Narrator:
America's top ghost hunters
Relive their most
Extreme assignments.
This house is beyond haunted.
Narrator: hardened veterans
Of the paranormal,
These are the cases
That truly tested them.
There was a evil presence
In that house.
Woman: oh, [bleep]
What the hell?
Man: dude,
I got goose bumps.
It's in here.
Narrator: in utah,
Investigators in an old hospital
Are att*cked by a mysterious
But violent spirit
Known as the guardian.
In illinois,
One ghost hunter sets out
To investigate
A haunted mansion
Only to bring something
Terrifying home with her.
It was
The most physical thing
That's to this day
Ever happened to me.
[ Screaming ]
Narrator:
And in maine, the mysterious
Activity plaguing a homeowner
Turns out to be a warning
From a surprising source.
Never underestimate the power
Of what you can not see.
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Captions paid for by
Discovery communications
Narrator: miles southwest
Of salt lake city, utah,
Sits the old abandoned
Tooele valley hospital.
Since it treated
Its last patient in ,
Troubling events
Have been reported
From within
Its slowly decaying walls.
Construction workers and others
Daring to venture inside
Have been terrorized
And even injured
By an entity
Dubbed the guardian.
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They describe a very tall,
Dark figure
In excess of /
To feet high,
Which has been responsible
For pushing and shoving
And inflicting
Genuine physical injuries.
A male reporter
From a local news station
Heard the story
Of the guardian.
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Aah!
He got physically pushed
And ended up screaming
And being chased --
Never to return.
Narrator:
The reports reached
Denver-based paranormal
Investigator richard estep.
Estep: paranormal investigators
Are working
On the frontiers of science,
Asking the questions
That scientists are not asking.
And we are
Investigating in places
Where most scientists
Will not go.
We're getting closer
And closer to the answer
To the ultimate questions --
Where are we going
When this life is over?
Narrator: for richard,
A paramedic by profession,
The chance to investigate
A haunted hospital
Is a dream come true.
I've been in a lot of hospitals
In my career as a paramedic,
And lots of hospitals,
The majority of them,
Have their own
Ghost stories.
You have births going on
In one area,
And then you have people just
Sometimes feet away
In different rooms
That are leaving this world
Violently and far too quickly.
Narrator: when richard checks
Into the hospital's past,
He learns something shocking.
Estep: I was told by the owners
Of the hospital
That it had a reputation locally
As the hospital of death
And that they had
A higher fatality rate
With routine procedures.
Narrator:
Could the guardian be behind
The suspiciously
High death rate?
Richard arranges to spend
An evening in the hospital
To find out.
Estep: tooele valley --
So that's the original mat.
The first night I ever saw
The tooele hospital,
Looked like it should
Have been in a horror film.
It's absolutely quiet,
And I'm looking down a long,
Long, long corridor.
And it just goes off and off
And off into the distance
With all of these
Shadowy alcoves
And doorways
Coming off of it.
And I thought to myself
I've seen movies
That start like this,
And they usually
End badly for the guy
That enters the building
On his own.
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Narrator: luckily for richard,
He's not alone for long.
His team arrives,
Including co-investigator
Robbin daidone.
I'm a registered nurse,
And one of the other team
Members that was with us
Was also
A registered nurse.
It's always fascinating when
You're a medical professional
To be in a hospital.
It's like,
Yeah, this is home.
We started out in the front
Of the building.
Estep: okay, so, we're
The only ones in the hospital.
We've checked all
The doors and locks.
The time is :.
It was very, very creepy.
This is was a nurses
Station right here.
Narrator: richard decides
To split the team up
To cover more ground.
Estep: you have a lot
Of square footage,
And you have a lot of rooms.
So you tend to target those
That have the best histories.
Narrator:
Richard pairs robbin up
With new team member autumn.
This was my first
Paranormal investigation,
And I was super nervous.
Autumn is a relatively
New mom,
And so I thought that perhaps
Autumn might experience
Something over
On the obstetric wing.
Kingry: this room was the lab
For the nursery.
This is where they did,
Like, pkus, circumcisions,
Things like that.
Narrator: richard takes sean
And misty to the area
Where the reporter
Ran into the guardian.
Sean: so this is
Exam room we're in.
