My Ghost Story (2010) s06e09 Episode Script
The Spirits of Mineral Springs
Greg: WHEN I WALKED IN, IT GOT REALLY COLD.
THE FLASHLIGHT STARTED GETTING PRETTY BRIGHT.
THE LIGHT ANOMALY WAS THE SPIRIT OF A SMALL CHILD.
Cook: I HEARD A "BANG!" I THOUGHT THE HOUSE WAS CAVING IN OR SOMETHING.
I START TAKING PICTURES EVERYWHERE IN THE HOUSE.
Beasley: THEN "BOOM," OUT OF NOWHERE.
Cook: THERE'S TWO SETS OF EYES.
IT'S RIGHT HERE IN FRONT OF ME.
Beasley: FREAKY, MAN.
Jodie: THERE WERE ORBS EVERYWHERE.
THERE WAS THIS HUGE ORB.
THERE'S NO WAY THAT COULD BE ANYTHING BUT A SPIRIT.
Ghai: HE SAID TO ME, "I THINK I'VE JUST SEEN A GHOST.
" THAT'S WHAT WE WERE ABSOLUTELY SHOCKED TO SEE A SHADOW PERSON, LIKE A TINGLING TERROR.
Higgins: ALL OF A SUDDEN, I FEL THIS BRUSH ON MY LEFT ARM.
IT SENT ME INTO AN ABSOLUTE FRENZY.
Ghai: HE SAID TO ME, "I THINK I'VE JUST SEEN A GHOST.
Wilce: SOMEBODY WAS TRYING TO MANIFES THEMSELVES IN FRONT OF US.
"IF YOU'RE THERE, COULD YOU PLEASE MAKE CONTACT WITH US?" Ghai: WHY COULDN'T I HAVE SEEN IT AT THE TIME? MY GHOST STORY BEGAN WHEN WE DECIDED TO INVESTIGATE THE HELL-FIRE CAVES IN WEST WYCOMBE, ENGLAND.
THE HELL-FIRE CAVES ARE A SERIES OF COMPLEX TUNNELS.
THEY GO DOWN ABOU A QUARTER OF A MILE UNDERGROUND.
THEY WERE EXCAVATED ABOUT 1740 BY SIR FRANCIS DASHWOOD, HE STARTED WHAT'S CALLED THE HELL-FIRE CLUB TO ENGAGE IN PARTIES, DEBAUCHERY.
SOME RUMORS HAVE I THAT MURDER TOOK PLACE THERE, SATANIC WORSHIP, AND EVEN SEX ORGIES.
ONE OF THE SADDER EVENTS THAT TOOK PLACE AT THE HELL-FIRE CAVES WAS THE MURDER OF A 16-YEAR-OLD GIRL CALLED SUKIE.
IT WAS RUMORED THAT SHE RECEIVED NOTES TELLING HER TO MEET AT THE CAVES TO MEET HER LOVER, PERHAPS, AND AS SHE ARRIVED AT THE CAVES, SHE FOUND A GROUP OF YOUTHS THERE.
THE YOUTHS OBVIOUSLY HAD MADE A JOKE, SO SHE PICKED UP A HANDFUL OF GRAVEL AND THREW IT AT THESE BOYS.
IN RETALIATION, THE BOYS PICKED UP ROCKS, AND ONE HIT HER ON THE HEAD AND KILLED HER INSTANTLY.
SINCE THE MURDER OF SUKIE, IT'S BEEN RUMORED THAT HER GHOST STILL HAUNTS THE HELL-FIRE CAVES AND HAS BEEN SEEN WALKING AROUND AND LOOKING FOR SOMETHING OR SOMEONE.
THE HELL-FIRE CAVES HAS BEEN RUMORED TO BE HAUNTED FOR MANY, MANY YEARS.
THERE HAVE BEEN DOZENS OF INVESTIGATIONS TAKE PLACE THERE, AND BEING A PARANORMAL ENTHUSIAST MYSELF, I DECIDED TO GO AND INVESTIGATE THESE CLAIMS OF PARANORMAL ACTIVITY.
IAN IS MY BEST FRIEND AND ALSO THE CO-FOUNDER OF THE TEAM, AND WE WANTED TO INVESTIGATE THE HELL-FIRE CAVES TO SEE IF WE COULD GET PROOF OF THE GHOSTS THAT APPARENTLY HAUN THAT LOCATION.
Wilce: THE CAVES ARE SITUATED BELOW A GRAVEYARD WHICH BELONGS TO THE CHURCH ABOVE THE CAVES, WHICH IS SUPPOSED TO SIMULATE HEAVEN AND HELL, AND IT'S SAID THAT THE GATES OF THE CAVES ARE THE ENTRANCE TO HELL.
Ghai: WE TOOK WITH US HANDHELD CAMERAS, AUDIO EQUIPMENT, INFRARED DVR EQUIPMENT, AS WELL, AND EVEN A NON-CONTACT LASER THERMOMETER TO SEE WHAT THE TEMPERATURE WOULD BE.
Wilce: AS WE ENTERED THE CAVES, WE DID FEEL VERY APPREHENSIVE.
Ghai: IT WAS A SCARY PLACE, AND IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'D BEEN TO BEFORE, BUT ON THIS OCCASION, IT WAS DARK.
IT FELT SINISTER.
Wilce: IT'S A VERY PRESSING ATMOSPHERE.
IT'S VERY HEAVY BECAUSE THE CEILINGS ARE SO LOW.
Ghai: WE WERE INVESTIGATING THE AREA KNOWN AS THE INNER TEMPLE, AND AS WE WERE COMING UP THE GRAVEL PATH, IAN THOUGH THAT HE HEARD SOME FOOTSTEPS.
Wilce: WE BOTH SPUN AROUND AND SHONE OUR TORCHES DOWN TOWARDS WHERE THE SOUND WAS COMING FROM.
IT WAS PITCH-BLACK, AND I SAW WHAT LOOKED LIKE FROM THE HIP DOWNWARDS SOMEBODY WALKING AWAY FROM US.
IT'S VERY SURPRISING TO SEE SOMEBODY DOWN THERE, ESPECIALLY IF YOU KNOW YOU'RE THE ONLY PEOPLE DOWN THERE.
THAT'S THE POINT WHERE THE HAIRS ON THE BACK OF MY NECK STOOD UP.
Ghai: HE SAID TO ME, "BARRI, I THINK I'VE JUST SEEN A GHOST.
" AND I TOOK MY CAMERA THAT I HAD IN MY HAND, AND I FIRED OFF A SERIES OF PHOTOGRAPHS.
WE WALKED TOWARDS WHERE HE THOUGHT THAT THESE LEGS WERE SORT OF HIDING.
Wilce: BUT THERE WAS NOTHING DOWN THERE.
Ghai: THERE'S NOWHERE FOR ANYONE TO GO.
THIS WAS A DEAD END.
THEN WE DECIDED TO LOOK AT THE PHOTOGRAPHS I HAD TAKEN IN QUICK SUCCESSION.
[ CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING .]
I SAW WHAT LOOKED LIKE A LARGE MIST.
IT WAS SO CLEAR, SO BRIGHT, AND SO THICK THAT IT HAD TO HAVE BEEN THERE.
WHY COULDN'T I HAVE SEEN I AT THE TIME? Wilce: THE MIST ITSELF LOOKED LIKE IT WAS WISPY IN PARTS, BUT IT WAS QUITE DENSE IN SOME PARTS, AS WELL, WHICH IS NOT A NORMAL MIS THAT YOU'D CAPTURE IN A PLACE LIKE THAT.
TO ME, IT LOOKED IMMEDIATELY LIKE SOMEBODY WAS TRYING TO MANIFEST THEMSELVES IN FRONT OF US.
Ghai: I THOUGHT TO MYSELF, "THERE'S DEFINITELY A GHOS IN THIS PICTURE.
THE MISTY FIGURE THAT WE CAUGHT IN THE PHOTOGRAPH COULD BE THE GHOST OF SUKIE, THE YOUNG LADY THAT WAS MURDERED IN THE CAVES, BUT IT ALSO COULD BE PAUL WHITEHEAD.
PAUL WHITEHEAD WAS THE HELL-FIRE CLUB SECRETARY.
HE HAD HIS HEART ENTOMBED IN AN URN, AND THAT URN WAS PLACED IN THE HELL-FIRE CAVES.
SEVERAL YEARS LATER, AN AUSTRALIAN SOLDIER APPARENTLY STOLE HIS HEAR FROM THIS URN, AND IT'S SAID THAT PAUL WHITEHEAD'S GHOS NOW ROAMS AROUND THE HELL-FIRE CAVES, LOOKING FOR HIS OWN HEART.
AT THIS TIME, MY APPREHENSION LEVEL WAS AT HIGH.
IAN AND MYSELF PLACED A DIGITAL VOICE RECORDER IN THE INNER TEMPLE.
WE LEFT THE VOICE RECORDER RUNNING, AND WE DECIDED TO MOVE AWAY FROM THAT AREA AS QUICKLY AS WE COULD.
Wilce: WE DECIDED TO MAKE OUR WAY UP TOWARDS THE BANQUETING HALL.
THE BANQUETING HALL IS A VERY LARGE, OPEN SPACE RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE HELL-FIRE CAVE SYSTEM.
AS WE ENTERED THE ROOM, IT WAS CONSIDERABLY COLDER.
IT FELT LIKE ICE.
A TEMPERATURE DROP INDICATES TO US THAT SOMETHING IS POSSIBLY TRYING TO GATHER ENERGY, AND IT DOES THAT BY USING UP ENERGY IN ITS SURROUNDINGS.
Ghai: I WAS HOLDING AN EMF DETECTOR, AND THIS DEVICE MEASURES THE ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD.
THE EMF DETECTOR WAS MAKING A NOISE AND A BUZZING SOUND TO GO WITH IT.
THAT WAS TELLING ME THA WE WERE DEFINITELY NOT ALONE.
IS THIS BECAUSE SUKIE'S WITH US? IS THIS BECAUSE PAUL WHITEHEAD IS POSSIBLY FOLLOWING US AROUND? ARE WE IN DANGER? DOES THIS COLD TEMPERATURE MEAN THAT WE SHOULDN'T BE HERE? IAN WAS HOLDING A DIGITAL VOICE RECORDER, AND WE DECIDED THAT IT WAS APPROPRIATE FOR HIM TO CALL OUT AND ASK QUESTIONS.
Wilce: "WHO'S THERE? IF YOU'RE THERE, COULD YOU PLEASE MAKE CONTACT WITH US? COULD YOU LET US KNOW THAT YOU'RE THERE?" ASKING THEM WHAT'S THEIR NAME.
Ghai: WE LISTENED TO THE RECORDING, AND WE HEARD WHAT SOUNDED LIKE SOME SINGING.
FEMALE VOICES, PERHAPS, SINGING IN HARMONY.
Wilce: AS I LISTENED TO THE RECORDING, MY INITIAL REACTION WAS, "HOLY CRAP.
THAT'S AMAZING.
" IN MY OPINION, ONE OF THE VOICES IS DEFINITELY SUKIE.
Ghai: AT THIS POINT, THE ATMOSPHERE WAS THICK, WE FELT SCARED, AND WE THOUGHT, "LET'S GET OUT NOW WHILE WE HAVE THE CHANCE.
" DURING THE INVESTIGATION, WE HAD SET UP FOUR INFRARED CAMERAS AROUND THE CAVES.
TWO OF THOSE CAMERAS WERE PLACED IN THE BANQUETING HALL TO TRY AND CAPTURE AND RECORD ANY VISUAL PHENOMENA THAT MAY HAVE TAKEN PLACE.
AS WE WERE LEAVING THE CAVES, THE DVR RECORDER CAPTURED WHAT WE THINK IS A SHADOW PERSON MOVING QUICKLY PAS ONE OF THE INFRARED CAMERAS.
Wilce: YOU KNOW, THIS, FOR ME, WAS TOTALLY MIND-BLOWING.
IT DID GIVE ME A LITTLE FEELING OF DREAD, BECAUSE I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT IT WAS.
I DIDN'T KNOW WHO IT WAS.
Ghai: THE VIDEO RECORDING DEMONSTRATED TO US THAT WE WERE BEING FOLLOWED BY A SPIRIT.
I THINK THAT THE GHOST OF SUKIE MIGHT WELL HAVE BEEN WITH US IN THOSE CAVES.
Wilce: IT'S A VERY FRIGHTENING SITUATION TO BE IN, HAVING KNOWN THAT YOU WERE SO CLOSE TO SOMEBODY FROM THE OTHER SIDE.
Ghai: THIS EXPERIENCE AT THE HELL-FIRE CAVES HAS EFFECTED ME MASSIVELY.
I'VE GOT A LOT MORE RESPEC FOR THE SPIRITS THAT HAUNT THAT PLACE.
Wilce: I THINK THEY'RE TRAPPED THERE.
I DON'T THINK THEY MEAN ANYBODY ANY HARM.
I THINK THEY'RE JUST TRYING TO GET PEOPLE'S ATTENTION.
Ghai: THEY'RE INTELLIGENT SPIRITS THA STILL WALK AROUND THOSE CAVES.
SUKIE IS DEFINITELY THERE.
PAUL WHITEHEAD MAY STILL BE LOOKING FOR HIS HEART.
Wilce: I'D LOVE TO GO BACK TO THE HELL-FIRE CAVES.
IT WOULD GIVE US THE POSSIBILITY TO MAYBE CAPTURE THE ULTIMATE PIECE OF EVIDENCE TO PROVE THA THERE IS LIFE AFTER DEATH.
Cook: I THOUGHT THE HOUSE WAS CAVING IN OR SOMETHING.
Beasley: OUT OF NOWHERE, WE SEE THIS FACE IN THE WINDOW.
Cook: YOU CAN CLEARLY SEE TWO SETS OF EYES.
Beasley: FREAKY, MAN.
JUST TERRIBLY FREAKY.
Beasley: OUT OF NOWHERE, WE SEE THIS FACE IN THE WINDOW.
Cook: YOU CAN CLEARLY SEE TWO SETS OF EYES.
Beasley: JUST TERRIBLY FREAKY.
Cook: MY GHOST STORY BEGAN WHEN I PURCHASED A 100-YEAR-OLD HOUSE IN DOWNTOWN FRANKLIN.
I DO A LITTLE BI OF INVESTMENT REAL ESTATE.
INITIALLY, I THOUGH THAT I WOULD FLIP THIS HOUSE JUST BECAUSE IT'S A GREAT LOCATION AND EVERYONE WANTS TO BE IN HISTORIC DOWNTOWN FRANKLIN.
THE BATTLE OF FRANKLIN TOOK PLACE NOVEMBER 30, 1864.
IT WAS SAID TO BE ONE OF THE BLOODIEST BATTLES IN THE ENTIRE CIVIL WAR.
BETWEEN FOUR HOURS, THERE WERE ACTUALLY OVER 9,000 CASUALTIES.
BECAUSE OF THAT, THERE'S A LO OF FOCUS AND ATTENTION DRAWN TO OUR GHOSTLY HAPPENINGS.
