My Ghost Story (2010) s05e12 Episode Script
Love Never Dies
1 Dunn: SOMETHING JUST WASN'T RIGHT.
I FEEL THIS COLD CHILL PASS RIGHT THROUGH MY BODY.
WE DO BELIEVE THIS MIGHT HAVE BEEN THE SPIRI OF THE LADY THAT DIED IN THE THEATER.
Jones: THAT WAS A LITTLE UNNERVING.
Wilson: I WAS HAVING SOME COFFEE, AND SOMETHING TOLD ME, "JUST TAKE SOME PICTURES.
" I CAUGHT AN ORB.
Mona: INSIDE OF THE ORB, I LOOKED LIKE MY MOTHER'S PROFILE.
Wilson: IT WAS JUST COMPLETE DISBELIEF.
Bartley: I WAS LOOKING DOWN THE HALL, AND I SAW A FACE START TO MATERIALIZE.
IT MAKES YOUR BLOOD RUN COLD TO THINK THAT WAS A SPIRI LOOKING DOWN ON US.
Vipond: WE WERE BEING WATCHED THE WHOLE TIME.
EVERY HAIR ON MY BODY WAS STANDING UP.
Sherwood: THERE'S A VICTORIAN WOMAN IN A WHITE DRESS IN THE REFLECTION OF THE GLASS.
I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO THINK.
IT WAS ONE OF THE FREAKIES MOMENTS THAT I'VE EXPERIENCED.
Ferguson: I CAPTURED A FACE.
YOU CAN DISTINCTLY SEE HIS EYES, HIS NOSE.
THE HAIR LOOKS FEATHERY.
Beatty-Manuel: THERE IS SOMETHING OUT THERE THAT WE CANNOT EXPLAIN.
IT WAS JUST SO CREEPY.
Wilson: SOMETHING TOLD ME, "JUST TAKE SOME PICTURES.
" THE FIRST PICTURE I TOOK, I CAUGHT AN ORB.
Mona: INSIDE OF THE ORB, I LOOKED LIKE MY MOTHER'S PROFILE.
Wilson: MY GHOST STORY BEGAN WHEN I VISITED MY GRANDMOTHER'S HOUSE IN WESTMINSTER, MARYLAND.
MY GRANDMOTHER WAS EVERYTHING TO OUR FAMILY, THE MATRIARCH, THE GLUE, THE NUCLEUS.
SHE MADE SURE THA WE GOT TOGETHER FOR HOLIDAYS, AND SHE WAS A VERY IMPORTAN PART OF MY LIFE.
Mona: SHE WAS OUR FATHER BECAUSE MY DAD HAD DIED BACK IN THE '70s.
MY MOM HAD TO REALLY SUPPORT US, AND SHE REALLY WORKED IN DIFFERENT JOBS THROUGHOUT WESTMINSTER, MARYLAND.
Galanos: MY MOM WAS AN EXCELLENT COOK.
I'LL TELL YOU -- I LIVED FOR SUNDAYS.
SHE WOULD JUST COOK THE MOST AMAZING MEALS.
I TRULY DO MISS A LOT OF THAT.
Fred: WE STAYED PRETTY CLOSE AFTER MY DAD DIED, AROUND THE DINNER TABLE WHERE SHE WOULD GIVE US LESSONS ON LIFE.
IT'S BASICALLY HOW WE WOULD STAY IN TOUCH WITH ONE ANOTHER.
Moody: SHE WAS A GIVING WOMAN.
SOMEONE WOULD KNOCK ON HER DOOR, AND IF THEY WERE HUNGRY, SHE WOULD FEED THEM.
IF SHE KNEW THAT SOMEBODY NEEDED CLOTHES IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, SHE WOULD GATHER UP CLOTHES AND TAKE TO THEM.
FROM THE BOTTOM OF HER HEART, SHE WOULD GIVE WITHOUT ASKING ANYTHING IN RETURN.
Mona: SHE WAS A BALL OF ENERGY.
FOR SUCH A SMALL-STATURED WOMAN, SHE WAS ELECTRIC.
SHE LOVED EVERYONE, AND EVERYBODY LOVED MY MOTHER.
Moody: SHE LOVED FASHION.
Wilson: SHE WAS INTO SEQUINS AND ALWAYS LOOKING BEAUTIFUL FROM HEAD TO TOE.
Moody: ONE OF THE FONDES MEMORIES I HAD OF HER HAPPENED WHEN SHE DECIDED SHE WAS GONNA SWIM.
WE'D GO OUT, GET IN THE WATER, WAITING FOR MY MOM, WAITING FOR MY MOM.
WE HAPPENED TO LOOK UP, AND WE SEE THIS DIVA STRUTTING DOWN TO THE POOL LOOKING LIKE BO DEREK WITH THE HEADBAND ON.
BOW-LEGGED, SHORT -- SHE COULDN'T EVEN SWIM, BUT SHE LOOKED THAT PART.
Mona: THERE'S NOT ENOUGH WORDS TO EXPRESS WHO MY MOTHER WAS.
MY MOM HAD BEEN SICK FOR, I'D SAY, APPROXIMATELY TWO WEEKS.
SHE HAD AN UPPER-RESPIRATORY PROBLEM, SO WE RUSHED HER TO JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL.
Moody: SHE WAS DOING SO WELL WHEN WE WERE THERE, AND THEY SAID, "YOU GUYS CAN LEAVE THE HOSPITAL NOW.
" Fred: SHE WAS A STRONG WOMAN, A VERY, VERY, STRONG WOMAN.
WE ALL WENT HOME.
Moody: THE PHONE WAS RINGING AS SOON AS WE OPENED THE DOOR.
THEY TOLD US TO COME BACK TO THE HOSPITAL BECAUSE WE HAD TO MAKE THE DECISION TO TAKE HER OFF THE RESPIRATOR.
IT WAS THE HARDEST THING FOR ME TO HAVE TO MAKE THAT DECISION, NOT BECAUSE I THOUGHT IT WAS WRONG.
I DIDN'T WANT TO LOSE MY MOM.
Fred: SHE, I THINK, MADE PEACE WITH PASSING ON, AND WE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO SAY GOODBYE TO HER.
Wilson: WHEN SHE PASSED AWAY, EVERYONE WAS JUS COMPLETELY DEVASTATED.
Galanos: FOR THE LONGEST TIME, I FELT A SENSE OF RESPONSIBILITY.
I FELT GUILT.
AND IT TOOK ME A WHILE TO GET PAST THAT.
Mona: ALL MY FAMILY MEMBERS, THEY SEEMED TO DISPERSE.
WE DIDN'T SPEAK FOR A COUPLE YEARS, UNFORTUNATELY.
Wilson: IT WAS A VERY DIFFICUL TIME FOR EVERYBODY BECAUSE SHE WAS SO CENTRAL TO OUR FAMILY.
Mona: I THINK WE WERE JUST WALKING THROUGH A FOG, AND UNFORTUNATELY, WE GREW APART.
Moody: IT TOOK A WHILE FOR ME TO HAVE TO COME BACK AND RETURN TO THIS HOUSE 'CAUSE IT WAS SO HARD FOR ME.
Fred: THERE WAS JUST A VOID THAT WE JUST SEEMED TO NEVER -- WERE ABLE TO GET BACK TOGETHER.
Wilson: I HADN'T BEEN HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS SINCE SHE PASSED.
IT MAY SOUND STRANGE OR CRAZY, BUT MY GRANDMOTHER ACTUALLY COMMUNICATES TO ME THROUGH ONE PICTURE IN PARTICULAR THAT'S IN MY LIVING ROOM, AND SHE TOLD ME, "YOU BETTER GO HOME FOR CHRISTMAS.
NO EXCUSES.
" AND I DID.
Mona: TRACY CALLED ME, AND SHE DECIDED THAT SHE WAS GONNA COME UP.
I WAS ACTUALLY ELATED -- THE FACT THAT SHE WOULD SPEND THE HOLIDAY WITH ME.
IF MY MOM WERE HERE, SHE WOULD HAVE GOT US TOGETHER.
Wilson: SO, I GOT THERE LATE, BUT WHEN I WOKE UP THE NEXT MORNING, I WAS SITTING ALONE IN THE KITCHEN.
SHE WAS UPSTAIRS.
I WAS HAVING SOME COFFEE.
AND SOMETHING TOLD ME, "JUST TAKE SOME PICTURES.
" THE FIRST PICTURE I TOOK, I CAUGHT AN ORB.
I'M A BIG GEEK.
ALL OF THE PARANORMAL SHOWS THAT ARE ON TV, I TiVo AND KNOW WHAT TO LOOK FOR.
Mona: AT THAT POINT, SHE STARTED TO REALLY EDUCATE ME ABOUT WHAT AN ORB WAS.
Wilson: AN ORB IS A SPIRIT COMMUNICATING.
Mona: AND I THINK, SOMEHOW, IN THE BACK OF MY MIND, I WASN'T UPSE BECAUSE I ALWAYS KNEW THAT THERE WAS SOMETHING GOING ON IN THE HOUSE.
AND WE LOOKED AT IT CLOSER.
INSIDE OF THE ORB, IT LOOKED LIKE MY MOTHER'S PROFILE.
Wilson: I THINK FOR BOTH OF US, IT WAS JUST COMPLETE DISBELIEF.
Mona: IT REALLY INTRIGUED ME AT THAT POINT.
WE DECIDED TO TAKE MORE PICTURES.
AND MOST OF THE PICTURES HAD ORBS EVERYWHERE.
Wilson: AFTER THAT, I TURNED ON ALL MY DIGITAL RECORDERS.
WE WERE LIKE, "BERNICE, GRANDMA, "IF YOU'RE HERE, COULD YOU MAKE A NOISE? COULD YOU MAKE YOUR PRESENCE KNOWN?" Mona: I'M LOOKING AROUND MY BACK AND, LIKE, WONDERING, "WHAT'S GONNA GO ON?" Wilson: THAT'S WHEN WE ACTUALLY GOT A RESPONSE, AND THE QUESTION WAS, "ARE YOU OKAY?" WE JUST WANT TO KNOW IF IT'S YOU.
AND SHE RESPONDED WITH, "YES.
" AND WE KNOW THAT IF IT IS, THAT YOU'RE HERE STRICTLY OUT OF LOVE.
THAT YOU'RE HERE STRICTLY OUT OF LOVE.
Mona: THE HAIR IN THE BACK OF MY NECK ACTUALLY STOOD UP.
Wilson: I WAS JUST ELATED THA SHE ACTUALLY RESPONDED BACK.
THAT IF IT IS, THAT YOU'RE HERE STRICTLY OUT OF LOVE.
Mona: I SAID, "THAT'S MOM! ARE YOU KIDDING ME?" Wilson: AND THEN WE DECIDED TO CALL SOME MORE FAMILY MEMBERS OVER AND SEE WHAT THEY THOUGHT.
'CAUSE AT THAT POINT WE THOUGHT, "WE'RE LOSING IT.
" Moody: ON CHRISTMAS DAY, MONA HAD CALLED AND SAID THAT SHE HAD SOME THINGS THAT SHE WANTED TO SHOW US.
HEY.
WHEN WE ENLARGED THE ORB, I IMMEDIATELY SAW MY MOM'S IMAGE IN IT.
Wilson: MY WHOLE FAMILY WAS LIKE, "THIS MAKES SENSE TO US," BECAUSE THIS WAS HER FAVORITE HOLIDAY.
THIS IS WHEN SHE WAS ABLE TO SHINE AND COOK AND THE WHOLE FAMILY WAS TOGETHER.
Galanos: I WAS JUS COMPLETELY BLOWN AWAY.
Mona: REALIZING THAT YOUR MOM IS ACTUALLY STILL IN THE HOUSE AND HER SPIRIT IS THERE, IT WAS VERY EMOTIONAL FOR ALL OF US.
Fred: ALL THESE THINGS WE ASK IN YOUR PRECIOUS NAME.
Moody: LATER, WE HEARD HER VOICE ON THE VOICE RECORDER.
THAT'S YOU'RE HERE STRICTLY OUT OF LOVE.
Fred: AT THAT POINT, THERE WERE NO WORDS TO DESCRIBE MY EMOTIONS.
I WAS COMPLETELY TAKEN BY WHAT I HAD HEARD.
I MUST HAVE LISTENED TO THAT RECORDING 100 TIMES, JUST TRYING TO MAKE SOME SOR OF SENSE OF WHAT I WAS HEARING.
CLEARLY, IT WAS MY MOTHER'S VOICE.
Mona: HE STARTED TO CRY, AND THAT'S WHEN I KNEW THAT WE HIT SOMETHING THAT WAS REALLY RIGHT HERE TO HIS HEART.
THAT WAS MY MOTHER.
Wilson: THERE WAS A LOT OF TEARS.
WE CRIED BUCKETS.
AND IT WAS JUST LIKE A PIECE OF HER THAT WE HADN'T BEEN ABLE TO HEAR OR TOUCH IN FIVE YEARS.
WE ALL FEL JUST A SENSE OF CALM.
Fred: I BELIEVE THIS WAS DEFINITELY MY MOTHER'S WAY OF REACHING OUT TO US.
SHE'S HERE WITH US SPIRITUALLY.
Mona: THAT WAS MY MOTHER.
SHE'S STILL WITH ME.
SHE'S NEVER GONNA LEAVE MY SIDE.
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AND REALIZING THAT I WAS HER BABY AND SHE JUST WANTED ME TO BE OKAY.
Fred: LOVE NEVER DIES BECAUSE MY MOM WILL ALWAYS BE WITH US NO MATTER WHERE WE ARE.
Galanos: I FEEL LIKE I CAN DO ANYTHING BECAUSE SHE'S HERE GUIDING ME.
Moody: MY MOM'S APPEARANCE WAS A CHRISTMAS GIFT, AND I WILL BE ALWAYS GRATEFUL FOR THAT.
Wilson: THE BODY FALLS AWAY, BUT THE SPIRIT IS REAL.
Mona: MY MOM CAME TO US DURING THE TIMES THAT WE WERE NOT HAPPY.
WE WERE DISCONNECTED, AND SHE WAS THE NUCLEUS ONCE AGAIN, COMING BACK TO SAVE THE DAY AND BRING US BACK TOGETHER AS A FAMILY.
