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A family moves into a 200-year-old Virginia farmhouse.

It was your typical postcard, antebellum, southern plantation house.

We wanted to be there forever.

And soon discovers they are not alone.

Is somebody there?

It spooked me. It spooked me to my core.

Not one entity, but two.

There was this really foul smell.

It was like a smell of death.

One tormented soul.

This is my house.

My house!

And another hell-bent on tormenting others.

You know, this thing is not going to stop.

What happens when your dream house turns into a living nightmare?

In America, there is real evil.

It lurks in the darkest shadows and in our most ordinary towns.

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

When they are opened, nightmares become reality.

In the fields of Southampton County, Virginia, stands a 200-year-old

farmhouse.

In the summer of 2008, Billy Quattlebaum moves in with his new girlfriend,

Tiffany McKinnon.

I'll be careful with that one. My china's in there. Okay, I can tell.

They've been dating just five months.

This weather's crazy out here. I know.

Ah, found it.

Have to commemorate this occasion.

Oh, OK.

It was very quick.

What made me fall in love with him was just how jolly and goofy and silly he

was, you know, because I'm the same way.

Aw, that's a good one.

We made a decision.

You know, let's just get a place together and just say, I found this

great house, you know?

It's 20 acres. It's a big old house.

Both Tiffany and Billy have fallen in love with the property in spite of its

horrific past.

There's so much history in the area. It goes way, way back.

Slavery and plantations as far back as the early 1600s.

Tobacco and cotton were probably the first huge crops that were planted.

But the sheer beauty of the house and its surprisingly low rent are too hard

to resist.

It felt like it fell into our lap. It felt like someone was basically giving

us this gift to start our life with. Let's do it. Let's take the leap and see

where it goes.

What are you looking for?

My rabbit. I can't find it. It's in this box. I remember packing it. We wanted to

get away from a lot of the traffic and the daily grind and really live quietly

and peacefully.

Oh, there you are.

and billy said one of his dreams was always to raise georgia in the country

where do you think we should put this one i think our bed would go there

probably that'd be good it was awesome it was huge i could roam around

and people not worry about where i was because we were in the country and

nothing really happened in the country

but

what the family doesn't know

is that they are not alone.

And the eerie presence may not be confined to just the farmhouse.

It's surrounded by 20 acres of property and includes an old barn.

We got five or six chickens, two ducks, a rabbit, and it was turning into a zoo

overnight. But, you know, Georgia loved them. Tiffany loved them.

I enjoyed, you know, the whole idea of it.

But inside, the barn has an ominous feeling.

I did start to feel like something wasn't right.

Not long after we moved in, I went into the barn, to the back stall.

I noticed that there was a silence.

It was eerie.

Is somebody there?

Billy? The door's stuck. I can't get out.

Hey, Georgia?

Is someone there?

Hello? It was a scary, scary feeling.

I told myself, oh, it had to have been Augusta Wynn, even though I knew it

wasn't. It's a feeling of don't look behind you. Just get out of the barn.

About a week after moving in, Billy is working late while Georgia is at her

grandparents.

All right, let's get you dressed up here.

It was the first time I was alone in the house.

The air got very thick. In the middle of summer, the temperature dropped. I felt

a chill.

Billy?

Billy, is that you?

Hello?

You won't believe what just happened. I was trying to change the light bulb in

the chandelier, and I heard footsteps in the house. I was very panicked. I was

really creeped out.

No. No, it wasn't like that.

I teased her about the house. You know, it's the house messing with you.

No, I swear.

I was like, Tiffany, the house is almost 200 years old. The wiring.

isn't the greatest in the world and old house is Cree.

Don't worry about it.

What he said to me in that moment is the house talking to you.

And I remember getting angry.

No, you're no help.

I'm getting out of here. No, I have to go.

I remember hanging up the phone and I grabbed the keys. I jumped in the truck.

For the next few weeks, Tiffany tries to convince herself that she's just

imagining things.

I did the same thing when I was your age.

