[Narrator] Tonight, on MonsterQuest...
there are specific areas of unexplained activity
that exist all across the country.
[man] The Skinwalker Ranch continues to attract
strange phenomena.
[man 2] Unexplained animal deaths,
eerie encounters,
strange lights in the sky.
[Narrator] They are known as hot spots,
locations where reports of unknown creatures
and strange encounters happen over and over again.
[woman] This creature's stalking me.
[man] I could have been torn up, you know, into pieces.
[dramatic musical sting]
[Narrator] For many centuries, people have reported strange
and sometimes terrifying encounters
with what they describe as monsters.
[man] Its eyes just lit up in the moon and we were like...
that is nothing I've ever seen.
[man 2] If I try to run, I'd be dead.
[Narrator] Now, for the first time,
some are sharing their experiences.
Is there a pattern to their encounters?
[man] It was just terrifying.
[Narrator] And if so, what could it mean?
[dramatic musical sting]
Skinwalker Ranch...
a 512-acre stretch of land
in Utah's Uinta Basin
has become one of the most infamous paranormal hotspots
in the world,
a place long associated with reports of unknown beasts,
shadowy entities,
and unidentified flying objects.
Today, the ranch's current owner
oversees scientific studies in an effort to understand
the unexplained activity
that seems to surround this land.
While investigations are ongoing,
reports of strange phenomena in the Uinta Basin
are anything but new.
[man] The Ute tribe have stories dating back centuries
that involve strange lights seen in the sky
and also star people traveling here from other galaxies.
There are a lot of tales from Native people
saying they had seen strange lights in the sky,
but they aren't the only ones.
Franciscan priests traveling in the area
in the 17th century wrote in their journals
about seeing strange lights in the sky
that moved erratically and then would suddenly disappear.
[Hanks] Similar reports
continued into the 20th century.
Since the 1950s alone,
there've been more than 400 reports
involving lights in the sky.
[man] At one point, in the 1970s,
reported sightings became so frequent
that local law enforcement stopped taking official reports.
[Narrator] In 1994,
the Sherman family purchased a ranch
in the Uinta Basin
with no idea of the history of the land it sat on,
land that would one day be the site
of the infamous Skinwalker Ranch.
[man] Terry and Gwen Sherman are successful cattle ranchers
looking to expand their business with a new property.
[Banias] When Terry and Gwen visit to check out the property,
they say they love what they see.
[Oluseyi] It's a strange house,
but they believe the land is perfect.
They decide to go for it and buy the ranch.
[Narrator] As the family begins to settle into life
on their new ranch,
several unsettling events begin.
[Banias] While checking on their cattle,
they claim to find these huge circular burn marks.
[Oluseyi] Leading from the burn marks
were also unusual animal tracks
they say they can't identify.
Their prized livestock start turning up dead
all over the property.
And the Shermans are concerned because they don't think
it looks like it's from natural causes.
They say the cattle have been mutilated.
Further, organs and tissue have been removed
with surgical precision.
[cattle lowing]
[Narrator] The Shermans press on,
rebuilding their ranch and replacing their animals.
But months later, they claim to come face to face
with the creature they believe is behind the attacks.
[Oluseyi] Terry, Gwen, and the children are outside,
tending to the cattle in the corral
when they say they notice a large wolf.
They say it's unlike any wolf they've ever encountered.
It doesn't seem afraid of them.
It's also incredibly large,
maybe three times the size of a normal wolf.
[Banias] According to the story,
this wolf lunges at a newborn calf...
and it tries to pull it out of the corral.
Terry grabs his .358 Magnum,
takes careful aim, and pulls the trigger.
But nothing happens.
[Hanks] There's no blood.
But when he fires his last round...
then he says the creature suddenly lets go
and finally runs off.
[Oluseyi] Terry and his son say they try to track the predator,
but after about a mile, its tracks suddenly end
as if the creature has vanished.
[Banias] Terry searches for answers,
but the only explanation he says he finds
comes from Native American lore,
which describes something called a skinwalker,
a former shaman who takes on supernatural powers
and can shapeshift at will.
[Hanks] According to Ute lore,
skinwalkers infest this entire region.
