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A teenager experiments with witchcraft.

Echo, Echo, Azarak.

What are you afraid of?

And attracts danger into her home.

It's here.

It did not look human.

The evil is coming.

This thing picked my mom up and slammed her up and down on those stairs.

Can they stop it before it's too late?

They were all in danger. It was after my family.

It was terrifying.

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.

Nestled along the Cook Inlet, just outside of Anchorage, Alaska, lies an

area with a long history of trading and mining.

It's the kind of place where people come to get away from the hustle of the lower

48.

Cindy and Harold Murphy moved here 11 years ago from Las Vegas.

Coming up to Alaska was a dream that both my husband and I had always, you

know. Various times in our lives, I thought it'd be kind of neat to be up

here. It was everything that we were looking for. It wasn't as big. It wasn't

as populated.

Everybody seemed so friendly.

We looked all around Anchorage and, like, no, Anchorage is just another

city. I don't want city life. I want to get out, get a little rural environment,

a little more laid-back atmosphere.

Up here, you can say hi, and then you wind up with a two-hour conversation,

which appealed to me when we came up here.

The couple lives with their daughter, Annie, and Cindy's mother, Judy.

Hey, sweetie.

Oh, hey.

How was your day? Oh, it was great.

I'm a currently stay-at-home mom and caregiver, taking care of my teenage

daughter and my mom.

Yeah, we took Mom to the doctor. She got a new prescription, and it was good.

How was your day at work? Did you get the restaurant all set up?

Almost. We should finish up tomorrow.

Harold had his own business.

He was a commercial cooking equipment technician.

When I first moved up here, I mean, I would put in probably 80 hours a week,

but with my cell phone, I was on call 24-7, 365 days a year.

Harold, Cindy, and Annie live in the main house while Judy lives next door.

This is ideal because she could have her home, I could have mine, we're still

close enough.

My mom really does love her independence.

Judy fell in love with it because there was two separate living quarters on it.

I wish she could be with us but have her own privacy.

We all stayed together. That was the one thing that my husband insisted on. He

did not want to come between what my mom and I have had.

We're very, very close.

But for Cindy's teenage daughter, Annie, Alaska brings not only new surroundings,

but also a new interest in witchcraft.

Honey, I have some orange juice for you.

Did one of you guys come into my room last night?

No, uh-uh. No?

I just sworn I heard something.

She would hear things, and she would just feel overall uncomfortable.

Well, what'd you hear?

Never mind.

My daughter was a typical teenager.

And I wouldn't elaborate, so I didn't worry too much about it.

And we pretty much dismissed it.

Do you have a big day at school today?

Yeah, I have a test, actually.

OK.

Well, OK, I'm going to take the food over to Grandma's. You better get going

if you're going to make the bus, OK?

I'll pick you up around 4.

Fine.

Bye.

One night, as her grandmother sleeps nearby, Annie and her new friend stay up

late. My daughter is a night owl. She doesn't sleep at night. Neither do her

friends. So they were out in the yard watching the stars and talking and, you

know, teenage girls are.

Did I tell you that my family is going to California for Christmas?

No way.

Yes. Oh, my God. I'm so jealous.

And you should be.

Now, are you ready to try this again?

I don't know.

What are you afraid of?

Echo, Echo, Azorak.

Echo, Echo, Zomelak.

Echo, Echo, Azorak.

Echo, Echo, Zomelak Echo, Echo,

Azeroth Echo, Echo, Zomelak

Echo, Echo, Azeroth

Echo, Echo, Zomelak Echo,

Echo, Azeroth Echo, Echo, Zomelak

What was that?

Nothing, I'm sure.

It was just an animal.

I don't want to do this anymore.

What?

No, I'm sorry.

Fine.

Come on, let's just go inside.

It's getting cold out here anyways.

After experimenting with witchcraft, 16-year-old Annie Murphy starts to feel

uneasy in her new home.

Annie decides to keep the eerie experiences to herself.

I was concerned about my daughter.

When I asked her what was going on, almost immediately she would clam up

about it. She didn't want to talk about it.

Late one night, while her friend recites a new spell.

Echo, Echo, Azorak.

Echo, Echo, Zomalak.

