Oh, my God. I can't believe it.
A new collector spies vintage dolls for sale.
The minute I saw their picture, I had to have them.
Only to find their sweet faces... Big smile.
..hide a dark secret. Mummy.
All this starts happening right after she gets these dolls.
OK. They were taking her life for theirs.
And she must take drastic steps...
That's when it started speaking to me.
..to contain the evil within them.
It became very intense. It really scared out of me.
Lily was pure evil.
I am getting you out of my house!
In this world, there is real evil.
Someone's in my room.
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.
Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
A close knit community of rolling hills and picturesque towns.
A place that values things that last.
To an outsider this little enclave might not look like much...
but to long time resident Mary Jo Chudley,
she knows that one man's trash is another man's treasure.
SERENE MUSIC PLAYING
Oh, my God. I can't believe it!
My mother collected a certain doll
and I was actually looking for the collectible doll
that was in one of those pictures
to get in her honour after she passed away.
I just really had the urge that I had to get that doll.
That was the doll that I was meant to have.
Yeah, hi. I am calling about your ad.
The one with the dolls. Yeah, good. 60 bucks for the pair.
I'll leave them outside. Put the cash in my mailbox.
I'm just interested in the one. They come together or not at all.
I'll tell you what. I just want them gone.
You come over today, you can have them both for 30.
Deal.
DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING
When I saw the one, I had to have her.
I know they had to stay together.
I felt something was wrong.
I just took both of them.
My heart was racing. I was really nervous and I'm not like that.
I'm gonna call you Gretchen.
And you Lily Mae.
OK, you girls ready? Gonna go to your new home.
I promise you're gonna love it.
You can't park here. OK, thanks. I'm just leaving.
Mary Jo grew up in this house.
This was her bedroom as a child.
Then her daughter Vickey's. OK, where are we gonna put you?
Now that Vickey is grown with her own family,
it's Mary Jo's hobby room, her special place.
This is the first collectible doll I've ever owned.
It's definitely special.
I felt like I was their mother now.
And it's weird cos they're dolls.
I felt like I had to take care of them.
It's perfect.
All right. Goodnight.
INTENSE MUSIC PLAYS
So, Vickey asked us to watch Charlie and I was thinking
why don't we make a day out of it and we take him to the zoo?
He would love that.
He went crazy when we were watching the monkeys on the internet.
Right.
What was that?
I have no idea. It was probably the fuse.
The lights were flashing and they're all brand new...
so right away, you know me, I'm gonna find this problem.
I will be right back.
INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING
Jesus.
Relax. It's just me.
Bill, you about gave me a heart attack.
Well, why don't you just sit down, relax.
I'll do the dishes.
My husband Bill could not find one reason
why those lights were flickering on and off.
Nothing electrical would have caused that.
I took it as a big warning that something is not right.
BIRDS CHIRPING
WHISTLES
Baby, if you keep flirting like that,
I might have to take the night off of work and call in sick.
I physically heard a whistle.
The whistle was kind of like a catcall...
that's why I thought Mary Jo was messing around with me.
Bill? Are you talking to me?
It is kinda hot and steamy in here. I'm just saying.
WATER RUNNING
WHISTLES
WHISTLING
I heard whistling.
Just like that. Like, "hey, you. I'm here."
-WATER RUNNING -WHISTLING CONTINUES
I heard like a mumble. Like a child mumble and like giggling.
It was coming from the hobby room.
CHILD LAUGHING
EERIE MUSIC PLAYING
Oh, my God, stop it.
There's nothing up in that room
that will cause any kind of flies or any kind of bugs at all.
Bill! Bill! Help! I'm stuck!
Bill! Help me!
Mary Jo. Bill, I'm in here! I can't get out.
MARY JO PANTING
That door just slammed shut on me
and I couldn't even, I couldn't get out.
It was just, it was so scary.
Listen. Go downstairs, catch your breath, relax.
OK? I'll be down in a second. All right? Go ahead.
