and
• 2:03:48
  soon begins to seek answers from any and all sources.
• 2:03:53
  While her husband is at work and her children are at school, she
• 2:03:58
  purchases A Ouija board and upon returning home places it on the
• 2:04:03
  coffee table in the living room. Not being into the occult
• 2:04:07
  previously, she doesn't really know what she's doing, but wants
• 2:04:11
  to do her best to communicate with whatever could be there and
• 2:04:16
  to try and seek answers as to why it was tormenting her
• 2:04:19
  family. She tries to make contact, but
• 2:04:23
  it doesn't receive any answers. Later that day, the family
• 2:04:29
  retires to their beds to catch some sleep.
• 2:04:32
  Little did they know of Barbara's attempts to contact
• 2:04:35
  the other side, and little did they know that hell was about to
• 2:04:40
  be unleashed upon them. As everyone drifts off to
• 2:04:44
  dreamland, Tim once again finds himself being woken up out of a
• 2:04:48
  dead sleep. Perhaps it was his intuition.
• 2:04:52
  It's hard to know for sure why, but as he wakes up and sits up
• 2:04:58
  in his bed, he sees a dark hand emerge from the closet in their
• 2:05:02
  room. As the familiar fear grips him,
• 2:05:06
  he gets up and shakes his brother Tom awake.
• 2:05:11
  And to Tom's disbelief, as he looks ahead where his brother is
• 2:05:15
  pointing, he too sees the hand. And then a more fuller figure
• 2:05:21
  begins to emerge from the closet opening.
• 2:05:25
  Before both of their eyes, a shadowy figure emerges, casting
• 2:05:30
  itself onto the wall with glowing red eyes staring at
• 2:05:35
  them. It begins to climb horizontally
• 2:05:39
  on the wall towards them with the brothers absolutely shaken
• 2:05:43
  to their core. They scream for their parents as
• 2:05:47
  the figure dissipates as if it was never there.
• 2:05:52
  The two then rush out of their bedroom and run up to their
• 2:05:56
  parents bedroom and although apprehensive because of their
• 2:06:00
  father, they would rather deal with his.
• 2:06:03
  Wrath than that of the shadow. Man doing a knock and then
• 2:06:08
  opening their door. Tim leads the boys and calls out
• 2:06:12
  to their parents. He tells them that the man was
• 2:06:16
  back and that he was on their wall like a family.
• 2:06:20
  This bizarre statement from his son and the continuous lack of
• 2:06:24
  sleep prompts Sonny to explode. He tells the boys that there is
• 2:06:30
  no man, that they're dealing with the boogeyman, and that the
• 2:06:34
  boogeyman does bad things to bad kids.
• 2:06:38
  And if they were? Good.
• 2:06:40
  He would simply just go away. With tears in his eyes.
• 2:06:45
  Tim and his brother would make their way back to their bedroom.
• 2:06:49
  Tim would later recall. This notion that I was a bad
• 2:06:52
  kid, that I had done something wrong, and that something had
• 2:06:56
  come to punish me for my misdeeds is something that has
• 2:07:00
  stuck with me my entire life. I didn't know what I had done to
• 2:07:05
  deserve this. From that point on, the boys
• 2:07:09
  keep silent about the nightmare experiences that they had had
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  with the entity known to them as the Shadow Man, but the entity
• 2:07:18
  seems to grow ever stronger. But even though they have been
• 2:07:22
  silent, the rage that dwells within their father Sunny also
• 2:07:27
  continues to grow. Tim later again would say he
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  seemed to not understand what was happening in the house and
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  this led to a lot of family dysfunction.
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  Whether this attracted whatever this thing was to us or it fed
• 2:07:42
  off of the negative emotions or whatever, there was some kind of
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  connection there. These entities seem to do this
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  and it's like a coupling. The entity attaches itself to a
• 2:07:54
  family and then continues to cause problems and seems to
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  derive energy from this. As time passes, the boys find
• 2:08:04
  themselves awake on the night of Christmas Eve.
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  Being rambunctious kids as some of us were, they decided to
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  sneak downstairs to take a peek at some of their Christmas
• 2:08:16
  presents under the family tree and the living room.
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  The boys seemed to be successful not alerting their parents to
• 2:08:24
  their sneaky endeavors downstairs when suddenly loud
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  booming knocks begin to come from upstairs.
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  Trying to figure out what could be causing it, they realize that
• 2:08:37
  they seem to be originating from their room downstairs upon their
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  mantle next to the tree. Their mother had set up a
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  nativity scene showing Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus.
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  As the banging intensifies further, the scene begins to
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  shake and move. It then drops to the.
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  Floor shattering the porcelain figures.
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  The breaking only adding to the concophony of sound now
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  reverberating all throughout the house.
