NARRATOR:
America's top ghost hunters
relive their most
extreme assignments.
♪♪
[ 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.
NARRATOR: In Ohio,
a team of ghost hunters
come face to face with
a county jail's grisly past.
Did you hurt the children?
And all of a sudden,
we hear, "Yes."
-Whoa, did you hear that?
-Yes.
NARRATOR: In New York,
a haunted farmhouse
becomes something
far more sinister.
MAN: I command all demons,
do not come back!
[ Slamming ]
-Who's there?
Someone was trying to
terrorize and ruin their lives.
[ Eerie roar ]
NARRATOR: And in Ontario,
paranormal investigators
find themselves all alone
on an island -- or do they?
From the moment that Michelle
and I get on the island,
we felt like we
were being watched.
♪♪
-[ Man grunts ]
-[ Woman screams ]
♪♪
NARRATOR: In Fremont, Ohio,
stands the Sandusky County Jail.
Built in the s,
the prison was home
to some of Ohio's most dangerous
and depraved criminals.
[ Doors clank ]
The worst offenders were locked
in solitary cells
in the basement,
known to inmates
as "The Dungeon."
When the jail closes in ,
it's converted into an office
for Fremont County's
Human Resources Department.
♪♪
But the building's dark past
looms over the new tenants,
unsettling the staff members
who work there.
Hello?
Peggy, is that you?
There are several
employees that will not --
and I mean will not -- go down
in that basement whatsoever.
[ Cell door rattle ]
They're scared,
because they could feel
there's a presence down there.
Hello?
[ Rattling ]
[ Screaming ]
♪♪
NARRATOR: In ,
the county commissioner
contacts paranormal
investigator Karlo Zuzic
to find out what's going on.
A key figure in
the Ohio Researchers
of Banded Spirits,
Karlo has overseen
hundreds of cases
of supernatural phenomenon,
and is keen to help.
[ Electricity crackling ]
ZUZIC:
Going into this investigation,
I was pretty nervous.
You're dealing with
possibly violent spirits.
♪♪
You're dealing
with ex-criminals.
[ Cell doors rattling ]
You know, you are in life
what you are in death.
NARRATOR:
The county commissioner
takes Karlo
and his investigative team,
Chris Page, Amy Cobb,
and newcomer Todd Mallett,
on a preliminary
tour of the jail.
They begin in the dungeon.
♪♪
[ Door closes, faint crackling ]
The moment you step in,
this heavy feeling...
♪♪
It was like the atmosphere
completely changed.
You knew when you
enter those doors,
people lost their lives.
That's when you start
feeling uncomfortable.
NARRATOR:
As the tour comes to an end,
the commissioner has
a grisly surprise
for the investigators.
[ Door creaks ]
♪♪
I couldn't believe
what I'm looking at.
♪♪
The gallows that stood
out front that hung people
is standing up
in their courthouse attic.
♪♪
I'm getting chills
just talking about it.
The noose is still
hanging off of it.
♪♪
We decided to set up stationary
cameras in each location.
One was gonna go
down in the dungeon.
[ Cell door creaks ]
We sent Todd down there.
♪♪
[ Click ]
-I was nervous.
When you have a place
that holds criminals
such as murderers, rapists,
anything that severe,
can really be harmful to you.
♪♪
NARRATOR: It's not long
before Todd realizes
something is very wrong.
MALLETT:
All of a sudden I felt this
creepy feeling behind me.
Cool air brushed right
through my right side
right on my arm.
♪♪
Guys, I just saw something.
It brushed right up
against my arm.
ZUZIC: He came back.
He was shook up.
Looked like he saw a ghost.
NARRATOR: After recovering
from the shock,
Todd decides to
return to the dungeon,
this time taking
the team as backup.
♪♪
[ Camera shutter clicking ]
Determined to capture
proof of the activity,
they decide to record EVPs,
or electronic voice phenomena.
Is there anyone here?
Is there anyone in here?
