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- I never realized
how hard it would be

to deal with
something like this.

- I was in the
middle of nowhere,

and nobody knew I was there.

- Something was
going on in the house

that I couldn't explain.

- I looked the thing in the eye.

It was clearly not
a human being.

- What was tearing the
inside of my house apart?

- Oh, my god.

- It was hunting me.

- Go now!

- Start!

- If you don't run,
it's gonna kill you.

[Birds chirping]

[Dog barking]

[Peaceful instrumental music]

♪ ♪

- I loved it... all my
heart, I loved that house.

It was a wonderful
place to live.

- The house was my sanctuary.

It was the perfect little house
that everybody dreams about.

My mom's new boyfriend, Matt,

moved into the house
with his daughter, Marie.

- Ah!
[Both laughing]

- What are you doing?

- Matt was an intelligent,
smart, funny, happy guy.

- Whoo! Got you!

- I was happy to
have Marie there.

It felt like I had
a little sister

that I had never had.

We basically had
a lot of fun together.

- Marie and my daughter
became good friends quickly,

which really helped
our relationship

because we thought
we had a good start.

[Eerie music]

[Swing creaking]

The very first strange
thing that happened:

I went into the kitchen,

and there was a
jar of peanut butter

laying on its side
on the counter.

- Jamie!

- I looked at it thinking that
the kids had made a mess

or the cats had knocked it over,

but the strange
thing about the jar

was that the peanut butter
looked as it if had been melted.

- I kind of thought
it was a joke.

I thought, "why are you
asking me about peanut butter?"

I didn't think anything of this.

- Oh, my god.

- But then we started finding

things stacked or
arranged in certain ways.

I thought that Marie
was doing it at first.

At this point, we started
taking pictures of everything

because we wanted proof
of what was happening.

- Oh, my god.

- I-I did suspect the kids of
some of things that happened.

I still wasn't
convinced that it was

still something supernatural.

- One day, everything changed.

- I have so much math
homework. Can you help me?

- Sure.

- I put my coffee down
to go let the dog in.

- Lily.

Marie?

- I didn't do that.

- You're the only one in here.

- Jamie, it wasn't me.

- I knew that we hadn't
had an earthquake.

I didn't bump anything.

I didn't know what to think.

I was angry.

I was frustrated and annoyed.

I decided to clean my room.

- Mom! Mom!

- I heard Jamie call me.

And I immediately
came into the house.

- What happened?

- I closed the drawers,
and I turned around,

and the drawers
were open and then...

[toy bangs]

- I couldn't believe
what I just saw.

[All screaming]

I was freaking out.

I was scared out of my mind.

- I saw it with my own eyes.

I saw it happen.

It shook me up.

Jamie said to me...
- Mom.

- "We have a
poltergeist in the house."

We knew that day that
something was really, really wrong,

but that was nothing
compared to what happened

in the following months.

- Oh, my god.

- Everything was twisted
and pulled out or on the floor.

And it didn't stop.

- Doors would bang all
night long, all day long.

It would just be constantly

over and over and
over and over again.

- At night, all the
lights would go off.

Everything... every light
in the house... would go off.

And you could flick the switch,

and the lights
won't come back on.

There was something in our house

that was uninvited.

- Matt didn't believe
anything that was happening.

He thought that
it was me doing it.

He thought that I was
doing it for attention.

- One evening, I saw
long, drawn-out arrows,

pointing in all
different places.

They went up the
wall, across the ceiling.

They would point toward
the central heating vents

up on the walls.

We thought maybe it might be
trying to communicate with us.

I told Matt the vents
lead up to the attic.

Maybe there's something
up there we need to look for.

Matt was very skeptical.

- For everything
that's been going on...

- He wanted to rationalize it.

- I don't care what
you feel. Can you just...

- I wouldn't give him time.

I told him, "you
have to believe me.

"I don't care what you feel.
I don't care what you think.

Something's in our house.
Something's playing with us."

- Okay, I'll go up, and
I'll take a look, all right?

- It's dirty and messy

and full of loose
double insulation.

I wanted to watch just in case,

I don't know, but just in case
something bad happened.

The tension and
energy inside the house

was so heavy and active.

He couldn't get all the
way across the ceiling

because it was dark.

- Uh, I-I don't know
where I'm putting my feet.

I can't... i can't see
anything up here.

- When he said that to
me, a warning flag came up.

And I said, "okay, that's it.
We can't do this anymore.

You can get hurt up here."

- You happy now?

- He did not fully
accept it that day.

But I still had some idea
we could communicate with it

and maybe stop it.

