NARRATOR:
America's top ghost hunters
relive their most
extreme assignments.
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.
NARRATOR:
In Tennessee, two investigators
are in for a night of horror
at a haunted hospital.
I really, really felt as if
that spirit had it out for us.
It creeped me out big-time.
NARRATOR: In New York,
an evil spirit
terrorizes a teenage girl.
[ Man growls ]
This man had a Kn*fe,
and she just screamed
bloody m*rder.
Aah!
NARRATOR: And in Arizona,
ghost hunters become the hunted
in an abandoned juice factory.
Whatever this is,
they were intentionally
trying to segregate each of us.
It's very creepy,
to be honest with you.
♪♪
NARRATOR: miles west
of Chattanooga, Tennessee,
stands the Old South
Pittsburg Hospital.
After only years
of operation,
the hospital treats
its last patient in .
Those brave enough to venture
inside report bizarre
and terrifying events
within its walls.
Lots of spirit activity usually
circles around a hospital
just because of sickness,
surgeries, death.
♪♪
We knew a little bit about the
spirit activity that was there.
Aah!
We heard about children which
may be attached to the hospital.
We heard about a shadow figure,
a tall shadow figure
that was in the building.
NARRATOR: Locals report hearing
disembodied voices
echoing along empty hallways.
Aah!
Ah!
TARPLEY: There are people
that are terrified
to go into
that building, terrified.
NARRATOR: The events
make the former hospital
one of the most
haunted buildings in the state
and bring it to the attention
of Ohio-based paranormal
investigator Annie Tarpley.
I've been on about
investigations
throughout the last years.
The paranormal fascinates me
because I want to know
what's on the other side.
Do we stay dead?
Does our spirit live on?
That's what fascinates me.
NARRATOR: Before Annie
goes to the hospital,
she looks into its history.
She discovers something that
might explain the child spirits.
In the s, it had burnt down
and took the lives
of seven children.
NARRATOR:
Annie also discovers
that there's one spirit
in particular
that patrols the hallways.
[ Laughing ]
TARPLEY: The naughty nurse,
she doesn't like women,
and she likes to touch men
in inappropriate places.
She will come up behind him
and give him a little tap
and say inappropriate things.
Run, run, run!
-Aah!
-Run!
♪♪
NARRATOR: Annie travels
to the old hospital
with her coinvestigator
and sister, Mary Beth Motta.
I wasn't fearful
before going in.
I was fearful during and after.
TARPLEY: As soon as I looked
at the building, I felt,
"Why in the heck
did we ever come here?"
Not only physically did it
look dark,
but psychically,
it felt dark.
I could feel the sickness,
the sadness that was in there,
the bad vibrations
that were there.
NARRATOR: Already, Annie senses
they are not alone.
TARPLEY:
I did feel children in there.
I did in my mind's eye.
I could see quite a few children
in the building.
It was scary.
To me, it felt scary.
NARRATOR: Overwhelmed
by the intense energy inside,
Annie starts to pray.
Be our defense against
the wickedness
and snares of the Devil.
I have a prayer that I say
to Saint Michael,
and then I also pray
on my own with my own words.
So I do protect myself.
Amen.
-Amen.
NARRATOR:
Annie and Mary Beth
need all the protection
they can get.
They have plans
to stay the night.
I don't think I was ready
for this.
In here?
MOTTA: I was not happy
about sleeping in there.
I was scared.
NARRATOR: Annie and Mary Beth
set out to explore
the building
and familiarize themselves
with their surroundings.
We did get a tour through
the building
to kind of get the lay of
the land and found a safe room.
TARPLEY:
The safe room is a room
that you have
the least activity.
NARRATOR:
Fully oriented,
Annie and Mary Beth
begin their investigation.
It was very dark in that
building, very dark.
I'm telling you,
It's down here.
We were walking to get up
on the third floor,
and we ended up
in a stairwell.
We had no idea where we were.
Mary Beth was there.
