Ghost Nation (2019–…): Season 2, Episode 4 - Afterlife Sentence - full transcript

Previously on "Ghost Nation"...

It's pretty interesting --
Christian Fuchs,

one of the most famous
soccer players in the world,

and his wife, Raluca,

they're afraid of the property
they bought.

It's a soccer sports complex
which used to be a prison.

People here were arsonists,
rapists, murderers.

The owners are afraid that
it could be leftover spirits

from when it was a prison.

You know that dying in prison

isn't the way you thought
you would leave this world.



Two of my employees
were locked in

and you always feel as if
there's something watching you.

Do you hear that?

It's like a distant cell door.

Just the mere size
of this place alone.

We need some extra hands.

Absolutely.

I really don't know
what's up here.

Ah ****

We may be trapped here.

I just don't know
where we are, Shari.

"There is something else
in this house."

Make some sort of a noise.

Let us know you're here with us.



I'm right beside you.

We are a community of searchers.

This family is under attack.

We are...

..."Ghost Nation."

I just don't know
where we are, Shari.

There's the complex.
There's the fence.

Edward Gerbila,

are you out here somewhere?

For all we know,
he could have jumped right here.

You know,
this looks like an old field.

Uh-huh.

What if his soul
just kept going?

His body collapsed, and he
just likes walking around.

Let me see. Let me get
a better vantage point.

Is that an opening?
This looks promising.

Look, yep, he made it.

Thank God.

Alright, Edward.

I'm going to be leaving now.

Careful.

Let's go back to command center.
Let's check in with everybody.

We're in Warwick, New York,

deep into an investigation
of the Hudson Sports Complex.

The site's new owners
have plans to turn this

into a state-of-the-art
soccer facility,

but renovations have been halted
in the wake

of rapidly escalating
paranormal activity.

Formerly a prison site
that closed in 2011,

and prior to that,
an all-boys school

from the 1930s to the 1970s.

I got a ton
of information about the jail.

At the time, it was the New York
State Training School for Boys.

Wow.

The sprawling property
spans 36 acres and 15 buildings.

I've been looking
at these historic sites.

I've actually found
a Warwick forum.

This guy's name keeps
coming up -- Nick, Nick Croce.

He's actually doing research
while we're doing research.

It looks like he's doing this
for a thesis

about the school for boys here.

Really?

Yeah, like, he's actually trying
to get his PhD,

so that's pretty credible.
Yeah.

If he's willing to meet up with
us, it can be a nice resource.

Absolutely.

Dave gets a hold of
local researcher Nick Croce,

and he agrees to meet with us
at a building across the campus.

Thanks for meeting up with us.

- Thank you so much.
- My pleasure.

Part of my thesis
has been studying this site

and the different government
institutions that have run here

and, you know,
all the different rumors

and the archival documents
that go along with

when it transpired here.

So this was a school for boys,
right?

Like, a training school
for boys.

In 1937, it was set up
by the state

as a place to send what
they were calling troubled boys

and basically to try
and reform them

so that they would have jobs,

and that's why they had over
14 little shops in addition

to a farm here where they were
forcing these young men to work.

If you read the reports
from this place

from, like, the 1950s
into the 1960s,

it was a super violent place.

There were kids getting stabbed,

kids swallowing needles
and swallowing stones.

The environment here
was not good,

and it was definitely not
an environment

to help kids
that already had issues.

There was a young man
by the name of David

who had surgery
for appendicitis.

According
to the official report,

when he was on
the operating table,

his appendix was positioned
a certain way that often happens

when somebody has been
physically abused.

That's terrible.

In one month alone,

there were over 15 of
these kind of operations,

and when you're talking
about 400

to 450 young men for one month,

that's a lot of appendectomies
conducted here.

That's terrible.

Corporal punishment was common.

Beginning in, like, 1960,

there was a lot
of attempted suicides here.

And in October 23, 1962,
a young man

by the name of Charles McBride
killed himself in cottage B1.

Oh, my God.

It was cottage B1 you said?

Yeah, that's correct.

Do you know
how he killed himself?

He took the bedsheets
off his bed and hung himself.

This was really not a happy
environment for these young men.

In 1914, New York city
bought the site

and they were taking inebriates
or people with addiction

and bringing them here
to make them work.

They opened up
this New York City farm

for inebriates.

It was a doctor
by the name of Charles Stokes.

He started doing experiments
here on people with addiction.

Okay.

He actually believed
that he had found a cure

for people
who had opium addiction,

people who had other addictions.

