Aline is a young newlywed eager to start her new life in America with her husband John. What was supposed to be her dream life turns into a waking nightmare when she finds herself stalked by an angry spirit. When attempts to fight it only make the vengeful entity angrier, Aline is left to wonder- will she be able to save herself and her marriage before it’s too late?
Aline is a young newlywed eager to start her new life in America with her husband John. What was supposed to be her dream life turns into a waking nightmare when she finds herself stalked by an angry spirit. When attempts to fight it only make the vengeful entity angrier, Aline is left to wonder- will she be able to save herself and her marriage before it’s too late?
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Eli Roth [00:00:02] I'm Eli Roth and it is great to be back with a new season of The Ghost Ruin My Life podcast from Travel. The story we're about to tell you is unlike anything I've heard before, and it is terrifying. When we heard Aline's story, we had to dive in deeper. Sometimes we hear stories where someone goes looking for something otherworldly, something paranormal, and they find it. But this one is different and happened for absolutely no understandable reason. It seems like a random act of pure evil.
Aline [00:00:42] Never imagined that. Something like that. Never. Something that I don't wish upon. My worst enemy. I don't. I know I made a mistake, but I don't want to cry. I'll try not to. I just want you guys to know the whole truth.
Eli Roth [00:01:05] This is the first time Alina has ever told this story and you'll understand why. It really is a newlyweds nightmare. And it all starts with Alina's whirlwind romance. 12 years ago, she was living in Brazil, surrounded by a loving family and great friends. She had a good job and everything was perfect.
Aline [00:01:27] I'm from Rio de Janeiro. I used to work at a front desk in a hotel and John was visiting. And that's how we met. John was a good man. He's an architect. So a professional. You know, we had, like, fun. You know, he was a good, good guy. And, you know, I thought he was attractive on the outside as well, you know, inside and out. Of course, he always took me dining and hiking. He really liked the outdoors. We had enough chemistry. We had a lot of connection. I had this person who treats me well, show me the world and just loves me. So he proposed.
Eli Roth [00:02:12] Aline and John are getting married. And when I first heard this, I thought something will happen to the husband. But it's really not like that at all. It's actually much worse.
Aline [00:02:27] We had that beautiful wedding. You know, everything in the dress, the church, we had everything. And at first, it was like a fairy tale. That's how I found that my marriage was.
Eli Roth [00:02:38] Aline has met the love of her life. So she leaves her loving family behind to begin a new life in the U.S. Soon she's in beautiful and expansive northern Oregon. It's a far cry from the familiar hustle and bustle of Rio de Janeiro.
Aline [00:02:54] It's like two miles off the road. And up there, there is this house that faces the valley.
John Re Cre [00:03:03] Welcome home.
Aline Re Cre [00:03:05] I love it.
John Re Cre [00:03:06] Yeah. It's yours. Ours.
Aline [00:03:10] It was huge. Was like a mansion you can describe. Like a mansion. You know, I came from humble beginnings, but when I first saw the house, it was gorgeous. It was gorgeous. You know, I had the fairytale and the castle and the nice car. I had that lifestyle, you know, everything.
Eli Roth [00:03:31] With their new home, Elina and John are eager to settle into married life and spend most of their time cooking together.
John Re Cre [00:03:38] Oh, crap, no. Oh. Okay. I'm sorry. This never happens to me. I swear
Aline Re Cre [00:03:43] Is this you trying to impress me?
John Re Cre [00:03:45] Is it working? Do you love me now? Oh, yeah. Okay. It's going to be crispy, but good, I promise.
Aline Re Cre [00:03:52] You keep promising me things.
Aline [00:03:55] He was sweet in that way, you know. Of course, you know, he would spoil me. But eventually, I want to get a career. So that was my plan, you know, even though I didn't really need to work, you know, because I had such a good husband, he was very good, very generous to me in that way.
Eli Roth [00:04:10] But as the honeymoon ends and reality sets in Aline, his new life is not exactly the fairytale she imagined.
John Re Cre [00:04:19] Night.
Aline Re Cre [00:04:20] It's Early.
