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- I was wrong

to think that this was gonna be a happy house.

- Once we got onto the road, everything changed.

- ♪ Mary had a little lamb ♪

- How do you battle something you can't see?

- ♪ Little lamb ♪

Slam!

- I don't believe in ghosts.

But I do now.

- It's not humanly possible.

- Mom, go, go, go!

- I was gonna die that night...

And all I could think was,

"my daughter's going to die too?"

[People singing happy birthday]

- ♪ Happy birthday to you ♪

♪ happy birthday, dear Izzy ♪

♪ happy birthday to you ♪

- Our daughter Isabella was a miracle to us.

We lost three pregnancies,

and we didn't think we were gonna be parents.

- Five years old.

- Yeah. - Jeez!

- We'd given up hope.

And she came.

Not only did we have our child that we wanted,

she was brilliant.

She always was beyond every level

that she was supposed to be at that age Mark.

I couldn't have asked for anything more.

- We decided to buy a house.

It was time. The apartment was small.

It was time to buy that house with the white picket fence.

- We knew what we were limited to,

and you know, what our budget was,

and we found a home that was suitable.

We paid for the inspection and so forth.

It came back there was a lot of structural damage

and would cost us a lot of money in years to come.

As we were talking,

I saw an older gentleman

putting a sign out on his front lawn:

For sale by owner.

It wasn't the house of my dreams but I saw potential.

- I found it odd

that they had only been living there a year

and they were all ready to move after a year.

- The price he was selling the house for was very cheap

in comparison to what the houses were going for

on the market at that time.

And he said he would pay all closing costs.

And I said to Brian, "we're a young couple.

"We have a new child.

Let's take this gift and move forward."

Do I wish I would have been forewarned?

Would I have even believed it?

I had to live it.

I had to be a part of it to believe.

- We had plans for Isabella's room,

but first we had to get the color off the walls.

It was this real deep, dark red.

I mean dark red.

I actually painted it with gray primer first

to knock the color out, and it just didn't help.

I mean, it just bled right back through,

and it literally

looked like blood was running down the wall.

It actually took four to five coats

to cover the red in her room.

- But she settled in well.

My daughter settled in well to the house.

- She had her own room,

and you know, she was very happy at first.

I started to notice that she would always wave "bye-bye"

to the attic door.

It was a little odd because there was nothing there.

But I wasn't really worried at that point.

- I think our daughter has an imaginary friend.

- Kids do that. Kids have imaginary friends.

- Emily, you shouldn't have done that.

- It wasn't long after

that I heard her talking and singing.

First I'm thinking she's talking to her dollies.

She's playing.

- And all the paint is on the carpet.

And you're painting my room red,

and red's a horrible color.

- Who you talking to, sweetheart?

- Emily.

- She spoke of Emily

like Emily was right there in front of us.

- Well, would Emily like one too?

- At the beginning, it was fun.

I clearly wasn't thinking and it was anything more

than an imaginary friend.

But then,

we began to notice things in our home happening.

And at the time, I blamed my daughter.

I was in the kitchen.

Isabella was playing right nearby.

Then all of a sudden...

Smash!

I just heard something hit the floor and break.

The first thing out of Isabella's mouth was,

"Emily, that was bad. That was mommy's."

She just broke a statue,

and she's gonna blame it on Emily?

My reaction was to be in denial,

but I knew from the look on my daughter's face,

Isabella just saw something.

I felt, like...

The hair on the back of my neck stood up.

- Emily doesn't like you, mommy.

- Emily doesn't want you here.

What do you answer back to that?

- ♪ Mary had a little lamb ♪

♪ little lamb ♪

♪ Mary had a little lamb ♪

- I noticed that Isabella began to change a bit.

- ♪ And everywhere that Mary went ♪

♪ Mary went ♪

- She started to spend more time in her bedroom.

- ♪ Everywhere that Mary went ♪

♪ the lamb was sure to go ♪

- I would hear my daughter singing

Mary had a little lamb,

and we never taught that to my daughter.

