[eerie music playing]
[Amy]
This guy freaking hates kids,
tortures them.
There was a little girl
I saw being taken.
I always feel like
someone's standing
right by my bed,
watching at me at night.
I don't tell people
a lot of stuff
'cause I don't want anybody
to think I'm crazy.
This is violent, violent.
The person wants
to k*ll somebody.
She was lying in a pool
of her own blood.
She had been stabbed
in the neck.
This is a really rage
homicide right here.
I heard him say,
"Death to little girls."
Disgusting and horrible.
I couldn't feel him either.
[Amy] There's something
from outside that's reaching
in for those kids.
He wants the person dead.
My name is Amy Allan.
I see dead people.
I saw a winged creature.
I speak to dead people.
And they speak to me.
This person feels
like a monster.
But there's only one way
to know if my findings
are real.
They are sucking the life
out of these people.
I rely on my partner.
I'm Steve DiSchiavi.
I'm a retired New York City
homicide detective.
So how many bodies we talking?
And I know every person,
every house, has secrets.
It's my job to reveal them.
But Steve and I never speak.
We never communicate
during an investigation.
Until the very end.
Oh, you're not
gonna like this.
When we uncover if it's safe
for you to stay...
I'm sorry.
I need to take a break.
...or time to get out.
It wants inside the house.
'Cause it wants to k*ll you.
[gasps]
[sinister music playing]
[Steve] So I'm out here
in Northfield, Ohio.
It's a small town
about minutes south
of Cleveland.
I got a call from
a married couple,
Cheryl and Dan,
and they sounded terrified.
I'm just worried
about our kids, and us,
and I don't want my children
to be afraid to be in any part
of this house.
[Steve] Now,
Dan's a wounded vet
and kids are involved.
So I had to take this case.
I really hope we can help
these guys out.
[Amy] Oh, God.
I don't like this.
I feel extremely dizzy.
Like vertigo, for sure.
This is a female who
often feels this way.
[sighs]
There's a sense of...
panic and anger.
There's a male monster
like, hurt people.
There is this...
anxiety,
like,
panic.
Panic is coming from a female,
but anger, v*olence
is coming from a male,
a young male.
[heart b*ating]
[Steve] So, Cheryl,
when we spoke on the phone,
you sounded pretty upset.
So, what the hell's
going on?
Our marriage
is being affected...
a lot.
And it's breaking us apart.
I can't
do this anymore.
And it's coming...
I think it's after...
it's definitely coming
after me.
So, let's start
with some basics.
Who all lives
in the house?
This is...
my daughter Riley,
who is now .
-Okay.
-That's me.
That's my husband, Dan.
And that is my stepdaughter,
Olivia, who is .
That's a good picture
of you guys.
It really is.
How long you guys
been married?
Five years.
On the phone, you mentioned
your husband is a wounded vet.
Which branch was he in?
-In the Navy.
-In the Navy, okay.
So, Cheryl, do me a favor
and give me a list
of what you guys
are experiencing.
[Cheryl] Strange noises.
Mood swings.
Apparitions.
And now we're getting
physically att*cked.
[Steve] Tell me about
the mood swing.
Erm... just out of nowhere
I'll get angry for no reason,
and...
-Is that how you are?
-I'm normally a
very happy person.
I think it's something
in this house.
It's just...
'cause it comes
out of nowhere.
All of the sudden, I just...
Rage builds up.
I just am not happy
anymore.
Is it maybe you're not happy
in the marriage
and that's what it is?
No. I love my husband.
I adore him,
and I feel awful
sometimes for...
the way I try, like,
it's just...
It's just like
something snaps, and
I don't know, I get...
I just get these,
like, feelings,
it's like a tingling
in my body like something's
taking over, and I'm like
angry.
I'm just scared sometimes.
I can't always say
if it's the paranormal or not,
but hopefully Amy
can let us know.
But,
I hope it is,
because if it is not
then you guys have
a bigger problem
than the paranormal.
-You know?
-Mmm-hmm.
What do you
think is here?
It's evil, whatever it is.
Cheryl, what do you
think it wants?
It wants to harm me
and my family and
tear us apart. I think
it's trying to destroy
my marriage.
[eerie music playing]
[Amy] I'm feeling
a lot of the anger
in here.
