1 00:00:11,778 --> 00:00:13,978 - I never realized how hard it would be 2 00:00:14,047 --> 00:00:17,377 to deal with something like this. 3 00:00:17,451 --> 00:00:19,851 - I was in the middle of nowhere, 4 00:00:19,920 --> 00:00:21,620 and nobody knew I was there. 5 00:00:28,361 --> 00:00:29,931 - Something was going on in the house 6 00:00:29,996 --> 00:00:32,396 that I couldn't explain. 7 00:00:35,636 --> 00:00:38,536 - I looked the thing in the eye. 8 00:00:38,605 --> 00:00:42,265 It was clearly not a human being. 9 00:00:42,342 --> 00:00:46,452 - What was tearing the inside of my house apart? 10 00:00:46,447 --> 00:00:49,447 - Oh, my god. 11 00:00:49,450 --> 00:00:50,950 - It was hunting me. 12 00:00:50,951 --> 00:00:52,921 - Go now! 13 00:00:52,986 --> 00:00:55,286 - Start! 14 00:00:55,355 --> 00:00:59,085 - If you don't run, it's gonna kill you. 15 00:01:05,732 --> 00:01:09,202 [Birds chirping] 16 00:01:09,269 --> 00:01:12,869 [Dog barking] 17 00:01:12,940 --> 00:01:15,910 [Peaceful instrumental music] 18 00:01:15,976 --> 00:01:18,906 ♪ ♪ 19 00:01:18,979 --> 00:01:21,579 - I loved it... all my heart, I loved that house. 20 00:01:21,582 --> 00:01:27,422 It was a wonderful place to live. 21 00:01:27,487 --> 00:01:31,257 - The house was my sanctuary. 22 00:01:31,324 --> 00:01:35,494 It was the perfect little house that everybody dreams about. 23 00:01:35,562 --> 00:01:38,062 My mom's new boyfriend, Matt, 24 00:01:38,131 --> 00:01:43,141 moved into the house with his daughter, Marie. 25 00:01:43,203 --> 00:01:45,903 - Ah! [Both laughing] 26 00:01:45,972 --> 00:01:47,212 - What are you doing? 27 00:01:47,274 --> 00:01:52,414 - Matt was an intelligent, smart, funny, happy guy. 28 00:01:52,479 --> 00:01:54,709 - Whoo! Got you! 29 00:01:54,781 --> 00:01:57,521 - I was happy to have Marie there. 30 00:01:57,584 --> 00:01:59,554 It felt like I had a little sister 31 00:01:59,619 --> 00:02:01,549 that I had never had. 32 00:02:01,621 --> 00:02:04,421 We basically had a lot of fun together. 33 00:02:04,491 --> 00:02:08,091 - Marie and my daughter became good friends quickly, 34 00:02:08,161 --> 00:02:10,231 which really helped our relationship 35 00:02:10,297 --> 00:02:13,597 because we thought we had a good start. 36 00:02:15,368 --> 00:02:17,798 [Eerie music] 37 00:02:17,871 --> 00:02:21,271 [Swing creaking] 38 00:02:24,945 --> 00:02:28,075 The very first strange thing that happened: 39 00:02:28,082 --> 00:02:29,482 I went into the kitchen, 40 00:02:29,549 --> 00:02:32,379 and there was a jar of peanut butter 41 00:02:32,452 --> 00:02:36,022 laying on its side on the counter. 42 00:02:36,089 --> 00:02:38,289 - Jamie! 43 00:02:38,358 --> 00:02:41,328 - I looked at it thinking that the kids had made a mess 44 00:02:41,394 --> 00:02:44,104 or the cats had knocked it over, 45 00:02:44,164 --> 00:02:45,734 but the strange thing about the jar 46 00:02:45,799 --> 00:02:49,569 was that the peanut butter looked as it if had been melted. 47 00:02:55,508 --> 00:02:58,178 - I kind of thought it was a joke. 48 00:02:58,179 --> 00:03:02,609 I thought, "why are you asking me about peanut butter?" 49 00:03:02,682 --> 00:03:06,722 I didn't think anything of this. 50 00:03:06,787 --> 00:03:09,287 - Oh, my god. 51 00:03:09,356 --> 00:03:11,086 - But then we started finding 52 00:03:11,157 --> 00:03:18,257 things stacked or arranged in certain ways. 53 00:03:18,331 --> 00:03:22,271 I thought that Marie was doing it at first. 54 00:03:26,973 --> 00:03:29,843 At this point, we started taking pictures of everything 55 00:03:29,843 --> 00:03:33,583 because we wanted proof of what was happening. 56 00:03:33,647 --> 00:03:35,107 - Oh, my god. 57 00:03:35,181 --> 00:03:40,251 - I-I did suspect the kids of some of things that happened. 58 00:03:40,320 --> 00:03:41,720 I still wasn't convinced that it was 59 00:03:41,755 --> 00:03:43,485 still something supernatural. 60 00:03:53,033 --> 00:03:56,443 - One day, everything changed. 61 00:03:59,005 --> 00:04:00,905 - I have so much math homework. Can you help me? 62 00:04:00,974 --> 00:04:02,174 - Sure. 63 00:04:02,242 --> 00:04:06,342 - I put my coffee down to go let the dog in. 64 00:04:06,347 --> 00:04:08,277 - Lily. 65 00:04:16,189 --> 00:04:17,889 Marie? 66 00:04:17,957 --> 00:04:19,187 - I didn't do that. 67 00:04:19,259 --> 00:04:21,029 - You're the only one in here. 68 00:04:21,094 --> 00:04:23,404 - Jamie, it wasn't me. 69 00:04:23,463 --> 00:04:27,003 - I knew that we hadn't had an earthquake. 70 00:04:27,067 --> 00:04:29,567 I didn't bump anything. 71 00:04:29,636 --> 00:04:31,966 I didn't know what to think. 72 00:04:32,038 --> 00:04:33,968 I was angry. 73 00:04:34,040 --> 00:04:37,610 I was frustrated and annoyed. 74 00:04:37,677 --> 00:04:40,607 I decided to clean my room. 75 00:04:49,989 --> 00:04:55,029 - Mom! Mom! 76 00:04:55,095 --> 00:04:56,355 - I heard Jamie call me. 77 00:04:56,429 --> 00:04:57,929 And I immediately came into the house. 