The way she sang the nursery rhyme,

it wasn't like she sang other things.

I went on a full investigation

of who taught my daughter the nursery rhyme.

And when I questioned Isabella, her response was,

"mommy, I'm learning."

But she wouldn't tell me who she was learning from.

- I'm not the type of person to easily get scared.

Like, I really have to see it.

One of the first times I felt uncomfortable,

I was in the bathroom,

and I just kept feeling this sense of being watched.

And I literally felt like a tug at the bottom of my shirt.

Isabella?

All of a sudden, I seen a shadow

ricochet off of my bedroom door

and shoot down the hallway.

I thought it was the car lights,

you know, coming down the street,

shining off the window.

I was like, "wait a minute.

"We're on the second floor.

"The shades are down.

It wasn't a car."

And I'm thinking to myself,

"there must be something going on here."

And I really didn't want to say anything

to my wife about it yet.

I didn't want to start surmising and make her really scared.

- Later on, Isabella come running over to the door,

and she had a horrifying look on her face.

- Emily's mom hurt her in the bathtub.

- "Emily's mommy hurt her in the bathtub."

She wouldn't know about a mommy hurting a little girl.

Where is she getting this stuff from?

I could see fear in my daughter.

- You have to say good-bye to Emily,

okay, Isabella?

- "This Emily character, make her go away.

It's done, Isabella, please."

I just felt a sickness in my stomach.

What went from my daughter's imaginary friend

is coming to be an ugly story.

Could she be making this up?

And if she could be making this up

and these dark things are coming from my daughter,

we need to get her help.

I let Isabella's pediatrician know

we've been having some problems.

- So you have an imaginary friend.

What's her name?

- Emily.

- You know she's not real though,

just pretend.

- She's not pretend.

- She wasn't at all taken aback or surprised.

It was normal.

It was, "Laurel, don't worry about it.

You know, she'll outgrow this."

We have a very rambunctious five-year-old daughter.

She has a personality that's bigger than life,

and she's okay.

- I know, but it's just so much fun to do it yourself.

- The next day,

we didn't hear anything about Emily.

- Oh, really?

- It was normal. It felt great.

Emily you're over. You're done.

- The day had been awesome.

We had fun.

It was relaxing.

- We pull in,

and Brian was coming behind me holding Isabella.

- Then it's my job. - It's your job?

- Stay home and get money.

- She just got quiet.

- It just wasn't possible.

- The day had been awesome.

We had fun.

- It's your job? Then what am I supposed to do?

- Stay home and get money.

- We were having a conversation

as we were walking into the door.

She just got quiet.

There was about, like, 20 pictures

in the middle of the floor.

- I was speechless.

I could not believe what we were seeing.

- I mean, it was a whole wall of happiness

and then it was all off the wall, facedown

like somebody didn't want to see a happy family.

They just wanted to see nothing.

I was scared, because I know I didn't do it,

I know she didn't do it,

and I know Isabella couldn't reach it to do it.

Something doesn't want us here

or something might want my daughter.

I wanted to just leave,

take everything and go.

Financially, that just wasn't an option at that time.

We were stuck,

and things were getting worse.

I was in the bedroom one night.

Isabella ran up to me.

- Daddy, the white face is in the window!

- "The white face is in the window."

- What's that?

- The white face is in the window!

- I seen it.

And it was just like a blur of a face.

- Honey, you wait here.

- I saw it, and it freaked me out.

I went and checked it out.

And there was literally nothing there.

I never believed in ghosts, but, um...

I do now.

- The vibe in my home was turning negative.

It was turning dark.

Things were happening that were out of my control.

- Hey, sweetie. Hello.

Let's go.

- I needed to make things, just brand-new for Isabella,

and Brian's mom took her away for a weekend trip.

I had a vision for Isabella's room.

I wanted it to be bright,

glowing soft colors.

So we made one whole wall wizard of oz.

The room was a new thing to all of us.

It was something we had done,

and it felt good for a moment in my home.

