Field of Fears - The Haunting of Randolph County Asylum (2025)

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So, when you hear the word asylum,

I don't want you to think

of asylum as in a madhouse.

Think rather of someone

who is seeking asylum,

someone who needs a safe space.

So, the people that came here

were often mentally disabled,

physically disabled,

or in just some way unable

to take care of themselves.

I think whenever you

mention the word asylum

it instantly conjures these images

of people being mistreated,

people being tortured in

the name of medical science,

and I think that's always where we go

when we think of asylums.

But in the process of doing this project,

it really became clear

that that's not really a fair definition

for the word asylum.

We really thought, to show that contrast,

it would be really interesting

to create a fictitious asylum

that really is

what we picture in our mind

when we hear the word asylum.

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(door clunks)

Look what we have here,

a little Mark Twain. Nice.

Little moonlight.

Let's get a little music going. (sighs)

Oh yeah. (huffs)

No, no, please. No.

No, please. Please lemme out.

Please, please, please, I'm...

Talk to me.

(charming classical music)

Yep.

A little for you.

[Patient] Please let me out.

A little for me.

[Patient] No!

Ha ha ha ha, ha ha ha!

Could hear you all the way up

front. What is wrong with you?

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(electrodes buzz)

(patient huffs)

This massive foreboding

building that's behind me

is a reminder:

if you were somebody

that society just felt

didn't fit the norm,

you were literally turned over

to the state or the county

and placed in their care.

In fact, it was common

practice back in those days

to try and cure things,

like speech impediment or mental illness,

with what they called medical treatments.

By today's standards, we would view those

as archaic or even barbaric,

borderline t*rture.

The first county home was established,

here in Randolph County, in 1851.

They built that building here

on the very foundation that we're on now.

That building lasted until 1855.

It was a wooden building with candlelight,

oil lamp light, and wood

stoves for cooking and heating,

so in 1855, that place

burned to the ground.

There were 19 residents in

here at that point in time.

No one was hurt in the fire,

and everyone made it out okay.

The county has 19 people

who are now homeless

that they are supposed

to be taking care of,

so to build the second building,

they wanted to get it up

as quickly as possible,

and to help facilitate that,

they fired the bricks on site.

They did not, however, fire the bricks

long enough or hot enough

to develop the protective

glaze that they needed,

so as soon as the building was finished,

it started to melt in the elements.

There are records from the 1880s

showing the women on the

west side of the building

were using their bedclothes

and their pillows

to plug holes in the walls and

to keep the windows in place.

They decided to go ahead

and build a new asylum,

and to save money, they

used the 1851 foundation.

They shored that up and extended it

and created the building

that you see today.

That building opened in

1899 in late December,

and the residents who

were in the second asylum

simply packed up all their belongings,

moved across the driveway,

picked a room, and settled in.

From 1899 until 2006,

when this place closed,

there were 1,487 people

who called this place home.

That includes the superintendents

and their families,

so the books that we have show

that there were people, a lot of people,

who passed away here,

(indistinct) people who

went unclaimed by family,

and the county buried

them here on the grounds

in an unmarked graveyard.

When Dann first got this place,

you couldn't use the bathrooms,

because the sewer was all plugged up,

so I brought a friend of mine,

from where I live in Ohio,

over here with me, and

he is a plumber, okay?

And we got the power snake,

and we put it through that pipe back there

to clean the sewer out.

And as we were cleaning the sewer out,

the doors in this

building started slamming,

and he got freaked out down here,

and he said he never wants

to come back here again.

Walking down the northwest stairway,

going to the basement one day,

I saw a lady in a white dress,

and I was walking by the

stairway and looked down,

and I saw her take about three steps

and then around the corner.

Ran down after her. She

was nowhere to be found.

And I've only seen things once.

And I walk straight through here,

and I'm kicking these wires,

as I go, against the wall.

I walk straight through

this opening, all right?

Walk straight back.

I do what I'm gonna do.

And I turn around, and as

I comed around that chair,

I see that that door is

closed, and I'm like,

"There's no way that that door's closed."

And I just told 'em to

quit messing with my stuff.

When I fixed that camera, I said,

"Y'all don't mess with my stuff no more."

Come around that corner,

and this door's closed.

Now, I have not touched it,

but this is the door.

Listen.

(door clicks)

And that is a heavy door,

but when I come out,

that door was like this.

(door clacks and creaks)

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[Matthew] Did you hear the sound?

No.

-That's what I'm trying to say.

-Wow.

And for me to get out, I had to...

And as soon as I did that

much, I heard the sound.

I slipped through and went to find you,

'cause I'm like, "I'm gonna want somebody

to witness the sound this door makes."

But this is the sound that

it makes when it closes.

(floor squeaks)

(door creaks)

- Yeah, it's a-

- And I could not get through.

I had to move it enough to get out-

[Matthew] To slide through.

And never heard a sound.

And this door's been open

since I've been here.

[Matthew] And that's one of the claims.

Actually, Jay, if you'll look...

This pipe right up here?

-Yeah.

-That's the one

that Tim was working on one day.

He had a ladder up here, right?

And he's working on this pipe right here.

Now, while he's working on

it, that door slammed shut.

I was changing the water line downstairs

and putting a new valve

in to run the water

to the female side.

Well, I'm up on a ladder,

and this door that's

downstairs in the basement,

which is a five-foot-wide door, shut.

(door creaks and pops)

- The weight of that door-

- Is massive. I mean, it's-

And it's been like

that since we been here,

so it just blew my mind to...

When I come around that

corner, I just froze

'cause I'm looking...

What I should've...

What I'm expecting to

see is a long hallway,

and I'm looking at a-

-Door shut, yeah.

-closed door.

And I stood right here,

and I yelled, "Is anybody down here?"

No one answered me.

In many cases, there were people

that were brought to this

facility at a young age

and never left.

John Doty is a lifelong

resident of the asylum.

He was admitted when he was 14 years old.

Now, John, he was a little slow.

He wouldn't have been

able to hold down a job

on the outside,

and unfortunately, back in those days,

people who were mentally

disabled were often sent

to places like this or

to mental institutions.

We're very glad that he was sent here

and not in a mental institution,

but he was admitted here when he was 14.

He took on a job here

at the asylum, as well.

He took care of the chickens.

In the 1990s, they converted this place

over to being a nursing home,

rather than the county asylum,

and they got rid of the

county farm aspect of things,

so the chickens went away in the '90s,

which did not make John

very happy, at all.

But he passed away here,

and he was in his 90s when he died,

so he was here for almost 80 years.

Another resident here at the

asylum was Doris Addington.

A lot of people mistook

Doris for being slow.

She wasn't slow.

She just had a hard time

articulating what she wanted to say.

She's one of the residents

who chose to take on a

job here at the asylum,

and the job she chose was to cook,

so for more than 70 years,

every meal that was prepared here

Doris had a hand in making.

This was her family.

We have a lotta residents,

over the years, that we found

that were involved in

churches within the community.

Doris was one of those.

She was really loved by

the people in Winchester

and all over the county

because she would be involved

in the churches and with

the schools and things.

Just because you were a resident here

doesn't mean that you were

confined to this building.

It's not a jail,

but this was home for her.

She lived her life out of this place.

In the 1930s,

a lady was admitted to the asylum.

Her name was Ida Gunckle,

and this was in 1936.

About six years prior to

Ida's admission to the asylum,

her husband died of syphilis,

so you have a pretty good idea

of what was going on with Ida.

Her family did their very

best to take care of her,

but by 1936, her condition had slipped

to a point where they just

could not care for her anymore,

so they admitted her here to the asylum.

She lived on the second floor

for the first year and a half

she was here at the asylum,

but by 1938, her condition

had slipped even further.

The superintendents here

didn't wanna send her

to a mental institution.

Those were terrible places in the 1930s,

so rather than do that, they decided

that they were going to move

Ida down into the basement,

into one of the rooms down there.

It is the only room in the asylum

where there are bars on the window.

So, the idea was to move Ida's belongings

down to the basement.

During the day, they

could keep an eye on her,

but at night, they could

lock the door and make sure

that she wasn't wandering

out onto the grounds.

This was a 350-acre farm

for most of its history,

so they provided most of the

things that people needed,

but you have farm equipment

here, livestock here.

We sit right on a highway.

There is a creek in the back, and woods,

and there is a drop-off on

one side of the building,

so it's a dangerous place for her to be,

and if she wanders out onto the grounds,

she could end up being hurt.

So in the evenings, they would lock her in

at 10 o'clock at night,

and at six o'clock every

morning, they would come down,

and they would open the

door and let Ida out,

keep an eye on her during the day,

make sure she's secured

and safe in the evening.

In August of 1938, one evening,

Mrs. Thornburg, who was the

matron here at the time,

was locking Ida in her

room for the evening,

telling her goodnight,

and Ida asked her for a broom.

Well, it's a basement.

Mrs. Thornburg brought her

a broom, told her goodnight,

and locked the door and went to bed.

And when she came down in

the morning to let Ida out,

she found that, in the night,

Ida had taken the broom,

put it over the pipes,

taked some of the ticking

off of her mattress,

wrapped it around the broom

and around her throat,

and had hanged herself in the evening.

When she found Ida, both

her feet were on the ground,

so we're left with a question

of exactly how Ida died.

Her death certificate says

she died of strangulation.

But did the ticking stretch overnight,

which left her with

her feet on the ground?

Or did she misjudge the length,

landed on the ground, and leaned into it?

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[Ronda] So, there's

a man. He's a jumper.

[Matthew] Oh gosh, dolls.

Why have we gotta have

dolls everywhere we go?

I can't stand dolls.

So, I do know this was the cook's room.

She don't have no eyes.

So, getting back to your story

about the guy that potentially,

you said, might be a jumper.

