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I couldn't look back again. I just couldn't do it. I didn't want to see that face.

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If it was a normal imaginary friend, like a rabbit or something, I could handle it.

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He's the guy that looks like he was attacked by a chainsaw.

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I had no control over it. Like, something put me in a spell.

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Okay, I'm going to go there like I was a zombie and I was going to walk there.

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And that's how it felt.

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I had a feeling she was behind me. I didn't want to look.

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I wouldn't make it right. I would just... you know me.

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I was about 16 years old. I was in high school, of course.

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And during the summer, I worked at the University of Southern California.

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And that's where I met my friend Elaine.

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Elaine was like an older brother that I could talk to and kid around with and make fun of.

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And he did the same with me.

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You're silly.

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Back in 1988, I was a 20-year-old college student. Tina was the baby of our group of friends.

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I pretty much was entrusted with Tina's safety through the evening.

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I met Elaine in college in my freshman year.

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We were almost like brothers in arms.

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Both pretty goofy.

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Disenjoyed getting the word out of mischief that we can get into.

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So, guys, what are we going to do now?

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As any other young college boy would have been to chasing girls.

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Tina was kind of a little cutie pie back then.

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Any ideas?

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Al I'd known from high school. We had been friends since 10th grade.

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We were at Badger Stadium. The game had ended and the night was still young.

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We're not going home yet.

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Exactly.

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Tina was pretty young, so we're fairly limited as to where we could all go as a group.

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I have an idea. I say we hop back in the cars, go uptown, hop the fence, go up the slope and touch the Hollywood sign.

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Brian suggested, hey, let's go to the Hollywood sign, see how far we can go, and maybe touch the letters.

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Tina? Come on, Tina.

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Tina! Tina!

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When you're that age, you always want to do something not to pose to him and be a little bit naughty.

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Tina! Tina! Tina!

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Okay, I'm done.

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Elaine is very by the rules and he doesn't like breaking the rules.

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Oh, it sounds fun!

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It wasn't something that we should be doing.

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That night, none of us expected experiencing anything so terrifying beyond belief.

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We jumped in the cars. Going down sunset. It was just a blast.

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I rode with Elaine across town. It was exciting. It was just something new.

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We'd all grown up around this sign every time you looked up from wherever you were in the city to see it.

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It's like this mech-in.

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As we got to the top of the hill, I didn't know where Al was going.

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But it was a cul-de-sac, kind of a dead end.

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There's this chain-link fence and that's all that's separating us and this great Hollywood landmark.

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Hey guys, I think this is such a great idea.

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It said no trespassing very clearly.

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Elaine was a little apprehensive.

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Come on, Elaine. Who cares? Let's just do this.

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I'm not going to let you go.

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Elaine was a little apprehensive.

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Come on, Elaine. Who cares? Let's just do this.

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We knew that what we were doing was wrong, but that's what made it so much fun and so enticing.

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We jumped the fence.

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There you go, man.

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Alright, Tina, your turn.

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I'm afraid of heights.

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I can't do it. It's too high.

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Hey, Tina, come over here.

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We kind of pulled the fence open a little bit.

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At that point, I really was determined to get through the gate and hike up to the Hollywood sign.

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No, this won't pass.

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We weren't supposed to be there.

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Let's do this, guys.

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So we just started trekking up.

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I myself didn't realize how steep it was.

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Elaine would hold out his hand and pull me up.

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Like, come on, we can do it.

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Almost there.

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As the letters get bigger, as you get closer, they just get more and more amazing.

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Elaine, you're going to have to go up.

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I'm going to go up.

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I'm going to go up.

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I'm going to go up.

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I'm going to go up.

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I'm going to go up.

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I'm going to go up.

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I'm going to go up.

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As we get closer, they just get more and more amazing.

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It was getting more exciting.

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Like, we're getting closer.

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We're getting closer.

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So we finally got to the sign.

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It was so exciting.

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I was in disbelief.

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We had made it all the way up.

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Oh, my God, I can't believe I did this.

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You know, it's like, wow.

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Woo!

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Woo!

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It was really incredible for us to finally, you know, be right next to something we'd grown up with

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and looked at all our lives that we see in movies, and we were finally right next to it.

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All four of us had a sense of euphoria.

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It was just, we did it, you know, we're here.

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I can't believe you did this.

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Uh-huh.

