Ghost Nation

Jason: Next on "ghost nation"...

Almost a 60. Wow. My gosh.

This whole room is like this.

This family is under attack.

Charmaine: It's a little frightening and unnerving.

Is it possible that a body is buried here?

Find it!

Mario: I write dark horror.

When I write,

that's when the activity really stirs up.

"he looks down at his feet, which is oozing blood."

mm.

hello?

summer: I felt a sudden punch.

The closet door started to fall on me.

Charmaine: There's something dark here.

josh: "there is something else in this house."

make some sort of a noise.

Let us know you're here with us.

Woman: I'm right beside you.

Steve: We are a community of searchers.

This family is under attack.

Tango: We are...

Jason:..."ghost nation."

rick: All right. Welcome to "paradelphia."

and we have quite the treat for you guys tonight.

Joining us in studio --

jason hawes, steve gonsalves, and dave tango.

So it's been quite a few years. What have you guys been doing?

Jason: Steve and I have created

united paranormal research organization.

Yeah. We're creating a network

all over the country that investigate under our protocols,

and when they sort of need, you know, the next step,

that they're getting in touch with us.

And when you guys have a set protocol like that,

it helps with validation

of any kind of evidence you come up with.

Yeah, absolutely.

Jason: Today we are just outside philadelphia

talking to local paranormal investigators

doug hogate and rick pruitt on their podcast,

cleverly called "paradelphia."

that gets me thinking about a very difficult case.

For the last 12, 13 years,

I've ran my own paranormal research team.

Jersey's unique minds paranormal society, also known as jumps,

and we have a case that has me at a speed bump.

I've investigated twice already,

but things seem to keep happening

to the family and intensifying.

And if you were interested in taking a look at it,

I could show you some of the things we found

and explain it to you.

Yeah, I'd definitely be interested in checking it out.

Jason: This is exactly why we created

the united paranormal research organization.

We wanted to help investigators with their difficult cases.

The client, mario -- he is actually a horror writer.

His creativity and the way he's always thinking things up

in his writing could have an effect

on the activity they are having.

The client's daughter's -- 10-year-old --

seems to be having the most experiences.

So what's happening with the daughter?

The main thing is this closet door

had forcefully ripped off of its changes.

I would think that the daughter being at that age --

if anybody was to manifest the activity,

it would be her manifesting it. Sure.

Poltergeists? Self-manifestation?

I mean, it's a common thing for young girls

as they're getting ready to enter into adulthood.

Jason: Poltergeist is a german word meaning noisy spirit.

It's often associated with an unseen force

that has the ability to throw objects around a room.

These manifestations were long thought

to be the work of demons.

today we believe these evil spirits

to be caused by an individual

who is under extreme emotional distress.

Oftentimes the victim of these otherworldly forces

are adolescents.

And, also, she sees all around the house and property

an apparition of a little girl.

I have an evp, if you guys like to hear.

- Yeah, sure. - Why not?

All right.

Doug: Is there another person here

that also helps you?

A evp of someone saying, "it's me."

it's me.

I promise all my clients that I'm with them till the end.

So that is why my next step was call for help.

Jason: Well, and anytime the case involves a family,

especially with children,

it jumps to the priority list for us.

So let's just get over there and meet the family

and start trying to figure out what's happening.

They will be thrilled. I know they want answers.

jason: Cases that involve poltergeist activity are rare

and extremely dangerous.

If this family's experiencing both spirit

and poltergeist activity

that is being intensified by the father's horror writing,

we're gonna have our hands full.

- What's up, dude? - Hey, guys.

- How you doing? - Hey. Come on in, guys.

- All right. - How are you?

yeah, doug filled us in a little bit on what's happening here,

and it all sounds pretty intense.

- Yeah. - Yeah.

When we bought this house, it was a fixer-upper.

Literally within couple of weeks,

that's when stuff started to stir up.

mario: Before we moved in here,

we were just a normal family.

I write dark stuff -- dark horror.

When I write, it's almost like

whatever's in this house is feeding off of my dark energy.

Charmaine: My daughter, summer, was the first person

that experienced anything paranormal.

summer has told us multiple times

that she has a relationship with this little girl.

Charmaine: It's a little unnerving to think

that my daughter is speaking to someone

that's not physically here.

One day summer was in the bathroom,

and I heard her screaming my name.

So I went up there,

and summer had an entire new vision

of this little girl with black hair

and black tears crying in the shower.

It was more frightening.

Summer: I saw a black cloud in my bedroom.

and it really scared me.

The cloud would hover over top of me.

One night, I was sitting on my carpet.

Coloring, and I felt a sudden punch.

In my back.

I turned around, but no one was there.

And I started hearing creaking,

so I started yelling, "mom! Mom!"

the closet door started to fall on me.

I had to run and grab it

before the entire thing fell on her.

Summer: I felt like someone was trying to harm me.

Later on, summer saw a man in the backyard

when she was playing near the tree.

Anytime she was out there playing,

she said she would see him.

charmaine: In the living room,

I have experienced shadow people go up and down the stairs.

I've experienced stuff on my own

in the basement.

I was just laying down to go to sleep.

One of the toys went off. Then another toy went off.

It happened again.

that's when I ran out of the basement.

Charmaine: As soon as that incident happened, we had no choice

but to call somebody to finally figure out

what was really going on here

and to try and put an end to it all.

how are your children being affected with this?

I had to physically move my daughter's room.

She won't sleep in there.

A female child of that age a lot of times

can manifest the activity themselves,

especially poltergeist-type activity.

They can actually create the things

that are going on in the house.

What's the most recent activity that you all have had?

Couple times when I've been here,

my son will point,

and he'll say "monster. The monster."

he was looking to the basement, and he's saying,

"it's down there. It's down there."

I do have video footage of that.

Mario: What do you see down there?

Where?

Oh, geez.

And then I'm getting freaked out 'cause, you know what I mean?

I'm in the house with my son seeing monsters,

and I don't see anything.

Where do you think the hottest spots

of paranormal activity are in the house?

My daughter's old room, which is now our office,

and the tree in the backyard.

When we first moved in the house,

my daughter was instantly drawn to

the backyard and to this tree.

Well, do you want to show us this tree?

Absolutely.

Tango: You guys mind if I set up command center?

- Yeah, set it up. - All right.

Yeah, so this is the tree right here.

Do you think we can talk with summer

about her connection to this tree?

- Yeah, absolutely. - Yeah, absolutely.

- Hey, sum, come here. - Okay.