(ominous music) - We have had the chandelier
here smack violently. It was almost like the
room became chaotic. - They usually hear it first
and they'll look over there and see the door handle just
like jiggling back and forth and then sure enough, the door open. - He was getting out of the bathtub. He slipped, fell, broke his neck, laid here for about three days. It was in the middle of summer
before somebody found him. - Rachael, are you here?
(beeping) Demonic. The cult. - [Connor] What in the hell? - [India] What that a joke? - [Connor] Hello? (ominous sound waves) - [India] Tucked amongst
the homes of a quiet suburb of Southern Indiana sits a house rich with history,
legend and ghost stories. From the outside, you would never guess that
this charming and cozy home was once voted the fourth most
terrifying place in America. But venture deeper and you begin to realize that the Whispers Estate
is anything but ordinary. Built in the late 1800s, the house was used for many purposes, including the practice and
home of Dr. John Gibbons, a bed and breakfast, and at one point its rooms were rented out to different tenants. To find out more about the home and the numerous reports
of paranormal activity, we met with Rich, the
owner of Whispers Estate, and Sandra who has managed
the home for almost a decade. - Okay, my name is rich Ballard. I am the current owner
of the whispers Estate. We are here in Jessie's room on the second floor of
the whispers Estate. This is one of the more
famous parts of the house where lots of activity seems
to happen for our visitors. Just recently, we had a group
of four women visit the house and one of the teammates, she
got scratched, we believe, I think she told me later
on the phone, 11 times, and this room was probably
the part of the house that was probably the most
aggressive towards her, where she got scratched on her back. She got scratched on the back of her neck. And then while sitting in
one of these couches here, it appeared at something smacked her so she has a smack on
her face that looks like is spreads down even to the
front of her chest area here. So after about that
many contacts with her, the group ended their investigation
prematurely that night. I think they left around 12:30 or one. - [Connor] Do people get
scratched a lot here, or? - It just depends on the group. Often there are a lot of
people who are touched. There's a lot of
whispering in people's ear. That's one of the ways
that the house got the name as the whispers Estate, because a lot of the interaction with whatever's in the house, it is a very soft voice
often, it's in a whisper. But we do have lots of
visitors that do get scratched. It's usually females. We don't have any idea
why that's the case. There's lots of people with theories, but once again, there's just theories. It's pretty hard to prove anything when it comes to something like that. - In the early 70s, there
used to be a little boy that lived here by the name of Gary. So he used to play hide and go seek. So his family said if he went missing, they always knew where to find him at. And that was of course
was in the linen closet. And that was right here. And usually the door knob will
always, you'll hear it turn. And then it will open up so far because of the door being uneven. Gary loves to play with these cars. A lot of times people will lay
out here, roll cars into him and he will roll a
different color car out. So he loves to play and
interact with people in here. - [Connor] Now, that door is
not loose or nothing like that? - No, it's like I said, I
think I showed you earlier. You can stall as hard as
you want front of the door and vibration won't cause it to open. And what most people
report is they will hear it if they're sitting here
with their flashlights on in the dark, or even with
the lights on sometimes they usually hear it first and they'll look over there
and see the door handle just like jiggling back and forth and then sure enough, the door open, it's pretty intense for visitors
when they see it happen. - [Connor] Now you also did say there were some camera
people here not long ago that something was captured
on a photo or something. - Yeah, they were doing a tour and they had a camera over here. I believe the camera was standing here by this old arm chair. And I was standing over
the bed and I was just giving them a brief tour of the house like I do with visitors. And they took some video footage and the person called me the
next day extremely excited because as I showed you the picture, it looks like there's something or someone standing right behind me. It's kind of hovering
back there behind me. And it's, you can make out that clearly it looks like an individual
'cause you can see their leg and their hands and their arms. It's a pretty good picture,
pretty good evidence. - Throughout the house, you
will hear running above. You'll hear children playing. You get growls in the house as well as you hear your name called. We have had the chandelier
here smack violently. When I say violently, something
has hit it from this angle. And then something over here has, it's almost like the room became chaotic. And then it just stopped. I have had my name
called by a little girl. She whispered in my ear. She said, "hey, wake up." Which I believe was Rachael. - This is Rachael's room. We call this Rachael's room because Rachael lived in the house, we think she was between
the ages of nine and 12. Tragically enough on
Christmas Eve back in 1912, she had snuck downstairs to probably what we think is to maybe look underneath
