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a Most ghost stories start with something small. A sound

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from another room, a step on the stairs when no

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one else is there, a door moving when it should

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not have moved at all. Most people do what people

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always do in moments like that. They reach for an explanation.

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The house settled, the pipes were knocking, the mind got

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ahead of itself, anything just to keep the moment ordinary

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a little longer. And oftentimes that's all it is. A

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strange moment, a bad feeling, one uneasy night that passes

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and never quite comes back the same way again. But

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some stories don't stop there. Sometimes the strange moments start

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adding up. Sleep gets interrupted, certain rooms begin to feel wrong,

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The air in the place changes little by little, The

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normal rhythm of life starts to give way to something else.

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On this episode, we're stepping into cases where that change

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kept going. What began as a few unsettling events became

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something harder to live with. The disturbances grew more aggressive,

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the fear got closer, and in some of these accounts,

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whatever was happening did not stay at the edge of

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people's lives. These are stories of places where the tension

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built slowly, then stop being subtle at all, where people

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found themselves dealing with something that would not leave them alone,

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and where for some of them, the real fear was

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no longer whether something was there, it was what it

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might do next. Jack and Janet Smurrow were living in

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West Pittston, Pennsylvania, raising their family in a duplex that

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for years was just simply home. It was full of

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the usual movement of family life, children's schedules, meals, work,

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voices carrying from one room to the next. Nothing about

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it suggested that the place would one day become the

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center of one of the most disturbing haunting claims in America.

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One of the moments that stayed with the family happened

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on April ninth, nineteen eighty five, the night of their daughter,

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Heather's confirmation. Janet was in the kitchen with Heather and Shannon,

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peeing Heather's robe and helping her get ready. It was

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a normal family moment, busy and ordinary, until the ceiling

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light fixture suddenly came crashing down. It slammed onto the

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table and struck Shannon in the forehead. At first, it

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would have been easy to treat it as an accident,

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just a fixture giving way in an aging home at

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exactly the wrong moment, But the house did not settle

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back into normal after that. The family said things began

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happening that were harder to brush aside. Doors opened and

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closed on their own, lights turned on and off. Sounds

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moved through the duplex with no clear source. A foul

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smell would appear without warning, thick and rotten in the air,

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and then fade again. The house was still the same house,

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but it no longer felt the same to the people

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living in it. The disturbances just kept building. A noise

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would break out somewhere in the duplex, hard enough to

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stop whatever was happening in the room. A conversation would

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die off, and everyone would listen. Sometimes it sounded like

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something heavy had been hit. Sometimes it came from within

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the walls, sometimes from another part of the house. And

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then it would stop, and the family would wait in

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that silence, listening for whether it would come again. And

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it did.

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Speaker 1: Not.

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It would come from downstairs, or somewhere further back in

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the house, or from upstairs, pulling everyone's attention towards it.

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Little by little, the rhythm of the home life began

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to change. The same rooms were there, the same furniture,

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the same routines, But now every ordinary moment carried a

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chance of being interrupted by something that made no sense.

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Even the family dog was caught up in it. At

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one point, the Smirls said the dog suddenly began to

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levitate for a moment before it was thrown into a

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wall by some unseen force. Jack's experiences were growing darker too.

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He described an excruciating bite to his ear one night

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that left him in severe pain, and he believed that

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it was demonic. He said he was physically and sexually

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attacked multiple times in that house. The knights brought other

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horrors with them as well, screams in the darkness, pig

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like grunting somewhere inside the home, and a horrible stench

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that seemed to come from nowhere. At one point, Jack

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and Janet even said they saw a hooved half man

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charging down the hall. By then, whatever was happening in

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the duplex was no longer something the family could push

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to the edges of daily life. It was in the

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middle of it, in the rooms where they ate, slept, prayed,

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and argued, and even tried to hold on to some

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sense of normalcy while the pressure of the house kept returning.

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They knew they needed to find help. Other people began

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coming through the duplex after that, clergy investigators, people standing

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in the same rooms where the Smirls had been trying

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to eat, sleep, pray and make it through one more day.

