10x02 - House of Nightmares

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And so the story begins.

A dream house beckons...

Oh, my gosh, dennis.
It's perfect.

But there are secrets
lurking in its shadows.

Haunting secrets...

There were several
deaths in the house.

They had lost two children
at a very young age...

One at 3, one at 5.

Terrifying secrets...

The attack in my room
left me feeling... Vulnerable.

It left me feeling frightened.

I felt someone
getting into the bed.

I could not scream.
I could not move.

The fear is unlike any fear
that I had ever had.

It was absolutely terrifying.

tracey!

In america, there is real evil.

It lurks in the darkest shadows
and in our most ordinary towns.

Between the worlds we see...

Someone is in my room.

And the things we fear...

There are doors.

When they are opened...

Nightmares become reality.

I am tracey barios.

My husband and I purchased
an 1878 victorian home.

We had absolutely no idea

What was going to take place
in the house... none at all.

No idea that my dream house
was about to become a nightmare.

Oh, my god, look at this place.

Tracey barios
and her husband, dennis,

Have always dreamed about living
in an old victorian home.

Oh, my god, this is it.

Come on.

Dennis and I had been discussing

Looking for another house.

One day, we were driving home
from breakfast,

And I said,
"hey, there's a for-sale sign."

We were both born
and raised in the city,

And we had been around the area,

And this was the first time that
we had gone down this street

And seen this house
with a for-sale sign.

Oh, my gosh, dennis.

Can you believe this place?

It's so big and...
and so beautiful.

The second we walked
in the doors,

The first thing I notice...
everything from the woodwork

To the hardware was just...

It was so beautiful.

Oh, god, it's perfect.

It's like it's been
waiting for us.

The previous owner had had the
house on the market for a year.

I think she put it on the market
very soon

After her husband passed,

And it basically just languished
on the market.

I don't think anybody wanted
to take it on, really.

It's a really old house.

The renovation is gonna take
a lot of money.

It is a very old house...


so it has its challenges.

It wasn't previously
well-maintained.

I don't care.

This is my dream house.

I just said, "this is...
this is it.

This is absolutely it."

I was awestruck. I really was.

Okay, come on.

After their offer
on the house is accepted,

Tracey, dennis,
and their dog, smokey, move in

Just in time
to celebrate the holidays.

That first christmas,

I ran out and bought
all kinds of decorations,

And I wanted candles
in every window,

Which was a daunting task

Because I didn't realize how
many windows were in this house.

I couldn't get over the enormity
of the house.

Every...
everything was oversized.

But there is one particular room

That makes tracey uneasy...

A spacious area
on the third floor

She refers to as the ballroom.

The ballroom...
during the daytime, it was okay.

I would go up there, but,
at night, really,

The entire third floor
kind of creeped me out.

Hey, nothing to be afraid of.

Come on.

Smokey, come.

Dennis wasn't home,
and I was in the house

By myself with smokey,

And he wouldn't go
into the room with me,

So I said,
"fine, stay out in the hall."

Just stay in the hall.

Have a definite feeling
that I was being watched,

That I wasn't alone
in that room.

It felt like there was
someone there.

I was extremely creeped out,

But I was telling myself,
"no, this is your house.

You're not gonna be afraid
of any room in this house.

You are gonna stay here and do
what you came up here to do,

And then you're gonna leave."

When night falls,
tracey avoids the ballroom

Unless absolutely necessary.

Later, she and dennis get to
work decorating the front hall.

We had found this mirror,

And we hung it on the wall
in the downstairs hall.

Take your hands away.

No, it's still crooked.

Dennis hung that mirror,
and he hung it well.

Well, what do you know?

I'm a genius.

Oh, are you hungry?

Starving. Okay, me, too.

And I got some roast beef
left over from last night.

Do you have any of
that dressing left over?

No, but I got dijon mustard.

That's really good
with roast beef.

That'll work, too.

oh, dennis!

