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Season 2

Season 2 of A Haunting. The season opens with: Jan knows that her seven-year-old son Cody is a lonely child, so she thinks nothing of it when he begins communicating with an imaginary friend. He seems happy. In time, however, Cody’s personality becomes volatile. Jan fears that her son’s friend is something beyond imagination when Cody confesses that he lives in a red box in a nearby cemetery. Feeling helpless and desperate to protect her son, Jan contacts a Native American shaman, who uses prayers and ancient rituals to help her battle with something far more dangerous than a ghost.

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1. Demon Child

In Western Kentucky, Jan and Dale Foster's six-year-old son Cody starts talking to an imaginary playmate, whom he names "Man". As the weeks progress, Cody's behavior becomes very bad. At the start, Jan and Dale believes that Cody has an imaginary friend; however, his sudden outbursts make Jan wonder if his new behavior is related to his new "friend". Cody eventually tells his parents that Man, a six-year-old boy, was kidnapped and tortured, and called for his mother for help but she never came. Jan believes that her son has befriended the ghost of a murdered child but Dale is not convinced, believing Cody simply heard the story somewhere and is repeating it. Jan contacts a Native American shaman to rid her house of the spirit. It seemingly works, but after three months, Cody's behavior changes again drastically. Finally, one night, Jan had enough and investigates Cody's room, hoping to confront Man and see what Cody has been going through. The spirit emerges as a monstrous-looking man and attacks her. All along, Man was a demon who manifested itself as a little boy, gradually wearing Cody down in hopes of possessing him. By then Dale is more concerned for Cody's life after seeing what Jan went through. Another night, while the rest of the family sleep, she is absolutely disturbed to see the true identity of Cody's playmate and decided to call upon Higher Power. The next day, after her family left, she contacts the Native American shaman once more, wanting to carry out another cleansing, this time targeted to get rid of Man for good. During the cleansing and calling to Higher Power again, Jan is constantly tormented by the demon, but she ultimately manages to banish it back to Hell, and life in the home returns to normal. Despite the successful cleansing, Jan is still on edge knowing one day Man would return for revenge against her.

2. Sallie's House

An Atchison, Kansas, couple, Tony and Debra Pickman, move into their first home together. They are expecting their first child and soon after the baby's birth, strange occurrences begin to happen around the house. The couple soon learn that their house is haunted by the ghost of a seven-year-old girl named Sallie who is trying to warn them of an evil spirit lurking in the shadows. With the help of a professional paranormal researcher and psychic, the couple soon discovers the evil spirit that Sallie had been warning them about had been her mother. While outside, the mother explains to the psychic that she was a former slave and found employment in the doctor's (Sallie's father) home as a housemaid. They had an affair which lead to Sallie's birth. When Sallie was 7, her mother had ordered her to stay hidden from the doctor's immediate family so no one got suspicious. She was very angry at Sallie for disobeying her orders by running down the stairs which led to the guests finding out about their secret family. When Tony is attacked again by Sallie's mother, the couple moves away. The psychic believed Sallie's mother had attacked Tony and not Debra because she was punishing him for not accepting Sallie.

3. Ghost Soldier

Lisa Wilson, a single mother, finds a photograph of a soldier named Michael in her home. Michael is the brother of her ex-boyfriend who was killed in the Vietnam War, and she soon becomes obsessed with a man she has never met. When her two young daughters see Michael in their bedroom late one night, Lisa realizes that Michael is haunting her house. Another terrifying clue unearths when her radio emits, instead of music, a military distress call saying they are in an ambush, which Lisa concludes to be the battle Michael died in. To make matters worse, it soon becomes clear that there is also an evil entity in the house, which strikes by copying Michael's actions. After several terrifying events, Lisa begins to believe that Michael is trying to protect her and her daughters. Lisa seeks help from a psychic to put Michael's soul to rest and drive out the evil entity once and for all.

4. Where Demons Dwell

In 1980, Debbie Glatzel and Arne Cheyenne Johnson move into a new home in Connecticut. When Debbie's 12-year-old brother David helps them with the move, he becomes the target of a demon and begins to strike at David and cause harm to the other family members. The situation gets worse as the demon would then possess David for short periods of time. The family runs to a priest and paranormal investigators for help to save David and their home. Note: This episode makes no references to the Trial of Arne Cheyenne Johnson (aka The Demon Murder Trial ) for the killing of his landlord Alan Bono, whom Johnson claimed he killed while under demonic possession. At his trial, Johnson's defense unsuccessfully tried to enter a plea of not guilty by demonic possession, which the presiding judge rejected and the defense alternatively choose to imply Johnson was acting in self-defense. Johnson was convicted of 1st-degree manslaughter and sentenced to 10–20 years in prison, though he served only five.

5. House of the Dead

In Glen Burnie, Maryland in 1970, 7-year old Billy Bean has gone through the worst moment of his childhood that he would never forget. In 1970, the Bean family moved into a new home. His parents are Patricia and Bill, and his siblings are his older teenage sister Patty and younger brother Bobby. After a while, a series of supernatural incidents start to plague the family. After a couple years, Patty gets married and moves out of the house. Billy's father becomes an abusive alcoholic and also removes himself from the house after a conflict with Patricia, leaving her to care for Billy and Bobby. As life in the house continues to unravel, Patricia begins to lose her sanity and becomes the focus of physical attacks by the entity haunting the house, even finding herself being strangled at night. After this, Billy and his family leaves the house. Years later, Billy finds some answers to the ghost who tormented his family from an investigator.

6. Hungry Ghosts

A wealthy American family, the Bishops, move into a luxurious mansion in the Yangming mountains of Taiwan. Everyone is happy except the older daughter who foresees a terrible premonition. Soon, strange events begin to plague various family members in their new home. Candice sees lights out of the corner of her eye; the husband and younger daughter hear voices and footsteps. They finally give up their disbelief in ghosts when their youngest daughter is attacked. The family consults a Taoist priest who says, according to Feng Shui, their house was physically designed to give power to spirits from beyond. They are told to offer the spirits food and money to appease them. Despite this, the priest also forewarns a terrible tragedy if they don't move from the home at once. This finally convinces the Bishops to move out of the house.

7. Dark Forest

In the mid-1970s, Clara Dandy and her family move into a farmhouse in Hinsdale, New York on the country side. When it becomes clear to them that their house is haunted by several spirits, they call a psychic who informs them that many people have died in and around the house in the last century. It is up to the family to see if they will be able to rid their home of these spirits.

8. A Haunting in Florida

Edd and Beth Dunnam find themselves what they believe to be the perfect home in Deltona, Florida. They are also expecting a child together who will be born in a few months. Within days, Beth begins to feel down whenever she is by herself. After several paranormal sightings, the couple realizes that something is haunting their house. Edd tries reacting angrily at the spirits in an attempt to scare them away, but little does he realize that his anger is only giving them more to feed on. When he finally realizes this and seeks help from a paranormal research group, they discover more than what the Dunnams bargained for.

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