Strange things have been happening in this Michigan home. It was up to the mother to figure out what exactly was going on. She was able to hear some noises at night, but things turned out to be different than she imagined. She was sure her fiance was behind it but was wrong.
Her Child Got Weird Scratches In The Morning So This Mom Decided To Solve The Mystery
The Video From The Monitor
The video was now in her possession, so the next thing for her to do was to watch it. What she saw spooked her. She and her fiancé Joshua placed a baby monitor in their baby’s room to see what was really happening. This mother doubted that her daughter caused the scratches all by herself. However, her fiancé said that he did not have anything to do with it.
The Video From The Monitor
Scratches On Her Face
She decided that it was time to watch the video. As she did so, she thought that she would catch Joshua red-handed. However, her skin began to crawl when she saw what was really happening. Before we go on, you should know that Joshua Higgins and Heather Brough lived in a guesthouse owned by his mom.
Scratches On Her Face
Everything Changed
The couple had a 1-year-old little angel called Lily. They moved into that house a little over a year before this happened. However, the truth made them want to look for a new place right away. It all started when Heather took her baby out of her crib and saw that there were scratches on her face.
Everything Changed
Things Began To Get Tense
She did not think much of it. However, she started to get bothered when she saw more marks after the first ones healed already. It was time for her to speak to him. She and Joshua had a great relationship together, but what was going on?
Things Began To Get Tense
Had To Do Something
This young couple lived in a small town. Their dreams were all coming true, and everything seemed perfect. They were blissfully in love, lived in a nice home, and had a lovely little girl together. Everything changed when strange things started to happen in their house.
Had To Do Something
Getting Answers
Heather had been sleeping when she heard weird noises coming from inside the house. She heard squealing doors, thumps on the floor, and footsteps in their kitchen. It was not hard to ignore these things, but there was no way she was going to let the scratches on her daughter’s face go just like that.
Getting Answers
Finding Out The Truth
She spoke to her fiancé if he was getting up in the middle of the night. Heather even asked Joshua if he entered their daughter’s room that night. The concerned mom asked him about their daughter’s scratches. Was this going to be the end of their happy relationship?
Finding Out The Truth
A Figure
Tension started to build between the two of them. Joshua denied it, so Heather was hoping to catch him in the act. She had no idea that she was totally on the wrong track. Things were actually worse than she was anticipating. However, she had to figure out what to do since it was hard to live like that.
A Figure
Someone Else
Joshua denied the allegations she made. Heather wondered if she was simply going crazy and imaging all of it. Maybe an animal managed to get into the house. However, she was pretty certain that it was not the case since she shut the doors and windows before sleeping.
Someone Else
Spine-Chilling Realization
This meant that the perpetrator had to be someone or something in the house. The only logical explanation was that it was Joshua, but it was difficult for her to imagine this. Heather had to get answers. At last, they decided to install a baby monitor in the room where Lily slept.
Spine-Chilling Realization
Need To Get Out
They placed the camera at the best angle to focus on the crib. Joshua told Heather that Lily must have been scratching herself in bed. After all, it was common for babies to do this in their sleep. However, this kept happening even when Heather made sure to keep their baby’s nails trimmed after the first time.
Need To Get Out
The Truth Revealed
Heather was not ready to learn the truth, and neither are you. She was desperate to solve the mystery, which is the reason she arranged it all. The couple bought Logitech Circle 2, a baby monitor that comes with night vision. As you can see, they were determined to find out what was going on.
The Truth Revealed
Calling The Authorities
The following day, they saw even more scratches on their daughter’s face. On the bright side, they at least had the footage in their possession now. At long last, they would be able to see what was really going on. However, Heather was creeped out when she learned the truth.
Calling The Authorities
Getting The House Investigated
They saw a blurry silhouette of a man in the bedroom. Heather thought that she was right on the mark. Joshua must have been walking around the house while she was sleeping! But why would he have kept it a secret from her?
