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Just like superheroes, all

2:02

paranormal researchers have their own

2:05

origin story. The event that

2:07

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2:09

of the unknown. Author

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Steven Lancaster came to his

2:14

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2:16

than most. He was just ten

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years old when he was attacked

2:21

by an invisible entity in

2:23

his bed. Lancaster

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remembers the date vividly. It

2:28

was December fourteenth nineteen

2:30

eighty seven, and he was living in a

2:32

small town in Western Maryland with

2:34

his parents and younger brother. The

2:37

family had moved in several months before.

2:40

Stephen recalls that the Christmas was

2:42

to be their first in a new house.

2:45

As the older kid, his little brother

2:47

was just five, Stephen felt perfectly

2:49

justified in claiming the top

2:51

of the bunk bed set when the family

2:53

moved in. The boy's bedroom

2:56

was chilly at night. The

2:58

house was heated by a coal furnace

3:01

and its warmth struggled to reach

3:03

the second floor. Up

3:05

on the top bunk, it was even

3:07

chiller. But it was worth it

3:09

to Steven to have the prized spot.

3:12

On the night of December fourteenth, the

3:15

boys had gone to bed at nine

3:17

o'clock But of course, going to bed

3:20

and going to sleep mean two

3:22

very different things in kids speak.

3:25

Steven and his brother hoisted around for

3:27

a while, keeping quiet to

3:29

stay off the parental radar. After

3:32

a couple of hours of covert play,

3:35

Steven's little brother was ready to actually

3:37

go to sleep. He dropped

3:40

off almost immediately. Steven,

3:42

on the other hand, lay awake for a

3:44

while, tossing and turning in the

3:46

chilly room. Around

3:48

one in the morning, Stephen clocked

3:51

out too. He became

3:53

possibly awake to something pulling on

3:55

his ankles. He couldn't see

3:57

much in the dark room, but something was

3:59

tentatively grasping his ankles

4:02

and pulling gently. Of

4:04

course, Steven assumed it was his little brother.

4:07

Steven hung his head over the side of the top

4:09

bunk peering down to the bottom bunk.

4:12

His brother looked like he was sound asleep.

4:16

Steven shook his head. Leave it to a

4:18

pesky little brother to try a trick

4:20

like that. He snuggled

4:22

back down into his warm nest and

4:24

closed his eyes. He

4:27

almost dozed off when he felt another

4:29

tug on his ankles. This one

4:31

was harder. Again, Steven

4:33

poked his head over the bed rail hoping

4:35

to catch his brother, diving under

4:37

his own blankets with a muffled giggle.

4:40

But again he heard nothing

4:42

and his brother looked dead to the world.

4:45

At that point it occurred to Steven that his brother

4:48

might not be the one responsible the

4:50

ankle tugging. His sleep

4:52

fuzzy brain was waking up and he was beginning

4:54

to realize that it was originally

4:56

impossible for his brother to invade

4:59

Steven's domain. Give him a tug

5:01

on my ankle, then slip back under

5:03

his covers, undetected, and pretend

5:05

so convincingly to be fast asleep.

5:09

Steven was mulling over this puzzle. He

5:11

realized that some invisible something

5:14

was slowly pulling his blanket down

5:16

towards the foot of his bed. He

5:18

reached for his blanket to pull it back and

5:21

something grabbed both of his wrists. Imagine

5:24

someone grabbing you around the wrists. You

5:26

know what that feels like. This felt

5:28

exactly like that. Something was holding

5:31

on to me and not letting go. The

5:33

skin around my wrists was actually indented

5:35

as if someone were physically grabbing

5:37

me. Steven would write

5:39

much later in his book, true case files

5:41

of a paranormal investigator. It's

5:44

a straightforward description of

5:46

stark terror The

5:49

unseen entity had a hold of Steven,

5:51

and whatever it was had no intention of

5:53

letting him go. Within moments,

5:56

Stephen felt weak, drained

5:58

of energy, and the entity was still

6:00

pulling him down to the foot of the bed.