78 00:04:57,997 --> 00:04:59,127 - What happened? 79 00:04:59,199 --> 00:05:00,909 - I closed the drawers, and I turned around, 80 00:05:00,934 --> 00:05:02,404 and the drawers were open and then... 81 00:05:02,403 --> 00:05:05,473 [toy bangs] 82 00:05:05,538 --> 00:05:08,908 - I couldn't believe what I just saw. 83 00:05:12,278 --> 00:05:13,708 [All screaming] 84 00:05:13,780 --> 00:05:15,380 I was freaking out. 85 00:05:15,382 --> 00:05:18,022 I was scared out of my mind. 86 00:05:18,018 --> 00:05:19,678 - I saw it with my own eyes. 87 00:05:19,753 --> 00:05:22,323 I saw it happen. 88 00:05:22,389 --> 00:05:25,819 It shook me up. 89 00:05:25,826 --> 00:05:28,286 Jamie said to me... - Mom. 90 00:05:28,361 --> 00:05:33,431 - "We have a poltergeist in the house." 91 00:05:33,500 --> 00:05:37,840 We knew that day that something was really, really wrong, 92 00:05:37,904 --> 00:05:42,314 but that was nothing compared to what happened 93 00:05:42,375 --> 00:05:45,835 in the following months. 94 00:05:45,912 --> 00:05:50,252 - Oh, my god. 95 00:05:50,317 --> 00:05:56,357 - Everything was twisted and pulled out or on the floor. 96 00:06:01,795 --> 00:06:03,825 And it didn't stop. 97 00:06:03,897 --> 00:06:10,197 - Doors would bang all night long, all day long. 98 00:06:10,270 --> 00:06:12,570 It would just be constantly 99 00:06:12,639 --> 00:06:18,279 over and over and over and over again. 100 00:06:18,344 --> 00:06:23,754 - At night, all the lights would go off. 101 00:06:23,817 --> 00:06:25,927 Everything... every light in the house... would go off. 102 00:06:25,952 --> 00:06:27,092 And you could flick the switch, 103 00:06:27,087 --> 00:06:29,447 and the lights won't come back on. 104 00:06:29,522 --> 00:06:31,892 There was something in our house 105 00:06:31,958 --> 00:06:34,058 that was uninvited. 106 00:06:48,975 --> 00:06:54,345 - Matt didn't believe anything that was happening. 107 00:06:56,916 --> 00:07:03,016 He thought that it was me doing it. 108 00:07:03,023 --> 00:07:07,993 He thought that I was doing it for attention. 109 00:07:23,409 --> 00:07:28,949 - One evening, I saw long, drawn-out arrows, 110 00:07:28,949 --> 00:07:32,849 pointing in all different places. 111 00:07:36,055 --> 00:07:39,415 They went up the wall, across the ceiling. 112 00:07:39,492 --> 00:07:41,932 They would point toward the central heating vents 113 00:07:41,929 --> 00:07:43,999 up on the walls. 114 00:07:44,063 --> 00:07:49,733 We thought maybe it might be trying to communicate with us. 115 00:07:53,740 --> 00:07:56,840 I told Matt the vents lead up to the attic. 116 00:07:56,910 --> 00:08:00,180 Maybe there's something up there we need to look for. 117 00:08:01,948 --> 00:08:04,578 Matt was very skeptical. 118 00:08:04,585 --> 00:08:06,175 - For everything that's been going on... 119 00:08:06,253 --> 00:08:08,193 - He wanted to rationalize it. 120 00:08:08,254 --> 00:08:09,934 - I don't care what you feel. Can you just... 121 00:08:09,956 --> 00:08:11,486 - I wouldn't give him time. 122 00:08:11,558 --> 00:08:13,688 I told him, "you have to believe me. 123 00:08:13,760 --> 00:08:16,600 "I don't care what you feel. I don't care what you think. 124 00:08:16,663 --> 00:08:20,533 Something's in our house. Something's playing with us." 125 00:08:20,600 --> 00:08:23,030 - Okay, I'll go up, and I'll take a look, all right? 126 00:08:38,518 --> 00:08:39,878 - It's dirty and messy 127 00:08:39,953 --> 00:08:43,923 and full of loose double insulation. 128 00:08:43,990 --> 00:08:47,690 I wanted to watch just in case, 129 00:08:47,760 --> 00:08:50,700 I don't know, but just in case something bad happened. 130 00:08:58,071 --> 00:09:01,911 The tension and energy inside the house 131 00:09:01,975 --> 00:09:05,935 was so heavy and active. 132 00:09:07,981 --> 00:09:10,881 He couldn't get all the way across the ceiling 133 00:09:10,950 --> 00:09:12,920 because it was dark. 134 00:09:18,057 --> 00:09:20,257 - Uh, I-I don't know where I'm putting my feet. 135 00:09:20,327 --> 00:09:22,757 I can't... i can't see anything up here. 136 00:09:22,829 --> 00:09:26,429 - When he said that to me, a warning flag came up. 137 00:09:26,499 --> 00:09:29,599 And I said, "okay, that's it. We can't do this anymore. 138 00:09:29,669 --> 00:09:30,999 You can get hurt up here." 139 00:09:43,716 --> 00:09:45,116 - You happy now? 140 00:09:45,184 --> 00:09:49,354 - He did not fully accept it that day. 141 00:09:49,422 --> 00:09:55,232 But I still had some idea we could communicate with it 142 00:09:55,294 --> 00:09:57,964 and maybe stop it. 143 00:10:04,638 --> 00:10:08,868 - My mom had talked to somebody who suggested 144 00:10:08,941 --> 00:10:14,311 that she offer it something... A peace offering. 145 00:10:14,381 --> 00:10:17,621 - I made a small place on the mantel, 146 00:10:17,684 --> 00:10:20,724 you might say even like an altar. 147 00:10:20,787 --> 00:10:25,287 I love cats, so I had found a little cat figurine. 