As a mother or father, should you have an unconditional love for your child?
We could debate all day about the natural instinct to love that comes with being a parent,
but I have three cases for you that may sway the dialogue.
These three subjects aren’t what we’d call the pictures of paternal and maternal
care, as their children have fallen victim to their lack of humanity.
Or maybe I’m trying to sway the debate and none of these atrocities actually happened.
That’s up to you to decide… on fact, or fiction.
The line that divides the factual from the unreal has long since blurred, the tales we
once thought fantastical now implanted as truth.
To decipher verity from the imagined, you must break from the ordinary and consider
a universe where the outlandish prevails.
Can you expand your mind to see beyond our perceived reality?
Can you decide what's fact or fiction?
To be able to hurt a child takes a certain kind of evil.
Andre Lam, unbeknownst to girlfriend Kelly Rogers, was exactly that kind of evil.
During an argument one winter day, as newborn Talia lay peacefully nearby, Andre showed
just how heinous a person he really was.
Story # 1: The Accessory of Murder “That child isn’t mine!”
It wasn’t the first time Andre lashed out at her, but Kelly saw something different
in his eyes.
It was a rage he had never released before, and as the chair came sliding across the floor
at her under the force of his kick, she recognized what it was.
He was afraid.
Maybe of the prospect of being a father.
Maybe of giving up his freedom.
Whatever it was, it was evident in the way he looked at her.
He continued to shout, to deny, and to find little odds and ends to throw at her, but
Kelly had grown used to it and knew she just had to leave the house.
In her crib nearby, baby Talia was silent, unfazed by her father’s rage.
Even when Kelly picked her up, despite Andre’s increasingly louder and more forceful tone,
Talia simply cooed in her mother’s arms.
Kelly did her best to smile at her baby as she moved the two closer to the front door,
hoping to leave Andre’s presence until he calmed down.
When her hand grasped the handle, though, she felt a strong grip pull her back.
“Admit you cheated and that the baby ain't mine!”
“Enough, Andre.
Jesus!”
Kelly tried to pull away, but Andre kept her near.
As his anger piqued, he ripped Talia away from Kelly.
She tried to protest, to get her crying infant back, but something struck her suddenly and
left her dazed.
At first, she couldn’t comprehend what hit her so hard.
Andre’s hands were tied up with the baby.
Then it hit her again.
Talia’s tiny body struck her shoulder, then the side of her face.
After the second strike, the baby’s crying stopped, but Kelly’s sobs echoed through
the house.
Andre relentlessly slammed Talia’s body against Kelly’s, his hands gripping her
legs like a handle.
As Kelly faded from the world and everything turned to a black haze, she could feel the
specks of blood splattering against her body.
In one last horrific thought, she wondered if it were her own or her baby’s.
A disgusting, vile act.
Unforgivable and punishable by the most drastic of measures.
But did it happen?
Was Andre that much of a monster and that scared of being a parent that he snapped?
We’ll find out whether this atrocious actually happened in a bit, but in the meantime, leave
us a comment with your thoughts and vote no using the on-screen card.
For now, we’re moving to a different part of the world, one where the supernatural resides
– at least according to Danny and Nancy Elm.
When they conceived baby Dante, the Elm family was overjoyed and hopeful about the future.
Months after his birth, however, the stresses of being a family may have caused the Elm’s
to lose touch with reality.
Story # 2: Satan in a Baby The moment baby Dante entered his life, Danny
Elm knew something was wrong.
The way he cried, the way he looked up at his parents, the energy in the house – Danny
could sense it, an evil emanating from his newborn son.
They never spoke about it at first, but as he watched Nancy interact with him, he could
tell she felt the same way.
Deep down, they both tried to rationalize it as the jitters of being a new parent, but
those fleeting hopeful thoughts were always subdued by the grim reality that they knew
Dante wasn’t a sweet, innocent boy.
To the rest of the world, however, Dante was just an innocent baby boy.
His parents, on the other hand, had a problem.
In Nancy’s last month of pregnancy, the two panicked.
They weren’t ready for what was to come and neither knew how to handle the fear they
felt.
So Danny turned to his brother, a purveyor of a white powder that would help them escape
their concerns.
It wasn’t the first time they had done cocaine and, just like the last time, they reacted
with paranoia.
Unfortunately for Dante, it became a habit they couldn’t kick, even after his birth,
and their suspicions soon fell on him.
“There’s something wrong with our baby.”
They agreed.
Nancy was the first to address the growing concern they both had.
What followed was a back-and-forth of outlandish discussion that bred a preposterous and damning
theory – Baby Dante was haunted by the Devil.
There was no reasoning with the couple, mostly because there was no one of sound mind to
introduce reason.
After a particularly bad day, one they both blamed on Dante’s Devilish possession, they
realized what had to be done.
In the dead of night, as their neighborhood slept soundly, Dante and Nancy dug a small
pit in their backyard and lined it with leaves and whatever small branches they could find.
Then, they proceeded to cleanse their lives.
