WEBVTT - S05 Episode 6: A Place to Seep

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<v Speaker 1>It was September nineteen ninety eight when the Cobb family

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<v Speaker 1>first brought the bed into their home. Parents Al and

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<v Speaker 1>Leela had slowly made their way about the auction house,

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<v Speaker 1>running their eyes over the various lots, while their two

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<v Speaker 1>fourteen year old twins, Jason and Lee, flitted about the

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<v Speaker 1>place looking for a potential bargain of their own. Though

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<v Speaker 1>Lee enjoyed the world of antiques, it was really more Jason,

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<v Speaker 1>who'd taken on his dad's love for it. As a

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<v Speaker 1>gallery owner himself, these trips for Al were usually more

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<v Speaker 1>about finding a bargain to sell on than for something

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<v Speaker 1>to take home themselves. It was Jason who spotted it first,

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<v Speaker 1>the single honey oak bed propped up in the corner

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<v Speaker 1>of the room. He guessed it was late eighteen hundreds, perhaps,

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<v Speaker 1>with its finely carved headrest and fancy molding on the feet.

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<v Speaker 1>Seeing how enamored their son was with it, Al and

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<v Speaker 1>Leela agreed to leave a bid for the bed as

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<v Speaker 1>a possible early Christmas present. Al was at work the

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<v Speaker 1>next morning when he received the call informing him the

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<v Speaker 1>bid had been successful. The family lived in a modest,

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<v Speaker 1>two story home in the picturesque suburbs of the Isle

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<v Speaker 1>of Hope in Savannah, Georgia. It is often said that

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<v Speaker 1>the US city of Savannah, a majestic port town located

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<v Speaker 1>at the north of Georgie's Atlantic coastline, is one of

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<v Speaker 1>its most beautiful. It is also said to be one

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<v Speaker 1>of its most haunted. With its live oak lined streets

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<v Speaker 1>dripping with Southern moss and grand architecture a colorful mix

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<v Speaker 1>of almost every style since it was founded in the

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<v Speaker 1>eighteenth century, it's impossible to escape the air of the

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<v Speaker 1>Southern Gothic, for perhaps nowhere else in the United States

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<v Speaker 1>is the gulf between esthetic beauty and the horror and

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<v Speaker 1>brutality with which much of it was forged. So vast

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<v Speaker 1>you're listening to Unexplained, and I'm Richard McClain smith. The

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<v Speaker 1>story of Savannah is, in many ways the story of

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<v Speaker 1>the United States, in all its complex, thrilling and terrifying glory.

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<v Speaker 1>First established in seventeen thirty three by British politician James Oglethorpe,

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<v Speaker 1>it was intended as a second chance opportunity for anyone

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<v Speaker 1>stuck in the misery of the British debtors prison system.

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<v Speaker 1>Oglethorpe was effectively offering an opportunity to those less fortunate

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<v Speaker 1>than others to escape the drudgery of life in Britain

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<v Speaker 1>in return for a chance at prosperity in the New World.

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<v Speaker 1>Unlike many others in his position, Oglethorpe was keen to

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<v Speaker 1>avoid any hostility with the local Native American tribes, maintaining

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<v Speaker 1>friendly relations with the Yamacraw tribe, most notably through his

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<v Speaker 1>friendship with the tribe's leader, Chief Toma chi Chee, though

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<v Speaker 1>not above utilizing them himself. Oglethorpe also outlawed slavery. It's thought, however,

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<v Speaker 1>that this was done less out of concern for slaves

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<v Speaker 1>and more out of concern for how it might corrupt

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<v Speaker 1>the colonists. Since the settlement was only ever intended as

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<v Speaker 1>a buffer to provide a first line of defense for

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<v Speaker 1>other more prosperous colonies like the South Carolinas, any arguable

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<v Speaker 1>need for slave labor was non existent. Everything changed, however,

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<v Speaker 1>when Oglethorpe eventually returned home ten years later. As the

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<v Speaker 1>colony grew in size and began to take on its

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<v Speaker 1>own identity, the desire amongst residents to compete with other settlements,

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<v Speaker 1>the prosperity of which was greatly enhanced by slave labor,

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<v Speaker 1>only grew more intense. By the time of the American

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<v Speaker 1>Revolution in seventeen sixty five, there were sixteen thousand slaves

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<v Speaker 1>in Georgia, most abducted from West Africa and arriving through

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<v Speaker 1>the port of Savannah. Over the course of the next

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<v Speaker 1>hundred years, cotton plantation owners from Savannah were the third

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<v Speaker 1>highest exporters of cotton in the South, the number of

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<v Speaker 1>slaves registered in the state by then numbering almost half

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<v Speaker 1>a million. In eighteen o three, a ship carrying seventy

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<v Speaker 1>five enslaved people from what is now Nigeria docked in Savannah.

