[Narrator] Tonight on Monsterquest.
Our homes are meant to be a sanctuary,
a safe place where nothing can harm us.
But sometimes that sense of safety...
We see this black, hairy figure.
Nine or 10 feet tall.
[Narrator] ...is shattered by something sinister.
George is terrified to see
a horned figure's head in a fire.
[Joni] It turned its head and looked at me.
I have never been so afraid in my entire life.
♪
[Narrator] For many centuries, people have reported
strange and sometimes terrifying encounters
with what they describe as monsters.
Its eyes just lit up on the moon and we're like...
That is nothing I've ever seen.
If I tried to run, I'd be dead.
[Narrator] Now for the first time,
some are sharing their experiences.
Is there a pattern to their encounters?
It was just terrifying.
[Narrator] And if so, what could it mean?
♪
[Narrator] Columbus is Ohio's largest
and fastest growing city, but outside the city limits,
the concrete gives way to thick woods.
Territory said to be home to a towering creature
known as the Grassman.
[Hakeem] These rural areas, woodlands and forests
are just the kind of places
where an undiscovered creature might still exist.
♪♪
The Grassman gets its name from the large dens
it allegedly makes out of grass and sticks.
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The creature has been described
as standing between seven and 10 feet tall
and weighing as much as 300 to 1,000 lbs.
and having this long black hair.
Many people believe the Grassman
is this subspecies of the Bigfoot family in Ohio.
♪♪
[Narrator] Reports of the Grassman date back
as far as the 19th century.
[Micah] One of the first accounts describing
the Grassman is from an Ohio newspaper
from July 22nd, 1869.
In that report, the creature is described
as an aggressive wild man that's gigantic in height,
and which allegedly had attacked a man
and his daughter days before.
[Narrator] There have been over 300 reported sightings
of the Grassman in Ohio since the 1970s alone.
Despite the extensive history and volume of sightings,
many still question the Grassman's existence.
But in 2017, near the Columbus suburb of Galena,
one resident reports an encounter
that is uncomfortably close to home.
This incident happened in 2017.
I've lived in this area my entire life.
I bought a house, it backed up to a private
65-acre reserve called Spruce Run.
I use the woods for hiking.
Wildlife and nature's kind of my church.
I had a Doberman named Dozer, which was my best friend,
and our routine was I would get home
and there he'd be waiting for me, and we'd go...
we'd go to our hike.
[Narrator] But this particular day was anything but routine.
♪
[Michael] I got home late from work.
I want to say it was 5:00 or 6:00 o'clock.
Dozer had had surgery about a week prior to that,
so he hadn't been able to hike with me,
and he was starting to recover,
and I got home and he's there,
his tail is wagging.
He's staring at me, so I'm like, "Alright, let's,
let's go for a hike."
At that time it was like dusk,
we had at least a good hour,
so I'm like, "We'll do a short little hike
and then we'll get back before dark, no big deal."
♪
We hike out through my property
and it dead ends into Spruce Creek
and I just start my normal routine.
[Narrator] Michael says he's only ten minutes
into his hike...
when suddenly everything changes.
♪
[Michael] I'm hiking with Dozer
and we're just having a good time,
and I just happened to look up
and there's a little clearing on this ridge,
and I see this thing come out.
[loud thumping]
It was hairy, it was so black,
and it's, like, doing a belly crawl.
It was parallel to the ground, perfectly leveled.
It melted my mind, it was like, "Nothing that I know on Earth
moves like this thing."
I'm like, "It's not a coyote, it's definitely not a bear."
I'm going through my mind. All these things,
"What am I seeing? What am I looking at?"
So, I'm just watching this thing
and all of a sudden it turns and just stares right at me.
And then, in one leap, kind of does like this Superman,
and it jumps down from the top of the ridge into this bush.
[leaves rustling]
Twenty, 30 yards in one leap.
My body goes into shock.
It was at that point maybe 20 feet from me.
It was right behind this bush.
I'm, like, just trying to think, "What did,
what did I just see here?"
So, I start walking towards it.
I think I was just bewildered and I just naturally
started walking around just so I could see,
maybe get a better look at what I was dealing with.
I take maybe ten steps towards this,
and this rock about the size of a grapefruit...
hits the creek right beside me.
[water splashes]
That kind of just stopped me in my tracks
because I know there's something behind that bush,
and now I know something from somewhere else,
just threw a rock that landed right beside me.
And as I turn around,
that's when everything erupted around me.
On my left side I see this large limb come this way.