148 00:10:25,358 --> 00:10:29,858 And I put it on the mantel, and I spoke to it, 149 00:10:29,929 --> 00:10:33,499 and I said, "this gift is for you." 150 00:10:35,468 --> 00:10:37,608 - I would like to give you this small place on the mantel 151 00:10:37,637 --> 00:10:38,767 as your place... 152 00:10:38,772 --> 00:10:42,712 - "To let you know that we mean you no harm. 153 00:10:42,775 --> 00:10:46,305 "We don't want you to be afraid of us. 154 00:10:46,379 --> 00:10:50,949 And we don't want to be afraid of you." 155 00:10:51,017 --> 00:10:52,617 - What's going on? 156 00:10:52,685 --> 00:10:54,745 - Matt wasn't happy about it. 157 00:10:54,821 --> 00:10:56,991 Matt was very much against the figurine. 158 00:10:57,056 --> 00:10:59,756 He was very much against communicating with it. 159 00:10:59,826 --> 00:11:04,156 He was very much against giving it a gift of any kind. 160 00:11:04,230 --> 00:11:08,500 He called it talking to the devil. 161 00:11:08,568 --> 00:11:10,128 - Honestly, I don't want this... 162 00:11:10,203 --> 00:11:13,073 - I was making an effort to change things. 163 00:11:13,139 --> 00:11:17,879 I was doing something, but in doing that, 164 00:11:17,878 --> 00:11:20,908 I risked our relationship. 165 00:11:20,980 --> 00:11:22,480 - In my home! 166 00:11:22,548 --> 00:11:26,878 - Matt just got really angry. 167 00:11:26,887 --> 00:11:28,147 - Matt! - Daddy, don't do that. 168 00:11:28,221 --> 00:11:29,151 - Dad! 169 00:11:29,222 --> 00:11:32,992 Both: Don't you dare! 170 00:11:33,059 --> 00:11:35,129 - That's enough of that. 171 00:11:43,536 --> 00:11:44,536 - Mom. 172 00:11:44,604 --> 00:11:46,474 - It was one of those times 173 00:11:46,539 --> 00:11:50,639 where you just can't believe what you see before your eyes. 174 00:11:50,710 --> 00:11:54,280 I know it landed in the field. I saw it. 175 00:12:24,577 --> 00:12:29,107 - I told him, "you better not smash that cat." 176 00:12:29,182 --> 00:12:30,382 - Matt. 177 00:12:30,449 --> 00:12:33,219 - It was just going to make things ten times worse. 178 00:12:33,286 --> 00:12:34,486 - I don't know what this is. 179 00:12:34,554 --> 00:12:36,424 - He didn't listen to me. 180 00:12:36,489 --> 00:12:38,389 - Matt, no. 181 00:12:38,457 --> 00:12:39,457 All: Don't! 182 00:12:39,492 --> 00:12:40,762 [Figurine shattering] 183 00:12:40,827 --> 00:12:43,327 - No! No! 184 00:12:43,396 --> 00:12:46,156 - I felt like I was doomed. 185 00:12:46,232 --> 00:12:48,072 - The first thing I thought was, 186 00:12:48,134 --> 00:12:50,774 "we are gonna go through hell for this. 187 00:12:50,837 --> 00:12:53,637 It's gonna retaliate." 188 00:13:11,023 --> 00:13:16,933 - That night, we found the word "cat" 189 00:13:16,996 --> 00:13:20,866 written all over the house. 190 00:13:25,238 --> 00:13:27,038 [No audio] 191 00:13:27,106 --> 00:13:29,436 - It had gone on a rampage. 192 00:13:36,015 --> 00:13:40,115 - As we were cleaning it up, 193 00:13:40,120 --> 00:13:45,790 we noticed what looked like footprints. 194 00:13:49,429 --> 00:13:51,359 They did not look human. 195 00:13:51,430 --> 00:13:56,230 They just did not look human at all. 196 00:13:56,302 --> 00:13:59,672 - I saw those footprints down there, 197 00:13:59,739 --> 00:14:03,069 and I couldn't believe what I was seeing. 198 00:14:03,142 --> 00:14:07,352 They were huge, round toes, 199 00:14:07,413 --> 00:14:11,053 and wide. 200 00:14:11,117 --> 00:14:18,487 - Whatever it or they were was in the house with us. 201 00:14:18,557 --> 00:14:19,687 [Cat meowing] 202 00:14:19,759 --> 00:14:22,689 - The first thing that came to my mind was, 203 00:14:22,762 --> 00:14:24,962 "what was in my house? 204 00:14:25,031 --> 00:14:28,531 What was tearing the inside of my house apart?" 205 00:14:43,783 --> 00:14:46,583 Having all of this happening at the house 206 00:14:46,586 --> 00:14:49,346 while I was trying to hold down a job 207 00:14:49,422 --> 00:14:51,992 was just tremendous stress. 208 00:14:52,058 --> 00:14:54,388 I wanted to leave really bad. 209 00:14:54,460 --> 00:14:55,790 I wanted to get away from it. 210 00:14:55,862 --> 00:14:58,062 Everybody wanted to get away from it. 211 00:14:58,130 --> 00:15:01,770 But I was already struggling to make house payments. 212 00:15:01,834 --> 00:15:04,104 It wasn't feasible. 213 00:15:09,709 --> 00:15:13,709 At the same time that it was attacking the house, 214 00:15:13,779 --> 00:15:17,449 it started on the animals. 215 00:15:17,516 --> 00:15:20,616 We had two cats that each had a litter, 216 00:15:20,620 --> 00:15:23,790 and they were very sweet-dispositioned, 217 00:15:23,856 --> 00:15:25,916 very loving kittens. 218 00:15:28,794 --> 00:15:31,334 - Soon, one by one, 219 00:15:31,397 --> 00:15:36,667 each one got really, really sick. 220 00:15:41,207 --> 00:15:46,337 There was nothing I could do to help. 221 00:15:47,913 --> 00:15:51,823 - We thought perhaps maybe they just didn't have enough energy 222 00:15:51,884 --> 00:15:53,184 to fight off this thing. 