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00:00A family settles into their suburban dream life when a dark energy invades their home.
00:14Something was watching me.
00:15You felt it almost breathing on you.
00:18Evil lurks behind every corner.
00:20Scary man.
00:21He's in the walls.
00:23I could feel that something was around me.
00:27And no one rests in peace.
00:35It wasn't a nightmare.
00:36It's a threat.
00:39In America, there is real evil.
00:43It lurks in the darkest shadows and in our most ordinary towns.
00:50Between the worlds we see and the things we fear, there are doors when they are opened.
01:03Doors become reality.
01:10All right, guys.
01:25Let's wrap it up for the night.
01:26No argument from me.
01:27Me neither.
01:29In 2013, Bill Toler, a brick mason, takes on a job at the state penitentiary.
01:35I was starting my own contracting business and doing bricks and remodeling.
01:40We had one really big job, which was the jail.
01:45The tools had to be away from the inmates.
01:47So where we kept our tools at was death row.
01:51Has anybody ever told you guys that we're standing in the execution chamber?
01:57Well, the former execution chamber.
02:01For nearly 20 years, prisoners were put to death right where we're standing.
02:07He says the gurney that you're using is actually where people have died on that gurney from lethal injection.
02:14It was kind of creepy.
02:16Interesting.
02:20Dang it.
02:21You okay?
02:23Yeah.
02:25Yeah, I'm okay.
02:29Let's get out of here.
02:44But this is not the only big project in Bill's life.
02:47He has just moved his family to the suburbs.
02:50We were moving from Baltimore from a little row home to Pasadena.
02:56Pasadena's a quiet, family-oriented community.
03:00Kind of like waterfront-type people, always on the water, fishing, crabbing.
03:05Definitely a good place to raise kids.
03:08Rudy the tugboat was shiny and new, ready to set sail on the ocean blue.
03:13Waiting for Bill at home is his wife, Amanda, and their son, Colin.
03:18When Bill and I arrived at the house, we both knew that it was perfect for us.
03:24It was a lot of room.
03:25Chug, chug, chug. Chug, chug, chug.
03:28Moving out to sea went the little tug.
03:31Daddy!
03:34Hey. How you doing?
03:36Good.
03:37Yeah? Good.
03:38Colin's a big ball of energy.
03:42Rough, tough, typical boy.
03:47How was your day?
03:48It was good. Long, tired.
03:51What happened to your finger?
03:53Oh, just, I'm still on. No big deal.
03:58Hey, guys.
03:59Hey, Dad.
04:00You're leaving?
04:01Yeah.
04:02Yeah, Mom's waiting.
04:03Bill also has two sons from a previous relationship, Byron and Corey, who stay with him part of the time.
04:11Well, tell your mom I said hi, and listen, behave yourselves.
04:14Yes, sir.
04:15Yes, sir.
04:16You're just a normal, average family.
04:19See you later, okay?
04:20See you.
04:22Have a good week, guys.
04:23Bye.
04:24Bye.
04:25All right, where were we?
04:31Bill's new business is booming, but it's a mixed blessing.
04:36My work was pretty crazy.
04:39We were working, like, 18-hour days.
04:42We had a couple different jobs going each day.
04:45I would get up around 6, 30-ish, be out the door by 7, 7.30.
04:51It wasn't unusual to see me come home at 2.30 in the morning.
04:55You make the sacrifices for your family so you can have things in life that you normally wouldn't have.
05:03It's life sometimes.
05:12♪♪♪
05:31Most days it's up to Amanda to manage the running of the home alone.
05:37Not long after we moved in, maybe one of the first few weeks that we were there, Bill was working as usual.
05:47I was in the living room.
05:56I heard little tapping noises, and I wasn't too sure what to make of it.
06:03Weird.
06:09The tapping would be the corner, top corner.
06:13It could be the left, the right.
06:15It was so random.
06:16It wasn't one area.
06:30Bill?
06:31I kept hearing my name.
06:33It was like a whisper.
06:36It was in the hallway, and then it got closer to my ear.
06:40Amanda.
06:43I thought, okay, well, Bill's home.
06:45Bill!
06:47I kept listening, and it would stop.
06:59I knew what I heard.
07:00I was, like, 100% sure that someone was there.
07:04I just knew I wasn't alone.
07:17Amanda decides to keep what she's heard to herself.
