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I was wrong to think that this was gonna be a happy house.

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Once we got onto the road, everything changed.

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How do you battle something you can't see?

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I don't believe in ghosts.

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But I do now.

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It's not humanly possible.

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I was gonna die that night.

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And all I could think was, my daughter's gonna die too?

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Happy birthday to you.

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Happy birthday to you.

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Happy birthday, dear Izzy.

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Happy birthday to you.

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Our daughter Isabella was a miracle to us.

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We lost three pregnancies and we didn't think we were gonna be parents.

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Five years old.

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Geez.

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We'd given up hope and she came.

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Not only did we have our child that we wanted, she was brilliant.

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She always was beyond every level that she was supposed to be at that age mark.

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I couldn't have asked for anything more.

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We decided to buy a house.

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It was time.

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The apartment was small, you know, it was time to buy that house with the white picket fence.

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We knew what we were limited to and what our budget was.

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And we found a home that was suitable.

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We paid for the inspection and so forth.

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It came back, there was a lot of structural damage and it cost us a lot of money in years to come.

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As we were talking, I saw an older gentleman putting a sign out on his front lawn for sale by owner.

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It wasn't the house of my dreams but I saw potential.

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I found it odd that they had only been living there a year and they were all ready to move after a year.

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The price he was selling the house for was very cheap in comparison to what the houses were going for on the market at that time.

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And he said he would pay all closing costs.

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And I said to Brian, we're a young couple, we have a new child.

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Let's take this gift and move forward.

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Do I wish I would have been forewarned?

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Would I have even believed it?

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I had to live it.

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I had to be a part of it to believe.

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We had plans for Isabella's room.

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But first we had to get the color off the walls.

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It was this real deep dark red, I mean dark red.

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I actually painted it with gray primer first to knock the color out and it just didn't help.

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I mean it just bled right back through and it literally looked like blood was running down the wall.

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It actually took four to five coats to cover the red in her room.

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But she settled in well. My daughter settled in well to the house.

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She had her own room and you know, she was very happy at first.

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I started to notice that she would always wave bye-bye to the attic door.

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It was a little odd because there was nothing there.

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I wasn't really worried at that point.

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I think our daughter has an imaginary friend.

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Kids do that. Kids have imaginary friends.

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Emily, you shouldn't have done that.

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It wasn't long after that I heard her talking and singing.

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First something is she's talking to her dolly, she's playing.

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And all the paint is on the carpet and you painted my room red and red's a horrible color.

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Who are you talking to sweetheart?

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Emily.

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She spoke of Emily like Emily was right there in front of us.

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What would Emily like one too?

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At the beginning it was fun. I clearly wasn't thinking it was anything more than an imaginary friend.

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But then we began to notice things in our home happening and at the time I blamed my daughter.

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I was in the kitchen. Isabella was playing right nearby.

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Then all of a sudden I just heard something hit the floor and break.

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The first thing out of Isabella's mouth was Emily. That was bad. That was mommy's.

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She just broke a statue. She's going to blame it on Emily.

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My reaction was to be in denial but I knew from the look in my daughter's face Isabella just saw something.

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I felt like the hair in the back of my neck stood up.

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Emily doesn't like you mommy.

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Emily doesn't want you here. What do you answer back to that?

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I noticed that Isabella began to change a bit.

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She started to spend more time in her bedroom.

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I would hear my daughter singing Mary Had a Little Lamb and we never taught that to my daughter.

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The way she sang the nursery rhyme it wasn't like she sang other things.

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I went on full investigation of who taught my daughter the nursery rhyme.

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And when I questioned Isabella her response was mommy I'm learning but she wouldn't tell me who she was learning from.

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I'm not the type of person to easily get scared. I really have to see it.

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One of the first times I felt uncomfortable I was in the bathroom and I just kept feeling this sense of being watched.

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And I literally felt like a tug.

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Isabella? Isabella?

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Isabella?

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All of a sudden I seen a shadow ricochet off of my bedroom door and shoot down the hallway.

