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[tense music]

[knocking]

♪ ♪

♪ ♪ [smooth guitar music playing]

[smooth guitar music playing]

♪ ♪

♪ ♪ - [screams]

- [screams]

- I agreed to go inside this place

that we all called the Butcher House.

[faint whispers, screaming]

- [muffled scream]

- I tried to tell myself it was sleep deprivation

that was messing with my mind.

that was messing with my mind. [faint whispers]

[faint whispers]

- [gasps]

- I was too scared to move.

- [gasps]

- This is where they found him, the Butcher.

[tense music]

- [screams] - [gasps]

- I was starting to worry that I was going nuts.

[door creaks]

♪ ♪

- [screams]

- I knew I had to get out.

♪ ♪

[faint whispers]

♪ ♪

[indistinct chatter]

- I heard that there will be a lot to gain freshman year.

- No! - Yes!

- Don't say that. - Don't talk about it.

- Just run to every class.

- I don't know how to run. I hate running.

- Then maybe, like, lunge to every class?

- Can I just eat pizza?

- Yes. - Yes.

- Yes. - Yes. - I need some-- - No, no, no, no.

- I need some-- - No, no, no, no.

- Wow, we need to leave.

- Yeah, we need to leave. I can't eat another bite.

- Are you sure you're okay tomorrow?

- Yeah. - Okay.

♪ ♪

[indistinct chatter]

[indistinct chatter] [gentle music playing]

[gentle music playing]

♪ ♪

♪ ♪ - We'll run together.

- We'll run together.

♪ ♪

- If you could make out with any of our high school teachers,

who would it be?

who would it be? - Mr. Tate. - Ooh.

- Mr. Tate. - Ooh.

- All right, Karen, it's your turn.

- Okay, um, I'll go truth.

♪ ♪

♪ ♪ - Hmm, let me think.

- Hmm, let me think.

Okay, um, when was the last time you peed your pants?

- Uh, I don't know.

- Uh, I don't know. I peed in the pool today.

I peed in the pool today.

- My pool? - Yup.

- Gross, Karen.

You're not allowed in my pool again.

- Fine.

- Jolie, Karen, and I had just graduated high school

and were getting ready to head off to college

and were getting ready to head off to college in a couple of weeks.

in a couple of weeks.

We were all going to different cities,

and it was a little sad because we'd been best friends

since we were, like, five years old.

- Okay, Amy's turn.

- Okay, um, I'll go dare.

- Oh, it's about time someone chose dare.

We have to think of a really good one.

- Yeah.

- [coughs]

- I thought you said no one else was home.

- No one else is home.

♪ ♪

It's probably noth--

It's probably noth-- [door creaks and clicks shut]

[door creaks and clicks shut]

- Okay, I think someone's out there.

- Okay, I think someone's out there. - It's your house. You check.

- It's your house. You check.

- Nope. I'm staying right here.

[suspenseful music]

♪ ♪

Amy...

♪ ♪

♪ ♪ - [scoffs]

- [scoffs]

No one's here.

[both gasp]

[gasps]

- [laughing]

- Miles, I'm going to kill you.

- Miles, I'm going to kill you. What are you even doing here?

What are you even doing here?

You're supposed to be at Owen's tonight.

- So? I don't have to do what you say.

- I'm telling Mom and Dad.

♪ ♪

- If I had know that that was gonna be

the least scary thing that happened to me that night,

I would have just gone home and gone to bed.

[eerie piano music]

♪ ♪

- What about that teaspoon of cinnamon thing?

- What about that teaspoon of cinnamon thing?

- No, that's lame. We did it last time.

- No, that's lame. We did it last time.

- No, that's lame. We did it last time. Use some imagination.

Use some imagination.

- I got it.

Go over to the Butcher House...

And knock on the door.

And knock on the door. - That's stupid.

- That's stupid.

- Why?

- Because it's not even scary.

- Yeah, right.

- I'm serious. Why's scary about it?

- Um, it's only one of the most haunted houses in America.

- See, that word you used right there, "haunted," dumb.

I'm sorry to tell you this, Jolie,

but unfortunately ghosts aren't real.

[tense music]

[tense music] - Once I said that,

- Once I said that,

everything escalated really quickly.

everything escalated really quickly. - That's it.

- That's it.

- That's $138.

- [sighs]

- That's, like, as much as you make in a week

- That's, like, as much as you make in a week at the grocery store.

at the grocery store.

