Ghost Adventures (2008) s13e09 Episode Script
Twin Bridges Orphanage
1 ZAK: The Twin Bridges Orphanage CHILD: I want my mommy.
Do you believe in the darker side of hauntings? I think there are spirits out there.
I've seen them.
[ Children laughing .]
ZAK: Were you and the other kids in fear of getting a beating? Oh, of course.
[ Thwack! .]
AARON: Come out, come out, wherever you are.
[ Thudding .]
Aah! Look in the pool.
-What is that, dude? Look, it's moving! It's moving! ZAK: There are things in this world that we will never fully understand.
[ Distorted .]
Understand.
[ Echoing .]
We want 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! I can't give you an explanation.
[ Birds cawing .]
This is our evidence our ghost adventures.
Look at the fog all up on top of the mountains.
We are in the middle of nowhere.
We are in Montana.
We know that.
But we are trying to find a very little, tiny town called Twin Bridges.
AARON: Is this not like Silent Hill driving up? It's just eerie.
ZAK: We are in search of an abandoned orphanage with a sometimes brutal history.
Whoa! Look at that.
-Wow.
-Damn.
ZAK: The Twin Bridges Orphanage opened in 1894.
It cared for over 5,000 unfortunate souls before closing its doors in 1975.
How long have you owned this place? ADAMS: Since 2005.
This is a bit of a kind of challenge for us as I said when we were driving in, because nobody has ever investigated this.
We don't really have people to tell us evidence they've captured or spirits here.
Do you keep this place kind of guarded from everybody? -Kind of, yeah.
-Are you protective of it? I am.
I feel like a caretaker of it, so Yeah, and that's part of the reason I haven't -- I worry about when you guys go away, you know, if you do find things that are disturbing.
Why would you worry? Just that we'd be left to deal with it.
Uh-huh.
So you're -- I'm glad, no, listen -- That's been my biggest hesitation ever.
Well, I'm glad that you're open about this.
We just want to try to communicate, okay? Are you okay? -Uh-huh.
Yeah.
ZAK: Leslie clearly is emotionally connected to the spirits of orphans who linger here.
Do you believe in the darker side of hauntings? Are you religious? Do you believe in angels and demons and stuff? I think there's spirits out there.
I've seen them and have experienced them.
And while they can be frightening, you know, here there are kids singing and that's the kind of experiences I've had.
[ Child humming .]
Where do you hear that at? It tends to be when I'm alone in places.
-In the buildings? -In the buildings, yeah.
[ Children singing indistinctly .]
ZAK: Noel Freedman grew up here as an orphan.
He is author of the book "Dumped," a memoir of his time here.
Why were you sent here? What happened with your family? FREEDMAN: My mother went to the state for help and they wouldn't help her.
So one day, we went into the state capital, and my mother said, "You kids sit here on the granite steps.
If anybody asks what you're doing here, you tell them I said the state was babysitting.
" CHILD'S VOICE: "By lunch, people started asking what the kids were doing here.
'Did you kids eat?' 'No.
' 'You got money?' 'No.
' The children were placed in the Montana State Orphans Home.
" Were you ever scared being here? Just I wanted to get out.
You just wanted to get out.
Yeah, well, you know, everybody was crying to get out.
Why were they crying to get out? They missed their mommy and daddy.
Yeah.
[ Children talking indistinctly .]
[ Chalk scraping on chalkboard .]
Would kids ever die on the property? Yes, I do remember a child that did die here that got kicked by a horse.
-Really? -She got out into a field.
So she got kicked in the face by a horse? Oh, yes, she got out there or stepped on.
She was dead anyway, you know, killed out here.
There was always diseases going on.
-Right.
-Communicable diseases.
Did you have to be quarantined ever? -Oh, yeah.
-You did? Well, I mean, the whole place would be shut down.
There would be a quarantine sign on the outside for people coming that said "Quarantined.
" That meant keep out.
ZAK: A former staff member of the orphanage reports there were 30 headstones of buried orphans in the fields here and somehow they have mysteriously disappeared, leaving a recipe for innocent souls who have not only lost their mommies and daddies, but have lost their own identities.
Now, from all these buildings, where did you live? This would be the first building I went in.
-This is? -Yeah.
The kids that wet the bed would put their sheets on the radiator and dry them so they wouldn't get a whipping for wetting the bed.
Do you believe that physical beatings was right to do here at the orphanage? As a child, I thought maybe that was how they cured it.
I found out that it didn't work because they still wet the bed.
That matron come out enraged with her whip and down she'd come and it wet the bed, and the kid would turn over and whip the kid and then on to the next.
[ Thwack! .]
And this is really the God's truth.
Were you and the other kids constantly in fear of getting a beating? Oh, of course.
CHILD'S VOICE: "It's my mother's birthday today.
This morning, it was cold out, so when I came downstairs, I got by the radiator.
Horbes came down and hit me with the hose.
" The hose doesn't make any noise, but it does hurt, but you can't scream because you hurt so bad, so they had to hit harder to get a rise out of you.
ZAK: As we set up our next interview, storm clouds roll in as if the restless souls of the orphans are crying out to us.
All right, let's go.
Janie Wasmann was employed by the orphanage in the 1970's.
Did the kids ever get out of line where you had to give them a whooping? I can't tell you what I did to the one kid.
[ Laughs .]
Why can't you tell me? We had cafeteria duty and he was supposed to clean the toilets and he didn't want to, and he'd go [sighs.]
[ Sighs .]
I said, "You do that one more time, and I'm shoving your head in that toilet bowl" and by God, I did.
I never heard him go [sighs.]
ever again.
[ Laughing .]
[ Toilet flushes .]
You shoved his head in a toilet bowl? Yeah, and I flushed it.
Do you think any of the kids were ever killed here? Yes, I do.
-You do? -Yes, I do.