It was bunk medicine.

Were you able to dig up
any names

associated
with the inebriate farm?

Unfortunately, since Dr. Stokes'
experimental records

and journals are missing,

that's something
I'm still looking for.

Sure.
We don't have any names.

So an inebriate farm
to school for boys to prison.

This property has had
quite an interesting path,

I tell you what.

Armed with new intel
on areas to investigate,

we've decided to bring in
some reinforcements to help out.

Haily, Satori, Cody, and Dustin
are all part of the UPRO family.

- What's going on?
- Hey, look at this.

- Hi, Dad.
- Good to see you, hon.

Hey, Dad.

Having all
these extra eyes and ears

is going to be a huge advantage

as we dive deeper
into this haunting.

'Sup, brother?
Good to see you, man.

- Good to see you.
- Thanks for coming.

Yeah.
Our pleasure.

It's like a reunion.
This is nice.

Dustin, you've been with me
for 15-plus years

and, Haily, Satori,

you guys have been investigators
since you were kids.

Cody, you're part of
the home team as well,

and I just thought it was nice
to get you all out here.

Thank you.

As you guys saw, just pulling
up, the place is massive.

It was bought by
an international soccer star,

Christian Fuchs,
and his wife, Raluca.

They're planning to turn
this place into

a world-renowned soccer
training facility,

but there's been wild activities
since they bought the property,

and especially
since they started trying

to do any renovations here.

When it gets dark,

this building becomes
a whole other kind of place.

They've had contractors
and they've had architects

literally refuse
to even come in.

They've had everything from
people having their hair pulled,

voices, hearing people talking,

people seeing what appears
to be people

walking through the building.

Then employees actually
get locked into a room

and they couldn't get out.

The list just goes on and on.

We've had some great activity

just the minute we got here,
and it's been nonstop.

Yeah.

You heard that too?
Oh, yeah.

There is something
going on here -- you know,

exactly what,
we're not too sure.

We'll show you guys
where command center is

and we'll go from there.

With so much area to investigate

and media to review,
it's time to divide and conquer.

Double the investigators means
we can cover

twice the territory.

Dave, if you want to take
Haily and Satori

and you guys can head over
to the B1 building.

Alright. Sure.
Check that out.

Then, Shari, I mean, you can go
with Cody and Dustin

and you can have this total
building to yourselves.

Alright.

That way any sounds, you know,
isn't human contamination.

Nobody else is around, so...
You guys good with this?

- I'm great.
- Yes.

Make sure you grab the cameras

and whatever else
is going to be needed.

We'll give each one of you guys
a walkie talkie.

So these are all the dormitories

when it was
the Warwick school for boys,

but it's a pretty sad case,
different stories,

different things that happened.

There's like an entire
compound of trauma, too,

so every building
might have a different energy

because of the trauma there
in the different decades.

Exactly.

It's also why we're going
to this particular building,

B1, this is where
Charles McBride

committed suicide.

He used the sheets of his bed
to hang himself.

It's very sad.

There's B1.
There's B1.

That's B1.

- Wow.
- Alright.

Hello?

Sh-sh.

Are you sure
there aren't people here?

Are you sure
there aren't people here?

Hello?

I mean...

Do you think it's a possibility,
since the hallway is small,

we could all stand in separate
rooms in the same area?

Yeah.
Yeah?

If you feel, you know,
safe enough to do that.

Charles McBride...

are you still here?

Do you think your suicide
trapped you here?

I know it's been a long time,
but maybe coming forward

and telling us about
some of the horrible things

that have been done to you
would make you feel better.

I heard that.

Yeah, I heard that.

It came from the other side.

There is an upstairs,

but I really don't know how safe
it is to be up there.

Hello?

Seems pretty solid.

Alrighty.

Just please be careful.
Hold onto the railing.

I have to answer to your father.
You know that, right?

You want to take that mister
and go out to the front?

Yeah. I think right
in that front,

where that apparition walked by,
would be a great spot.

In the first floor
by the entrance,

someone saw a figure
walk by the window

when there was no one there.

Alright, so we've got
the mister here.

Grab that dry ice.
We'll throw it in.

You got it.

Oh, yeah.

Here we are.

With this unit, I think we
could fog

an entire neighborhood
if we wanted.

I mean, if anything
was walking there,

it would be breaking through
that, be shifting it all.

100%.

Are there any prisoners here
with us?

I wonder if standing out here
and looking in --

It could give us
better visibility.

Are you still here with us?

Can you let us know
why you're here?

