All language subtitles for Paranormal Witness s03e02 The Lost Boy.eng

[Haunting music]

- Children are something
that I've always longed for.

- How is this little boy

communicating with
something that's in the house?

- [Gasps]

- It was like a little child
just running around.

- [Screams]

- I feel like he wants
to interact with me

like a child would
interact with their mom.

- This is where the
little boy wants to play.

- I didn't know
what was going on.

Is it a possession?

- [Screaming]

- I'm like, "I can't move."

I can't move my arms.
I can't move my legs.

- Where is he?

- When I was a kid,
on my way to school,

there was this huge
victorian, and I would always...

Every day, I would stop
to just admire this house.

And I always thought to myself,

"one day, I will own
a victorian like that."

- You want to check it out?

- Visually, it was stunning.

The windows were huge.

The doors were massive.

It was something
out of a storybook.

- It's big.

- This place was built
in 1875 by s.K. Pierce.

It has a lot of history.

There are 26 rooms in total.

They called this
the ladies' parlor.

- Everything about the
house was just so intriguing.

- Let me take you
up to the second floor.

There's a lot of
choice for bedrooms.

There's ten of them.

- I couldn't quite pinpoint
how something this big,

26 rooms, could
be this affordable.

- Why is the price so low?

- Well, it needs a lot of
work, a lot of investment.

- I started thinking,

"I wonder if there's something
structurally wrong with it."

- Listen, um,
you're nice people.

I'm gonna be straight with you.

There's a lot of
history to this place,

a lot of rumors
going around about it,

rumors about ghosts
and crazy things like that.

- Really?
- Yeah, they're just stories.

- I was very, very skeptical.

I've always been very skeptical.

- Both Lillian and I do
not believe in ghosts.

- Uh, do you mind if we
look around a little bit more?

- Oh, yeah, sure.

Take as long as you like.

- Okay.

- Perhaps the rumors
of it being haunted

might have brought
the price down.

But for both Lily and I, it
was just something that...

We thought it was silly,
and it was great for us.

- The nursery.
- Hmm.

- Edwin and I have been
together for about 17 years.

We were born in Puerto Rico,
same town, same hospital.

Children are something
that I've always longed for.

- We have a lot of
nieces and nephews,

so it always felt...

A strong connection
with children.

- I have five siblings.

And I've always been
the motherly type.

I've mothered them.

I even mother my own mother.

- What do you think?

- I love it, ed.

- I wanted it so bad.

I didn't give it a
second thought

about, you know, the repairs
and the heating and, you know,

how it would be
like, the... Financially.

I just... I really
wanted this house.

We were thrilled to move in.

I was just thinking of the stuff
that I could do and accomplish.

And I'd just take my
time and fix her up

and get her back to
how she used to look.

[Loud crash]

- Ed?

Ed, you okay?

- It was as though
something had fallen...

I mean, something
huge had fallen.

- Ed, you okay?

- Lillian?

- What the hell was that?

- It sounded as
though it was bricks.

It almost sounded like a
chimney had collapsed.

- We both start
asking each other,

"what was that noise?"

We thought it was down here.

And, no, I thought
it was up there.

I heard it clearly.
It was upstairs.

[Loud crashing]

- The shelf did not collapse.

It was almost,
though, as something

physically had stood there

and basically knocked
everything down from end to end.

I thought, "someone
is in the basement.

Someone's hiding out."

It was very dark.

It was kind of gloomy.

All of a sudden, I
could see something.

I didn't know what it was.

Immediately, I started
thinking, what was in there?

- Come look at this.

- It's like a huge water tank.

My first impression
when I saw this was like,

"wow, any little kid
playing down here

can actually fall in
there and drown."

- When I first moved
in across the street,

Edwin and Lillian had
been living in the house

for maybe a half a year.

It was rather late
in the evening.

I had just come
back from running.

One of the lights came on.

And a light went off.

And then another
room light came on.

And that went off.

And it would start
coming on a little bit faster.

And then it would
go off quicker.

And I thought, "this
is a little strange."

And then...

I'm looking at
three floors here.

