Eli Roth Presents: A Ghost Ruined My Life (2021–…): Season 1, Episode 7 - Invitation To Evil - full transcript
I'm Eli Roth.
I've spent my life
telling horror stories.
But imagine if those
stories were real,
and suddenly you
found yourself stalked
and tormented by an evil spirit
and no one believes you.
These are the actual
accounts of terror
as told by the victims
who came face to face
with their demons
and survived.
Might wanna be a little wary
on taking anything
home with you.
I would honestly be surprised
if something were to
happen while you were here.
A lot of activity
seems to happen later
at night or early
in the morning.
Stuff happens.
But I do honestly hope
something does happen
so I know I'm still not crazy.
When I was younger, I grew
up mostly in the same city.
Everybody knows everybody.
You go to school
with the same people.
You know their parents. Their
parents know each other.
- Big game tonight.
- Mmm-hmm.
- Coming over to get ready?
- Wanna come to my place?
You never come to my
place. It's been what,
six months since I moved here?
Okay. 6:00 works for me.
Are we dressing up?
Just making sure.
I'm gonna babysit for
the Gradys tonight.
Don't let those two brats
give you any trouble.
Text when you're on your way?
Okay.
Hi.
You must be Shiann.
Nice to meet you,
Mrs. Jackson.
She's upstairs.
Thanks.
- Did you miss me?
- Hey, girl. Careful.
Oh.
Is there anyone else up here?
I thought I saw
someone in the hallway.
Maybe it was a ghost.
But, for real,
didn't I ever tell
you about the old lady
who died in this house?
You did not.
Well, there was.
She lived here alone.
No family, nothing.
She fell down the stairs
and broke her neck.
They say they didn't
find her body for weeks.
Who's they?
The house was full of
stuff when we moved in.
And it felt weird.
Like desperate, sad.
One time, I saw this
really dark shadow
- and it was just like...
- Carolyn,
stop telling those
stupid stories.
And I need you to
help me downstairs.
Mom hates it when
I talk about it,
but I think she's
just superstitious.
But I swear.
God, just imagine...
being that alone.
So alone, no one even
knows you died...
or even cares.
No wonder she bugs me.
What do you mean?
Carolyn, come on.
Hello?
Are you lonely?
You can come sit with me.
I'll be your friend.
Hey.
- You okay?
- Mmm-hmm.
- Ready to go?
- Yeah.
- Let me just grab my bag.
- Okay.
- What's wrong?
- Nothing. Let's... let's go.
You saw it. Shiann,
I know you saw her.
What did she do to you?
Enough about that.
There's no one in this house.
Besides, she was
probably some old shrew
who's not worth the thought.
So stop it.
Let's go.
- Oh, God.
- Are you okay?
Oh, God.
Oh, God.
She ended up breaking her leg.
I could feel the...
Like a bad energy in the
air just shifting around us.
I knew something was wrong.
As soon as I said,
"You can come sit down with me,"
the energy just seemed to
have gone a little thicker.
The air, it was kind
of hard to breathe.
Shiann?
What?
Can you please
turn the music down?
Okay. Okay.
Just a second.
What?
Mom?
It felt like somebody
was just watching me
the whole time from the
hallway or something,
and it was just very
uneasy and unsettling.
The feeling that I
got when I've seen it
was just complete fear.
I was terrified. I
didn't know what to do.
Maybe it's waiting to
do something bad to me.
It felt like something
horrible was gonna happen.
Okay. So I'll text
you later then?
- Okay.
- Okay.
Hey.
How's your mom?
Fine... things considered.
I saw...
I saw something weird on Friday.
Shush.
Mom's really hurt.
I don't wanna talk
about it, okay?
Okay.
Okay. Well, I gotta go.
Promised my sister
I'd watch Cindy.
- Okay. All right. Bye.
- See you.
- Almost ready.
- Okay.
Thank you.
I would feel a really
bad, negative energy.
And it didn't feel like anything
I've ever been used to.
And then Mr. Frog
saw through the clearing
the beautiful pond.
And Frog and Toad
went to the pond
and found a big picnic.
I loved it.
I knew you would.
Good night, hon.
Tomorrow, we'll
go for ice cream.
Shiann.
Leave me alone!
Leave me alone.
It made me want to
scream, cry, run.
You don't know what it wants.
You don't know if it
wants to harm you.
You don't know if it wants to
harm somebody in your family.
I believe the more that
you talk about something,
the more it allows
it to come in,
especially with talking
about things that happened
in the building
that it happened.
So I do believe that
probably after today,
things will probably
get more active.