Jay to Angela.

I'm here.

Just keep your eyes open
just to see

if anything's
breaking through the mist.

Okay.

Anybody?
Is there anybody here?

Wow.
It's so creepy up here.

Oh.

I would not go in there.
I know.

Hello?

An old bed frame there.

There's two.
There's one here and one there.

Yeah, they look old.

We're sorry for bothering you.
We're just here to help you.

I'm going to set this down
right here.

Charles McBride.

We're sorry
for what happened to you.

You can come talk to us
about it.

If you're trying to get
our attention,

can you be louder, please?

Are we bothering you?

Was that a yes?

As we continue to investigate

the paranormal activity

plaguing
the Hudson Sports Complex...

There's definitely
something here

and we can't continue
until something's done.

Dave, Haily, and Satori
are in building B1

trying to zero in
on a voice they heard.

If you're trying to get
our attention,

can you be louder, please?

Are we bothering you?

Was that a yes?

Doesn't like that answer.

I heard that thump again.

Mm-hmm.

Where could it be coming from?

My best guess, it's here.

This is Shari, Dustin, and Cody.

We are on the fourth floor.

There was a woman up here.

She was walking through

and somebody touched her hair.

If that was you that
just touched my hair,

you can touch it again.

I thought I heard a hum
or something back here.

One of these side rooms?
Yeah.

Let's check it out.

Heard five or six taps.

Mm-hmm.

Let's try sitting on the floor.

It sounded like you were making
a knocking sound on the floor,

are you able to do that again?

We're trying to hear you,
so if there's something

you would like to say,

now's the time to do it.

Do you guys think you want
to move around or...?

Yeah.

With more areas
to explore, Dustin and Shari

will stay in the main building,

while Satori and Cody
head underground

to investigate
the tunnel system.

Be careful,
it's slick over here.

This goes on for miles.

Imagine being alone down here.

Oh, pipes.

Tori?

What?

I swear to you,
I just saw a dog.

You know how,
when you shine a light

on a dog's eyes, it reflects?

Yeah, the red light?

That's what I saw.

It was probably
150 feet down that way.

I thought I heard footsteps.

Hello?

There's nobody here.

Alright.
We just need to make sure

that it's not these pipes
or anything.

They're not in use.

There's nothing flowing
through here right now.

This is a complete dead zone.

I'm really confused
about the dog.

After a tense night,
we regroup in the morning

to review footage and audio,

and to further research
the property.

Where's the big red dot
that says, "You are here"?

Boop!

When I came here, the last thing

I was expecting to see
was a dog.

Cody and Satori are in
the auditorium

trying to substantiate
the bizarre dog

sighting down in the tunnels.

What's that?

Examples of innovative programs

implemented here
are puppies behind bars,

in which inmates raised puppies
to become guide dogs

for the handicapped
and disabled veterans.

That gives me
the chills reading that.

I feel chills throughout
my entire body right now.

"Give them something to do."
So, basically they were

training dogs to help people
with disabilities.

It would absolutely make sense

that this could be
something residual.

And you got to think
what my father...

Are you guys doing that?

No, it's right here.
It's vibrating on the floor.

Hello?

You're getting this, right?

Are you trying to
tell us something?

It makes sense. There's just
so much energy here.

So many people that have
come through these walls.

So much tragedy and emotion.

After several nights of
intense investigation,

Steve, Dave, and I decide
to use this facility

in the way
its new owners intended.

What is this, a soccer field?

Oh, that would be exactly
what it is, yeah.

Whoa!

Dude!

- Whoa!
- Ohh!

As a sports complex, this
place has a lot of potential.

But the property's dark past
echoing through these halls

has prevented Christian Fuchs
and his wife, Raluca,

from taking it
to the next level.

Tonight is our last night here,
so we plan to make it count.

And you have a walkie,
or you don't?

I don't.
Alright.

Our group breaks up
into teams of two

to cover as much ground
as possible.

Guys, be safe.
Careful.

Steve and I make our way down

into the elaborate
tunnel system...

...where Cody had
that strange dog sighting.

With multiple claims
of disembodied voices

and mysterious knocking sounds,

this part of the complex seems
to be a hotbed of activity.

Do we see anything down here
that could look like a dog?

I didn't. I mean, I was trying
to flash the light.

And nothing that even gives
that impression.

Holy crap.

This just keeps on going.

I mean, they just don't stop.

How -- How much further
do you want to go?

Until it stops.

Is that you?
I didn't say anything.