- [whistling] - Land.
And then by the time I register that,
here comes another limb on this side.
And then it's like something's in the tree tops
shaking the trees because the leaves are falling,
and it's just a whirlwind of commotion.
[Dozer barks]
So, I'm believing at this time that,
that I'm being surrounded.
I felt defeated at that point.
It felt like I'd walked into a trap...
and now I was in their world,
and I felt like I'm not getting out of this.
♪
I'm panicked at this point.
So, I grabbed Dozer, I grabbed him real tight
and we start walking right through
the middle of the creek.
I just concentrated, I just walked.
[Narrator] Reaching the safety of his home,
Michael allows himself to believe
the ordeal is behind him.
I finally got home and it was like,
"Okay, now I can breathe."
This house had a two-story deck,
and right off the bedroom was part of this deck.
My mind's still going a mile...
a million miles an hour, so I just went out
on the deck and, you know, kind of
take a big deep breath.
But as soon as I went out there...
[loud thud]
...I hear something in my backyard.
♪
It knocks over my pool furniture.
I literally jumped back into my bedroom
like a kid, scared.
I've got some cameras right there.
So I grabbed one and I turned it on.
♪
[Video Michael] The little light you're seeing
-is the moon. -[Michael] I'm standing there
panning the woods.
I'm on the second story of the deck
and it hits right underneath me, I can feel it.
- [loud bang] - VIDEO [Michael] Hey!
That sounds like a gunshot.
I get back in my bedroom, I shut the door ...
♪
I was in my bedroom and I was kind of leaning,
leaning on my bed, just staring at that door.
I'm thinking to myself,
"Any minute this thing's gonna come through that door.
We're all gonna die."
[Narrator] With no escape possible,
Michael remains trapped in his home
for the rest of the night.
The next day I get up and the first thing,
I kind of look out... side, slowly open the door.
My pool furniture was knocked over, my chain link fence,
the entire top rail of it is bowed in like a smiley face,
and this is thick steel!
I looked underneath my deck
and I can see in the mulch bed large impressions,
like 15-inch impressions.
It was footprints. I had a handprint
about like this on the back of my deck.
So, I'm just piecing everything together
and looking around like... Like, "Wow."
[camera shutter]
[Narrator] In the months after his experience,
Michael continues to investigate the area
with a friend, and even captures this thermal image
of what he believes to be the same creature.
This changed the way I feel about the woods.
Nature is still my church,
I just know that sometimes
bad things can happen, even at church.
♪
[Narrator] Spottsville, Kentucky.
For more than 100 years, residents here reported
something strange stalking their farmland and woods.
A creature known as the Spottsville Monster.
Described as large, upright and hairy,
the monster has been blamed by this agricultural community
for the disappearance of valuable livestock
over the years.
Sightings would come and go, but in 1975,
a major report would once again
put the residents of Spottsville on edge.
[Micah] The Owensboro Messenger inquirer reports
on new evidence of the creature when a local firefighter,
Ray Vibert, describes having a terrifying encounter.
Ray was squirrel hunting when he saw a huge,
hairy creature, and even made a plaster casting
of a footprint that he found,
which he gave to local law enforcement
and said it was too large to have just been a bear.
The police even stake out the field
looking for the monster,
but whatever it was, it never came back.
[Narrator] Months after Ray's encounter,
Barton Nunnelly's family moves in next door.
They soon have a story of their own to tell.
[Barton] It was early winter of 1975.
My family moved to a little isolated farmhouse
on the banks of the Green River.
We were always outdoor people
and it seemed like a perfect location.
♪
[Narrator] The family settles into their new home,
but as the months pass,
unsettling signs begin to surface.
Springtime came, our chickens started disappearing.
That was the first little bit of concern
that my dad felt about that place.
We'd hear strange noises off in the fields at night,
and we started finding dead dogs.
I remember the first day my brother and I found one.
It was laying in one of our fields.
It had been cut from its neck all the way down
to between its hind legs.
It's so strange.
- [goat bleats] - We had a goat,
we chained it right outside our bedroom window.
I remember hearing that goat bleat.
[imitates bleats]
But it would be getting further and further away
in the distance until I couldn't hear it anymore.
♪
The next day we got up
and the chain had been broken...
and the goat was gone.
[Narrator] The Nunnelly's believe it to be the first
of many farm animals they would lose
to the Spottsville Monster.
It ended up killing over 250 chickens,
it killed our pony, eight or nine dead dogs,
we found a dead pig who was mutilated.
