The Dead Files (2011–…): Season 3, Episode 10 - Tormented - full transcript

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I'm seeing a female losing her mind.

There's a struggle on
whose house this is.

I see attacks every day, every day.

- We're kind of trapped.
- Then I hear "death".

Do you think there's any
foul play involved here?

It might be a poltergeist.

I feel like it's watching me.

"Mine, mine. Back the [Bleep] off".

I want to have my home back.

I encountered a poltergeist.



They're being watched.

My name is Amy Allan.

This thing likes death.

I see dead people.

This thing is, like, a monster.

I speak to dead people.

And he's pissed off now.

And they speak to me.

His head was cracked.

But there's only one way to
know if my findings are real.

This guy was murdered.

I rely on my partner.

I'm Steve Di Schiavi.

I'm a retired New York
City homicide Detective.



I cannot help you unless
I know the whole story.

And I know every person,
every house has secrets.

You saw her? It's my job to reveal them.

Why would you stay here?

But Steve and I never speak...

We never communicate
during an investigation.

Until the very end.

Stop it.

We uncover if it's
safe for you to stay...

I want to know the truth. I
want to know what's happening.

Or time to get out.

I told you there were
ghosts in this house.

Amy and I investigate
each case separately.

I uncover a property's history and
question the witnesses involved.

While Amy talks to the dead.

When we're done, we reveal our
findings to our client and each other.

I'm in Westminster, Colorado.

It's a sleepy little suburb
about 20 minutes north of Denver.

I received a call from a woman
named Cara, who's a single mom.

She tells me her entire family's
afraid to be in the house alone.

She does not sound good.

I'm hoping Amy and I can help her out.

Before Amy can start her walk,

I need to make sure she is free
from any outside influences.

This house is filled with photographs
of a mother and her young children,

that have to be covered or removed.

When I'm finished, Amy can begin.

I'm seeing a female freaking out...

Losing her mind.

Something with, like, the walls.

I just see her jumping
around and, like, screaming

and, like, then looking at the wall.

The lady who's freaking out is
alive, and they're being attacked.

It's really bad in here.

Cara, I got to tell you... you
sounded pretty concerned on the phone.

Uh, why don't you tell
me what's going on?

Well, I'm a single parent, and I'm
here with my two children by myself.

We have footsteps, voices.

Um, we're seeing things, hearing
things, things are moving.

- How old are your kids?
- 8 and 10.

It's really hard to have a 10-year-old
who's very fearful in his own home, and...

And just it definitely
has affected him the most.

He won't go anywhere in the
home without somebody with him.

How long has this been going on?

The entire time that we've lived
here... about ten and a half years.

However, when my ex-husband
moved out, the activity got worse.

So that's why we called you in.

What do you know about the house? I mean,
when was it built, anything like that?

I know it was built in 1985. No
one's lived here more than two years.

I'm the only one who has
stuck it out this long.

You mentioned you were a nurse on the
phone, so what kind of a nurse are you?

I'm a hospice nurse, dealing with people
who have six months or less to live.

It's really emotionally draining.

So, you're living here 10 years.

You've been dealing with this almost ever
since you moved in. Dealt with a divorce.

You're raising two kids on your own.

I mean, how are you dealing with it?

Well, it's incredibly stressful.
I want to have my home back.

There is an old lady here.

There is a relationship here with her
and this living woman who flipped out.

She's tormented, and this old
lady... I think she's trying to help,

but she doesn't even know
where to begin to help.

To help what?

Something is [Bleep] with people here.

It might not be a dead person.

It might be a poltergeist.

So, what's going on in
this part of the house?

When my son was younger, he
actually used to talk to a man

that he saw in the ceiling
right over that chair over there.

He would talk to him and tell
him to get down off the ceiling.

And it was just really creepy.

Wow. Okay.

We've had 8 floods in the last 10 years.

What kind of floods? What
are you talking about?

Floods like pipes breaking,
sump pumps failing.

We even had a manhole cover out
on the street flood my backyard.

What about your neighbors?

As far as I know, none
of them have had floods.

Anything else going on?

I had two groups come and investigate,
but they weren't really able to help me.

