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| Jeanette with a picture of her husband, Lt. Meyran |
On the first night of viewing the cameras from her laptop,
Jeanette noticed that there was a mystery man standing in the middle of the
lot. But then the man disappeared. Jeanette had no clue what she was looking
at. Meanwhile, Angela was feeling restless one night in her new room. She began
to hear knocking on the walls. “I remember hearing these sounds….they were
coming from inside the walls, like thumps of knocking,” Angela recalls. Danine
also heard it too and woke up. “Second time I heard it (the knock) was ‘notice
me, notice me!’”. The girls continued to hear the knocking inside the walls.
Little Danine hid under her covers. “I’d make a little fortress. It didn’t feel
safe but it felt good enough to sleep, wake up and it wouldn’t be there,” she
said. Angela asked her mom if she was walking around the house and made noise.
Jeanette didn’t hear anything but convinced the girls it was just the new
house. Jeanette walked around the house to check the heating, the plumbing and
to learn “the sounds of the house”. She concluded she just needed to reassure
them and not be afraid.
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| Just a glitch? |
Tony remembered working down on the basement and mentioned
that it was a “unique basement with a lot of debris”. During this time, Angela
and Danine were outside playing in their new big backyard. “To me, it was like
a playground, my heaven!” Danine remembers. “I thought it was really cool we
had a backyard back there with all these trees and symbols…we found bones in
the backyard!” Angela remembers. The kids spent time playing in the backyard
and making maps for their toys, using the marks on the trees as a guide.
Meanwhile, in the basement, something caught Tony’s attention and he called
Jeanette down. It was an upside-down star in a circle, a symbol for devil
worship. Jeanette didn’t want the girls to see it and told Tony and the men to
cover it up. The girls didn’t tell their mother about the symbolism in the
woods because they didn’t think she would care.
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| Foul play? |
Angela was left alone in the house and her mom gave her a
list of chores. Angela then felt that she wasn’t really alone. When she went to
clean the fridge, Angela would look back behind her a few times. All the
sudden, all the drawers and shelves burst open and silverware was strewed
everywhere on the counter. Angela screamed and ran to her room. When Jeanette
came home and saw the mess in the kitchen, she assumed Angela threw a huge
tantrum. But when Jeanette saw how terrified she looked, Jeanette then knew
that they weren’t alone in the house. Tony and the crew were still working on
the basement but were uneasy. One of the men discovered a hole in the wall and
found pieces of paper bound together and showed Jeanette. There was writing and
drawings. “I saw 1927. The pages seemed to be written by a young girl who was
the daughter of someone in this house. Her name was Christina,” she explained.
“It was an incredibly dark story….how her father did sacrifices and how she
would ‘bleed like they would bleed’”. Jeanette concluded that these were some
sick individuals but they were now gone and it was her house. The firefighters
finished up their work and left.
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| Ransacked kitchen |
One day, Jeanette was vacuuming when she heard what she
thought was the oil burner backfiring. Jeanette heard the pressure and the thumps
coming from the basement. She went in the basement to investigate but as she
went down the basement with a flashlight, she felt an incredible sense of evil.
She became so frightened that she ran out of the basement. She knew that it was
then paranormal.
During a more frightening occurrence when Danine was taking a
shower, Angela was in her room when she began to hear voices, like chanting. “I
was trying really, really hard to listen…two people talking, almost secretive.”
Angela walked down the hallway but didn’t see anything. Meanwhile, Danine heard
the bathroom door open and thought it was her mom. But even Danine feels like
she is being watched. Angela goes back in her room but still hears the voices
and even heard Danine’s name. She listened more closely. With tears in her
eyes, Angela remembers hearing what the voices wanted: “They started using my
sister’s name. I heard them telling me that…..” but Angela is too shaken up to
continue talking about it. Danine then sees a demonic shadow through the door.
Danine screams and Angela rushes to the door, terrified that she wouldn’t be
able to protect her sister. “He wanted to hurt me,” Danine remembers. As Danine
curled up in a corner and screamed for her mom, Jeanette and Angela frantically
tried opening the door but it was locked. Jeanette finally opened the door and
the women rushed to Danine’s aid. Danine was very shaken up by the “man” that
wanted to go after her. Once the three women left the bathroom, all the doors
in the room slammed shut. “You can hear this chanting,” Jeanette said. “Sounded
like a group of people performing a ritual.” The girls frantically rushed to
Jeanette’s room and locked the door, the chanting still going on. Jeanette told
the girls to just call their daddy. The girls called for their dad. “I needed
him to be there and if he was just there, everything would be fine,” Danine
said. “How do you protect your children and fight what you can’t see?” Jeanette
said.
