Dead Files Episode 5

White Widow

Hello wonderful people

Are you ready for a completely insane story? Today’s episode is set in New Orleans where random people like to play trumpet while walking down the street. Steve, Matt, and Amy are in New Orleans to investigate the legend of Louisa Clay who supposedly hanged herself in 1888. The ghost of Louisa appears (in the form of apparitions) and heard around the two-hundred year old house that a woman and her son now occupy. This episode has something none of the others has; Amy isn’t the first person to say something evil is there.

Before I get to some more important stuff, I need to nitpick at what Steve says in his introduction. He says, “My name is Steve DiSchavi, I’m a retired New York City Homicide detective and I know every house and every person I see…” claiming that he knows every person and every house he sees. That made sense when their cases were only in New York, but this man does not know every single person and every single house that he sees just from being a homicide detective in New York City. I take that back it doesn’t make sense anymore because there are districts and he would have handled the homicides reported in his district, borough… thing… What the hell is Steve trying to say here?

The clients in this episode are Marcus, the son who is ten years old and his mom. They’ve been living there for three months and he’s hearing footsteps and seen locked windows blown open for no reason. That is all Steve says before Amy comes in with some random background information about her past. She also reassures us that she has no communication with Steve so she knows nothing about the house. Matt is also explained again for some reason they felt this was completely necessary as if they release the shows in final edited form one after another so they can get feedback from the audience which I know is lies because Paranormal shows take a LONG time to complete. They have to find the place; the researchers have to research it somewhat, they have to get to the location, which could take days, and then the actual stuff for the show itself happens in the form of interviews and the investigation, which also takes quite a while. Therefore, the constant attempts to reassure skeptics that they are a legitimate show and they really don’t communicate when they’re not supposed to and whatnot is highly annoying and makes them seem like they’re trying too hard for no real reason.

Amy’s walk through:

Arrival

I have decided to try something new with this review. I will break the parts of the show up as they appear. If they are interrupted, they will get their own… ‘Section’ for lack of a better term, like if Steve shows up in the middle of Amy’s walk it’ll be labeled as Steve’s Interview or something like that.

Amy, how do you know about the tragedies, why are the entities fighting and who is crawling on the floor? Why aren’t you asking the spirit why it is crawling on the floor?

Steve’s Interview:

Lorelei

This is where the episode starts to get insane. There is a legend going around about a creole woman who hung her dog and then hung herself. (For those of you who don’t know what creole means and are too lazy to Google it, here’s the definition for this usage of the word: various distinct ethnic groups; mix of culture.

The Louisiana Creole people refers to those who are descended from the colonial settlers in Louisiana, especially those of French and Spanish descent. The term was first used during colonial times by the settlers to refer to those who were born in the colony, as opposed to those born in the Old World. After the Civil War, some, like the Creole scholars Charles Gayarre and Alcee Fortier, began to assert that the word Creole referred exclusively to people of European descent…

I know people go insane sometimes but how you do look at someone in your family be it animal or human and cause harm to them? I know people can suck sometimes but pets don’t suck as much as humans do. They can be annoying at times, but honestly I think they’re better companions than humans the only downside being they can’t talk… they don’t have motives, they don’t abuse their owners, they are so completely different from people that it’s hard to picture someone completely snapping and killing their pets.

On the flip side, this is the legend, meaning it might not be true it’s just what people say. Meaning that the story has probably been changed over time and has been twisted into what it is now and it could be a complete sack of crap for all we know at this moment of the show. What I am curious about is the point in time where the story changed from the truth to possible fiction and where they got the part where she hung her dog. 

Two things I forgot to mention, one was another interaction from Matt with Amy when he asked what was happening when Amy was mentioning something was crawling on the floor. The second was I actually agree with Steve when he said, “That ain’t right” about the legend. I know it’s shocking I actually agreed with something Steve said in the episode. The legend claims that she hung her dog and herself in the attic where her son sleeps. Marcus doesn’t know about the legend (but he will once he sees this episode and end up traumatized for the rest of his life) also the previous tenants refused to go into the attic.

Lorelei all you need to hang yourself is for your feet to lift off the ground so you’re not on your toes or anything so you can’t support your body weight anymore. The height is just for… well I’m not even sure what the height is for I guess it just reassures people that they aren’t on their tippy toes and faking they are dead so they can run away later if the person was hung from a gallows. It’s common sense, or so I thought it was… 

Another thing I have noticed about paranormal shows when families are involved, people will tend to jump to the conclusion that it’s all fake, overactive imagination, the inability to adjust to a new house, blame the age of the house itself, or just say the person is crazy and proceed to have them checked out at random doctors. Especially children, I feel so bad for anyone growing up in a haunted location with parents who insist they are lying and have some form of mental disorder and have them put on all these medicines, or try to have them heavily medicated but there are tests to see if the person has the symptoms of a mental disorder. I think it is horrible how some parents will assume their child is going insane rather than accept the fact they are completely normal and telling the truth.

