A woman has claimed a ghost caused the breakdown of her marriage and tried to ruin her life, even making her hallucinate her husband dying in a car crash.
Aline left her family and moved across the world with her husband after they met in Rio de Janeiro, where she had lived and worked in a hotel.
At first, she assumed their new life together would be a ‘fairytale’, but when strange things started happening that she ‘couldn’t shake’, it all turned into a nightmare, and her life was ruined by what she discovered to be a demonic Incubus.
Having moved from Brazil, Aline lived a ‘lonely’ life in an isolated house while her husband worked, and that’s when things started to go wrong.
She first noticed something strange when she saw a mysterious figure in the woods surrounding her house, saying in a recreation: ‘When I first moved to the house, that house, for some reason, there was something.’
She goes on to explain she saw a ‘tall, shadow figure’ for a ‘split second’.
‘It made no sense,’ she said.
Aline also heard strange sounds like whispers in her ear, leaving her thinking she was going ‘crazy’, and felt a ‘presence’ at the house that made her ‘uncomfortable’ but was unsure what it was.
‘I felt there was somebody watching me,’ she said.
‘I thought it was going to go away, I never thought it was going to get worse.’
Convinced her home was haunted, Aline tried to communicate with the paranormal force using a Ouija board, which only appeared to respond when she walked away and the ‘ghost’ flung pieces of the board and her engagement ring to the floor.
In another terrifying recreation, an actress playing Aline is working at her desk when she thinks her husband comes up behind her to massage her shoulders.
However, his human hands quickly turn into sinister, monstrous looking creature’s claws, which begin to grip her until she screams and turns around – only to find nothing is there.
Recalling the horrific moment, she says: ‘He was touching me, I just thought it was my husband – it wasn’t him.’
‘I could feel the touch holding me,’ she adds.
Despite the fear she felt, Aline didn’t tell her husband, worrying that he would think she was ‘crazy’.
In another clip, Aline sees a figure in a reflection on the window, while her husband is in the room but she says ‘nothing’ happened to him, and that he was ‘oblivious to everything’.
Elsewhere, a terrifying scene sees her wake up with a monstrous body hanging over her, which her husband brushed off as a ‘bad dream’.
She would feel the force stroking her hair, flinging her onto the bed, and leaving her with ‘guilt’ and ‘questions’.
‘I was completely terrified, then I realised that obviously this is paranormal, obviously this is more than I can chew.’
After more and more paranormal events leave her living in terror, Aline ends up regretting using the Ouija board and ‘opening the door’ for the ‘evil’ force, which she believed, after researching online, had a ‘soul purpose to destroy [her].’
Returning to the haunted house to film the episode, Aline admits she still has fear, nerves and adrenaline, saying: ‘It was traumatising in my life and still brings back a lot of emotions.’
She knew, having witnessed the ‘demon’, that she was in ‘pure danger’.
Eventually, Aline knew she had to tell her husband, but when she did he ‘shut down’.
In the recreation, as he calls her ‘ridiculous’ and questions her belief in the demon, the ‘force’ shatters a framed photograph of them, leading him to think she threw it at him.
The demon’s reaction left Aline feeling it was ‘jealous’ and being ‘possessive’ of her.
The mystery took a ‘toll’ in their relationship, Aline goes on to say, leaving them growing apart and feeling ‘distant’.
‘He went from being my best friend to being completely alone,’ she says, explaining how she was unable to tell her religious family.
One night, Aline wakes up trapped in a coffin, which she fights to get out of only to be terrifyingly greeted with the ‘entity’ covered in blood, declaring ‘You are mine’ to her.
The events left Aline ‘crying her eyes out’ numerous times, but unsure what to do knowing her husband wouldn’t believe her.
Unable to stay any longer in the house, Aline encourages her husband to take her away for the weekend, thinking they could leave the force behind, only to later discover it followed her into the car, making her hallucinate car crashes and her husband’s death.
‘I was like a fly caught on a web,’ she said.
The ‘force’, which Aline identified as an Incubus, left her feeling like her marriage wasn’t ‘salvageable’, and that she was about to ‘give up’, especially because her husband, who was ‘100% sceptical’ was unable to understand.
‘I wanted evidence to show him,’ she says. ‘He didn’t understand and couldn’t relate, so I became miserable and unhappy.’
Aline goes on: ‘I knew I needed a miracle.’
She enlisted a priest, who brought parishioners with him, to fight against the Incubus, which results in them encircling Aline and the demon together, until she breaks free and the demon tries to kill her.
Eventually, she cries: ‘In the name of Jesus Christ, leave me alone.’
Reflecting on that moment, she later says in a confessional: ‘It wasn’t going to hurt me anymore.’
‘I don’t live in fear because I have faith,’ she adds.
However, Aline couldn’t save her marriage, and separated from her husband before leaving the haunted house.
‘I wonder sometimes why that happened to me, and I heard one time a saying that the devil is the best psychologist there is, he studies us.
‘That thing for some reason attacked me and studied me, it knew I was vulnerable, at the most vulnerable time, feeling alone.
‘To this day, it’s one of the few things that – I’m not going to say I live in terror – but I’m scared.’
She adds: ‘Please don’t let it come back.’
Eli Roth Presents: A Ghost Ruined My Life is available to watch from July 14 on discovery+.
