My life flashed before my eyes.
Get out!
It was so frightening.
Narrator: You are about to see
real people...
I felt like I was going to die.
Narrator: ...Reliving horrifying
paranormal encounters
For the first time.
I knew that I was in danger.
I was terrified.
Narrator: When evil resides
within the walls of a home.
Felt like somebody was right
behind me chasing me out.
I got to get the hell
out of here.
Ah!
I buried this
for nearly 30 years.
Narrator:
Be prepared to be afraid.
[font color="#ffff00"]PARANORMAL SURVIVOR - SEASON 5[/font]
[font color="#ffff00"]EP - 1 - Within These Walls[/font]
♪♪
Man: "evil farm house,"
"paranormal survivor,"
Take 1. Mark.
Julie: It was
a very large property.
It was a very old farmhouse.
♪♪
We felt like it was perfect,
Because we wanted to be out
in the country,
Wanted to be away from the city
and the hustle and the bustle.
And we just wanted to be
around nature and peacefulness.
Narrator:
The landscape surrounding
The farmhouse was idyllic,
But it was
a different story inside.
When we first moved in,
I felt like a buzzing,
And I got an instant headache.
[ clock dinging ]
Hon, you okay?
You okay, hon?
Yeah,
I'm okay. Don't worry about it. Okay.
Narrator: Little did julie know
her daughter, emily,
Felt the same way.
When I first stepped
in the house,
I knew something was wrong.
♪♪
Narrator: As the family settled
into their new home,
Julie tried to shake
the feeling of unease.
I was home alone,
and my husband was at work,
And my daughter was at school.
I was sitting in the living room
trying to relax.
And I heard my name
called out twice, "julie,"
And it was a male voice
trying to get my attention.
Man: Julie! Julie!
And you could actually
hear someone,
Heavy footsteps
walking down the farm stairs.
[ heavy thudding ]
Very heavy footsteps,
like a work boot footsteps,
You would hear clomp, clomp,
clomp down the stairs.
[ heavy thudding ]
And I walked towards the stairs.
And it was like
a rush of cold air.
It came at me and just went
through me like a big wind.
♪♪
Icy cold.
I heard a really loud "hey!"
♪♪
Very gruff,
it was very dark and very gruff,
Like an old man.
It wanted to be heard,
like a "hey!"
And something grabbed my arm...
[ grunting ]
...And I flung my arm so hard.
[ grunts ]
♪♪
I had an imprint of a hand
around my wrist.
Narrator:
Emily was having disturbing
Encounters of her own.
Emily: There is this one night
That I was laying in bed.
And I heard, like,
this weird noise...
[ child laughing ]
Emily: ...A giggle in my closet.
So, I get up.
I look in the closet.
[ laughter continues ]
[ laughter stops ]
There's nothing there.
And I just see this shadow
of this little girl
Run across my room.
And she stopped
and stared at me.
So I closed my eyes
thinking it was just a dream.
And I open them back up,
and she's there,
But the boy was with her.
[ laughter ]
They would never say
anything to me,
But they would
giggle and whisper.
[ laughter ]
And they just disappeared.
♪♪
They would always like
to wake me up
In the middle of the night
and try and play with me.
They would either tap me,
they would giggle in the closet.
The kids always wanted
my attention.
They would never let me sleep.
I went to bed one night.
And I think since I wasn't
paying attention to them...
[ laughter ]
No.
...They got angry at me,
And they decided
to just hurt me.
I felt this burn on my stomach.
I told you I don't want to...
Ow!
I lifted up my shirt,
And there's just a scratch mark
going down my stomach.
And I just yelled,
"leave me alone."
Leave me alone!
It looked almost like
three claws,
Like someone's hand
just scratched my stomach.
- What's wrong?
- Leave me alone!
What's wrong? What's wrong?
- What's wrong?
- [ crying ]
I confront my mom,
and I started crying.
And I said, "I don't know
what's going on,
But I want out of this house."
I don't want to be here anymore.
Can we just leave? Please!
