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I was a kid. Gonna

1:42

stay overnight at my friend's houses. After

1:46

basketball that the splashing in

1:48

a pool before nice mommy's

1:50

called us from nice. Dinners.

1:53

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1:55

playing video games to we up

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2:00

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2:03

actors. I never

2:05

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2:42

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3:00

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3:05

in a dream state. For

3:08

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3:11

though. My best use.

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3:22

the. Minimal.

3:25

Set. My bedroom. Austere,

3:29

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3:31

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3:33

almost like but I'm planning

3:35

to fleece any moment. But

3:39

I've lived right here for years,

3:41

so I know. But I won't

3:43

lie, And

3:46

lie deserve color. And

3:49

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3:51

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3:56

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3:58

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4:01

a wonder I fear of perhaps. There

4:03

are some things. From

4:06

power. Now.

5:20

Give me his be nice move. In

5:23

a nice house. The

6:21

for Santa we moved in. The

6:23

kids were excited. Rosemary

6:26

was only in first grade. Paper

6:29

helmet and pre school. They

6:32

were busy just running around all over the place

6:34

and investigating all the different rooms. Spare

6:38

such as people selling in the main room of

6:40

their. Sex

6:42

life is used. To

6:46

the Sky. For

6:49

us he got the larger. Rooms. Gave

6:51

up a smaller room that was

6:53

directly above our bedroom. just made

6:56

more sense to have him closer.

6:58

Hims only five. It

7:01

was green and white wallpaper, very

7:03

old and wood floors. The

7:14

first thing I did was put

7:16

them to bad. Maybe

7:19

ten eleven o'clock at night. The

7:22

gabriel He just screaming. He

7:25

was crying. He says he eats

7:27

and sleeps. He doesn't want to

7:29

be there. He's scared. I went

7:31

upstairs. At Edmunds

7:34

drink the water, hadn't go to the bathroom told

7:36

him as he flipped his pillow and everything is

7:38

kind of here okay and rubbed his box and

7:40

I stayed with him until he fell asleep. I

7:43

thought he had had a nightmare and so I

7:45

said okay, we're gonna try again tomorrow. It's

7:48

a change. His. Side years old he

7:50

is in a new space. We just need to

7:52

take time and get used to it. But

7:57

Daves yelling and the night. Became very

7:59

common. Almost. Nightly occurrence.

8:03

This. Was new behavior. We didn't see this in the

8:05

old house with him. At

8:08

my husband has some house was saying

8:10

i you that. This buddy, you're tough, you

8:12

not scared of anything you can handle as.

8:15

It. Didn't work. We're

8:19

probably than in her for about three four

8:21

weeks. I go

8:23

to bed and I hear gave screaming.

8:26

Saying. He's wishing me squishy, me scientists

8:29

and on my best. Known

8:32

as a is there somebody inherit. If

8:35

they're than anybody else in the house the dog

8:37

would have alerted us we would have found them

8:39

is none of it made any sense and a

8:41

sister confused. I

8:46

said the game. There's

8:48

nobody in your room. There's nobody here.

8:50

I don't see anybody. You're You're having a

8:52

bad same. You had a bad dream. That

8:56

he. Insisted he says. Specially.

9:05

I had remembered a trick that I had

9:07

used when I was babysitting and college. I

9:13

made them months. To spread by taking

9:15

one of those spray bottle dispensers and

9:17

putting some water and and a little

9:20

essential oils. He likes the way it

9:22

smelled and before I talked him into

9:24

than I had him watch me spray

9:26

to spray under his bed and around

9:28

the windows. And then I talked him

9:31

into bed and I read in the

9:33

story he was really excited. If mom

9:35

says this is monsters, Brothers gotta work.

9:41

They didn't do anything. Have.

9:54

The days where hard because.

