1 00:00:06,339 --> 00:00:08,239 - There was something about those doors 2 00:00:08,308 --> 00:00:09,778 that I did not like. 3 00:00:09,843 --> 00:00:11,683 [Eerie shrieking wind] 4 00:00:11,745 --> 00:00:15,245 I was conscious of this feeling of being watched. 5 00:00:15,315 --> 00:00:16,715 [Door unlatches] 6 00:00:16,717 --> 00:00:18,577 - Who's there? 7 00:00:18,652 --> 00:00:20,692 - I remember feeling kind of sick... 8 00:00:20,754 --> 00:00:21,994 Sick with, like, a fear. 9 00:00:22,055 --> 00:00:25,885 - Mom, is that you? 10 00:00:25,959 --> 00:00:27,529 - I started to say to myself, 11 00:00:27,594 --> 00:00:30,434 "there might be something otherworldly 12 00:00:30,497 --> 00:00:32,597 going on in my own home." 13 00:00:32,666 --> 00:00:34,196 - Mom! - [Gasping] 14 00:00:34,267 --> 00:00:36,697 - It sounded like it was moving across the ceiling. 15 00:00:36,770 --> 00:00:38,140 - It's back. 16 00:00:38,205 --> 00:00:40,035 - There was, like, this angry woman 17 00:00:40,041 --> 00:00:41,911 just pushing in on me. 18 00:00:41,975 --> 00:00:43,875 - [Gasping] 19 00:00:43,944 --> 00:00:46,554 - You're not leaving, right? 20 00:00:46,613 --> 00:00:47,553 - [Gasping] 21 00:00:47,614 --> 00:00:50,924 - We were absolutely terrified. 22 00:00:50,984 --> 00:00:52,824 - [Screams] 23 00:00:52,886 --> 00:00:55,546 - What in the world was that? 24 00:01:01,094 --> 00:01:04,034 - [Breathing heavily] 25 00:01:05,298 --> 00:01:08,228 [Metallic rumbling] 26 00:01:10,570 --> 00:01:12,670 - We looked for quite a while 27 00:01:12,673 --> 00:01:15,673 for some sort of house that would fit our budget. 28 00:01:20,147 --> 00:01:21,777 We had two daughters, 29 00:01:21,848 --> 00:01:24,948 so it was about time for us to expand. 30 00:01:25,018 --> 00:01:28,418 We were thinking, "this has to be the one. 31 00:01:28,422 --> 00:01:29,722 "This is our last resort. 32 00:01:29,789 --> 00:01:31,589 "This is the one that we can make our own. 33 00:01:31,658 --> 00:01:33,428 "It doesn't matter what the inside is like. 34 00:01:33,493 --> 00:01:35,263 We're gonna... We're gonna do this." 35 00:01:39,666 --> 00:01:42,926 We were exceedingly happy moving in here. 36 00:01:43,003 --> 00:01:45,443 It was just wonderful, 'cause we got to leave 37 00:01:45,506 --> 00:01:46,836 our little apartment 38 00:01:46,907 --> 00:01:50,637 and the kids had their own rooms. 39 00:01:50,710 --> 00:01:54,010 So it was with a lot of hope that we moved in here. 40 00:01:54,080 --> 00:01:55,650 - What do I tell my sister? 41 00:01:55,715 --> 00:01:58,875 She's already put a down payment on the house. 42 00:01:58,952 --> 00:02:00,222 She's really excited. 43 00:02:00,287 --> 00:02:02,947 The price is right. 44 00:02:03,023 --> 00:02:04,893 There's room enough for her family. 45 00:02:07,594 --> 00:02:12,904 But I felt something odd or disturbing in that house. 46 00:02:12,966 --> 00:02:15,966 - [Breathing heavily] 47 00:02:16,036 --> 00:02:19,836 - So I had a hard time saying, you know, 48 00:02:19,840 --> 00:02:21,570 "I wouldn't if I were you." 49 00:02:21,641 --> 00:02:23,561 But that... that was my intense feeling about it, 50 00:02:23,610 --> 00:02:25,010 that I wouldn't if I were you, 51 00:02:25,078 --> 00:02:27,348 whatever the price was, 52 00:02:27,414 --> 00:02:30,524 because I felt some thing, some unusual thing, 53 00:02:30,584 --> 00:02:33,854 was attached to the house in some strange way. 54 00:02:33,920 --> 00:02:36,860 [Haunting music] 55 00:02:41,595 --> 00:02:42,925 [Clamoring] 56 00:02:42,996 --> 00:02:44,256 [Laughter] 57 00:02:44,265 --> 00:02:46,725 - Girls, do you really have to do that in here? 58 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:48,230 Please, take it upstairs, okay? 59 00:02:48,301 --> 00:02:49,571 - When we first got there, 60 00:02:49,636 --> 00:02:52,296 Karen and Christine were just absolutely overjoyed. 61 00:02:52,372 --> 00:02:53,712 - Seriously, girls! 62 00:02:53,707 --> 00:02:55,567 - They were running around chasing each other. 63 00:02:55,642 --> 00:02:57,282 They were going up and down the stairs. 64 00:02:57,344 --> 00:02:59,014 And it was just a very happy time. 65 00:02:59,079 --> 00:03:02,009 My daughters were ecstatic to be there. 66 00:03:03,216 --> 00:03:05,216 In the basement, we had Karen's room. 67 00:03:05,285 --> 00:03:06,215 - Hi, honey. - Hi, mom. 68 00:03:06,286 --> 00:03:07,526 - Don't forget, Joanna's coming 69 00:03:07,554 --> 00:03:09,224 to pick you up at 4:00 for rehearsal. 70 00:03:09,289 --> 00:03:11,889 - I know. Don't worry. 71 00:03:11,892 --> 00:03:14,692 - And my husband and I decided 72 00:03:14,761 --> 00:03:17,161 to put our washer and dryer down there. 73 00:03:17,230 --> 00:03:19,800 - [Humming] 74 00:03:19,866 --> 00:03:22,166 - And as I'm doing the laundry, 75 00:03:22,235 --> 00:03:25,035 I really started paying attention to these doors. 76 00:03:25,105 --> 00:03:28,165 They were about five feet above the ground, 77 00:03:28,241 --> 00:03:29,911 and I wondered why they were 78 00:03:29,977 --> 00:03:32,377 in such an odd position on the wall. 79 00:03:32,445 --> 00:03:35,705 I knew that part of the unfinished, 80 00:03:35,782 --> 00:03:38,182 undug-up basement was behind them, 81 00:03:38,251 --> 00:03:41,191 but I did not want to explore them. 82 00:03:41,254 --> 00:03:44,694 I didn't open them... Ever. 83 00:03:44,758 --> 00:03:47,528 - It just seemed like a strange area to me. 84 00:03:47,594 --> 00:03:49,134 Like, what were the doors for? 85 00:03:49,129 --> 00:03:52,029 I mean, you know, you're not going in there. 86 00:03:52,098 --> 00:03:55,228 - The feeling near those doors and around those doors 87 00:03:55,302 --> 00:03:56,672 was uneasy. 88 00:03:56,736 --> 00:04:01,636 I was conscious of this feeling of being watched. 89 00:04:01,708 --> 00:04:04,678 It was if something was right by my back, 90 00:04:04,744 --> 00:04:07,684 just right by my back. 91 00:04:10,650 --> 00:04:13,550 [Haunting music] 92 00:04:13,554 --> 00:04:20,194 ♪ ♪ 93 00:04:20,194 --> 00:04:22,334 [Hangers rattling] 94 00:04:27,801 --> 00:04:30,001 - The basement was a creepy place to be. 95 00:04:30,070 --> 00:04:32,370 - Are you ready? 96 00:04:32,373 --> 00:04:33,913 - Uh, yeah. 97 00:04:33,973 --> 00:04:35,143 - It was kind of uneasy. 98 00:04:35,208 --> 00:04:37,138 I remember not wanting to be there alone. 99 00:04:37,210 --> 00:04:39,440 - You have to go open those doors. 