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Over the next few days, the tapping sounds in the house would continue. And they were no longer just coming from the basement. They were also coming from the kitchen. They were coming sometimes from the second floor. They were sort of coming from all over the house. But the girls were the only ones who could hear the sounds. Like every time they'd hear the tapping, if their dad was home, they'd call him over, but Frank wouldn't hear anything. Now again, you know Frank doesn't really believe that there's actually tapping happening. He doesn't think this is actually real at all. But he's playing along with it because, you know, his girls are happy. You know, clearly this is their coping mechanism. And so again, Frank's not thinking much of it. It's harmless. The girls are frustrated that he can't hear it. But again, it's overall still a very good thing. It's mom. Mom is trying to communicate with them. However, after a few days, you know, post seance, as the tapping continued, the girls began to change their attitude about the tapping sounds. You know, the first day. And over those first few days, it really did feel like a good thing. This is mom, this is positive. This was definitely a good thing. But after about 72 hours, you know, post seance, the girls began to sort of feel frightened by the tapping because the tapping no longer was really just coming mostly from the basement. It now started coming almost exclusively from their bedrooms at night. So they'd be laying in bed and they'd hear, you know, tapping underneath their beds. They'd hear tapping in their closets and it was frightening. And they would call their dad in and he'd come into their bedrooms and he wouldn't find anything. But now, you know, Frank, who previously had just sort of let this continue, you know, this is his girl's coping mechanism for this terrible loss. Now he's seeing that his girls, they don't really think it's mom anymore. They don't know what this is. And it's also disrupting their sleep. And so now it's not a healthy thing anymore. This is a problem. Like it's disrupting his girls lives. And so Frank begins at this point, you know, three days post seance, now he begins telling his girls, like, hey, come on guys, there's, there's nothing to be scared of here. You know, these tapping sounds are just normal house sounds. You're overthinking it. Like there's nothing that's going to harm you in the house. You know, mom is definitely here looking out for you, but she's not making those tapping sounds. You got to let this stuff go and just forget about this stuff. But the girls, they're like, dad, we're not making the tapping sounds up. Just because you don't hear them does not mean they're not real. And they began to tell their dad, like, we think the seance worked, but we actually no longer think it's mom that's sort of come out of the seance. We think we unlocked a different spirit, an evil spirit. And now that evil spirit is haunting our house. And so Frank, at this point, he's like, guys, that's not what's going on here. You really need to stop. Like, these tapping sounds are not real. They're in your head, or they're normal. And so Frank and his daughters really began to fight over this. Because the girls, they know they're hearing sounds. And Frank's like, I'm not. And so they're really starting to fight over it. The girls, they're getting more and more frightened just being in their house, in particular at night, when these sounds would typically start. And so fast forward about a week after the seance. And now the girls really are so scared to be in their house because of this tapping, which they believe is now this evil spirit in their house. They're finding all sorts of excuses to just stay out of their house. Like when Dad's at work late, they're trying to stay at their friend's house and not be home because it was too frightening. And Frank, he's sort of at his wit's end with what to do with his girls. Because now this thing that's going on in the house, this delusion as he believed it was, you know, that his girls were suffering from, it was really disruptive and unhealthy. And he began telling his girls, like, if you can't stop with this whole tapping delusion, you're gonna have to go to grief counseling. Like, this is too much. And so, again, fast forward about a week here. And that's what's going on in the Bowen household. And on this particular day, the girls, Tina and Karen, they didn't have a place to go that night. They didn't have a friend who was available. And so they're home at their house alone. Frank's out for the night, doing a late night shift. And the girls, you know, they're in their kitchen just kind of hanging out. They're pretty anxious here. And they start to hear tapping sounds coming from the basement. Now, by this point, the tapping sounds were so common that just hearing the tapping sounds was not like this horribly frightening thing. It was just sort of this very unsettling thing where nobody knew what they were. And again, the girls think it's something