Dunn: WE RECEIVED A BLUE MIS COMING DOWN THE SIDE OF THE PICTURE WITH NO LOGICAL EXPLANATION.
Jones: IT ALMOST LOOKS LIKE AN ACTOR THAT'S PEEKING AT THE AUDIENCE.
Dunn: WE CATCH AN EVP OF A MAN THAT WHISPERS, "MY PROJECTOR.
" IT'S PRETTY CREEPY.
Dunn: YOU COULD SEE THE PROGRESSION HAD RE-CREATED INTO, LIKE, A BLUE ORB.
Jones: IT ALMOST LOOKS LIKE AN ACTOR THAT'S PEEKING AT THE AUDIENCE.
Dunn: WE CATCH AN EVP OF A MAN THAT WHISPERS, "MY PROJECTOR.
" Dunn: MY GHOST STORY BEGAN WHEN I VISITED THE HISTORIC SAVANNAH THEATRE.
SAVANNAH WAS KNOWN AS AMERICA'S MOST HAUNTED CITY.
IT WAS FOUNDED IN 1733, AND IT'S ONE OF THE ORIGINAL COLONIES OF GEORGIA.
IN 1820, 1854, AND 1876, THEY HAD THREE DIFFEREN YELLOW FEVER EPIDEMICS WITH THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE DYING EACH TIME.
ALSO, THEY HAD A GREAT FIRE IN 1820 WHICH DESTROYED HALF OF THE CITY.
IN THE LATE 1700s, THEY HAD TO PAVE OVER THE CEMETERIES TO EXPAND THE CITIES.
THEY MOVED ALL THE HEADSTONES, BUT THEY LEFT THE BODIES BECAUSE THEY WERE WORRIED ABOU DIGGING UP COMMUNICABLE DISEASES SUCH AS YELLOW FEVER.
SO, IN DOWNTOWN SAVANNAH, THERE'S LITERALLY THOUSANDS OF BODIES UNDER A LOT OF THE BUILDINGS.
I'VE BEEN GHOST HUNTING FOR ABOUT 2 1/2, 3 YEARS NOW IN SAVANNAH.
WE CONTACTED THE SAVANNAH THEATRE, 'CAUSE ME AND A COUPLE OF THE OTHER GUYS ON THE TEAM HEARD THEY'D HAD A LOT OF ACTIVITY.
DRU'S BEEN THE HOUSE MANAGER FOR CLOSE TO 20 YEARS.
Jones: SAVANNAH THEATRE OPENED IN DECEMBER OF 1818.
ON OUR WALLS, WE HAVE PICTURES OF A NUMBER OF PERFORMERS THAT HAVE BEEN IN THE THEATER.
W.
C.
FIELDS HAS PERFORMED, ALSO THE THREE STOOGES.
I'VE HEARD PEOPLE SAY THAT IT'S THE MOST HAUNTED BUILDING IN SAVANNAH.
WHENEVER ANYBODY MENTIONS SPIRITS OR GHOSTS, THEY WOULD JUST ALWAYS AIM THAT PERSON TO ME.
SOMETIMES I'M NOT COMFORTABLE BEING IN THE THEATER WHEN EVERYONE HAS GONE HOME.
I KNOW THAT I'M NOT ALONE WHEN I'M IN THERE.
I WAS WORKING WITH A FEMALE DIRECTOR ONE NIGHT.
EVERYONE HAD GONE HOME.
SHE WENT INTO THE UTILITY CLOSE TO TURN OFF THE LIGHTS.
SHE TURNED OFF THE WRONG SWITCHES, AND ALL THE EMERGENCY LIGHTS CAME ON.
ALL OF A SUDDEN, A MALE VOICE WITH A BRITISH ACCENT SAID, "HEY, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" LATER, I LOOKED AT HER, AND I SAID, "DID YOU HEAR THAT?" SHE SAID, "THAT WASN'T YOU?" GEORGE, WHO WAS THE PROJECTIONIST FOR THE THEATER, HAD A BRITISH ACCENT.
Dunn: AND IN THE 1950s, HE DIED AND HAD A HEART ATTACK IN THE PROJECTION BOOTH.
Jones: THAT WAS A LITTLE UNNERVING.
BEFORE I BECAME THE HOUSE MANAGER FOR SAVANNAH THEATRE, I RAN A SPOTLIGHT FOR TWO YEARS.
ONE NIGHT, I JUST FELT SOMEONE GRAB AHOLD OF MY SHIR AND TUG LIKE A CHILD WOULD.
THE STORY IS THAT FIRE BROKE OUT, AND THERE WAS A CROWD UP IN THE SECOND PART OF THE BALCONY.
THEY PANICKED AND STAMPEDED AND A CHILD HAD BEEN ASLEEP AND WAS TRAMPLED TO DEATH.
THAT ONE UPSETS ME.
RYAN AND HIS GROUP ARRIVED AT SAVANNAH THEATRE AFTER WE HAD DONE A SHOW.
Dunn: ONE OF OUR TEAM MEMBERS STARTED TAKING PHOTOS FROM THE OUTSIDE JUST TO GET A GOOD STAR ON THE INVESTIGATION.
WITHIN ABOUT THE FOURTH TO FIFTH PICTURE, WE RECEIVED A BLUE MIST COMING DOWN THE SIDE OF THE PICTURE WITH NO LOGICAL EXPLANATION.
THERE WAS NO SMOKE.
THERE WAS NO RAIN OR MIS THAT SHOULD HAVE CREATED THAT APPARITION.
FROM THE FIRST PHOTO TO THE SECOND TO THE THIRD, YOU COULD SEE THE PROGRESSION HAD RE-CREATED INTO, LIKE, A BLUE ORB.
Jones: IT ALMOST LOOKS LIKE IT'S WAITING TO COME INSIDE THE THEATER.
Dunn: AND WE COULDN'T EXPLAIN THAT ONE, AS WELL.
AND IT'S RIGHT ON THE MARQUEE.
Jones: THAT ORB COULD BE AN ACTOR WHO DOESN'T WANT TO LEAVE.
Dunn: IT WAS JUST VERY UNSETTLING.
IN THE THEATER, I WAS WALKING BACKSTAGE DURING OUR INITIAL WALK-THROUGH, AND YOU COULD SEE THE OLD BRICK FROM THE ORIGINAL BUILDING.
IT WAS VERY INTERESTING TO SEE THAT SOMETHING WAS THERE FROM 1818.
YOU COULD ALMOST FEEL THE ENERGY FROM THE BRICK ITSELF.
I HAD MY EMF DETECTOR ON.
I GOT A 15- TO 20-MILLIGAUSS SPIKE.
RIGHT AFTER THAT, I FEEL THIS COLD CHILL PASS RIGHT THROUGH MY BODY.
IT'S ALMOST LIKE YOU FEEL A STATIC ELECTRICITY, BUT IT RUNS DEEP INSIDE OF YOU.
SOMETHING JUST WASN'T RIGHT.
WITHIN ABOUT 30 MINUTES OF DOING THE READINGS, WE WENT AHEAD AND STARTED SETTING UP OUR STATIC CAMERAS THROUGHOUT THE THEATER WHERE PEOPLE HAD SEEN APPARITIONS.
PATRONS HAVE REPORTED SEEING A LADY IN VICTORIAN DRESS DISAPPEAR INTO THE BACKSTAGE AREA.
WHEN WE WENT BACK AND REVIEWED OUR TAPE, WE CAUGHT SOMETHING REALLY INTERESTING.
Jones: IT ALMOST LOOKS LIKE AN ACTOR THAT'S PEEKING AT THE AUDIENCE.
YOU PEEK OUT TO LOOK TO SEE IF MOM'S IN THE FRONT ROW.
THERE'S THE STORIES OF A WOMAN WHO WAS GETTING READY TO DO HER FIRST PLAY, AND SHE DIED BEFORE OPENING NIGHT.
I FEEL THAT ON STAGE LEF IS THE YOUNG WOMAN THAT DIED BEFORE SHE GOT TO COME ONSTAGE.
SHE WANTS HER MOMENT IN THE SPOTLIGHT, AND SHE NEVER GOT IT.
Dunn: NEXT, WE WENT BACK TO THE LOBBY.
AS SOON AS WE WALKED IN, YOU HAD THIS REALLY UNCOMFORTABLE FEELING, SO I DECIDED TO TURN A RECORDER ON.
THE EVP THAT WE CAUGH WAS VERY INTERESTING.
Jones: IT IS A WOMAN VOCALIZING.
THERE WAS SOMEBODY ELSE IN THAT LOBBY.
Dunn: WE DO BELIEVE THIS MIGHT HAVE BEEN THE SPIRI OF THE LADY THAT DIED IN THE THEATER.
Jones: THAT WAS A LITTLE UNNERVING.
Dunn: LATER THAT NIGHT, WE DECIDED TO DO AN EVP SESSION IN THE OLD PROJECTION BOOTH.
THE PROJECTION BOOTH IS NOW THE DRESSING ROOM FOR THE THEATER.
A LOT OF THE ACTORS THAT ARE THERE DO NOT LIKE BEING IN THERE ALONE.
IT'S JUST VERY ICE COLD, AND THERE'S THIS WEIRD ENERGY.
Jones: THERE'S NO REASON FOR IT TO BE AS COLD AS IT IS.
RYAN HAD THE EVPs GOING.
Dunn: AS WE WERE ASKING QUESTIONS WHERE THE PROJECTOR USED TO BE HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE IN HERE WITH US? WE CATCH AN EVP OF A MAN THAT WHISPERS, "MY PROJECTOR.
" Jones: I HAVE NO DOUBT THA THAT IS THE VOICE OF GEORGE.
HE'S STILL PROTECTING THAT PROJECTOR.
HE JUST CAN'T LET GO OF SOMETHING THAT APPARENTLY HE CARED A LOT ABOUT.
IT WAS PROOF THAT HE'S UP THERE.
Dunn: LATER THAT NIGHT, ONE OF OUR INVESTIGATORS WAS SETTING UP A STATIC CAMERA UPSTAIRS IN THE BALCONY, AND SHE HAD HER RECORDER GOING.
UPON REVIEW, YOU HEAR A SMALL CHILD.
Jones: I FELT SO HELPLESS THAT THERE'S A CHILD WHO'S STILL LOOKING FOR SOMEONE TO HELP HIM.
THAT REALLY UPSETS ME.
Dunn: I BELIEVE THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN THE SPIRI OF THE CHILD BENJAMIN THAT WAS TRAMPLED TO DEATH IN THE 1940s IN THE FIRE.
IT'S PRETTY CREEPY.
WITH THE EVPs, THE VIDEO, AND THE PHOTO EVIDENCE, AS WELL AS THE PERSONAL EXPERIENCE, IT'S MADE ME MORE OF A BELIEVER IN THE PARANORMAL.
Jones: RYAN'S VIDEOS AND HIS PICTURES GIVE ME SOME VALIDATION.
PEOPLE FROM THE PAS ARE STILL LOOKING FOR HELP.
Dunn: ANYONE THAT DOESN' BELIEVE IN THE PARANORMAL, I WOULD DEFINITELY INVITE THEM TO GO AND SPEND A NIGH AT THE SAVANNAH THEATRE.
Jones: IT'S NOT A STORY.
IT'S THE TRUTH.
Beatty-Manuel: THERE IS SOMETHING OUT THERE THAT WE CANNOT EXPLAIN.
Ferguson: THERE'S NO DENYING THAT THERE IS A FACE IN THE PICTURE.
YOU CAN SEE HIS EYES, HIS NOSE.
THE HAIR LOOKS ALMOST FEATHERY.
Beatty-Manuel: IT WAS VERY SCARY.
Ferguson: YOU CAN SEE HIS EYES, HIS NOSE.
THE HAIR LOOKS ALMOST FEATHERY.
Beatty-Manuel: IT WAS VERY SCARY.
MY GHOST STORY BEGAN WHEN I CAME TO THE MIDDLE CREEK BATTLEFIELD IN PRESTONSBURG, KENTUCKY.
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A CIVIL WAR BATTLE WAS FOUGH JANUARY 10, 1862.
COLONEL A.
J.
MAY LED THE CONFEDERACY INTO BATTLE AT THE MIDDLE CREEK NATIONAL BATTLEFIELD.
I AM A CIVIL WAR RE-ENACTOR, AND THAT'S HOW I FIRST GOT INTERESTED IN THE NATIONAL BATTLEFIELD AT MIDDLE CREEK.
WE HAVE GOT SEVERAL REPORTS FROM YEARS PAS NOT ONLY FROM CITIZENS THAT LIVE AROUND THE BATTLEFIELD BUT ALSO FROM RE-ENACTORS.
THEY SEE STRANGE LIGHTS.
WE'VE HEARD CANNON FIRE WHEN NO CANNONS HAD BEEN FIRED.
WE'VE HEARD HORSES.
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NO HORSES ARE ALLOWED ON THE MIDDLE CREEK BATTLEFIELD.
COLONEL MAY IS LEGENDARY IN OUR AREA.
A LOT OF PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT HIS SPIRIT STILL REMAINS ON THE NATIONAL BATTLEFIELD.
GINA FERGUSON IS A DEAR FRIEND.
WE MET AT AN EVEN ON THE NATIONAL BATTLEFIELD.
Ferguson: PEOPLE HEAR DISEMBODIED VOICES.
THERE'S WHAT WE CALL A CRAWLER -- PEOPLE THAT ARE SEEN CRAWLING IN THE SHADOWS OF THE TREELINE AND ACROSS THE BATTLEFIELD.
Beatty-Manuel: WE DECIDED THAT WE WERE GOING TO DO AN INVESTIGATION AT THE BATTLEFIELD.
Ferguson: WE WERE STANDING IN THE TREELINE WHEN WE NOTICED A LIGHT.
THE LIGHT LOOKED LIKE SOMEONE HOLDING A LANTERN.
THERE ARE NO CARS IN THIS AREA.
THERE ARE NO HOMES.
THERE'S NO POSSIBLE LIGHT SOURCE, NOTHING TO REFLECT OFF OF THAT COULD CAUSE IT.
