All language subtitles for Paranormal Witness s02e03 Capitol Theatre Haunting.eng

- There was something
about those doors

that I did not like.

[Eerie shrieking wind]

I was conscious of this
feeling of being watched.

[Door unlatches]

- Who's there?

- I remember
feeling kind of sick...

Sick with, like, a fear.

- Mom, is that you?

- I started to say to myself,

"there might be
something otherworldly

going on in my own home."

- Mom!
- [Gasping]

- It sounded like it was
moving across the ceiling.

- It's back.

- There was, like,
this angry woman

just pushing in on me.

- [Gasping]

- You're not leaving, right?

- [Gasping]

- We were absolutely terrified.

- [Screams]

- What in the world was that?

- [Breathing heavily]

[Metallic rumbling]

- We looked for quite a while

for some sort of house
that would fit our budget.

We had two daughters,

so it was about
time for us to expand.

We were thinking,
"this has to be the one.

"This is our last resort.

"This is the one that
we can make our own.

"It doesn't matter
what the inside is like.

We're gonna...
We're gonna do this."

We were exceedingly
happy moving in here.

It was just wonderful,
'cause we got to leave

our little apartment

and the kids had
their own rooms.

So it was with a lot of
hope that we moved in here.

- What do I tell my sister?

She's already put a down
payment on the house.

She's really excited.

The price is right.

There's room
enough for her family.

But I felt something odd
or disturbing in that house.

- [Breathing heavily]

- So I had a hard
time saying, you know,

"I wouldn't if I were you."

But that... that was my
intense feeling about it,

that I wouldn't if I were you,

whatever the price was,

because I felt some
thing, some unusual thing,

was attached to the
house in some strange way.

[Haunting music]

[Clamoring]

[Laughter]

- Girls, do you really
have to do that in here?

Please, take it upstairs, okay?

- When we first got there,

Karen and Christine were
just absolutely overjoyed.

- Seriously, girls!

- They were running
around chasing each other.

They were going up
and down the stairs.

And it was just a
very happy time.

My daughters were
ecstatic to be there.

In the basement,
we had Karen's room.

- Hi, honey.
- Hi, mom.

- Don't forget, Joanna's coming

to pick you up at
4:00 for rehearsal.

- I know. Don't worry.

- And my husband and I decided

to put our washer
and dryer down there.

- [Humming]

- And as I'm doing the laundry,

I really started paying
attention to these doors.

They were about five
feet above the ground,

and I wondered why they were

in such an odd
position on the wall.

I knew that part
of the unfinished,

undug-up basement
was behind them,

but I did not want
to explore them.

I didn't open them... Ever.

- It just seemed like
a strange area to me.

Like, what were the doors for?

I mean, you know,
you're not going in there.

- The feeling near those
doors and around those doors

was uneasy.

I was conscious of this
feeling of being watched.

It was if something
was right by my back,

just right by my back.

[Haunting music]

♪ ♪

[Hangers rattling]

- The basement was
a creepy place to be.

- Are you ready?

- Uh, yeah.

- It was kind of uneasy.

I remember not wanting
to be there alone.

- You have to go
open those doors.

- The dirt room
was at the far wall

of the laundry room.

- Go on.

- And I remember
my mother telling us

not to go into the dirt room.

- Just go.

- It was a completely
unsafe room.

Nobody really knew
why it was there.

But I remember my mom
telling me distinctly to not go in.

And I remember
completely ignoring her.

- See? Those are the
doors I told you about.

I dare you to go in.

- No. You go in.

- I'm not going.
I dared you first.

You have to do it.

Go in.

Just go!

It's no big deal.

- It was very dark,

and it felt very peculiar.

It... you know, it felt
wrong, and we just...

We kind of spooked
ourselves out.

- You're not leaving, right?

- No. I'm right here.

- [Exhales] Okay.

- We would jump
onto the cupboard,

and then you had
to crawl inside.

It wasn't a large room,
so you could not stand.

You could only crawl.

It was a soil floor.

There was nothing
in that room but dirt.

It smelled earthy.

It was a little decay smell.

It was damp.

It smelled old.

I was too nervous to go all
the way into the dirt room.

I never made it
to the back wall.