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I was like, oh my gosh, I'm going to be in the bathroom.

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I thought it was the car lights coming down the street shining off the window.

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I was like, wait a minute.

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We're on the second floor. The shades are down. It wasn't a car.

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And I'm thinking to myself there must be something going on here.

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And I really didn't want to say anything to my wife about it yet.

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I'm not sure if it's because I'm not in the bathroom.

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I'm not sure if it's because I'm not in the bathroom.

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And I really didn't want to say anything to my wife about it yet.

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I didn't want to start surmising and make her really scared.

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Later on Isabella would come running over to the door and she had a horrifying look on her face.

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Emily's mom hurt her in the bathtub.

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Emily's mommy hurt her in the bathtub.

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She wouldn't know about a mommy hurting a little girl.

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Where is she getting this stuff from?

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I could see fear in my daughter.

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You have to say goodbye to Emily, okay Isabella?

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This Emily character, make her go away. It's done Isabella, please.

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I just felt a sickness in my stomach.

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What went from daughter's imaginary friend is coming to be an ugly story.

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Could she be making this up?

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And if she could be making this up and these dark things are coming from my daughter,

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we need to get her help.

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I let Isabella's pediatrician know we've been having some problems.

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So you have an imaginary friend. What's her name?

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Emery.

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You know she's not real though. Just pretend.

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She's not pretend.

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She wasn't at all taken back or surprised. It was normal.

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It was Laurel don't worry about it. She'll grow this.

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We have a very reambunctious five-year-old daughter.

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She has a personality that's bigger than life and she's okay.

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Hi baby.

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I know but it's just so much fun to do it yourself.

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The next day we didn't hear anything about Emily.

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Oh really?

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It was normal and it felt great. Emily you're over, you're done.

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Today had been awesome. We had fun. It was relaxing.

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We pull in and Brian was coming behind me holding Isabella.

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She just got quiet.

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It just wasn't possible.

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I'm not going to let her go.

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Today had been awesome. We had fun.

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We were having a conversation as we were walking into the door.

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She just got quiet.

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There was about like 20 pictures in the middle of the floor.

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The most speechless. I could not believe what we're seeing.

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I mean it was a whole wall of happiness and then it was all off the wall face down.

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Like somebody didn't want to see a happy family. They just wanted to see nothing.

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I was scared because I know I didn't do it. I know she didn't do it.

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I know Isabella couldn't reach it to do it.

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Something doesn't want us here or something might want my daughter.

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I wanted to just leave, take everything and go.

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Financially that just wasn't an option at that time.

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We were stuck and things were getting worse.

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I was in the bedroom one night.

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Isabella ran up to me.

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Daddy the white face is in the window.

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The white face is in the window.

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What's that?

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The white face is in the window.

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I seen it. It was just like a blur of a face.

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Honey you wait here.

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I saw it and it freaked me out.

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I went and checked it out.

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And there was literally nothing there.

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I never believed in ghosts but I do now.

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The vibe in my home was turning negative. It was turning dark.

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Things were happening that were out of my control.

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Hey sweetie. Hello.

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Let's go.

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I needed to make things just brand new for Isabella.

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And Brian's mom took her away for a weekend trip.

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I had a vision for Isabella's room.

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I wanted it to be bright glowing soft colors.

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So we made one whole wall wizard of Oz.

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The room was a new thing to all of us.

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It was something we had done and it felt good for a moment in my home.

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I found Brian's mom.

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I found her mom.

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I found Brian's mom.

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I'm ready to come over.

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You have to go show Nana your room because I made a surprise for you in there.

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Oh my goodness.

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I walked into the bedroom and I said,

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Izzy this is so beautiful.

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It looked like Laurel had a professional come in and decorate.

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And I was like really proud of Laurel because she had done such a great job.

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Oh you're welcome. Good job in there.

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I had my mother-in-law's approval too.

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You know she was delighted.

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I almost fell on the floor.

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Isabella what did you do?

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What happened?

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I happened to hear Isabella's voice.

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What happened in here Isabella?

