[Cindy] I just saw a man,
he's stumbling into this house.
The woman who lives here, I can hear her screaming in the middle of the night.
[crying] I hate this house. I hate it here so much.
-She thinks whatever's here wants to kill her. -I think so too.
The woman who lives here
is going to die if she doesn't leave.
He told the court that he had evil in him.
A man's voice is like, "You could be better off without her.
You need to get rid of her."
What?
I'm really concerned.
[crying]
[Cindy] This couldn't be the more perfect storm for bad [bleep] to happen.
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 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 wanna talk about 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...
[crying] Let him sit there and fight this thing.
...or pack a bag and get out.
His goal would be to have you all die.
[thunderclap]
[Cindy] Okay.
I feel like there's a lot of death around here on this property.
Murder, suicide, just so much death.
I need to do automatic writing.
I feel super scattered here.
[exhales]
People can't think clearly.
People that live in this house,
it's like they can't remember anything.
They feel super scattered,
they can't seem to get it together.
It affects the mind.
I feel like I have dementia in a way.
[Steve] I'm out here in Crossville, Tennessee.
It's about an hour east of Knoxville.
I got a call from a woman who sounds like she's barely holding it together.
She thinks whatever's in her house killed her fiance,
and is coming after her next.
I really hope Cindy and I can help her out.
All right, so, Brittany, you sounded pretty desperate on the phone
like we need to find out what the hell's going on here.
[Brittany] It's real bad.
I'm scared.
So, daily, day to day, it's been a nightmare for you.
-Oh, very much so. -Okay.
-I'm... Hold on... [crying] -[Steve] No, it's okay.
-[sniffles] -[Steve] Here.
-Here. -[Brittany] Thank you.
-You've been holding it in? -[Brittany] A lot.
We're here to help, okay?
So why don't we start with basics, Brittany, if you can?
It's you and your father in the house, right?
-How many years you guys been here? -[Brittany] Two-and-a-half.
Now, did you have experiences before moving in here?
Pretty much my whole life.
[Steve] Really?
-[Brittany] Yeah. -Okay.
And when I was 15, I played with Ouija boards and got possessed.
My dad actually wrote a book about it, and this is it.
The Holy Water Incident.
Wow. Okay.
Do me a favor and give me a list
of what you guys were experiencing here.
[Brittany] We hear creepy, weird sounds,
I see shadow figures.
It affects our moods.
It has attacked me several times.
Okay.
I think it's trying to kill me.
Okay.
You mentioned on the phone to me
about your fiance passing away here
and you think the paranormal had something to do with it.
[groans]
He was a really cool, great guy.
I have some pictures of him and he and I.
[Steve] You guys look happy. That's for certain.
-[Brittany] We were. -[Steve] How old was he?
He was 36.
So, he was a young man. Did he die in this house?
Yeah, in our bed.
[Steve] In your bed. What was his official cause of death?
He died of cardiac arrest.
Was he on any medication before he died for any kind of illness or injury?
-Pain pills and stuff. -[Steve] So opioids?
-Yeah. -Okay.
He drew some pictures for me
a week-and-a-half before he died.
-Do you have any of those sketches? -Mm-hmm.
[Steve] Did he say anything to you
like it's coming to get him or anything like that?
He didn't say that, but he was so scared.
You think your fiance is still here?
-I hope so. -Why do you hope he's here?
It means I'm not alone.
Okay.
I miss him.
I bet you do, hon.
Maybe it means that he's just looking out for me, I guess.
I just saw an image of somebody OD'ing on opioids.
That happened for sure.
And I feel like this guy's spirit
is definitely present in this house.
I know he had a drug addiction.
Do you know if he has any interaction with the living?
I feel like he's protective of the living.
He's super kind.
He doesn't want to see bad things happen to this family.
He's actually like a big brother to the girl upstairs.
So he's not here to do any harm, he's actually a good guy.
[Steve] Okay, so, Brittany, why'd you bring me up here?
I've seen a couple different shadow figures around the house.
Okay, so describe what you're seeing.
It is a shadow figure at the top of the stairs.
That's the one that Jesse drew.
The guy with the hat.
Okay, what's it doing? Is it looking at you, or...
Sometimes. Sometimes it pushes me.
Whoa, whoa, back it up. What do you mean it pushes you?
I was thrown against the wall three times.
-By the shadow figure? -Mm-hmm.
