The Dead Files (2011) s06e01 Episode Script
The Aftermath
_ _ _ I really, really hope they don't live here.
I seen my son in the air by the back of his shirt.
This poltergeist has some juice.
I understand it was a shootout, though.
They opened fire and three deputies were killed.
This thing is, mm, not good.
I never been through this.
I never experienced this before.
He says, "I'm gonna get ya.
" It's like somebody's into some dark [bleep.]
.
You're mine you can't escape.
My name is Amy Allan.
What's happening? I see dead people.
It seems like a devil.
I speak to dead people.
He's pissed off.
And they speak to me.
I felt real fear.
But there's only one way to know if my findings are real.
I think she's being murdered.
I rely on my partner.
I'm Steve Di Schiavi.
I'm a retired New York City homicide detective.
Serial killer pops in my head.
And I know every person, every house has secrets.
Nobody believes me.
It's my job to reveal them.
- You think there's still bodies there? - I do.
But Steve and I never speak We never communicate during an investigation.
Until the very end.
You got problems.
I got news for you.
When we uncover if it's safe for you to stay This is our house, whether they like it or not.
Or time to get out.
This is their house the house of the dead.
_ I'm in Florida City.
It's about 45 minutes south of Miami.
I got a call from a married couple, Tracy and Travas.
The family's so scared by what's happening in the house, every night they grab their three kids, and they huddle in the same room together till the sun comes up.
It broke my heart listening to their story.
I'm really hoping Amy and I can help them out.
MATTHEW: Since Amy can see two worlds, this one has to be free of any leading information.
Family photos, trophies and personal items can influence her findings so it's important I cover or remove them all before she begins her walk.
_ AMY: Oh, boy.
Hmm.
Right away, there were, like, several dead people on the other side of the door piling up on each other, desperate to get out.
So, there's something going on here that's preventing them from leaving.
It's like somebody's into some dark [bleep.]
, I think.
I do get something with witchcraft.
_ STEVE: Now, Tracy, when we spoke on the phone, you sounded pretty bad.
Tell me again exactly what's going on.
There's a lot of different apparitions, a lot of touching, bruises attacks.
How long have you guys been livin here? It's been a year now.
Why'd you move? Just so my kids could have their own room.
But seems like I've moved here to live in a one-bedroom, because they're too afraid to sleep in their own room.
Now, who exactly is living in the house? My husband, my daughter she's 13 my son Travis, he's eight years old.
And the baby, he's two.
Okay.
You told me on the phone you did a blessing on the house.
Yes, I have.
When I first came, the landlord actually told me that she's been saging the house.
Why would the landlord tell you that? At the time when I moved in, I didn't think about it when she told me that because I was just so excited to be in a home.
So, I continue saging the house.
It seems like everything just got worse after then.
It's not right what's going on here.
There's [bleep.]
going on all over here.
This is insane.
I'm seeing this woman and this man who lived here.
They're inviting dead people to come home with them and trapping them.
Either someone in this house now or someone who used to live here is messing around with dark magic and is calling out to the dead, but I don't know why.
I really [bleep.]
hope these people are not here anymore.
I'm angry right now.
I really, really [bleep.]
hope they don't live here.
What else is going on? Mood swings.
What kind of mood swings? What are you talking about? I could be one moment cooking and being happy and laughing, and then all of sudden, I just get into being angry.
I'm just so mad, and I get very abusive to my husband.
I really have to, like, leave the house.
When you leave the house, are your moods better? Perfect.
I'm happy.
You on any medication that would cause this? No.
It got real bad where my relationship with my husband is really going down.
We were like love birds.
We were together for 13 years, and it's like now, there's times that I don't want nothing to do with my husband at all.
Sorry.
It's gotta be tough for him too, I would think.
It's real tough, and he doesn't walk away, 'cause he knows it's this house that's making me act like this.
This is not me.
[Amy exhales sharply.]
There's also really intense and big energy.
I'm thinking it's some type of poltergeist.
This person is not mentally well.
I think it's the person practicing dark [bleep.]
.
I would think that people who were here would feel this panic.
It's really fear, but you feel it like anxiety.
I'm, like, literally shaking.
_ So, what's going on in here? We all sleep together here.
My son, the babies, stays in this room with us, because they're too scared to be in the rest of the house.
I actually had my son that was lifted off the floor.
He was in the air.
I seen my son in the air by the back of his shirt.
What happened? My husband got off the bed and he fell completely.
So, whatever had him let go? Yes, and he was scared.
We were all scared.
And what about you? Anything with you? Yeah.
I wake up with bruises on my legs like I've been hit.
Just on your legs? Yes, just on my legs.
This is just something small.
This is when the bruises are already just going away.
Yeah, but you said the kids sleep in bed with you.
Sure you ain't getting kicked by the kids? No, no, no, no.
I'm a light sleeper.
_ What happened? I just keep getting touched on.
So, you're getting touched right now? Yes, while I'm talking to you.
Every time I keep telling you about something that has happened in here, somebody keeps tapping me on my back.
I'm getting mad.
I'm starting to get upset about this now.
AMY: Wow.
This poltergeist has some juice.
Person's praying.
I see the back of her head.
She's got her hair pinned kind of like mine pinned up, brown.
She gets smacked by the poltergeist.
Smack.
MATTHEW: What all can this poltergeist do? Slapping, hitting, pushing, shoving, holding people down.
I see her again, beat up by this energy.
Someone's feeding it, for sure.
Getting scared now.
Let's go outside.
Just had to get out of there.
I'm sorry.
No, no, listen, I'm gonna try my hardest to figure out what the hell's here.
That's one thing about me I'm real hard on the inside and the outside, but this, it makes you weak.
_ _ STEVE: So, Travas, this is your son's room? This is Travas and DeSean's room, but they won't sleep in here.
They're too scared to sleep in here.
That's sad, actually.
Now, I was talking to your wife, and, I tell you, the stuff she was telling me that's been going on here is really concerning.
Everything was good, but moved into this house, and all of a sudden, like, everything just went chaos.
She's, like, a totally different person, like, anger like, straight mad, angry.
And she wasn't like that before? No, never like that.