♪ ♪

- As far as I was concerned,

it was easy money.

- Let's do it. I'm in.

- Let's do it. I'm in. [chuckles]

[chuckles]

All right.

- I agreed to not only knock on the door

but go inside this place that we all called

but go inside this place that we all called the Butcher House.

the Butcher House.

the Butcher House. - All right, so here's an extra battery

- All right, so here's an extra battery

- All right, so here's an extra battery and an extra memory card.

and an extra memory card.

Now, all you got to do is press this button right here

for it to record.

- Jolie's brother gave me his video camera

so that I could prove that I met the challenge.

- Are you seriously gonna explore the whole house?

- She has to.

If she doesn't go inside every room,

she doesn't get the money.

- Again, not scared.

- I would be.

♪ ♪

- [screaming]

- It was called the Butcher House

because that's what the guy who lived there

because that's what the guy who lived there did to his family in the 1930s.

did to his family in the 1930s.

Supposedly a few other people bought the place after

but kept moving out because they were so scared.

Every one of them said it was haunted,

and no one had lived there in over 50 years.

♪ ♪

[eerie piano music]

[insects chirping]

[tense music]

- This is crazy.

You're not really gonna do this, are you?

You're not really gonna do this, are you? - There's no turning back now.

- There's no turning back now.

- You're not nervous?

- You're not nervous? - The only things I'm nervous about

- The only things I'm nervous about

are the roof collapsing

or getting busted by the cops for trespassing.

- I don't even think the cops would go in there to arrest you.

♪ ♪

There it is.

- There were rumors in town about older kids

who had broken into the house through a basement window

under the porch.

- Let's not waste any time.

Go for it.

♪ ♪

- All right.

See you guys in the morning.

♪ ♪

[house creaking]

- Up until that point,

I didn't think there was a chance in hell

I didn't think there was a chance in hell Amy would go through with it.

Amy would go through with it.

But then she disappeared under the house,

and it all became real.

[house creaking]

♪ ♪

- Okay.

[suspenseful music]

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

♪ ♪ [electricity jolts]

[electricity jolts]

♪ ♪

Okay.

Check the basement off my list.

- I thought about leaving right then and there,

- I thought about leaving right then and there, but of course I kept going.

but of course I kept going.

♪ ♪

- So this is the dining room.

Supposedly this is where they found him...

The Butcher.

- Oh, yeah, and one of the rules was,

I had to tell the entire story out loud

while I was inside,

room by room.

- When they found him, he was eating pieces

of his wife and children who he had murdered.

They had to take him to the hospital instead of to jail

because he was bleeding so bad.

He had carved huge chunks of flesh

He had carved huge chunks of flesh out of his own arms and legs.

out of his own arms and legs.

Supposedly he was sitting right at this table.

[gasps]

Okay, I just creeped myself out there.

I think that's enough time in this room.

[loud rattling]

[tense music]

♪ ♪

- I got it.

- I got it. Go over to the Butcher House.

Go over to the Butcher House.

Go over to the Butcher House. - That's stupid. What's scary about it?

- That's stupid. What's scary about it?

- Um, it's only one of the most haunted houses in America.

[tense music]

- All right, see you guys in the morning.

[house creaking]

[electricity jolts]

I think that's enough time in this room.

[loud rattling]

[breathing heavily]

[tense music]

♪ ♪

- I remember telling myself over and over

that there's nothing to be afraid of.

I was just trying to stay focused on the prize.

I mean, I was a stupid kid.

♪ ♪

- Can you guys double that $138?

♪ ♪

I think--

you know, I think other people have been up here.

Yeah, Karen's older brother had a friend

who came up here one time.

who came up here one time. I think it was a group of them.

I think it was a group of them.

They made it out alive, right?

♪ ♪

[scraping sound]

♪ ♪

[door squeals open]

What was that?

♪ ♪

I think other-- [gasping]

What the hell was that?

- I could have sworn I felt someone

or something breathing on my neck.

But still, I knew I was probably just scaring myself.

So I was just gonna get into the rooms,

So I was just gonna get into the rooms, show that I was there...

show that I was there...

[door creaks]

And get the hell out.

♪ ♪

- This isn't so bad.

Easy money.

♪ ♪

[sighs]

I'm not sure which of these rooms is which.

♪ ♪

But apparently he, um...

♪ ♪

He, um, locked his wife in one bedroom

while he killed their kids in the next.

♪ ♪

[frantic scratching]

[screams]

[panting]

♪ ♪

[suspenseful music]

- Hey.

