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when a mother's past returns to haunt her i felt like something was going to

attack me complete fear took over an evil entity targets her family

will their faith be enough to save them heavenly father armor me to withstand

evil from the horror that has taken over their home i felt this very vile energy

very angry very hateful

In America, there is real evil.

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

Between the worlds we see... Someone's in my room.

...and the things we fear, there are doors. They are opened.

Nightmares become reality.

All my life, I struggled with childhood memories that overwhelm me with fear.

Interview with Deborah came at A and B marker.

But I was determined not to allow that fear to define me.

It wasn't until my family became a target of the evil

and the hate that I realized I might never escape my past.

In the spring of 2013, Deborah and Brian Utley celebrate their daughter Zoe's

10th birthday.

These are my two little jelly beans.

Oh, you two were so small.

I can't believe how much you've grown.

Going by so fast.

I would describe my family, my children, and my husband as being...

The air I breathe.

They are the reason why I'm here.

You were not happy when we brought your sister home, were you?

I really wanted a dog.

Instead, I got you.

But I was so cute. Yes, you was.

Look, look at that face.

She's got a little face.

Yeah, I guess you were pretty cute back then.

Me and my sister were close when we were younger. I've always been really

protective of Zoe.

Well... When we brought you home, it was one of the happiest days of my life.

What Zoe brought to our life was completeness.

When my wife knew she was having a girl, she was elated. And I was just blessed.

It was going to be healthy.

I feel extremely lucky that I have my mom around and my dad.

We're all pretty close, and we all talk a lot about almost everything.

How old were you here?

Oh, um, about 10.

10? Really?

Uh-huh.

Why do you look so sad?

Hey, look.

There's a cake in there with extra fudge icing. Just got your name all over it.

Let's go. Come on.

You okay?

Yeah, just need a minute, OK?

Oh,

look at this cake.

Who's going to get the first piece?

Me. I had a difficult time as a child.

I felt unworthy of being loved.

I felt lonely, scared that I was deserving of pain

and torment.

All right, let's light the candles.

All right, get your mom in here. Come on.

Mom, come on. I'm gonna blow out my candles.

Coming.

There are some ghosts from the past that stay with us forever.

What are you doing still up?

I just wanted to say I had the best birthday ever.

I love my new doll.

Thanks, Mom.

My mother is very protective and nurturing and caring, and she wants the

best for me.

It is way past your bedtime.

Go on to bed.

Not again.

Oh, man.

We had the whole house rewired, but we noticed that the lights were still

coming on on their own.

It was really strange because I saw the chandelier rock back and forth.

It wasn't a quick sway, but it was a rocking motion back and forth. And I

don't know of anything that would have caused that in our home.

You know, I'm getting tired of this.

Didn't we pay electricians to fix this?

Seems like it's getting worse to me.

Okay. Well, I called a different guy.

He's supposed to be really good. He'll come next week. He'll probably fix the

problem. I certainly hope so.

As a kid at night, I would turn on my closet light and use it as like a

nightlight.

The door was opening on its own.

I didn't think very much of it. I thought I just didn't close the door

hard enough.

Help me.

Unbeknownst to the Utley family, their Pennsylvania home is haunted.

Although Deborah can't see them, She believes there are spiritual forces in

the world, both good and evil.

It was the first time I noticed something was amiss. There was something

out of place.

Good morning, everyone.

I hope everybody had a blessed week.

Who would like to lead us in this morning's opening prayer?

Isaiah? Yes, ma'am.

Dear Lord, bless us as we study and learn about you.

My mom has been very religious since as young as I can remember.

Amen. Amen.

Thank you.

I chose to be extremely active with my church because the people I know who to

reach out to the most that need to be loved the most, protected the most, are

the children.

Okay.

Anybody tell me who this is?

It's the devil.

That's right. And sometimes he's called?

Satan. Satan. Let me lead you in a special prayer, okay?

I prayed this one when I was a little girl.

Heavenly Father.

Heavenly Father.

Armor me with your strength and tenacity.

Armor me with your strength and tenacity.

To withstand evil every day.

To withstand evil every day.

Heavenly Father, I want you with your strength and tenacity to withstand evil

every day. As a child growing up in the life that I did, I needed

to figure out a way to survive on my own.

That's when I started to pray and ask for strength, for ask for a shield of...

No one else might have loved me, but God loved me. That was my glue.

Amen. Amen.

Sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt, but we should head to the airport.

Go get your stuff.

Okay.

Brian, Deborah's husband, often goes out of town on business for weeks at a time.

I own a repping business in the building products industry.

My career is one that I travel. I've traveled as much as maybe three weeks at

a time.

My husband and I chose to sacrifice two incomes so that I could be at home with

our children and raise them.

You got five minutes before lights out.

Isaiah? Okay.

I started getting weird feelings, but then again, I thought it was silly.

Time went on and I was in the basement doing my laundry.

The lights are going off. The lights are turning on on its own.

I started feeling like

there was a thickness in the air.

I was thinking,

Somebody's in here, and I feel like I'm being watched.

Deborah Utley feels an evil presence, unlike anything she's ever sensed

before.

Somebody's in here, and I feel like I'm being watched.

The tension and fear multiplied.

I felt like something was going to attack me. And not just attack me, but

lunge on me.

Just complete fear took over me.

A few days later, the electrician her husband contacted comes by the house.

I checked all the circles and they all look good.

It's bizarre.

I've never seen anything like this.

I think the problems are in the light bulbs.

We continue to have electricians come work on these issues and...

Every time they would leave and say, everything's fine.

There's nothing wrong.

I started wondering, what is going on? Why am I being so paranoid?

No, what just happened?

Look.

Mom!

We had a deal. If you want this computer to stay in this room, you need to use it

for schoolwork, not for video games.

I did all my homework already.

Look, Isaiah, I can't keep up with all of this all of the time.

It was me and my sister and my mom mainly, and my mom had to be the... the

man of the house when my father wasn't around and she had to take care of all

the problems herself.

When your dad's out of town, I need you to step it up.

Okay. Okay, fine.

Thank you.

It was a difficult time.

It was hard.

I was exhausted all the time. I was frustrated a lot.

I was really stressed and I probably added to their...

anxiety as much as I was adding to my own, honestly.

I was sleeping in my room.

I heard typing on the keyboard.

of the computer.

I look over and there's nothing there.

I was almost in shock. I was laying in my bed, and, like, I didn't even know

what to do.

I was too scared to do anything.

I look back out, and the chair's just spinning.

It's spinning.

I thought the paranormal was just like a way of entertainment on shows.

Never thought it would be real, but it definitely was.

Over the next few weeks, both Deborah and Isaiah keep their encounters to

themselves.

But the haunting feeling grows stronger.

Hey, come on.

I always had this uneasy feeling that something was behind me, like something

was following me or watching me.

I just tried to ignore it. I tried to tell myself it wasn't there.

Pass it!

Pass! Pass!

One

night,

Isaiah and Zoe fall asleep.

while watching TV.

It was just dark.

And then I see, like, a glowing figure.

It was a little girl.

What's wrong?

Ah!

Ah!

Where are you? What do you want?

First thing going through my head is, why is she here? Like, why is there

someone in my house?

What's wrong?

Somebody's here! Somebody's in the house!

I woke up to them both screaming horrifically.

And I ran down the steps because I didn't know if somebody broke into the

house, what's going on. There's nobody!

Whatever it was, I'm sure your brother scared her away. Sit down. Come on,

honey. I'm sure he scared her away.

She was standing right there, and then she disappeared.

I was in shock about what I just saw.

At this time, I knew that my house was haunted. I was terrified.

Can you say that prayer when you're scared?

Father, pardon me with your strength and tenacity to withstand evil every day.

Heavenly Father, armor me with your strength and tenacity to withstand evil

every day.

Heavenly Father, armor me with your strength and tenacity to withstand evil

every day.

It's a good idea.

Okay, let's pray.

Okay?

Heavenly Father, armor me with your strength and tenacity.

As a mother, you want to protect your children from everything.

But this is something that you don't know what you're even trying to protect

yourself from.

to withstand evil every day.

After several days out of town for work, Deborah's husband, Brian, returns home.

Dear Lord, bless the food we are about to receive, and thank you for bringing

Dad home safely from his work trip.

We are so happy to have him back home.

Amen. Amen. Amen.

That was very sweet, Zoe.

So,

tell me what I've missed.

You're not gonna leave us again, are you?

Well, I do have a couple of trips coming up, but don't worry, I'll be around for

a while.

My dad just always worked, worked, worked, and he never really had a chance

to be there for us.

We didn't really have someone to, like, protect us. I was always pretty scared,

knowing that we were alone.

