My Ghost Story (2010) s06e10 Episode Script
Toys in the Attic
1 Zwitter: YOU SEE THIS ORB.
IT COMES ACROSS ME, AND IT GOES TO THE OTHER ROOM.
Shea: IT ACTUALLY HAD TO MANEUVER UNDER JIM'S ARM.
Zwitter: I WAS SHOCKED.
Douglas: WE HAD SEEN ORBS OF LIGHT DARTING ALL OVER, AND THEN WE FELT A PRESENCE.
AFTER THAT, SHE SAID MY NAME.
IT'S LIKE YOUR WHOLE BODY WAS GOING NUMB.
Hess: THEY WERE LETTING US KNOW THEY WERE THERE.
AND I GOT ORBED.
Clifford: ALL OF A SUDDEN, THE GLASS EXPLODES.
[ GLASS SHATTERS .]
AND THEN I FEL THAT SPIRIT SLAP ME.
OW-YA! AND THEN THE NEXT MINUTE, WE HEARD THIS SLAMMING DOOR.
I WAS TERRIFIED.
Maggard: I SEE THIS SHADOW.
I WAS LIKE, "WAIT.
WHAT DID I JUST SEE?" THEN I SEEN IT COME BACK.
I WAS LIKE, "NO WAY, MAN.
NO WAY.
" Shields: I COULD NOT BELIEVE MY EYES.
Maggard: THERE IS MULTIPLE ENTITIES IN THIS BUILDING.
THAT JUST FREAKED US OUT.
MY GHOST STORY BEGAN AT SHIMMERS TAVERN IN FORT WRIGHT, KENTUCKY.
WHEN I MOVED TO FORT WRIGHT, I STARTED HEARING ABOUT A HAUNTED TAVERN CALLED SHIMMERS.
PEOPLE WERE SAYING THEY WERE GETTING THEIR HAIR PULLED, THINGS MOVING, AND IT'S FAMOUS FOR A SHADOW FIGURE WALKING BACK AND FORTH CONSTANTLY.
ALL THAT JUST PUSHED ME FORWARD TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THIS LOCATION.
SO I GOT MY CREW OF PARANORMAL INVESTIGATORS, AND WE STARTED TO CHECK THIS PLACE OUT.
AS SOON AS YOU WALK IN THROUGH THE FRONT DOORS, IT PULLS YOU IN.
YOU GE THAT OVER-THE-SHOULDER FEELING.
Shields: I'VE BEEN WITH CHRIS' TEAM FOR TWO YEARS.
WHEN WE ARRIVED AT SHIMMERS, IT'S AN OLDER BUILDING.
YOU CAN TELL THA THERE'S A LOT OF HISTORY THERE.
Maggard: WITH SHIMMERS, I STARTED STUDYING THE TRI-STATE AREA.
THE CRAZY THING ABOUT THE TRI-STATE AREA, IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE THE ORIGINAL VEGAS BEFORE BUGSY SIEGEL GOT PUSHED OUT AND STARTED VEGAS IN NEVADA.
BUT THE MOB RAN THIS BIG GAMBLING CIRCUIT IN KENTUCKY, AND THEY ALL RAN TOGETHER.
BOBBY MACKEY'S USED TO BE CALLED LATIN QUARTERS.
IT WAS RIGHT UP THE ROAD.
AND THEN DICK SCHILLING OWNED THE BEVERLY HILLS SUPPER CLUB, LOOKOUT HOUSE, AND SHIMMERS, WHICH, BACK THEN, WAS CALLED SCHILLING'S.
BESIDES THE GAMBLING, THEY HAD A "MASSAGE" PARLOR, WOMEN, PROSTITUTION, CATERING TO THE MEN THAT WERE GAMBLING.
Shields: BEVERLY HILLS SUPPER CLUB HAD A TRAGIC FIRE.
Maggard: THE DOORS WERE LOCKED.
PEOPLE WERE TRAPPED, PILING ON TOP OF EACH OTHER, SCRATCHING AT THE WALLS.
165 PEOPLE DIED INSIDE.
Shields: THEY SAY IT WAS AN ELECTRICAL FIRE.
Maggard: IT'S STILL VERY CONTROVERSIAL TODAY.
THEY'RE STILL INVESTIGATING IT.
AT SHIMMERS, THERE'S THIS LADY NAMED BRENDA, AND SHE HAS WITNESSED SO MANY DIFFERENT THINGS HAPPEN THERE THROUGH THE YEARS, LIKE THESE TWO GUYS, LUCKY AND RUSTY.
THEY USED TO GAMBLE THERE.
THEY WERE KIND OF SHADY CHARACTERS.
SOMETIMES THEY OWED A LO OF MONEY TO A LOT OF PEOPLE.
SHE KNEW THEM, AND SHE REMEMBERS A TIME WHEN THEY WENT DOWNSTAIRS, AND THEY NEVER CAME BACK UP.
Shields: RUMOR HAS I THAT THEY'RE BURIED IN THE WALL DOWN THERE.
WHEN YOU OPEN THAT DOOR TO GO TO THE BASEMENT, YOU'RE WALKING BACK INTO TIME.
IT'S CREEPY.
Maggard: YOU LOOK DOWN THERE, AND YOU'RE JUST THINKING, "MY GOD.
"THOSE TWO GUYS, LUCKY AND RUSTY, WENT THERE AND NEVER CAME BACK UP.
" BUT THE CREEP FACTOR ESCALATES AS SOON AS YOU HI THAT BASEMENT.
IT HAS THAT VERY DARK, DUNGEONOUS FEELING TO IT, AND THERE'S ALL THESE LITTLE ROOMS WITH SHOWERS AND GAMBLING ROOMS AND LOCKER ROOMS, AND IT'S JUST -- IT'S WILD.
Shields: WE WERE DOWN THERE INVESTIGATING.
WE SET UP OUR CAMERAS.
CHRIS DECIDED TO LEAVE A RECORDER DOWNSTAIRS.
IF THERE'S SOMETHING DOWN IN THE BASEMENT, WE COULD BE SCARING IT, SO WE WENT UPSTAIRS, AND THAT'S WHEN THE RECORDER CAPTURED THE LOCKER.
Maggard: YOU ACTUALLY HEAR ONE OF THE LOCKER'S DOORS OPEN AND CLOSE.
AND THERE WAS NO ONE DOWN THERE.
PATRICK WAS LOOKING FOR RATS -- ANYTHING -- JUST TRYING TO RATIONALIZE IT.
NOTHING.
NO SIGNS OF ANY ANIMALS.
THESE ARE OLD LOCKERS.
THESE HANDLES ARE RUSTY.
I'M JUST THINKING, "HOW CAN SOMETHING THAT WE DON'T SEE HAVE THAT MUCH STRENGTH TO GRAB THIS AND MOVE IT?" THEN I STARTED THINKING THA SOMETHING COULD COME AFTER ME OR GO EVEN FURTHER AND TOUGH ME PHYSICALLY, AND SO IT FREAKED ME OU A LITTLE BIT.
THE KITCHEN'S BEEN SHUT DOWN FOR A COUPLE HOURS.
EVERYTHING'S COOLED OFF.
MY CREW MEMBER RICK HAD A THERMAL CAMERA.
PAT WAS ACTUALLY VIDEOTAPING RICK, SCANNING THE ROOM, AND OUT OF NOWHERE, YOU SEE THESE BLUE FLAMES COMING UP.
Shields: WE WERE SHOCKED.
WITHOUT THERE BEING A FIRE THERE, YOU CAN'T REALLY CATCH THAT.
IF IT WAS A REAL FIRE, THE THERMAL WOULD SHOW BRIGHT RED.
IT WOULD SHOW IT WOULD BE HOT, BUT IT'S SHOWING IT COLD.
Maggard: AND IT DISSIPATED.
NOW, THE FUNNY THING WITH THA IS SCHILLING'S, THE KITCHEN CAUGHT ON FIRE BASICALLY IN THE SAME AREA.
YOU KNOW, WHEN I SEEN THESE GHOST FLAMES, THE FIRST THING IN MY HEAD WAS LIKE, "THIS IS NOT HAPPENING.
I AM NOT SEEING THIS.
" AND AFTER WE STARTED PUTTING ALL THE PIECES TOGETHER WITH THE HISTORY OF THE FIRE THERE, I'M BLOWN AWAY.
Shields: LATER ON THAT NIGHT, WE WENT INTO THE BAR AREA, TRYING TO BRING OU THE GENTLEMAN THAT PEOPLE HAVE BEEN SEEING THERE.
THAT AREA OF THE BAR IS EXTREMELY ACTIVE.
Maggard: I WAS HOLDING MY CAMERA, RECORDING MY CREW, AND WE HAD A GUEST INVESTIGATOR COME ALONG WITH US.
I'M LOOKING THROUGH THE VIEWFINDER ON MY CAMERA, AND I SEE THIS SHADOW RUN LEFT TO RIGH FROM ONE SIDE OF THE BAR TO THE OTHER SIDE.
Shields: THE SHADOW FIGURE AT SHIMMERS IS PROBABLY ONE OF THE BES PIECES OF VISUAL EVIDENCE THAT WE'VE EVER CAPTURED.
Maggard: WHEN I FIRST SEEN I RUN FROM LEFT TO RIGHT, I WAS LIKE, "WAIT.
WHAT DID I JUST SEE?" THEN I SEEN IT COME BACK, RIGHT TO LEFT.
I WAS LIKE, "OH, MY GOD.
" OH.
AND THEN THE GUEST INVESTIGATOR GOT TOUCHED.
I WAS LIKE, "NO WAY, MAN.
NO WAY.
" Shields: WHEN IT MOVED THE SECOND TIME, SHE REACTED IMMEDIATELY.
THAT ALMOST BRINGS MORE VALIDITY TO WHAT YOU JUST CAPTURED.
WE COULD NOT RE-CREATE IT.
IN THE SAME AREA WHERE THE SHADOW FIGURE WAS CAPTURED, WE ALSO SET UP ANOTHER CAMERA.
Maggard: REPORTEDLY, ALSO, IF YOU SET SOME MONEY OU AT THIS ONE TABLE, IT WILL BE GRABBED BY THIS ENTITY.
MY CREW MEMBER RICK AND PA HAD A $10 BILL, AND WITHIN SECONDS OF PUTTING THE MONEY DOWN, SAYING, "IF YOU WANT THIS, TAKE IT," BOOM.
Shields: I COULD NOT BELIEVE MY EYES.
THE MONEY ALMOST DID A 180.
Maggard: IT WAS JUST, LIKE, THE "OH, MY GOD" MOMENT, YOU KNOW.
LIKE, "WHAT?" AND YOU CAN EVEN SEE THEIR HANDS IN THE VIDEO GO, "REALLY?" WE TRIED, FOR THE NEXT HOUR, TRIED TO RE-CREATE THIS.
NOTHING.
Shields: WE COULD NOT GET THE MONEY TO TURN AT ALL.
Maggard: RIGHT BY WHERE THE SHADOW FIGURE RUNS ALL THE TIME, THERE'S A CAFé ROOM.
Shields: PEOPLE HAVE REPORTED HEARING A WOMAN IN THE CAFé ROOM.
Maggard: WE SET UP AN AUDIO SESSION THERE WITH A CAMERA.
WE STARTED ASKING QUESTIONS, AND THAT'S WHEN WE CAPTURED THIS WOMAN SAYING, "WILL YOU PLEASE HELP ME?" THAT JUST FREAKED US OUT.
Shields: SHE'S REACHING OUT, TRYING TO GET SOME HELP.
I BELIEVE THE WOMAN IN THE CAFé ROOM IS TIED TO THE MOB DAYS IN THE BASEMENT.
Maggard: THESE WOMEN GOT BEA FOR NOT DOING WHAT THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO DO CORRECTLY, SO WE'RE THINKING POSSIBLY IT'S ONE OF THEM.
AFTER EXPERIENCING THE SHADOW FIGURES, SEEING THESE GHOST FLAMES, WATCHING THE MONEY BE TAKEN BY SOMETHING WE DON'T KNOW, I BELIEVE THERE IS MULTIPLE ENTITIES IN THIS BUILDING THAT ARE TRYING TO GE THEIR STORY OUT TO US.
Shields: WE DON'T KNOW WHAT WE'RE DEALING WITH IN THE SUPERNATURAL.
THERE'S A LOT OF TRAUMA ATTACHED TO SHIMMERS.
THERE'S A LOT OF THINGS THAT COULD HAVE BEEN COVERED UP BY THE MOB THAT NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW, AND THESE SPIRITS ARE REACHING OUT.
Maggard: I WANT TO CONTINUE TO FIND OUT WHAT'S GOING ON 'CAUSE THERE'S PEOPLE THAT ARE STILL LIVING IN THIS AREA THAT WANT TO KNOW, "IS MY FAMILY THERE?" THEY WANT TO KNOW IF THEIR RELATIVES ARE STILL THERE, REACHING OUT.
AND IT SCARES PEOPLE.
IT GENUINELY SCARES PEOPLE, 'CAUSE THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON.
I WANT TO CONTINUE GOING HERE UNTIL THE STORY IS TOLD COMPLETELY.
Hess: MY LEG WAS GRABBED.
THE K-II STARTED TO GO HAYWIRE.
[ BEEPING .]
I STARTED TO GET PRETTY SCARED.
MY HEART JUST DROPPED.
Hess: MY LEG WAS GRABBED.
THE K-II STARTED TO GO HAYWIRE.
[ BEEPING .]
I STARTED TO GET PRETTY SCARED.
Hess: MY GHOST STORY BEGAN WHEN I BECAME FASCINATED WITH A YOUNG GIRL WHO DIED IN 1862.
THE RENSSELAER RUSSELL HOUSE MUSEUM IS IN WATERLOO, IOWA.
IT WAS BUILT IN 1858.
IT WAS ONE OF THE MOST PROMINEN HOMES IN WATERLOO AT THE TIME.
RICH IN HISTORY AND REALLY AMAZING HOME.
THE RUSSELL FAMILY LIVED THERE STARTING IN 1861.
RENSSELAER RUSSELL -- HE WAS IN BANKING AND REAL ESTATE, AND HE OWNED INTERES IN DRY GOODS STORES.
HE HAD A WIFE, CAROLINE, AND THEIR DAUGHTER, GENEVIEVE.
IN 1862, GENEVIEVE RUSSELL FELL DOWN A CISTERN, WHICH IS A RAINWATER WELL.