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<v Speaker 1>The people members of the Ebo community, were then packed

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<v Speaker 1>into another vessel and sent a hundred kilometers on towards

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<v Speaker 1>Saint Simon's Island. At some point, the captives managed to

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<v Speaker 1>overthrow the ship's crew, forcing the ship to run aground

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<v Speaker 1>at a place called Dunbar Creek. Stranded and with no

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<v Speaker 1>hope of returning home, rather than phase a life in captivity,

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<v Speaker 1>the group decided to make a final stand. Under the

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<v Speaker 1>guidance of one of the group, thought to be a

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<v Speaker 1>high Ebo chief, they marched together solemnly into the water,

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<v Speaker 1>from where they did not return. In eighteen fifty nine,

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<v Speaker 1>at a racecourse two miles west of Savannah, in what

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<v Speaker 1>is locally referred to as the Weeping Time, over the

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<v Speaker 1>course of two days, four hundred and thirty six children,

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<v Speaker 1>women and men were sold into slavery. It is thought

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<v Speaker 1>to be the largest single sale of people in US history.

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<v Speaker 1>Throughout the history of Savannah, being as it is surrounded

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<v Speaker 1>by extensive marsh and swampland, there have also been multiple

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<v Speaker 1>outbreaks of yellow fever, claiming the lives of many local residents,

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<v Speaker 1>most famously perhaps in eighteen twenty, when seven hundred people

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<v Speaker 1>lost their lives, many of which were collected and buried

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<v Speaker 1>in mass graves in the city's Colonial Park Cemetery. Savannah

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<v Speaker 1>also played host to one of the bloodiest battles of

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<v Speaker 1>the American Revolutionary War, with hundreds thought to have died

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<v Speaker 1>in the skirmish. Then, in nineteen o nine the Worth

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<v Speaker 1>of Savannah Acts murders, and in nineteen eighty one the

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<v Speaker 1>murder of Danny Hansford, a young tradesman who was shot

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<v Speaker 1>dead by his employer, Jim Williams, at his mansion home

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<v Speaker 1>on Bull Street. Hansford's murder and the subsequent trial of

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<v Speaker 1>Jim Williams would form the basis of the city's most

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<v Speaker 1>famous book, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil,

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<v Speaker 1>And in nineteen eighty four, the discovery of Francis Campbell's

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<v Speaker 1>body in the Tremont Park area of the city. Campbell

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<v Speaker 1>was thought to be one of nearly one hundred people

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<v Speaker 1>killed by Samuel Little, one of the country's most prolifick

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<v Speaker 1>serial killers. All of which is to say Savannah is

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<v Speaker 1>not a town short on ghosts. After hearing that their

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<v Speaker 1>bid for the bed had been successful, Al jumped into

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<v Speaker 1>his Volvo and made the short trip from his shop

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<v Speaker 1>on Whittaker Street to pick it up, with Lilah, spending

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<v Speaker 1>the afternoon lovingly putting it together. When Jason arrived back

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<v Speaker 1>from school, he was overjoyed to find it waiting for

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<v Speaker 1>him in his bedroom, just as beautiful as he'd remembered it. Later,

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<v Speaker 1>Jason thanked his parents again for the wonderful gift before

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<v Speaker 1>saying good night and retiring to his bedroom, looking forward

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<v Speaker 1>to his first night alone in the new bed. He

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<v Speaker 1>just turned the light off when he felt something strange

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<v Speaker 1>at the back of his neck, as if someone were

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<v Speaker 1>breathing on it. Hurriedly, switching on his bedside i'd light,

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<v Speaker 1>he looked around to find himself completely alone. Only there

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<v Speaker 1>was one place he couldn't see, stealing himself. He edged

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<v Speaker 1>toward the side of the bed and slowly peered underneath,

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<v Speaker 1>relieved to find the space was completely empty. Looking up,

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<v Speaker 1>he caught sight of the air vent just above him

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<v Speaker 1>in the ceiling. Realizing he'd most likely just let his

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<v Speaker 1>imagination get the better of him, Turning back over, he

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<v Speaker 1>switched off the light and nodded off back to sleep.

