Ghost Adventures (2008) s13e01 Episode Script
Colorado Gold Mine
This mine is full of ghosts.
He shot 'em both.
Are the little Tommy knocker trolls in here? Yes.
Do you want us to go in there? This is extremely dangerous what we're doing right now.
We could've been walking over live dynamite.
What is that? Okay.
Listen.
Shh.
Can you show yourself? I'm getting the chills right now.
Oh, my god.
I've never seen that before.
It just disappeared.
There are things in this world that we will never fully understand.
Understand.
We want answers.
Answers.
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All right, guys.
We're in, uh, Idaho Springs, Colorado.
There's a gold mine that we are going to investigate.
It opened up in 1871.
This mine is full of ghosts.
They're calling us for help.
They wanna know who these ghosts are.
They want us to communicate with them.
There was a double murder right near the mine.
And people here that work at the mine are claiming to see these guys, full apparitions, go inside the mine.
Known for its exceedingly harsh working conditions and long work days, distressed miners made many mistakes.
Many of those mistakes sadly proved fatal.
There is people buried in here, absolutely.
I have two people's ashes buried in here right now.
ZAK: It is known that a man named Ray Collins practiced black magic and was known to be a warlock.
His soul remains here.
And where there is evidence of the profound occult, there is always a trail of depraved evil left in its wake.
Al.
Yeah? Can you come here for a second, please? Al Mosch has owned this mine for almost 30 years.
Is it true that, back in the 1950s, a couple guys got murdered just outside the mine here? Very few people know this.
And on a Sunday morning, two men went up.
They were looking for uranium.
The government would get us to look for uranium for nuclear weapons.
They had their wives in the car.
And Gillespie was his name.
Gillespie came up, had a nice, cordial visit with the wives.
They went up to see them in.
And after he visited for a while, he come back, was very nice to the women and took off.
Well, they kept waiting for their husbands to come back.
And they didn't.
So they finally got outta the car and went up and found each one with a bullet in the head.
He shot 'em both.
Why did Gillespie murder these two men right out Well, he ended up spending most of his life in an insane asylum.
Every now and then, the tourists will come up, tell me about weird stuff that happens.
Numerous tourists have claimed to see two figures appear in the Phoenix gold mine.
Could these two men who were senselessly murdered be the ones they see? For years, that's been going on.
For years? And they were murdered in 1959.
This is interesting.
We just got done, uh, doing an interview, uh, with Al.
And as we came out, um, this lady comes running up.
And her name is Jo.
Jo? Jo is visibly rattled and claims to have just witnessed an entity in another mine.
Uh, we went in the -- the Comstock to check it for safety for you guys.
We were in about 200 feet, and he's calling my name.
When was this happening? Just now.
Did you have a witness? Michelle.
Yes.
Where is she? Michelle and Victoria, can you come here, please? I heard something say, "Jo, follow me.
" What you just heard, "Jo, follow me," were you -- did you hear it too? Yeah.
I was there.
Okay.
What was it? A guy's voice.
It -- it was a whisper of a guy's voice.
Okay.
And let me get this straight.
Uh, I'm h -- we're here at the Phoenix mine.
Correct.
This other Comstock mine that we're gonna go to right now is up the hill.
Can we go up there right now? Right now.
All right.
We're driving up to this.
I'm concerned about the whole danger of this -- going in this mine.
This mine that we're going into right now is -- is not a tour mine.
It's an actual functioning mine.
And she said the first 40 feet of it is literally you can just fit yourself barely for 40 feet.
And it could collapse.
And that's the risk that we have to take right now.
So this is pretty much a life-or-death mission to get to a point in the mine where it opens up to granite where they are having these experience with this entity.
So you want us to go in there? Yeah.
Welcome to the Comstock.
As we first walk in, all I see is crumbled and rotten support timbers everywhere.
So this is why this is so dangerous up here.
Right here.
These are the timbers.
And because we have steel and wood, if it was just wood, I wouldn't allow anyone in here.
But, um, we've got Some of the ceiling has caved on the portal, not on the mine.
So we just need to get outta this entrance.
Well, let's get the hell outta this entrance.
This is extremely dangerous what we're doing right now.
This is extremely dangerous.
That's why I said you have to have real hard hats.
I don't wanna go back too much further.
I'm seriously starting to panic a little bit.
Despite the real dangers, these three ladies keep pushing me deeper into the mine as if this entity has to meet me.
Now it's not just the mine scaring me.
It's also the three of them.
I don't wanna be in here.
Come on.
Does my daughter have your hand? I do.
Okay.
We've got water here.
Do not step in it.
It'll eat your shoes.
Just watch your step.
Watch your left.
Watch your feet here.
There's a gap in this wood here.
Stay on the wood as much as possible.
How much further? Uh, you're gonna have to go on the rails here.
Use the wall for balance.
Guys, I wanna do a recording, okay? Okay.
Can we do this quick? 'Cause I wanna get the hell outta here.
Okay.
What do you want me to say or do? Nothing.
I'm gonna start -- I'm gonna start recording right now.
I'm recording.
You were just speaking to them.
Can we heard your voice? What was that? I heard it.
Did you hear that? I did hear that.
Sounded like a hey or something.
I heard it.
All of a sudden, we all begin to hear a man speaking deeper from within the mine.
There's talking.
And there's a knock or Can you come to my voice? Can you speak to me? I can sense that the ladies have some type of strong attachment to this entity.
Dude, I'm, like, shaking.
[ Indistinct .]
What the "Get out.
" It sounded like it.
Listen.
He only wants me in here.
I don't know.
Shh.
Listen.
[ Warbling .]
Right there.
Right there.
He told me to get out on the recording, so I'm getting out.
Somebody go with me.
I need to get outta here.
The ladies try to get me to go even farther.
Do you wanna go? I wanna get out.
You're okay.
No, I'm not.
But I start to panic.
Aside from the dangers of the mine, something else just doesn't feel right.
It's as if this spirit told me to get out for a deeper reason that will become clear to us later.
Dude.
I don't give a what anybody says.
That was -- that was scary.
We were going back.
And all of a sudden, we started hearing the guy talking.
It's legit.
It's real.
It -- it's real.
Like, we started hearing this guy talking from deep in the freaking mine.
And I b-- I got my recorder out.
And I started rolling.
And a guy's voice, crystal clear, comes through and says, "Get out.
" And then, at that point, they wanted to go deeper.
And I'm just like, "Man, I went far enough.
I went way far back in there.
" Those girls -- those -- those girls are crazy.
They're nuts.
That mine's gonna cave in any time.
Upon our return to the Phoenix, Hank, totally unaware of our spontaneous investigation of the Comstock, gives us a stern warning.
Would you say the Comstock is pretty scary? Yep.
It's definitely scary.
But I don't want you guys in there at all.
It's gonna cave in on you.
And then it'll really be scary.
Well, it's a little too late to hear that now.
But you're all right.
You're still here.
Should've done this interview before I went in there.
We could've been walking over live dynamite.