Our happiness, it kept my mind blocked from a lot of what was going on.

The feeling of finally having a family, it was overwhelming.

I just hoped we would stay there forever.

That happiness is a distant memory.

Billy.

I heard a banging coming from downstairs in the house.

I walked down the staircase, and the banging was louder and louder, and it

was getting very intense.

It was so dark that I couldn't see, and I had to open the door to

see what was going on.

I knew that it was an older house.

I knew that it had history.

I think I had an inkling already that there was some energy in the

house.

Hello? Someone was trying to let me know you're not alone.

I know you think I'm crazy.

She used to tell me that. I know you think I'm crazy.

Ever since Tiffany McKinnon moved into a 200-year-old Virginia farmhouse,

She's had the feeling she is not alone.

Strange events plague her in her waking hours and restless nights.

After three months of terror, the spirit finally makes his intentions clear.

This is my house.

This is my house.

All right, wake up. Wake up. Shh.

It's OK. It was pretty frightening how vivid it was.

He just busted through the door, and he grabbed me, and he screamed at me.

He towered over me.

His face was riddled with sadness and almost had a look of fear in his eye,

like when you're looking at an animal who's showing a sign of aggression, but

you see that it's because they're afraid.

I was very disoriented, but I just remember hearing the name Joseph.

All I thought was Joseph, Joseph, Joseph.

Without telling Billy, Tiffany decides to investigate at

a local library.

She locates deeds and property records and learns that the original owner of

the house ran a plantation.

After his death, he left the house and surrounding property to his caretaker, a

freed African-American slave named Joseph.

The hair stood up on my neck, and my eyes immediately teared up.

It's almost like a spiritual experience, you know?

If that makes sense, it was incredible.

But Joseph's story doesn't have a happy ending.

Further digging reveals that shortly after he inherited the property, Joseph

was forced to give it back to the relatives of the original owner.

This is hard.

An injustice had been done.

It's a heavy feeling when you do know this place that you think is so

beautiful. you know for you was at one point a source of pain for somebody else

despite tiffany's compassion joseph has made one thing clear

he wants tiffany out i

know who the man in my dream was

tiffany decides to share her findings with billy

But he refuses to believe that the house is haunted.

You said a ghost?

Yes. Are you serious? Yes, it's the same guy. That was just a nightmare.

You just imagine it. No, I'm telling you, I saw him clear as day, right

there. She said, you know, this house is haunted.

Okay, Tiffany.

She says, no, I'm serious.

Look, don't fill your head up with this type of stuff, okay? You're just going

to drive yourself crazy.

We hadn't been living with each other that long, so now I'm starting to think

maybe her mind just...

has an overactive imagination, maybe.

Tiffany now has an understanding of the ghost who frightened her in her dream.

I thought, okay, well, I'm getting what's going on here, and maybe I'm

meant to know something.

You know, maybe I'm supposed to help in some way.

But she's about to find out.

something far more sinister lurks at the Franklin farmhouse.

There was this really foul smell, like rotten meat or a dead

rodent. It was like a smell of death.

There was just another really weird thing.

Georgia, here. What happened?

Go ahead and get this one. Come here.

I thought we talked about this.

I don't want you to bring up the thing around Georgia. No, it wasn't Joseph.

This felt like something else.

Come on. I really need you to stop this. You're scaring her. I can't help it.

There's something going on in there. I'm scared.

I don't know if Joseph was trying to tell me.

Get out. This is my house or if he was trying to relay to me that there's

something else here But Billy has lost patience with

Tiffany's fixation on the paranormal That's kind of where Billy's attitude

started to shift he didn't really want to talk about it leaving Tiffany feeling

very alone It was very isolating

You have something that happens to you that scares you, and so you want to tell

the person that you love.

And when they're shutting it out and they're not trying to hear it, it sits

in your own mind, and it gets scarier.

I would ask her what's wrong. She would just look at me and say, oh, don't worry

about it. It's fine.

Nothing's wrong.

