Paranormal Survivor (2015) s04e01 Episode Script

I was scared to death.
It wasn't a person.
You are about to see real people I knew this had to be a ghost.
reliving horrifying paranormal encounters for the first time.
A-ah! Something horrible happened.
When a home's previous occupants come back to terrorise the current owners.
It was just like a shove.
[Screaming.]
There was definitely danger.
There's something not right here.
Get out.
I buried this for nearly 30 years.
Be prepared to be afraid.
Paranormal Survivor, interview with Wendy Laycock, take one.
We moved into our home in 2009.
It was a beautiful area.
It has a half acre of property, very mature trees.
It's just a very quiet setting.
Wendy and Glenn would soon discover their new home was not as perfect as it first appeared.
The first day we moved in, Glenn went down to check the furnace room.
[Crashing.]
We were hearing things.
My initial reaction was that there's something not right here.
It's an older home, but you know, older homes, you have little creaks and you just sort of write it off.
[Banging.]
I was about to walk out of the basement and the door slammed in my face.
It slammed so hard that the actual frame of the door rattled.
Half a step more and I would've actually caught that door full on in the face.
Glenn? What happened? He came up and he was visibly shaken.
He said, "Someone just slammed the door on me.
" Are you okay? It just forced him backwards.
Door slammed right in my face.
At the time, I made a joke saying, "I guess the house is haunted, the door just slammed in my face.
Ha-ha.
" We laughed about it.
Because I couldn't explain it.
The door slam was sort of the start.
I was kind of like, okay, what else is going on here? All right.
Hey, what about the drinks? Oh, right.
One evening, I just stood up from the couch to go to the kitchen and I just stopped.
And Wendy said, "What's wrong?" And I said, "There's an old lady standing in our kitchen!" She was kind of stooped, had long greyish hair, older style frumpy dress, eyes were black.
He says, "Don't you see here?" There's an old lady in our kitchen.
And I said, "Who?" He says, "The woman in the kitchen.
" He said, "She was standing right there.
" There was an old lady.
The time it took me to look at Wendy to tell her that, to look back, she was gone.
There was no one there.
I knew that he was visibly shaken, but I didn't see anything.
So I just assumed something was playing tricks with him.
Disturbed by the strange activity in his new home, Glenn asked around about its history.
A person we know lived at a Seniors Building, they had actually known one of the previous owners.
Can I help you? What's this? And they brought over a photo.
And the photo was the exact woman that I had described in our kitchen.
It was one of the previous owners.
She had passed away.
I said, "Do you wanna come in?" He goes, uh, I'm not coming in there.
Spirits return from the dead regularly.
Just because they pass away doesn't mean they're giving up the land.
Maybe there's unfinished business.
Maybe they don't know they're dead.
Therefore, they're still living in the house.
After our grandson, Colton, was born, our daughter Anna and her husband moved into the house with us.
And they were going to rent the basement apartment to save money for their home.
How cute this little one.
And with this new arrival came a new intensity of activity.
From time to time, we would babysit our grandson.
Just to give our daughter and her husband a chance to take a break, to get out of the evening.
[Glenn.]
I think it's time for bed.
His crib had a mobile hanging overtop of it and also some toys hanging on the bars.
[Music through baby monitor.]
And they would go off.
We'd be upstairs and we'd hear music playing in the basement.
So we would go downstairs, and as soon as you stepped over the threshold of the door into the baby's room everything would shut off.
Then we thought, we'll remove the batteries from the mobile, from the toys.
[Music through baby monitor.]
And they would still go off.
[Music through baby monitor.]
Glenn and I just stood there looking at each other like, what is going on? We began to hear voices.
At first, it was just sort of syllables, random syllables.
And then It was a man's voice.
[Indistinct man's voice.]
We would hear laughing.
[Laughing through baby monitor.]
It was not a nice laugh.
As soon as we heard the laugh, we ran.
I thought for sure there was someone in our home.
I thought for sure there was someone in beside Colton.
And I got to him and there's no one there.
We were kind of in shock and disbelief at the time.
I stayed with Colton that night.
