My Ghost Story (2010) s06e03 Episode Script

Johnson: WE SAW A LIGHT ANOMALY GO DOWN THE HALLWAY AFTER THAT PERSON.
COMES DOWN OUT OF THE TOP AND THEN SWOOPS OUT OF FRAME.
THERE'S SOMETHING THAT WANTS TO COMMUNICATE WITH US.
Callear: THERE'S THINGS ALL OVER THIS STRUCTURE YOU CANNOT UNDERSTAND.
Caroll: WE CAUGHT A PHOTO OF A FIGURE OF A LITTLE GIRL.
THEY REALLY ARE RIGHT THERE WITH US.
Callear: SCARES THE BEJESUS OUT OF ME.
I WILL NEVER GO INTO THE BASEMENT BY MYSELF.
Ryan: YOU CAN ACTUALLY SEE A LADY IN A SUN DRESS AND A SUN HA STANDING TO THE SIDE OF THE CARRIAGE ITSELF.
Donnellan: I ZOOMED IN.
IT WAS A FACE OF A WOMAN JUST STARING OUT AT US.
I COULDN'T BELIEVE WHAT I SAW.
Palovick: MUCH TO MY SURPRISE, THERE'S A SHADOW COMING AROUND THE BED.
McHugh: EVERYBODY'S JUST BLOWN AWAY BY IT.
PURE TERROR STRIKING YOUR SOUL, AND EVERYTHING JUST GOES BLANK IN YOUR MIND, JUST TO GET OUT OF THERE.
Mertz: I FELT THE BED SHAKING.
I GOT OUT OF BED, AND I TRIED GOING OUT THE BEDROOM DOOR.
THE DOOR WAS HELD SHUT.
I'M REALLY SCARED OF THE HOUSE.
ONE OF THESE DAYS, IT'S REALLY GONNA HURT ME.
Ferrante: THIS HOUSE IS ONE OF THE SCARIEST PLACES I'VE EVER BEEN.
Palovick: THE INCREDIBLY MACABRE HISTORY OF THE LEMP MANSION REALLY PIQUED MY INTEREST.
THERE'S A SHADOW COMING AROUND THE BED.
McHugh: MY GHOST STORY BEGAN WHEN I STAYED THE NIGH AT THE LEMP MANSION IN ST.
LOUIS, MISSOURI.
THE LEMP MANSION WAS BUIL IN THE EARLY 1800s BY WILLIAM J.
LEMP.
AND IT WAS A REALLY NICE PIECE OF ARCHITECTURE.
IT HAD 33 ROOMS.
IT WAS USED AS HIS OFFICE, AS HIS LIVING SPACE, TOO.
THE LEMP MANSION HAS A DARK HISTORY TO IT.
IN 1901, WILLIAM LEMP'S FAVORITE SON, FREDERICK, DIED OF MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES.
ABOUT THREE YEARS AFTER THAT, HE, TOO, DIED, BUT IT WAS A SELF-INFLICTED GUNSHOT WOUND.
THE FAMILY CONTINUED TO EXPERIENCE TRAGEDY WHEN ELSA LEMP ALSO DIED OF A SELF-INFLICTED GUNSHOT WOUND.
FOLLOWING THAT, HER BROTHER WILLIAM LEMP JR.
DIED FROM A GUNSHOT WOUND.
THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF DEATHS AND SUICIDES, AND IT IS BELIEVED THAT TODAY THE LEMP MANSION IS HAUNTED BY THE SPIRITS THAT PASSED AWAY THERE.
I LOVE GOING TO HAUNTED PLACES, AND I LOVE VICTORIAN HOUSES, AND IT WAS BOTH.
I TALKED JENNA AND A FEW OTHER FRIENDS INTO GOING TO THE LEMP MANSION TO EXPERIENCE I AND TO SEE WHAT IT WAS ALL ABOUT.
Palovick: THE INCREDIBLY MACABRE HISTORY OF THE LEMP MANSION REALLY PIQUED MY INTEREST, AS WELL -- DIFFERENT SUICIDES, MYSTERIOUS DEATHS, THINGS LIKE THAT.
McHugh: THE BEST PART FOR ME WAS TURNING ON TO LEMP AVENUE, THE STREET THAT LED TO THE LEMP MANSION, AND JUST SEEING THE WORD "LEMP" ON THAT SIGN, AND IT WAS ALREADY EERIE, VERY CREEPY.
Palovick: YOU COME AROUND THE CORNER, AND IT JUST KIND OF HITS YOU.
IT'S RIGHT THERE.
IT'S VERY STATELY, MAJESTIC, AND BEAUTIFUL.
BUT IT'S ALSO MACABRE.
AND THERE'S DEFINITELY A DARKNESS AND, I ALMOST FEEL, A SADNESS ABOUT THE BUILDING.
McHugh: AFTER WE CHECKED IN, JENNA AND I WENT UPSTAIRS TO OUR BEDROOM, WHICH WAS THE WILLIAM LEMP SUITE.
TO THE LEFT OF US, ONE OF THE CABINET DOORS IS JUST SLOWLY OPENING.
Palovick: WHEN THE DOOR OPENED, I WAS DEFINITELY SURPRISED.
McHugh: WE'RE JUST KIND OF STARING AT EACH OTHER LIKE, "DID THAT JUST HAPPEN?" Palovick: IT DEFINITELY SE THE TONE FOR THE NIGHT.
I BELIEVE THE DOOR OPENING WAS THE SPIRIT OF WILLIAM LEMP WELCOMING US, BECAUSE WHEN YOU OPEN THE CABINET ALL THE WAY, WHAT'S INSIDE -- THERE'S A ROBE.
THERE'S A RUMOR THAT WILLIAM LEMP WAS A BI OF A WOMANIZER IN LIFE.
SO IT WOULD MAKE SENSE THA THE SPIRIT OF WILLIAM LEMP, WHEN GIRLS COME INTO HIS ROOM, MAYBE WANTED US TO GE A LITTLE BIT MORE COMFORTABLE.
McHugh: WE DECIDED TO SET UP A VIDEO CAMERA AND HOPEFULLY CATCH THE SAME THING.
SO WE LEFT AND WENT TO DINNER.
Palovick: AND WE CAME BACK.
AND THE VERY FIRST THING WE DID WAS WE RAN TO THE CAMERA, REWOUND IT.
AND THEN, MUCH TO MY SURPRISE, THERE'S A SHADOW COMING AROUND THE BED AROUND THE FOOT OF THE BED, COMING AROUND TO THE SIDE.
McHugh: AS CALM AS I COULD ACT, IT WAS REALLY HARD, KNOWING THAT I JUST WAS GONNA BE IN THAT ROOM ALMOST ALL NIGHT, AND SOMETHING LIKE THAT COULD VERY WELL HAPPEN AGAIN.
Palovick: IT DEFINITELY SCARED ME A GREAT DEAL.
McHugh: I THINK IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN THE SPIRIT OF WILLIAM LEMP JR.
SINCE THAT IS HIS BEDROOM, IT WOULD MAKE SENSE THAT HE WOULD BE COMING BACK TO SEE US.
WE WERE SITTING THERE FOR A PRETTY LONG TIME.
IT WAS PRETTY DARK.
WE DIDN'T HAVE ANY OTHER LIGHTS ON, EXCEPT FOR THE MAIN CHANDELIER LIGHT THAT WAS DIMMED, WHEN WE HEARD A GLASS FALL AND BREAK.
[ GLASS SHATTERS .]
SO WE PROCEEDED TO GO DOWNSTAIRS AND GO INTO THE BAR, WHERE IT'S FILLED WITH TONS OF GLASSES HANGING UPSIDE-DOWN.
IT'S PITCH BLACK, AND THE FIRST THING ON OUR MIND IS TO GET A LIGHT ON.
SUDDENLY WE HEAR WHAT SOUNDS TO BE -- IF SOMEONE WAS SITTING IN A CHAIR AND SOMEONE TRIED TO PUSH IT, IT WOULD MAKE A SCREECHING SOUND ACROSS HARDWOOD FLOOR.