I phoned Brian's mom, Judy, to come over.

- You need to go show Nana your room,

'cause I made a surprise for you in there.

- Oh, my goodness!

- I walked into the bedroom and I said,

"Izzy, this is so beautiful.'

it looked like Laurel had a professional

come in and decorate.

And I was, like, really proud of Laurel

'cause she had done such a great job.

- Thanks so much for taking her. - Oh, you're welcome.

Good job in there. That's beautiful.

- I had my mother-in-law's approval too.

You know, she was delighted.

I almost fell on the floor.

Isabella, what did you do?

- What happened here, Isabella?

- I'd worked so hard.

I was so angry.

"Mommy, please! Mommy, I didn't do this."

I saw my loved ones being afraid.

And I was in so much denial.

I tried to make them think it wasn't real.

And... it was real.

- When I was lying in my bed,

I was thinking that something was watching me.

Or what was in the room?

What was I going to wake up to?

What was gonna happen next?

[Door creaking]

It literally starts to drive you crazy.

It literally starts to make you lose your mind.

It was all coming to a head.

- I could see something was wrong.

I was giving her a bath, and she said,

"Nana, can I tell you something?"

- Emily told me to go out the window.

- She told me it's okay to come out the window and play.

- She said she would catch me.

- And I said, "it's not okay to go out the window.

You could get hurt."

I said, "if you go out that window,

[voice breaks] You're gonna die."

I knew...

I knew then it was a serious problem.

Emily was going to take away somebody that I truly loved

and needed in my life.

- ♪ Everywhere that Mary went ♪

♪ the lamb was sure to go ♪

- We could potentially lose this child

to an unknown.

- We had no options

but to make sure that our daughter was safe.

I put like 12 screws in each window in her room

to make sure that they were secured shut.

To screw shut my daughter's windows, that's insane,

because what if there's a fire in the house

and you know we can't get out

because I've done screwed the window shut

on the second floor?

- I wanted to open this house up and bring light into it.

And now my windows were being nailed shut

so my daughter didn't go out the window.

- If my daughter died, I'd have to die too.

Because I can't... I couldn't do it.

I couldn't be without my daughter.

- I was stuck in my home,

and I didn't know what was going to happen.

I didn't know if this Emily

was gonna take my daughter from me.

- Isabella never went near the basement.

It was always a no-no.

She just wasn't allowed down there.

[Door creaking]

The door was shut.

Slam!

I was instantly afraid.

- Oh, my god.

- I was instantly afraid.

- Oh, my god.

- I feared the worst:

Broken neck, busted head.

- Emily pulled me down the steps.

- Now my daughter is telling me

this Emily person pulled her down the steps.

As much as I was determined not to let this defeat me,

I felt broken at that point.

But it was either stand up

or lay back and continue to let this drive me insane.

You want to put your fight face on,

but how do you battle something you can't see?

At this point, I'm completely at my wit's end.

I went on a crusade to get someone there

to take care of my house,

whether it be blessed or come in to get evidence.

We got in contact with a medium.

I allowed this medium to come into my home

to do an investigation.

She would get into a long stare.

- ♪ Mary had a little lamb ♪

- She sat down,

and I heard...

Her sing...

Mary had a little lamb.

- ♪ Its fleece was white as snow ♪

- It startled me at first.

It shocked the hell out of me at first.

Because how would she know to hum that

or how would she know

that my daughter was singing that?

- It came to an immediate stop, and her voice changed.

- [Demonic voice] Get the bibles out.

- Both bibles were taken out of the house.

- Get the bibles out.

Get the bibles out.

- Still, she insisted,

"get the bibles out," in this voice.

- We only had two bibles.

- He said there's another Bible.

- And I'm like, "he?"

And she was like, "yeah, he."

And I said, "well,

my daughter is talking to Emily, not 'he'."

- He's not gonna talk to us.

- There was a man in my home

that was preying on my daughter.

And I felt terrified. I felt...

It was a whole different level of anxiety then.

It was a whole different level of fear.