223 00:15:53,252 --> 00:15:58,422 We thought perhaps it used them up. 224 00:15:58,491 --> 00:16:02,191 They all died just right after... one after another. 225 00:16:02,261 --> 00:16:04,431 They didn't have a chance. 226 00:16:06,566 --> 00:16:08,226 - I was scared. 227 00:16:08,300 --> 00:16:14,010 I was scared it was attacking my pets to get at me. 228 00:16:14,073 --> 00:16:17,813 - Maybe this isn't gonna stop with the animals. 229 00:16:17,877 --> 00:16:23,307 It might have the capability of taking life, 230 00:16:23,382 --> 00:16:28,052 not just our animals, but possibly one of us. 231 00:16:36,429 --> 00:16:37,629 I was at work. 232 00:16:37,696 --> 00:16:40,556 Jamie had gone out to run an errand. 233 00:16:40,633 --> 00:16:44,973 Marie was at home alone. 234 00:16:45,037 --> 00:16:49,907 This thing had turned the TV on and off in rapid succession. 235 00:17:16,735 --> 00:17:18,565 - Stop. 236 00:17:18,638 --> 00:17:21,568 [Screams] 237 00:17:27,313 --> 00:17:28,313 - Marie called... 238 00:17:28,380 --> 00:17:29,380 - Hello? - [Crying] Susan. 239 00:17:29,448 --> 00:17:31,278 - She told me, "the furniture..." 240 00:17:31,350 --> 00:17:32,880 - Is everything okay? 241 00:17:32,952 --> 00:17:35,052 - "It's moving across the room." 242 00:17:35,055 --> 00:17:37,985 - [Screams] 243 00:17:40,893 --> 00:17:45,833 - I came home, and as soon as I got one lock unlocked, 244 00:17:45,832 --> 00:17:48,702 it would be locked again. 245 00:17:48,767 --> 00:17:51,267 - Marie! - Jamie, help me! 246 00:17:51,337 --> 00:17:52,637 - I can't open the door. 247 00:17:52,705 --> 00:17:56,065 - [Sobbing] I can't. 248 00:17:56,142 --> 00:17:57,812 - She grabbed her digital camera, 249 00:17:57,877 --> 00:18:00,177 and she took a succession of flashes 250 00:18:00,246 --> 00:18:01,776 just to light up the room. 251 00:18:01,847 --> 00:18:05,717 - Marie, you have to help me open the door. 252 00:18:10,523 --> 00:18:13,793 - Oh, my god. - [Sobbing] 253 00:18:15,928 --> 00:18:18,228 - These pictures appeared on her camera 254 00:18:18,297 --> 00:18:22,027 that were just really unbelievable. 255 00:18:43,423 --> 00:18:49,493 - Unbelievably bizarre photos 256 00:18:49,562 --> 00:18:52,732 of this light energy 257 00:18:52,798 --> 00:18:56,028 appeared on her camera. 258 00:18:56,035 --> 00:18:58,265 What was foremost in my mind was, 259 00:18:58,337 --> 00:19:00,337 if it could move heavy furniture, 260 00:19:00,406 --> 00:19:02,266 what else could it do? 261 00:19:02,275 --> 00:19:03,465 How far would it go? 262 00:19:10,282 --> 00:19:13,652 - The level of fear at that time was... 263 00:19:18,224 --> 00:19:20,494 Undescribable, really. 264 00:19:20,559 --> 00:19:24,229 There's no way to describe 265 00:19:24,296 --> 00:19:28,366 how it made me feel. 266 00:19:31,870 --> 00:19:35,270 - That was a day that Matt realized 267 00:19:35,341 --> 00:19:37,341 that this thing in our house 268 00:19:37,409 --> 00:19:41,549 could attack his daughter while she was alone, 269 00:19:41,614 --> 00:19:43,854 and he got worried. 270 00:19:48,922 --> 00:19:51,922 He got out the phone book, and he started calling churches. 271 00:19:51,991 --> 00:19:53,991 [Phone beeping] 272 00:19:54,059 --> 00:19:55,959 [Line trilling] 273 00:19:56,028 --> 00:19:57,188 - Hello? 274 00:19:57,263 --> 00:19:59,933 - The first couple of churches that he called 275 00:19:59,999 --> 00:20:01,399 didn't offer any help. 276 00:20:01,467 --> 00:20:03,567 - I'm sorry, sir. - Okay, thanks. 277 00:20:03,636 --> 00:20:04,566 - No, sir. 278 00:20:04,637 --> 00:20:06,337 [Dial tone humming] 279 00:20:06,339 --> 00:20:07,669 [Phone beeping] 280 00:20:07,674 --> 00:20:11,314 - It's difficult to speak to someone about it. 281 00:20:11,377 --> 00:20:14,377 That takes a lot of guts because you put yourself up 282 00:20:14,446 --> 00:20:20,946 for accusations, disbelief, and skepticism. 283 00:20:21,020 --> 00:20:23,390 He finally got ahold of a pastor 284 00:20:23,455 --> 00:20:27,155 that was willing to come out to our house immediately. 285 00:20:35,701 --> 00:20:41,611 - There was a little bit of hope that things would get better 286 00:20:41,674 --> 00:20:45,444 by them coming to our house. 287 00:20:45,511 --> 00:20:48,181 - We finally found someone that believed us 288 00:20:48,247 --> 00:20:51,317 and that would come help us figure out 289 00:20:51,383 --> 00:20:53,423 what was going on in our house. 290 00:20:59,759 --> 00:21:04,829 - The house was just a total mess. 291 00:21:04,897 --> 00:21:10,267 It was embarrassing to even have anybody in the house. 292 00:21:10,336 --> 00:21:11,896 - He looked all around the house, 293 00:21:11,970 --> 00:21:16,670 and he saw all the stuff on the walls. 