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Speaker 1: You're listening to Unexplained, Season six, episode thirty one, Every

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Speaker 1: Story is a Ghost Story, Part two of three. Hoping

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Speaker 1: to catch whatever it was making the noise in the attic,

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Speaker 1: Jeff wasted no time in jumping back up to the

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Speaker 1: hatch and peeking through it to take a few more pictures.

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Speaker 1: My god, I can see it, he cried with astonishment.

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Speaker 1: It looked, he said, like two small balls of light,

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Speaker 1: seemingly hovering about at the back of the attic. As

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Speaker 1: for the laundry room light, turning it off with a click.

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Speaker 1: As Jackie switched off the kitchen light, just a check

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Speaker 1: of the apparent orbs weren't merely reflections of something else.

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Speaker 1: Now with the house in near darkness, Jeff looked about

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Speaker 1: the attic again, but was disappointed to find the lights

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Speaker 1: of his eye, Jeff saw with terror what appeared to

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Speaker 1: be a large shape moving in the dark. Watching as

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Speaker 1: it darted in closer, Jeff quickly ducked back down and

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Speaker 1: closed the hatch lid behind him. When someone hurriedly turned

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Speaker 1: He pulled up his shirt to find just where he'd

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Speaker 1: a large red mark that was quickly swelling up, while

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Speaker 1: the muscle around it was slowly beginning to bruise. With

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Speaker 1: all the commotion having died down, Barry looked again at

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Speaker 1: at what they'd just witnessed. Veteran paranormal investigator doctor Taff

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Speaker 1: had also left in no doubt that something extraordinary was

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Speaker 1: taking place in Jackie Hernandez's bungalow. Later, as the Hollywood

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Speaker 1: Hills loomed up ahead, Barry and Jeff made a quick

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Speaker 1: dropped off Jeff's film for processing. It would be four

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Speaker 1: as a golden dawn light blanketed the city, Jeff began

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Speaker 1: As Jeff steadily began to calm down, Barry nervously scanned

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Speaker 1: been very real to him. The following afternoon, they collected

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Speaker 1: dark empty space, But then, having almost made it through

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Speaker 1: the whole role, they found something peculiar. In the right

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Speaker 1: next few weeks, Barryfield did numerous calls from an increasingly

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Speaker 1: Shadows were being seen swimming on the ceiling, as well

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Speaker 1: doctor Taff. When they arrived at the bungalow that night,

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Speaker 1: she cried, pointing at the dresser's shelves. Jeff moved in

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Speaker 1: Excited by the possibility of the samples, doctor Taff made

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Speaker 1: A few days later, the results came back. The liquid

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Speaker 1: Jackie showed the snaps to Barry. For him they were

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Speaker 1: board with what Barry suspected that Jackie shared her home

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Speaker 1: Finding nothing there, she turned back to the living room

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Speaker 1: Susan froze. Sensing a presence behind her, she spun back

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Speaker 1: Jackie's increasingly fragile state, Susan decided to keep all that

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Speaker 1: the whole thing soon disintegrated when later that night, the

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Speaker 1: Jackie and her children, the apparent haunting had become a

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Speaker 1: constant and unrelenting nightmare. If it wasn't strange balls of

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Speaker 1: It was late one evening in September when Barry, who

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Speaker 1: listening to Unexplained, Season six, episode thirty one, Every Story

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Speaker 1: be released next Friday, April fourteenth. This episode was written

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