[eerie music playing]
[narrator] A loving family living their dream life...
[woman] It felt wonderful to have a family.
The house brought it all together.
[narrator] ...find themselves in a nightmare scenario...
What is it going to do? What does it want?
[speaking in otherworldly voice]
[narrator] ...when dark forces move in.
I believed my life was at stake.
[woman screaming]
[narrator] In this world, there is new evil.
[girl] Someone's in my room.
It lurks in the darkest shadows.
[indistinct whispers]
Between what we see and the things we fear,
there are doors.
When they are opened...
nightmares become reality.
In the suburbs of Chicago, Isidro and Sandra Nuno
are living the American dream.
[Sandra] I grew up in Chicago, Illinois.
Lived here all my life.
[Isidro] I was born in Mexico.
My parents brought me to Chicago.
I fell in love with the city, you know?
[narrator] Just blocks from Lake Michigan,
the newlyweds have purchased their very first home.
Are you ready for this? This is going to be great.
[Isidro] We saved a little money and put our money together.
What attracted me was the yard, the space.
I always love a space.
[Sandra] It's actually a three-story,
with an apartment upstairs to rent.
It was intended for the family to live
on the main floor and a rental on the second floor.
[narrator] But although Sandra should be celebrating her new home,
from day one, she has an uneasy feeling.
[Sandra] I just never felt comfortable in that house.
It just didn't appeal to me.
[suspenseful music playing]
- [Isidro] Boo! - [gasps]
Why are you so scared?
- It's just me. - I know. I...
This house.
Something just feels off about it.
[Isidro] We talked about this. The house is going to pay itself
once we rent the apartment upstairs.
This is our investment.
It's for us, it's for our future.
I know.
I just feel like someone's watching me all the time.
I know it sounds crazy.
Ooh.
[Sandra] He just told me just to ignore it and just,
if I felt uneasy, just to say a prayer.
[narrator] As the weeks go by, Sandra works
on getting the property ready for renters.
But it appears the upper apartment is already occupied.
- Hey! - I saw this lady coming down the stairs.
She was dressed in all black garb.
It scared me, because there was nobody up there.
There was no renters.
And then she was gone.
And I was startled, because I thought, "Who's up there?"
She was just startled.
When she told me that, I told her I'd never seen her.
[narrator] Soon, Isidro won't be able to deny something is amiss.
[Isidro] I was actually in the kitchen doing some cooking...
[voices whispering]
And all of a sudden, I heard some whispering.
[voice whispering]
They kind of quieted down a little bit,
but the whispering didn't stop.
I couldn't understand what they were saying.
[voices whispering]
[eerie music playing]
I could not explain it. I didn't quite understand it.
[narrator] Not wanting to scare his wife, Isidro tells no one.
[Sandra] I came home from work.
The front door was open.
We never keep anything open, everything's always locked.
We live in Chicago, it's kind of an old habit.
You have to lock everything behind you.
That's when I got scared thinking, you know, "Somebody's here."
The windows were open.
Everything was open. Even the back door was open.
I just started closing the windows and closing the doors.
[suspenseful music playing]
I looked through every room, there was nobody there.
[phone dialing]
Isidro, did you come home from work
and open all the windows and the doors?
[Sandra] And then he said, "No, I'm on my way home."
At that point, I was feeling desperate.
Okay. I'll see you soon.
Hurry.
I just wanted peace in my house.
[Isidro] Back in Mexico, when I was a little kid,
I grew up in a haunted house.
I grew up hearing those things
and seeing things out of the ordinary.
I knew there was something definitely going on in this house.
I did not grow up in a home like that,
so for me to move into my home and experience
all these supernatural things, I was uncomfortable with it.
And I was thinking of our future.
When we did have kids, I didn't want them going through the same thing.
[narrator] Believing that their home might have a ghost,
the Nunos contact a local priest
who agrees to come over and bless the home.
[priest] I call the archangel.
Defend us in battle.
Be our defense against the wickedness and snares of the Devil.
[narrator] The blessing appears to work.
The house is quiet.
And soon, Sandra and Isidro receive a blessing of their own,
when Sandra becomes pregnant with twins.
A boy and a girl.
