All language subtitles for Paranormal Survivor - S01E03 - Ghost Children HD

There's an evil entity
in the house.

You're about to see real
people...

I was terrified
beyond belief.

...reliving horrifying
paranormal encounters

for the first time.

I truly felt
it was like living in hell.

When ghost children come out
to play.

But that picture
turned out to be very evil.

I buried this
for nearly 30 years.

Be prepared to be afraid.

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(Typing)

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We purchased our property
in 1998

and we tore down
the old home place

and build ours
in September of '99.

I quit my job
as a draftsman

that I had been working for
almost 11 years.

And quit to stay at home
and raise my little man.

Jeremy was about 2-years-old

when he had really started
articulating his words.

I'd go back to him
and I'd say,

"What are you doing, bub?"

And he said,
"Playing with Eli."

And I said,
"Who's Eli?"

"My friend."

Then I said,
"Oh, okay."

And so I had been told
by many friends

that had children that
they have imaginary friends.

I'd be like,
"Okay, what's Eli look like?"

He has the same colour hair
as aunt Tam,

which is a natural blond.

My sister's
a very blond blond.

"He has eyes your colour."

So blue eyes.

"And he wears belts
on his shoulders."

I said,

"That's pretty descriptive,
you know?"

And he's like,
"He's my friend."

I thought it was a normal result
of a only child.

But Mandy
was about to discover

there was nothing ordinary
about Eli.

(Thundering)

That day my son was at school
and I was home alone,

cleaning house,
doing my normal mommy chores.

(Child laughing)

And I heard this
just little laugh,

it was plain as day.

(Child laughing)

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And I thought you know like,
"Did I just hear that?"

(Child laughing)

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(Child laughing)

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Of course nothing's there.

I didn't know
if it was paranormal

or if it was my brain.

And Mandy's doubts
would be tested again,

just a few nights later.

It was a normal week night uh,

my husband was in bed
next to me,

he was already asleep.

My son was in bed.

(♪♪♪)

Mommy.

And right in my right ear
on this side of the bed,

it would sound like
a small child saying,

"Mommy."

I was terrified.

And I was just like,
"What's my son doing up,

what's Jeremy doing up?"

You know I do the whole,
"What are you doing awake?"

And he's not there.

I did downplay a lot of it,
because I just figured that

"Hey, unless
I have concrete evidence,

unless I have it in front of me,
it doesn't exist."

(Bed creaking)

Mandy became more worried

when she started to hear
adult voices too.

On several occasions,
when I would be at home alone,

I would hear what sounded like
muffled conversations

between a male and a female,
almost as in an argument.

(Indistinct whisperings)

And I'd hear a footstep
down the hallway.

(Footsteps in distance)

Something in my son's room.

He had this little
toy piano.

(Music playing)

I would hear playing music.

(♪♪♪)

I felt like
I was losing my mind.

My husband would come home
from work,

I would tell him these things
and he just you know,

roll the eyes and be like,

"You know what,
you're son's at school all day,

you're alone,

your brain's
creating these noises."

I said,
"You're probably right."

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I have an old German
wooden music box.

(Music box playing)

And I'd hear it play.

And I'd go in

and the lid would be open
on my dresser.

(♪♪♪)

I know that that lid can't open
on its own.

You have to open the hinge
of the music box

to get it to play.

Nobody was believing me,

my husband just thought
I was a nutjob.

And you know,
my son quit having experiences,

he was already at the age
where nothing

was really happening to him
anymore.

And I thought,

"Why am I still hearing
this stuff?"

(♪♪♪)

(Indistinct whisperings)

So I was grasping
at straws,

I was looking for any way
to get rid of it.

(Child laughs)

Just lashed out one day.

Show yourself!

Show yourself!

There stood a boy,
about 4 or 5 years old,

exactly what my son
described.

(♪♪♪)

(Screams)

I just saw the kid
that my son described as Eli.

(♪♪♪)

It just--

I'm thinking,
"Is this possible?

Is this even possible?"

