Nicely done, Picasso. You're a real artist.
I know, right? Completely self-taught.
A family fixes up their 100-year-old farmhouse.
SCREAMS
There's a man in there.
She keeps seeing this man
who walks into the closet and she's frightened.
Awakening angry spirits from its past.
You're my wife. How could you?
No. No, not like this.
Still hell bent on settling a score.
Mr. Henry, will you leave this house?
He says, "No."
Burn it all down.
In this world, there is real evil.
Someone's in my room.
It lurks in the darkest shadows.
Between what we see and the things we fear...
there are doors.
When they are opened...
nightmares become reality.
Rural Rutland, Massachusetts,
a bucolic backdrop for the centuries of history
simmering just beneath the surface.
It's here that Jack and Kelly Mullen
have been hard at work renovating their old farmhouse.
Jack grew up in the house,
and with these new changes, they want to make it their own.
They had hoped to get everything
but they didn't quite make it.
Hey, babe. I just got Emma down for a nap.
Sorry.
What do you think? Nicely done, Picasso.
You're a real artist. I know, right?
Completely self-taught.
In the beginning, we basically gutted it down to the studs
and we started all the renovation process.
I mean it's amazing how big this place is
since we took the walls down.
Not bad for a 100-year-old place.
The house has a ton of history.
The house was built in 1901. His family had a farm.
Once we're finished here, we can start on the upstairs.
As you wish.
A handful of years later, they're still at it.
Jack is often at work to pay for the renovations.
On a beautiful New England day,
Kelly and Emma return home from errands
to make a startling discovery.
OK, you can have a popsicle but just one.
Yeah, I want a purple one. OK.
Mama? I told you, you could have one.
When I walked into the kitchen, I stopped a minute
and I, it scared me.
I really couldn't believe like what was happening.
And, and I said, someone has to be in here.
Emma. But I want.
Hold still.
All the drawers and doors were open. It was terrifying.
Hi, yeah, yeah, this is Kelly Mullen.
I need you to check my security system records
and see if it went off at all today.
No?
You're sure?
OK. Thanks.
I called my husband right away and I told him what had happened,
and I said, you know, I'm kind of afraid to be in the house alone.
Let's go.
I can't explain why all this, the doors and drawers are open,
you know, did you come home? Were you looking for something?
And he said,
"I haven't been home all day. I've been at work."
Later with Jack out of town, Kelly holds down the fort.
EMMA SCREAMS
Hi, sweetie. What's wrong?
Hey, hey, hey. Hey, hey, hey. You're OK.
You all right?
Mummy's here, you're OK.
I was woken up by Emma screaming.
It was like a blood curdling scream.
You're all right.
What's wrong, baby?
There's a man in there.
She keeps seeing this man who walks into the closet and disappears,
and she's frightened of the man.
No, no, sweetie. No. No, there's nobody in there.
Come on, let's get you back to bed.
Emma. Emma, look. There is no one in there.
OK, I'll show you.
INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING
Mama.
See? We're good. We're good. OK?
Why don't you sleep with Mummy tonight, OK? Yeah?
OK.
Come on.
Jack and I talked about this,
but we figured she must be having a dream.
FLOOR CREAKS
SIGHS HEAVILY
FOOTSTEPS
I heard the footsteps.
It sounded like someone was walking in the hallway.
And I knew it was just Emma and I in the house.
I grabbed a gun and I looked around.
-FOOTSTEPS -INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING
Jack came home. I told him the story of what had happened
and he kinda rolled his eyes at me.
The house grows relatively quiet for years.
But when Emma is in high school, the activity reawakens.
EERIE MUSIC PLAYING
Mum?
I remember waking up one night and sitting up in bed
and I could feel that somebody was watching me.
Hello?
MUSIC INTENSIFIES
I turned and looked out that little crack in between the door,
and there was somebody just peeking in from the hallway.
