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As a first responder, we really,

Really want there to always be hope.

I kept feeling like I was being watched.

It was almost like the house was saying,

"come in if you dare."

She looked like a broken porcelain doll.

help me!

And now I'm seeing her standing here.

So this dark shadow, whatever this is...

- Ah! - ...It's toying with me.

This was a force that I could not see,

And it shook me to my core.

There's a whole other world that you knew nothing about.

There was no logical explanation...

- Ah! - ...For what I was looking at.

I was terrified.

Please! Oh, my god.

Nine-one-one, please state your emergency.

I think it's a ghost.

Infernalis adversarii omnis legio.

Infernalis adversarii omnis legio.

Te rogamus audi nos.

Infernalis adversarii omnis legio.

Inversari adverdari envogamo audi nos.

Infernalis adversarii omnis legio.

The 911 call goes to rookie emt courtney cooper

And her partner, eric.

When I decided to become an emt,

I had been out of college for about a year.

What it is that appealed to me about the medical field

Is helping those that can't help themselves.

As a new recruit, courtney gets the shifts no one else wants,

Mostly downtown and always at night.

There it is.

Chest pain calls can be some of the most difficult.

They could be having a heart attack.

Okay. You grab the defibrillator.

I'll grab the pack.

Thank you. Got it.

Let's get this.

Let's go.

The urgency to get to something that could possibly be

A heart attack goes up immensely.

hello?

It's open.

Hello? Hello, paramedic.

Paramedics here responding to a 911 call.

Hello? Hello?

No sooner inside,

Courtney feels a strange wave of emotions wash over her.

aah!

My heart just kind of sunk into my feet.

Hello?

There was something very off about this house.

Here we go.

Hey. Ma'am?

So strong is the feeling,

Courtney is unable to move any further.

It was the most foreboding feeling I'd had.

It was almost like the house was saying,

"come in if you dare."

Courtney, she's weak.

I'm hardly feeling anything here.

I'm going to plug in.

The feeling I had definitely felt threatening.

It stopped me in my tracks.

let's roll her down.

Want to help me here?

Court?

Had to take a second to gather myself.

Courtney? Oh, shoot. Yeah.

I kind of had to will myself to go in.

Here to do a job, this lady needs our help.

Let's flip her on her back.

Okay.

Let's put her over here.

let me check her...

I'm not getting anything.

Ma'am?

She's unresponsive, not getting any breath.

Ma'am?

She looked like she was having cardiac arrest.

Okay. We're charged.

Clear.

She comes back to life without their assistance.

Okay.

Ma'am?

They have no idea what's wrong with her.

Ma'am?

Can you hear my voice?

She looked distraught, but her coloring was good.

Ma'am, my name is courtney. I'm a paramedic.

Do you know where you are?

Can you hear me?

Do you know what happened?

Ma'am, we're responding to your 911 call.

We found you unconscious.

We tried to let her know that we were there to take care of her.

We asked her where she kept her medication

So we could check if she was allergic to anything.

Ah. All right.

Let's get her up here.

Come on, miss.

do you remember what happened?

Well, let's check her vitals here.

Seemingly unable to speak,

The patient's silence only adds to the mystery of her condition.

I'm going to grab your arm.

I need your arm.

I continued to get her vital signs,

Blood pressure, pulse oximetry.

To the emts...

Did you take any drugs this afternoon, this evening?

...The patient seems more terrified

Than an actual medical trauma.

She seemed to be pretty on edge, eyes wide as saucers.

Ma'am?

But before she could finish taking her blood pressure...

I suddenly was pushed over.

Eric.

Without really looking up to see where my partner was,

I told him, "be careful."

Why did you say that?

I felt like he had knocked me over off my feet.

But eric is a few feet away busy reporting back to the station.

Stand by. Eric.

Are you all right?

Yeah. Yeah.

Courtney is at a loss for answers.

This was a force that I could not see,

And it shook me to my core.

Check her...

So I gathered my senses about me again,

And I went back to getting her vital signs, her blood pressure.

And I got knocked over again.

Are you all right?

My immediate reaction to be knocked down again was,

"we need to get the hell out of here.

There is something terrible in this house,

And it doesn't want us here."

After responding to an emergency call...

Clear.

...To the home of a woman suffering from chest pains...

Okay.

...Emt courtney cooper...

Ma'am?

...Is knocked down twice by an invisible force.

Um...

It freaked me out so bad.

I had no idea what had touched me.

Courtney tries to rationalize what just happened.

I lost my balance. I'll take over.

Take a sec.

It feels to me that she had a malevolent entity there.

There's often a willingness to drive out anybody

Who may interfere with the relationship

That it has built with the human.

While eric takes over the examination,

Courtney takes a break.

Noticing the room is filled with religious artifacts

And ancient books.

