NARRATOR:
America's top ghost hunters
relive their most
extreme assignments.
Something was hunting me
this whole time.
NARRATOR: Hardened veterans
of the paranormal --
these are the cases
that truly tested them.
I don't think I was
ready for this.
NARRATOR: In Indiana, a deserted
asylum and infirmary
may still be harboring
some neglected patients.
Oh, my God.
That absolutely terrifies me,
to think that that may be
waiting for me in the next life.
NARRATOR: In New York,
an old mansion hides
more than a little history.
Come on, scaredy-cat.
Did you hear that?
We're like, "This is some really
powerful stuff going on here."
Ah!
NARRATOR: And in Arizona,
the residents
of a local cemetery
seem unwilling
or unable to rest in peace.
Please help me.
I wanted to get out of there.
I ran.
Ah!
♪♪
NARRATOR: A th-century asylum
and infirmary,
once a place of trauma,
sickness and death,
now an empty shell
of a building...
-Help me.
-...said to be haunted
by the tortured souls
of those who d*ed within.
♪♪
In early ,
the asylum and infirmary
closed their doors,
and new owners planned
significant renovations.
But as the work gets underway,
strange things start happening:
shadow figures, footsteps
and doors slamming...
♪♪
And then...
-Ah!
-...a full-bodied apparition.
The owners move out,
and the ghostly reports
keep most people away --
but not Eric McGill,
an experienced
paranormal investigator
with over cases to his name.
There's little
he won't confront.
♪♪
ERIC: There are no entities
that I don't want to deal with
because in many cases,
I just believe that the presence
or entity is misunderstood,
and we just need to investigate
and learn more about them.
NARRATOR: And for Eric,
a haunted asylum and infirmary
is an intriguing prospect.
♪♪
ERIC: The reason that hospitals
are haunted
is because all of the people
who may have passed away
within the building at one point
or another, that emotion,
that sadness, those last moments
of a person's life,
that energy gets trapped
within stone walls,
and that energy has a tendency
to interact with people
as they visit the hospital --
but in a paranormal way.
NARRATOR: For a large-scale
investigation like this one,
Eric has assembled a full team:
equipment manager Sean Gilmore,
sensitive Amber Wellman
and evidence review specialist
Tom Javorsky,
but Tom's initial research
has already given him
a sense of foreboding.
The rumors were that
the patients did not get
the care they should have.
They were mistreated,
malnourished.
It seemed like nobody cared.
[ Screaming ]
NARRATOR: The team starts
the investigation
by setting up stationary cameras
throughout the building.
♪♪
Listen to this.
This is weird.
We captured an EVP.
We captured the sound
of a woman's voice.
We feel like this could have
been an intelligent response
to something
we were talking about.
I don't know if it had anything
to do
with what Sean and Eric
were talking about,
but whatever it was,
it was clear
she wanted someone to stop it.
NARRATOR:
And the spirit activity
quickly starts to build.
♪♪
Who's here with us?
If you talk to us,
we can hear you.
♪♪
You can talk to me.
Right around the same time,
we captured another EVP
on the second floor.
It's very subtle, but listen.
This EVP sounds like a woman,
and she's crying for help.
She's actually screaming
this word, "Help,"
and it's off in the distance.
It's pretty intense.
Help me!
Help me!
TOM:
It was a desperate cry for help.
It was like she was in pain
and needed help
right that very instant.
Help!
♪♪
When we hear a voice or a scream
that says, "Help"...
-Is there anybody in here?
-...we generally believe
that those are residual EVPs,
like this may have been a woman
in a room at the hospital
crying out to a nurse
for help at one time,
and now it's just turned into
a residual form of activity
that we were able to capture.
♪♪
NARRATOR: Residual activity
makes it less likely
that the investigators will
communicate with the spirits,
but it's no less terrifying
than intelligent activity.
When dealing with
an intelligent haunt,
you will be able to interact
with that spirit
as a general rule,
but with a residual-type haunt,
you're never going to be able
to interact with them.
They don't know
that you're around.
They don't know much
of anything.
It just plays over and over.
NARRATOR: Having identified
the nature of the haunt,
the team decides to conduct
a spirit circle.