- Mom!
- Mom, mom, come here!

- I was in my kitchen,

and the children
were just playing.

They were... they
were full of dirt.

And then they told me that
they had been exploring.

- I told you I didn't want
you playing in there.

- I was very upset. I did
not want them in there.

- How many times
do I have to tell you?

- There was something
about those doors

that I did not like.

I didn't want to be near them.

I didn't want my
children near them.

It felt like those doors
were supposed to be shut.

I said, "close the doors,
and don't go in there again."

- Get upstairs,
both of you. Let's go.

- I think she thought
opening the dirt room

might somehow be
inviting something.

[Suspenseful music]

♪ ♪

- It was an amazing house.

It was old, and it was charming,

and it had so many
good things about it

that the last thing I
wanted to think was

that there was anything
untoward or negative in this house.

[Loud thumping]

I was in the kitchen.

I'm the only one in the house.

And I heard footsteps
going down... down the stairs.

[Thumping]

I had left the kitchen,

and I went around to look.

[Creaking]

[Creaking continues]

There's no one there.

I'm saying, "okay,
I heard footsteps."

[Door creaking]

[Thumping]

- Who's there?

[Suspenseful music]

♪ ♪

- When I heard the steps
going down the basement,

I left the kitchen,
and I went to look,

and there was just
absolutely nothing there.

Nothing. And I
heard them distinctly.

Maybe seven or eight
steps going down the stairs,

and there was nothing...
Absolutely nothing there.

It feels like when I was in...

When I was in the house
alone, I was never alone.

It felt like there was
something else there,

something else with me,

something always right
here, right behind me, looking.

It's... it's really uncomfortable
to experience that.

[Dog barking]

I remember being
in my living room

and just hearing...

- Mom.

[Clock ticking]

Mommy.

- And I'd go, "did you call me?"

And Christine said,
"no, you called me."

- No, I didn't call you.

- Christine.

- Can you hear that?

- Out of nowhere...
- Christine!

- Coming from what sounded like
it came from the basement door.

I heard my name shouted

and then this kind of
maniacal laughter came after it.

[Eerie laughing]

- I think it's coming
from down there.

- The laughter was very scary.

- It's okay, sweetie.

[Eerie laughing continues]

- Me and my mother
instantly froze.

I asked her if she heard it.
She asked me if I heard it.

I said, "yes."

- Christine.

- Don't go there.

Mommy, don't go.
- Christine.

Christine.
- Mommy, what is that?

- I don't know, sweetie.

- It sounded evil.

- Chris... Christine.

- It sounded scary.

It sounded mocking.

It sounded...

Mean.

[Suspenseful music]

- Christine.

Christine.

- I remember my heart beating.

I remember a sinking
feeling in my stomach.

I remember
feeling kind of sick...

Sick with, like, a fear.

And I was frozen, which
was... i was just frozen.

- Christine.

[Eerie laughing]

- We had both heard my name.
We both heard the laughter.

We were extremely frightened.

- Who's there?

[Eerie laughing]

- I think... i don't know
what I thought it was.

- The house started becoming
seriously uncomfortable.

Not all the time.

For periods of time,
it would become...

It started getting
increasingly uncomfortable.

- [Breathing heavily]

[Heavy breathing continues]

[Bed Springs creak]

[Heavy breathing continues]

[Bed Springs creak]

[Heavy breathing continues]

[Bed Springs creak]

[Heavy breathing continues]

- [Shuddering]

- One night, I felt
something push me.

A weight pushed my chest,
pushed my whole body

into the bed.

And I remember feeling

this sense of...

Pressure.

- [Groaning]

- I could feel the Springs
in the bed go down

so that I was actually
being pushed like this.

- [Choking]

- I couldn't scream for help.

I absolutely was rendered...

Completely helpless.

- [Groans]

[Gasping]

[Breathing shallowly]

- I had absolutely no
idea what was happening.

- What's going on?

- I had a nightmare.
[Shuddering breaths]

- Turn the light off.

- [Shuddering and whimpering]

- Now I started having
suffocating dreams.

I mean, I-I really started
to question if I was okay.

I would have some nights where
they happened all night long.

