Welcome to Nightland Frights, the scary sister podcast of Dairyland Frights. This episode is true terror Real life horror stories that will haunt you. In this bone chilling episode of Nightland Frights, we're diving into the eerie and unexplained. These aren't campfire tales or urban legends. These are real horror stories that happened to real people. We have three featured stories that will chill you to the bone. The first story is about the enfield monster.
In 1973 rural Illinois, a strange creature with three legs, flashlight sized eyes and a slimy gray body terrorized a small town. One man fired shots at the beast, but it vanished into the night. Was it mass hysteria or something otherworldly? The next story is about a haunted Elsa doll. A Houston family tries everything to get rid of a possessed Elsa doll that sings on its own even with no batteries. But every time they throw it away, it Is it a prank or a cursed toy that doesn't want to let
go? Dead Animals in the Walls A Pennsylvania family discovers their house is insulated with animal carcasses linked to Pennsylvania Dutch Pow wow folk magic. Could these occult rituals still be active today? The last story involves Florida devil worshipping ritual. A respected teacher in St. Petersburg shocks the community with a bizarre fire ritual involving her former students. She claimed it was to burn out demons, but what was possessing her?
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Stay spooky, stay skeptical and remember the night holds more than just shadows. The Enfield Monster.
April 25, 1973 One of the strangest events ever chronicled in Enfield, Illinois. The night started with a boy named Greg Garrett who had been playing in the backyard around 9pm catching fireflies and looking at sea of stars while attempting to catch the next firefly. His pursuits were soon cut off quickly by what is now known as the enfield Horror. While Mr. And Mrs. Garrett had been watching TV, young Greg burst through the back door crying and acting hysterically.
He began to relive what had just happened. A monster about four or five feet tall, tiny arms with claws, a slimy gray epidermis, three legs with accompanying claws and big red eyes the size of flashlights attacked him. Greg's tennis shoes were torn to shreds, claiming it occurred when the monster ran past him and stepped on his feet. Mr. And Mrs. Garrett were extremely concerned as Greg was not known for making things up. They just couldn't wrap their head around what he was telling them.
At the exact moment this situation was going on, the Garrett's neighbor, Henry McDaniel and his wife were returning home. They found their two children in an absolute panic. The children claimed the thing had tried to break into the house through the door and a window mounted air conditioner. Moments earlier, as Mr. McDaniel was listening in disbelief, he heard something, an unusual scratching sound at the front door. McDaniel assumed it was a stray animal and opened the front door.
It was at that moment he came face to face with the Enfield Horror. He stumbled backwards, slamming the door. Grabbing a flashlight and a.22 pistol, he threw the door back open and got another glimpse of the demon. His description of the grotesque creature was identical to that of Greg Garrett, the later telling police. It had three legs on it, a short body, two little short arms coming out of its breast area, and two pink eyes as big as flashlights.
It stood four and a half feet tall and was grayish colored. It was trying to get into the house. McDaniel opened fire on the monster, but while he was positive he hit the Horror, the bullets did not cause any mortal damage. He stated it hissed like a wildcat and jumped away, covering 75ft in approximately three hops, disappearing past the railroad tracks. McDaniel immediately called the local police, but the Illinois state troopers showed up on the scene instead.
The troopers searched through the area but found no sign of the Enfield Horror. They did, however, find scratch marks against the siding, which appeared to be fresh. And scarily enough, they found footprints, Three of them with long claw markings. Two of the footprints were about 4 inches wide, with the third one being slightly smaller. The troopers were puzzled as nothing they had seen could have made those footprints.
On May6, McDaniel was startled awake in the dead of the night by the howling of some neighborhood dogs. He pulled himself out of bed, grabbed the gun and yanked open front door. Upon opening, he said he got a better look at the monster from some distance, Negotiating the trestles of the railroad tracks. This time it wasn't in a hurry. It just moved down the tracks. In the days following the odd story, McDaniel felt compelled to tell everyone he could about what he had seen.
Before long, droves of monster hunters arrived, floods of news trucks, scientists and Curiosity seekers descended onto the town. At one point, the town was becoming such a circus of media frenzy and tourists. The White county sheriff threatened to arrest McDaniel if he didn't stop talking about his experience. At least five hunters were arrested and charged after being a threat to public safety. After opening fire on a hairy gray thing. The judge claimed they were simply out to raise hell.
One man, Rick Rainbow, who was a news director for WWK1 in Kokomo, Indiana, claimed to have seen the Enfield horror as well. He and three other men witnessed the horror around an abandoned house not much further from the McDaniel house. Rainbow could not get a clear description of the monster because it was in the shadows and had its back towards the men. He did describe it as being gray, 5ft tall and stooped over.
Rainbow did manage to record the ungodly screams of the Enfield Horror, but that recording was not released to the general public. Those cries were heard by others over the next several days near the railroad tracks close to the McDaniels house. After that night, the creature jumped over the tracks, this time for good. Just as quickly as the monster arrived, it disappeared, never to be discovered again.
In 1978, a case study was opened by a group of researchers who tried to make sense of the situation. The researchers found that no more than three first hand witnesses claimed they saw the actual monster. But since then, their stories have been exaggerated by local news stories and local gossip. It became a bizarre game of telephone where each additional story snowballed into something bigger and more animated. Now, if all these reports are real, why did nobody take any photos of the evidence?
