Paranormal Survivor (2015) s04e02 Episode Script
Spirits That Harm
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.
When spirits physically harm the living.
I would've died right there.
Stop it! Go away! I buried this for nearly 30 years.
Be prepared to be afraid.
Melissa's Freaky Farm House, take one.
Marking.
The property, to me, is beautiful.
It's mostly surrounded by cornfield.
There's lots of room and we thought it'd be a perfect place to start fresh.
We moved in here around July 2017.
The property looked beautiful, spacious, lots of lawn.
And that's what we were looking for for our son, mainly.
But unbeknown to Melissa and Joe, their new home was hiding a dark secret.
The previous renters had left the place in a hurry and there was a lot of stuff left here.
[Melissa.]
Some clothing, there was a bed downstairs, there was dishes in the house.
Just things you'd think that you wouldn't leave when you know someone else is coming in.
That wasn't the only strange thing about the house.
Owen? Owen? Joe? Owen? [Melissa.]
You see shadows run by you, and sometimes, even your hair will even move like something just ran.
But you look and there's nothing there.
And that's a really scary feeling.
There's also the sounds that started happening.
[Clanking.]
Owen? [Melissa.]
So, I heard everything from banging, knocking.
I have heard footsteps Find anything? [Melissa.]
cupboard doors opening and closing as well as bedroom doors.
If they're open, they would close.
If they were closed, they would open.
[Melissa.]
I heard a noise.
It's very creepy when you know there's nothing else there and no reason to explain it.
Melissa wasn't the only one hearing strange noises.
[Banging.]
I would say within a few days of moving stuff in, noises started almost immediately.
[Banging.]
It was as if someone was taking a broom handle and banging up on the floor underneath.
It was that loud.
[Banging.]
At first, Melissa and Joe chalked up the weird sounds to the noises of a new house.
The first night in the master bedroom, I just didn't feel right in that room at all.
It was the heavy feeling.
Almost like cold and flu.
Your head is heavy, you're tired, you're achy, I get a little dizzy [Sighing.]
And she only lasted, I think it was, about four hours in there.
And she had to get up and leave.
And she took her blanket and she left, went out to the couch.
After she had left, I started to get an eerie feeling then.
A-ah! There was a pain on my leg, as if someone had grabbed ahold of me and gripped me tight.
I thought maybe it was a dream.
A-ah! The bruise was about, I would say, five inches long by about four inches wide.
And it actually looked like fingers, like, grabbing onto you and gripping you.
[Lynda.]
When an entity can reach in and grab someone and leave a bruise, they reach into this particular plane of existence.
That means that they're incredibly strong.
It also means that they can be incredibly violent.
The alarm bells would go off because of the violence and the strength.
A-ah! Joe, what happened? I don't know.
Didn't have any other explanation for it.
And this bruise lasted four or five weeks on him.
And it looked like someone's handprint.
The next night, I did not sleep in the bedroom.
No.
We moved the mattress from the spare bedroom out to the living room.
[Melissa.]
We are now both convinced that there is something more sinister in this house and we're terrified.
Soon, the activity would become more brazen.
I think it was the very first day I was left alone in the house, actually.
Melissa had left.
I heard a loud bang, just, like [Banging.]
and I jumped.
I actually jumped because it was so loud and I automatically thought, that was a cupboard door that just opened and slammed.
I didn't even get to the opening in the kitchen and I heard it one more time.
[Slamming.]
I didn't know what was gonna happen.
So, the only thing I had on me was my cellphone.
I was even terrified.
I recall shaking when I had my cellphone.
And I opened it up and I hit my video recorder.
Is there anyone here? Can you do that again? Are you still here? Go ahead and open the cupboard again, if you're here.
'Cause nobody believes it.
And the far cupboard door just ever so lightly just swung open.
Ah! Right in front of my face.
You can't explain it unless it's happened to you.
I almost dropped my cellphone, and I got the strongest feeling that someone was just literally like watching me.
Like, you asked for it, you got it.
Not long after, Joe was called away on business leaving Melissa to sleep in the living room alone.
I've got every light in the house on.
I have the TV up with the volume going to try to drown out noises.
But Melissa was not alone.
[Melissa.]
I had a black shadow figure go right across the middle of my bed.
And you freeze in fear.
Absolutely terrifying.
I couldn't move my head to look back.
All I know is it went across the bed and then disappeared.
Melissa prayed that that would be the end of the ordeal.
Her prayers were in vain.
Something grabbed my blanket, pulled it up and tucked it under my chin.
A-ah! A-ah! A-ah! I've never been so scared in my life.
A-ah! A-ah! Melissa Williamson and her husband Joe Harbin's new home was not as perfect as it first seemed.
A-ah! Something sinister was attacking them at night.
Something grabbed my blanket, pulled it up and tucked it under my chin.
A-ah! A-ah! I've never been so scared in my life.
I watched it happen but nobody's there.
Stop it! Go away! I was almost in tears, and I yelled back, you know, "Just leave me alone.
Stop it.
" I'm ready to move at this point.
I am so terrified, I'm ready to pack up and go.
Negative entities absorb fear energy because it makes them stronger.
They're able to use that, they become stronger.
And the more fear that they create in the living, the weaker the living become.
We were both on the same page at that point.
We were just both totally freaked out.
Melissa and Joe reached out to Dan Hammond, clairvoyant and paranormal investigator.
Melissa and Joe first contacted our paranormal team about mid-September.
When they came out to the house, I thought, you know what, now we're gonna make sure that everyone knows we're not crazy.
It didn't take long for Dan to run into what had been terrorising them.
I immediately saw a shadow person.
Shadow people are spirits that are trying to manifest themselves to reveal themselves to you.
Whether it's to frighten you or just to communicate with you.
I believe it was a male figure, very tall, thin.
But as soon as I saw him, he immediately vanished.
