Newlyweds move into a remote cabin.
It was fun to just be in the middle of the woods with no one.
Get in here close.
Only to learn its haunted by the previous owner.
Get out!
Ghosts? Thats ridiculous.
Who will stop at nothing to get them out.
He wanted us gone and that was his way of getting us out.
Get off of her! Leave her alone.
I cast you out. Go!
In this world there is real evil.
Someones 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.
Ironwood, a once-prosperous mining town in Michigan's upper Peninsula.
Settled by a hardy lot of souls content to mostly live off the land
and paying no mind to the harsh conditions or the opinions of others.
Come on Sasha. Come on. Good girl.
Lets get this stuff inside before it gets dark.
Adrian grew up hunting and fishing in these woods with his dad.
I learned from an early age to hunt and fish.
To be self, more self-sufficient.
Every hunting season we were always out hunting
either for partridge or for deer.
Years later, when a chance came to buy a remote cabin, he pounced.
What are you doing?
Did you hear that? What?
That.
Thats nothing. Thats probably just a bear.
A bear? Or a Coyote.
Actually, if I was a betting man, my money would be on a coyote.
Or a bear. Look, dont worry, okay? Youll get used to it.
Well, which ones which?
Do you run from a black bear or a brown bear?
Depends. On what?
Whether you wanna be eaten or not.
Thats not funny. Babe, its kinda funny. It is.
For the past few years,
the hunting cabin has served as Adrians bachelor pad,
but Adrian is recently married and has convinced his new bride, Nicole,
to move out there with him.
This was our house now and this is where we are going to live.
Nicole and I were, we were very happy together.
We could have lived in a small cracker box
and still been happy together.
Sasha!
Adrian had been living in the cabin
for 3 or 4 years uh before I met him.
We were newlyweds,
so it was fun to just be in the middle of the woods
with no one to bother us.
Wow. I had no idea that youd have this much stuff.
Come here.
Get a load of those two. Couple of dorks.
I love this picture.
Whats going on here?
You can never be too careful.
Hey, Im starving.
Do you have any thoughts on, you know, what you want for dinner?
Im too tired to cook. Got it.
I will go get us some pizzas.
Hey, have you seen my car keys?
I would never move the keys
because he needs things in the same spot every time.
So, I don't move his things.
How about I just take your car then?
I want it back without a scratch.
No promises. You know, its kind of wild out there.
With Adrian out foraging for food,
Nicole acquaints herself with the basement.
It's like any Northwoods basement, dark, smells like mildew.
It's just where you keep the stuff you don't need day to day.
Great.
The basement did give me the creeps.
You gotta be kidding me.
Are you done?
Adrian's keys would move.
That did freak me out a little bit just because I couldnt explain it.
I could not explain that away.
Oh, no.
So, youre telling me this place is haunted?
No.
Well, you know, I joke all the time about how my keys go missing
things end up in a different room, just little stuff like that.
Little stuff like this?
Yeah. Like this. Just harmless stuff.
I had some weird things happen while I was living out there
that I never really thought much about,
you know, paranormal type things.
We used to say that this was
the ghost of the old man that used to live here.
When I was a kid
and I was always, you know, running around by myself hunting, fishing,
I would come by this place, his place, from time to time.
I remember him very well. The cranky old man.
I had a number of run-ins, run-ins with him.
I told you to keep yourself quiet!
He was very ornery, very mean towards women.
That's one thing that always stuck out in my head with this guy.
Thatll teach you to talk back to me. Get in that house.
You!
What are you doing around here, boy? This aint none of your business.
Hey, youre that kid thats been snooping around my place.
Thats trespassing, boy. Ill call the police on you!
He sounds like an ass. Whatever happened to that guy?
Well, he was pretty old so eventually he died.
Yeah, I figured that, smart guy. What happened to him?
Beats me. I heard he had an ulcer or something.
That sucks.
He didnt die here in the cabin?
Babe, please, go and get ready for bed
and Ill finish breaking down these boxes
and then um Ill come join you.
Okay? Yeah.
Its okay.
You finished that quick.
It was an old mattress. So, I just remember hearing somebody sitting.
I felt the bed just depress next to me.
Im freezing. Get in here close.
Did you just get up?
What are you talking about?
I just got done with the boxes in the basement.
But you were just here in bed with me. We were talking.
I thought I smelled liquor. You been drinking?
I swear you were just here.
Im gonna go take a shower and then, then I will be right here.
I'm pretty shaken when this is over. I don't want to go into the bed.
I don't know what to do.
00:13:22.360 -- 00:13:27.280 Nicole attempts to put the experience behind her and settle into the cabin.