ERIC: A spirit circle is a form
of channeling
by which people hold hands
in a circle
and try to entice spirits
to interact with them.
Our goal for the spirit circle
was to try to invoke
some spirits
or entice them to come over
and communicate with us.
♪♪
Is there someone in the room
with us?
♪♪
Make your presence known.
NARRATOR: But the response they
get is unexpected.
[ Panting ]
Oh, my God.
My legs are vibrating.
Almost immediately once
we started the spirit circle,
Amber started to feel a strange
vibration underneath her leg.
They described the vibrations
similar to, like,
when a cell phone would vibrate.
You were able to feel it,
but it wasn't real strong.
NARRATOR: But then things
get more intense.
Then suddenly,
Amber felt something
grab her left shoulder.
Something just touched me.
NARRATOR: The team frantically
searches for something
which might have touched Amber
but find nothing.
TOM: When an investigator
gets att*cked
by something they cannot see,
it is a very scary thing.
♪♪
Help me.
Something just grabbed me.
Help me!
Help me!
Something's there,
and something's trying
to get her attention.
NARRATOR:
Amber collects herself
and the team continues
with the spirit circle...
Help me!
...a decision which quickly
proves reckless.
Help me. Help me!
Help me!
Ah!
Something just bit me.
Help me!
NARRATOR: In an Indiana asylum
and infirmary,
investigator Eric McGill
and his team
are using a spirit circle
to make contact with the ghosts
that allegedly
roam the building,
and it looks like the ghosts
are ready to talk.
Help me! Help me!
Ah!
Something just bit me.
She was bit hard enough
to scream out.
Ah!
Something just bit me.
ERIC: Amber told me that she
felt as though
she was feeling
someone else's pain.
Help me!
Maybe she may have
been experiencing
some form of phantom pain.
Help me! Help me, please!
At this point, I'm wondering
if we need to be
a little more cautious moving
forward with the investigation,
you know,
one of those situations
where you got to be careful
what you say,
be careful what you do because
there's always that chance
that you might upset something
that could always lead
to a dangerous situation
or condition.
NARRATOR:
Fearing for their safety,
Eric decides to move
the team downstairs.
Just be careful
walking through here, guys.
Given the condition
of the building,
this in itself
is a dangerous undertaking.
As we were heading down
the stairs,
I paused for a moment
to make a joke, and I said,
"If I wind up biting it
as I fall down the stairs"...
You guys better get it
on camera.
As I was facing the camera,
nobody heard this response
at the time.
We captured an EVP that said,
"Like me."
Like me...
ERIC: It was a gravely voice,
and it was...
I'm not going to lie.
It was very creepy.
♪♪
TOM: I think that possibly
something happened
to someone
on that staircase.
Like me...
Whoa.
Ah.
Like me.
TOM: They wanted to let
the investigators know,
yes, it could happen to anyone.
It happened to them.
♪♪
Like me.
♪♪
And right here, with the corner
of my eye, I saw something move.
NARRATOR: Now intrigued,
Sean encourages Amber
to make a connection.
It's right through
this doorway.
Oh, gosh. Yeah.
You got something?
I got serious chills.
There's something.
Go in that room.
Why?
Go in that room.
Face your fear.
Who's in here?
We'd like to talk to you.
We're going to ring
the dinner bell.
Amber asks the question,
"Could you please
tell me your name?"
Could you tell me your name?
"No."
She immediately
gets the response, "No."
Did somebody just say no?
She is taken back by it,
so she shouts out
to anybody in the hallway.
Did one of you just say no?
-No.
-No.
"No. Nobody did."
No.
The EVP that we captured
sounded like
a male responding to her.
I said, "Can you tell me
your name?" and I heard, "No."
Seems like communication
from more than one spirit.
Place was active,
and they wanted to talk.
NARRATOR: Moments later,
the activity starts having
a physical effect on Amber.
ERIC: Amber Wellman is
a sensitive,
and sensitives have a tendency
to feel and hear
and see things differently
than the average person.
If a spirit were around Amber,
she would sometimes
experience things
such as headaches or nausea...
Help me. Help me.
Help me.
Help me.
Help me!
