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The Haunted House Confession

Dateline NBC

NBC News

True Crime, Culture, Social, Society & Culture, News

4.438K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2025

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

After 25-year-old Chantay Blankinship’s remains are found at an abandoned building that locals call the Haunted House, investigators sort through dead-end leads until a stunning confession during a church service changes everything. Blayne Alexander reports.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Tonight on Dateline. She would show up sometimes before the pastor. She loved the love we gave her.

0:12.2

I got a phone call that she didn't come home. She went missing on Friday the 13th.

0:18.6

I hurt sirens and my heart kind of drop.

0:22.4

Kids would call it a haunted house.

0:24.5

You couldn't imagine a scarier place

0:28.1

for a body to be found.

0:31.0

We're trying to identify potential suspects.

0:34.1

John Adams was Chantay's boyfriend.

0:36.4

He said, I'm your boyfriend. I have a boyfriend.

0:39.2

She said, you know it up.

0:40.9

Colin's name had been mentioned multiple times.

0:43.4

Colin told her to meet him in the shed and not to tell anybody.

0:49.1

She knew Ryan.

0:50.3

He was missing.

0:51.8

He couldn't be located.

0:54.0

Take me to that Wednesday night church service.

0:56.0

He starts talking about demon thoughts. That's when it just exploded. I grabbed a pew

1:05.0

and I was like, how?

1:08.0

Oh!

1:10.0

Church is a place where we expect confessions, but not one like this.

1:16.6

I'm Lester Holt, and this is Dateline.

1:23.6

Here's Blaine Alexander with The Haunted House Confession.

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