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In this world there is real evil in the darkest shadows and in

the most ordinary places These are the true stories of the innocent than the

unimaginable Ron and Nancy Stallings believe they have found the perfect

house Until a sinister spirit attacks from beyond the grave

Paranormal researchers try to bring peace to the family and to the dead

trapped in the land.

The stallings realize if they don't get out soon, they won't get out at all.

Between the world we see and the things we fear, there are doors.

When they are opened, nightmares become reality.

Ron Stallings and Nancy Simicot are looking for a new home.

They will be married in less than a week.

With her marriage quickly approaching, Nancy attributes her nightmare to

nerves.

This is so exciting.

Well, for one thing, I do want a garage. I want a yard large enough. Ron and

Nancy had been married for less than a month when they actually began looking

for a house to buy.

We had six children the day we got married.

Some were his, some were mine, both from previous marriages.

And we needed a large house that would accommodate everyone.

And like most young couples, we didn't have a lot of money.

The first time that we

saw the house,

I thought it was a great bargain.

The owner is an old woman whose son is selling the property.

The house had been built in the 1920s.

It is a spacious, charming fixer-upper, looking nothing like the house from

Nancy's Nightmare.

And remarkably, it is well within their price range.

The house has been empty for a year.

It needs new paint, wallpaper, repairs.

But to Ron and Nancy, it's perfect.

They buy the house.

Then,

just before leaving...

I hope you're good fighters.

For Ron and Nancy, the remark is unsettling.

That's a strange thing to say. I got bad neighbors or what?

And I didn't know what he was talking about.

Within two months, the family moves in.

What do you think?

It's great.

Alan Simicot is one of Nancy Stalling's children from her first marriage.

My stepfather had children of his own, and there was kids with my mother, and

when they got married, it was almost like the Brady Bunch.

Yeah.

It was big, a lot bigger than any house I was used to.

Other than that, it just seemed like a normal house. It was just old.

For the newly blended family, moving day offers hope and the promise of new

beginnings.

The basement was real dreary and kind of had a real creepy feeling to it.

Like something happened there.

Like something might happen there again.

I didn't care for the basement at all. I mean, from the first day, I never liked

the basement.

I decided I would open some windows.

At first I thought they were painted shut. I couldn't get them open.

I wonder why the people had nailed the windows shut with big nails.

It soon becomes clear something is not right with this house.

Hey, hey, hey, hey. Whoa, guys. Walking legs in the house. You know better.

Faucets would turn off and on.

I didn't understand how that could happen.

We figured it must be because it's an old house.

Within a month, the family settles into a

comfortable routine.

All of a sudden, the dishes moved.

I mean, not just like one or two dishes falling over in the strainer. The whole

strainer moved across the counter.

And we just kind of looked at each other like, did that really happen?

Not wanting to alarm the others, Nancy keeps the incident to herself.

But her son cannot get it out of his mind.

I was freaked out, and it still freaks me out.

Summer turns to fall.

The days grow shorter.

The nights longer.

Alan and his younger brother share a bedroom.

I would lay there at night, and I would hear a heavy, footsteps like heavy

boots.

I could hear them come up the steps.

I know it wasn't my parents.

I was terrified.

Hi, Nancy Stallings. Oh, welcome to the neighborhood. Thank you so much. How do

you like it? You know, we're moving in slowly, getting there. That's good.

Wonderful. Glad to have you here. You know the old lady that used to live

here? And she says, oh, that crazy old lady that lived in that house thought

that someone was getting in, moving her stuff, and taking her stuff.

And she had her son nail those windows shut.

I said to Rana, I wonder why she thought someone was taking her things.

The shocking answer will come all too soon.

In the fall of 1965,

Ron and Nancy Stallings are settling into their new home in Baltimore.

But their eldest son, Alan, knows that something is strange about the house.

As weeks pass without incident, Nancy's concerns drift away.

Friends and relatives come to visit, happy for Ron and Nancy's apparent good

fortune. Hey, Ron, how you doing? Good to see you.

