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Subs created by: David Coleman.
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I had a home that was everything to me.
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We really had no idea of the things
that we would discover in the house.
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We had never seen anything that violent.
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Rebecca.
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It was like someone
were saying, I'm here.
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I'm here.
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I'm here.
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There's somebody there.
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As much as I wanted
her to not be there...
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She was there.
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There's nothing here.
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No, honey, come on.
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You know, this will
be a huge move for me.
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In 2005, I was given the opportunity
to interview for the deanship
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of the School of Arts and Humanities at
the University of Arkansas Monticello.
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Let me just hear them out.
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My wife, Rebecca, was wary
of moving away from Oklahoma.
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When Mark first started
applying for jobs,
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I told him I would move
anywhere but Alaska or Arkansas.
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And so he puts me in the
car to go to Arkansas.
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I'm a city girl.
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Rebecca and I turned
down North Main Street,
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and immediately we were
impressed by these beautiful...
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Um, circa 1900 Victorian mansions.
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Well, we came to one in particular
that caused us to stop the car.
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It was love at first sight.
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Wow.
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I just said, Mark, I will only move
to this town if you buy me that house.
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I knew that I would only be happy...
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In such an isolated location.
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If I had a home that
was everything to me.
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We really had no idea of the things
that we would discover in the house.
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We moved to Monticello
in the summer of 2005.
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We really were fulfilling our desires.
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Thanks. Let's go. Let's go.
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And now we had the house of our dreams.
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That wasn't the fairy-tale
image that I took from it.
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I didn't feel so much like a
Princess as I did a scared little kid.
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The house is enormous, and
you feel very vulnerable to it.
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I felt mesmerized. I
felt very spellbound.
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I just laid down on
the floor on my back...
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And just had that moment
for myself of, wow, I own it.
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Can you take these and put them over...
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- Yeah.
- There?
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Just rearrange them how you want, okay?
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A little after we had just moved in, we
had decided to sort of rearrange the house.
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Out of the corner of my eye,
I caught the record spinning.
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And it was going faster and faster,
I mean, just as fast as it could go.
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I hadn't cranked the record player.
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Rebecca hadn't cranked it.
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There was no explanation for why the
record could possibly be spinning.
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Ah!
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It just stopped spinning instantly.
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That was very, very strange.
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It didn't make any sense.
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Seeing something like this really...
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Set in my uneasy
feeling about the house.
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One of the things that
the kids and I have
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always done for recreation
on the weekends is...
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To get out our metal detector...
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Okay. Hey, slow down, now.
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Slow down, Jake.
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And to go around, seeing whether we
could find anything in the ground.
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There could be some really neat
stuff here in this old yard.
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I was out by the front sidewalk.
I was listening to music...
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Josh, where are you? You back there?
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As I approached one of
the big old rose bushes...
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Oh. Wait. Hey, over here.
Guys, found something. Come on.
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The metal detector started making
its high-pitched beeping sound.
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Over here. Go ahead, Josh.
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Get down there with
your... there you go.
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The music just all of a sudden stopped.
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- Ooh, found something.
- Ooh, what is that?
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As we broke apart the soil, we
discovered an old penny from 1948.
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See if there's something else in there.
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Pull it out. What is it?
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And we found an old pillbox.
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Wow, this is something else.
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- Oh, look at that.
- This?
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Wow. What is that?
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And we found an old lipstick case.
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Rebecca.
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I heard someone, a woman's
voice, say, "Rebecca".
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I felt this strong sense
that someone was watching me,
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and I turned and looked up at the house.
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I thought I saw something in the
shape of a woman in the window.
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And then the music started again.
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I felt that the house
itself had its own...
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Presence, I guess.
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We had been in the house maybe a month,
and we decided to have a yard sale.
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And my friend Desi said she had some
things she wanted to get rid of too.
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I was just walking up the stairs.
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As I got closer and closer
to the house, and I looked up.
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And in the bedroom
window, I saw Rebecca.
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Hey, Destiney.
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There was no way that she could
have made it from upstairs in the
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bedroom to the door in, you know,
a matter of just a few seconds.
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I just saw you in the window.
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No, it's just me in the house right now.
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And I said, well, I wasn't upstairs.
