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2 Hour MARATHON Of CHILLING PARANORMAL Stories · Mystery Archives Episodes

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  Mere days after the Lee family had settled into their new abode
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  nestled amongst the Pines, they are confronted with paranormal
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  happenings. Initially, the disturbances seem
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  harmless as the couple's two young sons.
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  Began to voice. Concerns about peculiar lights
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  flickering in their rooms and eerie shadows dancing across the
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  walls. But the situation takes an
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  ominous turn when Steve and Beth themselves bear witness to
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  disturbing and terrifying events.
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  This is the untold story. Of the haunted House of the
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  Black Forest in Colorado. There's an undeniable, almost
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  supernatural call to the eerie and the unexplained that seems
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  to emanate from the depths. Of dense Woodlands, the Black
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  Forest, a vast expanse of towering trees and shadowy
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  undergrowth, has been a breeding ground.
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  For creepy tales of the otherworldly.
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  Amidst this foreboding landscape lies a dilapidated house, its
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  weathered walls and creaking floorboards harboring secrets.
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  That have captured the imagination of paranormal
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  enthusiasts across the nation. This isolated dwelling nestled
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  deep within the Colorado wilderness has earned a
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  reputation as one of the most haunted sites in the United
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  States. It's very existence a testament
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  to the enduring power of mystery and the unknown.
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  The region referred to as the Black Forest is an
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  unincorporated area situated in El Paso County, Colorado,
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  nestled near the city of Colorado Springs.
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  This area was traditionally known as the Pineries, a vast
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  expanse spanning over 1000 miles, aptly named for the dense
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  concentration of majestic ponderosa pine trees that
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  blanketed the landscape. The Black Forest's remote and
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  secluded nature, coupled with its towering evergreens and
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  rugged wilderness, has long captivated those seeking
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  solitude and a connection with the untamed beauty of nature.
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  The secluded log cabin, nestled deep within the Black Forest
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  region of Colorado, seemed like a tranquil Oasis for the Lee
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  family when they first laid eyes on it in 1991.
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  Stephen and Beth, along with their two sons, had relocated
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  from Louisiana, seeking a serene escape amidst the towering Pines
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  and pristine wilderness. The sparsely populated area,
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  known for its slow paced lifestyle, crisp air, and
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  breathtaking vistas, promised a dream home surrounded by
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  untouched nature. Little did they know that this
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  idyllic retreat would soon become a source of explicable
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  occurrences and unsettling experiences that would forever
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  alter their perception. Of the Supernatural About the
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  Lees Steven Lee, a father, husband and truck driver, had
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  done well for his family and wanting a change of scenery,
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  they found what they believed to be their dream home.
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  A6000. Square foot, three story cabin
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  located within the Black Forest, situated on five acres of land.
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  Stephen and his wife Beth, with every step as they surveyed the
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  property, could envision their two young sons.
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  Playing and growing up there, their own little piece of the
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  American dream. So.
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  It took a little bit of. Time, but their offer on the
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  home was ultimately accepted and within the coming months, they
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  would soon call this secluded place home.
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  However, they would fail to realize that it wasn't just
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  inhabited by the family of four. The first week at their new
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  residence seemed like something out of a fairy tale.
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  Mom, dad and the kids were all comfortable and very happy after
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  making the long trek from Louisiana to Colorado.
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  The family themselves seemed happy and content with their
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  decision. However, this would change the
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  Lee's two young sons shared a room, as brothers often do at a
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  young age, and roughly after their first week, they began to
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  tell their parents that something strange was happening
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  in their bedroom. Bright.
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  Colorful lights flashed about. And terrifying shadowy spectres
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  flowed across their walls. These strange happenings
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  frightened the boys and often kept them awake.
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  So of course they told their parents.
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  However, often in these situations they were dismissed.
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  Beth and Steve simply believed that the boys had overactive
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  imaginations and figured it would just take time for them to
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  adjust their new environment. But this too would change mere
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  weeks later. Upon coming home from an evening
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  of fun as a family, they would arrive to see their home
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  lighting inside with strange lightning like flashes of light.
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  They could see the spectacle from their driveway.
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  In the words of Beth. One day we came home and it was
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  like the 4th of July. In our living room and bedroom.
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  We had all sorts of colorful flashes of light seemingly
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  everywhere. We rushed inside to figure out
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  just what these things were and simultaneously it sounded like
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  people were stomping across our roof and all of a sudden it
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  stopped. Never having seen anything like
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  this before, the Lees were simply perplexed and not sure of
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  what to make of this activity. They would lay their heads down
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  to sleep this night. But what they?
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  Failed to realize is that this was just a prelude of what was
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  to come. In the coming months, the
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  activity grew in intensity. What started as phantom lights
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  and flickering shadows had escalated into something taking
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  place almost every single day. From disembodied banging sounds
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  to whispers, the sound of change dragging on the floor or even
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  inside the walls to pushing, assaulting and disturbing the
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  family. Sadly, the Lee's young sons were
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  more often than not the targets of this paranormal force that
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  plagued them night after night. And almost every night they were
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  harassed by shadow people, the reappearance of the mysterious
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  lights, and the awful banging sounds of something unseen.
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  The family did their best to make the situation.
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  Work. They, after all, were newly tied
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  up financially in the purchase of what they believed was going
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  to be their forever home. But it was something big or
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  small nearly every day now, that was taking place during the day.
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  Appliances began to turn on and off on their own accord.
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  This was attributed. To an electrical issue at first,
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  but after having the home examined by multiple
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  electricians, they found no faulty wiring.
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  Alongside electrical appliances, faucets began to turn on by
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  themselves, often making a wet mess in whatever room they were
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  activated in during the night. The re emergence of the lights,
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  movement of the shadow people and the sounds truly haunted
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  them and these disturbing happenings were soon coupled by
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  something new and equally terrible.
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  A noxious chemical odor began to appear in the home with no
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  rational origin. The smell of these mystery
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  chemicals burned the nose, eyes and throats of everyone whenever
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  it appeared. In the coming days, yet more
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  professionals would be called out, and yet nothing, no origin
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  of the chemicals or detection of them either, could be found.
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  It seemed that whatever force that dwelled within the walls of
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  the cabin home in the woods had a particular hatred for the Lee
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  family, and this force soon began to physically hit all of
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  them, seemingly whenever it could, often leaving bruises.
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  Not a believer in the paranormal, Steve Lee having had
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  professionals come out and not provide any rational answers to
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  their strange ailments. This, coupled with the now daily
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  torment that he and his family were enduring, had finally
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  reached his wit's end. He wanted to prove that either
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  there was someone or something messing with them and over the
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  coming year he invested in a total of $70,000 worth of camera
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  equipment and security equipment to monitor every square inch of
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  their home and property. Now you might think.
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  That that's an incredible amount of money to spend on cameras and
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  alarm systems, and it is. But this was the 90s.
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  The equipment wasn't as readily available or sophisticated as it
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  is today, and it just goes to show that they were truly
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  freaked out by whatever. Was taking place.
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  That they wanted some kind of tangible proof that they could
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  show the world so people didn't think that they were crazy.
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  The cameras, which were mostly motion activated and would
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  record when motion was detected, soon began to activate with no
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  rational explanation and no physical means to be detected.
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  After capturing several strange things on video and photograph,
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  Steve decided to contact the local authorities for help.
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  Records show that the El Paso police were contacted so often
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  by the Lees in the months to come that they launched a formal
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  investigation into just what was taking place at the cabin home
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  in the Black Forest. During this time and the two
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  years to follow alongside the Camerons, their security
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  equipment, which could detect motion and forced entry, was
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  triggered 62 times with no explanation as to what could be
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  causing it. It wasn't faulty equipment or
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  poor installation. It was oddly something else,
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  something unexplainable. With not even the police able to
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  rationalize what was happening to the Lees, Beth and Steve
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  decided to take things one step further.
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  They hired a private investigator.
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  This was in part due to the police also growing tiresome of
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  being contacted for assistance and then there being nothing
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  that they could do about it. Between the cameras and security
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  equipment and now hiring a private investigator, the Lees
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  had all but spent the rest of their life savings.
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  Most people if it ever came to this.
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  Would simply try and cut their losses and sell the home.
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  And we don't know if the lease could have sold the home and
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  moved elsewhere, but they truly still believed that this massive
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  cabin home was their dream home and they didn't want to give it
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  up without a fight. Unfortunately though, the
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  private investigator was unable to help them.
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  This left the Lees to simply tough out anything and
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  everything that they had and were continuing to experience
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  after moving in in 1991, the year now it was 1990.
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  Five and the activity had persisted despite the efforts of
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  the Lee family to uncover just what was causing it.
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  Steve, who still figured there had to be a rational explanation
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  for what was taking place. I had a little bit more of an
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  open mind. After a lengthy discussion with
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  Beth, seemingly having done everything else, the Lees
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  concluded that they would try and contact paranormal
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  investigators. To see if they could do anything
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  about the otherworldly happenings taking place in their
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  home. After some research in calling
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  numerous numbers, the Lees ended up getting in contact with the
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  person. Would end up being involved with
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  the television show Sightings. Sightings was an American
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  paranormal and new show that aired throughout the 1990s,
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  covering various unexplained and fringe phenomena.
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  As a result of this pretty lucky interaction, the show became
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  very interested in producing an episode segment about hauntings
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  surrounding the investigation of the Lee home.
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  Michelle would contact a paranormal investigator in a
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  self-proclaimed psychic in Minneapolis, MN named Echo
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  Bodine from her book The Little Book of True Ghost Stories.
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  Echo would explain her experience as the following.
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  I got a call from the TV show Sightings and they wanted to
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  know if I would. Fly to Colorado.
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  Springs to help a family deal with some ghosts.
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  The producers told me that the problem was the ghosts mostly
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  seemed to come out at night. So I was asked to work from
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  midnight until the early Daybreak hours.
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  It was a very hot day in mid-july.
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  When I arrived in Denver around 10:00 PM.
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  It was pretty eerie. There was intense lightning all
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  throughout the sky and rain pouring down.
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  I remember thinking how perfect the spooky weather.
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  Was. For investigating hauntings,
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  Steve, the owner of the log home, was at the airport to pick
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  me up. He was very open about not
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  believing in ghosts, and as we drove through several towns in
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  Colorado, I listened to him tell me.
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  Story after story. About some of the things that
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  had gone on in their house. They heard voices, footsteps,
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  things would move from room to room.
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  It took close to an hour to get up to their house in the
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  mountains and alongside the rain, a fog hung about 10 feet
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  off the ground. When we arrived and I entered
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  their three story log cabin home from here, I was greeted by a
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  producer who asked me if I could take a seat while the scientists
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  they had hired told us about his thermal camera.
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  Having been tired from the trip, I laid my head back while the
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  explanations were continuing and suddenly.
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  I heard a. Voice come from behind me.
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  It said hey, come here. Upon turning around I saw a
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  large ghostly man about 6 feet tall.
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  The specter was wearing blue jeans and a blue checkered
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  flannel shirt. I then heard in unison multiple
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  voices tell me to look over here and now.
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  There was 5 male spirits, all different but dressed the same
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  as the first. The original ghost said that his
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  name was Tom and that. This was his house and.
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  That no one was going to make him leave.
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  He ran the show around here and had for a long time.
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  I told the producer what was. Happening in case he wanted to
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  capture anything for the segment.
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  And he did. The conversation then ensued,
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  with Tom explaining why he and the boys wanted to stay in the
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  house, that it was his land, his home, and that he would not
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  leave. One of the cameramen then asked
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  if it was one of them who'd been responsible for knocking over
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  his very expensive camera off the countertop.
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  All five in unison answered yes and then disappeared out of
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  sight. The scientist with the thermal
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  camera did in fact capture a drop in temperature just right
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  where Tom had stood around 2:00 AM in the morning.
