7. House of Sorrows

Complete story — includes the ending

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.