All we had to do was backhand them and they'd fall down the stairs, bang, we lost one more.
ZAK: To hear a former matron laugh about inflicting child abuse as punishment for a simple gesture disturbs me.
Could violent behavior like this be the cause of such unrest here? I've lived in Montana since 2000.
I was originally born in Calispell.
Kurtiss Mathias is good friends with Leslie, owner of the orphanage.
I stopped at the basketball court or hoop area and what I was looking at was a bunch of kids playing basketball, but they weren't -- they weren't flesh.
[ Children laughing .]
It wasn't flesh and bone I was looking at.
I was looking at definitely something different.
[ Thunder rumbles .]
[ Laughter .]
-Do you come in here at night? -No.
-Why? -Just not looking for trouble.
ZAK: So it could be scary here at night? Mm-hmm.
This room over here, they taught girls how to sew.
This is really interesting here.
There's something I have with mirrors, especially when they're still standing in the exact spot where these children were.
I always believe that these mirrors absorb the images and the moments of every single time that child looked at their own reflection in them.
This is what you use when you create, um, what's the name of that, a psychomanteum.
But I'll tell you right now, I strongly believe and I can even feel it, standing in between these mirrors that there is something in between these mirrors like a doorway or something right here.
I feel like a charge of energy, electricity right here.
We immediately grab our gear and return to the sewing room to investigate whatever is causing the intense energy there.
Definitely getting spikes over here.
It's going off nonstop over here.
AARON: For real? Listen, right in this area, too.
Oh, yeah.
You can hear this is just going nuts.
What's the milligauss? 0.
7, 0.
9.
MAN: It's going up? 0.
8, yes, around -- we just had a spike.
And you're not moving, you're just in the same spot.
-Did you get it, Jay? -Yeah, I got it.
Now it's down to 0.
3, 4.
7, 1.
0.
-What? -Seriously? ZAK: 0.
9.
We just had a massive 4.
7 milligauss spike for no reason whatsoever, right by the mirror where I was feeling all the energy earlier.
-Nothing on thermal.
-Let me see that.
-Here.
-Document that spike, hold onto that.
AARON: "Electric.
" Right when I walk to the mirrors, it said electric.
Like your Mel meter was going off.
It says electric right when I walk this area.
ZAK: I know, but what's interesting is it said electric and when I went there, how did I describe the feeling that was in there? -Oh, yeah.
-Electric, I said electricity.
I feel a charge of energy, electricity right here.
We have enough evidence right now to show that there are unexplained readings and unexplained things going on, paranormal, inside here.
There could possibly be bodies in here.
ZAK: There are little kids that are unknown.
I want to connect with their spirits.
You know, we were told by Leslie that it hasn't rained here in a very long time and just when we show up, this rain begins to fall.
And it just feels like these raindrops are like the tears of the orphans that came here and lost their families, they lost everything.
I was able to find something that was written by a former orphan who is now deceased, but right before he died, he wrote this in 2014.
"Both of my parents died when I was 7 years old and I was taken to the orphanage in 1932 and was there for four years.
The matron was Ms.
Hyman.
She would give each of us a whipping about five times per week.
All of us boys would cry except Robert, who never let a peep out.
Once this made her so angry that she said, 'I'll keep this up until you cry.
' After whipping Robert for a long time, he finally said a groaning.
That was the only time I heard her laugh.
" All of my thoughts that I've ever had as a small child were always good, were always positive and it pains me to read these type of quotes that were given by old men who still remember nothing but negativity.
He survived and he lived a very long time, but all the children that didn't survive, they died here.
Those atrocities combined with the emotions of these children, the sadness could very well welcome things here to these buildings that are still feeding off of those residual emotions that linger on here in the shadows.
Leslie, the owner, said one thing that is sticking with me right now.
She loves this place, she's protective of it, but she won't go in the buildings at night.
I want to find out why.
So, we just walked around with Noel and Noel just informed us that there are underground tunnels that connect all these buildings.
There are kids that are buried on the property here in unmarked graves.
There could possibly be bodies in here.
I'm sure nobody has been in these tunnels for decades.
I want to see what's in these tunnels.
Is that okay? Yeah, okay.
So now, this is rolling right now.
Be careful.
It may be the very last time I see you.
Any last words? -It's been fun.
-That's good, Jay.
Just in case if something does happen, we're going to remember you and dedicate this episode to you.
I'm just glad I'm nine years deep in this and I don't have to do that.
-I'm glad I'm 10 years deep.
I know, forget that.
ZAK: While Jay investigates the tunnels, Billy, Aaron and I head to the Twin Bridges Cemetery to pay our respects to the many unfortunate children who lost their lives at the orphanage.
All these little children, innocent spirits, still living through torment and suffering, still living in fear from the matrons that used to beat them.
And if their captives are still there, keeping them there, then we want to break that barrier.
Hello, children.
It's a little over 100 names on this plaque.
These are just the documented orphans.
There's no telling how many were undocumented.
I just feel that I have to name every single name just to let every child know that they're not forgotten.
Matthew Adams, Max Andall, Maxine Andall, Jack Anderson, Nora Anderson, Celas Anukas Armstrong, John Raymond Arigoni, Joseph Bet, Glen Duck, Marlan Brainwait, Judson Gother, Dorene Haskins, Hubert Hattula Dorene Haskins, William Hicks, Mary Joseph Johns, Edward Moore, Mable Norris, John Mueller, Alfred Shaw.
Delmar Post, Mary Rask, Walter Replogel Alfred Schaad, Edgar Scholtz, Wilfred Sheopherd, Joseph Smith, Frank Yochim.
There is a separate name plaque here that says "Those unknown.
" Could you imagine? There are little kids that are unknown whose name is not on this plaque, whose bodies are buried on the property there, whose souls are still wandering those halls.
I want to know the unknown.
I want to connect with their spirits.