This is the first time in over 200 investigations
that I've ever heard anybody say
that a shadow figure pushed them or attacked them.
What else you got going on?
I woke up one day and I look at the bathroom wall,
and it says, "Give me what I want."
And I think it was in blood.
-All right, you were talking about this bathroom here? -[Brittany] Yes.
-You didn't write this? -Not that I remember.
[Steve] So, you woke up one day,
and all that stuff was in the bathroom, on the walls?
[Brittany] Right.
All right, I gotta be honest with you, I'm not buying any of this.
I had blackouts for a little while.
I would wake up down at the bottom of the stairs.
So is it possible, during one of those blackouts,
that you wrote all that stuff and didn't know it?
It is possible, but that is not my handwriting.
So are you into anything?
-Like what? -Uh, yeah, witchcraft, but I--
Woah, back it up.
So, what do you mean "witchcraft"? 'Cause I need to know everything.
Like white magic, kitchen magic, protection.
-And how long have you been doing this? -Since I was 13.
[Steve] So you consider yourself a witch?
-Not anymore. -[Steve] No?
I need you to be 1000% honest with me because this is the deal.
If you're not gonna tell me the truth, I'm gonna leave.
Okay.
Okay? Because if I can't present to Cindy everything
that's going on in this house truthfully, she can't help you.
So as far as this witchery stuff's going on,
-are you still doing it actively today? -No.
Okay.
[Cindy] This is so crazy. I just heard it talk about the witch or witchcraft.
Practicing witchcraft incorrectly.
I feel like people are having seances. That's the vibe that I get.
People in this family have a history of connecting to spirits.
The woman who lives here because she's hearing spirits,
she's coming across as being delusional to other people.
So she's feeling depression, anxiety.
Mental chaos.
All right, Brittany, this is the location where you and Jesse slept,
and where he passed?
-[crying] Yes. -[Steve] Okay.
So, what are you experiencing here?
I've been punched really hard.
Where did that happen?
It happened in bed, right here.
Something just clocked me,
and, I mean, it knocked my glasses off.
I don't know how to debunk it,
and I don't know if you're lying to me. So, it's, you know...
If you got hit in the head like that,
this is probably one of the worst cases I've worked on.
I mean the stuff you got going on here is out of control.
I know. [sniffles]
What else is going on here?
Two different times, I have been scratched on my chest.
-Just out of nowhere the scratch appeared? -Yeah.
You allergic to anything? Were you using a new detergent or anything like that?
Nope. Mm-mmm.
Anything sharp in the area that you might have nicked?
No, and as you can tell, I have little nubs for fingers. [sniffles]
I don't know how you're still living here.
[crying] I don't wanna be.
I hate this house. I hate it here so much.
The woman who lives here, I can hear her screaming in the middle of the night.
When she's sleeping, she's being attacked.
[Matthew] By who?
[Cindy] I just saw a man.
It looks like he's stumbling into this house drunk.
I keep hearing convicted murderer.
I feel like he's trying to assault her as she's sleeping.
He has it out for this woman that's here because she's a woman.
The woman who lives here
is going to die if she doesn't leave.
He wants revenge.
[Steve] All right, let's get down to things.
You know, I talked to Brittany before. She's going through hell.
She thinks whatever's here wants to kill her.
I think so, too.
-You do? -I do.
[Steve] Okay.
She told me she was doing witchcraft at one point. She admitted that to me.
Yeah.
The I saw the stuff written in the bathroom.
Did you write any of that stuff?
-[Bill] Oh, God, no. -[Steve] Okay.
So she doesn't know how it got there.
Right.
Do you think whatever she was doing
with the Ouija board and stuff like that
could have something to do with what's going on in the house?
[sighs in exasperation] I don't know.
I've never really liked all that witchcraft stuff, but she's a grown adult.
So, Bill, have you had any experiences you can tell me about?
Well, I get these intrusive thoughts.
Okay, so, what do you mean by that?
I'll hear this voice say, "You'd be better off without her."
Meaning my daughter.
"You need to get rid of her."
That's not me, I didn't say that.
It's another voice. It's a male voice.
So, Bill, just be honest with me.
Have you ever raised a hand to your daughter?
No, I've never laid a hand on her, never touched her,
never spanked her, nothing.
All right. Bill, what else can you tell me about?
Well, my moods change.
I'm a very laid-back guy. You know, old hippie.
