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When a newlywed family finds out that they're expecting twins,
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they quickly try and find a new home that will fit their growing
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needs. They find a deal that seems
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straight out of a dream, but instead end up purchasing a
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nightmare. As the years wear on, they begin
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to experience numerous unexplained phenomenon
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happenings that lead them to believe that they're fighting a
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spiritual war for their very souls, a war against the devil
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himself. This is the untold story of the
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terrifying demon House of Enfield, CT and this is yet
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another story you won't want to watch in the dark.
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In spring of 2005 in Connecticut, Jay and Elka Yaple,
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a young newlywed couple, are greeted with the news that
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they've been hoping for. They find out that they're
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pregnant, but instead of just one child blessing their lives,
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they find out that they're expecting twins.
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Quite the task for first time parents to tackle, but the
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couple are excited and eager to take the situation head on and
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embrace their babies as soon as they arrive.
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Part of tackling this situation is finding a new home to live
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and grow in. They know their current home
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just will not accommodate them in the future, so hoping to fix
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this as soon as possible before their children arrive into the
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world, the couple sets off with a limited budget to see what
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they can find in the local housing market.
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At first it seems that perhaps their efforts are in vain, that
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they were potentially priced out of the market.
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But not wanting to accept this, they continue searching day in
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and day out. One afternoon a miracle seems to
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fall right into their eager laps.
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In a town known as Enfield. They come across an old home for
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sale. Although the house is 200 years
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old and will require some work over time, the current condition
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is acceptable and the size seems to be everything they need and
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are looking for. Jay's first impression of the
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house was that he could see it as the start of a very good life
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for him and his new family. He sees a safe and solid place
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for his children to grow and play.
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His wife, however, got a very different impression.
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Upon stepping inside the house for the first time, she felt an
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uneasy, almost menacing feeling, like she did not want to live
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there, let alone raise her children there.
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Jay, however, sees the opposite in the home and thinks it's a
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really good deal. Perhaps a deal that indeed was
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too good to be true. After several minutes of
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discussion against her better judgement, Elko reluctantly
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agrees with her husband and the two decide to purchase the aging
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home. In the weeks to come, they would
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move in and would be accompanied by their two Yorkie dogs
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Starting to settle in, the couple begin to make the house a
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home. However, their dogs felt very
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different about their new living arrangement.
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Not very vocal animals. Previously, the two dogs seem to
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go from their normal playful selves to something totally
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different. Instead, they now began to act
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skittish and jumpy and would aggressively bark at things that
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simply weren't there. Although the couple found this
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particularly odd, they simply chalked it up to a new
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environment and hoped that things would settle down as the
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two slowly got used to the house.
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However, as we'll see, this will not be the case.
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Just several months into living in the Enfield house, the April
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family begins to experience things that they can't explain.
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One afternoon, Elka opens the front door to head out of the
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house to run some errands, taking in the fresh air.
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By this point, she is fairly far along.
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She's seven months pregnant. She closes the door behind her
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and begins to descend the stairs.
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She takes one step, 2 steps, and out of nowhere she feels someone
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or something push her from behind.
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As she loses her balance, she feels the same force grabbed
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both of her hands. She falls down the rest of the
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steps and lands, hand stretched out directly onto her stomach,
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yelling from the pain and fear that her babies have been
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harmed. Elka screams as she lays on the
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concrete inside the house. Jay is startled as he hears the
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screams of his pregnant wife and upon rushing and discovering
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her, the two together begin to panic.
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Jay very quickly helps his wife up and the two immediately
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rushed to the closest hospital. When they arrive, Elka undergoes
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emergency testing and thankfully her babies are OK.
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However, both her and Jay have a terrible feeling brewing within
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them. Although they can't place a
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finger on exactly what it is. As a result of her fall, Elka is
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placed on bed rest by her doctor for the remainder of her
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pregnancy. This development would mean that
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she would inevitably end up spending most of her remaining
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days alone and in the house. One day Elka is laying in the
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bed upstairs with her two dogs, and although she is fairly
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settled, the dogs are not. The.
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Two are extremely restless and are moving up and down
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constantly and barking into the doorway and corner of the room.
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Not paying much attention at first, Elka continues to try and
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relax, but as she tunes out the animals, she can't tune out what
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she begins to hear out of nowhere.
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She begins to hear noise coming from the main level of the house
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below, the sounds of banging and creaking of the old wooden
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floorboards, thinking this is Jay, finally home from work.
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She. Tells the dogs to settle down
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because it's their dad, and she then calls out to Jay, asking
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him to answer her back. She called out Jay, if that's
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you, I need you to tell me. But after the sound of several
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more footsteps, she's met with nothing, but I see silence in
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return. Suddenly, her dogs go ballistic
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in the hallway before her very eyes.
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She. Sees what appears to be a black
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dog. Not just any black dog.
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An ominous black dog whose massive and it's gnashing its
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teeth. And.
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It is slowly heading towards her, frozen with fear.
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Elka is unable to catch her breath at the side of it.
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Her dogs are now cowering next to her.
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When she does manage to catch her breath, she stands up and
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prepares to defend herself as best as she can.
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The hound, still staring her down, starts to slowly back up,
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and then it rounds the corner headed towards the stairs,
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Slowly creeping towards where she last saw the creature.
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Elko works up the courage to look over the corner, but as she
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does, she is startled again. This hound, this creature has
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vanished. She.
