Ghost Nation (2019–…): Season 1, Episode 3 - The Novelist's Nightmare - full transcript

Next on "ghost nation"...

Almost a 60.
Wow. My gosh.

This whole room
is like this.

This family
is under attack.

It's a little
frightening and unnerving.

Is it possible that
a body is buried here?

Find it!

I write dark horror.

When I write,

that's when the activity
really stirs up.

"he looks down at his feet,
which is oozing blood."



hello?

I felt a sudden punch.

The closet door
started to fall on me.

There's something dark here.

"there is something else
in this house."

make some sort
of a noise.

Let us know
you're here with us.

I'm right beside you.

We are a community of searchers.

This family
is under attack.

We are...

..."ghost nation."

All right.
Welcome to "paradelphia."

and we have quite the treat
for you guys tonight.



Joining us in studio --

jason hawes, steve gonsalves,
and dave tango.

So it's been quite a few years.
What have you guys been doing?

Steve and I have created

united paranormal
research organization.

Yeah.
We're creating a network

all over the country that
investigate under our protocols,

and when they sort of need,
you know, the next step,

that they're
getting in touch with us.

And when you guys have a set
protocol like that,

it helps with validation

of any kind of evidence
you come up with.

Yeah, absolutely.

Today we are
just outside philadelphia

talking to local paranormal
investigators

doug hogate and rick pruitt
on their podcast,

cleverly called "paradelphia."

that gets me thinking
about a very difficult case.

For the last 12, 13 years,

I've ran my own
paranormal research team.

Jersey's unique minds paranormal
society, also known as jumps,

and we have a case
that has me at a speed bump.

I've investigated
twice already,

but things seem
to keep happening

to the family
and intensifying.

And if you were interested
in taking a look at it,

I could show you
some of the things we found

and explain it to you.

Yeah, I'd definitely be
interested in checking it out.

This is exactly why
we created

the united paranormal
research organization.

We wanted to help investigators
with their difficult cases.

The client, mario -- he is
actually a horror writer.

His creativity and the way
he's always thinking things up

in his writing
could have an effect

on the activity
they are having.

The client's daughter's --
10-year-old --

seems to be having
the most experiences.

So what's happening
with the daughter?

The main thing is
this closet door

had forcefully ripped off
of its changes.

I would think that the daughter
being at that age --

if anybody was to manifest
the activity,

it would be her
manifesting it.
Sure.

Poltergeists?
Self-manifestation?

I mean, it's a common thing
for young girls

as they're getting ready
to enter into adulthood.

Poltergeist is a german
word meaning noisy spirit.

It's often associated
with an unseen force

that has the ability
to throw objects around a room.

These manifestations
were long thought

to be the work of demons.

today we believe
these evil spirits

to be caused by an individual

who is under
extreme emotional distress.

Oftentimes the victim
of these otherworldly forces

are adolescents.

And, also, she sees all around
the house and property

an apparition
of a little girl.

I have an evp, if you guys
like to hear.

- Yeah, sure.
- Why not?

All right.

Is there
another person here

that also helps you?

A evp of someone
saying, "it's me."

it's me.

I promise all my clients that
I'm with them till the end.

So that is why my next step
was call for help.

Well, and anytime
the case involves a family,

especially with children,

it jumps
to the priority list for us.

So let's just get over there
and meet the family

and start trying to figure out
what's happening.

They will be thrilled.
I know they want answers.

Cases that involve
poltergeist activity are rare

and extremely dangerous.

If this family's experiencing
both spirit

and poltergeist activity

that is being intensified
by the father's horror writing,

we're gonna have
our hands full.

- What's up, dude?
- Hey, guys.

- How you doing?
- Hey. Come on in, guys.

- All right.
- How are you?

yeah, doug filled us in a little
bit on what's happening here,

and it all sounds
pretty intense.

- Yeah.
- Yeah.

When we bought this house,
it was a fixer-upper.

Literally within
couple of weeks,

that's when stuff
started to stir up.

Before we moved in here,

we were just a normal family.

I write dark stuff --
dark horror.

When I write,
it's almost like

whatever's in this house is
feeding off of my dark energy.

My daughter, summer,
was the first person

that experienced
anything paranormal.

summer has told us
multiple times

that she has a relationship
with this little girl.