I REALLY DIDN'T GIVE THESE STORIES A LOT OF CREDIBILITY.
I MOVED INTO THE HOUSE, AND WITHIN A COUPLE WEEKS, I STARTED TO HEAR JUST LITTLE KNOCKING AND PIPES AND JUST LITTLE THINGS HERE AND THERE THAT WOULD START TO BE LOUD ENOUGH TO WAKE ME UP.
A FEW WEEKS LATER, I WAS SLEEPING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, AND OUT OF NOWHERE, I HEARD A "BANG!" RIGHT ON MY BEDROOM DOOR.
I THOUGHT THE HOUSE WAS CAVING IN OR SOMETHING.
I LOOK UP OVER MY BED, AND I CAN SEE THE DOOR STILL OPENING.
[ DOOR CREAKS .]
I WAS JUST FROZEN.
I THOUGHT I WAS BEING ROBBED.
I FINALLY GOT UP AND WENT THROUGH THE DOOR AND WENT THROUGH THE HOUSE.
THERE WAS NOTHING.
I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO MAKE OF IT.
A COUPLE MONTHS AFTER THAT HAPPENED, I WAS JUST LAYING IN BED, WATCHING TV.
I FEEL SOMETHING, A LITTLE SHAKE RIGHT BESIDE ME.
I LOOK TO MY RIGHT, AND RIGHT BESIDE ME ON MY BED STAND, I CAN SEE THE SILHOUETTE OF A BOY'S FACE, LIKE, PERFECT.
I SAY, "CAN YOU SEE ME?" I DON'T KNOW WHY I SAID IT.
AT THE SAME TIME THAT I SAID, "CAN YOU SEE ME," I REACHED OUT, AND IT STARTED TO KIND OF DISAPPEAR, LIKE, VERY SLOWLY, AND THEN IT WAS GONE.
NOW I'M BEGINNING TO GET A LITTLE BIT SCARED 'CAUSE IT'S STARTING TO SINK IN WHAT I JUST SAW.
AFTER THAT HAPPENED, I PICKED UP A CAMERA AND START TAKING PICTURES ALL AROUND MY BEDROOM.
I CAN'T FIND OR SEE ANYTHING.
SO I START TAKING PICTURES IN THE DINING ROOM, IN THE KITCHEN, AND EVERYWHERE IN THE HOUSE.
[ CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING .]
I WALKED OUT OF THE FRONT DOOR, STARTED TAKING SOME PICTURES [ CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING .]
WENT BACK INSIDE, PLUGGED IN TO MY COMPUTER, STARTED GOING THROUGH WHAT SEEMED LIKE 100 PICTURES.
I WAS LOOKING AT THE PICTURES, AND ONE OF THEM HAS A LITTLE FLASH IN THE CORNER.
BUT THEN THERE'S A LO OF WHITE STUFF ALL AROUND IT.
AND THERE'S A FACE THERE.
THE PICTURE -- IT LOOKS LIKE A BOY'S FACE.
THAT REALLY FREAKED ME OUT.
AND THEN I CAME UPON THIS WEIRD MIST FIGURE, AND THERE WAS SO MUCH DEFINITION IN SOME OF THE CURVES, SO I KEPT THE PICTURE, BUT THAT PICTURE WASN'T NEARLY ENOUGH TO VALIDATE THE EXPERIENCE THAT I HAD.
SOMETIME AFTER THAT, I WOKE UP, I WENT TO THE KITCHEN JUST BECAUSE I WAS A LITTLE HUNGRY, I LOOK UP, AND I SEE THE SAME LITTLE BOY, THE SAME EXPRESSION ON HIS FACE.
IT'S JUST LIKE A PICTURE.
HE'S ON THE FAR END OF THE ROOM, AND SO I IMMEDIATELY LOOK RIGHT, AND HE'S NOT THERE.
I IMMEDIATELY RUN AND GET THE CAMERA AGAIN, AND I START TAKING IN THAT CORNER, AND NOTHING SHOWS UP AGAIN.
WENT OUTSIDE AGAIN AND FACED AWAY FROM THE HOUSE AND STARTED TAKING A LOT OF PICTURES.
THIS ONE, ACTUALLY, I COULD SEE SOME SORT OF SMOKE FORM ON THE ACTUAL VIEWFINDER.
THAT'S HOW DEFINED IT WAS.
AND SO I RAN IN IMMEDIATELY, PUT IT ON MY COMPUTER.
IT'S EVEN MORE DEFINED OF A SMOKE FORM THAN BEFORE, AND I STARTED TO KIND OF PLAY WITH MAKING IT BIGGER AND KIND OF ZOOMING IN PLACES.
AT ONE PART OF THE SMOKE FIGURE, THERE'S A FACE.
A QUARTER OF THE WAY DOWN, YOU CAN START TO SEE A LITTLE BIT OF A HEAD LOOKING SIDEWAYS.
KIND OF AN OLD-TIMEY HAIRDO -- FLIPPED DOWN.
AND YOU CAN SEE EYES.
AT THIS POINT, I KNEW WHAT I SAW, BUT I DIDN'T WANT TO TELL PEOPLE WHAT I THINK I SAW.
VAN BEASLEY AND I GREW UP TOGETHER.
WE'VE KNOWN EACH OTHER FOREVER.
Beasley: WE PLAYED FOOTBALL TOGETHER IN HIGH SCHOOL.
HE'S BEEN ONE OF MY BEST FRIENDS FOR A LIFETIME.
BUT I CALLED HIM UP, SAID, "THERE'S A GAME ON.
I'LL COME OVER TO YOUR PLACE AND WATCH THE GAME.
" Cook: AT THIS TIME, I'D STILL NEVER TOLD ANYBODY ABOUT THE EXPERIENCES THAT I'D HAD.
VAN KNEW NOTHING.
Beasley: IT STARTED OU AS JUST ANY NORMAL NIGHT.
Cook: VAN HAD COME OVER.
WE'D HAD A COUPLE OF DRINKS.
Beasley: AUSTIN, HE HAD TO WORK SUPER, SUPER EARLY IN THE MORNING.
IT WAS AROUND THIRD QUARTER.
HE'S LIKE, "MAN, YOU KNOW, ACTUALLY, I'M JUST GONNA CRASH EARLY.
YOU CAN SLEEP ON THE COUCH.
" I FINISHED THE GAME.
I WAS JUST LAYING DOWN AND WAS TALKING TO A GIRL THAT I WAS TRYING TO DATE AT THE TIME, AND THE WAY THAT I WAS LAYING, I COULD ACTUALLY SEE THE KITCHEN.
I ACTUALLY SEE AUSTIN.
HE WALKS INTO THE KITCHEN AND OPENED A DRAWER UP.
IT WAS REALLY, REALLY LOUD, SO IT WAS REALLY APPAREN THAT HE WAS PRETTY ANGRY THAT I WOKE HIM UP.
I KIND OF FELT BAD, SO I LOWERED MY VOICE.
GO TO SLEEP.
DIDN'T THINK ANYTHING OF IT.
WAKE UP NEXT MORNING, AND IMMEDIATELY, I WAS JUST LIKE, "MAN, I'M SO SORRY, BUDDY, YOU KNOW, FOR KEEPING YOU UP LAST NIGHT.
" Cook: I WAS LIKE, "NO, YOU DIDN'T.
I WAS FINE.
I SLEPT LIKE A BABY.
" AND HE WAS LIKE, "NO, I SAW YOU COME IN.
I HEARD YOU IN THE KITCHEN, AND YOU OPENED UP THE REFRIGERATOR DOOR, AND YOU WERE BEING REALLY LOUD.
" I TOLD HIM THAT, "NO, THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN," AND I STARTED TO SMILE A LITTLE BI JUST BECAUSE I THOUGHT TO MYSELF, "YEP.
HERE'S SOMEONE THAT ACTUALLY EXPERIENCED SOMETHING.
" Beasley: AND THEN THAT'S WHEN HE SAID, "I'VE BEEN SEEING A LITTLE BOY ON THE FOOT OF MY BED.
" RIGHT WHEN HE SAID THAT, CHILL BUMPS.
MY HAIR WAS STANDING UP.
IT WAS LIKE I WAS ELECTROCUTED.
Cook: HE GOT HIS SHOES AND THEN WALKED OUT OF THE HOUSE.
HE DIDN'T FEEL COMFORTABLE TALKING ABOUT IT IN THE HOUSE.
Beasley: HE WANTED TO REALLY LOOK INTO IT.
AT THAT POINT, I WASN'T READY.
Cook: KEPT CHATTING WITH VAN AND CONVINCING HIM THAT IT'S ACTUALLY KIND OF COOL.
"WHY DON'T YOU COME OVER AND TRY TO HELP ME FIGURE OUT WHAT IT IS?" Beasley: ANYWAY, HE TALKED ME INTO IT.
Cook: I WENT OUT AND BOUGH A VOICE RECORDER THAT DAY.
WE JUST LITERALLY HIT RECORD AND THEN STARTED TAKING PICTURES.
[ CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING .]
Beasley: THEN OUT OF NOWHERE, WE SEE THIS FACE.
IT WAS IN THE WINDOW RIGHT THERE, AND THEN WE REALIZED, "OH, MY GOSH, THAT WAS IN THE KITCHEN.
" THAT'S WHERE I SAW WHAT I THOUGHT WAS AUSTIN.
Cook: YOU CAN SEE THE WINDOW.
YOU CAN SEE THE DECK AND EVERYTHING AROUND.
WHEN YOU ZOOM IN THE PICTURE, THERE'S A FIGURE.
IT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE A HUMAN.
IS IT DEMONIC? I DON'T KNOW.
BUT YOU CAN CLEARLY SEE TWO SETS OF EYES SITTING THERE.
Beasley: WHEN I LOOKED AT THE PHOTO, EVERYTHING THAT I SAW THE NIGHT BEFORE, IT WAS JUST JUSTIFIED.
THERE'S SOMETHING IN THAT HOUSE.
FREAKY, MAN.
JUST TERRIBLY FREAKY.
Cook: AFTER BEING OUTSIDE, TAKING A LOT OF PICTURES, WE HAD THE RECORDER IN THERE, AND WE ACTUALLY CAME BACK IN AND STARTED LISTENING.
IT SOUNDS LIKE A LITTLE KID MOANING.
AFTER THAT, YOU COULD HEAR US FINALLY OPEN UP THE BACK DOOR AND COME BACK IN, AND WE'RE TALKING.
SO THERE WAS NO ONE IN THE HOUSE.
I DON'T KNOW WHO THE CHILD SPIRIT IS, BUT I HAVE TO BELIEVE THAT HE'S SOMEHOW CONNECTED TO THE BATTLE OF FRANKLIN.
THERE WAS SO MUCH DEATH IN THE BATTLE THAT, I MEAN, THERE HAS TO BE SOME SORT OF SPIRITS ASSOCIATED WITH IT.
Beasley: TO HAVE EVIDENCE WITH OUR OWN EYES, SEEING IT RIGHT THERE, NOW ALL THE GHOST STORIES OF FRANKLIN, TENNESSEE, ALL THE SIGHTINGS, IT ALL WAS VALIDATED THERE.
Cook: THIS EXPERIENCE HAS DEFINITELY CHANGED ME.
IT'S DEFINITELY FIRMED UP MY FAITH FROM DEFINITELY BEING A SKEPTIC INTO KNOWING THA THERE'S SOMETHING OUT THERE.
Jodie: IT STARTED OFF WITH ONE ORB, AND THEN THERE WERE ORBS EVERYWHERE.
Nathan: WHEN IT COMES TO THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE, IT'S THE ONLY ROOM I'M ACTUALLY SCARED TO GO IN IN THE BUILDING.
Jodie: I KNEW SOMETHING WAS FOLLOWING MY SON.
Nathan: THAT WAS THE FIRST TIME THAT SOMETHING'S HAPPENED THAT'S ACTUALLY SCARED ME.
Jodie: IT STARTED OFF WITH ONE ORB, AND THEN THERE WERE ORBS EVERYWHERE.
I KNEW SOMETHING WAS FOLLOWING MY SON.
Nathan: THAT WAS THE FIRST TIME THAT SOMETHING'S HAPPENED THAT'S ACTUALLY SCARED ME.
Jodie: MY GHOST STORY BEGAN WHEN MY SON AND I WENT TO MINERAL SPRINGS TORTURE MUSEUM IN ALTON, ILLINOIS.
I BOUGHT A HOUSE ABOUT 13 YEARS AGO, AND SIX MONTHS AFTER I WAS LIVING THERE, MY SON, NATHAN, STARTED SEEING GHOSTS.
Nathan: I'VE BEEN SEEING GHOSTS EVER SINCE I WAS 2 OR 3 YEARS OLD.
AS I GOT OLDER, THINGS STARTED TO ESCALATE TO THE POINT WHERE THINGS WOULD START MOVING AROUND.
I WOULD HEAR PEOPLE TALKING.
SEEING AND HEARING ALL THESE THINGS GOING ON IN MY HOUSE, I WAS JUST REALLY QUESTIONING MY SANITY.
"IS SOMETHING REALLY WEIRD GOING ON IN MY MIND, OR WHAT'S GOING ON?" Jodie: I HAD TO SEEK OUT ANSWERS FOR MY OWN CHILD.
Nathan: MY MOM TOOK ME TO MINERAL SPRINGS TO PROVE TO ME THAT I'M NOT CRAZY.
Jodie: I HAVE HEARD SO MUCH ABOUT ALTON, ILLINOIS, AND IT BEING THE SCARIEST PLACE ON THE PLANET.
AND I KNEW THAT IF I TOOK MY SON THERE, HE WOULD BE CONVINCED THAT HE ACTUALLY HAS A GIFT.
I BELIEVE THE BUILDING HAS FOUR OR FIVE LEVELS.
WHEN YOU GET DEEP INTO IT, IT GETS CREEPIER AND CREEPIER, LIKE THE BASEMENT, THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE.
IT IS THE CREEPIEST AREA IN THE BUILDING.
THEN THERE ARE TWO POOLS -- THE LADIES' POOL AND THE GENTLEMEN'S POOL.
NEITHER OF THEM ARE WORKING, AND THEY ARE IN BAD SHAPE.
Nathan: THE VERY FIRST TIME I ENTERED THE BUILDING, ME AND MY MOM WERE EXPLORING IT.
AS SOON AS WE WALK IN THERE, I HEARD A LITTLE GIRL SAY FROM BEHIND ME, "WON'T YOU STAY AND PLAY?" I LOOKED BEHIND ME, AND THERE WAS NOTHING THERE.
I GO UPSTAIRS TO THE ENTRANCE, AND I ASK MY MOM, "IS THERE A SPIRI OF A LITTLE GIRL HERE?" SHE SAID, "YES.
" Jodie: I DID SOME RESEARCH.
THERE WAS A CHILD THERE.
HER NAME IS CASSANDRA.
