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[thunder]

[rain pattering]

[tense music playing]

[Eli] I'm Eli Roth.

I've spent my life telling horror stories.

But imagine if those stories were real

and suddenly you find yourself stalked and tormented

by an evil spirit and no one believed you.

These are the actual accounts of terror

as told by the victims

who came face to face with their demons

and survived.

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I'll show you my room where some of the activity happened.

I lost weight I mean... my heart would be pounding

when I would go to bed and I was taking melatonin and another sleep aid,

I was taking probably more than I should have,

but I just, it really didn't make that much of a difference,

I just felt total fear to get in bed every night.

Oh boy.

I wanna tell my story because I know that what I went through was real.

Something was really after me.

And I was on the verge of having a nervous breakdown

or having to be put in a hospital.

I really wasn't that far off.

[upbeat instrumental rock music playing]

I did live a pretty carefree life. I knew right and wrong.

I just didn't do what I knew was right.

I didn't seem it like a big deal at that time.

And that's kind of where my life hit a turning point.

[upbeat music playing]

[screaming]

Hey, you're trying to drown yourself? Slow down, man.

Why? What else am I here for? This is what life is for, bro! Whoo-hoo!

I gotta piss like a race horse.

Line up some more shots.

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[tense music playing]

[ambulance siren blaring]

[beeping]

[flatline beeping]

The whole near-death experience maybe lasted

anywhere between 30 seconds to a minute.

I was dead and then I awoke.

It really forced me to kind of just look at the mistake I made, 'cause...

I mean there's not a bigger eye-opener than that.

I moved in with my grandpa in Suffolk County

and it was an opportunity to make my life easier

and it was an opportunity to help my grandpa

'cause, you know, he was at an age

where it was best for him not to be alone.

You know, I felt happy to move in with him,

this was a place where I was comfortable at.

Hey Grandpa Lou.

Welcome to the boondocks, kiddo.

[exhales]

[Lou] Let me show you the guest bedroom.

I remember where it is, Gramps.

I figure I could... you know help out.

Do some cooking, some cleaning, whatever you need.

I can be like your butler.

I bet you always wanted a butler, uh?

So, anything you want done first? Just name it.

Think we can go visit your grandmother?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. Of course.

She always loved it when you would visit.

She'd be so glad to hear that you're coming to stay for a while.

Yeah.

You okay, kiddo?

Yeah, I'm fine, I...

You all finished?

Do you remember any of it?

Any of what?

That night when you fell.

I mean, technically you were dead for...

No, I don't remember. And I really don't want to.

Ah! Your grandmother always said,

you should always have somebody around.

I mean, it's good to have companionship.

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[Doug] Looking back, it was kind of like a warning

before a volcano erupts, but I missed it.

This vibration in the air felt...

It felt just like the slightest bit of pressure.

Almost like when you have two magnets that are opposite

and are pushing against each other.

I can't compare it to anything else.

But it's something you feel and you know it's there.

[sighing]

[male voice whispering] Doug.

Why this was happening, or whatever this wanted at that moment?

I had no idea.

You know I never imagined it would get as bad as it did.

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[Doug] I can't see anybody but I can hear voices

and I don't know who they are.

And at that point, I realized that

I had a rough road ahead of me.

[yawning] Coffee.

Sleep well, kiddo?

I... I slept like a baby.

[thud]

Hello?

Somebody there?

[animal growling]

[tense music playing]

[male voice whispering] Doug.

[tense music playing]

Oh! Oh kiddo, it's just me.

Sorry Gramps. I don't know, I...

it's something in the woods, I think.

You ever hear anything out there? Like an animal?

In those woods?

Dougie, the most dangerous animal in those woods

is a wild turkey. C'mon, Yankee game on.

Yeah. Yeah, sure.

[foot stomping]

Gramps? Something wrong?

You okay?

[door opens]

[tense music playing]

Gramps? You okay?

Uh?

You need something?

Why did you get up?

I didn't. I didn't get up.

Black dog at your door.

Alright, Pops, back to dreamland.

[sighs]

[growl]

[tense music playing]

[footsteps approaching]

[heavy breathing]

[growling]

[panting]

[tense music playing]

[growling]

[panting]

[footsteps approaching]

[huffing]

Ah!