This is why we're in Twin Bridges.
Hello, children.
AARON: I heard something, Zak.
BILLY: Jay, Jay, Jay.
Oh, my God.
Okay, it's time.
We are in the middle of Montana and this is how I really absolutely love it.
I love it like this when we're just stranded, there's nobody around, nobody to help us and there's a huge iron gate, Bill, to lock us in.
This property is absolutely massive.
How many acres is it? -100 acres.
-And multiple buildings of this orphanage.
We are here to try and help these little children.
There are so many deaths here and there are so many mysterious circumstances surrounding some unnamed bodies that are apparently buried on the property and I think -- -Some documented, some not.
-Right and I think that has a lot to do with the spirits that are here.
Because this orphanage contains so many abandoned buildings, Billy and Jay make their way over to investigate the gymnasium while Aaron and I focus our attention on the oldest building, a castle.
AARON: Let me just show you what we're entering -- pitch blackness.
Hello, children.
Little children, do you hear my voice? You're safe with me.
We just want to say hi, get to know you.
Lookit, I brought some toys.
Do you like toys? [ Speaking indistinctly .]
What was that? I heard something, Zak.
Before entering the gymnasium, Jay and Billy decide to set up this thermal-imaging camera covering the grounds as the spirits of children are often seen playing outside.
Oh, my God, Jay, Jay, Jay.
No, no, no.
A black figure just came straight across.
Straight across.
-Are you serious? Yes.
It came straight at me.
I can see it through the light through the ceiling.
A black shadow just rushed up to the door and then bellowed back.
I saw it with my own eyes.
ZAK: After Billy sees this dark shadow figure in the gymnasium with his own eyes, a strange light anomaly appears to come out of the gym towards them, then it does a sharp u-turn and heads right back inside.
BILLY: Who's in there? Could this light anomaly, which we debunk as not being a bug, be the same figure that Billy just saw, only now it's showing itself as a ball of light in the infrared spectrum? I was looking through my camera and saw this dark-figure thing rush up like that.
You could hear the floor.
I'm not doing so well.
I haven't even made it in there.
ZAK: Aaron and I continue using trigger objects with the intention of showing the little children that we are not here to hurt them.
[ Music box playing music .]
AARON: Did you like that? If you liked that, can you applaud or say yes out loud? -Who is in here? -Jay, what was that? It sounds like scratching.
AARON: Come out, come out, wherever you are.
[ Thudding .]
Aah! ZAK: The night is still young as Aaron and I head upstairs here at the Twin Bridges Orphanage.
Who's in there? Who's in here? AARON: Those are footsteps.
All of a sudden, Aaron and I begin hearing all kinds of loud noises coming from inside this room, which begs the question, what is in here with us? [ Clattering .]
Oh, my God.
Whoa.
What was that? [ Clattering continues .]
Aah! Pigeons.
[ Laughing .]
A pigeon.
Oh, my God.
Sorry to laugh, but What we thought were footsteps and smashing noises were actually just plain old pigeons.
Aah! [ Slow-motion .]
Aah! Those are debunked.
After Billy sees a dark figure lunge at him, he and Jay leave a basketball in that exact same spot to see if the figure will move it while they move on to investigate another building.
BILLY: Hello? Is there anybody in here? There's a lot of little rooms back there.
It's weird, man.
[ Clattering .]
Did you hear that? Jay, what was that? -Sounded like scratching.
-Where did it come from? -This back room.
It's drawing us back in.
I don't like that at all, do you? -It was like scratching.
-I heard it.
BILLY: What? What? What did you see? I don't know it just darted across the two rooms.
It went right across the hallway.
-Was it dark? -No, it was a light just shot across from the one room -- -On your camera? -On the camera.
ZAK: Right after Jay hears scratching noises come from this direction, he sees something on his camera that causes him to freak out.
Watch very closely as these dual light anomalies move in tandem with each other.
This compelling evidence is a rare capture that validates our belief that these light anomalies are visual representations of spirits.
-On your camera? -On the camera.
Hold on, hold on.
Projection.
-Projection? Did you just project yourself for Jay? Are you trying to communicate with us? Hold on.
Hide.
It says hide.
Do we hide or are you trying to hide? Dude, maybe it's Hold on, hold on, Jay.
We've got to get ahold of ourself.
Hold on.
That scratching and that light.
It says return.
It wants us to return back there.
ZAK: Jay and Billy instinctively take this message as a command to return to the gymnasium where something is about to shake both of them to their inner cores.
AARON: We're playing a game called hide-and-seek and what we're trying to do is find you.
So you've got to show yourself real quick and then we've got to come and tag you, all right? Come out, come out, wherever you are.
What was she called, the matron? This would be where she chilled.
What? What? I'm going on night vision.
Oh, my God, dude, look! Look at that.
There are little kid's voices.
All right, we're running over there right now.
Oh, my God! ZAK: It's almost midnight here in Montana, as we discover footprints in the orphanage's main building.
AARON: Oh, my God, dude, look! Look at that.
Look, they go straight to the window.
As Aaron and I are looking at these fresh footprints that appear in the center of the room and lead to the window, we examine them even closer and discover that they are not paranormal after all.
No, that's an animal.
It doesn't have a heel, right? That's definitely a raccoon.
One, two, three, four, five, that's an obvious raccoon footprint, so these are not caused by any spirit of a child.
These are definitely caused by an animal.
These are debunked.
Just as we are beginning to feel as though there are no spirits in our presence, something happens that shifts our entire perspective.
Aaron? -Yeah? Watch, watch, watch.
Who are you? I just saw you.
Do you know that you generate light? Do I look like light to you? Did you just move? -No.
Do you know that you generate light? Do I look like light to you? Did you just move? -No.
-I see you.
-I see you! Oh, my God, dude, it says I see you.
-Did you just move? -No.
-I see you.
-I see you.
