1 00:00:05,872 --> 00:00:07,106 I love this house. 2 00:00:08,174 --> 00:00:09,608 I love you. 3 00:00:09,610 --> 00:00:12,277 Get the door though, all right? Let's get in here. 4 00:00:12,279 --> 00:00:14,446 [narrator] Childhood sweethearts reconnect. 5 00:00:14,948 --> 00:00:16,281 [Joe] It was just... 6 00:00:16,283 --> 00:00:18,884 you know, it was perfect timing, actually. 7 00:00:18,886 --> 00:00:20,986 [narrator] But their happily ever after... 8 00:00:21,021 --> 00:00:22,221 is threatened. 9 00:00:22,989 --> 00:00:24,089 [Danika] Joe... 10 00:00:26,092 --> 00:00:27,526 [screams] Joe! 11 00:00:27,528 --> 00:00:28,927 [banging on wall] 12 00:00:28,929 --> 00:00:31,096 [Danika] It was just like, random things... 13 00:00:31,698 --> 00:00:33,032 until it wasn't. 14 00:00:33,933 --> 00:00:34,933 - [eerie growling] - Dan! 15 00:00:34,935 --> 00:00:36,835 We were both pretty terrified. 16 00:00:36,837 --> 00:00:39,671 [narrator] When a darkness plots 17 00:00:39,673 --> 00:00:41,073 to tear them asunder. 18 00:00:41,075 --> 00:00:42,975 [Danika] Oh, my God, Joe! 19 00:00:43,710 --> 00:00:45,177 [narrator] In this world, 20 00:00:45,412 --> 00:00:46,845 there is real evil. 21 00:00:46,847 --> 00:00:50,682 [child] Someone's in my room. 22 00:00:50,684 --> 00:00:53,285 [narrator] It lurks in the darkest shadows. 23 00:00:56,056 --> 00:00:58,190 Between what we see, 24 00:00:58,725 --> 00:01:00,993 and the things we fear, 25 00:01:01,861 --> 00:01:03,662 there are doors. 26 00:01:03,664 --> 00:01:05,064 When they are opened... 27 00:01:06,833 --> 00:01:11,036 nightmares become reality. 28 00:01:18,678 --> 00:01:19,745 [narrator] Providence, Rhode Island, 29 00:01:19,747 --> 00:01:22,648 one of America's oldest cities. 30 00:01:22,650 --> 00:01:25,984 Founded as a haven for religious pilgrims, 31 00:01:25,986 --> 00:01:28,420 its name means providing protection 32 00:01:28,422 --> 00:01:30,389 or spiritual care. 33 00:01:35,495 --> 00:01:39,164 And that's exactly what former police officer, Joe Menano 34 00:01:39,166 --> 00:01:42,101 hopes it will be for his new family. 35 00:01:42,368 --> 00:01:44,069 Dream house, yeah. 36 00:01:44,071 --> 00:01:46,905 [Joe] I just really needed somebody in my life I can trust and... 37 00:01:46,907 --> 00:01:48,006 care about and... 38 00:01:48,008 --> 00:01:50,142 who just brought some levity into my life. 39 00:01:50,144 --> 00:01:52,244 I'd gone through so much for so long, 40 00:01:52,246 --> 00:01:55,481 it was just, you know, it was perfect timing actually. 41 00:01:55,483 --> 00:01:59,084 [narrator] After a string of bad luck and near-fatal work injuries, 42 00:01:59,086 --> 00:02:03,422 Joe has reconnected with his childhood sweetheart, Danika. 43 00:02:03,424 --> 00:02:04,957 They've recently married 44 00:02:04,959 --> 00:02:06,959 and are building a new life together. 45 00:02:06,961 --> 00:02:07,826 [Danika] Hey, Joey. 46 00:02:07,828 --> 00:02:09,962 You got that box? That's the heavy one. 47 00:02:09,964 --> 00:02:12,998 Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's good, it's good. I got it. [chuckles] 48 00:02:13,233 --> 00:02:14,967 I love this house. 49 00:02:15,135 --> 00:02:16,869 Okay. 50 00:02:16,871 --> 00:02:19,605 -All right. I love you. Get the door though. -[both chuckle] 51 00:02:19,607 --> 00:02:21,006 In a hurry, over here. 52 00:02:21,008 --> 00:02:24,409 [Joe] By the time Danika and I met back later in life, 53 00:02:24,411 --> 00:02:27,446 we had both gone through divorces. 54 00:02:27,448 --> 00:02:29,748 And when we found each other, it was... 55 00:02:29,750 --> 00:02:32,751 it was kind of funny, we picked right back up where we left off. 56 00:02:32,753 --> 00:02:35,954 [narrator] The couple settle into their new home. 57 00:02:35,956 --> 00:02:38,757 Also unpacking baggage of a different kind. 58 00:02:38,759 --> 00:02:40,392 Uh, yeah, I'm... 59 00:02:40,394 --> 00:02:41,793 trying to make the place look perfect 60 00:02:41,795 --> 00:02:44,763 and I'm not sure this is gonna have a place. 61 00:02:44,765 --> 00:02:46,298 I went three for four on that game. 62 00:02:48,768 --> 00:02:50,002 We'll figure it out. 63 00:02:56,809 --> 00:02:59,211 Look Joe, it's your Pop! 64 00:03:00,213 --> 00:03:02,014 He's so handsome. 65 00:03:04,784 --> 00:03:06,385 I love a man in uniform. 66 00:03:08,388 --> 00:03:09,922 My husband became a police officer 67 00:03:09,924 --> 00:03:12,191 because his father was a police officer and... 68 00:03:12,193 --> 00:03:13,025 it's all he knew. 69 00:03:13,027 --> 00:03:14,960 And I think that it was something that 70 00:03:14,962 --> 00:03:17,296 made his father pretty proud of him. 71 00:03:19,499 --> 00:03:21,200 You ever miss the job, babe? 72 00:03:22,235 --> 00:03:24,937 I had some very serious injuries. I was almost killed. 73 00:03:24,939 --> 00:03:27,372 I actually looked down the barrel of the gun and watched it go off. 74 00:03:28,875 --> 00:03:29,575 Sometimes you gotta... 75 00:03:29,577 --> 00:03:31,977 take the hint and move on, no? 76 00:03:37,684 --> 00:03:41,853 [narrator] Not long after Joe and Danika move in, 77 00:03:41,855 --> 00:03:45,958 they begin to feel they're not the only ones living there. 78 00:03:50,563 --> 00:03:51,997 Hon! 79 00:03:51,999 --> 00:03:55,400 I understand about a lot of complicated things, but this? 80 00:03:55,402 --> 00:03:57,336 I got it, I got it, I got it. 81 00:03:59,572 --> 00:04:03,008 You press this button on that remote, right? 82 00:04:03,910 --> 00:04:07,446 Then you press the up arrow on this one. 83 00:04:07,914 --> 00:04:11,116 Then you press the up arrow on this one. 84 00:04:11,118 --> 00:04:13,919 Then the center button after you scroll down, 85 00:04:13,953 --> 00:04:15,754 and over, 86 00:04:15,756 --> 00:04:18,257 press select. It auto-signs you in. 87 00:04:18,958 --> 00:04:20,025 It's nothing to it. 88 00:04:20,693 --> 00:04:21,827 Joe. 89 00:04:21,829 --> 00:04:22,728 [Joe] Danika and I... 90 00:04:22,730 --> 00:04:23,762 when we would have... 91 00:04:23,764 --> 00:04:25,897 I don't even want to call them arguments. 92 00:04:25,899 --> 00:04:27,432 Some of them were but some of them were like, 93 00:04:27,434 --> 00:04:29,835 two people who are best friends, who have known each other a long time, 94 00:04:29,837 --> 00:04:32,537 who can kind of yell at each other and not mean it. 95 00:04:32,539 --> 00:04:34,439 What do you want from me? Look, you want to watch your shows, 96 00:04:34,441 --> 00:04:36,908 I got you the manner by which to watch your shows. 