Ghost Adventures (2008–…): Season 20, Episode 12 - Bloodshed in the Bordello - full transcript
Zak and the crew travel to Globe, Arizona, to investigate a former bordello that was a hive of sinful behavior in the early 1900s. Two unsolved murders and a deadly shooting may have been fueled by the dark energy that surrounds t...
I feel like there's very,
very sinister spirits here.
I think the guy just
wanted to kill people.
It sounds like
a bordello death room.
I feel like this is gonna be
really dangerous for us.
- Who killed you?
- Oh, what was that?
Ow!
So terrifying, dude.
- She's evil.
- Oh, my god!
She's evil.
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This is globe, arizona,
and this part of the town
that we're in is
the tenderloin district.
Way back when, this used to be
the red-light district.
This is where miners,
cowboys, drifters...
This is where they came,
right here, to look for trouble.
This is where they came
to get drunk,
to hire a prostitute,
to look for opium.
This was the bad part of town.
Right over this side of me,
there's a building here,
and it's called
the drift inn saloon.
It's been open
since 1902 as a saloon.
But we're not here
for the downstairs bar.
We're here for
the apartments upstairs.
That was where the bordello was.
There are people living there.
There are some other apartments
that are abandoned.
And I'm being told that there
are multiple documented...
Documented unsolved murders.
And these people are living in
that same space
where the memory
of those violent events
are still reverberating
with not only energy,
but also intelligent
and very dark, sinister spirits.
Built in 1902 to house
a saloon and bordello,
this building was a den of
nefarious activity from day one.
Miners drank
and brawled downstairs...
...While upstairs,
the so-called fancy ladies
relieved them of their earnings
using seduction, narcotics,
even murder.
There is a long history
of violent death
in and around this building.
And it extends
to the present day.
In 2018, three people
were gunned down
just a few steps away.
As we're setting up
for our first interview,
a local man happens by.
You can walk by.
What are you guys doing?
We're... we're looking into...
This place talks about
it being haunted.
Oh! Ghosts and stuff.
All right, yeah, I believe
in ghosts and stuff.
Yeah?
So I saw something myself.
I didn't believe them,
but it was the craziest thing
I've actually seen.
It was like actual ghost
in full form.
Oh, really?
And I just said,
"was that thing real?"
and I've heard voices
over there screaming.
But other people told me
they heard me talking to them.
Like... like actually heard me
talking crap to them.
So you were screaming at them?
Yeah, I was, like,
screaming at them.
'cause I didn't know
what they were.
I thought I was crazy at first,
but there were
actual loud voices.
Mm-hmm.
So this town is pretty haunted?
Yeah, pretty much. Yeah.
It's filled with
a lot of activity.
We meet a woman
who dares to live upstairs
and is intensely affected
by what she has encountered.
Have you experienced
things up there?
Are things scary up there?
Is it hard to live up there?
Yeah. It's... it's scary.
Okay.
Megan leads us upstairs,
the site of multiple
fully-documented
heinous murders.
She desperately needs our help
if she's going to raise a family
in this heavily-charged space.
Megan says this hallway
is particularly disturbing.
What's wrong with this hallway?
It's the dark side.
That's what we call it.
- The dark side?
- Mm-hmm.
Why?
Because you get up
in the middle of the night
to use the restroom,
and you walk down
and every hair on the back
of your head stands up.
It's just creepy. Uh-huh, okay.
Have your kids
or your grandchild,
have they ever been
affected up here or anything?
My grandson's really afraid
of one room in particular.
The reports of
dark activity all center around
room 12 and room 14.
Room 14 is the one
that terrifies megan's grandson,
so I ask him what he saw there.
Could the ghost and the monster
be manifestations
of victim and killer?
After we release megan, aaron
has a disturbing sensation.
Hey, is there, like,
a burn mark here?
Seriously, guys.
It looks like there's...
It felt like something
just grabbed me
and stuck its finger
right in the back of my neck.
Is it a welt?
Yeah, you got a red mark here.
I take a picture
and shoot video on my phone
to give you a closer look.
So, you can see when I press.
See how red that is?
Dang.
See that?
That hurts.
While exploring
the rest of the space,
I sense a negative presence
in megan's grandson's toy room,
so I decide to do an experiment.
Can you move the truck
off of there?
Receiving no response,
I explore the rest of the room.
I kneel down
to look inside a tent,
leading to a shocking
series of events.
What the hell? What happened?
That went down. That went down?
It went down right towards you
as you were walking by.
It, like, came at you.
Let's just try it again.
I walked past it, right?
Yep, walked right through there.
And I'm just gonna walk by...
Just to show you
it's not my vibrations.
There's no way that string
can hit it, right?
You did bump that. No.
But that's not gonna
reach, right?
No.
Here, ready? I'm gonna jump.
Yeah, yeah.
One of you on it,
one on me. Ready?
I got a camera on it.
'cause this is the closest
I got to it.
- Nothing.
- No.
I'm, like, walking,
heavy footsteps.
And it's not doing anything.
Can we conclude
that this is paranormal?
No, we cannot.
Can we explain it?
No, we cannot.
Did we try to debunk it?
Yes, we did. So I don't know.
Unexplained, I would say.
This is not the only unexplained
thing that happens in this room.
I was down there.
I was kneeling towards there.
I didn't say anything out loud,
but when I was kneeling down,
I felt like something
pushed me forward.
But I didn't say
anything out loud.
Yeah, I could
see that, too.
Did you see it?
Yeah, you, like,
kind of fell forward.
I felt like something
pushed me forward.
Then I got up,
and as I walked back here,
the thing shot towards me.
Is something targeting me
in this former bordello?
I am called outside to meet
a neighboring business owner
who has information about
the 2018 mass shooting
at the building next door.
What happened at the bar there?
Was there a shooting there?
Yeah. Actually,
that was my best friend...
That was your best...
...Got murdered there.
Are you serious? Yeah.
The guy...
your best friend was one of
the ones that was murdered?
Yeah.
I'm sorry. Yeah.
Um...
Do you know how many, confirmed?
He killed three people.
He did? Yeah.
He shot four people
and killed three.
Did they ever know how that...
Why it happened?
I think the guy just
wanted to kill people.
I'm not really sure.