[panting]

[Doug] I think whatever this was,

was trying to show me that "Hey, I've got physical strength, I'm here,

I'm following you and I'm watching you".

And I remember at that point thinking,

"Wow, this thing is doing whatever it can to try to scare me."

And I never imagined it would get as bad as it did, you know.

And when things got bad I never imagined that they would get better.

We are in between worlds when we sleep.

I would dread going to bed every night.

I physically could not fall asleep.

And I remember thinking, "If this keeps happening

I'm not gonna make it more than a couple of nights."

To me that was worse than the lack of physical sleep,

the fear took its toll much more.

[voice whispering]

[Lou] Morning, you're up early.

Yeah I... I couldn't sleep for some reason.

You didn't sleep at all?

Yeah.

Hey, you remember getting up last night at all?

Nope.

I could have sworn I heard you up and down the hall last night.

Not me.

But you remember telling me you saw a black dog in the house, right?

What's the plan for today?

[sighs] Not much, maybe take a nap later.

Think if we go visit my cousin Jerry?

Visiting a cemetery I would just look at it and...

I guess I feel a little bit fearful.

I'd feel a little bit uneasy.

Jerry was a good man.

He had more friends than anybody I ever knew.

He was the one that first introduced me to your grandmother.

Do you remember meeting Jerry?

You would have been just a kid.

No, I don't-- I don't remember.

Okay, let's go.

[female voice whispering] Turn around,

turn around.

Get lost!

Get!

[sighs]

Maybe you can get some shuteye when you get back to the house.

Yeah.

Yeah, that's not a bad idea.

I, I just...

Oh!

[Lou] You okay, Doug?

Yeah.

When I heard that voice saying "turn around,"

my heart just dropped.

I really drove myself crazy trying to think,

"What is this? Why is it happening?"

I just thought it's trying to tell me something.

I'm right here, turn around.

And it was saying it maliciously, that's how I take it.

Boo.

Seriously, Gramps,

have you ever felt anything in the house?

Like something's watching you?

Son,

you think you need to see a shrink,

talk to somebody about this?

No. No, Gramps. Nevermind.

Okay.

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[muffled screaming]

[heavy breathing]

That was very real.

That's when it hit me that the house wasn't haunted,

it was me.

If I could move out and that was a fix, I would easily have done it.

I don't think I could have gone anywhere.

and would have been able to escape it.

I just-- I felt like I had no choice but to deal with it.

I never imagined I would be literally terrified to get into bed.

My heart would pound.

Physically I could feel my heart pounding.

There's not a fear like it, really.

I realized something was following me.

It was mentally and physically exhausting.

I just had this uneasy feeling like something bad

was currently happening or about to happen.

[grunting]

[female voice whispering] Turn around.

[tense music playing]

[voice whispers]

[female voice] You know I'm coming for you...

[whispers] Coming for you.

[screaming]

[panting]

[tense music playing]

[Doug] Why is this happening to me? Why?

This wasn't something that I could just brush off and let go.

I think it wanted to either break my will

where I did something drastic or had to be hospitalized.

Whatever it was just wanted to torment me for whatever reason.

It was almost like it was enjoying it.

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[growling]

[heavy breathing]

I felt something that resembled an animal

and it wasn't until it got right up to my face

that I thought to myself, "this feels exactly like a dog."

I mean it even sniffed like a dog.

That's what it felt like basically right in front of my face.

I think it wanted to feed off of fear,

I refuse to believe that I'm helpless

and there has to be something that I can do.

I was online and I was desperate to try to find some kind of answer,

some kind of solution to what was going on.

And I looked up supernatural and black dog

and there's mythology that it's called the Hell Hound.

It's a bad omen, it's not good.

And to me, that scared me because it wasn't just...

it wasn't just a person after me,

it seemed to be more than one thing,

but I couldn't come up with anything concrete

that was an answer, I really-- all I could do was speculate.

[female voice whispering] Doug...

Doug...

Doug. Doug.

Yeah?

[male voice whispering] Doug...

Doug...

[female voice] Turn around.

[male voice] Turn around...

turn around...

[female voice] Turn around.

I did turn around!

What do you want from me?

Answer me!

[whispers]

[female voice] Join us.