It would definitely affect my ability to sleep
because I would get super nervous and super anxious
that somebody was going to come into my room
and they were going to either hurt me or try to, you know,
pull me down the hallway or something like that.
00:21:39.360 -- 00:21:41.440 Let's go, Emma. You're gonna be late.
I didn't get any sleep last night.
What time did you get back?
Not until after 1. Why?
I thought I saw you in the hallway. Guess I didn't.
CAR HONKS
Oh, look. It's Devin.
Mum. Don't be rude.
Rude? It's not my boyfriend honking at me from the car
instead of coming to the door.
Love you. Love you. Be home in time for supper.
00:22:22.440 -- 00:22:27.160 While Jack remains sceptical, Kelly feels they need to act.
As the days and nights go by,
She contacts Brandie Wells, a psychic from nearby New Hampshire,
Emma is more and more aware of the unexplained presence.
who agrees to come to the house.
I am an empath first and foremost.
It's a nightly occurrence that you hear somebody
walking up and down the stairs
So, all of my work, I feel it before I can even interpret it
from the first floor to the second floor.
I have had a couple shadow people on the second floor
and as a clairvoyant, a psychic medium,
and it's just something that you'll kind of catch
out of the corner of your eye most of the time.
I really am on a mission to, I guess I'd like to say...
Now convinced there's a spirit in the house,
show people that spirit is all around us.
she believes she may have found a way to communicate with them.
Of course. Anything I can do to help.
Dowsing Rods are a centuries old
So, this is the house.
HEAVY BREATHS
Are you all right?
MELLOW MUSIC PLAYING
Conner!
Face me! Come down and face me like a man.
You coward. You stole from me.
Is my name Emma?
I thought they were like the coolest thing that I had ever seen.
Conner!
So, I wanted to get a pair for myself
I saw this man.
'cos I wanted to see if they'd actually work.
Was he old? In a suit?
I've seen him too.
Yes.
I talk to him sometimes.
Is my name Giana?
Sweetie. You have such a special gift.
OK, that means no.
You're a sensitive.
Is there someone in my room with me?
How have you been communicating with a spirit?
EERIE MUSIC PLAYING
Here, I'll show you.
I discovered that
FLOOR CREAKS
both Emma and her mother, Kelly, were sensitives.
They didn't quite know how to use their abilities.
And I felt I was being called to help them.
I got these online and I started asking the spirit questions.
Sometimes he's in my room
but most of the time I feel him strongest in here.
There's a heaviness to this room.
Something bad happened here.
Is there someone in my closet?
I can feel it.
When Brandi went into the guest room,
she immediately could tell that it was a very oppressive room.
I said, is there someone in my closet?
Can I have some paper and a pen?
Emma.
I'm gonna see if the spirit would like to talk through my hands.
Honey, there's no one in your closet. Quit messing around.
I use automatic writing.
So, I give my hand up to the spirit.
Dad, oh, my gosh, you scared me.
And you're supposed to knock before you come in here.
The door was open. Whatever.
Quit messing around. Supper's ready.
It's really strange to watch that kind of thing happen.
I mean, she seems like she's somewhere else,
but yet all these words are being jotted down on a paper
DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING
and she's not even looking at it.
Show yourself!
I see a name.
Henry.
He's so angry.
Betrayed by someone.
Conner. Conner!
I know you're up here!
You coward! Where are you?
Soon, Emma isn't the only one experiencing the unexplained.
He has a very dominating and overbearing energy.
I have really bad seasonal allergies
He feels cheated.
and I didn't want to keep Jack awake.
So I decided I'd go sleep in the guest room.
Something about money.
I know you're up here! Show yourself!
You coward! You stole from me!
Open this door now. Just, just a minute.
I just felt like someone was in there
and almost hovering right over you watching your every move.
Now, now hold on. This isn't what you think.
HEAVY BREATHING
But also, something...
something about his wife.
Oh, Jesus.
The more I channelled this man,
I couldn't open the door.
the more I realised his frustration, his anger.
I moved the handle. I tried lifting up on the door.
