♪♪
Mike: Living in merrill, it seemed like a dream at first.
Eventually, it was a dream kind of turned more into a nightmare.
Duane: It was like living in hell.
Celeste: When I was washing dishes, all of a sudden,
I just feel this cold, and I was thinking,
"somebody is here."
Frisby: I've handled shootings. I've handled homicides.
Those investigations don't even compare to this.
Josh: This room seemed to fill
With, like, burling black smoke.
Aidabelle: And then he noticed it.
There was three scratch marks on my neck.
You're playing... you're playing with satan.
♪♪
[ bell tolling ]
Shippy: Among the idyllic streets
And rolling fields of america's heartland,
Something evil lurks in the shadows
Of these close-knit communities.
I know because I grew up here and witnessed the fear
These hauntings caused firsthand.
[ glass shatters ]
Now, as a paranormal investigator
And documentary filmmaker,
I've made it my mission to travel the heartland
And bring resolution to the living and the dead.
♪♪
Man: Merrill is an old community.
It's quiet. It's slow-paced.
You still have that hometown feel.
Lefevre: The communities were officially established
In the early 1850s.
♪♪
So this is a huge farm country.
Girl: Merrill is a super, like, sweet town.
Man #2: Everybody waved at each other
And just real down-to-earth people.
Woman: Everyone who lives in merrill knows
There's just a weird energy
That's running through this town.
♪♪
Mike: I grew up in merrill pretty much my whole life.
We used to always talk and mention to each other
How awesome it would be to have this house.
Something about the place just kind of drew you in.
It used to be an old store at one time.
We love old stuff, history and antiques and stuff,
So it just fit, you know, like a hand in a glove.
We bought the house about 15 years ago.
Celeste: I fell in love with the house.
Like, this is gonna be our final house.
Mike: It was supposed to be, you know, my dream place,
And now it's more like a nightmare.
Activity has gotten so bad in this house
That my son, josh,
And my granddaughter, aidabelle, had to leave.
Whatever is in this home is...
It's just trying to destroy our family.
If we can't get things to change soon,
We may possibly have to sell the house and move ourselves.
♪♪
Shippy: So right now, I'm headed to go meet
With the midcalf family.
Mike contacted me in regards to strange
And anomalous activity taking place in his home.
It's an urgent situation because mike had relayed the fact
That his granddaughter, aidabelle,
Seems to be targeted by whatever is in the house.
Aidabelle is right at that age that I was
When I first realized that my home was haunted,
And I started to experience activity.
I've lived through it.
I know how traumatizing it can be,
So I just had to take on this case.
♪♪
Wow.
That's definitely an old general store right there.
♪♪
Hey, mike? Yeah.
How you doing, man? Great, how you doing?
Good, good. Come on in.
Nice to see you. Thank you for coming.
- How you doing? - Good.
I'm gonna have to mic you guys up here.
Oh.
Shippy: What's the story behind this home?
The house was built in 1845.
It was a general store, and then they lived over here.
So it seems like around here, that probably would be
The only store for miles and miles.
For miles.
When the postman would come by to the store
To drop off the mail,
There was farmers that would frequent the store,
And he'd leave their mail here.
Celeste: And then the postmaster general said,
"hey, we can't continue delivering mail here
Because it's not considered a town,
So you're gonna have to claim this as a town."
And the owner of that store
Was really close to his mother-in-law.
Her name was iva,
So he decided to name the town iva.
- So that's how it began, huh? - Yes.
Shippy: So this was the first structure
That started the town of iva?
Yeah, literally, the town of iva.
And now this is all just part of merrill?
This place was a big deal. It was a big deal.
I mean, it was everything. It was a post office.
It was a general store.
Yeah. It was a hangout.
There's so many people that drive by here
And just reminisce.
Nobody ever wants to come in, though.
We always tell them, "come on in,"
But they never want to come in.
I think that the house is haunted.
I just don't know.
I knew it needed a lot of work,
So we started the renovation in 2006.
I'd start working, and as I got going into, like,
Cutting a board or something, the saw would stop,
And the lights would go out.
I looked through the corner of my eye,
Could see a figure standing on the steps.
I guess we can get right down to it.
You want to take me to some of the hot spots
Where you're experiencing the most activity?