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I've been at the back of the house,
pricing these items for the yard sale.
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There was no doubt in my
mind that I knew what I saw.
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I started taking my
boxes into the foyer.
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I saw Rebecca.
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Hey, Rebecca, I could use your
help getting some of that stuff.
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It's not a whole lot, but I could use some
help with some big boxes and everything.
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And then so I just walked out.
I expected her to follow me.
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She wasn't there, and I was like,
oh, I guess she maybe didn't hear me.
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I walk back into the house
with my second load of boxes.
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Rebecca was still just standing there.
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Could use some help, please.
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I'm like, hey, did you not hear me?
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Rebecca? No?
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You know, I spoke to her, but
she never spoke back to me.
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And I was like, okay,
whatever, you know?
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Hey.
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Rebecca comes in from
the back of the house.
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I mean, I was so confused.
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Then I'm very upset.
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Rebecca, why have you been ignoring me?
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I was practically begging for you to
help me come get some of this stuff out.
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Desi, when did you ask me for help?
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I don't know who you're talking to.
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At this time, I was just like,
ugh, you know, what's going on?
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Destiney.
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I'm just wondering
if I'm losing my mind.
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- Here, let me help you.
- I believed her.
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I believed that she saw me somewhere
in the house and I wasn't really there.
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Something odd occurred.
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There was a broken glass
on the kitchen counter.
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It wasn't on the floor.
It wasn't in the sink.
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I thought that maybe one of
the kids had broken the glass.
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Did any of you break a glass
this morning, last night?
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No.
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But the kids said they
hadn't broken a glass.
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And I really didn't have any
reason not to believe them.
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The glass seemed to have broken
overnight when everybody was sleeping.
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And then every day that week
when I went down to the kitchen...
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There was a broken glass on the counter.
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It was strange that it kept
repeating itself, just every morning.
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But each day, it was the same thing.
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One night, I was just
walking down the hallway...
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I heard footsteps coming from the attic.
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Everyone was asleep but me.
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I did not dare look up into the attic.
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I went back into my
bedroom and closed the door.
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I heard ice cubes
clinking against glass...
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As if someone were
walking down the hallway,
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and had just gotten a
drink from the kitchen.
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There was no way that it was my
little brothers, my dad, or my stepmom.
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They were just across the
hall, asleep in their beds.
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Then I felt there was
company in the room.
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And the fan turns off.
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And then it turns back on again.
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I was petrified.
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I could see the buttons being pushed
in, as if someone were pushing them.
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But there was no one there.
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Click.
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Click.
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Click.
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It was like someone
were saying, I'm here.
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I'm here. I'm here.
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I was terrified.
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I...
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I knew for a fact that there
was something in the house.
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Bronte didn't want to be in the house.
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So we decided to go on vacation.
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She told me on more than one occasion about
things that were happening in her room.
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I have to admit that I wasn't
terribly worried about it.
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You know, she's an
11-year-old girl,
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and I thought that it was probably
just her imagination working overtime.
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Okay, guys, let's go.
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We never leave the house alone.
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So we invited one of
Mark's students, Reagan,
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to come and house-sit for us and
watch the animals while we were gone.
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The Spencers are a very lovely family,
and I had grown quite close to them.
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And I was approached to
house-sit for them that summer.
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I wanted her to feel
comfortable to come in the
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house and stay in the
house as much as possible.
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I didn't tell Reagan specifically
anything that had happened in the house.
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And I was trying to figure out, why
would they put this picture in there...
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And then build these
two walls around it?
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Rebecca calls me, and she asked me if I
wouldn't mind going upstairs to the attic.
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To make sure that the roof wasn't leaking,
make sure the buckets weren't overflowing.
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Okay, yeah, sure.
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Okay, bye.
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So I thought to myself, I really
don't want to go up there...
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Sorry, Howdy.
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But I would do anything
for the Spencers.
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I grabbed a chair and propped
it up against the door.
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It helped to leave that door
open to get more illumination.
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As I walked up the stairs, it was...
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I could hear that the rain
was hitting pretty hard.
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There were some buckets
that were about to overflow.
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I was too nervous to look too far.
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Because it was just a
spooky old Victorian attic.
