After moving, Cindy's recurring nightmares suddenly mirror reality. An evil entity is infesting her house and it's intent on driving her family apart
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00:00In this world, there is real evil in the darkest shadows and in the most ordinary places.
00:16These are the true stories of the innocent and the unimaginable.
00:21On Halloween night, Nick Webber leads his friends to a mysterious cemetery to seek the
00:28truth of a local legend that refuses to die.
00:33Stalked by angry spirits, the teenagers must face their fears of the unknown if they want
00:40to survive until dawn.
00:48Between the world we see and the things we fear, there are doors and they are opened.
00:57Nightmares become reality.
01:11Green Lake, Wisconsin, once known as the village of Dartford, was settled in the mid-1800s.
01:19Lured by the majestic shores of Green Lake, pioneers built this small farming community
01:25on the trade of grain.
01:29As with most small towns, its history is rich in folklore and urban legend.
01:38Most tales are passed down for pleasure, but there are others whispered in the darkness,
01:44warning those who dare to uncover the truth.
01:52In the center of Green Lake lies an old cemetery, which stands as testament to the town's past
01:59and to those who once lived there.
02:12Legend says that it's haunted.
02:27On dark nights, when they have nothing better to do, local teens test the legend for themselves.
02:42I think I see the mausoleum.
02:57I want to check out the Indian graves first.
03:24That is creepy.
03:29Come on, let's go.
03:42Inside Dartford Cemetery is an old mausoleum, the final resting place of some of the town's
03:49pioneers.
03:52So, who's going first?
03:59This was her idea.
04:02Okay.
04:04Okay, I'll go first.
04:13So what's supposed to happen now?
04:16Now we wait.
04:18This is stupid.
04:20Tell him what happened on Halloween.
04:21I will as soon as he gets up here.
04:27Okay, so what happened on Halloween?
04:46First of all, you have to remember, this happened to people from our school.
04:54People we know.
04:57What?
04:59You're going to be late.
05:07Halloween, 2005.
05:11Fourteen-year-old Nick Weber lives with his mother in Montello, Wisconsin, 25 miles outside
05:17of Green Lake.
05:18Get a move on, babe.
05:19Any big plans for tonight?
05:20Oh, just the usual.
05:21Sex, drugs, ritualistic killings.
05:22Where are my keys?
05:23They're by the door, Mom.
05:24Since the recent divorce of his parents, Nick doesn't have a clue what he's doing.
05:25He's just a kid.
05:26I'm not a kid.
05:27I'm not a kid.
05:28I'm not a kid.
05:29I'm not a kid.
05:30I'm not a kid.
05:31I'm not a kid.
05:32I'm not a kid.
05:33I'm not a kid.
05:34I'm not a kid.
05:35I'm not a kid.
05:36I'm not a kid.
05:37I'm not a kid.
05:38I'm not a kid.
05:39Since the recent divorce of his parents, Nick doesn't see much of his mom.
05:43My mom's work schedule and my school schedule didn't always work too well together.
05:47Listen, I'm going to be late tonight coming home, but I have leftovers in the fridge for
05:51you, okay?
05:53Ritualistic killings, huh?
05:54Yeah.
05:55Or I might discover Kristen's house and watch movies.
05:57Good.
05:58Happy Halloween, honey.
05:59And don't be late for school, okay?
06:00Love you.
06:01Love you.
06:02Montello's population is only 1,400, so there are not a lot of things for teenagers to do
06:14around town.
06:32Nick looks for an interesting place where he and his friends can spend Halloween night.
06:40I came across a website that had a database of different places in Wisconsin that had
06:45haunted locations.
06:55Chad Lewis is the creator and webmaster of Unexplained Research.
07:01Lewis has spent over 10 years researching and collecting stories from people who have
07:06had paranormal experiences related to legends, like the ones surrounding the Dartford Cemetery.
07:13I'm interested in folklore and urban legend really out of the same reasons people have
07:18been interested in it since the beginning of time, curiosity.
07:21I don't know what happens when we die.
07:23I don't know if we're alone in the universe, but I really want to find this out.
07:31After launching his website, Lewis was inundated with emails from young people performing what
07:36they call legend trips, casual investigations of allegedly haunted places.
07:44What they want is to go and visit these places and then decide for themselves whether or
07:50not they believe it's haunted.
07:53Chad investigates and then profiles the legends he receives from his readers.
07:59One, the legend of Witch Road, gets a lot of attention.
08:04It was supposedly named after a witch that once lived there.
08:08Her house still stands in the woods.