Sure. Yeah. I'll show this to you.
♪♪
Celeste: There was an instance when I was washing dishes.
You know, I'm just looking away, and all of a sudden,
I just feel this cold, and it was a hand.
It wasn't just a little thing.
It was just... it was like a hand.
My hairs were just standing up, and it, you know, it just, like,
Looked like, "wow," and I was thinking,
"somebody is here."
♪♪
After my encounter,
My son, josh, had a terrible experience.
Josh: I was about 17 at the time.
I came into the kitchen for just a little snack
Before I go to bed,
And I just went to walk out of here.
It's like I just couldn't go into the living room
To go past to go up to my bedroom.
It's like there was some sort of presence that I just...
I felt very uneasy
To step any farther out of the kitchen.
But as I'm looking out here, it's like this room
Seemed to fill with, like, burling black smoke.
In fact, I stood back here, and I actually...
I slept on this counter here,
This really thin, little place.
You slept on this counter?
I took everything off, and I slept.
I just couldn't go any farther out of this kitchen.
It was a little embarrassing at the time.
You know, I think I'm being a man.
You know, I'm calling for my parents and...
- They were upstairs? - Yeah.
But I couldn't get my voice out for them to hear me enough,
And so I just decided this would be my night right here,
And I'll explain it in the morning.
- It's a lot to absorb. - Yeah.
Yeah, it is. - It's hard to...
You know, when you're not there for your kid,
Thinking he sat down here all night scared to death.
Celeste: Scared to death. Sleeping on a counter.
You know, you've got your wife
And your, you know, your child there.
You're supposed to be the husband,
The father, the protector of the family,
And when you no longer can feel like you
Can protect them anymore,
You know, it's a hard thing to deal with
Because you don't want to ever admit that you're scared.
So, aidabelle, could you try to explain your experiences
In this house?
♪♪
It was the night when the man walked into my room.
I couldn't sleep that night.
I heard footsteps coming.
♪♪
When I realized it wasn't my grandma or my grandpa,
Then I was scared.
I wanted to pretend that I was sleeping,
So I went right under my covers,
And I thought that it would never go away.
And then I just felt coldness in front of my face.
Right when I opened my eyes, its face was in my face,
So I shut them right back.
Josh: I'm waking her up,
And she's telling me all this,
And, to me, it sounded like it was
A bad nightmare or something, and...
I felt pain, like, burns in the back of my head.
♪♪
And then he noticed it.
There was three scratch marks on my neck.
♪♪
Shippy: I'm in merrill, michigan,
Investigating a 200-year-old general store.
The midcalf family restored the building,
But now they're saying that a strange force
Is threatening their dream home
And even their granddaughter, aidabelle.
There was three scratch marks on my neck.
Josh: I asked her, "did you scratch yourself
In your sleep or something?"
And she said, "no, I wouldn't...
It's not that kind of a scratch."
She had burns on the back of her head and on her neck.
It was like human finger marks,
But it was slightly larger than her hands, really.
Shippy: What was that like for you? I mean, did that...
Were you afraid of the room after that?
Were you afraid to sleep there? How did that affect you?
Well, I was scared to sleep in the room
Because I thought he'd come again.
Right when I got scratched,
I felt like this house isn't the same anymore.
It made me terrified.
I feel like I'm gonna remember this
For the rest of my life now.
What was your reaction when you guys found
Those scratches on little aidabelle here?
It hits you very hard as a father,
And from what the experiences that I've been seeing,
I can't help but start to believe her now.
And I got to say, too, we've done everything
That we can possibly do to her room
To where she would feel safe and want to be in there.
We've painted it.
We put a new bed in there.
I got a new light fixture. Celeste: Mm-hmm.
I mean, we've done everything, and she still just does not...
She will not sleep in that room.
Why don't you show me that room?
Sure. We can go up there.
♪♪
The night that you saw the man,
Could you kind of maybe show me exactly what he did?
Aidabelle: I heard footsteps coming from the stairs.
He was just walking, and he stood right here.
He stopped, and I saw that he had a lantern,
So I knew that it couldn't have been anyone.
You couldn't see a face?
You couldn't make out what they looked like?
Yeah. I couldn't see anything.
It was just pitch-black with smoke around him.
