Poltergeist

***Poltergeist*** is the fourth episode of the third season of the thriller horror docudrama found-footage television series Lost Tapes. It originally aired on Animal Planet on October 5th, 2010 and was directed by Douglas Segal.

## Plot

In Summer (June) 2009, in Lakeview, Colorado, Megan Golden is talking with her friends on her laptop computer. Her younger brother Troy comes in and says to her that he is making a video for their grandparents and asks her if she wants to say anything. She sarcastically agrees, but turns annoyed, telling Troy to leave her alone, and to leave her room.

They soon get in an argument, when a box on her bookshelf goes flying and lands on her bed. Then, her entire bookshelf falls on her when Troy angrily responds to his sister's comment about him being a "freak". After this incident, the parents Mark and Jenn Golden hire a paranormal investigation team consisting of Dr. Jeremy Reinhold, Kristy Johns who is paraplegic, and Bill "Shots" Cooper, to help the family. The team film the account for their TV show, "Paranormal Encounters". While testing to see if Troy could move a pen without touching it, he told them that he can't do it but the pen suddenly moves.

That night, Troy suddenly wakes up screaming after objects in his room move on their own, and a stuffed panda in his arms is replaced by a butcher knife of unknown origin. After moving the Goldens to Jenn's parents house (where they moved Megan after the bookshelf incident), the team begins their investigation. They enter Troy's room, where the paranormal activity seems to be strongest.

The closet door shuts behind Shots on its own, knocking him into a wall and revealing a box. They find newspapers inside the box that tell them of a man named Charles Weatherly, who lived in the house twenty years ago. The newspapers state that Charles brutally murdered his wife and children with a knife and then killed himself and Jeremy shows it to Kristy.

They conclude that Charles' ghost is haunting the house as a poltergeist, and they become determined to get rid of him. They hear ghostly utterances of "Leave," and Jeremy sees something in a window. When he investigates, he sees an image of himself holding a knife through the window, but it vanishes. Kristy suddenly gets thrown against the wall and begins convulsing, and the lights in the house go out and is now in night vision mode. When Jeremy and Shots try to help her, a sinister-sounding voice says "Leave!" through her, and she dies soon afterward. While Jeremy refuses to let the poltergeist win, Shots tries to leave with Kristy's body, but sees a message written in blood on a mirror: "Too Late."

Seconds later, he is killed as well and Jeremy goes in and turns Shots' head to find that he is still. Finally, Jeremy concedes victory to the ghost and tries to leave, but the door keeps locking itself as he tries to get out, and he suddenly hears the voice of Troy calling for help from the bedroom. Jeremy warily walks upstairs and enters the bedroom, to find it empty. Then, the closet door opens and he turns around to see the apparent ghost of Charles Weatherly, which can only be seen by him and the camera he is holding.

The murderous young husband and father's ghost, whose covered in blood and holding the weapon in question, a knife then attacks and kills Jeremy by stabbing him to death; the same Charles’ family ended up. After the investigators' bodies were discovered, their deaths were officially attributed to cardiac arrest. The episode of their series never aired, shortly after the events of June 11th, the Goldens sold their home. Colorado real estate law did not required to disclose any of the activity that had occurred.