HER PARENTS WERE WEALTHY, AND THEY RENTED OU THE GENTLEMEN'S POOL.
SHE WAS HAVING HER BIRTHDAY PARTY.
SHE SLIPPED, HIT HER HEAD ON THE CONCRETE, AND FELL INTO THE POOL AND DROWNED.
Nathan: I BELIEVE THE SPIRI OF CASSANDRA WAS ATTACHED TO ME.
I WAS A GOOD WINDOW FOR HER INTERACTION.
Jodie: A LITTLE WHILE LATER, WE DECIDED TO GO DOWNSTAIRS.
Nathan: WHEN IT COMES TO THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE, IT'S THE ONLY ROOM I'M ACTUALLY SCARED TO GO IN IN THE BUILDING.
SCOTT'S ANOTHER INVESTIGATOR.
HIM AND MY MOM ARE ALWAYS INVESTIGATING TOGETHER.
Jodie: SCOTT IS VERY FAMILIAR WITH THE LOCATION.
HE SET UP HIS SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS.
I THINK ABOUT 45 MINUTES AFTER WE LEFT -- WE LEFT THE CAMERAS ROLLING -- SCOTT CAPTURED A MIS THAT JUST FORMED FROM THE GROUND AND CAME UP.
HOW CAN A MIST OR SMOKE FORM FROM THE GROUND AND COME UP? IT MAKES NO SENSE TO ME.
JANET, THE LADY THAT RUNS THE MINERAL SPRINGS, SHE TOOK NATHAN UNDER HER WING.
SHE DESCRIBED EVERY WAY THAT SHE HAS MADE CONTAC WITH THIS LITTLE GIRL.
AND SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT THEY DO IS THEY PLAY WITH MARBLES.
NATHAN IS DOWN AT THE BOTTOM OF THE POOL, AND HE WAS ROLLING MARBLES UP THE POOL.
Nathan: IF YOU STAY IN THE DEEP PART OF THE POOL AND ROLL IT UP TOWARDS THE SHALLOW END, IT WILL ACTUALLY STAY THERE AND WILL ROLL BACK TO YOU SLOWLY.
Jodie: AND ONE ACTUALLY STOPPED ON THE SLOPE AND JUST STAYED, AND THEN IT STARTED ROLLING BACK DOWN ABOUT 25, 30 SECONDS LATER.
IT WAS ON AN UPHILL.
THERE'S NO REASON FOR IT TO GET CAUGHT.
NATHAN WAS REALLY INTRIGUED.
Nathan: I THINK THE SPIRI WHO PLAYS WITH THE MARBLES IS CASSANDRA, 'CAUSE SHE REALLY LOVED MARBLES, AND IT MAKES SENSE THAT THAT'S THE ONLY PLACE WHERE IT HAPPENS, 'CAUSE IT'S THE PLACE SHE DIED AT.
Jodie: I DECIDED TO START TAKING SOME PICTURES.
IT STARTED OFF WITH JUST ONE ORB, AND THEN THE MORE PICTURES I TOOK, THERE WERE ORBS EVERYWHERE.
AFTER WE CAPTURED ALL OF THESE ORBS, WE WERE IN THE MAIN AREA.
Nathan: I WAS WALKING TOWARDS THE STAIRCASE THAT LEADS TO THE BALLROOM.
TO MY RIGHT, THERE WAS A LONG HALLWAY, WHICH, AT THE END OF IT, HAD A MIRROR-GLASS DOOR, AND IN THE CORNER OF MY EYE, I SAW MYSELF WALKING PAST, BUT THEN I SAW A LITTLE SHADOW WALKING BEHIND ME, TOO.
I LOOKED BEHIND ME, AND THERE WAS NO ONE THERE.
AS I'M WALKING, I FEEL SOMETHING JUST PINCH MY BACK.
Jodie: SOMETHING PINCHED HIS BACK SO HARD THAT HE YELLED, LIKE, "OW!" Nathan: MY MOM CAME RUNNING IN.
SHE LIFTED UP MY SHIRT, AND SURE ENOUGH, THERE WAS A BIG RED MARK, LIKE SOMEONE PINCHED THERE.
Jodie: I KNEW SOMETHING WAS FOLLOWING MY SON.
I DIDN'T REALLY UNDERSTAND WHY IT WOULD BE TRYING TO HURT HIM.
Nathan: THAT WAS THE FIRST TIME THAT SOMETHING'S HAPPENED THAT'S ACTUALLY SCARED ME.
Jodie: SCOTT HAD HIS CAMERAS SET UP ALL OVER MINERAL SPRINGS, SO HE HAD ONE IN THE BALLROOM.
IT HAD JUST BEEN SITTING FOR A COUPLE HOURS, ACTUALLY FILMING THERE.
LATER ON, WHEN SCOT REVIEWED THE FOOTAGE, THERE WAS THIS HUGE, BRIGHT ORB JUST FLOATING ACROSS THE ROOM.
IT WAS SO BRIGHT.
THERE'S NO WAY THAT COULD BE ANYTHING BUT A SPIRIT.
I FEEL THAT CASSANDRA IS STILL HAUNTING THE PLACE BECAUSE SHE'S LOOKING FOR HER PARENTS.
THE LAST DAY OF HER LIFE WAS HER BIRTHDAY WITH HER PARENTS, AND SHE'S PROBABLY STILL LOOKING FOR THEM, AND THAT'S WHY SHE HASN'T LEFT.
AFTER EVERYTHING I HAVE CAPTURED AT MINERAL SPRINGS -- THE ORBS FLYING IN THE BALLROOM, THE MIST COMING UP FROM THE FLOOR IN THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE -- I KNOW WITHOUT A DOUB THAT MINERAL SPRINGS IS PROBABLY ONE OF THE MOST INTELLIGENT HAUNTINGS I HAVE EVER COME ACROSS.
MINERAL SPRINGS HAS HELPED NATHAN GET OVER THAT FEAR OF HIS GIFT.
Nathan: ME AND MY MOM ARE REALLY GOOD FRIENDS.
THE PARANORMAL HAS DEFINITELY BONDED US.
I'LL DEFINITELY ACCOMPANY HER TO TRIPS AND WHATNO 'CAUSE I KNOW THAT THE TRIP AND THE LOCATION WILL BE WORTH IT IN THE END.
I'M A VERY RATIONAL PERSON, BUT I BELIEVE THIS PLACE IS HAUNTED BECAUSE THERE'S SO MANY THINGS THAT HAVE HAPPENED HERE THAT I PERSONALLY JUST CANNOT EXPLAIN.
Clark: JUST REALLY FEEL THE PRESENCE OF SPIRITS IN THAT ROOM.
IT SENT CHILLS DOWN MY SPINE.
Higgins: WHATEVER TOUCHED ME SENT ME INTO AN ABSOLUTE FRENZY.
I GASPED FOR AIR.
I WAS TERRIFIED.
Clark: IT'S DEFINITELY A VALIDATION THAT SOMETHING'S THERE.
Clark: IT SENT CHILLS DOWN MY SPINE.
Higgins: I GASPED FOR AIR.
I WAS TERRIFIED.
Clark: IT'S DEFINITELY A VALIDATION THAT SOMETHING'S THERE.
Higgins: MY GHOST STORY BEGAN WHEN I GOT HIRED AT A HAUNTED THEATER IN PORTSMOUTH, NEW HAMPSHIRE.
I WORK A THE SEACOAST REPERTORY THEATRE.
I'M THE SOCIAL MARKETING MANAGER.
I'M ALSO A RESIDENT ARTIST THERE.
SEACOAST REP'S BEEN AROUND FOR ABOUT 25 YEARS NOW IN THIS OLD, FREAKY BUILDING THAT'S MOST KNOWN FOR BEING THE FRANK JONES BREWERY IN THE 1850s.
A BIG SOLARIUM HOUSES OUR LOBBY, AND THE STAGE IS IN THE THREE-QUARTER THRUST THEATER WITH STADIUM SEATING, SO IT IS KIND OF UNDERGROUND, ALMOST.
THE FIRST TIME THAT I EVER EXPERIENCED ANYTHING IS I WENT TO GO PICK UP A GUITAR PICK DURING THE SHOW.
I HAD 10 OF THEM BACKSTAGE WHEN I FIRST GOT THERE EARLIER THAT DAY, AND ALL OF THEM WERE GONE.
AFTER THE SHOW WAS OVER, I'M JUST LOOKING AROUND, SEEING WHERE THEY COULD HAVE BEEN.
THEY WERE ABOUT 20 FEE FROM THE TABLE IN A SMALL, NEAT LITTLE PILE.
WE HAD A STAGE MANAGER BACK THERE, AND I SAID, "HEY, DID YOU MOVE MY GUITAR PICKS?" AND SHE SAID, "NO, I DIDN'T.
" SHE SAID, "BUT YOU'VE MET PRECOCIOUS.
" PRECOCIOUS IS A SPIRI OF A LITTLE GIRL THAT RESIDES IN THE THEATER.
THEY'VE CALLED THE SPIRI "PRECOCIOUS" BECAUSE SHE SEEMS TO LIKE TO PLAY WITH THINGS AND TO PLAY WITH THE PEOPLE THAT ARE IN THE THEATER.
I WAS A LITTLE BIT SKEPTICAL AT FIRST, BUT THEN OTHER PEOPLE STARTED TELLING ME, YOU KNOW, "OH, NO, THIS HAS ACTUALLY HAPPENED A COUPLE OF OTHER TIMES.
" THINGS GO MISSING.
PROPS WILL NOT BE WHERE THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO BE.
WE HAD A VERY STRANGE INSTANCE ONE TIME OF A COSTUME OF A LITTLE GIRL THAT SEEMED TO VANISH OUT OF THIN AIR.
ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF LATER, I WALKED DOWN TO THE INNER LOBBY, AND I HEARD SOMETHING, AND I THOUGHT, "OH, YOU KNOW, SOMEBODY'S WORKING ON THE STAGE.
" I OPEN THE CURTAINS, AND IT WAS PITCH-BLACK.
NOBODY WAS IN THE THEATER, SO I STOOD AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS, AND I LISTENED FOR ABOUT 10 SECONDS, AND THEN I HEARD, VERY DISTINCTLY, A PUSH BROOM BEING PUSHED ACROSS THE STAGE LIKE SOMEBODY WAS SWEEPING THE STAGE.
I YELLED OUT.
I SAID, "HELLO? IS ANYONE THERE?" AND IT STOPPED, AND THEN, ALL OF A SUDDEN, I GOT THIS JUST WHOOSH -- THIS COLD, STRANGE FEELING.
EVERY SINGLE HAIR ON MY NECK AND MY BODY JUST STOOD ON END, AND I JUST -- I GOT THE HELL OUT OF THERE AS FAST AS I POSSIBLY COULD.
I BOOKED IT UP THE STAIRS, BURST INTO OUR GENERAL MANAGER'S OFFICE, AND SAID, "THERE'S SOMETHING IN THE THEATER.
" WE WENT DOWN, WE CHECKED IT OUT, AND THERE WAS NOTHING THERE.
THERE VERY WELL COULD BE SOME SORT OF CORRELATION BETWEEN THE AMOUNT OF ACTIVITY THAT HAPPENS IN OUR THEATER AND THE HISTORY BEHIND A GIGANTIC SLAVE BURIAL GROUND THAT NOBODY KNEW ABOU IN PORTSMOUTH, WHICH IS LOCATED RIGHT ACROSS THE STREE FROM WHERE THE THEATER IS.
NOW, WHETHER PRECOCIOUS IS THE ENTITY OF, YOU KNOW, A SLAVE FROM ACROSS THE STREET, WE HAVE NO IDEA.
IT WASN'T UNTIL A LITTLE BIT LATER, WHEN I WAS WORKING IN THE TOOLROOM, THAT I NOTICED THAT THERE IS A TUNNEL THAT HAS BEEN BLOCKED OFF WITH A BUNCH OF BRICKS.
IT WAS ACTUALLY USED FOR THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD AND FOR BOOTLEGGING WHEN PROHIBITION WENT INTO EFFECT.
THAT'S THE TUNNEL THAT TAKES YOU TO ACROSS THE STREET.
Clark: I'VE BEEN INVESTIGATING THE PARANORMAL SINCE OCTOBER 2010.
I ACTUALLY STARTED MY OWN TEAM.
I LEARNED ABOUT 10 YEARS AGO THAT THE SEACOAS REPERTORY THEATRE WAS HAUNTED.
IT DEFINITELY MADE ME WANT TO GO IN THERE AND CHECK OUT THEIR SPIRITS.
Higgins: I FIRST MET STEVE 'CAUSE HE HAD CONTACTED MY BOSS TO DO AN INVESTIGATION ON THE THEATER.
Clark: WHEN I ENTERED THE BUILDING, DEFINITELY HAD THE FEELING OF BEING WATCHED.
JUST WEIRD THINGS HAPPENING OUT OF THE CORNER OF YOUR EYE.
WE FIRST STARTED THE INVESTIGATION BACKSTAGE.
WE WERE FEELING COLD DRAFTS.
A FEW PEOPLE WERE FEELING TOUCHED.
ONE PERSON THAT WAS WITH US DECIDED TO TAKE A FEW PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE HALLWAY.
THAT'S WHERE WE ENDED UP FINDING THESE BALLS OF MIST.
ONE CAME OUT FROM ONE OF THE INVESTIGATOR'S SHOULDER.
IN THE SECOND ONE, IT MOVED FROM HER SHOULDER DOWN THE HALLWAY TO WHERE I'M SITTING, AND IN THE THIRD ONE, THE MIST IS COMPLETELY GONE.
Higgins: THAT MIST REALLY SHOCKED ME.
IT'S DEFINITELY NO A SPECK OF DUS OR GRIME ON A CAMERA LENS.
THIS IS A MIST THAT FOLLOWS FROM ONE POSITION TO THE NEXT.
Clark: IT'S DEFINITELY A VALIDATION THAT SOMETHING'S THERE.
Higgins: WE WENT BACK TO THE TOOLROOM WHERE I LOST MY GUITAR PICKS.
Clark: THE TOOLROOM WHERE THE TUNNEL IS SENT CHILLS DOWN MY SPINE.
YOU JUST REALLY FEEL THE PRESENCE OF SPIRITS IN THAT ROOM.
SINCE KNATE HAD EXPERIENCES IN THERE, WE DECIDED WE WERE GOING TO USE HIM AND SEE WHAT WE COULD GET.
Higgins: I HAVE A PENDULUM.
I WANTED TO TEST THIS OUT.
Clark: IT WAS DEFINITELY MOVING IN THE DIRECTIONS THAT HE WAS ASKING IT TO MOVE.
Higgins: WHEN I ASKED THE SPIRI TO STOP THE PENDULUM IT STOPS IT ON A DIME.
AND TO SEE THA WAS QUITE REMARKABLE.
WHEN I ASKED THE QUESTION IT SWUNG FROM SIDE TO SIDE, INDICATING THAT THE ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION WAS "YES.
" SO, WHATEVER IS IN THAT ROOM COULD NOT GET OUT.