It was very odd, not something you see every day

When you walk into someone's home.

Blood pressure is good.

While the patient's 911 call indicated chest pains,

The emts are unable to find anything

Physically wrong with her.

Her ekg reading was totally normal.

She didn't present medically as someone who was ill,

And then I noticed something that I will never forget.

There were mannequins standing there.

I've never seen anything like that in anyone's home.

I asked her why she had the mannequins in her living room.

Did you design them yourself?

At long last, the patient finally speaks.

They were my grandmother's.

She told us her family happened to be dressmakers

Back in the day,

And then I noticed something that will haunt my dreams

For the rest of my life.

One of the mannequins has moved toward her.

The mannequin was now completely facing me.

Ah!

I knew my partner was not messing with these mannequins

Because he cannot move that fast,

So something was moving this mannequin,

And it was not him.

She's stabilized.

We're going to be moving her soon.

Sometimes what we'll see in negative entity cases

Is that they will actually use objects to intimidate.

We got to get out of here.

What ends up happening is that the entity

Becomes extremely territorial over the space or the person,

And probably the paramedics coming in

Threatened that territory.

And now they seem to be showing them the way out.

Eric, did you not shut the door when we came in?

What?

Did you not shut the door when we came in?

Yeah.

The other fear that something uninvited is moving in and out.

The feeling that I had that was forbidding me to go in,

It all started kind of crashing down on me.

Ma'am, do you live alone?

Yes.

Are you sure you let no one in the house?

I didn't let anyone in.

No one else came to the door before you called 911?

No.

I decided to start looking through the house...

And came across no living human being.

Come back down the hallway,

The mannequin is now facing towards me

As I'm walking out of the hallway.

It **** out of me.

A negative entity will move objects,

Position them into different places to frighten the perceiver

Into feeling like they're out of control.

Eric, we, we got to get out of here.

It was the most freaked out

I've ever been in my entire life.

Ma'am, are you okay to stand?

Wasn't that mannequin...

That was the one that was over there.

I don't know what's going on.

Ma'am, we're going to take you to the hospital now.

We need to package her up, and we need to leave.

To this day, those mannequins haunt my dreams.

Whatever dark force was in that house

Tried to take over her possessions

Was definitely trying to take over her,

And I think that was more than likely contributing

To the downfall of her health.

Adversarii.

Infernalis adversarii omnis legio.

Prayer is often considered a meditation.

However, if we get a situation

Where somebody is praying from a fearful state of being,

That's not achieving the end game which is to feel better.

Infernalis adversarii omnis legio te rogamus audi nos.

Infernalis adversarii omnis legio.

So if you're attacking something from any sort of state of fear,

That's never going to end well.

Infernalis adversarii omnis legio.

Inversari adverdari envogamo audi nos.

Infernalis adversarii omnis legio.

Aah!

That call happened 11 years ago,

But it has stuck with me more than any car accident,

Stabbing, shooting, more than anything

Because I'm now more aware that these presences exist,

That they are out there, that they're real,

And it scares **** out of me.

Because there's nothing I can do about it.

These are not people that I can help.

These are not people I can save.

Oh, my god. Oh, my god. Oh, my god.

The 911 call goes to the emt

Nearest to the accident, ceredwyn alexander,

Who's only been on the job a few short months.

The nature of the call that I got was

That it was a motor vehicle accident,

A tractor trailer versus motorcycle,

Unknown number of casualties.

Alexander is part of a remote crew of first responders.

We're a small department.

Transport times from town are quite long.

You can be waiting around for an ambulance

For 30 minutes on a good day.

Because the accident was between the station and myself,

I thought, "I'm just going to grab my own vehicle and go."

I had been an emt for about 9 months.

Really, this was only the first few months of me

Being cut loose on my own.

I call into dispatch, and I say, "I am the first here,

So I'm going to try to secure the scene."

We did not have a lot of information partly

Because where the accident was, it was a radio dead zone.

When I got there, all I could see was the truck,

And then I saw the primary witness,

The driver of the truck.

Sir, are you all right?

Sir? Are you okay?

Are you the only one here?

Yeah. No.

When we're surveying the scene,

We're trained listen to what people are saying.

You don't even need to ask them.

Usually, they'll tell you.

There was only one person.

Are you the only one here?

No.

Yes.

When people have accidents, when they are traumatized,

They will very often be confused.

Yes.

It's a function of shock.

She's in the back.

She's in the front.

Just take a few deep breaths.

Help is on its way.

It was not very clear where my patient was,

So I slid under there,

And I found my patient.

I have this sinking feeling.

It suddenly comes into focus how mangled she is.

She looked like a broken porcelain doll.

No emt wants to be the one

Who pronounces somebody on the scene.

We hate doing that.

