Transcript of Top 4 Bingeable SCARY STORIES • Terrifying Encounters Edition

Today, we have a special video for you guys. It'll be a collection of four fan favorites about supernatural encounters. These stories have all been completely reedited, so even if you have heard or seen them before, it'll be a brand new viewing experience. But before we get into those stories, if you're a fan of the Strange, dark, and mysterious delivered in story format, then you come to the right place because that's all we do, and we upload once a week. If that's of interest to you, the next time the like button is doing stand-up comedy as they're getting ready to deliver a joke, yell out the punchline. Also, please subscribe to our channel and turn on all notifications so you don't miss any of our weekly uploads. Okay, let's get into today's stories. In 2006, Susan Lewis and her daughter Jamie moved into a new home in Southern California. It this nice little house that they referred to as their sanctuary. They loved it there. Shortly after moving in, Susan's new boyfriend, Matt, he moved in as well. Matt and Jamie got along great. Also, Matt had a daughter named Marie, who was the same age as Jamie.

And so those two got along great. Susan and Matt are getting along great. One happy family living in this beautiful little home that they call their sanctuary. I mean, it's a charmed life. Everything would change when the peanut butter spilled. A few weeks after moving in, it's this beautiful summer day, and Matt and Jamie and Marie are all outside, goofing around in the pool, and Susan steps away from them to go into the house to make lunch for the group. Susan goes into the kitchen, and she sees on the counter that a peanut butter jar had its lid off and had been turned on its side. And broadly enough, the peanut butter seemed to be running out of the jar like it had been melted. It was like in a liquid state, pouring out of the jar and had gone all over the ground. She felt the temperature in the air, and it wasn't very hot. So she figures one the kids must have come in here and for whatever reason, microwved the peanut butter and then dumped it on the counter. And so she reflexively turns around. She's like, Jamie, her daughter, Jamie, get in here.

Jamie comes inside and she's like, What, mom? And she's like, Did you do this? And Jamie would say that she literally laughed at her mom like, Why would I do that? And her mom's like, Well, I don't know. Do you know if Marie did this? And she's like, No, we've been outside. So she shoes her daughter away and she calls in Marie. And Marie, too, is like, No, I didn't touch the peanut butter. Susan ultimately just says, Okay, the kids don't want to own up to it. It's a great day today. I'm not going to let this ruin it. She's rationalizing what's going on. She's thinking, Okay, one of the kids must have knocked it over without meaning to, and maybe it was warmer in here, and I just didn't realize it, and it melted. Any number of things could have been the reason for this, but I just don't care. After cleaning up the peanut butter, Susan leaves the house, and they, all four of them, spend the rest of the day goofing around outside near the pool. When they come back in the house later that day, they find that there have been cans that you would keep in your pantry, like canned food, stacked on each of the steps leading upstairs.

They also find that there have been random objects placed all over the house in strange patterns. In the bathroom, they find shampoo bottles stacked on top of one another, hair brushes arranged in a star pattern on the counter. They open the microwave and find peanut butter jars and other random canned foods and stuffed animals from the kids rooms in the microwave. The cleaning materials underneath the sink had been pulled out and arranged in a height line from shortest to tallest on the kitchen floor. Also, there were just strange liquids all over the walls. It looked like maybe ketchup or other sauces. They couldn't really tell what it was, but it was sprayed all over the house. There was shampoo on the walls and soap on the walls. When Susan and Matt and the girls go inside, they think that someone's invaded their house. So they run back out again. They're looking around the property wondering what they should do, and no one's come near their property, and they would have seen someone come to their property. So they start filming it. They go in and they film what's going on. That's we have all these pictures, and they have no idea what to make of this.

Matt believes it's Jamie, so not his biological daughter. Susan believes it's his daughter, Marie, and it starts this awful conflict between Matt and Susan. This would be the start of what would turn out to be a major fracture in this family because it just continued to grow. You got to put yourself in their position. If you're Matt or Susan, you don't want this to be anything other than one of the kids did this. If it's not one of the kids, it means you had an an intruder in your home. If it's not an intruder, then what caused it? They believe that the other child is doing this. They believed it so much that they did not see reason. But more than that, it would keep Matt and Susan from handling this the way I think anyone should have, which is get the police involved. They don't. They start cleaning it up, and the house was really a mess. It took quite a while to clean it up. They ultimately just moved on in that way that people who are in denial move on because you're in denial. That's what they were doing. So a week passes since finding their house in disarray with cans and jars all over the place and liquids on the walls.

And Jamie and Marie are spending some time together in Jamie's room. Marie was sitting at a desk that was next to the bed, and Jamie had a cup of coffee. She puts the cup of coffee down on the desk next to Marie and says, I have to go use the bathroom. She turns around, she walks out, she comes back, and Marie has her head down in her homework. She's not apparently paying attention to anything around her. Jamie walks in and sees that the cup of coffee that had been sitting on the desk has now been thrown all over her bed. And there's only been one person inside of the room, and that's been Marie. She's like, Marie, what are you doing? Why did you throw my coffee all over the bed? Marie pokes her head up and she's like, What are you talking about? She looks over at the coffee and she's just as surprised as Jamie is. She's like, I didn't do that. Jamie doesn't believe Marie. She's mad at her because Jamie believed that Marie was the one responsible for placing the cans and everything all over the house. And so this was just another example of her trying to get attention or something like that.

Jamie leaves the room to get some bleach. She comes back and she puts the bleach down on her dresser. She had all her drawers open with her clothes out. And she has this bottle of bleach sitting right at the top of this dresser. And so she goes over to the bed, picks up the cup itself that had the coffee. She puts that back on the table, turns around to get the bleach, and the cap has been turned off, and it's now dumping bleach all over her clothes. It's just pouring out. Marie had been sitting in the chair the whole time, and Jamie had seen her the whole time. And so when she sees the bleach dumping all over her clothes, she knows it could not have been Marie. So she screams, Marie looks over, she sees what's going on, she screams. Susan hears this and comes charging in the room, and she's like, What's going on? The girls can't describe what's going on. And as they're standing there, a picture frame falls off the wall, and it startles them all. They're looking over, and then another picture falls. It's one thing to have one picture fall, but to have two fall in close succession to one another, That's not a coincidence.