WE COULDN'T EXPLAIN WHAT IT WAS.
I HAVE HEARD REPORTS OF PEOPLE SEEING STRANGE LIGHTS AT THE BATTLEFIELD.
THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME THAT I WITNESSED IT FOR MYSELF.
Beatty-Manuel: WE WENT TO THE TREELINE BECAUSE THAT SEEMS TO BE WHERE MOST OF THE ACTIVITY HAS BEEN REPORTED.
Ferguson: I LOOKED BECAUSE SOMETHING CAUGHT MY EYE.
I SAW A MAN CRAWLING ACROSS THE GROUND FROM ONE SIDE OF THE TREELINE TO THE OTHER.
THE MOVEMENT WAS DIFFERENT THAN ANYTHING I'VE EVER SEEN BEFORE.
IT WAS MORE STIFF, LIKE SOMEONE CRAWLING ACROSS ON THEIR ARMS USING THEIR ELBOWS.
AND IT STARTED ON ONE END, AND I WATCHED IT GO ALL THE WAY ACROSS THE BATTLEFIELD TO THE OTHER END, AND THEN IT WAS JUST GONE.
IT JUST DISAPPEARED.
Beatty-Manuel: I THINK WHAT WE SAW WAS THE SPIRIT OF A WOUNDED SOLDIER CRAWLING TO SAFETY.
IT WAS VERY SCARY.
Ferguson: WE DECIDED TO GO AHEAD AND CONDUCT AN EVP SESSION.
WE'RE GETTING OU ALL OUR EQUIPMENT, AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN, THE LIGHT APPEARED.
I TOOK OUT MY CAMERA AND WAS ABLE TO CATCH I IN TWO OF THE PICTURES.
I THINK THAT THE LIGH COULD POSSIBLY HAVE SOMETHING TO DO WITH THE SPIRIT OF COLONEL MAY.
Beatty-Manuel: IT WAS VERY, VERY COLD THAT NIGH ON THE BATTLEFIELD.
WE WERE KIND OF HUDDLED TOGETHER DOING AN EVP SESSION, AND WE PHYSICALLY HEAR A FEMALE VOICE SAYING, "WHY DID HE GO?" I THINK IT WAS A WOMAN ASKING WHY HER HUSBAND HAD TO GO FIGHT THIS WAR, AND CHANCES ARE HE WAS NOT GONNA COME BACK.
IT'S SO SAD AND SO PLEADING.
IT WAS JUST HEARTBREAKING.
Ferguson: WE CONTINUED ON WITH OUR EVP SESSION.
WE WERE ASKING FOR A SIGN IF THE SPIRITS WE WERE TALKING TO WERE UNION OR CONFEDERATE.
THERE WAS A LONG PAUSE, AND THEN WE PICKED UP AN EVP OF A VOICE THAT SAID, "13.
" AT THE TIME, "13" MADE ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE TO US.
WE JUST ASSUMED THAT IT WAS A RESIDUAL VOICE.
Beatty-Manuel: I THINK THE 13 EVP REFERS TO THE 13th KENTUCKY INFANTRY, WHO WAS ON THE FIELD AT THE TIME OF THE BATTLE.
THERE ARE ALSO 13 STARS ON THE CONFEDERATE FLAG.
THIS LEADS ME TO BELIEVE THAT IT'S CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS THAT ARE HAUNTING THE MIDDLE CREEK NATIONAL BATTLEFIELD.
Ferguson: WHEN YOU GE A RESPONSE FROM A SPIRIT, IT'S EXCITING.
BUT WHEN YOU GE AN INTELLIGENT RESPONSE, IT'S AN AMAZING FEELING.
WE HAD WORKED OUR WAY ON OVER TO THE BATTLEFIELD, AWAY FROM THE TREELINE A LITTLE BIT, AND WE HAD JUST TAKEN OU OUR CAMERAS.
I SNAPPED A FEW PICTURES, AND I HAVE -- THE ONLY THING I CAN DESCRIBE IT AS IS A MIST.
THERE WAS NO ONE SMOKING.
THERE WAS NO FOG IN THE AIR.
BUT THERE IS CLEARLY A VERY THICK MIST IN THE PHOTO.
I THINK THAT IT WAS POSSIBLY THE SPIRIT OF COLONEL MAY TRYING TO MANIFEST FOR US.
BUT HE WAS UNABLE TO GET UP ENOUGH ENERGY TO FULLY MANIFES FOR US TO TAKE A PICTURE.
WE WORKED OUR WAY BACK TO THE END OF THE TREELINE, WANTED TO GO BACK TO THE AREA THAT HAD GIVEN US THE MOST ACTIVITY.
WE WALKED BACK TO THAT AREA TO CONDUC ANOTHER SHORT EVP SESSION.
WE WRAPPED IT UP, AND WE WERE JUST STANDING THERE.
Beatty-Manuel: GINA GETS THIS EVP THAT SAYS, "COME WITH ME.
" Ferguson: I HAD CHILLS GO UP MY SPINE BECAUSE NO ONE ELSE HEARD IT.
WHATEVER IT WAS WAS SPEAKING DIRECTLY TO ME.
Beatty-Manuel: OH, I GET CHILLS THINKING ABOUT THAT EVP.
IT WAS JUST SO CREEPY.
I THINK IT COULD POSSIBLY BE THE SPIRIT OF COLONEL MAY RALLYING THE TROOPS.
Ferguson: I DECIDED AFTER THA THAT I WANTED TO SNAP SOME PICTURES, AND I CAPTURED SOMETHING REALLY AMAZING.
IT WAS A FACE.
YOU CAN DISTINCTLY SEE HIS EYES, HIS NOSE.
THE HAIR LOOKS ALMOST FEATHERY.
MAYBE WHATEVER IT WAS DID NOT HAVE ENOUGH ENERGY TO FULLY MANIFES WHEN I TOOK THE PICTURE.
BUT THERE'S NO DENYING THA THERE IS A FACE IN THE PICTURE.
I THINK THAT THIS FACE IS THE SPIRIT OF COLONEL ANDREW JACKSON MAY.
Beatty-Manuel: THIS EXPERIENCE HAS MOVED ME DEEPLY.
THERE IS SOMETHING OUT THERE THAT WE CANNOT EXPLAIN, WE CANNOT UNDERSTAND.
Ferguson: I THINK THAT COLONEL MAY IS STILL SUFFERING FROM THAT DEFEAT, AND I THINK THAT HE WANTS US TO COME BACK AND HE HAS A LOT TO TELL US.
Vipond: THE SPIRIT WAS INTERACTING WITH US PHYSICALLY Bartley: EVERY CELL IN MY BODY WAS TRYING TO GET AWAY FROM THIS THING.
IT WAS JUST ABJECT TERROR.
Vipond: A SPIRIT WAS INTERACTING WITH US PHYSICALLY.
Bartley: EVERY CELL IN MY BODY WAS TRYING TO GET AWAY FROM THIS THING.
IT WAS JUST ABJECT TERROR.
MY GHOST STORY BEGAN WHEN I TOOK A TOUR OF DOXFORD PARK IN ENGLAND.
FIONA IS MY FIANCéE.
WE WERE JUST OUT FOR A WALK IN THE PARK, AND I JUST SAW THIS HOUSE.
I JUST FELT DRAWN TOWARDS IT, YOU KNOW, 'CAUSE IT LOOKED SO CREEPY.
Vipond: JOE IS MY PARTNER.
WE GHOST HUNT TOGETHER ALL OVER ENGLAND, INVESTIGATING DIFFERENT PROPERTIES.
AND DOXFORD HOUSE JUS ABSOLUTELY BLEW US AWAY.
Bartley: THE HOUSE ITSELF LOOKS LIKE YOUR TYPICAL HAUNTED BRITISH MANOR HOUSE.
IT'S GOT TREES THAT LOOK LIKE TWISTED SOULS.
WE GOT TO THE WALL AND DISCOVERED THAT THE GATE WAS ACTUALLY OPEN AT THE TIME, SO WE ACTUALLY GO INTO THE GROUNDS.
Vipond: IT WAS AS IF THE HOUSE WAS GIVING OFF ENERGY.
"STAY AWAY.
WE DON'T WANT YOU HERE.
" STRANGELY ENOUGH, A FRIEND OF MINE KNEW THE OWNER.
THAT'S HOW WE ACTUALLY STARTED TO RESEARCH DOXFORD HOUSE.
Bartley: DOXFORD HOUSE WAS BUIL IN A PLACE CALLED SUNDERLAND IN THE NORTHEAST OF ENGLAND.
IT BELONGED TO A FAMILY BY THE NAME OF DOXFORD.
THEY WERE A SHIPBUILDING FAMILY, VERY WEALTHY.
GENERAL WILLIAM BECKWITH MOVED INTO THE HOUSE IN 1831.
Vipond: WILLIAM BECKWITH DOES CERTAINLY HAVE A RUTHLESS REPUTATION.
IN ONE PARTICULAR BATTLE, HE BEHEADED A FEW SOLDIERS.
Bartley: THERE IS A LEGEND OF BECKWITH'S SPIRIT BEING SEEN IN THE HOUSE ITSELF.
Vipond: THE SPIRI OF CAPTAIN BECKWITH WAS KNOWN TO CARRY A STICK, AND HE BANGS IT DOWN ON THE STAIRWELL.
AND HE ISN'T VERY HAPPY ABOU ANYBODY BEING IN HIS HOME.
Bartley: THE NIGH WE ACTUALLY ACQUIRED THE KEYS TO THE PROPERTY, WE MET A FEW TEAM MEMBERS NEAR AND A GUEST MEDIUM.
WE WERE ALL VERY EXCITED AND FILLED WITH TREPIDATION AT THE SAME TIME.
PART OF THE HOUSE HAD LIGHTS, BUT THE REST OF THE HOUSE DIDN' HAVE ANY ELECTRICITY AT ALL, SO IT WAS REALLY DARK.
THAT WAS THE BI THAT CREEPED ME OUT THE MOST.
Vipond: THERE WAS DEFINITELY A STRONG PRESENCE OR PRESENCES THERE.
YOU WERE BEING WATCHED THE WHOLE TIME.
Bartley: THE MEDIUM DECIDED TO GO WALK AROUND, JUST TO GET THE FEEL OF THE HOUSE.
HE RETURNED EXCLAIMING THAT HE'D PICKED UP ON TWO ENERGIES IN THE HOUSE -- ONE IN THE KITCHEN AREA, WHICH WAS THE SPIRI OF A GENTLEMAN WHO DIDN'T PARTICULARLY LIKE US BEING THERE, AND ANOTHER ONE UPSTAIRS ON THE LAST FLOOR OF THE HOUSE.
HE PICKED UP, LIKE, IT WAS A LITTLE GIRL BY THE NAME OF EMILY WHO DIED IN A FIRE.
THROUGH OUR RESEARCH, WE HAVE DISCOVERED THAT THE HOUSE DID HAVE FOUR FLOORS TO IT, AND THERE WAS INDEED A FIRE.
YOU OPEN THE DOOR TO THE KITCHEN, AND THE ATMOSPHERE JUST HITS YOU IN THE FACE.
IN 1901, I THINK, WHERE THIS DARK SPIRIT'S SUPPOSED TO RESIDE, THEY ACTUALLY FOUND STONE COFFINS WITH SKELETONS INSIDE THEM.
Vipond: DREW AND I DECIDED TO SET UP A CRUCIFIX, A TRIGGER OBJECT.
Bartley: WE USE A CRUCIFIX BECAUSE IT'S A GENERIC SHAPE, AND IT'S KNOWN TO VIRTUALLY EVERYBODY IN HISTORY.
WE PLACED THE CROSS ON A BOARD AND ASKED THE SPIRITS TO MANIPULATE THE CROSS ITSELF.
YOU BASICALLY LOCK OFF THE AREA SO YOU KNOW THAT THERE'S NO WAY ANYBODY COULD TAMPER WITH ANYTHING YOU'VE PUT IN THERE.
25, 30 MINUTES LATER, WE RETURNED TO THE KITCHEN.
Vipond: [ GASPS .]
A SPIRIT WAS INTERACTING WITH US PHYSICALLY.
EVERY HAIR ON MY BODY WAS STANDING UP.
Bartley: IT WAS SCARY AND EXCITING AT THE SAME TIME BECAUSE IT INSTANTLY PROVED TO ME THAT THERE WAS SOMETHING RESIDING IN THAT AREA.
Vipond: WE DECIDED TO DO A FLASHLIGHT SESSION TO COMMUNICATE WITH THE SPIRIT -- WHOEVER HAD MOVED THE CRUCIFIX.
Bartley: YOU BASICALLY ASK THE SPIRI TO MANIPULATE THE LIGHT, USING THE BATTERY POWER TO ANSWER QUESTIONS.
Vipond: INSTANTANEOUSLY, WE GO A REACTION WITH THE FLASHLIGHT.
Bartley: WE ASKED THIS ENTITY IF IT KNEW OF ANY MORE SPIRITS IN THE HOUSE, AND INDEED, IT DID.
ACCORDING TO THIS SPIRIT, THERE'S FIVE SPIRITS IN THE HOUSE.
Vipond: THANK YOU.
I THINK THAT THAT SPIRI IS MOST DEFINITELY CAPTAIN BECKWITH.
WHEN WE ASKED, "ARE YOU UNHAPPY WITH US BEING HERE?" IT FLASHED FOR "YES.
" Bartley: I THINK IT'S HIM MANIPULATING THE LIGHTS.
IT WAS ABSOLUTELY ASTOUNDING TO SEE.
ON THE WAY UP THE STAIRS, A PHOTOGRAPH WAS TAKEN BY A TEAM MEMBER, AND YOU CAN DISTINCTLY SEE ON THE TOP RIGHT-HAND SIDE OF THE PHOTOGRAPH QUITE AN ANOMALOUS MIST.
THERE WASN' ANY OF THE INVESTIGATORS SMOKING THAT NIGHT IN THE HOUSE.
WE DON'T ALLOW SMOKING IN ANY INVESTIGATION BECAUSE OF TRICKS IT CAN PLAY ON A CAMERA LENS.
YOU CAN ACTUALLY SEE A FACE IF YOU LOOK HARD ENOUGH.