[ SCREECH .]
IT WAS JUST A BIG, HUGE MESS OF PEOPLE RUNNING DOWN THE HALLWAY.
JUST PURE TERROR STRIKING YOUR SOUL, AND YOU JUST FEEL YOUR VEINS CONSTRIC AND EVERYTHING JUST GOES BLANK IN YOUR MIND, JUST TO GET OUT OF THERE.
IT JUST MADE ME WANT TO LEAVE THAT MUCH MORE THAT NIGHT.
I WANTED TO GO HOME AFTER THAT.
[ GLASS SHATTERS .]
LATER ON, JENNA AND I WERE WALKING DOWN THE HALLWAY.
WE HEARD VOICES AND A LITTLE BI OF SINGING, ALMOST.
Palovick: SING-SONGY VOICE.
IT WAS KIND OF LIKE [ HUMMING .]
SOMETHING VERY HUMAN.
THE ONLY THING WAS THAT THERE WAS NO PERSON IN THERE TO BE MAKING THE NOISE.
McHugh: I THINK THAT SPIRI COULD HAVE BEEN ELSA LEMP.
SHE'S THE ONLY LEMP THERE THAT HAD COMMITTED SUICIDE THAT WAS A FEMALE.
AND I THINK IT COULD HAVE BEEN HER.
THERE'S THIS PAINTING AT THE VERY TOP OF THE STAIRS THAT IS JUST KIND OF STARING INTO YOU.
IT'S KNOWN AT THE MANSION THAT THAT PAINTING IS HAUNTED.
WE TOOK A PICTURE.
RIGHT AWAY, WE NOTICED IN THIS PICTURE THAT THERE IS A PERFECT OUTLINE OF A WOMAN'S PROFILE COMING OUT FROM THE SIDE OF THE PAINTING.
Palovick: THERE'S ONE FACE, A PROFILE OF A WOMAN.
BUT ALSO, THERE IS A FACE WITHIN THE PAINTING ITSELF LOOKING AT US.
McHugh: THE WOMAN IN THE PICTURE IS SAID TO BE WILLIAM LEMP JR.
's SECOND WIFE.
YOU CAN SEE HER SOMETIMES IN THAT AREA WHERE THE PICTURE WAS TAKEN JUST STILL ROAMING AROUND.
IT'S ALMOST LIKE SHE'S LOOKING FOR HIM.
Palovick: SHE LIKES TO BE THERE TO SAY, "HEY, YEAH, THIS IS ME, AND THIS IS MY PORTRAIT, "AND THIS IS MY HOUSE, AND I'M GOING TO BE RIGHT HERE TO WELCOME YOU OR TO ENTERTAIN YOU IN SOME WAY.
" KAITLIN AND I DECIDED THAT WE WERE JUST GONNA GO TO BED AT THIS POINT.
McHugh: WE LAID DOWN TO GO TO SLEEP.
I WOULD SAY MAYBE AN HOUR AFTER WE HAD LAID DOWN, I HEARD JENNA GET UP TO USE THE BATHROOM.
I HEARD HER WALK AROUND THE ROOM.
IT'S ALL HARDWOOD FLOORS.
I CAN HEAR THE FLOOR CREAKING.
IT SOUNDED LIKE SHE WENT TOWARDS THE DIRECTION OF THE BATHROOM.
KEPT MY EYES CLOSED, JUST CONTINUED SLEEPING.
AND THEN I FELT HER FOOT, LIKE, LIGHTLY TAP MY FOOT.
Palovick: I HAD THOUGH KAITLIN HAD GOTTEN UP TO GO TO THE BATHROOM, BECAUSE I HEARD SOMEONE WALKING, AND I FIGURED I'D BETTER BE SURE, SO I SLOWLY REACHED OVER WITH MY FOOT, AND I FELT HER FOOT, AND I FELT THAT SHE WAS STILL INDEED IN THE BED.
SO WHOEVER WAS WALKING IN THAT ROOM WASN'T ME, AND IT WASN'T KAITLIN.
McHugh: IT WASN' TILL THE NEXT DAY THAT SHE TOLD ME HOW SILLY SHE WAS ABOUT TOUCHING MY FOO IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, BECAUSE SHE THOUGHT SHE HEARD ME GET UP AND GO TO THE BATHROOM, AND SHE JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE I WAS STILL THERE.
SO SHE NEVER ACTUALLY GOT UP AND GONE TO THE BATHROOM.
Palovick: I FEEL IT MAY HAVE BEEN THE SPIRIT OF WILLIAM LEMP, BECAUSE HE WAS SUCH A WOMANIZER IN LIFE.
I FEEL THAT HE WAS CHECKING OU THE GIRLS IN HIS BED.
McHugh: AFTER ALL THAT HAD HAPPENED, I WAS DEFINITELY TERRIFIED TO BE THERE.
[ GLASS SHATTERS .]
Palovick: THE STRANGE THING ABOUT THE LEMP MANSION -- IT KIND OF GETS IN YOUR BLOOD, I'D SAY.
McHugh: I WAS THE ONLY PERSON WHO WANTED OU AS BADLY AS I DID.
I WAS THE ONLY PERSON WHO WANTED TO LEAVE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT.
Palovick: IT'S HARD FOR YOU TO LEAVE THE EXPERIENCES AT THE LEMP MANSION.
YOU FIND THAT THEY KIND OF COME HOME WITH YOU AND THEY CHANGE A BI OF HOW YOU SEE THE WORLD.
McHugh: I WAS DEFINITELY A HUGE SKEPTIC.
I DEFINITELY NOW BELIEVE THAT LEMP MANSION IS HAUNTED.
Ryan: MONTE CRISTO HAS A REPUTATION OF BEING AUSTRALIA'S MOST HAUNTED HOMESTEAD.
Donnellan: IT'S JUST LIKE A POWDER KEG OF PARANORMAL ACTIVITY.
A MAID HAD DIED IN THAT EXACT BED.
Ryan: IT PUT A CHILL UP MY SPINE.
YOU CAN QUITE CLEARLY SEE A CHILD'S FACE.
Donnellan: IT'S JUST LIKE A POWDER KEG OF PARANORMAL ACTIVITY.
THE PAIN WAS SO INTENSE, I THOUGHT IT WAS KIDNEY FAILURE.
Ryan: YOU CAN QUITE CLEARLY SEE A CHILD'S FACE.
IT PUT A CHILL UP MY SPINE.
MY GHOST STORY BEGAN WHEN MY FAMILY BOUGH AUSTRALIA'S MOST HAUNTED HOUSE.
MONTE CRISTO IS A VICTORIAN HOMESTEAD BUILT IN 1884, SITUATED IN JUNEE IN NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA.
MR.
WILLIAM CRAWLEY WAS THE DEVELOPER OF JUNEE AND BUILT MONTE CRISTO AS HIS FAMILY HOME.
MONTE CRISTO HAS A REPUTATION OF BEING AUSTRALIA'S MOST HAUNTED HOMESTEAD.
IT HAS A BI OF A DISTURBING PAST -- EVERYTHING FROM SUICIDE TO MURDER TO CHILDREN BEING BORN AND DYING AND BEING BURIED AT THE PROPERTY ITSELF, SO NOT YOUR TYPICAL HOMESTEAD.
ONE OF MY VERY FIRST EXPERIENCES AT THE HOUSE, WHEN I WAS ONLY 5 YEARS OF AGE, WAS QUITE A SCARY MOMENT FOR ME.
I WAS ASLEEP IN THE BED, BUT ONE OF MY SISTERS WAS SENT UP TO CHECK ON ME.
SHE CAME TO THE DOOR, STOPPED DEAD IN HER TRACKS TO SEE A MAN STANDING AT THE EDGE OF THE BED, LOOKING DOWN AT ME.
THIS MAN WAS AN OLD MAN, DRESSED IN OLD CLOTHING, AND LOOKED TOWARDS HER AND THEN VANISHED INTO THIN AIR.