the Christmas tree. No one knows for sure. But what we do know is somehow or another, she did fall into the Christmas tree and knocked a Christmas
tree over on herself. And of course this would have been back before Christmas trees were decorated with electric lights and stuff. They probably had candles on it and tragically enough,
her gown did catch on fire and she sustained second
and third degree burns all over her body. - Over here in the pocket door, you will see a burn
evidence on the door here and not on the rest. Legend lore that said that
she was locked in here, but we believe that she
was blocked in here. We believe that the
door was open, however. You can see evidence of fire up above as well as on the side here, there was also evidence
of fire over here as well. - They brought her up here, her father, the doctor, Dr. Gibbons. And they put her in a
bed here in this corner and she did pass away, unfortunately, a couple of days later, I believe she passed one December 27th. And this is her room, visitors, as you can see for years now, people have brought dolls to the house, to help decorate the room. There are dolls everywhere. The beach balls are put on the bed because once again, this
is one of those things, unless you see it happen, it's pretty hard to
believe it's happening, but I've been in this room with lights on like we have right now and just see one of these beach
balls just fly off the bed. It's the neatest
experience when you see it. Lots of people claim
to see the little girl and in the house, walking in the hallways, people who've been here
a lot like managers, they have heard Rachael singing. They've heard her giggling and we have, the only known picture we have of Rachael right here. If you can get that right
there, that is the little girl. And it's believed that might've been taken the summer before her death. I've been told that by people. So that's the only known
picture we have of the child. - This bathroom here,
we had a renter renting the whole second floor at the time, he was getting out of the bathtub. He slipped, fell, broke his neck. Laid here for about three days. It was in the middle of summer
before somebody found him. We have a lot of people gets
in there has trouble breathing. We have EVPs in there of saying, "Help me" have apparitions going
from one wall to the other as well as coming out. This is what we call
the servant's quarters. We don't have any documentation that Dr. John had any servants. However, I was telling you about Gary, the nine year old little boy, his dad, when they rented this, this was actually back balcony, but we have covered up right
now to keep the light out. But his dad, after they moved out, came back to get a hammer and a ladder. And when he opened these closet doors to get the hammer and the ladder, Gary's dad had a fatal heart attack. So we cleaned this out and started letting people
investigate in here. It started out with small
scratches and stuff. That wasn't a real big deal in here because that's common here. But then it started escalating. We had a 19-year-old
get choked so violently she had to be driven home. We've seen horned entities in here. We've also had people investigate in here and these doors fly open and something will pound on
these doors as if it wants out. This is the seance room. Before I started here
with whispers Estate, with my group this is where I have my
second experience, I guess. The first time I was here,
I got what appeared to be a six year old little boy in this mirror when I was taking pictures. He had curly hair, you could
see his t-shirt outline. Very good picture. So I set on the steps, so I came up with my group
to try to recreate that. And the stairs that I just came up, there, I felt something coming
up and I knew it wasn't good, but I didn't want to turn
around and see what it was. So I turned my camera around
and took some pictures and I brought it down
there was nothing there. And the K-II meter started flashing. And I said, we have
spikes on our K-II meter. And the girl that was with me,
she said, who's here with us? The best I can describe it was, there was this gust of
wind, this loud growl and then something was
like, right beside me, it was like, this blood curdling scream. It was like ear-piercing. We were all huddled in
this corner screaming for our lives. And this thing, before it was over with, was like right up in our faces. - All right, everybody, we are standing in Mitchell, Indiana, and right behind me is
the Whisper Estates, and India and I are about
to do our investigation. India, are you excited for tonight? - I'm so excited. This house is crazy. We've heard so many stories. It seems like everybody that comes here has some sort of experience. And it's an amazing house
and I want to live in it, but I can't. So I'm just going to
investigate it while I have it. - Yeah, this house has a lot more than I actually thought
was going to be told to us, like there's so many ghost stories, so experiences that people have had here. - And there's a lot of history. - There is a lot of history. - Like more history than anywhere, especially for a house. - Yeah, and we were just walking around and this house just gives
you some spooky vibes. We actually had some experiences while we were upstairs filming
some B roll of the house. We actually thought the
people that run this place, were walking up the stairs with us because we heard some
popping noises on the stairs. - [India] Was that a joke? - [Connor] Hello? - Are you filming?
