After the Johnson family finds their perfect home in Michigan, the home turns out to be haunted so they turn to prayer to restore their peace and sanity
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00:00In Michigan, the Johnson family is thrilled to move into an old family farmhouse.
00:15But they are not alone.
00:17I felt something touch me and that's all it took.
00:20And they are not welcome.
00:21That was the moment that it decided my child was fair game.
00:27A mother will do everything to protect her family.
00:30It starts with one.
00:32This demon is out to destroy your entire family.
00:35And then attacks all.
00:36All I can think about is I just hope this works.
00:40This needs to work.
00:48In America, there is real evil.
00:52It lurks in the darkest shadows in our most ordinary towns.
00:57Between the worlds we see and the things we fear, there are doors.
01:04When they are opened, nightmares become reality.
01:10I claim complete and absolute victory over the forces of darkness.
01:20I claim complete and absolute victory over the forces of darkness.
01:26In the name of almighty God.
01:28In the name of almighty God.
01:30Amen.
01:31Amen.
01:32Betty Johnson and her two sons, Brendan and Dylan, are finally getting their wish.
01:55They are moving into a larger rural home located in the outskirts of Detroit, Michigan.
02:05For the past 20 years, Betty has been happily married to her husband, Bruce.
02:10And as a proud mother of two, she is determined to provide a better life for her family.
02:18The house belonged to my mother-in-law and she got married and moved.
02:23So the house was sitting vacant.
02:27She wanted us to be able to have it and we jumped at the opportunity.
02:31It's not perfect, but what do you think?
02:34I love it.
02:36Owning a house was an important goal to us.
02:38I wanted to be able to tinker around in my garage, you know, just kind of live the American
02:42dream.
02:43When I first moved out to the farmhouse and I took my first look at it, it was a lot larger
02:50than most of the things that I have lived in.
02:52I realized that this is where I wanted to stay.
02:55Things seem okay for now, but are they?
03:03Let's go, boys.
03:04You got plenty of time for messing around later.
03:06Let's get this stuff off the truck.
03:12The first time that I walked in, it felt like home and it was great.
03:21It was kind of quirky and had its own kind of feel and charm to it.
03:27There were a lot of things that needed to be done cosmetically.
03:34Betty's first order of business is to organize the basement.
03:39But as she approaches the door, she gets an uneasy feeling.
03:47The basement in the farmhouse was kind of a creepy place.
03:50I never really liked it.
03:53Betty figures the house is just old.
03:55She needs time to get used to it.
03:59But it won't be long until her darkest fears become reality.
04:10The next week, Betty continues to unpack.
04:14She hears something in the basement.
04:18Something strange.
04:19I heard some sobbing.
04:20Hello?
04:21Someone there?
04:22I was confused because the children weren't home at the time.
04:28Are you hurt?
04:29It sounded as though she was in agony physically, that something was being done to her.
04:37Help!
05:01Betty wonders if one of her neighbors is hurt.
05:04I went outside and I couldn't hear it outside.
05:08I walked around the property looking for hurt animals that might be making those sounds.
05:14I never could find anything to explain it.
05:17Betty determines her imagination is getting the best of her.
05:20The atmosphere in the basement was creepy to begin with.
05:23I'd been working extremely long hours.
05:26I was so tired that my mind was just playing tricks on me.
05:35Over the next several months, Betty and her family finally settle in.
05:40Bruce continues to work long hours as an appliance repairman,
05:44while Betty juggles taking care of the kids and working at the mall.
05:49The boys were really enjoying their new home.
05:52Vernon was making a lot of friends in school and having a lot of fun,
05:56and Dylan really enjoyed playing with his brother outside in the yard.
06:00The Johnsons work hard at making the house their own.
06:04But still, something isn't right.
06:12I noticed a movement.
06:14When I turned to look, all I got was an impression of something dark
06:18running across the baseboards of the wall.
06:22I thought that I might be seeing our cat out of the corner of my eye.
