Paranormal 911 (2019–…): Season 2, Episode 6 - Scarred, War House Haunting and Winged Demon - full transcript
An EMT has a close encounter with the spirit of a car crash victim, a shadowy entity stalks a police officer and her partner while they investigate an abandoned home and a paramedic witnesses a patient's horrific transformation.
Liberty 285, code 6.
105 north avenue, 52...
In this episode
of "paranormal 911"...
We don't know what to expect
when we go through
that threshold.
My expectations were,
"this guy has to be dead."
hey, bud?
The psychiatric patient
was off his medications.
What in the hell did I just see?
I felt this prickling energy.
boom!
Aah!
This thing was ready to harm us.
all I could think of was
it had to be a demon possession.
Hello? Oh, my god!
911 --
please state your emergency.
I think it's a ghost!
uh, copy.
We're on the way.
Volunteer emt rob thompson
responds to the 911 call
and races to the scene
of a single-vehicle accident.
One-car motor vehicle accident
with entrapment
and possible fire,
it doesn't get
more of an emergency than that.
Every second
is absolutely crucial.
How close are we?
Less than a minute.
as soon as we arrived
on-scene, I knew...
Right over here.
...That every second counted.
My first thoughts
seeing the vehicle were...
Sir? ...Burns, internal trauma,
head-wounds, loss of blood.
It's difficult to assess
traumatic head injuries
in the field...
He's not responsive!
...But it's clear
that this patient
is in a near-death condition,
so thompson must act swiftly.
My expectations when I reached
in to grab a pulse were...
"this guy has to be dead.
Who could have survived this?"
and I felt a weak pulse.
Let's get you out -- gah!
Careful on the doors.
The cars are hot.
Ah.
yeah, I'm gonna need
adrenaline, a mask...
100 mnds being prepped.
The first thing
was the smell of alcohol.
It was coming out of the blood.
The whole vehicle
stank of alcohol.
That was one of the things
that first hit me.
Yeah, I'm gonna need
burn cream, too.
This is bad.
Is he awake?
I'm gonna need burn cream, as well.
Yep.
Out of nowhere,
thompson is overwhelmed
by a powerful, unseen force
emanating from
his critically injured patient.
I felt this prickling energy
going up my arm
and down my spine...
...Like I'd never felt before.
rob.
Rob, are you okay?
Are you okay?
It was very hard to explain.
rob, are you okay?
we -- we got to get
him out of here. Yep.
We got to get him out now!
The severely damaged
vehicle catches on fire.
They must get him out now.
My partner and I
immediately started to
gently, but speedily
extricate him from the vehicle.
The emergency workers
know that they only have
mere moments to save his life.
We began doing the assessment,
checking his airway was open,
checking that he had breathing,
which he wasn't.
Stay with me here, chief.
Losing his pulse here.
Yeah, it's getting low.
Okay.
Start with the air.
We immediately
had to clear airway,
hooked him up to a bag-valve.
Keep going.
32.
The patient was...
Come on, buddy. Come on.
...Simply unresponsive.
His heart rate
was dropping and stopping
and starting and stopping.
So he was technically dead.
We realized that we could
lose him at any second.
The window is rapidly closing
for thompson
to bring the man back
from the edge of death.
Get his leg set up.
Alright, buddy.
Come on.
And death may be
even closer than he knows.
Stay with me here, chief.
as he battles to save
his rapidly fading patient,
thompson is once again tormented
by an unseen disturbing energy.
Again, I'm feeling
this prickly static,
and it's going up my arms.
It's going down my spine.
It's to my toes,
and it's not subsiding.
I literally felt, like,
a transference of energy
coming through.
Rob, what is going on?
Rob feels some kind of
energy transference
rising through his hands
and into his arms.
It's entirely possible
that this energy
originated with his patient --
that some of
his spiritual energy
was being transferred into rob
while he performed that
most sacred of responsibilities,
trying to save his life.
rob.
Rob. Rob, I need you
on compressions.
We're losing him here.
Okay. Okay.
Overcome by
the powerful invisible force,
thompson struggles to administer
the lifesaving
chest compressions.
What the hell
is going on right now?
This next part is something
that stays with me
and will stay with me
for absolutely ever.
I saw someone next to me.
I mean, they were leaning in.
It just gripped me.
It gripped me like --
like, um...
Like I've never felt
anything before.
I felt...
I-I felt like...
I felt like I was starting
to lose my mind.
Rob!
aah!
Paramedic emt rob thompson
responds to a 911 call...
Sir?
...Of an impaired driver
who's crashed his vehicle.
Once on scene,
thompson is overcome
by a strange energy.
I felt this prickling energy
going up my arm
and down my spine.
His trance is only shattered
when the damaged vehicle
bursts into flames.
We got to get him out.
We've got to get him out now!
While desperately trying to save
the dying man's life,
a foreboding shadowy figure
emerges from the wreckage,
revealing itself to
the terrified 911 responder.
aah!
it felt like
I was being invaded.
It felt like I was being
pulled down a vortex.
And, uh, I-I-it really wasn't
a pleasant experience.
This was something
very, very unique
that I'd never felt before.
rob!
no. Don't do this!
I felt a voice
come into me and say...
..."don't save me.
I want to go."
something wanted me to stop.
I knew then that the person
who wanted me to stop
was the patient.
He wanted to go.
Get ahold of yourself!
We need to move him now!
I could this man's life.
I can't be feeling this.
