A teenage boy dabbles in the occult and unleashes a malevolent spirit that terrorises his family in their new home. Paranormal investigators attempt to banish the evil forces.
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00:00The family moves into an old house, but soon discovers they're not alone.
00:13When an attempt is made to contact the spirits, evil forces are unleashed, turning all of
00:20their lives into a living hell.
00:26In America, there is real evil.
00:29It lurks in the darkest shadows and in our most ordinary towns.
00:34Between the worlds we see and the things we fear, there are doors.
00:41When they are opened, nightmares become reality.
00:56Seiglersville is a small community in eastern Pennsylvania, dating back to the 1800s.
01:06Lurking in its dense forests, rolling farmland, and old cemeteries are centuries of dark and
01:15troubled secrets.
01:23In 2009, single mom Debbie Guy and her family arrive at their new rural home.
01:30She's bought a 150-year-old house with over an acre of land.
01:38Debbie's worked long and hard to raise the money to fulfill her dream.
01:43That's the first house I've ever owned.
01:45It had countryside, it had a whole backyard that I could raise the kids with.
01:49It was perfect to what we wanted.
01:51I still can't believe it.
01:54Debbie's extended family includes her 28-year-old son, David, and 26-year-old daughter, Jodi.
02:00Along with Jodi's two young children, five-year-old Zoe and seven-year-old Craig, 17-year-old
02:06Nick is also moving in with them.
02:08He's been close to Debbie and her family all his life.
02:11What do you think, Zoe?
02:14I love it.
02:15Debbie has a full-time job as a hospice caregiver, but intends to spend every spare minute transforming
02:28the run-down house.
02:32I knew I wanted to redo the whole place, so that's what I had in mind when I bought it,
02:36was to remodel the house.
02:37I'm going to pick out my room.
02:38No, no, I'm going to pick out my room.
02:39Don't worry, I'm going to make sure everyone has their own room.
02:40I can't wait to get started on this place.
02:50David is immediately overwhelmed by a strange feeling.
02:55Are you okay?
02:57Yeah, it's just, I don't know, it's kind of funky in here.
03:01I remember it being pretty sudden, just the feeling of thick air, you know, the feeling
03:07of something else being there besides us.
03:10We can open a few windows, air it out.
03:14That'll help.
03:17Sure.
03:19As days pass, seemingly normal activities take on an ominous air to David.
03:28Zoe?
03:32Zoe?
03:34At first, it was childish things, you know, just little things.
03:39Hmm, where could Zoe be?
03:42Well, she's not on top of the bed.
03:46Maybe she's under it?
03:51There's nobody there.
03:54We didn't look at it as it was ghosts.
03:57We just knew that something wasn't right.
04:03While David is puzzled by the odd occurrences in the house, Debbie remains committed to
04:08restoring her new home to its former glory.
04:13Okay.
04:15The light up in that room would just turn on and off.
04:36Over the following month, Debbie, like David, finds that objects have mysteriously moved
04:42on their own.
04:44She begins to think that a spirit inside her house is responsible.
04:50You can put a piece of paper down and turn around and go for that piece of paper, and
04:53it's not there.
04:55And you'll find it somewhere else.
04:58I would hear footsteps an awful lot, and it wasn't the kids.
05:03We were starting to question what else was there.
05:07Nick!
05:10Nick, turn that music down!
05:18While David and Debbie are confused by what they are experiencing in the house, the changes
05:24they notice in their charge Nick have them truly alarmed.
05:29Since the move, he has become moodier and more secretive.
05:33He got distant, wasn't telling me things.
05:37He became rebellious with me.
05:40I started going through the rooms and going through book bags.
05:46Debbie finds a book on witchcraft.
05:49What's this?
05:50You're getting into something that doesn't belong here.
05:53It was not good.
05:56What is going on with you?
05:59I do not like you drawing on the walls, and that is not...
06:04This whole thing is just not cool.
06:07And neither is this book.
06:09What is going on?
06:10You're making a big deal out of nothing.
06:12Stop going through my stuff.
06:14Is there no privacy in this house?
06:17No.
06:31Soon Debbie has a far greater concern than the house and Nick.
