All language subtitles for Paranormal Witness s03e08 The Bad Man.eng

- I'm gonna miss you.

During the week, I was
home with the kids by myself.

It was only woods for
as far as you could see.

- It's not there now,
but it's out there.

[Gunshot]

- Surely you heard the rumors

of what happened at that house.

- She called it a rumor.

- Stay away from him.

He's the bad man.

- I felt she was
there to protect me.

- I should have believed him.

Whatever was there...

[Dog barking]

Whatever was hurting my family

was getting stronger.

- I'm just thinking if that
happened to one of my kids.

- [Screams]

- Who could have
done this to my child?

What could have
done this to my child?

- [Screaming]

- Slanesville just
kind of happened.

I just wanted to
get out of the city.

I didn't want the city
influence on my kids.

- Thank you very much.

- Slanesville was real country.

It was... it was hick.

Good ol' boys.

But hard to fit in if you
were from out of town.

It's just a town that
you're gonna pass

if you're going somewhere.

- Brian got me a dog.

We named her cocoa.

The children love her,
and she loved the kids.

- Don't give cocoa
too many treats.

- One's enough.

- She is gonna become a fat dog.

- But even though she was
my mom's dog, I loved her a lot.

She was very protective
over the whole family.

- It was very important
to both Brian and I

that the kids grow up
in a safe environment.

- The house was perfect.

It was a fair-sized ranch
back in the middle of nowhere.

- There was nothing
else around you.

- Yeah, cocoa!

- Every direction you
looked in, there was woods.

- Hey, love.
- How's it going out here?

- It's going well.

Have this up in no time.

- Seemed like it was gonna
be a real nice place to live.

Could let my kids
play and go wander.

Don't have to worry about
somebody snatching 'em.

Seemed good to me.

- The end zone for a touchdown!

- All right.

- This is the bathroom,

Shaun's room,

and the living room.

- This is so nice.

- Shortly after we
moved in to the house,

my brother came to
visit with his family.

- And then this beautiful
piece of work is Brian's doing.

Apparently, we need
a new door frame.

- Belinda and I actually went
to junior high school together,

so I've known
her for a long time.

- And then this here is the...

- The house in
slanesville was...

I thought it was awesome
because I was coming from the city.

Toys in the yard,
toys on the floor.

Kid-friendly.

Didn't have any inkling
that it was any different

than any other house.

- Make a wish.

- We decided to
have a birthday party.

We were celebrating
my cousin's birthday.

- My niece, Jordan,
was sitting on the floor,

playing with some toys.

All of a sudden, I noticed
that one of the balloons,

the string pulled straight

as if somebody was holding it.

- It was floating in midair

like as if someone
was holding the string.

- It just moved
across the damn room.

- My cousin, Jordan,
whose birthday it was,

I noticed the balloon
going towards her.

- My sister and I just
looked at each other.

- She looked at me and said,

"did you see that
balloon follow her?"

- Yeah.

- Jordan did not
touch that balloon.

That balloon
made its way to her.

- When the balloon
stopped in front of her,

she looked up as if
she saw someone there,

like a child.

You know, like she was
playing with another child.

- Once she reached for it,

and it just floated
up to the ceiling.

- The way the balloon
rested in front of Jordan

and her reaction,

it wasn't normal.

- Back in '91, I used to...
Or I still am a big hunter...

I eat what I kill, and that
was a big part of our diet.

Heck, I could hunt
in the back yard.

- I was a daddy's girl.

There was this one day.

My dad asks, like,

"hey, do you want to
go squirrel hunting?"

- So I get her all dressed up.

We get the .22 out.

- All right, let's
try right here.

- We went up over the
hill at the back of the house

where there was just woods.

Everywhere was woods.

You know, there's nothing.

No movement, no sounds.

The woods are, like, dead.

[Tree branch snaps]

And then all of a sudden,

I hear something.

I look over, and...

- Squirrel!

- Yay, it's a squirrel.

- So you're gonna run
around the back of that tree...

