All language subtitles for Paranormal Witness s03e04 Dining With the Dead.eng

[Haunting music]

♪ ♪

- They were telling me
more of these stories.

- Mom, vaunette wants
to hear about uncle will.

- [Gasps]

- Is this the man you saw?

- It just seemed like it
was behind the trees.

It was moving.

- It was kind of a
Dale boy initiation.

[Boys shouting indistinctly]

- I didn't think you
believed in ghosts.

[Gunshot]

[Boys shout]

- [Screaming]

- [Gasps]

- Pull me up! Pull me up!

Pull me up now!

- Uncle will wasn't...
He wasn't a bogeyman.

- [Gasps]

- He was real.

♪ ♪

It was in the winter of 1989.

I'd kind of come home.

Found out that...

That my brother Timmy
and his wife, susie,

and their children were gonna
be moving back into the farm.

- Dan.

- I didn't want to
move back to the farm.

- Good to see you.

- You know, lost my job.

- Where's your wife?

- Just financially, we
didn't really have a choice.

I didn't want my family
to be on the street.

- Hey, Matthew. Hey, Laura.

How are you guys?
- Good.

- I was very young when
my parents moved in.

- Laura, can you guys
go play outside, please?

- Okay.

- It was a bit tight
and cramped.

There was a lot of
people living there.

- I know it put a
strain on my mom.

She had lung cancer,
and it was a hard time.

[Chuckles weakly]

- Well, when Tim
moved back to the farm,

I was a, you know, teenager,
getting out of high school.

My mom took him back in,
you know, to help him out.

I thought it was nice.

I liked Tim. I liked sue.

- Here, Tim. Here's
something you can carry.

- Oh, that's really
funny. Thanks.

Pass me something else.

- With family,
that's what you do.

You help 'em out.

It was great having Tim
and Steve and I back together

in the farm.

- That first night, well,

we got together
for featherbones.

- Hey, Timmy, where
are those ribs at, buddy?

- Oh, there they are.

- I love cooking them. I
really doctored them up.

- Tim's an incredible...
Just an incredible cook.

- Eating was big.
We liked to eat.

- Vaunette, at the
time, we were dating.

She lived close by on a
farm not too far away from us.

- I had known Dan more
or less my entire life.

I was living still at
home with my parents.

- Have one for the chef.

- And we sat around,
and we were talking

and having a good time,

just reminiscing about
when we were children.

When we would get
loud, we'd get obnoxious,

and the big line we'd
hear from mom was,

is, "we've got 10 1/2
acres of land out there."

- "What are you
doing in the house?"

- "Get out of my house..."

Both: "And go play."

- All the time.

- Mom was the
head of the family,

the entire head of family.

She kept everything together.

- You know what, mom?

Here's to you. Guys, drinks up.

- I was becoming
more a family member,

so they were telling me
more of these stories.

- That is our
great-great-grandfather,

Dennis lonergan.

- Oh, yeah?

- Dennis lonergan had two sons:

Charlie, who would've
been my great-grandfather,

and his other son, will.

- Dan had told me

that his uncle will had
passed away in 1939.

- Hey, mom,

vaunette wants to
hear about uncle will.

- And it was becoming clearer

that not everybody
is a nice person.

- Tell her story about
the time he laughed at you

when you fell off your horse.

- Really?

- Uncle will wasn't...
He wasn't a bogeyman.

He was real.

- [Hoarsely]
First, you got to...

[coughing]

- Mom, are you okay?

- I'll take her. I'll take her.

- It's overwhelming at times to
take care of someone you love

when you know that they're dying

and there's nothing
you can do about it,

but try and make them
feel more comfortable.

It was late in the evening,

and I remember
shutting things down,

turning off the TV,
turning out the lights,

heading up to bed.

[Ominous music]

- Good night, mom.

- I just got this...
Got a strange feeling

that something
just wasn't right.

[Discordant musical flourish]

- It wasn't long after
we moved back,

I decided to take a
walk around the property.

- Thanks so much for
helping us move our things.

- Of course, man. You're family.

- Timmy and I were pretty close.

We're pretty close brothers.

- Yeah, it's good
to see you again.

- [Grunts]

Oh, no, you did not just
start a snowball fight with me.

- I did.

- You jump over logs
and go under trees

and go through thistles,

and when you got
through the woods,

you'd start to see the house.

