[Cindy] The house itself attacks people.
Creates the perfect storm to really destroy a family.
My family is kinda falling apart right in front of me.
It ripped a big hole into all of our hearts.
There's a murderer around here, I swear to God.
Instantly, just pushed me down, right here.
Did that scare you?
Yeah, it was so hard.
His goal would be to have you all die.
Oh, my God. This house feels terrible.
I keep hearing, "Murder, murder, murder."
My name is Cindy Kaza.
I'm a psychic medium.
Somebody is conjuring up the spirits in this house, I swear to God.
I ask questions of the dead...
These people are grave robbers.
...to find answers for the living.
I'm a 100% sure that we're dealing with something demonic.
I'm Steve DiSchiavi.
I'm a retired New York City homicide detective.
So, when he jumps you like that, what happens?
It's my job to dig up history on every house we investigate.
I wanted to run the bloodbath.
And dig up secrets that wanna stay hidden.
We've done everything but burn the house down.
Together, we help terrified families.
A man's voice said, "I'm going to kill you."
Decide whether it's safe to stay.
I let him sit there and fight this thing.
Or pack a bag and get out.
His goal would be to have you all die.
[Cindy] Okay. [clears throat]
This house is its own entity.
I think we have to be pretty careful,
going in there tonight, just energetically.
Because I feel like, the house itself attacks people.
Oof. Oh, my God. This house feels terrible.
A loud house. Angry house.
Angry.
[Steve] So, I'm out here in Westminster, Colorado.
Just outside of Denver.
We got called in by a guy named Job.
He's a married father of five.
And the paranormal is ripping his family apart.
But here's what makes this case different.
Job is a professional paranormal investigator.
So, I asked him what he needed us for,
and he said he is in over his head, and he's desperate.
Here's hoping that Cindy and I can help this family out.
So, Job, you got a beautiful home, this area's really pretty.
You got your paranormal man cave, here in the backyard.
It seems like everything could be great for you.
But when we spoke, you sounded miserable.
Steve, it's gotten pretty dangerous around here,
to where it's attacking our family.
It's attacked me.
To the point where, even as a professional, you need help.
So, let's follow basics. Who lives here?
So, here's a picture of my family.
[Steve] Wow. You got some crew here.
-Are you guys a blended family? -Yeah.
You've been investigating the paranormal for how long?
About six years.
So you have any inclination that it could be something
to do with your work that's causing all this?
I don't think so.
If it's not work, what do you think might have caused all this?
I'd say when my cousin Eric was murdered,
three years ago, it opened the floodgates.
I'm sorry to hear about your cousin.
All right, so did they make an arrest in this case?
Yeah, they found the guy and he's been convicted.
Okay, so that's something. It's a little bit of closure.
Um, do me a favor, tell me about your cousin.
[Job] He was a great man.
Would take his shirt off his back for you.
And he always gave people second chances.
Did he ever live here, or spend time here?
He was always here.
Why do you think your cousin's murder has something to do
with the activity getting worse here.
It ripped a big hole
into all of our hearts. And...
Since, it's been--
It's just been chaos, all the time.
You think he's here?
I think he drops in.
I think he hangs out here.
Okay, so, Job, do me a favor. Give me a list of what you guys' are experiencing.
So, there's things moving on their own.
We hear footsteps.
Strange sounds throughout the house.
Our moods are being affected on a daily basis.
Shadow figures and apparitions.
Even to the point where we're being attacked.
So, Job, when you say moods are being affected, in what way?
The anger's just so intense that you just...
You can't hold back.
Do you feel that the...
the issues with the mood swings and the paranormal here
is gonna tear your family apart?
That's why I wanted to reach out to you guys
-because I can't lose my family. -Right.
Just thinking about it breaks my heart,
[Cindy] Wow. There's definitely a poltergeist here.
It's creating an environment where people are so anxious
and so afraid
that they're starting to argue, they're starting to fight.
So the fear, the anxiety, the fighting,
it's feeding the poltergeist activity.
