NARRATOR:
America's top ghost hunters
relive their most
extreme assignments.
[ Creaking ]
[ Woman screams ]
Something was hunting me
this whole time.
NARRATOR: Hardened veterans
of the paranormal,
these are the cases
that truly tested them.
I don't think I was
ready for this.
In Ohio, a dangerous spirit
threatens a team
of investigators.
On his right.
I was getting worried.
I was nervous.
What if that spirit was strong
enough to pick up that Kn*fe?
NARRATOR: In Massachusetts,
a quiet suburban life shatters
when evil moves in.
WOMAN: Dead in the swamp.
I started to get
just a lot of anxiety
and this, like, feeling of,
"Get out of here. Leave."
NARRATOR: And a popular haunted
attraction reveals itself
to be an actual
house of horrors.
Shadow figures walking around.
Were you m*rder*d by a man?
There's, like, invisible kids.
This could be something
more than just a spook house.
[ Shriek ]
♪♪
♪♪
Like many local libraries,
the Williams County Public
Library in Bryan, Ohio,
is a calm and quiet monument
to learning.
But, in ,
that peace was shattered
by a violent m*rder
perpetrated by a local man,
James Engle.
[ Woman screams ]
[ Man laughs evilly ]
NARRATOR: On the night
of September th,
his victim is -year-old
librarian Emily Abernathy.
♪♪
Oh. Can I help you?
As she attempts to close
the library,
he brutally att*cks her.
[ Blow lands ]
[ Gasps ]
He pushed her down.
He b*at her so hard
he knocked her teeth out.
♪♪
And then he stabbed her
times with a pocket Kn*fe.
♪♪
NARRATOR:
James confesses to the m*rder
and is sentenced
to years in jail.
But when he is released,
he returns to the scene
of his grisly crime.
♪♪
James walked over to
the basement area
and looked down there
almost like
he was proud
of what he did.
NARRATOR:
After James passes away,
strange things start to happen
between the shelves.
[ Faint wailing ]
Some of the employees,
they would see shadows down
in the area
where the librarian
was m*rder*d.
They would hear voices.
The activity was scaring people
at the library.
The staff was frightened
to go down or even get books.
♪♪
[ Gasps ]
[ Wails ]
NARRATOR: Employees begin to
suspect the ghost of James Engle
is to blame.
♪♪
The library director
asks paranormal
investigator Karlo Zuzic
to look into
the disturbing activity.
Karlo and his colleagues
at the Ohio Researchers
of Banded Spirits
have decades of experience
investigating the paranormal.
♪♪
Karlo's team includes
Chris Page and Amy Cobb.
They begin their investigation
right away.
ZUZIC: When I first stepped
in the building,
I was a little worried,
you could say, just because
I didn't know what I was
going to come across.
Is it going to be James?
Is it going to be Emily?
You just don't know until
you start the investigation.
But it had a weird,
weird feeling to it.
NARRATOR:
Chris is also apprehensive.
PAGE: An entity such as James,
I believe,
is completely dangerous.
That's a lot of rage to b*at
someone into unconsciousness,
strangle them,
pull out a Kn*fe.
That's a lot of
tremendous hatred
that is put into
one location,
and to still feel that
years later,
it's shocking.
♪♪
NARRATOR:
The team splits up.
Chris heads to the basement,
while Karlo and Amy
investigate upstairs.
During the investigation,
I had the Ovilus device.
It picks up energy.
It puts the energy into numbers,
and each number
has a word to it,
and I figured
I'd decide to use it
to see what kind of answers
I would get.
I'm walking around
with a night-vision camera,
and I was asking
specific questions.
What was your favorite
book to read?
And the Ovilus kicks out Bible.
-Bible.
-Huh?
-Bible.
-Bible?
I just asked, "What was
your favorite book to read?"
I know.
And I got Bible.
And I was kind of shocked
hearing that,
because I'm getting a specific
answer right off the bat.
Maybe, like, feet
in front of me,
I see a Bible sitting there.
COBB: Oh, wow.
[ Chuckles ]
Awesome.
[ Rustling ]
So you're in here with us?
ZUZIC:
James, when he was in prison,
his favorite book to read
was the Bible.
Amy.
This could be James.
Now you're on guard.
NARRATOR:
Down in the basement,
Chris notices the atmosphere
change as he approaches the spot
where Emily
took her last breath.
PAGE: You feel a sense of fear
starting to come upon you.