There was also something a little big malicious and darker that didn't like Joe and Melissa being here.
When the investigators tried to communicate with the shadow figure, its responses were alarming.
My name's Tony.
Is there anything here? What's your name? Tony says, "Hi, my name's Tony.
What's your name?" Is there anybody here? What's your name? [spirit.]
The devil.
And the spirit says, "The devil.
" I just had chills down my spine listening to this.
[spirit.]
Get out! All of a sudden you hear, "Get out!" Like, just right there.
Not wanting to provoke the entity, Dan suggested they leave and head to the basement but that didn't help.
What is that? Do you see this? All of a sudden, we have a box, a dehumidifier box, it was pretty heavy actually All of a sudden, that box, just as loud as it could be, is like someone just either hand swiped it very hard or kicked it.
A-ah! What's happening in our house? I think the spirit made itself known because he was a little angry with the fact that Tony and I were here.
And we're trying to make him leave.
He doesn't wanna leave the property.
The spirit, basically, was feeding off their reactions.
Collecting energy from their emotions and their energy levels getting amped up.
I think that he was jealous of Joe.
Because Joe has this great family, you know, wonderful wife and kid.
That's nothing that the spirit had in his life.
Not wanting to incite further activity, Dan and Tony attempted to remove the spirit.
It's time for you to move on from this place.
Everyone's basically telling the spirit, "You need to go.
You need to leave Joe and Melissa alone.
" And, "You don't belong here.
" It's time for you to move on from this place.
It's time for you to pass over.
It's time for you to move on from this place.
It's time for you to move on.
He didn't wanna leave, and he wasn't going to leave.
And we needed to get him outta here.
[Tony.]
It's time for you to pass over.
[spirit.]
Get out! He cleansed the house with white sage.
And he will go through every single room, every closet, every corner.
[spirit.]
Get out! We could just tell that a completely different feeling in the entire house.
It was like weight lifted off your shoulder.
It felt normal and calm.
So far, things have been wonderful.
We're sleeping in our own room, our own bed.
I don't feel that it's heavy anymore.
The activity did die down.
I already feel relieved just even saying that.
Being attacked and injured by a paranormal entity is truly terrifying.
On rare occasions, spirits don't mean to harm the living, but that doesn't make the bumps and bruises hurt any less.
We actually looked at this house a good six months before we even took a walk-through.
We argued over it.
We would drive by it and I'd be like, no, I'm not living there, no, I'm not living there.
And finally, he said, "I'm making an appointment to go look at it, whether you come or not.
" So, I came, of course.
It had sat empty for three years.
I just felt very uneasy from the minute I walked into it.
We'll take it! Great! Awesome.
Despite Sherri's reservations, her husband convinced her to buy the house.
But soon after signing the deal, the couple made a chilling discovery.
We found out the prior owner of the home, who had built the home, had lived here a few months, maybe a year, before he committed suicide in the home.
And that was very unsettling to me.
Now it made sense why the home sat empty for almost three years before we bought it.
Sherri's uneasiness about the house only intensified after they moved in.
First night we moved into the home and at three o'clock in the morning [Smoke detectors blaring.]
every fire alarm in the house went off in every single room.
[Smoke detectors blaring.]
And we were crawling on chairs to pop the batteries out of fire alarms, so that it would stop.
And it's blaring loud because it's in every room.
[Sherri.]
Still going! Did you take the batteries out? Yes, I took the batteries out! It was crazy.
[Smoke detectors blaring.]
I felt uneasy in the home right from the beginning.
I always felt as though I was being watched.
I was in the living room, and I was cleaning and dusting, and I just felt like someone was staring at me.
I did not like being in this home alone.
The longer Sherri lived in the home, the more intense the strange activity became.
Many nights, I would [Banging.]
hear the sound of the walls being punched.
And it would come closer to my bedroom, and I would hear what sounded like boots coming down the hall toward the bedroom.
When you have things such as footsteps, and lights going on and off, doors opening and closing that's a sure sign that something has come into the space that is looking to get your attention.
I would hear him coming [Footsteps.]
And then I would feel my leg being grabbed, the blankets being pulled.
A-ah! A-ah! Sherri Petrill's new home was giving her the creeps.
Then, things took a violent turn while she was sleeping.
I would hear him coming, and then I would feel my leg being grabbed, the blankets being pulled.
A-ah! A-ah! Oh, my God! Wha-what's going on? What's wrong? I felt something grab my leg.
[Sherri.]
And I would just wake up with black and blue spots on my legs.
Oh, my God.
I would bring this up to my husband and tell him what happened.
And he didn't believe me.
It was just my mind playing tricks on me.
I felt alone.
The attack left Sherri shaken.
But worse was to come.
I was sitting on the couch watching TV.
And I was just simply sitting there.
And all of a sudden, there was this horrible burn.
A-ah! Not like a curling iron burn.
I mean, like fire, like a poker in the back of my neck.
And I screamed so loud 'cause it hurt so bad.
It did leave a little red mark and my skin was very hot to touch afterward.
Being attacked and hurt by something you cannot see is something that makes you question your sanity more than anything.
I was at the point I would not be alone in this home.
This is when I realised that something was not right in this home.
And I had to do something about it.
Sherri called in a paranormal investigator.
When Sherri reached out to me, she was very scared at what was going on in her home.
She was in a very fragile mindset.
Sherri thought she was literally going crazy because of the activity going on in the home.
Virtually going on the edge of a nervous breakdown.
I called in our main medium, Virginia, to come with me on this.
We have a procedure that we do not disclose any information to the mediums we work with prior to going to a case.
When I first arrived, it just felt like something tragic happened on the property.
I was greeted with a name loud in my ear, "Peter.
" The spirit was definitely a past homeowner.
I felt he also even built the house.
I remembered this energy just staring at me.
