This is impossible. This isn't a knock on the door. This isn't a voice in my ear.

This isn't a light turning on and off. This is a physical piece of paper. How can that possibly manifest in a different place than she lived a year after she was removed from her home?

A foster child, strange drawings, and a haunting that defied distance, belief, and time itself.

Now this is the extraordinary true story of a battle with something far darker than a ghost.

My name is Edwin, and here is Richard's true, scary story.

My name is Richard and I'm in Los Angeles, California,

and I'm going to share a true story about a demonic haunting

that my family experienced for five years.

This began after we temporarily fostered a 13-year-old girl who claimed to be possessed

by an entity that she called Melabell. This was a temporary foster placement. This was not an

adoption placement. I want to make that clear. She had displayed increasingly disturbing behavior.

She would watch demonic summoning videos on YouTube.

Just before Thanksgiving of 2017, she had attacked my ex-wife and I in our home.

This was after she had done things like animal torture, animal abuse, and made

some very frightening comments to us. She had what I believed at the time to be a mental breakdown.

She was in her room, throwing things around, punching walls.

She was making a sound that sounded like a mix of a growl and a scream.

She was just thrashing her body around and I come in there, I taken my camera and I put it in my jacket pocket to act as sort of a body cam in case something were to happen.

I'm six foot tall, I'm about 230 pounds and this was a 13 year old girl who was 80 pounds soaking wet.

She shoved me hard enough that I flew out of her room

and down part of the hallway and collided with a big heavy glass vase almost knocking it over.

And it wasn't as if she was super strong. It was as if I had weighed nothing. It felt like I was

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