evil. But on this night that the girls are alone, you know, Dad's gone. Tina, the older of the two, she says to Karen, like, dad doesn't believe us. He does not believe that there's tapping sounds in the house. And so we right now need to go down in the basement and investigate. Because if we Don't. No one's ever going to look into this. Like, nobody believes us. And Karen is horrified at the idea, you know, Karen's the nine year old of going down into the basement, you know, to go see what this tapping is. But she doesn't want to be away from her sister. And so she's like, okay. And so Tina gets a knife from the kitchen, she goes to the door to the basement. Karen follows right behind her. And Tina, she opens up the door and the two girls begin going down the steps. And once they get to the bottom of the steps and they're in the basement, it's just this kind of blank slate down there. There's a. There's a washing machine and a dryer, there's some boxes, but it's just sort of a dank, sort of open nothing cellar down there. And the girls, when they got down there, they're. They're looking for the origin of this tapping sound. And on some level they expected to find something that was making these sounds because they've been hearing these sounds. For them, it's not a delusion. Like every time they hear these sounds, they are real to them. Just because their dad doesn't hear it does not mean it's not real to them. And if you look at the beginning when they first started hearing the sounds, they thought it was their mom. And they never really fully investigated. They maybe didn't want to find out that, you know, perhaps the tapping sound was a washing machine or something because that would destroy the illusion that it was their mom. So they never fully investigated then. And then the next few days after that, when it sort of transitioned and became a scary thing, the girls also never really investigated because it was scary. Now they didn't want to know what was making this tapping sound. And so now here we are a week into this and they've gone down into the basement where they've heard the tapping sounds. And they're like prepared to see something that is making this sound. Cause it's real for them. Like maybe it's a raccoon or some animal that's gotten into their house. There has to be something because they hear these sounds. But now they're looking around this basement and there's nothing, there's nothing that could possibly be making this sound. And the girls are horrified. And so after being down there only for a couple of minutes, you know, Tina, who's got the kitchen knife, she's like, karen, let's get out of here. Like, this isn't right. Let's get out of here. And so the girls turn around, and they begin going back up the steps. And as they do, they noticed something on the stairway wall that they didn't see on the way down. Written in red on the wall are the words, I'm in your closet. Come find me. And when the girls see that, they are horrified, and they sprint up the stairs. They bolt out of their house. They go to their neighbor's house, start banging on the neighbor's door. The neighbor comes to the door, and he's like, what's going on? And the girls are like, oh, my God, we had this seance. We've been hearing tapping in the walls, and now somebody's written on the walls. We don't know what's going on. And the neighbor is so confused, really doesn't understand what's happening. And he's like, look, girls, just come into my house. You're safe here. We'll wait for your dad to come home. He'll know what to do. And so the girls, they're hysterical. They go into the neighbor's house, they shut the door, and they wait. And then a little bit later, Frank Bowen, their dad, he comes home. The neighbor immediately flags him down and calls him over, and he's like, look, you know, here's what happened. Your girls came over. They said, you know, something about writing on the walls. I don't know. And Frank's like, okay, all right. And he tells his girls, like, look, stay here. You know, you're safe here. I'll go check the house and make sure nobody's in there, you know, Frank, at this point, in no way suspects that there's anything, you know, evil or bad in his house. He thinks this is just a continuation of this delusion. The girls are sort of acting out. And so Frank alone goes back to his house. He opens up the door, he goes inside, he searches the house, and he looks everywhere, but there's nobody in the house. He does find the writing in the stairwell going down to the basement. You know, it does say, I'm in your closet. Come find me, but it's written in ketchup. And so after again searching the whole house and finding nothing other than this writing, Frank goes back over to the neighbor's house, and he talks to his girls. And he's not mad at them. In some ways, he feels like all of this is basically his fault. Like, he should have handled this more aggressively at the beginning, and he let it get to this point. And so he tells his girls, like, look, I know that you wrote those words on the wall. I know that all of