9:57

All day long I be. Thing: Okay, what's

9:59

gonna happen the night Alice's gonna go to night. And

10:02

as more of a easy going attitude

10:05

about it. I'm

10:07

more like okay so this is a problem and we

10:09

have to six it. Actually

10:13

been here. About a

10:16

month, well look no longer than a

10:18

month. Because he was Halloween I decided

10:20

to throw a kid friendly thirty. I

10:24

wanted everybody to ass and but mostly i

10:26

wanted gave the has. I

10:29

thought it might be a nice

10:31

way of making the house seem

10:33

less scary. That sucks sometimes to

10:36

plan as party out so make

10:38

it a Halloween party but make

10:40

it very light and fun and

10:42

sweet. So

10:45

that the kids with see that we

10:47

could be spooky but good and on

10:49

spooky. There

10:52

wasn't going to be any scary awesome.

10:54

so it's like a princess or a

10:56

pirate. We

10:59

put together a. Child friendly game

11:01

sites kinda knows on the ghost.

11:04

Were making caramel apples. We

11:06

got some small pumpkins. And

11:10

attack. On. His

11:12

plan was going to work and it was really

11:14

gonna be the turning two weeks or gave. I

11:20

was really. Relieved to see that

11:23

game was relax and enjoying the

11:25

house. Towards

11:32

the end of the night. We we planned a

11:35

spooky walk through the house. Or

11:38

was different things that we had put in

11:40

the house for them so look out of

11:42

like oh look here's a black cat. Said

11:45

we were walking through the house. Most

11:48

of us are up on the landing. One

11:51

of my friends in new gave was saying

11:53

a the seeing somebody in his room. See

11:58

made a comment. Sometimes

12:01

our imaginations make. Us

12:03

feel like something that's not

12:05

real. It's real. I

12:09

think that she was doing a

12:12

good thing by reinforcing. The message

12:14

said I was giving him. Out

12:17

of the blue. Roses

12:20

He punched. My son in the stomach and

12:22

said. He's real. He's

12:25

real gave not Lane. My

12:29

friend gasps and said okay,

12:31

so we're leaving. Last.

12:36

Game just stood there with his eyes really

12:39

while waiting to see what was gonna happen

12:41

next. I

12:48

was shocked. I was embarrassed. I

12:52

grabbed Rosemary and. Said suit on. Do that.

12:54

You don't ever hit somebody. And

12:58

then I put her in her room. And

13:00

that's where she stayed until everybody was gone. That

13:04

had the night and on an awkward know.

13:07

She's. Stuck to her guns. She

13:10

wouldn't retracts what she had said

13:12

and say with clear she wasn't

13:14

going to apologize either. I

13:18

didn't know what to do. It.

13:27

Was couple weeks after the Halloween.

13:29

Party. Rosie. And I were cooking

13:31

together. just the two of us. She

13:34

says to me, you know mommy. Keeps

13:37

outlying. She's.

13:39

Real. And

13:44

I santa when. oh. Okay,

13:48

Suppose out. So.

13:52

I said to you see him. She.

13:56

says. She. Doesn't look at

13:58

me. And

14:01

then is is quiet for a second and she says.

14:04

She's not bad. He

14:07

just wants to ball. Game

14:10

doesn't like him, but he's

14:12

okay. I

14:15

said oh. Oh

14:18

okay. And

14:21

then we continued cooking.

14:26

But this was becoming a bigger

14:28

deal than just some little kids

14:30

having nightmares. One.

14:41

Night About a week after the party

14:43

I got a bad and I hear

14:45

gave. Screaming. This

14:50

was not like his other screams. The

14:54

scream was have a child

14:56

in absolute terror. Of

15:00

as. We

15:03

find Daves in the middle of

15:06

the landing, clutching his blade as

15:08

soon as trembling, sledding. A

15:11

week when you make sense out of anything that he

15:13

was trying to say for a couple of minutes. I

15:17

wasn't sure. At that point that he hadn't

15:19

hurt himself. so I was chatting him to

15:21

see. She

15:24

looked ok. Then

15:26

add says to me you sleep with gave

15:28

and I'm in asleep in his room. He

15:31

was just like down the sleep there and then I

15:33

will tell gave everything's fine and will figure it out.

