That ridiculous human Steven “Prozak” Shippy and that delightful psychic medium Cindy Kaza combine their fictional professions and investigate a haunting that terrorized a family back in the 70s. Conclusion-jumping and hilarity ensues. In the small farming town of Merrill, Michigan, the Pomeraning family is terrorized by a demonic entity and police reports make their way into the hands of ol’ Shippy. Since he’s from the neighboring town, Ship-Dip decides he should investigate this haunting. He meets up with the two surviving family members, a couple of brothers who remind me of the kind of old-timers I would end up chatting with for a few hours in a dive bar with Hamm’s on tap. They’re my kind of folks. The Shipster goes back to the hell house (I believe he made another film about the place but all these ghost things just keep merging together) with his psychic friend who I’ve seen in various programs, wandering around spooky buildings and receiving messages from dead people who probably (definitely) aren’t there. Kaza thinks there’s a shapeshifting entity on the site which gets Ship-Ship all excited to bring out the pseudo-science tools of the trade. Anyways, the duo decide to reawaken the entity inside the home by setting up pictures and playing the audio recording from ‘75 when all hell supposedly broke loose. The spoopy action consists of blurry orbs, EVPs captured outside that sound like nothing until our investigators tell us what we should be hearing and then even after it’s a bit of a reach, re-enactments which fit the budget, devices going nuts for whatever reason these people really want them to be going nuts for and it’s all mixed with interviews with police officers, interviews with extended family, interviews with one of the original paranormal investigators, a story about a hair-eating witch-neighbor being up to no good (now that I’m saying that, I think this was definitely something I’ve seen before), an audio recording of spontaneous combustion (sadly, not of the human variety) from ‘75 and a whole lotta talkin’. The Ship-man resembles Uncle Fester wearing a disguise to blend in at a New York cop convention and it’s hard to take him serious… at least not as serious as he takes himself. Be ready for plenty of narration from Shippy Longstocking as he does the research and shares it with us in great detail. One of the re-enactments involves an attack by the most vicious of household predators… the pillow. It’s from the Shock Docs series which is unquestionably a series but can only be charitably labeled as shocking and loosely called a documentary.
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