He was giving me a look of disapproval.
I almost didn't wanna go into the house.
When I spoke to Sherri, she said she was going through a lot of physical issues.
And I can tell that it was coming from this owner, this spirit.
And his intent was so strong and he felt that Sherri was weak.
Our medium felt that this gentleman didn't like women.
He was very angry at women.
And he was very angry at Sherri being a woman, moving into his house.
He did not like her there.
He was being very aggressive toward Sherri.
Harm was being committed.
[Virginia.]
As I started to enter into the kitchen, I started to get a nervous feeling and I looked out towards the back.
I didn't know this yet.
I had no idea why I was feeling what I was feeling, or why I was feeling what I was feeling.
I had no idea.
I couldn't put my finger on it.
I looked outside that window and I heard a gunshot [Gunshot.]
very loud in my ear.
And I actually went, "Oh!" It felt like something went passed my ear.
And then I said, "Oh, Lord.
He took his life.
" Violent deaths and suicides cause entities to come back and haunt those specific locations because they're traumatic events.
When a traumatic event happens, often it catches someone off guard and they're not ethereally ready to actually enter a different realm of existence.
And it can trap them in a particular location.
But that wasn't the only spirit making Sherri's life a living hell.
Virginia was picking up on a new energy that was in the home.
It was an energy of a man that she felt was connected to the property that used to be large farmland years ago.
Virginia felt that that man was still claiming this property as his, and he didn't like this other energy in the home.
The other spirit was not a nice character.
I felt he came from a farm situation, it was a farm at one point.
And I felt that this farmer drank.
And he fell and hit his head.
So, I now was dealing with two ghosts.
The two entities that were now in my home were battling, in essence, for control of the home and the land that I was living in.
And I was caught in the crossfire between these two entities.
[Mark.]
This is a case where we believed Sherri could potentially be in danger, whether emotionally, physically.
You can get sick, you could become depressed.
People have been driven to suicide.
Virginia and I worked out a game plan that we were gonna go after the man that had been there for over 100 years.
Virginia felt that once we got rid of him that Peter would leave.
Worried the old-fashioned farmer's spirit wouldn't listen to a woman, Virginia channelled the entity so that Mark could speak with him directly.
This is my house.
This is my house.
This is my house.
You're not welcome here.
Homeowner Sherri Petrill was caught in the crossfire between two warring spirits.
A-ah! A-ah! Paranormal investigator Mark Keyes and psychic medium Virginia Centrillo were battling to remove them.
This is my house.
This is my house.
This is my house.
You're not welcome.
You must go over! You have passed! You must go to the light! You must go over! You have passed! You must go to the light! This is my house.
You must go over! With the farmer gone, Virginia switched her focus to the spirit known as Peter.
I started to work with the energy of just love.
I just started to ask for an abundance of love to enter this house.
I believe he was a little bit afraid to cross over because of what he did.
But finally, we convinced him that if he did go into the light, he would be brand-new person and could move on to a much better life.
[Spirit crying.]
It's just what it is.
They need help crossing.
That's why they act out.
Imagine waking up and not knowing you're dead, and there's other people in your home.
That's what happens.
That's the truth behind it.
So, they act up 'cause they don't understand that they're dead.
I know that now.
I didn't know it at the time.
[Sherri.]
I needed out of the home.
I could not stay here any longer.
And it was a very heart-wrenching decision to have to make because my husband loved this house.
We put it for sale.
Paranormal entities can physically harm the living for many different reasons.
But sometimes, a spirit's motivation for being violent is purely because they are evil.
New Home Nightmare, take one.
Marking.
We purchased the house in 2013.
I wanted a nice house.
I wanted a new house.
This particular house, that's why I fell in love with it, seemed to have all the things that I was looking for in a new house.
Let's go take a look.
They loved the house so much that they moved in before it was finished.
It was a decision they would come to regret.
Shortly after we'd moved in, I went away to Florida.
So, he was left there on his own.
[Richard.]
The interior decorator at the time was working on the master bedroom.
So, what I was doing is in the living room, I had a big recliner.
So, I was sleeping in that chair for the first few nights.
It was the second night I was there in the house when I knew something was not right.
Something was actually very strange.
[Dog barking.]
It was about 1:30 in the morning and the dog just kept barking and barking.
And I thought, what is she barking at? There's nothing there.
What's going on? [Dog barking.]
She saw something that she didn't like.
She took off out of the living room into the kitchen area.
And as soon as she went by the stove, the light in the hood exploded and sparks came out.
I'd never witnessed anything like that before.
That's not normal, so something had to have caused that.
I was a little uneasy, I was afraid, I'll admit it.
I was a little afraid.
Yeah.
That was a bad omen and I never liked living in that house.
Richard's fears would soon turn out to be well founded.
There was a night when I was puttering around.
This was when Bert was still away.
The voices I started hearing were of German dialect.
I knew they were speaking in German.
The voices were of a male and a female.
And then the voices would quit.
Off I'd go and sure enough, I'd start hearing them speaking again in German.
There was a little bit of me that was like, am I losing my mind, am I hearing voices? But then I thought, well, if I'm hearing voices in my head, I don't speak German By the time Bert returned from his trip, the master bedroom was finished.
But a good night sleep was out of the question.
The master bedroom always had an effect on me, a negative effect.
I started having night terrors in there.
I started suffering from sleep paralysis.
I've never had sleep paralysis up until staying in that room.
Sleep paralysis and the night terrors got so violent that I would flail and kick and wake him up, so he could actually help shake me awake.
[Gasping.]
It's okay.
What's up? Are you okay? No, no, no, no.
What's I started sleeping in one of our guest bedrooms, that's when the physical encounters started.
I'm going to bed, so I got all ready.
I turned the lamp off, got into bed, laid down to sleep.
And not even 20 seconds, the lamp turned back on.