Never.
We almost got a divorce.
Geez.
Now, what makes you think this is paranormal? It's got to be.
We had a perfect marriage for so long till we moved here.
Tell me about some of the experiences.
If I am watching TV and I'm sitting on the bed, I've seen, like, a shadow right there by my door.
As soon as I turn, you see the shadow just leave.
- What kind of shadow? What's it look like? - A dark shadow.
Okay, what, does it stay there? Is it quick? - What's the story? - Nah, it's quick.
When you get ready to, like, look that way, all of a sudden, it goes down the hall.
Okay.
When I was talking to your wife, she was talking about all the physical things that are happening to her and how things have changed.
She wakes up with bruises and everything.
What about you? I don't have bruises, but, one day, I was dozing off in my bed, and I woke up, but I'm, like, stuck can't move.
My eyes open, but I can't say nothing or move.
Wow.
So, what'd you do? I couldn't do nothing.
There's nothing I could've did until I popped out of it.
It let me go, and then I wake up neck pains, like, before I go to work in the morning.
My back be hurting.
I never been through this.
I never experienced this before.
How are living like that? It's hard, man.
It's hard.
There's this weird, dark thing.
It's [bleep.]
weird looking.
It's about this big like that.
And it's like shades of black and gray.
He moves around here a lot.
In this hallway, he's focused on this male.
What do you mean? He drains his energy.
He possesses him, so he jumps into his body.
This dark shadow creature has destructive ways of interacting with living people, and I see that it's targeting a man in this house.
It pretty much tortures him and makes him feel trapped inside of himself.
And when he does that, he causes extreme pain.
Do you know what it wants from him? Death.
Yeah, this thing is not good.
_ Sweetheart, how old are you? - I'm 13.
- 13.
Okay, why don't you tell me what's going on? What have you experienced? I see shadows.
It moves real quick, and it's black and tall.
Where exactly do you see it? Sometimes, I will be laying in my bed, and I'll just see it go right past the hallway.
- Can you see through it? - No.
Okay.
There anything else? Voices Just hear a lot of people talking at once.
Okay, does it sound like they're talking to each other or they're trying to talk to you? I can't say because they're all talking at once, so I can't hear what they're saying.
Okay.
How are you sleeping at night? I got to force myself to go to sleep.
I put my headphones in and listen to music.
Okay, and you keep that on all night? Mm-hmm.
Okay, are you afraid right now? You seem a little, you know, like, a little tense.
They don't want me here.
Okay.
There are people outside, and I did see people down the block that were, kind of, walking up Mostly men.
And they are out of it.
It looks like, you know, a bunch of zombies.
How many? A lot about 20, 25.
I do hear them.
I think this person hears them talking outside mumble, mumble, mumble.
This bothers this person a great deal.
This person is really good at pushing things out and blocking things, but there's still this overwhelming fear.
They need to just get the [bleep.]
out.
I know Hurricane Andrew devastated southern Florida.
In fact, back in '92 when it happened, I came down here to help in a rescue effort.
I reached out to a local newspaper reporter to see if Travas and Tracy's property was affected.
He said I should come meet with him.
Well, Ken, thanks for meeting me.
I appreciate that.
So, I know my clients' home was built in 2004, but what was there back in '92 before the hurricane hit? It was a mobile home park.
Okay.
Here is an aerial photo that shows just how bad the damage was.
It was like a war zone.
Wow.
I just drove past this water tank here, so this is real close to my clients' property.
So, what was it like when the storm hit? It was extremely intense Gusts of more than 200 miles per hour.
It was one of Florida's worst disasters.
It mangled cars, planes, boats.
At the time, it was the costliest hurricane to hit the United States $26.
5 billion.
It virtually changed the face of Florida.
How many people actually died in Florida? Andrew killed a total of 44 people in Florida.
- Okay.
- And that included 26 people directly as a result of the storm.
How did they die? People were hit by tree limbs.
They drove their cars into high water.
One man actually got crushed in his home by the high winds.
It was like a squadron of heavy bombers flew overhead and just unloaded.
Right.
AMY: I don't get what the [bleep.]
these zombies are doing.
Some of them look like they've been eaten Like, legs are missing, and they're a mess.
They drowned, I think.
I know that, you know, they pretty much died together and somehow, they know enough to seek help, or they're drawn to the energy here.
Very bizarre.
STEVE: I reached out to the current owner of Tracy's property and some of the former tenants, but nobody would talk to me.
So, since I was striking out with the living, I started looking into the dead.
After making a few calls, I got in touch with a local professor who tells me one of the original owners of the land ended up getting destroyed by it.
So, Dr.
George, if I'm standing on my clients' property back in 1910, what would've been there? It was a wilderness Flooded heavily during the rainy season in the summer, mosquitoes galore at all times.
It was the most desolate place imaginable.
I mean, who owned the land originally? Well, the land down there, it was owned by the Tatum brothers Four brothers who were big-time developers in the Miami area.
- Okay.
- Men of means, men of standing.
In fact, here's a photograph of one of them.
This is Smiley Tatum.
Heavily educated, he was educated in the subject area of chemistry of all things.
Here's his wife Florie.
You can see she's high society.
Very well educated, too.
So, now the Tatums that bought all this land, did they live on it? No, not at all.
They lived in the more settled areas of Miami in beautiful homes.
You get a sense of the wealth they had.
These are like small mansions.
So, what the hell were they trying to develop? Well, the Tatum brothers wanted to sell land, and they needed to get people to buy that land, and so they sent some of their people on their payroll up to Detroit, hoping to get Actually hoping to create a colony of physicians who would move from Detroit to this desolate place.
And they sold them this land sight unseen, because their salespeople are just so wild in the way they describe the place, "This is the Garden of Eden.
" Okay, so let me get this straight.
When they came down here, they thought they were gonna be moving into, like, a place that had infrastructure already? Yeah, infrastructure and, you know, more as a planned community, but that's not what the Tatums had for them.
Okay, now, on the phone, you mentioned the land destroyed the Tatums.
What did you mean? They prospered for the next decade and a half.
Through the first half of the 1920s, there's a huge land boom.