♪♪
We started asking questions
that the prisoners
may be familiar with.
"Did you m*rder anybody?"
How many people did you k*ll?
♪♪
Why did you k*ll them?
Talk to us.
♪♪
I think I got something.
We played our recorder
back and you could hear
a male's voice say,
"I don't wanna be recorded."
We will record your voice.
"I don't wanna be recorded,"
is what it said.
♪♪
Are you the person
that was standing
in this doorway earlier?
[ Recorder clicks ]
You know, to hear that,
it gives you the chills.
♪♪
[ Recorder clicks ]
[ Clicking ]
♪♪
NARRATOR:
But there is worse to come.
♪♪
ZUZIC:
And all of a sudden we could
hear the loud footsteps.
You know, it almost sounds like
someone was wearing boots?
You could hear it, you know,
hitting,
and they got louder
and then louder and then louder.
-Did you hear that?
-Yeah, I heard.
[ Beeping ]
ZUZIC:
You could the K-II lighting up.
We spiked.
I mean, it was red.
[ Blip, beeping continues ]
♪♪
Once the footsteps stopped,
everything dissipated.
Things started to calm down.
Hey, you guys okay?
♪♪
But then all of sudden...
[ Soft thud ]
...I hear a sound towards
the end of the dungeon.
♪♪
-Did you hear that?
-Yeah.
[ Recorder clicks ]
[ Eerie rustling ]
[ Clicking ]
♪♪
Oh, sh--
All of a sudden,
I saw a shadow walk across
the front of the cell.
Oh, sh--
Did you see that?
♪♪
I had a full spectrum camera,
and I snap a photo...
[ Shutter clicks ]
...and in the one picture,
I capture
what I believe to be
one of the executioners'
spirits.
[ Camera shutter clicks ]
It was a white silhouette.
[ Shutter clicks ]
Looked like he had a hood.
Like, almost like an executioner
would have wore
back in those days, and he's
just looking right at us.
And then, all of a sudden,
it just disappeared.
It was gone.
NARRATOR:
Although shaken and anxious
to leave the dungeon,
Karlo has a theory.
♪♪
ZUZIC: It's like
a residual haunt.
He's there playing out the role
of coming to get a prisoner
and then taking him
out to the gallows.
But physically seeing this?
You know, it's scary.
[ Camera shutter clicks ]
NARRATOR:
Unable to find further trace
of the executioner's ghost,
the team heads back up
to the gallows.
This time, with
the county commissioner in tow.
♪♪
When you're walking through,
the closer you get
to that gallows,
the stronger the energy is.
♪♪
It had this
electrifying feeling.
NARRATOR: Karlo tries to
contact the spirit
of a specific death row inmate
who was ex*cuted at the jail.
ZUZIC: All right, John, are you
in here with us?
We knew a little history
on one of the gentlemen
that got hung on the gallows.
♪♪
We started asking questions.
COBB: Did you hurt children?
ZUZIC: And, all of a sudden,
we hear, "Yes."
-Whoa, did you hear that?
-What?
-It said yeah.
-Yes.
♪♪
NARRATOR:
In Fremont County, Ohio,
an encounter with
the ghost of an executioner
at an old jailhouse
has already left
investigator Karlo Zuzic
and his team deeply shaken.
♪♪
But now, communicating
with the spirits
at the site of the old gallows,
Karlo thinks he's made
contact with a former inmate
who lived and d*ed
inside the jail.
Did you hurt the children?
We hear, "Yes."
-Whoa, did you hear that?
-Yes.
And sure enough,
we play the recording back
and we captured a male voice
saying, "Yes."
♪♪
When you're dealing with
a spirit that could be violent,
it is very dangerous, so you
have to proceed with caution.
All right, John, are you
in here with us? Still?
You got our attention.
We were using the Ovilus.
It's a device
that reads the energy
in the room.
It takes the energy
and puts those into word.
We start asking questions,
and the first answer we get
was "bail."