15:42

The. Next morning and comes down

15:45

stairs and and into the

15:47

kitchen. The expression on

15:49

ads face was really stole it

15:51

and stony and he says games

15:53

with enough to sleep in that

15:55

room again. He

16:01

really went go into it. He just said. There

16:05

something in that room. It's not good. No one slip

16:07

in and that row. Home.

16:11

Yeah. That's when I move shape and

16:14

will. They.

16:16

Had his own room on the other side of

16:18

the house. He

16:20

settled right back into the

16:23

very much the same personality.

16:25

Funny, happy, easy going, creative,

16:27

playful. And he'd

16:29

sit through the night. I

16:35

was so relieved. That there seem

16:37

to be some peace a mouse. I just

16:39

tried not to think about it and and

16:41

not do anything with the room. It

16:47

was about a year and a half later. As

16:51

pregnant with my third child.

16:54

Was. Not eleven o'clock at night. At

16:57

had already gone to bed. Had

16:59

lay down, get ready to go to

17:02

sleep and I heard a kid playing

17:04

on the upstairs landing. I heard their

17:06

feet powdering upstairs. I heard things movie

17:08

being moved around. It's

17:11

most likely game who's running

17:14

around? so. I yell out

17:16

keep get back to bed. Everything

17:20

set for minute like okay. that. And

17:25

I hear a door shut.

17:28

And I figured okay, that's escape

17:31

going back to his part of

17:33

the house. Couple

17:37

minutes later I hear what sounds like

17:39

the rug sliding across the floor upstairs.

17:43

So I'm getting really mad. And

17:46

then I hear. A kid

17:48

on the stairway. You

17:52

know when a child goes down the stairs

17:54

and it's one at a time? So it's

17:56

it's a thump. Thump.

18:01

And I'm thinking all gave you are in so

18:03

much trouble. You are in so much trouble. I

18:07

did not want to give gave the

18:09

satisfaction of knowing that I was going

18:11

to pay attention to him. So

18:14

anti the last Los Angeles sleep

18:16

in a bad. Day

18:20

hear him some. Into the

18:22

bedroom I hear his little footsteps. And

18:25

then I feel him staring over

18:27

me in the bed. I

18:31

say gave you need to get up

18:33

to your bad right knee. And

18:37

he doesn't move. On

18:40

the set up and then I look at him for the

18:42

way that mother's. To when they're really angry. Had a kid.

18:46

And. All of a son. All the air goes

18:48

right out of me. My eyes are wide open

18:50

and I am not looking at gave. It

18:54

was not game. Is

18:57

him? He

19:03

might be a ten years

19:05

old. He has nightdress like

19:07

they might have worn in

19:09

the eighteen hundreds. A

19:12

little page boy her thought. The

19:15

what struck me was the expression on

19:18

his face. He

19:20

had his head tilted a little. Bit and he is

19:23

looking at me. And

19:25

he looked lost. the

19:27

sound. He had

19:29

this questioning expression the at his head

19:32

tilted any was like looking at me

19:34

like if he could speak. He'd

19:37

be asking me where he was or where

19:39

his mom was. I

19:42

wanted to cry. I felt so bad for

19:44

this little child. I'm

19:48

staring at him and he's staring at

19:50

me and I can't get any words

19:52

out. By. Back into

19:54

the headboard and I don't say

19:56

anything. We

20:00

were staring at each other for quite

20:02

some time. It felt like minutes. But

20:04

I know I had to have been

20:06

seconds. And then he walks around the

20:09

side of the bed and into the

20:11

bathroom with us. Now. I

20:18

pushed to the As and I'm like. I

20:20

just I just saw a ghost child

20:23

and as I know. I'm

20:25

like no, no, I really did. And

20:27

I get up out of the dead in a

20:29

bitch without the bathroom. and there's nobody there. Go.