07:46Bill.
07:47Bill.
07:48Do you hear that?
07:52Hang on.
07:53Bill and I were in bed late at night.
07:56We both heard footsteps upstairs.
07:58We knew that there was nobody up there because Colin was asleep and the boys were with their mom.
08:03And we sat there and listened.
08:05We could hear it walking from one room to the next and down the hallway.
08:10Someone's in the house.
08:13I'll go check it out.
08:24Fearing for his family's safety, Bill grabs a gun he keeps locked away for protection.
08:34Honey, be careful.
08:36I will.
08:42So I went upstairs and checked everything out, all the doors and windows.
09:08There was nothing up there.
09:37Oh!
09:47A few days after moving into a new home, Amanda Toller begins hearing strange noises and sends her husband to search for the intruder.
09:58So I grabbed my gun and went upstairs and checked everything out.
10:20We had a panoramic picture, 18 inches tall, 4 foot wide.
10:25That picture comes off the wall, hits the desk, flips to the left and lands about 6 feet away.
10:33And I had hung it really good.
10:35I smacked the wall and everything to make sure that picture wasn't going to fall because it's canvas.
10:40It should have stopped right when it fell and hit the desk.
10:43There was nothing to give it a different motion.
10:46What's that noise?
10:48The picture fell.
10:54What was going on upstairs?
10:56Nothing.
10:57Colin was sound asleep and all the doors and windows were locked.
11:01Are you sure?
11:02I heard it.
11:03We heard it.
11:04I don't know what it was.
11:05Sometimes houses creak and make noise.
11:08In my head, I'm thinking, it's nothing.
11:11It's just got to be something settling or something.
11:32But Amanda still feels the events are unexplainable.
11:39The footsteps, the whispering, the tapping happened all the time.
11:43Every day I knew that something was watching me.
11:46If I walked down the hallway, it was right on my back.
11:50If I went to the kitchen, it was next to me or right behind me.
11:56You felt it almost breathing on you.
11:59And I would always turn around and nothing was there.
12:10How was your day?
12:12Just okay?
12:14You feeling a little tired?
12:17Here, sit with Mommy.
12:18I'm a little tired, too.
12:21Over the next few weeks, Amanda and her son Colin begin to feel their energy being drained.
12:29Let's just take a little nap, okay?
12:31We get home around 5 o'clock and as soon as we got in the dorm, I would go to the couch with Colin and we would immediately just go to sleep.
12:41And we would wake up around 11 o'clock at night, eat, shower, and go right back to bed.
12:51If I had to come home in the afternoon and grab a tool in between switching jobs or something or sleeping,
13:00if I came home early, 10 o'clock, they're back asleep or they're just waking up off the couch at 10 o'clock.
13:06It was pretty strange.
13:08He was really concerned, so I went to the doctor, had the physical done, I had blood work done.
13:15Everything came back normal.
13:29The mysterious fatigue strikes at all hours.
13:32Your sleep is anything but peaceful.
13:38I would have nightmares, and it would be violent, like horrific, terrifying dreams.
13:51Really, really terrible dreams.
14:09No!
14:19No!
14:21Please!
14:23No!
14:38No!
15:08No!
15:21For weeks, Amanda Toller has been sensing an unnerving presence in her house.
15:26Now, she comes face to face with the entity that's been tormenting her.
15:32I kind of just stopped and looked again.
15:35Am I really seeing this?
15:43No!
15:54The event leaves her shaken, but Amanda isn't ready to confront it.
15:59But Amanda isn't ready to confront her husband with her suspicions that their dream house is haunted.
16:05I didn't want to say it, because I knew that if I said it out loud to Bill, that it would actually be true,
16:13and that I couldn't block it out anymore.
16:16I didn't want to believe that this was really happening.
16:20Usually, I would never want to leave the bedroom, because I didn't want to have to go up and down the stairs
16:27and have to feel that presence behind me.
16:43Day after day, night after night, Amanda continues to live in fear.
16:57Day after day, night after night, Amanda continues to live in fear.
17:27Day after day, night after night, Amanda continues to live in fear.
17:46I could feel, like, an uncomfortable feeling on my back.
17:49Kind of like a burning sensation.
17:53Bill? You okay?
17:58I kind of, like, turned to look at my back, and I had two lines.
18:04The scratch was probably about four inches, five inches.
18:09They looked like claw marks.