FOOTSTEPS RECEDING
MUSIC INTENSIFIES
Something's definitely going on but I couldn't put my finger on it.
INTENSE MUSIC PLAYS
CLOCK TICKS
00:22:42.120 -- 00:22:45.720 In spite of the strange incident with the door,
Mary Jo finds herself spending more and more time with her girls.
00:22:48.760 -- 00:22:52.880 Eventually, Mary Jo is well enough to be released from the hospital.
I decided to clean up Gretchen a little bit.
She just felt really unloved and she was just very sad.
Bill hopes that being away from the dolls
will give Mary Jo some needed perspective.
But that doesn't seem to be the case.
Look at you. So beautiful in your new dress.
Mary Jo.
Don't you think so Lily Mae?
Mary Jo!
I know. I was going to say the same thing.
Oh, my goodness. I missed you so much.
I am so sorry I left you home alone for so long.
She treated 'em like a, like a small child.
I mean, she took care of 'em. She said, you know, they was...
They were just misunderstood. They were abused.
Honey. Honey.
Oh, my God. Are you Ok? Sit down.
Bill. Did you see the new dress I made for Gretchen?
They were just sucking energy out of her.
Doesn't she look amazing? She sure does. I just...
They were just... they were taking her life for theirs.
You just what? I don't know.
Without a doubt, the one would have killed her.
Listen to me. Something is wrong.
There's something strange about them.
It has to be because of these dolls.
Can't you see that?
No, I love these girls. They don't...
You hear that, girls? He thinks you're creepy.
Honey, they're making you sick.
Grown man scared of a couple dolls.
We need to get rid of them and we need to get help.
Put the dolls down.
OK. You know what? Let's take a video.
I need to show you off to my friends.
Maybe he is right.
When I put her in that chair. I just didn't feel right.
Maybe it was something supernatural that's causing this.
Like, you can just feel the tension in the room.
What else could it be?
Come on, Lily Mae.
Gretchen was so banged up and dirty
Mary Jo needs answers.
she just needed a little extra care today.
So she starts at the place where it all began.
Don't be so jealous.
All right, now what do you have to say to Gretchen?
I wanted to know more about them.
What's going on? Who owned them? Why?
OK, ladies, big smile.
What was going on that would cause this?
Mary Jo is excited to introduce her daughter and grandson
to the newest members of the family, Gretchen and Lily.
You again.
I'm telling you right now, I'm not taking those dolls back.
Hi. Hi, Ma.
You hear me? No, I need to know.
Is there something wrong with those dolls?
I can't wait to show you. I need to go potty.
I felt really uncomfortable.
It was very creepy.
OK. You go on up and I'll be right there.
And then he started to get a little weird, really weird.
Mum, can I talk to you for a minute?
Don't forget to wash your hands.
Those dolls were my Granny Margaret's
I have to show you this video I took of the girls. It's so cute.
and she loved those dolls more than anything in life.
Mum, can I just talk to you for a second? OK ladies. Big smile.
She loved those dolls more than she loved me.
Mum, what is the deal with these dolls?
And those dolls, they would scream at me all night long.
Dad called me and he said that all you ever do is...
is talk about these dolls like you're obsessed or something.
No sleep, no rest.
Then it got to the point where...
Don't be silly. Come on. Take a look.
I swore I was gonna burn the whole thing down.
Just torch it and be done.
EERIE NOISE
That's why I call them demon dolls.
Excuse me?
Yeah, because they get inside your head and they suck you dry.
I am just getting chills,
like this man is physically putting his negative energy to these dolls.
They're you're problem now.
So don't ever, ever come back here again.
Mummy.
INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING
EERIE MUSIC INTENSIFIES
Hitting a dead end with the doll man,
Mary Jo and Bill learn of a gifted local psychic.
Wait, here it is. Take a look. Mum, I am serious.
He agrees to come over.
Dad is really worried about you. That's ridiculous.