And I would have to get up
and just walk around the house

and not know what to do,

because if I lie down,

this was gonna
happen to me again.

There were times when

I had to go to work
at 7:00 in the morning

as an emergency room nurse,

and I hadn't slept at all.

[Clock ticking]

And if someone said
to me, "what's wrong?"

How could I possibly
say to anyone at work,

"you know, I think something is

"pushing me into
the bed at night,

and I can't see it."

- She would never know
when it would happen.

She certainly didn't
know why it would happen.

It would just happen.

I can only imagine, you know,

that that's a really
awful feeling.

I know it affected her.

- [Crying]

- I didn't really
understand why...

You know, why was I
experiencing something

that would indicate some sort
of emotional issue on my part?

So I kept trying to understand
what was wrong with me.

And I didn't have an answer.

[Haunting music]

♪ ♪

- [Breathing heavily]

♪ ♪

[Blanket rustling]

♪ ♪

- I was in the kitchen,

and I hear Karen
saying very loudly...

- Mom? Mom!

- And as I open the
door to her room,

she's sitting in her bed,

and she's just going, "ma"...
- Mom!

- And I'm looking...
- Mom, look!

And I can see the quilt
was being pulled off the bed.

- Come here!

You're all right. Come on.

- I remember running
down to the basement,

and her blanket was laid
out in a perfect square.

- I stood in the
door in disbelief.

- You're all right?

- I don't know. It
just started moving.

- I was like, "what in
the world was that?"

It still is one of
the strangest things

I've ever witnessed in my life.

The basement of that
house started feeling

more and more uncomfortable.

It was disconcerting
to just go down there.

The feeling was
that it was inhabited

by something.

Many nights, I would find
Karen sleeping on the couch

in the living room.

I didn't what her... I
didn't want anyone

down in that basement anymore.

- You okay, sweetie?

- Oh, yeah, I just didn't want
to sleep downstairs anymore.

- That's okay.

- The phenomena
were kind of building up.

And I think it got to the point
where we couldn't ignore it,

and I think we were starting
to pay more and more attention

to... to connecting the
different phenomena

that were occurring.

It became patently
obvious that something

that was beyond normal
explanation was going on.

- Something was wrong.
Something was very wrong.

I started to say to myself,

"I have to open up my mind

"to think that there might
be something otherworldly

going on in my own home."

And this was a really
difficult thought for me.

Things were happening
and increasing incrementally.

Bang!

- [Gasps]

- I was awakened by a loud bang.

[Banging]

So I go look.

I'm looking around
to see what fell.

Did anything fall?

Karen had also gotten
up. So had Christine.

- Mom? Is that you?

[Banging continues]

Mom?

- It sounded like someone
went from the back of the house

to the front of the
house stomping.

- No, it's not me.

[Banging continues]

- And it went boom, boom, boom,

and stopped.

Boom! Boom! Stop.

[Banging]

- I remember being on the bed,

very frightened.

It was scary for me to
see my mom so frightened.

- Mommy, someone's upstairs.

- It sounded like it was
moving across the ceiling.

- But no one's upstairs.

We know no one is upstairs.

My husband had left
for work. What was this?

- It's okay.

- There's someone there.

- I'm gonna call your
father right now, okay?

- We were absolutely,
absolutely terrified.

We left the house
and sat on the stoop.

My husband drove up.
- What now?

- I didn't want to call you,

but there's something
in the house

making this really
loud noise upstairs.

- We tried to describe
these bangs that we heard,

and he said something
like... Something more like,

"more of this nonsense?"
And he was gonna leave.

And we said, "no, no, no,
really, you have to see."

- It could be the plumbing.
All: It's not plumbing.

- Let's go check it out.

There's nothing here, Elaine.

Nothing, okay?

You know what this
is? This is ridiculous.

[Stammering] This is nonsense.

This is more of your nonsense.

Girls, look after your mother.

- Seriously, something...

- And as we came down,

and he was about
to go to work...

- I checked everywhere, Elaine.

- It happened again.
Boom, boom, boom!

[Banging]

He heard it, and he said...

- I got to go to work.
[Sighs]

- Really nice.

- I think her husband
dismissed things

because he didn't see them.

And I feel he is just
the kind of person

that doesn't notice
those kinds of things.

