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so we're on our way to Point Pleasant West Virginia home of the Mothman I think you're gonna really like this town I think we're the moth nest and we're gonna find a Mothman it's gonna be out here goes beyond belief are you scared [Music] man [Music] this week on BuzzFeed unsolved we travel to Point Pleasant West Virginia as we dip our toes back into the cryptid pool again to search for the famed creature the Mothman oh very impressive you see that that's good you'll see firsthand when we travel to West Virginia which we're gonna we're gonna do soon after ice what do you mean these lists these my Mothman gloves I use these to catch them look at the grip i grip him by the talons even's to read them yeah let's get into it the Mothman is a crypt as a logical creature that is thought to have made its first appearance in 1966 witnesses have described the creature to be man-like in stature often seen walking on its two hind legs the Mothman is spotted primarily at night and it's color is tough to discern sometimes it's described as gray other times as brown however the gigantic frame of the Mothman is largely undisputed across all accounts the Mothman is a physically imposing specimen ranging from six to eight feet tall as its name would suggest the Mothman is capable of flight sporting two enormous wings with a monstrous eight to 15 foot wingspan one chilling detail that is reported in many sightings is The Moth man's unforgettable and haunting red eyes a red described by one woman as quote red like you never saw red quote moths aren't even scary people say Mothman I don't I don't shiver I think he's called Mothman not because he looks like a giant moth a giant moth would have like almost butterfly you wings right if he doesn't have butter fuel it's kind of more like like like Batman's wing well they shouldn't call them off Maya's we'll take it up with whoever made it up the sky beast sky beast you just literally put together the two things at its moon monster it's pretty dumb the cloud fiend no IC said what let's go through some other ones what do you want to see my what are the other ones you got the evil eagle dr. sky shadow mr. wind biter mr. wind biter oh you know he's flying through the air you said it out loud you're still gonna stand by it teeth gnashing that's good but what about like no that's bad what do you got no it was really a was I was gonna say wing at Ron Wayne up truck yes that sounds that sounds like a robot a robot yeah it was in Point Pleasant West Virginia where the Mothman became famous hence our presence in the town now in fact a statue of the famed creature sits in the center of town for those seeking a face-to-face encounter stop number one Mothman statue looks very ornate and you'll be able to stare at it right eye what's that supposed to it means you're eight feet tall - tall joke get it look at its eyes the other a beautiful amber or something I was gonna say they're pure terror I could feel it coursing through my veins oh my god he's got a full six-pack look at that this guy definitely p90 absence he's like a George Clooney Batman hopefully this isn't our only face-to-face encounter with the Mothman maybe we'll find one in the woods and he'll look nothing like this and we'll have to contact the board of West Virginia and say you need to change your statute because the boys have solved it yeah I certainly don't think he's gonna have GI Joe Armour on knee pads - a little odd these guys ass by the way oh my god the purpose of our pilgrimage to Point Pleasant is to catch a glimpse of the Mothman but if that effort proves to be fruitless we can still enjoy the influence of Mothe mania that is ever-present across town for starters there's an annual Mothman festival every September and Mothman souvenirs it's docked on shelves ready for eager tourists year-round at the coffee grinder you can order various Mothman treats including chocolate Mothman droppings Mothman coffee as well as a delightful Mothman cookie complete with red eyes this is a coffee grinder this is one of the many locations around town where you could pick up some Mothman treats you excited yeah they got a little moth man lives here he dies he's sort of like the funny little mascot of this town good mascot man this is a nice and cozy and look at that yeah feels right you think you look this friendly when we sing it probably I don't know if it will be smiling like that like yeah that's better stop that anything is boys it sound like so well me the Mothman you know it's probably it's me there you go man good yeah mostly people are out of town shall we eat some droppings whoo look it just feels weird I don't know feels right mmm sweet starter and a nutty the crunchy finish let's we have the adult here and then and then the baby yeah I'm greatly enjoying this moment this is nice really soft this is good well now let me take a sip this is good is this what those were that boys feel like no no gold finally at village pizza you can order it the delectable namesake mothman pizza oh you're going through that door I was gonna open the door alright this is Christ this mothman pizza honors pedestrian toppings with the responsibility of mimicking the look of the famed creature the clever arrangement enlists blood red cherry tomatoes for eyes bell peppers for feet and spooky mushrooms for wings so this is very fun for them he is without a doubt a big part of their commerce in terms of tourism if I'm going to Point Pleasant West Virginia I would go there for the Mothman yeah and these people are on board I just like that the town can rally around it some people have a positive that the people of this town have made Mothman up as a beacon of tourism oh right impossible I don't buy for a second no now I sit for [ __ ] foolproof passed rigorous mill test I don't trust that test one bit and I do because it's my test [Applause] alright there it is thank you he's looking at me right now it was beating little eyes look at me now Sheen what do you think of me I like this guy I like his volume no thanks we got the wings right here the torso a little bell pepper Fein legs that's amazing if I saw this in the woods I wouldn't necessarily be all that stares actually the eyes would be pretty terrifying yeah those are actually pretty creepy oh I like it I dig it I can't wait to eat his body I call one of the eyepieces there's only two of us here so I'm gonna obviously get the other one [Applause] [Music] that's good while at village pizza the manager sat with us to share a story of a Mothman sighting what's the scariest tale you've heard from someone in terms of sighting the Mothman Danny Starr Barry's mother she said that one night she had to fight him off because he come in to get Danny she was like six months old was in her bed and she had to fight the Mothman off course he was trying to grab the baby he was trying to steal her yeah I mean that that was her story but I mean she very she was very convincing and it's sad to say she's dead done now but that was a very scary she fought the Mothman what'd she do oh my god actually oh she didn't actually fight him but I mean she wrestled and got her baby from him oh yes that's her story oh that was educational good got my souvenirs it was good it's time these two weirdly optimistic pilgrims are ready to embark on our menacing Mothman mission let's begin at the main sighting that started moth mania as we know it all right so this is the McClintock wildlife management area this is the area of the main sighting this looks like the kind of area you'd see a Mothman the Mothman exactly right sparse not a lot of people out here yet there's parts that are densely wooded seems like a good road to be terrified on during World War two 8,000 acres of a wooded area near Point Pleasant West Virginia were employed to manufacture and house explosives the explosives were housed in concrete igloos dispersed across the land after the war the effort was abandoned and the area was partially converted into a wildlife preserve that is now known today as the McClintock Wildlife Management Area in the 80s it was uncovered that byproducts of the explosives had critically contaminated the land and yet to this day the igloos and some of their hazardous materials remained some speculate that this contamination mutated local birds into what would eventually become the moths bit but that's purely speculation I don't think that's how that stuff works I think usually if you come into contact with maybe something radioactive or something you die or you turn into the Mothman I mean what are the odds of it they in zero will Park here and then we'll make our way out into the wildlife preserve it's daytime right now but weird what we're doing nightfall is gonna come soon yeah and you know I always come prepared yeah I mean there's hunters around here I want to get shot no I know we don't want you to get shot so I'm breaking out Old Faithful no helmet this time no I don't have any reports of Mothman hitting people over they have it rock so I don't think it's necessary this time around I guess you know in some sense you may be making yourself a better target for Mothman to just sky out grab you by his talons maybe he'll be a lot like Bigfoot and be like oh what a colorful vest you think we should try and bro down and Longman - oh yeah I didn't bring a beer frame he doesn't strike me as a beer type he strikes me more as a wine guy I he struck me as like a like a field mice kind of guy despite the dangerous material stored there in years past in 1966 this area often called the TNT area was a popular destination for local youth as such on November 15th 1966 Steve and Mary mallet and Roger and Linda Scarberry were enjoying a leisurely drive through the TNT area unfortunately their amusement would come to a screeching halt when the two women Lynda and Mary spotted a figure near the TNT plant the figure began to move towards the building's entrance in a shuffling manner providing them a fine opportunity to observe the creature while they initially thought it looked a lot like a man it clearly did not have arms or a head it had massive folded wings high on the back and perhaps most noteworthy to beaming red eyes so my guess the couples were somewhere around here maybe on that road over there yeah and I'm not sure of the exact location but this is where they saw him stumbling around they just saw him kind of Shamblin yeah the Shamblin man kind of I don't know maybe he was just taking a walk I mean what's it to you why would you take a walk up working creature you could do what he wants after being spellbound momentarily by the creature the couples came to their senses and took off in their car terrified any any thoughts on that so far nope well yours at 66 66 a few teens out there probably smoking a few funny cigarettes you could say wait it's 2018 some grass as they made their way towards highway 62 in Rogers car Berry's 1957 Chevy they saw the being appear in front of them and rise directly up into the sky the creature had a gargantuan ten-foot wingspan and the couple's noted that it did not need to flap its wings as it chased the car at speeds of up to 100 miles per hour quote gliding above and behind the vehicle end quote the creature made a noise similar to a quote record played at a high speed or squeak of a mouse and quote not exactly the most terrorizing sound and this is why I think maybe these people aren't lying because if they were lying that seems like a weird detail to make up you would say it opened its mouth and the mountains moved with the force of the roar yeah and they went no it's it's squeak like a little baby mouse that's what happened I was terrified it was easy to do the Bigfoot call at a very loud volume but it's gonna be hard out there to give me your best mothman squeak if you're this is the the noise you're gonna make to try and attract another moth person I'm gonna try two different approaches to this okay I can't wait to one it's going to be an exhale and then one's gonna be an inhale so my first one is that's one my other one is gonna be a little more high-pitched because it's gonna be the inhale the first one was alright I'll give you that the second one kind of sounded like you were smothering a dolphin also your eyes kind of rolled back it's just a weird performance all around it's a gift I guess I could try one yeah just try and inhale it sounded like a pig giving birth I thought mine was rather good sound off in the comments who's who screech whoosh I'm off let us know fortunately the creature stopped chasing the couples and disappeared as the couples near the populated area of town Linda Scarberry wanted to report it to the police but they were concerned that they would not be taken seriously as a result in an audacious move they decided to return to the place of the sighting to confirm what they had seen to their affirmation / terror they once again saw the creature this time stumbling around in a dark pasture this spurred the couples to head straight for the Mason County Courthouse to file a report first off by the way most of the time people naturally will just run away in the tell the story very few times have I seen a case where the people would then return to the site and try and confirm that they weren't going crazy and that they actually saw what they saw and that's what these four people did yeah that's very noble yeah and they did that they saw it they're like ok we confirmed now let's go to the police deputy Millard Halstead was on hand to take the report due to the size of the town deputy house dead new the couples and believed their claims to be sincere the handwritten eyewitness police reports from the mallets and the scar berries is actually on display at the Mothman museum the couple's claim that the police put all four of them in separate rooms and asked them each to write down what happened that all of the accounts match I mean they're gonna write you know okay I'm gonna ask you to possibly incriminate yourself a little bit yeah that's fine think of any time you've had partaken in the smoking of the ganja yeah yeah don't do drugs don't do drugs first off whatever legalizing not sleeveless how you do it California's least anyways think of you are smoking it with three of your buddies yeah and now imagine that you were so out of it that you imagined a giant moth creature and then after that you go to the police one of the worst things you could possibly do when you're high and then you all tell the same details of a story the only way I feel like you could tell something with concrete details that match everybody else's story is if it in fact happened at least when you're under the influence that's true okay I'll give it to you this is a point for Mothman understand I want to believe in Mothman so is this the part where when I made a good argument you're just gonna be well I believed in anything I said at the top of the show you say that yeah watch yourself you watch you watch yourself why don't you write about support missions the gliding just cut it off they want that quiet a little too Pleasant eventually the couple's and deputy Millard Halstead made their way back to the sighting area where they heard strange noises saw strange shadows and an unexplained dust cloud a hoof like footprint was also found in the sand around the area Linda Scarberry was treated for shock following the events and reportedly experienced some unnerving phone calls as well as visits by the men in black who would intimidate her mmm I like those guys yeah our old pals Will Smith the Tommy Lee are back what are you doing there hear that yeah you made a cameo in this one nothing to say about about this one huh it's weird he only moves when he wants to [Music] the morning after the Mothman sighting the Mason County Sheriff George Johnson held a press conference and from there the story started trending in local and national news eventually the creature was dubbed Mothman by the press inspired by the Batman series people actually thought he looked very much like Batman I read a report where a guy said there's Batman on my neighbors roof he flew up into the sky yeah a utility belt I don't know if he had a utility dad but I will say if I was a kid and I saw what I thought was Batman on my neighbor's roof I wouldn't be scared I would try and go get an autograph yeah you'd be like Batman you're my favorite superhero and he go never mind okay now this is actually pretty serene and beautiful in the daytime but nightfall is almost upon us and then that's when a it's one of the boys come out that's when the Mothman will come out and then we'll have them sightings of the Mothman began to pile up police estimated that over 1,000 people were looking for the Mothman each night until midnight and tonight history as it so often does will repeat itself as we attempt to find the creature ourselves you genuinely believe that there's a Mothman out here I'm not so sure I'm sold on the Mothman and here we are but I will say we're in the area where the main sighting happened where a lot of the sightings happened if we're gonna find a Mothman it's gonna be out here after the Scarberry slash Mallett sightings a Point Pleasant woman named Marcella Bennett her three year old daughter her brother Raymond and her brother's wife encountered the Mothman while visiting family friends Marcella explained in an interview with researcher and author Andy Calvin quote he was shaped like a male the huge wings the way he was standing the head like a bird I'll never forget the way he was standing it was like he was just relaxing like he was just waiting for that moment for me to walk up the neck look like it went down in like a bird way down in the neck to me it wasn't of this world end quote like Linda Scarberry Marcella suffered side effects after the incident including anxiety paranoia and nightmares if I'm the Mothman and I am NOT I don't think anyone was saying I'm not going to make people feel paranoid and afraid I'm gonna make them think yeah love that Mothman I'm gonna walk out into the woods naked and serve myself up to the Mothman so he can have a little feast assuming the Mothman eats people I mean I don't know if that's what his game is but all I'm saying is that what you need to gather from this is that he has an effect on people's psyche this Mothman is a complicated character what does he sound like what is he sounds like the blood bird flappy spook stirrer that's come on the wing a trench tire say that this just says fright terror no just call the Batman why is that hard after encountering the Mothman Marcella Bennett also said that she could often feel a mock man's unnerving presence and like other witnesses developed the ability to have premonitions and psychic visions this is vaguely what I remember about that stupid Richard Gere movie forget about the Richard Gere movie for a second I will never just think about this the Mothman is apparently able he affects people's psyche in a way where they start to they start to wig out a bit paranormal events follow this thing so it makes you start to wonder what the hell this thing actually is it may not be a cryptid it may you know they may be our own alien Linda Scarberry the witness from the first Mothman encounter claimed to hear disembodied noises and see items moving by themselves which he attributed to a poltergeist simultaneously other strange phenomena occurred around the time of the sightings interrupted police dispatches malfunctioning electrical appliances doors mysteriously opening and shutting an increase in UFO sightings and malfunctioning cars with no apparent explanation seems like they're just kind of lumping it all in though right or if he isn't an interdimensional being he would obviously bring with them maybe chaos if you're an interdimensional being are you gonna make a scene like this if you could jump between dimensions why not [ __ ] around a little bit oh he can jump back and forth yeah kind of like a Cheshire Cat or Q from Star Trek or Rick and Morty if you could jump between dimensions why wouldn't you have a little fun it's not to have any effect on your dimension coming around