AT THIS POINT, I'M SUFFICIENTLY FREAKED OUT.
BUT I STILL WANT TO KNOW A LITTLE BIT MORE INFORMATION BEFORE I GE THE HELL OUT OF THERE.
I DECIDED TO TRY MY HAND AT THE K-II METER, AND I BROUGHT IT OVER TO THE AREA WHERE I HAD MY FIRST PRECOCIOUS MEETING.
STEVE AND HIS GROUP WENT OVER TO INVESTIGATE ON THE STAGE, SO THERE WAS NOBODY ELSE IN THERE EXCEPT FOR THE PERSON THAT'S FILMING ME.
THERE IS NO ELECTRICITY IN THAT ROOM.
IT'S COMPLETELY CONCRETE, ENCASED IN BRICK.
IN MY HEAD, I WAS THINKING TO MYSELF, "WELL, IF THIS IS A LITTLE GIRL, I'LL START ASKING HER SOME LITTLE-GIRL QUESTIONS.
" AND THAT'S WHEN I STARTED TO SEE A RESPONSE.
NOW, I'M A TALL GUY.
I'M ABOUT 6'1", AND I REALIZE THAT I'M HOLDING THE K-II METER ABOUT FOUR FEET OFF THE GROUND.
WHEN I BROUGHT THE K-II METER DOWN, IT STARTED GOING CRAZY.
ALL OF A SUDDEN, I FEL THIS BRUSH ON MY LEFT ARM.
IT WAS LIKE AN ELECTRIC SHOCK.
I GASPED FOR AIR.
I WAS TERRIFIED.
IT LITERALLY BROUGHT TEARS TO MY EYES.
I GET CHOKED UP.
YOU CAN HEAR IT ON THE VIDEO.
WHATEVER TOUCHED ME SENT ME INTO AN ABSOLUTE FRENZY.
Clark: HE CAME UP TO THE MAIN STAGE.
THAT'S WHERE I WAS AT.
HE WAS PALE WHITE.
HE WAS DEFINITELY FRAZZLED BY SOMETHING.
IT JUST GOT THE BETTER OF HIM.
I SAW A RED MARK ON HIS LEFT ARM.
OBVIOUSLY, WHEN YOU START GETTING TOUCHED AND THINGS LEAVE MARKS, YOU WANT TO MAKE SURE THA IT'S NOT GONNA HARM HIS HEALTH.
I THINK KNATE DID THE RIGHT THING BY REMOVING HIMSELF FROM THE SITUATION.
AFTER THAT, HE DIDN' CONTINUE INVESTIGATING, AND PERSONALLY, I THINK THAT'S A SMART MOVE.
ALL THE VISUAL EVIDENCE THAT WE ACTUALLY CAUGH AT THE SEACOAS REPERTORY THEATRE STRENGTHENS MY THOUGH THAT THERE IS ANOTHER REALM THAT WE'RE NOT AWARE OF.
Higgins: I WOULD SAY TO A SKEPTIC WHEN THEY LOOK AT THIS EVIDENCE AND SAY, "YOU KNOW, THIS COULD HAVE BEEN A MYRIAD OF OTHER FACTORS," BUT I WAS IN THEIR SAME POSITION.
YOU JUST HAVEN' EXPERIENCED THIS YET.
THERE REALLY IS SOMETHING THERE.
Greg: OH! Guppy: I'M SEEING SOMETHING I CAN'T EXPLAIN.
Greg: AT THIS POINT, I DIDN'T KNOW WHO OR WHA THIS ENTITY WAS.
THAT WAS PRETTY NERVE-RACKING.
Greg: OH! Guppy: I'M SEEING SOMETHING I CAN'T EXPLAIN.
Greg: AT THIS POINT, I DIDN'T KNOW WHO OR WHA THIS ENTITY WAS.
Guppy: MY GHOST STORY BEGAN AT AN OLD FARMHOUSE IN MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS.
I STARTED AS AN INVESTIGATOR BECAUSE I WANTED TO TRY TO HELP PEOPLE, AND I'VE BEEN AN INVESTIGATOR SINCE 2005.
THE HOMEOWNERS OF THE PROPERTY CALLED US UP BECAUSE THEY FELT THAT THERE WAS PARANORMAL ACTIVITY GOING ON IN THE OLD FARMHOUSE, AND THEY WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT IT WASN'T ANYTHING HATEFUL OR VIOLENT.
WE DID SOME RESEARCH, AND THE FARMHOUSE HAD BEEN BUIL APPROXIMATELY EARLY 1900s TO THE LATE 1800s.
YEARS AGO, THEY ACTUALLY BURIED THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS ON THE PROPERTY, SO WE BELIEVE THAT THERE'S ACTUALLY SOMEBODY BURIED THERE.
I TOOK WENDY, WHO IS MY NIECE, AND SEVERAL OTHER MEMBERS OF OUR GROUP TO THE FARMHOUSE TO ACTUALLY DO THE INVESTIGATIONS.
Greg: THE HOMEOWNER OF THE HOUSE HAD TOLD ME SHE HAD SEEN FLICKERS OF LIGH IN THE PLAYROOM THAT SHE COULDN'T EXPLAIN.
SHE HAD ALSO TOLD ME HER SON HAD SEEN A FULL-BODIED APPARITION.
Guppy: THE OWNER'S SON WAS WORKING IN THE HOUSE AT THE TIME, AND HE SEEN OUT OF THE CORNER OF HIS EYES WHAT WE BELIEVED WAS A FULL-BODIED APPARITION OF A WOMAN IN PERIOD DRESS COMING DOWN THE STAIRS.
HE WAS REALLY FRIGHTENED.
Greg: THE FARMHOUSE WAS OLD.
IT WAS RICKETY.
IT WAS IN PRETTY BAD SHAPE.
Guppy: THE FIRST PLACE WE WENT TO WAS A KITCHEN AREA WHERE HER SON SIGHTED THE APPARITION.
WENT IN THERE, AND WE TOOK A PHOTO WITH A FULL-SPECTRUM CAMERA TOWARDS THE STAIRWELL.
WE CAPTURED WHAT LOOKS LIKE A LIGHT ANOMALY.
UPON REVIEW, IT ACTUALLY LOOKS LIKE A LEG OR PIECE OF A DRESS MANIFESTING AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS.
Greg: AT THIS POINT, I DIDN'T KNOW WHO OR WHA THIS ENTITY WAS.
THE ONLY THING WE COULD THINK OF AT THE TIME THAT IT COULD HAVE BEEN WAS SOMEONE THAT WAS BURIED ON THE LAND.
I WAS EXCITED FOR THE REST OF THE NIGH TO SEE WHAT OTHER EVIDENCE WE COULD CAPTURE.
Guppy: AFTER THAT, WE WENT UPSTAIRS.
Greg: WE HAD DECIDED TO SET UP AN EVP SESSION TO SEE IF WE COULD GE ANY MORE EVIDENCE.
DURING THE EVP SESSION, WE ASKED A VARIETY OF QUESTIONS.
Guppy: ONE OF THE QUESTIONS THAT WAS ASKED WAS, "DO YOU KNOW YOU'RE DEAD?" AND THE RESPONSE CAME BACK.
IT SAYS, "YES.
" Greg: WHEN I HEARD THE PLAYBACK, IT WAS REALLY EXCITING BECAUSE WE HAVEN'T HAD A WHOLE LOT OF INTELLIGENT HAUNTINGS.
Guppy: AN INTELLIGENT HAUNTING IS ABLE TO RESPOND TO THE QUESTIONS.
THEY KNOW THAT THEY'RE TALKING TO YOU.
Greg: THE NEXT QUESTION THAT WAS ASKED WAS, "DO YOU NEED OUR HELP?" AND THE RESPONSE WAS "BACK OFF.
" THAT WAS PRETTY NERVE-RACKING, AND IT WAS A LITTLE SCARY.
Guppy: WE HAD AN INCREDIBLE RESPONSE TO THE QUESTIONS THAT WERE ASKED.
Greg: THE NEXT QUESTION WAS ASKED, "DO YOU WANT US TO LEAVE?" Guppy: AND UPON REVIEW OF THAT ONE, WE HEARD Greg: "JUST SAY THE WORD.
" AS AN INVESTIGATOR, IT WAS REALLY INTERESTING TO GET ALL THE ANSWERS WE WERE GETTING.
BUT AT THE SAME TIME, IT WAS A LITTLE SCARY BECAUSE OF SOME OF THE REPLIES WE WERE GETTING BACK.
Guppy: SO, THAT WAS OUR GOAL, WAS TO ACTUALLY GET THESE ENTITIES TO ACTUALLY OPEN UP TO US.
WE'RE NOT THERE TO UPSET ANY SPIRITS.
WE'RE THERE TO TRY TO GE AN ANSWER FOR THE HOMEOWNER.
WE HAVEN'T DETERMINED WHETHER OR NOT THIS IS AN EVIL ENTITY, SO WE'RE GONNA STICK AROUND UNTIL WE CAN FIND OU ONE WAY OR ANOTHER.
WE SET UP AN INFRARED CAMERA WITH NIGHT-VISION CAPABILITY UP IN THE PLAYROOM OR THE CHILD'S ROOM.
WE HAD PUT A LASER GRID UP, ALSO.
AFTER THE CAMERA WAS SET UP, I MADE SURE THAT THEY CLEANED THE CAMERA, MADE SURE THERE WAS NOTHING AROUND IT.
Greg: SO, THEN WE LEFT AND WENT DOWN TO THE FIRST FLOOR.
Guppy: SHORTLY AFTER THAT, I SEEN A LIGHT.
I THOUGHT IT WAS A FLASHLIGH AT FIRST, BUT IT WAS ACTUALLY FOLLOWING THE CONTOUR OF THE CEILING.
SO I RADIOED THE GROUP TO FIND OUT WHERE THEIR LOCATION WAS.
THEY WERE ACTUALLY IN THE DOWNSTAIRS ROOM, AND I SAID, "DO YOU HAVE A FLASHLIGHT ON?" AND THEY SAID, "NO.
" I SAID, "I HAVE A LIGHT IN THAT ROOM, AND THERE'S NOBODY IN THAT ROOM UPSTAIRS.
I'M SEEING SOMETHING I CAN'T EXPLAIN.
" THEY SAID, "WE'LL CHECK IT OUT.
" Greg: SO, AT THAT POINT, I FEL THAT I NEEDED TO GO BACK UP THERE TO SEE WHAT WAS GOING ON, BUT MY TEAM THAT WAS WITH ME, I TOLD THEM TO STAY DOWN THERE AND DON'T TURN ON THE FLASHLIGH OR ANYTHING.
I WAS A LITTLE NERVOUS AT FIRS BECAUSE IT WAS SOMETHING WE DIDN'T EXPECT, AND YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON, AND THEN WHEN I WALKED IN, IT GOT REALLY COLD.
IT TOOK A TRIFIELD METER, WHICH ALSO HAD A TEMPERATURE GAUGE ON IT, AND IT HAD DROPPED ABOUT 20 TO 30 DEGREES.
BEING IN A PITCH-BLACK ROOM BY MYSELF IN A HAUNTED HOUSE IS PRETTY SCARY.
I WAS LOOKING AROUND FOR THE LIGHT, AND AT ONE POINT, THEY SAID IT WAS BEHIND YOU, SO I TURNED MY HEAD REAL QUICK 'CAUSE I KIND OF GO A LITTLE FREAKED OUT, AND I STILL COULDN'T SEE ANYTHING.
Guppy: I'M TELLING WENDY, "IT'S RIGHT THERE.
IT'S RIGHT BEHIND YOU.
" AND SHE TURNED AROUND AND LOOKED, AND THEN, ALL OF A SUDDEN, IT WOULD GO TOWARDS THE FRONT OF HER.
Greg: I DIDN'T SEE IT AT ALL UNTIL I WENT DOWN AND HE HAD SHOWED ME ON THE MONITOR.
I FELT THAT THE LIGHT ANOMALY WAS THE SPIRIT OF A SMALL CHILD BECAUSE OF THE WAY IT WAS ACTING LIKE IT WAS KIND OF CURIOUS, AND THEN IT BOUNCED AROUND LIKE IT WAS PLAYING.
IT WAS A LITTLE SCARY, BUT IT WAS ALSO REALLY NEA BECAUSE WE'VE NEVER CAUGH THAT KIND OF EVIDENCE AT A LOT OF THE OTHER PLACES WE'VE BEEN TO.
AFTER CATCHING THAT EVIDENCE, WE DECIDED TO DO ANOTHER EVP SESSION UP IN THE TOY ROOM.
I BROUGHT A FLASHLIGHT WITH ME, AND I HAD JUST CHANGED THE BATTERIES IN I RIGHT BEFORE WE HAD WENT UP THERE.
WE GET READY TO DO OUR EVP SESSION, WE PUT THE FLASHLIGHT DOWN IN THE MIDDLE, AND WE JUST STAR ASKING QUESTIONS.
IMMEDIATELY, THE FLASHLIGH STARTED GETTING PRETTY BRIGHT.
AND SO I IMMEDIATELY JUMPED IN AND SAID, "IF THAT'S YOU, CAN YOU MAKE IT BRIGHTER FOR US?" THE FLASHLIGHT WAS SO BRIGH THAT IT LIT UP ALMOS THE ENTIRE ROOM, SO I SAID, "IF THAT'S YOU AGAIN, CAN YOU MAKE THE FLASHLIGHT DIMMER?" CAN YOU TURN IT DOWN? DIM IT DOWN FOR US REALLY LOW, AS LOW AS YOU CAN GO.
AND JUST LIKE ON COMMAND, IT DIMMED DOWN.
AT THAT POINT, I WAS FEELING ANXIOUS AND EXCITED.
Guppy: I WAS VERY IMPRESSED WHEN THEY SEEN THE LIGH ACTUALLY GET BRIGHTER AND DIMMER BECAUSE IT'S NOT A FLASHLIGH THAT DOES THAT.
IT HAS A SWITCH ON AND OFF.
THAT'S IT.
AND AFTER THEY WERE ALL DONE, THE FLASHLIGHT WENT BACK TO NORMAL BRIGHTNESS.
Greg: I FEEL THAT, AT THAT POINT, THAT THAT WAS THE SPIRI OF THE CHILD.
Guppy: WITH ALL WHAT WE CAPTURED, WE FELT WE HAD QUITE A BIT OF EVIDENCE AND THAT WE FELT THERE WAS AN INTELLIGENT HAUNTING.
WE FELT THAT THERE MIGHT BE A CHILD SPIRIT THERE.
WHEN WE RETURNED, WE GAVE THE ANSWERS BACK TO THE HOMEOWNER THAT WE BELIEVE THERE WAS SOME PARANORMAL ACTIVITY GOING ON IN THE FARMHOUSE.
Greg: OVERALL, THE INVESTIGATION WENT REALLY WELL.
IT WENT BETTER THAN I EXPECTED.
Guppy: IT REALLY OPENS YOUR EYES BECAUSE WE'RE INTERACTING WITH SOMEBODY OR SOMETHING BEYOND DEATH.