100 00:04:43,216 --> 00:04:45,776 - The dirt room was at the far wall 101 00:04:45,852 --> 00:04:47,392 of the laundry room. 102 00:04:47,454 --> 00:04:48,594 - Go on. 103 00:04:48,655 --> 00:04:51,855 - And I remember my mother telling us 104 00:04:51,925 --> 00:04:53,325 not to go into the dirt room. 105 00:04:53,393 --> 00:04:56,863 - Just go. 106 00:04:56,930 --> 00:04:59,260 - It was a completely unsafe room. 107 00:04:59,332 --> 00:05:01,402 Nobody really knew why it was there. 108 00:05:01,468 --> 00:05:05,468 But I remember my mom telling me distinctly to not go in. 109 00:05:07,507 --> 00:05:10,277 And I remember completely ignoring her. 110 00:05:18,017 --> 00:05:20,387 - See? Those are the doors I told you about. 111 00:05:24,391 --> 00:05:26,091 I dare you to go in. 112 00:05:27,694 --> 00:05:29,494 - No. You go in. 113 00:05:29,562 --> 00:05:31,762 - I'm not going. I dared you first. 114 00:05:31,831 --> 00:05:34,771 You have to do it. 115 00:05:38,571 --> 00:05:40,711 Go in. 116 00:05:40,774 --> 00:05:44,244 Just go! 117 00:05:44,310 --> 00:05:45,810 It's no big deal. 118 00:05:45,879 --> 00:05:48,579 - It was very dark, 119 00:05:48,648 --> 00:05:50,118 and it felt very peculiar. 120 00:05:50,183 --> 00:05:54,553 It... you know, it felt wrong, and we just... 121 00:05:54,621 --> 00:05:56,491 We kind of spooked ourselves out. 122 00:06:01,828 --> 00:06:03,188 - You're not leaving, right? 123 00:06:03,263 --> 00:06:04,463 - No. I'm right here. 124 00:06:04,531 --> 00:06:06,801 - [Exhales] Okay. 125 00:06:08,469 --> 00:06:11,069 - We would jump onto the cupboard, 126 00:06:11,137 --> 00:06:14,167 and then you had to crawl inside. 127 00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:16,670 It wasn't a large room, so you could not stand. 128 00:06:16,677 --> 00:06:18,177 You could only crawl. 129 00:06:18,244 --> 00:06:20,884 It was a soil floor. 130 00:06:20,881 --> 00:06:24,051 There was nothing in that room but dirt. 131 00:06:27,921 --> 00:06:30,091 It smelled earthy. 132 00:06:30,157 --> 00:06:34,157 It was a little decay smell. 133 00:06:36,129 --> 00:06:37,829 It was damp. 134 00:06:37,897 --> 00:06:40,697 It smelled old. 135 00:06:40,767 --> 00:06:45,267 I was too nervous to go all the way into the dirt room. 136 00:06:45,338 --> 00:06:48,268 I never made it to the back wall. 137 00:06:51,545 --> 00:06:53,505 - Mom! - Mom, mom, come here! 138 00:06:53,580 --> 00:06:54,880 - I was in my kitchen, 139 00:06:54,948 --> 00:06:57,978 and the children were just playing. 140 00:06:58,051 --> 00:06:59,681 They were... they were full of dirt. 141 00:06:59,752 --> 00:07:02,092 And then they told me that they had been exploring. 142 00:07:02,155 --> 00:07:04,115 - I told you I didn't want you playing in there. 143 00:07:04,191 --> 00:07:06,931 - I was very upset. I did not want them in there. 144 00:07:06,927 --> 00:07:08,857 - How many times do I have to tell you? 145 00:07:08,928 --> 00:07:10,498 - There was something about those doors 146 00:07:10,563 --> 00:07:11,563 that I did not like. 147 00:07:11,598 --> 00:07:12,798 I didn't want to be near them. 148 00:07:12,866 --> 00:07:14,296 I didn't want my children near them. 149 00:07:14,367 --> 00:07:17,967 It felt like those doors were supposed to be shut. 150 00:07:18,038 --> 00:07:20,568 I said, "close the doors, and don't go in there again." 151 00:07:20,640 --> 00:07:23,510 - Get upstairs, both of you. Let's go. 152 00:07:23,576 --> 00:07:25,706 - I think she thought opening the dirt room 153 00:07:25,778 --> 00:07:27,848 might somehow be inviting something. 154 00:07:27,914 --> 00:07:30,824 [Suspenseful music] 155 00:07:30,884 --> 00:07:32,354 ♪ ♪ 156 00:07:34,154 --> 00:07:35,724 - It was an amazing house. 157 00:07:35,788 --> 00:07:38,288 It was old, and it was charming, 158 00:07:38,358 --> 00:07:40,228 and it had so many good things about it 159 00:07:40,293 --> 00:07:42,063 that the last thing I wanted to think was 160 00:07:42,128 --> 00:07:46,628 that there was anything untoward or negative in this house. 161 00:07:50,036 --> 00:07:52,966 [Loud thumping] 162 00:07:55,041 --> 00:07:56,311 I was in the kitchen. 163 00:07:56,376 --> 00:08:00,246 I'm the only one in the house. 164 00:08:00,313 --> 00:08:04,183 And I heard footsteps going down... down the stairs. 165 00:08:04,184 --> 00:08:07,194 [Thumping] 166 00:08:09,189 --> 00:08:10,719 I had left the kitchen, 167 00:08:10,790 --> 00:08:13,290 and I went around to look. 168 00:08:13,359 --> 00:08:16,289 [Creaking] 169 00:08:20,601 --> 00:08:23,171 [Creaking continues] 170 00:08:23,236 --> 00:08:25,536 There's no one there. 171 00:08:25,605 --> 00:08:27,905 I'm saying, "okay, I heard footsteps." 172 00:08:33,379 --> 00:08:35,309 [Door creaking] 173 00:08:35,381 --> 00:08:37,751 [Thumping] 174 00:08:37,817 --> 00:08:38,817 - Who's there? 175 00:08:38,885 --> 00:08:41,815 [Suspenseful music] 176 00:08:41,822 --> 00:08:48,062 ♪ ♪ 177 00:08:48,127 --> 00:08:50,627 - When I heard the steps going down the basement, 178 00:08:50,697 --> 00:08:53,197 I left the kitchen, and I went to look, 179 00:08:53,266 --> 00:08:55,796 and there was just absolutely nothing there. 180 00:08:55,868 --> 00:08:57,638 Nothing. And I heard them distinctly. 181 00:08:57,704 --> 00:08:59,874 Maybe seven or eight steps going down the stairs, 182 00:08:59,939 --> 00:09:02,869 and there was nothing... Absolutely nothing there. 183 00:09:09,115 --> 00:09:10,845 It feels like when I was in... 184 00:09:10,917 --> 00:09:14,447 When I was in the house alone, I was never alone. 185 00:09:16,789 --> 00:09:19,019 It felt like there was something else there, 186 00:09:19,092 --> 00:09:20,532 something else with me, 187 00:09:20,593 --> 00:09:26,163 something always right here, right behind me, looking. 188 00:09:34,240 --> 00:09:39,910 It's... it's really uncomfortable to experience that. 189 00:09:39,979 --> 00:09:42,849 [Dog barking] 190 00:09:42,849 --> 00:09:45,179 I remember being in my living room 191 00:09:45,251 --> 00:09:46,121 and just hearing... 192 00:09:46,186 --> 00:09:48,386 - Mom. 193 00:09:48,454 --> 00:09:50,394 [Clock ticking] 194 00:09:50,456 --> 00:09:52,686 Mommy. 195 00:09:52,759 --> 00:09:54,229 - And I'd go, "did you call me?" 196 00:09:54,293 --> 00:09:55,933 And Christine said, "no, you called me." 197 00:09:55,995 --> 00:10:00,425 - No, I didn't call you. 198 00:10:00,500 --> 00:10:03,100 - Christine. 199 00:10:03,169 --> 00:10:05,499 - Can you hear that? 200 00:10:05,572 --> 00:10:07,072 - Out of nowhere... - Christine! 201 00:10:07,140 --> 00:10:09,910 - Coming from what sounded like it came from the basement door. 202 00:10:09,910 --> 00:10:13,180 I heard my name shouted 203 00:10:13,246 --> 00:10:18,276 and then this kind of maniacal laughter came after it. 204 00:10:18,351 --> 00:10:21,351 [Eerie laughing] 205 00:10:21,421 --> 00:10:24,321 - I think it's coming from down there. 