[Amy] The guy is laughing.
He's bouncing off the ceiling, the walls...
I'm getting nervous.
Damn!
I have witnessed my husband battle something
while he's asleep.
Like, I'm fighting for my life in there sometimes.
It's attacking him! He's [bleep] all over the place.
-[exhaling] It's like out of a horror movie, right? -Yes.
It would've been a nightmare.
I let him sit there and fight this thing!
[in a high-pitched voice] Who does that?
[sniffling]
[Amy] This guy's gonna be obliterated.
[Amy] I'm anxious about this.
I'm getting nervous.
Damn!
Not good.
Yeah, just not good.
Something doesn't feel right here.
[creaking]
Ooh, boy.
I don't like this. Okay.
Ow! Oh, God.
I need to take a minute, 'cause, um...
That hurt a lot.
[Steve] I'm out here in Summerville, South Carolina.
It's about 25 miles north of Charleston.
I got a call from a desperate woman named Traci.
She says she used her entire life savings to buy a home for her family,
but the second they moved in,
the place turned into a paranormal war zone.
Traci said she knows she sounds dramatic,
but she thinks whatever's in the house
is trying to kill her.
She sounds bad, and I'm really hoping we can help her out.
So Traci, I gotta tell you.
Just driving through this neighborhood
and coming up to this beautiful home,
I understand why you were drawn to it.
But, on the other side of that when we spoke on the phone,
it sounded like it's nothing but a nightmare here.
What the hell's going on?
We're living through hell.
This... This house that was supposed to be our dream home...
...has turned into our nightmare.
It sucks the life out of you.
It takes any happiness and any hope that you have for the future
and... it steals it.
Okay.
Why don't we start from the basics?
Who all lives in the house?
[Traci] My husband David and our 20 year old daughter Catherine.
[Steve] Uh, Traci,
do me a favor and give me a list
of what you guys were experiencing here.
[Traci] We have things moving on their own.
We're seeing apparitions and shadow figures.
I'm having severe mood changes.
And now it's beginning to affect us physically.
Now, you mentioned mood changes.
Tell me about that.
I will be fine and then someone flips a switch
and I see red.
If I knew I didn't have to pay for everything,
I would destroy... I'd destroy everything in the house.
Really?
[Traci] It gets that bad.
And then I go after David.
The last time it got really bad.
I not only went after David, but I went after Catherine.
And I'm gonna say something ugly
and hateful, and I'm thinking, "Don't do that, that will hurt her so bad.
She'll never forget it."
Do you feel like something's taking over you,
or do you just feel like you can't control yourself?
It feels like something is taking over me,
because it's almost like I'm locked in my head.
But I can't... it just comes out.
You break my heart. I just...
You were feeling guilty, it sounds like
because you feel like you're dragging your family down.
The amount of guilt I have, you have no idea.
Um, I have an amazing husband
and the best child anybody could ever ask for.
And I... I put them through hell.
Any other physical things happening?
I mean, that's got to take its toll on you.
We will get anxiety.
We will also get no energy.
You're walking through sludge.
It sucks the life out of you.
And so, you guys are my last hope.
[Amy] I see these outlines of people around the campfire.
I can only make one male out.
He's thin, white, longer brown hair...
I'm getting his emotions, so he's like really stressed out.
He's really worried.
He knows, like, everyone is exhausted.
I'm talking extreme exhaustion.
His legs are like jelly.
You know, so the muscles are so exhausted.
Hmm, hmm...
So I'm thinking that...
...those kind of emotional things...
...and physical things from the stress and the exhaustion
may be affecting the living here.
Some bad [bleep] went down
around this area.
[Steve] Okay, Traci.
So why are we in the garage?
This is where I come when I feel like I am being influenced,
I am full of rage...
...to decompress.
[Steve] Are you having any experiences while you're in here?
I have seen a shadow figure peeking around the corner
into the bedroom.
[Steve] Describe what it looked like.
It kind of felt like a male.
-More solid. -More solid?
-Yes. -[Steve] Okay.
What are you feeling from this shadow figure
that's looking at you in the bedroom?
It makes me uncomfortable.
Uh, it's an uneasy feeling.
Okay, anything else?
I feel a negative presence or energy in the bathroom.
[Steve] Are you sure it's not somebody walking in,
-and you just feel like its presence? -[Traci] I'm sure.
Feels like there's someone in the corner,
and it feels heavy.