IT MAKES YOUR BLOOD RUN COLD TO THINK THAT THERE WAS A SPIRI LOOKING DOWN ON US.
Vipond: DREW AND I CLIMBED UP TO THE THIRD FLOOR, AND WE DECIDED TO CARRY OUT A KII SESSION TO TRY AND COMMUNICATE WITH LITTLE EMILY.
Bartley: WE PLACED THE KII METER ON THE RADIATOR.
WE HAVE A DICTAPHONE RUNNING EVERY TIME WE DO A KII SESSION.
Vipond: WE DID SPECIFICALLY ASK, "IF THE ANSWER IS 'YES' TO ANYTHING, "CAN YOU PLEASE COME TOWARDS THIS DEVICE AND LIGHT UP THE LIGHTS?" Bartley: WHEN WE MENTIONED THE NAME EMILY, UNBELIEVABLY, WE ACTUALLY GOT A RESPONSE.
Vipond: TO EXPERIENCE THIS WAS JUST LIKE NOTHING ELSE.
WE ARE DEFINITELY COMMUNICATING WITH SPIRIT.
THERE'S NO OTHER REASON.
THERE'S NOTHING ELECTRICAL IN THE AREA.
THERE'S JUST DREW AND I WITH A KII METER.
Bartley: SUDDENLY, A REAL, REAL COLDNESS CAME ALONG.
I INITIALLY ASKED THE ENTITY IF IT WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR DROPPING THE TEMPERATURE SO DRAMATICALLY.
AND WE RECORDED A FANTASTIC EVP AT THE SAME TIME.
Vipond: ON LISTENING BACK, WE DISTINCTLY HEAR A LITTLE GIRL'S VOICE SAY, "I'M COLD, VERY COLD.
" TO RECORD THAT EVP WAS JUS A PHENOMENAL FEELING.
Bartley: IT SOUNDED LIKE A YOUNG GIRL PROCLAIMING THAT SHE WAS COLD, WHICH ADDS CREDENCE TO THE FAC THAT THE ATMOSPHERE WEN ABSOLUTELY FREEZING.
I PERSONALLY BELIEVE IT WAS THE SPIRIT OF EMILY.
Vipond: THERE'S NO DOUBT IN MY MIND THAT SPIRITS DO EXIST.
LIFE DOES GO ON AFTER DEATH.
IT'S BEYOND QUESTION.
WHAT WE CAPTURED WAS COMPLETELY GENUINE.
OBVIOUSLY, THE ESSENCE OF THIS SPIRIT GIRL STILL LINGERS IN DOXFORD HOUSE, ALONG WITH THE SPIRI OF CAPTAIN BECKWITH.
Bartley: I WAS A VERY SKEPTICAL PERSON, BUT I'M A BELIEVER NOW.
DOXFORD HOUSE HAS STILL GO A LOT TO DELIVER.
THERE'S A LOT OF STORIES CONNECTED TO THE HOUSE THAT NEEDS UNEARTHING.
AND IT NEEDS TO BE SEEN BY PEOPLE.
IT NEEDS TO BE RECOGNIZED.
Sherwood: I WANTED TO LITERALLY RUN OUT OF THE BASEMENT.
WE ALL JUST STOPPED IN OUR TRACKS LIKE, "WHOA, WE HAVE IT ON CAMERA.
" IT WAS ONE OF THE FREAKIES MOMENTS THAT I'VE EXPERIENCED.
Sherwood: WE ALL JUST STOPPED IN OUR TRACKS LIKE, "WHOA, WE HAVE IT ON CAMERA.
" IT WAS ONE OF THE FREAKIES MOMENTS THAT I'VE EXPERIENCED.
MY GHOST STORY BEGAN WHEN I OPENED AN ANTIQUE STORE IN A HAUNTED BUILDING.
THE HANSON-EMERSON BUILDING IS LOCATED IN SAUK CENTRE, MINNESOTA.
THE ORIGINAL BUILDING WAS BUILT IN 1871.
THE SHOP THAT I HAVE IS CALLED MAIN STREET GALLERY: ARTISANS AND ANTIQUES.
MOSTLY, WE HAVE THE ANTIQUES, SO WE HAVE A LOT OF INTERESTING THINGS COMING IN ON A DAILY BASIS.
I SPENT TWO MONTHS PREPARING THE STORE TO MOVE IN -- CLEANING, MOVING DISPLAYS IN, AND I NOTICED THINGS STARTED HAPPENING.
I WOULD BE IN THE BUILDING ALL BY MYSELF, DOORS LOCKED SO I KNOW THERE'S NO ONE ELSE AROUND, AND I WOULD HEAR SOMEONE WALKING BACK AND FORTH.
AND I'D TIP-TOE AROUND THE CORNER, AND THERE'S NO ONE THERE.
SO, I WOULD GO BACK TO WHAT I WAS DOING, EXCEPT NOW I'M THINKING ABOU WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE OTHER ROOM.
AND AGAIN, I'D HEAR BACK AND FORTH, BACK AND FORTH.
AND I'D TIP-TOE AROUND, AND THERE'S NO ONE THERE.
I PROBABLY DID THAT 50 TIMES.
FINALLY, I JUST THOUGHT, "OKAY, THERE'S SOMEBODY WALKING BACK AND FORTH IN THERE," AND I STARTED TALKING TO THEM.
"IT'S OKAY THAT YOU'RE HERE.
I'M NOT HERE TO KICK YOU OUT, BUT YOU ARE FREAKING ME OUT.
" ADRIAN LEE IS A PARANORMAL INVESTIGATOR AND A HISTORIAN.
AND ONE DAY LAST SUMMER, HE WALKED INTO MY SHOP.
Lee: I FIRST CAME TO MEET BARBARA -- I WAS WALKING UP MAIN STREE OF SAUK CENTRE, AND I WAS DOING SOME ERRANDS AROUND TOWN.
AND I'D NEVER BEEN INTO THAT SHOP BEFORE.
I INSTANTLY NOTICED THAT IT WAS A VERY HAUNTED, VERY OLD BUILDING CRAMMED FULL OF SPIRITS.
ANTIQUES HAVE A LO OF ATTACHMENTS TO THEM, SO IF SOMEONE OWNED A PARTICULAR OBJECT AND HAS DIED, YOU HAVE THAT RESIDUAL ENERGY.
YOU HAVE THOSE ATTACHMENTS TO THOSE.
Sherwood: HE STARTED SAYING THINGS LIKE, "WELL, YOU KNOW THIS PLACE HAS PARANORMAL ACTIVITY.
MAYBE WE SHOULD INVESTIGATE.
" AND I THOUGHT, "OKAY, HERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY TO FIND OU "WHAT'S REALLY GOING ON HERE "BECAUSE I'VE BEEN FREAKED OU SO MANY TIMES.
I'D LIKE TO FIND OU WHO IT IS THAT'S DOING IT.
" SO, ADRIAN HAD SOME PEOPLE COME IN WITH ALL KINDS OF EQUIPMENT, AND THEY SET UP THIS EQUIPMEN ON THE MAIN FLOOR AND DOWN IN THE BASEMENT.
Lee: IT'S A VERY OLD BASEMENT, SO ALREADY WHEN YOU WALK DOWN THERE, THERE'S A SENSE THAT YOU'RE FEELING UNEASY JUST BECAUSE THE FLOOR'S UNEVEN AND YOU'VE GOT THE DARKNESS AND THE SMELLS.
YOU KNOW, YOU'RE PROGRESSIVELY PICKING UP PARANORMAL ACTIVITY.
Sherwood: THERE ARE TIMES WHEN IT JUST FEELS LIKE THEY DON'T WANT YOU DOWN THERE, SO I LITERALLY DON'T GO DOWN IN THE BASEMENT.
Lee: WITH ALL THE INVESTIGATIONS WE DO, THE FIRST THING WE OPERATE IS A BASELINE TEST.
SO, WE PUT AN I.
R.
CAMERA INTO THE BASEMENT AREA, SET UP SOME TRIGGER OBJECTS.
I PLACED THREE SETS OF PLAYING CARDS IN A ROW, ALL STACKED UP LIKE PYRAMIDS.
Sherwood: THEN YOU CAN ASK THE SPIRITS TO KNOCK THEM OVER.
SO, THEY SET THIS UP, AND THEY HAD CAMERAS ON IT.
NOW, THERE'S NO VENTS DOWN THERE.
THERE'S NO AIR FLOW.
DOOR'S SHUT.
IT'S DARK, AND NOBODY'S MOVING.
AND THEY ASKED THE SPIRITS TO KNOCK THE CARDS OVER.
AND THEY WENT POOF.
THEY JUST WENT RIGHT OVER.
WE ALL JUST KIND OF STOPPED IN OUR TRACKS LIKE, "OKAY, WHOA.
THEY ACTUALLY DID THAT, AND WE HAVE IT ON CAMERA.
" Lee: TO ACTIVELY SEE OBJECTS BEING PUSHED OVER, THAT WAS PRETTY INCREDIBLE.
Sherwood: IT WAS PRETTY MUCH PROOF THAT THERE'S SOMEBODY THERE.
THAT'S SCARY.
THERE'S ANOTHER SPIRI CALLED ELIZABETH OR LIZZY, AND I'VE SEEN HER TWICE, ONCE ON THE MAIN FLOOR AND ONCE DOWNSTAIRS.
SHE'S A VICTORIAN WOMAN IN THE WHITE DRESS.
AND ONE DAY, I TOOK A PICTURE OF SOME ANTIQUE FURNITURE IN THE STORE, AND I POSTED THE PICTURE ONLINE.
AND A FRIEND OF MINE CALLED ME AND SAID, "OH, MY GOSH.
DID YOU SEE WHAT'S IN THA PICTURE THAT YOU JUST POSTED?" AND I SAID, "NO, WHY?" SHE SAID, "THERE'S A VICTORIAN WOMAN IN A WHITE DRESS IN THIS PICTURE.
" SO, I LOOKED AT THE PHOTO I TOOK.
AND IN THE REFLECTION OF SOME GLASS, YOU CAN SEE A VICTORIAN WOMAN HOLDING A CAT.
I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO THINK.
SHE WOULD HAVE BEEN STANDING NEXT TO ME WHEN I TOOK THE PICTURE.
Lee: AS A HISTORIAN, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT INTERESTED ME WAS WHEN I DID MORE RESEARCH AND I WENT TO THE LOCAL CEMETERY, I ACTUALLY DISCOVERED THAT PAUL HANSON, WHO'S DON HANSON'S FATHER, ORIGINALLY RAN THE PHARMACY -- HIS WIFE WAS CALLED ELIZABETH EMERSON, AND SHE WAS KNOWN AS LIZZY.
I FOUND A PHOTOGRAPH FROM THE 1890s THAT SHOWS LIZZY WEARING THE WHITE VICTORIAN DRESS THAT BARBARA HAD SEEN THIS LADY WANDERING THROUGH THE SHOP.
Sherwood: I THINK ELIZABETH, OR LIZZY, IS CHECKING UP ON ME.
THERE'S MAYBE A KINSHIP BECAUSE WE'RE BOTH WOMEN.
I'M MANAGING A STORE.
SHE WAS MARRIED TO THE MAN WHO BUILT IT.
SO, MAYBE SHE IS CHECKING UP ON ME AND JUST MAKING SURE THAT I'M DOING OKAY.
Lee: IN THE ANTIQUES SECTION OF THE SHOP, THERE'S A VERY CREEPY-LOOKING, CHINA, VICTORIAN DOLL.
Sherwood: I FIRST THOUGH SOMETHING WAS UP WITH ANNABEL WHEN I CAME IN ONE MORNING AND HER ARM WAS UP.
AND I DIDN'T REMEMBER IT BEING THAT WAY THE NIGHT BEFORE.
I THOUGHT, "OKAY, I'LL PUT THE ARM BACK DOWN.
" AND THAT NIGHT, I MADE SURE THAT I KNEW EXACTLY WHAT POSITION SHE WAS IN WHEN I LEFT.
BOTH HER ARMS WERE DOWN, AND SHE WAS LOOKING STRAIGHT AHEAD.
AND THE NEXT MORNING, I COME IN, AND THAT LITTLE ARM WAS BACK UP AGAIN.
NOW, SHE'S ALMOST 100 YEARS OLD, AND HER ARMS ARE HARD TO MOVE, SO IT'S NOT LIKE IT JUS POPPED UP ALL BY ITSELF.
Lee: I'VE DONE LOTS OF TESTS ON THE DOLL.
I'VE PUT EMF METERS AROUND HER.
I HAVE USED EVPs.
I'VE SET UP AUDIO EQUIPMEN AROUND HER.
I DON'T BELIEVE THAT SHE'S ACTUALLY POSSESSED OR HAUNTED OR HAS ANY ATTACHMENTS IN ANY WAY.
WHAT I ACTUALLY BELIEVE IS THAT THERE'S CHILDREN IN AND AMONGST THE SHOP.
IF YOU WERE A VICTORIAN CHILD AND YOU'RE IN SPIRI AND YOU'RE IN AN ANTIQUES SHOP AND YOU SEE A DOLL SAT THERE, YOU WANT TO INTERACT WITH THAT.
Sherwood: SO, SOMEBODY, SOME LITTLE CHILD SPIRIT, WAS OBVIOUSLY PLAYING WITH HER.
THIS WHOLE EXPERIENCE HAS CHANGED MY LIFE.
I'VE SEEN MANY THINGS.
I'VE HEARD THINGS.
IT'S AMAZING BECAUSE NOW I KNOW THERE'S SOMETHING ELSE OTHER THAN WHAT WE ARE RIGHT NOW, THAT IT'S OKAY TO GO TO THE OTHER SIDE.
IT DOESN'T JUST END.
Lee: THIS EXPERIENCE FOR ME AT THE ANTIQUE SHOP HAS TOUCHED ME VERY PERSONALLY BECAUSE YOU'RE GETTING CONTAC WITH INDIVIDUALS THAT LIVE THERE, THAT WORK THERE.
YOU DON'T OFTEN GET A CHANCE TO DO THAT.
Sherwood: I ACTUALLY ENJOY BEING IN THAT BUILDING, AND I ENJOY THE COMPANY EVEN IF I CAN'T SEE THEM.
