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- I never realized how hard it would be

to deal with something like this.

- I was in the middle of nowhere,

and nobody knew I was there.

- Something was going on in the house

that I couldn't explain.

- I looked the thing in the eye.

It was clearly not a human being.

- What was tearing the inside of my house apart?

- Oh, my god.

- It was hunting me.

- Go now!

- Start!

- If you don't run, it's gonna kill you.

[Birds chirping]

[Dog barking]

[Peaceful instrumental music]

♪ ♪

- I loved it... all my heart, I loved that house.

It was a wonderful place to live.

- The house was my sanctuary.

It was the perfect little house that everybody dreams about.

My mom's new boyfriend, Matt,

moved into the house with his daughter, Marie.

- Ah! [Both laughing]

- What are you doing?

- Matt was an intelligent, smart, funny, happy guy.

- Whoo! Got you!

- I was happy to have Marie there.

It felt like I had a little sister

that I had never had.

We basically had a lot of fun together.

- Marie and my daughter became good friends quickly,

which really helped our relationship

because we thought we had a good start.

[Eerie music]

[Swing creaking]

The very first strange thing that happened:

I went into the kitchen,

and there was a jar of peanut butter

laying on its side on the counter.

- Jamie!

- I looked at it thinking that the kids had made a mess

or the cats had knocked it over,

but the strange thing about the jar

was that the peanut butter looked as it if had been melted.

- I kind of thought it was a joke.

I thought, "why are you asking me about peanut butter?"

I didn't think anything of this.

- Oh, my god.

- But then we started finding

things stacked or arranged in certain ways.

I thought that Marie was doing it at first.

At this point, we started taking pictures of everything

because we wanted proof of what was happening.

- Oh, my god.

- I-I did suspect the kids of some of things that happened.

I still wasn't convinced that it was

still something supernatural.

- One day, everything changed.

- I have so much math homework. Can you help me?

- Sure.

- I put my coffee down to go let the dog in.

- Lily.

Marie?

- I didn't do that.

- You're the only one in here.

- Jamie, it wasn't me.

- I knew that we hadn't had an earthquake.

I didn't bump anything.

I didn't know what to think.

I was angry.

I was frustrated and annoyed.

I decided to clean my room.

- Mom! Mom!

- I heard Jamie call me.

And I immediately came into the house.

- What happened?

- I closed the drawers, and I turned around,

and the drawers were open and then...

[toy bangs]

- I couldn't believe what I just saw.

[All screaming]

I was freaking out.

I was scared out of my mind.

- I saw it with my own eyes.

I saw it happen.

It shook me up.

Jamie said to me... - Mom.

- "We have a poltergeist in the house."

We knew that day that something was really, really wrong,

but that was nothing compared to what happened

in the following months.

- Oh, my god.

- Everything was twisted and pulled out or on the floor.

And it didn't stop.

- Doors would bang all night long, all day long.

It would just be constantly

over and over and over and over again.

- At night, all the lights would go off.

Everything... every light in the house... would go off.

And you could flick the switch,

and the lights won't come back on.

There was something in our house

that was uninvited.

- Matt didn't believe anything that was happening.

He thought that it was me doing it.

He thought that I was doing it for attention.

- One evening, I saw long, drawn-out arrows,

pointing in all different places.

They went up the wall, across the ceiling.

They would point toward the central heating vents

up on the walls.

We thought maybe it might be trying to communicate with us.

I told Matt the vents lead up to the attic.

Maybe there's something up there we need to look for.

Matt was very skeptical.

- For everything that's been going on...

- He wanted to rationalize it.

- I don't care what you feel. Can you just...

- I wouldn't give him time.

I told him, "you have to believe me.

"I don't care what you feel. I don't care what you think.

Something's in our house. Something's playing with us."

- Okay, I'll go up, and I'll take a look, all right?

- It's dirty and messy

and full of loose double insulation.

I wanted to watch just in case,

I don't know, but just in case something bad happened.

The tension and energy inside the house

was so heavy and active.

He couldn't get all the way across the ceiling

because it was dark.

- Uh, I-I don't know where I'm putting my feet.

I can't... i can't see anything up here.

- When he said that to me, a warning flag came up.

And I said, "okay, that's it. We can't do this anymore.

You can get hurt up here."

- You happy now?

- He did not fully accept it that day.

But I still had some idea we could communicate with it

and maybe stop it.

