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I mean, she gets close to me, what's she gonna do?

Try to, you know, drain some of my energy,

Or is she there to hurt me?

I don't know.

As a first-responder, training only takes you so far.

I would say it kind of freaked me out.

Whatever's there was not afraid of us

And was not trying to get away from us.

Despite all of the feelings I was getting,

I had to do my job.

In my mind, I'm thinking to myself,

"did I just see that?"

Whenever you're put in that spot,

You start to believe real quick.

Oh, my god!

911-- please state your emergency.

I think it's a ghost!

The lord and satan, standing at his right side

To accuse him.

The lord said --

The first to respond to the 911 call

Of a brutal car crash

Is volunteer firefighter david childers.

- Dispatch, come in. -Call for dispatch.

Do you have any other further details for me?

There was a similar vehicle-motor accident on...

I got the call, and it was a wreck

About a mile away from me.

You know, right down the road.

David follows a set of tire tracks

That lead him off the main road and through a cemetery...

...Where he uncovers the crash site.

Ma'am, are you all right?

Unable to open the driver's door,

He makes his way around the vehicle

And finds his way in.

I was able to open up the door.

The firefighter knows from experience

That time is now of the essence.

I started feeling all these overwhelming feelings.

I knew that it was probably nothing we could do.

He continues to experience

The same strange feelings

He felt inside the car.

I just got this, like, I don't know, just heaviness,

And the hair stood up on the back of my neck.

You know, it's like goosebumps.

It was like we were standing in the middle

Of an electrical storm.

I mean, it was just -- it was weird.

It was weird, and I felt like somebody was staring at me,

You know, behind in the woods.

I kept on turning around.

I need backup. We've got...

I radio it in.

I let them know exactly what was going on in the situation.

Please hurry.

Copy that. We're on our way.

But despite their best efforts,

The rest of the rescue team

Is unable to revive the driver.

The woman, a college sophomore, is pronounced dead at the scene.

The whole event was just --

I couldn't even explain it.

But, I mean, it was just -- it was weird.

It was like standing next to a hot electrical field.

The closer you get to it, your body tries --

It's telling you to get away

Because there's some sort of danger going on.

With his shift over, the firefighter heads back home,

Determined to shake the strange emotions from the crash site.

I went and I jumped in the shower --

A nice, hot shower.

I sort of figured that would help me calm down.

While I was in the shower...

...I heard knocking on the door.

A single father,

The only other person in david's house

Is his 8-year-old daughter.

I'm like, "why is my daughter knocking on the bathroom door?

"she has her own bathroom. She's never done that.

Maybe something's wrong."

I go down the hallway to her room.

She's sound asleep.

I mean, just chalked it up to,

"hey, look, I've had a long day. I'm hearing stuff.

"I think I need to go and get some rest

'cause I'm tired."

The next day, I was just relaxing, you know,

Enjoy my day off,

And I hear my daughter, and she's like, "daddy. Daddy."

She was like, "daddy, there's somebody in the house."

I was like, "baby, that was probably just a radio,

"tv, whatever you're --

"I mean, I really doubt it's anything.

Like, well, what did you hear?"

And she was like, "it was a woman.

A woman called my name."

I was like, "are you sure it was a woman?

'cause there is not a woman in the house."

He notices an open cupboard

And dishes flung on the floor.

Who do you think did that?

I did not see a single -- nobody in there.

I couldn't understand it, but at this point,

I'm starting to scratch my head.

The first thing I did was make sure all the windows

Were locked, make sure the door was locked,

Looked out the window and make sure nobody

Was trying to break in or something.

I couldn't explain it.

I'm in the middle of nowhere,

And it was definitely nobody outside.

But whatever it is isn't letting up.

And then I hear this voice.

I don't know, I just felt so much fear.

I kept on feeling the same emotions

And stuff that happened at the wreck scene.

Daddy!

You missed the girl.

Here?

Daddy!

It was the girl that was at the wreck scene.

After firefighter david childers

Tries to rescue a driver

From the wreckage of a deadly crash,

He is overwhelmed by powerful forces.

Daddy!

The next day, he discovers, to his horror...

