15x05 - k*ller Smile

[bunniefuu]

[Amy] The guy is laughing.

He's bouncing off the ceiling,
the walls...

I'm getting nervous.

Damn!

I have witnessed my husband
battle something

while he's asleep.

Like, I'm fighting for my life
in there sometimes.

It's attacking him!
He's [bleep] all over the place.

[exhaling] It's like out of
a horror movie, right? - Yes.

It would've been a nightmare.

I let him sit there
and fight this thing!

[in a high-pitched voice]
Who does that?

[sniffling]

[Amy] This guy's gonna
be obliterated.

[Amy] I'm anxious about this.

I'm getting nervous.

Damn!

Not good.

Yeah, just not good.

Something doesn't
feel right here.

[creaking]

Ooh, boy.

I don't like this. Okay.

Ow! Oh, God.

I need to take a minute,
'cause, um...

That hurt a lot.

[Steve] I'm out here in
Summerville, South Carolina.

It's about miles north
of Charleston.

I got a call from a desperate
woman named Traci.

She says she used her entire life
savings to buy a home for her family,

but the second they moved in,

the place turned
into a paranormal w*r zone.

Traci said she knows
she sounds dramatic,

but she thinks whatever's
in the house

is trying to k*ll her.

She sounds bad, and I'm really
hoping we can help her out.

So Traci, I gotta tell you.

Just driving through
this neighborhood

and coming up to this
beautiful home,

I understand why you were
drawn to it.

But, on the other side of that
when we spoke on the phone,

it sounded like it's nothing
but a nightmare here.

What the hell's going on?

We're living through hell.

This... This house that was
supposed to be our dream home...

...has turned
into our nightmare.

It sucks the life out of you.

It takes any happiness and any
hope that you have for the future

and... it steals it.

Okay.

Why don't we start
from the basics?

Who all lives in the house?

[Traci] My husband David and our
year old daughter Catherine.

[Steve] Uh, Traci,

do me a favor and give me a list

of what you guys
were experiencing here.

[Traci] We have things
moving on their own.

We're seeing apparitions
and shadow figures.

I'm having severe mood changes.

And now it's beginning
to affect us physically.

Now, you mentioned mood changes.

Tell me about that.

I will be fine and then
someone flips a switch

and I see red.

If I knew I didn't have
to pay for everything,

I would destroy...
I'd destroy everything in the house.

Really?

[Traci] It gets that bad.

And then I go after David.

The last time it got really bad.

I not only went after David,
but I went after Catherine.

And I'm gonna say something ugly

and hateful, and I'm thinking,
"Don't do that, that will hurt her so bad.

She'll never forget it."

Do you feel like something's
taking over you,

or do you just feel like
you can't control yourself?

It feels like something
is taking over me,

because it's almost like
I'm locked in my head.

But I can't...
it just comes out.

You break my heart. I just...

You were feeling guilty,
it sounds like

because you feel like you're
dragging your family down.

The amount of guilt I have,
you have no idea.

Um, I have an amazing husband

and the best child anybody
could ever ask for.

And I...
I put them through hell.

Any other
physical things happening?

I mean, that's got
to take its toll on you.

We will get anxiety.

We will also get no energy.

You're walking through sludge.

It sucks the life out of you.

And so, you guys
are my last hope.

[Amy] I see these outlines
of people around the campfire.

I can only make one male out.

He's thin, white,
longer brown hair...

I'm getting his emotions,
so he's like really stressed out.

He's really worried.

He knows, like,
everyone is exhausted.

I'm talking extreme exhaustion.

His legs are like jelly.

You know,
so the muscles are so exhausted.

Hmm, hmm...

So I'm thinking that...

...those kind
of emotional things...

...and physical things from
the stress and the exhaustion

may be affecting
the living here.

Some bad [bleep] went down

around this area.

[Steve] Okay, Traci.

So why are we in the garage?

This is where I come when I
feel like I am being influenced,

I am full of rage...

...to decompress.

[Steve] Are you having any
experiences while you're in here?