MALE VOICE: Bail.
-Bail?
-Bail?
-Like...
-You didn't get bail.
♪♪
The commissioner,
she knew the history
behind some of the people
that have been hung.
And she's like, this gentleman,
he was denied his bail.
MALE VOICE: Pray.
Pray.
COMMISSIONER: You didn't want to
pray with him, John.
He denied the priest before
he got taken to the gallows.
MALE VOICE: Starve.
♪♪
-Starve.
-Starve?
What does starve mean to you?
-He did not?
-No.
MALE VOICE: thr*at.
thr*at?
Now the commissioner's
starting to freak out.
She's like, "Oh, my God, this
is making too much sense."
All of a sudden
the K-II started lighting up,
and then it just stopped.
[ Beeping, blips ]
Everything just came to a halt.
When we were talking
to this m*rder*r,
it made me very nervous.
I wanted to leave
whatever was there there
and be done with that.
NARRATOR: The encounter proves
too much for their host.
Okay, that's it.
The city commissioner
that's with us,
she's freaking out.
We can't do this anymore.
When she told us to end it,
we just decided
to end the investigation.
We weren't gonna
push it any further.
All right guys, let's
pack up our things.
Let's go.
I believe she was afraid
of possibly being att*cked.
I mean, she's dealing
with the unknown.
She told us flat out that she's
not gonna go back up there,
nor The Dungeon, ever again.
♪♪
NARRATOR: Concerned about
the residual spirits
inside the hold jailhouse,
and their potential
for v*olence,
Karlo leaves the commissioner
with a warning.
♪♪
The advice we gave was
to precede with caution.
We did ask them
if they want us to try
to remove some of the spirits,
but doing a cleansing,
a blessing,
on a property like this
where there was so many deaths,
I don't think
you could remove everything.
It's part of The Dungeon,
it's part of the gallows.
I think it's always
gonna be there.
I believe you just
leave history alone.
♪♪
NARRATOR: Still to come,
a deserted lodge
on a remote island hides
a terrifying secret.
There it is,
standing right there.
[ Woman shrieks ]
NARRATOR: But first,
[ Screams ]
...a farmhouse haunting
gets very personal
for one team of investigators.
Somebody is doing
something with black magic.
Evil, evil rituals.
♪♪
NARRATOR: On the outskirts
of Schenectady, New York,
homeowners Mark and Laurie
enjoy a quiet rural life.
-Looks terrific.
-Thanks.
The place is coming
together real nice.
But in , their
peace is shattered
by a series of strange events.
It begins with screams...
[ Distant screaming ]
...coming from the woods
near their home.
♪♪
[ Screaming in distance ]
Oh, my God, who is that?
That's unnatural.
[ Screams ]
[ Footsteps ]
Next, they hear footsteps
moving through
the house at night...
[ Footsteps ]
[ Door creaking ]
♪♪
...and see sinister figures...
[ Screaming ]
...looming over their bed.
-[ Screams ]
-[ Gasps ]
Then, one morning...
[ Groans ]
You don't look so good.
[ Screaming ]
...Mark is crippled
by sudden pain.
-Honey, what's happening?
-My stomach! [ Groaning ]
[ Siren wailing ]
Doctors discover his intestines
have become
inexplicably twisted.
Forced to undergo
emergency surgery,
he's told he's lucky
to be alive.
Sensing something is not right,
Mark and Laurie ask a priest
to cleanse the house.
But when his efforts
prove futile,
they call paranormal
investigator Jack Kenna.
Having conducted more than
investigations
over the past years, Jack is
one of New York State's
top ghost hunters.
♪♪
KENNA: I do have some, I like
to call them abilities,
that I can sense when
spirits are around.
[ Electricity crackling ]
I'm a believer,
but I've seen enough,
I've experienced enough,
that I know
the paranormal exists.
[ Eerie wail ]
[ Knocking on door ]
Given the severity
of Mark's recent illness,
Jack is keen to conduct
a provisional investigation
as soon as possible.