06:38She seriously injures her back while at work as a hospice caregiver and undergoes major surgery.
06:48Everything is on hold while she recuperates in a ground floor room.
06:52How are you feeling?
06:53Okay.
06:54Yeah?
06:55Can I get you anything?
06:57No, I'm good.
06:58You're sure?
07:00Okay.
07:14Debbie's sleep is disturbed by more than pain from her injuries.
07:30She was from like the early 1900, early 1800 era.
07:35You could tell just by the clothing.
07:46I was just like, okay, I'll just close my eyes and she'll be gone.
07:51And sometimes she was in a different place.
07:54After all of the unexplained things she has seen in the house,
07:58Debbie is actually relieved to find proof that the house is haunted.
08:03I totally was happy to see that there was something else there.
08:07That it wasn't just me hearing things or feeling something.
08:12I was like, as long as you don't hurt us and don't bother us, you're fine.
08:17She falls back asleep, unaware that the ghost may have other plans in store for her.
08:28Two months later, Debbie is recovered and back at work.
08:32Now it's Nick who is involved in the spirit world.
08:36But unlike Debbie, he and his new girlfriend Alicia are working hard to summon them.
08:43The fairy of venerous sadness.
08:59Hey, Lee.
09:00Hi.
09:01There was nothing subtle about the change in him.
09:04More burnt wax? Really?
09:06Everything black. Now all of a sudden he's got candles everywhere.
09:09That's got to stop. No more spells. No more seances.
09:13Dave.
09:14Don't do that. Don't do that. Don't you dare deny it.
09:16He just felt that there was no problem and it wasn't really a big deal.
09:20It was a big deal to me.
09:24And quit drawing pentagrams all over everything.
09:26It's nothing. It's just a drawing. Chill out.
09:29We found pentagrams everywhere.
09:31David decides to protect both Nick and his mom by not telling her what he saw.
09:37My mom was working a lot so I was trying to handle it the best that I could
09:41so that she wasn't drug into it and stressed out about it as well as being at work and paying the bills.
09:47I was just cleaning everything up.
09:50I never really liked seeing pentagrams on anything.
09:53Especially in the house where we were living.
09:56It's almost like you're asking for it. You know what I mean?
10:05Are there any spirits here?
10:07Now that David put his foot down at home,
10:10Nick and Aletheia seek out a secluded spot to conjure spirits.
10:15The local cemetery.
10:18Who are you?
10:20Make yourself known.
10:22Make yourself known.
10:30Look.
10:35We did it.
10:45Come on!
10:48Go!
10:52In Sieglersville, Pennsylvania,
10:54Debbie Guy believes her family's new home is haunted by a friendly ghost.
11:01The theory of the nearest...
11:02But Nick, a teenager who lives with them,
11:04has begun to change and develop an unhealthy obsession with the occult.
11:08Will you help us?
11:10He and his equally dark new girlfriend, Aletheia,
11:13are attempting to summon a spirit in a cemetery.
11:17Nick fears they've unleashed something evil.
11:20Go!
11:27Come on, come on.
11:28Hurry.
11:31The teens rush home a mile away.
11:33He's out there.
11:34But how did he follow us on foot?
11:38We better go get David.
