My Horror Story

- the house was perfect. - Me and tina were on cloud nine.

But I opened up my eyes.

Oh, my god, somebody was in our house last night

while we were asleep.

Kristin: It was a full apparition of a man.

Keith: My office is destroyed.

I think we have a ghost living in our house.

Kristin: And it was coming for me.

Keith: It looks like somebody set a bomb off.

Kristin: A black mass came into the room.

Keith: It was very easy to fall into the darkness.

I wasn't able to move, and all I could do was pray.

It's just not safe to be in the house alone anymore.

I didn't know what this was, but all I knew was,

I'm not going to live through this.

- There's a battle going on now. - And I'm going to die.

lori: We walk into the house. It felt like home.

Erin: I met this really lovely girl.

Jessica: My daughter was going to share her birthday.

Man #1: And there were a billion stars out, just gorgeous.

Chris: The room got cold. - Something's not right.

Oscar: I know what waits for me in the dark.

Lori: We weren't alone in this house.

Erin: I saw somebody staring right at me.

Lori: Blood coming out of his eyes.

Man #1: We're under the control of something.

April: I felt like I was dying.

Maddox: she wouldn't wake up,

and she wouldn't respond to me, and her little body was cold.

John: It was pure evil.

People need to know that they're never really alone in the dark.

music was my calling.

I was two years old and singing into a hairbrush.

later on, in my 20s, I was in a rock and roll band.

I was the front singer, guitar player, and songwriter.

Playing music was my dream. It was my release.

When I was playing music, I felt like I was invincible.

I first met jefe one night at a local bar.

His sister came up and asked if he could play a few songs,

and he was amazing.

He was one of the best musicians I've ever heard.

Music was our connection.

jefe is an amazing artist.

He had a tattoo studio in quincy, ohio.

We were together about two years,

then I found out that I was pregnant with lane.

jefe was a great father. He was the tony danza.

I worked and was in school, and he stayed home with lane.

He changed diapers.

I was in graduate school

studying forensic psychology part time at night.

I also was a drug and alcohol counselor

for ohio county schools.

Life was good.

That was until the flood.

in 2004, hurricane francis came through

and the ohio river was at its peak,

and I saw the river just cresting.

I ran in the house and I was screaming.

I literally had to hold lane and flee for our lives.

There was no way out.

The whole entire town, we were under water.

Our house was destroyed.

We had nothing. We were homeless.

And I didn't want to sleep under a bridge or on the porch,

but unfortunately, that's what we ended up doing.

I was working like crazy, saving every penny that I could.

After months of being homeless,

we finally found a home on a foreclosed list,

and I was pretty sure it was the answer to our prayers.

It was in bellaire.

I remember walking up the beautiful wooden staircase

to the second floor.

I went into what became my office.

I opened the door and I thought it was a closet, but it wasn't,

it was an attic.

And I thought, "why is it so cold in here?

It's still warm outside." and it was very odd.

But I always wanted this kind of a house.

I thought, "maybe the flood came

so I could have this awesome house," you know?

one day after work, I was sitting at the kitchen table...

...The door upstairs on the second level slammed shut.

I went upstairs to see if there was any windows open,

what's going on?

No windows, no nothing. But I just brushed it off.

at night, we would all sleep in the living room

on the couch to save money.

It was very expensive to heat that house.

one night, it was maybe 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning,

and I felt the cushion go down.

And I thought jefe came over to sit down.

but I opened up my eyes, a full apparition of a man.

And he was staring at me.

Holy god, what is that?

I'm an it project manager.

I've been one for about 20 years.

I was born and raised in austin, texas.

At 11 years old, I knew I wanted to live in the pacific northwest

and be in it because I used to love taking electronics apart

and taking it and putting it back together again.

So moving to seattle was my goal

because you have these powerful software companies booming.

So I moved to the seattle area in 2005,

and I got hired on within three weeks of moving into the city.

I had been living in seattle a little over five years

and met tina.

It was almost love at first sight

because she had a lot of energy, a lot of sass.

Tina and I had been dating two years.

I had recently got a huge job promotion,

so I said, "hey, why don't we get a house together?"

we started looking for a house.

And this house in bothell, we both liked.

It was new, it was modern, it was clean.

We want the home.

me and tina had been on cloud nine all day,

and now we're getting the lay of the land.

keith: Out of the blue, we hear a kid cough.

keith: And it sounded like it came from one of the bedrooms upstairs.

but of course, I mean, there can't be no kid in the house.

We figured it has to have come from outside.

We just disavowed it.

two to three weeks after, I was about to leave for work,

and I was grabbing coffee on my way out the door...

...And I can see this toy car.

I picked it up and walk it back to tina, "is this yours?"

of course she says no.

And then we just put it in a drawer.

a few days later, same thing.

Oh, my god, we're finding kid toys out in the open.

you see them, and you're like, "oh my god,

somebody was in our house last night

while we were asleep."

we thought we had home intruders or pranks.

It's just unnerving to maybe have somebody come in

while you're asleep.

So we just turned the home security system on.

We'll monitor the house more carefully,

and hopefully, that'll be the end of that.

Of course, it wasn't.

We have a kitchen drawer where we keep the utensils.

Well, one day, I opened it...

...All these letters start piling out like rapid fire,

dah, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah.

The person's name on there is not us.

They are all addressed to a rhonda.

The address is to this house.

They're not opened,

but the postage dates these letters four to five years ago.

Tina, she was just as equally perplexed as me

because we know these drawers were virtually empty

when we moved into the house.

I put these letters in the drawer where the toys were.

Now we have a drawer that we keep for the items

that are appearing.

it's now two months later,

me and tina are watching tv downstairs...

...Watching a movie, about 8:30 or 9:00 pm.

all of a sudden, the plant just darts up in the air.

I looked at her, and tina looked at me, and we like,

"did that just happen?"

tina looks at me and says,

"I think we have a ghost living in our house."

kristin: 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning,

we were all sleeping on the couch,

and I felt the cushion go down.

it was a gray figure of a man,

and he was staring at me. There was no expression on him.

he was gray, but I could see through him.

so I sat up and I started screaming.

Who are you? What do you want?

He got up, the cushion came back up,

and then he turned his back on me

and he walked into the foyer and he just vanished.

lane was sound asleep. Jefe woke up.