The Dead Files (2011) s02e14 Episode Script
Arctic Wrath
There are a lot of dead people in this house.
There was five of us who seen it.
When women are here, it seems like it's angry.
He's trying to interact with them now.
He glared like he wanted to kill me.
There's a dead person that was, like, crawling up the stairs.
To me, it looked like what a Reaper may look like.
Do you think whatever's here is dangerous? Yes.
It wants to hurt people.
She's dying.
There's something down there.
My name is Amy Allan.
A lot of dead people are here.
I see dead people.
This is not good.
I speak to dead people.
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He is very pissed off.
And they speak to me.
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The house is angry.
But there's only one way to know if my findings are real.
He's killed people.
I rely on my partner.
I'm Steve Dischiavi.
I'm a retired New York City homicide Detective.
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He got shot at his house? And I know every person, every house has secrets.
Aren't you terrified being here? It's my job to reveal them.
That sounds like something out of "The Exorcist".
But Steve and I never speak.
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We never communicate during an investigation.
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Until the very end.
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It's bad.
When we uncover if it's safe for you to stay.
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I'd like some answers.
Or time to get out.
No matter how far we travel to investigate a case, Amy and I gather our findings separately.
I uncover the property's history, exposing its past.
At the end, we come together to reveal our findings.
We're about 140 miles North of Fairbanks, Alaska, in a town called Central.
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Population 101.
I'm on my way to meet a woman named Dawn.
A few years ago, her Father took a job as a caretaker at an old hotel in the middle of nowhere.
Now she says some crazy things are going on there and that the hotel itself seems to lash out at the people that stay there, except her Father.
But he refuses to leave, and she thinks he's in serious danger.
Before Amy enters a location, I have to clear it of everything which could influence her findings.
This hotel is very large, so it's important I take my time to cover or remove all leading information.
As I approach this location, I can already hear dead people speaking to me.
They're warning me about someone very dangerous who wanders these grounds.
There's a very large man.
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That hangs around here.
He's, like, 7 feet tall.
I don't think anybody likes him.
There are all these women kneeling on the ground.
Really creepy.
And they were crying and crying and begging, begging.
So, Dawn, what's going on in the resort here? My Father is the caretaker of it.
And I'm concerned about his safety, being way out here in the middle of Alaska.
Why? We are having some really weird stuff happen.
Okay, now what, you were just visiting him? Yes.
I actually live in Indiana.
Okay.
So what were some of the things that happened? Two years ago, we came to visit my Father, and he put us up in here.
We have rugs that flip over, and I've seen doors open and close, footsteps coming up the stairs.
What about the rugs? I've never heard that.
Well, what happened is, we'd leave the hotel, and when we would come back, the rugs would just be standing on end up against the door.
So nobody came in, messed around, and then walked out? And there's.
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No one else had access to it.
That's bizarre.
This tall guy.
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He knows how to move things and make things shake, make noises and things like that.
I don't like this.
It makes me, uh, very uncomfortable.
He wants me to stay away from here.
He doesn't want me around here.
So, Dawn, what happened here? My sister and I were down in the other room, watching TV, and we heard a door open.
So we came up here, closed the door, went and sat down.
No sooner sat down, we heard it open again.
Now did you actually see it open? Yes.
The second time, we seen it open.
Wow.
Well, I have something else that is really crazy.
We had also seen a 3-headed apparition.
There was five of us who seen it, and all five of us seen something different.
A 3-headed what? It just had.
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It had three heads.
It looked like, um, Indian feathers.
Some people seen a monkey face on it.
To me, it looked like what a Reaper may look like.
That's bizarre.
It was just looking at us.
- Did you stay here that night? - I did.
That took a lotta guts.
He might harm people.
He shows himself to me like he's, like.
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Really tall, and he has this huge axe.
I feel uncomfortable.
Why? I don't like that stuff.
Steve, this is the library here.
Okay, so, uh, what happened up here? This was a mess, so we were straightening the books, and we turned and there was an apparition standing over by door three.
To me, it reminded me of a Grandmother figure.
At first, we couldn't even believe our eyes.
We were trying to decide, should we run? Are we seeing what we think we're seeing? And then when we looked back, it was gone.
And what did she look like? She had on a dress with a sweater over it.
This is also where you would hear the footsteps coming up.
I mean, how's that make you feel, knowing your.
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Your Father, who's elderly, being here? I'm concerned for his safety.
There's a woman and a kid crying.
Crying up here.
They're crying and crying and crying.
She reminds me of, like, this.
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German Grandmother.
I think the Father wasn't good to them, and would lock them away.
So, Heather, I understand, uh, that you actually worked here at some point.
Yeah, I worker here in Did you ever experience anything? I was standing out by the pool, and I looked up at the fourth floor window, and I saw a full figure, and it looked like a woman.
And then when I looked up, it was gone.
Anything else? I just finished cleaning this room, and I set the furniture polish on the chair and then I realized I'd forgot my rag, and as soon as I went to turn back around, it flew off the chair and went past me and hit the wall.
Oh, so it didn't just fall off the chair? It went flying.
It flew.
You think whatever's here is dangerous? Yes.
Your Father's here.
Are you afraid for him? I do worry about him because it's kind of a violent action, that something would fly at you like that.
So I've worried about him numerous times.
Ugh.
What's wrong? Just this big guy here.
This big guy is in here.
And he likes to.
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Freak people out.
What does he do? He can throw things at people.
He could throw something and hurt me.
I see him angry and doing it.
Throwing things about.
And then I see him stumbling and drunk.
He likes to bother the ladies mostly.
- As far as living people? - Yeah.
Okay.
Uh, because he, um.
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Thinks they're stupid and he hates them.
Just this big guy here.
Really doesn't like women.
He hates them.
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Hates them.
He hates them, hates them, hates them, hates them.
He's trying to interact with them now.
He wants to hurt people.
He does like to move beds.
Well, what he can do is, can make it.
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Evenly go up and down.
Up, off the ground, and down again.
I don't like it.
Now your daughter seems a little concerned about your safety.
Yeah, I know they're.
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They're always worried about what's happening to me in here.
The way I look at it is, it's strange when a daughter worries about their Father.
I mean, I should be worried about my.