And since we've been here,
I'll get mad over the stupidest little things.
Are the mood changes causing you two guys to fight with each other?
Yeah.
I wish I could say no, but verbally, it gets pretty bad sometimes.
Okay.
[Cindy] I don't like this.
I just wanna get out of this room, I do not like it.
Whoever is in this room is really angry all the time.
Like, really pissed off.
There's a lot of rage and anger.
What do you think is causing that?
It's the land, it's whatever's going on upstairs,
it's criminal guy that's in here.
It's all of it. This is a terrible location.
All right, Bill, what else can you tell me about?
There have been strange sounds.
Okay. Like what?
Like you're lying in bed, you're trying to go to sleep,
and it sounds like rats scratching.
And we've been here two-and-a-half years,
and I have yet to see a rat or a mouse.
I mean, you do have cats.
Yeah, but they're in the bed with me.
Okay. Even if half of the stuff that's going on here was true,
it's one of the worst cases I've ever worked.
Wow.
I'm out of my wheelhouse when it comes to the paranormal.
I'll leave that to Cindy.
Speaking of Cindy, what if she turns around and tells you,
"Listen, if you guys stay here, somebody's gonna die."
We'll have to leave.
-We have to go. -Okay.
Financially, I don't know how we're gonna do it,
'cause I sunk everything I've got into this place.
Right.
[Bill] But if she says
that if you stay here, something's gonna kill Brittany, then we go.
Okay.
I keep hearing scratching on the walls.
But it's not animals, you know?
It's paranormal.
It's sounds like somebody's running their fingernails down the walls,
it sounds like somebody's running their fingernails on the window.
You'll hear something, so you don't feel safe. There's no safe space.
Anything in particular doing that?
It's inhuman.
It's because of the witchcraft going on.
And I feel like it's created an opening
that's allowed this inhuman thing to come in.
It's just growing more and more aggressive.
Is it interacting with the living in anyway?
There's been an increase in depression,
but also this presence is making this person want to hurt other people.
That makes me concerned because not only do we have a murderer in this house,
but now we have something inhuman
that wants to make people hurt each other.
This couldn't be the more perfect storm
for bad [bleep] to happen.
[Steve] There's a cemetery just down the road
from Bill and Brittany's house.
You can't miss it on your way in.
So I called a local professor and she tells me it has some strange stories
I definitely need to know about.
[Steve] Paula, I appreciate you helping me out with my case.
This cemetery, what can you tell me about it?
Lantana Cemetery is 1.7 acres and it has at least 320 headstones in it.
And the earliest burials here date back to 1886, and are mostly children.
Okay. So, Paula, I'm a little turned around, I'm not from here.
My client's house, how far is it from here?
It's about half a mile from here.
Okay. So this seems like a typical neighborhood cemetery.
[Paula] Mm-hmm.
[Steve] You said this place has some strange stories. What did you mean by that?
Some of the buried here do seem a little out of place.
In what way?
Well, in 1919, Mary Ann Andrews
fell sick with typhoid fever in Chattanooga,
and her husband, J.J., brought her home to Crossville
to recuperate and recover, but she never did.
Okay.
Sadly, she's buried here all alone.
And in fact, I've got her death certificate here.
[Steve] Okay, so the husband is not here?
No, he remarried, he moved to California,
and he's buried with their two sons.
All right, so she definitely seems out of place. Anybody else?
In January, 1950, there was a military plane flying from Alaska to Montana
and it disappeared over the Canadian wilderness with 44 people on board.
The plane was never found, no survivors were ever found,
and not even any wreckage was ever discovered.
How does that tie into the cemetery?
One of the missing is a Corporal Richard Suggs who was only 20 years old,
and his family was living in Crossville.
And about a decade later,
his mother finally decided to embrace or accept the idea that he wasn't coming back,
and she applied for a military headstone for him.
And in fact, I've got the application right here.
[Steve] Okay, so he has a headstone here, but no body.
[Paula] Correct.
So his marker's here, but his body is somewhere in Canada
close to 3,000 miles from here.
Okay. So it sounds like there's some people here who are not at rest.
Yeah.
[Cindy] I see a skeleton, but the head is missing.
I see the skeleton from the head down, one part of it,
and the head is somewhere else.
I feel that there's a man here, he's super angry.
I know that there's a dead man who is on this property
who's really mad because it's like his grave got moved
or something got misplaced.