You know that there's probably
somebody lurking in the shadows,
but they're just
not coming out.
They're just watching.
[ Creaking ]
You almost feel
as if James is standing
right next to you,
watching you.
NARRATOR: After their own eerie
encounter upstairs,
Karlo and Amy
go to check on Chris.
ZUZIC: The moment where
I enter that basement,
you could feel
the different energy there.
NARRATOR: Karlo and Amy find
Chris and a disturbing scene.
In order to lure
James's spirit out,
I decided to do probably
the craziest thing
I've ever done
on an investigation.
Extreme times call
for extreme measures.
I laid there
on the cold concrete
where Emily's body was
with a Kn*fe on my chest,
and I asked him
to come and att*ck me.
Here. Take this Kn*fe.
And you're feeling
the coldness
creeping into your bones
of that concrete.
This was the last feeling,
also, that Emily was feeling.
And then you worry, you know,
can he cause two deaths?
Can he cause one
when he was alive,
and can he m*rder in death?
Come on, you coward.
Ready to m*rder, aren't you?
♪♪
NARRATOR:
In Bryan, Ohio,
investigators hunt
for the ghost of a m*rder*r
haunting the Williams County
Public Library.
They use extreme tactics
to seek him out.
PAGE: I laid there
on the cold concrete,
and I asked him
to come and att*ck me.
Ready to m*rder, aren't you?
I see Chris laying there,
on the floor, and I was like,
"Oh, no. What's he doing?"
you know?
And I knew, at that moment,
he's using himself
as a trigger object.
-Are you making this up?
-Chris, this isn't a good idea.
A trigger object session
consists of things
that the spirits are going
to be familiar with.
It could be very dangerous
to be a trigger object
just because, you know,
the spirit could pull enough
energy and lash out at you.
I was waiting for any moment
for James
to strike out
and do something.
[ Faint chatter ]
Come on, sicko.
NARRATOR: Suddenly, the energy
in the room changes.
As I'm laying on my back,
on the concrete,
and I'm pointing up,
and I'm seeing this entity form,
this misty, glowing thing,
and I'm freaking out.
I'm pointing.
All of a sudden, Chris goes,
"Oh, my God.
I see this light up
in the corner."
-Guys, are you seeing this?
-Yeah.
There's a light right up there.
I knew for sure that --
that it's actually working.
You know, he is drawing in
this spirit.
I was shocked.
I started stuttering.
I started pointing.
You guys seeing this?
It was, like, a misty light
right up there.
ZUZIC: I snapped a photo,
and I knew, at that moment,
there was some sort of energy
in that room
because I caught
what looked like a streak,
like some sort of energy
above Chris.
I mean, literally, it's, like,
you can see the Kn*fe
on Chris's chest, and this thing
is right above it,
and I believe that's, you know,
the spirit of James.
He could possibly try and be
trying to reach out
for that Kn*fe, or he's trying
to do something to Chris.
It's getting kind of weird
in here, ain't it?
Yeah.
Within a few seconds,
an EVP came across,
and it said, "k*ll him."
EERIE MALE VOICE: k*ll him.
I started to panic.
I was in disbelief.
I couldn't even --
I couldn't get the words
out fast enough
with what my eyes were seeing
and my mind was processing.
EERIE MALE VOICE: k*ll him.
[ Faint chatter ]
♪♪
PAGE: Another EVP is followed,
but not in a male's voice,
but in a female's voice,
saying, "Yes, you did."
FEMALE VOICE: Yes, you did.
[ Faint chatter ]
♪♪
Now you just validated that
there are two spirits there,
you know,
and now you're validating
what everybody else is hearing
and seeing at this library.
I believe it's Emily and James
still locked in in that spot.
They're actually communicating
with us in real time.
NARRATOR: Afraid of what
might happen next,
Chris ends the session.
PAGE: I was done.
It was getting
progressively worse,
what was happening,
so I told everybody,
"We just need to go upstairs."
NARRATOR: But they aren't out
of harm's way.
ZUZIC:
We were using the K-II Meter,
and, all of a sudden,
it started peaking.
[ Beeping ]
You know, it was hitting
the red area.
That's telling us
that there's an energy,
there's some form of energy
at that location
that's very strong.
And, at that same time,
when that started to peak,
Chris hears this --
what sounds like a growl.
[ Growling ]
PAGE:
It was a low, throaty growl.