this is sort of a delusion that's playing out that started with, you know, something good. You thought it was mom, but now it's become something that isn't good. It's disruptive. You've convinced yourself the house is haunted. And I'm very worried that this is a product of grief. Like, grief is leading you to do these things and it needs to stop. And so starting tomorrow, you're going to go into grief counseling. We need professional help here to make sure you girls are taken care of. I should have done this from the beginning. So we're gonna make that happen right now. Now, the girls knew they didn't write that on the wall. They're not making the tapping sounds, but they also knew their dad 100% didn't believe them. Like, zero. And it was not gonna change. And on some level, like, they think maybe there's truth to what he's saying. Maybe they are so grief stricken that they've convinced themselves of things that are not real. And so in this sort of vulnerable moment where the girls are totally upset about what they've seen and what they've heard and they just tell their dad, like, fine, like, whatever, we'll go to grief counseling. And so sure enough, the next day, the girls would start grief counseling. And right away, all the tapping in the house, all the writing on the walls, all that stuff stopped. Like, peace returned to the Bowen household. At least at first.

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And Frank, he goes up to the porch, he goes to the front door, and as he's about to open up the door, he looks through one of the windows of his house, and he sees there are several lights on in the house that he didn't remember leaving on before they left. And so he just thinks, like, that's weird. Like, I could have sworn I turned those lights off. He's kind of looking back at the girls right behind him, sort of wondering if maybe they left the lights on. But he's like, yeah, that's weird. So he unlocks the front door, he swings the door open, and immediately he sees this scene inside of his house that makes no sense. The TV is on, a radio is on, and furniture in the first floor of the house where he's looking has clearly been moved. Not dramatically, but things have been moved around on the first floor. Like, if you live somewhere, you know, where things go, things are off. And Frank, like, he's seeing this, he's sort of looking back at Tina and Karen. He's like, did they do this? Are we back to this whole delusion? You gotta remember that even though it's been three weeks now of peace in the Bowen household, Frank is all too aware of how insane it was right before then, you know, with the girls, you know, writing on the wall, at least according to him, and thinking there was an evil spirit in their house. And, you know, he's thinking, is this them? Like, somehow, did they do this? This feels sort of like a continuation of that. He's looking at the girls, but he's thinking to himself, like, they've been with me. We've been out of the house. How could they do this. But again, Frank is sort of caught. You know, on the one hand he knows this could be his girls, but he's also thinking that's not possible. And so in that mind state of sort of being caught between these two opposing ideas, Frank, instead of backing out of the house and calling the police like anybody else would do, he instead just begins like walking into the house, sort of nonchalant, like not really sure how to react. And he begins this sort of half cocked search through the house. And the whole time, Tina, Karen and Kathleen, they see what's going on. And the two daughters, they're terrified. I mean, they're all too aware of all the tapping and the writing on the walls. They're thinking this is real, it's happening again. And so they're tucked up right behind Frank, who again, Frank is like in shock. He's just like wandering through the house, like what's going on here? Turns the TV off, he's walking around, turns the radio off, he's moving furniture back around. And he just, he can't believe it. And so he, he does this weird, like again, half invested search through the first floor. He doesn't find anybody there. He goes to the second floor, does the same search again. All three girls, the two daughters and the friend, they're right behind Frank cause they're so scared. They do the search of the second floor. Nobody there. They search the attic, nobody there either. They go down to the basement, nobody in the basement. Like there's nobody in the house. And so Frank is like, what is going on here? And then he remembers there's actually a room on the first floor of the house that he forgot to search. It was just a front room of the house right off the front entrance. You know, when he began the search, he just sort of overlooked it because he was sort of in a daze. And so he's like, okay, I'll go back up there and I'll search that last room and then I'll know the whole house is secure. Nobody's here. And so Frank goes back up the basement stairs to the first floor. The girls are tucked up right behind him, still so scared. And he makes his way