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- [00:05]
Lynn Washington
Fairy shadows in the sky if I should grow black wings and fly to ask all that I wondered, why.
- [00:17]
Brandon
Would.
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Lynn Washington
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- [01:15]
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Emma
The people Next hey, it smells so good in here.
- [01:34]
Lisa
Yep, that'd be the coffee.
- [01:35]
Emma
I know. It's just I've had nasal polyps for so long now I'm on this medicine and my congestion and breathing are much better.
- [01:42]
Lisa
Dupixent Dupilumab is an add on prescription maintenance treatment for uncontrolled chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps in adults and children 12 years and up. It can help shrink your nasal polyps so you can breathe better with less congestion.
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Emma
I'm pretty jazzed about it. Plus I don't want another surgery and now I might not need one.
- [01:59]
Lisa
So what can I get you?
- [02:01]
Emma
Medium coffee, please.
- [02:02]
Lisa
Severe allergic reactions can occur. Get help right away for face, mouth, tongue or throat swelling, wheezing or trouble breathing. Tell your doctor right away of signs of inflamed blood vessels like rash, chest pain, worsening shortness of breath, tingling or numbness in limbs. Tell your doctor of new or worsening eye problems like eye pain or vision changes, joint aches and pain, or a parasitic infection or asthma. Don't change or stop steroid asthma or other treatments without talking to your doctor.
- [02:24]
Emma
Do more with less nasal polyps. Ask your doctor about DUPIXENT.
- [02:27]
Lisa
Learn more at DUPIXENT.com or call 1844 DUPIXENT. I won't let my moderate to severe plaque psoriasis symptoms define me.
- [02:35]
Gabriel
Emerge as you in two clinical studies Trimphia, guselcumab taken by injection provided 90% clear skin at 16 weeks in 7 out of 10 adults with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. In a study, nearly 7 out of 10 patients with 90% clearer skin at 16 weeks were still clearer at 5 years. At 1 year and thereafter, patients and healthcare providers knew that TRIMFIA was being used. This may have increased results. Results may vary.
- [02:59]
Brandon
Serious allergic reactions may occur. Trimphia may increase your risk of infections and lower your ability to fight them. Before treatment, your doctor should check you for infections and tuberculosis. Tell your doctor if you have an infection or symptoms of infection, including fever, sweats, chills, muscle aches or cough. Tell your doctor if you had a vaccine or plan to emerge.
- [03:18]
Gabriel
As you learn more about Tremfya, including important safety information@tremfya.com or call 187-757-83527. See our ad in Food and Wine magazine for patients prescribed Tremfya, cost support may be available.
- [03:34]
Narrator
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- [03:57]
Lynn Washington
It was tough at home as a kid within the four walls of our trailer. Northern Michigan woods. Tough trying to dodge my parents in that tiny space. Their anger, their sadness, their rage. Low boil, please remain at a low boil. Keep my head down, down. Stay out the way, Stay shadow. Stay silent. So despite the winter cold, I spend long hours in the forest. Not born to this land, not raised here. But I know these trails, these woods, the creeks, the ponds, the fields. I know them because it's better outside freezing than it's an easy nine year old target inside. I like to imagine that this land knows me, looks out for me. One late afternoon wandering the woods, the air snaps from just cold to frigid, painful, bitter. I pull my hood tight over my head. Still can't go back home. Not yet. Keep walking through the snow instead, head up. Looking up I see the flash of red, brilliant crimson. He's hopping from one branch to the other, a cardinal, clucking, singing, scolding me just cause I can't fly. It makes no sense how much he stands out, beautiful against his backdrop. So almost silly. Makes me want to laugh looking up at him. My right foot instead of padding on snow crunches through ice. Then my leg is sinking, falling, arm flailing. Shock of wet. Cold, cold, cold. My arm in the water pushing me out of the water. Rolling, rolling. Three seconds. Four Seconds maybe, but that's all it takes to crack through this ice. To flop back on the snow. Stupid, stupid. Now my right leg and right arm are wet in this