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  As me and Beth discussed the activity that she had
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  experienced, the dogs the family owned would not stop barking
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  outside. The producers, in an effort to
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  keep their sounds from being picked up on the camera, tried
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  to quiet them down, but simply weren't having any luck.
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  Then upon Beth showing me a photo of what they had captured
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  on their own cameras, we suddenly were in the midst of 3
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  male spirits, one with a particularly angry scowl upon
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  his face. One of them walked through both
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  of us causing us to jump out of our chairs while the other angry
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  looking spirit tried to take my breath away.
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  I believe he did this to stoke fear from me in order to grow
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  more powerful, and this worked because I felt as if I was being
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  suffocated. By 3:30 AM, we all decided to
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  not focus on ghosts for a bit and to try and lighten the mood.
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  We turned the cameras off and began eating some food in which
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  Beth had prepared for us. But almost as soon as we began
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  to relax, one of the camera women who'd been sitting on the
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  stairs began to hyperventilate. She then jumped up and screamed.
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  Get it out of me as she fell. Down the stairs and onto the
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  floor, writhing in pain. The producers asked for me to do
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  something, so with the assistance of others, I helped
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  her up and into a chair in the kitchen and I began to burn sage
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  encircling her in the smoke. I asked her to say back to me
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  that she was clear until she calmed down.
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  It took about 20 minutes, but she eventually relaxed.
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  She then was given a ride back to the hotel and I never saw or
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  heard from her again. By now it was 4:30 AM and we
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  were waiting for the camera crew of the show to finish setting up
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  their equipment in the bedrooms where the majority of activity
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  was seeming to take place. One of Steve's friends, who had
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  been present most of the night, came up and handed me a brochure
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  about the. History of the local area.
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  To my surprise, he told me that a man named Tom had been the
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  sheriff here back in the 1800s. I felt shivers up my spine as I
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  realized that this was the same Tom that now haunted the Lee's
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  home. Roughly 5:00 AM, as we set off
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  to investigate the last bedroom, I walked into the room and saw
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  there in the rocking chair in the corner, who would turn out
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  to be Beth's deceased grandmother.
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  And on the opposite side of the room was Tom and the several
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  male spirits under his control. We ended up burning sage and
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  asking them all to move on to the other side.
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  They all did leave the. Building, but I'm not convinced
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  that they moved on. At about 6:00 AM, we finally
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  finished saging the entire house.
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  Exhausted, we packed up our equipment and went back to our
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  respective hotels. I've spoken to Steve and Beth
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  since and they informed me that activity at the cabin persisted
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  shortly after our departure and that although not fully
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  convinced, Steve is convinced that there are things in this
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  world that we will never truly understand.
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  Sightings would do a follow up episode segment years later with
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  the Lees or they brought in several spiritualists and an
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  expert in hyperdimensional studies and all would come to
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  the conclusion that the home was indeed haunted.
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  The expert would draw the conclusion that the home sat
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  atop an interdimensional vortex and coinciding with his
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  conclusion. Interestingly, a Hopi elder from
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  the local area would also explain that the Black Forest
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  sits on top what the Hopi call a rainbow vortex, a raging storm,
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  a portal of sorts that contains great spiritual energy and the
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  coming and going of many souls. Sometimes they burn out over
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  time and sometimes they don't. They are considered gateways
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  between the world of the living and the spirit realm.
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  Some strange and noteworthy things that took place during
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  the second filming of the show Sightings at the Lee's residence
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  was that a paranormal investigator had asked anyone if
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  the name Howard bore any significance to them.
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  The Lee's were surprised because one of their best friends in
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  Colorado Springs was a man named Howard.
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  The entity then told the investigator, who relayed the
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  information to everyone, that he was Howard's son and that he in
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  fact had not killed himself, but rather had been murdered.
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  This disturbed the Lees a great deal because Howard's son had
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  supposedly taken his own life by consuming deadly chemicals
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  working as a chemist. The stories and reputation of
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  the home got such a local buzz from the press that even a
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  Colorado senator by the name of Charles Duke visited the home
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  with his own camera crew and would snap a few photographic
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  pieces of evidence of apparitions.
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  To his and everyone else's surprise, Senator Duke was so
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  convinced of the Lee's haunting that he even contacted the FBI
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  to conduct a formal investigation, but the Bureau
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  would rebuttal with no federal laws had been broken.
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  Years later, after everything had happened, Steve Lee, who
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  still wasn't fully convinced of the supernatural, came to his
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  own conclusions as to what was taking place.
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  And for the record, it's a wild theory.
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  He began to believe that the government was using his family
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  and their remote location to test biological agents and
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  psychological weapons of war. He claims he has even
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  photographed military personnel on his property with firearms
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  and claims that they may have been shutting off the
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  electricity in his home so they could enter undetected.
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  These claims, although far fetched, would be incredibly
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  disturbing if true, and it would account for the noxious odors
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  the family said they were experiencing as well as the
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  lights and some sounds. But oddly enough as well, the
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  Air Force Base is located just a few minutes away from.
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  Where the Lees live, the Lees as.
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  Far as we know, after placing the home for sale in 2010, no
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  longer live there. The current residents are
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  unknown, but it seems as. If the property.
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  Has changed hands multiple times, whether it was ghosts the
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  result of what the Hopi call a rainbow vortex or more
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  sinisterly the result of government military Black Ops.
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  The haunting of Black Forest Colorado is truly an intriguing
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  tale. And if you find yourself seduced
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  by what you could consider your dream home, take caution because
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  this calling might just be a siren sound.
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  The saddening events shatter any resemblance of a planned future
• 30:23
  that Jeanette foresaw. Following the tragedy, she had
• 30:27
  to tell her two girls that they would never see their father
• 30:31
  again. The two are inconsolable.
• 30:35
  To make things worse, every day following the public
• 30:39
  announcement of what had happened, her home has been
• 30:42
  besieged by the media. No care, no compassion.
• 30:47
  They just wanted a word and a picture to sell their latest
• 30:51
  headline. The harassment was constant
• 30:54
  during this time, so thinking of how to solve a crisis, Jeanette
• 30:58
  begins to ask herself should she try and find a little small
• 31:03
  place somewhere for her and the girls to escape to, To start
• 31:07
  over at, to start fresh? With snow still melting outside,
• 31:12
  She takes them for a car ride one afternoon and seems to
• 31:16
  stumble across a deal that was an answer to her prayers.
• 31:20
  Located outside the city and with the rarity of an acre of
• 31:24
  land, sits a rather large home. It will need some work, but she
• 31:30
  thinks she could make that happen.
• 31:32
  From the moment she lays eyes on it, Jeanette feels that this is
• 31:37
  the one. This could be a way to give her
• 31:39
  girls and herself a new life. She jumps on the opportunity
• 31:45
  into her bewilderment, her offers accepted.
• 31:49
  Within a month, the Mayrans move from the home that Curtis built
• 31:54
  to a new home, a fresh start outside of the city.
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  With the transfer of each bag and each box of belongings, they
• 32:05
  feel as if they're that much closer to peace, the thing that
• 32:09
  they really all wanted. The homes mentioned needed some
• 32:13
  restoration, but with Curtis being a firefighter, his
• 32:17
  brothers in service took it upon themselves to look out for his
• 32:21
  family. With all the manpower, the work
• 32:25
  should be done within a couple weeks.
• 32:28
  However, with the restoration of the home, devastation would
• 32:33
  follow as the construction toils on and unfamiliar with the area
• 32:42
  with valuable tools being left around on occasion, as well as
• 32:47
  their own safety to worry about, Jen decides to put up security
• 32:51
  cameras to monitor things. In total, they have seven
• 32:55
  cameras installed around the property.
• 32:58
  The first night that the cameras go live, Jen is curious just
• 33:02
  what all they can see and detect.
• 33:05
  So with this being new technology to her, she sits in
• 33:08
  the living room on her computer, tuning into just what was taking
• 33:12
  place outside of her walls. It's night time and the cameras
• 33:17
  are in night vision mode, portraying black and white.
• 33:21
  As she clicks through the different cameras as the evening
• 33:24
  progresses, she doesn't see much.
• 33:27
  That was until in the middle of A-frame, she sees a man.
• 33:33
  This man is standing and staring at her home.
• 33:38
  Given the quality of the cameras at the time, she didn't panic,
• 33:42
  thinking perhaps that her eyes were playing tricks on her to be
• 33:47
  safe. She makes sure that the home is
• 33:49
  entirely secure and eventually relaxes enough to be able to try
• 33:55
  and get some sleep. As an icy wind blows outside and
• 34:01
  the light snow trickles down and coats the earth, Jeanette and
• 34:05
  her two girls lay in their beds. Her mother and sister are
• 34:10
  asleep, to her knowledge, but Angela is particularly restless.
• 34:16
  She can't seem to sleep. Tossing and turning, she has an
• 34:21
  uneasy feeling in the pit of her stomach.
• 34:24
  As she toils away in her room, she is suddenly interrupted by a
• 34:30
  strange banging sound. As she sits up and listens, she
• 34:37
  hears it again. However, these thumps or knocks
• 34:43
  seem to be originating from inside the walls.
• 34:48
  Turning on her lamp and standing up out of bed, Angela begins to
• 34:53
  investigate as the noises progress in intensity.
• 34:58
  Meanwhile, unbeknownst to her, her younger sister Danine is
• 35:03
  woken up by the sound of someone banging on the outside of her
• 35:08
  closed bedroom door. Calling out to whoever was
• 35:12
  there, she has met with the reply of silence.
• 35:18
  Finding this strange to say the least, and confused after being
• 35:23
  woken up out of a sound sleep, the young girl gets out of bed
• 35:27
  slowly and apprehensively makes her way towards the door.
• 35:33
  As she turns the knob and peers through the opening, she soon
• 35:38
  swings the door open to reveal nothing, just an empty hallway
• 35:45
  leading to her sister's room across the way.
• 35:48
  At the same time, her sister Angela is still investigating
• 35:53
  the sounds coming from within the walls of her room.
• 35:59
  The banging has become more rhythmic, more aggressive.
• 36:03
  It seems as if someone or something is trying to get her
• 36:08
  attention. The sounds have been moving
• 36:11
  around her room and trying to pinpoint its location.
• 36:16
  She walks up to the wall beside her dresser and slowly places
• 36:20
  her ear close to the wall to listen.
• 36:25
  The banging instead has found her.
• 36:29
  With eyes wide. She steps back from the wall as
• 36:33
  the mysterious sound continues. Danin, meanwhile, unable to hear
• 36:40
  her sister's situation, closes her door and sits back on her
• 36:45
  bed. Almost as soon as she sits down,
• 36:49
  the knocking begins again, but this time it's shaking her
• 36:54
  entire tore. Scared, she rushes to put her
• 36:59
  head under her covers as each situation crescendos late into
• 37:04
  the night. The two poor girls are terrified
• 37:09
  and Needless to say, they don't end up getting much rest.
• 37:14
  The activity seems to cease at dawn the following morning.
• 37:21
  As their mom serves them breakfast.
• 37:24
  She notices that her two girls look exhausted asking what was
• 37:28
  going on with them. She is soon met with a series of
• 37:32
  questions such as was she the one knocking on the walls or on
• 37:38
  their doors? Was she walking all around the
• 37:41
  house and did she do these things all night long?
• 37:46
  Unsure of what to make of this, Jeanette hadn't heard anything
• 37:49
  throughout the night. She chalks it up to the girls
• 37:53
  dealing with the emotions of everything, moving homes and
• 37:58
  experiencing a new environment. She hoped that with due time
• 38:03
  they would warm up to the house and all would be well.
• 38:07
  The girls don't fully express their fear for lack of belief
• 38:11
  from their mom. So for this morning they
• 38:15
  continue to eat their breakfast together and try to move on to
• 38:20
  another topic as the girls go about their day.
• 38:25
  Jen would go upstairs to her girls rooms and investigate but
• 38:30
  would uncover nothing out of the ordinary.