to this guy now Scott kind of cracks me up he's in the cave somewhere he has like a local antenna set up he's watching the news doors open and closed in the neighborhood UFO sightings I thought to give you the Heimlich oh ok so right now I think we're about to come up on one of those hidden igloos the ones that would hold explosives back in the day what kind of explosives did they hold me gtz aren't you excited to go into one of these little bunkers it's a world war ii bunker that's pretty neat how much action did ohio see in world war ii oh my okay well is it all good at Lee and echo is it oh it's very icy yeah hello oh it's to that burry I could see losing your mind in here [Music] what's a string right here I don't know pull it no I'm not gonna pull it you pull it what if it's a trap would like I'm not with the Mothman saying of our gorgeous revenues palms together hoping that we saw was a little strange I was thinking like a grocery bag full of [ __ ] like he's Kevin McCallister from ha Milania Oh something I hold your flashlight I have the camera on one hand pretty confident there's no heat signatures in here oh god I'm after scared it's just a there's nothing that's where we died we explode skipping forward to modern times in 2016 a man who would not provide his name claimed to have taken a photo of Mothman in West Virginia the photo shows a two-legged winged creature flying over the trees however most did not believe this is Mothman I'm not terribly impressed that could just as easily be like a hawk I don't think it's a hawk I don't think it's now I do think it's a hoax what year was it 2016 chopped I gotta hand it to you this is these are some woods yeah look at this you know what this is this is a giant nest I think we're in the moth nest man if we just saw a silhouette fly over our heads right now I'd be thoroughly all right I'm scanning the trees right now I guess that's what you would do right that mothman hospitality huh I mean to has it responded to calls yeah well we know what it sounds like you would think logic would say if you make the noise maybe he'll be deceived let's go deeper into the woods okay strangely an outbreak of sightings occurred in 2017 in Chicago according to the Chicago Tribune there were over 20 reports of a quote winged humanoid end quote between April 7th 2017 and July 29th 2017 alone the Tribune reports that the sightings are almost always at night and near a body of water for those who don't believe some have offered alternative explanations for Mothman sightings some believe that Mothman witnesses had seen sandhill cranes a species of bird that can have a wingspan of 10 feet though a sandhill crane had never been officially spotted in West Virginia at the time although some unofficial reports had been made I see those a lot sandhill cranes was a lot in Illinois did he sound like a little little mousy it sounds kind of like maybe sandhill cranes are what the people in Chicago saw but there is none of those in West Virginia official sandhill cranes will come up a fascinating bird I'm gonna own one someday a taxidermied one and it will be in my room some had pointed out that some birds eye's such as owls appear red when hit with light from a flashlight or car at night the McClintock Wildlife Management Area which surrounds the TNT area is a bird sanctuary that contains owls owls aren't that big no I can see someone may be mistaking an owl for something else they're seeing an owl and being confused by it one thing I will point out and I don't know if this is confirmed but I've seen it in a couple sources that Linda Scarberry when she saw the the Mothman she did claim that the eyes were only red when she shined a light at it it would make sense either way she also did say this thing chased them in their car so pretty sure it's not an owl we should bring it done sound joke you know what this is a perfect time for us to cut back to us investigating let's see where we are I thought I was getting carried up into the trees as predicted this is [ __ ] horrifying at nighttime Mothman I guess he wouldn't respond to that would he he was even though his name is Mothman you know I mean I don't know how intelligent is if it can communicate things to people oh yeah maybe all right are you gonna do your I do hear a little uh well that's not a bad idea you go first I'll go second how about that okay yeah I got you here start again that's record being played quickly I guess here here we go you look like a nun do I a little bit in this of you yeah yeah you look like a rave nuts what the [ __ ] well those are coyotes or dogs or a large pack of something holy [ __ ] coyotes [ __ ] you know armed right now are you scared dude this goes beyond belief that was a pack of whatever the [ __ ] that was it was coyotes is that our cue to leave I think maybe we've been out here for quite a bit yeah I don't know if we're gonna find anything today I don't want to be in the mouth of some coyote later that's not how I want the picture wrap an old Vergara to be all right well another good cryptid hunt where we roll for two but I think next time the odds were stacked against us on this one there's no way to catch this thing we're keeping up you win this time Mothman but I'll be back okay you know what's funny though yeah is our Mothman call actually attracted the coyote so it worked for something you think that was us I think the call will it proved it it wasn't all for show we it had value both of us are masters of the Mothman call oh yeah we're basically we should be on Animal Planet we should I'm just gonna pause here for a second yeah give it one last go how about that I think you've offended the Mothman in the end nobody truly knows what the Mothman is let alone if he actually exists some have suggested that Mothman could be of demonic or angelic origin others believe that Mothman could actually be an extraterrestrial connecting Mothman with bright lights seen in the sky some even believe Mothman could be an ultra terrestrial a creature from another dimension as for me I'm not quite sure what I believe but I do find the voluminous docket of sightings to be curious for something that is not real nonetheless as our efforts have proved today the existence of Mothman continues to elude us and will remain for now unsolved here it is in all its glory rolling hills asylum looks about looks about right I mean yeah this this is par for the course right yeah I've got I've seen a lot of evidence coming out of this place so he's check this out on the boards I've been controlling the buoyancy come on man come on this is a nightmare this place is a nightmare so this is the infirmary old hospital Hall there should be a plaque around here somewhere oh boy Shane I don't like this game you're playing right now you know I have a thermal cam right I could see where you're hiding right now we're just kind of going stream-of-consciousness I'm not sure well most of you much of these rooms are [ __ ] me she said she moving in there oh my god is there anybody here with us right now [Music] who's down here with us right now we're a little lost was it windy why is it that please turn your light turning on machine you know turn your light on this week on BuzzFeed unsolved we investigate rolling hills asylum as part of our ongoing investigation into the question are ghosts real just one quick glance at this place you could kind of see where my mental state is gonna be in a bit here just another weekend for the boys I guess what is this you are in a very weird mood right now this is you gotta understand this is my season of sort of respecting ghosts oh yeah I forgot since this is our first investigation when it comes to ghosts this season Shane has now said that he's going to respect the ghosts I expect that to last two minutes I just you know a lot of people give me feedback sometimes and they say you got to be kinder to the ghost and for the record I am usually very kind to them oh are you here's what's gonna happen I'll give you a play-by-play what's actually going to happen we're gonna go into a room we're gonna do an EVP investigations could you sign them for about two minutes you're gonna get bored you're gonna go [ __ ] it hey come rip my head off you're gonna say something like that something really witty and stupid right that's how it's gonna happen guaranteed we'll see having existed for nearly two centuries the massive 53,000 square foot rolling hills asylum officially opened on January 1st 1827 rolling hills asylum was originally called the Genesee County poor farm and was one of the many poor houses scattered around the u.s. poor houses were government-run facilities to support and house the needy in the beginning rolling hills played home to orphans families mentally ill elderly physically disabled criminals and vagrants I just know poor houses were a real thing they were they were big across the u.s. there was these things called the Poor Laws where this kind of sounds messed up but basically the government would determine which people would deserved financial aid and for the people that didn't deserve or were deemed undeserving they would be put in these poor houses and that was the long list of people a lot of a lot of downtrodden folks yeah they just sometimes they didn't really know what to do with people's they just their whim in a building you know it's better than a pit I guess yeah sure I mean Bill Koch what's that better than a pit Shaima de 2018 put that on a sweatshirt I was trying to be empathetic what pit were you imagining by the way you're imagining the pit that lando calrissian almost fell into it the Star Wars you talkin Sarlacc but it's the Sarlacc pit see got teeth a roof over your head is better than being eaten by a large toothy monster a spirit often seen is the ghost of a former nurse named Emma it said that most spirits at rolling hills are helpful and often appear when you call out for help emma is often seen in her room so perhaps this tactic will let her interview so right now we're approaching nurse Emma's room this is a she's apparently German so maybe you could exercise some of that four years of German you learned in high school for it was was that was in class for four years but I really didn't learn very much that shows what kind of student you were not very good it's nice room it's very windy outside you know just let's pause for a while and listen to the wind because it's almost nightmarish that's indecent that's a whole slew Brady wind pretty windy pre wind it's pretty windy in here she was also known to be very dedicated to her job so maybe if we call up her hello my that is very windy if we call out for help she may come out okay it's a witness there's me I know okay this is this is almost unbearably horrific nurse Emma can you help me I am having trouble finding my room we came all the way down here to see you so we have anything you'd like to say to us please say so now speak louder than the wind if you can let her speak sorry respect so one just whisper I'm gonna sort of put a kibosh on whispers for this one because we have the wind I mean I heard a whisper that sounded different than yeah your Kaiser Shane is that all you know how to say four years of German you could only say my name is Shane can you ask her how long she's worked here in German no why even bring up you know German if you don't write here no journey Zen what does that mean mustard so actually right next door to Emma's room here's Steve's room and this guy not as friendly as Emma said to be a bit of a curmudgeon not a very nice man Jesus hello Steve my name's Ryan that's Shane ice-t so Steve I have a device here this may help you speak to us we're just gonna ask you some questions and if you want to talk to us you could talk to us all right it's good 200 all right we're back baby alright Steve can you uh I'm Ryan that's Shane could you say our names back to us Steve you know me I need multiple words it takes a lot to scare you Steve anything to say to your boys here we come here just willing to open you're an actor sure sounds like is there a doctor me you know I feel like maybe not why is that it just sounds like you're an actor well you did just batter it did sound like you said is there an actor I understand I'm humoring in 1887 the Genesee County Board of Supervisors decided that people quote suffering with acute insanity end quote should be housed in another location within the state the county home spent 200 acres and had a self-sufficient farm where able-bodied people were required to work residents would also do upkeep chores for the asylum such as cleaning and baking before closing in 1974 the asylum served as a nursing home there are over 1,700 documented deaths within these walls and the current owner Sharon Coyle suspects that there could be three times as many deaths because documentation by previous owners was spotty horrific Lee a good portion of these people were buried in graves that still have yet to be located according to Rolling Hills asylums website quote an actual Cemetery register or pot map has yet to be discovered is that bad you just put like a right Shane was here you wouldn't want that you know a lot of cultures feel like there's a lot of life after death what so if you die and someone doesn't put a little headstone on your grave God comes down to earth he's like well I was gonna take an angel up there but I don't know where that no that's not what I'm saying you check ya know one thing is that I don't know why God sounds okay thank you yeah I'm saying that a lot of cultures life is after death because then your family members come visit you and do you know practices that keep you alive haven't you seen cocoa alright so right now we're on the top floor with heading down to the infirmary on the second floor I'm using thermal right now so I'm trying to pick up some heat signatures oh I I don't like the way this room feels at all it's fairly well insulated it smells smells there anybody here with us right now we're about to leave we're going downstairs pretty quick here I don't see anything in thermal what about in these little places there's a piano there would you like to play that what uncle Dom it's very good very good who is this who is the screaming lady I've heard interesting things about her not quite sure there's a theory but there's we really don't know who she is some people think it might be Phoebe white who was the first resident who ever moved in here when she was a little girl when it was the poorhouse and she lived about 56 years here she's trying to communicate somehow and she's so frustrated she just screams [ __ ] horrifying that is an artist rendition of the screaming lady not a fan of this lady are you I mean that it's what nightmares are made of look at it so right now we're in the chapel yep that right there if you look up there that's a static camera it's a night-vision camera so if any of these things move we'll see it and it will trigger the motion alarm I could show you what that sounds like it's gonna be loud cool alert if we go one floor up and we hear that then we know we caught something on the static him but that's just one other failsafe so if we hear the alarm and we see something move on the camera itself we caught a cool my friend our audio recorder left in the chapel picked up these strange noises over time there could be a thousand fine I figured here thank you and you you tend to go well here's a thousand things that could likely be put a big X over those even though they're very logical and no way it could possibly be the building settling or a creek somewhere creak that sounds like a moan hey I think it may be those things but I also think it may be the screaming lady who's known to make noises of pain what's more likely I think you're equally likely do you think they're equally likely something that has never been proven I think it was ERV I think ghosts have been proven and observed several times next to the chapel is a recreation room full of folding chairs that are said to move on their own is this sound one of those chairs I mean I'm gonna say that could very likely just be a door opening or wind moving something it's a very busy very busy building remember how loud that building creaks that does not sound like just a little creak doesn't sound like a door opening that sounds like you played 10 different sounds for someone and said which one sounds like a little creak they probably say oh that one sounds like a little creak no I think if we put 10 sounds that were all creaks and said which one of these sounds like a chair moving that would sound like that's a chair moving one of the most prominent figures in the asylum is the spirit of a man named Roy Kraus Roy's both prominent due to his frequent activity but also because of his massive size as Roy Kraus was almost seven and a half feet tall I don't I don't have to do the low-hanging fruit joke here so I'm not going to know you couldn't reach it if you tried that's good fortunately Roy said to be a favorite apparition due to his friendly nature this also includes the building owner sharing just been here a couple of months and I walked in the building with a handyman and trying to make a plan for the day and I walk around the corner and I thought it was a kitten on the floor like how the hell the kitten get in the building and I realized oh my god I know it's a rabbit scurries off in front of me and I'm like I'm freaking out all my dogs around the building so we go upstairs right above us actually where the infirmary is and sure enough on the floor there was blood in the shape of a rat like you could see the tail and the arms and legs and on the wall right behind it there were footprints huge footprints legs I want to kick the hell out of the wall and then there was like handprints with blood on it oh and there's still up there I guess it's a you think I think we killed the rap just to help because I was freaking out about a rat okay so right now we're on the infirmary up here is where if the rat story happened you could actually see remnants of the handprint right here I mean rents just died align and as you can see that's a I mean you could see at one point that was a pretty big handprint there's a little bit I guess of a mark of where the rat was found I guess Roy's way of saying Roy was here so right here this is Roy's room hopefully if you see the wall paper border around that's actually seven and a half feet you're charged gosh that's a guy so tall that I'd be scared you could see what an actual bed that would be fit for you would it feel like the way you would enhance a bed fern an 8 foot tall person yeah that's kind of wooden it's very wooden look at all the room you have for those long limbs that's pretty good not much room well okay no there's Oh boys actually that looks like it fits you just right no there's a lot of room in here you ever listen to the radio Roy well this is kind of like that but it'll make you want to shove a pencil in your ear you know what it is I think [Music] I'm sure can't stay but it's a girl voice and it sure was just say our names back or if you want you tell us your name if this isn't Rory actually in here cold winter I agree Rory I heard you liked listening to opera music so I have some opera tracks with me and I played them and even if what you'll run out you're not in this room we're gonna walk around the hall so if you want to come walk around with us maybe say hi to us you could do so but I'll I'll play some music for you now cuz I know you'd like that about it Roy I enjoy it shall we no we're not dancing I mean like oh you know I know anybody want to come out it's Christmas time this is a male vocal opera song so maybe you want to sing along let's walk down the terrifying red hallway [Music] you hear Roy anybody here that wants to show themselves listen to the nice music this is for everybody not just for Roy come on Roy [Music] in the basement there is a room referred to as the Christmas room during its time in operation rolling hills was home to many children and supposedly there was a room where children would go to meet Santa during the holidays to this day this room still has Christmas