206 00:10:24,391 --> 00:10:26,661 - The laughter was very scary. 207 00:10:26,726 --> 00:10:27,926 - It's okay, sweetie. 208 00:10:27,928 --> 00:10:30,928 [Eerie laughing continues] 209 00:10:30,997 --> 00:10:33,797 - Me and my mother instantly froze. 210 00:10:33,866 --> 00:10:36,926 I asked her if she heard it. She asked me if I heard it. 211 00:10:37,003 --> 00:10:38,303 I said, "yes." 212 00:10:38,371 --> 00:10:41,841 - Christine. 213 00:10:41,908 --> 00:10:44,138 - Don't go there. 214 00:10:44,210 --> 00:10:46,680 Mommy, don't go. - Christine. 215 00:10:46,746 --> 00:10:49,776 Christine. - Mommy, what is that? 216 00:10:49,849 --> 00:10:51,019 - I don't know, sweetie. 217 00:10:51,084 --> 00:10:53,084 - It sounded evil. 218 00:10:53,152 --> 00:10:55,492 - Chris... Christine. 219 00:10:55,555 --> 00:10:58,185 - It sounded scary. 220 00:10:59,959 --> 00:11:01,759 It sounded mocking. 221 00:11:01,828 --> 00:11:04,858 It sounded... 222 00:11:04,931 --> 00:11:05,931 Mean. 223 00:11:05,998 --> 00:11:08,928 [Suspenseful music] 224 00:11:22,582 --> 00:11:25,682 - Christine. 225 00:11:25,752 --> 00:11:29,492 Christine. 226 00:11:31,591 --> 00:11:33,261 - I remember my heart beating. 227 00:11:33,326 --> 00:11:35,926 I remember a sinking feeling in my stomach. 228 00:11:35,995 --> 00:11:39,695 I remember feeling kind of sick... 229 00:11:39,766 --> 00:11:42,166 Sick with, like, a fear. 230 00:11:42,235 --> 00:11:47,335 And I was frozen, which was... i was just frozen. 231 00:11:47,340 --> 00:11:49,110 - Christine. 232 00:11:49,175 --> 00:11:50,975 [Eerie laughing] 233 00:11:51,043 --> 00:11:54,413 - We had both heard my name. We both heard the laughter. 234 00:11:54,414 --> 00:11:55,914 We were extremely frightened. 235 00:11:58,018 --> 00:11:59,118 - Who's there? 236 00:11:59,185 --> 00:12:02,115 [Eerie laughing] 237 00:12:05,392 --> 00:12:08,432 - I think... i don't know what I thought it was. 238 00:12:08,495 --> 00:12:13,555 - The house started becoming seriously uncomfortable. 239 00:12:13,633 --> 00:12:15,173 Not all the time. 240 00:12:15,234 --> 00:12:17,574 For periods of time, it would become... 241 00:12:17,637 --> 00:12:20,567 It started getting increasingly uncomfortable. 242 00:12:27,380 --> 00:12:30,320 - [Breathing heavily] 243 00:12:40,126 --> 00:12:43,056 [Heavy breathing continues] 244 00:12:51,237 --> 00:12:54,667 [Bed Springs creak] 245 00:12:54,674 --> 00:12:57,114 [Heavy breathing continues] 246 00:12:57,110 --> 00:12:58,510 [Bed Springs creak] 247 00:13:01,848 --> 00:13:03,508 [Heavy breathing continues] 248 00:13:03,517 --> 00:13:06,277 [Bed Springs creak] 249 00:13:06,352 --> 00:13:09,252 [Heavy breathing continues] 250 00:13:09,322 --> 00:13:11,792 - [Shuddering] 251 00:13:11,858 --> 00:13:15,358 - One night, I felt something push me. 252 00:13:15,428 --> 00:13:21,168 A weight pushed my chest, pushed my whole body 253 00:13:21,234 --> 00:13:22,674 into the bed. 254 00:13:22,735 --> 00:13:25,365 And I remember feeling 255 00:13:25,438 --> 00:13:30,408 this sense of... 256 00:13:30,476 --> 00:13:31,836 Pressure. 257 00:13:31,911 --> 00:13:35,051 - [Groaning] 258 00:13:37,850 --> 00:13:39,490 - I could feel the Springs in the bed go down 259 00:13:39,518 --> 00:13:42,018 so that I was actually being pushed like this. 260 00:13:42,088 --> 00:13:43,318 - [Choking] 261 00:13:43,323 --> 00:13:45,393 - I couldn't scream for help. 262 00:13:45,458 --> 00:13:48,458 I absolutely was rendered... 263 00:13:48,527 --> 00:13:51,097 Completely helpless. 264 00:13:51,163 --> 00:13:52,463 - [Groans] 265 00:13:54,901 --> 00:13:56,171 [Gasping] 266 00:13:59,539 --> 00:14:02,539 [Breathing shallowly] 267 00:14:08,514 --> 00:14:12,324 - I had absolutely no idea what was happening. 268 00:14:12,385 --> 00:14:13,475 - What's going on? 269 00:14:13,552 --> 00:14:16,492 - I had a nightmare. [Shuddering breaths] 270 00:14:16,555 --> 00:14:19,585 - Turn the light off. 271 00:14:19,593 --> 00:14:23,363 - [Shuddering and whimpering] 272 00:14:23,363 --> 00:14:26,133 - Now I started having suffocating dreams. 273 00:14:26,198 --> 00:14:31,298 I mean, I-I really started to question if I was okay. 274 00:14:31,370 --> 00:14:34,810 I would have some nights where they happened all night long. 275 00:14:34,874 --> 00:14:37,484 And I would have to get up and just walk around the house 276 00:14:37,543 --> 00:14:39,613 and not know what to do, 277 00:14:39,679 --> 00:14:41,909 because if I lie down, 278 00:14:41,915 --> 00:14:44,675 this was gonna happen to me again. 279 00:14:44,750 --> 00:14:46,180 There were times when 280 00:14:46,252 --> 00:14:50,392 I had to go to work at 7:00 in the morning 281 00:14:50,456 --> 00:14:52,286 as an emergency room nurse, 282 00:14:52,358 --> 00:14:54,288 and I hadn't slept at all. 283 00:14:54,360 --> 00:14:57,360 [Clock ticking] 284 00:14:57,430 --> 00:15:00,830 And if someone said to me, "what's wrong?" 285 00:15:00,900 --> 00:15:03,700 How could I possibly say to anyone at work, 286 00:15:03,770 --> 00:15:06,670 "you know, I think something is 287 00:15:06,739 --> 00:15:08,269 "pushing me into the bed at night, 288 00:15:08,341 --> 00:15:09,671 and I can't see it." 289 00:15:13,813 --> 00:15:16,913 - She would never know when it would happen. 290 00:15:16,983 --> 00:15:19,383 She certainly didn't know why it would happen. 291 00:15:19,452 --> 00:15:20,852 It would just happen. 292 00:15:25,625 --> 00:15:27,425 I can only imagine, you know, 293 00:15:27,493 --> 00:15:30,293 that that's a really awful feeling. 294 00:15:30,363 --> 00:15:31,533 I know it affected her. 295 00:15:31,597 --> 00:15:35,827 - [Crying] 296 00:15:35,902 --> 00:15:37,742 - I didn't really understand why... 297 00:15:37,803 --> 00:15:40,873 You know, why was I experiencing something 298 00:15:40,940 --> 00:15:46,840 that would indicate some sort of emotional issue on my part? 299 00:15:46,913 --> 00:15:52,783 So I kept trying to understand what was wrong with me. 300 00:15:52,852 --> 00:15:56,692 And I didn't have an answer. 301 00:15:56,756 --> 00:15:59,686 [Haunting music] 302 00:15:59,759 --> 00:16:05,699 ♪ ♪ 303 00:16:13,506 --> 00:16:14,706 - [Breathing heavily] 304 00:16:14,774 --> 00:16:20,444 ♪ ♪ 305 00:16:20,513 --> 00:16:23,383 [Blanket rustling] 306 00:16:23,449 --> 00:16:31,389 ♪ ♪ 307 00:16:40,166 --> 00:16:41,696 - I was in the kitchen, 308 00:16:41,767 --> 00:16:46,267 and I hear Karen saying very loudly... 