• 38:34
  The renovations would continue and soon the firemen would find
• 38:38
  themselves within the basement of the home, described as unique
• 38:44
  with lots of debris. They demolish old boards and
• 38:48
  clear things out. As work toils on, the girls
• 38:53
  examine the backyard. They've never seen an area so
• 38:57
  big and although it's freezing outside, they've opted to
• 39:01
  explore. However, they begin to discover
• 39:06
  some strange things about their new playground.
• 39:10
  They first noticed strange symbols carved into numerous
• 39:13
  trees on the property. Unsure of what to make of this
• 39:18
  as kids do, they use their imaginations.
• 39:21
  They decide that they want to design a map to help them hide
• 39:25
  things. They will use these stars, as
• 39:29
  they call them, as markers on their map.
• 39:33
  The two continue to explore and soon make another even stranger
• 39:38
  discovery. What appears to be several
• 39:41
  chipped bones tied together with a lace like material is dangling
• 39:47
  from a low hanging branch of one of the trees.
• 39:52
  Thinking it was really weird, but again unsure of what to make
• 39:56
  of it, the two continue to play as previous items, debris and
• 40:04
  old demolition waste is removed from the basement.
• 40:08
  Those firefighters volunteering soon make a discovery of their
• 40:12
  own there underneath the old floorboards.
• 40:16
  Etched into the concrete below is an inverted pentagram.
• 40:22
  They soon call Jen to take a look, curious as to just what it
• 40:27
  could be, she comes down and sees it for the first time.
• 40:33
  As she glances at it, she begins to feel sick to her stomach.
• 40:38
  She instructs the men that she would like it covered back up,
• 40:43
  that she didn't want the girls to see it.
• 40:46
  The men would agree and simply lay new concrete over it, and
• 40:51
  this way her girls will never even know that it was there.
• 40:56
  The girls, however, still playing outside in their winter
• 40:59
  Wonderland, soon make yet another discovery.
• 41:05
  They begin to find several more stars made out of bones upon the
• 41:09
  ground. Thinking this was part of some
• 41:13
  game, they soon incorporate them into their play as well of the
• 41:18
  innocence of the child. Several days later, Jen has
• 41:26
  returned to work and has left Angela in charge of her younger
• 41:31
  sister. Angela has also been tasked with
• 41:35
  cleaning up the house. As she makes her way around
• 41:40
  checking off her list, she feels as if she's not alone.
• 41:45
  She keeps looking over her shoulder, but nothing seems to
• 41:49
  be there. Turning once again to get back
• 41:53
  to cleaning, within seconds she hears an ear shattering noise.
• 42:00
  Her eyes shoot to the origin of where she believed the sound had
• 42:04
  come from, and the poor girl can't believe what she's seeing.
• 42:09
  The entire kitchen has been flipped upside down, pans and
• 42:15
  dishes thrown out of their cabinets, silverware that was
• 42:20
  inside the drawer is now all over the place, and not knowing
• 42:25
  what else to do, she screams and flees.
• 42:31
  Hours later, Jen, upon arriving home from work, walks into an
• 42:37
  eerily quiet house in her own words.
• 42:42
  When I walked inside, everything was very quiet.
• 42:46
  I glanced into the kitchen and every cabinet, every drawer was
• 42:52
  emptied. The place looked like it had
• 42:55
  been ransacked. I called out for Angela but got
• 43:00
  no response, thinking her daughter had had a tantrum of
• 43:04
  sorts. Jing goes on the hunt for Angela
• 43:08
  after not receiving a verbal response from her.
• 43:11
  Running up the stairs, she finds her holding a stuffed animal and
• 43:18
  staring blankly ahead in her room.
• 43:21
  When confronted, Angela tells her mother what had happened and
• 43:26
  thankfully Jen believes her. She recognizes the sincerity in
• 43:32
  her child's eyes and voice. The following day, when both of
• 43:37
  the children are out, Jen greets a few workers down in the
• 43:42
  basement who are putting the finishing touches on things.
• 43:46
  One of them had found something while working.
• 43:51
  It was several old looking pieces of paper tied together
• 43:55
  with some kind of white lace. Handing the papers to Jen, she
• 44:00
  begins to unfurl the pages. The opening date goes back to
• 44:05
  the year 1927, the year that the home was originally built.
• 44:13
  Scouring the pages For more information from what she
• 44:17
  gathers, Jen makes out that the person who wrote this diary of
• 44:21
  sorts seems to be a young girl, perhaps the daughter of someone
• 44:27
  who had lived at the house in the past.
• 44:31
  As she continues to read, she finds out that the girl's name
• 44:35
  was Christina, and Christina's story took a rather dark turn
• 44:42
  within the diary. She began to describe how her
• 44:46
  father would hurt animals upon A star in the basement, and the
• 44:53
  descriptions became darker and more graphic as the pages
• 44:59
  progressed. Disturbed by what she had just
• 45:02
  read, Jen decides that no one needs to know about what went on
• 45:08
  here. That if the things written were
• 45:11
  true, that the past tenants were very sick people and she, now
• 45:17
  living there, wanted to wash her hands of all of their doings and
• 45:23
  pretend, essentially, that nothing happened in this place
• 45:27
  that her and her children now call home.
• 45:30
  And who can blame her? Except some things don't stay
• 45:34
  buried. The following day, as Jen is
• 45:38
  cleaning house, she is suddenly startled by a massive boom that
• 45:45
  rocks the entire house. Shocked initially by the
• 45:49
  unexpected blast, she realizes that it's coming from the
• 45:53
  basement below her. Worried that something had
• 45:57
  exploded, she apprehensively makes her way to the door and
• 46:02
  with flashlight in hand, slowly begins her descension down the
• 46:09
  stairs. Reaching the concrete floor, she
• 46:13
  scans the room for any signs of what could potentially have
• 46:17
  caused the commotion. Stepping forward and peering
• 46:22
  around, her flashlight suddenly dies.
• 46:27
  Jim then begins to feel as if the oxygen in the room is being
• 46:32
  consumed at a rapid pace and an overwhelming sense of dread
• 46:38
  begins to overtake her. Running up the stairs as fast as
• 46:43
  she can and slamming the door behind her, she felt as if she
• 46:48
  was in the presence of pure evil.
• 46:52
  Still worried and not knowing if it was something to do with the
• 46:56
  plumbing or what have you, Jen needs to address the potential
• 47:00
  cause but is too frightened to continue, so she lays it on the
• 47:06
  back burner, so to speak. Later that night, after she's
• 47:10
  fed the family dinner, Jen is busy cleaning up while Angela is
• 47:16
  in her room and Danine is taking a shower.
• 47:20
  Angela, who had been sitting on her bed and reading a magazine,
• 47:25
  suddenly begins to hear the faintest of whispers.
• 47:30
  It sounds like multiple people whispering at once from a
• 47:34
  distance. Perplexed, the child gets up and
• 47:39
  attempts to seek the origin of where these mysterious whispers
• 47:43
  are coming from. As she steps towards her door,
• 47:48
  the whispers wrote louder to the point to where some discernment
• 47:53
  is possible. The whispering seems to be a
• 47:56
  back and forth conversation amongst two people, but in a
• 48:01
  very secretive manner. Sounding like it's just outside
• 48:05
  of her door, Angela throws the door open only to reveal nothing
• 48:12
  but the hallway, and as she does this, the whispers
• 48:17
  simultaneously cease. Perplexed further, she closes
• 48:23
  the door and begins to head back to her bed.
• 48:27
  But the whispers start again, heading back towards the door,
• 48:32
  she listens in on the two again, and this time she begins to hear
• 48:37
  the name of her sister mentioned in this secretive conversation.
• 48:43
  Meanwhile, as Angela is having her own experience, the neem who
• 48:49
  is showering began to have her own experience as well.
• 48:54
  Feeling as if she was being watched but trying to shake the
• 48:58
  feeling off. She tries to finish her shower,
• 49:02
  but hearing the bathroom door creak open puts the poor girl on
• 49:06
  edge. Calling out of the steam tinted
• 49:10
  glass asking if it was her mother or Angela who had entered
• 49:15
  the bathroom, she has soon met with something horrifying.
• 49:21
  Although blurred by the steam on the glass, she sees the
• 49:25
  silhouette, the large creature. This thing appeared to have
• 49:30
  pointed ears and grotesque features.
• 49:34
  The scared young woman is reduced to terror in the corner
• 49:39
  of the shower, screaming for her mother.
• 49:43
  Across the hallway upstairs, Angela, who had overheard what
• 49:48
  sounded like two people whispering about her sister,
• 49:52
  pulls the door open when she hears her sister's cries and
• 49:57
  rushes towards the bathroom. At the same time, Jen also runs
• 50:02
  upstairs, startled by the cries of her daughter.
• 50:07
  They try to open the bathroom door, but it won't budget.
• 50:12
  It seemingly locks from the other side as the women
• 50:16
  frantically try to get inside to save Demine.
• 50:19
  She continues to scream for them as this creature presses its
• 50:24
  face and hand against the glass, unveiling black rotting skin,
• 50:33
  yellow eyes and sharp teeth. Finally, the door opens, as if
• 50:41
  the unseen hands keeping it closed vanished, rushing inside
• 50:46
  to assist the poor girl. They find her shaking with the
• 50:51
  shower still running. Turning off the water and
• 50:55
  placing a towel on her. Jane quickly gets all of them
• 50:58
  out of the bathroom. But now as they stand in the
• 51:02
  hallway, all of the doors within the home that were open close on
• 51:08
  their own. Simultaneously, a dark demonic
• 51:14
  chanting begins to fill the house as it grows louder and
• 51:20
  more oppressive, as if some abomination from their worst
• 51:25
  nightmare was inching ever closer.
• 51:29
  The fear amongst them exponentially grows.
• 51:33
  Running to Jen's bedroom, opening the door and rushing
• 51:38
  inside before closing the door behind them to barricade
• 51:42
  themselves from whatever was approaching.
• 51:46
  Jen holds the door shut in case whatever this thing is tries to
• 51:51
  come inside with all three of them in hysterical tears.
• 51:56
  They begin to cry for their father, Jen's husband, their
• 52:01
  slain protector. Something begins to slam into
• 52:06
  the door, trying to break it down as the noise outside
• 52:11
  intensifies. All three of them are
• 52:14
  desperately calling out for Curtis, although they don't feel
• 52:19
  his presence. Just as quickly as it had begun,
• 52:24
  the evil outside of the door and all of its chaos abruptly stop.
• 52:32
  The following day, Desperate to talk to someone but feeling like
• 52:37
  she'd be judged for being crazy, Jen contemplates who she can
• 52:42
  confide in. A longtime friend of her husband
• 52:46
  named Tony had been there for her and the girls since
• 52:51
  everything had happened. If anyone was going to believe
• 52:54
  her, it would be him. So she gives him a call and
• 53:00
  within 1/2 hour he arrives at the house.
• 53:04
  After sitting down together at the kitchen table, Jen explains
• 53:09
  everything to him, from the discovery of the pentagram in
• 53:13
  the basement to what they had been experiencing, and
• 53:17
  especially the horror that had taken place just the night
• 53:22
  before. After hearing Jin's synopsis,
• 53:26
  Tony decides to go into the basement to take a look around.
• 53:31
  After guiding him to the door, Jin refuses to go down with him,
• 53:36
  so after being handed a flashlight, Tony descends the
• 53:40
  stairs alone. In his own words, he didn't fear
• 53:45
  much in life, but while in the basement he couldn't help but
• 53:49
  get the feeling that something was watching him, as if there
• 53:54
  was an oppressive atmosphere of sorts.
• 53:57
  He had trouble breathing and wanted to get out of there as
• 54:01
  soon as he could. Suddenly as he walks around, he
• 54:06
  is spooked by the sound of a door rattling.