That's what it wants.
There's a combination of all the things
that creates the perfect storm
to make for a huge mess.
And to really destroy a family.
People are starting to not trust each other.
Somebody is conjuring up the spirits in this house, I swear to God.
I just wanna keep saying, "Stop playing with fire.
"Like, metaphorically and literally.
"Stop playing with fire."
[Steve] All right, Job.
So, what experiences are going on that you can tell me about?
So, I have awful, terrible nightmares.
Okay, can you describe them?
It was as if I was looking at hell from a distance.
-Okay. -And I could see people burning
in the lake of fire.
And also, there was a bunch of shadow figures standing around me.
And the pinned me to a cross and then they hung me upside down.
That's pretty horrific. Now, let me ask you something.
I take some over the counter medication to go to bed and it give me--
Not nightmares like that but it gives me some weird dreams.
-You taking anything to go to sleep? -No.
Okay, so what else can you tell me?
So, I was laying on the couch downstairs
and i felt these two big hands
just slap me on the chest
and a deep, guttural demonic voice just say, "Hey."
I couldn't breathe.
I don't even know how to debunk that.
Okay, has anything else like that happened?
So, we were actually downstairs, watching TV,
and I had these-- like this burning sensation
on the back of my neck
and turns out, it was scratches.
-Did you have an allergic reaction to anything? -[Job] No.
So, Job, let me ask you a question,
as a professional paranormal investigator.
You went into somebody's house,
you just heard exactly what you told me,
what would you tell 'em?
I would say, "It's time for you guys to go."
[Cindy] Lot of physical stuff that happens in this house.
Sometimes people are hanging out here
and then, all of a sudden, it's like...
The cupboards are open.
It's like, "What? How did that happen?"
Are there any other kind of experiences
the living might be having with this poltergeist?
I feel like... Beds shake...
Doors slam...
Things flying around...
Physical injuries, pushing.
Would you say the living are in danger because of this?
They're in danger of being physically harmed.
They're in danger of being psychologically harmed.
If something doesn't change, it's only gonna get worse.
[Steve] So, Melissa, I talked to your husband, Job,
He says whatever's here is pretty dangerous
and it's causing everybody to fight with each other.
-I mean, do you agree with that? -Yeah.
He'll be a totally different person,
I'll be a totally different person.
What I'm seeing in our kids is, quite frankly, terrifying me at this point.
I feel pretty terrified, actually,
that my family's kinda falling apart right in front of me.
And I feel like I should know what to do.
-Right. -But I don't.
Okay, so, what experiences can you tell me?
I heard this tremendously loud banging noise.
-Okay, where was it? -Upstairs, on the front door.
We were in the kitchen area.
Okay, so, how loud was the bang?
It was super intense and loud.
-Okay. Obviously, you went to the door. -I ran to the door.
There was nobody there.
Okay, so, you had that banging. Anything else?
I never feel alone, ever.
Always being watched.
And there's always something with me.
Following me.
-So, do you feel that way, right now? -Yes.
So you're feeling it now, do you have any sense
as to, like, where it's coming from?
It just always feels like it's just nearby,
just out of arm's reach.
Just over my shoulder.
-Well, you got a lot of stuff going on in this house. -Yeah.
I mean, most people would have just left.
[Cindy] There's a really pissed off male spirit
that is on this property.
He's all over this place. He's all over it.
Oh, my God.
He sits in this chair
when people are sleeping.
Like, they would feel like somebody's watching them.
A lot of anger, rage, aggression.
Violence towards women.
Physically abusive.
He does have the ability to make people feel like they're choking
and he does have the power to push people.
So, could they fall down the stairs? Yes.
When I'm sitting in this bed,
know that there are terrible,
terrible nightmares
of really dark scenes.
There's blood, there's gore,
there's murder.
He doesn't like this family.
He doesn't want this family in this house.
He especially doesn't want the kids to be happy.
He's somebody who wants to kill the family,
like, he is so pissed off.