97 00:04:36,910 --> 00:04:38,977 You used to have 18 remotes, I got it down to three. 98 00:04:38,979 --> 00:04:39,878 Are you kidding me right now? 99 00:04:39,880 --> 00:04:41,346 [loud banging] 100 00:04:43,416 --> 00:04:44,516 [Joe] Out of the blue, 101 00:04:44,518 --> 00:04:46,718 on the wall of the room we were in. 102 00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:48,687 Enough where it kind of, shook the room. 103 00:04:48,689 --> 00:04:51,189 Three very loud bangs, like... 104 00:04:51,191 --> 00:04:55,227 like a grown man was taking his fist and punching the wall. 105 00:04:56,129 --> 00:04:57,296 What was that? 106 00:05:02,835 --> 00:05:03,935 [Joe] I don't know, baby. 107 00:05:06,873 --> 00:05:07,973 I'm gonna go find out. You stay here. 108 00:05:07,975 --> 00:05:09,241 Okay. 109 00:05:19,686 --> 00:05:20,786 [Joe] I tried to figure out 110 00:05:20,788 --> 00:05:23,155 what exactly was happening. 111 00:05:23,157 --> 00:05:26,091 And I actually walked around a little bit. 112 00:05:41,074 --> 00:05:42,674 [banging on wall] 113 00:05:42,676 --> 00:05:44,876 And right then, 114 00:05:44,878 --> 00:05:47,145 three bangs happened again on the wall, 115 00:05:47,147 --> 00:05:49,114 right in front of my face. 116 00:05:51,784 --> 00:05:52,751 Sake. 117 00:05:52,753 --> 00:05:54,453 [Joe] I actually felt 118 00:05:54,455 --> 00:05:56,755 the wind of what... 119 00:05:56,757 --> 00:05:58,657 if a human being was standing in front of you, 120 00:05:58,659 --> 00:06:00,192 hitting the wall, 121 00:06:00,194 --> 00:06:02,494 you'd sense their arm moving, and feel that wind. 122 00:06:02,496 --> 00:06:03,862 That's what I felt. 123 00:06:03,864 --> 00:06:06,365 And it really scared me half to death. 124 00:06:20,913 --> 00:06:22,381 - Joe. - [Joe screams] 125 00:06:23,015 --> 00:06:24,216 Baby! 126 00:06:24,951 --> 00:06:26,118 What was it, Joe? 127 00:06:26,686 --> 00:06:27,686 I don't know, baby but... 128 00:06:27,688 --> 00:06:29,821 you scared the crap out of me. 129 00:06:29,823 --> 00:06:31,790 I was scared [bleep] less. I didn't know what to do. 130 00:06:31,792 --> 00:06:33,992 Geez. 131 00:06:35,762 --> 00:06:38,296 Oh, baby, baby. Behind me. Behind me. Behind me. 132 00:06:51,411 --> 00:06:52,411 [Joe] I don't know. 133 00:06:52,678 --> 00:06:53,612 I don't know. 134 00:06:54,747 --> 00:06:57,849 Joe, do you think it's your dad trying to... 135 00:06:57,851 --> 00:07:00,051 get in touch with you, trying to get your attention? 136 00:07:00,653 --> 00:07:01,420 Babe, 137 00:07:01,854 --> 00:07:03,154 Dad's been dead for years. 138 00:07:03,389 --> 00:07:04,689 - What do you mean, get my attention? That's crazy. - I don't know 139 00:07:04,691 --> 00:07:07,726 but I don't understand, there's any other explanation. 140 00:07:07,728 --> 00:07:10,729 [Joe] And that was when we kind of realized that something... 141 00:07:10,731 --> 00:07:11,930 that was happening there that we... 142 00:07:11,932 --> 00:07:13,398 we were out of control of. 143 00:07:13,400 --> 00:07:15,167 We were both pretty terrified. 144 00:07:16,803 --> 00:07:21,139 [narrator] With no explanation for what's going on in their home, 145 00:07:21,141 --> 00:07:24,843 Joe Menano spends a restless night. 146 00:07:24,845 --> 00:07:26,244 [wood creaking] 147 00:07:29,415 --> 00:07:30,949 [footsteps] 148 00:07:30,951 --> 00:07:33,051 - Babe... - [footsteps approaching] 149 00:07:33,118 --> 00:07:34,319 Babe! 150 00:07:38,758 --> 00:07:39,825 I heard two or three... 151 00:07:39,827 --> 00:07:41,159 distinct footsteps 152 00:07:41,161 --> 00:07:43,895 of what sounded like a grown man walk up 153 00:07:43,897 --> 00:07:45,397 to the side of my bed. 154 00:07:45,399 --> 00:07:47,232 And I can feel... 155 00:07:48,134 --> 00:07:50,368 something or someone standing there. 156 00:07:52,171 --> 00:07:53,338 Babe. 157 00:07:59,212 --> 00:08:00,312 Dan. 158 00:08:02,748 --> 00:08:04,015 Dan, wake up. 159 00:08:05,885 --> 00:08:08,053 [in demonic voice] You're not gonna wake up. 160 00:08:10,089 --> 00:08:10,989 Dan! 161 00:08:10,991 --> 00:08:11,857 Wake up! 162 00:08:11,859 --> 00:08:14,926 What I felt was sheer terror. 163 00:08:14,928 --> 00:08:17,462 - Wake up! - What? What... what-- 164 00:08:17,464 --> 00:08:18,930 The hell is wrong with you? 165 00:08:18,932 --> 00:08:21,299 There was somebody watching me, then you were... 166 00:08:21,601 --> 00:08:23,935 - talking like a zombie. - What? 167 00:08:23,937 --> 00:08:26,137 Yeah, like you were possessed or whatever. There was a... 168 00:08:26,973 --> 00:08:27,973 felt somebody... 169 00:08:27,975 --> 00:08:29,407 just staring at me. 170 00:08:29,409 --> 00:08:30,542 The foot of the bed, there. 171 00:08:30,544 --> 00:08:32,410 What are you talking about, Joe? 172 00:08:32,412 --> 00:08:34,379 [Danika] Really, I thought that he was... he was nuts. 173 00:08:34,381 --> 00:08:36,815 I'm talking and I don't know I'm talking, 174 00:08:36,817 --> 00:08:40,018 and he's sensing something at the same time that I'm talking? 175 00:08:40,419 --> 00:08:42,954 It's... it's just not believable. 176 00:08:43,856 --> 00:08:46,124 - Your voice, it was like a deep growl. - Joe... 177 00:08:48,027 --> 00:08:48,894 You really don't remember? 178 00:08:48,896 --> 00:08:50,195 No, Joe. 179 00:08:51,130 --> 00:08:53,098 Maybe it was just a nightmare. 180 00:08:54,867 --> 00:08:56,434 But I'm up now. 181 00:08:57,103 --> 00:08:59,037 Gonna go get a glass of water. 182 00:08:59,272 --> 00:09:01,072 You go to sleep, Joe. 183 00:09:02,108 --> 00:09:03,141 Yeah. 184 00:09:06,279 --> 00:09:07,345 Yeah. 185 00:09:10,750 --> 00:09:12,951 [Joe] You know, you don't want to go to sleep. 186 00:09:12,953 --> 00:09:13,818 You don't want to be alone in the house. 187 00:09:13,820 --> 00:09:15,020 You get up in the middle of the night, 188 00:09:15,022 --> 00:09:17,055 you get that feeling like something's watching you 189 00:09:17,057 --> 00:09:19,257 and that's kind of when... 190 00:09:19,859 --> 00:09:22,060 it really got bad. 191 00:09:22,261 --> 00:09:24,095 It really got bad after that. 192 00:09:27,066 --> 00:09:28,133 Crazy nut. 193 00:09:28,135 --> 00:09:29,901 Sure, Dan. 194 00:09:29,903 --> 00:09:31,202 Talking in your sleep. 195 00:09:31,938 --> 00:09:33,204 I'm a zombie. 