Ghost Adventures (2008–…): Season 16, Episode 1 - Ripley's Believe It or Not - full transcript
Zak and the crew head to Hollywood, CA, to investigate the iconic Ripley's Believe It or Not museum, where employees claim to be adversely affected by its rare artifacts.
Some of your employees
are really terrified.
I've seen a black shadow.
Do they look tribal?
Yes.
Oh, my God.
There's a human skull in there?
Some of the artifacts
could be cursed.
It's cold.
Put your hand right
in front of me right here.
Right here.
Whoa.
Oh, God.
Believe it or not,
it's happening right here
at Ripley's.
♪♪
There are things in this world
that we will never
fully understand.
Understand.
We want answers.
We have worked years to build
our credibility,
our reputation,
working alongside
the most renowned
professionals in the field,
capturing groundbreaking
proof of the paranormal.
It's working.
Whoa.
I can't give you an explanation.
This is our evidence,
our ghost adventures.
♪♪
The Ripley's Believe It or Not!
Museum in Hollywood, California,
is not only iconic,
it's haunted.
♪♪
Filled with shrunken heads,
body parts
and other items
with sinister histories,
it's no wonder why
this place is so active.
Something here in the lowest
section of the building
is tormenting the employees
so bad that they called us
because this entity has been
following one of them home.
Spirits, demons,
they are here at the museum,
and we plan on finding them,
believe it or not.
And here it is, believe it
or not, Robert Ripley!
The name Robert Ripley
has become synonymous
with the extraordinary.
Since the 1920s, he's been
known to the world
as the author, illustrator
and host of Ripley's...
Believe it or not!
In 1933, Ripley opened
his first Odditorium,
and today, several
of these museums
showcase some of the obscure
items he collected
during his expeditions
to the far reaches of the globe,
and one in particular lies
within the heart of Los Angeles,
where we've been called
to meet with the manager
to help identify the source
of the hauntings,
which are affecting
several members of his staff.
Hey, Cory.
Hi, Zak.
How are you doing?
Very good to have you, sir.
Nice to meet you.
Cory Dacy has overseen
the operations
of this Odditorium since 2015.
After I started doing
a little preliminary research,
I am a little concerned
that some of the artifacts
that you do have
could be cursed.
[ Hoarse groaning ]
Tell me a little bit about this.
CORY:
The mummy's foot is from Egypt,
and it's dated back
to 2000 B.C.
So we have a body part
from an Egyptian mummy.
This could be very powerful
in the effects
of what's going
on here right now.
The curse of the pharaohs
refers to the belief
that anyone who dared to disturb
the tomb of an ancient Egyptian
or, worse, remove part
of their mummified remains
were said to have been met
with the wrath
of a curse so powerful,
it would lead
to grave misfortune
and, in some cases, even death.
Is it true that some of your
employees are really terrified?
It is. They don't like to close
by themselves
because of the feelings
they get walking through
some of the galleries here.
♪♪
So the first reports
that we got here
were from a young lady
named Trinidad.
She was a former employee.
When she would come
through this area,
she said that as she went
through the kids' crawl,
something touched her butt.
Underneath here is a skull
in a box too.
Is it a real skull?
There is a skull in there, yeah.
Whoa.
Wait a minute.
Aaron?
Yep.
Come here.
Why do I got to go through?
I don't want
my ass grabbed.
♪♪
Where is the skull?
Let me see.
Oh, my God.
There's a human skull in there?
Oh, my God.
Are you kidding me?
-That's crazy.
-That's crazy.
That would make sense why people
get touched down here.
ZAK: I do not --
I'm so claustrophobic.
It's not even funny.
Oh, I'm starting to panic.
You need to...
Both of you guys are blocking
my way, and I don't like it.
I don't know if we can get out.
I'm kind of stuck here.
This is not funny, and I please
would like to exit
this small space, please.
How bad?
I'm serious, Aaron.
I'm going to panic.
[ Gasping ]
Okay.
As we're beginning to piece
together what kinds of objects
are drawing the dark energy
to this location,
Cory shows us another
equally nefarious artifact
made of human remains.
CORY: My Asmat skull.
Let me just read you this.
"This skull was collected by
Ripley himself in the 1920s.
The Asmat are a famous
cannibalistic tribe
on the island
of Papua New Guinea,
and they would put human skulls
under their heads
in place of pillows
and would eat the brains
mixed with sago worms
straight from
the halved skulls."
Imagine the spirits of those
people that did those actions
and what they would be
like in the afterlife.
♪♪
Nothing even comes close
to the level of power
than tribal artifacts, nothing,
especially when they're
actually human body parts.
♪♪
Understanding that concern,
Cory shows us another exhibit
where there's
a high concentration
of these artifacts on display.
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Aaron, did you
just feel that
come through here?
Cold air?
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
It feels like a wind.
Yeah.
Can you go grab
an EMF detector please?
Come here. Come here.
Come here.
I'm rolling.
Are you right here with us?
Hold on. Hold on.
We are getting spikes.
Look at this, 0.5, 0.4, 0.3.
Whoa.
And if it was something
around here
shooting of energy,
it would be constant.
It just spiked, huh?
Yeah, and then it just went
down, so there is definitely...
Look at that!
Whoa.
What the hell?
That was a 9.7.
Did you see that?
It was a 9.7.
And then just went down,
so there is definitely...
Look at that!
Whoa.
And then just went down,
so there is definitely...
Look at that!
Whoa.
What the hell?
Something is here,
something that is unknown
and something that is moving.
What's in this case right here?
Yeah, there's a
sacrificial sword in here.
Some of these items
have actually been bloodied.
Have been bloodied?
There's still blood.
Yeah, this was a used
sacrificial sword.
Shown here is one of
the well-used swords soldiers
used to execute rebels
and insurgents
right before Ripley's eyes.
[ Blade rings ]
As this profound evidence
corroborates my theory
about the type of artifacts
driving the hauntings here,
we meet an employee
whose experience
furthers this connection.
We're in the lower
section right now,
and there is
a darker vibe down here.
Why are you scared down here?
Having worked here,
I have seen people.
This is before we open and after
we close, and I have...
We're talking about ghosts?
Yes.
Do they look tribal?
Yes.
♪♪
ZAK: To know employees are
physically seeing apparitions
that are tribal...
surrounded by a bunch of
tribal artifacts,
you do understand that,
by owning them,
can also elicit a curse.
I do understand that, yes.
My coworker, Cari,
she has been followed home
by some of these spirits.
That means that it is
a very scary word,
and that word is attachment.
♪♪
We're here with Cari.
Yes.
We are blurring your face
to protect your anonymity.
How long was it until you
started noticing these things
after you started
working here?
Well, it was about,
like, 2 weeks,
and I felt like somebody
was just watching me,
following me everywhere
through the museum,
but then, after a while,
it started progressing more,
and then I've noticed
that it does follow me home.
Have you seen this entity?
I've seen a black shadow.
It would, like,
sleep next to me,
or I would see it
on top of me.
♪♪
ZAK: Cari then tells us about
a disturbing disembodied voice
she encountered
at the museum.
When we would close down,
we would do a last walk-through.
There was a guy talking.
It was in the hallway, and I
looked because he said, "No,"
and it sounded like
a man's voice,
and then I looked, mumbling,
"No," again, mumbling, "No."
The fourth one was really loud,
and I heard the "No."
No...no...no...
I want you to hear something
that we just captured,
and I want you to tell me
whether or not this
is what you heard.
Look at this, 0.5, 0.4, 0.3.
[ Echoing ]
Yeah, that's the voice.
Wow.
That's the voice.
Yeah.
It sounds like it's saying,
"No, no, no."
Look at this, 0.5, 0.4, 0.3.
...point-three...