And does he have any interaction with the living?
I know the family here see shadows.
Shadow figures on the land.
[Cindy] I need to do automatic writing.
[exhales]
The house is full of angry spirits
because of how they moved the bodies.
And there's a lot of pissed off spirits.
We have a mob of angry ghosts.
I keep seeing people getting sick in this house.
It's not good.
[Steve] So far, I've got a client terrified
something evil's gonna kill her on her property
just on the road from a cemetery
with some dead people who are not at rest.
But I wanna see if there's anything else.
Searching through old records,
I came across the story of a man
who was murdered by his own son-in-law.
Turns out he's buried at that same cemetery
just down the road from my client's house.
So I'm heading over to meet a local investigator.
He says people around here are still talking about this case.
That's because the killer's wife remarried to yet another murderer.
[Steve] Well, Eddie, thanks for helping me out. It's good to see you again.
What do we know about this murder victim?
Yeah, Marshel Houston,
he was a railroad signalman and lived in Tennessee with his wife.
and they moved around, um, raising their children of five.
So what I understand, one of his kids was married to the murderer.
Who was that?
Yeah, that was his oldest daughter, Dorothy.
Dorothy met him as a teenager.
All right, so now, Dorothy's married to the guy that kills her father.
What do we know about that guy?
Virgil Pearson. He was a violent guy.
They had a rocky relationship. In 1937, they filed for divorce
because they couldn't live together happily anymore.
All right, let's get to the murder of Marshall. When did it happen?
It was early morning of August 30th, 1937.
Marshall went over to Virgil's house to get some belongings of Dorothy's.
He packed his stuff and, as he was leaving, he forgot his pistol.
We only know that when he went back into the house,
Virgil shot him in the head.
I have his death certificate here.
"Gunshot wound to the head. Supposed accident."
What the hell does Virgil even say happened?
Hell, he didn't even know that he had shot his father-in-law.
I mean, how can you not know?
They indicated he was drunk.
So he was so drunk that he shoots his father-in-law in the head
-and doesn't realize it? -Doesn't realize it?
You ever been that drunk?
-I've never been that drunk. -Me neither.
All right, so that's a [bleep] story, but they bought it.
-They bought it. -[chuckles]
So in the phone, Eddie, you said that she married another murderer.
-Who was this guy? -Yeah.
It appears that her taste in men didn't get any better.
In 1940, she married another guy, Fred Denton.
He was a divorced reverend-turned-hotel owner.
30 years older than Dorothy.
All right, let's get to the murder. What the hell happened?
Yeah, December 17th, 1948.
Police were called to the house
with neighbors saying that there were shots fired.
Turns out, Fred shot Dorothy in the head.
Here's her death certificate for that.
[Steve] All right, jeez. She was only 33 years old.
I have a picture of her here as well.
[Steve] All right, so I assume the cops take him into custody.
What did he say?
Yeah, he tells the police that he was just trying to scare her,
and shot her accidentally.
So does Fred do any time?
He only gets convicted of involuntary manslaughter.
And he only does one year at the county workhouse.
Not for nothin', but this poor woman couldn't,
you know, pick the one of a one-horse race. She had no luck.
Yeah.
[Cindy] I'm seeing the killer again.
People in town knew who he was.
I see him getting into trouble with the law a lot.
People in town, um, just thought he was a bad dude.
He had a reputation.
He keeps showing me that he would've been locked up.
I keep hearing him say, "I was in the papers.
They found me guilty of murder."
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[Steve] Bill and Brittany's house is literally in the middle of nowhere.
So when I called the local Sheriff's department, I wasn't expecting much.
Turns out, there was a brutal double homicide
just down the street from the house.
And the detective who worked the case has agreed to talk to me.
So, Jeff, thanks for helping me out with my case.
Uh, I under you actually worked this investigation.
[Jeff] That's right, Steve.
Myself, along with some other investigators
conducted this investigation back in 2006.
All right, so before we even get to that, what do we know about the victim?
The victims in this case was a 27-year-old mother of two
by the name of Kimberly Wyatt
and her beautiful four-year-old daughter named Sarah.
So, what the hell happened?
Kimberly had just recently went through a divorce, and she was dating two men.
One of those men was the name of Alex Boslin.
He was a correctional officer at the prison where she worked.
Second guy was Houston Lloyd. He was a 48-year-old married father of three.