SHE WAS WALKING HOME FROM A FRIEND'S HOUSE, WAS FOUND IN A CISTERN, AND SHE HAD DROWNED.
MY FIRST EXPERIENCE AT THE HOUSE, I WAS GETTING A TOUR FROM ONE OF MY FRIENDS, AND WE WERE LOOKING AT THE FUNERAL PHOTOGRAPH OF GENEVIEVE.
GENEVIEVE PASSED AWAY AT THE AGE OF 5.
I LOOKED AT CHELSEA, AND I SAID, "WHAT HAPPENED TO THIS LITTLE GIRL?" AND THE MOMEN THAT WE STARTED TALKING ABOUT HER DEATH MY LEG WAS GRABBED ON THE BACK OF MY CALF.
I FELT THAT WAS GENEVIEVE TELLING ME, "THIS IS ME.
I'M HERE.
YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT MY DEATH.
" AFTER THAT, I DECIDED TO DO TWO THINGS -- GET A JOB AT THE HOUSE AND LAUNCH A PARANORMAL INVESTIGATION.
MARK LEHMAN -- HE IS THE FOUNDER OF 319 PARANORMAL.
Lehman: YOU WALK INTO THIS BEAUTIFUL VICTORIAN HOME THAT STILL HAS VICTORIAN PIECES.
IT HAS FAMILY PIECES IN IT.
RENSSELAER'S SAFE IS SITTING IN THE PARLOR.
YOU GO IN THERE, AND YOU'RE IN AWE OF ALL THIS STUFF.
Hess: ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS THE TEAM DID THAT NIGH WAS GO INTO THE PARLOR AND TRY TO CONTACT OTHER SPIRITS THAT THEY THOUGH COULD BE IN THE HOME.
THEY WANTED TO TRY AND CONTAC THE GRANDFATHER OF GENEVIEVE RUSSELL.
ONE OF THE INVESTIGATORS CAME OVER THE WALKIE AND ASKED, "WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE GRANDPA?" ONE OF THE OTHER INVESTIGATORS CAME BACK AND SAID, "WILLIAM.
" HE SAID, "OKAY.
WHAT IS THE LAST NAME?" THE MINUTE HE SAID "RICHARDS" OVER THE WALKIE, A PIANO NOTE PLAYED.
WHEN I HEARD THIS PIANO NOTE, MY HEART JUST DROPPED.
Lehman: TO ME, THAT WAS LIKE, "HEY, YOU'RE RIGHT.
" YOU KNOW, KIND OF LIKE A BUZZER ON A GAME SHOW.
Hess: LATER ON THAT EVENING, SOME OF THE INVESTIGATORS DECIDED TO GO INTO THE BASEMENT, AND THEY SET UP AUDIO RECORDERS, AND THEY STARTED TO TRY AND CONTACT GENEVIEVE DIRECTLY.
THEY STARTED ASKING HER ABOU HER DEATH AND WHAT HAPPENED.
THEY GOT AN EVP SAYING, "JUST DON'T SPEAK IT.
" VICTORIAN CHILDREN WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE HEARD.
THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO BE SEEN.
SHE WAS TELLING THEM, "DO NOT ASK ME ANY MORE ABOUT THIS BECAUSE I CAN'T TELL YOU ABOUT IT.
" Lehman: THIS WASN'T EVEN LIKE A SOFT WHISPER.
IT SOUNDED LIKE A CHILD'S VOICE SAYING IT.
Hess: IT MADE ME SAD BECAUSE I THINK BEING A CHILD AND DYING SO YOUNG, SHE DOESN'T KNOW WHERE TO GO.
LATER ON, WE DECIDED TO GO BACK INTO THE PARLOR AND TRY A FLASHLIGHT EXPERIMENT.
WE SET UP A FLASHLIGH ON TOP OF THE PIANO.
Lehman: A SPIRIT CAN MANIPULATE THE ENERGY AROUND THE FLASHLIGH TO MAKE IT COME ON AND OFF AS THEY WISH.
Hess: ONE OF THE INVESTIGATORS ASKED, "DO YOU WANT TO SPEAK TO KATIE -- THIS GIRL BACK HERE?" AND THE FLASHLIGHT COMES ON.
MY HEART JUST KIND OF DROPPED.
I DIDN'T KNOW IF I WANTED TO TALK DIRECTLY 'CAUSE I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT I WANTED TO ASK.
IT MADE ME KNOW I WAS WELCOME IN THE HOME, AND I DIDN'T REALLY HAVE ANYTHING TO BE SCARED OF.
AFTER THE FIRST INVESTIGATION, THE HOUSE KIND OF JUST FLIPPED UPSIDE DOWN.
DRAWERS WERE OPEN ON DRESSERS, ON CABINETS, ON THE OVEN DOOR IN THE KITCHEN.
EVERYTHING AND ANYTHING HAD BEEN OPENED IN THAT HOUSE.
I WAS GIVING A TOUR ONE DAY, WAS SNAPPING A FEW PICTURES.
[ CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING .]
WHAT I GOT WAS ORBED.
ONE OF THEM IS RIGHT NEX TO CAROLINE'S PICTURE, AND THE OTHER ONE IS GOING UP THE SERVANT'S STARS.
THE SPIRITS KNEW PEOPLE WERE LOOKING FOR THEM, AND THEY WERE LETTING US KNOW THEY WERE THERE.
AFTER THAT, WE DECIDED TO DO ANOTHER INVESTIGATION.
WE DECIDED TO SET UP SOME AUDIO RECORDERS.
WE WERE UPSTAIRS IN THE DAUGHTER'S BEDROOM.
I ASKED THE SPIRIT OF CAROLINE, "CAROLINE, IS THAT YOU?" WE CAUGHT AN EVP, AND IT SAYS, "HELLO.
" I WAS LIKE, "OH, MY GOODNESS.
"THIS IS THE SPIRI OF CAROLINE RUSSELL.
"THIS IS GENEVIEVE'S MOTHER, LETTING US KNOW THAT SHE IS THERE.
" Lehman: AFTER THAT, WE DECIDED KATIE SHOULD DO AN ISOLATION SESSION.
Hess: THAT IS ME GOING UP INTO THE MASTER BEDROOM ALL BY MYSELF JUST TRYING TO SEE WHAT KIND OF ACTIVITY I CAN STIR UP.
I HAD A VIDEO CAMERA, A K-II METER, AND AN AUDIO RECORDER.
Lehman: WE WERE IN ANOTHER ROOM COMPLETELY, DOWNSTAIRS, AWAY FROM HER, MONITORING IT.
Hess: I STARTED HEARING NOISES BETWEEN THE MASTER BEDROOM AND THE DAUGHTER'S BEDROOM.
WHATEVER SPIRIT WAS THERE WAS STARTING TO PLAY WITH ME.
SOMETHING ELSE WAS STARTING TO COME INTO THE ROOM.
Lehman: YOU COULD TELL SHE WAS STARTING TO GET PRETTY EDGY.
Hess: THE ROOM STARTED TO GET HEAVIER AND DARKER, AND I STARTED TO GE PRETTY SCARED.
Lehman: WE WERE PRETTY TENSE IN THE CONTROL ROOM.
Hess: I FELT SOMETHING TUG ON MY EAR, AND MY EAR BECAME REALLY, REALLY HOT.
I WANTED MARK TO SEE IT, SO I TURNED THE CAMERA AROUND TO SHOW MY EAR AND JUST TO VALIDATE IT.
THE K-II STARTED TO GO HAYWIRE.
[ BEEPING .]
THE TEMPERATURE STARTED TO CHANGE IN THE ROOM.
AT THAT POINT, I KNEW I NEEDED TO GET OUT.
WE DECIDED TO END THE INVESTIGATION FOR THE NIGHT.
WE WALKED THROUGH THE KITCHEN, AND WE HEAR, WITH OUR OWN EARS, A CHILD LAUGHING.
Lehman: THAT IS A SPIRIT TELLING US, "HA HA, WE WANTED YOU TO LEAVE.
WE GOT YOU TO LEAVE.
" AFTER VISITING THE RUSSELL HOUSE, THERE IS NO DOUBT IN MY MIND THAT THE PARANORMAL EXISTS.
THERE ARE SPIRITS OUT THERE, AND THEY WANT TO COMMUNICATE.
Hess: THE SPIRIT OF CAROLINE, THE SPIRIT OF GENEVIEVE, AND THE SPIRIT OF RENSSELAER ARE STILL THERE.
Lehman: I KNOW FOR SURE THAT THE SPIRIT OF GENEVIEVE HAS A SPECIAL PLACE FOR KATIE.
SHE WANTS TO COMMUNICATE WITH KATIE, AND SHE LIKES TO SHOW OFF FOR KATIE.
THERE ARE TIMES STILL IN THE HOME, WHEN I'M WORKING, THAT I DO GET NERVOUS, BUT I'M NOT SCARED BECAUSE I KNOW THAT THE SPIRITS OF THE HOME DON'T MIND THAT I'M THERE.
IT'S A WELCOMING HOME.
Zwitter: YOU SEE THIS ORB.
IT COMES ACROSS ME, AND IT GOES TO THE OTHER ROOM.
WE STARTED TAKING EVPs ALL OVER THE HOUSE.
WE PICKED UP CHILDREN TALKING.
WHEN I WALKED UPSTAIRS, I HEARD THE EVP OF A LITTLE CHILD SAY, "HELP ME.
" Shea: THAT INDICATES A CHILD IN TROUBLE.
Zwitter: YOU SEE THIS ORB.
IT COMES ACROSS ME, AND IT GOES TO THE OTHER ROOM.
WHEN I WALKED UPSTAIRS, I HEARD THE EVP OF A LITTLE CHILD SAY, "HELP ME.
" Shea: MY GHOST STORY BEGAN WHEN I MOVED INTO MY HOME OUTSIDE OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.
WHEN WE FIRST MOVED INTO THE HOUSE, IT WAS WHAT YOU COULD CALL IN POLITE CIRCLES A FIXER-UPPER.
IT JUST NEEDED SOME COSMETIC SURGERY.
WE WERE REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO MOVING IN AND GETTING STARTED ON IT.
WHEN WE STARTED WORKING ON THE HOUSE, THERE WAS A SCENT, WHICH INITIALLY, I ATTRIBUTED TO SOMETHING THAT WAS EMANATING FROM THE WOOD.
IT WAS A PERFUME, BUT NOT A MODERN PERFUME, AND THAT KEPT HAPPENING OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN, ROOM TO ROOM TO ROOM.
THE HOUSE WAS BUILT IN 1904.
IT'S ON THE HISTORIC REGISTER, BUT I STARTED TO DO MY OWN RESEARCH TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE OWNERS OF THE HOME, BECAUSE IT WAS OBVIOUS AT THAT POIN THAT WE WERE NOT ALONE IN THE HOUSE.
I WENT TO THE REGISTER OF DEEDS AND TRACED BACK THROUGH THE RECORDS AND FOUND OUT THAT, IN FACT, THE BUILDER HAD MOVED THERE, AFTER HE RETIRED FROM FARMING, WITH HIS YOUNGEST DAUGHTER.
AND THE PERFUME SMELLED LIKE A YOUNG WOMAN'S PERFUME.
SHE WAS, AT THAT POINT, THE ONLY YOUNG WOMAN THAT WE KNEW THAT HAD LIVED IN THE HOME, SO IT JUST SEEMED LOGICAL.
OTHER TYPES OF THINGS HAVE VARIED THROUGHOUT THE YEARS.
WE MAY HAVE LIGHT BULBS THAT FLICKER.
THINGS MIGHT MOVE.
APPLIANCES WOULD TURN ON BY THEMSELVES.
OUR GAS STOVE.
I REALLY COULDN'T BELIEVE IT.
ONE NIGHT, I WAS SITTING ON THE BED, READING WITH MY BOOK IN MY LAP, AND OUT OF THE TOP OF MY VISION, I SAW WHAT APPEARED TO BE THE TRAIN OF A LONG DRESS GO INTO THE BEDROOM THAT'S AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS.
I GOT OUT OF BED AND WEN AND LOOKED IN THE ROOM.
EVEN THOUGH I KNEW THAT IT DIDN'T MAKE SENSE THAT I WAS SEEING WHAT I HAD JUST SEEN, I NEEDED TO CONVINCE MYSELF THAT SOMEONE HADN'T JUST WALKED INTO THAT BEDROOM.
OF COURSE, THERE WAS NOBODY IN THERE.
IT CAN BE STARTLING.
WE HAD HAD ENOUGH HAPPENING IN THE HOUSE THAT WHEN A FRIEND OF MINE JOINED A PARANORMAL GROUP, I WAS REALLY INTERESTED TO HAVE THEM COME OUT AND RESEARCH THE HOUSE.
JIM AND HIS TEAM WERE OBVIOUSLY VERY INTRIGUED BY IT.
Zwitter: A MEMBER OF OUR GROUP KNEW HER PERSONALLY AND TOLD US THE STORY OF HER HOUSE, WHERE SHE'D SEEN APPARITIONS, THINGS HAPPEN IN THE HOUSE.
Shea: I THOUGH IT MIGHT BE A GOOD WAY, SINCE OBVIOUSLY, I CAN'T SPEAK TO THEM.
Zwitter: WE WERE VERY MUCH EXCITED TO GO THERE.
THAT'S FOR SURE.
IT'S A CLASSIC VICTORIAN HOME, WHICH SOME PEOPLE ALWAYS THINK, "OH, THIS IS DEFINITELY HAUNTED.
" WE SET UP OUR DIGITAL VOICE RECORDER AND CAMERA.
Shea: WE STARTED IN THE ATTIC.
Zwitter: THE WHOLE GROUP WAS THERE.
IT WAS FOUR OF US AND HER.
Shea: AT THAT POINT, I THINK WE MAY HAVE BEEN TALKING A LITTLE BI ABOUT THE HISTORY OF THE HOUSE.
Zwitter: ALL OF A SUDDEN, WE HEARD THIS LOUD CRASH.
Shea: THERE WAS A HOLE IN THE FLOOR, WHERE WE HAD RECENTLY REMOVED A DOUBLE CHIMNEY.
MY HUSBAND HAD CUT A PIECE OF STYROFOAM TO SNUGLY FIT IN THERE THAT HAD FALLEN THROUGH THIS HOLE.
IT WAS OBVIOUS BY THE SOUND THAT A LOT OF BRICKS HAD FALLEN THROUGH.
AND YE WHEN YOU LOOKED DOWN THERE, THERE WASN'T A BRICK IN SIGHT.