Why do you think people here
are doing these bad things
still, in present day?
Is there just a bad energy here?
Sometimes there is.
To me, I feel like
sometimes the ghosts, like...
I feel like they try to mess
with us a little bit, you know?
They influence people. Yeah.
Those spirits... they're here,
and they still want
to do bad things.
But they need living hosts
to carry out
those material actions.
And you wonder
if some of the people here
are being influenced by that.
I was, like, screaming at them.
'cause I didn't know
what they were.
I thought I was crazy at first,
but there were actual
loud voices.
It sounds like
a bordello death room.
The floor just shook upstairs.
That may be one of the best
evps I've ever heard.
It's day two in globe, arizona.
And I meet with the guys
to go over our strategy.
I want to go with you, jay.
I want to go over the research
into those murders.
I want to see any information
that they put
in the old newspapers.
I've never seen those.
I want to know who we are going
to try to make contact with.
And that brings me
to you two guys.
I want you to go up there
before we do lockdown.
Get some recorders.
Maybe put one on the floor
since the floor is original.
Yeah. Good idea.
The stone tape theory.
Maybe mount another one
up on a tripod.
Bill, you were talking
about this...
You and I were talking
about this earlier.
What do we want to try to do?
This is a good idea.
A secret evp session where
we're not engaging the spirits
but we're secretly setting them
on record to see if we...
Eavesdropping.
...Capture them
talking to us.
Spiritual eavesdropping.
That's pretty cool.
That's a good idea.
Do me a favor, too.
Get a couple walkie-talkies.
Leave the recorders up there,
go downstairs,
and maybe ask a few questions
using the walkie-talkie
because I really like
transmitting our voice
through the
electromagnetic radio waves
because that could pierce
into their spiritual dimension.
Sound like a good idea? Yeah.
Jay, let's go.
Awesome.
Let's do it.
Aaron and billy
set up the equipment
and come downstairs
for this innovative experiment.
What we've done is we've
placed walkie-talkies
next to the recorders in the
hallway and in the toy room.
I wonder if these spirits
know we're coming back
to actually, like, antagonize
them and get information.
Jay and I move to the bar
to review his research
on the killings in the building.
One of these murders I found
was the worst murder
in the history of globe.
And knowing how rough and tough
this tenderloin district was,
to have that,
the worst murder in history,
happen up there...
That says a lot.
...That's pretty bad.
Joseph ludwig stayed in room 18
on October 25, 1906.
We have discovered that in
addition to his slashed throat
and obliterated body, his heart
was cut out of his chest.
On a Friday afternoon,
the madam who runs the house,
mrs. Mcinerny,
found ludwig's bed
soaked with blood.
That means he was
killed in the room.
If there was a pool of blood
in the room,
that means his throat was
probably slit in that room.
Correct.
Then someone took him
out of the room.
With that much blood
that was found on the bed,
somebody could have
also removed his heart...
Right, they could
have done all that.
...Upstairs, in that room.
No one has ever been accused,
and it still remains
a mystery today.
When you have the most
horrible, gruesome murder
in the history of a very
violent town and it's unsolved,
that right there is
the perfect ingredients
for a major, active haunting.
That room is dangerous.
Aaron and billy
continue their attempts
to provoke the spirits
on the floor above them.
I wonder what energy
is more powerful,
the women spirit here...
Spirits here or, actually, joe.
I just heard, like, a moan
upstairs. Did you hear that?
I did hear that.
Although our camera mics
don't capture it,
both guys hear a moan
coming from upstairs.
Who do you think
the woman in black is?
Something just shuffled.
That did. The floor just
shook upstairs.
Just 13 months after
joseph ludwig was butchered,
another man
was a victim of room 18.
They found the body
of richard vecklund
dead in his bed in room 18.
Wow.
Just over one year later,
he was poisoned.
So he was murdered.
Room 18. Is that the room?
Was that the room they would
use to take out people?
Sounds like a death room. Yeah.
It sounds like
a bordello death room.
And that's what I'm calling it
because that's exactly
what it is.
Since the rooms
have all been re-numbered,
no one knows which room
was the notorious room 18.
Joe, are you here?
We need your help.
Joe, make sure you
come through tonight.
We'll help you.
This just shut off in my hand.
It's never done that.
On christmas day in 1944,
u.L. Holley walked into the bar
and shot four people,
killing two.
That's four people that were
struck with bullets on 1944.
Right here.
What just happened
to that bar 20 feet away?
Four more people were just shot.
Three of those were killed.
How many people? Four people.
History is repeating itself.
What's happening here
is the energy of the events,
the violent events of the past,
is on a constant loop.
Makes total sense.
And when you get the right
kind of emotional energy,
or violent tendencies, in you,
and you enter inside
of this loop when it's active,
it's going to drive you to do
exactly as it did in the past.
It's scary.
While there may not be
demons here,
I feel that there's very,
very sinister spirits here
that are looking for the right
person that can do the job
and carry out this loop
of activity, of violence.
I feel like this is gonna be
really dangerous for us
because of the way
that we open ourselves up.
This isn't a place where you
want to open yourself up.
No.
Aaron and billy join us in the
bar to review their evidence.
Billy plays me
an unsettling evp.
This is literally
a full sentence.
Let me hear it.
Here's regular speed.
"go upstairs and I can cut you."
yeah. That's exactly...
He has aggression.
He has aggression on "cut you."
the aggression
in the voice is...
I felt aggression
when I was up there yesterday.
I-I got... when she was
standing right here, I got...
I felt a lot of anger
for a second.
I really did. I really did.
It has to do with
cutting throat.
Maybe he was...
Wasn't his throat cut... joe's?
The guy's throat was cut.
Yeah. The guy's throat was cut.
I don't...
I just... oh.
Oh, god.
Is that crazy or what?
Like, I can't tell you,
like, what I'm feeling
listening to that.
That may be one of the best
evps I've ever heard.
This is one of the top-grade
evps that we've ever captured.
I had a feeling
before we came here...
Oh! ...Knowing where we're at...
...Knowing the history,
knowing the murders,
that we were gonna
get something like this,
this caliber of evidence,
and we're getting it.
Use our bodies to feel.
Did you just hear that?
I heard two footsteps
going up... oh!