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<v Speaker 1>A few nights later, Jason was drifting off to sleep

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<v Speaker 1>again when this time he was certain he felt a

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<v Speaker 1>weight shift in his pillow, as if some one had

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<v Speaker 1>just laid their elbows either side of his head, and

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<v Speaker 1>then came those breaths again. Jason shot up and switched

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<v Speaker 1>on the light once more, only to find again that

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<v Speaker 1>he was completely alone. It was then that he noticed

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<v Speaker 1>with surprise that the photo of his grandparents that usually

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<v Speaker 1>stood upright on the table next to him, was now

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<v Speaker 1>lying face down. Confused, Jason writed the picture before turning

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<v Speaker 1>off the light once more and heading back to sleep.

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<v Speaker 1>The next morning, Jason awoke to find the photo was

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<v Speaker 1>again lying face down. Over the next few weeks, Jason

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<v Speaker 1>continued to experience a number of peculiar events, sometimes even

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<v Speaker 1>waking in the middle of the night to find all

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<v Speaker 1>his pillows had somehow ended up on the floor. Having

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<v Speaker 1>avoided telling his parents for fear of being ridiculed, Jason

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<v Speaker 1>eventually plucked up the courage to tell his mum about it.

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<v Speaker 1>Knowing her son wasn't one to make something up like that,

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<v Speaker 1>Lillah wondered if perhaps Jason's brother Lee was playing some

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<v Speaker 1>kind of cruel trick on him. With the activity seeming

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<v Speaker 1>to center on the photo of Jason's grandparents, she suggested

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<v Speaker 1>that the next time it was placed down that she

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<v Speaker 1>put it back and wait to see what happened. One morning,

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<v Speaker 1>after waking to find it lying down again, Jason due

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<v Speaker 1>placed it upright, and, together with Lila, then waited outside

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<v Speaker 1>the bedroom door to see what might happen. With al

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<v Speaker 1>upstairs and Lee playing outside, the pair listened with alarm

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<v Speaker 1>at the sound of something scraping across the floor. Opening

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<v Speaker 1>the door. Moments later, they were shocked to discover the

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<v Speaker 1>picture lying face down once more. Lila cautiously stepped toward it,

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<v Speaker 1>and picking it back up, let out a pained gasp

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<v Speaker 1>the front of it had been smashed. After racing to

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<v Speaker 1>tell his dad exactly what had happened, Jason returned to

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<v Speaker 1>his bedroom, shocked to find that someone had now placed

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<v Speaker 1>a pile of toys in the middle of his bed.

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<v Speaker 1>After yelling for Al and Lila to take a look,

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<v Speaker 1>the couple joined him moments later, with Al feeling compelled

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<v Speaker 1>to ask if they had a casper in the house.

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<v Speaker 1>Remembering something he'd seen before, Al suggested that if it

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<v Speaker 1>was a ghost, they should try and communicate with it.

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<v Speaker 1>That night, the family placed a pencil and paper at

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<v Speaker 1>the foot of the bed and waited to see what

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<v Speaker 1>might happen. It was one thirty in the morning, with

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<v Speaker 1>Jason having elected to spend the night in Lee's room,

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<v Speaker 1>when the family peered into Jason's bedroom to find a

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<v Speaker 1>short message had now appeared on the paper. Written in

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<v Speaker 1>a childish scrawl, it said simply Danny, aged seven. Soon after,

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<v Speaker 1>a second note was found that dread mum sick in

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<v Speaker 1>bed died eighteen ninety nine. Love toys. A little unnerved.

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<v Speaker 1>With Jason and Lee returning to bed, Alan Lila closed

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<v Speaker 1>the door to Jason's room and also headed off to bed.

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<v Speaker 1>A short time later, they were woken by the terrified

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<v Speaker 1>screams of their sons yelling for them to come back down,

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<v Speaker 1>and the pounding sound coming from inside Jason's room. The

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<v Speaker 1>place had been completely trashed. Over the next few weeks,

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<v Speaker 1>the family claimed they continued to communicate with what they

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<v Speaker 1>took to be the ghost of seven year old Danny.