But cant shake the uneasy feeling in her new home.
Adrian? In the kitchen.
OK, this place is wigging me out.
Every time I sit down, I feel like someones watching me.
Making me all jumpy.
Is Nicole all scared of her little haunted cabin?
Is the ghost getting to you a little bit?
Look, its probably nothing.
Im sure I probably just left a window open or something.
Oh, yeah. I definitely feel a draft.
Get out!
You could clearly hear an entity say, "get out."
Nicoles a very strong person.
Even if she is overwhelmed, she holds a lot of that inside.
Nicole, wait a minute.
Nicole!
What is all this?
If Im gonna stay in this haunted cabin with you,
we have to make some changes.
Maybe all this bad energy is tied to all the stuff.
His stuff. Stuff that was here when we moved in and never got rid of.
Maybe, maybe hes attached to it.
What do you mean?
So, I was thinking
that we give this place a makeover and itll be different.
Just get rid of all his junk and just give it a fresh start.
I think thats whatll help get rid of all the bad juju.
I kind a like it.
Heres your list. You need to get a start on the porch.
Last thing I need is it collapsing when our friends come to visit.
And while youre getting the supplies,
Im gonna start by getting rid of that carpet in the living room.
Its hideous.
So, get at it.
I was helping do the renovations. I like to get my hands dirty.
In our cabin, it was wall to wall carpeting.
It looked like indoor, outdoor carpeting
from probably the 1940s or 50s.
When I pulled up the carpeting, it had a musty, dank smell.
Just icky.
And a spot got extremely hard for me to pull up.
It was like stuck to the floor.
Nicole makes a gruesome discovery.
Nikki?
Holy.
What the hell is that? I dont know.
Its blood, Adrian.
The floor underneath the carpet was stained with, with the blood.
What happened here? I guess its the old man.
The old man died right there.
It was not a recoverable injury by the amount of blood that was there.
You said that he didnt die in the house.
Okay. Look I didnt want to freak you out.
And you said he died of an ulcer,
this is way too much blood to be an ulcer.
Okay, yes, all right, Im sorry.
Ill get a bucket and Ill clean it up. Can we just go?
Nicole heads out to get some fresh air
and some fresh ideas for the cabin.
I see you like this piece. Its nice.
Adrian recruits his friend, Wade, to help with the repairs to the cabin.
But their work only seems to ramp up the disruptive activities.
My buddy that helped me out there,
we met when we were probably 16, 17 years old.
He was one of those guys that'd have given you the shirt off his back,
even if it meant that hed freeze to death.
Have you seen my hammer? I just set it down here a second ago.
I know you had it out here before we left.
It was right there on top of the toolbox.
Things would get moved. Things would be moved almost every day.
Its probably that wife of yours. Shes messing with you.
Yeah. Maybe. Ill be right back.
Unfortunately, Adrian knows who most likely moved his hammer.
Hello?
The tools would not be where they were,
we would find those tools in the basement.
And the only thing we could attribute it to was,
was the ghost that was in the house.
00:22:41.560 -- 00:22:43.160 Okay.
Well finish this and then finish that porch.
Hell yes. Appreciate your help.
I figured one more afternoon
and we ought to have that porch knocked out.
Do you hear that?
Hey, what, whats your schedule like on Wednesday
cos I was thinking wed probably finish it then.
We would hear, like, thump, thump, thump,
like somebody walking upstairs from the basement.
Dude, you guys are messing with me.
Theres somebody coming up your basement steps.
Look, trust me, there is nobody there.
Stop playing, man. I know what yall, all right, Nicole.
I aint falling for this.
What the hell?
All right. Old man, that is enough.
Old man. Your dad here?
No.
No, its just the ghost of the old man who used to live here.
He gets all worked up sometimes. What?
We were talking about this activity that we were having.
And my buddy thought we were just nuts.
Ghosts? Thats ridiculous. You dont believe in that crap.
Theres no such thing as ghosts. Thats a bunch of bull...
What is going on?
Those bullets came flying towards him.
And he looked at me and he said, what the blankety blank was that?
And I said, well, that's our resident ghost,
that's what we've been talking about.
Look, its all right, okay? Its okay.
You just made him mad. Thats all. Made him mad?
Someone just threw a bunch of bullets at me.
Something swiped them right at him
and it was to prove a point, that I do exist, Im here.
Wade, wait a minute. Im outta here, bro.
Look, its, its okay. Come on. We gotta finish the porch.
I believe it was malicious on that, that entitys part.
It wanted to make it difficult for us
to do the things that we wanted to do.
Really? I think it was pushing our buttons.