NOW, IT OBVIOUSLY SCARED HER, 'CAUSE SHE LEFT ME UNATTENDED AND RAN STRAIGHT BACK DOWN TO FIND SOMEONE TO COME AND CHECK ON WHO WAS IN THE HOUSE.
MY FATHER WAS VERY STARTLED, THOUGHT THERE WAS AN INTRUDER IN THE HOUSE.
COULDN'T FIND ANYONE IN THE HOMESTEAD.
THE HOUSE WAS LOCKED, AND I WAS STILL ASLEEP IN BED, UNAWARE OF WHAT WAS GOING ON.
EVENTUALLY THEY CALMED MY SISTER DOWN TO ASK, "ARE YOU SURE YOU SAW SOMEONE?" "YES, I DID SEE SOMEONE IN THE HOUSE.
" AN OLD MAN -- GRAY HAIR, GRAY BEARD, MUSTACHE.
NOW, WE KNOW THA AS BEING MR.
CRAWLEY, THE ORIGINAL OWNER OF THE HOMESTEAD.
I DON'T THINK HE WAS THERE TO HARM ME.
HE MIGHT HAVE BEEN CHECKING OVER ME.
BUT LATER ON, I FOUND OU THAT MR.
CRAWLEY HAD ACTUALLY PASSED AWAY IN THAT ROOM, AND HIS PRESENCE IS VERY CLEAR, AND IF I'D FOUND THAT OUT, IT CERTAINLY WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN MY BEDROOM GROWING UP IN THE HOUSE.
MONTE CRISTO IS ONE OF THOSE PLACES THAT HAS SUCH A DRAW, SUCH A POPULARITY WITH PEOPLE THAT WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THE SPIRIT WORLD, WILL FLOCK TO THE HOMESTEAD.
WE DO NOT HAVE A DAY GO BY, A WEEK GO BY THAT SOMEONE DOESN'T HAVE AN EXPERIENCE WITH THE HOUSE OR CAPTURE SOMETHING ON FILM.
NOW, ONE OF MY FAVORITE PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE HOMESTEAD AND PROBABLY ONE OF OUR BES PHOTOGRAPHS WE HAVE OF A FULL-BODY APPARITION OR SPIRIT IN THE HOUSE WAS TAKEN IN OUR FRONT SITTING ROOM, WHERE OUR GUESTS FIRST ARRIVE TO THE HOMESTEAD.
NOW, THE LADY THAT WAS ON THE TOUR SNAPPED A SHOT WITH HER MOBILE PHONE AS SHE ENTERED THE ROOM WHEN NO ONE ELSE HAD ENTERED IT ALREADY.
BUT WHEN SHE WENT HOME AFTER DOING OUR TOUR AND STAYING THE NIGHT, SHE UPLOADED IT TO HER COMPUTER AND GAVE HERSELF QUITE A SCARE.
SHE IMMEDIATELY E-MAILED I THROUGH TO US, WANTING AN EXPLANATION.
PEOPLE LOOK AT THE PHOTOGRAPH AND SAY, "I CAN'T SEE THE GHOST, "THE SPIRI THAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT.
ALL I CAN SEE IS THE YOUNG GIRL STANDING IN THE ROOM.
" THEN I EXPLAIN TO THEM THA THAT GIRL WAS NOT ON THE TOUR, AND IF YOU LOOK CLOSELY, YOU CAN SEE SHE'S WEARING VICTORIAN-PERIOD CLOTHING.
WE DO STRONGLY BELIEVE IT IS ONE OF THE CRAWLEY GIRLS.
MONTE CRISTO HAS ALWAYS ATTRACTED GHOST HUNTERS AND PSYCHICS.
Donnellan: I'M A PSYCHIC.
I'M WHAT YOU CALL AN EMPATH.
I FEEL THINGS.
I SENSE THINGS.
HAVING A PSYCHIC ABILITY -- IT'S NOT A BURDEN.
IT'S A GIFT.
IT GIVES YOU THAT EXTRA SENSE SO THAT YOU CAN UNDERSTAND WHAT'S HAPPENING AROUND YOU.
I WENT TO MONTE CRISTO WITH MY FRIENDS.
AND I GUESS WE JUST WANTED TO GO THERE FOR A WEEKEND TO SEE EXACTLY HOW HAUNTED IT WAS.
WHEN I ARRIVED, THERE WAS JUS SO MUCH ENERGY AROUND THE PLACE.
IT WAS JUST LIKE A POWDER KEG OF PARANORMAL ACTIVITY.
AS I WAS WALKING THROUGH THE WHOLE WAY, I STARTED FEELING VERY HEADY, WHICH IS OFTEN AN INDICATION TO ME THAT THERE'S SOME ACTIVE PARANORMAL EXPERIENCE HAPPENING THERE.
THE PHOTOGRAPH THAT I TOOK WAS IN THE DRAWING ROOM.
AND IN THAT PARTICULAR ROOM, THERE'S A NUMBER OF PORTRAITS.
SO I WAS TAKING A PHOTO OF EACH OF THE PORTRAITS.
AND IT WASN'T TILL I GOT HOME THAT I NOTICED THAT THERE WAS TWO FUNNY ANOMALIES IN THAT PHOTOGRAPH.
THERE WAS LIKE A WHITE STREAK, AND THEN NEXT TO IT, IT WAS LIKE A VERY FAINT OUTLINE OF A WOMAN'S FACE.
I COULDN'T BELIEVE WHAT I SAW.
THINGS LIKE PHOTO FRAMES OR MIRRORS, THEY ACTUALLY CAN BE PORTALS TO THE OTHER WORLDS.
Ryan: PEOPLE TAKE LOTS OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF OUR BEAUTIFUL ANTIQUE COLLECTION IN THE HOMESTEAD.
NOW, A LADY ON A DAY TOUR WENT THROUGH, TOOK A PHOTOGRAPH SIMPLY BECAUSE SHE LIKED THE LOOK OF THE SEWING TABLE, ONLY TO GO HOME AND HAVE THE PHOTO DEVELOPED TO SEE A SMALL CHILD'S FACE PEERING BACK IN THE MIRROR.
WHEN I SAW I FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME, IT PUT A CHILL UP MY SPINE.
NOW, WE DO KNOW THAT THERE WAS AN 18-MONTH-OLD CRAWLEY CHILD THAT WAS DROPPED DOWN THE STAIRCASE OF THE HOMESTEAD AND DIED AS A RESUL OF A TWISTED BOWEL.
WHEN YOU LOOK AT IT, YOU CAN QUITE CLEARLY SEE IT IS A CHILD'S FACE.
Donnellan: NEXT, WE WEN TO THE CARRIAGE ROOM.
AND I HAD A SENSE THERE WAS A LOT OF SPIRITUAL ACTIVITY IN THAT PARTICULAR ROOM.
OVER THE YEARS, WHEN THEY WERE PREPARING CARRIAGES, THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN A LOT OF SERVANTS THERE.
SO A LOT OF THE ACTIVITY WAS BEING PICKED UP FROM THOSE TIMES, AS WELL.
Ryan: THE CARRIAGE SHED AT MONTE CRISTO HOMESTEAD IS A VERY POPULAR PLACE FOR PEOPLE TO SEE SPIRITS.
A LOT OF PEOPLE LIKE TO SIT IN THE CARRIAGES AND HAVE PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN.
BUT A PARTICULARLY GOOD ONE WAS TAKEN ON A DAY TOUR.
NOW, IN THE PHOTOGRAPH, YOU CAN ACTUALLY SEE A LADY IN A SUN DRESS AND A SUN HA STANDING TO THE SIDE OF THE CARRIAGE ITSELF.
IT ALMOST LOOKED LIKE A PERSON IS APPEARING NEXT TO THE CARRIAGE IN A VERY SLOW, MISTY WAY.
WE PRESUME IT'S ONE OF THE DAUGHTERS OF THE CRAWLEY FAMILY STANDING NEXT TO THE CARRIAGE.