18:11What is it? What happened?
18:13Look at this.
18:14Bill, oh my God! What happened?
18:17I don't know.
18:19The morning that Bill got scratched, that's when it all became real.
18:26We were living in it.
18:28This is what we were dealing with.
18:30Something's going on in this house.
18:32It was me who said, Bill, you know, I feel like I'm being watched.
18:37And then it kind of led into everything.
18:41I couldn't deny it anymore.
18:43That's when she kind of opened up and told me everything that was going on with her.
18:48We're dealing with something that can definitely hurt us.
18:53I told Bill that I wanted to move because I was so afraid.
18:57I really just wanted to get out of there.
18:59What are we going to do?
19:01Bill tries to convince Amanda that they can overcome this.
19:05We're going to get through this. The children are fine. They're not experiencing anything.
19:09Me and Amanda had talked about it.
19:11We agreed to have somebody come in and investigate the house
19:14and try to see if they could find anything wrong with the house.
19:23As they wait for help to arrive, Bill's two sons are home for the weekend.
19:34Would you stop messing with that glove?
19:37First thing, I've got to break it in.
19:40Second thing, that's your job.
19:46Me and my brother, we're going to break it in.
19:50Me and my brother went to go get trash bags and stuff.
19:57You need a little help here.
20:01Your job.
20:19Byron?
20:23I think you need to see this.
20:30What?
20:36Corey was like, did you see that?
20:38And I was like, yeah, I see it.
20:41Like, it was looking at us.
20:50The Toller Family
21:08After several paranormal experiences in their home,
21:11the Toller family invites John Drenner Jr.,
21:14founder of Glen Burnie Ghost Hunters, to investigate.
21:18Thank you for coming.
21:20Yeah, we really appreciate it.
21:21Sure, I'm here to help.
21:22The second I walked through that doorway, it felt like I had walked through a brick wall.
21:26The pressure was intense.
21:28The feeling that you got was overwhelming.
21:32When John came over, I was pretty nervous to find out what he was going to find.
21:38So, tell me what's been going on.
21:41Well, it started with footsteps and then tapping.
21:45Tap, tap, tap. Always like that.
21:49The tapping were coming in threes.
21:55Which led me to believe it was demonic.
21:59And three is the number of the Holy Trinity that they are making a mockery of.
22:04Amanda and Colin were often very tired.
22:08Mainly because this entity was feeding off of them.
22:12The way that demons work is that they will use you like a battery.
22:16They will drain you, make you tired, to break you down physically, mentally, and spiritually to where they can invade.
22:27Scratches are a main indication of a demonic presence because human spirits don't have that type of power.
22:37What you're experiencing is likely not a human spirit.
22:44It sounds like a demon.
22:49A demon?
22:51John said that demons work by trying to wear you down.
22:55And their ultimate goal was to possess you or take your body over.
23:00What can we do?
23:03I want to do a walkthrough of the house.
23:17Help.
23:20Help.
23:22Help.
23:26Help.
23:28Who's this?
23:29Who's this?
23:30Uh, this is our son Colin.
23:32Colin, this is John.
23:37Hello.
23:39No, I don't want to. No!
23:43Colin was interacting with this unseen force.
23:47And I asked him, I said, who are you talking to and who are you playing with?
23:51He was afraid.
23:54Hey, Colin. Who are you talking to?
23:58A man.
24:00A man?
24:02What's his name?
24:04Rotacon.
24:07Colin voices the name of the demon, Rotacon.
24:11There is no way that he would have known that demon's name unless that demon had told him himself.
24:18Okay, buddy. Let's go.
24:23See you later.
24:26Amanda, Colin has just said the name of a demon.
24:31Now this is very important.
24:34No one in this family must ever repeat that name.
24:38Naming it gives it more power.
24:41Thank God.
24:43Is everything okay?
24:47Colin is at risk.
24:50We need to cleanse the house now.
24:58To know that my son was communicating with a demon was just terrifying.
25:05Just heartbreaking to know that I don't have control over this.
25:09And this demon could make him do anything.
25:12It was just really scary.
25:19The next day.
25:29The reason it gave Colin his name is because it wanted to take advantage of an innocent child.
25:35It wanted to be invited in.
25:37What I feared that would happen to Colin next if that demon remained in the house is that he would undergo a possession.