You can totally hear it, it goes, "I see you.
" -Did you just move? -No.
AARON: It's only when you react to the light.
It goes, "I see you.
" Listen.
-Did you just move? -No.
-Crystal clear.
-Crystal clear.
It goes, "I see you.
" We capture a second EVP and this time, it's a full sentence.
Only we can't make out the last word, can you? What is that? Listen.
That's crazy.
-What is it saying? It's muffled.
-Yeah.
Crazy.
I'm literally frozen right now.
BILLY: I know.
There's more than just birds in there, Jay.
Oh, my God, dude.
What was that? There was three knocks.
Did you hear that? It was like, "Dang, dang, dang.
" There's more than just birds in there, Jay.
Oh, my God.
There was three distinct knocks.
Did you hear it? We had scratches, sulfur smell, growls and now three knocks.
This is not adding up to a good thing.
It's not adding up to a bunch of kids that are trapped here.
-No.
-I'm sure that they are.
We have not found the kids yet.
Right now we're coming in contact with stuff that we can feel it.
-It's dark.
-It's evil and dark.
It makes the hair on the back of your neck just stand up.
What did you see, Jay? Jay, what was that? I saw it standing right next to me.
We're all right, we're okay.
Hold on.
ZAK: Absolutely terrified, Jay and Billy head to the abandoned pool, where they begin hearing children's voices, only they aren't captured on the camera's audio, but that's about to change.
Take this moment to turn up the volume on your speakers and prepare to listen closely.
-Could you hear the kid? -Yeah, clear as day.
It was like a Ahh -Right.
-Kind of singing sound.
[ Girl singing .]
Kind of singing sound.
Zak, come in, Zak, come in.
What's up? Jay and I are literally, like, glued to each other scared, shaking, because we just heard a little kid singing a nursery rhyme plain as day.
We heard it with our own ears, both of us did.
-Where are you at? -We're over here in the gym.
It's too much to tell you over the walkie, I'm just telling you right now, but there are little kids' voices.
All right, we're running over there right now.
Where's the gym? Be careful when you come in the gym, dude.
AARON: I think it's straight and to the right.
Let's go.
I know they're scared, but do we got to run? It ain't like it was 10 years ago.
You can definitely tell we're getting older, huh, Aaron? -This place is no joke.
-Dude, right there in the pool.
Look, it's moving, it's moving.
My God.
ZAK: Billy and Jay just captured what appears to be the sound of children's spirits here in the pool area.
We just heard a little kid singing a nursery rhyme plain as day.
Aaron and I quickly make our way over to the gymnasium.
Hello? BILLY: We don't know what you guys experienced.
Jay and I have experienced nothing but darkness.
We're beside ourselves right now.
I heard it first, Jay didn't.
I was in there where the shower rooms are.
Little kid goes, Na na na na na Like hide-and-go-seek and I went, "What?" It scared me, so I came out here, and then it happened again.
We both heard it.
I know it's caught on camera.
Kind of singing sound.
This place is no joke.
So what we were just about to do is try and make contact.
It sounded like a little girl, right? Where are you, little girl? You need to take that inside that room, like, the girl's shower room and the shower and then in the gymnasium because there is something either in the gymnasium or in that shower.
It was right in Jay's face.
-That's just crazy, dude.
AARON: We didn't have that level of activity over there.
If you do this, I think that -- -Oh, God.
-What was that, dude? JAY: Hey, hey.
That was something really heavy.
It sounded like a ball bouncing honestly.
-What was that? -Dude, right there.
ZAK: Look in the pool, look in the pool right there.
-What is that? -That's the ball.
-Where did that come from? -That ball was not there.
The camera's rolling.
This one is right here.
This thing right here is shooting this whole area.
ZAK: All of a sudden, we hear a ball hit the opposite end of the pool.
None of us know where this ball came from.
We are all absolutely speechless.
It isn't until we analyze the video and brighten the picture that we realize the ball actually rolled out of this back room towards us.
That's unbelievable.
AARON: Can you even get down there in that area or is it just full of water? That's weird.
Little girl -- You heard a little girl, right? -Yeah.
-Yes.
ZAK: Little girl, can you move this ball? [ Gasps .]
It just moved when you said that.
Keep moving it.
Look, it's moving, it's moving.
-No way.
-Oh, my God.
-Are you serious? -Keep moving it.
-How the hell is it moving? -It was just sitting still.
Keep moving it.
ZAK: I immediately grab the Ovilus III device to see if this little girl will communicate through it.
Carol.
-Carol! -Carol.
-Get out of here! -You serious? ZAK: As I'm walking down this ladder, I get the name of a girl named Carol.
That's insane.
Is that your name, Carol? It's probably the girl who was singing the song.
What did it say? -Laugh.
-Laugh.
It says laugh.
Here, Aaron, get it.
Twist.
Laugh.
I got it, twist.
Zak, you're all twisted right now.
Yeah.
You're trying to show me.
I'm all twisted up.
She's laughing at you.
She's laughing at me for being all twisted up on the ladder.
-Exactly.
Carol, are you laughing at me? Cleansing.
Cleansing.
Carol, is this cleansing you, laughing, looking at me all twisted up on the ladder? This is some of the most amazing evidence we have ever captured on a Ghost Adventures investigation.
Jay and Billy heard Carol's voice then we all witnessed a mysterious ball appear out of nowhere and it also seems to move on command.
Can you move this ball? It just moved when you said that.
It just moved.
Keep moving it.
It's moving, it's moving.
Next, this little girl identifies herself and she also laughs at my posture as I'm all twisted up on the ladder.
We came here to witness these spirits but we leave knowing, that our presence has also helped them.
Carol, is this cleansing you? Let's go in the gymnasium.
Yeah, yeah.
There is more horse poop on this property, like, seriously every four steps, there's just land mines.