- Yeah?

- Do you think that place is really haunted?

- Probably not.

♪ ♪

- What did that guy say,

- What did that guy say, your brother's friend who went in there?

your brother's friend who went in there?

♪ ♪

- He said he saw a ghost or something,

but he probably made it up.

No one believed him.

♪ ♪

- [panting] Oh, my God.

[loud scratching]

[tense music]

- Are you seriously gonna explore the whole house?

- She has to.

If she doesn't go inside every room,

she doesn't get the money.

- Again, not scared.

- I would be.

[suspenseful music]

- This isn't so bad.

Easy money.

♪ ♪

[frantic scratching]

[screams]

♪ ♪

[panting] Oh, my God.

[loud scratching]

♪ ♪

[scratching stops]

- I could hear whatever it was

out there for what felt like an hour,

and then the noise just stopped.

and then the noise just stopped. I was too scared to move,

I was too scared to move,

but I knew I had to get out.

[tense music]

♪ ♪

[panting]

I didn't care about the money.

I'd seen enough to know I had to leave.

♪ ♪

- [screams]

[panting]

♪ ♪

Oh, my God.

♪ ♪

[doorknob rattling]

[panting]

[rattling continues]

[door clicks open]

- That's when my flashlight died.

- [panting, screams]

[suspenseful music]

♪ ♪

[distant siren wailing]

- I was able to climb down the roof

and get the hell out of there as fast as I could.

I didn't go back to Jolie's house.

I ran back home and slept in my parents' bed with them

for the first time since I was, like, nine years old.

[eerie piano music]

♪ ♪

[tense music]

♪ ♪

The next day, all I could think about

was watching that footage.

- You okay?

- I knew nobody would believe what I saw

unless I could show them.

- Was it that bad?

♪ ♪

What happened?

- You'll see.

- You'll see. - All right, here we go.

- All right, here we go.

[static hissing]

What? - No.

- It was recording for hours,

but it's-- it's all just static.

- Oh, my God.

- Wait, what happened?

- You won't believe me.

♪ ♪

[insects chirping]

- I was happy to be alive

- I was happy to be alive and safe in my own bed.

and safe in my own bed.

Before I went into the Butcher House,

I didn't believe in ghosts.

[frantic scratching]

But she followed me.

She still does.

She still does. [unsettling music]

[unsettling music]

♪ ♪

[tense music]

♪ ♪

[distant siren wailing]

♪ ♪

- Two hours of sleep a night had become the norm.

[low-pitched buzzing]

My head was always buzzing,

and the line between being awake and asleep

was getting more blurry every day.

- [sighs]

♪ ♪

- The night shift at the morgue

was a way to make ends meet

while I was in med school.

[unsettling music]

♪ ♪

- [screams]

[high-pitched whine]

♪ ♪

- But the 18-hour-a-day schedule

was making me see things.

♪ ♪

- Okay.

[muffled scream]

- [laughing] Trying to wake everyone up?

- Sorry.

Just a long day, I guess.

♪ ♪

- You have to get used to it.

Otherwise you're always gonna be on edge.

It's a job, a normal job that needs to be done.

- [sighs]

Right.

- They ain't gonna follow you home.

♪ ♪

[distant siren wailing]

- It was a pretty grim deal I had going on that year.

- It was a pretty grim deal I had going on that year. No girlfriend.

No girlfriend.

No friends at all, really.

And I'd just moved into a new place

in a cheap part of town.

- I just saw him.

- Okay, you just saw him.

- Yes, I mean, he was standing there.

I saw him last week and I gave him a smile.

That's all. Like, I don't--

- Why would you smile?

[speaking indistinctly]

- Because, you know what I mean, okay, you know,

- Because, you know what I mean, okay, you know, sometimes it's okay to smile.

sometimes it's okay to smile.

[continues indistinctly]

[tense music]

[alarm blares]

[alarm blares] - I had a daily routine.

- I had a daily routine.

- I had a daily routine. Up at 5:00, shower,

Up at 5:00, shower,

then coffee.

Two hours of panicked prep

for a test I never felt ready for.

- [sighs]

- School till 5:00.

Then race to the morgue and work until 1:00 a.m.

Then race to the morgue and work until 1:00 a.m. Just like the day before.

Just like the day before.

[alarm blares]

- [snoring]

- Just like the next.

- You need to get some more sleep, pal.

♪ ♪

- Every day was pretty much the same.

