Enemy shells were landing on the shore, bullets raking the sand.

We did anything to get a couple of days sick.

He used to put the finger on the line and let one of the lads in it with hammers.

We hurled ourselves upon one another with a theory that afterwards we could not understand.

Yeah, we crashed like here to fail.

Imagine the shock when the pick clangs against steel.

You wonder if you've started the clock ticking.

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We're in the series Ghosts in the Attic, where I share cases of people who experience strange noises and disturbances inside their homes,

only to discover that someone was lurking within their very walls,

just waiting for a chance to attack.

In this final episode of the series, a disturbed young man goes from

burglarizing homes to stalking young girls in their own home before

committing a shocking multiple murder. This is chapter 3 of ghosts in the attic, the case of Daniel

Laplant. In a small Massachusetts town, a widowed father was raising his two daughters after the tragic death of his wife.

She had died the previous year after a battle with cancer.

The girls were barely into their teens when their mother was ripped out of their lives so cruelly. Their father did the best that he

could to see to the needs of his two teenage daughters. The girls missed their

mother desperately, so much so that they got an idea in their heads to try and make contact with her from beyond.

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