They were suffering,
and they were being
effected by something.
Is it a demonic?
Is it something else?
♪♪
So the house, you wouldn't
think anything of it
from the outside.
But it's when I entered the home
that you could feel
the difference.
You could feel the anxiety,
the heaviness.
♪♪
NARRATOR: Jack heads straight to
a hotspot of activity --
[ Device whirs ]
Mark and Laurie's bedroom.
♪♪
I had the K-II with me.
[ Device whirring ]
Started getting a lot of hits
near one of the mirrors.
[ Whirring continues ]
The high EMF reading
does tell you
that whatever it is is a fairly
strong spirit or entity.
♪♪
[ Whirring continues ]
It was only by the mirror.
NARRATOR: When Jack checks
his audio equipment
for electronic voice phenomena,
his suspicions are confirmed.
♪♪
One of the EVPs we captured
was a voice saying,
"I'll hurt you."
[ Eerie wailing, door creaks,
growl ]
♪♪
NARRATOR:
In Schenectady, New York,
investigator Jack Kenna
is conducting
what at first appeared to be
a routine farmhouse haunting.
But as he reaches the epicenter
of the paranormal activity,
things look to be taking
a sinister...
[ Whirring ]
...and violent turn.
♪♪
KENNA: One of the EVPs
we captured was a female voice,
sounded like, say,
"I'll hurt you."
♪♪
And then another EVP say...
♪♪
"Look at this, look at me."
♪♪
NARRATOR:
Jack heads downstairs
to tell Mark and Laurie
the bad news.
Evidence shows that
malevolent spirits
are haunting their home.
Oh, my gosh.
KENNA: It's unusual
to find a spirit
that actually
uses threatening words.
In all the cases I've done,
that's the only EVP
I've ever come across
that had words that
basically are a thr*at.
-Oh, my God.
-The priest gave us...
KENNA:
Mark mentioned the prayer
the priest had told him to say,
and I said, "Well, say it."
Father in Heaven, please
send your Holy Spirit
in the name of Jesus.
And right as he's saying it,
we heard one loud bang.
Angels of the Lord, att*ck
every unclean spirit
in Jesus' name.
[ Loud thud ]
♪♪
And then when he finished it,
there was another loud bang.
[ Loud thud ]
[ Gasps ]
I command all demons,
do not come back!
[ Thudding continues ]
The bangs were so loud
that they actually
shook the house.
[ Thudding continues ]
[ Gasps ]
I realized, we're dealing with
something strong.
Whatever this entity is,
it has a lot of power to it.
[ Thudding continues ]
[ Gasps ]
NARRATOR:
Reluctant to confront such
a powerful entity on his own,
Jack decides to return later
with his full
investigation team.
♪♪
The investigators,
Ellen MacNeil,
Sharon Koogler, and Beck Gann,
together with Jack,
set up their gear on
the main floor of the house.
-Sharon, you got those walkies?
-Yeah, right here.
Okay, channel two, everyone.
Beck, Sharon,
take a look upstairs.
Ellen and I will stay down
here and check things out.
♪♪
[ Static crackling ]
NARRATOR: It's not long before
the mysterious figures
make themselves known.
[ Static crackling ]
♪♪
KENNA: Beck happened to look
up the stairway,
which is right there as
you come in the door.
♪♪
[ Gasps ]
And that's when she saw
this apparition.
[ Gasps ]
The figure Beck saw was
like a white-ish translucent
shape, figure.
[ Breathes nervously ]
♪♪
Right after that, she had
a strong feeling of sadness.
♪♪
I looked over at her,
and her face was just fallen,
and she said, "I just feel
like I want to cry."
She said, "I don't understand
what's happening."
♪♪
NARRATOR: Surprised by such
a high level of activity
so early in their
investigation,
Jack and Ellen refocus their
effort on the living room.
KENNA: So is there somebody
down here with us?