This is gonna change everything.
I come here to find proof of ghosts, and I'm finding it.
ZAK: As our investigation in Idaho Springs, Colorado continues, we learn of a legend derived from Cornish folklore, the Tommyknocker -- gnome-like, malicious spirits that have been known to cause harm to miners.
One serious question, Big Jim.
What's that? Do you firmly believe that these little Tommyknocker trolls are in this mine? Yes.
That's all I need to know.
Mischievous one'll drop a 10-ton boulder on your head.
Do you believe it? I believe it.
Do the bad ones chip away at the supports, wanting to -- wanting to Well Kill the miners? I have smelt 'em, uh, cooking bacon in the mountain before.
What? I've smelt bacon cooking in the mountain before, more than one time.
You've smelt bacon? In different mines and stuff.
Oh, in the mines, you've smelled bacon? Yeah.
So the Tommyknockers Yeah.
They gotta cook breakfast too, don't they? So their staple diet is bacon? I don't know what it is.
Okay.
If Tommyknockers eat bacon, then we could bring some bacon as bait.
No.
Why don't you get off that subject? I don't even know what they eat or even what they are.
All right.
Not talking about it anymore.
This is awesome, dude.
What do you eat? What do you eat? This is, like, the What's that? The coolest thing ever.
You're talking about what feeding 'em.
And I don't know what feeds 'em.
All right.
You're asking me questions that I can't answer.
So I said get off the bacon subject.
What do you wanna talk about? The mine? Bacon.
Bacon.
No, I'm just kidding.
All laughs aside, well-known UFO and paranormal investigator Chuck Zukowski has collected evidence of Tommyknockers in this very mine.
Zak.
Chuck Zukowski.
Nice to meet you.
Your background is you are an official UFO investigator.
Yeah.
I've been doing this 30 years.
I'm a field investigator.
And something drew you to the Phoenix mine to investigate these -- these Tommyknockers.
Do you think that they're -- they're real? Tommyknockers, that legend can go back to 2500 B.
C.
The miners were so convinced that Tommyknockers were real that, when the mines started closing here in the U.
S.
, that they actually asked the owners to give pink slips to the Tommyknockers to release them out of the mines.
And -- and this was -- this was true.
What do you think they are? What -- what are they made up of? Like, are they a spirit? Are they nonhuman? Are they something from the devil? Tommyknockers are said to, you know, chip away at the supports to kill the miners.
From what the miners said, that, if you disrespected the Tommyknockers, they could cause a cave-in.
And really, back in the day, you know, we had tons and tons of rocks.
They didn't sit there Right.
And pull everything out.
It was like, you know, that's where you were buried.
ZAK: Now is a good time to have a creekside meeting with the team to discuss what we have gathered so far.
Guys, I think, after interviewing Chuck, um, he was really serious about these Tommyknockers.
Yeah.
I thought it was nothing but a Myth, a fictional myth.
Right.
So I'm becoming more of a believer of these entities and a lot of 'em being nonhuman, just these mythical creatures that are real.
Let's just say these Tommyknockers, they do make the knocking noises.
They are there.
But let's just say they're in a different spectrum.
Bill Chappell, our chief inventor, engineer -- he's very close to here.
And we have never officially made a visit to his laboratory.
Are we going? He has invited us Yeah! No way! To his laboratory.
Hell yeah! Jay and I have decided to remain here in Idaho Springs, preparing for the lockdown while Billy and Aaron go to Bill Chappell's lab where he dreams up new technology that allows us to communicate with and gain a deeper understanding of paranormal energy.
And as a focus for our upcoming lockdown in the Phoenix gold mine, Bill has been researching ways to take the capturing of EVPs to another level.
I think we figured out more about EVP than we ever have before.
And I think this is gonna change everything as we go forward.
ZAK: It is in these soundproof caverns that he will conduct what may be his most prolific experiment to date.
I'm gonna draw you a picture of a fish tank.
We had a speaker up here, okay.
The sound's gonna hit the water first.
And then it's gonna change.
We know, like, sound, water, changes speed.
This sound is also gonna bounce off of other structures.
It's gonna hit the side of the tank.
It's gonna happen on all four sides of the tank.
It's gonna happen from the bottom too.
This information may be coming to you, instead of an audio signal, more as a vibration.
And then, whatever the message is, is actually modulated on top.
Thanks Bill.
No problem.
Can't wait to show this to Zak.
ZAK: As Billy and Aaron are leaving Bill's lab, I get an urgent phone call from Jo who was our guide at the deadly Comstock mine.
Hi.
It's Zak.
Apparently, you wanted to talk to me about something that happened yesterday.
What do you mean, caps? What do you -- what -- what are caps? I don't want you guys to go any farther because Do you see what I see? Yeah.
These are blasting caps that have not gone off.
And they explode just like dynamite.
ZAK: Are you telling me that where we were in the mine, we could've been walking over live dynamite? Problem is, if we step on a rock that rubs against a cap, it can blow up.
So you're telling me that you believe that this -- this ghost, uh, this -- this male spirit that has a -- a -- a man's voice, is telling you, Jo What was she -- what was he saying again, Jo? So you're telling me that two what looked like people in this photo are not any of you guys or anybody else that was in the mine? You're telling me these two figures are spirits? That voice that I got was a very, very, very clear, "Get out.
" Do you believe that, that was a spirit of the miner that is in your photo, warning us to get out because of the live dynamite still there.
Where the blasting caps are.
Now it all seems to be connecting together.
It's extremely powerful.
These miners come out here in these mines to find gold.
I come here from Las Vegas to find proof of ghosts, and I'm finding it.
Tommyknocker, Tommyknocker, we're here to take your gold! Guys, I have two eyes looking at me.
Are you serious? Okay.
It is time.
We're in Idaho Springs, Colorado.
We are getting ready to investigate the Phoenix gold mine.
What I'm gonna do is now send you alone to the Union Tunnel.
We called this the Mystery Mine They don't even know anything about it.
It's a mine from the 1800s.
There could be all kinds of people buried in there from collapses.
Who knows? Sure.
Bill, what we're gonna do is we're gonna conduct your experiments inside the Phoenix mine.
Okay.
But before we do that, I want you to hang out here at base.
And, Aaron and Jay, I want us three to first go in here and just do an open investigation, see if we can make contact ourselves.
Then we'll bring in the big guns, the new equipment.
And I can't wait to use this.
Okay.
Let's do this, guys.
Just as we are suiting up to head into the mines, we all hear something that causes an immediate panic.
We're just getting ready to start investigating.
And there's a very loud snarling right here.
We had to call Hank.
Oh, there he is right there.
He smelled your food.
I told you.
Man, we think there's a bear right here in our camp.
Listen.
Shh.
He's walking up steps like Hold on.
He's gonna come across down that walkway, I swear.
Hear him? Bigfoot is a real deal, man.
Ain't no doubt about it.
My buddy still won't talk about it, freaked him out so bad.
Put them down a creek in the middle of nowhere.
We're bouncing along.
