The Dead Files (2011) s03e06 Episode Script

Tonight on "Dead Files Revisited" This is nuts.
A second look at some of Amy and Steve's most terrifying cases.
I'm getting chills up and down my back.
New information.
We were getting to the bottom of it.
Startling revelations.
It was so weird.
First a return to Cedar Park, Texas I don't come out here at night.
Where a home was under siege.
They burned it down.
Amy exposes monsters lurking in the trees.
- I see exactly what you just described.
- Oh, Lord.
But one question remained.
- How afraid should I be? - What? Then It was really crazy.
We travel back to Ybor City, Florida A lot of dead people are here.
Where a landmark hotel hides a sinister past.
It was a ghost.
- What happened after the investigation? - It was a lot of pressure.
And how did it change their lives? When you see an apparition, you will never forget it.
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 way to know if my findings are real.
He's killed people.
I rely on my partner.
I'm Steve Di Schiavi.
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 'em.
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.
And we uncover if it's safe for you to stay I'd like some answers.
Or time to get out.
I've heard a lot of strange things since I started working with Amy.
But our investigation in Cedar Park, Texas, still makes my head spin.
We were called in by a woman named Annie.
Who thought the activity around her home was making her physically ill.
I'm so glad you're here.
What's going on? I'm seeing things, hearing things, and I think it's affecting my health.
Okay.
It's probably the worst health I've ever had in my life.
I called Steve and Amy because there were a lot of things happening Inside of my house and out in the woods.
That were beginning to feel threatening.
Let me ask you a question.
Do you own this place, or you rent? - I'm renting it.
- You rent.
Right.
So walking away from it is not a big deal.
It shouldn't be at all.
I should be running.
Yet I feel it would be the end of the world if I leave this property.
There is, um A strong dislike for the people who live here.
With the people who are outside.
It didn't take me long to realize the people who lived in that house, were surrounded by something potentially dangerous.
They don't come inside.
They make it known in other ways.
Like what? Knocking at the door.
Shaking the trees.
Pretty powerful stuff.
In the middle of the night, I got up And saw figures in hoods and long robes Walk in a line from one end of the this field across in front of me And simply fade into the brick wall.
Scared me to death.
They come across.
They hit that wall and disappear.
Yes.
Right through it.
As if it wasn't there.
What I observe on my walks can be as confusing to me, as it might be to everyone else.
There's these people, and They're making a big bonfire.
But I have to describe what I see and hear, whether it makes sense at the time or not.
They're completely white.
Their skin's white.
Their hair's white.
Their eyes are white.
It's not good.
It's bad, really bad.
In this particular room, I've seen a man.
Who is always in this area when I see him.
- This corner here? - That corner right there.
Does he look at you? I think sometimes he's watching me.
What it feels to me emotionally is that he's lost.
- Uh oh.
- What's wrong? "Some thing" standing there.
Why do you say "thing"? Uh-oh.
Oh.
I think it's a shadow person.
One way I can be fooled as a physical medium.
Is by seeing entities through another person's eyes.
I'm, like, trying to figure out if it's a real shadow person, or if that's how she's perceiving it.
Because I'm definitely seeing it from her Her perspective.
But as soon as I took a closer look, I realized I was wrong.
This was a dead man.
Maybe 40s, and bad things did happen.
Bad things did happen.
Even though Annie's roommate Joel was a truck driver who only lived in the house a few months out of the year.
He probably witnessed more crazy things around that place than anyone else.
I've been grabbed in the driveway, literally, like, forcibly grabbed.
And at the same time it happened it sounded like, somebody was saying "hey" really loud.
Has anything else happened to you over here? If you look by where those trees are at You'll see, like, a full-bodied person standing there.
You'll see 'em up in the trees.
- In the trees? - Yeah.
You don't ever see the whole, entire, like a human body, three-dimensional.
It's only two-dimensional.
You just see the front side, or you see the back side.
So like a cutout.
Yeah, it's kind of like a cardboard cutout of a human body.
Okay.
I'm trying to figure out what's going on.
