The Dead Files (2011) s07e10 Episode Script
The Creeper- Coupland, Texas
_ _ _ I think that people would feel this presence.
I got scratched down the middle of my back.
This guy has got (bleep) issues.
Well, he pulls out his pistol, shoots him five times in the chest.
I'm scared for myself, for our whole family.
He's really creepy.
He's a sociopath.
Something bad's going to happen.
My name is Amy Allan.
There's panic.
And it's almost like a butchering.
I see dead people.
They all died horribly.
I speak to dead people.
Get out of here.
And they speak to me.
Vicious.
But there's only one way to know if my findings are real.
It doesn't matter where you are.
I'll find you.
I rely on my partner.
I'm Steve Di Schiavi.
I'm a retired New York City homicide detective.
This guy's a real piece of work.
And I know every person, every house has secrets.
I feel like I live in a house of Hell.
It's my job to reveal them.
This is not good.
But Steve and I never speak We never communicate during an investigation.
Until the very end I want my life back.
When we uncover if it's safe for you to stay - Is he trying to kill her? - (Sobs) Or time to get out.
Oh, my God.
This is going to kill us.
I'm in Coupland, Texas.
It's a small city just outside of Austin.
I got called in by a mother of two who sounded really bad.
She got married a couple of years ago and moved in with her new husband.
Then, all hell broke loose.
She's scared for her kids, she's scared for herself and she's just plain scared.
She told me she's got no one else to turn to.
Before Amy arrives, I clear the house of any leading information, removing family photos and other personal items that may influence her findings.
When I'm done, the location will be ready for tonight's walk.
_ Last night, I had an encounter with a dead person, a male.
My shirt was kind of lifted and my stomach was, like, caressed.
It was inappropriate, and the touch was very cold.
There's two females that are alive, who think, he's some kind of a perv.
He is the main person here who's causing problems for the living.
_ (Steve): Well, Sharon, I'm glad I'm here because listening to you on the phone and how scared you guys are here was real concerning to me.
What's going on? Well, we're being terrorized in our home.
Okay, what are we talking about? From being pushed and shoved to a lot of things that are a lot worse than that.
When you say a lot worse, you're talking about? Being touched intimately.
It's okay.
Yeah, I mean, there's things that are just it's just horrible.
Things are happening in our house, at this point.
And it's just I'm scared for myself and for our whole family.
- I'm sorry.
- No, no, no.
This is why we took the case.
We're at a breaking point.
I told my husband, I was like, "I'm done.
I can't do this.
" Now, who exactly are you living here with? Here is a photo of our family.
There's myself, and my husband J.
D.
, our son Nicholas, our only daughter, Madelyn, and our middle son, Jacob.
I understand you got married recently.
Did you and J.
D.
buy this place together? No, he built the home in 2006.
And now how long have you been living here? We've lived here for the last two years.
Now, when did it start getting really bad for you guys? Not until about seven months ago.
- Seven months ago? - Mm-hmm.
Is everybody on this photo having experiences? It's mostly the women in the house.
It's me, it's my daughter.
We're the ones being physically attacked in the home.
Like, you don't even want to change clothes, because if like if there were a peeping Tom in your window watching you.
I'm just ready for this to be over.
This has been a nightmare for us.
(Amy): The dead guy who touched me last night is in here.
This guy's not good.
I feel like he's in here a lot.
It makes you feel like you're being studied.
I think that people would feel this presence.
This like you're under a microscope or something.
He's really creepy.
I don't think he has a conscience.
_ This is the most active place in the whole house.
We've seen, like, a black mass, kind of like a cloud.
- Okay.
- Another time, laying in the bed, I sat straight up when I saw him.
And it was a man standing at the end of my bed.
And it was like he had on a trench coat and almost like a fedora hat.
And how often are you seeing him? Pretty much all the time.
Anything else going on in here? I got scratched this burn down the middle of my back.
And my husband lifted my shirt and he was like "You've got a huge scratch down" It was right, perfect in between my shoulder blades.
- Nothing else could have caused that? - Nothing.
No cats or anything running around here? Un-uh.
There's something burning.
Yeah, like a burning sensation with, like, little prickles of heat.
I'm gonna assume that somebody in this location is having this experience and it is associated with this younger dead male.
It's possible somebody is getting cut.
There is this physical agitation that's happening to somebody.
All right, ls there anything else going on? One night we were in bed, and I woke up and I could feel two hands around my throat.
I was being choked.
And I could feel the thumbs especially just pushing down so far.
And I was just, like and could not breathe.
You sure it wasn't a nightmare? I was wide awake, sitting there trying to wake my husband.
But that was your breaking point was getting choked? No, that one wasn't.
What was? We were in bed and it felt like something running its nail along the backside of my leg.
I was touched very intimately touched.
Did it feel like a man's hands, or could you even tell what it felt like? I knew it was a man.
Okay.
That was my breaking point, because I was like, "If it'll do that to me, what could it do to my daughter?" We have got to get help.
We have to get help.
This younger dude, he's being nasty.
He's saying that this (bleep) deserves whatever he's doing to her.
I feel a lot of choking right away, a lot of pressure in the head.
Really bad.
Pressure in the jaw really bad.
Having the breath knocked out of you often.
_ (Steve): So, Mattie, I was talking to Mom and she was telling me about what you guys are going through in here.
You're how old now? I'm about to turn 15.
Mom said you've been having experiences.
I'll be laying in bed and, you know, and my door will be open and I'll see, like, a shadow figure just walk past my door, like, real quick.
It looks like a shadow, but, you know, more 3D.
Like, in a month it probably would happen about two times.
And you're positive it's not somebody walking past.
I'm positive.
I hate to even ask you this, but is there anything else? I was laying down in my bed and I got up to go to the kitchen to get a drink, and right as I was about to walk out of my door the frame of my door, I got shoved back into my guitars that are right by the foot of my bed.
And it cut me.
There was blood.
That night when I got pushed, I just sat in my bed and I cried.
How much do you and Mom talk about this stuff? She's told me a lot everything, honestly, that's happened to her.
And it does scare me, because if it's willing to do that to her who, you know, - has her husband by her side, - Right.
then what could happen to me when I'm on the other side of the house, alone? - Right.
- So, that definitely scares me.
I know he's in here a lot.
This living person might be influenced by this dead man's behaviors.