08:12One of my favorite stories about Witch Road is a couple were there with their four-year-old
08:17son.
08:18I'm going to take some pictures of the house.
08:23Five minutes, Jeff, okay?
08:25I really don't like it out here.
08:32What are you doing here?
08:33Michael?
08:36What are you doing?
08:38Who are you talking to?
08:41He said he was talking to that nice little girl who lives in the woods.
08:46Jeff?
08:48Jeff, we're leaving right now!
08:53Michael!
08:58Don't do that!
09:01We are leaving.
09:03Others have had similar experiences on Witch Road, but the identity of the little girl
09:09remains a mystery.
09:12The more popular legend trips propose a dare, something the seeker must do in order to prompt
09:24a supernatural occurrence.
09:29One example is the mausoleum in the center of Dartford Cemetery.
09:34The dare is that if you stand or sit on the mausoleum, that someone or something will
09:41push you off.
09:47Nick is intrigued.
09:50I didn't necessarily believe in ghosts, but I always thought it was a possibility.
10:05The Dare
10:18Later that afternoon, Nick tells his best friend about the local legend.
10:24He knows that if anyone is willing to take the dare, it's Christian Adams.
10:29I have got an idea for tonight.
10:31We are going to a haunted cemetery.
10:32Ooh, scary!
10:34One way I've described myself, being a troublemaker, kind of disregarded the rules.
10:40Really, I looked up this website about the cemetery in Green Lake.
10:44It's an old pioneer cemetery and people have supposedly seen all kinds of ghosts walking
10:47around in there, and Indian teeth.
10:49There's this dare that if you sit on top of this mausoleum, a ghost will push you off.
10:54Dude, you're gullible as hell.
10:56I'm game, let's do it.
10:58The dare intrigued us because it was actually something that we could try.
11:02What are we doing?
11:04What are you doing? Get off my car, John boy!
11:06Nick and Christian hang out with John Lloyd.
11:10In high school, we played a lot of prank jokes on a lot of people and everybody knew us because of that.
11:17We're going to a haunted cemetery tonight, John.
11:19Cemetery? Nick, we need to get you a girlfriend.
11:22No, you're really going to love this.
11:24No, dude, you've got exactly two seconds to get off my car.
11:26Look, I've got baseball practice anyway. See you guys later.
11:29Peace.
11:32Dude, if I was you, I wouldn't tell John about the dare.
11:37We didn't really want to tell him about the whole dare thing.
11:41He scares kind of easy, so we decided to just kind of withhold that information from him.
11:50After school.
12:02Christian.
12:04Christian!
12:05What?
12:06Come look at this.
12:13The dare. If you sit on the roof of this mausoleum, a ghost will push you off.
12:19I'm a Polish immigrant.
12:22I'm a Polish immigrant.
12:24I'm a Polish immigrant.
12:26I'm a Polish immigrant.
12:28I'm a Polish immigrant.
12:30I'm a Polish immigrant.
12:32I was raised by strict Roman Catholic parents, so as far as ghosts, I never really put much thought into it.
12:39You don't actually believe this stuff, do you?
12:41No, not really, but it will freak John out.
12:44Then come on, let's go get him!
13:03Let's go.
13:14I was raised to believe that there is no paranormal.
13:17That there is no such thing as ghosts.
13:20No haunted places, no haunted houses.
13:27Are we going or what?
13:29I thought you didn't want to go to the cemetery.
13:30I want to go somewhere.
13:32He's right. Let's get out of here.
13:57This has potential.
13:58This has potential.
14:00When we first got a glimpse of the cemetery, it was the creepiest place I've ever seen.
14:25Hey, you coming?
14:28Yeah.
14:56Did anybody bring a flashlight?
14:59No.
15:02How are we supposed to see in there?
15:07Good enough.
15:10That's some real firepower.
15:28Do you hear that?
15:58It seemed like everything in the cemetery was watching you.
16:28As we walked through the gravestones, we could see that they had been worn down with time.
16:58What are you doing?
17:24What are you doing?
17:25It felt like something grabbed my leg.
17:29Do not kid a kidder, Weber. Move your butt.
17:34I had never felt anything like that in my life.
17:38John, come stand right here.
17:40No way.
17:41Are you coming?
17:48I went along and tried to put it behind me.
17:59It's okay.
18:14Knock, knock. Anyone home?
18:18Bring it out.
18:20Hello?
18:22Wakey, wakey.
18:24I figured that provoking a ghost to do something might actually work.
18:29Hello? Bring out your dead.
18:32I guess no one's home.