The mirror was on the floor,
with the mirror side facing up.

How did that happen?

It doesn't make any sense.

I didn't know what to think.

I thought maybe the nail
come loose

And the mirror fell.

I looked at the wall,
and that was not the case.

The string that was on the back
of the mirror was still intact,

And the nail
was still on the wall.

So it's like...

I was at a loss for as to how
this could've happened.

I think there's something else
going on here.

I thought, "okay, something's
going on here."

What are you saying, a ghost?

Come on, tracey.

I mean, we're
the only ones here.

If it had fallen,

It wouldn't
have landed over here.

It's like it was thrown.

What? That's crazy.

The paranormal is not
the first thing I look to

When things like this happen.

I try to rationalize them

Because that's the type
of person I am.

There's a reason for everything.

Well, then, how did this...
I don't know.

Look, I'll fix it after
I get something to eat.

I had a belief
in the paranormal before.

I absolutely believe

That there is more
than we can see.

Over the next few weeks,

Tracey continues
to sense something

Is not quite right
about her new house.

I did not feel
comfortable at all.

It made me very afraid.

Smokey, sit.

Stay.

I smelled this very feminine,
flowery, lotiony smell.

I thought, "whoa, that's weird."

Tracey barios believes
her dream house is haunted.

It was a feminine presence.

It didn't feel threatening.

The smell was very feminine,
like perfume.

It's just, like, you know,
"I'm here.

I'm on the stairs."

Come on. Come on, smokey.

Come on, smokey.

Whoa.

Tracey's daughter, jordan,

Is also a believer
in the paranormal.

Mom?

Hello?

When I came into this house,
I absolutely, 100%

Had a belief in the paranormal
from past experiences.

Jordan, you're here.

Hi.

Oh, I've missed you.
Let me take your coat.

Yes.

This place is huge.

It's kind of creepy.

I know.
I-I've been feeling it, too.

Honey, something's off here.

The first time that I walked
in the house,

It was like
a very heavy feeling.

I just got... I just got, like,
a really weird feeling about it.

Mom, come on.
Give me the grand tour.

I want to see everything.

Okay, come on.

Whoa!

Look at this room!

The ballroom was
completely different

From the rest of the house.

It definitely felt more heavy

Than on the first
and second floor.

What's wrong?

I don't know. I...

I get a weird feeling
when I come in this room.

It's like there's
someone else here.

I-I know it sounds crazy.

Jordan is our only
child, and we are close.

I usually would tell jordan
about things that went on.

It's not crazy.

This room...

It feels old.

I... I definitely felt
like somebody was up there

Or something
was up there with us.

Jordan? Jordan?

What's the matter?

Are you okay?

Yeah.

Yeah, I guess
I just got caught up.

The ballroom... there was
definitely something

Really creepy and eerie.

Can you show me
the rest of the house?

Yeah, let's go.

Weeks after moving in,

Tracey looks into the history
of the house.

She asks her neighbor
if he knows anything

About the home's
previous owners.

I'm so glad that you're
interested in all this history.

Uh, this house has seen
a lot over the years.

My neighbor had offered
to ask his brother

If he would do some research.

It's a hobby of his, and he did,

And I ended up with a binder
full of information.

Now, this is what my brother
has uncovered so far.

The original owners of the house

Were george eddy
and his wife, sarah.

George eddy owned
a dry-goods store downtown

In the late 1880s.

He was very successful
here in new bedford,

And he also did a lot
to help the city.

They were one of the most
prominent families in town.

In fact, they were very social.

There were a lot of parties
here,

But then the parties stopped
and the deaths began.

One after another,
the children fell ill.

We found out that there
were several deaths

In the house in the eddy family.

They had lost two children
at a very young age...

One at 3, one at 5...
and they died in the house.

Mrs. Eddy herself
passed in the house.

I believe it was her liver.

She was beautiful.

You can see the sadness
in her eyes.