There's, like, people in the trees? They do look weird.
Like if you drew them on a piece of paper and then just cut it out.
But they're like white paper cutouts? Like paper, paper white.
I'd never seen anything like it.
I know paper people sound harmless, but these things wanted something.
And I knew it wasn't good.
They make the trees shake.
And hit the house.
And they bang on the walls.
They knock at the door things like that.
Why? They just, they don't like the people who live here.
They are disgusted.
Coming up next Lots of graves.
Amy finds terror creeping in the woods.
And in our second investigation, we check in on a historic hotel A lot of dead people are here.
And find out what happened after Amy and Steve left.
When you see an apparition, you will never forget it.
Amy and I investigated a home in Cedar Park, Texas.
Our client Annie had seen a lot of crazy, unexplained things around her house.
And she thought there was a connection between those sightings, and her failing health.
Annie told me she saw a figure in her dining room that looked like a man.
Turns out a guy named Fermin Goforth died in the house back in 2001.
So I contacted his widow and asked her to meet me at the house.
Marlene, I understand that you lived here with your husband? - Yes.
- Okay, did he die in the house? Yes.
He died May 22nd on our wedding anniversary.
Did you ever experience seeing things in the woods or in the house or anything like that? Only on the night that my husband died.
I know that sounds crazy.
And I swear, that night when I went to bed.
He was over me in the bedroom.
And I swear I saw him.
And, like, he was making sure I was okay.
And then after that, I never saw him again.
Someone wanted to be here.
I think it's just a dead guy.
He died, uh, in at the property, and he walks through the house.
He walks around in there.
But he is he's kind of a scary guy.
I don't like him.
I traced the property records back to the beginning, and I turned up something on the land's first recorded owner.
A man named S.
C.
Inman.
It didn't seem like much at the time.
But what I learned from one of his ancestors, would end up becoming the most important part of the investigation.
This is Samuel Chelton Inman.
He, uh, came into Texas in 1844.
He was a Deacon in the In the church, the first church in the area.
This is the homestead the old homestead.
As you can tell, it's very small.
The family history was that he took in homeless boys and gave 'em room and board for in exchange for work.
And they all fit in this house? I don't know how they did, but I guess they were on the floor.
When I do a walk, I let the dead pull me to the places they want to show me.
In this case, they guided me into the woods.
I walked about 15 minutes with no idea where I'd end up.
And then it suddenly became clear what they wanted me to find.
I'm hearing, like, a church, but it's a barn.
And, like, there's actually a lot of people.
Everybody was, like, sleeping, like, on the ground and stuff.
Uh, there's sermons sometimes.
I'm definitely getting, uh Lots of graves.
I'm seeing some guy digging a Digging a grave.
So who's the guy digging it? - Some little, skinny guy.
- Uh-huh.
He was, like, a preacher or something like this.
- Mm-hmm.
- He definitely is not a pleasant person.
And, uh He killed him and buried him.
One thing was bothering me throughout my investigation.
Annie and Joel had been seeing figures wearing hooded robes.
That sounded a lot like the KKK to me, and a local historian agreed.
The Klan was prevalent all over Texas, uh, in the early 1920s.
But it was particularly vicious here in Williamson County.
What kind of violent activity did the Klan do down here? Uh, tar and feather people.
They would beat people.
The general goal was to get people out of the County.
They'd burn down their house, anything to get rid of people that they thought were undesirable.
Near the end of my walk, I encountered the paper people again.
This time I could see them when they were alive.
Like, seeing a Little old white house.
And, like, something with fire? They burned it down.
They did.
I think those guys might've burned down a house.
They're all white, 10 to 20 of 'em.
Probably like KKK.
I finally understood what they were planning to do to the people who lived here.
I think they want to burn this house down.
Why do they want to do that? Uh, because they don't like the people.
And I think it might happen.
After a walk, I usually sketch the entity that made the biggest impact on me.
In this case it was the man I saw digging a grave.
I saw a male.
And he was very thin.
Very light eyes, very light eyebrows.
So, Amy, is this Is this the man you saw? Yes.