Echo, Echo, Azorak.

Echo, Echo, Zomalak.

Annie suddenly feels a presence watching them.

Zomalak.

Echo, Echo, Azarap.

Echo, Echo, Zoma.

I don't want to do this anymore.

Come on, let's just go inside.

It's getting cold out here anyways.

Oh, my God.

Hey, girls.

What's going on?

We saw this face in the window.

They said they saw a face looking out the window of my mom's home.

Well, it was Grandma.

You probably woke her up. No, no, Mom. I know it wasn't Grandma.

They were very uncomfortable.

Her friend loved coming over and spending the night with Annie and stuff,

but they didn't want to be left alone.

They were really scared of it.

Cindy reassures the teens that it was just their imagination.

My daughter thought the house was haunted.

They were out in the yard. It was the middle of the night. Of course, they

were gonna get the creeps. Let's go inside. It's getting cold out, okay?

Come on.

I just thought, you know, she was acting like your typical teenager.

The next day, Cindy checks in on her mom.

It's just me.

Mom, I brought some lunch over.

Mom?

Mom? Where are you?

Have you seen my watch?

I can't imagine where it went to.

I left it right there last night.

I don't know what I've done with it now.

I've looked everywhere for it.

Where in the world have I put that watch?

Oh, there it is.

My mom, she just, all of a sudden, you know, she was acting like something was

off.

She would ask the same question two or three times and not realize she just

asked it. It was totally unlike her.

Mom, you need to take it easy, okay?

Okay. I'm just tired.

Oh, listen,

I forgot to ask you, but did you go up in the loft last night?

No, I went to bed early.

Hmm. Well, Annie and her friends thought they saw you up there.

No.

Okay, well, just be careful. It's not safe up there.

Not safe?

Well, I mean, the stairs aren't safe. Oh. Okay?

Mom was sound asleep in her bed. She hadn't gone up. She insisted. She was

sleeping downstairs.

I'll be right back.

Despite her growing unease with witchcraft, Annie continues her secret

interest late into the night.

Sweetie, you're still up. It's time to go to bed.

Okay, Mom. You know I don't appreciate you just barging into my room.

I was concerned about what was going on with my daughter. I just could feel

something was not right.

Listen, sweetie.

I love you, even though you are a teenager.

Now go to bed.

I love you.

Okay?

Night-night.

Annie, what's wrong?

We don't have anything to eat.

Well, honey, I'm going to make supper right now, okay? Do you mind helping?

Fine.

You'll get the plates and the silverware.

Annie.

What?

My daughter would go into uncontrollable rages.

I used to say she flip-flopped. She would actually take on a different

physical appearance.

That was totally unlike her and she would say things that were totally

unlike her Anything else do you mind getting the sauce and opening

it for me, please?

For the past few weeks, 16-year-old Annie Murphy has been acting

irrationally. We saw this face in the window. I was grappling with trying to

understand what was going on with my daughter.

Echo, Echo, Azura. Her parents have no idea she's been experimenting with

witchcraft.

I just could feel like something's not right.

Just leave me alone.

Annie?

Annie?

It just got to the point where no matter what you said to her, she would argue

with you about it.

And then she would storm out of the room.

After a half hour, she'd come back and says, I don't know what I said.

I don't know why I acted that way.

You could definitely feel... The tension and the oppression in the atmosphere.

It was really hard to be in a good mood and stay positive.

Most times it was impossible.

Cindy also begins to notice a change in her mom.

Got some tea.

That looks good. Thanks so much, Anit. You're welcome.

My mom's self-confidence and physical and emotional state kind of started

deteriorating. I was...

Asking all of her doctors, especially the one who prescribed most of the meds

for the high blood pressure and stuff. Are you sure that this isn't, you know,

a side effect?

I'm so excited about adding a few new pieces in here. I am too, but let's

don't spend too much money, please. No, we're not. But then what color do you

think we should make the couch in? Honey, you make the choice.

My mom had collected shot glasses for years.

This one just shattered.

Right where it was.

Broke.

For no reason.

Mom?

What is it? There's someone else in here.

She says, you're not going to believe this, but I just saw something shadowy,

dark, and I know I'm not seeing things.