- Back when it was first built,

it was probably a
pretty nice house.

And it was falling apart.

I mean, it was condemned.

That was uncle will's house.

You know, the
place just scared me

since I was a kid.

- Do you want to go inside?

- I tell you, there
just seemed like a...

There was... There
was something there.

- And we kept
hearing this pounding.

[Thud reverberates]

- What's that pounding?

[Heartbeat thumping]

- We finally figured out
it was our own hearts.

[Chuckles]

- [Chuckling]

- My heart was pounding
because I had heard ghost stories

all my life growing up,

and here I am, going to
this abandoned house.

Tim, I'm gonna... I'm
gonna go back to the house

and check on mom.

I'll see you later.

[Twigs snapping]

- I heard something.

I heard, you know,
a twig breaking,

and I had the feeling
something was there.

- Hello?

- One of the things
we had at the farm

were many outbuildings.

That morning, I'm in the barn.

It's dark. It's kind of dusty.

[Metal jingles]

I'd heard these bells.

[Metal jingles]

- I heard these bells.

[Metal jingles]

They were off in the distance,

and there was no...

There was nobody there.

[Metal jingling]

- Like, I hear these bells,

like someone with
spurs on their shoes.

They're walking.

[Metal jingling]

There's no one in the barn.

There's no one outside the barn.

And it sounded
just very ominous,

very... very frightening
as it got closer

and closer to me.

[Jingling approaching]

[Eerie music]

♪ ♪

- I go, "Danny,
you hear the bells?"

He looked at me like...

- Yeah, I heard the bells.

- I don't know what
those bells were.

I can't really explain it.

- [Sighs]

What are you working on?

- Oh, I'm just
fixing the old saw.

She's in pretty rough shape.

- Is that the well?

Danny, does this
well still work?

- We didn't have city water.

It was out in the
middle of the country.

Everybody had a well.

- I remember it was
the only water we had.

- Still the same.
Still no city water.

- You'd look down,

and it's a good
75, 80 feet deep.

It's a scary thing to look down

and see just a
little dot of water

down at the bottom of it.

- Two, three, four...

- And I remember,
when I was kid,

that somehow an
animal got down there.

- It took me back to that day
when I had to go down there.

- Three, four, five, six...

[Water splashes]

- Man, it stinks down there.

- My mom was like, "you
guys need to go down

and check the well and
see what's happened."

- Well, I didn't
leave the cover off.

- Well, if it wasn't me
and it wasn't Steve,

then it must've been you, Dan.

- I swear it wasn't.

- I was old enough
to be able to do it.

- Found this old
rope in the back.

Seems strong
enough. It should work.

- So I got volunteered to
get the dead animal out.

- All right, let's do it.

- Okay.

- You know, you don't
mess with a well, you know?

That's very scary.

But you'd never
want to fall down there

because you knew
you were gonna die.

- I had taken a fish net
to pick up the animal...

- All right, start
to lower me down.

- And my brothers
would pull me back up,

and this was our plan.

I was extremely
nervous about it.

- Dan, you're heavy.

[Metal rattling]

- And this well was pretty deep,
so you couldn't see the bottom.

It was just a dark hole
down at the bottom.

- I remember lowering
him down there

it's a... You know,
it's a deep well.

- The lower I got, it
got scarier and scarier.

[Ominous music]

♪ ♪

[Water splashes]

- Okay, I've reached the bottom.

- I shined my flashlight down.

[Discordant musical flourish]

It was a dead raccoon

that had been there for
at least a couple days.

- Oh, it smells.

- And at that point, I heard
someone whisper to me.

- [Whispering indistinctly]

- Did you guys say something?

- I think Danny thought

that we were playing
a joke or something,

but we didn't say anything.

- No, I didn't say
anything. Did you?

- I didn't say nothing.
- No, we didn't say anything.

- And as I'm reaching
down with the net,

I heard something
talk in my ear again...

- [Whispering indistinctly]

- And it sounded like
it was right behind me.

[Intense music]

- [Whispering indistinctly]

- I felt like I was... I
wasn't alone in the well.

- [Whispering]
I'm gonna cut you.

- No matter how I turned
or spun around on the rope,

there was someone
right behind me.

It was absolutely terrifying.

