Eli Roth Presents: A Ghost Ruined My Life

Jamie?

What are you doing?

We're playing.

You're it!

I'm Eli Roth.

I've spent my life telling horror stories.

But imagine if those stories were real

and suddenly you found yourself stalked and tormented

by an evil spirit, and no-one believed you.

These are the actual accounts of terror

as told by the victims who came face to face with their demons

and survived.

Sorry, it's just...

It's hard for me to...

revisit energy like that cos I get so scared that it's gonna...

...come back around.

When I moved out of the home that we'll be talking about,

I moved into here with my mother.

Just a few photos, before and after.

The first one is from when I first moved into this house.

Very energetic, very smiley, very happy. I was very proud.

And this is right about the time I moved out.

I can just see the gleam in my eye, the smile on my face.

It was a lot easier to smile. I don't smile as much as I used to.

I moved into the house in December

with my three-year-old son.

It was a little outdated, but I had a really good rate on my rent.

I mean, I was only bartending three days a week.

I was really grateful.

I felt at home there.

I was really excited because it's right before Christmas.

We had some help from my daughter and her boyfriend.

When you pull up, the house is in a beautiful neighbourhood by the lake.

Peaceful, very nice, full of nature.

so it was the perfect place.

The previous owners had left some stuff there.

The house was absolutely full with

their personal property and belongings.

There was a guitar. A lot of things.

Where do you want this? Oh, right over here.

But I'll take that right now.

Thank you.

Nothing's broken.

Hey, Jamie, come here.

Perfect. You want to hang them on the tree?

You could give us a hand, Mom.

First things first.

Let her do as she wants. Now you're just sucking up.

And you should be. Can you take those upstairs, please?

Yes, ma'am. Thank you.

Ah, here it is.

Look.

Look what I found.

Do you want it?

No. No, he doesn't.

What?

Fine.

I also... found this.

Ooh!

It was in one of the boxes left behind.

Someone liked Christmas just as much as you. Yeah.

Christmas, Christmas. Merry Christmas.

Jamie?

No.

You can't do that.

We live here now.

This is our house.

We can hear.

OK.

Who are you talking to, bud?

I'm hungry.

I am a spiritual person.

I feel energy a lot different than a lot of people.

Almost instantly, living in this home,

I could definitely sense the presence.

And I did find out from the landlord

that there was, at one time, an old lady that had lived there,

and had passed away years ago.

I think her spirit was still there because it was her home.

This spirit, her presence was very comforting.

She was very proud.

I remember the pride, this is my home,

I'm getting the sensation of - this is my home,

look what I've done, I did this by myself.

I felt very OK with us being there,

that there would be no problems with that.

Give Dad a hug for me.

Merry Christmas.

Merry Christmas!

Bye.

You like the reindeer cookies?

Yeah. Reindeer!

Who's that for? Oh, never mind.

Come on, we gotta get you up to bed.

Come on.

I never noticed the spirit.

I definitely didn't believe that this stuff was happening.

I just thought, you know, every house is "haunted", as they say.

So I was like, oh, there's just little things happening.

I took the paranormal less seriously than my mom did.

I didn't think it was, you know, to be taken seriously.

Oh!

Oh, yeah, one minute.

One minute till showtime.

I get some of these, and you get some sparkling water.

Bubbles!

OK, be careful, OK?

Here we go.

Ten...

nine...

eight...

seven...

six...

five...

four...

three...

two...

one...

Happy New Year!

Mommy? Mm?

What is that? What's what?

Behind you.

There's nothing there.

What's wrong?

Aagh!

Ah!

This wasn't the same as the spirit of this elderly woman.

This was different.

Things started getting really rough.

I could never have predicted what was about to happen next.

As I walk through the house,

I could feel the energy was different,

it wasn't the same.

I knew that lady was still there,

the elderly woman, her spirit was still there, but...

I knew something else was watching me.

There! Wah!

Jamie?

Jamie!

What are you doing?

We're playing.

My son was spinning around in circles

and laughing and giggling

and carrying on, and there was no-one in the room.

You're it!

You're it!

There was this little girl standing right there

just staring at me straight-faced, just glaring at me.

She looked drowned.

And then she was gone.

I was kind of in shock...

that my son was interacting with this spirit.

It was alarming.

Who are you?

I'm sorry.

I didn't want to hurt anyone.

Tell my sister...

...she can have my guitar.

Argh!

Mom?

Mom?

What's wrong?

There was more than one spirit here.

I just keep wondering, why is this happening to me?

Instinct told me just right away to start doing some research.

I gotta understand what's going on and what I'm dealing with.

Bill Reminy.

29.

A man that lived there prior to me committed suicide before I moved in.

Then I did research about drownings at the lake, and with children.

And when I did...

...almost instantly it popped up that there was a girl

who had drowned at that lake

just a couple of years prior to us moving in.

That's her.

It was a memorial video, and in that video was that child to a tee.

Same appearance, same size.

It was her.

The spirits and the energy in the house

wanted me to know they were there. The house was open season then.

Aaaargh! Aaargh!

OK, I was coming in, in a hurry.

And as soon as I opened the door...

...as soon as I got right here,

there was a greyish skeleton face in my face, of a man.

And it was like, in my face and as soon as I let go of the door,

I kinda jumped a little bit.

Then I felt instant squeezing on my heart.

And my heart started racing really fast.

I felt a lot of pain, I was having trouble breathing.