It feels dark.
So basically, this is almost a menacing presence here.
Yeah, a creeper.
Um... you shouldn't be in the bathroom
-when I'm taking a shower. -[Steve] Right.
When my daughter's in there, nobody should be in there.
Okay.
[Amy] I'm hearing a male.
He is dead, and he's crying.
Uh, so he keeps wiping his eyes
and, um, he feels devastated and lost.
I think the living would feel this, uh...
...despair.
They're feeling the emotions, I think,
and he feels sick.
Like, there's something wrong with his stomach,
you know, for sure.
That's how he died.
And then they're seeing him.
I... He thinks they're seeing him, him.
[exhaling]
Literally felt like something went "bam,"
like through my whole left side.
It hurt. A lot.
I think that they would have severe...
an intense, like, stomach and back pain, you know?
Like it...
[exhaling]
[quietly] Yes, that hurt. Okay.
[Steve] All right, so what's going on in here?
I will wake up sometimes in extreme pain
in my kidneys, um, I will wake up with bruising.
What parts of the body are they on, mostly?
[Traci] My legs a lot.
Is it, to you, like you're in bed and it looks like
somebody's grabbing your legs?
-Something like that? -[Traci] Yes.
With both hands.
They're not a pattern that would be found on my bed,
or by one of our animals.
How many times has this happened?
It's happened probably two dozen times since we've moved in.
All right, anything else?
I have witnessed my husband battle something full-on
while he's asleep.
It's happened multiple times.
What's... what's going on?
He is yelling, "Stop! No!"
He'll roll over, he will push his arms out
like he's trying to push something off of him.
He does not recall when he wakes up.
So in your opinion, does it feel like he's being physically attacked?
[Traci] It does feel like that.
In his voice, it sounds like you can hear pain.
Thanks a lot. Okay.
So I gotta ask you something, Traci.
What do you think is here when it comes to the paranormal?
I think there's something...
...that's not human outside.
And I think there's something inside,
or multiple things inside.
Either way, they don't belong here.
And they're making our lives a living hell.
I'm hanging on by a thread.
[Amy] I...
...encountered a very odd male.
He's creepy and he's got this big smile.
So he did something to a male...
...who was...
...sleeping?
The guy is laughing.
He's bouncing off the [bleep] ceiling, the walls,
he's laughing.
He's very, very bad.
He's attacking him.
He's [bleep] all over the place.
There's some kind of impact to the mid-chest.
I feel like it's a punch to the chest.
Like, he's kind of claiming, like, "I was just scaring him..."
But this male is feeling,
like, he's being attacked.
What was his experience?
He's like stuck.
Can't move his arms, trying to move his arms.
Like, feeling like there's a person on him.
Something's on him.
You know, "Get it off me."
[Steve] So Catherine, I spoke with Mom earlier.
She thinks something in the house
is making her fly off the handle.
I mean, do you agree?
Yes, sir.
It's tough.
Yeah, I can definitely tell she's not herself.
The rage... it's... you can't even describe it.
It's scary leaving,
like if I have to go to school,
but I know she... she's having an episode or a hard time,
that I don't want to leave her alone.
Okay.
What about experiences here?
What can you tell me about that you've had?
I've seen a creature standing outside of my window.
-[Tony] Okay. This window here? -[Catherine] Yes, sir.
When you say "a creature," what are you talking about?
I could only see from the torso up.
-Okay. -[Catherine] Um...
But it... it seemed really tall.
And it was...
...pitch black.
-This was at night? -[Catherine] Yes, sir.
[Steve] Could it have been somebody from college
playing a prank, maybe?
No, sir. The shape of it... It wasn't human.
Okay, anything else?
I was in the bathroom one morning.
I was just standing at the sink,
brushing my teeth, and something pulled the shower curtain open.
But there wasn't anything there.
And I was the only one in the bathroom.
I know you guys got pets.
I mean, was any of the pets in the room?
No, sir.
What did you do? 'Cause I think I would've ran out.
I think I kind of just... froze.
It's shocking, but you always get used to it.
-So... -Okay, you guys are basically numb to everything
-that's going on. -Yes, sir.
Okay. So anything else?
One time I saw the reflection of a man standing behind me in my mirror.
-Here in this room? -[Catherine] Yes, sir.
He was standing in my doorway.
Okay, you're sure nobody came walking into the house
-trying to rob the place, right? -[Catherine] Yes, sir.