It would take, like, 20
people to stand by the doors

flickering these
lights on that fast.

But then as I'm looking,
on the second floor,

I could see somebody.

It looked like it was
a boy, a young boy.

And I thought it strange.

I thought it a little bit odd.

The following day, I saw Edwin.

I went over and talked to him.

- Hey, ed.

- Hey, Mike.

- Looks like you had
your hands full last night.

- I was kind of baffled
by what he meant by that.

- He looked, and
he said, "what?"

I said, "with the little boy

that was playing in
your house last night."

- And I said, "Mike, I
don't have any kids."

- I was shocked, 'cause I
know I watched a child play.

- I didn't quite understand
what was going on,

what... what this all meant.

[Metal clanging]

I can hear, right by
my pillow, a tapping.

[Metal clanging]

It started getting
louder and louder.

- Honey?

Do you hear that?

[Clanging continues]

- And all of a
sudden, it stopped.

[Door creaks open]

The closet door was moving.

And all of a sudden,
it stopped halfway.

We couldn't figure
out, for the life of us,

what was going on.

[Door slams]

[Pounding on door]

Boom, boom, boom.

- Bang, bang, bang.

- There was someone
physically knocking on a door.

[Rattling and pounding on door]

I literally have a baseball bat.

[Pounding continues]

[Pounding on door]

- He yanked that
door open so fast.

- I'm walking out
into the second floor.

There's nobody around.

There's no one to be found.

[Loud thumping]

Doo-doo, doo-doo, doo-doo.

- It was not heavy enough to
be, like, a full-grown person.

It wasn't that heavy.

It was like a little child
just running around.

- [Screams]

- And the door just
literally went... slam.

- It's okay. It's okay.

- [Gasping]

- How could this
door slam that hard?

It's impossible.

It was like something
wanted to make itself known.

- The following day,
Edwin had to work.

I was left alone.

I'm in the basement.

I sort everything in
differently sized containers.

I'm down to my last container,

and it has a blue top.

I put the container down.

The lid is there, but
the container isn't.

The container
literally disappeared

in front of my face.

[Rustling]

All of a sudden, I
heard this noise.

[Child laughing]

It was like a little
child's laughter.

It felt like it came from
close to the cistern.

I felt something is
almost calling me to it.

To my right is the container.

[Footsteps pattering]

And I see this dark shadow.

It went right by me.

It scared the heck out of me.

At this time, I'm
starting to think

that something is in the house

and it wanted for us to
know that it was there.

- We would always,
you know, hope and pray

that someday we would have kids.

- It was sad.

I mean, I went through
a lot of, you know,

grief and disappointments.

- It didn't quite pan out.

It was just not meant to be.

- My son Joshua
was happy-go-lucky,

into everything.

He loved to play, into sports.

Sweet kid. Sweet, sweet kid.

Couldn't ask for a better kid.

The moment we moved
into our new apartment,

I noticed him looking
at the big old house,

but I didn't think
anything of it.

We just moved there.

He's looking and... You
know, at our surroundings

and trying to get
familiarized with the area.

I didn't think it was
anything to worry about.

- Mommy, can I go
play with the little boy?

He wants to come
and play catch with me.

- I said, "well, I want
to meet his parents."

And he goes...

- Let's go, then.

- Josh, give mom a
couple days, okay?

I'm gonna get the
apartment set up.

We'll go tomorrow, yeah?

- Okay.
- Okay.

Hello.

A couple days after,
we met Lillian and Edwin.

- Hi. I'm Lillian.

- Hi. Katie.

- Hi.

- Can I play with your son?

- I'm sorry. I don't have a son.

- Yes, you do.

I see him up there.

He wants to come
and play with me

in the big hallway.

- Um... I just took a step back.

- So you've seen a little boy?

- I wanted to know
more information.

I wanted to know names.

I wanted to know ages.

- What does he look like?

- Just a boy.

- She looked really excited

that somebody had
seen this little boy.

- What's he wearing?

- He's got on a big
white shirt, big sleeves.

- I asked him where
exactly he saw the little boy.