This was his final...
push on us to basically
tell us, you know,
"You've irritated me.
You need to stop."
NARRATOR: And James isn't done
terrorizing the team.
I don't feel right.
[ Sniffles ]
Take this.
ZUZIC:
And, all of a sudden, Amy,
her mood started to change.
She started getting angry,
almost like she wanted
to fight us.
It was, like, the weirdest
thing in the world.
[ Gasps ] Get out!
She's being very loud and vocal.
I just am so angry right now.
I believe James was trying
to possess Amy
so he could physically
hurt one of us.
No! No!
Because now he'll have
that physical strength to do it.
PAGE: We're in shock as she's
having this spirit of James
take her over, to where now
he is in somewhat partial
control of her emotions.
And we had to stop it.
Aah!
Try to get in the old circle --
[ Wailing ]
♪♪
NARRATOR: At the Williams County
Public Library
in Bryan, Ohio,
an investigation into a haunting
takes a very dangerous turn.
[ Wailing ]
The spirit of a m*rder*r
tries to take over
the body and mind
of one of
the investigators hunting.
I don't feel right.
♪♪
The only thing Chris and I
could think of doing
is to start praying,
see if James
would possibly release.
...forgive us our trespasses...
Get out!
...Thy kingdom come...
[ Wailing ]
-...Thy will be done.
-Three, two...
I believe James was physically
trying to att*ck her.
She's holding her fists.
She's crying,
and you could tell
she was having her
own battle with James.
You know, she's trying
to get him off of her.
You know, we're praying for her.
It was almost like
spiritual warfare.
Chris and I were very concerned
that this may escalate
to an even worse situation.
And as we're doing the blessing
and holding hands and praying,
you could see
her mood changing.
You could see her
actually coming back.
Grab her!
It's starting to release.
[ Gasping ]
Thank God Chris and I were able
to pull that away from her,
that it didn't cause
even more harm.
Help her up.
I truly believe
that if James had taken
complete possession of Amy,
he would have controlled her,
and he would have made her
do whatever
he wanted her to do
because now he had
control of a body,
which is what
he's always wanted.
NARRATOR: With Amy safe, Chris
and Karlo know they can't leave
until they try
to rid the library
of James's spirit for good.
We knew that, you know,
there's danger here,
so Chris and I
wanted to remove James.
I think we should do a prayer.
Is that okay?
We don't care if Emily
was still there.
If that's where she wants to be,
and she's happy there,
that's fine.
But James had to be removed,
and Chris and I decided to do
a cleansing,
a blessing,
of the property.
...the archangel,
defend us in battle.
Be our protection against
the wickedness and the...
Our goal is to get rid of him.
We don't want him there.
...Earth as it is in heaven,
hallowed be thy name.
We were a lot stronger
than James was,
and we pushed him
away from there.
We removed him
from that library.
♪♪
After the blessing was done,
you could feel everything lift.
Gave the library staff
that peace of mind,
"Look, you know, he's gone."
They're more comfortable now
going to work.
It went well.
The staff hasn't had
any other experiences.
It was a very big
accomplishment for us
because this thing could have
got out of control,
and we got it under control
at one point,
and we actually removed him,
which was a main thing
that we wanted to do.
NARRATOR: Still to come --
a haunted house
gives veteran ghost hunters
a real fright.
I felt, like, little fingers
on my feet.
My full body stopped.
There's, like, invisible kids.
To this day, it creeps me out.
NARRATOR: But first, rookie
investigators come face to face
with an evil force unlike
anything they've ever seen.
When we went into
this investigation,
I will be honest with you,
I was terrified.
♪♪
NARRATOR: North Easton,
Massachusetts,
is a small town
just outside Boston.
It's home to just
, people.
One of them is Darlene Martin,
but her life
in this quiet community
is anything but serene.
♪♪
[ Faint indistinct whispering ]
♪♪
[ Whispering continues ]
NARRATOR: Strange incidents
around her house
start to worry her.
[ Electricity crackles ]
[ Whispering continues ]
It begins with little
electrical issues.
Fresh light bulbs burn out.
Batteries never keep a charge.
But things quickly worsen.
[ Crackling stops ]
She was seeing shadow figures.
[ Whispering continues ]
She was experiencing
disembodied voices.
She wasn't able to sleep
at night because this voice,
male voice, would talk to her
at night, wake her up.
She was pretty much terrified
by what was going on,
and it was just draining her
physically and emotionally.