Susan sees the pictures fall. She hears her kids in hysterics, and they run out of there. They get in the car and actually just leave the house because the girls just did not want to be there. This was a big moment in the story because to this point, Jamie, without saying anything, believed Marie was responsible for placing everything around the house and making a mess in the house. Marie felt the same way about Jamie. Again, they didn't say it to each other, but it's how they rationalized it. Susan was doing the same thing, but for both of the kids. She basically believed that either Marie or Jamie had placed the cans all over the house. Now, Susan is starting to believe that something else is going on in the house, and Marie and Jamie absolutely believe something is going on in the house. They actually suggested that we believe our house is haunted. At some point, after driving around, Susan and Jamie and Marie go back to the house. Matt has been at work the whole time, so he's not there. When they get back to the house, the house is once again covered in cans all up the stairs, placed in weird orientations on the ground, things in the microwave.

The fridge has been opened, all the food has been dumped out. There's liquids all over the wall, and they hadn't been there, and neither had Matt. Now, combine it with the fact that you just had this coffee and bleach incident, and the picture's fallen off the wall. They're talking about the house being haunted. You can imagine what it was like to walk into that house and see it like that all over again when it could not have been Jamie or Marie or Susan. When Matt came home that night, he was just more convinced that it had to have been Marie or Jamie or even Susan, because Susan's acting like, something's going on here, something paranormal is going on here, and he wasn't there. He didn't see the coffee and bleach incident. He didn't see the pictures falling off the wall. And now he sees his girlfriend buying into this idea that it's some paranormal thing. He was a really intense skeptic and was just absolutely unwilling to see this as anything other than a bad prank that now his girlfriend is even getting in It causes a huge fight between him and Susan. He's like, Why are you letting the kids doing this?

Why are you feeding into this? She's saying, You don't get it. There's something wrong with this house. Practically, at each other's throats, they pick the house up. Again, it takes forever. They put everything back. And by the end of it, it's like no one wants to talk to each other. Their kids are fighting with each other. Susan and Matt practically hate each other. And that's how that night wraps up. That night, all the power went out in the house, and all they heard all night was doors banging ringing nonstop, and their stove is set to light. So all you hear is that clicking sound. They couldn't get it to turn off. I mean, right in front of them, there's all this paranormal activity, and they're recording it. They have no idea what to do. Even though we view this story and say, Come on, guys, either this is an elaborate hoax or you got to go to the police. You got to do something right here. You're doing it wrong. You're in denial. You're fighting with each other. You can't do that. You got to do something about this. But now put yourself in their position.

Their world has been completely turned upside down. Everything they believed and understood about the world is being questioned right now. They are trying to hold on to every last shred of that former life and understanding of life that they had before this haunting began. And so they don't handle this well. They just continue to fight and to be at each other's throats, blaming each other for all the things that are blatantly happening in front of them that have nothing to do with Matt, Susan, Jamie, or Marie. So if At this point, Susan and Matt and the girls have not told any of their friends or other family members about what's going on. So the next day, Susan would actually go to her close friend and say, Here's what's going on, and I have no idea what to do. And her friend would say, Maybe you ought to try giving it a peace offering. Maybe this thing in your house feels like you're intruding. And if you offer some peace offering to demonstrate that you mean no harm, that you want to coexist, that maybe it'll get along with you. Maybe it'll stop. So whether this was good advice or not, we don't know.

But Susan finally has something that she has control over, and she really gets into this. She gets the girls. She knows Matt's going to be out for the day at work, and she knows Matt would not be cool with doing this. He would not believe that offering a peace offering is going to do any good. It would just cause more fights. She saw this window of time to take the girls and do this peace offering. She had this little figurine. It was a cat figurine. Susan loved cats, and she figured that a cat represented something she loved. And so it would be the perfect deliberate, intentional offering showing that she means no harm, they mean no harm. Let's call it truce here. And she puts candles on this table, and she puts the cat right in the middle, and she doesn't know what to say or how to do it. And the girls are just sitting there like, What's happening here? And Susan just says, Please accept this gift. It's my gift to you. We mean no harm, and we want to coexist. And it just so happens that as they're performing this ritual, Matt came home.

He had not slept the night before. It had been a really bad night with the slamming of doors and all that craziness. And so he left work early. He called in sick, basically. And he comes into the house and literally sees Susan doing this ritual with his daughter and his stepdaughter, and he immediately goes to, Absolutely not. We're not going to go to trying to interact with this thing. We're not going to act like it's real. It's not real. And so he goes over and he picks up on what they're doing, that this cat figurine the center of attention. Susan and the girls are telling him, Don't do anything. Don't touch it. And he takes the figurine and he walks out to the back deck and he throws it onto their backyard. And Susan and the girls are crying because they're like, Oh, my gosh, you're going to make this so much worse. Everybody's attention is towards the backyard. When they all turn around to look at the mantle, Matt thinking he had solved the problem, there is a figurine, an identical one of the cat that's sitting on the table again. They all gasp.

They can't believe it, and it doesn't make any sense. They watch Matt throw the figurine. Matt doesn't care, picks it up and throws it on the ground, and smashes it right then and there. And it's just this crazy sequence of events that when you hear the first-hand interviews with Susan, she can barely describe this moment because you're seeing something reappear, and then Matt is destroying it. It's a very deliberate, aggressive act towards this thing in the house, the very opposite of what it was meant to do. Susan would say that knew they were going to go through hell for that. That night, after everybody finally fell asleep, Jamie wakes up in the middle of the night and goes down into the kitchen to get a snack. When she goes in there, she sees written all over the walls, everywhere is the word cat. Everywhere. She immediately runs upstairs. She gets her mom, she gets Matt and Marie. Everybody sees that there's this word cat written everywhere. Matt looks at Jamie and says, You're the one that found this. You did this. Susan comes to defend Jamie says, You're the one, Matt, that smashed the cat figurine.

There's no wonder this is happening. And so this horrible fight happens where they aren't seeing what's actually going on. They're just seeing red and fighting with each other. Meanwhile, they're blatantly being haunted. In addition to cat being written everywhere, the house had been completely ransacked. I mean, everything's been dumped out of drawers. Everywhere that you could make a mess, there had been a mess made, and no one woke up to it. They were all in bed. No one woke up to this much of a mess. It didn't make any sense. They start cleaning up this horrible mess. And as they move some things aside in the kitchen, they find what looks to be a huge footprint. It is not Matt's footprint. It's certainly not one of the girls' footprints. It's easy for us to say, Well, why didn't you go to the police? But you got to remember that when you're in real crisis mode, your brain will tell you that everything is fine. It will be in complete denial of things that are right in front of you because it's a coping mechanism. And so they did nothing and just let it continue. Susan desperately wanted to leave the house, but she couldn't do it financially.

