A man finds a satanic bible and unwittingly unleashes a relentless demon that is determined to destroy him.
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00:00The boy comes across an abandoned shack in rural Maryland.
00:12After we found that building, everything changed.
00:16And stumbles upon a portal to an evil world.
00:19For years, a demon threatens to devour him, body and soul, until he reaches his breaking
00:28point.
00:29I was in constant fear.
00:31It was controlling me.
00:34It wanted me to die.
00:36Can he be saved?
00:38Or will he be lost forever?
00:43In America, there is real evil.
00:47It lurks in the darkest shadows and in our most ordinary towns.
00:52Between the worlds we see and the things we fear, there are doors.
00:58When they are opened, nightmares become reality.
01:12In Maryland, far from cities like Annapolis and Baltimore, there are fields and forests
01:18where a boy can still explore like frontiersman of old.
01:23Odington was in the middle of nowhere.
01:25It was right back in the middle of the woods.
01:29In the summer of 2003, 12-year-old John Drenner, Jr. ventures into the forest behind his grandmother's
01:36home.
01:39Cheryl, his 14-year-old sister, leads the way.
01:47John, come on, I'm not waiting for you.
01:50Keep up.
01:51I'm coming.
01:52We and my sister Cheryl were inseparable.
01:57My sister, she was always the outgoing one, very outspoken.
02:01I was more of the follower.
02:06John and I would always go in the woods to play.
02:08We would go on nature hunts, look for animals, things like that.
02:14We liked to explore.
02:18But there are certain mysteries better left undisturbed.
02:26One day we found an old abandoned building.
02:30As we walked closer to it, we started getting this weird feeling about it, like we shouldn't
02:34be there.
02:39I definitely had an eerie feeling.
02:42Something was just telling me, don't go near it.
02:44It was spooky.
02:45John, what are you doing?
02:51Get away from there.
02:52Come on.
02:53This is cool.
02:54No way.
02:55I decided that I was going to be the brave one and venture inside.
03:07She was always the one that was making the good choices, where I really wasn't.
03:15John?
03:40John, come on, I want to go.
03:41Ok, I'm coming.
03:42Coming wait up
03:48There's something here
03:52In one of the corners I found a book it had an upside-down cross on it
04:03At first the book appears harmless, but then it evokes a darkness
04:08I
04:11Cleanse yourself of malignant and pent-up emotions
04:19Why should I not hate my enemies
04:23I
04:24Just started getting this heaviness in my chest and it felt like I couldn't breathe and it was just this scary feeling
04:31I ended up throwing the book because it scared me so bad
04:53Suddenly John gets the feeling he's being followed I
04:58I just started hearing this incoherent whispering and I knew it was coming from the woods
05:09John tries to forget about his terrifying experience in the shack
05:19That summer John spends weekends at his grandmother's house
05:22One night Cheryl hears disturbing noises coming from John's room
05:33It's late I can hear you all the way out in the hall
05:42Who are you talking to it sounded like he was speaking in another language it wasn't English
05:48I couldn't understand him and when he finally stopped talking his nose started bleeding John
05:54John
05:55You okay? Oh my gosh, your nose is bleeding
05:59You okay?
06:01What's going on, I don't know you're okay, you'll be fine, okay
06:11The next morning John's mother and stepfather arrived to take him to his home 12 miles away in Pasadena, Maryland
06:19John tries to put the bizarre incidents of the last few days behind him. How was the weekend?
06:26It's good until his sister brings them up. It would've been better if John hadn't started acting all weird
06:32Geez Cheryl ever since you went in that creepy building in the woods. I told you kids to stay out of the woods
06:39The woods are said to harbor dark secrets
06:43Local legend has it that satanic rituals took place there
06:48Everyone in the neighborhood said don't go near the devil's church
06:51whenever someone who's gone by there either got killed on the nearby train tracks or
06:58Something horribly bad happened to them
07:01But although John's mother has heard the rumors
07:04She doesn't put much faith in them. They're just rumors mom
07:08my opinion of the paranormal was
07:11It was about as legitimate as the Easter Bunny
07:14But her son John is about to find out just how true rumors can be a
07:26Few nights later John is at home with his mom and stepdad when he suddenly hears something odd
07:39I had heard
07:41Scratching on the house and in the walls and outside of the house
07:51And then I started hearing banging on the walls
07:56It sounded like somebody was punching the walls right next to me. I
08:01just tried to ignore it and
08:03That's when my bed shook
08:05It was a very violent shaking it felt like an earthquake
08:15But then from the darkness
08:29It's the summer of 2003 in Odenton, Maryland
08:33Ever since John Drenner jr. Discovered a mysterious book in the woods near his grandmother's home
08:38He can't shake the feeling that an unseen evil lurks in the shadows
08:44watching him
08:46There was something happening something going on
08:51The first time that I heard the whispering the woods I
08:55Knew there was just something off about it. I knew there was something wrong and it scared me
09:02Cheryl worries about the sudden change she sees in her little brother
09:07He was scared to tell me. I don't know what to think. I didn't know how I could help you. Okay?