I FEEL THIS COLD CHILL PASS RIGHT THROUGH MY BODY.
WE DO BELIEVE THIS MIGHT HAVE BEEN THE SPIRI OF THE LADY THAT DIED IN THE THEATER.
Jones: THAT WAS A LITTLE UNNERVING.
Wilson: I WAS HAVING SOME COFFEE, AND SOMETHING TOLD ME, "JUST TAKE SOME PICTURES.
" I CAUGHT AN ORB.
Mona: INSIDE OF THE ORB, I LOOKED LIKE MY MOTHER'S PROFILE.
Wilson: IT WAS JUST COMPLETE DISBELIEF.
Bartley: I WAS LOOKING DOWN THE HALL, AND I SAW A FACE START TO MATERIALIZE.
IT MAKES YOUR BLOOD RUN COLD TO THINK THAT WAS A SPIRI LOOKING DOWN ON US.
Vipond: WE WERE BEING WATCHED THE WHOLE TIME.
EVERY HAIR ON MY BODY WAS STANDING UP.
Sherwood: THERE'S A VICTORIAN WOMAN IN A WHITE DRESS IN THE REFLECTION OF THE GLASS.
I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO THINK.
IT WAS ONE OF THE FREAKIES MOMENTS THAT I'VE EXPERIENCED.
Ferguson: I CAPTURED A FACE.
YOU CAN DISTINCTLY SEE HIS EYES, HIS NOSE.
THE HAIR LOOKS FEATHERY.
Beatty-Manuel: THERE IS SOMETHING OUT THERE THAT WE CANNOT EXPLAIN.
IT WAS JUST SO CREEPY.
Wilson: SOMETHING TOLD ME, "JUST TAKE SOME PICTURES.
" THE FIRST PICTURE I TOOK, I CAUGHT AN ORB.
Mona: INSIDE OF THE ORB, I LOOKED LIKE MY MOTHER'S PROFILE.
Wilson: MY GHOST STORY BEGAN WHEN I VISITED MY GRANDMOTHER'S HOUSE IN WESTMINSTER, MARYLAND.
MY GRANDMOTHER WAS EVERYTHING TO OUR FAMILY, THE MATRIARCH, THE GLUE, THE NUCLEUS.
SHE MADE SURE THA WE GOT TOGETHER FOR HOLIDAYS, AND SHE WAS A VERY IMPORTAN PART OF MY LIFE.
Mona: SHE WAS OUR FATHER BECAUSE MY DAD HAD DIED BACK IN THE '70s.
MY MOM HAD TO REALLY SUPPORT US, AND SHE REALLY WORKED IN DIFFERENT JOBS THROUGHOUT WESTMINSTER, MARYLAND.
Galanos: MY MOM WAS AN EXCELLENT COOK.
I'LL TELL YOU -- I LIVED FOR SUNDAYS.
SHE WOULD JUST COOK THE MOST AMAZING MEALS.
I TRULY DO MISS A LOT OF THAT.
Fred: WE STAYED PRETTY CLOSE AFTER MY DAD DIED, AROUND THE DINNER TABLE WHERE SHE WOULD GIVE US LESSONS ON LIFE.
IT'S BASICALLY HOW WE WOULD STAY IN TOUCH WITH ONE ANOTHER.
Moody: SHE WAS A GIVING WOMAN.
SOMEONE WOULD KNOCK ON HER DOOR, AND IF THEY WERE HUNGRY, SHE WOULD FEED THEM.
IF SHE KNEW THAT SOMEBODY NEEDED CLOTHES IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, SHE WOULD GATHER UP CLOTHES AND TAKE TO THEM.
FROM THE BOTTOM OF HER HEART, SHE WOULD GIVE WITHOUT ASKING ANYTHING IN RETURN.
Mona: SHE WAS A BALL OF ENERGY.
FOR SUCH A SMALL-STATURED WOMAN, SHE WAS ELECTRIC.
SHE LOVED EVERYONE, AND EVERYBODY LOVED MY MOTHER.
Moody: SHE LOVED FASHION.
Wilson: SHE WAS INTO SEQUINS AND ALWAYS LOOKING BEAUTIFUL FROM HEAD TO TOE.
Moody: ONE OF THE FONDES MEMORIES I HAD OF HER HAPPENED WHEN SHE DECIDED SHE WAS GONNA SWIM.
WE'D GO OUT, GET IN THE WATER, WAITING FOR MY MOM, WAITING FOR MY MOM.
WE HAPPENED TO LOOK UP, AND WE SEE THIS DIVA STRUTTING DOWN TO THE POOL LOOKING LIKE BO DEREK WITH THE HEADBAND ON.
BOW-LEGGED, SHORT -- SHE COULDN'T EVEN SWIM, BUT SHE LOOKED THAT PART.
Mona: THERE'S NOT ENOUGH WORDS TO EXPRESS WHO MY MOTHER WAS.
MY MOM HAD BEEN SICK FOR, I'D SAY, APPROXIMATELY TWO WEEKS.
SHE HAD AN UPPER-RESPIRATORY PROBLEM, SO WE RUSHED HER TO JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL.
Moody: SHE WAS DOING SO WELL WHEN WE WERE THERE, AND THEY SAID, "YOU GUYS CAN LEAVE THE HOSPITAL NOW.
" Fred: SHE WAS A STRONG WOMAN, A VERY, VERY, STRONG WOMAN.
WE ALL WENT HOME.
Moody: THE PHONE WAS RINGING AS SOON AS WE OPENED THE DOOR.
THEY TOLD US TO COME BACK TO THE HOSPITAL BECAUSE WE HAD TO MAKE THE DECISION TO TAKE HER OFF THE RESPIRATOR.
IT WAS THE HARDEST THING FOR ME TO HAVE TO MAKE THAT DECISION, NOT BECAUSE I THOUGHT IT WAS WRONG.
I DIDN'T WANT TO LOSE MY MOM.
Fred: SHE, I THINK, MADE PEACE WITH PASSING ON, AND WE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO SAY GOODBYE TO HER.
Wilson: WHEN SHE PASSED AWAY, EVERYONE WAS JUS COMPLETELY DEVASTATED.
Galanos: FOR THE LONGEST TIME, I FELT A SENSE OF RESPONSIBILITY.
I FELT GUILT.
AND IT TOOK ME A WHILE TO GET PAST THAT.
Mona: ALL MY FAMILY MEMBERS, THEY SEEMED TO DISPERSE.
WE DIDN'T SPEAK FOR A COUPLE YEARS, UNFORTUNATELY.
Wilson: IT WAS A VERY DIFFICUL TIME FOR EVERYBODY BECAUSE SHE WAS SO CENTRAL TO OUR FAMILY.
Mona: I THINK WE WERE JUST WALKING THROUGH A FOG, AND UNFORTUNATELY, WE GREW APART.
Moody: IT TOOK A WHILE FOR ME TO HAVE TO COME BACK AND RETURN TO THIS HOUSE 'CAUSE IT WAS SO HARD FOR ME.
Fred: THERE WAS JUST A VOID THAT WE JUST SEEMED TO NEVER -- WERE ABLE TO GET BACK TOGETHER.
Wilson: I HADN'T BEEN HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS SINCE SHE PASSED.
IT MAY SOUND STRANGE OR CRAZY, BUT MY GRANDMOTHER ACTUALLY COMMUNICATES TO ME THROUGH ONE PICTURE IN PARTICULAR THAT'S IN MY LIVING ROOM, AND SHE TOLD ME, "YOU BETTER GO HOME FOR CHRISTMAS.
NO EXCUSES.
" AND I DID.
Mona: TRACY CALLED ME, AND SHE DECIDED THAT SHE WAS GONNA COME UP.
I WAS ACTUALLY ELATED -- THE FACT THAT SHE WOULD SPEND THE HOLIDAY WITH ME.
IF MY MOM WERE HERE, SHE WOULD HAVE GOT US TOGETHER.
Wilson: SO, I GOT THERE LATE, BUT WHEN I WOKE UP THE NEXT MORNING, I WAS SITTING ALONE IN THE KITCHEN.
SHE WAS UPSTAIRS.
I WAS HAVING SOME COFFEE.
AND SOMETHING TOLD ME, "JUST TAKE SOME PICTURES.
" THE FIRST PICTURE I TOOK, I CAUGHT AN ORB.
I'M A BIG GEEK.
ALL OF THE PARANORMAL SHOWS THAT ARE ON TV, I TiVo AND KNOW WHAT TO LOOK FOR.
Mona: AT THAT POINT, SHE STARTED TO REALLY EDUCATE ME ABOUT WHAT AN ORB WAS.
Wilson: AN ORB IS A SPIRIT COMMUNICATING.
Mona: AND I THINK, SOMEHOW, IN THE BACK OF MY MIND, I WASN'T UPSE BECAUSE I ALWAYS KNEW THAT THERE WAS SOMETHING GOING ON IN THE HOUSE.
AND WE LOOKED AT IT CLOSER.
INSIDE OF THE ORB, IT LOOKED LIKE MY MOTHER'S PROFILE.
Wilson: I THINK FOR BOTH OF US, IT WAS JUST COMPLETE DISBELIEF.
Mona: IT REALLY INTRIGUED ME AT THAT POINT.
WE DECIDED TO TAKE MORE PICTURES.
AND MOST OF THE PICTURES HAD ORBS EVERYWHERE.
Wilson: AFTER THAT, I TURNED ON ALL MY DIGITAL RECORDERS.
WE WERE LIKE, "BERNICE, GRANDMA, "IF YOU'RE HERE, COULD YOU MAKE A NOISE? COULD YOU MAKE YOUR PRESENCE KNOWN?" Mona: I'M LOOKING AROUND MY BACK AND, LIKE, WONDERING, "WHAT'S GONNA GO ON?" Wilson: THAT'S WHEN WE ACTUALLY GOT A RESPONSE, AND THE QUESTION WAS, "ARE YOU OKAY?" WE JUST WANT TO KNOW IF IT'S YOU.
AND SHE RESPONDED WITH, "YES.
" AND WE KNOW THAT IF IT IS, THAT YOU'RE HERE STRICTLY OUT OF LOVE.
THAT YOU'RE HERE STRICTLY OUT OF LOVE.
Mona: THE HAIR IN THE BACK OF MY NECK ACTUALLY STOOD UP.
Wilson: I WAS JUST ELATED THA SHE ACTUALLY RESPONDED BACK.
THAT IF IT IS, THAT YOU'RE HERE STRICTLY OUT OF LOVE.
Mona: I SAID, "THAT'S MOM! ARE YOU KIDDING ME?" Wilson: AND THEN WE DECIDED TO CALL SOME MORE FAMILY MEMBERS OVER AND SEE WHAT THEY THOUGHT.
'CAUSE AT THAT POINT WE THOUGHT, "WE'RE LOSING IT.
" Moody: ON CHRISTMAS DAY, MONA HAD CALLED AND SAID THAT SHE HAD SOME THINGS THAT SHE WANTED TO SHOW US.
HEY.
WHEN WE ENLARGED THE ORB, I IMMEDIATELY SAW MY MOM'S IMAGE IN IT.
Wilson: MY WHOLE FAMILY WAS LIKE, "THIS MAKES SENSE TO US," BECAUSE THIS WAS HER FAVORITE HOLIDAY.
THIS IS WHEN SHE WAS ABLE TO SHINE AND COOK AND THE WHOLE FAMILY WAS TOGETHER.
Galanos: I WAS JUS COMPLETELY BLOWN AWAY.
Mona: REALIZING THAT YOUR MOM IS ACTUALLY STILL IN THE HOUSE AND HER SPIRIT IS THERE, IT WAS VERY EMOTIONAL FOR ALL OF US.
Fred: ALL THESE THINGS WE ASK IN YOUR PRECIOUS NAME.
Moody: LATER, WE HEARD HER VOICE ON THE VOICE RECORDER.
THAT'S YOU'RE HERE STRICTLY OUT OF LOVE.
Fred: AT THAT POINT, THERE WERE NO WORDS TO DESCRIBE MY EMOTIONS.
I WAS COMPLETELY TAKEN BY WHAT I HAD HEARD.
I MUST HAVE LISTENED TO THAT RECORDING 100 TIMES, JUST TRYING TO MAKE SOME SOR OF SENSE OF WHAT I WAS HEARING.
CLEARLY, IT WAS MY MOTHER'S VOICE.
Mona: HE STARTED TO CRY, AND THAT'S WHEN I KNEW THAT WE HIT SOMETHING THAT WAS REALLY RIGHT HERE TO HIS HEART.
THAT WAS MY MOTHER.
Wilson: THERE WAS A LOT OF TEARS.
WE CRIED BUCKETS.
AND IT WAS JUST LIKE A PIECE OF HER THAT WE HADN'T BEEN ABLE TO HEAR OR TOUCH IN FIVE YEARS.
WE ALL FEL JUST A SENSE OF CALM.
Fred: I BELIEVE THIS WAS DEFINITELY MY MOTHER'S WAY OF REACHING OUT TO US.
SHE'S HERE WITH US SPIRITUALLY.
Mona: THAT WAS MY MOTHER.
SHE'S STILL WITH ME.
SHE'S NEVER GONNA LEAVE MY SIDE.
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AND REALIZING THAT I WAS HER BABY AND SHE JUST WANTED ME TO BE OKAY.
Fred: LOVE NEVER DIES BECAUSE MY MOM WILL ALWAYS BE WITH US NO MATTER WHERE WE ARE.
Galanos: I FEEL LIKE I CAN DO ANYTHING BECAUSE SHE'S HERE GUIDING ME.
Moody: MY MOM'S APPEARANCE WAS A CHRISTMAS GIFT, AND I WILL BE ALWAYS GRATEFUL FOR THAT.
Wilson: THE BODY FALLS AWAY, BUT THE SPIRIT IS REAL.
Mona: MY MOM CAME TO US DURING THE TIMES THAT WE WERE NOT HAPPY.
WE WERE DISCONNECTED, AND SHE WAS THE NUCLEUS ONCE AGAIN, COMING BACK TO SAVE THE DAY AND BRING US BACK TOGETHER AS A FAMILY.