♪♪
[ Knock on door ]
We heard a knock on the door.
[ Knocking ]
MacNEIL:
Somebody's at the front door.
[ Speaks indistinctly ]
I saw a shadow
and then I heard knocking.
So, I'll go over
and see who it is.
♪♪
And there's no one there.
-It's weird.
[ Indistinct chatter ]
[ Door creaking ]
♪♪
There's nobody there.
I don't know what's going on.
Then we see a shadow figure
walk in front
of the two windows.
♪♪
Who it was, we had no idea.
The clients were gone,
they had left.
There was nobody outside.
MacNEIL: Nothing.
Two knocks on the door
and a shadow figure going by,
and there's nobody there.
Yeah, it was, um...
It's hard to explain that
and it's hard to accept
that when you see it.
It definitely felt like
there was something outside
directing anger at this house.
♪♪
[ Soft thud ]
-KENNA: What was that?
♪♪
KENNA: We had, like,
a rash of activity.
I think we chased 'em all out.
Of course, that may be what
it wants me to think, too.
MacNEIL: Well, yeah, or it's
just hiding until we leave.
♪♪
NARRATOR: But things are about
to get even more disturbing.
KENNA: If you have anything
else to say,
now is the time to say it.
And while we're sitting there,
we hear these loud bangs.
[ Banging ]
-What the [bleep] was that?
That sounded like
something running.
Who's there?
We know you're here.
♪♪
NARRATOR:
In Schenectady, New York,
investigator Jack Kenna
is troubled
by a very active spirit
in a residential haunting.
KENNA: We had, like,
a rash of activity.
NARRATOR: But as Jack
and his team regroup
on the main floor,
they quickly realize
that things can get
a lot worse.
KENNA: If you have anything
else to say,
now is the time to say it.
If you've come back.
I don't see you.
-FEMALE VOICE: Came.
-It came?
Yes, I've come back.
Do you have anything
else to say?
Any last things to say?
Before I make you all go away.
You can make that K-II flash.
This device here.
I followed you with it before,
but you can make
that flash if want.
There you are.
Now look at the size
of these blips.
I've never seen them
that big before.
I've never seen them
so huge.
KENNA: So is there somebody
down here with us?
♪♪
If you're down here,
give me two blips for yes
and one for no on that device.
And while we're sitting there,
we hear these loud bangs
like running on the stairs.
[ Banging ]
What the [bleep] was that?
That sounded like
something running.
So I ran over to the stairway.
I had a recorder in my hand
and I yelled up...
Well, who's there?
We know you're here.
But when we listened back
to the recording,
there's an EVP of a male
raspy voice saying my name,
full name -- Jack Kenna.
[ Loud static ]
That's very unusual.
Kind of freaks you out.
Well, who's there?
It's very, very rare to
have your whole name spoken.
That doesn't happen.
[ Loud static ]
♪♪
We know you're here.
So at this point, what I think
is haunting this house,
there's more than one
spirit in the home,
based on the voices we captured.
There is something
negative there
that could be controlling
the other spirits.
Grab your gear and let's go.
NARRATOR:
Confused and shaken,
Jack suspends the investigation
for the night.
♪♪
KENNA: Because of the nature
of this case,
I did reach out to
a good friend of ours
who's a sixth-generation
psychic medium.
She was able to tell me
there was a portal
within the woods
outside the home.
It's an opening
to the other side
that allows spirits to
come and go through it.
NARRATOR:
Jack believes that the portal
may be allowing multiple
malevolent spirits
to infiltrate
Mark and Laurie's home.
KENNA:
I went back and I told them
about the potential portal
that's in the woods.
NARRATOR: He believes that
closing the portal
is the key to ending
their torment.
KENNA: I told them I wanted
to go back there.
Mark came with me.
She was somewhere
in these woods.
NARRATOR:
To help him locate the portal,
Jack uses a pair
of divining rods.
Want it around a certain area.
KENNA: Diving rods have been
used for centuries
in the paranormal field.
