Season 8

Complete listed story — includes the ending

1. Heartland Horror

In Stockport, Iowa, a sixteen-year-old named Nolan Lydolph has a special gift that he's had since he was six years old: he could see spirits. His mother Jacque also has a gift, but more of a feeling type. His father Dennis has no abilities of the supernatural and has been a skeptic of it all. One day, the family takes a trip over to Branson, Missouri, where they go on a tour through a ghost town led by Wesley and Melissa Fox. After the family returns home, Nolan and his girlfriend Angela see the spirit of a teen boy in his bedroom while they are watching a movie. Nolan insists they shouldn't be worried as it didn't try to harm them. After basketball practice, Nolan believes one of the cats was scratching in the basement where his room is. After his shower, he goes to investigate. He feels the storage room is holding something. One night, the spirit of the young boy scratched him. One morning, Jacque receives scratches on her arm with Dennis present. Dennis realizes there is paranormal activity going on as there is no way to rationalize what happened. The couple reaches out to Wesley and Melissa. Wesley says the haunting is demonic. He gives them instructions on how to stop the haunting. For three months it appears to have worked until one day Nolan sees the spirit of the boy again and it turns into a gargoyle. He keeps it to himself and doesn't tell his parents. Jacque senses the entity is back. Wesley and Melissa come to the house to investigate. Melissa discovers the demon in the tree in the backyard. She believes the demon came from the tour in Branson and followed Nolan due to him being a deacon of light. A second cleaning is done and the demon is believed to be gone again. Over the following weeks, Nolan receives scratches and bruises and his behavior starts to turn negative. Nolan has a recurring dream about being in the storage room and committing suicide. He awakens to the demon telling him to do it. Demonologist and ordained minister Joe Eder comes to perform an exorcism and successfully removes the demon from the house. To this day, Nolan continues to see the spirits of family members and friends who have passed.

2. Mind Control

In March 2012, Amanda Morrison comes to a nursing home in Holly, Michigan, to visit her elderly relative William Smith. He doesn't seem to recognize her due to an illness that's swollen his brain due to years of alcoholism. To pay for his care, Amanda tells him how his home is being bought out. William grabs Amanda's hand in response but doesn't say anything. Two weeks later, Amanda and her husband Nate come to the home to work on it with their two kids; twelve-year-old Alliah and eight-year-old David. While looking around the house, Amanda comes across witchcraft books and a snake necklace. After the house is cleaned up, Amanda goes to see him and William blames her for putting him there and for her to get out of his house. Nate is vacuuming one day and comes across a tall shadow in a human shape that emerges from the floor behind him. The family gives the house up to a guardian to sell and to this day it is unknown if it's sold. David takes the necklace from the house as a souvenir that unleashes a dark entity into the house. David has recurring nightmares and Alliah is slowly pulling away from the family wanting nothing to do with them. One night, the spirit causes Alliah to carve "HELP ME" into the wooden head of her bed. They take her to a psychiatrist who claims she's suffering from depression. Amanda discovers the necklace in Alliah's room and learns David had taken it with him. She throws it out, but the shadow continues to torment the family, particularly Alliah who had begun to control her thoughts. The family calls in demonologist Samantha Harris to help and senses what she believes to be a demon heavily present in Alliah's room. She and the family deliver a prayer and they successfully remove the demon from the house. David is no longer having nightmares and Alliah is no longer undergoing depression.