cold. And I know that I'm in trouble. Deep trouble. You can never be wet here. Never. So I run. But I'm so far away. I don't know how far away. I can't remember. And the cold hurts, Brandon. Iron pain hurts. Blinding. So cold. My leg, my arms, my fingers. I can't stop to scream. Pure pain. Agony. It hurts. Then it doesn't hurt. Can't feel. Swallow. Panic. Panic. Because I know this is worse. That pain is good. When there is no pain, you lose limbs, parts. Run, run, run. Run. Blind run. Run. My left hand can barely twist the doorknob open, barely stop letting the heat out of my house. Dark figures huddle around the tv, flickering gloom. My father shelling peanuts. No one turns their head to look at me. I stagger toward the restroom, crying, crying. Hands like paddles, trying to turn on the water. Let me turn on the water. Let me turn on the water. I want to turn on hot water, but I know better. Cold water first. Cold water until you can feel. And what I can feel, feel it hurts all over again. Hear myself. Silent sobbing. Just a little bit of hot water now. Just a little bit. Just a little bit. Just a little bit more. Pulling frozen fingers apart with my teeth. Outside, inside, it doesn't matter. Spook starts now. Now then we begin far from the Michigan woods where Emma Louise Tully is but 6 years old and her parents. They buy the Sharon rectory, a crumbling 200 plus year old manor in the Irish countryside. Very nice indeed. Spooked.
- [10:51]
Narrator
Moving into Sharon, I was apprehensive. I just could never see it to be a home, a forever home for me and my family. Because it just had this big scary look to it. It's not your typical house or everyday house. It's a very large stone building surrounded by woodland. And when my parents bought the house, it was in complete ruins. The whole place was falling apart. So I could never see it to be a home.
- [11:22]
Zoe Ferrigno
Emma doesn't know this at the time, but she's not the only person who is scared of Sharon Rectory. In town there's a bit of lore surrounding the house. A lot of people say that it's haunted.
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Narrator
My parents, they were hearing stories, but they were both skeptical. I suppose the way they seen it was that they wouldn't believe it until they seen it for themselves. It was the bank holiday, August when we moved in my new bedroom is upstairs and it's right next to my parents room. And in the opposite end of the room there is a door that leads to the back staircase. This back staircase. Even with the lights on in it, it still looks dark. It just creeped me out. I start to hear strange noises come from these back staircase. I can hear footsteps coming up the stairs and it seems to creep up the stairs halfway and stop. And then it might just continue then. And then it will stop again. I'm thinking in my head, is this really only in my head or am I actually hearing something for real? One night I could hear the footsteps and watching the door and I could see a mist, a blue mist form in the middle of the room. It wasn't a heavy kind of a fog. It was. It was light, it was transparent. I'm seeing what looks to be like a lady form the top of her form spurs. So I could see her head and her hair, her dress started to form. It's a long dress and it's not of this era. I don't see a face. There's just blankets, just nothing. It's just emptiness. I just couldn't watch her anymore. I was under the covers and I'm trying not to breathe because I feel like if I breathe she'll hear me and I don't know what she's going to do. I don't know what her intentions are. I'm starting to sweat. Eventually I come up for air and I don't see her in the room anymore. This continues to happen night after night and it's terrifying.
- [14:09]
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- [14:40]
Narrator
Next.
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Emma
Hey, it smells so good in here.
- [14:43]
Lisa
Yep, that'd be the coffee.
- [14:44]
Emma
I know, it's just I've had nasal polyps for so long now. I'm on this medicine and my congestion and breathing are much better.
- [14:51]
Lisa
Dupixent Dupilumab is an add on prescription maintenance treatment for uncontrolled chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps in adults and children 12 years and up. It can help shrink your nasal polyps so you can breathe better with less congestion.
- [15:03]
Emma
I'm pretty jazzed about it. Plus I don't want another surgery, and now I might not need one.
- [15:08]
Lisa
So what can I get you?