- My mom had talked to somebody who suggested

that she offer it something... A peace offering.

- I made a small place on the mantel,

you might say even like an altar.

I love cats, so I had found a little cat figurine.

And I put it on the mantel, and I spoke to it,

and I said, "this gift is for you."

- I would like to give you this small place on the mantel

as your place...

- "To let you know that we mean you no harm.

"We don't want you to be afraid of us.

And we don't want to be afraid of you."

- What's going on?

- Matt wasn't happy about it.

Matt was very much against the figurine.

He was very much against communicating with it.

He was very much against giving it a gift of any kind.

He called it talking to the devil.

- Honestly, I don't want this...

- I was making an effort to change things.

I was doing something, but in doing that,

I risked our relationship.

- In my home!

- Matt just got really angry.

- Matt! - Daddy, don't do that.

- Dad!

Both: Don't you dare!

- That's enough of that.

- Mom.

- It was one of those times

where you just can't believe what you see before your eyes.

I know it landed in the field. I saw it.

- I told him, "you better not smash that cat."

- Matt.

- It was just going to make things ten times worse.

- I don't know what this is.

- He didn't listen to me.

- Matt, no.

All: Don't!

[Figurine shattering]

- No! No!

- I felt like I was doomed.

- The first thing I thought was,

"we are gonna go through hell for this.

It's gonna retaliate."

- That night, we found the word "cat"

written all over the house.

[No audio]

- It had gone on a rampage.

- As we were cleaning it up,

we noticed what looked like footprints.

They did not look human.

They just did not look human at all.

- I saw those footprints down there,

and I couldn't believe what I was seeing.

They were huge, round toes,

and wide.

- Whatever it or they were was in the house with us.

[Cat meowing]

- The first thing that came to my mind was,

"what was in my house?

What was tearing the inside of my house apart?"

Having all of this happening at the house

while I was trying to hold down a job

was just tremendous stress.

I wanted to leave really bad.

I wanted to get away from it.

Everybody wanted to get away from it.

But I was already struggling to make house payments.

It wasn't feasible.

At the same time that it was attacking the house,

it started on the animals.

We had two cats that each had a litter,

and they were very sweet-dispositioned,

very loving kittens.

- Soon, one by one,

each one got really, really sick.

There was nothing I could do to help.

- We thought perhaps maybe they just didn't have enough energy

to fight off this thing.

We thought perhaps it used them up.

They all died just right after... one after another.

They didn't have a chance.

- I was scared.

I was scared it was attacking my pets to get at me.

- Maybe this isn't gonna stop with the animals.

It might have the capability of taking life,

not just our animals, but possibly one of us.

I was at work.

Jamie had gone out to run an errand.

Marie was at home alone.

This thing had turned the TV on and off in rapid succession.

- Stop.

[Screams]

- Marie called...

- Hello? - [Crying] Susan.

- She told me, "the furniture..."

- Is everything okay?

- "It's moving across the room."

- [Screams]

- I came home, and as soon as I got one lock unlocked,

it would be locked again.

- Marie! - Jamie, help me!

- I can't open the door.

- [Sobbing] I can't.

- She grabbed her digital camera,

and she took a succession of flashes

just to light up the room.

- Marie, you have to help me open the door.

- Oh, my god. - [Sobbing]

- These pictures appeared on her camera

that were just really unbelievable.

- Unbelievably bizarre photos

of this light energy

appeared on her camera.

What was foremost in my mind was,

if it could move heavy furniture,

what else could it do?

How far would it go?

- The level of fear at that time was...

Undescribable, really.

There's no way to describe

how it made me feel.

- That was a day that Matt realized

that this thing in our house

could attack his daughter while she was alone,

and he got worried.

He got out the phone book, and he started calling churches.

[Phone beeping]

[Line trilling]

- Hello?

- The first couple of churches that he called

didn't offer any help.

- I'm sorry, sir. - Okay, thanks.

- No, sir.

[Dial tone humming]

[Phone beeping]

- It's difficult to speak to someone about it.

That takes a lot of guts because you put yourself up

for accusations, disbelief, and skepticism.

He finally got ahold of a pastor

that was willing to come out to our house immediately.

- There was a little bit of hope that things would get better

by them coming to our house.

- We finally found someone that believed us

and that would come help us figure out

what was going on in our house.

- The house was just a total mess.

It was embarrassing to even have anybody in the house.

