In 2013, the Fleege family found a box among their stuff, one that none of them recognized. It contained all the VHS tapes of Katie and Kristi's childhood that had disappeared from the Rey Family basement years prior. In addition to the previously seen tapes of the sisters living with their mom Julie and her boyfriend Dennis, there were also tapes from after Dennis and Julie's deaths, when the coven was raising Katie and Kristi, and encouraging them to harness their spiritual powers.
In addition to the tapes, the box also contained a large old-fashioned video camera. Ryan Fleege quickly determined that the camera was custom built, and noticed that it seemed to show strange patterns in the air that were invisible to the naked eye. Around the same time, Ryan's six-year-old daughter Leila began talking to an invisible presence that she called Tobi. Using the strange camera, Ryan was able to capture Tobi on video as he'd never been seen before — a vaguely humanoid form of congealed blackness with the hint of a demonic face visible at close range.
Unfortunately, being able to glimpse Tobi didn't make it any easier to stop him. It became increasingly clear that Leila was being summoned by the past. The long-ago recorded images of Kristi and Katie even seemed to be aware of her, with a video of Kristi at one point telling Leila "bless you," when she sneezed. After the Fleege family's attempt to cast out Tobi was unsuccessful, Leila was summoned through a portal into the past, with her mother Emily in pursuit.
