Playing With Demons         

Many people think ouija boards are harmless toys that a group of teens might play with when their all hanging out on a Saturday night. Think going into a graveyard with a ouija board is a fun idea. After all what could possibly happen with a bunch of dead people. Well you better think again. Many cases we go on that end up being demonic in origin stem from ouija board play. The following true story comes from Wallingford, CT. 
We we're called out by a relativly new paranormal group who had stepped into a nightmare. There we're two reasons for the call. One was due to the fact that a young child was involved and they had heard about my work with children and the paranormal and the other was that they just weren't experienced enough to handle what was going on. We arrived on a cold Saturday night in January. I met with the other groups founder who we will call John. He filled me in on the activity they had experienced during their initial investigation and to be honest with you at the time I felt he had to be making up at least some of the story.He claims there we're cabinet doors opening and closing, voices, cold spots, knocking noises, footsteps and just about everything else one could experience during a paranormal investigation. It was to much to believe and upon meeting the young family involved in the middle of this whole thing it left me with a feeling we we're being set up. I almost packed everything up and left. This would have been one of the biggest mistakes I could have made in all my years investigating the paranormal.  What I was about to experience probably happens in  less than 1% of the cases an investigator goes out on. 
I met the family of three and the guys brother and girlfriend. The apartment renters names we're Joe, his girlfriend Gail and their baby Jamie. Joe's brother and girlfriend accompanied them for the evening. They all looked like they had just stepped out of the Addams Family house which made me very suspicious immediately. There is a baby involved in this so we had to be very careful in how we conducted our investigation. I asked them why they brought the baby and they told me they couldn't find a sitter. I would have preferred the child wasn't there, but I couldn't change that. The baby's father came up to me and asked me if it would be possible for an investigator to be with them at all times. I asked him why and he told me he feared for thier lives. I took one look at his face and I believed him. He looked like someone who probably hadn't slept in weeks and he was sweating like he had just run a marathon. He told me a story of a demonic looking being that was terrorizing his whole family and would follow them wherever they went. He confirmed all the things that John had told me when I first arrived there. I really started to feel sorry for this family, but just couldn't shake the creepy feeling their apparence gave me. The reason for my feelings will become apparent later.

The investigation started just like any other. We conducted interviews, set up night vision cameras everywhere along with wireless audio devices all hooked up to our DVR. We have a number of different EMF meters which measure magnetic energy, temperature measuring devices and a host of hand held video cameras and 35mm cameras etc. What I noticed immediately was the extremely high readings we we're getting on the emf gauges. Every room had these readings which is extremely unusual. I thought for sure this was a power company problem. Anyone exposed to EMF readings like this over a long period of time can experience hullucinations and health problems of all kinds. I thought to myself this must be why they are experiencing such bizarre happenings. They all must be hallucinatiing, but this turned out to be wishful thinking. The next thing we noticed was crazy temperature changes. In the past whenever we have experienced temperature drops where you can see your breath we know things are going to take an ugly turn. I am sensitive to spirit activity and can usually tell you when there is spiritual activity in the room. I didn't get this feeling when I walked through the door and with what they had told me about the activity that occured here I did expect to at least feel something, but I didn't. And so the investigation began.

The family and friends all stayed pretty much in the living room, but would occasionally come into the kitchen where we had our equipment set up. I still couldn't get over how strange they all looked. I felt like I was in some gothic movie. The investigator from the other group John came up to me and again stated how fearful the family was to be there. They again requested that an investigator stay with them at all times. They seemed to be genuinly scared and to be honest so was the other paranormal group which didn't exactly give me a warm fuzzy feeling. At least I brought along some of my group all of whom have experience in dealing with just about every situation you could imagine. Most of the investigators stayed outside due to the size of the apartment. We went around in groups of two. I asked the couple who lives there where they we're experiencing the activity and they told me in just about all of the rooms. I asked them if there was a room that they hadn't heard anything in and they told me the nursery had been quite right along. My feeling is that spirits will hide in the same place all the time. They do not want us to know where they are so you usually will not have any paranormal experiences in these areas. However if you are sensitive to paranormal activity and you start poking around this will more times then not bring out the worst in them if they are there. With all of this in mind I headed right up to the nursery. Immediately upon entering the nursery I felt a very strong presense which made me sick to my stomach. I heard a male voice whisper and what sounded like empty boxes being moved around in the closet. As I moved closer to the closet the sound got louder. I continued to move closer to the open closet door. I heard all of this movement going on, but couldn't see anything moving in the closet. The sound started to go from the closet to the attic and continued on for a few minutes. While all this was going on one of the investigators from the other group came into the room heard the noise and immediately left. I guess this was to be expected as they were a new group. It takes a while to build up a thick skin to paranormal actvity. One thing I did notice was that when he spoke I saw his breath. With all that was going on I didn't even realize the temperature had dropped down that low.  I stood my ground until the noise stopped. When it stopped the room  became much lighter feeling and warmed up. At this point I felt we we're dealing with a very negative spirit at the very least. Upon listening to the audio from this room we heard a latin phrase stated three times. It sounded like it said "Et Mecium". We were unable to determine what this meant, but it sounded latin. We also heard a door open and close a few times and footsteps even though there wasn't anyone in the room. There was one point where the baby started to cry on the first floor and you could hear this entity saying nasty things up in the nursery as well as what sounded like other voices whispering. When I originally experienced the activity in the nursery I also heard it go up into the attic. I decided to place a video camera up in the attic and let it run for about an hour. Upon veiwing the footage we saw the bottom half of a human looking figure come up out of the floor take a few steps and then disappear right over the nursery. I am sensitive to paranormal activity so I was not only dealing with all this activity I was feeling this incredible crushing presense that made it obvious that I was not wanted there. Now we are heading downstairs.