♪♪
His face was like black smoke?
There was nothing on his body or on the floor.
It was just his face,
And then he left into the closet.
♪♪
Mike: Well, once he went in the closet,
If you look at that closet door there,
Our dog, we had a labrador at the time,
Went and just attacked that door.
Shippy: Look how deep these gouges are.
She was a black lab, a very mellow, loving dog,
So she's not vicious.
So for her to do that is very out of character.
Wow.
♪♪
Did you see that light just flicker?
- Yeah. - Yeah.
♪♪
Celeste: What, it go out?
Josh: No, it flickered.
Oh, yeah. A bulb went out.
See that?
- Okay. - Those are new.
Yeah. We just put that up. We just put that up.
These light bulbs are brand-new?
That... Yep. We just put that up.
And you ever have a power surge like that
That knocks out a light bulb?
Never. Yeah.
I mean, right above our head,
Right while we're talking about this specifically.
Right when we happen to talk about this.
With all the, you know, all the stories,
All the activity that you've dealt with,
I think we need to start investigating.
We can put you guys up in a hotel.
We could just get right on this.
It'd be great to have you do this for us.
Shippy: Seeing that light bulb pop right in front of me,
That's a sign of an intelligent haunting.
An intelligent haunting is a spirit
Or some type of deity that is just that.
It's intelligent. It knows you're there.
It's aware of your presence.
It can interact with you, communicate
And sometimes even harm you.
♪♪
Tonight, my crew and I are gonna start
By going upstairs to the bedroom
Where aidabelle was actually scratched.
I need to experience that type of activity myself to figure out
What is actually haunting that room and the midcalf family.
I'm gonna place the recorder right here.
If this is truly an intelligent haunting,
It should interact with us in some type of way,
Whether it be vocally, moving an object, knocking.
Through the method of call-and-response,
If it is an intelligent being that we're dealing with,
I should be able to elicit some type of response.
Would you like to communicate with us?
I'd like to establish contact with whomever
Is haunting this region of the home.
♪♪
If you are a former resident of this home,
Give us a sign.
♪♪
We want to know who scratched this child.
And if you have the power to do that,
Surely you have the power to communicate.
♪♪
[ unintelligible voice ]
♪♪
Did you just try to speak?
"get out."
To me, it sounds like it says, "get out."
I'm gonna check my recorder here.
I want to listen to this last clip.
♪♪
"get out."
Did you just try to speak?
Listen to this.
Something was clearly right there with me,
And it sounds almost like it's very close to the recorder.
Whatever it is, it made its intentions very clear.
This voice is a sign that an intelligent being
Is haunting this home.
I want to go back to where I heard the voice and see
If I can get it to communicate with me again.
I thought I heard it over here.
♪♪
I see a lot of old antiques.
I could understand why you might be attached.
It's not uncommon to see spiritual attachment
Where an entity can actually attach itself
To a tangible, physical object for a number of reasons.
♪♪
What's that?
♪♪
Were you attached to this?
Is that why you were over here?
Does this doll mean something to you?
♪♪
Sometimes, if you move an item, they could disrupt the spirit.
You can come get your doll.
It's right here in aidabelle's room.
It's a very uneasy feeling up here.
♪♪
Before we go, I think it'd be a good idea
To set up some cameras in key spots,
Particularly aidabelle's room.
Then my crew and I later can analyze that footage
And the audio to see if there's any more clues
To help us figure out what's happening here.
♪♪
Shippy: So I'm in merrill, michigan,
Where a mysterious entity
Is terrorizing the midcalf family
And even their young granddaughter, aidabelle.
My crew and I left cameras running overnight in the home.
After reviewing the evidence, what we captured was phenomenal.
This clip is about an hour and 30 minutes long.
Now, look at this here, okay?
The camera zooms all the way into the pillow on its own,
Which is impossible,
And then even more insane, it zooms all the way back out.
That's not possible.
The only way you can zoom in and out
Is to do this right here, manually with your finger,
So something was affecting our gear
And playing around with the camera.
That interaction proves that it has intelligence.
It makes you wonder.
With the type of activity in that house,
I almost feel like we could have put that camera anywhere,
And whatever was in there would have messed with it
Because I think it was sending us a message that,
"I know you're here, and I'm showing you
That I have this intelligence."