Maybe even anger or sadness
more so than you or I.
Help me. Help me!
TOM: You can never be sure
if a spirit is trying
to hurt someone this way.
When a person is sensitive,
they might be just reacting to
the energy that the spirit has.
♪♪
At this stage, I'm getting
a little more concerned.
It seems as though something
was almost playing a game
of cat and mouse
and didn't really want
our team there,
and it made its presence known
by giving Amber that headache.
We felt that it was a good time
to get everyone out.
Ugh.
It's not a good idea
to keep a group in an area
when someone starts
to feel physically ill
or if they get a headache.
That's when we know
it's time to vacate.
♪♪
NARRATOR: The team begins to
pack up the stationary cameras,
but a quick review
of the footage
reveals that the spirits are not
about to let them leave quietly.
You got to see this, okay?
♪♪
What the heck is that?
[ Roaring ]
The roar was very loud.
It had a male tone to it.
It almost sounded like whoever
was yelling
was in excruciating pain.
What is that?
[ Roaring ]
TOM: It sounded like a man
was in a lot of agony or anger,
and he just roared,
like, his loudest voice.
Ah!
Judging by the content
of these EVPs,
it's possible that this
was not a pleasant place.
♪♪
Help me.
[ Screaming ]
This wasn't a pleasant hospital.
We got to go.
NARRATOR: As the team runs for
the exit,
the building has one
last surprise for Sean.
♪♪
Oh, my God.
NARRATOR: A haunted asylum
and infirmary in Indiana
has thrown up
more than enough surprises
for Eric McGill and his team,
but as the investigators
run for the exit,
the ghosts have one
last fright in store...
-Oh, my God.
-...a huge shadow figure
standing right in front of them.
MAN: It appeared to be about
foot tall and male.
He was very, very frightened
by what he saw.
Something just walked out.
♪♪
That scared the [bleep]
out of me.
Holy crap.
I was shocked.
It was actually frightening.
♪♪
When a spirit reaches out
to a person,
sometimes it's very difficult
to discern
what their intentions are.
We often wonder if the reason
that the spirit
is reaching out to us
is because they need help,
they want help,
but then we also have to
consider the possibility
that maybe they're not
too happy with our presence,
and they're
warning us to leave.
NARRATOR: As dawn breaks
and the investigators
finally call it quits,
they're able to draw
some conclusions
about the nature
of the haunting.
ERIC: Given the activity
that we were able to capture,
we believe that whatever
is haunting this location
was probably some of the former
patients that are still there.
NARRATOR:
But the team's discoveries
don't bring Eric
a great deal of peace.
ERIC:
When we left the location,
I started reflecting back
on some of the history,
noting to myself just how sad
it would have been
to be stuck there at this
hospital in spirit form...
to think that that may be
waiting for me in the next life.
It's just a lonely existence,
and it absolutely terrifies me.
♪♪
NARRATOR: Still to come,
when investigators
visit a local cemetery,
they leave with a little more
than they bargained for.
There's no way
that just happened to me.
There is absolutely no way.
NARRATOR: But first,
a historic mansion
promises to deliver
some ghostly encounters.
Hot dang.
We're going to get
some good evidence tonight.
♪♪
NARRATOR: In northwest New York
stands a -year-old mansion
that local people
are convinced is haunted.
Since the s, people have
told tales of traumatic
and inexplicable events...
Did you hear that?
...happening within its walls --
mysterious footsteps,
disembodied voices...
[ Low grunt ]
Ah!
...terrifying apparitions,
and even physical att*cks.
[ Screaming ]
It's these stories which piqued
the interest
of paranormal investigator
Sharon Lennon.
Working with the supernatural
for over years
across investigations,
Sharon knows what it takes
to be an effective ghost hunter.
SHARON: I believe the skills it
takes to be a good investigator
is to be open-minded
but also critical thinking
to where not everything
that happens
is paranormal or a ghost.
NARRATOR:
But Sharon's secret w*apon
is her ability
to communicate with spirits.
Being a medium, I can actually
connect and talk directly
and see the spirits.
♪♪
NARRATOR: Sharon is joined by
her investigative team:
Fred Srock, George Updegraph,
and investigator Dawn Lambalzer.