Upon heading downstairs I saw the couple who was renting the apartment along with thier baby and his brother and girlfriend. Again I took another look at their strange appearence and knew in my heart they had something to do with what is going on here. Joe who all the activity seemed to revolve around came up to me and again requested that an investigator stay with him and his family at all times because he was worried about being attacked. He told me the entity that was in the apartment had physically attacked him before by shoving him down the stairs and throwing things at him. He also asked me if we would provoke this thing and I told him no. I asked him why would you want us to provoke it when your scared to death about this thing attacking you. He didn't have an answer for this which obviously made me very suspicious about his intentions. I met with all investigators outside and told them I did not want anyone provoking while in the house. I felt at this point we could be dealing with a demonic entity and did not want to place anyone in danger. When there's a demon involved everyones in danger. I went back into the home and began asking questions of this evil spirit to see if we could get some kind of response either audibly or on our recording equipment which would then be called EVP'S or electronic voice phenomenom. Upon beginning the evp session we immediately felt the temperature begin to drop. You could feel a pressure drop in the room as well. We recorded temps in the forties which had dropped from our baseline temp of 68 degrees. We also heard footsteps on the second floor. We didn't hear any audible responses to our questions however when we listened to our wireless audio we got a number of responses to our questions.. One of the strangest things we witnessed after reviewing our video footage the following day was that when Joe was looking away from us he had black rings around his eyes. As he turned toward us to talk the dark rings would disappear. We not only have this on video we have stills showing these dark circles. With all that went on that night I wasn't going to rule out possession. As we continued to review the video footage we we're witnessing Joe reacting to some orbs that we're flying around the room. At one point he actually ducked out of the way. Joe's cat also reacted to a couple of the orbs. We saw the cat's ears go back as it snarled at seemingly nothing a few times. Joe told me that a psychic told him he had a vortex in his living room. I believe that most psychics are frauds, but in this case we did see orbs swirling around the supposed vortex area in the living room. After an incredible evening of paranormal happenings we told the family we would review the evidence and get back to them hopefully with some answers.

Over the next few days we went over all of the audio and video and I was convinced that we we're dealing with a demonic entity. I've experienced the power of the demonic before and it is usually unmistakable and anything can happen to anyone involved. It doesn't matter where you live or how far you travel when you have an attachment by a demon you can't hide. Having a strong religious faith is possibly your only hope. I called famed psychic Lorraine Warren who just happens to live one town over from me. She's always willing to help in situations like this and is a good connection to the church. We arranged to have a blessing done for the family and the home that was until I recieved a strange call from Joe. He told me a story that made this whole thing even more incredible. If I wasn't involved in this case myself  I would have never believed it. He told me that he and his girlfriend along with his brother and his girlfriend we're all involved in a demonic worship group. They had made contact with a demonic force through a ouija board and that it was terrorizing them and would follow them everywhere they went. He told me his girlfriend was still trying to make contact with the demon and that he now feared for his life and his baby's. His brother and his girlfriend no longer wanted to be involved, but his wife was such a controlling force that even they feared her. I knew all along that something more then the paranormal was going on with this case. I had previously asked him about his religious faith and he lied to me. He now admitted that they all did not believe there was a God. Not only that the baby was never baptized. At this point I knew there was nothing I could do to help them. The wheels we're already in motion to have the apartment blessed by a priest which Lorraine had set up. She agreed we should back away from the case. If they had no faith in any religion there was nothing that could be done. I have to admit walking away from this one was tough with a baby being involved, but I knew there was nothing we could do. I never heard from them again. We normally would never discuss a case without prior permission from the people involved. However we we're lied to by the client's and I felt this story would  help to show people not to play games with the demon world. The names involved we're changed.