And then the boom collapses in '26, and they lose almost everything.
Wow.
She lost it all too.
When they lost everything by the second half of the 1920s, Florie becomes just a regular person, and they're hurting.
They're straining to get by.
There's an elderly woman, this kind of creepy chick.
Like, what I'm seeing, like, a lot of animals, like snakes and there were fish.
Like, I'm seeing a lot of wilderness.
Even the land looked wild.
But it belongs to her so I'm a little confused as to where the [bleep.]
this woman's house was.
I don't know if she had four houses, or she's, like, putting it on four houses here.
So, this is where the old lady likes to chill about.
Extremely wealthy, powerful woman.
She is physical, and she is attached to a female in the house.
STEVE: So far, I know my clients' property was owned by greedy land developers and then devastated by Hurricane Andrew, but I need to see if there's anything else.
Searching through the archives, I discover a deadly shootout on Travas and Tracy's land between cops and four bank robbers.
This property's really turning out to be a magnet for pain and suffering.
I've placed a call to a local police chief who says what happened will definitely help my case.
_ STEVE: During my research, I came across an article about a shootout between the cops and some bank robbers that actually started in your jurisdiction.
What can you tell me about it? ROLLE: On September 15, 1916, these crooks by the name of the Rice Gang did a bank robbery here in Homestead, and they jumped into a stolen car, and they headed to the Everglades near your clients' property.
What happens next? A posse was formed by Sheriff Dan Hardie, and the next night, they went down looking for these guys.
Okay, so now what happens? I understand there was a shootout, though.
Yes, they opened fire on three deputies, and three deputies were killed.
Do we know anything about who they were? One of the cops that was killed was Allen Henderson.
He gets shot nine times in the back.
What about the other guy? Well, the second guy who was shot was brother.
- His brother? - His brother, William Henderson.
He was shot once in the leg.
Both of them died at the scene.
Who was the third cop? The third cop was Charles Williams.
He was shot five times, as well, and he died the next day.
The shootout happens.
Do these guys at least get shot at the scene, the perps, or do they flee? - What happens? - They flee into the Everglades.
They were there for approximately two weeks.
Eventually, two of the subjects were killed.
Okay, so how does that happen? One of them was killed by civilians stealing supplies.
Another one of the guys drowned.
So, what happens with the other two guys? Well, Frank Rice and Hugh Alderman, they were apprehended and charged with first degree murder.
Matter of fact, I have a article here from the local newspaper.
Did they go to trial? Yes, they did, and when they went to trial, they were convicted of second degree murder.
As a matter of fact, one of the guys, Rice, he was paroled after nine years.
The other guy, Alderman, went insane while he was in prison and eventually transferred to Florida State Hospital where he spent the next Everybody sees him in this hall.
Sees who? He's the dude who is possessing the other guy the living one.
I'm starting to catch quick glimpses of what this dark shadow man was like in life, and I'm seeing that he was a very disturbed person.
He was captured.
He was a prisoner.
He was murdered or executed.
The living one, I think he went somewhere, and he brought this home.
I feel like this guy entrapped him somehow.
And so this dead guy felt, "I was finally free, and you trapped me, so I'm gonna get ya.
" _ During my walk, I saw a group of dead people gathered outside of a young woman's bedroom.
I'm meeting with the sketch artist to describe this horrifying scene.
AMY: On the other side of the window, there were several dead men.
Their clothes were all in tatters, and I saw a person on the bed.
They had their hands on their head, on their ears.
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.
Amy, I'd like you to meet Travas and Tracy.
Now, they're a married couple.
They have three beautiful kids.
They have been living here for about a year.
This is a photo.
Basically, since they moved here, their lives have been turned upside down.
The kids are nothing but sad and scared.
They want their happy life together.
They had a great marriage.
Now, they're talking about possibly getting divorced because of all that's going on here.
They wanna know what's here, how to kick it the hell out, and get back to their normal lives.
Now that Amy knows a little bit about what's going on, I'm gonna ask her to tell us about her walk.
AMY: As soon as I walked up to the door, there were a bunch of dead people on the inside of the house that were piling up on the door, wanting out.
And when I came in, I saw a female who was a part of a couple that lived here who was messing around with magic, calling out to the dead, trapping and collecting these dead people, and what they left here was this ridiculous energy.
And honestly, I didn't know if it was you guys or someone who lived here prior.
But seeing you, it seemed to be an older female.
Well, when they got the place, the woman that owns it was saging the place when they got here.
Yes.
Wow.
Now, if she was saging, then something was going on.
The other thing that I saw pretty much as soon as I walked in was a poltergeist.
A poltergeist is created by a living agent by the electrical charges that they send out into the air.
It's just a mass of energy.
Now, I don't know if it was the previous family who created it, but anyone who's having emotional issues can feed it.
In the master bedroom, I saw someone praying, and this thing smacked her upside the head.
It's a pretty powerful thing.
Well, one of the other main reasons we're here is because Tracy's being attacked at night.
Tell Amy about that.
Well, when I wake up in the morning and I look down, my legs are just covered with bruises, like if somebody kicked me, beat me.
Matter of fact, here's a photo.
That's the bruises she would get.
Oh, my gosh.
Now, you also got held down in the bed.
TRAVAS: Yeah.
I was dozing off, and all of a sudden, I just felt something just, like, hold me down.
I couldn't say anything.
I couldn't move.
I couldn't say anything, but eventually, It let me go.
And it's not just you.
I mean, you saw your son getting picked up.
- Mm-hmm.
- Travas Jr.
here.
It was the middle of the night, and all of a sudden, I heard him, like, gagging, like something had him by the back of his shirt.
We got up, and And he just fell, just Wow.
STEVE: What else did you get? So, there's this older lady that I met.
Whoever she can scare the most is where she'll go, and she is attaching herself to a female in the house.
You know, making this female feel out of control, making her feel anxiety, causing outbursts of rage.
Well, since they moved here, Tracy's personality has done a 180.
I just get to a point where I dislike my husband.
I just hate him.
I want to hurt him.
There's just times that I just don't even wanna be with him.
They bad, bad mood swings.