06:27I thought that I might be seeing our cat out of the corner of my eye.
06:31But then, Betty sees the cat on the couch.
06:34Perhaps her eyes are playing tricks on her.
06:37Or maybe these visions are real.
06:43I saw a face staring back at me from the window.
06:48I knew that it wasn't a real person standing outside
06:51because the window was too high off the ground.
06:54I came to the conclusion that we might have a ghost in the house.
06:59Given how old the house is, it's not surprising that there would be a ghost in the house.
07:05Given how old the house is, it's not surprising that there would be a ghost in the house.
07:10Given how old the house is, it's not surprising that there would be a ghost in the house.
07:14I've never been afraid of ghosts, so the idea made me more curious than frightened.
07:19But soon enough, her curiosity will turn to pure terror.
07:29A few nights later,
07:32Bryn is watching his younger brother while Betty and Bruce are at work.
07:40What was that?
07:42That, my friend, was an E-flat to a D.
07:46No, not that.
07:49We heard a bang in our garage.
07:52And things fall in our garage a lot. It was a very cluttered, crazy place.
07:56But it sounded weird. It sounded like it was caused.
07:59Take this and follow me.
08:01It's weird.
08:02Shh. Just come on.
08:06Bryn and Dylan believe an intruder may have broken into the garage.
08:17Hey, Dad! Dad!
08:20Did you forget something?
08:24Terrified, Bryn realizes this man is not his father.
08:29Tears stood up when I looked at him, and it just got so much colder.
08:34Suddenly, the man disappears.
08:38One moment he was there, and then he just wasn't there.
08:42It was like he just turned into air.
08:45Mom! Mom! Mom! Stop! Stop! Please! Please stop! There's some guy in the garage!
08:49Have you seen him before?
08:50No! He's a total stranger!
08:51Mom, please come on! I'm really not kidding!
08:52Calm down. Calm down!
08:55Betty is convinced that this is the ghost she saw in the kitchen window that morning.
09:01Children can be a little over-imaginative.
09:05But on the other hand, I'd been having so many strange experiences that I couldn't just discount what they were saying.
09:11For their safety, Betty asks the boys to stay by the car while she checks out the garage alone.
09:25Mom, I'm telling you, we heard him.
09:41Dad, I told you to stay by the car.
09:43Why would some old geezer break in just to sort some washers?
09:48It's a ghost.
09:51Betty can no longer hide the truth.
09:54An entity from another realm is in their presence.
09:58I explained to them that ghosts were real, but it wasn't something they should be frightened of.
10:04If something stirs up enough emotion, it's kind of imprinted into the world around you.
10:12So when people see ghosts, they're watching something that happened a long time ago, like an old movie.
10:22My mom told me that so that I would understand that there was no harm that could come to me.
10:26He was just there, like almost like a visitor.
10:29Brynn and Dylan are comforted by their mother's explanation.
10:33They realize they shouldn't fear something that cannot harm them.
10:38Or so they think.
10:43The next day, while the boys are exploring the property, Brynn notices something unusual.
10:52There's an older house in the back of our house that we used as a storage shed.
10:58And it's always been padlocked.
11:02Grandpa would never leave this unlocked.
11:05It was weird because the door was unlocked and it's never unlocked because my grandpa was the only one who really had the key.
11:12Come on.
11:18Whoa.
11:19We're not supposed to be in here.
11:21Dude, you gotta check this out.
11:23Brynn, this is where Grandpa keeps his tools. If we break anything, he'll kill us.
11:26Don't be a baby.
11:28Brynn?
11:29Uh-huh?
11:30I can see my breath. It's like 70 degrees out.
11:32Look.
11:36Our bodies felt completely normal, but something inside our lungs was cold.
11:44So the first thing I thought was that there was definitely a spirit in here.
11:49Yeah, yeah, okay. Let's get out of here.
11:51Let's go. Let's go.
11:56Well, maybe it was the ghost.
12:00I felt like something was outside with me.