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Howdy.
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Howdy.
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Howdy, come on.
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Come on, boy.
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Howdy, where are you?
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Ah!
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The door slammed shut, leaving
me and the dog in total darkness.
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Come on, boy.
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Howdy, where are you?
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Ah!
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I just felt this
overwhelming sense of panic.
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I feel like I got to run down, you
know, try to get out of the attic,
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but at the same time, I've
still got this dog up here.
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Howdy.
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Come here. Come on.
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Come on. Howdy, come on.
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Howdy!
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Howdy. Come on.
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Huh?
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Please, Howdy.
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Oh.
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Oh, what are you doing here?
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Come on, Mister.
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I grabbed the dog, and I
just ran for the stairs.
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I slipped over. I was terrified.
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I needed to get out of
the attic immediately.
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The chair had moved.
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And I see this person go into
the doorway of Mark's study.
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There's somebody there.
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As much as I wanted her to
not be there, she was there.
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I ran to my car for dear life.
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I threw the door open and then got
out of there as fast as I could.
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Reagan called me and said...
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That she had had a really weird,
strange experience in the house.
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Someone else in the house having
another strange experience...
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Makes you feel like maybe
it's not all in your head.
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With all the weird stuff
going on in the house...
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I decided to go and do historical
research about the original homeowners.
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They were such a wealthy family.
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Right.
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The Allens were a
particularly prominent family.
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Joe Lee Allen was the
President of a bank.
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00:22:51,797 --> 00:22:55,527
And they had three daughters...
Lonnie, Ladell, and Lewie...
248
00:22:55,528 --> 00:22:58,497
And he really built the house for them.
249
00:22:58,498 --> 00:23:01,494
And this is the picture of Ladell.
250
00:23:01,495 --> 00:23:04,063
Ladell was the middle daughter.
251
00:23:04,064 --> 00:23:09,569
Ladell quickly emerged as a particularly
interesting figure in the Allen family.
252
00:23:09,570 --> 00:23:13,290
Ladell's name kept popping up.
253
00:23:13,373 --> 00:23:17,298
Ladell was a woman who had a
lot of heartache, a lot of...
254
00:23:17,299 --> 00:23:20,547
A lot of tragedy sort
of surrounding her life.
255
00:23:20,548 --> 00:23:22,924
Her dad died when she was little.
256
00:23:22,925 --> 00:23:25,559
She found herself in a bad marriage.
257
00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:27,714
She got divorced in 1927.
258
00:23:27,715 --> 00:23:29,315
Look at this here.
259
00:23:29,316 --> 00:23:34,776
And then her only child
died of pneumonia in his 20s.
260
00:23:35,689 --> 00:23:40,226
And then we discovered that
Ladell had died in the house.
261
00:23:40,227 --> 00:23:42,729
She died relatively young.
262
00:23:42,730 --> 00:23:46,658
There was the mystery
as to why she had died.
263
00:23:46,659 --> 00:23:50,979
Because it seemed that nobody knew why.
264
00:23:51,535 --> 00:23:56,976
So I decided to go ahead and
order her death certificate.
265
00:23:56,977 --> 00:23:59,644
With all the strange, unusual
things that were happening,
266
00:23:59,645 --> 00:24:04,745
I wanted to see if I
could link them to Ladell.
267
00:24:09,523 --> 00:24:10,909
We were both skeptics...
268
00:24:10,910 --> 00:24:12,024
- Morning.
- Hey.
269
00:24:12,025 --> 00:24:17,132
But I was beginning to embrace the idea
that there might be something more to it.
270
00:24:17,133 --> 00:24:19,164
Than we knew or we could explain.
271
00:24:19,165 --> 00:24:21,967
I'm beginning to wonder
about these things.
272
00:24:21,968 --> 00:24:27,640
And she actually broached the subject
of bringing in paranormal investigators.
273
00:24:27,641 --> 00:24:33,541
And I was a little flabbergasted
that she even mentioned this.
274
00:24:34,147 --> 00:24:36,883
I felt that I had a professional
reputation to protect.
275
00:24:36,884 --> 00:24:41,353
I was The Dean of the largest
school at a university.