The unsettling parallels drawn
between our evidence
and Cari's own experience
here prompts her
to reveal to us a disturbing
reoccurring dream,
which is having
a serious effect on her,
and she needs our help.
CARI: I would have dreams
that I will go to a cave,
and people are getting
tortured there, killed there.
People are screaming.
I can't do anything.
I can't help.
Would you believe that
these people in this cave
would be from some type
of tribe of something?
Well, yes.
♪♪
I'm concerned.
Something here seems to be
inducing this fear into you.
You're working at a place
that is giving you nightmares.
Then, you wake up, and whatever
gave you that nightmare
is in bed with you.
Then, it takes you
to where it's from
so that you can
witness all the pain,
suffering from all the people
that are being
killed in its cave.
We're in Hollywood.
What I just said, this is
a plot for a new movie,
but believe it or not,
it's really happening,
and it's happening
right here at Ripley's,
and you're at the center of it.
This actually inspired
the voodoo doll.
You know what's above us?
Oh, my God, dude.
The tribal room.
This is a charged object.
♪♪
ZAK: Okay, it's day two of
our investigation
of Ripley's Believe it or Not!
Museum in Hollywood, California,
and there is a lot
to think about
when it comes to
this investigation
and trying to target exactly
where this entity
has come from that
is following
a staff member home
and literally terrorizing her.
It would, like,
sleep next to me,
or I would see it
on top of me.
Before we get to that,
I just...
Can we have some fun?
Can we look around?
Yes, Aaron.
Yeah!
Aaron wanted to have
a little fun
before we get back
into serious mode.
Where do you want
to take me first?
We have the whole
place to ourself.
If you look in here, you can see
there's an image of a ruby.
What does it do?
I don't like these things.
I don't know.
[ Snap ]
Ah-ha-ha!
Scared me, and I knew
what was going to happen.
Okay, hang on.
Listen for the horse.
[ Rapid hoofbeats "moving"
around room ]
Hold on.
Ladies and gentlemen...
Those are explained footsteps.
...we're not horsing
around here.
♪♪
Can you roll your tongue?
Can you do it?
Look at that.
I didn't know I could do that.
Aha! See that?
Oh, yeah.
He has no idea
it's a two-way mirror.
Look.
[ Laughing ]
♪♪
Ladies and gentlemen,
welcome to the "Ghost
Adventures Game Show."
I have a geomagnetometer
microphone here,
and my lovely assistant here...
What?
Will show you one
of these beautiful pieces
of paranormal equipment
that you can win.
♪♪
Doesn't it look like
we're on a game show?
Yeah.
What are you planning to do
with this equipment?
Well, I was thinking
the geomagnetometer,
we should do some readings
throughout the museum
to see if there's any sort
of unnatural disturbance
from the normal magnetic field
that the Earth puts off.
Right. So we're going to see
if something underneath
the building
is affecting what
we experienced yesterday.
Look at that.
What the hell?
That was a 9.7.
Did you see that?
This is our PILFER device.
This is our PILFER device.
We all know about the PILFER.
It puts out positive
ions into the air,
and in the past,
we've used it many locations,
and it stirred up the activity.
I can really feel this thing
intensifying
the energy around me.
Aaron and I actually
thought of this.
We thought if we
bought something
that does the exact opposite
and puts off negative ions,
throw this in the
investigation tonight
and see what happens.
Can you take
the geomagnetometer,
do some readings for me
throughout the entire museum?
Sure, yeah.
See if there's any spikes
of geomagnetic energy.
I'm going to go meet Jay.
He thinks that he
found an object
that is extremely dangerous.
♪♪
Man, got some crazy stuff here.
I already know what the crazy
thing is, and it's behind me.
Yeah.
This object is the West African
Nail Fetish Hate God.
Every nail that's driven into
that wooden hate god represents
a prayer that a painful death
will fall upon a rival.
That's some serious
stuff right there.
This actually inspired what
we know of as a voodoo doll.
♪♪
That comes from this.
We're just kind of collecting
different readings
right now
because we're walking around.
We're not exactly in one place.
If we stop in one place,
the reading shouldn't change
unless there's something weird
with the magnetic field
that's coming out
of the ground.
If you actually look closer,
see that little piece
of mirror right there?
So what they would do is that
the witch doctor or the shaman,
they would put
these chambers in there,
either in the belly
or in the head,
and they would put sacred herbs,
sometimes actually
even use human parts,
like human hair,
finger nails,
and, like, this
kind of concoction,
almost like a witch's brew...
What?
And they would coat it
with glass or mirror
to kind of open it up
to the spirit world.
♪♪
Negative 40, negative 30,
negative 20, negative 30,
20, 40, 80 net...
No, 160, 180, 190.
What the...
Can you imagine every single
one of those nails,
the person that was driving
that nail into this artifact
had the intentions
of destruction,
curse and bad luck,
multiplied over and over and
over and over again in a culture
where this is very real.
Yeah.
This is a charged object.
You know what's above us?
Oh, my God, dude.
Do you know what's above us?
The tribal room.
Right here, it's 196 right here.
ZAK: Could these extremely
high geomagnetometer readings
emanating directly
below the room
where this hate god
resides be responsible
for amplifying
the negative energy
already associated
with this artifact?
This could be the object that
could have opened this place up
to all the disturbing events
that one of the employees
is dealing with right now.
♪♪
Okay, right now, we're doing
some research stuff,
and we're not really
in a full lockdown yet,
so Cory is still here.
You just ran in here
and said that you just heard
an extremely loud crash
coming from downstairs.
We're upstairs.
Yes, sir.
What did it sound like?
It sounded like one
of the camera
things crashing over
and getting knocked over.
Let's go check those
cameras real quick.
We head to the lower level
to confirm the status
of our X cameras,
but find that none of them
have been disturbed.
Can I ask you something?
Yes, sir.
Here, I notice
the screws are gone
from this old mummy human foot.
When did you
unscrew these screws?
6:30, 7 o'clock tonight.
So it was this evening?
Yes, sir.
You unscrew these cases,
and then you hear
a loud crash down here.
Yes.
Cory unlocked the casing on this
Egyptian foot and other relics
because Ripley's
is allowing us
exclusive hands-on access
to these allegedly
cursed artifacts
for our investigation.
All right.
Guys, let's be attentive.
Thank you, Cory.
Put your hand
right in front of me.
Right here.
Right here.
It's like a tornado. It's right
in front of us.
♪♪
Okay, we are getting ready
to start our investigation
right now.
Jay, Billy, Aaron and myself,
we're going to head out,
and what I want to do is,
is I want to start
in the tribal room,
the Tribal Cave,
which has the Nail Fetish
Hate God
in it, one of our artifacts
that we have the most focus on
during this investigation.
As we make our way
to the tribal-artifacts room
where, earlier, we documented
unexplained spikes
of electromagnetic energy...
It just spiked up.
And then just went down.
So there is definitely...
Look at that!
Whoa.
What the hell?
...Aaron seems to become
affected by something.
I just can't do it.
What's it doing to you?
It's something
with this room, man.
It's weird. I'm just, like,
going in and out of this,
like, euphoric
and then all of a sudden back,
and I'm exhausted,
and it's like...
Listen, what you're
feeling right now
is the electromagnetic
transient energy
that's moving around,
the same thing
that I felt earlier,
the same thing that we measured
with the EMF detector.
It floats around here.
These are the spirits
that the staff are seeing.
They're here.
These are their remains.
This is their tomb.
Oh, my gosh.
What the...
Holy cow.
Look at these... Oh.
Jeez.
Hey, man, do you feel this?
I do.
Yeah.
This is nuts.
Yeah.
I got like...
We're in the Ripley's Believe
It or Not! Museum.
It's literally inside --
Put your hand right
in front of me.