And I know this is not me.
_ She wasn't never like this, never.
Till we got here.
STEVE: Now, the woman you're talking about, did you get anything else on her? Well, one of the reasons why this woman's here is because she believes this land is all hers.
She was, like, very well educated, very wealthy, and she owned a lot of land, but what I saw was just all, like, wild.
But it was weird because I saw her, like, in four houses, so I'm a little confused as to where this woman's house was.
There's only one woman that fits that description that actually owned big chunk of the land here.
Her name was Florie Tatum.
Her and her husband Smiley, who were very wealthy, very powerful You mentioned they owned a lot of houses, right? She actually owned four homes in Miami.
Wow.
So, they lived large.
Now, they bought up about and this was nothing but wilderness back then, but their plan was to make a big profit developing the land.
So, they set out to get people from north to get out of cold weather in Michigan, that, "You're gonna come live in paradise, beautiful paradise.
" When they got here, it was a swamp.
What goes around comes around.
In 1926, the real estate market here crashed.
Florie wound up losing everything her money, her standing, her whole way of living.
Now, do you think that might have been the woman you saw? Yes.
So, this is the woman that's attached to her? Oh, my gosh.
TRACY: I'm so mad at her.
STEVE: Did you see anything else? I saw this thing in the hallway, and it was like this black blob.
This entity, I think, had initially attached to a male in the home.
I do think that people can see him.
I got that he was alive at one point.
He was either murdered or executed.
He was captured.
He was a prisoner.
And I saw something about a firing squad.
That was all that I got about him.
Now, this is not so obvious for me, but I got one thing I came up in my research, and it was a shootout between cops and some bank robbers.
It happened in September of 1916.
The gang called the Rice Gang, it was two brothers and two other guys.
What they did is rob a bank in Homestead, which is less than a mile from your property.
Then when they fled there in a stolen car, they wind up holding up by that water tank that's literally a quarter of a mile from your property here.
Well, you said a firing squad.
The only thing I can think of is that the cops got ambushed.
When they showed up, these guys all came out and started shooting at the cops and three cops got killed.
Two of the cops were brothers.
Do you think it's anybody that was involved in the shootout? No.
And why not? Because it goes much further back.
Okay, so this happened in 1916.
You're talking how much further back? Like the 1700s.
Oh, okay.
I think the living couple that was into dark magic brought him here.
He was in a cemetery, and these people trapped him, brought him here, and he's pissed because he was finally free.
And he's lashing out 'cause he feels trapped.
I think the living person would experience great deal of pain, especially in the neck.
My neck hurting right now.
My neck stay hurting.
He learned how to possess the person's body, so he knows how to jump people.
And what does he want to do with the living? What does he want to do to them? He wanted to kill him.
Sounds like you guys called us just when you needed to.
I think so, too.
Yeah.
There's another thing going on here.
Outside was this group of dead people wandering down the streets.
There was about 20, 25 of them out there.
To me, they looked like zombies.
Some of them, like, their legs were missing.
Some of them looked half eaten.
All of them died together, and I thought that they looked drowned.
Do you have any idea where you're actually at, like the area? - No.
- Okay.
It was August 24, 1992.
Hurricane Andrew devastated Homestead and Florida City, which is where we are now.
Take a look at what their neighborhood looked like after the storm hit.
Wait, this is here? Yes.
Wow.
plus 200 mile per hour gusts.
Now, you said about 25 people.
Mm-hmm.
In Florida, 26 died the day of the hurricane.
Another 18 died as a result after the hurricane.
This was like ground zero for where it hit.
Wow.
I just can't believe they're all still here.
That's very upsetting.
I did do a sketch of them talking to someone in the back bedroom over here.
[Gasps.]
And that's what she does.
AMY: I did do a sketch of them talking to someone in the back bedroom over here.
[Gasps.]
And that's what she does.
So, this supposed to be Rosario? It's a female that I saw with dark hair in her teens.
This sketch explains a lot to me about what she was saying.
Broke my heart listening to her.
That's why she wears her earphones at night.
They don't let her sleep, so she'd rather sleep during the day.
You need to speak with her.
She's scared, this kid.
She's really scared.
I promise.
It's scary.
I was expecting y'all to tell me something, but not at this extreme.
Well, Travas and Tracy, now you know what's here and what's ripping your family apart, and the big question is can you stay here and eventually be a loving family again? For the answer to that, I'm gonna turn it over to Amy, see if she can help you out.
You have a lot of random dead people that were unfortunately collected and trapped here.
You have an elderly woman who's attached herself to you.
There's a dead male influencing a lot of people in the house, and you also have a poltergeist.
There's also the victims from the hurricane.
The first thing would be a curandera is going to be contacted.
What the hell's a curandera? They're healers traditionally found in Latin American culture.
They will utilize various methods like burning candles, burning incense, using stones.
The first thing they're gonna do is remove the attachments the dead lady and any of the dead that would follow you anywhere.
The second thing is they're going to move on all of the dead, including the hurricane victims.
- Ah, that's great.
- So, that's awesome.
The third thing is they're gonna clear the home of all the residual and current emotional muck.
So, it's a person that could cover anything that's here.
Pretty much.
Okay, yeah.
Got chills.
I know this was a lot, though, tonight.
You guys got hit with a Wow, it's a lot, yeah.
How soon after they come through here and do their thing will they see the difference? - Oh, immediately.
- Yeah? - Oh, yeah.
- Well, that's what's up.
Yeah.
It feels like a lot has come off of me, a lot, 'cause I really thought I was going crazy.
I thought I was going insane.
Yeah, we was on our urge of, like, splitting up.
But it's just at the end of the day, she's still my wife, you know.
You're gonna take Amy's advice? - Yes, I am.
- Okay.
How 'bout you? You feeling good about what - Most definitely.
- Okay.
You know I am.
I was shaky earlier.
I'm still a little shaky, but at least I know.
- You feel better, though.
- Yeah, exactly.
I feel way better.
That it's not the end.
AMY: Tracy and Travas need to follow my advice if they wanna fix their relationship and get rid of the evil that's tearing their family apart.
