Case File 2010DM02
Subject : Danielle Myers
Age : 19
Sex: Female
Summery : Danielle is a college student at USC. She gets average grades and is known to drink and use recreational drugs.
Location : Miller House. Outside of Des Moines, Iowa
Location history : The Miller house, or 'death house' as it is known to locals is located near an Iowa penetentiary. In 1970 two prisoners, Matthew James and Jeff Hill, escaped the prison and sought shelter in the Miller house. Matthew James murdered John Miller, his wife, and two children. In turn, Jeff hill found John Miller's gun, shot Matthew and then himself. The house has stood unoccupied ever since. Miller's family never cleared the house nor tried to sell it. Some locals say the house is haunted by the Matthew James. Others say it is haunted by the family. The house is located in the woods about mile off of Willis Rd.
Journal Entry #1
October 5th 2010 3:00 pm
Ok, so I'm not really sure what I'm supposed to be writing here. I woke up about an hour ago in this creepy old house. I just wanna go home. I have a bad feeling about this place. I sat on the back porch for a while and a tabby cat came up to me. He has no collar, but for a stray he seems friendly. I brought him into the house. At least I'll have him to keep me company. I dunno if I'm going to write much else down. I figure video will be better data.
Video Transcript #1
October 5th 2010 6:00 pm
[Danielle is holding the camera. She is a thin girl, very attractive. Long almost black hair and brown eyes. She is standing in the living room. The house fairly in tact. Just many years of dust built up on everything. Danielle points the camera down to the cat.]
"Well, this is my roomate for the weekend. I guess I'll call him Bandit. Say 'hi'."
[A few minutes pass, looking around the room. Danielle pauses.]
"I guess I'll check this place out."
[She walks into the dining room first. It's a basic dining room, long table in the middle, a buffet along the wall, a china cabinet opposite the buffet, and some paintings on the wall. She looks around a bit and continues on to the kitchen. The cabinets and refrigerator are open and empty as if someone had cleared them all out. She then moves on to a room that looks like a study. There is a desk, a fireplace with 2 chairs in front of it, and a large book shelf. There is also a large dark red/brown stain on the floor. She looks down and shudders.]
"Is that.... I don't want to know. What happened here? Why would they just leave all of their stuff? "
[Danielle then sighs, and goes back into the foyer. She looks to her right where there is a staircase. She goes up the stairs and upon reaching the landing, looks around. There are 2 doors on each side. She goes to her right first. The first room is a bathroom. The sink, toilet and bathtub are both moldy and dirty. ]
"ughhh, that's nasty"
[She leaves the bathroom and moves on to the next door. This room is a small bedroom, very plain. Probably a guest room. There is a full bed, with sheets and blankets on it, and a small dresser. She crosses the hallway to another door. This is the master bedroom. There are two dressers, a king bed with no sheets or blankets, and a large brown stain on the mattress. ]
"Oh my God.... well, one more room to check."
[She then goes to the last door and opens it. This room was the childrens room. There is a toy chest, some toys about the floor, a set of bunk beds, also stripped of sheets and blankets, and two dressers.]
"They had kids.... I hope they were ok at least."
[She goes back to the guest room, sits the camera down on the dresser and leaves the room. She comes back about 20 minutes later with the duffel bag and the cat. She closes the door, and looks at the camera.]
"Well, I guess I'll just lock myself in here for the night since this is the only room that doesn't creep me out.... also the bed has blankets."
[She sits on the bed for a few moments, petting the cat. She then looks at the doorway. She gets up, walks over to the door, closes it, and moves the dresser in front of it.]
Journal Entry #2
October 5th 2010 8:00 pm
Ok, so I lied. I'm blocking myself in this bedroom tonight. I don't know what is going to happen. If I'm lucky I'll just sleep through the night. Hell, if I'm really lucky I'll sleep these 3 days away and not have to worry about it. I miss my friends, I miss school. Jesus, I even miss my parents right now. I'm going to bed soon. I'll leave the camera on in case anything happens.
Video Transcript #2
October 5th 2010 10:40 pm
[Danielle sleeps through the night. The sun comes up. Nothing happens. Danielle wakes up at 8:00 am , walks over to th camera and turns it off.]
Video Transcript #3
October 6th 2010 6:00 pm
[ At 5:45 pm the camera turns back on. It is facing Danielle, she looks at the camera intently.]
"Ok, so I've been trying to pass time since I can't sleep and I found something interesting."
[Danielle walks into the study.]
"I was looking through these books here, Mostly text books on boring crap and old literature, but I found this."
[Danielle grabs a small hardcover from the top shelf. The book is unlabeled.]
"There are some weird things in here."
[Danielle pulled out some papers]
"The pages are all blank, but there are some newspaper clippings and letters. I think a man named John Miller lived here. The letters are all written to him. They're all from some guy in prison named Jeff Hill. It sounds like they grew up together. According to the articles, Jeff was in prison for robbing a bank. From the letters it sounds like John was in on it too, only he was never caught. He was actually holding on to the money. Apparently they had a plan. Jeff was going to break out and bring another man, Matthew James with him. They were going to meet John at his house, kills his family, then kill Matthew James and pin it all on him. Make it look like he killed John's family and John killed Matthew in self defense. Then Jeff was going to hide out for a while. John would collect his insurance money, along with the money he was holding on to and they we're going to run off somewhere. That's pretty much all I got from them. I don't know how well I'm going to sleep knowing this all went down here."
[Danielle sighs and turns the camera off.]
Video Transcript # 4
October 6th 11:45 pm
[Danielle turns on the camera and sits on the bed for a while crying and petting the cat. She lays down, attempting to sleep. She tosses and turns for a while. After about 30 minutes of this there is the sound of a door slamming out in the hallway. Danielle sits straight up. ]
Whispering "Oh shit..."