It's an old house. Sometimes the doors stick.
He caught her.
But I tried and tried, and I couldn't open the door.
INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING
Jack.
LINE RINGING
Jack, it's me. I'm... Can you come get me down the hall.
He caught her cheating on him with...
I can't get out of the guest, the guest bedroom.
I'm starting to panic.
with Conner.
I'm having an all-out panic attack and on the verge of tears.
I knew it.
Vengeance is mine.
Someone has to pay.
OK.
I could feel this energy getting stronger.
It must be stuck.
Edwin. No.
I'm sorry. How could you? How could you?
I said, I'll give it another try one last time.
Don't shoot me.
And the door opened on its own.
There is something in this room.
How am I gonna get out of here?
You're my wife. I'm sorry. How could you?
No, no, not like this.
That was the last time I ever slept in that bedroom again.
I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to.
Are you OK? Sit down, sit down.
When she said about the angry male in the closet...
a little light went on.
It was almost like, oh, geez, you know,
There were times when I was alone at the house
that's what Emma's been talking about all these years.
and I didn't feel like I was alone at the house.
That there's someone in the closet.
He walks into the closet. He's angry.
She's afraid of him and it was like Brandie hit the nail on the head
like this, we know that she's seeing what Emma has been seeing all along.
Oh, man.
The basement in the house is, well, creepy.
It's stone foundation, it's very damp, dark,
The spirit is very strong.
has very steep stairs going into the cellar.
Mr. Henry is angry. He has been betrayed by his wife.
EERIE MUSIC PLAYING
I don't think I can do this alone.
I wanna bring a team in and together we can solve this.
Great. Let's do it as soon as possible.
I'll call them.
Hello?
There was always a feeling of someone in the background
I'll try to arrange a time. They'd be coming from Maine.
or I'd hear a noise or something that would just let me know that,
So, in the meantime, I advise you to stay out of this room.
"hey, we're here, you are not alone."
MELLOW MUSIC PLAYS
Desperate for answers,
Kelly decides to do a little digging.
Somebody there?
She stops by the historical society
to see if she can uncover the truth about her house.
INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING
May I help you? Yes. I... I called earlier about any records
This isn't funny.
you might have on the old Mullen farmhouse.
Oh, yes. I just finished up.
I believe this is everything we have on your property.
Nice one.
Did you see anything about somebody named Henry?
SIGHS
I don't. That doesn't sound familiar.
I did find a deed from when a Mr. Conner owned the house.
Oh, my. You gotta be kidding me.
Later, when both parents are out of the house,
Look. Here's a Mr. Edwin Henry.
the activity escalates and Emma is home to face it alone.
Looks like Conner had a large barn he leased to area farmers for a fee.
I was on the first floor and I walked past the basement door.
It always has its deadbolt locked because the main latch is broken
See this last entry?
so if we don't have it locked the door will just open by itself.
Oh, my God. Mr. Henry.
The historical society actually came up with the name, Edwin Henry,
DOOR OPENS
it was like, it just clicked.
It's like, I can't even believe
that Brandie was able to come up with that name.
INTENSE MUSIC PLAYS
And this is the man that seems to be in the closet
of the property that Mr. Connor owned.
Brandie was right. Oh, and look at this.
Here's an article. Looks like there was a fire in 1901.
The basement is definitely really old.
The stairs are really creaky, old and rickety.
It looks like the house was rebuilt.
It has a weird energy about it.
You know, you won't find it in the files,
but I grew up around here
DOOR CREAKS, CLOSES
and I've always been fascinated by your property.
Did you know as the largest farmhouse in the area,
your home was used for wakes?
Really?
What I hear is your root cellar was used to store the area dead.
THUDS
It sounded like somebody had run full force
and just slammed their whole body up against the door.
When the ground was too hard to bury folks,
The door shook, there was a loud bang.
they had to wait until spring.
Wouldn't know. I didn't know.