We're kind of lost.
MOTTA: As we were going up
the steps...
TARPLEY:
Here's that stairwell.
♪♪
...we heard footsteps
along with us.
MOTTA: Okay.
Did you hear that?
TARPLEY: At first, we thought
they were ours,
just the creaky staircase,
but it wasn't.
It was just Annie and I,
so it shouldn't have been
that many footsteps.
♪♪
Hello?
We did hear tapping.
[ Tapping ]
We were totally still
at that point,
and we heard a tap,
and we asked,
"Can you tap again?"
[ Taps ]
And it did on command.
Do it again...please.
[ Tapping ]
This other guy
is playing tricks on us.
♪♪
And I even hear the voices
down the hall,
and I say,
"Is that somebody scaring us?"
We thought the people
from the hospital
might have come to see
how we were doing or whatever,
so we said,
"Are they trying to scare us?"
We get to the top of the stairs,
and there was no one
in the hall.
There was no one...
that was on that floor at all.
I was very concerned
at that point.
Did you feel that?
NARRATOR:
Both Annie and Mary Beth
can't shake the feeling
that they're not alone.
It was very dark in there.
I couldn't see my hand
in front of my face.
I had a night-vision camera on.
MOTTA: We were walking away,
and we heard the clicking.
Annie was still
recording something,
and we heard a clicking
sound and turned around,
and a door closed behind us.
I got that on camera,
and I just kind of, "Whoa."
It was behind us.
[ Woman screams ]
NARRATOR:
Outside Chattanooga, Tennessee,
ghost-hunting sisters
Annie Tarpley and
Mary Beth Motta
are investigating reports
of a ghostly nurse
at a former hospital.
Before long, they get proof
that they are not alone.
We heard a clicking sound
and turned around,
and a door closed behind us.
I got that on camera,
and I just kind of, "Whoa."
It was behind us as I had always
felt something behind us.
NARRATOR: Annie and Mary Beth
want to find out
who or what is following them.
We decided it might be a good
time to pull out the Spirit Box.
The Spirit Box is basically
an AM/FM radio
that's been altered to scan
through frequencies,
and the white noise
will typically pick up a spirit
if they feel like
they want to be heard.
NARRATOR: They set up in
the operating room,
said to be one of the most
active areas in the hospital.
MOTTA: Is there anyone
here with us?
I thought it might be fun
and exciting
to use Mary Beth
more as a trigger object.
A trigger object is an object,
a person,
something that you could use
that would entice a spirit
to come talk to us,
maybe trust us.
NARRATOR:
Annie starts the session.
Who are you?
What's your name?
And they pick up activity
right away.
What we were asking was things
like the normal questions.
Who are you?
What is your name?
We got the answers of Timmy.
We got an answer of Lisa.
MOTTA:
It was a child's voice.
We want to talk to them.
We want to find out who they
are and why they're there.
Is anybody else here
with Lisa?
♪♪
[ Indistinct voice ]
What was that?
NARRATOR: But something sinister
interrupts them.
TARPLEY: I felt as if something
was entering the room.
I felt it had bad intentions.
Is there anyone
here with us?
Who are you?
I said, "Who is sitting
next to you?"
And Mary Beth
was the one sitting.
Who's sitting
next to you?
A clear answer was, "A whore."
It's in here with us.
Is there someone here
with us?
♪♪
You whore!
And I said,
"What did you call me?"
I think it was the naughty nurse
that called her that.
We were there by ourselves,
and she did not like Mary Beth.
Go get back to the safe
room, quick.
NARRATOR:
Shaken by the encounter,
Mary Beth and Annie
leave the room,
but there is no escaping
this spirit.
♪♪
TARPLEY: The whole time, I did
feel something behind us.
Almost always,
there was some presence there.
I started seeing a shadow
at the end of the hall.
It really scared me.
It really got to me,
and I said to Mary Beth,
I said, "Come here.
Take a look at this."