THE FLASHLIGHT STARTED GETTING PRETTY BRIGHT.
THE LIGHT ANOMALY WAS THE SPIRIT OF A SMALL CHILD.
Cook: I HEARD A "BANG!" I THOUGHT THE HOUSE WAS CAVING IN OR SOMETHING.
I START TAKING PICTURES EVERYWHERE IN THE HOUSE.
Beasley: THEN "BOOM," OUT OF NOWHERE.
Cook: THERE'S TWO SETS OF EYES.
IT'S RIGHT HERE IN FRONT OF ME.
Beasley: FREAKY, MAN.
Jodie: THERE WERE ORBS EVERYWHERE.
THERE WAS THIS HUGE ORB.
THERE'S NO WAY THAT COULD BE ANYTHING BUT A SPIRIT.
Ghai: HE SAID TO ME, "I THINK I'VE JUST SEEN A GHOST.
" THAT'S WHAT WE WERE ABSOLUTELY SHOCKED TO SEE A SHADOW PERSON, LIKE A TINGLING TERROR.
Higgins: ALL OF A SUDDEN, I FEL THIS BRUSH ON MY LEFT ARM.
IT SENT ME INTO AN ABSOLUTE FRENZY.
Ghai: HE SAID TO ME, "I THINK I'VE JUST SEEN A GHOST.
Wilce: SOMEBODY WAS TRYING TO MANIFES THEMSELVES IN FRONT OF US.
"IF YOU'RE THERE, COULD YOU PLEASE MAKE CONTACT WITH US?" Ghai: WHY COULDN'T I HAVE SEEN IT AT THE TIME? MY GHOST STORY BEGAN WHEN WE DECIDED TO INVESTIGATE THE HELL-FIRE CAVES IN WEST WYCOMBE, ENGLAND.
THE HELL-FIRE CAVES ARE A SERIES OF COMPLEX TUNNELS.
THEY GO DOWN ABOU A QUARTER OF A MILE UNDERGROUND.
THEY WERE EXCAVATED ABOUT 1740 BY SIR FRANCIS DASHWOOD, HE STARTED WHAT'S CALLED THE HELL-FIRE CLUB TO ENGAGE IN PARTIES, DEBAUCHERY.
SOME RUMORS HAVE I THAT MURDER TOOK PLACE THERE, SATANIC WORSHIP, AND EVEN SEX ORGIES.
ONE OF THE SADDER EVENTS THAT TOOK PLACE AT THE HELL-FIRE CAVES WAS THE MURDER OF A 16-YEAR-OLD GIRL CALLED SUKIE.
IT WAS RUMORED THAT SHE RECEIVED NOTES TELLING HER TO MEET AT THE CAVES TO MEET HER LOVER, PERHAPS, AND AS SHE ARRIVED AT THE CAVES, SHE FOUND A GROUP OF YOUTHS THERE.
THE YOUTHS OBVIOUSLY HAD MADE A JOKE, SO SHE PICKED UP A HANDFUL OF GRAVEL AND THREW IT AT THESE BOYS.
IN RETALIATION, THE BOYS PICKED UP ROCKS, AND ONE HIT HER ON THE HEAD AND KILLED HER INSTANTLY.
SINCE THE MURDER OF SUKIE, IT'S BEEN RUMORED THAT HER GHOST STILL HAUNTS THE HELL-FIRE CAVES AND HAS BEEN SEEN WALKING AROUND AND LOOKING FOR SOMETHING OR SOMEONE.
THE HELL-FIRE CAVES HAS BEEN RUMORED TO BE HAUNTED FOR MANY, MANY YEARS.
THERE HAVE BEEN DOZENS OF INVESTIGATIONS TAKE PLACE THERE, AND BEING A PARANORMAL ENTHUSIAST MYSELF, I DECIDED TO GO AND INVESTIGATE THESE CLAIMS OF PARANORMAL ACTIVITY.
IAN IS MY BEST FRIEND AND ALSO THE CO-FOUNDER OF THE TEAM, AND WE WANTED TO INVESTIGATE THE HELL-FIRE CAVES TO SEE IF WE COULD GET PROOF OF THE GHOSTS THAT APPARENTLY HAUN THAT LOCATION.
Wilce: THE CAVES ARE SITUATED BELOW A GRAVEYARD WHICH BELONGS TO THE CHURCH ABOVE THE CAVES, WHICH IS SUPPOSED TO SIMULATE HEAVEN AND HELL, AND IT'S SAID THAT THE GATES OF THE CAVES ARE THE ENTRANCE TO HELL.
Ghai: WE TOOK WITH US HANDHELD CAMERAS, AUDIO EQUIPMENT, INFRARED DVR EQUIPMENT, AS WELL, AND EVEN A NON-CONTACT LASER THERMOMETER TO SEE WHAT THE TEMPERATURE WOULD BE.
Wilce: AS WE ENTERED THE CAVES, WE DID FEEL VERY APPREHENSIVE.
Ghai: IT WAS A SCARY PLACE, AND IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'D BEEN TO BEFORE, BUT ON THIS OCCASION, IT WAS DARK.
IT FELT SINISTER.
Wilce: IT'S A VERY PRESSING ATMOSPHERE.
IT'S VERY HEAVY BECAUSE THE CEILINGS ARE SO LOW.
Ghai: WE WERE INVESTIGATING THE AREA KNOWN AS THE INNER TEMPLE, AND AS WE WERE COMING UP THE GRAVEL PATH, IAN THOUGH THAT HE HEARD SOME FOOTSTEPS.
Wilce: WE BOTH SPUN AROUND AND SHONE OUR TORCHES DOWN TOWARDS WHERE THE SOUND WAS COMING FROM.
IT WAS PITCH-BLACK, AND I SAW WHAT LOOKED LIKE FROM THE HIP DOWNWARDS SOMEBODY WALKING AWAY FROM US.
IT'S VERY SURPRISING TO SEE SOMEBODY DOWN THERE, ESPECIALLY IF YOU KNOW YOU'RE THE ONLY PEOPLE DOWN THERE.
THAT'S THE POINT WHERE THE HAIRS ON THE BACK OF MY NECK STOOD UP.
Ghai: HE SAID TO ME, "BARRI, I THINK I'VE JUST SEEN A GHOST.
" AND I TOOK MY CAMERA THAT I HAD IN MY HAND, AND I FIRED OFF A SERIES OF PHOTOGRAPHS.
WE WALKED TOWARDS WHERE HE THOUGHT THAT THESE LEGS WERE SORT OF HIDING.
Wilce: BUT THERE WAS NOTHING DOWN THERE.
Ghai: THERE'S NOWHERE FOR ANYONE TO GO.
THIS WAS A DEAD END.
THEN WE DECIDED TO LOOK AT THE PHOTOGRAPHS I HAD TAKEN IN QUICK SUCCESSION.
[ CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING .]
I SAW WHAT LOOKED LIKE A LARGE MIST.
IT WAS SO CLEAR, SO BRIGHT, AND SO THICK THAT IT HAD TO HAVE BEEN THERE.
WHY COULDN'T I HAVE SEEN I AT THE TIME? Wilce: THE MIST ITSELF LOOKED LIKE IT WAS WISPY IN PARTS, BUT IT WAS QUITE DENSE IN SOME PARTS, AS WELL, WHICH IS NOT A NORMAL MIS THAT YOU'D CAPTURE IN A PLACE LIKE THAT.
TO ME, IT LOOKED IMMEDIATELY LIKE SOMEBODY WAS TRYING TO MANIFEST THEMSELVES IN FRONT OF US.
Ghai: I THOUGHT TO MYSELF, "THERE'S DEFINITELY A GHOS IN THIS PICTURE.
THE MISTY FIGURE THAT WE CAUGHT IN THE PHOTOGRAPH COULD BE THE GHOST OF SUKIE, THE YOUNG LADY THAT WAS MURDERED IN THE CAVES, BUT IT ALSO COULD BE PAUL WHITEHEAD.
PAUL WHITEHEAD WAS THE HELL-FIRE CLUB SECRETARY.
HE HAD HIS HEART ENTOMBED IN AN URN, AND THAT URN WAS PLACED IN THE HELL-FIRE CAVES.
SEVERAL YEARS LATER, AN AUSTRALIAN SOLDIER APPARENTLY STOLE HIS HEAR FROM THIS URN, AND IT'S SAID THAT PAUL WHITEHEAD'S GHOS NOW ROAMS AROUND THE HELL-FIRE CAVES, LOOKING FOR HIS OWN HEART.
AT THIS TIME, MY APPREHENSION LEVEL WAS AT HIGH.
IAN AND MYSELF PLACED A DIGITAL VOICE RECORDER IN THE INNER TEMPLE.
WE LEFT THE VOICE RECORDER RUNNING, AND WE DECIDED TO MOVE AWAY FROM THAT AREA AS QUICKLY AS WE COULD.
Wilce: WE DECIDED TO MAKE OUR WAY UP TOWARDS THE BANQUETING HALL.
THE BANQUETING HALL IS A VERY LARGE, OPEN SPACE RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE HELL-FIRE CAVE SYSTEM.
AS WE ENTERED THE ROOM, IT WAS CONSIDERABLY COLDER.
IT FELT LIKE ICE.
A TEMPERATURE DROP INDICATES TO US THAT SOMETHING IS POSSIBLY TRYING TO GATHER ENERGY, AND IT DOES THAT BY USING UP ENERGY IN ITS SURROUNDINGS.
Ghai: I WAS HOLDING AN EMF DETECTOR, AND THIS DEVICE MEASURES THE ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD.
THE EMF DETECTOR WAS MAKING A NOISE AND A BUZZING SOUND TO GO WITH IT.
THAT WAS TELLING ME THA WE WERE DEFINITELY NOT ALONE.
IS THIS BECAUSE SUKIE'S WITH US? IS THIS BECAUSE PAUL WHITEHEAD IS POSSIBLY FOLLOWING US AROUND? ARE WE IN DANGER? DOES THIS COLD TEMPERATURE MEAN THAT WE SHOULDN'T BE HERE? IAN WAS HOLDING A DIGITAL VOICE RECORDER, AND WE DECIDED THAT IT WAS APPROPRIATE FOR HIM TO CALL OUT AND ASK QUESTIONS.
Wilce: "WHO'S THERE? IF YOU'RE THERE, COULD YOU PLEASE MAKE CONTACT WITH US? COULD YOU LET US KNOW THAT YOU'RE THERE?" ASKING THEM WHAT'S THEIR NAME.
Ghai: WE LISTENED TO THE RECORDING, AND WE HEARD WHAT SOUNDED LIKE SOME SINGING.
FEMALE VOICES, PERHAPS, SINGING IN HARMONY.
Wilce: AS I LISTENED TO THE RECORDING, MY INITIAL REACTION WAS, "HOLY CRAP.
THAT'S AMAZING.
" IN MY OPINION, ONE OF THE VOICES IS DEFINITELY SUKIE.
Ghai: AT THIS POINT, THE ATMOSPHERE WAS THICK, WE FELT SCARED, AND WE THOUGHT, "LET'S GET OUT NOW WHILE WE HAVE THE CHANCE.
" DURING THE INVESTIGATION, WE HAD SET UP FOUR INFRARED CAMERAS AROUND THE CAVES.
TWO OF THOSE CAMERAS WERE PLACED IN THE BANQUETING HALL TO TRY AND CAPTURE AND RECORD ANY VISUAL PHENOMENA THAT MAY HAVE TAKEN PLACE.
AS WE WERE LEAVING THE CAVES, THE DVR RECORDER CAPTURED WHAT WE THINK IS A SHADOW PERSON MOVING QUICKLY PAS ONE OF THE INFRARED CAMERAS.
Wilce: YOU KNOW, THIS, FOR ME, WAS TOTALLY MIND-BLOWING.
IT DID GIVE ME A LITTLE FEELING OF DREAD, BECAUSE I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT IT WAS.
I DIDN'T KNOW WHO IT WAS.
Ghai: THE VIDEO RECORDING DEMONSTRATED TO US THAT WE WERE BEING FOLLOWED BY A SPIRIT.
I THINK THAT THE GHOST OF SUKIE MIGHT WELL HAVE BEEN WITH US IN THOSE CAVES.
Wilce: IT'S A VERY FRIGHTENING SITUATION TO BE IN, HAVING KNOWN THAT YOU WERE SO CLOSE TO SOMEBODY FROM THE OTHER SIDE.
Ghai: THIS EXPERIENCE AT THE HELL-FIRE CAVES HAS EFFECTED ME MASSIVELY.
I'VE GOT A LOT MORE RESPEC FOR THE SPIRITS THAT HAUNT THAT PLACE.
Wilce: I THINK THEY'RE TRAPPED THERE.
I DON'T THINK THEY MEAN ANYBODY ANY HARM.
I THINK THEY'RE JUST TRYING TO GET PEOPLE'S ATTENTION.
Ghai: THEY'RE INTELLIGENT SPIRITS THA STILL WALK AROUND THOSE CAVES.
SUKIE IS DEFINITELY THERE.
PAUL WHITEHEAD MAY STILL BE LOOKING FOR HIS HEART.
Wilce: I'D LOVE TO GO BACK TO THE HELL-FIRE CAVES.
IT WOULD GIVE US THE POSSIBILITY TO MAYBE CAPTURE THE ULTIMATE PIECE OF EVIDENCE TO PROVE THA THERE IS LIFE AFTER DEATH.
Cook: I THOUGHT THE HOUSE WAS CAVING IN OR SOMETHING.
Beasley: OUT OF NOWHERE, WE SEE THIS FACE IN THE WINDOW.
Cook: YOU CAN CLEARLY SEE TWO SETS OF EYES.
Beasley: FREAKY, MAN.
JUST TERRIBLY FREAKY.
Beasley: OUT OF NOWHERE, WE SEE THIS FACE IN THE WINDOW.
Cook: YOU CAN CLEARLY SEE TWO SETS OF EYES.
Beasley: JUST TERRIBLY FREAKY.
Cook: MY GHOST STORY BEGAN WHEN I PURCHASED A 100-YEAR-OLD HOUSE IN DOWNTOWN FRANKLIN.
I DO A LITTLE BI OF INVESTMENT REAL ESTATE.
INITIALLY, I THOUGH THAT I WOULD FLIP THIS HOUSE JUST BECAUSE IT'S A GREAT LOCATION AND EVERYONE WANTS TO BE IN HISTORIC DOWNTOWN FRANKLIN.
THE BATTLE OF FRANKLIN TOOK PLACE NOVEMBER 30, 1864.
IT WAS SAID TO BE ONE OF THE BLOODIEST BATTLES IN THE ENTIRE CIVIL WAR.
BETWEEN FOUR HOURS, THERE WERE ACTUALLY OVER 9,000 CASUALTIES.
BECAUSE OF THAT, THERE'S A LO OF FOCUS AND ATTENTION DRAWN TO OUR GHOSTLY HAPPENINGS.