Before I die, there will be a lot of bull [bleep.]
too, I'm sure.
[ Laughter .]
Don't print that.
Do you believe in the darker side of hauntings? I think there are spirits out there.
I've seen them.
[ Children laughing .]
ZAK: Were you and the other kids in fear of getting a beating? Oh, of course.
[ Thwack! .]
AARON: Come out, come out, wherever you are.
[ Thudding .]
Aah! Look in the pool.
-What is that, dude? Look, it's moving! It's moving! ZAK: There are things in this world that we will never fully understand.
[ Distorted .]
Understand.
[ Echoing .]
We want 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! I can't give you an explanation.
[ Birds cawing .]
This is our evidence our ghost adventures.
Look at the fog all up on top of the mountains.
We are in the middle of nowhere.
We are in Montana.
We know that.
But we are trying to find a very little, tiny town called Twin Bridges.
AARON: Is this not like Silent Hill driving up? It's just eerie.
ZAK: We are in search of an abandoned orphanage with a sometimes brutal history.
Whoa! Look at that.
-Wow.
-Damn.
ZAK: The Twin Bridges Orphanage opened in 1894.
It cared for over 5,000 unfortunate souls before closing its doors in 1975.
How long have you owned this place? ADAMS: Since 2005.
This is a bit of a kind of challenge for us as I said when we were driving in, because nobody has ever investigated this.
We don't really have people to tell us evidence they've captured or spirits here.
Do you keep this place kind of guarded from everybody? -Kind of, yeah.
-Are you protective of it? I am.
I feel like a caretaker of it, so Yeah, and that's part of the reason I haven't -- I worry about when you guys go away, you know, if you do find things that are disturbing.
Why would you worry? Just that we'd be left to deal with it.
Uh-huh.
So you're -- I'm glad, no, listen -- That's been my biggest hesitation ever.
Well, I'm glad that you're open about this.
We just want to try to communicate, okay? Are you okay? -Uh-huh.
Yeah.
ZAK: Leslie clearly is emotionally connected to the spirits of orphans who linger here.
Do you believe in the darker side of hauntings? Are you religious? Do you believe in angels and demons and stuff? I think there's spirits out there.
I've seen them and have experienced them.
And while they can be frightening, you know, here there are kids singing and that's the kind of experiences I've had.
[ Child humming .]
Where do you hear that at? It tends to be when I'm alone in places.
-In the buildings? -In the buildings, yeah.
[ Children singing indistinctly .]
ZAK: Noel Freedman grew up here as an orphan.
He is author of the book "Dumped," a memoir of his time here.
Why were you sent here? What happened with your family? FREEDMAN: My mother went to the state for help and they wouldn't help her.
So one day, we went into the state capital, and my mother said, "You kids sit here on the granite steps.
If anybody asks what you're doing here, you tell them I said the state was babysitting.
" CHILD'S VOICE: "By lunch, people started asking what the kids were doing here.
'Did you kids eat?' 'No.
' 'You got money?' 'No.
' The children were placed in the Montana State Orphans Home.
" Were you ever scared being here? Just I wanted to get out.
You just wanted to get out.
Yeah, well, you know, everybody was crying to get out.
Why were they crying to get out? They missed their mommy and daddy.
Yeah.
[ Children talking indistinctly .]
[ Chalk scraping on chalkboard .]
Would kids ever die on the property? Yes, I do remember a child that did die here that got kicked by a horse.
-Really? -She got out into a field.
So she got kicked in the face by a horse? Oh, yes, she got out there or stepped on.
She was dead anyway, you know, killed out here.
There was always diseases going on.
-Right.
-Communicable diseases.
Did you have to be quarantined ever? -Oh, yeah.
-You did? Well, I mean, the whole place would be shut down.
There would be a quarantine sign on the outside for people coming that said "Quarantined.
" That meant keep out.
ZAK: A former staff member of the orphanage reports there were 30 headstones of buried orphans in the fields here and somehow they have mysteriously disappeared, leaving a recipe for innocent souls who have not only lost their mommies and daddies, but have lost their own identities.
Now, from all these buildings, where did you live? This would be the first building I went in.
-This is? -Yeah.
The kids that wet the bed would put their sheets on the radiator and dry them so they wouldn't get a whipping for wetting the bed.
Do you believe that physical beatings was right to do here at the orphanage? As a child, I thought maybe that was how they cured it.
I found out that it didn't work because they still wet the bed.
That matron come out enraged with her whip and down she'd come and it wet the bed, and the kid would turn over and whip the kid and then on to the next.
[ Thwack! .]
And this is really the God's truth.
Were you and the other kids constantly in fear of getting a beating? Oh, of course.
CHILD'S VOICE: "It's my mother's birthday today.
This morning, it was cold out, so when I came downstairs, I got by the radiator.
Horbes came down and hit me with the hose.
" The hose doesn't make any noise, but it does hurt, but you can't scream because you hurt so bad, so they had to hit harder to get a rise out of you.
ZAK: As we set up our next interview, storm clouds roll in as if the restless souls of the orphans are crying out to us.
All right, let's go.
Janie Wasmann was employed by the orphanage in the 1970's.
Did the kids ever get out of line where you had to give them a whooping? I can't tell you what I did to the one kid.
[ Laughs .]
Why can't you tell me? We had cafeteria duty and he was supposed to clean the toilets and he didn't want to, and he'd go [sighs.]
[ Sighs .]
I said, "You do that one more time, and I'm shoving your head in that toilet bowl" and by God, I did.
I never heard him go [sighs.]
ever again.
[ Laughing .]
[ Toilet flushes .]
You shoved his head in a toilet bowl? Yeah, and I flushed it.
Do you think any of the kids were ever killed here? Yes, I do.
-You do? -Yes, I do.
All we had to do was backhand them and they'd fall down the stairs, bang, we lost one more.