I think it was trying to see how far it could push us
with the ultimate goal of us having to leave.
With the paranormal activity taking a violent turn,
Nicole feels its time to take some unconventional action.
You okay?
I just got off the phone with Wade,
telling me about what happened last night.
Yeah, about that, I was gonna tell you,
I just wanted to find the right... This isnt funny anymore, Adrian.
That thing, whatever it is, attacked your friend.
You cant just keep ignoring it. It could really hurt somebody.
What would you like me to do, Nicole? I mean, kick him out?
Its not going to listen to me.
That is why we need help. Professional help.
What like the Ghostbusters?
No.
No way. No. Ive seen those guys on TV.
Im not letting them anywhere near my house.
No, this is crazy. Listen to me.
Im serious. Im scared to death. It was cute when we first moved in.
Now its getting more serious and I dont know how much more I can take.
All the sudden, out of nowhere the house shook.
It was a, it was a, like a, like a sonic boom.
It literally shook our house, which was very nerve wracking.
Adrian. Please.
We have to take care of this.
Babe.
The ghost wasnt happy with us anymore.
I didnt know what to do at that point,
but I knew I was gonna need to do something soon.
Hi, sheriffs department please.
Yes, you guys receive any other phone calls
about sonic booms or military fly overs or?
No?
Damn it to hell.
Not you. Thank, thank you.
I was told, no.
They kind a thought I was nuts,
which then of course I thought I was nuts,
but I know that house shook.
And there was no other explanation for it other than that ghost.
Later, Adrian and Nicole finally get a moment to relax and unwind.
But the truce doesnt last long.
Nikki!
All of a sudden, her eyes opened up
the widest I've ever seen anybody's eyes open up.
They looked like they were going to pop out of her head.
I could tell that she couldn't breathe.
And whatever it was, was pushing down on her chest.
I felt something heavy on my chest.
I tried lifting myself up with my hands
and it just felt like somebody really heavy was sitting on me
and did not want me to move.
You could see it pushing her into the couch.
I was not able to move her, not even a centimetre,
and she's starting to turn blue.
Baby! Stay with me, baby.
The fact that I'm having a hard time breathing,
of course, is scaring the hell out of me.
Get off of her!
She's turning darker shades of blue.
And I know she's dying at this point
and there's nothing I could do about it.
Leave her alone! I swear to God,
I will burn this cabin down to the ground!
Come here, baby. Ill get a priest! Ill get a priest in here
and well send your ass back to the pits of hell that you came from.
Oh, baby. Come here. Come here, baby.
Oh, my God.
At the last second, the entity let her up
and she looked at me and she said, point blank...
(BLEEP) this. Im out of here.
Nikki, wait.
He wanted us gone.
And, and that was his way of getting us out.
What if that entity hadn't let her go
and had gone to the point of actually killing her?
Babe. Babe, stop. Stop. Nikki.
After the fact, I thought to myself, if it had not let up on her
and it would have killed her,
who would have believed me that it wasnt me?
I would be in prison for life right now.
00:31:40.840 -- 00:31:46.240 Adrian knows he needs help. He goes online and finds a lead.
Miss Andrea.
Adrian reaches out to Andrea Mesich,
a local paranormal investigator and demonologist.
She agrees to meet him.
I'm thinking really? In small town Ironwood there's a paranormal team?
I really had no idea.
For me to reach out to somebody for help is unusual.
I don't usually ask people for help but this was beyond me.
You must be Adrian. Please, have a seat.
Thank you for seeing me.
Weve been having these things happen at the cabin for a while now.
Nothing too serious but...
...things that I didnt take too seriously anyways.
But last night something, something attacked my wife
and I was worried because I thought...
...I thought that it was gonna kill her.
I knew that it was a very urgent situation.
I was worried about the safety of everybody involved.
Im so sorry for whats been happening to your family, Adrian.
I feel like we need to act fast.
Id like to get a team out to your place as quickly as possible.
Can we come tonight? Yes, of course.
Look Im not really sure how things like this work.
How much does something like this cost?
No self-respecting investigator would ever charge
for anything like this. I just want to bring your family some peace.
Thank you.
Andrea calls in a husband-and-wife investigative team
shes worked with on a number of cases.
When she calls us in, we know it's urgent.
Any potential haunting has the ability to go bad
because you just don't know ahead of time what you're dealing with.
This is Dawn and John Grathoff. Theyll be helping me.
It can physically hurt you as far as scratching,
pushing somebody down the stairs.
Adrian why dont you show them around.
Im gonna get a feel for the house. Sure, thats just the basement.