And he said, "well,
I saw him there.

And yesterday, I saw
him all the way up there."

- After answering her
questions, Joshua said...

- Can I play with
him now, please?

- Honey, I don't
have any children.

Honestly, I don't.

- All the while, he's
thinking that I am the mother

of this child that he's
communicating with.

He described him as though
he can see him so clearly,

not just through a window
or through a sheer curtain.

It's as though he
can see him so vividly.

- I didn't believe in ghosts.

But this little
boy is seeing him

from across, you know, our yard.

And he's telepathically
communicating with him.

You know, this was supposed
to be a beautiful, loving home.

This was gonna be something
that I've always wanted.

I didn't want a haunted house.

[Wind whistling]

[Metal clanging]

I heard something under the bed.

Tap, tap, tap, tap.

My first thought was,
"okay, this could be the child."

[Clanging continues]

I'm not a mom,

but I feel that when a
child looks for his mom

and they want to
play, that's what I feel.

I needed Internet
in the kitchen.

I fed the wire through

behind the wall
where the sink is.

But it got stuck.

I put my hand behind the wall.

I felt something hard.

It was this old spoon.

I went in again...

And felt something.

Maybe a total of 15, 20
little pieces of wallpaper.

I kind of admired it.

It had, like, a teal
blue with a gold trim.

I left it on the
corner of that table.

I go to the laundry room.

Maybe an hour later...

The wallpaper was in the
middle of the kitchen floor.

I thought maybe it
could be the child.

- Hello?

- I started talking
to the little boy.

- Hello?

Are you here?

- I even... I even...

Actually, i... I actually
asked it to touch me.

- You can come touch me.

- And... i don't know... My
motherly instinct kicked in,

and I thought he would touch me,

and I would feel
this little hand.

- Don't be afraid.

Are you hiding?

Can you see me?

Hey.

Don't be afraid.

Are you there?

[Footsteps scurrying]

- It sounds like a little
kid running around.

[Footsteps continue]

- Is that you?

[Loud footsteps]

- [Breathing heavily]

- It was nothing I
had ever heard before.

It felt horrible.

I was scared. I was confused.

I didn't know what to do.

I just wanted to go
back into the kitchen area

and close the door.

[Door slams shut]

- Joshua began changing.

He became obsessed
with being outside.

He would literally
sit on his bicycle

and stare at the
corner of the building.

Getting him to come
inside was a constant battle.

- Hey, what did I tell you?

- My friend's up there.

- There's nothing there, honey.

Come in. It's cold.

Let's go inside.

- No!

- Come on.

- Leave me alone!

I hate you!

- He wasn't the
same sweet little boy.

His demeanor had changed.

Everything about
him had changed.

And I wasn't having it.

I thought if he saw that
there was no little boy...

There was no toys,
there was no bedroom,

there was no nothing...

It would kind of
scare him straight.

- Hello, Katie.

Hello, Joshua.

Please come in.

- Thank you.

- He gave me that impression
of being a little scared.

- How are you, Josh?

- This is where the
little boy wants to play.

See, mom?

I told you it was big
enough to play catch.

- Every hair on my
neck kind of stood up.

And I'm going,
"this isn't right.

"This... this is... How
does he know this?

He shouldn't know this."

- So this is where he
tells you to come and play?

- Where is he?

- For a spirit to get ahold
of a little boy that way

and put thoughts in his head

and change his behavior

and, you know...

Is, to me, frightening.

This was definitely the
final confirmation for me,

definitely.

- A mother's desire
to protect a child

goes beyond any love

that I think anybody
could ever know.

I was not going to
allow this little boy

to come in between
me and my son.

So we packed up, and we moved.

[Engine turns over]

- [Muffled screaming]

- I started panicking.

- [Muffled] Edwin!

- I'm like, "I can't move."

I can't look to my left.
I can't look to my right.

I can't move my arms.
I can't move my legs.

It was just the most
horrifying feeling.

- [Screaming]

- Lil!

Lil!

- Get her off me!
Get her off me!

- She was screaming.
She was yelling.

- Get her off me!