♪♪
What's happening at the midcalf family
Really reminds me of a case just down the road,
The old pomeraning farmhouse.
They bear a very similar hallmark.
I grew up listening to tales
About the old pomeraning farmhouse,
Heard about it from multiple people,
But I want to talk to the people that were directly involved
With the investigation.
I want to speak to the former police sergeant of merrill...
Hey, mr. Frisby. Yes.
...And the old chief of the fire department,
David lednicky, to separate fact from fiction.
Yeah. Nice to meet you. Same here again.
And more importantly, I want to speak
To the pomeraning brothers... terry and duane.
Their childhood was essentially stolen from them
As an evil entity ravaged their family
And destroyed their lives.
Gentlemen. Hey, there, how you doing?
Good, how you doing?
Terry and duane haven't even stepped foot in that house
In over 40 years, but luckily for us,
They've agreed to come back out and see if in any way
They could help save another family
From going through what they did.
♪♪
Can you guys tell me, when was this house built?
Back in, like, 1890s. Duane: 1890s, yeah.
- Yeah. - Wow.
So this goes back in your family for over a century, this land.
Right.
Can you guys tell me when the activity first began?
Yeah.
It was end of June of 1974, just one night.
Our whole family had probably been in bed
For a couple hours.
There was a knocking on the east side of the house.
All night long, it was constantly,
Like, banging and banging, and it wouldn't stop.
We hurried up and looked out,
And we didn't see nobody out there.
My dad called 911 and just figured
Maybe someone was attempting to break in.
[ siren wailing ]
Frisby: Our officers were dispatched
To mr. Pomeraning's house.
I could hear the noise.
Noise came,
Noise passed in front of me,
And I called my partner on the radio.
I said, "did you hear that?" he says, "yes."
He said, "I hear it, but I don't see anybody."
Well, we started looking around.
Of course, it'd been raining.
There was no footprint, nothing that would indicate
That anyone had walked through that wet grass.
We heard it. We can't explain it.
Then the next night after it got dark,
The knocking started.
There was nobody there.
So we called the police out again.
No one had seen anything.
Shippy: What happened from that point?
How did this develop?
The police came every night for the first six months.
Six months?
Every day for six months, the pounding happened?
Yep.
Duane: It was very terrifying,
And I actually cried myself to sleep.
♪♪
I have never ever, ever had a prowler call
That continued to grow as this one did.
These are the reports from our department.
There's 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8,
9, 10, had to be close to 20 officers.
8/27 of '74,
Two officers were sent there.
They found nothing.
Another one, 9/10, 2 officers again.
Shippy: This again is all capitalized
And underlined so many times.
I mean, what does that tell you?
That the officers were starting to get
A little perturbed
About continuously going out on a call
Where they could find nothing.
The state police became involved.
Later on, the state fire marshal became involved.
I think a seismologist got involved in it.
No one has ever come up with a solution.
Shippy: So can you guys tell me,
How did things escalate from there?
So him and I are walking one night,
And all of a sudden, that red barn,
You could smell smoke, so we walked over there,
And we thought the barn was on fire.
There was, like, smoke coming out of the barn.
Within, like, 30 seconds, the smoke was gone.
It's like it was magic. Okay.
Now, was this the only time that this happened,
Or was there some type of actual pattern?
Terry: One afternoon,
Me and my brother and my dad were watching tv,
And all of a sudden like, "yeah, it almost seems like
I smell smoke or something burning."
So I went and checked the bathroom.
A full roll of toilet paper
Burned up in a matter of a few seconds.
The first time we were called out there
Was in February of 1975.
Roll of toilet paper caught on fire.
That roll of toilet paper
Apparently put out enough smoke,
You know, where it filled the house,
But yet there wasn't any basic fire.
There wasn't even any burning of anything
On the wall in that bathroom.
They checked it for accelerants.
Yeah, any type of alcohol
Or anything like gas or anything.
There was nothing in it.
And they couldn't determine a rational cause?
No, we couldn't find anything,
What the accelerant was or anything.
It just, you know, it happened.
Shippy: You guys had this pounding
Going on every night.
You guys had fire, spontaneous combustion.
Can you guys tell me, when did the activity end?