decorations it said that toys will allegedly move by themselves in the Christmas room so right now we are in the basement of the East Wing and down here is the Christmas room this looks like like happy happy things there's a little Santa happy with Christmas decorations that look it looks so menacing when it's you know when they're by themselves nutcrackers always creeped me out too we could set up our little test here to see if something will move we actually have a little device with us here today this dog is quite useful because it measures static energy around it so I showed you actually what I mean this looks very scientific [Music] okay so basically what it does is it measures a static electricity so when I get close to it it turns on mm-hmm it's basically all there is to it so what we're gonna do since this is the Christmas room this is where a lot of children played we're gonna ask them to pet the dog oh that's fun all right so if there's anybody in here you want to pet our dog would you like to pet our pretty dog he's very nice he doesn't bite I'm gonna pet the dog see he likes it he plays music for you it's pretty good right that's pretty good it's for the kids what do you think what's your favorite holiday if you're in here I'm guessing you like Christmas right you like Santa Claus oh it's me the man with the bag bet the dog Jesus Christ we're here just to have fun we're not here to hurt you we can't we can't have fun with you if you don't let us know you're here so if you want to just move something in this room or show us which toy you want to play with but our dog is really nice if you want to pet him yeah better yet maybe you don't don't about the dog yes I kind of like it maybe you could keep your hands off the dog against the rules it'd be really uncool if you pad our dog I'll kill you if you touch my dog okay too far don't put the dog let's back it down let's back it up a little bit well we're gonna leave our dog here actually so when we leave if you just don't want to play with the dog because we're here you could go ahead and touch the dog as soon as we leave no problem before leaving the room we set up a static cam to watch the dog I think something was there was either poking it on the nose more it was petting it and because ghosts maybe don't have I don't know as much basically what the dog is it has an energy field around like a static energy field around it if you break that field it'll set the dog off maybe ghosts don't have enough to make it go crazy but they have enough to make it Noblet all of the boo gaara's all the believers they're gonna say this pretty compelling I think it is pretty good all the people who really believe in science will recognize pseudoscience and understand that there is ZERO correlation between this shitty thing it has nothing to do with this lack of there's there's nothing there you understand there's no connection you're saying you're forcing this fake science into the world science it is an energy field that we brought we tested the the the device when we were there it worked when we put our hand into it it didn't work when you're away from we were sitting next to it for about 20 minutes nothing happened we leave it happens perhaps the most active area is known as shadow hallway a hallway leading toward the infirmary where shadow people are often seen in one room of the hallway is what Sharon believes is a portal or vortex in the asylum the shadow people quote could look like you and I solid they can be like gray medium gray dark gray or pitch-black they could be normal human shaped or amorphous shapes they come in and out of doorways walk across the hall sometimes they'll poke an arm or a leg out sometimes they crawl on the floor and that can be creepy especially if you're sitting on the floor during an investigation and one is coming at you because you can actually see the shadow moving toward you quote to finish this off we'll investigate this hallway individually and perform a spirit box session in the vortex this is shadow hallway be on the lookout for a shadow people as you look down into the blue light you'll see it at the end of the hallway then you're gonna end in the vortex room you don't like the spirit box so you're not going to do that so I'm gonna do this beer box that's just simply how it is thank you for allowing me to not do the spirit box here I go embarking on my journey into the dark he's probably commenting on the decor you know making silly little jokes having a blast but my mind's gonna descend into darkness when I go up there any dolls like to talk to me miss ma'am what are you doing back there you think I didn't see you yeah this is for science I'm about to shine my trouthe beams all down this hallway if I see one of you just know that I'll have footage of a ghost so here I am walking down shadow hallway so we got some rooms so if you're here Roy what the [ __ ] was that is it Ryan don't lose it now I'm gonna go Jesus he seemed brave walking up there but he did have that sort of glassy look in his eyes that he gets I'm gonna just stand in one of these rooms and just bask in the silence as Shane says that's a huge bed holy [ __ ] anybody here right now giving you the floor I think that was the wind but it sure sounded like a voice that's good for there what is it the vortex room going in hope people report feeling uneasy in here some people can't even walk in here because it's just so thick this is said to be a portal and chains that he asks Aiden to come here so that's fun thanks for that [ __ ] Shane this is a spirit box this will help me speak to you I'm very scared right now I'm sorry are you scared - a little why are you here right now no and who is it no one huh ok you want to play games sure that's your time whoo-hoo-hoo boy oh thank you [ __ ] guy get me the [ __ ] out of here I did it I did it I did it hey you lived you didn't get eaten by a ghost yeah did it you look rattled what happened in there just you know talking to things did you get anything nope got nothing that's about par for the course well goodbye to whatever up there sayonara the boys are out with it's decades of history and numerous inhabitants it's not far-fetched to think that some people remained did a spirit actually trigger our motion-detecting dog perhaps but regardless whether or not rolling hills asylum is definitively haunting will remain unsolved there she is another demon house another team in house I gotta say it does look as imposing in person as it does online are you gonna make it well we'll see I have a pocket Bible with me this time that's good I didn't bring any holy water are you concerned maybe you've got a little soft once you hear what this place is you're gonna you're gonna see why I'm so scared of this joint but I'm gonna keep this with me I'm gonna keep this Bible here back pocket at all times if I need it I'll use it you since you don't believe you probably don't even need this but if you want to use it later you can do so I don't I don't need [ __ ] do that there you go this week on BuzzFeed in salt we investigate the Bel Air house in Bel Air Ohio as part of our ongoing investigation into the question are ghosts real as many viewers of this show know I will only do one demonic investigation per season so here's my sacrifice for this particular season you sound brave but your wide eyes betray you it's the beginning of the night I'm doing a good job of concealing how I truly feel right now also for the first time since the Sally house we will attempt to sleep in a demonic location well demon slumber party I think this is a shot at redemption for me and I'm not gonna wimp out I'm gonna stay here all night I'm gonna sleep I have to sleep and I'm gonna come out a big boy grow yeah it's gonna be a big boy I'm gonna be a big boy now even if something horrifying happens yeah built in the early 1900's supposedly by a coal miner named Jacob Hetherington the Bel Air house from the outside looks like any ordinary home Hetherington opened several mines over the years and some claim that one of his coal mines sits under this house Hetherington would pass away in 1904 and eventually the house was said to have been passed to his granddaughter lied in 1947 lied would die of a heart attack reportedly in the living room of the Bel Air house her brother Edwin was apparently so distraught that he contacted mediums to try and reconnect with his dead sister it said that Edwin's attempts to connect may have open portals within the right now we're in the seance room I mean this was the room we were telling the story in so this is said to be the place where Edwin would reach out to his dead sister Lyde and speaking of why'd she is said to have died right here of a heart attack unfortunate yes so I think we could sit down here and do a classic seance we'll light a candle and we'll reach out like Edwin would have done back in the day is there anybody here with us right now we're calling out to Edwin or Edwin specifically or any of the Hetherington family got us all we do first hand just light a candle that's it I'm not sure how I've never done conducted an official saying eyes I'm just doing essentially an EVP session with a candle yeah I was gonna say there's probably some sort of decorum right you want me to look it up the decorum decide on who you will be summoning let's go for Edwin right now we are trying to sum in Edwin and/or lied lied a happy place for her as she okay you don't work directly over wares I know but you don't need to bring that memory back up odds are maybe she doesn't know she's dead set the table place three candles or a number a number divisible by three in the center and place an offering of food in the center as well one is divisible by three you get a fraction three three three three three sure we'll call it that we don't have any food but I got some gum oh you put a gum go get it everyone around the table and hold hands to create a circle well wagon I got to put this down all right does it have to be around it doesn't ever be around the candle I'm just meaning Oh like this is he okay spirits up sorry spirits of the past move among us be guided by the light of this world and visit upon us if you are one close that's out of the close to be cool yeah we had to wait for a response now here's our climbing I think we could drop hands now I'm just gonna lose gonna make that very sweaty the yours were sweaty Edwyn lied we're here in the house we're friends we're not here to hurt you we just want to talk to you so if you're here right now feel free to say anything make your presence known you could move something am I am i off-putting to you guys I don't often respect a lot of you do you not like his vibe I wouldn't blame you does anybody here with this right now can you blow this candle out okay I think we're okay I mean I'm fine we're downstairs the more we move up the more that's true I'll get uneasy that was my brother Edwin would pass away himself in 1962 and after that ownership of the house passed from owner to owner families that live there only did so momentarily after strange activity in the house prompted them to leave eventually the home sat abandoned during this time neighbors would claim to see activity within the seemingly vacant home such as people moving about peering out of the homes windows other than the deaths in the house nobody knows why this seemingly normal home is ripe with activity some point to the notion that the house allegedly sits on a ley line which are unseen lines connecting important physical spiritual markers for ancient cultures other people point to the fact that the land beneath the house sits adjacent to what the current owner claims are Native American burial caves and finally there's the possibility that past coal mine accidents contribute to the unrest either way something is not right at the Bel Air house perhaps that's why it's at abandoned until Kristin Lee after her previous home had been destroyed by flash floods Christianly understandably thought her luck had changed when she managed to buy the beautiful bel-air home at a foreclosure sale for reportedly only 46,000 dollars in 2005 Kristin Lee and her family moved into the Bel Air house marveling and what was seemingly a steal soon after moving in it became apparent why the house was abandoned we would hear voices would disappear mysteriously and she would hear footsteps he added one night while napping on the living-room couch Kristyn claims she woke to a man standing in her living room terrified Kristen watched as the man walked away and vanished boat I was not sure if I was dreaming or had actually seen a ghost I looked around the room and everything was in its place however the room was freezing cold I saw my breath and float what was odd about him as I could see straight through him and I could see through the foyer a - and he had a flat effect there was no emotion or there was no nothing on his face it was just very flat and to that point had weird things been happening leading up to that or was that the first encounter for me it was the first encounter because we were homeless we were affected by to flash floods so in my mind I thought this this this is probably because we're working too hard or adjusting to the house so I kind of just let it go off to the side in the back of my mind and that's where we left it but it was very unexplainable at that point in time and then later on down the line years later I finally understood that I wasn't just hired we weren't just adjusting to the house that it was a ghost it was a full apparition of a man so this is the living room this is where Kristen was asleep on the couch where she encountered the gray man the apparition in here that disappeared as he walked out did you hear that it sounded like a little baby doll disappeared as he walked that as he walked that you heard that right yeah I got [ __ ] chills what the [ __ ] was that wait a little hey is that you who was that could you do that again I'm gonna hate this house already shut up kind of like that Hetherington family I'm Ryan that's Shane we're here in your house we hear you're all very nice people and we also hear that you have somebody in this house or something that may not be as nice and maybe we could help you with that so if you want to talk to us about it right now if you want to say anything just let us know you could say something you could move something I heard again is that you who is that I heard nothing did you hear something footsteps up there no let's visit footsteps I'm better yeah go ahead and explain it away at first Kristen blamed stress and says of that time quote I thought it was just tired and questioned my sanity I never believed in the paranormal because I'm a trained forensic mental health professional as well as a master level psychologist I blamed psychology until there was no more psychological reasoning end quote what do you think about because she is she was skeptical at first as most people would be or some people would be you would probably be skeptical at first she blamed it on stress of the move she didn't really believe what she was seeing I mean that I feel like that checks your box of like the first thing you would do that's admirable it does yeah that's good you know I trust her but the thing is like once that happens and in another experience happens that you can't explain away then you could see when you starting to stack up and and that's when it becomes like frustrating because and it's like you know it's tough with these things because I don't necessarily believe in it but you know listening to her story she tells it with such conviction I don't I don't not believe her I don't not believe that she experienced these things yeah you know yeah I just don't believe the ghost yeah there's a part of your brain that you can't there's a hurdle you can't jump over that you literally cannot get over this one thing yes there is a moat that separates fact from fiction in my brain and did you have your very heart set and what's your definition of fact is it as do I provable things okay alrighty then alright movie that's okay I mean I have my beliefs you have your beliefs yeah we just leave it at that hey that's the show right that's a show yeah and though Kristen tried to ignore the signs the encounters continued to escalate and get more violent in nature the breaking point for Kristen was an incident involving her dog Bella where was the point when you decided this this is what it is it's actually a ghost what I saw was actually what I saw well this part is very supernatural this is something that I still can't explain today and I was upstairs we had moved around so many different times bedroom to bedroom we were in the back bedroom it was just my dog Bella and I and everybody had gone out that night and I was I felt like paralysis it really did so of course I blame psychology again that's what I always blamed and I couldn't I couldn't move and there was this dense dark mass that was just floating toward me and then it finally lifted Bella up because she was barking viciously again she was on top of me her claws were going inside of my rib cage to where it actually hurt and she was on top of me and I actually felt her breath in my face and she lifted up it lifted her up and it just slammed her up against the wall and sort of you know that's a crazy story yeah this is where the infamous dog incident happened so she was sleeping right here she's her dog was next to her something came in the room she felt paralyzed you know similar to sleep paralysis but then dog levitates and right into that wall it's this window right here seems where the ley line hits so we're conceivably standing on the portal she said her dog was often unnerved by [ __ ] that's on this room a lot of scratches big dog you know how [ __ ] sick that is to throw a dog across a room like that yeah you got to be a real piece of [ __ ] I don't know what kind of door is in here or what perhaps through that dog that one night but whatever it is is it here right now is there anything passing by right now just follow our voice we just want to talk we're just you know we're just two guys looking to make some conversation just a couple of dreamers I'm gonna fire up the spirit box okay [Applause] [Music] there anything in this room with us what was that is there anything in this room with us what is that who's here with us right now who is in this house is it one of the Hetherington means or is it something else or anybody else anybody here that was here before this house was built [Music] tell us your name apple tater last chance who was in this house I just sounded like a wailing waiting yeah me too but we had to rent another apartment because she found the house unlivable and unsafe however Lee was still owner of the Bel Air house and consequently she made attempts to rent out the house unfortunately her attempts were ultimately unsuccessful as those who rented from her would move in and subsequently leave due to fear of the home Lee claims she even reached the point where she offered to sell the house to the village for the sum of $1 which was refused one article states that locals were wise to the unsafe nature of the home you're seeing where the frustration starting to mount as all these measures are taken to be rid of this place and it just for whatever reason is it's like latched on like a parasite it's a curse it's insane I mean I've read a lot of these stories I haven't seen anything like this where someone is making so much concerted effort to get rid of something and they just can't seem to it's like a the worst version of a bad penny it's like the house itself is an entity don't what are you doing wait I don't know why are you rubbing your hands together it's like the house itself is sort of yeah I get what you're saying an entity I'm just saying regardless of whether or not you believe it's easy to empathize what the situation with sympathize I should say yeah yeah cool you reached an agreement there we did good should we high-five or some thinner oh yeah didn't feel right it was wrong yeah good this would lead to the revelation of turning the house into a destination for paranormal