I felt I wasn't alone.
Homeowner Richard Kasperczyk was plagued by strange activity in his brand-new home.
[Bulb bursting.]
Then his torment escalated to a whole new level.
I felt I wasn't alone.
I felt a spirit.
Something in me knew that it was the female.
It was the female German voice that I heard.
It's was her-- Like, that was her.
She'd come across, come over to me, ran her hand up my forearm, up my arm.
And all my hairs just stood right up on my neck.
[Richard.]
A-ah! The nighttime terror was taking its toll on Richard mentally and physically.
I remember losing about 30 pounds.
I used to get sick to my stomach all the time, throw up all the time.
The sleep deprivation, the sleep paralysis was affecting me big time.
I was, you know, gaunt.
When a malevolent energy comes into your space, it can definitely affect your mental health, your physical health, your emotional health.
And a lot of times, this is done because they are trying to keep you weak.
[Richard.]
I decided to try taking some sleeping pills.
I think it made the situation for me even more dangerous because it then put me in a state where I was unable to even fight back.
Richard's nights were filled with terrors that would only disappear at dawn.
But soon, even daytime was no longer safe.
Chelsea, it's time for a walk.
I was getting ready to walk my dog.
Almost there.
Almost there.
I just put the leash on him, you know, and in my ear, right like, right here You son of a bitch.
I heard, "You son of a" right in my ear.
It was loud and it came out of nowhere.
It was angry.
It was an angry, like, just like, "You son of a bitch.
" I got out of the house.
And I was like, I was almost like hyperventilating a bit.
Like, I was like I remember breathing really heavy and just being like, okay.
I just took a moment, just to kinda calm down and try to breathe, and you know That scared me.
That really actually scared me.
He even mentioned a couple of times we should move.
You know, this house is haunted.
Later the same day, Richard's torment escalated.
[Richard.]
Coming down the stairs, I had a very uneasy feeling.
I felt like somebody was walking right behind me.
Even getting ready to the point where I was gonna get pushed.
And I kept looking behind me.
I knew something wasn't right.
I had a feeling I wasn't alone.
There was somebody standing in the room.
You know how you get that feeling, you know? You can tell somebody's in the room.
And standing over me was the male spirit in complete, full apparition form.
He was looking at me with such hate and disgust.
If looks could kill, I would've died right there.
I was ready to jump up and confront him.
And he was just like, "No, you're not.
" And held me right down.
I could feel the pressure on my shoulders.
I could feel his hands and he pinned me to the couch.
And he held me there, I don't know how long.
Richard Kasperczyk's life was being made a living hell by two spirits.
But soon, the activity took a shocking and dangerous turn.
I could feel the pressure on my shoulders.
I could feel his hands and he pinned me to the couch.
And he held me there, I don't know how long.
And then, just like that, he vanished and I was able to sit up.
And I went [Gasping.]
That actually scared me more than any other thing that went on in the house.
[Bert.]
It sort of made me think, well, maybe he's onto something here.
Maybe he's not going crazy, like I assumed or thought he was.
Why are these things happening? I was getting more concerned.
Afraid for his safety, Richard tried to find out who or what was attacking him and why.
I thought, I'm going to find some names of some of the previous owners that have lived on this little plot of land here.
And I researched it and I found a name of a female German woman who lived on the property.
And she was there from the late '40s, '50s, right up until the late '70s.
As far as the male spirit, the aggressive spirit, I'm certain that he was her son.
I reached out to a paranormal investigator.
When he emailed me back, he said, "Well, maybe the male spirit's from a different time and he doesn't agree with your "lifestyle," your "life choices," and that's why he's targeting you.
And that's why he hates you with such intensity.
" I realised and decided I have to start fighting back somehow.
But before he could, the spirit struck again.
Took a sleeping pill.
I got into bed.
I remember falling asleep, everything was fine.
I didn't even know I had got up out of bed and even walked to the stairs.
I don't remember that at all.
I just remember going to bed, taking the pill.
I was at the top of our stairs.
And when I woke up I literally woke up as I was being thrown down the stairs.
Oh! When I hit the first landing, it was so loud that it woke Bert up.
Richard? I heard him fall and was concerned.
So, I was yelling at him, like, are you okay? Do you need my help? A spirit would have to be very powerful in order to physically push somebody.
It could be because they've gathered a lot of energy because they could be very angry and upset about the situation.
And they can explode that energy and push that person down the stairs.
Oh [Bert.]
Richard? God.
The strange thing is that I was really angry.
Like, I snapped at Bert.
I remember screaming at Bert.
Get off of me! Just get away from me! No-- Leave me alone for God sake.
"Leave me alone!" Stay away from me! He was very distraught at this point because here's somebody trying to push you down the stairs.
And you could visibly see he was shaking.
Back off! Back off! I was at the point where I was like, "What else can you do to me? Obviously, you don't like me, I don't like you.
" Just back off! Back off! "Why don't you just leave? You don't like being here, you don't like me.
Leave, just go.
Just get out.
" Just get out of here! When I verbally put it out there, "You're not to touch me, harm me, make me get sick.
Stop doing it.
I know it's you.
I know it's you.
" You know, "Leave me alone and stop doing it.
" And that worked.
No, no, not close, okay? Just-- Just back off.
Back off.
God! The activity died down and Richard's health began to improve.
But he and Bert had had enough.
I knew that, okay, I don't wanna live in this house anymore.
You know, we need to get out of here.
We need to leave this house I'm a lot happier, and I think he is too.
No one's attempting to push him down the stairs, so that's all behind us.
Hopefully he can move on.
Realising that a spirit can come in to my dimension, come into my world and physically move Sorry.
[Clears throat.]
I'm a little verklempt.
Hold on.
Physically move something and change something in my reality, and to me, that is like the most frightening thing.
That scares me a lot.
