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Rob and Vicki Graves had found what appeared to be their dream
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home, looking to escape the big city life and take up a more
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rural one for themselves and their two teenage sons.
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They found Fox Hollow Farm and were shocked at how affordable
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it was for the sheer size and quality of the property.
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Sensing that it was too good to be true, they asked what could
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possibly be wrong with it, because at a passing glance it
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seemed absolutely gorgeous. Then it came to Rob.
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He had remembered the name from a news broadcast many years ago.
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Unbeknownst to him and his wife, they were now standing on the
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very same grounds that were once owned by her Baumeister, the
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notorious serial killer. They immediately brought this up
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to the real estate agent who was showing them the property, and
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were immediately told that that was indeed the case, that the
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private investor had indeed purchased the estate.
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From the widow of Herb, following the disturbing
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discovery of the bodies back in the 1990s, but that it had been
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completely remodeled from head to toe, removing any and all
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remnants of what it looked like when the murders had taken place
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all those years ago. But that's why it was indeed so
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affordable, because no one wanted to live there.
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Due to the history. After some further discussion
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among the couple, they ultimately decided to purchase
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the property. Within a couple weeks, the
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family moves in and falls in love with Fox Hollow Farm.
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The teenage son soon make it a habit to play outside and then
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wash off in the pool in the basement, soon tracking dirt and
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gravel all throughout the home. One day, Vicki is vacuuming up
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the dirt that the boys had brought in from the outside
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around the pool when suddenly her vacuum loses power,
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believing that perhaps she had accidentally unplugged it from
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the outlet. She plugged it back in and
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continued her work. Within several more minutes it
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happened again, perplexed this time because she was even more
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aware and careful about the cord in the outlet.
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She knew she hadn't unplugged it, so she plugged it back in
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and triple checked that it wasn't just falling out of the
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outlet by pulling the cord. Ever more aware this time she
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goes back to vacuuming, but keeping a present eye on the
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cord itself. To her amazement, it pulls out
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on its own, as if someone had grabbed and pulled it out of the
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socket. Startled, she drops the vacuum
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and is beside herself. She doesn't know how to make
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sense of what had just happened, and this would just be the
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beginning of the strangeness that would occur.
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Rob worked at a car dealership and one of his employees was a
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man named Joe. Joe had been a great employee.
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But had a problem of being chronically late most of the
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time. As he probed to figure out what
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was going on. Joe informed Rob that he lived
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over an hour away and really needed the job, would be willing
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to move closer if the opportunity presented itself
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well. Rob thought about it and ended
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up offering Joe a place to rent. Located on Fox Hollow Farm, they
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had a guesthouse that they were considering renting out as
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apartments for quite some time. And this seemed like the perfect
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opportunity to benefit everyone involved.
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Joe would indeed move in just a few days later.
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It takes several hours, but within that time frame they're
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able to get everything inside and finish the move.
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Exhausted, Joe decides to retire for the night with his dog Fred.
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As he lays down to sleep in his newly set up bed, he then finds
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himself in a horrific nightmare. He's being chased throughout Fox
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Hollow Farm by something he can't see.
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The dream is so intense that it causes him to sleepwalk, which
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wasn't something that he was known to do.
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He began to run while still dreaming and ran directly into
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the door frame as he tried to escape the guesthouse.
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Falling back, he knocked into a nearby glass of water, which
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fell and shattered, cutting his hands.
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The impact and cutting of his hands finally woke him up and he
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was forced to sit back and ponder just what had taken
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place, and things would only intensify from here.
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Another day soon after, Rob was painting the side of their helm
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a different color. As he and his wife remarked on
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how nice the finished job will be, she spots something out of
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the corner of her eye. She had seen a man in a red
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shirt staring at them. As she broke away from her
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husband and began to approach the figure, it started to walk
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away from her and quickly disappeared as if it never
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existed. The couple then called out and
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checked the perimeter, but never found anyone.
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They dismissed the person as nothing more than a curious
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trespasser. I mean, after all, they did
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purchase a serial killer's home. It has had to accept that
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curious people may sneak up just to get a look at their home
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later that night. Joe is doing the dishes in his
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apartment when he suddenly gets a series of knocks on his front
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door, telling the person it'll just be a minute.
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As he dries his hands off to go and answer the door, the series
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of knocks begin to grow louder and more aggressive.
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Thinking it was extremely strange or extremely urgent
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concerning Vicki or Rob, he went and answered the doors.
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It was still being knocked upon, however, as he opened the door.
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There was no one to be found automatically on guard, he peers
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outside. The knocking had been happening
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when he answered the door, so no person could have got very far
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while he answered mid knock. He glanced around and yet saw
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and heard nothing. He stepped outside and began to
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examine the roof in the nearby areas and still there was
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nothing thoroughly weirded out at this point.
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He made his way back inside and bolted the door locked behind
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him. He started to make his way back
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to the kitchen to finish doing his dishes when he spotted a man
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standing in his bedroom staring at him.
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Upon spotting the figure, his dog begins to growl and make
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sounds that he's never heard him make before.