Okay, we just listened to
some of the most amazing evps
that I have ever heard.
That's a strong statement.
I had no doubt
that we were gonna be
walking into something here
that was incredibly powerful,
energetic, and violent.
Even the evp says violence.
Yeah. Right.
Jay is gonna be setting up
a nerve center down there
and monitoring us.
What we're gonna do is...
The entire upstairs area,
there's nobody up there.
There's nothing. It's scary.
There are multiple unsolved
murders that occurred up there.
This, I'm a little
nervous about.
If we open ourselves up
too much, these violent spirits,
and the women that are believed
to have killed the miners
and whatnot that we read about,
if they get too deep
inside of us,
then we may have ourselves
a very dangerous
and serious situation.
I feel it already.
It is time to begin
our investigation.
Before we come up there
and invite you, use us.
Use our bodies to feel.
Why am I...
Hey guys, guys, as soon as you
walked in the building,
the camera in room 18
just started going
in and out of focus
like something's
moving around in there.
I haven't seen anything,
but it's been perfectly in focus
the entire time
we were on before.
As soon as you walked in,
it started freaking out.
As I'm making my
announcements to the spirits,
our x cam shooting in this room,
which many believe
is the old room 18 where two
unsolved, documented murders
took place, begins to
go in and out of focus.
And as we examine
the footage even closer,
we capture this unexplained,
strange-shaped light anomaly.
Hey, zak, didn't it say,
"come up those stairs
and I'll cut you,"
or something like that?
Right.
It said, "come upstairs," or
something, "and I'll cut you."
"come up those stairs." like...
We never put that
together.
Like, aggressive.
I'm getting scared.
I'm, like, just walking up.
Yeah.
Wait, wait.
Do you smell that?
I smell cigarette smoke,
like a cigar.
Like, I smell, like, a cigar.
I swear to god, I just smelled
that walking right here.
I don't smell it.
But I believe you.
I'm telling you, dude.
What's the one thing,
a lot of times
with male energies,
you'll smell cigar smoke.
Where are you at?
Hush!
Dude, I heard... it sounded
like people talking.
In the back, far room.
Whoa, whoa. Hold on.
Okay, never mind.
What was it?
I saw a figure
at the end of the hall,
but that's us... reflections,
I think, in some glass.
Yeah, I see glass.
Yeah, there's glass
at the end of the hallway.
So I think
the biggest thing here
is trying to figure out
what room 18 was.
That's where
the miner was killed,
and his heart was taken
and cut out of his chest,
and his throat was slit, and
he was blown up into two pieces.
They said the bed was
so bloody... this is documented.
And then, again,
another guy was poisoned.
And he also died
in that same room.
But nobody knows...
The numbers today are different
than they were
when all this happened.
So everybody believes that
room 18 is on the other side,
and they call that
the dark side.
Okay, what I just did
is I set up
an infrared time-lapse camera.
It's shooting at intervals
of three seconds.
And it's shooting
right down this hallway.
That's the original bed?
Yeah, the frame, I guess.
One of the original beds?
Ooh, yeah,
there's a weird feeling.
Right? Doesn't it feel
weird in here?
Yeah.
That was one of
the original beds.
Come in this room, zak.
There is a really weird vibe.
And I mean, like, it feels like
the room is vibrating.
I have a question.
How do they know
that's not the original bed
where these guys were murdered?
They don't.
Is there a dress hanging on
the wall right there?
'cause I'm seeing
a dress hovering.
Yeah, there's a dress. There is?
Yes. Okay.
Holy.
It's back there
in the back, huh?
Down there? Yeah.
I was, like, fine,
and then all of a sudden,
it just, like, came across.
Remember, the floors
are very uneasy,
so it might give you
the sense of off-balance,
it might give you
the sense of dizziness.
Right. The funhouse effect.
The funhouse effect.
Whoa! Whoa!
I heard two footsteps
coming up... oh, whoa!
Something just came...
Up on you?
Yes. I heard
two steps right here.
And then I felt a coldness
of energy swirling right here.
Did you just hear that?
Yeah, I heard a girl. A girl.
...A kid scream or something.
Even though we all hear
this disembodied scream
with our own ears,
none of our cameras capture it.
Oh!
I don't care
what everybody says.
I don't care.
What was that?
Did you hear that?
Whoa! Billy: Oh, my god!
I'm getting hit hard
with something, man.
We're hearing screams
at this former bordello
in globe, arizona,
so I pull out
the digital recorder.
Who killed you?
What the was that?
I don't know. I don't know.
Quiet, quiet, quiet.
We all hear a terrifying
and strange scream
come from somewhere
in the building
right after I ask,
"who killed you?"
could this be a residual scream
from one of the murders?
Who killed you?
What the was that?
Watch out.
Shh!
Guys!
Whoa!
...Was that?
It's the playroom
or the kitchen.
Sounded like
at the end of the hall.
Is that you?
Again. Shh!
If you want us out of here,
make a big bang.
Can you hear me?
Make a knock if you do.
There it is. Did you hear it?
Okay, hold on,
I can't tell if...
- Dude, I can't go anymore.
- I just froze.
Oh, what was that?
Did you hear that?
Yes, yes, yes.
Did you hear that?
Yes, it was loud.
It was like.
I didn't see her face before.
I just saw it right here,
right now.
That was so terrifying, dude.
Well, at least we
know it's intelligent.
Hold on! Oh, my god!
Did you hear that vocal tone?
I heard a female voice
with my own ears.
Bill, you heard that.
- I heard it, too.
Everybody calm down. Oh.
What's wrong?
Whoa, dude, I'm getting
hit hard with something, man.
Calm down. Calm down.
Everybody calm down.
Whoa.
Is it just me, or did it...
Did it get ice-cold pretty...
It's... it's cold. It got cold.
Can you speak again?
Now, remember,
hearing a female voice up here
is not a good thing
because those are the ones that
are suspected to be the killers.
I'm going down there with
a flashlight. I'm sorry.
No. I have to.
Stay in darkness.
You try going down there
in the darkness.
I can't move
from this spot.
Yeah, you can.
I'll switch. I'm telling you,
you try it without a flashlight.
Here, take the cam, dude.
I'm telling you right now.
If you can do it, balls, man.
Who's making all
that noise down here?