They set up their
Electronic voice phenomenon,
Or evp, equipment hoping
To contact the entity.
Anybody in here?
Estep: anybody present?
Hello?
We're recording,
So if you speak to us,
We should be able
To hear your voice.
We were conducting just
Some easy evp experimentation,
And I noticed that sean had
Gotten increasingly quiet.
-Whoa, hey, sean.
-Ohh!
He suddenly became
Very, very upset.
And he actually
Burst into tears.
We said, "sean, what's wrong?"
And he said, "you know what?
I've got to take a minute.
I've got to get out of here.
Excuse me."
And he turned around,
And he left.
I have never seen him
This emotional
And this serious before.
He's one of the most
Happy-go-lucky
Dependable investigators
I've got.
Narrator:
Richard recognizes the signs.
He suspects something
Is trying to attach itself
To sean.
Estep:
Attachment is a situation
In which a spirit
Attaches itself
To a living person
And can make them feel
Or can provoke strong emotion.
He was certainly being
Influenced by something,
And it was something
That we couldn't see.
It is a scary thing
To be a target,
And it's probably a good time
For us to move out of here
Before it gets worse.
Narrator:
At the same time,
Robbin and autumn
Are encountering
Paranormal activity
Of their own.
We started asking questions,
Like, "who's with us?
Is there anybody
That can hear our voice?
Can you come talk to us?"
The energy in there
Was really dark.
Narrator: whatever is there
Isn't interested in talking.
-Aah!
-What's wrong?
Autumn has been att*cked
By something unseen.
A series of very long
Scratch marks
Running down
Her shoulder blade,
As though something
Took a claw and swiped.
I was pretty scared
When I felt that.
It b*rned
Really, really bad.
I freaked me out.
Estep:
The pattern is very suggestive
Of something dark,
Potentially demonic.
The scratch didn't look like
Something a human could do.
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Narrator: deciding
They're safer as a large group,
Richard gathers the team
Together in the e.r.
For an experiment.
Estep:
The emergency room itself
Was said to be haunted
By the spirit of a doctor.
I generally do not provoke.
However, in this case,
I saw this as
A golden opportunity
To see how he would react
To us being incompetent.
How would he react us
Running the most
Inept cardiac arrest ever run
In that emergency room?
Narrator: to get a reaction
From the spirit,
Robbin, autumn, and sean
Will act as hapless nurses
While richard will play
An incompetent doctor.
Richard brought with him
A resusci dummy,
Which he uses in
His teaching for e.m.s. Class.
And he brought medication,
I.v.s,
Everything we would need
To do a full code.
Richard asked us early on
If we could try
To goof everything up,
If we could miss
Doing an i.v.,
If we could drop
The i.v. Bag.
Estep: everything that we can
Do wrong we do wrong.
The area was very heavy
To begin with.
You got a feeling
When you stepped in that area
That somebody
Was watching you.
[ Medical equipment beeping ]
Richard started to
Yell right in my face
And really holler at us.
And the atmosphere's getting
Kind of blacker in there.
Woman: go!
And you start to see us
Kind of feeding off
Each other's negativity.
We get angry
With each other,
And we're snapping back
And forth at each other.
And everybody
Was full of rage.
Like, it was bad.
Estep:
Finally, I say, "he's dead.
I'm pronouncing him dead."
And I threw down
My stethoscope,
And stormed out of the room,
Slammed through the double doors
Of the e.r.
Narrator: richard takes a moment
To calm down,
But the spirits
Have other ideas.
Maybe feet
From emergency room,
I step through
An open doorway.
Narrator:
In a former hospital in utah,
Investigators have been att*cked
By a spirit dubbed the guardian.
There were very long
Scratch marks
Running down
Her shoulder blade.
Narrator: lead investigator
Richard estep
Has staged
A failed cardiac arrest,
Hoping to provoke the ghost
Of a former doctor.
Feet from the emergency room,
I step through an open doorway.
And then I heard
This almighty slam.
And I jumped
Half out of my skin.
[ Door slams ]
The door had been violently
Slammed just inches behind me.
[ Door slams ]
It was v*olence
Of the slam.
This wasn't just
Letting a door close.
This was slammed with force.