I believe that once they find a curandero, they can begin healing and lead a peaceful life.
_ _
I seen my son in the air by the back of his shirt.
This poltergeist has some juice.
I understand it was a shootout, though.
They opened fire and three deputies were killed.
This thing is, mm, not good.
I never been through this.
I never experienced this before.
He says, "I'm gonna get ya.
" It's like somebody's into some dark [bleep.]
.
You're mine you can't escape.
My name is Amy Allan.
What's happening? I see dead people.
It seems like a devil.
I speak to dead people.
He's pissed off.
And they speak to me.
I felt real fear.
But there's only one way to know if my findings are real.
I think she's being murdered.
I rely on my partner.
I'm Steve Di Schiavi.
I'm a retired New York City homicide detective.
Serial killer pops in my head.
And I know every person, every house has secrets.
Nobody believes me.
It's my job to reveal them.
- You think there's still bodies there? - I do.
But Steve and I never speak We never communicate during an investigation.
Until the very end.
You got problems.
I got news for you.
When we uncover if it's safe for you to stay This is our house, whether they like it or not.
Or time to get out.
This is their house the house of the dead.
_ I'm in Florida City.
It's about 45 minutes south of Miami.
I got a call from a married couple, Tracy and Travas.
The family's so scared by what's happening in the house, every night they grab their three kids, and they huddle in the same room together till the sun comes up.
It broke my heart listening to their story.
I'm really hoping Amy and I can help them out.
MATTHEW: Since Amy can see two worlds, this one has to be free of any leading information.
Family photos, trophies and personal items can influence her findings so it's important I cover or remove them all before she begins her walk.
_ AMY: Oh, boy.
Hmm.
Right away, there were, like, several dead people on the other side of the door piling up on each other, desperate to get out.
So, there's something going on here that's preventing them from leaving.
It's like somebody's into some dark [bleep.]
, I think.
I do get something with witchcraft.
_ STEVE: Now, Tracy, when we spoke on the phone, you sounded pretty bad.
Tell me again exactly what's going on.
There's a lot of different apparitions, a lot of touching, bruises attacks.
How long have you guys been livin here? It's been a year now.
Why'd you move? Just so my kids could have their own room.
But seems like I've moved here to live in a one-bedroom, because they're too afraid to sleep in their own room.
Now, who exactly is living in the house? My husband, my daughter she's 13 my son Travis, he's eight years old.
And the baby, he's two.
Okay.
You told me on the phone you did a blessing on the house.
Yes, I have.
When I first came, the landlord actually told me that she's been saging the house.
Why would the landlord tell you that? At the time when I moved in, I didn't think about it when she told me that because I was just so excited to be in a home.
So, I continue saging the house.
It seems like everything just got worse after then.
It's not right what's going on here.
There's [bleep.]
going on all over here.
This is insane.
I'm seeing this woman and this man who lived here.
They're inviting dead people to come home with them and trapping them.
Either someone in this house now or someone who used to live here is messing around with dark magic and is calling out to the dead, but I don't know why.
I really [bleep.]
hope these people are not here anymore.
I'm angry right now.
I really, really [bleep.]
hope they don't live here.
What else is going on? Mood swings.
What kind of mood swings? What are you talking about? I could be one moment cooking and being happy and laughing, and then all of sudden, I just get into being angry.
I'm just so mad, and I get very abusive to my husband.
I really have to, like, leave the house.
When you leave the house, are your moods better? Perfect.
I'm happy.
You on any medication that would cause this? No.
It got real bad where my relationship with my husband is really going down.
We were like love birds.
We were together for 13 years, and it's like now, there's times that I don't want nothing to do with my husband at all.
Sorry.
It's gotta be tough for him too, I would think.
It's real tough, and he doesn't walk away, 'cause he knows it's this house that's making me act like this.
This is not me.
[Amy exhales sharply.]
There's also really intense and big energy.
I'm thinking it's some type of poltergeist.
This person is not mentally well.
I think it's the person practicing dark [bleep.]
.
I would think that people who were here would feel this panic.
It's really fear, but you feel it like anxiety.
I'm, like, literally shaking.
_ So, what's going on in here? We all sleep together here.
My son, the babies, stays in this room with us, because they're too scared to be in the rest of the house.
I actually had my son that was lifted off the floor.
He was in the air.
I seen my son in the air by the back of his shirt.
What happened? My husband got off the bed and he fell completely.
So, whatever had him let go? Yes, and he was scared.
We were all scared.
And what about you? Anything with you? Yeah.
I wake up with bruises on my legs like I've been hit.
Just on your legs? Yes, just on my legs.
This is just something small.
This is when the bruises are already just going away.
Yeah, but you said the kids sleep in bed with you.
Sure you ain't getting kicked by the kids? No, no, no, no.
I'm a light sleeper.
_ What happened? I just keep getting touched on.
So, you're getting touched right now? Yes, while I'm talking to you.
Every time I keep telling you about something that has happened in here, somebody keeps tapping me on my back.
I'm getting mad.
I'm starting to get upset about this now.
AMY: Wow.
This poltergeist has some juice.
Person's praying.
I see the back of her head.
She's got her hair pinned kind of like mine pinned up, brown.
She gets smacked by the poltergeist.
Smack.
MATTHEW: What all can this poltergeist do? Slapping, hitting, pushing, shoving, holding people down.
I see her again, beat up by this energy.
Someone's feeding it, for sure.
Getting scared now.
Let's go outside.
Just had to get out of there.
I'm sorry.
No, no, listen, I'm gonna try my hardest to figure out what the hell's here.
That's one thing about me I'm real hard on the inside and the outside, but this, it makes you weak.
_ _ STEVE: So, Travas, this is your son's room? This is Travas and DeSean's room, but they won't sleep in here.
They're too scared to sleep in here.
That's sad, actually.
Now, I was talking to your wife, and, I tell you, the stuff she was telling me that's been going on here is really concerning.
Everything was good, but moved into this house, and all of a sudden, like, everything just went chaos.
She's, like, a totally different person, like, anger like, straight mad, angry.
And she wasn't like that before? No, never like that.
Never.
We almost got a divorce.