He's a sociopath.
So, he wants to be in control, be in charge.
He is just staring me the (bleep) down.
_ _ _ So, J.
D.
, I was talking to your wife and she was telling me about the horrific things that are going on here.
At the beginning, it was fine before my wife moved in.
And after she moved in, everything just started getting weirder and weirder.
Were you having any experiences before all this other stuff started happening? A little bit.
My grandma died.
Every once in a while I'd turn and I'd just see I'd just see her standing there.
I just chalked it up being that.
I paid it no nevermind.
Okay.
And when did she pass? Two and a half years ago.
Okay, did she live close by? My grandma lived right behind us.
- She did? - Yep.
I got a picture of her.
How old was she when she passed? - 89.
- Okay.
Do you mind if I ask what she died of? - She hit her head on the sink.
- Okay.
I'm sorry to hear that.
- Were you close with her? - Yes, sir.
Now, how often do you think you see grandma? Almost every week.
Really? Is she kind of, like, looking over you.
I believe so.
What the hell? The feeling I'm getting is somebody with a cane.
I think it's a female.
Older female, maybe.
And I'm getting something weird with the head.
Maybe it's stroke or something.
She is often confused.
_ So now, what about experiences after your wife moved in, did you have anything happen? Yeah, one night I had a picnic table in the back and I go out there at night and sit on it.
And I just see all these shadows coming in and out.
What did they look like? Army men.
Then I look over here and I see, like, Indians.
And look over here and cowboys.
I mean, so you're seeing all kinds of things.
Yes, sir.
I mean, were you drinking out there? - No, sir.
- Okay.
I've never dealt with this before.
I'm worried about them hurting the kids and everything.
I just want it gone.
I do feel like there are a lot of bodies around.
Somehow they're trapped with their bodies.
They're able to reach out and call for help.
There's one specific guy who is dead.
And he is old.
He's around, like, 1900.
And he was a tough, tough guy.
He's bad off here, trapped.
And he is, I think, the strongest one of these people, as far as reach being able to reach out.
He's, like, the main mummy.
(Steve): How old are you? (Jacob): 10.
I understand that you might have seen a couple scary things in the house here.
Can you tell me about one of them? Whenever I'm sitting in the living room watching TV, I just see this person out of the corner of my eye.
It's a black figure.
And then it glared at me.
I looked at it.
And then right when I turned around, it went away.
And how do you know it was glaring at you? I just saw the eyebrows go down.
- Like that? - Like that.
So, what else scared you in the house? On the other side, in the dining room, there was a white figure.
This one just came closer to me and just stared at me.
And I looked at it and it went away.
Are you scared to stay here? Mm-hmm.
So, there's a lot of beds in here.
Where do you where would you sleep? - This one.
- Up on top here? Okay.
I just really don't like sleeping in my bedroom alone.
Okay.
There's one person in here who is being targeted by the dead that aren't able to rest.
They are talking all the time to the person that's in the top bunk.
It's too much for this person.
It's a lot of information.
(Matthew): What kind of information? This person is seeing the old man from outside.
Well, he's mummified, but it's, like, a corpse screaming.
Open mouth, kind of hanging, crooked and emaciated.
And he's, like, getting in bed with the person.
That creeped me out.
I don't That's some weird (bleep).
(Steve): First thing I do when I start an investigation is pull the property deed.
Turns out one family, the Stebers, owned the property for over 53 years.
And when I contacted a genealogist to look into it for me, she said their time on the land was filled with death and heartbreak.
_ (Steve): Dr.
Alexander, thanks for helping with my case.
I appreciate that.
Now, what can you tell me about the Steber family? (Alexander): In about 1867, Michael Steber came over from Bohemia, which is part of Czechoslovakia now.
- Okay.
- He was 17 years old.
Then he gets married.
He marries Rosa in 1871.
So, when did they wind up - on my client's property? - ln 1892.
All right, now, you mentioned tragedy.
So, what happened? In 1895, Michael vanished.
The family looked for him, neighbors looked for him.
He disappeared at the age of What about suspects? Well, there was one possible suspect.
That was John Henry, his stepson.
Why? Because he and his father used to argue bitterly.
Okay, but no body, so no charges were ever brought up? No charges were ever brought against him.
Okay, Michael is missing.
He's never found.
What happens to the property? Well, in 1909, the land is transferred to Rosa.
She turns it over to her son shortly thereafter.
This is the stepson they thought might have had something to do with his disappearance, right? Yes.
What do I need to know about him? In 1926, he dies of stomach cancer.
Who gets the property now? His son, George.
How did it go for George? Not all that lucky for George.
In 1940, George had a number of daughters, and three of them went up to the swimming hole.
Okay.
And the youngest one, Helen, went in swimming.
And she started to struggle.
The two oldest sisters jumped in to help save her.
Aw, look at that.
Victims.
Both of the older sisters died.
Geez.
What a shame.
And here is the newspaper clipping.
_ And that's where everybody swam.
That was the big swimming hole.
Okay, so, this can't be the only drowning deaths there? I don't know if there are other drownings, but I do know in 1921 there was a flood and hundreds of people died.
I'm hearing something about a lake to my left, which is really weird, considering where we are.
Then I hear, "Cemetery.
" So, I'm thinking that there are bodies in or very near the water.
And somehow they're mummified.
And there were kids, little kids.
Like, from 5 to 10, I would say.
And they were singing "Ring Around the Rosie.
" What the (bleep) was done to them? I can't figure out other than it being some kind of pressure in the chest and upper back, like maybe drowning.
Weird.
What? I heard someone say, "The children perished.
It was bad.
" I've got to find out more about this massive flood and how it might have affected my client's property.
I'm heading over to meet with a local historian who said it was one of the biggest natural disasters in the town's history.
_ (Steve): Randy, what can you tell me about this flood? It actually started Friday the 9th of September, 1921.
It was caused by a tropical storm that had moved inland into Mexico and then moved north into Texas and just poured rain onto the county for a day and a half, two days.
It dumped at least 38 inches of rain.
The creeks rose by 40 feet.
What are we talking, as far as devastation? What happened? You can see on some photos that we did find - some of the aftermath.
- Wow.
Just from a few days after.
The floor waters came in at such a sudden surge, a lot of people had to cut their way out through the roof of their homes.
