All language subtitles for Paranormal Witness s03e13 A Ghostly Affair.eng

- I had a home that
was everything to me.

- [Gasps]

[Haunting music]

- We really had no idea

of the things that we
would discover in the house.

♪ ♪

- We had never seen
anything that violent.

- [Whispering] Rebecca.

- It was like someone
were saying, "I'm here.

"I'm here.

I'm here."

[Electricity crackling]

- [Screaming]

- There's somebody there.

As much as I wanted
her to not be there...

- [Whimpering]

- She was there.

- There's nothing here.

- No, honey, come on.

You know, this will be
a huge move for me.

- In 2005, I was
given the opportunity

to interview for the deanship

of the school of
arts and humanities

at the university of
Arkansas monticello.

- Let me just hear them out.

- My wife, Rebecca, was wary
of moving away from Oklahoma.

- When Mark first
started applying for jobs,

I told him I would move
anywhere but Alaska or Arkansas.

And so he puts me in
the car to go to Arkansas.

- I'm a city girl.

- [Sighs]

- Rebecca and I turned
down north main street,

and immediately
we were impressed

by these beautiful circa
1900 victorian mansions.

Well, we came
to one in particular

that caused us to stop the car.

- It was love at first sight.

- Wow.

[Chuckles]

- I just said, "Mark, I will
only move to this town

if you buy me that house."

I knew that I would
only be happy

in such an isolated location

if I had a home that
was everything to me.

- We really had no idea

of the things that we
would discover in the house.

We moved to monticello
in the summer of 2005.

We really were
fulfilling our desires.

- Thanks. Let's go. Let's go.

- And now we had the
house of our dreams.

- That wasn't the fairy-tale
image that I took from it.

I didn't feel so
much like a Princess

as I did a scared little kid.

The house is enormous,

and you feel very
vulnerable to it.

- I felt mesmerized.

I felt very spellbound.

I just laid down on
the floor on my back

and just had that
moment for myself of,

"wow, I own it."

[Eerie music]

- [Gasps]

[Crystals rattling]

- Can you take these
and put them over...

- Yeah.
- There?

Just rearrange them
how you want, okay?

- A little after we
had just moved in,

we had decided to sort
of rearrange the house.

[Vacuum humming]

[Electricity crackles]

[Vacuum powers down]

- Out of the corner of my eye,

I caught the record spinning.

And it was going
faster and faster,

I mean, just as
fast as it could go.

- I hadn't cranked
the record player.

Rebecca hadn't cranked it.

There was no explanation

for why the record could
possibly be spinning.

[Low grinding]

- Ah!

- It just stopped
spinning instantly.

That was very, very strange.

It didn't make any sense.

- Seeing something like this
really set in my uneasy feeling

about the house.

[Ominous music]

♪ ♪

- One of the things that the
kids and I have always done

for recreation on the weekends

is to get out our
metal detector...

- Okay. Hey, slow down, now.

Slow down, Jake.

- And to go around,

seeing whether we could
find anything in the ground.

- There could be some
really neat stuff here

in this old yard.

- I was out by
the front sidewalk.

I was listening to music...

[Lively music playing]

- Josh, where are
you? You back there?

- As I approached one of
the big old Rose bushes...

[Metal detector beeping]

- Oh. Wait.

Hey, over here.

Guys, found something. Come on.

- The metal detector
started making

its high-pitched beeping sound.

- Over here.

Go ahead, Josh.

Get down there with
your... There you go.

[Lively music playing]

[Music stops]

- The music just all
of a sudden stopped.

- Ooh, found something.
- Ooh, what is that?

- As we broke apart the soil,

we discovered an
old penny from 1948.

- See if there's
something else in there.

Pull it out. What is it?

- And we found an old pillbox.

- Wow, this is something else.

Oh, look at that.
- This?

- Wow.

What is that?

- And we found
an old lipstick case.

- [Whispering] Rebecca.

- I heard someone,
a woman's voice, say,

"Rebecca."

I felt this strong sense that
someone was watching me,

and I turned and
looked up at the house.

[Dramatic music]

♪ ♪

I thought I saw something
in the shape of a woman

in the window.

[Feedback screeches]

[Lively music playing]

And then the
music started again.

