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I'm gonna miss you.

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During the week, I was home with the kids by myself.

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It was only woods for as far as you could see.

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Come out there now, but it's out there.

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Surely you heard the rumors.

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What happened at that house?

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She called it a rumor.

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Say a word for him.

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He's a bad man.

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He's gonna protect me.

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I should have believed him.

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Whatever was there,

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whatever was hurting my family was getting stronger.

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I'm just thinking if that happened to one of my kids.

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Who could have done this to my child?

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What could have done this to my child?

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What happened?

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I'm not sure what happened.

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I just didn't want to get out of the city.

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I didn't want the city influence on my kids.

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Thank you very much.

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Slainsville is real country.

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It was hectic.

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Good ol' boys.

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But hard to get out of the city.

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I didn't want to go to the country,

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Good old boys, but hard to fit in if you were from out of town.

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It's just a town that you're gonna pass if you're going somewhere.

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Coco.

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Brian got me a dog.

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We named her Coco.

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The children loved her and she loved the kids.

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I don't give Coco too many treats.

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One's enough.

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She's gonna become a fat dog.

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Even though she was my mom's dog, I loved her a lot.

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She was very protective over the whole family.

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It was very important to both Brian and I that the kids grow up in a safe environment.

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The house was perfect.

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It was a, it was a fair sized rancher, back in the middle of nowhere.

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There was nothing else around you.

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Every direction you looked in there was woods.

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Hey love.

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How's it going out here?

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It's going well.

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I haven't had this up in no time.

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It seemed like it was going to be a real nice place to live.

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I can let my kids play and go wander.

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Don't have to worry about somebody snatching them.

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It seemed good to me.

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Alright.

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This is the bathroom.

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Right.

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Sean's room.

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And the living room.

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This is so nice.

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Shortly after we moved into the house, my brother came to visit with his family.

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And this beautiful piece of work is Brian's doing.

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Apparently we need a new door frame.

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Belinda and I actually went to junior high school together.

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So I've known her for a long time.

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And then this here is...

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The house in Slanesville was, I thought it was awesome because I was coming from the city.

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Toys in the yard, toys on the floor.

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Kid friendly.

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Didn't have any claim that it was any different than any other house.

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Niko wish.

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We decided to have a birthday party.

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We were celebrating my cousin's birthday.

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My niece Jordan was sitting on the floor playing with some toys.

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All of a sudden, I noticed that one of the balloons, the string pulled straight.

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As if somebody was holding it.

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It was floating in midair, like as if someone was holding the string.

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It just moved across the damn room.

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My cousin Jordan, whose birthday it was,

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introduced the balloon going towards her.

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My sister and I just looked at each other.

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She looked at me and said, did you see that balloon follow her?

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Yeah.

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Jordan did not touch the balloon.

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That balloon made its way to her.

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When the balloon stopped in front of her,

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she looked up as if she saw someone there.

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Like a child.

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You know, like she was playing with another child.

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When she reached for it,

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and it just floated up to the ceiling.

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The way the balloon rested in front of Jordan and her reaction,

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it wasn't normal.

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Back in 91, I used to, or I still am, a big hunter.

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I ate what I killed and that was a big part of our diet.

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I could hunt in the backyard.

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I was a daddy's girl.

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There was this one day, my dad asked like, hey, do you want to go squirrel hunting?

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So I get her all dressed up. We get the 22 out.

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Let's try right here.

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We went up over the hill at the back of the house,

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where there was just woods. Everywhere was woods.

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You know, there's nothing, no movement, no sounds.

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The woods are like dead.

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And then all of a sudden, I hear something.

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I look over and...

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Squirrel.

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Yeah, it's a squirrel.

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So you're going to run around this back of that tree,

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and you're going to...

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It's on the wrong side of the tree, so I try to tell her to go to the other side of the tree

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to run it back over to this side.

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And as I'm chasing it, I go up this little mound.

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And I'm like, what is this?

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Blair!

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Blair!

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In front of me was this van.

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It was as if it had crashed, which doesn't make any sense,

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because there's no roads around.

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It's all burned and beat up.

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You know, I could tell that the van had been there for a long time.

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I came up to the back.

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There was a mattress in the back of the van.

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I had, like, this sinking feeling in my stomach.