In addition, I must restate the fact THIS LADY HUNG HER DOG! I’m going to move on to something else not so horrible…

Amy’s Walk Through:

The backyard

Amy senses two men in the corner of the backyard where Lorelei’s dog would go crazy. She says he has been there for quite a long time, looking, waiting, and watching, but doesn’t state anything else useful about these two men’s spirits creeping in the backyard. She only explains one guy after stating there are two men there so I guess the other guy is hiding or he doesn’t have a description.

The First Floor

When Amy walks into the house, I honestly expected her to say Uh-oh spaghetti-oh. I don’t know why I thought she would say it but I just expected it. There are more INTERACTIONS FROM MATT in this part of the walk though. Good job for not being so silent, and don’t shush him Amy let the man ask the questions you aren’t answering, like why there is so much anger there, where did the other guy go, what made them so angry, and who are they talking about when they say they are in the house and backyard to hurt someone. There were two people attacked? I thought you said there were two people in the backyard who were creeping. I am confused…

Steve’s Interview:

Marcus

I hope this interview goes better than it did with Salem. His attitude is completely different he seems more interested in Marcus’s story than he was with Salem. He seemed ready to jump the gun and judge the poor girl for no reason meanwhile with Marcus he seems more accepting of his story. I smell sexism!

Amy’s Walk Through:

The Attic

This interruption is one of the clips the editors throw in to confirm or deny something a client just said or to contradict things they’ve said in the past. Amy explains again that dead people have the ability to present themselves in the way they want to be perceived. However going back to the Death and Dolls, Amy was creped out by the fact that this one spirit was manipulating their appearance so she could see him how he wanted himself seen. She didn’t like him and wanted nothing to do with him because of many reasons, but that was one of the main reasons she didn’t like the spirit. Now she’s saying it’s something that happens sometimes with spirits. Way to flip on your opinions Amy… 

Steve’s Investigation

First off, I must say at one point when I paused the video at some point to let it load and this happened: 

 

I just thought I should share that with you all. Second point I must make is this: the house over 200 years old and the statistic is a family moves every five years. How is it unusual that each of its residence only lived there for no longer than 7 years at a time? You just said a family moves every five years so each person who lived in the over 200 year old house and the max number of years lived there is seven what’s wrong here. Nothing is wrong with any of that, I swear Steve just makes shit up to be concerned about sometimes.

Also, I would like to know how an entire town changes addresses overnight. How is that even possible who decided that and did the townspeople complain about it? I know I would if I woke up and all of Barnegat was changed.

Amy’s Walk:

 On a staircase

When Amy is attacked claiming she can’t breathe I honestly think someone might have been strangled there. Hey look, a set up for a random joke! When Amy says he’s a bad, bad, bad, man all I heard was John Cena’s song from his rap album he released forever ago, Bad, Bad Man. This person who is hurting Amy is a complete asshole. She’s reliving what’s going on with the murder and he says this, “didn't know this was gonna go like this no we didn't..." he's mocking her and the physical pain he's putting her in.” When Matt asks who is talking all she says is, “this is the bad person,” We know that Amy we can see you’re in pain and hurting you.

I love how Matt asks Amy what she’s scared of, he’s just like so simple and he sounds like he doesn’t care much at all.

Steve’s interview:

Finding Theresa

Steve drives through a neighborhood that he was directed to go to by Kathleen was devastated by Hurricane Katrina, when he gets to Theresa’s house; it’s nothing but a foundation. However, he has connections since he’s a former cop and he found her current location. He goes back to the house with Theresa and she gets very emotional obviously because of the memories it brings back. In the personal interview, he calls her ‘Ter-es-a’ and I don’t know why he says it like that when he said it right the first few times...

I’m not sure what she described with her mother being on the staircase, I think what happened was she was on the stairs, she saw an apparition and tried to run but she was too slow and the apparition caught up with her. It went through her body and ‘sucked’ the life out of the baby causing the stillbirth is what she’s trying to imply.

Theresa, a catholic priest told you to leave the house because of an ‘evil presence’ is he best friends with Amy? Seriously, what happened was he got spooked by something, he didn’t want to do his job right and fully bless the house. If he did, then he would have done something to make it go away.

The brief interruption with Amy in the attic, I have to comment on how she says ‘the last thing they heard was the snapping of their neck when they hung themselves.’ That has to be the worst thing to hear when you die, the cracking of your own neck even though they hung themselves and it was no one else interfering via hanging for a crime or something since it was the 1800s or something like that.

The Conclusion

We end this episode with very little answers. Louise Clay is the woman who haunts the place because she died from throat cancer and William Houstin is the man who hung himself. A woman never hung herself or her dog. There wasn't an evil presence that catholic priest was wrong. The house is a residual haunt not intelligent, they can’t verify the murder, and everything else left unanswered will remain unanswered until someone else decides to investigate this house. The answers we are given do not back up any claims of the negativity or confirm any of the other entities Amy encountered. It just proves records can be easily erased and removed from history just as easily as they can be written up.