[Eerie music]

I felt that the house
itself had its own...

Presence, I guess.

We had been in the
house maybe a month,

and we decided
to have a yard sale,

and my friend desi said
she had some things

she wanted to get rid of too.

- I was just walking
up the stairs.

As I got closer and
closer to the house,

and I looked up,

and in the bedroom window,

I saw Rebecca.

- Hey, destiney.

- There was no way that
she could have made it

from upstairs in the
bedroom to the door

in, you know, a matter
of just a few seconds.

- I just saw you in the window.

- No, it's just me in
the house right now.

- And I said, "well,
I wasn't upstairs.

"I've been at the
back of the house,

pricing these items
for the yard sale."

- There was no doubt in my
mind that I knew what I saw.

I started taking my
boxes into the foyer.

I saw Rebecca.

- Hey, Rebecca,

I could use your help
getting some of that stuff.

- "It's not a whole lot,
but I could use some help

with some big boxes
and everything."

And then so I just walked out.

I expected her to follow me.

She wasn't there,

and I was like, "oh, I guess
she maybe didn't hear me."

[Ominous music]

♪ ♪

I walk back into the house
with my second load of boxes.

Rebecca was still
just standing there.

- Could use some help, please.

- I'm like, "hey, did
you not hear me?"

- Rebecca?

No?

- You know, I spoke to her,

but she never spoke back to me.

And I was like, "okay,
whatever," you know?

♪ ♪

- Hey.

- Rebecca comes in
from the back of the house.

I mean, I was so confused.

Then I'm very upset.

- Rebecca, why have
you been ignoring me?

- "I was practically begging

for you to help me come
get some of this stuff out."

- Desi, when did
you ask me for help?

- "I don't know who
you're talking to."

- At this time, I was just
like, "ugh," you know,

"what's going on?"

- Destiney.

- I'm just wondering
if I'm losing my mind.

- Here...
- I believed her.

- Let me help you.

- I believed that she saw me

somewhere in the house

and I wasn't really there.

♪ ♪

- Something odd occurred.

There was a broken glass
on the kitchen counter.

It wasn't on the floor.
It wasn't in the sink.

I thought that
maybe one of the kids

had broken the glass.

- Did any of you break a
glass this morning, last night?

Both: No.

- But the kids said they
hadn't broken a glass,

and I really didn't have any
reason not to believe them.

The glass seemed to
have broken overnight

when everybody was sleeping.

And then every day that week
when I went down to the kitchen,

there was a broken
glass on the counter.

- It was strange that
it kept repeating itself,

just every morning.

But each day, it
was the same thing.

[Dog barking faintly]

- One night, I was just
walking down the hallway...

[Dull thud]

[Dull thudding]

I heard footsteps
coming from the attic.

[Dull thudding]

Everyone was asleep but me.

- [Breathing heavily]

- I did not dare
look up into the attic.

I went back into my bedroom

and closed the door.

[Faint clinking]

I heard ice cubes
clinking against glass...

As if someone were
walking down the hallway

and had just gotten a
drink from the kitchen.

[Ice cubes rattling]

There was no way that
it was my little brothers,

my dad, or my stepmom.

They were just across the
hall, asleep in their beds.

[Fan whirring]

[Ice cubes rattle]

Then I felt there was
company in the room.

[Faint click]

And the fan turns off.

[Fan whirring]

And then it turns back on again.

I was petrified.

[Whirring rapidly]

I could see the
buttons being pushed in,

as if someone were pushing them.

But there was no one there.

Click.

It was like someone
were saying, "I'm here.

I'm here. I'm here."

[Electricity crackling]

- [Panting]

- I was terrified.

I...

I knew for a fact that there
was something in the house.

- Bronte didn't want
to be in the house,

so we decided to go on vacation.

- She told me on
more than one occasion

about things that were
happening in her room.

I have to admit that I wasn't
terribly worried about it.

You know, she's
an 11-year-old girl,

and I thought that
it was probably

just her imagination
working overtime.

- Okay, guys, let's go.

- We never leave
the house alone,

so we invited one of
Mark's students, Reagan,

to come and house-sit for us

and watch the animals
while we were gone.

