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A family moves into a centuries-old home and uncovers its ominous history.

The list went on.

Murders to mass murders. You name it, it happened.

What begins with mysterious noises.

What is that?

Here you go, Casey.

And an imaginary friend turns into something so dark, so evil.

It was trying to kill me and fighting with all my might.

Only a higher power can save them.

Jay! It will never back down. It will go out and destroy you any way that it can.

You're all going to die.

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.

New England's idyllic countryside attracts many families looking to put

down roots in its picture postcard communities.

It was a very nice area, and it was kind of on the upper scale.

We thought it was going to be a nice area, a good school to raise a family.

Jay Yable and his family are lucky to move into an historic late 18th century

house near the town center.

It was a large home, and it was something that I could call my own, and

the price was more than reasonable at the time.

Jay is retired military and now works as a maintenance supervisor at a nearby

office complex.

Get some water for you. Oh, yes!

His wife, Elka, works as a medical assistant.

Oh, my gosh, babe. It is so much bigger than I remembered.

Welcome to the American dream.

When I first met Elka, her upbeat spirit, that's what kind of drew me to

her. I think we knew right from the beginning that it was going to be a

match. We take a break.

Girls?

The spacious home seems the perfect place to raise their twin girls, Alex

and Riley.

Huh? What do you think? It looks like the biggest, most beautiful dollhouse

ever. It's all ours, even the trees?

Even the trees.

Jay can't wait to show off the house to his friend Mike Sokol.

Oh, right here.

Oh, yeah.

Jay and I grew up together, attended each other's weddings, children's

births, baptisms.

Helping us move, man, that goes beyond friendship.

I've known him since I was like five years old.

We were best friends. He's like a brother to me.

Man, you are really moving on up.

Just look at this.

Woo!

Yeah!

Girls, please don't get in Daddy's way.

Hey, come back here, you little rascals!

They're wearing me out.

Hey. Yes.

I know you have your reservations.

Yes. Look, when Jane Elko found the house, it was a little more of a hard

sell for her.

After we unpack.

And spackle.

And paint. And fix these creaky floors.

Oh, it's a lot of work.

I said, once we start to decorate it and make it look nice, it's going to become

your home. It's going to be something special.

But it's more than just the renovations.

Elka's instincts tell her something is not right about the house.

Something she can't identify.

Elka's like, I don't like it. Something's wrong.

Over the following weeks, painting and major repairs are done, and the family

settles into a comfortable routine.

Tell me again why we use a baby monitor for our kids, as old as they are?

Because your children like to wake up in the middle of the night and go

exploring. You remember the time we caught Riley heading out the back door

at midnight to find the cat?

Oh, hello.

Oh.

Mommy, can we have some?

Okay. But, ah, but.

Just one, because I do not want you to spoil your dinner. Excuse me, I said

just one.

But this one's for Casey.

That would be their new imaginary friend.

My daughters would talk about sometimes they would play with somebody, a girl in

a room, and we thought it was just imaginary friends like a lot of kids

would have.

That one's for Casey.

You are something else.

For seven months, all has been relatively tranquil in the house.

Until one night.

Hey, Jay?

What is that?

I have no idea.

Somebody or something is banging on the walls.

Boom, boom, boom.

Could be the pipes.

An old house like this?

Wait, wait, wait. Listen.

It was like someone scratching on a wall of claws.

Over here.

Yeah.

Sounds like it's coming from all around us.

Like something trying to get out.

Or in.

Jay suspects it's neighborhood kids pulling a prank.

But there is no one in sight.

I walked on the porch and at this point I was dumbfounded.

Anything? No. I said nobody can move that fast.

Weird.

A few nights later, the strange sounds continue.

This time from the audio monitor connected to the twins' bedroom.

Jay, did you leave the TV on?

No.

What is that noise?

I shouldn't be doing that.

What's wrong with it?

In 2006, the April family moves into a late 18th century house in suburban

Connecticut.

At first, all is calm.

But a few months later, they begin hearing strange noises they can't

explain.

What is that?

Things are happening, and I have no idea what's going on.

One night the mysterious sounds grow threatening when a message comes across

the audio monitor from their daughter's bedroom

You

hear this voice and it says you all are going to die

We jumped off. We ran right into the kids' room.

And there was nothing.

They're fine.

They were sound asleep.

No one's here.

No one's been here.

Elka's initial wariness about the house now turns to fear.

There's something wrong with this house, Jay.

I'm telling you.

What's wrong with this house?

She knew there was too many coincidences that weren't adding up, and she was

convinced at this point there was something really bad in the house.