I've always believed that
there's a possibility
of something more
than just us here,
but didn't know how wide
that spectrum will go.
Has it done anything to you?
What are you talking about?
You know what I mean.
- It's gone.
- What?
It's gone. It
attacked my mom...
and left.
It's gone.
Listen, I think that...
I don't wanna talk
about it, okay?
Secrets?
I would just try
and talk to her,
see if anything had been
happening at her house.
And when I asked,
she just shook her
head and was like,
"Nothing's happened
since she left."
This was because I
invited the ghost
to sit down and be my friend.
You can come sit with me.
So I was a little
upset with myself
on what I had done
and what I had said.
To take power away
from an entity
is as simple as not
giving them power.
So it's attached to me.
I decided that I
had to do something
to fix what was going on.
I didn't know how but I wanted
to figure out something.
It's hard to understand
and wrap your head
around what's happening.
I don't even know how to
talk to anyone about it.
I was very scared
for the future.
Maybe like an unwanted friend,
I just have to stop
paying attention.
All I could think
is that I just...
I wanna get away from this.
I want this energy to stop.
It could be a relief to
be able to be normal.
Shiann and I hit
it off pretty quickly.
We went on a few dates
and it was pretty serious
from the start.
This is my place.
It's late and I've
got work tomorrow.
Yeah.
I'll walk you to the door.
No one else is home tonight.
Do you wanna come
inside for a bit?
Ha ha. Very funny, Shiann.
- That wasn't me.
- Shiann, come on.
Let me in.
Let me in, Shiann.
Shiann.
Shiann, what's going on?
Shiann.
Vanian. Vanian, help.
Vanian, open up.
Whoa. Wait.
Can we go to your place tonight?
Yeah. Yeah.
I told him that I am
followed by something.
He believes that
there are no ghosts.
What are you guys doing here?
Girl, we're taking
you out tonight.
Come on.
Where are we going?
It's a surprise.
Let's go. Come on.
We're here.
Are you kidding me?
We thought
it'd be fun.
You haven't been yourself.
You've been stressed. You
need a night to relax.
It'll be fun.
Besides, it's not real.
I can't believe
you took me here.
Whoa.
Did you guys feel that?
Guys?
Vanian?
Vanian?
Shiann.
Shiann.
Hey.
Hey. Hey. It's just
a haunted house.
Look!
It's very scary realizing that
whatever this is can do more.
It was very hard going
through everything that was happening.
When I would try
and tell my family,
they kind of look at me and I
would feel like I was crazy.
Vanian doesn't even believe me.
At first,
I was very skeptical
and I didn't believe
a lot of the things
that she claimed were going on.
Good move.
You gotta get out of here.
Where do you wanna go?
That's not what I meant.
We both graduated.
We're both working.
I think it's time
we make a move.
We had that kind
of fresh feeling
that maybe this was our chance.
It's a chance to escape,
and I just wanna leave
this thing behind.
When we got into our own house,
it felt like a dream.
It was a big step for us.
It was complete bliss.
I wasn't hearing
anything, seeing anything.
It was very relaxing
and peaceful.
It honestly was like heaven.
My niece is my absolutely
favorite person in my family.
She's like my best
friend and I watch her
as much as I possibly can.
Hey, Cindy.
Hmm, what you drawing?
Cookies.
Last treat then bed, okay?
But this time you have
to sit in the kitchen
like a big girl.
No.
Why?
But I like it here.
She started screaming
bloody murder
like we've never heard
her scream before.
So we both booked in there
to see what was going on
and she's staring into
the closet screaming.
It's here. It's back.
She had a nightmare.
It followed me.
You're talking crazy, Shiann.
She's a kid.
There's nothing here.
Vanian!
Oh, you're bleeding.
I saw it.
I'm scared.
- It's real.
- Sit down.
I'll go get some bandages.
I saw it.
I saw that.
There's
something here.
I've seen it and
it's horrifying.
I didn't understand or
believe in any of this,
and then all of a sudden
it's a big part of my life.
I know
it's still here.
It's using him and
hurting him to get to me.
It's still following me.
It made me question the
safety of the people
who enter our house.
We hear quite a few things
that happen in the attic.
We've actually heard a
table moving around up there
that we have recently found.
We didn't know it was
up there right away.
And you can go up into
the attic but I will...
I'm not willing to
take you up there.
My boyfriend, Vanian,
will have to take you up there.
It felt like there
was like a hot breath
breathing right on to
the side of my face.
And I came down
and told her that,
and that kind of
just pushed her away
from ever wanting to
come up here ever again.
