My name is Alicia,
and my family and I were tormented by a creature in our home.
I grew up in Garden Grove, California.
It's quiet, neighbors know each other.
It's a nice... It was a nice little city.
Growing up was actually really hard.
My mom was newly divorced, and it was myself and...
Andrew, my brother.
We lived in a mobile home for quite some time.
I was just so envious,
and a little jealous of my peers.
Nobody lived in a mobile home,
and they would have, like, pool parties and barbecues.
I was a little bit ashamed.
I was always bullied.
I was a little overweight, and I was short,
and I wasn't the prettiest.
So living at the mobile home, that didn't help.
My social life was just very bad.
But then things changed.
My mom is a hairstylist,
and she had an opportunity to work in a salon.
She realized, "This is the perfect opportunity
to find a home for us and the teenage kids at this point."
I had more clients, and more money was coming in.
And fortunately, I found a "For Rent" sign
and, uh, inquired about that house,
and wow!
It was just a dream.
Alicia, come on.
I remember seeing these people.
They seemed a little bit off in a sense of they didn't want us there.
They seemed pretty angry and upset.
But I kind of brushed that aside, thinking I'm so excited to be here.
Andrew, come...
- That's gonna be your room. - Yeah.
Let's go.
Kids!
Mom?
It's fine.
It's fine. Just... Just go.
That cross had been blessed,
so it meant a lot, and it broke in a million pieces and crumbled.
We were shocked, but we thought maybe
a gust of wind may have knocked it down, or maybe something...
It was unlevel or something like that.
Yeah, there was just no explanation. You know, just kind of strange.
And then a few days after we moved in, I went out into the backyard.
I found very strange items in the backyard.
And for some reason,
I had an eerie feeling there's something... Something is not right here.
Again, I kind of brushed that aside.
It was going to be my first day of senior year.
I remember getting ready on the first day of school, all excited.
No!
Mom?
Mom!
Oh, my God.
Mom?
Mom! Mom!
Oh, my...
Mom! Mom!
It was as if you jumped off of a five-story building
and just shattered both of your ankles.
It was quite unexplainable.
She was actually screaming, "Somebody picked me up and pushed me."
"Somebody pushed me. Somebody lifted me and pushed me."
I thought, that is not a cat.
It had different features.
It had fangs, and you could see its ribs.
The eyes were
just looking right into my own eyes.
I've never seen an animal like... like that at all.
So I immediately went to the hospital with my mom.
And the first thing that you said was, "Go home and get rid of that creature."
The lights turn back on, and the creature is gone.
My mom came home from the hospital.
Um, we put you in the bed, and that's where you were going to heal.
I just remember coming home and seeing Mom with two casts on her legs,
and I was thinking, like, "Wow, did this really happen?"
Like, I've never seen anyone with two broken legs
and two full casts around their legs.
I thought it was just unreal.
In that moment when my mom was injured,
um, we were completely vulnerable inside the house.
Mom?
Mom!
Andrew?
Mom!
Alicia?
Mom?
Mom!
Mom?
Mom!
There...
There is a demon...
in... in my room.
You say, "There's a demon in my room."
My mom took my temperature, and it was 108.
And then I noticed my hands and my arms
started forming these very large red welts,
as if there were burn marks all over my skin.
They drove me to the emergency room.
Doctors were coming in wearing hazmat suits and oxygen masks,
and they were treating me as if, um, I was quarantined.
And they decided to put me in an ice bath.
My hair was falling out in very, very large chunks.
The rash on my arms grew all the way down my back and my legs and my feet.
My left eye optic nerve completely shrunk because of the temperature,
and I was blind in my left eye for a month.
It was just so scary.
Like you were dying right in front of my eyes.
It reminded me of a Biblical plague,
just getting skinnier and skinnier and thinner and paler.
And... there was really no explanation
until they finally found out what it was that you had.
They call a woman from Center of Disease Control to fly in from Chicago.
She did a few tests.
She asked me...
"Did you go to Africa at any point recently?"
"Because you have typhoid fever."
The doctor was very surprised and stated that it's impossible,
because there was zero cases of typhoid fever in the US
since the 1920s.
The rarest form of typhoid fever.
Never seen in our area, ever.
My mom decided, at this point, it was time to...
really, really look into hiring a professional person
who practices
getting rid of demonic entities in the home.
I spoke to a friend who told me about JC.
I'm a shamanic practitioner.
I'm a teacher for the Foundation for Shamanic Studies in San Diego.
I'm very sensitive, uh, to energy.
I was born with the ability
to connect with divine helpers.
I went to the home,
and I began to see the negative energy that was there.
Hmm.
It's just kind of a blur now.
This thing was putting up a fight. It didn't want to go.
This was a very intense situation,
and it took a lot of energy to be able to remove this entity from the house.
Wow.
After JC removed the negative entity from the home,
I started feeling better.
It was too good to be true. I was just...
I was...
It felt everything was gone.
The doctors said,
"Okay, well, your fever is down enough for you to go home."
The house felt completely different.
Whoo!
For the first time, I was able to have a few parties
like I wanted to in the very beginning, and enjoy my senior year.
The nightmare was over.