For the rookie emt, it's baptism by fire.

Up until this point in my career,

I had seen bodies that had died of natural causes.

This was the first traumatic death.

As I'm getting ready to go up and notify dispatch,

I see boots on the other side of the truck.

And I kind of... And I don't see anyone.

And I started hearing this voice.

I shouldn't have taken that sharp...

I shouldn't have done that.

He can't see me like this.

Sir, was there only one person?

Yes.

he can't see me like this.

I shouldn't have done that.

Help me! Help me!

I shouldn't have done that.

I shouldn't have done that. I'm sorry.

My brother can't see me like this.

Help me.

My brother is going to be so mad at me.

My brother is going to be so mad at me.

I was terrified because I'm seeing her standing here.

I shouldn't have done that.

Emt ceredwyn alexander is called to a remote stretch of highway

Where she discovers a young woman killed on impact,

But moments later... Help me!

...To alexander's horror... Help me. Help me.

Emt ceredwyn alexander is called to a remote stretch of highway

Where she discovers a young woman killed on impact,

But moments later... Help me!

...To alexander's horror... Help me. Help me.

...She finds the victim... I shouldn't have done that.

...Has risen from the dead...

He's going to be so mad. He can't see me like this.

...And then vanishes into thin air.

Now I'm having this moment of,

"that couldn't have been real, what I just saw."

In very high-impact sudden deaths where the spirit

Is just kind of ejected from the body very quickly,

The spirit is immediately put into a state of shock

And disbelief.

We have so many reports of people

Kind of hovering over their body

And watching everything that happens.

I was focused on doing what is the next correct thing to do

Because if I thought beyond that next step,

I was going to lose it.

he is going to be so mad.

He can't see me like this.

I shouldn't have done that.

He can't see me like this.

The dead woman reappears a few feet away.

He can't see me like this.

She was confused.

She didn't understand what happened.

She kept saying the same set of things.

"I came around that corner too fast."

"I knew I came around that corner too fast."

I shouldn't have taken that sharp...

I shouldn't have tried to overtake that sharp...

My brother is going to be so mad at me.

She kept saying, "don't let my brother see me."

By brother is going to be so mad at me.

"oh, don't let my brother see this.

Oh, my god. It's going to upset him so much."

I probably should... I shouldn't have done that.

Don't leave me here.

She says, "oh, god, don't leave me,"

And she was really frightened.

My brother is going to be so mad at me.

She didn't want to be alone.

Don't leave me here.

Even to talk about it makes all the hair on my arms stand up.

It was more than a feeling of being watched.

I really felt she wanted to interact with me.

I think there was just so much energy expended

During this very high impact, very traumatic and sudden death.

It was really easy to pick up on a presence there.

My brother is going to be so mad at me.

It allowed a state in which the spirit

Could usually communicate with her first responder.

Don't leave me here.

Suddenly, the chief arrives.

Everybody seems to roll up all at once.

Hey. You okay?

Yes, sir. We have a fatality.

Okay. The driver? He's okay.

I spoke with him. Okay.

A woman, could you come look at the body with me?

Okay.

Did everything you could.

Everybody's first trauma fatality,

They always do remember it.

It always looms very large in their lives.

What does that mean? Huh?

What does that mean? Sir.

Let me get through. Sir. Sir. Sir.

Let me get... What does that mean?

Sir. Sir. Sir.

Let me see. That's my sister's bike!

I can't let you over there. I got to go see!

Drawn by the commotion, a local man rushes the scene.

That's my sister's bike! Okay.

Sir. Sir. Sir. Nothing you can do now.

It's the victim's brother.

And he heard me say "fatality,"

And this visceral moan came out of his throat.

Ah.

Seeing her brother for the last time,

The ghost disappears for good.

It's going to be okay.

We'll get you out of here soon.

When you're confronted with evidence

That goes against your whole belief system,

It's really, really terrifying.

It's like discovering that there's a whole other world

That you knew nothing about.

Help me!

I still dream about it from time to time.

It still has a lot of emotional weight,

And I know I'm going to dream about it tonight.

Fourteen-year police veteran eddie hill

Races to a 911 call for a possible home invasion.

Once the dispatcher told me that it was

An elderly lady that called,

The whole thing that kept running through my mind was,

"is she hurt? What's the potential for her getting hurt?"

I was going into a potentially dangerous situation.

This isn't something you can just run up to

And take care of in 5 minutes and you're gone.

This is something that you really have to think through

Because people lives are at stake.

You don't know what's going to happen.

As I get out of my patrol car,

Now I saw this really nice fragile little old lady.

Afternoon, ma'am. Good afternoon.

There's a stranger in my house in my attic.

She started telling me that there was people

Walking around inside her attic,

So I kind of thought that was a little bit strange.