THAT REALLY BLEW ME AWAY.
Zwitter: SO, WE CAME BACK IN THE EVENING AND CONDUCTED OUR SECOND HALF OF OUR INVESTIGATION.
OUR INVESTIGATOR'S STANDING THERE WITH HER ARMS UP LIKE THIS.
SHE SAYS, "I CAN'T GET IN.
" THE SCREEN DOOR WAS LOCKED.
Shea: THE NEXT THING I KNOW, I'M GETTING A TEXT MESSAGE FROM ONE OF THE TEAM MEMBERS SAYING, "WE CAN'T GE INTO THE HOUSE.
" I HAD NOT LOCKED THE SCREEN DOOR, AND I TURNED TO MY HUSBAND, AND I SAID, "DID YOU LOCK THE FRONT SCREEN DOOR?" AND HE SAID, "NO, I DIDN' EVEN TOUCH THE FRONT DOOR.
" SO WE HAD TO HAVE THEM CUT THE SCREEN.
THE ENTITIES IN THE HOUSE, THE SPIRITS, MAYBE DID NOT WANT THE TEAM THERE THAT NIGHT.
Zwitter: I WAS REALLY SURPRISED.
FIRST PLACE I WENT DOWN WAS THE BASEMENT, AND I WAS SETTING UP A BALLOON DOWN THERE IN FRON OF THE NIGHT-VISION CAMERA.
WE LIKE TO PUT SOMETHING THAT CAN BE EASILY MOVED AND SEEN ON THE CAMERA.
WHEN I WAS GOING OVER THE EVIDENCE AND LOOKING AT THE VIDEO, YOU SEE THIS ORB.
IT COMES ACROSS ME, AND IT GOES TO THE OTHER ROOM.
IT HAD A DESTINATION.
Shea: IT WAS ON A MISSION.
IT KNEW WHERE IT WANTED TO GO, AND IT ACTUALLY HAD TO MANEUVER UNDER JIM'S ARM, AND THEN HEADED STRAIGH INTO THAT BACK ROOM.
IT WAS FASCINATING.
Zwitter: EVENTUALLY, WE SAT FOR AN EVP SESSION.
KATHY HAD PICTURES OF THE BUILDER OF THE HOUSE, THE ORIGINAL OWNER.
FIRST EVP WE GOT, WE ASKED, "SAM, DID YOU BUILD THIS HOUSE?" SAM BREESE, DID YOU BUILD THIS HOUSE? Shea: IT WAS NEA TO KNOW THAT HE WAS THERE.
Zwitter: WHY ARE THEY STILL THERE? IT IS BIZARRE.
LATER THAT EVENING, KATHY TOLD US THE STORY OF HER FRIEND THAT GOT LOCKED IN THE BATHROOM.
IT'S FUNNY, 'CAUSE DEE SAYS, "WELL, I HAVE TO USE THE BATHROOM, SO I'D BETTER GET MY CELLPHONE IN CASE I GET LOCKED IN.
" AND AS SHE WALKS TOWARDS THE BATHROOM, THE EVP WE GOT WAS WHEN YOU HEAR AN EVP INTERACTING WITH YOU LIKE THAT, YOU KNOW IT'S AN INTELLIGENT SPIRIT.
Shea: I LIKE THINKING THAT OUR SPIRITS KIND OF HAD A SENSE OF HUMOR.
Zwitter: IT IS A WEIRD FEELING.
LATER THAT EVENING, WE HAD A QUIET POINT IN THE AUDIO, WHERE NOTHING WAS REALLY GOING ON.
BUT NEXT, WE PICKED UP WHA SOUNDED LIKE CHILDREN TALKING.
Shea: THEY DIDN'T SEEM UNHAPPY OR DISTRESSED, SO I THINK, AT THAT POINT, I WAS MORE FOCUSED ON TRYING TO FIND OUT WHAT THEY'RE SAYING.
I WAS AMAZED AT HOW MANY SPIRITS LIVED IN MY HOME.
Zwitter: WE STARTED TAKING EVPs ALL OVER THE HOUSE.
WHEN I WALKED UPSTAIRS, I HEARD THE EVP OF A LITTLE CHILD SAY, "HELP ME.
" THAT IS DISTURBING, ESPECIALLY IF YOU THINK IT'S A CHILD.
YOU DON'T KNOW HOW TO HELP THEM.
Shea: NOBODY WANTS TO HEAR A CHILD SAY, "HELP ME.
" THAT INDICATES A CHILD IN TROUBLE.
IT WAS CONCERNING, AND IT TUGGED AT MY HEART A LITTLE BIT.
Zwitter: I WAS SHOCKED.
AFTER FINISHING THE INVESTIGATION AND GOING THROUGH ALL THE EVIDENCE, IT KIND OF PROVED WHAT SHE HAD TOLD US ABOUT THE HOUSE.
Shea: WE ARE NOT ALONE THERE.
THERE ARE APPARENTLY A LOT MORE SOULS THERE THAN WE ORIGINALLY THOUGH THERE WERE.
THEY ARE A CONSTANT PRESENCE IN OUR LIFE, EVEN IF WE DON'T REALIZE IT.
Machin: WHEN I WALKED INTO THAT PROPERTY, IT FELT LIKE THERE WAS SOMEBODY WATCHING.
Clifford: CAN YOU GIVE US A SIGN? WHEN I LOOKED AT THE PHOTOGRAPH, IT WAS LIKE THE OUTLINE OF A PERSON.
ALL OF A SUDDEN, BANG.
OW-YA! PERHAPS I HAVE PUSHED I A LITTLE BIT TOO FAR.
Machin: IT FELT LIKE THERE WAS SOMEBODY WATCHING.
Clifford: IT WAS LIKE THE OUTLINE OF A PERSON.
ALL OF A SUDDEN, BANG.
OW-YA! PERHAPS I HAVE PUSHED I A LITTLE BIT TOO FAR.
MY GHOST STORY BEGAN WHEN I INVESTIGATED A HAUNTED COMMUNITY CENTER IN COVENTRY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM.
COVENTRY IS -- IT'S QUITE A LARGE CITY.
IT'S ABOUT A MILLION PEOPLE, POPULATION-WISE.
IT WAS FARMLAND FOR MANY, MANY YEARS, LIKE MOST PLACES IN THE U.
K.
CITIES STARTED TO EXPAND, AND THEN ALL THE FARMHOUSES WENT.
A FRIEND OF MINE CONTACTED ME AND SAID, "THERE'S BEEN ACTIVITY GOING ON IN THE COMMUNITY CENTER.
" I ARRANGED A TIME TO GO DOWN AND VISIT.
THERE'S SOME STRANGE LIGHTS BEING SEEN, COLD SPOTS.
ON ONE OCCASION, THE MANAGER WALKED INTO THE MAIN HALL, AND THE CURTAINS WERE FLAPPING.
ALL THE WINDOWS WERE CLOSED.
ALL SORTS OF LITTLE BITS AND PIECES GOING ON.
SO AFTER SPEAKING TO THE MANAGER AND CHECKING OU THE COMMUNITY CENTER, I RANG NEIL AND SAID, "THERE'S A REALLY GOOD VENUE IN COVENTRY, "AND THERE'S BEEN QUITE A LOT OF ACTIVITY HAPPENING.
I THINK IT'S A PLACE WE SHOULD GO TO TO DO AN INVESTIGATION.
" Machin: I'VE KNOWN ALAN NOW ABOUT 10 YEARS.
I MET HIM ON AN INVESTIGATION WITH ANOTHER PARANORMAL GROUP, AND WE'VE BEEN DOING INVESTIGATIONS EVER SINCE.
I'VE ALWAYS BEEN A LITTLE BIT SENSITIVE FROM WHEN I WAS VERY YOUNG.
IT SEEMS TO HAVE GO MORE ADVANCED OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS.
Clifford: SO, WHEN MYSELF AND NEIL ARRIVED AT THE COMMUNITY CENTER ON THE EVENING, WE HAD LITTLE WALK 'ROUND, AND WE DECIDED THE BEST PLACES TO SET UP THE CAMERAS AND ALL THE OTHER RECORDING EQUIPMENT.
Machin: WHEN I WALKED INTO THAT PROPERTY, IT FELT STRANGE.
IT FELT LIKE THERE WAS SOMEBODY WATCHING, AND THAT IS WHERE I PICKED UPON THE NAME OF "HENRY," SO I WROTE THAT IN MY NOTEBOOK.
Clifford: SO, THE MAIN HALL IN THE CENTER IS WHERE THE BULK OF THE ACTIVITY HAS BEEN WITNESSED.
Machin: I WAS PICKING UP ON THE ENERGY.
Clifford: BOTH MYSELF AND NEIL, WE WERE LOOKING TOWARD THE ONE END OF THE HALL, AND WE COULD SEE THIS DARK SHADOW START WALKING BACKWARDS AND FORWARDS.
Machin: YOU COULD SEE IT WAS A SHAPE OF A PERSON MOVING AROUND THE CURTAINS AND AROUND THE ROOM BY THE DOORS, AS WELL.
Clifford: SO, AFTER WE STARTED SEEING THESE SHADOW FIGURES, I STARTED TO TAKE PHOTOGRAPHS.
WHEN I LOOKED AT THE PHOTOGRAPH, THERE WAS THIS SLIGH LIGHT ANOMALY IN THE CORNER, SO WE ZOOMED INTO IT AND THOUGH IT VERY MUCH LOOKS LIKE THE OUTLINE OF A PERSON.
IT WAS JUST REALLY, REALLY AMAZING.
-I COULDN'T BELIEVE IT.
-Machin: I WAS PICKING UP ON A SPIRIT IN THE ROOM, AND I WAS 99% SURE IT WAS THE SAME SPIRI TO WHAT ALAN CAUGHT IN HIS PHOTOGRAPH.
[ CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS .]
WE DECIDED TO USE SOME AUDIO EQUIPMENT TO RECORD EVPs.
Clifford: WE ASKED QUITE A LO OF DIFFERENT QUESTIONS.
"IS THERE ANYBODY WITH US? CAN YOU GIVE US A SIGN? GIVE US SOME KIND OF REACTION TO WHY YOU'RE HERE.
" Machin: AND AS WE WAS ASKING THE QUESTIONS, THE WALKIE-TALKIE WENT OFF BY ITSELF.
Clifford: NORMALLY, WITH THE WALKIE-TALKIES, UNLESS SOMEONE PHYSICALLY PRESSES THE BUTTON ON THE WALKIE-TALKIE, NOTHING HAPPENS, BUT THE WALKIE-TALKIE JUST SORT OF CLICKS ON AND MAKES A STRANGE NOISE, AND IT CLICKS BACK OFF AGAIN.
WE'VE ASKED OTHER PEOPLE IF ANYBODY PRESSED THE WALKIE-TALKIES, BUT NOBODY HAS.
Machin: WE NEVER THOUGH WE WOULD ACTUALLY GATHER AN EVP LIKE THAT.
WE NOTICED THAT THE ATMOSPHERE IN THE ROOM WAS GETTING HEAVY -- REALLY HEAVY.
I WAS GETTING QUITE A SEVERE HEADACHE.
Clifford: SO, WE KEPT ASKING THE SAME SORT OF QUESTIONS.
"CAN YOU GIVE US A SIGN? CAN YOU KNOCK SOMETHING? CAN YOU MAKE A NOISE?" Machin: WE HEARD A SLAMMING DOOR.
Clifford: I TURNED TO NEIL IMMEDIATELY AND SAID, "DID YOU HEAR THAT?" THERE WAS THREE PEOPLE IN ONE ROOM THAT HEARD I AND ANOTHER THREE OR FOUR IN ANOTHER THAT HEARD IT, AND THEN WE'D RECORDED IT, AS WELL, SO IT WAS DEFINITELY VERIFICATION THAT THIS DOOR SLAM HAD HAPPENED.
Machin: I WENT OUTSIDE TO TRY AND GATHER ME THOUGHTS AND JUST TAKE A BREATHER.
Clifford: I WENT BACK INTO THE HALL MYSELF.
GOT ONE BIG WIDE-ANGLE CAMERA SET UP WITH A NIGHT VISION.
JUST STARTED WALKING BACKWARDS AND FORWARDS IN FRONT OF THE CAMERA AND STARTED REALLY, "COME ON.
"YOU'RE BUILDING THE ENERGY UP NOW AND MAKING THESE DOOR SLAMS.
"YOU'RE TURNING THE WALKIE-TALKIES ON.
"WHILE YOU'VE GO THIS ENERGY FLOWING, DO SOMETHING TO REALLY, REALLY IMPRESS US.
" ALL OF A SUDDEN, OUT OF THE BLUE BANG.
I GET THIS REAL SLAP STINGING ON MY ARM.
IT FELT LIKE SOMEBODY HAD HIT ME.
WHEN I FELT THAT SPIRIT SLAP ME, I WAS TERRIFIED.
I WAS YELLING, "NEIL, NEIL, COME IN HERE.
CAN YOU COME IN HERE? SOMETHING'S JUST ATTACKED ME.
" SO, NEIL'S OUTSIDE.
HE GOES, "WHAT IS IT? WHAT IS IT? WHAT'S HAPPENED?" AND THEN HE LOOKED DOWN AND SAID, "LOOK AT YOUR ARM.
" Machin: ALAN HAS ACTUALLY GOT THREE MARKS LIKE SOMEONE JUST SLAPPED HIM ON HIS ARM.
TO ACTUALLY HAVE A PHYSICAL ATTACK IS QUITE SEVERE.
WITH WHAT'S BEEN HAPPENING ON THE PROPERTY, IT SEEMED LIKE THINGS WAS ESCALATING, THAT THE ENERGY WAS GETTING STRONGER.
Clifford: PERHAPS I HAVE PUSHED IT A LITTLE BIT TOO FAR.
AT THE END OF THE EVENING, WE WENT BACK INTO THE MAIN HALL AND SET UP A BOARD SESSION IN THERE.
WE'VE GOT LETTERS AT THE TOP AND THE BOTTOM, NUMBERS DOWN THE SIDE, "YES" AND "NO," "MALE," "FEMALE," "HELLO," AND "GOODBYE.
" Machin: WE SAY, "CAN YOU PLEASE MOVE THE GLASS TOWARDS THE 'YES' IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO COMMUNICATE WITH US?" Clifford: THE GLASS THEN STARTS TO BUILD UP ITS ENERGY, STARTS MOVING AROUND.