It's a little
unnerving to think

that my daughter
is speaking to someone

that's not physically here.

One day summer was
in the bathroom,

and I heard her
screaming my name.

So I went up there,

and summer had
an entire new vision

of this little girl
with black hair

and black tears
crying in the shower.

It was more frightening.

I saw a black cloud
in my bedroom.

and it really scared me.

The cloud would hover
over top of me.

One night,
I was sitting on my carpet.

Coloring,
and I felt a sudden punch.

In my back.

I turned around,
but no one was there.

And I started hearing creaking,

so I started yelling,
"mom! Mom!"

the closet door
started to fall on me.

I had to run and grab it

before the entire thing
fell on her.

I felt like someone
was trying to harm me.

Later on, summer saw
a man in the backyard

when she was playing
near the tree.

Anytime she was
out there playing,

she said
she would see him.

In the living room,

I have experienced shadow people
go up and down the stairs.

I've experienced stuff
on my own

in the basement.

I was just laying down
to go to sleep.

One of the toys went off.
Then another toy went off.

It happened again.

that's when I ran out
of the basement.

As soon as that incident
happened, we had no choice

but to call somebody
to finally figure out

what was really
going on here

and to try
and put an end to it all.

how are your children
being affected with this?

I had to physically move
my daughter's room.

She won't sleep in there.

A female child of that age
a lot of times

can manifest
the activity themselves,

especially
poltergeist-type activity.

They can actually create
the things

that are going on
in the house.

What's the most recent activity
that you all have had?

Couple times
when I've been here,

my son will point,

and he'll say
"monster. The monster."

he was looking to the basement,
and he's saying,

"it's down there.
It's down there."

I do have
video footage of that.

What do you see down there?

Where?

Oh, geez.

And then I'm getting freaked out
'cause, you know what I mean?

I'm in the house
with my son seeing monsters,

and I don't see anything.

Where do you think
the hottest spots

of paranormal activity
are in the house?

My daughter's old room,
which is now our office,

and the tree
in the backyard.

When we first moved in
the house,

my daughter
was instantly drawn to

the backyard
and to this tree.

Well, do you want to
show us this tree?

Absolutely.

You guys mind if
I set up command center?

- Yeah, set it up.
- All right.

Yeah, so this is
the tree right here.

Do you think we can
talk with summer

about her connection
to this tree?

- Yeah, absolutely.
- Yeah, absolutely.

- Hey, sum, come here.
- Okay.

- Over there swinging away.
- Wow.

- Here she comes.
- How are you, summer?

- I'm good.
- I'm jason. This is steve.

- Hi, summer.
- Hi.

So we were talking to your mom
and dad about this tree.

Have you had any experiences,

or have you seen anything
over here?

There was a guy
right over there I could see

just kind of glide
towards me.

And it really scared me.

What did he look like?

Like, really pale, light,
and I could see him,

and then
he just went away.

It's possible summer
could be the catalyst

for the poltergeist activity
in this house.

She doesn't appear
to be anything

but a normal young girl.

But then again,
that's often the case.

It's usually
the inner conflict of youth

that can cause a poltergeist
to manifest.

Well, I think we got
everything we need.

- Yeah. Thank you so much.
- Yeah. Thank you guys.

While charmaine and the
two children leave their home,

we've asked mario to join us
tonight for an experiment.

We're going to set up a camera
in every room

where the cerritos have
experienced paranormal activity.

In the living room, we'll focus
the camera on the stairs,

one in summer's bedroom,

and one in the office.

We're also going to cover
the backyard,

where the cerritos' daughter,
summer,

has seen the apparition
of a man near one of the trees.

All right, we got
most of the equipment set up,

ready to go.

Well, with everything going on
in the backyard and summer,

I can walk around
with the full-spectrum camera

right there, steve,
in your hand.

The full-spectrum camera is able
to see the sources of light

that we're not able to see.

I think
that's a great idea.

With poltergeist activity
being reported in the house,

dave and I are gonna
start our investigation

in the basement playroom
where mario cerrito

has experienced
toys going off on their own

and where little mario
has reported seeing

what he called monsters.

What do you see down here?

- Playroom.
- All right.

So these are
the toys, huh?

And he says that
a good handful of them

all went off
at the same time,

like, just started,
"ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba!"

hmm.

Do you know a little girl
by the name of summer?