6:03

Moments before, Stephen had sat

6:05

upright to reach for the retreating blankets.

6:08

Now, the Phantom Yank Tim forward

6:11

flipping him so that his feet were on the

6:13

pillow. And still, he was

6:15

tug, pulled relentlessly toward

6:17

the foot of the bed. Steven

6:19

tried to drag in a breath to scream,

6:22

but it was like trying to yell in a dream.

6:25

Instead of a full throttled holler for

6:27

help, Steven's cries of mom,

6:29

dad came in thin,

6:31

whistling gasps, and yet

6:33

he still struggled. Fighting

6:36

with fiery kids' strength against the

6:38

invisible monster that had him in its clutches.

6:41

Suddenly, Stephen broke free.

6:43

He'd been tugging so hard. He over

6:45

balanced and crashed into the wall.

6:48

The back of his head hit the wall so hard.

6:50

It left a dent in the wood paneling. Steven

6:53

found his voice. Mom! His

6:56

parents came running, his little brother was

6:58

roused from sleep, everyone piled into

7:01

the room as Steven stammered out his incredible

7:03

story. Despite the

7:05

evidence of the head sized dent in the wall,

7:08

Steven's parents wrote the story off as

7:10

an amazingly vivid nightmare. The

7:13

boys were soothed back to sleep,

7:16

but a paranormal investigator was

7:18

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this story. In nineteen eighty

7:25

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7:27

his tale. There's was a

7:29

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7:31

discouraged. But many years

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later, Steven was talking with his

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mother about that long ago night,

7:38

and she decided to share a secret with

7:40

him. When Steven's mother

7:42

was herself ten years

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old, the exact same

7:47

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town in his old Volvo estate. Many

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people had similar plans for the evening,

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and finding a place to park was a chore.

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Mister Edwards trolled to the streets

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looking for a parking spot while his

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daughter and three sons too excited

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to fuss, watch the spectacular Christmas

10:30

decorations slide by the car windows.

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Abbie, the youngest at six years old,

10:36

was especially entranced with the colorful

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lights. As mister Edwards

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grumbled about parking, missus Edwards

10:42

pointed to a secluded side street

10:45

called Bold Place. That's

10:47

perfect. Mister Edwards said,

10:49

He turned and drove up the poorly

10:51

lit cobblestone road, which ran

10:54

past the back of St. Luke's Church.

10:57

As soon as the car was parked, the kids

10:59

jumped out of the vehicle bubbling with

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excitement. Meanwhile, an

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icy fog began to roll

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down the street. The family

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was about to start off 4 the shops when

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mister Edwards suddenly stopped short

11:12

and glanced around the short street. Where's

11:15

Abby? Everyone

11:17

looked around. Mister Edwards peered

11:19

into the windows of the car, but his little daughter

11:21

hadn't lagged behind. It

11:24

was a tremble in missus Edward's voice,

11:26

where is she? Three

11:28

boys looked around, but there was no one

11:30

else on the street. Then

11:33

they all heard a faint voice scream

11:35

out in the distance. Daddy, the

11:38

voice sounded like AbbVie's. It

11:40

seemed to come from the end of the lane

11:43

where Bold Place met Roscoe

11:45

Street. The Edwards family

11:47

rushed up the cobbled road with mister

11:49

Edwards leading the way. Abi, he

11:51

shouted, where are you? The

11:53

gates at the back of St. Luke's were open

11:56

and mister Edward figured that Abi had wandered

11:58

through the gate and onto the grounds of

12:00

the old church. He hurried into

12:02

the churchyard followed closely by

12:04

his wife and their sons And again,

12:06

they heard Abby call out for her daddy.

12:09

But the little girl was nowhere to be

12:11

found. In the fog, was

12:13

getting thicker by the minute. Mister

12:16

Edwards didn't want to say this in front

12:18

of his family, but he was beginning to wonder

12:20

if some stranger had grabbed Abby

12:23

and taken her into the ruins of the old church.