Are you in the nursery?
Do you notice there's no
banging noises anymore?
At this moment,
we capture a light anomaly
that travels down the hall
then makes a hard 90-degree turn
into one of the rooms.
Are you affecting me?
How come I went from sad
to angry to just energized?
As aaron questions the spirit,
he now tries to get answers
by using the spirit box.
Hello. Hi.
Unbelievably, a female voice
intelligently responds to aaron
by saying hello to him.
Hello. Hi.
Hello. Hi.
Hello. Hi.
- Did you hear that?
- What was that?
That was a woman's voice.
It came through the spirit box.
Joe!
Are you hiding joe's spirit?
Guys, I got a female
saying hello.
Where'd you all go?
Right after aaron
receives this hello,
I capture this light anomaly
shooting out of a room
on the right.
Anybody in the toy room?
Who's in the toy room?
It's draining you, huh, zak?
- They're violent.
- Joe, where are you?
We're collecting
more and more evidence
of a very troubling haunting
at this arizona building
with a violent history.
As the activity is ramping up,
all of a sudden, all three of us
feel as if the energy
has been completely
drained out of our bodies.
I just feel very zoned out.
Me, too. Very, very zoned out.
I feel like I'm just
going with the current.
Like, my body's just
going with the current.
Real floaty, right? Yes. Very.
Mm-hmm.
I feel like I don't know
what's gonna happen next,
but I don't really care,
either, though.
Like, you don't care.
Because we received
an intelligent hello response,
aaron and I try
to communicate directly
using the direct-linc device.
Listen.
I am listening.
We receive another
intelligent response,
but this time from a male spirit
telling us to listen.
I am listening.
What?
This is incredible.
The same female spirit now
gives us a three-word command.
I am listening.
What?
Who's the lady in black
that I keep seeing?
Who's here with us?
How many spirits?
Who's here with us?
How many spirits?
Is joe here?
Yes.
"yes."
On October 25, 1906,
joe ludwig was brutally murdered
inside this building.
Did we just get confirmation
that his spirit
is still here
and speaking with us?
Is joe here?
"yes."
just as I ask joe the miner
what they cut out of his chest,
which was his heart,
this strange anomaly
appears to manifest
right out of my chest.
It's draining you,
huh, zak?
Yeah.
That's what it's doing to me.
It's making me really,
really tired.
Come on, talk!
Joe, where are you?
At this moment, I continue
to feel absolutely drained,
and it's hard to even stand up,
so I now decide
for all of us to split up.
I will remain here
in the toy room.
I send billy to the room
where the original
bordello bed is located.
And aaron heads
into the alleged room 18,
where two documented unsolved
murders have taken place.
We're in all separate rooms
right now. We're all split up.
Go ahead. Just make it shake.
Shake the bed.
Aaron begins to show
very strange behavior.
I decide to set some toys up
to see if the spirit
can knock them over.
Can you knock that toy over?
What about the dinosaur?
Can you knock the dinosaur over?
This is nice?
What, because
I'm in bed with you?
Who's in bed with me?
Is this a message
from one of the prostitutes?
They're violent!
Guys, the ovilus just said
that they're violent!
I feel so drained right now.
It's taken all of our energy.
It's so weird.
It takes all of your energy.
Literally feel like
being drugged.
Just...
where you at?
How did the ball
get down there?!
That is the ball!
She's standing here.
. Right here. - Ow!
We're all being affected
by the negative energy
at this globe, arizona,
landmark.
Just...
where you at?
What happened?
I was sitting
in the kiddie chair,
and when I got up,
I didn't realize
that the kiddie chair
stuck to my... my butt.
And some point in time
when I stood up,
it must have fallen.
And it scared you.
So I got stuck in it,
and then it released, I guess.
At first, what I think
is a loud, unexplained bang,
we debunk as being
the small kiddie chair
getting stuck on my rear end.
Aah!
Aah!
I've seen you in my mind.
You are making it
freezing-cold right now.
And I've seen you twice.
Let us see you on our cameras.
She's here.
The image I get is there.
Really?
Go get the sls.
She's standing there.
Ow! Ow!
Ow!
Tripped over that toy.
Ow.
She's evil.
She's evil.
Jay?
Yeah?
What was that? What is that?
Are you kidding me?
Dude! Jay, are you
watching the camera?
What is that?
That's down there, dude.
The ball!
How did the ball
get down there?!
That is the ball!
There's no way.
After further analysis
of our x-camera footage,
we discover billy accidentally
trips into the toy truck,
which then rolls down the
hallway and bumps into the ball,
creating a domino effect,
which leads to the ball
rolling down
the uneven floorboards
and then down
both sets of stairs.
This is debunked.
Jay?
Yeah?
What was that? What is that?
And while all of this
is going on,
we have no idea whatsoever
that aaron is being
severely affected.
- You okay?
- No, I'm not okay.
What's wrong?
I'm just losing my breath,
and then I felt...
I got weak, and then I felt like
my neck was getting choked.
I just don't want you
to empower this thing.
It's too late.
As we are all very concerned
for aaron at this point,
I grab the sls camera to see
if there is something around him
that's affecting him.
And at this time, we capture
an amazing piece of evidence,
an unexplained figure that
appears right in front of aaron.
- It's hard to breathe.
- Where are you at?
It hurts so bad.
Hey, when you sent me
to lay on that bed,
I almost blacked out completely.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,
whoa, whoa.
What?
There was just a figure
right in front of aaron.
Hold on to my back.
He definitely needs
to go outside.
The floor was just shaking.
We're just watching
a live shot of the cameras
that are still rolling upstairs.
And I think we can explain this
as the energy in here,
I believe just
the residual energy alone,
from all the bad things
that happened here,
including the unsolved murders,
that energy is not leaving here.
It's a residual energy,
and that residual energy
is full of suffering
and pain and violence,
every emotion you could think of
that would be
compared to in hell.
And if you have any sensitivity
to spirits or anything at all,
you'll be more vulnerable
to be completely drained,
just like we were.
And that is the byproduct of us
doing over 1,000 investigations,
many of them dark in nature,
many of them demonic.
So we're walking
into something like this
by being a highly
absorbent sponge.
Aaron, you got it the worst,
and this all started because,
you know what,
you got marked when we first
started here during interviews.