She was terrified.
It's gonna be okay.
A playful entity or spirit
can definitely turn violent
If it's ignored, because
it's like any other human being.
If you're trying to gain
someone's attention,
And they ignore you,
then it gets you a little angry.
Narrator: As the days passed,
The activity
inside the farmhouse
Became more frequent.
♪♪
I smelt him before I saw him.
♪♪
And I heard deep growling,
"hey!"
Hey!
♪♪
And there was an outline
of a man
Just kind of standing there
in cigarette smoke.
♪♪
♪♪
So, I acknowledged him,
and I told him,
"I know you're here,
I don't want you here."
You need to leave me alone!
[ laughing ]
[ coughing ]
The feeling of the man
was almost like a...
Evil.
[ coughing ]
♪♪
Narrator: Unfortunately,
for julie and her family,
This evil entity
was just getting started.
♪♪
♪♪
Narrator: Julie weinstein
and her daughter, emily,
Are being tormented
by paranormal activity
In their historic farmhouse,
And the attacks are becoming
increasingly violent.
♪♪
We were in bed one night,
And I smelt the smoke,
And it was just like it
was hovering over the bed.
All of a sudden,
it was like I couldn't move.
Your mouth wanted
to make a word,
And you couldn't make a word.
No sound would come out.
And it was like somebody
was holding my wrist.
♪♪
So I couldn't turn,
and I couldn't twist.
You can't move your head,
you can't make a sound,
And it was like somebody
was kneeling on me
And just breathing in your face.
Nothing but nicotine.
I yelled out...
Aah!
"get off me."
Get off me!
"you're not doing this,
get off me."
Get off me!
And my husband thought
I was yelling at him,
And he goes, "what's wrong?"
I said, "it's on me."
He's on me, he's on me!
And it released.
- [ panting ]
- what's wrong? What's wrong?
And I know he felt bad.
I mean, it's the first time
I've ever seen him cry
'cause he didn't know
what to do.
He goes, "I can't protect you."
He goes, "I don't know
how to protect you.
I don't know how to stop it."
I said, "I don't either.
I don't know what we do."
Narrator: After the attack,
Julie's health
started to decline.
I wasn't sleeping properly,
for one.
I was so stressed out,
I wasn't eating properly,
I dropped a whole bunch
of weight,
I lost my driver's license
for six months
Because I was having
mini-seizures
Which added to me
being trapped in a place
That I did not want to be.
And that just made it worse,
it made my anxiety worse.
I lost my job.
Got to the point where
I could not leave my own home.
No matter what room of the house
I was in, he was there.
♪♪
[ laughing evilly ]
Evil spirits love to feed on
other people's pain and misery,
Because it gives them great
satisfaction and great power,
But it also makes
the living very fearful.
And fear is itself an energy
So if something is evil
or malevolent,
It loves that energy and uses
that energy to its gain.
♪♪
Narrator: Desperate and afraid,
julie brought in help.
I contacted a medium friend
that I had.
I said, "I need your help."
She came in, she picked up
The two children
that my daughter saw.
And then she picked up
the smoking man.
♪♪
She picked up on big ships
That brought sl*ves
from the states to canada
That would go through
the underground railroad
Which sadly enough
they became sl*ves here,
And put them to work
on that farm.
She said the smoking man
was mean and angry,
And he was a drunk,
And he was a heavy,
heavy smoker.
And he was very much used to
being in control of other people
And telling other people
what to do,
And that's why he felt
he could do that to me.
[ laughing evilly ]
So, what she did, she put as
much white light over us
As possible to protect us.
Protect these souls
from the evil of the dead!
Protect these souls
from the evil of the dead!
They did a whole bunch
of blessings and prayers,
And said to him,
"you need to leave,
This isn't your house."
Lead this tortured soul
into the light!
♪♪
It wasn't easy,
and he fought it, but he did go.
You need to leave!
♪♪
♪♪
Narrator: The medium was able to
cross over the spirits
Of the children,
as well as the smoking man.