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Is baffled and left without an explanation as to what it just
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happened. Several hours later, her
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husband, Jay would finally return home from work.
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Upon relaying what had happened to him, Jay dismissed his wife,
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thinking that she had been dreaming or that her hormones
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must be playing a part in what she had seen.
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Elka instead is left scared, wandering and questioning her
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sanity. To.
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Make his wife feel better. Jay did end up sweeping the
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house. But.
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Didn't find any trace of this hell hound.
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That. His wife had described so
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together they both decided just to stop talking about it and let
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the whole event go. For the rest of the pregnancy,
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things within the Yaples home are quiet.
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There are no more paranormal happenings.
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Just two months later they're twins.
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Mackenzie and Courtney were born.
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This was truly a happy and life altering moment for them.
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Their long wait had finally come to an end, and in its place.
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The. Long journey of parenthood had
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just begun. Thanks for a time.
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Would continue to be calm within the home in the months to come.
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The couple would adjust to being parents and would do everything
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they could to provide for and protect their girls.
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This included baby proofing the house, placing baby monitors
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around and constantly checking on them at all hours of the day
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and night. And.
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Within several more months, the young girls were already
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crawling. Elka would eventually go back to
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work, which required Jay and her to hire a babysitter.
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That was a woman named Michelle Ziegler, a preschool teacher
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with years of experience working with little ones.
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From. The first day that she cared for
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the twins, his mom and dad were at work.
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The noises would begin. Michelle would describe the
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first day like this as I cared for the girls and laid them down
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to nap and headed back downstairs.
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I was startled to hear what sounded like someone running up
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and down the stairs. Not sure of what to make of
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this. I ran upstairs only to find that
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nothing was out of place and that the girls were still fast
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asleep. It was bizarre.
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Another day while babysitting, Michelle was playing with the
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twins in the living room when suddenly out of nowhere she
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hears a massive banging sound that shakes the entire house.
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The sounds origin is above them. The girls would make their way
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towards the stairs and begin pointing towards the top of it.
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Getting anxious, Michelle runs up to them and looks at what
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they were calling attention to before her very eyes.
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She sees the dark figure of a dog, but this dog is massive in
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comparison to the Gapel's Yorkies.
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As the two stare down, Michelle also hears the creature growl.
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As she slowly backs up at the bottom of the stairs with the
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girls behind her arms, it suddenly vanishes into thin air.
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It's important to note that Michelle was not spoken to about
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any prior experiences that Elka had been through.
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The young woman is scared half to death.
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The experience impacts her so much that once the apples come
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home from work that day, she informs them of what had taken
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place and that she had believed she had seen some kind of ghost.
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And lastly, that this would be the final week she would babysit
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for them. The April soon enough would find
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a new babysitter and would carry on living their lives.
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That was until one particular night.
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In. The middle of the night, as
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everyone in the house is asleep, Elka is suddenly woken up by a
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loud banging noise coming through the baby monitor,
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perplexed as to just what could have caused the noise.
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She. Goes to check on the girls, both
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of which she finds are fast asleep.
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Thinking it must have been the monitor picking up some sort of
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interference, she soon heads back to bed.
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As she starts to doze off yet again.
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She is woken up by a deep demonic voice coming through the
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monitor. It said you're all going to die.
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Elka sits up in disbelief and the monitor says the same thing
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again, but louder This time. Both her and Jay hear it and
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screaming for their children. Elka is the first to rush back
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to the girls room with Jay right behind her as they run into the
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bedroom. Thankfully, they discover that
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both girls are safe and still sound asleep.
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Jay, although panicking internally, tries his best to
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stay calm while comforting his hysterical wife to be her person
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to lean on. This event in particular seemed
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to change Elka according to Jay. And.
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He would not be the only one who would notice at work.
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Elka's supervisor, a woman named Shawna, would also notice a
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complete shift in her personality.
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In her words, she was not the bubbly and easygoing person I
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admit. Two years ago, she now was
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constantly on edge. As time would go on, Elko would
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continue to change and stopped almost all socializing,
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overtaken by the paranormal events that now plagued her
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family's lives. She kept it all to herself for
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fear of ridicule that could come from others and discussing such
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a matter. Worried about his wife, and in
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an effort to try and understand just why things could be
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occurring in his home, Jay would contact and become friends with
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a local Enfield historian, a woman named Colleen Heidi.
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Jay wanted to know who had built and lived in his home, so with
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only the knowledge that the house was built in 1771.
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He. Went to the town hall where the
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records and deed histories were. Kept.
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Accompanied by Colleen, the two would be shocked by what they
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found. No home in all of Enfield
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history had as many disturbing deaths or tragedies as the
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Yaples home did. The house had seen over 20
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deaths in the past 200 years, 24 out of the 25 occupants to be
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exact. There.
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Have been falls brain hemorrhages, carbon monoxide
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poisoning, complications from surgeries, a child vomiting and
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becoming aspirated and one person who was burned on over
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90% of their body. Other deaths resulted from
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pneumonia and people on alive in themselves.
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These are two of the strangest cases I was able to track down
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and get details on. The first was that of Charles
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Comparado in 1930. An Italian immigrant named
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Charles Comparado, who lived in the house, became infatuated
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with his neighbor one evening. He.
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Got it from the table where he was eating dinner with his own
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family. And.
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Grabbed A Stiletto knife, walk down the street and while her
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and her husband were eating, Charles walked into their house
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and then stabbed her seven times.