There was no way he was sleeping downstairs in that room by himself.
I stayed there until they got home.
[Clock ticking.]
That didn't put a stop to the strange activity in Colton's room.
One night, Colton's father was in the room with him There was a rocking chair they had beside the crib.
How's he doing? He's doing all right.
[Chair creaking.]
And the rocking chair was rocking back and forth.
It was just rocking on its own.
That really is a creepy and very frightening thing.
Disturbing events were plaguing homeowners Glenn and Wendy Laycock.
[Wendy.]
Glenn? Door slammed right in my face.
Glenn and I just stood there like, what is going on? And now it was happening around their grandson, Colton.
The rocking chair was rocking back and forth.
And then it would stop.
And then it would start to rock again.
So, my son-in-law pulled out his phone and videotaped it.
This went on for quite some time.
The whole thing with the rocking chair was unsettling.
Everyone started getting a little on edge and things were escalating.
Spirits will often focus their attention on babies and young children.
If it's a negative entity, it could be there to take energy from the child, from the baby.
It's a very dangerous situation.
Fearing for Colton's safety, Wendy and Glenn's daughter and son-in-law moved out.
My house didn't seem safe anymore.
It just didn't feel like it was a home.
After my daughter and her family moved out, I gutted the basement.
We just wanted it changed, thought maybe it would go away and leave us alone.
But altering the basement had the opposite effect.
After I did the reno, things were happening on a much more regular basis.
The crying at night [Woman crying.]
Conversations, crying, laughing Did you hear that? it was just like the whole house had woke up.
It was just constant noise.
[Gasping.]
It was like somebody was really upset.
[Screaming.]
[Spirits shouting.]
No, no, no! The spirits were getting stronger and Wendy became their target.
In the mirror, I could see bruises, a huge hand mark on my elbow.
And I put it up closer to the mirror and I'm like, those are fingers, that's a hand mark! Like, what happened? I put my hand overtop of it and it was a hand that was larger than mine.
We just couldn't believe it.
It was just huge.
There was like the fingerprints and the thumbprint on the other side.
It was like something had grabbed her arm.
Wendy's nighttime injuries were only the start.
It just felt like someone had their hand on the middle of my back.
And it just pushed me straight downwards.
I just went head-first into the hallway.
Someone pushed me.
I was like, what happened to me? When Wendy was pushed, my reaction was anger.
Something has attacked my wife.
How do you, how do you fight back against that? That was the last straw.
I was done.
I'd had enough of the house.
We were both shaken up about it and that's when we made the decision, this stops now, this really needs to stop now.
[Knocking on door.]
Wendy and Glenn called in paranormal investigator Lynda Quirino and her team for help.
May I come in? Yes.
When I entered the home for the first time, I sensed definitely that there was a very charged atmosphere.
It felt very heavy and it did feel that there was something lurking.
A spirit has to be very powerful in order to actually grab or to create bruises of some kind or to push them.
There was real concern for Wendy's safety.
We had our K-II EMF detectors and we walked around asking a lot of questions.
Is there anyone here? We ascertained pretty quickly that the spirits were rather strong.
And it would take a little more coaxing for them to leave.
The smudging process involves lighting ablaze sweet grass and sage.
And then blowing that smoke into the corners of the room to touch every area of the home.
[Tina.]
Anyone here with us? As they smudged the house, one of the team took photographs.
Is there anyone here? [spirit.]
Yes.
And a man's voice came out and said, "Yes.
" And it scared us.
It was like, "Wow.
" And the man's voice said, "Please, go.
" [spirit.]
Please, go.
Tina didn't see anybody, but one of her photographs she took, the mirror has a full picture of a man.
The man in the mirror, he looks like a mortician or like that era where they wore the hat and the jacket.
That's who I see in there.
The medium on the team said that two women that were in the home just loved the house.
They wanted to stay there.
They were no harm at all.
But the man, he had to go.
He wasn't very nice.
[Lynda's team chanting.]
Those beings not of the light are not welcome in this home, it's time to move on.
She asked whatever beings were not of the light, to please leave.