My turned to ice water,
And I got this
Very real sensation of,
"Who do you think you are
To behave like that
In my emergency room?"
All of a sudden, we hear
A bang in the distance.
[ Door slams ]
Robbin: I just heard it.
I just heard, like, something.
Woman:
Yeah, I heard it, too.
A few minutes later, richard
Comes walking around the corner.
He was pale.
He was pale white.
He was totally scared
For his life.
Estep:
Sorry, everybody.
I offered a blanket apology
To whoever or whatever
I had offended.
And I was shaking.
And it is kind of
A reminder that,
You know,
You should be very,
Very careful what you do
In this profession sometimes.
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Narrator: worried about
Provoking the spirit further,
Richard takes his team
To investigate
Another part of the hospital.
But escaping the spirits
Isn't that easy.
We start to hear
The sound of footsteps.
We knew the building
Was locked down
Because we'd secured
It ourselves,
And we have a full security
Camera system in place.
So the building's sealed.
There's nobody in there but us.
Narrator:
The hospital maybe empty,
But they are not alone.
Estep:
We're hearing these footsteps
Coming just closer and closer.
Narrator:
Misty, the team's psychic,
Gets a terrible vision
Of what's coming towards them.
Misty: oh, god.
Like, there's some big,
Black mass, thing,
And it's right back there.
Misty said that
There's a guy there
Who is really,
Really tall.
Misty: a big dark,
Like -foot-tall huge,
Like, shadow guy.
Estep: and misty said,
"That's the guardian.
He knows we're in here,
And he's approaching."
Narrator: to her horror,
Misty sees the guardian
Go face to face
With richard.
[ Screaming ]
He was standing right
In front of me,
Squaring off against me,
Screaming obscenities
And profanities into my face.
Robbin:
This was not a nice person,
Especially to the women
And to richard.
It called the c-word
A couple times.
Estep: I told him,
"You're a bully.
I have no respect
For you at all.
I will not back down."
We're not afraid of you.
Richard started to yell.
I got into a blazing argument
With thin air.
Get out now.
He's screaming.
I told him, "I'm not gonna
Tolerate this anymore.
You're
A pathetic little weasel.
Get out of here."
Get out now.
We heard what sounded
Like footsteps receding.
It's a little
Disconcerting to know
That something
Is out to get you
If you can't see it coming.
And it's that knowledge,
It's that sensation
That I truly was not alone
In that corridor.
Narrator: concerned the guardian
Won't be gone for long,
Richard reluctantly calls
An end to the investigation.
Estep: I really
Did not want to leave.
I'm fascinated
With the guardian story.
Why does he react violently?
Why does he
Want to intimidate?
Why does he want to scare?
I can see myself going back
There for several years yet.
This for me, is the defining
Case of my career.
In terms of evidence,
We have a number of very
Interesting recordings.
Misty: oh, god.
There's some big,
Black mass, thing,
Right back there.
[ Door slams ]
Estep: there is just a plethora
Of eyewitness testimony
And people that say,
"You'll never believe this,
But here's
What I experienced."
And I've spent years
Listening to them,
And now I'm the one sitting
In a chair telling people,
"You'll never
Believe this, but..."
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Narrator:
Coming up, when a homeowner
Is plagued by mysterious
And sinister sounds,
Even one of new england's
Top ghost hunters
Is stunned by who or what
Is causing them.
I'm like, what is going on?
Narrator:
But first, when one investigator
Spends the night
In a haunted mansion...
It felt sinister
And threatening.
Narrator: ...she has no idea
That the spirits
Have followed her home.
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Chicago has
Its fair share of ghosts.
The historic hull house
Is one of the most
Haunted places in the city.
Built in
As a family residence
And now a museum,
Visitors and staff
Have endured terrifying
Paranormal events.
One of the most prolific
Experiences at hull house
Is the apparition
That people see of a woman
In a floor-length dress
From the turn of the century.
There have been probably
Thousands of photographs
Taken of what seems
To be this woman.
Some people believe
This might be
The apparition of mrs. Hull,
Who lived
And d*ed in the house.
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Narrator:
Chicago ghost tour guide
And paranormal investigator
Ursula bielski
Has been obsessed
With the hull house
Hauntings for years.