NARRATOR:
Fearful, she calls a team
of paranormal investigators.
[ Whispering continues ]
♪♪
Jack Kenna has a long history
of hunting ghosts
as a key member of SPIRITS
of New England.
KENNA:
How often do I get frightened
on an investigation?
Actually, not very often,
so it's kind of a rare thing.
So if and when it does happen,
it tells you probably something
pretty intense is going on.
NARRATOR:
Jack, a veteran investigator,
has covered hundreds of cases,
but Darlene Martin's in
was one of his first.
A large team is on the case,
including SPIRITS
founder Ellen MacNeil.
♪♪
MacNEIL: I wanted to make sure
that we knew
as much as we could
about the house.
The client's location is
by the Bridgewater Triangle,
which is well-known
and documented for all sorts
of paranormal activity,
and she lives right
on the corner
of one of the triangle points.
NARRATOR: The home is in
very close proximity
to the Hockomock Swamp,
which translates to
"a place where spirits dwell."
My first thought
with this case was,
"Is this residual energy
from the Hockomock Swamp
causing this activity?"
[ Eerie whispering ]
Residual energy can cause
residual hauntings.
NARRATOR: The team arrives
at Darlene's
to begin their investigation.
How do you do, ma'am?
I'm Jack Kenna.
One of the first things
I noticed,
walking into the house,
was the oppressive
and high anxiety
in the home itself --
very unusual, very nontypical
of just walking
into somebody's home,
which means there's something
going on there, right,
something negative.
NARRATOR:
Ellen feels it too.
I will be honest with you.
I was terrified.
NARRATOR: Pushing their worries
to the side,
the team splits up
to investigate.
Sharon Koogler is with Ellen,
while Sarah Campbell
goes with Jack
to the top floor of the house.
KENNA: So once we got up into
the upstairs loft area,
I was just talking
to whatever might be there,
telling them why we're there,
that we're there
to talk to them.
I need you to talk to me
if you're here.
I started to get just a lot
of anxiety
and this, like,
feeling of,
"Get out of here. Leave.
Get out," like I should go.
I decide, "No, I'm not going
to do that. I'm staying."
And that's when I captured
an EVP of a female voice saying,
"Go. Get out."
Is there anybody over here?
You can talk to me.
FEMALE VOICE: Get out.
NARRATOR: Hearing this voice,
a female voice, stuns Jack.
KENNA: It was a female voice
I heard.
We knew most of the torment
was from the male spirit.
Did you hear that?
Well, the spirits,
sometimes what can happen
is one can control another
and force it to do its bidding.
Is there anybody over here?
You can talk to me.
Get out.
NARRATOR: Along with that voice,
they hear strange noises nearby.
I thought I heard something
in the closet.
Is there somebody
in the closet?
Can you talk to me?
Focused kind of the closet,
put a couple of the
EMF meters we had in there.
We started getting hits
on those EMF meters
of some kind of energy
in that little space.
Well, we started
asking questions,
and that's when we had
this disembodied male voice say,
"Go. Get out."
MALE VOICE: Get out.
Get out.
♪♪
NARRATOR: In Massachusetts,
a team of ghost hunters
investigate bizarre activity
at a woman's home.
Right away, they feel
a negative presence
and hear voices
telling them to leave...
♪♪
-KENNA: You can talk to me.
-FEMALE VOICE: Get out.
NARRATOR: ...one more sinister
than the other.
♪♪
MALE VOICE: Get out.
We thought it was one of our
people downstairs.
[ Speaking indistinctly ]
...from downstairs?
CAMPBELL: Ghost.
Then we yelled,
"Did somebody just
tell us to get out of here,
to go?"
They're like, "We haven't
said anything."
That's when Sarah and I realized
that's coming from right there.
Shortly after that,
all the batteries in our devices
starting to die.
-My recorder's dead.
-Mine too.
NARRATOR: Jack believes the male
spirit he heard is behind this.
Battery drain is typically
a sign of a spirit
draining those batteries
in order to gain more energy
to interact with you.
NARRATOR:
The other two investigators,
Ellen and Sharon,
are in Darlene's bedroom.
They too try to contact
the spirit realm.
When you do an EVP session,
you're asking questions
to whatever spirit you feel
is in there,
whatever entity is in there.
[ Beeping ]
And we asked,
"Did you die in the home?
Did you live in this home?"
Did you die in this room?