Getting The House Investigated
Other Strange Occurrences
Could it be a joke of some sort? Was he sleepwalking? She had to continue watching to figure out the truth. However, she was shaken to her core after watching the next part. She saw the grainy figure walk past the crib. Lily must have been aware that there was a person in the room since she sat up straight!
Other Strange Occurrences
Strange Sounds
She gripped the side of her crib and pulled herself into a standing position. After this, Lily looked around curiously. The man then faced the monitor. That was how Heather knew that this man was not actually her fiancé. But who was he if not Joshua?
Strange Sounds
Set To Return
Heather could feel her breath hitch. Her heart was now beating as loudly as it could. She just realized that this was a stranger! This worried mother could not pry her eyes off the screen. What was this mysterious intruder going to do?
Set To Return
Previous Residents
The stranger roamed the room. The sight of this made Heather’s stomach knot. At this point, she wanted to know who this man was and what he was doing. At least she now understood where the weird noises and the scratches on Lily’s skin came from.
Previous Residents
A Dark Past
She replayed the clip several times. There was a time when the stranger became totally transparent when he moved by Lily! It dawned on Heather that she was not watching a man. No, he was not even a human being! Chills went through her body. She could not help but hold Lily tighter to her.
A Dark Past
Leaving As Soon As Possible
She had to speak to Joshua about this. They needed to move out as soon as they could. Joshua saw the video and said, “It was chilling… It was literally a chill down your spine, like that ‘what if’ factor — Is this what I just saw?” Heather shared, “Seeing Lily’s face with the scratches was so bizarre and frightening.”
Leaving As Soon As Possible
Some Skeptics
Heather explained further, “I was crying, ‘What happened to you?’ I grabbed her jacket and ran over to my mother-in-law’s house. Nobody knew what happened. We wondered if she’d scratched herself, but when we put her hands up to the scratches it did not match up.”
Some Skeptics
An Observation
After seeing the footage, Joshua got goosebumps. Not only that, but there was also a ball of terror in his belly. He was terrified by what he saw and knew that they could not stay there longer. He was gasping as he went outside the house with Lily and Heather. They had to call the cops.
An Observation
A Plausible Explanation
Joshua got a referral for the Scientific Paranormal Investigations of Michigan. What they told him only made him more scared! The owner of the agency, Mike Priest, deployed an investigation team to their house. What did they find?
A Plausible Explanation
A Possibility
Before we tell you, let us tell you that the discovery only filled Heather and Joshua with more determination to pack up. After watching the video, they arrived at the conclusion that both the main house and the guest house were both haunted.
A Possibility
The Motivation
There were many weird occurrences that took place in their house. In one interview, Heather narrated, “I woke up to get ready for work one morning and it felt like someone was choking me.” She recounted, “It shook me to the point where I decided to buy our camera.”
The Motivation
The Message
She thought that Joshua would not believe her right away, so she kept it a secret from him. Heather said, “There have been times where me and my fiancé would wake up in the morning and I would hear an angry male voice — like someone had stubbed their toe.”
The Message
Waiting For A Response
“I definitely believe there is something going on at this house,” Mike Priest shared. “We are looking forward to checking out this one as well.” He explained that he and his team managed to record weird sounds in the house after they paid the home a visit.
Waiting For A Response
Hearing Something
“We heard something say, ‘Oh here we go. Oh yeah.’ I heard it as plain as day,” the paranormal expert said. Mike Priest and the team are planning to return to the house so that they can conduct a proper investigation soon.
Hearing Something
Logical Explanation
Mike said that the goal is to see if it was possible to replicate the video or arrive at a logical explanation. They had to do this before they blame it on the paranormal. He is hoping to figure out what the footage recorded in that room.
Logical Explanation
Homeowner
Joshua’s mother is called Kris. The house has been in her possession for 11 years. She is the one who can best answer the questions about the house. She said, “I was told when we bought the houses 11 years ago the lady who owned the property died in the main house.”
