All language subtitles for Paranormal Witness s02e07 The Real Haunting in Connecticut.eng

- That house changed
every aspect of my life

and my children's lives.

And it changed us to
the core of who we are.

They obviously prepared
the bodies in this room.

- I've never in my life

seen stuff like I saw
in this house, never.

- There was something
tormenting my son.

Smack!

- [Screaming]

- Thy will be done!

- I thought, "this thing
is trying to kill me."

It wants me dead.

- [Screaming]

- Back in 1987, I
had a wonderful life.

I lived in a little small
town in upstate New York

with my husband, Alan,

my four children:

Brad,

my daughter Jennifer,

and a.J.

And then there was
the oldest, Philip.

He was very mischievous.

They all idolized him.

He was the big brother.

They played baseball

and lived normal life
riding bicycles out front.

And it was just a
nice, slow-paced life.

There was nothing

that I thought could
destroy our lives.

[Phone ringing]

Philip was 13.
- Hello.

- And I noticed a small lump
at the low portion of his neck.

- Baby.
- [Crying]

- It turned out the
cancer was very serious.

It was hodgkin's lymphoma.

Unfortunately, we had found

that there was no childhood
cancer treatment centers

in the area where we lived.

And we had to go to
Hartford, Connecticut,

which was 300
miles round-trip a day.

And we were making
that trip five times a week.

- [Retching]

- The treatment was new.

And it was very radical
and very aggressive.

The radiation was so intense

that it burned his skin
and turned it black.

Just going back and forth

was taking such
a toll on his body

with the headaches
and the nausea

and the body aches that
this child was suffering.

And I can't reach
around and comfort him

or hug him or hold him.

- [Coughing]

- I was afraid

that the trip itself
was gonna kill Philip,

let alone the cancer.

My husband and I decided
that we needed to move

to Connecticut to
be near his doctors.

- Okay?

- It was very difficult
to find a place to live

in Connecticut.

I looked at everything
in the papers

and called every realtor.

But they said that
they didn't rent

to anyone with more
than two children.

- Okay, bye-bye.

- So I was gonna take
this town house regardless,

even though it was sight unseen.

It was our last
resort basically.

I begged al.

And I said, "please,
please, please,

go in and check."

- See if it's okay.

- What? No, come on.

- No.
- Mar'.

- Go. Go on.

Please.

- So now I'm chewing my nails,
waiting on him to come back out.

He was gone about 15 minutes.

- What?

- Come see.

- And we go into the house...

And everything
looks pretty normal.

[Floorboards creaking]

But then I started noticing
above every entranceway,

there was a crucifix.

- It was a funeral home.

- I think the word,
"oh, my god," came out

many, many times.

Then Alan took me
down into the basement.

There was a counter that
ran around the three walls.

There was another
room off to the right.

[Door creaking]

They obviously prepared
the bodies in this room.

[Water plunking]

And I thought,

"oh, my god, this is
an embalming machine.

This... this had people's
fluids going through it.

When I turned around,

I could see this lift.

[Door squeaks]

I realized that that lift was
what they put the coffins on

and lifted them up
through the floor.

[Chain clanks]

[Chain rattling and clanging]

- [Sighs]

- And I looked
at al, and I said,

"we have a son that has cancer.

"I don't want him thinking
about his own mortality.

We cannot live here."

And he said, "we've
got no choice."

- Our savings are gone.

Our resources are gone.

- We're stuck.

And I decided I would
do the best I could

and I would make it a home

and try to keep it
from the children

that it was a funeral home.

- I remember, I
was really excited

because of the
size of the house.

It was humongous.

And I thought to myself,

"wow, this is like a palace.

This is like a castle."

- Al had to return directly
back to New York to work.

I had to continue
with Phil's treatments

and then try to get the
house settled on my own.

I decided to put Philip
in the basement room.

It was right next
to the bathroom.

He was still suffering

with a lot of nausea
and vomiting.

I could keep my ears open

so I could hear
when he needed me.

[Light switch clicks]

[Crickets chirping]

The very first night
we stayed there,

Philip went
downstairs to his bed.

He was totally wiped.

[Clock ticking]

- No.

- I was on the phone with al.

- [Laughs]

Don't be ridiculous.

[Clock ticking]

[Distorted indistinct
whispering]

- I was explaining
how the day had gone

and what was going on.

- I'll probably check
on Philip a little later.

- [Distorted whispering] Philip.

[Clock ticking]

- Hmm.