I'm pushing, pushing,
trying to push myself,
snap myself out of this,
and it's just not going away.
rob!
Get a hold of yourself!
I believe that his patient
was out of his body
and was actually
a third-party observer
to what was happening.
He was standing there
right next to rob
as he tried to repair
his broken body.
We did regain a pulse,
and immediately, uh,
we started to -- to get
semi-voluntary breathing.
With the patient
stabilized enough to transport,
thompson is still bewildered
by what he's experienced here.
My mind was...
Racing a million miles an hour
in a million
different directions.
in all my years
working as an emt,
I'd never felt
anything like this.
Suddenly,
the patient's condition plummets
to critical levels.
I'm losing him in here!
I got to defibrillate him.
As thompson prepares
to shock his patient
back to life...
...He's stunned
by a powerful charge
that doesn't emanate
from his medical equipment.
Like I grabbed hold
of a live wire,
went right into my body,
and boom!
It felt like the spirit was
picking me up and shaking me.
I felt this massive
surge of energy leave me.
The energy was going back
and forth between us,
back and forth.
don't save me.
no!
Despite the all-out assault
from the victim's angry spirit,
thompson is still determined
to save this young man's life.
Come on!
Between the rhythm and
the flatlining and the rhythm,
and it happened
two or three times on the way.
It was like being hit
by a freight train.
This is a highly
emotionally charged scene,
and as rob works
to save his patient's life,
there is an energy transfer
between the two men.
It's a byproduct
of the intense emotion
that is being felt
by both individuals.
Thompson
finally arrives at the hospital
with his patient stabilized.
Why is it that
that just happened to me,
and no one else felt...
Noth-- nothing else like that
happened to any of us.
a traumatic experience, such as
the one rob just underwent,
could have been the catalyst
to unlock
latent psychic abilities
that he never knew that he had
laying dormant
for his entire life,
just waiting for
the right circumstance
and the right patient to arrive.
That moment changed
something inside me forever.
I realized at that point
that I had a gift.
But the true outcome
of thompson's
newly discovered ability
would not reveal itself
until years later.
years after
this traumatic experience
drove him from his work
as a first responder,
a chance encounter
brings it full circle.
it's beautiful.
Isn't it?
hi, rob.
Nice to meet you.
I felt this, like, familiarity,
like -- like, not like you feel
with a -- with a friend,
but, like -- like --
like your father.
And I could not explain it.
Soon as I touched him,
that same tingle...
...That pricky.
And I-I-I went like that.
I took it back. Boom!
Have we met?
You were in an accident
3 years ago.
And his eyes went like pi--
like -- like saucers.
You almost died.
And I could see he was --
he was, you know,
getting emotional telling this.
He was the guy
I'd been working on.
He had been...
Inside my physical body.
He had looked at us
working on him through this.
That was you?
I lost it.
And he lost it.
and we both started crying.
you look great.
Thanks, yeah.
Uh, d-- you healed up
beautifully.
Yeah.
The scar is...
It took some time, but,
you know, back on my feet.
So good. That was...
It felt, in that moment,
like 20 minutes passed.
We were just staring
at each other.
I'll never forget that night.
I-I really won't.
Neither will I. Oh, my god.
Oh, my goodness.
That was the scariest night...
You can either go through life
seeing those signs,
or you can go through life
wearing blinkers
and believing that
"nope, bricks and mortar,
solid, in front of me.
Otherwise,
it doesn't exist."
you look great.
I-it's good to see that --
that you healed up
so well, like...
But my advice is...
To look deeper
and to look into yourself
and to be aware that there's
a lot more going on around you
than you realize.
I feel that energy,
good and bad, okay,
has the potential of raising us
as a soul, as a spirit,
as a human being
with this life experience,
and I believe that that's
exactly what happened to me.
And since then, I have had
numerous such experiences.
Uh... But that's what
triggered it all.
aah!
I-I don't...
I don't -- I don't want to die.
No. No.
I don't want to die.
Reported disturbance
and possible break-and-enter
in the greensboro area.
Please respond, over.
Copy that.
This is 16.
Send that address, over.
So far,
it's been an uneventful night
for veteran police officer
vicki schramm,
but that is all about to change.
I had always thought
about being a police officer.
I did 6 months
in the police academy,
which was the hardest
6 months of my life.
It was a dream come true,
but it was a hard road
to get there.
I know this place.
The intruder 911 call
takes them
to an abandoned house,
a house schramm knows well.
I grew up right down the street
from that house,
so we knew the area.
We knew where
the abandoned houses were.
Dark rumors
have swirled about this home
after its last inhabitants
disappeared without a trace.
One night, they packed
up all their stuff in a u-haul,
and away they went.
And they --
nobody knew why they left.
Intruder alerts demand
that officers be extra-cautious,
especially in
uncontrolled spaces like this.
Officer schramm discovers
that the door is unlocked.
Toledo police department!
Prepared to encounter
just about anything,
they enter the home.
We go straight into the kitchen.
God, it's hot as hell in here.
We were hit with
a sudden wave of heat.
what the hell?
there was no electricity.
We assumed there was no gas.
As quickly as
the temperature spiked up,
it snaps back to subzero.
What the hell?
you got to be ready for a fight.
In the darkened corner
of the room,
officer schramm
finds an antique rifle
that smells of fresh gunpowder,
as though shot
just a short time ago.
take a look over here.
Then, she's drawn
to something more disturbing.
next to what appears to be
a civil war military jacket...
...Is a bloodstained rag...