[Steve] So, I was talking to Mom and Dad about the stuff that's going on here.
And, sounds pretty scary.
Are you guys experiencing anything here?
-Yeah. -You are? Okay.
So Anabelle, I'm gonna start with you.
Can you tell me about some of the stuff you're experiencing?
Well, I had an experience in my room,
that I've been feeling watched.
Is there any spot in the room you feel it's coming from?
My closet.
[Steve] Your closet. Okay.
And when does this happen?
-All the time. -Yeah, and does it scare you?
Yeah, okay.
So, Daisy, what experiences can you tell me about?
I could hear these heavy footsteps.
Okay. Can you describe what it sounds like?
It sounds like heavy boots.
[Steve] When you heard these footsteps,
did you go up to check to see if anybody was up?
Yes, I have, multiple times.
And every time I come back to tell my parents,
-nobody's there. -Okay.
And what else have you experienced?
One time, I was on a video call with my friend.
And she was, like, "Daisy, there's somebody standing behind you."
And then I looked back and there's nothing there.
Did your friend say if it was male or female?
-Male. -Okay.
Do you wanna move or would you rather us try to fix this so you can stay?
-Fix this so you could-- so we can stay. -You wanna stay.
If we can have it fixed and still stay here,
it'd be a lot better than moving.
Okay. So then, that's the deal. We're gonna have to fix this.
-That sound like a plan? -Yeah.
Okay.
Oh, boy.
I don't like it.
The girl that sleeps in this room
is really affected by this house.
I just feel like,
she's waking up screaming in the middle of the night.
The image I'm seeing,
is her bedroom door
and a line of spirits
just, like, waiting to get in.
-Do you think this girl has abilities? -Yes.
The girl who sleeps in this room is definitely tapped in,
and is definitely feeding this activity,
And I feel like she is in danger
because she doesn't understand what's happening.
It is dangerous for her.
Yeah.
[Steve] So, I was talking to Mom and Dad today.
They were telling me about all the scary stuff
that's going on in the house here.
-You guys having a tough time? -Yeah.
Say, Carson, will you tell me about some of the stuff you've had happen?
I've had anger--
I don't know where it comes from.
I'll sit-- I'll be sitting in my bed
and I'll feel like I need to punch or, like, punch the wall.
Does it just come on?
-Yeah, it just turns on, like-- -Out of nowhere?
Yeah, it just-- a flick of a switch and then I'm mad.
-Does this happen to you at school? -Mmm-mm.
So, it's only here, when you're home?
Okay.
So, Millie, cutie pie,
can you tell me what you've experienced?
Yeah.
So, I was on the couch
and somebody just pushed me down right here.
Yeah, it was so hard.
Yeah? Show me on my hand, how hard.
-It was like that. -Ooh.
Okay.
Did that scare you?
-yeah. -Yeah, I bet it did. Okay.
So, Ainsley, why don't you tell me what you've experienced.
Me and my friend were upstairs on this couch.
We just see, like, this big, watery man
just-- it just came out of nowhere.
Okay, you say watery man
like it just appeared off something as water and it shaped into a man?
Mmm-hmm.
What did it do?
It was just standing there, like, just...
moving back and forth.
That must have scared you.
So, Carson, you know what Dad does, right?
-Yeah. -Are you interested in doing that one day?
Kind of.
What about you Millie, you like what Dad does?
No.
Millie, how come you don't like it? Does it scare you?
Yes.
-How about you, Ainsley? -I don't really like,
sometimes, what he does
because I don't want any ghost to hurt him.
Right, Yeah.
Ooh, I don't like this room either.
Ooh, I don't like it.
The kids are so affected by the activity in this house,
I worry about what could happen.
Wouldn't wanna be having slumber parties in this house.
It's not a good idea.
This is not good.
It is not good at all.
What I feel very confident about
is that one of the kids
opened up a doorway
for a lot of spirits to come hang out.
And not all of them are nice.
[Steve] So I pulled the deed on Job's property,
and gave it to a local genealogist who's helping me out.