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Great idea, guys.

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It was just before midnight.

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I definitely thought it was time to take Tina home at that point.

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Woo!

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I was the first person in the line of four of us going back down.

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Woo!

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Brian! Brian!

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Brian!

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He just disappeared.

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Brian!

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We could hear him sliding.

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Where are you?

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We could hear the rocks sliding and brush crackling.

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Then all of a sudden, it stops.

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We were all panicking.

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Brian!

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All three of us were calling out,

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Brian, are you okay? Brian, where are you?

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Brian!

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Where are you?

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And he did not answer.

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I was really worried that I'd lost my friend.

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It was really scary.

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Where is he?

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Come on.

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Oh.

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Come on.

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Brian looked shaken up.

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I just lost my footing.

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I fell into this deep abyss, and I was so scared.

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I'm okay, though.

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You scared us.

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I'm good. Good.

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Let's just get out of here.

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Sponosis was ten minutes ago.

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This actually is a little bit on the dangerous side,

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and there's a reason that we probably shouldn't be up here.

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The mood had changed, and it became a little bit more serious.

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It was getting too dangerous.

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We just wanted to go back down the hill,

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get in our cars, and go home.

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All of a sudden, I see the silhouette of a person.

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A person coming up the path towards us.

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It was kind of weird.

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We were wondering why is this person coming up this hill alone?

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The closer this person got, the more we realized it was a woman.

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She was wearing a dress, 1930s style.

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She had heels on, which made absolutely no sense to me.

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A veil over her face.

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The way she walked seemed like she was casually strolling.

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Walking effortless up the hill, which was kind of odd,

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because the hill was steep.

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Her footsteps made no sound.

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We didn't hear anything.

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So I decided to speak to her.

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Hello!

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She didn't say anything, but I thought maybe she didn't hear me.

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She wasn't looking at us.

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We all kind of looked at each other like maybe she's on a night.

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Weirdo.

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So he said hello again.

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Hello!

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She didn't respond.

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She didn't respond.

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She didn't respond.

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We just took off.

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I wasn't thinking about Elaine, or Tina, or Al.

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I just took off.

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I couldn't look all the way back again.

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I just couldn't do it.

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I didn't want to see that face.

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I was just getting out of there.

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It was just so steep, I just couldn't run fast enough.

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My legs were going faster than my body.

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I lost my footing.

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I couldn't get up.

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I turned around to see if Tina was okay.

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Right behind her was the woman.

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Tina!

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I was running because I felt like I was being chased.

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you don't have to be the fastest guy.

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You just have to be faster than the guy next to you.

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I literally bolted over the fence.

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I had the keys.

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I was ready to go, and he was the reason that I hadn't.

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We're not even thinking about Elaine and Tina so much

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as we are about ourselves.

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I'm the youngest. I'm the slowest.

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The guys were ahead of me.

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I saw Brian and Al's car.

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They were taking off.

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As soon as I got to the gate, it was one grab for me and over.

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I'm following with my keys.

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I was struggling to get into the ignition.

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I was still nervous and shaky.

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But I got it started.

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I wasn't even thinking about Tina.

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There was so much adrenaline and fear, I didn't want to look back.

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I see Elaine in his car.

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Don't leave me!

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I'm still on the other side of the fence.

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Don't leave me!

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I didn't want to look.

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Don't leave me!

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My heart was pounding.

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Don't leave me!

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I was like, oh my god.

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I was thinking, please don't leave me.

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Tina was not just in shock but angry that we'd all left her.

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I felt guilty about that.

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I'd sit down and ask, dude, what the hell was that?

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He was like, I don't know, just shrugged his shoulders and we couldn't figure it out.

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None of us said the word, but we all were thinking the same thing.

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We'd all just seen a ghost.

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After I learned about the urban legend of the lady in white,

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I had to learn more, I wanted more detail of who this was.

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I got on the internet, what came up was an actress.

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Her name was Peg Antwistle.

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And as I read her story, she got a bad review in a film that she had started,

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and how she felt she had failed.

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In 1932, she hiked up to the Hollywood sign

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and committed suicide.

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To this day, 24 years later, her face still haunts me like it was yesterday.

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We moved to Yuba City in 1999.

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I needed fresh air, I needed to get away from the people pollution

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in the air pollution in New York City.

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When we first moved to the house, it was gorgeous.