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Cut her husband's throat, then walked back home after getting
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back to his own house. He.
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Would then unalive himself, leaving his body's blood stained
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image on the living room floor. The second was that of a woman
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named Elizabeth Arnett. She.
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Was a woman that had owned the house in 1919.
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But. Only for a short time 1 evening.
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As she was heading out the front door, she fell or was pushed.
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Leading to her. Breaking both of her arms and
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smashing her skull on the steps, she would breathe her last
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breath on the stairs. The very same stairs that Elka
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had been pushed down when she was pregnant with the twins, a
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similarity that was all too familiar to the apples.
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Given all the darkness of the home's past, it truly seemed
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that something evil inhabited its walls.
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But despite believing that, their home was indeed haunted.
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The. Aples weren't in a position to
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sell their house, so for the time being they tried to keep
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things in order to live the best way that they could.
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One night, as the moon hung above the Yaple House, Elko was
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working this night and the girls already in bed, Jay was watching
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some TV with the couple's dogs. An hour or so into watching, one
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of the April's Yorkies named Gizmo began to run towards the
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kitchen as if someone had walked in.
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Within seconds he began to bark, which further caught Jay's
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attention. As Jay got up and began to
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approach the kitchen where Gizmo was causing a ruckus before his
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very eyes, he could see a black mass in the back corner of the
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kitchen. This is what Gizmo was barking
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at, continuing to head towards his dog, but more cautiously.
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He then is shocked when Gizmo's thrown backwards towards him,
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going from all fours to seeing his back arch up to him,
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launching at him several feet as if the small dog has been kicked
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and kicked very hard. Running towards the kitchen, Jay
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sees nothing. The apparition is gone.
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His poor dog is now gripped with fear and begs to be picked up,
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not wanting to leave his father's side.
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He. Curls up by his neck.
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For the remainder of the night, when Elka gets home in the
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morning, Jay tells her what took place and the two begin a deep
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discussion about what they thought was going on in the
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house. After talking about the history,
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how dark it was, and how vicious this force seemed to be, the
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couple comes to the conclusion that whatever it is is certainly
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paranormal. And this paranormal force was
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malevolent that seemed to hate anything that was alive, fearing
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for themselves as well as their children and pets.
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The. April, shortly after their
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discussion, would contact a group called the Enfield
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Paranormal Society in hopes that perhaps they could help decipher
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what was going on, and perhaps still could assist them in
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getting rid of whatever this thing was.
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They speak with the man who founded the society, Matt
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Kondrake, someone who was all too familiar with the spirit
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world and had investigated hundreds of cases all over the
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state of Connecticut. The Apples agreed to have Matt
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and his team conduct an investigation of their home, and
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shortly after their call he would arrive, equipment in hand.
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This was his first impression in his own words.
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Upon arriving, the neighborhood seemed completely normal, but
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the minute you walked in the house and closed the door behind
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you, it became difficult to breathe, like the air was heavy.
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An ominous dark feeling overtook.
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You and I certainly would not want to live there.
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Over the course of the team's investigation, they began to ask
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the entity questions to try and make some sort of contact.
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They started upstairs. When asking why are you trying
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to hurt this family? They would receive the following
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EVP. Or.
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Electronic voice phenomenon. To them, it sounded like an
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angry or territorial dog that was barking, as if to warn
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someone not to take another step towards them or their turf.
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Shortly after this recording, the room began to heat up.
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The temperature would read close to 100°.
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Worried. That this creature was going to
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manifest for a physical attack. Matt and his crew rush
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downstairs and into the kitchen in hopes of avoiding this as
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well as cooling down. Meanwhile, as they visit with
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the Aples, their children are upstairs, sound asleep in their
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room. Roughly 20 minutes into talking
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in the kitchen, everyone hears a massive boom above them, as if a
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huge object has crashed into the house.
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The 1st to run up the stairs is Elka with Matt close behind her
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heading up to the baby's room. As they throw the door open to
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check on the girls, they see blood all over the room on their
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cribs, their mobile and the walls in the floor.
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A large lamp that was in the corner of the room was upside
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down on the floor and its light bulb was shattered.
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Jay and Elka examined their children for any sort of injury
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that could have been caused, but mysteriously they find nothing.
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Not a single cut or scratch whatsoever.
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But where did this blood come from?
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The couple defaults to searching the entire home with the team
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for signs of an intruder, but after half an hour of clearing
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the home there is no evidence of a break in and no one to be
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found. After this, Matt, his team and
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the Yaples would speak again in their kitchen about what they
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thought was taking place and Matt was honest with them.
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He believed that what they were dealing with was a non human
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spirit, a demon, a creature that has never walked the earth, one
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that has never lived in our plane of existence, and that
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this demon was manifesting as this black dog.
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He was also fairly certain that whatever it was did not want the
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family there, and despite all of his experiences up until this
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point, he had never dealt with something like this so he
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wouldn't be able to assist them further.
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After the paranormal team leaves for the night, Jay and Elka
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clean up the mystery blood in their children's room and then
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discuss what their next moves will be.
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They consider trying to sell the house, but Jay felt obligated to
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disclose to any potential buyer the history and experiences in
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the house and truly didn't want anyone living there, especially
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someone who had kids or pets or both.
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But with this, he, deep down, was in fear of what this thing
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was and just what it wanted to do to him and his family.
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So ultimately, not seeing another option, the Aples would
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make contact with another paranormal group in the area,
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one that specializes in dealing with demonic hauntings.