And down the hallway
was a shadow figure.
We, at that point,
had some cameras going,
and you could see it moving
back and forth
at the end of the hallway.
TARPLEY: And I really, really
felt as if that spirit
at the end of the hall
was actually...
had it out for us.
MOTTA: Oh.
I can see it.
-Do you see that?
-I can see it.
It didn't feel right.
It didn't feel good.
NARRATOR: Suddenly, the activity
gets painfully physical.
I got one of my pounding,
vise-gripped headaches
that I get when I feel like
there's something around,
and it's...
the top of my head feels like
it's gonna blow off.
Told Annie I was having
one of my headaches
and needed to lay down
for a little bit.
Oh.
Almost there,
we're almost there.
TARPLEY: We decided that we
would go back to our room,
call it a night.
♪♪
MOTTA: Well, I wasn't real
thrilled about sleeping there
after what we had
seen and heard,
but we had no place else to go.
NARRATOR:
Their night is far from restful.
We left the bathroom light on
and started hearing footsteps.
TARPLEY: Little, tiny footsteps
outside our room.
We heard them tap, tap, tap,
tap outside the room,
like, kids running around.
Oh, no, no.
Oh, no, no.
I don't see anything.
I don't see anything.
MOTTA: And voices.
You could hear talking, but you
couldn't understand any words.
TARPLEY:
We kept hearing whispers.
We kept hearing...
I don't know if it was children.
I really don't know.
I looked out the door to see
if there were any spirits
outside the door,
if anyone physically
was outside the door.
There wasn't anybody.
There's nothing here.
NARRATOR:
The activity seems to relent,
but the exhausted investigators
are not safe yet.
I started to fall asleep.
My eyes were closed.
♪♪
NARRATOR:
Something catches Annie's eye.
TARPLEY: I looked in the corner
of the room,
and I saw the biggest,
baddest, worst shadow figure
I have ever seen.
[ Screams ]
They found us.
TARPLEY: I think it was
the naughty nurse.
So it was within feet of us.
I felt like it was gonna come
rushing towards us.
NARRATOR: An investigation
of a former hospital
outside of Chattanooga,
Tennessee,
turns horrifying for
two paranormal investigators.
Throughout the night,
an evil entity st*lks them.
Now they are under thr*at.
I was just almost out
when Annie sat up
and screamed...
"Get out of here!"
And I hollered it very loudly.
Mary Beth sat up in bed.
She goes, "What is going on?"
I said, "It was here.
It was in our room."
She said, "Is it still here?"
I said, "I don't know.
I think I scared it away."
Disappeared.
NARRATOR: Annie and Mary Beth
run for their lives.
We got to get out of here.
We got to get out of here.
TARPLEY: We just put our coats
on, grabbed our equipment
and we hightailed it
out of there.
I just want to get the hell
out of here.
MOTTA: Enough was enough.
We ran out of the building and
were happy to get out of there.
Once we got out of there,
it almost felt like the weight
had come off my head,
our chests.
NARRATOR:
They're out of harm's way,
but this experience
haunts them still.
TARPLEY: I think it could've
gotten very ugly, yeah.
I think it could've
gotten dangerous.
I thought, "You know,
I'd like to experience
maybe the naughty nurse,
the shadow figure,
the kids running in the hallway.
I'd like to experience that."
Be careful what you wish for.
♪♪
NARRATOR: Still to come,
spirits at an old juice factory
strike fear into the hearts
of veteran investigators.
JAY: He came running
up the stairs,
yelling and acting strangely.
I am not going back down there.
NARRATOR:
But first, t*rture and torment,
as a menacing entity
terrorizes a teen girl.
An entity was taking over her
and punishing her.
[ Screaming ]
♪♪
NARRATOR:
In a small town in New York,
nestled along a river,
sits a -year-old house.
It's home to Julie and her
teenage daughter, Amanda.
♪♪
I love you.
However, their peaceful life
is shattered
when they begin
to hear unexplained voices.