Sadly, three months into the pregnancy, the boy twin miscarries.
[Sandra] It was sad, but I was very happy
that my daughter was still surviving.
It was the most joyous moment of my life
when I was holding my daughter.
[narrator] Isidro and Sandra name their baby Sabrina.
Three years later, they are blessed
with a second daughter, Shannon.
[Sandra] It felt wonderful to have a family.
And the house brought it all together.
[narrator] As the years go by, their home is a happy one...
until the day little Sabrina receives an unexpected visitor.
I've never spoken about this to anyone.
[eerie music playing]
[creaking]
[spectral female voice] Hello.
[Sabrina] I remember the hairs on the back of my neck stood up.
[spectral female voice] Hello.
[eerie music playing]
Hello?
[Sabrina] I was just staring down there.
I didn't see anything.
[spectral female voice speaking louder] Hello.
[Sabrina] My first instinct was to run
and just hide under the covers.
I was just scared.
I just didn't know what had happened.
I was confused, so I just... I didn't mention anything at the time.
[narrator] Sandra's mother moves into the apartment upstairs
to help with the girls.
[Sandra] My girls always called her Huela.
Huela is an abbreviation in Spanish. It's Abuela.
But they couldn't pronounce it, so it became Huela.
[Sabrina] My Huela, she was like my second mother.
I looked up to her. I was very close to her.
My Huela was religious. She was Catholic.
She always thought that, you know, praying
and having faith, it would make a difference. A big difference.
It's so beautiful.
Precioso.
Precioso?
Preciosa.
I would go see my Huela for comfort,
or just if I was having a bad day, I would go up there
and it would be... it would be all better. [chuckles]
[suspenseful music playing]
[deep breathing]
I saw my grandmother standing there.
Huela?
[Sabrina] I was confused, because she wasn't saying anything.
Huela?
And something felt off.
Huela?
[Sabrina] I looked over to my right.
That's when I saw my actual grandmother sleeping in bed.
I was extremely terrified.
[screaming]
Huela?
[narrator] Six-year-old Sabrina Nuno has just had
the shock of her young life while visiting her grandmother
on the top floor of her family's home.
[screaming]
[Sabrina] It looked like a replica of my grandmother.
Just had black eyes, and it just made this loud noise, like a scream.
[panting]
[banging]
The banging was very loud.
And no one woke up.
It was very terrifying.
It was just very traumatizing, and it's hard to talk about it.
[narrator] She keeps it to herself,
never telling another living soul.
[Sabrina] I didn't say anything to anybody.
I was still in shock of what had happened.
I just kept it to myself.
[Shannon] Wake up, Sabrina.
Shannon! You scared me!
That's what little sisters are for. Come on, get up.
Hey, give me that back!
[narrator] The years go by, and the girls' grandmother passes away.
The apartment on the top floor sits empty.
There she is, the queen herself, Sabrina Nuno.
You're so dumb.
My family was pretty happy growing up.
Pretty normal.
[Sabrina] Okay, listen.
Regular hide-and-seek rules, except you, the seeker,
- is only allowed to find me by video. - Okay.
We were very busy with our lives.
And we were into the daily routines of life.
Ten, nine, eight, seven...
[Shannon] We were playing hide-and-seek in the back yard.
four, three, two, one.
Come on, I found you.
[Shannon] I saw somebody walking, so I started calling out,
saying, like, "Hey, I found you."
What? What are you talking about? I'm over here.
[Sabrina] My sister was terrified.
What's wrong?
- I saw someone over there. - [Sabrina] She was scared.
When we looked at it, it was a shadow.
Form of a man.
What is that?
I don't know.
[Sabrina] It looked like a person.
Come on. Forget about it.
Let's go inside.
[Sabrina] I feel like it was very traumatizing,
especially not understanding what was going on.
[Shannon] I didn't tell anyone,
but things started to happen more and more.
Sometimes, in the house, you just always feel like you're being watched.
[footsteps]
[creaking]
I heard footsteps coming from the kitchen.
I just remember the heavy footsteps and the heavy work boots.
[narrator] At night, Shannon now refuses to sleep in her own room,
so her mother tucks her in downstairs.
[Shannon] I was really scared.
