8. Dangerous Games

Complete story — includes the ending

It is the 1970s, and in North Scituate, Rhode Island, lives the Johnson family. Sixteen-year-old Carl Johnson is convinced his house is haunted. He wakes up one stormy night to do some investigating when he hears noises and runs into his mother, and she tells him there is nothing to worry about. His parents go out one night leaving him, his twin brother Keith, and his fourteen-year-old sister Cynthia alone. Carl decides to get to the bottom of the hauntings and open up a spirit board with the help of his siblings. The spirit spells out the name "SYLVIA" and then tosses the letter dial off of the table. Carl takes no fear in this and remains calm and polite. The spirit writes the word "CELLAR" next and the siblings go to check the room out. They hear knocks but nothing else. Over the next several weeks, the teens continue on with their spirit board sessions. Carl asks the spirit to make the phone ring and it does. On the other line, it was his girlfriend Susie and the spirit had spelled "SUS" on the board. Keith objects to doing this any further. Keith wakes up to the sound of laughter and sees a demon in his room. Carl and his parents rush in wondering why he's yelling. When Keith tells him, his father denies that a ghost was there. During the day, the siblings say a prayer to cleanse the house. After turning seventeen, Carl sets a space in the cellar to further his communication with Sylvia. When he sees Sylvia one night, he and Cynthia communicate with her again through the spirit board. The words spell out "DEATH". After the entire family wakes up to banging in the house, Carl's father still refuses to believe there is a ghost. Carl and Keith contact John Zaffis, the nephew of Ed and Lorraine Warren who senses two spirits in the house: Sylvia and a demon whom the kids triggered with the spirit board. A priest comes and cleanses the house and removes the spirits from the house for good.