Farm houses, livestock, people Anything in its path was just swept away.
So, there would have been just pandemonium and panic? Correct.
Now, I know that Brushy Creek is like 500 feet from my client's property.
So, that area had to get destroyed.
Oh, absolutely.
Statewide, of the bodies that were recovered that we know of, there were 224 that perished in the flooding.
Geez.
So, how did it impact my property? How many people died in that area? - There were at least 93 bodies recovered.
- Wow.
So, we're talking more than a third of the bodies? Correct.
The greatest concentration of deaths did occur within that Williamson County area.
Something about these bodies, they want the house to be torn down.
I don't know why.
How many bodies? There are quite a lot.
At least 20 to 50 maybe.
Do you know how they died? Something with that weird pressure (bleep) and water.
I don't (bleep) know.
Okay.
Most of them died badly.
(Steve): Now that I know the original owners of Sharon and J.
D.
's property suffered from mysterious death and heartbreak and that a flood killed dozens in the area, I need to know if there's anything else.
Searching through old records, I find an article about a young war vet named George Williams who murdered a retired farmer right next to my client's property.
I'm heading over to meet with a local police chief who's gonna tell me all about this bizarre case.
_ This homicide, what happened? May the 1st, 1959, we've got two guys headed to work.
Kelly Frederick picks up George Williams, who's a buddy of his.
They work together.
George Williams lived hand to mouth.
Didn't have a car, couldn't drive himself to work, had to depend on a friend to get him there.
This morning though, after he gets in the car, George Williams pulls a pistol, a .
32 caliber revolver, and forces Kelly Frederick to drive him to a little country road next to your client's property.
And he says, "Get out of the car.
" So Kelly gets out of the car and George Williams steps out of the car and begins to shoot at him, unprovoked.
Well, Kelly Frederick figures, "The only way I'm getting out of this alive is to get back in the car and drive away.
" Okay, now, that's not the guy that gets murdered, though.
No.
So, George Williams ducks off the road.
He approaches a retired farmer, Charlie Heise.
out having a little fishing fun in the morning.
"Need a ride to Austin.
" Heise says, "Where do you live?" He said, "Well, I live in Austin.
That's why I need a ride down there.
" Heise doesn't respond quick enough.
Williams pulls out his pistol, shoots him five times in the chest.
So, George Williams takes the keys out of his pocket, goes up, steals the car, heads west to Austin.
They immediately bring him back.
And there's your picture of George Williams.
May the 3rd, he also gives a full confession.
In the confession, did he say anything about, like, what his motivation was? Never said a word.
I thought I read somewhere that he was a vet.
He was.
He'd gone to the Korean war.
He called nine witnesses in his trial.
All nine witnesses said when he came back from Korea, he was different.
What happened with the trial? Well, he was found guilty, sentenced to death.
He was executed July the 8th, 1960.
They take him in at 12:02 A.
M.
to the death chamber, shave his head, put a wet sponge on his head, put a metal cap over the top of that, strap it down.
Put a rubber ball in his mouth, and they ran about 50,000 volts through his body.
At 12:05, they threw the switch.
At 12:09, he was pronounced dead in the chair.
And, of course, interestingly enough, his death certificate says legal electrocution.
Now, look at that.
He was only 30.
Right.
This guy has got (bleep) issues.
And he is good at holding that information in tight.
This dangerous sociopath is trying to block me from seeing who he really is, but I'm starting to get some clues about who he was in life.
He's one of those people that looks older than he was.
And how old would you say he was? Late 20s, early 30s at the most.
So, you know when he's from? He's recent.
One thing is that he was in financial ruin, I think, at the time of his death.
There was something weird with his mouth and I can't place it.
He's one of those people that would make you feel very uncomfortable around them.
He was really intense when he was alive.
A very good actor of emotions, you know? Because he doesn't really have any.
That's, I think, why he's still here.
Like, he likes it.
He doesn't have to pretend anymore, so he's got free rein.
_ During my walk, I saw a sociopath terrorizing women in the house.
I'm meeting with this sketch artist to draw him as he appeared in life.
His chin is kind of shorter than average, and his forehead is smaller than average.
He's pretty buff.
Very piercing, large, round eyes.
Next, I described a disturbing scene I saw in a little boy's room.
They kind of looked mummified.
So, they're buried in the ground.
A long, stretching arm and hand, like, coming from the corpse's head area to the kid in the bed.
(Man): 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 J.
D.
He had this house custom built back in 2006.
Now, everything was pretty quiet until he married Sharon here about two years ago when she moved in with her kids.
Now, we got a photo here of the nuclear family.
So, this is nick, her son who is 16.
This is Mattie who is 14, and this is J.
D.
's son, Jacob, who is 10.
The activity really got amped up about seven months ago? Right.
And it turned violent.
Now, things are so bad here that Sharon doesn't sleep at night.
She thinks the entire family is in danger, and she's praying that we find a way to help her get out of this hell.
Did you have any or your children have any prior paranormal experiences before moving? Yes.
Okay.
When the children were small, we were about 45 minutes from here and we had experiences in that home.
They've been dealing with this their whole lives.
When I got here, what I was seeing was a large body of water, I'm assuming a lake.
I was feeling this horrible pain, and it felt like pressure on my chest, feeling like it was being compressed.
It was really bad.
I also saw a lot of people.
I would say there was about 20 to 50 of them.
And it seemed like they were somehow mummified.
These people, more than likely, died pretty badly.
And I was equating the water and the pressure with maybe drowning.
Brushy Creek is literally less than 500 feet from the property here.
Now, back on September 9, 1921, you guys had a natural disaster here that was one of the biggest in the county's history.
This neighborhood was ground zero for a giant storm that came in.
You had 38 inches of rainfall in a matter of 24 hours.
The creek levels rose up 40 feet.
I got a couple of pictures from when it happened.
Wow.
Now, statewide, they recovered 224 bodies.
In this area alone, they recovered 93 bodies.
But the toll is probably a lot higher than that.
Now, you mentioned anxiety.
You deal with anxiety on - a daily basis, right? - Yeah.
You can feel that pressure push down on you.
You feel that down on your chest, where you have to go outside to get away from it.
Okay, so what else did you see on the walk-through? So, when I came in inside and I went to the bedroom with the bunk beds, in there, the dead that are in the ground you know, the mummified dead are mentally reaching out to someone very much specifically in there.