And I was so torn with it,

I was so scared,

so many questions
unanswered.

Um,

I need to know
who this kid is.

I need to know why he's here
and how did he die?

Started looking at deed records
for the property.

The family that lived there
in the 1860s and 1870s

was in fact
the Derenberger family.

They had came here
from Germany.

They had 13 children.

Noticed five of the children
had died on the property...

from being beat.

They had neck and head trauma.

Started going through
the children's names.

Elijah Derenberger,

went by Eli Derenberger.

I was floored.

I had, you know concrete
evidence in front of me

of what had actually happened
on my property.

Child spirits are more likely
to stay earthbound

after traumatic deaths
such as a murder.

Because they're not really sure
where they are

at the time of death

and it's really difficult
for them to cross over.

They're not really sure
of the process needed.

Basically, child spirits
are also still looking

for their parents,

they're looking
for their loved ones.

And when they cross over

after traumatic deaths
like that,

they are unable
to find their families.

So often times they're wandering
and looking for an answer

or a solution
on where their family is.

Dealing with the spirit
of little Eli

had been traumatic enough
for Mandy.

But nothing
could have prepared her

for what happened next.

My husband had went to work,
son was at school,

and I go into the bathroom
to get a shower.

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Mandy Joyce had uncovered
historical documents

that appeared to prove
the existence

of her son's
imaginary friend.

Show yourself!

(Screams)

But things
were about to get worse.

I go into the bathroom
to get a shower.

Spirit's knocking stuff
off the bathroom shelves.

And I just kept getting
more fear--

Just I was so scared.

I was praying,
I was praying to God.

I was like,
"God just get me through this."

And there stands the silhouette
of this man.

He had a big tall hat,
but he was all black.

(♪♪♪)

(Screams)

And I throw my hair up
in a towel,

I throw on some
pajama bottoms,

and he drove me out of my house
that day.

When somebody leaves a home
or abandons their house,

because
there's a haunting going on,

it's possible that the spirit
kinda gains power

from that situation.

Um, at least psychologically,

they feel that they've won
in that scenario.

It's believed that
the best thing to do

when you have a haunting
is to stay in the home,

not to surrender your property
and your life to the spirit,

but to confront that
and perform a house blessing

and remove the haunting.

I went to my friend's house

and I was scared,
I cried all the way into town.

And she said,
"You need to cleanse."

She said, "Get a hold of Jackie,
you need to cleanse ASAP."

When I go into a place,

sometimes like pictures pop
into my head.

And I just would see
like certain things

whenever
I'd walk through her house.

The energy just hits you,
it was so heavy.

And just you can tell that
there was something--

You always felt like
something was watching you.

Or if you walked
around a corner,

something was gonna pop out
at you.

She told me that
there was a man.

You know, you could tell that
that man was not nice.

The father
was not a good person.

That was very stern
and ruled with an iron fist.

She smudged with smoke.

We went to every room,
every corner of the house.

And as we moved
through the house,

it just got heavier and heavier,
the energy.

And once we moved

from the upstairs
to the downstairs,

I could feel him there-
I knew he was down there.

And once we got down there,
I just wanted to warn him,

let him know
this is what's happening.

He's somewhere around here
and he's not happy that--

He's pissed
that we're doing this.

I saw this black,
the same black wispy mist

that I saw in this figure
in my bathroom.

And the whole time,

I'm just saying
the Lord's prayer.

I'm saying a prayer
over my home,

I'm saying a prayer over my son
and my husband.

I saw it lunge out,
like as a hand.

(♪♪♪)

I had her help me to yell at it,
tell it it's leaving now.

And then finally it just...

...pooh!

It's like a bubble pops.

And it just lifts,
everything lifts

and it's very light.

And everything is just gone
and quiet.

I learned that
spirits are very real,

that not all spirits
are nice.

I learned that
if you think it's there,

you're not crazy.

It may be hard to believe,
but Mandy got away lightly.

At least the ghost,
of a murdered child in her home,

did not psychically harm Mandy
or her family.

