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[static buzzing]
Chad kept calling
after the sounds, and the sounds would continue
almost like we're chasing them through the room.
What was that?
That was like a hitting sound. Did you hear that?
Yeah.
Back there.
[inaudible]
[dark rock music]
-That was here. -[Justin] Yeah.
The footsteps, here.
♪ The table parts our stares, separates our glares ♪
♪ How did we concede
♪ And are we this naive?
♪ A life that was once ours
♪ Slippin' through our claws
♪ The beast in my disease
♪ Has overtaken me
♪ How has this now gone suddenly so wrong ♪
♪ I am on my knees
-♪ But I know better -Jesus Christ.
♪ This is not my life
♪ And these are not my dreams
♪ And this is not the side
♪ That I had hoped we'd see ♪ This is not my life
♪ The dirt patch we now breathe ♪
♪ I'm begging on my knees
♪ Oh
♪ But I know better
♪
[Chad] 74 minutes,
that's what I was left with.
Over the last 25 years, I've engaged
in over 500 paranormal investigations
in five different countries, on three different continents,
in which I've spent over 3,000 hours in the dark
trying to document paranormal activity.
And in the end, I was left with 74 minutes of footage
that I could not explain.
But the answers that I sought out
that took me on this incredible journey,
I did find in those 74 minutes,
I did.
And it was incredibly important to me
that I found those answers.
And now that I found them,
I'm going to share the most compelling
pieces of evidence with all of you.
But as far as how did I end up on this journey,
you know, when I think back to my childhood,
I was a-- a normal kid like anybody else.
I wanted to be a baseball player.
My dreams were to be a major leaguer.
I mean, that was it. The big leagues, man.
But it's funny, you know, when I look at this picture here,
of me on the baseball team,
you know, I looked like, you know,
such a-- a-- a normal kid, and I suppose I was.
But when I was done with school or done with practice,
I would go home
to the most bizarre events and would just experience
things that completely blew my belief system apart.
Um, until I moved into a haunted house at the age of 12 in Iowa,
my family had never even discussed
ghosts or anything like that.
But yeah, moved into this incredibly haunted house.
It was a negative haunting.
It had a profound effect on me.
And in the beginning, I didn't even know
I was becoming a paranormal investigator.
I was just trying to document things
so I could share them with my friends and with my girlfriend
so she didn't think I was crazy.
But the paranormal field is weird.
For every answer you get,
there's, like, two more questions.
And the more places that I went,
the more I would see
that almost each haunting was different.
Different things would happen.
But yet I would hear people,
you know, would openly, you know, laugh and, you know--
and say, "Oh, God, you believe in ghosts," you know?
And they'd give me a hard time and--
And then some people absolutely believe.
So I was just on this journey
to find out the truth for me.
And through a series of very
uh, weird zigs and zags,
I wound up actually doing this professionally.
If you follow my career,
first off, thank you for doing so.
Uh, you know that I've been on Paranormal State,
I've been on, um, several shows.
The Ghost Prophecies, Ghosted,
I've made a number of documentaries.
American Ghost Hunter,
Terror Normal, A Blood Red Sky, and most recently,
the Sir Nofaceseries, but this film specifically
is important to me
because I don't think anybody has done it yet.
I don't think any paranormal investigator has
openly put out all of his evidence.
And it's important for me to do that,
not because I'm some sort of, you know,
paranormal salesman, because I'm not.
Um, I'm not attempting to sell you, the viewer,
on the fact that ghosts are real.
Quite the opposite,
I'm showing you why I believe they're real.
That's what's important to me.
And my hope is that you're inspired to go find out
your own answers,
that you would watch this and go, "You know what?
I really want to know what it's like to experience this stuff."
Um, now, I realize there's going to be people that watch this
that are highly skeptical, too.
And if your approach from the beginning is,
"Oh, he's just faking it,"
well, listen, we can fake anything, right?
I mean, like in today's world with CGI,
anything can be faked.
So, all I can do is tell you the truth,
which is that everything you're going to see is authentic.
It's all real.
We tried to debunk all of it and couldn't.
Um, does that mean that
we got it right on every single piece of footage?
I would like to believe so.
But look, part of investigating is getting things wrong and--
and thinking you have something figured out,
and then, you know, later on you realize,
"Oh, no, it wasn't that."
Or finding an answer to something later on,
which-- it happens both ways.
So, I'm really excited for you guys to see this--
which I'm going to present it in three chapters,
the first being audible evidence,
the second chapter being photographic evidence,
and the third chapter being visual evidence.
And like with any good film,
as it moves along,
it will become more and more compelling.
Let's do this.
When it comes to audible evidence,
what I'm referring to are things that we can hear,
such as EVPs or Disembodied Voices,
or even knocks and bangs that don't make sense.
Which this first example that I'm going to share with you
took place at the five-story, 180,000-square-foot
former tuberculosis hospital known as Waverly Hills.
What you're about to hear was recorded during the overnight,
the second night of our investigation,
in which we can absolutely confirm
nobody was in the building when the following was recorded.
[enhanced audio disturbance]
[metal door slams]
[distant screaming]
[metal door slams]
[distant screaming]
[metal door slams]
[distant screaming]
The following footage was filmed
at the Villisca Axe Murder House,
which is known for being the site
of a mysterious unsolved murder
in which the killer
was somehow able to strike down six children
and two adults without waking each victim
during the bloody attack.
In this clip, after hours of silence,
Investigator Ryan Buell and I decided to begin provoking,
which I moved into the attic,
as it's believed to be the location
in which the axe murderer chose to hide
as the family went to sleep.
And as you'll see,
it didn't take long to get a response
as three loud striking sounds circled me.
All right, so, we've separated.
I'm now in the children's room,
and Chad's in the attic.
[three striking sounds]
-[Chad] Holy shit. -[Ryan] I heard that.
[Chad] That's the shit I'm talking about.
[three striking sounds]
Holy shit.
[three striking sounds]
Holy shit.
[Chad] That's the shit I'm talking about.
There's all kinds of sounds in the room
that seem to be almost circulating around me.
In this footage,
after our initial walk-through of Waverly Hills,
my friend Adrian and I were left completely alone to explore,
only to discover hours later
that we were somehow locked inside this terrifying location.
Immediately after calling the owner,
Tina, who was 30 minutes away,
the following occurred.
-[Adrian] See that? -[Chad] Wow.
That was a legit orb. That was a real orb.
[Adrian] Can you-- can you pass by again?
[Chad] Well, in this shot, you can hear me tell Adrian,
"That was a real orb."
And the reason I did is
because for the first time in my life,
I saw an orb with my own eyes.
Once we got out of there, we couldn't wait to rewind
the footage to check it out.
But what truly chilled me to the bone
was the EVP that we found after analyzing this footage.
That was a legit orb.
[Chad] That was a real orb.
That was a legit orb.
[Chad] That was a real orb.
It's also important to note that both myself and Adrian
do not have an accent as we're from Los Angeles.
While this EVP, which says "I hear you,"
has a noticeable Southern drawl.
That was a legit orb.
[Chad] That was a real orb.
That was a legit orb.
[Chad] That was a real orb.
Believed to be haunted by the Sauk Indians
who lost their lives protecting Chief Black Hawk
during his final stand in Davenport, Iowa,
this footage, which was filmed
at the Davenport Bag and Paper Company building,
documents some of the most responsive paranormal activity
that I've ever experienced.
You have to hit something hard.