Cindy doesn't know what to think.

Now her daughter and her mother claim they've seen something unexplainable in

the cottage.

Cindy decides it's time to tell her husband.

I went to him and...

We talked about it with my mom. He wanted to make it okay with me because

he knew I was upset and I was worried for my mom.

How is she feeling?

I think okay.

Cindy was constantly concerned and distressed at watching your mother go

downhill physically.

It's a frightening thought to a daughter. I mean, because you start to

realize, well, there's a mortality involved. Your mother's not going to be

around all the time.

But Harold senses that Cindy has more on her mind than her mother's health.

What about Annie?

Well, she thinks Mom's cabin is haunted.

Haunted?

What if she's right?

I think there are a lot of possibilities to cross off the list before we get to

that one.

And then that's when she told me she thought we had a problem with Paranormal

over there.

As far as Paranormal goes, I really didn't put much credence into it. I

didn't really put much faith.

The fact that it really existed, I wasn't really worried about it. I just

put it off as, okay, it's teenage girls, you know.

He wasn't really a believer.

He thought I was making something out of nothing.

The activity increases to nearly daily disturbances.

She would call me almost every night. Things would get knocking around, and

she'd give me a call going, it's starting, and I would run over there,

and this went on for months.

Cindy's mom requires constant monitoring.

Hey, Mom?

Yes, honey?

I'm just calling to make sure you're okay. I'm going to bed soon.

I dug out the walkie-talkies and charged them up so that we would be in constant

contact because I wanted to be able to check on her, and I wanted her to be

able to get a hold of me if something was going on.

Well, call if you need anything. I'm gonna leave this on.

Sleep well.

I think it did give her a little peace of mind. I know it gave me a little

peace of mind that she could reach me.

On the outskirts of Anchorage, Alaska, a family's happiness has been disrupted by

troubling events.

Echo, Echo, Azarach.

After 16-year-old Annie Murphy begins secretly experimenting with witchcraft.

Look, in the window. Oh, my God.

Both she and her grandmother believe they've seen a ghost.

Mom, what is it? There's someone else in here. What?

There were a lot of times when my mom didn't know what was happening.

I was fighting the thought that, oh, my mom's just getting older.

You've got to come with me.

She had not been that clear-headed, and she was confused, and she was doubting

herself.

Concern for her mom, who lives next door.

Hey, Mom?

Cindy keeps in touch via walkie-talkie.

Yes, honey?

I'm just calling to make sure you're okay. I'm going to bed soon.

Me too.

We'll call if you need anything.

Okay, sweetheart.

I was upset, and I was worried for my mom.

Good morning.

Mom, it's me.

Mom, are you ready for your doctor's appointment?

It's like waking up to your worst nightmare.

She looked like someone had just totally beat her down.

When I tried to get her up, she couldn't get up. And it's like, okay, that's it.

I'm calling 911.

I need an ambulance, please.

It's my mom. She's fallen.

Mom, are you okay?

Mom, can you tell me what happened? Yes, she's breathing, but she's not answering

me. Mom, please hurry.

Please.

Judy is rushed to the local hospital.

Mom, I am so sorry.

What in the world happened to you?

Oh, my gosh.

What is this?

When I started seeing...

The injuries she had when she was in the hospital, I was panicking. You could see

where somebody had gripped her arm so tight they almost broke the skin.

Honey, look at this!

Who did that?

It wasn't scratched.

There was no blood. But if you take your fingernail and just push on your wrist

and hold it down, you're going to leave an impression of the shape of a

fingernail.

Mom, what in the world?

Are you comfortable?

Your back hurts?

Okay, let me fluff your pillow, okay?

Oh my gosh!

Oh my gosh! What is this?

She had a huge, wide scratch on her back.

I was terrified.

It looked like somebody had beaten my mom up.

Nurse! The nurses and the doctors weren't really looking at the bruises

and the scratches and the scrapes. She was in renal failure.

So that's what they were concentrating on. At one point, her heart started

beating too fast, so they had to stop her heart and start it again.

I mean, she really went through the ringer there.

Nurse! Could someone please come in?

Is everything okay?

No! Look at this!

I'm gonna grab a doctor, okay?

