Ron and Nancy are convinced that their new home is too good to be true: The historic Baltimore house is ideally suited to their budget and accommodating to their large family. Only the seller has doubts that they will be happy here. As they plan their future, he casually says, "I hope you're good fighters." At first, their fight is with the house itself. The electricity is unreliable. Faucets turn on and off for no reason. Objects move by themselves when no one is looking. The family tries to rationalize these strange occurrences, but Nancy perceives a more serious threat. An old woman, in historic clothing, appears to her in a dream… and laughs as the family tries to escape their burning home. As the haunting grows more intense, the family learns that their house is a way-station between life and death… and they begin to ponder the stories they've heard about the previous owner, who nailed all of the windows shut. Was she trying to keep something out? Or was something trying to keep her in?
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In 1965, Ron and Nancy Stallings move into a spacious, older Baltimore house with their large brood. They think nothing of all the windows having been nailed shut, or that the seller says, "I hope you're good fighters." They are simply happy to have a home at an unusually low price. They soon understand the seller's fighting comment as the lights and faucets turn themselves on and off and objects move themselves around. Nancy becomes genuinely alarmed following a dream featuring an elderly woman who cackles with delight as her family tries to escape the burning house. Only with the help of a trans-medium and Nancy's brother doing some research on the house's past did the family learn the truth of the old woman's past life as a slave owner and the previous owners before them had one or more family members die. Learning this, the family moves out of the house and never comes back.