♪♪
Then terrifying visions
start to appear.
Julie told us Amanda had seen
this apparition of a girl.
She was soaking wet.
NARRATOR: The activity
focuses on Amanda
and gets frighteningly physical.
KENNA:
She was asleep one night.
Something grabbed her
by the legs, woke her up.
[ Screaming ]
She went running from her room,
and she saw this man, older man,
standing in the hallway,
had a Kn*fe in his hand.
-[ Roars ]
-[ Screams ]
Then she just screamed
bloody m*rder.
♪♪
The best thing her mother could
think to do was grab the Bible.
They just sat down
and started praying.
They hear all this banging,
loud footsteps.
All this is going on while
they're praying
for all this activity
to stop and go away.
NARRATOR: In sheer terror,
Julie calls paranormal
investigator Jack Kenna.
With more than cases
under his belt,
Jack is among the top ghost
hunters in the U.S. Northeast.
-Julie.
-Jack.
NARRATOR:
Knowing how scared they are,
Jack meets with Julie
and Amanda right away.
Do you feel anything?
A little bit.
KENNA:
When I walked into that home,
there was a lot of negativity.
Anybody could feel
that energy in the home.
We wanted to find out more about
what was really happening there.
NARRATOR:
Knowing evil spirits prey
on the weak and depressed,
Jack asks Julie and Amanda if
anything in their personal lives
could make them targets.
Amanda was going through
some tough times at school.
She was being bullied a lot.
Julie was having issues
herself with her boyfriend.
Other personal problems started,
and then a couple weeks later,
all this paranormal activity
seems to begin.
Negative energy and
that negativity in the home
can feed to that.
♪♪
NARRATOR: When Jack returns to
start the full investigation,
he brings along
seasoned ghost hunters
Sharon Kugler
and Ellen MacNeil.
It's gonna be okay.
Amanda -- your heart
just broke for this girl
because you knew what she was
going through emotionally,
physically, mentally.
NARRATOR: Ellen and Sharon set
out to explore the basement.
MacNEIL: It was just creepy, and
it was very dark, dank basement.
♪♪
NARRATOR:
It's not long before they get
their first taste
of the activity.
[ Footsteps ]
We heard footsteps,
and we were standing still,
so we knew we're
the only ones down there.
So we looked around,
looked around,
see if somebody
was hiding down there.
We couldn't find anyone,
and the footsteps stopped.
And all of a sudden, we saw
this shadow, Godzilla shadow,
this monster shadow go by.
[ Woman screams ]
NARRATOR: In New York state,
investigators
are hunting entities
terrorizing a young girl.
It's not long before they get
a scare of their own.
MacNEIL: And all of a sudden,
we saw this shadow,
Godzilla shadow,
this monster shadow go by.
It seems very large,
and they see it moving,
and it starts to freak them out.
And I very rarely jump,
and I'm very rarely scared,
but to go down
into this nasty little basement
and to see this huge shadow
on the wall,
and have no idea what it was,
that was scary.
We both jumped a foot,
and then we realized...
-[ Cat meows ]
..."Oh, it's their cat."
NARRATOR: But their relief is
short-lived after they capture
something deeply disturbing
on their recording device.
KENNA:
A male voice saying...
...effing cat.
I think it actually said
something, like,
"k*ll that f'er."
That is very, very unsettling
when you realize that
something intelligent
was just down
in the basement with us.
It's scary when you hear that.
♪♪
Who are you?
NARRATOR: Despite their fear,
they start asking questions
to learn more
about the voice.
Are you a man?
Are you a man?
But the activity ceases
almost as quickly as it began.
We had no other noises,
no movement, no footsteps,
so we decided
to go back upstairs.
NARRATOR: The team heads
to Amanda's bedroom.
She said she saw
shadow figures in there.
She said different
activity happens
where she got her leg pulled.
NARRATOR: Jack asks Amanda
to help them make contact
with the entity
that torments her.