You didn't just "whoo"?
No.

That was definitely
like a "whoo" noise.

That wasn't you?

No.

Listen, listen.

Hello?

Listen, listen.

Hello?

We're not sure
if we're in a prison

or in the Warwick School
for Boys.

Either one of those places
familiar to you?

Maybe it's following us
as we walk.

We can try to walk further.
Let's see what happens.

That's a good idea.

- ****
- What the hell?

You okay?

Just whack your arm.

I whacked my arm on the pipe.

- It scared the hell out of me.
- It scared you?

Well, I ducked, I didn't know.

Good reflexes.

Haily and Dustin,
heading to the auditorium.

Remembering the claims the doors
had closed

and people got locked
in here previously.

And then your sister and Cody.

They were getting the knocks
and the responses.

What's vibrating on the floor?

Hello?

Maybe we should put
the recorder up there?

Alright.

I'm trying to speak to anyone
that may be here with us.

There are chairs in here
you could move.

I want you to try to grab
one of the baseballs

and see if we can
get that to go.

Alright, just kind of train
the camera on that too.

So if at any time,
if you can move this object,

this baseball,
even just a little bit.

Just something to give us
a sign that you're here?

Do you feel stuck here?

I feel like we're getting lost.

Dude, we've been lost
for an hour.

What do we have?

An exit I hope.

Or on an entrance
to somewhere else.

Oh, my God.
That's a tight little fit.

What is this?

We'll just call this
the insulation room.

This is the craziest.

I have no idea where we are.

This is --

Careful on these stairs, Steve.

These are old.

Holy crap.
What did we get ourselves into?

We have broken out of prison,
but we're still in prison.

And we'll probably get more time

added to our sentence.

Oh, is that the soccer
facility with the lights

there where the bathrooms are?

It's something.

Wow. We did cover
some ground, huh?

Alright. We don't have
to scale the fence.

Let's go.
Let's get out of here.

Alright, let's start the audio.

This is Satori and Cody
in the fourth floor.

I feel like it's getting colder
and eerier

the more we walk
towards this side.

Anybody in here?

Feel free to talk into
this little box here.

This hopefully will be able
to hear your voice.

I'm going to stand on the stage.

Wait, wait.

Wait, wait, wait, wait.
Hold on.

If you're here,
can you give me three knocks?

Like this.
You do that?

That was one.

It got louder.

This is crazy.

It got louder.

This is crazy.

It's echoing
through the stadium.

I can feel it.

Were you somebody who was here
during the time

when this property
was an inebriate farm?

Are you somebody that was part
of the school for boys here?

Were you here
when this was a prison?

I wonder if anybody's
getting the same results.

So this should be
right underneath...

Below the stage.
...the stage

After emerging
from the tunnels in one piece,

I take over for Dave
at the monitors

while he and Steve
check out the area

directly underneath
the auditorium

where Satori and Cody
heard those knocks.

Wow.

Hey.

Hello?

The noises that Satori
and Cody heard...

...anything down here could make
that sort of banging sound.

I mean, something hitting
a pipe maybe.

And did it sound like to them
it was coming from below them?

- Yes.
- Okay.

Our friends Satori and Cody
were upstairs

and they think
that you may have been

making some knocking sounds.

Could you knock for us?

If there is somebody
down here with us,

wherever you are,
please let us know now.

It's upstairs.

Yeah.

Tango to command center.

Go ahead.

We're done here.

I don't know what you want
to do from here.

We can wrap it tonight.
We get a lot of stuff to analyze

and start again early tomorrow.

Alright.
We'll see you soon.

It was nice to come down
and just look to see

if there's anything obvious,
you know,

but there really isn't.

There's just pipes
and just the basement.

Yeah, so, alright.
Let's head up.

After our extended investigation

at the Hudson Sports Complex,

we've collected
an abundance of evidence.

The new owners of this property
are committed to converting it

into a world-class
athletic facility.

But whether or not they proceed,

depends a lot on
how Raluca and Kirsten...

- Hey, there.
- Hi.

...process our findings.

Thanks for coming back
and hanging out with us.

So when we first got in here,
just within the first night,

we started having
crazy activity.

Do you usually pick up activity
as soon as you go into a place?

Not always, no.

When we started
setting up equipment,

Dave and I headed upstairs.

While we're there,
we heard a door open and close.

Nobody else was in the building,
just us.

Not even five minutes
into the place

and things are starting
to happen, you know?

Hear the door?
It looks very scary.

We were able to figure out
which door made the sound.