I have seen a shadow figure
peeking around the corner

into the bedroom.

[Steve] Describe what
it looked like.

It kind of felt like a male.

More solid.
- More solid?

Yes.
- [Steve] Okay.

What are you feeling from
this shadow figure

that's looking at you
in the bedroom?

It makes me uncomfortable.

Uh, it's an uneasy feeling.

Okay, anything else?

I feel a negative presence
or energy in the bathroom.

[Steve] Are you sure it's not
somebody walking in,

and you just feel like its presence?
- [Traci] I'm sure.

Feels like there's someone
in the corner,

and it feels heavy.

It feels dark.

So basically, this is almost
a menacing presence here.

Yeah, a creeper.

Um... you shouldn't
be in the bathroom

when I'm taking a shower.
- [Steve] Right.

When my daughter's in there,
nobody should be in there.

Okay.

[Amy] I'm hearing a male.

He is dead, and he's crying.

Uh, so he keeps wiping his eyes

and, um, he feels devastated
and lost.

I think the living would
feel this, uh...

...despair.

They're feeling the emotions,
I think,

and he feels sick.

Like, there's something
wrong with his stomach,

you know, for sure.

That's how he d*ed.

And then they're seeing him.

I... He thinks they're
seeing him, him.

[exhaling]

Literally felt like something
went "bam,"

like through my whole left side.

It hurt. A lot.

I think that they would
have severe...

an intense, like,
stomach and back pain, you know?

Like it...

[exhaling]

[quietly] Yes,
that hurt. Okay.

[Steve] All right,
so what's going on in here?

I will wake up sometimes
in extreme pain

in my kidneys, um,
I will wake up with bruising.

What parts of the body
are they on, mostly?

[Traci] My legs a lot.

Is it, to you, like you're in
bed and it looks like

somebody's grabbing your legs?

Something like that?
- [Traci] Yes.

With both hands.

They're not a pattern that
would be found on my bed,

or by one of our animals.

How many times
has this happened?

It's happened probably two dozen
times since we've moved in.

All right, anything else?

I have witnessed my husband
battle something full-on

while he's asleep.

It's happened multiple times.

What's... what's going on?

He is yelling, "Stop! No!"

He'll roll over,
he will push his arms out

like he's trying to push
something off of him.

He does not recall
when he wakes up.

So in your opinion, does it feel
like he's being physically att*cked?

[Traci] It does feel like that.

In his voice,
it sounds like you can hear pain.

Thanks a lot. Okay.

So I gotta ask you
something, Traci.

What do you think is here when
it comes to the paranormal?

I think there's something...

...that's not human outside.

And I think
there's something inside,

or multiple things inside.

Either way, they don't
belong here.

And they're making our lives
a living hell.

I'm hanging on by a thread.

[Amy] I...

...encountered a very
odd male.

He's creepy and he's got
this big smile.

So he did something to a male...

...who was...

...sleeping?

The guy is laughing.

He's bouncing off the [bleep]
ceiling, the walls,

he's laughing.

He's very, very bad.

He's attacking him.

He's [bleep] all over the place.

There's some kind of impact
to the mid-chest.

I feel like it's a punch
to the chest.

Like, he's kind of claiming,
like, "I was just scaring him..."

But this male is feeling,

like, he's being att*cked.

What was his experience?

He's like stuck.

Can't move his arms,
trying to move his arms.

Like, feeling like there's
a person on him.

Something's on him.

You know, "Get it off me."

[Steve] So Catherine,
I spoke with Mom earlier.

She thinks something
in the house

is making her
fly off the handle.

I mean, do you agree?

Yes, sir.

It's tough.

Yeah, I can definitely tell
she's not herself.

The rage... it's...
you can't even describe it.

It's scary leaving,

like if I have to go to school,

but I know she...
she's having an episode or a hard time,

that I don't want to leave
her alone.

Okay.

What about experiences here?

What can you tell me about
that you've had?

I've seen a creature standing
outside of my window.