Right here. Right here.
I know.
Whoa. It's like a tornado.
I know.
It's just right in front of us.
Oh, man.
I hate to say it,
but it feels good.
Ooh.
Like, it's like, "Holy cow.
The energy."
Just as we are feeling this
intense and powerful energy,
downstairs in the basement,
we capture something unexplained
on two of our X cameras.
It's all right here.
What's wrong?
Nothing, just want
to get out of here.
I'm not sure what happened,
but it looks like a light
just came on
downstairs by itself.
-What?
-Where at?
Kind of near where
the Egyptian foot is,
the whole side of the frame is
lit up, like something went by.
Listen, we're going
to run down there.
Before we go down there,
I want to put the
full-spectrum camera on it,
and I'm going to record video,
and I am going to put it on...
-The hate god?
-The hate god.
Good idea.
As we race downstairs to where
this light
mysteriously turned on,
we discover that
our heavy-duty gaff tape
has been ripped off
the museum's security camera.
-How did that happen?
-There's no way.
You know how sticky gaff
tape is, right?
-Yeah.
-Yeah.
That'll take you 5 minutes
to peel that off of there.
And it's still on the wall.
How in the hell did
that come off of there?
-There is no way.
-No.
We just gaff-taped these.
Gaff tape, in production
terms, is gaffer's tape,
and it is strong
like duct tape.
It'll stick to anything, and you
can see how much gaff tape
we used to cover up
this security camera,
and there is no oil
or grease on this camera.
It takes a lot of work
to get that off of there,
and it was just
taken off of there.
As we try to debunk this as
being an explainable force
of gravity, we notice something
when we check this X camera.
If you watch how the light
illuminates the room,
it pans across the floor
from left to right.
If the tape were to fall
due to gravity,
the light would enter
and illuminate the room
from top to bottom,
not left to right.
So we conclude that this tape
was forcefully torn
off the camera
in a sideways manner.
What'd he say?
Dude, this room is so, just...
Oh, my God.
What is going on with you?
Something just...
It felt like you had a feather,
and you were, like, tickling
the back of my neck.
Dude.
Seriously, man.
There's just going on with me.
Calm down. Listen, here's what
we're going to do.
This is happening, okay?
The tape just got
ripped off the camera
within a few feet
from the mummy's foot,
and this is also where,
right before our investigation,
the general manager heard
a loud crashing sound.
So we are going to call
the general manager on walkie,
have him come
inside the building,
and he has to witness us taking
the mummy foot out of its case.
I want to take...
I understand that.
If none of you want to be
involved in this...
There's a very real belief
about handling mummies
from Egyptians
over 2,000 years ago.
I am going to hold it,
and if you guys want to be
present for it, you can.
If you don't, you don't have to.
What, Aaron?
Okay, but while we do this,
I think it's important
to have SLS
because if a figure
manifests around it
and then on top of that,
some type of communication.
I'm getting ready to hold
a mummified foot.
I have never seen
anything like that.
What the hell?
♪♪
ZAK: With activity afoot
at Ripley's Believe It or Not!
in Hollywood,
we summon the manager
to assist us with an experiment
involving one of the museum's
oldest artifacts.
Cory has entered the building.
He's going to come in
for this quick little segment,
and I'm going to
put on a respirator
because we are going
to be opening the case
to the 2,000-year-old
mummy foot,
and I am going to be
personally holding it.
Cory?
During this time of opening
the Egyptian mummy foot case,
we begin using
the SLS camera,
and soon, we will capture
some of the most
compelling SLS evidence to date,
including multiple figures
with prolonged appearances.
Billy is also operating
the talking EVP device,
which allows spirits
to manipulate
environmental elements
in order to communicate.
♪♪
-So is that...
-Whoa.
Have we ever heard
the talking EVP say "Ida"?
No.
Yeah, it says "Ida," I-D-A.
Is that a name?
It must be.
I've never seen it.
Jay, does I-D-A
come up with anything>
anything Egyptian,
a priestess or anything?
♪♪
Whoa. Aaron, there was a figure
standing right there behind you
on top of that case...
Where?
...standing right on
that case to your left...
It's watching.
...standing on top of it.
ZAK: As I put my hands
on the case to open it,
a spirit appears behind me
as if it's going to watch
what I'm about to do.
What is it?
Go ahead.
♪♪
♪♪
This thing just said, "Forever."
Whoa.
Cory, can I hold it?
Right now, I'm getting
ready to hold
a mummified young
priestess' foot
around 2,000 B.C.
♪♪
Oh, that's weird.
What?
What happened?
Just the second that I
touched it, I had a palpitation.
No.
I'm serious.
♪♪
Wow, it's really heavy.
Like, petrified wood?
Yeah, it's really heavy.
♪♪
Wow. This is surreal.
Whoa.
This is strange, you guys.
Holy cow.
Zak, that figure is
directly behind you up
on top of your shoulders
just now.
Something happened.
Ow. Ow.
Ow.
Ow.
Holy cow. Holy cow.
The SLS just went crazy.
Ow.
Oh, it's behind you, Zak.
It just took off.
Oh, that's weird.
What happened?
What the hell?
What?
What?
Oh.
Wait until you see this.
That was so weird, you guys.
What, your foot?
Oh, yeah.
What happened?
I just had, like, a pain
in between my big toe
and my other toe but on my foot.
That wasn't a itch or anything.
It was, like, a pain
in between my toes.
I swear.
I feel a sharp pain as if I just
stepped on a large nail
and it drove up through my foot,
and at this same exact moment,
a small stick figure is seen
manifesting down beside my foot.
Oh, it's behind you, Zak.
If that wasn't
anything paranormal,
it was one hell of
a coincidence.
That was so painful.
Is it still painful now?
No.
Zak, there's a figure standing
right where the foot is,
right next to you.
It's taller than you.
Can you touch that table?
Whoa.
It's grabbing your hand, Zak.
Now it's gone.
When I grabbed the foot,
I held it in my hand,
and I started
getting flash images
of, like, a beautiful
Egyptian woman.
I know it sounds crazy.
I know it sounds crazy,
but I was,
and instead of me
holding her dead foot,
I was holding
a beautiful foot.
I had these flash images.
It was windy,
and I could see the girl
and her eyes were closed.
I know this is crazy, but I
was getting these flash images.
I had her foot in my hand,
but I saw when she was alive.
I kept seeing dark skin
and flowing garments on.
Wow.
It was cool.
I want to hold it one more time.
That was horrible.
I can't believe
how heavy this is.
Right now, my fingers are,
like, in between her toes.
Like, I can feel the grooves.
This is incredible.
I am holding an over
-2000-year-old Egyptian mummy
foot of a priestess.
♪♪
-What?
-An Ida is a kind of sword
used by the Yoruba
people of West Africa.
-Oh, my God.
-What?
It was a big knife
by a West African tribe.
It was usually used for hunting,
war and other uses.
West Africa is where
the nail fetish
and all that stuff comes from.
There might be something
following Aaron around.
Yes.
There's a whole lot going on,
I've got to say.
This sword was often
used in wars,
and it was also known to be
covered with pepper and poison
so that it would paralyze
anyone who was cut by it.
All of a sudden, this figure
appears again to my left.
Then, as I'm having more deep,
vivid flashes of a beautiful
Egyptian priestess,
this figure appears
to jump right inside of me,
causing me to have
a double skeletal figure.
Whoa. You have
a double skeleton, Zak.
Could this be evidence of my
channeling the priestess' spirit
through direct contact
with her sacred body part?
I feel like I need
to put this down.
Yeah, something was agitated
that you're touching that.
Oh, now it's standing
next to you again.
Actually, it's connected
to the foot, a full figure.
You seeing this, Cory?
Look at that.