investigators which would save the house and apps lead to the answer that all who are interested in the paranormal strive to answer are ghosts real but as promised in the intro we're not here just for ghosts we're also here to confront something that may not be human at all which leads us to Emily Davis the name Lee gave to the houses child spirit a small girl upon research an Emily may have existed in connection with the house but it's by no means definitive however based on our past experience in the Sallie house I learned that many times demons or non-human entities will present themselves as something less formidable to trick those that encounter them sometimes that can include appearing as a child emily is said to have made contact most often in the Attic and it's no surprise that the Attic is where Lee feels the strongest sense of oppression we're gonna go through the Attic later we're gonna see what's up there great all right let's find ourselves a Emily lady I hope not Emily we know these demons any big like hellish ghouls with just a little blonde wig on that were talking about no I think it's Anne they could accurately make themselves manifest in a form of a little a little child yeah I've said this to you before they're not gonna come out with the horns right away because no one's gonna be like oh I want to be friends with that thing but if you see a little girl throwing a ball to you like yeah I'll play catch which is weird that they is it like is it like a character creator in The Sims like they'd pick out a little pink frilly dress and like no no that's not the final phase yeah I mean it's the one I've been dreading the most yeah well one thing to know there was a lock on the outside of the door always very fun I guess you do that in case the whole wily raccoon gets in there right you know what at some point tonight I'm gonna lock you in here don't do it oh this is a big it said that you feel really oppressive energy up there however Emily is not the sole resident of the Attic according to Kristen a boy fell to his death from a window in the Attic but Kristen believes the boy may have been pushed by who nobody can say for sure but Kristen seems to suggest that the entity referring to itself as Emily may be responsible apparently there was a servant named Gary who had a son that went right out this window an event that almost repeated itself three times yeah how many people are going through windows in this house I guess I'm just realizing now that that seems to happen too many people I mean it tells you what kind of thing is up here but it's not so much that it's dragging them from another part of the room they just people who don't know the history of the house seemed to just be drawn to this window almost in a trance-like state also here Emily likes to play piano if your demon walk through that door walk through whatever portal you have to to get into this room because we are too willing individuals don't don't don't include me in that huh yeah none you can walk in the room just don't go inside me you know by the way if we hear that go off while we're sleeping I'm gonna lose my [ __ ] yeah I gotta poop your pants brace yourself wow that was a loud one so if anyone wants to say anything now is the time to do so who's up here Emily if you're here say something emily is that you Emily if you're trying to make us go to sleep and feel safe so you could start [ __ ] with us when we're asleep pretty uncool turning it off I can't believe after all you've done you're not gonna show yourself right now you're not gonna say anything not even show us you're here just make a little knocking noise one of these we hear you're walking around up here all right we'll be back and I'm coming with my bed gonna turn this into my rumpus room unfortunately we now enter the final phase of our investigation sleeping in the house so getting ready for the night Shane's off mummified we also have Emily his little piano let's try and get some sleep yeah it sounds like a good idea I am kind of hungry though I have some goldfish you just brushed your teeth put one of us what if we ordered a pizza them how you how's it going you got that I got this sign this right here oh it's oh [ __ ] what's that total fee thank you so much thank you have a good one mmm that doesn't pretty good that does look faster some chunky dough Jesus tearing through that it's good yeah anyways we're gonna go to sleep now so whatever is up here hopefully you don't [ __ ] with us do know that there is a camera right over there so so yes sure you're welcome you're welcome to talk around with the boys but please know this once you do the whole world is gonna know already not there overnight in the books yeah time to pack up get the [ __ ] out of here do you believe me now when I say that maybe we're both demon proof we're not demon proof I think we might be I think we got a demon in a slumber it's been a lovely stay in this quiet quiet uneventful house well demon oh oh you didn't cocky you thought you had me in your clutches aha but not today demon there yeah that's good I'm done with this place deuces demon a mobile the house is cleansed that was cool take a last look at it never gonna see it again after spending the night at the Bel Air house our sense of what resides there is no clearer than before but the houses history of scaring away residents including Kristen Lee is enough to approach the house with caution is there actually a demon investing a home full of spirits no one can say for certain and for now whether or not the Bel Air house is definitively haunted will remain unsolved so here we are the road to Ohio State Reformatory another prison for the boys they're opening up the prison for us we're here to find some ghosts and this looks like a place we'll find them [Music] this week on BuzzFeed unsolved we investigate Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield Ohio as part of our ongoing investigation into the question are ghosts real this enormous prison was notorious for violence and poor conditions and is considered one of the most haunted places in the US right now we're sitting in a holding cell this is where people would go before they were sent out to whatever block they were going to go very appropriate as we're about to dive let's get into it opening on September 15th 1896 Ohio State Reformatory was constructed in Mansfield Ohio on top of the former site of a Union Army training ground in the Civil War at current day the main building of the reformatory has a gargantuan footprint of 250,000 square feet in fact the six story East cellblock containing 600 cells is the largest freestanding steel cellblock in the world the architecture conceived by architect Levi T Schofield is gothic in nature invoking the feeling of castles conditions inside of the prison mixed with the design would earn the Reformatory the unaffectionate nickname of quote Dracula's castle end quote this is the administrative building that's why everything is so nice I mean it was gonna say look at this beautiful tile work Air Force one they filmed Air Force one here Air Force one actually now that I think of it remember the reason they hijacked the plane is to release for the gonna go ahead and cut you off right there cuz I don't give a [ __ ] we're gonna move over here okay now here's here's an appropriate movie references I haven't even seen Shawshank but I know those steps oh so you can make movie references because it's very visual look at it that well there's no there's no plaque here for that there was a plaque for the Air Force one because you don't need a plaque is here like yeah those are the stairs believable whoa yeah they keep going wow you're quite taken with these I mean I get it it's kind of this weird juxtaposition Dracula's castle perhaps you know appropriate not all that some nice exposed brick here yeah but it's tasteful yeah the Reformatory began with good intentions as it was meant to be a place where first-time offenders and minor criminals would come to literally reform themselves there was a school a gym industrial training areas to teach the inmates a trade and regular chapel service however as funds diminished and the need for prison space escalated the reformatory eventually became overcrowded sometimes stuffing for inmates to a cell and the facilities fell into disrepair to make matters worse the prison was no longer exclusive to minor offenders and eventually became a maximum-security prison taking in hardened and violent criminals for people in a Cell that's a lot I mean you put any normal people in a room that's too small like if you're in a dorm in college if you hate your roommate it's a tough business listening to music too loud when I'm trying to study cooking a Top Ramen in the microwave when I'm trying to sleep you got some axes to grind no [ __ ] you Roland Roland as the population increased and the conditions worsened mistreatment from guards became commonplace for instance as early as July 15 1898 a story ran in the New York Times stating 45 prisoners were hung by their thumbs after going on a strike because they no longer had access to tobacco they were also given only one meal a day as punishment home by their thumbs that why that's why would you do that they wouldn't shut up it doesn't sound like the worst possible thing to do to me won't they just pop right out of the sockets oh I don't like that one bit if they hung me by my thumbs then I'd be pretty upset well it's again it's not the worst thing you could do they could give you a little you know a paddle to the bottom or whatever you would rather be hung by your thumbs then take a little spanking it could be a big big paddle did you not get spanked when you were a kid no that makes a lot of sense actually what the [ __ ] is all I have to say to that but even like the thumb talk do you not like the thumb talk was a too much tone talk I thought we went about 2 minutes long than them they don't like the thumb talk holy [ __ ] holy [ __ ] holy [ __ ] if you're one of the people who had that thumb thing happening that sucks what was it like what do you think you're gonna get right now I feel like what you go see what that is to be honest we were walking over to the source of the disturbance but there was two it's not that I wasn't that hello I'm gonna lose my mind so did that twice with me in the span of ten seconds but nothing else confirm that this it did sound like this right yeah that was the sound do you think the winds gonna do that twice not moving well [ __ ] so hopefully we find some good stuff tonight okay this isn't me long night alright are you [ __ ] kidding me are you [ __ ] kidding me now there is a lot of wind moving through now so that did what is it that did who is it it did happen right as the wind picked up you didn't notice that but now it came from over here yeah there it is it's that way there's your is it white worried there's a logical explanation for yeah okay there it is huh there we go there you go but if we hadn't seen that if we hadn't seen that you wouldn't we wouldn't be fooled well no we wouldn't have been fooled you would have been telling me for months the conditions inside the Reformatory eventually led to the prison being shut down permanently in 1990 during its time as a working prison these walls played home to one hundred and fifty four thousand inmates some of whom never walked out whether it was violence or disease at least 215 perished during their time at the reformatory and at least one guard was killed by inmates so this is the East cellblock this is the bigger of the two blocks inside this whole joint I mean this is like classic prison that's this what are you doing I mean you're going past the chain what we're gonna investigate it alright good lord this is the largest standing steel cellblock in the world really something that's a lot of metal it is a lot of metal a lot of men I'm hearing a lot of a little noises yeah I am - what do you suppose those are I don't know I could certainly see how he one would lose their mind in a situation like this yeah this looks Pleasant [ __ ] this so hard dude this is [ __ ] terrible it's the opportunity of a lifetime of being here we are high up we are in the top of the wall right now but no you can't see well I have the thermal up we're gonna get some ocean lights up here we're gonna have a real party up here in this sixth floor huh let's party baby there he goes hello there he comes home by himself I'm separating from the group it's the ideal time to kill him yeah I mean if I were gonna die in camera it would be a pretty noble thing future Ghost Hunters would be like this is the spot where Ryan Bergara got murked oh my god this keeps stretching I don't understand what's wrong with Ryan sometimes what was that I didn't say anything you sure you didn't say anything Shane no go back and set them off to make sure they work I got a better idea why don't you go [ __ ] yourself okay and I won't do that all right so if there's anything on this 6-tier on the south side just walk towards our voice if you turn on those lights you'll go to heaven okay see now that's taking it too far while some desks were the results of violence from other inmates other deaths were self-inflicted it said that one inmate named James Lockhart covered himself in turpentine stolen from the prison furniture shop and set himself on fire in his cell James's spirit is considered one of the more violent within the prison 16 15 14 13 all right coming in James it's tight it's a tight squeeze we can barely move around in here right now just the two of us this is insane could you imagine there's leaving it here with four that's crazy James I get it I just want to say that up front if I had to be trapped in here even if it was only for 15 years too much so when did he was 22 when he set himself on fire he had been in here since he was seven what he was trapped in here for 15 years no no he had he was history his sentence was 15 years I see it said that other people walked by like the guards walking in over here seeing a man trapped in here on fire I mean it was probably gruesome yeah I just Jesus Christ I'm gonna turn something on that may help you talk to us and it's even - James you're gonna do this I'm gonna do this - James sorry James all right genes I don't think I properly introduce myself before I'm Ryan that's Shane could you say any of our names back to us there lawfully I don't know [ __ ] that way James are you in here classical music huh what say that again is your last fans this use this energy this is giving off to say something turn it off well James we're gonna leave your cell here but before we leave once again sigh are you what happened you happen to you pretty awful may you know peace another less graphic debt that occurred in the prison happened in the wardens living quarters on November 5th 1950 Helen glad K the wife of the reformatory superintendent was attempting to grab a jewelry box from a shelf in her closet when she accidentally knocked down a handgun the heme gun hit the floor and discharged shooting Helen in the chest resulting in Helens death a couple days later visitors to the living quarters report smelling her prominent rose scented perfume and catching glimpses of her walking into her pink bathroom all right so this is the second floor it's up here where Helen's living quarters were as well as her two sons seems like a fun place to grow up if you're a child you have a very different definition of fun we hear you have a very lovely rose scented perfume we'd love to smell it so you want to smell it why don't we close our eyes and smell okay you know heighten our sense of smell and see if we could smell any kind of perfume yeah you too yeah I'm happy too hey ready yeah give me a backup for me I could feel your air intake it's like a gross nasal jet I don't know it smells like old wood yeah I was gonna say old wood rotting plaster well Helen if you aren't here or if you are here we sure can't smell you which is a weird sentence to say we can't smell you Helen or if you're a little busy right now we can always smell you later oh you're back we're gonna do an investigation okay one room that is particularly active and mysterious in nature is a room on the third floor of the administration building referred to as the chair room the room which is one of the only rooms in the reformatory without windows has a single chair sitting in the center of his paranormal investigators claimed that when the chair is moved from the center of the room the chair will return to the center of the room on its own one investigator even claimed to be pushed and scratched by the enemies in this room and as the name would suggest I present you the chair this chair looks [ __ ] stupid in the middle of the room actually thing looks rather nice I like what you've done with the place really sets the room right well we disagree and I'm the guy who's gonna move it don't move the [ __ ] chair come on man hey I tried to stop him seriously that's just rude you're gonna come into his room or it's good whatever is in this room I'm sorry we're from California don't let this be representative of all Californians we're the Hollywood elite I don't think you're strong enough to move it back whoever you are are you even human are you maybe a demon whoever's here move that chair back that's not the center of the room at all move it back I'll stand right over here you throw it right at me if you want move that chair moving he's gonna take your chair he's gonna take it outside he's gonna spread his butt cheeks and he's gonna lay a fat turd Riedel over the center of it I mean sure yeah I'm painting a vivid image very vivid yep that's what I'm gonna do and I'm gonna take photos of it and put it on Instagram how about this if whatever is in here moves this chair back to the center we won't do anything to the chair we'll leave it alone sound like a fair deal yeah sounds like a fair deal you see that he said if you move it back he won't mess with it look tough season for the book no no no no wait a second wait don't you realize this happening would be incredible right yeah would be it certainly would be unborn one thing that also happens in this room is people get scratched if they get a little too rambunctious scratch me that's what I'm here for I'm here for the scratches I keep forgetting man I don't really think you're actually giving it wrong what do you want them to scratch me they're very [ __ ] he's back come on scratch me up make me bleed oh the [ __ ] ak is back baby that's my heart holy [ __ ] grunts up my insides yeah internal bleeding watch it blood how about that he's getting medical latch yourself onto my soul come back to Hollywood with me and destroy the lives of all my friends and co-workers and a hard to follow but I like where you're going Ryan's family has a real good what you wanted me to give it my all that portrays our first table insults not personal information you're giving him a dossier on my life you know this was supposed to be the season of respecting ghosts and every time I've tried to do that you yell at me to disrespect them I'm telling you to be true to who you are I mean that is certainly valid it was I am living a lie otherwise what we're talking to air the chapel is also an active area of the Reformatory there are rumors of the chapel being used as a place of executions prior to becoming a chapel and ghosts are known to grab people who attempt to leave we're coming up this would be a good place though right it should be then again you would also think that spirits that are hanging out in the chapel are kind of mocking things in you maybe yeah but Jesus is Jesus here I have no idea at this moment our audio recorder picks up a voice saying I am NOT is Jesus here I have no idea what well clearly he is yes yeah because he says I he's answering I'm not Shh I'm not here it's here that or it's the devil I don't know I just what the then Jesus is the devil I'm saying it's the devil pretending to be Jesus he's playing like a little game but then he would say I have here it's me Jesus that's true I guess it that doesn't really you know what it is I just AM am