02x05 - The Sounds of Seance

[bunniefuu]

[baby crying]

[baby continues crying]

- Sh, sh

[Brianna] Hey

Hi.

Hi there!

Yeah

- [baby cooing]

[loud bang]

- [baby crying]

[baby continues wailing]

[items crashing to floor]

[baby screaming]

No!

I'm Eli Roth.

I've spent my life

telling horror stories.

But imagine if those

stories were real,

and suddenly,

you found yourself stalked

and tormented by an evil spirit,

and no one believed you.

I wasn't going insane.

[man] It makes

you feel helpless.

It was terrifying.

These are the actual

tales of terror,

as told by you, the victim,

who came face to face

with their demons

and survived.

[producer talking in background]

[Brianna] Our house

was passed down

by the women of my

family to my mom.

It seemed normal,

it seemed like any other house.

Even though it's been about

five and a half years since

I've lived in that house,

I still get nightmares.

[group singing]

Happy birthday to you! ♪

Happy birthday to you! ♪

Happy birthday,

dear Brianna! ♪

Happy birthday to you! ♪

[clapping] - [Brianna's mother]

Happy birthday, sweetheart!

Make a wish!

What'd you wish for?

- Can't say!

[Brianna] It's my secret!

[brothers chanting]

Tell us! Tell us!

[all laughing]

- No, no, no!

[Brianna] Okay, okay!

- [all laughing]

[Brianna's mother] Bri?

Yeah?

[Lucia] I have something

for you, [indistinct]

Aw, tia Luce!

You didn't have to.

My first one.

From Catholic school.

This is older than your mother.

- [Brianna] Wow!

It will protect you.

Protect me?

Just keep it close.

Thank you, tia Lucia.

I love it.

[Brianna] Growing up,

I was raised Catholic.

However, I never believed

in any of that kind of stuff.

I was not the person

who believed in

a higher power.

It just wasn't for me.

If anything,

my mother and my dad

had to drag me out of bed

for Sunday service.

I'm going to Anya's.

Be back around dinner.

[Brianna's mother]

Um, I don't think so.

You were gonna watch the boys.

- [Brianna] What?

No! Mom, this is so unfair!

It was my birthday yesterday!

The party's over.

Okay, fine!

But you guys owe me!

[bang]

- [plate shattering]

Hey! Who did that?

Who broke that?

Broke what?

You guys are not allowed

to run in the house!

We were out here this whole time.

- [Brianna] Right.

[TV static]

[TV static continues]

[TV static intensifies]

Great.

Now the TV's broken.

[TV static]

[woman faintly crying]

[woman wailing]

[Brianna's mother] We're home!

Bri, can you help

with the groceries?

[Brianna] I remember

staring at the TV,

confused as to why it turned on.

I could feel in

the corner of the room,

that there was

something lingering,

like, in the darkness.

I could feel, like,

something was watching me,

to see my reaction.

It just felt very wrong,

what was happening.

I would be very terrified,

extremely scared and frozen,

because it's almost as if I

can't believe what I'm hearing,

I can't believe what I'm seeing.

And then I become hyper aware

of myself in that moment.

[Brianna] It sucks!

I thought when I turned 18,

I'd be watching them less,

not more.

[Anya on phone] Why don't you

lock them in the basement

and just get it over with?

[snorts] You wish.

[Anya] Think you

can come over Friday?

Shaun is throwing a house party.

Hello?

Hello?

Holy there's someone

in our yard.

[Anya] Probably your dad.

[Brianna] He's out. I think it's just a kid.

I'll call you back.

Hello?

[bird coos in distance]

Teeth.

What the hell?

[faint giggle]

[faint crying]

[faint demonic laughter]

Did you go outside?

I thought I saw

a kid in our yard.

[Brianna's mother] A kid?

She must have run off.

Huh.

[Brianna] What?

[Brianna's mother] Nothing.

[muffled moan]

Sh

[muffled screaming]

[muffled screams]

[ghost] Sh!

[muffled screaming]

- [ghost] Sh!

Sh!

[muffled screaming intensifies]

[choked intake of breath]

[panicked gasping]

[sobbing]

[Brianna] I was pinned down.

I couldn't move.

And then it was gone.

She was gone.

Nightmares are one thing,

but being awake in a nightmare,

in the reality that's

in front of you,

is a completely different beast.

She was very skinny.

She was wearing

this long, white dress.

And she had this long,

long dark hair,

like, black hair,

that went past her knees.

[muffled screaming]

- [panicked gasp]

[Anya] Just go say hi.

I dare you.

- No way!

I feel like crap.

And I look worse.

[Anya] What's wrong?

Do you believe in ghosts?

So you're smoking weed now?

Remember I saw someone

in the back yard?

She was in my room last night.

I don't know, she was there,

and then she wasn't.

It was a nightmare.

[Brianna] It was very difficult

to talk to my friends

about these kinds of things

that were happening to me,

because I didn't want

to be looked at as weird,

or crazy.

Or, like, something

was wrong with me.

And it was very depressing, too,

even though I had friends,

I felt like I couldn't even

really be myself around them

because I couldn't explain

to them what was happening,

and how I looked

so tired at school,

and why I wasn't sleeping.

