A woman's estranged mother comes to visit, opening her home to the world of the undead; a team of paranormal investigators uncovers the truth.
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00:00When a woman with a dark past, she got into black magic, she drank human blood, awakens
00:12dormant spirits, come and show yourself, she unleashes a terrified ghostly child, she was
00:20scared of something that was in the house, and a sinister spirit with deadly intentions.
00:27We had no clue how intense it was about to get.
00:32In America, there is real evil. It lurks in the darkest shadows and in our most ordinary towns.
00:41Between the worlds we see and the things we fear, there are doors. When they are opened, nightmares become reality.
00:56In the summer of 2013, Stephen McDade, his girlfriend Taylor Jones, and their five-year-old daughter Isabel, move into a small suburban home.
01:19One of the reasons why I like living out towards this way is there's woods. I love to hunt and fish the rivers and the creeks.
01:27The Ohio River is right there. It's very quaint. It's very quiet. We like that. Quiet is good.
01:36Guys? Hi. How are you? Good, how are you? What do you have? Luna, take it.
01:45Me and Taylor were living with my father, and after we had Isabel, we decided it was time to get our own place and move out and start our life together.
01:53It's a natural next step for this young couple who have been together nearly nine years.
01:58Taylor, she's beautiful. She is my best friend, and we love each other to death.
02:04He's just all around a great person. I couldn't ask for anything better. I mean, you think of family, and I see us. I've never been happier.
02:14There you go. Go play with Luna.
02:16I thought it would just be a great place if we could raise our little girl, grow as a family, keep strong, and be good to each other.
02:24He's got a better house than I do. I know.
02:27Built in the early 1900s, the home includes a refurbished attic, which now serves as Isabel's bedroom.
02:36Isabel has her own little penthouse upstairs.
02:40She's very happy to have her own space and plenty of room to be running around.
02:46Mainly, we wanted Isabel to be comfortable and happy.
02:57Steven is an avid hunter and keeps a handgun in the home for protection.
03:01My main concern with having a gun was Isabel. She's been around guns, you know.
03:06Her daddy, he's an avid hunter. We're very, very cautious with him.
03:10Don't shoot.
03:12Whatever.
03:17Hey, before you go, do you think maybe you could sit down? I've got something I want to talk to you about.
03:23Yeah, sure.
03:24Cool.
03:26So, I was thinking that now that we have our own place, maybe we could invite your mom over.
03:36Taylor hasn't seen her mother for nearly ten years.
03:39Steven hopes that they can mend their broken relationship.
03:43She talked about her mother, Joyce. She wasn't in her life too much.
03:47They had a falling out, and I know they just have a hard time seeing eye to eye.
03:52The kind of person she is, the things she's done, I don't know.
04:05My mother left me when I was very young and went over to Germany and got caught up in some things that she should not have gotten caught up in.
04:13She got into black magic.
04:16She drank human blood from a chalice.
04:21She has a pentagram tattooed on her.
04:25My dad did anything and everything he could to keep me safe because being with my mother was not a safe environment.
04:34It was very ugly. It was very ugly.
04:43People change. Maybe you guys can work it out.
04:51Family's a big part of our lives.
04:53I wanted Taylor to try to reach out to her mother because I think everybody needs to be forgiven, given a second chance.
05:04Okay.
05:05Yeah?
05:06Yeah.
05:08Taylor finally agrees, not for herself, but for her daughter, Isabel.
05:14We need to get Isabel and mom together to really make sure that there's a relationship there with the two of them because I had a wonderful relationship with my grandmother.
05:24Any word yet?
05:26No, not yet.
05:27Despite Taylor's misgivings, later that summer, the day arrives when estranged mother and daughter are reunited.
05:35I had my worries. I had my concerns. I had my fears.
05:39But the thing that kept, you know, overcoming all of that was, you know, people change, Taylor.
05:44You have to remember that people change. It's okay.
05:47I was happy to hear that Taylor wanted her mother to come out and spend time with us.
05:51I was hoping for the best.