Normally, when we receive a call on a burglar,

There's somebody within the house itself,

Not in the attic,

So I kind of questioned her a little bit

If, you know, her husband was home,

And she said that he had passed, and she lived by herself.

After hearing that, I asked her, "could this be a raccoon?

Could this be a squirrel? Could this be a rat?"

I started kind of feeling more like there

May not be as much threat as she had thought.

Suddenly, I heard these footsteps.

And I thought, "well, it's not a raccoon. It's not a opossum."

It was not an animal that was walking on all fours.

Whatever was walking around in that attic

Was walking around on two feet.

A dark attic with many hiding spots

Is a dangerous place for a police officer working alone.

In our particular department, we ended up handling calls

A lot on our own mainly due to the shortage of man power.

You pretty much had to take care of business on your own.

My frame of mind was that there's somebody up there

Trying to hide from me

And had told her not to say anything

And had maybe threatened her.

You have no idea where these people are,

If they're watching you, if they're about to ambush you,

If something's going to go wrong and could be life-threatening.

I kept feeling like I was being watched.

I kept feeling like someone was watching me.

Although I've looked all over this place,

And I didn't see anything.

Again, he hears footsteps.

Like somebody walking with work boots.

And I'm looking around.

I see nothing, but I can hear it.

I can hear that there's something.

It left me with a very uneasy feeling.

I started thinking, "well, maybe it was the house shifting,

Or maybe it was my imagination,

Or maybe there was just some critter up there,

And it just sounded like it was a big person moving."

With no clear explanation for what he heard or felt,

The officer heads back down.

What did you tell the old woman?

I told the old lady at first

That I could not find anything out of the ordinary,

That everything looked okay.

I thought the next thing I should do was stay with her

For a little bit and talk to her

And basically try and put her more at ease.

The more I spoke to her,

The more I started getting a sense

That she was more lonely than anything,

And it almost got to the point where I felt

That maybe she just wants attention.

Maybe she just needs somebody to talk to.

And that's when I saw this dark shadow.

this wasn't an ordinary shadow.

It was very obvious that this wasn't being cast from somebody.

And that scared the **** out of me.

After responding to a home invasion call,

Texas police officer eddie hill finds no intruder...

...Until he is stalked by a mysterious black shadow.

Whatever it was I was looking at was not of this world.

Bound to protect,

The officer races towards the mysterious figure.

I immediately went outside and started looking around the area,

And I started checking in some of the areas

That I thought somebody could possibly be hidden.

There was nothing moved.

There was nothing out of the ordinary.

There was nothing that drew my attention.

I couldn't put a body to any of these noises.

I couldn't put an explanation to the shadow I was seeing,

And I started questioning

Whether I actually saw it or not.

Someone such as a police officer,

Someone who has a very analytical mind,

A very objective mind,

They're looking for real live human beings,

And when they come across something

That is just so out of the ordinary,

That's something that could really startle somebody

And start having them question themselves.

I all of a sudden start hearing these footsteps again.

Are you making a connection, perhaps, with the shadow?

I didn't know at the time whether this was related

To what was going on

Or if this was something totally separate.

Officer hill goes back upstairs but this time alone.

As I'm looking around with the flashlight,

I saw a dark shadow move across.

And, again, lo and behold,

I started hearing these footsteps.

For the officer, it starts to feel personal.

Whatever this is, it's toying with me.

It has to be.

This can't be my imagination.

And as I'm looking around, I see the shadow again.

I suddenly saw that it had a face.

And it was just gone.

It was just...It was... It just vanished, history.

When I saw that, the hairs on the back of my neck stood up.

I was terrified.

Seeing no further trace of the strange figure,

The officer feels the burden of having no clear explanation

To share other than it's gone.

And it made me feel bad

Because I really, really, really wanted to help her,

And I really wanted to put her at ease,

So I didn't know exactly what to say or do to do that.

Who's this?

My husband, isn't he handsome?

I miss him so much.

Suddenly, the photo brings the terrifying apparition

Into clear focus.

This face was the same face that I just saw moments earlier.

The face of the shadow

I was seeing was the face of her dead husband.

When people die, if they have a loved one

That they are extremely attached to,

Maybe they're not ready to leave them.

Sometimes their partner will stick around with the thought

That when the other person dies, they'll be there to meet them,

And they can cross over

To where they're going together as a couple.

Don't worry, ma'am.

I think everything is going to be just fine.

Oh, thank you.

The revelation finally puts the officer at ease.

Thank you so much.

It's my pleasure, ma'am.

I believe this to be her dead husband

That is there to protect her, that's there to watch over her

And possibly there to one day take her home with him.

I think the paranormal experience

I had opened my eyes and my mind up a lot more than what it was.

I think there are many things that happen

That we can't explain that maybe one day we will.