1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:13,000 I never realized how hard it would be to deal with something like this. 2 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:19,000 I was in the middle of nowhere and nobody knew I was there. 3 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:29,000 Something was going on in the house that I couldn't explain. 4 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:38,000 I looked the thing in the eye. It was clearly not a human being. 5 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:43,000 What was tearing the inside of my house apart? 6 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:46,000 Oh my god! 7 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:49,000 It was hunting me. 8 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:50,000 Oh no! 9 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:56,000 If you don't run, it's gonna kill you. 10 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:19,000 I loved it. All my heart. I loved that house. 11 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:22,000 It was a wonderful place to live. 12 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:27,000 The house was my sanctuary. 13 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:32,000 It was the perfect little house that everybody dreams about. 14 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:38,000 My mom's new boyfriend Matt moved into the house with his daughter, Marie. 15 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:45,000 What are you doing? 16 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:50,000 Matt was an intelligent, smart, funny, happy guy. 17 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:55,000 I was happy to have Marie there. 18 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:59,000 It felt like I had a little sister that I had never had. 19 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:01,000 We basically had a lot of fun together. 20 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:06,000 Marie and my daughter became good friends quickly, 21 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:10,000 which really helped our relationship because we thought we had a good start. 22 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:17,000 The very first strange thing that happened, 23 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:24,000 I went into the kitchen and there was a jar of peanut butter laying on its side on the counter. 24 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:26,000 Jamie! 25 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:32,000 I looked at it thinking that the kids had made a mess or that cats had knocked it over. 26 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:37,000 But the strange thing about the jar was that the kids had made a mess. 27 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:40,000 I kind of thought it was a joke. 28 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:44,000 I thought, why are you asking me about peanut butter? 29 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:47,000 I didn't think anything of this. 30 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:50,000 Oh my God! 31 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:54,000 But then I realized that I had to do something. 32 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:56,000 I had to do something. 33 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:58,000 I had to do something. 34 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:00,000 I had to do something. 35 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:02,000 I had to do something. 36 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:04,000 I had to do something. 37 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:06,000 Oh my God! 38 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:14,000 But then we started finding things stacked or arranged in certain ways. 39 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:19,000 I thought that Marie was doing it at first. 40 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:31,000 At this point, we started taking pictures of everything because we wanted proof of what was happening. 41 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:33,000 Oh my God! 42 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:37,000 I did suspect the kids of some of the things that happened. 43 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:41,000 I still wasn't convinced that it was still something supernatural. 44 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:54,000 One day, everything changed. 45 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:59,000 I have so much math homework. Can you help me? 46 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:03,000 I put my coffee down to go let the dog in. 47 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:05,000 Really? 48 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:15,000 Marie? 49 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:17,000 I didn't do that. 50 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:19,000 You're the only one in here. 51 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:21,000 Jamie, it wasn't me. 52 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:24,000 I knew that we hadn't had an earthquake. 53 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:27,000 I didn't bump anything. 54 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:29,000 I didn't know what to think. 55 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:31,000 I was angry. 56 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:35,000 I was frustrated and annoyed. 57 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:38,000 I decided to clean my room. 58 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:54,000 I heard Jamie call me. 59 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:56,000 I immediately came into the house. 60 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:59,000 I closed the doors and turned around to the doors. 61 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:05,000 I couldn't believe what I just saw. 62 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:13,000 I was freaking out. 63 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:15,000 I was scared out of my mind. 64 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:17,000 I saw it with my own eyes. 65 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:19,000 I saw it happen. 66 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:25,000 Jamie said to me, 67 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:27,000 we have a poltergeist in the house. 68 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:34,000 We knew that day that something was really, really wrong. 69 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:41,000 But that was nothing compared to what happened in the following months. 70 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:53,000 Everything was twisted and pulled out or on the floor. 