Frank Madrid cannot say the same
of his experience.

Take!

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Because my dad was in the navy,
we ended up in National City.

National City is a city
that's close to San Diego,

kinda like Victorian houses,
but small.

And you know everything there
I remember, was just old.

It had a good creep factor
to it.

One day I was riding my bike

and I saw this little boy
of this house

that was on the corner.

So I just rode over there
and said hi to him

and we started talking.

And he was kind of lonely
and scared.

He was very quiet,
very introverted.

The house that he lived in,
all the doors were boarded up.

It was kind of strange,

we didn't really think anything
of it.

And then to hear the laughter
of this little kid.

(Laughing)

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In 1967,

Frank Madrid's family
had just moved to a new city.

Making friends
after you're moving around a lot

is uh--

It's kind of hit and miss.

Our father was in the navy
and we moved around.

Um, Frank was born

on the other side
of the country, in Virginia.

I had no friends
in the neighbourhood.

One day I was riding my bike

and I saw this little boy
of this house

that was on the corner.

So I just rode over there
and said hi to him

and we started talking.

I thought
he was a friendly kid,

I thought he was
kind of lonely and scared

for some reason.

He was very quiet,
very introverted.

Said our goodbyes,
I went back home.

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And the next day,
I'm riding my bike

and I see him again,
so went over

and start talking to him.

Our father was gone a lot
and everyone else

was younger than he was.

So he kind of latched onto
the first friend

that he could make.

Wanting so desperately
to have somebody

to socialize with,
to play with.

You know,

I believe it got very intense
very quickly.

And after a while
of talking to him a few days,

you know
he started lightening up

and you know,
we'd make each other laugh.

And you know,
it was kind of like

a normal child relationship
you know?

We would play and laugh.

Frank enjoyed
having a new friend,

even one
who seemed a little strange.

I never saw him
pick up anything.

He would just use his fingers
for guns and stuff

and I had plastic ones
and he never would touch those.

There were some times
where I'd bring some toys over,

so we could play,

but he would never ever grab
any of 'em.

He wouldn't play with them.

He just seemed to be
kind of scared,

that-- you know,
I think he was--

It almost kind of seemed
like he was afraid

that his parents would find out
that he was playing with me

or my toys.

So that's kind of impression
that I got from him.

But being as young as I was,

I really didn't pay attention
to it,

because I didn't wanna lose
my friend.

You know, I didn't wanna cause
any kind of problems.

Nevertheless,

it was becoming
increasingly obvious to Frank

that his new friend
had something to hide.

You know, you get tired,
and you work up a sweat,

and get hot and thirsty,

and you know,
just nonchalantly,

"Hey, can you get
a drink of water?"

"No."

"Why can't I have
a drink of water?"

"Well, you can't go
in the house."

"Well,
why can't I go in the house?"

"Because my parents

aren't allowing anybody
in the house."

I go, "Well, can you go get me
a drink of water?"

"No."

"Well, why not?"

"'Cause I can't go in the house
right now."

So you know,

this is really confusing
to a little kid.

You know
I want a drink of water,

you won't get it for me.

You know,
you kind of get a little upset.

"Well, I'm gonna go home

and I'm gonna get
my own drink of water."

The argument
over the glass of water

had an immediate impact
on the boys' friendship.

Things did change after that.

He was more withdrawn
into himself.

And he didn't really laugh
anymore.

We couldn't just have fun,
like we were having fun before.

One day,
went over there to play

and you know--

So the first time in a long time
he was excited,

'cause he told me,
"I found something."

"Well, what'd you find?"

"Well,
I found an axe over here."

So we went over there
and he showed me

where he found
this old small hatchet.

And I remember it being just
you know,

really old and ancient,
and rusty,

and just laying there
half buried in the dirt.

He told me you know,
"Pick it up,

let's go chop something."

I said,
"No, I'm not gonna pick it up."

And he kind of got upset

and he was,
you know really forceful.

We picked the thing up,

"Let's go over here
and chop some wood."