- [Whispering] I'm
gonna skin you alive, boy.

♪ ♪

- [Whispering] Gonna
skin you alive, boy.

- Pull me up! Pull me up!

Pull me up now!

- I reached down,
scooped the raccoon up,

and said... yelled at
them to pull me up now.

- Guys, pull me up!
Pull me up! Pull me up!

- I started screaming at them,

and they pulled me
up the well fairly quickly.

- Were you guys talking to me?
- Wasn't us.

- They knew that
something was wrong.

- Was it you guys?
- No.

- Come on, don't lie to me.

Just get me out of here.

- As a kid, that
was my main fear,

was that there was
someone in the well with me,

but as an adult,

I knew there couldn't
be anything down there.

As I look back on it,

I've never been able to come
up with a rational explanation.

Well, as my mom's
cancer progressed

and they had kind of
told us that mom wasn't...

Wasn't going to probably
live through the weekend,

that evening, I was
there with mom alone.

It had been at least a day
since she'd even talked,

and it... she had been in
and out of consciousness

the entire time.

- [Gasps]

[Gasping and stammering]

No!

Oh, my god.

Oh, my god, no!

[Coughs and gasps]

No!

[Gasping and choking]

- What's wrong, mom?

[Eerie music]

- She was looking clearly
at someone in there.

There was just no one there.

I was the only one in
the room at the time.

It was a very eerie...

A very eerie moment.

I checked on her

and realized that
she had passed away.

She was gone.

- I helped hold his hand.
I held a lot of their hands.

Here were these three brothers

trying to keep
control of the farm

and get over their loss,

because she was their world.

- Well, my mom was
an awesome person.

She...

I sure miss her sometimes.

- Ready to go?

- It was around Halloween.
It was late October.

- It was kind of chilly.

It was probably
about 11:00 at night.

- It was kind of a
Dale boy initiation.

Make 'em feel
part of the family.

- Come on, I'll take
you up to uncle will's,

and let's see if
I can scare you.

- And I shook my
head and said...

- Eh, you're not gonna
be able to scare me.

- Hey.

Hey, wait up, vaunette.

- And as you look up,

there is nothing
but a wall of trees,

and as you got closer,

it felt like the more the light
was just sucked out of the area.

There was no sound.

There was no animal sounds.

You didn't hear anything.

And as Dan and I were walking,

he began to tell me more stories

about the past and
what had happened.

- When we were kids,

they wanted us to
stay out of the woods.

Uncle will might get you.

I was just telling
her, you know,

a lot of it, of course,

just to build up
the scare a little bit.

- He did warn me
to watch my step,

and there was
all kinds of debris,

and you really
had to be careful.

- Want to go check
out what's upstairs?

[Stairs creaking]

[Wood snaps]

- [Panting]

- You okay?

- I was convinced at that
point that I was scare-able,

and I'm gonna go back outside.

- [Panting]

- It's okay. It's okay.

You got to come check
out what's in the basement.

- I don't know.

- I didn't think you
believed in ghosts.

- I don't.

[Trapdoor creaking]

- He was teasing me.

"Well, no, you've
got to come in.

You've got to check
out the basement."

- She didn't want
to go into the cellar.

I kind of talked her into
it. We went down there.

- Watch your head.

- So we go down the steps,
and I'm shining the flashlight.

You could hear
your own breathing...

And you could actually
hear your own heartbeat.

- Okay, it is a
little creepy now.

- So I asked Dan,
"all right, so..."

- What's purpose
of all the holes?

- Oh.

- And he's like,

"oh, that's where uncle
will kept his treasure.

"Anybody who tried
to steal his treasure

would lose their hand."

- [Gasps]

- Yeah, I wasn't
gonna go for that,

so I picked up a
couple of sticks,

and I was poking them
into different holes.

There was nothing in there,

but there was one that
was a little bit higher,

and for some reason,

that was the one
that I needed to touch.

I can't explain it.

I just... i knew I had to
put my hand in that one.

- [Gasps]

Help.

[Intense music]

- Dan, help!

Dan.

[Panting frantically]

- What's wrong?

- There was this searing
hot pain in my hand,

and it was spreading
up to my elbow,

and we could see
there was this bite Mark.

- What could've possibly
bitten her arm like this?

It just looked like human...

Like someone had...
Like a person had bit her.