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My children.
But, uh.
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Anything that you can tell me about? I.
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I've seen the doors slide open and slam shut.
When they close, they just don't close, Steve.
I mean.
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They slam.
So, Bill, have you seen anything else? I hear footsteps all the time.
Up and down the steps.
I hear it from the basement up here, too, at times.
Your daughter, she mentioned.
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Some bizarre thing with three heads on it.
- Yeah.
Right.
- She said you saw it also.
I saw it.
Can you describe it? It was almost 7 and a half feet high, because that's probably what that ceiling is.
Okay.
And one head was stacked on another head.
And then right here, there was, like, a monkey there but it was just the monkey's head.
It had arms, but it had feathers.
So how do you feel about whatever's here? Whatever it is don't like women.
When women are here, it seems like it's angriest.
You all right? - No.
- What's wrong? What? What's wrong? I don't know.
Like, there was a dead person that was, like, crawling up the stairs towards me, and it kinda creeped me out.
Someone does not want me to go into the basement and is trying to scare me out of this place.
There's, like, something kind of standing guard down there.
So, Bill, why'd you bring me down here? Well, I guess, uh, I feel that.
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That the apparition or whatever it is is kind of.
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Is always assisting me whenever I have projects.
If I can't find the part.
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I'll be looking for it and looking for it, and then I'll just.
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Out of nowhere, it'll appear like on the shelf here.
Where you've looked already once today and didn't find it.
And so well.
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When I come back, well I'll go to another shop and look around, and it'll appear where I was working on something.
It's happened numerous times to me.
So it's.
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It's just, uh, it helps me.
Oh, the guy with the.
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The axe does come.
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He's down here.
He doesn't like people to come down here.
Why? Mm.
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He feels like.
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He's protecting stuff.
Let me ask you a question.
Bill, your daughter seems concerned about you, but you don't seem too concerned.
It seems like my daughters are always worried about me, but then again, I figure if it was doing.
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If it was a bad.
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Bad thing, I.
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It wouldn't be helping me.
You know, it helps me out and then scares the girls.
So, I mean, I don't know, Steve.
You gotta be prepared for Amy to say.
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"You know, you've got some issues here.
You really shouldn't be working here".
If I find out, yeah, this place is full of demons, I don't think you'd be seeing me around here.
Mm, there's screaming.
It's a lot like really rough screaming.
Like a.
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Howl.
Like howling.
Yeah, man, I'm getting (Bleep) Weird (Bleep).
There are a lot of dead people in this house.
So, Colette, I talked to, uh, your stepdaughter Dawn.
And, uh, your husband Bill.
And they said some pretty wild things are going on here.
Are you concerned for anybody's.
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I don't know, safety? Yes, I do fear for their safety.
What makes you say that? I was in here washing the floor, and a bowl flew right off this.
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Off the shelf right in front of me.
When the bowl came off the shelf, how far did it go? I'd say about three feet.
So three feet.
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That means it didn't fall off the shelf.
No, it flew off the shelf.
Okay.
You know, I was talking to Dawn and Bill, and.
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They told me a pretty bizarre sighting that they had of this.
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Thing with three heads.
Uh.
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- Did you see that? - Yes.
Okay.
Describe it to me.
It had large feathers.
- Okay.
- There were three heads on it.
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Two male heads, and a third.
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Head was half monkey and half man.
He glared like he wanted to kill me.
This tall guy.
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He's learned how to go into people's minds and find out what scares them, and then project that.
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Back to them.
I'm starting to think the seven foot man is a shape-shifter.
He's able to change form and take on the likeness of people's greatest fears.
He might harm people.
Why would he.
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Would he do that? Maybe if he felt like they were.
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Gonna make him leave.
So have you seen anything else you can't explain? I just arrived here one day and.
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Walked in and looked over and.
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Thought I had a small bear hiding in the lobby.
He was about 3 feet tall.
And, uh, so I had my forty-four with me.
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And I was running over to it, and it took off and it.
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Went through this little hole in the stairs.
About that size.
Okay.
So I ran down there, scoured the basement.
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There was nothing there.
I do think there is some evil here.
Pam, what's the story with this place? Uh, what's this.
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Is it for sale? Is it not for sale? It's for sale.
It's been for sale for a long, long time, probably ten years or more.
Now have you sold places like this before? I've sold lodges throughout the state of Alaska, yeah.
Now do they sell pretty quick? It doesn't usually take ten years.
Okay, so that's unusual.
I think so, yeah.
Have you heard any stories about this place, as far it being haunted? You know, e.
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Ever since I started coming up here 35 years ago, I've heard stories.
- That long? - Yes.
Now do you know about any deaths that occurred in this place or around it? With a place like this, there's bound to have been lots of people die here.
It's been here since 1931.
It was built for the miners to come in from their gold mines to have food and recreation on the weekends.
I feel like there's, like, holes.
There's holes.
There's, like, all these men down here.
They're, like, digging down, working.
Like, under the floor.
It's really, really hot in there.
Working with Amy, I've met lots of people who have experienced weird things, but nothing like this.
I'm driving 140 miles back down to Fairbanks to meet the 95-year-old owner of the hotel.
Maybe he can give me some new information about the place.
So, Bob, when did you buy the resort? May of 1980.
Okay.
Now let me ask you something.
You closed it, right? Yeah, in 2002.
Okay.
W.
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Why'd you close it? My age and I didn't want to put up with any more managers.
Now you're trying to sell it? Yeah.
Why do you think you're having a tough time selling it? Ooh, they.
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There's getting a lot of stories floatin' around about it.
Bill the caretaker up there.
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Do you think he's a good guy? Oh, very, very honest.
So if he says something may be going on, do you believe him? Yes.
Oh, yeah, very much so.
Yeah.
Okay.
Have you ever heard any strange stories up there? Oh, I've heard 'em but then I.
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I never paid much attention to 'em because I think about it and say.
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"Ah, that's a bunch.
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Bunch of baloney about these ghosts".
All right, so you don't think it's haunted? - No.
- You don't? No.
Okay, but there's a of people saying a lot of things up there, right? Yeah, that's.
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But it's not true.
Okay.
While I'm down in Fairbanks, I need to make use of the local library to get some background info on the hotel.