276
00:24:41,354 --> 00:24:44,897
Rebecca, there's nothing
going on in this house.
277
00:24:44,898 --> 00:24:50,718
I mean, I was all about rational
explanations of everything.
278
00:24:56,870 --> 00:25:01,850
You can never underestimate
the power of denial.
279
00:25:02,509 --> 00:25:03,518
Okay.
280
00:25:03,519 --> 00:25:06,683
I didn't want them to come in and tell
me that what I was seeing was real.
281
00:25:06,684 --> 00:25:12,084
I wanted them to come in
and say it wasn't haunted.
282
00:25:15,589 --> 00:25:17,859
A lot of people we work with
283
00:25:17,860 --> 00:25:21,494
kind of want to prove their house is
haunted, but Mark and Rebecca did not.
284
00:25:21,495 --> 00:25:23,729
They didn't want this
stuff to be going on.
285
00:25:23,730 --> 00:25:25,950
Ooh. Wow.
286
00:25:27,734 --> 00:25:30,670
We take a great deal
of equipment with us.
287
00:25:30,671 --> 00:25:36,175
Digital tape recorders, electromagnetic
field meters, infrared cameras.
288
00:25:36,176 --> 00:25:37,610
Up in the corner there. One there.
289
00:25:37,611 --> 00:25:41,871
And we run those cameras in the dark.
290
00:25:46,319 --> 00:25:50,155
We sent the children to
friends' houses for the night.
291
00:25:50,156 --> 00:25:53,697
We decided that we were just
sort of in the way, and I said...
292
00:25:53,698 --> 00:25:58,030
We're gonna go see a movie,
and they said, that's great.
293
00:25:58,031 --> 00:26:01,011
I honestly didn't expect them
294
00:26:01,012 --> 00:26:04,704
to find any evidence whatsoever
of paranormal activity.
295
00:26:04,705 --> 00:26:07,006
Bye. The house is all yours.
296
00:26:07,007 --> 00:26:09,287
Good luck.
297
00:26:24,491 --> 00:26:28,192
We get ready to turn all the lights
out, because these are infrared cameras.
298
00:26:28,193 --> 00:26:30,530
And they see better in the dark.
299
00:26:30,531 --> 00:26:32,131
I said, has everybody got their stuff?
300
00:26:32,132 --> 00:26:33,566
Everybody ready?
301
00:26:33,567 --> 00:26:36,387
About two minutes.
302
00:26:51,604 --> 00:26:57,089
I, at one point, smelled a very
distinct odor of cigar smoke.
303
00:26:57,090 --> 00:26:59,625
- Peter?
- Yeah.
304
00:26:59,626 --> 00:27:05,230
And we actually smelled the furniture to
see if the cigar smoke was in the fabric.
305
00:27:05,231 --> 00:27:07,754
Couldn't really smell anything.
306
00:27:07,755 --> 00:27:11,415
And it was gone very quickly.
307
00:27:13,907 --> 00:27:15,708
Right.
308
00:27:15,709 --> 00:27:19,549
On my cue, turn the lights out.
309
00:27:21,837 --> 00:27:23,232
Five...
310
00:27:23,233 --> 00:27:24,755
Four...
311
00:27:24,756 --> 00:27:26,856
Three...
312
00:27:29,638 --> 00:27:32,091
And the light went out,
and we didn't turn it out.
313
00:27:32,092 --> 00:27:33,993
What the heck was that?
314
00:27:33,994 --> 00:27:38,854
There was this horrible
sound in the backyard.
315
00:27:39,666 --> 00:27:44,826
Could just see these blue
sparks flying everywhere.
316
00:27:59,137 --> 00:28:00,817
_.
317
00:28:06,029 --> 00:28:08,400
We could see absolutely
nothing out the window.
318
00:28:08,401 --> 00:28:10,886
It was pitch black.
319
00:28:10,887 --> 00:28:15,858
We all got our flashlights, and we all went
out the door to find out what's going on.
320
00:28:15,859 --> 00:28:18,259
Oh, my God.
321
00:28:20,096 --> 00:28:25,256
We're barely down the
street when the phone rang.
322
00:28:26,936 --> 00:28:28,214
Hello.
323
00:28:28,215 --> 00:28:33,195
And Rebecca said, all
right, we're coming back.