They couldn't leave the house. They couldn't afford to, so they're trapped. At this point, the kids are getting very withdrawn. They don't want to be in the house, so Marie would end up staying in her room all day. Jamie would do the same thing. Matt and Susan weren't talking. There was just nothing being done to correct the situation, and everybody was so upset and angry with each other. It was just a worst-case scenario. In the last couple of weeks that they ever stayed at this house, they would leave, two major events occurred. The first one happened when Marie was home alone. She was only going to be there for a couple of hours by herself. Even though Susan and Matt did not want to leave her alone, they didn't have another choice, and Jamie wasn't there. So Marie is going to be home alone, and it's nighttime. So this is like straight out of a horror movie. She's sitting in the living room watching TV, and at some point, the TV starts turning off and on. So off, on, off, on, off, on. She knows because she's been in this house now and seeing the craziness that something bad is about to happen.

The TV finally just turns off. She can't get it on. She reaches for the remote. The remote flies off the table. Now she's just sitting there frozen because she knows that something's in the house with her. She watches as the rocking chair right in front of her just starts to rock back and forth as if the person or thing that had pulled away the remote had walked over and sat down in the rocking chair and was now looking at her rocking back and forth. Maria is looking at the rocking chair as all the pictures on the walls just start one by one falling off the wall. Maria and Jamie had a habit of always having a digital camera with them at all times because they were taking pictures and filming everything strange happening in their house. And so as she's laying there, just absolutely horrified. She takes her camera in her hand and turns it and just starts taking pictures of the room before running out of the room to get her phone where she calls Susan, she calls her dad, she calls everybody, she's screaming into the phone, You got to get here, something's going on.

And Susan flies home, Jamie flies home. They rush inside and they and she's unheard, but the house has once again been tossed. Then after it all settles down, Marie says, I took pictures. Susan and Matt and Jamie look at these pictures. There are these weird orbs of light that are very clearly in the room with her, that are moving around the room. She managed to get a couple of pictures of them, and they're just totally out of this world. At this point, Matt is convinced that there's something paranormal happening in the house. He's not even putting up the charade that this is Jamie because it wasn't. It wasn't his daughter, it wasn't anybody. How can you explain these pictures? You can't. Matt decides, Well, I don't know who we call for this, but I think you call the church. He tried calling a bunch of priests and pastors and tried to get anybody to come over. The best he could do is get a pastor to come over and pray with them before leaving and saying, We can't help you. They were totally on their own, and they can't afford to leave. They know something horrible is happening here, and they're just trapped.

Finally, the second major event that occurred in those final two weeks to Jamie when she was home alone. Jamie was in a room, and she starts hearing pounding on her door. She started filming this pounding on her door. There's no one home with her. You just hear in her voice that she's terrified, and someone is pounding over and over on the door, on her bedroom door. At some point, she knows she has to go into the hall, and so She goes over to the door. She's building the strength to reach down and open the door. As soon as her hand would go near the door knob, the pounding on the other side of the door would stop like it knew she was about to come out into the hall. She didn't open the door, and she went back onto her bed, and she just sat there in the fetal position for three hours, listening to something smashing nonstop into the door. At some point, the banging stops. After a few minutes of the banging being done, she thinks this is her chance to escape the house. She opens the door and there's no one there.

But the door on the outside where the knocking had been happening, there's this huge dent and divot in the door. The door handle on the outside from the hallway side has been bent downward. On the ground in the hall is a pile of utensils, pots, pans, silverware, knives. This thing had been using tools to try to open the door. Next door to her room was a bathroom, and the bathroom door did not have a door knob on it. You basically just pushed it shut. But there was a space for a door knob that you could actually look through. They just hadn't put it on there yet. And she noticed in the bathroom that the light was flickering, and she thought, I think it's in there. And she decides she's going to try to trap this thing. So she goes to her desk where she had some string. She goes back over and loops the string through this hole in the door and leans back and pulls the door shut, thinking she's trapped this thing inside. As soon as she does, she starts feeling resistance on the door. Someone is pulling back, and at some point, the string gets cut and she falls back into her room, at which point the bathroom door swings open and she says, I'm about to come face to face with something out of my nightmares.

But before she could see this thing come out of the bathroom, her bedroom door slams shut, and she hears the rustling of pans and tools and metal clinking against each other right outside her door. She knows this thing is interacting with all those tools and pots and pans right on the other side of her door. It's this horrifying thought. And after just a moment or two, she sees smoke coming into her bedroom. And so she immediately runs the door to try to open it. And when she does, she sees that now there is a frying pan sitting in the hall that has a toilet paper roll completely on fire, and that there's been toilet paper strewn all over the hallway. This is a wick, and it's going to light the hallway on fire. She grabs a sweatshirt and she smothers the fire. At this point, she's in full survival mode. She knows she has to get out of this house. It's trying to kill her. And so she walks down this hall, pulling aside all of the toilet paper, getting ready to come face to face with this horrible thing. She goes into the living room.

The whole thing has covered in toilet paper, paper towels. Papers have been strewn everywhere. This thing was trying to light the house on fire with her trapped inside. And so she manages to make her way through this maze of toilet paper. She sees there's no other fire set, and she goes outside defeated and just sits on the front steps of her house waiting for her mom to come back. Susan, Matt, and Marie were all together. So they came back and they saw Jamie sitting on the front steps just crying. They go inside, they see the scene. Jamie explains what and that was it. They knew they were going to have to go bankrupt to leave the house. They did not have the money to leave, but they had to leave. And so they barely packed up and they left that house. It didn't sell. Susan literally went bankrupt. And soon After they left the neighborhood, their neighbors left the neighborhood, and five other neighbors in their immediate vicinity all left. All of the houses did not sell. They were all vacant. No one knows why. Susan, Jamie, Matt, and Marie, since leaving that neighborhood, even though they were ruined financially, they were very happy to get out of there.

They've had no other paranormal activity since they left, and they're just glad they got out of there with their lives. Just a reminder, my very first book, Mr. Ballon presents, Strange, Dark, and mysterious: The Graphic Stories, is out right now and shipping worldwide. You can find it wherever books or audiobooks are sold. This book is truly a brand new experience for anybody who's a fan of the Strange, and mysterious. We've never had a book before, so this is a big deal. It's a collection of nine stories. Some are new, some are old, but they're all awesome. The artwork is incredible. The storytelling is just superb. If you have not purchased your copy yet or you haven't bought it for one of your friends yet, come on, go to book. Ballinstudios. Com or go to whereverbooks are sold and get a copy today. Again, that is book. Boleynstudios. Com or go to whereverbooks or audiobooks are sold to get your copy of our first book today. 911 dispatchers hear a lot of interesting stories coming from the other end of the phone. But one group of dispatchers out of Reno, Nevada may win the award for the creepiest 911 calls ever received.