I'd grab my pillow and my blanket and I would just go to sleep on the couch.
[narrator] Meanwhile, in Sabrina's room,
the paranormal activity is just starting to stir.
[Sabrina] I was sleeping by the door side of the room.
[spectral female voice] Help me.
[eerie music playing]
Help me.
[screaming]
[narrator] The Nuno family is experiencing a series of unexplainable events.
[spectral female voice] Help me.
[narrator] The eldest daughter, Sabrina, is the latest target.
[screaming]
[Sabrina] I don't remember seeing anything
other than his face, because he was so close to me.
To this day, I have no idea why he was so close to my face.
I was about 15 years old when I finally spoke about it
and told them everything.
My mom was very scared. My dad was upset.
He didn't want me to go through that.
We need to tell you something.
I don't know how to say this.
We're seeing ghosts.
Have you see them too?
Yeah. We have heard a thing or two.
[Sabrina] My mom did believe that the house was haunted
due to her own personal experiences.
We need help. The girls are scared.
We understood, me and my wife,
and actually my whole family,
that there was a big problem in the house,
that it wasn't going to go away easy.
[narrator] Growing up in Mexico,
Isidro's mother often saw ghosts.
My mother, she could see things, you know, very vivid.
[Isidro sighs] Let's just...
Let's just get some sleep, okay? Tomorrow...
Manana, we'll find somebody to help us out with this, all right?
All right, let's go to bed.
Come on, let's get some rest. Come on, girls.
All right. It'll be fine. Okay.
[narrator] While Isidro searches for help,
Sandra looks into the home's history.
Maybe something in its past is to blame for the haunting.
She speaks to a neighbor who grew up next door.
[Sandra] I started talking to my neighbor.
She's the one that told me that it was built in 1900,
and the original owner was an Italian man.
He built the house.
The houses only had two owners,
the man and wife who built the house,
and then their daughter, who took it after they died.
What do you remember about them?
- Mmm. That they loved the house. - Ah.
[Sandra] They loved their home.
They were always planting outside,
they were always doing something to the home.
The wife died in the house.
In your bedroom, actually.
In my bedroom?
Mmm.
[Sandra] I was startled.
[narrator] Sandra now believes the ghosts her family has seen
are the original owners of her home.
I've always been very open to accepting the fact
that spirits do live among us or walk among us,
and I knew that when people passed away
and they were attached to, say, their home, they seem to pop up.
They were attached to the house.
They love the house so much that they don't want to leave it.
And the girls understood.
I think they were okay with it.
Still, I slept on the couch.
And my sister did as well.
[Shannon] We felt safer sleeping together.
[narrator] But one night,
even a sister's company is not enough.
[eerie music playing]
[door opening]
[door creaking]
[Sabrina] I was woken up by the door opening.
[whispering] Shannon.
Shannon.
[Sabrina] I see this tall, tall figure with a hat on and a coat.
All black.
I felt nothing but negative.
But I didn't say a word and I didn't move.
He shined this light on my sister.
And I realized he wasn't holding a flashlight or a phone,
it was just his hand.
[suspenseful music playing]
I remember just seeing the light being flashed on me.
And I didn't move.
And a couple seconds later, I hear him walk out the house.
And I ran up to the door and I locked it.
[narrator] After the incident in the living room,
Shannon decides to sleep upstairs, in Abuela's old apartment,
which has sat vacant since she passed away.
But Sabrina's memory of what happened to her there years ago
keeps her from staying long.
Sabrina...
are you sure that you want to sleep downstairs by yourself?
I don't want to stay up here.
It doesn't feel right.
Like someone's always watching me.
I'd rather stay by the front door in case something happens.
I can just run out.
Okay. Well, I'm here if you need me.
- Night. - Night.
[door creaking]
[footsteps]
When I saw that thing behind the door,
I was not really focused on the feeling,
like if the atmosphere felt heavy.
All I know is that there's this tall thing standing in front of me.
What is it going to do?
What does it want?
You are not her.
Where is your sister?
[narrator] Shannon Nuno has just had
a terrifying encounter with a dark figure.
Where is your sister?
[narrator] But she wasn't the intended target.
[Shannon] I just passed out and then it was over.