I got grabbed. You got grabbed.
You got that red mark,
and that mark meant something.
You should never, ever, ever
step foot up there again, ever.
very sinister spirits here.
I think the guy just
wanted to kill people.
It sounds like
a bordello death room.
I feel like this is gonna be
really dangerous for us.
- Who killed you?
- Oh, what was that?
Ow!
So terrifying, dude.
- She's evil.
- Oh, my god!
She's evil.
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This is globe, arizona,
and this part of the town
that we're in is
the tenderloin district.
Way back when, this used to be
the red-light district.
This is where miners,
cowboys, drifters...
This is where they came,
right here, to look for trouble.
This is where they came
to get drunk,
to hire a prostitute,
to look for opium.
This was the bad part of town.
Right over this side of me,
there's a building here,
and it's called
the drift inn saloon.
It's been open
since 1902 as a saloon.
But we're not here
for the downstairs bar.
We're here for
the apartments upstairs.
That was where the bordello was.
There are people living there.
There are some other apartments
that are abandoned.
And I'm being told that there
are multiple documented...
Documented unsolved murders.
And these people are living in
that same space
where the memory
of those violent events
are still reverberating
with not only energy,
but also intelligent
and very dark, sinister spirits.
Built in 1902 to house
a saloon and bordello,
this building was a den of
nefarious activity from day one.
Miners drank
and brawled downstairs...
...While upstairs,
the so-called fancy ladies
relieved them of their earnings
using seduction, narcotics,
even murder.
There is a long history
of violent death
in and around this building.
And it extends
to the present day.
In 2018, three people
were gunned down
just a few steps away.
As we're setting up
for our first interview,
a local man happens by.
You can walk by.
What are you guys doing?
We're... we're looking into...
This place talks about
it being haunted.
Oh! Ghosts and stuff.
All right, yeah, I believe
in ghosts and stuff.
Yeah?
So I saw something myself.
I didn't believe them,
but it was the craziest thing
I've actually seen.
It was like actual ghost
in full form.
Oh, really?
And I just said,
"was that thing real?"
and I've heard voices
over there screaming.
But other people told me
they heard me talking to them.
Like... like actually heard me
talking crap to them.
So you were screaming at them?
Yeah, I was, like,
screaming at them.
'cause I didn't know
what they were.
I thought I was crazy at first,
but there were
actual loud voices.
Mm-hmm.
So this town is pretty haunted?
Yeah, pretty much. Yeah.
It's filled with
a lot of activity.
We meet a woman
who dares to live upstairs
and is intensely affected
by what she has encountered.
Have you experienced
things up there?
Are things scary up there?
Is it hard to live up there?
Yeah. It's... it's scary.
Okay.
Megan leads us upstairs,
the site of multiple
fully-documented
heinous murders.
She desperately needs our help
if she's going to raise a family
in this heavily-charged space.
Megan says this hallway
is particularly disturbing.
What's wrong with this hallway?
It's the dark side.
That's what we call it.
- The dark side?
- Mm-hmm.
Why?
Because you get up
in the middle of the night
to use the restroom,
and you walk down
and every hair on the back
of your head stands up.
It's just creepy. Uh-huh, okay.
Have your kids
or your grandchild,
have they ever been
affected up here or anything?
My grandson's really afraid
of one room in particular.
The reports of
dark activity all center around
room 12 and room 14.
Room 14 is the one
that terrifies megan's grandson,
so I ask him what he saw there.
Could the ghost and the monster
be manifestations
of victim and killer?
After we release megan, aaron
has a disturbing sensation.
Hey, is there, like,
a burn mark here?
Seriously, guys.
It looks like there's...
It felt like something
just grabbed me
and stuck its finger
right in the back of my neck.
Is it a welt?
Yeah, you got a red mark here.
I take a picture
and shoot video on my phone
to give you a closer look.
So, you can see when I press.
See how red that is?
Dang.
See that?
That hurts.
While exploring
the rest of the space,
I sense a negative presence
in megan's grandson's toy room,
so I decide to do an experiment.
Can you move the truck
off of there?
Receiving no response,
I explore the rest of the room.
I kneel down
to look inside a tent,
leading to a shocking
series of events.
What the hell? What happened?
That went down. That went down?
It went down right towards you
as you were walking by.
It, like, came at you.
Let's just try it again.
I walked past it, right?
Yep, walked right through there.
And I'm just gonna walk by...
Just to show you
it's not my vibrations.
There's no way that string
can hit it, right?
You did bump that. No.
But that's not gonna
reach, right?
No.
Here, ready? I'm gonna jump.
Yeah, yeah.
One of you on it,
one on me. Ready?
I got a camera on it.
'cause this is the closest
I got to it.
- Nothing.
- No.
I'm, like, walking,
heavy footsteps.
And it's not doing anything.
Can we conclude
that this is paranormal?
No, we cannot.
Can we explain it?
No, we cannot.
Did we try to debunk it?
Yes, we did. So I don't know.
Unexplained, I would say.
This is not the only unexplained
thing that happens in this room.
I was down there.
I was kneeling towards there.
I didn't say anything out loud,
but when I was kneeling down,
I felt like something
pushed me forward.
But I didn't say
anything out loud.
Yeah, I could
see that, too.
Did you see it?
Yeah, you, like,
kind of fell forward.
I felt like something
pushed me forward.
Then I got up,
and as I walked back here,
the thing shot towards me.
Is something targeting me
in this former bordello?
I am called outside to meet
a neighboring business owner
who has information about
the 2018 mass shooting
at the building next door.
What happened at the bar there?
Was there a shooting there?
Yeah. Actually,
that was my best friend...
That was your best...
...Got murdered there.
Are you serious? Yeah.
The guy...
your best friend was one of
the ones that was murdered?
Yeah.
I'm sorry. Yeah.
Um...
Do you know how many, confirmed?
He killed three people.
He did? Yeah.
He shot four people
and killed three.
Did they ever know how that...
Why it happened?
I think the guy just
wanted to kill people.
I'm not really sure.
Why do you think people here
are doing these bad things
still, in present day?
Is there just a bad energy here?
Sometimes there is.
To me, I feel like
sometimes the ghosts, like...