[Tony] Okay. This window here?
- [Catherine] Yes, sir.

When you say "a creature,"
what are you talking about?

I could only see from
the torso up.

Okay.
- [Catherine] Um...

But it... it seemed
really tall.

And it was...

...pitch black.

This was at night?
- [Catherine] Yes, sir.

[Steve] Could it have been
somebody from college

playing a prank, maybe?

No, sir. The shape of it...
It wasn't human.

Okay, anything else?

I was in the bathroom
one morning.

I was just standing at the sink,

brushing my teeth, and something
pulled the shower curtain open.

But there wasn't anything there.

And I was the only one
in the bathroom.

I know you guys got pets.

I mean, was any
of the pets in the room?

No, sir.

What did you do?
'Cause I think I would've ran out.

I think I kind of
just... froze.

It's shocking,
but you always get used to it.

So... - Okay, you guys are
basically numb to everything

that's going on.
- Yes, sir.

Okay. So anything else?

One time I saw the reflection of a
man standing behind me in my mirror.

Here in this room?
- [Catherine] Yes, sir.

He was standing in my doorway.

Okay, you're sure nobody
came walking into the house

trying to rob the place, right?
- [Catherine] Yes, sir.

Dad was sleeping,
Mom was sleeping...

How are you sleeping at night?

I think I try to block it out.

Okay.
- [Catherine] Um...

I mean, sometimes you
still get that feeling

of you're laying there and you feel
something in the room with you,

even if you're
not seeing anything,

you can tell someone's.
like, standing right next to you.

[Amy] That creepy smiling guy
is out here.

His eyes are sewn...

uh, shut.

Uh, and they're kind of
caved in.

He's got this smile
on this face,

and the smile is not normal.

It's, like, grotesque.

So it's big.

And you can just see his...
his teeth.

He's very, very bad.

I tried to get more info
out of him,

but then he turns into, like,
a complete shadow person.

And now he loses all of
the features in the hair.

His head becomes
completely round,

and there's just that smile.

Now he kind of becomes
like a stick figure

with a smile.

He started climbing the walls,
and then he, like,

disappeared out the wall.

Oh yeah, he's bad.

[Steve] So David,
I've talked to your wife earlier.

She seems like a very
sweet woman, right?

Yeah.

But it sounds like she
just totally changes.

Yeah, it's... it's like
night and day.

What do you see happen?

Just... rage.

Um...

Hatred.

It's almost indescribable.

It's like she could lose
her mind and then,

like, flip everything.

And then just go nuts.

It's insane to see it.

It's gotta be a little
stressful for you.

Yeah, very.

So, have you had any experiences
that you can't explain?

Yeah, the smoke detectors
go off by themselves.

All right, so was this
one defective...

...smoke detector?

No, we have three
throughout the house.

Okay.

At different times,
one would go off.

That's odd.
- [David] Yeah.

Were there any signs
that smoke might've...

...into the house?
- No. No.

There was no
electrical problems?

No, they're not hard-wired.
It isn't battery operated.

All right, is there anything else you
can tell me that you can't explain?

Yeah, the dogs and the cats

are staring...

...at things we can't see.

And they're...
they're, like, fixated on it? - Yes.

Our dog, he sat here...

...one night, and just
looked up there and barked.

And you couldn't shut him up.

All right, so let me
ask a question.

Do you have a crawlspace
up there?

[David] Yup.

[Steve] What's your thoughts
on it, though?

Do you think that it could
have something paranormal?

Definitely something
that's not normal.

That's for sure.

So David, I spoke to your wife.

And, uh, she explained
to me that you're going

through some stuff when you're...
when you're sleeping.

She just told me several times

just... like I'm...
fighting for my life

in there sometimes, and...

...just tossing and turning and
obviously I don't know I'm doing it.

I need to try to figure out
what's going on

or whatever, something.

'Cause...

...I don't have a clue.

[Amy] That creepy smiling guy

is obsessed with someone
in this house.

There's the living...

I'm thinking dude laying here, right?
- [cameraman] Right.