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Like, this wasn't right.

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Let's go.

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You know, he looks at her real quick, and he grabs me, and he's like, let's go.

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Just by his body language, I could tell he's like, you know, this isn't good.

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You know, I don't want you seeing this.

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It was ominous.

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Well, why is there a charred van behind my house?

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By trade, I was a carpenter.

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I had recently just started this new job.

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I was working at Goddard Flight Center down in Greenbelt, Maryland,

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aka NASA, office renovation.

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I actually did the Hubble Space Telescope Room, which was kind of cool.

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But the drive was immense.

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You good boy, all right?

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You can do that for me.

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It's what most people did, because, you know, there's no work in West Virginia.

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There's a lot of us travel up and down the road.

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I miss you.

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I miss you.

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Brian would stay with his mother during the week and come home on the weekends.

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Bye.

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During the week, I was home by myself with no way to get anywhere.

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But we'd always lived in remote areas.

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And I wasn't afraid to be by myself, because that's the way things were.

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I had been begging my mom to go camping, because my dad was in the city like normal.

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And so she finally agreed that I could go camping, but I had to go in the yard

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and outside her bedroom window so she could still keep an eye on me.

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I wasn't real keen on the idea at first, but she didn't have school the next day.

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And she convinced me that she was going to be okay, because she was going to have cocoa with her.

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I talked to her before I went to bed, and she just seemed like she was perfectly content.

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Yes.

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Hey, Shawnee, you should be asleep.

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Shawnee is pretty easy to put to bed.

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He's a pretty tough little boy.

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You know, he's daddy's little man.

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He never seemed to be afraid of anything.

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But that particular evening, he refused to go to bed.

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Come on, buddy, it's time to go to bed.

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He didn't want the lights off.

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He would ask me to leave the door open.

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Then he wanted it open farther.

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Close your eyes.

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He really did not want to go to bed.

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I watched a little TV in my room before I turned it off.

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And I checked out the window, and she was out there.

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She had her little lantern on.

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Coco woke me up.

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She was just being uneasy.

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She was focused on something.

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It really creeped me out.

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I was just like,

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I'm not going to sleep.

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I'm going to sleep.

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I'm going to sleep.

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I'm going to sleep.

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I'm going to sleep.

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I'm going to sleep.

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I'm going to sleep.

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I'm going to sleep.

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I'm going to sleep.

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I'm going to sleep.

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I'm going to sleep.

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I'm going to sleep.

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I'm going to sleep.

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I'm going to sleep.

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I tried to ask him why he didn't want to go to bed.

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And he said there was a monster outside of his window.

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I just thought that maybe he was seeing an animal.

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We had a lot of deer around there.

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So I took him over to his window,

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and I showed him that there was nothing out there.

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It's not there now, but it's out there.

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And I asked him what kind of monster.

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A red-eye monster.

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A red-eye monster.

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I got just the thing.

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Awww!

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I gave him the magic spray bottle.

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A water bottle that I kept to spritz my hair.

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Spray this, and whatever you're afraid of will go away.

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Good job.

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You know, he laid down, he put the water bottle next to him,

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and he snuggled up, and he went to sleep.

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I said, uh...

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And all of a sudden, I hear something.

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I was thinking my mom had come outside.

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I had looked out and was looking around.

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And I had this really unsettling feeling.

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MUSIC

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And while the countdown is on,

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Judd is crowning a winner later today

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because Marcy Gonzalez is just back in the event.

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Hey, Blair Bear.

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The next morning, when she came in, it was pretty early.

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She was kind of quiet.

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Do you want some cereal?

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That wasn't normal for her

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because she was a very chatty child.

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How was camping?

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I think I was just trying to figure out

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what had gone on that night.

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I didn't know what to make of it.

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Maybe I, you know, dreamt it.

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Do you want to go again tonight?

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She said she didn't want to do that again.

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I said, no, thank you.

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I asked her why,

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and she said she didn't like being out there by herself.

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I thought that she was probably afraid of the dark.

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It was pretty isolated out there.

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I was pretty surprised that she wanted to do it on her own to start with.

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I never told my mom

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because how do you explain something like that?

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I just tried to forget about it.

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I don't know.

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One night, I was sitting on my floor playing with my Barbies.