You missed the girl.

...The victim has followed him home.

I'm starting to freak out here 'cause I didn't know what to do.

By the time I actually got the courage to speak to her,

She was gone.

Not wanting to further upset his daughter,

Childers downplays the strange vision as a trick of the mind

And tries to put it behind him.

That night, you know, I usually go to bed

Around the same time -- 10:00, 11:00.

And I'm laying in the bed, I finally fall asleep.

Daddy!

2:00 that morning, I get awakened

By something pulling my toe.

The room was really dark,

And I really couldn't see anything.

But when my eyes sort of got adjusted to it,

I could tell there was nobody in the room.

I've had that overwhelming feeling again.

The same feeling...

excuse me.

That I had at the wreck scene with the girl.

She's staring right at me,

And I can actually make her face out.

- Who was it? - It was her.

It was the girl from the wreck.

I'm looking at the spirit of a dead woman.

As soon as I blink my eyes, she was gone.

She just disappeared.

I was in shock.

A spirit is going to pull energy

Out of its surrounding environment

In order to manipulate people to do the things it needs to do.

This is actually very dangerous.

There are a number of reports where a person

Feels light-headed, dizzy, sick,

Even in some extreme cases,

Develop a kind of sunburn or a radiation burn.

I was scared ****. I really was.

Daddy...

Daddy...

Come play with me.

And I hear, "daddy, come play with me."

Suddenly, the power goes out throughout the house.

At this point, I'm like,

"I'm gonna find out what this is,"

You know, to set my daughter's mind at ease.

David has no idea what the entity wants

Or what its intentions might be.

I don't know what could happen.

I mean, she gets close to me, what's she gonna do?

Try to, you know, drain some of my energy,

Or is she there to hurt me?

I don't know.

In the face of the unknown,

David's main priority is protecting his daughter.

At that point, I had to come up with something

To take care of my family.

Come play with me.

daddy.

Daddy...

daddy...

Hello?

-daddy. - Are you in here?

So, you're calling out to this dead woman?

I couldn't explain it, but I could tell that

I'm at the point where I'm thinking, "she is there."

But this isn't your home.

This isn't where you want to be.

David has no idea why she has followed him home

And why she refuses to leave.

I can understand the young lady needs help somehow, someway,

But it's not natural.

I got to think about my family.

I know you're scared.

Hey.

I look out and there she is.

It was not of this world.

I'm not your daddy, and this is not your house.

Daddy!

In that moment, I realized I had to come up with something

To take care of my family.

After firefighter david childers

Pronounces a young driver dead on the scene,

Her ghost follows him home and now refuses to leave.

Daddy!

I'm starting to freak out here 'cause I'm like, you know,

"not in my house.

I don't know if I can deal with my house being haunted."

And my daughter -- I mean, she's young.

She don't need to be scared to go to bed at night.

The firefighter's solution is to exorcise

The unwanted spirit from his home.

My grandmother gave me some advice.

She told me, "hey, look, say the god's prayer,

"walk around the house, get you some holy water,

And get your bible out."

Be gone!

I command you to be gone!

I cleansed the house with sage.

I smudged the whole house

Trying to get all the negative spirit out --

Whatever was in there.

I command you to go back where you came from.

Smudging is a very powerful act of cleansing ourselves,

Our environment, of possessions of anything

That we might have picked up on --

Any negative energy,

Anything which is not healing or loving for us,

Anything which does not create balance.

This is no longer your place to be.

In the name of the father, the son,

And the holy spirit, you are no longer welcome here.

In the name of the father, the son, and the holy spirit,

Leave me and my daughter alone.

Be gone.

I just had to close my eyes and just hope she would be gone.

Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the lord my soul to keep.

May god guard me through the night

And wake me with the morning light.

- Amen. - Amen.

I seriously think that the young girl

Was there to communicate with me and tell me what --

I guess, tell her story about what happened in the wreck.

Okay, great. Let's go to bed.

Do you think she's gone, daddy?

She's not ever going to hurt you, I promise you.

Okay. Go to bed.

There may have been some confusion with the spirit.

The spirit might not have known it was dead,

That it was time to leave.