She just called me.
She says, one of the original owners of the land
had a blessed life.
But all that changed the second he bought that property.
So, Sara, thanks again for helping me out with this case.
Um, what did you find out about this guy?
So, his name is Charles Harris.
He was born in 1853,
-in Connecticut. -[Steve] Okay.
[Sara] And then came to Denver
after he graduated from Yale Law School.
[Steve] So he's a smart guy.
Does he get involved with a woman, get married? What happens?
Charles circulated in very wealthy circles in Denver.
And that's how he met and married Florence Rust,
the daughter of a wealthy lumber bear.
Florence brough $100,00 to the marriage
that went directly into Charles' bank account.
Okay so now he's got this hundred grand in the bank,
what's he wind up doing with the money?
So, he starts buying up property all over town.
In 1887, he buys hundreds of acres,
including the property that you are currently investigating.
So, on the phone, you mentioned how things went bad
one he got the property. What happened?
So, everything looked like it was going okay
until Charles and Florence and their children moved into the property.
They had four children.
And in 1889, the whole family got sick with diphtheria.
So, from what I know about diphtheria,
that's a pretty serious infection.
Yes. they called it the "strangling angel",
because it actually closed the throat.
All right, so the four kids have it. What happened?
So, tragically, two of their children died.
-Charles Jr, and their daughter, Margaret... -Okay.
...died withing 36 hours of each other.
How old was Charles?
So, Charles Jr. was four years old.
-And how old was the daughter? -Margaret was only a year old.
And that's their obit.
All right. So, this was a real tragedy.
How did they recover from this? Or did they?
So, they didn't recover.
Things went from bad to worse.
His investments started to tank
and he lost over half of his wealth.
With his failing businesses and losing two kids,
Harris becomes a beaten man.
And that's when Florence calls it quits.
In 1892, Florence files for divorce.
So this is a pretty thick divorce decree.
What were the claims that she wanted the divorce for?
So, the first claim was that Charles stole all the family's money.
The second claim, she claims that
her children actually died because of his neglect.
And the third cause
was that he was going around town,
telling everyone that she was insane.
Okay, so it sounds like this guy might not have been such a great person.
Um, what happened after the divorce with the two of them?
So, Charles ends up alone.
And he moves to North Carolina.
Things get any better for him?
There wasn't a happy ending.
So, in 1944, he suffers from several falls
and breaks both of his hips.
-Okay. -He ended up bedridden
and lost his ability to eat.
So he starves to death.
That's a miserable way to go.
-So... -And he dies at the age of 90.
[Steve] This death certificate screams "died a broken man".
Yes.
I'm seeing the angry old man again.
The name Charles just came to me, as well.
Charlie? Charlie.
Violence towards women.
Just not a nice guy.
This man hated his wife when he was alive.
I feel like they had a daughter.
I feel like that had...
a daughter and a son.
I feel like there's one of each.
He's not at peace.
There's no peace for him.
Miserable.
This guy definitely doesn't wanna talk about his life.
So, I'm gonna try some automatic writing,
and see if I can get some information that way.
[clears throat]
The angry man is connected to this property.
I feel like he would have died very close to here
or around here.
He's angry that he had to-- that he died.
He's angry that he had to leave.
It carries over into the afterlife.
He's super angry.
[Steve] So I just got a call from a local historian.
He tells me Job's property used to be part of a large orchard.
And there was a very mysterious death right on the land.
So, Joel, thanks again for helping me
with this case. What happened?
So, on July 5th of 1908,
a group of boys went to the orchard to go swimming.
What happens next?
So, when they arrive a 19-year-old
by the name of Paul Robert Rudolph
jumped into the lake.
He suddenly let out a scream
and sunk beneath the surface of the water,
All right. So this kid disappears after letting out a scream.
Did they ever recover his body?
They did but it took them several hours to do so.
After raking and dredging the lake,
they finally pulled out his lifeless body.
It's kind of a mystery.