• 54:11
  As he approaches the door, the rattling continues, further
• 54:17
  unnerving Tony. Not wanting to delay the
• 54:20
  inevitable, he decides to throw the door open, and when he does,
• 54:27
  he reveals an empty room. There's absolutely nothing
• 54:33
  physically there. Already freaked out, he steps
• 54:37
  outside of the small room that the door concealed, and the
• 54:41
  moment that he gets outside of the doorway, the door itself
• 54:46
  slams shut. It was with this extra action
• 54:50
  that Tony decides it's time for him to get the hell out of
• 54:54
  there. Tony, who had worked over 25
• 54:57
  years as a corrections officer, truly feared very little, but
• 55:03
  what he had experienced down in that basement that day rattled
• 55:06
  him to the core. He explains what happened to Jen
• 55:11
  but decides to leave shortly after the experience moving
• 55:16
  forward to try and ease one another.
• 55:19
  While someone was showering, they decided to post someone
• 55:23
  outside of the door to keep the other company in case anything
• 55:28
  else happened. And interestingly, I've had to
• 55:31
  do the same thing in one of the homes that I lived in that was
• 55:35
  haunted, but that's a story for another day.
• 55:40
  But just so you know, I know exactly how they felt.
• 55:44
  With all of their money tied up in the house, Jen is desperate
• 55:48
  to try and find some kind of solution.
• 55:51
  Not a very religious person, but going on what she knew, she
• 55:56
  decides to call the Catholic Church for help.
• 56:00
  The following day, a priest arrives to assess the situation,
• 56:05
  conduct a blessing for the family.
• 56:08
  He not only agrees that there is something evil within the home,
• 56:12
  but strategizes with Jen on how to try and get rid of whatever
• 56:16
  this thing was. He conducts a blessing of the
• 56:20
  home, but also believes that it's important for Jen to find
• 56:24
  her inner faith and conduct blessings on a regular basis
• 56:29
  herself. So he provides her with gallons
• 56:34
  worth of holy water since the property is rather large in
• 56:38
  which she places into spray bottles.
• 56:42
  Try and cover every square inch of the home during these
• 56:45
  blessings. One night after conducting her
• 56:49
  blessing, Angela would become fairly withdrawn given the
• 56:54
  stress and trauma of the situation she found herself in.
• 56:59
  Went outside to the swing set they had in their backyard.
• 57:04
  With it being night time, Jen decides to keep an eye on her
• 57:08
  using the cameras that she had previously installed.
• 57:12
  As Angela contemplates life and swings by herself, it soon
• 57:18
  becomes apparent that she is not alone.
• 57:23
  Jen, who was occasionally looking up at the laptop screen
• 57:27
  where the cameras were being monitored, soon sees something
• 57:32
  strange surrounding Angela. Out of nowhere were several
• 57:39
  dark, hooded figures. Jen, whose heart had felt as if
• 57:45
  it was going to explode, rushes as fast as she can towards the
• 57:49
  back door and towards her daughter's location.
• 57:54
  Angela was unaware of the figures her mother had seen had
• 57:59
  been keeping a steady normal pace on the swing set, when
• 58:04
  suddenly she is thrust out of her seat at a furious pace,
• 58:10
  causing her to smack the snow packed ground incredibly hard.
• 58:16
  Upon impact she hears a horrendous crack.
• 58:20
  Crying out in pain and for her mother, Angela is greeted by
• 58:25
  Jen, who begins to throw holy water all around, where the two
• 58:30
  are screaming and cursing at the figures who had hurt her
• 58:35
  daughter. Scrambling to get her to their
• 58:38
  vehicle as fast as she can, Jen then drives her immediately to
• 58:43
  the hospital. Upon arrival and examination,
• 58:47
  they discover that her foot and ankle are shattered.
• 58:51
  The following day, after returning from the hospital,
• 58:55
  Angela now wears a boot on her leg and is forced to stay in
• 58:59
  bed, further isolating her and keeping her within the confines
• 59:05
  of the house. Things seem to be relatively OK
• 59:08
  during the day, but when the sun goes down, the home begins to
• 59:14
  come alive. One night, incapacitated in her
• 59:18
  room and with Jen out running errands with her sister, Jenna's
• 59:23
  alone on her bed. It's lightly snowing outside and
• 59:28
  the moonlight is peeking through her blinds.
• 59:32
  She begins to hear a faint knocking noise originating from
• 59:36
  her closet. Looking over, she notices her
• 59:41
  mirror looks strange, almost liquid.
• 59:45
  She then sees something that strikes absolute fear into her
• 59:50
  soul. A charred, black clawed hand
• 59:56
  begins emerging from her mirror slowly.
• 1:00:00
  And menacingly coming out more and more, beginning to scream,
• 1:00:08
  Angela does the only thing that she can do because she can't
• 1:00:12
  physically run away. Not only is her foot broken, but
• 1:00:17
  the mirror is right in front of her door.
• 1:00:20
  She quickly throws herself onto the floor and rolls underneath
• 1:00:25
  her bed, pinning herself as far back against the wall as she
• 1:00:30
  possibly can. The smell of decay fills the
• 1:00:34
  entire room as a creature slowly comes out of the mirror.
• 1:00:40
  From Angela's perspective, all she can see now is the gnarled
• 1:00:45
  feet of this entity as it steps towards the bed.
• 1:00:50
  Angela, grasping the home phone, frantically begins to dial her
• 1:00:56
  mother's number. On the other end, Jen picks up.
• 1:01:01
  She had been at the grocery store, but upon hearing her
• 1:01:05
  daughter screams, she leaves everything and immediately
• 1:01:10
  rushes towards the house. But she is 45 minutes away,
• 1:01:16
  pleading with her daughter to pray as she speeds on the slick
• 1:01:19
  roads, desperately trying to get home.
• 1:01:23
  She then hears a horrendous scream, something unearthly
• 1:01:29
  unlike anything she had ever heard before on the other end.
• 1:01:34
  And then the phone call drops. Angela, who had been uttering
• 1:01:40
  Hell Mary while on the phone with her mother, was suddenly
• 1:01:44
  met face to face with a demon. After rushing home as fast as
• 1:01:50
  she could, Jen opens the door to a dark and silent house.
• 1:01:55
  All the lights are off and she doesn't hear anyone or anything
• 1:02:02
  running up the stairs to Angela's room.
• 1:02:05
  She doesn't see her. With tears stringing down her
• 1:02:09
  face, she fears that the worst has happened, that whatever this
• 1:02:15
  horror was had hurt her daughter.
• 1:02:18
  She then hears the faintest whimper coming from underneath
• 1:02:22
  the bed. It's Angela.
• 1:02:25
  She's so weak and feeble that Jen has to drag her out from
• 1:02:30
  underneath the bed, relocating the girls to her room.
• 1:02:35
  Jen then searches for help online.
• 1:02:38
  She knows that her and the girls deserve a future, and at this
• 1:02:42
  rate, one of them may end up hurt again or worse.
• 1:02:48
  She discovers the number of a paranormal investigator by the
• 1:02:52
  name of Liz, calling the number out of desperation at
• 1:02:56
  approximately 3:00 in the morning.
• 1:02:58
  At this point, surprisingly, Liz picks up on the other end.
• 1:03:03
  After hearing Jen's harrowing story, she decides that she
• 1:03:08
  wants to help her and her family.
• 1:03:11
  Having researched the paranormal for over 15 years, she believes
• 1:03:16
  that she must conduct a cleansing of the home.
• 1:03:19
  So within several hours, shortly after Daybreak, Liz arrives
• 1:03:25
  accompanied by her friend and colleague, a woman who was a
• 1:03:30
  psychic medium by the name of Don Jolie.
• 1:03:35
  As soon as the ladies greet Jen at her door and step inside, Don
• 1:03:40
  begins to receive flashes of the past.
• 1:03:44
  She quickly believes that Colts conducted many rituals within
• 1:03:49
  the home, specifically in the basement, information that she
• 1:03:55
  had not been given ahead of time.
• 1:03:57
  She believes that these dark cults communicated with and
• 1:04:01
  purposefully conjured demonic entities, That the recent
• 1:04:06
  renovations had disturbed all the energy within the home.
• 1:04:11
  And on a side note, ironically, I also have experienced this as
• 1:04:16
  far as renovations disturbing any energy that can be within a
• 1:04:20
  home. But again, I'll share this at
• 1:04:22
  another time. After discussing what she
• 1:04:25
  believed to have happened within the house, the ladies decide to
• 1:04:29
  lay a circle of salt around the property.
• 1:04:32
  The idea being that it forms a barrier of sorts that no spirit
• 1:04:37
  can cross in or out of. To Jin, this was the beginning
• 1:04:43
  of the final showdown with these malevolent forces.
• 1:04:48
  After laying the circle whilst praying, the three head back
• 1:04:52
  inside where they light several bundles of sage.
• 1:04:57
  The three of them then, room by room, bless and cleanse,
• 1:05:03
  allowing the sage smoke to fill the air.
• 1:05:07
  Slowly but surely they do this for the entire house until they
• 1:05:13
  ultimately reach the basement, the apparent epicenter and the
• 1:05:19
  origin of the demonic activity. Together they descend the
• 1:05:24
  stairs, their chance of prayer filling the sage saturated air.
• 1:05:31
  Continuing throughout the basement, they began to hear
• 1:05:34
  what Jen and the children had previously heard, the loud
• 1:05:38
  chants, something in a language that they couldn't understand.
• 1:05:45
  And with each flick of holy water and prayer cast, they soon
• 1:05:50
  also begin to hear screams accompanying the chanting.
• 1:05:53
  And the whole episode slowly is reaching a crescendo.
• 1:06:00
  They finally approached the last space yet to be cleansed, the
• 1:06:05
  small room concealed by a door, the very same room that Tony had
• 1:06:12
  had his experience in. The door once again begins to
• 1:06:18
  violently shake. Wanting to finally end this, Jen
• 1:06:24
  approaches the door and throws it open, allowing the sage smoke
• 1:06:30
  to infiltrate the last remaining air of the home.
• 1:06:35
  While the three women prayed and flicked holy water into the
• 1:06:39
  space, suddenly flames erupted from the floor, revealing a
• 1:06:46
  screaming, charred demonic figure within, but only for the
• 1:06:54
  briefest of moments. Almost as soon as the screams
• 1:06:59
  were finished, leaving the women's mouths upon the side of
• 1:07:02
  this creature, the fire would extinguish and this long battle
• 1:07:09
  with the demonic would finally be over.
• 1:07:15
  The cleansing conducted by Liz and Dawn was indeed successful.
• 1:07:20
  Jen and her daughter still live in the home to this day.
• 1:07:24
  It just goes to show that evil forces that dwell just beyond
• 1:07:28
  the veil of this world have nothing but contempt for us.
• 1:07:33
  No tragedy, no sorrow can be grounds to be left alone, but
• 1:07:39
  rather they use these as exploits, ways to weaken, attack
• 1:07:47
  and consume those who are the most vulnerable.
• 1:07:51
  This family banded together and we're able to overcome the
• 1:07:55
  terror of the demonic, and for that I commend them.
• 1:08:02
  Just goes to show that love truly does conquer hate.
• 1:08:09
  Before we go, I did just want to say a few words about this
• 1:08:13
  incredibly scary case. I want to say that everyone
• 1:08:17
  involved, but especially Jen, Angela, and Dineen, not only
• 1:08:22
  given everything that they had gone through with the passing of
• 1:08:25
  Curtis, but everything as a result of the horrendous
• 1:08:29
  haunting, truly had strength. They endured it all, pressed on
• 1:08:36
  and fought for their house and lives, and it just proves to me
• 1:08:41
  that these women were ridiculously strong and brave
• 1:08:45
  and I have nothing but the utmost respect for them.
• 1:08:48
  I also hope that given all of the information that I could
• 1:08:52
  find, that I did their story justice with my version of it.
• 1:08:58
  I did also have just a few questions about the case itself.