324
00:28:38,282 --> 00:28:40,802
What happened?
325
00:28:43,438 --> 00:28:46,432
There was this huge tree limb...
326
00:28:46,433 --> 00:28:49,499
That had violently ripped one end
327
00:28:49,500 --> 00:28:53,487
of the power line out
of the transformer...
328
00:28:53,488 --> 00:28:58,401
And this was a big leafy limb
from a completely healthy tree.
329
00:28:58,402 --> 00:29:01,170
- This is unbelievable.
- I know.
330
00:29:01,171 --> 00:29:03,038
It wasn't dead.
331
00:29:03,039 --> 00:29:05,408
It hadn't been cut or sawn.
332
00:29:05,409 --> 00:29:09,579
It was pulled off the way you would
see a tree limb pulled off in a storm...
333
00:29:09,580 --> 00:29:12,449
Although there wasn't any storm.
334
00:29:12,450 --> 00:29:15,785
Something started happening to me.
335
00:29:15,786 --> 00:29:18,755
I started to doubt what I believed.
336
00:29:18,756 --> 00:29:21,377
I started to think...
337
00:29:21,378 --> 00:29:25,398
Well, maybe there's something here.
338
00:29:26,797 --> 00:29:32,697
Something in that house made that
happen to stop that investigation.
339
00:29:33,704 --> 00:29:38,084
We had never seen anything that violent.
340
00:29:38,476 --> 00:29:44,376
I mean, ripping a limb off of a tree, that
takes an awful lot of power and energy.
341
00:29:46,116 --> 00:29:50,616
If it can do that, what else can it do?
342
00:30:02,666 --> 00:30:08,566
It was the middle of the day, and
I was in the master dressing room.
343
00:30:17,180 --> 00:30:22,448
I just heard these very heavy,
distinct footsteps above me.
344
00:30:22,449 --> 00:30:24,969
In the attic.
345
00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:31,895
I didn't think that it was a ghost.
346
00:30:31,896 --> 00:30:34,434
For me, I was very clear in my mind;
347
00:30:34,435 --> 00:30:39,835
I knew absolutely that
there was a man in the attic.
348
00:30:45,910 --> 00:30:49,111
I'm in my office, I pick up
the phone, and Rebecca says...
349
00:30:49,112 --> 00:30:51,047
There's a man in the attic.
350
00:30:51,048 --> 00:30:54,484
And I said, what do you mean there's
somebody in the attic? Who's in the attic?
351
00:30:54,485 --> 00:30:56,886
I heard footsteps. Please come home.
352
00:30:56,887 --> 00:31:01,558
I was thinking that it
was maybe a squirrel.
353
00:31:01,559 --> 00:31:04,894
No, I know what I heard.
354
00:31:04,895 --> 00:31:05,977
There it is again.
355
00:31:05,978 --> 00:31:10,574
At the same time, though, I am concerned,
because Rebecca seems so convinced.
356
00:31:10,575 --> 00:31:11,821
Quick. Hurry.
357
00:31:11,822 --> 00:31:16,802
And Rebecca's not somebody
to get scared often.
358
00:31:37,528 --> 00:31:41,617
I thought that if I could possibly
lock the person in the attic,
359
00:31:41,618 --> 00:31:44,548
that they would still be
there when Mark got back.
360
00:31:44,549 --> 00:31:50,449
And we could confront the person
about why they were in the house.
361
00:32:09,593 --> 00:32:11,638
If there was a man up
there the only way he would
362
00:32:11,639 --> 00:32:13,821
have gotten out of the
attic was through the door.
363
00:32:13,822 --> 00:32:18,742
Because you can't just
shimmy down this house.
364
00:32:21,572 --> 00:32:23,492
Mark.
365
00:32:23,908 --> 00:32:25,942
She was agitated.
366
00:32:25,943 --> 00:32:27,835
I wasn't used to seeing her like that,
367
00:32:27,836 --> 00:32:32,696
because Rebecca's a very
strong, secure woman.
368
00:33:05,549 --> 00:33:09,118
I went up the attic
stairs with some wariness.
369
00:33:09,119 --> 00:33:12,959
I was... you know, some caution.