- It's on the wrong
side of the tree,

so I try to tell her to go to
the other side of the tree

to run it back
over to this side.

- And as I'm chasing it,

I go up this little mound,

and I'm like, "what is this?"

- Blaire! Blaire!

- In front of me was this Van.

It was as if it had crashed,

which doesn't make any sense
because there's no roads around.

All burned and
beat up, you know?

I could tell that the Van had
been there for a long time.

I came up to the back.

There was a mattress
in the back of the Van.

I had, like, this sinking
feeling in my stomach...

Like this wasn't right.

- Let's go.

- You know, he
looks at it real quick,

and he grabs me,
and he says, "let's go."

And just by his body language,

I could tell he
was like, you know,

"this isn't good," you know?

"I don't want you seeing this."

- It was ominous.

Well, why is there a charred
Van behind my house?

By trade, I was a carpenter.

I had recently just
started this new job.

I was working at
Goddard flight center

down in greenbelt, Maryland,

aka, NASA.

Office renovation.

I actually did the hubble
space telescope room,

which was kind of cool.

But the drive was immense.

- Be a good boy, all right?

You can do that for me?

- It's what most people
did because, you know,

there's no work
in West Virginia,

and a lot of us travel
up and down the road.

- I'm gonna miss you.

- I miss you.

- Brian would stay with
his mother during the week

and come home on the weekends.

- Bye.

- During the week, I
was home by myself

with no way to get anywhere,

but we'd always
lived in remote areas,

and I wasn't afraid
to be by myself,

because that's the
way things were.

- I had been begging
my mom to go camping

because my dad was
in the city like normal,

and so she finally agreed
that I could go camping,

but I had to go in the yard and
outside her bedroom window

so she could still
keep an eye on me.

- I wasn't real keen
on the idea at first,

but she didn't have
school the next day,

and she convinced me that
she was going to be okay

because she was going
to have cocoa with her.

I tucked her in
before I went to bed,

and she just seemed like
she was perfectly content.

- [Over TV] Yellowstone,

widely held to be
the first national park

in the world is known for its
wildlife and many geothermal...

[Loud creaking]

- Hey, shaunie.

You should be asleep.

- Shaun is pretty
easy to put to bed.

He's a pretty tough
little boy, you know?

He's daddy's little man.

He never seemed to
be afraid of anything.

But that particular evening,

he refused to go to bed.

- Come on, buddy.

It's time to go to bed.

- He didn't want the lights off.

He would ask me to
leave the door open.

Then he wanted it open farther.

- Close your eyes.

- He really did not
want to go to bed.

I watched a little TV in my
room before I turned it off.

And I checked out the
window, and she was out there.

She had her little lantern on.

- Cocoa woke me up.

[Dog growling]

She was just being uneasy.

[Dog growling]

She was focused on something.

[Dog growling]

It really creeped me out.

[Dog growling]

- I tried to ask him why
he didn't want to go to bed,

and he said there was a
monster outside of his window.

- Let's go see.

- I, you know,

just thought that maybe
he was seeing an animal.

We had a lot of
deer around there.

So I took him
over to his window,

and I showed him that
there was nothing out there.

- It's not there now,
but it's out there.

- And I asked him
what kind of monster.

- The red-eyed monster.

The red-eyed monster.

- I got just the thing.

[Grunts]

- I gave him the
magic spray bottle:

A water bottle that I
kept to spritz my hair.

- Spray this, and whatever
you're afraid of will go away.

[Chuckles] Good job.

- You know, he laid down,

he put the water
bottle next to him,

and he snuggled
up and went to sleep.

- And all of a sudden,
I hear something.

[Dog growling]

I was thinking my
mom had come outside.

I looked out and
was looking around.

And I had this really
unsettling feeling.

[Birds twittering]

- [Over TV] And while
the countdown is on,

judges crowning a
winner later today

because Marcy Gonzales
is just back from the event.

Supercharged, right?

- Hey, blaire bear.