IT'S GOING OVER TO THE "YES" TO CONFIRM THAT THERE IS SOMEBODY WITH US.
WE THEN START GOING THROUGH THE PROCESS OF ASKING, "CAN YOU GIVE US THE LETTER OF YOUR FIRST NAME?" IT GOES OVER TO THE "H," AND EVENTUALLY, IT SPELLED OU THE NAME "HENRY.
" Machin: AT THAT POINT, I LOOKED BACK ON MY NOTES AND SHOWED EVERYBODY.
I SAYS, "LOOK, I PICKED UP ON A NAME AS SOON AS I WALKED INTO THE BUILDING EARLIER ON WITH 'HENRY.
'" IT WAS VERY SATISFYING TO PU A NAME TO THE ACTUAL SPIRIT.
Clifford: I WAS JUST 100% SURE THAT THIS WAS THE SPIRI THAT WE'D SEEN EARLIER IN THE MAIN HALL AND ALSO THE SPIRI THAT ATTACKED ME.
SO, WE CONTINUE WITH THE BOARD SESSION, AND WE'RE ASKING A SERIES OF QUESTIONS.
WE FOUND OU THAT HENRY WAS A FARMER, AND HE USED TO RUN THE FARM THAT THE LANDS AND THE BUILDING WAS BUILT ON.
I DON'T THINK HE WAS HAPPY WITH WHAT WAS GOING ON WITH ESSENTIALLY WHAT WAS HIS LAND.
Machin: ONCE WE KNEW WHO THE SPIRIT WAS, EVERYBODY WHO WAS THERE HAD BEEN PUT TO EASE.
WE DECIDED TO WRAP EVERYTHING UP, AND WE DECIDED TO CALL IT A NIGHT.
Clifford: I KEPT IN CONTAC WITH THE MANAGER OF THE COMMUNITY CENTER.
IT WAS JUST OVER A YEAR, I THINK, FROM THE ORIGINAL INVESTIGATION DATE.
I GET THIS CALL.
HE SAYS, "AL, SOMETHING'S HAPPENED OVERNIGHT.
"I NEED YOU TO COME DOWN HERE.
"COME AND HAVE A LOOK AT THIS VIDEO FOOTAGE.
I CAN'T EXPLAIN IT.
" Machin: WE WENT BACK TO THE PROPERTY TO HAVE A LOOK.
Clifford: AND HE SHOWS ME THE SECURITY FOOTAGE.
IT'S TAKEN ABOUT 10:30 IN THE EVENING.
THERE'S NOBODY IN THERE.
THERE'S, LIKE, A SLIDING WINDOW BETWEEN THE OFFICE AND THE RECEPTION AREA.
YOU SEE IT VIBRATE.
THE WALL VIBRATES, 'CAUSE THE CAMERA SHAKES A LITTLE BIT, AND ALL OF A SUDDEN, THE GLASS EXPLODES OUTWARDS INTO THE RECEPTION AREA.
[ GLASS SHATTERS .]
WHEN THE GLASS EXPLODES, THERE'S ABSOLUTELY NOTHING THERE AT ALL.
Machin: WE STOOD AT THE VIDEO FOR QUITE SOME TIME TO MAKE SURE NOTHING PHYSICAL HAD BEEN THROWN THROUGH THE GLASS.
Clifford: WHAT COULD HAVE POSSIBLY CAUSED THAT? IT'S GOT TO BE SOMETHING -- SOME KIND OF FORCE -- A BRICK OR A HAMMER.
Machin: ALL WE SAW WAS THE GLASS SHATTERING AND COVERING THE DESK AREA.
Clifford: THERE'S JUST NOTHING TO EXPLAIN HOW THAT WINDOW EXPLODED OUT.
Machin: IT WAS LIKE SOMEONE HAD PHYSICALLY GONE BEHIND THE GLASS AND PUNCHED IT.
IT WAS OVER EITHER FRUSTRATION OR ANGER OR SOMETHING, BUT I BELIEVE IT'S PROBABLY HENRY WHAT'S CAUSED THAT, AS WELL.
Clifford: AFTER LOOKING BACK IN ON THE INVESTIGATIONS AND EVIDENCE FROM THE COMMUNITY CENTER, I DON'T BELIEVE THAT HENRY'S A PARTICULARLY EVIL SPIRIT.
HE'S JUST AN OLD FARMER THAT HAS HUNG AROUND.
I DON'T THINK HE'S HAPPY WITH WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO HIS LAND.
Machin: THE PEOPLE WHO WORK AT THE COMMUNITY CENTER NOW ARE NOT AS FRIGHTENED ABOU THE SPIRIT OF HENRY BEING THERE.
Clifford: BUT HE HAS GO THE POTENTIAL TO BE ANGRY WHEN HE NEEDS TO BE IF HE DOESN'T LIKE SOMETHING THAT'S GOING ON.
Machin: BUT I THINK A PERSON WHO IS A SKEPTIC SHOULD COME ALONG TO ONE OF OUR INVESTIGATIONS AND WITNESS IT FOR THEMSELVES, AND THEN I BELIEVE IT WOULD CHANGE THEIR MIND FOREVER.
Douglas: RIGHT OFF, YOU FEL SOME TYPE OF PRESENCE.
WHEN SHE SAID MY NAME, I WAS IN SHOCK.
I WAS JUST DUMBSTRUCK.
I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO SAY OR WHAT TO THINK.
I FELT AN OVERWHELMING SENSE OF BEING AFRAID.
Douglas: RIGHT OFF, YOU FEL SOME TYPE OF PRESENCE.
WHEN SHE SAID MY NAME, I FELT AN OVERWHELMING SENSE OF BEING AFRAID.
MY GHOST STORY BEGAN WHEN I VISITED THE HOME OF JOHN JOHNSTON IN SAULT STE MARIE, MICHIGAN.
THE JOHN JOHNSTON HOUSE WAS BUILT BY JOHN JOHNSTON IN 1793.
HE MARRIED AN INDIAN PRINCESS, AND HE WAS A SUCCESSFUL AND WEALTHY FUR TRADER UNTIL HE DECIDED TO HELP THE BRITISH AT FORT MACKINAC, AND THE AMERICANS RETALIATED AND BURNED HIS HOUSE TO THE GROUND.
HE REBUILT IN 1814, AND THE HOUSE THAT'S STANDING TODAY IS RUMORED TO HAVE LIGHTS FLASHING ON AND OFF AND WEIRD SOUNDS AND NOISES COMING FROM IT.
I'M INTERESTED IN THE HISTORY PRIMARILY BECAUSE OF MOLLY JOHNSTON.
MOLLY JOHNSTON IS JOHN JOHNSTON'S GRANDDAUGHTER.
I HAVE A DEEP INTEREST IN MOLLY BECAUSE I'VE BEEN TO HER GRAVE SITE ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS.
WE REALIZED THAT WE WERE SHORT A TEAM MEMBER FOR THE INVESTIGATION OF THE JOHN JOHNSTON HOUSE, SO WE ASKED CHARLIE ROGERS TO JOIN US.
Rogers: I WAS CURIOUS ABOUT WHAT THEY DID, SO I WENT ALONG WITH IT.
I'M A FORMER U.
S.
MARINE.
I WAS A MILITARY POLICE OFFICER.
I COULD PROBABLY HANDLE A FEW SITUATIONS.
Douglas: WE WALKED INTO THE HOUSE, AND RIGHT OFF, YOU FEL SOME TYPE OF PRESENCE.
THE AIR WAS PRETTY STUFFY IN THERE, AND IT'S LIKE STEPPING BACK IN TIME TO THE LATE 1700s, EARLY 1800s.
WOODEN FLOORS.
THE WALLS WERE PLASTERED AND BROKEN.
IT WAS SORT OF OVERWHELMING.
Rogers: I DIDN'T HAVE A LO OF FEAR IN WHAT I WAS GONNA DO BECAUSE I HAD NEVER DONE I BEFORE, SO I DIDN'T KNOW REALLY WHAT WAS GONNA HAPPEN.
I WAS SO NAIVE.
Douglas: THE TEAM STARTED THE INVESTIGATION BY ENTERING INTO THE LIVING ROOM.
WE BROUGHT VIDEO RECORDERS, AN ELECTROMAGNETIC FREQUENCY DEVICE, AND ALSO AN OVILUS.
Rogers: I HAD SOME RECORDING EQUIPMENT WITH ME.
THEN I SEEN THIS ROCKING CHAIR, AND I SEEN A PICTURE OF MOLLY.
AND I LOOKED AT THE CHAIR, AND I JUST STARTED TO ROCK THE CHAIR A LITTLE BIT, AND I STARTED TO SAY, "HEY, MOLLY, IS THIS YOUR CHAIR?" Douglas: AT THAT POINT, YOU COULD FEEL A COLD BREEZE, AND THE TEMPERATURE HAD DROPPED FIVE DEGREES ON ONE OF THE SENSORS, AND WE FEL JUST A PRESENCE THERE, AS IS YOU WERE BEING WATCHED OR SOMETHING RIGHT UP AGAINST YOU.
IT'S LIKE YOUR WHOLE BODY WAS GOING NUMB.
Rogers: IT SAID, "ANTHONY.
" Douglas: WHEN SHE SAID MY NAME, I WAS IN SHOCK.
I WAS JUST DUMBSTRUCK.
I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO SAY OR WHAT TO THINK, EVEN.
THAT REALLY SURPRISED ME.
Rogers: AND I TOLD ANTHONY.
I SAYS, "WELL, THEY KNOW YOU'RE HERE.
" SO, THAT WAS PRETTY MUCH A BIG SURPRISE.
THEN I KEPT ON ASKING QUESTIONS AND STUFF.
Douglas: THE SPIRI SPOKE THROUGH THE OVILUS AND SAID, "VIDEO," AND WE KNEW THEY WERE CURIOUS ABOUT WHAT WE WERE DOING THERE, SO WE ASSURED THEM THA WE WEREN'T THERE TO HARM THEM, BUT IT WAS VERY EERIE AND SCARY AT THE SAME TIME BECAUSE I DIDN'T EXPEC TO HEAR ANY SPIRIT SPEAK TO ME, ESPECIALLY DIRECTLY.
WE KEPT MOVING FROM ROOM TO ROOM.
I FELT AN OVERWHELMING SENSE OF JUST BEING AFRAID.
I MEAN, I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT WAS GONNA HAPPEN NEXT.
WE STARTED ASKING THE SPIRI SOME QUESTIONS.
DURING THE WAR OF 1812, JOHN JOHNSTON HAD LOST HIS HOME, AND ONE OF THE INVESTIGATORS ASKED IF HE WAS UPSE ABOUT LOSING EVERYTHING.
WE HEARD A SOBBING NOISE, LIKE SOMEBODY WAS CRYING.
THAT WAS REALLY DISTRESSING BECAUSE IT'S SOMETHING YOU DIDN'T EXPECT TO HEAR.
IT MADE ME FEEL SORRY FOR THEM, AND IT WAS VERY FRIGHTENING.
WE CONTINUED TO WALK THROUGH THE HOUSE, AND CHARLIE HAD ACTUALLY SAID THAT HE WAS FEELING SOME PRESSURE.
Rogers: AS I CAME INTO THIS ROOM WITH A BED, AND I WENT BY JUST THE BED JUST A LITTLE BIT, AND ALL OF A SUDDEN, I GOT A CHILL.
MY HAIR STARTS STANDING UP ON MY NECK.
I WAS TRYING TO FIGURE OU WHAT WAS GOING ON.
I SAID, "WELL, THIS MUST BE IT.
THERE MUST BE SOMETHING HERE.
" Douglas: THE NEXT THING I KNOW, I SEEN HIS HEAD WENT BACK, AND I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT WAS GOING ON.
WE WERE RECORDING, AND LATER ON, WE LOOKED BACK AT THE VIDEO, AND WE HAD SEEN ORBS OF LIGH DARTING ALL OVER.
YOU COULD SEE THE ORBS FLYING AROUND, AND FLEW RIGHT INTO HIS FACE, AND THEN IT SHOT BACK OFF.
THAT MADE ME REALLY A BELIEVER, BECAUSE I WAS SKEPTICAL.
BUT THEN, WHEN I SEEN CHARLIE JUMP BACK, AND HE COULDN'T SEE THE ORBS, BUT IN THE VIDEO, IT WAS CLEAR THAT HE WAS DODGING IT.
Rogers: I MUST HAVE GO SOMEBODY'S ATTENTION HERE.
I COULDN'T BELIEVE IT.
I STARTED TRYING TO ASK OF THE SPIRIT, LIKE, "WHO ARE YOU?" YOU KNOW, "ARE YOU MR.
JOHNSTON? "ARE YOU ONE OF THE FAMILY MEMBERS? ARE YOU ONE OF THE CHILDREN?" Douglas: IT SOUNDED LIKE A PIG SNORT AND WAS DISTURBING.
IT WAS REALLY LOW, AND IT WAS SCARY.
Rogers: YOU HAVE THE PIG-SNORT STUFF, WHICH COULD POTENTIALLY BE AN EVIL OR A DEMON, WHICH WE CERTAINLY DON'T WAN NOTHING TO DO WITH THEM.
Douglas: AFTER THAT, WE SHUT IT DOWN.
Rogers: I WAS EXTREMELY RELIEVED WHEN IT WAS TIME TO GO HOME, 'CAUSE IT WAS MY FIRST EXPERIENCE IN ANYTHING LIKE THIS.
IT WAS NICE TO GO HOME AND GO BACK TO MY ROOM AND HIDE AWAY FOR A WHILE.
IT'S OPENED MY EYES UP QUITE A BIT.
I MEAN, I'VE NEVER EXPERIENCED ANYTHING LIKE THA IN MY ENTIRE LIFE.
IT'S KIND OF INTERESTING THAT YOU ACTUALLY SENSE THERE ARE SPIRITS THERE.
Douglas: SINCE THE EXPERIENCE, I AM A BELIEVER IN THE PARANORMAL.
I BELIEVE THAT THERE ARE SPIRITS THERE, AND THEY WANT TO CONTACT US.
Rogers: MY TRAINING IN THE MARINES -- FOR SOMETHING LIKE THIS, I DON'T THINK ANY TRAINING COULD HELP YOU WITH THIS, BECAUSE IT'S A WHOLE DIFFERENT WORLD ALTOGETHER.
I'VE SEEN A LOT OF THINGS GO DOWN, BUT WHAT I SAW HAPPEN AT THE JOHNSON HOUSE THAT NIGH WILL STAY WITH ME FOREVER.