3. Eternal Grief

In October 2008, 24-year-old Jennifer Pattison moves into her new home in Warsaw, Indiana. On the day Jennifer is hosting a dinner party, Jennifer's friend Sara comes by the home and feels something off about it. She notices fifty dead flies underneath a rocking chair Jennifer found in the basement. At the party, a man comes up to Jennifer and tells her that she is in danger of a spirit that doesn't want her in the house. Jennifer blows it off as some sort of prank. At night, she gets a smell of aftershave out of nowhere. She then hears voices coming from down the hall but doesn't see anything. Sara stays over one night and is unable to sleep and hears the voices of the spirits from a bedroom. When she opens the door, the voices stop and she sees nothing. A spirit of a man comes up from behind and blows on her, but disappears. Sara tells Jennifer to leave, but Jennifer doesn't want to. At work, a co-worker tells Jennifer about the previous owner, Eli Jones, who built the house for him and his wife. His wife died, leaving him distraught. Seven months before Jennifer moved in, Eli had died. The coworker lastly tells Jennifer how Eli used lots of aftershave. Jennifer tries to talk to Eli, feeling sorry for him for losing his wife, but Eli urges her to get out. She tries to make a deal with Eli and agrees not to remove him from the home. Three years later, Jennifer lets her boyfriend Shawn Williams move in. Sara liked this idea as she felt his presence would help calm things down. Shawn wasn't convinced the house was haunted but believed something was going on. Eli makes his presence known again and Shawn comes face to face with him in the basement one night. In July 2013, an all-female paranormal team led by Tina Lano and Jackie Mossburg Hicks, come by to investigate the house while Shawn was at work. While there, Jackie Mossburg Hicks hears audible voices in the breezeway, that are later confirmed by 7 EVPs, with three voices on them. Cheryl, Tina, and Jennifer also hear the voices. Jennifer then decides she must leave. One of the women, Cheryl Ferguson, has a flashback of Eli's death being because of cancer. She sees Eli and nearly feels nauseous and dizzy over it. Cheryl declares he is not going to leave the house. Jennifer wonders if there is any way she can stay in the house. Tina suggests she and Eli share it and get along, but Jennifer can't show off any fear. Days later, she shows fear and Eli pushes her down the basement stairs, breaking her arm. She and Shawn finally move out of the house.

4. Game of Lies

In 2010, the Barba family move into their own home in Elkton, Maryland. The family consists of the parents, Olivia and Jesse, and their five-year-old daughter Marie. Up until that point they've been staying with Olivia's parents. One day while Marie is playing in the backyard, Marie tells her mother that she had finished playing with a boy named Jackson. Olivia believes the boy to be real and living in the neighborhood. It turns out that Jackson is actually a ghost haunting the Barba home. A few nights later, Olivia wakes up to the sound of banging on the wall. Jesse goes to investigate and finds no one in the house. Olivia eventually finds Marie talking to herself and discovers Jackson to be an imaginary friend, but Marie claims he is very real. Marie starts wanting to sleep in her parents' room, so they set up a baby monitor to keep an eye on her. Olivia hears a man's voice coming from the monitor, but when she and Jesse go to Marie's room, they don't see anyone else there with her. Marie eventually ends up with bruises that didn't come from her falling or bumping into something. Jackson convinces her to keep her mouth shut about the situation. Olivia is horrified when she learns from Marie that Jackson wants her to go up to heaven with him, urging her not to play with him anymore. Olivia finally realizes Jackson is a ghost. Jesse brushes it off as being a phase. He goes to talk to a neighbor about strange occurrences in the house. He learns about an old man who lived there who didn't like kids and eventually died. The old man turns out to be Jackson who was taking on the form of a child to get close to Marie. He shows his true form when Marie rejects him and attacks her. Jesse gets angry and screams at the ghost. The couple calls paranormal investigators for help. Donna Gollab, a third-generation wiccan, discovers that the old man was lonely in life and possibly jealous of seeing a happy family living there. Donna performs a cleansing and removes Jackson from the house.