So I felt like I was

always keeping a secret.

I always felt like

I was alone.

[baby crying faintly]

[crying gets louder]

[Brianna] Great.

Oh, my god.

Oh my god!

[gasps in horror]

[Brianna] I was getting

really, really terrified.

Being so scared

that I could even hear

my own heartbeat,

pounding in my chest.

But I felt like I couldn't

talk to my parents about it,

because I felt

this sort of shame,

about what was

happening in my house.

Stay out of my room tonight.

[faint clanging]

[clanging and banging continues]

[clanging intensifies]

[loud clanging and banging]

[Brianna gasps in terror]

[high-pitched wailing]

I was very,

very scared laying in bed,

hearing all these things.

I almost wanted to cover my ears

because of how

terrifying hearing this was.

People say, you know,

maybe you're a little tired,

or your brain is trying

to scare you, type of thing.

But when it happens

so many times,

you can't really brush it off

as just your mind playing

tricks on you anymore.

I just didn't

understand what it was.

But I needed to get out

of that room.

[quietly] Bri?

What are you doing down here?

[Brianna] Just felt

like a change.

Bri? Is everything okay?

I don't know, Mom.

I really don't.

What is it?

Nothing.

[chuckles nervously] Coffee?

[exhales]

It can be really scary

to not know what's about

to happen next.

It was definitely apparent

that something was in the house,

and that something

was very wrong.

Whatever this thing is,

it felt like it kept

getting stronger.

I did a lot of online searching,

looking for answers.

The word that kept

coming up in my search,

especially online,

was poltergeist.

That was just describing

my exact situation,

of things being moved around,

electrical problems,

seeing things.

It feeds off of our

negative energy,

that this is what it wants,

it wants us to be scared.

But why this house? Why me?

[wood creaking]

[creaking continues]

[chair scraping along ground]

[ghostly screaming]

You're watching

A Ghost Ruined My Life.

It seemed like something

out of a horror movie,

to see an inanimate object

get pulled into the room,

by an unknown, unseen force.

I was completely terrified.

I remember staring

at her terrified

and feeling like

I couldn't move

because I felt like

she wanted me to see her

and see her crying,

and I remember

thinking to myself

that when she

lifts her head up

that something

bad is gonna happen.

Did you hear that?

- [mother] Hear what?

- [Brianna] That scream!

[father]

I didn't hear anything.

Maybe it was cats

fighting outside.

No, it wasn't cats,

it was inside the house,

and the chair moved

and I saw her!

Sweetie, you must

have had a nightmare.

No, I didn't!

[father] Can we talk about

this in the morning, please?

You never listen to me!

You don't believe

anything I say!

It was very difficult to not

be believed by my parents.

They told me that it

was just a bad dream,

that everything was

gonna be okay,

and just to go back to sleep.

But I couldn't go back to

sleep after that was happening

'cause I felt like

in the corner of the bedroom,

she was still there standing,

waiting for me

to fall asleep again

so she could get me.

I would hear things being thrown

and bashed against the wall,

things thrown from the

cabinets, things getting broken,

glasses being shattered.

And sometimes if I was

in the living room,

I could see one of the cabinets

just slowly creaking open

out of the corner of my eye

and then I turn to it and then

it would close shut again.

[music playing in car]

Okay, so, you're home.

Oh, right. [nervous chuckle]

Yeah.

Thank you.

I had a really

good time tonight.

Yeah, me too.

I'd like to, um, you know,

do that again.

If you want?

Is something wrong

with your arm?

Sorry, I don't know,

it's itchy.

Here, I can help.

[Brianna] Argh!

Argh!

[screaming]

[heavy breathing]

[mother] Bri, what happened?

You okay?

You were talking in your sleep.

[Brianna] I had a nightmare.

I can still feel it.

I had a cross

burned into my arm.

Like with a cattle brand.

[mother] Hmm.

What, was is it?

It's nothing, you must

have had a nightmare.

Go back to sleep.

[Brianna] I felt very

helpless and alone.

And I feel like

that's exactly what

the spirits in that house

wanted from the beginning.

To tear me down.

Spiritually, mentally,

physically

until they could

take over.

[screaming]

[screaming]

Welcome back

to A Ghost Ruined My Life.

[Brianna heavy breathing]

Argh!

[mother]

Bri, are you all right?

[Brianna] Mom!

[mother] Oh!

Mom, I keep seeing

things and hearing things.

[mother] Shh.

- They're terrible.

I'm so scared.

Shh.

Do you believe in God?

You know I do.

Is that why this is happening?

Because I don't believe?

No, sweetheart.

Mom, what's going on?

It's nothing.

You just need some sleep.

I definitely felt like

there were moments where

my mother knew

what was going on,

but she wouldn't tell me.

It was very isolating,

and I was a little depressed.

I thought that maybe

I deserved this.

[mother] Brianna!

Don't bring that in here.

Do you know what this is?

Tell me!

Take that outside!

[screaming] Now!

Mom, please.

What's going on?

My mother told me

that she also had experiences

of the paranormal

growing up in that house.