- The next morning,
when she came in,

it was pretty early.

She was kind of quiet.

- Do you want some cereal?

- Okay.

- That wasn't normal for her,

'cause she was a
very chatty child.

- How was camping?

- Okay.

- Think I was just
trying to figure out

what had gone on that night.

I didn't know
what to make of it.

Maybe i'd, you know, dreamt it.

- Do you want to
go again tonight?

- She said she didn't
want to do that again.

- I said, "no, thank you."

- I asked her why,

and she said she didn't like
being out there by herself.

I thought that she was
probably afraid of the dark.

It was pretty
isolated out there.

I was pretty surprised

that she wanted
to do it on her own

to start with.

- I never told my mom because...

How do you explain
something like that?

I just tried to forget about it.

One night, I was
sitting on my floor,

playing with my Barbies.

- [Humming]

[Crunching footsteps]

[Door closes]

I looked up.

I was like, "oh, my goodness."

There was this little
girl sitting in front of me.

[Clock ticking]

My bedroom door was shut,

so how did she get in my room?

I did not feel
threatened by her.

I just tried to ignore her,

and maybe she would go away,

but she just sat there,
watching me play.

- You okay, sweetie?

- Yeah.

- Okay.

- [Giggles]

- I'm thinking maybe she
has an imaginary friend.

I just thought that she was
just a child being a child.

- She would appear about
the same time every evening.

This wasn't an imaginary friend.

This was real.

[TV audio plays in background]

- It was a Monday.

I was pretty exhausted
by the end of the day,

so I was settling in to bed

and had gone to sleep,

and I started to have a dream.

In the dream, I felt
something pinch my toe.

There was a boy standing
at the foot of my bed,

pinching me on the
toe with a clothespin.

I said, "what's your name?"

And he said, "I'm Andrew.

I'm just letting
you know I'm here."

[Alarm buzzing]

I woke up the next day
thinking it was all just a dream.

- Blaire, Shaun.

It's time to get up.

- I went to throw the
blanket onto the bed,

I look down at the floor,

And there was a clothespin
lying there on the floor

at the foot of the bed.

All the clothespins
were packed away

because we had a
dryer at this house.

I was trying to
think of any reason

why that clothespin could
be at the foot of my bed,

and I couldn't think
of a logical answer.

I remembered the dream,

and I wondered at that
moment if it was really a dream,

or if it had actually happened.

One Sunday afternoon,

my sister offered to watch
the kids for me for a bit

so that I could have
some time to myself.

I decided to take a little
stroll through the woods.

I came across
something that looked odd.

There were some rocks,
but there was a fence.

Those rocks were not rocks.

They were headstones.

The size of the
headstones indicated to me

that the two large
headstones belonged to adults,

and the small headstones
were for children.

They were really old-looking.

There weren't any names on them.

You know, I thought
about the boy in my dream.

I thought about the little girl

that my daughter
claimed to be seeing.

It made me wonder

if these gravestones
had some connection

to my house,

if there was a
family here before us.

[Wind howling]

That evening, I
got this eerie feeling

like I was being watched.

I did feel pretty exposed.

There was only woods
for as far as you could see,

and that feeling didn't go away.

I went to bed, and as always,

cocoa would follow me in
and sleep on the bed with me,

and that gave me some comfort
because Brian wasn't there.

- I remember being
woken up by something.

I notice that the curtain's
open, and it's dark.

I stand up to go
shut the curtains.

Bam, there's this face.

And I jump in bed, pull
the covers over my head.

I'm just sitting there
thinking, "oh, my goodness,

oh, my goodness,
oh, my goodness."

I'm afraid that he's gonna come.

[Dog barking]

- Shh.

What's wrong, girl? Shh.

- I got up, and I
looked out the window

to see if anyone was out there.

- Cocoa, I don't see anything.

- She seemed like she
was barking at nothing,

so I got back into bed.

[Dog chuffing]

[Dog whining]

- And I'm just sitting there,

and all of a sudden I
feel this movement...