And she just kind of pushed it off. I knew that something's going on.

Daddy!

Daddy! Billy.

Billy, wake up. It's Georgia.

Maybe there was this battle going on within the house that we just happened

to be exposed to.

This is my house.

Maybe I was just picking up on this struggle between these two energies.

Four weeks.

tiffany mckinnon has been sensing the presence of two forces in her home a

ghost who is troubled and a demonic entity she can't explain the other

energy didn't feel human at all

so far

tiffany is the only one who is convinced the house is haunted her boyfriend billy

is a non-believer

And in the fall of 2008, Tiffany fears that his daughter, Georgia, is the next

victim.

Daddy! Daddy!

Billy, Billy, wake up. It's Georgia.

But when Billy checks on Georgia, he finds her sleeping.

I never heard her at the door crying. It was Tiffany waking me up and saying,

Hey, it's Georgia at the door crying.

And I got up and she's in her bed sound asleep.

Now, Billy is more skeptical than ever.

I didn't know what to think.

Never in my mind did I think it was anything paranormal.

Or the house was haunted.

There's got to be an explanation to this.

But the turbulent night.

is not over.

For the next few weeks Billy becomes increasingly volatile and angry as if he

were possessed It was a harsh winter in that house and that's when

I really noticed Billy's demeanor shift Quick to anger

didn't like to be asked questions.

I Knew who I had fallen in love with and this was a different person

Every single light is on in this room.

It definitely affected Georgia.

Are you in there?

Georgia, did you leave the lights on in this room?

I'm in my room.

Come out here so I can talk to you about this.

Come here. Come here. Look.

One, two, three, four.

And you're not even in here.

But I didn't turn them on. Don't you lie to me. It didn't sound like the same

person. It didn't sound like my dad that I knew before. Then it sounded like a

totally different man that I didn't see as my dad.

You don't pay these bills. But I didn't. You did. Hey.

I'm talking to my daughter. Back up.

Tiffany barely recognizes him. His voice like a growl. His eyes once bright blue.

They were dark.

You need to calm down. You need to stay out of this. He'd never looked at me

like that before.

It was terrifying.

I didn't know how to snap him out of this.

And that's when I realized.

Whatever was in this house, it was getting stronger, and it was trying to

take away my sense of security in him.

Hi, Stormy.

Georgia escapes the tension in the farmhouse by spending more time in the

barn.

Did you eat the carrot I put in your cage?

Hello?

one night she sees something that she can't explain a demon in the form of a

dark shadow man there was like this black figure where it like had the exact

figure of a human but yet yet it was just black i felt like it knew that i

saw it i was terrified

I freaked out and ran back to the house.

Georgia decides not to tell anyone.

I didn't want to go to my parents and tell them because my dad hated the fact

of us talking about it. So I felt alone and I felt scared and I felt helpless.

For the last eight months, the family has been sharing the farmhouse and barn

with spirits from another world.

and no one is talking about it.

With the family divided, the demon can now go after the weak.

I think that whatever's in that house that is evil and is sinister,

it wanted to Show me that it didn't matter if I was alone or if

I was with the toughest guy in the world. It was going to break us.

Is that you?

Is someone there?

An old Virginia farmhouse is plagued with paranormal activity, tormenting the

family living there.

And while Tiffany McKinnon has come to terms with the ghost of a freed slave,

the other entity, a demon, appears to have taken over her

boyfriend, Billy.

I noticed the change in Billy.

Get over it!

Quick to anger?

Georgia, look!

One, two, three, four.

I knew who I had fallen in love with, and this was a different person.

I was scared constantly.

How do you go up against something that you can't see?

But the demon has far worse plans for Tiffany.

Billy?

Is someone there?

What the hell just knocked me down the stairs?

I mean, I knew instantly it was the feeling of hands on the back of my

shoulders, and it was aggressive.

I looked up the staircase, and there was nothing there.

It was so terrifying.

I couldn't move. I didn't want to move.