[Amy] The smiling dude...
- [cameraman] Mmm-hmm.

...is, was on him enough
like this.

[cameraman] Mmm-hmm.

[Amy] That thing
is like molesting people.

I'm thinking this might be
the same living person

whose... was on the couch!

This male is feeling like
he's being att*cked.

Occasionally, other people
might get...

...affected by him.

I think he's attracted to...

...the living male.

Person woke up, freaking out.

Do you know what he wants
to do to him?

Uh, k*ll him.

[Steve] First question I ask when
I start these investigations is,

"Who was the original owner
of my client's land?"

Usually it's someone boring
and I move on.

But in this case,
it's different.

I'm on my way to meet
a genealogist

who says the first owners
experienced nothing but misery

the second they bought
the property.

And it all ended with a m*rder.

Well Jeff, thanks for helping
me out with this case.

This family, what can you
tell me about them?

Yeah, the matriarch
of the family

was a lady
named Harriet Harllee.

She was born in
in South Carolina,

and when she was in ,

she married her first husband.

His name was Robert Graham.

And the Grahams really had
a lot going for them.

They had money,
they had social status,

and eventually they had
nine children.

All right, so, uh,
what about her husband?

What did he do? - Robert Graham
was a judge in the Charleston area.

And he had a pretty fascinating
ancestral background.

His great grandfather arrived in
the Carolinas in from England.

His grandfather fought
in the Revolutionary w*r.

And Robert himself was a colonel

in the Confederate Army
during the Civil w*r.

All right, so a lot of history
with this family.

Definitely.

So I know when they got to my
client's property, things went bad.

You told me that, but,
what about before that?

Was everything okay?

Unfortunately not.

Um, they actually lost
their first daughter Harriet.

Uh, she was only
six months old in .

A few years after that,
they lost a son, Archie.

He was only two years old.

Then in , Judge Graham himself
passed away from yellow fever.

He was only .

And this was
the judge's obituary.

Okay.

All right, so things
are tough for this woman.

She's got two dead kids now.

Does it get better for her
at all?

No, they actually get worse.

Not long after
Judge Graham d*ed,

uh, one of her children
d*ed from food poisoning

as a result
of eating bad chicken.

Bad chicken?

[Jeffrey] Yeah,
and here's an article about that.

[Steve] Okay,
so now we got a widow.

She's down
to six kids, unfortunately.

When does she remarry?

Um, she remarried
to Benjamin Muckenfuss,

and they had one daughter
named Nell.

Uh, when did they actually
come and, uh,

purchase my client's property?

Yeah, in ,
the family decided to leave Charleston

and move up
to the Summerville area,

and they bought a large
tract of land

that included the property
that your client owns now.

[Steve] All right,
so we know things went bad

when they got on
my client's property.

How soon?

Uh, pretty quick, actually.

Eight days after they
settled on the land,

uh, their daughter Nell
d*ed of whooping cough.

She was only four years old.

This is her death certificate.

[Steve] All right,
so this poor woman went through tragedy

no one should have to deal with.

But you mentioned on the phone
about a m*rder.

What the hell happened
with that?

Yes, actually, in , um, Harriet's
oldest surviving son Robert Graham Jr.,

uh, was m*rder*d.

Uh, he had entered a store
in Stallsville,

which is about a mile from
your client's house.

Okay.

There was a man in there
named Luke Chisolm,

he had been drinking.

Uh, the two got
into an argument...

...it turned violent.

Uh, they rolled out the door
into the street,

and Chisolm had an iron bar
and b*at him over the head.

I swear, this woman
endured more heartache

than anybody should
have to endure.

How'd she handle all this?

I think that was the straw
that broke the camel's back.

Uh, she d*ed of pneumonia.

Um, she was years old.

[Steve] It's amazing she lived
as long as she did.

I mean, just the stress alone I think
I would've lost it a long time ago.

Yeah, is impressive to live that
much of a life through tragedy.

[Amy] I'm seeing that creepy
smiling dude again.