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This group was Connecticut Paranormal, and the man they
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spoke with was named Bob Baker. His impression of Jay was that
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he seemed truthful and consistent, something he looked
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for in order to weed out any particular pranksters.
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Because when someone is making things up, their stories tend to
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change over time, and Jays didn't change then and it hasn't
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changed now. The three would arrange for an
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investigation to take place in the next week when they arrive.
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Upon crossing the threshold of the centuries old house, Bob
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Baker immediately knew that this force was sinister and that they
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would need a priest if they were to make any headway and fraying
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the family from this hellish prison.
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He immediately calls 1A man named Bob Bailey a priest who
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has helped his group and others with demonic hauntings for many
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years. Bob deemed this case severe due
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to believing it was a demonic haunting and with having a demon
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in the house. It.
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Was especially a threat to the children upon receiving
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permission from the church. Father Bailey arrives within
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hours of the call in his own words.
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From the moment I walked in, I could tell that the air was
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thick with oppression and with the priests arrival the
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investigation began. First, Bob Baker began to
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inquire if there was anything non human or demonic in the
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house and commanded its show itself since it now had no place
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to hide. With these series of questions,
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the tool they had brought to measure the EMF or electronic
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magnetic field began to shoot up into the red.
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This is believed to be indicative of a high level of
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spiritual activity. After this took place, they
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began to try and make contact with anyone who had passed
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within the house, seeking to speak with any lost souls that
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could potentially be trapped inside.
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During this EVP session, they did not receive any answers to
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their questions, however, the EMF reader was again fully in
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the red. The team decided to call in an
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additional asset to assist them. A.
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Spiritual medium by the name of Paula O'Brien.
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Paula had years of experience dealing specifically with
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demonic hauntings as well. When she arrives, she begins to
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provoke the entity. From the moment she stepped into
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the house, she could sense that there was something nasty there
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as she attempts to make contact. The.
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Crew begins to head upstairs. It's here on the second level
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that they felt the oppressive feeling to be the strongest.
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Paula believed that the entity was hiding there.
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As they wander into the girls room to continue to ask the
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entity just what it was, they catch an orb on their footage.
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The orb then travelled from the closet and out into the hallway
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and then made its way towards the Yaples dog, Mandy.
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Mandy then began to have a coughing fit that would turn
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into convulsions. The father believed that the
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demon was attacking the animal in an effort to distract them
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from trying to figure out its motive.
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Mandy wasn't just a beloved pet, she had moved with Elka from
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Germany and had been her parents dog.
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Both of her parents were gone now, so Mandy was like the last
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living link to her past. Perhaps the demon sensed this
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and attacked her for this reason.
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As Mandy suffered, they quickly picked her up and rushed her
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down to the main level of the home.
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From here they laid her on the floor and began to pray over
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her. Thankfully, within about 15
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minutes, little Mandy would sit her head up and begin to walk
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normal once again. Both Father Haley and Paula no
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longer sensed the entity, relieved that their dog was OK
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and that the entity had either been severely weakened or had
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gone totally. The apples thanked everyone
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there for their incredible work as they packed up and prepared
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to leave. The.
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Crew warned them, however, that if the entity had just been
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weakened, that it would indeed come back stronger than before
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and with a vengeance that every drop of fear they felt would
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fuel the demon's return. So, as a precaution, they agreed
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to return in two weeks. Just several days after the
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initial assistance from the Connecticut Paranormal Society,
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Elka was again working the night shift, leaving Jay by himself
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with the girls and dogs. Jay lays his girls down to bed
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for the night while him, Gizmo and Mandy lay together to relax.
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And. Watch TV in the living room as
30:28
he flicks through the channels trying to find something
30:30
entertaining to watch. He suddenly hears what sounds
30:34
like a large animal running up and down the stairs.
30:38
This disturbs both him and the dogs, and the three bolt up and
30:42
head towards the. Stairs to see just what it could
30:45
be. As they approached the bottom of
30:47
the stairs, Gizmo and Mandy began barking with such
30:52
ferociousness as if they were fending something off with their
30:55
very lives. There, at the top of the stairs,
31:00
was once again an apparition, but this time.
31:04
It was much more terrifying before Jay's very eyes.
31:09
He sees a creature with pale skin, bat like wings and
31:14
glistening fangs. It keeps lurching.
31:17
At them menacingly from the top of the stairs, standing his
31:22
ground. Although petrified with fear,
31:25
Jay is much more worried about his kids.
31:29
He begins to get closer to the stairs, not yielding any ground
31:33
to the demon. It snarls fangs out, but as he
31:38
climbs the stairs it slowly begins to back up and then it
31:43
dissipates completely, just as the Hell Hound had previously.
31:49
But were the creatures one and the same?
31:52
Jay then runs upstairs to his girl's room and takes them down
31:56
into the living room with him. He will not even think about
32:00
sleep until his wife is back at home.
32:04
Bob Baker, his team with Connecticut Paranormal alongside
32:08
Paul of the Medium and Father Bailey, returned to assist the
32:13
Yaples family, having felt like they exhausted all of their
32:17
efforts. The.
32:18
Family team and priest. All decide that it was time for
32:23
spiritual warfare as Father Bailey presented A crucifix
32:28
embedded with an exercised Medal of Saint Benedict.
32:32
The. Demon quickly began to show them
32:34
all. Its.
32:35
Deep displeasure as he prayed within the girl's room and
32:39
commanded the entity to show itself.