They claim
to see you walking around.

if there is any toy in here
you want to play with,

we'll play with it.

are you into playing games?

Summer says she's seen
a man hanging around this tree.

You're frightening her.

Who are you?

I have this device
which will let me see you.

- whoa!
- What?

That -- look.

Look what just happened.
Yeah.

One toy fell on this one.
This one went off.

This one went off,
and this one went off.

I wonder if something like that
happened to mario.

Three or four of them
went off at once.

- Right.
- You know, it scared him.

He's already on edge because
of all the strange things

happening in the house.

- He just got spooked.
- Yep.

It's one explanation, but I want
to keep my eye on this room.

We've got lightning.
We've got tornado warnings.

That's perfect to help electrify
the air for activities.

I mean, the theory is it could
ionize the atmosphere.

If you guys
want to head in

and see if reciting some of
that, you know, written word

could work as a catalyst,
you're all set.

- Sounds good.
- Thank you. All right.

Homeowner mario cerrito

believes that writing
his horror stories in the house

could be triggering
the paranormal activity.

So to test his theory,
we're sending doug and mario

to the most active room
in the house --

summer's old bedroom,
which is now mario's office.

This is where a door
became mysteriously unhinged

and fell on her

and where she's seen
the apparition of a little girl.

It's also where doug
caught his evp.

This is one of
your scripts

for one of your movies,
correct?

Yes.
So if you want to
go ahead

and just start
reading part of it,

and we'll see if we can get
any kind of reaction.

"he looks down at his feet
and sees a brown box,

which is oozing blood."

Hello?

did you just knock?

you heard that, too,
right, mario?

Yes, I did.

We're investigating
the home of the cerrito family

in rural mantua, new jersey,

where a horror writer's
10-year-old daughter, summer,

could be the victim
of a poltergeist

that's causing disturbances
throughout the family home.

But she's also being tormented
by the spirit of a little girl

and a man she has seen by a tree
in the backyard.

We're using homeowner mario
as a trigger object

to test his belief
that his horror writing

is activating spirits
in this house.

"'leave this house' is written
real big in red spray paint

on the white wall.

He looks down at his feet
and sees a brown box,

which is oozing blood."

mm.

Hello?

did you just knock?

you heard that, too,
right, mario?

Yes, I did.

I would love for you
to knock again.

"his eyes widen in fear
as he sees what's inside --

raw, fresh, bleeding
intestines and organs.

Matt grabs the note
that is inside and reads it.

'unless you want to end up
in the next box,

leave this house.'"

okay, hold on one second.

it sounds like
a very slight movement.

Are you moving around
in that living room?

I'm not trying to chase you
through the house.

I'm just trying to
talk to you.

Are you the little girl
crying black tears

that summer has seen?

Are you trying to be
her friend?

If you're a child,

you don't have to be
afraid of me.

I am a daddy myself.
I have three young kids.

if that's you trying
to give me a sign

you gotta do
better than that.

but I don't know.
It could be the water outside.

hey, guys.
How did it go in there?

I wanted to test the theory
of him reading his scripts

to see if
we got any responses.

And it seemed as if something
was getting me to chase them,

but it wasn't
consistent enough.

If it was making the noises,

answering that couldn't
really determine it yet.

The noises doug heard
with mario are interesting.

I wonder if mario's
writing of horror stories

could actually be
triggering spirit

or poltergeist activity
in the house.

Mario is going to be joining his
family for the rest of the week.

But doug will be
staying on with us.

Mario, thanks for
your time, man.
Absolutely, man.

I'm glad you were able to
hang out with us tonight.

We have dvrs rolling all night,

so we'll see
if we capture anything

that might have been
stirred up by mario.

it's day 2 of our investigation,

and last night didn't reveal
any poltergeist activity

or the source of the little girl
or the male spirit

that summer's been encountering.

We've looked a
a local librarian

who is knowledgeable about the
history of the cerrito property.

We're meeting with her to see
if she can help steer us

to the source of summer's
frightening occurrences.

- Hello.
- How are you?

Thanks so much
for taking the time.

Yeah, absolutely.

So you were able to find
some stuff out for us?

Yes. I have some good things
for you, I think.

This area here is kind of what
we're looking at here.

I know it's mostly farmland.

The property that
you were looking at

lots of different people
have owned.

Are there any families
that stood out to you?