I thought the best place
To stop last on our tours
Each evening
Would be hull house
Because the story
Is so gripping.
Narrator: now a veteran
Of hundreds of investigations,
Ursula's fascination
With the paranormal
Goes back to her childhood.
Bielski:
I was years old.
I was woken up in my crib
By the sound of footsteps
Coming up the stairs.
It was terrifying.
I'm a paranormal
Investigator today
Because there had to be some way
For me to confront that fear
And try in some way
To control it.
Narrator:
For ursula, one story
About hull house stands apart
From all the others.
Bielski: in ,
There was an incident
That occurred at hull house
That has gone on to become
One of the most famous
Incidents.
Narrator: the story goes
That an orphan baby
Is anonymously dropped off
At hull house.
It was the day that
The so-called devil baby
Came to hull house.
Aah!
Narrator:
Chicago, illinois.
The paranormal activity
In the one of the city's
Most haunted buildings
Can be traced back
To one fateful day in .
Bielski: it was the day that
The so-called devil baby
Came to hull house.
Aah!
Narrator: horribly d*sfigured,
The baby was said
To have cloven hooves,
A tail,
And was able
To yell profanities
Despite being an infant.
Terrified, a servant
Did the unthinkable.
Bielski: she k*lled the baby
While it was staying there
To rid the world
Of its diabolical influence.
The devil baby story
Was so powerful
That it inspired
One of the most
Famous horror novels
And films of all time,
Which is "rosemary's baby."
Narrator:
The spirit of the devil baby
Is said to still haunt
Hull house.
Bielski: many people have
Reported seeing
What they describe
As creatures --
Half-human,
Half-animal creature
That will run and hide
When they see someone.
Narrator:
When ursula gets a chance
To investigate
Hull house overnight,
She leaps at the chance.
She brings along
Colleague eric,
But as soon as they
Enter the house,
She's struck by
An ominous feeling.
In years of
Staying overnight,
Sleeping in cemeteries
And schools and churches,
Hull house is one
Of those rare places
That I don't really
Like to go.
I get a bad,
Oppressive feeling from it.
Narrator:
Pushing her feelings aside,
Ursula sets up
To try to capture evidence
Of the female spirit
On the stairs.
Bielski:
What we wanted to do was
Do a series
Of photography experiments
So that we could perhaps
Capture some of the things
That people
Were experiencing.
Narrator: ursula doesn't see
The entity herself...
But her camera snaps
Something remarkable.
Eric.
Bielski: the photographs --
They looked like
What you would think
A ghost would look like.
A filmy form,
A little bit...
Defined, not too much.
Capturing a photograph
Of an apparition is astounding.
It's just amazing.
When you get
A piece of evidence
That backs up experiences
That people actually have,
That's one of the most
Rewarding things
In paranormal investigation.
Narrator: eager to collect
More evidence,
Ursula and her assistant head
Outside to the garden.
Bielski:
This garden is a place
Where many clairvoyants
And mediums
Who have visited the area
Claim to be a portal.
Some say if you are
A ghost or a demon
And you want to come
Into our physical world,
You have to come in through
One of these doorways.
As an investigator,
I was very skeptical.
I thought that it didn't really
Have a basis in reality,
Especially people
Claiming that you could
Bring entities home with you.
Narrator: though unconvinced,
Ursula sees
If there's any evidence
To support the existence
Of a portal.
Bielski:
We took out an emf meter
And tried to see if there
Was any part of the garden
That we could find
Unusual levels.
And emf meter is measuring
The electrical field,
And if there are fluctuations
In these fields
That can't be explained
By normal means,
And we did find that there
Were several places
In the garden where
The e.m. Readings were raised.
Narrator: they were trying
Find a portal,
But something else
Has found them.
Bielski:
We both saw the shutters
Ever so softly,
Quietly just sort of open
A little bit
And then a little bit more.
And a little bit more.
It was that feeling
That somebody
Was very slowly peeking out.
Narrator:
To her horror, ursula realizes
Which window it is.
This is the room where
The devil baby was --
According to legend --
Done away with
In its sleep.
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Narrator: as ursula tries
To take pictures,
She comes under att*ck.
I was pushed
In the small of my back
With great force.
It felt exactly like someone
Had come up behind me
And pushed me.