To appease his request,
I was like, okay, pick it up.

And followed him over
to this little log

that was laying there.

And he's telling me
to chop it

and I'm thinking,
"I better not, you know?

Why don't you chop?

He goes,
"I can't."

"Well, why can't you?"

"I just can't."

So I said,
"Alright, I'll chop it."

So I got the axe and...

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(♪♪♪)

It was 1967
in National City, California

when young Frank Madrid
made a new friend.

But his new buddy
had started acting very oddly.

"Why don't you chop?"

He goes,
"I can't."

"Well, why can't you?"

"I just can't."

So I said,
"Alright, I'll chop it."

So I got the axe and...

(♪♪♪)

The tip of the axe hit the dirt,
and the gravel, and the wood

and I had some gravel
fly up into my eye.

Immediately,
everything went white

with big blobs of red.

I ran home screaming,

because I couldn't see
out of my eye anymore.

The one thing that I remember
that I won't ever forget

was the horrible laughter,
that he was laughing

when I was running home
screaming.

(Laughing)

And that laughter followed me
all the way home.

When I got home,

my folks took me
to the hospital.

And I'd had 9 major operations
on it

and four minor ones
after that.

They didn't have the technology
that they do these days,

so they really couldn't have
reattach the retina.

The incident left Frank blind
in his right eye

for the rest of his life.

Are you comfortable
taking your glasses off

and talking about it,
'cause I'm--

I can't see you,
but there I am.

So um...

...they were this.

Plastic.

(Laughs)

(♪♪♪)

When I would hear
about Frank's accident,

it always was centred around
this boy on the corner.

I mean there's just
so many things

that I couldn't understand
at the time,

because I was too young.

And you think back
about things that happened.

The clothing that he wore,
red and white striped shirt,

blue jeans
rolled up at the cuffs,

and the black piped
pop tennis shoes

with the white balls
on the side.

This kid,

in all the days
that I've seen him,

was wearing the same clothes
he wore all the time.

(♪♪♪)

The house that he lived in,
nobody lives there.

It's abandoned.

My childhood friend,

this kid that
nobody else could see but me,

was a spirit kid.

(♪♪♪)

Children
haven't been conditioned

by their parents or society

to not believe
in the paranormal.

Well, it's part of their
reality, basically.

Child spirits,

when they're dealing
with human children

really come across as valid
and legitimate.

They don't seem to be a sprit
and the children

are very open-minded
and accepting of them.

He was very open to it.

He was,

I mean I don't wanna use
the word "desperate",

because it sounds negative.

But in this situation,
it makes sense

that he was desperate
to make a friend,

to have some kind
of companionship there,

in a place
where he knew nobody.

I think the little boy died
in that house

and I think the parents
were so distraught about it

that they moved away.

And his energy is still there,
he's soul, his spirit,

however you wanna say it.

So he went to
what was familiar

and what was familiar
was that house.

And I never went
back to the house,

to his house
to see if he was there or not.

Um, I wanted to stay away
from that place,

I didn't want nothing to do
with him or anything.

I mean that laughter
was still in my head.

And there's no way that--

To this day,
I can't forget it.

(Laughing)

Many years later,

Frank had another
paranormal encounter.

(♪♪♪)

It seemed like
we had met before.

I go to talk to him
and as I'm talking to him...

...he starts to fade
and I can see through him

and then he just vanishes
right before my eyes.

Just gone.

Very well could be

the little boy on the corner
as a man.

It's possible that
the child spirit aged somehow

on the other side
and returned to visit him

to show him that you know,
here I am,

I've grown up with you

and it's good to see you again
type of scenario.

But it's also possible that
that child sprit

maybe had another spirit

go and visit him
in an adult form,

because
it was more socially acceptable

or understandable.

This gentleman
was just standing there,

in the middle
of the road there.

And looking directly
at Frank.

There was some knowledge
of who he was.

Since their childhood friendship
was so intense,

that there would've been more.

If the axe incident
was intentional,

I would expect that person
to say, "Gotcha."