5. Evil Rises

In Montandon, Pennsylvania, in June 2013, Jacinda Rearick is recovering from a back injury. Her family had since moved into a three-bedroom home from their mobile home fourteen years earlier. Living with her are her caring husband Todd and their nineteen-year-old son Justin, who recently graduated from high school and works at a hardware store. While looking at pictures from Justin's graduation, she finds orbs in them. When the lights flicker, she believes it's a sign from her deceased parents to comfort her with her health issues. A long-time believer in the spirit world, she takes photos just to capture any more orbs. She manages to capture one photo showing a dark figure standing in an adjacent room next to the hallway. One day, she senses a presence in her home and discovers her pills stacked up on her dresser in her room. Todd and Justin are skeptical of the paranormal and blow off everything Jacinda tries to show them about it. In the fall, Justin has shoulder surgery and is stuck in the house. He hears footsteps walking above and it's only him in the house. He believes it is an intruder, but it's actually a dark entity with many tentacles inhabiting the house. Justin sees it in a photo his mother had saved on her computer. He then hears the clack of a pool cue ball striking in the house and rushes down to his room in the basement. He finds the pool balls on the table have been scattered. He then looks up and sees the entity, which then vanishes right before his eyes. He finally believes his mother and reports the incident to her. Jacinda sees it while painting and gets irritated when Todd doesn't believe her. The situation takes a toll on Todd who starts drinking heavily. One night, the spirit attacks him during family dinner, causing him to clutch at his chest and finally see it standing across from him. After more strange occurrences, paranormal investigator Kevin Tersavige and his team come to investigate. Kristeen and the other psychic, Liz, sense the spirits of Jacinda's parents trying to protect the family from the evil. She also gets a vision of European settlers who performed animal sacrifices and rituals on the property centuries earlier. They believed the ritual opened a gateway for the dark entity. The psychics both have encounters with the entity, with Kristeen seeing it in the form of a young boy in the kitchen and Liz getting grabbed and wrapped up in its black tentacles in the master bedroom. Despite nothing bad happening in the house for all the years the family has been there, the entity finally made its move when Jacinda had her surgery. Kevin is attacked during the cleansing but succeeds in vanishing the demon away. Todd is finally convinced they were under a paranormal influence.

6. Tunnel of Death

In Grundy, Virginia, a young couple, Candace and Jon Sinclair, go to investigate the tunnels beneath the foothills in the spring of 2010. The tunnels are believed to be haunted by a group of slaves who were sealed up alive in the walls as a result of one of them being accused by their slave master of having an affair with his wife, causing them to rebel which led to their punishment. Candace and Jon return home and unbeknownst to them, a demon from the tunnels has followed them and is now haunting their house. The couple's five-year-old daughter Jacie has trouble sleeping and sleepwalks into her parents' room. While sewing, Candace hears the sound of glass breaking downstairs and goes down there to discover all of the dishes broken. There were no intruders in the house. One night when Candace goes to turn the heat down, she is grabbed by a demon. The next day she comes face to face with it, terrifying her. Other instances happen such as the television set turning channels on its own and Candace getting choked by the gargoyle and receiving scratches; the latter situation Jon brushes off as her having a bad dream and falling out of bed. Candace does a prayer that temporarily stops the paranormal activity. It eventually resumes and the demon makes its presence known to Jon in a dream where it tears his heart out. After Jon wakes up and goes downstairs, the demon attacks him for real, lifting him up in the air by his neck and choking him. The couple calls paranormal investigator Stacy Cookenour to uncover who the entity is. They realize that the entity came from the tunnels and attached itself to Candace. The family calls a pastor to cleanse the house which seemingly works. However, one day, the family is about to leave for an outing. After Candace goes upstairs to get her purse and is about to come back down, she sees what appears to be Jacie sitting on her bed in her room. Candace sees the real Jacie downstairs with Jon. The figure turns around towards Candace and is revealed to be the demon disguised as Jacie with bloody scratches and dark eyes. It rushes towards Candace, then flies downstairs and scratches Jacie. Candace angrily yells at the demon from downstairs to leave her family alone and to hurt her instead. The family finally leaves the house with the demon still there.

