[narrator] Newlyweds move into a remote cabin...
It was fun to just be in the middle of the woods with no one.
Get in here, close.
[narrator] Only to learn
it's haunted by the previous owner.
[ghost] Get out!
Ghosts? That's ridiculous.
[narrator] Who will stop at nothing to get them out.
He wanted us gone
and that was his way of getting us out.
Get off of her!
Leave her alone!
- [man screaming] - I cast you out!
Go!
[narrator] In this world,
there is real evil.
[girl] Someone's in my room
[narrator] It lurks in the darkest shadows.
Between what we see and the things we fear...
there are doors.
When they are opened...
nightmares become reality.
Ironwood.
A once prosperous mining tow in Michigan's upper peninsul
Settled by a hearty lot of souls
content to mostly live off the land.
And paying no mind to the harsh conditions
or the opinions of others.
Come on, Sasha. [calling dog with lips]
Let's get the stuff inside before it gets dark.
[narrator] Adrian grew up hunting and fishing
in these woods with his dad
I learnt from an early age, to hunt and fish,
to be more self-sufficient.
Every hunting season, we were always out hunting,
either for partridge or for deer.
[narrator] Years later,
when a chance came to buy a remote cabin,
he pounced.
What are you doing?
[rustling]
[clacking]
Did you hear that?
What?
- [clacking] - That--
Oh.
Well, that's nothing. That's probably just a bear.
- [clacking] - A bear?
Or a coyote.
Actually, if I was a betting man,
my money would be on a coyote.
[rustling]
Or a bear.
But don't worry, okay? You'll get used to it.
Well, which one's which?
Do you run from a black bear or a brown bear?
- Depends. - On what?
Whether you want to be eaten or not.
- [chuckles] - That's not funny.
Babe, it's kind of funny. It is.
[narrator] For the past few years,
the hunting cabin has serve as Adrian's bachelor pad.
But Adrian has recently married
and has convinced his new bride Nicole
to move out there with him.
[Adrian] This was our house now,
and this is where we are going to live.
Nicole and I were-- We were very happy together.
We could've lived in a small cracker box
and still been happy togethe
[Adrian] Sasha.
Adrian had been living in the cabin
for three or four years before I met him.
We were newlyweds,
so it was fun to just be
in the middle of the woods with no one to bother us.
[Adrian] Wow.
I had no idea that you had this much stuff.
[Nicole exclaims] Come here.
Oh.
- [giggles] - Look at those two.
Couple of dorks.
I love this picture.
[chuckles]
Huh? What's, um...
going on here?
Never be too careful.
Hey, I'm starving.
Do you have any thoughts on, you know,
what you want for dinner?
[melancholy music playing]
Uh, I'm too tired to cook.
[Adrian] Got it.
I will go get us some pizzas.
[Nicole] Hmm.
Hey, have you seen my car keys?
- [ominous music playing] - Mmm-mmm.
I would never move the keys
because he needs things in the same spot every time.
So, I don't move his things
How about I just take your car then?
[unzips purse]
I want it back without a scratch.
- No promises. - [Nicole chuckles]
I know it's kind of wild out there.
[narrator] With Adrian out foraging for food,
Nicole acquaints herself with the basement.
It's like any Northwoods basement.
Dark, smells like mildew.
It's just where you keep all the stuff
you don't need day-to-day. [chuckles]
[exhales] Great!
The basement did give me the creeps.
[electricity crackling]
[Nicole] You've got to be kidding me.
[ominous music paying]
- [crackling stops] - [crickets chirping]
Are you done?
[glasses clinking]
[wind whooshing]
[glasses clinking]
[suspenseful music playing]
[object clinking]
Adrian's keys would move.
That did freak me out a little bit.
Just because I couldn't explain it.
I could not explain that awa
[dog barks distantly]
[dog barking]
[eerie music playing]
[footsteps approaching]
[screams]
- Oh, no. - [exhales sharply]
[melancholy music playing]
So you're telling me... [chuckles]
This place is haunted?
No.
Well, you know, I joke all the time about
how my keys go missing
or things end up in a different room,
just... little stuff like that.
Little stuff like this?
Yeah.
Like this, just harmless stuff.
I had some weird things happen while I was living out there
that I never really thought much about.
You know, paranormal type things.
We used to say that this was the...
ghost of the old man that used to live here.
When I was a kid,
and I always, you know, running around by myself,
hunting and fishing,
I would come by this place.
His place. From time to time.
[Adrian] I remember him very well.