71 00:05:55,000 --> 00:06:00,000 And it didn't stop. 72 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:06,000 Doors would bang all night long, all day long. 73 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:13,000 It would just be constantly over and over and over and over again. 74 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:18,000 At night, all the lights would go off. 75 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:22,000 Everything, every light in the house would go off. 76 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:26,000 And you could flip the switch and the lights won't come back on. 77 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:31,000 There was something in our house that was uninvited. 78 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:51,000 Matt didn't believe anything that was happening. 79 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:59,000 He thought that it was me doing it. 80 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:02,000 He thought that I was doing it for attention. 81 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:28,000 One evening, I saw long, drawn-out arrows pointing in all different places. 82 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:36,000 They went up the wall, across the ceiling. 83 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:40,000 They would point toward the central heating vents upon the walls. 84 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:47,000 We thought maybe it might be trying to communicate with us. 85 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:53,000 I told Matt the vents lead up to the attic. 86 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:57,000 Maybe there's something up there we need to look for. 87 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:01,000 Matt was very skeptical. 88 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:06,000 He wanted to rationalize it. 89 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:08,000 I wouldn't give him time. 90 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:10,000 I told him, you have to believe me. 91 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:13,000 I don't care what you feel, I don't care what you think. 92 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:17,000 Something's in our house, something's playing with us. 93 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:20,000 Okay, I'll go up and I'll take a look, all right? 94 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:38,000 It's dirty and messy and full of loose double insulation. 95 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:42,000 I wanted to watch just in case... 96 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:45,000 I don't know, but just in case something bad happened. 97 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:59,000 The tension and energy inside the house was so heavy. 98 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:01,000 And active. 99 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:08,000 He couldn't get all the way across the ceiling because it was dark. 100 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:18,000 I don't know where I'm putting my feet. I can't see anything up here. 101 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:22,000 When he said that to me, a warning flag came up and I said, 102 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:25,000 okay, that's it, we can't do this anymore. 103 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:27,000 You can get hurt up here. 104 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:31,000 You're happy now? 105 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:34,000 He did not fully accept it that day. 106 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:47,000 But I still had some idea we could communicate with it and maybe stop it. 107 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:07,000 My mom had talked to somebody who suggested that she offer it something. 108 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:09,000 A peace offering. 109 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:15,000 I made a small place on the mantle, you might say even like an altar. 110 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:20,000 I love cats, so I had found a little cat furrowing. 111 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:26,000 And I put it on the mantle and I spoke to it and I said, 112 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:28,000 this gift is for you. 113 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:33,000 I would like to give you the small place on the mantle as your place 114 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:37,000 to let you know that we mean you no harm. 115 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:40,000 We don't want you to be afraid of us. 116 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:43,000 And we don't want to be afraid of you. 117 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:47,000 What's going on? 118 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:49,000 Matt wasn't happy about it. 119 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:51,000 Matt was very much against the figurine. 120 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:54,000 He was very much against the figurine. 121 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:57,000 He was very much against communicating with it. 122 00:10:57,000 --> 00:11:01,000 He was very much against giving it a gift of any kind. 123 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:06,000 He called it talking to the devil. 124 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:07,000 Honestly, I don't want to. 125 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:10,000 I was making an effort to change things. 126 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:18,000 I was doing something, but in doing that, I risked our relationship. 127 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:23,000 Matt just got really angry. 128 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:26,000 Matt, don't do that. 129 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:28,000 Don't you dare! 130 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:32,000 That's enough of that. 131 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:47,000 It was one of those times where you just can't believe what you see before your eyes. 132 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:50,000 I know it landed in the field. I saw it. 133 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:23,000 I told him, you better not smash that cat. 134 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:24,000 Matt! 135 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:27,000 It was just going to make things ten times worse. 