- If it was an
actual human bite,

then the person was
missing some teeth.

- Let's go. Let's go.
- Yeah.

- Come on.

- We needed to get out of there.

I felt guilty, because
I took her up there.

That's why she was hurt.

I really wish I hadn't done it,

but nothing that severe
had happened before.

[Ominous music]

[Gunshots]

[Gunshots]

- Well, that was fun.

- It was time to go.
It was getting late.

We were walking
back up to the farm.

- Too bad we didn't
get anything, though.

- [Chuckles]

You mean too bad
you didn't get anything.

Thought they were
supposed to teach you

to use firearms in the service.

- Oh, shut up.

- I remember the...

Oh, boy.

You could hear something...

[Metal jingling]

Like footsteps.

[Metal jingling]

- Hey, Danny, wait up.

- I'd say, like, "Danny,
did you hear that?"

- Think there's
someone out there?

- It was like something
was stalking us.

Something was there.

- I don't think so.

[Twigs snapping]

Hey.

Hey, you!

[Dramatic music]

- And I just take
off in a flat run.

♪ ♪

I'm gonna find out who this
is, who's been following us.

♪ ♪

Couldn't catch...

Couldn't catch up
to whoever it was.

- It seemed like it
was behind the trees.

It was moving.

- I couldn't run fast
enough. I couldn't get there.

It seemed like...

It was just like trying
to chase a rainbow.

♪ ♪

- Whoa, whoa!

- You had the feeling
something was watching you...

- Danny.

- But there wasn't
anybody there.

- So as we're cutting through
the woods to get to the barn,

then we can cut over and
back up to the farmhouse.

I was kind of worn out,

and I was trying
to catch my breath.

- Hey, vaunette. Why
don't you let me take that?

- Thanks.

- You guys okay?
- Yeah.

Don't worry. I'll
catch up to you.

- It's like, "I'll
catch up with you.

You guys go on ahead."

And I was taking a drink.

[Discordant musical flourish]

It was a man in a noose.

It was an apparition.

"Okay, you're hallucinating.

It's not really there."

This was uncle will's
property. This was his barn.

- That night, that's when
the nightmares really started.

[Eerie music]

♪ ♪

It's always in the barn,

and there was people.

[Voice echoing]

They were just laughing at me.

- [Chuckles]

You're in trouble, boy.

- You know, like,
"you're in trouble, boy."

The old guy that was
deranged-looking,

I couldn't get away from him.

All of a sudden,
my mom showed up,

and she's pulling at me.

[Gunshot, woman screams]

"You just got to
get out of here.

You can't be here."

- [Shouting indistinctly]

- "Get the hell out of here."

- "Get the hell out of here!"

- I woke up outside
uncle will's house

in my underwear and a t-shirt.

There was six, eight inches
of snow on the ground.

I was in my bare feet.

This thing that was chasing me,

I've got the feeling I've
seen this figure before.

- Well, there was one
recurring nightmare

that kept happening
more and more...

[Saw buzzing]

And it felt clearly evil.

- [Breathes eerily]

- There was something
that wanted to get me...

And at that point, I'm
completely terrified.

It's something bad
I'm going towards,

and mom is there.

- You got to get out of here.

- She is yelling at me,

"get out of here now."

- Get the hell out of here!

- Got to get out of here.

- [Growls]

[Intense music]

- They kept happening
and happening,

and I was asking
myself, "why are...

Why am I seeing this?
Why is this happening?"

[Ominous music]

♪ ♪

- I hadn't sleptwalked
since I was a child.

I was terrified.

It brought back all the memories

and everything that
happened when I was a kid.

I just... i couldn't believe
what was going on.

I mean, I was coming apart.

I'm telling Danny about it,

and he just... he freaks out.

He just goes,

"it's the same kind
of dream I'm having.

Mom's telling you
to get out of there."

- And then we kind of realize

maybe she's trying to
protect us from something.

- Get in here.

- It kind of made me remember

something that happened
back when I was high school.

[Eerie music]

♪ ♪

Timmy and I took our
friends Earl and Aaron

up to uncle will's.

- They're a couple of guys
we played football with.

They're friends.

- I don't want to
terrify other people,

but just scare 'em a little bit

to make them
understand what we...

Kind of what we lived through.

- Hey.