Any children who died
on the property?

One of the families
that kind of caught our eye

was the wood family.

- Okay.
- Okay.

And they had a death
in the family.

A young child died --

gerrard woolston wood.

What exactly
can you tell us about that?

We have his
death certificate here.

He died of diphtheria
at the age of 11.

It looks like he was sick
for nine days.

It looks like
he died in 1882.
Exactly.

And any of the other children
pass away there, too,

or is that the only one
that we...?

That was the only one
in the wood family

that died that we found.

So in that same area, also,
the jones family lived there.

So this is jones corner.

The cerrito family home
is probably right about here.

So it borders it.
So they were neighbors?

Exactly. They purchased
that property in 1911.

It was isaac murray jones
and his wife, anna.

They moved there
with three daughters.

Two of them actually died.

One baby girl, evelyth --

she only made it
to two weeks old,

and then the other one
was margaret.

And we had a death certificate
for her, as well.

Margaret died of scarlet fever.
She was 6 years six.

Six.

Well, thank you so much for
taking the time out of your day.

- Absolutely.
- This is a lot of help for us.

Yeah, sure.

Over a century ago,
two children died

on or near
the cerritos' property --

6- year-old margaret jones
and 11-year-old gerrard wood,

whose family once owned
a large piece of land

believed to have included
the cerritos' property.

Both children are now paranormal
suspects in our investigation.

It's possible margaret
might be a migratory spirit

with black tears
traveling to this house.

We also have to consider

that there might be a connection
between gerrard wood's death

and the spirit of a man
seen by the tree.

Since the house
is so small,

I feel like real-time analysis
call-and-response

could really happen
in the central area of the house

- right there in the living room?
- Right.

The most open space
we can find.

Right. And then we can hear
and see things

at the staircase,
as they claim to see

those shadows
at the staircase.

Right.

so here we have.
Real-time analysis

and investigation
call-and-response session.

My name is dave.

I'm steve.

My name's jason.
There's a new family here.

They have little children
with them.

They're afraid to sleep
in their rooms.

And obviously the parents
that live here are concerned.

Do you realize
that you're scaring them?

We want to know
who you are.

We know that a little boy
named gerrard wood

died on this property
at 11 years old.

We also know that margaret jones
died nearby at 6 years old.

Are either of you here?

Can imagine how tough it is
for a father to have lost

an 11-year-old son.
Good point, jay.

Your son was sick
for nine days.

I'm sure you probably tried
everything you could.

I can't imagine the pain
you must have felt.

Is there something
keeping you here?

is that you

the family has seen out
in the yard by the tree?

are you looking
for your son?

if you're gerrard wood jr.,
11 years old,

are you here with us?

Or margaret?

Can you show yourself to us?

that "boom, boom, boom."

I can't tell where
that's coming from.

Do you hear that, too?

I can't tell if it's in
the house or outside the house.

It's, like, banging --
a little...

Listen.

- There it is.
- It's right there.

Yeah.

We're investigating
a house in a rural new jersey

where the homeowner believes
that his horror writing

is stirring up
paranormal occurrences.

"he looks down at his feet
and sees a brown box

oozing blood."

We're looking into
the possibility

of both poltergeist
and spirit activity.

We learned from
a local historian

that a girl, margaret jones,
tragically died nearby

and a young boy, gerrard wood,
died on the property.

I wonder if these children
or gerrard's father

could be behind
the cerritos' haunting.

Can you show yourself to us?

Listen.

- There it is.
- It's right there.

Yeah.

there it is.

I'll just walk the house

all right.

Margaret jones,

how about doing something
to let us know you're here?

this is where summer
used to sleep

and had the door fall on her.

It's also where
doug captured his evp.

Have an evp.

Is there
another person here

that also helps you?

Are any of
the wood family here,

or an entity
that wants to show itself?

If you want me
to leave this room,

you can do a loud bang.

How about that?

I didn't hear anything
once I got up there.

All right, so check that
off the list.

That's something
that now we know.

So far we haven't been able
to make contact with the spirits

of margaret jones or
any of the wood family members.

So we're going to reassess
the best way forward.

Now, what do you think
about what we learned today?

Do you think that
the woods family

the jones family are
playing anything into this?

It didn't seem to really
trigger anything.