See, if that's you, we still can't distinguish between that.
I know that was loud, but you have to even be louder.
[metal clings]
Holy shit. That was louder. Do you think that was louder?
Dude, I'm getting freaked.
Did you hear that? That was louder.
-Yeah. -[Chad] Okay.
I just asked you to be louder, and you were.
Move something in this room.
-[knocking] -Holy shit. Whoa!
What was that?
-Holy Jesus! -[Justin laughs]
If that was you that just made that little knock,
you're gonna have to do it a lot louder.
A hell of a lot louder.
-[knocking] -Oh, shit.
-Whoa! Whoa. -[Justin laughs]
It's-- it's coincidental.
I would say it's overly coincidental
if something isn't doing it, because it's been twice now
where you said "Louder," and within--
The first time, it was within a three-second period,
two-second period, something went bang.
That time I didn't count,
but it seemed like somewhere within a four
or five, ten, I don't know,
second period, something...
[Chad] Over the course of my entire career,
this footage, which was captured at Waverly Hills,
represents the only time
that I've ever experienced the following phenomena,
which, as you'll see,
what we've come to reference as the Whistler,
terrified everyone involved with this investigation.
[Chad] Is this-- Is this-- This is the floor that all--
Everything, the wood and stuff happened last night. This is--
This floor is out of control.
-[Chad] What was that? -[Nathan] Did you just whistle?
[Greg] It was a whistling.
-[Chad] You didn't whistle? -[Sara] Did anybody whistle?
[Nathan] You swear to God, you didn't whistle.
[Greg] I swear on my life I didn't whistle.
I can't whistle like that.
-[Chad] What was that? -[Nathan] Did you just whistle?
[Chad] What was that?
What was that?
It couldn't have been more than 15 feet away.
From where we were at, it was this-- I mean,
you-- you could distinguish it as a human voice whistling.
Um, I can't whistle, but, I mean, it was a...
[mimics whistle] Exactly in perfect pitch.
And I mean, it was unmistakable.
Being a-- being a musician and just knowing, you just-- how,
you know, when-- when notes have impact,
they have impact and when they don't, they don't.
And I'll tell you what, I could smell the sarcasm
and almost just kind of the--
It was like something snickering at-- at us.
And I mean, I'm not going to sit here and say that,
you know, something is what it is when it isn't.
I mean, I'll call a spade a spade
and I'll tell you what, that was a-- that was a spade.
I mean, that was a whistle, that was a-- [mimics whistle]
[Chad] Yeah.
Dude, are you kidding me?
[EVP] It's okay.
-[Greg] Just keep listening. -[indistinct chatter]
[Chad] I'm not sure if you just heard that,
but during the editing process of this film,
I noticed what I believe to be a new EVP.
Lewis, who was clearly shaken, asked...
[Chad] Immediately after, you hear a voice say,
"It's okay" from a higher pitched tone
in a mocking way.
Dude, are you kidding me?
[Chad] The voice is clearly not from one of us,
as we only have one female in the group.
The rest of the crew consists of men with deep voices.
In addition, the context doesn't make sense,
as everyone is clearly unnerved by the mysterious whistling.
So nobody would say, "It's okay" in a snickering way to Lewis,
which, by the way, matches how Greg described
the tone of the whistle.
I could smell the sarcasm and almost just kind of the--
It was like something snickering at-- at us.
Dude, are you kidding me?
-[Greg] Just keep listening. -[indistinct chatter]
Dude, are you kidding me?
-[Greg] Just keep listening. -[indistinct chatter]
I mean, everybody heard that whistle, right?
Yeah, I heard it. It was-- it was--
It was right where you guys were just looking there.
[Chad] On a few occasions in my career,
I've experienced an immense amount of activity
in a short amount of time.
In the footage you're about to see,
that is exactly what happened at Chillingham Castle,
as six unexplainable events occur within a 15-minute window.
-Isn't this right next to that? -Yeah.
-So, it's--
When you go up a few stairs over that way
through the great hall--
-What was that? -[Chad] Just so you know,
it's extremely common to check with the film crew
for confirmation as to what you may have heard or saw,
as they're not only another set of eyes and ears,
they're a better set of eyes and ears
due to the cameras and audio gear.
That's exactly what happens here
as Joey hears a disembodied breath
and asks our camera operator, "What was that?"
In which he lets Joey know, "I heard it, definitely."
... few stairs over that way through the great hall...
-What was that? -[crew speaking indistinctly]
[Chad] John, if you're here, let me know.
What the fuck!
John, if you're here, let me know.
What the fuck!
[Joey] You didn't hear anything?
[Mary Beth] It's all gonna make sense, dude,
after it comes out.
-[female voice] He's not there. -[door creaking]
[door creaking]
[Chad] In this sequence of events,
I love Mary Beth's expression,
as an addition to looking to see what door's opening,
knowing that she is the only girl in the room,
she also looks directly to our camera operator
for confirmation that he also heard the disembodied voice,
which sounds as though it came from a young girl
with a British accent.
[door creaking]
[Mary Beth] There's no other door.
[Joey] Was it that door opening?
-That's the only door. -[Joey] That's the only door?
[Mary Beth] Yeah, there's not one to the outside.
-Oh. So it was that door? -Yeah.
[Joey] Hmm.
Keep getting these sounds, like deep breathing sounds
and, like, these sounds on the pew
like he's sitting next to me.
In this capture, if you listen closely,
you'll hear a second voice whisper something
directly over my voice,
which is great as it shows
that a second entity is speaking in the room
that has to be very close to me,
as my handheld camera recorded the whisper.
It's fucking...
Staying with Chillingham Castle, later on that night,
as you'll see in the following footage,
out of the thin air above us,
it suddenly sounded like something massive
was being drug around by some unseen force.
As strange as that sounds.
[dragging sound]
[Mary Beth] What was that? It's up there.
It was definitely from higher.
-Higher. Higher. -Like a higher sound.
It wasn't from ground floor or--
It sounded like if someone was on the ground floor
but it came from the air. I mean, it was...
-[Mary Beth] It came from above. -Yeah.
Yeah, it came from above, I agree.
-Definitely came from above. -Came from above.
It was loud enough it stopped all of us in our tracks.
We're just like,
-"What is that?" -What's...
[Chad] If you've watched Paranormal State,
you saw the first part of this footage,
which is the door moving on its own.
But for some reason,
the network didn't use what followed,
which is the sound of some sort of creature
scurrying into the bathroom.
Check this out.
-[thumping] -[cameraman] Whoa, was that you?
-I don't know. -Okay.
-It sounded like a knocking. -I might have pushed against it.
[cameraman] All right.
-[scurrying sound] -[Chad] Oh, no, what was that?
-[thumping] -[cameraman] Whoa, was that you?
-I don't know. -Okay.
-It sounded like a knocking. -I might have pushed against it.
All right.
[Chad] Oh, no what was that?
-Uh, like that, "Psst"? -[Chad] Was that-- Yeah.
That was behind me.
-[thumping] -[cameraman] Whoa, was that you?
-I don't know. -Okay.
-It sounded like a knocking. -I might have pushed against it.
All right.
[Chad] It's important to note that there were no animals
in the bedroom or the bathroom,
nor were there any rat holes or pathways into the walls,
as we checked for both.
Again, I've just never experienced anything like this.
[Chad] Oh, no, what was that?
-Uh, like that, "Psst"? -[Chad] Was that-- Yeah.
That was behind me.