136 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:29,000 I don't know what this is. 137 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:31,000 He didn't listen to me. 138 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:32,000 Matt, no. 139 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:33,000 No! 140 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:34,000 No! 141 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:35,000 No! 142 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:36,000 No! 143 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:37,000 No! 144 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:38,000 No! 145 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:40,000 I felt like I was doomed. 146 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:45,000 The first thing I thought was, we are going to go through hell for this. 147 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:48,000 It's going to retaliate. 148 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:12,000 That night, we found the word cat. 149 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:16,000 Written all over the house. 150 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:25,000 It had gone on a rampage. 151 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:41,000 As we were cleaning it up, we noticed what looked like footprints. 152 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:46,000 They did not look human. 153 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:50,000 They just did not look human at all. 154 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:54,000 I saw those footprints down there. 155 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:58,000 And I couldn't believe what I was seeing. 156 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:02,000 They were huge, round toes. 157 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:05,000 And wide. 158 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:13,000 Whatever it or they were, was in the house with us. 159 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:20,000 The first thing that came to my mind was, what was in my house? 160 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:25,000 What was tearing the inside of my house apart? 161 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:46,000 Having all of this happening at the house while I was trying to hold down a job was just tremendous stress. 162 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:49,000 I wanted to leave really bad. 163 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:51,000 I wanted to get away from it. 164 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:53,000 Everybody wanted to get away from it. 165 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:56,000 But I was already struggling to make house payments. 166 00:14:56,000 --> 00:14:59,000 It wasn't feasible. 167 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:11,000 At the same time that it was attacking the house, it started on the animals. 168 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:15,000 We had two cats that each had a litter. 169 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:20,000 And they were very sweet dispositions, very loving kittens. 170 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:30,000 Soon, one by one, each one got really, really sick. 171 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:41,000 There is nothing I could do to help. 172 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:48,000 We thought perhaps maybe they just didn't have enough energy to fight off this thing. 173 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:53,000 We thought perhaps it used them up. 174 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:57,000 They all died just right after one after another. 175 00:15:57,000 --> 00:16:01,000 They didn't have a chance. 176 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:03,000 I was scared. 177 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:09,000 I was scared that was attacking my pets to get at me. 178 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:13,000 Maybe this isn't going to stop at the animals. 179 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:23,000 I might have the capability of taking life, not just our animals, but possibly one of us. 180 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:33,000 I was at work. 181 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:35,000 Jamie had gone out to run an errand. 182 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:39,000 Marita's at home alone. 183 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:45,000 This thing had turned the TV on and off in rapid succession. 184 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:14,000 Stop. 185 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:24,000 Marie called. 186 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:30,000 She told me the furniture was moving across the room. 187 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:43,000 I came home and as soon as I got one lock unlocked, it'd be locked again. 188 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:48,000 Marie! Marie! I can't open the door! 189 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:57,000 She grabbed her digital camera and she took a succession of flashes just to light up the room. 190 00:17:57,000 --> 00:18:00,000 You have to help me open the door! 191 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:18,000 These pictures appeared on her camera that were just really unbelievable. 192 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:31,000 I was scared. 193 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:47,000 Unbelievably bizarre photos of this light energy appeared on her camera. 194 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:54,000 What was foremost in my mind was if it could move heavy furniture, what else could it do? 195 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:57,000 How far would it go? 196 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:07,000 The level of fear I thought time was... 197 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:20,000 Undescribable, really. There's no way to describe how it made me feel. 198 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:35,000 That was a day that Matt realized that this thing in our house could attack his daughter while she was alone and he got worried. 199 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:44,000 He got out the phone book and he started calling churches. 200 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:53,000 The first couple of churches that he called didn't offer any help. 201 00:19:53,000 --> 00:20:11,000 It's difficult to speak to someone about it. That takes a lot of guts because you put yourself up for accusations, disbelief and skepticism. 202 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:19,000 He finally got a hold of the pastor that was willing to come out to our house immediately. 203 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:35,000 There was a little bit of hope that things would get better by them coming to our house. 204 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:44,000 We finally found someone that believed us and that would come help us figure out what was going on in our house. 