I'm like, just calm down.

I said, ignore it, ignore it, ignore it.

I'm trying to rationalize things.

But there is nothing logical about these sounds.

One afternoon, Jay stays home from work to take care of the girls when Elka

comes down with the flu.

Oh, thank you.

Would you like some more tea, honey?

No, I'm fine.

Thank you, though.

After moving into the house, Elka changed a little bit. She seemed to

become ill more.

Jay?

Yeah, I heard it.

What is that?

Sounds like someone upstairs.

You could hear someone taking like a cane or stick and going up and down on

the side of the kid's bed.

Casey's here.

Casey is Riley's imaginary friend.

But Jay doesn't believe in the invisible.

As an ex-soldier trained for combat, he decides to take action against the

intruder.

I went to my room, and I grabbed my weapon.

My heart is beating fast.

I'm praying.

I don't ever want to have to shoot somebody in my house.

Jay finds no one and nothing disturbed in Alex and Riley's room.

And the sounds grow more insistent.

And it was loud, like somebody was really angry.

Whoever was in the house was actually right above my head. And I figured that

there was somebody up there. I had them because they were in the attic and there

was no way out.

There was nothing.

There was nobody.

I don't get it.

What were those noises?

I told you, something is not right.

Elka is starting to think that the house is haunted.

I would say that there's got to be a logical explanation.

Maybe what we really heard wasn't footsteps, or maybe it wasn't the

rapping sounds. Maybe it's the old house creaking or settling.

Weeks pass, and Elka grows more afraid.

She'd be like, you know, I don't feel safe in this house. There's something

going on.

She would feel like someone would be standing back and watching her.

Deep in the heart of New England, a family of four is haunted by mysterious

sounds they can't explain.

You're all going to die.

Wherever she goes, Elka Yaple senses something in the house.

Elka had come to Jay and said, you know, I think there's some kind of spirits in

our house.

And of course I was skeptical.

One afternoon, Elka feels the presence growing stronger.

Elka thinks she's safe.

But there's no escaping.

The toys just went off altogether, and they were getting louder and louder.

Stop it!

Every single toy stopped simultaneously.

After the toy incidents, I started believing there was something really

wrong.

I kept thinking maybe if it was a ghost, it was somebody who lived there and

didn't like us being in their house.

Unable to take his wife's distress any longer, Jay goes on a mission.

That's when I decided I was going to go down to the town hall and start doing

research. to see if anybody died in the house.

Town records indicate the house was built in the late 1700s.

And right away, Jay notices something peculiar.

The house was bought by somebody, a year later it was sold, bought, six months

later it was sold, a year and a half sold, seven years sold.

And this is a pattern.

Jay makes another sobering discovery.

What's up, buddy?

Mike.

Jay shares his findings with his best friend.

There have been a lot of deaths in this house.

What?

Look at this.

Jay finds over a dozen murders, suicides, and accidental deaths related

to the house.

And not just people that lived here, but friends, neighbors.

People associated with the house.

He found that there was a lengthy history of really bizarre occurrences.

So that kind of put a little, you know, chill down my back. I'm like, whoa.

I started believing the house is haunted.

We are trying to contact the spirit or entity in this house.

Reveal yourself.

Jay contacts Orlando Ferranti, head of the Paranormal Research Society of

Connecticut, a nonprofit group of paranormal investigators.

Anything?

Maybe there's nothing here.

Oh, no.

I can feel something.

When I got into the home, you could just feel the oppression and the negative

energy in that household.

I've never felt that kind of energy before in my life. It's just a cesspool

of negativity.

I walked around the house with a recording device and some EMF detectors.

EMF detectors measure electromagnetic fields.

An energy spike indicates possible paranormal activity.

I wasn't getting any abnormal readings, but I still felt this oppression.

I was very concerned about this negative energy because it was watching me. It

did not want me there.

Orlando.

Suddenly, the team's psychic picks up on the energy.

All of a sudden, the spirit is talking through his body.

The psychic changed from his normal, quiet personality into this arrogant,

nasty, demonic.

Are you the entity who controls this house?

Who are you? Name yourself.

You are all.

I'm going to die.

You are going to hell.

Why do you torment this family?

You want somebody? Come after me!

Ever since the Yapel

family moved into a historic New England house, they have felt a dark presence.

And when Jay uncovers more than a dozen murders, suicides, and accidental deaths

related to the house, the former military man has no choice but to

believe. I live in a haunted house.

I'm starting to get very frightened.

There's something that is pure evil.