I knew that something else was lingering right near me, and Billy came in

the house.

Billy, help me.

Billy is stunned.

The sight of his girlfriend lying at the bottom of the steps is overwhelming.

And in a matter of seconds, he transforms back into his old self.

Something pushed me.

Oh, my God. Like a dark shadow or something.

You believe me, don't you? Yes, I believe you. I believe you. It's okay.

Seeing my fear right in front of his face did snap him out of a denial that

he was living in. I'm right here. I felt like I had him back.

I felt so bad for her and Georgia and forever leaving them in that house.

That was beyond all measure of fear to me.

Desperate for help, Tiffany reaches out to Jackie Tomlin.

founder of Central Virginia Paranormal Investigations.

That's really when we started to come back together and figure out, what are

we going to do?

Let's get to the bottom of this.

It just doesn't feel safe here.

Tiffany had nowhere to turn. She was completely frustrated. When you're

living in fear, you're not living.

A few weeks later, the team arrives while Billy is away on business.

It's now March 2009.

The family has been living in the house for nine months.

Jackie attempts to make contact with the entities.

Anyone there?

If you're there, show me a sign.

Anything you can...

It was an amazing experience to watch the door open in front of us, but it

also showed what a bold presence that we were dealing with.

After a 12-hour investigation confirming active paranormal activity,

Jackie is convinced that there is a sinister presence haunting the house.

There's just so much going on at this point that we cannot explain. I knew

that we were dealing with more.

than just a human spirit.

I told her whatever was going on in her home, there were several different

entities there.

I think I understand Joseph, but I need to understand this other force better.

Now, you need to tread very lightly here. These are extremely dangerous

forces. If it's a negative entity, there's no reason to pursue answers from

it. There's no reason to want to know why it's there.

There's no reason to want to know why it's messing with your family. It should

be left.

Alone. We're not talking about just paranormal phenomena.

We're talking about supernatural.

Meaning? Meaning it's spiritual, not human.

A demon.

I told her to leave it alone. Or you're looking at more physical attacks to come

if you don't.

Wait. Wait.

We can't do it. We can't leave.

We don't want to leave. We love this place too much.

There's got to be some other way. There's got to.

She really felt that it was in the best interest of our safety and our

relationship as well to move out of the house.

I'm really sorry.

A few nights later, Billy is back home.

Tiffany has yet to tell him about the results of the investigation.

What was that?

I don't know.

You know what? I forgot to feed the animals.

I'll go check on them.

Okay. I'll tuck her in.

No, Alec decided.

It would be much better if you just kept...

Bedtime.

In Virginia, a 200-year-old home with extensive paranormal and supernatural

phenomena has been tormenting a family for nine months.

Although Tiffany McKinnon no longer fears the spirit of the freed slave

Joseph, she is now dealing with a demon, a powerful presence that

is wicked in nature.

You need to tread very lightly here. These are extremely dangerous forces.

Paranormal investigators have advised them to move.

What do you mean, leave our house? We put all of our energy here. We put all

of our money here. Like, this is where we want to be, and we can't see

ourselves anywhere else.

Tiffany keeps the warning to herself, determined to stay in her home.

But one night, she makes a gruesome discovery in the barn and realizes that

the demon will stop at nothing to hurt them.

Stay here.

Tiffany!

Tiffany! What happened?

And they're all dead.

It was horrible.

They're just dead laying there, no marks on them, just dead.

I just think whatever was there just sucked the life out of them.

And they would have to break the news to Georgia.

It was devastating, and it was devastating for Georgia.

She's just seeing death and death and death.

When I learned about the death of the animals in the barn, it was terrifying

and very heartbreaking at the same time.

In my mind, I was like, it's the man in black.

He's doing everything in his power to scare me.

In desperation, the family turns to their last resort.

Thank God you're here. Come on in.

I reached out to the Catholic churches in Franklin.

And the idea was, this priest is going to bless this house,

and whatever is in this house, this is the weapon we're going to

use.

I've been attacked.