I feel that houses definitely
carry the energy of people

That have lived there,

And whatever energy
they imprint on it

Is left there for
whoever's coming in next.

I thought, "oh, boy,
people died here."

I'm wondering if they're still
not hanging around here.

Houses have memory.

I believe, absolutely, that,

And, depending on
how the person died,

Sometimes they just...
they just linger.

They stay.

I had absolutely no idea
what I was in for.

But there is
no turning back now.

The barios are deeply invested
in their house.

One night, dennis
begins renovations

In one of the bathrooms.

We had had some water damage
on the first floor

From some rotted gutters.

Hey, babe, how's it going? Mwah.

You're just in time to find out.

Stand by that switch? I got it.

Okay. Give it a shot.

Ta-da!

Oh, come on!

I swear, I had this.

Can you give me those pliers?

As part of doing that repair
in this bathroom,

I had asked tracey
to give me a hand.

Ow!

Tracey! Tracey?

Can you give me those pliers?

Sure.

Ow!

Tracey! Tracey?

Ow. Ow.

What happened? Are you okay?

Something hit me in the back
of the head.

Dennis and
tracey barios are renovating

Their over-100-year-old
victorian home

When tracey comes under attack.

Oh, my god.

What the hell? What is it?

It's an old piece of wood.

I pulled out
a piece of old wood,

And it looked like the inside,
the bones of a house.

The bathroom was not gutted,

So none of the bones
were showing.

There was nothing that could
have come flying

At the back of my head.

Oh, this is crazy.

I'm trying to think in my mind,

"where could this piece
of wood have come from?"

Everything within the room
is painted or papered,

And there's no unfinished
wood in that room.

Now do you believe me?

There's something going on here.

I just got chills from the top
of my head down my back,

And I had never felt
anything like that before.

Dennis gets ready for
work between 4:00 and 5:00 a.M.

I heard him get up.

I heard him leave the room.

I heard him get into the shower.

Dennis, you're gonna be late
for work.

Dennis.

Dennis.

I couldn't move.

I absolutely... I struggled,

And I tried,
and I could not move.

And that's when I realized
it wasn't dennis.

I could not scream.

I was fighting as much
as I could,

And I was trying hard
to move something,

To get the words out.

Your first instinct, of course,
is to get away,

And the fact that I could not
move a muscle...

It was terrifying.

Help! Tracey!

Oh, my god, dennis.

There was someone here.

In bed.

When he came into the room,
I was able to move.

I-I thought it was you,
but then...

But then he grabbed me
and I couldn't move.

I was beside myself.

There's no one here.
It's just us.

I am telling you that
there was someone here!

Shh, you're okay.

At the time, what was
going through my head

Was it was just a dream,

That she wasn't fully awake
when this happened.

Alright?

There's no one in the room
but us.

No, there's somebody here.

It's alright. It's not real.

No one in the room but us.

It's just a bad dream.

In our 30 years of marriage,

I had never seen her
like that before.

But although dennis
tries to convince tracey

It was a nightmare,

She can't shake the feeling

That she was attacked
by something evil.

The feeling
of the hands lingered,

And, um, no,
I didn't like that one bit.

It made me not want
to go to sleep.

Um, I had difficulty sleeping
for a while after that,

Not knowing, you know,
when he would return,

If it would happen again.

She begins to wonder
if there's someone

Or something haunting the house
other than the female presence.

The difference between
what happened in my bedroom

And all the other occurrences

Were this was much more
physical.

It actually felt like a person
was trying to attack me.

It was a definite male presence.

The attack in my room
left me feeling vulnerable.

It left me feeling frightened.

It left me feeling angry

Because this should not be
happening in my own home.

I tried to keep to the back
of my mind

The thought
that it could happen again.

I really tried to push it away,
but it was there.

In December of 2016,

Jordan moves into the house
with her parents.

So, I was walking smokey
on broad street.