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Mm-mm.

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I looked up.

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I was like,

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Oh my goodness.

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There's this little girl sitting in front of me.

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My bedroom door was shut.

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So how did she get in my room?

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I did not feel threatened by her.

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I just tried to ignore her, and maybe she would go away,

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but she just sat there watching me play.

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You okay, sweetie?

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Yeah?

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Okay.

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I'm thinking maybe she has an imaginary friend.

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I just thought that she was just a child being a child.

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I'm thinking maybe she has an imaginary friend.

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She would appear about the same time every evening.

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This wasn't an imaginary friend.

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This was real.

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It was a Monday.

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I was pretty exhausted by the end of the day.

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So I was settling into bed, and had gone to sleep.

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And I started to have a dream.

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In the dream, I felt something pinch my toe.

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There was a boy standing at the foot of my bed,

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pinching me on the toe with a clothespin.

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acho

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I said, what's your name?

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And he said, I'm Andrew.

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I'm just letting you know I'm here.

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I woke up the next morning.

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I was so scared.

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I was so scared.

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I was so scared.

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I was so scared.

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I woke up the next day thinking it was all just a dream.

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Blair, Sean, it's time to get up.

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I went to throw the blanket onto the bed.

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I looked down at the floor.

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And there was a clothespin lying there on the floor at the foot of the bed.

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All the clothespins were packed away

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because we had a dryer at this house.

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I was trying to think of any reason

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why that clothespin could be at the foot of my bed.

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And I couldn't think of a logical answer.

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I remembered the dream.

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And I wondered at that moment

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if it was really a dream or if it had actually happened.

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One Sunday afternoon,

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my sister offered to watch the kids for me for a bit

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so that I could have some time to myself.

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I decided to take a little stroll through the woods.

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I came across something that looked odd.

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There were some rocks, but there was a fence.

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Those rocks were not rocks.

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They were headstones.

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The size of the headstones indicated to me

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that the two large headstones belonged to adults

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and the small headstones were for children.

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They were really old-looking.

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There weren't any names.

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They were all headstones.

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They were really old-looking.

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There weren't any names on them.

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You know, I thought about the boy in my dream.

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I thought about the little girl

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that my daughter claimed to be seeing.

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It made me wonder if these gravestones

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had some connection to my house.

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If there was a family here before us.

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That evening, I got this eerie feeling

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like I was being watched.

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I did feel pretty exposed.

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It was only woods for as far as you could see,

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and that feeling didn't go away.

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I went to bed, and as always,

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Coco would follow me in and sleep on the bed with me.

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And that gave me some comfort because Brian wasn't there.

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I remember being woken up by something.

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I noticed that the curtains open and it's dark.

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I stand up to go shut the curtains.

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Bam, there's his face.

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I jump in bed, pull the covers over my head.

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I'm just sitting there thinking,

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oh my goodness, oh my goodness, oh my goodness.

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I'm afraid that he's gonna come.

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I got up and I looked out the window

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to see if anyone was out there.

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Coco, I don't see anything.

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She seemed like she was barking at nothing,

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so I got back into bed.

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And I'm just sitting there,

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and all of a sudden I feel this movement.

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And my heart starts racing,

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and I'm like, what is this?

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I'm expecting it to be the face.

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I'm like, what is this?

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I start to feel the covers moving,

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and my heart starts racing.

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I'm like, what is this?

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It was a little girl again,

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and this time she spoke to me,

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which she had never done before.

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Stay away from him.

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He's the bad man.

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I felt like she was there to just help me

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and to be there to protect me.

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I didn't do anything.

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It felt as if something was touching my hair.

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00:25:38,340 --> 00:25:40,840
Sean, please go back to bed.

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I felt it again.

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As if someone was breathing on me.

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Ah!

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Ah!

353
00:25:54,220 --> 00:25:55,120
Ah!

354
00:25:55,120 --> 00:25:56,020
Ah!

355
00:25:56,020 --> 00:25:57,020
Ah!

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I turned the light on, but there was nothing there.

357
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Ah!

358
00:26:01,420 --> 00:26:02,420
Ah!

359
00:26:02,420 --> 00:26:03,420
Ah!

360
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I couldn't be afraid.

361
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You know, I was there with the kids by myself.