294 00:21:16,742 --> 00:21:19,542 He said, "this is bad. 295 00:21:19,611 --> 00:21:21,551 There's spiritual warfare going on here." 296 00:21:21,613 --> 00:21:24,183 - "Even though I walk through the darkest valley, 297 00:21:24,183 --> 00:21:26,153 I will fear no evil." 298 00:21:26,218 --> 00:21:28,648 - They just prayed with us, and that was it. 299 00:21:28,721 --> 00:21:32,061 - Is there any more you can do? 300 00:21:32,124 --> 00:21:34,834 - We can't help you. 301 00:21:34,893 --> 00:21:39,433 - That was the last I ever heard of him or saw him. 302 00:21:43,769 --> 00:21:50,509 - We felt completely abandoned and left out to dry. 303 00:21:50,576 --> 00:21:53,506 We were on our own. 304 00:21:58,183 --> 00:22:01,253 [Clock ticking] 305 00:22:05,290 --> 00:22:09,890 - As time went on, my feeling was that 306 00:22:09,962 --> 00:22:13,802 the only way to get rid of this thing out of our lives 307 00:22:13,866 --> 00:22:18,436 was to just move out. 308 00:22:18,504 --> 00:22:22,014 I didn't have money to move out, 309 00:22:22,074 --> 00:22:26,744 and I didn't have friends that I could go stay with. 310 00:22:26,812 --> 00:22:30,052 I felt trapped. 311 00:22:30,115 --> 00:22:34,315 - I felt my family breaking down. 312 00:22:34,386 --> 00:22:37,786 Matt and I were constantly losing our tempers... 313 00:22:37,856 --> 00:22:38,886 Both: No! 314 00:22:38,957 --> 00:22:40,387 - Because we couldn't communicate. 315 00:22:40,459 --> 00:22:43,929 We couldn't talk about it. 316 00:22:43,996 --> 00:22:47,566 Our relationship was falling apart. 317 00:22:54,706 --> 00:22:57,136 - I remember the stress that I was in... 318 00:22:57,209 --> 00:23:01,249 That I was feeling... 319 00:23:01,313 --> 00:23:05,253 And how alone I felt. 320 00:23:05,317 --> 00:23:09,987 It's hard to relive all of this. 321 00:23:11,824 --> 00:23:15,634 - Jamie was afraid to leave her room. 322 00:23:15,694 --> 00:23:17,934 Her room seemed to be the one place 323 00:23:17,996 --> 00:23:22,296 where she felt she had a barrier. 324 00:23:22,301 --> 00:23:24,801 She was wrong. 325 00:23:24,870 --> 00:23:26,540 - Oh, my god. 326 00:23:30,976 --> 00:23:35,046 - This pounding started on my bedroom door. 327 00:23:35,114 --> 00:23:38,984 [Pounding on door] 328 00:23:39,051 --> 00:23:43,421 It was so loud. I was actually frozen in fear. 329 00:23:43,489 --> 00:23:46,489 - [Sobbing] 330 00:23:46,558 --> 00:23:49,558 Oh, my god. 331 00:23:49,628 --> 00:23:51,598 - It just eventually got to the point 332 00:23:51,663 --> 00:23:54,833 where I had to go look in the hallway. 333 00:23:54,900 --> 00:23:56,930 [Pounding on door] 334 00:24:02,774 --> 00:24:04,444 Right before I opened the door... 335 00:24:04,510 --> 00:24:07,010 [Pounding] 336 00:24:07,079 --> 00:24:10,649 It would stop. 337 00:24:10,716 --> 00:24:13,946 It's like it knew that I was coming to open the door. 338 00:24:17,956 --> 00:24:22,726 And I would close the door, and it would start again. 339 00:24:22,794 --> 00:24:25,664 - It went on for approximately three hours. 340 00:24:25,731 --> 00:24:26,831 - Stop! 341 00:24:26,899 --> 00:24:31,669 - That pounding... Just horrific, terrible. 342 00:24:31,737 --> 00:24:34,807 - Eventually the pounding stopped. 343 00:24:40,979 --> 00:24:43,309 When I opened the door, 344 00:24:43,382 --> 00:24:47,182 there was just a giant hole. 345 00:24:47,186 --> 00:24:50,716 It looked like a battering ram hit the door, 346 00:24:50,789 --> 00:24:54,159 and the doorknob was bent. 347 00:24:58,997 --> 00:25:02,427 - Everything was utilized by this thing 348 00:25:02,501 --> 00:25:04,901 to pound on that door. 349 00:25:10,309 --> 00:25:13,979 - The light in the bathroom started going on and off. 350 00:25:14,046 --> 00:25:16,606 I figured something must be in there. 351 00:25:19,518 --> 00:25:22,288 Whatever it was was trying to get into my room. 352 00:25:27,859 --> 00:25:29,889 - There was no way to lock the door. 353 00:25:29,962 --> 00:25:34,432 - The bathroom door didn't have the doorknob on it. 354 00:25:34,499 --> 00:25:38,369 I decided to take this kite string that we had 355 00:25:38,371 --> 00:25:42,211 and wrapped it through the hole in the door. 356 00:25:42,274 --> 00:25:45,914 I figured, "if I have the other end of this string, 357 00:25:45,978 --> 00:25:48,008 this thing cannot open the door." 358 00:25:51,817 --> 00:25:56,147 I started feeling it pulling on the string. 359 00:25:56,155 --> 00:25:59,315 - As soon as she tightened up on the rope, 360 00:25:59,391 --> 00:26:02,391 it tugged at the door. 361 00:26:02,461 --> 00:26:04,501 - Ah! 362 00:26:04,563 --> 00:26:06,803 Stop it! 363 00:26:06,865 --> 00:26:09,525 - I was freaking out because I figured that 364 00:26:09,601 --> 00:26:11,401 once that door opened, 365 00:26:11,470 --> 00:26:16,640 I was gonna see something from my nightmares, 366 00:26:16,708 --> 00:26:20,908 some demon, 367 00:26:20,979 --> 00:26:23,649 and it was gonna come at me. 368 00:26:27,619 --> 00:26:29,149 I just held onto the string 369 00:26:29,221 --> 00:26:32,291 and figured that if it couldn't break this string 370 00:26:32,358 --> 00:26:34,828 that it couldn't open the door. 371 00:26:39,965 --> 00:26:42,795 - It cut the rope. 372 00:26:42,868 --> 00:26:44,838 Figured it out... It cut the rope. 373 00:26:48,807 --> 00:26:51,177 She was scared out of her wits. 374 00:26:54,079 --> 00:26:55,079 - I knew it was coming. 