John Re Cre [00:04:22] It's a long commute. Sorry. Got to go. I'll call you later.
Aline [00:04:32] Besides my husband. I didn't have any other friends. He is a professional, so he leaves early in the morning and he goes to work. So I'm by myself in their house.
Eli Roth [00:04:43] And as beautiful as everything is, living in an isolated area, it doesn't make things any easier.
Aline [00:04:51] Where I live, it was a valley. It was like over two miles off the main road. We don't have neighbors. We don't have nothing. It was just bears around the woods. So it was very lonely at first, you know? I mean, I have six brothers and three sisters, so a lot of people, you know, and I miss them. You have your family and the language and everything, you know, made me feel even more alone. So that was hard. You take things for granted and then you don't have them anymore, and you just got to be strong.
Eli Roth [00:05:28] But as Elina gets used to her new life in her new surroundings, she senses she may not be alone in that house after all.
Aline [00:05:40] When I first moved to the house, there was something. I remember, like, clearly. I'm like, I see this tall shadow through the glass door. Right. So, of course, in my brain, I'm thinking, it's John. He's a tall falla, you know. And I remember I call him and I was like, John, I see you because I thought he went upstairs. So I actually go and I open the. This thing passed by slowly, like tall. And I see clearly. So I open the door and I check.
Aline Re Cre [00:06:22] John. John.
Aline [00:06:30] It wasn't him. I see this tall shadow figure. It was one of those moments like it was a split second. It was like that kind of thing that it just happening. It made no sense. I'm hearing, like, just like, whispering, like, more than once. And I used to be like, Oh, my goodness, am I going crazy? What's this? And there was nothing not to.
Eli Roth [00:07:05] It's pretty common in stories like these that when something like this happens, it can be hard to talk about it with anyone, no matter how close they are to you. Understandably, Aline is reluctant to tell her new husband about it.
Aline [00:07:19] I didn't want to be laugh at it right in my face, you know, because he was he was a sweet person, but he had that side of him that he could be a little bit, you know, his intellectual.
Eli Roth [00:07:30] Elina is super close with her family. She confides in them with just about everything, but not this. She can't bring herself to share this strange feeling that seems to have washed over her.
Aline Re Cre [00:07:42] It's been hard out here. I'm used to life in the city and being out here feel lonely. I mean, I guess It'll get better once I get a job or something else to do. He wants kids right away, but not ready for that. You know, Mama or mama?
Aline [00:08:05] There was a presence in this house. I just don't know what it was. I found there was somebody watching me, you know, start kind of like, freaking me out a little bit. All that. It's start scaring me a lot. All that stuff. I started kind of like putting two plus two together that this is maybe paranormal.
Eli Roth [00:08:28] Now that Elina knows she's being haunted. She's about to do one of the riskiest things you can do with the spirit. Make contact.
Aline [00:09:01] There was a presence that made you uncomfortable in the house. Like somebody was just watching you. You would just feel this like this presence. And I remember like few times, just like I would look outside to see if there was anything there and there was nothin. I never thought I was going to get worse the way it did. I thought, was it? I thought that was just a weird house.
Eli Roth [00:09:29] Aline is convinced her new home is haunted. It makes sense. One thing that often happens in these stories is that people try to communicate with the presence. And while I completely understand the desire to do that, I've also learned that it's extremely dangerous.
Aline [00:09:46] I want to say curiosity, but basically, once I realized that it was like those paranormal shows around and stuff, I was like, you know, Oh, that's what they do to contact the spirits.
Eli Roth [00:09:58] So she goes online and places in order, and soon a spirit board shows up on her doorstep.
Aline [00:10:05] I thought that I would get some answers. You know, I remember clearly it was during the day and John was at work. I just open up at the coffee table right there and just read the manual.
Eli Roth [00:10:21] There are strict rules to using a spirit board, the most important of which is that you should never use one alone. But Aline is far from her family. She has no friends in her new country, and her husband is away for long periods of time. She has no choice but to risk it.
Aline Re Cre [00:10:41] Is anyone here? Why do you want if you're here? Manifest yourself.