05:53Taylor.
05:55I really didn't know what I was expecting.
05:58How are you?
06:02Hello, darling.
06:05Hello, Joyce.
06:10How are you?
06:12I'm good.
06:14How are you?
06:16I'm good.
06:18How are you?
06:20I'm good.
06:23You've been eating.
06:25You look terrible.
06:27Way too thin.
06:30Immediately, you know, out of her mouth was the judgment.
06:34Hi, I'm Steven. It's nice to finally meet you.
06:40When I met Joyce, the vibe she put off was hateful in a way.
06:44Isabel, this is Joyce, my mother.
06:49Your grandmother.
06:52Isabel stayed back a little bit. I think that it was a little strange for her.
06:57Aren't you just precious?
07:00Do you have a hug for your grandma?
07:03Luna!
07:05My mother, when she saw Isabel, she's looking basically at a child that looks so much like me at that age.
07:13The age that she turned her back to me.
07:16I'm sure it was a long trip. I'm sure you're ready to get settled. Let me show you where you're staying.
07:23I was hoping they could build their relationship back up, but I'm still nervous. I don't want Taylor to get hurt again.
07:37You'll be staying in Isabel's room. I hope that's all right.
07:41She can sleep with Steven and me.
07:43There's fresh towels in the bathroom, and help yourself to anything in the fridge.
07:50You know, there's a presence here. Right here in this room with us.
07:56What?
07:58You have a ghost.
08:01I know you're here. I can feel you.
08:05Joyce, please, don't say that kind of thing in my home.
08:14Have some respect. We have a child in this home. There is no place for you to sit here and start picking at spirits, ghosts, entities, whatever.
08:25Taylor, please call me mom.
08:33It was just a negative vibe.
08:44That night, Joyce attempts to make contact with the spirit she believes is trapped in the house.
08:51I know you're here.
08:56Show yourself to me. Come forward.
09:03Come forward.
09:05Come forward.
09:12Come and show yourself. I command you.
09:17No!
09:29Soon after settling into their new home, Taylor Jones invites her estranged mother for a visit.
09:40Taylor.
09:42My mother and I, we had a relationship when I was younger, and then it fell apart.
09:47Hello, darling.
09:49So, as an adult, there was ten years that went by.
09:53Hello, Joyce.
09:55Taylor's father kept her away from Joyce once he found out she practiced black magic.
10:01There was a lot of ugliness that happened. There were a lot of things that she got into that I didn't understand as a child.
10:08I had lost her so many times before.
10:10You know, there's a presence here.
10:13I kept in the back of my mind, you know, don't get your hopes up.
10:18That night, Joyce is staying in her granddaughter's attic bedroom.
10:23I know you're here.
10:25When she makes contact with what she believes is a ghost.
10:30Downstairs, Taylor is suddenly overcome with an uneasy feeling.
10:36I didn't feel right.
10:39Something was off. You could feel a coolness.
10:47Come out.
10:50You can't hide.
10:53Show yourself.
10:55I know you're here.
11:00Come and show yourself.
11:03I command you.
11:09What the hell do you think you're doing? And don't lie to me. I heard you.
11:14I'm simply communicating with the spirits in your house.
11:18I was mortified. This is supposed to be my mother.
11:22And she's going against everything that I believe.
11:26I think I know what happened here.
11:29Joyce senses a presence in the house.
11:32She said, there's a little girl that lives in there.
11:36She said that she felt that little girl was hurting. Bad.
11:40And she is not alone. A darker spirit is with her.
11:45She sensed there was something else here with us. That there were other spirits here.
11:51But Taylor refuses to listen.
11:54I told you, I didn't want you to do this.
11:57I'm sorry.
11:58But Taylor refuses to listen.
12:01I told you, I didn't want you to do this. No more, mother.
12:05I told her point blank. I said, you need to shut your mouth.
12:08We have a child in this home. You are putting us all in danger in doing this.
12:14I want you out.
12:16Black magic, it affects everybody around you. Everybody.
12:19I don't know everything that she's done. I don't know what she's capable of.