18:43See how much you laugh when you got a mouth full of busted teeth?
18:46John, I was just kidding.
18:47This is stupid. I'm going back to the car.
18:49John, look. You made him mad.
18:53Yeah, I know.
18:54I'm going to go get him.
19:20John, wait.
19:22After you screamed in my ear, I was not only terrified, but very angry.
19:28Nick knows that I don't like to be scared.
19:31John, I'm sorry. I didn't know you were going to freak like that.
19:34I didn't. It's just I'm over this cemetery, and really, what's the point?
19:39Why don't we just go back to Montello and go to the party?
19:43We were kidding, John.
19:45We'll go home soon. I promise.
19:46Let's go.
20:16So, Nick, that Tina girl from my physics class definitely wants your body.
20:44Yeah, I'm sure.
20:45I'm serious. Have you seen the way she looks at you?
20:49She does talk to you a lot.
20:52In the back of my head, there's that creepy feeling that there's somebody there that didn't want us there.
20:58I didn't really want to act afraid in front of my two buddies.
21:02Look at this.
21:05Christian notices a large crack in the mausoleum.
21:09This wasn't here before we sat down, was it?
21:15I don't think so.
21:17I think we should move.
21:19Am I right?
21:21I knew that that crack wasn't there before.
21:35What are you doing?
21:37We didn't do anything, John.
21:39No, I'm not falling for another one of your pranks.
21:41It felt like somebody had pushed me.
21:43This wasn't a prank. We were standing right here.
21:45What?
22:00What the hell was it then?
22:04You probably just felt, John.
22:06No, I was pushed off.
22:08You're kidding me, right?
22:10No, I'm serious. Something pushed me off.
22:11It just so happened that the one person that we neglected to tell about, the dare, that's the person that actually gets pushed off.
22:24It worked. The dare, it actually worked.
22:28What dare?
22:30If you sit on this mausoleum, a ghost will push you off.
22:32What? I'm going back to the car.
22:35No, we can't go back to the car now. Don't you want to see if this is real?
22:39I do know. I felt it.
22:41I'm staying. I want to see if this is for real.
22:46I guess I'll go back with him.
22:48Okay. I'll see you two guys in the car.
22:51Later.
23:07I was intrigued by what had happened to John.
23:11That this might actually be a more interesting night than we had hoped.
23:28Do you think it's a good idea to leave him back there?
23:31Why not? If he's so determined to find something, then let him find something.
23:34I was worried about what might happen if we split up.
23:42What? What is it?
23:45What is it?
23:47It's probably just Christian trying to sneak up on us.
23:52I'll go get him.
23:55I'm going back to the car.
24:11What?
24:21I thought I heard the sound of children.
24:31Why would there be children out this time of night near a cemetery?
24:41I don't know.
25:12John?
25:14I kept getting the feeling that something was watching me and I could see
25:18like shadows out of the corner of my eye.
25:24John?
25:41John?
26:12Christian?
26:15This isn't funny.
26:23To see the names and dates of change on a headstone, they're changing for some odd reason
26:29and I didn't want to be there to find out why.
26:32John! Stop! Stop! Stop it!
26:34It's Nick. It's me, John.
26:38It's alright.
26:41What's wrong?
26:44I had not a clue what was happening.
26:53Whenever I saw a shadow, I knew it was Nick.
26:58Whatever was showing itself wanted us to leave.
27:09Christian explores the oldest graves in the pioneer section.
27:14A lot of these tombstones had this kind of a bluish gleam around them.
27:21It was just really creepy because there's absolutely no reason why I should have been there.
27:32John?
27:34John?
27:36John?
27:38John?
27:40John?
27:41John?
27:46I noticed that there were these peculiar tombstones.
27:50They were very thin tombstones with this oval thing on top.
28:04I looked back and there was five of these weird looking tombstones.
28:08I know there was seven when I looked the first time.
28:12At that point I became a lot more scared.
28:29Okay, I know someone's here.
28:39They're just standing there.
28:42What do I do if they start coming towards me? Should I run?
29:09Something's wrong with him.
29:15Christian, what happened?
29:18Let's get out of here.
29:38I didn't tell the guys about the experiences that I had because I felt like maybe I was the only one.
29:57I didn't really want them to say that they saw the same things that I saw.
30:02If they'd have said that, then that would have really been too much for me to handle at that point.
30:13For all of that to happen at once puts so many questions in your head.
30:16That's probably why we weren't talking to each other, because we were thinking too much about what had happened.
30:21Nick searches for any information about the cemetery.
30:24He's not there.
30:29I'm not going to take any chances.