She's talking about Jacob's room.
There's this one guy, one of the mummified people, and he is manifesting in the bedroom there.
You're pretty sure he's, like, probably a flood victim? Yeah, and I actually saw him standing in the bedroom at the end of the bunk bed looking over to the person that's in the top bunk, trying to communicate with that person.
So, I saw this person, like, seeing very brutal scenes.
Blood and guts and, like, pain and, like, suffering and all of this information from all of these dead people.
Jacob won't sleep in his bedroom, and he's the top bunk.
He's like, "Dad, I don't want to sleep in there no more.
Something's not right.
I just don't want to sleep in there.
" I think he's scared.
Okay.
Well, I had a sketch artist do a sketch of what I saw.
Oh, what the (bleep)? Are you kidding me? Now, look, it's gonna be hard for you to see, but Holy crap.
Oh, my poor baby.
_ _ It's not malicious.
He just wants his message out there.
As a father myself, I would Couldn't even imagine.
Yeah.
Tell me how to protect them.
That does bring me to an individual who is in the house who is not good.
This person is a younger male and he's absolutely a sociopath.
He does make people feel like they're being watched.
I did get that he can be very physical with people in the house.
And I got that he really likes the purple bedroom.
(Steve): Mattie, her daughter, well, she got pushed.
He is in there a lot.
The thing that he was doing to me was um a burning sensation across my chest.
And I did feel like this was happening or has happened to somebody in the house.
I went into the master bedroom, and then I immediately got the sensation of being choked.
Um, and I felt like he wouldn't this dead guy wouldn't let go of the female in there.
Oh.
She just pretty much described just about everything that you told me.
- Yeah, one night in bed, - Okay.
I woke up to two hands around my neck, strangling me.
Now, you talked about the burning thing.
Now, Sharon, you've been scratched.
- It felt like a burning.
- Yes.
- Yeah.
- It was just burn down the middle of my back, between my shoulder blades.
And I was like, "Something just scratched me.
It burns.
" And it was just excruciating pain.
She's also been inappropriately touched - Yeah.
- You know, as well.
Yeah, I can see this guy doing that.
Woken up in the middle of the night to a hand on me.
And I'm just, like hugged up next to my husband and we'll just sit there and pray together.
And you can't get it off of you.
Is he some kind of a perv? Um, obviously, he's focused on the women.
So, any idea who this sociopath was when he was alive? I think he was really in his 20s or 30s, but he looked older.
He's very quiet, very reserved, um, but I think he had his moments where he would, like, lose it and kind of go crazy.
He was in some type of financial ruin when he died and, also, there was something with his mouth.
And I think it has something directly to do with how he died.
You said the guy was young, in his late 20s, right? - Maybe early 30s.
- Mm-hmm.
And a sociopath.
Oh, yeah.
There was a murder connected to the property, but it was back in '59.
There was a guy named George Williams who was a Korean War veteran.
When he was 28 years old, he worked as a laborer.
And every day for two months straight, this guy Williams would get picked up by this guy Kelly Frederick to carpool to work.
But on May 1st, 1959, he snapped.
He had him pull over to the side of the road here, right by your house and pulled a .
32 revolver on him.
Kelly Frederick, he escapes and he took off with the car.
So, now this guy Williams is walking around out here.
And Brushy Creek, he sees this poor guy Charlie Heise fishing.
And he walks up to him and says he needs a ride to Austin.
But before poor Charlie had a chance to respond to him, he put five bullets in his chest and killed him.
Williams is tried, convicted.
Wow.
By July 8th, 1960, he's electrocuted.
I actually have his death certificate here.
It was legal electrocution.
But when she said it was trouble with the mouth, I know they put the ball gag in there.
They strap them down so they don't bit their tongues off.
Now, I was able to track down his department of corrections photo.
There's a chance this could be the guy you saw? Nope.
I did have a sketch done of the guy I saw.
You're right.
That's not him.
Oh, my god.
- But I've seen him before.
- Wait a minute.
Is this the guy you see in your bedroom? Yes.
This guy will stare at you.
He'll sit back in the shadows.
He sits back in the shadows.
This person gets off on watching and stalking, terrorizing the females.
And, unfortunately, I think he might have formed an attachment and followed you from a previous home.
Wow.
Sharon called us in desperation because of what happened to her.
The physical, the inappropriate touching.
She was afraid it was gonna possibly happen to Mattie next.
Yeah, I'm worried about that, yeah.
Because I think this sociopath tagged Mattie when she was a child.
When was her birthday? April.
April.
Which would be seven months ago.
That's exactly when things got bad for you guys.
Yeah, that makes sense.
She's at a particular point in her life that's very appealing to him.
Mm-hmm.
Sick.
Sick.
(Bleep) (Steve): So, Sharon, you've been choked, scratched, inappropriately touched.
Both your kids are living in fear.
J.
D.
, your house turned into a war zone.
Yeah.
But at least now we know why it's happening.
Right.
The big question is, how do we fix it so we go back to our happy and normal life? For that answer, I'm gonna turn it over to my partner, Amy.
So, I think there's two main things that need to be dealt with.
First is the dead people outside, because that is effecting your son.
These dead people, obviously, they need help and they need to be released.
So, the best thing to do is to bring in someone who is a psychic knower.
Now, someone who has that ability can come in and really assess what they are.
Once they do that, they'll know exactly what to do to move them on.
All right, so, what about this jerk that's perving on everybody? Now, what I would like you to do for him is to find a demonologist.
Because sociopaths, to me, are demons in the flesh.
These people that are like this are not human.
So, this demonologist will come in and will do an exorcism to get rid of him.
He's freaking out a little bit.
So, it might take several sessions.
In the meantime, this is black salt.
So, what I want you to do is every night before bed, you sprinkle this all the way around each bed.
That's what will keep him from breaking through and physically attacking.
Well, you look totally different from the first time I met you.
I feel at peace right now.
There's, like, resolution.
I mean, there's a solution.
Whatever it takes to get everything out of the house and take care of my family.
I'm all for it.
We can do this.
We can do this.
Nothing is gonna hurt my kids.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
(Amy): I really hope Sharon and J.
D.
follow my advice and deal with the evil surrounding their family.