12:26

He handed his wife the car keys and told her

12:28

to get a flashlight from the vehicle. When

12:31

missus Edwards came back, mister Edwards climbed

12:33

up onto the ledge of the church window and

12:36

shown the light into the deserted church.

12:39

The interior was in ruins, with

12:41

nothing but rubble scattered around.

12:44

Mister Edwards knew that the Church of St.

12:46

Luke had been gutted by an incendiary

12:49

bomb in World War two during the blitz.

12:52

Only the shell of the building had survived.

12:55

The church had been left in that condition as

12:57

a reminder of the horrors of war.

13:00

Even though it was in ruins though, mister

13:02

Edwards couldn't shake the thought that

13:04

Abby's voice have been calling for help

13:07

from inside the church. As

13:09

he clambered down from the window ledge,

13:11

missus Edwards said, listen, The

13:14

faint eerie sounds of Oregon music

13:17

drifted through the open window. The

13:20

family went to the police station and told the

13:22

desk sergeant about their lost child. The

13:24

sergeant alerted all the patrol cars in the

13:26

area and told the officers in the city

13:28

center to be on the lookout for the young

13:31

girl. The family then rushed

13:33

back to Bold Place to keep looking for

13:35

Abby. They searched the grounds

13:37

of St. Luke's once again and

13:39

found nothing. They were

13:41

about to go to the car to warm up when

13:43

something happened, but continues to

13:45

puzzle the Edwards family to this day.

13:49

A tall man wearing a top hat

13:51

and a long black coat came

13:53

out of the grounds of St. Luke's and

13:56

walking with him, holding his hand,

13:59

was a little Abby. When

14:01

Abby saw her parents, she ran to them

14:03

and started to cry as her father picked

14:05

her up. The sinister, Man

14:07

in Black, looked like something out of the Victorian

14:09

age. He had long bushy

14:11

sideburns, a pallet face,

14:14

and staring, ink black

14:16

eyes. He stood outside

14:18

the gates of the churchyard and said in a

14:20

low creepy voice, Please

14:22

accept my sincere apology for

14:24

any distress caused. Then

14:27

he turned and walked slowly back

14:29

towards the rear of the ruined church.

14:32

A police patrol car came tearing

14:34

down the road, and mister Edwards told

14:37

the officers about the stranger who had just

14:39

returned his daughter. Three police

14:41

officers bolted from their car and rushed

14:43

into the church, but the police

14:46

found no one. The

14:48

church was empty. More

14:50

police came. The grounds were searched

14:52

with powerful flashlights, but the place

14:54

was deserted. Some of the officers

14:57

also heard the faint sounds of organ

14:59

music, but they never could find

15:01

where the mysterious music was coming

15:03

from. One of the

15:05

policemen asked Abby where she had been,

15:08

and that's when things got really

15:10

weird. Abby said that an

15:13

old woman in a shawl had grabbed

15:15

her and dragged her into the church

15:17

where a mass was being held. There

15:19

were many people dressed in old fashioned

15:21

clothes, The women wore big

15:24

hats, and the men were all dressed

15:26

in black. Abby had

15:28

screamed for her father, but the old woman

15:30

had put her hand over the girl's mouth to

15:32

keep her quiet. Sometime

15:34

later, a tall man had come into

15:36

the church and pulled Abby from the woman's

15:38

clutches. He had been

15:40

the man who had taken Abbie back to her parents.

15:44

The intrigued policeman continued to

15:46

interrogate little girl, and he asked

15:48

her if the man had spoken to her about what had

15:50

happened. Having shook her

15:52

head, then said, the man

15:54

said he had been a long time dead.