- [15:09]
Emma
Oh, medium coffee, please.
- [15:11]
Lisa
Severe allergic reactions can occur. Get help right away for face, mouth, tongue or throat swelling, wheezing or trouble breathing. Tell your doctor right away of signs of inflamed blood vessels like rash, chest pain, worsening shortness of breath, tingling or numbness in limbs. Tell your doctor of new or worsening eye problems like eye pain or vision changes, joint aches and pain, or a parasitic infection or asthma. Don't change or stop steroid asthma or other treatments without talking to your doctor.
- [15:33]
Emma
Do more with less nasal polyps. Ask your doctor about Dupixent.
- [15:36]
Lisa
Learn more@dupixent.com or call 1-844-dupixent I won't let my moderate to severe plaque psoriasis symptoms define me.
- [15:44]
Gabriel
Emerge as you in two clinical studies, Trimphia guselcomab, taken by injection provided 90% clear skin at 16 weeks in 7 out of 10 adults with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. In a study, nearly 7 out of 10 patients with 90% clearer skin at 16 weeks were still clearer at 5 years. At 1 year and thereafter, patients and healthcare providers knew that trimphia was being used. This may have increased results. Results may vary.
- [16:07]
Brandon
Serious allergic reactions may occur. Trimphia may increase your risk of infections and lower your ability to fight them. Before treatment, your doctor should check you for infections and tuberculosis. Tell your doctor if you have an infection or symptoms of infection, including fever, sweats, chills, muscle aches or coughs. Tell your doctor if you had a.
- [16:24]
Gabriel
Vaccine or plan to emerge as you learn more about Tremfya, including important safety information, at tremfya.com or call 1-877-578-3527. See our ad in Food and Wine magazine for patients prescribed Tremfya. Cost support may be available.
- [16:42]
Brandon
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- [16:55]
Lynn Washington
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- [17:04]
Zoe Ferrigno
Emma's parents are just in the next room, but she never screams or runs to them.
- [17:10]
Narrator
I didn't know whether or not to tell my parents because I didn't know that if they would believe me or not or if they would be thinking that I'm making this up because I want to go back to her old house. It was about a couple of weeks later. I'm lying in my bed and I could hear the footsteps coming up the back staircase. I instantly pull the covers over my head. I'm lying there hoping that this would be another night where she'll just pass through the room. And I try and fall asleep. I could feel like an almost weight sat beside me. And I could feel her presence right close to me. I pull the coppers back and I can see her sitting at the bottom of my bed. She was facing me. And I could see her look at me with a featureless face. Just her head just turned to me. I was under the covers again. I could still feel her beside me. And I could hear a very, very faint light, kind of humming. It was just enough to make out. And I feel that she's trying to comfort me. But I don't feel any comfort. I'm so scared. It lasts for a few seconds and then it's silence. And all I can hear is my breath.
- [19:09]
Zoe Ferrigno
At this point, Emma decides that she has to talk to her mom.
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Narrator
I'm afraid that she's not going to believe me. I tell her, and she kind of pauses for a second. And she tells me that she has seen her too, and so has my dad. They would see her standing at the bottom of the bed. And then my mom would often see her too, beside my dad. And my dad mightn't have been able to see her. The time my mom was able to see her, it was one, I think, night. He put his hammer to the side of the bed and he says, where is she at? And mom says that she's seen his hand go straight through her. My mom's telling me that it's okay, that it's not going to hurt you. That it's just something that's in the house that we just can't explain right now.
- [20:07]
Zoe Ferrigno
Emma's mom, Lisa, starts researching the house and she discovers something tragic. About 200 years earlier, a group of men came to assassinate a minister who was staying at Sharon Rectory. The men surrounded the house and shot at the windows. A stray bullet hit the lady of the house, Sarah Waller, in her shoulder. She died later that night.
