All language subtitles for Paranormal Witness s04e09 The Fireplace.eng

[Electronic humming
and crackling]

[Haunting music]

♪ ♪

- It was a beautiful
old fireplace.

The only thing was,
it was boarded up.

- Built her house...

- It was beyond my
wildest imagination.

- There was blood
dripped around his head.

Whatever's in
there is coming out.

- and of the son.

- Something trying
to get into my house.

- My heart stopped for a minute.

- Pull harder.

- What are you looking at, baby?

- Honey.

- Mandy?
- Mommy!

- It was something evil.

- There was no one I could call.

In 1984, my dad passed.

And it was devastating.

I loved him so much.

I was just 21 years old.

I had a daughter, Mandy,
and I was pregnant with my son.

- Linda took it the hardest.

She was the baby of the family.

[Doorbell ringing]

- My boyfriend
was a truck driver.

Months at a time,
I wouldn't see him,

so I was on my own
with Mandy a lot.

Dad left us a small inheritance.

He wanted to make sure
that we were taken care of.

I felt like I needed to
stand on my own two feet.

So I started looking
for a place to live,

a place where I could
raise my children.

I seen this apartment building

that was in a familiar
neighborhood.

It was gorgeous.

This is the home for
me and my babies.

I remember it being
there since I was a kid.

It was comforting,
and it was perfect.

- Ow.

[Grunts]

[Sighs]

- The one thing that
really caught my eye

was a beautiful old fireplace.

The only thing was,
it was boarded up.

I thought maybe later on
when I had a bit more money

that I might be
able to restore it.

[Door creaking]

A few days later,

I started fixing the
back bedroom up,

'cause that was gonna
be Mandy's room.

[Blowing and patting]

In one corner of the
room was a closet.

When I opened it up,

I noticed that there's
an object in there.

The object was round,

and it had shapes and designs.

It was pretty, so I
kept looking at it.

It felt like it had a meaning.

So I didn't want to just
throw something away

because I figured someone
will come back for this.

So I hung it back
into the closet.

And I just didn't
think about it again.

After I got settled
into my apartment,

every morning I'm
pulling my curtains over,

and it's like there
was no light beam.

Nothing.

And I thought, "well,
this is really strange."

So I thought, "well, okay.

"Well, I'm just going
to scrub them down

and see if I can get
them to shine a little bit."

- [Breathing deeply]

- But still no light.

It was almost like
some kind of shield

that kept the sun from
coming into the house.

It was gloomy.

[Siren wails and dog barks]

As the evening
started coming around,

the atmosphere changed.

It felt uneasy.

There was a
sense of... not fear,

but something's not right.

I just put it down to
settling in, new place,

and maybe being a little lonely.

And I was always
waiting to find out

when Mandy's dad would be in.

[Hollow scraping]

[Rattling]

- Hansel and gretel went to
bed thinking they were in heaven.

- So at night,

Mandy always looked
forward to her bedtime stories.

- But the old woman had
only pretended to be friendly.

- [Breathing]

- I'm hearing this
really heavy breathing.

And it's right by me.

- Had only pretended
to be friendly.

She was a wicked
witch who was lying in

waiting for children.

- So we're sitting there,
and I'm reading to her.

- She had built her house...

[heavy breathing]

- It was like...

[Ragged breathing]

- The wicked witch
thought, "now I've got you!"

[Sharp breathing]

- It was right at my left ear.

- Honey, you know
what? It's getting late.

Let's take this into
your room, okay?

- Okay.
- I'll meet you there.

- I started wondering,
"what was that?"

I couldn't get over the
breathing I kept hearing.

I got to thinking,

"I'm just tired. I'm stressed."

I just tried to forget about it.

It didn't happen.

We haven't been in the apartment
long when my cousin Jeanne

ended up coming over to see me.

- It's pretty dark in here, hon.

- I joked with her.

I said, "you need to
wash your windows."

And she gave me her Linda look.

- Mm.

- I was in the
kitchen talking to her,

and she was doing laundry.

- How are you feeling, anyway?

- Pregnant.