And if it was unintentional
and if it was just a fluke,

then I would
also expect to say,

"I'm really sorry,
that that happened to you."

And not just faded away
as he got close.

There's just too much
unfinished business there.

That's kind of an evil thing
to do.

Frank will never forget
this episode of his life.

His injury reminds him
of his ghostly friend every day.

(Laughing)

When people tell you
ghosts can hurt you,

they can cause, in effect,
harm to you.

That'll haunt me for you know,
as long as I live.

It's just something like that.

(♪♪♪)

The presence
of the spirits of dead children

should never be ignored,

they are often the first sign
that a portal

to the spirits world
has been opened.

Number 1.

(♪♪♪)

My husband had lost his job
due to a back injury.

I was diagnosed a long time ago
with Crohn's disease,

but I'd gotten really sick,
couldn't work anymore.

We needed a place to stay,

so we decided
we'd take the house.

It used to be what they called,
"veteran's housing."

We had our first son together,
his name is Jordan.

When we moved into the house,
the first thing I remember is

we couldn't get our mattress
up the stairs.

It was too narrow
of an area.

We had to sleep
all on the sofa bed.

I woke up to smelling
like flowers, like roses.

I'm a Christian
and it was always said that

if you smell flowers or roses,
it could be the Holy Spirit.

So I tried to maybe think
it was something like that,

but it didn't feel
refreshing.

Because it smelt more like
when you go to a funeral home,

like death.

(♪♪♪)

It reminded me of death.

(♪♪♪)

It was very uneasy.

Um, it was uneasy

that I made the statement
all the time that,

"I don't feel like
this is our home."

I can't put my finger on,

I just couldn't figure it out
what it was about the house.

The family had not been living
in the house long

before Dawn noticed

Jordan was displaying
some disturbing behaviour.

Jordan was playing on the stairs
inside the hallway,

at the bottom of the stairs
was a rocking chair.

Jordan got in the chair
and would swing back and forth,

and say,
"Baby hurt, baby hurt."

(Baby hurt, baby hurt)

Over and over again,

and I'd say, "Jordan,
what do you mean by that?"

(Baby hurt, baby hurt)

And he said,
"The baby got hurt."

He said, "Yeah,

there's a little girl
standing there

at the top of the stairs."

(♪♪♪)

And I had no idea
what he was talking about.

(Baby hurt, baby hurt)

And I said,
"I don't see her."

He said,
"Look mama, there's Ally."

Ally was my neighbour's daughter
that passed away.

I had heard
about my neighbour's daughter

probably about a month
after living there.

She had died at 4-
she was only 4 years old.

It was just some sort
of weird virus and medication,

but she had died
in the house.

Jordan did not know who she was
or her name.

(Baby hurt, baby hurt)

There was no way that he knew,

but that wasn't the first time
he'd told me things

that there was no way
he could possibly know.

With Jordan's behaviour
on her mind,

Dawn confided
in a new friend.

She had ended up telling me
that she was into witchcraft.

She started to say me,

"Well, maybe
if you used tarot cards,

you can get some answers."

She gave me a book
and she gave me the cards

and I took them home
and I started playing with them.

I would ask questions
to the cards.

I just kept wondering
if you know

he was really seeing Ally,
what he was really seeing.

(♪♪♪)

It can be dangerous for people
to use spiritual divination,

tools such as tarot
if they don't have the knowledge

or know
how to use these items.

You can open doorways,
hauntings can begin,

entities can come through
and actually attach themselves

to the people
that are using these tools.

Dawn's dabbling
with the tarot cards

seemed to make
the situation worse.

With Jordan,

his room was very uncomfortable
for everybody.

Nobody could stay
in that room.

(Floor creaking)

Jordan didn't want to sleep
in that room.

(Floor creaking)

One time he told me
he saw a whole family,

it was a mother, a son,
and a daughter

with bullet wounds
in their head.

(♪♪♪)

And then all of a sudden,
all those were gone

and the only there
was one he called, "the man".