- [20:31]
Narrator
Whenever my mom found out about her passing in the house from then on, we just started to call her Mrs. Waller. I think it's respectful just to call her by her name rather than the Blue Lady. Over time, she's kind of making her presence known more. We could hear the piano up in the living room start to play itself. It sounds like playing ballroom music. The doors would bang. There's furniture being moved. There was a trunk at the bottom of my parents bed and it had like a lock at the bottom of it. Maybe 6:30 in the morning it would have banged and banged until they got up. I suppose in her time that maybe that's the time that people woke up and she was expecting it from us too. My mum would have always bought like second hand furniture from car boot sales or from charity shops and she picked up three pictures of. It was like Greek mythology. This one particular picture I didn't like because it was like these ladies were sacrificing another lady to a tiger. My sister, Dad, I didn't want that one up on the wall. And he was like, we're just going to have to put them up pieces because we're not going to be able to listen to your mum if we don't get them up. We were sitting down in the kitchen that evening having dinner and there was an almighty bang through the house. My dad ran up to the hall because he thought that somebody came through the door. It was so loud and there the picture was that I didn't like. It was sitting in the middle of the hall. My dad puts it back up on the wall again and we go back and we finish eating our dinner. That night I'm lying in bed and my mum and dad go to bed and just a few hours in we could hear this bang again. I could hear my dad getting up in the room next door and I could hear him walking down the front staircase. And a few minutes later he comes back and he gets into bed. So the next morning I'm saying to my mum, you know, I heard a bang last night, Mum, what was that that happened? And she tells me that the picture that fell the day before fell again through the night. It continues to happen. My parents eventually take the picture off the wall because it falls in the most unusual way. It falls not straight down on the wall, it falls to the middle of the floor and the nail still remains in the wall. It's like it's been thrown.
- [23:28]
Zoe Ferrigno
Emma's parents ask their local priest to come over and bless each room of the house, but it doesn't really seem to do anything.
- [23:35]
Narrator
This was going to take a lot more than just a priest coming and saying a few prayers and throwing holy water around each room. One of my mum's friends knew a lady called Kate Houston. Kate Huston is a psychic medium and she says that she would get in touch with Kate Houston to maybe come in and talk to my parents about, you know, their experiences.
- [24:01]
Zoe Ferrigno
As soon as Kate Walks in the front door. She says she can feel a presence. Per her request, Emma's parents haven't told her anything about the history of the house.
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Narrator
She did say that there was a lady that was there that was with us at the time, and she was picking up the name Sarah. So that's what made us think, okay, she knows what she's talking about. She seems genuine.
- [24:23]
Zoe Ferrigno
At the end of her visit, Kate tells the family that she thinks they need to do a seance.
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Narrator
So the night has come. They've prepared the kitchen all in candles. There's a lot of hustle bustle going around of just preparation. My grandmother and my mum's brother, my uncle Raymond, are joining us on the night. I'm still trying to understand what's going on, of why they need to do this. I can't help but think, is this going to work? As they're sitting around the table, Kate's calling forth any spirits that surround the house if they want to make themselves known. And as they're sitting in quietness, my grandmother says, I can hear what sounds like a gunshot. Suddenly, Kate seems to be in pain. She's gripping her shoulder. My mum is overcome with emotion. She bursts into tears. Kate. Even though she was in pain, she was still telling them to continue on, to try and focus. Kate tells my dad, you need to pray and you need to keep praying. Don't stop. No matter what else happens, you have to keep praying. He's praying. My mom and Kate, my grandmother and my uncle are still conducting the seance. I can see the door opening on one end of the kitchen and closing again. And then a second gush of wind goes through the room and the other door opens and closes again, really, really slowly. Mrs. Waller comes in. She, like, floats in. There's more detail than ever before. Her hair is in ringlets. The details in her dress are exquisite. They're little bows on the dress and fine stitching. She finally has a face. She's a really young complexion. She's beautiful. And she stands in the middle of the table. We could see her form in a blue teardrop shape. And all of a sudden, she was gone. It had to be you. Dang.
- [26:56]
Emma
You're not supposed to sound that good at karaoke.