My cousin, Bill, who was a lawyer, came to see our new house.

Wow, this is beautiful.

You want to take a tour?

And he wanted to see upstairs.

So he got halfway up the stairs.

And he got a really strange look on his face.

And he said, I don't have time now.

I forgot about this.

I said, what do you got to be going in such a hurry for, Bill? He says, oh, I

got to get to court. I just got to get to court.

Bill later explains that he was overwhelmed by a sudden feeling of

dread.

It will be months before he comes back.

Nancy has the distinct feeling that someone is watching her I

think I hear something

Hoping to make sense of the inexplicable events in his house, Ron turns to his

uncle.

My uncle was a priest, and I knew he knew a lot about that subject.

How could I help him?

I told him the story, and I thought, he don't believe me.

What am I going to do now?

He's not going to help me.

Ron can hardly believe the story himself.

I didn't believe you lived after it when you died.

I believe when you died, that was the end.

Whatever we need. And I said, can you come over to my house and bless it,

maybe?

He said, yeah.

I said, well, when? He said, about two weeks.

I said, I can't wait two weeks.

So he said, all right, I'll come and see after this.

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.

We actually had Mass in the house, like a regular Catholic service.

And I was glad that we were doing something about it.

The priest blesses the entire house, room by room.

I was hoping that it would take care of the problem.

It was like a big question mark. Will this work? Will it not work?

And that night, Everything was real quiet.

And I thought, well, gee, maybe it did work.

Maybe that was the answer.

But then it started with a vengeance.

We heard a ruckus out on the porch, and it was loud.

A tricycle was just riding down the porch

and back by itself.

Ron suddenly realizes that the priest had never blessed the porch.

I didn't know what

was happening.

I grabbed the crucifix, thinking that was the answer.

Terrified, the family immediately leaves the house.

With nowhere else to go, Ron takes his family to his father's cabin about an

hour outside of Baltimore.

The cabin has only one room, too small to accommodate such a large family.

It's also a considerable distance from the children's school and Ron's

workplace.

He knows it is impractical to stay there for very long.

I thought I could get enough nerve to come back again and hope it stopped

Ron feels like he has no choice

They will have to go back

The Stallings are prisoners in their new home.

Financially, they are trapped.

They have six children and one on the way.

We wanted to move, but we had all of our money tied up in that house.

And with children, you can't just move.

Well, things would go almost in cycles, where for a week or two, things would

happen like every day.

And then it might not happen for a couple of months.

For several months, the disturbances died down, and Nancy hopes for the best.

In 1967, she gives birth to a son.

Her first child with Ron.

Nancy hopes that she can sleep more peacefully in the hospital than she has

at home

The

atmosphere

in the room changed

Who's there? I kept feeling like someone was in the room.

Who's there?

Nancy, what are you doing out of bed?

I was a little cold.

I'll get you a blanket.

Nancy now realizes that whatever has been haunting her house can follow her

anywhere.

The next day, when I was getting home from the hospital,

I was a nervous wreck.

I was waiting for any minute that something horrible would happen.

Like somebody grabbed me from behind and literally like heaved me down the

steps.

Fortunately, he only had a few scrapes and bruises.

The nighttime just made it worse.

There was really no place to go.

I dreaded if I woke up in the middle of the night and had to use the bathroom or

anything like that.

First reaction, somebody's breaking into the house.

The heroin in your arms would stand up.

I kind of wanted to look.

I really was afraid of what I might see.

And I finally got up enough courage just to take like a slightest peek.

But then I heard the footsteps go back out.

And I was scared to death.

Alan can no longer remain silent.

He tells his parents about the footsteps.

I just don't know what we can do about this. I felt so hopeless.

How do you fight something that's not alive?

And you can't really grab it, but it can push you.

Like it's your fault.

I didn't say it was your fault. I'm not blaming you. I mean, I just don't know

what to say.