09:15What's going on? Okay?
09:19But the night comes when John meets the dark force face to face
09:32I
09:45He was about seven eight feet tall black and shaped like a person
09:54What's wrong, what is it honey? I saw something what did you see what it's gone
10:03Okay, what was it? It looked like a man
10:07John told me that he heard scratching noises like someone was trying to get into the room
10:13He complained of seeing shadows. I was seeing a monster
10:19Okay, John
10:21There isn't a man
10:24It was probably a light from a passing car
10:27Okay, I just thought he was scared maybe heard a noise it was his imagination
10:33Do I'm gonna stay with you for a bit?
10:35Yeah, she told me that I was just having a nightmare that I needed to go back to bed
10:40My mother really wasn't the religious type. She looked at everything from an analytical aspect science
10:46If she couldn't see it feel it taste it touch it. It wasn't real
10:57You
11:02Night after night the same creature pays John a visit I
11:10Started sleeping with the blanket over my head so I couldn't see it
11:17John's mother decides to bring him to a child psychologist
11:21After
11:23So many nights I
11:26Contacted an Institute that would diagnose and treat John for whatever was ailing him
11:37My mom always thought that there was something psychological going on with John
11:44John was diagnosed so first with having night terrors and
11:49They have gave him medication but said eventually he would grow out of it I
11:57Knew that what was happening to me was real. It wasn't something that was in my mind
12:09Things appear to calm down for a while until one weekend when they are back at their grandmother's house
12:16Cheryl finds John acting strangely
12:22I was in the kitchen eating breakfast one morning
12:25No
12:27No, and I heard John in the living room talking to someone so I wandered in there to see who he was talking to
12:35No
12:37No, I can't I don't want to do that. I won't
12:41John
12:45Who are you talking to you're not supposed to be here and he was sitting in the corner just talking to the corner
12:51It says you're not supposed to be here. He was awake. He was like he was having a conversation
12:56With whoever he was talking to
13:00Something's wrong with John
13:04John are you okay, but John is not okay as he finally emerges from his trance. It's bleeding
13:12Just like before I was terrified for him
13:19John what's going on with you? I don't know what's happening. It won't leave me alone. I
13:26Had talked to my grandmother and told her about everything that was happening. I
13:32Said this man, he's tormenting me. She hugged me and said I'm gonna take care of this for you
13:39A
13:41Few days later
13:43John's grandmother decides to take action
13:46She places religious articles in John's room at her house
13:50Hoping they'll protect him
13:52Our grandmother was religious. She would read us the Bible. She believed John. She thought that there was something spiritual going on. I
14:02I was very hopeful that you know, that would at least stop it that would create a safe zone for me. I
14:11Don't think it helped the crucifix at his grandmother's house only seems to be making things worse
14:18The very next night this entity was there using the crucifixes was just making a man
14:25It wasn't doing anything to protect me
14:46a
14:47Few nights later when he's back home with his mom and stepdad
14:51John senses the evil force is back
14:58That night I just laid down to close my eyes and I heard a knock in the corner of my room
15:10It was the shadow entity I was paralyzed of fear
15:21I
15:33When he was just a boy
15:35John Drenner jr. Unwittingly uncovered an evil force in an abandoned Shack
15:41Rumored to be the site of satanic gatherings
15:44Satan
15:46Since then a malevolent entity has followed him cornering him in his bedroom at home in Pasadena, Maryland
15:55At this point I am terrified I am absolutely terrified of not knowing what is going to happen next
16:04Night
16:07After night the dark figure torments John in his bedroom the one place where he should feel safe
16:15And as time wears on the entity grows bolder and more grotesque
16:33I
16:43Couldn't move I couldn't scream I could just look at it. It's emptiness in its eyes. It's just
16:51absolute evil
16:54I
16:57John has run to his mom and stepdad for help many times, even though they believe he is just suffering from night terrors
17:06But that night
17:08John's cries go unanswered. I
17:11Started banging on my parents door to wake up and help me. This thing was going to hurt me
17:18I felt like it was going to kill me and I'm banging on the door for about five minutes and
17:23nothing
17:33Honey I'm gonna go downstairs. Can I get you anything? No, okay. Okay
17:46Hey buddy, shouldn't you be in bed?