12:02Dylan!
12:03Like it was taunting me.
12:05And I remembered what my mom told me.
12:07It's a ghost. Ghosts can't do anything.
12:09What is it, huh? What do you want from us?
12:11You know what? I'm scared of you.
12:13I just kind of felt more empowered than the ghost was.
12:15That's why I engaged it.
12:16Why don't you just leave?
12:22Brynn's mother thinks ghosts are harmless.
12:25But what if she's wrong?
12:27And what if this one has found its latest victim?
12:32I didn't know how to rationalize it. I was just terrified.
12:44Why don't you just leave?
12:47After provoking the paranormal presence, Brynn realizes the entity is much stronger than he ever expected.
12:56And when I spun around, I felt an energy run behind me, and it got really, really cold.
13:02Brynn, what were you doing in Grandpa's shed?
13:04Mom, listen, there's something there, and I'm pretty sure this thing's angry at me.
13:07Look, it just dropped this giant branch right on me, and I swear, this thing just nearly killed me.
13:13Until this moment, Betty never believed that ghosts could interact with the living.
13:19Having the branch break or locked door be opened made me reevaluate what I thought I knew about ghosts.
13:27And the first thing I thought of was what kind of effect it could have on my children.
13:31Betty worries that her sons are in danger and knows she must take control immediately.
13:38Later that night, Betty confides in Bruce.
13:44Are you happy?
13:46What kind of question is that? Of course I'm happy.
13:50Something happened today.
13:51What?
13:52You know how I've been telling you about all those strange things that have been going on around here?
13:56Yeah.
13:57It's happening to Brynn and Dylan, too.
13:59What's happening?
14:00I just don't feel safe here anymore. There's something here.
14:04I don't want to risk the boys' safety.
14:06The violence seemed to be growing, and we didn't know how far it was going to go, and we didn't want to find out.
14:11We could get a place closer to work.
14:13I was driving 45 minutes each way to work every day, and gas was getting incredibly expensive.
14:20We decided that it was a good time to move.
14:22I suppose you're right.
14:25Soon after, Betty and her family move to a newer home in the nearby suburb of Novi, Michigan.
14:34We saved up enough money where we could put a down payment on a house that we could actually afford.
14:41It's a beautiful place.
14:42a newer home in the nearby suburb of Novi, Michigan.
14:49We saved up enough money where we could put a down payment
14:52on a house that we could actually own and have it be ours.
14:59Not gonna need this anymore.
15:03It was very different, everything was new,
15:04everything was fresh, nice and clean.
15:07We liked it, we were excited.
15:10It was a clean home, a clean slate.
15:14Everything seemed possible.
15:16But little do they know, their dream will soon be shattered.
15:26Just as life is improving for the Johnson family,
15:30things take an unexpected turn for the worse.
15:34Shortly after we moved into our new home, I lost my job.
15:37And it seemed as though the plan that we had
15:39that was coming together wasn't anymore.
15:46With Betty not working, it was up to me
15:48to take every bit of work I could get.
15:51I would do whatever I could to bring home more money.
15:54Hey, Brent, have you seen my pad?
15:56Yeah, it's right there.
15:57But hey, you mind if I ride along today?
15:59This ain't gonna be no carnival, Brent.
16:01You're gonna get your hands dirty.
16:02How about you let me worry about that?
16:03Yeah, yeah, come on.
16:05Let's go.
16:07My dad worked a lot, but we still managed to stay close.
16:10Not a bad day for plumbing, huh?
16:12Yeah.
16:13We did a lot of driving from house to house.
16:15We always got time to talk.
16:18I had him ride with me to my service calls
16:20for about three or four months, and it was fun.
16:23I got to know him a little better.
16:25That's it, good as new.
16:27All right.
16:36Brin appears to be the primary target
16:38of something supernatural.
16:41Brin, Brin, it's just water.
16:48No, that is blood.
16:50Brin, there is no blood, just water, see, see?