- He looked all around the house,

and he saw all the stuff on the walls.

He said, "this is bad.

There's spiritual warfare going on here."

- "Even though I walk through the darkest valley,

I will fear no evil."

- They just prayed with us, and that was it.

- Is there any more you can do?

- We can't help you.

- That was the last I ever heard of him or saw him.

- We felt completely abandoned and left out to dry.

We were on our own.

[Clock ticking]

- As time went on, my feeling was that

the only way to get rid of this thing out of our lives

was to just move out.

I didn't have money to move out,

and I didn't have friends that I could go stay with.

I felt trapped.

- I felt my family breaking down.

Matt and I were constantly losing our tempers...

Both: No!

- Because we couldn't communicate.

We couldn't talk about it.

Our relationship was falling apart.

- I remember the stress that I was in...

That I was feeling...

And how alone I felt.

It's hard to relive all of this.

- Jamie was afraid to leave her room.

Her room seemed to be the one place

where she felt she had a barrier.

She was wrong.

- Oh, my god.

- This pounding started on my bedroom door.

[Pounding on door]

It was so loud. I was actually frozen in fear.

- [Sobbing]

Oh, my god.

- It just eventually got to the point

where I had to go look in the hallway.

[Pounding on door]

Right before I opened the door...

[Pounding]

It would stop.

It's like it knew that I was coming to open the door.

And I would close the door, and it would start again.

- It went on for approximately three hours.

- Stop!

- That pounding... Just horrific, terrible.

- Eventually the pounding stopped.

When I opened the door,

there was just a giant hole.

It looked like a battering ram hit the door,

and the doorknob was bent.

- Everything was utilized by this thing

to pound on that door.

- The light in the bathroom started going on and off.

I figured something must be in there.

Whatever it was was trying to get into my room.

- There was no way to lock the door.

- The bathroom door didn't have the doorknob on it.

I decided to take this kite string that we had

and wrapped it through the hole in the door.

I figured, "if I have the other end of this string,

this thing cannot open the door."

I started feeling it pulling on the string.

- As soon as she tightened up on the rope,

it tugged at the door.

- Ah!

Stop it!

- I was freaking out because I figured that

once that door opened,

I was gonna see something from my nightmares,

some demon,

and it was gonna come at me.

I just held onto the string

and figured that if it couldn't break this string

that it couldn't open the door.

- It cut the rope.

Figured it out... It cut the rope.

She was scared out of her wits.

- I knew it was coming.

I knew it was coming into the room.

I knew that there was nothing I could do to stop it.

- I knew it was coming.

I knew it was coming into the room.

I knew that there was nothing I could do to stop it.

And there was nothing there.

I really had to get out of that house.

[Door slamming]

It closed the door and locked it.

I immediately smelled smoke.

- [Screams]

[Flames whooshing]

- I looked down, and there was a pan

that had a paper towel burning inside of it,

made to be like a wick.

- It had moved beyond anything that it had done before.

[Flames crackling]

- I stepped out into the hallway.

I found toilet paper and paper towels

strewn throughout the house,

wrapped around everything that could catch fire.

It actually was setting up

something to carry a flame throughout the house.

It was going to burn us alive in the house.

I just knew that I had to put out the fire.

[Flames crackling]

- Ah!

[Coughing]

- I started gathering

all the paper towels and toilet paper up.

I had to make sure that

there was nothing that could catch fire.

- That was the most frightening,

horrific thing

I've ever been through in my whole life.

This... thing

attempted to burn my house down

with my daughter in it.

That was the last straw.

- We finally moved out.

It was a huge relief

that I wasn't gonna have to deal with it anymore,

that I was gonna be able to have a normal life again.

- The situation succeeded in finally driving this wedge

between Matt and I.

[Sighs] We were separating.

After we moved out,

in the next three or four months,

the next-door neighbors also left.

And there's four or five houses that are vacant on that block.

And it makes me wonder that maybe perhaps it wasn't just us.

- I saw something I can't explain.

I don't like the idea of not being able to explain it.

Back in 1997, I got a call from a friend of mine

who was also the elected sheriff in a rural Oregon county.

He knew that I had been certified police officer

and I had been in the marine corps.

So he asked me if I wanted to be a deputy sheriff.

I jumped at the chance.

At the time, I was fit.

At the present time, I certainly am not.

- Hey, man. - You're early.

- Everything good? - Yeah, yeah, it's great.