All of a sudden,
his hair becomes long.

And it has that curl,
and it has a bow.

You know, back in the day.

The dudes used to have that.

It was wigs, usually.

He's got that, like,
kind of French

or maybe English style
of clothing

from the s to the s.

He's showing that this is
in his family lineage.

I think they were the original
owners of the land here.

[bell ringing]

[cameraman] Did you get a sense
of when the smiley guy d*ed?

Like s.

He was relatively young, though.

Like, did he die young?

I think he was the last one
to die.

Or at least the last psychopath.

[chuckling] I don't know,
in the family...

[Steve] So far,
I have a desperate client

who believes the paranormal is
causing her to lash out at her family,

on a property where
the original owner's son

was beaten to death.

But, I want to see if
there's anything else.

Searching through old records,

I find the previous owner
of Traci's house

was k*lled in a hit-and-run
accident while out riding his bike.

I'm heading over to meet
a retired cop.

She's looking into this case
for me,

and says the hit-and-run driver
barely got a slap on the wrist.

I know she's gonna piss me off,

but I gotta find out
what happened.

[Steve] Well, Dr. Love.
Thanks for looking into this for me.

I appreciate that.

[Dr. Love] Yes, sir.

[Steve] So before we get to
the hit-and-tun,

what do we know about
the victim?

Well, William Adams Jr.
was born in .

And this is
his high school picture.

[Steve] What did he
do for a living?

[Dr. Love] He retired
from the Air Force

after years,
and when he retired,

he became a civil engineer

at the Charleston Navy Shipyard.

All right, Dr. Love.

So let's get to the action
and what happened.

So William, Bill,
was an avid bicycle rider,

and early Saturday morning,
July th, ,

he was riding his bicycle
on Dorchester Road.

And he got hit by a car.

There was no witnesses
at the time,

and the driver fled the scene.

[Steve] Geez,
this guy d*ed young. .

[Dr. Love] He did. - [Steve] So what
was the official cause of death?

The coroner came back and said
that he had massive head injuries,

um, broken bones,
and internal injuries.

All right, so I know they made
an arrest on this case.

Who was it?

[Dr. Love] A year old
Gerard Geddis.

So you mentioned on the phone that
this kid got a slap on the wrist.

I mean, what was he
charged with originally?

So originally, he was charged
with reckless homicide,

and leaving the scene
of an accident. - Okay.

And later the solicitor's office

dropped the reckless homicide
due to lack of evidence.

The judge sentenced a year
suspended on days served.

And that's it.
- [Dr. Love] That's it.

[Steve] In my book,
there's no justice here.

You hit someone and leave
the scene of the crime,

that's gotta be more
than days in jail.

[Amy] I'm seeing that older dead
guy with the stomach pain again.

He's maybe early s?

Kind of balding, uh...

...brown hair, glasses...

I think he used to maybe
own this house?

He doesn't know he d*ed.

He might've d*ed in the s,
I'm thinking.

This was a bad moment for him.

He's very upset about something.

And he's acting a little
wacked out right now.

He's crying...

He feels like
he lost everything...

He had some depression issues.

Um...

Now he's, like,
brandishing a g*n.

Okay.

What the [bleep]?

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[Steve] I just got a call
from a local historian.

He says back before
the Civil w*r,

plantation owners in this area formed
something called sl*ve patrols...

...that would literally go out
and track down runaway slaves.

He tells me these missions
would often end up in bloodshed.

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

Let's start with the basics.

I mean, this is the South.

I'm sure the sl*ve trade
was pretty big here, right?

Yeah, in fact, Charleston Port
was the main importation point

for enslaved people.

Okay, so Randy,
let's get to this sl*ve patrol.

What the hell is that?

There was such a prevalence
of sl*very in Charleston

that in the colonial
legislature enacted a law

that specified that there
would be sl*ve patrols.

And every able-bodied young man

in this area would have been required at
different times to serve on sl*ve patrols.

The sl*ve patrols eventually
evolved into the Ku Klux Klan.