17:01Now, the grief is real, Brin.
17:03Now, the grease on your hands may look like blood.
17:09Brin is terrified.
17:11To him, this is no mere hallucination.
17:16It felt viscous to my touch.
17:18It felt like, it felt more real like blood
17:21than it did like water.
17:23Brin's visions of blood are horrifying enough,
17:26but worse is the feeling of alienation
17:29that accompanies them.
17:31I didn't know if my eyes weren't working right
17:33or just the connection to my brain was just getting confused.
17:36What is it?
17:38A lake.
17:41It got deeper red and started to look like blood.
17:44Come on, you know it can't be blood.
17:46But look at it, it's all blood.
17:48Maybe it's just a trick with the light.
17:51What did you hit?
17:52I didn't hit anything.
17:54It's under the truck.
17:56Oh, for crying out loud.
17:58Every time someone speaks,
18:00Brin hears nothing but a scream.
18:04Someone or something is controlling his mind.
18:09But who or what is it?
18:12I couldn't even articulate what was going on.
18:15I thought I was going crazy.
18:18Brin continues to see blood over the next several days.
18:23No matter what kind of liquid I was looking at,
18:25it looked like blood.
18:31No.
18:47Brin's increasingly strange behavior
18:49is starting to worry his mother.
18:52What's going on?
18:54On the ride home, he kind of, he freaked out.
18:58God.
18:59What?
19:01Says he saw blood in the lake
19:03and earlier when he was washing his hands.
19:08Wherever there's water, it's like he sees blood.
19:12My first reaction was the fear
19:14that maybe Bryn was doing drugs.
19:16He wasn't.
19:17My second fear was that something
19:19was wrong with him physically.
19:21To ease her fears, Betty takes Bryn to see a doctor.
19:26They ran an MRI.
19:28They ran an EKG and the neurologist confirmed
19:31that there was nothing wrong with my brain
19:33and that there was no regular brain patterns
19:35or tumors or agents.
19:37They didn't know what was causing it.
19:39Besides some obvious stress that I think Bryn's under,
19:42he's perfectly fine.
19:43I knew there was something wrong somewhere.
19:46Either I was crazy or there really was blood
19:50and those were the only two options.
19:53I was trying to see it as a sort of message
19:57like things are going to start getting bad soon.
20:06But instead of getting worse,
20:09after several days, the visions mysteriously go away.
20:14At last, Bryn is relieved he can finally take a shower
20:19and not be haunted by blood.
20:22The blood covering his body.
20:35And then I felt the curtain move
20:42as though like someone's fingertips
20:43were grazing across it.
20:45Dylan, cut it out.
20:49It got so cold.
20:51It was hot water and I still felt cold
20:54and I couldn't shake the feeling
20:55that there was still someone in there
20:57and I was looking right at it.
21:10Mom!
21:11Yes, hello, I'm calling about your ad
21:13for the retail manager.
21:14Mom!
21:16Is the position still open?
21:18Mom, please come quick!
21:19Yes, the one in today's paper.
21:21Mom, die now!
21:23Mom, it says to die now!
21:25I'm gonna have to call you back.
21:28What?
21:29Please, just come look.
21:34Bryn believes someone is trying to send him a message.
21:39Is that Wal, Ead, like someone on the other side
21:42of the mirror wrote it forwards?
21:44Someone must have written it there before we moved in.
21:46Then why would I have not seen this before?
21:49Did you do this?
21:50What?
21:51Write on the mirror.
21:52No, why would I do that?
21:55I knew that Dylan would never do that to his brothers.
21:59He was terrified enough.
22:01Betty begins to feel helpless.
22:03She cannot explain the writing on the mirror
22:06and can no longer ease her son's fears.
22:09Something was happening to my son
22:11that I couldn't protect him from.
22:14That's when I began to get angry.
22:17I started worrying that maybe
22:18the doctors had missed something.
22:22Over the next few weeks,
22:25Bryn grows increasingly depressed and withdrawn.