32:42
The crews suddenly captured this EVPA demonic whisper of sorts
32:48
saying. Get.
32:49
Out. Despite this, Father Bailey
32:59
continued his cleansing of the home, moving from room to room,
33:04
binding and commanding the spirits in the name of Jesus to
33:08
go back from whence it had came. Paula believed the entity, no
33:12
longer having a place to hide, fled down to the one place that
33:16
had yet to be cleansed, the basement.
33:20
Upon descending the stairs, the Father thought to himself, this
33:25
is a perfect place for evil to hide.
33:29
As he resumed his cleansing, everyone slowly began to make
33:33
their way towards the back of the basement.
33:35
And at the end of the basement on that back wall, a section of
33:40
the wall has been removed and when lighting the space,
33:44
everyone witnesses a large black mass float into this cracked
33:50
section of the wall. It was here that Paula and
33:54
Father Bailey felt the most oppressive energy they had ever
33:58
experienced. A feeling of emptiness.
34:02
A desolate crypt far away from God.
34:07
They believed that this is where the demon resided, having
34:10
discovered its hiding place. They.
34:12
Restart their efforts to finish the cleansing of the home, and
34:16
during this process multiple people become violently I'll a
34:21
sign that the demon, once cornered, was fighting with
34:25
every possible weapon it had, and it seemed like it wasn't
34:29
going to leave no matter how hard the priest commanded it to.
34:34
But finally, after several tense hours, Father Bailey and Paula
34:40
finally feel the heavy pressure of the demon's presence vanish
34:46
in. The months following the
34:48
cleansing. The apples would continue to
34:51
have several paranormal experiences.
34:54
But. Bob Baker had informed them that
34:56
as if their home was a living body and the cancer of the demon
35:00
had been removed, that it was in the process of healing.
35:04
In a sense. And that the residuals should
35:07
eventually go away. I tried my best to get a current
35:11
update on the yaple family, but the most recent update I found
35:16
was from October of 2015. As of that date, the yaples
35:21
still owned and lived in the house and were still
35:24
experiencing multiple things not of this world.
35:28
Alongside that, I tried my best to find out just how this demon
35:32
could have made its way into the.
35:34
Home in the first place. And according to several
35:37
articles, the children of Charles Comparado were believed
35:41
to have dabbled with a Ouija board in the basement of the
35:45
house, and when wallpaper was stripped back in certain areas,
35:50
strange and occult drawings could be found.
35:53
But. Did their meddling with the
35:54
unknown conjure something that previously hadn't been there?
35:59
Or with the prior tragic events, had the entity already been
36:03
there? And perhaps all they did.
36:05
Was. Pour fuel on the.
36:06
Fire. It's hard to say.
36:09
All of this, at the end of the day, is just speculation.
36:14
But. What do you think?
36:15
Is this case legitimate? What would you have done if you
36:19
encountered A Hellhound or a vampiric looking creature?
36:23
Let me know down in the comments below and remember.
36:27
That something seems too good to be true, and almost always is.
36:32
And that gift that you've been hoping for for your future
36:36
sometimes can be a Trojan horse for something desolate, dark,
36:43
and evil. Can death unleash something into
36:47
this world that isn't? Supposed to be here?
36:51
Could it act like a portal, allowing something sinister and
36:54
dark to creep in just before it closes?
36:58
Especially if the person passing is harboring dark and abhorrent
37:03
secrets. When a young man begins to
37:06
exhibit strange and demonic behavior and the very laws of
37:11
nature seem to bend to his will, can irreverent work to save his
37:16
very soul. Documented by multiple law
37:19
enforcement professionals as unexplained to this day, this is
37:23
certainly not a story you will want to miss.
37:27
This is the untold story of Don Decker, also known as the Rain
37:32
Man of Pennsylvania. The date is February 24th, 1983,
37:42
and on this cold, misty day, a family is mourning the loss of
37:47
their loved 1A man by the name of James Cashaw.
37:54
After battling alcoholism for many years, the bottle finally
37:58
took its toll and caused cirrhosis of the liver which
38:03
became fatal. Among the pews of friends and
38:07
family paying their respects sits a young man, the grandson
38:12
of James, 21 year old Don Decker.
38:16
Don had been granted furlough from his four to 12 month jail
38:19
sentence for receiving stolen property in order to attend the
38:24
funeral. But as he sat facing the body of
38:27
his grandfather as others paid their last respects and gave
38:32
glowing speeches about the man, Don clenched his fists.
38:38
Only he harbored a dark secret that no one else knew.
38:43
And this secret is perhaps what contributed to his troubled
38:47
adolescence when it was his turn to walk up and say goodbye to
38:51
James. As he stood over his body, the
38:55
face of evil looked back at him with eyes closed for the first
39:00
time. Don would later say it felt like
39:04
good triumphing over evil that day, and I truly felt like
39:09
everything was going to get better, like it was a turning
39:13
point in my life. The secret that he had been
39:16
holding on to for so long was that James, his very own
39:21
grandfather, had abused him from the time he was seven years old
39:26
until he was a teenager and no one else knew.
39:30
All the years of pain and fear were caused by that man.
39:35
The very same that now laid in the coffin.
39:38
The very same that Dawn was now having to hear others praise and
39:43
who he was publicly obligated to mourn at the conclusion of the
39:49
funeral. When James Casket was laid into
39:51
its final resting place, he couldn't stand the way his
39:55
parents had glorified the man's memory, but given the
39:58
circumstances he was in furloughed from jail and with
40:02
emotions raw amongst everybody, he decided it would be for the
40:06
best to go and stay the night with some family friends instead
40:11
before he was set to return to finish out his sentence.