I REALLY DIDN'T GIVE THESE STORIES A LOT OF CREDIBILITY.
I MOVED INTO THE HOUSE, AND WITHIN A COUPLE WEEKS, I STARTED TO HEAR JUST LITTLE KNOCKING AND PIPES AND JUST LITTLE THINGS HERE AND THERE THAT WOULD START TO BE LOUD ENOUGH TO WAKE ME UP.
A FEW WEEKS LATER, I WAS SLEEPING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, AND OUT OF NOWHERE, I HEARD A "BANG!" RIGHT ON MY BEDROOM DOOR.
I THOUGHT THE HOUSE WAS CAVING IN OR SOMETHING.
I LOOK UP OVER MY BED, AND I CAN SEE THE DOOR STILL OPENING.
[ DOOR CREAKS .]
I WAS JUST FROZEN.
I THOUGHT I WAS BEING ROBBED.
I FINALLY GOT UP AND WENT THROUGH THE DOOR AND WENT THROUGH THE HOUSE.
THERE WAS NOTHING.
I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO MAKE OF IT.
A COUPLE MONTHS AFTER THAT HAPPENED, I WAS JUST LAYING IN BED, WATCHING TV.
I FEEL SOMETHING, A LITTLE SHAKE RIGHT BESIDE ME.
I LOOK TO MY RIGHT, AND RIGHT BESIDE ME ON MY BED STAND, I CAN SEE THE SILHOUETTE OF A BOY'S FACE, LIKE, PERFECT.
I SAY, "CAN YOU SEE ME?" I DON'T KNOW WHY I SAID IT.
AT THE SAME TIME THAT I SAID, "CAN YOU SEE ME," I REACHED OUT, AND IT STARTED TO KIND OF DISAPPEAR, LIKE, VERY SLOWLY, AND THEN IT WAS GONE.
NOW I'M BEGINNING TO GET A LITTLE BIT SCARED 'CAUSE IT'S STARTING TO SINK IN WHAT I JUST SAW.
AFTER THAT HAPPENED, I PICKED UP A CAMERA AND START TAKING PICTURES ALL AROUND MY BEDROOM.
I CAN'T FIND OR SEE ANYTHING.
SO I START TAKING PICTURES IN THE DINING ROOM, IN THE KITCHEN, AND EVERYWHERE IN THE HOUSE.
[ CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING .]
I WALKED OUT OF THE FRONT DOOR, STARTED TAKING SOME PICTURES [ CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING .]
WENT BACK INSIDE, PLUGGED IN TO MY COMPUTER, STARTED GOING THROUGH WHAT SEEMED LIKE 100 PICTURES.
I WAS LOOKING AT THE PICTURES, AND ONE OF THEM HAS A LITTLE FLASH IN THE CORNER.
BUT THEN THERE'S A LO OF WHITE STUFF ALL AROUND IT.
AND THERE'S A FACE THERE.
THE PICTURE -- IT LOOKS LIKE A BOY'S FACE.
THAT REALLY FREAKED ME OUT.
AND THEN I CAME UPON THIS WEIRD MIST FIGURE, AND THERE WAS SO MUCH DEFINITION IN SOME OF THE CURVES, SO I KEPT THE PICTURE, BUT THAT PICTURE WASN'T NEARLY ENOUGH TO VALIDATE THE EXPERIENCE THAT I HAD.
SOMETIME AFTER THAT, I WOKE UP, I WENT TO THE KITCHEN JUST BECAUSE I WAS A LITTLE HUNGRY, I LOOK UP, AND I SEE THE SAME LITTLE BOY, THE SAME EXPRESSION ON HIS FACE.
IT'S JUST LIKE A PICTURE.
HE'S ON THE FAR END OF THE ROOM, AND SO I IMMEDIATELY LOOK RIGHT, AND HE'S NOT THERE.
I IMMEDIATELY RUN AND GET THE CAMERA AGAIN, AND I START TAKING IN THAT CORNER, AND NOTHING SHOWS UP AGAIN.
WENT OUTSIDE AGAIN AND FACED AWAY FROM THE HOUSE AND STARTED TAKING A LOT OF PICTURES.
THIS ONE, ACTUALLY, I COULD SEE SOME SORT OF SMOKE FORM ON THE ACTUAL VIEWFINDER.
THAT'S HOW DEFINED IT WAS.
AND SO I RAN IN IMMEDIATELY, PUT IT ON MY COMPUTER.
IT'S EVEN MORE DEFINED OF A SMOKE FORM THAN BEFORE, AND I STARTED TO KIND OF PLAY WITH MAKING IT BIGGER AND KIND OF ZOOMING IN PLACES.
AT ONE PART OF THE SMOKE FIGURE, THERE'S A FACE.
A QUARTER OF THE WAY DOWN, YOU CAN START TO SEE A LITTLE BIT OF A HEAD LOOKING SIDEWAYS.
KIND OF AN OLD-TIMEY HAIRDO -- FLIPPED DOWN.
AND YOU CAN SEE EYES.
AT THIS POINT, I KNEW WHAT I SAW, BUT I DIDN'T WANT TO TELL PEOPLE WHAT I THINK I SAW.
VAN BEASLEY AND I GREW UP TOGETHER.
WE'VE KNOWN EACH OTHER FOREVER.
Beasley: WE PLAYED FOOTBALL TOGETHER IN HIGH SCHOOL.
HE'S BEEN ONE OF MY BEST FRIENDS FOR A LIFETIME.
BUT I CALLED HIM UP, SAID, "THERE'S A GAME ON.
I'LL COME OVER TO YOUR PLACE AND WATCH THE GAME.
" Cook: AT THIS TIME, I'D STILL NEVER TOLD ANYBODY ABOUT THE EXPERIENCES THAT I'D HAD.
VAN KNEW NOTHING.
Beasley: IT STARTED OU AS JUST ANY NORMAL NIGHT.
Cook: VAN HAD COME OVER.
WE'D HAD A COUPLE OF DRINKS.
Beasley: AUSTIN, HE HAD TO WORK SUPER, SUPER EARLY IN THE MORNING.
IT WAS AROUND THIRD QUARTER.
HE'S LIKE, "MAN, YOU KNOW, ACTUALLY, I'M JUST GONNA CRASH EARLY.
YOU CAN SLEEP ON THE COUCH.
" I FINISHED THE GAME.
I WAS JUST LAYING DOWN AND WAS TALKING TO A GIRL THAT I WAS TRYING TO DATE AT THE TIME, AND THE WAY THAT I WAS LAYING, I COULD ACTUALLY SEE THE KITCHEN.
I ACTUALLY SEE AUSTIN.
HE WALKS INTO THE KITCHEN AND OPENED A DRAWER UP.
IT WAS REALLY, REALLY LOUD, SO IT WAS REALLY APPAREN THAT HE WAS PRETTY ANGRY THAT I WOKE HIM UP.
I KIND OF FELT BAD, SO I LOWERED MY VOICE.
GO TO SLEEP.
DIDN'T THINK ANYTHING OF IT.
WAKE UP NEXT MORNING, AND IMMEDIATELY, I WAS JUST LIKE, "MAN, I'M SO SORRY, BUDDY, YOU KNOW, FOR KEEPING YOU UP LAST NIGHT.
" Cook: I WAS LIKE, "NO, YOU DIDN'T.
I WAS FINE.
I SLEPT LIKE A BABY.
" AND HE WAS LIKE, "NO, I SAW YOU COME IN.
I HEARD YOU IN THE KITCHEN, AND YOU OPENED UP THE REFRIGERATOR DOOR, AND YOU WERE BEING REALLY LOUD.
" I TOLD HIM THAT, "NO, THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN," AND I STARTED TO SMILE A LITTLE BI JUST BECAUSE I THOUGHT TO MYSELF, "YEP.
HERE'S SOMEONE THAT ACTUALLY EXPERIENCED SOMETHING.
" Beasley: AND THEN THAT'S WHEN HE SAID, "I'VE BEEN SEEING A LITTLE BOY ON THE FOOT OF MY BED.
" RIGHT WHEN HE SAID THAT, CHILL BUMPS.
MY HAIR WAS STANDING UP.
IT WAS LIKE I WAS ELECTROCUTED.
Cook: HE GOT HIS SHOES AND THEN WALKED OUT OF THE HOUSE.
HE DIDN'T FEEL COMFORTABLE TALKING ABOUT IT IN THE HOUSE.
Beasley: HE WANTED TO REALLY LOOK INTO IT.
AT THAT POINT, I WASN'T READY.
Cook: KEPT CHATTING WITH VAN AND CONVINCING HIM THAT IT'S ACTUALLY KIND OF COOL.
"WHY DON'T YOU COME OVER AND TRY TO HELP ME FIGURE OUT WHAT IT IS?" Beasley: ANYWAY, HE TALKED ME INTO IT.
Cook: I WENT OUT AND BOUGH A VOICE RECORDER THAT DAY.
WE JUST LITERALLY HIT RECORD AND THEN STARTED TAKING PICTURES.
[ CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING .]
Beasley: THEN OUT OF NOWHERE, WE SEE THIS FACE.
IT WAS IN THE WINDOW RIGHT THERE, AND THEN WE REALIZED, "OH, MY GOSH, THAT WAS IN THE KITCHEN.
" THAT'S WHERE I SAW WHAT I THOUGHT WAS AUSTIN.
Cook: YOU CAN SEE THE WINDOW.
YOU CAN SEE THE DECK AND EVERYTHING AROUND.
WHEN YOU ZOOM IN THE PICTURE, THERE'S A FIGURE.
IT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE A HUMAN.
IS IT DEMONIC? I DON'T KNOW.
BUT YOU CAN CLEARLY SEE TWO SETS OF EYES SITTING THERE.
Beasley: WHEN I LOOKED AT THE PHOTO, EVERYTHING THAT I SAW THE NIGHT BEFORE, IT WAS JUST JUSTIFIED.
THERE'S SOMETHING IN THAT HOUSE.
FREAKY, MAN.
JUST TERRIBLY FREAKY.
Cook: AFTER BEING OUTSIDE, TAKING A LOT OF PICTURES, WE HAD THE RECORDER IN THERE, AND WE ACTUALLY CAME BACK IN AND STARTED LISTENING.
IT SOUNDS LIKE A LITTLE KID MOANING.
AFTER THAT, YOU COULD HEAR US FINALLY OPEN UP THE BACK DOOR AND COME BACK IN, AND WE'RE TALKING.
SO THERE WAS NO ONE IN THE HOUSE.
I DON'T KNOW WHO THE CHILD SPIRIT IS, BUT I HAVE TO BELIEVE THAT HE'S SOMEHOW CONNECTED TO THE BATTLE OF FRANKLIN.
THERE WAS SO MUCH DEATH IN THE BATTLE THAT, I MEAN, THERE HAS TO BE SOME SORT OF SPIRITS ASSOCIATED WITH IT.
Beasley: TO HAVE EVIDENCE WITH OUR OWN EYES, SEEING IT RIGHT THERE, NOW ALL THE GHOST STORIES OF FRANKLIN, TENNESSEE, ALL THE SIGHTINGS, IT ALL WAS VALIDATED THERE.
Cook: THIS EXPERIENCE HAS DEFINITELY CHANGED ME.
IT'S DEFINITELY FIRMED UP MY FAITH FROM DEFINITELY BEING A SKEPTIC INTO KNOWING THA THERE'S SOMETHING OUT THERE.
Jodie: IT STARTED OFF WITH ONE ORB, AND THEN THERE WERE ORBS EVERYWHERE.
Nathan: WHEN IT COMES TO THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE, IT'S THE ONLY ROOM I'M ACTUALLY SCARED TO GO IN IN THE BUILDING.
Jodie: I KNEW SOMETHING WAS FOLLOWING MY SON.
Nathan: THAT WAS THE FIRST TIME THAT SOMETHING'S HAPPENED THAT'S ACTUALLY SCARED ME.
Jodie: IT STARTED OFF WITH ONE ORB, AND THEN THERE WERE ORBS EVERYWHERE.
I KNEW SOMETHING WAS FOLLOWING MY SON.
Nathan: THAT WAS THE FIRST TIME THAT SOMETHING'S HAPPENED THAT'S ACTUALLY SCARED ME.
Jodie: MY GHOST STORY BEGAN WHEN MY SON AND I WENT TO MINERAL SPRINGS TORTURE MUSEUM IN ALTON, ILLINOIS.
I BOUGHT A HOUSE ABOUT 13 YEARS AGO, AND SIX MONTHS AFTER I WAS LIVING THERE, MY SON, NATHAN, STARTED SEEING GHOSTS.
Nathan: I'VE BEEN SEEING GHOSTS EVER SINCE I WAS 2 OR 3 YEARS OLD.
AS I GOT OLDER, THINGS STARTED TO ESCALATE TO THE POINT WHERE THINGS WOULD START MOVING AROUND.
I WOULD HEAR PEOPLE TALKING.
SEEING AND HEARING ALL THESE THINGS GOING ON IN MY HOUSE, I WAS JUST REALLY QUESTIONING MY SANITY.
"IS SOMETHING REALLY WEIRD GOING ON IN MY MIND, OR WHAT'S GOING ON?" Jodie: I HAD TO SEEK OUT ANSWERS FOR MY OWN CHILD.
Nathan: MY MOM TOOK ME TO MINERAL SPRINGS TO PROVE TO ME THAT I'M NOT CRAZY.
Jodie: I HAVE HEARD SO MUCH ABOUT ALTON, ILLINOIS, AND IT BEING THE SCARIEST PLACE ON THE PLANET.
AND I KNEW THAT IF I TOOK MY SON THERE, HE WOULD BE CONVINCED THAT HE ACTUALLY HAS A GIFT.
I BELIEVE THE BUILDING HAS FOUR OR FIVE LEVELS.
WHEN YOU GET DEEP INTO IT, IT GETS CREEPIER AND CREEPIER, LIKE THE BASEMENT, THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE.
IT IS THE CREEPIEST AREA IN THE BUILDING.
THEN THERE ARE TWO POOLS -- THE LADIES' POOL AND THE GENTLEMEN'S POOL.
NEITHER OF THEM ARE WORKING, AND THEY ARE IN BAD SHAPE.
Nathan: THE VERY FIRST TIME I ENTERED THE BUILDING, ME AND MY MOM WERE EXPLORING IT.
AS SOON AS WE WALK IN THERE, I HEARD A LITTLE GIRL SAY FROM BEHIND ME, "WON'T YOU STAY AND PLAY?" I LOOKED BEHIND ME, AND THERE WAS NOTHING THERE.
I GO UPSTAIRS TO THE ENTRANCE, AND I ASK MY MOM, "IS THERE A SPIRI OF A LITTLE GIRL HERE?" SHE SAID, "YES.
" Jodie: I DID SOME RESEARCH.
THERE WAS A CHILD THERE.
HER NAME IS CASSANDRA.
HER PARENTS WERE WEALTHY, AND THEY RENTED OU THE GENTLEMEN'S POOL.