They did some cleansing.

They also did salt
crosses with the salt water

and the lines in the doorway
to keep out the activity.

So, did things get any
better after they left?

No, nothing has worked.
We're kind of trapped.

I feel that there's violence
inflicted on these people.

That feeling of, like,
you've been, like, tortured.

So far, this walk is really strange.

I can tell someone is suffering,

but whatever's responsible
won't reveal itself to me.

There is really something
they're going through, but...

But I don't know what it is.

I feel their, like,
panic and their stress.

Like, I almost feel like
someone's suicidal because of this.

It's almost like in an
abusive relationship,

and you're being beat every day.

You're not afraid of it, you
know it's gonna happen anyways.

So, what's going on in here?

One of the first things that
I saw after moving in here

was a big glowing orb come from
my bathroom while I was in bed.

And it was bright, like the sun,
and it was big, almost person-size.

And it stayed there for a long
time. It felt like forever.

Okay, were you in bed alone?

I actually was sleeping
with my son, Noah.

I gotta ask you a question, though, do
you take any kind of sleeping medication,

so you may get hallucinations
from it or anything like that?

No.

So, have you experienced
anything else in the room?

I also have felt like something
was crawling up my bed,

almost like someone was crawling
over me, going up the bed.

I could feel the sheets
being pulled tight around me.

Then I yelled at it to go away.

- And did it stop?
- It did stop.

After all you've told me, I find it
amazing that you could still live here,

I mean, you don't have
a safe spot in the house.

No. And I almost feel like I'm in a

struggle on whose house this is.

Oh [Bleep]

Ooh. Ooh.

Okay.

Yeah, I feel like the
attack's every day, every day.

Who the [Bleep] is doing this?

I think that it's the beginnings
of a poltergeist manifestation.

It's needing a lot of feeding.

If this thing is fully
formed, can it hurt people?

Yes, absolutely.

You know, it can cut them, start fires.

It could rape.

And beat people.

It can be very, very brutal and violent.

I think that it's the beginnings
of a poltergeist manifestation.

It can start fires...

Rape and beat people.

So, yeah, it can be very,
very brutal and violent.

- You're pretty sure this is a poltergeist?
- Yes, absolutely.

Poltergeists are usually
created unintentionally,

when someone with psychic abilities
represses intense negative emotions.

These entities can interact
with the physical world,

and if the poltergeist develops,
it could become extremely dangerous.

But this [Bleep] is, like...

Mindless.

Its creator is living, and it'll
do whatever the creator wants it to.

So, Kymber, I was talking with mom,

and I understand you and your brother
have had some experiences yourself.

Yeah. There's been things
I've seen downstairs.

I've heard footsteps in the stairs, and
I saw a witch on the wall over there.

You saw a witch?

You couldn't really see her face and...

Her face was covered with black hair.

So, this woman...
how'd she make you feel?

I wanted to leave this room right now.

I was just shaking and
hiding under the covers.

How active is it in your
room, does it happen a lot?

- Will you hear things?
- Well, it's not really active in my room.

It's more active in Noah's room.

And it's mostly active in my mom's room.

Okay.

There's this old lady.

I get "grandma, grandma, grandma".

She's here a lot.

It doesn't feel as bad
as the other room...

At all.

It feels better in here.

Safer in here.

Uh because she's like,
she's always in here.

I mean, she's trying to protect and
make it good for whoever's in here.

What is she protecting against?

I don't know.

Something really, really bad.

Kymber told me that her brother was
experiencing more activity in his room.

According to their mom,

Noah's actually afraid to be
alone anywhere in the house.

I'm gonna have to hear his story.

I'm scared to just be upstairs
alone by myself all the time.

The one thing that scares me is that...

Behind my door over there um...

There's this thing that's...

It's just very scary. Like,
I feel like it's watching me.

- It's, like, a shadow kind of.
- Okay.

And the edges of it are kind of like...
they kind of, like, fade a little bit.

I don't know if it's...
it feels pretty negative.

It doesn't seem very friendly.

Okay, you having trouble
sleeping at night because of that?

Yeah, it's...

Very scary.

Ooh. Ooh.