towards this room. And this room overlooks the front of the property. There are windows looking out to the road. It's just, you walk in, there's windows, there's the front of the house and there's a little closet over to the left. It's like a sitting room. And so Frank, he goes into this room and right away he sees on the Wall. Right in front of him, written in shaving cream, are the words, marry me. And so Frank, he walks over to the words and he's just, he's staring at them, being like, what is this? Like, who wrote this? The girls again are right behind him, tucked up against the back of his legs, and he's staring. And as he's doing that, he hears movement in the closet in the room that he's in. And Frank turns and he looks at this closet. The doors are open to this closet, but it's a dark closet. And out of the closet walks a man who was wearing a dress, Frank's dead wife's dress. This person had clown makeup on their face. And they were wielding a hatchet. And they walk out of the closet and they look at Frank and they look at the girls who are so shocked. They're just in silence, staring back at the sky. And this person looks at Frank and goes, you and the girls go upstairs. And so Frank immediately goes into protector mode. And he gets between the maniac and his girls and he just tells the girls, like, go, go, go up the stairs, do what he says. And the hatchet wielding maniac just sort of walks along, following after Frank and the girls Again, Frank sort of staying between this person and the girls. And so Frank shepherds the girls up the stairs and he's like, go ahead, girls, first bedroom. Go in the first bedroom. So they go upstairs, all three girls go into the first bedroom. So Kathleen, Kara and Tina. And then Frank, he goes into the bedroom and the maniac's right here in the hallway about to follow after Frank. And as soon as Frank gets in the door, Frank, Frank shuts the door and holds it shut. And there's suddenly this struggle between the maniac in the hallway and Frank. The maniac's trying to get in. There's this vicious struggle. And Tina, who's already in this bedroom, just turns, runs and leaps out the second floor window. And so she smashes to the ground. She runs next door to that neighbor's house, she slams on the door. The neighbor comes out, and Tina's screaming about, there's someone in my house. And so the neighbor at this point knows this is a real emergency. They call the police. And then minutes later, the police show up. And when they get there, they look up at the Bow and Head household, and Frank Bowen is leaning out of that second floor bedroom and he's screaming to the police, hey, there's somebody in here. He was just at my door. He's gone. I don't know where he is. And police, they get over, they put a ladder up to the window. Frank comes down, they get the other two girls down. So everybody is safely out of the house. Now. They've been moved over to that neighbor's house. And now the police are going to go into the Bowen household to find this dress wearing, hatchet wielding, clown makeup wearing maniac. They're gonna find him and put him into custody. And so the police, they go into the Bowen household, you know, guns drawn, and they search that entire property top to bottom, and they find nothing. Nobody's there. The house is completely vacant. However, they would find a hatchet lying by the back sliding glass door. And the back sliding glass door was partially open. And so ultimately, again, when nobody is found inside the house, the police decide, like, well, clearly they, this maniac, if there really was a maniac, is now gone. Because, look, the door's open, the hatchet's here, so they're gone. And so the police, they go over and talk to Frank and his family and they're like, look, you know, we don't really know what to make of this. We didn't actually see, you know, this person you claim to have seen in your house. I'm sure there was somebody, but we didn't see them. And so for now, what we're going to do is we're going to monitor your property 247 and just see what happens. See if anybody comes in or out, will make sure nobody comes to this property. And we'll also begin an investigation in town to try to figure out, you know, who this maniac was. And in the meantime, you and your girls go stay with a family friend or something. Just don't be here because we just, we don't know what's going on here. And so Frank and his girls, they went and stayed with a family friend. And the police began their surveillance of the Bowen household. And for two days, nothing happened. Like, nobody went in or out of the Bowen household. And despite police canvassing the town and trying to figure out, you know, who this maniac could have been, they really didn't get anywhere because remember, Frank's description and the girl's description of this maniac was, you know, probably a man wearing a dress with clown makeup on. And so effectively this person had a disguise on, like there was nothing to go on. So they couldn't find anybody in town. There was no leads. And nobody has come to this house. And