17:49Why won't you open the door?
17:51I've been pounding and screaming to get you to wake up, but they weren't ignoring him. They never even heard him
17:59Buddy we've been awake the whole time and we never heard anything. He never made a sound I
18:07Didn't know what to think
18:10That honestly scared me even worse come on, let's go back to bed
18:15It's all right
18:16The only thing I could do was comfort him at that point after all the other steps I had taken
18:21The only thing I could do was to be there for my son
18:27I was looking for a logical reason for everything in a logical way to fix things
18:32But there was nothing that I could do to stop the occurrences that were happening
18:39Frustrated that his mother and stepfather don't believe him
18:42John pulls away from his family
18:46He started shutting everyone out. He shut me out. He shut our grandmother out
18:54He was angry I
18:57Was completely alone in this
19:00nobody could understand or believe what they couldn't see or feel for themselves and
19:06It was a complete and total nightmare for me
19:12I
19:22John finds solace in the company of friends who take his fears seriously
19:28One night they play with fire when they attempt to contact the evil entity to help rid John of his tormentor
19:36Aren't you supposed to ask it something? Oh
19:39Yeah, I decided to tell one of my friends about what was going on is there anybody here with us
19:46he had said well, I have a
19:49Spirit board we can use it and find out what it wants and then it'll leave you alone. It's not working
19:59Why are you messing with John I
20:01Had no idea
20:03What it was or how it worked or anything like that because I'd never really messed with him before
20:09It's not working
20:11Guess not
20:13I'll be right back
20:15Hey, let me try
20:17My one friend got up to use the bathroom
20:27What happened something grab my leg in there he said I felt something touch my leg let's go
20:34Hey, don't go
20:40John now knows for certain that the evil entity is not just in his imagination
20:45It was a massive turning point in my life when my friends had experienced something. It was like his sense of relief
20:52Somebody else has seen it as well
20:54But
20:58At the same time John has no idea that he is just invited evil deeper into his life and
21:05Things are about to get a lot worse
21:25I
21:29Felt this heaviness in my chest again. I knew it was around
21:40Who are you
21:45I said we are Legion and we will never leave
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22:09For the past few years
22:11John Drenner jr. Has been battling a malevolent demonic force hell-bent on taking over his body and his soul
22:20It all started after he unknowingly encountered the entity in an abandoned shack in the Maryland woods
22:28Intoxicants instead of absolutely to be the site of satanic worship
22:33Hail Satan hail Satan
22:47One night after using a spirit board John has a close encounter with his tormentor
22:53Oh
22:55Are you
23:01We it was just this deep grovelly bass type voice it just literally radiated through your whole body
23:10Then the sinister force attacks
23:16And I could feel its breath on my face it was trying to choke me to death
23:23I felt like it was going to kill me
23:26But no one comes to his aid
23:31John manages to escape the clutches of the evil entity, but knows it's only a matter of time before it strikes again
23:42With family and friends unable to help him in his fight John conducts research to try to understand what he's up against
23:50It was attacking me and at this point I was really in fear for my life
24:09Nobody believed me when I told them they just thought I was crazy
24:13Suddenly
24:15John comes across an image of an upside-down cross nearly identical to the one he saw on the book in the woods
24:23It's a symbol often used by devil worshipers
24:33Why should I not hate my enemies
24:37It all begins to make sense
24:40Somehow a demonic entity attached itself to John in the shack that day
24:46And now it won't let him go. I
24:50Think the entity was trying to push me to the point where I would kill myself. It wanted me to die
24:56so it could collect my soul and
24:59John has no idea how to rid himself of it
25:10You
25:17Since he was a boy John Drenner jr. Has been battling a demonic force
25:23Now 19 years old. He's living on his own in Glen Burnie, Maryland not far from his family home
25:31Frightening visions and voices plague him nightly with no end in sight
25:39I had tried to kill myself a few times. I was tired of dealing with this and I was tired of fighting this by myself
25:48John has found himself increasingly isolated from those. He loves his mother. I
25:54Did try to figure out what was wrong with John? It was so extremely frustrating
25:59You can't stop something that you can't see that you can't hear that. You can't feel you need something tangible
26:06and his sister
26:09It was very frustrating to be shut out of his life I
26:12Got married and moved farther away. I
26:16Just kind of wrote it off as he'll talk to me when he's ready
26:22That summer a ray of sunshine pierces through John's jury existence
26:27Her name is Mary Segura. I can't believe I'm really here. I know neither can I I
26:34met John
26:35When me and my sister decided to go to the mall
26:38John and his friend was upstairs
26:41And he kind of looked down at me and I kind of looked down on him. He had those beautiful eyes
26:47those green eyes
26:50After dating a year, they've made the decision to live together
26:54Is that it last box last one?