You just hold them
in your hands
and you let the rods guide you
to where that energy
or whatever you're
looking for is.
Yeah, see it's still
pointing that direction.
♪♪
Narrowing it down here.
And they lead me to
this one large tree.
♪♪
Oh, my God.
The two diving rods
will cross each other
to make like an "X,"
and it did that
around the whole one tree.
♪♪
There it is.
Well, the portal's here.
♪♪
Oh, my God.
See, it's the tree.
Now, interestingly enough,
that's also the direction
where they heard the screaming
coming from,
which tells me
that was the portal
that had opened, and that's
where these spirits
originally came from.
♪♪
So this tree, somehow --
It looks like one
of the oldest trees.
MARK:
Okay, this is Jack Kenna,
and he just found
the portal.
♪♪
NARRATOR:
A seasoned investigator,
Jack knows that portals
can't open themselves.
Somebody did this,
and Jack thinks
he might know who.
KENNA: I believe this particular
spirit portal was created
by someone who had malice
towards the clients...
[ Thunder crashing ]
...in order to terrorize them
and basically try
to ruin their lives.
♪♪
NARRATOR: The only way to
stop the haunting
and release Mark and Laurie
from their nightmare
is to close the portal.
You're shutting off
every spirit entrance
and exit there is,
which prevents anything else
from coming through.
Prepare to close these portals.
It's time for you to all go.
It's a matter of using energy
and using your faith,
calling upon the
Archangel Michael
to help me close that portal
to get rid of the spirits
that are there,
to drive them back through it.
[ Rumbling, growling ]
Michael the Archangel,
deliver us from this evil.
[ Growling ]
[ Crashing ]
[ Gasping ]
♪♪
KENNA: From my experience,
that type of
human-created haunting
is very rare.
NARRATOR:
With the portal closed
and the spirits gone,
Mark and Laurie's home
is able to return to
some kind of normality.
But for Jack and Ellen,
the memory haunts them still.
♪♪
I pray to God that it's gone,
because having your
intestines twisted?
-[ Screams ]
-Honey!
That's somebody
is doing something
with black magic.
[ Electricity crackles ]
Scariest thing about
this investigation
is the fact that I don't know
who tried to do this
to these people.
[ Slams ]
Sounded like a growl to me.
Well, who's there?
And could they try to
come after you next?
I think that's the
most frightening thing
about a case like that.
♪♪
[ Thunder crashes ]
♪♪
[ Static whines ]
NARRATOR: Paranormal
investigators stand firm
where others would flee.
When the hunter
becomes the prey,
the results can be terrifying.
Go, go!
♪♪
On a deserted island
in Ontario, Canada,
stands an old vacation lodge.
This isolated retreat
fell into disrepair
and little of its
former grandeur remains.
♪♪
[ Camera shutter clicks ]
Long abandoned,
a succession of caretakers
have reported strange sounds
coming from the lodge.
Disembodied footsteps,
whispered voices,
and strange growling.
[ Whispering voices ]
[ Rumbling, growling ]
When the new owners decide
to restore the lodge,
they call in a paranormal team
to look into the claims.
Leading the investigation
is senior field researcher
and psychic medium,
Michelle Desrochers.
DESROCHERS:
When I'm investigating,
I never get scared.
Doesn't mean I don't get
startled, like anyone else,
but I do not get scared.
NARRATOR:
But what she had uncovered
about the island is troubling.
We knew there was
a burial ground on the island.
Sometimes they'll
come with elementals,
which are Earth spirits
that tend to be very aggressive.
The area is also
known for wendigos,
North American
version of a banshee.
And they are highly aggressive.
♪♪
NARRATOR: August --
Michelle arrives on the island
to begin her investigation
together with fellow
ghost hunter, Patrick Cross.
The boat will not be returning
to collect the investigators
until morning.
♪♪
DESROCHERS:
We were actually left alone.