But the male spirit had no intention of leaving.
Those beings not of the light are not welcome in this home! After being pushed down the stairs I just went head-first into the hallway.
homeowner Wendy Laycock called in paranormal investigators.
They found a male spirit who wasn't going anywhere without a fight.
Those beings not of the light are not welcome in this home! Energetically, he was very strong.
That tells me he was an incredibly powerful spirit attached to the land and didn't wanna leave.
It's time to move on! He just was not a pleasant person, so it focused on getting rid of that energy.
Those beings not of the light are not welcome in this home! Time to move on! The team was successful crossing over the spirits.
I cried the whole time.
After the house was cleansed, it was a completely different feeling in the house.
It was fresher.
It just didn't feel like a heaviness in the air anymore.
Looking back and seeing what all happened, it's almost like a dream.
And now it's over.
We're back to being at ease and having a great family life.
To be haunted by a once living soul is truly terrifying.
But what happens when the spirit coming back from the grave is someone you once knew? Gone but Not Forgotten, take one.
Marking.
[Angela.]
My dad lives in a fairly new house just outside of town.
So, my dad has pretty much any ailment that you can possibly think of.
He's had a heart attack with quadruple bypass.
He's suffered from a stroke a few years ago.
The stroke left him with some slight paralysis and some communication issues as well.
[Joanne.]
Remember that dad? [Angela.]
Joanne was my stepmother.
My dad started dating her when I was 14 years old, so she was like a second mom to me.
Joanne was actually my dad's primary caregiver.
Unfortunately, a few years later, Joanne lost her own health battle and succumbed to cancer.
After Joanne had passed, I was definitely worried about his health.
[Angela.]
Hey, Dad.
I got you some food.
He would sink into a bit of a depression, so he wasn't sleeping as well at night.
That wouldn't be the only way Joanne's passing would affect their lives.
At that point, it has been about two months after Joanne had passed when he'd start complaining about not sleeping at night.
Something was keeping him awake.
[Wally moaning.]
I asked him where the noise was coming from.
And he was very frustrated, and he was saying things like, "I don't know how.
I can't tell you.
" [Angela.]
He knew in his mind what it was but he couldn't get it out to me why was waking him up at night.
I felt very frustrated.
I felt helpless.
I just wanted to make him comfortable.
I wanted him to sleep at night.
I know that would affect his health.
Soon it wasn't just Wally having experiences that defied explanation.
We would start to feel uneasy in the house.
[Angela.]
Pulling up in the driveway, and I don't know if it was just anxiety but I would try to ground myself before even walking into the house.
It was hard to breathe.
It was almost like you were instantly exhausted.
It felt almost like it was squeezing you.
Squeezing the life out of you.
You just didn't wanna be there.
Just didn't feel welcoming to be in the home.
With her father's condition deteriorating, Angela hired personal support workers, PSWs, to care for him.
So, I noticed things strange start happening in the home.
We would notice like the lights would go on and off in the spare bedroom.
We would close the spare room door and it would open and close by itself.
Almost like someone was coming and going.
Well, you have a good night's sleep.
[Dawn.]
In the beginning, it was small things, banging, hearing footsteps, pacing up and down the hallway.
It was strange.
Things kind of increased as the days went on.
What's wrong? I'm gonna get you a blanket, okay? [Dawn.]
Is this mess from you, Wally? Some of the more active places in my dad's home would be his walk-in closet.
The girls would go in and find all the clothes on the floor.
They'd have to hang everything back up again.
The closet still had Joanne's clothing in there.
It was cold in there.
The hair on the back of my neck would stand up.
You'd shut the door and then the door would open itself.
[Dawn.]
All right, you're all right.
Here you go.
Let's get you nice and cosy.
You'd be like, no, I shut that door.
[Dawn.]
So, then you'd shut the door again.
It was like, wow, okay, I'm going crazy.
Like, I swear, I pulled it all the way shut.
I'm not quite sure why the activity would be focused in the closet.
Maybe because there was still some of Joanne's belongings in there.
It was like she still lived there.
The activity affected Wally a lot.
His blood sugar shot up really high.