ONCE AGAIN, THIS WAS THEIR MAIN FORM OF TRANSPORT, AND THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN IN AND OUT OF THE CARRIAGES ALL THE TIME.
Donnellan: LATER THAT NIGHT, WE ALL RETIRED TO BED, AND I SHARED A DOUBLE BED THA WAS AN OLD-FASHIONED CANOPY BED WITH ONE OF MY FRIENDS.
A COUPLE HOURS LATER, I WOKE UP 'CAUSE I HAD THIS REALLY STRANGE PAIN IN MY LOWER BACK.
I NOTICED THAT MY FRIEND WAS ALSO AWAKE, AND SHE ALSO STATED THAT SHE HAD A PAIN IN HER BACK.
WE WENT BACK TO SLEEP, AND THEN VERY SHORTLY AFTER, I WAS WOKEN UP AGAIN WITH THIS INCREDIBLY STRONG BACK PAIN.
IT WAS GETTING MORE PAINFUL WITH EACH EPISODE.
AND THIS WENT ON THE WHOLE NIGHT.
AT ONE STAGE, THE PAIN WAS SO INTENSE THAT I ACTUALLY THOUGHT I WAS GOING THROUGH KIDNEY FAILURE.
WE MANAGED TO GET THROUGH THE NIGHT WITH HARDLY ANY SLEEP.
Ryan: NOW, WHEN PEOPLE STAY OVER AND WHEN JANINE STAYED AT THE HOUSE, SHE GOT UP THE NEXT MORNING AND EXPLAINED HER EXPERIENCE IN THE ROOM.
Donnellan: THE OWNER SAID THAT THAT ROOM HAD THE ONLY ORIGINAL BED OF THE HOUSE AND THAT A MAID HAD DIED IN THAT EXACT BED GIVING BIRTH -- A VERY LONG AND PROTRACTED LABOR.
AND A LOT OF WOMEN THAT SLEEP IN THAT BED ACTUALLY GO THROUGH THOSE LABOR PAINS DURING THE NIGHT.
WHEN I HEARD THE STORY, I WAS SO SHOCKED, AND I HAD THIS INCREDIBLE SENSE OF EMPATHY.
IT WAS MIND-BLOWING IN A LOT OF WAYS THAT WE'D ACTUALLY EXPERIENCED SOMEONE GOING THROUGH THIS TRAUMATIC EVENT.
THE WHOLE EXPERIENCE HAS CHANGED MY VIEW ABOUT HAUNTED HOUSES.
I THINK IT'S GIVING ME A NEW UNDERSTANDING WHAT SPIRIT ACTIVITY IS ALL ABOUT.
WHENEVER I GO TO A HAUNTED HOUSE, MONTE CRISTO IS MY BENCHMARK OF PARANORMAL ACTIVITY.
Ryan: IT HAS SUCH A BIG REPUTATION THAT PEOPLE COME ON A DAY-TO-DAY BASIS SOLELY ON THE PURPOSE OF SEEING IF THEY CAN CAPTURE A SPIRIT ON FILM OR HAVE A SPOOKY EXPERIENCE THAT THEY CAN TELL THEIR FAMILY WHEN THEY GET HOME.
Donnellan: I WOULD LOVE TO GO BACK TO MONTE CRISTO.
IN FACT, I WOULD LOVE TO SLEEP IN THAT EXACT BED JUST SO THAT I CAN SEE IF I CAN EXPERIENCE THAT EVENT AGAIN.
Ryan: RECENTLY ON A NIGHT TOUR, A PHOTOGRAPH WAS TAKEN OF ME IN THE DINING ROOM.
MR.
CRAWLEY WAS STANDING IN THE FOREGROUND OF THE PHOTOGRAPH, WATCHING OVER ME, LIKE HE DID MANY YEARS AGO AS A SMALL CHILD IN THE BOY'S BEDROOM ITSELF.
IT GAVE ME A LITTLE BI OF A SMILE ON MY FACE TO KNOW THAT MR.
CRAWLEY STILL WANDERS THE HALLWAYS OF MONTE CRISTO AND KEEPS AN EYE ON OUR FAMILY AS WE LOOK AFTER THEIR HOMESTEAD, MONTE CRISTO.
Johnson: THIS LIGHT ANOMALY COMES DOWN OUT OF THE TOP AND THEN SWOOPS OUT OF FRAME.
Crow: I KEPT LOOKING OVER MY SHOULDER TO SEE IF ANYBODY WAS THERE.
I HAD NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS.
Johnson: WE ASKED IF IT WAS A FEMALE WE WERE COMMUNICATING WITH, AND THE LIGH TURNED ALL THE WAY OFF.
Johnson: THIS LIGHT ANOMALY COMES DOWN OUT OF THE TOP AND THEN SWOOPS OUT OF FRAME.
Crow: I KEPT LOOKING OVER MY SHOULDER TO SEE IF ANYBODY WAS THERE.
Johnson: DEFINITELY STOOD ME UP IN MY SEAT.
MY GHOST STORY BEGAN WHEN I WEN TO THE OLD SANFORD SCHOOL IN MOUNDSVILLE, WEST VIRGINIA.
SANFORD SCHOOL WAS AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL THAT WAS BUIL IN THE EARLY 1900s.
IT WAS ORIGINALLY CALLED THE THIRD STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
IT WAS LATER RENAMED SANFORD SCHOOL AFTER ITS FIRST PRINCIPAL, MISS SANFORD, DIED IN THE SCHOOL.
WE DON'T KNOW THE EXACT CAUSE.
SO WE DID GO IN WITH THE MIND-SE OF TRYING TO MAKE CONTAC WITH MISS SANFORD AS WELL AS MAKE CONTACT WITH ANY CHILDREN WHO MAY STILL BE THERE.
Crow: THE SANFORD SCHOOL WAS THE PLACE WHERE MY FATHER HAD WEN TO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AND IS MY HOMETOWN, WHERE I GREW UP.
SO ONCE JONATHAN APPROACHED ME WITH THIS CHANCE TO GO TO THE SANFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, I WAS VERY EXCITED.
Johnson: WALKING UP TO THE SCHOOL, SEEING THE ARCHITECTURE AND HOW OLD IT WAS, IT HAD A DIFFERENT FEEL THAN ANY OTHER PLACE I'VE EVER BEEN, AND THERE WAS NO QUESTION THAT THERE WAS SOMETHING DIFFERENT ABOUT THAT PLACE.
DEFINITELY A CREEPY FEELING.
Crow: HAD A NERVOUSNESS WHEN I WENT IN THERE.
IT JUST CAME OVER ME RIGHT AWAY, LIKE SOMETHING WAS GONNA HAPPEN, BUT YOU DIDN'T KNOW WHEN OR WHERE.
Johnson: WHEN WE DID THE WALK-THROUGH, WE HAD CERTAIN AREAS THAT WE FELT MAY BE MORE ACTIVE BECAUSE OF THE FEELINGS THA WE GOT WHEN WE WENT IN THERE.
Crow: I KEPT LOOKING OVER MY SHOULDER, TURNING AROUND, TO SEE IF ANYBODY WAS THERE.
SEVERAL TIMES THAT I SAW A SHADOW JUST OUT OF THE CORNER OF MY EYE.
Johnson: EVERY TIME WE WOULD WALK BY A DOOR TO THE GYMNASIUM, WE WOULD ALWAYS LOOK THAT WAY, LIKE THERE WAS SOMEBODY IN THERE LOOKING OUT AT US.
Crow: THAT'S WHERE I FEL THE NERVOUSNESS WAS COMING FROM.
THAT'S WHERE I FELT THAT THERE WAS A PRESENCE OR AN ENERGY, IN THAT GYMNASIUM.
IT WAS JUST SOON AS I WALKED IN THERE, I FELT THAT THIS WAS A HOT SPO FOR SOMETHING HERE.