Still damp to the touch.
we hear somebody
running across the floor.
It's loud.
It's not, like, soft steps.
It's loud.
It's clear to schramm
that there is an intruder
somewhere in
this abandoned home.
Now they're in pursuit.
I have my gun trained
on the stairs
so that nobody is gonna
come down and surprise us.
The sounds lead the officers
to the dimly lit second floor,
limiting the intruder's --
and theirs --
path for escape.
It sounded like
they ran from the stairs
back into the back bedroom,
but we still have to clear
everything else first
because we're not sure
who else is in there.
toledo police department,
come out with your hands up!
you hear that?
Certain that they're closing in
on the trespasser,
the officers
descend upon a bedroom
at the end of the hall.
As we're going into
the third bedroom...
...We hear
the same kind of footsteps --
boom, boom, boom, boom --
across the floor.
I know that there's
somebody in there.
I know I'm gonna find somebody.
The only concealment
spot for an intruder
in this bedroom
is in the closet.
I am 100% sure that this man
is hiding in this closet,.
shine my flashlight in there
and my gun,
and nobody's in there.
It makes no sense that somebody
made that loud of footsteps
for somebody to not be upstairs.
The hairs on the back
of my neck stood up
because I knew
nobody got past us.
Although they've found
no living person,
officer schramm discovers
a second, disturbing indication
of recent violence.
The mystery deepens
when she spots a bullet,
likely from the recently fired
rifle downstairs.
We were both actually scared
because this wasn't making
any kind of sense, whatsoever.
All clear?
Yeah, clear.
Okay, I'm gonna go
check out this one.
As her partner searches
another part of the house,
schramm is drawn to a box.
inside are photos and letters
dating back to the 1800s.
stephanie?
All good.
But now the elusive intruder
is back.
My gut instinct was,
this thing was ready to harm us
because it just felt like
it was not a friendly thing
that was going on in this house.
I'm gonna clear in here.
You check downstairs.
Okay.
It wanted us to hear
the footsteps
across the floor upstairs.
And it wanted us to hear
the footsteps downstairs.
That's not normal.
And that's something
that kicks your brain into gear
that something abnormal
is happening in this house.
Officer schramm is now alone
on the second floor.
Her only escape
is back the way she came.
stephanie!
Police officer vicki schramm
has responded to a 911 call
of a gun-wielding intruder
in an abandoned home.
Toledo police department!
Discovery of bloody rags...
...And unexplained activity
have led them deep
into the bowels of the house,
pursuing
the mysterious intruder.
Now officer schramm's
only escape route
has been cut off
by a terrifying entity.
my mind started spinning into,
"what just happened?"
the hair on the back
of my neck was up
because there's something here,
but we don't know what it is.
It's like,
"is this house haunted?"
I believe in
this certain situation,
we're dealing with
an intelligent haunting.
Uh, we have
a spirit that's present,
and he's doing an awful lot
of physical things, uh,
to try to most likely
scare these people
out of the space
that he's occupying.
I heard footsteps
down the stairs.
Steph!
I was like,
"what is here?"
because it's not a person.
anything?
Nothing.
I don't know what the hell
is going on.
They don't train you
about paranormal
when you're in
the police academy.
We were both actually scared
because this wasn't making
any kind of sense whatsoever.
are you okay?
Yeah, I'm good.
I'm good.
- what is it?
- I-I-I don't know.
I don't know.
Where's that coming from?
and then we heard this laugh,
and it was like
a low-key, like...
A low-tone laugh.
oh, my...
No. No, no, no.
Check that door.
Your mind is thinking,
"we have to exit
this house."
it's locked.
What?
W-we can't get out.
But then when we
got to the back door,
and it was locked,
then it was like,
"oh, my god."
what was that?
I don't know.
What the hell is that?!
I don't -- I don't know!
We know nobody got by us.
We never saw anybody downstairs.
oh, in there.
Come on!
Okay.
The officers'
only escape from this madness
is back through
the abandoned home...
Come on, vicki.
...Directly to the source
of the chilling laughter...
...When they witness
a terrifying manifestation.
aah!
Aah!
come on, come on!
Desperate to escape...
...Schramm
blasts the door open...
...And takes position to battle
whatever may follow them out.
There was no logical explanation
to what happened in this house.
Let's get the hell out of here.
After this horrifying night,
schramm desperately searches
for an explanation
for the incomprehensible things
she's experienced.
There was civil war battles
fought in that area
on both sides of the river,
so it's possible that
somebody's hanging around
and they're upset about
whatever happened to them
in that area.
At a lot of locations,
the ghost may have been there
long before the structure
was even built.
And anybody coming
into that location then
would be really intruding
on their private space.
everybody experiences fear
at some time or another,
but this is
a different kind of fear
because it's the unknown.
It was...
A abnormal experience
that happened in this house.
we knew that
if we told other officers
what we experienced
in that house,
that our credibility
would be out the window.
I got on the mic, and I said
that there was no body there.
There is obviously
something out there.
I don't know what it is,
and I'll probably never know,
but it leaves you thinking,
"there has got to be
something else
besides the physical
that's going on in this world."
you think it's not possible.
However, it is possible
because it happened to me.
2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8...
9, 10, 11.
Mark, honey?
Mark, what's --
mark, you've got to talk to me.
What's going on?
mark, sweetie,
where are your meds?
mark, honey, what's going on?
Y-you've got to
talk to me here, mark.
mark, please talk to me!
What's going on?
Mark, what's going on?!
aah!
