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There's this huge vortex.

It's this dark hole.

This area is not healthy for the living.

I'm afraid that she's going to end up dead.

I was at the top of the stairs, and I felt two hands just push me.

You're in a lot of trouble here.

Like feeling somebody getting smacked on the face.

It could become more and more violent, so that could cause death.

Have a minute.

It's always been negative. This is bad.

It wants the person dead.

My name is Amy Allen.

I see dead people. I saw a winged creature.

I speak to dead people, and they speak to me.

This person feels like a monster.

But there's only one way to know if my findings are real.

They are sucking the life out of these people.

I rely on my partner.

I'm Steve DeShop. I'm a retired New York City homicide detective.

So how many bodies are we talking? And I know every person, every house as

secrets. It's my job to reveal them. But Steve and I never speak. We never

communicate during an investigation. Until the very end.

I'm not going to like this.

When we uncover if it's safe for you to stay. I'm sorry, I need to take a break.

Or time to get out. It wants inside the house because it wants to kill you.

So, I'm in Wilmington, North Carolina on the Cape Fear coast.

She used to be a good name for this place because I got a call from a

Deb and Elaine.

They are scared out of their minds.

Whatever the entity or entities that are in our house are affecting our health

and our safety.

It's like attacking us.

So if you would please help us, we have nowhere else to turn.

Deb says Amy and I are her last chance. We can't help.

It won't be long before she's a widow.

There's this huge vortex.

Like it's this dark hole.

This vortex messes with the living.

So the people can get lost in what's real and what's manipulation.

This area is not healthy for the living.

Deb,

I know when we spoke on the phone, you were desperate and needed our help. But

can tell you, driving up here, this place is beautiful.

I mean, your home should be in a magazine somewhere.

What's it like living in this house?

We are just living through hell at this point.

And I'm so...

Worried about my wife being hurt.

I'm afraid that she's going to end up dead.

Why you think whatever's here is going after Elaine? Do you have any thoughts

that?

I think she's more open to the spiritual world.

On the phone, you said Elaine used to be a cop and a firefighter, right?

Yes. Okay, so was it just the two of you living here?

Yes, it was just us.

Well, you look happy in this photo. When we're away from the house, we are.

Okay, how long have you guys been together?

We've been together almost 20 years.

So how long have you lived here, though? Almost five years. Almost five years.

Okay. So, Deb, I'm obviously going to do my investigation on the home and the

property. Is there anything that you can tell me that could help my

investigation? Well, the previous owners that we bought the home from had a son

who was murdered here in town. He lived here for a period of time.

Okay, I'm going to look into that, obviously.

All right, so Deb, do me a favor and give me a list of what you guys are

through. Well, we hear voices.

We have seen shadow figures.

It's become more aggressive.

And I really feel that it's trying to kill Elaine at this point.

It's depleting her life force.

It's definitely affecting her and her health.

All right, so what do you mean when you say it's sucking out her life force?

About... 3 o 'clock in the afternoon, she's just exhausted, and she has to go

lay down.

Is what's going on here causing you guys to fight at all?

Elaine says that, for sure.

So what makes you think that's something paranormal? It's just not like couple

stuff. When we leave and go on vacation, it's completely different.

That's why I'm saying I think we're at least influenced by something here.

Your wife is basically being destroyed slowly.

And you're standing here watching it happen.

That's devastating.

So we got to fix this.

I felt something following me.

It didn't feel like a person. It just felt like a really dark energy.

It's malevolent. You do feel watched and stalked by it.

This dark energy is showing itself to me as a spider.

And I think it can suck all of the life force out of everything.

And I was looking around and it was like everything was dying.

This dark, nasty presence can affect the living by, I believe,

like basically draining their life energy.

So that can make them very ill.

Also, kind of intrusive thoughts, regret, remorse, depression, over

and over and over again.

And I hear somebody being like, yeah, it's always been dark there. It's always

been negative.

What's going on in here?

I see shadow figures out of the corner of my eyes.

Is it always down here?

Usually in the entryway and stairway.

Okay, so it's not in just one spot.

Right. Could it be coming from outside? Because, you know, the road's out here.

Is it possible that's happening? No, we don't have that much traffic. Let me

shut the blinds.

Okay, anything else?

Things are moving on their own.