♪♪
And as of now,
he is no longer with us,
And he's moved on.
Narrator:
But even with the entities gone,
Julie was too traumatized
to stay in the house,
And the family moved out.
How's it going up there, em?
Emily: My moods changed in
a great way.
Here you go.
I'm a better person
than I was before.
I'm excited for the future now.
Julie: It's beyond a relief.
I don't feel like I'm being
watched every day,
And I feel like
I'm keeping my family safe.
♪♪
Narrator: It's not unusual
for a long departed homeowner
To lash out in anger
toward the new owners,
But sometimes, the spirit is
so protective of their old house
That they'll try to stop
any changes to it
From beyond the grave.
♪♪
♪♪
Man: "paranormal survivor,"
"reno hell," take 1. Mark.
♪♪
I bought the house
in July of 2017,
And it was
a beautiful century home...
A lot of character, a lot of
charm, a lot of personality.
It just needed a lot of work.
♪♪
The first time I went
in the house
After I took possession,
it was pretty late at night,
And it just felt like somebody
was watching me from upstairs.
♪♪
I was upstairs
getting cleaned up.
♪♪
I start to feel nauseated,
dizzy.
♪♪
That's when I started
to hear things in the house.
[ clatter ]
♪♪
Sounded like somebody walking
around downstairs
And moving around boxes
and furniture.
♪♪
Hello?
I could hear heavy footsteps.
[ heavy thudding ]
So, I called out over
the railing,
And I yelled,
"hello, is anybody here?"
Hello?
Who's there?
[ heavy thudding ]
[ clatter ]
And there was no answer.
But I could hear things
moving around.
[ objects clatter ]
And then I heard...
It sounded like something heavy
Hit the floor.
♪♪
♪♪
Narrator:
Homeowner brie-anne kinrade
Had been hearing strange noises
And mysterious footsteps
in her historic fixer-upper.
[ objects clatter ]
And then I heard...
It sounded like something heavy
Hit the floor.
[ object thuds ]
There was no furniture
in the house at the time.
The house was completely empty
so that's why it didn't make
Sense to hear furniture
being moved around.
♪♪
[ metal thuds ]
♪♪
I was frightened going down
the stairs to go check that out.
♪♪
So, I walked downstairs to see
If somebody had come
in the house...
Hello? Is there anyone here?
...And there was nobody there.
♪♪
The doors were still
locked up tight.
Nothing had been moved.
The few boxes that I had
in the house at the time
Were still where they had been.
♪♪
And there was nothing there.
♪♪
It was making me want to put off
moving in for a while.
♪♪
Narrator: Despite the noises,
brie-anne was still excited
To show off
her new home's potential.
I took my friend, ashley,
there to show her the house.
So...
I wanted to show her
what I'd done.
The potential is...
I took her there not too long
Before we started
the major work,
But after I started
experiencing things,
And I didn't tell her about
anything that I'd experienced.
We walked upstairs.
So, we were laughing
and talking,
And everything was normal.
...Put together.
♪♪
And then we walked
into the master bedroom.
This is the master bedroom.
♪♪
As soon as she crossed through
the door, she burst into tears.
♪♪
Ashley, what's wrong?
I don't know.
She said, "I don't know why
this is happening,
I can't stop crying."
[ crying ] I don't know
what's happening.
She just kept saying, "it's too
much, I can't stop crying.
I don't know why I can't stop
crying, but it's just too much."
Wait, well...
We started to feel lightheaded
and dizzy and nauseated.
Then we heard
a female voice call out,
"hi,"
from the back of the house.
♪ Hi ♪
What's going on?
I told her we need to
get out right now.
We have to go.
We have to go now.
♪♪
As soon as we got outside,
she started feeling better,
And I started feeling better.
And everything
kind of cleared up,
But we couldn't go back
in the house.
♪♪
Narrator: Though shaken,
brie-anne wanted to know
Exactly what was behind
all the strange activity.
I had security cameras set up
around the house
To keep an eye on things inside.