WOMAN:
When we arrived at the estate,
it was Sharon, myself,
Fred and George.
MAN:
Is there a spirit in here?
Fred usually uses the pendulum,
which is the chain
with the amulet at the bottom.
George, we call him
our camera guy.
He goes around and clicks
a bunch of photos
to see what we can get.
NARRATOR: While Fred and George
stay on the main floor,
Dawn and Sharon
head upstairs.
♪♪
SHARON: We decided to start off
in the maid's room.
♪♪
NARRATOR: Sharon has brought
divining rods
to help her communicate
with the spirits.
The rods will cross or uncross
to answer yes or no.
SHARON: So with the rods,
I'll ask if there's a spirit
in the room with us,
and they went, "Yes."
So automatically, I started
a communication with them.
As soon as I open
that communication,
I could connect with them.
I actually sensed it was
a woman's spirit.
The questions we were asking
while we were up there were...
-Are you a maid?
-"Were you a maid?"
"Yes."
"Did you like working here?"
"Yes."
Is this home to you?
Yes.
NARRATOR:
After a few basic questions,
the atmosphere in the room
changes drastically.
The room just got really,
really cold.
I think it dropped
around degrees.
Things just started changing.
I could just feel that she was
not happy with us
in the room anymore,
and I had a feeling
that she just wanted us to go.
That's when I says, "Well, let
me just take a couple pictures."
♪♪
That's when I noticed
the mist and the shadow.
In the first picture, you see,
like, this orb and mist,
and then you see a dark shadow
on the left side of the picture
as if there was something
standing right next to us
as I was taking the picture.
And then I took one more,
and it was all gone.
I knew something was there.
It was more than just the maid.
The maid just seemed mild.
It looked like a big hefty man,
well-to-do, like,
maybe even
the owner of the place.
There's been known to be
an angry spirit in the house,
and I have a feeling
it was that spirit.
DAWN: Was he trying to block
other spirits
from talking to us?
Maybe this not-so-nice spirit
is trying to hijack
her communication with us.
♪♪
At that point, we're like,
"Okay.
We should get away
from this room.
This is some really
powerful stuff going on here.
This is some really bad energy
starting to come up now."
♪♪
NARRATOR: Back upstairs,
Sharon and Dawn
have moved into another room.
SHARON:
This room has a long hall...
♪♪
Are there spirits with us here?
...and this time,
Dawn was using the rods.
NARRATOR: But there's no escape
from the spirits.
As soon as we enter the room,
I said to Sharon,
"It just doesn't feel
right in here."
NARRATOR: In northwest New York,
investigator Sharon Lennon
has made contact with a spirit
in a -year-old mansion.
♪♪
As she and team member
Dawn Lambalzer
move deeper
into the building,
something starts
to feel very wrong.
As soon as we enter the room,
I said to Sharon,
"It just doesn't feel
right in here."
I said, "I feels as though it's,
like, spinning,
kind of like a vortex,"
and I said,
"I think these mirrors
have something to do with it."
Mirrors are sometimes known
as dimensional doorways
and can become
spirit portals.
They can travel
from dimension to dimension.
Am I standing in a portal?
And Dawn goes, "Am I standing in
a portal?"
And the rods went, "Yes."
We're like, "Oh, crud.
This is not good,"
which means
there's an open portal.
We don't know
what's coming through.
SHARON: I believe that
the portals in the mirror
are bringing more
and more spirits to this house.
NARRATOR: But instead of sealing
the portal,
they decide to leave it open.
We didn't close the portal
because we didn't know
what would have been stuck
in the house.
SHARON: We then went down
to the basement.
We decided to stay together
because the energies
were changing in the house.
♪♪
We're here to talk to you.
SHARON: I'm videotaping
Dawn, and I look,
and there's Dawn,
and then there's a shadow,
and then all of a sudden
it moves past Dawn.
The presence of the shadow
was overwhelmingly big.
I was taken aback by it.
A spirit likes the fact
that you put your guard down.
When you put your guard down,
it's easy for them
to get something out of you.
They draw on that fear.
♪♪
DAWN: So we communicated,
and we informed it that,
"We simply just want
to talk to you.