We had a real big fire back on Halloween night of 1975.
We had a back room that was on fire.
That was a hot room.
That's where they had a lot of their pictures
And memorabilias and stuff,
And all of that was destroyed.
We wanted to get up in the attic,
And so our assistant chief got an attic ladder up there,
And he got the door opened up, and he went to get up,
And like somebody was pushing him back, pushing him back.
He couldn't get up through there.
My brother almost died, though, from it.
By the time they got out here, which was almost 20 minutes,
25 minutes later, he was turning blue already.
I really thought he was dead or gonna die.
How would you feel if it was you,
You two, had come back here and almost died in this house
After all these years and have to do this interview?
How would you like to do that?
♪♪
Shippy: I'm in merrill, michigan,
Hearing about the infamous pomeraning farmhouse.
Growing up, terry and duane pomeraning experienced
Activity very similar to the midcalf family,
And I want to see if the two cases could be connected.
Terry: We had a real big fire.
Well, my brother almost died, though, from it.
How would you feel if it was you,
You two, had come back here and almost died in this house
After all these years and have to do this interview?
How would you like to do that?
♪♪
You're playing... you're playing with satan.
Shippy: I can see it on your faces
That this is opening a lot of wounds,
But did you guys ever get relief?
Did your family get any relief or peace?
Terry: About a month later, we moved out of the house.
We never had no more problems.
♪♪
Shippy: You know, to have this type of activity
Happening out here
With so many hauntings per capita in a small location,
What interests me the most is what happened on this land.
Could something have happened on the property, the land,
To be causing the residual activity today?
♪♪
I really need to look into the history of this area.
I got to find out more about what happened there,
And I need to dig into it
And get the knowledge and the information.
We're headed into the hoyt public library
To meet our contact, leo lefevre, local historian,
Runs the history and genealogy department
Here in saginaw, michigan.
Hey, leo, steve shippy.
Nice to meet you, steve. You too.
Let's get to the history of this area.
What can you tell me about merrill and this community?
Well, the communities all out there
Were officially established in the early 1850s.
People would buy wooded lots and start homesteading
And clearing the land for farms.
So, leo, mike midcalf and his family
Told me that their home, the old iva general store,
Is the only remaining building left from the town of iva.
How could that be the only building left?
I mean, what happened
To the rest of the homes, businesses?
One of the things that did happen early on about 1873...
Yeah?
...There was a smallpox epidemic.
♪♪
You know, in a small community like that,
Smallpox is super, super contagious.
♪♪
So what they did is,
They burned the houses down
To stop the spread.
So that was the way they just dealt with it
Is just set the house on fire?
That is absolutely horrible.
Or they would literally board people's doors
And make them stay in there until it was over.
Forceful quarantine. Yes.
I would think that many people
Never even made it out of the quarantine,
That they were boarded up in their house, could have been...
A whole family just dying right there.
Maybe they were, you know, the high fever, everything,
They just kind of knew, "hey, they're a goner.
There's no reason to even try to save them."
You think it's possible that some of these people
Were burnt alive?
♪♪
Shippy: A mysterious entity is threatening the midcalf family.
I'm here at the hoyt library doing research to find out,
What could have happened out there on that land?
What could be the cause of all that activity
The community of merrill is experiencing today?
And I just discovered that the area was ravaged
By a smallpox epidemic in the 1870s.
♪♪
Shippy: You think it's possible
That some of these people were burnt alive?
Maybe they were, you know, the high fever, everything,
They just kind of knew, "hey, they're a goner.
There's no reason to even try to save them."
In theory, they could have.
This is one of the most tragic cases I've ever dealt with.
I mean...
So with the town of iva,
Which is now currently merrill, being lost and gotten...
I mean, the whole town perished in fire.
What you were saying about the general store,
Now, that would be considered iva, right?
Yes, that's pretty much what's left of iva.
I can show you just how close some of these areas are.
This was where homesteads in the area
Are being burned down.
This is where the store is.
Oh, yeah. So that would be iva, huh?
Yep, and then here is
Where the pomeranings' home is,
And I didn't realize it is...
It's literally on a straight line.
Okay, so all this is just on one road,
This main artery right through here.
Yes.
It's all within a 4-to-5-mile area.