♪♪
♪♪
Right after setting them up,
I went home,
And I looked at them
to see what was going on to see
If I could see anything
and just hear anything.
♪♪
I started hearing footsteps
walking up and down the stairs.
[ footsteps thudding ]
I heard somebody whistling
and walking around the house.
[ whistling,
footsteps thudding ]
There was nobody in the house,
But I could still hear
the sounds
Like they were walking around
right in front of the camera.
I captured one of the kitchen
cabinets opening by itself.
♪♪
♪♪
The cabinet just swung open
all by itself,
And there was nobody around.
I was terrified.
♪♪
♪♪
I was very anxious
being in the house.
It became more and more
difficult to get work done,
Because I was always afraid
of what was gonna happen next.
I was putting everything away,
And I started hearing
heavy footsteps upstairs.
[ footsteps thudding ]
Somebody walking around,
dragging furniture.
[ scraping, heavy thudding ]
[ metal thuds ]
[ heavy footsteps ]
[ scraping ]
I walked up just to make sure
that nobody had come
In while I was outside.
♪♪
And I heard a bang.
[ thud ]
And then I saw the woman.
Aah!
♪♪
♪♪
Narrator:
Brie-anne kinrade has endured
Weeks of terrifying noises
While renovating
her historic home.
Now she's about to find out
who's behind it all.
♪♪
I walked up just to make sure
that nobody had come in
While I was outside.
♪♪
And I heard a bang.
And then I saw the woman.
Aah!
I was going back downstairs,
it felt like somebody
Was right behind me following me
all the way down,
Kind of chasing me out.
♪♪
♪♪
♪♪
Any time you're
doing renovations,
You're changing
the ambiance of the house,
You're changing the energy
and flow of the house,
And that can most
definitely cause entities,
Spirits to become upset,
to get angry with the changes.
Narrator: Brie-anne decided
to seek professional help.
Fortunately,
it was close at hand...
Her mother and psychic medium,
lori kinrade.
I have been a medium
my entire life.
I knew there was definitely
a lot going on here.
I use a specific herb and oil
to seal the doors and windows.
Cleanse this house
of negativity.
So, we work our way
through the house.
Bless this space.
During the cleansing upstairs,
it began to feel really intense.
♪♪
Spirits...
Everybody started saying
that they felt really sick,
Really lightheaded, nauseated.
- Mom, I can barely stand.
- Okay.
I felt, myself, like
I couldn't even talk,
I was so drained
and so overwhelmed,
And it felt like
all of my energy
Was just going into
staying conscious
And following people around
and not passing out.
At one point, I was pretty
much flattened against the wall
Just to hold myself up.
We finished the process
of sealing everything,
And then we went back
to the living room
And gathered in a circle
to do the crossing ceremony.
Angels, ancestors, protectors...
We create a vortex of energy
in the circle,
And we ask for everything that's
there to be carried through,
Everything to be removed.
Help us release this spirit
into the next world.
♪♪
My mom identified the spirit
of an old woman that was there.
Lori: She was dressed
all in dark, her hair...
Help us release this spirit
into the next world!
She just seemed extremely angry.
She was very territorial
about the home.
This is not your house anymore!
Cross into the light!
Maybe it had meant a lot to her.
Upon death, sometimes
people or spirits
Are having a hard time
transitioning
So they still feel
that it is their space.
They don't want to give it up
so they're gonna fight.
This is not your house anymore!
Cross into the light!
It took a lot to cross her over.
Cross into the light!
We felt like someone
was trying to fight us.
We held our energy,
kept our circle strong...
Cross into the light!
[ screaming ]
...Until we saw her
carried through.
♪♪
She just kind of disappeared
into the white light
And was gone.
♪♪
♪♪
After the cleanse, the house
almost immediately felt better.
She's gone.
We felt better ourselves
almost instantly.
We didn't feel sick anymore.
The air felt lighter,
it felt like you could breathe,
It felt like a home.
It was awesome just to see
the look of relief in her face.