There's a story that goes

with the asylum here.

It was in the 1940-ish era.

What ended up happening

is, one day, he fell out

the second-story window

and he died.

We've got the newspaper

clipping. It's a confirmed story.

What he's wanting me to know,

that he did it, he

jumped, it was a suicide.

It is interesting you

connected with a jumper

and there is a definite story here

of somebody falling to their death here.

[Ronda] It wasn't this

floor. Was it upstairs?

No, well, yeah, second

floor, second-floor window.

[Ronda] So are we on the second floor?

Are we on the first floor?

We're on the first floor.

Yeah, we're on the

first floor, technically.

[Ronda] So, yeah, oh, wasn't this floor.

I don't know why he's

connecting here, but okay, yeah.

So, this is the cook's room,

right? That's what you said.

So, I don't know a whole lot about her

other than pretty much

everybody that was here...

They were classified as inmates,

but in reality, they held jobs.

You know, they were maybe the cook,

or they worked the fields,

or they'd raised the chickens.

She had a purpose. She had a role.

But she didn't have

what she exactly wanted.

Right, she briefly left for a few years

to another facility

because she had a psychological break.

And then they brought her back.

And then she spent, literally,

the rest of her life here.

She never left the asylum.

Can we go to the basement?

[Matthew] Yeah, let's do it.

[Ronda] I'm being

pulled to the basement.

[Matthew] Let's go to the basement.

[Ronda] I got a headache going on,

so there's pressure in my head.

Might be on to something,

'cause I'm getting that tingly feeling

and I'm getting pressure hits

-at the same time.

-So, it's, like...

It feels like c*ck.

But it's not c*ck. It's people.

Okay, so, they're, like, betting on...

Prominent, or people with money...

Prominent people are coming

down here and betting on fights.

Are you saying that maybe,

like, some of the inmates were

-forced to fight for profit.

-Yes, yes, yes.

I'll check. There may be historic...

We don't have all the

history, deliberately,

'cause we wanted to see what

we get and then compare it,

so we'll go back and check that,

-see if we can verify that.

-It's really heavy.

There's a lot of screaming

and, like, pounding hands and cheering.

It's like on TV when you see

a dogfight or a c*ck,

and it's, like, primal.

It's like these people are in a frenzy.

I'm literally, like,

picturing "Fight Club."

Yeah, these people are in

a frenzy, and they're just...

It's just these poor people

that are forced to fight

are just nothing more than an animal,

and they're put there as a plaything

for these people that have money.

It's-

[Matthew] Making ya sick, yeah.

Yeah, (huffs) I'm not...

Yeah, I gotta get outta this room,

but it's, like, these two rooms here.

[Matthew] Okay.

Urgh, okay, yeah, I

gotta go outta this room.

We moving on upstairs now?

No, I want

to go back down that hallway.

[Matthew] All right,

well, let's follow you

down that hallway now.

This room feels really,

really, really bad.

It's, like, stacked,

something stacked, or stored.

[Matthew] We're-

-Hits again?

-look at that; getting hits

again every single time, so.

Yeah, it looks like what

I'm seeing is a morgue.

You're pulling drawers out,

but I know that's not what

it would've been like then,

but that's the image I'm getting, I guess,

to tell me what was stored.

I don't know. I can check.

But I would guess record keeping.

This is probably where patient records...

This looks to me like a records

vault might've been set up,

although I don't know, because there seems

to be, like, a walk-in refrigerator,

so again, I'd have to check with Dann.

I really don't know.

So, were there bodies stored here?

There is a story that goes along with...

They had somebody pass

away, and there was a...

I can't remember. I have

to get details from Dann.

But they couldn't get the

body taken outta here,

so what they did is they stuck

'em in the walk-in freezer.

[Ronda] There's only one body?

Well, initially,

because, when they put the

body in the walk-in freezer,

it made the coleslaw get contaminated

and they ended up having

a cholera outbreak.

And there were so many people dying

that the bodies were stacked

up to here on this wall,

all the way down the wall, okay?

And then one day, they couldn't get done

with three of the bodies.

So they actually wrapped 'em up

in meat paper that was down here

because this was a butcher shop,

and they came to this cooler right here,

and they took all the

food that was on this side

and put it on this side.

And then they put the three bodies

on these three shelves, okay?

And then the next day,

three people died of

cholera in this building.

So then they got rid of all of the bodies

that were left down here,

and they got rid of the embalming table

and all the stuff that

was dropped on the floor,

because it was a cobblestone floor,

so they put a foot of concrete down here,

all the way from the front

of the building to the back.

And you can see if you

turn around and look.

On that wall right there,

behind the shelves,

you can see how low that door is,

that they didn't redo that door.

The lady in here is, like...

I know that there was

a lot of people in here

that were mentally disturbed.

This particular woman is

just, like, off the chain.

She's just, like, running and dancing.

She's just, like, everywhere.

So it's almost like you're

channeling her actual behaviors,

feeling the same emotions and behaviors

that she was feeling.

Yeah, 'cause, right now, I

wanna run down the hallway.

She took her own life.

She did. That's why they

leave this broom up here.

It's not here to clean the room.

Ida asked to borrow a

broom to tidy up her room.

She put the broom up

there across the bars,

took her bed sheet, shredded them,

wrapped it around a noose,

fastened the noose around her neck,

stood on the edge of

her bed, and jumped off.

That's how Ida passed

away in this very room.

Wow. She wasn't...

How old was...

I don't feel like she was-

I'm not sure.

Really, really old.

I'm not sure how...

She was elderly. 50s or 60s, I think.

I'd have to go back and look

at the- She's that old?

She was in her 50s, I believe.

Again, you may be feeling-

It's just that she

-her mental age.

-feels, yeah, mentally young.

Yeah, you might feeling her mental age.

(glowering music continues)

I'm feeling a lot of energy

up there on the second floor.

Let's walk through and see.

I was picking up a lotta the residual.

We heard that knock when

we came towards the door,

and I know we weren't recording,

so unfortunately, we

didn't catch the knock.

So what are you getting now

that we've felt that happen?

There's a male energy here.

This male, he's very strong.

He doesn't really mean any harm.

He's just trying to

get people's attention.

He's in this back area.

What's back there?

I dunno. I honestly don't.

[Sky] Yeah, I wanna go back here.

[Matthew] I know this is a private area,

where the owner and the

caretaker sometimes stay

in these two rooms here,

so those are off-limits,

but the rest of the area, you can...

And we can't get in there.

Yeah, he's right here.

This man was in this room.

Somebody's staying in here?

This man has been with me for a few days.

This man showed up.

He was a farmer.

He was a farmer. I can see him.

He's in the bib overalls.

He has a beard.

He's probably about...

I'm gonna say about your height.

I feel like there was an accident.

[Matthew] Wow, I'm getting goosebumps.

- I'm feeling, in his head-

- you're hitting on something-

-he had some damage.

-huge.

And I'm feeling it,

like, over my right eye,

and this caused him to

not understand or know...

Like, he had no memory-

-Of what happened.

-Oh, wow, yes, he's strong.

Like, I'm shaking right now.

[Matthew] Yeah, I can see you trembling.

(blows) Okay.

I mean, he's very confused.

He's trying to get the person's attention

that's in this room.

[Matthew] Wow, okay.

So, I don't know if this man knows this,

but if this man knows

this, this man is trying

to make his presence known to this person.

Yeah, so, there's an interesting story

that goes with this room.

The guy that stays here,

he's the caretaker,

and he stays here.

And what he does is he'll

wake up during night

'cause he'd literally feel

like something is sitting down

on the bed

or holding the sheets

down so he can't get up.

When he's had his girlfriend stay over,

she's had negative encounters.

[Sky] Doesn't surprise me.

They were thinking it was a woman

or just assumed it was,

like, a jealousy thing.

But maybe it's more about the

room itself. I don't know.

Are you feeling like maybe it's more

about "this is my place-

-That's his room.

-and you don't belong-

-That was his room.

-here?"

- He's trying to get-

- Because that's kinda what-

-them out.

-I'm feeling, just listening

to you connect to it.

Yeah, he's trying to

get them outta there,

but he also is trying

to get their attention

because, you know, he hasn't had that.

I feel like when he was here

and what he was showing me

was that he was just

kinda pushed to the side.

And he had what he needed, yes,

but this man didn't even

have his mind anymore

or know who he was.

And in life, he wasn't a very nice person,

so it doesn't surprise me.

He was a very hard-

-He'd be negative.

-type of person.

And that's the type of thing

that could easily be misconstrued

as a negative entity.

It's just a negative interaction

because it was a nasty spirit, in a sense,

that type of interaction.

You know what the saying is:

if they're like that in life, they're...

-You know.

-Oh yeah, they'll be

like that in death, for sure.

But with him not having

his normal personality,

it's 10 times worse,

so I feel like he wreaks

havoc in this room.

He doesn't even astray from it, really.

I mean, he doesn't.

I feel like he's solely, like-

-'Cause that was his space.

-right here in this area.

[Matthew] "This is my space."

-You don't belong."

-This is his area.

This is where he knew to be.

When I started staying here at night

when I'd be sleeping, I'd get woke up

three or four times a night,

like something's sitting on

the edge of my bed, okay?

And when the lady I was dating

would come here and stay here with me,

I had to do a lotta prompting

to get her to stay in the asylum at night,

'cause it's just us.

And she felt like she was beat up at night

when she was sleeping,

so she didn't come back

here too often, you know?

I mean, there's just so much

stuff that happens here.

All right, so, you're feeling

like you see kids

running around, so kinda-

I can see them.

Walk us through what you're saying.

Yeah, when I came in,

I felt sick, like, to my stomach.