205 00:20:44,000 --> 00:21:00,000 The house was just a total mess. It was embarrassing to even have anybody in the house. 206 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:05,000 He looked all around the house and he saw all the stuff on the walls. 207 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:13,000 He said, this is bad. There's spiritual warfare going on here. 208 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:17,000 Even though I walked in the darkest valley, I never felt comfortable. 209 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:20,000 They just prayed with us and that was it. 210 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:22,000 Is there any more you can do? 211 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:25,000 We can't help you. 212 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:30,000 That was the last I ever heard of a more psalm. 213 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:43,000 We felt completely abandoned and left out to dry. We were on our own. 214 00:21:43,000 --> 00:22:08,000 As time went on, my feeling was that the only way to get rid of this thing out of our lives was to just move out. 215 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:17,000 I didn't have money to move out and I didn't have friends that I could go stay with. 216 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:19,000 I felt trapped. 217 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:29,000 I felt my family breaking down. Matt and I were constantly losing our timbers. 218 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:33,000 Because we couldn't communicate. We couldn't talk about it. 219 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:39,000 Our relationship was falling apart. 220 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:54,000 I remember the stress that I was in and that I was feeling and how alone I felt. 221 00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:59,000 It's hard to relive all of this. 222 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:06,000 Jamie was afraid to leave the room. 223 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:11,000 Her room seemed to be the one place where she felt she had a barrier. 224 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:15,000 She was wrong. 225 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:27,000 This pounding started on my bedroom door. 226 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:34,000 It was so loud. I was actually frozen in fear. 227 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:44,000 It just eventually got to the point where I had to go look in the hallway. 228 00:23:44,000 --> 00:24:06,000 Right before I opened the door, it would stop. It's like it knew that I was coming to open the door. 229 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:14,000 And I would close the door and it would start again. 230 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:24,000 It went on for approximately three hours. That pounding was horrific. Terrible. 231 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:27,000 Eventually the pounding stopped. 232 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:37,000 When I opened the door, there was just a giant hole. 233 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:46,000 It looked like a battering ram hit the door. And the doorknob was bent. 234 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:57,000 Everything was utilized by this thing to pound on that door. 235 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:09,000 The light in the bathroom started going on and on. I figured something must be in there. 236 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:15,000 Whatever it was, I was trying to get into my room. 237 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:22,000 There was no way to lock the door. 238 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:26,000 The bathroom door didn't have the doorknob on it. 239 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:34,000 I decided to take this kite string that we had and wrapped it through the hole in the door. 240 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:41,000 I figured if I have the other end of the string, this thing cannot open the door. 241 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:48,000 I started feeling it pulling on the string. 242 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:53,000 As soon as she tightened up on the rope, it tugged at the door. 243 00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:59,000 Stop it! 244 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:08,000 I was freaking out because I figured that once that door opened, I was going to see something from my nightmare. 245 00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:15,000 Some demon was going to come at me. 246 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:26,000 I just held on to the string and figured that if it couldn't break the string, that it couldn't open the door. 247 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:33,000 It cut the rope. 248 00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:37,000 Figured it out. It cut the rope. 249 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:43,000 She was scared out of her wits. 250 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:51,000 I knew it was coming. I knew it was coming into the room. I knew that there's nothing I could do to stop it. 251 00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:02,000 And there was nothing there. 252 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:07,000 I really had to get out of that house. 253 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:10,000 I was so scared. 254 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:12,000 I was so scared. 255 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:15,000 I was so scared. 256 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:17,000 I was so scared. 257 00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:20,000 I was so scared. 258 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:23,000 I was so scared. 259 00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:26,000 I was so scared. 260 00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:29,000 I got out of that house 261 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:32,000 and closed the door and locked it. 262 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:36,000 I immediately smelled smoke. 263 00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:49,000 I looked down and there was a pan that had a paper towel burning inside of it. 264 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:52,000 Made to be like a wick. 265 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:54,000 to be like a wick. 266 00:27:54,000 --> 00:28:06,000 It had moved beyond anything that it had done before. 267 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:17,000 I stepped out into the hallway. 268 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:44,000 I found toilet paper and paper towels. 