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The family was still living in the middle of it,

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only now there were strangers moving through the house too,

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listening for sounds, watching for movement, and trying to understand

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what was happening there. Some of the people who came

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in believed the family needed more than reassurance. They believed

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the duplex needed prayer, It needed cleansing. It needed someone

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to stand inside those rooms and confront whatever had taken

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hold there. So the house that had already been filled

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with fear began filling with something else too, holy water,

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prayers spoken aloud, people moving from room to room, with

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the sense that the thing the Smurls described was not

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just active, but hostile, as those prayers were being spoken,

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the Smurls said, the activity did not simply fade away.

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Sounds were still being heard in the duplex, and the

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sense of strain inside the home did not lift just

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because that help had arrived. If anything, there were times

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when the effort to confront it seemed to draw the

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struggle out even further, stretching it across more days, more nights,

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and more exhausted attempts to force some kind of peace

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back into the home. Even the silence had changed. Then

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it was like holding their breath waiting for the next

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terrifying events. There was no dramatic final night that brought

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it all to an end. Whatever was in that duplex

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had worn them down over time. Exhausted and afraid, the

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Smirls knew they were facing something that was not yielding

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easily to their blessings, prayers, or desperate attempts to reclaim

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some peace inside the home. By then it felt like

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a war for their sanity. When the house went quiet

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again and the other people were gone, they were still

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the ones left there, still the ones lying awake in

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those rooms, still the ones listening for the next sound,

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or the next movement, the next sign that whatever was

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in the duplex had not gone anywhere at all. Each

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night brought another opportunity for horror. They lived with the

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constant uncertainty that at any moment the nightmare could come

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crashing back again. Whatever was happening in that duplex did

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not come as one single shock. It came in waves,

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returning again and again until ordinary life inside that home

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is no longer felt ordinary at all, and the Smirls

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If you're not familiar with the Black Monk of Pontrefract,

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you're in for a thrill ride. Let's get to it.

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There was nothing about the house itself that should have

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prepared anyone for what the Pritchard family said. What happened there.

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It wasn't some crumbling abbey or ancient monastery. It was

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a modest family home in Pontreffract the kind of place

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where people unpacked boxes, settle into routines and expect ordinary

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life to take hold. On the surface, it looked like

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the last place where a family would find itself living

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through one of Britain's most violent haunting claims. Life in

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the house began ordinarily enough. The home seemed perfect, but

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then something changed. Water began appearing where it should not

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have been, an icy chill could be felt in different

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parts of the house. Objects seemed to move on their own,

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and the strange sounds were heard both day and night.

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As the incidents kept returning, it became harder to just

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explain them away. Little by little, the house was turning

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into something dark and foreboding, much less like a home

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and much more like a nightmare. Before long, the fear

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in the house seemed to settle around Diane. She was

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still just a young girl, but the activity in the

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home no longer felt scattered. It felt focused. The sounds,

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the movement, the cold patches in the house, all of

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it seemed to gather around her life in ways that

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made the family feel like they were no longer dwelling

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with a series of random events. Whatever was in that

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house seemed to know exactly where to make itself felt,

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and then the entity started to attack. What had been

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moving through the house now seemed to be closing in

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on Diane. The fear in the home was no longer

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tied only to sounds in the night or the sudden

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cold that could settle into a room without warning. One evening,

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as Diane lay in bed, something unseen suddenly grabbed her

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and hauled her violently from the mattress, dragging her down

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onto the floor below. On another terrifying night, the family

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said she was dragged by the neck up the stairs.

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Whatever was in that house was no longer hiding itself

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just in noises, movements, and shadows. It was reaching into

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the middle of the family's life and doing it with force.

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Before long, the terror in the house began taking shape.

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Several times the preachers said they saw the apparition of

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a dark figure moving through their home, a black robed

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presence that shook them to their core. In time, this

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presence would become known as the Black Monk of Pontrefract.

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It seemed that seeing the figure only served to intensify

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the activity. Objects were said to move on their own

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loud bangs broke out throughout the house, and all of

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it seemed to be tied to the same dark force

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moving through it. The attacks on Diane were only part

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of what the family said they were facing. The figure

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did not remain some single terrible sighting fixed to one night.

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It kept returning to the house, appearing often enough that

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the family came to know it as part of what

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they were living with. There a dark presence moving through

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the same rooms where ordinary life was supposed to go on.

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One night, the violence in the house took another turn.

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A brass crucifix flew from the kitchen mantle and struck

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Diane in the back. The figure of Jesus broke away,

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but the cross itself was said to remain against her skin.