Scott, I'm Bill Chudley. This is my wife, Mary Jo.
Come on. Take a look.
Come on, Lily Mae.
Gretchen was so banged up and dirty.
She just needed a little extra care today. Don't be so jealous.
Oh, yes. I can already tell.
Now what do you have to say to Gretchen?
There is a lot of activity in here.
Die.
Mary Jo didn't tell me anything about the dolls.
Wait, who was that? Was that Dad? I don't know.
Nothing at all.
I psychically picked up on them.
I didn't hear it in the moment when we were recording.
Whatever is attached to this doll was telling me to mind my business.
It's when we played it back is when I heard it.
Leave it alone.
Now what do you have to say to Gretchen?
The older one. Gretchen?
No. I'm sensing another name.
When I heard "die" it sounded very evil and it was loud as day.
An M name.
Mum, that is not funny.
There is a gentle loving spirit around her.
CHARLIE YELLS
She says you...
Charlie!
You gave her a new dress?
Charlie. Charlie.
I did. Her old one was really dirty, and it was falling apart.
What's wrong, buddy? No dolls, Mimi. No dolls.
No, it's OK, Charlie. No.
Charlie, it's fine. No.
There's something that my son's picking up
and he doesn't have a voice to explain what it is
But she wants you to know that her name isn't Gretchen.
because he probably doesn't understand what it is.
Come with me. Let me introduce you. No, mum. He said no.
It's Margaret and she's been trying to protect you,
OK? The dolls are freaking him out.
but it's been very hard. Margaret?
It's OK, buddy. Let's go home and we can play there, all right?
That was the grandmother's name of the man I got them from.
All right. Come on, Vickey. Mum...
Dad is worried about you and he's right.
I'm worried about you too. Come on, Charlie.
This other one.
All of this stuff starts happening right after she gets these dolls.
There's something negative here. Something dangerous.
I didn't want to believe it,
but it's to the point where you got to start believing it
Something evil.
because it's all connecting.
There is so much anger in this one, and hatred.
We can build with the Lincoln Logs, yeah?
I was actually really worried that I was picking up
INTENSE MUSIC PLAYS
something so negative because to pick it up was a big indicator
that there was a problem.
BIRDS CHIRPING
Has anyone in this house been attacked or suddenly felt sick?
Mary Jo? In here.
What is it?
I just got home from the hospital and they couldn't explain it,
I just got off the phone with Vickey
but I almost didn't make it. OK. You have to listen to me.
and she said that Charlie's hysterical
and that she can't calm him down. He's fine. He's just overreacting.
Your family is in danger and I think we need to act fast.
No, no, Vickey's upset too
and she said that she won't come back here
When I read Lily, and right now as I'm telling you this story,
to our home while those dolls are in the house.
Bill, it's fine. Everyone just needs a little time to...
I could feel the anxiety setting in
because she does not want me to talk about her. But here we go...
No, I don't like those things either.
And they are making you crazy and I am telling you, I love you,
What do you see?
but those things need to go.
I first got psychic images of what I call the reverse baptism.
You don't know what you're talking about.
I love those dolls.
Oils being placed on the doll.
CHANTING
Don't move. I'll get a broom.
Bill.
That's when it started speaking to me.
It became very intense
All of a sudden, I started getting really sick.
and it went from being a very human angry feeling
Mary Jo. Are you OK? Hey.
OK, I got you. I got you. Come on. Hey, I'm right here.
to a very negative spiritual feeling.
Hang on, hang on. OK, let me call an ambulance.
And I just literally could not breathe and my heart was racing.
There is something inside this doll.
I couldn't focus...
Not human.
Hello? Yeah, my wife just collapsed and I need an ambulance.
Something evil.
We rushed her to the emergency room and I'm freaking out.
She doesn't want anyone to know the truth of what she is.
SIREN WAILING
Not only is this entity angry, it is...
When Mary Jo arrives, the doctors are alarmed.
as we speak attempting to keep me from talking now.