You know, anything we can do
to make a connection.
Did you live in this area?
We were asking questions
and questions and questions,
getting no response.
NARRATOR: But there is
a presence in the room,
and it communicates with Ellen
in a troubling way.
An entity was physically
targeting me.
[ Beeping continues ]
I started feeling really bad.
My stomach was very upset.
I was like, "Okay.
Am I stepping somewhere
I should not be stepping?"
[ Beeping continues ]
KENNA: She physically
went to the restroom
and physically got ill.
That's pretty intense.
Is there something that
aggressive and that intimidating
that it affected me like that?
NARRATOR:
Sharon, searching for answers,
finds something disturbing.
MacNEIL: When we played back the
recording of our EVP session,
right over us talking,
you hear a female voice say,
"Dead in the swamp."
FEMALE VOICE:
Dead in the swamp.
She's right on
the Hockomock Swamp
by the Bridgewater Triangle.
That freaks you out.
♪♪
FEMALE VOICE:
Dead in the swamp.
♪♪
KENNA: This is a very clear
woman's voice, says,
"Dead in the swamp,"
and that was just at the moment
where Ellen started to get ill.
Something was interacting
with Ellen to the point
where it made her
physically ill.
I was concerned for her
at that point.
NARRATOR: Fearing for Ellen
and the rest of the team,
Jack ends the investigation
for the night.
When they return to the home,
they bring in
an experienced psychic to help.
KENNA: Beckah Boyd is a
sixth-generation psychic medium.
Beckah was able to interact
with these spirits much more.
The activity is in here.
She's able to almost talk
to them, find out who they are,
why they're there,
and what they're trying to do.
♪♪
She's able to tell us
about this female spirit more.
This woman had been m*rder*d
by two men
in that swamp
and left there.
NARRATOR:
Beckah tells the team
this spirit lives on
in the home.
KENNA: Group of us were inside
the master bedroom,
and see Ellen kind of
just startle for a second.
[ Gasps, shudders ]
I was in the doorway,
and, all of a sudden,
I get a cupped hand
firmly on my shoulder.
I immediately went into
panic mode.
What just happened to you?
This wasn't a little poke.
This was a hand firmly
on my shoulder.
I was just totally freaked out.
...hand on my shoulder.
Beckah, she said,
"What just happened to you?"
And I told her.
She said, "If you got that hand
on your shoulder," she said,
"that's the biggest
compliment you can ever have
because she knows that
you're all here to help."
It'll be okay.
I believe that the spirit
that is in this house
was m*rder*d dead
in the swamp.
FEMALE VOICE:
Dead in the swamp.
♪♪
She is picking up on the anxiety
that the client has
and is reaching out
to all of us
because we're trying
to help her.
She seemed to be
a very compassionate spirit.
♪♪
Beckah decides it's time to,
now that she knows
what's going on,
she's going to
clear the house.
NARRATOR: Beckah works to purge
the female spirit
from the home
and grant her rest.
So Beckah just tried
to move her on
so she's not trapped where --
on this world,
this plane, anymore.
She talks through
her spirit guide
and talks to that spirit
to help her cross over
and move on
to a better place.
She gave peace and
acknowledgment to this woman.
NARRATOR:
With the female spirit gone,
the team focuses on finding
the entity
that torments Darlene.
KENNA:
Beckah is able to determine
this male figure
is very negative.
Turns out he's probably even
a m*rder*r during his lifetime.
He was so aggressive and
so intimidating to the client.
He's malevolent
but persistent...
-Yeah.
-...and possessive.
-Okay?
-Of the house?
Of the house.
[ Faint growling ]
-He's here.
And, between all of us,
we were going to figure out
how to get rid of it.
[ Beeping ]
KENNA: Beckah noticed
this large mirror
in one of the corners
of Darlene's bedroom.
She knew it was a portal where
the spirits were coming through.
NARRATOR: Beckah seals it shut
to make sure
the spirit
can never re-enter,
and then she begins
the process of expelling it.
...oh, no...
[ Shuddering ]
Darlene has to get away
from that energy.
She has to be protected from it.
It's not over.
♪♪
NARRATOR: A home near Boston,
Massachusetts, in under thr*at
from an evil male presence.
♪♪
He was so aggressive and
so intimidating to the client.
NARRATOR:
Investigators on the case
call in a psychic medium
to help get rid of it.
Oh, it's not over.