May I be excused?

We just sat down to eat, Isaiah.

What's wrong?

I just want to go.

It's okay.

Can I go too?

Just be sure you take your coat.

Dad, we need you here.

We're scared when you're not here.

During the travel season, I might be gone a week at a time. When I return

home is when I would hear things.

that had taken place.

What's going on?

Um... I didn't want to tell my husband because I didn't think he would believe

it, but I just wanted to move forward and get to the bottom of it and get rid

of whatever was in our home.

When you were away, things started happening in the home, things that I

can't explain, things that make me scared to be here.

Like what?

The basement.

What scared you so much in the basement?

I don't know.

I don't know. I just felt like I was being preyed upon.

She felt as if someone was following her, that there was something looking at

her and something that was watching her every movement, like a sixth sense feel

that someone's breathing over your shoulder.

It's not just me.

The kids have been experiencing something, too.

And they are terrified.

I am terrified.

So what are you telling me? Are you saying that our house is haunted? Is

that what you're saying? There was ambiguity at times between what she was

explaining to me and what I was trying to say. Nah, that ain't happening.

Brian, I know this sounds crazy.

Honestly... I don't know what to say right now.

But I'll get to the bottom of it.

Brian wastes no time looking for a logical explanation for the haunting.

I've spent a lot of time renovating it and bringing this home up to the 21st

century.

I'm a practical person, so this is about me and how I see and try to understand

the paranormal activities that my family has experienced.

It really hurt my feelings, and he was less than acceptant that it could be

something like this. He was just like...

you know i don't know what you're talking about this isn't what it is you

guys are just hearing things

I thought I was going to have a heart attack.

I was so terrified.

It was the most horrific thing I'll ever see in my life.

It turned in my direction, and it had a grin on its face.

It was literally taking pleasure in my fear.

It fed off of that. It loved it.

I'm here.

I'm here.

I could see the fear in her eyes.

For me, it was hard for me to know the truth. I saw it. It was in here.

What? I don't know.

I saw it, though.

It's evil.

It's evil.

Mommy.

We heard you screaming.

It's okay.

She's okay. She just had a bad nightmare.

I knew that that was not a nightmare.

I knew that was real.

And it terrified me.

Ignoring it wasn't making it go away anymore.

It was just getting worse. We were all becoming more and more fearful.

He wants to hurt us.

That was the point of my coming to realization that this was real.

The biggest issue is what you can't see, what you can't...

taste or feel me personally, I don't know how to take care of. I don't know

how to get rid of it.

Deborah gets in touch with a paranormal investigation group.

We need to face this. We need to find out what's going on. And the only way we

can do this is to get help from other people.

Within days, The team, made up of two mothers and their sons, arrive at the

Utley house.

Everybody can join hands.

They begin with a protection prayer.

Saint Michael, the Archangel, defend us in battle.

When we do investigations, there's my mom, Deb, and there's Kathy.

Both of them are psychic mediums, both with unique skill sets, and they tend to

work in tandem with each other, and a lot of times they're... Unique abilities

will complement each other's. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray.

I have clear audio.

I can hear spirits.

I also can see spirits.

Oh, prince of the heavenly host, by the power of God.

I'm an empath, which means I pick up emotions and energies very, very

quickly. Thrust into hell Satan and all evil spirits that prowl about the world

seeking the ruin.

of souls.

Amen. Amen.

I can't thank you enough for being here.

The fact that you don't think I'm crazy, I can't tell you how much that means to

me. The first time I met Deborah Edley, I felt great sadness around her and

great hurt.

She was a wounded soul for sure.

actually have experience with this kind of stuff it's just so comforting

hauntings are more common than people realize we are going to do everything

that we can to help you suddenly kathy senses a presence

i heard a man's voice do you hear me he wasn't happy

that I was talking with Debra.

The second I heard his voice trying to intimidate me, I felt sick.

I felt like I had been punched to the stomach.

Kathy, what is it?

What are you sensing?

Does the name George mean anything to you?

George was my father's name.

Heavenly Father.

Heavenly Father.

For me as an empath, I felt that there's been some type of abuse.

People every day.

People every day.

It made me feel dirty. Dirty as in sexual dirty.

And unclean and unpure. And it made me feel very vile in the pit of my stomach.

He was a very sick man.

I'm so sorry.

What does this mean?

Not sure, but we're going to find out.