And it's terrifying.
It's terrifying.
It was really
The most physical thing
That's to this day
Ever happened to me
As an investigator.
Narrator:
Badly shaken, ursula calls
An end to the investigation.
After I was shoved,
I was very, very tired.
And I thought,
You know what?
This is really wearing on me,
And I'm gonna go home.
Got into bed,
Went to sleep right away.
Narrator:
Ursula has no idea,
But her terrifying encounters
Aren't over yet.
Bielski: I woke up at about
: In the morning.
And there was a man
Standing on my chest.
[ Screaming ]
Narrator: in chicago,
Ghost hunter ursula bielski
Has endured terrifying activity
In a historic mansion.
But that was just
The beginning.
She's now being att*cked
In her own bed.
Bielski: I woke up at about
: In the morning.
And there was a man
Standing on my chest.
He was as real
As any person,
And his body stopped
At his neck.
He had no head.
I couldn't move.
I couldn't talk.
Narrator:
The headless entity has ursula
Pinned down and vulnerable.
Bielski: there was a clock
On our nightstand
With the old numbers
That would flip
Over ever minute.
And I watched the clock,
And it was minutes,
Minutes,
Minutes, minutes,
Minutes passed
Where this man
Was still standing on me.
I didn't know
What was going to happen.
Narrator:
Terrified for her life,
Ursula struggles
For a way to escape.
I was trying to get
The energy and the strength
And the courage to call out.
It was that fearful.
It was many more minutes
Before I had the strength
To say,
"Please, leave me."
Leave me alone.
[ Energy crackling ]
And at that point,
He flew backwards up
Toward the ceiling
And then sort of dissipated.
Aah!
[ Sobs ]
She did wake me up.
She was very startled.
At first, I thought
She was waking me up
From a bad dream
Or something.
She was really freaked out.
I remember
I turned the lights on
And checked the house upstairs
And downstairs,
And we didn't see anything.
Of all the years she's been
Doing investigations,
This is actually one
Of the first times
That anything physical actually
Happened in her presence.
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Bielski:
I never saw the guy again.
I have no idea
Who it was
That interacted with me.
Narrator:
The incident forces ursula
To rethink her att*ck
At hull house
And her skepticism
Of portals.
Bielski: at that time,
I thought I was just pushed.
Someone was forcefully
Attaching themselves to me.
The thought that it
Is actually something
That's becoming
One with you
Is much different
Than just thinking
Of being touched
Or being pushed
As an investigator.
It is an extremely
Sinister thought,
An extremely sinister
And threatening
Possibility.
Narrator: the incident has
A profound effect
On ursula's beliefs.
Bielski: hull house changed
My mind about the paranormal.
It made me realize
That there are things
That are really
And truly not explained.
Narrator:
It's also changed the way
She conducts her investigations.
Bielski: ever since the night
That I had my experience,
I needed to start
To protect myself
When I investigated.
Hull house taught me
That you are never an observer
At a haunted location.
You are never,
Ever just an observer.
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Narrator:
When one of new england's
Top paranormal investigators
Is called to look
Into mysterious noises
Plaguing a homeowner,
He is surprised at the identity
Of the spirit responsible.
It was horrifying.
Narrator: in , the miller
Family buy their dream home
On the outskirts
Of portland, maine.
Sitting on an acre
Of wooded land,
It's their very own
Little piece of the country.
Shortly after moving in,
Their tranquility
Is shattered
By strange
And unsettling sounds.
[ Clanging, meowing ]
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Only the wife, jane,
Hears the troubling noises.
Her husband tries
To reassure her
That there's nothing
To worry about.
But the disturbing sounds
Grow louder and more frequent.
[ Clanging, meowing ]
[ Growling ]
Confused
And seeking answers,
She eventually asks
A paranormal investigator
To get to the bottom
Of the mystery.
Cetrone:
My name is joe cetrone,
And I am
A paranormal investigator.
Narrator: a terrifying
Run-in with a ghost as a child
Triggered joe's curiosity
With the spirit world.
Now with over
Years experience,
Joe is one of new england's
Top ghost hunters.
What I've learned is to never
Underestimate the power
Of what you cannot see.
I was contacted
By the miller family
Through an e-mail stating
That they were experiencing
Some paranormal activity.
