Paranormal Survivor

There was an evil entity in the house.

You are about to see real people...

I was terrified beyond belief.

...reliving horrifying

paranormal encounters

for the first time.

I truly felt it was like living in hell.

As their personal objects

are possessed by spirits.

That picture turned out to be very evil.

I buried this for nearly 30 years.

Be prepared to be afraid.

We were looking for a house down around in the Taylor area,

and we happened to drive by

this particular house,

and my husband says, "Now, that's the house I'm gonna buy."

And I thought, "All righty."

We had moved from upstate.

And my parents had drove by the house

and, like, fell in love with it, and it was for sale.

I remember that. The yard was really big.

I remember being very excited

because, you know, we're gonna have our own rooms.

Gloria's husband sold

the family business in order to buy the house.

It was our dream home.

It's what we have always wanted.

It was so big and, you know,

with all the oak and the, you know, decorations,

it was just gorgeous, you know.

Shortly after moving in,

Gloria became aware that the house was not quite

the dream home they had hoped for.

You know, I start noticing a lot of unusual stuff then, you know.

There were so many little things

that you pay no attention to, with doors slamming,

pictures flying off the wall.

I'd go outside to get the mail,

which was out on the road,

and I'd come back and my door would be locked.

I would hear boxes being drug

across the floor in the basement.

That was scary.

Shelby: Clothes would just disappear.

They're not gonna just disappear,

but we would never find it again.

You know, get undressed at night,

lay your clothes on the bed, and get up in the morning...

You're gonna wear the same outfit or something...

And it would be... A piece of it would be gone.

These small incidents proved to be

the start of an escalating pattern.

And this one incident

when we were in the living room watching TV.

Shelby: I remember very clearly that night

watching Christmas cartoons in the living room, and...

We had a large dog.

And she was as calm as could be,

and she just started barking and ran to the kitchen door.

Shelby: All her hair was sticking up.

She was growling. She was barking.

She just kept barking, and I could hear footsteps

coming up the steps.

So you knew it had to be something.

I kept saying, "I know someone's out there.

Don't come any closer."

And it seemed to go on forever...

The barking and the growling and the noises.

It was horrifying.

And my mom got my dad's gun.

And they just got closer and closer.

And you could hear something, like,

squishing, like your feet moving on the bottoms.

Like, you could hear it,

and then you could hear it come up.

You could hear steps. You could hear movement.

I seen the handle on the door turning,

and I was just petrified.

I just said, "I am going to shoot."

And it just stopped.

And the police came, but they came around to the back door.

Guns drawn, "Open the door," went up.

There was nothing nowhere.

And I said, "I'm telling you, I know what I heard."

And the kids heard it, you know."

That was one of my worst experiences.

This is all real, and you can't escape this.

The family continued to experience

paranormal phenomena in their home.

One of the, um,

scarier things that happened to me when I was a teenager

was I was in my room

doing my homework, and I had

my back to my, you know... To the door.

And I heard the most god-awful voice say my name.

It was deep, and it was guttural, and...

I didn't know what to do.

I froze, because to get out of my bedroom,

I knew there's my bedroom, there's the steps,

but that thing was right outside my bedroom door,

and I had no choice but to run through it.

'Cause I was trapped in that room,

and it was horrifying.

It was literally like ice, that I had to run.

I ran downstairs, and I ran all the way through.

And my mom was in the kitchen, and she was like,

"What? What happened?" And I was just shaking.

And I told her what happened, what I heard,

and she just said, you know, "Calm down. It will be okay."

And she went back in the kitchen,

and she could hear it upstairs laughing.

It was horrifying.

It was just one of the most scary moments

that I remember having in that house.

The family had no idea

what was causing the terrifying events,

until some renovations unearthed a haunting picture.

This discovery seemed to only make things worse.

There was a really big glass porch on this house.

And so, we were gonna finally tear up the old linoleum

that was on the porch and just have

the natural wood that was there.

So we started tearing it up.

Shelby: I just remember her

finding this picture,

and I remember hating it.

I mean, it was horrible.

These people are... It was an older couple.

And they just looked so angry.

And the feeling you got from the picture

was just that they hated you.

Spirits, initially, like the idea of being present,

whether it's to a painting that they've had,

they've owned, something that they've liked.

And these spirits will make a connection,

and they'll stay with that photo.

They'll stay with that object.

My husband really liked the picture.

So, we were into antiques and everything, you know.

So, we got an old antique frame and framed it

and put it in the dining room.

Shelby: I just remember

the feeling from that picture

literally was like people were staring at you,

and not in a good way.

They were angry.

My cousin extremely hated it.

He hated it. He never wanted to look at it.

He never wanted to see it.

It flew off the wall

and hit him right in the arm.

And that would have been about four to five feet.

I mean, so it didn't fall off the nail.

It actually flew and hit my nephew in the shoulder.

In the basement, there was what they would call a root cellar.

It had this really weird writing all over the walls.

It was just so creepy in there.

And I told my husband,

"I really am worried about that root cellar over there,"

you know, 'cause the basement's big.

So, he would close it,

and it would open up.

So, he said, "Well, maybe it's crooked on the hinge"

or something," so he nailed it shut.

And then I said, "I'm still scared down here."

So, we had an old car seat,

like out of a Ford Van or something.

So he pushed that right up there real tight.

He says, "Now, no one's gonna move this."

You know, my mom would go down there to do laundry,

and it's standing open.

At that point, you can't ignore it.

There's something definitely going on in that house.

The family became convinced

that the picture itself was haunted

and was the source of the problems in their home.

Living here is like being in hell.

Living in this house is like hell.

And the minute she said it,

the whole house smelled like earth,

just like must and earth.

The discovery of a haunted picture

had escalated a series of paranormal events,

terrifying the kolasinski family in their own home.

As a teenager, I truly felt it was like living in hell.

And the minute she said it,

the whole house smelled like earth.

Just you could smell it,

and I says, "Take it back, take it back."

"Take it back, take it back."

Whatever you... and she says, "Oh, fine, fine," you know.

She says, "I take it back, this is not like living in hell."

You know, and,

immediately, the smell went away,

and it was just a regular house again.

This friend of mine said,

"Why don't you come to ceramics class with me?"

It's a blessing I did, because whilst I was there,

this one lady came forward, and she said she knows...

Her friend is a really good psychic.