Paul was a very strong swimmer.
So they are not sure why he drowned in the lake that day.
[Steve] The circumstances of this are very strange.
So we got a healthy 19-year-old, that was a good swimmer,
drowns out of nowhere.
Strange.
[Cindy] There's a spirit of a 16-year-old boy that's also here.
The spirit of a 16-year-old boy
that interacts with the kids in this house.
Any idea how he interacts with them?
[Cindy] I feel like they'll see him.
He-- He talks to the kids.
He influences the kids.
Have I said the name Bobby yet?
Rober or Bob, that name?
Okay.
I feel like he died unexpectedly.
I feel like it's a tragedy.
I feel like it's an accident.
I don't feel like it was on purpose.
He lives here because he wants to have a family again.
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[Steve] So far, I've got a paranormal investigator
who believes the dead are ripping his family apart
on the same property where a former owner lost two kids
and his marriage.
But I wanna see if there's anything else.
Searching through old records, I find an article
about the murder of a notorious gangster.
Turns out, this homicide happened
just down the street from Job's house.
I'm heading over to meet a local author
who says the victim was part of a famous crime family.
She says he managed to survive prison
and life as a gangster.
But he couldn't survive his own marriage.
Lisa, I appreciate you looking into this case for me.
Um... So it sounds like this guy was part of an infamous crime family.
What can you tell me about him?
Well, it was 51-year-old Lloyd Barker.
Does he have anything to do with Ma Barker?
That's right. He was one of her four sons.
All right. So I know they were involved in a lot of crimes
So what did he do to go to jail?
In 1921, he and some of the gang,
robbed at gunpoint a US Mail truck in Baxter Springs, Kansas.
And Lloyd was sentenced to 25 years
in Leavenworth Federal Prison.
And...
here is a copy of his mugshot.
All right. So, does he do the whole 25 years? Or does he get out early?
Or what happened?
He was let out early, in 1938, after just 16 years.
He was let out for good behavior.
All right, so it's 1938, he's out.
Does he go back to a life of crime or does he stay straight?
He turns over a whole new leaf.
He enlists in the US Army, becomes a cook
at a POW camp.
And is then honorably discharged
and even wins a good conduct medal.
And the moves to the Westminster area
and becomes an assistant manager at a restaurant.
All right. So, Lisa, I know from our conversation
that he gets killed by his wife.
What do we know about her?
Uh, so, In 1946,
he met and married a single mom named Jennie.
-She had two kids from a previous marriage. -Okay.
And then she and Lloyd had two children of their own.
You know, from the outside looking in,
-it looks like everything is great, right? -Yeah.
What went wrong?
So, Jennie started to show signs of mental illness pretty early on.
Um, and back in the day,
-people didn't talk about it. Just wasn't dealt with. -Right.
So, she never got professional help.
Not that we know of.
All right. So, take me through the murder. What the hell happened?
Okay, so it's March 18th, 1949.
And Lloyd goes to work like he always does every morning.
And when he gets there, he gets a phone call from Jennie,
saying, " I don't feel well. Come home and see about the kids."
-Okay. -So he goes home like a good husband.
Puts his key in the lock, opens the door,
and is met by Jennie with a 20-gauge shotgun.
She shoots him in the head. He dies instantly.
-Just like that. So he walked into an ambush? -That's right.
There's an article about it.
[Steve] So I assume she's arrested and charged with murder?
Yes.
Okay, so now, what happens at the trial?
So the jury deliberates for all of 12 minutes
before coming back with a verdict.
Not guilty by reason of insanity.
Okay, so this poor slob winds up
turning his life around after getting out of prison.
trying to raise a family, working hard.
And then she blows his [bleep] brains out.
-Yeah. Mmm-hmm. -Just like that.
Okay.
I feel like somebody got shot around here.
I feel like there's...
...a murder.
I don't know that it's in this house,
but it has to be close.
I feel like there might be something
in the ground around here.
Like, bodies in the ground.
It's just...
something's off.