[Chad] The following evidence was captured
during ourGhost Prophecy special for A&E,
in which my team and I chose to challenge the legend of Room 18
at the St. James Hotel in Cimarron, New Mexico.
Legend states that anyone who should spend the night
in Room 18 would be killed by the ghost of TJ Wright
shortly after checking out.
While TJ didn't kill me,
he definitely made me uncomfortable.
Check this out.
I am now
padlocked inside of Room 18.
Let's you and I get one thing straight here right away.
If somehow
you magically have the power
to take my life
a week from now, a month from now,
six months from now,
you had better be prepared for me to hunt you down
in the afterlife like a rabid fucking animal.
Oh, we already got little clicks and...
There is an ungodly feeling I've ever felt of that,
like, presence feeling.
I just had...
Wow, I just had
two huge footsteps.
I'm certain my camera picked that up right in front of me.
I do feel like something is in here.
What the fuck?
What the fuck is that?
I was fine until I got there
and when I could hear them locking the door,
that sucked, man, that's such a bad feeling.
It is like--
Because I just realized there's no quick exit.
Here is a little-- This is how I started out.
And then these are the first set of footsteps that I heard.
-[footstep sound] -[Chad] One.
-[footstep sound] -The second one.
-Those are right behind me. -I just had...
Wow, I just had two huge footsteps.
Now this got really scary.
A series of knocks started from the wall behind me
and started moving closer towards me.
I do feel like something is in here.
[clicking sound]
-Wild. -[Chad on video] What the fuck!
So, again, about a minute after that...
That was freaky.
[clicking sound]
-What the fuck is that? -[clicking sound]
Oh, shit.
I was in there for an hour. You know, it could be anything.
If it was a heating duct or something like that,
-I would have heard it. -Yeah.
And then I told Thomas how I felt.
[Chad on video] Thomas Wright.
Here's a shot of jack I'm taking in my new room.
-[laughter] -"In my new room!"
It was horrible.
[all laughing]
[Chad] Similar to our Chillingham experience
in which countless unexplained events
occurred in a short window of time,
as you'll see in this clip,
we also experienced the same type of eruption of activity
at Waverly Hills,
as the final 30 minutes of our second investigation
was truly fascinating.
[Joe whispering] Right there.
[footsteps running]
[Joe] Is someone there?
Right there.
[Joe] Is someone there?
It sounded like somebody was dead sprinting towards us.
-Very loud. -[stomping feet]
[Joe] Right there.
[running sound]
Is someone there?
When something runs at you,
I think that's a "Get out."
A scare tactic. "Get out. I'm running at you."
And at that point, man, my adrenaline was just flying,
and right now, thinking about it, man, I'm...
-Something ran. It was running. -Something came at us.
-And it was real close. -Yeah.
-[breathing sound] -[indistinct chatter]
[crewmember] Wait a minute. Did you guys just hear that?
That, "Ha..."
Holy shit.
[indistinct chatter]
[crewmember] Wait a minute. Did you guys just hear that?
[indistinct chatter]
[crewmember] Wait a minute. Did you guys just hear that?
[indistinct chatter]
[crewmember] Wait a minute. Did you guys just hear that?
[crosstalk]
-[breathing sound] -[crosstalk continues]
[crosstalk]
We were in there for not even ten, 15 minutes
before we start hearing,
you know, noises coming from all over the place.
I mean, you could hear like,
you know, what it sounded like, um, you know,
a couple of women in high heels walking down the hallway.
We can hear footsteps all around us,
in front of us, to the side of us,
each side of us, behind us.
[heels clacking]
Joe, Lewis and Greg have now left.
Um, just too scared from some of these sounds.
It sounds like people are running down the hallway,
so they have left, uh, the building, so...
When it's time to give, it's time-- it's time to give.
This place is incredibly haunted
and there's nothing I can do that's going to change that.
My God, man, I'm just ready to go.
[striking]
[Adrian] I can hear you.
[striking]
I can hear you.
[striking]
I can hear you.
[striking]
I can hear you.
[striking]
I can hear you.
[striking]
Wow.
Something was there, talking-- talking, communicating with me.
Something that I-- I don't understand.
I don't know what-- what it is, which I'm--
I'm assuming it's-- it's ghosts.
[Chad] With the advancement of commercial level
handheld HD cameras,
still photography is slowly but surely becoming
a thing of the past in regard to paranormal investigating.
But having said that, I do have a few examples
of compelling photographic evidence to share with you.
Known as one of the most haunted locations in the world,
I'm very fortunate to live only 20 minutes away from Long Beach,
California's Queen Mary Hotel,
which I have investigated 19 times.
But oddly enough,
the most compelling evidence
that I've ever captured there
came after a fruitless investigation,
which I explain in the following sequence.
Well, I noticed a mural behind the bar,
and I really like this mural.
So, I had put my camera on a really, um-- a high shutter
speed, which I like to shoot with
because it kind of freeze frames people's actions
when you take a shot.
So, I was focusing on the back of the mural and I popped off
um, nine photos in a-- about two and a half seconds.
Well, right in the middle,
photos number four and five came back.
And as you can see right now,
um, there's a woman in both photos
or what appears to be a woman in both photos.
Uh, the dress that she was wearing was completely unique
of anybody that we saw in the room that night.
Um, also, if you look at the location that she's standing,
she moves about two feet or so
and this is in a fraction of a second.
It was packed that night.
Nobody could have sprinted across.
Uh, what's really interesting is
every other person that you see is--
-- you see in frame, there's mass to them.
You know, you can't see through them.
And what's great about the photo
is there's somebody really close, which is Adrian's friend,
Adrian's on the right side, as you can see.
You could see the bartender in the back.
You could see the girl at the table behind us.
Both these photos are first generation photos.
I have sent them to photo experts.
There's been no Photoshopping done to them.
This is, you know, what you see is what it is.
But what's even more bizarre is after showing these photos
at a presentation event while on tour in 2014,
an attendee of mine pointed out that as the unexplained woman
in the photo approaches Adrian's friend to the left,
you can see her skull,
which, after re-examining the photo,
I was shocked to learn that my attendee was right,
as I had never noticed this before.
In fact, if you change the colour profile,
you can clearly see her skull, which is a bit terrifying,
because I don't even have a theory
as to why this would be the case.
One of the most famous ghosts of Waverly Hills
is known as Big Black,
which is a ten- to 12-foot shadow person
that literally thousands of people have claimed to see.
But as you'll see in the following footage,
I think I've captured a photo of Big Black.
Check this out.
So I was walking around, taking photos of Waverly Hills.
So, the building itself is absolutely incredible.
I was out in the back of Waverly Hills shooting up at it.
And, uh, you know, outta the corner of my eye,
I thought I saw something.
So, once I took the photos off the camera
and dropped into the computer, there it was.
I mean, it just stood out, as clear as can be.
It appears as though some kind of figure
is leaning over the fourth floor balcony and looking down.
And as you can see,
by changing the colour profile,
you can make out even more detail of this entity.
But what's even more compelling to me
is that when you use the embossing filter,
which shows the depth of items in the picture,
you can actually see the face protruding,
which I believe this demonstrates what I saw,
which is Big Black looking down.
One of the most haunted locations
in Pasadena, California, is Suicide Bridge,
which after visiting the bridge
countless times without experiencing any activity,
I finally experienced something very bizarre,
which I documented in the following video.
I want to share two photos with you that I took back in 2002
at a location known as Suicide Bridge.