Dunn: WE RECEIVED A BLUE MIS COMING DOWN THE SIDE OF THE PICTURE WITH NO LOGICAL EXPLANATION.
Jones: IT ALMOST LOOKS LIKE AN ACTOR THAT'S PEEKING AT THE AUDIENCE.
Dunn: WE CATCH AN EVP OF A MAN THAT WHISPERS, "MY PROJECTOR.
" IT'S PRETTY CREEPY.
Dunn: YOU COULD SEE THE PROGRESSION HAD RE-CREATED INTO, LIKE, A BLUE ORB.
Jones: IT ALMOST LOOKS LIKE AN ACTOR THAT'S PEEKING AT THE AUDIENCE.
Dunn: WE CATCH AN EVP OF A MAN THAT WHISPERS, "MY PROJECTOR.
" Dunn: MY GHOST STORY BEGAN WHEN I VISITED THE HISTORIC SAVANNAH THEATRE.
SAVANNAH WAS KNOWN AS AMERICA'S MOST HAUNTED CITY.
IT WAS FOUNDED IN 1733, AND IT'S ONE OF THE ORIGINAL COLONIES OF GEORGIA.
IN 1820, 1854, AND 1876, THEY HAD THREE DIFFEREN YELLOW FEVER EPIDEMICS WITH THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE DYING EACH TIME.
ALSO, THEY HAD A GREAT FIRE IN 1820 WHICH DESTROYED HALF OF THE CITY.
IN THE LATE 1700s, THEY HAD TO PAVE OVER THE CEMETERIES TO EXPAND THE CITIES.
THEY MOVED ALL THE HEADSTONES, BUT THEY LEFT THE BODIES BECAUSE THEY WERE WORRIED ABOU DIGGING UP COMMUNICABLE DISEASES SUCH AS YELLOW FEVER.
SO, IN DOWNTOWN SAVANNAH, THERE'S LITERALLY THOUSANDS OF BODIES UNDER A LOT OF THE BUILDINGS.
I'VE BEEN GHOST HUNTING FOR ABOUT 2 1/2, 3 YEARS NOW IN SAVANNAH.
WE CONTACTED THE SAVANNAH THEATRE, 'CAUSE ME AND A COUPLE OF THE OTHER GUYS ON THE TEAM HEARD THEY'D HAD A LOT OF ACTIVITY.
DRU'S BEEN THE HOUSE MANAGER FOR CLOSE TO 20 YEARS.
Jones: SAVANNAH THEATRE OPENED IN DECEMBER OF 1818.
ON OUR WALLS, WE HAVE PICTURES OF A NUMBER OF PERFORMERS THAT HAVE BEEN IN THE THEATER.
W.
C.
FIELDS HAS PERFORMED, ALSO THE THREE STOOGES.
I'VE HEARD PEOPLE SAY THAT IT'S THE MOST HAUNTED BUILDING IN SAVANNAH.
WHENEVER ANYBODY MENTIONS SPIRITS OR GHOSTS, THEY WOULD JUST ALWAYS AIM THAT PERSON TO ME.
SOMETIMES I'M NOT COMFORTABLE BEING IN THE THEATER WHEN EVERYONE HAS GONE HOME.
I KNOW THAT I'M NOT ALONE WHEN I'M IN THERE.
I WAS WORKING WITH A FEMALE DIRECTOR ONE NIGHT.
EVERYONE HAD GONE HOME.
SHE WENT INTO THE UTILITY CLOSE TO TURN OFF THE LIGHTS.
SHE TURNED OFF THE WRONG SWITCHES, AND ALL THE EMERGENCY LIGHTS CAME ON.
ALL OF A SUDDEN, A MALE VOICE WITH A BRITISH ACCENT SAID, "HEY, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" LATER, I LOOKED AT HER, AND I SAID, "DID YOU HEAR THAT?" SHE SAID, "THAT WASN'T YOU?" GEORGE, WHO WAS THE PROJECTIONIST FOR THE THEATER, HAD A BRITISH ACCENT.
Dunn: AND IN THE 1950s, HE DIED AND HAD A HEART ATTACK IN THE PROJECTION BOOTH.
Jones: THAT WAS A LITTLE UNNERVING.
BEFORE I BECAME THE HOUSE MANAGER FOR SAVANNAH THEATRE, I RAN A SPOTLIGHT FOR TWO YEARS.
ONE NIGHT, I JUST FELT SOMEONE GRAB AHOLD OF MY SHIR AND TUG LIKE A CHILD WOULD.
THE STORY IS THAT FIRE BROKE OUT, AND THERE WAS A CROWD UP IN THE SECOND PART OF THE BALCONY.
THEY PANICKED AND STAMPEDED AND A CHILD HAD BEEN ASLEEP AND WAS TRAMPLED TO DEATH.
THAT ONE UPSETS ME.
RYAN AND HIS GROUP ARRIVED AT SAVANNAH THEATRE AFTER WE HAD DONE A SHOW.
Dunn: ONE OF OUR TEAM MEMBERS STARTED TAKING PHOTOS FROM THE OUTSIDE JUST TO GET A GOOD STAR ON THE INVESTIGATION.
WITHIN ABOUT THE FOURTH TO FIFTH PICTURE, WE RECEIVED A BLUE MIST COMING DOWN THE SIDE OF THE PICTURE WITH NO LOGICAL EXPLANATION.
THERE WAS NO SMOKE.
THERE WAS NO RAIN OR MIS THAT SHOULD HAVE CREATED THAT APPARITION.
FROM THE FIRST PHOTO TO THE SECOND TO THE THIRD, YOU COULD SEE THE PROGRESSION HAD RE-CREATED INTO, LIKE, A BLUE ORB.
Jones: IT ALMOST LOOKS LIKE IT'S WAITING TO COME INSIDE THE THEATER.
Dunn: AND WE COULDN'T EXPLAIN THAT ONE, AS WELL.
AND IT'S RIGHT ON THE MARQUEE.
Jones: THAT ORB COULD BE AN ACTOR WHO DOESN'T WANT TO LEAVE.
Dunn: IT WAS JUST VERY UNSETTLING.
IN THE THEATER, I WAS WALKING BACKSTAGE DURING OUR INITIAL WALK-THROUGH, AND YOU COULD SEE THE OLD BRICK FROM THE ORIGINAL BUILDING.
IT WAS VERY INTERESTING TO SEE THAT SOMETHING WAS THERE FROM 1818.
YOU COULD ALMOST FEEL THE ENERGY FROM THE BRICK ITSELF.
I HAD MY EMF DETECTOR ON.
I GOT A 15- TO 20-MILLIGAUSS SPIKE.
RIGHT AFTER THAT, I FEEL THIS COLD CHILL PASS RIGHT THROUGH MY BODY.
IT'S ALMOST LIKE YOU FEEL A STATIC ELECTRICITY, BUT IT RUNS DEEP INSIDE OF YOU.
SOMETHING JUST WASN'T RIGHT.
WITHIN ABOUT 30 MINUTES OF DOING THE READINGS, WE WENT AHEAD AND STARTED SETTING UP OUR STATIC CAMERAS THROUGHOUT THE THEATER WHERE PEOPLE HAD SEEN APPARITIONS.
PATRONS HAVE REPORTED SEEING A LADY IN VICTORIAN DRESS DISAPPEAR INTO THE BACKSTAGE AREA.
WHEN WE WENT BACK AND REVIEWED OUR TAPE, WE CAUGHT SOMETHING REALLY INTERESTING.
Jones: IT ALMOST LOOKS LIKE AN ACTOR THAT'S PEEKING AT THE AUDIENCE.
YOU PEEK OUT TO LOOK TO SEE IF MOM'S IN THE FRONT ROW.
THERE'S THE STORIES OF A WOMAN WHO WAS GETTING READY TO DO HER FIRST PLAY, AND SHE DIED BEFORE OPENING NIGHT.
I FEEL THAT ON STAGE LEF IS THE YOUNG WOMAN THAT DIED BEFORE SHE GOT TO COME ONSTAGE.
SHE WANTS HER MOMENT IN THE SPOTLIGHT, AND SHE NEVER GOT IT.
Dunn: NEXT, WE WENT BACK TO THE LOBBY.
AS SOON AS WE WALKED IN, YOU HAD THIS REALLY UNCOMFORTABLE FEELING, SO I DECIDED TO TURN A RECORDER ON.
THE EVP THAT WE CAUGH WAS VERY INTERESTING.
Jones: IT IS A WOMAN VOCALIZING.
THERE WAS SOMEBODY ELSE IN THAT LOBBY.
Dunn: WE DO BELIEVE THIS MIGHT HAVE BEEN THE SPIRI OF THE LADY THAT DIED IN THE THEATER.
Jones: THAT WAS A LITTLE UNNERVING.
Dunn: LATER THAT NIGHT, WE DECIDED TO DO AN EVP SESSION IN THE OLD PROJECTION BOOTH.
THE PROJECTION BOOTH IS NOW THE DRESSING ROOM FOR THE THEATER.
A LOT OF THE ACTORS THAT ARE THERE DO NOT LIKE BEING IN THERE ALONE.
IT'S JUST VERY ICE COLD, AND THERE'S THIS WEIRD ENERGY.
Jones: THERE'S NO REASON FOR IT TO BE AS COLD AS IT IS.
RYAN HAD THE EVPs GOING.
Dunn: AS WE WERE ASKING QUESTIONS WHERE THE PROJECTOR USED TO BE HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE IN HERE WITH US? WE CATCH AN EVP OF A MAN THAT WHISPERS, "MY PROJECTOR.
" Jones: I HAVE NO DOUBT THA THAT IS THE VOICE OF GEORGE.
HE'S STILL PROTECTING THAT PROJECTOR.
HE JUST CAN'T LET GO OF SOMETHING THAT APPARENTLY HE CARED A LOT ABOUT.
IT WAS PROOF THAT HE'S UP THERE.
Dunn: LATER THAT NIGHT, ONE OF OUR INVESTIGATORS WAS SETTING UP A STATIC CAMERA UPSTAIRS IN THE BALCONY, AND SHE HAD HER RECORDER GOING.
UPON REVIEW, YOU HEAR A SMALL CHILD.
Jones: I FELT SO HELPLESS THAT THERE'S A CHILD WHO'S STILL LOOKING FOR SOMEONE TO HELP HIM.
THAT REALLY UPSETS ME.
Dunn: I BELIEVE THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN THE SPIRI OF THE CHILD BENJAMIN THAT WAS TRAMPLED TO DEATH IN THE 1940s IN THE FIRE.
IT'S PRETTY CREEPY.
WITH THE EVPs, THE VIDEO, AND THE PHOTO EVIDENCE, AS WELL AS THE PERSONAL EXPERIENCE, IT'S MADE ME MORE OF A BELIEVER IN THE PARANORMAL.
Jones: RYAN'S VIDEOS AND HIS PICTURES GIVE ME SOME VALIDATION.
PEOPLE FROM THE PAS ARE STILL LOOKING FOR HELP.
Dunn: ANYONE THAT DOESN' BELIEVE IN THE PARANORMAL, I WOULD DEFINITELY INVITE THEM TO GO AND SPEND A NIGH AT THE SAVANNAH THEATRE.
Jones: IT'S NOT A STORY.
IT'S THE TRUTH.
Beatty-Manuel: THERE IS SOMETHING OUT THERE THAT WE CANNOT EXPLAIN.
Ferguson: THERE'S NO DENYING THAT THERE IS A FACE IN THE PICTURE.
YOU CAN SEE HIS EYES, HIS NOSE.
THE HAIR LOOKS ALMOST FEATHERY.
Beatty-Manuel: IT WAS VERY SCARY.
Ferguson: YOU CAN SEE HIS EYES, HIS NOSE.
THE HAIR LOOKS ALMOST FEATHERY.
Beatty-Manuel: IT WAS VERY SCARY.
MY GHOST STORY BEGAN WHEN I CAME TO THE MIDDLE CREEK BATTLEFIELD IN PRESTONSBURG, KENTUCKY.
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A CIVIL WAR BATTLE WAS FOUGH JANUARY 10, 1862.
COLONEL A.
J.
MAY LED THE CONFEDERACY INTO BATTLE AT THE MIDDLE CREEK NATIONAL BATTLEFIELD.
I AM A CIVIL WAR RE-ENACTOR, AND THAT'S HOW I FIRST GOT INTERESTED IN THE NATIONAL BATTLEFIELD AT MIDDLE CREEK.
WE HAVE GOT SEVERAL REPORTS FROM YEARS PAS NOT ONLY FROM CITIZENS THAT LIVE AROUND THE BATTLEFIELD BUT ALSO FROM RE-ENACTORS.
THEY SEE STRANGE LIGHTS.
WE'VE HEARD CANNON FIRE WHEN NO CANNONS HAD BEEN FIRED.
WE'VE HEARD HORSES.
[ HORSES NEIGHING .]
NO HORSES ARE ALLOWED ON THE MIDDLE CREEK BATTLEFIELD.
COLONEL MAY IS LEGENDARY IN OUR AREA.
A LOT OF PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT HIS SPIRIT STILL REMAINS ON THE NATIONAL BATTLEFIELD.
GINA FERGUSON IS A DEAR FRIEND.
WE MET AT AN EVEN ON THE NATIONAL BATTLEFIELD.
Ferguson: PEOPLE HEAR DISEMBODIED VOICES.
THERE'S WHAT WE CALL A CRAWLER -- PEOPLE THAT ARE SEEN CRAWLING IN THE SHADOWS OF THE TREELINE AND ACROSS THE BATTLEFIELD.
Beatty-Manuel: WE DECIDED THAT WE WERE GOING TO DO AN INVESTIGATION AT THE BATTLEFIELD.
Ferguson: WE WERE STANDING IN THE TREELINE WHEN WE NOTICED A LIGHT.
THE LIGHT LOOKED LIKE SOMEONE HOLDING A LANTERN.
THERE ARE NO CARS IN THIS AREA.
THERE ARE NO HOMES.
THERE'S NO POSSIBLE LIGHT SOURCE, NOTHING TO REFLECT OFF OF THAT COULD CAUSE IT.
WE COULDN'T EXPLAIN WHAT IT WAS.