Feeling very violent.
Um...
I feel like fighting.
There's like a dark cloud
around this person.
That's not normal.
and it's really violent.
Like, this is violent,
violent. This is bad.
Had they been
acting differently?
Is this noticeable?
[Amy] Yes, very.
In what way?
What would they see?
Uh, aggressive behavior,
violent outbursts.
Would you say
other living might be
in danger because of them?
Yes.
The person wants
to k*ll somebody.
[Steve] So,
this is a nice basement.
Yeah, except nobody else
but me comes down here
by themselves.
[chuckles]
-Really?
-Really.
-So, what, are they
creeped out by it?
-Yeah.
Okay, so what's going on?
I hear growls.
What kind of growls
are we talking about?
Like a deep in-your-chest
type of growl.
Have you guys
ever had like a rodent
and wildlife inspection done
to see if anything's burrowing
here or anything like that?
-No.
-Okay. All right.
What else is going on?
When I'm down here,
I'll get my hair pulled.
How hard are we talking
about your hair
getting pulled?
It's a pretty good tug.
It's enough for me
to feel it.
Okay, what else?
It's a man.
He wakes me up
and I see it.
And then, I usually don't
go back to sleep.
Was he staring at you?
Yeah. He is gray
in the face,
and he...
Are you sure you're not
dreaming this?
No. I don't get...
it's not paralysis.
Does he look at you
or say anything?
No. He's not saying
anything, but he...
It's almost as if it's waiting
for me to see him
and then he's gone.
-Yeah.
-I don't tell people
a lot of stuff
because I don't
want anybody
to think I'm crazy.
[sobbing]
You break my heart.
So...
We're gonna have to fix this
one way or another.
All right?
You're not crazy.
[eerie sound]
[Amy] What is that?
Oh, my God.
[Matthew]
What are you seeing?
I would have thought that,
that it was manly.
I think that this
is a dead person.
Felt like a male.
I don't know why
he's being all cagey
and like, dressing up
like an alien.
I feel he [bleep] hates kids.
[bells chiming]
[Amy] I think any little kid
has been
tormented by this...
dude!
Ugh...
Ooh.
Now I'm getting the chills
ah, [bleep].
Mmm...
[Steve] So, Olivia.
How old are you now?
- [Olivia] I'm .
-Fifteen.
-So when you moved here,
you were like ten?
-Yeah.
So, Olivia, I was talking to
Cheryl, your stepmom.
She was telling me about
the paranormal problem here.
It seems pretty serious.
I mean, do you agree
with that?
Yeah. Like, I can't even get
out of my bedroom at night.
-I won't. It's too scary.
-Mmm.
Your stepmom told me
that she thinks
her personality
has changed
since she's been here.
-Have you noticed that?
-Yeah.
She's been getting, like,
mad over little things.
Okay.
What about you?
What experiences
have you had?
I always feel like someone's
standing right by my bed,
watching me at night,
but in the morning,
when it's light out, I'm fine.
Is it affecting school work
or your social life
with friends?
I'm very tired all the time
when I come here.
Sucky for a -year-old
have to deal with this.
Yeah.
Okay, anything else?
I've seen shadow figures.
Tell me about one of them.
So I was washing my face
in the hallway bathroom,
and out of the corner
of my eye, I saw a shadow
walk towards to my bedroom.
What, did it appear like
a person or what did
it feel like to you?
I thought it was my dad,
but he was outside.
So, Olivia, let me ask you
a question.
Do you think either Cheryl
or your dad are
in danger here?
Yes. More so Cheryl
because of all the things
that's been happening to her.
I'm seeing a little boy.
Like, huddled in a ball,
like, crying
on the bed.
And he's here like a lot.
I don't know if that child
is from [bleep] years ago,
or if that kid's here now.
He's young, scared,
and in a ball, like,
crying and crying and crying.
And I see...
like, from outside,
there's, like, an arm reaching
through the wall,
and grabbing him.
Okay.
Ooh.
Now I got the chills.
[humming]
Got the chills.
[eerie sound]
[Steve] So, Dan,
I spoke to your wife earlier,
and she said that you guys
are really fighting a lot.
And that it's affecting
your marriage. I mean,
do you agree with that?
-Yes.
-Okay.