The funny thing is, though,
with farmland,

you got to remember,
a lot of those families

would bury their family members
on their land.
Mm-hmm.

So it's always a possibility

that they could have buried
somebody on this land.

Mm-hmm.

Well, everything going on
in the backyard and summer,

I mean, we could always
see about

possibly getting a cadaver dog
down and at least seeing

if there are
any unmarked graves back there.

- I think we need to.
- Rule it out, you know?

At least we'd be
one step closer

into figuring
if that's even a possibility.

You know, all about
checking off boxes, you know?

- It's a process of elimination.
- Process of elimination.

- We can try again tomorrow.
- Yeah.

Just because activity
doesn't happen now

doesn't mean
it won't happen tomorrow.

Absolutely.

Our next course of action

is to investigate the tree
in the backyard

where summer saw
the apparition of a male.

It's possible he could be
the father of gerrard wood,

who died on the property.

To find the answers, we need
to go beyond human perception.

it's the next day
of our investigation,

and we are turning
to the expertise of canines

to help us with our case.

All right, we'll meet you
out there, then.

Thanks.
All right.

Mark from greater philadelphia
search and rescue is here.

Cadaver dogs.
Look at this.

Wow.
They got a lot of dogs.

You've got the whole gang here.
Thank you for coming out

and spending some time
with us today.

This is gonna be
quite valuable to our research.

No problem.

But we just want to
find out,

is it possible that
a body is buried here?

Dogs I have today are
specially trained to find

deceased people
and human remains.
Sure.

They can find people that are
missing over 100 years.

- Oh, my god.
- Geez.

What will they do when they
hit on something?

Will they sit?
Will they go back to it?

Will they circle?
Sit, bark, alert.

It's different
for different ones.

- I see. Okay.
- All right.

So what's the next step, then?
What do we got to do?

We should drive some rebar
and perk the soil here

a little bit
and let it aerate,

and then run the dogs through
one at a time

and see what they get.

So maybe we'll start
perking the ground...

- Get it set.
- Get it set.

And they can
do their thing.

Absolutely. I think
that's the way to do it.

If there is a body
buried in the backyard,

it's possible
it's been there for a century

and nobody today
would know it's there.

- Steve, do you trust me?
- No.

You guys are gonna
kill each other.

See, if I was holding it,
that would be my hand --

broken wrist.

all right,
one probe done.

guys, I've got like 30 done.

What, you got
a special tool?

- Got a special tool?
- It's a special ground poker.

It's a broken golf club

- special tool.
- Special tool.

We did like you said
we perked the ground

about every
two to four feet.
Yep.

And there's a nice grid
back here.

So it'd be cool
if we just hung out up there?

Stand over there
and look pretty.

All right.

search!

The average human

has 5 million
olfactory receptors

while the average dog has
220 million.

If gerrard wood
or another family member

was buried on the property,
these cadaver dogs

will be able
to pick up their scent.

Here's dog number 2.

These dogs are sent out
one at a time

so that
the search-and-rescue team

could see if each dog reacts
to the same area.

They don't need to know
what the other one's doing.

This will be an indication
that a body

could be buried
in that spot.

Local paranormal
investigator doug hogate

asked us to help him on a case
in mantua, new jersey.

The homeowner, mario cerrito,

believes his writing
of horror stories in the house

is stirring up
paranormal activity

and tormenting their
10-year-old daughter, summer.

She seen the apparition of a man

that could be
the father of gerrard wood,

a young boy who died on the
property over a century ago.

We've brought in cadaver dogs
to find out

if gerrard wood
may be buried in the backyard.

I think he found
some stuff that he likes.

You got anything?

no.

Nothing yet.

Any determinations
on anything?

There's no strong indications
of any decomposition

or anything in the ground.

So in the team's assessment,
we're probably not looking at

any human remains
back here.

Not in the rear
of the house, no.
Okay.

This is actually gonna
make the family

feel really comfortable.

- Thanks for your time, man.
- Appreciate it.

- Thank you very much.
- Pleasure.

- Thank you.
- Thank you, sir.

With the cadaver dogs
unable to find evidence

of a body buried in
the backyard,

we still don't have answers

to who could be behind
the male apparition

that the cerritos' daughter,
summer, encounters by the tree.

But we have a night's
investigation ahead of us

to try to figure this out,

as well as who the spirit
of the little girl could be

and if there is
poltergeist activity here.

