The House In Between: Part 2

There's something there that lets you know it's there.

This house, it's really grabbed me.

It's got its hooks sinked into me.

There's a lot of thing that happen in this house that we can't explain.

It's wild just being there.

It has this, you know, this aura about it, a... a... a mystery.

I wanted a simple house, I wanted a A-frame house,

and I wanted a... a loft upstairs with a balcony.

And when we first drove by here, it was just a beautiful meadow.

It was covered with wildflowers.

And it just took my breath away.

And I said, you know, "That's it."

I had the house subcontracted, built like I wanted.

When they started building,

we noticed that there were some strange things happening.

The doors would slam.

I mean nothing else would be blowing around, but the door would slam.

They put the doorbell in and it would ring.

And you'd go to the door, there's nobody there.

I remember deadbolting the door and going upstairs

and as soon as I get upstairs, you know, we heard a bang!

I looked out and the door was open.

But it had the deadbolt still sticking out.

This house had a lot of activity that was unusual

and we knew that.

I made peace with that, I lived with that

until 2011.

At 11:30, I was probably in bed by 12 o' clock.

And it was pitch-black dark in here.

And a light came on

and I opened my eyes and, uh,

there was this... it was light.

It was a patch of total daylight from the ceiling to the floor.

And it was daylight in this tube of light

and it was pitch black in the rest of the room.

I just stared at it.

After about 10 seconds, it just went blink, it went out.

I just covered my head

and I pulled back the covers

and I saw there were like, real bright red buttons of light.

I had a flashlight on the bed

and I shone the flashlight all around the room

and uh, there was nothing unusual.

And I really did feel watched.

I felt a presence, I felt observed.

I didn't know if it was a religious experience,

I didn't know if it was a UFO experience, I didn't know what it was.

It scared me to death.

That was a turning point in my life,

because I decided that I would not stay here

by myself at night.

I never mentioned it to hardly anybody in this town

about the paranormal activity in my house,

because I wasn't sure how they would take it.

It's a... it's a... it's in the Bible Belt

and you know... and you know, I just... I didn't know how they would take it.

Florence is a suburb of Jackson,

the statistical metropolitan area.

This is community that's... that's got good neighbors.

They probably pretty much keep to themselves

and that may be what makes them good neighbors.

I think the people are real nice.

If somebody dies,

uh, everybody comes and brings food

and they go to the cemetery or they go to the funeral halls

or do what they can for you.

We're just country.

Just... just country.

Florence is a great town, but it's a southern town.

Some people are open-minded

and some people are very close-minded.

Florence is very Bible Belt-ish.

Bringing in the paranormal to them is unbelievable.

Do you believe in ghosts?

Uh, believe in what?

No, I don't.

I am a Christian, I do believe in the Holy Spirit.

If y'all... y'all go stay out in empty houses all night, I'll go to bed.

I was all embarrassed,

because I thought, you know, I'm just gonna look like an idiot.

So, I didn't tell anybody until it became known enough

that I knew there were gonna do a little news program on it.

On the outside, it looks like your typical home,

but inside it's anything but normal.

The candle just got up and landed.

It didn't just tipple over and it didn't shoot over,

it just kinda levitated over there.

After that news segment,

that just kinda validated to me that it was okay to express it,

because I just kept it inside, I didn't tell a lot of people.

But once it was documented,

I felt perfectly free then to talk about it.

And it was really a big moment.

That kinda made it real for me.

I think that's when it... that's when I started being really open to really...

I was trying to find somebody who could...

or maybe come up with some explanation.

I started talking to a friend ofmine at work

and she said she knew a young investigator

named John Bullard who might be interested.

My name's John Bullard.

I'm a marketing director

for about 40 different restaurants.

What got me into the paranormal is

ever since I was a little child,

I would see shadow figures, I would hear voices.

I didn't know if I was crazy or not

and I wanted to validate it for myself.

Uh, I didn't want to validate it for anybody else,

I just wanted to figure out that I wasn't crazy.

And I started doing research

about the supernatural and the paranormal.

And I kinda, you know, over time wanted to test the waters,

so I went to supposedly haunted places to test the waters,

to see if I could actually capture something,

if I could feel something

or sense something that I sensed when I was child.

We accidentally caught an incredible spirit voice EVP,

electronic voice phenomenon and that kinda changed me.

What is that white out near the woods, you see that?

It is in the woods, you see it now?

Oh, no, no, no, shine closer to it, shine.

In here.

- What the fuck was that? - What was that? What?

Did you say-that place said "in here?"

No.

Did y'all not... you didn't hear that?

No, I'm sorry.

In here.

There... there, did you hear anybody say, "in here?"

Did someone just say "in here?"

Did you hear that?

- Uh, I heard something. - John.

- I'm not fucking kidding. - I'm sorry.

Well, my biggest goal that I set in my mind was

to document evidence

that was clean, clear, and easy to view.

Did somebody just make that noise?

I was referred to the Mississippi house

by a friend of a friend.

When we pull up to the house,

you would never think there was anything really going on

inside the house.

So, we were really skeptical,

but we figured we'd hear her out.

Alice told us about the lights

that she experienced in the bottom bedroom

and some other sounds that she'd heard in the house.

And just from the pre-investigation that we did,

it really started to intrigue me.

Things moved.

Lights that have turned off.

It's something different

than just a paranormal investigation.

We have done about nine years,

it's the longest location that we have ever done consistently.

We have a DVR system

that is filming the house 24 hours a day,

they try to capture something else.

There's definitely something else out there,

whether it's a uh, you know, another world

or something that we're tapping into.

Uh, it's up... it's up for debate.

I have something very special for you today.

We have Brad Cooney.

Brad is part of the Mississippi house

and it is very well-documented

as a place that is haunted.

So, tell me a little bit about the house.

Just about everybody who we bring in there,

it just... it creeps 'em out.

There's a different energy in there

like you... you mentioned in your opening.

It's very well-documented,

the evidence captured is amazing.

Good?

Will you get that close cobwebs out?

You see I'm not home so much,

I didn't realize all those cobwebs are back there.

This is really out of my comfort zone, this whole thing.

So, I've lived here uh, 12 years.

12 years now and this is where I do all my... my podcasts

and throughout my boxing journalistic career

I've accrued quite a few things in the boxing world

writing for magazines and writing for boxing websites.

I've... I've met just about everybody there is

that's anybody in the boxing world.

h, Mike Tyson, Oscar De La Hoya, Floyd Mayweather.

I don't go to the fights anymore though, I don't cover it, I did it for a lot of years.

It was just time to start another chapter.

I got into the paranormal

uh, in... in... in... standing in this very room,

watched TV one day

and a segment that a local news broadcaster

did on Miss Alice's house caught my attention.

I stopped what I was doing, I started watching it

and realized it was really close,

so I reached out to that homeowner and her friend that was also on that segment.

'Cause it was really interesting to me,

especially how close it was.