- My mom had talked to
somebody who suggested

that she offer it
something... A peace offering.

- I made a small
place on the mantel,

you might say
even like an altar.

I love cats, so I had
found a little cat figurine.

And I put it on the
mantel, and I spoke to it,

and I said, "this
gift is for you."

- I would like to give you
this small place on the mantel

as your place...

- "To let you know that
we mean you no harm.

"We don't want you
to be afraid of us.

And we don't want
to be afraid of you."

- What's going on?

- Matt wasn't happy about it.

Matt was very much
against the figurine.

He was very much against
communicating with it.

He was very much against
giving it a gift of any kind.

He called it
talking to the devil.

- Honestly, I don't want this...

- I was making an
effort to change things.

I was doing something,
but in doing that,

I risked our relationship.

- In my home!

- Matt just got really angry.

- Matt!
- Daddy, don't do that.

- Dad!

Both: Don't you dare!

- That's enough of that.

- Mom.

- It was one of those times

where you just can't believe
what you see before your eyes.

I know it landed
in the field. I saw it.

- I told him, "you better
not smash that cat."

- Matt.

- It was just going to make
things ten times worse.

- I don't know what this is.

- He didn't listen to me.

- Matt, no.

All: Don't!

[Figurine shattering]

- No! No!

- I felt like I was doomed.

- The first thing I thought was,

"we are gonna go
through hell for this.

It's gonna retaliate."

- That night, we
found the word "cat"

written all over the house.

[No audio]

- It had gone on a rampage.

- As we were cleaning it up,

we noticed what
looked like footprints.

They did not look human.

They just did not
look human at all.

- I saw those
footprints down there,

and I couldn't believe
what I was seeing.

They were huge, round toes,

and wide.

- Whatever it or they were
was in the house with us.

[Cat meowing]

- The first thing that
came to my mind was,

"what was in my house?

What was tearing the
inside of my house apart?"

Having all of this
happening at the house

while I was trying
to hold down a job

was just tremendous stress.

I wanted to leave really bad.

I wanted to get away from it.

Everybody wanted
to get away from it.

But I was already struggling
to make house payments.

It wasn't feasible.

At the same time that it
was attacking the house,

it started on the animals.

We had two cats
that each had a litter,

and they were very
sweet-dispositioned,

very loving kittens.

- Soon, one by one,

each one got
really, really sick.

There was nothing
I could do to help.

- We thought perhaps maybe
they just didn't have enough energy

to fight off this thing.

We thought perhaps
it used them up.

They all died just right
after... one after another.

They didn't have a chance.

- I was scared.

I was scared it was
attacking my pets to get at me.

- Maybe this isn't gonna
stop with the animals.

It might have the
capability of taking life,

not just our animals,
but possibly one of us.

I was at work.

Jamie had gone
out to run an errand.

Marie was at home alone.

This thing had turned the TV
on and off in rapid succession.

- Stop.

[Screams]

- Marie called...

- Hello?
- [Crying] Susan.

- She told me,
"the furniture..."

- Is everything okay?

- "It's moving across the room."

- [Screams]

- I came home, and as soon
as I got one lock unlocked,

it would be locked again.

- Marie!
- Jamie, help me!

- I can't open the door.

- [Sobbing] I can't.

- She grabbed
her digital camera,

and she took a
succession of flashes

just to light up the room.

- Marie, you have to
help me open the door.

- Oh, my god.
- [Sobbing]

- These pictures
appeared on her camera

that were just
really unbelievable.

- Unbelievably bizarre photos

of this light energy

appeared on her camera.

What was foremost
in my mind was,

if it could move
heavy furniture,

what else could it do?

How far would it go?

- The level of fear
at that time was...

Undescribable, really.

There's no way to describe

how it made me feel.

- That was a day
that Matt realized

that this thing in our house

could attack his daughter
while she was alone,

and he got worried.

He got out the phone book,
and he started calling churches.

[Phone beeping]

[Line trilling]

- Hello?

- The first couple of
churches that he called

didn't offer any help.

- I'm sorry, sir.
- Okay, thanks.

- No, sir.

[Dial tone humming]

[Phone beeping]

- It's difficult to speak
to someone about it.

That takes a lot of guts
because you put yourself up

for accusations,
disbelief, and skepticism.

He finally got ahold of a pastor

that was willing to come
out to our house immediately.

- There was a little bit of hope
that things would get better

by them coming to our house.

- We finally found
someone that believed us

and that would come
help us figure out

what was going on in our house.

- The house was
just a total mess.

It was embarrassing to even
have anybody in the house.