And then as I started

looking and scanning through,

I could see them,

but I'd feel them even more

than I see them running through.

There's four up here right now.

There's three girls and a

boy, and they're playing.

So, I know

that when people are up here

they feel a lot like a burst of energy.

And then they get it very confused

with something dark or den.

You know, I'm seeing the residual part

of them coming and playing

or being where they're not supposed to be,

the fun of that,

and I felt like...

You know, as soon as I hit the door,

I felt, like I said, that sickness.

I feel like the children

that are here that are active

had passed from an illness,

and it was something that spread in here

is what I'm knowing.

Couple things that I can

validate very, very easily.

One is the fact that there

has been documented evidence

of children's footsteps,

children's laughter.

This is a common area where

that type of thing happens,

including disembodied laughter of a girl

has been actually documented up here

by other teams and things

that've come through,

so we do know that those

occurrences have happened.

That makes sense.

[Matthew] The illness also is.

-Oh.

-And I don't know

if it was children specifically.

I'll have to verify that,

but I do know there

was a number of deaths.

What happening is

there was a body that was placed

in the cold storage refrigerator,

and it made the food-

-This makes sense.

-contaminated.

I kept hearing "cold storage"

before I left the hotel,

and they were like, "I wanna tell you

about the cold storage."

Actually, you asked me

if that was relevant on

the phone the other night,

and I told you, "I ain't

telling you nothing"; remember?

And you said, "That's right-

- And it came up-

- Don't say nothing."

A couple times.

I really feel

that the children were

after this other time frame.

So remember we're peeling

these layers. I...

[Matthew] Did y'all just hear that?

[Producer] Yeah.

-Somebody just ran.

-Can you knock?

Somebody literally-

-Hi.

-just ran through there.

So remember we're

peeling these layers. I...

Layers. I...

[Matthew] Did y'all just hear that?

[Producer] Yeah.

-Somebody just ran.

-Can you knock?

Somebody literally-

-Hi.

-just ran through there.

She's very mischievous,

and I'm not gonna be surprised if later,

because she goes around and

gets everybody's attention.

[Matthew] So she likes

the interaction with people,

and she tries to get

-people to interact with her.

-And they knew we were

coming, so they came up here.

You know, there was kids

here at different times,

and that was for a variety

of different reasons.

It could've been lost parents; there's-

-These kids had nobody.

-a lotta different things.

[Sky] So this is the group.

These are the four that are here.

[Matthew] All right, anywhere else

you're feeling drawn to?

I wanna walk over here for a minute.

Yes, I'm feeling something here.

Oh my God. Did somebody hang?

[Matthew] In the building? Or up here?

[Sky] Mm-hmm.

[Matthew] Which is your question?

Are we going in the building?

[Sky] I got somebody that was-

[Matthew] Yes, there was

a hanging in this building.

Yeah, this person's up here.

This person that...

Yeah, oh my gosh.

I didn't know there was more back here.

Oh yeah.

This is not...

I don't think that this man

knew what he was doing

when he was trying to hang.

(Sky clears throat)

So, almost accidental?

Yeah.

Like, he just made a mistake.

It doesn't feel like it was intentional.

[Matthew] So he didn't mean to do it.

It just kinda happened.

No, and I...

Something, it was, like, a struggle.

It was slow. It was really

slow and a struggle.

[Matthew] (coughs) I'm

getting choked up in here.

-Are you?

-Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

[Matthew] Bad.

He's very, like, calm,

very matter-of-fact,

and I know I've been saying that a lot.

Somebody's making me say this.

[Matthew] I gotta get outta here.

I can't stand right here. Oh. (coughs)

Yeah, this man had an accident up here,

definitely in this area.

I mean, I don't know

if there was something

that he got hung up on.

This is, like, freakish.

I don't even know.

It's almost like he got

hung up on something,

but where he was...

His body weight or his...

I'm seeing him hunched over,

like he couldn't get up

or something was restricting

him from getting up,

and he choked.

He choked to death.

Are you okay?

No, I'm not liking this area at all.

I'm actually feeling-

It took me a minute.

Really weird.

[Sky] Are you okay?

Yeah, I'm all right. (clears throat)

Yeah, it hurt.

I mean, I physically was feeling the pain

that he was showing.

That's the only way for me

to understand how he passed.

-(coughs) Man.

-His body weight choked him

with being restricted,

so whatever this piece of...

It's like this.

It's weird because it's dipped out,

but I don't know what restricted him.

[Matthew] I couldn't stay

in that corner any longer.

In fact, I'm very uncomfortable

-right here.

-Well, let's get outta here.

We'll-

[Matthew] Yeah, I need to get

-outta here a minute.

-let him do his thing

and move on, right?

When I got the call from Matt

about wanting me to take on this project

and we started getting

into all the details

of the size of the building,

that's when I started to realize

that these are the kinda buildings

I was building the equipment for,

this immense challenge

of what happens with

investigators in the field

that they couldn't verify everything

that they were experiencing

on these great, big,

huge investigation site.

Talking about 58,000 square feet,

so it's an audio challenge for anyone.

The devices that I've been

building for the last 11 years

is really what has built up

to the intercom system itself.

I've seen the limitations of

the devices, yeah, limitations,

of the ITC devices that I create myself.

Each time I've built a new one,

I just found more and more limitations.

The intercom system is a one-of-a-kind.

There's nothing else

like it on this planet.

I built it, and what we have

is we have a command center.

And then we're gonna have six satellites,

and by satellites, I mean

speakers that have microphones on 'em

and a camera mounted to them.

Anything that comes

from the command center

plays through those speakers

in those six locations

on four different floors,

but the microphones that are mounted to it

pick that audio up and sends

it back to my computer.

So when he invited me onto the project,

I was more than happy to get involved.

Two of the experiments this weekend

consist of two styles of seances.

One of 'em is the conventional

seance around a table,

and what we did

was we just picked up

the audio from the seance

and we sent it through the

entire investigation site

through the IDC intercom system,

so everyone that was at one

of the remote satellites

somewhere on one of the other floors,

they were able to hear what was going on

at the seance table in the attic.

(glowering music)

[Sky] Rolling. I'm

getting stuck in a freezer.

[Matthew] In the basement-

[Sky] In the basement.

[Matthew] of Randolph County Asylum,

the farthest part of the asylum, too.

Is there anyone here

that would like to

communicate with us tonight?

If you are, feel free to come out.

Let us know you're here.

Give us a sign.

Can knock on something.

We have a lotta things out

and about in the building.

You can talk to those instruments.

You can talk to the people

that are in the building.

You can talk to us.

Just give us a sign.

I don't know what his deal is,

but he's back in that corner.

It feels dark.

If there's anyone here in

the rest of the building,

feel free to talk to the

other people in the building.

They're here to listen.

(haunting music continues)

We want to know your story.

We want to know your story.

I just heard something.

[Ronda] We desperately would

like to communicate with you.

You spend all day here.

We want to know your story.

I just heard something.

-We.

-(tape squeaks)

I feel the kid. It's not...

It's very curious.

She's very mischievous,

and I'm not gonna be surprised if later,

because she goes around and

gets everybody's attention.

Do you play with the toys up here?

There's a tricycle and a

ball. Do you play with those?

Would you like more toys

up here to play with?

(intimidating music)

(device clacks)

-Oh sh*t.

-(haunting music continues)

Ooh, I just got my leg touched.

The right leg's where I felt the child.

You can touch me again.

(intercom hisses)

You can touch me again.

(petrifying music)

That's weird; I kinda

felt like it got touched

on the back of my head for a second, ha.

And then Ronda, I hear her

say, "Can you touch me again?"

(Kelley coughs)

My hair. No, the...

(apprehensive music)

Touched my hair.

Oh.

(haunting music continues)

Is there something you want us to know?

Can you tell me something?

Or are you just curious?

(Matthew coughs)

Have to break for a minute.

Okay.

Something's infecting...

Well, my eyes are watering.

Something. This what

happened to me earlier here.

(clears throat) Urgh.

We don't really have to...

We need to...

I mean...

(Matthew coughs)

Was restricting him from

getting up, and he choked.

He choked to death.

-Are you okay?

-Wow.

No, I'm not liking this area at all.

I'm actually feeling really-

It took me a minute.

Weird.

[Sky] Are you okay?

Yeah, I'm all right. (clears throat)

Yeah, it hurt. I mean, I

physically was feeling the pain.

Okay, so are you

affecting us physically?

Because my eyes are watering.

Kelley's coughing.

Matt's coughing. Are you doing this to us?

If you are, please stop...

We don't wanna be physically messed with.

We control ourselves.

We control our bodies. You cannot do that.

You can...

Oh my God.

(intimidating music)

(Ronda blows)

Heart palpitations.

My chest got really heavy.

You cannot physically mess with us.

You must step back.

(haunting music continues)

(intercom buzzes)

It's not...

It's very curious.

Heard footsteps.

You really need to back off a little.

You're making us uncomfortable.

We are open enough that

you don't have to push.

(intercom hisses)

(Ronda speaks indistinctly)

[Sky] Jay, if you can

hear me, I'm getting, like,

voices and chattering down here,

and walking.

[Ronda] (indistinct) or something?

[Sky] But you know, they're not coming

-close enough.

-(indistinct) daisies

that are about.

Is there significance with daisies?

Last time. My chest is really heavy.

Okay, I'm gonna give

you a few more seconds

to communicate with us,

because I'm getting really uncomfortable.

Do you have anything you want us to know?

If you do, say it now.

Thing is still down

there, popping in and out.

Was that a sound down there?

Footstep.

It's where I'm seeing

that thing pop in and out.

Okay, this is your last chance.

We're getting ready to end this session.

Do you have anything you want us to know?

Anything you want to say,

if you want to make a noise

or just a sign to let us know you're here,

do it now.