nervous ring a question about Jesus that's a ghost hanging out in a chapel for some reason which seems like a weird place for someone to spend if they're trapped for eternity I don't know you know chalk it up to the usuals think it's pretty clear chalk it up to the usuals that's gonna be a new go-to answer okay well I think it's a pretty clear voice and it answered your question in a little a little tricky way but intelligently I am NOT holy moly this is quite a room I mean it is a chapel I got a say for a prison chapel I did not expect it to be this expansive oh we should harmonize wasn't bad alright my name is Ryan that Shane and we're here to make a connection with you we want you to feel comfortable and safe when you reach out to us so please know that we are very non-judgmental we don't care about what crimes you've committed this is a place of worship and forgiveness and we respect you it must be lonely if you don't want us to leave you should say something now place sucks you could go home with him you could he'll break you out of this joint hop on me I'll give you a little piggyback ride all the way home to sunny Los Angeles last chance what's your name [Music] is that muffled conversation it's very peculiar where is it coming from oh I see it there's a bird right there oh there's a bunch up there hey Bros now that is one big pile of [ __ ] hey when it comes to guards with a penchant for doling out punishment our last location is perhaps the darkest a place referred to as the hole the hole was the name given to the solitary confinement cell block of the prison this block was reserved for those being punished legend has it that in the late 1930s as punishment for a riot 120 prisoners were forced to shove themselves into the 12 solitary confinement cells for a week without food this incident reportedly resulted in madness and some deaths reportedly horrifying happenings occurred in the hall including an inmate hanging himself a guard being killed by inmates an inmate lighting himself on fire one instance before two inmates entered the hall together and only one walked out with the other being discovered dead his body stuffed under the bunk in other words this is a rather horrible place and as with most horrible places we'll investigate it individually we're gonna do that thing where I go first and you go second and that'll be fun for you because you get to build up the anticipation and get very scared yeah really good well I just walk around and probably won't take it very seriously goodbye goodbye [Music] if there's anyone here my name's Shane and I'd like to talk to you I have a microphone in my pocket and if you put your lips are real close to it and whisper something my friend will have proved that ghosts are real how did it come to this I know I really do wonder sometimes how did I end up in this spot walking through solitary confinement by myself in the middle of the night in a haunted prison is this what I wanted from life I don't think it is please try to say something intelligent and coherent you know say I don't like the food here or this is a bad time for me or can you please stop talking something I'm gonna give you the floor now you know what for the hell of it I'm gonna turn out my light just gonna be pitch-black here and a prisoner here we go you know I didn't walk down West cellblock dude dude do you do doot-doot doot-doot doot-doot doot-doot here's a nice thing well if somebody looks like they beat the [ __ ] out of this not sure what that is Oh yells uh now these appear to be the solitary rooms I think cuz they have those tiny little doors on them I'm gonna jump into one of these feel out the space I'm going to be quiet now if you're a ghost reach out to me communicate I welcome your thoughts I respect you because that's what I'm doing this season or at least attempting to do here I go I'm going to be quiet now let er rip it's nice over here I like it if that's somebody up there make that noise again on your cell ah [ __ ] hate this place I really do but it's got some charm I'm not even I'm not even kidding about that time to face the music huh let's send the reigai to the hole very scary the things you said to me I don't know if my friend Ryan is gonna respond quite so well you do know I hate you right it's pretty spooky I sent one of the solitary cells I'm just really just really tried to put myself in their shoes and I think I learned a little bit wow I hate this part of the episode you know I mean ghosts here he comes Jesus Christ out loud here comes your boy Ryan Vergara okay well good luck off you go okay well as mr. Cheyne said my name is Ryan I'm very scared right now so know that if you're scared I promise you I'm more scared Ryan's out there doing his little thing do know that if you show yourself I have a camera I will see you and everybody will know you exist and I win he seems to be handling them well this season proud of him growing up you know if there's anybody up here with me and I just got the chills a [ __ ] he had to do it sometime I don't know how he's gonna fare he was a little rattled earlier in the night well I'm gonna sit on one of these and they're disgusting okay sitting in a solitary cell by myself good [ __ ] right okay let's fire up the spirit box all right my name is Ryan using lying back he's a Ryan no escape huh what's the name of the jail we're at right now psycho who is in this out who sell Miami can you say my name my name is Ryan Bergara what did you do why you here good obviously you weren't good [Music] crank marks or that what what does it say it sounds to me like it's saying we first board at dusk we first board at dusk yeah let's do it again so we were speaking to the ghouls and we said please tell us an important message and he got up to the mic and said first board that does it could be a metaphor I don't know why would ghosts be speaking in metaphors I don't know I would go speak Oh checkmate it's alright I'm gonna turn this off for the last part here it is alarmingly silent now in here what was that who was that reveal yourself did you make noise can you bang on one of your cells I'll come to you who is that [Music] please oops if you want a top god I have such all the hair standing up in my body time's up thank [ __ ] god too late won't get to know sayonara [ __ ] the right guy is out what are you gonna say to them yeah take a good look at this face ya ain't never gonna see it again you had your chance see that little dance that's the last thing you're ever gonna see a Dios oh [ __ ] I forgot the spirit box show go get it I have my hands are full well try your best I'm back ha ha ha isn't that funny how that happens [ __ ] where did I leave this [ __ ] boy what have you done Ryan what have you done I found you [ __ ] haha this is the best part when I just feel so much joy and happiness and I remember all that's good in the world this is you at your most loathsome yeah after spending a night roaming the unsettling cell blocks of Ohio State Reformatory I can see why many feel the prison is haunted even without the history the visuals presented are enough to make the imagination run wild but whether or not Ohio State Reformatory is definitively haunted will remain unsolved so right now we're gonna go retrieve these data came from the chair room and if this chair is not where I left it I'm gonna lose my [ __ ] mind what if the chairs are stacked like in full target that would be equal UT oh this is so weird there are in the same spot in the same spot how about that very curious very good some about this tall fishing that ghost is supposed to move that tree wise and I can't say I'm not disappointed because I am at this point with whatever's in this room tough season for the blue gutters it's a big ask once again tough season [Music] tonight something strange happened in the skies over Arizona that still hasn't been fully explained an event now known as the Phoenix lights no one knows for sure what happened that night in the skies over Arizona in March but thousands of people saw something this week on BuzzFeed unsolved we investigate the Phoenix lights a possible UFO sighting in Phoenix Arizona this case is regarded by many to be one of the bigger UFO cases of all time mainly because of the amount of witnesses you're already look like you're you're stoked I love it a lot of times it's like lady get abducted by minions but nobody had a camera well not today friend not today because spoiler I just take a little peek in there you didn't even look oh there you go there's so much heat in here let's get into it okay on March 13th 1997 around 7:00 p.m. a string of about five lights in a v-formation appeared in the sky above Phoenix Arizona the national UFO Reporting Center reported that the first call regarding the lights came in at 8:16 p.m. from a retired police officer in Paulding Arizona which is about two hours north of Phoenix the retired police officer reported he saw quote a cluster of red orange lights arranged in a V formation and quote the national UFO Reporting Center reportedly began to get a blood of calls from Selda Paulding suggesting the lights were moving in a southeastern direction allegedly there were over 700 witnesses including pilots police officers and military officials that were lighting up the national UFO Reporting Center switchboards looking for an explanation some describe the lights as orbs others said triangles a large amount of witnesses described the lights as part of a singular massive craft a craft that made no noise so some people saw a craft I got a bubble I got an air bubble in my throat right now you hear that you ever get that this is scary I don't know how like myself oh you sound I sound like an alien you sound alien I'm like a pod person oh okay yeah you know that's that thing yeah look at you look in the darkness long enough you're gonna see something yeah seven hundred people are gonna all hallucinate at the same time yeah okay I mean some of them did some of them didn't I mean it's not hallucinating I'm saying some of the people looked up and said yes I did I see staring at the darkness that was all connected Wow what's my mind doing here's a crazy March no this may be I may be going off the deep end here but if 700 people will say they saw something what if they actually saw something no doubt they saw something but what is that thing that's the question one man named Terry Proctor captured one of the only videos of this event the grainy low-quality video which we can't show you due to copyright seemingly displays five lights in a bee-like pattern in the sky around 10:00 p.m. a second set of as many as nine lights appeared in the sky seemingly hovering in the same spot whether these lines are related to or are in fact the same lights from the seven p-m sighting is unclear however it's this set of lights that comprises most of I witness testimony as it was later in the night after the buzz of the first sighting had people on alert it seems not like not the usual mo for aliens right to sort of do a little appetizer this is a weird case because there's a possibility that one was legit and one actually was something normal but was misidentified so it confuses things curious or they were the same thing I think either is just as likely I think it's possible that aliens knew they were gonna be seen or didn't know they were gonna be seen one of them [ __ ] up was asleep at the wheel forgot to turn on the cloaking device or some crazy [ __ ] like that it's just a button and now he's fired and he's looking for work his wife divorced him his little alien kids don't have income to live off of it's a really bad situation for that alien father a laser printer technician named Dana Valentine witnessed the craft from his yard in Phoenix quote we could see the outline of a mass behind the lights but you couldn't actually see the mass it was more like a great distortion of the night sky wavy I don't know exactly what it was but I know it's not a technology the public has heard of before end quote Tim Lee a management consultant described the event saying quote he was astonishing and a little frightening it was so big and so strange you couldn't actually see the object all you could see was the outline as though something was blotting out the Stars the lights look like gas there was a distortion on the surface also the light didn't spill out or shine I've never seen a light like that end quote according to a USA Today article from the time air-traffic controllers could not see the lights on radar despite seeing them with their own eyes in the sky that's pretty significant yeah if there are planes you would see them on the radar yeah so it's not a plane unless it was stealth we'll get into that later ok based off of reports it appears that the mysterious spacecraft was enormous made no sound moved slowly and on occasion would hover over an area Phoenix position dr. Lynn katay was a witness of these lights and states quote he was a mile wide formation of these orbs and I caught them head-on turning into a V end quote witness sue Watson described the craft as quote a shopping mall flying over my home it had these lights in front and then it was totally illuminated underneath like a yellowish amber he was a totally rounded boomerang shape end quote videos of this second event showed the string of nine lights hovering in the sky the lights illuminate off and on randomly over the course of a couple minutes while floating in what could be described as a loose V like formation other videos captured the events of March 13th 1997 and according to a USA Today article quote computer analysis of the tapes puts the object at 6000 feet long or more than a mile end quote with these things I tend to you know I tend to put it first on on spooky military activity more so than extraterrestrials it just seems like a big gamble for extraterrestrials to just I mean if they're coming down at night in the first place you know clearly and they're trying to cloak themselves well great maybe hang outside a few miles outside of town I mean really it's not that much of a gamble what's the gamble they're clearly more advanced than this what's gonna happen okay we see them we did see them we're not gonna attack them so it's a pop on by around the afternoon because maybe it's some peepers on that ship maybe they saw they saw us and they were like mm not interested swipe right or left or whatever the [ __ ] Twitter is it went out Twitter twin sender hurts you sound like an eight-year-old whatever whatever Twitter Quinn derp yeah I think maybe they saw they came to check out resources they didn't like what they saw so they just left while there are people who say the lights were part of one giant craft there are others who believe the lights themselves were the crafts a truck driver named Bill Greiner z-- recollection of the event seems to suggest the latter Greiner said that his truck route took him within a mile of Luke Air Force Base he states that he witnessed two orbs one of which was floating over the Air Force Base at that moment three f-16s took off after which the or pursued one but then shot up into the sky and disappeared quote before this if anybody had told me they saw a UFO I would have said yeah and I believe in the tooth fairy now I've got a whole new view I may be just a dumb truck driver but I've seen something that don't belong here I wish the government would just admit it you know what it's like in this city right now it's like having 50,000 people in a stadium watch a football game and then having someone tell us we weren't there quote love this guy yeah I I love it he's he's like he realizes that the first thing a skeptic is gonna say is that's a [ __ ] truck drivers yeah check that box yeah I was gonna say that's a [ __ ] truck truck he got me dead to rights and then he gave a solid analogy of people watching a sporting event and then having people go hey you didn't watch that and he also gave the I was a skeptic until I saw this defense movie it was oh yeah and I believe in the tooth fairy go [ __ ] yourself it was a three-pronged attack that's pretty good this guy's he's a savant when it comes to rhetoric yeah on May 6th during a council meeting City Councilwoman Frances Barwood asked city manager Frank Fairbanks if there was going to be an investigation quote I asked if anybody knew what this object was and could we check into it I was met by a whole bunch of stairs and quote she claims that following the meeting a city manager approached her and said quote you shouldn't have asked that question end quote then the Arizona Republic published a cartoon of City Councilwoman Barwood with a light switch on her forehead and a button on her jacket saying quote I love UFOs and quote Barwood continues the mayor's office put signs on my picture in the hallway and I found out afterwards they handed out business cards with my name on it that said speaking to the tinfoil I will hear you and quote despite being ridiculed Barwood began receiving phone calls from other witnesses all describing the same thing nonetheless for a while the case went unacknowledged until a USA Today article released three months later on June 18th 1997 described the event effectively bringing the story into the national spotlight from the article quote on March 13th hundreds of people reported an enormous object or objects in the night sky it's the most confounding UFO report in 50 years so far there is no explanation but the government is not investigating local and federal agencies disagree over who should purse the report in quote yeah I guess it didn't so there's been almost no coverage of it still here and this is three months after the exciting cuz this is this is before YouTube or yeah no one's on Twitter going holy [ __ ] yeah cuz you know I mean for example remember was it like a couple months ago when the SpaceX launch happened yeah and it looked like the sky was breaking mhm if that happened in 1997 and we didn't have Twitter everyone would think it was everyone would think it's an alien they would lose their minds yeah of course the government was to their credit able to give an excellent explanation they even announced that was gonna happen they said this shit's good you know it wasn't a covert operation so in that case I don't know if it's too similar mm-hmm but the Internet is a tool of knowledge I suppose in some ways yeah or it could be a means of destruction in the end of us yeah we're just hanging there everybody with the country hungry for answers then-governor five Symington held a press conference where he claimed he knew who was responsible and brought out the accused and now i'll ask officer Stein and his colleagues to escort the accused into the room so that we may all look upon the guilty party don't get him too close to me please and it's here that this story gets interesting because despite making a joke of the event Governor Symington would later publicly admit that he too had seen the craft quote I saw a huge craft come right over [ __ ] Peak it was just breathtaking as a pilot and a former Air Force officer I can definitively say that this craft did not resemble any man-made object that I'd ever seen he was certainly not high-altitude flares because I've never seen flares fly in formation unquestionably it was a UFO end quote another interesting fact from governor Symington was the fact that his office did inquire about the object but they never received an answer and if a governor can't receive an explanation from the powers that be what could they be hiding there's probably a lot of things they don't tell governor's sure but that when the governor in question has a state full of people that are pressing him for answers you would think that they would be like handing a lot of people or on you right now you're under a lot of heat this is what you this is what you do but instead they ostracize him they keep him on the outside to think oh I wonder what he's gonna do maybe he'll run his mouth I would be more concerned if he did know something I'm just saying that if they had talked to him he wouldn't have said anything ever I think because he would have had the fear but then but then he's