Oh.

Okay, we got something
with the closets here.

Is it the same thing you
saw in the other closet?

It's something different.

But it's weird because it's every night.

It's like a nightly creation.

But I think that he's mostly seen as...

Like, a shadow man or a shadow person.

So, is this guy pretty
much just in the closet?

I just get like it's
kind of his own space.

And it does scare someone a lot.

This is where he likes to
be, so it just so happens

that whoever's in this room
would get more frightened

than everybody else, because
he's more consistently here.

One morning, I woke up.

There was, like, a light, like somebody
was shining a flashlight under my door.

And there's just, like, a little crack,
so you could barely, like, see it.

Okay.

So, I open the door, and it was like
a glowing, like, light, circle thing.

I saw it for like a second or two and
I, like, scared it or something and it...

Okay.

Now, how you dealing with all
this stuff that's going on?

I'm kind of very cautious of upstairs.

Like, it's very hard
to be up here alone.

Like, I always want Kymber with me.

- It's really scary.
- Okay.

This guy is the tormentor.

So, there's a woman and then...

This kid who he,

really just torments.

Like, I feel like he can
put weight on the bed.

You know like, it feels like
somebody's sitting there.

A lot of movement around him.

I feel all of this dread.

Do you know why he does that?

This tormentor feels
like he's being invaded.

So, what makes you say that?

There was, like, this moment of, like...

"Mine, mine.

This is my people, mine".

And, "back the [Bleep] off".

Cara's house is only 27 years old.

I looked into its history,

and I couldn't find any deaths
associated with the property.

So I'm headed over to meet with
a prominent real-estate developer

to see what was on the land
before Cara's house was there.

The house I'm investigating was built
in 1985, and I know you're a developer.

Can you give me an idea what was
there prior to the houses being built?

More or less, what was
there was just what you see.

It was open farmland
for dry land grazing.

Who owned the land back then?

My grandfather, who, in 1869,
decided to start Church Ranch.

It had to be tough back in
those days to get a farm going.

Well, the standard worries were, obviously,
food and water to drink and shelter.

Our family was very involved
in bringing the first water

down from the Continental
Divide to this eastern slope.

Life wasn't easy here.

It was very challenging.
Farming's still challenging.

You can have an accident, where somebody
gets hurt by a piece of machinery

or falls into an irrigation ditch.

That was not uncommon.

Now, were they any deaths
associated with all that work?

There were many deaths
associated with irrigation.

One of the ones in this local
area that I've heard about

was a fella by the name of John
Shannon that fell in and drowned.

These two men are talking.

Somebody's saying, "having a
problem keeping animals alive".

They're very, very stressed out.

Do you know what he's worried about?

Then he's talking about
water, like water flow...

And being ruined financially.

- Why?
- Because the animals are dying.

Okay.

Well, one of the guys
looks kind of like that guy.

This dead farmer is
angry that I'm seeing him.

I realize now this guy is the
tormentor hiding in the kid's closet.

He's just pretending to be a
shadow figure to protect his space.

He's got a cowboy hat on.

He's got a plaid button-down
long-sleeve shirt.

He's got jeans and a belt on.

He's created this monster
of himself from himself.

I saw the word...

"Death".

I've managed to track down
a descendant of John Shannon,

the man who died in a
local irrigation ditch.

And she tells me her great-grandfather
lived a colorful life,

and his death was no accident.

So, I understand you're a
descendant of John Shannon's.

Yes, I'm his great-granddaughter.

Here's some pictures
of my great-grandfather.

What can you tell me about him?

The oldest boy, before he died, told my
grandma that he remembers he'd have to

take the younger boys and
hide them down by the creek

so their father wouldn't beat them.

He was mean to the kids. He
was mean to the farm animals.

- Really?
- Yeah.

He had beat one of the horses so bad
that somebody had to pull him off.

- You're kidding.
- No.

And then I do remember hearing that
when the youngest child was a newborn,

that the mother walked in and found
the father trying to smother the baby.

The tormentor won't leave me alone,

and he's following me
down to the basement.

And I'm feeling like...
there's like a...

I think this is a kid being,
like, held down and smothered.