- Next - This is crazy.
The shocking reveal - Is it safe for you to be here? - Oh, Lord.
And for the first time, what happened after the investigation.
I thought the house was safe.
Meeting Annie for the first time, I had an uneasy feeling.
She seemed like a sweet woman, and I wished I had good news for her.
Unfortunately, I didn't.
We're here because she's experiencing some pretty bizarre stuff.
Not only is she having experiences here, she feels she needs to be here.
I was on pins and needles.
I was very anxious to find out what she had experienced on the property.
Amy, why don't you start telling us about your walk.
When I entered the house, I was all of a sudden kind of inside Uh, of a woman and viewing what she was seeing.
And the woman was extremely angry.
Um, because she was scared.
She was screaming and yelling and throwing things at this thing that I saw through her eyes Which looked to be a shadow person.
It was actually a dead man.
That's my guy in the corner.
I've been seeing him since I moved into the house.
Did you know the previous people that lived here? - No.
- Okay.
The man that lived here before, his name was Fermin Goforth.
His widow Marlene, she said he died in the house.
And he died on their anniversary of all things.
- Oh, Lord.
- Okay.
That night when she went to bed, she saw him floating above her Oh, wow.
This is him right here.
- Yeah.
- That's him.
Yeah.
I felt that maybe he was there in a compassionate sense.
Because I was so sick and so alone at times.
What else? I saw a building that's no longer here.
Um, and it was, like, a church.
- It was a church.
- Yeah.
I never know if my findings will match up with Amy's.
Sometimes all my work pays off with answers, sometimes it doesn't.
But this time it all came together.
The first settler on your land here was a man named S.
C.
Inman.
He started the first church here, and he was a Deacon.
And here's a photo of S.
C.
Inman.
The second I laid down that photo, Joel and Amy got these strange looks on their faces.
Joel, you had a really big reaction.
I've seen that guy before.
I've seen him.
- Is that the guy that grabbed you? - Yeah.
I got angrily and physically grabbed.
He pulled me forward, and all you could hear was, "hey!" It's got me scared to the point where I don't come out here at night.
I've seen him, too, on my walk.
And I saw that he killed a man.
And, uh, he was digging a grave.
I got a good look at him, and he's the one I sketched.
Pulling out that sketch, I remember thinking, if this guy looks anything like that photo, Joel's probably gonna lose it.
Oh! That's him.
- Oh, my gosh.
- Joel, you think it's him? Yeah.
Okay, so, uh, what else did you encounter? The next thing that I saw was all of these people in the trees And they looked like paper cutouts.
This is crazy.
I know it's really bizarre.
I know it's strange.
This is nuts.
You just described exactly - Exactly what I've been - Really? Exactly.
I mean, you couldn't get more to a "T".
What I see.
You just confirmed I'm not crazy.
Literally, I see exactly what you just described.
In the 1920s, the Klan was really powerful down here - Yep.
- Right where we are.
They burned down churches.
They would actually tar and feather.
- Huh? - What? Now that Annie knew she was dealing with the KKK, it was time to break the bad news.
I did get the distinct impression that they would like to burn your house down The reason being they're disgusted by you.
Could the fact that I did a lot of civil rights work - Yes.
- In the '60s have anything Yeah, they probably are really repulsed by that.
The big question is, is it safe for you to be here? I can't answer that, but Amy can.
I would probably move.
The reason is because there is so much here.
Then you have the KKK.
And it's so many people, that they may accomplish their mission Which frightens me for you.
So our investigation went well and I hope, we gave you the answers you were looking for.
I know it was a hard answer.
But are you gonna move? For about a month after Amy and Steve left there was a lull.
I thought the house was safe.
And then it started up again.
It broke my heart to think of leaving, but it was time to go.
Right now I'm living with my daughter in Austin.
And looking for a new place that's permanent.
My health right now is not good.
I'm having more problems.
I'm hoping that if I stay away long enough, I'll start to feel better.
I hated telling Annie to leave her home, but the activity there was completely out of control.
I just hope whoever ends up in that house watches their back.