No, Philip's got to
start school again.

- [Distorted whispering] Philip.

- Bye.

[Gasps]

- I heard somebody
calling my name.

- And I explained to him

that I had been on
the phone with his dad

and that he had probably heard,

through the way the sound
traveled in an empty house,

me say his name.

- I'm sure that's what it was.

- And he said,

"no, we have to leave this
place and never come back.

It's evil."

[Clock ticking]

- Careful.

- My brother was a real
prankster growing up,

so when he said,
"oh, this is where

they displayed the coffins,"

I said, "yeah."

I said, "you're just
pulling my leg."

And he said, "no, I can prove
this used to be a funeral home."

[Wood creaking]

- Philip wasn't a fool.

He had been messing
around in the rooms

where he wasn't supposed to be.

- Give it a try.

- I didn't really want
to, but, you know,

it's my older brother
daring me to do it.

And when your older
brother dares you,

you have to do it.

[Ominous music]

♪ ♪

The lights were going
around and around

and around and around.

- Stop. Stop.

- Light, dark, light, dark,
light, dark, light, dark.

- Stop.

Stop.

Stop!

- He was really
trying to creep me out.

And the next
morning, he said that,

"there's something cool
about these counters

that go all the way
around the room."

- [Grunts]

Put it right here.

- Once that hole was exposed,

I just remember a
dark darkness behind it.

- Phil was in front.

Then it was me.

- Then naturally me
being the youngest one,

I was in the rear.

And it was like a
long, dark cave to me.

- You all right, Brad?

- Yeah.

- I noticed there was
a stain on the ground.

I was touching the stain.

And it was... It was a
dark, thick substance.

And it was really sticky.

- All of a sudden,
Phil took his flashlight,

and he pointed it to the wall.

- [Gasps]

- What... what is that?

- It was a deep, dark red,

the color of blood.

- What... what is that?

- We're all getting nervous,

and we're all getting
freaked out and spooked.

- Is that blood?

- Get out!

- I could just hear
them screaming,

"get out of here;
Get out of here."

When they came by me,

there wasn't a
whole lot of room,

so naturally, I got
pushed out of the way.

- Go! Go! Go!

[Panting]

- They were white as ghosts.

And they said that
there was blood

coming out of the walls.

I said, "if there was blood
coming out of the wall,

I would see evidence of it."

I thought that just paint
running down the wall

that was dried.

And I started laughing at them.

And I said, "scared
yourselves, didn't you?

"That's what you
get for going in there.

You had no business
being in there anyway."

- I felt that there was
something wrong with the house.

And I was really unnerved.

I didn't want to be in
the house anymore.

I wanted to bring life
back to the way it was

before my brother got sick.

[Birds chirping]

- One day, I
noticed the crucifix

inside the basement
room disappeared.

You could see
the perfect outline.

I believed that the kids
were being mischievous

and taking them down,

playing a prank on mom.

[Clock ticking]

I was worried about
Philip, who had been so ill.

The treatment was putting
a lot of stress on him.

And he was going through
more than I can probably imagine.

[Clock ticking]

- [Distorted whispering] Philip.

[Clock ticking]

- [Distorted whispering] Philip.

[Clock ticking]

- The voices again?

- He said he was
hearing them every night.

But now he was
seeing things as well.

I was pretty sure it
was a consequence

of the radiation to the head.

- It's okay, honey.

- I was surprised that he
wasn't seeing pink elephants.

I was afraid

that Philip was telling the
other kids these stories,

and they're gonna
believe it no matter what.

- We'd been living in the house,
I guess, at least six months.

- Bedtime.

[Clock ticking]

[Dishes clanking]

[Clock ticking]

- What is it?
- Shh.

- He was going, "shh, shh.

"Don't say nothing;
Don't say nothing.

Be quiet."

- [Whispering] Shh, be quiet.

- [Whispering] "Look
over in the corner.

There's four guys
sitting over in the corner."

- [Whispering] Look at
those guys over there.

[Mechanical buzzing]

- My robot was going crazy.

And the four guys
were standing around it.

[Indistinct whispering]

All I'd seen was
the dark cloaks.

I couldn't see if they
had any faces or not.

All of a sudden, all four
of 'em simultaneously...

My heart's in my throat,

scared, you know, just
about to pee in my pants.

[Indistinct whispering]

- Mom!
- Mom!

There's four men
in the basement.

- There's people
in the basement.

And there's a...

- I was more angry
than frightened.

- Come on.