If something went wrong,
the chances of us getting help
would be slim to none.
♪♪
From the moment that
Michelle and I did
get on the island and we started
walking up to the place...
[ Rustling ]
[ Birds chirping ]
...we felt like we
were being watched.
♪♪
[ Growling ]
♪♪
NARRATOR:
In Ontario, Canada,
a derelict lodge
on a remote island
has captured the attention
of investigators
Michelle Desrochers
and Patrick Cross.
♪♪
Already unsettled
by the isolation,
the team heads into
the derelict lodge.
♪♪
CROSS: There was no heat,
there was no light, nothing.
No reception at all.
We had no cell phones working.
The only way out
we would find is,
if we were still alive,
would be coming back to
pick us up the next morning.
[ Camera shutter clicks ]
NARRATOR: It's not long before
Michelle and Patrick realize
they may not be alone.
[ Wood creaking ]
[ Footsteps ]
Michelle and I heard
footsteps that weren't ours.
[ Footsteps, clatter ]
[ Footsteps continue ]
I'm thinking, "Okay.
"I think we're being followed."
[ Footsteps ]
And again...
[ Imitates footsteps ]
[ Footsteps continue ]
So, you know,
we'd swing around again
with the spotlight.
There's like nothing there.
♪♪
I know that
demonic entities are
notorious game players.
Were we followed by
a malevolent entity
that was just playing with us?
[ Thud ]
We both started hearing banging
from another area,
one of the rooms.
♪♪
DESROCHERS:
And then, all of a sudden,
things seemed to go
quiet again.
♪♪
This thing just seemed to...
It's almost like
psychological warfare.
♪♪
NARRATOR: But the peace
is short lived.
The silence is broken
by a strange sound
coming from outside.
[ Thudding, clatter ]
-Do you hear that?
-I do.
[ Chanting ]
DESROCHERS: It's hard to explain
what the chanting was.
It was kind of like a...
[ Humming ]
It was just very,
very subtle.
[ Chanting continues ]
♪♪
NARRATOR: Michelle and Patrick
decide to follow the noise
down towards the lake.
CROSS:
It was in the distance.
It was always in the distance
somewhere.
We tried to find it,
but we couldn't pinpoint it.
[ Faint chanting ]
The chanting would move from
different areas on the island.
[ Chanting in distance ]
Where's that coming from?
When we went outside,
our equipment started going off.
[ Tapping ]
We had full packs
of batteries.
Everything was just
starting to die.
We had these huge searchlights.
They were drained completely.
We are now in the dark.
♪♪
NARRATOR:
Isolated, abandoned,
and now in almost
complete darkness,
the investigators
are vulnerable.
[ Branches snapping ]
CROSS:
We look towards the building
and we see a pair of red eyes
on the second floor.
[ Chanting ]
Then, we hear this
chanting again.
[ Chanting continues ]
It sounds like it's coming
from everywhere.
♪♪
CROSS:
That freaked me out.
I felt now that we're
more being watched
and being toyed with.
Something didn't
like us being there
and was basically
following us, hunting us.
[ Chanting continues ]
♪♪
As we were running upstairs,
I was getting more
nervous, upset.
[ Camera shutter clicks ]
NARRATOR:
Back at the lodge,
Michelle and Patrick's
flashlights
kick back into action.
But they're not safe yet.
[ Growling ]
Now, we're hearing growls
around us and behind us.
[ Growling ]
That's freaking me out.
It was a large,
raspy sort of growl.
Basically, it just sounded
like a...
"rrr," like a "grr."
[ Growling ]
Hearing the growl, to me,
was a validation
that there was definitely
something malevolent there.
It was unexpected.
I did not go into
investigate the lodge
as a demonic
or malevolent haunting.
Somehow, I ended up walking
right into something that
I felt was hunting me
this whole time.
And it was very unnerving.
[ Loud growling ]
NARRATOR: Watched, taunted,
and possibly even hunted,
the investigators wonder
how much worse things can get.