The general store, this could very well be still
The meeting spot of the folks in iva today.
Mm-hmm, and they would...
It would be a place that they would've all known.
Thank you, man, so much. You're welcome.
I really appreciate you, leo.
I hope this helps your investigation.
It already has.
Shippy: After learning about the tragedy and the history
That took place in the 1870s in that small town of iva,
It could very well be those lost souls
Haunting the midcalf residence today.
I want to bring in a clairvoyant named karen.
She's gonna help me identify who these spirits are
And what it's gonna take for them to just move on.
I'm bringing karen in with as little knowledge as possible.
I didn't want anything I said to her on the phone
To possibly influence what she experiences in the home.
I want to use karen's gift to try to figure out
Who and what is in this house and, with those gifts,
See if her and I could help get rid of this thing together.
Obviously, any spirits you can communicate with,
Anything that you're picturing, but we need to find the spirit
That's hurting that girl.
I'll do my best.
So let's just start. Perfect.
This is basically what aidabelle would have heard.
She heard heavy footsteps coming up the stairs here.
I'm gonna go ahead and go in there.
I want to see what I feel, okay? Yeah.
And if you don't mind... Nope, by all means.
...I just want to see what I feel.
♪♪
So I feel a male or a male energy.
I just asked in my mind, you know, "why are you here?
What do you want with this little girl?"
Let me take a look at these dolls.
Do you...
Let me see.
I do not like this doll.
Sometimes, spirits need a place to hide,
Even temporarily, okay,
So they'll show themselves when they want to be shown,
And they'll hide in things, okay,
When they don't want to be seen,
And that has to go.
Okay. That's what I feel.
I figured you were gonna hit on that right away.
I felt that the first night.
My feeling in this room is, "I lost my child.
Why is your child so special?"
So you think that's just animosity.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, I'm feeling it.
This is one angry man.
This man lost his entire family,
And he's the only one that's left is what I got,
But there's a real anger about losing his family.
Does that make any sense to you?
It makes a lot of sense to me.
People lost everything they had.
And I also feel, like, a jealous energy.
He just wants family.
He just wants his family back,
And if you want to call him the night watchman,
I guess is what I want to call him.
Okay.
Somewhere in the historic record,
There's a man
That would have kept track of everything, okay,
That had to burn to the ground.
I'm getting that feeling.
And this house was supposed to be burnt to the ground.
Right, I got, "yes."
What... do you sense the spirit here now or what?
That's where I was getting information from,
But what I get is that it's behind us.
I think that that is where it hides
Or where he hides or where he comes from.
Let's find out.
♪♪
I just asked in my mind, you know, "why are you here?
What do you want with this little girl?"
♪♪
[ tapping ]
Karen: Was that you tapping?
Shippy: It came from right here.
Can you tap again for me?
Or if you're here with us, whoever you are,
Can you do that again?
What do you want?
[ coughing ]
Are you okay?
I'm sorry, steve. I got to get out here.
That's okay. I can't breathe.
[ coughing ]
Something is affecting her.
[ coughing ]
I need to take a quick break.
I hope she's okay.
♪♪
Shippy: I'm back at the midcalf family home.
We believe a lost soul from the old town of iva
Is the one actually terrorizing the family,
Unable to move on after the smallpox epidemic
And the burning down of the town.
I'm working with my crew and a clairvoyant named karen
To communicate with this spirit.
Karen: What do you want?
[ coughing ]
♪♪
Shippy: Are you okay?
I'm sorry, steve. I got to get out here.
That's okay. I can't breathe.
[ coughing ]
Something is affecting her.
[ coughing ]
I need to take a quick break.
I hope she's okay.
Is that you making karen sick right now?
I feel like you were drawing from her energy.
♪♪
I think I'm gonna leave this room.
♪♪
Karen, are you okay?
Karen: Yeah.
I don't even know.
I really don't.
Why don't we go back upstairs and see if it's still there?
♪♪
It's like the more that we're getting toward
The answers here...
Yeah. It's getting a bit more intense.
♪♪
This family has so much despair over what's happening,
They actually have a prayer room.
Wow.
This is where they try to go for some type of comfort.
♪♪
I mean, if this isn't a visual representation
Of what this family is going through,
I don't know what is.
Wow.