375 00:26:55,147 --> 00:26:57,007 I knew it was coming into the room. 376 00:26:57,082 --> 00:26:59,782 I knew that there was nothing I could do to stop it. 377 00:27:17,135 --> 00:27:18,195 - I knew it was coming. 378 00:27:18,270 --> 00:27:20,070 I knew it was coming into the room. 379 00:27:20,138 --> 00:27:22,868 I knew that there was nothing I could do to stop it. 380 00:27:31,149 --> 00:27:35,519 And there was nothing there. 381 00:27:35,587 --> 00:27:39,117 I really had to get out of that house. 382 00:27:39,191 --> 00:27:40,321 [Door slamming] 383 00:27:40,392 --> 00:27:43,792 It closed the door and locked it. 384 00:27:43,862 --> 00:27:46,062 I immediately smelled smoke. 385 00:27:48,834 --> 00:27:51,774 - [Screams] 386 00:27:51,837 --> 00:27:55,667 [Flames whooshing] 387 00:27:55,741 --> 00:27:59,181 - I looked down, and there was a pan 388 00:27:59,244 --> 00:28:02,454 that had a paper towel burning inside of it, 389 00:28:02,514 --> 00:28:04,884 made to be like a wick. 390 00:28:11,156 --> 00:28:16,856 - It had moved beyond anything that it had done before. 391 00:28:22,802 --> 00:28:25,872 [Flames crackling] 392 00:28:25,937 --> 00:28:27,867 - I stepped out into the hallway. 393 00:28:51,430 --> 00:28:54,830 I found toilet paper and paper towels 394 00:28:54,900 --> 00:28:57,800 strewn throughout the house, 395 00:28:57,869 --> 00:29:02,209 wrapped around everything that could catch fire. 396 00:29:02,274 --> 00:29:05,384 It actually was setting up 397 00:29:05,443 --> 00:29:09,383 something to carry a flame throughout the house. 398 00:29:09,447 --> 00:29:11,877 It was going to burn us alive in the house. 399 00:29:14,452 --> 00:29:17,392 I just knew that I had to put out the fire. 400 00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:23,990 [Flames crackling] 401 00:29:23,996 --> 00:29:26,556 - Ah! 402 00:29:28,033 --> 00:29:29,873 [Coughing] 403 00:29:32,571 --> 00:29:34,571 - I started gathering 404 00:29:34,639 --> 00:29:38,409 all the paper towels and toilet paper up. 405 00:29:38,476 --> 00:29:40,276 I had to make sure that 406 00:29:40,345 --> 00:29:42,675 there was nothing that could catch fire. 407 00:29:50,422 --> 00:29:55,392 - That was the most frightening, 408 00:29:55,460 --> 00:29:58,360 horrific thing 409 00:29:58,430 --> 00:30:01,030 I've ever been through in my whole life. 410 00:30:01,099 --> 00:30:05,069 This... thing 411 00:30:05,136 --> 00:30:09,306 attempted to burn my house down 412 00:30:09,374 --> 00:30:12,414 with my daughter in it. 413 00:30:12,477 --> 00:30:16,607 That was the last straw. 414 00:30:21,120 --> 00:30:24,320 - We finally moved out. 415 00:30:24,389 --> 00:30:27,119 It was a huge relief 416 00:30:27,192 --> 00:30:31,192 that I wasn't gonna have to deal with it anymore, 417 00:30:31,263 --> 00:30:35,403 that I was gonna be able to have a normal life again. 418 00:30:38,103 --> 00:30:42,343 - The situation succeeded in finally driving this wedge 419 00:30:42,407 --> 00:30:44,707 between Matt and I. 420 00:30:46,211 --> 00:30:49,011 [Sighs] We were separating. 421 00:31:08,366 --> 00:31:10,026 After we moved out, 422 00:31:10,101 --> 00:31:12,771 in the next three or four months, 423 00:31:12,771 --> 00:31:15,871 the next-door neighbors also left. 424 00:31:15,941 --> 00:31:19,141 And there's four or five houses that are vacant on that block. 425 00:31:19,210 --> 00:31:23,380 And it makes me wonder that maybe perhaps it wasn't just us. 426 00:31:46,805 --> 00:31:51,265 - I saw something I can't explain. 427 00:31:51,343 --> 00:31:54,913 I don't like the idea of not being able to explain it. 428 00:32:06,992 --> 00:32:10,532 Back in 1997, I got a call from a friend of mine 429 00:32:10,595 --> 00:32:15,425 who was also the elected sheriff in a rural Oregon county. 430 00:32:15,500 --> 00:32:17,570 He knew that I had been certified police officer 431 00:32:17,569 --> 00:32:19,399 and I had been in the marine corps. 432 00:32:19,471 --> 00:32:24,011 So he asked me if I wanted to be a deputy sheriff. 433 00:32:24,075 --> 00:32:26,375 I jumped at the chance. 434 00:32:26,444 --> 00:32:27,744 At the time, I was fit. 435 00:32:27,746 --> 00:32:30,446 At the present time, I certainly am not. 436 00:32:30,449 --> 00:32:31,679 - Hey, man. - You're early. 437 00:32:31,750 --> 00:32:33,470 - Everything good? - Yeah, yeah, it's great. 438 00:32:33,518 --> 00:32:34,848 I kept the seat warm for you. 439 00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:39,690 - On this particular day, I was early getting off shift. 440 00:32:39,758 --> 00:32:43,128 It was one of the prettiest days I can ever remember seeing 441 00:32:43,194 --> 00:32:45,564 in the cascade mountains. 