I feel like they try to mess
with us a little bit, you know?
They influence people. Yeah.
Those spirits... they're here,
and they still want
to do bad things.
But they need living hosts
to carry out
those material actions.
And you wonder
if some of the people here
are being influenced by that.
I was, like, screaming at them.
'cause I didn't know
what they were.
I thought I was crazy at first,
but there were actual
loud voices.
It sounds like
a bordello death room.
The floor just shook upstairs.
That may be one of the best
evps I've ever heard.
It's day two in globe, arizona.
And I meet with the guys
to go over our strategy.
I want to go with you, jay.
I want to go over the research
into those murders.
I want to see any information
that they put
in the old newspapers.
I've never seen those.
I want to know who we are going
to try to make contact with.
And that brings me
to you two guys.
I want you to go up there
before we do lockdown.
Get some recorders.
Maybe put one on the floor
since the floor is original.
Yeah. Good idea.
The stone tape theory.
Maybe mount another one
up on a tripod.
Bill, you were talking
about this...
You and I were talking
about this earlier.
What do we want to try to do?
This is a good idea.
A secret evp session where
we're not engaging the spirits
but we're secretly setting them
on record to see if we...
Eavesdropping.
...Capture them
talking to us.
Spiritual eavesdropping.
That's pretty cool.
That's a good idea.
Do me a favor, too.
Get a couple walkie-talkies.
Leave the recorders up there,
go downstairs,
and maybe ask a few questions
using the walkie-talkie
because I really like
transmitting our voice
through the
electromagnetic radio waves
because that could pierce
into their spiritual dimension.
Sound like a good idea? Yeah.
Jay, let's go.
Awesome.
Let's do it.
Aaron and billy
set up the equipment
and come downstairs
for this innovative experiment.
What we've done is we've
placed walkie-talkies
next to the recorders in the
hallway and in the toy room.
I wonder if these spirits
know we're coming back
to actually, like, antagonize
them and get information.
Jay and I move to the bar
to review his research
on the killings in the building.
One of these murders I found
was the worst murder
in the history of globe.
And knowing how rough and tough
this tenderloin district was,
to have that,
the worst murder in history,
happen up there...
That says a lot.
...That's pretty bad.
Joseph ludwig stayed in room 18
on October 25, 1906.
We have discovered that in
addition to his slashed throat
and obliterated body, his heart
was cut out of his chest.
On a Friday afternoon,
the madam who runs the house,
mrs. Mcinerny,
found ludwig's bed
soaked with blood.
That means he was
killed in the room.
If there was a pool of blood
in the room,
that means his throat was
probably slit in that room.
Correct.
Then someone took him
out of the room.
With that much blood
that was found on the bed,
somebody could have
also removed his heart...
Right, they could
have done all that.
...Upstairs, in that room.
No one has ever been accused,
and it still remains
a mystery today.
When you have the most
horrible, gruesome murder
in the history of a very
violent town and it's unsolved,
that right there is
the perfect ingredients
for a major, active haunting.
That room is dangerous.
Aaron and billy
continue their attempts
to provoke the spirits
on the floor above them.
I wonder what energy
is more powerful,
the women spirit here...
Spirits here or, actually, joe.
I just heard, like, a moan
upstairs. Did you hear that?
I did hear that.
Although our camera mics
don't capture it,
both guys hear a moan
coming from upstairs.
Who do you think
the woman in black is?
Something just shuffled.
That did. The floor just
shook upstairs.
Just 13 months after
joseph ludwig was butchered,
another man
was a victim of room 18.
They found the body
of richard vecklund
dead in his bed in room 18.
Wow.
Just over one year later,
he was poisoned.
So he was murdered.
Room 18. Is that the room?
Was that the room they would
use to take out people?
Sounds like a death room. Yeah.
It sounds like
a bordello death room.
And that's what I'm calling it
because that's exactly
what it is.
Since the rooms
have all been re-numbered,
no one knows which room
was the notorious room 18.
Joe, are you here?
We need your help.
Joe, make sure you
come through tonight.
We'll help you.
This just shut off in my hand.
It's never done that.
On christmas day in 1944,
u.L. Holley walked into the bar
and shot four people,
killing two.
That's four people that were
struck with bullets on 1944.
Right here.
What just happened
to that bar 20 feet away?
Four more people were just shot.
Three of those were killed.
How many people? Four people.
History is repeating itself.
What's happening here
is the energy of the events,
the violent events of the past,
is on a constant loop.
Makes total sense.
And when you get the right
kind of emotional energy,
or violent tendencies, in you,
and you enter inside
of this loop when it's active,
it's going to drive you to do
exactly as it did in the past.
It's scary.
While there may not be
demons here,
I feel that there's very,
very sinister spirits here
that are looking for the right
person that can do the job
and carry out this loop
of activity, of violence.
I feel like this is gonna be
really dangerous for us
because of the way
that we open ourselves up.
This isn't a place where you
want to open yourself up.
No.
Aaron and billy join us in the
bar to review their evidence.
Billy plays me
an unsettling evp.
This is literally
a full sentence.
Let me hear it.
Here's regular speed.
"go upstairs and I can cut you."
yeah. That's exactly...
He has aggression.
He has aggression on "cut you."
the aggression
in the voice is...
I felt aggression
when I was up there yesterday.
I-I got... when she was
standing right here, I got...
I felt a lot of anger
for a second.
I really did. I really did.
It has to do with
cutting throat.
Maybe he was...
Wasn't his throat cut... joe's?
The guy's throat was cut.
Yeah. The guy's throat was cut.
I don't...
I just... oh.
Oh, god.
Is that crazy or what?
Like, I can't tell you,
like, what I'm feeling
listening to that.
That may be one of the best
evps I've ever heard.
This is one of the top-grade
evps that we've ever captured.
I had a feeling
before we came here...
Oh! ...Knowing where we're at...
...Knowing the history,
knowing the murders,
that we were gonna
get something like this,
this caliber of evidence,
and we're getting it.
Use our bodies to feel.
Did you just hear that?
I heard two footsteps
going up... oh!
Okay, we just listened to
some of the most amazing evps
that I have ever heard.
That's a strong statement.
I had no doubt
that we were gonna be
walking into something here
that was incredibly powerful,
energetic, and violent.