It's basically standing,
starting where the foot is,
up, like you're holding
an entire figure.
I have never seen
anything like that.
Guys, I feel connected
to this thing.
Well, yeah.
What did you see, Cory?
It was as if she was
standing in your hand.
Really?
And I saw you holding the foot,
and then it looked
like someone curled up
and stood completely up...
Really?
...from you holding the foot.
Yeah, it's pretty incredible.
I'm about to put the spirit box
inside this box.
Are you serious?
Oh, God, dude.
♪♪
ZAK: Because of
the incredible activity
happening in the basement
of this Ripley's Believe It or
Not! Odditorium,
I decide to leave Aaron
downstairs all by himself,
while Jay and Billy
conduct an experiment
in the tribal-artifact room
with a dangerous piece
of equipment.
I will be keeping a close eye
on everyone from Nerve Center.
This is an air ion counter.
It will measure both positive
and negative ions in the air.
This puts off positive ions,
which are harmful and dangerous.
I'm going to show you
what the ion count
is before I turn this on
so you can see that this thing
puts off a lot of positive ions.
Flipping it on.
It takes a second.
[ Warbling ]
Oh, I can actually feel it
on my arms right there.
69, 90.
There you go.
There you go.
I can feel it on my face, 130.
There we go.
There it is.
You see that?
Look at that, 598.
ZAK: The purpose of this
ion experiment
is to see what happens
when we create a man-made
ripple effect in the environment
by first using
a positive ionizer,
then quickly switching
to a negative one.
We want to see if this
disturbance in the environment
can pull apart any of
the spiritual energy
that's attached
to the objects here
or force these spirits
to manifest themselves.
Damn, 800.
It gets up to, like,
800 sometimes, yeah.
Yeah, you can
literally feel this.
Oh, yeah.
It's an instant headache.
Right.
ZAK: As the positive-ion
PILFER device is engaged
and charging the atmosphere,
something begins
happening to Aaron,
who is actually directly below
Billy and Jay in the basement.
Okay, okay, okay.
So I'm about to put
the spirit box
inside this box
where the head is.
I didn't know it was open.
I'm just going to, like,
put it in there.
Then this huge thump just...
Bam!
It sounded like it was
on the roof,
but it, like,
echoed off the walls.
It just took me way off guard.
All right.
Here we go.
We're going to zero
this meter out now.
We're going to measure
the negative ions
that this device is going
to put in the air now,
which is the opposite
of what we just did.
Oh, I have to
bring it back here.
Oh, wow.
It's negative 600.
If I get any closer,
it'll peg to...
Over 1,000.
...over 1,000.
Look, negative 1,200 ions
per cubic centimeter.
Man, I could feel
that right here too.
We'll let this run a little bit.
[ Microphone static ]
Phew...
I just had a...
I'm just...
Oh, God.
The energy that
came off of that is so...
I had to sit down.
I didn't know what to ask,
so I'm just going to
hold this in the air,
and I'm going to ask you
to say something or say
something you need
to say or talk.
Right now it's touching
the back of my shirt.
Oh, my God, dude.
[ Indistinct ]
[ Microphone static ]
[ Starts ]
♪♪
ZAK: Aaron has
a disturbing reaction
and shows signs
of confusion and panic
as he begins hearing
chanting in his head.
We feel that the spirits
that we captured on the SLS
have been magnified,
and they're upset that
these cases are being opened.
[ Gasps ]
ZAK: As the energy at the museum
is strong from these ionizers,
Billy places the paranormal
Puck II device
on top of the
negative-ion device,
and I immediately receive
a message back at Nerve Center.
It just said, "Japanese."
I immediately rush to
the tribal room
and discover the paranormal Puck
sitting directly on
top of this object.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Turn your light on.
Are you serious?
What?
It said, "Hello.
Japanese,"
the very first thing you did
when you turned this on, right?
I didn't put that together.
I didn't even know
that was Japanese.
Neither did I.
When we first started
setting up in here,
Billy was setting up
all the ion generators,
and at that time, Billy
put a paranormal Puck
in the center of the room.
I said, "Hello," and it
just said, "Japanese."
Right.
That's pretty much the only word
that I got the whole time.
This is the same sword
that Robert Ripley
personally witnessed being used
to decapitate people,
and this is the same spot
where we received a huge spike
of electromagnetic energy
during our interview.
It just spiked,
and then it just went down.
Yeah.
So there's definitely...
Look at that!
Whoa.
What the hell?
Something here cursed...
What the hell did you
mess with in there?
That skull.
♪♪
ZAK: After documenting
a profound piece of evidence
around an artifact during
our Hollywood investigation...
I didn't even know
that was Japanese.
Neither did I.
...I returned to Nerve Center
and discovered
that Aaron is in trouble.
What happened?
I literally...
So I was trying to...
Oh, God.
What happened?
I put my hand inside that case
trying to get some spirit box,
and then I put
the recorder in there,
and it's just like
I was there, like,
how you said with the Egyptian.
I had her foot in my hand,
but I saw, like, she was alive.
And now, all of a sudden,
I had to sit down,
and I started hearing
chants, and like...
[ Groans ]
Tears falling down, man.
What did you get involved with?
God, I don't know, and then
I tried to get out of there.
It was just spinning,
and I went the wrong way.
What the hell did you mess
with in there?
That skull.
Wow.
And then right before
I put my hand in it,
this huge thing goes boom.
I don't think that we...
Should have done that.
No, I don't think that
we're truly realizing...
No, exactly.
Yes.
...just the magnitude
of what's going on here...
No, you're right.
...because it's
a public museum.
I think we're
underestimating it,
and I think that outside of the
corporate Ripley's Headquarters,
I think that this
is literally a signal
for some serious help here.
Like, these employees
are going through
some really serious stuff,
and I think that for
the very first time,
us being allowed here
to investigate it
and we're finally able to open
up the communication lines,
and we're seriously
trying to pry the nails
out of this capsule
here to open it up
and to expose it and to let
this energy speak and...
It's dangerous...
You know what I'm saying?
As we begin to figure out
exactly what
we're dealing with here
at Ripley's, we head back
into the tribal room
to finish the Paranormal
Puck II session
because during this
entire investigation,
we've only received
two responses
that we feel have meaning.
So far, tonight, everything
that's been said
had been totally legit.
Right on.
Japanese, I know.
Right, with a difference
device.
Right.
That's weird.
All right.
You gave me a sign
that said, "Japanese."
Is something here cursed?
-Stones.
-Whoa.
Ooh.
Cursed stones?
Is something here cursed?
Stones.
Are there stones
somewhere in here?
I don't know.
Maybe we need to be
more specific.
Hold on.
Are we in danger?
Killed.
-Oh.
-Yikes, yikes.
-Wow.
-Yikes, yikes, yikes, yikes.
-Are we in danger? "Kill."
-"Killed."
That's not a warning.
Wow.
What item is cursed?
-Beside.
-Beside?
-Stop.
-Beside.
-Beside you.
-What item is cursed?
Beside you.
Like, it's talking about beside,
and what's beside you, Zak?
The sword.
And?
What item beside me?
-Coins.
-Oh, my God.
There's coins!
-Stop. Zak, look.
There's about a million
coins in that thing right there.
-Look. Look.
-Beside the coins.
Oh, God.
Dude, it's speaking
directly to you.
-Yeah.
-Oh, man.
How much more clearer
can that be?
Are we in danger?
"Killed."
Then it said,
"Where is the item?"
-"Beside."
-Beside you.
Be more specific.
Where is the item?
By the coins.
The coins, and the coins
are an offering
to the Nail Fetish Hate God.
Exactly.
Wow.