• 1:09:03
  I'm curious just what Colts could have been around the area
• 1:09:07
  at the time. Obviously I tried to research
• 1:09:10
  these, but particularly regarding Colts or the occult in
• 1:09:14
  general, it's really difficult to find information,
• 1:09:18
  particularly on the Internet about a particular local group.
• 1:09:21
  You know, It makes you wonder what kind of rituals are being
• 1:09:24
  conducted and for how long. Just who exactly was behind
• 1:09:29
  them, as in the individuals, and just what entities they were
• 1:09:34
  attempting to connect with or conjure up because it seems as
• 1:09:39
  though they were successful. I'm also curious if any of the
• 1:09:43
  bones that they ever found were human or if they ever found any
• 1:09:49
  proof of human burial upon the land itself.
• 1:09:53
  All questions that we'll probably never have answers to,
• 1:09:57
  but questions that I had nonetheless.
• 1:10:00
  I did mention that I had a few experiences that were very
• 1:10:03
  similar to the experiences that this family had.
• 1:10:06
  In this story, I will be making a video on what my paranormal
• 1:10:10
  experiences were and the ones that kind of shaped me into the
• 1:10:13
  person that I am today and why I started Mystery Archives in the
• 1:10:17
  1st place. If you'd be interested in
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  hearing them, please definitely let me know down in the comments
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  me out tremendously. This story was also made famous
• 1:10:44
  by the show Paranormal Witness, which I would definitely
• 1:10:47
  recommend checking out for sure. I think they do a fantastic job
• 1:10:51
  of storytelling as well. I also have a community
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  announcement that I've taken way too long to make.
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  It's with a huge thanks to our mod Mathias here on the channel
• 1:11:02
  that we now have a discord here. We can not only chat as a
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  community, but yours truly will be hanging out in here quite a
• 1:11:08
  bit. We've even got a pet chat which
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  will. Allow us to share pics of our
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  out with you guys. Aside from this guys, I love all
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  of you. Thank you for allowing me to do
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  what I do. And really if it wasn't for you,
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  I would just be some guy sitting at home making videos that I
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  find interesting. So I truly and I, I really do
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  mean this. I truly appreciate you guys.
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  As always. This has been Cody here at
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  Mystery Archives. Remember to please stay safe out
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  there and take care. I'll see you next time.
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  There are certain realms of the paranormal and unexplained that
• 1:12:28
  seem to capture our imagination more than others, weaving
• 1:12:32
  themselves into legend and folklore, yet occasionally
• 1:12:37
  emerging as potential realities. One such entity that appears to
• 1:12:42
  dwell solely in the realm of fiction and fantasy is the
• 1:12:47
  vampire. However, despite the seemingly
• 1:12:51
  mythical nature of these immortal blood drinking beings,
• 1:12:55
  there are instances that Surface has purported encounters with
• 1:13:00
  these creatures, and one such account allegedly occurred in
• 1:13:05
  the tranquil English countryside.
• 1:13:08
  It is a tale that has become a. Curious part of local lore and a
• 1:13:12
  historic anomaly still discussed to this day.
• 1:13:16
  This is the untold story of the Crawglin Grange vampire
• 1:13:33
  in the idyllic countryside of Cumberland, northwest England.
• 1:13:37
  This tale began unfolding in 1875.
• 1:13:41
  It was that spring when two brothers, Edward and Michael
• 1:13:45
  Cranswell, along with their sister Amelia, ventured to this
• 1:13:49
  region and temporarily took up residence in a modest single
• 1:13:54
  home stone farmhouse known as the Kroglin Grange.
• 1:13:59
  Overlooking the picturesque valley and nestled near an
• 1:14:03
  ancient churchyard, the property owned by the Fisher family
• 1:14:08
  seemed to draw the siblings in. Initially intending a brief
• 1:14:12
  stay, the Cranswells found themselves captivated by the
• 1:14:15
  serene rural life, swiftly becoming familiar faces among
• 1:14:20
  the locals. Their initial plans for a
• 1:14:23
  fleeting visit gradually dissipated as an inexplicable
• 1:14:28
  force seemed to compel them to linger.
• 1:14:31
  The townspeople, unaware of the undercurrents brewing beneath
• 1:14:35
  the surface, welcomed the siblings with open arms,
• 1:14:40
  oblivious to the veil that hid their true intentions.
• 1:14:44
  That sweltering summer, an ominous presence seemed to
• 1:14:48
  linger. Casting a shadow over the quaint
• 1:14:51
  farmhouse as the relentless heat wave persisted, Amelia found
• 1:14:56
  herself tossing and turning, growing more and more
• 1:15:00
  uncomfortable. With the shutters flung open in
• 1:15:03
  a desperate attempt to coax in a cooling breeze, she lay awake,
• 1:15:08
  her gaze fixated on the inky blackness that shrouded the
• 1:15:12
  trees beyond. It was then that something
• 1:15:16
  caught her eye, a faint flickering that danced among the
• 1:15:20
  branches, gradually intensifying as it drew nearer. 2 pen pricks
• 1:15:26
  of light weaved their way through the darkness, their
• 1:15:30
  approach sending a chill down Amelia's spine.
• 1:15:34
  Despite the stifling heat. A sense of foreboding gripped
• 1:15:38
  her, an inexplicable dread that she could not explain.
• 1:15:44
  As the eerie lights drew closer, Amelia felt the dread growing
• 1:15:50
  and enveloping her, a thick and palpable fear that gripped her
• 1:15:55
  very being. The source of the flickering
• 1:15:58
  illumination emerged from the shadows behind the window pane,
• 1:16:03
  revealing a grotesque. Facade, A hideous brown face
• 1:16:09
  with blazing eyes that leered menacingly at her.
• 1:16:14
  Its clawed hands. Began to scratch at the glass,
• 1:16:18
  desperate to gain entry, though fortunately the window remained
• 1:16:24
  locked. Amelia found herself paralyzed,
• 1:16:28
  her voice trapped in her throat, unable to utter a sound as she
• 1:16:33
  trembled in silent terror, transfixed by the monstrous
• 1:16:38
  entity outside. As the creature's attempts to
• 1:16:42
  open the window escalated from mere scratches to peeling away
• 1:16:48
  the lead that sealed the pane's edges, Amelia's mind raised with
• 1:16:54
  unspeakable horrors, unable to comprehend just who or what
• 1:17:00
  sought to breach her sanctuary. When the window pane shattered
• 1:17:05
  onto the floor, the Bony claw like hand reached through,
• 1:17:12
  deftly unlocking the latch from within.
• 1:17:16
  Amelia's voice remained trapped, still paralyzed as a towering
• 1:17:22
  shadowy figure glided across the room.
• 1:17:27
  It seized her in its embrace, grasping her hair and forcibly
• 1:17:32
  yanking her head back, exposing her vulnerable throat.
• 1:17:38
  Despite her desperate attempts to move or cry out, she thus
• 1:17:42
  remained petrified, helpless against this monster.
• 1:17:47
  As the creature bent down, its teeth poised to Pierce her
• 1:17:51
  flesh, the searing pain finally unleashed a piercing scream that
• 1:17:58
  echoed throughout the night. Jolted awake by their sister's
• 1:18:02
  terrified cries, Edward and Michael Cranswell sprang into
• 1:18:07
  action, rushing towards Amelia's room.
• 1:18:11
  With a forceful thrust, they broke down the door only to
• 1:18:16
  witness a chilling sight, that shadowy figure swiftly escaping
• 1:18:21
  through the shattered window. Without hesitation, one of the
• 1:18:26
  brothers grabbed a fire poker and gave chase, determined to
• 1:18:32
  confront the intruder. However, the entity moved with
• 1:18:37
  an unnatural swiftness. It strides unnervingly long an
• 1:18:43
  inhuman as it leapt over the ancient church wall,
• 1:18:48
  disappearing into the Knights embrace.
• 1:18:51
  The brothers were left bewildered and unsettled.
• 1:18:56
  Amelia, shaken and bleeding from her neck, recounted the
• 1:19:01
  harrowing ordeal. Initially, she attributed the
• 1:19:06
  attack to a deranged individual, perhaps an escaped asylum
• 1:19:10
  patient, Her mind unable to comprehend the true nature of
• 1:19:15
  the assailant. The notion of a vampire, a
• 1:19:20
  creature of myth and legend, seemed too fantastical to
• 1:19:24
  consider. Deeply concerned for their
• 1:19:27
  sister's well-being, the Cranswell brothers decided to
• 1:19:31
  whisk Amelia away from the once peaceful, now terrifying
• 1:19:35
  confines of the Krawgling Grange.
• 1:19:38
  A long vacation in Switzerland, they.
• 1:19:40
  Hoped. Would provide her with the
• 1:19:43
  respite and recovery she desperately needed, allowing her
• 1:19:49
  to regain her strength and put the traumatic experience behind
• 1:19:53
  her. As they departed, an air of
• 1:19:57
  uncertainty lingered. A sense that the tranquil
• 1:20:01
  countryside harbored a sinister presence, a force that defied
• 1:20:06
  rational explanation. The events of that night.
• 1:20:10
  Had left more questions than answers in their wake.
• 1:20:15
  When they returned to Crogling Grange the following autumn.
• 1:20:19
  The memory of that traumatic night did not leave the family.
• 1:20:23
  With time, the siblings were determined to confront any
• 1:20:27
  sinister force that remained. The brothers meticulously
• 1:20:32
  arranged their sleeping quarters directly across.
• 1:20:36
  From Amelia's room. Ensuring a watchful eye over her
• 1:20:40
  safety, pistols were strategically placed within
• 1:20:44
  reach, just in case the creature did rear its head again.
• 1:20:49
  Amelia, still bearing the scars of the original attack,
• 1:20:53
  diligently secured her shutters each evening, fortifying her
• 1:20:58
  chambers. For a time, an eerie calm seemed
• 1:21:02
  to settle the countryside abode, lolling them to a false sense of
• 1:21:07
  security. The winter months passed without
• 1:21:11
  incident, however, as the first blossoms of spring unfurled, the
• 1:21:18
  familiar cold wind herald the soon return of the creature.
• 1:21:25
  One evening, Amelia's slumber was once again disrupted by the
• 1:21:30
  hauntingly familiar sound, a scratching and tapping against
• 1:21:36
  her window, now fortified with shutters to shield her from the
• 1:21:41
  horrific visage that lurked beyond.
• 1:21:45
  Bracing herself for the worst yet, clinging to the hope that
• 1:21:49
  it was merely an animal's doing, she mustered the courage to peer
• 1:21:53
  through the narrow gap at the top of the pane, left uncovered
• 1:21:58
  by the shutters protective barrier.
• 1:22:01
  There, hunched menacingly at her window, was the same wretched
• 1:22:06
  creature she had encountered before it, shriveled, grotesque
• 1:22:12
  appearance and burning ember like eyes glaring.
• 1:22:16
  This time Amelia's voice did not fail her, and she screamed as
• 1:22:21
  loud as she could, a desperate cry that jolted her brothers
• 1:22:26
  into immediate action. They burst forth from the house,
• 1:22:31
  pistols loaded and ready, in a frantic pursuit.
• 1:22:37
  They allegedly managed to strike the creature in the leg as it
• 1:22:40
  fled, but its unnatural speed and agility allowed it to evade
• 1:22:45
  their grasp. Undeterred, it fled towards the
• 1:22:49
  nearby graveyard, disappearing into the depths of the ancient
• 1:22:54
  crypt again. The brothers knew that they
• 1:22:58
  couldn't face the creature alone.
• 1:23:01
  The previous night's encounter had shaken them to their core,
• 1:23:05
  and the realization that others in the area had experienced
• 1:23:09
  similar harrowing visitations only added to the sense of
• 1:23:14
  unease that gripped them. Whispers of drained livestock
• 1:23:19
  and a young girl bearing inexplicable bite wounds spread
• 1:23:23
  like wildfire, fueling speculation that they were
• 1:23:27
  confronting a force beyond comprehension.
