All language subtitles for Paranormal.Witness.S02E05.WEBRip.x264-ION10

- She had an uneasy feeling
right from the very first day.

- [Gasps]

Jesse?

- I thought, "there's
something evil in this house."

- It felt like someone was
watching her all the time.

- I started to think
I was going crazy.

- I didn't want to say,
"I think you're insane.

Let's go see a doctor."

- You see them?

- I didn't want to say that.

[Child screams]

- It kept getting more
and more intense.

- Mari-Lynn?

- [Sobbing]
- This is crazy.

- Mommy?

- I really wanted
out of that house.

- [Screaming]

- I was married
previously to Robyn.

We were married for 25 years.

She was diabetic, so she
was very hard to care for

the last couple years.

It was very difficult.

She passed away just
after she turned 50 years old.

But I bounced back pretty quick.

It was maybe a
year later I met Lynn.

- I honestly didn't
think it would evolve

into a relationship
the way it did.

- Pick anything you like.

- She picks out this ring,
you know, and I was like,

"well, you want to get married?"

[Laughter]

- We got married within a
year of meeting each other.

- It was a whole
new life for me.

I never had kids,

and I always wanted
to have a little boy.

And now I had this beautiful
woman and this little boy,

and I finally get the
family that I wanted.

Things couldn't be better.

- Mark was still living
in the same house

that he and Robyn shared.

- Isn't it beautiful?

- It was a beautiful house on
a beautiful piece of property.

I felt really privileged to
have gone from having nothing

to marrying a man who could give
my son and I anything we wanted.

- Jesse, let's go in the house.

- [Giggles]

- I was excited that Jesse was
gonna have a beautiful house

to grow up in in the country.

- Ready? Let's go in.

- Whoa.

- When I went in the
house, I was amazed.

Mark owned an antique store.

There's paintings and
vases and antiques.

I'd never seen so much
beautiful furniture in one place,

but I was very nervous.

- Don't touch anything, Jesse.

- I was worried Jesse was
going to break something

or damage something
that was irreplaceable.

- Welcome to your new home.
- [Giggles]

- It was very dark.

The blinds were shut.

There was no life.

It just felt dead.

- She was uneasy right
from the very first day.

She was freaked
out by all the angels

that Robyn had collected.

- Figurines, pictures,

China cabinets just
filled with angel figurines.

They were all over the place.

- Jesse, don't touch, okay?

- The house was still all
decorated by Robyn's hand.

After she died, I hadn't
changed anything.

Robyn had her own room upstairs.

She had it all decorated up.

You know, I had a bed up there,

and she would go up there,
and she hung out in there.

- He asked Jesse
and I to stay out of it.

- Jesse!

- I didn't want
people going in there.

It was her room.

- Let's go find
your room, Jesse.

- Robyn, she and I
have very different tastes

in how we like to decorate.

And I really, really
hated a lot of the things

that she had in there.

- At first, I was reluctant.

You know, I didn't really
want to change it all.

But after a while, I was like,

"we got to get rid
of these things."

- He said nothing in the house

really meant anything
to him anymore.

He's in the business
of selling things.

So anything in the
house could be sold.

- Let's have a garage sale.

I mean, you know, let's
get rid of these angels.

- I was taking
down a lot of angels

and putting them in boxes.

And I just couldn't
wait to get rid of them.

I always felt uncomfortable,
maybe like I shouldn't be there.

At first, it was just a feeling.

Very uncomfortable,
like eyes were just on me.

- Thank you.
- Oh, thank you very much.

- It was a very
successful garage sale.

I was shocked at how
many people like angels.

We probably sold about 75.

Jesse and I were waiting
for Mark to come home,

and he was playing.

- [Whispering] Jesse.

Jesse.

- He was just standing there.

And he looked up at me and said,

"mama, there's
a lady in the tree."

- There's no lady
in the tree, Jesse.

- And there's blood.

- This came out of the blue.

And I honestly... at that point,

I wasn't sure what
he was talking about.

So I saw that he
was disturbed by this.

And I said...

- You mean lady...

- You go away.

You leave my Jesse alone.

And he just went
right back to playing.

But curiosity got
the best of me,

so a couple
minutes later, I said,

"Jesse, is the bad lady gone?"

And he looked up and
he looked across the yard,

and he said, "now
she's in the road."

It frightened me
because he was so young.

Because I knew he couldn't
make something like that up.

- Come on, Jesse.
Let's go to the house.

- You better get going.
- Mm-hmm.