We're sending doug and dave
to investigate the living room,

where doug heard a noise

during the first night's
investigation

when mario read a passage
from one of his horror novels.

"he looks down at his feet

and sees a brown box
which is using blood."

mm.

Hello?

Did you just knock?

so where were
the sounds last?

It sounded to me
as if it was coming

from the living room here.

Okay.
And you said you heard

what sounded like shuffling
on the --

yeah. It sounded about the
distance as it would be here,

would be my good guess,
but kind of like a...

- Like that.
- Like a shuffle, yeah.

But it was --
but like a small kid,
like --

yeah. If it would sound
like something,

like maybe like
a small child.

Huh.

so I know that they have had
many occasions

where they've seen things
going up and down the steps

and heard the footsteps and the
creaking and things like that.

Well, I wouldn't mind
trying to see

if it will happen again.
I'm up here.

I could tell if there are
sounds coming up here.

You could tell if there's sounds
coming down there.
Right.

Grab the recorder. Let's just be
as still as possible...

Okay.

...And just ask for whatever
is doing that to do it again.

- Sure.
- Hello. My name's dave.

I know you know doug.

Can you walk towards us,
please?

you were making all kinds
of noises earlier.

Summer has seen a little girl
crying black tears.

Margaret jones,
is that you?

are you trying
to be friends with summer?

did you hear that?

Yeah.

It sounds like it's coming from
the master bedroom.

We're in mantua, new jersey,

investigating the home
of the cerrito family.

Mario suspects
his writing of horror stories

is generating paranormal
activity in this house.

Their daughter, summer,
has encountered

the most occurrences.

She's been tormented
by spirits of a male

and a little girl, as well
as a possible poltergeist.

Is there
another person here

that also helps you?

We've been looking
at this case from every angle

and may have a breakthrough.

Did you hear that?

Yeah.

It sounds like it's coming
from the master bedroom.

hold on.
How about this?

yeah. That right there
is about it.

There's, like,
these bracelets.

I think the air
just kicked on.

Could it be
the air conditioning

that made
these bracelets move?

- hey.
- Hey, guys.

- Hey, now.
- What's going on?

These bracelets -- they were
kind of swinging a little bit.

Then they started swinging
on their own,

but it turned out to be
the air conditioning

that kicked on
and moved the bracelets,

which made the noise.

So far, this has been

one of the most puzzling
investigations for us.

We've gotten barely
any responses since being here.

But the cerrito family
has encountered

far too much activity
for us to simply discount

their paranormal experiences
in the home.

We still might find something
when we go through our evidence,

but in the meantime, we need
to focus on another possibility.

Why don't you and I
at least go in and try to

do a sweep of emf
on this house?

I'd like to bring in
a trifield meter.
All right, do it.

So that way I can measure
the triple axis.

All right.
- You good?

Sure am.

I think we need to check
summer's room.

when we get over
near her bed,

her head's right here.

Look.
Look at this.

At her head level.

We're at a fricking
almost a 60.

Geez.

That is
an excessive amount.

This is what we've been
talking about for years --

high emfs
right there like that.

That would mean paranoia,
fatigue, hallucinations,

skin irritation.

Absolutely. Blotchy vision,
the whole thing.

And you go like this
all night long.
Oh, man.

If they don't fix that, she
could have permanent effects.

Can you just imagine?

I mean, they're subject to this
all day and night.

I want to check out
her old room upstairs.

wow!

10.0 in the middle
of the room at head level.

20.

20 is almost 10 times
what we should be reading.

Wow.

Geez.
That is just...

Mother of god.

This whole room
is like this.

I think we need to check
the emf in the son's room.

I've got high readings
in all magnitudes

'cause this is taking
three fields

and compressing it
into one reading.

We're down near his head.

Whoo! Bad.

Holy crap.

It's coming off of
this outlet.

They've got to do something
about that.

That's very dangerous.

This poor kid --
that could really

frazzle his little brain.

Could the high energy
and emf in the house

be working as a catalyst?

- Fueling the activity.
- Fueling the activity.

Maybe there is some activity,
and it's because

there's so much extra energy
into the atmosphere.

This family is
under attack.

could the high energy
and emf in the house

be working as a catalyst?

- Fueling the activity.
- Fueling the activity.