Unit 16?
We have a code 3.
Real psychotic break.
Approach with extreme caution.
Copy that.
What's the location?
Over.
1414 minstone avenue.
Let's go.
Paramedic
jackie williams and partner
respond to a frantic 911 call
that could put them in peril.
In terms of violence
with psychiatric calls,
uh, it's about a fifty-fifty.
Some just need
a ride to the hospital
'cause they're sad, depressed.
Others, uh, are --
are in psychosis
and having some serious, uh,
mental issues,
and, uh, those are the ones
who need to be restrained
and can be very violent.
one of the reasons I wanted
to get into this line of work
was to help more people.
I started out as a firefighter
and I noticed the ambulance
was doing more calls
than we were,
and I wanted to do calls,
so emt course come up.
I took it.
Got a job doing that, loved it,
went on to paramedic school,
and just stuck with it.
You all set, partner?
The paramedics
are racing to a code 3 call.
Absolutely.
Okay, let's do it.
These calls can be dangerous,
so police are also on-scene.
What do we have?
Some sort of psychosis.
Okay.
No one seems to be hurt.
We've got two people upstairs
with the wife,
and she made the call.
Okay.
Things going through my mind is,
"how violent
can this patient get?"
or, "is it just somebody
that's, 'I'm -- I'm sad.
I need to go to the hospital, '"
or, "I'm out of medications."
has your husband taken
his medication today?
no.
I forget the medication,
but she told me
it was for schizophrenia.
Has he ever missed it before?
yes.
But this is different.
He was making
these strange noises.
I've never seen him
turn like this before,
and I can always bring him back.
may I see him?
Williams specializes
in dealing with patients
in possible psychosis.
His approach -- go in calm
and only escalate
if things turn violent.
We'll follow you.
Uh, no. I-I-I don't want
to scare him.
I'll let you know if I need you.
hi, mark.
So people with
this kind of condition,
you don't want to overwhelm them
or appear threatening.
I'm jackie.
I'm a paramedic.
he had a suitcase open and was
walking to and from the closet
like he was packing
like he was going on a trip,
very frantically
and very manically.
Hey, bud?
How you doing?
it was obvious
that he didn't even know
that I was in the room.
what you doing, bud?
My name is jackie.
I'm a paramedic.
I just want to talk with you.
Is that okay?
Ultimate end-goal with
a patient like that would be,
uh, just to calmly
have him talk with us
and get, uh, onto our cot
with -- with no trouble,
no fighting,
and get him safely
to the hospital
and get him the help he needs.
Looks like you're packing
for a trip.
Uh, going somewhere?
he turned 90 degrees and, uh --
and looked at me.
please leave.
You can't help me.
Lisa said maybe you forgot
to take your medication today.
Does that sound right with you?
please take her
and get out of here.
Save yourself.
leave!
Mark, are you feeling okay?
Suddenly, the manic patient
takes an evil turn.
Then the disturbed man
begins an alarming,
shocking metamorphosis.
His chin elongated,
his cheekbones kind of
become more -- more developed,
and his forehead got larger.
all I could think of was
it had to be a demon possession.
Paramedic jackie williams
has raced to a 911 call
of a disturbed, violent man.
williams finds him
in what appears to be
a near-psychotic state,
but is confronted with a
shocking physical transformation
that leaves him
with only one conclusion.
All I could think of was
it had to be a demon possession.
He grabbed my uniform
and ripped it.
Hey, I need you to calm down
for me, okay?
Hey!
hit me with enough force
to go into the wall,
broke the sheetrock.
suddenly, I saw
that there was something
coming out of his shoulders.
he had some translucent, uh,
wings behind him.
jackie reports seeing wings
sprout from this person's back,
and in very extreme possessions,
uh, things like this
are actually quite common.
The spirit might be
trying to show its true form,
especially if there's
someone at the scene
who's offering
help or assistance.
It's gonna make itself
as threatening as possible,
as frightening as possible.
This once-seemingly
typical psychiatric call
has transformed
into a violent nightmare.
What in the hell did I just see?
And as quickly
as the patient morphed
into a demonic creature,
he reverts back to human form.
But the attack is far from over.
Aah!
I need you to calm down.
Get him, man.
When my partner
and police come in
to help me with the fight,
to get the guy off me, uh,
the wings weren't there.
It's like he was...
Just back to his normal body.
Wait.
I've had enough of this.
get the stretcher!
to them, it was just
a psych call gone bad.
After subduing and sedating
the violent patient,
the paramedics extract him
from the home.
He's okay now.
I'm not.
What the hell happened
in there, man?
I couldn't begin to explain it.
I don't know.
look at your arm!
I noticed that there
was three scratches on my arm.
So I looked at my coat,
and I'm like,
"am I gonna need
a new coat, as well?"
I looked...
Not a scratch-mark on it.
I can't begin to explain it.
I...
let's just get this guy
out of here, okay?
Scratches are often associated
with demonic activity,
especially where there
are three scratches
because three is a mockery
of the father, son,
and the holy ghost, the trinity.
I believe that it was
a demon possession,
and that was
his actual mental illness...
And he was taking
the medications
to calm the -- the demon inside.
As paramedics prepare
to take this disturbed patient
to hospital,
jackie can't help but reflect
on how close he came
to dying today.
I have all this training...
...I have
police department there...
...I had my partner there...
...And it still couldn't
protect me from all this evil.
aah!
Williams now realizes
that there are things
beyond this realm
that are not only among us...