Johnson: ONCE WE GO INTO THE GYMNASIUM, WE SET UP A STATIONARY CAMERA IN THERE AND THEN A VOICE RECORDER ON THE STAGE TO DO AN EVP SESSION.
Crow: I HAD MY WIFE WITH ME, SANDY, WHO WAS ON THE INVESTIGATION FOR HER FIRST TIME.
AND WE'RE BOTH SITTING ON THE AUDITORIUM STAGE DOING THE EVP SESSION, TRYING TO GET THE SPIRI OF MISS SANFORD TO INTERACT WITH US.
Johnson: WE CAUGHT AN EVP OF A SCREAM.
WE DEFINITELY THINK IT WAS A CHILD SCREAMING.
WE THINK THAT THIS IS MORE RESIDUAL IN NATURE OF MAYBE A CLASSTIME ACTIVITY RATHER THAN SOMEBODY SCREAMING FOR HELP.
IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT YOU CATCH ALL THE TIME, AND I WAS VERY EXCITED TO HEAR THAT.
IT DEFINITELY STOOD ME UP IN MY SEAT.
Crow: WE CONTINUED THE INVESTIGATION IN THE GYMNASIUM, TRYING TO GET THE SPIRI TO INTERACT WITH US.
I'M SITTING THERE WITH MY WIFE ON THE AUDITORIUM STAGE, HOPING TO GET ANOTHER SOUND ON THE EVP SESSION WHEN ALL OF A SUDDEN MY WIFE JUMPED.
SHE SAYS, "SOMETHING TOUCHED ME ON THE BACK OF MY NECK.
" SO I TURNED MY FLASHLIGHT ON IMMEDIATELY TO TAKE A LOOK, AND THEN WHEN I TOLD HER, "THERE'S NOTHING ON THE BACK OF YOUR NECK THAT WOULD HAVE CAUSED THAT," SHE GOT REALLY NERVOUS AND STARTED FREAKING OUT.
Johnson: AT THAT POINT, WE DID GO BACK AND LISTEN TO THE AUDIO, AND WE DID CATCH AN EVP THAT SAID, "BEHIND YOU.
" Crow: I WAS SHOCKED WHEN I HEARD THAT.
MY WIFE USED TO BE A SKEPTIC.
BUT AFTER GETTING TOUCHED AND HEARING THAT "BEHIND YOU" EVP, SHE BECAME A BELIEVER.
THAT EXPERIENCE WAS PRETTY INTENSE, SO WE DECIDED THAT MAYBE WE WOULD GO TO ANOTHER PART OF THE SCHOOL.
Johnson: FROM THE GYM, WE MOVED INTO THE HALLWAY TO SET UP OUR VOICE RECORDERS AND DIGITAL CAMERA.
WE HAD A NIGHT-VISION CAMERA SET UP IN THE HALLWAY, SHOOTING AT OUR MEL METER, WHICH GAUGES THE AMOUN OF ENERGY IN THE AIR.
WE WERE HOPING TO CATCH EITHER SHADOWS OR SOME TYPE OF ANOMALY.
THE HALLWAYS JUST HAD A FEELING OF THERE'S ALWAYS SOMEBODY AROUND THE CORNER WATCHING YOU, SOMEBODY WHO MAY NOT HAVE BEEN THREATENING TO YOU, BUT WAS CURIOUS TO SEE WHAT YOU WERE DOING.
WE ALL SAT DOWN AT ONE END OF THE HALLWAY AND BEGAN AN EVP SESSION.
Crow: WE CONTINUED TO PROVOKE, AND WE CONTINUED TO MAKE CONTACT.
Johnson: KEPT HEARING SOUNDS AT THE OTHER END OF THE HALLWAY, SO WE HAD ONE INVESTIGATOR GO DOWN TO THE OTHER END OF THE HALLWAY TO TRY TO PINPOIN WHAT THAT WAS.
AFTER THEY HAD WALKED DOWN THE HALLWAY, WHEN WE LOOKED AT THE VIDEO, WE ACTUALLY SAW A LIGHT ANOMALY GO FROM THE MEL METER, WHICH HAD BEEN SPIKING PREVIOUS TO THAT, AND GO DOWN THE HALLWAY AFTER THAT PERSON.
AND IT WAS NO LIKE ANY OTHER ORB OR ANYTHING THAT I'VE EVER SEEN BEFORE.
Crow: THIS LIGHT ANOMALY IS SOMETHING THAT YOU DON' CATCH ON CAMERA ALL THE TIME.
Johnson: IT HAD A SPIRAL MOVEMENT, WHICH IS VERY UNCOMMON.
I HAD TO WATCH I AT LEAST 10 TIMES JUST TO TRY TO FIGURE OU WHAT IT WAS.
IT WAS JUST SOMETHING THAT I'D NEVER SEEN BEFORE.
WE ALL CAME TO THE AGREEMEN THAT THIS WAS DEFINITELY PARANORMAL.
Crow: THIS DEFINITELY COULD BE THE SPIRIT OF MISS SANFORD.
Johnson: WE CONTINUED TO WATCH THE VIDEO AFTER WE CAUGH THE FIRST ANOMALY.
AND THEN WE CAUGH THE SECOND ONE.
THIS LIGHT ANOMALY COMES DOWN OUT OF THE TOP AND THEN SWOOPS OUT OF FRAME MIDFLIGHT, WHICH IS SOMETHING YOU DON'T SEE VERY OFTEN.
IT'S DEFINITELY UNIQUE IN THAT WAY.
Crow: I HAD NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS ON ANY INVESTIGATION THAT I'VE BEEN ON BEFORE, SO I WAS REALLY THRILLED AND EXCITED AND IMPRESSED AT THE SAME TIME.
Johnson: DURING OUR WALK-THROUGH, CERTAIN MEMBERS OF OUR GROUP PICKED UP IN THE BACK HALLWAY A FEELING OF SOMETHING DARKER BACK THERE.
SO AFTER WE HAD COMPLETED THE INVESTIGATION IN THE FRONT HALLWAY, WE FELT LIKE THAT WAS A GOOD PLACE TO GO CONTINUE OUR INVESTIGATION.
WE DECIDED TO DO A FLASHLIGHT SESSION TO TRY TO COMMUNICATE WITH THE SPIRITS.
WE ASKED IF IT WAS A FEMALE WE WERE COMMUNICATING WITH, AND THE LIGH TURNED ALL THE WAY OFF.
Crow: WE WERE ALL EXCITED THAT WE WERE GETTING THE SPIRI TO COMMUNICATE WITH US.
Johnson: WE TRIED TO ESTABLISH THE IDENTITY OF WHO WE WERE TALKING TO BY ASKING THE SAME QUESTION AGAIN TO MAKE SURE WE GOT THE CORREC RESPONSE THE FIRST TIME.
SHOCKINGLY TO ALL OF US, WE WERE ACTUALLY ABLE TO GET THE LIGHT TO TURN ALL THE WAY BACK ON.
YOU JUST -- YOU GET CHILLS, AND YOU LOOK AT EACH OTHER, AND YOU'RE JUST -- YOU CAN'T BELIEVE THAT IT ACTUALLY HAPPENED.
Crow: WE FELT AT THIS TIME WHO WE BELIEVED TO BE HAUNTING THE LOCATION -- THIS WAS MISS SANFORD.
SO, I'VE DONE A FEW FLASHLIGHT SESSIONS BEFORE, AND YOU'RE ALWAYS EXCITED IF YOU CAN GET IT TO DIM A LITTLE BIT.
BUT THIS ONE BLEW ME AWAY.
Johnson: I THINK IT COULD VERY WELL BE THREE DIFFERENT SPIRITS THAT STILL HAUNT SANFORD SCHOOL, ONE BEING MISS SANFORD.
AND THERE ARE ALSO AT LEAST ONE IF NOT MULTIPLE CHILDREN'S SPIRITS.
BECAUSE OF THE AMOUNT OF ENERGY THAT IT TAKES TO MANIFEST, IT WOULD BE VERY HARD TO DO THAT THREE TIMES.