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I'd worked so hard.

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What happened in here?

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I was so angry.

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Mommy, please, Mommy I didn't do this.

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I didn't do it.

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I saw my loved ones being afraid.

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And I was in so much denial.

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I tried to make them think it wasn't real.

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And it was real.

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When I was lying in my bed I was thinking that something was watching me or what was in the room.

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What was I going to wake up to?

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What was going to happen next?

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It literally starts to drive you crazy.

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It literally starts to make you lose your mind.

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It was all coming to a head.

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I could see something was wrong.

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I was giving her a bath.

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And she said, Nana can I tell you something?

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Emily told me to go out the window.

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She told me it's okay to come out the window and play.

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She said you'd catch me.

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And I said it's not okay to go out the window.

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You could get hurt.

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Because if you go out that window, you're gonna die.

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I knew.

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I knew then it was a serious problem.

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Emily was going to take away somebody that I truly loved and needed in my life.

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We could potentially lose this child to an unknown.

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We had no options.

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But to make sure that our daughter was safe.

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I put like 12 screws in each window in our room to make sure that they were secured shut.

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To screw shut my daughter's windows, that's insane.

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Because what if there's a fire in the house?

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And you know, we can't do anything about it.

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We're locked in the house and you know, we can't get out.

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Because I've done screwed the window shut on the second floor.

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I wanted to open this house up and bring light into it.

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And now my windows were being nailed shut.

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So my daughter didn't go out the window.

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If my daughter died, I'd have to die too.

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Because I couldn't do it.

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I couldn't do it.

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I couldn't be without my daughter.

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I was stuck in my home.

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And I didn't know what was going to happen.

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I didn't know if this Emily was going to take my daughter from me.

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Isabella never went near the basement.

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It was always a no-no.

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She just wasn't allowed down there.

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The door was shut.

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I was instantly afraid.

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I was instantly afraid.

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Oh my God!

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I feared the worst.

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Broken neck, busted head.

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Emily pulled me down the stairs.

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Now my daughter is telling me

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this Emily person is going to be my daughter.

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I'm afraid of her.

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I'm afraid of her.

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I'm afraid of her.

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I'm afraid of her.

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I'm afraid of her.

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I'm afraid of her.

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I'm afraid of her.

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She told me this Emily person pulled her down the steps.

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As much as I was determined

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not to let this defeat me,

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I felt broken at that point.

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But it was either

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stand up

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or lay back

250
00:21:26,240 --> 00:21:28,240
and continue to let this drive me insane.

251
00:21:30,240 --> 00:21:34,980
You want to put your fight face on.

252
00:21:34,980 --> 00:21:38,980
But how do you battle something you can't see?

253
00:21:38,980 --> 00:21:51,320
At this point, I'm completely at my wit's end.

254
00:21:51,320 --> 00:21:56,560
I went on a crusade to get someone there to take care of my house, whether it be blessed

255
00:21:56,560 --> 00:22:00,640
or come in and to get evidence.

256
00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:05,080
We got in contact with a medium.

257
00:22:05,080 --> 00:22:09,600
I allowed this medium to come into my home to do an investigation.

258
00:22:09,600 --> 00:22:22,320
She would get into a long stare.

259
00:22:22,320 --> 00:22:38,680
She sat down and I heard her sing, Mary Had a Little Land.

260
00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:39,840
It startled me at first.

261
00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:43,400
It shocked the hell out of me at first.

262
00:22:43,400 --> 00:22:47,320
Because how would she know to hum that or how would she know that my daughter was singing

263
00:22:47,320 --> 00:22:48,320
that?

264
00:22:48,320 --> 00:22:59,520
She immediately stopped and her voice changed.

265
00:22:59,520 --> 00:23:06,200
Both Bibles were taken out of the house.

266
00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:10,440
Still she insisted to get the Bibles out in this voice.

267
00:23:10,440 --> 00:23:12,240
We only had two Bibles.

268
00:23:12,240 --> 00:23:15,440
He said, there's another Bible.