It's said that their presence stems from a war that broke out
between the Navajo and the Ute tribe in the 1840s.
As the story goes, the Navajo called upon
dark forces to curse the Ute,
summoning skinwalkers to haunt and harass their enemies
in retaliation for siding with the US Army.
Some people believe that the land
where the Sherman ranch sits
is right in the heart of that cursed territory.
[Narrator] Inside the Shermans' new house,
they say things are unraveling as well.
[Oluseyi] The TV and radio
sometimes turn on and off by themselves
and clocks and appliances start to malfunction.
These unusual incidents continue to escalate,
and before long, Gwen says
she's seeing things happening in the house--
dark, shadowy figures in hallways
and corners of the home.
She believes these figures that she sees in the corners
are dark entities.
Over time, facing wave after wave
of escalating and terrifying encounters,
they say they start eventually sleeping in one room
with their weapons out.
[Narrator] For the next several months,
the family says it scrapes by,
trying to survive the bizarre things
that are happening on their ranch.
Then, in the summer of 1995,
about a year after the Shermans first move in,
they say a series of tragedies
pushes them to their physical
and emotional breaking point.
[Oluseyi] One night, Terry Sherman is outside
when he sees a huge orange orb in the sky.
Beams of light come down from it,
and Terry says it seems to scan the property from the sky.
[dogs barking]
The orbs are so terrifying
that the Shermans say their beloved dogs
spring into action, chasing after them into the woods,
-trying to protect the family. -[dogs barking]
But the dogs never return.
The Shermans desperately search for their beloved pets,
only to find them in a wooded area, no longer alive,
their bodies seemingly liquified.
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[Narrator] In 1996,
just two years after moving in,
the Shermans decide to put their ranch up for sale.
This seems like it's gonna be a hard sell
because of all the paranormal activity
and the skinwalker sightings on the ranch.
[Oluseyi] But after reading about the strange happenings
on the Sherman ranch, a man makes an offer
to buy the ranch for $200,000.
It's less than what the Shermans paid for it,
but they say, to get out,
they're more than happy to accept the loss.
The Shermans tell a reporter for the Deseret News
essentially everything that's happened.
Their bizarre and unprecedented story
fascinates and spreads world-wide.
Their property earns a new moniker--
Skinwalker Ranch.
It's been decades
since the Shermans sold Skinwalker Ranch,
but the strange occurrences there continue.
[Narrator] The Skinwalker Ranch is a notorious hotspot
for chilling accounts of unexplained phenomena,
but across the country,
the small town of Point Pleasant, West Virgina,
became the alleged home to another creature,
what would come to be known as...
the Mothman.
[Frey] Between November of 1966
and December of 1967,
there were more than 100 sightings
of this winged creature terrorizing Point Pleasant.
The descriptions of this creature
are different from anything else
that had been heard before or since.
They all describe a creature that's 7 to 9 feet tall
with these huge, terrifying, feathery wings
and these glowing red eyes.
And, perhaps most frightening,
this terrifying cry.
[Narrator] One of those 100 sightings
comes in November, 1966, from Kristina Bennett
who believes she was one of the first people
to come face to face with the Mothman.
[Kristina] We've been in Point Pleasant
for generations upon generations.
I had a great childhood growing up, you know?
I mean, it was a close-knit family...
Sunday dinners at Grandma's house.
But that day, it changed.
[Narrator] In November, 1966...
...four-year-old Kristina joins her aunt, uncle,
and mother to visit her cousins.
After a few hours, they prepare to drive home.
[Kristina] It was just getting dark,
and we were heading back to the car
and Mother went to the passenger side with me.
She just sensed that her... she was--
she just kinda looked over her shoulder
and she thought, well, you know, that's odd.
She saw the red eyes.
It was...
like hunkered down, like this.
My mother was just, like, in so much shock
that she couldn't move.
She was frozen.
I just remember looking up and seeing
this creature...
and...
that it screeched.
My mother started screaming.
I mean, she was just hysterical.
[Narrator] November, 1966,
Point Pleasant, West Virginia.