I keep hearing, "Murder, murder, murder."
There's a murderer around here, I swear to God.
I saw a lot of terrifying things in my walk.
But that line of dead going into a living girl's room,
that has me really worried.
There are several, several spirits.
Like a train of spirits going out of the door.
What did they look like?
I saw an older woman wearing a dress.
I saw a tall man right behind her.
I saw a teenager.
It's, like, a variety of spirits.
I mean, they are even, like, lined up in the doorway.
Next, I described a terrifying scene
that I saw in the main bedroom.
I saw this very angry...
older man.
sitting in the chair, just staring at the parents
while they're sleeping.
And he looked like he was around 68-69 years old.
He had grease on his hands.
Cindy, is this what you saw?
Yeah, that's exactly what I saw.
[Steve] Now that Cindy and I have completed our investigations,
we're ready to reveal our findings to each other
and our clients, for the first time.
So, Cindy, I'd like you to meet Job
and Melissa.
They're married and have a blended family.
Actually, a big, blended family,
with five kids.
Wow.
[Steve] Now, they seem happy but looks can be deceiving.
This is a family in crisis.
-The paranormal is ripping them apart. -Mmm-hmm.
If we can't help them tonight,
they're not sure they're gonna make it.
So, Cindy, when she's ready can tell us about
how things went on her walk.
[Cindy] When I was walking in the back of the house,
I saw a guy by the RV
and he was holding a double-barrel shotgun.
I felt like somebody had been shot.
And there is a lot of blood involved.
And at one point, I kept hearing, "Murder, murder, murder."
You know, Cindy, in my investigation,
I actually did come across a murder that happened here.
It was a long time ago
but it involved a woman shooting her husband.
But it sounds like the perp you saw was a man.
Yeah.
So, you should know of another murder involving a man,
who spent a lot of time in this house,
and that's Job's cousin Eric.
I got a photo of him, right here.
[Job] Eric was a good man.
He was the type of guy that gave his shirt off his back.
And his heart was so big.
When he died, it ruined our family.
I'm sorry for your loss.
[Melissa] He was always at our house.
-Big part of the kids' lives. All right. -Yep.
They all love him
and adore him.
He was everybody's, like, best friend.
Mmm-hmm.
[Job]When he was ripped away from this world
it opened a floodgate of paranormal.
Have you seen him in the house
since he's passed away?
No, But we'll get, like...
He used to smoke Marlboro cigarettes.
And he would-- And you can smell it in the house.
When you smell cigarette smoke,
that's him coming to say hello.
And coming to say, "I love you."
His soul's at peace.
That's gotta make you feel better.
It does.
The next thing that I wanna talk about
really has me concerned.
I feel like somebody in the house
is trying to communicate with spirits.
And because of this and other things that we're gonna discuss later,
I feel like the house has become
sort of like a gateway for the dead.
Random spirits are coming in and out all the time.
[sighs]
Job, I think it's probably time we tell Cindy
what you do for a living.
We do professional paranormal investigating.
Wow. Okay.
When I walked into the back bedroom,
I saw a child who is deeply affected
by paranormal activity.
[Steve] So, which bedroom was it?
[Cindy] Down the hall, to the right.
-[Steve] So, that's Daisy's room, right? -[Melissa] Yeah.
I thought she was around 11 or 12.
[Steve] She's 12.
I saw her waking up
in the middle of the night, saying something like,
"There's a monster in my room. There's a monster in my bed."
I think she has abilities.
I think she's a medium.
But she doesn't understand her gift and it scares her.
During my walk, I saw a lot of people
standing in line, waiting to talk to her.
I had a sketch done of what I saw.
[gasps]
-Yeah. -You ain't kidding.
That's [bleep] up.
[Cindy] That terrified me.
-It's like a waiting room. -[Cindy] Mmm-hmm.
[Job] It makes me feel like a fool
because I'm supposed to be
the protector of my family
and we pride ourselves on going out and battling
outside
and the battle's inside my home.