As I'm looking through the newspaper archives, something catches my eye.
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A deadly helicopter crash involving a newly married bride.
Her destination? The Circle Hot Springs Resort.
Ugh.
There's a woman.
She has a dress on.
Like, her.
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She's all messed up.
I wanna learn more about the newlywed couple whose helicopter crashed near the hotel.
I'm headed over to meet with a local aeronautical expert who might be able to give me more information than the newspaper article did.
During my investigation, I came across this article, uh, about a helicopter crash back in 2002.
It sounded pretty sad.
It was bride.
Do you like anything about it? It was a local couple doing a, uh, wedding ceremony on one of the summits.
She was a teacher.
What happened was that they were finishing up the ceremony, the weather was moving in.
As they were departing to take off and go back to Circle Hot Springs for the reception, they ended up crashing into the side of the hill.
She's not wearing anything very.
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Distinct.
It's just white.
What the (Bleep) Is she doing? She's, like, spinnin'.
Like, she's spinning.
Her equilibrium is.
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Out.
She's, like, falling down.
Oh, (Bleep).
I feel, like, uh, blood.
What would it feel like if they were going down and they knew it? You assume everything's all right, and then all of a sudden, you hit, and before you know it, it's all over with.
In a situation like this, they didn't have any time to think about it.
They.
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They didn't know what happened.
Most of the guests didn't even know anything had occurred.
They discovered the crash site as they were driving back for the reception.
Ohh.
It's like, really bad here, here.
Bad.
Bad.
What happened? What happened? I don't know.
Sh.
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Oh, my God.
This is not good.
Ah! (Bleep), she's cold.
Ah.
One of the problems, though, up there, there's.
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There's no ambulance service.
There's no Fire Department.
There's no hospital.
There's no cell phone coverage.
So I think what they did is they piled them into cars and drove 'em back to Fairbanks.
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- Aw, jeez.
- And, um, to pronounce her dead at the hospital here in Fairbanks, you know.
So if it wasn't for the fact that they were in such a desolate area, she might've made it.
Definitely.
She's.
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I think.
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I think she wants help, but, like, nobody.
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There is nobody.
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I don't know.
There's nobody, nobody, nobody.
I.
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I.
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I know sh.
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Sh.
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Sh.
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She's dying.
Yeah, she's dying here.
So far, all I've uncovered about the property is a tragic helicopter crash.
But my clients have a laundry list of paranormal encounters.
I'm hoping that by meeting with a local historian I can fill in some of the blanks.
The Hot Springs were discovered in 1897, and Frank Leach owned it as of 1924 with Emma Leach.
The land.
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He owns it and he built the Hot Springs Hotel.
What year? What kind of a guy was he? He was rather laid-back.
Hard worker.
He was very handy.
Uh, he loved to build things.
He built furniture for the hotel, things like that.
What can you tell me about Frank's wife Emma? Emma was born in.
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And I think it may have been German.
She, uh, she told him what to do.
Quite often, you'd hear her yelling at him.
She was the boss, so she wasn't, uh, thoroughly loved.
And then there's this other woman.
She's from overseas.
She reminds me of like this.
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German Grandmother.
Does she have an accent? Oh, yeah.
She speaks another language.
She's just very set in her ways.
Like, rough, very gruff.
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Harsh, overbearing, and.
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Just nasty.
She threatened to push my head into the table.
Apparently she doesn't like me.
That's kind of how she is.
Now did Frank and Emma stay in Alaska or did they move on? Actually, they lived, uh, in a house behind the hotel.
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- Okay.
- Until the both of them died.
And, uh, they're buried in the Hot Springs Cemetery, behind the hotel.
I saw several entities on my walk, but I decided to have a sketch artist draw the most prominent two.
First, the seven foot-tall man.
He was very muscular.
Very, like, intimidating.
He had a large.
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Axe.
Can you describe his face for me? And the eyes squared, because they're so deep.
And then the angry woman.
She had dark brown hair.
It comes up like this and just goes back.
What was the shape of her face? Uh, it was kind of squared.
She has very thin lips.
She had very full cheeks and the were very high.
Is this who you saw? Yes.
Over the last several days, Amy and I have conducted separate investigations.
Now we're going to reveal our findings to each other and our clients for the first time.
Heather and Dawn don't live here.
Their Father Bill here, uh, takes care of the hotel.
They've experienced some pretty terrifying things here and they're.
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They're worried about him, but he doesn't want to leave.
With that, I'm gonna ask Amy to talk about her walk a little bit.
During my walk, one of the individuals that I encountered is a female.
Unfortunately, she's stuck in her death state because her death was so traumatic that she hasn't been able to move on.
There's a woman.
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I feel, like, uh, blood.
I think she's dying.
I saw her, like, bumping around the second floor because her equilibrium's off.
And she is very hurt and confused because she was calling out for help, and nobody was there to help her.
About ten years, there was a newlywed couple who had taken their vows not far from here, and they were headed here to have the reception, to this place.
Said "I do," got into a helicopter.
And she never made it to her reception.
The helicopter crashed.
She died.
- Oh, my gosh.
- Yeah.
I mean, they were alone.
She didn't die right away.
Head trauma and body trauma.
I didn't see a helicopter crash related to this woman and I never saw her face clearly.
So I don't know who she is, but I do know she doesn't want to harm anyone in the hotel.
What else happened during your walk? Another individual that I encountered.
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Was a very, very rough woman.
Very tough um, she looked, like, German to me.
She didn't really like me very much.
She's just very overbearing.
Like, reminded me of one of those overbearing Grandmother types.
She's just very set in her ways and dressed nasty.
She threatened to push my head into the table.
Heather, do me a favor and tell Amy about the apparition you did see.
Um, I was outside by the pool.
And I looked up at the fourth floor window by the library.
And I saw kind of like a grandmotherly figure.
Do you know the name Emma.
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Emma Leach? Emma married this guy Frank Leach.
And, actually, Frank built this hotel in 1930.
Her maiden name is Gunz.
She was German.
She was overbearing, told her husband what to do.
Pretty sure she died on the property, and she's buried right up on the hill here.
Wow.
We did do a sketch of her.