Kristina Bennett says she and her family
come face to face with a feathery, red-eyed creature
that will later become known as the Mothman.
[Kristina] Uncle Raymond came around
to the other side of the car,
and he grabbed ahold of me and my mother
and he took us back into the house.
It came up on the porch.
-[voices screaming] -And at that point,
my cousins were terrified.
They were screaming. We were all screaming,
"Don't go outside! Please don't go outside!"
They go to get the gun.
Uncle Raymond said, "I'll go outside."
My uncle was, you know, a coal miner, Uncle Raymond,
so he wouldn't have been afraid about anything.
But he was even shaken up.
I remember my mother saying,
"You're gonna have to shoot it, Raymond.
You're gonna have to shoot it."
[heartbeat thumping]
But it's gone.
It disappeared.
[Narrator] Kristina says they then called
the Point Pleasant Sheriff
and learned that they aren't the first witnesses
to report a feathery, red-eyed creature.
[Banias] The day before the Bennetts' encounter,
local police field a call from two married couples
who report the presence of a strange creature
lurking in the woods.
[Oluseyi] According to them,
among the trees are, reflected back,
two huge red eyes.
The four eyewitnesses say they're terrified.
The driver peels off away from the creature.
[Frey] The eyewitnesses file a report
and they describe seeing the creature
shoot straight up into the air,
and then it followed their car,
flying back and forth across the back end of it,
which is really quite impressive,
because they said they were going 100 to 105 miles per hour.
Another witness actually described
hearing the massive wings flap.
[Banias] One witness draws a rough sketch
of this angry-looking creature.
[Narrator] The Point Pleasant Register
picks up on these mysterious sightings
and publishes an article.
[Frey] Three days after that initial sighting,
The Gettysburg Times cited eight other people
who claim to have seen the winged creature.
[Narrator] Dozens and dozens of reports continue to pile up.
The unique and uniform nature of the sightings
take over local news, but it's what happens next
that pushes the tiny town of Point Pleasant
into the national spotlight.
[Kristina] It was December the 15th,
a year after the sightings started.
[Oluseyi] Point Pleasant Silver Bridge
is packed with bumper-to-bumper traffic,
full of Christmas shoppers and commuters
winding their way home
when suddenly a deafening noise fills the air...
as the bridge begins to wobble.
The steel suspension bridge collapses entirely.
31 vehicles plunge into the frigid waters below,
killing 46.
It was traumatic for a small town.
You know, it was 10 days before Christmas,
and we have Christmas presents
floating down the river and...
people trying to find people.
[Narrator] But there is a strange coincidence.
That morning, several townspeople reported seeing
a menacing winged creature flying near the bridge.
[Frey] In the aftermath,
there is a popular theory that emerges
that Mothman being there
was actually a warning of this disaster coming.
[Kristina] After the bridge fell,
my mother and Uncle Raymond, and Aunt Catherine also,
they felt that the Mothman was...
the omen.
This had a correlation.
I really feel that it was a...
a first-class warning.
[Narrator] An investigation eventually reveals
why the Silver Bridge collapsed.
A fracture in an I-bar caused a suspension chain to give way,
which toppled the entire bridge.
But locals still debate
whether the creature's reported appearance was a curse.
I don't like being in Point pleasant.
I'll be honest with you.
I-I can't put a name on it.
I just have a fear.
[Narrator] Point Pleasant isn't the only town
with a cluster of mysterious sightings
that ended in tragedy.
In Texas, there's a long history of reports
describing a muscular bipedal creature
with the face of a dog or wolf,
often aggressive and sometimes violent.
The official sightings date back to the late 1800s
and are so common
that many have given this hotspot a name--
the Texas Dogman Triangle.
[Banias] The Texas Dogman Triangle
is a 700-plus-square-mile area,
and it stretches across Dallas, San Antonio, and Houston.
Dozens of encounters there have made it a modern hotspot
for Dogman sightings.
[Oluseyi] Indigenous tribes in the area
like the Caddo, Comanche, and Apache
have long told stories
of shape-shifters and spirit wolves.
In the early 1800s,
French fur traders reported run-ins with the Rougarou,
werewolf-like creatures
that were said to roam the dense Southern forests.