She seems to think
it's the paranormal.
What's your opinion on that?
Something in the house has...
changed her.
And you're sure this is not
husband and wife [bleep]?
She's changed for, you know,
something's got
control of her.
Okay, so, let's get into
some experiences you've had.
I hear noises
all over the house.
So, Cheryl told me she
was hearing noises as well.
What are you hearing?
I'm hearing loud bangs,
knocks.
So when you're hearing
knocking, how loud are
we talking about?
Could you show me?
It's pretty loud. It's...
-Like that?
-Yeah.
Okay, anything else?
I saw a big black mass
behind me here,
by the closet.
Did it just stay there,
or did it kind of move?
What did it do?
It appeared when I
was talking with Cheryl,
and within seconds,
it vanished into my dresser
behind me.
Okay, so,
it just kind of...
-I froze with fear.
-Okay.
Anything else?
When I was sleeping one night,
I felt a pressure
on the bed.
All right, so what kind of
pressure are we talking about?
I woke up out of the blue,
and feeling a hard pressure,
and the bed was sinking
around my waist.
And it was not the dogs
'Cause they were nowhere
near me, at that time.
How long did it last?
Enough to make you realize
something's happening
that shouldn't be.
Well, that had to scare
the hell out of you, right?
It did. I don't get sleep.
Nobody gets sleep.
There's something from outside
that's reaching in
for those kids.
And I'm getting these chills
like nobody's business
So, I think that
they definitely feel that.
Like, you know, the hair
on the back of your neck.
It's going down on your back,
those kind of chills.
They might be feeling
someone or thing
touching them
down their back.
So they also may feel like
somebody's in the bed
with them.
They might feel a hand
around their arm.
-Are they in any kind
of danger?
-Yes.
[Steve] All right. So, Dan,
why did you bring me in here?
Well, this is the dead room,
and I think I may
have contributed
to some of the activity.
Okay, so what
do you mean by that?
I've got ashes here from
my, uh, uncle and my father.
Okay, so...
you got your uncle
and your dad.
Let's talk about your dad.
What's the story?
-[Steve] This him?
-Yeah, that's him.
He's a great dad.
I think, uh, being a Vietnam
veteran got the better of him.
Fourteen years ago, he, uh...
ended up committing su1c1de.
-Okay... Tough w*r, right?
-Yeah.
We all have
family that served.
-So... this is your Uncle Ron.
-This is my Uncle Ron.
What's the story with
Uncle Ron? Were they brothers?
[Dan] They were brothers.
Him and my dad had,
uh, kind of a fallout
a long time ago.
All right, do you have
any idea what that
dispute was about?
It was some kind of
a business relationship.
-Okay, so money... probably.
-Money.
All right, so let me
get this straight.
Do you think they're here?
-We do.
-You do.
You think they're
here as protectors?
Maybe... my dad
would be protecting,
but I'm not so sure
about my uncle.
He was in trouble a lot.
Alcohol and dr*gs.
Okay... so he had...
he had issues.
He has a lot of animosity
towards our family.
-If they are here, you're
blaming yourself for it?
-Yes.
You can't blame
yourself for what...
other people do...
in life or after life.
That's not on you.
[Amy] There's like a male
running up towards me.
He runs out. He's yelling.
Something happened...
Uh, I don't know what
he's running from though.
I'd put him in his s.
I mean, I think, like, he
was looking for something.
I don't think he found it.
This is something
that happened...
I think, in the late 's,
early 's.
I'm seeing a guy
put money out. Cash.
And I'm hearing a woman
crying about it.
She's got big blonde hair.
I do hear a g*n going off.
I see cash and then
the woman's crying...
And I feel like somebody
d*ed because of this.
I kind of wanna say that this
guy might've k*lled himself,
because of
this whole situation.
You know, I don't even know
where this guy k*lled himself,
but I feel like...
he is here...
and he's just carrying
around this, like... Ugh!
Gross negative energy.
[exhales]
[Steve] We've done a few
cases in Cleveland
and one of my go-to-guys is
retired detective Tom Armelli.
Now he just called me back and
he says he found the brutal
case of a -year-old girl
who was m*rder*d
less than a mile from
Cheryl and Dan's house.
I'm heading over
to meet with him now
to find out exactly
what happened.