196 00:09:38,110 --> 00:09:40,111 [eerie breathing] 197 00:10:06,872 --> 00:10:07,906 [screeching] 198 00:10:07,908 --> 00:10:09,341 [screams] 199 00:10:22,088 --> 00:10:23,221 [shrieking] 200 00:10:24,991 --> 00:10:26,291 What? 201 00:10:26,293 --> 00:10:27,959 What is it? What, baby? 202 00:10:27,961 --> 00:10:29,060 Baby, what, what, what-- 203 00:10:29,062 --> 00:10:30,862 Did something bite me? 204 00:10:30,864 --> 00:10:31,997 - What? - Right here. 205 00:10:31,999 --> 00:10:33,398 Where, where? Here we go. 206 00:10:33,833 --> 00:10:35,233 - Okay. - Oh, Dan. 207 00:10:36,168 --> 00:10:39,270 - Oh, Dan, baby, you got scratches. - What? 208 00:10:40,239 --> 00:10:42,107 Three in a row. 209 00:10:42,109 --> 00:10:46,778 [narrator] A series of disconcerting and unexplainable experiences 210 00:10:46,780 --> 00:10:49,147 has been happening to Joe and Danika Menano 211 00:10:49,149 --> 00:10:51,883 since they moved into their new home. 212 00:10:51,885 --> 00:10:53,118 It looks deep. Does... 213 00:10:53,252 --> 00:10:54,419 does this hurt? 214 00:10:55,388 --> 00:10:56,788 Yes. 215 00:10:56,790 --> 00:10:57,956 Tonight, 216 00:10:57,958 --> 00:10:59,124 it turned physical. 217 00:10:59,126 --> 00:11:00,392 Baby, baby. 218 00:11:00,926 --> 00:11:02,994 This isn't my dad, okay? 219 00:11:02,996 --> 00:11:04,229 He would never hurt you. 220 00:11:05,931 --> 00:11:07,265 This is something different. 221 00:11:08,234 --> 00:11:11,269 Something bad, baby. 222 00:11:11,271 --> 00:11:13,571 [Danika] He would have tried anything to get rid of this negativity, 223 00:11:13,573 --> 00:11:15,173 because, as a man, 224 00:11:15,175 --> 00:11:16,975 this is your family. I'm his wife. 225 00:11:16,977 --> 00:11:19,544 Somebody's trying to hurt his wife. 226 00:11:19,546 --> 00:11:21,446 So, at this point, he had had enough. 227 00:11:22,548 --> 00:11:24,749 [narrator] While Danika is away on a work trip, 228 00:11:24,751 --> 00:11:28,687 Joe begins watching ghost hunting tv shows 229 00:11:28,689 --> 00:11:32,057 and is curious about electronic voice phenomenon. 230 00:11:32,059 --> 00:11:34,192 And how it might be able to tell him 231 00:11:34,194 --> 00:11:36,394 what's going on in the house. 232 00:11:41,033 --> 00:11:42,934 Select, arrow up, 233 00:11:42,968 --> 00:11:44,302 volume down. 234 00:11:44,737 --> 00:11:47,105 Doesn't take a rocket scientist. 235 00:11:49,942 --> 00:11:52,877 [narrator] He buys a digital tape recorder 236 00:11:52,879 --> 00:11:55,146 and begins to ask questions. 237 00:11:55,148 --> 00:11:56,347 Who are you? 238 00:11:59,418 --> 00:12:00,351 What's your name? 239 00:12:02,855 --> 00:12:03,955 You know what, 240 00:12:03,989 --> 00:12:05,290 what do you want? 241 00:12:05,758 --> 00:12:07,292 Why are you bothering me? 242 00:12:09,795 --> 00:12:11,963 [Joe] It wasn't until I kind of found 243 00:12:11,965 --> 00:12:14,699 paranormal investigations on tv 244 00:12:14,701 --> 00:12:16,401 and really started getting into it, 245 00:12:16,403 --> 00:12:18,069 that all of this stuff... 246 00:12:18,071 --> 00:12:20,171 really started going crazy. 247 00:12:20,973 --> 00:12:21,773 [recorder clicks] 248 00:12:21,775 --> 00:12:22,974 [Joe, on recorder] Who are you? 249 00:12:23,409 --> 00:12:25,076 [faint growling] 250 00:12:25,811 --> 00:12:26,878 What's your name? 251 00:12:26,880 --> 00:12:27,946 [recorder clicks] 252 00:12:27,948 --> 00:12:29,180 Who are you? 253 00:12:29,815 --> 00:12:30,415 [faint growling] 254 00:12:32,051 --> 00:12:33,284 Who are you? 255 00:12:36,689 --> 00:12:38,056 What do you want? 256 00:12:38,691 --> 00:12:39,991 Why are you bothering me? 257 00:12:40,760 --> 00:12:42,160 [dramatic music playing] 258 00:12:46,766 --> 00:12:48,333 [faint whispering on recorder] 259 00:12:49,401 --> 00:12:51,770 [narrator] Joe begins to obsessively record. 260 00:12:51,772 --> 00:12:56,040 Listening for any electronic voice phenomenon. 261 00:12:56,776 --> 00:12:59,310 [Joe] As I started listening, and doing more and more, 262 00:13:00,012 --> 00:13:02,046 I realized as I would listen back, 263 00:13:02,048 --> 00:13:03,815 I would hear whispering. 264 00:13:03,817 --> 00:13:06,284 [faint whispering] 265 00:13:09,188 --> 00:13:11,856 [Danika] It was just like random... random things, 266 00:13:11,924 --> 00:13:13,725 until it wasn't. 267 00:13:13,727 --> 00:13:14,726 [Danika] Hey, Joe, they were out of, um, 268 00:13:14,728 --> 00:13:17,962 Moo Shu Pork, so I got you some Mongolian beef. 269 00:13:19,799 --> 00:13:22,734 Joe, can you take the headphones off and talk to the living? 270 00:13:22,736 --> 00:13:23,968 [Joe] Shh. 271 00:13:25,871 --> 00:13:27,038 [fast whispering] 272 00:13:31,043 --> 00:13:33,077 I swear it's... 273 00:13:34,013 --> 00:13:35,380 saying I'm worthless. 274 00:13:36,816 --> 00:13:38,316 Oh, Joey. 275 00:13:38,884 --> 00:13:40,785 You're starting to scare me. 276 00:13:40,787 --> 00:13:43,188 Either you're hearing something that... 277 00:13:43,190 --> 00:13:46,224 is there or you're hearing something that isn't there. 278 00:13:47,560 --> 00:13:48,993 Joe! 279 00:13:56,669 --> 00:13:59,037 [Joe] I couldn't tell what it said at first, 280 00:13:59,039 --> 00:14:00,104 but I could hear it. I knew it was there. 281 00:14:00,106 --> 00:14:01,873 It was in the white noise of the recorder, 282 00:14:01,875 --> 00:14:03,908 kind of, that static. 283 00:14:03,910 --> 00:14:06,311 I would hear what sounded like, talking, to me. 284 00:14:12,818 --> 00:14:14,118 Very fast, 285 00:14:14,120 --> 00:14:16,321 very quiet whispering. 286 00:14:17,623 --> 00:14:19,090 [faint whispering] 287 00:14:19,825 --> 00:14:20,959 I slowed it down a little bit 288 00:14:20,961 --> 00:14:22,594 and it was all just... 289 00:14:22,596 --> 00:14:24,195 swearing at me, vulgar. 290 00:14:24,197 --> 00:14:26,030 Telling me it was going to kill me. 291 00:14:26,032 --> 00:14:27,966 It wants my soul. 292 00:14:27,968 --> 00:14:28,900 It's gonna kill my family. 293 00:14:28,902 --> 00:14:30,935 It wants Danika and I apart. 294 00:14:30,937 --> 00:14:32,337 It has a right to be there. 295 00:14:32,339 --> 00:14:33,804 [ghoulish voices] 296 00:14:43,415 --> 00:14:47,919 [narrator] Joe keeps the darker contents of the EVPs from Danika. 297 00:14:47,921 --> 00:14:52,090 Eventually, he begins hearing them in real time. 298 00:14:52,925 --> 00:14:55,026 You're a fun date. 299 00:14:56,095 --> 00:14:59,063 Yeah. Okay, baby, I'll be done in a minute. 300 00:15:00,299 --> 00:15:01,299 Yeah. 301 00:15:01,366 --> 00:15:02,367 Sure. 302 00:15:08,908 --> 00:15:11,075 [Danika] So, he started running a recorder, 303 00:15:11,844 --> 00:15:14,679 when we would watch tv at night, I'd fall asleep. 