By the coffee shop. Yeah.

When I moved into the house,

I thought it would probably
be better for my mother

Because she could go to me
and tell me things more easily

Than, like,
when I wasn't living there.

Smokey saw him and just
wanted to go say hi,

And the old guy
just jumps, like,


onto the street.

Babe, you okay?

You barely touched your food.

I can't stop thinking
about this house.

Dennis, I am really scared.

Mom, what's going on?

You can tell me.

After your father got up
to go to work,

I felt someone, a man,

Climb into bed with me,

And he grabbed me.

What?

Dad...

I went back into the room,
and there was no one there.

I mean, it had to be
a nightmare, right?

You kind of feel
helpless, because,

What do we need
to do to resolve this?

It didn't feel like a nightmare.

It felt real.

I-I don't know.
I think I'm going crazy.

She felt that there was
a male presence in her room.

She definitely felt
some sort of thing

That shook her to the core.

I was, admittedly,
nervous about going to sleep,

And I would wake up
in the morning, as usual,

When dennis
was getting ready for work,

And I would try to stay awake,
like, keep my eyes open.

I'd sit up.
I'd look at my phone.

I'd do anything until 6:00.

That morning was much
like any other morning.

I was lying in bed, and dennis
was getting ready for work,

And I heard the footsteps
coming into the room.

I thought, "oh, no. Oh, no."

I'm thinking,
"this is not a dream.

I know I'm awake."

Dennis, is that you?

Tracey barios knows
her house is being haunted.

She's felt the presence
of a female ghost

Who appears harmless and
an aggressive male entity

That she believes has attacked
her twice in her bedroom.

I felt the feeling of a hand
coming over me

And pulling me toward it.

It definitely felt male.

There was... there was
no doubt in my mind.

This was male.

Tracey? Are you okay?

Oh, my god.

It happened again.

There is something in here,
and it wants to hurt me.

Okay, okay.

I know my wife.

When I saw her like that,
those emotions are real,

And those feelings are real.

I believe you. I believe you.

We're gonna figure
this thing out.

We're not gonna figure this out.

We need help.

The thing that scared me
most about the second attack

Was that it was
a second attack...

That it wasn't just
a one-time deal.

Was this gonna be my life now?

I started to feel more helpless
than anything else

Knowing that this is beyond
anything that I could fix.

When tracey first mentioned
bringing in expert help

To try and figure
out what's going on,

I was willing to do
or have whoever come in

To try and figure this out.

When I go into a case,
I know nothing.

I know absolutely nothing.

I do not know
the people involved.

I just get in a car, and I go.

Hi, come on in.

You must be tracey.

I'm lesley. Hi.

This is my husband, dennis,
and my daughter, jordan.

You've definitely got
something going on here.

My attention was drawn to
the third floor in the ballroom.

It's up here.

Yes.

This room.

I can feel it.

There's a lot of energy here.

There's a woman here.

I feel like she's troubled.

She, to me, felt like she was
a woman of privilege.

She had grown up
as a woman of privilege.

I started to get this feeling
in my liver area.

You okay? What is it?

The presence.

I feel like she died of some
kind of internal disease.

That must be miss sarah eddy.

She was the original owner
of this house.

She died of liver cancer.

I felt that the female spirit
could move things,

Touch things,
put things in different places.

Manipulate her environment...
or our environment.

It wasn't negative.

She wasn't negative.

She liked things a certain way,

And I think that she liked
to keep her house in order.

Mrs. Eddy won't hurt you.

She was scared about you
moving in

And the renovations
you were making.

She felt you were trying
to change her home.

That's why she was lashing out.

She knocked down the mirror?

There are spirits who love
their house so much

That they don't want to leave.

I think, in this case,

That is why mrs. Eddy
is still there.

I felt something, too,
in this room.

That was her.

She loved this house,

And she knows
now you love it, too.

This was a grand home,
and I feel

That mrs. Eddy liked being
associated with it.