Until one night when I got home an hour later than usual.

[gentle music]

♪ ♪

- And hello.

♪ ♪

[door clicks shut]

♪ ♪

"And hello.

"And hello. "And hello.

"And hello.

You stupid piece of"--

[exhales]

[muttering]

"Hey, I'm Josh.

Nice to finally meet one of my neighbors."

Hmm.

Ooh.

"Hey, I'm Josh.

Nice to finally meet one of my neighbors."

Yeah.

- I was determined to run into her again,

so I purposely came home an hour late the next night.

- "Nice to finally meet one of my neighbors."

♪ ♪

- But she wasn't outside her door.

♪ ♪

[smooth rock music playing]

♪ ♪

I wanted another chance to talk to her.

♪ ♪

As pathetic as it sounds,

I hadn't stopped thinking about her all day.

♪ ♪

[tense music]

[tense music]

- [screams]

- [screams] [high-pitched whine]

[high-pitched whine]

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

[distant siren wailing]

[smooth rock music playing]

♪ ♪

[distant siren wailing]

[tense music]

♪ ♪

- [panting]

♪ ♪

- It looked like she might be in trouble,

- It looked like she might be in trouble, but I didn't even really know her.

but I didn't even really know her.

♪ ♪

[door creaking]

- No!

[sighs]

♪ ♪

[distant siren wailing]

[horn honking]

- I can tell this is not gonna be the only time for you.

Huh?

Huh? Late-night fee's $100.

Late-night fee's $100.

I'll add it on to next month's rent.

I'll add it on to next month's rent. [distant siren wailing]

[distant siren wailing]

[distant horn honking]

[wailing continues]

[wailing continues] [thunder rumbles]

[thunder rumbles]

- [inhales sharply]

- [groaning]

[suspenseful music]

♪ ♪

- The bodies from the morgue

were starting to haunt my dreams.

- [sighs]

[faint rattling]

[glass shatters]

- I was getting to the point

where I couldn't always tell what was real,

but I wasn't taking any chances.

[tense music]

♪ ♪

- [gasps]

[gentle music]

♪ ♪

How did you get in here?

Fire escape.

Why?

Are you hurt? You need me to call anyone?

- Shh.

- Shh. - Why were you crying?

- Why were you crying?

♪ ♪

[bell dings, birds caw]

[distant siren wailing]

- When I woke up the next morning,

she was gone.

Of course I knew it was weird

that she broke into my apartment,

but honestly she was the first woman in New York City

but honestly she was the first woman in New York City that had as much as smiled at me.

that had as much as smiled at me.

[unsettling music]

- Look, I've spent so much time in the company of the dead,

pretty much everyone alive has left me.

First, the ex. Then the kids.

So I'm probably the wrong person to give relationship advice,

but don't wait, man.

It goes fast, all of it.

You snap your fingers, you're on the gurney.

You snap your fingers, you're on the gurney. Then you're really alone.

Then you're really alone.

[tense music]

[tense music]

- [gasps]

♪ ♪

[distant siren wailing]

[inhales sharply]

- [groaning]

♪ ♪

- Look, I've spent so much time in the company of the dead,

pretty much everyone alive has left me.

pretty much everyone alive has left me. First, the ex. Then the kids.

First, the ex. Then the kids.

So I'm probably the wrong person to give relationship advice,

So I'm probably the wrong person to give relationship advice, but don't wait, man.

but don't wait, man.

It goes fast, all of it.

You snap your fingers, you're on the gurney.

You snap your fingers, you're on the gurney. Then you're really alone.

Then you're really alone.

[tense music]

[high-pitched whine]

♪ ♪

- You see that?

- What exactly do you want to know if I see?

♪ ♪

♪ ♪ - She's looking at me.

- She's looking at me.

- Cocky.

How do you know she's not looking at me?

- Wait.

Weren't her eyes closed before?

♪ ♪

- You need to get more sleep, pal.

- You need to get more sleep, pal. - I was exhausted,

- I was exhausted,

but that was the second time a dead body

but that was the second time a dead body opened its eyes.

opened its eyes.

♪ ♪

I tried to tell myself

it was long-term sleep deprivation

that was messing with my mind,

but I was starting to worry that I was going nuts

or, worse, seeing things that were really there.

♪ ♪

- And I bet he liked what he saw, right?

- And I bet he liked what he saw, right? - He's a nice guy.

- He's a nice guy.

- What? - Yeah.