That does freak me out a lot.
It's pretty scary.
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.
When spirits physically harm the living.
I would've died right there.
Stop it! Go away! I buried this for nearly 30 years.
Be prepared to be afraid.
Melissa's Freaky Farm House, take one.
Marking.
The property, to me, is beautiful.
It's mostly surrounded by cornfield.
There's lots of room and we thought it'd be a perfect place to start fresh.
We moved in here around July 2017.
The property looked beautiful, spacious, lots of lawn.
And that's what we were looking for for our son, mainly.
But unbeknown to Melissa and Joe, their new home was hiding a dark secret.
The previous renters had left the place in a hurry and there was a lot of stuff left here.
[Melissa.]
Some clothing, there was a bed downstairs, there was dishes in the house.
Just things you'd think that you wouldn't leave when you know someone else is coming in.
That wasn't the only strange thing about the house.
Owen? Owen? Joe? Owen? [Melissa.]
You see shadows run by you, and sometimes, even your hair will even move like something just ran.
But you look and there's nothing there.
And that's a really scary feeling.
There's also the sounds that started happening.
[Clanking.]
Owen? [Melissa.]
So, I heard everything from banging, knocking.
I have heard footsteps Find anything? [Melissa.]
cupboard doors opening and closing as well as bedroom doors.
If they're open, they would close.
If they were closed, they would open.
[Melissa.]
I heard a noise.
It's very creepy when you know there's nothing else there and no reason to explain it.
Melissa wasn't the only one hearing strange noises.
[Banging.]
I would say within a few days of moving stuff in, noises started almost immediately.
[Banging.]
It was as if someone was taking a broom handle and banging up on the floor underneath.
It was that loud.
[Banging.]
At first, Melissa and Joe chalked up the weird sounds to the noises of a new house.
The first night in the master bedroom, I just didn't feel right in that room at all.
It was the heavy feeling.
Almost like cold and flu.
Your head is heavy, you're tired, you're achy, I get a little dizzy [Sighing.]
And she only lasted, I think it was, about four hours in there.
And she had to get up and leave.
And she took her blanket and she left, went out to the couch.
After she had left, I started to get an eerie feeling then.
A-ah! There was a pain on my leg, as if someone had grabbed ahold of me and gripped me tight.
I thought maybe it was a dream.
A-ah! The bruise was about, I would say, five inches long by about four inches wide.
And it actually looked like fingers, like, grabbing onto you and gripping you.
[Lynda.]
When an entity can reach in and grab someone and leave a bruise, they reach into this particular plane of existence.
That means that they're incredibly strong.
It also means that they can be incredibly violent.
The alarm bells would go off because of the violence and the strength.
A-ah! Joe, what happened? I don't know.
Didn't have any other explanation for it.
And this bruise lasted four or five weeks on him.
And it looked like someone's handprint.
The next night, I did not sleep in the bedroom.
No.
We moved the mattress from the spare bedroom out to the living room.
[Melissa.]
We are now both convinced that there is something more sinister in this house and we're terrified.
Soon, the activity would become more brazen.
I think it was the very first day I was left alone in the house, actually.
Melissa had left.
I heard a loud bang, just, like [Banging.]
and I jumped.
I actually jumped because it was so loud and I automatically thought, that was a cupboard door that just opened and slammed.
I didn't even get to the opening in the kitchen and I heard it one more time.
[Slamming.]
I didn't know what was gonna happen.
So, the only thing I had on me was my cellphone.
I was even terrified.
I recall shaking when I had my cellphone.
And I opened it up and I hit my video recorder.
Is there anyone here? Can you do that again? Are you still here? Go ahead and open the cupboard again, if you're here.
'Cause nobody believes it.
And the far cupboard door just ever so lightly just swung open.
Ah! Right in front of my face.
You can't explain it unless it's happened to you.
I almost dropped my cellphone, and I got the strongest feeling that someone was just literally like watching me.
Like, you asked for it, you got it.
Not long after, Joe was called away on business leaving Melissa to sleep in the living room alone.
I've got every light in the house on.
I have the TV up with the volume going to try to drown out noises.
But Melissa was not alone.
[Melissa.]
I had a black shadow figure go right across the middle of my bed.
And you freeze in fear.
Absolutely terrifying.
I couldn't move my head to look back.
All I know is it went across the bed and then disappeared.
Melissa prayed that that would be the end of the ordeal.
Her prayers were in vain.
Something grabbed my blanket, pulled it up and tucked it under my chin.
A-ah! A-ah! A-ah! I've never been so scared in my life.
A-ah! A-ah! Melissa Williamson and her husband Joe Harbin's new home was not as perfect as it first seemed.
A-ah! Something sinister was attacking them at night.
Something grabbed my blanket, pulled it up and tucked it under my chin.
A-ah! A-ah! I've never been so scared in my life.
I watched it happen but nobody's there.
Stop it! Go away! I was almost in tears, and I yelled back, you know, "Just leave me alone.
Stop it.
" I'm ready to move at this point.
I am so terrified, I'm ready to pack up and go.
Negative entities absorb fear energy because it makes them stronger.
They're able to use that, they become stronger.
And the more fear that they create in the living, the weaker the living become.
We were both on the same page at that point.
We were just both totally freaked out.
Melissa and Joe reached out to Dan Hammond, clairvoyant and paranormal investigator.
Melissa and Joe first contacted our paranormal team about mid-September.
When they came out to the house, I thought, you know what, now we're gonna make sure that everyone knows we're not crazy.
It didn't take long for Dan to run into what had been terrorising them.
I immediately saw a shadow person.
Shadow people are spirits that are trying to manifest themselves to reveal themselves to you.
Whether it's to frighten you or just to communicate with you.
I believe it was a male figure, very tall, thin.
But as soon as I saw him, he immediately vanished.
