WATCH: Exorcism Is Performed To Detach The Evil Spirit Controlling A Worcestershire Woman

Four years after moving into their four-bed home in the small Worcestershire village of Kempsey, married couple Emma and Ross could never have predicted the spiritual suffering their dream new-build would have in store for them. The couple’s home has become inhabited by prowling evil spirits who haunt and torment Emma on a daily basis.

"I feel like I have no spiritual boundary, these things are just latching onto me," Emma worries, as she recalls how her experiences with the spirits started. "I was woken up and there were people walking through my wall. I don't sleep. Every time I try to go to sleep, they grab me around the wrist and I can feel their fingers. I can feel them touching me. I can smell them. I've had some horrible things said to me. I've had someone biting me, that's really horrible. I could feel the lips, I could feel its tongue and the wetness of its mouth. And I can't do a thing, I'm stuck."

Who are these spirits? Why are they attracted to this house? And why have they formed such an attachment to Emma? Could the village’s history of war and bloodshed dating back to the Battle of Worcester in 1651, be at play?

In the second episode of the new sixth series of Help! My House is Haunted, available to stream on discovery+ now, a distressed and worried Emma has reached her wit’s end, and turns to the team of Barri Ghai, Ian Lawman and Jayne Harris in an attempt to overcome her experiences with the evil spirits that are ruining her life. In harrowing footage captured by the team’s cameras, the episode comes to a crescendo when the team are forced to perform an exorcism on Emma, which Barri declares as "the most intense evening we’ve ever experienced."

As the team of paranormal investigators arrive at the property, psychic medium Ian immediately detects a dark aura present on the land. "Guys, do you know whether anything horrifying happened on the land where we’re going to? Because I’ve got a feeling it’s got a dark history," Ian ponders. "Without saying too much, this area has seen more than its fair share of bloodshed and death," paranormal researcher Jayne replies. As Barri and Jayne head off to investigate the case, Ian heads into the property to conduct a solo exploration. "Wow, this place has got some really weird energy going on, my head's booming. This is really weird. It's a new house, but it's almost as if the land is tainted with blood or something like that. Now, I don't know whether that's having an impact on this house or it's charging it." Heading out to the garden, Ian conducts a form of psychometry, feeling the ground for vibrations which allow him to read the footprint of what spirits have left behind. "I can hear this really heavy metallic clashing and banging and screaming and shouting. It’s almost as if a battle or something like that went on within this area, which will feed anything negative because that is dark."

After sensing the most spiritual activity in Emma’s bedroom, Ian invites Emma to join him for a visualisation experiment. "Ian's going to lower Emma's consciousness to find out more about these entities that keep harassing her," Barri explains, as she lays down on the bed, is blindfolded and put into a sub-conscious state.

In this state, Emma immediately sees the spirit figure she had initially warned the team about, who she calls "shadow man". "He’s laughing at me, he’s laughing, saying ‘you won’t get rid of me’. He’s showing me his teeth," Emma describes to the team, before becoming more distressed and bellowing to the spirit, "You have no power over me, this is my f**king house. Get out!" As he observes the stress that ‘shadow man’ is causing, Ian holds up a crucifix above a blindfolded Emma to test whether "this dark entity is repelled by religion." Despite being blindfolded, Emma immediately puts her arm in front of her. "Emma can’t see yet, she’s got her hand up rejecting the crucifix. That means this entity is trying to resist me," Ian explains before concluding, "it's clear Emma is gifted, but she's also vulnerable. I need to keep this malevolent entity away with prayer." As Emma becomes more visibly distressed, Ian snaps her out of the sub-conscious state, with her husband Ross immediately on hand to comfort her.

After seeing the pain and trouble that the visualisation experiment caused Emma, the team decide the best plan of action is to carry out their investigations overnight on their own. They choose to deepen their understanding by directly communicating with the spirits, to work out who they are and what has attracted them specifically to Emma. Despite their tireless efforts throughout the night however, the team conclude that the evil spirit’s attachment to Emma is so great that they won’t be able to banish the entity without Emma being present and that Ian will need to perform an exorcism. "Exorcism is always a last resort, but in this case, it's the only way to detach the spirit and move it on," Ian reluctantly explains. "This dark entity has clearly formed an attachment to Emma, and it sounds like it won’t give her up easily," Jayne agrees, adding that "the problem is, of course, now that there are two things that will feed that attachment, Emma’s fear and Ross’s anger. If it’s been with her for a couple of years, it’s getting stronger."

In what is a chilling and terrifying watch, throughout the exorcism we see Emma battling with the entity, screaming "leave me alone! This is my body!" As Ian attempts to drive the entity out, he recites passages from the bible and douses Emma in holy water to cleanse her. In what is clearly a traumatising but necessary experience, an increasingly petrified Emma continually calls out, "someone’s screaming in my head Ian", "my body’s shaking", "help me please! I didn’t ask for this!" The exorcism process reaches the stage where Ian explains that Emma will need the supportive strength of a loved one in the spirit world, so she calls upon her grandad to help her fight the evil that lives within her. With the help of her grandad, and after reciting the Lord’s prayer, Ian is finally able to repel the evil entity and complete the exorcism. "It was a really dark entity, it was actually a lot deeper than I thought," Ian concludes as he gives Emma a St. Benedict’s medal, which he says "will protect her from this evil entity coming back."

In what Barri describes as "the most intense evening we’ve ever experienced", the team meet with Emma and Ross the following morning to review their evidence and listen back to the correspondence they had had with the spirits. Was the traumatic, last resort experience of the exorcism successful in detaching the evil spirits from Emma and freeing her of her torment? Watch episode two of the new sixth series of Help! My House is Haunted to find out.