26:58We had that instant connection. I
27:00just knew
27:02All this time John has managed to keep his dark secret from his girlfriend
27:07But their blissful life together is about to take a tragic turn. I
27:13Didn't tell Mary what was happening to me because I didn't want her to think that I was a whack job
27:17And I didn't want her to just leave me
27:22John has no idea that the demon is no longer just after him. It now seeks to intimidate his girlfriend a
27:31a
27:33Few weeks after moving in Mary begins to feel a presence other than John in their home. I
27:48Felt like someone was watching me, but I knew that nobody was home. It's
27:54the worst feeling you can ever possibly have
28:01You
28:03You
28:26When he was a boy
28:28John Drenner jr. Uncovered an evil entity in the woods of Maryland
28:33Since the moment the demon attached itself to him it has tormented John relentlessly
28:41At this point in my life at 19 years old
28:43I just assumed that I was gonna just going to have to deal with this for the rest of my life
28:49It was a sense of hopelessness and it made things a lot harder for me
28:54Knowing that I wasn't ever going to be freed from this. I was just going to spend the rest of my life in hell
29:03John's been dating his girlfriend Mary for the past year, but until she moves in with him. She has no idea
29:09He's being pursued by a demon
29:12One day Mary senses its presence
29:24It's the worst feeling knowing that something is that behind you but you can feel it you feel something
29:32Breathing looking at you, but when you turn back
29:36Nothing's there. Oh
29:43God I just scared me. I'm sorry. Oh, I haven't having this creepy feeling all day creepy. Yeah
29:52It's nothing
29:55He just said oh, it's just a weird feeling it's just probably my imagination
30:01I'm getting used to having someone else live with me. I
30:07Had the feeling that she knew something was going on, but she didn't know why
30:13For the next few days John continues to hide the truth from Mary until she begins to sense a change in him
30:21Throughout the days he would be sweet and loving then all of a sudden you say one thing and he snapped it was aggressive
30:30Hey, did you build a rent check? I
30:34Will
30:36Okay, when I will I'm trying to read I
30:41Just don't want to have to pay a late fee. And then there's like charges. I said I will
30:47What's wrong with your eyes
30:51The eyes were black
30:54Frightening it wasn't my John something else was taking over his body
30:59And his soul
31:12Mary why don't you come out Mary?
31:24Mary
31:26John come here
31:34God your eyes. They're so terrible
31:41There's something I need to tell you
31:46It's okay
31:48He started to tell me everything about his life and dealing with this demonic thing
31:55Ever since I was a kid, it's tortured me and it's followed me. I
32:02Thought it was over I thought it was gone and
32:06The last thing that I wanted was for anything to happen to you
32:11I'm sorry, I didn't know what to think either a he's crazy or be he really needs help
32:18That's a lot to take in and for a minute there. He kind of had me in shock
32:24I was
32:25Sure that she was going to leave me
32:29Okay
32:33Okay, hon, we'll work on this together
32:44Mary convinces John he needs help from a higher power.