25:42John prepares Sage to cleanse the entire house in the hopes that he can chase the demon away.
26:05By the might of God, in the name of all that is holy,
26:10come down, warrior angels, and cast out these demons.
26:16Drive them away from this home, this family, and seal off this home from all that is unholy.
26:23He started reading prayers.
26:25By the might of God, in the name of all that is holy,
26:29come down, warrior angels, and cast out these demons.
26:33It was so heavy in the house that it was hard to breathe.
26:36By the might of God, in the name of all that is holy,
26:41come down, warrior angels, and cast out these demons.
26:45Drive them away from this home, this family, and seal off this home from all that is unholy.
26:58Once the blessing was over, the house felt a lot lighter.
27:02And it seemed like it was gone.
27:04John said, how do you feel in here?
27:07I said, it feels good in here. I can breathe.
27:14That's it.
27:17The last room is cleansed.
27:19I feel a difference already.
27:25We had hopes that we could get this thing cleared up to where we could stay there.
27:35Bill and Amanda are relieved to have the cleansing behind them.
27:39But now Colin appears to be frightened once again.
27:42We were getting ready for work, and Colin was on the bed.
27:46And he would not look at Bill.
27:48You okay, Colin?
27:50Colin, look at me.
27:52No.
27:54What's the matter, buddy?
27:58Scary man. He's in the walls.
28:01Colin referred to them as monsters, and there was one that he said is in the wall.
28:11I could feel that something was around me.
28:15Is he behind me?
28:31Bill and Amanda Toler thought they'd cleansed their house of an evil demon.
28:38But when their son Colin sees it inside the wall, it's become apparent they were very wrong.
28:45Is he behind me?
28:55No!
28:57I felt like, oh my God.
29:00He was terrified.
29:03I felt more of an urgency to try to protect him, but I didn't know how because this is something that I can't see.
29:19Feeling that there is safety in numbers, Bill and Amanda move the three boys into their bedroom.
29:25Okay, last one.
29:28We decided that we weren't going to let the kids sleep upstairs anymore because it was just too dangerous.
29:37Earlier that evening, Bill talked with sons Byron and Corey.
29:42Thanks, Dad.
29:44I asked them if they felt anything weird in the house or heard noises that they couldn't explain.
29:51They said, yeah, that they would hear, like, stuff go up and down the hallway.
29:56They said they felt like something was always outside the door.
30:01How long are we going to have to live like this?
30:03Only a couple days, buddy. We're getting to hell.
30:08It's okay. It's okay.
30:10You could still hear footsteps upstairs, and we're talking five people all in one room, knowing that there's nobody upstairs.
30:21It's okay, buddy, all right?
30:38Once again, the family calls in paranormal investigator John Drenner, Jr.
30:43This time he brings along additional support, an expert on demons.
30:49I called him in because I thought he would have a better grasp on what we were dealing with and how we could better attack it.
30:58Once I went inside, I had some strange feelings about the place. Something kept drawing me to the basement.
31:06Downstairs, investigators detect paranormal energy.
31:19Mike, over here.
31:34You feel it?
31:37A portal.
31:39Portal is a passage that entities travel from one world to the next.
31:44And they do this so they can have a quick exit and a quick entrance.
32:05Suddenly, Mike detects a new energy.
32:08Bill?
32:10Is this yours?
32:12Yeah, I keep all my tools down here.
32:15There's a very dark energy surrounding this bag.
32:21Where have you been working with this bag?
32:24He told me that he's a contractor, and he was doing some work in a prison.
32:30But to me, it was like a prison.
32:32He told me that he's a contractor, and he was doing some work in a prison.
32:38Particularly death row.
32:41And that's where these tools have been.
32:43They've been sitting in death row for weeks on end.
32:47The bag was kept in the room where they used to execute the prisoners.
32:51And he was bringing these tools into the house.
32:54And that's when I said, now I have the connection.
32:59There seemed to be something attaching itself to the tools.
33:05He said that that was pretty much probably where this thing had came from.
33:10He felt like God brought it back.
33:14Can you take the tools out of the bag?
33:17Mike further explains that once inside the house, the demon opened a portal.
33:22To protect the family from further harm, the tools must be blessed and the portal sealed.
33:29The tools are electrical tools.
33:32Anything magnetic can withdraw any type of entity, because they live in a magnetic world.
33:38Dear Lord, in Jesus' name.