Okay, so give me an example.

A lot of times I'll come down in the morning and my pictures are moved.

Is anything else moving?

We have, like, little rocks that you can hear being picked up and put back

on a mirror. So those are moving, and we'll get up, and they'll be moved. What

room is this in?

In the master bedroom.

Sounds like whatever's here doesn't want you to sleep.

Right. Okay.

So, Senator, do you take the toll on the living, physical and mental and

emotional, obviously, toll?

The people who are living in it are feeling the sense that

this isn't quite right.

There's something wrong with their reality.

What I want to understand is this dark thing that I know is like stalkerish and

watch it.

There's annoyance with it.

okay, the pillows are all purty.

And you come back and it's like, you know, this one's here like that. And

like, no, no, no. I definitely have that pillow over there.

All right, all right. And it's like constantly doing like that.

And this thing likes the chaos.

So what's going on in here?

I felt the bed shake.

Can you show me how hot it was when it happened?

Sure. It was like this.

Okay, so substantial.

Yeah. Anything else physical like that happen? I've been touched.

How?

Across my jaw.

And one time while I was standing in this bedroom, I felt like a force pull

straight down my spine.

How did you react?

I like pulled my clothes off because I thought something was crawling on me.

You mean like a spider or something? Yeah.

What else?

I've been choked.

Choked?

Explain what happened.

I was sound asleep.

Okay. And woken about 3 .15 in the morning, and it felt like there was

something in my throat, and I was having a hard time breathing.

So I had to freak you out a little bit. Yeah.

I was quite scared.

I know you're worried about your wife, but you're having some stuff happen to

you. Yeah.

Hopefully we can get something.

figure it out and how to fix it.

The dark energy, that spider -looking thing, it's everywhere.

That thing is freaking them the fuck out.

Someone is being touched and messed with here. I see a woman.

She's not seeing anything.

Just feeling the hands.

And, like, grabbed, like, here, I'm thinking.

And she's like yanking back.

They're scared. They're scared. And they're having all of those experiences.

Like feeling somebody getting smacked on the face.

This is bad.

So, Elaine, Deb told me that she thinks whatever he is trying to kill you. I

mean, and you agree with that?

I do.

So talking to Deb and I asked her, you know, how your relationships are going

because of all this. She said you guys are kind of fighting a little bit more

than normal. A little bit.

Oh, I'm ready to take a break and just drive on out the driveway.

And you don't think it's just relationship stuff?

No, no. We've been together for almost 19 years.

So. Obviously, you've had experiences. Can you tell me about some of them?

I've seen all kinds of shadow figures all over the house.

Describe what you're seeing.

Very tall shadow figures, maybe seven foot tall.

Really? Yes.

I saw one in my bedroom and it had legs and it moved from the closet

area and it moved through the bed and just disappeared

through the wall.

So Elaine, when I was talking to Deb, she told me that you were a firefighter

and a cop as well. I got to assume, like me, I've seen the worst of the worst,

and I have PTSD from it.

Yes.

Do you think that whatever's happening to you here with the paranormal, the

is getting triggered?

No. You don't? No. I can tell the difference between the two.

Okay. I don't have an explanation for what's happening. It sounds like it's

trying to drive you guys crazy.

It is. I feel like I'm going crazy with it.

So somebody has seen a figure.

And it is this dark energy.

So they've seen a form.

That's interesting.

This living person was raped.

They're actually kind of creating.

A person out of this energy. And that's pretty interesting.

So this person created a shadow figure that looks like their attacker.

What is it they're seeing?

This is a young male.

Short hair.

Like a professional aura. Like someone who's like 9 to 5.

Clean cut.

They've actually given it like a...

existence in like a shape it's become kind of physical in a way

obviously they must have some kind of ability

okay shadow figures we got that what else are you experiencing i was sitting

watching tv one night on the couch and i felt a really bad burning sensation on

my back okay what was it Well, I asked Deb to look at it because I thought that

something had bit me, and she lifted my shirt up, and this is what

she saw.

And this just came out of nowhere?

Out of nowhere, and it hurt for a long time.

All right. Anything else?

I was at the top of the stairs, and I felt two hands on my back, and it was a

pretty hard shove.

I reached around and grabbed the handrail with both hands.