• 1:23:31
  The Cranswell brothers. Rallied the locals.
• 1:23:35
  Imploring any able bodied individuals to join their
• 1:23:39
  crusade. As the sun swept over the
• 1:23:42
  horizon, the small band of locals gathered, armed with an
• 1:23:47
  array of makeshift weapons, ready to confront the sinister
• 1:23:51
  creature that had plagued their once peaceful hamlet.
• 1:23:57
  Their footsteps echoing through the ancient graveyard as they
• 1:24:02
  approached the ominous crypt. Where the creature had sought
• 1:24:06
  refuge, the air hung heavy with a palpable sense of dread, as if
• 1:24:13
  the very stones themselves harbored secrets best.
• 1:24:17
  Left undisturbed, yet driven by a burning curiosity and a desire
• 1:24:24
  to restore tranquility to their community, they pressed on.
• 1:24:30
  As they neared the crypt's entrance, a hush fell over the
• 1:24:33
  group. The brothers exchanged a
• 1:24:36
  resolute glance, their grip tightening around their weapons
• 1:24:41
  as they prepared to venture into the abyss as they crossed a
• 1:24:46
  threshold. Into the gloomy.
• 1:24:47
  Crypt a chill. Ran down their spines, their
• 1:24:52
  torchlight cast eerie shadows across the defiled graves.
• 1:24:57
  Coffins torn asunder, their contents strewn haphazardly
• 1:25:02
  across the stone floor. A sense of unease gripped them,
• 1:25:07
  yet amidst the desecrated resting places, one coffin
• 1:25:11
  remained untouched. With bated breath, they pried
• 1:25:16
  open the lid, and what greeted them was a sight that would
• 1:25:21
  forever be etched into their memories.
• 1:25:24
  There, lying motionless within the confines of the coffin, was
• 1:25:29
  the very creature that had terrorized them.
• 1:25:33
  Its features now doled as if trapped in a trance like state.
• 1:25:39
  A fresh bullet wound marred its leg, a testament to the brothers
• 1:25:44
  earlier pursued, but it seemed to have little effect on the
• 1:25:48
  entity's unnatural existence. Realization dawned upon them, a
• 1:25:54
  chilling certainty that they were indeed confronting a
• 1:25:57
  vampire, a creature of myth and legend now made flesh before
• 1:26:04
  their very eyes. The whisper entails that had
• 1:26:07
  once seemed like mere folklore now took on a terrifying
• 1:26:11
  reality. The brothers knew that they
• 1:26:14
  could not allow this abomination to continue its reign of terror
• 1:26:19
  swiftly. They set about.
• 1:26:21
  Gathering the necessary materials determined to purge
• 1:26:25
  the entity from their midst. Once and for all, the crackling
• 1:26:30
  flames cast a glow upon their faces as they prepare to consign
• 1:26:35
  the creature to the cleansing fire.
• 1:26:39
  A ritual that would hopefully bring an end to the harrowing
• 1:26:42
  ordeal. As the flames licked at the
• 1:26:45
  creature's form, the brothers and their companions watched
• 1:26:49
  with a mixture of trepidation and relief, knowing that they
• 1:26:54
  had vanquished a force that had threatened to unravel the very
• 1:26:58
  fabric their existence. The smoke curled upwards,
• 1:27:04
  carrying with it the lingering remnants of a mystery that had
• 1:27:09
  once seemed unfathomable, yet had now been laid to rest.
• 1:27:14
  Forever etched into the annals of local lore, this rather
• 1:27:20
  dramatic and sensational tale was initially recounted by the
• 1:27:24
  English travel writer and author Augustus Hare, who included it
• 1:27:30
  in his multi volume 1890s autobiography The Story of My
• 1:27:36
  Life under the section titled The Beast of Krawglin Grange.
• 1:27:42
  The narrative reads like a chilling Horror Story, and given
• 1:27:46
  that Hare was known for publishing ghost accounts during
• 1:27:49
  an era when sensationally macabre and gothic pulp.
• 1:27:53
  Stories. Known as Penny dreadfuls were
• 1:27:56
  popular, one might assume it to be a work of fiction.
• 1:28:01
  However, Hare presented it as a completely real and factual
• 1:28:06
  account without any indication that it was a fabrication.
• 1:28:10
  According to him, he had personally heard the story in
• 1:28:14
  1874 directly from the actual owner of Crockling Grange,
• 1:28:20
  Captain Edward Fisher Rowie, whose family had owned the
• 1:28:24
  property for generations. However, Hare neglected to cite
• 1:28:29
  many names or detailed locations or provide verifiable sources,
• 1:28:35
  leaving the reader to ponder the veracity.
• 1:28:38
  Of the events described, since Hare never admitted that any
• 1:28:42
  part of it was fictional and consistently presented it as
• 1:28:46
  fact, the account has become a perplexing mystery.
• 1:28:51
  Sparking endless debates as to whether any element of it is
• 1:28:55
  rooted in truth or if it was a product of either Hair's or
• 1:29:00
  Fisher's imagination. One of the earliest skeptics to
• 1:29:04
  scrutinize his published work was Charles George Harper.
• 1:29:08
  An English author and illustrator.
• 1:29:12
  Harper embarked on a personal quest to Cumberland in 1924,
• 1:29:17
  determined to get to the bottom of the alleged events at
• 1:29:20
  Krawgling Grange. However, his investigation
• 1:29:25
  yielded perplexing results. As Harper delved into the heart
• 1:29:29
  of the local community, he encountered a startling
• 1:29:32
  revelation. Not a single resident had ever
• 1:29:36
  heard of a place called Krawgling Grange, nor could they
• 1:29:40
  recall any whispers of its existence.
• 1:29:44
  It seemed as though this location had vanished into the
• 1:29:47
  mist of time. Leaving no tangible trace
• 1:29:50
  behind, undeterred, Harper scoured the countryside, seeking
• 1:29:56
  any semblance of the dwelling described in Hare's account.
• 1:30:01
  The closest he could uncover was a structure known as Kroglin
• 1:30:05
  Lohal, yet its characteristics diverged significantly from the
• 1:30:10
  haunting depiction. Not only was it situated over a
• 1:30:14
  mile from the nearest church, but it stood as a two-story
• 1:30:18
  edifice, defying the single story description of the Grange.
• 1:30:23
  Moreover, the adjacent cemetery bore no evidence of the sinister
• 1:30:28
  crypt that had allegedly harbored the malevolent entity.
• 1:30:33
  Harper's quest to substantiate the existence of the Cranswell
• 1:30:37
  siblings proved equally fruitless.
• 1:30:41
  Despite his meticulous efforts, he could find no records or
• 1:30:46
  accounts that corroborated their presence in the region.
• 1:30:50
  Compounding this perplexity was the scarcity of clear
• 1:30:54
  information provided in Hare's narrative, rendering any attempt
• 1:30:59
  to trace their footsteps an exercise in futility as Harper's
• 1:31:04
  investigation. Drew to a close.
• 1:31:07
  He found himself confronted with more questions than answers.
• 1:31:12
  The tale of the Kroglin Grange vampire, once presented as an
• 1:31:16
  unvarnished account of a supernatural encounter, now
• 1:31:20
  stood as a tantalizing controversy, its origins and
• 1:31:24
  truthfulness lost to time. This cast significant doubt on
• 1:31:29
  the authenticity of the Kroglin vampire tale, suggesting that it
• 1:31:34
  was either an intentional fabrication or an unintentional
• 1:31:38
  distortion of the truth. However, Harper's conclusions
• 1:31:44
  would face scrutiny in the 1930s, when researcher F Clive
• 1:31:49
  Ross embarked on his own investigation in Cumberland.
• 1:31:53
  Ross's findings painted a different picture, one that
• 1:31:57
  hinted at a kernel of truth buried beneath the layers of
• 1:32:02
  mystery. According to Ross's research,
• 1:32:05
  Crogland Lohal was indeed the location Harrod described,
• 1:32:10
  though the property had since been demolished and a Chapel
• 1:32:14
  erected in its place. Remarkably, remnants of the
• 1:32:18
  original structure remained, including the foundation stones
• 1:32:23
  of an ancient church and graveyard, the very same hollow
• 1:32:28
  ground where the sinister entity was said to have taken refuge.
• 1:32:34
  Even more compelling was the discovery.
• 1:32:37
  Of a bricked up window. Rumored to be the very one
• 1:32:41
  through which the vampire had first appeared, tormenting the
• 1:32:46
  unsuspecting, Amelia Ross's findings injected a newfound
• 1:32:51
  sense of intrigue into the narrative, suggesting that
• 1:32:55
  beneath the sensationalized elements, there may have been a
• 1:32:59
  genuine encounter that sparked the tale's origins.
• 1:33:04
  The existence of the church and graveyard lent credence to the
• 1:33:07
  idea that something inexplicable had transpired in this secluded
• 1:33:13
  corner of the English countryside, an event so
• 1:33:18
  profound that it interlocked itself into local folklore,
• 1:33:23
  evolving and transforming with each retelling.
• 1:33:28
  Was it a mere fiction, born from the fertile imagination of a
• 1:33:32
  storyteller? Or did it represent a distorted
• 1:33:36
  recounting of a genuine paranormal event, its details
• 1:33:41
  obscured by the passage of time? The answers remained elusive,
• 1:33:48
  and the tale would continue to captivate generations to come.
• 1:33:53
  However, further investigations shed new light on the narrative.
• 1:33:58
  It was discovered that others in the region had indeed heard the
• 1:34:01
  story. An old, mostly forgotten local
• 1:34:05
  myth in the Fisher family was very much real.
• 1:34:10
  One local resident even revealed that Kroglin Lohal had once been
• 1:34:15
  referred to as Kroglin Grange until 1720, suggesting that
• 1:34:22
  although Hare may have mixed up the dates, at least some
• 1:34:25
  elements of this tale held true. This aligned with the findings
• 1:34:31
  of a journalist, Lionel Fanthrope, who in recent years
• 1:34:36
  concluded that at Krogland Grange and a vault matching the
• 1:34:39
  one in the story had existed in the 1600s.
• 1:34:44
  While the full scope of. Events remained obscured the
• 1:34:47
  possibility that an inexplicable encounter had indeed transpired
• 1:34:53
  in the secluded corner of the English countryside.
• 1:34:57
  The tale and origin of the Krogland Grange vampire remains
• 1:35:00
  uncertain. While the evidence neither
• 1:35:03
  confirms nor denies the events described, the lack of concrete
• 1:35:07
  proof poses a significant challenge for those seeking to
• 1:35:11
  validate the existence of a bloodthirsty creature of the
• 1:35:15
  night stalking the English countryside in the 1800s.
• 1:35:21
  It is highly plausible that this account originated from an
• 1:35:25
  unreliable second hand source, perhaps Fisher himself, who may
• 1:35:30
  have fabricated the story, drawn inspiration from sensational
• 1:35:35
  Gothic literature of the era, or distorted factual elements
• 1:35:40
  beyond recognition. Alternatively, it could be the
• 1:35:44
  work of pure fiction crafted. By hair.
• 1:35:47
  Skillfully weaving real locations into a narrative
• 1:35:51
  presented as truth for dramatic effect, only to be misconstrued
• 1:35:57
  as a potentially genuine encounter in later years, taking
• 1:36:01
  on a life of its own. Or perhaps it was merely a
• 1:36:06
  mischievous jest, a playful attempt to captivate and
• 1:36:11
  perplex. The truth remains elusive,
• 1:36:15
  leaving us to ponder the possibility as something
• 1:36:18
  inexplicable transpired in the secluded corner of Cumberland,
• 1:36:24
  transforming with each retelling and baffling those who dive
• 1:36:30
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  The oldest of native Hawaiian chants described the Hawaiian
• 1:37:23
  Islands, the spirits that inhabit them, the forces of
• 1:37:28
  nature that shaped them, and all the living things upon them as
• 1:37:33
  inextricably connected. And perhaps the wisdom of the
• 1:37:37
  native peoples is true and not just.