Nick and Shaden get to work using a REM pod and a K2 meter, devices used to

detect spirit activity through spikes in electromagnetic energy.

I'm the lead investigator. I'm more of the...

rational, critical thinker who takes a little bit more skeptical approach.

Kathy's son, Shaden, is an investigator and a sensitive.

While Mom and Deb do their part, me and Nick try to get any other interaction in

the house.

The intention is to see if there's even any activity to begin with and what kind

of spirits come forth.

Do you mind walking us through your home?

We'd like to see where your family experienced the most activity.

Oh, certainly that would be the basement.

While the sons head to the basement, their mothers walk through the

house. We split up, and as I was walking through the home, I felt this very, very

vile energy, very angry, very hateful, specifically aimed at me and Kathy.

I've never had to deal with that type of energy before.

The entire time we were there, he just kept moving from room to room, making us

feel ill-willed.

His energy was sickening.

It's even hard to describe.

He's here with us now.

Oh, I can feel him.

Psychics Deb Lance and Kathy Marriott are reeling from their encounter with

the evil entity haunting the Utley house.

We can't let it control us.

I felt hatred and absolute pure anger towards me. This male energy trying to

intimidate me.

How are we going to handle this? This is sickening.

It took my breath away. I was terrified.

Right now, there are goosebumps and hairs standing on my arms.

Hey, are you okay?

Nick asked me to come and get you.

What happened?

We saw it.

You saw the demon?

Deborah, that's not a demon.

It's your father.

My father?

I always was afraid that he was going to come back and haunt me when he died.

What's he doing here?

It was a male who had once been human, but had morphed into this even more

negative type of entity for the sole purpose of intimidating his daughter and

anyone else in the home.

What does he want?

Your soul.

I'm so sorry to do this now, but I need you two to come with me.

Nick and Chayden believe they have captured evidence.

Throughout the investigation, we tried to use equipment to see if we can get

anything. I believe I got the voice on camera.

Let me play it back.

We heard help me as clear as day.

Help me.

We were stunned. We didn't believe what we heard.

Anyone hear that?

It's the voice of the little girl ghost who's been seen around the house.

She's being held prisoner by the male entity.

This child passed away suddenly and is completely unaware that she is dead.

And that often happens with children's spirits.

And they're simply wandering around trying to find their way home, which

makes her a very easy target for this male energy to prey upon her.

Thankfully, Deb knows a way to free her from the entity's clutches.

I can try to cross her over.

But I'm going to need everyone's help.

That's when the focus of our investigation shifted to helping this

child spirit get out of this home.

You can't force a spirit to cross over to the other side, but you can open the

door and hope they walk through.

And that was the intention, was convincing the little girl that it's OK

and she needs to leave.

It's okay.

We're here to help you.

Come into the circle.

Don't be afraid.

He won't ever hurt you again.

I was talking to the child spirit and trying to gain her trust and telling her

she did not have to stay here anymore.

It was time for her to move on. That her family was waiting for her in the light.

She crossed into the white light.

She's saved now.

We all felt it. And it was a tremendous feeling.

But the team is not done.

They must now empower Deborah to face her father's spirit.

Negative human energy feeds off of fear.

Hatred, anger, any negative emotion actually feeds the spirit, allows it to

become more powerful.

Heavenly Father, armor me with your strength and tenacity.

She said, don't feed him.

Don't feed him.

Heavenly Father.

I realized that nobody's going to be able to get rid of it but me.

I have to stop being afraid of him.

Heavenly Father, armor me with your strength and tenacity.

You can never escape.

Never.

Armor me with your strength and your tenacity.

You're weak.

You're trash. To withstand evil. To withstand evil every day.

I was able to go from being a victim to being a survivor.

Thank you. Thank you, Father God.

Thank you. From being fearful to being fearless.

God, thank you. All I had to do was call on God.

It is a good day.

Thank you. You're welcome.

When I look back on my entire life. Thank you, Zoe.

And I see where I was as a child and what I've went through makes me feel

strong and powerful.

Dear Lord, thank you for this food we are about to receive. I am one step

closer to the plan that God has for me.

Amen. Amen.

It's made me believe that there is another world that's all around us. We

just can't see it. But you need to be respectful for it, and you need to

understand it.

I know that there are spirits out there, and I believe in evil entities.

People can believe whatever they want to believe, but I know it's real.

We all did come together as a family and get stronger together as a family.