Aline [00:10:54] I just try one, two, three questions. I didn't hear anything. And I remember that's basically what I ask. Who are you? Why are you here? Is anyone here? And I remember not hearing anything. Nothing. Didn't even feel anything. Nothing. I just thought like, okay, I'm being stupid. I'm like, embarrassing myself. Put in that boat and then a garbage bag. And afterwards, I thought was the end of it. I just didn't know that I was going to have the consequences. It did you know that my situation was going to get much worse. Nothin was happening to my husband, John. He was oblivious to everything. I think I just want to understand and, like, get some answers. You know? What is it? Like, what's going on? Why are you here? And that was a mistake. My husband used to wake up, you know, around 645 or so and do his routine to go to shower and go downstairs and to have breakfast.
Aline Re Cre [00:12:10] What time do you come home last night?
John Re Cre [00:12:13] Late. Too late.
Aline Re Cre [00:12:16] Is it always going to be like this?
John Re Cre [00:12:19] No. No. I have a lot to catch up on. Vacations. Over, remember?
Aline Re Cre [00:12:25] How about the honeymoon? We can play hockey.
John Re Cre [00:12:33] Hockey? Yeah. Yeah. Hockey's the one with sticks.
Eli Roth [00:12:38] When Elina talks with us, she paints a harrowing picture of her direct experience with this entity.
Aline [00:12:45] I heard this, like, creaking, you know, like. And when the door opened and next I felt the comforter just going down. It was all that happening, you know. And then I felt a touch like this thing just sitting in the bed like a whole weight of a person. Like, you know, when somebody sits on a bed in the bed, kind of sink, like sitting on a bed and just touching me, I just thought was my husband.
Aline [00:13:16] So you can play hooky.
Aline [00:13:27] It wasn't him. But it's happening. It's happening. I can feel the muscles. I can feel the touch. Like holding me. I didn't tell my husband. I didn't want him thinking that I was crazy. I was completely terrified. Then I started realizing they obviously know this is paranormal. Obviously, this is more than I can chew. This is not a ghost. This is something powerful. So I remember just going there on my desktop computer and looking it up. I didn't even know what to search for. I type something like all humans spirits touching me.
Eli Roth [00:14:13] After doing some research online, Aline determines that she is being stalked by an incubus, an ancient and deadly demon that preys on women. Some believe that union with an incubus would result in the birth of other witches or demons or even deformed humans. It's scary stuff and definitely not something you want to mess around with.
Aline [00:14:36] I started reading and I was like, Everything matches. This is what I got in my house. He was a strong incubus.
Eli Roth [00:14:51] What's worse is that Elina believes she herself conjured the incubus.
Aline [00:14:56] I opened the door for it. I regret using the board very much.
Eli Roth [00:15:06] Now that the demon is clearly present, Aline decides that she must confront it. It's a huge risk.
Aline Re Cre [00:15:16] Leave me alone. Leave me alone. I said leave me alone. Ahh.
Aline Re Cre [00:15:38] It pushed me off my feet. Back then, I was like, what, 165 or 170? It took me off the bed like I was nothing. Like I was a little kid, like a five year old. And yet I fell the grip and my legs and my by my ankle. You just pull me one pole off the bed, right? He was huge. He was a strong. It boggles my mind, scares me. It's just too much. And to this day, I still have questions myself. I have a lot of guilt. I wonder like is because I hope that I allow that to happen. It's my fault. So I want other people to Don't mess with the paranormal. I want other people to don't open a door. They cannot close like me. I didn't know how to close that door when I got stuck with that situation. This predicament that I was stuck with, I was like, How am I going to close this door?
Eli Roth [00:16:36] Being in the room with Aline you can see and feel how recalling the ordeal affects her.
Aline Re Cre [00:16:42] I would be lying if I say I don't have fear. I would be lying. It's always brings that nervousness, that adrenaline back. Now to remember this was traumatizing in my life. You know, it still brings a lot emotions when I talk about it. When I realized there was a demon that was in my house, it's just the fear that can destroy you, the feeling that, you know, it's not there for no good. I knew that I was in danger. This. The stuff that was happening and the energy, it was too strong. Now, looking in retrospect, I know I had no chance. What chance did I have against this? You know? It was getting more aggressive with me. It was saying, you don't tell me. No, you don't say no. You don't tell me no.