- You know, we say,

"Aaron, you can't handle
going up to uncle will's,

you know?"

- We saw the no
trespassing sign.

It was just nailed up.

It kind of remind you

of looking at the
old western days.

We can't be trespassing
if we're with the family.

We were gonna call his bluff,

so that was the main
thing on our... we...

You know, we're tired
of hearing about it.

"Well, who is uncle will?"

We didn't believe
that there was a spirit,

and I really wasn't
interested in trying to find out.

[Ominous music]

♪ ♪

At that point,

that's when the terror
started setting in.

[Metal jingling]

- What is that?

[Metal jingling]

- I don't know.

- And we seen something
on one side of the porch...

[Metal jingling]

Start moving.

[Metal jingling]

You could start hearing
the boards creaking,

and we froze again like deer.

- They felt something,
they sensed something,

and I know that
I started feeling

there was something wrong.

[Intense music]

- [Roaring]

- [Screams]

[Boys shouting indistinctly]

- All I just knew was, I
was getting out of there.

- [Shouts]

- He was just coming at us fast.

- Run!

- Tall man coming up the
path... It was moving fast.

- And he's covered
almost half the distance.

- I was faster than I
had ever ran in my life.

- I looked back, and the man's
only a few feet behind me.

- Something's
right behind Danny.

- I was running full speed.

Looked like a little
human locomotive.

- [Shouts]

- I hit that gate,
jumped the gate.

- [Shouts]

- [Growls]

- We've been chased
off the property

by a man who's been
dead for 35 or 40 years.

The things that we saw
when we were children

were still there,

and it was just becoming
much more frightening.

- Did you sleep?

Me either.

- I don't think that
we're imagining this.

There's too many people here

that have
experienced this stuff.

- There's got to be
something going on here, right?

- See you later.

- We just... We're
trying to figure out...

Why are we seeing these
things that we hadn't seen before?

"Uncle will," that's
what I thought.

"Uncle will is back."

Since mom had passed away,

the one person I knew
who would know about it

would be my aunt Mary.

She was like a second mom.

[Doorbell rings]

- This is a nice surprise.

- How are you?
- I'm good.

How are you doing?

- So I explain to aunt Mary
what had been going on

and kind of told her everything

that different people
had been experiencing.

- There's this man,

this gaunt man with a mustache.

Everyone keeps seeing him.

He's in our dreams.

I didn't know who
else to come to, so...

- Dan, would you go get that
photo album for me, please.

- Yeah, yeah, sure.

- I want to show
you some pictures.

- She had brought out
some pictures to show me.

- You remember this one.
This one was at the house.

- Yeah, I recognize
a few of these.

- And there's your
great-great-grandfather, Dennis,

and Dennis had two sons.

One was Charlie.

- And one of the pictures
she showed me was uncle will.

- Is this the man you saw?

- It was the person
that had chased us

off of his property.

- That's him.

- Aunt Mary told me
that in the early 1900s,

something bad had
happened at the lonergan farm.

[Metal jingling]

- Will.

Oh, he was a terrible racist.

- An African-American
that was working on the farm

had done something
with a white woman

that had so angered will
that will and some other men

decided that they had
to get rid of this man.

I asked aunt Mary what
exactly had happened.

- They lynched him.

[Macabre music]

♪ ♪

[Macabre music]

♪ ♪

- I drove back to
the lonergan farm.

I just... i couldn't believe that
uncle will got away with this.

The idea that
someone in my family

could cause this much
torment for another person

is just sickening.

Uncle will had haunted
us when we were children,

and now he was
haunting us as adults.

- Growing up at the farm,

it was scary when it
was dark or night or...

But for the most part, I
mean, it was a good place.

I was seven,

and I had to share a
room with my sister.

- When we were at the farm,

I remember Laura had started
having some nightmares.

- Auntie vaunette.

- I used to have a
lot of bad dreams.

- Auntie vaunette!

- Sometimes I couldn't
tell if they were real

or if they were dreams.

- Hi, sweetie, why
aren't you in bed?

- Can't go to sleep. I'm scared.

- Laura and I became
really good friends,

and she would tell me
all kinds of little things

about what was
going on at school.

And then she would talk
about her secrets and her fears.

I wasn't sure if she
had had a nightmare

and that's what woke her up,

but she just knew
she felt scared.

