Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Lights Out, everybody.
What's up, everybody, and welcome back to Lights Out. I'm your host, Josh. And I'm the producer, Daniel. I have a great episode for you. We had to dig deep into the Warren files, which I thought were over. I thought we had really covered the full gambit of Ed and Lorraine Warren's paranormal files, but... Yeah, here we are. There's always one more. There's always one more. Always one more.
So today we're going to be talking about the Beckwith family haunting. A family that was tormented by what they believe to be a demonic entity amongst other spirits as well. A truly crazy story, but one that, you know, as always may have some alternative theories to it. But let's go ahead and just dive right in. So our story begins in 1998. The Beckwith family began searching for a new home.
Bonnie, who was a nurse, and Sean, who was a repairman, had three children, teenage daughters, Frances and Jennifer, and their nine-year-old son, Jeremy. Bonnie and Sean had wanted something more spacious for everyone, so they decided to start searching for a larger home. The family drove around Connecticut's Naugatuck River Valley area looking for possible suitors.
That's when they found themselves outside of a home on Buckingham Road in the town of Seymour. Seymour is a small area in the southwest part of the state, and locals have described it as charming. and it has a very rich history. It was originally called Shoestown, and was a Native American fishing community as it sits along the Naugatuck River.
The Paugussett Skattakook tribes inhabited the area until the 1600s when settlers took over the land. Then during the 18th and 19th centuries, the area had an industrial boom. And in the late 90s, when this story takes place, about 14,000 people live there and residents describe the town as quaint. The Beckwith family seemed to agree.
One day, while driving around town looking for a new home, they found a house on Buckingham Road. From the outside, the house looked perfect for the family. It had five bedrooms and one bathroom, which fit their needs. Bonnie and Sean called the real estate agent and arranged a tour. As they viewed the home, Jennifer and Jeremy were excited about the idea of moving in.
Frances, however, did not like the house. She told her family it gave her a bad feeling and did not want to stay there. The house had been empty for a while and was listed at a very low price, which Bonnie and Sean thought was a great deal. After the tour, they held a family meeting, and while everyone wanted to move in, Frances said she felt like the home was evil.
While there didn't seem to be anything in the physical realm that caused her to believe this, the feeling was too strong to ignore.
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Chapter 2: What family haunting is explored in this episode?
She asked her family to consider not moving in, but she was outvoted by everyone else, who were very enthusiastic about it. So Bonnie and Sean put in an offer, and before long, the Beckwith family had their new home. Unfortunately, Frances' feelings about the home proved true after the family moved in. At first, the new home felt full of excitement.
Bonnie and Sean saw it as the start of a new chapter and the kids were happy to finally have their own rooms. But that excitement changed to fear the very first night that they were there. Around 11 p.m., Jeremy suddenly woke up from the sound of voices. It was like an orchestra of whispers coming from every direction and just growing louder and louder.
He ran out of his room and woke up his parents in a panic. And Bonnie thought Jeremy was just scared. You know, he's just staying in a new place for the first time. Maybe that's why he was panicked. The house was bigger and more drafty than their last one. So maybe he really was just hearing things and his imagination was just getting the best of him over what it could be.
She calmed him down and then took him back to his room. She then came across his toy flashlight that had different colored lenses, and when Jeremy got back in bed, she gave it to him and told him that if there were any monsters, shining the green light would make them go away. which he seemed to believe.
So with his flashlight in hand, Jeremy fell safer and soon fell asleep as Bonnie went back to her room. A few hours later, Jeremy woke up again, this time to loud banging on his wall. Startled, he grabbed his flashlight to shine the green light around his room, but it didn't make the monster go away. A huge black figure moved through the light and loomed over Jeremy.
He hid under his blanket, but it was yanked away and thrown across the room. The figure had vanished, but he still screamed and ran out of his room in terror. From then on, at around 11pm every night, Jeremy was terrorized by the unseen being in his room.
He'd wake up to the sound of voices or banging, and he would try to use his green flashlight to protect himself, but it was no match for the presence that was there. The family didn't know how to handle what was going on with Jeremy. It was easy for them to assume that maybe this transition to this new place was having a negative effect on him.
But all this seemed like just too much to be explained away by a child's imagination. It soon became clear that he wasn't making anything up when other members of the Beckwith family began to have their own bizarre experiences. A few weeks later, Jennifer started to randomly get a weird feeling. All of a sudden she'd be struck by sudden fear and feel as if someone was staring at her.
The feeling grew stronger as the days went on and she felt like someone was watching her every move, even when she knew no one was around. She especially felt this way when she was in her room. When the family first moved in, Jennifer had loved her room. It was further away from her parents' room and she had proudly made it her own by decorating it just the way that she wanted to.
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Chapter 3: What unusual experiences did Jeremy Beckwith have in their new home?