When you're alone you don't expect something like that to happen,
Isn't that fascinating? Well, you hang tight.
especially something that violent and aggressive
I'll go and make copies of everything.
and since there's really no way for somebody to run up to the door
Great. Thank you.
to get enough force to slam into it like that,
it's definitely something that I couldn't explain.
Kelly is eager to get Mr. Henry out of her house.
-FLOOR CREAKING -EMMA BREATHING HEAVILY
While waiting for Brandie to get her team together,
she finds another investigator
who suggests a more confrontational approach.
I remember his eyes.
The investigator suggested that, you know,
They were really like sunken back in his head.
it was time to take our house back from Mr. Henry.
He had dark bags under his eyes.
You know, it was time to confront him.
And one of the creepiest smiles that I've ever seen on anyone.
I don't know about this, Mum.
Something doesn't feel right.
We need to get our house back.
This is what they said we should do.
So I have to tell you guys about something kind of weird
that happened last night while I was home alone.
Testing, testing.
When Jack and Kelly return home,
Emma confesses all that she's been experiencing.
Ghost to Maverick. 10-4. Over.
It was, it was terrifying, Mum. Dad, I...
OK. I'm heading upstairs.
The investigator suggests one person stay in the basement,
It's a lot for Jack to take in
the foundation of the home, as an anchor...
since he grew up in the house
and hadn't experienced anything he couldn't explain.
while the other go to the most active spot.
It's OK. It's OK, sweetheart. Take your time.
The investigators recommend that
I definitely was concerned for Emma's safety.
Emma go to the second-floor guest room
As a mother, I'm supposed to protect her
and I'm sitting in a chair in the basement.
and not being able to, it's hard to deal with.
I mean, you don't know enough about the spirit world
Is your candle still lit?
to know, can they hurt you?
Can they hurt my children?
Uh-huh.
I was completely terrified.
they were telling me to call out Mr. Henry
and try to claim back the house, that's what I was going to do.
OK.
Are you ready to do this? Uh-huh.
This is our house.
We live here now, and we've never done anything to hurt you.
This is our land.
We refuse to be scared. We refuse to be scared.
You need to get out.
And the minute that I said that
any form of oppressive energy in that room
was nothing compared to how angry that that had made him.
He was just completely mad at me.
Honey, I feel something.
Let's say it again.
This is our house.
We live here now, and we've never done anything to hurt you.
This is our land. We refuse to be scared.
You need to get out.
Something is happening.
Emma, say it louder.
This is our house!
We live here now, and we've never done anything to hurt you!
This is our land. We refuse to be scared.
You need to get out!
-INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING -BOTH BREATHING HEAVILY
My candle blew out.
Are you OK?
Mum, help! Emma!
I called him out and ended up getting attacked.
Oh, my God.
COUGHING, PUKING
It's OK. Come here. Come here. I feel so sick. I feel sick.
He was so irate that night that he was going to do
whatever he could to hurt me.
I had a stabbing pain in my back.
I was very nauseous. I kept throwing up.
Hi, yes, I need an ambulance.
00:35:30.160 -- 00:35:32.320 Emma survives the night,
but Kelly isn't taking any more chances.
She tells Brandie that Emma was attacked.
Brandie and the investigators quickly head to Massachusetts.
They need to deal with the spirit before its too late.
This is Naomi and Steve.
We want you to know that it's gonna be all right.
We're gonna work together on this.
We were very pleased that they seemed so down to earth.
They brought a ton of equipment and they explained everything
what it did, what it was for
and how it would benefit our situation.
Thank you for allowing us in your home.
I know this can be overwhelming.
I am lead investigator, founder of paranormal group STURS,
which stands for Seeking The Unknown Realm Society.
We just want answers.
Did you get the files that I sent over from the historic society?
Yes, and that's where we'd like to begin.
Now we know Mr. Henry is angry, and he has a lot to be angry about,
but something is keeping him here.
Something is not letting him cross over.
We'd like to try the Estes Method.