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<v Speaker 1>In one message left for the family, he demanded that

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<v Speaker 1>nobody sleep in his bed again. Angered at being put

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<v Speaker 1>out of his room, one night, Jason called out to

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<v Speaker 1>ask if Danny was there, Getting no reply. Out of defiance,

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<v Speaker 1>he took a moment to lie down on the bed.

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<v Speaker 1>Having got up again to pick up some clothes from

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<v Speaker 1>the floor, a colossal smash rang out around the room.

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<v Speaker 1>All about the floor was littered with shards of a

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<v Speaker 1>terra cotta wallpiece that had somehow been dislodged and sent

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<v Speaker 1>flying to the floor. That night, Alan Lila made the

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<v Speaker 1>decision to take the bed apart and sell it on

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<v Speaker 1>After another bout of violent activity the following day, with

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<v Speaker 1>a lamp knocked over, curtains pulled off their rods, and

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<v Speaker 1>clothes ripped from their hangars al Julie took the bed

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<v Speaker 1>to the nearby Cramer Sadler Gallery and put it up

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<v Speaker 1>for auction. With word beginning to spread of their apparent haunting,

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<v Speaker 1>the Cobb family were contacted by local journalist Jane Fishman. Fishman,

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<v Speaker 1>who worked for the Savannah Morning News, was at first

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<v Speaker 1>skeptical of the story. After speaking to the family, however,

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<v Speaker 1>and being shown the apparent communications with Danny, she was

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<v Speaker 1>no longer sure. Fishman's article was released on October sixteenth,

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<v Speaker 1>and later that day the bed was put up for

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<v Speaker 1>auction and eventually bought by Deborah Brogden, who ran a

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<v Speaker 1>second hand furniture shop in nearby Pembroke. Thanks to Fishman's article,

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<v Speaker 1>Deborah was soon inundated with calls from prospective owners hoping

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<v Speaker 1>to catch a glimpse of the seemingly possessed artifact. Growing

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<v Speaker 1>tired of the interest, she sold it a few days

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<v Speaker 1>later for five hundred dollars to Faith Demea. Demea, a

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<v Speaker 1>financial manager for a local car company, had become intrigued

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<v Speaker 1>after reading Fishman's article and was keen to meet Danny herself.

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<v Speaker 1>Her plan was to keep the bed in its own

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<v Speaker 1>bedroom in the hope that she might coax Dannie into

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<v Speaker 1>becoming a regular resident in her home. However, after living

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<v Speaker 1>with the bed for a few days, Danny failed to materialize,

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<v Speaker 1>and less than a week later, Demea had a change

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<v Speaker 1>of heart. The following Friday, the bed was back at

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<v Speaker 1>the Cramer's auction house. That weekend, a motion detective at

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<v Speaker 1>the auction house was repeatedly set off, despite no one

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<v Speaker 1>being in the shop at the time. The following Monday,

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<v Speaker 1>the bed was sold to Detective Joey Warrenzac of the

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<v Speaker 1>Chatham County Vice Squad. Warrenzac was the last known owner

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<v Speaker 1>of the bed. As for Danny, however, and perhaps the

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<v Speaker 1>reason why he never showed up at Faith to Me's home,

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<v Speaker 1>it appeared he'd never left the Cobs. It was October

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<v Speaker 1>the eighteenth, just two days after the bed had been removed,

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<v Speaker 1>that Jason, feeling relieved to finally be rid of Danny,

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<v Speaker 1>had just stepped out of the shower when he heard

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<v Speaker 1>his bedroom door slam shut. He stood for a moment,

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<v Speaker 1>aghast at what sounded like somewhat or something moving about inside. Hurriedly,

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<v Speaker 1>he opened the door, only to find at the end

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<v Speaker 1>of his bed a small note written again in that strange,

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<v Speaker 1>childish scrawl that said simply Danny Sorry. A week later,

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<v Speaker 1>Jason was woken in the middle of the night by

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<v Speaker 1>a soft clunking sound. Lying still in the dark, he

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<v Speaker 1>peered over toward the closet, which he could just make

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<v Speaker 1>out in the dim light, to see its door was