You did? Well, I have a picture of Emma.
This.
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That's Emma.
Wow.
Heather, what do you think? I think there's a lot of similarities, especially in the full chin.
The nose.
The nose was the most distinct.
She didn't like you? I don't think she likes anybody.
She definitely doesn't want to leave, that's for sure.
Like, this is her.
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Her domain.
So, Amy, what else did you encounter? I encountered this very, very tall man.
Who, definitely unnerved me.
I did get that he's not from here, um, but that he built a lot of things here.
And this individual is very protective of an area in the basement.
Uh, the workshop area.
That's, like, his.
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His main place.
Well, that sounds like Emma's husband Frank, the guy that built this place.
He actually built a lot of the furniture that's in this place.
- Really? - Yeah, he was a handy guy.
He's a strange person.
Well, he did die on the property and is buried right up on the same hill.
He, um, he's very advanced.
He's able to physically interact, so.
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Shaking beds, making noise, and opening and closing doors.
Heather, tell Amy what happened upstairs.
I was cleaning one of the rooms on the second floor, and I had the furniture polish in my hand.
I sat it on the chair.
And so I turned around to get my rag.
I grabbed it, and as soon as I turned back around to go towards the chair, it flew off and it went right past my face and hit the wall.
You said the footsteps.
He makes.
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- He makes the noise.
- Yeah.
- You guys have all heard.
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- Oh, yeah.
Up and down the fire escape on the outside of the building.
And there's no.
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No tracks on the snow, but you can hear him running up and down the stairs, the fire escape.
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Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
He's very capable.
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He.
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He also tried to frighten me.
The way that he presented himself to me.
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Uh, was unnerving, to say the least.
You gotta tell her about this 3-headed thing.
What? There's five of us that have seen it, and we seen it at the same time.
We all seen something different.
Like, for instance, I've seen what I thought would've been maybe the Grim Reaper.
He had seen a monkey head that I didn't see.
There was no emotion or nothing in the head.
It had no eyes and everything.
This was dark, black eyes.
I mean, I was very scared.
That bothers me, when they have enough strength to do that, to be able to read your mind.
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And see what scares you.
And then become that.
Well, it's funny you mention that because Bill's wife Colette.
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Uh, who I had spoken to, she had an incident where.
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She saw what she thought was a black bear in here.
Because she assumed she'd caught it sleeping out here.
She caught it right over there in this corner.
- Oh! - She was going for her fourty-four and starting to pull it out, and then all of a sudden it turned into, like, a changeling.
And went down one of them holes over here.
But the changeling, Amy, that's.
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That's what's freaking us out.
I did, um, have a sketch done.
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Of him.
Is that the second sketch you did? - Yes.
- Okay.
Oh.
That's.
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That would scare me.
I wanted you to notice the eyes.
He really hates women.
I did have a sketch done.
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Of him.
Is that the second sketch you did? - Yes.
- Okay.
Oh.
I got chills when I started looking at it.
One of the things that bothers me was what you said about.
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The eyes being two big, black, gaping holes.
Yeah, these are the black eyes that I seen in the 2-headed thing.
Exactly like that.
That's what it made you see? Mm.
I feel that there's two things going on.
One, it's very unnerving.
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To not be able to look at someone's eyes.
You can't gauge them.
You don't know what's going on.
So it gives you a feeling of disorientation.
And the biggest thing with him was that.
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He actually really hates women.
Like, he wouldn't really talk to me because I was just a girl.
Oh, wow.
- I said that, too.
Remember? - Yep.
I said the only ones who are having problems it seems, like Amy in this.
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This area here is the women.
The men.
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He has no problem there.
But the women, he just does not like them.
Bill, isn't it true that whatever's here you told me is kinda helping you out, helping you find things and stuff like that? He's quite the assistant.
Yes, he is.
The odd thing is, the only time you ever saw something remotely scary.
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Was when you were with four other women.
- Yes.
Yep.
- Ohh.
Yep.
- Oh, yeah.
That makes sense.
- Mm-hmm.
Yeah, it was me and four women, so.
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Wow.
You're hitting a lot on the head, Amy.
Well, guys, you've seen what Amy and I have uncovered about the hotel.
But the reason you called us in, the most important question is, is it safe for your Father here to stay on as a caretaker? Um, so with that, I'm gonna ask Amy if she can answer that question for us.
Well, I think it's safe for your Father.
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Because you're male.
Uh, but, you know, it's.
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It's kind of unsettling for when you daughters visit.
What you can do is.
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Have a talking with him.
Um, about bothering females.
And kind of laying down the law.
"If there's females here, you just leave 'em alone".
"No interaction, or".
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"You're gonna have to go".
Do you think his talking-to is gonna stop that for his girls? What can be done to ensure their safety when they're here? They know now who the people are, so they can call them out by name.
So you believe these sketches are Frank and Emma Leach? Oh, yeah.
You know, Bill's going to lay down the law.
Like, "if you wanna stay here, these are the terms and conditions".
"You don't mess with any women".
"You don't disrespect them," and so on and so forth.
And then you guys coming in, being like, "we're not gonna tolerate this".
And if you do anything, you know the consequences," which will be banishment, basically.
And they do not want that.
Most people don't realize that entities can remain at a location because they are allowed to.
But if they start causing problems, you can put your foot down and demand that they leave.
How do you feel knowing all this now? Do you feel better? You feel worse? I feel better knowing that it's nothing against men and knowing that he'll be okay.
However, it's a little upsetting that.
.
It has something against us.
Well, not personally, but women, just because.
.
I.
.
I enjoy coming over to the Hot Springs and we have fun when we stay here.
.
Until all that started happening.
So, I think, Dad, you need to have a talk.
Yeah.
As one man to another.
- Mm-hmm.
- Yeah.
Right.
We're buddies so let's keep it that way.
And, you know, like, well.
.
Okay.
I'm gonna hold you to that.
- I will.
- Doing it to protect your daughters.
Yeah.
I can relate to Dawn and Heather's fears.
When you've encountered such an angry presence, it's terrifying.
But as long as Bill follows the advice I've given him, his family should remain safe.
There was five of us who seen it.
When women are here, it seems like it's angry.
He's trying to interact with them now.