442 00:32:45,630 --> 00:32:47,430 It made me want to take a hike. 443 00:32:51,069 --> 00:32:54,569 You can walk across country where there are no trails 444 00:32:54,639 --> 00:32:58,169 and probably be places in eastern Oregon 445 00:32:58,177 --> 00:33:01,007 where nobody's ever even walked before. 446 00:33:01,079 --> 00:33:02,809 I loved that idea. 447 00:33:13,725 --> 00:33:18,185 I'd been walking uphill for two hours at least. 448 00:33:18,197 --> 00:33:21,367 It was taking a long time because of the terrain. 449 00:33:28,874 --> 00:33:30,614 I decided to find a route 450 00:33:30,675 --> 00:33:32,835 that would get me into a more open area. 451 00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:42,090 When I looked through my compass to take that measurement... 452 00:33:42,153 --> 00:33:45,663 I was totally shocked. 453 00:33:45,723 --> 00:33:49,133 I saw a person standing there, 454 00:33:49,194 --> 00:33:52,734 but it was clearly not a human being. 455 00:34:16,254 --> 00:34:20,324 - This thing had a humanlike shape to it 456 00:34:20,391 --> 00:34:23,661 and a clear place for the eyes and the nose and the mouth, 457 00:34:23,728 --> 00:34:25,958 but it wasn't a person. 458 00:34:28,566 --> 00:34:30,926 He had his eyes directly on me. 459 00:34:34,606 --> 00:34:38,476 The weirdest thing happened. 460 00:34:38,543 --> 00:34:42,183 I just involuntarily cocked my head to one side. 461 00:34:43,882 --> 00:34:47,852 He mimicked me exactly. 462 00:34:47,919 --> 00:34:50,489 He was smart. 463 00:34:50,555 --> 00:34:53,855 I instinctively reached around to get my weapon. 464 00:34:58,096 --> 00:35:01,796 He ran away so fast, it seemed impossible, 465 00:35:01,866 --> 00:35:05,966 certainly physically impossible for a human. 466 00:35:06,037 --> 00:35:09,007 I was so curious that I had to check it out. 467 00:35:20,619 --> 00:35:23,689 I could see most of a wide-open area, 468 00:35:23,755 --> 00:35:27,085 and I was looking everywhere. 469 00:35:27,158 --> 00:35:29,688 There was nothing there. 470 00:35:29,761 --> 00:35:34,501 I decided to look for tracks. 471 00:35:34,566 --> 00:35:37,496 I couldn't find a track anywhere. 472 00:35:46,277 --> 00:35:47,907 I carried on walking for a while, 473 00:35:47,913 --> 00:35:52,283 but I was feeling a little nervous. 474 00:35:52,284 --> 00:35:53,884 It was darker than it should be 475 00:35:53,886 --> 00:35:55,746 for me to get back to the car before dark, 476 00:35:55,820 --> 00:35:58,450 and I didn't have a flashlight. 477 00:35:58,457 --> 00:36:00,257 I realized I wasn't going to make it 478 00:36:00,325 --> 00:36:02,525 unless I turned around right then, so I did. 479 00:36:06,798 --> 00:36:09,128 I decided to take a different route 480 00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:11,430 so that I'd put some space between myself 481 00:36:11,502 --> 00:36:14,472 and whatever that was. 482 00:36:14,539 --> 00:36:16,069 I was looking to my left 483 00:36:16,141 --> 00:36:20,781 because that's the area that he'd gone. 484 00:36:20,845 --> 00:36:23,145 And that's when I heard it. 485 00:36:23,214 --> 00:36:25,854 [Tree crashing] 486 00:36:29,988 --> 00:36:33,158 It was as loud as some guns when they go off. 487 00:36:33,224 --> 00:36:35,094 It was a big tree. 488 00:36:35,159 --> 00:36:38,759 The snap came from my right. 489 00:36:38,830 --> 00:36:41,130 It was impossible. 490 00:36:41,199 --> 00:36:42,629 He'd circled me. 491 00:36:47,372 --> 00:36:49,842 The idea that I couldn't see him 492 00:36:49,907 --> 00:36:51,407 but he could see me 493 00:36:51,476 --> 00:36:53,406 made me very uncomfortable. 494 00:36:53,478 --> 00:36:55,878 That's just a prescription for an ambush. 495 00:37:00,051 --> 00:37:02,851 That's when I heard a second snap. 496 00:37:02,920 --> 00:37:05,190 [Loud cracking] 497 00:37:06,924 --> 00:37:10,934 He wasn't just watching me or running away from me. 498 00:37:10,929 --> 00:37:14,459 He was tracking me. 499 00:37:14,466 --> 00:37:17,266 It flashed through my mind that what I had seen was big enough 500 00:37:17,335 --> 00:37:22,435 to snap me the same way it was snapping those trees. 501 00:37:22,507 --> 00:37:24,967 I had been in the marine corps. 502 00:37:25,043 --> 00:37:26,943 I had police service. 503 00:37:27,011 --> 00:37:29,481 I don't scare easily. 504 00:37:32,884 --> 00:37:36,124 I am scared to death. 505 00:37:36,187 --> 00:37:39,757 - Back off now! 506 00:37:43,328 --> 00:37:46,398 - He started to get closer as the sun went down. 507 00:37:46,464 --> 00:37:49,804 I knew because the snaps started getting closer. 