- I noticed Mandy
nodding her head

as if she's having
a conversation.

And she's answering back

to whoever may
be talking to her.

- What is Mandy doing?

- She was looking the
same place all the time.

And it was always up like it
was somebody bigger than her.

- She's just playing.

- Well, I took it as a
child's imagination.

- Isn't it strange, though?

It's like she's
talking to an adult.

- It's her imaginary playmate.

- And I said, Linda,
"I've got five kids."

- None of them
have ever done that.

- She's fine.

- Here you go.

- Because I had Mandy
in bed in my room

when I would have company,

I pulled my bedroom
door partway shut.

So I turn around and my bedroom
door is pushed completely shut.

I go over and I turn the knob,

and I can't get in my bedroom.

So I'm pushing on the door.

- Mandy?
- Mommy!

- I was really concerned
that an intruder

had gotten into my home.

- Open up.

- Mommy! Mommy!

- Mandy!

- Mommy!

- Mandy?

Mandy, honey.

Mandy!

Open up!

- And I'm going, "Mandy! Mandy!"

- Why are you shouting?

- I'm throwing my whole
body against this door,

trying to get into my bedroom.

- What's the matter?

- Oh, my god. Honey!

How did this get here?

- The bed had been
lodged up against the door.

- Is someone in here?

- I don't know.

- For someone to move
something like that,

it had to take
a lot of strength.

She couldn't understand
why I was so upset

and why I was yelling her name.

I had a little girl
to think about.

I could feel
something wasn't right.

I was really scared.

So the next morning, I get up.

I'm getting a cup of coffee.

I'm standing at the window.

And I'm hearing
this... Crack, crack.

And it startled me a little bit.

And I turn around,

and I start hearing
this creaking.

I realize that it is
coming from the fireplace.

I hear this loud pop.

[Popping]

I walk over and
try to peek in there.

But when I did, it stopped.

So I just kind of let that go.

I thought, "well, it might
have been a breeze...

Or maybe a bird
fell down there."

- You're not hearing
what I'm saying.

- You sound like
you're freaking out.

- So a couple days later,

my phone rings
and it's my boyfriend.

And I start telling
him what's going on.

He's thinking that
I got baby blues.

He's trying to tell me that
it's just my imagination.

It was very frustrating

'cause this wasn't
my imagination.

- I love you.
- Bye.

- And it wasn't my hormones.

I thought it was just time to
start getting Mandy used to

sleeping in her new
bedroom in the back

so I would have more space
for the baby in my room.

All of her toys are set up.

It was so cute.

- Mandy!

Come on, honey.

What do you think of your room?

- I love it. Thank you.

- Yeah. Here, help mommy.

There you go.

Mommy worked very hard.

- I figure, well, the
doors are open.

If she needs me, I can hear her.

It was around midnight.

I'm lying in my bed.

- [Screaming]

- All of a sudden, I hear
this horrible scream.

- Mandy.

- The scream was
just bloodcurdling.

I ran so fast,

like her life depended on it.

- Mandy!

- Mommy!

- The bed was just
violently shaking.

It was just banging so hard.

- Mandy!

- Mandy is hanging
on, and she's screaming.

- Mommy!

- I grabbed her so fast.

All I kept thinking was,

"how am I going to
protect my babies?"

- On the couch,
honey. On the couch.

Are you okay?

- So I'm sitting there,
and I'm holding Mandy.

And I start hearing this sound.

- You're fine. You're fine.

- [Whimpering]

- It's the fireplace.

[Rumbling and creaking]

- What is that, mommy?
- I don't know.

Stay there.

- The wood is popping,
and it's pushing outward.

And I'm thinking, "oh, my god.

Whatever's in
there is coming out."

My heart was pounding so hard.

I thought it was going
to pound out my chest.

I was terrified.

There was something
trying to get into my house.

- Be careful, mommy!

[Rumbling and creaking]

[Skittering]

- I could see a shadow of a
shape pushing and scratching.

And it wasn't no bird.

It wasn't a draft.

This was something trying
to come through that fireplace.

- Come on, hon. Come on.