304 00:15:14,681 --> 00:15:16,014 He'd have the recorder on 305 00:15:16,016 --> 00:15:17,982 and he would just listen to it, 306 00:15:18,083 --> 00:15:19,250 and listen to it. 307 00:15:19,885 --> 00:15:21,352 [woman on tv] 308 00:15:23,756 --> 00:15:25,089 [faint whispering] 309 00:15:34,967 --> 00:15:36,935 [eerie sound] 310 00:15:38,203 --> 00:15:40,038 [whooshes] 311 00:15:43,943 --> 00:15:46,077 [ghoulish voices] 312 00:15:46,979 --> 00:15:48,746 [whispering] 313 00:15:48,748 --> 00:15:50,915 [ghoulish voice] Kill yourself, Joe. 314 00:15:50,917 --> 00:15:52,884 [Joe] All of a sudden, now I'm hearing 315 00:15:52,886 --> 00:15:54,719 this thing, this energy, 316 00:15:54,721 --> 00:15:57,088 this... this spirit. I don't know. 317 00:15:57,090 --> 00:15:59,190 You know, it's all a big, kind of mystery to me. 318 00:15:59,192 --> 00:16:02,961 [ghoulish voices] 319 00:16:04,763 --> 00:16:08,833 [voices continue] 320 00:16:08,835 --> 00:16:11,035 I'm coming to kill you. 321 00:16:11,037 --> 00:16:12,170 Dan, did you hear that? 322 00:16:13,005 --> 00:16:13,972 No! 323 00:16:14,039 --> 00:16:15,873 Baby! 324 00:16:15,875 --> 00:16:18,009 - No. - Tell me that you heard that. 325 00:16:18,677 --> 00:16:19,877 No. 326 00:16:19,879 --> 00:16:21,846 I'm sorry, baby, I didn't. 327 00:16:21,848 --> 00:16:23,381 I didn't hear anything. 328 00:16:41,400 --> 00:16:45,703 [narrator] Joe is certain there is a message for him in the static. 329 00:16:45,705 --> 00:16:49,907 Something that could solve the strange occurrences in their home. 330 00:16:49,942 --> 00:16:51,642 Every waking hour, 331 00:16:51,644 --> 00:16:54,112 Joe continues his quest. 332 00:17:07,426 --> 00:17:10,395 [Joe] I sat there every night while she slept, 333 00:17:10,896 --> 00:17:12,397 with headphones on, 334 00:17:12,399 --> 00:17:13,731 trying to figure out 335 00:17:13,733 --> 00:17:16,067 what this thing was saying. 336 00:17:17,503 --> 00:17:20,104 Because I thought, maybe there's a message here. 337 00:17:20,106 --> 00:17:22,340 Maybe if I can figure out what it wants... 338 00:17:22,841 --> 00:17:24,075 I can... 339 00:17:24,077 --> 00:17:25,109 give it what it wants, 340 00:17:25,111 --> 00:17:28,046 help it get somewhere and get this out of my life. 341 00:17:29,048 --> 00:17:31,249 Effing drive yourself nuts, Menano. 342 00:17:45,998 --> 00:17:47,231 [knocking at window] 343 00:17:47,433 --> 00:17:48,433 [knock] 344 00:17:54,073 --> 00:17:55,139 What? 345 00:17:56,842 --> 00:17:58,009 Dan! 346 00:18:01,814 --> 00:18:04,382 [narrator] Retired police officer, Joe Menano 347 00:18:04,384 --> 00:18:07,085 has become obsessed with documenting the voices 348 00:18:07,087 --> 00:18:09,120 he hears in his home. 349 00:18:09,922 --> 00:18:10,621 Tonight, 350 00:18:10,623 --> 00:18:12,857 the unexplained incidents 351 00:18:12,859 --> 00:18:16,060 take an even darker, more menacing turn. 352 00:18:20,132 --> 00:18:22,300 [knocking on window] 353 00:18:25,070 --> 00:18:26,170 What? 354 00:18:27,973 --> 00:18:29,407 - Dan! - What? 355 00:18:29,409 --> 00:18:31,008 - Dan! The window! - What? 356 00:18:31,010 --> 00:18:32,944 What did you want me to see? 357 00:18:32,946 --> 00:18:34,011 There... there was something... 358 00:18:34,046 --> 00:18:36,147 someone 359 00:18:36,149 --> 00:18:38,082 right there outside the window. 360 00:18:39,084 --> 00:18:40,084 No, Joe. 361 00:18:40,086 --> 00:18:41,185 Couldn't have. 362 00:18:41,687 --> 00:18:42,386 Wha... 363 00:18:42,388 --> 00:18:44,856 think about it, it's... 364 00:18:44,858 --> 00:18:47,725 second floor. How is anybody even gonna get up here? 365 00:18:47,727 --> 00:18:49,160 There's no way 366 00:18:49,162 --> 00:18:51,295 that anybody would be out there. Just... 367 00:18:52,164 --> 00:18:52,497 think about it, Joey. 368 00:18:52,499 --> 00:18:55,032 Hey, I... 369 00:18:55,034 --> 00:18:57,835 [Danika] It was impossible for it to be somebody standing outside of our window 370 00:18:57,837 --> 00:18:59,670 because there was no fire escape, 371 00:18:59,672 --> 00:19:01,873 there was nothing over there. 372 00:19:01,875 --> 00:19:04,075 I thought he was fricking crazy. 373 00:19:04,077 --> 00:19:05,109 Yeah, but I... 374 00:19:05,978 --> 00:19:07,078 I swear. 375 00:19:08,013 --> 00:19:09,147 I swear, 376 00:19:09,149 --> 00:19:10,982 I saw. 377 00:19:10,984 --> 00:19:12,984 It had these eyes. 378 00:19:13,752 --> 00:19:15,052 Oh, Joe. 379 00:19:15,420 --> 00:19:17,088 You gotta stop the recordings. 380 00:19:17,090 --> 00:19:19,157 You gotta stop listening to them. 381 00:19:20,192 --> 00:19:21,959 Go to sleep, Joe. 382 00:19:22,895 --> 00:19:23,995 Go to sleep. 383 00:19:26,231 --> 00:19:27,265 Yeah. 384 00:19:28,967 --> 00:19:30,268 Yeah. 385 00:19:35,707 --> 00:19:38,276 Yeah, yeah. You're probably right. 386 00:19:57,729 --> 00:19:58,863 [narrator] Knowing Joe is struggling, 387 00:19:58,865 --> 00:20:01,332 and time together is rare, 388 00:20:01,334 --> 00:20:04,936 Danika makes a special dinner for them both. 389 00:20:07,639 --> 00:20:10,107 [Danika] There was one night where Joey was working a double, 390 00:20:10,109 --> 00:20:12,843 and I tried to do something nice for him. 391 00:20:12,845 --> 00:20:15,046 I had lit candles around. 392 00:20:20,919 --> 00:20:21,953 Oh! 393 00:20:21,955 --> 00:20:24,222 For heaven's sakes, Joe. 394 00:20:25,958 --> 00:20:28,693 You scared me half to death 395 00:20:28,695 --> 00:20:30,428 and now my clothes are going to be ruined. 396 00:20:30,430 --> 00:20:32,430 [Joe] I'll tell you what, 397 00:20:32,432 --> 00:20:35,800 I'll finish with dinner and everything. You go upstairs and... 398 00:20:35,834 --> 00:20:37,935 take a shower. 399 00:20:37,937 --> 00:20:40,838 Soak out the stain or whatever and just... 400 00:20:40,840 --> 00:20:42,240 Hey, just relax. Okay? 401 00:20:50,849 --> 00:20:51,315 Aw! 402 00:20:51,383 --> 00:20:53,084 Joe... 403 00:21:07,065 --> 00:21:11,702 [Danika] The messages on the mirror, they were all negative towards him. 404 00:21:11,704 --> 00:21:14,138 So, it was like, "He's a liar." 405 00:21:14,140 --> 00:21:15,973 "He doesn't deserve you." 406 00:21:17,876 --> 00:21:18,409 Joe. 407 00:21:20,145 --> 00:21:21,345 Joe! 408 00:21:21,913 --> 00:21:22,212 I swear, 409 00:21:23,782 --> 00:21:24,882 I saw. 410 00:21:24,884 --> 00:21:26,684 It had these eyes. 411 00:21:26,686 --> 00:21:27,718 [narrator] Danika Menano, 412 00:21:27,720 --> 00:21:31,555 is worried about her husbands mental state. 413 00:21:31,557 --> 00:21:34,992 She isn't sure if she's more afraid that he might be insane 414 00:21:36,094 --> 00:21:39,230 or if there really is something sinister afoot. 