The cranky old man.
I had a number of run-ins, run-ins with him.
[arguing in distance]
[man] I told you to keep yourself quiet!
He was very ornery, very mean towards women.
That's one thing that always
stuck out in my head with this guy.
Quiet! I don't teach you to talk back to me!
Get in that house!
You! What are you doing around here, boy?
This ain't none of your business.
Hey, you're that kid that's been snooping around my place!
That's trespassing, boy,
I'll call the police on you!
[metal door opens]
[torch clicks]
He sounds like an ass.
Whatever happened to that guy?
Well...
he was pretty old so eventually he died.
Yeah, I figured that, smart guy.
But, what happened to him?
Beats me. I heard he had an ulcer or something.
- That sucks. - I know.
He didn't die here in the cabin?
Babe, please, go get ready for bed,
and I'll finish breaking down these boxes and then...
I'll come join you.
[Nicole sighs]
- Okay? - Yeah.
It's okay.
[exhales sharply]
[eerie music playing]
You finished that quick.
That was an old mattress
so I just remember hearing somebody sitting.
I felt the bed just depress next to me.
[shivering] I'm freezing. Get in here close.
[sinister music playing]
[narrator] Nicole has moved into a cabin in the woods
with her new husband Adrian
[shivering] I'm freezing. Get in here close.
[narrator] Not long after moving in,
Nicole ends up sharing her b
with an unwelcome guest.
[sighs]
Did you just get up?
What are you talking about?
I just got done with the boxes in the basement.
[tense music playing]
But you were just here in bed with me.
We were talking.
I thought I smelled liquor. You been drinking?
I swear, you were just here.
I'm gonna go take a shower,
and then, I will be right here.
I'm pretty shaken when this is over.
I don't want to go into the bed.
Um, I don't know what to do
[narrator] Nicole attempts
to put the experience behind her,
and settle into the cabin,
but can't shake the uneasy feeling in her new home.
[suspenseful music playing]
Adrian?
In the kitchen.
[gasps and shivers]
[wind blows]
[sighs] Okay, this place is wigging me out.
[Adrian] Hmm?
Every time I sit down,
I feel like someone's watching me.
Making me all jumpy.
[chuckles] Aw.
Is Nicole all scared
of a little haunted cabin, hmm?
Are the ghosts getting to you a little bit?
[door creaking]
[door shuts]
Look, it's probably nothing,
I'm sure I probably just left a window open or something.
Oh, yeah.
I definitely feel the draft.
[man in hoarse voice] Get ou
[door bangs shut]
You could clearly hear an entity say, "Get out."
Nicole is a very strong person.
Even if she is overwhelmed,
she holds a lot of that inside.
Nicole, wait a minute.
Nicole.
[somber instrumental music playing]
What is all this?
If I'm going to stay
in this haunted cabin with you,
we have to make some changes.
Maybe,
all this bad energy is tied to all this stuff.
His stuff, stuff that was here when we moved in,
and never got rid of.
Maybe...
Maybe he's attached to it.
What do you mean?
So I was thinking
that we give this place a makeover
and it'll be different,
just get rid of all his junk
and just... give it a fresh start.
I think that's what will help get rid of all the bad juju.
I... I kind of like it.
Here's your list.
I need to get started on the porch.
Last thing I need
is it collapsing while our friends come to visit.
And while you're getting the supplies,
I'm gonna start by getting rid
of that carpet in the living room.
It's hideous.
[Adrian chuckles softly]
[inhales]
So get at it.
[Nicole] I was helping do the renovations.
I like to get my hands dirty
In our cabin, it was wall-to-wall carpeting.
It looked like indoor-outdoor carpeting
from probably the 1940s or '50s.
When I pulled up the carpeting,
it had a musty, dank smell.
Just... icky.
[eerie music playing]
And a spot got extremely hard for me to pull up.
It was, like, stuck to the floor.
[music intensifies]
[screams]
[suspenseful music playing]
[narrator] While pulling up the old carpet
in their cabin in the woods.
[screams]
[narrator] Nicole makes a gruesome discovery.
- [Nicole shrieks] - Nicky?
[Nicole breathing heavily]
[Adrian] Holy...
What the hell is that?
I don't know.
It's blood, Adrian!
The floor underneath the carpet
was stained with the blood.
What happened here?
Um... I guess it's the old man.
The old man died right there.
It was not a recoverable injury
by the amount of blood that was there.
You said that he didn't die in the house.
[sighs] Okay.
Look, I didn't want to freak you out.