- I turn around
and I grab Mandy.

And we went back
into the bedroom.

And at this point,

I knew that something paranormal
was going on in my house.

But I had that little tiny seed
of doubt that maybe it was me.

Maybe I was
going a little crazy.

I kept Mandy close to
me, and I couldn't sleep.

All I could do was
pray for morning.

Everything right now
was revolving around

keeping Mandy
as safe as I could.

And then my other big
concern was the baby coming.

I don't have my dad.

My boyfriend was driving
a truck cross-country.

It was late at night

and there was no one
I could call and say,

"please come get me."

I got up the next morning.

I walked back into
Mandy's bedroom.

Everything was calm.

I pulled the door shut

and I never went
back into that room.

I didn't want to stay there,

but I invested everything
I had in the apartment.

Whatever was here,

I was really hoping
it would just go away.

This was supposed
to be our home.

I decided to call
my sister, Audrey,

and ask her if she
could come over.

Mandy was asleep.

- Hey.
- What's going on?

- It's the fireplace.

[Heavy breathing]

- Then all of a sudden,

there was a slow breathing
sound right next to my ear.

And I got scared,
and I jumped up.

- Audrey?

- I was trying to
get it away from me.

I was hitting at it.

- Are you okay?

- Audrey's standing there,

and she's trying to SWAT
this thing away from her.

And she's pushing
it and fighting it,

trying to swing it away.

- Linda?

- Something raised
my arm up, just like this.

- Something's got me.

- Audrey.
- Pull harder.

- Audrey.

- Something had
a hold of her arm.

- And she's trying to help me.

- It was like a tug-of-war

trying to get her
away from this.

- It finally released me.

- She fell backwards
and landed on the couch.

- We just hung on to each other.

We just couldn't believe
what just happened.

- It was beyond my
wildest imagination.

She was breathing hard,
and her being pregnant...

- the baby's coming.

- I told lin, I said, "we
need to get out of here."

[Baby crying]

- Here we go.

Your new home.

He's beautiful, isn't he?

- Aaron is born,
and he was beautiful.

We went back home.

- Yeah.

- After she had the baby,

she seemed almost
like her old self again.

[Light flickering]

- Okay. Go on in.

- Thanks.

- So I get him home,
and nothing happens.

It was very
peaceful. It was calm.

- Are you sure you're
going to be okay?

- Yeah, got to
make a go at this.

- I felt like I turned a corner.

[Car alarm wailing]

[Creaking and snapping]

Then all of a sudden,

the popping and the
scratching from the fireplace

gets so much worse.

[Banging]

- Stop.

- It's like something
is trying to fight

to get into the apartment.

I was scared. I didn't
know what to do.

It was late, but I called
my cousin Jeanne.

[Phone ringing]

- Hello?

- Jeanne?
- Linda?

What's wrong, sweetie?

- Jeanne, whatever's
here, it won't go away.

I'm not kidding!

Please, can you get here?

Just come!

Hello?

- I'm coming right over, Linda.

[Dial tone drones]

Linda?

- Jeanne?

- The phone went dead.

- She sounded really
anxious, stressed.

"I need you here now."

And I told her
I'd be right over.

- I've got to go
over to Linda's.

[Knocking]

- As soon as I
walked in the door,

she goes, "this
place is haunted."

She didn't tell stories.

- Come on, now.

- There's something
in the fireplace.

- She had a lot to deal with.

- Come on, let's settle
down a little, okay?

- She was by herself,
basically, raising them.

I wanted to be there for
her as much as I could.

- You got a screwdriver?

- I thought maybe, you know,

birds might have got down
in there, flopping around.

I started taking the screws out.

Whoever put the board there

wanted to make
sure it stayed up.

I just got this
really bad feeling

that I shouldn't
take the board off.

And I started putting
the screws back in.

- What are you doing?

- And I just told her, I said,

"Linda, I don't think this
is meant to come down."

- Every time I take out a
screw, I get a worse feeling

like this is something
I'm not supposed to do.

- I'm not going to take it off.

The feeling that came over me,

it was a feeling of dread.