ZAK: To hear a former matron laugh about inflicting child abuse as punishment for a simple gesture disturbs me.
Could violent behavior like this be the cause of such unrest here? I've lived in Montana since 2000.
I was originally born in Calispell.
Kurtiss Mathias is good friends with Leslie, owner of the orphanage.
I stopped at the basketball court or hoop area and what I was looking at was a bunch of kids playing basketball, but they weren't -- they weren't flesh.
[ Children laughing .]
It wasn't flesh and bone I was looking at.
I was looking at definitely something different.
[ Thunder rumbles .]
[ Laughter .]
-Do you come in here at night? -No.
-Why? -Just not looking for trouble.
ZAK: So it could be scary here at night? Mm-hmm.
This room over here, they taught girls how to sew.
This is really interesting here.
There's something I have with mirrors, especially when they're still standing in the exact spot where these children were.
I always believe that these mirrors absorb the images and the moments of every single time that child looked at their own reflection in them.
This is what you use when you create, um, what's the name of that, a psychomanteum.
But I'll tell you right now, I strongly believe and I can even feel it, standing in between these mirrors that there is something in between these mirrors like a doorway or something right here.
I feel like a charge of energy, electricity right here.
We immediately grab our gear and return to the sewing room to investigate whatever is causing the intense energy there.
Definitely getting spikes over here.
It's going off nonstop over here.
AARON: For real? Listen, right in this area, too.
Oh, yeah.
You can hear this is just going nuts.
What's the milligauss? 0.
7, 0.
9.
MAN: It's going up? 0.
8, yes, around -- we just had a spike.
And you're not moving, you're just in the same spot.
-Did you get it, Jay? -Yeah, I got it.
Now it's down to 0.
3, 4.
7, 1.
0.
-What? -Seriously? ZAK: 0.
9.
We just had a massive 4.
7 milligauss spike for no reason whatsoever, right by the mirror where I was feeling all the energy earlier.
-Nothing on thermal.
-Let me see that.
-Here.
-Document that spike, hold onto that.
AARON: "Electric.
" Right when I walk to the mirrors, it said electric.
Like your Mel meter was going off.
It says electric right when I walk this area.
ZAK: I know, but what's interesting is it said electric and when I went there, how did I describe the feeling that was in there? -Oh, yeah.
-Electric, I said electricity.
I feel a charge of energy, electricity right here.
We have enough evidence right now to show that there are unexplained readings and unexplained things going on, paranormal, inside here.
There could possibly be bodies in here.
ZAK: There are little kids that are unknown.
I want to connect with their spirits.
You know, we were told by Leslie that it hasn't rained here in a very long time and just when we show up, this rain begins to fall.
And it just feels like these raindrops are like the tears of the orphans that came here and lost their families, they lost everything.
I was able to find something that was written by a former orphan who is now deceased, but right before he died, he wrote this in 2014.
"Both of my parents died when I was 7 years old and I was taken to the orphanage in 1932 and was there for four years.
The matron was Ms.
Hyman.
She would give each of us a whipping about five times per week.
All of us boys would cry except Robert, who never let a peep out.
Once this made her so angry that she said, 'I'll keep this up until you cry.
' After whipping Robert for a long time, he finally said a groaning.
That was the only time I heard her laugh.
" All of my thoughts that I've ever had as a small child were always good, were always positive and it pains me to read these type of quotes that were given by old men who still remember nothing but negativity.
He survived and he lived a very long time, but all the children that didn't survive, they died here.
Those atrocities combined with the emotions of these children, the sadness could very well welcome things here to these buildings that are still feeding off of those residual emotions that linger on here in the shadows.
Leslie, the owner, said one thing that is sticking with me right now.
She loves this place, she's protective of it, but she won't go in the buildings at night.
I want to find out why.
So, we just walked around with Noel and Noel just informed us that there are underground tunnels that connect all these buildings.
There are kids that are buried on the property here in unmarked graves.
There could possibly be bodies in here.
I'm sure nobody has been in these tunnels for decades.
I want to see what's in these tunnels.
Is that okay? Yeah, okay.
So now, this is rolling right now.
Be careful.
It may be the very last time I see you.
Any last words? -It's been fun.
-That's good, Jay.
Just in case if something does happen, we're going to remember you and dedicate this episode to you.
I'm just glad I'm nine years deep in this and I don't have to do that.
-I'm glad I'm 10 years deep.
I know, forget that.
ZAK: While Jay investigates the tunnels, Billy, Aaron and I head to the Twin Bridges Cemetery to pay our respects to the many unfortunate children who lost their lives at the orphanage.
All these little children, innocent spirits, still living through torment and suffering, still living in fear from the matrons that used to beat them.
And if their captives are still there, keeping them there, then we want to break that barrier.
Hello, children.
It's a little over 100 names on this plaque.
These are just the documented orphans.
There's no telling how many were undocumented.
I just feel that I have to name every single name just to let every child know that they're not forgotten.
Matthew Adams, Max Andall, Maxine Andall, Jack Anderson, Nora Anderson, Celas Anukas Armstrong, John Raymond Arigoni, Joseph Bet, Glen Duck, Marlan Brainwait, Judson Gother, Dorene Haskins, Hubert Hattula Dorene Haskins, William Hicks, Mary Joseph Johns, Edward Moore, Mable Norris, John Mueller, Alfred Shaw.
Delmar Post, Mary Rask, Walter Replogel Alfred Schaad, Edgar Scholtz, Wilfred Sheopherd, Joseph Smith, Frank Yochim.
There is a separate name plaque here that says "Those unknown.
" Could you imagine? There are little kids that are unknown whose name is not on this plaque, whose bodies are buried on the property there, whose souls are still wandering those halls.
I want to know the unknown.
I want to connect with their spirits.
This is why we're in Twin Bridges.
Hello, children.
AARON: I heard something, Zak.