15:56

That's all. A

15:59

cold shutter ran up everyone's spine

16:01

when they heard Abby's reply. Since

16:04

that strange incident, Edward's

16:06

family refused to go anywhere

16:09

near St. Luke's, especially

16:12

during the Christmas season. On

16:42

December seventeenth, nineteen fifty

16:45

nine, the William Meyer House

16:47

near Gutenberg Iowa was the

16:49

scene of excitement that had nothing

16:51

to do with the upcoming holidays. A

16:54

poltergeist took over the house and

16:56

soon no one in the family

16:58

was in the Christmas spirit. One

17:02

evening, as the Meijers were sitting in

17:04

their living room, a crash thundered

17:06

through the house. The couple raced

17:08

into the kitchen where the source of the bang

17:10

was immediately apparent. They found

17:12

the refrigerator tipped over. As

17:15

they watched, horror struck,

17:17

a flower stand flew across the room and

17:20

exploded against the stove. Movement

17:23

near a basket of eggs on the window sill

17:25

caught their eye next. One egg

17:27

lifted out of the basket, floated

17:29

across the room and smashed itself on the

17:31

kitchen floor. The Myers

17:34

were dumbfounded. Missus Myers

17:36

was terrified, inexplicable

17:39

was in their home, in their kitchen,

17:41

the heart of the home, what

17:43

on earth was going on. The

17:47

Myers hadn't had supper yet,

17:49

but missus Myers was far too upset

17:51

to cook in that kitchen. The couple

17:53

went out to eat instead. Out

17:56

of the house, among the chatter of the other

17:58

diners, the Myers could almost

18:00

forget the high strangeness of

18:02

earlier. Mrs

18:04

Meyer spelled herself relaxing. Surely,

18:07

there was some rational explanation for

18:10

what had happened. When

18:12

they got home, the miners got ready

18:14

for bed. It had been a sorely

18:17

trying evening and all they wanted

18:19

to do was go to sleep and try to forget

18:21

the destruction in the kitchen. Missus

18:24

Meyer got a glass of water and put it

18:26

on the nightstand. Then she got into

18:28

bed and reached for a book. A little

18:30

light reading would relax her.

18:33

There would be no relaxing

18:36

reading that night. The

18:38

glass rose from the nightstand and

18:40

hovered over missus Meyer's head

18:42

as her husband watched in horror.

18:45

Then the glass was squeezed on a powerful

18:47

invisible hand. It exploded,

18:50

drenching her with water and shards

18:52

of glass. Missus Meyer

18:54

screamed. Her husband Bill,

18:57

just as terrified, insisted they

18:59

moved to the guest bedroom. Missus

19:01

Meyer dried herself off and they moved

19:04

to the other bedroom. They scooted

19:06

under the covers like children brightened

19:08

to the boogeyman. The 4

19:10

bill could even turn off the light. Missus

19:12

Meyer, sweet again. Little

19:15

black specks were appearing on the blanket.

19:19

The Myers looked up, mystified.

19:22

Soot was falling on them from the ceiling

19:24

appearing out of nowhere to shower

19:27

the bed with black grit. In

19:29

the morning, Bill called the sheriff

19:32

and came out to the house to investigate. He

19:35

was called away in the middle of his search, but

19:37

he promised to come back. When

19:39

the sheriff did come back several hours

19:41

later, the Myers met him on the front

19:43

lawn. They'd been spooked yet

19:45

again. The sheriff hadn't

19:48

witnessed any activity during his

19:50

walk through of the house. But after

19:52

he left, several chairs had skidded

19:54

across the floor. Even

19:56

stranger, every single window

19:58

in the house had cracked, but

20:00

the Myers hadn't heard any sounds of

20:03

breaking glass. This

20:05

was the most excitement Clayton County

20:07

Iowa had seen in decades. People

20:10

from Gutenberg and other towns started

20:12

to show up on and out at the Meijer's home

20:14

searching for ghosts. One

20:17

of these visitors was a Mississippi

20:19

River towboat captain who came with

20:21

some friends to investigate the strange tales.