Dad was sleeping, Mom was sleeping...
How are you sleeping at night?
I think I try to block it out.
-Okay. -[Catherine] Um...
I mean, sometimes you still get that feeling
of you're laying there and you feel something in the room with you,
even if you're not seeing anything,
you can tell someone's. like, standing right next to you.
[Amy] That creepy smiling guy is out here.
His eyes are sewn...
uh, shut.
Uh, and they're kind of caved in.
He's got this smile on this face,
and the smile is not normal.
It's, like, grotesque.
So it's big.
And you can just see his... his teeth.
He's very, very bad.
I tried to get more info out of him,
but then he turns into, like, a complete shadow person.
And now he loses all of the features in the hair.
His head becomes completely round,
and there's just that smile.
Now he kind of becomes like a stick figure
with a smile.
He started climbing the walls, and then he, like,
disappeared out the wall.
Oh yeah, he's bad.
[Steve] So David, I've talked to your wife earlier.
She seems like a very sweet woman, right?
Yeah.
But it sounds like she just totally changes.
Yeah, it's... it's like night and day.
What do you see happen?
Just... rage.
Um...
Hatred.
It's almost indescribable.
It's like she could lose her mind and then,
like, flip everything.
And then just go nuts.
It's insane to see it.
It's gotta be a little stressful for you.
Yeah, very.
So, have you had any experiences that you can't explain?
Yeah, the smoke detectors go off by themselves.
All right, so was this one defective...
...smoke detector?
No, we have three throughout the house.
Okay.
At different times, one would go off.
-That's odd. -[David] Yeah.
Were there any signs that smoke might've...
-...into the house? -No. No.
There was no electrical problems?
No, they're not hard-wired. It isn't battery operated.
All right, is there anything else you can tell me that you can't explain?
Yeah, the dogs and the cats
are staring...
...at things we can't see.
-And they're... they're, like, fixated on it? -Yes.
Our dog, he sat here...
...one night, and just looked up there and barked.
And you couldn't shut him up.
All right, so let me ask a question.
Do you have a crawlspace up there?
[David] Yup.
[Steve] What's your thoughts on it, though?
Do you think that it could have something paranormal?
Definitely something that's not normal.
That's for sure.
So David, I spoke to your wife.
And, uh, she explained to me that you're going
through some stuff when you're... when you're sleeping.
She just told me several times
just... like I'm... fighting for my life
in there sometimes, and...
...just tossing and turning and obviously I don't know I'm doing it.
I need to try to figure out what's going on
or whatever, something.
'Cause...
...I don't have a clue.
[Amy] That creepy smiling guy
is obsessed with someone in this house.
There's the living...
-I'm thinking dude laying here, right? -[cameraman] Right.
-[Amy] The smiling dude... -[cameraman] Mmm-hmm.
...is, was on him enough like this.
[cameraman] Mmm-hmm.
[Amy] That thing is like molesting people.
I'm thinking this might be the same living person
whose... was on the couch!
This male is feeling like he's being attacked.
Occasionally, other people might get...
...affected by him.
I think he's attracted to...
...the living male.
Person woke up, freaking out.
Do you know what he wants to do to him?
Uh, kill him.
[Steve] First question I ask when I start these investigations is,
"Who was the original owner of my client's land?"
Usually it's someone boring and I move on.
But in this case, it's different.
I'm on my way to meet a genealogist
who says the first owners experienced nothing but misery
the second they bought the property.
And it all ended with a murder.
Well Jeff, thanks for helping me out with this case.
This family, what can you tell me about them?
Yeah, the matriarch of the family
was a lady named Harriet Harllee.
She was born in 1837 in South Carolina,
and when she was 20 in 1857,
she married her first husband.
His name was Robert Graham.
And the Grahams really had a lot going for them.
They had money, they had social status,
and eventually they had nine children.
All right, so, uh, what about her husband?
-What did he do? -Robert Graham was a judge in the Charleston area.
And he had a pretty fascinating ancestral background.
His great grandfather arrived in the Carolinas in 1735 from England.
His grandfather fought in the Revolutionary War.
And Robert himself was a colonel
in the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
All right, so a lot of history with this family.
Definitely.
So I know when they got to my client's property, things went bad.
You told me that, but, what about before that?
Was everything okay?
Unfortunately not.
Um, they actually lost their first daughter Harriet.
Uh, she was only six months old in 1857.