The paper people living in those woods are powerful, and they're there to stay.
Ybor City, Florida, was my kind of town Good Cuban food, unlimited cigars, and a history of violent crime.
Amy and I headed there to investigate the Don Vicente Inn.
For years, guests of the hotel had been reporting strange sightings.
But it wasn't until the owner's daughter got scared half to death, that I got a phone call.
Turned out some really sick stuff went down in that place.
- Tessa.
- Steve, nice to meet you.
- How are you? - Thank you for coming.
We had a lot of questions about some of the goings-on here.
And we needed to know whether this was something that we needed to feel threatened by.
Or that we should just start embracing.
Maybe you could explain a little bit about what's happening.
My dad bought the building in It took us about two years to restore.
Now was this always a hotel? It wasn't always a hotel actually, it was Vicente Ybor, who founded Ybor City, built it as a development corporation.
And then it became a hospital for some time.
You had mentioned that you guys are kind of uncomfortable about certain things.
Maybe you could explain some of that for me.
I've experienced some things, um.
Our guests have experienced some things.
So we kind of want to know who we're sharing our space with here.
When I arrive at a location, I always take a moment to connect with the property.
As soon as I connected with the Don Vicente, I knew I was about to have a long night.
This is a dead guy here, and he's a nasty, nasty guy.
A lot of dead people are here.
There's a lot of people coming out of the walls.
- Coming up next - That had to scare the hell out of you.
An apparition stalks the hotel owners.
It was a ghost.
- Did they listen to Amy - It was a lot of pressure.
Or continue to live in fear? We were down in Ybor City, Florida, investigating the Don Vicente Inn.
Tessa, the owner's daughter.
Told me she had the scariest experience of her life.
And I could tell just from looking at her, she was not exaggerating.
I am terrified to be down here.
So whenever I am down here by myself, I take these steps in two steps going back up.
When we bought it, it was a little creepy crawlspace.
My dad kind of dug it out, and now we do a lot of parties down here.
So it was 2:30 on a Tuesday afternoon.
I came downstairs, I walked into the bathroom.
Turned on the lights, and there it was, right there.
- What was? - Well, it was a ghost.
And I know that it was a Spanish woman.
I don't remember whether she was old or young.
But you could see right through her, she had no color.
That had to scare the hell out of you, I would assume.
I went flying backwards, screaming.
My purse fell off my shoulder.
All the contents ended up on the basement floor.
I was terrified.
I've walked through many hotels, so I usually know what type of activity to expect.
But the first lady I encountered made me sure that this place wasn't always a hotel.
There's, like, this little lady.
She's taking care of people.
She's doing a lot of stuff and she's, like, doing it all the time, 24/7.
Back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.
And she's wearing, like, the, you know, nurse-y shoes, like, the white shoes.
Tessa's dad had transformed this place from an abandoned clinic to a luxury hotel.
And he did a lot of the work himself.
If anyone knew about this place inside and out, it was Jack.
Many people, I would assume, passed away here.
Many were born, and many passed right here.
Jack had a lot of good stories, but what was most incredible The story he had never told anyone but me.
The most significant thing that occurred Difficult to talk about things like that.
It sounds so, uh, so fantastical, so bizarre.
One day, when we were excavating the basement, I was sitting there, and I noticed a light, some brightness over in the corner.
I saw a very small lady Latin, definitely, but very, very small.
And I looked at her, and she just was there looking back at me.
I was so surprised by the whole thing that it didn't register, I mean, you know? Some things are very difficult to accept and believe.
Am I the first person to hear you tell this story? - Yes.
- Okay.
She walks up and down, up and down, up and down, up and down, up and down, up and down, up and down.
The lady who looked like a nurse was so busy, she practically ran right through me trying to get down the hall.
A lot on here, up, back, forth, back, forth, back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.
But you know what's weird is that, um, you know, like she I'm getting two ages on her.
So I see her, like So maybe that's how, like How long she was doing this or something? There was a lot of noise coming from the basement, so I decided to check it out.
As soon as I walked down there, the dead completely surrounded me.