That was its origins.
- Really?

How many people were in these
patrols, and what did they do?

They usually consisted of
anywhere from - individuals.

They would patrol the streets,
they would patrol the highways,

and if they encountered any enslaved
people, or freed men,

on the streets,
or on the trails,

they would accost them and
insist on seeing their papers.

Well, that was the question
I was gonna ask you.

I mean, how the hell did they
know who they were looking for?

Thousands of ads
were placed in papers,

in Charleston
and in Summerville.

Um...

...describing runaway slaves,

and offering rewards for anyone
who could bring them back.

Here's a sample of them.

[Steve] So these were the actual
ads that were in the paper?

[Randy] Yes.

Each one of these ads
represents a human being

who was trying to establish
their own freedom.

[Steve] Where would they try
to hide out?

Any particular spot?

The safest place would've been
in the marshes,

because they're
harder to get to,

and so the sl*ve patrols
would've been forced

to pursue them in some really
inhospitable territory.

What happens to these guys
if they're caught?

[Randy] It's not good.

If a runaway was caught, uh,
for the first time...

[Steve] Okay.
- ...the punishment was, uh, a whipping.

And it was usually
up to lashes.

But if you did it a second time,

they would take a branding
iron with an R on it

and sizzle it into
your right cheek.

The R for...

Runaway.
- [Steve] Runaway, okay.

And if you were caught
a third time,

they would cut off
the enslaved person's ears.

If they were caught a fourth
time and they were male,

they could be castrated.

And if they were, um,
caught a fifth time,

they would actually sever the
Achilles tendon and disable them.

I mean, it's like out
of a horror movie.

Right?
- Yes.

It would've been a nightmare.

[Amy] I'm seeing the people
around the campfire again.

There was one or two
Native American women,

- men.

It's work-related.
They're working.

And then searching
for something.

They're looking for something.

And I'm hearing,
I think it's a male,

it's a male voice.

I'm hearing, "Oh, not again!"

Like, "Not again!"

"I," you know, "I just can't
go through this again!

I cannot go through this again!

I can't deal with this anymore.

There's no hope left."

Are you able to tell yet, at
all, what they're afraid of?

The other men!

This dude has some panic
going on.

He's starting
to experience fear.

So I'm thinking he d*ed...

...a traumatic death.

I saw a lot of disturbing
things on my walk,

but the smiling man attacking
a living person

concerns me the most.

He's got his hands on the guy
who's laying in the bed.

He is thin.

All of his hair is back,

in a ponytail.

His eyes are sewn shut.

See, he's got a huge,
grotesque smile.

Yeah.

And it's all kind of oversized.

It's gross.

Is this what you saw?

Yes.

[Steve] Now that Amy and I

have completed
our investigations,

we're ready to reveal
our findings to each other,

and our clients
for the first time.

So Amy, I'd like you
to meet Traci...

...and Catherine.

They're mother and daughter.

They live here with David,

Traci's husband
and Catherine's dad.

Now, this house
was their dream come true,

and they spent years
saving for it.

But now they believe whatever's
here is ripping them apart.

These guys are praying
you can find a way

to save their home, their
sanity, and their family.

Now, unless Amy's got
some questions for you guys,

she'll tell us about her walk.

[Amy] The first thing
that I'm going to discuss

is what I encountered
in the backyard.

What I saw was a campfire
back there.

There was about...

...I don't know,
or people.

I got a lot of anxiety.

A lot of stress.

The physical exhaustion that
I felt from these individuals

was like my legs
felt like jelly.

I think the living here would really,
uh, feel this type of exhaustion.

Traci, I mean, come on.

We talked about you feeling
exhausted and anxious.

Absolutely.

Um, the exhaustion,
the draining is indescribable.

My anxiety, it does
go through the roof.

It just feels bad.

[Steve] Okay, what else we got?

[Amy] So I come inside,

and this little guy comes up.

He is, like, uh, in his s.

What I was thinking is that
he was probably an owner.

I got that he might've d*ed
in the s.