[Steve] I'm afraid to even ask you if you've seen anything else.
There's definitely poltergeist activity in this house,
and it's really bad.
It's really dangerous,
On a scale of one to ten, I feel like it's 11.
[whistles]
For poltergeist activity to occur,
I think you need three ingredients you need to have.
Tragedy, something on the land.
You need to have somebody who is open.
And you need to have arguing or turmoil in the home.
Yeah.
Job, Melissa and the kids have been fighting,
which is not normal for them, all the time.
We try to wake up and be really positive.
And think "Okay, today is a new day, fresh start."
And then, somebody is inexplicably
angry or out of character
or just completely it's like they're not
the same people.
[Steve] Carson was telling me he gets so mad he wants to punch the wall.
He's ten years old.
Yeah You're losing your [bleep] and you're thinking to yourself, like,
"Dude, what the hell are you doing?
"The [bleep] you doing? Calm down."
The poltergeist activity can cause
a lot of physical activity in the house.
I feel like... Beds shake...
Doors slam...
Things flying around...
Physical injuries, pushing.
Now, Melissa, if you can, tell Cindy about the banging
you heard on the front door that day.
Yeah, our front door, a loud...
horrifically loud bang.
like SWAT was about to come in our house.
There was nobody there.
[Steve] Now you mentioned it about getting physical.
I got a photo here of...
Job.
[Job] We were watching TV
and I felt, like, a burning sensation on my neck.
And I asked Melissa, "Can you check and see what it is?"
And she's like, "You got couple of scratches on your neck."
Now, does all this sound lie poltergeist activity?
-Absolutely, yeah. -Okay.
[Cindy] The next thing I wanna talk about
is the dead man who is very active
in your house.
-Mmm-hmm. -Very angry.
Very aggressive.
To me, he felt to be in his late 60s.
I was getting the name Charles, or Charlie.
He hated his wife.
-[Melissa hums] -Hated his wife.
He is very abusive and violent towards women.
And I feel like he and his wife
had a daughter and a son, together.
So, they had kids. But he doesn't like kids in the house.
I feel like he lived on this property
or connected to the property.
e's really, really angry that he's dead.
He's angry that he died.
And the rage that he felt in the living,
he carried it to the afterlife.
Well, I have a pretty good idea who you are talking about.
His name was Charles Harris.
Oh, my God.
So, this is him, right here.
Wow.
So he ended up marrying the daughter of a wealthy lumber baron.
He got her to deposit a hundred grand
into his bank account after they got married.
Absolute fortune back in the 1800s.
In 1887, he bought up hundreds of acres
which included the land your home sits on.
The minute he bought this property, that's when his life
-went straight downhill. -Mmm.
In 1889, Charles was living here with his wife and four kids.
When the entire family got diphtheria.
Tragically, Charles lost his young son and daughter
to the disease, within 36 hours of each other.
Oh...
The son was four and the daughter was, like, one.
I actually have their obit here.
Now, losing two kids is bad enough, right?
But things continued to spiral downhill for Harris after that.
Uh, his investments tanked
and he wound up losing half his net worth.
And it that wasn't bad enough,
his wife Florence filed for divorce in 1892.
I've got his divorce decree right here.
And it's a big one.
You mentioned this man was not a nice guy, right?
-Yeah. -[Steve] Harris' wife would agree.
According to this decree,
she blamed him for the deaths of the kids
saying he was neglectful.
And then she accused him
of going around town telling everybody
she was crazy.
Now, after the divorce, he winds up selling the property,
ad moved to the Carolinas in 1905.
In 1944, he suffered a couple of falls and broke both his hips.
Now, he was bedridden,
and was in so much pain,
he couldn't eat.
I'm going to show you the death certificate. As you can see,
it's hard to read, but...
Basically, it says he starved to death.
[Cindy] Oh...
-Could this be the guy Angry guy? -Yes.
That's crazy because I've seen him.
[Cindy] You have?
-[Job] I have. -Mmm-hmm.