A few years after that, they lost a son, Archie.
He was only two years old.
Then in 1874, Judge Graham himself passed away from yellow fever.
He was only 41.
And this was the judge's obituary.
Okay.
All right, so things are tough for this woman.
She's got two dead kids now.
Does it get better for her at all?
No, they actually get worse.
Not long after Judge Graham died,
uh, one of her children died from food poisoning
as a result of eating bad chicken.
Bad chicken?
[Jeffrey] Yeah, and here's an article about that.
[Steve] Okay, so now we got a widow.
She's down to six kids, unfortunately.
When does she remarry?
Um, 1881 she remarried to Benjamin Muckenfuss,
and they had one daughter named Nell.
Uh, when did they actually come and, uh,
purchase my client's property?
Yeah, in 1886, the family decided to leave Charleston
and move up to the Summerville area,
and they bought a large tract of land
that included the property that your client owns now.
[Steve] All right, so we know things went bad
when they got on my client's property.
How soon?
Uh, pretty quick, actually.
Eight days after they settled on the land,
uh, their daughter Nell died of whooping cough.
She was only four years old.
This is her death certificate.
[Steve] All right, so this poor woman went through tragedy
no one should have to deal with.
But you mentioned on the phone about a murder.
What the hell happened with that?
Yes, actually, in 1907, um, Harriet's oldest surviving son Robert Graham Jr.,
uh, was murdered.
Uh, he had entered a store in Stallsville,
which is about a mile from your client's house.
Okay.
There was a man in there named Luke Chisolm,
he had been drinking.
Uh, the two got into an argument...
...it turned violent.
Uh, they rolled out the door into the street,
and Chisolm had an iron bar and beat him over the head.
I swear, this woman endured more heartache
than anybody should have to endure.
How'd she handle all this?
I think that was the straw that broke the camel's back.
Uh, she died of pneumonia.
Um, she was 74 years old.
[Steve] It's amazing she lived as long as she did.
I mean, just the stress alone I think I would've lost it a long time ago.
Yeah, 74 is impressive to live that much of a life through tragedy.
[Amy] I'm seeing that creepy smiling dude again.
All of a sudden, his hair becomes long.
And it has that curl, and it has a bow.
You know, back in the day.
The dudes used to have that.
It was wigs, usually.
He's got that, like, kind of French
or maybe English style of clothing
from the 1750s to the 1850s.
He's showing that this is in his family lineage.
I think they were the original owners of the land here.
[bell ringing]
[cameraman] Did you get a sense of when the smiley guy died?
Like 1880s.
He was relatively young, though.
Like, did he die young?
I think he was the last one to die.
Or at least the last psychopath.
[chuckling] I don't know, in the family...
[Steve] So far, I have a desperate client
who believes the paranormal is causing her to lash out at her family,
on a property where the original owner's son
was beaten to death.
But, I want to see if there's anything else.
Searching through old records,
I find the previous owner of Traci's house
was killed in a hit-and-run accident while out riding his bike.
I'm heading over to meet a retired cop.
She's looking into this case for me,
and says the hit-and-run driver barely got a slap on the wrist.
I know she's gonna piss me off,
but I gotta find out what happened.
[Steve] Well, Dr. Love. Thanks for looking into this for me.
I appreciate that.
[Dr. Love] Yes, sir.
[Steve] So before we get to the hit-and-tun,
what do we know about the victim?
Well, William Adams Jr. was born in 1936.
And this is his high school picture.
[Steve] What did he do for a living?
[Dr. Love] He retired from the Air Force
after 21 years, and when he retired,
he became a civil engineer
at the Charleston Navy Shipyard.
All right, Dr. Love.
So let's get to the action and what happened.
So William, Bill, was an avid bicycle rider,
and early Saturday morning, July 7th, 1984,
he was riding his bicycle on Dorchester Road.
And he got hit by a car.
There was no witnesses at the time,
and the driver fled the scene.
[Steve] Geez, this guy died young. 47.
-[Dr. Love] He did. -[Steve] So what was the official cause of death?
The coroner came back and said that he had massive head injuries,
um, broken bones, and internal injuries.
All right, so I know they made an arrest on this case.
Who was it?
[Dr. Love] A 22 year old Gerard Geddis.
So you mentioned on the phone that this kid got a slap on the wrist.
I mean, what was he charged with originally?