[Creaking]

And my heart starts racing,

and I'm like, "what is this?"

I'm expecting it to be the face.

- I start to feel
the covers moving,

and my heart starts racing.

It was the little girl again,

and this time, she spoke to me,

which she had never done before.

- Stay away from him.

- "He's the bad man."

I felt like she was
there to just help me

and to be there to protect me.

[Floorboards creaking]

[Door creaking]

[Dog growling]

- It felt as if something
was touching my hair.

- Shaun, please go back to bed.

- I felt it again.

As if someone was
breathing on me.

[Dog barking]

I turned the light on, but
there was nothing there.

I couldn't be afraid, you know?

I was there with
the kids by myself.

And if I was afraid, then
they would be afraid.

- All right, kiddies, time
to say good-bye to cocoa.

All: Bye, cocoa.

- Bye, cocoa.

- My mom had let
me borrow her car

so that I could run
some errands in town.

[Dog whimpering]

While I was in town, um,

I came across a strange story.

- Oh, it's quite possible

there's a family
graveyard back there.

- There really was a connection

between that cemetery and
what was going on in my house.

- Yeah, it was sad.

- She said another
house had stood

either where my house
was or very close to it

and that there was
a fire in the house

and that a family
had died in that fire

about 100 years before this.

It feels like this is not
my imagination anymore.

There was a real history here.

Now it's really
starting to feel real.

- Where's cocoa?

- I'm not sure.

- How could have she gotten out?

The gate is closed.

- I don't know.

Cocoa!
- Cocoa!

- We checked the fence.

We checked everything
we could think of.

- Cocoa!
- Cocoa!

- There was no way for
her to get out of that yard.

- Come here, girl!

- We were calling for her,

yelling into the woods,

hoping that she was
somewhere close by

that she would just come back.

- Cocoa!

- She was just
nowhere to be seen.

- Cocoa!
- Cocoa!

- And my mom had this
feeling that she had been taken.

- I was really upset.

She was part of the family,

and i... i...

Felt like a piece of
our family was missing.

She wasn't there to
make us feel safe anymore.

She wasn't there,

watching over the children
while they slept at night.

She wasn't there to warn me

if somebody was
coming into the house.

When Brian got home,

I was very glad
to have him there.

- Hey.
- Hey.

- It's lookin' pretty good.

- I didn't really talk to him

about the stuff
that was going on

in the house while he was gone.

I didn't want him to think
I was crazy, you know?

Who wants to leave a crazy
woman alone with their children?

It made me feel so much
better when he was home.

- I want to get some sleep,

but you can watch
some TV if you want.

- Thank you.

Good night.

- Good night.

- I always go to bed
before everybody else

because I'm the one
who gets up and leaves

at 2:30 in the morning.

- It was a Sunday evening.

Nothing out of the ordinary.

The house was quiet.

I had gotten all
the children to bed,

and I settled in pretty
early that evening.

It was probably
about 8:30, 9:00.

- [Whispering]

- I started to have a
dream about the little boy.

Only this time,

I felt like the little boy was
trying to tell me something.

[Distorted voices]

- [Screams]

[Floorboards creaking]

- Then it felt as if someone
was standing beside me.

- [Screams]

- [Screams]

- I heard a
bloodcurdling screech

like I've never heard
before in my life.

- [Screaming]

- The sound that no mother
ever wants to hear from her child.

- Brian.

- I know she's freaking out.

I know something's
happened to Shaun.

- Brian.

Brian!

- I run down the hall.

- What's he doing in
the middle of the floor?

- I don't know.

- Laying in the
middle of the floor,

with his arm twisted up,

I could just see immediately
that his arm was broken.

- [Screaming]

- He said that
the bad man did it.

Maybe he moved on to him

because he didn't
have protection

like the little girl
was protecting me.

Oh, my.

I'm just thinking if that
happened to one of my kids.

- Sorry.

That was a hard time.

We gather everybody up.

Belinda calls her mother,

which is on the
way to the hospital.