269 00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:46,000 I was strewn throughout the house. 270 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:51,000 Wrapped around everything that could catch fire. 271 00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:58,000 It actually was setting up something to carry a flame throughout the house. 272 00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:03,000 It was going to burn us alive in the house. 273 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:07,000 I just knew that I had to put out the fire. 274 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:27,000 I started gathering all the paper towels and toilet paper up. 275 00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:32,000 I had to make sure that there was nothing that could catch fire. 276 00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:50,000 That was the most frightening, horrific thing I've ever been through in my whole life. 277 00:29:50,000 --> 00:30:01,000 This thing attempted to burn my house down with my daughter in it. 278 00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:06,000 That was the last straw. 279 00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:13,000 We finally moved out. 280 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:20,000 It was a huge relief that I wasn't going to have to deal with it anymore. 281 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:26,000 That I was going to be able to have a normal life again. 282 00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:35,000 The situation succeeded in finally driving this wedge between Matt and I. 283 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:38,000 We were separating. 284 00:30:43,000 --> 00:31:04,000 After we moved out, in the next three or four months, the next four neighbors also left. 285 00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:08,000 There's four or five houses that are vacant on that block. 286 00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:12,000 It makes me wonder that maybe perhaps it wasn't just us. 287 00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:17,000 The next day 288 00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:39,000 I saw something I can't explain. 289 00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:44,000 I don't like the idea of not being able to explain it. 290 00:31:55,000 --> 00:32:03,000 Back in 1997, I got a call from a friend of mine who was also the elected sheriff in a rural Oregon county. 291 00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:06,000 He knew that I'd been a certified police officer. 292 00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:12,000 I had been in the Marine Corps, so he asked me if I wanted to be a deputy sheriff. 293 00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:15,000 I jumped at the chance. 294 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:19,000 At the time I was fit, at the present time I certainly am not. 295 00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:21,000 Hey man. How are you doing? Good. 296 00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:23,000 Yeah, it's great. I kept the seat one for you. 297 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:28,000 On this particular day, I was early getting off shift. 298 00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:34,000 It was one of the prettiest days I can ever remember seeing in the Cascade Mountains. 299 00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:37,000 It made me want to take a hike. 300 00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:49,000 You can walk across country where there are no trails and probably be places in eastern Oregon where nobody's ever even walked before. 301 00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:52,000 I loved that idea. 302 00:32:53,000 --> 00:33:05,000 I've been walking uphill for two hours at least. 303 00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:09,000 It was taking a long time because of the terrain. 304 00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:21,000 I decided to find a route that would get me into a more open area. 305 00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:33,000 When I looked through my compass to take that measurement, I was totally shocked. 306 00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:40,000 I saw a person standing there, but it was clearly not a human being. 307 00:33:53,000 --> 00:34:12,000 This thing had a human-like shape to it and a clear place for the eyes and the nose and the mouth, but it wasn't a person. 308 00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:17,000 He had his eyes directly on me. 309 00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:23,000 The weirdest thing happened. 310 00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:28,000 I just involuntarily cocked my head to one side. 311 00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:33,000 He mimicked me. Exactly. 312 00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:36,000 He was smart. 313 00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:40,000 I instinctively reached around to get my weapon. 314 00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:50,000 He ran away so fast it seemed impossible, certainly physically impossible for a human. 315 00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:55,000 I was so curious that I had to check it out. 316 00:34:55,000 --> 00:35:02,000 I could see most of the wide open area and I was looking everywhere. 317 00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:05,000 There was nothing there. 318 00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:08,000 I decided to look for tracks. 319 00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:13,000 I couldn't find a track anywhere. 320 00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:18,000 I was so shocked that I couldn't find a track anywhere. 321 00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:22,000 I couldn't find a track anywhere. 322 00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:37,000 I carried on walking for a while, but I was feeling a little nervous. 323 00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:43,000 It was darker than it should be for me to get back to the car before dark and I didn't have a flashlight. 324 00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:49,000 I realized I wasn't going to make it unless I turned around right then, so I did. 325 00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:59,000 I decided to take a different route so that I put some space between myself and whatever that was. 326 00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:04,000 I was looking to my left because that's the area that he'd gone. 327 00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:09,000 And that's when I heard it. 328 00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:18,000 It was as loud as some guns when they go off. 329 00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:20,000 It was a big tree. 330 00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:23,000 The snap came from my riot. 331 00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:25,000 It was impossible. 