When the details of these calls they got were put online, the internet went crazy. Here is their story. There was this old couple that lived about 20 miles east of Reno, Nevada. In 2010, the husband dies, leaving the wife all alone in this house. Shortly after his passing, she began calling 911 two, three times a week, requesting things like, Can you please put some water on to boil? Hey, can you change the thermostat? It was clear she was showing signs of dementia, and the dispatchers were respectful of her and gently told her that this is 911. You can only call if it's an emergency, and at some point the woman would understand her mistake and she would say sorry and she would hang up. No first responders were ever sent out for these calls because it didn't seem like an emergency. It just seemed like a confused elderly person. But no matter how many times they told where she kept calling back, and eventually, her calls took a turn. Instead of calling 911 to ask for help with mundane tasks around the house, she would call 911 believing she was talking directly to her deceased husband, John.

The dispatcher would pick and the woman would say, John, where are you? John, John. By this time, the dispatchers had gotten so many calls from this woman. They would recognize her address coming through, and they knew what to expect. They would answer the phone, they'd be respectful, and they would tell her like they always did, This is 911. You can't call here. You need to talk to your family. And again, they did not send a responding unit out to her because it just seemed like she was confused, not in any danger. But one day when she called, she sounded frantic and scared. John, please come home. Help me. I need help. John, come home. This time, they would send first responders out to the woman's house. When the responding unit arrives at her house, just minutes after she had placed the 911 call, they go to the door and they're knocking and they're yelling for her, and she's not coming to the door, and it's all quiet in the house. The door is unlocked, so they open it up and they announced themselves. They walk inside and immediately they can tell the heat is not on because it's very, very cold inside the house.

They look around the first floor and they can't find her, and there's no sign of a struggle or any obvious problem that could have happened inside of the house. So they go upstairs and they start searching all the rooms and no one's there until they get to the last room, and it's the bedroom. They go inside and there's an older woman who's lying on the bed, and she's clearly deceased, and has been for several hours because rigor mortis had already set in. The police are able to confirm that the woman who's lying on the bed is the same woman who owns the house and lives there. At this point, they call back to dispatch and they tell them, Hey, the woman that you claim made this 911 call, well, it can't have been her because based on rigor mortis, she was dead at the time that 911 call was made. But the dispatchers are like, No way. We know what she sounds like. We speak to her multiple times a week. We have a whole protocol built when we see her address come across because we speak to her so often. That 911 call that you got that led you to that house where she was, that call was made by her.

What they ultimately decide is the reason for this discrepancy is she didn't have rigor mortis. She was just stiff because it really cold inside of her house and that she had died in those couple of minutes between leaving the 911 call and when officers arrived. But in the back of everybody's minds, they're a little freaked out. A few days go by and another call is placed to 911 coming from that woman's home address. The dispatcher sees that and has to do a double take. That's not possible. But they're thinking, Okay, this could be a relative, it could be a friend, it could be anything. Picks up the phone and she's shocked when it's the same woman who is frantically yelling for John to come here, Save me, help me, I need help. And the dispatcher who's well aware of the history and well aware that this woman's supposed to be dead, stays calm, goes through the procedure, tries to get more information from this woman, but the call ends abruptly and there's no more information to be had. And so not knowing what else to do, she asks a responding unit to go check this house out.

The responding unit goes over to the property, they knock on the door. No one's inside. The door is actually still open. They go in. The house is empty. There's no one there. There's no one that could have made that call. At this point, dispatch is like, Okay, this has got to be a prank. But the next day, same thing happens. Here comes a call from the dead woman's house. They pick it up, and it's this distraught woman yelling for help. I need my husband. And the dispatcher is trying to get more information, but they can't. And then the line cuts out. Once again, they have to send responders to this location because this woman has called 911 and is saying that she needs help. And once again, the officers get to the house and it's vacant. Just like when she was alive, These calls would persist multiple times a week. They continued even after her house was broken into and burned to the ground. There's not even a house anymore, and there are still calls coming through from that address to 911. Finally, the police get in touch with the phone company, and they explain the situation, and the phone company looks at their records, and they say, Actually, her phone line was disconnected almost immediately after she was deceased.

But they tell police there's a chance that it might not have been disconnected properly at the site, and That could be a reason why it's still working. So they send a lineman to go check out the actual property to confirm her lines were disconnected properly and that no wires were getting crossed. And he said, All of it checked out. Everything has been detached this whole time. The phone company thought perhaps there was a digital recording of her that got trapped in their system and was randomly bouncing to their call center. But the dispatchers would say, it doesn't sound like a recording that's playing the same every single time. It's always the same message. She's yelling for her husband to come to save her. But the way she sounds is always different. It's a unique phone call every single time. So because there wasn't a definitive explanation for why this was happening, they had to treat each call like it was serious. And so multiple times a week for a year, they received these ghost calls and had to send out responding officers to check on her, even though the house was gone and there was nothing there and there was never anyone there.

It was just a vacant lot. And then finally, a year after this woman has died, the call has just abruptly stopped. The police did not launch an investigation into what it was because the reality is police need to prioritize things that are threats to people or places. This really wasn't either of those things. It was just really bizarre. The official explanation for how a dead woman could be calling 911 from a nonexistent phone line in a nonexistent house for a year is we don't know. In 2006, Dave Murphy had just become a police officer in Salt Lake City, Utah. His first role was as a protective service officer, which meant he'd be in charge of physical security in a number of the county facilities. Dave's first facility was the Capital City Theater, which is a landmark inside of Salt Lake City. It's been around since the early 1900s. It's this beautiful grand theater. In early August, Dave reports to the Capital City Theater for his first day on the and he meets his partner, an officer by the name of Morgan Matthews. He gets there on this first day, and right away, Dave would say that Morgan was just strictly business.