And my buddy said, "There goes a Bigfoot!" And I saw him running.
And the next thing -- words outta his mouth -- He looked at me with his eyes that big.
And he said, "He's a shape-shifter.
" ZAK: I immediately think that a bear is down at the mill.
However, Bill has seen other mysterious creatures roaming around at night.
So Aaron, Jay, Bill Chappell and Hank, the miner, all head into the mill.
I decide it's best to stay back here and hide behind a tree in case it really is a bear or Bigfoot.
Here's where we heard the bear.
So if it's inside, this is the only way it could've gotten in.
Take this, Jay.
Take this.
Use that.
I'm serious.
What am I gonna do with this? Stab him in the face and push him back.
All right.
You're first then.
Which way do you go down, Hank? I feel like we have entered, and Bigfoot is actually hiding somewhere in here, dude.
I swear to God.
Hush.
Don't see anything.
Doesn't that look like something's gone through this? It does.
Is there a door open from the other side? Yeah.
Yeah.
There's still an entrance going that still goes.
Yeah.
It's cold.
So maybe he got out.
There's no exit here, might have a bear in there.
Is that dead-end? Dead-end? Yeah.
Can they climb ladders? No.
ZAK: As the guys are just about to leave the mill, we capture a priceless moment of Bill Chappell looking as terrified as he's ever been during a "Ghost Adventures" investigation.
Stop! Shh.
I did hear something.
I just heard giggling sound like ZAK: Hank, Bill Chappell, Jay and Aaron are in this old mill.
And that's where we heard the bear.
I'm just left here by myself while they're exploring that mine.
I now start rolling on our thermal energy camera, sweeping the entire grounds.
And as the guys return from investigating inside the mill, we hear these mysterious sounds yet again.
[ Banging .]
We were just in that building, dude.
And nothing was in there.
I'm getting a closer look.
I'll be quiet.
I'll be quiet.
Everybody just stays quiet.
Aaron? Shh.
Guys, I have two eyes looking at me.
What? I have something staring right at me, bro.
Dude, it looks like he's standing up like a human.
Be care Whoa, whoa.
Oh, my God.
It's a baby bear trying to get seed.
Is it on the ground? No.
It's climbing into the garbage can.
Are you serious? Yep.
Someone watch my back.
Come here.
ZAK: I immediately rush over with the thermal imaging camera only to discover that the noises we've been hearing aren't from an 8-foot Sasquatch or a massive bear with claws or even a baby bear.
What we've been freaking out over is actually just a Definitely a raccoon.
Here it comes.
Uh, dude, he's gonna jump right at me, bro.
I don't know what to do.
Keep going.
Dude, he's, like, looking His eyes.
Just winked at me, bro.
ZAK: During our raccoon adventure, Billy has been traveling to the Union Tunnel mine, which he will be investigating all by himself.
Phew.
So far, I'm back about I don't even know how far, maybe half a mile back here in this mine.
And you can hear every single vibration.
I have no idea how far this goes back.
But when I get back there, I'm gonna do some EVP.
And, uh, I have a couple other things I wanna try out.
Man, this is freaky.
ZAK: We were told earlier by the local miners that no one really ever goes inside here, hence its nickname, the Mystery Mine.
The reason why I'm wearing this is 'cause we're gonna go deeper in the mine this time than we did during our interviews.
And back there, there is a lotta water and a lotta mold.
I have an allergy to mold.
Aaron, Jay and myself are also using the SLS camera to see if we can peek inside another dimension where these mythological Tommyknockers may be hiding.
Tommyknocker, Tommyknocker, we're here to take your gold! It's ice cold here.
Was it right between you.
I am far back in this mine back here.
There was a little teeny-tiny figure! ZAK: Deep in the Phoenix gold mine in Idaho Springs, Colorado, We're trying to make contact with the legendary Tommyknockers.
Let us hear your knock! Get anything, Zak? Where are we? It's just pitch black.
Can't see anywhere.
Here's what we see.
You ready? Just that.
I can see the light from your -- Yeah.
All I can see is -- is this.
And it just gives a little bit of glow right around here.
But other than that, everything else is just pitch black.
Okay.
Rolling on the recorder.
Stop.
Everybody, be silent and don't move.
Hello! Can you hear me? Hold on.
Can you see me? Can you hear me? [ Thud .]
Did you hear that? There was a little knock.
I'm looking for little figures right now.
Is that a Tommyknocker? Listen.
Are you a miner? Can you understand me? Can you hear me? If you died in this mine, let me know.
Or if you're the spirit of Ray, and you're the warlock [ Metallic banging .]
Whoa.
What was that? That was over back here.
Was it back there? What was that, Jay? It was a big loud bang.
Watch out.
If you're the spirit of Ray, and you're the warlock Whoa.
Whoa.
What was that? That was over back here.
Wow.
Okay.
Hold on.
Be quiet.
Be quiet.
Right when you said his name Right when I said Ray Now there was a guy named Ray.
And, uh, I guess he was a tour guide here.
And he was a full-blown warlock.
And he was very, very deep in black magic.
And he had his ashes spread down in the deep of the mine here.
Ray, are you doing black magic on us? What kind of rituals did you do, Ray? Can you show yourself, Ray? Can you show yourself in front of my voice? Oh, my God! Oh, my God! You guys, there's a little teeny-tiny figure on my recorder! Are you serious? There was a little teeny-tiny figure that just appeared on my recorder! It was standing on my recorder! And then it just disappeared! You told him to appear right in front of your face.
Yeah.
I know.
But this was a teeny-tiny figure like a Tommyknocker.
We just hear knocks! And there was a little teeny-tiny figure that appeared on my recorder.
It was standing on my recorder.
There was nothing in the background at all.
I've never seen that before.
Oh, my God.
Dude That was so awesome.
Did you see it? Yeah.
I saw it real quick.
Did you see the little figure? For a second.
He was standing For a second.
Whoa.
Whoa.
Whoa.
Whoa.
Feel this air.
Do you feel that? Whoa.
It's getting cold.
It's ice cold right here.
Was it right between you? It's an ice cold draft.
Right here.
My whole body is completely frozen -- that was not cold.
This stays the same temperature.
This is icy cold.
And my whole body is completely frozen.
This is an amazing chain of events.
We were told earlier that Tommyknockers will appear right after you hear a knock.
Can you hear me? Holy Did you hear that? Yeah.
That was -- It was a little knock.
Right after that, we hear a very loud noise from deep within the mine shaft that sounds like miners working.
And you're the warlock.
Then, as I ask the spirit of Ray who is a black- magic-practicing warlock whose ashes were poured inside of this mine to show himself, this teeny-tiny figure appears on command, standing directly on my digital recorder.
Could Ray's black magic in the afterlife have the power to conjure a small Tommyknocker? I just definitely heard footsteps up ahead of me.
I'm getting the chills right now.
I am far, far back in this mine right now.
ZAK: Billy continues even further inside of the Mystery Mine.
Looks like the railroad tracks end right here.
This is the end.