Again, the pull of the physical world

Is so strong and so seductive,

A lot of times, a spirit finds it very hard to let go of that.

Later that evening,

David learns the promise he made to his daughter...

...May be difficult to keep.

-Hey. - Hello?

Daddy...

I'm not your daddy, and this is not your house.

Daddy...

Daddy!

Desperate, david comes up with a possible solution

To rid his house of the unwanted spirit.

I was like, "well, I mean, if this spirit can attach itself

"to me from the wreck scene and follow me to my house,

Why couldn't I ask her to follow me back to the wreck scene?"

And I had to give it a shot.

David is bringing the spirit back to the place

Where it left its body.

It's bringing it away from his home.

It's showing the spirit that it's time to move on,

They have no more place in the physical realm.

David heads back to the scene of the crash

Through the neighboring cemetery...

...Where he starts to experience

The all-too familiar feelings of dread.

I felt that presence again.

David discovers the girl's father

Was buried near the crash site.

I felt the heaviness feeling, the sadness.

I felt all those emotions, and I knew she was there.

She's followed me back, you know,

From the house to this area.

Happy birthday, daddy.

The girl's ghost hovers

Then vanishes for good.

After she disappeared, everything got back to normal.

I mean, it was amazing.

I can't believe that it happened so quick.

It just disappeared.

All of the bad, negative energy was gone,

And I knew she was gone.

Do you think that she's still there in the cemetery?

I really do believe she stays at that cemetery

Because she looked like she was happy.

And I think she actually was -- had a resting spot.

I don't cry that much, but this incident --

This is the only incident that really makes me tear up.

...Standing before the angels of the lord.

What would you say to people who are non-believers?

I really do understand, you know,

Why a lot of people are skeptical

And don't believe in the paranormal.

But whenever you're put in that spot

And you're put in those shoes, you start to believe real quick.

Oh, my god.

The 911 call goes out to reserve sheriff's deputy

And life-long first-responder james kincade.

The call came out for a possible

Breaking and entering.

The lady who called 911-- the owner of the house --

Had said that she saw a man in her house.

So when we arrived on scene, the lady met us,

And you could tell she was very anxious.

She was really visibly just shaken.

Dispatch advised her not to go inside the house,

To back away, and to wait for us to get on scene.

The officers learn that the woman

Had only recently purchased the old house.

She told us that she lived alone and that there was nobody else

That she was expecting to be there at that time.

So as soon as she saw this person, she called 911.

The officers move inside to search the premises.

Home invasions are, you know, pretty dangerous.

For one, you're not familiar with the house.

You're gonna have to go into that property.

You're gonna have to search it.

So when we started asking her questions

About the property and she said that at one time

It was a hospital during the civil war,

I think it was pretty sound to say that this house

Had seen its fair share of death and violence.

So, we're trying to be as safe as possible

During this whole incident as it's going on.

Determined to protect the homeowner,

James' partner moves the woman to safety and calls for backup,

While james continues to search the main floor.

My partner called in to our dispatch

And told them that, yes, that there was somebody in the house

And we were actively searching it.

I'm actually scared to death, myself.

This is the first time

I've actually been in a situation like this

To where I knew somebody was in this house

And I'm having to go after him.

Kincade, can you update your status, please?

I felt personally, like,

If I were to turn around at any point

That I would physically see somebody right behind me.

But there was nobody there.

The officer gathers himself

And continues his investigation.

There was a lot of rooms and a lot of space

To take our time and clear

And make sure we weren't missing anything,

Make sure there was nobody hiding.

Back up, eta -- 15 minutes.

Suddenly, I heard what sounded like something

Moving across a floor.

I knew somebody actually was upstairs,

And then we started hearing those footsteps

On the second floor.

It wasn't no heavy footsteps, it wasn't running.

It was just a steady pace.

Whatever's was there was not afraid of us

And was not trying to get away from us.

This point, it gets real quiet in the house.

We don't hear any footsteps.

Whether it may be drugs motivating them

Or stealing somebody's personal belongings to gain money,

That person has already decided, in our mind,

That it's worth whatever it is to break into somebody's home.