(Ronda blows)

Okay, let's close this.

Okay, take a few deep

breaths, and recenter.

Let everything here go. Disconnect.

(menacing music)

Somebody just grabbed mine and squeezed.

I'm sorry. It's too late, honey.

(menacing music fades)

Okay.

It was that kid. It went like this.

Oh, somebody touched my

face a second ago, too.

Was the kid. It went like this.

It went, like, on the end of

my fingers, just (indistinct).

Did you feel anything right here?

[Michelle] I felt cold

air, yeah, when you-

They're usually cold when they...

It was like we've had

happen before. I don't...

It was almost like something

was on its hands and knees,

popping in and out.

Yeah, they captured pictures

of the creeper up there.

I did not know that.

Yeah, Dann Allen's got

a picture of the creeper.

Who's gonna be up here for the next one?

I know Sky is. I don't know who else.

That's right. She's up here.

- You guys are working-

- I will be somewhere else.

(indistinct) somewhere.

Yeah, you're gonna be out in

the basement, where she is.

You're welcome.

(entity whistles)

Who's whistling?

(entity whistles)

-Who's whistling?

-(gloomy music)

Did you hear a whistle, Jared?

[Jared] Yeah.

Where did it come from?

[Jared] Don't know.

It sound like it came

from the hallway, didn't it?

[Jared] Yeah.

[Ronda] Okay, did somebody

whistle about five minutes ago

down this hallway where

Khristina and Kelley are?

No, Ma'am.

[Matthew] Nobody else

is down there right now.

[Ronda] Jared and I both heard a whistle

about five minutes ago

come down that hallway.

That's one of the claims.

One of the other experiments

(beaten music continues)

That also consists of seance

is you have a medium

who holds one of the satellites.

Same thing as before.

The audio's going out and traveling

through the entire building,

but now everyone's physically connected,

making it basically, in this case,

a 58,000-square-foot seance table

'cause everyone is connected

and just in a more electronic fashion.

But I believe the energy

transfer still remains the same

as what you would have

at a conventional seance

around a wooden table.

(gloomy music)

If there's anything

that you want to tell us

or communicate with us,

we are here right now.

We have several people in the

other parts of the building

and we can hear you.

This is your opportunity to come forward

and tell your story.

[EVP] Me. k*ll.

"Me," that was clear.

-Me!

-Who's me?

Who am I speaking with?

If that was me, whoever me is,

can you say my name for validation?

My name is Matt or Matthew

or you can say Sky's name or Dann's.

Can you say Dann?

[EVP] Every day.

"Every day"?

-Do you see him every day?

-He's here every day, huh?

[EVP] Three.

[Matthew] Or can you say the man's name

who builds the devices?

[EVP] Jay! Point, W.

"W."

Jay W., maybe?

-Or W?

-No, just W.

-W?

-W.

I'm getting the younger children.

I'm starting to sense their energy.

-Back there?

-Yeah.

I just saw what, to me,

just looked like movement

back there, but I wasn't

sure if it was a light trick.

Yeah, no, they're here.

-But you connected.

-I can feel 'em coming-

-That's interesting.

-close right now.

Yeah, they're coming.

Did you see a flash?

Yes.

(Sky speaks indistinctly)

[Matthew] W?

[Sky] Yeah.

I thought I saw one go, "Whoop,"

then go, "(blows)."

That way.

[Kelley] Mm-hmm.

Okay.

I still am trying to

(indistinct) threshold

where they're able to actually cross.

I just feel reluctance.

I don't know. It's weird.

I feel, like, hesitation.

-Is that what that is?

-They're all back there.

They're further away. They're

not coming close enough.

And that's the female.

That's the female

speaking- Man.

-The younger female.

-That's the female presence

that's here.

And then the children are

still in the background.

[EVP] Argh!

But this male, he's

lingering back behind us.

And I'm not...

My neck's hurting. The

back of my neck is hurting.

Same guy, but he had me coughing twice.

-Yes.

-Yep.

Can you tell us your name?

Now you (indistinct).

(Sky speaks indistinctly)

[EVP] Matthew.

"Matthew"? Did you hear that?

[Sky] Mm-hmm.

[EVP] Sent.

Okay, here we go.

All right. (blows)

I can feel you again, that male energy.

You're the one that got me choked twice,

two times in a row, yesterday.

I know you're here.

I wanna know why.

I just heard

-something in the Attic.

-I just heard something.

Was that a shuffle, a scrape, kind of?

Or was it...

It was like, "(croaks)," a growl.

I just heard a yeah.

I don't think it came through the box.

I think it came from behind me.

It was a whisper almost, like, "Yeah."

[EVP] Yeah.

[Entity] Hush.

[Justin] Holy crap,

-Ronda.

-Who was that?

[Justin] I just walked

in the other room,

and something hissed at

me right in the face,

and I caught it on camera.

Oh, is that what it was, on there?

[Justin] Oh yeah.

I heard it in here.

[Entity] Hush.

[Justin] Holy crap,

-Ronda.

-Who was that?

So where is this this male?

The male that's lingering back here,

why do you keep coming close?

-Saw it again.

-I saw.

I saw it flicker a couple

times in that corner.

[EVP] The box.

Did it just say, "The box"?

I couldn't tell.

[EVP] Thank you!

And ignore the guy behind us.

Just come up to us.

We'll take care

-of the guy behind us.

-It's that laughing.

Can you come closer?

And make a noise so that we can hear you.

[EVP] You.

"F you." That was clear.

Yes, very clear.

That ain't no (indistinct).

But that was

a male- So.

-(Dann speaks indistinctly)

-Mm-hmm.

[EVP] f*ck yeah.

All right, now, you

know we don't do that.

We don't do the negative thing.

We're respectful to you.

You need to be respectful

to us. And again.

-I just saw shadow again.

-I just saw it again.

-Me.

-Whoever that is over there,

you could come over here.

You come closer to the circle.

You're welcome to come over here.

You're welcome to talk

through this box that we have-

-Stop.

-this thing.

You're welcome to touch myself or Sky.

[EVP] Yeah.

(intercom hisses)

I don't know what's back there.

(indistinct) back there.

- They're really-

- I just heard something-

-Yes, they're moving.

-again back there.

Please come forward.

Please don't be afraid.

You don't have to be afraid of us.

Just please come up and

approach the circle.

Come to the table, please.

My legs are getting lit up.

It's your seance. I'm sorry.

-I'm talking over you.

-No, good. You're good.

I'm connecting with what's

-happening right now.

-Matt. Matt.

They're whispering.

-I just heard it again.

-I just heard again.

We've got definite

movement in that corner,

and I don't know what it is.

I'm going to start counting.

[EVP] Bob.

Can you finish when I stop? One.

[EVP] Yeah, fine.

Two, three, four.

Tell me what's next.

[EVP] Six.

"Six."

Ha ha, heh heh.

Five, six.

-Six.

-Seven.

(EVP rings and honks)

What's after seven?

[EVP] Eight.

If I knock on this

table, can you knock back?

There's plenty of wooden beams in here.

(tabletop clacks)

[EVP] I did.

Hey.

Okay, I'm gonna go ahead

and knock one more time.

If you can do it, go ahead and knock back.

You can knock on anything in here, okay?

I'm gonna knock three times.

(tabletop clacks)

And sometimes, you just don't get it.

Well, we're gonna get ready to go.

So before Sky finishes this

up, can you tell us goodbye?

[EVP] Hey! Hey.

Unless Dann...

Unless you have something you wanna ask.

Dann, you?

Say something so we can

find out your name and-

Wow, I just got a lotta

movement back there.

-Sorry, Dann.

-I wasn't looking. Sorry.

Your favorite toy,

and we can bring you a toy so we know who

-to give it to.

-Give to Lisa.

"Lisa"?

[EVP] Give it.

-"Give it."

-"Give it."

"Give it," that's cool.

That was cool.

What are we giving them?

[EVP] Matt.

Anybody that did try to

come through and speak to us,

I wanna thank you for

trying to talk to us.

We're gonna say goodbye

and goodnight, okay?

Just like hanging up telephone call.

You don't just hang up on somebody, right?

Heh, kinda the same thing.

[EVP] Take Matt.

-"Matt."

-Give.

Was it Matt?

What toy do you want?

We'll give it to ya.

[EVP] Me. Message.

(indistinct) Me.

Okay, we're gonna say our goodbyes.

(gloomy music)

To speak to you,

we've got this little device in my hand,

and if you talk, we can play

it back and hear your voice,

so is there anyone here

that would like to communicate with us?

Did you live in the infirmary here?

Did you know a lady named Doris

Addington that lived here?

(glimmering music continues)

So if there's anybody

here in the room...

(dreadful music)

Yeah?

(glimmering music continues)

Thank you for lighting that up.

Ida, is that you lighting up?

Can you light it up if this is Ida?

Are we talking to someone

else, besides Ida?

Could you say your name?

Can you back away from the light?

We see you coming near the light.

You're making this light go off.

Can you back away from it?

[Khristina] It's not done that before.

[Michelle] Some places

that that didn't go off.

[Khristina] Yeah.

[Kevin] Yeah, we're

definitely picking up someone.

[Michelle] 'Ok, if you're a

female, can you light it up?

'Kay, if you're a male, light it.

Hmm.

I'm sorry, you guys.

It's not anybody that is belonging

to this building (laughs).

I'm sorry.

[Michelle] Is it your dad?

Yeah, (clears throat) you can ask.

Maybe you'll get something.

[Michelle] Hey, is this Sky's dad?

What? Bring it back down to the pink.

Bring it all the way back down to pink.

-Back away.

-Not bad.

Could you back away from

the light for just a second?

Did you just hear something back there?

Well, yeah.

[Al] Me too.