WE HAD BEEN THERE THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT.
WE CAPTURED SOME GREAT EVIDENCE, AND SO WE DECIDED TO WRAP IT UP.
Crow: THIS INVESTIGATION REALLY MADE A BELIEVER OUT OF MY WIFE, WHO WAS A SKEPTIC BEFORE.
IT MADE ME VERY THRILLED AND EXCITED TO WANT TO GO ON ANOTHER INVESTIGATION.
Johnson: FOR ME TO TALK TO SOMEBODY WHO'S NO LONGER WITH US IS -- IT'S EXCITING.
IT'S SOMETHING THAT A LO OF PEOPLE THINK MAY BE CRAZY, BUT TO ME, IT'S SUBSTANTIATING THAT THERE IS AN AFTERLIFE.
THIS EXPERIENCE HAS JUST SOLIDIFIED MY FEELING OF THE PARANORMAL AND THE AFTERLIFE, THAT THERE'S ABSOLUTELY SOMETHING THERE, AND THERE'S ABSOLUTELY SOMETHING THAT WANTS TO COMMUNICATE WITH US.
Crow: EVERY TIME I INVESTIGATE THE PARANORMAL, I GET A DEEPER UNDERSTANDING OF IT, AND THAT KEEPS BRINGING ME BACK.
Callear: I'VE SEEN THE SHADOW FIGURE.
Caroll: I COULD FEEL THIS STRONG PRESENCE OF SOMEBODY IN THE DOORWAY.
Callear: I HAD SOMEONE WHISPER MY NAME.
IT WAS PROBABLY ONE OF THE MOST INTENSE THINGS I'VE HAD HAPPEN IN MY LIFE.
Callear: I THOUGH THAT IT WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA TO HAVE A HAUNTED HOUSE.
I'VE SEEN THE SHADOW FIGURE.
Caroll: THEY WANT YOU TO KNOW, "WE'RE HERE, AND WE'RE GONNA SCARE YOU.
" YOU'RE GOING TO SEE A HAUNTED HOUSE, BUT YOU MAY ACTUALLY SEE A SPIRIT, TOO.
Callear: MY GHOST STORY BEGAN WHEN I OPENED A HAUNTED HOUSE ON THE GROUNDS OF A FORMER ASYLUM.
THE BARTONVILLE ASYLUM WAS OPENED IN 1902.
ORIGINALLY, IT WAS KNOWN AS THE ILLINOIS HOSPITAL FOR THE INCURABLE INSANE, LATER CHANGED TO PEORIA STATE HOSPITAL.
SINCE 1973, IT WAS ABANDONED.
OF THE ORIGINAL BUILDINGS, THERE ARE VERY FEW THAT REMAIN STANDING.
THERE WAS AN AWFUL LOT OF TALK OF THE PARANORMAL AND THINGS THAT HAPPEN AT THIS LOCATION.
OVER 8,000 ACTUALLY DIED ON THE GROUNDS.
THE FACT THAT OVER 4,000 OF THE RESIDENTS ARE STILL BURIED ON THE GROUNDS ADDS TO THE LORE.
WITH IT HAVING THE HISTORY THAT IT HAS, I THOUGHT THAT IT WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA TO HAVE A HAUNTED HOUSE.
MY FIRST EXPERIENCE IN THE BUILDING -- I WALKED IN, CHECKED A FEW THINGS OUT REAL QUICK.
I HEARD SOME FOOTSTEPS COMING MY DIRECTION DOWN THE HALLWAY.
SOUNDED LIKE ONE OF OUR VOLUNTEERS.
CALLED HIS NAME OUT.
NO ANSWER.
WHEN I LOOKED DOWN THE HALLWAY, THERE WAS NO ONE PRESENT.
VISUALLY, I COULD NOT MAKE SENSE OF HEARING THE FOOTSTEPS, THE SHUFFLING OF THE FEET, COMING MY DIRECTION.
I GOT THAT STRANGE FEELING THAT I WAS DEFINITELY NOT ALONE.
WHEN THESE FOOTSTEPS GO WITHIN ABOUT 3 TO 5 FEET OF ME, I THREW MY ARMS UP, SAID, "IT'S ALL YOURS," LEFT THE BUILDING, AND DID NOT GO BACK IN FOR PROBABLY A WEEK AFTER THAT.
THAT FEAR IS SOMETHING YOU'RE NEVER PREPARED FOR IN YOUR LIFE.
FORTUNATELY, SOMEBODY WHO'S FAMILIAR WITH AND COMFORTABLE WITH THE PARANORMAL CAME ALONG WITH STACY.
Caroll: I GREW UP IN A HAUNTED HOUSE.
SO I HAD MANY EXPERIENCES WITH THE PARANORMAL, AND I HAVE A WAY OF KNOWING WHEN THERE'S A SPIRIT AROUND.
Callear: STACY CAROLL, HER AND ANOTHER FRIEND OF HERS ACTUALLY CAME TO US, APPROACHED US ABOUT HELPING US.
ONE OF HER FRIENDS, CHRIS, IS VERY GOOD WITH THE HAUNTED-HOUSE SIDE.
STACY IS EXCELLEN WITH THE PARANORMAL SIDE.
SHE HAD THE ABILITY TO DO EVPs.
SHE HAD THE ABILITY TO UNDERSTAND THINGS OF THE PARANORMAL REALM.
Caroll: WE WOULD BE IN THERE, AND DOORS WOULD SLAM.
YOU COULD HEAR FOOTSTEPS COMING DOWN THE HALLWAY -- SOMETIMES VERY LOUD FOOTSTEPS, LIKE SOMEBODY STOMPING.
Callear: VOICES SINGING, HUMMING, HAVE ALL BEEN EXPERIENCED BY MANY PEOPLE IN THE STRUCTURE, INCLUDING MYSELF.
Caroll: YOU COULD GET SHADOWS MOVING AROUND.
YOU'D THINK SOMEBODY'S BEHIND YOU, AND NOBODY WOULD BE THERE.
I DECIDED LET'S DO SOME RECORDINGS, TAKE SOME PICTURES, AND SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING AND GOING ON IN THERE.
ONE PARTICULAR NIGHT, I HAD THE RECORDER, AND I WAS WALKING DOWN TOWARDS THE MALE WARD.
WHEN I GOT TO A CERTAIN AREA, I BENT DOWN TO PICK SOME STUFF UP, AND I CAPTURED SOMETHING ON AN EVP.
THEN WE WENT BACK AND I LISTENED TO THE RECORDINGS, AND IT STATED, "HOW LONG ARE YOU GONNA MAKE THAT NOISE IN HERE?" Callear: WHEN I HEARD THA SPECIFIC EVP, IT MADE ME THINK, WHO WAS TELLING US TO KEEP IT DOWN? WHY WERE WE DISTURBING THEM? THEY'RE DEAD.
Caroll: WE HAVEN'T LEARNED A LO OF THE STORIES ON THE PATIENTS, BUT WHAT WE FEEL IS BECAUSE SO MANY DIED IN THAT AREA AND SO MANY PATIENTS -- THIS BECAME THEIR HOME AND PROBABLY THE ONLY HOME THAT THEY EVER KNEW, SOME OF THEM, SO I'M SURE THEY WERE PRETTY CRABBY ABOUT US BEING IN THERE.
THEY LIKED THE QUIET.
WE ALSO DISCOVERED A SHADOWY FIGURE THAT ROAMS THE BUILDING.
Callear: I'VE SEEN WHAT APPEARS TO BE A SMALL FIGURE.
MOST PEOPLE THINK IT'S A SMALL GIRL.
IT'S A SHADOW FIGURE, PEEKS AROUND THE CORNER AND LOOKS AT YOU.
Caroll: SHE DOESN'T STAY AROUND LONG.
SHE'LL COME AND WANDER INTO THE ROOM WHERE WE ARE, AND THEN SHE QUICKLY MOVES ON.