40:15
Bob and Jeannie Kiefer were long time friends of the family and
40:20
were quite fond of Dawn, so they were more than happy to have him
40:23
join them for the night. As the night progressed.
40:27
The. Three of them were enjoying each
40:29
other's company, but it seemed like all the feelings that have
40:33
been stirred up from the memories of his grandfather's
40:35
abuse at the funeral were coming back to Han Dawn.
40:39
He fell on edge and uneasy when suddenly the air around him
40:45
vibrated with a bone deep chill almost simultaneously.
40:51
After this occurred, water began to drip from the ceiling and
40:55
down the living room walls. Dawn then fell into an eerie
40:59
trance like State, staring at nothing and yet everything at
41:04
the same time. The.
41:06
Kiefers were perplexed at what was happening and tried
41:09
examining all reasonable possibilities.
41:13
Thinking they had a leak, they contacted their landlord, a man
41:17
named Ron Van Wy. Upon arriving, Ron too, quickly
41:22
became perplexed. The leak, or so they thought,
41:26
was obvious. But what was strange to him?
41:30
Was. That there was no piping that
41:32
ran through the front part of the house.
41:34
Certainly none that could spring a leak from the ceiling or the
41:38
walls. None at all.
41:41
On top of this strangeness, when observing the water's direction,
41:46
Ron noticed that there was indeed no sense of direction.
41:50
The water was not only coming from the top, down from the
41:54
ceiling and the walls, but it was going from the floor and up
41:58
the walls and direct contradiction to the laws of
42:02
gravity into anything that he had ever seen.
42:07
Shocked and needing multiple witnesses to assure himself that
42:11
he wasn't crazy, Ron phoned his wife Romaine to come and take a
42:15
look as well. Upon her arrival, she was just
42:19
as perplexed and became scared of what was happening since it
42:23
defied all logic and the leak, or so they thought, only became
42:29
worse. So the landlords did the only
42:32
thing that they could do. They called the police.
42:36
Shortly after that call, a patrol car arrived with Officer
42:40
John Bojan, who, after briefly stepping inside the home, became
42:45
drenched in water and also witnessed the bizarre,
42:48
otherworldly activity to which he had no explanation for
42:53
either. So to prove his sanity and to
42:56
back up a report, he called upon his partner, an officer named
43:02
Richard Volbert. When Richard arrived, he wanted
43:06
to be briefed on exactly what was going on.
43:08
The Bojan didn't want to give him any sort of a preconceived
43:12
notion and just told him to trust him on this one.
43:16
After some back and forth, Richard finally conceded and
43:20
followed John into the key for residents.
43:23
He would later describe the incident as so I walked in the
43:27
door. I couldn't have gotten 2 steps
43:30
in the door and I was pelted by water as we were discussing a
43:34
potential leak and as we were being told that there were no
43:37
pipes in that part of the house as we stood just inside the
43:41
house, a droplet of water. Was.
43:44
Traveling horizontally and passed right between US and out
43:50
into the next room. As I retell this story, I have a
43:54
chill up my spine and the hair on my neck is standing up.
43:59
John would go on to say things were happening in this house
44:03
that I couldn't have ever possibly dreamed of happening
44:06
and there was no way to explain what was going on.
44:10
Shocked by what they were witnessing, the two officers
44:13
asked the family to step outside of the house and out of the
44:16
water while they left to report the incident to the chief
44:20
himself. The.
44:21
Wise decided to stay at the property while the Kiefers and
44:25
Don walked across the street to a local restaurant for something
44:29
to eat. Within seconds of everyone
44:32
departing, the water suddenly stopped within the house and
44:36
aside from the home being drenched, it was back to normal.
44:40
No more dripping water and no more mist.
44:45
This left Ron and his wife only to speculate that whatever was
44:48
happening was coming from one of the three, because when they
44:52
left, so did it. Pam Scrofano, who owned the
44:57
pizzeria opposite the kiefer's house where the three ended up
45:01
in, was a friend of the Kiefer. 'S.
45:03
And knew Dawn as well. Upon greeting the three of them,
45:08
she noticed that Dawn was distant, like he was looking at
45:12
you but looking through you. A deeply religious woman, she
45:17
sensed something evil about him, like the devil was working
45:21
through Don Decker, and recommended that they contact
45:25
someone at the church for help. Within mere seconds of
45:29
mentioning this, droplets of water hit the table in front of
45:33
them and soon the very same phenomena that was originally
45:38
happening in the house was also now taking place inside the
45:43
pizzeria. Sensing this evil, Pam ran to
45:47
the cash register where she had an old cross necklace.
45:51
She took it out and placed it around Don's neck.
45:55
As soon as it touched his skin, he got burned.
45:59
He began to scream and pull the necklace off of him.
46:03
It was charred. Black as the trio departed the
46:07
pizzeria and headed back to their home.
46:10
The strange activity inside once again ceased.
46:15
It's important to note that nothing like this had ever
46:18
happened at the Kiefer residence or Pam's Pizzeria.
46:22
No plumbing issues, nothing that could be considered even
46:26
remotely similar. Convening inside the home once
46:29
again, they met Ron and his wife.