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When it finally fell free, a red cross shaped mark

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had been left on her back, as though she had

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been branded. The family said that the mark remained visible

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for days. Then the house turned on Diane again. As

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she went upstairs to bed, the temperature dropped sharply around her.

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A heavy oak hall stand suddenly tipped over and pinned

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her against the stairs, leaving the family scrambling to pull

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it off of her. Later, once she made it into bed.

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The terror kept coming. The bedclothes were ripped away, the

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mattress flew up, and Diane was thrown again onto the floor.

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By then, what was happening in the house was no

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longer staying behind closed doors. Other people were coming in

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to see it for themselves, and the disturbances did not

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stop for their benefit. Furniture was said to move, objects

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were thrown. The same rooms where the Pritchards had been

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trying to live an ordinary life were now the rooms

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where the haunting was being witnessed by others as well.

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Before long, the house was drawing people in. The Pritchards

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were describing something violent enough to leave marks, move heavy objects,

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and put their daughter in danger. Well, people wanted to

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see for themselves what was happening inside that home, and

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the people did come. They stood in the same rooms

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where the preachers said so much of it had happened.

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They listened, they watched, and inside that house the family said,

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the violence and disturbance did not stop simply because there

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were others there to witness it. The haunting had already

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gone too far for that. Some of the people who

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entered that house would leave with stories of their own.

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One night, Joe and Jean woke to found the figure

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there in the bedroom with them, tall, dark shape standing

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over the bed. It did not belong to a corner

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of the house anymore. It was in there with them,

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close enough to be seen, in the room where they

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were supposed to be safest. And after that, other people

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said they began seeing it too. The haunting did not

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burn itself out quickly. It kept coming back to that

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house again and again, until fear became such a part

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of daily life for the Prichards. The sounds, the attacks,

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the sightings, the violence against Diane, all of it left

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the family living in a home where the next terrifying

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incident could break out at any time. For the preachers,

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there was no way to know when the house would

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turn on them again. A room could be still one

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moment and filled with terror the next. The Black Monk

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had become more than a figure glimpsed in passing in

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the family's eyes. It was the force behind the attacks,

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the cold, the violence, and the dread that had settled

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over the house. For the Pritchards, the house had become

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a place where the next terrifying incidents could come without warning,

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and where the figure they called the Black Monks, seemed

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to remain tied to it. All. The haunting had already

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gone far beyond strange events in the home. It had

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become violent. Something the family said had laid hands on

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their daughter, marked her, and turned their daily lives into

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a cycle of fear and endurance. Then the house showed

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them something even stranger. On Easter Sunday, the family found

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gold crosses painted upside down on every door in the house.

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They had not put them there, and the sight of

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them appeared all at once, just like that, And it

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made a home feel even more overtaken by whatever had

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already been tormenting them. And it was not only Joe

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and Jean. Other people began having experiences of their own

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in the house. Joe's sister, Renee, said she woke one

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night feeling a hand touched the back of her head.

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When she turned, she said she saw the lower half

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of a black robed figure leaving the room. It seemed

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the phenomena was expanding. One neighbor was in her kitchen

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when she suddenly found herself face to face with the

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same kind of figure the Pritchards had been describing, a tall,

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dark presence dressed in a black robe that resembled a

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monk's habit. The house kept finding new ways to disturb them.

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At one point, green foam began coming out of the taps.

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On another occasion, family photographs were slashed. It was no

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longer just the rooms themselves that felt under attack. Even

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the ordinary things inside the home seemed to be touched

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by the dark presence. The disturbances in the house went

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on for years. What had started as strange activity had

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grown into something the family said could attack, mark and

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even show itself. By the time the worst of it

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finally began to ease, the Pritchards had already spent too

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long living with the black Monk in their minds and

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in their home. There was no single night where the

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nightmare was broken for good. The attacks, sightings, and disturbances

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kept returning over a period of years, and then, little

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by little, the worst of it began to ease. So

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what happened to the black Monk we can only speculate.

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Maybe a haunting that intent simply could not sustain itself forever.

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Maybe whatever had taken hold in the house was somehow

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to hide to Diane and faded as the years passed.