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And if I was afraid, then they would be afraid.

363
00:26:10,920 --> 00:26:11,920
Ah!

364
00:26:11,920 --> 00:26:12,920
Ah!

365
00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:13,920
Ah!

366
00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:14,920
Ah!

367
00:26:14,920 --> 00:26:15,920
Ah!

368
00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:16,920
Ah!

369
00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:17,920
All right, kiddies.

370
00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:19,920
Time to say goodbye to Coco.

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00:26:19,920 --> 00:26:20,920
Bye, Coco.

372
00:26:20,920 --> 00:26:21,920
Bye, Coco.

373
00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:22,920
Bye, Coco.

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00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:27,120
My mom had let me borrow her car so that I could run some errands in town.

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00:26:31,220 --> 00:26:37,220
While I was in town, I came across a strange story.

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There really was a connection between that cemetery and what was going on in my house.

377
00:26:47,220 --> 00:26:48,220
Yeah, it was that.

378
00:26:48,220 --> 00:26:49,220
It was a hard thing.

379
00:26:49,220 --> 00:26:54,720
She said another house had stood either where my house was or very close to it and that

380
00:26:54,720 --> 00:27:03,220
there was a fire in the house and that a family had died in that fire about 100 years

381
00:27:03,220 --> 00:27:04,220
before this.

382
00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:19,720
It feels like this is not my imagination anymore.

383
00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:22,720
There was a real history here.

384
00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:26,720
Now it's really starting to feel real.

385
00:27:31,720 --> 00:27:32,720
Where's Coco?

386
00:27:32,720 --> 00:27:33,720
Not sure.

387
00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:44,720
How could she have gone out?

388
00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:45,720
The key is closed.

389
00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:46,720
Oh, no.

390
00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:47,720
Coco!

391
00:27:47,720 --> 00:27:48,720
Coco!

392
00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:50,720
We checked the fence.

393
00:27:50,720 --> 00:27:52,720
We checked everything we could think of.

394
00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:53,720
Coco!

395
00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:54,720
Coco!

396
00:27:54,720 --> 00:27:57,720
There was no way for her to get out of that yard.

397
00:27:57,720 --> 00:27:59,720
Come here, girl!

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00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:05,720
We were calling for her, yelling into the woods, hoping that she was somewhere close by that

399
00:28:05,720 --> 00:28:07,720
she would just come back.

400
00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:08,720
Coco!

401
00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:11,720
She was just nowhere to be seen.

402
00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:12,720
Coco!

403
00:28:12,720 --> 00:28:13,720
Coco!

404
00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:18,720
And my mom had this feeling that she had been taken.

405
00:28:21,720 --> 00:28:25,720
I was really upset.

406
00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:33,720
She was part of the family and I felt like a piece of our family was missing.

407
00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:36,720
She wasn't there to make us feel safe anymore.

408
00:28:36,720 --> 00:28:40,720
She wasn't there watching over the children while they slept at night.

409
00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:45,720
She wasn't there to warn me if somebody was coming into the house.

410
00:28:50,720 --> 00:29:08,720
When Brian got home, I was very glad to have him there.

411
00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:09,720
Hey!

412
00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:11,720
It's looking pretty good.

413
00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:17,720
I didn't really talk to him about the stuff that was going on in the house while he was

414
00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:18,720
gone.

415
00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:23,720
I didn't want him to think I was crazy, you know, who wants to leave a crazy woman alone

416
00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:24,720
with their children.

417
00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:28,720
It made me feel so much better when he was home.

418
00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:32,720
I'll get some sleep, but you can watch the TV if you want.

419
00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:33,720
Thank you.

420
00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:36,720
You better not come around and get mad.

421
00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:43,720
I always go to bed before everybody else because I'm the one who gets up and leaves at 2.30

422
00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:44,720
in the morning.

423
00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:47,720
It was a Sunday evening.

424
00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:49,720
Nothing out of the ordinary.

425
00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:51,720
The house was quiet.

426
00:29:55,720 --> 00:30:00,720
I got all the children to bed and I settled in pretty early that evening.

427
00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:03,720
It was probably about 8.39 o'clock.

428
00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:40,720
I started to have a dream about a little boy.