So this homicide, what
do we know about the victim?
The victim in this case
is a -year-old female
named Lori Ewald.
At the time that she was
k*lled, she was living in a
motel with her mother
and her three brothers.
Let's go through the homicide,
what happened?
September th, ,
Lori arrived home
from school around :
in the afternoon.
-Okay.
-Her brother arrived home
shortly thereafter
around :.
Tried the door of their
motel room and it was locked.
He knocked on the door...
got no response
He looked in the window and he
could see his sister laying
on the floor of the hotel room
naked from the waist down,
so he, uh,
recruited a -year-old
neighbor to kick down the door
and when they went inside...
they found, uh,
that Lori had been, uh...
she was laying in
a pool of her own blood
and she had been
stabbed in the neck.
Here's a copy of
the death certificate.
[Steve] Okay.
This is a really rage
homicide right here.
I believe it also says she
was sexually assaulted.
All right, did they ever
catch the sick bastard
that did this?
They actually did.
About ten days later,
the police made an arrest,
and actually it turned out
to be the -year-old
-that kicked in the door
to find her body.
-[scoffs]
All right, so what
was his name?
His name was
Donald Shedrick.
-Okay.
-He was actually
the only guy
the police were
ever looking at.
Um, he had been paroled
a couple months earlier
-for a similar crime.
-You're kidding me.
All right, what's this story
with this other case?
What happened?
Well, about
months earlier,
Shedrick was arrested
in Warrensville Heights, which
is about seven miles away...
-Okay.
-...for attempted m*rder,
kidnapping and, uh,
sexual as*ault of
another -year-old girl,
who he forced into
an abandoned school bus,
and r*ped her and, uh,
and stabbed her in the neck
with a pair of scissors.
Fortunately, she survived.
Here's an article
about that case.
They charged him
as an adult in that case
or was he a juvenile?
Well, the reason he got out
so early is because he was
charged as a juvenile. He
spent some time in the, uh...
uh, Riverview Boys' School
and, uh, was released
about two months, uh,
before Lori was k*lled.
Okay, so if they
don't let this kid out...
-Lori's alive.
-Correct.
Does this kid cop a plea?
Or does he go to trial?
He claimed his innocence, but
actually there were two trials
Uh, the first trial
ended on a hung jury...
and the second trial, uh,
he was found guilty,
and because he was a juvenile,
the death penalty was
off the table, so he was
sentenced to life in prison.
Okay.
All right, so this homicide
is in '. I assume he's still
alive in prison, right?
Well, actually, he would be
still in prison expect
for the fact that in
he was transferred to
a hospital and d*ed, uh,
presumably of natural causes.
Really? Okay, so...
he d*ed kind of young.
Forty-one years old
at the time of his death.
-Both you and I have seen
our share of m*rder*d kids.
-Yes.
So at least this guy
is off the street and
-now he's dead,
so it's a good thing.
-I agree.
[Amy] The alien-looking
dead guy comes into
this room a lot.
[Matthew] Any idea why he is
projecting himself like this?
It's scary.
This guy, fricking,
hates kids...
tortures them...
possibly k*lled them
when he was alive.
I keep hearing
a male saying,
"Death to little girls."
There was a little girl I saw
being taken back in the 's.
You know, him being
dead now would allow him
to, you know,
prolong the t*rture.
So would he target
any child here?
I think, uh,
the younger the better.
[Steve] So Cheryl and Dan tell
me they hear strange noises
like growling and banging
throughout the house,
but not everything
is paranormal.
Sounds like they could
have a rodent problem.
I'm heading back to the house
to meet a pest control expert
who's gonna give
the place a once-over.
So, John, the reason
I called you out here is
my clients live in this home.
They're experiencing
a lot of strange stuff.
They're hearing thuds, bangs,
knocks and growling
coming from... the house.
-Okay.
-So I'm thinking
maybe there's
some kind of wildlife problem.
Absolutely. Racoons,
groundhogs, skunks.
I mean, you name it.
All right, so, John, do me
a favor. Give the house
a good once-over and let me
know what you find out.
-Okay, do will do. All right.
-Okay. Thanks.
[Steve] I was a
homicide detective for
more than years,
and whenever
you work a case,
you've gotta follow up
on the obvious leads first.
