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The first time I felt a sense of possession,

I was very dizzy.

...the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost.

...burn in the pool of brimstone and divine fire.

There was an evil being that had gotten inside of me.

Open it!

It was a demon.

It thought I was weak prey, along with my girls.

It saw a path through us.

At first, your vision is clouded with darkness.

Then, suddenly, nothing.

MY ENCOUNTER WITH EVIL

I told the girls they were having a brother, or a sister.

Ivanna was very happy.

But Emma said, "Are you sure something's in there?"

- No, Mommy, no. - Calm down, Mom.

FLORENCIA'S EX-PARTNER

The girls' reaction was...

Well, they didn't take it well.

They wanted to be the only ones.

They didn't want to share their toys with anyone.

I didn't like Pablo very much.

So I tried to avoid visiting them,

so as not to interfere with their relationship.

I was told that the girls' grandmother,

Pablo's mother, slept over one night.

Girls, breakfast!

Guess what I made!

- Go away! - Emma?

- Go away! - Girls?

Go away!

Are you okay?

Emma, honey.

What's wrong?

Emma?

Honey, what's wrong?

Chela is very religious.

She was yelling, "No, no, not with her! I can't help her!"

It was alarming that someone like her, who is very religious, very faithful,

calls to tell me this.

She would always come up to stay there on the weekend.

Three. Four.

Five.

Six.

Seven.

Eight.

Nine. Ten.

Ready or not, here I come.

Shh.

She'll hear us!

Girls?

Where are you?

Shh.

I'm going to find you.

Quiet, she'll find us!

Stop!

I know you're in here!

Someone knocked on the floor three times under her feet.

She said they knocked three times to mock the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit,

the Holy Trinity.

Chela was completely terrified.

Lord Jehovah, heal us with your infinite...

Please... protect us... from harm.

She said she couldn't move.

She was struggling to speak.

She couldn't even breathe!

Protect us with your infinite...

Finally, she could move again.

Chela spoke to me on the phone.

She said, "Rox, please,

don't let those girls stay in that house any longer."

"Or something will happen to them."

I couldn't protect the girls because it happened even in their dreams.

When they were asleep, even if they slept with me,

it kept happening.

Mommy.

Ivanna?

Mom.

Mommy.

Momma.

Ivanna!

Ivanna!

Ivanna? Honey?

Wake up, darling.

Florencia tried to shake her out of it, but she was still asleep.

As soon as she calmed down,

she opened her eyes and said, "She's hurting me."

We asked who she was talking about.

She said that it was a girl.

I was afraid, you know?

I was worried about her.

I had so many questions

about what exactly was bothering Emma and Ivanna.

Pablo was also a target in a way.

He was in a rough patch.

And when life wasn't going his way,

we started having problems, certain drawbacks.

If I talked about what bothered me, she'd get mad.

So I wouldn't talk about it at all.

The only person I knew who had experience with this kind of thing

was Antonio Zamudio,

a man very passionate about this line of work.

He'd spent many years researching the kind of thing happening to the girls.

So I called him, "Please help us, something is going on."

My name is Antonio Zamudio.

I am the Director of the Mexican Agency for Paranormal Investigation.

Our work, for the most part,

is to properly decipher and investigate strange occurrences

that may not have rational explanations.

What we call this is a paranormal phenomenon.

I was informed of this case through a friend of mine from a long time ago.

She sent me a voice message.

She said, "I need your help."

"Something is happening to my daughter and my grandchildren."

We told him when it started.

Then, we made a timeline of everything that happened.

REAL FOOTAGE

The evidence points to the idea

that we're dealing with the presence of a little girl.

Or a small being.

Because I know first hand that it's hard to find a place with low rent.

However... it might be easier without the girls.

My mom told us to stay at her place.

Attacks from the spiritual world are often classified

from the weakest to the strongest, with the strongest one being possession.

REAL FOOTAGE

There are three phases,

demonic infestation, vexation and obsession.

Infestation involves a place, often a home,

where an entity, a spirit, takes control of its surroundings.

And it begins to harm those who live in that place.

It may have been brought over recently,

or it may be what's known as a "resident" demon.

It brings ruin, misery, disease.

It begins to torment them.

The next step is vexation.

The demon not only stays in the contaminated place,

but it begins to follow a specific person.

I was advised by so many people

to take Jessy to a psychiatrist, a psychologist, a therapist.

JESSICA'S MOTHER

Nobody's there.

She was prescribed so many drugs, she was basically sedated.

I remember very well that I never stopped praying,

begging Saint Michael the Archangel to save my daughter.

I can't even imagine the amount of money I spent on blessed candles.

REAL FOOTAGE

Jessy, are you okay?

Who are you?

Who are you?

After all this time, you still don't know my name?

Please, just tell me.

What happened?

Is everything okay?

What's going on?

When I went to sleep, I was very calm. I just laid down and dozed off.

Every two to three hours or so,

my mother would come into my room.

I would hear her praying, lying there next to me.

REAL FOOTAGE

What do I have to protect her from?

Can we talk later and let Jessy rest?