And then I heard the voice.

- [Whispering] Get
the children out of here.

- [Whispering] Get
the children out of here.

- Linda, i... i got to go.

- I knew the kids
were in danger.

- Something just...

- you guys need to get
out of this apartment.

You need to move.

- I'm trapped here.

- And she started crying.
- Please come with me.

- She said the kids
weren't safe there

in that apartment.

It was devastating.

- I suggested she come with me,

and she said she couldn't.

- Your place is full
without us being there.

- I couldn't pile in all
my family, you know?

They still had their life.

- I have to.

- So I was stuck in a place
where I couldn't keep my baby.

- I'll stay.

Take them with you.

- Shh.

Can you get Mandy
for me, please?

- She gathered up stuff,
threw it in a bag real quick,

and I walked out
of the apartment.

I said, "I'll bring them
back tomorrow daylight."

And I said, "okay."

- Just be careful.

- "Just be careful."

- I love you.

- I felt so bad
leaving Linda there.

- I had to make it work.

It was my home...

Supposed to be my home.

I crawled in bed, I
turned the light off,

and I laid back.

I knew something wasn't right.

[Muffled shouts]

Something was on top of me.

It was suffocating me.

All I could do was pray.

Whatever this was released me.

It let me up.

I was so frightened

that I didn't have
any idea what it was.

Maybe it's just all a bad dream.

I started wondering if
it was all in my mind.

I was lost on what
direction to go.

I didn't know what
to do or who to go to.

I couldn't leave the
kids with my family,

because my first instinct was
my children should be with me.

[Baby crying]

My boyfriend was
still away on a long job

and still wouldn't
be back for weeks.

And I'd wonder if I'm ever going
to wake up from this nightmare.

[Baby crying]

I was beginning to get
angry at the kids' father

for not putting more effort into
taking us out of this situation.

- I'm sorry I haven't
been round before.

- I invited Becky to
come over for dinner.

- I met Linda when I was
probably about 16, 17.

We were really good friends.

- I was just happy
that I wouldn't be alone.

I felt like I was just
going to be safer

with my friends there.

- I think it started
with the fireplace.

Then there's whispering.

There's something in here.

- She insisted there's
something wrong.

- And there's constant...

[glass shattering]

[Plate shattering]

- We heard this crash.

[Smashing]

- All hell broke loose.

Opening cabinets
and taking dishes out

and just throwing them.

- Dishes are starting
to fly off the counter.

- Like somebody
invisible came in there

and was just raging mad.

It's, like, telling
us to get out.

[Rattling]

- The bedroom door was shaking.

- Aaron!

Stay here!

Oh, my god.

Oh, my god, there's
something in there with my baby.

Oh, my god.

- Aaron, the baby, was in there.

- Oh, my god.
Leave my baby alone!

- Linda just started hollering

that there was something
on the other side of the door.

- Push!

Oh, my god!

- Oh, my god.

Something was so wrong.

- Oh, my god. Oh, my god.

There's something
in there with my baby.

- Oh, my god.

- And I flipped the light on.

- Honey.

- And there was blood
dripped around him.

- What is it?

- It was like almost
somebody stood over him

maybe with an
eyedropper or something,

just perfect spots.

- Where did all this
blood come from?

- I don't know. There's no cuts.

- That's when we
did start thinking,

maybe a ritual.

My god, it was going
to take the baby.

- I'm checking everything,

trying to figure out
where this came from.

I stripped him down.

There was no marks, no cuts.

- I don't get it.
- No reason for the blood.

- It doesn't make any sense.

- I felt helpless.

I didn't know what to do.

- The children had
to be protected.

- We're gonna call the church.

We're gonna have a
preacher exorcise this house.

- In the name of the father...

- the priest began to
read from the Bible.

And it was blessings.

- Amen.

- Most glorious prince
of the heavenly armies,

Saint Michael the archangel...

- you could start hearing
the sound of muffling

in the fireplace.

- My heart stopped for a minute.

- Against the rulers of
this world of darkness,

against the spirits of
wickedness in the high places.