And he also worked at-- with-- for The Tennessee Department of Corrections.
But he worked at a separate prison as a nurse.
They had dated for a short period.
Let's get to the murder. What the hell happened?
On the evening of June 3rd, 2006,
Kimberly was in the vehicle with her two daughters,
Karen who was six, Sarah who was four.
And she passes Alex Boslin on the highway
and flashes her lights at him, signaling for him to pull over.
And they pull into the parking lot of the Lantana Church of Christ.
How far was that from my client's house? Do we know?
It's approximately 2,500 feet, Steve.
-Okay, so less than a mile. Half a mile. -That's correct.
They're on the parking lot now. What happens next?
Alex was actually helping Kimberly get
her two daughters out of her vehicle, and over into his vehicle.
-Okay. -And that's when Houston Lloyd pulled in,
driving a black Nissan Altima.
He got out of the black Nissan Altima,
come around their vehicles, and opened fire,
striking Sarah in the neck.
-Sarah's the four-year-old, right? -Thats correct.
What happens next?
He turned the weapon onto Kimberly Wyatt and began firing.
He shot her eight times in her upper torse.
All right. So with all this shooting going on,
was the six-year-old hurt at all?
She was not. She was actually in the vehicle with Alex,
and he was trying to protect her while he was calling 911.
All right. So, what's the story with Lloyd, man? You guys got him?
We did. He actually fled the scene after a 36-mile chase.
We took him into custody.
Uh, he was subsequently charged with two counts of first-degree murder.
Murder one's usually death penalty.
Um, did he plea out? Did he go to trial? What happened?
What happened was, the family decided
that it probably wouldn't be in Karen's best interests
to the surviving child to testify.
They were seeking the death penalty.
And they found him guilty, and gave him life in prison.
Okay. So sounds like he copped a plea
because the family didn't want the trial to happen.
-Does he have any chance at parole? -No.
Did he ever explain why the hell he did all this?
Actually, Steve, in his sentencing, uh, he told the court
that on that day, he had evil in him.
There's always those cases that stand out to you, and you'll never forget 'em.
And this is one of those cases that I'll never forget.
-Yeah. And they wonder why we don't sleep at night. -Yes.
[Cindy] I saw several terrifying things in my walk.
But two really stood out.
First, the angry mob of dead people gathering around the house.
You can see the house kind of here, is an A-frame house.
And then, there's this yard, and then you could see just a mob of dead people.
And they looked like shadow peoples.
A little bit further away from the house in my vision.
Next, I describe the angry dead man attacking the living woman in bed.
So, this scene, uh, I was seeing was from the perspective
of standing in the entryway of the bedroom.
So I could see her, and I could see him over her.
What expression did you see for her?
In my vision, I could see her screaming at the top of her lungs waking up.
Cindy, is this what you saw?
That's definitely 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 want you to meet Brittany and her father Bill.
They live in this house alone.
Now, I've been investigating these cases about 12 years.
I thought I heard it all.
-[scoffs] -[Steve] Um...
What these guys are going through, it's a whole other level.
So they're praying you could show them how to get rid of whatever's here,
so that they could live in this house in peace.
So now that Cindy knows a little bit about you guys,
she'll tell us about her walk.
[Cindy] So when I first arrived, I saw a mob of dead people.
There are like 15 or 20 dead people.
I think you guys probably see shadow figures
in the yard in the back.
And being around this kind of energy, this dead energy,
it can create health issues.
[scoffs] That makes sense.
So, I had a sketch done of what I saw.
[Steve] This ain't creepy.
-Holy crap. -[Brittany's voice shaking] Oh, my God.
[whimpers]
I think I'm gonna throw up.
It's a little tough to see, huh?
And terrifying.
I see a lot of shadow figures.
I've been attacked.
So, do me a favor. Tell Cindy about how do your attacks usually happen to you.
I've been thrown up against walls, I've been punched.
They pushed me down the stairs.
I saw your pain. I saw a lot of it.
And I'm sorry.
[sobbing]
[Cindy] I'm really sorry that you've been through so much pain.
-Really. -[Brittany continues sobbing]
Any sense of who these people are,
these dead people, or where they're even coming from?
I kept seeing all these graves being moved or misplaced.
So because of that, the dead are really angry.
It's like they're not really resting. They're not at peace.
-They're really pissed off. -Mmm-hmm.