Maybe there is some activity,
and it's because

there's so much extra energy
into the atmosphere.

This family is
under attack.

These emfs have us really
worried for the cerrito family.

The levels are as much as
100 times above normal.

High emfs can help fuel
paranormal activity.

As we are unable to make contact
with any entities,

we suspected
that there was different reasons

for the off-the-chart readings.

This case had us
scratching our heads,

but through
the process of elimination,

we've reached our conclusion

as to what's behind the family's
paranormal disturbances.

All right, well, thanks
for meeting up with us.

We came in to really look after
everything that you guys told us

was happening and everything
that doug filled us in on.

The cerrito family believes
that mario's horror writing

is responsible for triggering
paranormal activity

in their home.

That mainly targets
their daughter summer.

When I write,
it's almost like

feeding off of
my dark energy.

But the idea that a ghost
would be aware of

mario's macabre writing
just didn't add up for us.

Because of summer's age
and the type

of paranormal occurrences
she's been experiencing,

we feel there is a possibility
she may have manifested

poltergeist activity
in the home.

A child of that age
a lot of times can manifest

the activity themselves.

They can actually
create the things

that are going on
in the house.

But during our investigation,

nothing materialized
to support that theory.

- Look what just happened.
- Yeah.

One toy fell on this one.
This one went off.

This one went off,
and this one went off.

I wonder if something like that
happened to mario.

Three or four of them
went off at once.

- Right.
- You know, it scared him.

If you want me
to leave this room,

you can do a loud bang.

How about that?

And also the closet door
in summer's room --

I mean, doors like that
can fall off.

I've had them fall off.

I'm not saying
that's what happened,

but without being there
or having a video of it...
It's hard, yeah.

...Yeah, we can only speculate
when it comes down to that.

When looking for the source of a
little girl crying black tears,

that was tormenting summer,
we discovered that a girl

named margaret jones
died on the property

that once boarded
the cerritos.

Margaret died of scarlet fever.
She was 6 years.

Then we turned
to the apparition of a man

this summer sees by a tree
in the backyard.

They had a death
in the family.

A young child died --

gerrard woolston wood.

It was common on farmlands
over a century ago

for families to bury loved ones
on their property.

We thought the man could have
been gerrard woods' father

lingering where
his son might have been buried.

So we took it
to the extent

where we even
brought in cadaver dogs.

Search!

There's no strong indications
of any decomposition

or anything in the ground.

Finally, we found
what we believe

is the cause
for the poltergeist

and spirit disturbances
in the cerritos' home.

One thing we did find
during the investigation

which was really
interesting to us

was there were high --
extremely high --

magnetic fields
throughout the house.

- Shhh.
- Wow!

10.0 in the middle
of the room at head level.

20.

Geez.
That is just...

Mother of god.

This family
is under attack.

There is theory that they can
help spirits manifest

and show themselves,
give them the ability

to move objects
and things of that nature.

But, also, there's the whole
scientific side where

high emfs creates everything
from nausea, fatigue,

hallucinations,
skin irritation, paranoia,

and these things
all come into play.

According to some scientists,

people who have had long-term
exposure to high emfs

are at an increased risk

to develop
life-threatening diseases

such as brain cancer,
heart disease, and depression,

not to mention paranoia
and hallucinations.

There's a safety factor,
as well.

And we took it upon ourselves
to bring in an electrician

try to figure out
what was going on.

This is broken.
See? It's busted in half.

It's really pretty bad
safety issues,

so we're gonna
change this out.

There was activity here

because doug did get the evp
saying, "it's me."

the activity that's here --
if it was fueling off the emfs

and we remove the emfs,

that activity's
gonna diminish,

if not come to a complete halt,
because there's nothing for it

to fuel its ability
to manifest itself.

Okay.
So if in a month or two

you're still having experiences,
we need to come back.

But bottom line --
we're here to help

in case you need us again,
and hopefully

we've already
helped you guys.

- Yeah. Absolutely.
- Absolutely.

Thank you very much
for your time, man.

- Thank you so much.
- Thanks, man.

Thank you.

With the emfs
now under control,

life should return to normal
for the cerrito family.

Mario can continue to write
his horror screenplay,

and summer can grow up
without the worry

that an entity in the house
means her harm.

We hope we've given summer
and her family

the comfort and the peace
they deserve.