22:28Spent a lot of time in my room
22:29because I didn't feel like being around people a lot,
22:32but I heard a voice as if it was coming
22:34from the room I was in.
22:37What?
22:38Die now.
22:41Hey, who's there?
22:44When the voice speaks,
22:46it's with the same message Bryn had seen on the mirror.
22:49Die now.
22:53With powers of mind and now communication,
22:56the entity is growing in strength.
22:59It appears to be out to kill.
23:03Whenever I felt any split second of happiness,
23:05it would just rip it away from me
23:06and tell me I wasn't worth it.
23:08Now I should just end my life.
23:10I felt exactly like what had been happening
23:13in the farmhouse.
23:14I couldn't breathe and I didn't know what to say to it.
23:18This thing really wanted to hurt either me or my family.
23:23And it was willing to travel 30 miles to do so.
23:34After coming face to face with the dark figure,
23:37Bryn realizes that he is not simply hallucinating.
23:42This entity is controlling his mind.
23:47Dylan?
23:49Did you see that?
23:50What?
23:50No, it was something black, like a shadow.
23:52Where is the cat?
23:55That was it!
23:56You just saw it, didn't you?
23:59Look, there it is again!
24:01It didn't look like the shadows
24:02that I had seen at the farmhouse.
24:03It was bigger.
24:04It was a cat.
24:05It didn't skitter away when I looked directly at it.
24:09As though it wanted me to notice it,
24:13wanted me to know that it was there.
24:15It was frightening.
24:17Bryn is relieved that his family finally believes him.
24:21But he realizes they are dealing with a force of pure evil.
24:25What the hell was that?
24:27It was my own personal monster.
24:29And it was just taunting me by taunting my family.
24:33There was a presence at that farmhouse.
24:36Betty believes that something from the old farmhouse
24:39must have followed them.
24:42They decide to call Bruce's mother for answers.
24:45Hi, Mom.
24:47Yeah, listen, did anything strange
24:50ever happen at the farmhouse?
24:52Like, did somebody die?
24:54Bruce learns that a previous resident of the farmhouse
24:57was a violent man.
25:00Hey, what's up?
25:01Hey, old man.
25:03Hey, old man.
25:04Isn't it past your bedtime?
25:06One night, the former resident interrupted a party
25:09on the property and became involved in a heated argument.
25:14That'll learn you, stupid old man.
25:20Hey!
25:22The young man he struck did not die,
25:25but he was blinded in one eye.
25:27Are you okay?
25:29His girlfriend witnessed the incident.
25:32She ran straight to the police
25:33and offered to testify against him in court.
25:37But fate had its own tragic plan.
25:42The former resident died horribly in a car accident.
25:45Ah!
25:49Broke most of the bones in his body
25:51and spent the next 24 hours dying in terrible pain
25:55from what we heard.
25:58Betty and Bruce are convinced
26:01that same man is now a ghost
26:04bent on destroying their family.
26:07It felt really, really evil.
26:10Okay, now how do we get rid of it?
26:12I stopped looking for work.
26:14Every waking moment, I was on a computer
26:17trying to find somebody that could help me.
26:19Betty takes control and scours the internet,
26:22desperately seeking advice from paranormal investigators.
26:25But many investigators seem to be in it just for the money.
26:29I found a lot of con artists and worse.
26:32They just immediately jumped and said,
26:35I can make all your problems disappear
26:37for X amount of dollars.
26:40The family decides to stick together
26:43until Betty can find some help.
26:45Brynn and Dylan sleep in the living room.
26:47Most of the activity happened in our rooms
26:49and we were terrified to be in there at night.
26:56I'm sorry, honey.
26:58I didn't mean to scare you.
26:59Even though she cannot control the evil,
27:02Betty is trying to fix it,
27:04but with no money to spend on investigators,
27:07she is reaching a dead end.
27:10I was losing faith in the idea that it couldn't harm me,
27:14but my mom reassured me.
