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A restless soul with a painful secret.

Is anyone there?

Attempts to make contact with the living.

All of a sudden I heard the piano play by itself.

Is this simply a ghost in distress?

There was a teenager in town who fell off of a water tower.

There was lots of different rumors about what had happened.

He didn't fall.

He was pushed.

or an evil entity out for revenge.

We were mortified. We didn't know what to do. There's something not human in

our house.

There was someone in here, Dad!

I'm not crazy!

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.

Outside of New Haven lies the quintessential all-American town.

Campbell is a nice little beach town.

It has a lot of tourists in the summer, so it gets busy. During the winter,

there's not a lot of people, but we have great schools and a very nice little

community.

And Macy Sherman is the typical all-American teenager.

We all know each other. We've all grown up together, and we are like a little

family. Campbell is my safe haven. It's like nothing ever happens.

But in 2014...

the year of her 17th birthday, that all changed.

Mom?

Dad?

Kelsey? Is anyone there?

What a fun morning. Yeah. Happy birthday, darling.

Thanks. Macy sits down to a birthday celebration with her parents and younger

sister.

My family and I, we're all very close, and I do feel super lucky to be so close

to them.

I would describe Macy as my little working girl. She's very ambitious.

I'm very proud of her.

Oh, this is so cute.

I helped mom pick it out. Thank you.

Me and Macy are typical sisters. I mean, sometimes we're best friends and

sometimes we're enemies, but she's always there for me when I need her.

She's a good person.

And this one is for me.

Macy is a wonderful child. She's very smart. She's outgoing, adventurous,

loves to laugh.

Mom.

It's beautiful.

Thank you.

The locket has been fitted with photos of Macy and her mother Carrie, both at

age 17.

Side by side, their resemblance is almost eerie.

I love it.

Thank you. Look.

Who is that?

That's Mom, you dork.

It's me on my 17th birthday.

Wow, you guys could be twins.

Yeah.

Macy resembles me when I was her age. She has dark hair, freckles, hazel eyes,

same as I do.

I love it. I can't wait to try it on. Nigel's gonna love it.

Hey, I'll make up my stuff, okay?

That night, Macy meets up with friends. What's going on, guys?

Let's drink to that. All right.

I have a present for you, but I forgot it. Thanks.

What? How could you forget it?

Well, I didn't want to lose it out here.

Thank you. What did you put in this? I don't know. I forgot her present.

Maybe. You totally would.

Guys, guys, this is a really cool spot.

We've never been here before.

You've never been to the water tower?

I thought everybody knew about this place.

So then you've probably never heard the story.

of the campbell water tower the real story wasn't it some kid fell off the

tower and it was all mysterious like the police could never figure out what

really happened i learned about what happened to the water tower one night

and how there's a boy who tragically died there and this is the first time

that i heard about it the tragedy happened nearly 25 years prior when

macy's parents were in high school Well, that's just it. You know, he didn't

fall. He was pushed.

And they say that his murderer is still running loose around Campbell till this

day.

I think I heard something.

Oh, please.

Why are you laughing at me? You're so dramatic.

Crazy.

Shut up. You are a fool. That's why you fail all your quizzes. You're stupid.

How do y'all think you did on the English quiz?

Hey, Mom.

Yeah.

I said I know, okay? I... Sorry.

Okay, I'm coming.

I know. I know.

Okay, bye.

Are you okay?

Old school.

Totally old school. Hey, we need to go.

What? No way. It's early.

My mom wants me home. We have to go.

But we just got here.

And besides... In just a minute,

I'll be in no shape for driving.

Whatever. Hey, Macy, don't be like that! Happy birthday.

I walked down the street and I just heard footsteps.

Charlotte?

Is that you?

I was kind of hoping it was one of my friends trying to sketch me out or

something.

I just felt this presence.

I could just feel it behind me. And like the hair on the back of my neck was

standing up.

17-year-old Macy Sherman senses that she's being followed.

I knew I felt something else with me.

Whoa!

Are you okay?

Mommy scared the crap out of me.

Where's Nigel? I thought he was dropping you off.

No, he's still at the party.

Party?

I thought you were going to the movies.

Where were you?

It was after the show. We went to a party in the woods by the old water

tower.

The water tower.

What were you doing there?

Macy, I don't want you hanging out any place near there.

Why?

Around the time that I was in high school, there was a teenager in town who

fell off of a water tower.

There was lots of different rumors going around about what had happened at the

water tower, but nobody knew for sure.

Because I've said so.

My mom didn't want to talk about it, I think, because she didn't want to scare

me.