SHE WAS HAVING HER BIRTHDAY PARTY.
SHE SLIPPED, HIT HER HEAD ON THE CONCRETE, AND FELL INTO THE POOL AND DROWNED.
Nathan: I BELIEVE THE SPIRI OF CASSANDRA WAS ATTACHED TO ME.
I WAS A GOOD WINDOW FOR HER INTERACTION.
Jodie: A LITTLE WHILE LATER, WE DECIDED TO GO DOWNSTAIRS.
Nathan: WHEN IT COMES TO THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE, IT'S THE ONLY ROOM I'M ACTUALLY SCARED TO GO IN IN THE BUILDING.
SCOTT'S ANOTHER INVESTIGATOR.
HIM AND MY MOM ARE ALWAYS INVESTIGATING TOGETHER.
Jodie: SCOTT IS VERY FAMILIAR WITH THE LOCATION.
HE SET UP HIS SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS.
I THINK ABOUT 45 MINUTES AFTER WE LEFT -- WE LEFT THE CAMERAS ROLLING -- SCOTT CAPTURED A MIS THAT JUST FORMED FROM THE GROUND AND CAME UP.
HOW CAN A MIST OR SMOKE FORM FROM THE GROUND AND COME UP? IT MAKES NO SENSE TO ME.
JANET, THE LADY THAT RUNS THE MINERAL SPRINGS, SHE TOOK NATHAN UNDER HER WING.
SHE DESCRIBED EVERY WAY THAT SHE HAS MADE CONTAC WITH THIS LITTLE GIRL.
AND SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT THEY DO IS THEY PLAY WITH MARBLES.
NATHAN IS DOWN AT THE BOTTOM OF THE POOL, AND HE WAS ROLLING MARBLES UP THE POOL.
Nathan: IF YOU STAY IN THE DEEP PART OF THE POOL AND ROLL IT UP TOWARDS THE SHALLOW END, IT WILL ACTUALLY STAY THERE AND WILL ROLL BACK TO YOU SLOWLY.
Jodie: AND ONE ACTUALLY STOPPED ON THE SLOPE AND JUST STAYED, AND THEN IT STARTED ROLLING BACK DOWN ABOUT 25, 30 SECONDS LATER.
IT WAS ON AN UPHILL.
THERE'S NO REASON FOR IT TO GET CAUGHT.
NATHAN WAS REALLY INTRIGUED.
Nathan: I THINK THE SPIRI WHO PLAYS WITH THE MARBLES IS CASSANDRA, 'CAUSE SHE REALLY LOVED MARBLES, AND IT MAKES SENSE THAT THAT'S THE ONLY PLACE WHERE IT HAPPENS, 'CAUSE IT'S THE PLACE SHE DIED AT.
Jodie: I DECIDED TO START TAKING SOME PICTURES.
IT STARTED OFF WITH JUST ONE ORB, AND THEN THE MORE PICTURES I TOOK, THERE WERE ORBS EVERYWHERE.
AFTER WE CAPTURED ALL OF THESE ORBS, WE WERE IN THE MAIN AREA.
Nathan: I WAS WALKING TOWARDS THE STAIRCASE THAT LEADS TO THE BALLROOM.
TO MY RIGHT, THERE WAS A LONG HALLWAY, WHICH, AT THE END OF IT, HAD A MIRROR-GLASS DOOR, AND IN THE CORNER OF MY EYE, I SAW MYSELF WALKING PAST, BUT THEN I SAW A LITTLE SHADOW WALKING BEHIND ME, TOO.
I LOOKED BEHIND ME, AND THERE WAS NO ONE THERE.
AS I'M WALKING, I FEEL SOMETHING JUST PINCH MY BACK.
Jodie: SOMETHING PINCHED HIS BACK SO HARD THAT HE YELLED, LIKE, "OW!" Nathan: MY MOM CAME RUNNING IN.
SHE LIFTED UP MY SHIRT, AND SURE ENOUGH, THERE WAS A BIG RED MARK, LIKE SOMEONE PINCHED THERE.
Jodie: I KNEW SOMETHING WAS FOLLOWING MY SON.
I DIDN'T REALLY UNDERSTAND WHY IT WOULD BE TRYING TO HURT HIM.
Nathan: THAT WAS THE FIRST TIME THAT SOMETHING'S HAPPENED THAT'S ACTUALLY SCARED ME.
Jodie: SCOTT HAD HIS CAMERAS SET UP ALL OVER MINERAL SPRINGS, SO HE HAD ONE IN THE BALLROOM.
IT HAD JUST BEEN SITTING FOR A COUPLE HOURS, ACTUALLY FILMING THERE.
LATER ON, WHEN SCOT REVIEWED THE FOOTAGE, THERE WAS THIS HUGE, BRIGHT ORB JUST FLOATING ACROSS THE ROOM.
IT WAS SO BRIGHT.
THERE'S NO WAY THAT COULD BE ANYTHING BUT A SPIRIT.
I FEEL THAT CASSANDRA IS STILL HAUNTING THE PLACE BECAUSE SHE'S LOOKING FOR HER PARENTS.
THE LAST DAY OF HER LIFE WAS HER BIRTHDAY WITH HER PARENTS, AND SHE'S PROBABLY STILL LOOKING FOR THEM, AND THAT'S WHY SHE HASN'T LEFT.
AFTER EVERYTHING I HAVE CAPTURED AT MINERAL SPRINGS -- THE ORBS FLYING IN THE BALLROOM, THE MIST COMING UP FROM THE FLOOR IN THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE -- I KNOW WITHOUT A DOUB THAT MINERAL SPRINGS IS PROBABLY ONE OF THE MOST INTELLIGENT HAUNTINGS I HAVE EVER COME ACROSS.
MINERAL SPRINGS HAS HELPED NATHAN GET OVER THAT FEAR OF HIS GIFT.
Nathan: ME AND MY MOM ARE REALLY GOOD FRIENDS.
THE PARANORMAL HAS DEFINITELY BONDED US.
I'LL DEFINITELY ACCOMPANY HER TO TRIPS AND WHATNO 'CAUSE I KNOW THAT THE TRIP AND THE LOCATION WILL BE WORTH IT IN THE END.
I'M A VERY RATIONAL PERSON, BUT I BELIEVE THIS PLACE IS HAUNTED BECAUSE THERE'S SO MANY THINGS THAT HAVE HAPPENED HERE THAT I PERSONALLY JUST CANNOT EXPLAIN.
Clark: JUST REALLY FEEL THE PRESENCE OF SPIRITS IN THAT ROOM.
IT SENT CHILLS DOWN MY SPINE.
Higgins: WHATEVER TOUCHED ME SENT ME INTO AN ABSOLUTE FRENZY.
I GASPED FOR AIR.
I WAS TERRIFIED.
Clark: IT'S DEFINITELY A VALIDATION THAT SOMETHING'S THERE.
Clark: IT SENT CHILLS DOWN MY SPINE.
Higgins: I GASPED FOR AIR.
I WAS TERRIFIED.
Clark: IT'S DEFINITELY A VALIDATION THAT SOMETHING'S THERE.
Higgins: MY GHOST STORY BEGAN WHEN I GOT HIRED AT A HAUNTED THEATER IN PORTSMOUTH, NEW HAMPSHIRE.
I WORK A THE SEACOAST REPERTORY THEATRE.
I'M THE SOCIAL MARKETING MANAGER.
I'M ALSO A RESIDENT ARTIST THERE.
SEACOAST REP'S BEEN AROUND FOR ABOUT 25 YEARS NOW IN THIS OLD, FREAKY BUILDING THAT'S MOST KNOWN FOR BEING THE FRANK JONES BREWERY IN THE 1850s.
A BIG SOLARIUM HOUSES OUR LOBBY, AND THE STAGE IS IN THE THREE-QUARTER THRUST THEATER WITH STADIUM SEATING, SO IT IS KIND OF UNDERGROUND, ALMOST.
THE FIRST TIME THAT I EVER EXPERIENCED ANYTHING IS I WENT TO GO PICK UP A GUITAR PICK DURING THE SHOW.
I HAD 10 OF THEM BACKSTAGE WHEN I FIRST GOT THERE EARLIER THAT DAY, AND ALL OF THEM WERE GONE.
AFTER THE SHOW WAS OVER, I'M JUST LOOKING AROUND, SEEING WHERE THEY COULD HAVE BEEN.
THEY WERE ABOUT 20 FEE FROM THE TABLE IN A SMALL, NEAT LITTLE PILE.
WE HAD A STAGE MANAGER BACK THERE, AND I SAID, "HEY, DID YOU MOVE MY GUITAR PICKS?" AND SHE SAID, "NO, I DIDN'T.
" SHE SAID, "BUT YOU'VE MET PRECOCIOUS.
" PRECOCIOUS IS A SPIRI OF A LITTLE GIRL THAT RESIDES IN THE THEATER.
THEY'VE CALLED THE SPIRI "PRECOCIOUS" BECAUSE SHE SEEMS TO LIKE TO PLAY WITH THINGS AND TO PLAY WITH THE PEOPLE THAT ARE IN THE THEATER.
I WAS A LITTLE BIT SKEPTICAL AT FIRST, BUT THEN OTHER PEOPLE STARTED TELLING ME, YOU KNOW, "OH, NO, THIS HAS ACTUALLY HAPPENED A COUPLE OF OTHER TIMES.
" THINGS GO MISSING.
PROPS WILL NOT BE WHERE THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO BE.
WE HAD A VERY STRANGE INSTANCE ONE TIME OF A COSTUME OF A LITTLE GIRL THAT SEEMED TO VANISH OUT OF THIN AIR.
ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF LATER, I WALKED DOWN TO THE INNER LOBBY, AND I HEARD SOMETHING, AND I THOUGHT, "OH, YOU KNOW, SOMEBODY'S WORKING ON THE STAGE.
" I OPEN THE CURTAINS, AND IT WAS PITCH-BLACK.
NOBODY WAS IN THE THEATER, SO I STOOD AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS, AND I LISTENED FOR ABOUT 10 SECONDS, AND THEN I HEARD, VERY DISTINCTLY, A PUSH BROOM BEING PUSHED ACROSS THE STAGE LIKE SOMEBODY WAS SWEEPING THE STAGE.
I YELLED OUT.
I SAID, "HELLO? IS ANYONE THERE?" AND IT STOPPED, AND THEN, ALL OF A SUDDEN, I GOT THIS JUST WHOOSH -- THIS COLD, STRANGE FEELING.
EVERY SINGLE HAIR ON MY NECK AND MY BODY JUST STOOD ON END, AND I JUST -- I GOT THE HELL OUT OF THERE AS FAST AS I POSSIBLY COULD.
I BOOKED IT UP THE STAIRS, BURST INTO OUR GENERAL MANAGER'S OFFICE, AND SAID, "THERE'S SOMETHING IN THE THEATER.
" WE WENT DOWN, WE CHECKED IT OUT, AND THERE WAS NOTHING THERE.
THERE VERY WELL COULD BE SOME SORT OF CORRELATION BETWEEN THE AMOUNT OF ACTIVITY THAT HAPPENS IN OUR THEATER AND THE HISTORY BEHIND A GIGANTIC SLAVE BURIAL GROUND THAT NOBODY KNEW ABOU IN PORTSMOUTH, WHICH IS LOCATED RIGHT ACROSS THE STREE FROM WHERE THE THEATER IS.
NOW, WHETHER PRECOCIOUS IS THE ENTITY OF, YOU KNOW, A SLAVE FROM ACROSS THE STREET, WE HAVE NO IDEA.
IT WASN'T UNTIL A LITTLE BIT LATER, WHEN I WAS WORKING IN THE TOOLROOM, THAT I NOTICED THAT THERE IS A TUNNEL THAT HAS BEEN BLOCKED OFF WITH A BUNCH OF BRICKS.
IT WAS ACTUALLY USED FOR THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD AND FOR BOOTLEGGING WHEN PROHIBITION WENT INTO EFFECT.
THAT'S THE TUNNEL THAT TAKES YOU TO ACROSS THE STREET.
Clark: I'VE BEEN INVESTIGATING THE PARANORMAL SINCE OCTOBER 2010.
I ACTUALLY STARTED MY OWN TEAM.
I LEARNED ABOUT 10 YEARS AGO THAT THE SEACOAS REPERTORY THEATRE WAS HAUNTED.
IT DEFINITELY MADE ME WANT TO GO IN THERE AND CHECK OUT THEIR SPIRITS.
Higgins: I FIRST MET STEVE 'CAUSE HE HAD CONTACTED MY BOSS TO DO AN INVESTIGATION ON THE THEATER.
Clark: WHEN I ENTERED THE BUILDING, DEFINITELY HAD THE FEELING OF BEING WATCHED.
JUST WEIRD THINGS HAPPENING OUT OF THE CORNER OF YOUR EYE.
WE FIRST STARTED THE INVESTIGATION BACKSTAGE.
WE WERE FEELING COLD DRAFTS.
A FEW PEOPLE WERE FEELING TOUCHED.
ONE PERSON THAT WAS WITH US DECIDED TO TAKE A FEW PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE HALLWAY.
THAT'S WHERE WE ENDED UP FINDING THESE BALLS OF MIST.
ONE CAME OUT FROM ONE OF THE INVESTIGATOR'S SHOULDER.
IN THE SECOND ONE, IT MOVED FROM HER SHOULDER DOWN THE HALLWAY TO WHERE I'M SITTING, AND IN THE THIRD ONE, THE MIST IS COMPLETELY GONE.
Higgins: THAT MIST REALLY SHOCKED ME.
IT'S DEFINITELY NO A SPECK OF DUS OR GRIME ON A CAMERA LENS.
THIS IS A MIST THAT FOLLOWS FROM ONE POSITION TO THE NEXT.
Clark: IT'S DEFINITELY A VALIDATION THAT SOMETHING'S THERE.
Higgins: WE WENT BACK TO THE TOOLROOM WHERE I LOST MY GUITAR PICKS.
Clark: THE TOOLROOM WHERE THE TUNNEL IS SENT CHILLS DOWN MY SPINE.
YOU JUST REALLY FEEL THE PRESENCE OF SPIRITS IN THAT ROOM.
SINCE KNATE HAD EXPERIENCES IN THERE, WE DECIDED WE WERE GOING TO USE HIM AND SEE WHAT WE COULD GET.
Higgins: I HAVE A PENDULUM.
I WANTED TO TEST THIS OUT.
Clark: IT WAS DEFINITELY MOVING IN THE DIRECTIONS THAT HE WAS ASKING IT TO MOVE.
Higgins: WHEN I ASKED THE SPIRI TO STOP THE PENDULUM IT STOPS IT ON A DIME.
AND TO SEE THA WAS QUITE REMARKABLE.
WHEN I ASKED THE QUESTION IT SWUNG FROM SIDE TO SIDE, INDICATING THAT THE ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION WAS "YES.
" SO, WHATEVER IS IN THAT ROOM COULD NOT GET OUT.
AT THIS POINT, I'M SUFFICIENTLY FREAKED OUT.