So, you don't feel
anything evil.

No, just mrs. Eddy.

While I believe

That mrs. Sarah eddy
was not malevolent,

I'd always believed that,

But that one in my bedroom
was not good to me.

I was frightened that
it would continue

Because I didn't have the help
I needed to get rid of it.

As night falls
on the barios home,

The evil inside remains.

I always fall asleep
with my tv on.

Suddenly, I felt, just, like,
slow, like, tugging, like,

At the bottom of my bed,
like, my sheets.

The tugging was pulling me
out of...

Out of the bed
towards the foot of the bed.

I'm just, "why can't I move?
Why can't I scream out?

Why can't I do this?
What's going on?

Who is in this room with me?"

Jordan barios
and her mother, tracey,

Have both experienced paranormal
encounters in their home.

I was scared and needed help.

I came running up the stairs,
white as a ghost,

And they're like, "what's wrong?

What's wrong? What's wrong?"

There was definite fear
in what she was telling me

'cause she was so afraid,
and, as a mother,

How do you protect
against something like that?

Knowing that your child
is in fear

And there's nothing
that you can do about it...

It's a feeling of helplessness.

Terrified, tracey reaches out

To another psychic medium
to investigate the house.

Dennis, they're here.

By the time tracey had
actually found me

And got in contact with me,

She was pretty desperate to get
someone in the home to help her.

Thank you so much for coming.

You're very welcome.

- Hi.
- Hi.

- This is dennis...
- Dennis.

My husband,
and jordan, my daughter.

- Hi.
- I'm luann.

- This is father tom.
- Hi... father tom.

When I come to do
investigations,

I like to run a small team.

On that night, gaining evidence
is important to me,

But the clients' safety
and well-being

Are also very important to me,
so we brought the reverend.

I know you've been having
a difficult time.

Can you tell us
what's been going on?

Jordan and I had
had a similar experience

One right after the other
in that house.

Well, we know that there's
at least one spirit

In this house.

It's the ghost of a woman

Who used
to live here long ago...

Uh, sarah eddy.

But there's something bigger.

There's something
in our bedroom.

It's attacked me twice.

What do you mean
when you say "attacked"?

It's grabbed me and touched me.

I can't move or or yell out.

I feel like I'm frozen.

What really set off
the red flags for me

Was that something was
touching her without permission.

Being a woman and being
alone in your bed

And being touched
by something invisible

That you can't see...
it is terrifying.

Can you take me to your bedroom?

Of course.

Come with me.

For this particular
investigation, I set it up

So that we could
investigate during

The early part of the night
and finish up with the blessing

So that it would get done
that night.

Father tom prepares
to bless the house

While luann and tracey
attempt to make contact

With the entity in her bedroom

What's this?

This is an evp recorder.

I'm gonna try to talk
to whatever's in this room

And see if we can
get it to respond.

Okay.

Evp stands for
electronic voice phenomenon.

That is a ghost voice
that we can't explain

That is recorded onto
an electronic medium.

Is there someone here?

I think you were right.

There's something in this room.

His presence is dark...

Evil.

Definitely not female.

What do you think it could be?

I think it could be an incubus.

What's an incubus?

It's a demon.

An incubus is a male
demon that preys upon women

When they're most vulnerable...
in their sleep.

This one was smart.

It was able to hide itself
from the first medium, lesley.

An incubus basically wants what
any negative entity wants.

An incubus is just playing
the sexual side of this.

Because that, especially
for a woman...

That's very violating.

Well, why is it here?

And why would it come after me?

That's what we're gonna
find out.

With this particular entity,

It's hard to say
where it came from.

Did tracey move into a house
that had an entity?

It's possible.

Did it follow her there?
That's also possible.

But the thing that's most
important in the case

Is that the person feels
safe in their own home.

What side of the bed
do you sleep on?

This one.

What are you doing?

Trust me.