11:39home a mile away he's out there but how did he follow us on foot I better go get
12:00David I remember him saying somebody's standing outside like okay there he is
12:10right there see him I look out the window there's somebody standing across
12:15the street yeah I see him just standing there staring at the house you guys stay
12:22up here I'm gonna see what he wants
12:34I looked where standing he was standing was gone I came back in and he was still
12:44white as a ghost then he told me what happened look as far as the story with
12:51him in the Ouija board here I didn't want to believe it I really didn't want
12:56to think that he invited something in I was shaken too because I seen the person
13:01standing out there finally David feels he must tell his mother that Nick has
13:06been practicing black magic and has a spirit board to try and contact the dead
13:11I fully explained to my children I never wanted to see one of my property kids do
13:19not realize what that board does that opens things that you can't close he
13:28put the Ouija board away he stopped doing some of the stuff
13:37it didn't last long
13:42I've stuck it right in the trash can outside the house a few days later now
14:00I'm thinking maybe I'm losing my mind there's absolutely no way that this is
14:05the same Ouija board no way David decides to mark the board so he'll know
14:10for sure if it returns I scraped it up got rid of it
14:17I've seen that same Ouija board again with with the mark on it I was pretty
14:39scared to know that it found its way back again
14:47oh my god
15:01and there it was
15:07I knew we were in trouble
15:17it's not burning they don't burn I broke it up in pieces I threw it away
15:45it seems that every day brings a troubling new discovery the Nick that
15:55Debbie has known since birth a promising student churchgoer and upbeat teen has
16:00taken such a dark turn she fears he's spiraling out of control
16:07tell me what is going on he did something real bad
16:15mean to leave you we cast a spell a bad spell we ask you to bring sickness
16:27misfortune and death we ask for blood and so we bring you blood blood for
16:34blood blood for blood blood for blood
16:49in Ziegler's Ville Pennsylvania Debbie guy believes her 19th century house is
16:55haunted by a friendly spirit
16:59but she's learning that Nick a longtime family friend who lives with her
17:03has been trying to conjure up something far more sinister despite being warned
17:09to stop dabbling in black magic he's admitted that he and his girlfriend took
17:14things to the extreme with an animal sacrifice he told me about the cat that
17:23they they offered up a cat they did some spells for disease sickness and death
17:31it's the last straw for Debbie but she can't abandon the young man she's known
17:36for so long she realizes Nick is deeply troubled get you the help you need okay
17:45we have to pack your bags I need to put him into a place that could take care of
17:50him where I couldn't I put him in a facility
17:55with Nick gone Debbie's grandchildren Craig and Zoe no longer have to share a
18:03bedroom Zoe moves into Nick's room sweet dreams little bug close your eyes okay
18:24who are you so you want to help me paint one of the bedrooms upstairs yeah of
18:43course should we let the kids pick out the colors they would love me sweetie
18:48what what's going on in the window there's a boy's face Jacob he looked at
18:55me no I think somebody had a bad dream it's the second floor up there's a boy's
19:05face in the window the boy's name is Jacob yeah you ready for bed like
19:13there's nobody out there okay sweetie let's get you back to bed okay Jody
19:21decides that Zoe and her brother Craig should switch rooms a few nights later
19:36Debbie checks in on Craig
19:53Craig honey why is your blanket behind the dresser he keeps pulling my blankets
19:58off every night Oh honey Jacob
20:07each one of these kids coming up with the same name and just scared the heck
20:13out of me because he was very bent on that's who was there over the following
20:19nights Craig claims Jacob keeps returning to torment him
20:38we would notice his blankets or his belongings would be shoved behind the
20:43dresser shoved under the bed or he'd wake up in the middle of night screaming
20:47and we started to get worried David puts his laptop in his nephew's room and
20:54activates its camera at night hoping to see if anything's really going on
21:01David stays up to monitor what's happening
21:31a family in Eastern Pennsylvania is being plagued by unexplained happenings
21:57since moving into their 150 year old home events that have grown more
22:02frightening since Nick a troubled teen developed an unhealthy obsession with
22:07black magic in desperation Debbie guy has sent him away for professional help
22:14but now there's more trouble her daughter's two children claim they're
22:19being tormented by a spirit called Jacob
22:25their uncle David has set up a secret laptop camera to find the truth
22:36you're right buddy it's okay it's all right you're right but David has no
22:46explanation for what he witnessed okay the camera overlooked the doorway so if
22:54anybody would have came in the room it would have caught the person coming in
22:58the room he shows his mother Debbie the video there's got to be a explanation to