When I woke up, I looked around,
'cause it was morning already,
and I was thinking about it again to see...
Remember exactly what it was,
try to remember the details of it.
I knew I wasn't dreaming.
I was scared to sleep upstairs alone.
I left my belongings up there,
but I just moved back downstairs.
[narrator] Certain that time away from their home
is exactly what her family needs,
Sandra arranges a trip to visit Isidro's relatives for the holidays.
She now believes that whatever is after her family feels evil.
[Sandra] You feel it. It's a feeling.
Your hair is all up on your arms.
And it's just like something's there.
It's very terrifying.
We have to go.
[narrator] In Mexico, a cousin suggests
taking the girls to a local shaman for cleansing.
[Sandra] I became very desperate,
because I knew that both of them were going through too much with these entities.
Are you sure this is going to work?
Is he going to help us?
I don't know, baby.
But I sure hope so.
[Shannon] I know, like, a lot of people
don't really believe in this kind of stuff,
and at the time I was kind of iffy about it too.
Por favor.
The shaman that I took my daughters to was a religious shaman.
Those are the ones that practice healing.
[in Spanish] Your body is dirt.
Your blood is water.
Your breath is air.
Your spirit is fire.
Your body is dirt.
Your blood is water.
Your breath is air.
Your spirit is fire.
[narrator] The shaman believes Sabrina and Shannon
have come into contact with evil spirits
who attached themselves to the girls.
In the paranormal world, it's the first level of possession.
They performed, in their culture,
what they believe would get rid of the negativity.
[in Spanish] Your body is dirt.
Your blood is water.
Your breath is air.
Your spirit is fire.
Your body is dirt.
Your blood is water.
Your breath is air.
Your spirit is fire.
Your body is dirt.
Your blood is water.
Your breath is air.
Your spirit is fire!
[coughing]
[gasps]
[eerie music playing]
- [in Spanish] It's over. - [in Spanish] Thank you for everything.
[Sandra] He cleansed them from head to foot,
and they were fine after that. They were fine.
I feel better.
Me too.
After it all happened, I did feel relieved.
Everything went back to normal.
[narrator] Back in Chicago, the Nuno family feels
their troubles are behind them.
When we went back home, everything felt great.
I was hopeful that everything was done and dealt with
so I don't really have any more worries.
- Okay, I'm going to go to sleep... in my room. - [chuckles]
- Good night. - Good night.
[Sabrina] I was watching TV. It was around Christmas time.
[spectral voices speaking indistinctly]
And I started hearing voices.
[spectral voices speaking indistinctly]
My mom had these huge ornaments,
and I looked over to them and I saw the shadow man walking towards me.
[screams]
[Sabrina] I got up and I ran out of the house.
[Isidro] What's the matter, honey?
Papa, it's back.
Who's back?
The man in the boots.
I saw him last night, in the house.
He's back!
I was really afraid and I was really angry.
Leave us alone! You have no right to be here!
[Isidro] I started shouting at them to leave us alone.
[in Spanish] Get out of here, damned ghost!
They heard me. They didn't care.
[narrator] Desperate for help and unsure of where to turn...
for the Nuno family, a solution appears from an unexpected source.
It's Bill Bean, a deliverance minister.
I felt that he was so powerful.
I just was drawn to everything that he was doing.
And I watched the credits, got his name,
and then I contacted him.
[narrator] Bill agrees to come to the house and help the family.
I was very desperate, and it was my last chance.
[narrator] But the forces of darkness seemed displeased
about the minister's impending arrival.
[Sabrina] I would wake up and smell rotten egg.
It was just a really bad smell.
I believed my life was at stake.
[narrator] For some time,
the Nuno family has been experiencing escalating paranormal violence.
They eagerly await the arrival
of deliverance minister Bill Bean.
[Bill] I am a non-denomination
spiritual deliverance minister.
It means that, by the power of God working through me,
I can deliver people from evil.
Thank you so much for coming.
I'm Isidro. This is my wife, Sandra.
Bill was at the house within a week after I contacted him.
I can feel already that you are under attack.
[Bill] Sure enough, when I arrived at the residence,
I felt the presence of evil right away.
It was a very heavy feeling.