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  Then the heavy footsteps of their father cuts through the
• 2:09:13
  noise as he descends the stairs. The boys are trapped.
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  He is pissed. And then he finds the shattered
• 2:09:22
  porcelain figures and this further enrages him as he
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  interrogates the boys as to what they could have been doing.
• 2:09:32
  The boys deny causing the sounds.
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  Or. Breaking the figures.
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  But this too only serves to deepen his rage.
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  Since the boys, quote, wanted to stay up, they could do so
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  outside. Using a scare tactic, he marches
• 2:09:50
  the boys outside and into the yard right near the tree line of
• 2:09:54
  the forest. He tells them that he was going
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  to get a good night's sleep and they were to stay outside all
• 2:10:03
  night. Little does he know he has
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  inadvertently delivered his sons and to the arms of perdition.
• 2:10:12
  The air is cold and bites at their skin as a large moon
• 2:10:17
  hovers above them and the low rustle of leaves surround them.
• 2:10:22
  The two young men, despite their best efforts to comfort one
• 2:10:26
  another, are absolutely paralyzed with fear.
• 2:10:31
  As they stand in the darkness of the night, they both suddenly
• 2:10:35
  hear the crunching of leaves from behind them.
• 2:10:39
  Upon turning around, they are besieged by the shadow man yet
• 2:10:43
  again, screaming for their mother.
• 2:10:46
  As they run up to their deck, they beg to be let back into the
• 2:10:50
  house. Finally, their mothers woke up
• 2:10:54
  and forces their father to come with her and let the boys back
• 2:10:58
  in, finding the punishment to be cruel, especially since she
• 2:11:03
  knows herself that there are things at work that none of them
• 2:11:08
  understand. Tim would later say this when
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  interviewed. My father's anger continued to
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  grow and he became increasingly frustrated.
• 2:11:19
  He would blame the noises on us and his punishments were severe.
• 2:11:24
  The goal of this monster seemed to be to create more anger, more
• 2:11:28
  chaos, and more depression within our family.
• 2:11:34
  The situation grew bleaker day after day, on a cold and stormy
• 2:11:39
  night, as Tim laid in his bed, he was all too familiarly woken
• 2:11:43
  up without warning. This time, however, something
• 2:11:48
  was different. His sheets and blankets were
• 2:11:51
  pulled from him. As Tim would later say, you know
• 2:11:56
  something's there, it's in the room with you and you've got to
• 2:12:00
  reach down and pull those sheets back up.
• 2:12:05
  The boy reaches down to do just that, peering down as he grabs
• 2:12:10
  them off the floor. He thankfully doesn't see
• 2:12:13
  anything, pulling them back over himself.
• 2:12:17
  Now laying back down, he once again tries to get comfortable
• 2:12:21
  to sleep. As he starts to drift off he
• 2:12:26
  then feels a sharp searing pain on the right side of his ribs.
• 2:12:31
  Feeling this pain his eyes pop open to find what appears to be
• 2:12:35
  a long Bony hand coming from underneath his sheets.
• 2:12:40
  Scared for his life the boy screeches and runs as fast as
• 2:12:45
  his legs will carry him. But being this scared, he had
• 2:12:50
  his blinders on because he ran directly into the door that was
• 2:12:54
  locked to try and prevent his brother from sleepwalking and
• 2:12:58
  ultimately leaving the house. He smacks into the door with a
• 2:13:03
  visceral crack, screaming in pain and crashing to the ground.
• 2:13:09
  This prompted the attention of his parents, who came into the
• 2:13:12
  room to discover their son writhing in agony.
• 2:13:16
  They would quickly rush him to the hospital, and it would turn
• 2:13:19
  out that Tim had broken both of his collarbones following this
• 2:13:24
  event. As the months turned to years,
• 2:13:27
  things from here did not get any better for the Yancey family.
• 2:13:31
  Tom, being the oldest, when he became old enough, left the
• 2:13:35
  house as quickly as he could, no longer able to deal with the
• 2:13:39
  dark forces that dwelled there. Tim, Sonny and Barbara would not
• 2:13:44
  see him for years. Details past this point are
• 2:13:48
  practically non existent, but I will do my best to bring a
• 2:13:52
  conclusion to this very haunting case based on what I could find
• 2:13:57
  over the next 30 years. Tom would play college football
• 2:14:01
  and then become a career firefighter.
• 2:14:04
  Tim, given all the experiences he experienced before and after
• 2:14:08
  his brother left, would become a paranormal investigator and a
• 2:14:12
  park Ranger. Drifting apart as people do,
• 2:14:16
  they wouldn't reconnect until after their parents were gone.