IT COMES ACROSS ME, AND IT GOES TO THE OTHER ROOM.
Shea: IT ACTUALLY HAD TO MANEUVER UNDER JIM'S ARM.
Zwitter: I WAS SHOCKED.
Douglas: WE HAD SEEN ORBS OF LIGHT DARTING ALL OVER, AND THEN WE FELT A PRESENCE.
AFTER THAT, SHE SAID MY NAME.
IT'S LIKE YOUR WHOLE BODY WAS GOING NUMB.
Hess: THEY WERE LETTING US KNOW THEY WERE THERE.
AND I GOT ORBED.
Clifford: ALL OF A SUDDEN, THE GLASS EXPLODES.
[ GLASS SHATTERS .]
AND THEN I FEL THAT SPIRIT SLAP ME.
OW-YA! AND THEN THE NEXT MINUTE, WE HEARD THIS SLAMMING DOOR.
I WAS TERRIFIED.
Maggard: I SEE THIS SHADOW.
I WAS LIKE, "WAIT.
WHAT DID I JUST SEE?" THEN I SEEN IT COME BACK.
I WAS LIKE, "NO WAY, MAN.
NO WAY.
" Shields: I COULD NOT BELIEVE MY EYES.
Maggard: THERE IS MULTIPLE ENTITIES IN THIS BUILDING.
THAT JUST FREAKED US OUT.
MY GHOST STORY BEGAN AT SHIMMERS TAVERN IN FORT WRIGHT, KENTUCKY.
WHEN I MOVED TO FORT WRIGHT, I STARTED HEARING ABOUT A HAUNTED TAVERN CALLED SHIMMERS.
PEOPLE WERE SAYING THEY WERE GETTING THEIR HAIR PULLED, THINGS MOVING, AND IT'S FAMOUS FOR A SHADOW FIGURE WALKING BACK AND FORTH CONSTANTLY.
ALL THAT JUST PUSHED ME FORWARD TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THIS LOCATION.
SO I GOT MY CREW OF PARANORMAL INVESTIGATORS, AND WE STARTED TO CHECK THIS PLACE OUT.
AS SOON AS YOU WALK IN THROUGH THE FRONT DOORS, IT PULLS YOU IN.
YOU GE THAT OVER-THE-SHOULDER FEELING.
Shields: I'VE BEEN WITH CHRIS' TEAM FOR TWO YEARS.
WHEN WE ARRIVED AT SHIMMERS, IT'S AN OLDER BUILDING.
YOU CAN TELL THA THERE'S A LOT OF HISTORY THERE.
Maggard: WITH SHIMMERS, I STARTED STUDYING THE TRI-STATE AREA.
THE CRAZY THING ABOUT THE TRI-STATE AREA, IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE THE ORIGINAL VEGAS BEFORE BUGSY SIEGEL GOT PUSHED OUT AND STARTED VEGAS IN NEVADA.
BUT THE MOB RAN THIS BIG GAMBLING CIRCUIT IN KENTUCKY, AND THEY ALL RAN TOGETHER.
BOBBY MACKEY'S USED TO BE CALLED LATIN QUARTERS.
IT WAS RIGHT UP THE ROAD.
AND THEN DICK SCHILLING OWNED THE BEVERLY HILLS SUPPER CLUB, LOOKOUT HOUSE, AND SHIMMERS, WHICH, BACK THEN, WAS CALLED SCHILLING'S.
BESIDES THE GAMBLING, THEY HAD A "MASSAGE" PARLOR, WOMEN, PROSTITUTION, CATERING TO THE MEN THAT WERE GAMBLING.
Shields: BEVERLY HILLS SUPPER CLUB HAD A TRAGIC FIRE.
Maggard: THE DOORS WERE LOCKED.
PEOPLE WERE TRAPPED, PILING ON TOP OF EACH OTHER, SCRATCHING AT THE WALLS.
165 PEOPLE DIED INSIDE.
Shields: THEY SAY IT WAS AN ELECTRICAL FIRE.
Maggard: IT'S STILL VERY CONTROVERSIAL TODAY.
THEY'RE STILL INVESTIGATING IT.
AT SHIMMERS, THERE'S THIS LADY NAMED BRENDA, AND SHE HAS WITNESSED SO MANY DIFFERENT THINGS HAPPEN THERE THROUGH THE YEARS, LIKE THESE TWO GUYS, LUCKY AND RUSTY.
THEY USED TO GAMBLE THERE.
THEY WERE KIND OF SHADY CHARACTERS.
SOMETIMES THEY OWED A LO OF MONEY TO A LOT OF PEOPLE.
SHE KNEW THEM, AND SHE REMEMBERS A TIME WHEN THEY WENT DOWNSTAIRS, AND THEY NEVER CAME BACK UP.
Shields: RUMOR HAS I THAT THEY'RE BURIED IN THE WALL DOWN THERE.
WHEN YOU OPEN THAT DOOR TO GO TO THE BASEMENT, YOU'RE WALKING BACK INTO TIME.
IT'S CREEPY.
Maggard: YOU LOOK DOWN THERE, AND YOU'RE JUST THINKING, "MY GOD.
"THOSE TWO GUYS, LUCKY AND RUSTY, WENT THERE AND NEVER CAME BACK UP.
" BUT THE CREEP FACTOR ESCALATES AS SOON AS YOU HI THAT BASEMENT.
IT HAS THAT VERY DARK, DUNGEONOUS FEELING TO IT, AND THERE'S ALL THESE LITTLE ROOMS WITH SHOWERS AND GAMBLING ROOMS AND LOCKER ROOMS, AND IT'S JUST -- IT'S WILD.
Shields: WE WERE DOWN THERE INVESTIGATING.
WE SET UP OUR CAMERAS.
CHRIS DECIDED TO LEAVE A RECORDER DOWNSTAIRS.
IF THERE'S SOMETHING DOWN IN THE BASEMENT, WE COULD BE SCARING IT, SO WE WENT UPSTAIRS, AND THAT'S WHEN THE RECORDER CAPTURED THE LOCKER.
Maggard: YOU ACTUALLY HEAR ONE OF THE LOCKER'S DOORS OPEN AND CLOSE.
AND THERE WAS NO ONE DOWN THERE.
PATRICK WAS LOOKING FOR RATS -- ANYTHING -- JUST TRYING TO RATIONALIZE IT.
NOTHING.
NO SIGNS OF ANY ANIMALS.
THESE ARE OLD LOCKERS.
THESE HANDLES ARE RUSTY.
I'M JUST THINKING, "HOW CAN SOMETHING THAT WE DON'T SEE HAVE THAT MUCH STRENGTH TO GRAB THIS AND MOVE IT?" THEN I STARTED THINKING THA SOMETHING COULD COME AFTER ME OR GO EVEN FURTHER AND TOUGH ME PHYSICALLY, AND SO IT FREAKED ME OU A LITTLE BIT.
THE KITCHEN'S BEEN SHUT DOWN FOR A COUPLE HOURS.
EVERYTHING'S COOLED OFF.
MY CREW MEMBER RICK HAD A THERMAL CAMERA.
PAT WAS ACTUALLY VIDEOTAPING RICK, SCANNING THE ROOM, AND OUT OF NOWHERE, YOU SEE THESE BLUE FLAMES COMING UP.
Shields: WE WERE SHOCKED.
WITHOUT THERE BEING A FIRE THERE, YOU CAN'T REALLY CATCH THAT.
IF IT WAS A REAL FIRE, THE THERMAL WOULD SHOW BRIGHT RED.
IT WOULD SHOW IT WOULD BE HOT, BUT IT'S SHOWING IT COLD.
Maggard: AND IT DISSIPATED.
NOW, THE FUNNY THING WITH THA IS SCHILLING'S, THE KITCHEN CAUGHT ON FIRE BASICALLY IN THE SAME AREA.
YOU KNOW, WHEN I SEEN THESE GHOST FLAMES, THE FIRST THING IN MY HEAD WAS LIKE, "THIS IS NOT HAPPENING.
I AM NOT SEEING THIS.
" AND AFTER WE STARTED PUTTING ALL THE PIECES TOGETHER WITH THE HISTORY OF THE FIRE THERE, I'M BLOWN AWAY.
Shields: LATER ON THAT NIGHT, WE WENT INTO THE BAR AREA, TRYING TO BRING OU THE GENTLEMAN THAT PEOPLE HAVE BEEN SEEING THERE.
THAT AREA OF THE BAR IS EXTREMELY ACTIVE.
Maggard: I WAS HOLDING MY CAMERA, RECORDING MY CREW, AND WE HAD A GUEST INVESTIGATOR COME ALONG WITH US.
I'M LOOKING THROUGH THE VIEWFINDER ON MY CAMERA, AND I SEE THIS SHADOW RUN LEFT TO RIGH FROM ONE SIDE OF THE BAR TO THE OTHER SIDE.
Shields: THE SHADOW FIGURE AT SHIMMERS IS PROBABLY ONE OF THE BES PIECES OF VISUAL EVIDENCE THAT WE'VE EVER CAPTURED.
Maggard: WHEN I FIRST SEEN I RUN FROM LEFT TO RIGHT, I WAS LIKE, "WAIT.
WHAT DID I JUST SEE?" THEN I SEEN IT COME BACK, RIGHT TO LEFT.
I WAS LIKE, "OH, MY GOD.
" OH.
AND THEN THE GUEST INVESTIGATOR GOT TOUCHED.
I WAS LIKE, "NO WAY, MAN.
NO WAY.
" Shields: WHEN IT MOVED THE SECOND TIME, SHE REACTED IMMEDIATELY.
THAT ALMOST BRINGS MORE VALIDITY TO WHAT YOU JUST CAPTURED.
WE COULD NOT RE-CREATE IT.
IN THE SAME AREA WHERE THE SHADOW FIGURE WAS CAPTURED, WE ALSO SET UP ANOTHER CAMERA.
Maggard: REPORTEDLY, ALSO, IF YOU SET SOME MONEY OU AT THIS ONE TABLE, IT WILL BE GRABBED BY THIS ENTITY.
MY CREW MEMBER RICK AND PA HAD A $10 BILL, AND WITHIN SECONDS OF PUTTING THE MONEY DOWN, SAYING, "IF YOU WANT THIS, TAKE IT," BOOM.
Shields: I COULD NOT BELIEVE MY EYES.
THE MONEY ALMOST DID A 180.
Maggard: IT WAS JUST, LIKE, THE "OH, MY GOD" MOMENT, YOU KNOW.
LIKE, "WHAT?" AND YOU CAN EVEN SEE THEIR HANDS IN THE VIDEO GO, "REALLY?" WE TRIED, FOR THE NEXT HOUR, TRIED TO RE-CREATE THIS.
NOTHING.
Shields: WE COULD NOT GET THE MONEY TO TURN AT ALL.
Maggard: RIGHT BY WHERE THE SHADOW FIGURE RUNS ALL THE TIME, THERE'S A CAFé ROOM.
Shields: PEOPLE HAVE REPORTED HEARING A WOMAN IN THE CAFé ROOM.
Maggard: WE SET UP AN AUDIO SESSION THERE WITH A CAMERA.
WE STARTED ASKING QUESTIONS, AND THAT'S WHEN WE CAPTURED THIS WOMAN SAYING, "WILL YOU PLEASE HELP ME?" THAT JUST FREAKED US OUT.
Shields: SHE'S REACHING OUT, TRYING TO GET SOME HELP.
I BELIEVE THE WOMAN IN THE CAFé ROOM IS TIED TO THE MOB DAYS IN THE BASEMENT.
Maggard: THESE WOMEN GOT BEA FOR NOT DOING WHAT THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO DO CORRECTLY, SO WE'RE THINKING POSSIBLY IT'S ONE OF THEM.
AFTER EXPERIENCING THE SHADOW FIGURES, SEEING THESE GHOST FLAMES, WATCHING THE MONEY BE TAKEN BY SOMETHING WE DON'T KNOW, I BELIEVE THERE IS MULTIPLE ENTITIES IN THIS BUILDING THAT ARE TRYING TO GE THEIR STORY OUT TO US.
Shields: WE DON'T KNOW WHAT WE'RE DEALING WITH IN THE SUPERNATURAL.
THERE'S A LOT OF TRAUMA ATTACHED TO SHIMMERS.
THERE'S A LOT OF THINGS THAT COULD HAVE BEEN COVERED UP BY THE MOB THAT NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW, AND THESE SPIRITS ARE REACHING OUT.
Maggard: I WANT TO CONTINUE TO FIND OUT WHAT'S GOING ON 'CAUSE THERE'S PEOPLE THAT ARE STILL LIVING IN THIS AREA THAT WANT TO KNOW, "IS MY FAMILY THERE?" THEY WANT TO KNOW IF THEIR RELATIVES ARE STILL THERE, REACHING OUT.
AND IT SCARES PEOPLE.
IT GENUINELY SCARES PEOPLE, 'CAUSE THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON.
I WANT TO CONTINUE GOING HERE UNTIL THE STORY IS TOLD COMPLETELY.
Hess: MY LEG WAS GRABBED.
THE K-II STARTED TO GO HAYWIRE.
[ BEEPING .]
I STARTED TO GET PRETTY SCARED.
MY HEART JUST DROPPED.
Hess: MY LEG WAS GRABBED.
THE K-II STARTED TO GO HAYWIRE.
[ BEEPING .]
I STARTED TO GET PRETTY SCARED.
Hess: MY GHOST STORY BEGAN WHEN I BECAME FASCINATED WITH A YOUNG GIRL WHO DIED IN 1862.
THE RENSSELAER RUSSELL HOUSE MUSEUM IS IN WATERLOO, IOWA.
IT WAS BUILT IN 1858.
IT WAS ONE OF THE MOST PROMINEN HOMES IN WATERLOO AT THE TIME.
RICH IN HISTORY AND REALLY AMAZING HOME.
THE RUSSELL FAMILY LIVED THERE STARTING IN 1861.
RENSSELAER RUSSELL -- HE WAS IN BANKING AND REAL ESTATE, AND HE OWNED INTERES IN DRY GOODS STORES.
HE HAD A WIFE, CAROLINE, AND THEIR DAUGHTER, GENEVIEVE.
IN 1862, GENEVIEVE RUSSELL FELL DOWN A CISTERN, WHICH IS A RAINWATER WELL.
SHE WAS WALKING HOME FROM A FRIEND'S HOUSE, WAS FOUND IN A CISTERN, AND SHE HAD DROWNED.