309 00:16:46,339 --> 00:16:51,839 - Mom? Mom! 310 00:16:51,845 --> 00:16:53,375 - And as I open the door to her room, 311 00:16:53,446 --> 00:16:55,846 she's sitting in her bed, 312 00:16:55,915 --> 00:16:57,415 and she's just going, "ma"... - Mom! 313 00:16:57,483 --> 00:16:59,683 - And I'm looking... - Mom, look! 314 00:16:59,752 --> 00:17:03,922 And I can see the quilt was being pulled off the bed. 315 00:17:05,825 --> 00:17:07,525 - Come here! 316 00:17:07,593 --> 00:17:10,063 You're all right. Come on. 317 00:17:10,129 --> 00:17:12,429 - I remember running down to the basement, 318 00:17:12,498 --> 00:17:16,968 and her blanket was laid out in a perfect square. 319 00:17:16,970 --> 00:17:19,940 - I stood in the door in disbelief. 320 00:17:19,939 --> 00:17:21,409 - You're all right? 321 00:17:21,474 --> 00:17:23,014 - I don't know. It just started moving. 322 00:17:23,075 --> 00:17:26,175 - I was like, "what in the world was that?" 323 00:17:29,815 --> 00:17:31,335 It still is one of the strangest things 324 00:17:31,383 --> 00:17:33,753 I've ever witnessed in my life. 325 00:17:37,123 --> 00:17:40,993 The basement of that house started feeling 326 00:17:41,060 --> 00:17:45,230 more and more uncomfortable. 327 00:17:45,297 --> 00:17:47,867 It was disconcerting to just go down there. 328 00:17:47,933 --> 00:17:50,873 The feeling was that it was inhabited 329 00:17:50,936 --> 00:17:53,836 by something. 330 00:17:59,479 --> 00:18:01,979 Many nights, I would find Karen sleeping on the couch 331 00:18:01,981 --> 00:18:04,251 in the living room. 332 00:18:04,316 --> 00:18:06,646 I didn't what her... I didn't want anyone 333 00:18:06,719 --> 00:18:09,589 down in that basement anymore. 334 00:18:09,589 --> 00:18:11,989 - You okay, sweetie? 335 00:18:12,058 --> 00:18:14,458 - Oh, yeah, I just didn't want to sleep downstairs anymore. 336 00:18:14,527 --> 00:18:16,357 - That's okay. 337 00:18:23,769 --> 00:18:27,809 - The phenomena were kind of building up. 338 00:18:27,873 --> 00:18:30,743 And I think it got to the point where we couldn't ignore it, 339 00:18:30,809 --> 00:18:33,339 and I think we were starting to pay more and more attention 340 00:18:33,412 --> 00:18:38,122 to... to connecting the different phenomena 341 00:18:38,118 --> 00:18:39,378 that were occurring. 342 00:18:39,451 --> 00:18:42,951 It became patently obvious that something 343 00:18:43,022 --> 00:18:48,492 that was beyond normal explanation was going on. 344 00:18:48,561 --> 00:18:51,761 - Something was wrong. Something was very wrong. 345 00:18:51,830 --> 00:18:54,130 I started to say to myself, 346 00:18:54,200 --> 00:18:56,270 "I have to open up my mind 347 00:18:56,269 --> 00:19:01,069 "to think that there might be something otherworldly 348 00:19:01,140 --> 00:19:03,270 going on in my own home." 349 00:19:03,342 --> 00:19:06,042 And this was a really difficult thought for me. 350 00:19:07,846 --> 00:19:11,276 Things were happening and increasing incrementally. 351 00:19:13,419 --> 00:19:14,419 Bang! 352 00:19:14,453 --> 00:19:16,053 - [Gasps] 353 00:19:16,122 --> 00:19:19,762 - I was awakened by a loud bang. 354 00:19:22,628 --> 00:19:26,028 [Banging] 355 00:19:26,098 --> 00:19:27,358 So I go look. 356 00:19:27,433 --> 00:19:29,003 I'm looking around to see what fell. 357 00:19:29,068 --> 00:19:30,368 Did anything fall? 358 00:19:30,436 --> 00:19:32,866 Karen had also gotten up. So had Christine. 359 00:19:32,872 --> 00:19:35,612 - Mom? Is that you? 360 00:19:35,674 --> 00:19:38,284 [Banging continues] 361 00:19:38,344 --> 00:19:39,744 Mom? 362 00:19:39,812 --> 00:19:43,282 - It sounded like someone went from the back of the house 363 00:19:43,349 --> 00:19:45,649 to the front of the house stomping. 364 00:19:45,718 --> 00:19:47,988 - No, it's not me. 365 00:19:48,053 --> 00:19:51,123 [Banging continues] 366 00:19:51,190 --> 00:19:53,660 - And it went boom, boom, boom, 367 00:19:53,726 --> 00:19:55,156 and stopped. 368 00:19:55,227 --> 00:19:57,597 Boom! Boom! Stop. 369 00:20:08,107 --> 00:20:11,037 [Banging] 370 00:20:13,312 --> 00:20:15,812 - I remember being on the bed, 371 00:20:15,881 --> 00:20:17,251 very frightened. 372 00:20:20,919 --> 00:20:24,319 It was scary for me to see my mom so frightened. 373 00:20:24,390 --> 00:20:27,390 - Mommy, someone's upstairs. 374 00:20:27,459 --> 00:20:29,459 - It sounded like it was moving across the ceiling. 375 00:20:29,495 --> 00:20:31,625 - But no one's upstairs. 376 00:20:31,697 --> 00:20:33,257 We know no one is upstairs. 377 00:20:33,332 --> 00:20:36,032 My husband had left for work. What was this? 378 00:20:36,035 --> 00:20:37,165 - It's okay. 379 00:20:37,170 --> 00:20:38,940 - There's someone there. 380 00:20:38,938 --> 00:20:41,238 - I'm gonna call your father right now, okay? 381 00:20:41,307 --> 00:20:45,077 - We were absolutely, absolutely terrified. 382 00:20:46,345 --> 00:20:50,075 We left the house and sat on the stoop. 383 00:20:50,149 --> 00:20:52,449 My husband drove up. - What now? 384 00:20:52,452 --> 00:20:53,622 - I didn't want to call you, 385 00:20:53,686 --> 00:20:55,016 but there's something in the house 386 00:20:55,087 --> 00:20:57,347 making this really loud noise upstairs. 387 00:20:57,423 --> 00:20:59,273 - We tried to describe these bangs that we heard, 388 00:20:59,291 --> 00:21:01,251 and he said something like... Something more like, 389 00:21:01,293 --> 00:21:03,143 "more of this nonsense?" And he was gonna leave. 390 00:21:03,162 --> 00:21:05,142 And we said, "no, no, no, really, you have to see." 391 00:21:05,164 --> 00:21:07,564 - It could be the plumbing. All: It's not plumbing. 392 00:21:07,633 --> 00:21:11,803 - Let's go check it out. 393 00:21:35,027 --> 00:21:37,727 There's nothing here, Elaine. 394 00:21:37,796 --> 00:21:40,056 Nothing, okay? 395 00:21:40,132 --> 00:21:41,802 You know what this is? This is ridiculous. 396 00:21:41,867 --> 00:21:44,337 [Stammering] This is nonsense. 397 00:21:44,403 --> 00:21:47,913 This is more of your nonsense. 398 00:21:47,973 --> 00:21:51,613 Girls, look after your mother. 399 00:21:51,677 --> 00:21:53,207 - Seriously, something... 400 00:21:53,278 --> 00:21:54,648 - And as we came down, 401 00:21:54,714 --> 00:21:56,714 and he was about to go to work... 402 00:21:56,782 --> 00:21:58,022 - I checked everywhere, Elaine. 403 00:21:58,083 --> 00:21:59,823 - It happened again. Boom, boom, boom! 404 00:21:59,885 --> 00:22:04,555 [Banging] 405 00:22:04,623 --> 00:22:07,023 He heard it, and he said... 406 00:22:07,093 --> 00:22:09,133 - I got to go to work. [Sighs] 407 00:22:09,194 --> 00:22:11,434 - Really nice. 408 00:22:11,497 --> 00:22:13,597 - I think her husband dismissed things 409 00:22:13,665 --> 00:22:15,665 because he didn't see them. 410 00:22:15,734 --> 00:22:19,074 And I feel he is just the kind of person 411 00:22:19,138 --> 00:22:22,338 that doesn't notice those kinds of things. 