This is kind of crazy.
So, we got scared for our safety.
[Narrator] Following countless attacks, Barton Nunnelly
says the culprit finally reveals itself.
The first time I saw the creature
was when we were standing on the porch
waiting for the school bus.
♪♪
Looking down the road, we see this black hairy figure.
It had to be at least nine or 10' tall.
It had thin grey tinged hair.
We all screamed and ran into the kitchen.
♪♪
It really sunk in just what kind of situation we were in.
It felt really, really scary.
[Narrator] Despite their fears,
the Nunnelly's don't run, they dig in.
Barton's father installs an overhead light
in the front yard, hoping to keep the creature
from the house.
[Barton] We were always looking for evidence
of that creature. I found two different trackways.
One was coming up from the Ohio River toward our house,
and one was coming across a muddy field
at an angle toward our house.
They'd be screaming out in the fields at night,
and they would come up and turn our door handles.
My dad was really, really protective of his kids,
and he really started to fear for our safety.
[Narrator] After weeks of terror,
the family decides to take a stand.
Older brother Harold had the idea
to get a bunch of friends up on the roof
and kill this thing once and for all.
So, he gathered up my cousin,
three or four of my dad's friends,
and they got up on the roof
and they were gonna end the Spottsville Monster.
[Narrator] As night falls over Spottsville,
the group takes their positions,
determined to end whatever's been stalking
their property once and for all.
They heard it growl.
They said, "That thing sounded like it could have
reached on through the roof
and grabbed either one of them.
That's how big this thing sounded."
They started opening fire
and it sounded like World War II up there.
[gunshots]
They had rifles, they had shotguns with deer slugs,
they had pistols that they unloaded
onto this area where this thing was standing.
[gunshot]
[Barton] They were all scared to death.
They said, "Woah, woah, woah, I think we got it,
because we, we lit those woods up."
[Narrator] By morning, the men go looking
for the beast they are sure they killed.
We went out and looked, and we could see
where the bullets had ripped through the vegetation.
There was no blood, no hair.
Should have been there dead.
If it was a natural flesh and blood animal like a bear,
it would have been laying there,
but there was no sign of the creature.
[Narrator] Barton says the encounter becomes
the family's breaking point.
Mom had pretty much had it.
It almost felt like we were captives in our own homes.
That ended up running us off of the property.
If not for all the creature activity,
we would probably be living there right now.
♪
[Narrator] Barton Nunnelly's family managed to escape
their Kentucky home,
and whatever was encroaching on it.
Around the same time in New York,
a family will find there's no escape
from the darkness within the walls.
♪
[Narrator] Just over 30 mi. from New York City
lies Amityville,
a quiet village on Long Island's southern shore.
It's known for its waterfront views, small town charm,
and a home forever linked
to a series of disturbing events.
The first, in 1974,
is a gruesome domestic massacre
that destroys the town's sense of serenity,
makes national headlines, and inspires one of the most
notorious horror movies of all time:
The Amityville Horror.
[Holly] On the night of November 13th,
In 1974, in Amityville,
24-year-old Ronald DeFeo Jr. shoots and kills
his entire family as they lie sleeping in their beds.
♪
[MJ] Since he was the only one who found his family,
and the only surviving family member,
he was brought down to the station for questioning,
and within 24 hours he confesses
to the murders, saying, and I quote,
"It just started, it went so fast, I couldn't stop."
♪
[Hakeem] He later recants his confession and pleads
not guilty by reason of insanity,
saying at trial that voices inside the house
made him do it.
But the judge and jury do not believe him
and sentence him to six consecutive life sentences.
[Narrator] In 1974, a house in Amityville, New York,
becomes a scene of domestic horror
when a man murders his family.
But for the family that moves in next,
the true horror is still to come.
In 1975, George and Kathy Lutz
and their three kids see this home as a potential dream
come true for them.
♪
[MJ] George and Kathy say they were aware of the murders
that had occurred in the home just one year prior,
but neither of them had any reservations
about buying the house.
[Hakeem] They don't own enough furniture,
so they end up paying $400
to keep some of the DeFeo's family's furnishings
in the home.
The dining room set, the master bedroom set,
even the daughter's bedroom set.
They have no belief in anything superstitious or paranormal.
[Narrator] Though the Lutzes don't believe
in the supernatural, Kathy is religious,
so she invites a Catholic priest to bless the house.
[Micah] The priest begins on the first floor
and makes his way up to the third floor,
sprinkling holy water and saying a prayer as he goes.