MY FIRST EXPERIENCE AT THE HOUSE, I WAS GETTING A TOUR FROM ONE OF MY FRIENDS, AND WE WERE LOOKING AT THE FUNERAL PHOTOGRAPH OF GENEVIEVE.
GENEVIEVE PASSED AWAY AT THE AGE OF 5.
I LOOKED AT CHELSEA, AND I SAID, "WHAT HAPPENED TO THIS LITTLE GIRL?" AND THE MOMEN THAT WE STARTED TALKING ABOUT HER DEATH MY LEG WAS GRABBED ON THE BACK OF MY CALF.
I FELT THAT WAS GENEVIEVE TELLING ME, "THIS IS ME.
I'M HERE.
YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT MY DEATH.
" AFTER THAT, I DECIDED TO DO TWO THINGS -- GET A JOB AT THE HOUSE AND LAUNCH A PARANORMAL INVESTIGATION.
MARK LEHMAN -- HE IS THE FOUNDER OF 319 PARANORMAL.
Lehman: YOU WALK INTO THIS BEAUTIFUL VICTORIAN HOME THAT STILL HAS VICTORIAN PIECES.
IT HAS FAMILY PIECES IN IT.
RENSSELAER'S SAFE IS SITTING IN THE PARLOR.
YOU GO IN THERE, AND YOU'RE IN AWE OF ALL THIS STUFF.
Hess: ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS THE TEAM DID THAT NIGH WAS GO INTO THE PARLOR AND TRY TO CONTACT OTHER SPIRITS THAT THEY THOUGH COULD BE IN THE HOME.
THEY WANTED TO TRY AND CONTAC THE GRANDFATHER OF GENEVIEVE RUSSELL.
ONE OF THE INVESTIGATORS CAME OVER THE WALKIE AND ASKED, "WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE GRANDPA?" ONE OF THE OTHER INVESTIGATORS CAME BACK AND SAID, "WILLIAM.
" HE SAID, "OKAY.
WHAT IS THE LAST NAME?" THE MINUTE HE SAID "RICHARDS" OVER THE WALKIE, A PIANO NOTE PLAYED.
WHEN I HEARD THIS PIANO NOTE, MY HEART JUST DROPPED.
Lehman: TO ME, THAT WAS LIKE, "HEY, YOU'RE RIGHT.
" YOU KNOW, KIND OF LIKE A BUZZER ON A GAME SHOW.
Hess: LATER ON THAT EVENING, SOME OF THE INVESTIGATORS DECIDED TO GO INTO THE BASEMENT, AND THEY SET UP AUDIO RECORDERS, AND THEY STARTED TO TRY AND CONTACT GENEVIEVE DIRECTLY.
THEY STARTED ASKING HER ABOU HER DEATH AND WHAT HAPPENED.
THEY GOT AN EVP SAYING, "JUST DON'T SPEAK IT.
" VICTORIAN CHILDREN WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE HEARD.
THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO BE SEEN.
SHE WAS TELLING THEM, "DO NOT ASK ME ANY MORE ABOUT THIS BECAUSE I CAN'T TELL YOU ABOUT IT.
" Lehman: THIS WASN'T EVEN LIKE A SOFT WHISPER.
IT SOUNDED LIKE A CHILD'S VOICE SAYING IT.
Hess: IT MADE ME SAD BECAUSE I THINK BEING A CHILD AND DYING SO YOUNG, SHE DOESN'T KNOW WHERE TO GO.
LATER ON, WE DECIDED TO GO BACK INTO THE PARLOR AND TRY A FLASHLIGHT EXPERIMENT.
WE SET UP A FLASHLIGH ON TOP OF THE PIANO.
Lehman: A SPIRIT CAN MANIPULATE THE ENERGY AROUND THE FLASHLIGH TO MAKE IT COME ON AND OFF AS THEY WISH.
Hess: ONE OF THE INVESTIGATORS ASKED, "DO YOU WANT TO SPEAK TO KATIE -- THIS GIRL BACK HERE?" AND THE FLASHLIGHT COMES ON.
MY HEART JUST KIND OF DROPPED.
I DIDN'T KNOW IF I WANTED TO TALK DIRECTLY 'CAUSE I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT I WANTED TO ASK.
IT MADE ME KNOW I WAS WELCOME IN THE HOME, AND I DIDN'T REALLY HAVE ANYTHING TO BE SCARED OF.
AFTER THE FIRST INVESTIGATION, THE HOUSE KIND OF JUST FLIPPED UPSIDE DOWN.
DRAWERS WERE OPEN ON DRESSERS, ON CABINETS, ON THE OVEN DOOR IN THE KITCHEN.
EVERYTHING AND ANYTHING HAD BEEN OPENED IN THAT HOUSE.
I WAS GIVING A TOUR ONE DAY, WAS SNAPPING A FEW PICTURES.
[ CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING .]
WHAT I GOT WAS ORBED.
ONE OF THEM IS RIGHT NEX TO CAROLINE'S PICTURE, AND THE OTHER ONE IS GOING UP THE SERVANT'S STARS.
THE SPIRITS KNEW PEOPLE WERE LOOKING FOR THEM, AND THEY WERE LETTING US KNOW THEY WERE THERE.
AFTER THAT, WE DECIDED TO DO ANOTHER INVESTIGATION.
WE DECIDED TO SET UP SOME AUDIO RECORDERS.
WE WERE UPSTAIRS IN THE DAUGHTER'S BEDROOM.
I ASKED THE SPIRIT OF CAROLINE, "CAROLINE, IS THAT YOU?" WE CAUGHT AN EVP, AND IT SAYS, "HELLO.
" I WAS LIKE, "OH, MY GOODNESS.
"THIS IS THE SPIRI OF CAROLINE RUSSELL.
"THIS IS GENEVIEVE'S MOTHER, LETTING US KNOW THAT SHE IS THERE.
" Lehman: AFTER THAT, WE DECIDED KATIE SHOULD DO AN ISOLATION SESSION.
Hess: THAT IS ME GOING UP INTO THE MASTER BEDROOM ALL BY MYSELF JUST TRYING TO SEE WHAT KIND OF ACTIVITY I CAN STIR UP.
I HAD A VIDEO CAMERA, A K-II METER, AND AN AUDIO RECORDER.
Lehman: WE WERE IN ANOTHER ROOM COMPLETELY, DOWNSTAIRS, AWAY FROM HER, MONITORING IT.
Hess: I STARTED HEARING NOISES BETWEEN THE MASTER BEDROOM AND THE DAUGHTER'S BEDROOM.
WHATEVER SPIRIT WAS THERE WAS STARTING TO PLAY WITH ME.
SOMETHING ELSE WAS STARTING TO COME INTO THE ROOM.
Lehman: YOU COULD TELL SHE WAS STARTING TO GET PRETTY EDGY.
Hess: THE ROOM STARTED TO GET HEAVIER AND DARKER, AND I STARTED TO GE PRETTY SCARED.
Lehman: WE WERE PRETTY TENSE IN THE CONTROL ROOM.
Hess: I FELT SOMETHING TUG ON MY EAR, AND MY EAR BECAME REALLY, REALLY HOT.
I WANTED MARK TO SEE IT, SO I TURNED THE CAMERA AROUND TO SHOW MY EAR AND JUST TO VALIDATE IT.
THE K-II STARTED TO GO HAYWIRE.
[ BEEPING .]
THE TEMPERATURE STARTED TO CHANGE IN THE ROOM.
AT THAT POINT, I KNEW I NEEDED TO GET OUT.
WE DECIDED TO END THE INVESTIGATION FOR THE NIGHT.
WE WALKED THROUGH THE KITCHEN, AND WE HEAR, WITH OUR OWN EARS, A CHILD LAUGHING.
Lehman: THAT IS A SPIRIT TELLING US, "HA HA, WE WANTED YOU TO LEAVE.
WE GOT YOU TO LEAVE.
" AFTER VISITING THE RUSSELL HOUSE, THERE IS NO DOUBT IN MY MIND THAT THE PARANORMAL EXISTS.
THERE ARE SPIRITS OUT THERE, AND THEY WANT TO COMMUNICATE.
Hess: THE SPIRIT OF CAROLINE, THE SPIRIT OF GENEVIEVE, AND THE SPIRIT OF RENSSELAER ARE STILL THERE.
Lehman: I KNOW FOR SURE THAT THE SPIRIT OF GENEVIEVE HAS A SPECIAL PLACE FOR KATIE.
SHE WANTS TO COMMUNICATE WITH KATIE, AND SHE LIKES TO SHOW OFF FOR KATIE.
THERE ARE TIMES STILL IN THE HOME, WHEN I'M WORKING, THAT I DO GET NERVOUS, BUT I'M NOT SCARED BECAUSE I KNOW THAT THE SPIRITS OF THE HOME DON'T MIND THAT I'M THERE.
IT'S A WELCOMING HOME.
Zwitter: YOU SEE THIS ORB.
IT COMES ACROSS ME, AND IT GOES TO THE OTHER ROOM.
WE STARTED TAKING EVPs ALL OVER THE HOUSE.
WE PICKED UP CHILDREN TALKING.
WHEN I WALKED UPSTAIRS, I HEARD THE EVP OF A LITTLE CHILD SAY, "HELP ME.
" Shea: THAT INDICATES A CHILD IN TROUBLE.
Zwitter: YOU SEE THIS ORB.
IT COMES ACROSS ME, AND IT GOES TO THE OTHER ROOM.
WHEN I WALKED UPSTAIRS, I HEARD THE EVP OF A LITTLE CHILD SAY, "HELP ME.
" Shea: MY GHOST STORY BEGAN WHEN I MOVED INTO MY HOME OUTSIDE OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.
WHEN WE FIRST MOVED INTO THE HOUSE, IT WAS WHAT YOU COULD CALL IN POLITE CIRCLES A FIXER-UPPER.
IT JUST NEEDED SOME COSMETIC SURGERY.
WE WERE REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO MOVING IN AND GETTING STARTED ON IT.
WHEN WE STARTED WORKING ON THE HOUSE, THERE WAS A SCENT, WHICH INITIALLY, I ATTRIBUTED TO SOMETHING THAT WAS EMANATING FROM THE WOOD.
IT WAS A PERFUME, BUT NOT A MODERN PERFUME, AND THAT KEPT HAPPENING OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN, ROOM TO ROOM TO ROOM.
THE HOUSE WAS BUILT IN 1904.
IT'S ON THE HISTORIC REGISTER, BUT I STARTED TO DO MY OWN RESEARCH TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE OWNERS OF THE HOME, BECAUSE IT WAS OBVIOUS AT THAT POIN THAT WE WERE NOT ALONE IN THE HOUSE.
I WENT TO THE REGISTER OF DEEDS AND TRACED BACK THROUGH THE RECORDS AND FOUND OUT THAT, IN FACT, THE BUILDER HAD MOVED THERE, AFTER HE RETIRED FROM FARMING, WITH HIS YOUNGEST DAUGHTER.
AND THE PERFUME SMELLED LIKE A YOUNG WOMAN'S PERFUME.
SHE WAS, AT THAT POINT, THE ONLY YOUNG WOMAN THAT WE KNEW THAT HAD LIVED IN THE HOME, SO IT JUST SEEMED LOGICAL.
OTHER TYPES OF THINGS HAVE VARIED THROUGHOUT THE YEARS.
WE MAY HAVE LIGHT BULBS THAT FLICKER.
THINGS MIGHT MOVE.
APPLIANCES WOULD TURN ON BY THEMSELVES.
OUR GAS STOVE.
I REALLY COULDN'T BELIEVE IT.
ONE NIGHT, I WAS SITTING ON THE BED, READING WITH MY BOOK IN MY LAP, AND OUT OF THE TOP OF MY VISION, I SAW WHAT APPEARED TO BE THE TRAIN OF A LONG DRESS GO INTO THE BEDROOM THAT'S AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS.
I GOT OUT OF BED AND WEN AND LOOKED IN THE ROOM.
EVEN THOUGH I KNEW THAT IT DIDN'T MAKE SENSE THAT I WAS SEEING WHAT I HAD JUST SEEN, I NEEDED TO CONVINCE MYSELF THAT SOMEONE HADN'T JUST WALKED INTO THAT BEDROOM.
OF COURSE, THERE WAS NOBODY IN THERE.
IT CAN BE STARTLING.
WE HAD HAD ENOUGH HAPPENING IN THE HOUSE THAT WHEN A FRIEND OF MINE JOINED A PARANORMAL GROUP, I WAS REALLY INTERESTED TO HAVE THEM COME OUT AND RESEARCH THE HOUSE.
JIM AND HIS TEAM WERE OBVIOUSLY VERY INTRIGUED BY IT.
Zwitter: A MEMBER OF OUR GROUP KNEW HER PERSONALLY AND TOLD US THE STORY OF HER HOUSE, WHERE SHE'D SEEN APPARITIONS, THINGS HAPPEN IN THE HOUSE.
Shea: I THOUGH IT MIGHT BE A GOOD WAY, SINCE OBVIOUSLY, I CAN'T SPEAK TO THEM.
Zwitter: WE WERE VERY MUCH EXCITED TO GO THERE.
THAT'S FOR SURE.
IT'S A CLASSIC VICTORIAN HOME, WHICH SOME PEOPLE ALWAYS THINK, "OH, THIS IS DEFINITELY HAUNTED.
" WE SET UP OUR DIGITAL VOICE RECORDER AND CAMERA.
Shea: WE STARTED IN THE ATTIC.
Zwitter: THE WHOLE GROUP WAS THERE.
IT WAS FOUR OF US AND HER.
Shea: AT THAT POINT, I THINK WE MAY HAVE BEEN TALKING A LITTLE BI ABOUT THE HISTORY OF THE HOUSE.
Zwitter: ALL OF A SUDDEN, WE HEARD THIS LOUD CRASH.
Shea: THERE WAS A HOLE IN THE FLOOR, WHERE WE HAD RECENTLY REMOVED A DOUBLE CHIMNEY.
MY HUSBAND HAD CUT A PIECE OF STYROFOAM TO SNUGLY FIT IN THERE THAT HAD FALLEN THROUGH THIS HOLE.
IT WAS OBVIOUS BY THE SOUND THAT A LOT OF BRICKS HAD FALLEN THROUGH.
AND YE WHEN YOU LOOKED DOWN THERE, THERE WASN'T A BRICK IN SIGHT.