(♪♪♪)

(♪♪♪)

Dawn Pierce's family had moved
into a new home

and immediately

started experiencing
paranormal activity.

Dawn's young son

had started seeing the ghost
of a child.

(Baby hurt, baby hurt)

Then he started seeing
other phantoms in his bedroom.

One time he told me
he saw a whole family,

it was a mother, a son,
and a daughter

with bullet wounds
in their head.

And then all of a sudden
all those were gone

and the only one there
was one he called, "the man".

(♪♪♪)

And the man
wasn't very nice.

And the man said
some terrible things

and the man told him
to tell me horrific things.

He says the man told me
to tell you,

"As long as you live here,
he's gonna keep you sick

and make sure
you stay sick."

My husband said,
"Why don't you throw a recorder

in Jordan's room
and see what you get."

So I said,
"Okay, that's a good idea."

I put the recorder in the room,
nobody was home

and I put it on top a bible.

And when I went

and I rewinded my recorder
and listened,

I heard the worst,
I can't even--

It still plays--

It was like
the most bloodcurdling thing

I heard it say.

It was just like
the most evilest thing

I've ever heard,

like it's engraved in my brain
to this day.

It was scary,
because I'm thinking,

"What did I do
to open these doors?"

Terrified,

Dawn started looking into ways
of protecting her family.

I just kind of learned about
some prayers of protection.

And one of them was Psalm 91.

My son was taking a bath.

And all of a sudden,

it was like
his eyes looked different,

like he looked sinister.

And he seemed to get
like super strong.

And I knew it wasn't him.

(♪♪♪)

The Lord is my shepherd,
I shall not walk.

He maketh me to lie down
in green pastures.

(Screams)

So I opened the bible
and I started reading Psalm 91.

As I did,

he started thrashing around
the tub

and he's like, "You shut up,
you dumb whore, bitch."

Called me all kinds of names.

The Lord is my shepherd,
I shall not walk.

He maketh me to lie down
in green pastures.

(Growls)

And eventually it stopped.

It might've been
just one or two minutes,

but it seemed like
the longest one or two minutes.

And when it broke,
he started crying

and he said,
"Mommy, mommy, that wasn't me.

That wasn't me."

When you're trying
to protect your child,

you do anything
to protect them.

But when you can't see

or physically feel
what's attacking them,

you feel hopeless
and helpless.

At this point,

Dawn was desperate
to get help for her son.

And at that time,
that's when I met Joe.

She was telling us that

she believed
that her home was haunted

and that her son
was seeing things

and he was talking to spirits.

Dawn had mentioned

a couple of different smells
in the house.

Just before
a spirit may show up,

you will smell
a flower of some sort

and it's usually roses
and lilacs.

Jordan believed
that a little spirit,

a little female
was speaking to him.

A child could relate
to a child's spirit.

The spirit of a girl
that had passed away

was trying to come through.

And the only way she could get
anybody's attention

was to go at somebody
that was more on her mentality

or more on her wavelength,
which would be another child.

As the unravelling started

and I started asking
a bunch of questions,

then certain things were like,
"Okay, tarot cards."

She had dabbled
into a few things

and then everything

was starting to get put back
into perspective.

If somebody is playing
with tarot cards,

they're divination tools,

those are tools to communicate
with those that have passed.

A lot of times

people just play with cards
every so often,

somebody makes a connection
and a door does open.

We have this thing
in the paranormal

that if something comes back,

sometimes it could come back
two or three times worse

than it was originally.

(Screams)

Yea, though I walk

through the valley
of the shadow of death,

I will fear no evil.

It sounded like
that's what happened.

(Ghostly Voice)
Get out!

The game plan
was to go find something.

Something was there,
we would try to pull it out.

If not, we would like to get
some sort of evidence,

just something to go on,

to show us that
there is something supernatural

happening in the home.

We'd spent about,

I'd say a good four
or five hours of investigating.

The very last sequence
was in the basement.