The following morning, Macy prepares for a typical busy day.

During high school, I was on a lot of sports teams. I hung out with my friends

a lot.

I wasn't sitting at home. We were always out doing something, whether it was

hiking or going to the movies. We went to concerts.

I was just brushing my hair that I saw the closet light was on.

It was very weird because I never turn it on.

The light from my room is on enough where I don't need to use the closet

light.

Macy's boyfriend calls to check on her.

What do you want?

No, you were being a jerk.

I had to walk home by myself.

On my birthday.

I gotta go.

Okay? I'm late.

Bye.

My eyes were off that... brush for probably 20 seconds.

And I came back and it was gone.

I knew I put it on my dresser, and I just, I looked for it everywhere and I

couldn't find it.

Macy, let's go!

You're gonna be late!

Macy! I'm coming!

There's no explanation for this, so I was just like, whatever.

One night, Carrie's husband, Mike, works the late shift, leaving his wife in

charge.

With Mike being gone so much, I was the one who always had to take care of the

kids, take care of the house.

And I started hearing somebody walking up and down the stairs.

Hello?

Somebody there?

I thought somebody had come in the door, so I yelled out to see if anybody was

there. Is somebody there?

And nobody responded back to me.

I looked up and down the stairs, looked in all the rooms, looked everywhere, and

there was nobody in the house.

I thought maybe I was just hearing something.

There was a large mirror that sits in our foyer and just was resting up

against the wall.

What was weird is that it sounded like the mirror crashed and smashed into a

million pieces, but it didn't.

After Carrie Sherman finds a fallen mirror still intact, strange events

begin unfolding in her once peaceful household.

I started to notice more and more of hearing footsteps going up and down the

stairs.

Lights would go off by themselves.

I was a little nervous, perplexed, because of the weird things that were

going on.

the amount of times that it was happening was starting to increase.

Carrie is not the only member of the family who feels uneasy.

Her daughter, Macy, has been sensing a presence in her room.

I was coming home from school to change for field hockey, and no one was home.

My parents were both working. My sister was still at school.

Kelsey? When I heard the laughter, I kind of did like a double take.

And I was like, did I just hear that?

Stop screwing around.

Suddenly, Macy spots her missing hairbrush.

I was really shocked when I saw my hairbrush in the corner.

It was just really strange to find it there.

I really had no idea what was going on.

I tried to ignore the feeling that there was something in the house that could

have been a ghost.

And I tried to say, oh, no, like, you're just being scared. Like, just stop.

For the next few days, Macy is on edge.

It was late one night, and I was coming home, and the lights were on in the

garage.

Hey, Dad?

My dad is a mechanic, but he also does a lot of things on the side, so it's

completely normal for him to be out in the garage.

Hey, Dad?

Sorry, I'm late. I was with Charlotte. I just didn't check the time.

I was like, Dad, like, hello, like, hi, I'm home.

I'm gonna go take a shower and go to bed.

Okay?

Night.

I got no answer, and I was like, okay, like, whatever.

Hey, just in time to help me with the dishes.

I was very shocked that I saw him, and I started freaking out.

Are you messing with me?

I swear, I just saw you in the garage.

And he was like, no, I've been up here.

I just finished up a car a couple of hours ago, and then your mother put me

to work here.

She goes, I swear, you were out there. You were working in a garage.

No, I was talking to you. You were there.

I really thought that was my dad. Like, I was very convinced it was my dad.

She was freaked out quite a bit.

There's no one here, Macy.

To me, that was like, okay, it's a little odd.

She caught a sighting. There's nobody in there.

Look, I'm sure you thought you saw something, or whatever it was. It wasn't

me.

I saw something with my own two eyes, and I knew what I saw.

I was trying to rationalize it rather than, you know, think it was something

paranormal. I never kind of really believed in that.

Come on, bedtime.

Dad, there was someone in here.

I was almost in tears because I was so scared.

Once it started registering in my head, it got more creepy.

I really started to believe that there was something else, maybe not human, in

our house.

Macy Sherman has felt an unsettling presence watching her every move.

Whatever was in the house was targeting me, and I don't know why, but that's

exactly how I felt.

I didn't want to talk about it because it was just an unreal experience.

I felt very isolated and a little bit alone because I didn't want everyone to

be like, you're crazy.

That weekend, with her father out of town and her mother working,

Macy makes plans to stay at a friend's.

I never wanted to go home. I would always stay out as late as I could.

I stayed away from the house as much as possible.

Where are you going?

You're leaving again?