And you said he died of an ulcer.
This is way too much blood to be an ulcer.
Okay, yes, all right, I'm sorry.
I'll get a bucket and I'll clean it up.
- Can we just go? - [Nicole gagging]
[narrator] Nicole heads out to get some fresh air
and some fresh ideas for the cabin.
I see you like this piece.
It's nice.
[narrator] Adrian recruits his friend Wade
to help with the repairs to the cabin.
But their work only seemed
to ramp up the disruptive activities.
My buddy that helped me out there,
we met when we were probably 16-17 years old.
He was one of those guys
that would have given you the shirt of his back,
even if it meant that he'd freeze to death.
Wait, have you seen my hammer?
I just set it down here a second ago.
I know you had it out here before we left.
It was right there, on top of the toolbox.
Things would get moved.
Things would be moved almost every day.
It's probably that wife of yours.
She's messing with you.
Yeah, maybe.
I'll be right back.
[narrator] Unfortunately, Adrian knows
who most likely moved his hammer.
[door creaking]
Hello?
[eerie music playing]
[eerie music intensifying]
[object banging]
[objects clattering]
[Adrian] The tools would not be where they were.
We would find those tools in the basement.
And the only thing we could attribute it to was--
Was the ghost that was in the house.
[chairs scraping]
Okay.
We'll finish this,
and then finish that porch.
Hell yes! [chuckles]
Appreciate your help.
[smacks lips]
I figured, uh...
one more afternoon,
and we ought to have that porch knocked out.
[knocking on wood]
[knocking continues]
You hear that?
Hey, um...
What's your schedule like on Wednesday,
'cause I was thinkin' we'd probably finish it then.
[knocking continues]
We would hear, like, the thump, thump, thump.
Like somebody walking upstairs from the basement.
Dude, you guys are messing with me.
There's somebody comin' up your basement steps.
Look, trust me, there is nobody there.
[Wade scoffs]
Good stuff.
Stop playin', man.
- I know what y'all-- - [loud bang]
All right, Nicole. [scoffs]
[chuckles] I ain't falling for this.
What the hell?
All right.
Old man, that is enough.
Old man? Your dad here?
[Adrian] No.
No, it's just the ghost of the old man
that used to live here,
he gets all worked up sometimes.
[laughing] What?
We were talking about this activity that we were having.
Yeah, and my buddy thought we were just nuts.
Ghost? That's ridiculous.
You don't believe in that crap.
There's no such thing as ghosts.
- That's a bunch of bull-- - [demonic screech]
Ghost? That's ridiculous.
You don't believe in that crap.
There's no such thing as ghosts.
- That's a bunch of bull-- - [demonic screech]
[narrator] Adrian's friend Wade
has just had his own
frighteningly close encounte of the paranormal kind.
What is going on?
[Adrian] Those bullets came flying towards him,
and he looked at me and he said,
"What the blankety-blank was that?"
And I said, "Well, that's our resident ghost.
That's what we've been talking about."
Look, it's all right. Okay? It's okay.
You just made him mad, that's all.
Made him mad?
Someone just threw a bunch of bullets at me.
Something swiped them right at him,
and it was to prove a point, that I do exist, I'm here.
Wade, wait a minute.
I'm outta here, bro.
Look, it's okay!
Come on, we gotta finish the porch!
I believe it was malicious on that entity's part.
It wanted to make it difficult for us
to do the things that we wanted to do.
Really?
[Adrian] I think it was pushing our buttons.
I think it was trying to see how far it could push us,
with the ultimate goal of us having to leave.
[television on low volume]
[narrator] Later, Adrian and Nicole
finally get a moment to relax and unwind.
But the truce doesn't last long.
[dog panting]
[ghostly whisper]
[gasping]
[choking]
[barks]
[choking continues]
- Nicky! - [gasping]
All of a sudden, her eyes opened up,
the whitest I've ever seen anybody's eyes open up.
- [dog barking] - Baby?
[Adrian] And they looked like they were
gonna pop out of her head.
I could tell that she couldn't breathe.
And whatever it was, was pushing down on her chest.
[gasping for breath]
[barking]
- [gasping, choking] - [dog continues barking]
[Nicole] I felt something heavy on my chest.
I tried lifting myself up with my hands,
and it just felt like somebody really heavy
was sitting on me, and did not want me to move.
- [gasping and choking] - [dog barking]
[Adrian] You could see it pushing her into the couch.
I was not able to move her, not even a centimeter.