- [speaking indistinctly]

- [speaking indistinctly] - Well, he seems like a nice guy.

- Well, he seems like a nice guy.

- I don't know what I was thinking.

- I don't know what I was thinking. When I got to her door,

When I got to her door,

I could hear her arguing with that guy again.

- I smiled at him, and that's it, okay?

Why are you acting like this?

- I'm just sick of having the same conversation.

[distant siren wailing]

[suspenseful music]

[wailing continues]

[wailing continues] [distant horn honking]

[distant horn honking]

[thunder rumbles]

- [sighs]

- Are you all right?

- Why do you keep climbing into my window?

♪ ♪

You know you can knock if you want to.

♪ ♪

He hit you.

♪ ♪

- Are those for me?

- Um...

♪ ♪

- That's nice.

- Who are you?

[thunder rumbles]

- Elise.

- Elise.

I should have known a girl like you

would have a name like Elise.

would have a name like Elise. [both chuckle]

[both chuckle]

[both chuckle] - She told me that night

- She told me that night

that she sensed something in me

that she sensed something in me that made her feel safe.

that made her feel safe.

Every other guy in her life had let her down.

[tense music]

She thought I might be different.

♪ ♪

- [sniffling]

- Hey.

What's wrong?

- [choking]

- Elise?

[screams]

♪ ♪

[tense music]

- And I bet he liked what he saw, right?

- He's a nice guy.

- What? - Yeah.

♪ ♪

- Are those for me?

♪ ♪

That's nice.

♪ ♪

[thunder rumbling, distant siren wailing]

♪ ♪

- [sniffling]

- Hey.

What's wrong?

- [choking]

- Elise?

[screams]

♪ ♪

- She had slipped out while I was sleeping again.

I decided to talk to her,

let her know I'd help her

get out of whatever situation she was in...

If she wanted me to.

[distant siren wailing]

♪ ♪

But when I got to her door,

But when I got to her door, I sort of chickened out.

I sort of chickened out.

I thought maybe I should just play it cool for once,

let her come to me when she was ready.

let her come to me when she was ready. [suspenseful music]

[suspenseful music]

♪ ♪

I was trying to keep it together at the morgue,

but the bodies were still haunting me.

I decided I was gonna put in my notice.

I felt like I had something real in my life with Elise.

- Got a Jane Doe.

- And I didn't want her to know

that I was worried that I was losing my mind.

♪ ♪

But it had been more than a week

since I'd heard from her.

I wondered if something bad had happened

or if she just lost interest in me.

I wondered if maybe he'd found out about me

and they'd moved away,

but I just had to knock.

- Elise.

[glass shatters]

- Who is he?

[scuffling]

Who is he?

- He's no one! There is no one!

[punch lands]

[crying]

[tense music]

♪ ♪

- I could hear them fighting,

but the apartment was empty.

but the apartment was empty. - What are you doing here?

- What are you doing here?

- I couldn't explain it.

- Uh...

I heard fighting.

I heard fighting. - Like hell, you did.

- Like hell, you did.

Unit's empty.

Unit's empty. - No, I heard him attacking Elise.

- No, I heard him attacking Elise.

- Then the super told me a story

that was hard to believe.

- Some of the neighbors, they had complained

about the loud arguing.

The cops came in on this thing too.

I mean, that was some night.

That was some night.

It got to be pretty obvious that this boyfriend

was beating the hell out of her.

I mean, it was really sad.

We all wanted a piece of his ass,

but she never pressed charges.

About a month later, she stopped paying rent.

She disappeared.

A little after that, we went in.

All her furniture was still there.

It's like she just walked out, you know?

- None of what he said made any sense to me.

He said she was missing.

So I thought maybe she'd been hiding with me

from her boyfriend.

from her boyfriend. [somber music]

[somber music]

But at the same time,

I heard them arguing through the door

I heard them arguing through the door before I kicked it down.

before I kicked it down.

So I didn't know what to think.

So I didn't know what to think. - Been dead a while.

- Been dead a while.

Hope you brought your nose plug.

♪ ♪

- It was Elise.

She'd been dead for five weeks.

♪ ♪

I don't know how I saw a dead woman...

- [sobs]

- Or why.

I'll probably never be able to explain it.

♪ ♪

But the super later told me

the boyfriend was arrested

and charged with her murder.

And I don't care who believes me.

And I don't care who believes me. I just know what happened.

I just know what happened.

I know the truth.

♪ ♪