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<v Speaker 1>inexplicably gently opening and closing of its own accord. When

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<v Speaker 1>he looked up from the base of it, there seemed,

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<v Speaker 1>for a moment to be the shadow of a small

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<v Speaker 1>figure standing next to it. Danny, is that you, he asked,

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<v Speaker 1>but there was no reply. The family claimed that over

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<v Speaker 1>the next few days they were able to communicate with

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<v Speaker 1>Danny once more. When they asked where he was staying now,

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<v Speaker 1>he replied that he was sleeping above Jason. A few

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<v Speaker 1>weeks later, Al bumped into Detective Warrenzac at the auction house.

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<v Speaker 1>Although he planned to sell it, Warrenzac had set the

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<v Speaker 1>bed up out of curiosity, installing it in his garage.

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<v Speaker 1>Ever since, his dog had not stopped growling at it,

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<v Speaker 1>while he'd been unable to shake the feeling that something

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<v Speaker 1>in his house was watching him. It was shortly after

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<v Speaker 1>the new year when Al received a call at work

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<v Speaker 1>from Jason, who had been sent home from school after

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<v Speaker 1>feeling ill. As Jason explained, the fear palpable in his voice,

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<v Speaker 1>a man had just appeared in the living room, standing

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<v Speaker 1>by the fireplace, dressed like a mountaineer from the nineteenth century.

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<v Speaker 1>Jason had only time to look up and see him

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<v Speaker 1>before he'd vanished. Just then, the sound of cabinet being

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<v Speaker 1>flung open and slammed shut rang out from Jason's end

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<v Speaker 1>of the phone. It was followed by Jason yelling out

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<v Speaker 1>in terror before everything went completely silent. Having heard nothing

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<v Speaker 1>more from Jason, al raced home to find the place

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<v Speaker 1>in a complete mess and Jason lying barely conscious on

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<v Speaker 1>the floor underneath a chair that appeared to have fallen

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<v Speaker 1>on top of him. A week later, it was Leela's

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<v Speaker 1>turn to receive a call from Jason. It was happening again,

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<v Speaker 1>he said, from underneath the kitchen table as he tried

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<v Speaker 1>to shelter from the maelstrom breaking out around him. As

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<v Speaker 1>the same crashing sounds rang out from Jason's end of

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<v Speaker 1>the line. Leela demanded to know what was going on.

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<v Speaker 1>As her son explained the mysterious mountaineering figure had returned again,

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<v Speaker 1>but this time he was looking for something. For some reason,

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<v Speaker 1>Jason had sensed he was looking for his baby that

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<v Speaker 1>had been under the house. Just then, as another crash

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<v Speaker 1>rang out, the line went completely dead, but when Leela

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<v Speaker 1>tried to call Jason back, it appeared all the lines

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<v Speaker 1>at her work had also gone dead. By the time

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<v Speaker 1>she made it home to Jason, who was unharmed but

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<v Speaker 1>shaken by the ordeal. The disturbances had stopped after this

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<v Speaker 1>latest terrifying event. However, it was clear to the family

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<v Speaker 1>they were severely out of their depth. In early nineteen

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<v Speaker 1>ninety nine, al contacted famed parapsychologist William Rowell at Georgia College,

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<v Speaker 1>who in turn passed the case on too a doctor

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<v Speaker 1>Andrew Nichols, director of the Florida Society for Parapsychological Research

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<v Speaker 1>based out of City College Gainesville in Florida. Nichols was

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<v Speaker 1>working with another family at the time that seemed to

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<v Speaker 1>be suffering from a similar haunting. The family in Albany,

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<v Speaker 1>New York, had also been communicating with their apparent spirit,

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<v Speaker 1>using a chalkboard to talk to it. Unlike Danny, however,

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<v Speaker 1>whatever had been plaguing them was far warm align supposedly

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<v Speaker 1>writing curse words and throwing knives into the walls. At

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<v Speaker 1>one point, it had even allegedly levitated their baby out

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<v Speaker 1>of its cot. After driving five hours to meet the family,

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<v Speaker 1>Nichols was given a rundown of everything that had happened

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<v Speaker 1>so far. Nodding along as the family detailed everything from

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<v Speaker 1>the written communication with Danny to the loud disturbances and