Robert Ripley's
worldly expeditions
introduced a collection
of ancient human
and tribal artifacts
to the ticket-buying public,
but our investigation confirms
these seemingly
benign curiosities
are actually the driving force
behind the infestation
of dark energy
at this Ripley's
Believe It or Not!
are really terrified.
I've seen a black shadow.
Do they look tribal?
Yes.
Oh, my God.
There's a human skull in there?
Some of the artifacts
could be cursed.
It's cold.
Put your hand right
in front of me right here.
Right here.
Whoa.
Oh, God.
Believe it or not,
it's happening right here
at Ripley's.
♪♪
There are things in this world
that we will never
fully understand.
Understand.
We want answers.
We have worked years to build
our credibility,
our reputation,
working alongside
the most renowned
professionals in the field,
capturing groundbreaking
proof of the paranormal.
It's working.
Whoa.
I can't give you an explanation.
This is our evidence,
our ghost adventures.
♪♪
The Ripley's Believe It or Not!
Museum in Hollywood, California,
is not only iconic,
it's haunted.
♪♪
Filled with shrunken heads,
body parts
and other items
with sinister histories,
it's no wonder why
this place is so active.
Something here in the lowest
section of the building
is tormenting the employees
so bad that they called us
because this entity has been
following one of them home.
Spirits, demons,
they are here at the museum,
and we plan on finding them,
believe it or not.
And here it is, believe it
or not, Robert Ripley!
The name Robert Ripley
has become synonymous
with the extraordinary.
Since the 1920s, he's been
known to the world
as the author, illustrator
and host of Ripley's...
Believe it or not!
In 1933, Ripley opened
his first Odditorium,
and today, several
of these museums
showcase some of the obscure
items he collected
during his expeditions
to the far reaches of the globe,
and one in particular lies
within the heart of Los Angeles,
where we've been called
to meet with the manager
to help identify the source
of the hauntings,
which are affecting
several members of his staff.
Hey, Cory.
Hi, Zak.
How are you doing?
Very good to have you, sir.
Nice to meet you.
Cory Dacy has overseen
the operations
of this Odditorium since 2015.
After I started doing
a little preliminary research,
I am a little concerned
that some of the artifacts
that you do have
could be cursed.
[ Hoarse groaning ]
Tell me a little bit about this.
CORY:
The mummy's foot is from Egypt,
and it's dated back
to 2000 B.C.
So we have a body part
from an Egyptian mummy.
This could be very powerful
in the effects
of what's going
on here right now.
The curse of the pharaohs
refers to the belief
that anyone who dared to disturb
the tomb of an ancient Egyptian
or, worse, remove part
of their mummified remains
were said to have been met
with the wrath
of a curse so powerful,
it would lead
to grave misfortune
and, in some cases, even death.
Is it true that some of your
employees are really terrified?
It is. They don't like to close
by themselves
because of the feelings
they get walking through
some of the galleries here.
♪♪
So the first reports
that we got here
were from a young lady
named Trinidad.
She was a former employee.
When she would come
through this area,
she said that as she went
through the kids' crawl,
something touched her butt.
Underneath here is a skull
in a box too.
Is it a real skull?
There is a skull in there, yeah.
Whoa.
Wait a minute.
Aaron?
Yep.
Come here.
Why do I got to go through?
I don't want
my ass grabbed.
♪♪
Where is the skull?
Let me see.
Oh, my God.
There's a human skull in there?
Oh, my God.
Are you kidding me?
-That's crazy.
-That's crazy.
That would make sense why people
get touched down here.
ZAK: I do not --
I'm so claustrophobic.
It's not even funny.
Oh, I'm starting to panic.
You need to...
Both of you guys are blocking
my way, and I don't like it.
I don't know if we can get out.
I'm kind of stuck here.
This is not funny, and I please
would like to exit
this small space, please.
How bad?
I'm serious, Aaron.
I'm going to panic.
[ Gasping ]
Okay.
As we're beginning to piece
together what kinds of objects
are drawing the dark energy
to this location,
Cory shows us another
equally nefarious artifact
made of human remains.
CORY: My Asmat skull.
Let me just read you this.
"This skull was collected by
Ripley himself in the 1920s.
The Asmat are a famous
cannibalistic tribe
on the island
of Papua New Guinea,
and they would put human skulls
under their heads
in place of pillows
and would eat the brains
mixed with sago worms
straight from
the halved skulls."
Imagine the spirits of those
people that did those actions
and what they would be
like in the afterlife.
♪♪
Nothing even comes close
to the level of power
than tribal artifacts, nothing,
especially when they're
actually human body parts.
♪♪
Understanding that concern,
Cory shows us another exhibit
where there's
a high concentration
of these artifacts on display.
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Aaron, did you
just feel that
come through here?
Cold air?
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
It feels like a wind.
Yeah.
Can you go grab
an EMF detector please?
Come here. Come here.
Come here.
I'm rolling.
Are you right here with us?
Hold on. Hold on.
We are getting spikes.
Look at this, 0.5, 0.4, 0.3.
Whoa.
And if it was something
around here
shooting of energy,
it would be constant.
It just spiked, huh?
Yeah, and then it just went
down, so there is definitely...
Look at that!
Whoa.
What the hell?
That was a 9.7.
Did you see that?
It was a 9.7.
And then just went down,
so there is definitely...
Look at that!
Whoa.
And then just went down,
so there is definitely...
Look at that!
Whoa.
What the hell?
Something is here,
something that is unknown
and something that is moving.
What's in this case right here?
Yeah, there's a
sacrificial sword in here.
Some of these items
have actually been bloodied.
Have been bloodied?
There's still blood.
Yeah, this was a used
sacrificial sword.
Shown here is one of
the well-used swords soldiers
used to execute rebels
and insurgents
right before Ripley's eyes.
[ Blade rings ]
As this profound evidence
corroborates my theory
about the type of artifacts
driving the hauntings here,
we meet an employee
whose experience
furthers this connection.
We're in the lower
section right now,
and there is
a darker vibe down here.
Why are you scared down here?
Having worked here,
I have seen people.
This is before we open and after
we close, and I have...
We're talking about ghosts?
Yes.
Do they look tribal?
Yes.
♪♪
ZAK: To know employees are
physically seeing apparitions
that are tribal...
surrounded by a bunch of
tribal artifacts,
you do understand that,
by owning them,
can also elicit a curse.
I do understand that, yes.
My coworker, Cari,
she has been followed home
by some of these spirits.
That means that it is
a very scary word,
and that word is attachment.
♪♪
We're here with Cari.
Yes.
We are blurring your face
to protect your anonymity.
How long was it until you
started noticing these things
after you started
working here?
Well, it was about,
like, 2 weeks,
and I felt like somebody
was just watching me,
following me everywhere
through the museum,
but then, after a while,
it started progressing more,
and then I've noticed
that it does follow me home.
Have you seen this entity?
I've seen a black shadow.
It would, like,
sleep next to me,
or I would see it
on top of me.
♪♪
ZAK: Cari then tells us about
a disturbing disembodied voice
she encountered
at the museum.
When we would close down,
we would do a last walk-through.
There was a guy talking.
It was in the hallway, and I
looked because he said, "No,"
and it sounded like
a man's voice,
and then I looked, mumbling,
"No," again, mumbling, "No."
The fourth one was really loud,
and I heard the "No."
No...no...no...
I want you to hear something
that we just captured,
and I want you to tell me
whether or not this
is what you heard.
Look at this, 0.5, 0.4, 0.3.
[ Echoing ]
Yeah, that's the voice.
Wow.
That's the voice.
Yeah.
It sounds like it's saying,
"No, no, no."
Look at this, 0.5, 0.4, 0.3.
...point-three...
The unsettling parallels drawn
between our evidence
and Cari's own experience
here prompts her
to reveal to us a disturbing
reoccurring dream,
which is having
a serious effect on her,
and she needs our help.