412 00:22:22,408 --> 00:22:24,438 - To see it would mean that we were right 413 00:22:24,510 --> 00:22:26,080 and he was wrong. 414 00:22:26,079 --> 00:22:27,279 I... you know, I don't know. 415 00:22:27,346 --> 00:22:28,486 But he... he just couldn't... 416 00:22:28,514 --> 00:22:31,024 He couldn't or wouldn't see it. 417 00:22:33,585 --> 00:22:36,415 At a certain point, the marriage did... 418 00:22:36,488 --> 00:22:37,558 You know, did dissolve. 419 00:22:37,623 --> 00:22:40,063 - [Breathing heavily] 420 00:22:40,125 --> 00:22:42,585 - My husband still refused to see 421 00:22:42,661 --> 00:22:45,061 that this was maybe more than meets the eye, 422 00:22:45,130 --> 00:22:49,970 that it... to let room in that this could be something 423 00:22:50,035 --> 00:22:51,365 of an unknown origin. 424 00:22:55,107 --> 00:22:58,807 - [Humming] 425 00:22:58,877 --> 00:23:02,107 - I changed things around, repainted. 426 00:23:02,181 --> 00:23:03,251 - Watch out, mom. 427 00:23:03,315 --> 00:23:06,075 - And I just noticed without those arguments, 428 00:23:06,151 --> 00:23:07,451 without the negativity, 429 00:23:07,520 --> 00:23:10,350 it seemed like the place was full of light again. 430 00:23:10,422 --> 00:23:12,022 - [Humming continues] 431 00:23:12,090 --> 00:23:13,620 - Things felt completely settled, 432 00:23:13,692 --> 00:23:14,762 completely normal. 433 00:23:16,295 --> 00:23:18,655 My sister was in the process of moving into the attic. 434 00:23:18,730 --> 00:23:21,370 And we were cleaning out the back room. 435 00:23:21,433 --> 00:23:23,233 - Have you ever been in there? 436 00:23:23,302 --> 00:23:26,402 - Um, no, I don't think we're supposed to go in there. 437 00:23:26,472 --> 00:23:29,412 - There was a door in the wall. 438 00:23:31,844 --> 00:23:33,714 And you could kind of walk into the other room 439 00:23:33,779 --> 00:23:35,409 kind of behind the wall. 440 00:23:35,481 --> 00:23:38,421 [Haunting music] 441 00:23:38,484 --> 00:23:41,124 ♪ ♪ 442 00:23:41,187 --> 00:23:43,587 It kind of felt like a cubby hole 443 00:23:43,655 --> 00:23:45,215 or, like, under the stairs, 444 00:23:45,290 --> 00:23:47,190 something very small and enclosed. 445 00:23:47,259 --> 00:23:50,289 - Hey, there's a bunch of cool stuff in here. 446 00:23:50,362 --> 00:23:52,062 - Oh, really? 447 00:23:52,130 --> 00:23:54,400 - Yeah, I think I found something. 448 00:23:54,466 --> 00:23:57,896 - Why? What's there? 449 00:23:57,970 --> 00:23:59,440 What is that? 450 00:23:59,505 --> 00:24:01,235 - And all the way buried in the back... 451 00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:02,770 - I think it's a package. 452 00:24:02,775 --> 00:24:06,735 - We came across this kind of older looking cardboard box 453 00:24:06,746 --> 00:24:07,946 that was taped shut. 454 00:24:08,013 --> 00:24:09,753 - Come look what we found! - Mom, come here! 455 00:24:09,815 --> 00:24:11,075 - And we opened it up. 456 00:24:11,150 --> 00:24:14,520 - Look what we found! 457 00:24:14,586 --> 00:24:17,516 - What do you have there? - Open it. 458 00:24:18,924 --> 00:24:21,494 - And when they brought it downstairs, 459 00:24:21,560 --> 00:24:23,690 it was wrapped in newspaper 460 00:24:23,762 --> 00:24:25,932 dated from the 1950s... It was 1952. 461 00:24:25,998 --> 00:24:28,528 - What's in here? 462 00:24:30,569 --> 00:24:36,209 - And I take out a little wedding dress. 463 00:24:36,275 --> 00:24:41,005 It was for someone quite short and very, very thin. 464 00:24:47,185 --> 00:24:49,585 - Isn't it beautiful? 465 00:24:49,655 --> 00:24:51,655 - The waist was really, really small. 466 00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:57,090 Why would someone take a wedding dress, 467 00:24:57,162 --> 00:25:00,662 roll it up in newspaper, and stick it behind a wall? 468 00:25:00,733 --> 00:25:05,143 So to me, that seemed like a negative. 469 00:25:05,137 --> 00:25:06,867 That seemed not a good thing. 470 00:25:07,873 --> 00:25:09,343 - Where did you get this? 471 00:25:09,408 --> 00:25:12,208 - The attic. 472 00:25:12,277 --> 00:25:15,407 - I want you to leave the stuff in the attic alone. 473 00:25:24,824 --> 00:25:27,064 - She just wanted nothing to do with it. 474 00:25:27,125 --> 00:25:30,485 She wanted to get rid of it. 475 00:25:30,562 --> 00:25:32,102 She threw it away. 476 00:25:38,070 --> 00:25:40,100 - About a year after I was divorced, 477 00:25:40,172 --> 00:25:42,742 I met a very nice man named Matthew. 478 00:25:42,808 --> 00:25:44,638 We were dating a very short time 479 00:25:44,710 --> 00:25:47,710 when one night, Karen, Christine, and i... 480 00:25:47,779 --> 00:25:49,409 We were just enjoying an evening, 481 00:25:49,481 --> 00:25:51,751 and it just started. 482 00:25:51,817 --> 00:25:54,447 [Eerie hissing] 483 00:25:54,519 --> 00:25:56,989 [Clattering] 484 00:25:57,055 --> 00:25:59,355 [Eerie hissing] 485 00:25:59,424 --> 00:26:01,234 It's like the house just started to shudder. 486 00:26:01,293 --> 00:26:03,793 - Mom, what is that? 487 00:26:03,862 --> 00:26:05,432 - Mommy? 488 00:26:05,497 --> 00:26:07,227 - It's probably just something outside. 489 00:26:07,299 --> 00:26:08,469 [Eerie whispering] 490 00:26:08,534 --> 00:26:11,274 - The noises came. - Mommy? 491 00:26:11,337 --> 00:26:14,167 [Eerie whooshing] 492 00:26:14,239 --> 00:26:16,309 - The feeling of being watched was there. 493 00:26:16,375 --> 00:26:20,405 [Eerie laughing] 494 00:26:20,479 --> 00:26:24,249 - Mom. Mom, it's back. 495 00:26:24,316 --> 00:26:27,046 - The sense of dread, the sense that... 496 00:26:27,119 --> 00:26:28,949 That... that something bad was gonna happen. 497 00:26:29,021 --> 00:26:31,691 [Eerie laughing grows louder] 498 00:26:44,904 --> 00:26:48,014 - [Echoing] Christine. Christine. 499 00:26:48,073 --> 00:26:49,013 - [Whispers] Stay there. 500 00:26:49,074 --> 00:26:50,114 [Eerie laughter] 501 00:26:50,175 --> 00:26:51,835 - Mom. - Mom, don't go there. 502 00:26:51,910 --> 00:26:53,510 - Mom, be careful. 503 00:26:53,512 --> 00:26:56,512 - It's as if the house became more alive. 504 00:26:56,582 --> 00:26:57,882 - [Echoing] Christine. 505 00:26:57,949 --> 00:27:01,249 - Mommy, don't go there! 506 00:27:01,319 --> 00:27:03,449 [Eerie hissing] 507 00:27:03,522 --> 00:27:05,522 - And I'm like, "oh, god, okay. 508 00:27:05,590 --> 00:27:07,560 I'm gonna call Matthew." 509 00:27:07,626 --> 00:27:10,726 - Could you... would you mind coming over? 510 00:27:10,796 --> 00:27:12,596 Okay. Thanks. 