- [26:58]
Gabriel
You've just only heard me sing all stuffed up with nasal polyps. But now I'm on this medicine and breathing better. So this is me with less congestion.
- [27:05]
Lisa
Dupixent. Dupilumab is an add on prescription maintenance treatment for uncontrolled chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps in adults and children 12 years and up. It can help shrink your nasal polyps so you can breathe better with less congestion. Plus, it's an alternative to surgery.
- [27:19]
Narrator
Oh, this is your song. Wish I was singing.
- [27:22]
Lisa
After congested you, severe allergic reactions can occur. Get help right away for face, mouth, tongue or throat swelling, wheezing or trouble breathing. Tell your doctor right away of signs of inflamed blood vessels like rash, chest pain, worsening shortness of breath, tingling or numbness in limbs. Tell your doctor of new or worsening eye problems like eye pain or vision changes, joint aches and pain, or a parasitic infection or asthma. Don't change or stop steroid asthma or other treatments without talking to your doctor.
- [27:45]
Gabriel
Do more with less nasal polyps. Ask your doctor about Dupixent.
- [27:48]
Lisa
Learn more at dupixent.com or call 1-844-dupixent. I won't let my moderate to severe plaque psoriasis symptoms define me.
- [27:56]
Gabriel
Emerge as you in two clinical studies, Trimphia guselcomab, taken by injection provided 90% clearer skin at 16 weeks in 7 out of 10 adults with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. In a study, nearly 7 out of 10 patients with 90% clearer skin at 16 weeks were still clearer at 5 years. At 1 year and thereafter, patients and healthcare providers knew that Tremfia was being used. This may have increased results. Results may vary.
- [28:19]
Brandon
Serious allergic reactions may occur. Trimphia may increase your risk of infections and lower your ability to fight them. Before treatment, your doctor should check you for infections and tuberculosis. Tell your doctor if you have an infection or symptoms of infection, including fever, sweats, chills, muscle aches or cough. Tell your doctor if you had a.
- [28:37]
Gabriel
Vaccine or plan to emerge as you. Learn more about Tremfya, including important safety information, at tremfya.com or call 1-877-578-3527. See our ad in Food and Wine magazine for patients prescribed tremia. Cost support may be available.
- [29:00]
Narrator
They finished up after the seance and they talk about what exactly had happened. The gunshot going off to Kate feeling the pain, to mom feeling the emotion. It was like that was her final moments that Mrs. Waller was trying to get across. After that night of the seance, I didn't hear the footsteps. I didn't see the lady come through the room at night. I thought, I wonder, was this finished? Was it gone?
- [29:30]
Zoe Ferrigno
Time goes by and the family believes the seance has worked. Emma's parents continue to renovate Sharon Rectory. When they finish working on the main house, they start fixing up the coachman's residence and a little cottage house on the property. As Emma gets older and becomes a teenager, she starts spending more and more time on her own.
- [29:54]
Narrator
I would feel a real kind of negative feeling in the house. There was like weird smells that would have just came out of nowhere. It's like rotten eggs, sulfur smell. That's what it smells like. I felt that maybe Mrs. Waller was more of a protector and that she kept whatever this, that I was feeling at bay. And because she was no longer stuck here, it seemed to kind of become more active. One evening I get on my bike and I'm cycling down the back lane and there's a man that's walking up the lane. He's wearing a long black coat and a hat. And I stop my bike and I'm watching him come closer to me. His face is like. It's that pale, it's almost a grayish color. He doesn't have a smile on his face. He doesn't look to be like a happy man. I shout over and I ask him, are you looking for my mum and dad? But he doesn't reply. He turns really slowly and walks back down the lane again. And he vanishes. It was crazy. It's just in a split second he's gone.
- [31:19]
Zoe Ferrigno
By the time Emma is getting ready to start college, she wants her own space. Her parents have finished fixing up the Coachman's residence and Emma moves in.