CARI: I would have dreams
that I will go to a cave,
and people are getting
tortured there, killed there.
People are screaming.
I can't do anything.
I can't help.
Would you believe that
these people in this cave
would be from some type
of tribe of something?
Well, yes.
♪♪
I'm concerned.
Something here seems to be
inducing this fear into you.
You're working at a place
that is giving you nightmares.
Then, you wake up, and whatever
gave you that nightmare
is in bed with you.
Then, it takes you
to where it's from
so that you can
witness all the pain,
suffering from all the people
that are being
killed in its cave.
We're in Hollywood.
What I just said, this is
a plot for a new movie,
but believe it or not,
it's really happening,
and it's happening
right here at Ripley's,
and you're at the center of it.
This actually inspired
the voodoo doll.
You know what's above us?
Oh, my God, dude.
The tribal room.
This is a charged object.
♪♪
ZAK: Okay, it's day two of
our investigation
of Ripley's Believe it or Not!
Museum in Hollywood, California,
and there is a lot
to think about
when it comes to
this investigation
and trying to target exactly
where this entity
has come from that
is following
a staff member home
and literally terrorizing her.
It would, like,
sleep next to me,
or I would see it
on top of me.
Before we get to that,
I just...
Can we have some fun?
Can we look around?
Yes, Aaron.
Yeah!
Aaron wanted to have
a little fun
before we get back
into serious mode.
Where do you want
to take me first?
We have the whole
place to ourself.
If you look in here, you can see
there's an image of a ruby.
What does it do?
I don't like these things.
I don't know.
[ Snap ]
Ah-ha-ha!
Scared me, and I knew
what was going to happen.
Okay, hang on.
Listen for the horse.
[ Rapid hoofbeats "moving"
around room ]
Hold on.
Ladies and gentlemen...
Those are explained footsteps.
...we're not horsing
around here.
♪♪
Can you roll your tongue?
Can you do it?
Look at that.
I didn't know I could do that.
Aha! See that?
Oh, yeah.
He has no idea
it's a two-way mirror.
Look.
[ Laughing ]
♪♪
Ladies and gentlemen,
welcome to the "Ghost
Adventures Game Show."
I have a geomagnetometer
microphone here,
and my lovely assistant here...
What?
Will show you one
of these beautiful pieces
of paranormal equipment
that you can win.
♪♪
Doesn't it look like
we're on a game show?
Yeah.
What are you planning to do
with this equipment?
Well, I was thinking
the geomagnetometer,
we should do some readings
throughout the museum
to see if there's any sort
of unnatural disturbance
from the normal magnetic field
that the Earth puts off.
Right. So we're going to see
if something underneath
the building
is affecting what
we experienced yesterday.
Look at that.
What the hell?
That was a 9.7.
Did you see that?
This is our PILFER device.
This is our PILFER device.
We all know about the PILFER.
It puts out positive
ions into the air,
and in the past,
we've used it many locations,
and it stirred up the activity.
I can really feel this thing
intensifying
the energy around me.
Aaron and I actually
thought of this.
We thought if we
bought something
that does the exact opposite
and puts off negative ions,
throw this in the
investigation tonight
and see what happens.
Can you take
the geomagnetometer,
do some readings for me
throughout the entire museum?
Sure, yeah.
See if there's any spikes
of geomagnetic energy.
I'm going to go meet Jay.
He thinks that he
found an object
that is extremely dangerous.
♪♪
Man, got some crazy stuff here.
I already know what the crazy
thing is, and it's behind me.
Yeah.
This object is the West African
Nail Fetish Hate God.
Every nail that's driven into
that wooden hate god represents
a prayer that a painful death
will fall upon a rival.
That's some serious
stuff right there.
This actually inspired what
we know of as a voodoo doll.
♪♪
That comes from this.
We're just kind of collecting
different readings
right now
because we're walking around.
We're not exactly in one place.
If we stop in one place,
the reading shouldn't change
unless there's something weird
with the magnetic field
that's coming out
of the ground.
If you actually look closer,
see that little piece
of mirror right there?
So what they would do is that
the witch doctor or the shaman,
they would put
these chambers in there,
either in the belly
or in the head,
and they would put sacred herbs,
sometimes actually
even use human parts,
like human hair,
finger nails,
and, like, this
kind of concoction,
almost like a witch's brew...
What?
And they would coat it
with glass or mirror
to kind of open it up
to the spirit world.
♪♪
Negative 40, negative 30,
negative 20, negative 30,
20, 40, 80 net...
No, 160, 180, 190.
What the...
Can you imagine every single
one of those nails,
the person that was driving
that nail into this artifact
had the intentions
of destruction,
curse and bad luck,
multiplied over and over and
over and over again in a culture
where this is very real.
Yeah.
This is a charged object.
You know what's above us?
Oh, my God, dude.
Do you know what's above us?
The tribal room.
Right here, it's 196 right here.
ZAK: Could these extremely
high geomagnetometer readings
emanating directly
below the room
where this hate god
resides be responsible
for amplifying
the negative energy
already associated
with this artifact?
This could be the object that
could have opened this place up
to all the disturbing events
that one of the employees
is dealing with right now.
♪♪
Okay, right now, we're doing
some research stuff,
and we're not really
in a full lockdown yet,
so Cory is still here.
You just ran in here
and said that you just heard
an extremely loud crash
coming from downstairs.
We're upstairs.
Yes, sir.
What did it sound like?
It sounded like one
of the camera
things crashing over
and getting knocked over.
Let's go check those
cameras real quick.
We head to the lower level
to confirm the status
of our X cameras,
but find that none of them
have been disturbed.
Can I ask you something?
Yes, sir.
Here, I notice
the screws are gone
from this old mummy human foot.
When did you
unscrew these screws?
6:30, 7 o'clock tonight.
So it was this evening?
Yes, sir.
You unscrew these cases,
and then you hear
a loud crash down here.
Yes.
Cory unlocked the casing on this
Egyptian foot and other relics
because Ripley's
is allowing us
exclusive hands-on access
to these allegedly
cursed artifacts
for our investigation.
All right.
Guys, let's be attentive.
Thank you, Cory.
Put your hand
right in front of me.
Right here.
Right here.
It's like a tornado. It's right
in front of us.
♪♪
Okay, we are getting ready
to start our investigation
right now.
Jay, Billy, Aaron and myself,
we're going to head out,
and what I want to do is,
is I want to start
in the tribal room,
the Tribal Cave,
which has the Nail Fetish
Hate God
in it, one of our artifacts
that we have the most focus on
during this investigation.
As we make our way
to the tribal-artifacts room
where, earlier, we documented
unexplained spikes
of electromagnetic energy...
It just spiked up.
And then just went down.
So there is definitely...
Look at that!
Whoa.
What the hell?
...Aaron seems to become
affected by something.
I just can't do it.
What's it doing to you?
It's something
with this room, man.
It's weird. I'm just, like,
going in and out of this,
like, euphoric
and then all of a sudden back,
and I'm exhausted,
and it's like...
Listen, what you're
feeling right now
is the electromagnetic
transient energy
that's moving around,
the same thing
that I felt earlier,
the same thing that we measured
with the EMF detector.
It floats around here.
These are the spirits
that the staff are seeing.
They're here.
These are their remains.
This is their tomb.
Oh, my gosh.
What the...
Holy cow.
Look at these... Oh.
Jeez.
Hey, man, do you feel this?
I do.
Yeah.
This is nuts.
Yeah.
I got like...
We're in the Ripley's Believe
It or Not! Museum.
It's literally inside --
Put your hand right
in front of me.
Right here. Right here.
I know.
Whoa. It's like a tornado.
I know.
It's just right in front of us.
Oh, man.
I hate to say it,
but it feels good.