Callear: WE CAPTURED AN EVP WITH THE LITTLE GIRL WHERE WE ARE ASKING IF ANYONE'S IN THE ROOM.
SHE REPLIES, "I'M HERE.
" Caroll: YOU GET AN EERIE FEELING KNOWING THAT, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE RIGHT THERE.
THEY REALLY ARE RIGHT THERE WITH US.
WE ALSO CAUGHT A PHOTO OF A FIGURE OF A LITTLE GIRL.
IN THE PICTURE, YOU CAN SEE WHAT LOOKS LIKE THE FACE OF A LITTLE GIRL AND ALMOST WHAT SHE WAS WEARING, ALMOST A NIGHTGOWN-TYPE THING.
Callear: IT'S A TOTAL-PACKAGE-TYPE SCENARIO WHEN I HEAR THESE VOICES.
I'VE VISIBLY SEEN THEM.
WE'VE CAPTURED THEM ON PICTURES.
SCARES THE BEJESUS OUT OF ME.
Caroll: OF ALL THE AREAS IN THE BUILDING, THE BASEMENT IS THE MOST ACTIVE.
Callear: THE BASEMENT LOCATION INTIMIDATES EVERYONE THAT GOES DOWN THERE.
Caroll: WE HAD A GROUP OF PEOPLE DOWNSTAIRS IN THE BASEMENT.
WE WAS, YOU KNOW, RECORDING, ASKING QUESTIONS.
YOU KNOW, "IS ANYBODY HERE? WHAT'S YOUR NAME?" WE WAS GOING THROUGH, YOU KNOW, ALL THE NORMAL THINGS, BUT I COULD FEEL THIS STRONG PRESENCE OF SOMEBODY IN THE DOORWAY.
SO I TURN AND SAID, "IT'S A GOOD TIME FOR SOMEBODY TO TAKE A PICTURE IN THE DOORWAY.
" AND WE CAPTURED THIS MIST PICTURE.
Callear: THE PICTURE WE CAUGH OF THE WHITE MISTY FIGURE IN THE BASEMEN LITERALLY MAKES YOUR SKIN CRAWL.
YOU REALIZE THAT THERE'S THINGS ALL OVER THIS STRUCTURE THAT YOU CANNOT UNDERSTAND.
Caroll: WE COULD ALL FEEL SOMETHING IN THAT AREA, AND IT WAS VERY, VERY COLD.
SO WHEN WE TOOK THE PICTURE AND WE LOOK BACK, YOU COULD SAY THAT EXPLAINS THIS, YOU KNOW.
Callear: AT THAT POINT, I DECIDED, WITH ALL OF THESE THINGS COMBINED TOGETHER, I DO NOT GO INTO THE BASEMEN BY MYSELF, AND I AM VOCAL ABOUT THAT.
I WILL NEVER GO INTO THE BASEMENT BY MYSELF.
PROBABLY THE MOST INTENSE THING THAT HAS HAPPENED TO ME IN THAT STRUCTURE TO DATE OCCURRED WHEN I HAD A GENTLEMAN AND A LOCAL GHOST-HUNTING GROUP THAT CAME IN.
WE WENT INTO A ROOM, SAT ON A COUCH.
THEY WERE DOING AN EVP SESSION AND HAD ALL THEIR GADGETS AND GIZMOS SET UP.
AND MARK HAD THIS EARPHONE SET ON THAT DELAYED EVERYTHING HE HEARD FOR THREE SECONDS.
AND PROBABLY HALFWAY THROUGH THIS EXPERIENCE, IT'S COMPLETE DARK, AND I HAD SOMEONE LEAN OVER AND WHISPER MY NAME IN MY EAR.
I SNATCHED MY HEAD AROUND TO LOOK TOWARDS MARK.
THREE SECONDS LATER, HE ASKED ME IF I HAD HEARD THE VOICES.
OF COURSE I HAD.
THEY WERE WHISPERED INTO MY EAR.
IT WAS A TWO-HEADED MONSTER -- PROOF THAT I WASN'T CRAZY, THAT IT DID ACTUALLY HAPPEN, BUT IT ALSO PROVED THAT THIS PLACE IS LEGITIMATELY HAUNTED.
FEAR-WISE, IT WAS PROBABLY ONE OF THE MOST INTENSE THINGS I'VE HAD HAPPEN IN MY LIFE.
UP TILL THE DATE THAT I ENTERED THIS COMPLEX, I NEVER COULD VALIDATE THE SUPERNATURAL, BUT I HAVE HAD A LIFETIME'S WORTH OF EXPERIENCES AND THEN SOME IN A VERY SHORT PERIOD OF TIME IN THIS LOCATION.
Caroll: THEY WANT YOU TO KNOW, "WE'RE HERE, AND WE'RE GONNA SCARE YOU.
" YOU'RE GOING TO SEE A HAUNTED HOUSE, BUT YOU MAY ACTUALLY SEE A SPIRIT, TOO, ALONG WITH THE HAUNTED HOUSE.
Ferrante: I'D NOTICED OVERHEAD THE CHANDELIER WAS SWINGING.
Mertz: WHEN DOMINIC PLAYED THAT EVP BACK, I WAS LIKE, "OH, MY GOD.
" Ferrante: I GOT AN ELECTRICAL CHARGE IN MY HANDS.
Mertz: WHAT COULD IT DO TO ME WHILE I'M LAYING IN BED SLEEPING AT NIGHT? Mertz: I'M REALLY SCARED OF THE HOUSE.
ONE OF THESE DAYS, IT'S REALLY GONNA HURT ME.
Ferrante: THIS HOUSE IS ONE OF THE SCARIEST PLACES I'VE EVER BEEN.
WE WERE IN THE PRESENCE OF PURE EVIL.
Mertz: MY GHOST STORY BEGAN WHEN I MOVED INTO MY HUSBAND'S GRANDPARENTS' OLD HOME IN KUTZTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA.
THE HOUSE -- IT WAS AN OLD FARMHOUSE BUILT BY THE ADAMS FAMILY.
IT'S A BEAUTIFUL HOUSE IN A NICE LOCATION.
THROUGH THE YEARS, 17 PEOPLE HAVE DIED AT THE HOUSE.
I WAS TOLD BY A FAMILY FRIEND THAT RAYMOND ADAMS' MOTHER WAS A WITCH.
AND SHE USED TO DO HEXINGS DOWN IN THE BASEMENT.
THE SPARE BEDROOM WAS ORIGINALLY OUR BEDROOM.
THE FIRST NIGHT I SLEP OVER IN THE HOUSE, I EXPERIENCED NOISES UP IN THAT ATTIC.
SOMETIMES IT SOUNDED LIKE A BALL WAS ROLLING AROUND OR A ROCKING CHAIR WAS BEING ROCKED OR PEOPLE WALKING.
I WOULD JUST LAY THERE, AND THEN EVENTUALLY I WOULD FALL ASLEEP SCARED.
ONE NIGHT, I WAS AT HOME BY MYSELF, AND I MUST HAVE FELL ASLEEP.
AND THE NEXT THING, I FELT THE BED SHAKING.
AND MY ARM WAS BEING HELD DOWN ON THE BED.
I TRIED GETTING OFF THE BED, BUT I COULDN'T, 'CAUSE IT WAS HOLDING ME DOWN.
I WAS SO TERRIFIED.
I GOT OUT OF BED, AND I TRIED GOING OUT THE BEDROOM DOOR, AND JUST LIKE THAT, THE BEDROOM DOOR WAS HELD SHU BY AN UNSEEN FORCE.
FINALLY GOT THE DOOR OPEN, AND I RAN OUT OF THE HOUSE, AND I DROVE AROUND FOR AN HOUR AND A HALF BECAUSE I HAD NOWHERE TO GO.
WE RECORDED MANY ORBS IN MY HOUSE.
I COULD BE SITTING THERE, AND YOU CAN SEE WHITE ORBS.
THEY JUST COME OUT OF NOWHERE.
AND YOU CAN GO OUTSIDE OF MY HOUSE AND TAKE PICTURES, AND THERE'S ORBS ALL OVER THE PLACE OUTSIDE.