Now, Suicide Bridge is actually the Colorado Street Bridge
in Pasadena, California,
which it's known as Suicide Bridge,
because over 100 people
have committed suicide off the bridge.
Now, what's really interesting is there's a public park
below the bridge.
So, anybody can go there at any time they want,
day or night.
Now, there's all kinds of activity reported out there.
But the primary story, when it comes to actual sightings,
people claim to see a tall and a short shadow person
together all the time.
And this is from a real story where a mother
actually held her five-year-old son in her arms
and jumped to her death.
Now, the first two times I went there, nothing happened.
I spent four to five hours both times.
And I mean, nothing happened.
The third time I went back,
I talked Laura into going with me,
which I'm not sure how I did that
because she was quickly bored.
Uh, nothing was going on.
We were there about three hours
and I was getting ready to leave.
I had to go to the bathroom, though,
so I meandered my way south of the bridge,
walked a little bit to find an area to go to the bathroom.
While I'm going to the bathroom,
I get this overwhelming, creepy feeling.
It's the feeling all investigators talk about.
You just feel like somebody is there.
So, I grabbed my camera with my right arm,
kind of flip the lens over my shoulder
and I take this photo,
which I was floored with what I saw.
Do you guys see two figures?
My first thought, obviously, is that
this could be visual matrixing.
I could be just finding a pattern.
But to me,
this looks like an adult and a child.
So, I'm fascinated by this photo.
I'm really anxious to show it to Laura,
in which I come around the corner
and Laura is standing with the camera above her head,
filming up at the bridge.
And I'm like, "Hey, what's up? What are you doing?"
She goes, "I don't know, I just got
this weird feeling right now, Chad."
And I'm like, "Physically?"
And she's like, "Yes, I have a weird physical feeling
plus something told me to just film the bridge."
So, because Laura is so freaking skeptical,
I decided to take some photos of her while this is going on.
And this is the first photo that I took of her here.
Look at this.
Now, I have no clue what this is flying around her.
You know, I don't-- I-- I-- [chuckles]
You can hear it in my stuttering.
I'm still confused when I look at this photo.
I have no idea what this is.
I have no idea what it is.
But I do find it very interesting
that right about the same exact time
that I had my bizarre experience,
and took the photo over my shoulder,
Laura was also having a weird experience
in which I took this photo of her.
The timing was really weird.
During my first ever trip to the Waverly Hills Sanatorium,
I was picked up by Charlie Mattingly,
who co-owns the structure with his wife, Tina.
During our drive to Waverly,
I asked Charlie if he's ever experienced
anything paranormal,
in which he said the only thing he's ever witnessed
were what he described as tiny red, glowing lights
that consistently flew down the corridors of Waverly Hills.
Well, Charlie wasn't lying because I saw his red lights.
But to be honest, I could never get a straight on look at them.
They were always just out of the corner of my eye,
or I would see them really quickly
before they would fly into a wall and disappear.
With this being the case, over the course of two full nights,
I only focused on still photography in which I took over
12,000 photos with the highest shutter speed that I could,
which thankfully, the effort was rewarded
with the following photos.
[eerie music]
The following video was fairly self-explanatory,
as during our trip to the Axe Murder House
for the filming ofAmerican Ghost Hunter,
my good friend Johnny Houser asked
if he could take some photos of Ryan Buell and I,
in which this was the result.
[Johnny] I took three shots, just one right after the other.
The last one turned out perfectly fine.
Uh, the two before were hanging-- had-- look like a--
It's almost a blur or a white mist
right in front of, uh, you and Chad.
[Chad] I would like to also point out
that while camera glitches do happen,
which can produce artefacts, these glitches are massive.
And there's two of them,
which occurred right after a perfect photo was taken.
This just doesn't make any sense.
I have no reasonable explanation for this.
[Ryan] Were you fidgeting with the lighting
or the-- the flash or anything?
-I didn't adjust a thing. Um-- -[Ryan] Really?
Just pushed the button three times and that was it.
[Ryan] When you were taking photos of people here
at the Villisca House,
you ever had anything like that show up?
Not of people.
You guys are the lucky ones, I guess.
-[Ryan] Yes. -[Johnny chuckles]
[Ryan] We had something around us, Chad.
[Chad] If you don't know my family's story
and our 20-year battle with a negative haunting,
I invite you to watch
the American Ghost Hunter documentary.
But if you do know my family's story,
you'll understand why it's still hard
for me to share these photos.
Having said that,
here's two photos from my family's haunting
that still give me the chills today.
The first photo is one of a baby's crib,
which, if you look at the crib's rails,
you can see that it was rocking of its own accord
as its not level with the floor.
It did this often, which we still have no idea why.
This second photo
was taken during one of my mother's demonic attacks
in which she would be hit,
scratched, pinched,
and would have her hair pulled by an unseen force
which is being demonstrated in this photo.
As you can see, a lot of her hair
being pulled up and away from her body
again, by an unseen force.
Keep in mind that both of these photos
were taken during the three-day investigation
conducted by Ed and Lorraine Warren's discovery team,
who witnessed several of these attacks for themselves.
In fact, after finishing their research,
their official written conclusion
stated that my family was suffering from a devil strength,
diabolical, demonic infestation.
I only mention this to you as it may make this next photo
make more sense.
In 1994,
the co-op grain bin next to my home in Persia had exploded,
in which my father took one photo of the fire,
as that's all his disposable 35-millimeter camera had left.
And this, my friends, is the photo.
Can you tell me what you see?
Because what I see is a highly detailed,
demonic face from a side profile
with the goat horns protruding back.
Now, admittedly,
I'm someone who would typically write these things off
as matrixing or pareidolia,
which is when the mind identifies recognizable shapes
out of random visuals,
such as seeing an elephant or Jesus in the clouds,
or a scary face in the mountainside,
or in some cases,
people even see themselves within the visual chaos
math of random visual patterns.
But as much as I want to write this photo off
as mere matrixing,
there's still that percentage
of me that can't let it go.
As given my mother's history with the demonic
and the fact that my Persia home sits
right in the middle of one of the most haunted regions
in the United States.
I have to ask myself,
"Is this really just pareidolia?"
I don't know, perhaps it is.
But I still felt it was worth sharing with all of you.
While holding a fanfare event at the Thomas House in 2019,
I was told that there was a church on the property
that was now open to investigations.
Although, I never made it to the church
the first night of the event,
after many of my attendees told me
that they had experienced intense activity there,
I went to the church on the second night
with 18 attendees with me,
and what we experienced was truly shocking,
as we all witnessed multiple objects
being thrown of their own accord, from glasses,
to shoes, to batteries.
Just before myself and two of my friends
noticed a large black figure at the back of the room,
which we followed to an adjacent room.
After things had calmed down,
we turned the lights on in the church
and asked everybody to step out.
While that happened, my friend Justin Ross
took the following two photos.
In the first photo,
you can see that there's nothing standing
against the back wall of the church.
But in the second photo,
the same massive dark figure that I saw earlier
was captured on film.
Even today, when I look at this picture,
it gives me the chills.
When it comes to visual paranormal evidence,
which I'm referencing bizarre,
unexplained or mysterious events we can see,
nothing compares to video footage,
as it's the closest the documentarian
can bring the viewer to the experience
without them actually being in the room.
For this reason, the following footage
has had a truly profound effect on my beliefs.
During the glove episode ofParanormal State,
an unexplained thermal handprint suddenly appeared on the wall
next to Michelle Belanger's Head.