But can destroy us.
This experience helped me
to come to realize
that, uh, demons are real,
and that that is what
I saw was a demon.
whoa. Whoa.
Whoa!
aah!
105 north avenue, 52...
In this episode
of "paranormal 911"...
We don't know what to expect
when we go through
that threshold.
My expectations were,
"this guy has to be dead."
hey, bud?
The psychiatric patient
was off his medications.
What in the hell did I just see?
I felt this prickling energy.
boom!
Aah!
This thing was ready to harm us.
all I could think of was
it had to be a demon possession.
Hello? Oh, my god!
911 --
please state your emergency.
I think it's a ghost!
uh, copy.
We're on the way.
Volunteer emt rob thompson
responds to the 911 call
and races to the scene
of a single-vehicle accident.
One-car motor vehicle accident
with entrapment
and possible fire,
it doesn't get
more of an emergency than that.
Every second
is absolutely crucial.
How close are we?
Less than a minute.
as soon as we arrived
on-scene, I knew...
Right over here.
...That every second counted.
My first thoughts
seeing the vehicle were...
Sir? ...Burns, internal trauma,
head-wounds, loss of blood.
It's difficult to assess
traumatic head injuries
in the field...
He's not responsive!
...But it's clear
that this patient
is in a near-death condition,
so thompson must act swiftly.
My expectations when I reached
in to grab a pulse were...
"this guy has to be dead.
Who could have survived this?"
and I felt a weak pulse.
Let's get you out -- gah!
Careful on the doors.
The cars are hot.
Ah.
yeah, I'm gonna need
adrenaline, a mask...
100 mnds being prepped.
The first thing
was the smell of alcohol.
It was coming out of the blood.
The whole vehicle
stank of alcohol.
That was one of the things
that first hit me.
Yeah, I'm gonna need
burn cream, too.
This is bad.
Is he awake?
I'm gonna need burn cream, as well.
Yep.
Out of nowhere,
thompson is overwhelmed
by a powerful, unseen force
emanating from
his critically injured patient.
I felt this prickling energy
going up my arm
and down my spine...
...Like I'd never felt before.
rob.
Rob, are you okay?
Are you okay?
It was very hard to explain.
rob, are you okay?
we -- we got to get
him out of here. Yep.
We got to get him out now!
The severely damaged
vehicle catches on fire.
They must get him out now.
My partner and I
immediately started to
gently, but speedily
extricate him from the vehicle.
The emergency workers
know that they only have
mere moments to save his life.
We began doing the assessment,
checking his airway was open,
checking that he had breathing,
which he wasn't.
Stay with me here, chief.
Losing his pulse here.
Yeah, it's getting low.
Okay.
Start with the air.
We immediately
had to clear airway,
hooked him up to a bag-valve.
Keep going.
32.
The patient was...
Come on, buddy. Come on.
...Simply unresponsive.
His heart rate
was dropping and stopping
and starting and stopping.
So he was technically dead.
We realized that we could
lose him at any second.
The window is rapidly closing
for thompson
to bring the man back
from the edge of death.
Get his leg set up.
Alright, buddy.
Come on.
And death may be
even closer than he knows.
Stay with me here, chief.
as he battles to save
his rapidly fading patient,
thompson is once again tormented
by an unseen disturbing energy.
Again, I'm feeling
this prickly static,
and it's going up my arms.
It's going down my spine.
It's to my toes,
and it's not subsiding.
I literally felt, like,
a transference of energy
coming through.
Rob, what is going on?
Rob feels some kind of
energy transference
rising through his hands
and into his arms.
It's entirely possible
that this energy
originated with his patient --
that some of
his spiritual energy
was being transferred into rob
while he performed that
most sacred of responsibilities,
trying to save his life.
rob.
Rob. Rob, I need you
on compressions.
We're losing him here.
Okay. Okay.
Overcome by
the powerful invisible force,
thompson struggles to administer
the lifesaving
chest compressions.
What the hell
is going on right now?
This next part is something
that stays with me
and will stay with me
for absolutely ever.
I saw someone next to me.
I mean, they were leaning in.
It just gripped me.
It gripped me like --
like, um...
Like I've never felt
anything before.
I felt...
I-I felt like...
I felt like I was starting
to lose my mind.
Rob!
aah!
Paramedic emt rob thompson
responds to a 911 call...
Sir?
...Of an impaired driver
who's crashed his vehicle.
Once on scene,
thompson is overcome
by a strange energy.
I felt this prickling energy
going up my arm
and down my spine.
His trance is only shattered
when the damaged vehicle
bursts into flames.
We got to get him out.
We've got to get him out now!
While desperately trying to save
the dying man's life,
a foreboding shadowy figure
emerges from the wreckage,
revealing itself to
the terrified 911 responder.
aah!
it felt like
I was being invaded.
It felt like I was being
pulled down a vortex.
And, uh, I-I-it really wasn't
a pleasant experience.
This was something
very, very unique
that I'd never felt before.
rob!
no. Don't do this!
I felt a voice
come into me and say...
..."don't save me.
I want to go."
something wanted me to stop.
I knew then that the person
who wanted me to stop
was the patient.
He wanted to go.
Get ahold of yourself!
We need to move him now!
I could this man's life.
I can't be feeling this.
I'm pushing, pushing,
trying to push myself,
snap myself out of this,
and it's just not going away.
rob!
Get a hold of yourself!
I believe that his patient
was out of his body
and was actually
a third-party observer
to what was happening.
