The couple, Pam and Darren, could never have prepared themselves for what would happen inside their house. In the middle of the night, when they were sleeping, disturbing noises could be heard. They have never thought too much of them, but something happened to change their minds. Darren’s suspicions first fell on his girlfriend, accusing her is pulling a prank on him. She denied it and for them to finally figure things out, they set up a camera. But the disturbing footage would shake their world.
Darren decided enough was enough and put a camera in their daughter’s bedroom. Marks had been appearing up and down his daughter, Natalie’s legs and he didn’t know what was causing them. His wife, Pam, said that she didn’t have any idea either. He let the camera record to gather the evidence. Now he was ready to take a look at what was really going on. But what he saw had him lost for words. The symptoms started appearing when young Natalie would come down for breakfast and Darren would see bruises on her legs. Darren immediately noticed the marks on her legs and asked her about it. She just looked down at her feet and said that she had woken up with him. Darren felt a bad feeling that just wouldn’t go away.
And the marks weren’t the only odd thing about Natalie: now, she never seemed to get enough sleep. She’d go to bed at 8 PM, exhausted, and only reemerge from her bedroom at lunchtime the following day. She would pick at her food and hardly eat anything at dinnertime, and snap at Darren’s most innocent questions when he showed concern. It was like Natalie was a different person. Darren was beginning to worry about Natalie’s health. Armed with determination and driven by worry, Darren took Natalie to the doctor in hopes of finding out the truth. But what the doctor told him only left him with more questions. You see, Natalie didn’t appear to have anything wrong with her. There was nothing strange or worrying about her results. The doctor checked her blood levels but couldn’t find any deficiencies.
So they all decided to set up a camera in Natalie’s room to find out what had been happening, once and for all. The CCTV revealed the truth, but neither of them was ready for the discovery. Darren set up the CCTV with a mission: to find out who was responsible for the bruises on his daughter. Darren had been so convinced that it was Pam because nobody else lived there. He made sure that whoever had been doing this would be exposed, even going as far as purchasing a night vision camera. He was hell-bent on putting a stop to everything. When he finally saw the perpetrator on the video, he never thought that their life would soon become a nightmare.
30 minutes passed and nothing looked out of the ordinary. Then suddenly, Darren saw something on the footage and his jaw came unhinged. Suddenly, Natalie seemed to wake up but she didn’t look like herself at all. He continued watching the rest of the footage to find out more. But what he saw next challenged his theories and shook his beliefs. Darren suddenly felt sick to his stomach. Natalie thrashed in her bed — the movements she made looked weird and unnatural. As soon as Darren saw this, he knew something was very wrong. Darren frantically yelled for Pam and showed her the footage, and she was equally astonished and horrified. They had no idea that this had been going on. They finally had the answers as to where her daughter’s marks were coming from, but after watching the footage they were left with even more questions.
Their GP referred Natalie to a specialist, who ran a battery of tests on her. He conducted a thorough neurological exam and ordered a full polysomnogram with an EEG to measure the electrical activity in her brain. He ruled out a tumor and head trauma. The specialist found some abnormal brain activity on the EEG that seemed to be coming from Natalie’s temporal lobe, which indicated that Natalie could be suffering from temporal lobe epilepsy. It was reasonable to assume that this was causing her to have nocturnal “episodes,” or seizures. But most nocturnal seizures are tonic-clonic. Doctors used to call tonic-clonic seizures grand mal seizures. They typically last less than 5 minutes. During this type of seizure, muscles stiffen and twitch — which explains what Darren had seen on the footage. Natalie was prescribed anti-seizure medication and has made a full recovery. But Darren still had the house cleansed by a priest, ust in case.