I hadn't even been there for five seconds and I got sucker punched.
It hurt. It was very painful.
Its all right.
It was picking on me the entire time,
poking me in the back, poking me in the hip, poking me in the shoulder.
I knew that there was something going on there
and it was targeting me.
Andrea, were ready.
I asked her if it was okay if I could stay and watch.
She said, yes, just don't really say or do anything.
So, I just watched her do her thing.
So, weve got our electroscope. Weve got a K2 meter.
We gotta separate them slightly to avoid interference.
Now spirits can manipulate the electronic fields
and light these devices up as a way to communicate with us.
So, were gonna ask the spirit some questions.
Yes, and the electroscope will glow red.
No, and the K2 meter goes off.
Okay, were ready to get started.
Are you the spirit of the man that lived in this cabin?
Is there a reason you are here?
Can we help you?
Are you angry?
Can we help you?
This thing seems to really like you, John.
Do you have a problem with women?
Do you have a problem with Andrea?
And then I saw something that John and I are not going to forget.
The electroscope started to spin around on its own.
Ive never seen that in my life before.
Yeah, Im sorry, thats enough Im gonna go.
I dont let my emotions get involved in a whole lot of things
but that made every hair on my body stand up and I said, I'm done.
I went outside.
Wow, I have never seen activity like that before.
I mean, this thing is really angry.
Yeah. I think were gonna have to call in the big guns.
Andrea and her team have seen enough.
Theres an angry spirit in the house that needs to be removed
but it will take more than they can do alone.
I was very determined
that whatever was in that house was not going to stay.
I knew exactly what I had to do.
Andrea sends her fellow investigators home
and calls for a structural exorcism.
I needed to call Father Robb.
I trust Andrea because she, she has that good sense of knowing
when is there real evil at work here
that needs the authority of the church?
Thank you so much for coming.
Pleased to meet you. Adrian?
Hello, Padre.
Ill be honest, its a, its an intense one.
I could sense it getting out of the car.
Were in for a time tonight.
Should we? Yeah.
Lead the way. No time to waste.
Usually, when there's a disturbance in the house,
it's one of three categories.
It's either demonic or it's souls of the deceased,
or it's a mixture of both intertwined.
As soon as he walked in, the coffee pot, right in front of Father Robb,
fell to the ground with a, just a crash.
Lets get to work. Okay, Padre.
My sense was that we probably had some demonic and souls at work here.
By the authority given to me by our Lord Jesus Christ,
you are not welcome here. I cast you away.
You're cleansing each room one at a time with the holy water, the salt,
the oils, the medals, you're leaving, all those things behind,
almost like an exterminator would
with going room to room, getting rid of bugs.
By the authority given to me by our Lord Jesus Christ,
you are not welcome here. I cast you away.
Animals are great barometers.
Theyre pure spirits that know if something evil is lurking there.
Good dog.
With the authority given to me by our Lord Jesus Christ,
you are not welcome here. I cast you away.
Things got very heavy in the room.
I could feel a pressure on my shoulders,
just weighing me down.
As we get into more serious prayers.
They're no longer playing with us. They're now fighting against us.
Priest has a certain protection, you know, from God,
Im not gonna get hurt or touched by anything flying at me
or hitting me or anything like that.
Thats the door to the basement.
Our father who art in heaven. Hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Father Robb comes in and throws everything at
whatever spirit might be there,
if it's something more malicious, he will come guns a blazing.
SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE
Get your ass out of my house. Get out!
When you get that final prayer in the basement,
that's where you feel this,
that tug of war and the evil not wanting to go. But they have to.
Get the out of my house!
Whatever is in this place that is not from God and of light,
by the power of Jesus Christ of Nazareth,
I bind you and send you to the foot of the holy cross.
I cast you out! Go!
At the very last moment, Father Robb utters 'go'
and there's definitely a shift in the air.
Its gone. Its not here anymore.
After that night, even though the building quieted,
Adrian and Nicole move closer to town.
For a while, even Adrian stays away
but eventually, he returns for hunting retreats.
Come on, Sasha. Thats a good girl.
Now you are absolutely sure you dont want to stick around
maybe get some dinner or something? Im good.
This is good enough for me. All right.
You know, youre gonna be missing out on all this.
Am I though? I think Ill be fine. Okay.
Ill pick you up Saturday.
You better have a deer for me by then.
Yes maam. Love you. Love you.
Nicole will never spend a night out there again and I don't blame her.
This is real. Anybody talks about a ghost,
the naysayers that say that,
you know, you're crazy, or this doesn't happen,
well, you're a naysayer until it happens to you.
And when it happens to you, God help you.