I was worried that you guys
may, uh, have experiences

with depression if he's around.

He has some stomach issues,
like really bad.

I think it has something
to do with how he d*ed.

I... felt intense pain.

Like I'd been hit
on my left side hard.

That would kind of bring in
any back pain

that you may experience.

I will wake up and feel like someone
has just repeatedly kicked me

in the kidney, overnight.

Or I will wake up and feel like
I can't walk and need a walker.

I have gone and had every scan,

all bloodwork,
everything comes back normal.

He did express that
you guys may have seen him

on a couple of occasions.

So it was in my bedroom.

There was a guy standing behind
me that I could see in the mirror.

So I of course turn around,
there's no one there. - Mmm-hmm.

I look back in the mirror,
no one's there.

[Steve] All right, now Amy,
you also said this guy can cause depression.

One of the biggest reasons
we were called in...

...is Traci here is having
severe mood swings.

And it's causing
her to lash out.

I will be completely fine,
and then all of a sudden,

I will see red.

And...

...it's instant.

I've tried to keep
Catherine out of it,

and I'm like, "I could
never say that to my child.

I would never hurt her
like that."

And then it comes...
it comes out of my mouth.

'Cause I'm usually the one,
you know,

if no one else can, like,
maybe calm her down or help her.

But even in this, like, I can't.

[quietly] No one deserves that.

Not... no one.

I would give my life for her
in a second.

And to know that I make her
feel like that

is the exact opposite of what
I've done

for the last years,
to try to protect her.

So we have a guy who d*ed
in the s

and maybe owned this house,
all right?

So...

...you might be talking about
William Adams Jr. who

was born and raised
here in South Carolina.

Um, this is actually what he looked
like in his high school days.

He was a m*llitary man and served
in the Air Force for years.

Bill bought this house
with his third wife in .

Ah!

But tragedy hit
on July th, .

Now that morning,
Bill went out for a bike ride

on an isolated road,

when suddenly he was hit
by a car.

Now, the driver took off,
and by the time

the paramedics got
to the scene, he was dead.

Oh! Hmm...
- Now, Bill was just years old.

Oh, he was young!

[Steve] The coroner's report showed
he had massive internal injuries.

They estimated he was
probably hit at about

miles per hour.

The good news is,
the cops found the low-life who hit him.

He was a year old kid

who eventually got sentenced
to a year in prison,

but only ended up doing days.

Um... yeah.
Here's an article about that. - Damn!

[Steve] Now this guy's left
behind a wife and two sons.

One of the sons was only
three years old.

I'm... sad.

For him.

[Amy] Wow!

[Steve] All right, so what else?

So there's this other male.

He's the one I'm
concerned about here.

His family goes
very way back here,

maybe about years.

They were the original owners
of the land in this area.

He is very odd-looking.

I saw him in a couple
of different forms.

Uh, but the one that really
stood out to me

was the one where he has
this, like,

really grotesque smile.

His eyes are sewn, uh, shut.

Uh, and they're kind of
caved in.

He's got this smile on his face,

and the smile is not normal.

Um, I'm terrified.

I mean, how do you
hear a description...

...of someone who can morph and
look like that? - [Steve] Right.

And know they're in your home?

Yeah.

Well, you know what?

I don't know enough to tell you
who this guy might have been.

But you said this guy
was creepy.

What does he do?

I got that this...

...dead male is very
keyed in on the male here.

And everybody else
who might be affected...

it's just collateral damage.

What I saw him doing was at
some point there was a male

laying on the couch.

And all of a sudden,
this guy comes out

and the living male is feeling
like pain in his chest.

It's because this guy was,
like, attacking him.

All right, so, I mean,
there's only one male in the house.

But, uh, before we get
to that...

...I just wanna talk about
some other stuff.

Traci, you wake up
with bruises, right?

I will wake up with bruises usually
right above my knee, and below.

Bruises that can't be explained.

[Steve] Hey Catherine,
didn't you tell me

that you saw some
creature-looking thing

from outside your
bedroom window?