It wasn’t Dante’s cries that woke the Elm’s neighbor up but rather the smell of
smoke that wafted in through his bedroom window.
By the time he realized what was happening, it was too late.
Dante’s tiny body was charred, his cries silenced and, according to the Elm’s, his
soul set free and their sanctuary returned to normal.
Interlude 2: Was Dante really the victim of drug-induced
paranoia?
Could the Elm’s really have lost all sense of reality and thought their child needed
saving from the Devil?
Or are we just aiming to shock you with this story of parental murder?
As you’re postulating whether the last tale was true, we have one final gruesome story
to tell.
Divorce can turn many people ugly, especially those that aren’t really all there in the
first place.
Arthur Malone told his soon-to-be ex-wife Phoebe that he would get everything during
their divorce, but she never realized how far he’d actually go.
Story # 3: Half of Everything Arthur was far from a good husband.
Two affairs and five wasted years later, Phoebe realized it was time to finally let him go.
Complicating matters, however, was the bulge in her belly; the only good thing their disastrous
marriage produced.
The two had been so busy going at each other’s throats that neither took a moment to name
the miracle that grew within her, though she knew he would grow to be a real man, unlike
his father.
The last meeting she was forced into having with Arthur detailed the separation of assets.
“Half of everything,” he kept telling his lawyer, despite insistence that he wouldn’t
be entitled to anything.
He refused to accept that answer, refused to let Phoebe walk away with anything.
“She’s to blame, too, you know?”
No matter how hard he tried to blame Phoebe, so few actually believed it.
It wouldn’t matter, though.
Arthur was hellbent on getting what he wanted, and he wanted his son.
Since Arthur moved out, Phoebe was forced to take care of herself.
She didn’t have many friends and her family stopped talking to her after her marriage.
Even they saw the kind of man he was.
So, she lived in their considerably large home, with no one but the baby in her belly.
She hadn’t heard from Arthur in a week when he appeared on her doorstep uninvited and
unannounced.
“Not tonight, Arthur.
We can fight again with the lawyers present.”
“Just let me in, Phoebe.
We should talk, without them.”
His voice was calm and reminded her of the good times they did have.
She opened the door and when she saw him, the first thing she noticed were the beads
of sweat on his brow.
His eyes kept shifting and, despite the calm in his voice, his body seemed incredibly nervous.
“What’s up?”
Without another word from him, he barged into her house, pushing her to the ground and slammed
the door behind him.
“You’re not taking him.” he snapped.
Knowing she was about to scream, Arthur straddled her pregnant belly and placed a hand over
her mouth.
His knees pinned her arms to the ground and as he stared intently down at her, his free
hand produced a knife from his belt loop.
Her screams were muffled against his hand and though she thrashed, she couldn’t break
free.
He plunged the knife into her stomach and dragged it through her flesh.
Phoebe’s body started to go limp the more he cut into her, trying to dig out his son.
Before he could finish what he came there for, the strength to do so left him.
Staring down at his ex-wife’s eyes rolling back into her head, blood and other fluids
soaking their clothing, his nerves cracked.
Just as quickly as he had barged in, Arthur ran to his car, leaving behind more-than-enough
evidence to be convicted of the murder of Phoebe and their unborn child.
Interlude 3: Poor Phoebe.
Did she overlook Arthur’s more dangerous tendencies, or was the possible loss of his
son enough to drive him to murder?
Could someone really think they could simply cut out a baby?
Surely, they’d have to be in a demented state of mind.
We’ll find out whether Arthur’s horrific acts were real or not, but as we gear up for
the reveal, leave us a comment with your thoughts and vote now on screen.
Are you ready to find out if you can decipher between fact or fiction?
Let’s look back at tonight's three stories and find out which were born from reality
and which were fabrications of the imagination.
Thinking back to our first story, that of Andre and Kelly, did you think anyone could
essentially use a baby as a club?
If you’re sane enough and think that’s the most ridiculous thing you’ve ever heard
and couldn’t possibly be true, I hate to say, it is.
The story is that of Alexander Forba, a man who was charged with killing his three-day-old
baby, Precious, by using her to hit his girlfriend.
Despite his disgusting act, Forba was released a year later when the girlfriend and mother,
Joans Akwa, refused to testify.
How about that terrible story of cocaine-addicts and new parents Danny and Nancy?
Could you imagine someone being that far gone that they think their baby is a vessel for
the Devil?
Though we could probably make a case for it, this story never happened.
Finally, we have the atrocious act of Arthur against his unborn son and ex-wife Phoebe.
We know that someone can think it's possible to cut a baby from its mother’s womb as
seen in the September 2017 murder of Angelikque Sutton.
Despite that, though, it’s not real, and this story was fabricated from our imaginations.
How well did you do in tonight's video?
Did you look past the deception of our world and define the oft-blurred line that struggles
to separate lies from the truth?
Let us all know in the comment section below and should you find the urge to test your
perceptions again, be sure to subscribe and join us next time when we ask you to decide
what's fact... or fiction.