Yeah, there's a lot, um There's a lot of history here, so And, I mean, like, active, like, active history here.
Like, what I mean is, like, a lot of dead people are here.
I actually I don't know if it was a hospital or A a place for people who Um, were mentally ill.
Coming up next Seriously, I'm getting, like, chills up and down my back.
Steve unravels the mysteries inside the hotel.
Would you be surprised if tomorrow you found out there were bodies in the basement? And the dead push Amy beyond her breaking point Oh, oh, oh, I don't like that.
Ow! On "Dead Files Revisited.
" What's going on? When our client Tessa told me the Don Vicente Inn used to be a hospital, I knew I was facing a nightmare.
People die in hospitals, lots of 'em.
But there were no medical records left behind.
So identifying most of the dead was impossible.
All I could do was look into Ybor City's violent history and hope something would lead me back to the Don Vicente Inn.
Ybor City has an era called "the era of blood.
" In the early 1900s, different Mafia factions fought for control of Tampa's underground.
Then there was a war between all the Italian families here, and it was violent.
With all the murders that took place around this hotel, they would probably have taken them to the closest medical clinic, which was this one.
Because there were so many dead people in the basement, I knew the hotel used to be a hospital.
But then I started picking up on some residual energy that made me realize other things had happened here, too.
I-I kinda am getting a little bit of a Kind of Mafia thing here.
But it went wrong.
In a in a big way, it went wrong.
Some of them were killed.
I now knew the clinic was in the middle of one of Florida's most violent areas.
But it turned out the most suspicious character was actually inside the clinic.
The son of the man who ran the place.
The key figure in understanding that building is a man by the name of Jose Luis Avellanal.
He had so many lives, so many disguises.
Was he a doctor? Honestly, I'm not sure whether he had a-a medical degree or not.
But the strangest aspect of this, was Avellanal's obsession with death and eternal life.
He was constantly petitioning local boards to experiment on On cats, to to restore cats' lives.
And God knows whether he was ever experimenting with With humans there, but he was simply convinced that only he had the truth.
So he was convinced in his brain, he could bring, dead animals and/or humans back to life.
Yes.
A lot of dead people are here.
I couldn't stay focused, because all those dead people were fighting for my attention.
But then I was drawn to a man whose energy was so focused, the noise around me just stopped.
This is a dead guy here, and, um, it's almost like he's afraid he's gonna get busted for something, so he's trying to, like, be quiet about it.
Can you describe him? Um, he's wearing, like, actually, a really nice suit.
And he has dark brown hair, no facial hair.
Um, like, strong face.
Maybe he doesn't know.
Uh Yeah, he doesn't know he's dead.
He wants to figure out what happened.
Now was there any evidence that he might have used the hospital to With this reviving-of-dead-bodies stuff? It's interesting you mentioned this.
He lived literally And there were tunnels in Ybor City, and it was always assumed, I think, it was for prohibition, but that never made sense because Ybor City was a wide-open town.
So given what you know about this man right now Would you be surprised if tomorrow you found out there were bodies in his basement? No.
And there's, like, tunnels.
Um, like, there's tunnels.
This whole freaking thing, man.
There feels like there should have been a way to go through this wall.
Towards the end of my walk, I started feeling ill.
Dealing with that many dead people had completely drained me.
Okay.
Somebody's here, and they're, like Is this that other guy? So when a swarm of entities came up from the basement, I wasn't ready for what happened next.
Oh, oh, oh.
Oh, oh, oh, I don't like that.
What's going on? Ow! Like, a little push, a little nudge on my back.
Like, seriously, I'm getting chills up and down my back because they're touching me on my back.
I don't like that.
This was my breaking point.
The dead in that basement needed to move on, and more importantly, so did that well-dressed man, which is why he was the one I wanted to sketch.
He is very masculine-looking.
- Square jaw? - Yes.
- Okay.
- He has slicked-back - Slicked-back.
- Black hair.
All right.
Something like that? Yep, that's him.
Next, Amy reveals the frightening truth about the dead in the basement.