I knew that that family was in trouble.
God shows me things like that to put images in my head,
or just the knowing of the situation,
or even show me some of these entities.
[Sabrina] At this point of my life,
I was tired of having to live in fear in my own home.
I was tired of being attacked.
I was just tired with everything.
I was tired with life.
Bill Bean was my last hope.
Our Father, who art in Heaven, Hallowed be thy Name.
[Bill] First thing I did when I entered the home,
I recited the Lord's Prayer.
It is all part of invoking the power of God
over the situation and the victims.
And lead us not to temptation,
but deliver us from the evil one,
for thine is the Kingdom and the power and the glory,
forever and ever. Amen.
[others] Amen.
I am here to help.
And I got to be honest, I sense from God himself
that you have several entities and demons in your home.
Do you know what a portal is? Have you heard that word?
No.
A portal is like a door,
and it's opened between the world of the dead and this world on Earth.
And when it's open...
anything and everything can come through.
Do... do we have portals in our house?
Your house is filled with open portals.
But don't worry, I'm going to close them.
He said, "We have to get rid of this evil
that is literally sucking the life out of your family."
I just had this gut feeling
that he was the one that was sent to us to help us,
that he had the power to do it.
Let's begin.
He blessed everything with holy water.
Every little thing.
Father, I pray that you bless this family.
I pray that you send 50 of your strongest
and most powerful warrior-angels
to guard and protect them and their home.
[Bill] As I'm going through the Nuno home,
it is the power of God that works through me to cast these demons out.
By the mighty power of Yahweh,
by his might and his Holy name, and in the name of Jesus,
I bind and rebuke every demon that might be in this house.
[Bill] I saw demonic entities in there,
and mostly in the form of black forms.
They're not scared of me.
They would kill me if they could.
Let God arise.
May his enemies be scattered.
As the smoke is driven away, so drive them away.
As the wax melted before the flame,
so may the wicked perish
at the presence of the Almighty God.
The power of God works through me in such a strong way
that demons cannot withstand that.
And they have to go. They have to flee.
Warrior-angels, bind and expel all of the demons in this home!
Take them into custody and carry them off!
Deposit them into the pits of Hell, where they belong!
All the lights started to flicker and intensify.
Whatever he was doing was working.
The light was so bright.
I was in shock to see that.
All of a sudden, the lights were like
they were going to explode.
[narrator] Deliverance minister Bill Bean
has fought a battle against evil in the Nuno family's home...
dispelling the darkness.
I felt a huge weight lifted off my shoulders.
Everything felt... It felt good.
[Isidro] The whole house felt very at peace.
You feel at ease.
You feel, uh, serenity.
[Bill] God, I ask that your warrior-angels
take back any spirit left in this house that belongs with you.
[narrator] Bill confirms that in addition to the dark entity,
the spirits of the original owners still reside in the home.
Take them home, Father, to your heavenly Kingdom,
in Jesus' name.
Amen.
[Sandra] I didn't want the original owners to stay,
because I believe that it was time for them to rest.
It was better for them to leave, and Bill sent them away.
I believe they were here because they loved their home...
and because they were trying to protect Sabrina
from the darker things in the house.
It was told to me that Isidro, his ancestors, have gifts.
So this carries on through the family lineage,
to Sabrina.
Bill Bean told me that I have extra sensitivity
because of my twin not making it in the womb.
He did warn me that, because I am a sensitive,
that they would be attracted more so to me.
He did explain that my sister would be able to...
like, defend herself from them.
[Bill] Having those types of gifts,
and if they can make the transformation
from victim to victor, there's no limit
to what God will do through them in helping others.
It's your house.
[Sandra] We were standing outside, and I looked at it,
and it just looked like there was a glow.
A glow around the whole house.
- Thank you. - You're welcome.
I truly appreciate Bill Bean, and I fully believe what he does.
[narrator] Since Bill's blessing,
the Nuno family feels more at peace.
The house feels so light, so loving.
And it's great.
[Sabrina] I feel like after everything that has happened,
my family and I are a lot stronger
and a lot closer with each other.
I feel like it brought us closer together.
[calm music playing]
[suspenseful music playing]
[eerie music playing]