I JUST CAN'T BELIEVE WHAT'S GOING ON UP HERE AT MY HOUSE.
AT NIGHT, I'LL GO TO BED, AND I WON'T HAVE ANY BRUISES ON ME.
AND WHEN I WAKE UP, MY HUSBAND WILL SAY, "YOU HAVE A BRUISE ON YOUR BACK.
WHERE'D YOU DO THAT AT?" AND I DON'T KNOW.
I DON'T REMEMBER HITTING MYSELF.
BEING ATTACKED IN YOUR OWN BED, IN YOUR OWN HOUSE, BY SOMETHING YOU CAN'T SEE IS HORRIFYING.
WE CAN'T AFFORD TO LEAVE THIS HOUSE AT THE TIME.
I'M FEELING THREATENED.
I NEED TO FIND SOMEBODY TO HELP ME FIGURE OUT AND POSSIBLY GET RID OF WHAT'S BAD IN MY HOUSE.
Ferrante: AMY CONTACTED US ABOUT ACTIVITY IN HER HOME THAT WAS UNBELIEVABLE AT THE TIME.
SO WE SCHEDULED A TIME FOR US TO COME OVER AND MEET WITH HER.
Mertz: WE WERE SITTING AT THE TABLE, AND WE WERE DISCUSSING WHAT WAS GOING ON IN THE HOUSE.
CINDY, DOMINIC'S WIFE, WAS ALONG, AND JUST LIKE THAT, SHE SAW A SHADOW GO ACROSS IN THE LIVING ROOM, SO WE DECIDED TO GET UP AND DO THE WALK THROUGH THE HOUSE, AND I SHOWED THEM WHERE THE HOT SPOTS WERE.
WE WENT UP INTO THE ATTIC.
Ferrante: WHEN WE WENT UPSTAIRS TO THE ATTIC, THAT'S WHEN THINGS GO A LITTLE BIT CRAZY.
I HAD MY BACK AGAINST THE WALL, AND I FELT TWO HANDS PUSH ME IN THE MIDDLE OF THE BACK, TRYING TO PUSH ME DOWN THE ATTIC STAIRS.
Mertz: I SAW DOMINIC GET PUSHED FORWARD.
I THOUGHT, OH, MY GOODNESS, I'VE BROUGHT SOMEBODY INTO THE HOUSE, AND NOW IT'S ATTACKING THEM.
Ferrante: UP UNTIL THAT POINT, I HAD HAD SPIRITS TOUCH ME OR RUFFLE MY HAIR OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, BUT NEVER FELT THE PHYSICAL FORCE THAT I FELT THEN.
IT WAS LIKE ANOTHER HUMAN BEING TRYING TO PUSH ME.
I BELIEVE AT THAT POINT WE WERE IN THE PRESENCE OF PURE EVIL.
THAT CONCLUDED OUR WALK-THROUGH WITH THE HOME.
A WEEK LATER, WE DECIDED TO COME BACK WITH OUR TEAM AND DO A FULL INVESTIGATION OF THE HOUSE.
Mertz: WHEN I MOW THE GRASS, I CAN HEAR THIS OLD MAN YELLING AT ME FROM THE ATTIC WINDOW.
I HEAR, "HEY!" AND I LOOK AROUND TO SEE IF THERE'S NEIGHBORS THERE, AND THERE'S NOBODY OUT.
I SAW THIS OLD MAN'S FACE IN THE WINDOW IN THE ATTIC.
Ferrante: A WEEK LATER, WE WERE TAKING EVPs IN THE ATTIC, AND WE HAD STARTED TO DO A LITTLE BIT OF PROVOKING, SAYING, "WHAT'S THE MATTER? "YOU CAN PICK ON SOMEBODY LIKE AMY WHO'S NOT PREPARED FOR THIS.
YOU'RE OBVIOUSLY BEING A CHICKEN.
" WHEN I HEARD THE RESPONSE, I THOUGHT TO MYSELF, OBVIOUSLY IT'S TRYING TO PLAY GAMES WITH US.
Mertz: WHEN DOMINIC PLAYED THAT EVP BACK FOR ME, I WAS LIKE, OH, MY GOD, 'CAUSE YOU CAN HEAR IT CLEAR AS DAY -- "I'M NO CHICKEN.
" Ferrante: IT KIND OF CONFIRMED THAT WHAT WE WERE THINKING -- THAT THERE'S ACTUALLY MORE THAN ONE SPIRI INHABITING THIS HOUSE.
WE BELIEVE THAT THE EVP WAS NOT THE EVIL ENTITY THAT WE BELIEVE IS THERE.
WE STARTED TO SET OUR DVR UP ON THE DINING-ROOM TABLE.
I'D NOTICED OVERHEAD THE CHANDELIER WAS SWINGING.
NOW, I KNOW THAT I HAD NOT TOUCHED THIS.
AND NOBODY ELSE WAS AROUND TO TOUCH THIS.
WE STILL GOT FOUR MINUTES OF A CHANDELIER SWINGING BACK AND FORTH.
Mertz: I NEVER SAW THE CHANDELIER MOVE BEFORE.
I WAS LIKE, "NO WAY.
" Ferrante: LATER THAT NIGHT, WE WENT INTO THE SPARE BEDROOM.
WE DECIDED TO TRY TO COMMUNICATE WITH THE SPIRITS BY USING DOWSING RODS.
AND DOWSING RODS YOU HOLD IN YOUR HANDS AND ASK QUESTIONS AND ASK THEM TO CROSS THE RODS FOR YES OR UNCROSS THE RODS FOR NO.
I GOT A LITTLE HEATED IN MY DISCUSSION WITH THE SPIRIT, SAYING, "YOU KNOW YOU'RE GOING TO BE LEAVING TONIGHT.
" AND AT THAT MOMENT, I GO AN ELECTRICAL CHARGE IN MY HANDS THAT MADE ME THROW THE DOWSING RODS AND ACTUALLY TAKE A LOOK AT MY HANDS TO MAKE SURE THAT I WAS NOT BURNED.
AH! Mertz: IF IT COULD SHOCK HIM THROUGH DOWSING RODS, WHAT COULD IT DO TO ME WHILE I'M LAYING IN BED SLEEPING AT NIGHT? Ferrante: AH! I BELIEVE THAT THE NEGATIVE ENTITY THAT IS IN THAT HOME HAS AN INCREDIBLE AMOUNT OF POWER.
AH! I BELIEVE IT WAS JUST SHOWING ME, "YOU'RE NOT AS TOUGH AS YOU THINK YOU ARE, AND I CAN DO WHATEVER I WANT.
" AFTER EVERYTHING WE WENT THROUGH, IT WAS TIME TO CALL IT A NIGHT.
THIS HOUSE IS ONE OF THE SCARIEST PLACES I'VE EVER BEEN.
I THOUGHT TO MYSELF, "AMY, YOU'VE GOT TO TRY TO GET OUT OF HERE, BECAUSE IT'S NOT SAFE HERE.
" THIS SPIRIT TRIED TO PUSH ME DOWN THE STAIRS AND SHOCK ME.
IF THAT'S NOT EVIL, I DON'T KNOW WHAT IS.
Mertz: WE WOULD LIKE TO LEAVE THE HOUSE.
I'M REALLY SCARED OF THE HOUSE.
MY HUSBAND'S AFRAID ONE OF THESE DAYS THAT IT'S REALLY GONNA HURT ME.
Ferrante: I BELIEVE THAT THE EVIL SPIRI THAT'S IN AMY'S HOME IS DEMONIC.
THE THINGS THAT PEOPLE ARE MOST SCARED OF REALLY DO EXIST.
Mertz: I FEEL THAT I'LL NEVER HAVE PEACE AT THE HOUSE.
BUT THAT'S A CHANCE I'M GONNA HAVE TO TAKE, 'CAUSE WE CAN'T AFFORD TO MOVE ANYWHERE ELSE.