415 00:21:41,099 --> 00:21:42,933 Joe! 416 00:21:44,936 --> 00:21:46,871 Baby, baby! Are you okay? 417 00:21:46,873 --> 00:21:47,772 You okay? 418 00:21:47,774 --> 00:21:48,673 - What's going on? - Look. 419 00:21:48,675 --> 00:21:50,941 Did you do this? 420 00:21:50,943 --> 00:21:52,910 [Joe] She's like, when were you in here? 421 00:21:52,912 --> 00:21:55,046 And I told her, I said, I wasn't in here. 422 00:21:55,048 --> 00:21:56,881 I was in the living room the whole time. 423 00:21:56,883 --> 00:21:58,316 She just turned around and looked. 424 00:21:59,151 --> 00:22:01,319 And on the mirror, was... 425 00:22:02,988 --> 00:22:05,823 something written in the steam. 426 00:22:05,825 --> 00:22:09,060 I've been in the living room. I was in the living room the whole time, I swear. 427 00:22:11,963 --> 00:22:13,164 Oh, Joe. 428 00:22:14,733 --> 00:22:16,167 We gotta talk. 429 00:22:27,913 --> 00:22:29,980 I'm really afraid, Joe. 430 00:22:30,982 --> 00:22:32,983 All this stuff that's been going on, 431 00:22:34,219 --> 00:22:35,386 is it you? 432 00:22:37,122 --> 00:22:38,322 Is it not you? 433 00:22:43,195 --> 00:22:44,328 Are you okay? 434 00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:49,333 Yeah. 435 00:22:52,871 --> 00:22:54,939 There's even more I didn't tell you. 436 00:22:59,644 --> 00:23:01,245 I'm hearing these voices. 437 00:23:03,915 --> 00:23:06,317 Especially this male voice... yells. 438 00:23:08,387 --> 00:23:09,720 I'm home alone and... 439 00:23:09,755 --> 00:23:11,122 at night. 440 00:23:11,923 --> 00:23:14,024 When I'm alone in the house, it's been... 441 00:23:16,962 --> 00:23:17,661 it's been telling me some 442 00:23:17,663 --> 00:23:18,762 bad things. 443 00:23:21,066 --> 00:23:23,033 [Joe] It was telling me it wanted to kill me. 444 00:23:23,035 --> 00:23:25,169 It was telling me it wanted to end my marriage 445 00:23:25,171 --> 00:23:27,004 and get me alone and kill me. 446 00:23:27,672 --> 00:23:28,973 God, Joe. 447 00:23:30,142 --> 00:23:31,976 I had no idea it was this... 448 00:23:32,077 --> 00:23:33,177 dark. 449 00:23:33,979 --> 00:23:35,146 This violent. 450 00:23:37,983 --> 00:23:39,183 Yeah. 451 00:23:40,485 --> 00:23:42,019 I didn't want to tell you. 452 00:23:42,954 --> 00:23:45,322 I didn't want to scare you more than you already were. 453 00:23:48,093 --> 00:23:49,393 Do you think that... 454 00:23:50,695 --> 00:23:53,197 whatever this thing is... 455 00:23:54,833 --> 00:23:56,934 it's what's writing on the bathroom mirror? 456 00:24:00,839 --> 00:24:02,106 I don't know... 457 00:24:06,945 --> 00:24:08,312 but I do know, 458 00:24:09,047 --> 00:24:10,347 that I'm not crazy. 459 00:24:12,884 --> 00:24:14,318 And I'm not... 460 00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:16,320 playing games with you. 461 00:24:18,990 --> 00:24:22,059 [Danika] At this point, we definitely think something's up. 462 00:24:22,794 --> 00:24:24,895 Like, it's not... it's not... 463 00:24:24,897 --> 00:24:26,697 a little tiny, like, ghost 464 00:24:26,699 --> 00:24:28,933 Casper, the Friendly Ghost haunting. 465 00:24:28,935 --> 00:24:30,701 This is now something that we're starting to think 466 00:24:30,703 --> 00:24:34,071 is at a demonic level. 467 00:24:34,806 --> 00:24:39,043 He really felt like it was something that wanted to separate us. 468 00:24:39,578 --> 00:24:43,013 [narrator] With the paranormal activity escalating, 469 00:24:43,015 --> 00:24:47,017 they are willing to go to extremes to get some answers. 470 00:24:47,085 --> 00:24:48,619 Danika suggests 471 00:24:48,621 --> 00:24:51,188 an unorthodox method. 472 00:24:51,190 --> 00:24:53,257 Maybe we need to ask it what it wants. 473 00:24:53,825 --> 00:24:55,092 What it is. 474 00:24:56,761 --> 00:24:59,096 I've been asking, baby. 475 00:24:59,898 --> 00:25:02,166 The only response I get are curses. 476 00:25:03,802 --> 00:25:05,269 We need to communicate with it. 477 00:25:10,408 --> 00:25:11,976 We need a truce. 478 00:25:15,914 --> 00:25:17,014 I got this. 479 00:25:18,850 --> 00:25:20,017 What? 480 00:25:20,886 --> 00:25:22,086 What are you doing? 481 00:25:22,621 --> 00:25:24,188 Look, this is what I got. 482 00:25:24,756 --> 00:25:26,357 I think we need to use this thing. 483 00:25:26,791 --> 00:25:28,893 [Joe] We get to a point where 484 00:25:28,895 --> 00:25:31,829 we were gonna try anything to see what's up. 485 00:25:31,831 --> 00:25:34,064 We decided this was something we were gonna do. 486 00:25:42,941 --> 00:25:45,409 Is there someone in this house 487 00:25:45,411 --> 00:25:47,344 who's trying to get our attention? 488 00:25:51,182 --> 00:25:52,349 [Joe] Yes. 489 00:25:57,022 --> 00:25:58,188 Do we know you? 490 00:26:02,961 --> 00:26:03,961 Are you related? 491 00:26:11,202 --> 00:26:12,303 No. 492 00:26:15,140 --> 00:26:16,807 What is it? 493 00:26:16,809 --> 00:26:18,275 - What? What? - Baby? 494 00:26:18,944 --> 00:26:20,077 Baby, I... 495 00:26:20,144 --> 00:26:21,812 feel hands 496 00:26:21,879 --> 00:26:23,647 - on my shoulders. - No. 497 00:26:23,649 --> 00:26:26,116 No, this can't be. Joe, I don't see anyone. 498 00:26:26,118 --> 00:26:28,218 Yeah, baby. I'm telling you, I feel it. 499 00:26:31,289 --> 00:26:32,389 Who are you? 500 00:26:38,563 --> 00:26:39,496 A... 501 00:26:40,899 --> 00:26:42,199 - Baby, you doing this? - [Danika] Mmm-mmm. 502 00:26:43,101 --> 00:26:44,168 Z... 503 00:26:48,807 --> 00:26:49,974 E... 504 00:26:52,944 --> 00:26:54,278 [Danika] Who's Z? 505 00:26:55,981 --> 00:26:56,981 [Danika whimpers] 506 00:26:58,216 --> 00:26:59,249 E. 507 00:27:04,089 --> 00:27:05,155 L. 508 00:27:06,358 --> 00:27:07,391 Azazel? 509 00:27:07,993 --> 00:27:08,892 Well, what the hell is that? 510 00:27:08,894 --> 00:27:10,661 What? Is it a name? 511 00:27:10,663 --> 00:27:13,063 Azazel? I don't frickin' know, baby. 512 00:27:14,733 --> 00:27:16,767 What? What's that on your leg? 513 00:27:16,769 --> 00:27:18,636 Joe! What's on your leg? 514 00:27:18,638 --> 00:27:21,038 - Oh, my God, Joe! - Oh! 515 00:27:21,973 --> 00:27:24,808 [narrator] Joe and Danika Menano have taken a chance 516 00:27:24,810 --> 00:27:27,778 trying to communicate with a spirit 517 00:27:27,780 --> 00:27:30,214 they believe is haunting their home. 518 00:27:32,017 --> 00:27:33,317 [Joe screams] 519 00:27:33,985 --> 00:27:35,953 What is that on your leg? 520 00:27:35,955 --> 00:27:40,858 But the message it had is seared into Joe's skin. 521 00:27:40,860 --> 00:27:42,893 Oh, my God, Joe, what is that on your leg? 522 00:27:42,895 --> 00:27:43,560 -Baby, -What? 523 00:27:43,562 --> 00:27:44,962 What happened? What? 524 00:27:44,964 --> 00:27:46,830 Don't even worry about it. Don't even worry about it. 525 00:27:46,832 --> 00:27:48,232 What the hell is Azazel? 