And if I hadn't have, I would have went straight down the stairs.

Obviously, if you would have fell, you could have broke your neck.

It would have busted my head wide open.

You know, as tough as you are and all your background, I'm surprised you

run the hell out of here because I think I might have ran out.

Okay, anything else?

Since we've moved in, my health.

has completely went downhill.

You know, when I spoke to Deb earlier, she mentioned that.

Explain to me what's going on with you.

I stay tired all the time.

Sounds like depression.

I know, and I'm not, I don't feel depressed.

Do you feel abused?

I do, by something that I cannot see.

You're in a lot of trouble here.

This has got to stop.

What kind of effect would all this have on somebody that spends a lot of time

here? This dark energy, I think, being exposed to it could make you sick

because it killed.

It was killing, just sucking the life out of everything.

It's sucking the life out of people, feeling off constantly, never

feeling quite right.

questioning your sanity, questioning your reality.

Obviously, there's physical interaction with this thing as well, which is

dangerous and traumatizing. I think that they could get very ill, if not even

die.

So one of the first calls I made when I got to town was to a local professor

who's helped me out before.

She tells me one of the earliest owners of Devin and Elaine's property had

nothing but heartbreak from the second he set foot on the land.

Well, Professor, it's good to see you again, and thanks for helping me out.

No problem.

So who was this early owner with all the bad luck you told me about?

Well, his name was Luke Hill McClammy, and he was born in Wilmington in 1848.

When did Luke wind up buying my client's property?

Luke bought it in 1874, and he was just married. He and his wife, Mary, wanted

to start a family at that point.

So you told me he had nothing but heartbreak when he got onto my client's

property. What happened?

Five years after he bought the property, his first son, Worth McClammy, died in

infancy. Okay.

And then in 1880, there were two deaths.

One was his daughter, Frances.

And also, Luke's twin brother, David, died of unknown causes.

Oh, jeez. This guy can't catch a break.

No, he really can't.

Luke's last remaining child, Julian, died at the age of 22.

Do things ever get better for this guy?

Only for about 12 years. And then in 1909, Luke's beloved wife, Mary, was

outside in the morning feeding the chickens as she usually did, and she

over dead from a heart attack.

I mean, is anybody else alive in this family? No, he's totally alone. And he

decides, having nobody left to give the property to, in 1913, he sold half of

it. He sold the other half in 1918.

And then exactly two months to the day after he signed the deed selling his

property, Luke himself died.

All right.

Does that say the cause of death is exhaustion?

It does.

Exhaustion and anemia.

He's certainly probably died from a broken heart as well.

Wow, what a shame.

This huge vortex, I believe, is somehow collecting dead

people.

This area has a lot of random dead people from, I believe, quite a

long period of time.

And so I do think it's a possibility that there may be, you know,

dead coming and going.

So far, I've got clients terrified that the dead are trying to rip them apart on

a property where one of the first owners suffered nothing but heartbreaking

tragedy.

But I got to see if there's anything else.

Searching through the archives, I found a freak storm that destroyed dozens of

boats back in the late 1800s.

But one boat just vanished into thin air.

That is, until a few years ago.

I reached out to a local historian who says I won't believe what happened to

wreckage from that ship.

So, Robert, I appreciate you helping me out with this case.

So what can you tell me about this ship?

The John S. Lee, it was originally built in 1859, and it probably looks

something about like that.

This is not the ship, but this is what it would look like. Exactly.

All right, so we know the ship went down. When did it leave port for the

time? Left Wilmington on April 11, 1877.

It was headed to Venezuela with a cargo of lumber.

What was the crew like? How many people on board?

On board, typical schooner, you would have had a crew of six to eight men.

All right, so what went wrong?

Well... Two days into the trip, a massive storm hits the North Carolina

It was huge.

We're talking torrential rains, gale force winds.

At least 32 vessels were damaged or lost at sea, including the John S. Lee.

I got to assume with that much damage and all those ships, some of the stuff

to wash up on shore.

Yeah, for weeks, bodies and wreckage were washing up.

I know from my research that John S. Lee was found pretty recently.

Yeah, it was basically lost to history until 2014.

And then remains of a shipwreck were discovered on a place called Figure 8

Island, about two miles from your client's property.

So now you mentioned on the phone, I'd be really surprised as to what was done

with the ship's wreckage.