- The Spencers are
a very lovely family,

and I had grown
quite close to them,

and I was approached to
house-sit for them that summer.

[Eerie music]

- I wanted her to
feel comfortable

to come in the house
and stay in the house

as much as possible.

I didn't tell Reagan
specifically anything

that had happened in the house.

[Thunder booming]

[Electricity zaps]

[Rain pattering]

- And I was
trying to figure out,

why would they put
this picture in there...

[Phone rings]

- And then build these
two walls around it?

- Rebecca calls me,
and she asked me

if I wouldn't mind going
upstairs to the attic

to make sure that
the roof wasn't leaking,

make sure the buckets
weren't overflowing.

- Okay, yeah, sure.

Okay, bye.

- So I thought to myself,

"I really don't want
to go up there..."

- Sorry, howdy.

- "But I would do
anything for the Spencers."

[Thunder booming]

[Eerie music]

♪ ♪

I grabbed a chair and
propped it up against the door.

It helped to leave
that door open

to get more illumination.

[Water trickling]

As I walked up
the stairs, it was...

I could hear that the rain
was hitting pretty hard.

[Thunder booming]

There were some buckets
that were about to overflow.

I was too nervous
to look too far,

because it was just a
spooky old victorian attic.

[Ominous music]

♪ ♪

- Howdy.

Howdy.

Howdy, come on.

Come on, boy.

Howdy, where are you?

[Door slams]

Ah!

- The door slammed shut,

leaving me and the
dog in total darkness.

[Dull thudding]

- Come on, boy.

Howdy, where are you?

[Door slams]

Ah!

[Dull thudding]

- I just felt this
overwhelming sense of panic.

I feel like I got to
run down, you know,

try to get out of the attic,

but at the same time, I've
still got this dog up here.

- Howdy.

Come here. Come on.

Come on. Howdy, come on.

Howdy!

Howdy. Come on.

Huh?

[Dog growling]

Please, howdy.

[Dog growling]

Oh.

Oh, what are you doing here?

Come on, mister.

- I grabbed the dog, and
I just ran for the stairs.

I slipped over. I was terrified.

I needed to get out of
the attic immediately.

The chair had moved.

And I see this person go into
the doorway of Mark's study.

- [Breathing heavily]

[Thunder booming]

[Breathing heavily]

[Dog growls]

[Thunder booming]

[Dog growls]

[Thunder booming]

- There's somebody there.

[Ominous music]

[Thunder booming]

As much as I wanted
her to not be there,

she was there.

♪ ♪

I ran to my car for dear life.

[Keys jingling]

- [Gasps]

- I threw the door open

and then got out of
there as fast as I could.

- Reagan called me and said

that she had had a really weird,
strange experience in the house.

Someone else in the house
having another strange experience

makes you feel like maybe
it's not all in your head.

- With all the weird stuff
going on in the house...

- I decided to go and
do historical research

about the original homeowners.

- They were such
a wealthy family.

- Right.

- The allens were a
particularly prominent family.

Joe Lee Allen was
the president of a bank,

and they had three daughters...
Lonnie, ladell, and lewie...

And he really built
the house for them.

- And this is the
picture of ladell.

- Ladell was the
middle daughter.

Ladell quickly emerged

as a particularly
interesting figure

in the Allen family.

- Ladell's name kept popping up.

- Ladell was a woman
who had a lot of heartache,

a lot of tragedy sort
of surrounding her life.

- Her dad died
when she was little.

- She found herself
in a bad marriage.

She got divorced in 1927.

- Look at this here.

- And then her only child
died of pneumonia in his 20s.

And then we discovered
that ladell had died

in the house.

- She died relatively young.

- There was the mystery
as to why she had died,

'cause it seemed
that nobody knew why.

- So I decided to go ahead
and order her death certificate.

With all the strange, unusual
things that were happening,

I wanted to see if I
could link them to ladell.

We were both skeptics...

- Morning.
- Hey.

- But I was beginning
to embrace the idea

that there might be something
more to it than we knew

or we could explain.

- I'm beginning to
wonder about these things.

- And she actually
broached the subject

of bringing in
paranormal investigators.

And I was a little flabbergasted
that she even mentioned this.

I felt that I had a professional
reputation to protect.