But in the following footage,
for the first time ever,
you're going to see my camera angle,
which proves that the handprint was truly paranormal.
What you're seeing on the right is my camera angle,
while Ryan Buell is using the thermal camera on the left.
Now, when this clip begins,
you'll see the cameraman walk past Michelle
to stage at the end of the room.
Notice that Michelle is facing forward
as she rubs her wrist briefly
before lowering her hands for a few seconds,
just before she decides to move down the wall
to inspect the closet she noticed.
Now, Michelle does touch the wall here,
but because of my angle,
you can see that her touch is down the wall
next to the closet,
which is nowhere close to where
the unexplained handprint appears.
[Michelle] That is the world's shallowest closet.
[chuckling]
-[Chad] Oh, yeah? -[Ryan] Oh, yeah.
Well, 'cause I opened it going,
"It's gotta open on to that other room."
[Ryan] That is pretty shallow.
What the hell do you put in there?
[Chad] So, after making a few comments
about the closet being shallow
as it's only a foot or so deep,
she returns to her original spot
in which once again you can see that
she places both of her hands
against the wall, where they will remain.
[Ryan] Come on, are there any spirits here?
Anyone who wants to communicate?
Anyone frightened of our presence?
Anyone angry that we're here?
[Chad] If you look right here,
the handprint is already appearing,
which makes no sense,
as my camera angle proves
that nobody has touched the wall there.
What's the ten-year-old girl's name?
-[Michelle] Maria. -Maria. Yeah.
Are you trying to frighten Maria?
[Ryan] Michelle, did you put your hand on the wall
right behind you?
Like, right to your right shoulder.
No, right where-- my hands are here.
[Ryan] You sure?
Like, right to your right shoulder.
This is a handprint right there.
[Michelle] Oh, my God. Where?
[Chad] Well, as you can see,
there's a lot of issues with this handprint,
as it's not only much larger than any handprint
Michelle could have made,
but it looks more like a hand stamp
as it's all nearly one colour,
which means it's all nearly one temperature.
But the most important aspect of this handprint
is that the thumb is facing inward,
which means that if Michelle would have touched the wall,
she would have had to twist her entire torso,
which, again, as my footage proves,
she never does.
The only other person that could have touched the wall
is the cameraman.
And as you saw at the beginning of the clip,
he walked right past Michelle.
-[Ryan] Come closer, Michelle. -[Chad] There it is.
-[Michelle] That was... -[Chad] You didn't put your--
[Ryan] She can't. No, dude. Look where she's standing.
She was standing there the whole time she was here.
[Ryan] You sure, Michelle?
[Chad] Look, even if she went like this--
[Michelle] I hopped over, I checked the closet.
[Ryan] No, walked in with her, bro.
[Michelle] I stood here, like this.
-[Ryan] You see it? It's there. -[Chad] Yeah, absolutely.
[Chad] Although I can't attest
to what was creating the handprint,
it was believed that the deceased grandfather,
who was a coal miner,
was actively haunting only the females in the house,
as he was said to be extremely sexist,
which is why Michelle began provoking him.
So, could this mean that the grandfather
is responding to Michelle's provocation
by letting her know that he's face to face with her?
Well, the truth is that none of us know for sure.
But what I can tell you is that this handprint
should not be here.
The following footage was filmed at the Stanley Hotel,
which is famous because Stephen King, while staying in Room 217,
had a paranormal experience
that would inspire King to writeThe Shining.
But in relation to the following footage,
what's important is that the Stanley Hotel
is said to be haunted by the owner, F.O. Stanley,
who, after being diagnosed with tuberculosis,
built the hotel
so he could live a life where he can breathe
the cool mountain air of Colorado.
While there are countless legends
associated with the ghost of F.O. Stanley,
after speaking with the manager and a bartender,
they both told me that should I cross paths
with the ghost of F.O. Stanley,
I would know him by the clicks of his boot heels.
Keep that in mind as you watch this footage.
If you're in here,
please give us some kind of sign that you are.
We don't mean any harm.
We're all here to document your presence.
I want to show as many people as we can that you're here.
We want people to know your story.
Please give us a sign.
[Laura] What is that just-- That just came on.
[Chad] Where?
Did you hear the footsteps?
-[crewmember 2] Yeah. -[Chad] Behind me.
-Did you hear them? -That wasn't you?
[Chad] No. Did you-- [screams]
Yeah. Yeah.
Now manifest for us, please.
-Let us see you. -[crewmember 2] Calm down.
[Chad] Did you hear the footsteps?
-[crewmember 2] What? Yeah. -Behind me. Do you hear them?
-[crewmember 2] That wasn't you? -[Chad] No.
[Chad] Did you hear the footsteps?
-[crewmember 2] What? Yeah. -Behind me. Do you hear them?
-[crewmember 2] That wasn't you? -[Chad] No.
[Chad] Did you hear the footsteps?
-[crewmember 2] What? Yeah. -Behind me. Do you hear them?
-[crewmember 2] That wasn't you? -[Chad] No.
The footsteps are one thing,
but what's really interesting about this clip,
if you look, as my camera rises,
you'll see a shadow rise, and then it darts across.
At first I thought, "Oh, that's just, you know,
some kind of shadow I'm creating."
But in slow motion,
you see that the shadow is actually rising
faster than my camera.
It rises up the wall and then it shoots down the wall.
Right after we heard the table and the chair
slam into the wall.
Yeah, yeah.
Now manifest for us, please.
-Let us see you. -[crewmember 2] Calm down.
Yeah, yeah.
Now manifest for us, please.
-Let us see you. -[crewmember 2] Calm down.
Felt different than in other rooms we were in tonight.
And then you guys said you heard footsteps.
[Chad] Did you hear the footsteps?
-[crewmember 2] What? Yeah. -Behind me. Did you hear them?
-That wasn't you? -[Chad] No.
A loud bang right in front of us in the wall...
[screams and chuckles]
-[Laura screams] -[Chad] Yeah, yeah.
It was pretty intense.
And, uh, you can see by Laura's reaction,
she was scared out of her mind,
which I personally loved, I thought it was great.
[laughs]
-[Laura screams] -[Chad] Yeah. Yeah.
Now manifest for us, please.
-Let us see you. -[crewmember] Calm down.
He's like, "Manifest, manifest." I'm like, "Wait a minute.
If it's going to manifest, I'm going to be behind you guys,
grabbing on your sweatshirt."
[Chad] Would you say that was pretty legitimate?
Yeah.
Well, 'cause all the other noises you were coming--
-hearing, like, pipes above. -Yeah.
Or, you know, nothing like right there
where it felt like in the room by you.
-Right. -'Til,
like, footsteps and bang.
[Chad] The video you're about to see
was filmed at the West Virginia State Penitentiary in 2005,
which blew my mind
as I had never before experienced the activity
you're about to watch.
After spending five nights in the historical prison,
we conducted several investigations
of the five locations said to be the most haunted.
The Sugar Shack, which served
as a recreational area for the inmates.
The Hole, which was used for solitary confinement,
the Warden's Tower,
the Psyche Ward and the Hospital.
When all was said and done,
both the cast and crew had several personal experiences
and fortunately for us,
we were able to back these experiences up
with some hard evidence.
On the third night of our investigation,
at about 4:35 a.m.,
our audio guy Tim came down and grabbed me and said, "Chad,
you got to get down here and see this."
What you're looking at here is something that I cannot explain.