With an entity or something
negative in nature,

When I walk in the door,

I will feel it crawling
on my neck,

And it is very unpleasant.

I'm talking to the presence
in this room.

You are not welcome here.

Tracey does not like
when you touch her.

That particular spirit really
had a very intense feeling.

did you hear that?

No.

I'm talking to the presence
in this room.

You are not welcome here.

Tracey does not like it
when you touch her.

Too bad for her, luann.

Oh, my god.

It answered back immediately

That "that's too bad
for her, luann."

I felt like I was just
stopped dead in my tracks.

I knew that there was something,

And that was proof
that there was.

He just sounded like it was
his right to do

Whatever he wanted to do.

We must get father tom.

We need to cleanse
your house immediately.

Hearing the voice
changed everything for me.

I would've done anything
to make him leave.

What we're gonna do is
we're gonna pray

To consecrate
and bless your house

So that this presence will know
that is not welcome here.

You are not welcome here,
in the name of jesus.

He was doing his prayers,
and I suddenly felt very ill.

I didn't feel well at all.

In the name of jesus,
you are not welcome here.

You are not welcome here.

Tracey... tracey! Mom!

Get a chair for her.

This left me with
a feeling of fear, of terror.

You're not welcome here.

There's something going on here

That we definitely
can't explain.

This incubus...
it wanted to haunt tracey,

And it wanted to possess tracey.

Tracey, are you okay?
Talk to me.

What's going on?

It's terrifying.

Absolutely, in that moment,
it's terrifying.

My head... I feel so dizzy.

Maybe we should stop. No.

You are not welcome here.

- Tracey.
- We need to stop this.

I'm getting her out of here.

No, we need to keep going.

We banish you from this house.

You are not welcome
in this house any longer.

We banish you from this house.

Tracey barios is
fighting for her life

Against an evil entity
inside her home.

It has tracey in its clutches.

We banish you from this house
in the name of jesus.

Tracey. Tracey!

Mom. Are you okay?

what happened?

Oh, my god. Oh, my god.

Oh, my god.

What happened?

You're safe.

Your house is yours again.

For me, I feel like this
blessing was very successful.

Once it's done, it's almost
like you feel

Like someone opened up a door
and let the fresh air in.

I can't believe how different
this house feels.

Everything's... Just brighter.

But the house is not
entirely free of spirits.

I can still feel
the other presence here...

The one you call mrs. Eddy.

I can ask her if she wants
to cross over.

No.

This was her house.

She belongs here, and,
until she decides to go...

I would never think
about having mrs. Eddy

Removed from the house.

Mrs. Eddy was the matriarch
of the house,

And the house belonged to her.

Before luann leaves,
she has some advice for tracey.

I need to warn you
about something.

Getting these out of your house
is a tricky thing.

If they can sense an opening,
they can come back.

What do you mean?

I-I thought you said
it was gone.

It is.

But you have to be strong now.

This is your house,
and you have to fight for it.

At the end of an investigation,

And especially a
negative-entity investigation

Like this, I-I do give the
clients the same advice.

I told her, if this thing ever
came back, to let it know,

"this is my home.

You do not belong here."

And you tell it to leave.

You can do this.

You're stronger than you think.

No, no, no.
A little to the right.

Whoa, too far.

Back left.

It is a little bit unnerving

Knowing that this could happen
at any time,

But I absolutely still love
the house

As much as I ever have,

And I don't think
there will be anything

That will ever change that.

There. It's perfect.

There it is.

How's it feel?

Like home.

It feels like home.

The house, to me,
has a life of its own.

It... it... it doesn't feel
like a thing to me.

You know, it... it feels like
a living, breathing presence,

And I couldn't love it any more.

As for the demon,
should it return,

Tracey now knows
how to keep it at bay.

I remembered what luann
had said to me.

"you need to get out
of my house.

Go."

I feel powerful saying it.

I feel like I'm in charge.

I feel like I'm in control.