- [31:30]
Narrator
The Coachman's residence is just a flat that's on the other side of the house. My first night in the coachman's, I just tossed and turned. I couldn't settle the whole night. I stay awake. The next night I'm lying in bed and I feel like that it's just too dark. So I get up and I turned on the bathroom light. And the bathroom light shines through the bedroom so I feel a bit more comfortable drifting off to sleep. And I hear a bang in the room. A bang that's very loud. It makes me jump. I get up and I look around and I can't see anything that's out of place. I'm freaked out, but I think this is where I'm going to be staying for the future. So I need to stick it out. So I continue to keep the light on at night. I feel like that I need to see each corner of the room just in case there is something. I would rather see it. The next night I'm lying there and drifting off to sleep and something. It's like Something just wakes me up. All of a sudden I just wake. And I can see this tall dark shadow at the bottom of my bed. Standing just looking at me. I couldn't move for fear. I just was froze to the bed. I didn't know what to do. The shadow disappears. I roll over in the bed and just praying to God that I can get some sleep. But I'm so scared. It was the worst fear. It wasn't like when I seen the Blue Lady. This was scarier. It was darker. I felt like this intended harm, this intended to be scary. It wanted to scare me. This oppressive feeling just seems to come over me. Whenever I left the house. I felt completely fine. Whenever I was in the house, I felt really tired, drained. Just physically, it's like everything is just pulled from my body. One morning I'm getting dressed and I notice marks on my legs. I just kind of brush it off as maybe I scratch myself when I was sleeping. But it seemed to be the case where every morning I'm waking up, I am covered in marks, scratches on my legs and my back. I was getting ready for bed one night and brushing my hair and brushing my teeth. And I look in the mirror, and just directly behind me, I seen a face come through the wall. That was transparent, but you could make out like the shape of eyes and a nose and a mouth. And it was there for a split second and it vanished. It like it went back into the wall again. I froze to the spot.
- [34:50]
Zoe Ferrigno
Spot.
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Narrator
I could feel my heart beating. I could really hear it in my head, the beating of my heart. I stood there looking in the mirror, scared to turn around in case it was going to be something standing there. Maybe it was this dark man that I had seen before. So when I turned, I didn't see anything.
- [35:16]
Zoe Ferrigno
Emma runs and gets into bed. And she pulls the covers over her head just like she used to when she was a kid. But she can't fall asleep.
- [35:25]
Narrator
I feel that there's eyes that's within the walls that's watching me. I feel really paranoid. It's starting to really get to me.
- [35:36]
Zoe Ferrigno
Emma looks forward to the weekends when she can take a break from her college classes and spend time away from Sharon Rectory.
- [35:45]
Narrator
So one night I go out and I meet a guy called Gabriel. We had an instant connection. We continued to see each other. It was love. He spends most nights with me, which is comforting because I feel that whenever I'm with him that I. I'm safe. I think it was the comfort of knowing somebody else was there and that I Wasn't going to be on my own whenever I seen something. We're dating probably about a year, and I found out I'm pregnant.
- [36:24]
Zoe Ferrigno
Emma and Gabriel have a son, Noah. After he's born, they decide it's time for them to get their own place. They move into a little house about 10 minutes away from Sharon Rectory.
- [36:38]
Narrator
So as we move into the new house, I start to feel a lot better. My mind feels clearer, I have more energy, and I feel like there's some sort of normality coming into my life.
- [36:52]
Zoe Ferrigno
Then one evening, Emma gets a phone call from her mom.
- [36:58]
Narrator
She tells me that the house is on fire. So I drop the phone and get into the car and I drive straight down the road to the house. Just as I'm pulling up to the front of the house, I see these large flames coming up just out of the roof of the main part of the house. The fire brigade are just approaching. At this stage, my mum is in complete tears. She's just seeing her hole life, everything just going up in flames in this house. She is so upset. My dad, he can't sit back and watch. He actually pulls the hoses off the firemen and runs into the front door of the house and tries to put out as much as he can himself. And he has no safety equipment, no nothing. And the firemen, eventually they pull him back out again. The paramedics are saying to him that he needs to go to hospital. So myself and my mum are left with the firemen trying to get this fire under control. The firefighters realize that they don't have enough water to put out the whole fire because they didn't realize how big the fire was in the house.