526 00:27:50,135 --> 00:27:51,168 [Joe groans] 527 00:27:53,872 --> 00:27:54,872 Uh... 528 00:27:54,939 --> 00:27:56,273 Azazel. 529 00:27:57,409 --> 00:28:00,044 Biblical demon with yellow eyes. 530 00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:04,314 Biblical demon with yellow eyes? 531 00:28:06,751 --> 00:28:09,420 [Joe] Where have I been that something this old or evil 532 00:28:09,422 --> 00:28:11,588 could be attached to me or my house? 533 00:28:11,590 --> 00:28:13,757 You know, I'm just a regular guy from Rhode Island. 534 00:28:13,759 --> 00:28:15,859 Like, why would this thing be in my house? 535 00:28:15,861 --> 00:28:17,161 Uh, I mean... 536 00:28:17,163 --> 00:28:19,229 It's obviously something intelligent. 537 00:28:19,431 --> 00:28:20,430 It's uh... 538 00:28:20,432 --> 00:28:22,966 paying attention to everything that's going on. 539 00:28:24,135 --> 00:28:27,237 I never had anything like this happen to me until I met you, Joe. 540 00:28:29,574 --> 00:28:30,974 [dramatic music playing] 541 00:28:31,609 --> 00:28:34,845 [narrator] Realizing they need extra help, 542 00:28:34,847 --> 00:28:38,849 Joe contacts renowned demonologist, Carl L. Johnson 543 00:28:38,851 --> 00:28:39,550 and his associate, 544 00:28:39,552 --> 00:28:41,418 Elise Carlson. 545 00:28:42,987 --> 00:28:46,790 [Carl] I'm a paranormal researcher who specializes as a demonologist. 546 00:28:46,792 --> 00:28:49,493 I define demonology as, 547 00:28:49,495 --> 00:28:51,829 the systematic study of the lore, 548 00:28:51,831 --> 00:28:54,698 and cultural traditions of wicked spirits. 549 00:28:54,700 --> 00:28:58,535 [narrator] Johnson began his paranormal career decades earlier. 550 00:28:58,537 --> 00:29:00,904 Investigating the Perron family haunting 551 00:29:00,906 --> 00:29:02,906 in nearby Harrisville, Rhode Island. 552 00:29:02,908 --> 00:29:04,108 That case... 553 00:29:04,110 --> 00:29:07,244 inspired the first Conjuring movie. 554 00:29:09,814 --> 00:29:11,381 You know, Joe started out when he called saying, 555 00:29:11,383 --> 00:29:13,117 "I hope you won't think I'm crazy." 556 00:29:15,153 --> 00:29:16,186 Interesting. 557 00:29:17,188 --> 00:29:18,255 Ready? 558 00:29:18,590 --> 00:29:20,023 Let's do it. 559 00:29:23,695 --> 00:29:26,163 [Carl] Elise and I work very well together. 560 00:29:26,798 --> 00:29:29,399 She has a background in law enforcement 561 00:29:29,401 --> 00:29:31,335 and investigative procedure. 562 00:29:36,941 --> 00:29:39,676 I'm Danika, Joe's wife. 563 00:29:39,678 --> 00:29:41,411 - We're really glad you came. - Yeah. 564 00:29:41,413 --> 00:29:43,413 I'm Carl. This is my colleague, Elise. 565 00:29:44,415 --> 00:29:46,283 Joe's been making a lot of recordings. 566 00:29:47,852 --> 00:29:49,887 We're just gonna talk for a bit right now. 567 00:29:49,889 --> 00:29:51,388 Gather some information. 568 00:29:51,390 --> 00:29:53,423 All right? So, Joe... 569 00:29:53,425 --> 00:29:56,693 tell us what you believe these voices have been saying to you. 570 00:29:56,695 --> 00:29:58,595 Uh, do you mind if we record the conversation? 571 00:29:58,597 --> 00:30:01,098 So I don't miss anything. 572 00:30:01,100 --> 00:30:03,667 [Danika] I think that they came just to make sure that we're not crazy. 573 00:30:03,669 --> 00:30:05,569 And honestly, 574 00:30:05,571 --> 00:30:08,906 I kind of wanted to make sure that my husband wasn't crazy. 575 00:30:08,908 --> 00:30:11,575 [narrator] Carl and Elise listen intently 576 00:30:11,577 --> 00:30:14,812 as Joe and Danika describe what's been happening. 577 00:30:14,814 --> 00:30:17,848 [Elise] We learned a little bit more about Joe. 578 00:30:17,850 --> 00:30:21,118 That he had been through a very traumatic experience. 579 00:30:21,120 --> 00:30:23,420 You were grazed by a bullet over your ear, in the line of duty? 580 00:30:24,088 --> 00:30:25,122 Yes. 581 00:30:26,591 --> 00:30:27,424 Yeah. 582 00:30:28,726 --> 00:30:30,427 Thought I was going to meet my maker. 583 00:30:32,797 --> 00:30:35,232 That's when we started hearing the voices in the house. 584 00:30:42,707 --> 00:30:44,408 It's telling me some horrible things. 585 00:30:46,711 --> 00:30:48,111 Telling me I'm worthless. 586 00:30:50,782 --> 00:30:52,282 That I should off myself. 587 00:30:55,053 --> 00:30:56,320 They're trying to break us up. 588 00:30:58,790 --> 00:30:59,857 I see. 589 00:30:59,859 --> 00:31:03,026 [Carl] I thought there was no ghost haunting Joe. 590 00:31:03,028 --> 00:31:05,028 Oh, there were strange things happening in the house, 591 00:31:05,030 --> 00:31:06,997 but his main problem 592 00:31:06,999 --> 00:31:09,867 I thought was rooted in his psyche. 593 00:31:09,869 --> 00:31:12,936 A manifestation of his own thoughts, his own mind, 594 00:31:12,938 --> 00:31:14,304 his own conscience. 595 00:31:14,906 --> 00:31:16,039 Ah, but, uh... 596 00:31:16,708 --> 00:31:18,075 but maybe, uh... 597 00:31:18,743 --> 00:31:20,911 maybe the most disturbing thing is uh, 598 00:31:20,945 --> 00:31:22,379 this writing on the... 599 00:31:23,381 --> 00:31:25,082 on the steamed up bathroom mirror. 600 00:31:27,185 --> 00:31:28,986 That's fascinating, Joe. 601 00:31:29,754 --> 00:31:31,088 Just fascinating. 602 00:31:32,557 --> 00:31:33,991 [Elise] Interesting scripts. 603 00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:38,095 Do you mind if we just have a look around? 604 00:31:40,031 --> 00:31:40,697 Sure. 605 00:31:40,699 --> 00:31:42,366 Yeah, yeah, sure. Sure. 606 00:31:46,638 --> 00:31:49,640 [Elise] So, Carl and I looked around the house to... 607 00:31:49,642 --> 00:31:50,874 find handwriting samples 608 00:31:50,876 --> 00:31:52,609 without alerting the homeowners 609 00:31:52,611 --> 00:31:54,411 because we didn't want to make them feel 610 00:31:54,413 --> 00:31:56,246 like we were calling them out on it. 611 00:32:04,389 --> 00:32:05,656 We wanted to match up 612 00:32:06,024 --> 00:32:08,258 who could have possibly written those words on the mirror. 613 00:32:09,794 --> 00:32:10,961 Interesting. 614 00:32:11,930 --> 00:32:12,763 What did you find? 615 00:32:12,797 --> 00:32:14,431 Well... 616 00:32:14,433 --> 00:32:17,234 you see how the A's and E's are written on that mirror? 