still he's still like a loose cannon you can't know for sure that if they tell him something he's going to he could go nuts they don't know yeah you can because it's your job I'm just saying by keeping someone in the dark you get you're giving them the liberty to say whatever they really want with with no basis for it though I think one hears that they're not gonna it has a little bit of basis he's a governor saying something so that already inherently has a little bit of basis but he doesn't know more than anyone else in town I know is the thing but it just makes it look more suspicious I don't think it does I think it does well agree to disagree here all right with that let's get into the theories of which there are only two the first theory is the official explanation from the air force that the lights witnessed in the sky were merely flares dropped in a training exercise from high altitude that night the military states that the flares were dropped over the Barry M Goldwater range near Gila Bend Arizona though it's worth noting that two saans davis-monthan air force base the base that allegedly carried out the training exercise originally stated that it had no planes in the air at the time former f-16 pilot ty Gro believes that the lights may well have been military flares he says that flares go where the wind takes them a breeze may have been able to carry all of them at an equal distance in June of that year a local news anchor taped another flare drop by the military and skeptics suggest it bared a striking resemblance to the Phoenix lights one important detail is what time the military reportedly dropped flares on the night of the Phoenix lights the flare drop apparently occurred around I am aka the same time sightings of the second set of lights were reported but while that possibly explains those lights that still offers no explanation for the first set of lights that were seen nearly three hours earlier one man named Mitch Stanley claims that during the time of the first sighting he happened to be using a high-powered telescope capable of seeing 1,500 times more light than the human eye when he looked at the first set of lights he claims they were plans while compelling this story seems odd when you consider the fact that no plans were reported in the air during the time of the first sighting and since it wasn't just one light but rather five lights it seems odd that there would be five unaccounted for planes flying in tight formation my gut tells me it's just some shady military activity could've been flares could've been Stealth's you know who knows they've only given one explanation for the for the second set of lights and even that explanation to me is is she is [ __ ] I would say [ __ ] this one's [ __ ] I just think that the flares even if you do buy the flares sure the first set of lights still unexplained except for one dude with a telescope who's competing against 700 witnesses and why the [ __ ] is this guy with a telescope he just happens to be using a telescope at the exact time of one of like the craziest events of all time I gotta be honest telescope people are weird because he's actually I want to be one of those he's a favorite among skeptics they're like see this guy was using a high-powered telescope with his mama which is what he was using he was in Tibet you know I don't doubt that he was that him and his mama were out with their telescope I'm just saying telescope people I mean how much are they spending on these telescopes they're gonna be out there every single night with a like a margarita let's see what I find all that's true empty sky again whoa wow what a night well that's been eight hours yes I'll go to sleep because the sun's coming up they're basically vampires then he says to his mom good scoping she's good scope and Sun and they go when are you gonna move out which brings us to our next theory that the lights were not flares actual UFOs and perhaps proof of extraterrestrial life on the third year anniversary of the lights another flare demonstration was performed to attempt to mimic the lights this time by the National Guard but people remained unconvinced that this was what they witnessed three years earlier the flares quote flickered and moved erratically unquote and not in the bizarre grouped fashion of the Phoenix lights Jim della Tosa a special effects expert analyzed videos of the lights and said quote I have no idea what they were and quote him and his team detail the orbs as quote a perfectly uniform light with no variation from one edge to the other and no glow they have ruled out lasers flares Holograms and aircraft lights as sources and quote to gain further insight on this case we sat down with ancient aliens expert giorgio a sooo close what do you think the plausibility of this event actually happening is well we know it happened so we do know what happened right and I agree we don't know what it was what it was yes correct and what I think is fascinating is that something similar happened seven years earlier in Belgium which was also seen by thousands upon thousands of people same triangular formation and then also the individual lights so I think it's fascinating have you seen anything that could maybe be an early version of what we saw in the Phoenix lights sure what's interesting is that Alexander the Great and also in some accounts of ancient Constantinople there are references of giant flying shields giant shields that are glowing in the sky and just crossed you know over the lands so when you have these accounts of of ancient flying shields up in the sky there are witnessed by armies you have to wonder well were they all drunk were they all smoking or did they actually see some even if the lights were misidentified flares or planes this still doesn't explain numerous witnesses describing a massive craft that the lights were attached to piggybacking off that on March 14th 1997 the morning after the Phoenix lights an airman from Luke Air Force Base detailed a disturbing story from the day prior he claimed that the base got a call from Prescott Valley Airport quote reporting an object that had a near miss with a small Cessna and quote he claimed this call came at quote approximately 8:32 p.m. that they encountered something over Phoenix Arizona end quote as a result the airman claims that Luke Air Force Base sent two f-15s to investigate upon their return to base here's how the airman described the pilot of one of the f-15s quote the command pilot of this particular flight I've never seen this man scared and he was scared to death he's not sure what it was his statement was that they followed this aircraft it went on a straight-line course he saw five distinct lights in a triangular pattern how often would this happen where the military has stealth planes out that they don't tell Air Force bases about it's possible that seems wildly counterproductive to me you don't want to be sending out a bunch of planes to investigate things when you could easily be like oh yeah that's one of ours yeah I just feel like the military you know it's hard to pin down hard to pin down what they what they might do I think I just made a good point certainly certainly a good point for you after this revelation the airman claimed the Air Force Base quote had a complete lockdown all hell broke loose basically and the facility was closed and quote noteworthy is that this encounter occurred around 8:30 p.m. at the time of the first sighting about an hour and a half before the military claims they dropped flares in response the Air Force has denied this encounter ever took place classic no of that classic do you think they just have a dart board that they throw whether or not there no they're gonna deny just spin a wheel which we tell it this time yeah I think it would be a fun job to be the person who makes up fake stories that the military doctor Oh a spin doctor yeah and then he spins his wheel that has topics on it and it has topics on it we're going with flares and everyone in like the office who had flares in their pool yeah they choke alpha a little bit more it makes sense that the Air Force would deny this story since denying interest in UFOs is something that the government has already done in December 2017 it was found that the nation's defense department had used 22 million dollars of their annual six hundred billion dollar budget for an advanced aerospace threat identification program Defense Department officials admitted that for years the program had been investigating unidentified flying objects here's a quote from a New York Times article on a 60 minute documentary on this topic detailing documents provided in the documentary quote documents that describe sightings of aircraft that seemed to move at very high velocities with no visible signs of propulsion or that hovered with no apparent means of lift end quote why do you think the government approaches the topic of UFOs with such trepidation why do you think they're so against it that's a great question because as we now know ever since the 50s and the 60s you know open money people like the three of us and our great audience we've always been laughed at and oh you know those are the Kooks those are the crazies yeah and then there's reports coming out well we've been studying this you know files and files with hundreds of thousands of documents worldwide not just by the US government but by governments from Brazil England all over the place that ultimately this stuff has been investigated and the fact that the Pentagon in December of 2017 released a statement saying hey we're investigating UFOs that to me indicates that you've passed or we are experiencing a paradigm shift which is great in the end neither skeptics nor believers can concretely prove what happened that night despite hundreds of witnesses across an entire state the world seems content to leave what transpired that night as a mystery perhaps one day we'll have an answer but for now the case remains unsolved this building has had many different hats throughout history all right well let's uh try them on I'll say this the exterior looks quite nice yeah it does they've really done quite well for themselves let's see why this place has the reputation it does this week on BuzzFeed unsolved we investigate Moon River Brewing Company in Savannah Georgia as part of our ongoing investigation into the question are ghosts real this building has plenty of rich and perhaps violent history rich and violent that's a package right there yeah it's all been leading up to this moment for when the boys come in a mustachioed chain and Ryan feels good here in Savannah it's all right everyone who has to look at that this episode just know I don't like it either it's a mustache town Savannah all right well let's get into it Moon River Brewing Company is said to be one of the most haunted institutions in Savannah one of the bars owners Jean Pico said quote I have seen and experienced things that I don't understand and I can't explain end quote though the Brewing Company's other owner and brew master John Pinkerton has said quote I personally cannot claim any experiences that I call paranormal what I often point out is that the scariest things on this planet are living people I don't worry about the spirits of dead people I worry about living people and in particular drunk living people and end quote regardless of which owner is right there is plenty of history in this building that could contribute to a haunting so Pinkerton he thinks this is all baloney yeah and then the other guy he's like me if we opened a bar I'd be like I saw bottles moving off the shelf and yeah that's all baloney yeah so he's full of [ __ ] I love that he's scared or just drunk living people too he turned it into a commentary and how it sucks to own a bar came around to that I thought he was gonna say I spend my time worrying about you know fraud and serial killers but no just his unruly patrons you get some of the devil's juice and someone you know things happen yeah their darkness comes out yeah yeah we don't know anything about that well maybe we do Jesus Christ is this why you did the mustache did you do something last night what oh you think this is a disguise like surely no one will recognize me with my thick full mustache the building in which the Moon River Brewing Company is housed was originally built as a hotel known as the city hotel it is said to be the city's oldest surviving hotel /in built by a laser and Jain early construction on the hotel began in 1819 opening eventually in 1821 the hotel was known as a luxury establishment but violence was not uncommon among the hotel bar patrons especially as it was often frequented by hot-headed politicians and businessmen in 1832 one troubling incident of violence occurred with a belligerent lobby bar patron named James stark stark was bad-mouthing the local dr. Philip Mini's the feud between the two had been said to be ongoing and reports suggest Starks verbal attack on minis included anti-semitic Barb's as minis was Jewish stark also accused the doctor of being a coward would reportedly set the doctor over the edge stark allegedly reached into his pocket and Mini's reacted by drawing his gun and killing stark first Mini's was charged with quote justifiable homicide and quote as it was a quote affair of honor end quote stark was reportedly seen as a town troublemaker and some have posited that minis got off so easy because of Starks unpopularity with a will much of the ghost activity including people being pushed inside the brewery has since been attributed to Starks vengeful ghost this is what we're gonna find mr. James Stark the the they home correct he was shot right around this area right here oh right here yeah yeah this looks like a good place for a duel he was an anti-semite so like I said this guy was a this guy was kind of a dildo I think we should reach out to him right about here okay this is where we'll find him all right well mr. stark we've traveled a long way to see you see you well I didn't come here just for him we didn't come here just for you don't flatter yourself but my name is Ryan my name's Shane and we're the ghoul boys yeah we're the ghoul boys and we here then you were kind of a dick that's a very light way of putting it yeah and then didn't get along with your doctor and then he's just trying to look out for you their job is to make sure you live and your doctor killed you yeah what kind of [ __ ] do you have to be you know that that violates the Hippocratic oath it does I haven't read the oats myself but I'm pretty sure shooting somebody is against the oath they don't think they even put it in there they don't say hey by the way don't shoot your patient anyways James now that we've if we've really gone in on you I hear that a woman was pushed down this set of stairs it's not conclusive that it was you stirs tricky well so why don't you go ahead and push us push me I'm right here I'm very top-heavy so you just give it a slight push how about it James you got anything to say James stark that's what we're reaching out to you right now are you here I'm gonna give you some silence to show us that you're hearing that you want to talk you can say something you could move something how about it James all right James so if you don't want to talk to us right now I'm gonna bring out something that's really gonna piss you off you're gonna hate it this is the one time that I'm glad we're using this because guess what James this sucks this thing's [ __ ] stupid James if you thought getting shot was bad wait till you hear our spirit box all right James or any spirits who haunt this hole who's up here with us well I thought it said James Mayans Ryan that's Shane can you say our names back to it you want to talk right now we're reaching out to James stark specifically mr. stark do you have anything you want to say to us use this device to talk to us why not we're not here to hurt you we just want to just want to talk blue diamond so what's the name of this building and ask that again what's the name of this building what city are we in turning it off all right James we're moving to a different part of the building you didn't want to talk to us we're gonna be around though so you know you know where to find us we're gonna be down the hall feel free to really pound us yeah or go [ __ ] yourself how about that either or up to you dick bag in the mid-1800s violence escalated because of the many northern guests and political tensions at this time there were allegedly violent outbursts between locals and hotel visitors reportedly in 1860 a northerner visiting from New York named James Sinclair was lynched and nearly killed by locals who resented his presence in town what year was this this was 1860 around the time of the Civil War I feel like you should read the room when you're making vacation plans during the Civil War if you were a white dude like this guy was I'm gonna assume you could just go wherever you want just don't start saying I [ __ ] hate the South I'm from the north hi my Yankee Doodle damn you uh the hotel closed in 1864 at the onset of the Civil War allegedly because the violence between the guests and the locals had reached a tipping point tour guides today actually warn guests to not top the ghost too much as they may become violent I find that the places that people consider most scary at all these places we go to you're bathed in darkness it's usually very quiet I find that I find it relaxing I don't know people are normally just scared of very dark decrepid places but I was born in the darkness God you just quote Bane yeah it's fun is there anybody here who's upset about what happened to them in this hotel that wants to talk to us right now but we'll hear you're out we're not here to hurt you I know this guy's mustache suggests otherwise to bring up the mustache it's creepy I get it I probably look like a lot of your friends that's probably true actually this is oh is that what this is you can get into the Royal did this superior that ghost-hunting yeah that's what you do yes I'm a paranormal investigator and I take my job seriously weird I remember you saying that oh I was shaving my face and then I stopped that's why didn't you play by play of what happens the reason you stated before but no okay now it's because you're a serious paranormal investigator I get it oh hello there ma'am aren't you sweeter than a dew drop why you look funny than honey butter on a June afternoon he was whisper no okay did I get a whisper yeah he did it's me banjo your old pal from the bank I saw you strolling with your son Bradley who is that that those are people right obviously they're so goddamn clear I don't hear people if anybody was talking can you talk again ask you to say that in a stupid voice what any y'all like to pull up a chair and join me in some conversation like a cat on a hot well we're gonna leave now go to a different part of the building thank you kindly during the Civil War the hotel served as a Confederate hospital sometimes referred to as the river battery hospital some say the building was used as a hospital for soldiers from both the North and the South so now we're heading up to the fourth floor definitely one of the more active areas of this bar this is where the hospital used to be okay so yellow fever patients mostly children you know and of course Civil War soldiers okay we already had our static cam set up here so it's been recording all night this seems like a good place to turn off our lights because it truly is dark in here okay you want to kill them why don't we do that and then one and then we'll reach out if there's anybody up here you could say something you could scream bang on something there are rumors that this was a Confederate Hospital you have anything to say about that you angry you lost the war you lost your life I get it are there any kids up here sorry we scared you before yeah we're fun we're nice guys I know you're sick do you want to you want to play it doesn't matter us you got the yellow fever we got it - we got it - that's a weird thing to say yeah I know I felt weird I feel like this season you've gotten very aggressive with the