Are you the spirit that h*jacked
the maid talking to us?"
"Yes."
"Do you feel as though you are
the one
that has control
over the spirits in the attic?"
"Yes."
And then I said, "You do realize
you're not being
very nice to anybody."
"Yes."
"Do you care?"
"No."
NARRATOR: Feeling unnerved
by the dominant dark spirit,
the team packs up to leave,
but there's just time for George
to take a few
last minute photos.
SHARON: As he took a photo,
you started to see a mist.
♪♪
Look at this.
♪♪
You slowly see this mist
just getting larger and larger,
and it's taking up
the whole part of the picture.
NARRATOR: The investigators
are stunned.
This was overwhelming just
because we could see
even faces in the mist.
NARRATOR: Sharon decides to end
this investigation
once and for all.
SHARON:
At that point, I decided,
"Well, there's enough spirits
in this house.
I'm going to ask if any
would like to cross over."
Spirits, now is your chance.
Do we got any spirits
that want to cross to the light,
cross to heaven?
♪♪
Yes.
♪♪
When I see the faces, to me,
they're lost souls.
♪♪
My heart goes out to them
as I believe
I have been put on this earth
to help the spirits.
♪♪
I'm asking almighty God;
I'm asking the angels
and spirits to help these
Earthbound spirits
cross into the light.
♪♪
When you see the light,
I want you to cross the rods.
Thank you. Thank you, Jesus.
Thank you, God.
♪♪
[ Sighs ]
It's a little...
It's when they do it,
it's like a buildup,
and then it's like...
They cross,
and it's like, "Whew,"
and I always have to
do the big sigh.
♪♪
When I crossed the spirits over,
the whole energy of the room,
it's a lot lighter.
It's a lot brighter,
like a cleansing.
♪♪
Once you cross spirits over,
the air just, you know,
smells a little crisper
kind of like after,
like, a rain shower
is the best way to explain it.
NARRATOR: With the trapped
spirits moved to safety,
Sharon and Dawn have time
to reflect on their findings
that night.
♪♪
I do believe the spirits
in this house are involved
in a power struggle
from the people
that owned the house
previously to the spirits
that come through portals
to that dark angry spirit man.
They're all trying to gain
either control
or just trying to survive.
♪♪
The investigation that night,
we were able to inform
the owners that there is
a portal in the attic,
that they had a manifestation
of a really powerful spirit
and that there's really not
a nice spirit
that they have to watch out for.
NARRATOR: And for Sharon,
the investigation
has not only been a success,
but has proved
a valuable lesson.
I learn from every investigation
I go on,
you can't underestimate
what spirits will do
and how they'll interact.
Always expect anything
to happen.
♪♪
NARRATOR: Paranormal
investigators are experts
at separating the professional
from the personal,
but when the spirit
is a lost child
and the investigators
are parents, all bets are off.
It's just the sadness of a child
that wanted to find his mom,
and I couldn't imagine that.
♪♪
NARRATOR: The town of
Liberty, Arizona,
is home to a small
historic cemetery.
Though scores of local residents
are buried within,
their souls seem to be unwilling
or unable to rest in peace.
Please help me.
Witnesses claim to see shadow
figures and strange lights
moving around
the gravestones.
Reports of the strange phenomena
soon reach paranormal
investigator Jay Yates.
A ghost hunter for over
years,
Jay is all too familiar
with facing these demons.
♪♪
What caught our interest
with the old cemetery
was the vast number of people
that were coming forward
and saying that they had
experienced paranormal phenomena
within the cemetery.
There was claims
of light anomalies,
people seeing shadow figures
walking by night.
NARRATOR: Jay is a founding
member of
the Crossing Over
Paranormal Society,
or COPS Crew, and works
alongside his wife, Marie.
The paranormal can be
very dangerous
if you actually
push the limits.
You can actually be taken over
by a spirit.
You can pass out.
You can get really sick.
There's multiple things
that can actually happen.
NARRATOR: Jay and Marie decide
to take
a day trip to the cemetery
before committing to
a full investigation.
But even in
the cold light of day,
Marie senses an atmosphere.