Beckah, she was driving
this negative male spirit
right out of the home.
So she starts at the top,
goes all the way down
and literally ran.
I watched her run down
those stairs.
She's pushing that energy,
that negative spirit,
right out of the home.
♪♪
Out the door.
♪♪
Gone. [ Chuckles ]
KENNA: So once that male spirit
was removed,
you definitely felt a large
difference in the home.
♪♪
Did you get all that?
This side doesn't feel
just better.
It feels...energized.
[ Gasping ]
NARRATOR:
With the negative spirit gone,
relief washes over the team.
-It's working.
-I know.
[ Door creaking ]
♪♪
MacNEIL:
The house was feeling lighter.
♪♪
She looked like a totally
different person.
She was rested.
She was happy.
She had her house back.
We were able to truly help
this woman
and help resolve
this haunting.
♪♪
NARRATOR:
When paranormal investigators
visit a haunted house,
they get more than
they bargained for
when they provoke
the spirits.
Something grabbed him and
pushed him up to the trailer.
I warned him, "You're playing
with fire, you get b*rned."
[ Wind whistling ]
♪♪
NARRATOR: In the Southwestern
United States
lies a haunted house
attraction.
It serves to scare everyone
who visits,
but there's something unusual
about this haunted house.
When its doors close for the
night, the real haunting begins.
JAY: Shadow figures
walking around.
There's, like,
invisible kids laughing,
talking,
conversations, giggling.
Objects were being moved.
The caretaker reported
some of the experiences
that he was having.
It wasn't just
the caretaker himself
that was actually experiencing
this paranormal phenomenon,
it was a lot of the actors that
were working within the haunt.
They started seeing shadows.
They started hearing noises.
There's people talking
within the building
when there's nobody there.
NARRATOR: The caretaker lives
on the property
and fears the haunted house
may truly be haunted.
The caretaker wanted us to go
in and validate the claims.
He wanted to see
if there was any evidence
that we could obtain.
NARRATOR: Husband-and-wife team
Jay and Marie Yates
are the co-founders of COPS,
the Crossing Over
Paranormal Society.
With years experience,
they are some of the most
respected paranormal
investigators out there.
JAY: I've seen so much,
been through so much,
I do get scared
from time to time.
Complete darkness
kind of trips me out.
It's just that anticipation
of not knowing what's
going to happen next.
NARRATOR: At first,
Jay and Marie are skeptical
that the house is truly haunted.
MARIE: We actually thought
maybe it was a hoax.
Maybe there's some, you know,
people that actually are actors
in the haunted attraction,
maybe setting up some stuff.
NARRATOR: But in their research,
they make a chilling discovery
that gives them pause.
There was a death
associated with the property
from a previous owner
of that property.
Many bodies were being found
nearby this particular
haunted attraction.
This could be something
more than just a spook house.
There might be some legitimacy
behind the claims.
♪♪
NARRATOR: Jay and Marie bring in
their team to investigate.
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MARIE: You know, when we first
arrived there, it was empty.
No actors.
Walking in, it felt very cold.
There are mannequins
all around you.
Having the mannequins there
do, you know,
add to the creep factor.
NARRATOR:
Jay and Marie are vigilant.
They don't want to be fooled.
JAY: We'd have to pay extra
special attention
to ensure that there wasn't
any kind of trickery
happening while we were there
because this was,
you know,
a haunted attraction.
♪♪
NARRATOR:
Almost right away,
the team witnesses
strange activity.
Myself and another investigator
saw a shadow figure cross
from one side of the door
to the other.
Now, I saw it.
I was staring dead at it,
and I didn't want
to say anything,
and I looked over to my right,
and there was an investigator
who was also looking at me,
and he said, "Jay, you saw
that too, didn't you?"
And I said, "Yeah, absolutely."
It was dark.
It was definitely a male.
NARRATOR:
Jay orders everyone outside
so he can take photos of the
building without interference.
I get to what we call
the prop room.
I took multiple photographs
in this room.
[ Shutter clicks ]
And, immediately,
as I took these photographs,
I see that I had captured
a white blur.
I catch what looks
like a person,
almost in costume, running
across the frame of the photo.
Completely surprised
and shocked,
I gather my team members.
MARIE:
It was, like, a white figure
coming out of, like,
the props.
He actually felt like
a presence was --
something was in there with him
when he was actually
taking the picture.
NARRATOR:
As the team tries to figure out
what exactly
Jay caught on camera,
he senses something
lurking nearby.