- And my aunt
would always tell me,

"well, if it's a dream
and you pinch yourself,

you'll know because
you'll wake up."

- Good night.

- I can remember
one particular night.

The door, it creaked open,
and it creaked open very slowly.

I saw somebody
coming in the room.

[Door creaks, metal jingles]

I couldn't tell who it was,

but I knew it wasn't
my mother or my father.

"Is this a dream, or
is this happening?

Is this a dream, or
is this happening?"

- [Gasps]

- If you're having a bad
dream, just pinch yourself,

and it'll go away.

Or pinch yourself
to wake yourself up.

- [Hisses and snarls]

- I felt like I couldn't move.
I felt frozen in my skin.

[Baby cries]

My sister was still there.

Just pinch yourself,
and you'll wake up.

I was thinking, "I
need to pinch myself.

I need to pinch myself,"
but I couldn't do it.

I was just frozen.

I just had that feeling that
they were gonna take her.

I forced myself to pinch myself,

and I screamed, and I screamed.

- [Screaming]

[Indistinct radio chatter]

[Suspenseful music]

♪ ♪

I was terrified.

It was my fault
that she was gone.

- I didn't know where
my daughter was.

I didn't know if
somebody kidnapped her.

Melissa wasn't
even barely crawling.

She never even crawled
out of the house before.

- All right, folks. We're
looking for a baby.

Her name is Melissa.

- We knew that this is
what all these events

had been escalating to.

- Move very slowly.
Check everything, all right?

Off we go.

- Something took my
daughter. Why they... why...

Why would anybody do that?

I went cold. I
thought, "uncle will."

- Uncle will's dead,

and the cop isn't
gonna know that.

The cop wasn't gonna
believe something like that.

Why would they?
- Melissa!

- When a young kid is
missing, you know, every...

You know, the
community comes together

to try to find her.

They would... They had
formed human chains

to walk along, looking for her.

- There were people everywhere

hollering, looking,
screaming, "Melissa, Melissa,"

and it just...

It started to echo in the trees.

- [Echoing] Melissa! Melissa!

- Melissa!

- I was worried about not
ever seeing my daughter again.

- Well, my sister was
married to Timmy,

and I get this call saying that,

"Herman, Melissa's missing."

I had to join in the search.

- Melissa!

- I mean, it's
Melissa. It's my niece.

- Melissa!
- Melissa.

- I was feeling more panicked.

I was becoming more worried.

And I looked over,

and then I realized

I was right next
to uncle will's.

[Tense music]

♪ ♪

- So I was so focused
at where I needed to go.

No reason, no
rhyme. I don't know.

I just have to be there.

- We've already
looked back there.

- You know, it was like

I'm driven to do something,
and I don't know why.

[Metal jingling]

- All of a sudden,
I heard bells.

[Metal jingling]

It was a strange noise.

- [Growls]

[Metal jingling, footsteps]

[Intense music]

♪ ♪

[Indistinct radio chatter]

- Melissa!
- Melissa!

Melissa!

- I knew Melissa was out there

with the ghost of uncle will.

- I had decided that I
have to go this direction.

Somebody or
something is telling me,

"Herman, this is
what you need to do."

And I walked through
this area anyway

because I was being guided,

and I don't know why.

[Metal jingling]

[Tense music]

♪ ♪

At that point, I
just see something

that looked like an animal.

[Intense musical flourish]

I'm wondering, "what is that?"

And as I look down, I
noticed it wasn't an animal.

It was human.

I holler...
- I found her!

- "I found her.

"She's over here. She's alive.

I've got her."

- I found her!

[Baby crying]

[Sentimental music]

♪ ♪

- I don't know who or
what guided Herman...

My mom, a guardian angel.

I can't answer that.

And thank god we got her back.

- Everything that
happened to me,

everything that happened
to everybody else,

Melissa's disappearance,

I believe it was uncle will.

They had centered their
life around their mother

in a lot of ways,

and with her gone, uncle
will wanted to come back.

He wanted to reclaim
that which he lost.

- And really, no
one was really upset

to see the house go.

That place was...

Oh, shoot.

That place was evil.

- Uncle will wanted
us out of there,

or something did.

I think it was a warning.

I can't say why.

It's just full of, you
know, hate, malevolence.

I... I'll just...

To this day, I don't understand.