- If somebody is in my
house with my babies,

I get angry.

I was going down to
rip them a new one.

[Wood creaking]

Brad and Phil are
right there next to me.

- [Whispering] I
want you to wait here.

Don't move.

- They're scared to death.

[Suspenseful music]

♪ ♪

- [Panting]

[Sighs]

- The next way of
coming into the basement

would have been through
the back half of those rooms.

[Door creaks]

I went from room
to room, looking.

- [Shrieks]

Oh, god!

[Panting]

- We looked in
every possible room

and every possible place.

And there was nobody there.

- It's okay.

Go ahead and sit down.

[Sighs]

Police.

[Birds chirping]

- No, well, I mean,
i'm... I went to...

Can I call you back?

- My mom noticed the crucifixes
were disappearing off the walls,

but we were
getting blamed for it.

- Okay, bye-bye.

- We kept telling our parents
that we weren't doing it.

It was whatever
was in the house.

- Philip!

Brad!

- Mom, can we play?

- I said, "all right, all
of you, family meeting.

There's no ghost."

- We live in a funeral home

or what used to
be a funeral home.

There is no such
thing as ghosts.

- They blamed Phil for a lot of
the stuff that we were seeing.

- I told him he needed
to start acting his age

and stop toying
with the children.

- And I don't want to hear
any more ghost stories!

[Door bangs]

- It was hard for me
to be angry with Philip.

He had been so sick.

He'd been through so much.

- It was a year
after we moved in.

I came home from school one day,

and he had moved his
bed from my bedroom

to the next room over

or the embalming room.

- And I said, "you were
so afraid of that room.

Why are you all of a
sudden going in there?"

And he just shrugged
his shoulders.

- Phil was constantly
getting in trouble.

[Distorted indistinct
whispering]

- Puberty was kicking in.

He'd moved to a strange city.

He had cancer.

He was hearing voices.

He was seeing things.

His doctors were telling
him it wasn't the medication.

- He became more withdrawn.

He didn't really
talk to us as much.

- He rarely smiled.

I did not know how to
deal with this other being,

this person that he had become.

I wanted my baby
back to who he was.

- Come on, let's go.

- The second
summer we lived there,

two cousins come stay
with us, Kim and Tammy.

- Me and Philip had a
really great relationship.

We just had this
deep connection,

brotherly, sisterly, playful.

- How are you doing?

- Everybody greeted me
at the door except for Philip.

I was kind of hurt.

I wanted to hug him.

I wanted him to
be excited with me

that I was there, you know.

He just wasn't.

- Phil had this book
he always wrote in.

So I'd come in there,
and I'd start bugging him

or, "what are you writing?

What are you writing?"

He'd just sit there,
and he'd just look at me.

It would send
chills up my spine.

- I was helping aunt carm clean.

Philip's room would
get quite messy.

As I went through
Philip's notebook,

I felt as if I were, you
know, invading his privacy,

taking something from him.

But I was worried for him.

- I started to read the words.

And they were very dark words.

- Everywhere about death...

Murder, the word "kill."

- It was very terrifying

to read some of
the dark thoughts

that was going on in his head.

And then I began to wonder
if they were his writings at all

because Philip was dyslexic.

I had spent years
of trying to teach him

to write the alphabet

let alone these
complete, complex words.

When I ask him, "how
did you write them?"

He said

the man helped him write them.

- [Distorted whispering] Philip.

[Dishes clanking]

- That's my spot.

- One night, we were at dinner.

Philip reached around
me at the dinner table,

and his sleeve went up.

- What's that?

- And I noticed these
scratches in his arms.

- What is this?

- [Distorted whispering] Philip.

- [Whispering] Philip.

- And I'd ask him, "Philip,
why are you doing that?"

"Why are you making
yourself bleed?

What are you doing?"

And he would say, "I
don't know what I'm doing.

"I don't know why I'm doing it.

Something is
telling me to do this."

This was not
Philip's nature at all.

It wasn't anything
that I was used to.

But now he was different.

[Muffled upbeat music]

- [Gasps]

- You could always seem
him kind of just leaning around,

looking out at you.

It would scare me.

It would spook me.

- As time progressed

and Philip's personality
changed more and more,

he became more aggressive.

- He'd come and
say something to me,

and I'd say
something back to him.

And the next thing I know,
we were throwing punches.

- Why are you so angry?

Smack!

- And then Tammy
went to defend Brad.

- Get off of him, Philip!

Come on, what is wrong with you?