I kept the seat warm for you.

- On this particular day, I was early getting off shift.

It was one of the prettiest days I can ever remember seeing

in the cascade mountains.

It made me want to take a hike.

You can walk across country where there are no trails

and probably be places in eastern Oregon

where nobody's ever even walked before.

I loved that idea.

I'd been walking uphill for two hours at least.

It was taking a long time because of the terrain.

I decided to find a route

that would get me into a more open area.

When I looked through my compass to take that measurement...

I was totally shocked.

I saw a person standing there,

but it was clearly not a human being.

- This thing had a humanlike shape to it

and a clear place for the eyes and the nose and the mouth,

but it wasn't a person.

He had his eyes directly on me.

The weirdest thing happened.

I just involuntarily cocked my head to one side.

He mimicked me exactly.

He was smart.

I instinctively reached around to get my weapon.

He ran away so fast, it seemed impossible,

certainly physically impossible for a human.

I was so curious that I had to check it out.

I could see most of a wide-open area,

and I was looking everywhere.

There was nothing there.

I decided to look for tracks.

I couldn't find a track anywhere.

I carried on walking for a while,

but I was feeling a little nervous.

It was darker than it should be

for me to get back to the car before dark,

and I didn't have a flashlight.

I realized I wasn't going to make it

unless I turned around right then, so I did.

I decided to take a different route

so that I'd put some space between myself

and whatever that was.

I was looking to my left

because that's the area that he'd gone.

And that's when I heard it.

[Tree crashing]

It was as loud as some guns when they go off.

It was a big tree.

The snap came from my right.

It was impossible.

He'd circled me.

The idea that I couldn't see him

but he could see me

made me very uncomfortable.

That's just a prescription for an ambush.

That's when I heard a second snap.

[Loud cracking]

He wasn't just watching me or running away from me.

He was tracking me.

It flashed through my mind that what I had seen was big enough

to snap me the same way it was snapping those trees.

I had been in the marine corps.

I had police service.

I don't scare easily.

I am scared to death.

- Back off now!

- He started to get closer as the sun went down.

I knew because the snaps started getting closer.

It was hunting me,

getting closer and closer like a hunter

but staying invisible to the prey.

If you can't see what's out there,

you can't fight it.

You can't even run from it.

You don't know which direction to run now

because he's circled you.

Maybe you run right into his arms.

You don't know.

I was rushing down the hill, and all of a sudden,

there is a deer standing in front of me.

Didn't have any fear of humans at all.

She snapped her head over in the direction

that I'd been watching,

where the snaps had been coming from.

I scanned the whole tree line.

Didn't see anything.

No sound, nothing.

She smelled the air with her head up.

And then she bolted in the opposite direction

as fast as I've ever seen a deer move.

I felt the hair on the back of my neck go up.

I knew I was being watched.

It was just so close, and it was so obvious

that it didn't want me there.

I was only about two minutes away from the car

if I ran real fast, so I did.

I heard snaps again,

and this time, they were really close.

I was convinced that I was gonna die

and that I was gonna die in a very bad way.

When I finally saw my car, I was hearing snaps very close,

but they weren't frequent.

And as I got real close to the car,

they stopped entirely.

I remember now thinking,

"those snaps have stopped because he's right behind me,

and he's gonna grab me."

- I remember now thinking,

"he's right behind me, and he's gonna grab me."

I started hitting the button

for the automatic release of the locks.

- Come on!

- It's not gonna open in time.

My heart was starting to beat faster.

I want to get steel between me and whatever that thing is.

I felt fear that I wasn't gonna get that far.

- Come on, come on, come on!

- I put the key in the ignition.

[Engine sputtering]

It wouldn't start.

- Start!

- It was like, what else can go wrong?

- Come on!

[Engine sputtering]

Start! Start!

[Engine roars]

[Engine revving]

- The sense of relief that I felt was real good.

First thing I wanted to do was have a cigarette.

I didn't tell anybody but the sheriff that I served for.

I didn't think he would believe me.

[Insect buzzing]

- Look...

- He did believe me.

- There's reports of...

- he said they get reports

of big, hairy, unknown animals up there all the time.

He told me, "don't write a report.

Don't talk about it." So I didn't.

What I saw was physical.

It was some kind of living being.

And in my experience,

living beings have to multiply in some way.

That means there's more of them.

And I don't know how many,

but I do know that I'm not going back there.

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