He glared like he wanted to kill me.
There's a dead person that was, like, crawling up the stairs.
To me, it looked like what a Reaper may look like.
Do you think whatever's here is dangerous? Yes.
It wants to hurt people.
She's dying.
There's something down there.
My name is Amy Allan.
A lot of dead people are here.
I see dead people.
This is not good.
I speak to dead people.
.
He is very pissed off.
And they speak to me.
.
The house is angry.
But there's only one way to know if my findings are real.
He's killed people.
I rely on my partner.
I'm Steve Dischiavi.
I'm a retired New York City homicide Detective.
.
He got shot at his house? And I know every person, every house has secrets.
Aren't you terrified being here? It's my job to reveal them.
That sounds like something out of "The Exorcist".
But Steve and I never speak.
.
We never communicate during an investigation.
.
Until the very end.
.
It's bad.
When we uncover if it's safe for you to stay.
.
I'd like some answers.
Or time to get out.
No matter how far we travel to investigate a case, Amy and I gather our findings separately.
I uncover the property's history, exposing its past.
At the end, we come together to reveal our findings.
We're about 140 miles North of Fairbanks, Alaska, in a town called Central.
.
Population 101.
I'm on my way to meet a woman named Dawn.
A few years ago, her Father took a job as a caretaker at an old hotel in the middle of nowhere.
Now she says some crazy things are going on there and that the hotel itself seems to lash out at the people that stay there, except her Father.
But he refuses to leave, and she thinks he's in serious danger.
Before Amy enters a location, I have to clear it of everything which could influence her findings.
This hotel is very large, so it's important I take my time to cover or remove all leading information.
As I approach this location, I can already hear dead people speaking to me.
They're warning me about someone very dangerous who wanders these grounds.
There's a very large man.
.
That hangs around here.
He's, like, 7 feet tall.
I don't think anybody likes him.
There are all these women kneeling on the ground.
Really creepy.
And they were crying and crying and begging, begging.
So, Dawn, what's going on in the resort here? My Father is the caretaker of it.
And I'm concerned about his safety, being way out here in the middle of Alaska.
Why? We are having some really weird stuff happen.
Okay, now what, you were just visiting him? Yes.
I actually live in Indiana.
Okay.
So what were some of the things that happened? Two years ago, we came to visit my Father, and he put us up in here.
We have rugs that flip over, and I've seen doors open and close, footsteps coming up the stairs.
What about the rugs? I've never heard that.
Well, what happened is, we'd leave the hotel, and when we would come back, the rugs would just be standing on end up against the door.
So nobody came in, messed around, and then walked out? And there's.
.
No one else had access to it.
That's bizarre.
This tall guy.
.
He knows how to move things and make things shake, make noises and things like that.
I don't like this.
It makes me, uh, very uncomfortable.
He wants me to stay away from here.
He doesn't want me around here.
So, Dawn, what happened here? My sister and I were down in the other room, watching TV, and we heard a door open.
So we came up here, closed the door, went and sat down.
No sooner sat down, we heard it open again.
Now did you actually see it open? Yes.
The second time, we seen it open.
Wow.
Well, I have something else that is really crazy.
We had also seen a 3-headed apparition.
There was five of us who seen it, and all five of us seen something different.
A 3-headed what? It just had.
.
It had three heads.
It looked like, um, Indian feathers.
Some people seen a monkey face on it.
To me, it looked like what a Reaper may look like.
That's bizarre.
It was just looking at us.
- Did you stay here that night? - I did.
That took a lotta guts.
He might harm people.
He shows himself to me like he's, like.
.
Really tall, and he has this huge axe.
I feel uncomfortable.
Why? I don't like that stuff.
Steve, this is the library here.
Okay, so, uh, what happened up here? This was a mess, so we were straightening the books, and we turned and there was an apparition standing over by door three.
To me, it reminded me of a Grandmother figure.
At first, we couldn't even believe our eyes.
We were trying to decide, should we run? Are we seeing what we think we're seeing? And then when we looked back, it was gone.
And what did she look like? She had on a dress with a sweater over it.
This is also where you would hear the footsteps coming up.
I mean, how's that make you feel, knowing your.
.
Your Father, who's elderly, being here? I'm concerned for his safety.
There's a woman and a kid crying.
Crying up here.
They're crying and crying and crying.
She reminds me of, like, this.
.
German Grandmother.
I think the Father wasn't good to them, and would lock them away.
So, Heather, I understand, uh, that you actually worked here at some point.
Yeah, I worker here in Did you ever experience anything? I was standing out by the pool, and I looked up at the fourth floor window, and I saw a full figure, and it looked like a woman.
And then when I looked up, it was gone.
Anything else? I just finished cleaning this room, and I set the furniture polish on the chair and then I realized I'd forgot my rag, and as soon as I went to turn back around, it flew off the chair and went past me and hit the wall.
Oh, so it didn't just fall off the chair? It went flying.
It flew.
You think whatever's here is dangerous? Yes.
Your Father's here.
Are you afraid for him? I do worry about him because it's kind of a violent action, that something would fly at you like that.
So I've worried about him numerous times.
Ugh.
What's wrong? Just this big guy here.
This big guy is in here.
And he likes to.
.
Freak people out.
What does he do? He can throw things at people.
He could throw something and hurt me.
I see him angry and doing it.
Throwing things about.
And then I see him stumbling and drunk.
He likes to bother the ladies mostly.
- As far as living people? - Yeah.
Okay.
Uh, because he, um.
.
Thinks they're stupid and he hates them.
Just this big guy here.
Really doesn't like women.
He hates them.
.
Hates them.
He hates them, hates them, hates them, hates them.
He's trying to interact with them now.
He wants to hurt people.
He does like to move beds.
Well, what he can do is, can make it.
.
Evenly go up and down.
Up, off the ground, and down again.
I don't like it.
Now your daughter seems a little concerned about your safety.
Yeah, I know they're.
.
They're always worried about what's happening to me in here.
The way I look at it is, it's strange when a daughter worries about their Father.
I mean, I should be worried about my.
.
My children.
But, uh.
.
Anything that you can tell me about? I.
.
I've seen the doors slide open and slam shut.
When they close, they just don't close, Steve.
