There is a house in Lackawanna County where no one is currently living.
The house looks like it could sit in nearly any community in northeastern or central Pennsylvania, but according to the people who've lived there, it is no ordinary home.
“You could offer me all the money in the world and we would never go back there,” said Bob Drazba.
Bob and Kelli Ann Drazba say they were thrilled when they signed a lease to rent the place north of Scranton last November, but the first night they spent in the home, they knew something wasn’t right.
Over the next several months, Bob kept a log of their experiences. He documented a series of unexplained sights, sounds, and smells, including footsteps, shadows, and the strong, unmistakable smell of cigarette smoke that would come and go in an instant.
Bob and Kelli Ann run marathons. Neither smokes.
“There was just this pattern as things got stronger and stronger and more bold, and things just escalated really bad," Bob said.
In early April, Kelli Ann stepped out of the shower and noticed odd scratches on her back that resembled a demonic script.
A week later came the final straw, this time in the kitchen.
“The bottom rack of the dishwasher flipped up 180 degrees, probably about two feet in the air, and a bunch of the dishes broke,” Bob explained.
“(It) just flipped upside down out of the dishwasher,” Kelli Ann added.
Bob called their landlord Kevin to tell him that after less than five months in the home, they needed to get out.
“You gotta live it to believe it. You gotta live it to believe it. It's changed our lives,” Kevin said.
Two years ago, Kevin and his wife Annemarie bought the 1930s-era house from an older woman who had lived there alone for many years. To this day, they've never experienced anything out of the ordinary, but they agreed to let Joe Shock, a paranormal investigator take a look around.
And what he found was pretty startling.
“Within the top three in the country,” Shock said of the house. “Top three most haunted, easily.”
Kevin, the owner, snapped a picture during remodeling. He can't explain what looks like a roomful of strange orbs in the shot.
In the old coal bin in the basement, Shock says there is a portal leading from the ground floor all the way to the attic.
Shock set up hi-tech recording equipment, to try to communicate with any spirits in the home.
In one recording, it sounds like a voice asks, “Which way out?”
Joe Shock and Kevin believe they've captured numerous voices in the house. Bob Drazba counts himself as a believer.
“This is not Casper. This is the real deal, and these things do exist,” Drazba said.
A recent study noted the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre area as the most likely spot in the nation where you might find a haunted house. The study cited factors like how many older homes are in the area and how many of them are vacant.
The homeowner asked Newswatch 16 not to reveal the exact location of the home. He said he will not rent it out again and will try to find another use for it, including possibly making it into a sort of study hall for paranormal investigators. For more information, you can check out this website, if you dare.