But I was looking in
that way and it felt like
someone's face was
right here next to me,
just breathing hot
air on to my face.
I think that by putting us
through these experiences,
it's telling us that
we don't have control,
and the more we try
to gain control,
the more we're
gonna lose control.
As things progressed
and got worse, it...
It's very unsettling to
even be alone in the house.
Shiann...
never leave me.
Let me in. I'm coming in.
I want in.
Leave! Just leave!
You are not welcome here!
Get out!
Maybe that's all I need to do,
just tell it to leave.
And the new energy in this home
is a recipe for a disaster.
There's nothing
beyond its control.
But I believe that it's not
bigger than the both of us.
Things were fine and
quiet for a while
and I felt normal again...
until I decided to
recolor my hair.
Shiann!
Open the door.
Hey. Hey. Hey.
It's okay. It's okay.
You're okay.
Shh.
From now on, I gotta
take care of you, okay?
Nothing can hurt you
when we're together.
It's very stressful
to know that every day
there's a possibility that
something bad could happen,
and it's like
stepping on hot coals
or, you know, walking
on broken glass.
You don't wanna say the wrong
thing or do the wrong thing.
I was posting
about it on social media,
asking for advice
and what to do.
"An entity attaches
to a person, not a place,
and doesn't leave until
it gets what it wants.
"Have you tried saging?"
What's saging?
A lot of people had
actually commented,
telling me on stuff
that I could do
that they believe works.
The only thing I was
gonna be comfortable with
would be burning sage.
I'm hoping this
might actually end up
helping whatever's
in here move on.
While I'm doing this, I'm
just gonna say out loud
I'd like any negative energy
in this house to leave
or move on and no longer
bother or harm us...
in the nicest way possible.
I have read that
you can cleanse yourself
with the sage as well
and let the smoke
go around your body.
You want me to sage you?
Stand like this so that you
can get us both in the frame.
This stuff calming
down a little bit
would be ideal for us.
Everything not becoming so harsh
and dominant in a
way, I would say.
Just finally have a
chance to be on our own.
A huge part of me just
wanted to step back
and wish I never went to my
friend's house that night
and wish that I
never had to deal
with everything happening,
but you can't live
in the past forever.
We're hopeful that
something will finally work,
but there's always in
the back of my head
that I accepted what is...
what is going on and that
it may not ever leave me.
Shiann.
Do you have a
supernatural stalker?
We want to tell your story.
Contact us here.
I've spent my life
telling horror stories.
But imagine if those
stories were real,
and suddenly you
found yourself stalked
and tormented by an evil spirit
and no one believes you.
These are the actual
accounts of terror
as told by the victims
who came face to face
with their demons
and survived.
Might wanna be a little wary
on taking anything
home with you.
I would honestly be surprised
if something were to
happen while you were here.
A lot of activity
seems to happen later
at night or early
in the morning.
Stuff happens.
But I do honestly hope
something does happen
so I know I'm still not crazy.
When I was younger, I grew
up mostly in the same city.
Everybody knows everybody.
You go to school
with the same people.
You know their parents. Their
parents know each other.
- Big game tonight.
- Mmm-hmm.
- Coming over to get ready?
- Wanna come to my place?
You never come to my
place. It's been what,
six months since I moved here?
Okay. 6:00 works for me.
Are we dressing up?
Just making sure.
I'm gonna babysit for
the Gradys tonight.
Don't let those two brats
give you any trouble.
Text when you're on your way?
Okay.
Hi.
You must be Shiann.
Nice to meet you,
Mrs. Jackson.
She's upstairs.
Thanks.
- Did you miss me?
- Hey, girl. Careful.
Oh.
Is there anyone else up here?
I thought I saw
someone in the hallway.
Maybe it was a ghost.
But, for real,
didn't I ever tell
you about the old lady
who died in this house?
You did not.
Well, there was.
She lived here alone.
No family, nothing.
She fell down the stairs
and broke her neck.
They say they didn't
find her body for weeks.
Who's they?
The house was full of
stuff when we moved in.
And it felt weird.
Like desperate, sad.
One time, I saw this
really dark shadow
- and it was just like...
- Carolyn,
stop telling those
stupid stories.
And I need you to
help me downstairs.
Mom hates it when
I talk about it,
but I think she's
just superstitious.
But I swear.
God, just imagine...
being that alone.
So alone, no one even
knows you died...
or even cares.
No wonder she bugs me.
What do you mean?
Carolyn, come on.
Hello?
Are you lonely?
You can come sit with me.
I'll be your friend.
Hey.
- You okay?
- Mmm-hmm.