I mean.
.
They slam.
So, Bill, have you seen anything else? I hear footsteps all the time.
Up and down the steps.
I hear it from the basement up here, too, at times.
Your daughter, she mentioned.
.
Some bizarre thing with three heads on it.
- Yeah.
Right.
- She said you saw it also.
I saw it.
Can you describe it? It was almost 7 and a half feet high, because that's probably what that ceiling is.
Okay.
And one head was stacked on another head.
And then right here, there was, like, a monkey there but it was just the monkey's head.
It had arms, but it had feathers.
So how do you feel about whatever's here? Whatever it is don't like women.
When women are here, it seems like it's angriest.
You all right? - No.
- What's wrong? What? What's wrong? I don't know.
Like, there was a dead person that was, like, crawling up the stairs towards me, and it kinda creeped me out.
Someone does not want me to go into the basement and is trying to scare me out of this place.
There's, like, something kind of standing guard down there.
So, Bill, why'd you bring me down here? Well, I guess, uh, I feel that.
.
That the apparition or whatever it is is kind of.
.
Is always assisting me whenever I have projects.
If I can't find the part.
.
I'll be looking for it and looking for it, and then I'll just.
.
Out of nowhere, it'll appear like on the shelf here.
Where you've looked already once today and didn't find it.
And so well.
.
When I come back, well I'll go to another shop and look around, and it'll appear where I was working on something.
It's happened numerous times to me.
So it's.
.
It's just, uh, it helps me.
Oh, the guy with the.
.
The axe does come.
.
He's down here.
He doesn't like people to come down here.
Why? Mm.
.
He feels like.
.
He's protecting stuff.
Let me ask you a question.
Bill, your daughter seems concerned about you, but you don't seem too concerned.
It seems like my daughters are always worried about me, but then again, I figure if it was doing.
.
If it was a bad.
.
Bad thing, I.
.
It wouldn't be helping me.
You know, it helps me out and then scares the girls.
So, I mean, I don't know, Steve.
You gotta be prepared for Amy to say.
.
"You know, you've got some issues here.
You really shouldn't be working here".
If I find out, yeah, this place is full of demons, I don't think you'd be seeing me around here.
Mm, there's screaming.
It's a lot like really rough screaming.
Like a.
.
Howl.
Like howling.
Yeah, man, I'm getting (Bleep) Weird (Bleep).
There are a lot of dead people in this house.
So, Colette, I talked to, uh, your stepdaughter Dawn.
And, uh, your husband Bill.
And they said some pretty wild things are going on here.
Are you concerned for anybody's.
.
I don't know, safety? Yes, I do fear for their safety.
What makes you say that? I was in here washing the floor, and a bowl flew right off this.
.
Off the shelf right in front of me.
When the bowl came off the shelf, how far did it go? I'd say about three feet.
So three feet.
.
That means it didn't fall off the shelf.
No, it flew off the shelf.
Okay.
You know, I was talking to Dawn and Bill, and.
.
They told me a pretty bizarre sighting that they had of this.
.
Thing with three heads.
Uh.
.
- Did you see that? - Yes.
Okay.
Describe it to me.
It had large feathers.
- Okay.
- There were three heads on it.
.
Two male heads, and a third.
.
Head was half monkey and half man.
He glared like he wanted to kill me.
This tall guy.
.
He's learned how to go into people's minds and find out what scares them, and then project that.
.
Back to them.
I'm starting to think the seven foot man is a shape-shifter.
He's able to change form and take on the likeness of people's greatest fears.
He might harm people.
Why would he.
.
Would he do that? Maybe if he felt like they were.
.
Gonna make him leave.
So have you seen anything else you can't explain? I just arrived here one day and.
.
Walked in and looked over and.
.
Thought I had a small bear hiding in the lobby.
He was about 3 feet tall.
And, uh, so I had my forty-four with me.
.
And I was running over to it, and it took off and it.
.
Went through this little hole in the stairs.
About that size.
Okay.
So I ran down there, scoured the basement.
.
There was nothing there.
I do think there is some evil here.
Pam, what's the story with this place? Uh, what's this.
.
Is it for sale? Is it not for sale? It's for sale.
It's been for sale for a long, long time, probably ten years or more.
Now have you sold places like this before? I've sold lodges throughout the state of Alaska, yeah.
Now do they sell pretty quick? It doesn't usually take ten years.
Okay, so that's unusual.
I think so, yeah.
Have you heard any stories about this place, as far it being haunted? You know, e.
.
Ever since I started coming up here 35 years ago, I've heard stories.
- That long? - Yes.
Now do you know about any deaths that occurred in this place or around it? With a place like this, there's bound to have been lots of people die here.
It's been here since 1931.
It was built for the miners to come in from their gold mines to have food and recreation on the weekends.
I feel like there's, like, holes.
There's holes.
There's, like, all these men down here.
They're, like, digging down, working.
Like, under the floor.
It's really, really hot in there.
Working with Amy, I've met lots of people who have experienced weird things, but nothing like this.
I'm driving 140 miles back down to Fairbanks to meet the 95-year-old owner of the hotel.
Maybe he can give me some new information about the place.
So, Bob, when did you buy the resort? May of 1980.
Okay.
Now let me ask you something.
You closed it, right? Yeah, in 2002.
Okay.
W.
.
Why'd you close it? My age and I didn't want to put up with any more managers.
Now you're trying to sell it? Yeah.
Why do you think you're having a tough time selling it? Ooh, they.
.
There's getting a lot of stories floatin' around about it.
Bill the caretaker up there.
.
Do you think he's a good guy? Oh, very, very honest.
So if he says something may be going on, do you believe him? Yes.
Oh, yeah, very much so.
Yeah.
Okay.
Have you ever heard any strange stories up there? Oh, I've heard 'em but then I.
.
I never paid much attention to 'em because I think about it and say.
.
"Ah, that's a bunch.
.
Bunch of baloney about these ghosts".
All right, so you don't think it's haunted? - No.
- You don't? No.
Okay, but there's a of people saying a lot of things up there, right? Yeah, that's.
.
But it's not true.
Okay.
While I'm down in Fairbanks, I need to make use of the local library to get some background info on the hotel.