He started to get infections and then his sleep was horrible.
He just wasn't sleeping at night.
It was making him sick.
It was scary.
It almost makes you not wanna go to work.
But then it also puts you into protector mode because you wanna be there to protect him in case something else was to happen.
A chance encounter revealed what was tormenting Wally at night.
My sister spent the night.
She lives out of town, so she spent the night in the spare room.
She was watching my dad on the monitor, and she could see almost like a shape sort of moving around the room.
The shape sort of moved over top of my dad.
It was pushing Dad down.
A-ah! Angela Mueller's father, Wally, was being attacked by something sinister in his sleep.
It was making him sick.
But this time, Angela's sister, Denise, was only in the next room.
The shape sort of moved over top of my dad, and you could see my dad becoming restless in bed.
It was pushing Dad down, holding him there.
He called out to her.
She ran in and jumped on the bed with him.
Within less than a minute, it had dissipated and my dad was really scared.
We decided that we had to do something.
It was affecting Dad too much.
Afraid what the entity would do to her father next [Doorbell ringing.]
Angela made contact with psychic medium Lori Kinrade.
When she contacted me, I could tell there was a lot of stress.
Obviously, her father, his health was declining because of the activity.
It was having huge effects on his health.
During the cleansing, we decided it was best for my dad to leave the house.
Right away, the crew came in and they're all saying, "Whoa, this is heavy.
" [Lori.]
It was like walking into a wall.
The energy was so heavy, so dark.
There was definitely danger.
When you're dealing with really hard-core energies, dragon's blood incense, oil called All John or John the Conqueror worked much better to seal all windows and doors.
We use sea salt and we start salting every possible corner of the home.
This also irritates them and helps move spirits.
Salt is considered a purifying agent and has actually been used for cleansing and purification throughout the ages in many different religions.
This is a realm healing agent.
When used in paranormal activity, salt can become very effective.
And it can actually stop an entity in its tracks.
Whenever you're dealing with a haunting like this, there's always a risk of being physically harmed.
[Lori.]
But that's why I call it paranormal warfare.
After cleansing downstairs, Lori headed to Wally's room to remove whatever was terrorising Wally.
[Lori.]
When we do a crossing ritual, we form a circle between us of energy.
Our Father [All.]
Our Father We call in our guides, our protectors, our spirits helpers Who art in heaven Who art in heaven--- hallowed be thy Name Visualising a white light to take any earthbound spirits, any souls that need to be crossed.
[All.]
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name The entity tormenting the family finally appeared.
She was so angry.
[Lori narrating.]
Her teeth were quite ferocious, growling and squealing.
She really did not wanna leave.
She tried to appear demonic, but I knew she was a living soul at one point.
She was determined not to go.
The only other spirit we connected with was a young female.
I believe she was simply there to help.
She was trying to convince this other spirit to cross.
But she did not want to leave.
[Spirit.]
Go Go to the little girl! The spirit finally let go and went through.
There was no way she could come back.
[Sighing.]
[Lori narrating.]
I was explaining to Angela what I'd experienced She's gone.
She described physically exactly what Joanne looked like.
And when I showed her a picture, she goes, "Okay, that's the lady that we saw.
" Even though she'd shown me in a distorted form, it was the female who we'd crossed over.
[Angela narrating.]
They said that they could see a little girl there with her trying to pull her over to the other side.
[Sighing.]
Joanne lost a daughter, years and years ago, and we hadn't told Lori that, so she didn't know.
I honestly believe that Joanne, on some level, she was trying to hurry her husband on to joining her.
And in effect, she was almost killing him.
After we were finished, we advised Angela that it might be best to finish removing Joanne's possessions and her ashes from the house.
Even though we'd crossed her over, there can still be imprint residual energy on those belongings.
It was better to just remove them.
So, when my dad returned after the cleansing, right away, he noticed.
He said, "Is it gone?" And we said, "Yeah, it's gone.
" And right away, he started crying.
Um, when my dad cried, of course, I cried too.
Made me feel like, you know, we'd fixed it for him.
It's okay.