With the help of a psychic knower and demonologist, they'll be able to free the dead and banish the sociopath that's been terrorizing them for so long.
_
I got scratched down the middle of my back.
This guy has got (bleep) issues.
Well, he pulls out his pistol, shoots him five times in the chest.
I'm scared for myself, for our whole family.
He's really creepy.
He's a sociopath.
Something bad's going to happen.
My name is Amy Allan.
There's panic.
And it's almost like a butchering.
I see dead people.
They all died horribly.
I speak to dead people.
Get out of here.
And they speak to me.
Vicious.
But there's only one way to know if my findings are real.
It doesn't matter where you are.
I'll find you.
I rely on my partner.
I'm Steve Di Schiavi.
I'm a retired New York City homicide detective.
This guy's a real piece of work.
And I know every person, every house has secrets.
I feel like I live in a house of Hell.
It's my job to reveal them.
This is not good.
But Steve and I never speak We never communicate during an investigation.
Until the very end I want my life back.
When we uncover if it's safe for you to stay - Is he trying to kill her? - (Sobs) Or time to get out.
Oh, my God.
This is going to kill us.
I'm in Coupland, Texas.
It's a small city just outside of Austin.
I got called in by a mother of two who sounded really bad.
She got married a couple of years ago and moved in with her new husband.
Then, all hell broke loose.
She's scared for her kids, she's scared for herself and she's just plain scared.
She told me she's got no one else to turn to.
Before Amy arrives, I clear the house of any leading information, removing family photos and other personal items that may influence her findings.
When I'm done, the location will be ready for tonight's walk.
_ Last night, I had an encounter with a dead person, a male.
My shirt was kind of lifted and my stomach was, like, caressed.
It was inappropriate, and the touch was very cold.
There's two females that are alive, who think, he's some kind of a perv.
He is the main person here who's causing problems for the living.
_ (Steve): Well, Sharon, I'm glad I'm here because listening to you on the phone and how scared you guys are here was real concerning to me.
What's going on? Well, we're being terrorized in our home.
Okay, what are we talking about? From being pushed and shoved to a lot of things that are a lot worse than that.
When you say a lot worse, you're talking about? Being touched intimately.
It's okay.
Yeah, I mean, there's things that are just it's just horrible.
Things are happening in our house, at this point.
And it's just I'm scared for myself and for our whole family.
- I'm sorry.
- No, no, no.
This is why we took the case.
We're at a breaking point.
I told my husband, I was like, "I'm done.
I can't do this.
" Now, who exactly are you living here with? Here is a photo of our family.
There's myself, and my husband J.
D.
, our son Nicholas, our only daughter, Madelyn, and our middle son, Jacob.
I understand you got married recently.
Did you and J.
D.
buy this place together? No, he built the home in 2006.
And now how long have you been living here? We've lived here for the last two years.
Now, when did it start getting really bad for you guys? Not until about seven months ago.
- Seven months ago? - Mm-hmm.
Is everybody on this photo having experiences? It's mostly the women in the house.
It's me, it's my daughter.
We're the ones being physically attacked in the home.
Like, you don't even want to change clothes, because if like if there were a peeping Tom in your window watching you.
I'm just ready for this to be over.
This has been a nightmare for us.
(Amy): The dead guy who touched me last night is in here.
This guy's not good.
I feel like he's in here a lot.
It makes you feel like you're being studied.
I think that people would feel this presence.
This like you're under a microscope or something.
He's really creepy.
I don't think he has a conscience.
_ This is the most active place in the whole house.
We've seen, like, a black mass, kind of like a cloud.
- Okay.
- Another time, laying in the bed, I sat straight up when I saw him.
And it was a man standing at the end of my bed.
And it was like he had on a trench coat and almost like a fedora hat.
And how often are you seeing him? Pretty much all the time.
Anything else going on in here? I got scratched this burn down the middle of my back.
And my husband lifted my shirt and he was like "You've got a huge scratch down" It was right, perfect in between my shoulder blades.
- Nothing else could have caused that? - Nothing.
No cats or anything running around here? Un-uh.
There's something burning.
Yeah, like a burning sensation with, like, little prickles of heat.
I'm gonna assume that somebody in this location is having this experience and it is associated with this younger dead male.
It's possible somebody is getting cut.
There is this physical agitation that's happening to somebody.
All right, ls there anything else going on? One night we were in bed, and I woke up and I could feel two hands around my throat.
I was being choked.
And I could feel the thumbs especially just pushing down so far.
And I was just, like and could not breathe.
You sure it wasn't a nightmare? I was wide awake, sitting there trying to wake my husband.
But that was your breaking point was getting choked? No, that one wasn't.
What was? We were in bed and it felt like something running its nail along the backside of my leg.
I was touched very intimately touched.
Did it feel like a man's hands, or could you even tell what it felt like? I knew it was a man.
Okay.
That was my breaking point, because I was like, "If it'll do that to me, what could it do to my daughter?" We have got to get help.
We have to get help.
This younger dude, he's being nasty.
He's saying that this (bleep) deserves whatever he's doing to her.
I feel a lot of choking right away, a lot of pressure in the head.
Really bad.
Pressure in the jaw really bad.
Having the breath knocked out of you often.
_ (Steve): So, Mattie, I was talking to Mom and she was telling me about what you guys are going through in here.
You're how old now? I'm about to turn 15.
Mom said you've been having experiences.
I'll be laying in bed and, you know, and my door will be open and I'll see, like, a shadow figure just walk past my door, like, real quick.
It looks like a shadow, but, you know, more 3D.
Like, in a month it probably would happen about two times.
And you're positive it's not somebody walking past.
I'm positive.
I hate to even ask you this, but is there anything else? I was laying down in my bed and I got up to go to the kitchen to get a drink, and right as I was about to walk out of my door the frame of my door, I got shoved back into my guitars that are right by the foot of my bed.
And it cut me.
There was blood.
That night when I got pushed, I just sat in my bed and I cried.
How much do you and Mom talk about this stuff? She's told me a lot everything, honestly, that's happened to her.
And it does scare me, because if it's willing to do that to her who, you know, - has her husband by her side, - Right.
then what could happen to me when I'm on the other side of the house, alone? - Right.
- So, that definitely scares me.
I know he's in here a lot.
This living person might be influenced by this dead man's behaviors.
He's a sociopath.
So, he wants to be in control, be in charge.
