unexplained-events:

The Demon of (3406) Brownsville Road

In ‘88 Bob Cranmer and his wife Lesa bought a house on 3406 Brownsville Road (pictured above) just outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Bob had always dreamed of owning this house and found it interesting that it became available the same week he started looking for his dream home. The owners seemed very anxious to sell and accepted his first low-ball offer without any hesitation.

Shortly after the move, Bob discovered a small metal box buried in the front yard containing Catholic religious items. He called the previous owner who had assured him that “the house was fine,” only then to hear him say “just put it back where you found it.”

It didn’t take long for things to get creepy. It started off with Bob coming downstairs in the morning and finding lights on and the radio playing. There was a pull chain light in a closet that would always have its chain wrapped around the bulb, and never remain with the chain dangling. Crucifixes and crosses throughout the home were sometimes bent, broken in half, or thrown onto the floor, etc. Things escalated as time went on. Various family members would wake up with bite marks and scratches. Bob’s youngest son refused to sleep in his own bed and felt the safest in his room’s closet.

At one point a priest was called in to perform a blessing. As the priest started to enter the house, the young son stood in the way of the priest, not allowing him to enter the home, making an “X” with his body in the doorway.

Over the years the Cranmer family became increasingly dysfunctional and eventually Lesa and two of the children would experience mental issues which required hospitalization. Finally, Bob called demonologist Adam Blai to the home. Blai was immediately drawn to a small closet by the staircase and insisted that they cut open one of the walls. Blai and the Cranmers found items belonging to each homeowner since the house was built in the early 1900s, including Legos belonging to Bob’s son. Upon further investigating the contents inside the walls, they found a rough sketch of the home’s original owners from 1909. Blai helped cleanse the house and eventually (in 2006) the Cranmer family was free of the evil plaguing their home.

BOOK- by Bob Cranmer