511 00:27:12,664 --> 00:27:14,914 - She talked about her and girls were there by themselves, 512 00:27:14,933 --> 00:27:16,573 and she was... yeah, I was very concerned, 513 00:27:16,601 --> 00:27:18,741 so I rushed on over. 514 00:27:18,738 --> 00:27:20,038 - Hi. Thanks so much for coming. 515 00:27:20,105 --> 00:27:21,465 - Sure, sure. What's going on? 516 00:27:21,540 --> 00:27:24,210 - I'm sorry; I didn't want to call you so late. 517 00:27:24,276 --> 00:27:28,376 - Then that's when they told me really why they called me. 518 00:27:28,447 --> 00:27:31,877 She was a little apprehensive in telling me the truth. 519 00:27:31,950 --> 00:27:33,680 - This is gonna sound really weird. 520 00:27:33,686 --> 00:27:35,386 - Okay. 521 00:27:35,454 --> 00:27:37,124 - I don't want you to think I'm crazy, but... 522 00:27:37,123 --> 00:27:39,863 - And I just blurted everything out about the house. 523 00:27:39,925 --> 00:27:43,855 - And I said, "really?" I said, "are you kidding me?" 524 00:27:43,929 --> 00:27:45,529 - I thought he was gonna get up and walk. 525 00:27:45,597 --> 00:27:46,627 - Are you serious? 526 00:27:46,698 --> 00:27:48,368 - Yes. - Whoa. 527 00:27:48,433 --> 00:27:50,733 - But he... he didn't do that. - [Sighs] 528 00:27:52,905 --> 00:27:55,305 I'm gonna head up now. - Okay. 529 00:27:55,373 --> 00:27:57,783 - Okay. - Good night. 530 00:27:57,843 --> 00:28:00,243 - As I started to watch TV, 531 00:28:00,312 --> 00:28:03,452 I started to doze off. 532 00:28:03,515 --> 00:28:07,115 I went into this very vivid dream. 533 00:28:07,185 --> 00:28:09,885 I'm trying to open the door 534 00:28:09,955 --> 00:28:14,015 of the room that I'm in. 535 00:28:14,092 --> 00:28:17,632 And I was having trouble opening the door. 536 00:28:17,696 --> 00:28:19,556 It was very hard to move. 537 00:28:21,733 --> 00:28:25,743 It's like I was in this half-sleep, half-awake state, 538 00:28:25,804 --> 00:28:27,204 and I was trying to turn, 539 00:28:27,273 --> 00:28:29,613 and I realized I felt there was, like, this weight on me. 540 00:28:29,674 --> 00:28:31,084 [Chair creaking] 541 00:28:31,143 --> 00:28:32,703 It was kind of like a simultaneous thing 542 00:28:32,744 --> 00:28:34,144 that was happening between the dream 543 00:28:34,212 --> 00:28:37,052 and me physically moving. 544 00:28:37,115 --> 00:28:38,995 And as I'm able to... I finally open the door... 545 00:28:46,224 --> 00:28:48,364 It was kind of a... 546 00:28:48,426 --> 00:28:52,656 A flash of a picture. 547 00:28:52,731 --> 00:28:56,271 And I saw a skeletal man 548 00:28:56,335 --> 00:28:58,235 lying on a dirt floor. 549 00:29:02,507 --> 00:29:04,167 I'll never forget the weight. 550 00:29:04,176 --> 00:29:07,976 I'll never forget how I felt that I couldn't move. 551 00:29:08,046 --> 00:29:09,706 It was quite shocking. 552 00:29:09,781 --> 00:29:14,051 - I wasn't happy that he had some sort of suffocating dream. 553 00:29:14,119 --> 00:29:16,619 But again, it was another piece of validation. 554 00:29:24,996 --> 00:29:26,256 [Door creaking] 555 00:29:26,265 --> 00:29:29,295 - I was in my bedroom when I heard something. 556 00:29:32,404 --> 00:29:35,744 I came around the corner of the bend of the staircase. 557 00:29:35,807 --> 00:29:38,777 And I saw my mother. 558 00:29:38,844 --> 00:29:39,944 - Mom? 559 00:29:40,011 --> 00:29:41,611 - I called out to her. 560 00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:43,010 I wanted her to turn around. 561 00:29:43,081 --> 00:29:45,161 I didn't understand why she was sitting on the stairs. 562 00:29:45,184 --> 00:29:48,494 - Mom, is that you? 563 00:29:48,553 --> 00:29:49,853 - [Breathing heavily] 564 00:29:49,921 --> 00:29:51,561 - Mom? 565 00:29:51,623 --> 00:29:54,293 - I started to realize it was not my mother. 566 00:29:54,359 --> 00:29:55,629 - Mom? 567 00:29:55,628 --> 00:29:58,258 - I was frozen. I was shocked. 568 00:30:00,665 --> 00:30:02,565 - Mom! Mom! 569 00:30:02,634 --> 00:30:04,774 - I realized what I had just seen was not a person. 570 00:30:04,837 --> 00:30:06,137 It was not my mother. 571 00:30:06,138 --> 00:30:07,858 - She was like, "I can't believe I saw that. 572 00:30:07,906 --> 00:30:09,306 "I cannot believe I saw that. 573 00:30:09,308 --> 00:30:10,838 I saw it. I saw it. I saw it." 574 00:30:10,843 --> 00:30:12,413 - It's okay, sweetie. It's okay. 575 00:30:12,477 --> 00:30:15,707 - I got very frightened that she'd actually seen something. 576 00:30:16,949 --> 00:30:19,379 It did make me wonder at that point, you know, 577 00:30:19,385 --> 00:30:22,045 is something gonna get really ugly? 578 00:30:24,924 --> 00:30:26,224 - [Giggles] - Ew. 579 00:30:26,291 --> 00:30:30,391 Okay, put that on top of it. 580 00:30:30,462 --> 00:30:34,972 - Halloween and Christmas in my house was and still is huge. 581 00:30:35,033 --> 00:30:37,503 - Yeah, that's my favorite. - Halloween punch? 582 00:30:37,569 --> 00:30:39,439 - All of it mixed all together, right? 583 00:30:39,504 --> 00:30:41,144 - Hey! Here we go! 584 00:30:41,140 --> 00:30:42,310 - Anything in the kitchen. 585 00:30:42,374 --> 00:30:43,844 - Uh, yeah. Down the stairs. 586 00:30:43,909 --> 00:30:46,279 - Went into the punch, yeah. 587 00:30:46,344 --> 00:30:48,684 - The house was soon full of people, 588 00:30:48,747 --> 00:30:50,877 and a friend of mine from work came in. 589 00:30:50,949 --> 00:30:52,979 - Hi, Lisa! - How are you? 590 00:30:52,985 --> 00:30:54,845 - Come on in. Would you like a drink? 591 00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:57,650 - And I offered her a drink. - Cheers. Have fun. 592 00:30:57,722 --> 00:30:59,702 - You know, I said, "okay, have a really good time." 593 00:30:59,724 --> 00:31:01,204 And I went over talking to some people, 594 00:31:01,226 --> 00:31:02,656 and I saw her talking to some people. 595 00:31:02,661 --> 00:31:05,661 [People talking and laughing] 596 00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:12,540 And then I noticed first that she went across the room. 597 00:31:12,604 --> 00:31:14,844 And then she looked toward the stairs, 598 00:31:14,906 --> 00:31:16,366 and I just noticed her looking... 599 00:31:16,441 --> 00:31:18,981 I-I interpreted it as her looking ill. 600 00:31:24,316 --> 00:31:28,946 And then suddenly, I see her just standing there staring 601 00:31:29,020 --> 00:31:31,190 underneath the stairs. 602 00:31:31,256 --> 00:31:33,096 So I went over to her, and I said, "what's wrong? 603 00:31:33,124 --> 00:31:34,894 Are you... is something wrong? Are you sick?" 604 00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:37,960 - Are you okay, Lisa? 605 00:31:38,029 --> 00:31:40,899 - And she said, "your house is haunted." 