[Narrator] In 2021, one case
brings this Texas hotspot into national headlines
when a man was found dead,
allegedly killed by an unknown canine.
[Oluseyi] In 2021, just outside Dallas,
Christopher Whiteley is found dead in the woods
with severe neck injuries.
The cause of death is officially listed as
injuries of the neck, due to animal attack
with no reference to a mountain lion
or any specific animal.
[Banias] After performing an autopsy,
experts agree that the wounds do seem to belong to an animal,
but no one can seem to agree what kind of animal.
[Narrator] Monica Rawlins of Dallas, Texas,
has a theory.
She believes the creature that attacked Christopher Whiteley
is the same creature she encounters in 2013...
the Dogman.
I remember the night very well.
It's something I'm not going to forget.
I had to pick my daughter up from work.
To drive to her work takes me through
a few, um, areas, but it's generally considered very safe.
It was between 11 and 11:30 at night.
I'd done that drive probably 20 times.
I was just kind of zoning out.
At that point, I notice a feeling come over me,
a wave,
like this feeling, the sense, just this sense of...danger.
I make the turn onto the street.
There is a pretty decent-sized pool of light
from this one street light,
and it illuminated quite a decent area.
So as I'm driving,
I see something moving low to the ground.
I thought it was a dog,
and it's coming towards the ring of light.
It was 20 yards from it.
It must notice me.
It makes kind of a beeline for my vehicle.
As it got closer,
I'm turning my head to look at it.
It starts--instead of this crouching run that it was doing
it starts bounding.
My mind is telling me dogs don't hop like that.
I am terrified.
[Narrator] It's 2013.
Monica Rawlins is driving through what many call
the Texas Dogman Triangle
to pick up her daughter from work
when she encounters what she describes
as a menacing dog-like creature.
[Monica] It's a big animal and...
muscular.
It did have like a hump on the back of its neck
like a hyena.
And it had tall, pointy ears.
And it had a long snout, but it wasn't...
it wasn't long like a wolf.
It was a blunted snout,
kind of like a bear.
The logical and rational part of my mind
is very much at odds with
the instinctual part of my body
telling me this is-- this is happening.
This is real.
My mind is telling me don't look it in the eyes.
I come to, and I just punch that gas.
I remember thinking, oh, I've done it now.
I just ran, and that's gonna trigger
the predator-prey response.
I'm flying down these like residential roads.
There were several stop signs,
and I blew through every single one of them.
I'm terrified, and I am thinking
I'm gonna feel this thing jump on the back of my car.
And I wanted to get away from that sensation.
I wanted to get away from the clear danger in my mind.
I came to the shopping center that my daughter worked at.
I parked, facing the road,
fully expecting to see this thing
come out of the darkness.
I remember thinking,
they're gonna find my car tomorrow
with all the windows broken out.
There's gonna be blood everywhere,
and nobody's gonna know what happened to me.
I am also concerned that my daughter is going to
come out to the car right as this thing emerges.
What do I do? Do I hit it with my car?
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She meanders on up to the car,
taking her time,
and the entire time I am thinking,
"Get in the car. Get in the car. Get in the car."
When she finally opens the door,
we start our drive home, and I am quiet.
She asked me if I was okay 'cause I was just clearly
driving in my own head.
And I said it's nothing.
Let's just go. I've had a long night.
I didn't want to tell her, because I was debating
whether or not I wanted to tell anybody what I saw.
I remember, once we got home that night...
I went straight to bed, and I laid there in the dark.
Every time the wind would rustle a brush
or a leaf would scrape across the concrete,
I would jump out of my skin.
I would imagine this creature stalking me
in the dark, just stalking me,
watching me move, waiting to grab me
and take me to wherever it was it came from.
I-I legitimately have a really hard time
trying to rationalize where this thing came from
in the middle of Dallas.
I didn't know that there were so many sightings
in this triangular area of Texas
until I really started looking into it.
[Narrator] Later, Monica discovers
the Christopher Whiteley story
and wonders if the killer responsible
is the same creature she saw that night.
I wasn't surprised.