- To see it would
mean that we were right

and he was wrong.

I... you know, I don't know.

But he... he just couldn't...

He couldn't or wouldn't see it.

At a certain point,
the marriage did...

You know, did dissolve.

- [Breathing heavily]

- My husband
still refused to see

that this was maybe
more than meets the eye,

that it... to let room in that
this could be something

of an unknown origin.

- [Humming]

- I changed things
around, repainted.

- Watch out, mom.

- And I just noticed
without those arguments,

without the negativity,

it seemed like the place
was full of light again.

- [Humming continues]

- Things felt
completely settled,

completely normal.

My sister was in the process
of moving into the attic.

And we were cleaning
out the back room.

- Have you ever been in there?

- Um, no, I don't think we're
supposed to go in there.

- There was a door in the wall.

And you could kind of
walk into the other room

kind of behind the wall.

[Haunting music]

♪ ♪

It kind of felt
like a cubby hole

or, like, under the stairs,

something very
small and enclosed.

- Hey, there's a bunch
of cool stuff in here.

- Oh, really?

- Yeah, I think I
found something.

- Why? What's there?

What is that?

- And all the way
buried in the back...

- I think it's a package.

- We came across this kind
of older looking cardboard box

that was taped shut.

- Come look what we found!
- Mom, come here!

- And we opened it up.

- Look what we found!

- What do you have there?
- Open it.

- And when they
brought it downstairs,

it was wrapped in newspaper

dated from the
1950s... It was 1952.

- What's in here?

- And I take out a
little wedding dress.

It was for someone quite
short and very, very thin.

- Isn't it beautiful?

- The waist was
really, really small.

Why would someone
take a wedding dress,

roll it up in newspaper,
and stick it behind a wall?

So to me, that
seemed like a negative.

That seemed not a good thing.

- Where did you get this?

- The attic.

- I want you to leave
the stuff in the attic alone.

- She just wanted
nothing to do with it.

She wanted to get rid of it.

She threw it away.

- About a year
after I was divorced,

I met a very nice
man named Matthew.

We were dating a very short time

when one night,
Karen, Christine, and i...

We were just
enjoying an evening,

and it just started.

[Eerie hissing]

[Clattering]

[Eerie hissing]

It's like the house
just started to shudder.

- Mom, what is that?

- Mommy?

- It's probably just
something outside.

[Eerie whispering]

- The noises came.
- Mommy?

[Eerie whooshing]

- The feeling of being
watched was there.

[Eerie laughing]

- Mom. Mom, it's back.

- The sense of
dread, the sense that...

That... that something
bad was gonna happen.

[Eerie laughing grows louder]

- [Echoing]
Christine. Christine.

- [Whispers] Stay there.

[Eerie laughter]

- Mom.
- Mom, don't go there.

- Mom, be careful.

- It's as if the house
became more alive.

- [Echoing] Christine.

- Mommy, don't go there!

[Eerie hissing]

- And I'm like, "oh, god, okay.

I'm gonna call Matthew."

- Could you... would
you mind coming over?

Okay. Thanks.

- She talked about her and
girls were there by themselves,

and she was... yeah,
I was very concerned,

so I rushed on over.

- Hi. Thanks so much for coming.

- Sure, sure. What's going on?

- I'm sorry; I didn't
want to call you so late.

- Then that's when they told
me really why they called me.

She was a little apprehensive
in telling me the truth.

- This is gonna
sound really weird.

- Okay.

- I don't want you to
think I'm crazy, but...

- And I just blurted
everything out about the house.

- And I said, "really?" I
said, "are you kidding me?"

- I thought he was
gonna get up and walk.

- Are you serious?

- Yes.
- Whoa.

- But he... he didn't do that.
- [Sighs]

I'm gonna head up now.
- Okay.

- Okay.
- Good night.

- As I started to watch TV,

I started to doze off.

I went into this
very vivid dream.

I'm trying to open the door

of the room that I'm in.

And I was having
trouble opening the door.

It was very hard to move.

It's like I was in this
half-sleep, half-awake state,

and I was trying to turn,

and I realized I felt there
was, like, this weight on me.