As I'm looking through the newspaper archives, something catches my eye.
.
A deadly helicopter crash involving a newly married bride.
Her destination? The Circle Hot Springs Resort.
Ugh.
There's a woman.
She has a dress on.
Like, her.
.
She's all messed up.
I wanna learn more about the newlywed couple whose helicopter crashed near the hotel.
I'm headed over to meet with a local aeronautical expert who might be able to give me more information than the newspaper article did.
During my investigation, I came across this article, uh, about a helicopter crash back in 2002.
It sounded pretty sad.
It was bride.
Do you like anything about it? It was a local couple doing a, uh, wedding ceremony on one of the summits.
She was a teacher.
What happened was that they were finishing up the ceremony, the weather was moving in.
As they were departing to take off and go back to Circle Hot Springs for the reception, they ended up crashing into the side of the hill.
She's not wearing anything very.
.
Distinct.
It's just white.
What the (Bleep) Is she doing? She's, like, spinnin'.
Like, she's spinning.
Her equilibrium is.
.
Out.
She's, like, falling down.
Oh, (Bleep).
I feel, like, uh, blood.
What would it feel like if they were going down and they knew it? You assume everything's all right, and then all of a sudden, you hit, and before you know it, it's all over with.
In a situation like this, they didn't have any time to think about it.
They.
.
They didn't know what happened.
Most of the guests didn't even know anything had occurred.
They discovered the crash site as they were driving back for the reception.
Ohh.
It's like, really bad here, here.
Bad.
Bad.
What happened? What happened? I don't know.
Sh.
.
Oh, my God.
This is not good.
Ah! (Bleep), she's cold.
Ah.
One of the problems, though, up there, there's.
.
There's no ambulance service.
There's no Fire Department.
There's no hospital.
There's no cell phone coverage.
So I think what they did is they piled them into cars and drove 'em back to Fairbanks.
.
- Aw, jeez.
- And, um, to pronounce her dead at the hospital here in Fairbanks, you know.
So if it wasn't for the fact that they were in such a desolate area, she might've made it.
Definitely.
She's.
.
I think.
.
I think she wants help, but, like, nobody.
.
There is nobody.
.
I don't know.
There's nobody, nobody, nobody.
I.
.
I.
.
I know sh.
.
Sh.
.
Sh.
.
She's dying.
Yeah, she's dying here.
So far, all I've uncovered about the property is a tragic helicopter crash.
But my clients have a laundry list of paranormal encounters.
I'm hoping that by meeting with a local historian I can fill in some of the blanks.
The Hot Springs were discovered in 1897, and Frank Leach owned it as of 1924 with Emma Leach.
The land.
.
He owns it and he built the Hot Springs Hotel.
What year? What kind of a guy was he? He was rather laid-back.
Hard worker.
He was very handy.
Uh, he loved to build things.
He built furniture for the hotel, things like that.
What can you tell me about Frank's wife Emma? Emma was born in.
.
And I think it may have been German.
She, uh, she told him what to do.
Quite often, you'd hear her yelling at him.
She was the boss, so she wasn't, uh, thoroughly loved.
And then there's this other woman.
She's from overseas.
She reminds me of like this.
.
German Grandmother.
Does she have an accent? Oh, yeah.
She speaks another language.
She's just very set in her ways.
Like, rough, very gruff.
.
Harsh, overbearing, and.
.
Just nasty.
She threatened to push my head into the table.
Apparently she doesn't like me.
That's kind of how she is.
Now did Frank and Emma stay in Alaska or did they move on? Actually, they lived, uh, in a house behind the hotel.
.
- Okay.
- Until the both of them died.
And, uh, they're buried in the Hot Springs Cemetery, behind the hotel.
I saw several entities on my walk, but I decided to have a sketch artist draw the most prominent two.
First, the seven foot-tall man.
He was very muscular.
Very, like, intimidating.
He had a large.
.
Axe.
Can you describe his face for me? And the eyes squared, because they're so deep.
And then the angry woman.
She had dark brown hair.
It comes up like this and just goes back.
What was the shape of her face? Uh, it was kind of squared.
She has very thin lips.
She had very full cheeks and the were very high.
Is this who you saw? Yes.
Over the last several days, Amy and I have conducted separate investigations.
Now we're going to reveal our findings to each other and our clients for the first time.
Heather and Dawn don't live here.
Their Father Bill here, uh, takes care of the hotel.
They've experienced some pretty terrifying things here and they're.
.
They're worried about him, but he doesn't want to leave.
With that, I'm gonna ask Amy to talk about her walk a little bit.
During my walk, one of the individuals that I encountered is a female.
Unfortunately, she's stuck in her death state because her death was so traumatic that she hasn't been able to move on.
There's a woman.
.
I feel, like, uh, blood.
I think she's dying.
I saw her, like, bumping around the second floor because her equilibrium's off.
And she is very hurt and confused because she was calling out for help, and nobody was there to help her.
About ten years, there was a newlywed couple who had taken their vows not far from here, and they were headed here to have the reception, to this place.
Said "I do," got into a helicopter.
And she never made it to her reception.
The helicopter crashed.
She died.
- Oh, my gosh.
- Yeah.
I mean, they were alone.
She didn't die right away.
Head trauma and body trauma.
I didn't see a helicopter crash related to this woman and I never saw her face clearly.
So I don't know who she is, but I do know she doesn't want to harm anyone in the hotel.
What else happened during your walk? Another individual that I encountered.
.
Was a very, very rough woman.
Very tough um, she looked, like, German to me.
She didn't really like me very much.
She's just very overbearing.
Like, reminded me of one of those overbearing Grandmother types.
She's just very set in her ways and dressed nasty.
She threatened to push my head into the table.
Heather, do me a favor and tell Amy about the apparition you did see.
Um, I was outside by the pool.
And I looked up at the fourth floor window by the library.
And I saw kind of like a grandmotherly figure.
Do you know the name Emma.
.
Emma Leach? Emma married this guy Frank Leach.
And, actually, Frank built this hotel in 1930.
Her maiden name is Gunz.
She was German.
She was overbearing, told her husband what to do.
Pretty sure she died on the property, and she's buried right up on the hill here.
Wow.