- She's fine. She's asleep. - She's asleep?

She played audio of chants and prayers.

She placed a statue on my forehead and my chest.

Thankfully, a woman told me that a priest was coming from Italy,

bearing the gift of liberation.

Momma...

Jessica, come on. Let's go, let's go.

He was a healer.

Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

He started preaching,

and Jessica started feeling very unwell.

I felt terrible.

I started feeling dizzy and angry for no reason.

Honey?

Honey?

Help her, please! Father!

Help!

Jessy! Sweetie!

What's happening?

She's possessed, Father. Please, help.

- Take her to the sacristy. - Help me lift her!

The priest asked us to take her to the atrium.

Leave me alone!

Motherfuckers!

Get out!

She started screaming horribly.

That's something I could never forget.

Let me go! Let me go!

Listen to me, I need you to repeat my prayers.

We pray for you.

We pray for you.

We pray for you. We pray for you.

He tried releasing her, but Jessica just got worse.

Please, stop! Stop it!

She was completely out of control.

Thank you, Father, I'll take care of her.

Jessy.

Honey.

Rest. Rest.

I held my Saint Michael necklace,

which I always have with me.

I asked for Saint Michael to help soothe her.

This will pass, ma'am,

so long as you stay strong

and remain close to God.

I do, Father, but it's useless.

In these cases,

it's necessary to consider all possibilities.

Our devotion can blind us to reality,

the same reality that should appear before us most clearly.

With all due respect, Father,

you don't know anything.

You haven't seen what I've seen.

It is the Devil that's possessing my daughter!

She needs help.

Have you ever considered the possibility that the one who is actually possessed...

is you?

And then it became much worse.

Jessy's attacks were more frequent.

She was already attacking me.

She was throwing things at me.

She started treating me with anger and suspicion.

Then I met with Ismael, he was our neighbor.

I'm Francisco Ismael Moreno Luna.

I have a degree in psychoanalytic anthropology.

I wanted to help out my friend, Sully,

so I met with her daughter.

Sully told me that

Jessy had come to fall under certain influences.

PSYCHIATRIST

When someone comes to you and says, "My relative's possessed..."

Jessy, are you okay? Who are you?

REAL FOOTAGE

But then I ask, "How do you know?"

"Well, it's just that my niece says that she has a demon inside her."

And then I'd say, "Let's go check on your niece."

But then it's the other way around,

and the niece would say that the aunt is actually possessed,

and she would add,

"Every time she looks at me, I feel something invading my body."

"Every time she approaches, I feel a cold wave wash over me."

So, then, we have to figure out who the real patient is.

The way I work, the person makes an appointment and comes in.

REAL FOOTAGE

Holy blessed Trinity, sovereign and eternal God.

Free us from the prison and the pain of hell...

Most people have passed the biological, psychological and psychiatric process.

Once those parameters are met,

the treatment starts and it's a long process.

Within a demonic possession, there are different levels.

There's in between, when one entity has more control than the other.

REAL FOOTAGE

Then finally, there's one that is a total possession or so-called fusion...

POSSESSION

...where that entity, that spirit, merges with the person.

The individual loses total consciousness and touch with reality

and is incapable of dominating the spirit.

Help me!

ON AIR

Andrea, I wanted to ask you...

Did you see any physical entities?

Yes.

It had a tall, full body.

When I began writing down the strange things happening to me,

they seemed to get worse.

Once, I did see an entity on my computer while I was writing.

I don't think my mom had any idea what was happening.

CONCEPCIÓN'S DAUGHTER

What did I tell you?

Then, the next day, things were normal.

She went to work and came home that afternoon.

The next day, I went home and put all the dolls in a bag.

I was sad she was taking away my dolls.

And I didn't understand why.

Did the devil want to separate me from my children? Yes.

My brother told me I needed to dedicate myself to prayer.

Close to sin.

I would rather die than offend another.

And will avoid anything that leads me to sin.

Within eight days,

he returned... to attack me.

My mother... started acting very strangely again.

Then she ran away.

Assholes!

I felt awful. I was desperate to run away from it.

Assholes! Motherfuckers!

CONCEPCIÓN'S DAUGHTER

My mom suddenly ran into the road.

Look out!

A few streets over from my grandma's house, she was run over.

I got up like nothing happened.

A boy got out of the car and told me, "I'll drive you to the doctor, let's go."

I told him, "No." And ran off to find my brother.

And, by the grace of God...

Óscar! Óscar!

- Concepción? - Can you help me?

Help me!

My brother told his roommates to take me to the doctor.

He said he didn't want to see his sister like this.

My mom had been injured.

- Was your sister under the influence? - No.

Are you sure?

My sister...

My sister is possessed.

No, no, no.

No, no, no. No, no.

The doctors calmed me down by injection because I couldn't do it myself.

They conducted laboratory tests

to see if I was under the influence of drugs or alcohol.

Then, the doctor told my brother,

"Your sister is in a deep state of possession."

There are three major reasons I believe the demon stalked my mother.

The first is that she has a sister involved in witchcraft.