♪♪
My mom said that the spirits
felt like they need
To stick around
because they were
Very protective of the house.
They were probably only seeing
it as more damage being done
To the home
that they loved so much.
I was so thankful that I called
my mom for help.
I just... I'm so proud of you.
I felt like I had my house back.
♪♪
♪♪
Narrator: Sometimes, it's not
just the former homeowners
That can smell trouble.
Often, it's what's contained
within the home's four walls
And sometimes even
in the ground below.
♪♪
♪♪
Man: "paranormal survivor,"
"vanessa's evil house," take 1.
Mark.
♪♪
The house was just redone,
Everything was newly
freshly painted,
It was affordable housing
so it was a great price.
We couldn't really say no,
everything was great about it.
Narrator:
Vanessa and her son, jonathan,
Moved in along with
vanessa's boyfriend, mike.
It seemed almost too good
to be true in retrospect.
♪♪
The basement,
it was eerie, like,
It did feel like someone
was staring at you.
♪♪
♪♪
On the back of the stairs
in the basement
Was all these
very weird pictures.
♪♪
There was, like, the devil,
And there was
satanic pictures, too.
♪♪
Tarrant:
There were very muscular-built
Demon-like creatures,
Ram's horns.
It was just...
Everything along that vein,
If you could think about it,
it was in those pictures.
They were actually glued
in a collage on the back
Right from top to bottom.
That was scary,
very scary to see that.
♪♪
[ switch clicks ]
It wasn't until a week or so
In that things
started to get bizarre.
Narrator: Disturbed by
the satanic images,
Vanessa asked mike
to cover them up.
♪♪
And I had this roofing hammer,
true temper roofing hammer
Which is a solid-steel handle,
steel head.
♪♪
I put it down, went to
pick up the next 2x4...
♪♪
...And when I picked up
the hammer
It was folded in half.
♪♪
♪♪
♪♪
Narrator:
After moving into her new home,
Vanessa hurst
discovered satanic images
In the basement.
But when her boyfriend, mike,
went to cover them up,
Strange things
started to happen.
And when I picked up the hammer
It was folded in half.
♪♪
It was bent in the shape
of a "p."
Vanessa!
At first, I was like...
Disbelief.
And then just this,
"oh, my god, I got
to get the hell out of here."
What's up?
There he was,
face just white and drawn
With the hammer in the air
and the head bent down,
And I was just like,
"oh, my gosh."
Like, I can't believe it.
Tarrant: She thought that
maybe I had done it.
Well, if I had done it,
I'd be, you know, strong man
at the circus.
There was no way for me
to do it,
It was a solid-steel hammer.
And he says, "I'm not working
down there anymore."
And he walked out of the house.
♪♪
You know when you get that knot
in your stomach
Where you don't want
to be there?
That's how frightening.
♪♪
But I had no choice.
We had no other place to go
so we needed to tough it out.
♪♪
Narrator:
Vanessa tried to ignore
The incident in the basement,
But that wasn't the end
of the frightening activity.
A couple days later,
I was in the tub.
♪♪
And I could feel somebody
staring at me.
♪♪
♪♪
♪♪
And I thought, "okay, well,
jonathan has a tendency
"to just walk into the bathroom,
Or maybe michael did
but I didn't hear the door."
♪♪
And so I whipped
those curtains open
And there was a face
right in front of me.
Aah!
♪♪
It was so frightening
I jumped back into the tub,
Hit my head
on the back of the shower,
And I just kind of had
to take a moment,
And thought,
"what was happening?"
Narrator: Soon, the disturbing
events started to happen
With alarming regularity.
Even vanessa's 5-year-old son,
jonathan, was targeted.
One day, I was doing laundry,
and I had finished folding,
And I started
taking it upstairs.
♪♪
I noticed that jonathan's
bedroom door
Was shut which is odd,
because jonathan always...
He had a little bit of
separation anxiety issue
So he would keep the door open.
♪♪
♪♪
I could hear him
speaking to someone.