I was the Dean of the
largest school at a university.

- Rebecca, there's nothing
going on in this house.

- I mean, I was all about
rational explanations

of everything.

- [Sighs]

- You can never underestimate
the power of denial.

- Okay.

- I didn't want them
to come in and tell me

that what I was seeing was real.

I wanted them to come in
and say it wasn't haunted.

- A lot of people we work with

kind of want to prove
their house is haunted,

but Mark and Rebecca did not.

They didn't want this
stuff to be going on.

- Ooh. Wow.

- We take a great deal
of equipment with us:

Digital tape recorders,

electromagnetic field meters,

infrared cameras.

- Up in the corner
there. One there.

- And we run those
cameras in the dark.

- We sent the children to
friends' houses for the night.

- We decided that we
were just sort of in the way,

and I said, "we're
gonna go see a movie,"

and they said, "that's great."

- I honestly didn't expect them
to find any evidence whatsoever

of paranormal activity.

- Bye. The house is all yours.

- Good luck.

[Door clicks shut]

[Faint rustling]

[Ominous music]

- We get ready to
turn all the lights out,

because these are
infrared cameras,

and they see better in the dark.

I said, "has everybody
got their stuff?

Everybody ready?"

- About two minutes.

[Dull thudding]

[Door creaks]

- [Sniffs]

- I, at one point, smelled
a very distinct odor

of cigar smoke.

- Peter?
- Yeah.

- And we actually
smelled the furniture

to see if the cigar
smoke was in the fabric.

Couldn't really smell anything.

And it was gone very quickly.

- Right.

On my cue, turn the lights out.

Five, four, three...

[Electricity zaps]

- And the light went out,

and we didn't turn it out.

- What the heck was that?

- There was this horrible
sound in the backyard.

[Loud cracking]

Could just see these blue
sparks flying everywhere.

[Electricity zaps]

- We could see absolutely
nothing out the window.

It was pitch black.

We all got our flashlights,

and we all went out the door

to find out what's going on.

- Oh, my god.

- We're barely down the street

when the phone rang.

[Cell phone ringing]

- Hello.

- And Rebecca said, "all
right, we're coming back."

- What happened?

- There was this huge tree limb

that had violently ripped
one end of the power line

out of the transformer,

and this was a big leafy limb
from a completely healthy tree.

- This is unbelievable.
- I know.

- It wasn't dead.

It hadn't been cut or sawn.

It was pulled off the way
you would see a tree limb

pulled off in a storm...

Although there wasn't any storm.

- Something started
happening to me.

I started to doubt
what I believed.

I started to think, "well,
maybe there's something here."

- Something in that
house made that happen

to stop that investigation.

We had never seen
anything that violent.

I mean, ripping a
limb off of a tree,

that takes an awful lot
of power and energy.

If it can do that,
what else can it do?

[Door creaking]

- It was the middle of the day,

and I was in the
master dressing room.

[Floor creaking]

[Dull thudding]

I just heard these very heavy,
distinct footsteps above me

in the attic.

[Floor creaking]

[Footsteps thudding]

I didn't think that
it was a ghost.

For me, I was very
clear in my mind;

I knew absolutely that
there was a man in the attic.

- I'm in my office, I
pick up the phone,

and Rebecca says...

- [Whispering] There's
a man in the attic.

- And I said, "what do you mean
there's somebody in the attic?

Who's in the attic?"

- I heard footsteps.

Please come home.

- I was thinking that it
was maybe a squirrel.

- No, I know what I heard.

[Footsteps thudding]

There it is again.

- At the same time,
though, I am concerned,

because Rebecca
seems so convinced.

- Quick. Hurry.

- And Rebecca's not
somebody to get scared often.

[Heels tapping]

[Floor creaking softly]

[Dramatic music]

- I thought that
if I could possibly

lock the person in the attic

that they would still be
there when Mark got back

and we could confront the person

about why they
were in the house.

[Eerie music]

♪ ♪

[Footsteps thudding]

If there was a man up there,

the only way he would
have gotten out of the attic

was through the door,

because you can't just
shimmy down this house.

[Door clicks open and shut]

- Mark.
- [Shushing]

- She was agitated.