- She was trying
to move her arms.

She was trying to move her legs.

- Get her off!

Get her off me!

- I was petrified.

- Lil. Lil!

- One moment, you're okay,

and then the next moment,

you're just frozen,
and you can't move.

- [Gasps] Get it off me!

- She said, "tell
her to get off me.

Tell her to get off me."

- Listen to me.

- Get her off me.
- Sweetie, listen.

- Get her off me! I can't move!

- Hey, shh. Lil.

Come here. Come here.

It's okay. Hey.

- [Sobbing]

- And I grabbed her,
and I just held her.

I said, "there's
nobody here, hon.

There's nobody here."

- I did not feel a
physical pressure on me.

I didn't feel anything
holding me down.

But I couldn't move.

- [Gasping]

- Honey, it's okay.

[Thunder crashing]

- [Screaming]

- [Screams]

- She looked like she
was sobbing uncontrollably,

hunched over.

- I felt like it was the
mother of the boy.

If you visualize a
mother in distress

and she just lost her child,

she's calling out for help.

I felt her loss as
though it was my loss.

[Sobs]

Things just went really bad.

I was feeling really heavy.

Very... everything...
Just didn't feel right.

I couldn't comprehend
what was going on.

- I woke up suddenly.

It's just quiet as can be.

But Lillian is not there.

I went down the corridor,
and I started calling.

- Lil?

- I didn't hear a response.

I couldn't find her anywhere.

I thought there was
only one place left

that she could be.

So I went down to the basement.

- Lillian.

[Rustling]

- I can hear like a ruffling
or shuffling of something.

[Rustling continues]

- Lillian?

[Rustling continues]

- [Breathing heavily]

- She's just digging...

And digging...

And digging.

I didn't know what was going on.

- Lil.
- I have to keep going.

- Why? Lil, look at me.

- Something was
making me dig there.

- Stop digging.

- She really
didn't pay attention

to the words I was saying.

- I felt compelled
to keep digging.

- [Breathing heavily]

- Look at me.

Lil, honey, what are you doing?

Stop it, please. Stop it.

Stop it!

Please?

- In her hand, I could see that
she was holding something.

She blurted out,

"this is what I
was digging for."

- It was a pelvic bone.

It was small enough
to be a small child,

a young child.

- It's okay.

- I think what he might
have gone through.

Was it something horrific?

Something...

Was he in any pain?

- We were at the point

where we needed
to find out answers.

- I need to know
who this boy was.

What does he want?

- Because this is
a victorian house,

you know, I knew the time period

would be roughly
around the 1870s to 1900.

I looked at census
records, cemetery records,

birth and death records.

But back in the
victorian period,

I found no evidence

that there was any
death within the house

of a young boy.

- I was kind of surprised

because I thought for sure
something was gonna turn up.

- I was not gonna be
satisfied with that answer

because I really wanted
to help Edwin and Lillian.

- Eleanor did some
more intensive research.

- She came across
a more recent secret.

- It was in the '60s that
this house changed forever.

- And that's when the
other side of the story

started to come forth.

[Knocks on door]

- It didn't initially
make sense to me

how a house of the
stature of the victorian

could have numbers on the doors.

And then I
discovered, in the '60s,

they turned it into
a boardinghouse.

But the boardinghouse
had a sad history.

It was being used, quite
frankly, as a whorehouse.

The woman that they
saw sobbing in the window

could very likely be
the spirit of a prostitute.

And the child could
have been her child.

He would have seen his mother

having to do what she had
to do to take care of him.

And he would have
probably been exposed

to a lot of anger,
a lot of sorrow.

He probably spent a
lot of time by himself.

[Water splashes]

- I feel like he's lost.

And the one person he
wants to find is his mom.

And I think that's
why he targets me.

- All I wanted to...

Was to have Lillian
like she used to be.

I had to get her out of there.

I didn't care how
much money we lost.

I wasn't gonna let Lillian
go through that again.

No way.

[Engine turns over]

- She wanted him found
by someone... anyone.

And I was there.

And I found him.

And I think that gave
her closure somehow.