The lights that you see circling the sugar shack
are actually slanted,
in the opposite direction that the rain is falling.
And it's not as though we captured this activity
for a short time.
We captured these lights for 18 minutes.
We hit the Sugar Shack with flashlights
and the dancing lights came back.
We waved our hand in front of the camera,
and still the dancing lights came back.
In fact, our local P.A., Tom, mustered up enough courage
to go sprinting through the lights,
and still, the dancing lights came back.
In short, I've watched this video hundreds of times,
and to this day we are still researching this phenomenon.
As I mentioned earlier,
we filmed this footage in 2005,
but in 2010,
while at the Villisca Axe Murder House,
we filmed the following activity,
which is incredibly similar,
especially when you compare both pieces of evidence side by side.
Holy shit.
The footage you're about to see
took place in the poker room of the St. James Hotel,
in which we had only been investigating
for nine and a half minutes when the following occurred.
Something's not right. Something's not right.
[Mary Beth]
[Chad]
-[Mary Beth] Are you okay? -[Chad] Yeah, just resting.
[Mary Beth] If there's any spirit here,
you're going to have to do something that we know is you.
[Chad] You need to communicate with us.
[chair scrapes]
-Did you see it? -[Mary Beth] Yep.
The chair moved.
-[Mary Beth] Yeah. -The chair fucking moved.
[chair scrapes]
[Mary Beth] I'm shaking so bad.
That was a sign.
[Justin] Chad, do you copy?
[Mary Beth] We just had a chair move, we're, uh--
We're going to have to chill out for just a second.
[Chad] It should also be noted that
since the goal of this investigation
was to present our findings to the public
because Mary Beth and I were the only ones in the room
that could have affected the chair physically.
I asked Justin and Joe to recreate the event,
in which they clearly demonstrated
that we were too far away from the chair
to have affected it.
But I think in general,
whenever you experience activity that's close to you,
it's always a good idea to have somebody else recreate the event
in hopes of legitimizing it or debunking it.
[Joe] All right, here's the poker room.
Um, if they were sitting right here
and that's the chair that moved...
[Justin] Sure.
If I'm Mary Beth and I'm trying to make that move forward
towards me,
you'd have to reach down and hook that.
-Yeah. -Right?
It was pushed from the back.
Yeah, it did lift up, didn't it? Yeah.
[Joe] It lifts up from the back.
Same case. I mean, you're in a pretty long distance there.
Yeah, I'm 6'5".
I can touch it, but I-- but I can't pop it forward.
-Yeah. -I can't make it lean forward.
If you watch the video, before that happens,
it's dead quiet
and all you can hear is Chad.
[Chad] I mean, my heart's beating so...
[chair scrapes]
a-Did you see it? -[Mary Beth] Yeah.
[Chad] The chair moved.
If he was going to move and hook his leg,
just listen to this chair.
-I mean... -Yeah.
-There's no way. -Yeah.
I think we got something good, man.
Yeah.
[Chad] Filmed on the fourth floor
of the Waverly Hills Sanatorium by my friend, Adrian,
during ourTerror Normal investigation,
we know that Adrian was completely alone as he conducted
this walk-through with a thermal camera.
Although we didn't see it at the time in which he filmed it,
as his camera sways back and forth,
Adrian documents an entity
that steps forward and blacks out the exit light,
which is approximately ten feet off the ground.
Take a look at this footage.
If you look very closely,
you can clearly see something
which looks like another full bodied apparition
steps in front of the light, blacking it out.
As I mentioned earlier,
from our own personal sweeps of the building
and also from reviewing security cameras,
we know that Adrian was completely alone.
But beyond that, this is not a human being,
as human beings look like this on thermal camera.
So, with all options considered,
I do believe that Adrian documented
some form of apparition in this footage.
The following footage was filmed
at the Lake Conneaut Hotel after investigating a linen room.
As I was walking out, something breathed in my ear.
After exiting the room,
I quickly turned around to reenter,
but as though I was not welcome,
the door began to close of its own accord.
[Ryan] You want to stay there?
[Chad] Oh, shit.
Dude, no, I totally just...
Ryan, something just breathed in my ear.
Why is the door moving?
[Ryan] You want to stay there?
[Chad] Oh, shit. Dude, no, I totally just...
Ryan, something just breathed in my ear.
Why is the door moving?
[Chad] It should also be pointed out that we spent over an hour
trying to get this door to close on its own.
I'm not a wood expert,
so I don't know what kind of wood
the door was made out of, but it was extremely heavy.
But the weirdest thing is that there was actually a spring
connected to the door that held it open.
So, in order for it to shut,
you would have to apply a lot of pressure
from the back side of the door,
which clearly, that did not happen,
as the door began to shut on me as I tried to reenter it.
[Ryan] You want to stay there?
[Chad] Oh, shit. Dude, no, I totally just...
Ryan, something just breathed in my ear.
Why is the door moving?
[Chad] As you'll see in this footage,
which was filmed in the hallway of the Thomas House Hotel,
as I'm discussing some of the legends
that I've heard about the hauntings at the Thomas house,
Ryan actually freaks out.
After this happens,
I want you to look at the right side of the curtains
as they fold in on themselves and then stay folded
as though something was holding it.
[Ryan] We sure got something interesting.
-The door opened for her. -Really?
-[Ryan] Yeah. -Let's go then. Where?
[Ryan] Well, she's try to see if it happens again.
It's in that picture room.
-No shit. -[Ryan] Yeah.
-That's bad ass. -[Ryan] Yeah.
We'll fucking bring them here, though, you know?
[Ryan] It actually happened twice,
trying to get it to happen the third time.
You know what the weird thing is, Ryan?
And it's the first time I've felt this way in a long time.
-Oh, my God. -I feel like whatever's here
is scared of me.
-[Ryan] Scared of you? -Yeah.
Like it doesn't want to come close to me.
And I don't know why.
But I feel that way.
It's almost like it-- it needs fear.
Like it needs fear, you know, like to do something to you
or to...
-Hmm. -I don't know.
Look, I'm fucking postulating, too.
I know that's bad, I'm just saying, but...
That's how I feel right now.
I mean, this is one creepy-ass setting,
I should have some kind of weird feeling, you know?
That presence feeling you talk about,
you know, we talk about that, knowing that unnatural thing.
Like, I felt it for, like, two seconds and it was like,
it just, "Hoo--" just left, you know?
I was just like, "Get your ass back here."
You know what I mean? Like...
[Ryan] Yeah.
Because Tom that we interviewed,
I found very credible.
I really did. Like, his methods, everything about him.
He was calm, collective.
And he's telling me that this thing choked his ass
and that he got blown back--
like, he got shot twice here and here.
And that thing happened again with another...
-[Ryan] Holy shit. -[Chad] Fuck.
-[Ryan] Wait, wait, no. -[Chad] What?
-What? -[Ryan] You have a flash light?
[Chad] No.
[Chad] Come on, motherfucker. Bring that shit.
-What? -[Ryan exhaling deeply]
What did you see?
-What did you see? -[Ryan chuckles incredulously]
What did you see?
-[Ryan] Ooh. -[Chad] Like apparition?
-[Ryan] Dude, Chad? -Yeah.
[Ryan] Are you sure there's not something down here?
[Chad] After going back to this room
and inspecting the curtains,
we could not get them to move in any fashion.
In fact, the window was actually sealed off with plastic
so even wind could not penetrate it.
I honestly have no idea what caused this activity.