He was standing there
right next to rob
as he tried to repair
his broken body.
We did regain a pulse,
and immediately, uh,
we started to -- to get
semi-voluntary breathing.
With the patient
stabilized enough to transport,
thompson is still bewildered
by what he's experienced here.
My mind was...
Racing a million miles an hour
in a million
different directions.
in all my years
working as an emt,
I'd never felt
anything like this.
Suddenly,
the patient's condition plummets
to critical levels.
I'm losing him in here!
I got to defibrillate him.
As thompson prepares
to shock his patient
back to life...
...He's stunned
by a powerful charge
that doesn't emanate
from his medical equipment.
Like I grabbed hold
of a live wire,
went right into my body,
and boom!
It felt like the spirit was
picking me up and shaking me.
I felt this massive
surge of energy leave me.
The energy was going back
and forth between us,
back and forth.
don't save me.
no!
Despite the all-out assault
from the victim's angry spirit,
thompson is still determined
to save this young man's life.
Come on!
Between the rhythm and
the flatlining and the rhythm,
and it happened
two or three times on the way.
It was like being hit
by a freight train.
This is a highly
emotionally charged scene,
and as rob works
to save his patient's life,
there is an energy transfer
between the two men.
It's a byproduct
of the intense emotion
that is being felt
by both individuals.
Thompson
finally arrives at the hospital
with his patient stabilized.
Why is it that
that just happened to me,
and no one else felt...
Noth-- nothing else like that
happened to any of us.
a traumatic experience, such as
the one rob just underwent,
could have been the catalyst
to unlock
latent psychic abilities
that he never knew that he had
laying dormant
for his entire life,
just waiting for
the right circumstance
and the right patient to arrive.
That moment changed
something inside me forever.
I realized at that point
that I had a gift.
But the true outcome
of thompson's
newly discovered ability
would not reveal itself
until years later.
years after
this traumatic experience
drove him from his work
as a first responder,
a chance encounter
brings it full circle.
it's beautiful.
Isn't it?
hi, rob.
Nice to meet you.
I felt this, like, familiarity,
like -- like, not like you feel
with a -- with a friend,
but, like -- like --
like your father.
And I could not explain it.
Soon as I touched him,
that same tingle...
...That pricky.
And I-I-I went like that.
I took it back. Boom!
Have we met?
You were in an accident
3 years ago.
And his eyes went like pi--
like -- like saucers.
You almost died.
And I could see he was --
he was, you know,
getting emotional telling this.
He was the guy
I'd been working on.
He had been...
Inside my physical body.
He had looked at us
working on him through this.
That was you?
I lost it.
And he lost it.
and we both started crying.
you look great.
Thanks, yeah.
Uh, d-- you healed up
beautifully.
Yeah.
The scar is...
It took some time, but,
you know, back on my feet.
So good. That was...
It felt, in that moment,
like 20 minutes passed.
We were just staring
at each other.
I'll never forget that night.
I-I really won't.
Neither will I. Oh, my god.
Oh, my goodness.
That was the scariest night...
You can either go through life
seeing those signs,
or you can go through life
wearing blinkers
and believing that
"nope, bricks and mortar,
solid, in front of me.
Otherwise,
it doesn't exist."
you look great.
I-it's good to see that --
that you healed up
so well, like...
But my advice is...
To look deeper
and to look into yourself
and to be aware that there's
a lot more going on around you
than you realize.
I feel that energy,
good and bad, okay,
has the potential of raising us
as a soul, as a spirit,
as a human being
with this life experience,
and I believe that that's
exactly what happened to me.
And since then, I have had
numerous such experiences.
Uh... But that's what
triggered it all.
aah!
I-I don't...
I don't -- I don't want to die.
No. No.
I don't want to die.
Reported disturbance
and possible break-and-enter
in the greensboro area.
Please respond, over.
Copy that.
This is 16.
Send that address, over.
So far,
it's been an uneventful night
for veteran police officer
vicki schramm,
but that is all about to change.
I had always thought
about being a police officer.
I did 6 months
in the police academy,
which was the hardest
6 months of my life.
It was a dream come true,
but it was a hard road
to get there.
I know this place.
The intruder 911 call
takes them
to an abandoned house,
a house schramm knows well.
I grew up right down the street
from that house,
so we knew the area.
We knew where
the abandoned houses were.
Dark rumors
have swirled about this home
after its last inhabitants
disappeared without a trace.
One night, they packed
up all their stuff in a u-haul,
and away they went.
And they --
nobody knew why they left.
Intruder alerts demand
that officers be extra-cautious,
especially in
uncontrolled spaces like this.
Officer schramm discovers
that the door is unlocked.
Toledo police department!
Prepared to encounter
just about anything,
they enter the home.
We go straight into the kitchen.
God, it's hot as hell in here.
We were hit with
a sudden wave of heat.
what the hell?
there was no electricity.
We assumed there was no gas.
As quickly as
the temperature spiked up,
it snaps back to subzero.
What the hell?
you got to be ready for a fight.
In the darkened corner
of the room,
officer schramm
finds an antique rifle
that smells of fresh gunpowder,
as though shot
just a short time ago.
take a look over here.
Then, she's drawn
to something more disturbing.
next to what appears to be
a civil war military jacket...
...Is a bloodstained rag...
Still damp to the touch.
we hear somebody
running across the floor.
It's loud.
It's not, like, soft steps.
It's loud.
It's clear to schramm
that there is an intruder
somewhere in
this abandoned home.