We did do a sketch of her.
You did? Well, I have a picture of Emma.
This.
.
That's Emma.
Wow.
Heather, what do you think? I think there's a lot of similarities, especially in the full chin.
The nose.
The nose was the most distinct.
She didn't like you? I don't think she likes anybody.
She definitely doesn't want to leave, that's for sure.
Like, this is her.
.
Her domain.
So, Amy, what else did you encounter? I encountered this very, very tall man.
Who, definitely unnerved me.
I did get that he's not from here, um, but that he built a lot of things here.
And this individual is very protective of an area in the basement.
Uh, the workshop area.
That's, like, his.
.
His main place.
Well, that sounds like Emma's husband Frank, the guy that built this place.
He actually built a lot of the furniture that's in this place.
- Really? - Yeah, he was a handy guy.
He's a strange person.
Well, he did die on the property and is buried right up on the same hill.
He, um, he's very advanced.
He's able to physically interact, so.
.
Shaking beds, making noise, and opening and closing doors.
Heather, tell Amy what happened upstairs.
I was cleaning one of the rooms on the second floor, and I had the furniture polish in my hand.
I sat it on the chair.
And so I turned around to get my rag.
I grabbed it, and as soon as I turned back around to go towards the chair, it flew off and it went right past my face and hit the wall.
You said the footsteps.
He makes.
.
- He makes the noise.
- Yeah.
- You guys have all heard.
.
- Oh, yeah.
Up and down the fire escape on the outside of the building.
And there's no.
.
No tracks on the snow, but you can hear him running up and down the stairs, the fire escape.
.
Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
He's very capable.
.
He.
.
He also tried to frighten me.
The way that he presented himself to me.
.
Uh, was unnerving, to say the least.
You gotta tell her about this 3-headed thing.
What? There's five of us that have seen it, and we seen it at the same time.
We all seen something different.
Like, for instance, I've seen what I thought would've been maybe the Grim Reaper.
He had seen a monkey head that I didn't see.
There was no emotion or nothing in the head.
It had no eyes and everything.
This was dark, black eyes.
I mean, I was very scared.
That bothers me, when they have enough strength to do that, to be able to read your mind.
.
And see what scares you.
And then become that.
Well, it's funny you mention that because Bill's wife Colette.
.
Uh, who I had spoken to, she had an incident where.
.
She saw what she thought was a black bear in here.
Because she assumed she'd caught it sleeping out here.
She caught it right over there in this corner.
- Oh! - She was going for her fourty-four and starting to pull it out, and then all of a sudden it turned into, like, a changeling.
And went down one of them holes over here.
But the changeling, Amy, that's.
.
That's what's freaking us out.
I did, um, have a sketch done.
.
Of him.
Is that the second sketch you did? - Yes.
- Okay.
Oh.
That's.
.
That would scare me.
I wanted you to notice the eyes.
He really hates women.
I did have a sketch done.
.
Of him.
Is that the second sketch you did? - Yes.
- Okay.
Oh.
I got chills when I started looking at it.
One of the things that bothers me was what you said about.
.
The eyes being two big, black, gaping holes.
Yeah, these are the black eyes that I seen in the 2-headed thing.
Exactly like that.
That's what it made you see? Mm.
I feel that there's two things going on.
One, it's very unnerving.
.
To not be able to look at someone's eyes.
You can't gauge them.
You don't know what's going on.
So it gives you a feeling of disorientation.
And the biggest thing with him was that.
.
He actually really hates women.
Like, he wouldn't really talk to me because I was just a girl.
Oh, wow.
- I said that, too.
Remember? - Yep.
I said the only ones who are having problems it seems, like Amy in this.
.
This area here is the women.
The men.
.
He has no problem there.
But the women, he just does not like them.
Bill, isn't it true that whatever's here you told me is kinda helping you out, helping you find things and stuff like that? He's quite the assistant.
Yes, he is.
The odd thing is, the only time you ever saw something remotely scary.
.
Was when you were with four other women.
- Yes.
Yep.
- Ohh.
Yep.
- Oh, yeah.
That makes sense.
- Mm-hmm.
Yeah, it was me and four women, so.
.
Wow.
You're hitting a lot on the head, Amy.
Well, guys, you've seen what Amy and I have uncovered about the hotel.
But the reason you called us in, the most important question is, is it safe for your Father here to stay on as a caretaker? Um, so with that, I'm gonna ask Amy if she can answer that question for us.
Well, I think it's safe for your Father.
.
Because you're male.
Uh, but, you know, it's.
.
It's kind of unsettling for when you daughters visit.
What you can do is.
.
Have a talking with him.
Um, about bothering females.
And kind of laying down the law.
"If there's females here, you just leave 'em alone".
"No interaction, or".
.
"You're gonna have to go".
Do you think his talking-to is gonna stop that for his girls? What can be done to ensure their safety when they're here? They know now who the people are, so they can call them out by name.
So you believe these sketches are Frank and Emma Leach? Oh, yeah.
You know, Bill's going to lay down the law.
Like, "if you wanna stay here, these are the terms and conditions".
"You don't mess with any women".
"You don't disrespect them," and so on and so forth.
And then you guys coming in, being like, "we're not gonna tolerate this".
And if you do anything, you know the consequences," which will be banishment, basically.
And they do not want that.
Most people don't realize that entities can remain at a location because they are allowed to.
But if they start causing problems, you can put your foot down and demand that they leave.
How do you feel knowing all this now? Do you feel better? You feel worse? I feel better knowing that it's nothing against men and knowing that he'll be okay.
However, it's a little upsetting that.
.
It has something against us.
Well, not personally, but women, just because.
.
I.
.
I enjoy coming over to the Hot Springs and we have fun when we stay here.
.
Until all that started happening.
So, I think, Dad, you need to have a talk.
Yeah.
As one man to another.
- Mm-hmm.
- Yeah.
Right.
We're buddies so let's keep it that way.
And, you know, like, well.
.
Okay.
I'm gonna hold you to that.
- I will.
- Doing it to protect your daughters.
Yeah.
I can relate to Dawn and Heather's fears.
When you've encountered such an angry presence, it's terrifying.
But as long as Bill follows the advice I've given him, his family should remain safe.