Geez.
Now, what makes you think this is paranormal? It's got to be.
We had a perfect marriage for so long till we moved here.
Tell me about some of the experiences.
If I am watching TV and I'm sitting on the bed, I've seen, like, a shadow right there by my door.
As soon as I turn, you see the shadow just leave.
- What kind of shadow? What's it look like? - A dark shadow.
Okay, what, does it stay there? Is it quick? - What's the story? - Nah, it's quick.
When you get ready to, like, look that way, all of a sudden, it goes down the hall.
Okay.
When I was talking to your wife, she was talking about all the physical things that are happening to her and how things have changed.
She wakes up with bruises and everything.
What about you? I don't have bruises, but, one day, I was dozing off in my bed, and I woke up, but I'm, like, stuck can't move.
My eyes open, but I can't say nothing or move.
Wow.
So, what'd you do? I couldn't do nothing.
There's nothing I could've did until I popped out of it.
It let me go, and then I wake up neck pains, like, before I go to work in the morning.
My back be hurting.
I never been through this.
I never experienced this before.
How are living like that? It's hard, man.
It's hard.
There's this weird, dark thing.
It's [bleep.]
weird looking.
It's about this big like that.
And it's like shades of black and gray.
He moves around here a lot.
In this hallway, he's focused on this male.
What do you mean? He drains his energy.
He possesses him, so he jumps into his body.
This dark shadow creature has destructive ways of interacting with living people, and I see that it's targeting a man in this house.
It pretty much tortures him and makes him feel trapped inside of himself.
And when he does that, he causes extreme pain.
Do you know what it wants from him? Death.
Yeah, this thing is not good.
_ Sweetheart, how old are you? - I'm 13.
- 13.
Okay, why don't you tell me what's going on? What have you experienced? I see shadows.
It moves real quick, and it's black and tall.
Where exactly do you see it? Sometimes, I will be laying in my bed, and I'll just see it go right past the hallway.
- Can you see through it? - No.
Okay.
There anything else? Voices Just hear a lot of people talking at once.
Okay, does it sound like they're talking to each other or they're trying to talk to you? I can't say because they're all talking at once, so I can't hear what they're saying.
Okay.
How are you sleeping at night? I got to force myself to go to sleep.
I put my headphones in and listen to music.
Okay, and you keep that on all night? Mm-hmm.
Okay, are you afraid right now? You seem a little, you know, like, a little tense.
They don't want me here.
Okay.
There are people outside, and I did see people down the block that were, kind of, walking up Mostly men.
And they are out of it.
It looks like, you know, a bunch of zombies.
How many? A lot about 20, 25.
I do hear them.
I think this person hears them talking outside mumble, mumble, mumble.
This bothers this person a great deal.
This person is really good at pushing things out and blocking things, but there's still this overwhelming fear.
They need to just get the [bleep.]
out.
I know Hurricane Andrew devastated southern Florida.
In fact, back in '92 when it happened, I came down here to help in a rescue effort.
I reached out to a local newspaper reporter to see if Travas and Tracy's property was affected.
He said I should come meet with him.
Well, Ken, thanks for meeting me.
I appreciate that.
So, I know my clients' home was built in 2004, but what was there back in '92 before the hurricane hit? It was a mobile home park.
Okay.
Here is an aerial photo that shows just how bad the damage was.
It was like a war zone.
Wow.
I just drove past this water tank here, so this is real close to my clients' property.
So, what was it like when the storm hit? It was extremely intense Gusts of more than 200 miles per hour.
It was one of Florida's worst disasters.
It mangled cars, planes, boats.
At the time, it was the costliest hurricane to hit the United States $26.
5 billion.
It virtually changed the face of Florida.
How many people actually died in Florida? Andrew killed a total of 44 people in Florida.
- Okay.
- And that included 26 people directly as a result of the storm.
How did they die? People were hit by tree limbs.
They drove their cars into high water.
One man actually got crushed in his home by the high winds.
It was like a squadron of heavy bombers flew overhead and just unloaded.
Right.
AMY: I don't get what the [bleep.]
these zombies are doing.
Some of them look like they've been eaten Like, legs are missing, and they're a mess.
They drowned, I think.
I know that, you know, they pretty much died together and somehow, they know enough to seek help, or they're drawn to the energy here.
Very bizarre.
STEVE: I reached out to the current owner of Tracy's property and some of the former tenants, but nobody would talk to me.
So, since I was striking out with the living, I started looking into the dead.
After making a few calls, I got in touch with a local professor who tells me one of the original owners of the land ended up getting destroyed by it.
So, Dr.
George, if I'm standing on my clients' property back in 1910, what would've been there? It was a wilderness Flooded heavily during the rainy season in the summer, mosquitoes galore at all times.
It was the most desolate place imaginable.
I mean, who owned the land originally? Well, the land down there, it was owned by the Tatum brothers Four brothers who were big-time developers in the Miami area.
- Okay.
- Men of means, men of standing.
In fact, here's a photograph of one of them.
This is Smiley Tatum.
Heavily educated, he was educated in the subject area of chemistry of all things.
Here's his wife Florie.
You can see she's high society.
Very well educated, too.
So, now the Tatums that bought all this land, did they live on it? No, not at all.
They lived in the more settled areas of Miami in beautiful homes.
You get a sense of the wealth they had.
These are like small mansions.
So, what the hell were they trying to develop? Well, the Tatum brothers wanted to sell land, and they needed to get people to buy that land, and so they sent some of their people on their payroll up to Detroit, hoping to get Actually hoping to create a colony of physicians who would move from Detroit to this desolate place.
And they sold them this land sight unseen, because their salespeople are just so wild in the way they describe the place, "This is the Garden of Eden.
" Okay, so let me get this straight.
When they came down here, they thought they were gonna be moving into, like, a place that had infrastructure already? Yeah, infrastructure and, you know, more as a planned community, but that's not what the Tatums had for them.
Okay, now, on the phone, you mentioned the land destroyed the Tatums.
What did you mean? They prospered for the next decade and a half.
Through the first half of the 1920s, there's a huge land boom.
And then the boom collapses in '26, and they lose almost everything.