What I'm seeing is, like-

[EVP] No.

Fingers, lots of almost viny things

coming outta the door as

something's coming forward.

Like, it's pushing forward, like this,

but it's, like, almost

like an octopus-type thing,

but it's long.

There's lots...

It's to the point where I

don't wanna stand over there.

I know. That's why Al

keeps looking behind me.

[Ronda] I don't wanna be over there.

Yeah, it's kind of like the thing...

[Matthew] (indistinct) again?

No, Hales Bar Dam.

It's kinda like the thing

at Hales Bar Dam we saw,

but there's more, like,

little viny things,

and it's kinda like

that, but it's a long...

Urgh, I dunno what is,

but I don't like it.

Hmm.

[Al] Did you just hear

something back there?

[Ronda] Well, yeah.

[Al] Me too.

[Ronda] What I'm seeing is, like-

[EVP] No.

Fingers, lots of-

Wait. What was that?

[Ronda] almost viny things.

While she's talking.

[Al] Did you just hear

something back there?

[Ronda] Well, yeah.

[Al] Me too.

[Ronda] What I'm seeing is, like-

[EVP] No.

-What? Oh my God.

-Yeah, what was that?

[Matthew] What was that?

That was-

Yeah, that's what I heard.

I didn't hear that with my ears, but.

Did you just hear something back there?

Oh, I went back too far.

Did you just hear something back there?

[Ronda] Well, yeah.

[Al] Me too.

[Ronda] What I'm seeing is, like-

[EVP] No.

-Ah!

-That-

[Crew Member] It's cool. (indistinct)

Is...

[Al] Hear something back there?

[Ronda] Well, yeah.

[Al] Me too.

[Ronda] What I'm seeing is, like-

[EVP] No.

-Ah!

-That-

[Crew Member] It's cool. (indistinct)

Is...

In an old Victorian chaanneler.

Medium, and there is a woman here,

and it's, like, she's

shuffling and she's old

and she's asking where her food is.

It's, like, she's really

hungry and she wants to eat.

It's like, "I wanna eat."

They just wanna eat.

[Kevin] Oh, sh*t.

(intercom roars)

[Sky] What was that?

[Kevin] That came through the...

(indistinct) sort of figure there.

[Sky] No sh*t.

I know, and I, like, jump (laughs) scared.

How's that doing that?

It's still tied

to everything through the

building, so it's coming-

But nothing...

I know, but it hasn't been going off.

The whole time we've

been down here, you guys.

I have no idea.

Holy crap, okay. (laughs)

I forgot that the box was in here.

I thought that they grabbed it up.

No idea.

Definitely something laying

there and affected it.

Yeah, yeah, I totally got jump-scared,

and I didn't do that

the whole time in there.

Investigators were

down in the kitchen area,

near one of the coolers,

which had had a lot of activity

throughout the weekend.

Anyway, the intercom system was running

in what I call the EVP mode.

We were listening for live EVPs.

There was no spirit box

running through the system.

Bet he's in the kitchen.

[Sky] Well-

Listen to that.

Yeah.

I mean, that's so crazy.

(indistinct) expecting that, you know?

[Khristina] Do you know what I saw?

-What did you see?

-Oh, wow.

[Khristina] I saw a woman.

-You hear that?

-Something just came through

and screamed.

[Khristina] And she ran.

-Did you hear that?

-Yes

'cause it's (indistinct),

yeah, the tones that I hear.

[Kevin] Talk to us.

-It's shifting away.

-She's trying to talk.

Go ahead.

Is it lighting up again?

- Yeah, she's-

- Yeah, it was.

There's a couple different...

There's four energies here.

Did you just see something?

[Pat] I feel it.

I saw something.

(entity laughs)

- What's-

- Oh.

One of the investigators

did have a Direct-Linc

in their hand,

and they were trying to

make spirit communication.

What happened that was unusual

was the satellite

that was next to them

responded in ghost box fashion.

Look at this It's so

cold and (indistinct).

Light here.

So, we're communicating

with you in multiple ways.

We know you're around us.

Can you hear you talking to us now.

[EVP] Khristina.

It said your name.

It just said Khristina.

It just said Khristina.

Did you hear that?

[Kevin] Yeah, I heard.

What do you got? Your rods?

And it's dead.

As soon as I said, "You got your rods?"

But what's so weird about it is the fact

that none of the other

satellites produced anything,

the Direct-Linc, which was on in his hand,

that was a spirit box said nothing,

but the satellite that did say something

shouldn't have said anything,

'cause it was in EVP mode.

So that's why I built the intercom system,

for instances like that

that cannot be explained.

There shoulda been no radio

chatter, anything like that,

during that time.

[Entity] (gurgles) Heh heh heh.

I'm not liking what I'm

seeing. I'm sorry, you guys.

Like, I can see it,

and it's coming closer and closer,

and it's creeping.

It is creeping, and it is a black mass,

and I can see it coming.

And around the corners,

it goes up the walls,

on the ceilings.

It's right here.

Pat, you all right?

[Pat] Yeah, I'm fine.

[Khristina] Can you tell

us what you're feeling?

Yeah, it's some old

woman, and she's just lost.

It's like she's got, I don't

know, maybe Alzheimer's,

but she was looking around.

It's like, "Where's all the people?"

And "I wanna eat.

I just wanna eat."

And she's stuck here, you know?

She just trapped.

I mean, she's trapped,

and what's really sad

is she's trapped in the mind that she had.

[Khristina] Yeah.

Okay, I'm sorry.

[Khristina] No.

[Pat] Mm.

[Khristina] You sure?

Yeah. Yeah.

Okay, and you know this.

It's, like, all these

people see these shows

and they think that it's one big party.

Not. It's not.

It's not.

[Sky] Wondering if I'm

seeing lights at all.

What was that?

[Matthew] I didn't hear that one.

Was it this floor squeaking, right here?

[Jay] No, it sounded

like somebody just yelled

at the end of that hallway.

Y'all didn't hear-

[Matthew] No, I didn't hear that one.

Who's down the hall?

[Jay] I just heard a yell

at the end of this hallway.

(Justin speaks indistinctly)

No, a yell,

like a woman yell,

a quick "yeah!"

And that was-

So, we just had three things happen.

You heard that.

-Yeah.

-And as I'm walking up,

there was a hiss sound behind you.

Did you hear that?

-It was like, "Tsst."

-Mm-hmm. It was like, "Ksht."

And then soon as I look at you,

there was a shuffle noise over here.

So it literally went all

three points that quick.

[AL] Somebody down here?

Can you turn on the music box?

It's this device right

in here on the table.

You already know what it is.

Just go stand in front

of it if you want us

to come in there.

[Sky] There's somebody

standing back that corner.

[Jay] Turn us up.

[Justin] You ready to talk?

[EVP] Demon.

[Justin] Demon.

Did you hear that one?

[Sky] Mm.

Did you hear that (indistinct)?

Yeah.

[EVP] Quit. Quit.

Lots of hate today.

[EVP] You prick.

That's not nice. You don't

have to call people that.

Why are you so upset?

Saw the shadow behind you.

[Sky] Yeah.

-No, was just on the wall.

-You're both Seeing that too?

Yep, coming down the wall,

this way, right towards Justin.

All right, I seen that one,

and I wasn't gonna say anything.

I have a question I would

like to ask you, please.

Can you back away? Hold on.

I want you to give me a number, please.

[EVP] Eight.

-A number?

-Eight.

-Said, "Eight."

-"Eight"?

-Yep, clear as a bell.

-"Eight"?

-100%.

-"Eight"?

Right there.

'Ok, I'm going to run a test tomorrow

with some sound,

and I would like the number

that you want me to use.

It's a frequency.

Can you tell me the rest of it?

If it starts with an eight,

what's the next number?

My back hurts.

Something touched me.

Whoa, (indistinct).

No, that's (indistinct).

Something here on the right side Sky.

Something's coming down this hall.

[Sky] Oh yeah, that just blacked out.

[Matthew] Right there. See it?

It's right there.

Again. Look, left to right.

[Jay] Okay, that the car, right?

[Sky] That's the car reflection.

[Matthew] That's not.

[Sky] Down further?

Look all the way down

to the end of the hall.

- How did it-

- It's moving.

Nice, it's moving.

[Jay] Oh good.

-And walking.

-See it?

Someone's walking

-down that hall.

-Someone is literally

walking there.

- I see about the-

- Absolutely.

[Justin] It's still... (chuckles)

-One hundred percent.

-It's getting close.

[Justin] Stop. Someone...

[Sky] Wow.

[Justin] It's still standing there!

It's like, it's, it literally,

[Matthew] But there's

nobody left. It's just us.

[Sky] Seriously, like,

that was really solid.

[Matthew] No, 100%

coming down that hallway.

[Sky] Holy crap.

[Justin] I mean, I saw the

shoulder move to (indistinct).

[Matthew] You could

see the whole outline

-coming down.

-From where I'm at,

I couldn't, but you could probably

-see.

-Oh gosh, I could-

-I just heard something.

-see the legs, the torso

coming right down the hallway.

[Sky] Guys, I just heard a thump.

[Justin] You see the reflection

-in the windows and the floor?

-Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.

That's-(gloomy music)

f*cking sh*t.

(Matthew laughs)

That one got me.

That one got me good.

That wasn't you guys.

I know you're...

This dude was up here.

So, as I was saying, this is

what usually we'll see on the-

[Matthew] Sorry, that one was just funny

-on camera.

-That one got me.

That one got me. I looked

over, and it just ran.

[Matthew] That's what

happened to me downstairs

when that thing rushed me.

Scared to sh*t.

And it wasn't even coming towards me.

That's why I feel stupid.

It was going from right

to left in another room,

but it just...

That had the whole shadow.