They were hearing
Crazy sounds,
A hammering sound,
Banging noises.
Like somebody was nailing
Nails and hitting pipes.
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I'm like, "this is probably
Just a routine assessment,
And I'll just go
Take a look at it,
See what we can
Come up with."
Narrator: as soon as joe arrives
At the miller's home,
He knows this isn't going
To be a routine investigation.
I started feeling dizzy.
I started getting
This weird sensation
As if I was gonna pass out.
Almost like a vertigo.
And I'm like,
"What is going on?"
Am I gonna be able
To do this investigation?
Narrator: when investigator
Joe cetrone arrives
To help a woman being plagued
By mysterious noises,
He's hit
By a powerful feeling.
I started getting
This weird sensation
As if I was gonna pass out.
And I'm like, "am I gonna be
Able to do this investigation?"
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And then I started feeling
A sense of something else.
A lot of times
When you're dealing with
Any type of spirit activity,
The electromagnetic
Frequency around you
Is a little bit too strong,
Almost kind of like radiation is
If you're exposed
To it too much.
And that's what I thought
Was happening to me.
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That vertigo sensation
Was something
I have never felt before.
I mean, my whole equilibrium
Was right off.
And then when I got out of
The car, I got a woozy feeling,
Like as if
I was gonna nauseous.
And I'm like, "maybe I should
Just call this off.
Maybe I should reschedule."
But I didn't.
I said, "you know what?
Let me walk it off,
Get some fresh air."
Narrator: eventually,
Joe feels well enough
To knock on the front door.
Cetrone: and as I'm waiting
For somebody to open it,
I look down,
And there's this
Tabby-looking cat.
[ Meows ]
And I'm like, "wow,
That's a cool-looking cat."
-Hi. How are you?
-Good.
Then the door opened,
And it was the wife.
Cat goes in.
Nice warm house,
Nice atmosphere.
Narrator: the first thing joe
Does in any investigation
Is walk through the home
Looking for any rational
Explanation for the activity.
I just went through each room,
And I'm saying,
"Had you heard of any activity
Anywhere else?"
And she says, "no, it come
Strictly from the basement."
Narrator:
But as joe heads downstairs,
He's overcome with another
Strong feeling.
Cetrone: I graduated from
Vertigo to anxiety.
I can feel my pulse b*ating,
And I'm like,
"Man, what are you doing, joe?
Get yourself together.
This isn't like you."
I never had this problem
In any case
That I've gone through
Like to that extreme.
Narrator:
After composing himself,
Joe is able to enter
The basement.
Cetrone: looked around
In the basement,
Try to see any boards,
Any type of wood, sheetrock,
Hammer, nails, anything.
Anything that could
Just indicate that
There's something rational
To what's going on.
And it was
The total opposite.
It was basically
An empty basement.
I took some pictures anyway.
See if I can find anything
That come up on the camera.
But I didn't see
Anything at all.
I wasn't insinuating anything
Paranormal in that basement.
Narrator:
Despite the lack of evidence,
Joe's vertigo
And anxiety att*cks
Lead him to suspect
Something is going on.
Woman:
He doesn't hear it.
He asked the couple
If there's anything he's missed.
She said, "I know that
There's nobody in my house,
And I know
I'm hearing sounds,
And I don't know where it's
Coming from, and I'm scared,
And nobody seems to believe me,
Not even my husband."
-I'm not crazy.
-She was nervous about it
Because here she is out
In the middle of nowhere.
It's just her
Surrounded by woods.
Narrator: joe knows
She has reason to worry.
Over the years,
The woods in the area
Have gained
A sinister reputation.
Cetrone: I can understand why
She was a little bit nervous.
There has been
Cultic activity
Throughout those areas
Over the past few years.
And then all of a sudden,
I heard it.
[ Clanging, meowing ]
Loud, hammering sounds,
As if a hammer
Was hitting metal.
-Do you hear that?
-And she said, "did you hear it?
Do you hear it?
Now do you believe me?
And I remember
Looking at the husband,
And he just sat there.
And he's looking around.
He's like,
"This just can't be."
Narrator:
Investigator joe cetrone
Has just heard the sounds
That have been driving
His client crazy.