THAT REALLY BLEW ME AWAY.
Zwitter: SO, WE CAME BACK IN THE EVENING AND CONDUCTED OUR SECOND HALF OF OUR INVESTIGATION.
OUR INVESTIGATOR'S STANDING THERE WITH HER ARMS UP LIKE THIS.
SHE SAYS, "I CAN'T GET IN.
" THE SCREEN DOOR WAS LOCKED.
Shea: THE NEXT THING I KNOW, I'M GETTING A TEXT MESSAGE FROM ONE OF THE TEAM MEMBERS SAYING, "WE CAN'T GE INTO THE HOUSE.
" I HAD NOT LOCKED THE SCREEN DOOR, AND I TURNED TO MY HUSBAND, AND I SAID, "DID YOU LOCK THE FRONT SCREEN DOOR?" AND HE SAID, "NO, I DIDN' EVEN TOUCH THE FRONT DOOR.
" SO WE HAD TO HAVE THEM CUT THE SCREEN.
THE ENTITIES IN THE HOUSE, THE SPIRITS, MAYBE DID NOT WANT THE TEAM THERE THAT NIGHT.
Zwitter: I WAS REALLY SURPRISED.
FIRST PLACE I WENT DOWN WAS THE BASEMENT, AND I WAS SETTING UP A BALLOON DOWN THERE IN FRON OF THE NIGHT-VISION CAMERA.
WE LIKE TO PUT SOMETHING THAT CAN BE EASILY MOVED AND SEEN ON THE CAMERA.
WHEN I WAS GOING OVER THE EVIDENCE AND LOOKING AT THE VIDEO, YOU SEE THIS ORB.
IT COMES ACROSS ME, AND IT GOES TO THE OTHER ROOM.
IT HAD A DESTINATION.
Shea: IT WAS ON A MISSION.
IT KNEW WHERE IT WANTED TO GO, AND IT ACTUALLY HAD TO MANEUVER UNDER JIM'S ARM, AND THEN HEADED STRAIGH INTO THAT BACK ROOM.
IT WAS FASCINATING.
Zwitter: EVENTUALLY, WE SAT FOR AN EVP SESSION.
KATHY HAD PICTURES OF THE BUILDER OF THE HOUSE, THE ORIGINAL OWNER.
FIRST EVP WE GOT, WE ASKED, "SAM, DID YOU BUILD THIS HOUSE?" SAM BREESE, DID YOU BUILD THIS HOUSE? Shea: IT WAS NEA TO KNOW THAT HE WAS THERE.
Zwitter: WHY ARE THEY STILL THERE? IT IS BIZARRE.
LATER THAT EVENING, KATHY TOLD US THE STORY OF HER FRIEND THAT GOT LOCKED IN THE BATHROOM.
IT'S FUNNY, 'CAUSE DEE SAYS, "WELL, I HAVE TO USE THE BATHROOM, SO I'D BETTER GET MY CELLPHONE IN CASE I GET LOCKED IN.
" AND AS SHE WALKS TOWARDS THE BATHROOM, THE EVP WE GOT WAS WHEN YOU HEAR AN EVP INTERACTING WITH YOU LIKE THAT, YOU KNOW IT'S AN INTELLIGENT SPIRIT.
Shea: I LIKE THINKING THAT OUR SPIRITS KIND OF HAD A SENSE OF HUMOR.
Zwitter: IT IS A WEIRD FEELING.
LATER THAT EVENING, WE HAD A QUIET POINT IN THE AUDIO, WHERE NOTHING WAS REALLY GOING ON.
BUT NEXT, WE PICKED UP WHA SOUNDED LIKE CHILDREN TALKING.
Shea: THEY DIDN'T SEEM UNHAPPY OR DISTRESSED, SO I THINK, AT THAT POINT, I WAS MORE FOCUSED ON TRYING TO FIND OUT WHAT THEY'RE SAYING.
I WAS AMAZED AT HOW MANY SPIRITS LIVED IN MY HOME.
Zwitter: WE STARTED TAKING EVPs ALL OVER THE HOUSE.
WHEN I WALKED UPSTAIRS, I HEARD THE EVP OF A LITTLE CHILD SAY, "HELP ME.
" THAT IS DISTURBING, ESPECIALLY IF YOU THINK IT'S A CHILD.
YOU DON'T KNOW HOW TO HELP THEM.
Shea: NOBODY WANTS TO HEAR A CHILD SAY, "HELP ME.
" THAT INDICATES A CHILD IN TROUBLE.
IT WAS CONCERNING, AND IT TUGGED AT MY HEART A LITTLE BIT.
Zwitter: I WAS SHOCKED.
AFTER FINISHING THE INVESTIGATION AND GOING THROUGH ALL THE EVIDENCE, IT KIND OF PROVED WHAT SHE HAD TOLD US ABOUT THE HOUSE.
Shea: WE ARE NOT ALONE THERE.
THERE ARE APPARENTLY A LOT MORE SOULS THERE THAN WE ORIGINALLY THOUGH THERE WERE.
THEY ARE A CONSTANT PRESENCE IN OUR LIFE, EVEN IF WE DON'T REALIZE IT.
Machin: WHEN I WALKED INTO THAT PROPERTY, IT FELT LIKE THERE WAS SOMEBODY WATCHING.
Clifford: CAN YOU GIVE US A SIGN? WHEN I LOOKED AT THE PHOTOGRAPH, IT WAS LIKE THE OUTLINE OF A PERSON.
ALL OF A SUDDEN, BANG.
OW-YA! PERHAPS I HAVE PUSHED I A LITTLE BIT TOO FAR.
Machin: IT FELT LIKE THERE WAS SOMEBODY WATCHING.
Clifford: IT WAS LIKE THE OUTLINE OF A PERSON.
ALL OF A SUDDEN, BANG.
OW-YA! PERHAPS I HAVE PUSHED I A LITTLE BIT TOO FAR.
MY GHOST STORY BEGAN WHEN I INVESTIGATED A HAUNTED COMMUNITY CENTER IN COVENTRY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM.
COVENTRY IS -- IT'S QUITE A LARGE CITY.
IT'S ABOUT A MILLION PEOPLE, POPULATION-WISE.
IT WAS FARMLAND FOR MANY, MANY YEARS, LIKE MOST PLACES IN THE U.
K.
CITIES STARTED TO EXPAND, AND THEN ALL THE FARMHOUSES WENT.
A FRIEND OF MINE CONTACTED ME AND SAID, "THERE'S BEEN ACTIVITY GOING ON IN THE COMMUNITY CENTER.
" I ARRANGED A TIME TO GO DOWN AND VISIT.
THERE'S SOME STRANGE LIGHTS BEING SEEN, COLD SPOTS.
ON ONE OCCASION, THE MANAGER WALKED INTO THE MAIN HALL, AND THE CURTAINS WERE FLAPPING.
ALL THE WINDOWS WERE CLOSED.
ALL SORTS OF LITTLE BITS AND PIECES GOING ON.
SO AFTER SPEAKING TO THE MANAGER AND CHECKING OU THE COMMUNITY CENTER, I RANG NEIL AND SAID, "THERE'S A REALLY GOOD VENUE IN COVENTRY, "AND THERE'S BEEN QUITE A LOT OF ACTIVITY HAPPENING.
I THINK IT'S A PLACE WE SHOULD GO TO TO DO AN INVESTIGATION.
" Machin: I'VE KNOWN ALAN NOW ABOUT 10 YEARS.
I MET HIM ON AN INVESTIGATION WITH ANOTHER PARANORMAL GROUP, AND WE'VE BEEN DOING INVESTIGATIONS EVER SINCE.
I'VE ALWAYS BEEN A LITTLE BIT SENSITIVE FROM WHEN I WAS VERY YOUNG.
IT SEEMS TO HAVE GO MORE ADVANCED OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS.
Clifford: SO, WHEN MYSELF AND NEIL ARRIVED AT THE COMMUNITY CENTER ON THE EVENING, WE HAD LITTLE WALK 'ROUND, AND WE DECIDED THE BEST PLACES TO SET UP THE CAMERAS AND ALL THE OTHER RECORDING EQUIPMENT.
Machin: WHEN I WALKED INTO THAT PROPERTY, IT FELT STRANGE.
IT FELT LIKE THERE WAS SOMEBODY WATCHING, AND THAT IS WHERE I PICKED UPON THE NAME OF "HENRY," SO I WROTE THAT IN MY NOTEBOOK.
Clifford: SO, THE MAIN HALL IN THE CENTER IS WHERE THE BULK OF THE ACTIVITY HAS BEEN WITNESSED.
Machin: I WAS PICKING UP ON THE ENERGY.
Clifford: BOTH MYSELF AND NEIL, WE WERE LOOKING TOWARD THE ONE END OF THE HALL, AND WE COULD SEE THIS DARK SHADOW START WALKING BACKWARDS AND FORWARDS.
Machin: YOU COULD SEE IT WAS A SHAPE OF A PERSON MOVING AROUND THE CURTAINS AND AROUND THE ROOM BY THE DOORS, AS WELL.
Clifford: SO, AFTER WE STARTED SEEING THESE SHADOW FIGURES, I STARTED TO TAKE PHOTOGRAPHS.
WHEN I LOOKED AT THE PHOTOGRAPH, THERE WAS THIS SLIGH LIGHT ANOMALY IN THE CORNER, SO WE ZOOMED INTO IT AND THOUGH IT VERY MUCH LOOKS LIKE THE OUTLINE OF A PERSON.
IT WAS JUST REALLY, REALLY AMAZING.
-I COULDN'T BELIEVE IT.
-Machin: I WAS PICKING UP ON A SPIRIT IN THE ROOM, AND I WAS 99% SURE IT WAS THE SAME SPIRI TO WHAT ALAN CAUGHT IN HIS PHOTOGRAPH.
[ CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS .]
WE DECIDED TO USE SOME AUDIO EQUIPMENT TO RECORD EVPs.
Clifford: WE ASKED QUITE A LO OF DIFFERENT QUESTIONS.
"IS THERE ANYBODY WITH US? CAN YOU GIVE US A SIGN? GIVE US SOME KIND OF REACTION TO WHY YOU'RE HERE.
" Machin: AND AS WE WAS ASKING THE QUESTIONS, THE WALKIE-TALKIE WENT OFF BY ITSELF.
Clifford: NORMALLY, WITH THE WALKIE-TALKIES, UNLESS SOMEONE PHYSICALLY PRESSES THE BUTTON ON THE WALKIE-TALKIE, NOTHING HAPPENS, BUT THE WALKIE-TALKIE JUST SORT OF CLICKS ON AND MAKES A STRANGE NOISE, AND IT CLICKS BACK OFF AGAIN.
WE'VE ASKED OTHER PEOPLE IF ANYBODY PRESSED THE WALKIE-TALKIES, BUT NOBODY HAS.
Machin: WE NEVER THOUGH WE WOULD ACTUALLY GATHER AN EVP LIKE THAT.
WE NOTICED THAT THE ATMOSPHERE IN THE ROOM WAS GETTING HEAVY -- REALLY HEAVY.
I WAS GETTING QUITE A SEVERE HEADACHE.
Clifford: SO, WE KEPT ASKING THE SAME SORT OF QUESTIONS.
"CAN YOU GIVE US A SIGN? CAN YOU KNOCK SOMETHING? CAN YOU MAKE A NOISE?" Machin: WE HEARD A SLAMMING DOOR.
Clifford: I TURNED TO NEIL IMMEDIATELY AND SAID, "DID YOU HEAR THAT?" THERE WAS THREE PEOPLE IN ONE ROOM THAT HEARD I AND ANOTHER THREE OR FOUR IN ANOTHER THAT HEARD IT, AND THEN WE'D RECORDED IT, AS WELL, SO IT WAS DEFINITELY VERIFICATION THAT THIS DOOR SLAM HAD HAPPENED.
Machin: I WENT OUTSIDE TO TRY AND GATHER ME THOUGHTS AND JUST TAKE A BREATHER.
Clifford: I WENT BACK INTO THE HALL MYSELF.
GOT ONE BIG WIDE-ANGLE CAMERA SET UP WITH A NIGHT VISION.
JUST STARTED WALKING BACKWARDS AND FORWARDS IN FRONT OF THE CAMERA AND STARTED REALLY, "COME ON.
"YOU'RE BUILDING THE ENERGY UP NOW AND MAKING THESE DOOR SLAMS.
"YOU'RE TURNING THE WALKIE-TALKIES ON.
"WHILE YOU'VE GO THIS ENERGY FLOWING, DO SOMETHING TO REALLY, REALLY IMPRESS US.
" ALL OF A SUDDEN, OUT OF THE BLUE BANG.
I GET THIS REAL SLAP STINGING ON MY ARM.
IT FELT LIKE SOMEBODY HAD HIT ME.
WHEN I FELT THAT SPIRIT SLAP ME, I WAS TERRIFIED.
I WAS YELLING, "NEIL, NEIL, COME IN HERE.
CAN YOU COME IN HERE? SOMETHING'S JUST ATTACKED ME.
" SO, NEIL'S OUTSIDE.
HE GOES, "WHAT IS IT? WHAT IS IT? WHAT'S HAPPENED?" AND THEN HE LOOKED DOWN AND SAID, "LOOK AT YOUR ARM.
" Machin: ALAN HAS ACTUALLY GOT THREE MARKS LIKE SOMEONE JUST SLAPPED HIM ON HIS ARM.
TO ACTUALLY HAVE A PHYSICAL ATTACK IS QUITE SEVERE.
WITH WHAT'S BEEN HAPPENING ON THE PROPERTY, IT SEEMED LIKE THINGS WAS ESCALATING, THAT THE ENERGY WAS GETTING STRONGER.
Clifford: PERHAPS I HAVE PUSHED IT A LITTLE BIT TOO FAR.
AT THE END OF THE EVENING, WE WENT BACK INTO THE MAIN HALL AND SET UP A BOARD SESSION IN THERE.
WE'VE GOT LETTERS AT THE TOP AND THE BOTTOM, NUMBERS DOWN THE SIDE, "YES" AND "NO," "MALE," "FEMALE," "HELLO," AND "GOODBYE.
" Machin: WE SAY, "CAN YOU PLEASE MOVE THE GLASS TOWARDS THE 'YES' IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO COMMUNICATE WITH US?" Clifford: THE GLASS THEN STARTS TO BUILD UP ITS ENERGY, STARTS MOVING AROUND.
IT'S GOING OVER TO THE "YES" TO CONFIRM THAT THERE IS SOMEBODY WITH US.