Okay.

Oh, Mom.

My goodness, what in the world happened to you?

During that time...

I was an emotional wreck.

I am so sorry.

While Judy remains in a state of shock, Cindy desperately tries to figure out

who or what attacked her mother.

But with no signs of a break-in, Cindy begins to wonder if her mother and

daughter are right.

Could their property be haunted?

I was angry. I was trying to find out what happened. A lot of the things

didn't seem to have any explanation.

After a week in intensive care, Grandma Judy returns home.

Judy's granddaughter Annie has been troubled by a dark entity ever since she

started experimenting with witchcraft.

Could she have unleashed the evil plaguing her family?

Hey, honey.

How's she doing?

She's been sleeping for a few hours now.

Well, why don't you go? I'll stay, okay? Because your friends have been calling.

I just feel so bad, Mom.

Oh, honey, it's not your fault.

Grandma's going to be okay, right?

Yeah, Grandma's going to be okay.

I was on a mission after that point to make sure she was cared for and would

never wind up in that position again.

Mom?

Mom, can you tell me what happened?

Mom, I can't help you if you don't tell me what happened.

Upstairs.

It was like somebody snapped their fingers and woke her up.

I heard something upstairs.

She says, it picked me up and was slamming me up and down.

She couldn't see anything.

And yet she could feel it grabbing her and picking her up and slamming her, and

it just kept coming back.

Outside of Anchorage, Alaska, Cindy Murphy's mother, Judy, has been

viciously attacked by what she believes to be a dark entity with evil

intentions.

Mom!

Oh my God, Mom!

She told me that this thing picked her up and slammed her up and down two or

three times.

I think it's because she was in a weakened state that this thing thought

it was okay to attack her.

I was afraid for my family because it was getting progressively stronger and

worse.

Although Cindy's husband, Harold, is not convinced, he conducts research on the

paranormal.

He orders a digital recorder, often used by investigators to capture electronic

voice phenomena or spirit voices.

Well, in my mind, the only way I could solve the problem was first get an

understanding of it.

I spent probably three weeks online on the Internet checking with all the

paranormal groups around the country, all the equipment involved.

Testing 1-2. Testing 1-2.

Testing 1-2. Testing 1-2.

My husband is a problem solver. He's very analytical.

If you have a mystery, he wants to solve it.

What you doing, honey?

Just reading up.

Well, don't you think we need to ask somebody in that knows what they're

doing?

I'm not inviting a stranger into our home until I know for sure that this is

real.

I have a lot of faith in my wife.

And when she said she had serious concerns, okay, I'm going to find out if

there's something to worry about or not.

Be careful, okay?

Being a skeptic, I bought the EVP recorder pretty much to disprove there

was anything to worry about.

Though he remains skeptical, Harold sets up a camera and the EVP recorder in his

mother-in-law's cottage.

Is anyone here?

What do you want?

Sitting there, you don't feel nothing. To me, it was about as boring as sitting

in a dark closet with nothing going on, you know, about that exciting.

Suddenly... The walkie-talkie he's been using to communicate with Cindy loses

power. Cindy?

Cindy?

I had the walkie-talkie charged for seven hours. It was totally charged, and

it was good for 12-hour operating time.

Instantly, it beeped low battery.

Something's here. Give me a sign.

and get him away while I'm hurt.

That's when I realized there was a serious problem there.

There was no doubt that it was haunted.

Harold now believes his family is in danger.

I told Cindy to go online and let's find a group that will actually deal with the

situation and remove the entity.

Harold and Cindy convince Judy to move in with them.

I was scared. I wanted her out of there. I wanted her over at my house.

It was like walking on eggshells. You were always on guard.

There was no, you know, relaxing.

You wanted to make sure you didn't miss something or turn your back the wrong

time. We knew we needed help.

After months of tension and fear, paranormal technology investigations

come to investigate the haunting.

When I arrived, you could tell that they were just very terrified, and their

voices would crack sometimes when they talked, and they were just very

concerned about the situation that they were in.

Based on everything the family has told Rob, He believes he knows what kind of

entity is roaming the house.

The incidences that you've described to me lead me to believe that you do have a

demonic presence in your house.