Now, when someone
tells me they're hearing
growling and thumps,
my mind doesn't go
straight to the paranormal.
I think wildlife.
We'll see if this
pest control expert agrees.
-Hey, so how did it go?
-Hey...
Uh, it went well. Think
we discovered that
possibly could be animals.
Okay, so why is that?
Well, the deck is all around
the entire back of the home.
It hides the foundation,
but it gives some great
hiding spaces underneath
undetectable.
Okay, did you find
anything else in there
that might
contributed to these noises?
-There is a crawl space
under this home.
-Okay.
And that crawl space
has HVAC ducting.
All right, so if they're
messing around
on top of that
-you're gonna hear something.
-It'll be routing like a drum,
but it could be mating
in there, Steve. [chuckles]
Who knows
what they are doing?
Okay... so did you
find any droppings
or any signs
of animal activity?
-I did not. No.
-Okay, so we have
possibility of animal
getting in here...
-Yes.
-...but you didn't find
any evidence of it.
Not directly. No.
-Well, I appreciate your help.
Thanks for helping me.
-You're welcome.
[Matthew] What is that
you're seeing?
[Amy] There's like this
thudding, thudding, thudding.
Footsteps on the roof.
[Matthew] So what exactly
is it that's on the roof?
[Amy] It's the dead guy
who looks like an alien.
What is he doing up there?
He's like running
around on the roof...
jumping on it,
making a thudding noise.
[Matthew] Is there any
particular reason
he's doing this?
[Amy] I think, to make
people uncomfortable.
Do you have any idea
what he wants in general?
He is continuing his
pattern of torturing
little kids...
and... that's what he does.
[Amy softly] Oh, God!
So does he ultimately
wanna k*ll them?
I think so. Yes.
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[Steve] So far I've got
clients terrified that
something is trying
to hurt their kids
and destroy their marriage
on a property near
the spot where
a -year-old girl
was brutally m*rder*d.
But I wanna see
if there's anything else.
Searching through
old records, I discover
a mental health hospital
that used to be located
right near Cheryl
and Dan's house.
Turns out... the place has a
dark history of neglect
and abuse.
I heading over to meet
a local journalist
who knows all
about this story.
Well, Lori, thanks
for helping me out.
I appreciate that.
This place,
when was it built?
Well, the original land
was actually purchased
back in .
This is actually a photo of
some of the original
cottages that were
part of Hawthornden.
Okay, so what kind of patients
did they have there?
Well, back then they
had about patients
and most of those were
schizophrenics,
manic depressives,
some people with
substance abuse issues,
-but no violent
or criminally insane.
-Okay.
All right, so I know
things went bad,
when did that happen?
Well, you know,
right around the s
is when things
really took a turn.
And by ,
the hospital had
, patients and
some of them, at that time,
actually were violent.
And the staffing was
very bad at that point.
In fact, there were reports
that there was only
one attendant
per patients
and ten doctors and
none of those doctors
had any type
of psychiatric training.
Okay, so this place
is a mess. They had
almost triple the amount
of patients from when
it first started
-and not enough
staff to handle it.
-Correct.
All right, so this
sounds like a real...
bad recipe for disaster.
What happens next?
In February of ,
there were actually two deaths
that occurred at the facility.
So at that point, the Summit
County prosecutor
opened the first of what
would be many investigations
and probes into the facility.
In fact, Steve, here's
an article that talks
a little about the opening
of the probe.
Okay, so how
did that go?
Well, after the probe was
opened, a lot of calls
flooded the prosecutor's
office about suspicious
deaths that had
occurred at the facility.
All right, so how many
suspicious deaths
are we talking about?
There are reports of
total suspicious deaths
-including ten
reported murders.
-Okay.
In addition to that,
there was also an alleged
drug trafficking ring.
All right, so with
this big mess I gotta
assume somebody
got indicted.
Steve, believe it or not,
there were never
any charges filed.
There were no criminal
charges, whatsoever.
And what happened was
the Summit County grand jury
actually picked up
the case and they said
that neglect was not
a criminal offence.
All right, so did they
ever shut this place
down, at least?
Well, complaints
continued to roll in
all the way
through the s,
and in ,
-Hawthornden was rolled into
another behavioral system.
-Okay.