But when he gets to the third floor,
he claims to distinctly hear a male voice say, "Get out!"
The priest is terrified, but he doesn't tell
the Lutz family what he heard
because he's still struggling to try
and understand himself.
♪♪
[Narrator] Over the next few weeks,
the family claims more unexplained events occur
inside the home
and always at the same time of night.
George says he wakes up at 3:15 a.m.
because he hears a weird knocking sound.
He gets out of bed and goes over to the window,
where he sees a shadow moving near the boathouse.
He's scared, but he gets dressed anyway
and heads outside.
As he walks toward the dock, he claims that the door
to the boathouse has been torn from its hinges
and is knocking in the wind.
[wood creaking]
George is obviously confused, he wonders,
"How did this all happen?"
He checks the surrounding area,
but doesn't see any sign of an intruder.
One night, George wakes up at 3:15 a.m.
again to the same knocking sound.
He goes over to the window and can see
that the boathouse door once again
is knocking against the building.
[wood creaking]
[Hakeem] George is furious.
He runs outside and props the door back into place,
but when he turns back around,
he sees something really frightening.
♪♪
He claims two red eyes
are shining out of the window of his daughter's room.
[MJ] George runs straight up to Missy's room.
But when he opens her door, she's sound asleep
and no one else is in the room.
[Narrator] The next day, George visits
the local newspapers office
to search for information about the DeFeo murders
that happened in his home.
He's looking for any kind of connection
to what they've been experiencing,
and finds out that the murders took place
in the house at 3:15 a.m.
[Holly] Kathy also reports wondering
if their home is haunted,
but neither of them is really willing
to fully accept this idea.
[Narrator] One night during the week of Christmas,
George and Kathy start a fire in the fireplace.
All of a sudden, Kathy starts screaming.
She's pointing towards the fire and when George
looks over at the flames, he's terrified to see
a horned figure's head in the fire.
They both claim it looks like the devil.
♪
George grabs Kathy and pulls her away from the room.
When he goes back to see the fire,
the face is gone.
[MJ] This and all of the other unexplained incidents
in the house have now convinced them, their home is haunted.
[Narrator] Roughly two weeks
after their alleged fireplace vision,
their haunting takes a darker turn.
♪
By this point, the family is sleeping together
in the same bedroom.
The kids are in the bed
and the parents are sleeping on chairs.
George wakes up and his son
is standing next to the bed crying.
The boy tells them that there is
a monster in the house
and that that monster tried to grab him.
[dog barking]
Suddenly, George claims he hears the family dog
barking from the hallway.
♪
[Hakeem] He runs out and that's when he sees it.
A giant white hooded figure
with the same devil face he saw in the fire.
This figure is apparently standing
on the staircase staring at them.
George screams to Kathy to grab the boys
and get out of the house while he picks up his daughter.
They run down the main staircase
just in time to see the front door ripped from its hinges.
They just get out of the house.
They leave everything behind.
[Narrator] The Lutzes flee for their lives,
and from whatever evil remained
from the murders that occurred inside that house.
[Hakeem] In the days before Ronald DeFeo Jr.'s
death in prison,
he claims he didn't murder his family by himself,
he had help.
Some investigators have even said
that the brutal murders
couldn't have been pulled off by one person.
[Narrator] Fouke, Arkansas, a quiet rural town
in the southwest corner of the state,
surrounded by marshlands and dense forest.
It's not the kind of place that typically
commands attention...
But on the night of May 2nd, 1971,
one couple's encounter with a massive
hair-covered beast
would thrust the community into the national spotlight.
Bobby and Elizabeth Ford were just normal newlyweds
moving into their new home in Fouke.
One night, something big and hairy
came right up to the front door.
♪
It reached in through their screen
and Bobby grabbed his gun and fired.
[MJ] The Ford's encounter ignited
widespread media attention,
it inspired the creature's name, and forever etched
the tiny town of Fouke, Arkansas
into American folklore.
[Hakeem] Reported encounters with this creature
started popping up across the Midwest.
In Illinois, in Indiana... There were theories
that the creature was following the rivers
and forests that connect the Deep South
to the Midwest, just like other migrating animals do.
[Narrator] Skeptics expressed doubt
that whatever lurked in Fouke
would travel that far and wide.
But two years after the Ford's encounter,
Joni Mayhan, hundreds of miles away in southern Indiana,
believes she came across the same creature.
I grew up in southern Indiana in a very rural area...