You woke up the baby. Are you happy now?

We were frustrated.

We didn't know what to do or where to turn.

Ron and Nancy decide to put their house on the market.

You told me that they know a report. Still, they're desperate to find a short

-term solution.

Maybe we can talk to them and at least find somebody that can help us.

I made the mistake of telling a fellow I work with about these strange things

that were happening.

And he said, hey, I can get you help through the newspaper.

So I said, all right.

If he wants to see it, and that's the only way I get help, then I'll do it

that way. But I don't want no story in the paper.

Now, if you could just tell me a little bit more about this. So sure enough, the

man came.

Please remember.

We don't want our names to be in the paper. Not a problem. I will not put it

dressed at home. The reporter seems sympathetic.

I need some hard evidence. Do things move?

Toys.

Toys, specifically toys. He promises to find them an expert.

Someone with experience dealing with the paranormal.

And you know what? That's everything I need. I can give him that.

But Ron and Nancy have placed their hopes in the hands of the wrong man.

a local reporter publishes a story about the strange events at ron and nancy

stalling's house they are shocked and angry so are their neighbors who worry

about falling property values and prospective buyers who suddenly stop

calling the neighbors were pretty bad they had ridiculed us

and we up with a lot of harassment nobody believed in ghosts supposedly

But nobody wanted to buy it either.

So we were stuck there.

I had this dream several nights in a row.

It wasn't an ordinary dream. It was like an experience.

About the third time I had the dream, I began to smell gas in the house.

And I told Ron, I said, something smells like gas.

Are you sure? Yeah, it's pretty strong.

He looked, and he said, everything looks fine.

To be safe, Nancy calls the gas company.

They said they'd be out right away, and to open all of the windows.

He checked the pipes and there was one connection that was

really loose.

The gas leak was so bad that the house was

a bomb.

Unwilling to remain a victim, Nancy reads up on the study of ghosts and

paranormal phenomena.

One book in particular catches her eye.

It is written by Hans Holzer, an expert from Austria.

In the book, he talked about getting rid of ghosts, and he had an address where

he could be contacted.

Nancy sends him a letter.

Months pass with no word from Holser, as Nancy struggles to make sense of her

dreams.

I kept telling myself, maybe it's not a threatening thing. Maybe she was

trying to warn us that the gas man who installed the furnace had left this

pipe undone. But somehow, I didn't think.

that she was it was just a horrible feeling

finally

hans holzer arrives accompanied by a trance medium you

cannot investigate hauntings and ghosts by just going around with geiger

counters and other technical equipment and wait for things to happen

You must use a trance medium, a human trance medium.

Nothing happens without it. Everything else is useless.

The trance medium has the ability to permit spirits to communicate through

her.

Holzer has worked with her for several years.

I was curious to see if they were going to be able to do anything because the

blessing didn't work.

Holzer feels certain that he and the medium can contact the spirits haunting

the Stallings' house.

Well, perhaps we should begin.

But not knowing their true nature, he has no idea if it's possible

to force them out.

For nearly a year spirits have haunted the Stallings family The help of a

trance medium dr. Hans Holzer will attempt to contact them Then try

to force them out of the house

The medium senses an

unnatural presence She was saying There were several different entities

there in the house.

And the spirits would actually talk through this woman.

It's what we would call dissociation of personality.

A deep trance medium has the ability to move out of their body and let somebody

else get in temporarily.

It is Holzer's job to then communicate with the lost soul.

The medium detects a mysterious confluence of energy.

Something seems to be guiding her.

When she emerges from her trance, she has a name.

Louis Fontenille.

It means nothing to Ron and Nancy.

She asked him what he was doing there, and he said that he was...

waiting for supplies to come in on the Constellation into Baltimore Harbor, and

they were there to protect the city.

This is Civil War territory, just at the border where the North and the South

met. And there was anger, a lot of anger in that area.

Holzer suspects there goes to be a soldier from the Civil War.

Let's watch at night, wandering.