Now they're in pursuit.
I have my gun trained
on the stairs
so that nobody is gonna
come down and surprise us.
The sounds lead the officers
to the dimly lit second floor,
limiting the intruder's --
and theirs --
path for escape.
It sounded like
they ran from the stairs
back into the back bedroom,
but we still have to clear
everything else first
because we're not sure
who else is in there.
toledo police department,
come out with your hands up!
you hear that?
Certain that they're closing in
on the trespasser,
the officers
descend upon a bedroom
at the end of the hall.
As we're going into
the third bedroom...
...We hear
the same kind of footsteps --
boom, boom, boom, boom --
across the floor.
I know that there's
somebody in there.
I know I'm gonna find somebody.
The only concealment
spot for an intruder
in this bedroom
is in the closet.
I am 100% sure that this man
is hiding in this closet,.
shine my flashlight in there
and my gun,
and nobody's in there.
It makes no sense that somebody
made that loud of footsteps
for somebody to not be upstairs.
The hairs on the back
of my neck stood up
because I knew
nobody got past us.
Although they've found
no living person,
officer schramm discovers
a second, disturbing indication
of recent violence.
The mystery deepens
when she spots a bullet,
likely from the recently fired
rifle downstairs.
We were both actually scared
because this wasn't making
any kind of sense, whatsoever.
All clear?
Yeah, clear.
Okay, I'm gonna go
check out this one.
As her partner searches
another part of the house,
schramm is drawn to a box.
inside are photos and letters
dating back to the 1800s.
stephanie?
All good.
But now the elusive intruder
is back.
My gut instinct was,
this thing was ready to harm us
because it just felt like
it was not a friendly thing
that was going on in this house.
I'm gonna clear in here.
You check downstairs.
Okay.
It wanted us to hear
the footsteps
across the floor upstairs.
And it wanted us to hear
the footsteps downstairs.
That's not normal.
And that's something
that kicks your brain into gear
that something abnormal
is happening in this house.
Officer schramm is now alone
on the second floor.
Her only escape
is back the way she came.
stephanie!
Police officer vicki schramm
has responded to a 911 call
of a gun-wielding intruder
in an abandoned home.
Toledo police department!
Discovery of bloody rags...
...And unexplained activity
have led them deep
into the bowels of the house,
pursuing
the mysterious intruder.
Now officer schramm's
only escape route
has been cut off
by a terrifying entity.
my mind started spinning into,
"what just happened?"
the hair on the back
of my neck was up
because there's something here,
but we don't know what it is.
It's like,
"is this house haunted?"
I believe in
this certain situation,
we're dealing with
an intelligent haunting.
Uh, we have
a spirit that's present,
and he's doing an awful lot
of physical things, uh,
to try to most likely
scare these people
out of the space
that he's occupying.
I heard footsteps
down the stairs.
Steph!
I was like,
"what is here?"
because it's not a person.
anything?
Nothing.
I don't know what the hell
is going on.
They don't train you
about paranormal
when you're in
the police academy.
We were both actually scared
because this wasn't making
any kind of sense whatsoever.
are you okay?
Yeah, I'm good.
I'm good.
- what is it?
- I-I-I don't know.
I don't know.
Where's that coming from?
and then we heard this laugh,
and it was like
a low-key, like...
A low-tone laugh.
oh, my...
No. No, no, no.
Check that door.
Your mind is thinking,
"we have to exit
this house."
it's locked.
What?
W-we can't get out.
But then when we
got to the back door,
and it was locked,
then it was like,
"oh, my god."
what was that?
I don't know.
What the hell is that?!
I don't -- I don't know!
We know nobody got by us.
We never saw anybody downstairs.
oh, in there.
Come on!
Okay.
The officers'
only escape from this madness
is back through
the abandoned home...
Come on, vicki.
...Directly to the source
of the chilling laughter...
...When they witness
a terrifying manifestation.
aah!
Aah!
come on, come on!
Desperate to escape...
...Schramm
blasts the door open...
...And takes position to battle
whatever may follow them out.
There was no logical explanation
to what happened in this house.
Let's get the hell out of here.
After this horrifying night,
schramm desperately searches
for an explanation
for the incomprehensible things
she's experienced.
There was civil war battles
fought in that area
on both sides of the river,
so it's possible that
somebody's hanging around
and they're upset about
whatever happened to them
in that area.
At a lot of locations,
the ghost may have been there
long before the structure
was even built.
And anybody coming
into that location then
would be really intruding
on their private space.
everybody experiences fear
at some time or another,
but this is
a different kind of fear
because it's the unknown.
It was...
A abnormal experience
that happened in this house.
we knew that
if we told other officers
what we experienced
in that house,
that our credibility
would be out the window.
I got on the mic, and I said
that there was no body there.
There is obviously
something out there.
I don't know what it is,
and I'll probably never know,
but it leaves you thinking,
"there has got to be
something else
besides the physical
that's going on in this world."
you think it's not possible.
However, it is possible
because it happened to me.
2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8...
9, 10, 11.
Mark, honey?
Mark, what's --
mark, you've got to talk to me.
What's going on?
mark, sweetie,
where are your meds?
mark, honey, what's going on?
Y-you've got to
talk to me here, mark.
mark, please talk to me!
What's going on?
Mark, what's going on?!
aah!
Unit 16?
We have a code 3.
Real psychotic break.
Approach with extreme caution.
Copy that.
What's the location?
Over.
1414 minstone avenue.