I HAVE HEARD REPORTS OF PEOPLE SEEING STRANGE LIGHTS AT THE BATTLEFIELD.
THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME THAT I WITNESSED IT FOR MYSELF.
Beatty-Manuel: WE WENT TO THE TREELINE BECAUSE THAT SEEMS TO BE WHERE MOST OF THE ACTIVITY HAS BEEN REPORTED.
Ferguson: I LOOKED BECAUSE SOMETHING CAUGHT MY EYE.
I SAW A MAN CRAWLING ACROSS THE GROUND FROM ONE SIDE OF THE TREELINE TO THE OTHER.
THE MOVEMENT WAS DIFFERENT THAN ANYTHING I'VE EVER SEEN BEFORE.
IT WAS MORE STIFF, LIKE SOMEONE CRAWLING ACROSS ON THEIR ARMS USING THEIR ELBOWS.
AND IT STARTED ON ONE END, AND I WATCHED IT GO ALL THE WAY ACROSS THE BATTLEFIELD TO THE OTHER END, AND THEN IT WAS JUST GONE.
IT JUST DISAPPEARED.
Beatty-Manuel: I THINK WHAT WE SAW WAS THE SPIRIT OF A WOUNDED SOLDIER CRAWLING TO SAFETY.
IT WAS VERY SCARY.
Ferguson: WE DECIDED TO GO AHEAD AND CONDUCT AN EVP SESSION.
WE'RE GETTING OU ALL OUR EQUIPMENT, AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN, THE LIGHT APPEARED.
I TOOK OUT MY CAMERA AND WAS ABLE TO CATCH I IN TWO OF THE PICTURES.
I THINK THAT THE LIGH COULD POSSIBLY HAVE SOMETHING TO DO WITH THE SPIRIT OF COLONEL MAY.
Beatty-Manuel: IT WAS VERY, VERY COLD THAT NIGH ON THE BATTLEFIELD.
WE WERE KIND OF HUDDLED TOGETHER DOING AN EVP SESSION, AND WE PHYSICALLY HEAR A FEMALE VOICE SAYING, "WHY DID HE GO?" I THINK IT WAS A WOMAN ASKING WHY HER HUSBAND HAD TO GO FIGHT THIS WAR, AND CHANCES ARE HE WAS NOT GONNA COME BACK.
IT'S SO SAD AND SO PLEADING.
IT WAS JUST HEARTBREAKING.
Ferguson: WE CONTINUED ON WITH OUR EVP SESSION.
WE WERE ASKING FOR A SIGN IF THE SPIRITS WE WERE TALKING TO WERE UNION OR CONFEDERATE.
THERE WAS A LONG PAUSE, AND THEN WE PICKED UP AN EVP OF A VOICE THAT SAID, "13.
" AT THE TIME, "13" MADE ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE TO US.
WE JUST ASSUMED THAT IT WAS A RESIDUAL VOICE.
Beatty-Manuel: I THINK THE 13 EVP REFERS TO THE 13th KENTUCKY INFANTRY, WHO WAS ON THE FIELD AT THE TIME OF THE BATTLE.
THERE ARE ALSO 13 STARS ON THE CONFEDERATE FLAG.
THIS LEADS ME TO BELIEVE THAT IT'S CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS THAT ARE HAUNTING THE MIDDLE CREEK NATIONAL BATTLEFIELD.
Ferguson: WHEN YOU GE A RESPONSE FROM A SPIRIT, IT'S EXCITING.
BUT WHEN YOU GE AN INTELLIGENT RESPONSE, IT'S AN AMAZING FEELING.
WE HAD WORKED OUR WAY ON OVER TO THE BATTLEFIELD, AWAY FROM THE TREELINE A LITTLE BIT, AND WE HAD JUST TAKEN OU OUR CAMERAS.
I SNAPPED A FEW PICTURES, AND I HAVE -- THE ONLY THING I CAN DESCRIBE IT AS IS A MIST.
THERE WAS NO ONE SMOKING.
THERE WAS NO FOG IN THE AIR.
BUT THERE IS CLEARLY A VERY THICK MIST IN THE PHOTO.
I THINK THAT IT WAS POSSIBLY THE SPIRIT OF COLONEL MAY TRYING TO MANIFEST FOR US.
BUT HE WAS UNABLE TO GET UP ENOUGH ENERGY TO FULLY MANIFES FOR US TO TAKE A PICTURE.
WE WORKED OUR WAY BACK TO THE END OF THE TREELINE, WANTED TO GO BACK TO THE AREA THAT HAD GIVEN US THE MOST ACTIVITY.
WE WALKED BACK TO THAT AREA TO CONDUC ANOTHER SHORT EVP SESSION.
WE WRAPPED IT UP, AND WE WERE JUST STANDING THERE.
Beatty-Manuel: GINA GETS THIS EVP THAT SAYS, "COME WITH ME.
" Ferguson: I HAD CHILLS GO UP MY SPINE BECAUSE NO ONE ELSE HEARD IT.
WHATEVER IT WAS WAS SPEAKING DIRECTLY TO ME.
Beatty-Manuel: OH, I GET CHILLS THINKING ABOUT THAT EVP.
IT WAS JUST SO CREEPY.
I THINK IT COULD POSSIBLY BE THE SPIRIT OF COLONEL MAY RALLYING THE TROOPS.
Ferguson: I DECIDED AFTER THA THAT I WANTED TO SNAP SOME PICTURES, AND I CAPTURED SOMETHING REALLY AMAZING.
IT WAS A FACE.
YOU CAN DISTINCTLY SEE HIS EYES, HIS NOSE.
THE HAIR LOOKS ALMOST FEATHERY.
MAYBE WHATEVER IT WAS DID NOT HAVE ENOUGH ENERGY TO FULLY MANIFES WHEN I TOOK THE PICTURE.
BUT THERE'S NO DENYING THA THERE IS A FACE IN THE PICTURE.
I THINK THAT THIS FACE IS THE SPIRIT OF COLONEL ANDREW JACKSON MAY.
Beatty-Manuel: THIS EXPERIENCE HAS MOVED ME DEEPLY.
THERE IS SOMETHING OUT THERE THAT WE CANNOT EXPLAIN, WE CANNOT UNDERSTAND.
Ferguson: I THINK THAT COLONEL MAY IS STILL SUFFERING FROM THAT DEFEAT, AND I THINK THAT HE WANTS US TO COME BACK AND HE HAS A LOT TO TELL US.
Vipond: THE SPIRIT WAS INTERACTING WITH US PHYSICALLY Bartley: EVERY CELL IN MY BODY WAS TRYING TO GET AWAY FROM THIS THING.
IT WAS JUST ABJECT TERROR.
Vipond: A SPIRIT WAS INTERACTING WITH US PHYSICALLY.
Bartley: EVERY CELL IN MY BODY WAS TRYING TO GET AWAY FROM THIS THING.
IT WAS JUST ABJECT TERROR.
MY GHOST STORY BEGAN WHEN I TOOK A TOUR OF DOXFORD PARK IN ENGLAND.
FIONA IS MY FIANCéE.
WE WERE JUST OUT FOR A WALK IN THE PARK, AND I JUST SAW THIS HOUSE.
I JUST FELT DRAWN TOWARDS IT, YOU KNOW, 'CAUSE IT LOOKED SO CREEPY.
Vipond: JOE IS MY PARTNER.
WE GHOST HUNT TOGETHER ALL OVER ENGLAND, INVESTIGATING DIFFERENT PROPERTIES.
AND DOXFORD HOUSE JUS ABSOLUTELY BLEW US AWAY.
Bartley: THE HOUSE ITSELF LOOKS LIKE YOUR TYPICAL HAUNTED BRITISH MANOR HOUSE.
IT'S GOT TREES THAT LOOK LIKE TWISTED SOULS.
WE GOT TO THE WALL AND DISCOVERED THAT THE GATE WAS ACTUALLY OPEN AT THE TIME, SO WE ACTUALLY GO INTO THE GROUNDS.
Vipond: IT WAS AS IF THE HOUSE WAS GIVING OFF ENERGY.
"STAY AWAY.
WE DON'T WANT YOU HERE.
" STRANGELY ENOUGH, A FRIEND OF MINE KNEW THE OWNER.
THAT'S HOW WE ACTUALLY STARTED TO RESEARCH DOXFORD HOUSE.
Bartley: DOXFORD HOUSE WAS BUIL IN A PLACE CALLED SUNDERLAND IN THE NORTHEAST OF ENGLAND.
IT BELONGED TO A FAMILY BY THE NAME OF DOXFORD.
THEY WERE A SHIPBUILDING FAMILY, VERY WEALTHY.
GENERAL WILLIAM BECKWITH MOVED INTO THE HOUSE IN 1831.
Vipond: WILLIAM BECKWITH DOES CERTAINLY HAVE A RUTHLESS REPUTATION.
IN ONE PARTICULAR BATTLE, HE BEHEADED A FEW SOLDIERS.
Bartley: THERE IS A LEGEND OF BECKWITH'S SPIRIT BEING SEEN IN THE HOUSE ITSELF.
Vipond: THE SPIRI OF CAPTAIN BECKWITH WAS KNOWN TO CARRY A STICK, AND HE BANGS IT DOWN ON THE STAIRWELL.
AND HE ISN'T VERY HAPPY ABOU ANYBODY BEING IN HIS HOME.
Bartley: THE NIGH WE ACTUALLY ACQUIRED THE KEYS TO THE PROPERTY, WE MET A FEW TEAM MEMBERS NEAR AND A GUEST MEDIUM.
WE WERE ALL VERY EXCITED AND FILLED WITH TREPIDATION AT THE SAME TIME.
PART OF THE HOUSE HAD LIGHTS, BUT THE REST OF THE HOUSE DIDN' HAVE ANY ELECTRICITY AT ALL, SO IT WAS REALLY DARK.
THAT WAS THE BI THAT CREEPED ME OUT THE MOST.
Vipond: THERE WAS DEFINITELY A STRONG PRESENCE OR PRESENCES THERE.
YOU WERE BEING WATCHED THE WHOLE TIME.
Bartley: THE MEDIUM DECIDED TO GO WALK AROUND, JUST TO GET THE FEEL OF THE HOUSE.
HE RETURNED EXCLAIMING THAT HE'D PICKED UP ON TWO ENERGIES IN THE HOUSE -- ONE IN THE KITCHEN AREA, WHICH WAS THE SPIRI OF A GENTLEMAN WHO DIDN'T PARTICULARLY LIKE US BEING THERE, AND ANOTHER ONE UPSTAIRS ON THE LAST FLOOR OF THE HOUSE.
HE PICKED UP, LIKE, IT WAS A LITTLE GIRL BY THE NAME OF EMILY WHO DIED IN A FIRE.
THROUGH OUR RESEARCH, WE HAVE DISCOVERED THAT THE HOUSE DID HAVE FOUR FLOORS TO IT, AND THERE WAS INDEED A FIRE.
YOU OPEN THE DOOR TO THE KITCHEN, AND THE ATMOSPHERE JUST HITS YOU IN THE FACE.
IN 1901, I THINK, WHERE THIS DARK SPIRIT'S SUPPOSED TO RESIDE, THEY ACTUALLY FOUND STONE COFFINS WITH SKELETONS INSIDE THEM.
Vipond: DREW AND I DECIDED TO SET UP A CRUCIFIX, A TRIGGER OBJECT.
Bartley: WE USE A CRUCIFIX BECAUSE IT'S A GENERIC SHAPE, AND IT'S KNOWN TO VIRTUALLY EVERYBODY IN HISTORY.
WE PLACED THE CROSS ON A BOARD AND ASKED THE SPIRITS TO MANIPULATE THE CROSS ITSELF.
YOU BASICALLY LOCK OFF THE AREA SO YOU KNOW THAT THERE'S NO WAY ANYBODY COULD TAMPER WITH ANYTHING YOU'VE PUT IN THERE.
25, 30 MINUTES LATER, WE RETURNED TO THE KITCHEN.
Vipond: [ GASPS .]
A SPIRIT WAS INTERACTING WITH US PHYSICALLY.
EVERY HAIR ON MY BODY WAS STANDING UP.
Bartley: IT WAS SCARY AND EXCITING AT THE SAME TIME BECAUSE IT INSTANTLY PROVED TO ME THAT THERE WAS SOMETHING RESIDING IN THAT AREA.
Vipond: WE DECIDED TO DO A FLASHLIGHT SESSION TO COMMUNICATE WITH THE SPIRIT -- WHOEVER HAD MOVED THE CRUCIFIX.
Bartley: YOU BASICALLY ASK THE SPIRI TO MANIPULATE THE LIGHT, USING THE BATTERY POWER TO ANSWER QUESTIONS.
Vipond: INSTANTANEOUSLY, WE GO A REACTION WITH THE FLASHLIGHT.
Bartley: WE ASKED THIS ENTITY IF IT KNEW OF ANY MORE SPIRITS IN THE HOUSE, AND INDEED, IT DID.
ACCORDING TO THIS SPIRIT, THERE'S FIVE SPIRITS IN THE HOUSE.
Vipond: THANK YOU.
I THINK THAT THAT SPIRI IS MOST DEFINITELY CAPTAIN BECKWITH.
WHEN WE ASKED, "ARE YOU UNHAPPY WITH US BEING HERE?" IT FLASHED FOR "YES.
" Bartley: I THINK IT'S HIM MANIPULATING THE LIGHTS.
IT WAS ABSOLUTELY ASTOUNDING TO SEE.
ON THE WAY UP THE STAIRS, A PHOTOGRAPH WAS TAKEN BY A TEAM MEMBER, AND YOU CAN DISTINCTLY SEE ON THE TOP RIGHT-HAND SIDE OF THE PHOTOGRAPH QUITE AN ANOMALOUS MIST.
THERE WASN' ANY OF THE INVESTIGATORS SMOKING THAT NIGHT IN THE HOUSE.
WE DON'T ALLOW SMOKING IN ANY INVESTIGATION BECAUSE OF TRICKS IT CAN PLAY ON A CAMERA LENS.
YOU CAN ACTUALLY SEE A FACE IF YOU LOOK HARD ENOUGH.