27:16And so since it was the only thing I had to go on,
27:19I believed in it.
27:21I believed in it.
27:22Since it was the only thing I had to go on,
27:25I believed it.
27:26Hey, Brynn, if you're gonna go take a shower,
27:27let me stand guard outside the door, okay?
27:29We should all keep together as much as we can.
27:36I felt something touch me.
27:37So I paused for just a second and that's all it took.
27:42Mom!
27:43Mom!
27:44Mom, open the door!
27:45Mom, open the door, open the door!
27:48Mom!
27:48Mom!
27:53An evil entity has invaded the Johnson home.
27:58Bent on destroying the eldest child,
28:01it has thrown Brynn down the hall.
28:03That's the most terrifying thing I've ever seen in my life.
28:06He had marks on his body where something had pushed him.
28:09Wasn't like a normal scratch.
28:11It felt like there was like a dirtiness to it almost,
28:13like if you get uninfected, but it was fresh.
28:17If it can do that, then what else can it do?
28:20Refusing to give up, Betty works tirelessly to find help.
28:25There had to be somebody out there
28:27that knew what was going on and knew how to deal with it.
28:30Brynn thought he was going crazy,
28:32but then I saw it too.
28:34We all did.
28:36No, you're not going crazy,
28:38but you have to be honest with me.
28:41Samantha Harris, an investigator
28:44with the Michigan Paranormal Research Association
28:47is willing to help.
28:49She just sounded so confident,
28:51but at the same time I was thinking,
28:52yeah, well, you haven't heard what problems
28:54are going on in my house yet.
28:56I see on your website that you do a house cleansing.
28:59What exactly is that?
29:00We remove negative energy and spirits
29:03and replenish the house
29:04with a white light and positive energy.
29:05It's a purification ritual.
29:09I'm an ordained minister and I'll lead you in a prayer.
29:11I'm not a very religious person.
29:13Do you believe in a higher power?
29:16Yes.
29:18Yes, I do believe in a higher power.
29:20I believe that performing a house blessing
29:22is kind of an obligation.
29:24Samantha seems genuinely caring and concerned,
29:27but he's relieved that help is on the way.
29:30It sounded like it was a very severe case
29:32and I wanted to respond to it as soon as possible.
29:40Later that evening,
29:41as Samantha is getting ready for the house blessing,
29:44she suddenly feels uneasy.
29:47It felt like something evil was in my house.
29:51I saw in the corner of my eyes some movement.
29:55The dark figure she sees
29:58matches Betty's description of the entity
30:01that is menacing her home.
30:03I know what you are.
30:04I'm terrified inside,
30:05but I knew I had to assert myself and to stand my ground.
30:08We're gonna help that family, you hear me?
30:11You can't scare us off.
30:13In all the years that I had worked on demonic cases,
30:15I had never seen one physically appear for us,
30:19and it worried me.
30:24The next night,
30:25Samantha and her partner, Kyle Gask Wilson, arrive.
30:30You can just sense the heaviness, the depression,
30:32the anger, the hatred that was present.
30:35This is my family, my husband, Bruce, my son, Dylan.
30:37Dylan.
30:39And this is Brynn.
30:41Nice to meet you, Brynn, I'm Kyle.
30:43When I met Brynn for the first time,
30:45you could really tell that he had a lot of pain inside him,
30:48fear that you could see in his eyes.
30:52The man who lived in the farmhouse before we did,
30:55do you think it's his spirit?
30:57I told Samantha about the man
30:58that had lived in the farmhouse before us,
30:59the one that had died in the automobile accident.
31:02Ghosts don't follow people around
31:04from one place to another.
31:05I believe that what we're dealing with here
31:07is a separate entity,
31:10a demon.
31:12Just hearing that word, demon, made my skin crawl.
31:16Probably the same demon that influenced
31:19that man to act violently.
31:25I think it was very probable
31:26that the demonic entity attached itself
31:28to the previous homeowner of the farmhouse
31:30and then influenced his behavior.