There was also something a little big malicious and darker that didn't like Joe and Melissa being here.
When the investigators tried to communicate with the shadow figure, its responses were alarming.
My name's Tony.
Is there anything here? What's your name? Tony says, "Hi, my name's Tony.
What's your name?" Is there anybody here? What's your name? [spirit.]
The devil.
And the spirit says, "The devil.
" I just had chills down my spine listening to this.
[spirit.]
Get out! All of a sudden you hear, "Get out!" Like, just right there.
Not wanting to provoke the entity, Dan suggested they leave and head to the basement but that didn't help.
What is that? Do you see this? All of a sudden, we have a box, a dehumidifier box, it was pretty heavy actually All of a sudden, that box, just as loud as it could be, is like someone just either hand swiped it very hard or kicked it.
A-ah! What's happening in our house? I think the spirit made itself known because he was a little angry with the fact that Tony and I were here.
And we're trying to make him leave.
He doesn't wanna leave the property.
The spirit, basically, was feeding off their reactions.
Collecting energy from their emotions and their energy levels getting amped up.
I think that he was jealous of Joe.
Because Joe has this great family, you know, wonderful wife and kid.
That's nothing that the spirit had in his life.
Not wanting to incite further activity, Dan and Tony attempted to remove the spirit.
It's time for you to move on from this place.
Everyone's basically telling the spirit, "You need to go.
You need to leave Joe and Melissa alone.
" And, "You don't belong here.
" It's time for you to move on from this place.
It's time for you to pass over.
It's time for you to move on from this place.
It's time for you to move on.
He didn't wanna leave, and he wasn't going to leave.
And we needed to get him outta here.
[Tony.]
It's time for you to pass over.
[spirit.]
Get out! He cleansed the house with white sage.
And he will go through every single room, every closet, every corner.
[spirit.]
Get out! We could just tell that a completely different feeling in the entire house.
It was like weight lifted off your shoulder.
It felt normal and calm.
So far, things have been wonderful.
We're sleeping in our own room, our own bed.
I don't feel that it's heavy anymore.
The activity did die down.
I already feel relieved just even saying that.
Being attacked and injured by a paranormal entity is truly terrifying.
On rare occasions, spirits don't mean to harm the living, but that doesn't make the bumps and bruises hurt any less.
We actually looked at this house a good six months before we even took a walk-through.
We argued over it.
We would drive by it and I'd be like, no, I'm not living there, no, I'm not living there.
And finally, he said, "I'm making an appointment to go look at it, whether you come or not.
" So, I came, of course.
It had sat empty for three years.
I just felt very uneasy from the minute I walked into it.
We'll take it! Great! Awesome.
Despite Sherri's reservations, her husband convinced her to buy the house.
But soon after signing the deal, the couple made a chilling discovery.
We found out the prior owner of the home, who had built the home, had lived here a few months, maybe a year, before he committed suicide in the home.
And that was very unsettling to me.
Now it made sense why the home sat empty for almost three years before we bought it.
Sherri's uneasiness about the house only intensified after they moved in.
First night we moved into the home and at three o'clock in the morning [Smoke detectors blaring.]
every fire alarm in the house went off in every single room.
[Smoke detectors blaring.]
And we were crawling on chairs to pop the batteries out of fire alarms, so that it would stop.
And it's blaring loud because it's in every room.
[Sherri.]
Still going! Did you take the batteries out? Yes, I took the batteries out! It was crazy.
[Smoke detectors blaring.]
I felt uneasy in the home right from the beginning.
I always felt as though I was being watched.
I was in the living room, and I was cleaning and dusting, and I just felt like someone was staring at me.
I did not like being in this home alone.
The longer Sherri lived in the home, the more intense the strange activity became.
Many nights, I would [Banging.]
hear the sound of the walls being punched.
And it would come closer to my bedroom, and I would hear what sounded like boots coming down the hall toward the bedroom.
When you have things such as footsteps, and lights going on and off, doors opening and closing that's a sure sign that something has come into the space that is looking to get your attention.
I would hear him coming [Footsteps.]
And then I would feel my leg being grabbed, the blankets being pulled.
A-ah! A-ah! Sherri Petrill's new home was giving her the creeps.
Then, things took a violent turn while she was sleeping.
I would hear him coming, and then I would feel my leg being grabbed, the blankets being pulled.
A-ah! A-ah! Oh, my God! Wha-what's going on? What's wrong? I felt something grab my leg.
[Sherri.]
And I would just wake up with black and blue spots on my legs.
Oh, my God.
I would bring this up to my husband and tell him what happened.
And he didn't believe me.
It was just my mind playing tricks on me.
I felt alone.
The attack left Sherri shaken.
But worse was to come.
I was sitting on the couch watching TV.
And I was just simply sitting there.
And all of a sudden, there was this horrible burn.
A-ah! Not like a curling iron burn.
I mean, like fire, like a poker in the back of my neck.
And I screamed so loud 'cause it hurt so bad.
It did leave a little red mark and my skin was very hot to touch afterward.
Being attacked and hurt by something you cannot see is something that makes you question your sanity more than anything.
I was at the point I would not be alone in this home.
This is when I realised that something was not right in this home.
And I had to do something about it.
Sherri called in a paranormal investigator.
When Sherri reached out to me, she was very scared at what was going on in her home.
She was in a very fragile mindset.
Sherri thought she was literally going crazy because of the activity going on in the home.
Virtually going on the edge of a nervous breakdown.
I called in our main medium, Virginia, to come with me on this.
We have a procedure that we do not disclose any information to the mediums we work with prior to going to a case.
When I first arrived, it just felt like something tragic happened on the property.
I was greeted with a name loud in my ear, "Peter.
" The spirit was definitely a past homeowner.
I felt he also even built the house.
I remembered this energy just staring at me.
He was giving me a look of disapproval.