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<v Speaker 1>recent appearance of the second apparent entity, doctor Nichols was

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<v Speaker 1>left in no doubt that they were dealing with some

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<v Speaker 1>kind of poltergeist. Nichols took some equipment from his bag

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<v Speaker 1>and the family led him into Jason's room. If indeed

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<v Speaker 1>this were a to guist, he explained, it was likely

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<v Speaker 1>that Danny had died in the bed, and in so

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<v Speaker 1>doing something of the young boy had somehow seeped into

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<v Speaker 1>the material. Nicholls held out one of his instruments and

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<v Speaker 1>moved in closer toward the back wall, asking if that

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<v Speaker 1>was where the bed had been positioned. The family nodded

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<v Speaker 1>in agreement as Nicholls made a series of further measurements.

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<v Speaker 1>He suggested that perhaps a concentration of electromagnetism had somehow

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<v Speaker 1>energized Danny's ghost into existence, although he would need to

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<v Speaker 1>make further tests to be sure. After two days of

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<v Speaker 1>inspecting the property, Nicholls concluded that the activity was most

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<v Speaker 1>likely a combination of the unusual concentration of electromagnetism in

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<v Speaker 1>the bedroom and the psychokinetic energy created by Jason and Lee,

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<v Speaker 1>exacerbated by their relationship as twins. Shortly after Nicholls left,

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<v Speaker 1>Al was inspired to make a tape recording of the

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<v Speaker 1>empty bedroom, hoping to try and capture some of the activity.

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<v Speaker 1>One night, with the family out of the house for

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<v Speaker 1>the evening, the recorder was left running in the property. Later,

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<v Speaker 1>Al sat quietly on his own as he listened back

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<v Speaker 1>to what he'd recorded. With a loud click, the tape

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<v Speaker 1>word into action, and a quiet hiss began to emanate

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<v Speaker 1>from the speakers. Hearing little more than the gentle drone

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<v Speaker 1>of the air conditioner humming away in the background, Al

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<v Speaker 1>stayed and rapped as the hypnotic sound continued uninterrupted, minute

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<v Speaker 1>after minute, until suddenly something else jumped out. Al rewound

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<v Speaker 1>the tape and let it play out again, and there

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<v Speaker 1>again he heard it what sounded like the squeaking of

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<v Speaker 1>a drawer or a footstep, perhaps followed by the clear

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<v Speaker 1>sound of some one or something moving across the floor.

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<v Speaker 1>Over the next few months, as Al wrote in his

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<v Speaker 1>book Danny's Bed, detailing the family's experiences, things became increasingly fraught.

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<v Speaker 1>After the supposed arrival of Danny, the family apparently found

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<v Speaker 1>themselves contending with the number of other ghosts, from a

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<v Speaker 1>little girl thought to have lived around the same time

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<v Speaker 1>as Danny, to a woman dressed in Victorian era clothes,

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<v Speaker 1>as well as the peculiar vision of the mountaineer. At times,

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<v Speaker 1>the family would come home from a night out to

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<v Speaker 1>find all the lights in the house had been turned off,

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<v Speaker 1>despite leaving them on when they left. They would frequently

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<v Speaker 1>have the sensation that they were being observed by something invisible.

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<v Speaker 1>Once Jason and Lee returned home to the sound of

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<v Speaker 1>something running up the stairs into their attic. Following the noise,

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<v Speaker 1>they found themselves standing up there staring at a mannequin

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<v Speaker 1>that Al had brought Jason one time as a practical joke.

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<v Speaker 1>When the mannequin's head had then moved in their direction,

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<v Speaker 1>the pair was sent to scarrying back down in horror.

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<v Speaker 1>In one incident, Jason was said to have come home

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<v Speaker 1>one day to find two knives impaled in the ceiling

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<v Speaker 1>of his parents bedroom, with a note telling them all

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<v Speaker 1>to leave, pinned under one of them. After this incident, however,

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<v Speaker 1>it seems whatever was occurring came to an abrupt end,

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<v Speaker 1>with little else happening after. Rare is the household without

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<v Speaker 1>at least one ornament or piece of furniture that once

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<v Speaker 1>belonged to someone else. Many of us will have something

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<v Speaker 1>that once belonged to those that are no longer withers

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<v Speaker 1>to remind us of their existence, or just simply because

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