31:32After the man died,
31:33the demon began searching for another,
31:35someone young and vulnerable.
31:38You being under stress were easy prey.
31:42I believe when a person challenges an entity
31:44that they become vulnerable.
31:46You know we're not scared of you?
31:48Why don't you just leave?
31:53I think that challenge provoked it.
31:56That was the moment that it decided
31:59that my child was fair game.
32:05That would explain the efficiency of blood
32:07and the voices he hears.
32:12In my experience,
32:13human spirits typically don't have that type of power
32:18to physically lift people,
32:20the claw them.
32:22Those were some of the reasons
32:22why I thought this case was demonic.
32:25I was fearful it would soon move on to demonic possession.
32:29It's clear to me that this demon is out to destroy Brynn
32:33and not just you Brynn,
32:35but your entire family.
32:40Betty feels helpless.
32:43Her family is dealing with an entity of pure evil.
32:48One with powers beyond her wildest imagination.
32:52All I could think about was I just hope this works.
32:54This needs to work.
33:01Did you see that?
33:02I think it was the demon
33:03trying to tell everyone in the room
33:05that no matter what we did,
33:08it wasn't going to leave.
33:10It's here.
33:12We thought we knew what we had been dealing with.
33:14We didn't.
33:16Now that the demon is present,
33:18Betty and her family know
33:20they must prepare for a battle with the supernatural.
33:28Having received a sign that the demon is present,
33:32Samantha prepares her assault on the entity.
33:36The power of their will, strong as it might be,
33:39would never be strong enough to defeat a demon.
33:43They must also use sacred oils, salts, and incense,
33:47materials known to drive out evil spirits.
33:50Olive oil is believed to be a symbol of peace
33:53and it's believed to drive out negative energy as well.
33:56Smudging is a traditional purification rite
33:59that uses smoke to drive out evil.
34:02I like to use a Native American smudging method
34:04in combination with a Christian Catholic ritual
34:06and we also use some South American rituals as well.
34:09White sage creates an atmosphere
34:11that's not hospitable for a demonic entity.
34:15Using a ceremonial feather,
34:17a gift from a Native American shaman,
34:20Samantha begins.
34:25As I walked into Brynn's room,
34:26I could really feel this heaviness.
34:29Kyle anoints the lentils with olive oil.
34:32Above each door and window, he makes a sign of the cross.
34:35As I was in Brynn's room, anointing above the window,
34:38a voice came to my right ear.
34:40Get out now!
34:43A shot shivers throughout my whole entire arm.
34:45I could feel the hair in the back of my neck
34:47just go straight up.
34:48As I turned around to anoint the other wall,
34:51I felt something grab my right arm.
34:58While Kyle anoints every portal,
35:01Samantha performs a ceremony in Dylan's room.
35:05Salt is believed to act as a barrier
35:07to keep a demonic feature from entering the home again.
35:20It spoke to me.
35:21What happened?
35:22In my right ear.
35:23It said, get out now, plain as day.
35:26Where were you?
35:26Brynn's room.
35:27This thing is really powerful.
35:29I don't know whether we should be here.
35:32This definitely stirred some fear inside of me,
35:35but we promised ourselves that we'll never stop
35:38doing a house blessing no matter what happens.
35:40I made a vow to protect this family.
35:46There.
35:49You could feel the entity move from room to room.
35:52It was like a cornered animal.
35:54You could feel the hatred it felt towards you,
35:56and it despised our efforts in trying to remove it.
36:00As the ultimate weapon in their battle against the demon,
36:04Samantha brings out a prayer.
36:07This is the warfare prayer.
36:08It's all that we have left.
36:10We must prove that we are stronger.
36:12What do you want me to do?
36:13Recite it, lead your family, believe in those words.
36:19The strength of your belief is all that matters now.
36:24Your mother is gonna read a prayer.
36:27I want you to repeat the words as she says them, okay?