they're communicating with Frank Bowen the whole time. Like, basically nothing's coming of this case. And so finally, 48 hours after, you know, confronting this maniac in the closet, you know, Frank and his girls, they've been at the family friend's house this whole time. And Frank's like, you know what? It'd be great to get my toiletries and a few other things from my house, because basically they evacuated their house and didn't get a chance to pack or anything. And Frank's thinking, like, you know, nothing's going on at the house. There's no leads in this case. It's, you know, it's gotta be safe to go back to my house for a minute and get the things I need. And so he tells his girls to stay with his family friend. And Frank, by himself, goes over to his house, and it's broad daylight, and he's expecting to find a police officer, you know, who's monitoring his property. And he can tell the officer, hey, I'm just going in real quick to get my stuff. And they would, you know, let him go in and do that. But when he got to his house, he looked around and he didn't see any police officer outside the property, watching the property. And he's thinking, like, that's pretty weird. They told me they've been watching my property 24 7. Like, where are they? But Frank's like, you know, that's weird. Whatever. So he gets out of his car and begins walking towards his front door. But as he's walking for a second, out of the corner of his eye, he can swear he can see somebody moving in the second floor of his house. But when he looked up, you know, nobody was there, but he was certain somebody had been moving around up there. And Frank's thinking to himself, like, wait a minute. Are the police monitoring my house from the inside? Is that what they're doing? They've been in my house. I could have sworn they said they were out of my house. And Frank's like, you know what? Just in case I need to call the police, because I don't want to walk in there and startle an armed police officer who's basically looking for an intruder. And so Frank, he goes to that neighbor's house and uses their phone, and he calls the police. And he's like, hey, are you in my house? Is that what you guys have been doing? You've been monitoring my house from the inside? And they're like, no, we have been watching it from the outside. Very likely what's happened here is you've arrived at your house at the exact moment when there is Turnover happening between the police officers who are watching it from the outside, meaning the officer who's been watching her house must have just left. And the incoming officer who will be taking over the next shift is probably on their way, or maybe they're there right now. And in fact, what you should do, Frank, is hang up with us, go back to your property, and very likely the officer will be there or be there soon, and you can talk to them and have them search your house just in case to make sure nobody's in there. And so Frank says, okay. He hangs up the phone, he goes outside, and sure enough, now there is clearly a police officer in a car outside of his property. So Frank goes over and explains the situation to the officer. And the officer's like, no one's going inside your property. Literally. We have watched this property 24 7, save for a couple of minutes here and there when we're doing turnover, but nobody's gone in or out of your property. But either way, Frank, I'll search your house just to be sure. And so Frank goes back over to the neighbor's house, and this officer goes up to Frank's door, he opens it up, he looks inside, and he can't believe what he's looking at in the first floor of Frank's house. It's just madness. There are pennies glued to the ceiling of the first floor, and the furniture clearly has been moved all over the place, but it's been stacked in these sort of weird arrangements. And there are glasses of champagne all over the first floor. And there are kitchen knives that have been driven into family photos on the wall. Like, the knives are still sticking into the photo. And where these knives have been driven through, the photo is always on a picture of either Tina or Karen, the two daughters. And where there are knives in these pictures, above those pictures is written, I'm going to kill you, Tina, or I'm going to kill you, Karen. And so this officer obviously knows, you know, we have a problem here. And so he backs out of the house, he calls for reinforcements. And so all these officers go in, guns drawn now, convinced, you know, clearly somebody has found a way to come in and out of this house. Or they're still here and we have to find them. Like, clearly, the Bowens were not lying about this horrible, you know, maniac that they encountered in the second floor of their house when police first showed up. Clearly that must have happened because they didn't do this. Somebody else did, and they gotta be here. And so police, they tear the Bowen household apart. Looking for this maniac. They look everywhere and they can't find anybody. There's nobody in the house. And on top of that, it had snowed outside. And