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It had a big garage, big yard, so I thought this would be a perfect place

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for our dog and our daughter to play.

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Asia's the apple of my eye. She was fearless.

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My biggest concern with the house was the fact that it was on a corner, on a very busy highway.

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In the country, on a two-lane highway, there is really no speed limit.

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There wasn't too much space between where our front porch was and the road.

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This far, you're going to come this far?

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We'll go that much further, okay?

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But it was near good schools and it was in a nice area.

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Come here, come here, bud.

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We had to do a cold boat.

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By then, we'd have him three years, he's about three years old.

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He hardly ever barked.

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All of a sudden, he started this frantic barking and barking and barking.

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He kept barking at one corner of the yard and that corner was where the garage was.

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Asia, come here with me.

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It was a warning bark like someone was approaching.

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And there was no one there.

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It was a fence around the yard that was about ten-four high.

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I locked the gate to this fence with some bailing wire.

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I wrapped the bailing wire around the gate about five or six times and then I twisted it

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and bent it over into a knot to make sure he wouldn't push the gate open.

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It couldn't have been more secure.

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He wouldn't stop like something was wrong.

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It just made me feel uncomfortable, a creepy feel that I really can't describe.

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He was barking repeatedly just at the top of his lungs for the longest time.

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Thomas.

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And I was scared.

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Thomas!

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Yes?

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Make him stop.

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I'm not sure what you want me to do.

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This was when things started getting a little strange in the house.

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It was kind of an eerie silence after all the noise.

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I was thinking someone was touching the dog because the dog wouldn't bark if someone was touching him.

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All the bailing wire was there. It was still the same knot that I put on it.

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Bo, where are you, Bo?

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He wasn't in the yard anymore.

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I started thinking maybe somebody let him out and then tied the fence back up.

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Bo.

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Usually he would come charging if I whistled.

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And I was becoming really frightened at this point.

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Bo.

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Where are you, Bo?

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He was lying dead on the front lawn.

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And that's when I seen tire tracks.

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Oh my god, he got hit by a car.

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I didn't hear any screeches in the tires, but it appeared something made a car veer off the road and hit Bo.

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Thomas!

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Uma fell down on her knees and started crying.

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As you went up to him, put a hand on his head.

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She was calling him. Bo, Bo.

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I don't think she understood the concept of death.

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I thought it was going to be a happy time and it was going to be a new start and a new beginning for our family.

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But it was a horrible start.

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And I was worried.

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I know that the dog didn't escape from the pen unless he was let out by someone.

284
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It was the very next day. It was probably mid-afternoon.

285
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Hey, Nick, let's talk about the colors of the marble, okay?

286
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This one's pink. This one's a bit of a color.

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I saw my daughter having a full conversation with somebody.

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But nobody was there.

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Hey, sweetie.

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Asia didn't play with imaginary people before.

291
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Who are we talking to?

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Nick.

293
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I'm playing with Nick. I found that kind of strange because we don't know anybody named Nick.

294
00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:12,000
The following day, I asked the sweetie, who's Nick?

295
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She was a pretty good little artist.

296
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It's a mutilated body.

297
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If Nick was a normal imaginary friend, like a rabbit or something, I could handle it.

298
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He is a guy that looks like he was attacked by a chainsuit.

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It was a routine for me that every morning I went to the garage and would work out for at least an hour.

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Come on in, honey.

301
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And Asia, why don't you come in and sit down over here on the stool next to me and you can watch me work out?

302
00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:12,000
She just looked at me and very shyly just went like this with her head.

303
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Her eyes were the size of sauces.

304
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And I said, what's wrong, baby?

305
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And she told me that...

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That skeleton in there.

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A bad skeleton was the way she said it.

308
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There's nothing there.

309
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And she looked off into the other part of the garage and slowly lifted her hand up and pointed, no daddy.

310
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He was there.

311
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She looked like she just seen the devil.

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She goes, the bad skeleton doesn't like us, daddy, and is trying to hurt us.

313
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Even though my dad was there, I didn't go inside because this thing, it felt stronger than him.

314
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More powerful, like it wouldn't matter if he was there or not.

315
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Whatever was in that corner was completely terrifying.

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It was about 1, 2 a.m. Everybody was in bed sleeping and I had the place to myself, I thought.

317
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It was a creepy sensation.