[Chair creaking]

It was kind of like a
simultaneous thing

that was happening
between the dream

and me physically moving.

And as I'm able to... I
finally open the door...

It was kind of a...

A flash of a picture.

And I saw a skeletal man

lying on a dirt floor.

I'll never forget the weight.

I'll never forget how I
felt that I couldn't move.

It was quite shocking.

- I wasn't happy that he had
some sort of suffocating dream.

But again, it was
another piece of validation.

[Door creaking]

- I was in my bedroom
when I heard something.

I came around the corner
of the bend of the staircase.

And I saw my mother.

- Mom?

- I called out to her.

I wanted her to turn around.

I didn't understand why
she was sitting on the stairs.

- Mom, is that you?

- [Breathing heavily]

- Mom?

- I started to realize
it was not my mother.

- Mom?

- I was frozen. I was shocked.

- Mom! Mom!

- I realized what I had
just seen was not a person.

It was not my mother.

- She was like, "I
can't believe I saw that.

"I cannot believe I saw that.

I saw it. I saw it. I saw it."

- It's okay, sweetie. It's okay.

- I got very frightened that
she'd actually seen something.

It did make me wonder
at that point, you know,

is something gonna
get really ugly?

- [Giggles]
- Ew.

Okay, put that on top of it.

- Halloween and Christmas in
my house was and still is huge.

- Yeah, that's my favorite.
- Halloween punch?

- All of it mixed
all together, right?

- Hey! Here we go!

- Anything in the kitchen.

- Uh, yeah. Down the stairs.

- Went into the punch, yeah.

- The house was
soon full of people,

and a friend of mine
from work came in.

- Hi, Lisa!
- How are you?

- Come on in. Would
you like a drink?

- And I offered her a drink.
- Cheers. Have fun.

- You know, I said, "okay,
have a really good time."

And I went over
talking to some people,

and I saw her talking
to some people.

[People talking and laughing]

And then I noticed first that
she went across the room.

And then she looked
toward the stairs,

and I just noticed
her looking...

I-I interpreted it
as her looking ill.

And then suddenly, I see
her just standing there staring

underneath the stairs.

So I went over to her,
and I said, "what's wrong?

Are you... is something
wrong? Are you sick?"

- Are you okay, Lisa?

- And she said, "your
house is haunted."

- What do you mean?

- That little lady,
didn't you see her?

- No.

- I said, "what little lady?

What are talking about?"

And all I could think
about was the little dress.

The little dress.
The little dress.

She said, "she's
very short, really thin."

- Elaine, you need to
do something about this.

- She said, "you
know, you really should

get your house cleaned."

So I said, "what do
you mean, cleaned?"

And she said, "get someone
in here and get 'em out."

She said, "you can... You
know, you can do that."

- [Breathing heavily]

[Clock ticking]

- After the party had died down
and everyone had gone home,

Karen and I decided that
we were going to sleep

in the same bed together.

[Suspenseful music]

♪ ♪

- [Breathing heavily]

[Suspenseful music]

♪ ♪

- I just remember waking

and looking over at my sister,
who was right next to me.

- [Breathing heavily]

And I saw a...

Shadowy, long figure

kind of hovering over her.

It looked like a
cloud, a dark cloud.

The middle of it was
kind of thick and opaque,

and I couldn't see
through that portion.

It ran the length of her body.

It felt like...

It felt like a fig... a figure.

I rolled over and
tried to ignore

that that was there.

I-I forced myself to
kind of go back to sleep.

- [Breathing heavily]

[Eerie music]

♪ ♪

- There was something wrong.

I felt there was a
presence in the room.

[Bed Springs creaking]

♪ ♪

- [Shuddering]

- I could feel my
head push down,

my shoulders pushed
down a little harder.

- [Wailing]

- It got so intense.

I felt it was, for
the first time,

the gender, and it
was a female presence.

It was a female energy
pushing down on me

and pushing down on me heavier

than any of the energies
that I felt at any time,

this one, angry, big and angry.

It just freaked me out.

There was, like,
this angry woman

just pushing in on me.

- [Screaming]

- It-it-it just scared
the hell out of me.

- [Screams]

- I roamed around the house
looking for a place to sleep.