606 00:31:40,966 --> 00:31:42,096 - What do you mean? 607 00:31:42,167 --> 00:31:43,687 - That little lady, didn't you see her? 608 00:31:43,735 --> 00:31:44,795 - No. 609 00:31:44,869 --> 00:31:45,909 - I said, "what little lady? 610 00:31:45,937 --> 00:31:47,167 What are talking about?" 611 00:31:47,238 --> 00:31:49,078 And all I could think about was the little dress. 612 00:31:49,107 --> 00:31:50,537 The little dress. The little dress. 613 00:31:50,608 --> 00:31:53,038 She said, "she's very short, really thin." 614 00:31:54,313 --> 00:31:56,113 - Elaine, you need to do something about this. 615 00:31:56,181 --> 00:31:57,741 - She said, "you know, you really should 616 00:31:57,782 --> 00:31:59,482 get your house cleaned." 617 00:31:59,551 --> 00:32:01,061 So I said, "what do you mean, cleaned?" 618 00:32:01,086 --> 00:32:03,096 And she said, "get someone in here and get 'em out." 619 00:32:03,121 --> 00:32:05,041 She said, "you can... You know, you can do that." 620 00:32:12,431 --> 00:32:15,631 - [Breathing heavily] 621 00:32:15,701 --> 00:32:17,831 [Clock ticking] 622 00:32:17,902 --> 00:32:20,772 - After the party had died down and everyone had gone home, 623 00:32:20,839 --> 00:32:23,209 Karen and I decided that we were going to sleep 624 00:32:23,274 --> 00:32:24,314 in the same bed together. 625 00:32:26,511 --> 00:32:29,481 [Suspenseful music] 626 00:32:29,547 --> 00:32:35,047 ♪ ♪ 627 00:32:35,120 --> 00:32:38,060 - [Breathing heavily] 628 00:32:56,742 --> 00:32:59,682 [Suspenseful music] 629 00:32:59,745 --> 00:33:01,135 ♪ ♪ 630 00:33:01,212 --> 00:33:03,852 - I just remember waking 631 00:33:03,915 --> 00:33:07,615 and looking over at my sister, who was right next to me. 632 00:33:07,685 --> 00:33:11,445 - [Breathing heavily] 633 00:33:11,523 --> 00:33:14,363 And I saw a... 634 00:33:14,426 --> 00:33:17,856 Shadowy, long figure 635 00:33:17,929 --> 00:33:19,959 kind of hovering over her. 636 00:33:20,032 --> 00:33:24,202 It looked like a cloud, a dark cloud. 637 00:33:24,269 --> 00:33:26,339 The middle of it was kind of thick and opaque, 638 00:33:26,404 --> 00:33:28,244 and I couldn't see through that portion. 639 00:33:28,306 --> 00:33:29,766 It ran the length of her body. 640 00:33:29,841 --> 00:33:31,511 It felt like... 641 00:33:31,576 --> 00:33:33,376 It felt like a fig... a figure. 642 00:33:33,445 --> 00:33:36,345 I rolled over and tried to ignore 643 00:33:36,414 --> 00:33:37,784 that that was there. 644 00:33:37,849 --> 00:33:41,849 I-I forced myself to kind of go back to sleep. 645 00:33:44,055 --> 00:33:45,515 - [Breathing heavily] 646 00:33:45,524 --> 00:33:48,494 [Eerie music] 647 00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:53,000 ♪ ♪ 648 00:33:53,064 --> 00:33:55,404 - There was something wrong. 649 00:33:55,467 --> 00:33:57,267 I felt there was a presence in the room. 650 00:33:57,335 --> 00:33:59,095 [Bed Springs creaking] 651 00:33:59,170 --> 00:34:07,110 ♪ ♪ 652 00:34:17,356 --> 00:34:19,356 - [Shuddering] 653 00:34:19,358 --> 00:34:21,218 - I could feel my head push down, 654 00:34:21,292 --> 00:34:24,132 my shoulders pushed down a little harder. 655 00:34:24,195 --> 00:34:27,195 - [Wailing] 656 00:34:27,265 --> 00:34:30,625 - It got so intense. 657 00:34:30,702 --> 00:34:33,872 I felt it was, for the first time, 658 00:34:33,938 --> 00:34:37,168 the gender, and it was a female presence. 659 00:34:37,242 --> 00:34:41,852 It was a female energy pushing down on me 660 00:34:41,913 --> 00:34:44,153 and pushing down on me heavier 661 00:34:44,215 --> 00:34:48,715 than any of the energies that I felt at any time, 662 00:34:48,786 --> 00:34:51,386 this one, angry, big and angry. 663 00:34:51,456 --> 00:34:52,786 It just freaked me out. 664 00:34:52,857 --> 00:34:55,427 There was, like, this angry woman 665 00:34:55,493 --> 00:34:57,693 just pushing in on me. 666 00:34:57,762 --> 00:35:00,702 - [Screaming] 667 00:35:03,168 --> 00:35:05,598 - It-it-it just scared the hell out of me. 668 00:35:05,670 --> 00:35:07,270 - [Screams] 669 00:35:10,942 --> 00:35:13,382 - I roamed around the house looking for a place to sleep. 670 00:35:13,444 --> 00:35:17,284 - [Crying] 671 00:35:17,348 --> 00:35:19,948 - And I was just crying and holding my pillow 672 00:35:20,018 --> 00:35:21,298 and saying, "this is ridiculous. 673 00:35:21,353 --> 00:35:22,923 "This is... I'm living a ridiculous life. 674 00:35:22,921 --> 00:35:24,721 This is not normal." 675 00:35:24,789 --> 00:35:27,719 And I just had nowhere to go. 676 00:35:32,697 --> 00:35:34,727 I'm holding my pillow, and I said, 677 00:35:34,799 --> 00:35:38,299 "I can't sleep upstairs. 678 00:35:38,369 --> 00:35:40,399 "I can't sleep in the back bedroom. 679 00:35:43,708 --> 00:35:46,208 "I can't sleep on the couch. 680 00:35:48,947 --> 00:35:51,007 I'm out of my mind." 681 00:35:54,085 --> 00:35:57,345 [Number pad beeping] 682 00:35:57,422 --> 00:35:59,072 - There was a point, my sister called me up. 683 00:35:59,090 --> 00:36:00,520 - Hi, it's me. 684 00:36:00,592 --> 00:36:04,292 - And she said, "look, I've got to do something. 685 00:36:04,362 --> 00:36:06,862 This is getting to be too much." 686 00:36:06,931 --> 00:36:09,771 And that she was honestly thinking of selling the house. 687 00:36:09,834 --> 00:36:11,574 She said, "I can't live like this." 688 00:36:14,906 --> 00:36:18,366 - I was throwing out the trash, 689 00:36:18,443 --> 00:36:20,143 and I saw my next-door neighbor. 690 00:36:20,145 --> 00:36:22,175 - I'm good, thank you. Yourself? 691 00:36:22,247 --> 00:36:24,277 - And I said, "you know, 692 00:36:24,349 --> 00:36:25,629 could I talk to you for a moment?" 693 00:36:25,650 --> 00:36:27,330 And he said, "sure," you know, "what's up?" 694 00:36:27,352 --> 00:36:29,722 I said, "have you ever had any... 695 00:36:29,787 --> 00:36:32,357 Hear anything strange ever happening in this house?" 696 00:36:32,423 --> 00:36:33,463 - Why? 697 00:36:33,525 --> 00:36:34,885 Have you had some stuff happening? 698 00:36:34,959 --> 00:36:38,629 - Well, actually, we have. - Well, I'll tell you... 699 00:36:38,696 --> 00:36:41,796 - Well, my neighbor said that he used to babysit the children 700 00:36:41,866 --> 00:36:44,226 of the couple from whom I'd purchased the house. 701 00:36:44,302 --> 00:36:46,142 - Heard some pretty strange stuff. 702 00:36:46,204 --> 00:36:50,314 - He said he remembered that the old man had a son 703 00:36:50,375 --> 00:36:52,235 and that the son married. 