He is just staring me the (bleep) down.
_ _ _ So, J.
D.
, I was talking to your wife and she was telling me about the horrific things that are going on here.
At the beginning, it was fine before my wife moved in.
And after she moved in, everything just started getting weirder and weirder.
Were you having any experiences before all this other stuff started happening? A little bit.
My grandma died.
Every once in a while I'd turn and I'd just see I'd just see her standing there.
I just chalked it up being that.
I paid it no nevermind.
Okay.
And when did she pass? Two and a half years ago.
Okay, did she live close by? My grandma lived right behind us.
- She did? - Yep.
I got a picture of her.
How old was she when she passed? - 89.
- Okay.
Do you mind if I ask what she died of? - She hit her head on the sink.
- Okay.
I'm sorry to hear that.
- Were you close with her? - Yes, sir.
Now, how often do you think you see grandma? Almost every week.
Really? Is she kind of, like, looking over you.
I believe so.
What the hell? The feeling I'm getting is somebody with a cane.
I think it's a female.
Older female, maybe.
And I'm getting something weird with the head.
Maybe it's stroke or something.
She is often confused.
_ So now, what about experiences after your wife moved in, did you have anything happen? Yeah, one night I had a picnic table in the back and I go out there at night and sit on it.
And I just see all these shadows coming in and out.
What did they look like? Army men.
Then I look over here and I see, like, Indians.
And look over here and cowboys.
I mean, so you're seeing all kinds of things.
Yes, sir.
I mean, were you drinking out there? - No, sir.
- Okay.
I've never dealt with this before.
I'm worried about them hurting the kids and everything.
I just want it gone.
I do feel like there are a lot of bodies around.
Somehow they're trapped with their bodies.
They're able to reach out and call for help.
There's one specific guy who is dead.
And he is old.
He's around, like, 1900.
And he was a tough, tough guy.
He's bad off here, trapped.
And he is, I think, the strongest one of these people, as far as reach being able to reach out.
He's, like, the main mummy.
(Steve): How old are you? (Jacob): 10.
I understand that you might have seen a couple scary things in the house here.
Can you tell me about one of them? Whenever I'm sitting in the living room watching TV, I just see this person out of the corner of my eye.
It's a black figure.
And then it glared at me.
I looked at it.
And then right when I turned around, it went away.
And how do you know it was glaring at you? I just saw the eyebrows go down.
- Like that? - Like that.
So, what else scared you in the house? On the other side, in the dining room, there was a white figure.
This one just came closer to me and just stared at me.
And I looked at it and it went away.
Are you scared to stay here? Mm-hmm.
So, there's a lot of beds in here.
Where do you where would you sleep? - This one.
- Up on top here? Okay.
I just really don't like sleeping in my bedroom alone.
Okay.
There's one person in here who is being targeted by the dead that aren't able to rest.
They are talking all the time to the person that's in the top bunk.
It's too much for this person.
It's a lot of information.
(Matthew): What kind of information? This person is seeing the old man from outside.
Well, he's mummified, but it's, like, a corpse screaming.
Open mouth, kind of hanging, crooked and emaciated.
And he's, like, getting in bed with the person.
That creeped me out.
I don't That's some weird (bleep).
(Steve): First thing I do when I start an investigation is pull the property deed.
Turns out one family, the Stebers, owned the property for over 53 years.
And when I contacted a genealogist to look into it for me, she said their time on the land was filled with death and heartbreak.
_ (Steve): Dr.
Alexander, thanks for helping with my case.
I appreciate that.
Now, what can you tell me about the Steber family? (Alexander): In about 1867, Michael Steber came over from Bohemia, which is part of Czechoslovakia now.
- Okay.
- He was 17 years old.
Then he gets married.
He marries Rosa in 1871.
So, when did they wind up - on my client's property? - ln 1892.
All right, now, you mentioned tragedy.
So, what happened? In 1895, Michael vanished.
The family looked for him, neighbors looked for him.
He disappeared at the age of What about suspects? Well, there was one possible suspect.
That was John Henry, his stepson.
Why? Because he and his father used to argue bitterly.
Okay, but no body, so no charges were ever brought up? No charges were ever brought against him.
Okay, Michael is missing.
He's never found.
What happens to the property? Well, in 1909, the land is transferred to Rosa.
She turns it over to her son shortly thereafter.
This is the stepson they thought might have had something to do with his disappearance, right? Yes.
What do I need to know about him? In 1926, he dies of stomach cancer.
Who gets the property now? His son, George.
How did it go for George? Not all that lucky for George.
In 1940, George had a number of daughters, and three of them went up to the swimming hole.
Okay.
And the youngest one, Helen, went in swimming.
And she started to struggle.
The two oldest sisters jumped in to help save her.
Aw, look at that.
Victims.
Both of the older sisters died.
Geez.
What a shame.
And here is the newspaper clipping.
_ And that's where everybody swam.
That was the big swimming hole.
Okay, so, this can't be the only drowning deaths there? I don't know if there are other drownings, but I do know in 1921 there was a flood and hundreds of people died.
I'm hearing something about a lake to my left, which is really weird, considering where we are.
Then I hear, "Cemetery.
" So, I'm thinking that there are bodies in or very near the water.
And somehow they're mummified.
And there were kids, little kids.
Like, from 5 to 10, I would say.
And they were singing "Ring Around the Rosie.
" What the (bleep) was done to them? I can't figure out other than it being some kind of pressure in the chest and upper back, like maybe drowning.
Weird.
What? I heard someone say, "The children perished.
It was bad.
" I've got to find out more about this massive flood and how it might have affected my client's property.
I'm heading over to meet with a local historian who said it was one of the biggest natural disasters in the town's history.
_ (Steve): Randy, what can you tell me about this flood? It actually started Friday the 9th of September, 1921.
It was caused by a tropical storm that had moved inland into Mexico and then moved north into Texas and just poured rain onto the county for a day and a half, two days.
It dumped at least 38 inches of rain.
The creeks rose by 40 feet.
What are we talking, as far as devastation? What happened? You can see on some photos that we did find - some of the aftermath.
- Wow.
Just from a few days after.
The floor waters came in at such a sudden surge, a lot of people had to cut their way out through the roof of their homes.
Farm houses, livestock, people Anything in its path was just swept away.