- Yeah. - Hello? Where was that coming from? Back there or on the stairs?
- On the stairs. What the hell was that? (indistinct) - [India] That someone, like, banging. - So I think we're going to have an interesting night tonight. I think we probably need
to be a little bit safer, especially since according
to, in our interview, it targets women, so. - I'm not worried. - Gotta be safe though, 'cause people have been
scratched here, it looks like. - I don't think I'm going to
get scratched or hurt, or... it's never happened and I don't think it's
going to happen today. - All right, shall we get started? - Yeah. - All right, let's do this. - [India] We began our
investigation inside the parlor where legend says that Dr.
John's adopted daughter, Rachael suffered burns from a Christmas tree, which ultimately led to her death. Despite having two cameras rolling, the scene you are about
to see will only be shown from one camera perspective. You will find out why very shortly. (ominous radio static) - Hey. - Hi. - [Connor] It just said "Hey"? - Yeah. How are you doing? (ominous radio static) (radio sputters) (indistinct voice on radio) What room are you in? (indistinct vocalization from radio) - [Radio] Rachael. Rachael! Are you kidding me? - [Connor] It just said "Rachael". Oh my God, it said Rachael. - I'm so sorry to freak out like that. I'm so sorry. That said (radio spurts) I am so sorry to freak out,
that just took me by surprise. Rachael, are you here?
(beeping) - We have a temperature
change going on right now. (beeping)
(radio sputtering) - [Connor] Are you Rachael
that's in here with us? Is that your name? - Are you sitting in the chair? (indistinct voices on radio) Rachael, my name is India, can you see me? (indistinct radio noise) - [Connor] What can we do to help you? (indistinct radio voices) - That was a kid.
- That was a kid. - Rachael, are you here? (radio spurts) - [Connor] Where should
we go in the house at? (radio spurts) - [Radio] Where ever you wanna go in. - [Connor] What? - Did that say what I think that it said? - Wherever?
- Wherever you want. - [Connor] I did hear that. - Yeah, wherever you
want to go or something. - [Connor] Yeah, that's
what I was thinking, I heard that. - Okay, we're gonna go upstairs. will you join us up there? (radio static) - [Connor] After our portal
session, we left the parlor room to go into the kitchen. This is where Sondra, the manager to the Whisper Estate stays. She is in a room called
the Harry Potter closet in case she is needed for any reason, we wanted to let her
know what just happened. This is when things began
to get very bizarre for us during our investigation. - [Sondra] I heard that. - [Connor] What was that? India, did you hear that?
- No. - [Sondra] I heard that. - [Connor] Oh my God, that was so, I got chills, that was weird. I just heard something. She heard something, you didn't hear that? - [India] No. - [Sondra] It come from the front? - [Connor] somebody out there? We have another camera
rolling still, in there. - [Connor] Hey, India. - [India] What? What? - [Connor] Something just moved in there. Who's back there? I think the camera probably caught whatever it was that
just moved back there. It wasn't, I didn't
actually see something, I heard something move. - [India] But then it said
"wherever you want to go" or something like that. - [Connor] Upon investigating the parlor to find out what the noise was, it turns out it was our camera. While leaving the camera rolling the entire time in the parlor, we had it plugged into the AC
outlet for continuous power. When it went to retrieve the camera and head upstairs with India
and Sondra for an Estes method, the camera was turned off and everything we had been
filming was corrupted. Something or someone was
playing with our equipment. - [India] Alright, so what
are you doing right now? - So I'm trying to use a recovery software to hopefully fix that
footage that was corrupted from my static camera
and it's not working. So when I try to click preview on it, and this is what you're seeing right here. I'm trying to fast forward
through this video. It's literally destroyed, the
footage is not recoverable. So whatever it was, made it
so this footage is destroyed. You ready?
