"No." "No." "You can't have him." "Can't have my son." "Hey." "We're bored." "Please play with us." "Why don't you ask Matt?" "Yeah, why don't you ask Matt?" "You okay?" "I'm outstanding." "Okay, come on, guys." "I'll count to 30 and let's see if we can find some new hiding places this time." "Matt." "Go on." "One, two, three, four, five." "There's room for me too." "Find your own spot." "Twenty-nine, 30." "Ready or not, here I come." "Let me out of here!" "Help!" "Get me out of here!" "Get me out!" "Get me out of here!" "What happened?" "What?" "Come here." "What?" "What is it?" "What?" "Okay." "Mary?" "l'm over here." "Oh, my God." "Are you okay?" "Wait." "Be careful." "Hey, the floor must be rotten." "Rotten?" "Where?" "Well, here for sure where Mary's leg fell through." "Just stand back, okay?" "Hey." "You're okay." "Bugs." "Okay." "Come here." "You okay?" "Yeah?" "What is that?" "Oh, God." "Oh, my." "What is it?" "Okay." "Come on." "Playtime's over." "God, they're all dead." "So sad. lt's probably the only time they ever had their photo taken." "What are those?" "I don't know." "You all right?" "Yeah." "These are really weird." "It has to be fake." "Let me see those." "What?" "Nothing." "Matt, come on." "Just give me a chance." "l've seen him." "Shut up." "Gave you a chance." "I'm sorry, okay?" "Just...." "Go on." "Please?" "I thought that I was hallucinating, but I have seen this kid almost every day since we've been here." "Okay, I wake up in the middle of the night and it feels like he's been inside me looking out through my eyes." "One bright day In the middle of the night" "Two dead boys got up to fight" "Okay, me and him, we're just two dead boys." "Maybe the place is haunted." "Either way, I mean, we need to find out who put these things under the floorboards and why." "Yeah, but how?" "Okay, well, don't tell anyone, but there are these buildings all over the country where secret knowledge is kept, known only as libraries." "Okay, so check it out:" ""A Case of Materialization. "" "That is Ramsey Aickman, and this was his mortuary." "Now, he had a very interesting hobby:" "psychical research." "And your guy, dead kid, his name was Jonah and he was Aickman's assistant and a medium." "Supposedly, they contacted the dead through Jonah and people came to have chats with their dead hubby or wife or find out where Auntie Mame hid the family jewels." "Now, he claims that he discovered how to amplify the seances." "So he not only contacted the dead, but he made things appear." "What things?" "Ectoplasm." "And what is ectoplasm?" "A mysterious protoplasmic substance streaming out of the body of mediums." "So it's just like in those pictures in the box." "Photographs of ectoplasm often show a gelatinous material oozing from all the natural orifices of the medium." "From mouth, ears, nose, eyes and even the lower orifices." "So Aickman held all those seances in this house and people came from all over and were convinced." "Harvard professors, all kinds of big shots." "I mean, Aickman and Jonah's seances were famous." "Well, do we know what happened to him?" "Well, here's where it gets a little weirder." "So there was a seance led by Aickman with Jonah as the medium." "All four sitters and Aickman were found dead." "Cause of death not clear." "So Jonah killed them." "Nobody knows." "No sign of him." "He was missing, vanished, never seen again." "Well, until now." "Well, here's the weirdest part of all." "Okay, so 30 years later when they expanded the highway they did the detour through the cemetery" "Wait, we've been on that road a million times." "This is the thing:" "When they tried to relocate some of the old plots they found something weird, or didn't find." "What?" "Over a hundred bodies that were supposed to be there weren't, just empty coffins filled with sandbags." "Someone stole the bodies." "Aickman." "Or Jonah." "Aickman or Jonah." "Maybe, but why?" "I don't know, but I might know somebody who does." "Remarkable." "Do you think it's real?" "Well, I've seen plenty of fakes, but I've seen the real thing once." "Paris. lt.... lt was the most horrible thing I've ever seen, but not this." "Must've been a very powerful medium." "What are they?" "Eyelids." "Human eyelids." "Well, what are they for?" "Necromancy." "Corpse-bothering." "It's a loathsome form of magic." "It's seeking power through control of the dead via relics of their bodies." "Well, why eyelids?" "That's a good question." "I mean, traditionally we'd close the eyes of the dead so they may rest in darkness." "Now, removing their eyelids keeps their eyes open, makes them see." "Perhaps he intended them to be watchmen or guardians of this house or of his secrets." "By the way, I mean, somewhere there are the bodies that belong to these people, and he used them." "I think ultimately, Aickman intended to enhance Jonah's powers." "Well, he amplified his seances." "Somehow he bound the spirits of the dead to their bodies, yes as an amplifier, probably through some form of ritual or desecration." "Perhaps buried outside the house?" "Perhaps it would help if we prayed for all those poor souls that died here." "For the boy too." "Mommy?" "Come back." "Mommy?" "Please, please, help me." "Mommy." "Help me." "Matt." "Matt." "Matt." "Who are you?" "What are you doing in my house?" "Matt?" "l'm a reverend." "It's okay." "We asked him to come." "Asked him?" "We met at the" "Get out of my house." "Get off. lt's fine." "We met at the hospital." "I receive treatment." "Get out." "Well, he called me for advice." "lt's a little hard to explain." "Try." "I believe that there is something evil in this house something no longer living and not yet passed over." "And it wants your son." "That's a dangerous situation for someone who's close to death" "He's not." "And I'm as hopeful as you, but tell me, have you not felt something strange here?" "I don't know what you're talking about." "I appreciate the concern, but this is not the type of help we need right now." "I'd like you to leave." "Of course." "You're not alone." "Peter?" "Matt?" "You're kidding." "Hello!" "Anybody