- He looked all
around the house,

and he saw all the
stuff on the walls.

He said, "this is bad.

There's spiritual
warfare going on here."

- "Even though I walk
through the darkest valley,

I will fear no evil."

- They just prayed
with us, and that was it.

- Is there any more you can do?

- We can't help you.

- That was the last I ever
heard of him or saw him.

- We felt completely
abandoned and left out to dry.

We were on our own.

[Clock ticking]

- As time went on,
my feeling was that

the only way to get rid of
this thing out of our lives

was to just move out.

I didn't have money to move out,

and I didn't have friends
that I could go stay with.

I felt trapped.

- I felt my family
breaking down.

Matt and I were constantly
losing our tempers...

Both: No!

- Because we
couldn't communicate.

We couldn't talk about it.

Our relationship
was falling apart.

- I remember the
stress that I was in...

That I was feeling...

And how alone I felt.

It's hard to relive all of this.

- Jamie was afraid
to leave her room.

Her room seemed
to be the one place

where she felt
she had a barrier.

She was wrong.

- Oh, my god.

- This pounding started
on my bedroom door.

[Pounding on door]

It was so loud. I was
actually frozen in fear.

- [Sobbing]

Oh, my god.

- It just eventually
got to the point

where I had to go
look in the hallway.

[Pounding on door]

Right before I
opened the door...

[Pounding]

It would stop.

It's like it knew that I was
coming to open the door.

And I would close the
door, and it would start again.

- It went on for
approximately three hours.

- Stop!

- That pounding...
Just horrific, terrible.

- Eventually the
pounding stopped.

When I opened the door,

there was just a giant hole.

It looked like a
battering ram hit the door,

and the doorknob was bent.

- Everything was
utilized by this thing

to pound on that door.

- The light in the bathroom
started going on and off.

I figured something
must be in there.

Whatever it was was
trying to get into my room.

- There was no
way to lock the door.

- The bathroom door didn't
have the doorknob on it.

I decided to take this
kite string that we had

and wrapped it through
the hole in the door.

I figured, "if I have the
other end of this string,

this thing cannot
open the door."

I started feeling it
pulling on the string.

- As soon as she
tightened up on the rope,

it tugged at the door.

- Ah!

Stop it!

- I was freaking out
because I figured that

once that door opened,

I was gonna see something
from my nightmares,

some demon,

and it was gonna come at me.

I just held onto the string

and figured that if it
couldn't break this string

that it couldn't open the door.

- It cut the rope.

Figured it out...
It cut the rope.

She was scared out of her wits.

- I knew it was coming.

I knew it was
coming into the room.

I knew that there was
nothing I could do to stop it.

- I knew it was coming.

I knew it was
coming into the room.

I knew that there was
nothing I could do to stop it.

And there was nothing there.

I really had to get
out of that house.

[Door slamming]

It closed the
door and locked it.

I immediately smelled smoke.

- [Screams]

[Flames whooshing]

- I looked down,
and there was a pan

that had a paper towel
burning inside of it,

made to be like a wick.

- It had moved beyond
anything that it had done before.

[Flames crackling]

- I stepped out
into the hallway.

I found toilet paper
and paper towels

strewn throughout the house,

wrapped around everything
that could catch fire.

It actually was setting up

something to carry a
flame throughout the house.

It was going to burn
us alive in the house.

I just knew that I
had to put out the fire.

[Flames crackling]

- Ah!

[Coughing]

- I started gathering

all the paper towels
and toilet paper up.

I had to make sure that

there was nothing
that could catch fire.

- That was the most frightening,

horrific thing

I've ever been through
in my whole life.

This... thing

attempted to burn my house down

with my daughter in it.

That was the last straw.

- We finally moved out.

It was a huge relief

that I wasn't gonna have
to deal with it anymore,

that I was gonna be able
to have a normal life again.

- The situation succeeded
in finally driving this wedge

between Matt and I.

[Sighs] We were separating.

After we moved out,

in the next three
or four months,

the next-door
neighbors also left.

And there's four or five houses
that are vacant on that block.

And it makes me wonder that
maybe perhaps it wasn't just us.

- I saw something
I can't explain.

I don't like the idea of
not being able to explain it.

Back in 1997, I got a
call from a friend of mine

who was also the elected
sheriff in a rural Oregon county.

He knew that I had been
certified police officer

and I had been in
the marine corps.

So he asked me if I
wanted to be a deputy sheriff.

I jumped at the chance.

At the time, I was fit.

At the present time,
I certainly am not.

- Hey, man.
- You're early.

- Everything good?
- Yeah, yeah, it's great.