-[Job] He sits on the couch. -[Melissa] He sits on the black couch downstairs.
[Cindy] Okay.
I saw him sitting in the chair.
The rocking chair next to your bed.
He was just staring at you while you sleep.
And I had a sketch done of what I saw.
[Steve] Oh, Jesus.
He even looks miserable.
Good grief.
That's how he looks when he sits on the couch, too.
You can just catch glimpses of him.
[Cindy] Well, he's really active all over the house.
He's very physical.
He can give people nightmares.
Push people. Shoves people.
It does not want kids in the house.
Tell her about you being smothered.
I was laying on the couch and...
I felt these two big hands
just smash into my chest.
Almost to the point it knocked the wind out of me.
Smashed my face into the pillow,
and was suffocating me.
If it had a couple more seconds, I wouldn't be here.
Mmm-hmm.
Now, you mentioned nightmares.
You told me about your nightmares.
Tell Cindy about that?
I saw these black shadows around the bed.
and they pinned me to a cross.
And as the walls were crumbling,
I'm looking out... in the distance
and there's this, like, a lake of fire.
And I can see people burning and screaming.
When I woke up, I was just terrified.
And you said this guy hates kids. Wasn't Millie pushed?
Yeah.
You could hear her land.
And she, to this day, will tell you--
like, she's like, "I felt big hands,
"so strong, push me."
His goal would be to have you all die.
You wanna protect your family and your kids
and this [bleep] is sitting in your chair.
Just pisses me off, you know.
I feel guilty.
Like I'm letting them down somehow.
My heart hurts.
[Steve] So, Job, I'll take a bet
that most paranormal investigators
would be too proud to call in anybody for help.
So you deserve a ton of credit for that.
I know you did it 'cause your number one concern
is keeping your family together.
So now we're gonna find out
if you can become a loving family again
and if so,
can you do it while still living in this house.
For those answers, I'm gonna turn it over to my partner, Cindy.
[Cindy] You guys have a lot going on in your home.
So first things first,
Charles... Gotta get rid of Charles.
You need to have
a medium come in
and talk to this man.
And try to get him to leave.
Any particular medium?
Has it gotta be a man or a woman? Does it matter?
With Charles, I would honestly recommend having a male medium come in.
Because he hates women so much,
he'll be more open to listening that way.
Okay.
Secondly, I really think Daisy should meet with a medium
so she can learn how to control her abilities.
That's really important.
Once she does that,
I really think the dead will leave the house.
Next, you need to have a house blessing.
And as you both know, salt can be effective.
So, putting salt around the house.
If you do all of these things,
and you can get Charles to go,
then the poltergeist activity
should calm down.
The fighting, I would hope, would calm down.
And I think that you can stay in your home.
That's great news.
Good news.
That's incredible news.
And there's one other thing that I did for you
when I was in the house during the walkthrough.
I do spirit art.
And I drew one of your spirit guides
who, I believe,
can be helpful in the home.
So, I feel, you can hang him on the wall.
-[Melissa] Yeah. Oh, my God. -[Steve] Hmm.
That's awesome to feel like you have backup.
That you're not the only one in the fight.
Yeah.
I just wanna make sure
-that you're gonna listen to what Cindy tells you to do... -[Melissa] Yeah.
...and get it done.
Definitely.
Not afraid of the heavy lifting part.
I'm ready to fight.
I'm ready to go to war.
[Cindy] I'm really happy that I was able to give some good news
to Job and Melissa.
They have a lot of work to do.
But I really think that if they follow my advice,
the unwanted dead will leave the house,
and they can go back to being a loving family.
Hey, Steve. Hey, Cindy.
We wanted to send you an update video
on everything that's been going on inside the house.
We reached out to a priest in the Catholic Church
to come out and do a rite of exorcism and bless the house.
And since, things have gotten a lot better.
Yeah, it's a much lighter,
more reflective place
and we are grateful to both of you
for making us realize
that we're not crazy.
We needed your help.
-So thank you. -Thank you.