Wow.
She lost it all too.
When they lost everything by the second half of the 1920s, Florie becomes just a regular person, and they're hurting.
They're straining to get by.
There's an elderly woman, this kind of creepy chick.
Like, what I'm seeing, like, a lot of animals, like snakes and there were fish.
Like, I'm seeing a lot of wilderness.
Even the land looked wild.
But it belongs to her so I'm a little confused as to where the [bleep.]
this woman's house was.
I don't know if she had four houses, or she's, like, putting it on four houses here.
So, this is where the old lady likes to chill about.
Extremely wealthy, powerful woman.
She is physical, and she is attached to a female in the house.
STEVE: So far, I know my clients' property was owned by greedy land developers and then devastated by Hurricane Andrew, but I need to see if there's anything else.
Searching through the archives, I discover a deadly shootout on Travas and Tracy's land between cops and four bank robbers.
This property's really turning out to be a magnet for pain and suffering.
I've placed a call to a local police chief who says what happened will definitely help my case.
_ STEVE: During my research, I came across an article about a shootout between the cops and some bank robbers that actually started in your jurisdiction.
What can you tell me about it? ROLLE: On September 15, 1916, these crooks by the name of the Rice Gang did a bank robbery here in Homestead, and they jumped into a stolen car, and they headed to the Everglades near your clients' property.
What happens next? A posse was formed by Sheriff Dan Hardie, and the next night, they went down looking for these guys.
Okay, so now what happens? I understand there was a shootout, though.
Yes, they opened fire on three deputies, and three deputies were killed.
Do we know anything about who they were? One of the cops that was killed was Allen Henderson.
He gets shot nine times in the back.
What about the other guy? Well, the second guy who was shot was brother.
- His brother? - His brother, William Henderson.
He was shot once in the leg.
Both of them died at the scene.
Who was the third cop? The third cop was Charles Williams.
He was shot five times, as well, and he died the next day.
The shootout happens.
Do these guys at least get shot at the scene, the perps, or do they flee? - What happens? - They flee into the Everglades.
They were there for approximately two weeks.
Eventually, two of the subjects were killed.
Okay, so how does that happen? One of them was killed by civilians stealing supplies.
Another one of the guys drowned.
So, what happens with the other two guys? Well, Frank Rice and Hugh Alderman, they were apprehended and charged with first degree murder.
Matter of fact, I have a article here from the local newspaper.
Did they go to trial? Yes, they did, and when they went to trial, they were convicted of second degree murder.
As a matter of fact, one of the guys, Rice, he was paroled after nine years.
The other guy, Alderman, went insane while he was in prison and eventually transferred to Florida State Hospital where he spent the next Everybody sees him in this hall.
Sees who? He's the dude who is possessing the other guy the living one.
I'm starting to catch quick glimpses of what this dark shadow man was like in life, and I'm seeing that he was a very disturbed person.
He was captured.
He was a prisoner.
He was murdered or executed.
The living one, I think he went somewhere, and he brought this home.
I feel like this guy entrapped him somehow.
And so this dead guy felt, "I was finally free, and you trapped me, so I'm gonna get ya.
" _ During my walk, I saw a group of dead people gathered outside of a young woman's bedroom.
I'm meeting with the sketch artist to describe this horrifying scene.
AMY: On the other side of the window, there were several dead men.
Their clothes were all in tatters, and I saw a person on the bed.
They had their hands on their head, on their ears.
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.
Amy, I'd like you to meet Travas and Tracy.
Now, they're a married couple.
They have three beautiful kids.
They have been living here for about a year.
This is a photo.
Basically, since they moved here, their lives have been turned upside down.
The kids are nothing but sad and scared.
They want their happy life together.
They had a great marriage.
Now, they're talking about possibly getting divorced because of all that's going on here.
They wanna know what's here, how to kick it the hell out, and get back to their normal lives.
Now that Amy knows a little bit about what's going on, I'm gonna ask her to tell us about her walk.
AMY: As soon as I walked up to the door, there were a bunch of dead people on the inside of the house that were piling up on the door, wanting out.
And when I came in, I saw a female who was a part of a couple that lived here who was messing around with magic, calling out to the dead, trapping and collecting these dead people, and what they left here was this ridiculous energy.
And honestly, I didn't know if it was you guys or someone who lived here prior.
But seeing you, it seemed to be an older female.
Well, when they got the place, the woman that owns it was saging the place when they got here.
Yes.
Wow.
Now, if she was saging, then something was going on.
The other thing that I saw pretty much as soon as I walked in was a poltergeist.
A poltergeist is created by a living agent by the electrical charges that they send out into the air.
It's just a mass of energy.
Now, I don't know if it was the previous family who created it, but anyone who's having emotional issues can feed it.
In the master bedroom, I saw someone praying, and this thing smacked her upside the head.
It's a pretty powerful thing.
Well, one of the other main reasons we're here is because Tracy's being attacked at night.
Tell Amy about that.
Well, when I wake up in the morning and I look down, my legs are just covered with bruises, like if somebody kicked me, beat me.
Matter of fact, here's a photo.
That's the bruises she would get.
Oh, my gosh.
Now, you also got held down in the bed.
TRAVAS: Yeah.
I was dozing off, and all of a sudden, I just felt something just, like, hold me down.
I couldn't say anything.
I couldn't move.
I couldn't say anything, but eventually, It let me go.
And it's not just you.
I mean, you saw your son getting picked up.
- Mm-hmm.
- Travas Jr.
here.
It was the middle of the night, and all of a sudden, I heard him, like, gagging, like something had him by the back of his shirt.
We got up, and And he just fell, just Wow.
STEVE: What else did you get? So, there's this older lady that I met.
Whoever she can scare the most is where she'll go, and she is attaching herself to a female in the house.
You know, making this female feel out of control, making her feel anxiety, causing outbursts of rage.
Well, since they moved here, Tracy's personality has done a 180.
I just get to a point where I dislike my husband.
I just hate him.
I want to hurt him.
There's just times that I just don't even wanna be with him.
They bad, bad mood swings.
And I know this is not me.
_ She wasn't never like this, never.