Even the evp says violence.
Yeah. Right.
Jay is gonna be setting up
a nerve center down there
and monitoring us.
What we're gonna do is...
The entire upstairs area,
there's nobody up there.
There's nothing. It's scary.
There are multiple unsolved
murders that occurred up there.
This, I'm a little
nervous about.
If we open ourselves up
too much, these violent spirits,
and the women that are believed
to have killed the miners
and whatnot that we read about,
if they get too deep
inside of us,
then we may have ourselves
a very dangerous
and serious situation.
I feel it already.
It is time to begin
our investigation.
Before we come up there
and invite you, use us.
Use our bodies to feel.
Why am I...
Hey guys, guys, as soon as you
walked in the building,
the camera in room 18
just started going
in and out of focus
like something's
moving around in there.
I haven't seen anything,
but it's been perfectly in focus
the entire time
we were on before.
As soon as you walked in,
it started freaking out.
As I'm making my
announcements to the spirits,
our x cam shooting in this room,
which many believe
is the old room 18 where two
unsolved, documented murders
took place, begins to
go in and out of focus.
And as we examine
the footage even closer,
we capture this unexplained,
strange-shaped light anomaly.
Hey, zak, didn't it say,
"come up those stairs
and I'll cut you,"
or something like that?
Right.
It said, "come upstairs," or
something, "and I'll cut you."
"come up those stairs." like...
We never put that
together.
Like, aggressive.
I'm getting scared.
I'm, like, just walking up.
Yeah.
Wait, wait.
Do you smell that?
I smell cigarette smoke,
like a cigar.
Like, I smell, like, a cigar.
I swear to god, I just smelled
that walking right here.
I don't smell it.
But I believe you.
I'm telling you, dude.
What's the one thing,
a lot of times
with male energies,
you'll smell cigar smoke.
Where are you at?
Hush!
Dude, I heard... it sounded
like people talking.
In the back, far room.
Whoa, whoa. Hold on.
Okay, never mind.
What was it?
I saw a figure
at the end of the hall,
but that's us... reflections,
I think, in some glass.
Yeah, I see glass.
Yeah, there's glass
at the end of the hallway.
So I think
the biggest thing here
is trying to figure out
what room 18 was.
That's where
the miner was killed,
and his heart was taken
and cut out of his chest,
and his throat was slit, and
he was blown up into two pieces.
They said the bed was
so bloody... this is documented.
And then, again,
another guy was poisoned.
And he also died
in that same room.
But nobody knows...
The numbers today are different
than they were
when all this happened.
So everybody believes that
room 18 is on the other side,
and they call that
the dark side.
Okay, what I just did
is I set up
an infrared time-lapse camera.
It's shooting at intervals
of three seconds.
And it's shooting
right down this hallway.
That's the original bed?
Yeah, the frame, I guess.
One of the original beds?
Ooh, yeah,
there's a weird feeling.
Right? Doesn't it feel
weird in here?
Yeah.
That was one of
the original beds.
Come in this room, zak.
There is a really weird vibe.
And I mean, like, it feels like
the room is vibrating.
I have a question.
How do they know
that's not the original bed
where these guys were murdered?
They don't.
Is there a dress hanging on
the wall right there?
'cause I'm seeing
a dress hovering.
Yeah, there's a dress. There is?
Yes. Okay.
Holy.
It's back there
in the back, huh?
Down there? Yeah.
I was, like, fine,
and then all of a sudden,
it just, like, came across.
Remember, the floors
are very uneasy,
so it might give you
the sense of off-balance,
it might give you
the sense of dizziness.
Right. The funhouse effect.
The funhouse effect.
Whoa! Whoa!
I heard two footsteps
coming up... oh, whoa!
Something just came...
Up on you?
Yes. I heard
two steps right here.
And then I felt a coldness
of energy swirling right here.
Did you just hear that?
Yeah, I heard a girl. A girl.
...A kid scream or something.
Even though we all hear
this disembodied scream
with our own ears,
none of our cameras capture it.
Oh!
I don't care
what everybody says.
I don't care.
What was that?
Did you hear that?
Whoa! Billy: Oh, my god!
I'm getting hit hard
with something, man.
We're hearing screams
at this former bordello
in globe, arizona,
so I pull out
the digital recorder.
Who killed you?
What the was that?
I don't know. I don't know.
Quiet, quiet, quiet.
We all hear a terrifying
and strange scream
come from somewhere
in the building
right after I ask,
"who killed you?"
could this be a residual scream
from one of the murders?
Who killed you?
What the was that?
Watch out.
Shh!
Guys!
Whoa!
...Was that?
It's the playroom
or the kitchen.
Sounded like
at the end of the hall.
Is that you?
Again. Shh!
If you want us out of here,
make a big bang.
Can you hear me?
Make a knock if you do.
There it is. Did you hear it?
Okay, hold on,
I can't tell if...
- Dude, I can't go anymore.
- I just froze.
Oh, what was that?
Did you hear that?
Yes, yes, yes.
Did you hear that?
Yes, it was loud.
It was like.
I didn't see her face before.
I just saw it right here,
right now.
That was so terrifying, dude.
Well, at least we
know it's intelligent.
Hold on! Oh, my god!
Did you hear that vocal tone?
I heard a female voice
with my own ears.
Bill, you heard that.
- I heard it, too.
Everybody calm down. Oh.
What's wrong?
Whoa, dude, I'm getting
hit hard with something, man.
Calm down. Calm down.
Everybody calm down.
Whoa.
Is it just me, or did it...
Did it get ice-cold pretty...
It's... it's cold. It got cold.
Can you speak again?
Now, remember,
hearing a female voice up here
is not a good thing
because those are the ones that
are suspected to be the killers.
I'm going down there with
a flashlight. I'm sorry.
No. I have to.
Stay in darkness.
You try going down there
in the darkness.
I can't move
from this spot.
Yeah, you can.
I'll switch. I'm telling you,
you try it without a flashlight.
Here, take the cam, dude.
I'm telling you right now.
If you can do it, balls, man.
Who's making all
that noise down here?
Are you in the nursery?
Do you notice there's no
banging noises anymore?
At this moment,
we capture a light anomaly
that travels down the hall
then makes a hard 90-degree turn
into one of the rooms.