46:32
Ron suspected that Don had something to do with what was
46:35
happening, and after some discussion, an argument erupted
46:39
among the group. This led to Jeannie screaming at
46:43
dawn, telling him that they knew it was him, that he had to make
46:47
all of this stop. After the words left her mouth,
46:52
the pots and pans above the stove began to shake and the
46:56
lights around them began to flicker.
47:01
Don Decker was no longer in control of his body.
47:06
Everyone watched in horror as Don levitated multiple feet into
47:10
the air and rotated several times.
47:15
He was then thrown out of the kitchen where they were and into
47:19
an entirely different room. Don himself would later recount
47:23
the event like this. It wasn't like someone grabbing
47:27
your hand or picking you up. I.
47:30
Felt this force over my entire body.
47:33
I'm a big man and I've always been assertive, but this,
47:37
whatever this was, made me feel like a newborn child.
47:42
I'm scared right now just thinking about it.
47:45
Dawn not laid unconscious on the floor and the rain began again.
47:51
The Wise and the Kiefers were in absolute shock and disbelief at
47:56
what had just taken place. They knew it was tied to dawn,
48:00
but they had no idea just what it was.
48:03
But they felt that it was evil. A few hours after the strange
48:08
incident witnessed by the police officers, they arrived back at
48:11
the residence alongside. They're very heated police
48:15
chief. As he made his way into the home
48:17
with the two officers behind him, he too was pelted with
48:21
water, just as they had been now first, probably feeling like he
48:25
was on the spot and perhaps slightly embarrassed.
48:29
He claimed that this wasn't even a police issue, but a plumbing
48:33
issue, despite then being told that there were no pipes in that
48:37
part of the house. And.
48:39
This was even confirmed by blueprints of the home after
48:42
taking a look around at the rest of the home, which was bone dry.
48:46
The. Chief then angrily ordered the
48:48
two officers to escort him back home.
48:52
He would be the only officer that night to not admit to
48:55
anything strange happening. He then directed Officers John
48:59
and Richard to not file a report and to not speak about the
49:03
incident at all, but word would get out the following morning,
49:09
acting against the specific orders from their chief, the two
49:13
officers returned to the residence, along with three
49:16
veteran officers as well. They too would see and
49:20
experience the bizarre rain inside the home, so they decided
49:24
to try something to attempt to get to the bottom of what
49:27
exactly was going on. They asked if they could place a
49:31
paper bag over Don's head, to which Don agreed This was so.
49:36
He would have no way of seeing anything.
49:38
He'd have no preconceived notions of what could be placed
49:42
on him or in his hands. They then placed a gold cross
49:46
necklace from one of the officers into his hand.
49:51
Lieutenant William Davies, one of the officers present who
49:54
placed the cross into his hand, described the incident like
49:58
this. As soon as the necklace touched
50:02
his palm, he said it burned him. He would have had no idea what
50:07
it was. I saw what I believe to be smoke
50:10
of some sort coming from the necklace or his hand.
50:14
As he dropped the necklace, I picked it up and it was hot.
50:19
Not burning hot, but hot enough to concern me.
50:23
Then suddenly, with the Force, as if a bus hit him, he lifted
50:28
up and was thrown across the room, hitting the back wall.
50:33
Upon removing the bag from him, he was clearly dazed and had
50:38
three bloody and fresh claw marks across his neck.
50:42
I've been a cop for 40 years and I've never ran into anything
50:46
like this ever, Never before and never again after.
50:52
There's always an explanation, but in this case there was no
50:57
explanation. The police would later leave
51:01
again with no answers as to what was taking place.
51:05
Believing it to be a spiritual matter, Don was placed on the
51:09
couch in the living room. Or the rain continued to go from
51:12
mist to showers at random and varying times.
51:18
After making multiple desperate calls to every Protestant and
51:22
Catholic religious leader in Shroudsburg, only one didn't
51:26
turn them down. Ron was able to convince an
51:29
evangelical preacher who went by the name of Reverend Johnson to
51:34
come over and pray with Dawn. As she arrived and began to
51:39
pray, the rest of the group held hands and vigil and did what
51:43
they could to support her. As the first words left her
51:46
lips, dawn began to convulse and shake.
51:51
The rain intensified, and his body began to twist into
51:56
unnatural positions. But as she continued, he slowly
52:02
but surely began to relax, and the rain seemed to stop.
52:08
Although those present believed that a miracle had been
52:10
performed, the results of that prayer session would only prove
52:15
temporary, perhaps placing into hibernation whatever was inside
52:21
Don Decker. Once his furlough was over, Don
52:25
Decker returned back to jail to finish his sentence.
52:28
Within just a few days, the mysterious rain returned.
52:33
Upon his return to jail, Dom was placed in a cell with another
52:37
inmate and had the thought enter his mind that if he could make
52:41
it rain in the cell, perhaps he could get to be alone.
52:46
Almost as soon as he thought that the rain began, it was
52:51
materializing out of the concrete floor and flowing
52:55
upward. The other inmate was horrified
52:59
and screamed for the guards to let him out.
53:02
Thinking they had some kind of plumbing issue, the guards
53:05
opened the cell and removed that inmate as well as Decker.
53:10
At first he was accused of throwing water onto the walls
53:13
from the sink or from the toilet by the guards.
53:16
But upon these accusations, Don rebuttal with I Can Control It.
53:22
This time the feeling was different.
53:24
This time he felt powerful and in control.