I'm pinging on this particular picture,
And I'd like to know where it came from.
Wait a minute. What is that?
♪♪
Look at that. Yeah.
There's three scratches on there...
Yeah. There is.
...On that glass.
Wow.
Yes, there are.
Look at that.
Right, anger. Three scrat...
I mean, that almost looks identical
To aidabelle's neck.
That is disturbing.
Anger, you know, if this spirit had their way,
This house would be burnt to the ground.
I'm telling you.
♪♪
Things that invoke what happened...
[ clattering ]
You weren't even near that.
That just rolled.
Was that here?
Because I didn't... Did you see?
Let's get a camera on this.
Did you happen to see me?
♪♪
Whoa.
This literally just tumbled out here.
She wasn't anywhere near this, and this just fell
While we were talking about that painting.
Karen: It's all associated.
It's all tied together.
Shippy: Yeah.
Man, I'm getting cold, cold, cold.
Cold, cold, cold.
Okay. It's coming from here.
I can feel it.
Okay. It just...
Now I'm feeling his anger again,
Okay, that comes up.
Oh, yeah, so here we go, so I feel him, like, here.
What I'm suggesting to him
Is that it's through some type of faith
That maybe, you know, he can release all of that.
So karen has identified the main spirit in this house,
Which controls the energy in the home.
We're gonna help this spirit cross over,
The watchman as we refer to him as.
This could be a huge breakthrough
And help the midcalf family.
What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna try
And create a doorway in my mind.
I'm gonna put it over on this wall here.
I'm gonna ask you to walk through it.
I'm gonna ask you to have faith,
Okay, that if I create this doorway, okay,
That there's bright, streaming light
That comes through the doorway
And that just on the other side
Of that would be your wife and children, okay,
And all the townspeople, alright,
And everyone that you ever missed,
And all you have to do is walk through that door.
I feel him over here, hesitant.
That man has a lot of animosity and a lot of anger.
I see him taking off his hat.
He's looking back at us.
♪♪
And now I see the smoke gone.
Okay, so that's gone.
That one is gone. Okay.
The night watchman might be gone.
♪♪
Last night was intense, but I can feel the difference,
So I'm super excited for mike and celeste.
That's gonna be the key is,
How do they feel when they enter the house?
Are they are gonna feel what I feel,
Feel that difference, that vibration in the house?
Welcome home.
Well, it feels lighter.
The air feels lighter.
It's just a wonderful feeling again.
I just saw a smile on your face.
Yes, yes. You actually smiled right there.
I did, yes.
You know, the heaviness seems to be gone.
If you guys would, follow me here into the kitchen.
There's some stuff I'd like to show you.
Sure.
Shippy: So, guys, I went
And talked to a local historian,
And in 1873, the town of iva
Was ravaged by a plague.
Smallpox killed about 75% to 85% of the population.
If that wasn't bad enough, to try to stop the epidemic,
They burnt the bodies of the deceased,
And they burnt the homes, so think about all that pain
And suffering that those people went through
And all that death and carnage.
So I had decided to bring out a clairvoyant.
Her name is karen.
When karen and I were upstairs,
And we went into aidabelle's room,
We quickly encountered an angry spirit,
And karen believes that this is the same spirit,
Through her communication,
That was harming and affecting aidabelle.
- Right. - Mm-hmm.
What she gathered from him, the spirit was upset.
He had lost his daughter and family
In the fires in the town of iva
And was basically just jealous, angry,
And here you guys are, alive and well,
And you have your family. He was mad.
He was stuck here, didn't know where to go
And just festering on this.
In my mind, I couldn't leave until something got resolved.
Celeste: Right.
I knew there'd be light
At the end of the tunnel somehow.
You know, you can't just give up.
You have to fight for it. Yeah, truly believe.
And you just saved us. The light at the end of the tunnel.
That's the key.
Now, it's time to take this house
Back into your possession, literally.
Well, when you first walk in, we always felt, like,
This pressure on our chest, and it was like a heavy air.
And now when you walk in, it just feels lifelike.
I believe. I believe it's over.
I feel good.
Shippy: I'm grateful the midcalfs feel better and safe
In their own home.
My mission is to help others in similar situations
And bring peace to those families and towns
All across the heartland.