617 00:32:18,202 --> 00:32:20,971 I don't know anyone who writes an A or an E like that. 618 00:32:21,339 --> 00:32:22,406 Agreed. 619 00:32:23,675 --> 00:32:26,777 These are written by a number of different people. 620 00:32:26,779 --> 00:32:29,112 None of them match the writing on that shower mirror. 621 00:32:29,747 --> 00:32:32,249 Yeah, none match here in the mail either. 622 00:32:33,217 --> 00:32:35,118 Now this is getting interesting, isn't it? 623 00:32:36,788 --> 00:32:37,621 Hmm. 624 00:32:39,390 --> 00:32:42,125 I just want to rule out a few things. 625 00:32:43,828 --> 00:32:46,930 Rule out any possible anomalies or... 626 00:32:46,932 --> 00:32:50,033 Yeah, or debunk any paranormal causes. Look, 627 00:32:50,902 --> 00:32:51,635 steady readings. 628 00:32:51,702 --> 00:32:53,236 Oh. 629 00:32:53,238 --> 00:32:56,139 Oh. Right here is where Danika said she was scratched. 630 00:33:03,381 --> 00:33:06,550 Yeah, but you see, there's nothing in the red here, even the orange. 631 00:33:06,552 --> 00:33:09,886 I mean, there's nothing unexplainable here except maybe... 632 00:33:09,888 --> 00:33:11,955 maybe the microwave is leaking a bit. 633 00:33:12,890 --> 00:33:15,792 [Carl] I did not attribute it to anything paranormal. 634 00:33:15,794 --> 00:33:18,862 So, that's how I would have logged it, 635 00:33:18,864 --> 00:33:21,231 had not other information come to light. 636 00:33:29,774 --> 00:33:30,407 [Elise] Thanks. 637 00:33:30,409 --> 00:33:31,375 [clears throat] 638 00:33:31,743 --> 00:33:33,810 Well, Carl, Elise... 639 00:33:33,812 --> 00:33:35,312 there's something I want you to hear. 640 00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:37,848 I think we've got enough information right now 641 00:33:37,850 --> 00:33:39,116 for our initial investigation. 642 00:33:39,118 --> 00:33:41,251 We'll check our notes and get back to you, okay? 643 00:33:42,020 --> 00:33:43,553 Well, you see... 644 00:33:43,555 --> 00:33:45,155 there's a spirit and... 645 00:33:45,157 --> 00:33:48,225 he told us his name was Azazel through the spirit board. 646 00:33:48,559 --> 00:33:50,827 Joe, it's okay. 647 00:33:50,829 --> 00:33:54,131 A real demon wouldn't give its name like that. 648 00:33:54,133 --> 00:33:56,366 We're gonna gather our notes and thoughts and we'll get back to you. 649 00:33:56,868 --> 00:33:57,767 Okay? 650 00:34:00,138 --> 00:34:01,771 [narrator] Back at their office, 651 00:34:01,773 --> 00:34:06,777 Elise begins reviewing the recording they made at the Menano interview. 652 00:34:06,779 --> 00:34:11,081 Subject believes he is being targeted by a negative entity. 653 00:34:13,918 --> 00:34:16,019 [audio static] 654 00:34:18,056 --> 00:34:20,157 [faint whispering] 655 00:34:30,601 --> 00:34:32,903 [audio static] 656 00:34:32,905 --> 00:34:33,970 [whispering] I'm going to kill you. 657 00:34:33,972 --> 00:34:35,439 Ca-- Carl! 658 00:34:35,973 --> 00:34:37,174 Come in here. 659 00:34:38,376 --> 00:34:40,944 What's going on? 660 00:34:40,946 --> 00:34:44,281 I'm transcribing the notes from the conversation over at the Menanos. 661 00:34:44,982 --> 00:34:47,117 I can hear someone... 662 00:34:47,119 --> 00:34:48,852 it sounds like someone inhaling. 663 00:34:48,854 --> 00:34:49,753 Like, 664 00:34:49,755 --> 00:34:51,054 about to speak. 665 00:34:51,889 --> 00:34:53,490 Like, a deep voice whisper. 666 00:34:53,492 --> 00:34:56,960 So, I rewind the recording and... 667 00:34:56,962 --> 00:35:00,363 I can clearly hear there's another voice that wasn't anyone there at the table. 668 00:35:00,965 --> 00:35:02,232 Listen to this. 669 00:35:02,533 --> 00:35:03,633 I'll boost it a bit. 670 00:35:12,910 --> 00:35:15,112 This may be a bit more complicated than we thought. 671 00:35:16,848 --> 00:35:17,447 Play it again. 672 00:35:19,851 --> 00:35:21,418 [Carl] It's taunting Joe. 673 00:35:21,420 --> 00:35:22,853 It's got personality to it. 674 00:35:22,855 --> 00:35:25,021 It's putting him down. 675 00:35:25,023 --> 00:35:27,257 This then, was the voice that Joe was hearing. 676 00:35:27,992 --> 00:35:30,127 [whispering] I'm going to kill you. 677 00:35:31,395 --> 00:35:33,497 It was not his imagination. 678 00:35:33,499 --> 00:35:36,833 And it wasn't purely a psychological anomaly. 679 00:35:36,835 --> 00:35:40,971 It was something detached and something real. 680 00:35:41,839 --> 00:35:44,007 Something separate from Joe himself. 681 00:35:45,510 --> 00:35:47,077 It's... 682 00:35:47,144 --> 00:35:50,647 actually responding intelligently to the questions we're asking Joe and Danika. 683 00:35:50,649 --> 00:35:52,682 Or that they're asking us. 684 00:35:52,684 --> 00:35:54,985 And we have ourselves a genuine haunting. 685 00:36:03,427 --> 00:36:06,596 [narrator] The demonologists return to the Menanos. 686 00:36:06,598 --> 00:36:07,898 To Joe and Danika, 687 00:36:07,900 --> 00:36:10,367 it couldn't happen fast enough. 688 00:36:11,636 --> 00:36:13,470 We're so glad you guys are back. 689 00:36:13,472 --> 00:36:16,006 You said you'd got voice on the tape. 690 00:36:16,008 --> 00:36:17,974 [Joe] When they called and said that they 691 00:36:17,976 --> 00:36:19,376 had captured... 692 00:36:19,744 --> 00:36:21,711 speaking on their recording, 693 00:36:21,713 --> 00:36:23,647 I felt validated because I knew it was real. 694 00:36:23,649 --> 00:36:26,082 Several, actually, Joe. 695 00:36:27,718 --> 00:36:31,588 What we think has been happening to you is caused by a poltergeist. 696 00:36:31,590 --> 00:36:33,823 Brought on by the stress of your near-death experience 697 00:36:33,825 --> 00:36:37,127 and opening up your latent abilities. 698 00:36:37,129 --> 00:36:39,796 When someone has what we call a near-death experience, 699 00:36:39,798 --> 00:36:41,364 [eerie sound] 700 00:36:43,234 --> 00:36:46,002 It opens up a whole new dimension for them. 701 00:36:46,004 --> 00:36:48,638 They're suddenly aware that there's more out there. 702 00:36:48,640 --> 00:36:51,174 And someone's life is never the same 703 00:36:51,176 --> 00:36:53,009 after a near-death experience. 704 00:36:53,011 --> 00:36:57,247 Not only are poltergeists known to wreak havoc by physically moving things, 705 00:36:57,448 --> 00:36:59,783 they can have a voice too. 706 00:36:59,785 --> 00:37:02,385 And it's that voice we're able to hear through the recording we made. 707 00:37:03,721 --> 00:37:05,021 Listen to this. 708 00:37:05,122 --> 00:37:07,824 When I was transcribing the notes from our last conversation, 709 00:37:07,826 --> 00:37:08,758 I realized, 710 00:37:08,760 --> 00:37:12,128 we'd also captured an unnerving, deep growl. 