269
00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:18,000
And I'm like, he.

270
00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:20,880
And she was like, yeah, he.

271
00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:24,520
And I said, well, my daughter's talking to Emily, not he.

272
00:23:24,520 --> 00:23:28,080
He's not going to talk to us.

273
00:23:28,080 --> 00:23:32,040
There was a man in my home that was praying on my daughter.

274
00:23:32,040 --> 00:23:33,200
And I felt terrified.

275
00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:40,240
I felt it was a whole different level of anxiety than it was a whole different level of fear.

276
00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:43,840
He said there's another Bible, another Bible, another Bible.

277
00:23:43,840 --> 00:23:46,640
So we just ransacked my daughter's room.

278
00:23:46,640 --> 00:24:00,640
He said there's another Bible.

279
00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:04,520
Sure enough, there was a Bible.

280
00:24:04,520 --> 00:24:06,440
Isabella never showed us the Bible.

281
00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:11,840
And there was no way of this woman knowing it was there.

282
00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:15,240
I believed in everything she was saying after that.

283
00:24:15,240 --> 00:24:16,320
He hates you.

284
00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:17,400
I was terrified.

285
00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:19,920
It's a daughter.

286
00:24:19,920 --> 00:24:20,720
I was frightened.

287
00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:21,480
I was angry.

288
00:24:21,480 --> 00:24:26,160
I had so many emotions because I didn't know where to start.

289
00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:30,280
It wasn't a solution.

290
00:24:30,280 --> 00:24:38,920
I felt as if whatever my daughter has been speaking to was now going to prove to me I'm here.

291
00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:42,000
I'm real and I'm going to show you.

292
00:24:58,520 --> 00:25:01,000
Isabella was in bed.

293
00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:04,680
I was in the room by myself.

294
00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:06,680
And I bit candles.

295
00:25:16,360 --> 00:25:23,320
As I turned away, it went at least four to five feet.

296
00:25:23,320 --> 00:25:25,880
The red wax looked like blood running down the wall.

297
00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:32,480
Just the way it was hot and it cools as it slowly runs.

298
00:25:32,480 --> 00:25:34,240
Laurel?

299
00:25:34,240 --> 00:25:35,480
I was upstairs.

300
00:25:35,480 --> 00:25:39,360
I was on the phone with my mother.

301
00:25:39,360 --> 00:25:42,080
She's saying to me, you've got to get out of that house.

302
00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:44,360
You have to get out of that house.

303
00:25:44,360 --> 00:25:46,120
I know.

304
00:25:46,120 --> 00:25:46,560
I know.

305
00:25:46,560 --> 00:25:49,400
And Isabella's just so upset.

306
00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:54,560
Out of the corner of my eye, it was something.

307
00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:56,160
It was so fast.

308
00:25:56,160 --> 00:25:58,160
Don't know.

309
00:25:58,160 --> 00:25:59,160
I've got a handle.

310
00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:04,480
Oh my God.

311
00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:09,200
Isabella's toy chest just went across the room.

312
00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:11,920
It felt like a ticking bomb.

313
00:26:11,920 --> 00:26:16,720
We didn't know what was going to happen next.

314
00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:23,240
And I felt terrified to know that it was going to, it was getting violent.

315
00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:36,160
And I believe it tried shelling itself full force that night.

316
00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:41,160
That night, I fell asleep with a TV on.

317
00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:06,160
I knew instantly this wasn't my husband.

318
00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:09,160
I knew.

319
00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:14,160
My husband protects me and loves me.

320
00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:17,160
He's never touched me prior to this.

321
00:27:17,160 --> 00:27:21,160
He was possessed by something.

322
00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:26,160
It was an evil, evil dark spirit.

323
00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:30,160
It was very shocking.

324
00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:34,160
And I just, it just wasn't me.

325
00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:38,160
I was scared I would never hurt my wife.

326
00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:47,160
I was against the wall.

327
00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:50,160
It was the look in his face.

328
00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:53,160
Horrifying, terrifying, terrifying.