home?" "All the lights are on!" "Why are all the lights on?" "Ridiculous." "Everybody in this house is sleeping with the lights on and I wanna know why!" "He's been drinking." "Why don't we just build a fire and throw money into it?" "It's okay." "I gotta pay a mortgage, I'm now paying rent." "Here's another one." "God." "Every single room has got a light on!" "Here." "Here we go." "Sleep in the dark." "There we go." "Lights out." "There we go." "Yeah." "Peter that was a cruel and childish thing to do." "All you did was scare everybody in this house." "Don't." "Don't." "Don't." "Your family needs your strength, not your self-pity." "You get drunk again, don't come home." "Matt?" "Okay." "I'm so sorry." "I just didn't know who else to call." "It's all right." "Are you sure you're feeling up to this?" "Well, put it this way, I'm...." "l'm exactly the right state of being to traffic with ghosts." "What is that?" "Magnets. lron magnets." "Iron defends from evil." "So it's no accident that prisons have iron bars to not merely contain the body, but the evil that may lurk within it." "What are you looking for?" "Where he died." "Sometimes when death is violent or filled with anger or fear or any strong emotion it's as if the spirit doesn't pass on." "That's why we cover mirrors, light candles, open the shades so that they may find their way out." "So a house with a trapped soul is not so much haunted as it is possessed." "What's down there?" "Matt's bedroom." "It's where they used to...." "Keep the children upstairs." "Yeah." "He's here." "Do you see him, Matt?" "I don't see anything." "That's because you're strong, you're healthy." "You shouldn't see anything." "So this is where you're trapped." "Don't worry." "Whatever you may have done, we're not here to punish you only to free you." "Like a bird caught in a room." "There must be another way." "Perhaps the other side of that wall." "I have to get his remains out of the house." "Stop it!" "It stopped." "Will Matt be all right now?" "Yeah." "The house is quiet and at peace." "But I should warn you that sometimes for a day or so after strange events, much like aftershocks from an earthquake." "But don't be alarmed it will pass, within a day or two at the most." "Okay." "All right." "Thank you." "It's okay." "I wish I could say it was my pleasure, but...." "You gonna be okay to drive?" "We're all in God's hands." "It's only five more sleeps till parents' day." "I can't wait." "I got a lot to show you, Dad." "You'll see how I shoot the bow and arrow and how far I can swim and they're having a father-son race." "It's gonna be great." "I bet you and me, we beat all the others unless you're too old and broke down." "Okay, well, I better go." "Bye, Dad." "All right, whatever was here is gone now." "Now, we've all had some really bad nights." "Stay here." "Oh, my God." "Oh, my" " Oh, my" "Oh, my God." "What have you done to yourself?" "All right, I'm gonna follow them." "When I get back, we're getting out of here." "Sir?" "They'll be after you now." "Get out." "Somebody help me!" "Please!" "Somebody help me!" "Where's Matt?" "He's at the hospital." "The doctors are gonna take care of him, okay?" "Hi." "We're not home right now, so please leave a message." "Thanks." "I made a terrible mistake." "Aickman didn't remove their eyelids to make the dead see but to make them unseen." "So all those missing bodies all those poor souls in torment, they're still there." "They're in the house." "But the boy wasn't evil." "He was trying to free them." "And I removed him." "Now all that's left is their rage." "You must get out now." "Get out now." "I'm sorry." "It's okay." "You're here now." "That's all that matters." "He's sedated and comfortable." "We ran his panels." "I'm afraid it's not good news." "His cell count is worse than before." "The treatment has, frankly, had no effect." "How long do you think he has?" "With these numbers, I don't know what's keeping him alive." "He could go tonight." "There's really no way of saying for sure." "Then can we see him?" "Of course." "To fight." "One bright day In the middle of the night" "Two dead boys got up to fight" "He couldn't have gotten far." "One bright day in the middle" "Hi, this is Dr. Brooks." "Get me security right away, please." "Two dead boys got up to fight" "One bright day In the middle of the night" "Two dead boys got up to fight" "Matt?" "Matt?" "Matt." "Come over." "Come here." "We're gonna play hide-and-seek now, okay?" "Okay, go." "We have to get out of here." "Come on." "What's going on?" "We have to go." "We have to" "Matt." "Matt, no." "Matt, no." "No." "Get out." "Matt." "Get out." "Matt." "No." "Matt." "Get out." "Whatever you do, do not let them put out the fire." "What about you?" "l'm already dead." "Matt, come out." "Matt." "Matt." "We'll find him." "Mom." "Dad." "Where's Matt?" "He's inside." "l don't understand." "l thought you said it was over." "Matt's trying to end it." "l gotta get in." "Ma'am." "No, you gotta let me in there." "I have to get my son." "Fire." "Please let me go." "Please." "To unbind the spirits." "What are we waiting for?" "Come on!" "Matt!" "Oh, my God." "Okay." "All right." "I'm here. I'm here." "The Lord is my shepherd." "I shall not want." "He maketh me to lie down in green pastures." "He leadeth me beside the still waters." "He restoreth my soul." "He leadeth me in the path of righteousness." "He helped my son." "We're here." "We're here." "We're here." "Matt." "Be careful." "Come on, wake up." "Wake up." "He's gonna be okay." "He's gonna be okay." "No." "Hold on." "Wake up." "Come on, Matty." "Come on, Matty, breathe." "I love you." "Wake up, Matt." "I just love you so much." "Come on, Matty, wake up." "Please, come on, honey." "Come on." "You'll be all right." "Hey." "He's okay." "I don't really care if anybody believes me or not." "I know what happened." "Doctors and nurses know and my family knows." "And my son is alive and well." "That's all that matters." "They say that God works in mysterious ways." "They just don't always tell you how mysterious those ways can be." "Consider yourself warned."