711 00:37:13,030 --> 00:37:16,099 As well as several, quite aggressive EVPs. 712 00:37:17,034 --> 00:37:18,301 Like this one. 713 00:37:22,039 --> 00:37:23,974 Do you have a message for me? 714 00:37:28,212 --> 00:37:30,180 [audio static] 715 00:37:32,650 --> 00:37:33,516 That's it. 716 00:37:34,852 --> 00:37:36,820 That's the voice that's been torturing me! 717 00:37:36,822 --> 00:37:38,288 That's what I've been hearing. 718 00:37:39,790 --> 00:37:41,424 And now you're hearing it too, right? 719 00:37:41,426 --> 00:37:42,993 Yes, Joey. 720 00:37:42,995 --> 00:37:44,261 We can hear it too. 721 00:37:44,695 --> 00:37:46,062 Oh, my God. 722 00:37:46,064 --> 00:37:48,798 [Carl] This voice that previously only Joe Menano had heard, 723 00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:51,568 within his own hearing, within his mind, 724 00:37:51,570 --> 00:37:53,803 had been taunting him, deriding him, 725 00:37:53,805 --> 00:37:56,072 telling him he's worthless, give it all up. 726 00:37:56,974 --> 00:37:58,041 Now we hear the voice. 727 00:37:58,043 --> 00:38:00,410 This turned everything around. 728 00:38:00,412 --> 00:38:02,145 It's a game changing moment. 729 00:38:02,413 --> 00:38:03,813 No longer do we think 730 00:38:03,815 --> 00:38:06,916 it is just what's happening in Joe's mind. 731 00:38:06,918 --> 00:38:09,252 It's assaulting him, it's talking to him. 732 00:38:09,954 --> 00:38:11,354 This is a real, 733 00:38:11,989 --> 00:38:13,890 parapsychological, 734 00:38:13,892 --> 00:38:14,991 phenomenon. 735 00:38:15,092 --> 00:38:16,192 So, 736 00:38:16,827 --> 00:38:18,328 this is real? 737 00:38:19,130 --> 00:38:21,097 Poltergeists are real? 738 00:38:22,733 --> 00:38:24,000 What are they? 739 00:38:24,635 --> 00:38:26,069 It's a German phrase, 740 00:38:26,071 --> 00:38:27,837 that literally means noisy ghosts. 741 00:38:27,839 --> 00:38:30,040 But in today's terms, 742 00:38:30,042 --> 00:38:33,843 it's usually energy coming from a living person. 743 00:38:33,845 --> 00:38:35,845 It's a call for attention. 744 00:38:35,913 --> 00:38:37,947 A call for help. 745 00:38:37,949 --> 00:38:40,950 A release of excess energy that a person has. 746 00:38:40,952 --> 00:38:44,187 Leaving some sort of mark on the universe. 747 00:38:44,855 --> 00:38:46,823 See, a poltergeist is a construct. 748 00:38:46,825 --> 00:38:48,925 It takes a force. It's very real. 749 00:38:48,927 --> 00:38:51,828 It's been documented. It can move things. 750 00:38:51,830 --> 00:38:54,064 They can appear as living beings, 751 00:38:54,066 --> 00:38:55,165 even though they aren't. 752 00:38:56,834 --> 00:38:58,268 [Joe] So, it's me? 753 00:38:59,470 --> 00:39:02,405 But it's not me? That's a lot to take in. 754 00:39:02,407 --> 00:39:05,075 Now, just to be clear, Joe. It is coming from you, 755 00:39:05,077 --> 00:39:07,777 from your emotions needing a release, 756 00:39:07,779 --> 00:39:10,046 fear, stress, guilt... 757 00:39:10,048 --> 00:39:12,182 manifested outwards. 758 00:39:12,184 --> 00:39:14,784 It could be feelings connected to leaving the force 759 00:39:14,818 --> 00:39:15,618 or... 760 00:39:16,921 --> 00:39:18,154 worry about letting your father down. 761 00:39:18,889 --> 00:39:20,290 Joe. 762 00:39:21,192 --> 00:39:23,993 Your father was proud of you till the day he died. 763 00:39:24,362 --> 00:39:26,162 And so am I. 764 00:39:27,431 --> 00:39:31,167 [Carl] In my long experience with investigating, I've... 765 00:39:31,169 --> 00:39:33,970 encountered the demonic numerous times. 766 00:39:35,005 --> 00:39:36,973 Never have I found a situation where it was... 767 00:39:36,975 --> 00:39:39,042 so internalized. 768 00:39:41,846 --> 00:39:43,146 Joe's was unique, 769 00:39:43,148 --> 00:39:44,381 because... 770 00:39:44,383 --> 00:39:46,850 it was his inner demon that was speaking to him. 771 00:39:46,852 --> 00:39:50,053 And I'm not talking about a psychological inner demon. 772 00:39:50,721 --> 00:39:52,989 It was living on its own. 773 00:39:53,090 --> 00:39:54,824 Except, within him. 774 00:39:54,859 --> 00:39:56,760 Speaking to him. 775 00:39:56,762 --> 00:39:59,028 Never had a situation like that before. 776 00:39:59,864 --> 00:40:00,797 Can we get rid of it? 777 00:40:00,799 --> 00:40:03,933 Yes, but it's going to take time and effort. 778 00:40:03,935 --> 00:40:07,404 This entity has become very real to you and that's it's power. 779 00:40:07,406 --> 00:40:10,774 You've got to treat it as a separate personality and banish it. 780 00:40:10,808 --> 00:40:11,674 Diminish it. 781 00:40:12,843 --> 00:40:15,044 It's time to take back your life, Joe. 782 00:40:16,881 --> 00:40:18,281 You got to treat the... 783 00:40:18,916 --> 00:40:20,450 activity like a... um, 784 00:40:20,452 --> 00:40:22,051 unruly child. 785 00:40:22,053 --> 00:40:25,722 Okay, don't give it any unnecessary attention, especially, 786 00:40:25,724 --> 00:40:27,090 for behaving badly. 787 00:40:27,558 --> 00:40:29,225 We can't thank you enough. 788 00:40:33,864 --> 00:40:35,932 [Joe] I eventually just learned how to 789 00:40:35,934 --> 00:40:37,801 block it out and forget about it. 790 00:40:37,803 --> 00:40:39,235 You just have to find a balance. 791 00:40:53,851 --> 00:40:55,285 - Hey! - Hi. 792 00:40:57,922 --> 00:40:59,155 This is for you. 793 00:40:59,857 --> 00:41:01,291 Thanks, baby doll. 794 00:41:02,560 --> 00:41:05,061 White wine? Smart. 795 00:41:05,663 --> 00:41:06,796 [Joe] I learned a lot about the paranormal. 796 00:41:06,798 --> 00:41:10,266 I feel like I've learned a lot about myself. 797 00:41:10,268 --> 00:41:13,102 And yeah, I mean, I still deal with it from time to time but 798 00:41:13,104 --> 00:41:15,805 because I'm able to manage it now I definitely think it's been 799 00:41:15,807 --> 00:41:17,407 more of a blessing than a curse 800 00:41:17,409 --> 00:41:18,775 because I came out the other end 801 00:41:18,777 --> 00:41:21,110 a little bit wiser, a little bit smarter. 802 00:41:21,112 --> 00:41:23,079 Understanding a lot more. 803 00:41:23,948 --> 00:41:25,381 [eerie growling] 804 00:41:25,983 --> 00:41:27,116 Joey. 805 00:41:28,719 --> 00:41:30,119 What was that noise? 806 00:41:36,827 --> 00:41:38,428 I must have left the faucet running 807 00:41:38,430 --> 00:41:40,063 when I washed my hands. 808 00:41:40,898 --> 00:41:41,931 - Okay. - [Joe] Be right back. 809 00:41:41,933 --> 00:41:42,999 Okay. 810 00:41:47,104 --> 00:41:48,304 [eerie growling]