Let's go.
Paramedic
jackie williams and partner
respond to a frantic 911 call
that could put them in peril.
In terms of violence
with psychiatric calls,
uh, it's about a fifty-fifty.
Some just need
a ride to the hospital
'cause they're sad, depressed.
Others, uh, are --
are in psychosis
and having some serious, uh,
mental issues,
and, uh, those are the ones
who need to be restrained
and can be very violent.
one of the reasons I wanted
to get into this line of work
was to help more people.
I started out as a firefighter
and I noticed the ambulance
was doing more calls
than we were,
and I wanted to do calls,
so emt course come up.
I took it.
Got a job doing that, loved it,
went on to paramedic school,
and just stuck with it.
You all set, partner?
The paramedics
are racing to a code 3 call.
Absolutely.
Okay, let's do it.
These calls can be dangerous,
so police are also on-scene.
What do we have?
Some sort of psychosis.
Okay.
No one seems to be hurt.
We've got two people upstairs
with the wife,
and she made the call.
Okay.
Things going through my mind is,
"how violent
can this patient get?"
or, "is it just somebody
that's, 'I'm -- I'm sad.
I need to go to the hospital, '"
or, "I'm out of medications."
has your husband taken
his medication today?
no.
I forget the medication,
but she told me
it was for schizophrenia.
Has he ever missed it before?
yes.
But this is different.
He was making
these strange noises.
I've never seen him
turn like this before,
and I can always bring him back.
may I see him?
Williams specializes
in dealing with patients
in possible psychosis.
His approach -- go in calm
and only escalate
if things turn violent.
We'll follow you.
Uh, no. I-I-I don't want
to scare him.
I'll let you know if I need you.
hi, mark.
So people with
this kind of condition,
you don't want to overwhelm them
or appear threatening.
I'm jackie.
I'm a paramedic.
he had a suitcase open and was
walking to and from the closet
like he was packing
like he was going on a trip,
very frantically
and very manically.
Hey, bud?
How you doing?
it was obvious
that he didn't even know
that I was in the room.
what you doing, bud?
My name is jackie.
I'm a paramedic.
I just want to talk with you.
Is that okay?
Ultimate end-goal with
a patient like that would be,
uh, just to calmly
have him talk with us
and get, uh, onto our cot
with -- with no trouble,
no fighting,
and get him safely
to the hospital
and get him the help he needs.
Looks like you're packing
for a trip.
Uh, going somewhere?
he turned 90 degrees and, uh --
and looked at me.
please leave.
You can't help me.
Lisa said maybe you forgot
to take your medication today.
Does that sound right with you?
please take her
and get out of here.
Save yourself.
leave!
Mark, are you feeling okay?
Suddenly, the manic patient
takes an evil turn.
Then the disturbed man
begins an alarming,
shocking metamorphosis.
His chin elongated,
his cheekbones kind of
become more -- more developed,
and his forehead got larger.
all I could think of was
it had to be a demon possession.
Paramedic jackie williams
has raced to a 911 call
of a disturbed, violent man.
williams finds him
in what appears to be
a near-psychotic state,
but is confronted with a
shocking physical transformation
that leaves him
with only one conclusion.
All I could think of was
it had to be a demon possession.
He grabbed my uniform
and ripped it.
Hey, I need you to calm down
for me, okay?
Hey!
hit me with enough force
to go into the wall,
broke the sheetrock.
suddenly, I saw
that there was something
coming out of his shoulders.
he had some translucent, uh,
wings behind him.
jackie reports seeing wings
sprout from this person's back,
and in very extreme possessions,
uh, things like this
are actually quite common.
The spirit might be
trying to show its true form,
especially if there's
someone at the scene
who's offering
help or assistance.
It's gonna make itself
as threatening as possible,
as frightening as possible.
This once-seemingly
typical psychiatric call
has transformed
into a violent nightmare.
What in the hell did I just see?
And as quickly
as the patient morphed
into a demonic creature,
he reverts back to human form.
But the attack is far from over.
Aah!
I need you to calm down.
Get him, man.
When my partner
and police come in
to help me with the fight,
to get the guy off me, uh,
the wings weren't there.
It's like he was...
Just back to his normal body.
Wait.
I've had enough of this.
get the stretcher!
to them, it was just
a psych call gone bad.
After subduing and sedating
the violent patient,
the paramedics extract him
from the home.
He's okay now.
I'm not.
What the hell happened
in there, man?
I couldn't begin to explain it.
I don't know.
look at your arm!
I noticed that there
was three scratches on my arm.
So I looked at my coat,
and I'm like,
"am I gonna need
a new coat, as well?"
I looked...
Not a scratch-mark on it.
I can't begin to explain it.
I...
let's just get this guy
out of here, okay?
Scratches are often associated
with demonic activity,
especially where there
are three scratches
because three is a mockery
of the father, son,
and the holy ghost, the trinity.
I believe that it was
a demon possession,
and that was
his actual mental illness...
And he was taking
the medications
to calm the -- the demon inside.
As paramedics prepare
to take this disturbed patient
to hospital,
jackie can't help but reflect
on how close he came
to dying today.
I have all this training...
...I have
police department there...
...I had my partner there...
...And it still couldn't
protect me from all this evil.
aah!
Williams now realizes
that there are things
beyond this realm
that are not only among us...
But can destroy us.
This experience helped me
to come to realize
that, uh, demons are real,
and that that is what
I saw was a demon.
whoa. Whoa.
Whoa!
aah!