23:03this it's got to be something that I'm just not saying because this is just not
23:07possible but I can rewind it and it's still there and it did happen
23:17Debbie's now determined to find some answers I decided I'd start trying to
23:24figure out what was going on in the house so I went to the Historical Society
23:27for information there's quite a few places up in the area that are all
23:37wanted Debbie discovers that several former residents died in the house
23:43including a young girl whose name she can't make out and a boy named Jacob
23:51scared the hell out of me because it's real this little boy did live there and
23:59the little girl
24:06the details of their deaths remain a mystery all other official records were
24:12destroyed in a fire it's a time of uncertainty for Debbie she retires from
24:24her health care job and her son David is moving out well it's last one I'm gonna
24:32miss you honey I had gotten a girlfriend and I felt it was time I needed to move
24:39on it's not an easy decision for him I was concerned for the kids mainly for
24:49the kids be safe yeah you guys too Debbie's also worried but feels she has
24:59no option but to stay in the house with her daughter Jodi and two grandchildren
25:03I couldn't leave didn't have the finances to leave and we were stuck there was just no
25:11choice we were stuck we had to stay there when Jodi and the kids leave for a
25:16weekend away Debbie decides to try to rid the house of its ghosts he make it
25:22to me to lie down beside the still waters through the power of prayer though
25:29I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil for thou art with
25:41me thy rod and my staff Debbie struggles to make sense of the frightening attack
25:51they growled at me and it scratched me and then it pushed me down steps
25:57back my bags on it for the weekend you won this one
26:04growing increasingly desperate Debbie turns to her local church for help
26:15Debbie are you I'm glad you're here thank you for coming and thank you for
26:23believing me I do believe you Debbie and I'm glad you trusted me it was scary to
26:28let somebody in on something that we hid but it was nice to know that something
26:33didn't think we were crazy why don't we pray and let's bless this house okay I
26:38bless this house in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy
26:44Spirit he started cleansing the house and I got
26:48violently sick oh he thought that I was personally getting attacked you're being
26:54attacked pray with me Debbie the Lord is my shepherd I shall not want make it be
27:02like down in the green pastures he leadeth me beside the still waters he
27:08restoreth my soul he leadeth me in the paths of the righteousness for his name's
27:13sake yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will
27:18fear no evil let's finish blessing the house okay
27:25air lifted in the house like somebody opened a window and you could breathe
27:31the Holy Spirit it was peaceful and it seemed good for the first time the house
27:43feels normal to Debbie after keeping others away when the house seemed
27:47haunted she finally feels comfortable inviting friends over so there are no
27:53more problems there are no footsteps doors opening on their own
27:56that's unbelievable just stopped so do you think that they're gone you two are
28:03a couple of idiots there's no such thing as ghosts don't talk like that they
28:08don't like it this house doesn't like that kind of behavior there's nothing
28:11here I'll prove it to you is this where you keep the bad ones I'm not worried
28:18about ghosts because there's no such thing as ghosts I told him not to do it
28:25these women are crazy mr. ghost I can't believe I told you there's no such thing
28:38Debbie guy hopes her old house is no longer haunted pray with me Debbie
28:56after it was blessed by a local pastor what's this house for weeks her home has
29:01been at peace there are no more problems that's unbelievable just stopped but now
29:07a disbelieving friend ghost has provoked something evil to return there's no such
29:14thing I knew it when I saw that picture that it was back oh my god it was scary
29:30as all hell it was very scary Debbie contacts the Eastern Pennsylvania
29:38Paranormal Society headed by retired police officer Bill Cook who agrees to
29:43lead an investigation our general approach is to try debunk everything as
29:50we proceed with the claims and as we collect evidence using scientific
29:54methods just our approach to doing the investigation is very formatted very
29:58structured you bought a video equipment still photography equipment audio
30:04recorders they bought infrared cameras motion sensors we used as well cover the
30:11whole house upstairs downstairs the basement
30:29we did look at the door and we try to recreate it you know try to get to happen
30:34again but there was no draft no windows were open at that point I guess we'll be
30:40starting in the basement carry come with me Carrie Moran is a sensitive working
30:47with the team sensitives can come into an area or a room or around the people
30:52and kind of pick up on the energy of the room they can determine if it's positive
30:57negative sad angry frightened
31:06the basement just felt odd
31:12I'm getting a strong negative feeling down here oh my god Nick and his