- "Oh, yeah, okay."
Bye. Have a good day.

- Love you.
- Love you.

- I was downstairs
in the kitchen,

and I heard a cry.

[Baby crying]

So I stopped, and I listened.

I thought maybe I
was hearing things.

I just tried to brush it
off and go back to work.

[Baby screaming]

- [Gasps] Jesse?

- I thought it was odd, because
immediately as a mother,

I think, "oh, my son's crying."

And then it hits me...

He's not even here.

[Baby crying]

Where's this crying coming from?

It was within the house.

It wasn't coming from outside.

I went into every room.

And there was nobody
or nothing there.

[Door rattling]

I heard a lot of noise

coming out of Robyn's room,

the room we were
never to go into.

[Door rattling,
shouting and crying]

I couldn't believe
what I was hearing.

I had a horrible feeling.

[Door rattling]

- The blinds were flapping,
and it was very cold in there.

The windows were both opened

and there was so much
stuff across the floor.

I could not figure out
how that got opened.

- I came home, and I thought,

"what the heck
is going on here?"

It looked like someone
had been in there

rifling through everything.

- Mari-Lynn, why did
you come in the room?

Look, it's a mess.

- I didn't want rain coming
in, getting on Robyn's stuff.

I was angry about it.

- I just found it like that.

- Well, look at the room.

- He clearly didn't believe me.

I thought, "well,
maybe it's just me."

I started to think there was
something wrong with me.

- Did Jesse... did he do this?
- No.

She was saying, no, it
wasn't her and it wasn't Jesse.

Who else could it be?

Did you do this?

- No, I didn't come in here.

- Mark and I were lying in bed,
and all of a sudden I woke up.

[Child laughing]

You could hear children
laughing, playing,

and I said to Mark...

- Do you hear that?

- He just laid his head
back, shut his eyes,

and he went, "yup."

- What is it?

[Children laughing]

- We have a swing set
right outside our window.

[Children laughing]

It sounded like they
were right outside playing.

[Children laughing]

I don't know why I kept looking
for these things I was hearing.

But when you hear a child,

your instinct is
to go look for it.

[Children laughing]

[Creaking]

There was nothing.

I don't know what I was
thinking I was gonna find.

[Creaking]

One handful after the other

out of his pocket.

- Well, it was hard for
me to put Jesse to bed.

His room is right across
from Robyn's room.

- Okay, time for bed.

- And so, for the longest
time, I wouldn't put him to bed.

I kept him with me.

And Mark's like,
"absolutely not.

You have to put him to bed."

- Good night.
- Good night.

- We were sitting
in the living room

watching television.

[Child screaming]

Jesse started screaming

almost like he had been hurt.

It was that kind of a cry.

- He had only been up
there for a few minutes.

And I'm like, "what's
he screaming about?"

- Mommy, mommy, mommy!

[Gasping] Mommy.

- Jesse, are you okay?

- He's just screaming, pointing
at the closet, "mama, mama."

- There's a lady in the closet.

- Oh, Jesse,
there's nothing there.

You just had a bad
nightmare, okay?

- Mommy, mommy, mama, mama!

- He's terrified. He's
crying. His face is beet-red.

I didn't know what to do.

I couldn't see what
he was seeing.

- You're gonna
be okay, all right?

- Mari-Lynn...

- Mark told me to
put him back to bed.

He just wanted attention.

- No, he's really scared.
I have to stay with him.

- I was like, "kids
see things at night."

I mean, I always thought there
was ghosts in my closet too.

- I can see why
Mark felt that way.

But I knew better.

So I laid with him for a
while till he calmed down.

And I was so mad at Mark that
he made me put him back to bed.

I felt like I wasn't
getting any support.

It's really hard, as a mom,
to watch your child be terrified

and terrified of something
you don't know what it is.

It was Sunday morning,
and Mark was at the store.

I had decided to catch
up on some housework.

[Objects crashing
and shattering]

It was something big and heavy,
and you could hear glass break.

- Jesse, are you okay, hon?
- Yeah.

- And so I went
into the kitchen.

And the water was on,
just full blast, both faucets.

Jesse couldn't have done that.

He wasn't tall enough.

And as I was
shutting that off...

[Door rattling and banging]

There was banging
at the garage door

in the laundry room.

You could see the door move

like something was
trying to bust the door in.

So I just mustered up
all the courage I could

and I opened the
door really fast.

There was nothing
happening in the garage.

No breeze.

There was nothing there.

[Garage doors rattle]

[Garage doors rattling]

- There was something
just beating on the door.