And I'm explaining everything
that had happened,
and then I look over to my left
to see what investigator
was to my left.
[ Eerie soft wailing ]
MARIE: Jay actually thought
somebody walked up next to him,
and he sort of was startled
when he looked
and there was nobody there.
JAY: Our reverend on the team,
he looked at me,
and he said, "Jay, did you see
a ghost or something?
You look like you saw a ghost."
And I'm like, "I'm pretty sure
I just did."
MARIE: After that incident,
some of our team members
started messing around
with the mannequins.
Knowing that I'm kind of
scared of mannequins,
they were kind
of screwing around, like,
with some of the mannequins,
and it was kind of,
like, you know, irritating me.
[ Laughter ]
NARRATOR: Jay is not the only
one who's irritated,
as he finds out when he
and Marie start an EVP session.
JAY: The first question we asked
was, "Are you upset
for what the crew members
were doing with the mannequins?"
And we get a loud "yes"
response on the high recorder.
Jay.
♪♪
[ Raspy breathing ]
MALE VOICE: Yes.
MARIE: Like, "Okay.
So we have something here
that's intelligent."
♪♪
[ Static whines ]
NARRATOR: Meantime, in another
area of the property,
Jay and Marie's colleague
witnesses something eerie.
I get a radio call from one of
our investigators, Michael Papp,
out at base camp...
We've got something here.
...saying, "Hey, Jay, we've
got a door that just opened.
I just caught it on DVR."
He's at base camp.
He's watching all the cameras,
and we have the back door
of this prop house
legitimately opening up
by itself.
♪♪
You can see on the DVR cameras
that there wasn't anyone
that came up to it,
but you clearly see
the door opening.
You've got something?
♪♪
Marie and I go in to investigate
the door opening,
find no normal explanation
for any of this happening.
We had people doing security
walks around the facility,
ensuring that nobody
was in there,
so that door opening up,
for me, that was paranormal.
Something opened that that you
could not see with your eyes,
but that door opening
was caught on the DVR unit.
NARRATOR:
Anxious to gather more evidence,
Marie heads to a trailer
on the property
which was once home to a couple
with a violent history.
MARIE: One thing that happened
in this trailer
that we knew of
was there was a double m*rder.
[ Woman screams ]
It was a m*rder-su1c1de
of a man and a woman.
Marie wants to go in,
and she wants to investigate
this trailer by herself.
MARIE: I think, sometimes,
when you're by yourself,
you have more opportunity
to catch anything.
I walked into the back
bedroom of this trailer,
and I started doing
an audio session.
Is there anybody here?
I was asking,
"Who's in here with me?
What is your name?"
There's no men.
It's just me, all by myself.
NARRATOR: Marie starts asking
pointed questions...
Hello?
...in an attempt to draw out
the spirit of the female victim.
MARIE:
Were you m*rder*d by a man?
Then, Marie hears something.
She walks in, and she captures,
on audio,
some of the most compelling
evidence that I've ever heard.
It scared the hell out of me
when I reviewed it.
In the distant background,
you hear what sounds
like an older lady
start humming some tune.
MARIE: Is there anybody
in here with me?
[ Humming ]
JAY: It sends chills
down your spine,
but we caught something
that was class-A EVP.
There was a lady in there,
and she was humming,
and there's no way it could
have come from anything else.
MARIE: Is there anybody
in here with me?
[ Humming ]
To this day,
I will honestly say,
if I hear that audio,
it creeps me out.
NARRATOR: The encounter makes
Marie physically ill.
[ Humming continues ]
[ Stifled cough ]
Felt really dizzy and stuff.
My stomach started
feeling weak as well.
[ Humming continues ]
[ Gasping ]
[ Gasping continues ]
NARRATOR: She manages
to escape the trailer,
but there's no hiding from
all sorts of unnatural activity.
There's definitely
some childlike laughter
and giggling going on.
[ Children giggling ]
[ Giggling continues ]
♪♪
NARRATOR: In the Southwest,
a team investigating
a haunted attraction
fear it's really haunted.
Myself and another investigator
saw a shadow figure.
♪♪
NARRATOR: They start seeing
things and hearing things.
One of our investigators say
that they hear children
laughing and giggling.
[ Children laughing ]
There's definitely
some childlike laughter
and giggling going on,
and we can't see anything.
You hear that too, right?