33:53Please bless these tools.
33:56That they may not again be used as a conduit for entities to come between one threshold and another.
34:04Thank you, Lord.
34:06Amen.
34:23By God's mighty power, I cast out all demons.
34:29And called God's warrior angels to come carry all evil entities back to their source.
34:36In God's holy name, I bind and seal this doorway to hell.
34:42In Jesus' name.
34:44Amen.
34:53Once we did the blessing, I sensed that the portal was closed.
35:02We need to move on to the rest of the house.
35:04Yes.
35:18For days, everything is calm.
35:22The house is quiet.
35:24The tollers believe they finally have their house and their lives back.
35:29Good job.
35:31The last blessing that we had, I truly felt that this is going to help,
35:36that we're going to be able to live here and be able to live our lives normal.
35:40Good job.
35:42You immediately see the difference in Colin and Amanda.
35:45Amanda wasn't sleeping as much as she was, and Colin was back to acting full of energy.
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36:20Amanda Toller is hopeful that paranormal investigators have cleansed her home of an evil entity.
36:26But just when she thinks it's safe...
36:34No! No!
36:37Mom! Mom! Mom!
36:41Colin! Colin, what's wrong, honey? Did you have a nightmare?
36:46A scary man, a scary man pushed me.
36:50What scary man?
36:52The car hit me.
36:55Colin had woke up crying, and he said that he had a really bad dream.
37:01A man had pushed him into the road, and he was hit by a car.
37:12Bill, oh my God, Colin just had a nightmare that someone killed him.
37:17His description was too gory and detailed for a child his age. Bill, I'm scared.
37:21What?
37:22Listen, get out of the house now. I'm at a psychic's office.
37:26I'll explain later, just get Colin to the sitter and get over here now.
37:31Text me the address.
37:33Oh, okay, right.
37:47Bill, what's going on?
37:48I was driving by here, and I just, I just got this gut feeling that I needed to come inside.
37:54I remember riding down the road and looking up and just seeing a sign, and I had a feeling like, I need to go in here.
38:00Tell my wife what you told me.
38:03Don't take your children back to the house. It's too dangerous.
38:07What?
38:09Your son had a nightmare about his death, right?
38:12Yes.
38:14How did you know?
38:16It was a man pushing him in front of a car.
38:20It wasn't a nightmare. It's a threat from an evil entity in your house.
38:28Did you tell her about his dream?
38:30No. She told me and then you called.
38:36The psychic had told us about this dream that she already knew about even before we told her.
38:41Yeah, that was definitely confirmation that whatever was there was real, and whatever he had dreamt about was a warning.
38:51I know you love and care for your son deeply. Don't take him back to the house. He's in mortal danger.
38:59I felt that the children were in danger, and, I mean, our whole family was in danger, and it was not safe to be there anymore.
39:12They both agree. Their dream is now a nightmare.
39:17Amanda takes the children to stay with a relative, while Bill must return to collect his tools for work.
39:30What was that? Did you hear?
39:33Let's just get this loaded and get out of here, please.
39:35We were getting the scaffolding stuff out of the backyard, and we were hearing, like, tapping on the glass.
39:49Uh, Bill?
39:56At that point, I said, let's keep going. Let's just hurry up and get this stuff and get out of here.
40:00Whatever's in there can stay in there.
40:05You ain't gotta tell me twice.
40:19All right. That's yours. You good with that?
40:22The Tollers never spend another night in the home, and begin to rebuild their dreams in a nearby town.
40:29When Bill and I drove away from the house for the very last time, it was a moment of relief to know that it was over. It was done.
40:40And we weren't gonna look back ever again.
40:44We bought a house. Everything's pretty normal.
40:46No weird feelings, no anxiety. Everything felt like it should.
40:55It changed my life.
40:57Before, I was atheist, and then this whole thing changed my view.
41:01I believe in God now, from that whole experience.
41:05All right, let's stack these boxes up, and we'll go for another one, okay?
41:09It definitely opened my eyes that, you know, I'm not alone.
41:14It definitely opened my eyes that there's things out there that just, it's not as cut and dry as a lot of movies and stuff make it seem.
41:23It's a lot more real when you're there.
41:25It's kind of like being in a glass box.
41:28Like, you can see everything around you, but you can't get out of it.
41:31You feel like you're stuck.
41:43The Talers have moved on, but demons never die.