"Paranormal Witness: The Tenants" Season Finale Recap Pt. 1

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 The dark spirits of a family won't let go of their house
It was the year 1970 when Edwinand Marsha Becker, a couple that have been married for 3 years, were waitingfor the arrival of their first baby. The couple lived just outside of Chicagoand were over-the-moon at how happy their life was together as a little family.“Life was exactly as it should be!” Marsha exclaimed. One day, when Edwin wentto pay the rent for the landlady, he told her about Marsha’s pregnancy.However, rather than a “congratulations”, the landlady told them to leave because she allowed no children and pets inthe apartment complex they stayed in. Marsha was 7 months pregnant so thecouple were desperate to find any suitable place to call home before the baby’sarrival. Edwin took off into the inner-city and found a 2-story apartmentbuilding within the city. He was interested in it so he met with his realtorabout it. The realtor took him inside the place when the two men came across anold woman named Myra that screamed obscenities at them and told them to getout. “This house is not yours, it will never be yours!” she screamed. Therealtor saw how startled Edwin was so he assured her that she was going to be takento a care home and was just upset because she was the last remaining member ofthe family that owned the living space. 

A young couple's big steps

The men went upstairs into ascattered, cluttered, room. “Paper, clothes, scattered all over the floor!”Edwin recalls. “I thought someone vandalized it!” The realtor affirmed him thatit had great potential for his wife and baby. Desperate to shelter his wife andunborn baby, Edwin took it. Meanwhile, Myra kept on giving him the “evil eye”.But Edwin swore he would make a home for his family.When they settled in, Marshajust had her baby and the couple were ecstatic at their new life. “In the firstfew days, I was so busy that there wasn’t time to think,” Marsha said. Marsha’sprized possession was a very beautiful candy dish that was a wedding present;despite being so busy she made it a habit to leave the candy dish in the middleof the table. When she went to get a tablecloth, she noticed the candy dish wason the other side of the table. During dinnertime, the couple are home at nightwhen the dining room light began flickering but it did it in a way that madeMarsha feel uncomfortable; “it was almost in rhythm, like moarse code…fastflashes then one flash,” Marsha recalls of the strange flashing light. Edwintried convincing her it was just a circuit. Then it stopped. A month later, Edwin woke up at 5am to work. Once he gotinto work, he called Marsha and heard the phone was busy He figured Marsha wascalling family and friends. Few hours later, he calls again…phone is busyagain. “I didn’t know who she could talk to all day long!” he said and began toget bothered at how busy the phone was. Edwin came home and was frustrated that he couldn’t reachher all day. Marsha swore she wasn’ton the phone, which made him even more upset.  She saw the phone was on the table but thatthe cord and receiver earpiece was on the floor. “I didn’t understand why hewas upset with me, he should’ve known me better than that,” Marsha exclaimed. Oneday, Marsha was tending to the baby when the phone receiver dropped again andshe couldn’t understand what was wrong but knew it wasn’t good
Every morning, Marshawould wash the dishes from breakfast when she turned around and saw the cabinetdoor open. All the sudden, the dishes were flying out of the cabinet, all flyingin one motion and then slam down to the floor. “That scared me to death and itfelt dangerous, very very dangerous!” Afraid to have the place by themselves,the couple decided to rent out the first floor to potential tenants. Dan andDiane White were interested in living downstairs; they responded to an add torent the place. They were about their age with a brand new baby as well. “I wasvery excited about the apartment and I saw that Diane could see it as a home,”Dan recalls. Marsha was even more ecstatic to have someone like her in theplace. “She was sweet and smiling and had a kind look to her eyes. All I couldthink about is I was not going to be alone.” Edwin called the next day and toldthem to move in whenever they wanted.

Wondering what help would be out there for the couple's unusual problem...

Dan would come homefrom work, Diane would be out and Dan would see chandeliers swinging back andforth. Dan thought it was the couple upstairs walking around that was causingit. But then it would begin to swing on its own again. One afternoon, Diane puther baby in a walker while the women visited. There was no way the baby couldtouch the floor and move because the baby was so tiny so there were noconcerned of the baby moving about. But out of the corner of the eye, Marshasees something moving. Her mind didn’t accept that the baby was doing that. Thebaby’s stroller was moving towards the staircase and the baby started wailingand screaming. A panicked  Diane rushesto save her baby in the nick of time, while Marsha felt an overwhelmingsensation of guilt because she should’ve told the new tenants the house washaunted. Marsha and Edwin had a talk where she told him there was something inthe basement that wasn’t right. Edwin didn’t believe her fully but also wantedhis wife to fill at ease. Edwin went down the basement one night and “it was sa cave filled with junk”. He was examining everything in the room. He noticed aparticular jar. He opened it up and noticed it had old Monopoly pieces and thennoticed that there was a live bullet round in it. He noticed there was a doorin the back of the basement and opened it. One side of the house was shoe boxes,the other side was magazines dated from the 1930s. The name “Ben Verdere” waswritten on every magazine. He began opening up shoe boxes “it was the mostamazing things I’d ever seen,” Edwin describes at his discovery. “There wereclippings of paper of women. Maybe a tight sweater, a skirt up in the air…” Edwinfigured out that Mr Verdere must’ve beenquite disturbed and perverted. Edwindidn’t want to tell Marsha because she didn’t want to add fuel to Marsha’sfear.
One morning, Marshawould take a bath once she put the baby down and Edwin went to work All thesudden, Marsha felt uncomfortable. “I just felt like I wasn’t alone.” She thenfelt a hand touch her shoulder and she lost it. When she went to reach thephone, the phone fell down. She felt someone was attacking her and threatening herlife. Marsha didn’t belong to the church but wondered if a kindly, old priestwould come fix the house “to take the evil out”. After contacting a priest, heagrees to come out to help the couple. Edwin thought it was “a bunch of crap”but insisted to help Marsha. The priest comes over and pulls out a goblet, holywater and bible.He reached in his robe and pulled out a holy water dispenser. Marshawas frightened that something was going to happen. Then, the holy waterdispenser (which was made of brass) shattered. Even the priest was frightenedand packed up to leave.
At this point, even Edwin begins to believe that someonedisturbing is haunting the house and his family….
TO BE CONTINUED