Yeah. A local couple decided to build a house on Figure 8, and they used part of

it in the design.

So part of this house is actual wood from a ship that went down. That's

I mean, isn't it kind of creepy using wood from a ship that went down? I got

reservations about that.

Yeah. I agree. The one good thing is that now we know what happened to that

ship. True.

I look down and I see two inches of muck I'm walking through. And

I realize that it's decomposed bodies.

Yeah, there's a lot of bodies. There's like pieces.

Like pieces of people.

I don't feel good down here. I feel very sick down here. I don't know because

all these pieces of people are, like, crying.

They're, like, asking for help. They're crying. They're screaming.

They're tormented.

What the? But these dead people, they all feel like a lot.

I think they're all stuck in this vortex.

Okay. And it did. It took in these dead people.

I mean, they said it's been here forever, so.

It's always been that way, they said. It's always been that way.

There's too many.

What does that mean? How many, roughly?

Hundreds?

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Deb mentioned that the son of a previous owner was murdered.

I can't tell you how often clients get this kind of stuff wrong, but I did some

digging, and it's true.

I'm heading back to the house to meet a local television reporter who says it

all started with a bizarre love triangle.

So, Ashley, thanks for looking into this for me. I appreciate it. Before we get

into the details of the homicide, what do we know about the victim?

The victim in this case was a 32 -year -old man by the name of Martin

Yakimovich. Okay. In 1993, his father and stepmother moved into your client's

house. We think that this was actually his room at the time.

When was the murder?

The murder was in 2014.

So I got to assume he wasn't living here at the time because he was an adult

when he got murdered.

Yes. He was living about 10 miles from here with his girlfriend at the time,

Molly. Anything about their relationship that we know of? We do know that Martin

traveled a lot for work, leaving Molly in their three -bedroom home for

stretches of time.

Okay. All right. So she's lonely.

So what happens next?

She is lonely, and she meets a teenager online, 19 -year -old Shelby Lentz.

And then she asks Martin if Shelby can move in with them.

She was lonely, Shelby needed a place to stay, and they had the extra space at

their house. And in a fateful decision, Martin agrees.

I'm assuming at one point they probably start sleeping together.

Correct. Martin comes home from a trip in December of 2013 and finds that

and Molly were sleeping together behind his back. He is furious, and he kicks

Shelby out.

Does he break up with her at this point?

No, they stay together.

So what happens next?

On January 3rd, 2014, Martin comes home from another work trip and finds that

Shelby moved in again while he was away.

There is a huge argument, and that's when Shelby comes up right behind Molly

stabs Martin in the chest.

All right, so he's got a chest wound now. How bad was it? The knife pierced

heart. Okay, so he bleeds out.

So what happens with our perp? Shelby turned himself into police two days

but he claimed this whole thing was self -defense.

In a jailhouse interview with us, he said that Molly and Martin were

that Martin was the aggressor here.

But as it turns out, Molly did not back up that story, and the autopsy report

shows that there are no indications that Martin was the aggressor in this case.

Did they charge him, and does he go to trial? What happens? A year later,

confesses in court to second -degree murder, and he's sentenced to 18 to 23

years in prison.

18 to 23 years? I mean, that's a plea deal.

Yeah, Martin's father felt that he got off easy.

He turned to him during sentencing and said, God will deal with you. A year

later, he moved out of your client's house.

I'm seeing like a male, late teens, early 20s, murdered in

this area.

He was thin.

probably about 5 '7 to 5 '9.

He had frosted dyed blonde hair, like a skater boy haircut.

This was in anywhere from 2000 until now.

He was beaten and left for dead.

It was nighttime when this happened, and he's angry.

This is bad.

I saw several disturbing things on my walk, but two stood out.

First, the many pieces of dead people in the basement. So there's like a wall.

In that, I could see these little pockets.

And in those little pockets were like these little bubbles. And inside the

bubbles were all different people.

Next, I describe the shadow figure who looks like the person who attacked a

living woman. Both of his hands were on his knees, and he's completely

straight, and he's looking at the person in the bed.

So his hair is a little bit shorter and neater.

Amy, is this what you saw?

Now that Amy and I have completed our investigations, we're ready to reveal

findings to each other.

and our clients for the first time.