704 00:36:52,310 --> 00:36:53,610 - You know, they were very young, 705 00:36:53,678 --> 00:36:57,348 so they moved in upstairs into the attic. 706 00:36:57,415 --> 00:37:00,775 You... you know she died up there? 707 00:37:00,852 --> 00:37:03,452 - She died in the house? - Yes. 708 00:37:03,521 --> 00:37:05,101 - No, I didn't know that. - Right up there. 709 00:37:05,123 --> 00:37:07,323 - And he pointed up at the room in the attic 710 00:37:07,392 --> 00:37:09,992 where Karen was living. 711 00:37:10,061 --> 00:37:11,631 [Film reel rattling] 712 00:37:11,696 --> 00:37:13,326 - [Speaking indistinctly] 713 00:37:15,566 --> 00:37:18,696 - And the house was so large that they would try 714 00:37:18,770 --> 00:37:22,570 to communicate to each other by banging on the heaters. 715 00:37:22,640 --> 00:37:24,770 And that would be like a signal 716 00:37:24,842 --> 00:37:26,212 that someone should come upstairs, 717 00:37:26,211 --> 00:37:27,411 or that they needed some help. 718 00:37:27,478 --> 00:37:29,708 [Metal banging] 719 00:37:29,781 --> 00:37:32,151 - And the guy was knocking on the pipes 720 00:37:32,150 --> 00:37:33,350 trying to get attention. 721 00:37:33,418 --> 00:37:37,088 - And apparently she slipped and hit her head 722 00:37:37,155 --> 00:37:39,855 and died right there on the floor. 723 00:37:39,924 --> 00:37:42,234 - My neighbor said that he will never forget 724 00:37:42,293 --> 00:37:43,663 because when they got married, 725 00:37:43,728 --> 00:37:45,398 she stood on the steps. 726 00:37:45,463 --> 00:37:50,533 And what he said after that really astounded me. 727 00:37:50,601 --> 00:37:53,841 - And she was a tiny little thing, 728 00:37:53,905 --> 00:37:55,735 but beautiful. 729 00:37:55,807 --> 00:37:56,807 - He said she was wearing 730 00:37:56,841 --> 00:37:59,941 a pretty little white wedding dress. 731 00:38:00,011 --> 00:38:01,211 And I'm like, 732 00:38:01,279 --> 00:38:05,679 "oh, my god, what a conflagration of facts here." 733 00:38:05,750 --> 00:38:08,720 [Banging] 734 00:38:08,786 --> 00:38:10,086 - [Gasps] 735 00:38:13,725 --> 00:38:17,425 - So I had the white dress wrapped in newspaper... 736 00:38:20,932 --> 00:38:24,802 My colleague talking to the little lady in white, 737 00:38:24,803 --> 00:38:28,073 and my neighbor now telling me about an actual person 738 00:38:28,139 --> 00:38:30,669 who was little who was wearing white... 739 00:38:30,742 --> 00:38:32,012 - [Gasping] 740 00:38:32,010 --> 00:38:33,410 [Screams] 741 00:38:33,478 --> 00:38:36,248 - And who passed away in the house. 742 00:38:36,314 --> 00:38:39,424 And that was just way too coincidental 743 00:38:39,484 --> 00:38:43,194 to brush off in any way. 744 00:38:43,254 --> 00:38:47,194 The story he told affected me greatly. 745 00:38:47,258 --> 00:38:49,258 I-I think his story was absolutely 746 00:38:49,327 --> 00:38:52,797 the strongest validation of anything ever that I got. 747 00:38:52,864 --> 00:38:57,374 All these anomalous things that were happening in the house 748 00:38:57,435 --> 00:39:01,195 suddenly started to come together. 749 00:39:01,272 --> 00:39:05,382 It changed the way I felt about what was going on. 750 00:39:07,312 --> 00:39:09,412 You know, it's like having a bad flu 751 00:39:09,480 --> 00:39:13,250 and you're finally... you know, you finally broke a sweat. 752 00:39:13,318 --> 00:39:15,048 The house has been sick, 753 00:39:15,119 --> 00:39:18,889 and now, you know, the final symptom has occurred. 754 00:39:18,956 --> 00:39:20,216 We got some information. 755 00:39:20,291 --> 00:39:23,231 And now something's actually gonna happen. 756 00:39:27,198 --> 00:39:30,168 I had absolutely no idea what to expect. 757 00:39:34,972 --> 00:39:37,112 - As if something was guiding her, 758 00:39:37,175 --> 00:39:41,635 she went directly down there. 759 00:39:41,712 --> 00:39:44,282 She was saying, "this is the area. 760 00:39:44,348 --> 00:39:46,978 This is the location that a lot of things are going on." 761 00:40:09,474 --> 00:40:11,374 - You couldn't have paid me any amount of money 762 00:40:11,442 --> 00:40:14,012 to hoist myself up and sit in that dirt room, 763 00:40:14,078 --> 00:40:15,078 but she did. 764 00:40:20,151 --> 00:40:21,981 She put her whole head in there, 765 00:40:21,987 --> 00:40:24,487 and she said, "you have a big problem in this room." 766 00:40:24,555 --> 00:40:27,515 [Eerie whispering] 767 00:40:27,592 --> 00:40:29,862 - The medium was continuously saying, 768 00:40:29,927 --> 00:40:31,027 "you are dead. 769 00:40:31,095 --> 00:40:32,725 "You must go. 770 00:40:32,797 --> 00:40:34,197 "You must go to the light. 771 00:40:34,199 --> 00:40:36,269 "This is not your house. 772 00:40:36,334 --> 00:40:38,034 You don't belong here anymore." 773 00:40:38,102 --> 00:40:41,102 So that was repeated many, many, many times over. 774 00:40:49,680 --> 00:40:52,250 Once the whole day was done, 775 00:40:52,316 --> 00:40:54,846 it's hard to describe the state we were in. 776 00:40:54,919 --> 00:40:58,549 We were tired, very drained from the whole day. 777 00:40:58,557 --> 00:40:59,587 And we went to bed. 778 00:40:59,657 --> 00:41:02,627 [Eerie whispering] 779 00:41:17,174 --> 00:41:20,214 It was when we got up in the morning 780 00:41:20,278 --> 00:41:23,278 that... i mean, I just rolled over on my bed 781 00:41:23,347 --> 00:41:26,777 and opened the... my eyes and said, 782 00:41:26,851 --> 00:41:28,321 "something's different." 783 00:41:28,386 --> 00:41:32,056 The atmosphere was lighter. 784 00:41:34,392 --> 00:41:37,132 The air was not as thick. 785 00:41:37,128 --> 00:41:39,058 It was appreciably better. 786 00:41:41,632 --> 00:41:43,572 - It's like when you open up a window 787 00:41:43,634 --> 00:41:45,644 and, all of a sudden, sunshine comes in, 788 00:41:45,703 --> 00:41:49,143 and... and light comes in, 789 00:41:49,206 --> 00:41:51,166 and the air is fresher. 790 00:41:51,242 --> 00:41:54,012 - Okay, girls! You ready to go? 791 00:41:54,012 --> 00:41:55,342 - Hey, girls, come on! Beach time! 792 00:41:55,413 --> 00:41:57,653 Let's go! 793 00:41:57,715 --> 00:42:00,415 - Looking back at what happened, 794 00:42:00,484 --> 00:42:05,964 I feel that we experienced a piece of the unknown. 795 00:42:06,023 --> 00:42:10,063 We shared our space with something 796 00:42:10,127 --> 00:42:15,297 that is not yet known to us. 797 00:42:15,366 --> 00:42:18,026 There's so much in life that we don't understand. 798 00:42:18,036 --> 00:42:20,196 But there may be something else. 799 00:42:21,973 --> 00:42:24,473 - Okay, guys, we're off. - Perfect day. 800 00:42:24,542 --> 00:42:28,012 Perfect weather. 801 00:42:28,079 --> 00:42:31,449 [Eerie music]