There was a child that

would come to her at night,

it was charred,

and it would stare at her

from the bottom of the bed.

[thunder clapping]

[Brianna] And so, when she

went to go see a bruja,

basically like a witch doctor

she told them that yes, indeed,

that they had a curse put on their

bloodline and their family

[thunder clapping]

[Brianna]and the only

way to get rid of that

was to get a piece

of all of their hair

a vile with all

of their blood in it

put it into a purse

like a little bag

put it into the earth.

She also advised my aunt

to carve into their skin

a cross on their wrist

to cleanse them of the curse

that had been put

on their family.

Argh!

We did have family members

who had passed in that house.

Was someone trying to send

a message from the other side

or even maybe just

trying to harm us?

I don't know if I'll ever know.

Why didn't you

tell me this before?

I wanted to protect you.

And I was hoping

that maybe it

would pass over you.

None of us have ever been

able to make sense of this.

But there must be

something we can do?

We can't just let this

control our family.

Maybe there is.

[Brianna] Tia Luz.

So, you know?

Argh!

Did it hurt?

Yes.

I thought it was gone.

I'm so sorry, mija.

My aunt decided to do

an egg cleanse on me.

It's where you take an egg

and you drag it across

and depending

on how the egg looks

when you break it

into a cup of water

is how you can tell if someone

had wished evil on you.

[whispering in Spanish]

Do not look at

the egg as we crack it.

Only look into the water

afterwards.

[Brianna] The egg cleanse

is what caused the entity

to get more upset.

We heard

this blood curdling scream,

and I remember

looking at my mom,

and seeing her scared

and not trying to hide it.

I definitely could feel that

she was on edge a lot more.

She

Especially 'cause

this happened in

not even in night time,

this happened in broad daylight.

The fact that we both saw it

really affirmed that this

was real and happening

and that it was

trying to terrify us.

Constantly trying

to hurt us in some way

whether that was physically or

mentally or even spiritually.

To have my mom confirm to me

that she also was

going through this

and that she also was feeling

the same things I was feeling,

seeing the same

things I was feeling

was very comforting.

Especially in a time where

I feel like I most needed it.

To feel heard and seen

and to feel validated

for my experiences

in that house.

Everything seemed to calm down.

I wasn't hearing things anymore

or seeing things.

I could finally get some sleep.

It seemed like there was finally

an ending to this torment.

I was excited

to have a baby sister,

but I hoped and I prayed

that she wouldn't

be seeing or hearing

all the things that I did.

Hi!

Remember this?

[Brianna] Oh, my God,

Sam's gonna love it.

[mother] I know.

[Brianna] Oh, my! Mom!

Mr. Pookie!

- [Brianna laughing]

[father] Mmm.

Uh-oh. What happened?

Nah.

Let me see.

- [Brianna] Oh, my gosh.

But

the longer that

my mom was pregnant,

the more that

it became apparent

that it might be

the same way

that it was with me.

Just because it seemed like

the things that would

happen late at night

were now happening in the

light of day more frequently,

making itself known even more.

[baby whimpering]

[pained struggling]

[Brianna] I was scared,

but I was also getting

a little fed up.

It started to get worse

and worse and worse.

Look who's home!

[father]

Bri, you wanna take her?

Yeah!

Hi, there!

Welcome to the family.

[baby giggling]

[gasping]

[exhaling deeply]

Hi!

I was completely determined

to not let whatever

this thing was win.

I got holy water

from the church,

and some incense,

and I was so excited because

I thought this was going to be

some protection for myself

and something that was gonna

protect my baby sister.

[baby crying]

Be back in ten, just gonna

grab something for dinner.

All good, Mom, bye.

Yeah!

[crying]

[Brianna] Leave.

Let this sacred holy water

and smoke keep us safe.

[baby crying]

Shh, shh, shh.

Hey!

Hi!

Hi, there!

Yeah!

[loud bang]

[baby screaming]

[rattling]

[baby crying]

[baby screaming]

[Brianna shouting] No!

[Brianna screaming]

This is my home,

this is my family,

you're not welcome here!

This is my home,

this is my family,

you're not welcome here!

This is my home,

this is my family,

you're not welcome here!

[rattling]

[glass smashing]

[Brianna weeping]

That was the icing

on the cake for us.

We both knew

that if we don't leave

that it might get a lot worse.

When we were finally

moving out of the house,

I definitely had

a little bit of a

I would say mixed

feelings about it,

bittersweetness about it

knowing that

this was my childhood home,

this was my first house.

I was sad about leaving

but I was so ready

to begin a new chapter,

and to let that part of my life

be closed forever.

I have my great-aunt

do spiritual cleansings,

energy cleanses

on me when needed.

I make little charm bags

to protect me

while I'm sleeping.

I don't watch a lot

of horror movies.

I feel like I lived it,

and I don't really want

to relive it again.

I wanted to let others know

who may be feeling isolated,

who may be feeling

like they're alone

and like they're going crazy

you're not alone,

that these things do happen

and that others have gone through

the same that you have gone through.

Don't let these entities

dictate your life

'cause that's exactly

what they want.

[Eli speaking]