12:28I don't know.
12:35Distraught, Taylor tells Steven that she wants her mother to leave as soon as possible.
12:41I felt violated. Our home, at that point, completely, 100% had been violated.
12:48I told Steven, I can't have her in my life. I can't. I can't do this. This is an ugly circle.
12:52It's not fair for Isabel to see me upset. It's not fair for her to feel tension.
12:58I knew she played with black magic when she was out of the States.
13:03One of the first things she did was try to egg on the spirits. Joyce, she didn't have to go.
13:11It's now been two months since Joyce's departure.
13:14All seems normal. But Taylor fears her mother's black magic may have conjured up something in the house.
13:22When she left, I was definitely on the lookout that she didn't stir things up.
13:28I would have to try to calm Taylor down. Don't think about it. Don't put too much thought into it.
13:45I heard giggling, you know, a little girl giggling.
13:54It's coming from Isabel's room.
13:57I look at the clock and I'm like, oh my God, no, she needs to be sleeping.
14:07What happened then?
14:11That's silly.
14:14Here, do you want to play with this?
14:19Oh my.
14:21What are you doing?
14:23Playing with my friends.
14:27You're supposed to be in bed, young lady.
14:30She's sitting there on her floor as if she was interacting with somebody.
14:35It's a school night.
14:38Laughing, giggling.
14:39It's bedtime, not playtime. I don't want to hear another noise coming from up here, okay?
14:45Okay.
14:52Close your eyes, Isabel.
15:09Okay.
15:29For the past few months, Stephen McDade, Taylor Jones and their five-year-old daughter, Isabel, have been living a peaceful life in their new Ohio home.
15:39Until Taylor's mother comes for a visit.
15:44Come and show yourself. I command you.
15:50Joyce likes to stir things up. If there are entities or energies or spirits, she instigates them.
15:57But before Joyce can warn her daughter about what she saw, Taylor demands that she leave.
16:03I want you out.
16:10Soon after Joyce's departure, Isabel begins playing with an imaginary friend.
16:21At first, her parents aren't concerned.
16:24I tried to brush it off as kids and their imaginations.
16:29I really didn't worry too much about it.
16:32Until Isabel's playmate appears in one of her drawings.
16:37When we asked her about the picture, well, who's this right here?
16:41There's Isabel, there's mommy, there's daddy, and there's my friend.
16:46Taylor and Stephen quickly realize that to Isabel, the little girl is very real.
16:52Okay, then the wheels start turning. Who is she talking to? I was getting nervous, I was getting anxious.
16:58It kind of threw me off. First thing that went through my head was, it seems like something out of a scary movie.
17:07But unbeknownst to Taylor and Stephen, Isabel's ghostly friend has a dark secret.
17:26A second spirit lurks in the house, and he is terrifying.
17:36Isabel.
17:54As the weeks pass, Isabel grows more and more anxious, refusing to enter her attic bedroom.
18:03She was scared of something that was in the house.
18:06That's when I started getting a little concerned and worried.
18:13Isabel was telling us that it felt like there was somebody behind her all the time. She didn't feel like she was alone.
18:20It's okay.
18:22She just didn't want to be up there. She did not want to be up there.
18:27Isabel?
18:29What we ended up finding out, I wouldn't have wanted to be up there either.
18:37One weekend, Stephen goes out of town.
18:40I was going out on a hunting trip, me and my father. I never liked leaving Taylor and Isabel by themselves.
18:48This time I was a little bit more worried with the stuff that was going on in the house.
18:59I miss Stephen when he leaves, you know, I was having a hard time sleeping.
19:07Luna?
19:10Luna was right next to me. All of a sudden, she started barking.
19:16What is it, Luna?
19:19She was locked on something.
19:32What is it, Luna?
19:34What's that?
19:36I don't know.
19:42My initial reaction, I need to protect my child. There's somebody there.
19:52Every hair on my body was standing on end. I could sense there was something there.
20:06Luna?
20:07Luna?
20:34Luna suddenly grows quiet.