You know how when you see

shadow you get a form.

You know, can see the- Mmhmm.

This one was...

As stupid as this looks, it

was, like, running down low,

and that's what freaked me out

'cause I'd never really-

[Sky] Well, that's what I'm-

- expected that-

- saying, that low profile

down there with me.

It was a low profile.

But then I saw it crawling on the ceiling,

and I didn't like that at all.

Oh, so you saw the ceiling crawler.

I saw the creeper.

Yeah, that's awesome.

All right, so we're getting

ready to do a crazy experiment

here at the Randolph County Asylum.

We're going to try to recreate the panic

that might've been experienced

by the people living here

whenever the original

building burned to the ground.

We're using a combination of red lights

here in the basement,

and we're going to be

using some frequencies

associated with a burning fire,

but we're obviously gonna make 'em

very loud, extremely loud.

We're using two

of the world's loudest

portable Bluetooth speakers

to fill this thing with these frequencies.

We're gonna run a couple tests

where we push the sound out,

and we have people scattered

from the top to the bottom of this place.

They're going to actually run

down the hallways in a panic

as if they were waking up everyone

who's in their rooms, sleeping.

And then we're gonna sit

silently and just wait

and see if anything is

picked up on the microphones.

Jay's at headquarters,

still monitoring the

entire 58,000 square feet.

We have Polaroid cameras on every floor.

We're gonna snap photos,

and we're just gonna try to

hit this two or three times

and see if it stirs some stuff up.

The fog machine,

that makes it perfect.

It's insanely accurate-looking,

least on our test run.

-That looks real good.

-And someone's a fireman,

right?

[Matthew] Yep.

[Justin] This guy.

Yeah, so, at my day job as

a professional firefighter,

and I'm telling ya, it looks spot on,

so pretty awesome, man.

I'm pretty happy with

the read through there.

(speaker hums)

Now we're going. Dang.

I'm not...

I told 'em-

(speaker warbles)

[Announcer] Fire, fire, fire.

Evacuate.

-Right now.

-Evacuate.

[Al] Everybody

-outta the building.

-Evacuate.

[Ronda] Fire,

-fire!

-Fire. Fire.

[Ronda] Fire, fire!

-Fire, fire.

-Fire!

Fire! Fire!

[Justin] Let's go. Hurry, hurry, hurry.

[Announcer] Evacuate. Fire, fire.

[Justin] Fire. Get out.

(fire murmurs)

Everybody, get out! Let's go!

Did you hear that?

-Yeah. Yeah.

-Behind us?

Was already hearing, like, a knock,

-and this is all bricks.

-Yes, Sir.

(smoke machine creaks)

-What was that?

-What was that?

That was like a hiss over-

[Matthew] Right here.

Unless it was the-

-Oh, the fire machine.

-machine.

All right, I got-

[Matthew] It is. I just debunked it.

It was the machine.

(speaker whistles)

(gleaming music)

Fire!

-Fire.

-Fire!

-Oh, fire.

-Get out! Now!

[AL] Everybody out.

[Justin] Fire!

[Ronda] Fire!

Move! Out, out, out.

Hurry, hurry! Hustle, come on, come on!

Come on, come on, come on!

[Kelley] Fire.

[Ronda] Screaming! (indistinct)

(door knocks)

It's me again.

Somebody open this door.

Oh, God.

f*ck! What the hell was that...

- Are you, ok-

- No! It startled me.

Oh my God.

[Kelley] Did it get you?

[Ronda] Yes, down.

-Huh?

-This hallway.

They're so good.

[Matthew] f*cking epic.

-Fire.

-Let's go!

Fire, fire, fire! Hurry up.

Get out. Get out.

Everybody, everybody, get out.

Wake up. Wake up.

Mary-Anne, wake up.

Wake up. Charlie, Charlie, wake up.

Ooh, probably shoulda...

My God, this is fun stuff, though,

but it's kinda creepy

when you're in the moment.

It's just like recreating

the Titanic or something.

They're taking pictures over here.

[Matthew] 'Ok.

Shouting (indistinctly)

-Whoo!

-Come on.

D'you hear that?

Something happened. She screamed

and cussed and everything.

[Matthew] What had happened?

Randolph County

Infirmary fire experiment.

Yeah, I've got some pictures.

[Justin] Oh, man.

I wish you guys were

here with us to feel this.

I mean, that sound in your chest

and just the whole atmosphere,

it's insane.

I think we should do it

at least one more time.

-Absolutely.

-Give it three.

That could be the magic number.

[Matthew] Yeah.

Is that Dann moving, or?

[Kevin] Yeah, probably.

-Okay, (clears throat)

-we'll do it one more time,

and this time, we'll get

something really good.

Don't you feel it? Feel it.

We're running audio all

throughout the building, too.

[Matthew] And we also

have devices placed out

throughout the building, as well,

that could be activated

when we're not around.

Yeah, we have all those

scattered throughout.

(speaker hums)

(speaker whistles)

(desolate music)

(speaker screeches)

(speaker chirps)

-What was that?

-Whoa, what was that?

- What in-

- Fire. Fire.

-Fire. Everybody out.

-Fire, fire. Evacuate.

Get out, get out, get out.

-Get out. Fire, fire!

-Fire! Fire!

[Announcer] Fire.

Fire!

[Kevin] Fire!

Get out! Get out!

[Announcer] Fire.

Oh my God, let's go.

-Get out!

-Everybody, wake up.

Wake up. Wake up.

Fire, fire, fire. Fire.

Get up. Get up.

Hurry up. Get up.

Wake up. Wake up!

Get up! Fire!

Fire, fire.

Jim, Jim, Jimmy, Jimmy,

Jimmy, Get up. Jimmy!

Jimmy, get up! Let's go!

[Kevin] Get out.

Oh, God, I feel so weird.

Just feel so pumped, though.

(blows) Okay.

All right, spirit, talk to us.

What do you think of this?

[Justin] I really think we get a picture.

[Matthew] Something's behind us.

I can feel it behind us.

I felt it come down the

hall behind us, Justin.

[Justin] Don't you think it's weird?

And then we heard it again

back here in this room,

so I told Kelley.

I said, "You want me to take that hall.

You take this hall."

"Sure," so (laughs) I take this hall.

I get halfway down,

and I could hear it behind me,

and I could feel somebody chasing me.

And so I ran all the way down the hall.

Got to the door. Couldn't

find the damn doorknob.

So I'm beating the sh*t

outta the door: "Lemme in.

Lemme in. Let me in."

And finally, Conner open

the door and let me in.

Oh, I was just shaking.

So then the second time,

when we came down the hallway together,

again, chased us all the way down.

Got to the bottom. And then he...

Whatever it was, we could hear-

[Kelley] Here, in this room.

We heard it back in that room

when we did our interviews.

And then we saw him again.

And I am shaking like a frigging leaf.

Was it low-running?

-No, it was big.

-No.

-It was like a man behind us.

-These are huge.

Remember the other night?

[Matthew] Yep.

-Last night?

-Yep.

In that room.

- Also, this only spit out-

- Same place.

-One picture.

-Same spot,

that low running Justin kept describing.

[Matthew] Yep, and we'll get Justin

to describe it to y'all,

'cause he saw it come

down the opposite hall.

Well, actually, it was the other end

of this hall, wasn't it?

It is, what she's talking about.

That's what we're talking about.

[Matthew] That's exactly where it was.

[Jay] That's exactly

where it was last night.

[Al] Didn't he say (indistinct)?

[Justin] But you see the reflection

-in the windows and the floor?

-Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.

That's-(intimidating music)

f*cking sh*t.

Floor?

That's-

(intimidating music)

f*cking sh*t.

Our experiment in the

basement was such a success.

At least, we feel like it was.

There were people on the

first floor, above us,

who experienced crazy things,

and they were chased.

They saw it.

It was on both hallways here.

They experienced it. It's just crazy.

We're gonna isolate one of those hallways

right here, on the first floor,

and we're gonna do the

same thing, but we're gonna

add some lasers-

(indistinct) in there,

those funny noises (indistinct)-

and a whole bunch of other stuff.

We got the IDC devices running.

We're gonna pump this.

We're gonna use both of

our sound box speakers

in one hallway.

(speaker hums)

(speaker whistles)

(speaker chirps)

(tabletop drums)

[Matthew] Oh.

Well, Ronda.

[Ronda] Well, Matt.

[Matthew] And?

[Justin] She had it...

We moved the bulb 'cause the flash was-

[Matthew] Too much?

[Justin] leaving your eyes that-

[Ronda] Streak?

[Justin] I could've

turned it down, probably.

But then it wouldn't,

probably, have done any...

[Matthew] Did you see

what I'm saying, though?

[Ronda] I did.

[Matthew] It's like a reverse negative.

[Ronda] It is. It's weird.

[Justin] That's the blue, definitely.

[Ronda] Yeah.

(intimidating music)

Oh, sh*t.

[Justin] You okay?

No.

[Matthew] It works.

[Justin] Did you record?

-Oh God.

-Yeah, I was recording.

-I don't know if I got it.

-What happened?

-But I was sh**ting.

-Something grabbed

my right arm; he's just like this.

[Justin] That hard, huh?

[Ronda] Yeah, just like a kinda push,

like, "Get outta the chair."

(Ronda whimpers)

[Justin] What? Are you grabbing people?

[Ronda] Eek!

[Justin] Someone in your room?

That's all we wanted you to do.

I'm very grateful. What the f*ck?

Did someone my neck? Son of a b*tch.

[Matthew] Did you see it?

-What is it?

-I think-

[Kelley] It's pink.

-Really? Right here?

-Yep.

-Yeah.

-Right here and right here.

[Matthew] Justin.

[Justin] What?