IT MAKES YOUR BLOOD RUN COLD TO THINK THAT THERE WAS A SPIRI LOOKING DOWN ON US.
Vipond: DREW AND I CLIMBED UP TO THE THIRD FLOOR, AND WE DECIDED TO CARRY OUT A KII SESSION TO TRY AND COMMUNICATE WITH LITTLE EMILY.
Bartley: WE PLACED THE KII METER ON THE RADIATOR.
WE HAVE A DICTAPHONE RUNNING EVERY TIME WE DO A KII SESSION.
Vipond: WE DID SPECIFICALLY ASK, "IF THE ANSWER IS 'YES' TO ANYTHING, "CAN YOU PLEASE COME TOWARDS THIS DEVICE AND LIGHT UP THE LIGHTS?" Bartley: WHEN WE MENTIONED THE NAME EMILY, UNBELIEVABLY, WE ACTUALLY GOT A RESPONSE.
Vipond: TO EXPERIENCE THIS WAS JUST LIKE NOTHING ELSE.
WE ARE DEFINITELY COMMUNICATING WITH SPIRIT.
THERE'S NO OTHER REASON.
THERE'S NOTHING ELECTRICAL IN THE AREA.
THERE'S JUST DREW AND I WITH A KII METER.
Bartley: SUDDENLY, A REAL, REAL COLDNESS CAME ALONG.
I INITIALLY ASKED THE ENTITY IF IT WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR DROPPING THE TEMPERATURE SO DRAMATICALLY.
AND WE RECORDED A FANTASTIC EVP AT THE SAME TIME.
Vipond: ON LISTENING BACK, WE DISTINCTLY HEAR A LITTLE GIRL'S VOICE SAY, "I'M COLD, VERY COLD.
" TO RECORD THAT EVP WAS JUS A PHENOMENAL FEELING.
Bartley: IT SOUNDED LIKE A YOUNG GIRL PROCLAIMING THAT SHE WAS COLD, WHICH ADDS CREDENCE TO THE FAC THAT THE ATMOSPHERE WEN ABSOLUTELY FREEZING.
I PERSONALLY BELIEVE IT WAS THE SPIRIT OF EMILY.
Vipond: THERE'S NO DOUBT IN MY MIND THAT SPIRITS DO EXIST.
LIFE DOES GO ON AFTER DEATH.
IT'S BEYOND QUESTION.
WHAT WE CAPTURED WAS COMPLETELY GENUINE.
OBVIOUSLY, THE ESSENCE OF THIS SPIRIT GIRL STILL LINGERS IN DOXFORD HOUSE, ALONG WITH THE SPIRI OF CAPTAIN BECKWITH.
Bartley: I WAS A VERY SKEPTICAL PERSON, BUT I'M A BELIEVER NOW.
DOXFORD HOUSE HAS STILL GO A LOT TO DELIVER.
THERE'S A LOT OF STORIES CONNECTED TO THE HOUSE THAT NEEDS UNEARTHING.
AND IT NEEDS TO BE SEEN BY PEOPLE.
IT NEEDS TO BE RECOGNIZED.
Sherwood: I WANTED TO LITERALLY RUN OUT OF THE BASEMENT.
WE ALL JUST STOPPED IN OUR TRACKS LIKE, "WHOA, WE HAVE IT ON CAMERA.
" IT WAS ONE OF THE FREAKIES MOMENTS THAT I'VE EXPERIENCED.
Sherwood: WE ALL JUST STOPPED IN OUR TRACKS LIKE, "WHOA, WE HAVE IT ON CAMERA.
" IT WAS ONE OF THE FREAKIES MOMENTS THAT I'VE EXPERIENCED.
MY GHOST STORY BEGAN WHEN I OPENED AN ANTIQUE STORE IN A HAUNTED BUILDING.
THE HANSON-EMERSON BUILDING IS LOCATED IN SAUK CENTRE, MINNESOTA.
THE ORIGINAL BUILDING WAS BUILT IN 1871.
THE SHOP THAT I HAVE IS CALLED MAIN STREET GALLERY: ARTISANS AND ANTIQUES.
MOSTLY, WE HAVE THE ANTIQUES, SO WE HAVE A LOT OF INTERESTING THINGS COMING IN ON A DAILY BASIS.
I SPENT TWO MONTHS PREPARING THE STORE TO MOVE IN -- CLEANING, MOVING DISPLAYS IN, AND I NOTICED THINGS STARTED HAPPENING.
I WOULD BE IN THE BUILDING ALL BY MYSELF, DOORS LOCKED SO I KNOW THERE'S NO ONE ELSE AROUND, AND I WOULD HEAR SOMEONE WALKING BACK AND FORTH.
AND I'D TIP-TOE AROUND THE CORNER, AND THERE'S NO ONE THERE.
SO, I WOULD GO BACK TO WHAT I WAS DOING, EXCEPT NOW I'M THINKING ABOU WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE OTHER ROOM.
AND AGAIN, I'D HEAR BACK AND FORTH, BACK AND FORTH.
AND I'D TIP-TOE AROUND, AND THERE'S NO ONE THERE.
I PROBABLY DID THAT 50 TIMES.
FINALLY, I JUST THOUGHT, "OKAY, THERE'S SOMEBODY WALKING BACK AND FORTH IN THERE," AND I STARTED TALKING TO THEM.
"IT'S OKAY THAT YOU'RE HERE.
I'M NOT HERE TO KICK YOU OUT, BUT YOU ARE FREAKING ME OUT.
" ADRIAN LEE IS A PARANORMAL INVESTIGATOR AND A HISTORIAN.
AND ONE DAY LAST SUMMER, HE WALKED INTO MY SHOP.
Lee: I FIRST CAME TO MEET BARBARA -- I WAS WALKING UP MAIN STREE OF SAUK CENTRE, AND I WAS DOING SOME ERRANDS AROUND TOWN.
AND I'D NEVER BEEN INTO THAT SHOP BEFORE.
I INSTANTLY NOTICED THAT IT WAS A VERY HAUNTED, VERY OLD BUILDING CRAMMED FULL OF SPIRITS.
ANTIQUES HAVE A LO OF ATTACHMENTS TO THEM, SO IF SOMEONE OWNED A PARTICULAR OBJECT AND HAS DIED, YOU HAVE THAT RESIDUAL ENERGY.
YOU HAVE THOSE ATTACHMENTS TO THOSE.
Sherwood: HE STARTED SAYING THINGS LIKE, "WELL, YOU KNOW THIS PLACE HAS PARANORMAL ACTIVITY.
MAYBE WE SHOULD INVESTIGATE.
" AND I THOUGHT, "OKAY, HERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY TO FIND OU "WHAT'S REALLY GOING ON HERE "BECAUSE I'VE BEEN FREAKED OU SO MANY TIMES.
I'D LIKE TO FIND OU WHO IT IS THAT'S DOING IT.
" SO, ADRIAN HAD SOME PEOPLE COME IN WITH ALL KINDS OF EQUIPMENT, AND THEY SET UP THIS EQUIPMEN ON THE MAIN FLOOR AND DOWN IN THE BASEMENT.
Lee: IT'S A VERY OLD BASEMENT, SO ALREADY WHEN YOU WALK DOWN THERE, THERE'S A SENSE THAT YOU'RE FEELING UNEASY JUST BECAUSE THE FLOOR'S UNEVEN AND YOU'VE GOT THE DARKNESS AND THE SMELLS.
YOU KNOW, YOU'RE PROGRESSIVELY PICKING UP PARANORMAL ACTIVITY.
Sherwood: THERE ARE TIMES WHEN IT JUST FEELS LIKE THEY DON'T WANT YOU DOWN THERE, SO I LITERALLY DON'T GO DOWN IN THE BASEMENT.
Lee: WITH ALL THE INVESTIGATIONS WE DO, THE FIRST THING WE OPERATE IS A BASELINE TEST.
SO, WE PUT AN I.
R.
CAMERA INTO THE BASEMENT AREA, SET UP SOME TRIGGER OBJECTS.
I PLACED THREE SETS OF PLAYING CARDS IN A ROW, ALL STACKED UP LIKE PYRAMIDS.
Sherwood: THEN YOU CAN ASK THE SPIRITS TO KNOCK THEM OVER.
SO, THEY SET THIS UP, AND THEY HAD CAMERAS ON IT.
NOW, THERE'S NO VENTS DOWN THERE.
THERE'S NO AIR FLOW.
DOOR'S SHUT.
IT'S DARK, AND NOBODY'S MOVING.
AND THEY ASKED THE SPIRITS TO KNOCK THE CARDS OVER.
AND THEY WENT POOF.
THEY JUST WENT RIGHT OVER.
WE ALL JUST KIND OF STOPPED IN OUR TRACKS LIKE, "OKAY, WHOA.
THEY ACTUALLY DID THAT, AND WE HAVE IT ON CAMERA.
" Lee: TO ACTIVELY SEE OBJECTS BEING PUSHED OVER, THAT WAS PRETTY INCREDIBLE.
Sherwood: IT WAS PRETTY MUCH PROOF THAT THERE'S SOMEBODY THERE.
THAT'S SCARY.
THERE'S ANOTHER SPIRI CALLED ELIZABETH OR LIZZY, AND I'VE SEEN HER TWICE, ONCE ON THE MAIN FLOOR AND ONCE DOWNSTAIRS.
SHE'S A VICTORIAN WOMAN IN THE WHITE DRESS.
AND ONE DAY, I TOOK A PICTURE OF SOME ANTIQUE FURNITURE IN THE STORE, AND I POSTED THE PICTURE ONLINE.
AND A FRIEND OF MINE CALLED ME AND SAID, "OH, MY GOSH.
DID YOU SEE WHAT'S IN THA PICTURE THAT YOU JUST POSTED?" AND I SAID, "NO, WHY?" SHE SAID, "THERE'S A VICTORIAN WOMAN IN A WHITE DRESS IN THIS PICTURE.
" SO, I LOOKED AT THE PHOTO I TOOK.
AND IN THE REFLECTION OF SOME GLASS, YOU CAN SEE A VICTORIAN WOMAN HOLDING A CAT.
I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO THINK.
SHE WOULD HAVE BEEN STANDING NEXT TO ME WHEN I TOOK THE PICTURE.
Lee: AS A HISTORIAN, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT INTERESTED ME WAS WHEN I DID MORE RESEARCH AND I WENT TO THE LOCAL CEMETERY, I ACTUALLY DISCOVERED THAT PAUL HANSON, WHO'S DON HANSON'S FATHER, ORIGINALLY RAN THE PHARMACY -- HIS WIFE WAS CALLED ELIZABETH EMERSON, AND SHE WAS KNOWN AS LIZZY.
I FOUND A PHOTOGRAPH FROM THE 1890s THAT SHOWS LIZZY WEARING THE WHITE VICTORIAN DRESS THAT BARBARA HAD SEEN THIS LADY WANDERING THROUGH THE SHOP.
Sherwood: I THINK ELIZABETH, OR LIZZY, IS CHECKING UP ON ME.
THERE'S MAYBE A KINSHIP BECAUSE WE'RE BOTH WOMEN.
I'M MANAGING A STORE.
SHE WAS MARRIED TO THE MAN WHO BUILT IT.
SO, MAYBE SHE IS CHECKING UP ON ME AND JUST MAKING SURE THAT I'M DOING OKAY.
Lee: IN THE ANTIQUES SECTION OF THE SHOP, THERE'S A VERY CREEPY-LOOKING, CHINA, VICTORIAN DOLL.
Sherwood: I FIRST THOUGH SOMETHING WAS UP WITH ANNABEL WHEN I CAME IN ONE MORNING AND HER ARM WAS UP.
AND I DIDN'T REMEMBER IT BEING THAT WAY THE NIGHT BEFORE.
I THOUGHT, "OKAY, I'LL PUT THE ARM BACK DOWN.
" AND THAT NIGHT, I MADE SURE THAT I KNEW EXACTLY WHAT POSITION SHE WAS IN WHEN I LEFT.
BOTH HER ARMS WERE DOWN, AND SHE WAS LOOKING STRAIGHT AHEAD.
AND THE NEXT MORNING, I COME IN, AND THAT LITTLE ARM WAS BACK UP AGAIN.
NOW, SHE'S ALMOST 100 YEARS OLD, AND HER ARMS ARE HARD TO MOVE, SO IT'S NOT LIKE IT JUS POPPED UP ALL BY ITSELF.
Lee: I'VE DONE LOTS OF TESTS ON THE DOLL.
I'VE PUT EMF METERS AROUND HER.
I HAVE USED EVPs.
I'VE SET UP AUDIO EQUIPMEN AROUND HER.
I DON'T BELIEVE THAT SHE'S ACTUALLY POSSESSED OR HAUNTED OR HAS ANY ATTACHMENTS IN ANY WAY.
WHAT I ACTUALLY BELIEVE IS THAT THERE'S CHILDREN IN AND AMONGST THE SHOP.
IF YOU WERE A VICTORIAN CHILD AND YOU'RE IN SPIRI AND YOU'RE IN AN ANTIQUES SHOP AND YOU SEE A DOLL SAT THERE, YOU WANT TO INTERACT WITH THAT.
Sherwood: SO, SOMEBODY, SOME LITTLE CHILD SPIRIT, WAS OBVIOUSLY PLAYING WITH HER.
THIS WHOLE EXPERIENCE HAS CHANGED MY LIFE.
I'VE SEEN MANY THINGS.
I'VE HEARD THINGS.
IT'S AMAZING BECAUSE NOW I KNOW THERE'S SOMETHING ELSE OTHER THAN WHAT WE ARE RIGHT NOW, THAT IT'S OKAY TO GO TO THE OTHER SIDE.
IT DOESN'T JUST END.
Lee: THIS EXPERIENCE FOR ME AT THE ANTIQUE SHOP HAS TOUCHED ME VERY PERSONALLY BECAUSE YOU'RE GETTING CONTAC WITH INDIVIDUALS THAT LIVE THERE, THAT WORK THERE.
YOU DON'T OFTEN GET A CHANCE TO DO THAT.
Sherwood: I ACTUALLY ENJOY BEING IN THAT BUILDING, AND I ENJOY THE COMPANY EVEN IF I CAN'T SEE THEM.