20:38When Luna kind of backed off, I was like, alright, whatever that was is gone.
20:48Good girl. It's okay.
20:57It's okay, Luna. Good girl.
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21:21For the past few weeks, five-year-old Isabel...
21:24Do you want to play with this?
21:29...has been passing the time with an imaginary playmate.
21:33I didn't feel like it was something to worry about.
21:36But is it just a pretend friend, or could it be a ghost?
21:46One weekend, her dad goes on a hunting trip, leaving Isabel and her mom alone in the house.
22:03What's that, Luna?
22:07Taylor grabs one of the guns the family keeps in the house for protection.
22:25Good girl. It's okay.
22:32It's okay.
22:43There was a man, standing plain as day.
22:47I had my .38 in position, ready to fire.
22:53Then in an instant, he's gone.
22:56Taylor now feels certain her house is haunted.
23:01I was so scared.
23:05I couldn't deny that there was a ghost in my house.
23:07People say, oh, you're crazy, that stuff doesn't exist.
23:11It exists. It is real. It is very real.
23:19When Stephen comes home, Taylor tells him about her terrifying encounter.
23:24All the doors were locked. There was nothing.
23:26And so I come back over here to Luna, and she will not.
23:30Go into the kitchen. She's staying here and refuses to go in.
23:33You could just see it all over her face that something happened to her.
23:37She said that she'd seen somebody at the door that was there, but wasn't there.
23:43She was pretty shook up about it.
23:45And when I turn around, there's just a guy standing there.
23:49There's nothing that I could do. Nothing.
23:51If this is a ghost, I have no control.
23:53When am I going to see something next?
23:55When am I going to feel something next?
23:58There was a total feeling of helplessness.
24:02Stephen tries to comfort Taylor, but he doesn't know what to do.
24:07Taylor started to feel the presence around her all the time.
24:10And I know it scared her.
24:12I would just try to reassure her as much as I could.
24:17Stephen is our protector, you know.
24:19He takes care of us girls.
24:23And would never want us to feel unsafe.
24:25And at that point, I knew Stephen could not comfort those feelings.
24:32Over the next few days, he attempts to carry on with everyday life,
24:36hoping these strange occurrences will stop on their own.
24:41I've always believed in ghosts and spirits and stuff like that.
24:44But I'd always try to debunk it.
24:47Don't put too much thought into it.
24:49Pay no attention to them.
24:51And maybe, hopefully, it would just go away.
24:55But lately, he can't shake the feeling that he's being watched.
25:01I was getting creepy feelings.
25:07And I happened to glance up.
25:18There was a guy standing up there in Isabelle's bedroom.
25:25He's got a gun.
25:36Got in the house. There's nobody there.
25:40Like Taylor, Stephen is now convinced that the house is haunted.
25:47I kind of knew right away that it wasn't a human.
25:51Yeah, I mean, what's a guy to do?
25:53A ghost or a spirit? No, you can't.
25:56Don't do it.
25:57Don't do it.
25:58Don't do it.
25:59Don't do it.
26:00Don't do it.
26:01Don't do it.
26:02Don't do it.
26:03Don't do it.
26:04Don't do it.
26:05Don't do it.
26:06Don't do it.
26:07It's a spirit.
26:08You can't throw a punch at them and make them back off or anything like that.
26:13I kind of felt helpless.
26:15I didn't know what to do.
26:16Stephen and I had a long talk.
26:18And we need to get somebody in here.
26:20And we need to do it fast before this escalates even more.
26:25Desperate for help, Stephen and Taylor contact husband and wife paranormal investigators,
26:30Patty and Lee Allen of Paravisions.
26:34Taylor, she mentioned that her mother, Joyce, was doing some black magic here.
26:40Black magic often employs spells or curses meant to inflict harm.
26:47Black magic is not something to be toyed with.
26:51I thought it was a potential trigger.
26:55Patty uses an EMF meter to look for fluctuations in electromagnetic energy.
27:03Lee has the psychic ability to sense paranormal activity.