Eli Roth [00:17:36] At this point, Aline fears that her life is in danger. It's real. It's serious, and she has to do something about it. So finally she confides in her husband, John.
John Re Cre [00:17:49] What is it?
Aline [00:17:51] I gather, like the strength to go tell him that those things were happening.
John Re Cre [00:17:56] This is ridiculous. Are you hearing yourself right now? I mean, is this some kind of Brazilian superstition?
Aline Re Cre [00:18:01] No, not at all. Has nothing to do with it. There's just something in the house, and it's.
John Re Cre [00:18:06] Aren't you happy here? Do you reget marrying Me? Or regret coming here?
Aline Re Cre [00:18:10] No there's just something in the house, and it's just-
John Re Cre [00:18:12] And what? And what? He wants you. Are you trying to make me jealous?
Aline Re Cre [00:18:18] Shut up.
John Re Cre [00:18:18] Fine. Fine.
Aline [00:18:21] You can just see his body language. He did not want to talk about none of that. So he would just shut down. And that left. And that left me completely, completely alone. There was no talking to him about that. I believe it could be jealous of him. Could dawn him harm. Was so possessive of me. Felt like blown me. That's the feeling that, like, I owe you. You're mine. Everything started going downhill. That's taking a toll in our relationship. We grew distant. There was no, like, having my back. I was on my own.
Eli Roth [00:19:04] Aline's family is deeply religious, and that makes this situation extremely difficult.
Aline [00:19:10] I could not tell my family and I would say a much higher Christian evangelical, like they would just shut you down, basically like a big no no.
Eli Roth [00:19:21] Aline is more alone and isolated than ever, and that's what makes her more vulnerable. Which is exactly what the incubus wants.
Aline [00:19:29] Three months, maybe more. I was just feeling drain drained, drained, like no will to leave, no will. You know, And I knew it had to be this thing that was just doing that to me. The sense of desperation I felt, the pressure I came from being, of course, a super jolly bubbly. You know, there is life was good back then, but I became miserable.
Eli Roth [00:19:59] The demon seems determined to possess her and destroy her. I find it so terrifying that beyond physically attacking the Aline, the incubus also works on her psychologically. It terrorizes her by filling her mind with horrifying visions.
Aline [00:20:17] I could see myself clearly inside of a body bag, and that was just dead. That terrified me. I didn't feel that nothing was salvageable at that point, you know, Not even the marriage, you know? So hopeless. Who was going to help me? I remember it like the sense of desperation. I was just I would look in the mirror and just cry my eyes out.
Eli Roth [00:20:41] The incubus actually has a Aline right where it wants her, and she fears it won't stop until she is dead. The demon begins to enter her mind and take over with dark thoughts, and they're becoming increasingly dangerous.
Aline [00:20:59] I used to drive this car that was really fast, like German cars and used to go like I was 180, 160 miles an hour. And I used to drive that car on the highway. And this voice I could hear is like telling me, like, just drive. Just go straight to three. A car is a weapon, isn't it? He was like, Do it do it Do it. Give all the gass go boom? His plan was like almost perfect to the point do it. He wouldn't leave me alone, you know? I don't want to cry. I was like a little fly on a web, you know, like a fly caught on a web. You know how hopeless it is waiting for the spider to just come.
Eli Roth [00:22:20] As the horror escalates, Aline's marriage crumbles.
Aline [00:22:24] My mom always used to tell me, like to fight for my marriage. I didn't feel that nothing was salvageable at that point. I was like that out of hope. I'm about to just give up.
John Re Cre [00:22:40] I'll be back in a week. Then maybe we can work it out. I want to work it out.
Aline Re Cre [00:22:53] I know.
Eli Roth [00:22:54] When we interviewed Elina, we asked why she thought her husband never sensed anything.