I wanted Amanda there because
I wanted to see
if the entity would interact
with her more.
We decided to have
a K-II EVP session.
Now, the K-II is
an electronic device
that can light up
if a spirit interacts with it.
You can have it light up for yes
and don't do anything for no.
Then Amanda asked the question,
you know,
"Is there a reason
you're interacting with me?"
Go on.
-Why me?
So we started asking a bunch
of different questions,
and some of those questions
were, like, well, you know,
"What happened to you?"
Do you feel sad
because you were different?
You do feel sad.
The K-II flashed
indicating a yes response.
Did you try
to hurt yourself?
Did she drown?
[ Beeping ]
Is that it?
KENNA:
Is that what happened to you?
Did you end up
k*lling yourself?
We actually
asked that question,
and we got a yes
response to that.
WOMAN: Oh, geez.
MacNEIL: The house, it was right
near a river.
When they saw the apparition
of a young girl drenched,
sopping wet, that was what
they thought the connection was.
KENNA:
She may have jumped in the river
and drowned herself
out of depression.
So at this point,
I'm getting the idea
that this particular spirit
had a connection to her
because of what Amanda herself
was going through.
I can see you.
WOMAN: No one should have to go
through that.
Is there something else
you'd rather talk about?
♪♪
Yes.
That lit up over there.
NARRATOR: The spirit has
a specific message.
I love you, Amanda.
When I heard that EVP,
I was actually kind of
very surprised by that.
It was not a frightening voice,
and it was calm,
and it seemed to have
an emotion to it, like,
"I love Amanda."
MacNEIL: Whoever it was seems
to have connected
and picked up on the
insecurities that Amanda felt.
They both had a lot of sadness.
NARRATOR: The entity's words
make him worry
for Amanda's safety.
KENNA:
This was a desperate spirit.
It had a definite,
I would say almost unhealthy
connection with Amanda.
Maybe that spirit
doesn't want to be alone.
Maybe it loves Amanda.
It wants her to be with her.
So it might influence her
in a way
it's not really meaning to
to commit su1c1de herself.
NARRATOR: All of a sudden, the
atmosphere of the room changes.
KENNA: Something turned,
something switched,
and things,
I believe, became more negative.
Amanda started to feel ill,
sick to her stomach.
Her and I felt this cold chill
take over the room.
An entity was taking over her
and punishing her
for having us there.
KENNA: Now, that I don't think
was the same female spirit.
I believe whatever this other
negative entity
that's in the home,
this male spirit,
whatever it is,
was trying to physically att*ck
her at that point then
to stop that conversation.
She started to get a headache,
and at a point where she
really felt physically ill.
So that was enough to say
we just needed to get her
out of the situation before
something else does happen.
Come on, come on, come on,
come on!
-It'll be okay.
-Out, out!
Okay, okay.
And once she got outside,
she immediately started
to feel better.
NARRATOR:
After the att*ck on Amanda,
Jack and Ellen fear
for her safety.
She was terrified,
and she felt very threatened.
The whole investigation
was very, very stressful.
It was a very emotional night.
These people are hurting.
We got to set this up.
KENNA: The male spirit,
I think he was just trying
to cause havoc within the home.
If we kept going, we might make
things worse for this family.
The negative male spirit,
he just needed to go
one way or the other.
NARRATOR: The team begins to
cleanse the home through prayer.
Bind every evil spirit
that is in this room.
Command them
to flee right now.
Our Father who art in Heaven,
hallowed be thy name.
But there is resistance.
...the Lord
Jesus Christ...
The male spirit
does not want to go.
KENNA: So while we're doing
the blessing,
we started hearing
some footsteps.
MacNEIL: He just suddenly showed
up, had evil intent.
[ Man roaring ]
NARRATOR: Paranormal
investigators Jack Kenna
and Ellen MacNeil
are facing down an evil spirit
that has terrorized
a young girl.
She was terrified.