So, I'm sure you guys know you live about a half a mile
from the local cemetery, right? It's right here.
-[Bill] Yeah. -[Brittany] Yeah.
It's called the Lantana Cemetery.
I went over there and met with a local historian, and
what stood out to me was that some of the people buried there
really didn't belong in that cemetery, which I thought was odd.
So, I'm wondering if these dead people might be coming in from this cemetery.
-Is it possible? -[Cindy] No.
To me, it felt more like there would've been people buried on that plot,
and then they would've been moved.
Maybe Native Americans.
[Steve] Okay. So, how else did the walk go?
[Cindy] When I got to the bottom of the stairs,
I looked up and I saw this dead guy walking back and forth.
And I knew that he had died from an opioid overdose,
that he had an addiction to drugs.
And I believe that this happened in the house.
And his spirit is very much still there.
He's kind. I feel like he's a good guy.
And he's concerned about you.
And wants you to be okay.
[Brittanny sobbing]
Yeah. I knew you were going to need this.
Thank you.
-You okay? -[sobbing]
[sniffles]
Okay.
-[Steve] You sure? -Mmm-hmm.
[Steve] Okay.
Cindy, Brittany's fiance died in the upstairs bedroom earlier this year.
I actually have a picture of him right here.
-I'm so sorry. -[Steve] Oh.
Can you do me a favor? When you're able to,
can you just tell Cindy what happened with Jessie?
He went to bed and I heard...
I guess what they call like, a death rattle.
Did he struggle with addiction?
Yes.
I thought this was interesting. I'm going to show Cindy.
So, Jessie drew this about a week before he died?
-[Brittany] About a week. -[Bill] About a week. Yeah.
[Steve] These were things he was seeing around the house?
Weel, he was going through something dark,
or experiencing something dark as well.
I don't really know how to feel right now.
Do you think that paranormal had anything to do with Jessie's death?
I don't want to say it's just the paranormal.
-Right. -Do I think that the energy on this property
and in this house is contributing to people's ailments,
psychological issues, physical issues? Yes.
[Steve] So, what else did you see on your walk?
I got that a lot of problems that are happening in this house
are stemming from somebody who's alive.
A woman who's performing witchcraft.
Um, I don't think this person is trying to intentionally harm anybody.
But there is something being done incorrectly.
And what this is doing, is creating portals,
entry points for spirits to come in.
And it's opening up a lot of bad stuff.
I have done witchcraft.
But, to my knowledge, it really was like protection type stuff.
But you consider yourself a witch, right?
-Not anymore, no. -[Steve] But you did?
Yes.
Is that causing the problem? Some of the problems?
It's-- Yes.
It is.
So, Bill, do me a favor, and tell Cindy about what you guys
found written on the bathroom wall.
It looked like it was written with blood and it was backwards.
And it said, "Give me what I want and I will go."
So, I don't know if you saw this when you went into the bathroom.
This is all the other stuff that's up in the walls there.
She swears she didn't write any of this.
Wow.
But she also admitted to me that you black out at times.
I'm concerned. Uh, I'm really concerned.
I saw that the witchcraft that you were performing
created this inhuman thing.
It sounds like somebody's running their fingernails down the walls,
it sounds like somebody's running their fingernails on the window.
There's no safe space.
This entity is what's causing a lot of the depression.
And I feel like it's creating violent thoughts.
-Hm. -[Cindy] So, it's making people that are alive
want to hurt other people that are alive.
[Steve] Okay. So we got a lot to talk about.
Let's start with the scratching you hear in the walls, uh, Bill.
It sounds like rats, or mice, or something.
Then you tell me about the voice telling you to harm your daughter.
[Bill] Uh, yeah, well, I'll be praying,
and I hear a man's voice, it's not my voice, and I don't know who it is.
But it's says, "You'd be better off without her.
"You need to get rid of her."
I-- He's never told me that. What?
I didn't want to upset you, okay?
What? Oh, my God!
[Brittany sniffling]
The thing is also, you guys have mood changes, right?
Very much.
I'll blow up at the television,
or the cats will walk in between my legs, and I'll blow up at the cats.
And that's not like me. I'm just a real laid-back,
easygoing guy I always have been.
Just an old hippie.
[Steve] All right. So, what else we got going on?
Now we're going to talk about a dead man who is in the house.
He's very present, and I feel he's very dangerous.