I almost didn't wanna go into the house.
When I spoke to Sherri, she said she was going through a lot of physical issues.
And I can tell that it was coming from this owner, this spirit.
And his intent was so strong and he felt that Sherri was weak.
Our medium felt that this gentleman didn't like women.
He was very angry at women.
And he was very angry at Sherri being a woman, moving into his house.
He did not like her there.
He was being very aggressive toward Sherri.
Harm was being committed.
[Virginia.]
As I started to enter into the kitchen, I started to get a nervous feeling and I looked out towards the back.
I didn't know this yet.
I had no idea why I was feeling what I was feeling, or why I was feeling what I was feeling.
I had no idea.
I couldn't put my finger on it.
I looked outside that window and I heard a gunshot [Gunshot.]
very loud in my ear.
And I actually went, "Oh!" It felt like something went passed my ear.
And then I said, "Oh, Lord.
He took his life.
" Violent deaths and suicides cause entities to come back and haunt those specific locations because they're traumatic events.
When a traumatic event happens, often it catches someone off guard and they're not ethereally ready to actually enter a different realm of existence.
And it can trap them in a particular location.
But that wasn't the only spirit making Sherri's life a living hell.
Virginia was picking up on a new energy that was in the home.
It was an energy of a man that she felt was connected to the property that used to be large farmland years ago.
Virginia felt that that man was still claiming this property as his, and he didn't like this other energy in the home.
The other spirit was not a nice character.
I felt he came from a farm situation, it was a farm at one point.
And I felt that this farmer drank.
And he fell and hit his head.
So, I now was dealing with two ghosts.
The two entities that were now in my home were battling, in essence, for control of the home and the land that I was living in.
And I was caught in the crossfire between these two entities.
[Mark.]
This is a case where we believed Sherri could potentially be in danger, whether emotionally, physically.
You can get sick, you could become depressed.
People have been driven to suicide.
Virginia and I worked out a game plan that we were gonna go after the man that had been there for over 100 years.
Virginia felt that once we got rid of him that Peter would leave.
Worried the old-fashioned farmer's spirit wouldn't listen to a woman, Virginia channelled the entity so that Mark could speak with him directly.
This is my house.
This is my house.
This is my house.
You're not welcome here.
Homeowner Sherri Petrill was caught in the crossfire between two warring spirits.
A-ah! A-ah! Paranormal investigator Mark Keyes and psychic medium Virginia Centrillo were battling to remove them.
This is my house.
This is my house.
This is my house.
You're not welcome.
You must go over! You have passed! You must go to the light! You must go over! You have passed! You must go to the light! This is my house.
You must go over! With the farmer gone, Virginia switched her focus to the spirit known as Peter.
I started to work with the energy of just love.
I just started to ask for an abundance of love to enter this house.
I believe he was a little bit afraid to cross over because of what he did.
But finally, we convinced him that if he did go into the light, he would be brand-new person and could move on to a much better life.
[Spirit crying.]
It's just what it is.
They need help crossing.
That's why they act out.
Imagine waking up and not knowing you're dead, and there's other people in your home.
That's what happens.
That's the truth behind it.
So, they act up 'cause they don't understand that they're dead.
I know that now.
I didn't know it at the time.
[Sherri.]
I needed out of the home.
I could not stay here any longer.
And it was a very heart-wrenching decision to have to make because my husband loved this house.
We put it for sale.
Paranormal entities can physically harm the living for many different reasons.
But sometimes, a spirit's motivation for being violent is purely because they are evil.
New Home Nightmare, take one.
Marking.
We purchased the house in 2013.
I wanted a nice house.
I wanted a new house.
This particular house, that's why I fell in love with it, seemed to have all the things that I was looking for in a new house.
Let's go take a look.
They loved the house so much that they moved in before it was finished.
It was a decision they would come to regret.
Shortly after we'd moved in, I went away to Florida.
So, he was left there on his own.
[Richard.]
The interior decorator at the time was working on the master bedroom.
So, what I was doing is in the living room, I had a big recliner.
So, I was sleeping in that chair for the first few nights.
It was the second night I was there in the house when I knew something was not right.
Something was actually very strange.
[Dog barking.]
It was about 1:30 in the morning and the dog just kept barking and barking.
And I thought, what is she barking at? There's nothing there.
What's going on? [Dog barking.]
She saw something that she didn't like.
She took off out of the living room into the kitchen area.
And as soon as she went by the stove, the light in the hood exploded and sparks came out.
I'd never witnessed anything like that before.
That's not normal, so something had to have caused that.
I was a little uneasy, I was afraid, I'll admit it.
I was a little afraid.
Yeah.
That was a bad omen and I never liked living in that house.
Richard's fears would soon turn out to be well founded.
There was a night when I was puttering around.
This was when Bert was still away.
The voices I started hearing were of German dialect.
I knew they were speaking in German.
The voices were of a male and a female.
And then the voices would quit.
Off I'd go and sure enough, I'd start hearing them speaking again in German.
There was a little bit of me that was like, am I losing my mind, am I hearing voices? But then I thought, well, if I'm hearing voices in my head, I don't speak German By the time Bert returned from his trip, the master bedroom was finished.
But a good night sleep was out of the question.
The master bedroom always had an effect on me, a negative effect.
I started having night terrors in there.
I started suffering from sleep paralysis.
I've never had sleep paralysis up until staying in that room.
Sleep paralysis and the night terrors got so violent that I would flail and kick and wake him up, so he could actually help shake me awake.
[Gasping.]
It's okay.
What's up? Are you okay? No, no, no, no.
What's I started sleeping in one of our guest bedrooms, that's when the physical encounters started.
I'm going to bed, so I got all ready.
I turned the lamp off, got into bed, laid down to sleep.
And not even 20 seconds, the lamp turned back on.
I felt I wasn't alone.