329
00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:58,160
He lifted me with one hand, wrapped into my throat.

330
00:27:58,160 --> 00:28:00,160
I was going to die that night.

331
00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:04,160
And all I could think was, is Isabella going to die too?

332
00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:27,160
I was going to die that night.

333
00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:40,160
I got away and I'm getting down my steps, which seemed like an eternity.

334
00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:59,160
And I look back, he wasn't running after me.

335
00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:02,160
Laurel, what are you doing?

336
00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:04,160
Laurel, are you okay?

337
00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:09,160
I saw within an instant, a husband.

338
00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:15,160
He was back to himself.

339
00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:17,160
It was him.

340
00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:19,160
He was just as afraid as I was.

341
00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:26,160
I believe the spirit, you know, got a hold of me because they knew that we knew the truth.

342
00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:33,160
I believe it tried, shown itself full force that night, of what it could really do.

343
00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:40,160
I remember making it to my dining room and screaming out, you've won. It's yours.

344
00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:49,160
It didn't matter, I was losing my home.

345
00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:51,160
It didn't matter.

346
00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:54,160
It was just a dream.

347
00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:57,160
It was just a dream.

348
00:29:58,160 --> 00:30:01,160
It didn't matter, I was losing my home.

349
00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:05,160
It didn't matter as long as I was leaving with my husband and my daughter.

350
00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:08,160
Safe, we were done.

351
00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:11,160
We'd been through enough.

352
00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:32,160
The very next day I called my aunt and she told me that she would help

353
00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:36,160
and that I should have called and told her sooner what was going on.

354
00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:40,160
I was just throwing stuff in the car.

355
00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:46,160
I was scared that it was going to attach itself to something.

356
00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:51,160
I just, I wanted to start over. I didn't want to take anything out of that house with me.

357
00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:54,160
It was a relief.

358
00:30:54,160 --> 00:30:58,160
Like I felt like the whole world was just lifted off of my shoulders.

359
00:30:58,160 --> 00:31:01,160
Like I could breathe again.

360
00:31:09,160 --> 00:31:12,160
We lost a lot, but we walked away.

361
00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:16,160
Happy, healthy, family. We're strong.

362
00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:21,160
If somebody told me today that I had to move back into that house

363
00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:25,160
because there was no other option, I'd go live in the woods somewhere.

364
00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:29,160
I'd go pitch a tent, because I'm not going back in that house.

365
00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:35,160
If somebody offered me a million dollars, I wouldn't even get back in that house.

366
00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:51,160
I worked for a local newspaper.

367
00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:58,160
I was responsible for covering car wrecks, fires, criminal activity.

368
00:31:58,160 --> 00:32:04,160
As a reporter, I had never witnessed anything paranormal.

369
00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:07,160
I've never believed in anything.

370
00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:10,160
I've never been in a car accident.

371
00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:13,160
I've never been in a car accident.

372
00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:16,160
I've never seen anything paranormal.

373
00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:19,160
I've never believed in anything like that.

374
00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:26,160
I guess being a typical teenager, I was always doing stuff to get on her nerves.

375
00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:33,160
My mom asked me to run errands.

376
00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:35,160
Do you want to come into town with me?

377
00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:37,160
Moni, do you want to come?

378
00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:38,160
Sure.

379
00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:42,160
My mom had also asked Moni our exchange student from Pakistan.

380
00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:49,160
Little did I know that was a trick for going to church.

381
00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:56,160
Misty generally would stay in the parking lot and refuse to come in.

382
00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:04,160
She just slammed the door and walked in the church without me.

383
00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:09,160
So I turned the music all the way up, rolled down the windows, put my feet on the dashboard.

384
00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:27,160
I waited in the car for about an hour.

385
00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:46,160
Once we got onto the road, I remember it seemed like everything changed.

386
00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:57,160
It was a straight road all the way to our house.

387
00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:02,160
It was a desolate road.

388
00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:10,160
By this time, the sun has started setting.

389
00:34:14,160 --> 00:34:17,160
I was getting kind of nervous because I don't like to drive at night.