ghosts in a way that maybe betrays your belief how's that I feel like if you truly believed in them you'd be a little more respectful mad you went to lunch of someone yeah and the whole time you're like oh so how was your day how'd you get here Daisy you got stuff to do after this to be fully accurate here you'd have to be sitting at a table alone staring at no one asking them questions well I'm comparing it because goes to me are people so then it would be to me like going on an outing with somebody in the whole time they say nothing no eventually you're gonna be okay what the [ __ ] wrong with you what's the deal here over time the building would become a coal and lumber warehouse a supply store and now in present-day Moon River Brewing Company let's go over some of the other hot spots of the building the restaurant area is said to be a place where servers report being touched or pushed by unseen figures and bottle / silverware have reportedly been seen being pushed off of tables by unknown forces startling Lee the apparition of a woman from the 1800's was spotted walking across the crowded bar a bartender thought she was an actress or a reenactor about to order a drink however she disappeared in front of his eyes as she reached the bar there were reportedly many other witnesses to this Inn and as she disappeared its reported a hush fell over the room we are in the restaurant now we hear that somebody likes to walk around down here we're walking around to just exploring I want to know why you're still here little girl what'd you do drop my headphones did you drop them or did they get no I dropped hugged off your head I'm gonna do a quick flashlight what if I pay my flashlight over there there's a face we go why would you think that would happen I don't know worth a shot that same woman has also been seen on the top of the first floor stairs she was spotted by a manager who reportedly asked her if he could help her which startled her and then he vanished I'm gonna go to the top of the stairs okay good luck he'd be really unfortunate if someone snuck up on me right now push him as hard as you can you could do that if you want make him tumble Rock me down these stairs push him down the stairs look I'll make myself an easier target have a pen Ryan y'all show me the money what do you mean why am i doing that why am i quoting Jerry Maguire well the money is like the you know metaphorical evidence all right show me the money oh come on what [ __ ] you doing I'm dancing whether they don't like my dancing do you like the dancing it's not great give me the business come on business come on me is this give me the business fist this this has been fun I'm not sure this is a very serious ghost investigation there is one well-known ghost who they call Toby who was often seen in the basement some have referred to him as a negative spirit while current staff have characterized him as a young boy a bartender has also seen a shadowy black figure from the wall in this spot one local woman was attacked she recalls the incident saying that she was alone in the back room in the basement when she felt someone choking her and pushing her backward one prominent paranormal investigator reported being momentarily possessed in this particular room could this dark figure be Toby hey Toby Toby what's down in this basement why do people feel so oppressed down here Toby are you actually Lucifer is there actually a boy named Toby down here people say they see you where you're just uh just a talk we want to play actually yeah want to come play with us if you don't you're going to be in big trouble tope stir can you move something to show us you want to play let's Toby doing hanging around a basement of a bar why are you down here Toby why are you down here Toby what are you doing down here why do you choose to stay down here doing some weird Hardy Boys stuff especially if there's something dark down here why are you here is there something down here that scares you was that it's so much moving around maybe you're intimidated by the both of us so we're gonna split up we're gonna investigate this one by one what do you think of that and you could do whatever you want to us I guess could really [ __ ] with us then all right I'm down here in the basement now all by my lonesome where'd my Toby go taupe stirrer table stirrer I know there are rules here I'll be honest this may be a famous last words but I'm not very scared of what's down there I think sometimes there's value to darkness so I'm just gonna turn off my light and sit here stare down at this empty room maybe someone will see that as an invitation maybe a dark entity in general would like to possess me I'm a pretty good candidate come on would it be crazy if Shane comes back up and he's like I saw a [ __ ] ghost don't be afraid of my moustache Toby this is the series over then at the end of herself come on I've only got a couple more minutes guys she had her get off the pot five minutes is a long time for something to happen to me down there without Shane realizing it I could have been choked to death by then so no nothing okay how was it what how was it it was great what if you call out for me down there I don't respond and when you find me I'm just standing in the corner I'm gonna close the door and leave you're gonna you would just leave me yeah why if you're possessed we're not taking you home this is kind of horrifying I don't like it don't like you one bit actually I felt nothing down there to be fair I feel nothing everywhere we go but this place more so than usual will Ryan have better luck maybe he's insane all right who's down here in this basement who died here Toby who's down here in this basement my name is Brian can you say Ryan back [Applause] use this device to talk to me or sell yourself I guess what was that is there anybody down here with me hmm looks like this ain't working I'm gonna go straight EVP now I don't know Ryan's been a little too confident tonight I think it doesn't suit him it's obviously annoying when he's walks around being oh oh I've heard stories about floating candlesticks but when the pendulum swings in the other direction he's pretty insufferable so I think we much prefer terrorized Ryan will the basement put him in his place it solely depends on on how much he gets in his own head because his mind is his own worst enemy [Music] and it's my greatest ally we're down here in this basement why do you haunt this basement what happened to you Toby are you actually a little boy do I want to know the answer to that question I'm gonna turn my light off here we go anybody down here with me I'm not here to hurt you I just want to talk I hear people see you all the time got the chills right now actually so I wonder if that means anything why do you hurt people who's down here with me what I feel like I'm being watched boy who's down here that's your time Ryan that's my time huh feel like you extended my time again I I think that's healthy for you how did you did you did you get all worked up down there a little bit did you huh oh hey I'm pretty pissed we didn't get to hang out with Toby I'm gonna look lad we didn't get to hang out with Toby but yeah in the long run I'm probably angry we didn't get bang out with Toby another another investigation in the books well woody what do you got to say about this one we [ __ ] nailed it River Brewing Company has plenty of rich history as a hotel and a hospital after numerous accounts of paranormal activity it's not a far stretch to say that some patrons and patients never checked out but whether or not Moon River Brewing is definitively haunted will remain unsolved holy [ __ ] hey hey ghosts I'm shakin well here it is the infamous Tyrell weed house it's quite creepy yeah as a horror fan I love it but the fact that we're about to go inside of it not my favorite but you know you gotta do what we got to do to get this evidence this looks scary to you though it's just how does this not look scary to you why do kind of get haunted mansion vibes from it yeah a little bit are you alright no point of me asked me if you're nervous could you say that like if this was a horror movie this obviously would be you know yeah makes sense checks out but this is a haunted mansion yeah I actually don't get haunted vibes from it it doesn't feel like a haunted house to me that's fine we can we can disagree let's just get going here okay this week on BuzzFeed unsolved we investigate the surreal weed house in Savannah Georgia as part of our ongoing investigation into the question are ghosts real this house has a lot of interesting history associated with it and this house perhaps sits on a patch of land that may have been the site of one of the bloodiest events in the American Revolution mmm history so when we're you're feeling bored and you're not feeling the ghostly energy just think about all the sweet history and then you could just put my hand on one of the the door jambs and just really connects I don't like your hand right there I don't know Mimi don't think about the history it's too late well it's gonna be a fun night let's get into okay built in 1840 by Francis Sorel the sorrel weed house is said to be one of the most haunted homes in the US the house was both a home for Francis's family and a gathering place for the affluent of Savannah in 1859 Henry Davis we'd bought the house hence why the house is called the sorrel weed house referring to its first two owners tour guides believe the spirit of Francis Sorel the original owner has made itself known in the dining room by moving a chair to and from the table in one instance a candle was tossed across the room a floating candlestick is pretty on the notes pretty but sometimes things are on the nose because they actually happen all the time I think the fact that it's it's you know I want to respect the history of it and while that's happening I have to deal with all this stupid [ __ ] about candlesticks floating in the air like it's the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland well it's actually not [ __ ] happened so okay said great I don't know what to tell you but no that's good it is good let's keep going so right now we're heading to the dining room this is actually a room that's not often investigated so is it because it's boys ER there's no there's no particular reason they just don't offer this part in the ghost tours oh I see so this is a little treat this is a little treat for the boys all right so hello whoever lives in this room or if there's anybody here with us right now my name is Ryan that Shane if you would like to communicate with us now is the time to do so is there any members of the Sorrell family here with us today Frances are you here we hear you like to move things on this table as well could you maybe move one of those candlesticks let me make that napkin wiggle we heard a lot about southern hospitality we're from California Wow can you pass me that cup over there I could sure go for a coffee Francis Sorrell was said to host parties in the two connected parlor rooms guests often report the smell of cigars and brandy okay so the parlor room so back in the day they would have parties here the the gentleman would be drinking brandy and smoking cigars they'd be on this side of the room looks like they'd be talking about business and on this side of the room this is where the women would sit oh not too far we're gonna sit in here stare at their portrait of Christian Bale you know what I mean I kind of want to get your question you've got to get one get proof and bail big fan shall we begin hello to whoever is in this room I would say ladies but anytime I say ladies it makes me sound like a creep yeah true well how do you how do you announce yourself to a room without saying [Music] it's footsteps better check it out you hear that right yeah who is upstairs can we go upstairs no it's condemned we'll fall through the [ __ ] ceiling I swear to god there's someone up there there is I know I'm getting chills let's go outside and look come on oh let's face it the lease who's up there well we can't go up here because it's not safe up there to walk but there is definitely somebody up there I know that sounds like a cop-out do you hear that okay there's someone up there are there like open windows out there or anything I mean I don't know how to explain its footsteps maybe say something that's nice that make hole come down hi please come downstairs that's what you landed on what the [ __ ] was that it sound like a dog come on boy come on come on what a treat I'm sure Francis his son Frank Sorrell was a doctor that used the basement of the Sorel weed house as his office for a few years guides called this room the surgery room and say that dr. Frank Sorel used it as a trauma surgery unit this room is reportedly very active people have allegedly experienced unexplained touching shadows and bizarre feelings and have seen an apparition pacing in the room in the surgery room a little girl is also seen who likes to play hide and seek a chair is often moved as well we hear that Frank if you're in here with us you used to perform surgery in here and that you were quite you were quite prolific at it is there anybody down here with us make your presence known for their patients in here is there anybody the last last place that you remember being alive you know we hear that there is a little girl in here oh is this the ankle biter yeah go on there's some ankles if you want to give them a little bite we hear that you'd like to play hide and seek so what we're gonna do right now is we're gonna play with you 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ready or not here we come oh god I'm actually scared open my eyes it all looks the same it does look the same let me scan my little flashlight here are you actually hiding are you playing or no is there anybody here with us can you move something give us a hint you don't ask for hints when you walk yes in the hiding spots really good you eventually will ask for a hint and they'll usually like tap or something what I would never give him she just stayed hidden how long would you do that as long as I had to alrighty well let's fire up that spirit box oh god did you hear that yeah here we go this is a device that you guys may be able to use to speak to us so that's a matter of fact this is device you may use to speak with us well that's what it is how am I supposed to describe you've nailed it okay who is in this room with that sandwich is there anyone here in this room with us please tell us your name is there a girl here if there's a little girl in here can you tell us your name when here you'd like to play hide-and-seek what happened to you I'm going to need to hear some clear responses for me to know I'm talking to somebody what in the name of God was that what did you just say who was that hi sorry whoever just spoke could you speak again if you want to talk right here son if you want to talk her right here yeah I'm satisfied satisfied no seconds on satisfied all right we're gonna leave this surgery room now by the way we never found you so you could come out of your hiding spot now oh we didn't forget about that well I guess we'll just stay hidden yeah okay the game's over game's over by looking she doesn't know she's hiding wait goes more serious just don't say I didn't tell you I'm serious right now the game is over I can't I don't have any more energy to look game over man this house was also a site of tragedy for the Shirelles on March 27th 1860 my Tilda Sorel Francis's wife died at the age of 54 after falling quote from the second or third storey window of her residence on Harris Street and quote her cause of death was listed as concussion but many have speculated that her death was a suicide and this is actually the courtyard the Matilda fell into and died Oh and we're not really sure how it happened but concussion this is a or why she fell I should say but this is where it happened this is the floor we were at right here it was this balcony she fell right down here quite the fall Matilda are you out here what happened to you did you fall why did you fall from the balcony did someone push you did you jump can you shut that door right there if you're out here she doesn't want to talk to us no I don't blame you blame her this house may be haunted by past events that didn't occur in the house at all but rather on the ground it is situated on in the ball of 1779 America was in the midst of the Revolutionary War the siege of Savannah which some historians called the bloodiest hour of the revolution pitted the Americans with aid from the French against the British who at the time occupied Savannah the Americans were unable to liberate Savannah and the battle claimed over 1,000 lines according to local historian and author James Caskey part of the British fortifications were situated on what is currently Madison Square which is across the street from the sorrel weed house according to tour guides at the house the sight that the sorrel weed house was built on may have served as barracks for British soldiers during the Revolutionary War and the siege of Savannah in one tragic instance a cannonball crashed into the bearings giving 12 British soldiers it said that they are often seen in one part of the basement I remember I used to think cannonballs were hilarious until I saw the Patriot and that thing goes rolling through the field just knocks people's legs off to be fair cannonballs are pretty hilarious cartoons is just a big ball also where you're like what's the funniest thing you could do at a pool party candy bar everybody loves everyone loves it they all know they all wet very good you're the life of the party as I said before according to the historians in this house this house was perhaps the barracks for former British soldiers maybe a command center of some sort either way it's said that a cannonball fired through this building killed 12 British soldiers yeah that's crazy and they are seen in this area and over here in this room primarily just seemed lurking I guess it kind of makes sense because it is this is the first floor it's slightly below ground but it's like half way yeah this is where yeah if a cannonball came through the building right it would fall down a certain amount of floors carried things with it all righty well I'm Ryan that's true that's where you say you're Shane as I said we're both Americans the war happened a long time ago so if there's any soldiers with hit with us here today it's a friendly zone right now you could talk to us you could move something you could make your presence be known or if you're not feeling that friendly maybe you're feeling a little salty I get it sucks to lose yeah maybe you could show us some of that anger oh yeah yeah yeah really let loose let off a little steam I don't request that very often but I officially request holy [ __ ] [Music] what did you see I just saw a figure head shoulders walk right there right here no no [Music] right here right here you saw a figure head shoulders walk right over here now it couldn't be that the light might be playing no no no this is a person you saw Percy was either a ghost or a person I don't know which one it was but something a hundred percent walked right here well you had your uh you have a camera pointing at me in my chest I don't know if it saw it holy [ __ ] what well let's hope otherwise we have to depend on your oh boy here he goes he's off what the [ __ ] that's not even open up to the street I I saw it okay honestly my first impulse was it's a person because it looked like a person I'm saying you're a jittery guy I know what I [ __ ] saw it was a [ __ ] person okay in the basement there's also a small breezeway where guests can sit in a chair and are sometimes visited by a shadowy apparition who this apparition is nobody knows but one guest reported feeling every possible emotion at the same time and ran out of the house to finish this out we'll investigate this area individually so this is your little little viewing of the shadow man in the breezeway so here's the breezeway I'm gonna sit in this chair I'll try not to fall asleep I'm very tired all right wish