(♪♪♪)

We set up cameras-
we set up our video equipment,

we took lots of pictures.

(♪♪♪)

I didn't have a good feeling
going into the basement,

I kinda felt--

It's almost like
when you have the hair

on the back of your neck
stand up.

It was one of those things
and I'm like,

"You know what,
let's go down here

and let's check this out."

Initially,

I don't like to hit people
with prayer right off the bat.

I don't wanna come off
as anybody that's too religious

or trying to make something
out of nothing.

...my shepherd,
I shall not want.

But I felt compelled
to pray into the house,

into the basement.

And that's what we did.

(♪♪♪)

And when Joe had called me
about two days later

and said, "I got something
to play for you,

you gonna--

you know it's gonna
knock your socks off basically."

In the very end of the tape
just before it ran out,

I heard us saying the prayer,

"It's now a house of Christ

and you are no longer
welcome here, evil spirit.

And you know
you must obey our commands."

(Entity groans)

(♪♪♪)

(♪♪♪)

Dawn Pierce's life changed
when her son Jordan

began seeing the ghost
of a child in their home.

(Screams)

After unsuccessfully trying

to get rid
of the spirit herself,

Dawn called in

professional paranormal
investigator Joe Cetrone.

At the very end of the tape,
just before it ran out,

I heard us saying the prayer,

"It's now a house of Christ

and you are no longer
welcome here, evil spirit.

And you know
you must obey our commands."

(Entity groans)

And right during that time,

over what we were saying
was a loud growl,

inhuman growl that sounded like
a mule being kicked.

"And you know
you must obey our commands."

(Entity groans)

It was just the most
God-awful

loud scream,

like an animal
was being tortured.

"And you know
you must obey our commands."

(Entity groans)

It is definitely
an inhuman sound

that came over
that recorder.

But I felt relieved,

because it validated
what we'd been going through.

There is something supernatural
happening in the home.

Not long after
Joe had investigated the home,

the Pierce family were spending
a normal evening together.

Yeah, I'm gonna get you.

(Jordan screaming and laughing)

My husband, me, and Jordan
were in my bedroom,

my husband
was on the computer,

I was laying on the bed
with Jordan

and I was reading through
the bible.

And I started
to read it out loud to him.

(Screams)

And he started thrashing around
on the bed, and hitting me,

and you know,
yelling obscenities.

(♪♪♪)

(Jordan screams)

(♪♪♪)

And I yelled, "Mark!

Mark, come over here
help me."

(Screaming)

He came over
and he was restraining Jordan

and he said to me,

"Just keep reading,
just keep going."

He was very strong

and then all of a sudden,
he just stopped.

Cried and again you know,
explaining that was not him.

(♪♪♪)

And I didn't know what to do
with Jordan at that point.

I was just sitting there,
frustrated.

And that must be hard for you,
you know?

Were you blaming your son?

I was blaming myself.

What did I do
to open these doors?

(♪♪♪)

I felt like my curiosity
maybe opened it.

But I knew that

there was something there
from when we moved in.

Things just weren't gonna get
any better.

And we had had enough.

(♪♪♪)

We spent four years
in the house,

so there were
a lot of different things

that happened.

He was young at the time

and I thought
maybe he would forget,

but he still
hasn't forgotten.

(♪♪♪)

(Evil laughter)

(Screams)

He was my first child
and um...

...I just still blame myself,

because he has problems

with PTSD.

And you can't tell
a psychiatrist,

he wants to tell somebody
why he's the way he is.

And instead,
he has to deal with medication.

He'll be 13.

But now he's been backed out
on sleeping on the couch,

he doesn't want to sleep
in his own room.

After what he's experienced,
he wants to go back in my room.

He can't sleep
without the lights on.

(Sniffs)

Um, he can still hear things,
he can't see them.

He's become
a little bit more closed off,

but he's very paranoid,
very anxious.

Um, a lot of anxiety.

(Sniffs)

I thank God that we did move.

I didn't wanna keep
living there

and lived to be tortured
every day.

(♪♪♪)