[ indistinct whispering ]
He's like, "no, that's my car."
I... "that's my car,
you take this one,
This is the one I gave you."
And I thought, "oh, my goodness,
who's in the bedroom with him?"
♪♪
I open the door.
♪♪
And jonathan, you know,
Popped up on the other side
of the bed.
Hey, mom!
And I'm like,
"who you talking to?"
And he goes, "johnny."
I'm like, "oh, well,
who's johnny?"
And he said johnny was a little
boy that came to play with him.
♪♪
And I told him,
"well, I'm sorry, honey,
But you can't keep johnny.
Johnny has to go."
And he said, "well,
you know what, mom?
"he does go when the old
man comes
'cause he doesn't like him."
Narrator:
Jonathan didn't seem to be
Too affected by
his ghostly encounters
Until one terrible morning.
♪♪
The creepiest thing that
his imaginary friend
And most violent thing that his
friend advised jonathan to do
Was to break the leg
off his little wooden table
And chair set,
and he sharpened to a stake.
Climbed into bed and sat
on my chest,
Raised it above his head.
Aah!
Jonathan, stop! Stop!
- Ah!
- [ grunts ]
Jonathan! Jonathan!
Jonathan!
What happened?
"johnny said I had to do this."
♪♪
That's when my nerves
started to come unraveled.
At that moment,
all I could think of
And what was going
through my mind was,
"I need help, now they're really
coming after my son.
I need help."
Narrator:
But before they could get help,
Mike's brother and tenant,
Andrew,
made a shocking discovery.
Saturdays were generally
my day to sleep in.
♪♪
But my brother was banging
on my door in a panic,
"get up."
Guys, wake up.
"you got to see this."
Guys, wake up!
Andrew, please,
I'm trying to sleep.
Look!
God.
♪♪
♪♪
Narrator:
Homeowner vanessa hurst
Was experiencing strange
and terrifying events
Since moving into her new home.
Aah!
Please, I'm trying to sleep.
Narrator: But then her
boyfriend, mike, and his brother
Discovered something
truly gruesome.
The wall opposite
my bedroom door
Is covered in what
looks like drying blood.
And it was everywhere.
The whole wall.
The ceiling.
The wall at the bottom
of the stairs
Was this drippy stuff.
♪♪
It had kind of a metallic
smell to it,
And I'll never forget the smell.
♪♪
That was something
that I could not explain,
I could not rationalize.
It was indescribable, really.
That was the first time
I think I was willing to admit
that I was scared.
♪♪
Whenever you're dealing
with a situation
Where a spirit
is physically manifesting things
Such as an anomaly, ectoplasm,
or it could appear as blood...
These things are happening
to frighten the individual,
They want you to run,
they want you to leave.
They're trying to create
that fear.
Narrator: Vanessa and mike
asked a shaman
To get rid of whatever
was tormenting them.
♪♪
He walked right down
the basement.
♪♪
He was beating his drum,
And he was saying the verses
that he needed to say.
♪♪
The shaman said that
the home was very,
Very thick of negative energies.
Many souls.
The basement was evil,
And there were
a lot of buried souls there.
They're here.
When you're dealing with
a concentrated area of death,
That can thin the veil,
that can make a portal happen.
So this is where entities
Can cross from one dimension
to the other,
And they're able
to manifest easier.
Narrator: The shaman felt that
the satanic worship
Over the top
of an ancient burial ground
Had opened a portal
and needed to be closed
In order to rid the house
of the evil spirits.
♪♪
[ chanting ]
♪♪
[ chanting continues ]
♪♪
Be gone!
[ screams ]
[ chanting ]
[ screaming ]
[ chanting ]
[ screaming ]
[ chanting ]
[ screaming ]
[ switch clicks ]
♪♪
Your house is cleansed.
The energy of the house was
tremendously lighter,
It was wonderful.
I really want to be
a disbeliever in all this,
But I can't.
I've lived it, I've seen it,
I've smelt it,
I've touched it,
I've experienced it.
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