Mom and Dad are going to kill you.

Mom and Dad aren't here.

And I'm not staying in this house.

You're never here anymore. It's not fair.

I was sad and kind of angry because she never wanted to be home.

Please don't leave me.

Not by myself.

Look, something's going on in this house.

Something... not right.

Just... please, just don't tell Mom.

I promise I'll text her.

I thought something was weird. I mean, I didn't really understand it. But I can

tell my sister's freaked out.

I had this old radio and the radio started scrolling through the channels

by itself.

The music would just stop and then another song would come on at a

different station and then it would do it again.

Is that you?

Is anyone there?

All of a sudden, I heard the piano play.

I walked into the room, and the piano was playing by itself.

I stopped in my tracks.

I was so scared that I couldn't breathe.

But I was just in shock.

Nobody was in the room with us. It was just Kelsey and I. And we could see the

keys playing.

We were mortified. We were shaking. She was crying. We didn't know what to do.

It was very overwhelming for both of us. It's OK.

It's OK.

And that was my defining moment where I knew that something was going on in our

house and that it was more than any light going on and off, any footsteps in

our house.

There was really something.

The women of the house decide to call a meeting where Macy finally shares her

side of the story.

And then one day I put my hairbrush down and we talked about everything that has

happened to us and it all kind of came together.

I find it later in the back of my closet.

At first it was just me and I didn't realize that like, okay, well it's not

affecting the rest of my family, but now it is.

I thought it was Kelsey, but then when I actually went into the closet, there was

no one there.

Chelsea, tell her what happened to you.

I was in my room listening to my radio and all of a sudden it just changed

channels to this weird music and then I went downstairs and the piano was

playing by itself.

I walked in and I saw it too.

We all kind of combined our stories and figured it out that there definitely was

a spirit in our house.

But I've been hearing footsteps and then the mirror fell off the wall.

The girls and I really started to get nervous and worried because we didn't

know what to expect.

I'll be okay.

Mike wasn't home, so it was just us three that had to deal with whatever was

going on at the house.

That night, Mike returns from his trip.

Hey, you're home.

Hi, babe.

Yeah, we were able to wrap things up early.

I'm glad I'm back.

Kerry decides to hold off on telling him what's been going on until the morning.

Come to bed.

Mike, you're freezing.

Get over here and warm up.

I love you.

I love you too.

Carrie Sherman believes her house is haunted, but is trying to find the right

time to tell her husband.

I was laying in bed, and Mike walked into the bedroom.

I was really nervous to tell him what was going on in our house at that time.

I love you.

I love you, too.

And when I rolled over, he was no longer there.

Carrie called me. She's like, where are you? And I said, we're already down in

New Jersey.

New Jersey?

Are you okay?

Carrie? No, you were just here.

You were in the room.

She was freaking out. She said, I could swear you were in bed next to me.

Carrie, baby, it's just a bad dream.

Carrie? I didn't know what was going on.

Hey, hello?

You think of a ghost, you think of an apparition. You don't think of something

tangible that you can feel.

But I knew that I was not dreaming.

There was somebody in the bed with me. I can't even describe how terrified I was.

Carrie, what's going on?

Carrie!

After Mike comes home, Carrie describes how his family has been living in fear

and tries to convince her husband they need help.

It's going to be okay.

Mike, something's wrong with the house.

There are things that are happening.

Things that we can't explain.

What are you talking about?

The piano played by itself.

And Macy is afraid to go into her own room.

And last night, something was in bed with me.

I told you. It was a nightmare.

Don't be so dramatic.

I do believe in spirits and stuff, but I never thought of them as, you know,

ghosts going through your home, moving things, or, you know...

Turning on light switches.

No, you're not listening.

I'm terrified.

And the girls are terrified.

We need to get some help.

What do you want me to say, Carrie?

That the house is haunted?

That ghosts live here? Is that it? Come on, don't be ridiculous.

It was extremely frustrating because he's the man of the house. He should be

the one that's taking care of the situation.

Okay.

I'm sorry.

You're right. Don't worry.

We'll fix this.

At that point, Mike was accepting to having somebody come into our house and

see what was going on.

After enduring strange occurrences for months, the Shermans reach out to

professionals. The name of the paranormal group is Ghosts of New

England Research Society.

GORNERS for short.

And our mission is to help people who are troubled by paranormal activity in

their lives. Come on in.

We're going to be going through your house room by room to see if we can pick

up any sense of paranormal activity.

We were finally going to get answers to the questions that we had been

experiencing all along.