27:10I actually not just see, but I can actually feel what they're feeling, the spirit.
27:14Standing there, I felt overwhelmed.
27:18Suddenly, Lee has a vision.
27:22You know how when your hands fall asleep, that sensation?
27:25My whole body felt that way.
27:27As soon as I get that sensation, it's on.
27:30All right, fellas, where we at?
27:33I'm calling you now.
27:34Yeah.
27:37Hand me up, gentlemen.
27:40In the vision, three men are gambling at a table in the house,
27:44when one of them grows increasingly frustrated.
27:48Full house.
27:50Right.
27:53He was sitting with these two guys.
27:55He was sitting with these two guys.
27:57Something came upon him that he didn't like the way the guy was dealing the cards.
28:03Money's all in.
28:06You think you can get away with cheating, mate?
28:08Hey, don't blame me now.
28:11It's just not your lucky day.
28:12Oh, come on, man.
28:13What's going on? Come on.
28:14He went a little ballistic.
28:15Can you blame this guy?
28:17It just basically started here.
28:18You think something funny is going on?
28:23Hey, what the hell?
28:24It's not my lucky night, right?
28:25No, no, no.
28:26What the hell?
28:27No, no, no.
28:30And he wasn't going to take it anymore.
28:32And he shot them.
28:48The killer hears a noise coming from the attic.
28:54All of a sudden, he went upstairs.
29:24In a small home outside of Cincinnati, Ohio,
29:27a family of three has been haunted by the ghosts of two tormented souls,
29:32a frightened little girl,
29:37and a sinister man.
29:41He would come in the house and there'd be like a creepy vibe.
29:45My biggest concern at that point was the safety of my girls.
29:49In an effort to reclaim their home,
29:51the family calls in paranormal investigators Patty and Lee Allen of Paravisions.
29:59Suddenly, Lee has a vision of a tragic incident
30:02he believes took place inside the house many years ago.
30:06You think you can get away with cheating me?
30:08I don't think so.
30:09I don't think so.
30:10I don't think so.
30:11I don't think so.
30:12I don't think so.
30:13I don't think so.
30:14I don't think so.
30:15I don't think so.
30:16I don't think so.
30:17You think you can get away with cheating me?
30:18No matter if it's 1800, 1920, 1999, I'm there in that time frame.
30:26Hey, come on.
30:27I feel everything that was going on at that time.
30:32Hey, what the hell, huh?
30:33It's not my lucky night, right?
30:34No, no, no, no.
30:47The first thing I thought was I got to follow this guy.
31:09But I didn't.
31:38In the attic, Lee sees a little girl hiding in fear.
31:43She was so scared, just shaken and cold.
31:48She was so terrified that even if she breathed, she felt like he was going to hear it.
32:13Lee snaps out of his trance and into present day reality.
32:40Lee believes they are dealing with what's called a residual haunting, in which a traumatic
32:44event is replayed over and over.
32:48Residual hauntings, it's affecting this home, it's something that happened at it's time
32:52and it constantly repeats itself.
32:54It's a stamp of memory, and she was still trapped in that time frame.
33:02Come help me.
33:03We're gonna cross this little girl over.
33:06When a spirit has not crossed over, my belief is that they needed their story to be told.
33:14It's okay.
33:15What's your name?
33:16Tiffany.
33:17Well, that's a pretty name.
33:24Although Patty cannot see Tiffany, she can feel her.
33:29Sitting there, the entire left hand in front of my body was freezing cold.
33:34You've passed on, Tiffany.
33:37That means you don't have to stay here.
33:40You can go to a place where nothing will ever hurt you again.
33:44I can help.
33:45All you gotta do is look to the light.
33:51A crossover you can do just by prayers.
33:55You can lead them to the light.
33:56If they see it, they can go.
33:58You just gotta talk to them, convince them, and let them know that it's okay.
34:03Dear God, take this spirit, your child.
34:10Help her to cross over.
34:12Take away her pain and suffering.
34:15Save her as only you can do.
34:19Amen.