I kept the seat warm for you.

- On this particular day, I
was early getting off shift.

It was one of the prettiest
days I can ever remember seeing

in the cascade mountains.

It made me want to take a hike.

You can walk across country
where there are no trails

and probably be
places in eastern Oregon

where nobody's ever
even walked before.

I loved that idea.

I'd been walking uphill
for two hours at least.

It was taking a long time
because of the terrain.

I decided to find a route

that would get me
into a more open area.

When I looked through my
compass to take that measurement...

I was totally shocked.

I saw a person standing there,

but it was clearly
not a human being.

- This thing had a
humanlike shape to it

and a clear place for the eyes
and the nose and the mouth,

but it wasn't a person.

He had his eyes directly on me.

The weirdest thing happened.

I just involuntarily cocked
my head to one side.

He mimicked me exactly.

He was smart.

I instinctively reached
around to get my weapon.

He ran away so fast,
it seemed impossible,

certainly physically
impossible for a human.

I was so curious that
I had to check it out.

I could see most
of a wide-open area,

and I was looking everywhere.

There was nothing there.

I decided to look for tracks.

I couldn't find a
track anywhere.

I carried on
walking for a while,

but I was feeling
a little nervous.

It was darker than it should be

for me to get back
to the car before dark,

and I didn't have a flashlight.

I realized I wasn't
going to make it

unless I turned around
right then, so I did.

I decided to take
a different route

so that I'd put some
space between myself

and whatever that was.

I was looking to my left

because that's the
area that he'd gone.

And that's when I heard it.

[Tree crashing]

It was as loud as some
guns when they go off.

It was a big tree.

The snap came from my right.

It was impossible.

He'd circled me.

The idea that I couldn't see him

but he could see me

made me very uncomfortable.

That's just a prescription
for an ambush.

That's when I heard
a second snap.

[Loud cracking]

He wasn't just watching
me or running away from me.

He was tracking me.

It flashed through my mind that
what I had seen was big enough

to snap me the same way
it was snapping those trees.

I had been in the marine corps.

I had police service.

I don't scare easily.

I am scared to death.

- Back off now!

- He started to get closer
as the sun went down.

I knew because the
snaps started getting closer.

It was hunting me,

getting closer and
closer like a hunter

but staying
invisible to the prey.

If you can't see
what's out there,

you can't fight it.

You can't even run from it.

You don't know which
direction to run now

because he's circled you.

Maybe you run
right into his arms.

You don't know.

I was rushing down the
hill, and all of a sudden,

there is a deer
standing in front of me.

Didn't have any
fear of humans at all.

She snapped her head
over in the direction

that I'd been watching,

where the snaps had
been coming from.

I scanned the whole tree line.

Didn't see anything.

No sound, nothing.

She smelled the
air with her head up.

And then she bolted
in the opposite direction

as fast as I've ever
seen a deer move.

I felt the hair on the
back of my neck go up.

I knew I was being watched.

It was just so close,
and it was so obvious

that it didn't want me there.

I was only about two
minutes away from the car

if I ran real fast, so I did.

I heard snaps again,

and this time, they
were really close.

I was convinced
that I was gonna die

and that I was gonna
die in a very bad way.

When I finally saw my car, I
was hearing snaps very close,

but they weren't frequent.

And as I got real
close to the car,

they stopped entirely.

I remember now thinking,

"those snaps have stopped
because he's right behind me,

and he's gonna grab me."

- I remember now thinking,

"he's right behind me,
and he's gonna grab me."

I started hitting the button

for the automatic
release of the locks.

- Come on!

- It's not gonna open in time.

My heart was
starting to beat faster.

I want to get steel between
me and whatever that thing is.

I felt fear that I wasn't
gonna get that far.

- Come on, come on, come on!

- I put the key in the ignition.

[Engine sputtering]

It wouldn't start.

- Start!

- It was like, what
else can go wrong?

- Come on!

[Engine sputtering]

Start! Start!

[Engine roars]

[Engine revving]

- The sense of relief
that I felt was real good.

First thing I wanted to
do was have a cigarette.

I didn't tell anybody but
the sheriff that I served for.

I didn't think he
would believe me.

[Insect buzzing]

- Look...

- He did believe me.

- There's reports of...

- he said they get reports

of big, hairy, unknown
animals up there all the time.

He told me, "don't
write a report.

Don't talk about
it." So I didn't.

What I saw was physical.

It was some kind
of living being.

And in my experience,

living beings have to
multiply in some way.

That means there's more of them.

And I don't know how many,

but I do know that I'm
not going back there.