She said the home was infested with a heavy presence. And while walking through the home, she felt something staring right at her with a sense of malice and murderous intent. Lorraine entered Jennifer's room and felt an intense, powerful presence with a deeply negative aura. She also became consumed by violence and anger.
After assessing the house, the Warrens told the family that an evil entity was haunting it. The Beckwiths wanted to leave, but Ed and Lorraine warned that if they did, there's a very good possibility that this presence will just follow them. So the only way to stop it is to stay and fight. But of course, in order to fight this thing, they need to know what this thing is.
What are they up against? So the Warrens instructed them to start gathering some evidence. The family set up video cameras next to their beds, hoping to capture something in the middle of the night. They also kept photo cameras around the house to try and take pictures of the entity. And while they lived in fear, they tried to move on with their lives.
Thanksgiving was just around the corner, so Bonnie's mom came for a visit. But the holiday joy didn't last very long because right away, Bonnie's mother felt very uneasy in the house. Still, she just focused on spending time and enjoying that time with her daughter and grandkids. That night, when she was finally alone, she couldn't ignore the feeling that something...
wasn't supposed to be there was in the house bonnie's mom went to her room and turned on the tv to try and relax and suddenly the tv turned off she turned it back on and it shut off again right away then three large dark figures appeared on the dark screen when she looked over she saw them standing in the corner and then they vanished right before her eyes she didn't sleep at all that night and left first thing in the morning
She couldn't even stay for Thanksgiving. And as she packed and left, Jennifer noticed that she was still shaking. After she ended up leaving, Jennifer went into the room with a camera and started taking pictures. She noticed how cold it was in there. Said it was about 35 degrees. I mean, you're seeing your breath in those types of temperatures. While the rest of the house was in the 70s.
So imagine walking into a room and it's basically a refrigerator. Seeing your breath. But then you walk out of the room. 70 degrees. Yeah. What a difference. She took her photos and then quickly left the room and when the film was developed a few days later, a large orb showed up in one of the pictures.
After Thanksgiving, the Warrens came back to the house prepared to face this entity that was troubling the Beckwiths. Ed Lorraine brought along two paranormal investigators and a medium named Lee. Expecting things to get intense, Bonnie and Sean sent young Jeremy to stay with a relative.
When they arrived, Lorraine examined the photo Jennifer had taken a few days earlier and assessed that they were dealing with a powerful demon. And at that moment, the medium Lee began to tremble uncontrollably. She grabbed a pen and paper so the spirit could write through her. Basically, automatic writing. She started writing violently, get out, get out, get out. You don't belong here.
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Chapter 4: How did the Warrens become involved in the Beckwith family's haunting?
100%. What, you know, something they think they see. They're not going to try and link it to that. Yeah. Instead of trying to find a more logical explanation. Right. Was that just a kid walking out of the kitchen? No. Exactly. That was a demon on the move. Exactly. So, you know, it's important to remember that expectations often shape perceptions, right? And so keep that in mind as we go forward.
It doesn't mean that the Beckwiths were lying, but in heightened states, if you feel like something demonic is there, the brain becomes incredibly sensitive to the environment and sensitive to what could be just normal environmental stimuli. But it doesn't discount the fact that it can amplify their experience and their levels of fear.
And then there's also the factor of could this also be attributed to psychological stress, the group dynamics of the family. I mean, they had just gone through a big life change. They had just moved into a new home. They're also dealing with financial stress. Moving is very expensive. Setting up a new home is expensive. Sleep deprivation, of course, if you're not sleeping well.
I mean, I think we all know and any... parent out there who's been through the newborn phase knows that if you've never experienced sleep deprivation before, you will experience sleep deprivation. And I can't even tell you how different I am as a human being when I have little sleep. I'm only getting a couple hours a night.
It absolutely changes your mindset, changes the way you're seeing reality in every way, shape, or form. And I'm sure you, Danny, have had sleepless nights or multiple stints of little sleep and just how crazy you get. Oh, yeah.
I mean, your hormones go completely out of whack. Your perception of time warps. You start hearing things. I personally, especially when I get really tired, I get auditory hallucinations, stuff like that. Not to the degree of being a new parent. I know that's a whole different ballgame, but...
it's been proven scientifically that the lack of sleep does have negative effects on the body and can alter your perception of the world around you. Sleep is so important that when it gets affected, it just compounds every other thing going on with you.
So if you're not getting sleep because you're hearing all this crazy paranormal activity going on, you got knocking and things slamming around, flying off shelves, And you're just paranoid all night that you're being tormented by these entities that are inhabiting this new house you live in. So if you compound all that together, it could be pretty stressful, right? I would agree.
And your environment's just continuing... As you aren't sleeping and your environment is not getting better, it can be... I'm sure it can cause anybody to go mad. I mean, you're going to be like, what is going on here? There must be something in this house that is tormenting me. But something to consider again.
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