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Inglewood, California, 1956. What began as a new start for the Long family quickly turned into one of the most chilling hauntings ever whispered about in American suburbia. This is the true story of a four-year ordeal filled with poltergeist activity, ghostly footsteps, moving objects, and a face pressed against the window that would keep the children awake in terror. For Don Long and his siblings, the nightmare began with scratching sounds under their army surplus bunk beds. The noise would move across the room, from wall to wall, as if invisible claws were raking the wood. Soon, the scratching was joined by footsteps — frail, dragging, swish-swish footsteps that shuffled down the hall after midnight. Doors opened on their own. Objects flew across rooms. And then came the infamous night when a basketball dropped from a closet and began dribbling by itself. But the haunting reached its peak in 1958 when Don and his brother saw her: the apparition of an old woman in a white lace wedding dress, staring at the