Their family was in danger.
NARRATOR: But he isn't leaving
without a fight.
KENNA:
We're doing the blessing.
We started hearing
some footsteps.
You could feel that energy.
It almost made you, almost kind
of nervously shake a little bit.
[ Man growling ]
KENNA: We don't necessarily want
to stay there
when this is happening,
but we have to,
and it's significant.
It's telling you
there is a spirit there.
We did the prayers in the house
and did blessings,
prayed and prayed and prayed.
KENNA:
...that is in this room,
and command them
to flee right now.
KENNA: They don't like
what we're doing,
but we just keep pushing
through it until it's done.
...now and go wherever the
Lord Jesus Christ assigns them!
But as we kept going,
everything starts to quiet down.
MacNEIL:
The activity stopped.
There were no footsteps,
no knocking, nothing,
and that made us feel
that we had made a big,
big breakthrough that night
in cleansing that house.
We don't know who he was.
We don't know why he was there.
We're just grateful that he did
no harm to the family,
and he didn't stay around.
NARRATOR:
With the evil spirit gone,
Julie and Amanda now have peace.
KENNA: That anxiety feels like
it's gone.
The heaviness is gone.
The rooms feel lighter.
MacNEIL:
They're very happy now.
They feel safe in their home.
Things had gotten much better.
Amanda was sleeping much better.
Actually, things were getting
better for her
in school as well.
She was starting
to make more friends.
Julie and her boyfriend,
they ultimately broke up,
which was probably
for the better as well.
MacNEIL: My hope for both of
them is that they both heal.
When you've gone from something
so horrible and so negative,
and you've changed it
so these people can say,
"You know what?
We are gonna be okay,"
that's very rewarding.
♪♪
NARRATOR:
Paranormal investigators
at a deserted building
find themselves
among very sinister spirits...
JAY: You feel
you're being watched.
You get a feeling of discomfort.
NARRATOR: ...that taunt
and thr*aten them.
There's something there.
There's something dark.
They wanted us
out of the building.
♪♪
NARRATOR: In Mesa, Arizona,
stands a historic
citrus-processing factory.
Built in the s,
this sprawling
,-square-foot facility
squeezed its last orange
in .
WOMAN #: Oscar!
Hello?
NARRATOR:
It sits vacant for five years
until a new owner acquires it.
He plans to repurpose the
factory but hits a big problem.
The owner talked to me
about numerous sightings
of paranormal activity.
Weird things were happening.
Hello? Hello?
[ Loud bang ]
JAY: There were noises,
things getting thrown.
They were seeing a shadow
lurking around a corner
in a particular area
in the basement.
NARRATOR:
The activity gets so bad,
the construction grinds
to a halt.
JAY: They were having issues
keeping that crew.
They wouldn't work
a full day's work.
They would just take off.
They were scared.
NARRATOR:
With nowhere else to turn,
the owner calls
in paranormal investigators
to try and calm the staff.
Jay Yates, a former
preacher and jail guard,
is the founder of the Crossing
Over Paranormal Society.
He has two decades of experience
as an investigator,
but his encounters with
the supernatural date back
even further.
My first paranormal experience
would be back
when I was a child.
I would experience dark
shadow figures,
children showing up in my room
with wounds on their body.
It was terrifying.
NARRATOR:
Jay works with his wife, Marie.
Together, they make up
one of the most respected
investigative teams in Arizona.
I want to be able to answer
questions for other people.
♪♪
NARRATOR: Jay and Marie bring
in their team
to investigate the factory,
but they're put on high alert
as soon as they arrive.
JAY:
It was kind of ominous.
There was definitely something
out of the ordinary there.
You weren't alone.
NARRATOR:
Those feelings intensified
as they explore the basement,
the area with
the most activity.
MARIE:
There was no light down there,
so you're going straight
into the darkness,
and it makes you feel like
there's something heavy weighing
on your shoulders, very creepy,
to be honest with you.