Beating on the door,
and the door was moving.

I could see the door move.

And all of a sudden,
the lights were flashing.

- Jesse! Jesse, where are you?

- Mama, mommy!

- Jesse?
- Mommy!

- And at that point, I could
see my son is really afraid.

So I picked up the phone,
and I called Mark at the shop.

- Mark, you have to come home.

- She's in a panic.

She's crying,
"please come home."

I just thought, "what
is going on here?"

- I don't know. You have
to come home, please.

- I just remember
thinking, "this is crazy."

- Come home. Please come home.

Come home. [Sobbing]

- I felt like I was
just frozen in fear.

I didn't understand why Mark
wouldn't come and get us.

[Sobbing]

- I was starting to
wonder if she wasn't

having a nervous breakdown.

[Children laughing]

- I felt like I was
insane at that point.

What if I was crazy, and they
locked me up or something?

[Loud banging]

I don't want to
ever lose my son.

[Loud banging]

- Oh, sweetie.

- I was a little surprised

when she started
talking about being afraid

or not being comfortable
in the house anymore.

Because that
wasn't at all like her.

- We're gonna
sort this thing out.

- My sister was studying
psychology in college.

And she brought some books
over and we also got on the Internet.

- I would show her what
the symptoms were exactly,

and we went through them.

People with schizophrenia
that have hallucinations

do not experience them the
same way that mari-Lynn was.

They weren't speaking to
her or telling her to do things.

- It's not you.

- My sister's the only
one who I could trust,

I felt, at that point.

- I'll go have a look around.

- So I asked her to look around.

- Okay, I'll be
back in a minute.

- It was a very lovely house.

There was a lot of very
beautiful things there.

My eyes were just
wandering everywhere,

room by room.

As I was approaching the door,

I started feeling
a little bit different.

My heart started racing.

And I just felt very anxious.

I call it that fight or
flight type of feeling

where you just kind
of want to turn around

and run right out of there.

Mari-Lynn was down
there waiting for me,

and I told her what
I was experiencing.

She said that was the
same room where Robyn was

when she was sick.

- Why don't we
go get some lunch?

- Oh, no, I can't.

I have to pick
Jesse up in an hour.

- When she told me she
felt weird around that area,

I thought, "well,
it must be Robyn.

"She's still in there,
or she's still here.

She doesn't want
to leave her house."

I did tell Mark, and again,
he just brushed me off.

- I kept saying,
"no, it can't be.

It can't be Robyn."

I didn't believe that.

Robyn would never do that.

You know, she's not
that kind of person.

- A little while later,

I started working with
Mark at the antique store.

Anytime I wasn't in
the house, it was great.

My son was at
school. He was safe.

And I got to be with
Mark most of the day.

- Comfortable?
- Yeah.

- So I felt a lot safer too.

It's a beautiful store.

It's in an old historic
building built in the late 1800s.

It's very big; It's
10,000 square feet,

two levels, and it was
absolutely beautiful.

- Okay, next I'd like to put
the clock in front of the store.

- Peter started
out as a customer.

- I bought every single Beatles
album that was in the shop.

And she saw that,
and we started talking.

- And I said, "I wish
I could hire you,

but you're not in my budget
right now," and he said...

- I'll work for free.

This would be fun for me.

Lynn and I were working on
one of the windows in the shop.

There was this picture frame

that was leaning
against the counter.

[Clattering]

Just kind of lifted
up and feel over.

- You saw that happen?

- This picture just picked up
and kind of flew across the room

and landed facedown.

Peter and I just
looked at each other.

- Did you see that?

- I just was thinking,
"what the hell was that?

What the hell just happened?"

Peter and I were
closing the store.

- And just as we were leaving...

[Footsteps creaking]

We heard some
footsteps upstairs.

- Did you hear that?

- We just stopped,
and we listened.

We have accidentally shut
lights off on customers before,

not realizing they're in there.

- Someone must be upstairs.

- But I knew we had
gotten all the customers

out of the shop.

- We checked the
monitors on the camera.

There was nobody up there.

[Footsteps thudding]

- But there was still very
clear footsteps walking.

- I'm gonna step up there
and have a little peek.

- My heart was
beating pretty fast.

I just didn't know
what to expect.

[Pounding]

Something pounded.

It made me jump out of my skin.

- [Faint wailing]

- I'd never seen
him react like that.

- I didn't care what
was back there.

I was gonna get out of there.

- I was frightened,
thinking it was out of control.