429
00:30:44,720 --> 00:30:53,720
Only this time I felt like the little boy was trying to tell me something.

430
00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:38,720
Then it felt as if someone was standing beside me.

431
00:31:44,720 --> 00:32:09,720
I heard a blood curdling screech like I had never heard before in my life.

432
00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:15,720
The sound that no mother ever wants to hear from her child.

433
00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:16,720
I know she's freaking out.

434
00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:19,720
I know something's happened to Shawn.

435
00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:27,720
I run down the hall.

436
00:32:27,720 --> 00:32:38,720
Laying in the middle of the floor with his arm twisted up, I could just see immediately

437
00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:44,720
that his arm was broken.

438
00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:48,720
He said that the bad man did it.

439
00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:52,720
Maybe he moved on to him because he didn't have protection.

440
00:32:52,720 --> 00:33:04,720
Like the little girl was protecting me.

441
00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:12,720
Oh my.

442
00:33:12,720 --> 00:33:28,720
I'm just thinking if that happened to one of my kids.

443
00:33:28,720 --> 00:33:35,720
Sorry.

444
00:33:35,720 --> 00:33:52,720
That was a hard time.

445
00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:59,720
When we gather everybody up, Belinda calls her mother, which is on the way to the hospital.

446
00:33:59,720 --> 00:34:02,720
Brian drove as fast as he could.

447
00:34:02,720 --> 00:34:12,720
I'm just cradling Shawn in my arms trying to tell him that everything would be okay.

448
00:34:12,720 --> 00:34:15,720
They're going to want to know how this happened.

449
00:34:15,720 --> 00:34:20,720
And the truth didn't seem like they would believe it.

450
00:34:20,720 --> 00:34:23,720
I think his arm is broken.

451
00:34:23,720 --> 00:34:29,720
The kind of break it is, race is suspicious because it's just not a normal break.

452
00:34:29,720 --> 00:34:37,720
I think they thought child abuse at first, but they could obviously see that we were just both devastated.

453
00:34:37,720 --> 00:34:45,720
There was no way in hell could ever hurt the baby.

454
00:34:45,720 --> 00:34:51,720
After three days Shawn was released from the hospital.

455
00:34:51,720 --> 00:34:59,720
My mom had let me borrow her car to bring him home and I was dreading going back to that house.

456
00:34:59,720 --> 00:35:04,720
It felt violent. It felt evil.

457
00:35:04,720 --> 00:35:07,720
Who could have done this to my child?

458
00:35:07,720 --> 00:35:10,720
What could have done this to my child?

459
00:35:10,720 --> 00:35:20,720
I kept going over it and over it in my head thinking about all the times that Shawn was afraid to go to bed.

460
00:35:20,720 --> 00:35:35,720
I should have listened to what he was telling me because whatever he was seeing outside of his window must have finally gotten in.

461
00:35:35,720 --> 00:35:40,720
We had to get out of that house and it didn't matter what it took.

462
00:35:40,720 --> 00:35:46,720
Whatever was there, whatever was hurting my family was getting stronger.

463
00:35:52,720 --> 00:35:54,720
The car just shut off.

464
00:35:58,720 --> 00:36:00,720
We're back in one second.

465
00:36:05,720 --> 00:36:12,720
I didn't know what was wrong with it.

466
00:36:12,720 --> 00:36:14,720
Alright baby, we gotta walk.

467
00:36:14,720 --> 00:36:20,720
I got Shawn out of the car and we started walking down the road.

468
00:36:20,720 --> 00:36:23,720
It was really dark out there.

469
00:36:23,720 --> 00:36:37,720
Suddenly I heard the sound of a car approaching me from behind.

470
00:36:48,720 --> 00:36:51,720
The car slowed down as it passed by.

471
00:36:53,720 --> 00:36:56,720
Then it rolled the window down.

472
00:36:56,720 --> 00:36:57,720
Hi!

473
00:36:57,720 --> 00:36:58,720
Are you okay?

474
00:36:58,720 --> 00:37:00,720
Yeah, our car broke down the road.

475
00:37:00,720 --> 00:37:02,720
Oh gosh, can I give you a ride?

476
00:37:02,720 --> 00:37:03,720
Yes please.

477
00:37:03,720 --> 00:37:05,720
Come on in, it's so cold.