MARIE: The first time I actually
walked through the cemetery,
it almost felt like you walked
back in time a little bit.
This cemetery
was all broken down.
It was just very aged,
so it almost felt like you
stepped back in time.
♪♪
We ran across an aisle
of younger people
who had passed --
children...
-Mommy.
-...and I definitely know
that it kind of
touched Marie a bit.
As a parent,
I definitely empathized.
It was difficult to see that.
NARRATOR: Empathy is not the
only thing Marie is feeling.
♪♪
NARRATOR: At a cemetery in
Liberty, Arizona,
investigators and parents
Jay and Marie Yates
are moved by the gravestones
of young children,
but for Marie, something else
seems to be happening.
JAY: I saw Marie kind of bat
her arm away,
and I didn't really think
anything of it,
and then she did it again.
MARIE: All of a sudden,
I started feeling almost,
like, little hands.
It's like a child when they go
behind you and just grab you.
Please help me.
I remember looking at her face.
Her face looked different.
There was a look of concern
within her eyes.
Something wasn't right.
♪♪
MARIE: After I turned around,
it just
felt like an overcoming
feeling of, like,
sadness and loss,
almost like I lost a loved one
right there at that moment.
I even started crying
because the feeling
actually hit me so hard.
JAY: And the way that
she described it
is that she felt
there was a child
that possibly reached out
to her beyond the grave.
NARRATOR: Unsettled by
the strange turn of events,
Jay is keen to get Marie
out of the cemetery
and back to
familiar surroundings,
but their return home doesn't go
as smoothly as planned.
I think, like, a couple days
had passed.
I had come home early
in the morning hours.
I sit down on the couch.
I begin watching TV.
Shortly thereafter,
I fall asleep.
♪♪
Help me, please.
Help me.
I'm woken up by what sounded
to me like my youngest kid,
and when I was looking
towards the door, I saw a boy.
♪♪
It's not like
a normal skin tone.
It's like I'm looking at a black
and white photo of this kid.
I've never seen anything
like that.
It looked like something I could
physically go up to and touch.
And when I looked into its eyes,
it was just complete darkness.
And I didn't look at it
as if it were something evil.
I didn't feel that it was
something evil,
but it was just like this thing
was completely lost.
And as I'm sitting there just
staring, this kid just vanishes.
It just goes away.
And I'm just looking
at the door like,
"There's no way
that just happened to me.
There is absolutely no way
this just happened."
Help me.
NARRATOR: Confident that
his mind
is not playing tricks on him,
Jay decides to share
his experiences with his wife.
JAY: I finally come to Marie,
and I'm like,
"Look, this is going
to sound crazy,
but these things are happening."
I think we have a ghost
in the house.
What did you see?
And she's like, "I'm glad
it's finally happening to you
because it's been happening
to me all week."
MARIE: When Jay told me about
the little boy that he saw,
it made me feel like
I wasn't going nuts
and the feelings I did have
in the cemetery were real.
All I wanted to do was cry.
It's just the sadness of a child
that just wants somebody
to love them
wanted to find his mom,
and I couldn't imagine that.
NARRATOR: Jay and Marie start to
feel a curious bond
with their ghostly visitor.
I think
we need to help him.
JAY: There was a dream where I
saw his name, which was Andrew.
♪♪
And I did start calling him
Andrew after that.
It seemed to just kind of fit,
and both Marie and I
just kind of went with it.
♪♪
NARRATOR:
Feeling a connection to Andrew,
Jay and Marie
decide to return to the cemetery
to continue their investigation.
♪♪
I felt that he came to us
for a reason,
and I felt it was
our responsibility
to do something about it.
NARRATOR: Their hope is that the
child's spirit
will go with them.
We're going to take you back
to your parents, okay?
We asked for Andrew
to come with us
and explained that we were
going to go for a ride.
We're just trying
to encourage him that,
"Maybe we could reunite you
with your family
or help you to cross over."
♪♪
NARRATOR: Despite their
good intentions,
things have changed
for the worse at the cemetery.
JAY: When we pulled up to the
cemetery for the second time,
there's definitely
a different vibe.
NARRATOR: Nonetheless,
Marie decides to conduct
some of the investigation
on her own.