I wasn't used to
seeing her like that,

because Rebecca's a
very strong, secure woman.

I went up the attic stairs
with some wariness.

I was... you know, some caution.

[Eerie music]

♪ ♪

- Hello?

Anybody here?

There was absolutely
no sign of a break-in.

I found nothing.

There was nothing in the attic.

[Ominous music]

[Ominous music]

♪ ♪

- I smelled cigar smoke,

and I could smell
it very strong.

I'm just thinking,

"I know no one in the
house smokes anything,

much less cigars."

[Eerie music]

♪ ♪

I couldn't figure out why

part of what I was
looking at wasn't there.

It was just blacked out.

♪ ♪

I realized that what
I was looking at

was a dark figure in
the shape of a man,

and he had a cowboy
hat on the top of his head.

- Mark.

- And it was very scary.

I mean, I was frozen with shock.

- Suddenly I noticed
the shadow of a person,

and I was the only
person in the attic.

I couldn't believe it.

It was as though
somebody was leading me.

I see a brown piece of paper.

♪ ♪

- [Grunts]

♪ ♪

- [Roaring]

- It was gone.

Both Reagan and desi had
seen a woman in the house.

♪ ♪

I thought it was very odd
that I wasn't seeing a woman;

I was seeing a man.

I wanted to know
who this man was.

- There scattered
are all these letters,

and these letters are
addressed to ladell.

These were letters from a man
named prentiss savage in 1948.

I realized that this is a
love letter written to ladell

a couple of months
before she died.

I thought that these letters
that I held in my hands

were possibly the answer
to that mystery, that question:

Why did ladell die?

In march 1948, prentiss
is visiting monticello.

He and ladell had
known each other.

They had even dated.

But they ended up
marrying other people.

[Knocking]

And then they don't see
each other for 35 years.

And he writes in
one of his letters

about what he's thinking.

He's wondering
whether she's as beautiful

as she was when she was younger.

[Sweeping orchestral music]

♪ ♪

And he writes that he
wasn't disappointed.

So in march 1948,

ladell and prentiss
rekindle their romance.

His letters become
truly passionate.

- "These last five days will
live in my memory always

"as the happiest
ones in my entire life.

"I love you.

Don't ever forget I'm
thinking of you always."

- He insists in his letters

that he's going
to divorce his wife.

When I got to October of 1948,

I noticed a shift in the tone.

He was frustrated with ladell
pressuring him to make progress.

Then he wrote
that last letter...

- [Sobbing]

- And he said that he
didn't know when, if ever,

he was going to be able to
free himself of his marriage.

- [Sobbing]

- And there was silence.

- Ladell's death
certificate arrived.

The word "suicide" seemed
so large on the page.

The feeling that I
had when I read that

on the death certificate
was just incredible.

It was just incredibly sad.

- I was in the attic by myself.

I looked up,

and I saw a woman
coming toward me.

She was looking right at me.

[Dramatic music]

[Footsteps approaching]

[Ominous music]

- I was startled.

I look again...

And it's Rebecca.

- You need to
take a look at this.

- Rebecca showed me
ladell's death certificate.

My immediate
reaction was horror.

- The death certificate stated

that she died by Mercury
cyanide poisoning.

I noticed that it was
right at Christmas.

From doing my research, I
knew her mother always threw

a Christmas party.

- On Christmas night, 1948,

ladell attended her
mother's Christmas party.

[Indistinct chatter]

Prentiss promised in
more than one of his letters

that they would be
together at Christmas.

[Knock at door]

Christmas came, and
prentiss didn't show up.

- And I believe that
that was the thing

that pushed her over the edge.

[Dramatic music]

♪ ♪

- Late in the evening,

she prepared herself
a glass of punch.

[Ice cubes rattling]

She'd used the punch
to mask the taste

of the Mercury cyanide tablets.

♪ ♪

- [Screams]

- We felt sad for her.

I felt someone should
have reached out to her

and done something.

- I have personally gone from
not believing in spirits at all

to being completely convinced.

I think ladell wanted
me to find those letters.

I think ladell, in essence,
showed me where they were.

I think she was ready
for her story to be told.

- I would like to hope
that by sharing her story,

she can finally feel at peace.

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