Well, it's the end of where I can go.
Okay.
I'm a little outta breath because I just literally walked thousands of steps to get to where I'm at.
And supposedly, I'm really close to the Phoenix vein somewhere back in here.
But I am deep inside the mountain.
There's the train tracks coming in.
Right.
Here's a dam.
That's all water.
Let me show you here.
Just to show you, here's a little rock.
Those thousands and thousands of gallons of water right there are being held back by this little dam.
So this is officially the end of the road for sure.
Why are you back there? Something just grabbed my pants.
What the hell was that? Whoa.
Whoa.
ZAK: As we walk through the Phoenix gold mine, we decide to go to the exact area where Ray the warlock's ashes were poured, which is behind a locked gate that has been opened by the owner of the mine, granting us special access to this sacred site.
You ready? We're gonna go beyond this restricted area right now.
We're trying to find his spirit.
Guys, it's a little more cramped in here.
Be careful.
Hey, Ray! Are you in here? Can't go any further.
The beams just collapsed Just snapped in half.
Guys, we need to be careful.
I don't think we should be back here.
These could snap just like those.
Is this where your body is buried just beyond here? Can you show yourself? Hey, Ray! We come a long ways to chat with you real fast! Is that cool? We need to know about the Tommyknockers! What about the black magic, bro? Are you into that? What'd you do down here with that? [ Warbling .]
There's a Oh! What? Oh, my God! What? All of a sudden, a man's voice comes through the Spirit Box.
And what shocks us even more is that, at the same time, I also see an anomaly appear right above the Spirit Box.
Whoa! Holy Is this the warlock's spirit speaking to us? It went out of the Spirit Box, bro.
Real? What? I swear to God! But I just wanna document that there's nothing flying around in here.
This is all mud and wet dampness.
Now I've -- I've never seen anything like it.
My body's being affected.
State your name! It's getting really cold.
That was crazy, man.
Are you a Tommyknocker, or are you Ray? Come on! We're taking the mine over if you don't answer! Whoa! Whoa! What? There was just a flash of light right up there.
There was a flash of white light right up top.
It was right up there.
Why would it be in the ceiling? And you can see Hold on.
You can see there's nothing reflective up there.
There's no lights or anything.
There was a flash of light.
It was right there.
Why are you back there? Who are you? What, Jay? Something just grabbed my pants.
Grabbed your pants? Yeah.
What was that? Scared the -- out of me.
Me too.
Right here, this part of my pants, I just felt a pull just like that, like, pull down right there.
If you're -- if you're trapped in this mine, come communicate with me, please.
Hello? It's okay.
You can come towards me.
I mean you no harm.
There's something weird.
There it is.
There it is.
There it is.
Oh, my gosh.
Oh, my gosh.
There it is.
Oh, and it's gone! Oh, my God.
What the hell was that? It's gone.
It's gone.
Thank you for showing yourself.
Oh, my God, dude.
ZAK: Billy makes an amazing capture on thermal.
Could this unexplained transient heat signature be an old miner's carbide headlamp? Billy immediately begins using Bill Chappell's Paranormal Puck 2 device to see if this spirit can communicate with him via electromagnetic transcommunication.
BILLY: I'm gonna try and ask him questions.
And they're gonna try and change the energy and the different values that this thing collects, data-wise, to select different words because spirits are known to change electromagnetic fields.
I'm gonna begin and ask, uh, "If you are the spirit that showed up on my thermal imaging camera, can you please come over here and join me and give me some words that are relevant so that I know that you're with me.
Uncle, see, make, appear.
Uncle, see, make, appear.
What did I just ask when I had the thermal camera? Show yourself.
Make appear.
ZAK: Billy runs out of the mine in excitement and heads back to the Phoenix mine to share his evidence with Bill Chappell.
Now I'm panning up the railroad tracks, straight back to the back of the mine.
You Did you see it? Did you see it? Did you see it? The hell do you think that is? I got chills going through my whole body.
Sound like a cave-in.
Scream! Scream as loud as you can! Outside of the Phoenix gold mine ZAK: As our investigation ZAK: in Idaho Springs, Colorado, we review Billy's chilling footage.
BILLY: I asked to show itself.
MAN: Could it be a rat? It's in the air.
ZAK: It's floating in air? Yeah.
Yeah.
Wow.
Okay.
You ready? There it is.
There it is.
There it is.
Oh, my gosh.
And you see? That's the weird thing.
It was here.
And then it's, like, it -- and it'sgone.
It -- it just lights up.
It's a heat sink.
And then it's gone.
Yesterday, the -- that lady in the mine said that she caught that photo of the spirit with the lantern.
Oh.
Could that be It kinda looks like It does kinda look like a lantern.
The old -- the old candle lantern they used to wear on the head.
It's about that high.
It's about that high.
And this happened Dude, that's awesome.
That's some of the neatest footage I've ever seen.
Uh-huh.
Without a doubt, I've never seen anything like that.
ZAK: It is now time for all of us to participate in Bill Chappell's laser microphone experiment.
We're gonna run a high-powered, ultraviolet laser Ooh.
Or over 1 watt.
ZAK: When the laser mic is activated, all you are supposed to hear is this really soft white noise sound.
If anything breaks the laser beam, like a person or a spirit, strange noises will be heard according to the energy that is infused within.
Dust particles will not affect the laser beam.
Can you hear us? All of a sudden, something strange begins to happen.
[ Tinny playback .]
You know what it sounded like? It sounded like a cave-in.
Yes.
Kinda.
Yeah.
Whole bunch of stuff crumbling down and Gotta listen to that audio back, I swear it sounds like somebody was talking in it.
Yeah.
Do you need help? Scream! Scream as loud as you can! The activity flatlines on the laser microphone.
So we decide to move it to the site of the collapse, which is also where the warlock's ashes were spread.
Can you step in front of the laser? Can you block the laser? Can you do that? Okay.
Dude.
Listen real close.
It sounds like I don't know if it's the static making me think I'm hearing something.
Probably was, like, something going through the laser beam.
Maybe there's something walking Hold on! Yeah.
It is.
Could you stop doing that? [ Interference .]
I have no clue, Zak.
Same thing that we're doing there.
Yes.
Yeah.
No.
And then it just stopped.
No.
I mean, I -- I was just -- when we first turned on.
That's stuff that Right.
That huge rush of sound, I -- I have no explanation.
Everything was set up.
It was on.
Nothing was moving.
It was dead on.
Extremely loud.
Yes.
No.
During the unexplained audio evidence on the laser microphone, one of the tripods holding the transmitter was mysteriously bent in multiple places.
We came back to reposition.
And that's everybody noticed the tripod.
ZAK: How many legs? Two of the three are bent.
My -- my present.
ZAK: Between the legend of the Tommyknockers We just heard knocks! And there was a little teeny-tiny figure.
And the very real miners who lost their lives in these dark caverns, I will never enter another mine without a deep respect for what is forever left behind in these shadows.
He shot 'em both.
Are the little Tommy knocker trolls in here? Yes.