- [38:14]
Zoe Ferrigno
There's a well behind the house, and the firefighters start scrambling to hook up their houses.
- [38:19]
Narrator
And the generator doesn't work at this stage. You can really see the flames starting inside the house. It was really upsetting because my whole childhood, all my memories, I felt like it was just being ripped away. Finally, the firemen get the pump working. Smoke just is starting to go down. Fire starting to go down. Thankfully, it's only kind of staying in one part of the house. The fire chief approaches myself and my mum and asks were we in the main building at any time during the fire? And we both looked at each other and we said, no, no, I wasn't in the house. And mom says she wasn't in the house. And the fireman, he kind of was a wee bit shocked. He said that he had seen a woman standing between the reception hallway and the main staircase. A couple of the men were shouting into the house, you know, to get out and get away from the fire. But she still stands there. It's like she doesn't hear them. A couple of were going to try and attempt to go in to try and get this lady out, but it was like she just vanished. She was gone. And when we look at each other, we say, I wonder, was that her? And he instantly just turns and says, I don't want to know. He says, I'm just freaked. This is completely the strangest thing that's ever happened. I think that Mrs. Waller seen what was happening to her home. Maybe she was trying to stop it from going any further. After that night of the seance, I think that Mrs. Waller was at peace, but she never really, really left.
- [40:24]
Zoe Ferrigno
Since the fire, Emma's parents have been working to repair the house. Emma and Gabriel have had another son, Jonah, and eventually they move back to the coachman's residence at Sharon Rectory.
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Narrator
One big question everybody asks is, why would you stay in the house? And I say that it's because it's our home. I love this house. My kids love this house. I want to reside here, happy with my family, my two kids. We've never told them the house is haunted. I'm trying to kind of protect them from it for as long as I can.
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Zoe Ferrigno
But Emma's not sure how much longer she'll be able to.
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Narrator
One evening, we're driving down the back lane, and suddenly Noah starts shouting. And he says, mom, you drove over a man. And I says, noah, I didn't see a man. And he says, he was standing in the middle of the laneway. And I says, well, what did the man look like? He said, he's got a black coat and a black hat.
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Lynn Washington
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Emma, for sharing your story with the Spoot. And if you want to hear more about our family's haunted castle, she's written a book. It's called the Haunting of Sharon Rectory. And find out more information on the Spooked Luminary page. The original score was by Renzo Gorio. The story was produced by Zoe Ferrigno. Oh, I know. It's that time. I know. I understand. But it is never over. And if you have a story, not a ghost story, but a story about a monster or a creature, an alien, a jinn, a changeling, maybe a story about someone who is exhibiting powers not of this world. If you have a story like that, we'd love to hear it. Spooked@snapjudgment. Dot org. There is nothing better than a spooked story from a spooked listener. And if you like your storytelling in the bright light of day, subscribe to the amazing Snap Judgment podcast because it might just change your life. Spooks is brought to you by the team that knows better than to go traipsing through some dark castle because they weren't born yesterday. Except for possibly Mr. Mark Ristic, Anna Sussman. Our chief spookster is Eliza Smith, Chris Hambrick, Ain Wynn, Lauren Newsom, Leon Morimoto, Renzel Gorio, Tail Dakot, Marissa Dodge, Aaliyah Yates, Zoe Ferrigno, Greta Weber, Jacob Winnick, Sana Khan, Tiffany Galiza, Ann Ford, Fernando Hernandez and Flo Wiley. The spook theme song is by Pat Mesini Miller. My name is Lynn Washington and in those dark dang drafted castles you never know which way the chill will blow with dire consequences. So I advise you to carry not one candle, no carry two. All the better to never ever, never ever, never ever, never turn out the lights.
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Lisa
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Gabriel
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Brandon
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Gabriel
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