As I entered one of the bedrooms,

The temperature was definitely different.

It was just a whole different vibe in that bedroom.

Unit three, update, please.

Like, every hair on my body was just standing up on edge.

And then I saw a shadow.

A gunshot draws james out of the room

And into the hallway.

We're getting very concerned about this.

What's the reason they're actually there for?

Are they willing to kill law enforcement to get away?

The only reasonable explanation

Is that this person just vanished into thin air.

When deputy james kincade and his partner

Investigate a possible break-in inside an old home

With a violent past,

They discover someone lurking mysteriously

On the second floor.

But when james sets chase to the perpetrator,

The man vanishes into thin air.

I'm starting to realize maybe I'm dealing

With something I never have dealt with before.

And deep down inside, I'm pretty scared, myself.

But when they hear someone

At the back of the house,

James and his partner close in on the mysterious intruder.

At that point, that's when we started to hear a door,

Like, you could hear actually a door creaking.

And then you heard it slam, actually.

Someone or something is toying with the officers.

We were left at a loss of what could have caused

That door to open and close.

Dispatch, here. Is anyone there?

No, unfortunately.

At this point, for me,

It was definitely something that I couldn't explain.

Intruder spotted on the balcony.

In pursuit.

Sheriff's department. Show yourself!

I started to let the person know,

"we hear you moving.

"it's time to come out with your hands up.

There's nowhere else to go."

So I thought something was actually

Deliberately playing with us.

This is dispatch, letting you know backup

Will be arriving in five minutes.

At this point, I'm thinking, "there's a ghost in this house."

There was somebody there, and he was looking at me.

I saw it with my own eyes. I knew it was a person there.

That was terrifying, and it just scared me to death.

I thought it was one of the soldiers

Who had died up there in the hospital,

Or something may have happened that that person is still there.

As a first-responder, training only takes you so far.

This point, with this house,

It felt like none of this was gonna matter.

In places where soldiers die, quite often we find

That they want to stay and assist their unit.

They could get in this state of confusion, almost,

Where they are continually going through the battle

That they were fighting...

...Not realizing that they can get out of there

And transcend to a higher level.

This is dispatch.

Backup should be arriving on scene now.

So, when our backup arrived, you know,

We spent over an hour in this house

Searching it from top to bottom.

We never saw anything else again in the house.

How did you leave it with that woman?

What did you say to her?

We explained to her, "yes, ma'am,"

That, "we believe that we saw something in this house.

But we searched this house, and there's nothing here."

We even suggested that evening that she would go stay

With somebody if she felt unsafe in her home,

And she did stay that evening with family members.

No doubt in my mind that, you know, it could possibly

Be tied back to that timeframe of the civil war.

They don't know that they're dead,

And they're still going about their daily activities.

It's just their energy that's still there.

At this point, my beliefs in paranormal --

Now that I actually have my own personal experience,

It really took away all that doubt,

That there actually is something out there that we can't explain.

Ah.

Unit 10, this is dispatch.

Code four, medical response. West 48th and 3rd.

Copy. On our way.

Responding to the 911 call

Along with his partner is veteran paramedic joe cox.

I became a paramedic when I was 20 years old

Because of the excitement, the nature of the job.

After 37 years, I still really enjoy helping people.

We don't get a lot of thank yous,

But you go home knowing you did something

That really benefited the person and/or the family.

As they arrive on the scene,

The paramedics are greeted with an unusual sight.

The first thing I noticed when we pulled up

That really caught my eye, that there was a hearse there.

No one had told us it was a funeral.

The call was given out as a fainting spell,

Which can be a huge emergency.

We have people that a third-degree heart block

That might lose consciousness.

It's a really broad range of medical conditions

That it could lead to.

Joe and his partner may not know

Exactly what is waiting for them inside the church,

But they do know every second matters.

Got to come through.

As we entered the church,

We saw a small crowd around this person.

We presume that's who our patient was.

The paramedics learn the woman in distress

Is heartbroken over the loss of her husband

Of more than 50 years.

Hi. Hi. I'm joe. What's your name?

So we just ask her how she's doing, how she's feeling.