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Whatever the answer may be, the Black Monk Haunting remains

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one of the darkest and most violent cases in the

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history of the United Kingdom. Whatever the truth behind the

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Black Monk may have been, the fear it left behind

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was real enough for the family who lived through it,

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and decades later, in a very different home, another family

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would find themselves facing a haunting that seemed just as

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determined to break its way into every part of their lives.

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Visit hymns dot com. When LaToya Ahmans moved her family

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into a rental house in Gary, Indiana, there was no

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reason to believe they were stepping into the center of

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one of the most disturbing modern haunting claims in America.

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It was just a house, a place to live, a

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place where a mother could try to build some stability

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for her children and begin settling into the routines of

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ordinary life. But it did not stay ordinary for long.

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One night, something happened that made it impossible to feel

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entirely at ease there. Ever, again, a large black fly

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appeared in the house. That alone might not have meant

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very much if it had happened in summer, with doors

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opening and people moving in and out, But this was

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December in Indiana. The fly should not have been there

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at all, and when the family killed it, Moore appeared

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they were not coming in from outside in any ordinary way.

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They were showing up inside the home, gathering around the

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porch and at the windows, as if something in the

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house itself was drawing them there. At first, it might

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have been tempting to write it off as strange, but

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explainable an old house, a random insect, a fluke, But

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the family said the house kept giving them reasons not

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to let it go that easy. The flies kept reappearing,

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and before long the feeling in the home was no

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longer just that something odd had happened there. It was

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that something had arrived. Not long after, the family said

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they began hearing footsteps in the basement. It was the

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kind of sound that makes the house feel occupied in

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the wrong way, heavy enough to be noticed, clear enough

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to make people stop and listen. And when someone went

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to check, there was no one there, no person, no animal,

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just the basement waiting in the dark, like it had

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never made a sound at all. Soon members of the

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family began seeing shadows moving throughout the home. At first,

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it might have been no more than a shape slipping

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past a doorway, or a dark form caught in the

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corner of somebody's eye. But those sightings kept happening. A

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shadow crossing a hallway, a figure where no one was standing,

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movement in the house that seemed to have no living

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source behind it. The activity the house was beginning to

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feel personal. It was no longer just the home itself

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that seemed disturbed. The family said the presence there was

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starting to focus on them, especially the children. What had

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begun with flies, footsteps and shadows was moving closer, now

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pressing ian on the people living there, as if whatever

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had entered that house was no longer content to remain

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in the background. One of the children said an unseen

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presence would speak to him. The voice was described as

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a whisper, close enough to feel as though something had

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leaned in near him just to be heard, And when

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it spoke, the family said, the words were chilling. It's

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time to die and I will kill you. Then came

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one of the moments that would stay with the family forever.

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Late at nights, Latoya's daughter was in bed when something

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impossible began to happen. The girl slowly rose above the mattress,

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lifting into the air, while the people around her looked

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on in shock. And when it was all over, the

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family said she had no memory of it at all.

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That was the point where the fear in the house

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spilled beyond the walls of the home itself. The family

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was no longer dealing with only footsteps in the basement,

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shadows in the rooms, and whispers in the dark. Now

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they were watching their children at the center of it,

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and as the activity kept building around them, the house

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was becoming a place where sleep, rests, and any sense

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of normal family life were being swallowed up by something

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they could neither understand nor control. As the children's behavior

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grew more disturbing, the family was eventually drawn into hospitals, churches,

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and the attention of people outside the home who were

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now hearing what they said was happening. And even there,

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the fear did not seem to loosen its grip. One

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of the most shocking moments came at the hospital. According

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to the family's account, Latoya's young son suddenly walked backward

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up a wall in front of medical staff and others

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who were there to witness it. It was the kind

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of sight no one in the room should ever have

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had to process, a child moving in a way that

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seemed to tear straight through every ordinary expectation of what

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the body should be able to do. By then, the

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family was reaching for help anywhere they could find it.