Ooh.
Like, it's like, "Holy cow.
The energy."
Just as we are feeling this
intense and powerful energy,
downstairs in the basement,
we capture something unexplained
on two of our X cameras.
It's all right here.
What's wrong?
Nothing, just want
to get out of here.
I'm not sure what happened,
but it looks like a light
just came on
downstairs by itself.
-What?
-Where at?
Kind of near where
the Egyptian foot is,
the whole side of the frame is
lit up, like something went by.
Listen, we're going
to run down there.
Before we go down there,
I want to put the
full-spectrum camera on it,
and I'm going to record video,
and I am going to put it on...
-The hate god?
-The hate god.
Good idea.
As we race downstairs to where
this light
mysteriously turned on,
we discover that
our heavy-duty gaff tape
has been ripped off
the museum's security camera.
-How did that happen?
-There's no way.
You know how sticky gaff
tape is, right?
-Yeah.
-Yeah.
That'll take you 5 minutes
to peel that off of there.
And it's still on the wall.
How in the hell did
that come off of there?
-There is no way.
-No.
We just gaff-taped these.
Gaff tape, in production
terms, is gaffer's tape,
and it is strong
like duct tape.
It'll stick to anything, and you
can see how much gaff tape
we used to cover up
this security camera,
and there is no oil
or grease on this camera.
It takes a lot of work
to get that off of there,
and it was just
taken off of there.
As we try to debunk this as
being an explainable force
of gravity, we notice something
when we check this X camera.
If you watch how the light
illuminates the room,
it pans across the floor
from left to right.
If the tape were to fall
due to gravity,
the light would enter
and illuminate the room
from top to bottom,
not left to right.
So we conclude that this tape
was forcefully torn
off the camera
in a sideways manner.
What'd he say?
Dude, this room is so, just...
Oh, my God.
What is going on with you?
Something just...
It felt like you had a feather,
and you were, like, tickling
the back of my neck.
Dude.
Seriously, man.
There's just going on with me.
Calm down. Listen, here's what
we're going to do.
This is happening, okay?
The tape just got
ripped off the camera
within a few feet
from the mummy's foot,
and this is also where,
right before our investigation,
the general manager heard
a loud crashing sound.
So we are going to call
the general manager on walkie,
have him come
inside the building,
and he has to witness us taking
the mummy foot out of its case.
I want to take...
I understand that.
If none of you want to be
involved in this...
There's a very real belief
about handling mummies
from Egyptians
over 2,000 years ago.
I am going to hold it,
and if you guys want to be
present for it, you can.
If you don't, you don't have to.
What, Aaron?
Okay, but while we do this,
I think it's important
to have SLS
because if a figure
manifests around it
and then on top of that,
some type of communication.
I'm getting ready to hold
a mummified foot.
I have never seen
anything like that.
What the hell?
♪♪
ZAK: With activity afoot
at Ripley's Believe It or Not!
in Hollywood,
we summon the manager
to assist us with an experiment
involving one of the museum's
oldest artifacts.
Cory has entered the building.
He's going to come in
for this quick little segment,
and I'm going to
put on a respirator
because we are going
to be opening the case
to the 2,000-year-old
mummy foot,
and I am going to be
personally holding it.
Cory?
During this time of opening
the Egyptian mummy foot case,
we begin using
the SLS camera,
and soon, we will capture
some of the most
compelling SLS evidence to date,
including multiple figures
with prolonged appearances.
Billy is also operating
the talking EVP device,
which allows spirits
to manipulate
environmental elements
in order to communicate.
♪♪
-So is that...
-Whoa.
Have we ever heard
the talking EVP say "Ida"?
No.
Yeah, it says "Ida," I-D-A.
Is that a name?
It must be.
I've never seen it.
Jay, does I-D-A
come up with anything>
anything Egyptian,
a priestess or anything?
♪♪
Whoa. Aaron, there was a figure
standing right there behind you
on top of that case...
Where?
...standing right on
that case to your left...
It's watching.
...standing on top of it.
ZAK: As I put my hands
on the case to open it,
a spirit appears behind me
as if it's going to watch
what I'm about to do.
What is it?
Go ahead.
♪♪
♪♪
This thing just said, "Forever."
Whoa.
Cory, can I hold it?
Right now, I'm getting
ready to hold
a mummified young
priestess' foot
around 2,000 B.C.
♪♪
Oh, that's weird.
What?
What happened?
Just the second that I
touched it, I had a palpitation.
No.
I'm serious.
♪♪
Wow, it's really heavy.
Like, petrified wood?
Yeah, it's really heavy.
♪♪
Wow. This is surreal.
Whoa.
This is strange, you guys.
Holy cow.
Zak, that figure is
directly behind you up
on top of your shoulders
just now.
Something happened.
Ow. Ow.
Ow.
Ow.
Holy cow. Holy cow.
The SLS just went crazy.
Ow.
Oh, it's behind you, Zak.
It just took off.
Oh, that's weird.
What happened?
What the hell?
What?
What?
Oh.
Wait until you see this.
That was so weird, you guys.
What, your foot?
Oh, yeah.
What happened?
I just had, like, a pain
in between my big toe
and my other toe but on my foot.
That wasn't a itch or anything.
It was, like, a pain
in between my toes.
I swear.
I feel a sharp pain as if I just
stepped on a large nail
and it drove up through my foot,
and at this same exact moment,
a small stick figure is seen
manifesting down beside my foot.
Oh, it's behind you, Zak.
If that wasn't
anything paranormal,
it was one hell of
a coincidence.
That was so painful.
Is it still painful now?
No.
Zak, there's a figure standing
right where the foot is,
right next to you.
It's taller than you.
Can you touch that table?
Whoa.
It's grabbing your hand, Zak.
Now it's gone.
When I grabbed the foot,
I held it in my hand,
and I started
getting flash images
of, like, a beautiful
Egyptian woman.
I know it sounds crazy.
I know it sounds crazy,
but I was,
and instead of me
holding her dead foot,
I was holding
a beautiful foot.
I had these flash images.
It was windy,
and I could see the girl
and her eyes were closed.
I know this is crazy, but I
was getting these flash images.
I had her foot in my hand,
but I saw when she was alive.
I kept seeing dark skin
and flowing garments on.
Wow.
It was cool.
I want to hold it one more time.
That was horrible.
I can't believe
how heavy this is.
Right now, my fingers are,
like, in between her toes.
Like, I can feel the grooves.
This is incredible.
I am holding an over
-2000-year-old Egyptian mummy
foot of a priestess.
♪♪
-What?
-An Ida is a kind of sword
used by the Yoruba
people of West Africa.
-Oh, my God.
-What?
It was a big knife
by a West African tribe.
It was usually used for hunting,
war and other uses.
West Africa is where
the nail fetish
and all that stuff comes from.
There might be something
following Aaron around.
Yes.
There's a whole lot going on,
I've got to say.
This sword was often
used in wars,
and it was also known to be
covered with pepper and poison
so that it would paralyze
anyone who was cut by it.
All of a sudden, this figure
appears again to my left.
Then, as I'm having more deep,
vivid flashes of a beautiful
Egyptian priestess,
this figure appears
to jump right inside of me,
causing me to have
a double skeletal figure.
Whoa. You have
a double skeleton, Zak.
Could this be evidence of my
channeling the priestess' spirit
through direct contact
with her sacred body part?
I feel like I need
to put this down.
Yeah, something was agitated
that you're touching that.
Oh, now it's standing
next to you again.
Actually, it's connected
to the foot, a full figure.
You seeing this, Cory?
Look at that.
It's basically standing,
starting where the foot is,
up, like you're holding
an entire figure.
I have never seen
anything like that.
Guys, I feel connected
to this thing.
Well, yeah.