Homeowner
Old Farmhouse
“It’s an old farmhouse and according to her niece… she fell down the stairs, broke her hips and laid there for a very long time before she passed away. She said that the guesthouse was built for the lady’s brother who was schizophrenic,” Kris narrated.
Old Farmhouse
Another Theory
However, there was another theory presented by Jim, Joshua’s dad. He is convinced that the man in the video was an old tenant at the guesthouse. He told WXYZ-TV Detroit, “The gentleman that lived here originally… (jumped) out this window, which is one story down.”
Another Theory
No Closer
Heather and Joshua have yet to arrive at a definitive answer to the mystery. However, the couple already knows what they should do about this strange situation. “It scares us that it could do something else,” she said. “It’s not physically just going after her, it feels like it’s going after myself too… This has made us want to leave as soon as possible. As soon as possible we’re out of here. This is a spirit. I don’t know what its intentions are, but at this point it’s becoming physically harmful.”
No Closer
Going Viral
The video, which they posted on social media, made rounds on the internet and scared a lot of viewers. On the other hand, there are skeptics too. There are people who do not think that the video recorded an apparition. In fact, they said that it was not hard to explain what was going on in the footage.
Going Viral
Skeptics
A Skeptical Inquirer writer called Kenny Biddle said, “There’s something else I noticed right away – the ghost was casting a shadow, two actually. This tells me the figure is a solid, physical object able to reflect light. In the first milliseconds of the video, as the figure is moving to the left, you can see its shadow move across the ceiling right by the ceiling fan.”
Skeptics
The Reasoning
“I would surmise either (Heather) and/or (Joshua) had been watching television and had reason to get up out of bed, perhaps go down to the kitchen for a drink/food or a visit to the bathroom, paused the video and walked across the room not realizing they were being recorded,” Biddle went on.
The Reasoning
Lack of Understanding
“At a later, unspecified time, they reviewed the footage and due to a lack of understanding of video cameras, concluded the distorted figure was a ghost,” he said. But how did Lily end up with those scratches? “Aside from the technical issues, it is not uncommon for babies to scratch themselves.”
Lack of Understanding
Scratches
“We know from her statements that (Heather) discovered the scratches after waking the baby up from a nap,” Biddle explained. He also said, “… but there’s nothing to rule out the possibility Lily scratched herself while sleeping.” As he was doing his research about the story, he found out something else.
Scratches
GoFundMe
“I’m not sure exactly what the motivation behind these claims is, but I do have my suspicions,” he said. “I went to Heather Brough’s Facebook page earlier today and noticed that she posted her first public post since November of 2018; it was a link to a GoFundMe account she had created that day (March 26, 2019) with a goal of $5,000.”
GoFundMe
Moving Out
“She was asking for this amount to help her move out of the guest house, citing her daughter’s safety from all the paranormal activity as the main reason for the fundraising,” he shared. After this, he reached out to Heather via Facebook.
Moving Out
Reaching Out
“Hello, my name is Kenny Biddle, and I’ve been investigating paranormal claims for the last 20+ years. Your video of what is believed to be a ghost walking in your house was brought to my attention by several paranormal groups,” he wrote in the message.
Reaching Out
Wondering
“After taking a look at it, I was wondering if there was a longer clip – perhaps footage showing the few minutes leading up to (and including) the clip that was shared on ABC Action News. The clip that has been shared starts with the figure already in motion, and I was hoping to see where it originates,” he explained some more.
Wondering
Looking For Confirmation
This was how Biddle ended it: “I noticed the TV was on, so being able to confirm it wasn’t someone (living) watching TV and perhaps got up to get something, would be beneficial. I’m not saying this was a hoax, I’m just trying to get as much information as possible to understand what the video is showing. I appreciate your time in reading this. I hope to hear back from you. Have a good day.” The writer said that Heather has not yet gotten back to him.
Looking For Confirmation