[Catherine] Yes.
- Tell Amy about that.

[Catherine] One night,
I was laying in my bed,

and I had looked at my window,
and I always keep my blinds closed.

But I could see the outline
of this thing,

and, like he said,
I called it a creature

because it was human in the
fact that there was, like,

I could see a little bit
of the torso,

there were shoulders,
a neck, and a head,

but everything was taller
and elongated

so it was like humanoid...
- Mmm.

but it wasn't, like,
that's not physically possible...

[Amy] Right.
- ...for a human shape.

[Steve] Okay, you say
it's targeting David.

What's it doing?

So the other situation I saw was
going on in the main bedroom.

The smiling dude...
- [cameraman] Mmm-hmm.

[Amy]...is, was on him enough like this.
- [cameraman] Mmm-hmm.

[Amy] That thing is,
like, molesting people.

This male is feeling like
he's being att*cked.

On multiple occasions,

Catherine and I have
witnessed David...

...fighting something
in his sleep.

And he never has any
recollection of it.

He'll be saying,
"Mmm-mmm, no, stop!"

And he'll be pushing his arms.

I... I did have a sketch done of
what I saw occurring in the bedroom.

There you go.

[Traci] I'm terrified.

It makes sense,
'cause that... that room

has always been
consistently uncomfortable.

He's a good man.
He doesn't deserve it.

He doesn't...

...doesn't deserve it.

[Steve] Now, I'm curious though.

What would've happened
if these guys didn't call us

when it came to this thing?

Like I said, he's really,
really focused on him.

Uh, so I think he would've
just kept doing

what he's doing
until he got him.

[Traci] I've watched him
fight this...

...thing and I've walked
out of the room.

I let him sit there
and fight this thing!

And I walked out of the room!

[in a high-pitched voice]
Who does that?

You can't blame
yourself for that.

[Amy] Mmm-mmm...
- [Traci] Who does that?

[Traci sniffling]

[Steve] You thought you
were doing the right thing.

I was worried about my damn
self, is what I was...

...and my mood swings!

And he's in there fighting...

...the freakin' devil.

[Steve] All right, Traci,
I'll give you the good news first.

You're not crazy.

But the bad news is,
you're not crazy.

You've got some weird
stuff going on here.

Now, Amy's gonna let you know if there's
any way you can stay here and fight,

and if so, what's it gonna take.

[Amy] Okay, so...

The first thing, uh, to be done,

we're going to take care of
the people by the campfire

who are present here
in your yard.

They all need to be moved on.

I'd like you to bring in
a medium and a holy man.

What I'd like is for them
to come,

spend the day,
move everybody on.

Okay?

That will free you of the
emotions that you're dealing with

as far as any fear,
anxiety, and stress.

Oh, also the exhaustion
will go down.

As for, you know,
the other former owner,

so what I would like is for
a psychic

who is also a Reiki Master,
to come and...

...get rid of him.

When it comes to this...

...evil man,

I want a male demonologist
to come

and I want him to treat him
as if he were a demon.

This guy's gonna be obliterated.

In the meantime...

...I do not think it's safe
for your husband to be here.

It would be best if he could
stay with friends or family

until all of these things
are completed.

[Steve] That's a lot of work.
Are you gonna do it?

Yes, absolutely.

Okay.

[Traci] I mean,
this guy's got to go.

It's so much easier knowing.

Knowing that, you know,
there's a solution right around the corner,

and, like, it'll happen.

[Steve] Okay, Amy. When they do all
this, will all the fighting stop?

So that they can go back
to being a loving family?

Yes.

[Traci] You have
changed our lives.

You have changed
the trajectory of it,

the path of it, and how we're
gonna be when all of this is over.

Finally, we'll have some peace.

And feel normal.

And it's because of both of you,

so thank you so much.

You're welcome very much.

[Amy] Traci and her family
have a lot of work to do.

But I'm confident if they
follow my advice

and bring in the people
I recommended,

they should be able to live
in their home

safely and in peace.