7. House of Sorrows

In the summer of 2012, Jamie and Darrin Shriver find a house to move into in St. Clair, Missouri. They learn that a family of four had previously died there of carbon monoxide poisoning. A few days after settling in, Darrin senses a presence while organizing boxes. When he and Jamie come across a tricycle that belonged to one of the kids who died, Darrin asks Jamie if she feels safe in the house. Jamie decides it's okay since all the gas appliances were ripped out to avoid the monoxide incident happening again. One night, Darrin sees the shadow of a child run past the television but Jamie doesn't notice. On an early morning, he wakes to see a female apparition with blonde hair standing by his bed. When he tells Jamie this, she believes he's just seeing things out of the stress of working too much. Later on, she and Darrin hear a child's voice responding to a statement Darrin made and believe that it could have been a child outside who heard them talking, but there was no child outside. Jamie believed in the paranormal but didn't believe that spirits could linger in limbo. Over the next several weeks, Darrin has recurring nightmares of what he's experienced so far. He starts to grow ill as though undergoing the monoxide poisoning the previous family endured and this makes Jamie worried. Tragedy strikes when one of their pit bulls, Lucy, is killed after being struck by a car outside. Darrin and Jamie discover that she was under the influence of the spirits that forced her to viciously bite her way through the cage she was locked in. Paranormal investigator Steven LaChance and a sensitive, Theresa Reavey, help. Jamie announces that they're expecting their first child. Steven believes the haunting is demonic. Theresa senses the female blonde and sees the child's spirit. When she approaches the dog room and sees the other dog still in its cage, she comes across a dark mist that she cleanses away. The couple is advised to think happy thoughts and for a while, this keeps the house clean. By the spring of 2014, their son Andrew is born, and Darrin decides to open a ghost box app on his phone and communicate with the spirit, unleashing the trouble back into the house. Jamie has several nightmares involving Andrew being harmed and wakes up to Andrew crying. Too ashamed to bring back Steven and Theresa to help, Darrin calls upon two new people, pastor Fred Wells and his wife Shawna, to cleanse the house and they succeed.

8. Demons Never Die

In 2013, Bill Toler, a brick mason, is assigned a job at a local penitentiary in Baltimore, Maryland. A spirit attaches itself to Bill when he cuts his finger on his saw in an old execution chamber room. He returns to his home in the suburbs of Pasadena, Maryland, where he lives with his wife Amanda and his toddler son Colin. He's also the father of two other sons, Corey and Byron, from a previous relationship whom he has shared custody with. Amanda hears a banging noise and whispers calling her name one day as she's hanging up pictures, and at first, believes it's Bill calling to her. Late at night, the couple hears footsteps from upstairs. They know it's from Colin, who was asleep, or the other boys who were back with their mother. Over the following weeks, Amanda and Colin begin to feel their energy being drained, immediately going to the couch when they enter the house together to take a nap. Amanda has nightmares of finding herself being strapped to a gurney and facing death by lethal injection. Bill wakes up one night receiving two scratches on his back. Corey and Byron have an experience when they return to the house where they see a shadowy face on a black garbage bag looking at them. The Tolers call in John Drenner, Jr. (featured in two previous episodes: "Devil Inside Me" and "Curse of the Mummy") to help them. John investigates the house and feels the spirit is demonic. He finds Colin in the kitchen interacting with it which is calling itself "Rodicon". John urges Amanda not to say the name or else it'll give the demon more power. John cleanses the house; however, it doesn't work when Colin continues to interact with the demon. The family calls John back who brings a demonologist, Mike Stevenson, to give further insight on the matter. He discovers Bill's tool bag in the basement and feels they need to bless the tools that the demon attached itself to. Later on, Colin has a nightmare of the demon pushing him in front of a car. The couple goes to see a psychic who already knew about the nightmare before they could tell her and advises them to get out of the house. The Tolers leave the house and move into another.