Do you want us to go in there? This is extremely dangerous what we're doing right now.
We could've been walking over live dynamite.
What is that? Okay.
Listen.
Shh.
Can you show yourself? I'm getting the chills right now.
Oh, my god.
I've never seen that before.
It just disappeared.
There are things in this world that we will never fully understand.
Understand.
We want answers.
Answers.
We have worked years to build our credibility, our reputation, working alongside the most renowned professionals in the field, capturing groundbreaking proof of the paranormal.
It's working! Whoa.
I can't give you an explanation.
This is our evidence, our ghost adventures.
All right, guys.
We're in, uh, Idaho Springs, Colorado.
There's a gold mine that we are going to investigate.
It opened up in 1871.
This mine is full of ghosts.
They're calling us for help.
They wanna know who these ghosts are.
They want us to communicate with them.
There was a double murder right near the mine.
And people here that work at the mine are claiming to see these guys, full apparitions, go inside the mine.
Known for its exceedingly harsh working conditions and long work days, distressed miners made many mistakes.
Many of those mistakes sadly proved fatal.
There is people buried in here, absolutely.
I have two people's ashes buried in here right now.
ZAK: It is known that a man named Ray Collins practiced black magic and was known to be a warlock.
His soul remains here.
And where there is evidence of the profound occult, there is always a trail of depraved evil left in its wake.
Al.
Yeah? Can you come here for a second, please? Al Mosch has owned this mine for almost 30 years.
Is it true that, back in the 1950s, a couple guys got murdered just outside the mine here? Very few people know this.
And on a Sunday morning, two men went up.
They were looking for uranium.
The government would get us to look for uranium for nuclear weapons.
They had their wives in the car.
And Gillespie was his name.
Gillespie came up, had a nice, cordial visit with the wives.
They went up to see them in.
And after he visited for a while, he come back, was very nice to the women and took off.
Well, they kept waiting for their husbands to come back.
And they didn't.
So they finally got outta the car and went up and found each one with a bullet in the head.
He shot 'em both.
Why did Gillespie murder these two men right out Well, he ended up spending most of his life in an insane asylum.
Every now and then, the tourists will come up, tell me about weird stuff that happens.
Numerous tourists have claimed to see two figures appear in the Phoenix gold mine.
Could these two men who were senselessly murdered be the ones they see? For years, that's been going on.
For years? And they were murdered in 1959.
This is interesting.
We just got done, uh, doing an interview, uh, with Al.
And as we came out, um, this lady comes running up.
And her name is Jo.
Jo? Jo is visibly rattled and claims to have just witnessed an entity in another mine.
Uh, we went in the -- the Comstock to check it for safety for you guys.
We were in about 200 feet, and he's calling my name.
When was this happening? Just now.
Did you have a witness? Michelle.
Yes.
Where is she? Michelle and Victoria, can you come here, please? I heard something say, "Jo, follow me.
" What you just heard, "Jo, follow me," were you -- did you hear it too? Yeah.
I was there.
Okay.
What was it? A guy's voice.
It -- it was a whisper of a guy's voice.
Okay.
And let me get this straight.
Uh, I'm h -- we're here at the Phoenix mine.
Correct.
This other Comstock mine that we're gonna go to right now is up the hill.
Can we go up there right now? Right now.
All right.
We're driving up to this.
I'm concerned about the whole danger of this -- going in this mine.
This mine that we're going into right now is -- is not a tour mine.
It's an actual functioning mine.
And she said the first 40 feet of it is literally you can just fit yourself barely for 40 feet.
And it could collapse.
And that's the risk that we have to take right now.
So this is pretty much a life-or-death mission to get to a point in the mine where it opens up to granite where they are having these experience with this entity.
So you want us to go in there? Yeah.
Welcome to the Comstock.
As we first walk in, all I see is crumbled and rotten support timbers everywhere.
So this is why this is so dangerous up here.
Right here.
These are the timbers.
And because we have steel and wood, if it was just wood, I wouldn't allow anyone in here.
But, um, we've got Some of the ceiling has caved on the portal, not on the mine.
So we just need to get outta this entrance.
Well, let's get the hell outta this entrance.
This is extremely dangerous what we're doing right now.
This is extremely dangerous.
That's why I said you have to have real hard hats.
I don't wanna go back too much further.
I'm seriously starting to panic a little bit.
Despite the real dangers, these three ladies keep pushing me deeper into the mine as if this entity has to meet me.
Now it's not just the mine scaring me.
It's also the three of them.
I don't wanna be in here.
Come on.
Does my daughter have your hand? I do.
Okay.
We've got water here.
Do not step in it.
It'll eat your shoes.
Just watch your step.
Watch your left.
Watch your feet here.
There's a gap in this wood here.
Stay on the wood as much as possible.
How much further? Uh, you're gonna have to go on the rails here.
Use the wall for balance.
Guys, I wanna do a recording, okay? Okay.
Can we do this quick? 'Cause I wanna get the hell outta here.
Okay.
What do you want me to say or do? Nothing.
I'm gonna start -- I'm gonna start recording right now.
I'm recording.
You were just speaking to them.
Can we heard your voice? What was that? I heard it.
Did you hear that? I did hear that.
Sounded like a hey or something.
I heard it.
All of a sudden, we all begin to hear a man speaking deeper from within the mine.
There's talking.
And there's a knock or Can you come to my voice? Can you speak to me? I can sense that the ladies have some type of strong attachment to this entity.
Dude, I'm, like, shaking.
[ Indistinct .]
What the "Get out.
" It sounded like it.
Listen.
He only wants me in here.
I don't know.
Shh.
Listen.
[ Warbling .]
Right there.
Right there.
He told me to get out on the recording, so I'm getting out.
Somebody go with me.
I need to get outta here.
The ladies try to get me to go even farther.
Do you wanna go? I wanna get out.
You're okay.
No, I'm not.
But I start to panic.
Aside from the dangers of the mine, something else just doesn't feel right.
It's as if this spirit told me to get out for a deeper reason that will become clear to us later.
Dude.
I don't give a what anybody says.
That was -- that was scary.
We were going back.
And all of a sudden, we started hearing the guy talking.
It's legit.
It's real.
It -- it's real.
Like, we started hearing this guy talking from deep in the freaking mine.
And I b-- I got my recorder out.
And I started rolling.
And a guy's voice, crystal clear, comes through and says, "Get out.
" And then, at that point, they wanted to go deeper.
And I'm just like, "Man, I went far enough.
I went way far back in there.
" Those girls -- those -- those girls are crazy.
They're nuts.
That mine's gonna cave in any time.
Upon our return to the Phoenix, Hank, totally unaware of our spontaneous investigation of the Comstock, gives us a stern warning.
Would you say the Comstock is pretty scary? Yep.
It's definitely scary.
But I don't want you guys in there at all.
It's gonna cave in on you.
And then it'll really be scary.
Well, it's a little too late to hear that now.
But you're all right.
You're still here.
Should've done this interview before I went in there.