The first place that Morgan takes Dave is the control room, which sits on the first floor of the theater. The theater had three floors, and then it also had a basement as well. So the control room was on that first floor. Inside of the control room were all of these security monitors because there was all these cameras set up inside of the theater. The cameras weren't great, though. You pretty much could only tell what was in frame if there was light on. And most of the time at night, especially, lights were off. Once they were done looking at the control room, Morgan says to Dave, Now we're going to go do our rounds. This is something we do every time you get to the theater, you do a security round and make sure everything's locked, all the lights are off. Before you come back to the control room, you'll do that at the beginning of your shift and at the end of your shift. Morgan brings Dave downstairs, and it's the first time Dave is seeing the basement, and he's shocked by how big it is. It is this massive hallway that stretches way down.

In the middle of the hall is a piano that's just sitting out in the middle, and the lighting is not good down there. This is a very old theater. Everything in the building was pretty old. And Dave remembers thinking that he was immediately creeped out by this scene, this long hallway with all these doors and this piano right in the middle of the hallway. And he's thinking to himself, I don't want to spend much time down here. This is so creepy. But they go down the hall, they check all the doors, they make the way up to the main floor, the second floor, the third floor. Everything gets checked. And so after they do this security round, Dave and go back to the control room, and Dave is anticipating getting to know Morgan a little bit. This is their first night. They're going to be working together a lot. And Dave would say that Morgan just seemed really cold and just did not want to talk to Dave very much. And as soon as their shift was almost over, Morgan was very eager to just knock out the security rounds and just get out of that building.

At the end of that night, Dave remembers thinking that there's just something off about Morgan's behavior. It seemed like Morgan really didn't like being in the theater. It would turn out that he was onto something because Morgan didn't like being in that building. But it would take him a while to share with Dave why. Over the next couple of days, Morgan and Dave would do their security rounds together because Dave's in training, Morgan's teaching him. But on August ninth, which is two days after Dave's first day on the job, Morgan was confident that Dave knew how to secure the whole building. And so at the end of the night, he tells Dave, Why don't you do the security rounds yourself? Dave feels very confident that he knows how to do it. He goes down into the basement make sure all the doors are shut and locked, that the lights are off, finishes the basement, goes up to the first floor where the control room is and checks all the rooms on that floor. He goes into the main auditorium space. He's checking all the different nooks and crannies to make sure there's nobody hiding in there.

He goes up to the second floor, he checks all the different rooms up there, and the balcony makes his way up to the third floor where there's all the offices of staff that work at the theater. At the end of the search, the last room he would check was the rehearsal room. It was the only room where there was no door to it. So you'd poke your head in, look around, make sure no one was in there, and then you would leave, and that's the end of your check. So Dave gets to the rehearsal room, he flips the light on, and he looks inside, doesn't see anybody, is satisfied that no one's in there, turns the light off, and as he's about to turn back into the hallway, he hears a door slam with tremendous force right across the hallway from where he was, and it was the bathroom door. And his first reaction is, someone just ran out of the bathroom. Someone who had snuck into the building must have run out of the bathroom and they're making a break for it to get out of the theater before I catch them. And so he instinctively picks up his radio and he calls to Morgan and says, someone's on the third floor.

But when Morgan looks at the camera, he doesn't see anybody. At this point, Dave's drawn his weapon. He's looking down the hall, he doesn't see anybody. And as he's waiting for Morgan to come upstairs to back him up so they can go look for this person that's just ran down the hall, he realizes two things. One, just because he heard the door slam doesn't mean they left and slammed it. They could be in the bathroom. And so he's thinking to himself, someone could be in the bathroom right now. Maybe that's why we didn't see him on the camera. And then the second thing he thought of is that door, the bathroom door, can't slam. It's got this huge hydraulic hinge to it. It can't slam. So his gun is drawn and he's aiming it at the bathroom door right as Morgan comes up on his right, Morgan draws his pistol. He's got it on the door as well, and they make entry into the bathroom. They clear all the different spaces in the bathroom, and no one's in there, and there's no way to get out of there. Morgan and Dave are like, Okay, well, they must not have come in here.

They must have run out of the bathroom. They're somewhere in the theater. And so they decide they're going to search the entire building and find this person that clearly was just in the bathroom, and that's how they slam the door. We're not going to worry about how they slam the door with a hydraulic hinge. We just know it was slammed somehow. So they leave the bathroom, guns still drawn, and they start making their way down the hall. They're checking all the doors. Everything is locked. When they start making their way downstairs to the second floor, Dave recognizes through the door because there's a door leading onto the second floor, he can see that the lights are on, and he had turned them off. As they're walking down the stairs, he says to Morgan, Hey, did you turn the lights on on the second floor? Morgan's like, No. They think that whoever was here, whoever was in the bathroom is on the second floor. They must have turned the lights on. They go into the second floor, and not only are the lights on, but all the doors on the second floor had been opened. They search the entire second floor.

They search every single room. No one's on the second floor. They turn off the lights, they shut all the doors, everything's locked. When they went down to the first floor, everything was the way it should have been, locked, lights off, nothing down there, and they go down to the basement. And even though it was creepy being down there because they've now searched the whole building, and they're anticipating coming in contact with whoever is here, assuming they haven't left the building yet. And there's no one down there. They decided to review the footage from the third floor to see if they could pick up someone running in the hall around the time that that door slammed. But the camera was not trained on the bathroom door. So you just have this view down the hall, and you can't see the bathroom, specifically, not to mention the hallway is dark. And the cameras are terrible without light. And so all they're able to see is the light go on in the rehearsal room while Dave is doing his last check in there. The lights turn off because Dave is about to turn around. And then after that, you just hear this massive slam of this door, but you can't see what happened.

So they don't know what to make of it. They're both very much on edge that someone might still be in the building. And so they do another sweep of the building and no one's there. And so they decide to just chalk it up and say, We were hearing things and seeing things. I'm sure it's fine. Let's just get out of here. And they leave. A couple of days later, on August 11th, Morgan is working alone. Dave wasn't coming in that day. So Morgan's alone in the theater doing a shift. And at some point in the night, as he's sitting in the control room, he thinks he hears whispering in the hall right behind him. And so after the experience he had with Dave a couple of nights ago, he's on edge. So he draws his pistol right away. And so he goes out into the hallway. And immediately when he steps into the hall, the whispering seems to go farther and farther away from him down the hall. So he gets out there, he's looking around, he can't see anything. He makes his way down the hallway towards the stairs that go down into the basement or if you wanted to go up to the second floor.