Are you affecting me?
How come I went from sad
to angry to just energized?
As aaron questions the spirit,
he now tries to get answers
by using the spirit box.
Hello. Hi.
Unbelievably, a female voice
intelligently responds to aaron
by saying hello to him.
Hello. Hi.
Hello. Hi.
Hello. Hi.
- Did you hear that?
- What was that?
That was a woman's voice.
It came through the spirit box.
Joe!
Are you hiding joe's spirit?
Guys, I got a female
saying hello.
Where'd you all go?
Right after aaron
receives this hello,
I capture this light anomaly
shooting out of a room
on the right.
Anybody in the toy room?
Who's in the toy room?
It's draining you, huh, zak?
- They're violent.
- Joe, where are you?
We're collecting
more and more evidence
of a very troubling haunting
at this arizona building
with a violent history.
As the activity is ramping up,
all of a sudden, all three of us
feel as if the energy
has been completely
drained out of our bodies.
I just feel very zoned out.
Me, too. Very, very zoned out.
I feel like I'm just
going with the current.
Like, my body's just
going with the current.
Real floaty, right? Yes. Very.
Mm-hmm.
I feel like I don't know
what's gonna happen next,
but I don't really care,
either, though.
Like, you don't care.
Because we received
an intelligent hello response,
aaron and I try
to communicate directly
using the direct-linc device.
Listen.
I am listening.
We receive another
intelligent response,
but this time from a male spirit
telling us to listen.
I am listening.
What?
This is incredible.
The same female spirit now
gives us a three-word command.
I am listening.
What?
Who's the lady in black
that I keep seeing?
Who's here with us?
How many spirits?
Who's here with us?
How many spirits?
Is joe here?
Yes.
"yes."
On October 25, 1906,
joe ludwig was brutally murdered
inside this building.
Did we just get confirmation
that his spirit
is still here
and speaking with us?
Is joe here?
"yes."
just as I ask joe the miner
what they cut out of his chest,
which was his heart,
this strange anomaly
appears to manifest
right out of my chest.
It's draining you,
huh, zak?
Yeah.
That's what it's doing to me.
It's making me really,
really tired.
Come on, talk!
Joe, where are you?
At this moment, I continue
to feel absolutely drained,
and it's hard to even stand up,
so I now decide
for all of us to split up.
I will remain here
in the toy room.
I send billy to the room
where the original
bordello bed is located.
And aaron heads
into the alleged room 18,
where two documented unsolved
murders have taken place.
We're in all separate rooms
right now. We're all split up.
Go ahead. Just make it shake.
Shake the bed.
Aaron begins to show
very strange behavior.
I decide to set some toys up
to see if the spirit
can knock them over.
Can you knock that toy over?
What about the dinosaur?
Can you knock the dinosaur over?
This is nice?
What, because
I'm in bed with you?
Who's in bed with me?
Is this a message
from one of the prostitutes?
They're violent!
Guys, the ovilus just said
that they're violent!
I feel so drained right now.
It's taken all of our energy.
It's so weird.
It takes all of your energy.
Literally feel like
being drugged.
Just...
where you at?
How did the ball
get down there?!
That is the ball!
She's standing here.
. Right here. - Ow!
We're all being affected
by the negative energy
at this globe, arizona,
landmark.
Just...
where you at?
What happened?
I was sitting
in the kiddie chair,
and when I got up,
I didn't realize
that the kiddie chair
stuck to my... my butt.
And some point in time
when I stood up,
it must have fallen.
And it scared you.
So I got stuck in it,
and then it released, I guess.
At first, what I think
is a loud, unexplained bang,
we debunk as being
the small kiddie chair
getting stuck on my rear end.
Aah!
Aah!
I've seen you in my mind.
You are making it
freezing-cold right now.
And I've seen you twice.
Let us see you on our cameras.
She's here.
The image I get is there.
Really?
Go get the sls.
She's standing there.
Ow! Ow!
Ow!
Tripped over that toy.
Ow.
She's evil.
She's evil.
Jay?
Yeah?
What was that? What is that?
Are you kidding me?
Dude! Jay, are you
watching the camera?
What is that?
That's down there, dude.
The ball!
How did the ball
get down there?!
That is the ball!
There's no way.
After further analysis
of our x-camera footage,
we discover billy accidentally
trips into the toy truck,
which then rolls down the
hallway and bumps into the ball,
creating a domino effect,
which leads to the ball
rolling down
the uneven floorboards
and then down
both sets of stairs.
This is debunked.
Jay?
Yeah?
What was that? What is that?
And while all of this
is going on,
we have no idea whatsoever
that aaron is being
severely affected.
- You okay?
- No, I'm not okay.
What's wrong?
I'm just losing my breath,
and then I felt...
I got weak, and then I felt like
my neck was getting choked.
I just don't want you
to empower this thing.
It's too late.
As we are all very concerned
for aaron at this point,
I grab the sls camera to see
if there is something around him
that's affecting him.
And at this time, we capture
an amazing piece of evidence,
an unexplained figure that
appears right in front of aaron.
- It's hard to breathe.
- Where are you at?
It hurts so bad.
Hey, when you sent me
to lay on that bed,
I almost blacked out completely.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,
whoa, whoa.
What?
There was just a figure
right in front of aaron.
Hold on to my back.
He definitely needs
to go outside.
The floor was just shaking.
We're just watching
a live shot of the cameras
that are still rolling upstairs.
And I think we can explain this
as the energy in here,
I believe just
the residual energy alone,
from all the bad things
that happened here,
including the unsolved murders,
that energy is not leaving here.
It's a residual energy,
and that residual energy
is full of suffering
and pain and violence,
every emotion you could think of
that would be
compared to in hell.
And if you have any sensitivity
to spirits or anything at all,
you'll be more vulnerable
to be completely drained,
just like we were.
And that is the byproduct of us
doing over 1,000 investigations,
many of them dark in nature,
many of them demonic.
So we're walking
into something like this
by being a highly
absorbent sponge.
Aaron, you got it the worst,
and this all started because,
you know what,
you got marked when we first
started here during interviews.
I got grabbed. You got grabbed.
You got that red mark,
and that mark meant something.
You should never, ever, ever
step foot up there again, ever.