It wasn't until ,
that they actually
ripped down the original
buildings of the facility.
Okay, so this building's
not there anymore.
Not anymore.
You know,
it's hard to imagine
years of complaints
and it... it still went on.
It's a long time and it seems
like not a lot of oversight.
Saying neglect
is not a crime,
I have a problem with,
you know.
-There is criminal
neglect, so...
-Mmm-hmm.
[Amy] I saw a male.
He felt very
strong and regal.
Then there
were seven people,
uh, dead people
sitting near him.
The voice says, "m*rder*r."
This was a long time ago.
Uh, someone is
beaten and torn.
Someone says, "Prisoners."
[Amy] I saw several horrifying
things on my walk,
but the alien-looking
dead man
tormenting a sleeping child,
concerns me the most.
There were only,
I think, like four fingers...
awkwardly long.
There's really
no muscle mass.
Yes, so the alien hand
is grabbing, uh, this kid.
Amy, is this what you saw?
Yes, that's what I saw.
[Steve] Now that Amy and I
have completed
our investigations,
we're ready to reveal
our findings to each other,
and our clients
for the first time.
So, guys, this is Amy.
She is going to be conducting
the reveal from one
of your bedrooms
so she can focus on your case,
and the dead
without any distractions.
Amy, I want you
to meet Cheryl and Dan.
They are married and live here
with Dan's -year-old
daughter, Olivia.
Cheryl also has an -year-old
daughter, Riley, who just left
for college.
We got called in because
these guys think that
something here is trying
to break up their marriage.
They actually hope
that's the case,
because otherwise,
it means they shouldn't be
together anymore.
So, now that Amy knows
a little bit about you guys,
she may have some questions,
if not she will tell us
about her walk.
[Amy] When I was heading down
to the basement,
I saw a male, run past me,
up the stairs,
And he was running to get out
because he was afraid
of getting caught.
When I finally made it
into the basement,
I saw a different man.
And he is putting money out,
on a table.
And there's a woman
across from him,
and she is crying
hysterically.
Obviously, they're very upset
about money. Very stressed.
He's feeling a lot of guilt
about the situation.
It had something to do
with business.
I got that somehow
these three people,
this male, this female,
and this other male running
out were somehow connected.
And later on, I got that
the guy, who was
in the basement with the woman
had eventually k*lled himself.
So, you guys thinking
what I am thinking?
-I'm thinking it's my dad.
-[Cheryl] It's his dad.
Yeah. Amy, um...
Dan and Cheryl call this
the dead room.
The main reason
they call it that is sitting
right over there.
Those two boxes are urns.
One has the remains
of Dan's father, Larry,
And the other is
his Uncle Ron.
They were brothers.
Oh.
This is a photo
of Dan's uncle, Ron,
on this side right here.
It'd be fair to describe
Uncle Ron to Amy as well.
He was
into dr*gs and alcohol.
Hard-headed.
Well, he's gone.
He definitely moved on.
[Steve] Now, the situation
you describe
sounds a little bit like
what happened
between the two men.
My uncle and my dad
had a falling out
over business.
And, uh, when my father
had committed su1c1de,
we found out after the fact
that he was struggling
with some money issues.
How did you father do that,
if you don't mind me
asking you?
He wasn't supposed to have
any g*ns in the house
where he was at,
but he sh*t himself
in the head.
Yeah, I heard the g*nsh*t
when I was walking up
the stairs.
[Steve] Okay,
So, this is Dan's
father, Larry.
Sounds like the father's
still here?
-Mmm.
-[Dan inhales sharply]
Oh, God.
I'm sorry.
[Cheryl sniffles]
[sobs] I can feel him here.
-She's told me he's here.
-[Cheryl sobs]
-She said she's
talked to him.
-Okay.
Do you have abilities
you think, or...
Oh, I don't know.
Some things come to me
and I tell him things
and I don't know if I am nuts.
[Amy]
I think you do have abilities.
I think you're an empath.
-Mmm-hmm.
-Which is a difficult ability,
to take such
an emotional toll.
But I am the one who made him
bring the ashes here.
The ashes in this situation
have nothing to do
with anything.
-Okay. So, the ashes
are fine.
-Yes.
So, stop b*ating yourself up
about the ashes.