So originally, he was charged with reckless homicide,
-and leaving the scene of an accident. -Okay.
And later the solicitor's office
dropped the reckless homicide due to lack of evidence.
The judge sentenced a year suspended on 30 days served.
-And that's it. -[Dr. Love] That's it.
[Steve] In my book, there's no justice here.
You hit someone and leave the scene of the crime,
that's gotta be more than 30 days in jail.
[Amy] I'm seeing that older dead guy with the stomach pain again.
He's maybe early 60s?
Kind of balding, uh...
...brown hair, glasses...
I think he used to maybe own this house?
He doesn't know he died.
He might've died in the 1980s, I'm thinking.
This was a bad moment for him.
He's very upset about something.
And he's acting a little wacked out right now.
He's crying...
He feels like he lost everything...
He had some depression issues.
Um...
Now he's, like, brandishing a gun.
Okay.
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[Steve] I just got a call from a local historian.
He says back before the Civil War,
plantation owners in this area formed something called slave patrols...
...that would literally go out and track down runaway slaves.
He tells me these missions would often end up in bloodshed.
So, Randy, I appreciate you helping me out with this case.
Let's start with the basics.
I mean, this is the South.
I'm sure the slave trade was pretty big here, right?
Yeah, in fact, Charleston Port was the main importation point
for enslaved people.
Okay, so Randy, let's get to this slave patrol.
What the hell is that?
There was such a prevalence of slavery in Charleston
that in 1704 the colonial legislature enacted a law
that specified that there would be slave patrols.
And every able-bodied young man
in this area would have been required at different times to serve on slave patrols.
The slave patrols eventually evolved into the Ku Klux Klan.
-That was its origins. -Really?
How many people were in these patrols, and what did they do?
They usually consisted of anywhere from 10-12 individuals.
They would patrol the streets, they would patrol the highways,
and if they encountered any enslaved people, or freed men,
on the streets, or on the trails,
they would accost them and insist on seeing their papers.
Well, that was the question I was gonna ask you.
I mean, how the hell did they know who they were looking for?
Thousands of ads were placed in papers,
in Charleston and in Summerville.
Um...
...describing runaway slaves,
and offering rewards for anyone who could bring them back.
Here's a sample of them.
[Steve] So these were the actual ads that were in the paper?
[Randy] Yes.
Each one of these ads represents a human being
who was trying to establish their own freedom.
[Steve] Where would they try to hide out?
Any particular spot?
The safest place would've been in the marshes,
because they're harder to get to,
and so the slave patrols would've been forced
to pursue them in some really inhospitable territory.
What happens to these guys if they're caught?
[Randy] It's not good.
If a runaway was caught, uh, for the first time...
-[Steve] Okay. -...the punishment was, uh, a whipping.
And it was usually up to 40 lashes.
But if you did it a second time,
they would take a branding iron with an R on it
and sizzle it into your right cheek.
The R for...
-Runaway. -[Steve] Runaway, okay.
And if you were caught a third time,
they would cut off the enslaved person's ears.
If they were caught a fourth time and they were male,
they could be castrated.
And if they were, um, caught a fifth time,
they would actually sever the Achilles tendon and disable them.
I mean, it's like out of a horror movie.
-Right? -Yes.
It would've been a nightmare.
[Amy] I'm seeing the people around the campfire again.
There was one or two Native American women,
10-11 men.
It's work-related. They're working.
And then searching for something.
They're looking for something.
And I'm hearing, I think it's a male,
it's a male voice.
I'm hearing, "Oh, not again!"
Like, "Not again!"
"I," you know, "I just can't go through this again!
I cannot go through this again!
I can't deal with this anymore.
There's no hope left."
Are you able to tell yet, at all, what they're afraid of?
The other men!
This dude has some panic going on.
He's starting to experience fear.
So I'm thinking he died...
...a traumatic death.
I saw a lot of disturbing things on my walk,
but the smiling man attacking a living person
concerns me the most.
He's got his hands on the guy who's laying in the bed.
He is thin.
All of his hair is back,
in a ponytail.
His eyes are sewn shut.
See, he's got a huge, grotesque smile.
Yeah.
And it's all kind of oversized.
It's gross.
Is this what you saw?
Yes.
[Steve] Now that Amy and I
have completed our investigations,
we're ready to reveal our findings to each other,
and our clients for the first time.
So Amy, I'd like you to meet Traci...
...and Catherine.
They're mother and daughter.