The following footage, which occurred at Waverly Hills,
is one of my favourite examples of evidence,
because it's an incredible demonstration
of intelligent response.
Check this out.
At the end of the first day
of our initial investigation,
I left my wave recorder upstairs.
To be honest, I was a little geeked out
and spooked out by the day's events,
so Adrian offered to go up and get it himself.
Well, while Adrian was up there, this is what happened.
[Adrian] Hello? Anybody here with us?
Make a sound or appear for me if you can.
Hello? Anybody here with us?
Make a sound or appear for me if you can.
[Chad] It should also be pointed out that Adrian was most
definitely completely alone
during the filming of the segment.
[Adrian] Hello? Anybody here with us?
Make a sound or appear for me if you can.
[striking]
[chad] What I love the most about this footage
is its simplicity.
Adrian asked for two things.
Let me hear you and show yourself,
in which immediately,
he hears two knocks at the end of the corridor,
and then what appears to be some sort of fog or smoke
rushing out of the concrete from bottom to top
appears right in front of him.
In my humble opinion,
this is some truly amazing footage.
[Adrian] Hello? Anybody here with us?
Make a sound or appear for me if you can.
[striking]
[Chad] The following sequence,
which was filmed at Chillingham Castle,
provided me with all I needed to believe in ghosts.
When this segment begins,
you will see me in the chapel,
in which I am provoking the spirit of former head torturer,
John Sage,
who is believed to be the ghost
of a child rapist and a murderer.
After provoking Sage for only a few minutes,
something truly incredible was documented.
[Chad in footage] If you're going to communicate, John,
you better do something definitive.
I better know for a fact it's you.
To kill kids, seriously?
I don't know how a man was measured
in the 12th and 13th century,
but I can tell you if you did that today,
you would be locked up,
you would go to jail,
you would become somebody's girlfriend.
What the fuck?
Oh, my God.
[Chad] Jesus!
I just stood up
and I started talking,
and the seat pad that I was sitting on came off
the pew. It's right here.
-Did you guys have eyes on me? -Yeah.
-On the pew? -Yeah.
[Chad] Did I do that when I stood up with the seat?
We can't tell from here.
[Chad] I said, "But in today's, you know, world,
you'd become somebody's bitch."
I looked down and the entire length of the pew seat is off
and falling around my fucking legs.
[crewmember] What do you mean it's off and falling?
-Come look at it, come look. -[crewmember] It fell?
Yes. The whole length of the entire seat.
Yeah, you don't gotta touch anything.
I left it exactly where it was and shouted out.
The whole thing was moving off. The whole thing.
[Mary Beth] This has non-skid on the back--
-Seat that has non-skid? -[Mary Beth] Yeah.
[crew] Sit down and stand up and actually try to pull it off.
-Yeah, no, no fucking way, dude. -[crew] Yeah.
I mean, you're just awkwardly trying to pull it off.
And it's not coming.
Dude, there's no way on earth.
I can't take this off if I'm trying.
-[crew] Yeah. -I can't take this off
if I'm trying. We have that DVR footage.
You'll see how long I'm talking before anything happens.
It looked like you stood up and were saying something
or talking, and then you freak out.
[Chad] Drag it like that. That's not how it did.
It all moved at once.
If you look to the right-hand corner,
you're going to see the very end of it,
and it comes off with such force,
you're going to see it pop up here in the corner.
You're going to see the-- the-- the actual seat.
And you're also going to notice that when I stand up
and start talking,
I have one hand on the camera, one hand is in my pocket.
I did not touch anything.
If you did that today, you would be locked up.
You would go to jail.
You would become somebody's girlfriend.
What the fuck? Ah!
You would go to jail.
You would become somebody's girlfriend.
What the fuck? Ah!
You would go to jail.
You would become somebody's girlfriend.
What the fuck? Ah!
The cushions [indistinct] you've been sitting on yourself.
This table's where they put everything.
Like, back to normal for when the people come in for a visit.
They're all off the floor. They're all on the floor.
They've all been pulled off.
That's-- It's-- It's fantastic to actually see it.
[Chad] To be honest, I was incredibly thankful
to see Graham excited by the fact
that we documented the pew cushions being thrown,
because the day before,
shortly after it happened,
he was upset by the fact that I was asking John Sage
to come to the chapel,
as Graham believes the chapel
to be the peaceful home of a child spirit
named Eleanor,
in which she hides in the chapel to avoid John Sage.
Do get pulled off. They're saying it's a mischievous child.
So, you're dealing with someone,
though she's about ten, 12 year old.
[crew] This happens often?
[Graham] When she's having a tantrum.
-[Chad] Wow. -[crew] What's her name?
[crew] Eleanor. Yeah, she probably didn't like--
[Chad] Eleanor.
Eleanor, I sorry. I was really--
I'm being dead serious.
Eleanor, I was really tired last night
and I fell asleep a few times.
I'm sorry, Eleanor.
With you being in, as clusters, her area--
[clears throat] Sorry.
-[Chad] She's pissed. -"John Sage. John Sage."
She did not like that.
[Chad] Once I learned this and reviewed the evidence
that we captured from the control room,
I was blown away.
As without my knowing,
there was a much bigger picture
that was playing out right before our eyes.
If you remember the audio evidence from earlier,
at the same time that a side door opened,
my team heard a disembodied voice
of a young girl who had a British accent saying,
"He's not there."
[female voice] He's not there.
[Chad] Well, only five minutes after that happened,
the pew cushion was thrown at me.
You would go to jail,
you would become somebody's girlfriend.
What the fuck?
So, if we take Graham at his word
and plug in the legend of Eleanor and John Sage,
because my team and I are not in radio contact,
it would appear as though Eleanor
is trying to let my team know that John Sage is not there.
He's not in the chapel. That's who I'm calling for.
And at the time, the door opens.
That door led to the chapel stairwell.
-[Joe] That's the only door? -[Mary Beth] Yeah.
There's not one to the outside.
So, it was that door.
Yeah.
[Chad] So, again, it appears as though Eleanor
is telling my team, "He's not there,"
as she opens the door to say,
"Go to the chapel and tell Chad,
John Sage is not here, get him to stop."
When they didn't react,
the pew cushion was thrown at me,
which, as you guys saw,
Graham says that Eleanor throws the pew cushions
on the ground all the time
because she doesn't want people in the chapel,
because John Sage follows people.
As crazy as this all may seem
to somebody who did not experience these events,
as the person who did, this makes perfect sense.
And with that, my friends,
as I told you all in the beginning,
I'm not attempting to make you believe in ghosts.
I'm simply telling you what I believe.
And after living through all of these experiences
over the course of 25 years,
I found the answers to my questions.
At the very least,
I hope I've inspired you to seek out the answers
to the questions that you may have
in regard to the supernatural,
the spiritual, and the paranormal.
But far beyond satisfying my own curiosity.
I've also truly enjoyed playing the role of the student,
in which there's three things that I would like to share
with you that I believe I discovered along the way.
[eerie music]
The first thing that I believe I've discovered along this
incredible journey
is what it takes to experience a paranormal activity.
And I think it's belief.
I think you have to believe in it,
because I've seen it over and over again,
where people will come into a paranormal investigation
and they will be so committed to not believing
and not having an experience that they won't.
And I've been with them where it seems like nothing happens.
We jokingly call them paranormal coolers,
uh, because when they come in the room, like, nothing happens.
But I think that speaks to the power of the mind.