So, there would have been just pandemonium and panic? Correct.
Now, I know that Brushy Creek is like 500 feet from my client's property.
So, that area had to get destroyed.
Oh, absolutely.
Statewide, of the bodies that were recovered that we know of, there were 224 that perished in the flooding.
Geez.
So, how did it impact my property? How many people died in that area? - There were at least 93 bodies recovered.
- Wow.
So, we're talking more than a third of the bodies? Correct.
The greatest concentration of deaths did occur within that Williamson County area.
Something about these bodies, they want the house to be torn down.
I don't know why.
How many bodies? There are quite a lot.
At least 20 to 50 maybe.
Do you know how they died? Something with that weird pressure (bleep) and water.
I don't (bleep) know.
Okay.
Most of them died badly.
(Steve): Now that I know the original owners of Sharon and J.
D.
's property suffered from mysterious death and heartbreak and that a flood killed dozens in the area, I need to know if there's anything else.
Searching through old records, I find an article about a young war vet named George Williams who murdered a retired farmer right next to my client's property.
I'm heading over to meet with a local police chief who's gonna tell me all about this bizarre case.
_ This homicide, what happened? May the 1st, 1959, we've got two guys headed to work.
Kelly Frederick picks up George Williams, who's a buddy of his.
They work together.
George Williams lived hand to mouth.
Didn't have a car, couldn't drive himself to work, had to depend on a friend to get him there.
This morning though, after he gets in the car, George Williams pulls a pistol, a .
32 caliber revolver, and forces Kelly Frederick to drive him to a little country road next to your client's property.
And he says, "Get out of the car.
" So Kelly gets out of the car and George Williams steps out of the car and begins to shoot at him, unprovoked.
Well, Kelly Frederick figures, "The only way I'm getting out of this alive is to get back in the car and drive away.
" Okay, now, that's not the guy that gets murdered, though.
No.
So, George Williams ducks off the road.
He approaches a retired farmer, Charlie Heise.
out having a little fishing fun in the morning.
"Need a ride to Austin.
" Heise says, "Where do you live?" He said, "Well, I live in Austin.
That's why I need a ride down there.
" Heise doesn't respond quick enough.
Williams pulls out his pistol, shoots him five times in the chest.
So, George Williams takes the keys out of his pocket, goes up, steals the car, heads west to Austin.
They immediately bring him back.
And there's your picture of George Williams.
May the 3rd, he also gives a full confession.
In the confession, did he say anything about, like, what his motivation was? Never said a word.
I thought I read somewhere that he was a vet.
He was.
He'd gone to the Korean war.
He called nine witnesses in his trial.
All nine witnesses said when he came back from Korea, he was different.
What happened with the trial? Well, he was found guilty, sentenced to death.
He was executed July the 8th, 1960.
They take him in at 12:02 A.
M.
to the death chamber, shave his head, put a wet sponge on his head, put a metal cap over the top of that, strap it down.
Put a rubber ball in his mouth, and they ran about 50,000 volts through his body.
At 12:05, they threw the switch.
At 12:09, he was pronounced dead in the chair.
And, of course, interestingly enough, his death certificate says legal electrocution.
Now, look at that.
He was only 30.
Right.
This guy has got (bleep) issues.
And he is good at holding that information in tight.
This dangerous sociopath is trying to block me from seeing who he really is, but I'm starting to get some clues about who he was in life.
He's one of those people that looks older than he was.
And how old would you say he was? Late 20s, early 30s at the most.
So, you know when he's from? He's recent.
One thing is that he was in financial ruin, I think, at the time of his death.
There was something weird with his mouth and I can't place it.
He's one of those people that would make you feel very uncomfortable around them.
He was really intense when he was alive.
A very good actor of emotions, you know? Because he doesn't really have any.
That's, I think, why he's still here.
Like, he likes it.
He doesn't have to pretend anymore, so he's got free rein.
_ During my walk, I saw a sociopath terrorizing women in the house.
I'm meeting with this sketch artist to draw him as he appeared in life.
His chin is kind of shorter than average, and his forehead is smaller than average.
He's pretty buff.
Very piercing, large, round eyes.
Next, I described a disturbing scene I saw in a little boy's room.
They kind of looked mummified.
So, they're buried in the ground.
A long, stretching arm and hand, like, coming from the corpse's head area to the kid in the bed.
(Man): 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 J.
D.
He had this house custom built back in 2006.
Now, everything was pretty quiet until he married Sharon here about two years ago when she moved in with her kids.
Now, we got a photo here of the nuclear family.
So, this is nick, her son who is 16.
This is Mattie who is 14, and this is J.
D.
's son, Jacob, who is 10.
The activity really got amped up about seven months ago? Right.
And it turned violent.
Now, things are so bad here that Sharon doesn't sleep at night.
She thinks the entire family is in danger, and she's praying that we find a way to help her get out of this hell.
Did you have any or your children have any prior paranormal experiences before moving? Yes.
Okay.
When the children were small, we were about 45 minutes from here and we had experiences in that home.
They've been dealing with this their whole lives.
When I got here, what I was seeing was a large body of water, I'm assuming a lake.
I was feeling this horrible pain, and it felt like pressure on my chest, feeling like it was being compressed.
It was really bad.
I also saw a lot of people.
I would say there was about 20 to 50 of them.
And it seemed like they were somehow mummified.
These people, more than likely, died pretty badly.
And I was equating the water and the pressure with maybe drowning.
Brushy Creek is literally less than 500 feet from the property here.
Now, back on September 9, 1921, you guys had a natural disaster here that was one of the biggest in the county's history.
This neighborhood was ground zero for a giant storm that came in.
You had 38 inches of rainfall in a matter of 24 hours.
The creek levels rose up 40 feet.
I got a couple of pictures from when it happened.
Wow.
Now, statewide, they recovered 224 bodies.
In this area alone, they recovered 93 bodies.
But the toll is probably a lot higher than that.
Now, you mentioned anxiety.
You deal with anxiety on - a daily basis, right? - Yeah.
You can feel that pressure push down on you.
You feel that down on your chest, where you have to go outside to get away from it.
Okay, so what else did you see on the walk-through? So, when I came in inside and I went to the bedroom with the bunk beds, in there, the dead that are in the ground you know, the mummified dead are mentally reaching out to someone very much specifically in there.