390
00:34:17,160 --> 00:34:19,160
I can't see that well at night.

391
00:34:19,160 --> 00:34:22,160
But I drive like a little granny.

392
00:34:22,160 --> 00:34:28,160
I hold my hands up like this and drive straight ahead and I don't look either side.

393
00:34:28,160 --> 00:34:35,160
We were going about 50, 55 miles an hour and when I turned to look to my mom,

394
00:34:35,160 --> 00:34:40,160
I saw a little movement on the side of the road.

395
00:34:40,160 --> 00:34:43,160
As we passed, it looked like a child.

396
00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:56,160
I was just had that overwhelming feeling that something was not right.

397
00:34:59,160 --> 00:35:02,160
I was just having a hard time.

398
00:35:12,160 --> 00:35:14,160
Mom, I just saw a little girl.

399
00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:20,160
I knew that there was someone out there and I had to get her to believe I needed to turn around.

400
00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:24,160
We should turn around.

401
00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:28,160
She probably said, you know, you better not be lying to me.

402
00:35:31,160 --> 00:35:39,160
I wanted to pacify Miss D and let her prove to me that there was a little girl on the side of the road.

403
00:35:39,160 --> 00:35:59,160
My mom has trouble seeing at night to drive so she's very unhappy that we are still out with it being so dark.

404
00:35:59,160 --> 00:36:01,160
So where was she?

405
00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:05,160
We went about a half a mile.

406
00:36:09,160 --> 00:36:12,160
I was just going to turn around and see if she could see me.

407
00:36:16,160 --> 00:36:18,160
Oh my gosh, Mom, that's her.

408
00:36:18,160 --> 00:36:19,160
There she is.

409
00:36:19,160 --> 00:36:21,160
Okay, there she is.

410
00:36:31,160 --> 00:36:38,160
It wasn't a little girl, it was a teenager and she was sitting with her knees up rocking.

411
00:36:39,160 --> 00:36:44,160
I guess we went about 50 yards past her and then we turned around again.

412
00:36:54,160 --> 00:36:56,160
And we don't see her at all.

413
00:36:56,160 --> 00:36:58,160
She was right there.

414
00:36:59,160 --> 00:37:02,160
She thinks she left wherever she had gone.

415
00:37:03,160 --> 00:37:10,160
When Miss D got frightened, she said that there was no way, you know, that she wouldn't be there.

416
00:37:10,160 --> 00:37:12,160
I don't know if she was right there though.

417
00:37:12,160 --> 00:37:15,160
I'm really freaked out right now.

418
00:37:22,160 --> 00:37:27,160
We're going about five miles an hour and we don't see her.

419
00:37:27,160 --> 00:37:32,160
I just thought maybe she walked, there's a woods her, walked somewhere in the area.

420
00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:39,160
I don't know where she would have gone.

421
00:37:39,160 --> 00:37:41,160
So we just kept going.

422
00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:55,160
We're picking up speed and my mom is actually trying to get home pretty fast.

423
00:37:58,160 --> 00:38:03,160
We continued on probably maybe two to three miles.

424
00:38:06,160 --> 00:38:08,160
I look up and...

425
00:38:13,160 --> 00:38:14,160
Mom, that's her.

426
00:38:15,160 --> 00:38:18,160
I see her in the headlights.

427
00:38:28,160 --> 00:38:31,160
How could she get that far?

428
00:38:33,160 --> 00:38:39,160
It's not humanly possible to make it that far up the road and not be seen.

429
00:38:39,160 --> 00:38:41,160
Please don't stop.

430
00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:48,160
I know it's her. I see her.

431
00:38:48,160 --> 00:38:51,160
I get sick to my stomach.

432
00:38:55,160 --> 00:38:57,160
Just go. Just keep going.

433
00:38:57,160 --> 00:39:01,160
And my mom says no, she might need help.

434
00:39:18,160 --> 00:39:21,160
So I just, I hit the floor.