The power of the mind is something that
the world's greatest scientists cannot figure out.
The mind is doing things all the time.
Our subconscious is doing things all the time,
and we don't know what it is.
But we know it's active, we know it's working.
But I've seen examples of belief
physically affecting things in the room.
For example, I'm going to play you a clip here.
This is actually from the Paranormal Stateinvestigation,
Church of the Damned.
I was in a room where this growling
was recorded over and over again,
it was an intense growling.
Ryan and Chip decided to go down into the room.
Now, they're both Catholic, okay?
They felt as though
the prayer of St. Michael
would be effective in cleansing this room.
Chip goes on with this-- this St. Michael's prayer.
And as he's doing it,
right when he gets to, like, the crescendo of the prayer,
the Flir camera reacts to it
and starts showing, like, a massive temperature difference,
like, right on cue.
And I remember thinking to myself,
would that have happened if I was in there?
Because I'm not Catholic
and I don't believe in the power of St. Michael's prayer.
I don't-- It wouldn't mean anything to me.
But it meant something to him.
And it meant something to Ryan,
and it meant something to the owners
who were also devout Catholics.
I believe the reason this happened
is because they believed it would happen.
Check this out.
[Chip] You have no power.
[Ryan] What the hell was that?
[Chip] What was that?
That was interesting.
So, we got your attention? How about this?
St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle.
Be our protection against the wickedness
and snares of the devil.
May God rebuke him, we humbly pray.
And do thou, O Prince of the Heavenly Host,
by the divine power of God, cast into hell
Satan and all the evil spirits
who wander throughout the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.
How do you like that?
[ominous music]
Now, the second thing I wanted to discuss
is what is a ghost, right?
When you say, "Do you believe in a ghost?"
What is that?
I mean, when you hear a voice that shouldn't be there,
that's a ghost, right?
If you hear footsteps upstairs
and they shouldn't be coming from anybody, that's a ghost.
Or if you set your car keys down and you turn
and they're not there any more,
we say, "Oh, that was a ghost."
Or if you see a full body apparition,
you know, obviously, that's a ghost.
When I say, "I believe in ghosts,"
what I mean is, I believe in future science.
I think this is all stuff that we're going to figure out later
that we're just not smart enough to understand right now.
I think this is multiple dimensions
crossing into each other.
Um, I'm not even so sure that when there's an intelligent
response or when there's communication that you're even
talking to someone that's dead.
I think it's just as likely
as you're just communicating with someone in a different
dimension that's viewing you the same way.
That's why I love that film, The Others, with Nicole Kidman.
If you haven't seen it, you should see it.
But basically the Aha moment at the end is you find out
the whole time you think that she is experiencing ghosts,
but then you find out she's the ghost, you know?
Uh, it's just really cool.
But there's so much of-- of this world that we don't know.
I mean, just think about where we are for a second.
We're these creatures that are on this
massive spinning ball that's flying
through this universe of darkness
and to where, we don't know. We don't even know why--
You know, science can't tell us
where we came from or where we go.
But clearly, we came from somewhere
and we're going somewhere.
So, I think a lot of times
when people don't know the answer,
they go straight to denial.
What I do know
is that bizarre things are happening all the time.
We live in a planet that's filled
with nothing but energy going wild around us.
There's electricity through everything.
There's all kinds of forces we don't even understand.
A lot of times when these things happen, they're scary
because we don't understand it.
So, when I say, "I believe in ghosts,"
that's to say, I believe in science
that we don't understand yet.
I believe in multiple dimensions crossing,
I believe that space and time are connected.
I believe that Einstein had it right,
that there are wormholes. I believe in all that stuff.
And I think most paranormal investigators that I know,
the more and more they've studied this,
the more and more they start to come to that conclusion,
that what we're really talking about is string theory.
That's what we're experiencing.
And I-- I invite you to look into that.
I invite you to study string theory
and multiple dimensions and some of the beliefs behind that.
And I think that is the closest that I've come to
in regard to an explanation as to what a ghost could be.
[eerie music]
And lastly, at the beginning of this film,
I told you that I had found the answers that I had sought out.
To the questions that sent me on this wild journey
that I've been on.
And it happened a couple of years ago
in which it hit me like a ton of bricks.
I was having a conversation with Thomas
about the Sir Noface case.
Uh, there's this Australian case that I did with
this investigator, Craig Powell.
And, you know,
Thomas was the driving force behind it all happening.
And we were talking about just how incredible the case was.
And it had everything, you know,
stunning evidence, incredible documentation.
It was sanctioned by the government.
I mean, it's truly incredible.
And we were talking about it doesn't matter how,
uh, you know, incredible the case is,
some people just won't
even give time of day or they just refuse to accept the facts.
But, you know, that never really bothered me
because I think that people accept things when
they're ready to accept them.
What always bothered me is that the scientific community,
they won't touch ghosts, they just won't.
And they say, "Well,
science is about a repeatable action that we can study
and there's nothing repeatable in the paranormal
that's-- happens over and over again."
In which my response was, "Well, we're talking about
energy of living creatures
that were either once alive
or are living in a different dimension."
And how can that be repeatable?
Meaning, my wife gets up and goes to work every day.
But she's never once got up and every single footstep
did it exactly the same as she did the day before.
There's always variance.
That doesn't mean that she's not real and she didn't go to work.
It just means that there's not a repeatable action
to her because she's a human.
She never-- never does anything the exact same way.
So, science will never touch it,
which doesn't make any sense to me.
But then something hit me hard.
And again, like a ton of bricks.
I started thinking about the fact that
over all these years, everything you just watched,
everything that I've filmed,
everything I've ever seen from other investigators who film,
there's never been one piece of footage
that can prove beyond a shadow of a doubt
to the scientific community or otherwise that ghosts are real.
It's never happened.
There's always been just enough doubt
in everything, or just enough of a possibility,
even if it's like a 1% chance
that this could have happened to make this happen.
You know, it just seems like, you know, the--
the object is just out of frame
or it's just-- just blurry enough where it's not clear.
The EVP has just enough static where it's not clear.
And then suddenly it just hit me.
That's the consistency...
in all pieces of evidence,
in everything anybody has ever captured.
That's the consistency.
There's always just enough reason for doubt.
And the reason for that
is because if we can prove the existence of ghosts,
we can prove there's an other side.
We can prove there's an other side.
There would be no need for faith.
And the fact that we don't know what comes after we die,
that's what gives this life value.
That's what gives this life value.
That's what makes it where we want to be a good person.
We want to live a good life.
Because if there's something else coming,
we want to take part in it.
We don't want to be,
you know, either left behind or sent to hell or whatever,
you know, your beliefs are.
I will never capture the piece of evidence
that proves the existence of ghosts,
because if I did,
there would be no need for faith.
And that's the answer I came to.
So now when I ghost hunt, I do it for fun.
I take people's so they have their own experiences.
And through the ghost hunting, I've met incredible people.
The experiences you have,
you are never closer to the other side
than when you're with somebody and you have
one of these experiences.
So, I urge you all,
go find your answers,
start your journey.
Because it's a special journey.
Peace.
[dark rock music]
♪ The table parts our stares, separates our glares ♪
♪ How did we concede
♪ And are we this naive?
♪ A life that was once was ours ♪
♪ Slippin' through our claws
♪ The beast in my disease
♪ Has overtaken me
♪ How has this now gone suddenly so wrong ♪
♪ I am on my knees
♪ But I know better
♪ This is not my life...