20:24

He admitted to the Meijers that he didn't believe

20:26

in ghosts. Missus Meyer,

20:29

a gracious hostess, despite her supernatural

20:31

troubles, offered the man the use of

20:33

the guest bedroom for the night. The

20:36

captain turned in while his friends

20:38

stayed in the kitchen with the Myers drinking

20:40

coffee and getting better acquainted. A

20:43

ruckus in the bedroom brought the group

20:45

running. The befuddled captain was still

20:47

lying on the mattress. The mattress

20:49

however, was on the floor, eight

20:52

feet away from the bed frame.

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After a few months of poltergeist activity,

20:57

Bill Meyer and his wife had had quite

20:59

enough. They moved away,

21:02

leaving the house empty. Curiosity

21:05

seekers and amateur ghosthunters made

21:07

the abandoned house their haunt for a while.

21:10

The Meijers eventually sold the house

21:12

to their former neighbors, The Finnegan's.

21:15

To combat the vandals that had started using

21:17

a house as a playground, while the

21:19

Finnegan turned the house into a barn.

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21:25

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Billie Plumber snugged the covers

23:45

up under his chin. He was finding

23:47

it hard to fall asleep on that December

23:49

night to nineteen thirty nine. His

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side then turned over.

23:55

Suddenly he jerked. It felt

23:57

like his wife, Gert, was tickling his feet.

24:00

Startled, he yelled out, hey, nagging off.

24:03

A sleepy mumble met his ears. Billy

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looked over at Gert who was just waking up

24:08

out of a sound sleep. Better

24:10

eyes widened and she twitched away from

24:13

him. Billy Gosh. Stop. That's

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me and I hate being tickled. Gird,

24:17

I didn't do Yeah. Billy squared.

24:19

I said stop. I didn't

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touch you. I've been asleep. Then,

24:24

Gert made a face and clamored out of the bed.

24:26

If you didn't touch me and I didn't touch

24:29

you, we need to check the bed for bugs.

24:32

Billy sprang out of bed at the mention

24:34

of bugs. And switched on the light.

24:37

Together, Billy and Kurt stripped the

24:39

bed. Sheets, pillowcases, even

24:42

the mattress pad landed on the floor after

24:44

a good shaking. No

24:46

bugs thank goodness, gurt said.

24:49

Two pairs of hands made short work of

24:51

putting the bed back together. The

24:53

couple lay down, their fears calmed,

24:56

to enjoy peaceful nights' sleep.

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They got no such thing. The

25:01

invisible entity tickled them unmercifully.

25:04

The plumbers giggled, cry, mold,

25:07

square, pleaded, Eventually,

25:10

the entity relented and allowed the exhausted

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couple a few hours of sleep. At

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four o'clock in the morning, the thump

25:17

rattled the bed frame, jerking Billy and

25:19

Gertz from an uneasy dose. Billy

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slapped a light switch, but no one was in

25:24

the room with them. At least

25:26

no one they could see. A

25:29

sympathy of taps, rattles

25:31

and bangs played up and down the

25:33

bedroom. For months,

25:36

the strange nocturnal noises continued.

25:39

One night in February, a deep voice

25:41

came from somewhere underneath the

25:43

bed. Is the baby asleep.

25:47

Gertz shot from the bed and into the baby's

25:49

room. To her immense relief, their

25:51

infant son was. Sound asleep.

25:55

In mid March, Billy decided to

25:57

try and experiment. He twisted

25:59

a copper wire onto one of the bedspread

26:02

and ran it to a gas pipe in the kitchen.

26:05

That night, for the first time in months,

26:07

the plumbers slept peacefully. They

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won't the next morning refreshed and

26:13

rested. The next night,

26:15

the tickling and bumping was back

26:17

in full force. Billy

26:19

had had enough. So and gurt.

26:22

On the first warm spring day,

26:25

Billy took the bed apart and hold it

26:27

off to the Wichita Dunn. A

26:29

new bed was a small price to pay

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