He can't breathe.

Seeing uh...

This dark mass...

Standing...

Smothering.

There's just some psycho
[Bleep] going on in this house.

I heard a rumor that he may have
drowned in a ditch. Is that correct?

My great-grandfather
died in July of 1936.

He didn't come home for supper one
night, and so my great-grandmother

had some of the local
men out looking for him.

And they found his hat and
jacket by the irrigation ditch.

And they drained the ditch and somebody,

went down in there and
brought the body out.

And when I found the
death certificate here,

it says the official cause is drowning.

But it does leave the question of...

Did he have a heart attack
and fall in the ditch or...

Do you think there's any
foul play involved here?

I've wondered about the oldest boy.

In what way?

Because he was very
devoted to his mother.

The day that he ended up dead,

there were people trying to get
the kids taken out of their custody.

The day of his funeral,

they all went home, and the oldest boy
said, "we don't ever talk about this".

And great-grandma
never talked about it.

Wow.

And then that thing is behind me.

What thing?

The dead guy from upstairs.

Okay.

And is laughing hysterically.

This tormentor from upstairs is furious
that I've seen through his disguise

and can tell that he's not
actually a shadow figure.

He clearly wants me to
get out of the house.

He just followed me in from the garage.

He's very, very, very angry.

Oh, I don't feel good in here.

This one's, like, really, really bad.

He says, "oh, can't
breathe, can you? Ha ha".

I can't breathe.

After hearing about John Shannon,

I needed to see if there's any other
suspicious deaths related to the property.

As I'm looking through
the town's records,

I found that a young newlywed, Gertrude
Weaver, used to live on Cara's land.

She died while away on her
honeymoon, but the cause is unclear.

Newspaper reports list three
different causes of death...

Accident, suicide, and
homicide, all by gunshot.

Now that I've got two mysterious
deaths on one property,

I need to try to figure out
how Gertrude Weaver really died.

I just saw, like, someone walk by.

It was a woman, younger.

She might just be some
residual or something.

Like, there's no, like, interaction.

Can you describe her at all?

She's wearing a nightgown that's white

with, like, little
design here or something

and little poufy sleeves,
like these, kind of.

Gaunt face, long.

And I kind of did hear
"suicide" with her.

All of the newspaper reports
say that Gertrude Weaver

was shot by a gun her husband gave
her to use in case of an emergency.

But the papers don't confirm if her death
was an accident, homicide, or suicide.

So I'm meeting with
an antique gun expert

who says he can help me
figure out what happened.

Now, is this the same type of
weapon that killed Gertrude?

Yes, it is.

In your opinion, could
this have been an accident?

To have an accidental shooting with one
of these would be extremely difficult.

What if it was cocked back and it's
leaning up against the wall, for instance?

If it falls, would it go off?

The chances of it going
off are almost nil.

It's not a hair trigger.

You would actually have to pull the
trigger in order for the gun to go off.

Okay, so we can rule out accidental.

But as a general rule, women do
not kill themselves with a firearm.

My opinion... somebody shot her.

But we can't rule out suicide.

Two reasons why I don't
think this was a suicide

is the length of the rifle
and the weight of the rifle.

Feel how heavy that is.

Wow. It's heavier than it looks.

It's a 12 to 13 pound rifle.

I mean, a 21-year-old
small woman,

you know, in order to hold it like this
and get shot center-mass in the heart...

I mean, she'd have to be 6'8 with 4-foot
arms in order to do that to herself.

Right.

But people can be really resourceful,
and if she wanted to do it,

- she could have rigged something.
- Yeah.

She'd have to prop it
up somehow or rig it.

I've seen people put
their toes in the friggin'

trigger guard and blow their brains out.

Who knows what was going
through this girl's head?

During my walk, I
watched an old dead woman

trying to protect a panicked living
woman from a dangerous entity.

I'm working with a sketch
artist to describe what I saw.

There is a woman who's kneeling
on the couch facing the wall.

She has her hands up on the
top of the back of the couch.

And then there's, like,
a little old lady who...

Is standing close.

- Describe this woman for me.
- Okay.

She was pretty old, so
she's fairly wrinkled.