NARRATOR: The factory has
a notorious past.
Many deaths have occurred
across the property
over the years,
some of them violent.
In one corner, the team
finds a makeshift memorial.
MARIE: No one knows exactly
who set it up,
but it's a little hole in
the wall with a little flower,
a candle for a lady.
Whoever that memorial was for
is actually one of the spirits
that are in this juice factory.
NARRATOR:
And almost immediately,
that spirit makes herself known.
Help me.
And I kind of felt, like,
a brush against my ear,
and it was kind of
like a soft touch,
and then I hear, like,
this female voice...
...almost, like, whisper, like,
something in my ear.
Help me.
Did you guys hear that?!
I kind of jumped, like,
a schoolgirl screaming,
when it happened.
We were kind of trying to chase
whatever that was,
and that leads us deeper
into the basement.
Is there anybody here that
would like to talk with us,
or me personally?
We start trying to engage
the spirit.
Probably want to come out.
Last chance.
And one of my first comments
out of my mouth
is kind of joking,
and that is for them
to come out, and I mention,
"I'm kind of a big deal, guys."
I'm kind of a big deal
around here.
Directly right after I say it,
he says, "I'm sick of him."
Kind of a big deal.
Guys?
What is it?
What'd you get?
Kind of a big deal.
Like, "Wow." Like, "Okay.
That's interesting."
So this person is, like,
already sick of me
and we just showed up.
NARRATOR: Jay decides
to head upstairs
to investigate with Marie
while the rest of the team,
Ryan Marsh and Jesse Matthews,
continue to explore
the basement.
Jesse and Ryan both kind
of wanted to stay down,
you know,
get some more evidence.
♪♪
Okay, door.
NARRATOR: Jesse and Ryan conduct
an EVP session.
♪♪
When did you die?
Were you in pain?
They begin hearing noises
circling around them.
NARRATOR:
Then they see something, too.
[ Metal clangs ]
JAY: These bolts getting
thrown around,
this metal hitting the wall.
There is, like, something is
really going on down there,
like,
these things are moving around,
metallic objects
being thrown.
They described it as they felt
like, you know,
that there was people
or some people,
like, around them, like,
just throwing these things,
and they were just kind of
lurking off into the shadows.
NARRATOR: It's enough to spook
these veteran investigators.
Let's get out of here!
-Guys?
-Jay!
-Marie!
-Guys!
I am not going back down there.
I'm not doing this.
MARIE: The team members felt
very uneasy
being down in the basement.
NARRATOR: Ryan's reaction
surprises Jay.
He wants to see this activity
for himself.
When I did arrive down
in the basement,
the activity had ceased,
but when looking
around the room,
we did find multiple bolts
and, like, large, like, chunks
of brick or rock down there.
I think you have a combination
of multiple spirits.
Just some bad energy
just surrounding that area.
My opinion would be that
they were trying to scare them,
trying to get them
out of the basement,
trying to get them
out of the building.
NARRATOR: Jay and his team press
on to the upper floor,
but there's no escaping
the activity.
Whatever was down
in the basement
decided to follow us
back upstairs.
JAY: Then I snapped
multiple photographs.
[ Camera shutter clicking ]
♪♪
In one of these photographs,
I get what looks like a shadowy
figure of a person literally,
like, standing right there
within maybe feet of me,
walking towards me.
NARRATOR: In Mesa, Arizona,
Jay Yates
and his team of investigators
are made to feel very unwelcome
at an abandoned juice factory.
JAY:
I'm kind of a big deal.
Guys?
NARRATOR:
Spirits haunting the building
make it clear
they want them out,
and they do anything
they can to intimidate them.
JAY: A shadowy figure
of a person literally,
like, standing right there
within maybe feet of me,
walking towards me.
Super large,
definitely shocking.
NARRATOR: Marie, too, senses
yet another presence.
MARIE: At the same time, I
actually started hearing steps,
like, footsteps going almost,
like, in the same direction
where he was actually
seeing the shadow.