36:30You have to do this right.
36:32To find the inner strength,
36:33all I had to do was look at my children.
36:36Heavenly Spirit, I claim the protection of the light.
36:40Heavenly Spirit, I claim the protection of the light.
36:44For my family, my finances, my home, my soul.
36:49The ability to defeat the demon
36:52rests on the power of prayer
36:54and the strength of Brynn to resist one final attack.
37:04For the Johnson family,
37:05gaining control of their lives
37:08has come down to one final prayer.
37:12My soul and my body.
37:13Halfway through the prayer,
37:15I noticed that Brynn started to act a little strange.
37:18My home, my soul, and my body.
37:21I take a stand against all the workings of darkness.
37:25I felt really sick every time I uttered a word.
37:27It felt like I was going to vomit.
37:29I take a stand against all the workings of the darkness.
37:33I could feel it struggling inside of me
37:35almost like an animal in my chest.
37:38It was trying to take something with it
37:41and if it succeeded, I wasn't gonna be the same anymore.
37:44I resist the spirit of fear.
37:46I resist the spirit of fear.
37:48Brynn?
37:50Brynn?
37:51Brynn, it's gonna be okay.
37:53I've never seen this before in my life.
37:55I started to question,
37:57you know, are we gonna be able to help this family?
37:59Brynn, it's gonna be okay.
38:00Brynn, I'm here.
38:01Go on.
38:02I can't.
38:03Go on.
38:03Brynn, I can't.
38:04It's okay.
38:05Finish it.
38:06Ultimately, a demon wants to destroy life.
38:10Wants to destroy hope.
38:12That's what this demon was trying to do,
38:13was trying to destroy my family.
38:15No!
38:16You can't take him!
38:18You have no power here!
38:21Nothing will hurt me!
38:22Nothing will hurt me!
38:24I'm gonna stand up to it like I did that one day
38:26because wanting to terrorize me is one thing,
38:29but wanting to destroy me, that's unacceptable.
38:32I claim complete and absolute victory
38:35over the forces of darkness!
38:38I claim complete and absolute victory
38:42over the forces of darkness!
38:49Amen!
38:52Like that, it was just gone.
38:56I felt like I could breathe normally for once.
39:00There wasn't something holding me down.
39:03It felt like there was this light that came into the home.
39:08It's actually such a beautiful moment.
39:11It was very touching to have helped Betty's family.
39:14Can I give you a hug?
39:15The gratitude felt by Betty and her family runs so deep,
39:19they cannot possibly express it.
39:22At last, they are safe.
39:25You've been through hell and back with the family,
39:28and so when you change their lives,
39:29it's a fantastic feeling.
39:31If we hadn't have found Samantha and her team,
39:33I would have lost my family.
39:35I don't think that even the strongest family
39:39could survive something like that for too long.
39:42We were always a family, we were always there
39:44for each other, and the love that we have
39:46for each other got us through.
39:54As the days passed, there was a lightness in the house.
39:58Way to go, guys!
39:59We felt more energetic, younger, happier.
40:05Our house felt nicer and felt like I could take deep breaths
40:10and feel comfortable.
40:12I stopped hearing those evil voices,
40:14I stopped feeling sick.
40:16I feel like we are finally back to just being a family.
40:29It's just the wind, guys.
40:32Windows open.
40:36Before this happened, if anyone had asked me
40:39if I believed in demons, I would have had to say it.
40:43But now I'm thoroughly convinced
40:45that I had to have done a demon.
40:48It's kind of like a tick or a parasite.
40:50The longer you let a demonic entity reside in your life
40:53and in your home, the harder it is to get rid of it.
40:57Because of this whole experience,
40:58we know that we can rely on each other.
41:02What I want for my family now is the same thing
41:05that I've always wanted for my family.
41:07I want my children to be happy,
41:09to be successful human beings.
41:13I want us to always love each other.
41:17My dream for my family has never changed.
41:20But now I think it has a chance of becoming reality.