It turns out,
things can get a lot worse.
It's cold in here.
Can you feel it?
The room started just
getting colder and colder.
I was freezing.
DESROCHERS: It's said that when
an entity or spirit
comes into an area,
they have to gather up
the energy in the area
to be able to either manifest
or project some sort of sound.
And in doing so,
it creates a cold spot.
[ Eerie growl ]
I could feel
I'm in a cold spot,
and I could see my breath.
And it was right there.
[ Eerie growl ]
[ Tapping ]
My light's out.
Then we could hear something
that was off in the distance,
which were footsteps.
[ Wood creaking ]
[ Footsteps ]
And I'm thinking,
"There it is,
standing right there."
♪♪
[ Screaming ]
♪♪
NARRATOR: In Ontario, Canada,
Michelle Desrochers
and Patrick Cross
are investigating
strange activity
in a deserted vacation lodge.
[ Footsteps ]
Michelle and I heard
footsteps that weren't ours.
NARRATOR:
But as the darkness draws in
and the spirits get closer,
the investigators may be about
to confront their tormentor.
[ Eerie growling ]
DESROCHERS: In my opinion,
it was a demonic.
[ Loud growling ]
And then all of a sudden,
something's sounding like
it was picking up speed.
♪♪
[ Loud growling ]
I'm like, "Oh, my God."
I got the huge sense that
I was gonna be rushed.
NARRATOR: Face to face with
an elemental spirit,
Michelle fears she may
be out of her depth.
Every fiber in my core
told me that I was dealing
with a demonic entity
at that point.
I knew when that thing
came rushing at me
that it had bad intentions...
-Look out!
-...and it wanted me out.
I felt this presence
running past us,
either jumping or leaping.
[ Grunting ]
-Are you okay?
-[ Groans ]
You okay?
[ Camera shutter clicks ]
CROSS: We actually saw
footprints.
-Look at this.
-Yeah. That's...
We knew the footsteps
that we saw were not ours,
and we do not recall
seeing them there
prior to our investigation.
♪♪
We didn't know if
things were gonna take
a turn for the worse,
but we weren't gonna
stick around to find out.
It was time to wrap it up.
[ Rustling ]
We need to get out of here.
NARRATOR: Severely shaken by
the night's events,
with dawn now breaking,
Patrick and Michelle
hurry towards the dock.
At this point, we're praying
for somebody to pick us up.
-Hurry up!
-Come on!
DESROCHERS:
Heading towards the dock area,
we heard this...
[ Eerie wailing ]
...sound that I always call it
like a Xena w*r cry.
Something I can't even describe.
It sounded like
a banshee of sorts.
NARRATOR: The investigators
are in luck.
The boat has returned.
Go, go!
CROSS:
I literally ran to the boat.
[ Wailing continues ]
That's how scared
I was to get away.
NARRATOR: Desperate to escape
the terror of the island,
Michelle and Patrick
scramble aboard
and head for the safety
of the open water.
As the boat was leaving,
we still heard it screaming.
[ Wailing continues ]
DESROCHERS:
Needless to say,
we got in the boat
and looked at each other like,
"What just happened?"
♪♪
We totally felt that we
did not have the upper hand
in that investigation at all.
The only thing that
had the upper hand
was whatever it was that
was following us around.
[ Faint wailing ]
NARRATOR:
Safely back in civilization,
Michelle is able to
draw some conclusions
about her unfinished
investigation.
Elementals are just
very aggressive.
Why are they so angry?
♪♪
They say they're
guardians of that land.
♪♪
The island was sacred ground.
It's difficult to say
if we woke something up
in the lodge or on the island.
But I can tell you,
it sure felt like it did.
NARRATOR: But for this
paranormal investigator,
it was a chastening experience.
Take nothing for granted.
Don't just make assumptions.
Because I walked into a building
with one expectation,
and I walked out with
a lesson learned.
♪♪
02x01 - Chilling Encounters
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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.