- Ready to go?
- Yeah.
- Let me just grab my bag.
- Okay.
- What's wrong?
- Nothing. Let's... let's go.
You saw it. Shiann,
I know you saw her.
What did she do to you?
Enough about that.
There's no one in this house.
Besides, she was
probably some old shrew
who's not worth the thought.
So stop it.
Let's go.
- Oh, God.
- Are you okay?
Oh, God.
Oh, God.
She ended up breaking her leg.
I could feel the...
Like a bad energy in the
air just shifting around us.
I knew something was wrong.
As soon as I said,
"You can come sit down with me,"
the energy just seemed to
have gone a little thicker.
The air, it was kind
of hard to breathe.
Shiann?
What?
Can you please
turn the music down?
Okay. Okay.
Just a second.
What?
Mom?
It felt like somebody
was just watching me
the whole time from the
hallway or something,
and it was just very
uneasy and unsettling.
The feeling that I
got when I've seen it
was just complete fear.
I was terrified. I
didn't know what to do.
Maybe it's waiting to
do something bad to me.
It felt like something
horrible was gonna happen.
Okay. So I'll text
you later then?
- Okay.
- Okay.
Hey.
How's your mom?
Fine... things considered.
I saw...
I saw something weird on Friday.
Shush.
Mom's really hurt.
I don't wanna talk
about it, okay?
Okay.
Okay. Well, I gotta go.
Promised my sister
I'd watch Cindy.
- Okay. All right. Bye.
- See you.
- Almost ready.
- Okay.
Thank you.
I would feel a really
bad, negative energy.
And it didn't feel like anything
I've ever been used to.
And then Mr. Frog
saw through the clearing
the beautiful pond.
And Frog and Toad
went to the pond
and found a big picnic.
I loved it.
I knew you would.
Good night, hon.
Tomorrow, we'll
go for ice cream.
Shiann.
Leave me alone!
Leave me alone.
It made me want to
scream, cry, run.
You don't know what it wants.
You don't know if it
wants to harm you.
You don't know if it wants to
harm somebody in your family.
I believe the more that
you talk about something,
the more it allows
it to come in,
especially with talking
about things that happened
in the building
that it happened.
So I do believe that
probably after today,
things will probably
get more active.
I've always believed that
there's a possibility
of something more
than just us here,
but didn't know how wide
that spectrum will go.
Has it done anything to you?
What are you talking about?
You know what I mean.
- It's gone.
- What?
It's gone. It
attacked my mom...
and left.
It's gone.
Listen, I think that...
I don't wanna talk
about it, okay?
Secrets?
I would just try
and talk to her,
see if anything had been
happening at her house.
And when I asked,
she just shook her
head and was like,
"Nothing's happened
since she left."
This was because I
invited the ghost
to sit down and be my friend.
You can come sit with me.
So I was a little
upset with myself
on what I had done
and what I had said.
To take power away
from an entity
is as simple as not
giving them power.
So it's attached to me.
I decided that I
had to do something
to fix what was going on.
I didn't know how but I wanted
to figure out something.
It's hard to understand
and wrap your head
around what's happening.
I don't even know how to
talk to anyone about it.
I was very scared
for the future.
Maybe like an unwanted friend,
I just have to stop
paying attention.
All I could think
is that I just...
I wanna get away from this.
I want this energy to stop.
It could be a relief to
be able to be normal.
Shiann and I hit
it off pretty quickly.
We went on a few dates
and it was pretty serious
from the start.
This is my place.
It's late and I've
got work tomorrow.
Yeah.
I'll walk you to the door.
No one else is home tonight.
Do you wanna come
inside for a bit?
Ha ha. Very funny, Shiann.
- That wasn't me.
- Shiann, come on.
Let me in.
Let me in, Shiann.
Shiann.
Shiann, what's going on?
Shiann.
Vanian. Vanian, help.
Vanian, open up.
Whoa. Wait.
Can we go to your place tonight?
Yeah. Yeah.
I told him that I am
followed by something.
He believes that
there are no ghosts.
What are you guys doing here?
Girl, we're taking
you out tonight.
Come on.
Where are we going?
It's a surprise.
Let's go. Come on.
We're here.
Are you kidding me?
We thought
it'd be fun.
You haven't been yourself.
You've been stressed. You
need a night to relax.
It'll be fun.
Besides, it's not real.
I can't believe
you took me here.
Whoa.
Did you guys feel that?
Guys?
Vanian?
Vanian?
Shiann.
Shiann.
Hey.
Hey. Hey. It's just
a haunted house.
Look!