And when he gets to the top of the stairwell, he's gun-drawn, looking down, looking up. He hears what sounds like coughing coming from the basement. At this point, Morgan said that he was actually pretty scared. Imagine being alone in this theater. Just a couple of days earlier, you've had this weird experience with slamming doors and doors being opened and lights going on that somebody else, another police officer witnessed with you, you're alone in this theater, and you're hearing coughing coming from the basement after hearing voices behind you. That's pretty terrifying. So he very slowly starts going down the stairwell. He's getting ready to clear the corner, and just as he does, the coughing stops. He turns the lights on, and he looks down the hall, and there's nothing there. He starts making his way down the hall. He's checking every door, making sure it's locked, making sure that everything is secure. And he gets all the way down the hall, and as he's almost done checking the basement, he smells smoke, and it's coming from a door right next to him. And so he unlocks that door, and he goes in, and there's no fire.

But all he can smell is smoke. So he turns the light on, he's looking around, there's no fire. He's convinced that somewhere down the basement, there's a fire. He goes to every single room and he keeps checking and there's nothing. And then at some point the smoke smell dissipates. He checks every space in the theater to look for a fire and there's no fire. He's wondering if he should call the fire department, but he's thinking, what would I tell them? There's no fire. And so he ultimately, after checking three, four times and being very confident there wasn't a fire. He just says, Okay, no fire. I guess I was just smelling things. A few weeks later, on September fourth, Dave has just arrived at the theater. He's there a little bit early. Their shift started at 5:00 PM. He was there at about 4:30. When he walked into the building, he sees that there are three staff members sitting at the front desk talking to each other. As he walks past, one of them is talking about ghosts inside of the theater, and it immediately piques his interest. He walked over to the guy talking about ghosts, and he introduced himself.

It turned out that this guy was a man named Blair Fuller, who was a senior accountant at the theater. Dave asked, Blair, what are you talking about with ghosts in the theater? Because I provide physical security here, and I've seen some strange things here. I just love to hear what you have to say about it. They head up to the third floor where Blair's office was, and they sit down, and Blair says, Okay, I got a doosy for you. This happened to me a couple of years ago. I was actually in this office. It was about 9, 10 o'clock at night. I was doing some work, and I heard the elevator kick on. Now, the elevator was right outside of his office, and anytime it was on, the engine was really loud. It was really obvious if the elevator was moving around. He's doing his accounting work, and he hears that engine kick on. He doesn't think much of it, but then it clicks that he's the only one in the building. He looks out the glass window of his office. He had a closed-door office with two windows looking out into the foyer where there's this elevator.

He looks out, and he can see that the little lights above the elevator showing what floor it's on have lit up and it's going up. So the elevator was in the basement, and now it's on the first floor, the second floor, third floor. The door's open and there's no one there. At this point, Blaire says that he wasn't concerned. He figured, okay, maybe there's some maintenance, maybe it's scheduled to do that. Who knows? But after a little while, the alarm goes off in the elevator to signify that something is obstructing the door from shutting. And he's looking out the window and he hears this alarm, this ringing sound going off, but the door isn't it's shutting. And he's like, There's nothing obstructing the door. Why isn't it shutting? And so he leaves his office and he walks over to the elevator and he walks into the elevator. And he said immediately he felt this massive drop in temperature inside of the elevator. And as he's standing there, he turns around. Now he's looking back towards his office inside of the elevator. The doors start to shut. And for whatever reason, he said, I didn't get off.

I just decided, I'm going to ride this elevator. The basement button lights up as if someone had pressed basement, and they start going down. He's sitting there thinking, What in the world is going on? It was just on an alarm because the door wasn't shutting. Then miraculously, when I go inside of it, it suddenly works again, and it's going to the basement. So it goes to the basement, the door opens. There's no one there. He steps out, and Blaire says that it took all of his courage to yell out, Hey, is anyone down here? And as soon as he did, and he didn't hear a response, he said he didn't want to make any more sound. The elevator sat in the middle of the in the basement. It's that huge hall with that piano sitting right in the middle. The lights are off, and he pokes his head down one way. There's nothing down there. He sees the piano barely from the light of the elevator. And he looks down the other way. There's no one there. And at this point, he's just so spooked. He just gets back in the elevator and he hits floor three, floor three, floor three.

He's hitting like, door closed, door closed, door closed. The door closes and he goes back up to his office. He goes into his office and he shuts the door and he sits down and he's thinking like, what was that? Why How did that just happen? I got to find out if they're running maintenance or something. As he's sitting in his chair thinking about this strange experience, he hears what sounds like banging sounds coming from outside of his office in that foyer near the elevator. He just goes to his door and he opens it up and he pokes his head into the foyer and he looks to the side and there's this big filing cabinet and all of the cabinets are out. They've all been pulled out. He certainly didn't do this. It was as if someone was one by one pushing each of them shut, these big, heavy cabinets. He's watching us one by one. These things are slamming shut one by one until the whole thing is shut. He goes over and he's trying to disprove what he just saw, that he can open up a drawer and that it will shut on its own.

But none of them shut on their own. You have to shut it. Something has to shut it for it to shut. And so he packed up for the day and left and did not work another night shift at the theater. Later that night, Dave would share Blair's story with Morgan. He wasn't really sure how Morgan was going to react, but Morgan actually would open up and he would say, before you started working here, I always felt like I was being watched when I was here. And then we had that experience, obviously, where the lights are coming on and you heard that banging from that bathroom door. And then just a few days ago, I heard voices coming from the hall and I heard someone coughing in the basement and I smelled smoke, and there was no one there. They start going back and forth exchanging stories of just how uncomfortable this place made them feel. They're wondering what they should do about this. Dave has this idea. He's like, My best friend, I'll invite him to come over here one night, and we'll tell him that we're giving him a tour of the building, and we'll just see what he says.

We'll see if he reacts to anything here. Who knows? Maybe something strange will happen, and then we'll have another person validate it. Morgan thinks that's a good idea, and so Dave reaches out to his best friend, Greg. Greg would say that he was a little bit surprised to be getting this offer to come take a tour of the theater, but he was interested, and since Dave was asking, he figured he would oblige him. And so Greg agrees to come to the theater and take a tour. So the next day, Dave and Morgan are at the theater, and Greg shows up. And so they start this tour. They go in the main auditorium, they're looking around, and they make their way into the basement. Morgan turns on the light, and Morgan and Dave instantly see a little ways down the hall on the left, one of the doors has been opened. And so Dave and Morgan push Greg out of the way. They draw their pistols, and they're aimed at the open door. And so Greg just stays behind them as Morgan and Dave make their way down to this open door. And when they get right outside the door and they're about to push it open to go inside, the door slams shut right in front of Greg and Dave and Morgan.