She's talking about Jacob's room.
There's this one guy, one of the mummified people, and he is manifesting in the bedroom there.
You're pretty sure he's, like, probably a flood victim? Yeah, and I actually saw him standing in the bedroom at the end of the bunk bed looking over to the person that's in the top bunk, trying to communicate with that person.
So, I saw this person, like, seeing very brutal scenes.
Blood and guts and, like, pain and, like, suffering and all of this information from all of these dead people.
Jacob won't sleep in his bedroom, and he's the top bunk.
He's like, "Dad, I don't want to sleep in there no more.
Something's not right.
I just don't want to sleep in there.
" I think he's scared.
Okay.
Well, I had a sketch artist do a sketch of what I saw.
Oh, what the (bleep)? Are you kidding me? Now, look, it's gonna be hard for you to see, but Holy crap.
Oh, my poor baby.
_ _ It's not malicious.
He just wants his message out there.
As a father myself, I would Couldn't even imagine.
Yeah.
Tell me how to protect them.
That does bring me to an individual who is in the house who is not good.
This person is a younger male and he's absolutely a sociopath.
He does make people feel like they're being watched.
I did get that he can be very physical with people in the house.
And I got that he really likes the purple bedroom.
(Steve): Mattie, her daughter, well, she got pushed.
He is in there a lot.
The thing that he was doing to me was um a burning sensation across my chest.
And I did feel like this was happening or has happened to somebody in the house.
I went into the master bedroom, and then I immediately got the sensation of being choked.
Um, and I felt like he wouldn't this dead guy wouldn't let go of the female in there.
Oh.
She just pretty much described just about everything that you told me.
- Yeah, one night in bed, - Okay.
I woke up to two hands around my neck, strangling me.
Now, you talked about the burning thing.
Now, Sharon, you've been scratched.
- It felt like a burning.
- Yes.
- Yeah.
- It was just burn down the middle of my back, between my shoulder blades.
And I was like, "Something just scratched me.
It burns.
" And it was just excruciating pain.
She's also been inappropriately touched - Yeah.
- You know, as well.
Yeah, I can see this guy doing that.
Woken up in the middle of the night to a hand on me.
And I'm just, like hugged up next to my husband and we'll just sit there and pray together.
And you can't get it off of you.
Is he some kind of a perv? Um, obviously, he's focused on the women.
So, any idea who this sociopath was when he was alive? I think he was really in his 20s or 30s, but he looked older.
He's very quiet, very reserved, um, but I think he had his moments where he would, like, lose it and kind of go crazy.
He was in some type of financial ruin when he died and, also, there was something with his mouth.
And I think it has something directly to do with how he died.
You said the guy was young, in his late 20s, right? - Maybe early 30s.
- Mm-hmm.
And a sociopath.
Oh, yeah.
There was a murder connected to the property, but it was back in '59.
There was a guy named George Williams who was a Korean War veteran.
When he was 28 years old, he worked as a laborer.
And every day for two months straight, this guy Williams would get picked up by this guy Kelly Frederick to carpool to work.
But on May 1st, 1959, he snapped.
He had him pull over to the side of the road here, right by your house and pulled a .
32 revolver on him.
Kelly Frederick, he escapes and he took off with the car.
So, now this guy Williams is walking around out here.
And Brushy Creek, he sees this poor guy Charlie Heise fishing.
And he walks up to him and says he needs a ride to Austin.
But before poor Charlie had a chance to respond to him, he put five bullets in his chest and killed him.
Williams is tried, convicted.
Wow.
By July 8th, 1960, he's electrocuted.
I actually have his death certificate here.
It was legal electrocution.
But when she said it was trouble with the mouth, I know they put the ball gag in there.
They strap them down so they don't bit their tongues off.
Now, I was able to track down his department of corrections photo.
There's a chance this could be the guy you saw? Nope.
I did have a sketch done of the guy I saw.
You're right.
That's not him.
Oh, my god.
- But I've seen him before.
- Wait a minute.
Is this the guy you see in your bedroom? Yes.
This guy will stare at you.
He'll sit back in the shadows.
He sits back in the shadows.
This person gets off on watching and stalking, terrorizing the females.
And, unfortunately, I think he might have formed an attachment and followed you from a previous home.
Wow.
Sharon called us in desperation because of what happened to her.
The physical, the inappropriate touching.
She was afraid it was gonna possibly happen to Mattie next.
Yeah, I'm worried about that, yeah.
Because I think this sociopath tagged Mattie when she was a child.
When was her birthday? April.
April.
Which would be seven months ago.
That's exactly when things got bad for you guys.
Yeah, that makes sense.
She's at a particular point in her life that's very appealing to him.
Mm-hmm.
Sick.
Sick.
(Bleep) (Steve): So, Sharon, you've been choked, scratched, inappropriately touched.
Both your kids are living in fear.
J.
D.
, your house turned into a war zone.
Yeah.
But at least now we know why it's happening.
Right.
The big question is, how do we fix it so we go back to our happy and normal life? For that answer, I'm gonna turn it over to my partner, Amy.
So, I think there's two main things that need to be dealt with.
First is the dead people outside, because that is effecting your son.
These dead people, obviously, they need help and they need to be released.
So, the best thing to do is to bring in someone who is a psychic knower.
Now, someone who has that ability can come in and really assess what they are.
Once they do that, they'll know exactly what to do to move them on.
All right, so, what about this jerk that's perving on everybody? Now, what I would like you to do for him is to find a demonologist.
Because sociopaths, to me, are demons in the flesh.
These people that are like this are not human.
So, this demonologist will come in and will do an exorcism to get rid of him.
He's freaking out a little bit.
So, it might take several sessions.
In the meantime, this is black salt.
So, what I want you to do is every night before bed, you sprinkle this all the way around each bed.
That's what will keep him from breaking through and physically attacking.
Well, you look totally different from the first time I met you.
I feel at peace right now.
There's, like, resolution.
I mean, there's a solution.
Whatever it takes to get everything out of the house and take care of my family.
I'm all for it.
We can do this.
We can do this.
Nothing is gonna hurt my kids.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
(Amy): I really hope Sharon and J.
D.
follow my advice and deal with the evil surrounding their family.
With the help of a psychic knower and demonologist, they'll be able to free the dead and banish the sociopath that's been terrorizing them for so long.
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