[There is the sound of heavy footsteps descending the stairs. Then the faint sound of a woman moaning. The footsteps return up the stairs and another door slams. Danielle appears to be crying. She cups her hands over her mouth. The door slams again and the footsteps come to her door. The handle jiggles some, then the footsteps walk away, back down the stairs, and the front door slams. She covers her ears and lays down on the bed. Laying there, she cries for a while. After a while she just lay there quiet. She falls asleep with her hand hanging off the side of the bed. Something from under the bed moves the blanket. Danielle leans on her elbow and starts moving the hand hanging off the side along the blanket]
"You wanna play kitty?"
[She continues this for a few moments before looking at the foot of the bed. She notices the cat is still on the bed with her. She looks down at her hand when suddenly, as if something grabbed her hand, she slams down to the floor and then under the bed. She screams and the bed moves from her struggling underneath it. She manages to get free, gets up, runs to the dresser, moves it and rushes out of the door. The front door slams. Hours pass and eventually the sun rises. Danielle returns and grabs the camera. She looks into it.]
"I sat outside until the sun came up. I really want to leave. I don't know what to do."
[She heads downstairs and the camera turns off.]
Video Transcript #4
October 6th 2010 3:00 pm
[Danielle looks at the camera.]
"I didn't think it was possible, but I slept for a little while. I really don't know how I'm going to make it through another night. I-I don't know how much data you people need, but let me tell you. I sure got enough for me. I believe in this shit now. "
[She sits there for a few minutes, looking down.]
"I feel like I need to do something. "
[slight pause]
"This is my last night here, I'm going to figure out what the hell happened here, maybe end all of this"
Video Transcript #5
October 7th 2010 12:05 am
[Danielle turns the camera on and is walking through the house. ]
"The door upstairs just slammed. I'm scared as hell, but I'm going to be brave and see if I can see something"
[Footsteps are heard in the distance. Danielle enters the kitchen.]
"Hello. Hello. I know someone is there."
[She looks around. Suddenly all of the cabinets and drawers slam closed. Danielle screams and runs into the dining room and looks back into the kitchen. A clatter is heard behind her. She turns around slowly, breathing heavily. All of the chairs are now stacked on the dining room table. The chairs then levitate, hovering about five inches above the table. Danielle just stands there for a few moments in shock at this site. As she begins to walk toward the table the chairs slam down onto it and fall to the floor. She screams runs towards the study. She trips over a chair and falls into the study. The camera is now on the floor facing her. She slowly gets up.]
"What? Enough with this bullshit! Tell me what you want!"
[A slight thump is heard in the background. Danielle picks up the camera and walks towards the bookshelf. The book that contained the letters and articles has fallen to the floor, however, upon opening it, the pages are no longer blank. As she turns the pages, each one has 'Stop digging little girl.' printed over and over on them. She throws the book across the room.]
"Fuck you, you sick asshole!"
[The book lands by the desk. The book raises off the ground and then flies back at Danielle as if thrown by an unseen force. She drops to the ground to avaid it hitting her. Just then the desk slides across the floor, making a terrible wood on wood scraping sound. The desk pins Danielle against the bookshelf. The camera falls onto the desk and sits upside down pointed toward the door to the dining room. In the doorway, the figure of a man is seen. The man is almost transparent, but his features can still be seen. He has an evil smirk. Danielle gasps, apparently seeing the man in the doorway.]
"John Miller? Are you John Miller?"
[The man shakes his head, the smirk still on his face.]
"Matthew James"
[The man nods and starts towards her. Danielle pushes the desk away, grabs the camera and runs upstairs. She runs to the door of the childrens room and opens it. The figures of two small children are seen on the top bunk, clutching each other in fear and mouthing the words 'help me' to her. ]
"How, how can I help you? What can I do? Tell me!"
[The boy points back at the door. Danielle turns and faces the doorway. There is the sound of a woman screaming, which ends abruptly with a thud. Then the master bedroom door slams and footsteps are heard. The figure that she saw downstairs is now entering the childrens room. The man walks over to the children and they start to scream. Danielle turns away and ducks in the corner. The children's screaming stops and the man walks out of the room. Danielle looks around and sees nobody in the room now.]
"Where did you go? What do I do now?"
[Footsteps are heard going down the stairs. Shortly after, 3 male voices are heard agruing downstairs. Danielle heads down the stairs slowly. The voices are heard a little more clearly now.]
"Where the hell are you going?"
"I was-"
"You were going to set me up weren't you?"
"It's how it is. You're already a psycho murderer. Nobody will doubt that you killed them. The police will be so distracted with what you did they won't even think to look for me."
[As Danielle approaches the bottom of the stairs, she sees Matthew at the doorway, pulling a gun out of the back of his pants.]
"Good thing I brought this then."
[He points the gun and a shot is heard, followed by a thud. Matthew turns slightly, still pointing his gun.]
"Your turn"
[The gun fires again, followed by another thud. Matthew then turns to Danielle and gives her that smirk again.]
Danielle - "Oh God"
Matthew - "There is no God. This is my God"
[He puts the gun in his mouth and shoots. His figure falls to the floor and slowly fades out.]
"Shit.. what the hell did I just see?"
[She turns to look up the stairs again and sees the two children again. They mouth the words 'thank you' to her, and slowly fade away. Danielle turns back to the front door and sits on the porch, rocking back and forth. She reaches over and turns the camera off.]
Final Report :
Danielle was found laying on the porch, asleep. She was sedated and returned to her campus. She was placed in a couch on her dorm lobby with a bottle of vodka and 3 hits of LSD in her pocket. A report was found a few days later about a student at the university being suspended for using halucinogens and being hysterical about supposedly being in a haunted house for the last few days. It was assumed she imagined the whole situation.