And they all are looking at each other like, what's going on? But before they can do anything, the door handle starts rattling really aggressively. After the rattling stops, Dave and Morgan look at each other and they nod their head like, we got to go in there. Greg is scared about being out in the hall alone, and so he just follows them in. And so the three of them go into this room. Dave and Morgan are pistols drawn. It's a small room. There's no one in there. Light switch on, no one in there. Greg suddenly gasps, and he points to the corner, and he says, Someone's sitting in the corner. And Dave and Morgan immediately train their guns on what's in the corner, but no one's there. And Greg's like, I just saw someone sitting in the corner. It looked like he had a hood on. He had a sweatshirt on. I don't know, but he was right there. And so Dave and Morgan, they're freaked out because they brought Greg here on some level to disprove the strangeness. And now the three of them have seen a door slam that shouldn't have been open in the first place.

Greg's claiming to have seen a figure sitting in the corner. This scared the crap out of all three of them. They quickly left, locked, shut off the lights, went upstairs. Greg's like, I'm out of here. Greg leaves. And Dave and Morgan are like, Now what? So at this point, all the strangeness that was happening in the theater was getting reported, but it was being reported in a way that Dave and Morgan didn't seem like they were referencing something haunted, but rather someone was breaking in. Ultimately, the county installed new cameras inside of the theater. These updated cameras had infrared technology, which allowed them to see better when the lights were off. They were hoping that this would allow them to catch whoever was breaking in, practically every time Dave and Morgan are on shift. So on the day that it was installed, September 15th, Morgan is working there alone, and he's sitting in the control room looking at the different cameras, and he's playing around with the different screens and seeing what each of the cameras can do. And at some point, something catches his eye in one of the screen. In the main auditorium, it appeared like someone might be sitting in one of the seats, but the camera was zoomed back enough that he couldn't get a clear picture, and he didn't know what was normal in any of these cameras because this is the first time he's looking at any of these screens.

And so he's looking at the camera really closely, and he thinks he sees someone, he can't really tell, that has a hood on or a shroud on that's just sitting in the middle of the theater. And it starts turning its head like this. And he can see, clear as day, a set of eyes. And before Morgan has a chance to do it, it just starts rising into the ceiling and disappears. Morgan didn't even check to see what it was. He was done. He He literally quit that day. That was his last day at the theater. A couple of weeks after Morgan has quit, and Dave is working alone at the theater, he's in the control room, and all of a sudden, he hears a piano playing, and there's only one piano in the entire theater, and it's sitting in the basement. It's his job to protect this place, so he knows he has to go down and check because it could be some hooligan in the building somewhere. So he leaves the control room, and as he starts walking over to the stairs with his gun drawn, the music is getting louder and louder. The is getting louder and louder and louder.

He makes his way down the steps, and as he's about to turn the corner, he hears the guard that protects the keys on the piano slam shut, and the piano stops. Then he turns around the corner and he looks, and there's no one down there. He flips on the light. No one's in the hall. He knows he's not going to find anyone down here. It's this entity that's causing all this mayhem inside of the theater. Dave's seen enough. He's done. He's done with this theater, and he goes right back upstairs. He goes in the control room, locks it, stays there till the end of the and then he is out. The next day, he goes to his sergeant and he says, You can't ever put me back inside that theater or I will quit. Sure enough, he was transferred. Over the next two months, they didn't have anyone who could do full-time security at the theater. Different random officers would be there for a couple of hours, a couple of days a week. Until November 26th, they found another officer, a veteran police officer named Josh Thomas, who was going to be working at the theater full-time.

On November 26th, the first night that Josh Thomas was going to be there, he didn't have anyone to turn over with, so he was just alone at the theater. It just so happens that Dave is in a patrol car near the theater. When at some point in the night, Josh comes over the radio and says, Hey, I need backup right now. Someone has broken into the theater. Dave knows that it's probably not someone breaking in. He knows what's going on inside that theater. He was the closest to it. Even though he did not want to go, he felt like it was his responsibility to go to that theater and be Josh's backup. If it was what Dave thought it would be, this entity in the theater, that he would be able to explain to him what he had seen before he ultimately decided never to go back. When Dave gets to the theater, there's this back door that they would go into, and he sees Josh as standing just outside the theater. Dave would say that Josh's eyes were like saucers. He looked terrified. Dave has an inkling of what's going on, and he goes over to Josh and he's like, What's going on?

Is someone still in there? He said that he had been doing security rounds, and he had heard what sounded like voices when he was in the basement, and he didn't think much of it. He checked all the rooms. Everything was shut. When he made his way up to the third floor, he saw that the elevator had kicked on. It was in the basement, and suddenly the light was on and it was worrying up to the third floor. When the elevator opened up, there was no one there. He's standing there looking at it, and he looks inside. There's no one there, and then the alarm goes off. That's when he called in for backup. Dave says, Look, let's just go search the building. We'll do it together. They clear the whole theater, no one's there. And before Dave leaves, they go into the main auditorium where the stage is, and they're just standing on the stage chatting with each other. Dave, his back is to where the audience would be. And Josh is facing Dave, facing towards the seats. Josh just suddenly stopped mid-sentence. He's just frozen and looking just beyond Dave's shoulder. And Dave goes, What?

And Josh goes, There's something behind you. Dave slowly turns around, and as soon as he does, he can tell immediately what Josh is looking at. Standing in the very back of the theater away from them is a man standing in the corner with his hands by its sides. Its back is to them, and it's looking down with a hood over its head. Dave turns his whole body around to look at this thing right as this thing turns around real quick and looks directly at them. It has these deep dark sunken eyes, and its face looks like it had been very badly burned, like it was black and charred. And it's looking at them before it just turns and runs out the back of the theater. Josh believed that that was an intruder. Dave was fairly certain that that was just another example of this entity that haunt the theater. But they would search the building and they could never find that cloaked figure again. And that was when Dave sat Josh down in the control room and he filled him in on why Morgan had quit and why he ultimately had quit. And he also told him the story from Blair.