They can't figure out what is wrong with her.
Throughout the night, they give her multiple blood transfusions
It's like a parasite.
It will suck the energy right out of you and leave you empty.
to give her a fighting chance.
I can see this creature.
They took me into the trauma room.
It is standing right here, it's showing me its teeth,
its bad skin, bad breath.
It is doing everything it can to scare me
And that scared the ... out of me
and push me away from talking about this.
because that means I could code at any time.
They had no idea why I was dying or why I could have died.
Mary Jo, these dolls are the source of all the problems in this house.
COUGHS
Here, this is someone who can help.
His name is James and he's a demonologist.
If you don't get these things out of this house...
I don't think I can get rid of them.
Someone is going to get hurt. Scott, wait.
Have some water.
If I kept connecting with Lily,
there's no doubt in my mind that my own home and my own family
What happened?
probably would have been afflicted by something.
It was pretty scary there for a minute.
I would describe myself as a straight shooter.
The doctor said it was like there was no blood in your system.
I gotta see it for myself to believe it.
They'd never seen anything like it before.
So, when Scott came over and read the dolls and he was dead on.
They were doing transfusions all night.
I went from a hardcore sceptic to a true believer.
Bill.
You need to go check on those dolls.
When he told the dolls had to leave,
They can't be alone this long.
I think she finally realised they had to go.
I'm not leaving until we both leave.
But she didn't want them to leave.
Then have Vickey do it.
You can do this, honey.
DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING
Do you girls see this trashcan?
They all want me to get rid of you.
But I'm gonna give you one more chance.
LINE RINGING
But if you touch anyone in my family
Hey, Vickey. Yeah.
or try to hurt anyone in my family, that'll be it.
I will destroy you myself. Do you understand?
Good news. Your mum woke up.
Yeah. Well, she's resting again right now.
Yeah, she's really weak.
DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING
Hey...
I need you to go to the house for me.
You know, I left a bunch of food out on the counter
and I don't want it to spoil
and, you know, I want it just cleaned up
and have something for your mum when she comes home.
OK, thank you.
I will let you know what the doctor says as soon as I talk to him.
Mary Jo can't bring herself to remove the dolls from the house,
OK. How's Charlie doing?
so bill takes matters into his own hands.
Well, that's good news.
I knew it was those dolls.
Yeah, I love you too.
There's no fixing them. There's no fixing that at all.
I couldn't take it anymore.
SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING
I just want to throw a match on the house and just run away.
-BILL GROANS -CHILDREN PLAYING, GIGGLING
-LIGHT FLICKERING -BILL PANTING
INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING
LOUD THUD
BILL GROANS, YELLS
Hello?
FOOTSTEPS
I heard, it sounded like footsteps run down the stairs
and then run right back upstairs.
FOOTSTEPS
Mummy.
MUSIC INTENSIFIES
Mummy.
I am terrified right now. Who was that?
I am getting you out of my house.
I have no idea.
And that's why I'm still scared about that to this day.
MUSIC INTENSIFIES
Mary Jo is startled by a loud thud from upstairs.
Bill? Bill!
Oh, my God.
Lily Mae! What are you doing on the floor?
You're gonna get all dirty.
Mary Jo.
Bill, are you OK?
Oh, my God. I am so sorry.
You need to call the demonologist now.
These things are gonna kill us.
I was scared for my husband because I know what it was doing to him
and it doesn't take much to give somebody a stroke.
Oh, my God. I'm so sorry. This is my fault.
They can't come into your home without you letting them.
I bought those dolls. I brought that demon in my house.
I'm gonna make the call right now.
That's when I actually reached out to James right away
and said, "I need your help."
Mary Jo looks up James Annitto online.
James is a demonologist known for blessing and binding Annabelle,
the possessed doll that Lorraine and Ed Warren
keep in their occult museum.
James Annitto. Hi, James.
This is Mary Jo Chudley.
I'm having some problems with some dolls in my house.
OK. Tell me what's going on.