332 00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:28,000 He'd circled me. 333 00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:38,000 The idea that I couldn't see him, that he could see me, made me very uncomfortable. 334 00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:41,000 That's just a prescription for an ambush. 335 00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:47,000 That's when I heard a second snap. 336 00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:55,000 He wasn't just watching me or running away from me. 337 00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:57,000 He was tracking me. 338 00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:05,000 It flashed through my mind that what I had seen was big enough to snap me the same way it was snapping those trees. 339 00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:09,000 I had been in the Marine Corps. 340 00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:11,000 I had police service. 341 00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:15,000 I don't scare easily. 342 00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:20,000 I am scared to death. 343 00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:31,000 He started to get closer as the sun went down. 344 00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:35,000 I knew because the snap started getting closer. 345 00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:38,000 It was hunting me. 346 00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:43,000 Getting closer and closer like a hunter but staying invisible to the prey. 347 00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:49,000 If you can't see what's out there, you can't fight it. 348 00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:51,000 You can't even run from it. 349 00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:54,000 You don't know which direction to run now because he circled you. 350 00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:59,000 Maybe you run right into his arms. You don't know. 351 00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:05,000 I was rushing down the hill and all of a sudden there is a deer standing in front of me. 352 00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:08,000 I didn't have any fear of humans at all. 353 00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:16,000 She snapped her head over in the direction that I had been watching where the snaps had been coming from. 354 00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:20,000 I've scanned the whole tree line. 355 00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:23,000 I've been looking for a way to get closer to him. 356 00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:26,000 I've been looking for a way to get closer to him. 357 00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:29,000 I scanned the whole tree line. 358 00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:32,000 Didn't see anything. 359 00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:35,000 No sound, nothing. 360 00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:40,000 She smelled the air with her head up. 361 00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:51,000 And then she bolted in the opposite direction as fast as I've ever seen a deer move. 362 00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:57,000 I felt the hair on the back of my neck go up. 363 00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:00,000 I knew I was being watched. 364 00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:12,000 It was just so close and it was so obvious that it didn't want me there. 365 00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:18,000 There was only about two minutes away from the car if I ran real fast, so I did. 366 00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:25,000 I heard snaps again and this time they were really close. 367 00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:48,000 I was convinced that I was going to die and that I was going to die in a very bad way. 368 00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:57,000 When I finally saw my car, I was hearing snaps very close, but they weren't frequent. 369 00:39:57,000 --> 00:40:01,000 And as I got real close to the car, they stopped entirely. 370 00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:11,000 I remember now thinking, those snaps have stopped because he's right behind me and he's going to grab me. 371 00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:19,000 I started hitting the blunt in the automatic release of the logs. 372 00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:34,000 I had a lot of shooting possible. 373 00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:40,000 I started hitting the button for the automatic release of the locks. 374 00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:43,000 It's not going to open in time. 375 00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:48,000 My heart was starting to beat faster. 376 00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:54,000 I want to get steel between me and whatever the thing is. 377 00:40:56,000 --> 00:40:59,000 I felt fear that I wasn't going to get that far. 378 00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:03,000 Come on, come on! 379 00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:10,000 I put the key in the ignition. 380 00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:14,000 It wouldn't start. 381 00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:19,000 It was like, what else can go wrong? 382 00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:31,000 I felt fear. 383 00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:44,000 The sense of relief that I felt was real good. 384 00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:49,000 First thing I wanted to do was have a cigarette. 385 00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:53,000 I didn't tell anybody but the sheriff that I served for. 386 00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:57,000 I didn't think he would believe me. 387 00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:03,000 He did believe me. 388 00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:11,000 He said they get reports of big, hairy, unknown animals up there. 389 00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:15,000 He told me, don't write a report. Don't talk about it. So I didn't. 390 00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:38,000 What I saw was physical. 391 00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:41,000 It was some kind of living being. 392 00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:46,000 And in my experience, living beings have to multiply in some way. 393 00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:51,000 That means there's more of them. I don't know how many.