370
00:33:17,027 --> 00:33:19,007
Hello?
371
00:33:24,301 --> 00:33:26,761
Anybody here?
372
00:33:40,751 --> 00:33:45,491
There was absolutely
no sign of a break-in.
373
00:33:45,823 --> 00:33:50,863
I found nothing. There
was nothing in the attic.
374
00:34:03,915 --> 00:34:05,595
_.
375
00:34:13,443 --> 00:34:15,123
_.
376
00:34:23,076 --> 00:34:27,480
I smelled cigar smoke, and
I could smell it very strong.
377
00:34:27,481 --> 00:34:33,381
I'm just thinking, I know no one in the
house smokes anything, much less cigars.
378
00:34:40,428 --> 00:34:44,564
I couldn't figure out why part of
what I was looking at wasn't there.
379
00:34:44,565 --> 00:34:47,865
It was just blacked out.
380
00:34:53,106 --> 00:34:58,558
I realized that what I was looking at
was a dark figure in the shape of a man.
381
00:34:58,559 --> 00:35:02,816
And he had a cowboy hat
on the top of his head.
382
00:35:02,817 --> 00:35:03,817
Mark.
383
00:35:03,818 --> 00:35:09,458
And it was very scary. I
mean, I was frozen with shock.
384
00:35:10,041 --> 00:35:13,780
Suddenly I noticed the
shadow of a person...
385
00:35:13,781 --> 00:35:17,997
And I was the only person in the attic.
386
00:35:17,998 --> 00:35:21,178
I couldn't believe it.
387
00:35:23,838 --> 00:35:28,398
It was as though
somebody was leading me.
388
00:35:30,845 --> 00:35:34,565
I see a brown piece of paper.
389
00:35:54,010 --> 00:35:56,470
It was gone.
390
00:35:57,471 --> 00:36:02,811
Both Reagan and Desi had
seen a woman in the house.
391
00:36:02,837 --> 00:36:06,045
I thought it was very odd
that I wasn't seeing a woman;
392
00:36:06,046 --> 00:36:08,812
I was seeing a man.
393
00:36:08,813 --> 00:36:12,893
I wanted to know who this man was.
394
00:36:12,951 --> 00:36:17,151
There scattered are all these letters.
395
00:36:17,580 --> 00:36:22,012
And these letters are
addressed to Ladell.
396
00:36:22,013 --> 00:36:27,893
These were letters from a man
named Prentiss Savage in 1948.
397
00:36:30,856 --> 00:36:34,032
I realized that this is a love letter.
398
00:36:34,033 --> 00:36:39,433
Written to Ladell a couple
of months before she died.
399
00:36:39,998 --> 00:36:43,787
I thought that these letters
that I held in my hands,
400
00:36:43,788 --> 00:36:47,018
were possibly the answer.
401
00:36:47,019 --> 00:36:50,859
To that mystery, that question...
402
00:36:51,242 --> 00:36:54,182
Why did Ladell die?
403
00:36:57,382 --> 00:37:02,242
In March 1948, Prentiss
is visiting Monticello.
404
00:37:03,522 --> 00:37:05,827
He and Ladell had known each other.
405
00:37:05,828 --> 00:37:07,557
They had even dated.
406
00:37:07,558 --> 00:37:11,662
But they ended up marrying other people.
407
00:37:11,663 --> 00:37:16,133
And then they don't see
each other for 35 years.
408
00:37:16,134 --> 00:37:21,238
And he writes in one of his
letters about what he's thinking.
409
00:37:21,239 --> 00:37:27,139
He's wondering whether she's as
beautiful as she was when she was younger.
410
00:37:32,518 --> 00:37:37,138
And he writes that he
wasn't disappointed.
411
00:37:38,490 --> 00:37:44,370
So in March 1948, Ladell and
Prentiss rekindle their romance.
412
00:37:47,966 --> 00:37:51,986
His letters become truly passionate.
413
00:37:52,203 --> 00:37:57,483
These last five days will
live in my memory always.
414
00:37:58,577 --> 00:38:01,679
As the happiest ones in my entire life.
415
00:38:01,680 --> 00:38:03,514
I love you.