• 2:14:20
  Sonny and Barbara had continued to live at the same house the
• 2:14:24
  two had grown up in and had had all of their shadow man
• 2:14:27
  experiences. When the brothers inherited the
• 2:14:30
  house, they came back together to decide just what to do with
• 2:14:34
  it. Tom, who had done practically
• 2:14:37
  everything to never return to the house, would later recall
• 2:14:41
  that he had a sickening feeling in the pit of his stomach upon
• 2:14:45
  entering the house again saying that it was just an evil,
• 2:14:50
  sickening feeling. As the brothers discuss things,
• 2:14:53
  it would become apparent that Tim wanted to move back into the
• 2:14:56
  home with his wife and reclaim it.
• 2:15:00
  So after working out a deal amongst themselves, that's
• 2:15:03
  exactly what Tim did. And by moving back in, he
• 2:15:07
  intended to cleanse the home, to rid themselves once and for all
• 2:15:12
  of this ominous presence that had caused them so much pain.
• 2:15:16
  The entity they knew as the Shadow Man.
• 2:15:20
  Prior to moving in, Tim would reach out to his friend Roy
• 2:15:24
  Hall, who had dealt with violent hauntings for many years, to
• 2:15:28
  help him perform a cleansing ritual of the home.
• 2:15:31
  Roy. Believed that the entity was
• 2:15:33
  demonic in nature and haunted the family because Tim's father
• 2:15:38
  was abusive. Sunny, who was a Korean War
• 2:15:41
  veteran, probably saw a good amount of the horrors of war.
• 2:15:45
  He believed that. Because of Sunny's PTSD, that
• 2:15:48
  perhaps the entity had been attached to the land and had
• 2:15:52
  seen this and exploited these problems as an entry into their
• 2:15:56
  lives where it continued to wreak havoc upon all of them.
• 2:16:00
  As Roy would say in later interviews, these entities seek
• 2:16:04
  to cause further dysfunction. They feed upon it.
• 2:16:08
  The two men, on a rainy and dreary afternoon, would step
• 2:16:11
  into the home together. Roy would begin to pick up on
• 2:16:14
  the ominous thick atmosphere almost immediately, lighting
• 2:16:19
  incense and beginning various prayers.
• 2:16:22
  The two men go from room to room cleansing as they walk
• 2:16:27
  throughout the house. They sense that the presence is
• 2:16:30
  strongest in Tim and Tom's old room, calling out to God to
• 2:16:34
  cleanse the House of all evil and negativity.
• 2:16:38
  The process took about an hour, but following it, the energy in
• 2:16:42
  the house seems to be rid once and for all of the shadow man.
• 2:16:48
  Tim recalled that things felt different.
• 2:16:51
  They felt much lighter, as if we had displaced the negative
• 2:16:55
  energy within the home. In August of 2009, Tim, his wife
• 2:17:01
  Trish, and son Gabriel all moved into the Lakewood, Florida home.
• 2:17:07
  Although they never experienced anything to the degree the boys
• 2:17:10
  did while growing up within it, there still seemed to be an
• 2:17:14
  undercurrent of evil just right below the surface.
• 2:17:18
  In closing, it is believed that the dysfunction of the Yancey
• 2:17:22
  household was more than likely far worse than what the sons
• 2:17:26
  portrayed publicly, but to what extent I'm not sure.
• 2:17:31
  I did my best to dig as deep as I could, and I believe Tim and
• 2:17:35
  Tom are both still alive, with Tim still being a consultant to
• 2:17:40
  various paranormal groups across the country.
• 2:17:44
  I did want to say that their story was a terrifying and a
• 2:17:47
  harrowing 1, and although somewhat anticlimactic in the
• 2:17:51
  end, as we know here on this channel, things don't always
• 2:17:55
  work out the way we want them to, and cases don't always have
• 2:17:59
  some kind of ultimate showdown. But a few questions I was left
• 2:18:04
  with after researching this case were just what was the shadow
• 2:18:09
  man? Was it a demon?
• 2:18:11
  Did it exploit the vulnerabilities of the family,
• 2:18:14
  particularly Sunny? In order to.
• 2:18:17
  Create a feedback loop of negativity in which it could
• 2:18:20
  enrich itself with and. Although from the outside
• 2:18:24
  looking in, those that are still with us who were involved seem
• 2:18:28
  to be doing OK. But just how has surviving the
• 2:18:32
  haunting affected these two men on a daily basis?
• 2:18:36
  Do they still think about it as I occasionally do with my own
• 2:18:40
  experiences? All questions I may never have
• 2:18:44
  answers for, but one thing is certain, there was something
• 2:18:48
  evil that stalked The Woodlands surrounding the Yancey home.
• 2:18:52
  Something stalking like a. Predator seeking prey.
• 2:18:57
  And all the things seem to be dormant for now.
• 2:19:00
  These malevolent entities may still be watching and lurking
• 2:19:05
  just beneath the surface, waiting for the moment to
• 2:19:08
  strike. Don't let their victim be you.
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