JAY: And she walks off
to investigate.
The juice factory being as large
as what it is,
with so much activity going on,
it's almost like
whatever this is,
is, like, intentionally trying
to segregate
each individual one of us.
NARRATOR: For safety,
the investigators
usually stay paired up,
but now Marie
is alone and vulnerable.
MARIE: Whatever is in
the juice factory,
it wants your attention.
♪♪
JAY: She ends up seeing a beam
of light
sh**t across the factory
from the other side.
MARIE:
Flashlight started blinking,
and I started blinking mine.
I would click the flashlight
one time.
They would click back once.
If I clicked it twice,
it would click back twice.
I even did it three times,
and it clicked back three times.
I get on the walkie, I'm like,
"Hey, what team member is over
there messing
with the flashlight?"
Jay?
♪♪
Is there anyone with us?
Everybody is like,
"No one is upstairs."
JAY: And she says that she
thinks that someone
has broken into the building,
and that she would like for me
to go up to check it out,
and we search for probably
a good minutes or more.
♪♪
Jay?
JAY:
Nobody is down here.
JAY: There's no possible way
that if it's a physical person,
they could've gotten away
in this particular area.
There's just no way.
I believe what Marie saw
was that of a spirit of a worker
that may have worked there
in the past.
♪♪
Ryan,
you have the Ovilus?
Yeah, right here.
NARRATOR: They use an Ovilus,
a device
that translates energy
from the dead into words.
We know you're here.
Why don't you
just come out?
You've been playing with us
all day.
On command, the spirit
sends a message.
Whoa, Jay.
You got to see this.
This device says, "Marie sick,"
and, like, no way,
like, that's crazy.
Marie is not sick.
NARRATOR: The message makes
no sense to Jay...yet.
Meantime, Marie, still alone,
hears something chilling.
I heard a scream.
[ Screams ]
It was, like, a bloody,
loud woman scream.
[ Woman screams ]
I kept looking and flashing
my light to see
where this, you know,
scream was coming from.
[ Screams ]
All of a sudden,
I felt this overwhelming feeling
like my stomach was, like --
almost like somebody
went into my gut
and started twisting it,
and I felt like
I had to throw up.
NARRATOR: Intense pain
sears through Marie
as another presence grips her.
At that time, I felt a lady
touching my shoulder.
I heard the lady
whisper at the same time.
NARRATOR: Marie manages to break
free from her hold,
but the experience
rattles her.
I need you down here, Jay.
I am calling Jay
over the walkie,
"Hey, I don't know
what's going on,
I mean, I'm getting sick.
I need you up here."
NARRATOR:
Jay rushes to Marie and realizes
what the Ovilus
told him earlier was true.
[ Vomits ]
Okay, okay.
JAY:
And then she was sick.
Something intelligently
was literally using this device
to communicate a message
to this side.
I actually started
throwing up again.
My head was pounding.
It almost felt like somebody
took a hammer
and just, you know,
bashed it against my head.
JAY: The female spirit
that's in the building
seems to want
to get our attention.
I think she might have been
the person
that might have passed
away in the building.
♪♪
What the hell happened?
What happened?
Let's go.
JAY: There's not just
one entity there.
There's multiple.
There's something there.
There's something dark.
MARIE: They wanted us out
of the building.
It scared me.
JAY: With Marie being sick
and not feeling well,
I decided it was best for us
to just call it a night
and just get everybody
home safely.
♪♪
NARRATOR: Jay and Marie suggest
that they cleanse
the building of the entities,
but the owner declines.
He said he really
didn't want to.
Whatever is in the building
was there first,
so he doesn't
want to remove it.
He's happy that we were able
to go in there
and identify exactly
what is going on.
I just recommend to him
not to be aggressive
with the spirits
in the basement,
not to challenge them,
not to incite them or anything.
I think as long as you respect
the dead,
they will respect you.
02x04 - 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.