And she's starting to turn blue.
-[barking] -[Adrian] Baby! Stay with me, baby.
[Nicole gasping and choking]
The fact that I'm having a hard time breathing,
of course, is scaring the hell out of me.
- [deathly rasping] - [Adrian exclaims]
Get off of her!
[Adrian] She's turning darke shades of blue,
and I know she's dying at this point.
And there's nothing I could do about it.
[gasping]
[Adrian] Baby! Stay with me, baby.
[narrator] There is a malevolent entity in Adrian's cabin,
and it's attacking his wife, Nicole...
- Stay with me, baby! - with all the paranormal strength it can summon.
- [Nicole choking] - Come on!
Get off of her!
Leave her alone!
I swear to God, I will burn this cabin down to the ground!
- [gasping] - Come on, baby!
- I'll get a priest! - [choking and crying]
I'll get a priest in here, and we'll send your ass back
to the pits of hell that you came from!
[exhaling] Baby?
- [Nicole breathes deeply] - Baby, come here!
- Come here, baby. - [exhales]
- [Nicole exhaling deeply] - Oh, my God...
[both breathing heavily]
At the last second, the entity let her up.
And she looked at me, and she said point blank...
Now listen!
I'm outta here!
- [Nicole breathing heavily] - Nicky, wait!
He wanted us gone.
And that was his way of getting us out.
What if that entity hadn't let her go?
Um, and had gone to the point of actually killing her?
Babe. Babe, stop.
Stop. Nicky!
- [car door slams] - [engine starts]
[engine revving]
[Adrian] After the fact, I thought to myself,
if it had not let up on her, and it would have killed her,
who would have believed me, that it wasn't me?
I would be in prison for life right now.
[exhaling]
[narrator] Adrian knows he needs help.
He goes online and finds a lead.
Miss Andrea?
[narrator] Adrian reaches out to Andrea Mesich,
a local paranormal investigator and demonologis
She agrees to meet him.
I'm thinking, really? In small town Ironwood,
there's a paranormal team?
I really had no idea.
For me to reach out to somebody for help,
is unusual, I don't usually ask people for help,
but this was beyond me.
You must be Adrian.
Please, have a seat.
[Adrian exhales]
[Adrian] Thank you for seeing me.
We've been having these things
happen at the cabin for a while now.
Nothing too serious, right?
It was things that I didn't take too seriously, anyways.
But last night, something...
Something attacked my wife.
And I was worried, because I thought...
I thought that it was gonna kill her.
[Andrea] I knew that it was a very urgent situation
I was worried about the safety of everybody involved.
I'm so sorry for what's been happening to your family, Adrian.
I feel like we need to act, fast.
I'd like to get a team out to your place
as quickly as possible.
Can we come tonight?
Yes, of course...
Look I'm not really sure how things like this...
work.
How much does something like this cost?
No self-respecting investigator would ever charge
for anything like this.
I just want to bring your family some peace.
Thank you.
[narrator] Andrea calls in a husband and wife investigative team
she's worked with on a number of cases.
[Dawn] When she calls us in we know it's urgent.
Any potential haunting has the ability
to go bad.
Because you just don't know ahead of time,
what you're dealing with.
This is Dawn and John Grathoff.
They'll be helping me.
They can physically hurt you
As far as scratching,
pushing somebody down the stairs.
Adrian why don't you show them around.
- I'm gonna get a feel for the house. - Sure.
Well, this is the basement.
- [gasps] - [eerie music playing]
I hadn't even been there for five seconds
and I got sucker punched.
- [gasps] - [Andrea] It hurt.
It was very painful.
[sighs in exasperation]
[whispers] It's all right.
[Andrea exhales]
It was picking on me the entire time.
Poking me in the back, poking me in the hip,
poking me in the shoulder.
I knew there was something going on there
and it was targeting me.
[breathing heavily]
Andrea, we're ready.
I asked her if it was okay if I could stay and watch.
She said, "Yes, just don't really say or do anything."
So, I just watched her do her thing.
So,
we got our electroscope,
got a K2 meter,
We can separate them slightly to avoid interference.
Now, spirits can manipulate the electronic fields
and light these devices up, as a way to communicate with us.
So, we're gonna ask the spirit some questions.
"Yes,"
and the electroscope will glow red.
"No," and the K2 meter goes off.
Okay, we're ready to get started.
Are you the spirit of the man that lived in this cabin?
Is there a reason you're here?
Can we help you?
[young John] Are you angry?