Jay reaches out to paranormal experts to investigate the house, when suddenly the

psychic channels a dark entity.

You are all going to die.

And things turn violent.

Lily!

Are you alright?

Are you okay?

Anything with that kind of power that can pick up a human being and throw them

is something demonic.

Orlando suspects the number of deaths related to the house could have

attracted a demon.

A lot of that negative energy becomes residual negative energy, and it could

attract other negative energies.

It's almost like a beacon.

When he mentioned a demon, I was terrified.

worried about Alex and Riley and their safety, along with our safety.

Orlando promises he will put together a plan to help them.

He wanted to get all kinds of evidence so he could bring to the church to have

the church authorize a exorcism on the house.

A week later.

There was this girl, like she came back from a dance or something.

She was trying to kill me.

I'm fighting with all my might, and I'm not a small guy, I'm a pretty big guy.

I'm fighting.

I'm like, this is a bad dream.

I went to yell for alcohol, and I couldn't speak.

My voice was gone.

All of a sudden, it was like a popping sound.

And it was gone.

What a nightmare.

What a horrible nightmare.

Or so he thinks.

The following morning, to Jay's horror, the nightmare appears to have been

real.

That scared me to the core.

What happened?

I don't know.

I kept playing this scenario over my head.

Why did it happen?

What was it? Could it come back?

Could it attack my girls? Could it attack my wife?

Jay consults with the paranormal expert who believes he knows what happened.

He experienced phantomania, which is basically the experience of being

frozen, if you will. The energy is being sucked out of you and being used by the

spirit.

He thinks the entity that attacked Jay could be a shape-shifting demon.

It's possible that this negative energy or demonic entity could be changing its

form. It could change itself to a female. It could change itself to a

child. It could change itself to even an animal.

Orlando also has bad news for Jay.

He won't be coming back. And there's no way I can come back to the house

anymore. The demon is affecting his family.

I had to back out of the investigation.

I understand.

My kids come first, and...

They were being traumatized by something unseen.

My oldest son, for a week straight, had these nightmares, these horrible

nightmares of an old man with a decrepit-looking face.

They were actually getting visions of my house in their heads.

I had to back away, but I didn't want to give up trying to help Jay.

I wanted to take my family to that point and run.

I couldn't.

Everything the Yaple family owns is tied up in the house.

I had a stand fight, and I was fighting alone.

The family was becoming more isolated.

Everyone just didn't want to attend his house.

I felt terrible. We've been friends for years, you know, 30-plus years, and

there's nothing I can do to help him.

Would you like some more cake?

Yes, please.

Jay is frightened for his family, but relieved his daughters appear immune

from danger.

It seemed like it had boundaries. It has, like, rules of engagement.

This entity would go after Elko or try to scare me.

Would you like some more tea?

Yes, please.

For some reason, this thing would not go after my children.

Don't forget Casey.

Elka is less optimistic about their chances she copes by maintaining a

normal routine

Do you hear it?

No. I swear there was something here and it was watching me. Just listen.

I heard something and it sounded like it was on two hoofs.

What is that?

Really, really scared me.

For two years, the Yabel family has been

living in a centuries-old mansion with a dark secret.

A past filled with sadness and death.

Could this unsettling history have invited a shape-shifting demon into the

home?

I've seen what a really bad entity is.

It was so terrifying.

Just listen.

One night, the demon traps Jay and Elka in their attic.

We could actually hear this hoofed animal.

And you could see the footprints.

Total fear went over me.

I have a big fear of the devil himself.

That's what was going on in my mind. It was actually the devil himself.

This thing could see me. I couldn't see it.

I was like, we're dead meat.

We're screwed. I can't do anything.

Desperate to protect his family, Jay calls in Bob Baker of Connecticut

Paranormal Investigators, an expert in demonic hauntings.

Thank you so much for coming.

Where would you like... He immediately senses something.

Whatever was in that house met me right at the door.

You could feel the oppression there.

Let's start upstairs.

Come on.

The Aples were very scared.

I could see that they have already been through hell. They weren't sleeping.

It was affecting their health.

Bob and his team measure the electromagnetic field in the house to

detect for paranormal activity.

I think we got something here.

Do you hear that?

We actually heard something come walking down the attic stairs.

It sounded like it weighed about 500 pounds.

We didn't know whether to run or to stay.

What happened?

Are you all right? My back started burning.

I had like... Nine scratches on my back.

It's like somebody took a whip and just whipped Bob.

It's very painful.

It's just like getting scratched by a human. It's the same feeling. It draws

blood and it hurts just as bad.