• 1:37:41
  Folklore. When authorities are called to a
• 1:37:45
  residence for an incident. What they will.
• 1:37:48
  See will shake them all to their core.
• 1:37:51
  A supposed entity with an insatiable hunger for blood and
• 1:37:56
  corpses makes its presence known.
• 1:38:00
  Are the infamous tales true? This is what we will discover as
• 1:38:05
  we. Dive into the untold story of
• 1:38:07
  the haunted Kasha House of Kaimuki, located in Hawaii.
• 1:38:27
  Beyond the waters of its beaches and the lush green canopies of
• 1:38:32
  its forests, the tropical paradise of the islands of
• 1:38:36
  Hawaii are an idyllic home or getaway for many.
• 1:38:42
  However, within the mists, shadows permeate.
• 1:38:46
  And where the veil is thin between our world and the next,
• 1:38:52
  those shadows sometimes whisper. In Japanese folklore, the
• 1:38:58
  creature known as the Kasha paints a terrifying picture.
• 1:39:02
  Its name translates to Fire Cart.
• 1:39:06
  It is a creature that is known to frequent populated areas and
• 1:39:10
  where its diet consists of consuming the flesh of fresh
• 1:39:15
  human corpses. According to the lore, these
• 1:39:19
  creatures are a type of baki neko.
• 1:39:23
  Or a type of. Hellcat that lives among human
• 1:39:25
  beings under the guise of a common house cat or a stray.
• 1:39:32
  They are bipedal and larger than most people.
• 1:39:36
  When they make themselves known, they are accompanied by the
• 1:39:40
  flames of hell and strong thunderstorms are left in their
• 1:39:46
  wake. It is only during funerals that
• 1:39:49
  their true forms are revealed, and as a result, they are known
• 1:39:53
  to snatch the corpses of the freshly deceased and spirit them
• 1:39:59
  away to hell for punishment. A type of Grim Reaper, if you
• 1:40:04
  will. Akasha will animate a corpse as
• 1:40:07
  a puppet to do its bidding, and then we'll consume it as the
• 1:40:13
  ultimate punishment for one's misdeeds in life.
• 1:40:18
  Our story begins around 1940. On Oahu in Hawaii, in a large
• 1:40:24
  house that stands at 8th and Harding in Kaimuki, its
• 1:40:29
  foundation resting atop 2 beds of lava rock.
• 1:40:35
  The original story that began the infamy of the Kaimuki house
• 1:40:40
  tells of a young couple who moved into the home, hoping for
• 1:40:44
  a good and beautiful life together.
• 1:40:48
  But almost as soon as they moved in, this shared dream would
• 1:40:52
  deteriorate. The neighbors began hearing loud
• 1:40:57
  bangs and crashes almost every night.
• 1:41:01
  And as the episodes grew in intensity and suspecting that
• 1:41:06
  perhaps domestic violence could be taking place, one of the
• 1:41:10
  neighbors. Called the police.
• 1:41:13
  When the police arrived and questioned the couple, instead
• 1:41:17
  of seeing one or the other upset or abused, they told them
• 1:41:22
  something else instead. They began to divulge to the
• 1:41:26
  officers that they were being attacked by something that they
• 1:41:30
  couldn't see. What happened to the young
• 1:41:33
  couple following this particular night is unclear, but what is
• 1:41:37
  known is that they moved out a short while after the incident
• 1:41:42
  sometime later, on August 13th, 1942.
• 1:41:47
  On this day, an article would appear in the Honolulu Star
• 1:41:50
  Bulletin newspaper, one that described a bizarre happening
• 1:41:56
  that had just taken place, and this incident was supposedly
• 1:42:01
  caused by the evil doings of kahuna.
• 1:42:06
  For further context, in ancient Hawaii, treatment of the sick
• 1:42:11
  was based on the belief that poor health was caused by
• 1:42:15
  malevolent spirits or disease producing demons.
• 1:42:20
  Illness was considered the result of sorcery or, in some
• 1:42:24
  cases, the ramifications of one's actions.
• 1:42:29
  Among the Hawaiians, there existed a group, the kahunas, or
• 1:42:34
  those who were keepers of the secret, whose wisdom had been
• 1:42:39
  gained by divine guidance. Kahunas were grouped into
• 1:42:44
  various categories, some good and others bad, and sorcery was
• 1:42:50
  practiced by the group. It was known as the Kahuna
• 1:42:54
  Anani. So essentially kahuna is a form
• 1:42:58
  of witchcraft with both white and black magic.
• 1:43:03
  On the night the article referred to, police officers
• 1:43:06
  were called to a house by a woman during a strong
• 1:43:10
  thunderstorm. During the call, the lady kept
• 1:43:14
  repeating she's trying to kill my children over and over again.
• 1:43:21
  Her words kept being interrupted by loud crashes of Thunder and
• 1:43:26
  what sounded like items being destroyed in the background.
• 1:43:30
  Upon arriving and entering the house, the officers couldn't
• 1:43:35
  believe what they were seeing. Those present began to witness
• 1:43:40
  something that was truly horrific.
• 1:43:43
  The woman who had initially called was screaming in the
• 1:43:47
  corner of the main room as her three children were levitating
• 1:43:53
  before her and everyone. Upon approaching them, the
• 1:43:58
  officers as well as the children would be slapped, pushed and
• 1:44:04
  hurled across the room by a sinister, invisible force.
• 1:44:11
  The children were a brother and two sisters, ages 1018 and 20.
• 1:44:19
  The main officer in charge was a police Sergeant.
• 1:44:23
  Prior to the call, the family began to smell a very strange
• 1:44:27
  odor like that of sulfur permeating their home, and then
• 1:44:33
  the physical attacks began. As the force attacked those
• 1:44:37
  involved, the mother of the family ran into her room and
• 1:44:41
  returned with several items. She frantically began fanning
• 1:44:46
  tea leaves and began throwing salt towards the entity.
• 1:44:51
  After several minutes, her efforts seemed to work as the
• 1:44:56
  children and the officer were released from the clutches of
• 1:45:02
  whatever this thing was. The family and the officer would
• 1:45:07
  vacate the premise following this night of horror.
• 1:45:11
  The woman who had called the authorities believed that the
• 1:45:14
  happenings were a result of black magic that had been placed
• 1:45:18
  on her by her ex-husband whom she had recently left.
• 1:45:24
  This is no doubt probably the most famous stories surrounding
• 1:45:27
  the Kaimuki house, given the press it received in the various
• 1:45:31
  media outlets. But it certainly would not be
• 1:45:35
  the last. 30 years later, another incident would too
• 1:45:40
  garner the attention of the people.
• 1:45:43
  Another frantic late night call had dispatched a patrol car in
• 1:45:48
  Kaimuki. The girls who lived there had
• 1:45:51
  supposedly heard strange noises of someone moving around and
• 1:45:56
  talking inside of their house. At first, thinking someone had
• 1:46:01
  broken into their home, they phoned the authorities, but
• 1:46:05
  following the call the noises began to escalate in intensity.
• 1:46:10
  Then one of the women felt the ice cold grasp of a hand on her
• 1:46:17
  arm. The girls, all three, ran out of
• 1:46:21
  the home and sat in their. Car until the officer.
• 1:46:25
  Arrived upon hearing their story, he would go inside and
• 1:46:30
  check the home for an intruder, but would find no one.
• 1:46:35
  Deciding to spend the rest of the night with one of the girl's
• 1:46:38
  mothers, they asked the policeman to follow them to the
• 1:46:42
  mother's home to ensure their safety.
• 1:46:46
  As the girls drove in front of the officer, they began to
• 1:46:50
  erratically swerve from side to side, ultimately pulling into a
• 1:46:55
  vacant parking lot upon approaching the vehicle with
• 1:46:59
  concern. The policeman later wrote this
• 1:47:03
  in his report. As I approached the vehicle, I
• 1:47:08
  could see two of the girls screaming.
• 1:47:11
  The girl sat in the middle in the back was fighting a person
• 1:47:16
  that could not be seen. She was very clearly being
• 1:47:20
  strangled. I opened one of the back doors
• 1:47:24
  and reached into the vehicle and to my shock, a big, strong,
• 1:47:31
  calloused hand that could not have possibly been that of a
• 1:47:35
  teenage girl grabbed my arm and twisted it.
• 1:47:42
  Upon freeing myself, I called for backup.
• 1:47:46
  The answering officer was certainly prepared for a parking
• 1:47:49
  lot fight, but not one with a ghost.
• 1:47:54
  Within minutes, the other officer would arrive and with
• 1:47:58
  all the color drained out of his face, the original responding
• 1:48:02
  officer told him that there was a ghost in that car.
• 1:48:07
  By this point, all women involved had exited the car and
• 1:48:11
  were hysterical, crying and screaming.
• 1:48:15
  Continuing to quote the officer's report, I told the
• 1:48:19
  girl who had been choked to get in my patrol car and the other
• 1:48:23
  two women to ride with my fellow officer.
• 1:48:26
  But as soon as the young lady sat in my vehicle, which had
• 1:48:30
  stayed running during the incident, a motor died.
• 1:48:34
  It died and wouldn't start up again.
• 1:48:37
  Placing the girls back into their original car.
• 1:48:40
  The officer tried to start the vehicle again and it started as
• 1:48:45
  if nothing had ever been wrong. Wanting to get these frightened
• 1:48:49
  girls home safe, the original officer and the responding
• 1:48:53
  officer agreed to continue to follow them.
• 1:48:57
  But upon pulling out of the parking lot and almost as soon
• 1:49:00
  as they had driven about 5 yards, suddenly one of the
• 1:49:05
  girl's vehicles doors flew open and the same girl who had
• 1:49:10
  previously been attacked was thrown out of the vehicle.
• 1:49:15
  Upon rushing to her position to check on her, she was again
• 1:49:19
  tearing at her throat and making noises as if she was being
• 1:49:24
  strangled. She had also incurred some Rd.
• 1:49:28
  rash. Together, the two policemen were
• 1:49:32
  not strong enough to pull her hands away.
• 1:49:36
  Terrified and believing the matter to be a spiritual one,
• 1:49:40
  one of the officers ran into the nearby Oasis Cafe and came back
• 1:49:45
  with a handful of salt. And a glass of water.
• 1:49:49
  Which was spritzed upon everyone there, and as the drops touched
• 1:49:53
  the young woman, she finally was able to catch her breath again.
• 1:49:58
  In later interviews, the officer would tell the press that his
• 1:50:03
  grandmother had told him that this was a method to make ghosts
• 1:50:06
  go away. And perhaps his grandmother was.
• 1:50:11
  Right. Given the time frame in which
• 1:50:14
  these stories occurred, most involved may no longer be with
• 1:50:18
  us, so corroborating details is nearly impossible.
• 1:50:23
  But these tales have certainly made the Kaimuki house infamous.
• 1:50:27
  Now there are several possible explanations as to why and how
• 1:50:32
  the home became haunted by whatever paranormal entity or
• 1:50:36
  entities. Again, details are scarce, but
• 1:50:40
  I've done my best to research and put together the most
• 1:50:44
  cohesive theories possible. The first theory refers to a
• 1:50:49
  father who, after his wife told him that she was going to leave
• 1:50:53
  him, decided to do the unthinkable and in the lives of
• 1:50:58
  his two children and his wife that still resided in the home.
• 1:51:04
  The wife and son's bodies were buried in the backyard, but the
• 1:51:08
  corpse of the daughter was never found.
• 1:51:13
  The second theory is that of a strangelove triangle.
• 1:51:18
  A man was dating a woman who was dating another woman in secret
• 1:51:22
  without the man knowing and upon his discovery of his
• 1:51:27
  girlfriend's secret affair, he decided to take the lives of
• 1:51:30
  her, her girlfriend and ultimately himself within the.