We all cried, actually, 'cause it was just that emotionally draining on everybody.
Just knowing that she had moved on, it was nice to be reassured we weren't crazy.
Since the cleansing, my dad's health has dramatically improved.
He's not waking up all night long.
The house was lighter, felt like he could breathe easier.
It was fresh and it was home.
They definitely made a huge change in his life.
Often the spirits of the once living come back from the other side because they don't realise they died.
Others are trapped in our world by traumatic events, condemned to never find eternal peace.
Paranormal Survivor, On Deadly Land.
Interview with Jo Ellen, take one.
I was happy.
It was a good relationship and everything was happy.
In the year 2000, Jo Ellen moved into a new home with her husband, John.
Couldn't wait to do things in the home to make it more ladylike.
After settling in [Dishes clanking.]
Jo Ellen began to have strange experiences in her new home.
[Dishes clanking.]
My first thing was silverware on the counter, like if someone was getting ready to set the table.
Like, the sound of a bunch of forks and then placed on the table.
And I would hear that.
Like, dishes.
Someone moving in the kitchen.
I told John about what happened.
He's a skeptic, so, he just, you know, "ha-ha-ha," and laughed at me but [Dishes clanking.]
Jo Ellen tried to disregard the strange events.
But then her daughter, Sarah, told her something that was impossible to ignore.
We were just going to the store.
I had put her in the car seat in the back.
She said, "Mommy, there's a spirit in the car.
" A what? A spirit in the car.
And I said, "How do you know there's a spirit in the car?" And she says, "Well, ghosts are mean, spirits are very nice.
" How could she know that? There's nothing in here.
No one has ever spoke to her about stuff like that.
Most children can easily connect to the world of spirit.
They can see spirits, sometimes they can hear spirits.
Children haven't learned to shut down their psychic gifts and their psychic abilities.
They haven't learned to conform to the five sense reality.
Honey, there's nothing in the car, okay? 'Kay.
Sarah's paranormal encounters became more frequent and more disturbing.
Night, honey.
Sleep tight.
Good night.
[Sarah.]
Mom! Mom! She'd started saying, when I'd put her into bed, she's say someone's standing in the corner.
You know, "Mommy, come here.
There's a ghost standing in the corner.
" There's nothing there, okay? And I'd try and calm her down and say, "Oh, it's okay.
It's a shadow.
" Night.
[Screaming.]
Homeowner Jo Ellen Ferkile's daughter, Sarah, was used to seeing spirits in their house.
There's a spirit in the car.
A what? But then the hauntings took a darker turn.
She started saying, "There's a ghost standing in the corner.
" There's nothing there, okay? And I'd try and calm her down and say, "Oh, it's okay.
It's a shadow.
" [Screaming.]
She started screaming.
[Sara.]
Mom! I had talked to her to tell these spirits to leave her alone.
So, she would sit in her bed and say, "Leave me alone.
I'm trying to sleep.
" Please, spirit, go away.
Spirit, go away.
Spirit, go away.
That seemed to work for awhile.
The spirits soon returned and with disturbing results.
I was in the shower at the time.
We had a toy room and she went to play.
Within a couple minutes [Screaming.]
she was screaming at the top of her lungs.
[Screaming.]
Mom! Mom! Mom! She comes in the bathroom, "Mommy! Mommy! Mommy! This lady tried to scratch me!" What's wrong? She just went like this.
And like with her teeth, and she leaped forward and went like that with her hand.
Show me, show me.
She showed me where it happened, exactly the spot she was at.
So, I looked around and I said, "Well, she's not here now.
" She wouldn't play there anymore.
What concerned me the most is that she was gonna scratch her or hurt her in any way.
It wasn't just Sarah that was getting attacked.
I work at night, so I come in at late hours.
I come in very quiet, try not to wake up the family.
And I will sit on my couch and play a game of my solitaire, you know, to wind down.
[Creaking.]
I would hear noises.
[Rustling.]
I kept saying to myself, "I'm just gonna pretend I don't hear it.
" This one particular night, I went to sleep.
Fell asleep on the couch.
My face was facing the back of the couch.