- He said there's another Bible.

- So we just ransacked my daughter's room.

- He said there's another Bible.

- Sure enough, there was a Bible.

- Isabella never showed us the Bible.

And there was no way of this woman knowing it was there.

- I believed in everything she was saying after that.

- He hates you.

- I was terrified. - He hates your daughter.

- I was frightened. I was angry.

I had so many emotions

because I didn't know where to start.

It wasn't a solution.

I felt as if whatever my daughter has been speaking to

was now going to prove to me "I'm here.

"I'm real, and I'm gonna show you.'

[Tinkly music plays]

- Isabella was in bed.

I was in the room by myself,

and I lit candles.

As I turned away,

it went at least four to five feet.

And the red wax looked like blood running down the wall,

and you know, just the way it was hot

it cools as it slowly runs.

- Laurel?

- I was upstairs.

I was on the phone with my mother.

She's saying to me,

"you got to get out of that house.

You have to get out of that house."

- I know.

I know.

And Isabella's just so upset.

- Out of the corner of my eye, it was something.

- Laurel?

- It was so fast.

- I don't know...

How to handle this anymore.

Smash!

- Oh, my god.

Isabella's toy chest just went across the room.

It felt like a ticking bomb.

We didn't know what was going to happen next.

- And I felt terrified to know that it was gonna...

It was getting violent.

[Voices over TV]

And I believe it tried

showing itself full force that night.

- That night,

I fell off to sleep with the TV on.

I knew instantly this wasn't my husband.

I knew.

- [Grunting and gasping]

My husband protects me and loves me.

He's never touched me prior to this.

He was possessed by something.

It was an evil,

evil, dark spirit.

- It was very shocking.

And I just...

It just wasn't me.

I was scared.

I would never hurt my wife.

- [Grunting and gasping]

Brian.

Brian, what's going on?

- I was against the wall.

It was the look in his face.

Horrifying stare.

He lifted me

with one hand wrapped into my throat.

I was gonna die that night.

And all I could think was, "is Isabella gonna die too?"

- I was gonna die that night.

- I got away. And...

I'm getting down my steps, which seemed like an eternity.

And I looked back; He wasn't running after me.

"Laurel, what are you doing?

Laurel, are you okay?"

I saw, within an instant, my husband.

He was back to himself.

It was him.

He was just as afraid as I was.

- I believe the spirit, you know, got a hold of me

because they knew that we knew the truth.

I believe it tried showing itself full force that night

of what it could really do.

- I remember making it to my dining room and screaming out,

"you've won. It's yours."

- [Sobbing]

- It didn't matter I was losing my home.

It didn't matter, as long as I was leaving

with my husband and my daughter, safe.

We were done.

We'd been through enough.

- [Sobbing]

- The very next day I called my aunt,

and she told me that she would help

and that I should have called

and told her sooner what was going on.

I was just throwing stuff in the car.

I was scared that it was

going to attach itself to something.

I just... i wanted to start over.

I didn't want to take anything out of that house with me.

It was a relief.

Like, I felt like the whole world

was just lifted off of my shoulders,

like I could breathe again.

- We lost a lot,

but we walked away a happy, healthy family.

We're strong.

- If somebody told me today that I had to move back

into that house 'cause there was no other option,

I'd go live in the woods somewhere.

I'd go pitch a tent,

'cause I'm not going back in that house.

If somebody offered me $1 million,

I wouldn't even go back in that house.

- I worked for a local newspaper.

I was responsible for covering car wrecks,

fires, criminal activity.

As a reporter, I had never witnessed anything paranormal.

I've never believed in anything like that.

- I guess being a typical teenager,

I was always doing stuff to get on her nerves.

My mom asked me to run errands.

- Do you want to come into town with me?

Moni, do you want to come?

- Sure.

- My mom had also asked moni,

our exchange student from Pakistan.

Little did I know,

that was a trick for going to church.

- Misty generally would stay in the parking lot

and refuse to come in.

- She just slammed the door

and walked in church without me.