What did you see, Cory?
It was as if she was
standing in your hand.
Really?
And I saw you holding the foot,
and then it looked
like someone curled up
and stood completely up...
Really?
...from you holding the foot.
Yeah, it's pretty incredible.
I'm about to put the spirit box
inside this box.
Are you serious?
Oh, God, dude.
♪♪
ZAK: Because of
the incredible activity
happening in the basement
of this Ripley's Believe It or
Not! Odditorium,
I decide to leave Aaron
downstairs all by himself,
while Jay and Billy
conduct an experiment
in the tribal-artifact room
with a dangerous piece
of equipment.
I will be keeping a close eye
on everyone from Nerve Center.
This is an air ion counter.
It will measure both positive
and negative ions in the air.
This puts off positive ions,
which are harmful and dangerous.
I'm going to show you
what the ion count
is before I turn this on
so you can see that this thing
puts off a lot of positive ions.
Flipping it on.
It takes a second.
[ Warbling ]
Oh, I can actually feel it
on my arms right there.
69, 90.
There you go.
There you go.
I can feel it on my face, 130.
There we go.
There it is.
You see that?
Look at that, 598.
ZAK: The purpose of this
ion experiment
is to see what happens
when we create a man-made
ripple effect in the environment
by first using
a positive ionizer,
then quickly switching
to a negative one.
We want to see if this
disturbance in the environment
can pull apart any of
the spiritual energy
that's attached
to the objects here
or force these spirits
to manifest themselves.
Damn, 800.
It gets up to, like,
800 sometimes, yeah.
Yeah, you can
literally feel this.
Oh, yeah.
It's an instant headache.
Right.
ZAK: As the positive-ion
PILFER device is engaged
and charging the atmosphere,
something begins
happening to Aaron,
who is actually directly below
Billy and Jay in the basement.
Okay, okay, okay.
So I'm about to put
the spirit box
inside this box
where the head is.
I didn't know it was open.
I'm just going to, like,
put it in there.
Then this huge thump just...
Bam!
It sounded like it was
on the roof,
but it, like,
echoed off the walls.
It just took me way off guard.
All right.
Here we go.
We're going to zero
this meter out now.
We're going to measure
the negative ions
that this device is going
to put in the air now,
which is the opposite
of what we just did.
Oh, I have to
bring it back here.
Oh, wow.
It's negative 600.
If I get any closer,
it'll peg to...
Over 1,000.
...over 1,000.
Look, negative 1,200 ions
per cubic centimeter.
Man, I could feel
that right here too.
We'll let this run a little bit.
[ Microphone static ]
Phew...
I just had a...
I'm just...
Oh, God.
The energy that
came off of that is so...
I had to sit down.
I didn't know what to ask,
so I'm just going to
hold this in the air,
and I'm going to ask you
to say something or say
something you need
to say or talk.
Right now it's touching
the back of my shirt.
Oh, my God, dude.
[ Indistinct ]
[ Microphone static ]
[ Starts ]
♪♪
ZAK: Aaron has
a disturbing reaction
and shows signs
of confusion and panic
as he begins hearing
chanting in his head.
We feel that the spirits
that we captured on the SLS
have been magnified,
and they're upset that
these cases are being opened.
[ Gasps ]
ZAK: As the energy at the museum
is strong from these ionizers,
Billy places the paranormal
Puck II device
on top of the
negative-ion device,
and I immediately receive
a message back at Nerve Center.
It just said, "Japanese."
I immediately rush to
the tribal room
and discover the paranormal Puck
sitting directly on
top of this object.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Turn your light on.
Are you serious?
What?
It said, "Hello.
Japanese,"
the very first thing you did
when you turned this on, right?
I didn't put that together.
I didn't even know
that was Japanese.
Neither did I.
When we first started
setting up in here,
Billy was setting up
all the ion generators,
and at that time, Billy
put a paranormal Puck
in the center of the room.
I said, "Hello," and it
just said, "Japanese."
Right.
That's pretty much the only word
that I got the whole time.
This is the same sword
that Robert Ripley
personally witnessed being used
to decapitate people,
and this is the same spot
where we received a huge spike
of electromagnetic energy
during our interview.
It just spiked,
and then it just went down.
Yeah.
So there's definitely...
Look at that!
Whoa.
What the hell?
Something here cursed...
What the hell did you
mess with in there?
That skull.
♪♪
ZAK: After documenting
a profound piece of evidence
around an artifact during
our Hollywood investigation...
I didn't even know
that was Japanese.
Neither did I.
...I returned to Nerve Center
and discovered
that Aaron is in trouble.
What happened?
I literally...
So I was trying to...
Oh, God.
What happened?
I put my hand inside that case
trying to get some spirit box,
and then I put
the recorder in there,
and it's just like
I was there, like,
how you said with the Egyptian.
I had her foot in my hand,
but I saw, like, she was alive.
And now, all of a sudden,
I had to sit down,
and I started hearing
chants, and like...
[ Groans ]
Tears falling down, man.
What did you get involved with?
God, I don't know, and then
I tried to get out of there.
It was just spinning,
and I went the wrong way.
What the hell did you mess
with in there?
That skull.
Wow.
And then right before
I put my hand in it,
this huge thing goes boom.
I don't think that we...
Should have done that.
No, I don't think that
we're truly realizing...
No, exactly.
Yes.
...just the magnitude
of what's going on here...
No, you're right.
...because it's
a public museum.
I think we're
underestimating it,
and I think that outside of the
corporate Ripley's Headquarters,
I think that this
is literally a signal
for some serious help here.
Like, these employees
are going through
some really serious stuff,
and I think that for
the very first time,
us being allowed here
to investigate it
and we're finally able to open
up the communication lines,
and we're seriously
trying to pry the nails
out of this capsule
here to open it up
and to expose it and to let
this energy speak and...
It's dangerous...
You know what I'm saying?
As we begin to figure out
exactly what
we're dealing with here
at Ripley's, we head back
into the tribal room
to finish the Paranormal
Puck II session
because during this
entire investigation,
we've only received
two responses
that we feel have meaning.
So far, tonight, everything
that's been said
had been totally legit.
Right on.
Japanese, I know.
Right, with a difference
device.
Right.
That's weird.
All right.
You gave me a sign
that said, "Japanese."
Is something here cursed?
-Stones.
-Whoa.
Ooh.
Cursed stones?
Is something here cursed?
Stones.
Are there stones
somewhere in here?
I don't know.
Maybe we need to be
more specific.
Hold on.
Are we in danger?
Killed.
-Oh.
-Yikes, yikes.
-Wow.
-Yikes, yikes, yikes, yikes.
-Are we in danger? "Kill."
-"Killed."
That's not a warning.
Wow.
What item is cursed?
-Beside.
-Beside?
-Stop.
-Beside.
-Beside you.
-What item is cursed?
Beside you.
Like, it's talking about beside,
and what's beside you, Zak?
The sword.
And?
What item beside me?
-Coins.
-Oh, my God.
There's coins!
-Stop. Zak, look.
There's about a million
coins in that thing right there.
-Look. Look.
-Beside the coins.
Oh, God.
Dude, it's speaking
directly to you.
-Yeah.
-Oh, man.
How much more clearer
can that be?
Are we in danger?
"Killed."
Then it said,
"Where is the item?"
-"Beside."
-Beside you.
Be more specific.
Where is the item?
By the coins.
The coins, and the coins
are an offering
to the Nail Fetish Hate God.
Exactly.
Wow.
Robert Ripley's
worldly expeditions
introduced a collection
of ancient human
and tribal artifacts
to the ticket-buying public,
but our investigation confirms
these seemingly
benign curiosities
are actually the driving force
behind the infestation
of dark energy
at this Ripley's
Believe It or Not!