BILLY: Jay, Jay, Jay.
Oh, my God.
Okay, it's time.
We are in the middle of Montana and this is how I really absolutely love it.
I love it like this when we're just stranded, there's nobody around, nobody to help us and there's a huge iron gate, Bill, to lock us in.
This property is absolutely massive.
How many acres is it? -100 acres.
-And multiple buildings of this orphanage.
We are here to try and help these little children.
There are so many deaths here and there are so many mysterious circumstances surrounding some unnamed bodies that are apparently buried on the property and I think -- -Some documented, some not.
-Right and I think that has a lot to do with the spirits that are here.
Because this orphanage contains so many abandoned buildings, Billy and Jay make their way over to investigate the gymnasium while Aaron and I focus our attention on the oldest building, a castle.
AARON: Let me just show you what we're entering -- pitch blackness.
Hello, children.
Little children, do you hear my voice? You're safe with me.
We just want to say hi, get to know you.
Lookit, I brought some toys.
Do you like toys? [ Speaking indistinctly .]
What was that? I heard something, Zak.
Before entering the gymnasium, Jay and Billy decide to set up this thermal-imaging camera covering the grounds as the spirits of children are often seen playing outside.
Oh, my God, Jay, Jay, Jay.
No, no, no.
A black figure just came straight across.
Straight across.
-Are you serious? Yes.
It came straight at me.
I can see it through the light through the ceiling.
A black shadow just rushed up to the door and then bellowed back.
I saw it with my own eyes.
ZAK: After Billy sees this dark shadow figure in the gymnasium with his own eyes, a strange light anomaly appears to come out of the gym towards them, then it does a sharp u-turn and heads right back inside.
BILLY: Who's in there? Could this light anomaly, which we debunk as not being a bug, be the same figure that Billy just saw, only now it's showing itself as a ball of light in the infrared spectrum? I was looking through my camera and saw this dark-figure thing rush up like that.
You could hear the floor.
I'm not doing so well.
I haven't even made it in there.
ZAK: Aaron and I continue using trigger objects with the intention of showing the little children that we are not here to hurt them.
[ Music box playing music .]
AARON: Did you like that? If you liked that, can you applaud or say yes out loud? -Who is in here? -Jay, what was that? It sounds like scratching.
AARON: Come out, come out, wherever you are.
[ Thudding .]
Aah! ZAK: The night is still young as Aaron and I head upstairs here at the Twin Bridges Orphanage.
Who's in there? Who's in here? AARON: Those are footsteps.
All of a sudden, Aaron and I begin hearing all kinds of loud noises coming from inside this room, which begs the question, what is in here with us? [ Clattering .]
Oh, my God.
Whoa.
What was that? [ Clattering continues .]
Aah! Pigeons.
[ Laughing .]
A pigeon.
Oh, my God.
Sorry to laugh, but What we thought were footsteps and smashing noises were actually just plain old pigeons.
Aah! [ Slow-motion .]
Aah! Those are debunked.
After Billy sees a dark figure lunge at him, he and Jay leave a basketball in that exact same spot to see if the figure will move it while they move on to investigate another building.
BILLY: Hello? Is there anybody in here? There's a lot of little rooms back there.
It's weird, man.
[ Clattering .]
Did you hear that? Jay, what was that? -Sounded like scratching.
-Where did it come from? -This back room.
It's drawing us back in.
I don't like that at all, do you? -It was like scratching.
-I heard it.
BILLY: What? What? What did you see? I don't know it just darted across the two rooms.
It went right across the hallway.
-Was it dark? -No, it was a light just shot across from the one room -- -On your camera? -On the camera.
ZAK: Right after Jay hears scratching noises come from this direction, he sees something on his camera that causes him to freak out.
Watch very closely as these dual light anomalies move in tandem with each other.
This compelling evidence is a rare capture that validates our belief that these light anomalies are visual representations of spirits.
-On your camera? -On the camera.
Hold on, hold on.
Projection.
-Projection? Did you just project yourself for Jay? Are you trying to communicate with us? Hold on.
Hide.
It says hide.
Do we hide or are you trying to hide? Dude, maybe it's Hold on, hold on, Jay.
We've got to get ahold of ourself.
Hold on.
That scratching and that light.
It says return.
It wants us to return back there.
ZAK: Jay and Billy instinctively take this message as a command to return to the gymnasium where something is about to shake both of them to their inner cores.
AARON: We're playing a game called hide-and-seek and what we're trying to do is find you.
So you've got to show yourself real quick and then we've got to come and tag you, all right? Come out, come out, wherever you are.
What was she called, the matron? This would be where she chilled.
What? What? I'm going on night vision.
Oh, my God, dude, look! Look at that.
There are little kid's voices.
All right, we're running over there right now.
Oh, my God! ZAK: It's almost midnight here in Montana, as we discover footprints in the orphanage's main building.
AARON: Oh, my God, dude, look! Look at that.
Look, they go straight to the window.
As Aaron and I are looking at these fresh footprints that appear in the center of the room and lead to the window, we examine them even closer and discover that they are not paranormal after all.
No, that's an animal.
It doesn't have a heel, right? That's definitely a raccoon.
One, two, three, four, five, that's an obvious raccoon footprint, so these are not caused by any spirit of a child.
These are definitely caused by an animal.
These are debunked.
Just as we are beginning to feel as though there are no spirits in our presence, something happens that shifts our entire perspective.
Aaron? -Yeah? Watch, watch, watch.
Who are you? I just saw you.
Do you know that you generate light? Do I look like light to you? Did you just move? -No.
Do you know that you generate light? Do I look like light to you? Did you just move? -No.
-I see you.
-I see you! Oh, my God, dude, it says I see you.
-Did you just move? -No.
-I see you.
-I see you.
You can totally hear it, it goes, "I see you.
" -Did you just move? -No.