318
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It felt like a spider web coming out, crossed my neck.

319
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I spun around to look to see what was on my neck and like nothing on my hand.

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And then as I started to relax again,

321
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it felt like a hand going across my hair on my head.

322
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And it was such a creepy feeling that it raised the hair up on the back of my head.

323
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I've had this feeling before in Vietnam when something bad was about to happen.

324
00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:02,000
Except for this now, I was in America. This was in my house.

325
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I actually remember feeling threatened for my life.

326
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It was a total scream of fear.

327
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I thought that something or somebody was hurting Asia.

328
00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:50,000
I asked the baby, what's wrong? What's wrong?

329
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Bad skeleton.

330
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I couldn't see bones on it. I called whatever it was.

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The bad skeleton because I knew that a skeleton is not alive and this thing was not alive, but it was definitely real.

332
00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:08,000
It was just this figure with scary eyes that was just the most terrifying thing ever.

333
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I would get mad, I would cry, and I would wail because they wouldn't believe me.

334
00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:17,000
No matter how hard I tried, they would not believe me.

335
00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:21,000
This became a nightly occurrence.

336
00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:25,000
She didn't even want to sleep alone in her bed anymore.

337
00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:27,000
It's okay. It's okay.

338
00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:31,000
It's upsetting to have your kid cry every night and not be able to do anything about it.

339
00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:37,000
But I was telling myself, it's temporary. She's just adjusting to the change. It'll get better.

340
00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:40,000
And it wasn't getting better. It was getting worse.

341
00:30:58,000 --> 00:30:59,000
The heck?

342
00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:02,000
My feet had dirt on them.

343
00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:06,000
It was kind of confusing.

344
00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:07,000
Where are my feet?

345
00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:11,000
It just seemed that everything was getting weird at this point.

346
00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:16,000
The dog dying, the spider webs across the back of my head.

347
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:18,000
The bad skeleton now is my wife.

348
00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:21,000
I can't explain why she's waking up with dirty feet.

349
00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:30,000
I was staying up late because now I was concerned.

350
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:33,000
I was waiting for Asia to start crying.

351
00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:37,000
I didn't want to go to sleep. I was being hyper-vigilant.

352
00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:49,000
There was something in the room.

353
00:31:57,000 --> 00:31:59,000
I hear the latch to the front door. Click, open.

354
00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:28,000
You're my...

355
00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:41,000
Her eyes were open, but she didn't say anything to me and started trying to open the door to leave.

356
00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:43,000
Come on, back away from the door.

357
00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:48,000
I didn't remember how I got there.

358
00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:53,000
I remember that I heard a voice.

359
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:58,000
It was just very strange. Like something put me in a spell.

360
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:05,000
I'm thinking maybe Asia is right.

361
00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:09,000
Maybe there is a bad skeleton here and maybe it is trying to hurt us.

362
00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:18,000
There was one night when it all came to a head.

363
00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:55,000
He was telling me, come to the water.

364
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:08,000
Across the street, across that big highway is a treacherous river.

365
00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:12,000
I felt like I needed to get into the river.

366
00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:17,000
I had no control over it. Like I was in a trance or something.

367
00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:36,000
I remember the voice drawing me and calling me to the water.

368
00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:37,000
Come into the water.

369
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:43,000
Come into the water to be with me. Come with me to the water.

370
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:44,000
Come into the water.

371
00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:54,000
It's very intense feeling.

372
00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:00,000
The guy had no control over it.

373
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:25,000
I wasn't afraid of the river. I wasn't afraid of the water.

374
00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:27,000
I wasn't afraid of the voice that was calling me.

375
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:32,000
It felt safe.

376
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:43,000
I was going to go there like I was a zombie and I was going to walk there.

377
00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:44,000
That's how it felt.

378
00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:54,000
I was so ready to go under the water and go in the water.

379
00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:56,000
Wherever this thing was telling me to go.

380
00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:04,000
I was so scared.

381
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:25,000
I was not in the bed. My heart was pounding. I was scared.

382
00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:26,000
I was scared.

383
00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:30,000
Now I'm going to lose my wife.

384
00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:35,000
The same way I just lost my dog on this stupid highway.

385
00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:37,000
I was scared.

386
00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:58,000
Maybe this evil spirit or skeleton or whatever it was was influencing a lot of what was happening.

387
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:02,000
But there was something else there that protected me.