- Yep. - [Connor] What are we
getting ready to do right now? - So we're going to do an Estes method and I'm going to be
shut in the scary closet with a Ouija board. (laughing) And we're going to see
if we can communicate with what's here. Let's do it.
- All right, bye. All right, since we got
you up here with us, if you want to help me ask the questions, you're more than welcome to, okay? - Sure. - [Connor] I don't really
know who was up here as much. I think there was a gentleman that had a heart attack in there, right? - Yes, Virgil. - Virgil?
- Mm-Hm. - [Connor] All right. so India is
in the closet right now where Virgil had a heart attack, right? - Yes. - [Connor] And tragically passed away. So I know I've been hearing
stories that there's a, - It was a family. - [Connor] People have
been experiencing stuff in this closet. So is that you, Virgil? Are you the one causing all
the activity in this closet? - Ready. - [Connor] Do you know who Virgil is? - Pain. - [Connor] Pain? - Pain?
- Pain. Like hurting. - Female. - [Connor] Just a bunch of random words. - [Sondra] Are you a
negative entity in there? - Used to be, I think not. - [Connor] Wait a minute. Pain and female, females get
scratched in here, right? - Yes. - [Connor] And you just asked
if this negative entity, used to be, I think not is what she said. - [Sondra] Mm-hm. - [Connor] I'm not sure if any of that stuff is relevant, but... Are you in there with India? Why do you have to scratch people here? - I like this. - You like India being in the closet? What's it say? - What?
- What's it say? - [Connor] What does that mean? - Help. - [Sondra] Help? - [Connor] What? - All hail. - [Connor] Who are we
speaking to right now? - Pain. - [Connor] Do you want to cause pain? - There's no way. Fun. - Is she saying cain or pain? - [Connor] Pain, P-A-I-N. Can you tell us your name please? - Thank you. - [Connor] Who's in the closet right now? - Witch. - [Connor] Witch. Her shirt says witch. - [Sondra] Did you hear that? - [Connor] Yeah, I keep
hearing something over there. - [Sondra] Yeah, behind the church pew. - [Connor] Yes. - Demonic. The cult. - Is talking about what
we're talking about behind the church pew? - [Connor] Yeah. Who is behind the church pew? Who's back there? - Magnificent. - [Connor] Magnificent? We want a name. - Demon. Restless. - [Connor] I want to
say that's a coincidence because I don't want to believe that. - Explaining. - I'd like to think that's a coincidence. - [Connor] Yeah. - Comes out. - [Sondra] Who is behind the church pew? - [Connor] If India's saying comes out, come out of that church pew then. Move the church pew. - He confessed? - [Connor] Okay, that's too coincidental. Church pew, confessed. This is just getting kind of strange. After the Estes method, India and I parted of ways with Sondra to continue our investigation. India asked to go solo in
the room in which Rachael, who tragically died from a fire, was said to have passed away in. - And they put her in a
bed here in this corner and she did pass away, unfortunately, a couple of days later, I believe she passed on December 27th. - [Connor] while setting up the cameras, it seems as though some
activity was already happening, our REM pod began to go off and the energy in the air began to shift. After I made sure the cameras were rolling and India was ready for her solo session, I quickly proceeded to head
downstairs into the parlor room. This is what happened to India. - Rachael, my name is India and I heard your name downstairs. And if you're here, I
just want to talk to you. Maybe we can play something. I bought you this that you can play with. I saw you touching it earlier. It shouldn't hurt you, it will just light up and make a noise, I know that somebody touched it earlier. Can you let me know if that was you? (faint knocking) (gasps) The door. Hello? Somebody just knocked on the door. There's nobody out there. (gasps) The door. Rachael? Or are you somebody else? Can you take the ball out of my hand? Can you push it out? Push it out of my hand. (beeping) Thank you, there you are, hello. Is that Rachael? Or is it somebody else? I'm going to roll you the ball. If you could roll it back
to me, that'd be great. Can you touch this little light again? It's making me kind of sad, 'cause I thought you were here with me but now like I can't hear you or you're not letting the little toy up. Could you copy me? Could you go (knocking) I really appreciate you letting
me into your home today. I've come a long way to see you. You have a really beautiful house. I absolutely love it. How about Gary, are you in here? All right, well, I'm going to get up. Alright, well, I'll be
back in a little bit. (beeping) (beeping) (beeping) (beeping) (rapid beeping) (beeping) (beeping) At this point in the night
we knew we were in a building that was hot with activity and resumed our investigation
in Jessie's bedroom, where it's reported that
many women get scratched and the closet door opens on its own. (indistinct voices on radio) (radio spurting) (indistinct voice on radio shouts) Are you in the hallway? (indistinct voice on radio) we heard that there's somebody in here that likes scratching women. Is that true? (radio spurting)
- Yeah. - [Connor] It sounded
like it said yeah or, - No I heard it go "Yes." Why do you like scratching women? (indistinct voice on radio) I don't think that's very nice. (indistinct noises on radio) I'm a woman, are you gonna scratch me? (indistinct noises on radio) - We hear that this closet
door over here likes to open. Can you open that closet door? (indistinct voices on radio) - What?