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The house in Gary was no longer just a place

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where strange things had happened. It had become the center

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of a crisis that was touching every part of their lives,

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and the deeper they moved into it, the more the

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haunting seemed to follow. Eventually, that search for help led

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them to the church. What had begun inside the house

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was now being carried into conversations with clergy, into prayers,

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into the hope that whatever had taken hold of that

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Rome could be forced to let go. And as the

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family told their story, the haunting in Geary was no

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longer just being described as strange or frightening. It was

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being spoken about as something darker, something that seemed to

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have fixed itself on the family and was not giving

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them any peace. If the house had been the place

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where the fear first took hold, prayer became the place

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where the family hoped it might finally break. Whatever they

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said was with them did not disappear easily. The struggle

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was stretching across the home the church, and every attempt

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to reclaim some kind of peace the church did not

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bring a quick end to it. LaToya was told to

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clean the house, mark the doors and windows with oil crosses,

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pray over the children, and she even set up an

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altar in the basements, hoping to push back whatever had

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taken hold there. But the prayers did not bring peace

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to the house. According to the family, the children began

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showing signs that something in the home was getting closer

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to them. Their voices no longer sounded like their own.

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Threats were being spoken that no child should have been making,

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And for LaToya, the fear was no longer only that

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something dark was in the house. It had begun affecting

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the children as well. LaToya said she began feeling it

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in herself too. At times, she felt lightheaded, overheated, and

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as though something inside her was shifting out of her control.

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By then, the fear in that house was no longer

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limited to what the family was seeing or hearing around them.

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It was beginning to feel as though whatever had taken

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hold there was pressing directly into them. An intense blessing

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was performed on the house, and later Reverend Michael Magineo

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carried out three exorcisms on LaToya. The family said the

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struggle had already gone too far for a simple prayer

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to break it. Whatever had settled into that home had

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to be fought again and again before the worst of

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it finally began loosening its grip. The fight to get

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the children back became part of the nightmare too. While

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the house was being blessed and exorcisms were being carried out,

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the family was also being pulled into custody hearings, evaluations,

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and questions about whether what they said was happening could

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possibly be real. LaToya was no longer only trying to

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survive the haunting itself. She was trying to hold her

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family together while the whole ordeal was being judged from

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the outside. Little by little, the worst of it began

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to ease. After the exorcisms, LaToya said, the pressure that

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had been hanging over the family finally started to lift.

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The house in Gary no longer seemed to hold the

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same force that it once had, and over time, the

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family was able to begin stepping out from under what

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they believed had taken hold of their lives. In time,

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the children were returned to LaToya, and the family began

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trying to rebuild some sense of normal life. Whatever they

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believed had taken hold of that house no longer seemed

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to follow them with the same force. The fear that

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had once filled every room, every night, and every hour

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of uncertainty had finally loosened, leaving the family to sort

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through what they had survived. Years later, the house in

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Gary would draw national attention all over again when Zach

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Baggins bought the property and turned its story into the

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documentary Demon House. But long before the cameras arrived, LaToya

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Ammon's and her family had already said they lived through

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the nightmare for themselves. Some cases left an entire family

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living in fear. Others seemed to close in on one

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person so directly that the haunting became something far more intimate.

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In the summer of nineteen seventy four, Doris bi Her

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was living with their children in a condemned house in

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Culver City, California. Inside that house, Doris said she was

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not dealing with the kind of haunting people whisper about

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from safe distance. She said she was being attacked. Doris

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said the attacks were physical, violent, and deeply invasive. She

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said the unseen entities left bruises all over her body,

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and in her account, some of the assaults involved being

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held down as the assaults continued and bruises appeared on

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her body. The fear in the house was not something

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she described as lingering in another room or making itself

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known through a strange sound in the night. It was

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getting close to her, touching her, hurting her, and as

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it kept happening, Doris became convinced that whatever was in

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that house was not just there, it wanted her. The

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attacks were not described as rare or fleeting. Doris said

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they kept coming back, violent enough to leave bruises on

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her body, and convincing enough to make her believe whatever

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was in that house was not only there, but it

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was absolutely focused on her. She also described strange lights

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00:40:37,320 --> 00:40:41,719
in human shape forms appearing in the home, as though

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the thing tormenting her was no longer content to stay unseen.

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By the time she finally reached paranormal investigators Berry Taff

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and Carrie Gainer in nineteen seventy four, Doris was no

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longer looking for someone to tell her the housemade strange nose.