[ Laughing continues ]
So it's kind of spooky, right?
I mean, like, just the thought
of children ghosts anyway
has always kind
of freaked me out.
MARIE:
We decided to walk through
and try to find
where these children were.
We looked all around
this haunted attraction
and did not find no kids.
All of a sudden,
I hear the giggling again.
[ Giggling resumes ]
The sound of the giggling is,
honestly, sounds of, like,
almost like a -
or -year-old child going,
"He-he-he-he.
He-he-he-he-he. Ha-ha,"
almost like a giggling
sound of a child
that is really trying
to irritate you.
[ Giggling continues ]
The giggle would move.
So when we would move,
the giggling would be
in front of us.
Then it would be behind us.
Honestly, in a way,
it was a little creepy.
NARRATOR:
Marie not only hears children.
She feels them too.
Aah!
Something just grabbed
my ankle!
What? Where?
I felt, like, little fingers
on my feet.
My full body stopped,
and the other investigators
were already in front of me,
and I'm like,
"Hey, wait a second, you guys.
I was just touched,"
and I started, you know,
flashing the flashlight around,
and there was nobody there.
Something just grabbed me!
NARRATOR: Meanwhile,
concerned by Marie's
earlier experience
at the trailer,
her co-investigator,
Reverend Paul Lovegrove,
goes there in search
of answers.
♪♪
Like Marie, he too connects
with a spirit,
but one much more sinister.
[ Whoosh ]
He felt like something
grabbed him
and pushed him up
to the trailer.
And I kind of rushed over there
to kind of intervene
to see if there was
anything I could do.
And all I see is Paul's face,
and he's just completely like,
"Jay, I don't know
what to tell you."
-I'm done here.
-Come on.
I'm done. I'm done.
I've had it.
Like, "I don't have
any explanation for it,
"but, like,
something grabbed me
and just literally pushed me
up against the trailer."
He said, "I just
can't explain it."
You okay?
You guys are on your own.
I'm out.
I'm done.
I can't do it.
It takes a lot of energy
for a spirit
to actually do something
like that,
to actually be able
to actually push.
♪♪
What I think it was
that actually pushed Paul,
I believe it was a spirit
of the man
that actually m*rder*d
his wife in there.
I believe, at the time,
Paul went in there,
was trying to communicate
with him,
and I think he just, like,
"I had enough,"
you know, pushed him,
and, you know, to like,
"Get out."
NARRATOR: Jay, along with
co-investigator Michael Papp,
go in search of that spirit.
We were walking
through the trailer.
Mike immediately starts
antagonizing
and almost provoking
the spirits.
I don't believe you're here.
Come on. Show yourself.
Walking around the trailer,
just like,
"I don't believe
that you're here.
I don't believe that
there's anything here."
And he's just --
It's almost like a challenge
in what he's doing.
I'm like, "Mike, you know,
let's not do this here,"
and he's like, "Come on, Jay.
There's nothing here."
NARRATOR: Their equipment
suggests otherwise.
[ Beeping ]
I'm showing Michael. I'm like,
"Hey, Mike, like, look.
We're getting spikes
on the K-II Meter."
He's like, "I don't believe
in that thing."
[ Beeping continues ]
And then I saw a ball of light,
and it was following Michael
into the back room
of this trailer.
NARRATOR: Fearing the spirit
would manifest
and cause irreparable harm,
the team makes a quick exit.
[ Beeping continues ]
Faster!
Open the door!
-Open the -- Get out.
-We're out of here.
NARRATOR:
On their way out,
they consult
with the caretaker.
JAY: We asked the caretaker,
"Would you like a cleansing?"
He wasn't interested in that.
All he wanted was validation,
and he wanted physical evidence,
and he got more
than what he expected.
NARRATOR:
And when investigator Michael
returns to his own home,
he gets something
unexpected too.
[ Water runs ]
Michael actually, that evening,
he had an experience
with something
that kind of, like,
completely freaked him out.
[ Groans ]
♪♪
He said that he had woken up
to this hand reaching up,
like, trying to grab him.
♪♪
Michael just freaked out.
So he immediately called me,
told me what had happened.
I warned him.
I said, you know,
"You were there. You're playing
with fire, you get b*rned."
MARIE: I believe that spirit
wanted to say,
"You wanted to mess
with me in my place.
I'm going to mess with you
at your place."
[ Faint wail ]
♪♪
02x03 - History's Revenge
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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.