30:32I didn't know anything about this.
30:35We've been looking for George here for the last three years.
30:39We were looking for him because George was dying.
30:42I had no idea who he was.
30:45I didn't know anything at that point.
30:47Nick searches for any information about the cemetery that can help him come to
30:52terms with what happened there.
30:57The mausoleum is rumored to house the remains of several children who died of
31:02polio, but he can find no evidence of a crack on its surface. I think that the
31:10crack may have actually been the way that they escaped from the mausoleum. It
31:15made me feel uneasy that we had possibly disturbed the spirits of these
31:20children.
31:33It just puzzled me why these things happened and why they happened to us.
31:45Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep,
32:15beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep
32:45, yes
33:11Nick thinks his dream is a message from God.
33:42The point of the dream was that I shouldn't go back.
33:56The next day, he tells his friends everything.
34:01My dream, it was, it was weird.
34:05It wasn't just ghosts and dead people.
34:07It was, like, evil.
34:14I saw two kids at the cemetery.
34:16They were standing right in front of me.
34:17I thought I was going crazy.
34:20I saw something, too.
34:22Yeah, me too.
34:24It was kind of surprising and reassuring to all of us
34:26that we all kind of had things happen to us.
34:29You couldn't pay me to set foot inside another cemetery.
34:32I don't know what would have happened
34:34if we had stayed there that night.
34:36They were standing right in front of me.
34:37I thought I was going crazy.
34:38It was a very scary and traumatic experience for me.
34:41The three of us know we're not crazy, right?
34:44Who the hell is going to believe us?
34:47As the story of Dartford Cemetery
34:49passes on from one person to the next,
34:52the legend trip continues.
35:03I was pushed off.
35:07It was evil.
35:27After hearing the rumors
35:29and doing some research on his own,
35:3218-year-old Corbin Van Buren and his friends
35:35visit the graveyard in the fall of 2006.
35:55Let's go.
35:57Let's go.
36:04We were interested in going up just for the thrill.
36:08We figured everything we had heard was a joke.
36:16I think I see the mausoleum.
36:18I want to check out the Indian chief's grave first.
36:27What is it?
36:32I thought I heard something.
36:38Don't worry about it.
36:40As we were walking through the cemetery,
36:43we would hear twigs snapping behind us,
36:46leaves rustling around.
36:48We had the feeling of something following us.
36:58The Indian Chief
37:14Corbin inspects the grave of a fabled Indian chief.
37:19The rumor about him was that you would see him
37:23walking around in his full uniform, full headdress.
37:28That is creepy.
37:31Let's go to the mausoleum.
37:34Hang on.
37:41I said hang on.
37:42There's somebody else here.
37:49It's probably a family checking up on their relative's grave.
37:52In the middle of the night?
37:54Come on, let's go.
37:56We saw what we thought to be a figure
37:58walking through the cemetery.
38:00At the time, we just thought
38:02it was maybe one of our friends playing tricks on us.
38:05Now you have to remember...
38:07Corbin tells his friends
38:09everything he has learned about the legend.
38:25First of all...
38:35What?
38:36What?
38:38The Indian Chief
38:53Let's get out of here.
38:55That's when we realized that it was
38:57not one of our friends trying to play a trick on us.
39:01All of us were scared to the point where we felt
39:04it wanted us out.
39:08The Indian Chief
39:27What was that?
39:28I don't know, man.
39:30We didn't know what happened.
39:33It was something that couldn't be naturally explained.
39:38What happened to your arms?
39:47The marks seemed to be maybe an animal claw of some sort.
39:51Corbin is struck by a sudden pain.
39:54It felt like someone was just taking the knife
39:56and stabbing it right through my leg.
39:59We knew it wasn't anything from brush or trees
40:02or anything on that order.
40:04We knew it had to have been something
40:06that had gotten to us.
40:10Gotten to us.
40:27That night, Corbin compares his encounter
40:30with the ones posted on Chad Lewis' website.
40:36After having that experience, we do believe
40:38the other stories that we had heard.
40:52To this day, legend trippers continue to explore
40:56Dartford Cemetery, tempting fate
41:00and hoping to get an answer
41:02about what lies beyond the physical world.
41:09But John, Christian and Nick will never return.
41:16If we had stayed there longer,
41:19who knows how physical they could have gotten.
41:22It was just a good thing that we had left when we did.
41:30If there's spirits there, there could be spirits anywhere.
41:34Spirits might be all around us.
41:39I think that the spirits are all still in the cemetery,
41:44but some things are better left, left alone.