416
00:38:03,515 --> 00:38:08,152
Don't ever forget I'm
thinking of you always.
417
00:38:08,153 --> 00:38:14,053
He insists in his letters that
he's going to divorce his wife.
418
00:38:14,104 --> 00:38:18,004
When I got to October of 1948...
419
00:38:18,564 --> 00:38:22,344
I noticed a shift in the tone.
420
00:38:22,399 --> 00:38:25,897
He was frustrated with Ladell...
421
00:38:25,898 --> 00:38:29,678
Pressuring him to make progress.
422
00:38:31,109 --> 00:38:35,009
Then he wrote that last letter...
423
00:38:36,682 --> 00:38:39,262
And he said...
424
00:38:39,327 --> 00:38:43,520
That he didn't know when, if ever...
425
00:38:43,521 --> 00:38:49,221
He was going to be able to
free himself of his marriage.
426
00:39:00,606 --> 00:39:03,641
And there was silence.
427
00:39:03,642 --> 00:39:07,602
Ladell's death certificate arrived.
428
00:39:12,612 --> 00:39:16,430
The word suicide seemed
so large on the page.
429
00:39:16,431 --> 00:39:22,331
The feeling that I had when I read that on
the death certificate was just incredible.
430
00:39:22,729 --> 00:39:26,209
It was just incredibly sad.
431
00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:29,769
I was in the attic by myself.
432
00:39:29,770 --> 00:39:32,540
I looked up, and...
433
00:39:32,541 --> 00:39:36,381
I saw a woman coming toward me.
434
00:39:36,844 --> 00:39:40,444
She was looking right at me.
435
00:39:48,284 --> 00:39:49,964
_.
436
00:39:54,011 --> 00:39:55,691
_.
437
00:40:02,633 --> 00:40:04,834
I was startled.
438
00:40:04,835 --> 00:40:07,475
I look again...
439
00:40:08,618 --> 00:40:11,207
And it's Rebecca.
440
00:40:11,208 --> 00:40:13,810
You need to take a look at this.
441
00:40:13,811 --> 00:40:17,747
Rebecca showed me
Ladell's death certificate.
442
00:40:17,748 --> 00:40:21,588
My immediate reaction was horror.
443
00:40:21,849 --> 00:40:27,286
The death certificate stated that
she died by mercury cyanide poisoning.
444
00:40:27,287 --> 00:40:31,847
I noticed that it was
right at Christmas.
445
00:40:35,096 --> 00:40:40,996
From doing my research, I knew her
Mother always threw a Christmas party.
446
00:40:46,491 --> 00:40:52,391
On Christmas night, 1948, Ladell
attended her Mother's Christmas party.
447
00:40:53,714 --> 00:40:57,280
Prentiss promised in more
than one of his letters.
448
00:40:57,281 --> 00:41:01,781
That they would be
together at Christmas.
449
00:41:06,030 --> 00:41:10,770
Christmas came, and
Prentiss didn't show up.
450
00:41:10,839 --> 00:41:16,739
And I believe that that was the
thing that pushed her over the edge.
451
00:41:28,726 --> 00:41:34,486
Late in the evening she prepared
herself a glass of punch.
452
00:41:44,832 --> 00:41:48,750
She'd used the punch
to mask the taste...
453
00:41:48,751 --> 00:41:52,471
Of the mercury cyanide tablets.
454
00:42:05,365 --> 00:42:07,165
Ah!
455
00:42:14,244 --> 00:42:20,144
I felt sad for her, I felt someone should
have reached out to her and done something.
456
00:42:22,294 --> 00:42:27,400
I have personally gone from not
believing in spirits at all to...
457
00:42:27,401 --> 00:42:30,761
Being completely convinced.
458
00:42:31,277 --> 00:42:35,722
I think Ladell wanted me to find those
letters, I think Ladell in essence,
459
00:42:35,723 --> 00:42:39,143
showed me where they were.
460
00:42:40,072 --> 00:42:45,172
I think she was ready
for her story to be told.
461
00:42:46,939 --> 00:42:50,989
I would like to hope that
by sharing her story...
462
00:42:50,990 --> 00:42:53,942
She can finally feel at peace.
463
00:42:53,943 --> 00:42:59,843
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