And she's wearing big, thick glasses.

Can you tell me anything
more about the hairstyle?

It kind of stands up, but it curls back.

Is this what you saw?

Yes.

Now that Amy and I have
completed our investigations,

we're ready to reveal our
findings for the first time.

Cara, it's good to see you again.

I want to introduce
you to my partner, Amy.

Cara lives here. She's a
single mom with two children.

The three of them are
living in terror here.

Her oldest son, Noah, is
probably the most affected by it.

He's afraid to be in the house alone.

He has to sleep with the light on,
can't have his friends over to the house,

and she feels it's
destroying his childhood.

With that being said, I'm
gonna turn it over to Amy,

so we can hear a little
bit about her walk.

When I walked into the
house, I saw a woman.

She's a living person.

And she was just flipping out.

She was screaming and
yelling and out of control.

I was seeing everything
through her eyes.

The lady who's freaking out is
alive, and they're being attacked.

It's really bad in here.

The other person that was there was
this little old lady that is dead,

and she's a conscious entity.

I feel, definitely, a
female presence in the house.

I did sketch the scene that I saw.

- The scene of what? The two women?
- Of the two women.

You saw the living woman
and the dead woman together?

Yes.

Wow.

Take a look at that.

So, the person in the
background is a living woman.

And she was really being tormented
by whatever was happening.

The impression I got was something moving
by or something that was scaring her.

And this is the old lady who's dead.

That's very scary.

I'm a hospice nurse, and
so I deal with death...

- All of the time.
- Oh, man.

It could be a lady that I
had pass about a year ago...

- Oh, wow.
- That I really cared about.

She's very, very protective
of the lavender room

and spends a large
amount of time in there...

Uh, just sitting and
being, like, calming.

That's your daughter's room,

and she seems to be the
least affected in the house.

There's another woman here.

She was a younger woman and
she had long light-brown hair.

And when she was walking
by, I heard "suicide".

The house is only 27 years old,
so I looked into the land here.

Where your house sits was part
of a big, huge 17,000-acre farm,

set up into homesteads.

And the turn of the century, there was
a woman by the name of Gertrude Weaver

who lived on the farmland here.

This is her here.

One day, they found her dead.

She was shot in the chest.

So, the newspaper articles on
Gertrude's death listed three causes...

Accidental, suicide, and homicide.

I consulted with a rifle expert,
and he ruled out accidental.

But, in my opinion as
a homicide investigator,

I'm leaning towards homicide,
but I can't rule out suicide...

- Whoa.
- Because it's possible.

Is she dangerous to Cara and her family?

No.

But the next individual that I
encountered I believe is responsible

for everything that is going
on in the house that's negative.

He is the tormentor.

I saw him trying to hold
down and smother a child.

And then he made me feel
like I couldn't breathe.

If somebody were to perceive him, it
would look more like a shadow person.

He can go anywhere he wants in the house,
but he loves the blue room's closet.

This is where he likes to be, so it just
so happens that whoever's in this room

would get more frightened
than everybody else,

because he's more consistently here.

That describes what's going on
with your son to a "T" almost.

Yeah, he sees a shadow person
beside his door all the time...

Okay.

Kind of like a blurry
edged shadow person.

Mm hmm.

And I can't even close the
door without him screaming.

So, I go out into the backyard.

And I actually get to see his
true self when he was alive.

He seemed to be some
type of farmer or rancher.

He was really, really stressed
out about his water source

and water issues that were
happening at that time.

We have water issues.

I've had 8 separate floods
in 10 years in my home.

Fixed pipes, multiple sump pumps,

and then when everything
was fixed in the basement,

a manhole cover flooded my
basement, not any of my neighbors.

None of my neighbors
have had the issues.

Most people lived here only
two years, except for me.

He really believes that this is his
home, that you're his possessions,

and he...

Is an abuser.

Amy, let me tell you about
this guy John Shannon.

He was a lousy farmer.

And his biggest worries was
irrigation and the water.

- This is him as a farmer.
- Oh.

- All right? And this is him.
- Oh.

- There's a better photo of him up close.
- Whoa.