- What was that? (India speaks indistinctly) Gary, can you open that door for me? They said you could do that, I just want to see it real quick. Is that where you like to hide and play? Gary, if I count to three,
can you open that door for me? One, two, three. (indistinct voice on radio) come on, is anybody in this room? Let me open this closet door. You hear that the door goes like this. You hear the noise and then it opens like this. (voice on radio shouts) Can you roll a toy out? Hey, Hey, you're lighting it up. - [India] That was right
after you opened the door. - [Connor] Yeah, I'm getting
chills on my arm, India. - [India] Are you Gary? (indistinct noises on radio) - [Connor] If you light
that up in the hallway it'll let me know that I need
to close the closet door. - Let me turn this off. - [Connor] Should I close the closet door? - [India] That was such weird timing. - That was very strange timing. I mean, to be honest with you, that was really weird. I was just, I just literally opened
the door and backed up and it started going
off as it was opening. - Like as if something came out and went out there. - Yeah or was coming in the room. (beeping) - Oh, was that right? Were you coming in the room? - [Connor] Were you coming in the room? [India] After our session in Jessie's room we spent some time in the seance room but were unable to catch any evidence. We decided to conclude our
investigation in the bathroom where a gentleman had broken his neck and laid dead for several
days before he was found. I heard that there's a gentleman that passed away because he slipped and broke his neck in this bath. If he's here, could he tell
me what his name is please? How long were you here
before somebody found you? Can you tell me what happens when we die? Do we stay here or do we go somewhere? Are you stuck here? (faint screaming) Do you hear that? - [Connor] Did you just hear a scream? - Yes, a scream. (faint screaming)
Shh. It's still going. - [Connor] Oh my God. We're hearing a scream right now. - I would say that would be
outside, but what time is it? - It's two o'clock in the morning. What kid would be outside screaming? - Yeah, that's what I was about to say. It sounded like a kid. - [Connor] What kid would
be outside screaming? - Not at two o'clock in the morning. [Connor] It sounds
like it's in here, but. - We were just outside and it's dead. There's not even cars outside. - [Connor] I know, we're in a small town. (faint screaming) - Again. Is that a scream or is
like a frog or something? - [Connor] That's not a frog. - There are some frogs that do scream. - [Connor] Like a kid? Like a girl? India, it sounds like it's coming- - Shh shh shh. - [Connor] What the hell is that? - Is it a coyote? - [Connor] No. - I don't know what that is. - [Connor] It doesn't sound like it's coming from outside though. I can't tell where it's coming from. I don't know about you,
but that is really freaky. It's two o'clock in the morning. It can't be a kid outside screaming. - I'm not saying he's a kid, but we just haven't
heard it any other time. Let's go downstairs. - All right, stopping recording. - With its antique furniture,
crystal chandeliers and blacked out windows, the Whispers Estate is nothing
short of hauntingly charming. It's one of those rare places on earth where you can feel the energy, where the hairs on your
arms stand up for no reason and where the seemingly
impossible is very possible. We at Paranormal Encounters
believe that this Indiana home is the most haunted house
we have ever investigated, but you don't have to
take our word for it. All it takes is one night
inside the Whispers Estate. And you begin to wonder if
some walls really can talk.