[Matthew] I'll get

it on your camera too.

[Justin] Okay.

[Kelley] Right here.

[Matthew] I see it

[Kelley] And right there.

[Matthew] Two months

after filming at the asylum,

I'm scrolling through Facebook,

and I come across this live by Tim Murphy.

Tim is having an interaction

in the bedroom where he stays

with this REM Pod,

and the REM Pod is going off on command.

[Tim] Okay, I'm up here upstairs

in the asylum.

(REM Pod beeps)

And do you hear that noise?

That's a REM Pod going off,

and there's nobody in here.

Okay, that thing right

over there on the fan

is a thing going off.

We'll go back over here.

I'll just show you real quick, okay.

(REM Pod beeps)

If you get near it,

(REM Pod beeps)

it goes off.

Okay, that's what that noise was,

and you see there's nobody in here.

(phone buzzes)

Okay. (chuckles) Ooh,

that's freaking cool.

We'll see if it goes off again.

We'll go right out here.

(REM Pod beeps)

Do you hear that? (wheezes)

D'ya hear that?

(REM Pod beeps)

Look, it's going off! There

f*cking nobody in there!

Ooh! (wheezes) f*cking cool.

[Matthew] What really blew

me away by this interaction

was what had happened to Sky and I

while filming at the asylum.

We were coming up the

stairwell to the second floor,

and we heard an audible knock.

It literally sounded as

if someone was knocking

on the other side of the wooden door.

That knock when we came towards the door,

and I know we weren't recording,

so unfortunately, we

didn't catch the knock.

So what are you getting now

that we've felt that happen?

There's a male energy here

In the 1930s here in Randolph County,

we had a judge retire.

He didn't have any family,

so he admitted himself to the asylum,

and he paid his own way to live here.

Said, "If I go live out of the asylum,

I'll have a roof over my

head, three meals a day,

and all the company I could ever want."

Well, the judge was a smart cookie.

He foresaw the beginning

of the United States being

involved in World w*r II,

and he also foresaw

that there would be certain troublemakers

who were admitted to the asylum,

people who were not

eligible for the draft,

not because of medical conditions

but because they were habitual drunks.

And they are unfortunately

in here with people

who are considered

third-and-fourth-class citizens,

mentally disabled, physically disabled.

So there are stories here in the asylum

of r*pes being committed,

of thefts being committed,

of two gentlemen who were

in opposition to the drunks

who didn't show up for breakfast

and were found in bed with

pillows over their faces, dead.

The judge foresaw all of

this as a potential problem,

so he went to the superintendent.

The solution they came up with

was to purchase a jail cell

from the Randolph County

Sheriff's Department,

and they installed it on the

men's side of the building,

second floor, in the medical room.

That cell was used during World w*r II.

The judge held court.

They convened a jury.

They heard witnesses, and

they convicted people,

in the attic (chuckles),

at their kangaroo court

and sentenced people to

spend time in that jail cell.

I wanted to recreate

some kind of court scene

that possibly could have happened

while the asylum was in action.

I had my dad playing the judge,

my sister playing the defendant.

Had some equipment out,

such as the spirit box and the music box,

to see if we could rile up

some of the other inmates

that may be here

that could've participated

in those trials.

All right, young lady,

I've heard the testimonies.

I've heard what they say you've done.

How do you plead?

I made a mistake.

I realize my actions,

but I did not steal from him.

Only more than just from him.

I don't think you can

control yourself, young lady.

Maybe they're lying.

I don't know, it's a lotta people,

lotta testimony I've heard about you.

You've been in some trouble.

I've made mistakes in my life,

but I did not steal from him,

and I have not stolen from anyone else.

Well, that's not what

they're telling me,

so you know, I think I'm gonna give you

a little bit of time

in the cell downstairs.

Can you do it again for us?

(button clicks)

Doris, is that you?

(glowering music)

It sounds like it's coming from upstairs.

Jared, do you hear that?

Do you all hear that in there?

[Jared] Yes. (indistinct)

Does it sound like it's from upstairs?

Doris, the patients are

getting awful hungry.

We're gonna have to make 'em some food.

Can you come and help us out?

(desolate music)

I need you to talk

through this box for me

so that we can hear you.

[EVP] Go away.

-That sounded like "go away."

-(desolate music)

Do you want us to go away?

(Spirit box running)

Are you a man or a woman?

I've had both in my court.

Do you know of anyone that

needs to be taken to court?

You're there, please, come forward.

All over the back.

The person I can feel behind me,

are you here to help plead my case?

(Spirit box razzes)

Or are you here to help

strengthen the judge's

judgment against me?

If we don't get any action,

we're gonna pass sentence

-on this young lady.

-sl*t. sl*t.

Can hear you.

[EVP] The criminal.

"Criminal"?

Is that what it-

I thought said k*ll.

-I thought it said criminal.

-Yeah, k*ll or criminal.

[Matthew] The one before that said sl*t.

I did not hear that.

[Matthew] Yeah, that's what I heard.

I feel like something's

all down my back.

Guest?

[Michelle] We're guests here.

Do you like it when people come to visit?

Do you like us being in this room?

Are there too many people in your room?

Yes.

I don't necessarily like

people speaking badly about me.

We'll not have that

kinda language in my court.

This is an honorable court.

(Spirit box razzes)

So bad.

[EVP] Tori.

I heard that, but I

couldn't make it out.

(Marcus speaks indistinctly)

[Whitley] I am not comfortable up here.

We'll not have that in

here, that kinda language,

in my court.

(Spirit box razzes)

I need you to be

clearer through this box

if you've got something to tell us.

[EVP] Out, b*tch.

[Tori] He said the B word.

Yeah, that's what I keep getting.

I told you we won't

have that language here.

[EVP] Yeah.

And I just feel like

whatever is behind me

is just slamming the derogatories at me.

I don't appreciate the

words you're calling me.

It's not what we're here for.

If you have something

to say, you can say it,

but you don't have to use that language.

Feel like somebody has-

-Hand.

-their hand, my shoulder.

You can speak as a civil

American here, as someone

who's got some decency, morals.

(Spirit box squaks)

If you don't have nothing nice to say,

we're not gonna speak to you.

Would you prefer to

communicate in other ways?

There was something right there,

but I didn't- Yep, yeah.

We're about to turn this box off,

so if you have anything

to say, now's your chance.

Can you tell us to

get out or bye or leave?

Trial's about to come to a close.

Do you have any closing

remarks for the judge

or any last things to

plead my case for me?

(EVP speaks indistinctly)

Thought that said, "I don't."

Okay then.

[EVP] I don't.

We'll take and close this court out

if you have nothing further to say.

Trying to ask someone to

come help plead my case,

and instead, I actually feel

like I get the complete opposite.

Beginning with some derogatories

coming through on the spirit box,

I then can just feel it,

just feel it down my back.

One, someone feels like

they're standing there

as well as I just feel

like I'm being thrown

"you B, you sl*t,"

derogatory after derogatory.

And towards the end as

we're kinda winding down,

you know, we start saying,

"Case is finally closing up.

We're gonna end this trial,"

it almost feels like what kinda

felt like the judge himself

just grab into my shoulder

to drag me to the cell

I would've eventually be sentenced to.

[Brandy] Cecil.

[Michelle] Who's Cecil?

[Brandy] This is.

[Michelle] Oh. So

we're talking to Cecil?

Did you live here?

Strange.

See's her.

In white.

[Michelle] The lady in white?

[Jared] Maybe.

A lady in a white dress,

and I was walking by the

stairway and looked down,

and I saw her take about three steps

and then round the corner.

Ran down after her. She

was nowhere to be found.

[Matthew] Well, were you up in the attic

when the judge was making the decision

on the girl that stole?

Yes.

[Matthew] Yes.

'Ok, bring the rods back to center for me.

Please bring the rods

back to center for me.

Put the rods back to center for me.

All the way back to center.

Did you spend time in

the judge's jail cell?

Were you one of the people

that he put in the jail cell?

[Al] What did Ida do in

this room? Can you tell us?

Get out. Female.

[Al] Ida, do you want

us to get outta your room?

Do you not like us-

- Look up-

- being in here?

"Look up"? Yeah.

Elizabeth.

[Al] There's a broom up there, Ida.

Can you tell us what

happened with the broom?

Do you like it when

people leave you gifts?

I can hear a voice. I can't make it out.

Damn it.

[Al] Why did you say, "Damn it"?

Male voice. I can't make it out.

Please go.

[Al] "Please go." All right.

[Matthew] Are you

standing to my left side?

First question was yes.

[Matthew] What was the

first question I asked?

Oh, did he do time in

the judge's jail cell.

[Matthew] Oh, 'kay, so you did...

Yeah, so, don't be afraid to talk to us.

I know Marcus was acting like your judge,

but that's 'cause we wanted

you guys to come forward

so we could tell your story.

Can you point the rods to where

you're standing in a room?

That was a yes to which question?

The "it's okay"...

Like, the judge thing again

'cause we asked it again.

[Matthew] Told ya.

So he's right beside of me.

[Matthew] Right here on the left side.

Can you bring the rods back to center?

All the way back to center.

Both rods back to center for me.

John, can you pull it back

into straight forward, please?

[Matthew] So you feel

like it's John Doty, too?

It's just soft. It's not...

I mean, it's a man for me, but it's not.

[Matthew] He's not aggressive.

He's very kind.

Yeah, he's kindhearted.

He's just like, "Hey."

[Matthew] I almost felt

that nervousness was, like,

"I was afraid to come talk to you,"

'cause it was like, "I don't know."

Get out.

[Al] All right.

Something else.

-We appreciate you.

-Male.

[Al] We appreciate you talking with us.

We didn't mean to intrude in your space.

We just wanted to talk with you.