When I first saw him, he was staggering drunk.
He had a reputation as a bad guy.
He was always in trouble with the law.
He kept saying to me, "They found me guilty."
Uh, so I believe that he was a murderer.
-He hates women and wants revenge. -Makes sense.
Oh, my God.
So, I'm going to tell you about this woman here. Her name is...
Dorothy Houston.
She's a local woman who's actually buried at this cemetery.
Believe it nor not.
Now, this woman was married twice, and both men were murderers.
-What? -[Steve] Both the husbands. Yeah.
First husband was a guy named Virgil Pearson.
Now, Dorothy married him when she was just a teenager.
Now, in 1937, Dorothy and him broke up.
Dorothy sent her dad to Virgil's house to get all her stuff.
But the dad didn't trust the guy, so he went with a gun.
Big mistake.
While the father was there, Virgil took the gun and shot him in the head.
Oh, dear.
Now, when police questioned him Virgil said he was so drunk,
he didn't remember the incident.
Basically, he wasn't charged with the murder.
He got away with it.
Now, in 1940, she remarries.
This time, to a guy named Fred Denton, um,
who was 30 years older than her.
In 1948, the cops got a call from the neighbors
saying they heard shots fired at the house.
-Hm. -[Steve] When the cops got the scene,
Dorothy was dead. She'd been shot in the head.
Now, this was big news and it was in the paper.
At trial, Denton admitted he killed his wife
but argued it was self-defense.
Amazingly, the jury bought it.
He served less than a year in prison.
So, do you think it could be one of these two husbands
that's the guy in the house?
-It sounds a lot like Virgil to me. -Virgil. Okay.
Thats the first husband.
I saw he was drunk,
I saw, uh, he definitely shot a man.
I felt like a guy had been shot.
-That's the guy. -[Steve] Okay.
You'd said this guy is really dangerous,
-which has me concerned. -Yeah.
What does he do to these guys?
I feel like he has his eyes set on a woman. You, obviously.
I feel like he's trying to assault her as she's sleeping.
He has it out for this woman that's here.
I had a sketch done of what I saw.
You ready for this?
I don't know.
[whimpers]
Oh, Christ!
Oh, my God!
[Steve] Tell Cindy about you getting punched.
I was sitting on the bed and something just punched me right in the face.
-Youve been scratched as well, right? -[Brittany] Yeah.
Three scratches right here.
And then, scratched me again there, and it was three.
Now, is this all from this-- this Virgil guy?
[exhales] Um, I think so.
You okay?
No.
[Steve] I didn't think so.
The thing is, sweetie, if we didn't find out what the hell was going on here,
you'd be living in a nightmare.
Whatever it is, it's pissed that we're here.
Very much.
[whimpers]
[Steve] Now, you guys have been through so much and suffered so much loss.
If life was fair, you would be living in peace right now.
But unfortunately, you have a fight on your hands.
And now we're going to find out if it's even winnable.
For that answer, I'm going to turn it over to my partner Cindy.
I really think that you should bring somebody in that practices paganism
or Wicca that can help you close some of the portals
that you've opened by practicing witchcraft.
They can also push back the mob of spirits that are walking on your property.
So, it'll create a barrier around your house.
Okay.
So will that take care of this inhuman thing they're talking about?
-It should, yes. -[Steve] Okay.
So, what about Brittany practicing witchcraft?
You don't need to be doing this.
Mm-mm. I ain't doing that stuff no more.
Promise?
Yes.
And what about this murderer Virgil?
For him, I recommend that you bring in an alpha male medium.
Somebody that isn't afraid to stand up to this guy.
-[Bill] Mmm-hmm. -[Cindy] It won't be easy
but he should be able to move Virgil on.
Those are things that I'd do to deal with the paranormal activity.
But I feel like there are some things that you can be doing
to really take care of you.
Because until you take care of you,
this stuff is going to keep happening.
So, I recommend therapy.
I recommend meditation, things to get you grounded.
[exhales]
You guys are going to do what Cindy said?
Yes.
-Promise me? -I promise.
Okay.
-Promise? -Absolutely.
Yeah.
[sobbing]
[Cindy] I really hope Bill and Brittany bring in a Wiccan
and a medium to remove the dead who've been tormenting them.
Once they do that, and Brittany starts therapy,
I believe things at home will get better.
And they can finally live a safe and peaceful life.