53:29
Upon hearing this, the guard laughed and said, if you can
53:33
control this rain, make it rain in the warden's office, an offer
53:37
that dawn couldn't refuse. The warden would then describe
53:42
what happened. And these are the words of
53:44
Lieutenant Warden David Keenhold.
53:47
I was in my office filling out paperwork with no one else
53:50
around. It was approximately 8:00 PM in
53:53
the evening. I didn't notice it at that time,
53:56
but my shirt was dripping down. I heard a knock at the door and
54:01
little did I know that it was the same officer that was just
54:04
with Don Decker. I wasn't aware of the situation
54:07
at the time. He told me to look at my shirt
54:11
and there was no explanation as to where the water could have
54:13
come from. The officer then became very
54:16
frightened of what had happened, and after explaining the
54:19
situation to me, I too became frightened.
54:23
Shortly after the rain in the warden's office, a frantic call
54:27
was placed to a local chaplain, a man named Reverend William
54:31
Blackburn. He soon found himself shaking
54:34
hands with the warden and several officers as he was
54:37
escorted into the jail and into an empty cell.
54:40
Within minutes he came face to face with Don Decker, who by
54:45
this time was beginning to fear the feeling he had inside of
54:49
him, that powerful and evil feeling.
54:53
He was now asking for the reverend's help and freeing him
54:57
of whatever this thing was. Blackburn wasn't convinced at
55:01
first. He told Decker that his life
55:04
would be much easier if he just stopped all this nonsense and
55:07
attention seeking. He would go on later to describe
55:10
the situation like this. Almost immediately after I
55:14
accused him, Don's demeanor changed.
55:18
A glazed look came over him and a horrible smell entered the
55:21
room. Doctors, nurses and medical
55:25
personnel. Will.
55:26
Tell you that when you walk into a room, when there's someone
55:29
dying of disease or of cancer, there's a smell to it.
55:34
I smelled that smell multiplied by at least five times.
55:39
It was evil and foreboding. Dawn's glazed expression then
55:44
switched to one of malice and calculation.
55:48
He. Exclaimed.
55:49
I have powers that you don't, and I can make it rain.
55:53
He then raised his hand and rubbed his fingers together, and
55:57
it started to rain inside that cell.
56:00
It was like a devil's rain, a mist.
56:03
I was in the presence of evil. I started opening my Bible to
56:08
begin to pray, and Dawn said I don't want you to pray for me.
56:13
To. Which I decided to anyways.
56:15
I started to read to him, and the strange thing is that even
56:19
though I was soaked, the pages of my Bible never got wet, and
56:24
that was truly frightening. Although the session was short,
56:28
upon uttering the words that he was now bound in the name of
56:31
Jesus Christ, the rain stopped and a piece overtook dawn.
56:37
When he finally came to, he thanked the Reverend with tears
56:41
in his eyes, and the two hugged and prayed together again.
56:47
In the words of Reverend Blackburn, there is no doubt in
56:50
my mind that he was possessed. No human being could do what he
56:54
did in that room. There is no way that he did
56:57
anything to fool me whatsoever. Whatever happened was spiritual,
57:02
and it was not from God can guarantee you that it was not
57:07
from God. From this moment forward, the
57:10
rain has stopped for now. Don Decker would later say that
57:14
he takes things day by day and that fortunately the rain hasn't
57:19
returned. As for his grandfather, he
57:22
thinks whatever happened was related to him.
57:25
He thinks that considering where he thinks he ended up, maybe he
57:30
was able to make a deal with someone and have yet another
57:33
chance to abuse him. What makes this case so unique
57:37
and interesting is that all the people involved are credible
57:41
people. I mean, we have some family,
57:43
friends, sure, but they stated they had nothing take place in
57:47
that house prior to Dawn's arrival that morning.
57:50
We. Have the landlord of the
57:52
family's home and his wife not only reaffirming that there
57:56
weren't any prior issues, but that there were no pipes in that
57:59
area of the house. We then have six police
58:02
officers, including the chief over the case, experience the
58:06
phenomena, and he was the only one that said that nothing took
58:09
place. We have a business owner where
58:12
the phenomena took place at her establishment as well, then
58:16
several guards at the jail and which she goes back to finish
58:19
serving his time, witness things and the warden of the jail
58:23
himself. And the police officers.
58:25
Three of them were seasoned lieutenants, I might add, and
58:28
anyone with a proper reputation, unless they really experience
58:32
something, would risk that in my opinion.
58:36
So was it demonic infestation, Possession, poltergeist
58:41
activity, or something else entirely?
58:44
When we have so many credible eyewitnesses recanting the same
58:48
details, saying what they saw, experienced and felt was a
58:53
phenomenon not of this world, it truly makes you wonder.
58:58
And if it wasn't spiritual, could Dawn's childhood trauma
59:02
have allowed him to break into a part of the mind that could
59:05
somehow 'cause these kinds of things, allow him to manipulate
59:09
the weather of his surroundings, move objects, and even cause
59:14
harm to himself? We may never truly know the
59:17
answers to this mystery in particular, and it very much
59:21
still is a mystery to this day. As far as an update on Don
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Decker, besides multiple show appearances and interviews to
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discuss his story over the years, the last known activity
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that I could find of him was that back in 2012, he was
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charged with arson of a local restaurant in the Poconos
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Mountains of Pennsylvania. It seems like perhaps he was
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paid to set fire to the establishment by the owner,
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maybe for insurance fraud. As far as the outcome of the
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case, I couldn't find additional details.