So, guys, this is Amy.

She's going to be doing the reveal from a separate room so she can focus on your

case and the dead without any distractions.

Amy, me, Deb, and Elaine, this was supposed to be their forever home.

And as you can see, it's absolutely beautiful.

But since they moved in, their life has gone to hell.

It's so bad, Deb thinks that whatever's here is trying to kill Elaine.

We're their last hope.

And these guys are praying you could find some way to make this place safe

them. So unless Amy's got some questions, she'll tell us about her war.

Well, one thing that I got when I first arrived was a violent death.

And the victim was a male.

He was murdered.

He was on the younger side. I would have put him in his 20s. What I picked up...

about how he died was that he was beaten and left for dead. I did see this

happening at night and I felt that this was relatively recent, maybe in the

2000s.

You looking at me like you're thinking what I'm thinking?

Deb,

you gave me a tip that actually checked out. I think the victim of this murder

you're talking about was a guy named Martin Yakimovich.

His dad owned this house.

And when he was a kid, we believed that this was the room he stayed in.

But by the time of the murder, his dad still lived here, but Martin was 10

away, living with his girlfriend, Molly.

Now, he traveled a lot for work, and Molly got lonely and started a

with a 19 -year -old kid named Shelby Lentz.

So in December of 2013, Martin caught them in bed together and threw Shelby

But just a few weeks later, in January of 2014, Martin came home one night.

and found them two in the bed again.

Oh, my God.

They had a huge fight. Things got really heated. So about 11 o 'clock that

night, Shelby grabs a knife and plunges it right into Martin's heart and pierces

it. Oh, damn.

Shelby pleaded out to second -degree murder, and he got an 18 to 23 -year

sentence. I got his mugshot here.

He looked like a little child.

He was 19 when he did the murder.

So the father was so upset about the whole thing, he actually moved out of

a year later.

How long did they live here?

Over 20 years. Yeah, they were here a while. Really? Okay, interesting.

Well, that makes me even more concerned.

So what else you got, Amy?

The land your house sits on has me very worried, and that's because there's a

vortex.

It somehow is...

Like collecting bodies.

I was walking and I could see like two inches of this muck.

And then I realized it was like these decomposing bodies.

And I was like, this is like just very bizarre.

So I came across a ton of deaths in my research. But for now, I'm just going to

tell you about one of them. It happened in April of 1877 when a freak storm came

and caught everybody.

off guard so now there were 32 boats that were lost or damaged during the

so now bodies wind up washing up on shore for weeks less than a mile from

one ship the john s lee was never recovered that was until 2014 when a

local couple found the debris nearby and used it to decorate the house that they

were building less than two miles from here was all wood that was recovered

oh my gosh

Is that a bad idea to kind of use the wood from a boat where people died?

that wouldn't be a great idea.

When I came down to the basement, I saw people from all different time periods.

I feel very sick down here. I don't know if it's all these pieces

of people are, like, crying.

They're, like, asking for help. They're crying. They're screaming.

They're tormented.

You okay?

You got a pretty strong reaction to what she was saying.

That's where I spend all my time is in the basement.

I did have a sketch done of what I saw down here.

Kind of creepy.

That looks evil.

That looks awful.

And they're trapped there.

It makes me not want to go back down there.

That's a pretty interesting walk already.

What else did you come across?

Now, here's like the really serious issue for you guys in particular.

When I was coming up to the house, there was this dark energy.

It drains the life force out of things.

Like, when I was walking up, I...

Literally, it's showing me like it's coming up and the grass is dying behind

because it's absorbing that energy.

So that goes, if you have humans, really not good because it does

drain you guys, which can lead to illness.

I can sleep all night long, get up, and two hours later, I'm ready to

go back to bed and sleep all day long.

One of the things that I saw upstairs, there's a bed with a bunch of pillows on

it and a blanket at the end of the bed. Okay, so you make it. It's all nice. You

leave. You come back. Now the blanket's still folded, but it turned down, and

the pillows move.

So I think that over time, living here would make you feel like you're losing

your mind.

Things move.

Everything from certain pictures, canvases in our house.

The cabinets will open. We'll hear things move.

It's gotten to the point where I felt like I was losing my mind.

One of the things that I got that this energy does to people is

that it can give people intrusive thoughts.

