The family you are about to hear about will likely never complain that there's nothing interesting to watch on TV anymore.
At 11PM, Dave, his wife Lisa and their 14 year old son, Ben planned to watch a Seinfeld rerun. The family had trouble sleeping lately since Ben's 20 year old cousin had committed suicide a few days earlier. Little did they know the events of that evening would change their lives forever.
About 10 minutes into the program, the TV started to change channels on its own. Lisa suggested that it might be her nephews spirit trying to communicate. At that point, it stopped. Dave asked "If you are a spirit go to channel 24". After going to 24 the TV raced from channel 72 to zero over and over again. Then they put a bible next to the TV and prayed for the spirit to go away. But before the first prayer was over the bible was thrown to the floor. They went to sleep and hoped maybe tomorrow it would stop.
Again, everything was fine until 11PM. The channels were racing from 72 to zero. Ben had an idea. He said "Lets say that channel 1 is A, Channel 2 is B and channel 26 is Z. The cable box immediately switched to channels 25, 5 then 19 which spelled Yes. Using this code they talked with the TV for the next 2 hours. They discovered that they were supposedly talking to a spirit whose name was Joe Dana, a man who was murdered in their same 1st floor apartment 10 years earlier. Joe also added that he was rolled up in a carpet and buried under a porch down the street. When they asked Joe how they could help him, Joe requested that he have a Christian burial since his body was never found and murderer never caught. He even gave Dave his social security number and Dave recorded all this information and intended to call the police and check out his story.An officer arrived the next morning and inquired how Dave had gotten this information. When he told him the story about the cable box, understandably, the cop looked at him like he was nuts. But when Dave asked him a series of questions including his birthday and even is home phone number, the TV answered all of them correctly. The events that the officer witnessed were included in this police report. An investigation turned up that no one named Joe Dana ever lived in their house or was ever reported missing. And the social security number he gave never existed. Now, the family had a new question. Who or what have they been talking to for the past week?
By the time we were called to help, the entity didn't use the TV to communicate anymore. All the members of the family reported hearing low, guttural voices in a language they didn't understand. They also reported seeing black shapes moving from room to room. After our investigation, we all agreed we would have to come back the next day and give their home an exorcism. We were not dealing with a human spirit, but with the demonic.
When we arrived the next evening, Dave informed us that the TV had communicated again. Right before we came, the cable box kept blinking, 66, 66, then it gave one last message "Look out tonight". While we were setting up our equipment we noticed black swirling masses in the son's bedroom. As we were trying to capture these on videotape, Ben ran in crying, holding his shirt up, showing us a round burn mark on his stomach. He said that a 3 foot tall creature charged at him, and then disappeared after hitting him.
We agreed to all stay together. Dave had the bible on audiotape and asked if he could play it when we started the exorcism. I said "Sure" and then he asked which tape to play. I looked at the set of 10, and just said to start with the first one. As he put it into the stereo and pressed play, it began playing backwards. We then tried every other tape in the set and they all worked fine. We proceeded with the exorcism and before we left, questioned the family one more time if they ever showed any interest in the occult. Then, Ben finally admitted participating in a satanic ritual that involved a sacrifice of a goat about a year earlier. This may have been the cause of the activity in their home, but we will never know, since the family abruptly left the house the next day. We never heard from them again and I had the tape that played backwards tested. There is nothing wrong with it but last time I checked, it still plays backwards.