[Pounding]

It wasn't going away.

It was getting worse.

- Mark went in and
looked around the shop.

And there was nobody there.

- It was scary for me.

I didn't want to say,
"I think you're insane.

Let's go see a doctor."

I didn't want to
say that, you know?

- I felt very trapped. I
didn't know where to go.

I couldn't go home.

I couldn't go to work.

This was happening
everywhere I was going,

and there was no
place to get away from it.

- It was starting to scare me.

I didn't want to lose them.

It kind of seemed like, you
know, they're gonna leave.

- Jesse, come on.
We're going in the house.

- I really wanted
out of that house.

I begged Mark to move.

- I want to be able
to protect my family.

But I didn't have the resources
to, you know, just pack up

and go somewhere else.

- I should have left.

I should have got out of there.

- Oh.

Morning, soldier.

- I remember getting up,
you know, and I looked down.

I got these three
scratches on my hand.

I'm thinking, "how
did that happen?"

I looked like someone
just went like this.

- And about the same time...

I saw three marks on my side.

- She's got these
scratches on her side,

looked like someone
had scratched us both.

- And what scared me
is I didn't feel it happen.

It didn't wake us up.

I did not have a rational
explanation for any of it.

That evening, I
decided to go sit down

and watch television
with my husband.

I kept telling myself,
"just watch TV.

Just deal with it. Get over it."

I felt like someone
was watching me.

She's like, "I can't
sit in the living room."

You know, I'm like, "why?"

- They're looking at me.

She's like, "well, there's these
people looking down on me."

- You see them?

- Who's looking at you?

- Can you see them?

- I didn't see anything.

- I totally panicked.

- Jesse, where are you? Jesse?

- My heart was racing.
I couldn't breathe.

- Jesse?

- I couldn't believe
what I was seeing.

- Jesse?

Jesse?

[Gasps]

- Mommy?

- I ran to Jesse to
make sure he was okay.

I didn't want to scare him.

I realized at that
moment it wasn't Robyn.

She was wearing black
victorian mourning clothes.

The little boy had on a
little suit from that era.

Robyn wouldn't be
dressed in victorian clothing.

So I knew it couldn't be Robyn.

- The night Jesse got burnt,

that was the scariest
thing I ever seen.

- Jesse, dinner's ready.

- I'm still freaked out by it.

- Jesse, Mark, and I
were all in the kitchen.

And I had all the food
out on the counter.

And we were all standing
there fixing our plates.

Jesse reached up.

- And just as he touches
this piece of chicken...

- [Screaming]

- He starts screaming.

He's like, "ahhh!"

He was just shaking like
he's being electrocuted.

I'm standing there
next to him, and I'm like,

"what's the matter?
What's the matter?"

- He's crying. He's panicking.

"My side, my side."

- [Screaming and crying]

- So we lifted up his shirt
to see what was wrong.

And this red Mark appeared.

- It just started to grow
as we were looking at it,

you know, bigger and bigger.

There's nothing hot around him.

Couldn't explain it.

- [Crying]
- It's okay, it's okay.

What happened?

- It was the scariest
thing I've ever seen.

I should have taken
him to the doctor,

but how do you explain that?

I had no explanation.

I couldn't go in and lie.

Mark saw it all.

- What happened?
- I don't know!

- It had a major effect on him.

He finally believed us,
but it had to come to that.

- For the next few weeks, it
was like I was just not there.

Jesse's getting hurt.
We're getting hurt.

What's gonna be next?

- We bunkered down in the
bedroom, Jesse and I did.

We did everything
in the bedroom.

It made it worse
that it wasn't Robyn,

because if it was Robyn,
there would be a reason for it.

- I got this perfect family,

but now she's afraid to
come out of the bedroom.

You know, she's scared
to come out of the bedroom.

- I thought, "there's
something evil in this house."

- Mark, I'm going to bed.
- Good night.

- I was feeling a sense of
pressure building in the house.

They were watching me.

- She felt like someone
was watching her all the time.

Even though I couldn't
see it or hear it or feel it

or anything.

I didn't know
what to do about it.

I look over,

and I see this woman go
down into the basement.

And so I went
walking over there,

and the door was shut.

So I was thinking,
"a woman in a dress

just walked right
through this door."

What is going on here?

- Mari-Lynn?

- Mark, I'm trying to sleep.

[Screams]

- Sometimes when they'd
appear, the woman had a baby.

- [Screams]

- Mari-Lynn?

Mari-Lynn?

- [Weeping]

- I was starting
to see the stuff

just like mari-Lynn now.