Till we got here.
STEVE: Now, the woman you're talking about, did you get anything else on her? Well, one of the reasons why this woman's here is because she believes this land is all hers.
She was, like, very well educated, very wealthy, and she owned a lot of land, but what I saw was just all, like, wild.
But it was weird because I saw her, like, in four houses, so I'm a little confused as to where this woman's house was.
There's only one woman that fits that description that actually owned big chunk of the land here.
Her name was Florie Tatum.
Her and her husband Smiley, who were very wealthy, very powerful You mentioned they owned a lot of houses, right? She actually owned four homes in Miami.
Wow.
So, they lived large.
Now, they bought up about and this was nothing but wilderness back then, but their plan was to make a big profit developing the land.
So, they set out to get people from north to get out of cold weather in Michigan, that, "You're gonna come live in paradise, beautiful paradise.
" When they got here, it was a swamp.
What goes around comes around.
In 1926, the real estate market here crashed.
Florie wound up losing everything her money, her standing, her whole way of living.
Now, do you think that might have been the woman you saw? Yes.
So, this is the woman that's attached to her? Oh, my gosh.
TRACY: I'm so mad at her.
STEVE: Did you see anything else? I saw this thing in the hallway, and it was like this black blob.
This entity, I think, had initially attached to a male in the home.
I do think that people can see him.
I got that he was alive at one point.
He was either murdered or executed.
He was captured.
He was a prisoner.
And I saw something about a firing squad.
That was all that I got about him.
Now, this is not so obvious for me, but I got one thing I came up in my research, and it was a shootout between cops and some bank robbers.
It happened in September of 1916.
The gang called the Rice Gang, it was two brothers and two other guys.
What they did is rob a bank in Homestead, which is less than a mile from your property.
Then when they fled there in a stolen car, they wind up holding up by that water tank that's literally a quarter of a mile from your property here.
Well, you said a firing squad.
The only thing I can think of is that the cops got ambushed.
When they showed up, these guys all came out and started shooting at the cops and three cops got killed.
Two of the cops were brothers.
Do you think it's anybody that was involved in the shootout? No.
And why not? Because it goes much further back.
Okay, so this happened in 1916.
You're talking how much further back? Like the 1700s.
Oh, okay.
I think the living couple that was into dark magic brought him here.
He was in a cemetery, and these people trapped him, brought him here, and he's pissed because he was finally free.
And he's lashing out 'cause he feels trapped.
I think the living person would experience great deal of pain, especially in the neck.
My neck hurting right now.
My neck stay hurting.
He learned how to possess the person's body, so he knows how to jump people.
And what does he want to do with the living? What does he want to do to them? He wanted to kill him.
Sounds like you guys called us just when you needed to.
I think so, too.
Yeah.
There's another thing going on here.
Outside was this group of dead people wandering down the streets.
There was about 20, 25 of them out there.
To me, they looked like zombies.
Some of them, like, their legs were missing.
Some of them looked half eaten.
All of them died together, and I thought that they looked drowned.
Do you have any idea where you're actually at, like the area? - No.
- Okay.
It was August 24, 1992.
Hurricane Andrew devastated Homestead and Florida City, which is where we are now.
Take a look at what their neighborhood looked like after the storm hit.
Wait, this is here? Yes.
Wow.
plus 200 mile per hour gusts.
Now, you said about 25 people.
Mm-hmm.
In Florida, 26 died the day of the hurricane.
Another 18 died as a result after the hurricane.
This was like ground zero for where it hit.
Wow.
I just can't believe they're all still here.
That's very upsetting.
I did do a sketch of them talking to someone in the back bedroom over here.
[Gasps.]
And that's what she does.
AMY: I did do a sketch of them talking to someone in the back bedroom over here.
[Gasps.]
And that's what she does.
So, this supposed to be Rosario? It's a female that I saw with dark hair in her teens.
This sketch explains a lot to me about what she was saying.
Broke my heart listening to her.
That's why she wears her earphones at night.
They don't let her sleep, so she'd rather sleep during the day.
You need to speak with her.
She's scared, this kid.
She's really scared.
I promise.
It's scary.
I was expecting y'all to tell me something, but not at this extreme.
Well, Travas and Tracy, now you know what's here and what's ripping your family apart, and the big question is can you stay here and eventually be a loving family again? For the answer to that, I'm gonna turn it over to Amy, see if she can help you out.
You have a lot of random dead people that were unfortunately collected and trapped here.
You have an elderly woman who's attached herself to you.
There's a dead male influencing a lot of people in the house, and you also have a poltergeist.
There's also the victims from the hurricane.
The first thing would be a curandera is going to be contacted.
What the hell's a curandera? They're healers traditionally found in Latin American culture.
They will utilize various methods like burning candles, burning incense, using stones.
The first thing they're gonna do is remove the attachments the dead lady and any of the dead that would follow you anywhere.
The second thing is they're going to move on all of the dead, including the hurricane victims.
- Ah, that's great.
- So, that's awesome.
The third thing is they're gonna clear the home of all the residual and current emotional muck.
So, it's a person that could cover anything that's here.
Pretty much.
Okay, yeah.
Got chills.
I know this was a lot, though, tonight.
You guys got hit with a Wow, it's a lot, yeah.
How soon after they come through here and do their thing will they see the difference? - Oh, immediately.
- Yeah? - Oh, yeah.
- Well, that's what's up.
Yeah.
It feels like a lot has come off of me, a lot, 'cause I really thought I was going crazy.
I thought I was going insane.
Yeah, we was on our urge of, like, splitting up.
But it's just at the end of the day, she's still my wife, you know.
You're gonna take Amy's advice? - Yes, I am.
- Okay.
How 'bout you? You feeling good about what - Most definitely.
- Okay.
You know I am.
I was shaky earlier.
I'm still a little shaky, but at least I know.
- You feel better, though.
- Yeah, exactly.
I feel way better.
That it's not the end.
AMY: Tracy and Travas need to follow my advice if they wanna fix their relationship and get rid of the evil that's tearing their family apart.
I believe that once they find a curandero, they can begin healing and lead a peaceful life.
_ _