20:32

Upstairs to check on the kids and both of

20:35

them are sound of food. And

20:37

sitting on the stairwell going.

20:39

What did I just see?

20:41

I see this is real.

20:43

This is not like the

20:45

on T V. This really

20:47

happened. And.

20:50

Then I'm thinking, okay, what can I do. I

20:55

had seen things on television or read things and

20:57

box and figured that if you're going to speak

20:59

to the spirit, you need to light a candle.

21:02

So I did that, thinking okay, well this

21:05

is what you're supposed to do. I

21:08

felt would prefer are very bold. A

21:14

lot of Sicily of Sir Sanding. I

21:16

took this little weight kill a candle and

21:18

I just sat up there. I

21:21

started talking to whatever was in

21:23

the house and I said. I

21:26

am sorry if your last are confused.

21:29

My job is to take care of this house and

21:31

my children. And I need

21:33

you to understand that. I

21:38

wanted them to seal heard and

21:40

I also wanted them to understand.

21:43

That being disruptive or

21:45

scary wasn't helpful or

21:48

necessary. We could coexist.

21:54

As I was speaking the house

21:56

became very still and all the

21:58

little noises that. The house

22:01

makes called it. The

22:04

felt as though I was being heard.

22:09

I sat quietly for a while and then

22:11

the flame just went out. In

22:18

the days following seeing the little boy,

22:20

I said about him a lot. I

22:24

still think about him at I never had

22:26

an hour to see him again. I

22:30

didn't tell the kids said I said a bullet.

22:32

Not until much later. Eighty

22:34

Eight Eighty. Lily

22:41

was born in two thousand for. One.

22:43

Day Lily was in her room. Is

22:45

probably about four years old. And

22:48

see these two little toys Big

22:50

bear and jelly cat willingness on

22:52

the floor and she was playing

22:54

a game with the to stuffed

22:56

animals but acting like there's another.

22:58

Little friend in the room. She

23:03

saying things like new, it's your

23:05

turn. Know

23:07

you give me that. And

23:09

sister saying that to the air. Always

23:14

trying to humor her and asked her about

23:16

her little fan as I'm putting the sheets

23:18

on the bird and she says it's a

23:20

little boy is a little boy that lives

23:22

in my room. As

23:25

oh no. But.

23:28

Lily wasn't scared of him. It was

23:30

almost like see just accepted the oh.

23:32

Here's this person. Sometimes.

23:37

I could hear her yelling at Night

23:39

Lights Leave Me alone Go to bed

23:41

He's rolling abolish we complain. About him

23:43

keeping her up at night. By

23:46

the time she was like twelve season.

23:48

Talk about him anymore. As

23:54

a little boy, hasn't shown up for

23:56

quite some time. But. Now I

23:59

have a grandson. Imo build

24:01

up a local call. Her

24:06

handling and are her a I

24:08

have a certain amount of compassion.

24:10

True there's this little ghosts as

24:13

to so last and doesn't know

24:15

where he is going and making

24:17

friends with little human shows how.

24:21

I would much rather have him be

24:23

at peace than playing with matches. Are

24:42

you know. Story

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24:48

on the new grandbaby journey. Please

24:50

let us know if a little

24:52

boy shows up. Please

24:56

let me know I don't want

24:58

any part of it's someone here.

25:01

It spooked. I'm sure I'll be

25:03

glad to provide any assistance if

25:05

they can. The

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original score for the pieces by Nicholas Mark.

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25:26

have a favor to ask you about

25:28

the night. Maybe

25:31

you like me as practice your

25:33

lucid dreaming. But

25:36

no, their whole teams of

25:38

scientists that study sleepers control

25:40

their own three marriages, the

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great characters, and it's where

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25:55

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