I wasn't surprised that one of these things
had potentially killed a human.
I know that officials
were trying to say that it was a mountain lion attack.
The game wardens are saying it's not a mountain lion.
I don't know what killed him,
but absolutely, I think it is
within the realm of possibility
that it was one of these dogmen.
[Narrator] During the 1960s, Northern California's
Klamath Mountains emerge as a major hotspot
for alleged sightings of a strange, bipedal
ape-like creature known as Bigfoot.
Multiple local and national newspapers
regularly cover the mysterious encounters.
For all the claims, there is little physical evidence...
until 1967 when two men claim to capture the creature
on camera.
[Hanks] Rodeo-cowboys-turned-filmmakers
Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin head into the remote wilderness
following reports of a strange, ape-like creature.
Armed with a 16 millimeter film camera,
they're determined to capture
what so many others have already claimed that they've seen.
[Banias] On October 20th,
two friends are beside Bluff Creek,
25 miles northwest of Orleans, California,
when they see what appears to be
a massive, hair-covered bipedal creature.
Patterson and Gimlin roll the camera on the creature
for about 59 seconds,
and they refer to it as Bigfoot.
The footage is rough. It's grainy and shaky.
But it seems to capture the creature
walking away from the camera
and momentarily glancing over its shoulder.
It defines the modern image of Bigfoot--
upright, muscular, and reclusive.
Their film becomes the most widely recognized
piece of cryptid evidence ever captured,
today known as the Patterson-Gimlin film.
But skeptics dismiss it
as nothing more than a man in a costume.
[Narrator] 16 years later,
in the summer of 1983,
Curtis and Ray Jones believe they may have encountered
the same type of creature
captured in Patterson and Gimlin's footage
when vacationing in the same mountain range
where it was filmed.
[man] We were living in Yreka, California,
which is right at the foothill
of the Klamath National Forest.
Me and my brother were 15 years old.
Ray is, uh, well, of course he's my identical twin brother.
We were outdoorsy all the time.
We liked to go out and be adventurous.
Yeah, we didn't have video games.
We had to play physical games
if we wanted to have any kind of excitement.
Our game is kinda like a mixture of guns
and hide and go seek.
It was just fingers. We just had, you know,
bang, bang, bang type of game, you know?
We didn't have any real set rules.
[laughter]
[Narrator] Curtis and Ray divide teams.
Ray and two friends stay at home plate
while Curtis and the other kids
hide beyond the back fence.
[Curtis] Probably about 8:00 or 9:00 at night.
The sun was already going down.
My brother had to count down from a hundred
while my team took off.
We laid down right next to that chain-link fence.
And we were waiting for the other team to come after us.
[Narrator] But as Ray and his team
turn to start searching, they see three figures.
[Ray] And we could see these black figures.
I'm trying to figure out if I can recognize
some kind of clothing on them or something, you know.
We were trying to focus on what they were.
[Narrator] Beyond the back fence,
Curtis and his team notice the same obscure figures.
[Curtis] My sister nudged me,
said, "The other team's walking across the field."
Sure enough, three figures walking right through
the middle of the field, basically.
So we crawled, and we're doing it real slow.
We'll have the element of surprise.
And all I'm doing is just scanning around,
looking for the other team.
[Narrator] While Curtis assumes
the three figures on the field are the other team,
back at home plate,
Ray knows he is not looking at his brother.
[Ray] The way that they were walking,
it almost looked like they were like marching in a certain way
like they're like synchronizing each other.
The two little bit smaller ones went around the fence.
The other one took like two leaps
and was over the fence.
[tense music plays]
♪
That fence was at least 10 feet.
There's no way that I can just go like this
and leap over the fence like that like this thing did.
And that just scared me and I go,
"They're not regular humans."
I go, man, could this be Bigfoot?
Yeah, we've heard of Bigfoot before.
You know, we've seen stories about Bigfoot.
I was scared.
You know, we knew my brother was over there still.
[Narrator] The Klamath Mountains
are a world-famous hotspot
for Bigfoot encounters.
In 1983, while playing within the mountain range,
Curtis and Ray Jones see three obscure figures.