- [Crying]

- And I was just crying
and holding my pillow

and saying, "this is ridiculous.

"This is... I'm living
a ridiculous life.

This is not normal."

And I just had nowhere to go.

I'm holding my
pillow, and I said,

"I can't sleep upstairs.

"I can't sleep in
the back bedroom.

"I can't sleep on the couch.

I'm out of my mind."

[Number pad beeping]

- There was a point,
my sister called me up.

- Hi, it's me.

- And she said, "look,
I've got to do something.

This is getting to be too much."

And that she was honestly
thinking of selling the house.

She said, "I can't
live like this."

- I was throwing out the trash,

and I saw my next-door neighbor.

- I'm good, thank you. Yourself?

- And I said, "you know,

could I talk to you
for a moment?"

And he said, "sure,"
you know, "what's up?"

I said, "have you
ever had any...

Hear anything strange ever
happening in this house?"

- Why?

Have you had some
stuff happening?

- Well, actually, we have.
- Well, I'll tell you...

- Well, my neighbor said that
he used to babysit the children

of the couple from whom
I'd purchased the house.

- Heard some
pretty strange stuff.

- He said he remembered
that the old man had a son

and that the son married.

- You know, they
were very young,

so they moved in
upstairs into the attic.

You... you know
she died up there?

- She died in the house?
- Yes.

- No, I didn't know that.
- Right up there.

- And he pointed up
at the room in the attic

where Karen was living.

[Film reel rattling]

- [Speaking indistinctly]

- And the house was so
large that they would try

to communicate to each
other by banging on the heaters.

And that would be like a signal

that someone
should come upstairs,

or that they needed some help.

[Metal banging]

- And the guy was
knocking on the pipes

trying to get attention.

- And apparently she
slipped and hit her head

and died right
there on the floor.

- My neighbor said
that he will never forget

because when they got married,

she stood on the steps.

And what he said after
that really astounded me.

- And she was
a tiny little thing,

but beautiful.

- He said she was wearing

a pretty little white
wedding dress.

And I'm like,

"oh, my god, what a
conflagration of facts here."

[Banging]

- [Gasps]

- So I had the white dress
wrapped in newspaper...

My colleague talking
to the little lady in white,

and my neighbor now telling
me about an actual person

who was little who
was wearing white...

- [Gasping]

[Screams]

- And who passed
away in the house.

And that was just
way too coincidental

to brush off in any way.

The story he told
affected me greatly.

I-I think his story
was absolutely

the strongest validation
of anything ever that I got.

All these anomalous things
that were happening in the house

suddenly started
to come together.

It changed the way I felt
about what was going on.

You know, it's like
having a bad flu

and you're finally... you
know, you finally broke a sweat.

The house has been sick,

and now, you know, the
final symptom has occurred.

We got some information.

And now something's
actually gonna happen.

I had absolutely no
idea what to expect.

- As if something
was guiding her,

she went directly down there.

She was saying,
"this is the area.

This is the location that a
lot of things are going on."

- You couldn't have paid
me any amount of money

to hoist myself up
and sit in that dirt room,

but she did.

She put her whole head in there,

and she said, "you have a
big problem in this room."

[Eerie whispering]

- The medium was
continuously saying,

"you are dead.

"You must go.

"You must go to the light.

"This is not your house.

You don't belong here anymore."

So that was repeated many,
many, many times over.

Once the whole day was done,

it's hard to describe
the state we were in.

We were tired, very
drained from the whole day.

And we went to bed.

[Eerie whispering]

It was when we got
up in the morning

that... i mean, I just
rolled over on my bed

and opened the...
my eyes and said,

"something's different."

The atmosphere was lighter.

The air was not as thick.

It was appreciably better.

- It's like when you
open up a window

and, all of a sudden,
sunshine comes in,

and... and light comes in,

and the air is fresher.

- Okay, girls! You ready to go?

- Hey, girls, come
on! Beach time!

Let's go!

- Looking back at what happened,

I feel that we experienced
a piece of the unknown.

We shared our
space with something

that is not yet known to us.

There's so much in life
that we don't understand.

But there may be something else.

- Okay, guys, we're off.
- Perfect day.

Perfect weather.

[Eerie music]