32:49I figured well, let's try to go to some churches to see if they can help
32:57None of it was working all the ones that we went to either it turned us down or they just didn't want to deal with it
33:07One night John has a disturbing dream an omen of more bad things to come
33:18When I looked up I had seen that the sky was blood red
33:23There were these black things flying around in a circle
33:27The middle of the sky was this red Sun what looked like a swirling
33:34portal
33:36I
33:46Couldn't do anything to help the love of my life and I suffered every time he had a nightmare every time he had a vision I
33:53suffered
33:54Because that was me feeling hopeless
33:57But
34:02John's nightmares are not the only thing Mary will suffer. The demon is not finished with her yet
34:09The next night while John is working a night shift Mary finds herself alone
34:26I
34:33Was pitch-dark turn on my cell phone was full battery
34:37I
34:55There's no way that I could just die
35:08I
35:16For years John Drenner jr. Has been plagued by an unrelenting demon that seeks to possess him
35:23And now it seeks to scare off his girlfriend
35:28I
35:30Was pitch-dark turn on my cell phone was full battery turn on the light so I can see
35:39And all of a sudden battery drain and my heart started racing
35:54The figure was
35:56Face to face to me. I was terrified. I didn't know what to do, but just stand there and shake
36:08I've never experienced anything like this before
36:13Anything and just as suddenly the demon disappears
36:18I
36:23John now knows the entity will stop at nothing to destroy him and isolate him from the people who care about him
36:32This shadow entity was gaining power and it wanted complete and total control
36:38In
36:43February of 2012 a friend puts John in touch with Bill Bean an ordained deliverance minister
36:50Similar to an exorcist, but not affiliated with the Catholic Church
36:56John said I think I found our solution at this point. I was willing to try anything to make this end
37:03Please help us
37:09I will come closer
37:18When John came to meet with me I immediately sensed the presence of evil that was upon him
37:23I could see the demon that was behind his eyes absolutely could see it
37:28Bill believes John first came into contact with a demon in childhood and now years later
37:34It's on the verge of taking possession of him
37:38So I believe a demon attached to you when you were a child I
37:48Felt that John was strongly demonically oppressed or possibly possessed by a demonic entity
37:56Demonically oppressed or possibly even possessed
38:01Demonic oppression is the beginning stages of
38:05Possession the person becomes introverted withdrawn from family members and friends
38:11They start to have a negative outlook on everything
38:17John you need a prayer of deliverance
38:21Now
38:23Deliverance is similar to an exorcism
38:26In John's case it was severe steps had to be taken right then and there
38:31There's something in me kept telling me don't do it
38:35But with nowhere else to turn John wills himself to go through with it. Amen
38:42I forced myself to take his hand the Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want
38:48He maketh me to lie down in green pastures he leadeth me beside the still waters
38:57Suddenly the evil John encountered so long ago lashes out
39:03Satan represents indulgence
39:06instead of abstinence
39:09Hail Satan he restoreth my soul
39:12Satan he restoreth my soul
39:17Satan represents undefiled wisdom
39:20Instead of hypocritical self-deceit. I take power and authority over this demonic spirit in the name of God
39:31I cast you out spirit. I said do you renounce Satan and all of his works?
39:38Yes, I do
39:42I cast you out spirit
39:57I remember just
39:59Coming to looking him in the eye and it felt like the weight of the world was lifted off of me. Is it over?
40:07Is it really over?
40:12It was the most amazing feeling that I have ever felt in my life, I think it is
40:23At that moment I got my John back
40:42John today is loving sweet. I
40:48Definitely feel that the situation made him a stronger
40:52more
40:54outgoing person
41:01Eventually John reestablishes ties with his sister and mother
41:05When
41:07My brother came back into my life, he was happy again and we're working and growing our relationship every day
41:14John's mother a paranormal skeptic is still devoted to science and logic
41:20He's like mom. Can you explain what happened to me? I
41:24Can't explain and I said it doesn't matter. I found my solace and comfort knowing that my son was finally free and happy
41:32Yeah
41:34John now works as Bill beans apprentice helping other people overcome demonic oppression
41:41This is risky work
41:43But John believes it is his calling. I
41:47Had a dream one night
41:49That I was helping people and I said, you know what I need to face my fears
41:55I know what it's like to be in hell. I know what it's like to be tormented for years
41:59It was time for me to help pull other people from the darkness