While I'm sleeping and when I'm by myself

pretty much is when most of it happens and so I'd say here

and especially at night it definitely...

it kicks up more, definitely at night.

That seems to be the witching hour.

Maybe there's some kind of connection

to when we're asleep that whatever it is, try to find its way into.

Really as soon as I would lay down I would feel just steps

like that coming up,

something would just kind of prance around

and I'd feel it around my pillow, around my head.

I was never a really religious person

but this is like a Saint Michael medallion

and this is a crucifix.

Sometimes I would hold it and it seemed to make a difference.

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Once I realized that whatever it was was following me...

it's a physical terror, it's just...

there's really nothing that's as scary.

Nothing seemed off-limits at this point,

anything seemed possible.

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Doug Walter?

The thing that jumps out from your email

was what happened to you at the nightclub.

Did the doctors tell you how long you were technically dead?

One minute, they told me.

No signs of life.

Have you been to any funerals since then or cemeteries.

Cemeteries, a lot.

Why?

I... I bring my Gramps, I mean...

he visits his friends and family that are gone now.

Do you think you can get something on camera?

Something visual.

Do you think that that would be seen as provoking it?

It's a risk, definitely.

But you might need to provoke it to get some answers.

[thunder rumbling]

[tense music playing]

This one here is just a light streak that flies by.

This is like 6:30 in the morning.

See right in that bottom right corner?

Okay, this one-- hold on, I just... this was the first clip I saw.

Here we go.

-[woman 1] What is that? -[woman 2] It's like a strobing

[Doug] Now this is while I'm sleeping.

Just look at the bottom by my feet,

you don't really see anything.

Looks like something was pulling the blanket.

I just remember thinking this is like something

out of a book or a movie but it's not.

This is my life right here right now.

Knowing something was present,

I felt so scared like I wanted to tell the whole world

and I'm not really a talker

but I felt like I wanted everyone to know

what was happening to me, that's how scary it was.

See? It's real.

I never doubted it was real.

Let's just figure out what it wants

so I can give it up and put an end to this.

You do not want to do that.

Why not?

If you didn't understand this before, understand it now.

You're in a fight with something evil,

so you need to fight back.

If you give it what it wants, then it wins.

You need to figure out what this thing doesn't want you to do

and then that's exactly what you do.

That's how you fight back.

[thunder rumbling]

[heavy breathing]

Oh, crap.

[growling]

[screams] Grampa, help!

Help me!

[whispers]

[growling]

[upbeat music playing]

[tense music playing]

[bark]

[female voice] Doug...

[voices whisper]

Join us...

[male voice] Join us...

Join us, join us.

That's what they want.

What? Doug, you fell.

They had me but then I got away,

now they want me to go back with them.

They want me to turn around,

want me to go back to being dead.

Doug, sit up, you're not going anywhere.

I'll get you some water.

I need to stay here.

I need to choose life.

After that night's near dead experience

some door got opened up.

When I went to the cemetery with my grandpa,

death recognized me.

Whatever was chasing me, I...

I think it was just maybe death.

Or maybe I wasn't running from something,

maybe I was running to somewhere,

maybe being in between worlds.

I really can't say.

If I had to take a guess, I don't...

I think I was just trying to escape death.

I refuse to believe that I'm helpless

and there has to be something that I can do.

So as this was escalating

I'm desperate to try to make it stop

and I've heard of sage and holy water

and putting a line of salt around my bed

and I tried anything and everything.

I was desperate to try to make this go away.

It's been seven months since this began

and I don't know if these entities will ever go away

but for me, I made the decision

that I'm gonna live my life anyway.

I think you had mentioned that you've worried about

like this kind of attaching itself to, you know,

other people that you talk to about that.

Is that something you see as potentially as a concern for us?

It's possible, I mean especially when you,

in your mind you believe and acknowledge it,

I think maybe when you leave here,

maybe just kind of have something,

whatever faith you have to try to just protect you.

I'll go to bed at night still and close my eyes

and I'll just feel something moving around

or feel something just kind of swatting at my face.

I still feel it every night.

I don't know if I'll ever have sleep like I used to.

Death doesn't think I belong here but I do.

You can't have me.

[Lou] Dougie.

Coming, Gramps.

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