We could've been walking over live dynamite.
This is gonna change everything.
I come here to find proof of ghosts, and I'm finding it.
ZAK: As our investigation in Idaho Springs, Colorado continues, we learn of a legend derived from Cornish folklore, the Tommyknocker -- gnome-like, malicious spirits that have been known to cause harm to miners.
One serious question, Big Jim.
What's that? Do you firmly believe that these little Tommyknocker trolls are in this mine? Yes.
That's all I need to know.
Mischievous one'll drop a 10-ton boulder on your head.
Do you believe it? I believe it.
Do the bad ones chip away at the supports, wanting to -- wanting to Well Kill the miners? I have smelt 'em, uh, cooking bacon in the mountain before.
What? I've smelt bacon cooking in the mountain before, more than one time.
You've smelt bacon? In different mines and stuff.
Oh, in the mines, you've smelled bacon? Yeah.
So the Tommyknockers Yeah.
They gotta cook breakfast too, don't they? So their staple diet is bacon? I don't know what it is.
Okay.
If Tommyknockers eat bacon, then we could bring some bacon as bait.
No.
Why don't you get off that subject? I don't even know what they eat or even what they are.
All right.
Not talking about it anymore.
This is awesome, dude.
What do you eat? What do you eat? This is, like, the What's that? The coolest thing ever.
You're talking about what feeding 'em.
And I don't know what feeds 'em.
All right.
You're asking me questions that I can't answer.
So I said get off the bacon subject.
What do you wanna talk about? The mine? Bacon.
Bacon.
No, I'm just kidding.
All laughs aside, well-known UFO and paranormal investigator Chuck Zukowski has collected evidence of Tommyknockers in this very mine.
Zak.
Chuck Zukowski.
Nice to meet you.
Your background is you are an official UFO investigator.
Yeah.
I've been doing this 30 years.
I'm a field investigator.
And something drew you to the Phoenix mine to investigate these -- these Tommyknockers.
Do you think that they're -- they're real? Tommyknockers, that legend can go back to 2500 B.
C.
The miners were so convinced that Tommyknockers were real that, when the mines started closing here in the U.
S.
, that they actually asked the owners to give pink slips to the Tommyknockers to release them out of the mines.
And -- and this was -- this was true.
What do you think they are? What -- what are they made up of? Like, are they a spirit? Are they nonhuman? Are they something from the devil? Tommyknockers are said to, you know, chip away at the supports to kill the miners.
From what the miners said, that, if you disrespected the Tommyknockers, they could cause a cave-in.
And really, back in the day, you know, we had tons and tons of rocks.
They didn't sit there Right.
And pull everything out.
It was like, you know, that's where you were buried.
ZAK: Now is a good time to have a creekside meeting with the team to discuss what we have gathered so far.
Guys, I think, after interviewing Chuck, um, he was really serious about these Tommyknockers.
Yeah.
I thought it was nothing but a Myth, a fictional myth.
Right.
So I'm becoming more of a believer of these entities and a lot of 'em being nonhuman, just these mythical creatures that are real.
Let's just say these Tommyknockers, they do make the knocking noises.
They are there.
But let's just say they're in a different spectrum.
Bill Chappell, our chief inventor, engineer -- he's very close to here.
And we have never officially made a visit to his laboratory.
Are we going? He has invited us Yeah! No way! To his laboratory.
Hell yeah! Jay and I have decided to remain here in Idaho Springs, preparing for the lockdown while Billy and Aaron go to Bill Chappell's lab where he dreams up new technology that allows us to communicate with and gain a deeper understanding of paranormal energy.
And as a focus for our upcoming lockdown in the Phoenix gold mine, Bill has been researching ways to take the capturing of EVPs to another level.
I think we figured out more about EVP than we ever have before.
And I think this is gonna change everything as we go forward.
ZAK: It is in these soundproof caverns that he will conduct what may be his most prolific experiment to date.
I'm gonna draw you a picture of a fish tank.
We had a speaker up here, okay.
The sound's gonna hit the water first.
And then it's gonna change.
We know, like, sound, water, changes speed.
This sound is also gonna bounce off of other structures.
It's gonna hit the side of the tank.
It's gonna happen on all four sides of the tank.
It's gonna happen from the bottom too.
This information may be coming to you, instead of an audio signal, more as a vibration.
And then, whatever the message is, is actually modulated on top.
Thanks Bill.
No problem.
Can't wait to show this to Zak.
ZAK: As Billy and Aaron are leaving Bill's lab, I get an urgent phone call from Jo who was our guide at the deadly Comstock mine.
Hi.
It's Zak.
Apparently, you wanted to talk to me about something that happened yesterday.
What do you mean, caps? What do you -- what -- what are caps? I don't want you guys to go any farther because Do you see what I see? Yeah.
These are blasting caps that have not gone off.
And they explode just like dynamite.
ZAK: Are you telling me that where we were in the mine, we could've been walking over live dynamite? Problem is, if we step on a rock that rubs against a cap, it can blow up.
So you're telling me that you believe that this -- this ghost, uh, this -- this male spirit that has a -- a -- a man's voice, is telling you, Jo What was she -- what was he saying again, Jo? So you're telling me that two what looked like people in this photo are not any of you guys or anybody else that was in the mine? You're telling me these two figures are spirits? That voice that I got was a very, very, very clear, "Get out.
" Do you believe that, that was a spirit of the miner that is in your photo, warning us to get out because of the live dynamite still there.
Where the blasting caps are.
Now it all seems to be connecting together.
It's extremely powerful.
These miners come out here in these mines to find gold.
I come here from Las Vegas to find proof of ghosts, and I'm finding it.
Tommyknocker, Tommyknocker, we're here to take your gold! Guys, I have two eyes looking at me.
Are you serious? Okay.
It is time.
We're in Idaho Springs, Colorado.
We are getting ready to investigate the Phoenix gold mine.
What I'm gonna do is now send you alone to the Union Tunnel.
We called this the Mystery Mine They don't even know anything about it.
It's a mine from the 1800s.
There could be all kinds of people buried in there from collapses.
Who knows? Sure.
Bill, what we're gonna do is we're gonna conduct your experiments inside the Phoenix mine.
Okay.
But before we do that, I want you to hang out here at base.
And, Aaron and Jay, I want us three to first go in here and just do an open investigation, see if we can make contact ourselves.
Then we'll bring in the big guns, the new equipment.
And I can't wait to use this.
Okay.
Let's do this, guys.
Just as we are suiting up to head into the mines, we all hear something that causes an immediate panic.
We're just getting ready to start investigating.
And there's a very loud snarling right here.
We had to call Hank.
Oh, there he is right there.
He smelled your food.
I told you.
Man, we think there's a bear right here in our camp.
Listen.
Shh.
He's walking up steps like Hold on.
He's gonna come across down that walkway, I swear.
Hear him? Bigfoot is a real deal, man.
Ain't no doubt about it.
My buddy still won't talk about it, freaked him out so bad.