WE THEN START GOING THROUGH THE PROCESS OF ASKING, "CAN YOU GIVE US THE LETTER OF YOUR FIRST NAME?" IT GOES OVER TO THE "H," AND EVENTUALLY, IT SPELLED OU THE NAME "HENRY.
" Machin: AT THAT POINT, I LOOKED BACK ON MY NOTES AND SHOWED EVERYBODY.
I SAYS, "LOOK, I PICKED UP ON A NAME AS SOON AS I WALKED INTO THE BUILDING EARLIER ON WITH 'HENRY.
'" IT WAS VERY SATISFYING TO PU A NAME TO THE ACTUAL SPIRIT.
Clifford: I WAS JUST 100% SURE THAT THIS WAS THE SPIRI THAT WE'D SEEN EARLIER IN THE MAIN HALL AND ALSO THE SPIRI THAT ATTACKED ME.
SO, WE CONTINUE WITH THE BOARD SESSION, AND WE'RE ASKING A SERIES OF QUESTIONS.
WE FOUND OU THAT HENRY WAS A FARMER, AND HE USED TO RUN THE FARM THAT THE LANDS AND THE BUILDING WAS BUILT ON.
I DON'T THINK HE WAS HAPPY WITH WHAT WAS GOING ON WITH ESSENTIALLY WHAT WAS HIS LAND.
Machin: ONCE WE KNEW WHO THE SPIRIT WAS, EVERYBODY WHO WAS THERE HAD BEEN PUT TO EASE.
WE DECIDED TO WRAP EVERYTHING UP, AND WE DECIDED TO CALL IT A NIGHT.
Clifford: I KEPT IN CONTAC WITH THE MANAGER OF THE COMMUNITY CENTER.
IT WAS JUST OVER A YEAR, I THINK, FROM THE ORIGINAL INVESTIGATION DATE.
I GET THIS CALL.
HE SAYS, "AL, SOMETHING'S HAPPENED OVERNIGHT.
"I NEED YOU TO COME DOWN HERE.
"COME AND HAVE A LOOK AT THIS VIDEO FOOTAGE.
I CAN'T EXPLAIN IT.
" Machin: WE WENT BACK TO THE PROPERTY TO HAVE A LOOK.
Clifford: AND HE SHOWS ME THE SECURITY FOOTAGE.
IT'S TAKEN ABOUT 10:30 IN THE EVENING.
THERE'S NOBODY IN THERE.
THERE'S, LIKE, A SLIDING WINDOW BETWEEN THE OFFICE AND THE RECEPTION AREA.
YOU SEE IT VIBRATE.
THE WALL VIBRATES, 'CAUSE THE CAMERA SHAKES A LITTLE BIT, AND ALL OF A SUDDEN, THE GLASS EXPLODES OUTWARDS INTO THE RECEPTION AREA.
[ GLASS SHATTERS .]
WHEN THE GLASS EXPLODES, THERE'S ABSOLUTELY NOTHING THERE AT ALL.
Machin: WE STOOD AT THE VIDEO FOR QUITE SOME TIME TO MAKE SURE NOTHING PHYSICAL HAD BEEN THROWN THROUGH THE GLASS.
Clifford: WHAT COULD HAVE POSSIBLY CAUSED THAT? IT'S GOT TO BE SOMETHING -- SOME KIND OF FORCE -- A BRICK OR A HAMMER.
Machin: ALL WE SAW WAS THE GLASS SHATTERING AND COVERING THE DESK AREA.
Clifford: THERE'S JUST NOTHING TO EXPLAIN HOW THAT WINDOW EXPLODED OUT.
Machin: IT WAS LIKE SOMEONE HAD PHYSICALLY GONE BEHIND THE GLASS AND PUNCHED IT.
IT WAS OVER EITHER FRUSTRATION OR ANGER OR SOMETHING, BUT I BELIEVE IT'S PROBABLY HENRY WHAT'S CAUSED THAT, AS WELL.
Clifford: AFTER LOOKING BACK IN ON THE INVESTIGATIONS AND EVIDENCE FROM THE COMMUNITY CENTER, I DON'T BELIEVE THAT HENRY'S A PARTICULARLY EVIL SPIRIT.
HE'S JUST AN OLD FARMER THAT HAS HUNG AROUND.
I DON'T THINK HE'S HAPPY WITH WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO HIS LAND.
Machin: THE PEOPLE WHO WORK AT THE COMMUNITY CENTER NOW ARE NOT AS FRIGHTENED ABOU THE SPIRIT OF HENRY BEING THERE.
Clifford: BUT HE HAS GO THE POTENTIAL TO BE ANGRY WHEN HE NEEDS TO BE IF HE DOESN'T LIKE SOMETHING THAT'S GOING ON.
Machin: BUT I THINK A PERSON WHO IS A SKEPTIC SHOULD COME ALONG TO ONE OF OUR INVESTIGATIONS AND WITNESS IT FOR THEMSELVES, AND THEN I BELIEVE IT WOULD CHANGE THEIR MIND FOREVER.
Douglas: RIGHT OFF, YOU FEL SOME TYPE OF PRESENCE.
WHEN SHE SAID MY NAME, I WAS IN SHOCK.
I WAS JUST DUMBSTRUCK.
I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO SAY OR WHAT TO THINK.
I FELT AN OVERWHELMING SENSE OF BEING AFRAID.
Douglas: RIGHT OFF, YOU FEL SOME TYPE OF PRESENCE.
WHEN SHE SAID MY NAME, I FELT AN OVERWHELMING SENSE OF BEING AFRAID.
MY GHOST STORY BEGAN WHEN I VISITED THE HOME OF JOHN JOHNSTON IN SAULT STE MARIE, MICHIGAN.
THE JOHN JOHNSTON HOUSE WAS BUILT BY JOHN JOHNSTON IN 1793.
HE MARRIED AN INDIAN PRINCESS, AND HE WAS A SUCCESSFUL AND WEALTHY FUR TRADER UNTIL HE DECIDED TO HELP THE BRITISH AT FORT MACKINAC, AND THE AMERICANS RETALIATED AND BURNED HIS HOUSE TO THE GROUND.
HE REBUILT IN 1814, AND THE HOUSE THAT'S STANDING TODAY IS RUMORED TO HAVE LIGHTS FLASHING ON AND OFF AND WEIRD SOUNDS AND NOISES COMING FROM IT.
I'M INTERESTED IN THE HISTORY PRIMARILY BECAUSE OF MOLLY JOHNSTON.
MOLLY JOHNSTON IS JOHN JOHNSTON'S GRANDDAUGHTER.
I HAVE A DEEP INTEREST IN MOLLY BECAUSE I'VE BEEN TO HER GRAVE SITE ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS.
WE REALIZED THAT WE WERE SHORT A TEAM MEMBER FOR THE INVESTIGATION OF THE JOHN JOHNSTON HOUSE, SO WE ASKED CHARLIE ROGERS TO JOIN US.
Rogers: I WAS CURIOUS ABOUT WHAT THEY DID, SO I WENT ALONG WITH IT.
I'M A FORMER U.
S.
MARINE.
I WAS A MILITARY POLICE OFFICER.
I COULD PROBABLY HANDLE A FEW SITUATIONS.
Douglas: WE WALKED INTO THE HOUSE, AND RIGHT OFF, YOU FEL SOME TYPE OF PRESENCE.
THE AIR WAS PRETTY STUFFY IN THERE, AND IT'S LIKE STEPPING BACK IN TIME TO THE LATE 1700s, EARLY 1800s.
WOODEN FLOORS.
THE WALLS WERE PLASTERED AND BROKEN.
IT WAS SORT OF OVERWHELMING.
Rogers: I DIDN'T HAVE A LO OF FEAR IN WHAT I WAS GONNA DO BECAUSE I HAD NEVER DONE I BEFORE, SO I DIDN'T KNOW REALLY WHAT WAS GONNA HAPPEN.
I WAS SO NAIVE.
Douglas: THE TEAM STARTED THE INVESTIGATION BY ENTERING INTO THE LIVING ROOM.
WE BROUGHT VIDEO RECORDERS, AN ELECTROMAGNETIC FREQUENCY DEVICE, AND ALSO AN OVILUS.
Rogers: I HAD SOME RECORDING EQUIPMENT WITH ME.
THEN I SEEN THIS ROCKING CHAIR, AND I SEEN A PICTURE OF MOLLY.
AND I LOOKED AT THE CHAIR, AND I JUST STARTED TO ROCK THE CHAIR A LITTLE BIT, AND I STARTED TO SAY, "HEY, MOLLY, IS THIS YOUR CHAIR?" Douglas: AT THAT POINT, YOU COULD FEEL A COLD BREEZE, AND THE TEMPERATURE HAD DROPPED FIVE DEGREES ON ONE OF THE SENSORS, AND WE FEL JUST A PRESENCE THERE, AS IS YOU WERE BEING WATCHED OR SOMETHING RIGHT UP AGAINST YOU.
IT'S LIKE YOUR WHOLE BODY WAS GOING NUMB.
Rogers: IT SAID, "ANTHONY.
" Douglas: WHEN SHE SAID MY NAME, I WAS IN SHOCK.
I WAS JUST DUMBSTRUCK.
I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO SAY OR WHAT TO THINK, EVEN.
THAT REALLY SURPRISED ME.
Rogers: AND I TOLD ANTHONY.
I SAYS, "WELL, THEY KNOW YOU'RE HERE.
" SO, THAT WAS PRETTY MUCH A BIG SURPRISE.
THEN I KEPT ON ASKING QUESTIONS AND STUFF.
Douglas: THE SPIRI SPOKE THROUGH THE OVILUS AND SAID, "VIDEO," AND WE KNEW THEY WERE CURIOUS ABOUT WHAT WE WERE DOING THERE, SO WE ASSURED THEM THA WE WEREN'T THERE TO HARM THEM, BUT IT WAS VERY EERIE AND SCARY AT THE SAME TIME BECAUSE I DIDN'T EXPEC TO HEAR ANY SPIRIT SPEAK TO ME, ESPECIALLY DIRECTLY.
WE KEPT MOVING FROM ROOM TO ROOM.
I FELT AN OVERWHELMING SENSE OF JUST BEING AFRAID.
I MEAN, I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT WAS GONNA HAPPEN NEXT.
WE STARTED ASKING THE SPIRI SOME QUESTIONS.
DURING THE WAR OF 1812, JOHN JOHNSTON HAD LOST HIS HOME, AND ONE OF THE INVESTIGATORS ASKED IF HE WAS UPSE ABOUT LOSING EVERYTHING.
WE HEARD A SOBBING NOISE, LIKE SOMEBODY WAS CRYING.
THAT WAS REALLY DISTRESSING BECAUSE IT'S SOMETHING YOU DIDN'T EXPECT TO HEAR.
IT MADE ME FEEL SORRY FOR THEM, AND IT WAS VERY FRIGHTENING.
WE CONTINUED TO WALK THROUGH THE HOUSE, AND CHARLIE HAD ACTUALLY SAID THAT HE WAS FEELING SOME PRESSURE.
Rogers: AS I CAME INTO THIS ROOM WITH A BED, AND I WENT BY JUST THE BED JUST A LITTLE BIT, AND ALL OF A SUDDEN, I GOT A CHILL.
MY HAIR STARTS STANDING UP ON MY NECK.
I WAS TRYING TO FIGURE OU WHAT WAS GOING ON.
I SAID, "WELL, THIS MUST BE IT.
THERE MUST BE SOMETHING HERE.
" Douglas: THE NEXT THING I KNOW, I SEEN HIS HEAD WENT BACK, AND I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT WAS GOING ON.
WE WERE RECORDING, AND LATER ON, WE LOOKED BACK AT THE VIDEO, AND WE HAD SEEN ORBS OF LIGH DARTING ALL OVER.
YOU COULD SEE THE ORBS FLYING AROUND, AND FLEW RIGHT INTO HIS FACE, AND THEN IT SHOT BACK OFF.
THAT MADE ME REALLY A BELIEVER, BECAUSE I WAS SKEPTICAL.
BUT THEN, WHEN I SEEN CHARLIE JUMP BACK, AND HE COULDN'T SEE THE ORBS, BUT IN THE VIDEO, IT WAS CLEAR THAT HE WAS DODGING IT.
Rogers: I MUST HAVE GO SOMEBODY'S ATTENTION HERE.
I COULDN'T BELIEVE IT.
I STARTED TRYING TO ASK OF THE SPIRIT, LIKE, "WHO ARE YOU?" YOU KNOW, "ARE YOU MR.
JOHNSTON? "ARE YOU ONE OF THE FAMILY MEMBERS? ARE YOU ONE OF THE CHILDREN?" Douglas: IT SOUNDED LIKE A PIG SNORT AND WAS DISTURBING.
IT WAS REALLY LOW, AND IT WAS SCARY.
Rogers: YOU HAVE THE PIG-SNORT STUFF, WHICH COULD POTENTIALLY BE AN EVIL OR A DEMON, WHICH WE CERTAINLY DON'T WAN NOTHING TO DO WITH THEM.
Douglas: AFTER THAT, WE SHUT IT DOWN.
Rogers: I WAS EXTREMELY RELIEVED WHEN IT WAS TIME TO GO HOME, 'CAUSE IT WAS MY FIRST EXPERIENCE IN ANYTHING LIKE THIS.
IT WAS NICE TO GO HOME AND GO BACK TO MY ROOM AND HIDE AWAY FOR A WHILE.
IT'S OPENED MY EYES UP QUITE A BIT.
I MEAN, I'VE NEVER EXPERIENCED ANYTHING LIKE THA IN MY ENTIRE LIFE.
IT'S KIND OF INTERESTING THAT YOU ACTUALLY SENSE THERE ARE SPIRITS THERE.
Douglas: SINCE THE EXPERIENCE, I AM A BELIEVER IN THE PARANORMAL.
I BELIEVE THAT THERE ARE SPIRITS THERE, AND THEY WANT TO CONTACT US.
Rogers: MY TRAINING IN THE MARINES -- FOR SOMETHING LIKE THIS, I DON'T THINK ANY TRAINING COULD HELP YOU WITH THIS, BECAUSE IT'S A WHOLE DIFFERENT WORLD ALTOGETHER.
I'VE SEEN A LOT OF THINGS GO DOWN, BUT WHAT I SAW HAPPEN AT THE JOHNSON HOUSE THAT NIGH WILL STAY WITH ME FOREVER.