♪
...and my father had about 40 acres of land,
and he built his own house.
There wasn't a town surrounding us.
There weren't any children to play with.
We were so isolated, there was nothing but woods.
I just had to keep myself occupied
most of the time, and I did so by going out
into the woods. It was a magical place for me.
But I was really drawn to a section of woods
behind my father's house.
A lot of tall old growth trees
and a nice canopy overhead,
and the birds were always singing.
And I went down there all the time,
every chance I got.
I grabbed my dog and off into the woods we went.
There was an old hollow tree.
I think it got hit by lightning back in the day.
It made a perfect fort for me.
My dog Sassy and I would go down there and hang out.
♪
But on that particular day, birds were chirping
and the skies were blue, and the temperatures were warm.
It was definitely a place of safety and comfort.
There were a lot of dried leaves on the ground.
I immediately took my shoes off because I wanted
to feel the bare ground under my feet.
I was carving my initials into the inside of the tree,
because I kind of wanted that to always be my tree,
when all of a sudden I heard leaves crunching.
♪♪
We were so far out in the middle of nowhere,
nobody should have been out there.
I stopped and listened because I wasn't sure
what I was hearing.
Everything was just dead still,
like there was something there, something was wrong.
Something was watching me.
I walked over to the edge of the hill
because I wanted to see where this sound was coming from.
♪
And I could see something moving
through the bramble.
It was kind of that reddish brown color,
and I could catch glimpses of it as it moved through.
And I was terrified.
This wasn't human.
It was about 7' tall, it was very thin.
And the hair and the fur was very tangled
and matted, it looked very unhealthy.
As it stepped out from behind the bramble,
it was hopping sideways, almost like an ape.
And then it came all the way out
into the open and it stopped.
It turned its head and looked at me and locked eyes with me.
I have never been so afraid in my entire life.
And then, all of a sudden, Sassy noticed
and she started barking.
[Sassy barks]
I didn't know what this thing was gonna do.
I got about a three-to-four-second look
at it before my paralysis broke.
I just needed to get out of there.
I grabbed Sassy by the collar
and we went running all the way through the woods.
[Narrator] In southern Indiana,
young Joni Mayhan and her dog
are running for their lives,
pursued by a sinister creature
she believes is the legendary Fouke monster.
This wasn't human.
I just needed to get out of there.
♪
I came bursting in through the door,
my mother was in the kitchen and I was frantic
to tell her what I'd just seen.
And she really didn't believe me.
♪
My mother was more concerned about the fact
that I was barefoot.
She wanted me to go back into the woods to get my shoes,
which was terrifying for me.
But it's starting to get dark,
and that thing might still be there,
it might be waiting, it might be sitting there
holding my shoes. But I needed them for school,
and I was a fairly obedient child.
[Narrator] Joni is able to convince her mother
to let her wait until the next morning
before she returns for her shoes.
[Joni] The next day was a bright, sunny day,
it was nice.
I grabbed Sassy and I'm like,
"Come on dog, we're going out into the woods.
We gotta get my shoes."
I was terrified.
I walked as quickly as I could to that hollow tree,
and there were my shoes sitting right there where I left them.
It really scared me.
I wasn't sure that I would see that creature
standing there still staring at me.
But there was nothing there.
I looked at the stream to see if it had left any footprints
behind, because it was still pretty muddy there.
And I did see some kind of large footprint in the mud.
Seeing the footprint made it real.
I didn't stay very long because I wasn't sure
that it wasn't still there waiting for me.
So, I headed out of the woods as fast as I could.
And this time Sassy was pretty eager to come with me.
That event took away my place where I felt safe.
I no longer went back in there because I didn't know
what was in the woods waiting for me.
I still have that image locked firmly in my mind.
It was the Fouke monster.
Nobody could ever convince me that I didn't see it.
♪
[Narrator] Domestic disturbances
take on many forms.
For some, like Joni,
it's an encounter with a legendary creature.
For a South Carolina girl named Gwen Johns,
the unknown takes on a different form.
Not a creature, but a moment out of time.
Or what many call a "time slip."
Liverpool, England, 1996.
A policeman reports something extraordinary
from his daily patrol.
He steps off the sidewalk onto Bold Street,
and immediately steps back in time.
The policeman is in the exact same location,
but it's the 1950s.
The cars are old,
stores that haven't existed in years
appear right in front of him,
and then, just like that...
he's in the modern world.
[Narrator] The officer's story
becomes one of the best-known alleged examples
of a time slip.