me luck yeah yeah because you definitely need it yeah Ryan's gonna go nuts down here there's a lot of light pouring in shadows I'm already doing I'm starting to freak myself out nope not today and if there's any ghosts down here it's just me now it's no one else on this floor just you and me in the dark I'm a little concerned about what I'm gonna see when I'm down there but I don't think it's gonna hurt me I think come on hey hey ghosts tickle me tear my eyeballs out grab my nipples all right Shane that's that's five yeah Jesus was that quick yeah I feel like if I close my eyes for a little bit and open them I would almost feel like I got abducted all right did you feel a rush of emotion no I didn't it's nice though when you don't forget to okay okay good luck oh boy I'm gonna lose my [ __ ] mind welp I have once again got it myself into quite the pickle haven't I I really hope we hear him screaming I guess I'll bask in some silence for a little bit here because I hate doing that so let's do that for a sec this is a shitty situation I'm very scared right now but you know I've been given the opportunity to maybe catch a ghost on camera so maybe it'll happen right now I saw one of you earlier whoever was walking around earlier I saw you I hear him talking quite a bit which means he is rattled is there anybody down here with me this is where the infamous shadow man is who are you okay two and a half minutes come on Ryan you could do this I don't want him to have like a full mental break maybe close close would be good I'm not ready for you but if you want to come out no and now it would be a good time and God knows I'm scanning this whole room I feel like I've been down here for five minutes why have they not come to get me Brian's five minutes are up but I'm gonna just gonna give him a few more minutes make him think that he's going nuts [Music] I'm shaking all right feel like that was longer than five minutes oh we thought we'd give you ten and just see how you did you son of a [ __ ] well I figured you might not notice the passing of time down here oh Jesus Christ yeah it sucked how'd it go yeah yeah it was it wasn't great no it wasn't great I don't think anything happened though or at least I didn't catch it but I was scanning pretty wildly you seem very twitchy right now yeah why my eyes hurt because they were open for eight straight minutes you didn't blink I don't think so well just giving you more time with the ghosts how about this let's just get out of here that sounds good to do that well sir I'll weed house it's been fun yeah we've we've been introduced to a whole cast of characters tonight some noises there is a weird thing going on upstairs I saw one of you walking around down here but uh I think I've had enough so you know toodaloo I guess so yeah the the ghoul boys are out I am out I'm done you coming okay as I said up top the sorrell weed house is said to be one of the most haunted homes in the u.s. after spending a night within its walls I can see why it makes that claim with dark history and a front row seat to one of the bloodiest events in American history there's plenty of reasons why some spirits remain but whether or not the sorrell weed house is definitively haunted will remain unsolved all the way down to sunny San Diego for a vo Montezuma architecture Lee speaking this looks like it was built in the classic haunted house style it does it does look at like a spooky funhouse I think we'll have fun you know no I think we'll have fun well you think we're gonna have fun everywhere you can go into a building that's on fire and you be like this is a blast I would not say that after you sir all right this week on BuzzFeed unsolved we investigated via Montezuma in San Diego California as part of our ongoing investigation into the question are ghosts real this house has had many owners and residents two of which were known to perform seances in this house so there's no telling how many spirits reside here today it was a party house it was a party house at one point I like that and you know what some say the party's still going so Cowabunga baby I think the party's about to get taken up a notch you know I think we used to bring it down oh okay it is different then I got my party boots on you don't the same boots you always wear my party boots all right well let's get into a couple built in 1887 by spiritualist William and John hi via Montezuma is two stories high with dark wood walls silvery ceilings and bright stained glass windows by artist John Mellon the house sits mostly undisturbed except for the occasional quarterly tour in fact we are the first paranormal investigators to ever shoot a paranormal investigation inside the building weird occurrences are said to happen in the home such as a corner where plants refuse to grow and a stained glass window of peter paul rubens whose beard is supposedly graying slowly this is the guy whose beard says is said to gray more and more each year looking at it now it definitely looks like it doesn't look like it's wearing away a very old picture hey that's like saying well this photograph gets more and more yellow over time I guess via Montezuma was constructed for a man named Jesse Shepard Shepard was a famous musician with spiritualist ties prominent musicians can be found depicted in beautiful stained glass windows around the home Jessie incorporated spiritualism into his performances claiming he could connect with spirits and that he could channel these spirits through his music his vocal range allowed him to same quote in to voices and good that's ventriloquism 101 I think I didn't realize you were so into ventriloquist I did have a dummy for a while that kind of explains a lot I could just picture your mom like walking down the hallway in high school like shake hey it's time to get up for school and then she starts to hear voices it's coming don't talk to her [Laughter] Jessie would give performances and allegedly hold séances within the home but eventually would steer away from spiritualism and leave for Europe to pursue a writing career ultimately like many future owners of the home Jessie would fall into financial ruin and would actually die while playing the piano in Los Angeles oh so he gave his last performance he was performing at a benefit yeah he would get really into his music and then he did this one note like this and everyone was like oh he's really living it sizzle oh he's okay he's really letting it sizzle okay this is maybe too much sizzle wait a second is he dead and the answer was yes I don't know how I'd react to that like with everyone just like they start to look at each other concerned like that okay another round starts Jesus Christ man performance is very avant-garde this is embarrassing I think that's so funny it's very disrespectful but it's human it's gonna happen to all of us depending what you ate oh boy look we know it's disrespectful you don't have you don't have to say it in the comments we're sticking with this one it said that Jesse's spirit haunts this home one room where we might find him is the ballroom or the music room where Jesse would put on elaborate performances where he would channel the spirits of the great musicians on display in the house the UH night it looks like he's a knight he's got like a big-ass axe we're gonna does that's actually pretty cool and yet he's he's got a big aunts but he's doing the chill pose yeah that's kind of like that I got an axe but not that big of a deal though he had tenure that probably like the third picture you know you know this is where Jesse shepherd would actually put on the performances for the guests he would have at his house and as you can see there's a bunch of different musicians and in stained glass all right who's around here you like Beethoven and the classics the classics anyways he thought he could channel them channel Mozart all these people in this house while he performed because that's what he believed was he actually it was he good he was very good he was all world renowned he was famous okay should we try and reach out to some people here absolutely me put in my little headphones your ghost stethoscope are you here right now Jesse it's a good house it's very quiet yes I heard you were pretty damn good at the piano I wish I could have heard it how many performances did you have here I'm just imagining that piano of this room the wasteth man that sound bouncing off the hardwood this is a very intimate room yeah for that kind of performance in this room listen who just someone just if you said he was very passionate yeah really pounded away on this thing and he said he could sing in two voices happy the lose in my mind yeah it's like Beyonce at Coachella you just losing them I don't know if it would be that good a cello is supposed to be pretty damn good I know would you like to sing for us Jessie I know that you're not a jukebox and I'm sure you probably got that most of your life but we do hear you had the voice of an angel voice of two angels apparently we're gonna give you the floor now so if there is anything here that actually has something to say the floor is now yours we're gonna be styling anybody could speak to us right here anybody and you better hurry because I'm about to bring out something fools I beg of you sing sing with your two voices Jessie please play the piano you're gonna regret this you leave me no choice Jessie all right this is gonna help you maybe to communicate you could use this energy to speak to us because I know it's a little tough and also more importantly Shane hates this so I also love doing this here we go all right let's try this again my name is Ryan that's Shane my name is Ryan that's meatballs a lot of chatter here today all right we're off to a fine start here grilled cheese what all right my name's Ryan that shape mines Ryan that shape you see before name fat where it's 2018 what what color shoes am i wearing but it was like those sneaks are we've dog a little girl on a tour of the house claimed to hear a chorus and old organ music while in Jesse's bathroom his bathroom is located in Jesse's bedroom so right now we're entering Jesse's bedroom and there's the bathroom and someone apparently heard music coming out of there once granted it was a child who heard that but yeah you know children can be more receptive hey can they I think they can we're doing in here we're reaching out to Jesse no spirit box though no spirit box cool Jesse if you're here we are in your bedroom now in your private space I'm sorry but we only just want to talk you could say anything to us right now and if you don't want to talk you could swing this chandelier into the side of Shane's head and concuss him you could be sharp it's definitely sharp sharp enough to get the job done or you could just talk to us we turn the lights out oh yeah we've done that yet whoo that always does make it so much worse does it all right Jesse I don't know if this is gonna make it easier for you to talk to us but it definitely makes me more scared we are understanding and friendly just two nice guys we're gonna go into your bathroom now Jesse are we yeah okay well I mean that's where they heard the music come true how could you imagine getting up at night taking a whiz right here and having that staring at you close the door what are you an animal well me if you live alone you close the door when you pee alone I think yeah I do generally oh it's just like habit you be taking a dump and looking down the hallway that's actually kind of fun it's unless some kind of Specter starts walking towards you be cool to put like a little skee-ball thing at the end of the hallway well off to a good start in here we're going to be quiet now so we can listen to the things that a childhood is there anybody in here with us right now anybody down that hallway that wants to come walk towards us what if you stand in the bathroom alone sure then maybe ya know why not good luck like cowabunga I don't know cowabunga oh I hate this is there anybody in here with me can any of you if there's anybody here can you show me a sign can you say something could you move something make some noise bang on the wall who's think it's funny to make Ryan lock himself in the bathroom in the dark and go okay sure good alright I'm leaving you had your chance oh [ __ ] [ __ ] just opening it up for so loud some believe that the house is cursed possibly explaining why several of the houses many owners ended up in financial ruin eventually the house set uninhabited and in disrepair until it was saved by the San Diego History Center in 1970 one of the houses inhabitants a woman named mrs. Montgomery was also a medium who would host seances in the home which makes two former residents of a house built by spiritualism practicers of seances because of this there's no telling how many spirits walked through them and more importantly how many stayed so now we're actually entering the seance room and this is where and at least Jessie conducted his seances I don't know about the next owner look they've actually captured a ghost in this box they've got it on display lazy that's really off to say about that one it's not always be very funny pretty lazy here we go now we're ready for you if you didn't hear us in the other room my name's Shane that's Ryan yeah that's me and we're here to get to know you be your friend yeah what we want to listen really we're just here to talk to you to figure out what you thought about this house when you were living in it how funny is it that you were trying to talk to dead folks in here and now it's kind of ironic right yeah we're trying to talk to you I was also gonna say what if he doesn't know he's dead he's conducting a seance he thinks we're going he thinks we're the ghosts classic Sixth Sense scenario or or the other or the other spoiler alert or that one goosebumps book the ghost next door yeah it's a good book too anyway if you're hearing us right now we're not the ghosts you're the ghost unless you know I guess I did get into that car accident a while ago and it was a pretty close call it is possible that I'm dead right now one time I cut up an avocado and there was a lot of meat left on the pit and I put the avocado pit in my mouth the entire pit you put the in yeah and I started to just kind of yeah meat off of it and at that moment I was like if I sneezed right now this thing was lodged into my throat and ever since then I've kind of been terrified of avocados but the other thing is I always thought what if I did die then [ __ ] dude I mean we tweet all the time so that's true yeah people this would be a pretty elaborate shared delusion anyways this is actually a secret passageway excuse me well it doesn't work anymore so I guess I'm getting it that was a false candle yeah and it would pool this thing would open up and it would go to the upstairs well actually see where it goes to later but I don't know why that exists yeah I suppose you'd want it to go to a secret room and not just another fool yeah that's why it seems kind of just pointless if you pull this book out of the Shelf you'll get to the kitchen or you could take the stairs in the 1940's Edward Campbell purchased via Montezuma in search of buried treasure located in the basement only to find nothing over a four-month search resulting in Campbell selling the home rumor has it that there is treasure buried under here now that treasure must be pretty damn old because that means it predates the house which was built in the late 1800s gotta be worth a lot of moolah these days matter how many queens that's worth it's probably worth at least a hundred thousand bones yeah probably yeah so how about it whose treasure is here what was that was that you last chance we're gonna take the treasure if you don't tell us where it is so you're threatening to take the treasure if he doesn't tell you where the treasure is that's right don't poke holes in okay I'm just making sure it just doesn't seem like a very I'm just trying to spook him okay I'll come back here with some new technology that thing where they put some dynamite in it like in Jurassic Park when they he's gonna come back with some new technology that thing that they put the dynamite in like Jurassic Park find the Raptor bones you remember you remember that right person who doesn't know what a movie is whatever it's said that a majority of the activity occurs on the second floor of the house and just above us is where perhaps a butler hanged himself very unfortunate I don't know if that's a legend or if that actually happened but who's up here we can't go up there because it's condemned but is there somebody that walks around up here now these were old living quarters it could be anybody can you show us you're hereby making your presence known can you move something make a noise bang on something could you move this blue ball that's sitting on this chair No okay we're gonna walk to the other room over there the final room we'll investigate is a room where the spirit of an old man is often seen sitting in a chair the man's identity is unknown some speculate that it may be the spirit of the servant who hanged himself in the home this is a room in a house where people claim to see an old man sitting in a chair which frankly is a horrifying thought that's spooky it's very scary I don't like you're not into that well if you woke up in the middle of the night and there was an old man sitting in the chair in the corner of your room that's a lot right I don't like coming like that to it imagine why haven't you moved on you're obviously an elderly man seems like you can move to a better place did you do something maybe he just likes to relax in this room I mean you put down a throw rug or something it's fine I guess a nice view of the skyline let's close our eyes maybe you'll feel him in the chair what about that yeah that's not a thing we're gonna close your eyes now we're gonna give you some time if we open our eyes and you're sitting in that chair we really just want to talk yeah that's all we'll do we'll just talk yeah okay here we go all right we're gonna open in three two one yeah I didn't I didn't think you had it in you it's not there no well I can't say that I'm not disappointed because I am can't say that you're not disappoint I can't wait he has a double negative I can't say that it's a triple negative wait I can't say they did not disappoint it why would you would you say I can't say I'm not disappointed I can't say that I am disappoint okay yeah yeah well here's what I'm gonna do I'm gonna get back up he's gonna get back up we're gonna pick up our gear and we're gonna leave and that's it you're never gonna see us again so if you want the chance to speak to somebody who actually will take the time to speak to you I suggest you appear in that chair last chance here come 30 seconds that's it then we're gonna leave we're gonna feed the house so unless you appear in that chair in the next two seconds all right we'll see you later okay well I guess that's it season finale oh really oh you leaving me and now I'm in a room talking to not even the old man I'm now talking to myself and you know I can even help me carry this tripod out No well you would have made a good season finale if you appeared in that chair I know that doesn't mean anything to you but it's not always about you just saying after years of trading hands the hauntingly beautiful via Montezuma sits uninhabited a house built by spiritualism would definitely seem to be ripe with activity but we are not bo Montezuma is definitively haunted will remain unsolved we could also look at where that secret passageway leads to oh cool Wow so there's the door that's the door I don't want to open it but yeah like I said if it were me yeah I would make a hidden passageway go to a panic room or a hidden room not dad's den you know where I log on and check the stocks yeah and apparently take a [ __ ] on your desk yes Oh actually think I know a different reason why that would be there oh wise you were saying you [Music] you you

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Length: 207min 58sec (12478 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 03 2020