Put them down a creek in the middle of nowhere.
We're bouncing along.
And my buddy said, "There goes a Bigfoot!" And I saw him running.
And the next thing -- words outta his mouth -- He looked at me with his eyes that big.
And he said, "He's a shape-shifter.
" ZAK: I immediately think that a bear is down at the mill.
However, Bill has seen other mysterious creatures roaming around at night.
So Aaron, Jay, Bill Chappell and Hank, the miner, all head into the mill.
I decide it's best to stay back here and hide behind a tree in case it really is a bear or Bigfoot.
Here's where we heard the bear.
So if it's inside, this is the only way it could've gotten in.
Take this, Jay.
Take this.
Use that.
I'm serious.
What am I gonna do with this? Stab him in the face and push him back.
All right.
You're first then.
Which way do you go down, Hank? I feel like we have entered, and Bigfoot is actually hiding somewhere in here, dude.
I swear to God.
Hush.
Don't see anything.
Doesn't that look like something's gone through this? It does.
Is there a door open from the other side? Yeah.
Yeah.
There's still an entrance going that still goes.
Yeah.
It's cold.
So maybe he got out.
There's no exit here, might have a bear in there.
Is that dead-end? Dead-end? Yeah.
Can they climb ladders? No.
ZAK: As the guys are just about to leave the mill, we capture a priceless moment of Bill Chappell looking as terrified as he's ever been during a "Ghost Adventures" investigation.
Stop! Shh.
I did hear something.
I just heard giggling sound like ZAK: Hank, Bill Chappell, Jay and Aaron are in this old mill.
And that's where we heard the bear.
I'm just left here by myself while they're exploring that mine.
I now start rolling on our thermal energy camera, sweeping the entire grounds.
And as the guys return from investigating inside the mill, we hear these mysterious sounds yet again.
[ Banging .]
We were just in that building, dude.
And nothing was in there.
I'm getting a closer look.
I'll be quiet.
I'll be quiet.
Everybody just stays quiet.
Aaron? Shh.
Guys, I have two eyes looking at me.
What? I have something staring right at me, bro.
Dude, it looks like he's standing up like a human.
Be care Whoa, whoa.
Oh, my God.
It's a baby bear trying to get seed.
Is it on the ground? No.
It's climbing into the garbage can.
Are you serious? Yep.
Someone watch my back.
Come here.
ZAK: I immediately rush over with the thermal imaging camera only to discover that the noises we've been hearing aren't from an 8-foot Sasquatch or a massive bear with claws or even a baby bear.
What we've been freaking out over is actually just a Definitely a raccoon.
Here it comes.
Uh, dude, he's gonna jump right at me, bro.
I don't know what to do.
Keep going.
Dude, he's, like, looking His eyes.
Just winked at me, bro.
ZAK: During our raccoon adventure, Billy has been traveling to the Union Tunnel mine, which he will be investigating all by himself.
Phew.
So far, I'm back about I don't even know how far, maybe half a mile back here in this mine.
And you can hear every single vibration.
I have no idea how far this goes back.
But when I get back there, I'm gonna do some EVP.
And, uh, I have a couple other things I wanna try out.
Man, this is freaky.
ZAK: We were told earlier by the local miners that no one really ever goes inside here, hence its nickname, the Mystery Mine.
The reason why I'm wearing this is 'cause we're gonna go deeper in the mine this time than we did during our interviews.
And back there, there is a lotta water and a lotta mold.
I have an allergy to mold.
Aaron, Jay and myself are also using the SLS camera to see if we can peek inside another dimension where these mythological Tommyknockers may be hiding.
Tommyknocker, Tommyknocker, we're here to take your gold! It's ice cold here.
Was it right between you.
I am far back in this mine back here.
There was a little teeny-tiny figure! ZAK: Deep in the Phoenix gold mine in Idaho Springs, Colorado, We're trying to make contact with the legendary Tommyknockers.
Let us hear your knock! Get anything, Zak? Where are we? It's just pitch black.
Can't see anywhere.
Here's what we see.
You ready? Just that.
I can see the light from your -- Yeah.
All I can see is -- is this.
And it just gives a little bit of glow right around here.
But other than that, everything else is just pitch black.
Okay.
Rolling on the recorder.
Stop.
Everybody, be silent and don't move.
Hello! Can you hear me? Hold on.
Can you see me? Can you hear me? [ Thud .]
Did you hear that? There was a little knock.
I'm looking for little figures right now.
Is that a Tommyknocker? Listen.
Are you a miner? Can you understand me? Can you hear me? If you died in this mine, let me know.
Or if you're the spirit of Ray, and you're the warlock [ Metallic banging .]
Whoa.
What was that? That was over back here.
Was it back there? What was that, Jay? It was a big loud bang.
Watch out.
If you're the spirit of Ray, and you're the warlock Whoa.
Whoa.
What was that? That was over back here.
Wow.
Okay.
Hold on.
Be quiet.
Be quiet.
Right when you said his name Right when I said Ray Now there was a guy named Ray.
And, uh, I guess he was a tour guide here.
And he was a full-blown warlock.
And he was very, very deep in black magic.
And he had his ashes spread down in the deep of the mine here.
Ray, are you doing black magic on us? What kind of rituals did you do, Ray? Can you show yourself, Ray? Can you show yourself in front of my voice? Oh, my God! Oh, my God! You guys, there's a little teeny-tiny figure on my recorder! Are you serious? There was a little teeny-tiny figure that just appeared on my recorder! It was standing on my recorder! And then it just disappeared! You told him to appear right in front of your face.
Yeah.
I know.
But this was a teeny-tiny figure like a Tommyknocker.
We just hear knocks! And there was a little teeny-tiny figure that appeared on my recorder.
It was standing on my recorder.
There was nothing in the background at all.
I've never seen that before.
Oh, my God.
Dude That was so awesome.
Did you see it? Yeah.
I saw it real quick.
Did you see the little figure? For a second.
He was standing For a second.
Whoa.
Whoa.
Whoa.
Whoa.
Feel this air.
Do you feel that? Whoa.
It's getting cold.
It's ice cold right here.
Was it right between you? It's an ice cold draft.
Right here.
My whole body is completely frozen -- that was not cold.
This stays the same temperature.
This is icy cold.
And my whole body is completely frozen.
This is an amazing chain of events.
We were told earlier that Tommyknockers will appear right after you hear a knock.
Can you hear me? Holy Did you hear that? Yeah.
That was -- It was a little knock.
Right after that, we hear a very loud noise from deep within the mine shaft that sounds like miners working.
And you're the warlock.
Then, as I ask the spirit of Ray who is a black- magic-practicing warlock whose ashes were poured inside of this mine to show himself, this teeny-tiny figure appears on command, standing directly on my digital recorder.
Could Ray's black magic in the afterlife have the power to conjure a small Tommyknocker? I just definitely heard footsteps up ahead of me.
I'm getting the chills right now.
I am far, far back in this mine right now.
ZAK: Billy continues even further inside of the Mystery Mine.