Bob believes an attack such as this could indicate the presence of a special

kind of demon called a Wendigo.

The Wendigo type of demon can be very vicious.

They hate us and they just want us dead.

In many cases, the demon is there first.

You kind of acquire it when you move in.

According to Bob, moving may not help the Yabel family get rid of the demon.

If the Yabels had gotten out right away, within the first six months, they

probably would have gotten away with not having too much of a problem afterwards.

But because they stayed so long, an attachment does form.

You have to fight the battle where it starts.

If you move away, then this thing will just torment you for the rest of your

life. You're all going to die.

That was really disturbing.

I knew this thing could follow me and wreak more havoc on my life.

I was concerned about them being in the house.

Jay seemed generally afraid and concerned for his family.

He was overwhelmed by it.

It was almost consuming him.

Jay turns to his faith for strength.

I always become more religious.

If something's out to hurt me and it's negative, I'm going to go in the

opposite direction and become stronger with my faith.

Bob reassures Jay that he will bring over a Dominican Order bishop who is a

world-renowned exorcist.

The bishop can't come right away.

The Aples have no choice but to wait, hoping the haunting will not grow more

dangerous.

I don't want to go in that house.

I know.

All right, girls.

Here, Dolly.

Watch your fingers.

Okay, you ready? Hi, hon.

I'm going to go get the mail. Okay.

Papa? Yeah, baby?

Casey's getting mad.

Casey's your imaginary friend, right?

You have to tell Jesus to stay away from the house.

I said, why would you say that? Riley says to me, she goes, Casey doesn't like

you, Papa.

That's not a very nice thing for Casey to say, sweetheart.

Casey is bad.

All right?

I don't think you should listen to her.

In suburban Connecticut...

The Yabel family is tormented by a shape-changing demon some call a

Wendigo.

Their best hope is to have a world-renowned bishop perform an

exorcism of the house, an ancient ritual to cast out demons.

The bishop reassures the family he will come as soon as he's able, but it won't

be soon enough.

Papa? Yeah, baby?

Casey's getting mad.

All of a sudden, you can hear the truck start rolling backwards, and Elka almost

goes under the wheel.

Jay! Elka! The truck would have rolled over Elka and actually killed her.

Are you okay?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Are you all right?

Jay now realizes the twins have been interacting with an evil entity.

but feels powerless to stop it.

The imaginary friend Casey was becoming more and more dangerous.

So now I'm totally desperate.

I'm worried about my children.

I'm worried about Elka. She almost got killed.

Now I really need to have an exorcist come in.

The day comes when the bishop arrives to perform an exorcism of the house.

Are you girls ready for the baptism?

He begins by re-baptizing Alex and Riley.

We already had them baptized.

I baptize thee in the name of the Father, the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.

And he says, no, he goes, they're being baptized by me.

And the Holy Spirit.

The bishop talked to Riley about the imaginary friends, and then he took a

stumble and made the sandal across over her and told her not to speak any more

of them, that they cannot hurt her or touch her, and to let them go.

Glorious Father.

Then the bishop begins the rite of exorcism.

Save this servant from the enemy.

Glorious Father, save

thy servant from the enemy.

Gloria Patre. James!

Save this servant from the enemy.

When the bishop first came in, the house was tense and very angry.

And then after he left, the house felt calm and mild.

We noticed an immediate change in the house. It felt lighter.

He does. He mows the grass.

Food.

Drinks.

You read my mind.

Elka noticed the change.

She was like, I actually kind of feel good. You know, you spilled some on the

table. You know? That's all right. It's painful.

If that's the worst that happens, I think we're okay.

After everything we've been through?

Everything's back to normal.

Since that day, paranormal activity has returned to the Yapel house.

The bishop, I believe, did weaken it to the point where we can actually live in

the house.

The ultimate mystery, whether a demon somehow entered the home and triggered

years of violence, or if various violent events somehow attracted a demon, is

one that will likely never be solved.

The violence in that house was just so overwhelming over the years.

I believe there was probably a demon in this house right from the beginning.

The Apos plan to move once they can sell the house.

I would hope they move.

We'd burn the house to the ground, one of the two.

And I don't know how you get rid of it. You can't kill, you can't blow it up. We

gotta pray.

That's all we have left.

It's so hard to live with it.

You want to get out, you pray, somebody will come up and say, hey, I'll buy your

house for you, move.

I wish the town would just buy it or someone would buy it and just destroy

it.

Until then, Jay Yaple's soldier's on.

I'm fighting an endless war against something that's unseen, and I have no

defense over it. I just have to keep my eyes open.