So Josh is like, great. I'm glad I work here now. This was the last time that Dave would go to the theater. But Dave would do some additional digging on the history of the theater. It would turn out that in the '40s, there was this horrible fire, and a man had been trapped in the basement when the fire had erupted, and he had died inside of the theater. And so Dave would share this information with Morgan and with and the three of them all believe that what they were witnessing was the ghost of that man who died in that fire. On the morning of November 13th, 1974, six members of the De Feo family were asleep in their home in Amity Bill, New York. The seventh member of the family, Ron, was sitting on his bed in the basement. At around 1:00 AM, he gets up off his bed, he grabs a rifle, and he starts walking up the stairs. He goes across the first floor, goes up the second floor stairs, and he gets to the second floor landing, and he walks right into his parents bedroom, which was totally dark besides this little candle that had been lit next to his father's bedside, and he raises his rifle and he puts two rounds into his father's back.

Then as soon as his father is still, he aims at his mother, and he shoots her two times. Then he puts the gun down, and he walks out, and he goes across the hall into his brother's He raises his rifle, and he fires one shot into his 12-year-old brother, Mark, and then he aims at his nine-year-old brother, John, and he fires one shot into him as well. Then he leaves their bedroom, and he walks down the hall to another bedroom where he finds his 13-year-old sister, Allison. He raises his rifle and he fires one shot. He leaves her room. He goes up the third set of stairs up onto the third floor. He finds his 18-year-old sister, Dawn, and he fires one shot into her, and then he was done. Altogether, it took Ron about 15 minutes to massacre his family. At no point was he panicked or running around or acting crazy. He was just walking calmly, room to room, taking very well-aimed shots to ensure they didn't get up again. He put the rifle down and he went outside and he jogged to a bar where he went inside and he put on this big facade that he had just found his family, and they were hurt, and could you come help him?

When they got to the house, he refused to go inside, but the people from the bar went inside and they discovered this horrible scene. When the police show up, Ron goes over to them and he actually confesses and says, I killed my family. Even though the DeFeo family had a reputation for being very dysfunctional, it was Ron who had the worst reputation. He was known around Amityville for heavy drug use, for being a total alcoholic, and for getting really aggressive and confrontational with people. He was just a guy no one wanted to be around. And so when news got out in Amityville that this horrible thing has happened, and it looks like Ron is the one who did it, no one was really that shocked. But when The details of the crime scene, specifically the way the bodies were positioned, made people wonder, is there more to this case that we don't know about? All of the DeFeo family members had been found lying face down in their beds, and none of them showed any signs of putting up a struggle against their attacker, which led investigators initially to think that they must have been sedated, that Ron must have drugged them somehow before he carried out this attack.

But when the toxicology reports came back, no one in the family had any substance in their system. At first, the police did not think that was a very big deal. They figured, You know what? The family just must not have heard the different gunshots. He wasn't shooting lots of rounds. It was one single round here, one single round here, that perhaps they just didn't hear it. And that's why no one tried to escape. But it turns out the rifle Ron was using, the 35 caliber Marlin, is one of the loudest rifles you can own. And in fact, investigators went out and did a test with it, and they fired it indoors, and you could easily hear it a mile away. And so investigators said, Well, then it looks like they must have heard these gunshots, but for some reason didn't get out of their beds. They didn't try to fight back in any way. They just took it. And then you have the weirdness of Ron's confession. On the night of the attack, when Ron is sitting on his bed and he can't sleep and everybody else is asleep upstairs, he starts hearing a voice in his head that's saying, Catch them, kill them.

And he thinks he's just losing his mind. But then out of the shadows, straight across from him from underneath the steps in the basement, this shadowy figure emerges and starts walking towards him, and he can see what looks like its mouth moving and saying the words, Catch them, kill them. Ron's looking up at it as this figure walks all the way up to him and bends down and gets right next to his ear, and he says right into his ear, Catch them, kill them. Then Ron said, involuntarily, he reached over to the rifle that was on the bed with him, and he stood up and he began walking towards the steps, and he knew what was going to happen. He was going to go kill his family, and he didn't want to do it, but he felt like he didn't have any more control over his body. That's when he realized he was being possessed by this demon in the basement. While Ron's confession terrified everybody in Amityville, the idea that there was a demon living in the basement of this house that possessed someone to go kill their family. I mean, that terrified everybody, but it didn't hold up in court, and ultimately, Ron was sent to jail for life.

One year after the attacks, another family, the Lutz family, moved into the house in Amity Bell, but they left 28 days later because they were hearing voices coming from the basement. After hearing about the mass murder that occurred in the house, and now the Lutz family saying there's something in the basement, world-renowned demonologist, Ed and Lorraine Warren, they descend on the property and very quickly, Ed and Lorraine say, Yes, this house is definitely haunted. In fact, to this day, the Amityville house is considered one of the most haunted places in the entire world. But while Ed and Lorraine were there, they took a very famous picture. Lorraine was walking around the second floor near where the brother's room was, and she was snapping pictures. The only people in the house at the time these pictures were being taken were her and her husband, Ed. Here is the picture that she took on the second floor. She claims this boy standing on the left side of the picture is the ghost of John DeFeo. Today, the house still stands, and it's been bought and sold a number of times over the years because apparently, no one likes to live in this house for a very long time.

And now, a clip from the newest episode of Wartime Stories. Enjoy. Welcome to the smoke pit. In the military, the smoke pit is simply any odd place that service members will gather to have a smoke, a drink with their buddies, or just hang around to swap stories. And sometimes these stories are about experiences that the individual is sharing doesn't really expect anyone to believe, possibly because even they themselves have a hard time believing it or making sense of it, or otherwise because nobody likes to be laughed at or thought to be crazy. But since they feel the need to get it off their chest, the smoke pit is where these kinds of stories often circulate. In this episode, we are going to cover a number of encounters and other ghostly stories as told by the men and women who experience them, some of them being service members, others being from their spouses. As I've noticed from my reading of many similar types of ghostly stories, one of the most common themes with regard to haunted buildings and other places is that these often seem to be places where something terrible happened, an unnatural taking of life, whether by the person's own hand or by murder.

As such, if you are sensitive to that thing, be aware that some of these stories may be difficult to listen to, especially as one of the final accounts is believed to be connected to the tragic murder of two young children. These are stories of hauntings where with no one else to turn to, these men and women had to call the base Chaplain. So that's going to do it. If you want more strange, dark, and mysterious content, remember, we have a whole slew of podcasts under the Balin Studio's umbrella. They are the Mr. Balin podcast, Mr. Balin's Medical mysteries, Runful, Bedtime Stories, and Wartime Stories. All of them are free. There are loads of episodes, and they are all of the Strange, dark, and mysterious variety. All you have to do is go to any podcast platform, look up Balin Studios, and boom, there are all of our podcasts for you to go binge. Thank you very much. Until next time. See you.