34:21It's okay.
34:33It's okay.
34:52It felt as if the energy in the room had changed, and I couldn't feel a pressure on
34:59my hand anymore.
35:00The coldness left, and it was that warm sensation from my head all the way down to my toes.
35:05I felt with everything I had that she was safe, that she was gone, and that she was
35:11in a better place.
35:13It brought tears to my eyes because we shared this moment with this little girl, and our
35:18creator was right there, and he brought us all together, and she went to her resting
35:26place.
35:30Suddenly Lee is struck by another vision.
35:34Lee?
35:37What's wrong?
35:43What's wrong?
35:46The killer's still here.
35:49Isabelle isn't safe.
35:51No one in the family is.
36:03For more than six months, Taylor, Stephen, and their daughter, Isabelle, have been haunted
36:07by two spirits.
36:13Living through something like this, it's terrifying.
36:20Paranormal investigators finally release the soul of one of the ghosts, a victim of murder.
36:34For the family, the ordeal is far from over.
36:43The other entity, the girl's killer, is still there.
36:48Now with the girl gone, we were worried that he would turn his attention to either Isabelle
36:54or Taylor, and undo everything we had tried to do by calming the house down.
37:03To rid the house of the evil ghost, Lee approaches him with compassion.
37:10A normal paranormal investigator would just have went in and they would have attacked
37:13him, they would have provoked him.
37:14But then, I got to think of him not as just a creepy crook that killed these people, but
37:19he's got a heart just like us.
37:22And I think he's entitled to justice just as well.
37:26Where is he?
37:29He knew I was there, he knew I could see.
37:32You can't have her.
37:36You have to go now too.
37:39You have turned your back on God, but all you have to do is turn around and he will
37:45acknowledge you.
37:48I tell him, I says, I'm not here to judge you for what you did to those guys downstairs,
37:53what you did to that little girl, I'm here to help you.
37:56I'm here for you to cross over.
37:59I'm here for you.
38:01I'm going to pray for you.
38:07The gunman concedes his fate and allows Lee to guide him to the spirit world.
38:12Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us.
38:21Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
38:25For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory.
38:31Amen.
38:52It's over.
38:56The atmosphere in the room definitely lifted.
39:00It's as if we could all finally breathe again.
39:04When I feel it in my heart, I know the spirit is gone.
39:15But there are still unanswered questions.
39:18Who were these spirits who appeared in Lee's vision?
39:21To this day, their identities remain a mystery.
39:24When we researched, I was unable to find any documentation of the death of a small child in that area.
39:31As for Taylor's mother, the family has not renewed contact since she visited their home.
39:37But they will always wonder whether her black magic awakened the spirits.
39:42Come and show yourself. I command you.
39:46Or if these entities were already attached to the house.
39:50I believe that this case was sort of a perfect storm.
39:53With the history of our client's mother delving into some black magic.
39:58Along with the residual of the building itself.
40:01I know it had something to do with her.
40:04It definitely got very active after she left.
40:10Whatever the answers, Stephen, Taylor, and Isabel will be forever grateful to Lee and Patty.
40:20I love Paravisions because they were worried about my family.
40:24And they just wanted to help us out.
40:26We are extremely grateful. They listen to us. They care.
40:30And I'll forever be thankful because they calmed our house down.
40:41In June 2014, Stephen McDade and Taylor Jones wed in a small ceremony.
40:48Their daughter Isabel serves as their flower girl.
40:51I'm very happy that I finally made Taylor an honest woman.
40:56And we got married under the eyes of God.
41:01Today the McDade family is living peacefully in the same home they moved into nearly a year ago.
41:07The helplessness has lifted.
41:10The fear is gone.
41:13And I love having our happy home back.
41:20It feels like a home again now.
41:22Like when we first moved in.
41:24Before all the activities started.
41:27It feels like our house now.
41:33Our daughter loves being in her room now.
41:35She has no issue going anywhere in the house anymore.
41:37She's not afraid. There's no problems. None whatsoever.
41:43The McDade Family