A time slip's basically when someone finds themselves
at another point in history, like they just kind
of stepped through a doorway in time.
Usually only lasts for a few moments,
but it feels totally real while it's happening.
Stories of time slips happen all the time,
and one prominent one took place in 1901
when these two women were touring the French Palace
of Versailles.
And they both reported that suddenly it was
as though the palace was populated with people
from a century and a half earlier,
and that it all seemed completely real.
[Narrator] Then there's the mysterious case
involving Gwen Johns.
A young girl who moves with her father
to South Carolina in 1981.
I was a dad's girl, I used to help him work on cars.
I was around eight when my parents got divorced.
♪
My uncle had an old farmhouse
that our great, great uncle had lived in
that was not occupied, but just kind of rundown.
So, my dad decided to move us there,
myself and him.
It was further in the country than I was used to.
So, you know, we'd pull up,
I remember thinking, "I don't want to go in here."
♪
And we walked in the house.
It was old,
must have been 20 years since anybody lived there at all.
[Narrator] Gwen's father shows her around the house,
but his demeanor changes when they reach the front room.
♪
My dad said, "Do not go in this room,
because there are things in here and they're locked up,
and you need to leave them alone."
Pretty much cut me off anytime I asked about it after that.
But that stuck in my head.
Every room just felt really heavy and dark.
I didn't like to be in the house at all.
It was almost like I was always being watched.
[Narrator] One cold fall evening,
Gwen and her father are in the kitchen making dinner.
And he remembered he had to go to my uncle's house,
which was just right up the driveway, basically.
Um, I was scared because I never stayed alone there.
[Narrator] Gwen John's father leaves her alone
in their new house in South Carolina
for the first time.
I was scared because I never stayed alone there.
So, I thought if I can see my dad down the driveway,
I won't feel as alone.
And from the front room I could see better,
but I'm not supposed to go in there.
[Narrator] Her father had given her strict instructions
never to go into the front room,
but Gwen does so anyway.
[Gwen] I slowly walked toward the front room,
turned the handle and it opened.
And I remember smelling the dust,
and there's dust covers on the furniture,
and there was a mirror that was covered also,
and that creeped me out.
Getting to the window, as I pulled the curtain open,
I remember smelling fresh
and the heat from the summer heat.
♪
Looked almost a different season,
everything was clear and sunny,
and that day was not hot and sunny.
It looked like summer.
[Narrator] As Gwen looks through the window,
she hears an unfamiliar noise coming from outside.
[Gwen] It was sputtering.
Like a tractor.
I didn't remember my uncle having a tractor,
but I saw a tractor,
and an older man,
and he had, like, blue jean overalls,
the floppy, old, worn hat,
his face was weathered, and he was on the tractor.
And I remember hearing, like, that sound if you hit metal.
And then something came off the tractor
and it hit him in the head.
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He just kind of slumped over and fell off.
I remember seeing the blood.
It was in slow motion almost.
And I remember panicking like, "I need to go help him,
I need to go save him."
I ran out of that room through the house
and the house was not the same.
It was newer.
Everything was clean, no dust.
Smelled very fresh, was well taken care of.
I opened the door in full panic.
It was bright, sunlight, and the heat.
I could feel something horrible had happened.
But as I stepped through that doorway,
it was not summer anymore.
It was a gloomy, cold, chilly afternoon again.
And I felt totally different and confused.
Something in me was looking for the tractor,
but I didn't see anything like that.
I couldn't figure it out, I was like, you know,
"Am I crazy?"
My dad's coming down the driveway.
I ran to him
and I was trying to tell him what happened,
and I remember him going, "Quit making things up."
My closest person not to believe you,
it felt terrible, thinking that I had dreamed it?
I want an explanation of why that happened to me.
[Narrator] Years later, Gwen learns a secret truth
about her own family,
one that gives her a degree of closure.
[Gwen] As a young adult, I went to a cookout.
It wasn't a family reunion, but it was a lot of people,
and I remember somebody saying Great Uncle had an accident
in front of the house on his tractor and he died.
I found a couple pictures in front of the house.
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It just flipped a switch.
The blood just went...
That really happened because all that time
I thought it was in my head. This was real.
Did I walk into a different time,
what I would call a time slip?
The first time I heard about time slips,
I remember thinking, "I'm not alone."
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[Narrator] Home, it's meant to be a place of safety,
but these strange encounters and bizarre incidents
show how such safety is never guaranteed.
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