[Crashing]

- It was like an
invisible creature...

- and those who hate
him flee before him.

As smoke is driven
away, so are they driven.

[Crashing]

As wax melts before the fire...

- it ran and it
hit Audrey's leg.

- [Yelps] What is that?

- We drive you...

- but you could hear
whatever this was...

It was going around the
table and it was going fast.

- All satanic powers
flee before him.

- It ran up the chimney.

- It went... [Pattering]

You could hear it hitting
the inside of the wall.

After it went up the chimney,

everything got
really, really quiet.

- But you could feel there
was a lightness in the air.

The sun was starting to
shine through the windows.

We were just ecstatic
that this was over.

- She was going to be
safe and wouldn't be afraid

to stay in that apartment
with her two babies.

[Hammer pounding]

- Thanks.
- Yep.

- I'll just get you
some milk, honey.

[Heavy breathing]

[Phone ringing]

- My phone rings.

[Phone ringing]

- Hello?

- It's the priest and he says...

- you need to get the babies
and get out of that apartment.

- What?
- It's not gone.

It's still there, Linda.
I was attacked.

This thing left bruises and...

- [gasps]

- And at that point,

I got sick to my stomach.

Something was trying to
break through the board

from the inside.

But the board is nailed shut.

Whatever this thing
was, it was back.

And it was just horrifying.

- Mandy, honey.
Please, I need your help.

Grab everything that you want.
We're going to auntie's tonight.

Come on. Let's go.

I need help with your brother.

Mandy.

No playtime right now.

- She says, "who
is that, mommy?"

- Who's that, mommy?

- Who's who, honey?

- And she went quiet.

And I'm looking, I'm like,

"what are you looking at, baby?"

- Honey...

- When she moved
her head towards me...

- Please, Mandy.

Mandy, please. I need your help.

Honey.

- She had this grin.

- Mandy.

Mandy.

- And her eyes weren't her eyes.

They had turned black.

It wasn't her.

- Mandy?

- Something took her.

- Come on.

- And I just grabbed her.

- Mommy?

- And it was Mandy again.

She's looking at me and
she... She doesn't understand.

- Are you okay?

- How could I tell her that it
wasn't her I was looking at?

She was just a baby.

I was clinging on and I
just kept her right about me.

My heart starts racing.

I've got to get my
kids out of here.

I was done with the apartment.

It was over.

So a week or two later,

I had a few things still
left in my apartment.

And I asked my cousin
Jeanne if she would help me.

[Door creaking]

- I went back in
the back bedroom.

I opened the closet door to see

if there was anything
else in the closet.

And there was this
thing hanging there.

It was really odd-looking.

I'd never seen
anything like it before.

And I called to Linda
and I asked her...

- Linda, does this thing go too?

- What thing is that?

- Come here a sec.

- I said, "when I
moved in here, I seen it,

but I figured it just
belonged here."

- I said, "doesn't that
look like a pentagram?"

And she goes...

- oh, my god.

Yes.

- She's like, "this
really looks like this is..."

- something evil.

- Something that a
witch would work with.

- And at that moment,

I got to remembering
that when I was a child,

there was an old woman
who lived in this apartment.

- Come on, girls.

- The very same apartment
that I'm living in right now.

It suddenly made sense to me.

People used to always
make a comment...

- There she is. There's
the nasty old witch.

- "Don't go too
close to her house.

She's a witch, and she's mean."

And it was very clear
she did not like children.

She was always
looking out the windows,

especially when she
heard kids out there.

I couldn't believe that
I did not remember

about this woman
living in my apartment

and everybody accusing
her of being a witch.

- How could I forget that?

- She kept shaking her
head, "how could I forget that?"

I said, "well, Linda..."

- it was a long time ago.

You were, what,
six, seven years old?

- I said, "let's get
out of here now."

And so we grabbed the
other boxes from that room

and we were
gone in no time flat.

- I knew in my heart that
I may never truly know

what really was
in that apartment.

I didn't know if it was the soul

of this old woman tormenting me

or if it was something that
she may have conjured up.

These are things
I'll never know.