They live here with David,
Traci's husband and Catherine's dad.
Now, this house was their dream come true,
and they spent years saving for it.
But now they believe whatever's here is ripping them apart.
These guys are praying you can find a way
to save their home, their sanity, and their family.
Now, unless Amy's got some questions for you guys,
she'll tell us about her walk.
[Amy] The first thing that I'm going to discuss
is what I encountered in the backyard.
What I saw was a campfire back there.
There was about...
...I don't know, 12 or 13 people.
I got a lot of anxiety.
A lot of stress.
The physical exhaustion that I felt from these individuals
was like my legs felt like jelly.
I think the living here would really, uh, feel this type of exhaustion.
Traci, I mean, come on.
We talked about you feeling exhausted and anxious.
Absolutely.
Um, the exhaustion, the draining is indescribable.
My anxiety, it does go through the roof.
It just feels bad.
[Steve] Okay, what else we got?
[Amy] So I come inside,
and this little guy comes up.
He is, like, uh, in his 60s.
What I was thinking is that he was probably an owner.
I got that he might've died in the 80s.
I was worried that you guys may, uh, have experiences
with depression if he's around.
He has some stomach issues, like really bad.
I think it has something to do with how he died.
I... felt intense pain.
Like I'd been hit on my left side hard.
That would kind of bring in any back pain
that you may experience.
I will wake up and feel like someone has just repeatedly kicked me
in the kidney, overnight.
Or I will wake up and feel like I can't walk and need a walker.
I have gone and had every scan,
all bloodwork, everything comes back normal.
He did express that you guys may have seen him
on a couple of occasions.
So it was in my bedroom.
There was a guy standing behind me that I could see in the mirror.
-So I of course turn around, there's no one there. -Mmm-hmm.
I look back in the mirror, no one's there.
[Steve] All right, now Amy, you also said this guy can cause depression.
One of the biggest reasons we were called in...
...is Traci here is having severe mood swings.
And it's causing her to lash out.
I will be completely fine, and then all of a sudden,
I will see red.
And...
...it's instant.
I've tried to keep Catherine out of it,
and I'm like, "I could never say that to my child.
I would never hurt her like that."
And then it comes... it comes out of my mouth.
'Cause I'm usually the one, you know,
if no one else can, like, maybe calm her down or help her.
But even in this, like, I can't.
[quietly] No one deserves that.
Not... no one.
I would give my life for her in a second.
And to know that I make her feel like that
is the exact opposite of what I've done
for the last 20 years, to try to protect her.
So we have a guy who died in the 80s
and maybe owned this house, all right?
So...
...you might be talking about William Adams Jr. who
was born and raised here in South Carolina.
Um, this is actually what he looked like in his high school days.
He was a military man and served in the Air Force for 21 years.
Bill bought this house with his third wife in 1982.
Ah!
But tragedy hit on July 7th, 1984.
Now that morning, Bill went out for a bike ride
on an isolated road,
when suddenly he was hit by a car.
Now, the driver took off, and by the time
the paramedics got to the scene, he was dead.
-Oh! Hmm... -Now, Bill was just 47 years old.
Oh, he was young!
[Steve] The coroner's report showed he had massive internal injuries.
They estimated he was probably hit at about
45 miles per hour.
The good news is, the cops found the low-life who hit him.
He was a 22 year old kid
who eventually got sentenced to a year in prison,
but only ended up doing 30 days.
-Um... yeah. Here's an article about that. -Damn!
[Steve] Now this guy's left behind a wife and two sons.
One of the sons was only three years old.
I'm... sad.
For him.
[Amy] Wow!
[Steve] All right, so what else?
So there's this other male.
He's the one I'm concerned about here.
His family goes very way back here,
maybe about 200 years.
They were the original owners of the land in this area.
He is very odd-looking.
I saw him in a couple of different forms.
Uh, but the one that really stood out to me
was the one where he has this, like,
really grotesque smile.
His eyes are sewn, uh, shut.
Uh, and they're kind of caved in.
He's got this smile on his face,
and the smile is not normal.
Um, I'm terrified.
I mean, how do you hear a description...
-...of someone who can morph and look like that? -[Steve] Right.
And know they're in your home?
Yeah.
Well, you know what?
I don't know enough to tell you who this guy might have been.
But you said this guy was creepy.
What does he do?
I got that this...
...dead male is very keyed in on the male here.