MARIE: I like to investigate
sometimes solo.
I believe when you're
by yourself,
your abilities
actually heighten.
Help me. Please.
I let the spirits
in a little bit more.
Narrator: Marie doesn't have to
wait long to experience
some paranormal activity.
NARRATOR: In Liberty, Arizona,
investigators
Jay and Marie Yates
are attempting to reunite a lost
child's spirit with his parents.
MARIE: In the corner of my eye,
I saw a dark shadow
come from behind me.
♪♪
It was like a dark cloud
coming towards me,
in front of me,
but shaped as a man.
♪♪
I don't even think I had
a moment to feel anything.
I just had the urge to go.
I wanted to get out of there.
I ran.
Jay!
Jay!
JAY: Marie comes back after
a short time
being in the cemetery...
-Look, look, look.
...looking relatively stunned
and disheveled.
Are you okay?
I ask her what happened,
and she describes that she had
seen a man in the cemetery.
I could see that that there was
nobody in there,
and I was trying
to explain that to her,
and she's like, "No. No.
Look. I caught this picture."
Just look.
You can see a black shadow that
looks like a masculine figure.
You can see a head and shoulders
and figure of a man
standing within the skyline
in the picture
right in front of her.
You took this back there?
Yeah.
When she took the picture,
this thing had to have been,
like, directly in front of her.
♪♪
NARRATOR:
Marie feels a sudden compulsion
to revisit the spot where she
first encountered Andrew.
MARIE: I just felt the urge to
actually go to the stone
and sit there, almost felt like,
I don't know, drawn there.
NARRATOR: Jay, meanwhile,
is keen to recapture
further photographic proof.
JAY: I began taking
multiple photographs
and very quickly caught
what appears to be a female.
♪♪
A white silhouette of a female
crouched down on her knee
in front of
an unmarked grave.
It's possible that the female
that I saw in the photographs
that we captured was that
of this child's mother.
Where she was crouched down
at might be the place
where he was buried.
NARRATOR: The mother figure
is joined by a man.
And standing before
this small unmarked grave,
Jay has an urge to reach out.
JAY: I felt another hand
go around my hand,
and I felt electricity
just running through my hand,
and it was almost like it was
just pulsating around my hand.
It was definitely
a powerful moment.
I do believe that particular
handshake might have
had something to do with
this man that Marie ran into.
Maybe it was the father.
Maybe this woman that
we were capturing,
this light figure of a woman,
might have been the mother.
♪♪
NARRATOR: Jay and Marie know
there's only one thing
they can do.
They must reunite Andrew
with his parents.
♪♪
JAY: The next thing that
we decided to do
was to cross the child
over with a prayer.
We lit a candle,
and we began to say the prayer.
Dear Lord, please help
this family pass.
MARIE:
At the beginning of the prayer,
I still felt the sadness,
the loss...
Father in heaven,
please protect this family.
...and at the end
of the prayer,
that loss, it was gone.
It was almost like the light
was dimmer,
and, all of a sudden,
the light got bright.
That's the feeling I had.
[ Child laughing ]
♪♪
NARRATOR:
Their work complete,
Jay and Marie
leave the cemetery.
JAY: At this time, what we came
to do we accomplished,
and it was time for us
to move on to the next.
♪♪
NARRATOR: But as investigators,
as Christians, and as parents,
the case has left a mark.
I will say the process
of this investigation
did change me as a Christian
in my own beliefs.
I always couldn't believe
that children,
as soon as they pass away,
that children didn't roam
around here,
and my belief now is...
that possibly is...
That happened.
It happened to Jay and I.
♪♪
JAY:
This kid had a true story.
There was a true mission.
It wasn't that it was
residual energies
following you home or something
kind of trying to scare you.
This kid had a mission,
and he used me to complete it.
I was just the vessel.
♪♪
02x11 - Haunted Asylum
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"Haunted Case Files" features three different stories per episode from different paranormal investigators and recounts their most terrifying encounters with spirits, demons and unexplained entities.
"Haunted Case Files" features three different stories per episode from different paranormal investigators and recounts their most terrifying encounters with spirits, demons and unexplained entities.