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She was looking for someone who might believe that she

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was under attack. When Taff and Gainer entered the house,

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Doris showed them the bruises. She was not talking about

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a bad feeling in the home or a sound that

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she just couldn't explain. She was saying something in that

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house was hurting her, and the marks on her body

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were there for them to see. Well. They stayed. They

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brought cameras, instruments, and the kind of attention people bring

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when they think they may be standing in the middle

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of something impossible, And before long, the house began giving

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00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:42,800
them things they said they could not explain away. A

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frying pan was reported to fly across the kitchen, Strange

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00:41:47,519 --> 00:41:52,679
lights appeared in Doris's bedroom, cold pockets formed on the house,

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Foul orders drifted through the rooms. What Doris had been

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describing as violence and presence in that home was now

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becoming part of what the investigators said they were witnessing

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as well. Then came one of the moments that stayed

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with the investigators. In Doris's bedroom, a strange glow began

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to build. As it grew brighter, the light no longer

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seemed shapeless. It began forming into something more defined, a

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human like figure taking shape in the room while the

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people there watched it happen. As the investigators watched, the

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room seemed to come alive around that light. It did

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not hold steady like a lamp or just a passing reflection.

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It swelled, shifted, and took on the outline of something

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human hanging there in Doris's bedroom while the people gathered

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inside that house tried to make sense of what they

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00:42:57,159 --> 00:43:00,639
were seeing. The people in that the house were not

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just watching anymore. They were trying to catch whatever was

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happening before it vanished. Once again, cameras were brought into

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Doris's bedroom. Photographer Dick Thompson took position there while Doris

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challenged the presence to show itself, while as the room

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tensed around them, the investigators said lights began moving along

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the wall, flaring in and out while the camera clicked

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00:43:27,920 --> 00:43:31,880
in the dark. Later, some of those photographs would become

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the only physical evidence ever tied to that case. The

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00:43:37,599 --> 00:43:42,079
investigation went on for weeks, but it never ended with

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one clean answer. The strange lights, orders, cold spots, and

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movement in the house were said to lessen over time,

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but the case never resolved into anything simple or satisfying.

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Doris would carry the story with her for the rest

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of her life, and the haunting she said had attacked

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her in that condemned house would go on to inspire

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the entity one of the most unsettling paranormal stories ever

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00:44:13,159 --> 00:44:25,679
brought to film. These cases all unfolded in different places,

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00:44:25,880 --> 00:44:31,719
around different families, around different circumstances, but they all carried

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00:44:31,760 --> 00:44:36,199
the same kind of damage with them. Homes became places

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00:44:36,320 --> 00:44:42,840
of dread, sleep became uncertain. Ordinary life was slowly replaced

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00:44:42,880 --> 00:44:48,039
by fear, confusion, and the constant strain of waiting for

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00:44:48,079 --> 00:44:53,559
whatever came next. The real tragedy is that these people

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00:44:53,599 --> 00:44:57,239
were not chasing the paranormal. They were just trying to

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live their lives when something terrible found them. And that

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may be the part that stays with people the longest.

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Not just the apparitions, not just the violence, not just

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the impossible moments, but the fact that in every one

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of these accounts, the people at the center of it

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were simply trying to live ordinary lives when those lives

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were suddenly overtaken by something dark. And that's what makes

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violent hauntings so disturbing. Is not only what is seen

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00:45:33,079 --> 00:45:36,800
or heard, it's what these families said. It did to

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the places that they were supposed to feel the safest.

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It turned homes into battlegrounds, It turned bedrooms into places

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00:45:46,440 --> 00:45:50,880
of fear, and it left people trying to survive something

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00:45:51,360 --> 00:46:24,000
they never asked for and couldn't easily escape. All right, everybody,

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that's going to wrap it up for us today, So

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I hope you guys enjoyed the show, and thank you

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again so much for all your love and support. And remember,

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if you want to follow the Paranormal Portal, probably the

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easiest way is to head over to Paranormalportal dot net

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and that's the homepage for the Paranormal Portal and you'll

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find links to all of our different social media and

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sites and information about the shows, including our YouTube channel

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which is YouTube dot com slash Paranormal Portal, or just

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00:46:52,719 --> 00:46:56,400
look for Paranormal Portal on Google or whatever search engine

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00:46:56,400 --> 00:47:02,119
and you'll find links to our social media such as Facebook, Instagram, TikTok,

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00:47:02,679 --> 00:47:05,840
and Twitter. So we're kind of all over the place

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and we're spreading as well as we can. But anyway,

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thank you so much for the love and support you'all.

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Take care and remember we love you'all. Be good, be kind,

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be nice, take care of each other, help each other out,

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find the magic and every day and remember to laugh

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as much as you can until next time.

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