9. Ghosts of War

In 2009, Debbie and Dennis move into a house in Corning, Ohio. While unpacking, Dennis comes across his deceased father's memorabilia of material from World War II where he fought as an American soldier. One of the items, a Nazi armband with a prominent swastika, takes a toll on Debbie who wants him to get rid of it. The armband turns up missing and neither Dennis nor Debbie has moved it. After Debbie takes a shower, she notices a cross in frost on the mirror and snaps a picture of it for Dennis to see it. The cross is still in the mirror when Dennis comes in but soon vanishes before their eyes. Debbie is convinced that it meant a sign of protection, but Dennis felt it meant nothing. One day, they babysit their great-grandson, Jeffrey. While Debbie makes him a sandwich, she gets a puff of cigarette smoke in her face out of nowhere. As Jeffrey is playing with toy soldiers, a spirit of a Nazi soldier appears to him and Jeffrey wants him to play with him. When the spirit makes his toy soldiers (the "good guys") disappear one by one, Jeffrey snaps at him and the Nazi soldier turns into a grotesque-looking demon and screams in his face. He rushes outside into his mother's arms who arrived to pick him up. Debbie turns around and sees the spirit in the window looking at her and snaps a picture of it on her phone. She shows it to Dennis. Later on during the night, they wake up to the sounds of the Nazi spirit and fighting the spirit of Dennis' father, John. The spirits vanish when Dennis comes downstairs to investigate. Sometime later, Debbie is strangled by the Nazi soldier. The couple finally calls paranormal investigators Lee Allen and Jim Wilson to their home who bring along lead psychic Deb Lantz. She senses John and he jumps into her body to channel the Nazi soldier and defeats him. His dark energy disappears and Deb tells Dennis that his father was there to protect him and Debbie. John then has his son recover the old letter he's written to his mother, which brings him at peace and he finally crosses over into the afterlife. No other paranormal activity occurs at the house.

10. Vision of Terror

In the summer of 2004, the Stowe family is living the perfect dream in Apex, North Carolina. The parents, Mike and Stacy Stowe have a three-year-old son, Cameron, and are expecting a daughter soon. While hanging outside of their home as a family, Stacy has a vision of a car accident. To not worry her husband, she doesn't tell him about it. But later on that day, Mike ends up in a car accident and is killed. Stacy is now left to move on as a single mother and a widow. Nine years later, Cameron is now twelve, and the daughter, Bryn, is nine. One afternoon while the kids are gone, Stacy is alone in the house cleaning and comes across a small clear teddy bear object with her husband's birthstone in it. Days later, Cameron is in the living room and the fireplace turns on by itself. At night, Stacy wakes up and discovers Mike is in bed with her. Bryn has a dream of a gargoyle appearing to her and dragging her down the hall by her leg outside of her mother's room. The dream becomes real when she sees what she believes is her father, but the spirit quickly changes appearance to the monster in her dream. Shortly afterward, Cameron goes to get a snack during the night when he hears whispers. He encounters the gargoyle standing behind him and he runs to his mother's room to alert her and his sister who was sleeping there as well. Cameron ends up joining them when he doesn't feel comfortable being in his room alone. Spiritual cleanser Johnny Jones comes to seek out the spirit and senses that it is demonic. The demon tries to grab Bryn and drag her across the floor, but Johnny intervenes and sends it away. He warns the family that other spirits may try to enter into their lives if they are vulnerable enough. For a while things are fine, but the gargoyle returns and attacks Bryn, first slapping her down in the bathroom, later spinning her bed around while she is on it, and then scratching her when she runs to her mother. Rather than call Johnny again, Stacy calls psychic medium Claudia Granger to help this time. She immediately senses a dark energy and reveals a seance was done by Stacy's two teenage nieces when they were trying to conjure up Mike's spirit. A portal was left open in Bryn's room. Claudia leads the family through a chant and successfully closes the portal, sending the demon away forever. Before leaving, Claudia reveals to Bryn that she has a psychic gift and that's why she was the main target of the attacks. She agrees to train Bryn in case this was to happen again.