BUT I STILL WANT TO KNOW A LITTLE BIT MORE INFORMATION BEFORE I GE THE HELL OUT OF THERE.
I DECIDED TO TRY MY HAND AT THE K-II METER, AND I BROUGHT IT OVER TO THE AREA WHERE I HAD MY FIRST PRECOCIOUS MEETING.
STEVE AND HIS GROUP WENT OVER TO INVESTIGATE ON THE STAGE, SO THERE WAS NOBODY ELSE IN THERE EXCEPT FOR THE PERSON THAT'S FILMING ME.
THERE IS NO ELECTRICITY IN THAT ROOM.
IT'S COMPLETELY CONCRETE, ENCASED IN BRICK.
IN MY HEAD, I WAS THINKING TO MYSELF, "WELL, IF THIS IS A LITTLE GIRL, I'LL START ASKING HER SOME LITTLE-GIRL QUESTIONS.
" AND THAT'S WHEN I STARTED TO SEE A RESPONSE.
NOW, I'M A TALL GUY.
I'M ABOUT 6'1", AND I REALIZE THAT I'M HOLDING THE K-II METER ABOUT FOUR FEET OFF THE GROUND.
WHEN I BROUGHT THE K-II METER DOWN, IT STARTED GOING CRAZY.
ALL OF A SUDDEN, I FEL THIS BRUSH ON MY LEFT ARM.
IT WAS LIKE AN ELECTRIC SHOCK.
I GASPED FOR AIR.
I WAS TERRIFIED.
IT LITERALLY BROUGHT TEARS TO MY EYES.
I GET CHOKED UP.
YOU CAN HEAR IT ON THE VIDEO.
WHATEVER TOUCHED ME SENT ME INTO AN ABSOLUTE FRENZY.
Clark: HE CAME UP TO THE MAIN STAGE.
THAT'S WHERE I WAS AT.
HE WAS PALE WHITE.
HE WAS DEFINITELY FRAZZLED BY SOMETHING.
IT JUST GOT THE BETTER OF HIM.
I SAW A RED MARK ON HIS LEFT ARM.
OBVIOUSLY, WHEN YOU START GETTING TOUCHED AND THINGS LEAVE MARKS, YOU WANT TO MAKE SURE THA IT'S NOT GONNA HARM HIS HEALTH.
I THINK KNATE DID THE RIGHT THING BY REMOVING HIMSELF FROM THE SITUATION.
AFTER THAT, HE DIDN' CONTINUE INVESTIGATING, AND PERSONALLY, I THINK THAT'S A SMART MOVE.
ALL THE VISUAL EVIDENCE THAT WE ACTUALLY CAUGH AT THE SEACOAS REPERTORY THEATRE STRENGTHENS MY THOUGH THAT THERE IS ANOTHER REALM THAT WE'RE NOT AWARE OF.
Higgins: I WOULD SAY TO A SKEPTIC WHEN THEY LOOK AT THIS EVIDENCE AND SAY, "YOU KNOW, THIS COULD HAVE BEEN A MYRIAD OF OTHER FACTORS," BUT I WAS IN THEIR SAME POSITION.
YOU JUST HAVEN' EXPERIENCED THIS YET.
THERE REALLY IS SOMETHING THERE.
Greg: OH! Guppy: I'M SEEING SOMETHING I CAN'T EXPLAIN.
Greg: AT THIS POINT, I DIDN'T KNOW WHO OR WHA THIS ENTITY WAS.
THAT WAS PRETTY NERVE-RACKING.
Greg: OH! Guppy: I'M SEEING SOMETHING I CAN'T EXPLAIN.
Greg: AT THIS POINT, I DIDN'T KNOW WHO OR WHA THIS ENTITY WAS.
Guppy: MY GHOST STORY BEGAN AT AN OLD FARMHOUSE IN MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS.
I STARTED AS AN INVESTIGATOR BECAUSE I WANTED TO TRY TO HELP PEOPLE, AND I'VE BEEN AN INVESTIGATOR SINCE 2005.
THE HOMEOWNERS OF THE PROPERTY CALLED US UP BECAUSE THEY FELT THAT THERE WAS PARANORMAL ACTIVITY GOING ON IN THE OLD FARMHOUSE, AND THEY WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT IT WASN'T ANYTHING HATEFUL OR VIOLENT.
WE DID SOME RESEARCH, AND THE FARMHOUSE HAD BEEN BUIL APPROXIMATELY EARLY 1900s TO THE LATE 1800s.
YEARS AGO, THEY ACTUALLY BURIED THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS ON THE PROPERTY, SO WE BELIEVE THAT THERE'S ACTUALLY SOMEBODY BURIED THERE.
I TOOK WENDY, WHO IS MY NIECE, AND SEVERAL OTHER MEMBERS OF OUR GROUP TO THE FARMHOUSE TO ACTUALLY DO THE INVESTIGATIONS.
Greg: THE HOMEOWNER OF THE HOUSE HAD TOLD ME SHE HAD SEEN FLICKERS OF LIGH IN THE PLAYROOM THAT SHE COULDN'T EXPLAIN.
SHE HAD ALSO TOLD ME HER SON HAD SEEN A FULL-BODIED APPARITION.
Guppy: THE OWNER'S SON WAS WORKING IN THE HOUSE AT THE TIME, AND HE SEEN OUT OF THE CORNER OF HIS EYES WHAT WE BELIEVED WAS A FULL-BODIED APPARITION OF A WOMAN IN PERIOD DRESS COMING DOWN THE STAIRS.
HE WAS REALLY FRIGHTENED.
Greg: THE FARMHOUSE WAS OLD.
IT WAS RICKETY.
IT WAS IN PRETTY BAD SHAPE.
Guppy: THE FIRST PLACE WE WENT TO WAS A KITCHEN AREA WHERE HER SON SIGHTED THE APPARITION.
WENT IN THERE, AND WE TOOK A PHOTO WITH A FULL-SPECTRUM CAMERA TOWARDS THE STAIRWELL.
WE CAPTURED WHAT LOOKS LIKE A LIGHT ANOMALY.
UPON REVIEW, IT ACTUALLY LOOKS LIKE A LEG OR PIECE OF A DRESS MANIFESTING AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS.
Greg: AT THIS POINT, I DIDN'T KNOW WHO OR WHA THIS ENTITY WAS.
THE ONLY THING WE COULD THINK OF AT THE TIME THAT IT COULD HAVE BEEN WAS SOMEONE THAT WAS BURIED ON THE LAND.
I WAS EXCITED FOR THE REST OF THE NIGH TO SEE WHAT OTHER EVIDENCE WE COULD CAPTURE.
Guppy: AFTER THAT, WE WENT UPSTAIRS.
Greg: WE HAD DECIDED TO SET UP AN EVP SESSION TO SEE IF WE COULD GE ANY MORE EVIDENCE.
DURING THE EVP SESSION, WE ASKED A VARIETY OF QUESTIONS.
Guppy: ONE OF THE QUESTIONS THAT WAS ASKED WAS, "DO YOU KNOW YOU'RE DEAD?" AND THE RESPONSE CAME BACK.
IT SAYS, "YES.
" Greg: WHEN I HEARD THE PLAYBACK, IT WAS REALLY EXCITING BECAUSE WE HAVEN'T HAD A WHOLE LOT OF INTELLIGENT HAUNTINGS.
Guppy: AN INTELLIGENT HAUNTING IS ABLE TO RESPOND TO THE QUESTIONS.
THEY KNOW THAT THEY'RE TALKING TO YOU.
Greg: THE NEXT QUESTION THAT WAS ASKED WAS, "DO YOU NEED OUR HELP?" AND THE RESPONSE WAS "BACK OFF.
" THAT WAS PRETTY NERVE-RACKING, AND IT WAS A LITTLE SCARY.
Guppy: WE HAD AN INCREDIBLE RESPONSE TO THE QUESTIONS THAT WERE ASKED.
Greg: THE NEXT QUESTION WAS ASKED, "DO YOU WANT US TO LEAVE?" Guppy: AND UPON REVIEW OF THAT ONE, WE HEARD Greg: "JUST SAY THE WORD.
" AS AN INVESTIGATOR, IT WAS REALLY INTERESTING TO GET ALL THE ANSWERS WE WERE GETTING.
BUT AT THE SAME TIME, IT WAS A LITTLE SCARY BECAUSE OF SOME OF THE REPLIES WE WERE GETTING BACK.
Guppy: SO, THAT WAS OUR GOAL, WAS TO ACTUALLY GET THESE ENTITIES TO ACTUALLY OPEN UP TO US.
WE'RE NOT THERE TO UPSET ANY SPIRITS.
WE'RE THERE TO TRY TO GE AN ANSWER FOR THE HOMEOWNER.
WE HAVEN'T DETERMINED WHETHER OR NOT THIS IS AN EVIL ENTITY, SO WE'RE GONNA STICK AROUND UNTIL WE CAN FIND OU ONE WAY OR ANOTHER.
WE SET UP AN INFRARED CAMERA WITH NIGHT-VISION CAPABILITY UP IN THE PLAYROOM OR THE CHILD'S ROOM.
WE HAD PUT A LASER GRID UP, ALSO.
AFTER THE CAMERA WAS SET UP, I MADE SURE THAT THEY CLEANED THE CAMERA, MADE SURE THERE WAS NOTHING AROUND IT.
Greg: SO, THEN WE LEFT AND WENT DOWN TO THE FIRST FLOOR.
Guppy: SHORTLY AFTER THAT, I SEEN A LIGHT.
I THOUGHT IT WAS A FLASHLIGH AT FIRST, BUT IT WAS ACTUALLY FOLLOWING THE CONTOUR OF THE CEILING.
SO I RADIOED THE GROUP TO FIND OUT WHERE THEIR LOCATION WAS.
THEY WERE ACTUALLY IN THE DOWNSTAIRS ROOM, AND I SAID, "DO YOU HAVE A FLASHLIGHT ON?" AND THEY SAID, "NO.
" I SAID, "I HAVE A LIGHT IN THAT ROOM, AND THERE'S NOBODY IN THAT ROOM UPSTAIRS.
I'M SEEING SOMETHING I CAN'T EXPLAIN.
" THEY SAID, "WE'LL CHECK IT OUT.
" Greg: SO, AT THAT POINT, I FEL THAT I NEEDED TO GO BACK UP THERE TO SEE WHAT WAS GOING ON, BUT MY TEAM THAT WAS WITH ME, I TOLD THEM TO STAY DOWN THERE AND DON'T TURN ON THE FLASHLIGH OR ANYTHING.
I WAS A LITTLE NERVOUS AT FIRS BECAUSE IT WAS SOMETHING WE DIDN'T EXPECT, AND YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON, AND THEN WHEN I WALKED IN, IT GOT REALLY COLD.
IT TOOK A TRIFIELD METER, WHICH ALSO HAD A TEMPERATURE GAUGE ON IT, AND IT HAD DROPPED ABOUT 20 TO 30 DEGREES.
BEING IN A PITCH-BLACK ROOM BY MYSELF IN A HAUNTED HOUSE IS PRETTY SCARY.
I WAS LOOKING AROUND FOR THE LIGHT, AND AT ONE POINT, THEY SAID IT WAS BEHIND YOU, SO I TURNED MY HEAD REAL QUICK 'CAUSE I KIND OF GO A LITTLE FREAKED OUT, AND I STILL COULDN'T SEE ANYTHING.
Guppy: I'M TELLING WENDY, "IT'S RIGHT THERE.
IT'S RIGHT BEHIND YOU.
" AND SHE TURNED AROUND AND LOOKED, AND THEN, ALL OF A SUDDEN, IT WOULD GO TOWARDS THE FRONT OF HER.
Greg: I DIDN'T SEE IT AT ALL UNTIL I WENT DOWN AND HE HAD SHOWED ME ON THE MONITOR.
I FELT THAT THE LIGHT ANOMALY WAS THE SPIRIT OF A SMALL CHILD BECAUSE OF THE WAY IT WAS ACTING LIKE IT WAS KIND OF CURIOUS, AND THEN IT BOUNCED AROUND LIKE IT WAS PLAYING.
IT WAS A LITTLE SCARY, BUT IT WAS ALSO REALLY NEA BECAUSE WE'VE NEVER CAUGH THAT KIND OF EVIDENCE AT A LOT OF THE OTHER PLACES WE'VE BEEN TO.
AFTER CATCHING THAT EVIDENCE, WE DECIDED TO DO ANOTHER EVP SESSION UP IN THE TOY ROOM.
I BROUGHT A FLASHLIGHT WITH ME, AND I HAD JUST CHANGED THE BATTERIES IN I RIGHT BEFORE WE HAD WENT UP THERE.
WE GET READY TO DO OUR EVP SESSION, WE PUT THE FLASHLIGHT DOWN IN THE MIDDLE, AND WE JUST STAR ASKING QUESTIONS.
IMMEDIATELY, THE FLASHLIGH STARTED GETTING PRETTY BRIGHT.
AND SO I IMMEDIATELY JUMPED IN AND SAID, "IF THAT'S YOU, CAN YOU MAKE IT BRIGHTER FOR US?" THE FLASHLIGHT WAS SO BRIGH THAT IT LIT UP ALMOS THE ENTIRE ROOM, SO I SAID, "IF THAT'S YOU AGAIN, CAN YOU MAKE THE FLASHLIGHT DIMMER?" CAN YOU TURN IT DOWN? DIM IT DOWN FOR US REALLY LOW, AS LOW AS YOU CAN GO.
AND JUST LIKE ON COMMAND, IT DIMMED DOWN.
AT THAT POINT, I WAS FEELING ANXIOUS AND EXCITED.
Guppy: I WAS VERY IMPRESSED WHEN THEY SEEN THE LIGH ACTUALLY GET BRIGHTER AND DIMMER BECAUSE IT'S NOT A FLASHLIGH THAT DOES THAT.
IT HAS A SWITCH ON AND OFF.
THAT'S IT.
AND AFTER THEY WERE ALL DONE, THE FLASHLIGHT WENT BACK TO NORMAL BRIGHTNESS.
Greg: I FEEL THAT, AT THAT POINT, THAT THAT WAS THE SPIRI OF THE CHILD.
Guppy: WITH ALL WHAT WE CAPTURED, WE FELT WE HAD QUITE A BIT OF EVIDENCE AND THAT WE FELT THERE WAS AN INTELLIGENT HAUNTING.
WE FELT THAT THERE MIGHT BE A CHILD SPIRIT THERE.
WHEN WE RETURNED, WE GAVE THE ANSWERS BACK TO THE HOMEOWNER THAT WE BELIEVE THERE WAS SOME PARANORMAL ACTIVITY GOING ON IN THE FARMHOUSE.
Greg: OVERALL, THE INVESTIGATION WENT REALLY WELL.
IT WENT BETTER THAN I EXPECTED.
Guppy: IT REALLY OPENS YOUR EYES BECAUSE WE'RE INTERACTING WITH SOMEBODY OR SOMETHING BEYOND DEATH.