- And he went and
ran into my room.

And he just destroyed my room.

- Philip, no!

Philip, let go of me!

Stop!

Let go of me!

Stop it.

No.

[Screams]

- Out of nowhere, he
became very, very strong...

- Stop!

Stop it!

[Distorted indistinct
whispering]

- Threw me across the
room like I was nothing.

It put the fear of god in me.

This was a person
who had cancer.

He was a sick boy.

There was no way he
was able to throw me

across the room like that.

[Distorted indistinct
whispering]

[Door slams]

After this big
fight with Philip,

things really started
to change for me.

[Clock ticking]

[Blanket rustling]

It was like hands were
grabbing the bedcovers

and pulling them down.

I felt like something
was coming after me.

- Aunt Carmen?

- Yeah.

- I... i don't know
what it is, but...

- My bedcovers are
being pulled off of my bed.

And my shirt is,
like, being lifted up.

- She would feel it
pulling at her bra strap.

- I felt very violated.

- She was very frightened

because she didn't see
what was pulling at her.

She had said she didn't see
what was pulling at her blanket.

But at the end of the day,

there is no way I
believed that is was ghosts.

The only conclusion
I could come up with

was that it was my son, my baby,

that he was doing this.

- Okay, guys, time to go.

- I didn't know what
to feel or what to think.

I was more like a robot

running on battery
power than anything.

Your emotions are very torn.

- What's wrong, mom?

- Nothing, nothing.

- This is your
prized possession.

This is your firstborn child.

And you adore him.

And you've suffered
through his skinned knees

and his cancer

and his dyslexia.

But you have to protect your
nieces and your daughters

and the other
children in the house.

Alan was in New York,

so I'm left with deciding
on how to handle it.

I called his doctor.

- It's about Philip.

- And I said, "this
is what's going on.

It has to be handled
before it gets any further."

And he said I was
describing schizophrenia.

It's time to have him committed.

I was a vacuum.

My emotions were
just completely void.

Come 6:00,

I'm trying to act as
if nothing's going on,

everything's normal.

I make his favorite dinner.

- After dessert, we'll
have a race outside, guys.

We're gonna have a race, okay?

All of you guys...
And I will be the judge.

And whoever runs...

[door clicks and creaks]

- They didn't even knock.

They just entered
into the house.

- It was just, like, all
the happiness was gone.

Everybody was
sitting there quiet.

- Come on, son, come with us.
- Kids, can you come with me?

- Mom, please,
mom, don't do this.

Mom?

- And your son's looking at
you, saying, "mom, don't do this.

Mom, please, don't do this."

- Why are they here?
- Son.

- What did I do?

- He was screaming
at this point, you know,

"why? What's going on?

Where... Where are we going?"

- Why are they here?

- I couldn't tell him.

I just would cry and
tell him, "I'm sorry.

I'm so sorry, Philip."

- [Yelling indistinctly]

Why are they here?

- I wanted to believe him.

I wanted to believe him.

But every time that
they had told me

that there was
something going on,

I went in there, and I looked,
and I never found anything,

so I couldn't prove that
there was anything there.

- [Yelling and screaming]

[Shrieks] Mom!

- So I had to
cover all my bases.

And I had to make sure
the other children were safe.

- Mom!

- I'm right behind you, baby.

- Mom!

I want to go home!

Mom!

- And then they strapped
him in a straitjacket.

- No!

[Crying and screaming]

- And they wouldn't
let me go in.

- [Speaking indistinctly]

- He said, "mama,
don't leave me.

Mama, don't leave me."

- [Shrieking]

Now that I'm gone, they're
gonna come after you.

[Screams]

- He's yelling,
"now that I'm gone,

they're gonna come after you."

- I'm so sorry.

What did I do?

- I cried the entire
way, and I was angry.

- [Crying]

- Everything he
said to me as I left

preyed on my mind.

- They're gonna come after you.

- I felt very conflicted
because for months,

I had been finding rational
explanations for everything.

But at this point, I
was in such a rage

that I was ready
to believe anything

other than that my son was
gonna be a schizophrenic

the rest of his life.

I went directly
down the back stairs.

And I said, "all right,
you son of a bitch,

you want to play, you
come play with me."

[Clock ticking]

- It was very... very
solemn, very still, very eerie...

Just a quiet eerie.

- I sat there for hours.

Nothing ever appeared.

[Crickets chirping]

[Clock ticking]

- It wasn't long
after, in my room...