508 00:37:53,171 --> 00:37:55,371 It was hunting me, 509 00:37:55,374 --> 00:37:58,114 getting closer and closer like a hunter 510 00:37:58,176 --> 00:38:00,176 but staying invisible to the prey. 511 00:38:02,580 --> 00:38:05,150 If you can't see what's out there, 512 00:38:05,150 --> 00:38:06,250 you can't fight it. 513 00:38:06,317 --> 00:38:07,677 You can't even run from it. 514 00:38:07,752 --> 00:38:09,722 You don't know which direction to run now 515 00:38:09,787 --> 00:38:12,987 because he's circled you. 516 00:38:13,057 --> 00:38:14,297 Maybe you run right into his arms. 517 00:38:14,325 --> 00:38:15,825 You don't know. 518 00:38:19,063 --> 00:38:23,833 I was rushing down the hill, and all of a sudden, 519 00:38:23,901 --> 00:38:28,001 there is a deer standing in front of me. 520 00:38:28,072 --> 00:38:29,712 Didn't have any fear of humans at all. 521 00:38:34,445 --> 00:38:36,305 She snapped her head over in the direction 522 00:38:36,381 --> 00:38:37,481 that I'd been watching, 523 00:38:37,548 --> 00:38:40,218 where the snaps had been coming from. 524 00:38:40,284 --> 00:38:44,994 I scanned the whole tree line. 525 00:38:44,990 --> 00:38:46,790 Didn't see anything. 526 00:38:46,858 --> 00:38:48,788 No sound, nothing. 527 00:38:52,164 --> 00:38:54,664 She smelled the air with her head up. 528 00:39:01,072 --> 00:39:03,612 And then she bolted in the opposite direction 529 00:39:03,674 --> 00:39:05,514 as fast as I've ever seen a deer move. 530 00:39:09,180 --> 00:39:15,320 I felt the hair on the back of my neck go up. 531 00:39:15,386 --> 00:39:17,386 I knew I was being watched. 532 00:39:22,194 --> 00:39:26,204 It was just so close, and it was so obvious 533 00:39:26,264 --> 00:39:28,734 that it didn't want me there. 534 00:39:32,404 --> 00:39:34,944 I was only about two minutes away from the car 535 00:39:35,006 --> 00:39:37,266 if I ran real fast, so I did. 536 00:39:40,479 --> 00:39:43,579 I heard snaps again, 537 00:39:43,582 --> 00:39:47,482 and this time, they were really close. 538 00:39:58,429 --> 00:40:00,829 I was convinced that I was gonna die 539 00:40:00,898 --> 00:40:03,028 and that I was gonna die in a very bad way. 540 00:40:06,171 --> 00:40:10,211 When I finally saw my car, I was hearing snaps very close, 541 00:40:10,274 --> 00:40:12,214 but they weren't frequent. 542 00:40:12,210 --> 00:40:14,440 And as I got real close to the car, 543 00:40:14,512 --> 00:40:18,182 they stopped entirely. 544 00:40:18,249 --> 00:40:20,919 I remember now thinking, 545 00:40:20,919 --> 00:40:25,319 "those snaps have stopped because he's right behind me, 546 00:40:25,323 --> 00:40:30,063 and he's gonna grab me." 547 00:40:42,139 --> 00:40:44,069 - I remember now thinking, 548 00:40:44,141 --> 00:40:47,441 "he's right behind me, and he's gonna grab me." 549 00:40:52,617 --> 00:40:54,277 I started hitting the button 550 00:40:54,286 --> 00:40:57,686 for the automatic release of the locks. 551 00:40:57,755 --> 00:40:59,285 - Come on! 552 00:40:59,357 --> 00:41:03,457 - It's not gonna open in time. 553 00:41:03,462 --> 00:41:08,062 My heart was starting to beat faster. 554 00:41:08,132 --> 00:41:14,142 I want to get steel between me and whatever that thing is. 555 00:41:14,139 --> 00:41:19,779 I felt fear that I wasn't gonna get that far. 556 00:41:19,844 --> 00:41:21,314 - Come on, come on, come on! 557 00:41:26,284 --> 00:41:27,784 - I put the key in the ignition. 558 00:41:27,852 --> 00:41:30,522 [Engine sputtering] 559 00:41:30,522 --> 00:41:33,192 It wouldn't start. 560 00:41:33,257 --> 00:41:34,187 - Start! 561 00:41:34,259 --> 00:41:36,789 - It was like, what else can go wrong? 562 00:41:36,861 --> 00:41:38,031 - Come on! 563 00:41:38,095 --> 00:41:39,095 [Engine sputtering] 564 00:41:39,130 --> 00:41:42,430 Start! Start! 565 00:41:42,434 --> 00:41:45,404 [Engine roars] 566 00:41:45,470 --> 00:41:47,300 [Engine revving] 567 00:41:58,149 --> 00:42:03,349 - The sense of relief that I felt was real good. 568 00:42:03,421 --> 00:42:06,591 First thing I wanted to do was have a cigarette. 569 00:42:14,532 --> 00:42:19,772 I didn't tell anybody but the sheriff that I served for. 570 00:42:19,837 --> 00:42:22,367 I didn't think he would believe me. 571 00:42:24,309 --> 00:42:27,179 [Insect buzzing] 572 00:42:27,244 --> 00:42:28,184 - Look... 573 00:42:28,246 --> 00:42:29,406 - He did believe me. 574 00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:30,480 - There's reports of... 575 00:42:30,548 --> 00:42:33,318 - he said they get reports 576 00:42:33,384 --> 00:42:39,094 of big, hairy, unknown animals up there all the time. 577 00:42:39,156 --> 00:42:41,916 He told me, "don't write a report. 578 00:42:41,993 --> 00:42:44,533 Don't talk about it." So I didn't. 579 00:42:55,006 --> 00:42:57,136 What I saw was physical. 580 00:42:57,208 --> 00:43:00,378 It was some kind of living being. 581 00:43:00,444 --> 00:43:01,944 And in my experience, 582 00:43:02,013 --> 00:43:04,483 living beings have to multiply in some way. 583 00:43:07,084 --> 00:43:08,554 That means there's more of them. 584 00:43:08,620 --> 00:43:10,350 And I don't know how many, 585 00:43:10,421 --> 00:43:13,661 but I do know that I'm not going back there.