Do you think this guy killed anyone? And did the client follow Amy's advice? I was very interested to hear of Steve's findings in this reveal.
I had suspected the hotel used to be a hospital, and I was looking forward to finding out if I was right.
Amy, this is Tessa and Jack.
They are the owners of the hotel we're in.
They called us in because they've had some issues with guests, seeing apparitions and bizarre events going on.
My whole body is covered in goosebumps, because my father and I wanted to hear what she had to say but were very concerned about the threats and where this information was going to lead us next.
Tessa has actually encountered an apparition in the basement in the restroom area.
Walked in on a very dark, dark restroom, went to turn the light on, and there she was.
Well, I did encounter an older female in her 70s.
She was very petite.
She does have a hispanic heritage.
And she, um, what Was some type of nurse or something like that, a caretaker.
From the look on Jack's face, I could tell he wanted to confess that he had also seen the same Spanish woman.
So I decided to give him a little push.
Now you don't know this, but your father informed me that he actually saw something himself.
And I was really the only person he's ever told.
I didn't want to look foolish, uh, in in that respect.
So I was allowed to look foolish with my story, telling everybody all these years.
- And you just, keep it to yourself.
- I never, never told anybody.
At first I'm kind of like, what?! He was making me look like this crazy person that's telling this story.
I just didn't tell anybody.
I didn't want to look foolish.
My heart is about to beat out of my chest right now.
Yeah.
But it was also, um, a very heartfelt moment.
Sharing that with him was a very powerful moment for me.
Who do you think my lady was? Do you think it was her? - Maybe the same - I think it was probably the same The same woman.
There was a character here that lived here for many, many years.
His name was Jose Luis Avellanal.
Now this guy was a handsome, tall, charismatic guy A real narcissist uh, meticulous the way he dressed.
- Does that sound familiar to you at all? - Yes, it does.
Well, you know what? I have a photo of, uh, this guy.
I want you to take a look at it.
Wow! I took one look at that photo and recognized the face.
Then Steve pulled out the sketch.
Tell me what you think.
- That's pretty close.
- Wow.
That's the outfit that he had on with the bow tie.
Yeah.
What was your take on him? I mean, what kind of a person do you think he was? Well, he definitely had obsessive-compulsive disorder.
He was in some type of a powerful position.
He had that authority, um, confidence.
Let me paint a little picture of, uh, Mister Avellanal.
He was really into trying to revive the dead.
He would experiment reviving the dead.
There's rumors that he might have experimented on cats.
You know, I was really interested in Avellanal for A lot of the bad things that happened here.
You know, kind of everything was pointing towards him.
Do you think this guy killed anyone? No.
Even though the guy, in my opinion, is a sociopath? He's a lunatic, he's a liar, narcissistic.
Yeah, definitely he didn't kill anybody.
To this day my gut still says Avellanal was a criminal.
But I never met the guy, Amy did.
So I have to trust her judgment.
Avellanal, did he why is he here? Well, I think that Because he did have such a strong attachment to it, it was a place that he was familiar with And is familiar with.
But a lot of dead will just kind of converge, sometime at places.
Um, and being that this was a hospital.
A lot of people were brought here, to the morgue Looking back Jack and Tessa were lucky.
There were a lot of dead people in the basement, and it's fortunate none of them were dangerous.
They just needed help moving on.
You are safe, the guests are safe.
And the nurse is still working and doing her job taking care of everybody.
That's what we want is a happy place.
After the reveal I recommended a very strict cleansing process.
It was going to take a lot of time to remove that many dead people.
And I can remember thinking, I hope they take my advice.
Amy's advice was to do a cleansing downstairs to release the spirits.
To set them free so that they can move on.
Since then My father and I have not seen anything nor has anybody that works with us.
But when you see an apparition you will never forget it.
So I still have a little bit of trepidation about the basement, and I think that that will always be there.
Hi welcome to the Don Vicente.
But I love what I do, this is a family business.
It's such a big part of my life.
- Enjoy your stay.
- Thank you.
I can breath freely now, knowing that The building, our livelihood, our lives, each other, are all safe.