I talked to his great-granddaughter,
and she told me...

He beat a horse so bad, people
had to pull him off the horse.

Oh, my God.

Matter of fact, he abused his kids.

And it got to the point
where the older kids,

would take the younger kids and
hide them when he'd come home,

because they were so afraid
of him beating them down.

The state was gonna come and take,

his eight children away from him and
his wife because he was so abusive.

John Shannon dies in July of 1936.

And I got the death certificate here.

His cause of death is drowning.

And they find him in a water ditch.

The great-granddaughter thinks
that maybe somebody murdered him.

She had the feeling that the
oldest boy might have done it.

But do you think this is the guy?

I do.

The part that really concerned me was...

I encountered the beginnings
of a PK manifestation.

That is a branch off of a poltergeist.

These things cut people...

Beat people up...

And it could also possibly kill someone.

I encountered the beginnings
of a PK manifestation.

That is a branch off of a poltergeist.

These things cut people...

Beat people up...

And it could also possibly kill someone.

Now, what happens
with a PK manifestation

is that it stems from a
living agent at the location.

It's just purely the person's energy.

It's not something you can see.

These things feed off of negativity.

Fear, anger, depression become
absorbed immediately into this.

And then it starts to
actually create an entity.

It was initially created by a female.

Who's going through a very intense time.

Do you know who formed
it or helped form it?

Well, I think that it's...

Yeah, probably me then.

I have been through a lot of stress.

Okay.

So, does Cara have abilities?

Yes.

And so does her son.

So, you have abilities...

You're in the house with dead people.

And you're under a
great amount of stress.

It's the perfect storm.

Well, Cara, this is obviously
not what you wanted to hear,

but the investigations
did give you the answers

as to why it's happening,
what's going on.

The big question is, though... is it safe
for you and your children to stay here?

For that, I'm gonna turn it over to Amy.

So, I do believe that you can stay.

Good, good.

Because I can't sell this place.

But there are a few things
that you'll have to do.

The first thing I want to
talk about is cleansing.

Once a week, you physically clean
your house from top to bottom.

When you say to clean
the house top to bottom,

you're talking about actually
cleaning it, like washing and cleaning,

- mopping the floor, and vacuuming?
- Yes. Yes. Yes.

With your situation, the
cleansing is more for,

getting rid of the residual
energy that's collected.

Mm-hmm.

When people experience intense trauma,

toxic residual energy can pile
up in their environment like dust.

By cleaning the surfaces of her home,

Cara will wash these layers
of negative energy away.

So, you clean the space out and then
you're going to deal with this guy.

The way that I would suggest doing that
is getting a physical medium in here.

And you're going to
work with that person on,

visualizing him out of the
house to move him out and on.

Exert your power, let
him know who's boss.

After he's gone, am I gonna
still feel him, that's the thing,

- or is it just gonna feel...
- Oh, no.

Because you're gonna do this
with the physical medium.

You're gonna be there 100%
with your abilities, as well.

You're gonna get rid of him, so
you're not gonna feel that anymore.

- What about the old lady?
- She actually is here to try to help.

I mean, it's good for her to be
here right now until he's gone.

She'll be taken care of, like, kind
of inadvertently through this process.

And then the last thing is
dealing with the PK manifestation,

that's, you know,
upstairs in your closet.

What you want to do is a
little bit of counseling,

just to work out those past issues.

So, you're taking it outside
of the house to a person...

- Rather than in here.
- Right.

And you're verbalizing
it out to that therapist.

Will it ever go away?

Um, no.

I mean, it, very slowly over a very
long period of time, could dissipate.

So as long as you keep
it stunted, it's great.

What about this guy John Shannon?

Till this stuff gets resolved,
are they gonna be all right?

Yes. You know your power over him.

And so you just need to start
exerting that like nobody's business.

And also tell your
children to do the same.

- So you're empowering them.
- Mm hmm.

Well, Cara, you're gonna
do what she tells you.

- Definitely, yes.
- Okay.

I truly believe the PK manifestation
poses a dangerous threat to Cara's family.

If she follows the steps I
outlined, it will slowly dissolve,

and she and her two kids can
live in their home in peace.