478
00:37:05,720 --> 00:37:11,720
I was pretty relieved to see someone and she had such a friendly face.

479
00:37:13,720 --> 00:37:15,720
Thank you so much for picking us up.

480
00:37:15,720 --> 00:37:16,720
My pleasure.

481
00:37:16,720 --> 00:37:20,720
We started driving and I told her where I lived at.

482
00:37:20,720 --> 00:37:22,720
Yeah, just a few miles up.

483
00:37:22,720 --> 00:37:24,720
We're in a cabin off the road in the woods.

484
00:37:24,720 --> 00:37:29,720
She said, oh so you must have heard the story about that house.

485
00:37:29,720 --> 00:37:32,720
You mean the one about the fire and the children who died?

486
00:37:32,720 --> 00:37:33,720
She said no, no.

487
00:37:33,720 --> 00:37:35,720
That wasn't what I meant.

488
00:37:35,720 --> 00:37:38,720
Surely you heard the rumors of what happened there.

489
00:37:41,720 --> 00:37:44,720
I'm sorry, I probably shouldn't say anything.

490
00:37:44,720 --> 00:37:46,720
No, please go on.

491
00:37:47,720 --> 00:37:49,720
She called it a rumor.

492
00:37:49,720 --> 00:37:54,720
Rumor has it that there was a man that was accused of being a child molester.

493
00:37:57,720 --> 00:38:00,720
He went missing in the woods behind your house.

494
00:38:08,720 --> 00:38:13,720
Some of the local men lured him into the woods under a pretext of going on a hunting trip.

495
00:38:19,720 --> 00:38:38,720
After they got far enough into the woods, they ambushed him and murdered him.

496
00:38:38,720 --> 00:38:48,720
And his body was never found.

497
00:39:08,720 --> 00:39:23,720
I was so stunned by what she had said that I don't remember the rest of the ride back to the house.

498
00:39:27,720 --> 00:39:28,720
Thank you.

499
00:39:28,720 --> 00:39:29,720
You're welcome.

500
00:39:29,720 --> 00:39:31,720
Take care, okay?

501
00:39:31,720 --> 00:39:42,720
I knew then that it was him.

502
00:39:42,720 --> 00:39:49,720
It was this man who had hurt other children while he was alive.

503
00:39:49,720 --> 00:39:53,720
And he was now hurting my children when he was dead.

504
00:40:32,720 --> 00:40:54,120
The

505
00:40:54,120 --> 00:40:59,720
We began to hear a noise, a scratching noise on the outside of the house.

506
00:40:59,720 --> 00:41:03,720
It sounded like something was trying to get in.

507
00:41:08,720 --> 00:41:13,720
I knew that I had to get my family away from this house.

508
00:41:13,720 --> 00:41:19,720
I needed to get them away fast and far.

509
00:41:19,720 --> 00:41:22,720
I didn't want anyone else to get hurt.

510
00:41:22,720 --> 00:41:23,720
You're married.

511
00:41:23,720 --> 00:41:24,720
Let's go.

512
00:41:24,720 --> 00:41:25,720
Let's go.

513
00:41:38,720 --> 00:41:39,720
Come on, let's go.

514
00:41:39,720 --> 00:41:40,720
There's my car.

515
00:41:40,720 --> 00:41:41,720
Let's go.

516
00:41:42,720 --> 00:41:43,720
Easy.

517
00:41:43,720 --> 00:41:45,720
We literally up and left.

518
00:41:45,720 --> 00:41:46,720
She's had enough.

519
00:41:46,720 --> 00:41:48,720
We're moving.

520
00:41:48,720 --> 00:41:50,720
I was fine with that.

521
00:41:53,720 --> 00:41:58,720
I never went back.

522
00:42:09,720 --> 00:42:17,720
I think when we first moved in there, the innocent playful things that were happening were the children.

523
00:42:17,720 --> 00:42:24,720
I feel that they were trying to protect my family from the man that hurt Sean.

524
00:42:30,720 --> 00:42:41,720
The stronger the violence got, the more powerful he became to the point where the children were unable to protect us from him anymore.

525
00:42:41,720 --> 00:42:45,720
And he was finally able to get in.

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And thinking back on everything, it just makes me wonder what really happened before we moved into that house.