It tries to draw out of people this kind of remorse and depression and regret.

Over time, I believe this could really...

take a very serious mental and emotional toll on someone.

Well, you guys mentioned that whatever's been going on here, it's been taking a

toll on your relationship and your marriage, right?

It's been a struggle.

Yeah, it's like it's pitting us against each other.

Well, you guys are functioning in, like, negative hell.

So when I went upstairs, I went into the bedroom on the right.

That's their bedroom.

I sense that the living in there had abilities.

So you think it's both of them? Honestly, I think it's Elaine.

Yeah, I think she's always been more open and sensitive.

Because of your abilities, somehow you are giving a form and a shape to this

dark energy.

So the way that I perceived this, Energy was this

huge, like, black spider.

But you're seeing it as a person, a kind of clean -cut, kind of

younger male. He was sitting on the steps near the bed, like, staring.

I felt that this person had some kind of role in your life that was

pretty significant.

There's some kind of trauma with him from your past.

And I saw a living woman being held down and attacked by this male.

And I did have a sketch done of what I saw.

It's a chandelier, right, but you're not going to like what you see next to it.

I would have put him in the 80s, but I did feel like that there was sexual

trauma in the past.

Can I have a minute? Yeah, of course.

She figured you would pick up on it, but it's not something that she really

wants to discuss, obviously.

So let me just check on her. Okay.

Something happened to me bad as a kid.

I cannot tell her about it. You knew that she was going to pick up on it.

Okay, let's go back in. I'm good.

I'm sorry.

No.

Listen, you just relax.

I'm sorry.

Don't be.

You hit the nail on the head.

I'm sorry.

Don't apologize.

So then I saw this thing getting really physical, and I saw some touching.

There was a female. I felt like getting smacked on my face, getting grabbed by

the shoulder.

We were just watching TV.

And I felt a really bad burning sensation on my back.

I asked Deb to look at my back.

And she was like, oh, my God.

And she snapped a picture.

And that's what she saw.

The welt? Yeah, the welt. Boy.

Amy, Deb's been touched a few times.

So, Deb, do me a favor. Tell Amy about what you described as like a choking.

I was awake at like 3 -something in the morning, and I woke up choking. It

wasn't like pressure on my neck. It was actually inside my throat.

Tell Amy about you getting pushed on the stairs.

I was going down the stairs, and I got to about the third step, and I felt two

huge hands.

It pushed me, and I caught myself.

And if I hadn't have...

I would have fell completely down the steps.

My worry is that it could become more and more violent as far as attacks are

concerned. So that obviously could potentially cause death.

I'm actually kind of surprised that Elaine didn't pick up on it when we were

looking at this house.

What Deb wants, Deb gets.

I really would have thought that Elaine would have picked up on the land being

bad. And so this is kind of heartbreaking. Well, I'm not Amy Allen.

And I know a lot of sensitives, including myself, who have been duped

into really tough places.

So it happens to all of us.

I can see the stunned look on your faces, and honestly, I feel the same

So now is the big question. Is there any way to make this house safe for you

guys, living happily ever after, or not?

For that answer, I'm going to turn it over to Amy.

This is a very beautiful home, but I think you guys know what I'm going to

When I saw what I saw here, I knew that nobody should have ever built here.

Nobody should live here. This should have just been left alone.

I think it's not healthy for anybody to

stay here.

Unfortunately, I know that's not the answer you guys want to hear.

It's just a house.

What about you?

It's not worth staying here and having to continually worry and to

give up our happiness.

When they move to a new location that doesn't have any issues, will she start

feel better? Will their relationship get better?

Yeah, I mean, absolutely.

Where's the Brazil sign?

You guys are young. You had a long life ahead of you.

Why not make the best of it?

What we've built here, we can do again.

And I'll just have to look at it that way.

I feel really bad for Deb and Elaine, but in a situation as dangerous as this,

think it's best they leave their home.

Hopefully they take my advice.

Leave this dark negative energy behind and get a fresh start somewhere new.

Hi, Steve and Amy. We wanted to give you an update at what's going on in our

house. The activity has continued and actually has increased.

Because of Amy's findings, we've decided to take her advice and sell the house

and move on to hopefully a better place.

So thank you so much for coming and investigating and letting us know what

happening.