AARON: It's only when you react to the light.
It goes, "I see you.
" Listen.
-Did you just move? -No.
-Crystal clear.
-Crystal clear.
It goes, "I see you.
" We capture a second EVP and this time, it's a full sentence.
Only we can't make out the last word, can you? What is that? Listen.
That's crazy.
-What is it saying? It's muffled.
-Yeah.
Crazy.
I'm literally frozen right now.
BILLY: I know.
There's more than just birds in there, Jay.
Oh, my God, dude.
What was that? There was three knocks.
Did you hear that? It was like, "Dang, dang, dang.
" There's more than just birds in there, Jay.
Oh, my God.
There was three distinct knocks.
Did you hear it? We had scratches, sulfur smell, growls and now three knocks.
This is not adding up to a good thing.
It's not adding up to a bunch of kids that are trapped here.
-No.
-I'm sure that they are.
We have not found the kids yet.
Right now we're coming in contact with stuff that we can feel it.
-It's dark.
-It's evil and dark.
It makes the hair on the back of your neck just stand up.
What did you see, Jay? Jay, what was that? I saw it standing right next to me.
We're all right, we're okay.
Hold on.
ZAK: Absolutely terrified, Jay and Billy head to the abandoned pool, where they begin hearing children's voices, only they aren't captured on the camera's audio, but that's about to change.
Take this moment to turn up the volume on your speakers and prepare to listen closely.
-Could you hear the kid? -Yeah, clear as day.
It was like a Ahh -Right.
-Kind of singing sound.
[ Girl singing .]
Kind of singing sound.
Zak, come in, Zak, come in.
What's up? Jay and I are literally, like, glued to each other scared, shaking, because we just heard a little kid singing a nursery rhyme plain as day.
We heard it with our own ears, both of us did.
-Where are you at? -We're over here in the gym.
It's too much to tell you over the walkie, I'm just telling you right now, but there are little kids' voices.
All right, we're running over there right now.
Where's the gym? Be careful when you come in the gym, dude.
AARON: I think it's straight and to the right.
Let's go.
I know they're scared, but do we got to run? It ain't like it was 10 years ago.
You can definitely tell we're getting older, huh, Aaron? -This place is no joke.
-Dude, right there in the pool.
Look, it's moving, it's moving.
My God.
ZAK: Billy and Jay just captured what appears to be the sound of children's spirits here in the pool area.
We just heard a little kid singing a nursery rhyme plain as day.
Aaron and I quickly make our way over to the gymnasium.
Hello? BILLY: We don't know what you guys experienced.
Jay and I have experienced nothing but darkness.
We're beside ourselves right now.
I heard it first, Jay didn't.
I was in there where the shower rooms are.
Little kid goes, Na na na na na Like hide-and-go-seek and I went, "What?" It scared me, so I came out here, and then it happened again.
We both heard it.
I know it's caught on camera.
Kind of singing sound.
This place is no joke.
So what we were just about to do is try and make contact.
It sounded like a little girl, right? Where are you, little girl? You need to take that inside that room, like, the girl's shower room and the shower and then in the gymnasium because there is something either in the gymnasium or in that shower.
It was right in Jay's face.
-That's just crazy, dude.
AARON: We didn't have that level of activity over there.
If you do this, I think that -- -Oh, God.
-What was that, dude? JAY: Hey, hey.
That was something really heavy.
It sounded like a ball bouncing honestly.
-What was that? -Dude, right there.
ZAK: Look in the pool, look in the pool right there.
-What is that? -That's the ball.
-Where did that come from? -That ball was not there.
The camera's rolling.
This one is right here.
This thing right here is shooting this whole area.
ZAK: All of a sudden, we hear a ball hit the opposite end of the pool.
None of us know where this ball came from.
We are all absolutely speechless.
It isn't until we analyze the video and brighten the picture that we realize the ball actually rolled out of this back room towards us.
That's unbelievable.
AARON: Can you even get down there in that area or is it just full of water? That's weird.
Little girl -- You heard a little girl, right? -Yeah.
-Yes.
ZAK: Little girl, can you move this ball? [ Gasps .]
It just moved when you said that.
Keep moving it.
Look, it's moving, it's moving.
-No way.
-Oh, my God.
-Are you serious? -Keep moving it.
-How the hell is it moving? -It was just sitting still.
Keep moving it.
ZAK: I immediately grab the Ovilus III device to see if this little girl will communicate through it.
Carol.
-Carol! -Carol.
-Get out of here! -You serious? ZAK: As I'm walking down this ladder, I get the name of a girl named Carol.
That's insane.
Is that your name, Carol? It's probably the girl who was singing the song.
What did it say? -Laugh.
-Laugh.
It says laugh.
Here, Aaron, get it.
Twist.
Laugh.
I got it, twist.
Zak, you're all twisted right now.
Yeah.
You're trying to show me.
I'm all twisted up.
She's laughing at you.
She's laughing at me for being all twisted up on the ladder.
-Exactly.
Carol, are you laughing at me? Cleansing.
Cleansing.
Carol, is this cleansing you, laughing, looking at me all twisted up on the ladder? This is some of the most amazing evidence we have ever captured on a Ghost Adventures investigation.
Jay and Billy heard Carol's voice then we all witnessed a mysterious ball appear out of nowhere and it also seems to move on command.
Can you move this ball? It just moved when you said that.
It just moved.
Keep moving it.
It's moving, it's moving.
Next, this little girl identifies herself and she also laughs at my posture as I'm all twisted up on the ladder.
We came here to witness these spirits but we leave knowing, that our presence has also helped them.
Carol, is this cleansing you? Let's go in the gymnasium.
Yeah, yeah.
There is more horse poop on this property, like, seriously every four steps, there's just land mines.
Before I die, there will be a lot of bull [bleep.]
too, I'm sure.
[ Laughter .]
Don't print that.