And we think that it might work best if we get Emma's help
since Mr. Henry is used to communicating with you.
Are you comfortable with that?
Yes. OK, great.
We're going to set you up in the hallway
and you call out if you hear anything.
Let's go.
The Estes experiment is when somebody
wears a set of noise cancelling headphones.
They also wear a blindfold, so they can't see or hear
where the question is coming from or what the question was asked.
OK, sit back, sweetie.
They're hearing responses whether words or phrases
and the hopes is that while we ask a question,
they're giving us the response that they don't know
what the question was even asked.
In that moment, it was strange.
I didn't know if it would really work.
So, what are you gonna do?
We are going to be asking some questions
to see what we can learn about what's going on in your house.
I'll be using these dowsing rods
to ask for validation to simple yes and no questions.
If the dowsing rods stay apart or go wide, that's a no.
If they cross together, it's a yes.
And we're hoping Emma can hear the spirit talking to her.
Is everyone ready?
Mr. Henry, are you in this room?
Do you feel that you've been wronged by someone?
Mr. Henry, did your wife cheat on you?
MUSIC INTENSIFIES
I heard something.
When we get that response, that's amazing.
It's almost allows us to have a conversation
in real time with the spirit.
Conner! Show yourself!
Conner, I know you're up there.
Mr. Henry, please tell me what's keeping you here?
Money.
Face me! Come down and face me like a man.
You coward. You stole from me.
Conner!
He's really angry.
I can see there's a fire.
There was a fire in 1901 and nobody knows how it started.
Brandie said she felt a fire. She could smell it in the air.
She felt fire in the house.
It's burning. Everything is burning.
Brandie was communicating with Mr. Henry
and he let her know that that (BLEEP) owed him a bunch of money.
And that the house fire was no accident.
Mr. Henry, will you leave this house?
He says, "No. Burn it all down."
Conner, I know you're up there.
Coward!
We need to get him out of here, he's coming your way.
Conner! I know you're up here.
You coward. Where are you?
No, look out.
At that moment I felt on the back of my neck,
a very strong pressure.
And it really surprised me.
I was shocked and it made me move
and I'm like, something just touched me.
Are you OK? What happened?
I don't know. Something tried to grab me.
Anytime spirits or energy starts touching people
or leaving marks or moving objects, it gets concerning.
I'm all right. I'm OK.
I think we need to regroup.
I believe we're dealing with a few things happening at your home.
You know, Mr. Henry obviously
has a very strong attachment to your home.
He doesn't want to cross over
because something is keeping him here.
Pretty sure it's hate keeping him here.
But my family's been here for years.
How come we've never seen anything before?
There are many things that can stir up old spirits.
Have you ever made any changes to the house, even minor ones?
Well, we tore down a couple walls.
And that was when we first started seeing things.
Steve and Naomi, let us know that, you know, by renovating our home,
we may have actually stirred up some of the spirits in the house.
But that was years ago. Yeah.
But then Emma started noticing things
and finally told us what was going on.
Adolescence. Puberty.
Emma growing up can trigger activity.
Plus, Emma is gifted and sensitive to such things now.
Well, what do we do about it? Can we live here in peace?
I have an idea I believe may work.
In addition to him being angry about his wife's infidelity,
we think that Mr. Henry believes that he was financially wronged
and can't be at peace until he's repaid.
So, we felt in order to appease Mr. Henry
we had to pay him the money that was owed to him.
So, we decided that we would write a cheque
and put a bottle of whiskey in the closet.
The house has definitely changed after we left him an offering.
He's still very much there and he's present,
but he's not as angry anymore.
So, when your child's little
and they bring up things about spirits or a man's in the closet,
you kinda, you look at 'em and you think, well, that's weird.
They, you know, why would she say that?
There's a man in there.
I was kind of just brushing it off as, oh, it's just imagination,
it's child's play, it's a dream or whatever
and now I can say, you know,
when your kids say something like that, maybe pay attention.