And everybody else who might be affected...
it's just collateral damage.
What I saw him doing was at some point there was a male
laying on the couch.
And all of a sudden, this guy comes out
and the living male is feeling like pain in his chest.
It's because this guy was, like, attacking him.
All right, so, I mean, there's only one male in the house.
But, uh, before we get to that...
...I just wanna talk about some other stuff.
Traci, you wake up with bruises, right?
I will wake up with bruises usually right above my knee, and below.
Bruises that can't be explained.
[Steve] Hey Catherine, didn't you tell me
that you saw some creature-looking thing
from outside your bedroom window?
-[Catherine] Yes. -Tell Amy about that.
[Catherine] One night, I was laying in my bed,
and I had looked at my window, and I always keep my blinds closed.
But I could see the outline of this thing,
and, like he said, I called it a creature
because it was human in the fact that there was, like,
I could see a little bit of the torso,
there were shoulders, a neck, and a head,
but everything was taller and elongated
-so it was like humanoid... -Mmm.
but it wasn't, like, that's not physically possible...
-[Amy] Right. -...for a human shape.
[Steve] Okay, you say it's targeting David.
What's it doing?
So the other situation I saw was going on in the main bedroom.
-The smiling dude... -[cameraman] Mmm-hmm.
-[Amy] ...is, was on him enough like this. -[cameraman] Mmm-hmm.
[Amy] That thing is, like, molesting people.
This male is feeling like he's being attacked.
On multiple occasions,
Catherine and I have witnessed David...
...fighting something in his sleep.
And he never has any recollection of it.
He'll be saying, "Mmm-mmm, no, stop!"
And he'll be pushing his arms.
I... I did have a sketch done of what I saw occurring in the bedroom.
There you go.
[Traci] I'm terrified.
It makes sense, 'cause that... that room
has always been consistently uncomfortable.
He's a good man. He doesn't deserve it.
He doesn't...
...doesn't deserve it.
[Steve] Now, I'm curious though.
What would've happened if these guys didn't call us
when it came to this thing?
Like I said, he's really, really focused on him.
Uh, so I think he would've just kept doing
what he's doing until he got him.
[Traci] I've watched him fight this...
...thing and I've walked out of the room.
I let him sit there and fight this thing!
And I walked out of the room!
[in a high-pitched voice] Who does that?
You can't blame yourself for that.
-[Amy] Mmm-mmm... -[Traci] Who does that?
[Traci sniffling]
[Steve] You thought you were doing the right thing.
I was worried about my damn self, is what I was...
...and my mood swings!
And he's in there fighting...
...the freakin' devil.
[Steve] All right, Traci, I'll give you the good news first.
You're not crazy.
But the bad news is, you're not crazy.
You've got some weird stuff going on here.
Now, Amy's gonna let you know if there's any way you can stay here and fight,
and if so, what's it gonna take.
[Amy] Okay, so...
The first thing, uh, to be done,
we're going to take care of the people by the campfire
who are present here in your yard.
They all need to be moved on.
I'd like you to bring in a medium and a holy man.
What I'd like is for them to come,
spend the day, move everybody on.
Okay?
That will free you of the emotions that you're dealing with
as far as any fear, anxiety, and stress.
Oh, also the exhaustion will go down.
As for, you know, the other former owner,
so what I would like is for a psychic
who is also a Reiki Master, to come and...
...get rid of him.
When it comes to this...
...evil man,
I want a male demonologist to come
and I want him to treat him as if he were a demon.
This guy's gonna be obliterated.
In the meantime...
...I do not think it's safe for your husband to be here.
It would be best if he could stay with friends or family
until all of these things are completed.
[Steve] That's a lot of work. Are you gonna do it?
Yes, absolutely.
Okay.
[Traci] I mean, this guy's got to go.
It's so much easier knowing.
Knowing that, you know, there's a solution right around the corner,
and, like, it'll happen.
[Steve] Okay, Amy. When they do all this, will all the fighting stop?
So that they can go back to being a loving family?
Yes.
[Traci] You have changed our lives.
You have changed the trajectory of it,
the path of it, and how we're gonna be when all of this is over.
Finally, we'll have some peace.
And feel normal.
And it's because of both of you,
so thank you so much.
You're welcome very much.
[Amy] Traci and her family have a lot of work to do.
But I'm confident if they follow my advice
and bring in the people I recommended,
they should be able to live in their home
safely and in peace.