Demonic?

Being levitated and slammed down on the ground three different times and seeing

the images of this dark figure in their home.

It was definitely something demonic.

I was worried, frightened.

It's more like a realization that there's things beyond your control.

Has anyone in your family ever been involved in any occult practices?

The spirit board, tarot cards, anything like that?

He was trying to figure out, what's bringing all this on?

And then he asked me, point blank, is your daughter dealing with anything in

witchcraft?

Come to find out, she had played around with the Wicca with her girlfriends and

decided, no, that's not for me to quit.

No.

Now, whether that created the situation or just helped fuel what was already

there, I'll never know.

Rob believes there is no time to waste.

He recommends the team perform a ritual in Judy's home next door.

to exorcise the demon immediately.

This demon, we believed it was making Annie become very aggressive and

defiant.

This just elevated until it had become pretty much out of control.

I think that this thing was fueling her rages and feeding off of her.

When we walked into the home, we could feel an overwhelming, not a sadness, but

like a depression.

Okay, can you start with the sage? And I'd like as much light in this room.

Open the curtains, light the candles.

Something was lurking over your shoulders.

Something was watching you, and it didn't want you there.

I'm going to need you to remain in continuous prayer with me.

Okay.

We consecrate this room in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the

Holy Spirit.

We command all evil spirits to leave this place at once.

We really felt the presence of something very negative.

And I turned my head and looked.

I see this black shadow bigger.

It's here.

And it did not look human.

We command all evil spirits who are here to leave this place at once.

For more than a year, the Murphy family has been terrified by a violent demon

haunting their property.

A paranormal investigator believes their 16-year-old daughter, Annie, attracted

the demon when she dabbled in witchcraft.

This opened the doorway up for something very evil to come through.

Rob and his team have no time to waste.

I'm going to need you to remain in continuous prayer with me.

They declare war on the demon and prepare to exercise it from the home.

This was something that needed to be addressed immediately.

They were all in danger.

It's here.

Once you start an exorcism, you can't stop.

You have to complete this exorcism. We consecrate this room in the name of the

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

We command all evil spirits who are here to leave this place at once!

The dangers in a human spirit is more psychological than it is physical.

They'll play more mind games with you. The dangers in a demonic, that's another

ball game.

That's a non-human entity. They don't have to have energy.

Their energy is biblical.

This demon, he didn't want to leave. He didn't like what we were doing. He

didn't like what I was saying.

I was his worst enemy.

We need to continue. You need to reclaim your home.

The evil is still here.

But you can start feeling the real heaviness at that point. I mean, you

know something's there, but it's like the room's closing in on you.

The air got thicker.

I thought someone was going to call the fire department.

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.

Thy kingdom come.

Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory forever and ever.

Amen.

It was a figure of a person.

It had legs, it had arms, but it didn't look like a human.

We actually seen this entity shoot out the front door.

The evil has left this room.

You could just feel the difference in energy.

You could feel everything changed.

We believe that it's gone, it's permanently gone.

It was almost like walking out from a dark building into the sunshine.

A weight had been lifted off of our shoulders.

Everything around us seems to be a lot more airy. There's no oppressing

feeling. Now it's just like a breath of spring air.

It's now been a year since the terrible ordeal.

I know.

Each family member is healing in their own way.

Let's pray.

Lord,

thank you so much for everything you've done for us. Thank you for protecting

our family.

Annie never fooled with witchcraft again.

My daughter and I came through that, and we're getting better.

And I'm very proud of her and what she's making of herself.

At this point, my mom has definitely moved past it.

She doesn't live in fear anymore.

She's been in her own home for almost a year and hasn't had any problems.

And, you know, she's loving her life.

Lord, just thank you for the time we have together.

And thank you for Cindy's great cooking.

Amen. Amen.

It is wonderful to have our life back.

Thank you, Mom.

Oh, honey, you're welcome.

I know for a fact that there's a definite battle between good and evil,

that there's a spiritual world that we cannot see all around us all the time.

And there are things that are fighting for our very souls.

Because of this experience, my perception in life will never be the

same as it was.

I'll tell anybody, don't dismiss the paranormal.

What you don't know can hurt you.