-[Cheryl laughs] Okay.
-That's one argument you guys
don't have to have anymore.
What else, Amy?
So, the next situation
I wanna talk about is...
So, I am walking down the hall
and the first room
on the left,
[Steve]
Okay, that's Cheryl's office.
[Amy] When I went
in there, I got a lot
of negative energy.
Feelings of anger.
I felt it was coming from
a living person in the room.
I felt like it was possible
that this person was
acting out aggressively.
I was thinking that people
could tell
that this individual's
demeanor had changed.
So, Amy, remember
when I told you
that these guys,
their marriage was in trouble?
-[Amy] Yeah.
-[Steve] All right. So...
It's because Cheryl
has changed.
She goes into these rages.
Tell Amy what's been
going on with you?
Anger. Rage. Like, just mean,
and aggressive, and
I am not myself. At all.
And you guys are at the point
where you don't know
if you are gonna make it
-the way things are going.
-[sighs wearily]
Yeah.
[Amy] I don't think that
it's that room that's making
you that way.
But as far as you acting out
on all of this, I think
as an empath,
it's just because of
the environment we are in now.
And you guys
need to team up
instead of splitting up.
One of the bigger threats
is this dead male
that I encountered.
Who, to me, looked like
an alien.
It turns out that
it really was, and is,
this dead male,
but he does project himself
in ways that will
scare people.
I didn't get a lot
about him in life.
I do believe that he may have
abducted a child
from this area.
Possibly in the 's.
And he knew her.
He was a neighbor.
Definitely a pervert.
I also think that
he might have k*lled children
when he was alive.
All right.
Well, unfortunately
there's someone
who fits your description
to a T that came up
in my investigation.
There's a motel about
two-thirds of a mile
up the road from here.
In , a -year-old
named Lori Ewald lived
there with her mom
and three of her brothers.
So, on September th
of that year,
one of her
brothers came home
from school,
and saw her
through the window,
lying in a pool
of her own blood.
So, a -year-old neighbor
came over,
helped the brother
kick down the door,
got inside and found Lori
dead on the floor.
She had been stabbed
on the right side of her neck,
but she was also
sexually assaulted.
Now, ten days later,
the cops made an arrest.
Personally charged
with that m*rder
was the -year-old neighbor
that knocked down that door.
Wow. Okay.
[Steve] Now his name was
Donald Shedrick,
and it wasn't his first time
having an issue with the cops.
Eighteen months earlier,
he had grabbed another
-year-old girl,
walking home from school,
forced her into a parked
school bus,
r*ped and stabbed her.
Amazingly, she survived.
He was charged
as a juvenile.
And that's why he got
out so fast and that's why
this girl, Lori, is dead.
But after the m*rder,
they tried him as an adult.
And he ended up
with a life sentence.
Now, in ,
Shedrick got very sick
and he was brought
to a hospital locally,
and d*ed.
Now, we do know he was
years old when he d*ed,
and I managed to track down
a photo of him.
What he d*ed of,
I made a million phone calls,
nobody could tell us, but...
He d*ed of some kind
of disease.
Now, is it possible this
is who you are talking about?
Yes. Yes.
-That's disgusting
and horrible.
-[Steve] Yeah.
Now you said this guy
was a big thr*at here,
well,
what does he do?
[Amy] He's all about creating
fear in people.
I don't like aliens
and they do scare me.
So, that's what he was
depicting to me.
So, is this guy portraying
stuff that
makes each individual afraid.
Yeah, whatever, you know,
would make that person
uncomfortable.
-I've seen black masses.
-Ah. Okay, okay.
Yeah. That's this guy.
I saw him on the roof,
and he was jumping around
up there. Making noises
and footsteps.
[Cheryl]
I've heard loud bangs.
Scuffling, or like running
really quickly.
I'm in the living room,
I definitely do hear,
uh, it sounds like shuffling
in the attic or the roof.
Honestly for me,
everything's not paranormal,
so I called in
a pest control expert.
He says because
of the foundation
-and how the house
is raised...
-[Cheryl] Hmm.
...it's very easy for wildlife
to get into the crawl space.
But he didn't find
any animal droppings,
and he didn't find
any animals. So...
At some point, you might
want to call him to take
care of that.
