On the fourth night, Janet levitates above the bed. Her nightgown doesn't fall. The camera flash catches her face: eyes rolled white, lips moving in Latin she never learned. The skeptic from the BBC runs out the front door. He will never write about this.

The tape recorder clicks on by itself again, even though the batteries died three nights ago. Peggy, 11, says she doesn't remember winding the bed sheet into a ghost. Her sister Margaret swears the knocking is in the wall, not in her head.

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The Warrens arrive with holy water and a tape measure for the impossible. Lorraine sees the crooked man behind Janet's shadow—top hat, bone fingers, smiling with a mouth that doesn't end. She doesn't say this out loud. She only asks for more crucifixes.

Janet, the middle one, sleeps with the light on now. The wardrobe rocks at 3:07 AM—not a creak, not a draft, but a rhythm. Two slow, one fast. Two slow, one fast. Her mother thinks it's pipes. The neighbor thinks it's teenage mischief. But when Janet speaks in a voice too deep for her lungs, she calls herself Bill. Died in this chair, 72 years old. Hemorrhage. No heartbeat. No pulse.