Her practice involves calling upon demons,

summoning demons, naming demons, casting spells.

Casting spells on people of importance in Mexican politics.

Second, my mother was very emotionally vulnerable at that time.

She was going through a divorce,

and separated herself from my siblings' father.

And finally, the last factor, I believe, was Gregorio Cárdenas

and the gruesome murders he carried out against women.

The house where he committed the murder of those women

was very close to the house where my mom experienced these paranormal activities.

I don't think this is a coincidence.

FOUR GIRLS MURDERED BY CHEMICAL SCIENCE STUDENT

That man was a chemistry student at school.

He kidnapped them and took them to his house.

Then, he would rape the girls and kill them.

My mom knew she had to look for help.

She had to find someone who could tell her what was going on.

My uncle eventually realized

that this was not something that could be explained scientifically.

At that point, he got in touch with a priest,

who was a friend of the family, who practiced exorcism.

The need for a warrior of light is a call.

A call from God to fulfill His mission.

The purpose of the evil, the demons, is destruction.

It's like a kind of revenge against everything that God created.

I am Bishop Cristian Piedrahita.

INDEPENDENT LUTHERAN BISHOP

I specialize in deliverance, healing, and exorcism.

The international classification of diseases created by the WHO...

CHILD PSYCHIATRIST

...describes a diagnosis known as trance and possession disorder.

TRANCE AND POSSESSION DISORDER

It's a form of dissociative identity disorder,

in which a person loses awareness of their own identity,

of the environment they are in

and their relationship with that environment.

Within this loss of identity, an alternate personality is created,

one that lives unconnected to the original person.

Help me!

It's believed that this can occur through a demon or a spirit.

I break the types of possession into two types.

Type A are disembodied spirits, people who lived like us.

When they left our world, they didn't find the kingdom of heaven,

so they're stuck in a world in between.

Most possession cases fall under this category.

Type B are fallen angels...

angels that God created for his service,

but at one point, they rebelled against Him.

They attempted to overthrow Him, so God banished and cursed them.

They live in a parallel world,

a dimension where the spiritual world and the material world interact.

This is where the strongest and most dangerous possession cases occur.

People who dedicate themselves to the ministry of exorcism

are no ordinary people.

They must be strong-willed and brave,

and Father Basilio is like that.

The devil can deceive us all.

He draws his strength from deceit and lies.

That is why these processes

are so important in the fight against evil.

The devil is not as scandalous as we sometimes think.

He can be quite subtle, invading spaces abundant with light.

I arrived at Sully's house

because she had asked for my help.

She told me she had a problem with her daughter.

So, would you like coffee?

Of course. Thank you.

Jessica.

How are you?

Who are you texting?

- Your boyfriend? - Ismael!

Stop it! Jessy!

Jessy!

- Jessica, stop it! - No!

Please! Stop!

- Stop it! - Hey, Jessy, Jessy, Jessy, Jessy, Jessy!

Hold her! Hold her!

Even though Zamudio says demons don't linger after being exorcised,

I think they do.

About a month after the demon should've left the house,

it was still there, all the way until Halloween.

Emma, honey.

What are you doing?

Do you like my hair?

What nice long hair you have!

Like my friend's.

Which friend?

Her name's Baku.

That name stuck in my head, Baku.

Emma started telling me that she played a lot with Baku.

Why don't you tell me a little more about this friend of yours?

She doesn't want me to.

She says if I do...

Shh.

And if you do?

Jessy was completely possessed.

- What are you doing? - This is real!

It's real, it's real! This is for the priests to see!

Our Father, who art in heaven,

your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven!

How dare you! Why?

This is real! This is real!

I was surprised

because the demon's energy that we normally can't see,

that we normally can't even perceive, was present in that moment.

REAL FOOTAGE

Listen to me!

This is the last time I'll speak to you again.

Let her go right now.

She doesn't belong to you.

Release her!

I bind, gag and chain you, and place you at the feet of Jesus Christ.

Go and burn in the pool of brimstone and divine fire,

in the name of the Father, of the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Do not rebel before the divine presence.

Go away from here.

I will not repeat myself.

Is your friend good or bad?

Mmm...

I tell her not to kill.

"I ask her not to kill people."

It was something to be afraid of.

I was terrified.

I said, "Who are you?"

Let her go!

What is your name? What is your name?

What is your name? Tell me your name!

When I asked them who they were,

well...

the name revealed a lot of implications.

Right?

Demons usually form a legion where one dominates over the others.

And that demon was...

It was...

Honey! Honey! Honey!

It said, "I will not leave."

It said, "You're not going to take me out of her."

"You have no power over me."

Father Basilio was immensely meticulous in documenting the process.

He was confident he knew what had happened to my mom and could explain it to me.

To find a solution.

I had to make him understand that what I was telling him,

what my mother had told me, was not a lie.

It was not some figment of her imagination or taken from a movie.

And he verified what he had seen,

what he had witnessed, and what he had done to help her.

Deliverance is sometimes seen as a means to destroy evil.

However, we seek to expel and illuminate.

That's different.

We all have darkness in us.

We are all prone to evil.