You know. Make sure that
doesn't happen.
As far as the creep jumping up
on the roof,
that I gotta give to Amy.
What sucks is that I did see
that he could interact
physically.
So, touching is possible.
Grabbing is possible.
Somebody getting in bed
with you.
I woke up kind of startled
but I was feeling pressure.
As if somebody was pressing
on each side of my hips.
And I physically felt
the bed move underneath me.
I was just freaked out.
Now, Cheryl,
you got your hair pulled.
-Mmm-hmm.
-[Steve] More
than once, right?
-[Cheryl] Oh, yeah.
-[Amy] Ooh.
That's interesting.
It's not like a mean tug.
-Like a hey?
-It's an attention tug. Yes.
When I went
into the last room
on the left,
which is Olivia's room,
I kept getting like
extreme chills in that room.
What I saw was a little boy
huddled in the bed,
like in a fetal position.
And I couldn't tell
if he lived here now
or if this was prior.
The previous owners
had sons.
-Could that be what
you are seeing? Okay.
-Oh, yeah.
[Amy] He's young.
He's scared.
I mean, like, in a ball.
Like crying and crying
and crying.
And I see, like,
from outside...
There's like an arm reaching
through the wall.
And grabbing him.
So, I did have
a sketch done.
Um, of the male
reaching through the wall.
[papers shuffling]
[groans in disgust]
Oh, God.
What is going on there?
[Dan] That's terrifying.
I wanna grab the guy.
I wanna k*ll him myself.
I mean what the [bleep]
does this guy want from
these people?
He likes to t*rture people.
He likes to make
people scared
and uncomfortable.
Definitely children.
He'll focus on the children
as much as he can.
And I heard him say,
"Death to little girls."
How're you feeling, Cheryl?
You seem a little stunned.
Angry.
I just need him gone.
Like now.
[Dan] He's gotta go ASAP.
If he wasn't dead now,
I think I would k*ll him.
[Cheryl exhales]
[eerie music playing]
[Steve] Okay, guys, so
the good news is
we finally know why
you guys had been fighting.
The bad news is
there's a lot more
going on here.
Now to answer
the big question.
Can you stay and fight?
Or do you need
to cut and run?
For that answer,
I am gonna turn it over
to Amy.
[Amy] So as far as
the perverted, freak guy,
I have a call out
to a person
who lives in the area.
He is like
a badass medium
who, I think, will be able
to tackle this guy
with the assistance
of a demonologist.
-I am good with that.
-[Amy] Yeah.
-He needs to [bleep] go.
-I would agree.
Get rid of him altogether.
Once that's done,
the male medium can refer
you to an older,
female medium,
who has a background
in psychology.
Who can come and have
a few sessions
with your father downstairs.
So that he can focus
and process out
all of this trauma
that he is experiencing.
For the last one,
I think it would be
really great
if the entire family
can have a session with him
and the medium
before he moves on.
-So, Dan may have a chance
to say goodbye to his dad?
-[Amy] Yes.
I think everybody
in this family needs that.
[Amy] Yeah.
And then of course,
the last thing,
-is I really want you guys to
get marriage counseling ASAP.
-[Cheryl laughs]
ASAP.
I feel good about that
-and I feel good about getting
counseling and--
-I think we'll be okay.
You know, I like you guys
very much especially as
a couple.
Promise me you
are gonna do this...
-Oh, yeah.
-...therapy thing.
Oh, I promise.
No, I don't wanna lose her.
I wanna lose the creep
in the house.
[Amy] I really hope
Dan and Cheryl bring in
the mediums,
and demonologist
I recommended.
With their help,
they should be able to
banish the dead man,
and move on Dan's father.
Once they do that
and seek out
marriage counseling,
I believe their relationship
will heal.
And they will live
a peaceful and happy life.
[theme music playing]
14x10 - Protect the Children
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"The Dead Files" features two independent investigations into locations that are reported to be haunted. One investigation is performed by a psychic medium, while a former NYPD homicide detective investigates. Each show concludes with a meeting, where they discuss their findings together with the victims.
"The Dead Files" features two independent investigations into locations that are reported to be haunted. One investigation is performed by a psychic medium, while a former NYPD homicide detective investigates. Each show concludes with a meeting, where they discuss their findings together with the victims.