The aluminum siding scratches, the footprints, the torn up tennis shoes? Or attempt to get any sort of real proof from the monster? Could this be considered a crime scene? People who think it was an elaborate hoax to bring tourists into the town could not explain how two separate neighbors who told the police the same description without conversing with each other first. The marks on the ground also didn't suggest foul play.
While the case remains largely forgotten today, it is still one of the most curious cases and makes you wonder what took place down in Enfield. It has not been reported on for almost 40 years, but that's not to say it isn't still out there waiting to terrorize another town. Haunted doll On Christmas of 2013, a Houston area girl was gifted an Elsa dollar and all was well. Until it wasn't. The doll recited phrases from the movie Frozen and sang let it go when a button on its necklace was pressed.
For two years it did that in English mother Emily Madonia said in 2015, it started doing it alternating between Spanish and English. There wasn't a button that changed these. It was just random. The family has owned the doll for more than six years and never changed its batteries. The mother says the doll would randomly begin to speak and sing, even with its switch turned off. In December 2019, the family decided to get rid of the doll.
However, Elsa wasn't going to let this family go, despite throwing it out in the trash. The family found the doll inside a bench in their living room.
Weeks later, the kids insisted they didn't put it there, and I believed them because they wouldn't have dug through the garbage outside. Madonia said.
Elsa completely stopped operating in English and began to speak and sing in Spanish. Once again, the family attempted to throw out the Elsa dollar. Madonia's husband double bagged the doll and placed it at the bottom of the garbage can to be taken away on trash day.
The family traveled and forgot about it, but when they returned, their daughter found her old friend outside their house. Okay, guys, seriously, we need help. To recap for those of you who have not been following our Elsa doll saga, Matt threw it away weeks ago, and then we found it inside a wooden bench, Midonia wrote on Facebook.
Okay, so we were weirded out and tightly wrapped it in its garbage bag and put that garbage bag inside another garbage bag filled with other garbage and put it in the bottom of our garbage can underneath a bunch of other bags of garbage and wheeled it to the curb and it was collected on garbage day. Great, right? We went out of town, forgot about it. Today, Aurelia says, mom, I saw the Elsa doll again in the backyard. Help us get rid of this haunted doll.
When asked if she believed a prank was being pulled, the doll has some marker on her from my daughter coloring over the years, so I know the doll that reappeared was the original and not a replacement. Most logical thinkers believe it's a prank, but I don't understand how or when it was done, especially because the garbage truck had taken it away. He family has made a final attempt to get rid of their daughter's old toy, but this time, Elsa isn't going into the unknown.
The doll is was mailed without a return address to a family friend in Minnesota. If the doll comes back, I might have to open my mind to some of the more supernatural solutions, medonia said. Luckily for Midonia, the doll was received by her Minnesotan friend Chris Hogan, who shared a final update on his Facebook. And now for the rest of the story. She made it to Minnesota and is taped to the brush guard of my jeep.
If anything weird happens, I'm welding her into a steel pipe and sinking it in Lake of the woods, hogan wrote.
Dead animals in the Walls when the.
Bretzewi family decided to insulate their home in Auburn, Pennsylvania in 2015, they discovered that it had already been with scores of dead animal carcasses. The expert attributed the rotting animals in their walls to powwow or Dutch magic, a ritual originating in the culture of the Pennsylvania Dutch to treat ailments and gain physical and spiritual protection.
The Pennsylvania Dutch were a group of German speaking settlers to Pennsylvania in the 1600s and 1700s and are often of Lutheran, Mennonite or Amish faiths. The Washington Post notes on the magic One notable ritual in their tradition is this hex to create loyalty in a dog, to attach a dog to a person, provided nothing else was used before to affect it. Try to draw some of your blood and let the dog eat it along with his food and he will stay with you.
The mold found on the rotting carcasses in the Bret Suis home has caused illness among the family members and they say that the odor hasn't gone away.
Florida devil worshiping friends noticed that Danielle Harkins, a 35 year old schoolteacher near St. Petersburg, Florida, started acting strangely in June of 2012, developing an interest in demonic rituals. Soon after, she was arrested for abuse of seven of her former students. As the Tampa Bay Times reported, Danielle Harkins told the kids they needed to rid their bodies of demons. As the group gathered before dusk Saturday around a small fire near the St. Petersburg pier.
They should cut their skin to let the evil spirits out, police said. She told the children then they needed to burn the wounds to ensure that those spirits would not return. When Harkins held a lighter to one teen's hand, wind blew the flame out, police said. That prompted her to douse his hand in perfume before setting it on fire. The boy suffered second degree burns, police said. Another teen was cut on the neck with a broken bottle.
Police said Harkins used a flame to heat a small key, which he then used to cauterize the wound. The police were notified because a friend of one of the students who participated in the ritual raised alarms. However, none of the students themselves told their parents about the event or did they comment following the arrest of Harkins for aggravated batter and child abuse, NBC reported.
The investigators said they've spoken to Harkins, but she didn't spell out what type of religion would require such drastic measures. She hasn't informed us exactly what she was trying to accomplish with this. Pewds of the St. Petersburg Police Department.
Said, you've heard the stories. The monster with three legs that vanished into the night. The doll that refused to die. The walls whisper with the stench of the dead. And the teacher who thought she could burn out demons but only lit a fire inside herself. These weren't tales from ancient times. These weren't fiction. These were real. And if the darkness can find them, it can find you. So tonight, lock your doors, check your windows, and if something knocks, don't open it.
This has been Nightland. Frights. We'll see you next time. Unless the night gets to you first.