One of the brothers witnessed a figure
make an impossible leap over a large fence.
Ray has identified the creatures.
Curtis is oblivious.
In the tall grass, he can't discern the dark shapes.
[Curtis] Now I notice two figures
sitting about 20 feet away from me
just slightly to my left.
They were staring at me, these two figures.
They weren't moving.
They were just--they were fixated looking at me.
I seen a third figure come running,
dashing right around the other two.
It was covered in fur or hair,
'cause I could see the upper torso
and I could see like the individual hairs.
It was like 3 feet wide, definitely on two legs.
This thing was running so fast,
and then it just made a beeline right straight towards me.
I'm looking at this creature.
It finally came to a dead stop like 10 feet from me.
I could see him, or her,
tilt its head to one side like it wanted to
say something to me, like it wanted to communicate with me.
I was in shock at this point.
That's how scared I was.
I didn't know what else to do.
And I started using my fingers.
I started going bang, bang, bang!
When I started doing that,
when I started shooting at this creature...
...they just turned around and then they just started, um,
they started leaping real high in the grass away from me.
That's when I started running toward the fence.
[Curtis] My brother Ray, he just yells out, flat out,
he just says, "We just saw a Bigfoot!"
That's all I heard. "We saw a Bigfoot."
And that's when-- that's when all the blood
just rushed down from the top of my head.
Never felt a fear like that before.
[Ray] And of course, we don't wanna admit that we were scared,
but he was definitely scared.
I could see it in his face.
At that point I was trying to figure out what was going on.
I was just... I was in total shock.
I was physically shaken so bad,
and I had tears come down my eyes.
And my team was all gathered around me and stuff.
It mighta taken hours to be totally
more calm about it.
[Narrator] The next day, Curtis and Ray
begin researching the creatures they saw the night before.
[Curtis] We decided to go to the library.
So we're scanning through all these news articles and stuff.
I've always seen that Patterson film.
I didn't realize that that was on the same mountain range.
I didn't realize that that was that close, you know?
And I found stuff way back that was in Yreka
that date way back in the early 1900s...
that that whole mountain range has the most sightings
in California.
[Narrator] Curtis continues to research.
He questions why the reclusive creatures
adventured into the outskirts of Yreka.
I came to find out that, in '83, we were experiencing like
a four or five-year drought at the time.
My theory was that they were looking for food.
[Narrator] The Klamath Mountains
and the Pacific Northwest
are the most fertile ground for Bigfoot encounters
with hundreds of documented reports
and a sustained history of sightings.
Many have questioned if this mountain range is its home.
I'm so convinced what I saw was real.
Nothing can change my mind.
I don't care who you are or what you say.
I'm gonna believe what I saw. And that's it.
[Narrator] The Pacific Northwest
has become synonymous with the Bigfoot legend
while another region across the country
has earned a reputation for something even more ominous.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
is known as the Steel Capital of the World.
Many also allege that it's a hotspot
for demonic possession.
During its long history,
there are reports of violent possessions
at a boarding school,
exorcisms at St. Joseph's House,
and hauntings of a residence
where Native Americans were massacred
in the late 1700s.
These strange and dark encounters
continue to modern times.
[Oluseyi] Pittsburgh is so plagued
by the volume and severity of exorcism cases,
the local Catholic diocese hires a full-time exorcist
named Adam Blai.
[Banias] In his first 10 years on staff,
Blai performs over 100 exorcisms.
[Narrator] But Blai's not the only person in Pittsburgh
helping those possessed.
In 2022, Jennifer Flack,
a 42-year-old therapist and counselor,
claims to have performed an exorcism on a woman
at one of her retreats.
In 2022, I just started building these women's retreats.
Just gather the women, have fellowship.
We're talking about resentments or healing traumas
we termed as a CPR for the Soul workshops.
The day's finished, and most of the women left.
I'm cleaning up.
These two women lingered.
Joy and her sister Risa are just amazing folks.
They're just wonderful elementary school teachers,
proper little Catholic sisters.
Joy approached me and she said, "My sister, she's dark."
And Risa is coming out of the bathroom.