Ready?
- Yep. Yeah.

That's it?

Yeah, it sounds like it.
Yeah.

While we were trying
to figure out the door,

there was a weird voice,
and it sounded like female.

Let's see if you can hear
this female voice.

Okay.
I'll play this for you.

Just like frickin' Angela.
She just walked in.

Stuff started happening.

Oh, yeah.

So it was definitely the female
voice that we heard

while we were in here.

That was very, very interesting.

At one point, we were able
to find

the blueprints of the building.

I mean, look at this, just the
mere size of this place alone.

We decided to call in some of
our other investigators

to help us out.

They headed up
to the fourth floor

and while they were there,
it was a weird voice.

I want to get your take on it,

and then we'll tell you
what we think it says.

So there was a woman up here.

Her name is Angela.

It sounds like, I don't know,
about three or four words.

It's not --
Exactly. It's tough to hear,

but we thought it was saying,
"God stays here."

And the only reason that
really meant something was

because it's the fourth floor.
It's where chapel places are.

Her name is Angela.

And somebody touched her hair.

I can see how it says that.

Another voice that happened

while they were up
there investigating.

Let's get your take on it.

Sure, sit on the floor.

It sounded like you were making
a knocking sound on the floor.

Are you able to do that again?

What is that?

Another voice that happened

while they were investigating.

Let's get your take on it.

Sure, sit on the floor.

It sounded like you were making
a knocking sound on the floor.

Are you able to do that again?

What is that?

It's a voice, but...
Yes.

...some of our investigators
thought it said,

"I miss my kids."

Sure, sit on the floor.

It sounded like you were making
a knocking sound on the floor.

Are you able to do that again?

Yep.
Yeah?

It's really clear.
That would make sense,

especially if you're locked away
for a long time.

Absolutely.

We did find some things that
jive with the history, right?

Mm-hmm.

The haunting phenomena seems
to come from two scenarios,

positive emotions or negative
emotions or experiences.

Here, it really does seem to be
more the positive side of things

missing their kids, worship.
Whether it has intelligence,

I think that there may be a few
different types of phenomena

happening here,
some with intelligence

and some just not aware
of time and space.

That's so cool.

There's all different types
of hauntings.

You have your intelligent, you
have your residual and stuff,

but you also have this weird one
which is a time slip

where sometimes these things
that you're talking to

are still living a normal day
in their life.

And for whatever reason,
that veil is thin enough

that they're able to hear you
and you're able to hear them.

Kind of like time
is overlapping on itself

in some of these types
of hauntings

that we've been seeing
over the last 10, 15 years.

The idea that we could be
dealing with a unique

time-slip type of haunting
first occurred to us

when we broke out
our fog machine.

Check this out.

The mist that it
generated formed

around a rectangular cut-out.

And fog is everywhere
but one spot.

And it was the exact same shape
as one of the beds

we had found
in a different room.

That is bouncing off
of something there.

Like a bed.

Almost as if a bed
was still there,

perhaps frozen in time,
yet invisible to us.

Like the perfect shape of a bed

that would be in one
of these schools or something.

Then we reviewed our audio
recordings and heard the EVPs.

"I miss my kids."

And, "God stays here."

We realized they are said
in the present tense,

like they're also
somehow trapped in time.

That bolstered our theory of
a possible time-slip haunting.

And that sounds a little strange
or a little farfetched,

but in the terms of science,

there are no physicists
that believe in ghosts.

But they believe
in parallel dimensions,

parallel universe...
Time overlapping.

...time overlapping.
They all believe in that.

Interesting.

How do you think your husband's
going to take this?

Oh, he's going to be fascinated.
Yeah?

Yeah. He's going to say,
you know, "That's good.

They didn't find anything
that's too scary

for the eventual kids
that will be in here."

So do you plan on doing
renovations then?

Definitely. Very soon,
we're going to start the work.

Love to see that happen.

Thanks for having us out.
We greatly appreciate it.

We're willing to
come back anytime.

Let us know,
because we loved this place.

But you need us,
we're only a call away.

We'll call you in the summer
when it's nice and warm.

Call us in the summer.
Yeah. That's fine.

The facility that is now
the Hudson Sports Complex

has lived many lives
and seen many deaths.

We only hope
the ambitious future

that the determined new owners
have planned for this place

can redeem its dark past.

There's definitely
some unfinished business here.

Our time-slip theory
and all these other buildings

need further exploration.

As soon as Christian,
Raluca, and Kirsten are ready,

we're eager to return.