Somehow he's trapped between life and death.

It seems impossible to Ron and Nancy as the house was only built in the 1920s.

We were told that it didn't have anything to do with the house itself.

You could have a brand new house that was basically tied to the property, not

the house.

They live in...

The land.

And if there is now another house, they don't see that. They see what they

remember.

Suddenly, the medium detects another presence.

She slips into a trance.

and begins to make contact with a woman.

The woman is angry.

The medium senses a name,

Kittinger.

She asked this lady, why are you doing this to these people? And she said,

well, these are my servants, and they're insolent. They don't listen to what I'm

telling them to do.

Owned a house.

The only problem we have with ghosts is they don't know exactly what they are.

They die and don't know they're dead, and they don't know what happened to

them, and they're confused.

There's no question here.

Later that evening, Holzer delivers his prognosis.

Holzer believes Nancy to be psychic and that her dreams are not nightmares.

but psychic communications from the world beyond the grave.

The problem was that you had a medium in the house, living in the house, and

that's Nancy.

And as long as there's a psychic living there, they will get energy from that

and stay.

We had opposing forces in the house.

One was evil, and some were benevolent.

Nancy believes that the Civil War soldier, Louis Fontenil, is protecting

her family from the malevolent ghost of the old woman.

And in this case, what I believe is happening... She was close to being

insane.

As far as she was concerned, we were intruders.

And she wanted us out of there.

From one life to another.

Holzer and the medium decide they must contact the spirits.

and convince them to cross over to the afterlife.

You know, I just didn't know. I didn't know what to think.

Days later, the house remains quiet.

Nancy's cousin Bill becomes intrigued by everything he's hearing about the

haunting.

He admits he'd always felt uncomfortable in the house.

He wanted to see if any of these names actually turned up or if it was all

just something that was made up.

Bill decides to research the names and details given by the medium.

He goes to the Hall of Records in Annapolis.

And the more he tried to prove these things to be untrue, the more they jive

with what this lady was saying.

He finds a listing for a Lieutenant Fontenille, an officer in the Union

Army. He was killed in a skirmish at an inn that once stood on the Stallings'

property.

In records dating back even further to 1787, he uncovers another name, Eileen

Kittinger.

He wonders if this is the old woman from Nancy's nightmares.

Bill discovers that another home stood on the same piece of property where the

Stallings' house is now, built in the 1700s.

Sifting through tax records, leads, and ancient maps, Bill notices a disturbing

trend. A shocking revelation that even the medium failed to detect.

And for the Stallings family, it could mean the difference between life and

death.

Bill returns from the Hall of Records with a shocking discovery.

Records showed that every family who ever lived on that land had at least one

person die before they moved.

I was really afraid that

one of us, a member of our family, that something would happen

to them.

You know before we got out After months of trying to sell the house

Ron and Nancy finally find a buyer They even expressed interest in ghosts

The rumors of a haunted house seemed to them a selling

point That's great

I was just so relieved that we were finally getting out of that house that I

couldn't wait.

I was just praying that nothing happened between then and the time we actually

moved out.

Lewis came to me and he said,

don't ever come back into this house because

when you leave, I'm leaving and I won't be there to protect you

and you won't be safe.

And that was good enough for me.

I couldn't have been happier than I was that day.

It was a wonderful feeling to be able to know I was finally free.

The Stallings cannot depart fast enough.

They leave even before the movers come to pack up their furniture.

There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that there is some type of life after

death Then some some type of spirit

Some kind of presence there

Just before the family departs, Nancy recalls an item she left in the bedroom.

What? Where are you going?

Just take a second.

I'll be right back.

Mark! When we left That house, I can't

even describe how good I felt.

Let's go.

We had made it through that terrible experience, and now

we would be able to live a normal life.

For the Stallings family, the nightmare is finally over.

But what terrible fate lies ahead for the new owners?

No one, not even Dr. Holzer, can predict with any certainty whether the haunting

will ever stop.