Billy's felt it.

And the animals... We have a daughter, and we just don't feel safe.

Most times, there's a perfectly reasonable explanation of what's going

on. An exorcism is not even needed.

You could tell that this guy did not believe any word of it.

Is this your daughter's bedroom?

Yes.

Until the temperature starts dropping and the smell of rotten meat's going on.

That's what I was talking about. There's something here.

Hold on, where are you going?

This is all the house needs.

That's all?

The house is fine.

I mean, he was in and out of the house in less than five minutes.

Rather than stay in battle, he chose to run.

Is that it?

Hey!

Here's holy water.

Sprinkle it around the house.

Put the sign of the cross on your daughter's forehead every night during

prayers and she'll be okay.

You know, the only way it can hurt you is if you believe in it. Guess what,

pal?

Things are happening and we believe.

For the next few days, the family follows the priest's instructions,

praying that the ritual will put the entities to rest.

It did look a little brighter. It smelled a little sweeter.

And I thought, OK, well, maybe this worked.

I started to feel Joseph less and less after the priest came.

I hope.

It's because the presence of that priest and even my own personal prayers for

Joseph helped him and sent him to heaven.

I felt like Joseph was trapped there because this other thing was keeping him

there.

The kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

I was hoping that, you know, everything would go back to normal and it would be

like a peaceful, happy family.

Lay down, sweetie.

In Virginia, a monstrous and deadly demon is hell-bent on driving Billy

Quattlebaum, his girlfriend, and his daughter out of a 200-year-old haunted

farmhouse.

There's no safety nets when it comes to this type of thing.

The ride ain't over, and then you get to go on about your day.

This is something that you're living with.

And the voice that I heard, it didn't sound like a normal person's voice. It

sounded like kind of altered, you know, kind of just weird.

It sounded like it was coming from directly next to me.

Georgia!

Georgia! For Billy and Tiffany, the breaking point has finally come.

Georgia!

Baby, what happened? Are you okay?

It was the man in black. He was standing right there. He called my name.

Let's just get out of here. Come on, baby. That was it. We were ready to go.

I wasn't even going to let it escalate beyond hearing a voice. You said her

name. You acknowledged her. That's it.

I'm done.

This thing has graduated from footsteps and closing doors to now it's down the

stairs. It's banging on her door or her windows.

It's killed every animal that we own.

The priest didn't help us. The investigation seemed to have stirred it

up. We got to get out of here.

It's okay.

We're gonna get out of here.

Watch your head.

Okay.

I

don't

even think I looked in the rearview mirror at this place as we were leaving

the driveway.

It's September 2009.

The family has survived more than a year of sheer terror.

They break their three-year lease and move out.

For Billy, Tiffany, and Georgia, the ordeal is finally over.

Now look at your heart.

In June 2013, Billy Quattlebaum marries Tiffany McKinnon in

a small ceremony in Franklin, Virginia.

Been together a long time and it's great. It's wonderful.

You realize that maybe the dream isn't all in the house, but it's in the

person. Two pairs right there. That's a pretty good hand. After everything that

happened in the old house, the family is still haunted by memories and evidence.

A closer inspection of the photos the family took on move-in day at the

farmhouse reveals a frightening image.

A ghostly form caught on camera.

My eyes teared up and the hair on my arms and the back of my neck stood up.

And I was kind of winded by it because it was so evident.

And Billy didn't even want to look at it.

Some people don't believe, but I know that... ghosts and demons and paranormal

activity in general is real it is very unreal the house in southampton county

still stands and is now home to a new family it is unknown whether or

not they've experienced anything supernatural we ride by it from time to

time now and and just barely look over there at it i kind of believe there was

several things going on there.

Maybe Joseph at one time was trying to warn Tiffany in the beginning what is to

be expected.

And he's being tormented too, maybe.

It was a supernatural evil and is solely

created to destroy.

As far as the experience with the house, I don't ever want to

forget it because I learned a lot of things about faith and strength and love

for the people around you.