Homeowner Richard Kasperczyk was plagued by strange activity in his brand-new home.
[Bulb bursting.]
Then his torment escalated to a whole new level.
I felt I wasn't alone.
I felt a spirit.
Something in me knew that it was the female.
It was the female German voice that I heard.
It's was her-- Like, that was her.
She'd come across, come over to me, ran her hand up my forearm, up my arm.
And all my hairs just stood right up on my neck.
[Richard.]
A-ah! The nighttime terror was taking its toll on Richard mentally and physically.
I remember losing about 30 pounds.
I used to get sick to my stomach all the time, throw up all the time.
The sleep deprivation, the sleep paralysis was affecting me big time.
I was, you know, gaunt.
When a malevolent energy comes into your space, it can definitely affect your mental health, your physical health, your emotional health.
And a lot of times, this is done because they are trying to keep you weak.
[Richard.]
I decided to try taking some sleeping pills.
I think it made the situation for me even more dangerous because it then put me in a state where I was unable to even fight back.
Richard's nights were filled with terrors that would only disappear at dawn.
But soon, even daytime was no longer safe.
Chelsea, it's time for a walk.
I was getting ready to walk my dog.
Almost there.
Almost there.
I just put the leash on him, you know, and in my ear, right like, right here You son of a bitch.
I heard, "You son of a" right in my ear.
It was loud and it came out of nowhere.
It was angry.
It was an angry, like, just like, "You son of a bitch.
" I got out of the house.
And I was like, I was almost like hyperventilating a bit.
Like, I was like I remember breathing really heavy and just being like, okay.
I just took a moment, just to kinda calm down and try to breathe, and you know That scared me.
That really actually scared me.
He even mentioned a couple of times we should move.
You know, this house is haunted.
Later the same day, Richard's torment escalated.
[Richard.]
Coming down the stairs, I had a very uneasy feeling.
I felt like somebody was walking right behind me.
Even getting ready to the point where I was gonna get pushed.
And I kept looking behind me.
I knew something wasn't right.
I had a feeling I wasn't alone.
There was somebody standing in the room.
You know how you get that feeling, you know? You can tell somebody's in the room.
And standing over me was the male spirit in complete, full apparition form.
He was looking at me with such hate and disgust.
If looks could kill, I would've died right there.
I was ready to jump up and confront him.
And he was just like, "No, you're not.
" And held me right down.
I could feel the pressure on my shoulders.
I could feel his hands and he pinned me to the couch.
And he held me there, I don't know how long.
Richard Kasperczyk's life was being made a living hell by two spirits.
But soon, the activity took a shocking and dangerous turn.
I could feel the pressure on my shoulders.
I could feel his hands and he pinned me to the couch.
And he held me there, I don't know how long.
And then, just like that, he vanished and I was able to sit up.
And I went [Gasping.]
That actually scared me more than any other thing that went on in the house.
[Bert.]
It sort of made me think, well, maybe he's onto something here.
Maybe he's not going crazy, like I assumed or thought he was.
Why are these things happening? I was getting more concerned.
Afraid for his safety, Richard tried to find out who or what was attacking him and why.
I thought, I'm going to find some names of some of the previous owners that have lived on this little plot of land here.
And I researched it and I found a name of a female German woman who lived on the property.
And she was there from the late '40s, '50s, right up until the late '70s.
As far as the male spirit, the aggressive spirit, I'm certain that he was her son.
I reached out to a paranormal investigator.
When he emailed me back, he said, "Well, maybe the male spirit's from a different time and he doesn't agree with your "lifestyle," your "life choices," and that's why he's targeting you.
And that's why he hates you with such intensity.
" I realised and decided I have to start fighting back somehow.
But before he could, the spirit struck again.
Took a sleeping pill.
I got into bed.
I remember falling asleep, everything was fine.
I didn't even know I had got up out of bed and even walked to the stairs.
I don't remember that at all.
I just remember going to bed, taking the pill.
I was at the top of our stairs.
And when I woke up I literally woke up as I was being thrown down the stairs.
Oh! When I hit the first landing, it was so loud that it woke Bert up.
Richard? I heard him fall and was concerned.
So, I was yelling at him, like, are you okay? Do you need my help? A spirit would have to be very powerful in order to physically push somebody.
It could be because they've gathered a lot of energy because they could be very angry and upset about the situation.
And they can explode that energy and push that person down the stairs.
Oh [Bert.]
Richard? God.
The strange thing is that I was really angry.
Like, I snapped at Bert.
I remember screaming at Bert.
Get off of me! Just get away from me! No-- Leave me alone for God sake.
"Leave me alone!" Stay away from me! He was very distraught at this point because here's somebody trying to push you down the stairs.
And you could visibly see he was shaking.
Back off! Back off! I was at the point where I was like, "What else can you do to me? Obviously, you don't like me, I don't like you.
" Just back off! Back off! "Why don't you just leave? You don't like being here, you don't like me.
Leave, just go.
Just get out.
" Just get out of here! When I verbally put it out there, "You're not to touch me, harm me, make me get sick.
Stop doing it.
I know it's you.
I know it's you.
" You know, "Leave me alone and stop doing it.
" And that worked.
No, no, not close, okay? Just-- Just back off.
Back off.
God! The activity died down and Richard's health began to improve.
But he and Bert had had enough.
I knew that, okay, I don't wanna live in this house anymore.
You know, we need to get out of here.
We need to leave this house I'm a lot happier, and I think he is too.
No one's attempting to push him down the stairs, so that's all behind us.
Hopefully he can move on.
Realising that a spirit can come in to my dimension, come into my world and physically move Sorry.
[Clears throat.]
I'm a little verklempt.
Hold on.
Physically move something and change something in my reality, and to me, that is like the most frightening thing.
That scares me a lot.
That does freak me out a lot.
It's pretty scary.