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Staring directly in the direction of the bedroom,
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already on edge, he ran into the bedroom and flipped the light
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on. Only to discover that there was
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again no one there. Searching the entire apartment,
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he again found nothing. Trying to rationalize and clear
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his mind, he decided to take his dog Fred for a walk to calm down
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and unwind for the evening. While on his walk around the
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property, he thought to check on Rob and Vicky's house to see if
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the lights were on. This would indicate to him that
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perhaps they were the ones who had knocked on his door.
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And therefore he could rest easy and figure out what it was
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about. The following morning, however,
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upon arriving at their house, he found it completely blacked out.
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They had already gone to bed for the night.
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Fred, who was always a loyal and obedient dog, always walked with
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him without a leash and would always follow his commands.
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However, tonight would be a different story.
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Deciding to head back to his apartment, he motioned for Fred
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to join him. But the dog would not budge.
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He suddenly began to growl and then bolted into the nearby tree
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line. Instinctively, Joe ran after his
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dog, but not before seeing what his dog was running after before
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his eyes and the very same tree line was a man in a red shirt.
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Although he was absolutely terrified, Joe couldn't let
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anything happen to his beloved dog, so he continued to run
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towards this man. When suddenly whoever or
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whatever this was disappeared before his eyes, although
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slightly behind, he would quickly catch up to Fred and now
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noticed him not acting aggressive at all, but rather
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showing his belly in submission, staring in the direction of Joe.
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Joe, knowing his dog, knew that something very strange had to be
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up with him, he suddenly felt as if someone was staring directly
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at him. He slowly turned around to see
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the apparition of a man in a red shirt with a twisted face
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staring back at him just several feet away.
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Joe, as most of us would, ran out of there as fast as he
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could, his loyal companion following him.
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The two run as fast as they can, back to the apartment, where
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they rush inside, lock, and deadbolt the door.
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And nervously watch out of the blinds for the rest of the
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night. The following morning, and even
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more exhausted, Joe makes his way to Vicki and Rob's house to
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discuss the prior night's events.
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As he's telling both of them what happened, Vicki starts to
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become emotional. She too had seen the Man in Red
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just days earlier. She points to where she saw him,
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and lo and behold, it's the exact same spot that Joe had
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encountered the entity the night before.
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As the day progressed tonight, Joe yet again found himself in
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his apartment, hoping to finally get some rest.
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But as he settled down in his bed, he was suddenly startled by
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knocking at his door as he yelled out who is it?
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As he made his way towards the door, he didn't receive an
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audible answer back, just more aggressive knocking at the door.
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The door itself now is shaking, facing his fear of the unknown.
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Mid knock, Joe throws the door open only to meet face to face
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with nothing as he frantically looks around the yard.
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While holding the door he notices that the doors knocking
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apparatus is sticking straight out as if someone is holding it.
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It then drops one last time, knocking the door absolutely
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petrified. Joe slams the door and locks it.
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As he tries to catch his breath and take several steps
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backwards, he sees the doorknob begin to turn.
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Then, without warning, the door bursts open, shattering the
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lock. The open door yet again, reveals
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no one. After a moment of frozen terror,
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Joe runs outside and into the front yard of his apartment,
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screaming and searching all around for just who could be
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doing this? After several minutes, he stares
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back into the house to the open front door and sees a man
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dressed in all white standing there.
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He soaked from head to toe and what appears to be water and is
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screaming in a muted voice as if he's being held underwater.
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He then bolts towards Joe and seemingly disappears into a
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mist, frantically calling out to his dog Fred to accompany him.
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Joe frantically makes his way to Rob and Vicky's house on the
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property. He's so terrified that he's
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shaking now, and Rob and Vicky are just as scared.
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They now truly believe that they are dealing with something
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paranormal in nature in order to rationalize the situation and
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make sense of what was taking place.
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They begin to believe that they're experiencing the results
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of the murders conducted by Herb Baumeister and that his victims
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are either trapped here somehow. Or their energy is stuck in an
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endless loop, replaying their final and tragic moments over
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and over and over again, refusing to return to his
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apartment. Rob and Vicki, being the
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supportive friends they were, agreed that Joe could stay the
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night with them and together they would begin researching
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online to try and formulate some kind of a plan of action of what
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to do next. As they collectively scour the
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Balmeister case information, they find themselves looking at
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the list of identified victims. As they get deeper into the
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details, Joe is shocked. He stops them on a picture of a
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man in a white shirt. That was the man I saw in my
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apartment who was soaked from head to toe and screaming.
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Although this information still scares them, it does help
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reassure them that they are indeed dealing with the victims.
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Of this horrendous tragedy they are especially convinced,
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considering many of the remains have never been identified, so
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they continue to research the case.
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After several uneventful days, Joe finds himself almost
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compelled to walk around the property with his dog, except
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this time in broad daylight. So apprehensively he makes his
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way with Fred to the area where both he and Vicki have seen the
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man in red on separate occasions.