So I turned the music all the way up,

rolled down the windows,

put my feet on the dashboard.

[Loud rock music]

♪ ♪

I waited in the car for about an hour.

Once we got onto the road,

I remember like it just seemed like everything changed.

- It was a straight road

all the way to our house.

You know, it's a desolate road.

- By this time, the sun had started setting.

- I was getting kind of nervous

'cause I don't like to drive at night.

I can't see that well at night.

But I drive like a little granny.

I hold my hands up like this and drive straight ahead,

and I don't look either side.

- We were going about 50, 55 miles an hour.

And when I turned to look to my mom,

I saw a little movement on the side of the road.

As we passed, it looked like a child.

It was... just had that overwhelming feeling

that something was not right.

- Mom, I just saw a little girl.

- You know, I knew that there was someone out there,

and I had to get her to believe me to turn around.

- You should turn around.

- She finally said, you know,

"you better not be lying to me."

- I wanted to pacify misty and let her prove to me

that there was a little girl on the side of the road.

- My mom has trouble seeing at night to drive,

so she is very unhappy that we are still out

with it being so dark.

- So where was she?

- We went about a half a mile.

- Oh, my gosh, mom, that's her.

- "There she is."

- Okay, there she is.

- It wasn't a little girl, it was a teenager,

and she was sitting with her knees up, rocking.

I guess we went about 50 yards past her,

and then we turned around again.

- And we don't see her at all.

- She was right there.

You think she left?

Where would she have gone?

- Misty got frightened.

She said that there was no way

you know, that she wouldn't be there.

- I don't know, mom. She was right there, though.

- I'm really freaked out right now.

We're going about 5 miles an hour,

and we don't see her.

- I just thought maybe she walked through the woods

or walked somewhere in the area.

- I think we should just keep going.

- I know.

I don't know where she would have gone.

- So we just kept going.

We're picking up speed,

and my mom is actually trying to get home pretty fast.

- We continued on probably maybe two to three miles.

- I look up, and...

- Mom, that's her.

- I see her in the headlights.

[Sighs]

Um...

[Whispers] Oh, gosh.

- How could she get that far?

- It's not humanly possible

to make it that far up the road

and not be seen.

- Please, don't stop.

- I know it's her.

I see her.

And i...

Like, I get sick to my stomach.

- Please don't stop. Please don't stop.

- Just go.

Just keep going.

And my mom says, "no, she might need help."

So I just... I hit the floor...

- Mom, I'm asking you.

Please, mom. Please don't stop.

- And put myself in a fetal position.

I knew something was gonna happen;

I just didn't know what.

And I didn't want to see it.

- My whole focus was to offer her a phone

to call somebody to come pick her up.

- Misty, roll down the window.

- No.

- Misty, please. Roll down the window.

- And my mom wants me to roll down the window.

- Mom, no.

- And she just refused.

I felt misty was overreacting.

And I felt it was dark.

- No.

- My eyes were shut.

You know, I closed my eyes really tight.

And I put my hands over my ears

and I was balled up.

And I could feel my mom.

And she's rolling down the window.

And I can hear the squeaking of the window going down.

And she only turns the knob three times.

You know, and you can hear it going down

and being... just turning,

and that dread.

It's pretty quiet except for

the squeaking of the window.

And I hear her say...

- Hey, are you okay?"

[All screaming]

- That dread.

- Hey, are you okay?

[All screaming]

- There was no face, whatsoever.

There... it was hollow.

It was completely...

Everything was gone.

[Tires squeal]

- She had no face!

She had no face!

- It was the most terrifying,

horrifying thing I've ever seen.

- We were home in ten minutes.

- We all practically ran over each other

to get into the front door.

Once I dialed 911,

I felt embarrassed to say that I saw a hollow face on 136,

so I just told them

that I think somebody needs assistance.

- There was a cross,

and that's where an accident took place.

That, actually,

a girl from my school was killed on that road.

I feel that it's her...

Grieving for that life that she lost.

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