388
00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:04,000
Something saved me from being hit by that truck.

389
00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:08,000
I'm not really sure what it was, but it was something.

390
00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:19,000
After that night, I saw Asia go into the garage like she owned the place.

391
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:24,000
And this was after weeks and weeks. This was the first time that she went into the garage.

392
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:29,000
And she goes, Nick's here to protect us from the bad skeleton.

393
00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:31,000
He's the good skeleton, daddy.

394
00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:49,000
I remember the feeling when Nick came around that everything was okay.

395
00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:52,000
Like nothing was wrong. It didn't feel threatened anymore.

396
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:57,000
I felt like I could go anywhere and it wasn't a problem anymore because the bad skeleton wasn't in there anymore.

397
00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:03,000
She told me that the good skeleton ran the bad skeleton off.

398
00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:07,000
I don't know where it went, but it was only Nick now.

399
00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:11,000
She would just start talking to Nick like he was an old friend.

400
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:14,000
He had his motorcycle that he was working on all the time.

401
00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:18,000
He was always cleaning it, always fixing it, always tuning it up.

402
00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:22,000
After that, there was a big change in the house.

403
00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:25,000
Asia wasn't having nightmares anymore.

404
00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:27,000
You must stop the sleepwalking.

405
00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:34,000
I was just happy that everything was calm again and almost back to normal except for Nick, the good skeleton.

406
00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:44,000
But then our neighbors, Barbara and George, told us the most extraordinary thing.

407
00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:53,000
Barbara asked me if Asia was still having the night terrors and I told her no.

408
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:58,000
Now she talks about the guy named Nick because I was fixing his motorcycle on the barge.

409
00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:02,000
She said, well, that's really funny because years and years ago,

410
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:07,000
we used to have a neighbor named Nicholas who rode a motorcycle.

411
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:13,000
My whole body just went cold.

412
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:16,000
Like my feet were cold and I felt kind of sick.

413
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:23,000
According to Barbara, Nick actually lived in this house and he was a motorcycle enthusiast.

414
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:27,000
Coming home one day,

415
00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:33,000
Nick had been involved in a motorcycle accident.

416
00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:40,000
He had rear-ended a tractor trailer right at the very spot where the dog was hit by a car.

417
00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:45,000
It was the same spot where Yuma was almost run down and sleepwalking that night.

418
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:50,000
He was very badly mangled and that he died instantly.

419
00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:58,000
When old man George told me this, it was like Sunny Liston hit me a right cross in the jaw.

420
00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:00,000
It was a total shock.

421
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:05,000
It was like everything just came together like a puzzle.

422
00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:09,000
Whether he's good or bad, that's not the point.

423
00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:12,000
The point is that there's a spirit that's at unrest,

424
00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:15,000
haunting my daughter.

425
00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:19,000
I'm not going to let you go.

426
00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:41,000
We told Asia that we're going to help Nick because he's in a dark place and he's cold and he's suffering where he is right now.

427
00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:45,000
I am half Vietnamese.

428
00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:49,000
The Vietnamese believe more in the spirit world than most Americans do.

429
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:52,000
My mother is full blooded Vietnamese.

430
00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:55,000
She said don't worry, just relax and we'll do a ceremony.

431
00:40:56,000 --> 00:41:02,000
I thanked Nick very profusely for protecting my family, but now it was time for him to move on.

432
00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:13,000
It was a heartbreaking feeling to know that my daughter was losing a friend that she cared so much about.

433
00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:20,000
I remember wanting to find him there.

434
00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:31,000
I looked where he was with his motorcycle all the time, where he slept, where he stayed, where he usually was.

435
00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:33,000
I could always find him there before he wasn't there anymore.

436
00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:37,000
He's gone.

437
00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:41,000
I couldn't even feel him.

438
00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:43,000
I even run into him that he used to be there.

439
00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:45,000
I just couldn't sense him anymore.

440
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:53,000
Nick is gone.

441
00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:59,000
I never thought in a million years that I would have dealings with the spirit world.

442
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:04,000
Ghosts and ghouls to me were Halloween fantasies.

443
00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:07,000
I still think about Nick.

444
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:09,000
I miss him still.

445
00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:11,000
He was my friend, he's my companion.

446
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:12,000
I was fond of him.

447
00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:15,000
He was like an older brother to me.