- [Shrieks]

[Gasps]

- Philip wasn't around.

This wasn't
something that he did.

You know, he's not home.

He's in the hospital.

[Glass banging]

- Aunt carm.

- Who is it?

- It's happening again.

- Philip's not in the house.

And I have no explanation
for what's going on.

- [Sighs]

- On the way out...

I happened to notice
that the last crucifix

had disappeared.

So all of the crucifixes in
the house were now gone.

At this point,

nothing that I knew
to be true was true.

Nothing that I understood to be

was what it was.

I was in the twilight zone.

- "Though a host should
encamp me against me,

my heart shall not fear."

- Got her tucked into bed.

And I began to
read from the Bible.

- "One thing have
I desired of the lord

"that I will seek after;

that I may dwell in the
house of the lord all"...

And she said, "aunt
Carmen, it's coming.

Can you feel it? It's coming."

- "Yea, I will sing
praise unto the lord..."

- I felt a hand just rise
up under my clothes.

- Get it off!

[Shrieking]

- I can see the
bones and the wrist

and the knuckles.

- [Shrieking]

- [Speaking indistinctly]

- It was violating.

It was just horrifying.

- [Screaming]

- I scooped her up.

And I ran into the dining room.

- [Gasping and panting]

- Hallowed be thy name.

Thy kingdom come.

Thy will be done

on heaven.

[Panting]

[Clock ticking]

[Distorted indistinct
whispering]

- Ah, no.

I can feel it coming.

Aunt carm, I can feel it coming.

- And she says, "aunt
Carmen, can you feel it?

It's coming," and I can feel it.

- Our father who art in
heaven, hallowed be thy name.

- Growling and the
motion of the room...

- It's coming back!

- And the coldness, the smell...

- It's coming for me.

- Hallowed be thy name.

Thy kingdom come.

Thy will be done!

- I could feel it,
but I couldn't see it

or fight it back.

My rosary begins to
levitate up off my neck.

[Distorted indistinct
whispering]

- I realized that I was wrong

in committing
Philip at this point.

[Electricity buzzing]

[Distorted indistinct
whispering]

[Beads clacking]

So I pick up the phone,
and I call the church.

Fortunately, they believed me.

And they just told me

that there would be an
exorcist there tomorrow.

- [Panting]

- I was so joyous

that finally somebody's
gonna come in

to heal my family.

[Water running]

- [Screaming]

- The shower curtain very
quickly wrapped around me.

[Distorted indistinct
whispering]

And I couldn't push away.

- [Screaming]

- It was completely
tightened around my face...

- [Yelling]

- As if somebody was
trying to smother me.

[Distorted indistinct
whispering]

- [Gasping]

- And it's getting tighter.

[Curtain squeaking]

- Help! Help!

- I thought, "this thing
is trying to kill me."

- [Shrieking]

- "It wants me dead."

- Help! Help!

Tammy!

- I hear my aunt
carm calling for me.

- [Yelling indistinctly]

- And the more I
screamed, the tighter it got.

- [Yelling indistinctly]

- If I didn't get her out
soon, she would suffocate.

- [Screaming]

- I got you! It's okay!

- I pulled, and I ripped.

- [Screaming]

[Gasping]

[Birds chirping]

- That house changed
every aspect of my life,

my children's lives.

And it changed us to
the core of who we are.

The guilt of what I've done
to my son is overwhelming.

I knew that I had to get
Philip out of the hospital

and get that stigma
removed from him.

- You coming?

- The first time I saw him,

I just grabbed ahold.

And I held him,
and I rocked him.

And I rubbed his head.

And I said, "I am
so sorry, baby."

- Are you there?

I can hear you; Can you hear me?

[Static crackles]

Well, I told my mom from day one

that the house was evil.

My parents weren't believing me.

And I guess, yeah, I became
more fascinated with...

Rather than frightened

of the things that
were in the basement.

My mom was trying to
be strong on one hand

and do what she thought...
Felt was right, you know.

But I definitely felt
a sense of betrayal.

- It took a lot of time
for Philip to re-trust,

just through everyday love
and trust and conversation.

- It's hard to describe
the way, you know,

evil can actually find its way
into little nooks and crannies

in your life and, you know,

begin to manipulate
you like that.

- He came to me
one day in the kitchen

about a week before he passed.

And he said,

"mom, am I evil?"

I was stunned.

I... i was... "no,
baby, you're not evil.

"You're a sweet, sweet boy.

And I'm proud of you."