435
00:39:21,160 --> 00:39:24,160
Mom, I'm asking you please mom, please.

436
00:39:24,160 --> 00:39:26,160
I put myself in a fetal position.

437
00:39:27,160 --> 00:39:29,160
Please don't stop.

438
00:39:31,160 --> 00:39:34,160
I knew something was going to happen. I just didn't know what.

439
00:39:34,160 --> 00:39:36,160
And I didn't want to see it.

440
00:39:38,160 --> 00:39:43,160
My whole focus was to offer her a phone to call somebody to come pick her up.

441
00:39:43,160 --> 00:39:45,160
Missy, roll down the wheel.

442
00:39:46,160 --> 00:39:48,160
Missy, please, roll down the window.

443
00:39:48,160 --> 00:39:50,160
And...

444
00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:53,160
My mom wants me to roll down the window.

445
00:39:53,160 --> 00:39:55,160
Mom, no.

446
00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:57,160
She just refused.

447
00:39:58,160 --> 00:40:01,160
I found Missy was overreacting. I found it was dark.

448
00:40:01,160 --> 00:40:03,160
No.

449
00:40:09,160 --> 00:40:12,160
My eyes were shut. You know, I closed my eyes really tight

450
00:40:12,160 --> 00:40:15,160
and I put my hands over my ears and I was bawled up

451
00:40:15,160 --> 00:40:19,160
and I could feel my mom and she's rolling down the window.

452
00:40:19,160 --> 00:40:24,160
And I could hear the squeaking of the window going down

453
00:40:24,160 --> 00:40:29,160
and she only turns the knob three times, you know, and you can...

454
00:40:29,160 --> 00:40:35,160
You can hear it going down and being just turning in that dread.

455
00:40:35,160 --> 00:40:40,160
It's pretty quiet except for the squeaking of the window.

456
00:40:45,160 --> 00:40:49,160
And I hear her say,

457
00:40:49,160 --> 00:40:51,160
Hey, are you okay?

458
00:41:05,160 --> 00:41:07,160
That dread.

459
00:41:07,160 --> 00:41:09,160
Hey, are you okay?

460
00:41:09,160 --> 00:41:12,160
There was no face whatsoever.

461
00:41:12,160 --> 00:41:15,160
It was hollow.

462
00:41:15,160 --> 00:41:18,160
It was kind of like a dream.

463
00:41:18,160 --> 00:41:20,160
I was like,

464
00:41:20,160 --> 00:41:22,160
Hey, are you okay?

465
00:41:22,160 --> 00:41:24,160
I'm okay.

466
00:41:24,160 --> 00:41:26,160
I'm okay.

467
00:41:26,160 --> 00:41:28,160
I'm okay.

468
00:41:28,160 --> 00:41:30,160
I'm okay.

469
00:41:30,160 --> 00:41:32,160
I'm okay.

470
00:41:32,160 --> 00:41:34,160
I'm okay.

471
00:41:34,160 --> 00:41:36,160
I'm okay.

472
00:41:36,160 --> 00:41:38,160
It was hollow.

473
00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:41,160
It was completely...

474
00:41:41,160 --> 00:41:43,160
Everything was gone.

475
00:41:47,160 --> 00:41:50,160
She had a new face. She had a new face.

476
00:41:50,160 --> 00:41:55,160
It was the most terrifying, horrifying thing I've ever seen.

477
00:41:58,160 --> 00:42:02,160
We were home in ten minutes.

478
00:42:02,160 --> 00:42:07,160
We could all practically ran over each other to get into the front door.

479
00:42:12,160 --> 00:42:21,160
Once I doubted 911, I felt embarrassed to say that I saw a hollow face on 136.

480
00:42:21,160 --> 00:42:25,160
So I just told them that I think somebody needs assistance.

481
00:42:32,160 --> 00:42:39,160
There was a cross, and that's where an accident took place.

482
00:42:39,160 --> 00:42:44,160
That actually a girl from my school was killed on that road.

483
00:42:44,160 --> 00:42:48,160
I feel that it's her.