before they went in, they made sure they walked around the property to see if there were footsteps coming in or out of the property. And there wasn't. Like, it's not possible what they're seeing. But they've now torn the house up looking for anything, and they found nothing other than, again, the madness they've seen with the furniture, the writing, the knives. That's all they've found. And so after hours and hours of this very frustrating search, a few of the officers found themselves in the basement. And they're just standing there talking to each other like, this is crazy, we must have missed something. Like, what is it? And at some point, one of those officers who was having that conversation, he had his hand resting on the washing machine. He's just sitting there like, yeah, what did we miss? What did we miss? And suddenly as he's leaning against the washing machine, the washing machine moved. And so suddenly there's this gap that's been created by moving the washing machine. And the officer looks at the wall where the machine had been sitting before, and clearly there is a hole on the wall. And the officer gets out his flashlight and he looks in the wall and kind of scans down and he sees there's this tunnel that's been burrowed in the wall of the basement and it goes over to the corner. And looking back at this officer is Danny LaPlante. And he's crouched down, he's got a hatchet over his shoulder, he's wearing a dress, and he's staring back at this officer. I'm going to tell you about Danny LaPlante because this story takes a very dark turn. So Danny LaPlante was 16 years old at the time he was pulled out of the wall. And six months prior to being pulled out of the Bowen household's wall, Danny had had this very brief interaction with Tina Bowen, the 15 year old. Apparently they went to school together or had some interaction in town, but Danny had sort of fallen in love or had some sort of romantic interest in Tina, and he felt like Tina had rejected him. Now, Tina did not remember any of this with Danny. This is entirely Danny's memory of what happened. But either way, six months earlier, you know, when he had the sense of rejection from Tina, Danny responded to that by breaking into the Bowen household, cutting a hole in their walls and burrowing tunnels in their walls. And for six months, Danny LaPlante lived in the Bowen household in their walls. Now, Danny was not able to access the entire house through the wall in the basement. He could basically maneuver in the basement and partially into the first floor. But in order to get to the other parts of the house, Danny had to leave the wall. And so routinely over these six months that he was in their house, Danny would literally, while the family was home, just get out and wander through their house, like, as the family is just living there, and they never noticed him. And so for six months, Danny spied on that family 24, seven. And when the girls had that seance with the Ouija board to try to contact their mother, Danny was downstairs in the basement, in the walls, watching. And he saw an opportunity. He thought, I'm gonna pretend to be their mother and screw with them. And so when they heard that tapping sound, that was Danny pretending to be their mom. He was absolutely trying to get them to believe their mother was here. But then whenever Frank was around, Danny would stop the tapping and sort of let Frank believe the girls were making it up. And then gradually, Danny sort of transitioned from it's your mom and it's good to. To actively trying to terrify the girls. He began tapping at all hours of the night. He began sneaking out of the wall, going upstairs to the girl's bedroom, flicking the undersides of their beds, going in their closet, tapping in their closet, and then making sure to be hidden or escape before Frank came in. I mean, this is absolutely psychotic behavior, but it gets worse. So Danny is taken out of the walls, and he's arrested. But then 10 months later, when he is awaiting trial, Danny is released on bail. And while he is on bail, he would sneak into another family's house in Massachusetts, the Gustafson's house. And unfortunately, that family would not escape Danny. Danny would murder three members of that family for really no particular reason. He just picked a family and killed them. And so, very likely, if Tina had not leapt out of the second floor window when Danny revealed himself in that dress with the hatchet and got them to go up to that bedroom, if Tina hadn't leapt out and if Frank hadn't held off the door like that, almost certainly Danny was corralling that family into that room to kill them with the hatchet. But Tina basically saved their lives. Danny LaPlante is still alive, and he's serving multiple consecutive life sentences. And he actually recently was put up for parole. He didn't get it. He did not get parole. But during his hearing for his parole, when he was rejected. He was determined to be one of the most psychopathic inmates in the entire prison system.

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