So I was totally believing
her from that point on.

I knew she wasn't crazy.

- I was terrified
because I didn't know

what it was, what to do,
and how to live in my house.

I decided I needed to
call someone in for help

to figure out who this woman was

and if I was in danger.

I made some phone calls
and found two local historians.

- We love unusual stories.

What we like to do is
find out what in history

may have created
this unusual event.

- When we first
got to the store,

we were introduced to mari-Lynn,

and she seemed like
a very sweet woman.

She was friendly, she
was smiling, very courteous,

even though, I will
say, that she did have

a slightly haunted look,

if that's an appropriate
way to describe it.

- I was afraid they
wouldn't believe me

or would laugh at
me, think I was crazy.

- I did think she
could have been

a very troubled woman.

You always have to
consider that as a possibility

in a case like this.

- They were very kind,
and they listened to me,

and they said that
they'd look into the past

of what happened
in the area I lived in.

- We know research.

We're all about research,

all about the history that
may create the haunting,

not just the haunting.

- We will look at land
records, death certificates,

birth certificates,
census records.

- We do a lot of
that, and in this case,

we certainly did hours
and hours of research.

- I was shocked when I
learned what they found out.

- The antique shop used to be

the Porter a. Wright
hardware store.

It was the center of the
town for the time period

because it supplied
manufacturing and farmers.

- And gossip.
- And gossip.

- They didn't have
Facebook then,

so it was a source of gossip.

- We were looking
at land records,

and we saw that the property

where mari and
her husband resided

had been a farm
since the early 1870s.

- A young girl by the
name of Theresa styson

lived at the farm.

She was living with her
uncle Philip and his wife.

- Theresa, time to come
inside the house, sweetheart.

- They had a young orphan
boy who they cared for.

His name was Nate.

- Theresa?

- And it made a very
interesting family.

- [Moaning and grunting]

- Months later, Theresa
became pregnant.

Well, during the victorian
era, that was unthinkable

that a single young woman
would become pregnant.

- [Screaming]

- So Philip had to send
her... He had to send her...

To a sanatorium far away.

- [Screams]

- Theresa's pregnancy

was a tough one, and her
birth was even more difficult.

- [Screams]

- She gave birth to an
infant, a young boy who died.

- No one in town knew.

The only one who knew
was Porter a. Wright.

- When Theresa was
sent away to the sanitarium,

the owner of the hardware
store was used as a liaison

for communications between
her and her uncle Philip.

- And how he did that
was rather clandestinely.

He would send letters
via Porter a. Wright's store

and send them anonymously.

It wasn't long after
that, she became very ill.

She knew she was near death.

And it was at that
point that she told

the people at the sanatorium
that her uncle Philip

was the father of her child.

- Philip styson
was placed on trial.

And during testimony,
it was little Nate,

the orphan boy
who lived with them,

who gave key testimony,

very damning testimony.

- Philip styson was
found guilt of incest.

- Theresa.

- But the judge dismissed it,

saying that the
testimony was hearsay.

And the trial was dismissed.

- When Theresa died,
she was just 19 years old.

- Theresa styson
was really wronged.

She died with people thinking

she was having an
affair with her uncle

when I really believe she was
being molested by her uncle.

And I don't think
that she could rest

until her story was told.

- It was like peeling
back the layers,

and every time, you
peeled another layer back,

something new would happen.

They lived on
Philip styson's farm.

- Porter a. Wright's
hardware store

is the Holly antique shop.

A woman in victorian
clothing holding an infant.

- I was seeing her, her baby.

- Mari-Lynn and Theresa
styson were living the same lives

only maybe 100 years apart.

- All these connections
were just unbelievable.

- They were still there.

- Everything just sort of
clicked right into place.

- She knew that she was
where she was supposed to be.

She was supposed to be
working in the antique store.

And she was
supposed to be living

at the house where she is.

- She had been validated.

She wasn't crazy.

I mean, there really was
a connection between her

and this victorian family.

- I don't see them anymore.

I don't see the woman and
the two children anymore.

- Whoa, slow down.

- It was a really terrifying
experience for me.

But in the end, I'm really happy

and almost honored
that she chose me

to tell her story through.

She's a huge part of me
and a huge part of my life.

- Looking back, you know,
I should have done more.

I should have been
more supportive.

I should have believed...

You know, I should have
believed Jesse instead of just,

"every kid's
afraid of the dark."

And I treated
mari-Lynn the same way.

I regret that.

I really do.