[Matthew] I feel like

there's others that wanna talk.

Is that true?

Yes.

[Matthew] I'm really

feeling energy picking up.

John, I'm gonna have to break this.

My arms are getting tired,

but we can talk to you a different way

if you could hold on just a second.

Can you do that for me?

Yes.

[Al] Can you tell us your name?

[EVP] No.

[Michelle] Said no?

Mm-hmm.

Well, can you say one of our names?

My name's Al, and this is Michelle.

[EVP] Again?

Al.

Is there a female with us now?

I heard a female voice.

Can you tell us your name?

[EVP] Jimmy. Please, please.

[Michelle] Please what?

[EVP] People.

"People."

[Michelle] Too many people in here?

[EVP] No, three. No, three.

Can you speak a little more clearly

so we can understand you, please?

[Michelle] Do you not like

all the people being here?

[EVP] Right.

"Right."

Is that who you're talking about?

I think it said three

right before you asked that question.

[Al] "Three"?

[Michelle] Yeah.

What do you mean by three?

[Michelle] Can you see us?

How many of us are standing in the room?

[EVP] Me.

Just the three of us. Promise.

That's a lot of

communications right there.

What are you trying to tell us?

New one's just came in. I can feel it.

[Tori] I have chills.

This is a female.

This is a very agitated female.

She's very, very upset.

She's very emotional.

She's almost, like, overbearing.

She's like, "Wow."

[Tori] Ida, is this you?

(Matthew blows)

[Matthew] Look at my neck.

It's, like, goose bumpy.

[Marcus] Oh, yeah, look at it.

Golly, man, she's like.

[Tori] Ida, it's okay. He's my friend.

If that's you, he's okay to be in here.

He won't hurt you, I promise.

It was almost like

she'd passed through me.

It was like, "Hwh," when she came in.

-Can you say hello?

-Golly.

(Matthew sniffles)

[Marcus] (blows).

If this isn't Ida, who is this?

[Tori] Ooh!

I've got chills.

Me too. I am...

I ask you to come forward,

'cause I wanna talk to you.

I wanna know your story.

Golly, I am uncomfortable.

I am, like, antsy, right. Like, I'm...

Like, she is...

Shew.

It's like chaos. It's like total chaos.

It's like...

I feel like it...

This is what I wanna do.

That's all I wanna do

over and over and over

and over and over.

Who is this? Who is this?

Who is this that's here?

Can you tell me?

[Tori] What's your name?

My name's Tori.

Oh.

[Tori] Is it residual, do you think?

I don't know. I just wanna pace.

I just wanna pace. I just...

I'm very agitated. I'm just...

I'm anxious.

I can't shake it. I can't...

I don't know. I'm very...

I'm agitated. I just wanna pace.

I just wanna go back and forth

and back and forth and back and forth.

I wanna count, like, incessantly.

I incessantly wanna count

just over and over and over and over

and over and over and over and over

and over and over, over and over

and over and over.

That's all I wanna do.

Like, right now, I can't focus. I'm amped.

I'm just completely agitated. I'm very...

I'm nervous.

Gosh.

I can't stand still. I don't...

I'm like completely...

I just can't stop.

I can't stop myself.

I wanna do this over and over-

[Marcus] That sounds

like obsessive compulsive-

That's what I'm saying:

-you're OCD.

-and over and over.

I wanna count. I wanna count.

I wanna count over and

over and over and over,

over and over, over and over.

I'm just like, "I can't focus,"

and I can't focus on anything.

[Tori] Okay, count to c slowly,

-down.

-One, one, one,

two, three, four, five.

One, one, two, three, four, five.

One, one, one, two, three, four, five.

One, one, two, three, four, five.

One, one, two, three,

-four, five.

-Okay, slow down.

One, one, two, three, four, five.

[Marcus] There you go.

One, two, three, four, five.

-There you go.

-One, two, three, four, five.

-Slow.

-What the hell is that?

[Marcus] It's okay.

That was crazy.

[Marcus] It's almost

like obsessive compulsive.

[Tori] Yeah, you're OCD.

[Marcus] And they would be here.

I mean, they would- Wow.

- Put someone like that in here-

- That was wild.

[Marcus] 'cause they would...

They put them in here as

something wrong with them

instead of trying to treat 'em.

I just have cold chills.

[Tori] Yeah, I'm like.

[Marcus] That's what it is.

-She was obsessive compulsive.

-And now I'm fine.

And now it's like, "I am fine."

[Marcus] And you started all that.

We got you to slow down,

and now you're fine.

About six years prior to

Ida's admission to the asylum,

her husband died of syphilis,

so you have a pretty good idea

of what was going on with Ida.

-So, I was saying...

-I'm telling you,

-that was insanity.

-Think about it.

It kinda, like, whit does.

If you're in the spirit realm or whatever

and you have autism here,

you got autism there,

and you have all these people

trying to talk and trying to do things.

It's probably loud.

And so they're like, "Huh?"

'Cause that's all they know.

You're supposed to keep

'em quiet, calm, focused.

To me, that was, like...

I dunno how to explain that.

(huffs) I don't know how to explain that.

It was like being a hurricane.

It was like my brain

was just in a blender,

just spinning, spinning, spinning.

It was horrible. It was

absolutely horrible.

And then Tori got you to start counting

-and focus on the counting.

-If that was...

If that's Ida, if that's what

channeling Ida feels like

or what Ida went through,

I know why she hung herself.

Two minutes of that drove me absolutely...

It was horrible.

That was absolutely horrible.

I cannot imagine trying to be rational

in that incessant loop-

-You can't.

-of pure hell.

When you do have a lucid moment, sure,

I bet you do wanna...

I mean, oh my God, that was horrible.

That was absolutely horrible.

That was horrible.

Argh. Hmm.

(EVP speaks indistinctly)

[Tori] Are you wanting

to move somewhere else?

Yeah, I need to get outta this room.

My favorite thing usually is ITC.

That's what I get excited about.

I've had better interactions

with ITC than almost anything

other than maybe EVP.

We were using...

I had hand held ITC devices,

a device that Jay built,

a standard more ghost box device,

that I was running at the same time,

and we weren't getting anything.

I wasn't getting any voices come through.

And then all of a sudden, the wired device

that was part of the

big building experiment,

where the satellite was

setting in the refrigerator,

wired to the rest of the whole building,

went off, and we were getting

voices come through that box,

but it wasn't coming through

the boxes I had in my hand.

There was nothing going on

in the ITC devices I had in my hand.

So, you know, it was just validating

that they figured out how to use this box

in the refrigerator,

and it was isolated to that spot,

and I wasn't getting those

voices come through my devices.

I've always been into paranormal field.

As long as I can remember,

I've had experiences.

But when I really got into

it, like 26-27 years ago,

there was part of it that

I couldn't let go of,

and that was the hearing, like...

[Director] Heck was that? Huh?

You heard it?

[Director] Yeah. What was that?

-[Crew Member] Oops.

-It came across on that?

-[ Crew Member] Yeah.

-It did.

It was like a (croaks).

[Crew Member] We'll play it back.

[Director] Sorry, that was...

Totally distracted 'cause it

was like, "What was that?"

[Director] Sorry.

[Director] That was crazy.

27 years ago,

there was part of it

that I couldn't let go of,

(entity groans)

And that was the hearing, like...

Figuring out where these

voices were coming from,

because I was the one that

was hearing these things.

No one else seemed to hear 'em,

so when ITC, you know, came about

or to the front of the field,

really made me excited to further that.

So, being able to wire

this entire building

is just unheard of.

It's never been done that I'm aware of,

especially with equipment

like we're using.

But we're doing it, and

we're here doing it,

and it's almost like it's amplifying.

It's taking all of the

energy from the building

and shoving it in your face.

And then we shut it down,

and we walk out there

and have to face everything

that we just stirred up,

and it adds a whole new layer

of fear, and I'll be honest:

like, some of these places by

day are amazing, beautiful,

and at night, it's total difference, yeah.

And we experienced that last night.

We had some crazy moments

that I think I'll probably

remember for quite a while.

Was the first time

that I had ever been involved, or headed,

in a seance where I was being projected

through the entire 58,000 square feet

of this insanely haunted asylum,

so never could get a grasp

on what it was exactly,

other than just really nasty and negative,

who choked Matt and Michelle and Kelley,

you know, in sequence,

one and then the other.

And then with me, it

was, like, watery eyes

and just the tightness in my chest,

like somebody's actually

inside, squeezing,

this energy closing a circuit

continually running from

person to person to person.

The attic experience was pretty amazing

because I immediately was connecting

with four children, playing.

Being up there, we encountered noises.

We heard footsteps,

you know, validating

that they were present

while we were up there, investigating

with Matthew and a few other people,

so we all heard it.

And then initially, after that,

I got drawn to the far corner of the attic

and encountered a male energy up there.

This male energy was very physical

with everybody, I think,

that encountered it.

Being able to come and

appreciate a building like this

and understand what they

may have went through

and be able to try to assist them

and understand on an empathic level

is at least the most that I could do.

This was a place to do it,

and it was an experience

that I'll never forget.

[Matthew] Our time at

Randolph County Asylum

became something far greater

than we ever imagined.

We began this journey

believing the horrors of asylums existed

only in shadowy legends

and Hollywood nightmares,

but what we discovered

was something far more haunting,

far more human.

This place was once a home,

and for some, it still is.

Their presence lingers in the silence,

whispering through the halls,

not out of torment

but out of a sense of belonging.

This was where their lives unfolded

and perhaps where they choose to remain.

We leave with memories

burned into our souls,

a deeper understanding of the forgotten

and bonds forged in moments

where the veil between worlds grew thin.

The Randolph County Asylum

didn't just reveal its secrets.

It changed us.

(haunting music continues)