Aline [00:23:00] He was completely like a skeptical. Like if somebody is like, 100% skeptical. And I think that's what kind of first, I want to capture the evidence to show him also wasn't just curiosity. It was me wanting evidence to say, Hey, look, I'm not crazy. But you know, the story he didn't understand, couldn't relate. You know what I was going through? I knew I needed a miracle.
Aline Re Cre [00:23:27] So now entirely alone and in need of a miracle, Elina turns to the only place she can: her faith. She goes to the local church and confides in the priest.
Aline [00:23:40] When I was young, it was like that good girl. We now I went to church and that faith stayed with me. You know, a deep down. I always had the faith. I wanted to. I want to have a priest come and bless. But then also you think, What if I make things even worse? That day, the gloves were off. Had to end this wasn't enough. Having my soul.
Eli Roth [00:24:04] Aline convinces the priest to help drive the demon from her life. He comes to her home armed for a final confrontation.
Preist Re Cre [00:24:13] *speaking latin*
Aline [00:24:17] Just pray, pray, pray, pray. You pray. You pray. You know, because, you know, we believe in the power of the name of the Lord. And that's it, you know? The Lord gave his life for my soul, so I wasn't going to let have in my soul. Please deliver me, Lord, I didn't know. When you ask for Jesus to god, you know, like a child, ask their parents for help. That's how I did. You know, I was just like, Please, please, Lord, help me.
Preist Re Cre [00:24:59] in the name of the law and a demand that you leave this woman. Leave this house. Leave this woman alone. Protect us from this evil.
Preist Re Cre [00:25:12] Just asking. Please deliver me. Help me have mercy. Just help me. You know, Jesus Christ. Name for this to leave me alone and protect me. Because only you can protect me. Who can protect me?
Preist Re Cre [00:25:30] Jesus, our Savior. Protect us from this evil.
Aline [00:26:03] After that prayer at home, you know, after it was gone, I know I made a mistake. But if somebody up there loves me, you know, it wasn't going to hurt me anymore. It wasn't going to succeed with his plans. But like, I don't live in fear because I have faith.
Eli Roth [00:26:21] Aline won the battle for her soul, but there was a major casualty. Sadly, she couldn't save her marriage.
Aline [00:26:28] My plans were to grow old with him, you know? He was like my best friend. He was like this person that just had so much love for me, and I had that love for him. And I still do. You know, it just didn't happen.
Eli Roth [00:26:46] Lena leaves Oregon.
John Re Cre [00:26:51] Don't forget to take your bag.
Aline Re Cre [00:26:52] Yeah. Yeah.
John Re Cre [00:26:56] I wonder sometimes who I mean, you know why that happened to me, you know? And I heard one time they saying that the devil was the. The best psychologist, that is. He studies us. That thing for some reason attacked me and stung me, you know, and knew I was vulnerable at the most vulnerable time. Feeling alone. To this day is one of the few things that I you know, I'm not going to say I live in terror, but I'm scared. Yeah, it's like by the Lord Mercy there. Please don't let it come back in, because how you fight something like that, I just had to pick my battles and just pick the pieces up and just move on with my life.
Eli Roth [00:27:42] Since this horrific experience. Aline has worked hard to rebuild her life. She now has children and remains vigilant to guard them and herself against evil. Elina has learned a valuable lesson.
Aline [00:27:57] I think you've got to be respectful of things you don't understand, and I think I was respectful somewhat, But at the same time I should have been more cautious. I just blessed to be alive.
Eli Roth [00:28:11] As I said at the top of this show. This story seems to be driven by pure evil. The House never seems to have any history of hauntings, and the participants never had any previous encounters. Something inexplicable, untraceable about this seemingly innocent and beautiful chain of events. Two people meet, Fall in Love, and Marry sets the stage for a life changing experience within Incubus. To see more terrifying true stories. Visit Travel Channel dot com and check out my TV series. Eli Roth Presents a ghost Ruin My Life. A Ghost Ruin My Life With Eli Roth is produced by Cream for Travel. Travel's executive producers are Cameron Curtis and Ali Reid. Cream Productions executive producers are Eli Roth, Johnny Clangers, Kate Harrison and David Brady. Thank you for listening and see you on the other side.