[ Clanging, meowing ]
All of a sudden,
I heard it.
I can feel that the hair
On my arm started standing up.
I'm like, "okay,
Now it's all making sense."
The lightheadedness,
The vertigo,
The hammering sounds --
I mean, there's
Something paranormal.
Narrator: the noises
Are coming from the basement.
Cetrone: it was loud,
It was horrifying.
I knew then that I had
To go back down there
And further research
That basement.
Narrator: cautiously, joe heads
Toward the source of the noises.
Cetrone: I take more pictures.
I got my emf detector.
See if I can get
An change in frequencies.
I'm looking around.
I'm peeking around
The corners.
I'm like,
Is there anything here?
What is going on?
I know there's an energy
That's strong --
Strong enough to throw
My equilibrium off.
Trying to find something.
I can't find anything.
And then I heard scratching.
It's coming from outside.
[ Scratching ]
Look.
And it's the cat.
[ Meows ]
And I'm like, phew.
It's just you.
And I felt relieved
To know that.
But I'm still left with,
What is going on
In his basement?
Narrator:
Instinctively, joe decides
To follow the cat outside.
Maybe the sound
Is coming from out there.
They've got the land.
There's an acre.
I mean,
It could activity outside.
I go out there.
I see the cat.
And the cat takes off.
And I start
Snapping pictures.
Narrator: what joe captures
Gives him the chills.
The second picture I took,
Right in
My little viewfinder,
I see this large,
Bright, white glowing orb,
Probably the size
Of a basketball hovering
About feet in the air.
Essentially, an orb is another
Manifestation of a spirit.
It's energy.
It's one big massive
Ball of energy.
How always can detect
A genuine spirit orb
Is the brightness of the orb,
The glowingness,
And there's usually
A ring around that orb.
I like to call it
The corona of the orb.
Narrator: the brighter the orb,
The more powerful its energy.
And joe can feel
Its intensity.
Cetrone:
I'm feeling tired at that point.
The anxiety has subsided,
But I still feel
A little bit dizzy.
So I went inside.
We're at the table.
I showed them the orb.
I said, "what's really amazing
About all this
Is I don't know
If I wouldn't went outside
And started
Snapping pictures
If it wasn't for your cat."
Narrator: but the millers have
Some shocking news for joe.
They're like,
"No, I'm sorry --
We don't have a cat."
And I'm like,
"But you let the cat in.
The cat went in."
[ Exhales ]
Then I remembered -- last time
I seen the cat outside,
He took off heading
Toward the woods.
Narrator:
Joe heads back outside to track
Down the mysterious creature.
Cetrone: I headed
Where I seen the cat go.
There's a little pathway.
Lo and behold,
I look down on the ground,
And there's a hammer,
There's some nails,
Rusty nails.
And I look over here
To the right,
And I see the bones
Of what appeared to be
An animal laying down dead.
[ Clanging, meowing ]
Narrator: the skeleton
Is that of a cat.
I believe that those noises
And everything
That led up
To me even going there
All had to do with the cat.
Cat was k*lled by someone,
Something,
And it was warning.
It was a warning from that cat
That something happened to it.
I think it was trying
To give the wife a message.
I have never witnessed anything
That had to do with any animal,
Any spirit,
Anything like that.
That was the first time
Something like
That has happened to me.
Narrator:
After joe's grisly discovery,
He offers to cleanse
The property
Of the cat's spirit.
And they said, "you know, joe,
We appreciate you coming here.
It puts closure
On a lot of things.
At least now we know my wife
Is telling the truth."
No cleansing at all.
They were happy
With the evidence that I had,
And they were fine with that.
So they declined
The blessing.
Narrator:
Soon after the investigation,
The paranormal activity
Subsides,
And the millers
Put the haunting behind them.
For joe, it's a case
He'll never forget.
What I did learn is that spirits
Come in all shapes and sizes,
And obviously, also a cat.
[ Meowing ]
01x09 - Haunted Hospital
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"Haunted Case Files" features three different stories per episode from different paranormal investigators and recounts their most terrifying encounters with spirits, demons and unexplained entities.
"Haunted Case Files" features three different stories per episode from different paranormal investigators and recounts their most terrifying encounters with spirits, demons and unexplained entities.