- Brian drove as
fast as he could.

I'm just cradling
Shaun in my arms,

trying to tell him that
everything would be okay.

- Nurse!

- They're gonna want to
know how this happened,

and the truth didn't seem
like they would believe it.

- I think his arm's broken.

- It's all right.
- Ow!

- The kind of break
it is raises suspicion

because it's just
not a normal break.

- Right here for you, buddy.

- I think they thought
child abuse at first,

but, you know, they
could obviously see

that we were just
both devastated.

There was... i mean, 'cause...

There's no way in hell

I could ever hurt the baby.

[Siren wailing]

- After three days,

Shaun was released
from the hospital.

My mom had let me borrow
her car to bring him home,

and I was dreading
going back to that house.

It felt violent.

It felt evil.

Who could have
done this to my child?

What could have
done this to my child?

I kept going over it
and over it in my head

thinking about all the times

that Shaun was
afraid to go to bed.

I should have listened
to what he was telling me,

'cause whatever he was
seeing outside of his window

must have finally gotten in.

We had to get out of that house,

and it didn't
matter what it took.

Whatever was there,

whatever was hurting my family,

was getting stronger.

[Engine knocking]

- Oh, no, no, no, no.

- The car just shut off.

[Engine sputtering]

- Be back in one second.

- I didn't know what
was wrong with it.

- All right, baby,
we got to walk.

- I got Shaun out of the car,

and we started
walking down the road.

It was really dark out there.

Suddenly I heard
the sound of a car

approaching me from behind.

The car slowed
down as it passed by.

Then it rolled the window down.

- Hi.
- Hi.

Are you okay?

- Yeah, our car
broke down the road.

- Oh, gosh. Can
I give you a ride?

- Yes, please.
- Come on in.

It's so cold.

- Honey, you got
to go in the back.

- I was pretty relieved
to see someone,

and she had such
a friendly face.

- Thank you so much
for picking us up.

- Oh, my pleasure.

- We started driving, and
I told her where I lived at.

- Yeah, just a few miles up.

We're in a cabin off
the road in the woods.

- She said, "oh, so you
must have heard the story

about that house."

- You mean the one about the
fire and the children who died?

- She said, "no, no.

That wasn't what I meant."

- Surely you heard the
rumors of what happened there.

I'm sorry.

I probably shouldn't
say anything.

- No, please go on.

- She called it a rumor.

- Rumor has it that there
was a man that was accused

of being a child molester.

He went missing in the
woods behind your house.

- Some of the local men
lured him into the woods

under a pretext of
going on a hunting trip.

- After they got far
enough into the woods,

they ambushed him

and murdered him.

[Gunshot]

- And his body was never found.

[Flames roaring]

- I was so stunned
by what she had said

that I don't remember the rest
of the ride back to the house.

- Thank you.

- You're welcome.

Take care, okay?

- I knew then that it was him.

It was this man who
had hurt other children

while he was alive,

and he was now
hurting my children

when he was dead.

[Voices whispering]

- And we began to hear a noise,

a scratching noise on
the outside of the house.

Sounded like something
was trying to get in.

[Scrabbling at walls]

I knew that I had to get my
family away from this house.

I needed to get
them away fast...

And far.

I didn't want anyone
else to get hurt.

- Hey, there. Give me your hand.

Let's go. Let's go.

[Breathing heavily]

[Shrieks]

[Yelps]

- Come on. Let's go.

Blaire's in the car.

- Okay, let's go.

Okay, sweetie?

- We literally up and left.

She's had enough.

We're moving.

I was fine with that.

- I never went back.

I think when we
first moved in there,

the innocent playful
things that were happening

were the children.

I feel that they were
trying to protect my family

from the man that hurt Shaun.

- Stay away from
him. He's the bad man.

- The stronger the violence got,

the more powerful he became,

to the point where the children

were unable to protect
us from him anymore,

and he was finally
able to get in.

- And thinking
back on everything,

it just makes me wonder
what really happened

before we moved into that house.