It's very scary realizing that
whatever this is can do more.
It was very hard going
through everything that was happening.
When I would try
and tell my family,
they kind of look at me and I
would feel like I was crazy.
Vanian doesn't even believe me.
At first,
I was very skeptical
and I didn't believe
a lot of the things
that she claimed were going on.
Good move.
You gotta get out of here.
Where do you wanna go?
That's not what I meant.
We both graduated.
We're both working.
I think it's time
we make a move.
We had that kind
of fresh feeling
that maybe this was our chance.
It's a chance to escape,
and I just wanna leave
this thing behind.
When we got into our own house,
it felt like a dream.
It was a big step for us.
It was complete bliss.
I wasn't hearing
anything, seeing anything.
It was very relaxing
and peaceful.
It honestly was like heaven.
My niece is my absolutely
favorite person in my family.
She's like my best
friend and I watch her
as much as I possibly can.
Hey, Cindy.
Hmm, what you drawing?
Cookies.
Last treat then bed, okay?
But this time you have
to sit in the kitchen
like a big girl.
No.
Why?
But I like it here.
She started screaming
bloody murder
like we've never heard
her scream before.
So we both booked in there
to see what was going on
and she's staring into
the closet screaming.
It's here. It's back.
She had a nightmare.
It followed me.
You're talking crazy, Shiann.
She's a kid.
There's nothing here.
Vanian!
Oh, you're bleeding.
I saw it.
I'm scared.
- It's real.
- Sit down.
I'll go get some bandages.
I saw it.
I saw that.
There's
something here.
I've seen it and
it's horrifying.
I didn't understand or
believe in any of this,
and then all of a sudden
it's a big part of my life.
I know
it's still here.
It's using him and
hurting him to get to me.
It's still following me.
It made me question the
safety of the people
who enter our house.
We hear quite a few things
that happen in the attic.
We've actually heard a
table moving around up there
that we have recently found.
We didn't know it was
up there right away.
And you can go up into
the attic but I will...
I'm not willing to
take you up there.
My boyfriend, Vanian,
will have to take you up there.
It felt like there
was like a hot breath
breathing right on to
the side of my face.
And I came down
and told her that,
and that kind of
just pushed her away
from ever wanting to
come up here ever again.
But I was looking in
that way and it felt like
someone's face was
right here next to me,
just breathing hot
air on to my face.
I think that by putting us
through these experiences,
it's telling us that
we don't have control,
and the more we try
to gain control,
the more we're
gonna lose control.
As things progressed
and got worse, it...
It's very unsettling to
even be alone in the house.
Shiann...
never leave me.
Let me in. I'm coming in.
I want in.
Leave! Just leave!
You are not welcome here!
Get out!
Maybe that's all I need to do,
just tell it to leave.
And the new energy in this home
is a recipe for a disaster.
There's nothing
beyond its control.
But I believe that it's not
bigger than the both of us.
Things were fine and
quiet for a while
and I felt normal again...
until I decided to
recolor my hair.
Shiann!
Open the door.
Hey. Hey. Hey.
It's okay. It's okay.
You're okay.
Shh.
From now on, I gotta
take care of you, okay?
Nothing can hurt you
when we're together.
It's very stressful
to know that every day
there's a possibility that
something bad could happen,
and it's like
stepping on hot coals
or, you know, walking
on broken glass.
You don't wanna say the wrong
thing or do the wrong thing.
I was posting
about it on social media,
asking for advice
and what to do.
"An entity attaches
to a person, not a place,
and doesn't leave until
it gets what it wants.
"Have you tried saging?"
What's saging?
A lot of people had
actually commented,
telling me on stuff
that I could do
that they believe works.
The only thing I was
gonna be comfortable with
would be burning sage.
I'm hoping this
might actually end up
helping whatever's
in here move on.
While I'm doing this, I'm
just gonna say out loud
I'd like any negative energy
in this house to leave
or move on and no longer
bother or harm us...
in the nicest way possible.
I have read that
you can cleanse yourself
with the sage as well
and let the smoke
go around your body.
You want me to sage you?
Stand like this so that you
can get us both in the frame.
This stuff calming
down a little bit
would be ideal for us.
Everything not becoming so harsh
and dominant in a
way, I would say.
Just finally have a
chance to be on our own.
A huge part of me just
wanted to step back
and wish I never went to my
friend's house that night
and wish that I
never had to deal
with everything happening,
but you can't live
in the past forever.
We're hopeful that
something will finally work,
but there's always in
the back of my head
that I accepted what is...
what is going on and that
it may not ever leave me.
Shiann.
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