The lady said she was okay

And she wanted to stay for the rest of the service.

But joe needs to run some basic tests,

Which are required for this type of call.

We have to make sure that you're okay, all right?

I can't leave him. I can't leave him.

Don't make me leave him, please.

That's okay.

I felt sorry for her because she wanted

To attend her husband's funeral,

So we suggested that we would take her

To the back of the church and assess her.

- Can you breathe okay? - Yeah.

I can't leave him. I can't leave him. That's okay.

As joe tries to convince the grieving widow

To come with him...

I saw an apparition.

I could see shadows -- like a flash.

I was convinced that nobody else saw them

Because everybody was facing towards what we were doing.

You see that?

Then it was gone.

We are dealing with a patient, and in my mind,

I'm thinking to myself, "did I just see that?"

Paramedic joe cox responds to a woman

Who has fainted at her husband's funeral...

When a strange apparition has him questioning his sanity.

You see that?

If anybody had seen this apparition,

There would've been a gasp or a reaction.

There was no reaction.

I would say it kind of freaked me out,

But I had a really serious job to do,

And I didn't have time to think about what had just occurred.

Unsure of what he just saw,

Joe returns his focus to his patient,

Who remains insistent on staying with her dead husband.

Don't make me go.

The best I could offer was to take her

To the back of the church and do some vital signs on her,

And she agreed to do that.

Just take you back here, okay?

When we got to the back of the church,

We assessed the lady.

Sit you down right here.

There we go. Okay.

Just relax, okay? How are you feeling?

She was in a sitting position and was conscious.

Then we're thinking it could be an emotional response.

It wouldn't be the first time that we were sent on a call

To a funeral home or a church that someone overcome

With grief has collapsed.

Right here, okay?

And then, something happened to the patient.

Ma'am? Can -- can you hear me?

Ma'am, can you hear me?

She's coding.

She had no vital sign, which is no pulse, no respirations.

This way. Yeah, here we go.

This is a real emergency now.

Just stay with me, okay?

Joe starts to administer cpr.

As he does, he suddenly senses a presence.

I didn't know what to think. It really caught me off-guard.

I looked, and I saw this just for a second or two.

As joe works to revive the patient,

The mysterious apparition catches his eye again.

I saw a bride and groom...

...As if they were heading to the altar to be married.

They were a young couple.

We continued cpr and bagged ventilation to the hospital,

And then when we got to the hospital,

They pronounced her deceased about 10 minutes later.

I didn't know what to think.

Right at the moment that she passed away

At her husband's funeral,

I saw that couple standing in the aisle.

And why I was to see this at this time?

I have no idea.

Three days later, the lady and the husband

Returned to the church for a double funeral service

And were buried together.

Joe attends the funeral

To share his condolences...

I'm so sorry for your loss.

...Still trying to make sense

Of what he say days earlier.

As I was speaking with the family,

They told me that the lady and the husband had been married

At that church more than 50 years ago.

Joe realizes the young couple in the photograph,

The same couple who are about to be buried,

Are the apparitions that appeared to him.

I think that this couple rejoined

Each other for eternity.

I saw them together.

For someone to have a vision of them

Reuniting at this location makes complete sense.

It was very significant to them personally.

Love transcends space and time.

And even after death, there's no reason to believe

That our loved ones stop caring for us on either side.

We're still connected through that energy.

Love is energy.

And reuniting upon death...

...It's something that perhaps the universe

Put together for a lot of people to participate in.

But the question remains --

Why were the visions seen by joe and nobody else?

Some people are a little more sensitive to spiritual energy.

First-responders have a certain type of psychic sense,

Which is usually called intuition.

No matter what field you're in police, fire, ems,

You develop a type of intuition.

So this would draw a spirit towards them

Just like a living person who needed help,

Knowing that that's what they're there for.

He may have been given a front row seat

To receive this message to pass on to the family.

I did not share with the family what I had seen

Because they're grieving.

I thought it would be in bad taste,

And they'd think I was a little off-center.

I'm sure there are skeptics,

'cause I've been a skeptic previous to this.

But I'm telling you that I saw this couple in the middle

Of the aisle.