Looks like the railroad tracks end right here.
This is the end.
Well, it's the end of where I can go.
Okay.
I'm a little outta breath because I just literally walked thousands of steps to get to where I'm at.
And supposedly, I'm really close to the Phoenix vein somewhere back in here.
But I am deep inside the mountain.
There's the train tracks coming in.
Right.
Here's a dam.
That's all water.
Let me show you here.
Just to show you, here's a little rock.
Those thousands and thousands of gallons of water right there are being held back by this little dam.
So this is officially the end of the road for sure.
Why are you back there? Something just grabbed my pants.
What the hell was that? Whoa.
Whoa.
ZAK: As we walk through the Phoenix gold mine, we decide to go to the exact area where Ray the warlock's ashes were poured, which is behind a locked gate that has been opened by the owner of the mine, granting us special access to this sacred site.
You ready? We're gonna go beyond this restricted area right now.
We're trying to find his spirit.
Guys, it's a little more cramped in here.
Be careful.
Hey, Ray! Are you in here? Can't go any further.
The beams just collapsed Just snapped in half.
Guys, we need to be careful.
I don't think we should be back here.
These could snap just like those.
Is this where your body is buried just beyond here? Can you show yourself? Hey, Ray! We come a long ways to chat with you real fast! Is that cool? We need to know about the Tommyknockers! What about the black magic, bro? Are you into that? What'd you do down here with that? [ Warbling .]
There's a Oh! What? Oh, my God! What? All of a sudden, a man's voice comes through the Spirit Box.
And what shocks us even more is that, at the same time, I also see an anomaly appear right above the Spirit Box.
Whoa! Holy Is this the warlock's spirit speaking to us? It went out of the Spirit Box, bro.
Real? What? I swear to God! But I just wanna document that there's nothing flying around in here.
This is all mud and wet dampness.
Now I've -- I've never seen anything like it.
My body's being affected.
State your name! It's getting really cold.
That was crazy, man.
Are you a Tommyknocker, or are you Ray? Come on! We're taking the mine over if you don't answer! Whoa! Whoa! What? There was just a flash of light right up there.
There was a flash of white light right up top.
It was right up there.
Why would it be in the ceiling? And you can see Hold on.
You can see there's nothing reflective up there.
There's no lights or anything.
There was a flash of light.
It was right there.
Why are you back there? Who are you? What, Jay? Something just grabbed my pants.
Grabbed your pants? Yeah.
What was that? Scared the -- out of me.
Me too.
Right here, this part of my pants, I just felt a pull just like that, like, pull down right there.
If you're -- if you're trapped in this mine, come communicate with me, please.
Hello? It's okay.
You can come towards me.
I mean you no harm.
There's something weird.
There it is.
There it is.
There it is.
Oh, my gosh.
Oh, my gosh.
There it is.
Oh, and it's gone! Oh, my God.
What the hell was that? It's gone.
It's gone.
Thank you for showing yourself.
Oh, my God, dude.
ZAK: Billy makes an amazing capture on thermal.
Could this unexplained transient heat signature be an old miner's carbide headlamp? Billy immediately begins using Bill Chappell's Paranormal Puck 2 device to see if this spirit can communicate with him via electromagnetic transcommunication.
BILLY: I'm gonna try and ask him questions.
And they're gonna try and change the energy and the different values that this thing collects, data-wise, to select different words because spirits are known to change electromagnetic fields.
I'm gonna begin and ask, uh, "If you are the spirit that showed up on my thermal imaging camera, can you please come over here and join me and give me some words that are relevant so that I know that you're with me.
Uncle, see, make, appear.
Uncle, see, make, appear.
What did I just ask when I had the thermal camera? Show yourself.
Make appear.
ZAK: Billy runs out of the mine in excitement and heads back to the Phoenix mine to share his evidence with Bill Chappell.
Now I'm panning up the railroad tracks, straight back to the back of the mine.
You Did you see it? Did you see it? Did you see it? The hell do you think that is? I got chills going through my whole body.
Sound like a cave-in.
Scream! Scream as loud as you can! Outside of the Phoenix gold mine ZAK: As our investigation ZAK: in Idaho Springs, Colorado, we review Billy's chilling footage.
BILLY: I asked to show itself.
MAN: Could it be a rat? It's in the air.
ZAK: It's floating in air? Yeah.
Yeah.
Wow.
Okay.
You ready? There it is.
There it is.
There it is.
Oh, my gosh.
And you see? That's the weird thing.
It was here.
And then it's, like, it -- and it'sgone.
It -- it just lights up.
It's a heat sink.
And then it's gone.
Yesterday, the -- that lady in the mine said that she caught that photo of the spirit with the lantern.
Oh.
Could that be It kinda looks like It does kinda look like a lantern.
The old -- the old candle lantern they used to wear on the head.
It's about that high.
It's about that high.
And this happened Dude, that's awesome.
That's some of the neatest footage I've ever seen.
Uh-huh.
Without a doubt, I've never seen anything like that.
ZAK: It is now time for all of us to participate in Bill Chappell's laser microphone experiment.
We're gonna run a high-powered, ultraviolet laser Ooh.
Or over 1 watt.
ZAK: When the laser mic is activated, all you are supposed to hear is this really soft white noise sound.
If anything breaks the laser beam, like a person or a spirit, strange noises will be heard according to the energy that is infused within.
Dust particles will not affect the laser beam.
Can you hear us? All of a sudden, something strange begins to happen.
[ Tinny playback .]
You know what it sounded like? It sounded like a cave-in.
Yes.
Kinda.
Yeah.
Whole bunch of stuff crumbling down and Gotta listen to that audio back, I swear it sounds like somebody was talking in it.
Yeah.
Do you need help? Scream! Scream as loud as you can! The activity flatlines on the laser microphone.
So we decide to move it to the site of the collapse, which is also where the warlock's ashes were spread.
Can you step in front of the laser? Can you block the laser? Can you do that? Okay.
Dude.
Listen real close.
It sounds like I don't know if it's the static making me think I'm hearing something.
Probably was, like, something going through the laser beam.
Maybe there's something walking Hold on! Yeah.
It is.
Could you stop doing that? [ Interference .]
I have no clue, Zak.
Same thing that we're doing there.
Yes.
Yeah.
No.
And then it just stopped.
No.
I mean, I -- I was just -- when we first turned on.
That's stuff that Right.
That huge rush of sound, I -- I have no explanation.
Everything was set up.
It was on.
Nothing was moving.
It was dead on.
Extremely loud.
Yes.
No.
During the unexplained audio evidence on the laser microphone, one of the tripods holding the transmitter was mysteriously bent in multiple places.
We came back to reposition.
And that's everybody noticed the tripod.
ZAK: How many legs? Two of the three are bent.
My -- my present.
ZAK: Between the legend of the Tommyknockers We just heard knocks! And there was a little teeny-tiny figure.
And the very real miners who lost their lives in these dark caverns, I will never enter another mine without a deep respect for what is forever left behind in these shadows.