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Just past the tree line on The Walking path, Joe is stopped by
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what looks to be a bone. He believes that it's impossible
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that such a bone could have been missed during the extensive
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searches over the years, but nonetheless, it was right here
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right now, as if it had been placed there for him to
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discover. Quickly consulting and showing
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Rob and Vicki the discovery, they too believe that this could
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be a bone belonging to the mysterious man in red.
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They ended up contacting the lead detective on the Balmeister
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case and submitted the bone, which turned out to be a human
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femur bone in his evidence and for analysis.
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They then requested if the investigator himself could come
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out to the property and explained to them just where
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things had taken place so they could have a better
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understanding of what happened, to which he obliged.
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Several days passed and Joe by this point had made his way back
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to his apartment. To try and settle back in, given
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the new information while on his computer checking his emails, he
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began to hear a scraping, almost metallic like sound originating
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from the kitchen. Upon further examination, he
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sees that all of his butcher knives from his knife block have
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been neatly arranged in his sink, placed in a row equally
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spaced from one another glancing around the room.
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He spots fresh deep cuts in the wood of the nearby counter
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cabinet. He believes that this could be a
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sign for one of the victims crying for help.
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He starts to try and figure out the mystery.
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He takes out his phone and begins recording, asking probing
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questions to whoever or whatever could be there and hopes of
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helping them in any way that he can.
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Prior to this, of course, he turned off any and all
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appliances that could interfere with the process.
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He begins by asking a series of questions and doesn't seem to
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get much of anything, at least not audibly.
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But then, towards the end of his questions, Fred begins to growl,
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the same eerie growl he had any time they'd experienced
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something previously, taking this as confirmation that
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perhaps his companion could see or hear something that he
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couldn't. He quickly downloads the audio
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file and begins to listen to it on his computer and to his
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shock, he did indeed receive a response.
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This is the clip of the actual EVP that was recorded who keeps
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walking in the kitchen. He believes he hears the married
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one, but in all of their research, all of the victims
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were young, single gay men, the only one who was married.
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Was one her Baumeister? This revelation is startling.
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He not only believes that the victims were trapped within the
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grounds of Fox Hollow Farm, but that perhaps the serial killer
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himself could to be trapped here.
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What would follow would be dozens of paranormal
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investigations, and those investigations would leave the
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group to believe that they were not only dealing with the
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spirits of the victims haunting the grounds.
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But either a dark entity impersonating Baumeister or the
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killer himself. Several years after the events,
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the Graves family would end up selling Fox Hollow Farm, and it
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would continue to change hands over the years since then,
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leading to multiple new owners of the property.
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And all the new information doesn't seem to be publicly
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available. It's still considered one of the
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most haunted places in Indiana, if not the world.
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Given its unique and gruesome history, an independent film
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would go on to be made about it called The Haunting of Fox
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Hollow Farm and Robert Graves, along with another man named
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Richard Eustep who led many paranormal investigations at Fox
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Hollow Farm, who cowrite a book detailing the family's creepy
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experiences and what they believe to be ultimately
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happening. So in conclusion, we know that
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Herb Baumeister was mentally ill ultimately.
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But what makes this case so strange and so compelling to me
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is that he was an outstanding member of this community.
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For the longest time he was the smiling neighbor, the charitable
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businessman, the happy family man, and overall, a pillar of
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normalcy. But behind closed doors, his
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psyche, his soul, contained a darkness that most of us will
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never be able to comprehend, yet alone unravel.
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And understand. So could the murderous deeds of
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a twisted individual trap souls on a property and perhaps open
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some kind of a portal? Could the unleashing of such
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energy, like what is expressed in a violent death, contribute
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to something like this? If it wasn't what's known as an
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intelligent haunting, or the spirits are aware of what has
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happened to them and are indeed trapped there, which very well
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could still be the case. And perhaps it could be a
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residual haunting where the events are of such magnitude and
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strength that they play on a loop for all time, but the souls
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who were involved have long since moved on.
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These are questions that we may never have answers to, but all
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things that we should ponder. The one thing is for certain,
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the malicious calculation of her Baumeister and the horrendous
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things that he did to the suspected 25 victims.
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That fox hollow farms should never be forgotten.
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They are indeed still identifying and using updated
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technology to identify remains that are still being found on
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the grounds. This has happened as recent as
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November of 2022. So if you happen to be a family
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member of someone that you suspect could be connected to
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this case, just know that my heart truly does go out to you
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and please contact the Hamilton County Coroner's Office.
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At 317-770-4415. Besides remembering what
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happened, I also urge you to please respect the victims and
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their families, as well as the family of her baumeister if you
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should ever have anything to do with them.
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Thank you all so much for watching.
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I know this one is a little different from the cases I
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typically cover here, but it's just such a unique case that it
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kind of took on a life of its own.
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And I felt that it was important to get the details as concrete
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and accurate as I could. So please leave a like tell me
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much more than you know. Other than that I hope all of
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you are doing great As always. I pray that your years off to a
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wonderful start and I hope your mental health is doing well and
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that you're doing well and hopefully we'll all continue to
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have a fantastic year Until next time.
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This has been Cody here at Mystery Archives.
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Please stay safe out there and take care.