• 1:51:36
  Walls of the Kaimuki house. The original house, from what I
• 1:51:41
  could gather, has since been demolished, and another home
• 1:51:45
  built atop where it once stood. And one of the many questions I
• 1:51:50
  have is this home haunted just as the original home was?
• 1:51:56
  Was the haunting, if it existed at all, the result of vengeful
• 1:52:01
  spirits of those who had met their demise there?
• 1:52:05
  The result of a bloodthirsty entity known as the Kasha, who
• 1:52:10
  would do anything to feed upon the flesh of the freshly
• 1:52:15
  deceased? Or was it something else?
• 1:52:20
  Was it perhaps the result of native Hawaiian black magic
• 1:52:24
  being practiced on the premises or nearby, or someone cursing
• 1:52:29
  another using this magic? We may never truly have the
• 1:52:33
  answers to these probing questions, but one thing.
• 1:52:38
  As for certain. There was once a place that
• 1:52:41
  harbored darkness, a black void that existed in the heart of
• 1:52:46
  paradise, the supposed home of the angry.
• 1:52:50
  Souls of the Dead. And possibly a creature from a
• 1:52:55
  world that is not our own. So if you see something that's
• 1:53:00
  beautiful on the surface, just know that one must be cautious
• 1:53:05
  because something evil could be lurking just beyond the shadows.
• 1:53:12
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• 1:53:19
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  there and take care along a section of Winding Rd.
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  Tall rusted gates harbor dark secrets.
• 1:54:26
  Not an adventure for the weak. This place is known for an
• 1:54:31
  abundance of evil activity. As the weary wander through the
• 1:54:36
  rusted iron bars, the souls of the damned whisper, some will
• 1:54:42
  visit with wonder and others apprehension.
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  And for good reason, for this place has spawned many legends.
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  Stories of satanic cults, sacrifices, demonic possession,
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  and a wide range of terrifying apparitions have allegedly
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  stories? What is it about the stretch of
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  Rd. in Thornton, Co that has made it so infamous?
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  That is what we will discover here on this episode of Mystery.
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  Archives as we explore the gates of Hell of Riverdale Rd. of
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  Colorado. All information provided is
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  purely speculative. I've tried my best to find any
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  and all information I could to the best to fit the stories and
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  or see possibly where they could have come from or if there's any
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  truth to them. Riverdale Rd., an 11 mile path
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  located between Thornton and Brighton Co, has been a supposed
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  hotspot for paranormal activity for decades.
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  The earliest rumors tell us of a nearby Native American burial
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  ground when it was in use. It's said that the tribe placed
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  a curse upon the land to affect those who would disturb their
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  dead. And as we've heard numerous
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  times before, you don't mess with Native burial grounds.
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  Nothing good ever comes of it. More on this later.
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  Over the years, strange entities, those seeming to be
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  half human and half animal, have been known to permeate the path
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  ahead. Could these creatures have been
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  the very feared skinwalkers of native folklore?
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  Not all is evil with this rumor, however.
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  There are both good and evil forces at work.
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  They say that if you see a Gray fox along the road, then a
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  benevolent entity has a grace to your trip.
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  But if a coyote is what you see instead of a Gray fox, the path
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  ahead is an ominous and malevolent one.
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  We will certainly dive back into all of these rumors later, but
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  the lore doesn't end here. It was nicknamed Closer to
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  Modern Times for a variety of stories over the decades, and
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  those of which I'll cover now in no particular order.
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  Many people were lynched upon the trees surrounding the road,
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  and many as sacrifices, some allegedly of former slaves by
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  racist groups and others sacrifices committed by
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  residents of the local community long ago.
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  Whether the groups were one and the same cannot be
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  distinguished. The Gates of Hell was once
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  supposedly the home of a commune of Satanist Satanists who would
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  do anything to keep their black church and its practices the
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  secret. If anyone questioned the
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  leadership, or if an outsider got too close to the truth, they
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  would simply go missing. On the North End of the road,
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  not too far from Hwy. 7, there once stood a large house,
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  probably what most would consider to be a mansion, but
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  the ruins of this building too harbor sinister secrets.
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  Built by a very wealthy man for him and his family, the home was
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  once quite the marvel to gaze upon, but the ability to look
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  upon the structure would be short lived.
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  Shortly after moving his family in, once construction was
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  finished, the man began to change, growing colder, more
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  distant and stranger. Located back behind the home was
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  an underground cellar and taking the blood from the lives of
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  those who had gone astray. It is here that they say he used
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  black magic, riding strange symbols on the walls with their
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  blood in order to try and conjure spirits and demons,
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  perhaps in order to gain power and wealth.
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  Behind the cellar is an old burnt tree which has some lore
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  of its own as well. This was where some victims were
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  supposedly hung and burned at the stake, leaving charred
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  remnants. 1 fateful night as his family slept, the husband of the
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  family crept up the stairs with an axe and without the others
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  knowing he went room to room slaying his wife and his
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  children. As their blood coated the floors
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  of the house, this diabolical man seemingly demon possessed,
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  then took fuel and dumped it all throughout the house.
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  Lit it a. Flame and then stepped outside
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  to revel in pure madness and what he had just done.
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  Was it him or a demon inside of him?
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  This will perhaps never know, but he apparently, once the home
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  was partially engulfed in flames, then took a rope,
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  fastened it to the charred tree behind his cellar and ultimately
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  hung himself, his feet dangling inches above the ground as the
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  home behind him was reduced to burnt rubble.
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  Other versions of the story say the man disappeared and was
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  never seen or heard from again. A pale white figure of a woman
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  is said to haunt the grounds now can be heard screaming some
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  nights when the wind is still. Those that visit the Gates of
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  Hell area have reported, as previously mentioned, seeing
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  strange animals, but they also report seeing and hearing
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  stranger things as well. Disembodied voices, the feeling
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  of being watched in the sensation of icy hands poking
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  and touching them. Another very strange phenomenon
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  that's said to exist is bloody human handprints materializing
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  on the street signs with no rational origin.
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  This place, like many, seems downright terrifying in my
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  opinion. But is there any truth to any of
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  these stories, or are they just that, stories?
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  Well, here's what I found following what we covered in
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  order. Thornton, Co was indigenously
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  inhabited by several Native American tribes, most notably
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  the Arapaho and the Cheyenne. Each tribe had very different
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  burial methods. The Arapaho usually buried their
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  deceased on the same day that the person had died.
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  The body was dressed in their finest traditional clothing and
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  a spacious grave was dug into the ground.
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  The person was then buried with some of their personal
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  belongings, such as clothing and blankets.
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  Stones and other items would be placed on top of the grave to
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  mark its significance and who was buried there.
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  Arguably fairly similar to how the West buries people today.
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  The Cheyenne, however, had a very different method.
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  It's unclear how long it took them to typically lay someone to
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  rest, but their funeral customs were that they would wrap the
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  deceased in shawls and blankets, they would proceed to the
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  designated burial ground, and during the procession a
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  bloodletting practice would take place where ponies would
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  typically be killed. They are interesting to me in
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  numerous ways, but they wouldn't bury their dead.
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  They would instead build a scaffold of sort and lay the
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  dead on top of it. This was done in the belief that
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  it would accelerate the soul of the departed's passage into the
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  afterlife. For practical reasons it is
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  believed that they did this in order to prevent wild animals
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  from pillaging the corpse, which very well may have been the
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  case, but typically the bodies would stay and sometimes decay
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  and eventually fall back down to the ground.
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  Now curses did exist for both tribes, but I couldn't find any
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  of that specifically referenced burial sites and almost all
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  people's beliefs disturbing the dead is considered.
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  Very taboo. Could it perhaps be our
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  collective regard for the eternal rest of those who have
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  passed that have led us to the belief?
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  That a burial ground could indeed be cursed.
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  Also, skinwalkers, which are still feared to this day, were
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  created when a person committed a heinous act like the killing
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  of a family member, and this would grant them supernatural
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  powers, allowing them to shapeshift from a human to an
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  animal at will. They often become coyotes,
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  wolves, foxes, or bears, though they can transition into any
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  animal. Both coyotes and foxes are
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  allegedly the omens along the road containing the gates of
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  hell. When it comes to the supposed
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  lynchings that took place, I found this in Colorado.
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  It was a cheap way to execute criminals, and the majority of
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  those that are documented, roughly 175 cases, were mostly
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  the results of core rulings at the time, all over the state in
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  the time being, the early 20th century.
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  As far as if formal slaves were lynched, this very possibly
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  could have taken place, but I couldn't find any that were
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  directly linked to Thornton. In total, there were five events
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  that were explicitly tied to race, but many took place again
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  in the early 20th century. Albeit as horrific as they were,
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  after 1919, lynch mobs occasionally flared up to dole
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  out public justice. But as more people moved to the
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  state, attitudes towards this type of behavior and action
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  began to change. Therefore, public opinion as
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  well as opinion of the courts moved away from this method of
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  execution when it comes to the apparent satanic coal commune
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  that supposedly lived there. I couldn't find any evidence of
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  them no matter where I looked, but obviously if I was a secret
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  colt and I was good at my job, I wouldn't have any evidence of my
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  bloodthirsty existence on the Internet either.
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  This now leads us back to the mansion where the name came
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  from. The name Gates of Hell came from
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  the old and rusted iron gates of a burned down mansion.
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  A blaze that was the result of a madman who took his family out.
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  Now there is proof of the mansion, who bought it, and what
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  happened that caused it to burn down, but the truth is certainly
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  less spooky than the legend. Before I dive into it, I wanted
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  to also mention that it's more than likely that the charred
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  tree was the result of either the original fire or of a
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  lightning strike taking place. The mansion was originally named
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  the Vulperd House. Built in 1864 by a man named
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  David Volbert, this two-story brick house was a fine structure
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  of dignity. David.
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  Who was a very successful prospector along with his wife
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  Catherine had two daughters and a son.
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  However, even though fitting the time frame when the madman.
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  Story supposedly took place. David didn't go crazy and harm
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  his family. He actually would go on to pass
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  away, presumably within the home, at the age of 75.
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  What happened to his family members is unclear, but they
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  most likely moved on and passed away from natural causes.
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  The home, as far as I can tell, sat vacant from the early 1900s
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  until 1975. This is when a man named Doctor
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  Hugo Rhodic and his wife Ori and Sally Rhodic purchased the home,
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  working hard on behalf of the Adams County Historical Society.
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  The couple would go on to restore the home and live there
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  for a short time, designating its status as a historical
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  monument. Things seemed normal for the
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  Rhodics until 1:00 AM on November 28th, 1975.
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  The home, which stood at 9190 Riverdale Rd., became engulfed
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  in flames. It's unclear whether or not the
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  couple had any children or any that lived with them at that
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  time, but the Rodicks would make it out of the blaze very much
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  alive. And although the origin of the
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  blaze was undetermined, the authorities at the time did
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  determine that arson did not seem to be at play.
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  Doctor Rodick would go on to live and ultimately passed away
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  at the age of 102. It seems as though the Madman
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  Mansion story, as I've come to see it, could possibly be a
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  fictionalized amalgamation of both of the real stories
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  surrounding the Vulpert House. The ruins of the home, as well
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  as the original gates have since been demolished and the Pelican
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  Ponds open space now sits in their place.
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  Sometimes the truth isn't as fun as the legends that surround an
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  area. And perhaps there could be more
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  truth in some of these tales, perhaps the area.
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  Itself is where the veil is thinner between our world and
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  the next. It's hard to say, but one thing
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  is certain, the folklore of America's vast, creative and
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  entertaining, and it's incredible to see so many
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  stories spawning from seemingly such an insignificant place,
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  like a winding stretch of Rd. in the middle of Colorado.
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  But what do you think? Do you have any stories about
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  the Gates of Hell? Do you have any stories from
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  your local? Community that have become
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  legends, make sure to let me know down in the comments below.