When Mary Jo told me that her dolls were in the house,
specifically the negative one,
I told her to either get it out of the house
or contain it in a box with blessed oil.
They need me to take care of them. It's just they're acting so badly.
They are bad.
And you are the one who brought them into your home.
So, you're the one who's gonna have to take action
to protect your family.
Now, I'm gonna send you
a very specific list of materials you'll need.
And you'll have to build the box to contain the evil
until I can get there. OK.
I can do this. I will do this. I'll be praying for you.
I'll be there as quickly as I can.
00:36:20.240 -- 00:36:23.400 I gave them very necessary instructions
of how to build this box.
Bastards. Mary Jo did not want to get rid of the doll
and you can never force somebody to do what they don't want to do.
All I could do is give her the best tools to keep the doll,
but keep her family safe.
He gave me a list of stuff I needed.
I needed to get natural wood, I needed to get plexiglass
because you can't have glass
because it amplifies the spirit in it.
BEE BUZZING
We also had a St. Michaels card
and holy salt that had to go inside the box.
No I didn't stain that side yet. Stop!
No. You don't have to stain.
Who cares what it looks like?
Because it's supposed to be all the same.
That's when I started to get very nasty.
I just felt this anger out of nowhere
and I couldn't control what came out of my mouth at all.
Just take it out and let me do it. If you just...
Inside the box, we put all the medallions and you know,
all the religious artefacts that he sent us,
plus the blessed oil we put on the box.
Right. Let's go.
Stay here, Bill.
I brought them into our house.
I need to do this myself.
INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING
Lily was definitely trying to stop us.
She was going after me
because she knew I was the one who was going to stop her.
Oh, my God.
OK, let's go. Come on.
When James Annitto, the demonologist,
finally arrives...
Mary Jo takes him to the doll room.
This is Lily. You can see why I'm so taken by her.
I can tell we've already got our work cut out for us.
INTENSE MUSIC PLAYS
Dear Father, I ask that you bind and remove anything here
that is not of you.
Please place a barrier of protection around us
and keep us safe from all evil.
Amen. Amen.
MUSIC INTENSIFIES
I bind thee and demand
that you are confined within this sacred barrier.
I was touching the doll
and I definitely felt a rush of sensation in the back of my head.
Bone-chilling patterns that went through my body.
The hair raising up. I felt that.
I bind thee and demand
that you are confined within this sacred barrier.
Don't let him do this.
He's hurting me. I thought you loved me.
You said you would protect me. You've got to stop him.
Make him shut up.
Lily was pure evil
and scared me, scared the living daylights out of me.
It literally scared the ... out of me.
I bind thee and demand.
Grab something and hit him over the head.
I bind thee and demand
you are confined within this sacred barrier.
Kill him. Get out of my head!
I want you out of my house. You're not welcome here.
This is a house of God. It's a house of light.
SIGHS
Lily's bound to that box for now, but you can never open it.
And you can never let anyone else open the box
or touch the doll because she'll just get out.
Do you understand?
Good.
You can't destroy demonic.
If we burn that doll, the presence would go into, into something else.
So now it's contained.
OK, who wants hot chocolate?
We finally contained her, and everything is back to normal.
I feel so much better.
Bill is in so much better mood,
Charlie goes back up into the room
and Vickey's not afraid to come over.
So, it's all back to normal.
So, this just shows that Lily... It was all Lily.
Margaret chose me.
I believe it was just so weird
how Lily was that doll that I was looking for.
It's real. I lived it.
And if I didn't, I would never have believed it.
Either you believe or you don't.
I could've died.
It's a fight for good versus evil and that's really what it is.
You had Lily who was evil.
You had Gretchen who wasn't.
And it was a fight between both of them.
When you have a demonic presence that comes into your life,
that's probably the most scariest thing
you'll ever experience ever.
You don't want this.
You just do not want this.
I'm willing to risk my life
to make sure nobody else loses theirs and contain it.