Were we, you know, really seeing this? Was this really happening in our house?

Kurt?

The psychic medium's sixth sense leads her to Macy's room.

I immediately felt that pair of eyes on me, and so I thought to myself, okay,

now I've got to find it, because it's going to be a game of hide-and-go-seek

all night long.

And it's going to either show itself immediately, or it's going to hide.

We are here in the Sherman house in Campbell, Connecticut.

It is 3.38 p.m., and Karen has sent

something in Macy's room.

Karen senses that the spirit has a special connection with Macy.

Since it's latched on to Macy, why don't we have her talk to it?

My impression was that whomever or whatever it was was enamored with her.

What would I even say?

Just ask a question.

Are you the one that keeps turning the light on in my closet?

Yes. And you could hear it as easily as you and I talking.

Who are you?

I said to him, who are you? What do you want?

And I heard, I'm Sean.

So I said, okay, Sean, what do you want to say to us? Because clearly you want

to be heard.

Suddenly, Karen has a vision.

Through her eyes.

Sean recounts the story of what happened to him and another boy at the local

water tower nearly 25 years ago.

Dude, come on. Don't be such a little baby.

I don't know, man. I don't want to get in trouble.

Live a little.

You've never seen Campbell until you've seen the view from up here.

Pretty great, right?

Do you come up here a lot?

I'll bring a girl or two.

It's a long way down.

Come on, let's get out of here.

Don't let me go. I won't. Hold on.

Who are you?

Psychic medium Karen Hollis has made contact with the ghost haunting the

Sherman house.

Through a vision, Sean describes the tragedy that took place at the local

water tower years ago.

It's a long way down.

Come on.

Let's get out of here.

Don't let me go. I won't. Hold on.

What's going on?

Karen, what did you see?

I saw a boy.

What I saw was a body falling off of the water tower.

I remember that when we were in high school.

Carrie recalls the moment she found out the boy fell to his death.

I grew up with him. He was a couple years younger than me. I mean, I saw him

around the school and everything. Everybody was so shocked at his life.

ended in such a tragic way but there's more to sean's story

what else do you want to show me i then asked sean in my

mind's eye all right sean so tell me what happened to you after his friend

died sean was wrecked with guilt for convincing him to climb the water tower

in the first place and fell into a depression

He showed me a scene of him sitting in this car that he was just weeping, just

tears of desperation.

I'm so sorry.

This is all my fault.

I never should have made you go up there.

I'm sorry.

He then just showed me blackness, just dark.

In that moment, Karen knows that Sean has passed away, but it isn't clear

whether or not it was accidental or intentional.

I knew that he had died tragically, but I didn't know why or exactly what

happened to him.

Karen gathers the group to discuss her theories.

After Sean and his friend died, Sean's guilt prevented him from resting in

peace.

He was bound here by the tragedy that came about.

He was just devastated about what had happened at the water tower.

The investigators believe that Sean mistook Macy for her mother, whom he

remembered from high school.

Macy, we believe the night that you went to the water tower is the night that

Sean followed you home.

It all started to make sense to me then.

And I started to think, I look a lot like my mom did in high school.

But why did Sean sometimes appear as Mike?

Karen explains that because ghosts are pure energy, they can shapeshift, taking

on different personalities, voices, and even the human form.

They want to feel that human touch again, the way that they used to when

they were alive.

But he doesn't want to hurt you. He doesn't even want to scare you.

It's as if he wants to be part of the family.

I do believe Sean misses his life here on Earth, and I do believe that he meant

no harm in the end.

So what do we do now?

Well, there are a couple of options.

But in a case like this, I'd say just learn to live with it. The best

recommendation I made to the Sherman family was to coexist with it.

When I asked him, do you intend to leave, the feeling that I got from him

was just, you know, I'm here for now.

You can't make a spirit go anywhere.

I don't believe that you can force something if it has a purpose here.

And I think that once Sean gets his fill of being part of that family, he'll

cross over like any other spirit would.

While things have quieted down at the Sherman house, unusual events continue

to occur.

But the family has made peace with Sean.

We hear something, you know, a light switch go on, we just accept it, and

it's just part of us. We live with it every day.

It's different than a normal lifestyle, knowing that there's something there,

but I think that it's good that he finds comfort in our home.

My experience with the paranormal is that there are good spirits that just

want their stories told.

There are bad spirits that just want their stories told.

But we were fortunate enough to be the family that had a good spirit.

I do feel more comfortable in my house. I've made amends with Sean.

He hasn't bothered us as much now that I think we know.

And I think, like, that's all he wanted.