[Gasping.]
In the middle of the night, I felt someone push me from the chest.
Just like a shove.
Like the spirit's getting mad for some reason.
That was it.
I was done.
I have to get somebody in here, find out what's going on.
I needed answers.
That's when I contact Mark.
I received an email from Jo Ellen.
She was asking for help at her house.
She was obviously concerned for the welfare of her daughter.
On this investigation, I brought Cheryl, our psychic medium.
[Cheryl.]
I have the ability to communicate with spirits.
I'm an empath, so I will feel the emotion coming off of the spirit.
When I arrive at a location to do an investigation, I try to get a general feel for the energy in the space.
[Mark.]
We don't tell our psychic mediums anything prior.
In this case, Cheryl did not have any information at all on the investigation or any other activity that was occurring.
There's a lot of anger in here.
In this particular case, all of my attention was initially drawn to the kitchen area.
And there was a feeling of anger that was happening.
And I started to experience sounds.
You know, hearing plates breaking, hearing things banging, like cupboards banging.
Something that I found a bit unique was Jo Ellen was reporting different types of feelings and sensations in different parts of the house.
The kitchen, it was a crazy scattered energy.
When she went up to the second floor where her daughter slept This is where the sadness is.
this was an area that Cheryl started feeling very sad in.
You just wanted to cry.
As she walked through this house, she picked up every single thing that I went through and experienced, like to a "T.
" That's amazing.
That's just totally amazing.
The sadness was overwhelming.
[Cheryl.]
There's a little closet up in that bedroom.
That's where I located that the ghost had been hiding.
And this is where she would go to cry.
It's okay.
You don't have to be scared.
Something happened that made you sad.
You can tell me what it is.
I instantly got a sense of something horrible had happened.
[Spirit screaming.]
After an evil spirit attacked her daughter She was screaming at the top of her lungs.
Jo Ellen Ferkile called in paranormal investigators.
Psychic medium Cheryl Evans found the spirit but was shocked by what she discovered.
I want to help you.
[Spirit screaming.]
I instantly got a sense of a very violent event.
She kept crying, "I can't get him! I can't get him!" Something horrible had happened.
Cheryl began to get a vision of what had happened.
There had been some kind of explosion or a fire connected to the property, like a big bang energetically.
[Spirit screaming.]
There used to be a squib factory that was on the premises here.
There was a major explosion.
This woman that lived on the second floor, she saw her child burn in front of her.
And that never left her.
The combination of that guilt and that sadness prevented her from crossing into the light when she died.
[Cheryl.]
She gave me the name Laura Dunn.
At some point, there was a history of the property done and there was a woman named Laura Dunn who resided in an apartment above a factory.
And that factory did have a fire, did have an explosion.
This woman did lose at least one child.
It was so sad.
You feel so bad for this woman that this happened, such a devastation.
You need to cross over into the light.
Cheryl attempted to remove the spirit from the house.
Cross into the light.
[Spirit Screaming.]
Initially, she didn't wanna go.
She almost felt that she deserved to be suffering.
Help this spirit cross over into the light.
Some people, for a number of different reasons, refuse to cross over.
And it's very important that this process be done.
[Tammy.]
If someone has lost loved ones [Spirit crying.]
They may still stay in that area trying to complete unfinished business, which would be saving the children.
[Spirit crying.]
[Tammy.]
If you don't cross over, it means you're trapped between worlds.
You're not in the physical and you're not in heaven.
So, you become earthbound, you become stuck.
I asked the angels if they could bring the souls of her children to the door, so she could see that her loved ones were already on the other side waiting for her to join them.
[Cheryl.]
As soon as she realised her loved ones were there, she very willingly walked into that light.
The moment this spirit walked into the light, there was a sense of quiet.
There was a sense of peace.
It's okay.
She's gone now.
The house was a totally different atmosphere, even my daughter noticed the next morning.
You're doing so well.
[Jo Ellen.]
Emotionally, I was feeling relieved because she had crossed her and I felt really sorry for this woman.
Like, I felt really bad that she went through what she went through.
[Gasping.]