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| Not your average joe.... |
Jeanette called on Tony to confide in him and to show him
the star, the journal and all that went on. Tony went down to the basement but
Jeanette refused to go down. “I go down to see what’s down there, she was
frightened by the basement. There were few things I fear, besides my father and
the dentist!” Tony recalls. “But I remember this pressure, like I had to get
out of there. As Tony investigated the basement, he noticed a door and that it
was continuing to rattle. But when Tony opened the door, he saw nothing. However…the
door slammed shut behind him. That was enough to scare a hardened Tony. The
girls then begin to stand guard at the bathroom when one of them took a shower.
Jeanette was so conflicted on what to do. She poured so much time, money and
energy to build a new safe haven for her and the girls. So Jeanette called a priest.
The priest came in, said a prayer and gave holy water to Jeanette.
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| A resentful cult ready to attack Angela |
Nightfall came and Jeanette filled up a bottle with the
gallons of holy water she was given. But Angela wanted out of the house so she
went outside the backyard and went on the swing. “It took me away from the
house.” Jeanette noticed Angela became more reclusive. Jeanette watched her
from the backyard cameras. All the sudden, as Jeanette was watching Angela swinging
at a steady pace, a group of cloaked figures appeared behind Angela….Angela
felt a really heavy push and flew out of the swing, landing hard with a crunch
on the ground. Angela screamed for her mom. Jeanette rushed out and Angela kept
crying “we have to leave, they keep hurting us!” A furious Angela sprayed holy
water all over, cursing the figures that attacked her daughter. “The war was
about to begin!” The attack left Angela with a severely broken ankle.
Jeanette ran errands during the day and left Angela by
herself, assuming she would be safe during the day. Angela was okay during the
day but she felt more uneasy at night. Angela was reading a book in her room
and something knocked on her closet door. The door began to shake softly at
first but then it almost was like “someone was in my closet, trying to get out.
It was a trainwreck…I couldn’t look away…I saw a black figure that stepped out
of my closet…I couldn’t run…..make it to the door….” Angela immediately hid
under her bed and saw the figure slowly move. Angela said it smelled like “death”.
Angela got the house phone and desperately cried to her mom to come home. Jeanette
took off in a flash and rushed home to get home to her daughter, even though
she was fourty minutes away. Jeanette told Angela to pray. “I felt like he was
going to hurt me,” Angela remembers..
There was a monster-like growl before the phone went dead.
Jeanette rushed home and saw nothing. She kept calling for
Angela. Jeanette was desperate to hear her. “I just pictured her ripped apart
by this creature,” she remembers. But then Jeanette heard a weeping from under
the bed. Jeanette pulled out Angela from the bed because Angela was so weak and
begged her mom to make it go away. The priest and holy water were not cutting
it. The family had enough tragedy in their lives. So Jeanette took the girls to
their grandma’s and Jeanette went through the phonebook and called up Liz
Milano, a paranormal investigator. It was around 3-4am in the morning. Liz
spoke to Jeanette for about an hour and was more than willing to help the
shaken family. Liz called up a psychic medium, Dawn Joly, to help assist her
and the ladies were going to do a cleansing and blessing on the home. To two
women drove up to the house and Dawn immediately sensed an ill-presence. “It
was like a dark cloud over the house,” she remembers entering the house. Dawn
sensed the satanic cult coming from the
basement and explained how the demolition in the basement disturbed the energy
in that room and that the cult released a demon in retaliation.
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| A cleanse and blessing to rid the demon |
Liz and Dawn then gathered big boxes of salt and poured it
all around the house outside to serve as a “psychic force field”. Dawn then
began burning the sage. The three of them went down in the basement, Dawn
leading them with the sage and a crucifix. The basement was the epicenter of
the activity. The three women recall that it was very intense and frightening
with each step they took. Dawn heard chanting and screaming and it was a
constant battle. The door then began rattling violently. Dawn opened the door
and a fiery demon appeared and burst into flames. But then it stopped and that
was the part of the house where the demon was housed.
The blessing worked and the house was rid of the demon.
Jeanette and the girls still live in the house and they
enjoy living there now. “it was a battle won,” Jeanette concluded. “WE’ve
learned and we’ve grown. It changes you forever.”
No one has seen the demon ever since...
Janes Notes: First off, we all send our condolences to Jeanette, Angela and Danine for their tragic loss. I went to a cop's funeral not too long ago and let me tell you, there is nothing more chilling and heart-wrenching than the community saying "farewell" to one of their heroes. I recently came upon this recent picture of the family at an exhibit full of Lt. Meyran's belongings and honoring his life and legacy. I wish nothing but the best for this beautiful, strong family.
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| Danine, Angela and Jeanette honoring Lt. Meyran. Photo by Marc Fader |
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