31:30girlfriend sacrificed a cat there the sacrifice could complicate the team's
31:36ability to remove spirits from the home the death of an animal or the death of
31:42anything as an offering it's a darker seal on things it's a more permanent
31:48seal on things it makes it very difficult to eliminate a darker entity
31:51when you've taken a life it's just the worst thing you could possibly do
32:06upstairs another member of the team is attempting to record EVPs electronic
32:11voice phenomena who are you
32:16what do you want here
32:36oh
32:53oh my god it was her
32:57why the basement so now what we'll compile everything with a written report
33:08for you I was just looking to document it and see what it was we can decide how
33:13to treat it how do I do something more happens definitely call us
33:27Oh
33:58Debbie guy has been menaced by spirits since moving into her 19th century home
34:05in eastern Pennsylvania ghosts of two children who died in the house and an
34:13evil entity that may have been summoned by her young charge Nick continue to
34:18haunt her soon after an investigation by the Eastern Pennsylvania Paranormal
34:25Society the spirits reemerge with a vengeance
34:42my bed got shook hard and that was it the next day my stuff was packed and I
34:50wasn't gonna be in that room no more the paranormal research team returns for a
34:55second investigation led by Bill Cook my experience was there was definitely
35:04paranormal activity however I thought there was another nail negative factor
35:08which I believe was the first that she claimed that Nick had put on the
35:12property the investigators believe the girl and Jacob could be as Debbie's own
35:20research revealed the spirits of children who died in the house yay
35:26though I walk or something more sinister could be trying to fool them no evil
35:33according to sensitive Carrie Moran the apparition of a child is oftentimes like
35:39a facade almost like the little actor that comes in like I'm perfectly
35:43innocent I'm perfectly harmless you can let me into your home and then once
35:47they're there then it's trouble we had to find a way to counteract that a few
35:56days later Bill Cook and Carrie Moran return to perform a cleansing ritual
36:01with Debbie this house and these people have been consecrated and freely given
36:09to you God they say prayers burn sage and sprinkle holy water in each room
36:16it's better to do a cleansing based off the homeowners belief system so we
36:22decided to go with a religious based cleansing of the house as well as a set
36:30script that allows the homeowner to take back their home and say I don't want you
36:36here get out of my home my home is now protected by the armor of God my home is
36:45now mine and you are not welcome here
36:52my home is now mine again and you are not welcome
37:06how's it feel feels better it does it feels better it felt lighter Debbie
37:15seemed happier like somebody opens up a window and the fresh breeze runs through
37:20the house fresh spring breeze just rushes through the house and you smell
37:25the lilacs and it's clean I feel very confident it worked I have no reason to
37:32think it didn't work so we felt pretty good about it there's always a
37:35possibility activity can return because we don't know what's happening after we
37:38leave the paranormal activity stops six months later Debbie's son David is
37:50paying a visit to help out with repair work
38:06oh my god mom this can't be happening there's no way couldn't believe it
38:13couldn't believe with my own eyes what's going on
38:20what
38:23oh my god how is this possible I have no idea it was on the counter when I walked
38:28in I've heard that many times where people try to dispose of a Ouija board
38:32and it comes back never seen evidence of it but on many claims they've thrown
38:37it away they burn it broken in half they claim to come back again afterward
38:47maybe it's associated with the energies that become attached to it I knew we're
38:55right back where we started this time Debbie does not contact the paranormal
39:05investigators for help she's now convinced there's nothing anyone can do
39:10to free her home of its evil presence but her finances force her to stay in
39:16the house with her daughter and grandchildren weeks later when her
39:52something just reaches and takes the life right out of you it's strong it's
39:59very strong this is not good Debbie is rushed to the hospital but doctors can
40:08find nothing wrong with her mom you cannot stay here by yourself I'm not
40:17going to leave you here she fears her daughter Jody and her grandchildren are
40:21in harm's way and forces them to leave immediately for their own safety when
40:28you get there okay at that point is when I told my daughter that I think it was
40:32time for them to go and then I might just leave the house let it go that was
40:38done I couldn't protect them I couldn't protect myself they moved out the house
40:47is put up for sale the hardest decision I've ever had to make I put every ounce
40:54of money I ever had into that house everything I put everything into it now
41:01living alone she still finds that objects mysteriously move there are
41:07strange voices and doors slam shut until the house sells Debbie remains in
41:15constant fear of the unknown