I just by happenstance put my right hand on her shoulder
and I said, "She dark like how? What do you mean, she's dark?"
And when I laughed, I turned my head back
and Risa's eyes were black.
[Narrator] Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
a city many believe
is a hotspot for demonic possession.
It's here that Jennifer Flack,
moments after leading a women's retreat,
encounters a woman whose eyes suddenly turn pitch black.
She looked hollow. She looked like...inhuman.
Her head goes from pointing straight
to weirdly snapping to me.
She spit in my face.
She called me a...
Whatever was talking to me was not Risa.
It was not her.
I couldn't get my right hand off of her shoulder.
Like I had stuck to her.
It was a very strong magnetism.
I was trapped.
She was grinding her teeth.
It was so loud
I thought there was only gonna be dust
or fragments of her teeth.
My hair was standing up on end.
I was sick to the core of my being,
like I just wanted to vomit.
So I put my other hand on her.
[praying indistinctly]
It hated me.
It felt like I was gonna die.
I felt like I wasn't getting out of this cabin.
And Joy at this time already had started crying,
and I said, "Pray every prayer you've ever known
that you have ever learned, and don't stop."
I am praying to every and all entities
that will answer me--
God, Jesus, Mother Mary.
She begins to make this guttural noise
that sounds kinda like a moan and a growl together.
[muffled yelling]
I felt like I was making whatever was in there angry.
Risa's head turned so fast, it didn't seem human.
And she says, "Get that [bleep] out of my pockets,"
and it was not her voice.
It sounded like a deep male
scary voice, and it was raspy.
It was gross.
I asked Joy, I was like, "What's in her pocket?"
She said, "I put the olive branch cross in one pocket
and the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the other pocket."
I said, "Put 'em on her skin."
She slid the cross in between my right thumb
and the back of Risa's neck
and she held the Sacred Heart of Jesus on her chest.
It literally looked like something poked out of there.
This was far more than just evil.
This felt demonic.
We're both praying. We're both--
I know I was sweating. I was crying.
I don't know what I said,
just remember asking for God to help.
It was spiritual warfare, and we were at war for her soul.
I heard this loud pop...
-[pop] -...and she falls
out of my hands onto the floor,
and she's coughing and gagging and choking.
[coughing]
And this smell came out of her
that smelled like rotten meat and death.
It smelled like if Hell had a breath,
it took a breath and let it out.
She crawled a few steps to get onto her feet.
She went running to the bathroom.
She was still choking and gagging,
and it sounded like something was coming out of her.
[coughing]
She started throwing up in the bathroom,
and in that moment
I just felt like there was something evil there,
like it was in the room with us.
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I just went to the front door and opened the cabin door.
It went past me.
And when it did, I felt it.
And it was a large tall-looking...
entity--I don't know what else to describe it as.
Whatever the energy was, it was...
it was pissed.
It lost something that it wanted,
and it was angry with me, and I felt that.
And when I shut the door, I felt like I locked it out,
like I shut it outside.
My body's soaking wet.
You could wring sweat out of my clothes.
Joy's still crying. She was terrified.
Risa, when she emerged from the bathroom,
she sat on the couch.
She looked right in my face
and asked me if that was the devil.
And I said...
"I don't know what it was, but it wasn't God."
[Narrator] The ordeal finally ends,
leaving Jennifer with only questions
about what had occurred.
[Jennifer] I called her the next morning
and I said, "How's everybody doing? I'm just checking in."
She said to me, she said, "Did I do anything bad to you?"
And I said, "No, that's okay."
She said, "I'm sorry." I said, "It's okay."
She had no idea what happened.
I literally told them to go to their priest
and tell them what had happened
at their home church, and she said absolutely not.
We didn't even tell our husbands.
We're not telling anybody.
We're never talking about this again.
I can't forget whatever that was.
That was not--that was not a human disembodied spirit.
That was evil. That was pure evil.
I can feel it. I can smell it.
I-I will know it for the rest of my life.
It's seared into my soul.
[Narrator] Some places are magnets
for terrifying creatures,
paranormal activity,
and dark entities.
These hotspots alter the lives
of the witnesses who question:
Is it safe?
Are they still there?