[electroscope beeping]
[dramatic music playing]
[electroscope beeping faster]
Can we help you?
[dramatic, eerie music playing]
Hmm. This thing seems to really like you, John.
Do you have a problem with women?
Do you have a problem Andrea?
[electroscope beeping]
[dramatic music playing]
And then I saw something that
John and I are not gonna forget.
The electroscope...
started spinning around on its own.
I've never seen that in my life before.
Yeah, I'm sorry, that's enough.
I'm gonna go.
I don't generally let my emotions
get involved in a whole lot of things.
But, that made every hair on my body stand up.
And I said, "I'm done" and I went outside.
Wow, I have never seen activity like that before.
I mean, this thing is really angry.
Yeah, I think we're gonna have to call in the big guns.
[narrator] Andrea and her te have seen enough.
There's an angry spirit in the house
that needs to be removed.
But it will take more than they can do alone.
I was very determined that
whatever was in that house was not gonna stay.
I knew exactly what I had to do.
[narrator] Andrea sends her fellow investigators hom
and calls for a structural exorcism.
[Andrea] I needed to call Father Robb.
I trust Andrea because she-
she has that good sense of knowing
when is there real evil at work here
that needs the authority of the church.
Thank you so much for coming.
Pleased to meet you, Adrian.
Hello, Padre.
I'll be honest, it's an intense one.
I could sense it, getting out of the car.
We're in for a time tonight.
- Should we-- - No.
Lead the way, no time to waste.
Usually, when there's a disturbance in the house,
it's one of three categories. It's either demonic,
or it's souls of the deceased
or it's a mixture of both intertwined.
[glass shattering]
[Andrea] As soon as he walked in,
the coffee pot
right in front of Father Robb, fell to the ground
with a-- just a crash.
Let's get to work.
Okay, Padre.
My sense was that we probably had
some demonic and souls at work here.
[somber music playing]
By the authority given to me
by our Lord Jesus Christ,
you are not welcome here.
I cast you away.
We were cleansing each room one at a time with
the holy water, the salt, the oils, the metals.
You're leaving all those things behind,
almost like an exterminator would
with going room to room, getting rid of bugs.
By the authority given to me by our Lord Jesus Christ.
You are not welcome here.
I cast you away.
Animals are great barometers.
They're pure spirits
that know if something evil is lurking there.
[dog barking]
Good dog.
By the authority given to me by our Lord Jesus Christ,
Sasha, come.
You are not welcome here.
I cast you away.
[Andrea] Things got very hea in that room.
I could feel a pressure on my shoulders
just weighing me down.
As we get into more serious prayers,
they're no longer playing with us,
they're now fighting against us.
[rumbling, rattling]
A priest has a certain protection,
you know, from God.
And I'm not gonna get hurt or touched
by anything flying at me,
or hitting me, or anything like that.
[door banging opening]
That's the door to the basement.
[Young Andrea] Our father, who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name,
Thy kingdom come,
Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
[Andrea] Father Robb comes in and
he throws everything at whatever spirit might be there.
If it's something more malicious,
he will come guns ablazing.
[speaking other language]
[hoarse demonic voice] Get out of my house!
Get out!
When you get that final prayer in the basement,
that's where you feel that tug of war,
and the evil not wanting to go.
But they have to.
- [speaking other language] - [demon shouting indistinctly]
[Father Robb] Whatever is in this home
it's not from God and of light.
By the power of Jesus Christ of Nazareth
I bind you and send you to the foot of the holy cross.
I cast you out!
Go!
[Andrea] At the very last moment Father Robb utters, "Go."
And there's definitely a shift in the air.
[Young Andrea] It's gone.
It's not here anymore.
[narrator] After that night
even though the building quieted,
Adrian and Nichole moved closer to town.
For a while even Adrian stays away.
But eventually he returns for hunting retreats.
Come on, Sasha.
That is a good girl.
Now, you are absolutely sure you don't wanna stick around
or maybe get some dinner, something?
I'm good.
This is good enough for me.
All right.
But you know you're gonna be missing out on all of this.
- [laughs] - [chuckles softly]
- Am I though? - [laughs]
I think I'll be fine.
Okay.
I'll pick you up Saturday.
And you better have a deer for me by then.
Yes, ma'am.
- Love you. - Love you.
Nichole will never spend a night out there again.
And I don't blame her.
This is real.
Anybody talks about a ghost the naysayers that say that.
You're crazy or this doesn't happen,
you're a naysayer until it happens to you.
And when it happens to you,
God help you.