[dramatic music]
[thunder rumbles]
[Shane] Once we go in here, we're never going to be the same.
Look at the cabinets!
Oh, man, I don't feel too good right now.
[Ray] This feels like a warning.
- [Ray] Something's happening, dude. - [Aaron] What was that?
[Sean] Guys, this is gonna get real.
[Shane] What was that?
Did you hear that? I just saw a full-out shadow.
Is somebody out there?
[loud bang]
[Shane] That is moving on its ******* own.
Destroy them! Vanquish them!
Jereme! Are you hearing that?
Do not let me stop!
I just saw something come into the room. It flew right here into the middle.
It's like all I have to do is just keep putting my brave face on.
I'm tapping out. I'm done.
- [Ray] You good? - [Shane] I saw her death.
[sobbing]
[shushing]
[voice] Get her.
[Brandy] He said, "Get her."
- What the ****? - [Amy gasps]
- You all right? - No!
[Brandy] Oh, my God! This is not a ******* joke.
- [Nick] What the hell was that? - [Sean] Jesus.
Oh, shit!
[Jereme] Off of me!
[Amy] Guys!
[Jereme] Goddamn it! You stay back!
[eerie music]
[narrator] Ed and Lorraine Warren
are the most famous paranormal investigators in history.
Some of their 10,000 cases
were adapted into the biggest horror movies of all time.
When the Warrens looked at the body of their work,
they discovered that in their cases,
it took 28 days to fully pierce the veil between the living and the dead.
They called it the 28-day cycle,
and they wanted to see if this potentially groundbreaking discovery
held true with other investigators.
But the Warrens passed before they could prove it.
So their paranormal research society, NESPR,
now run by their son-in-law, Tony Spera,
is ready to put the 28-day cycle to the test.
Three teams of investigators will spend the next 28 days
in some of America's most haunted, but rarely investigated, locations.
They'll be monitored at all times.
And since the Warrens believed isolation was a key to the cycle,
the teams won't have any contact to the outside
or prior knowledge about where they'll be staying.
If the cycle can be proven...
- Jereme! - Brandy, get down there!
Something's happening, dude.
...it will completely change the way future investigations are conducted.
- What the ****? I'm done. - Hold up.
[gasps]
[narrator] The three teams, one in Denver, Colorado,
another in Madison, North Carolina...
and a third in Preston, Connecticut,
are each headed to their haunted locations.
These three places were chosen because of their dark histories
and increasingly aggressive hauntings.
[ghastly screaming]
If the investigators can find a way to persevere
and withstand the full 28 days,
it is believed the barrier between the living and dead
will become virtually non-existent,
and the secrets of the location will come flooding out.
I'm a little nervous, because I have no idea where we're going.
Not being able to see is kind of an added layer of stress for us.
I don't know about you guys.
It's strange, because it's actually... I feel like they know we're coming.
[narrator] NESPR's Tony Spera has investigated
thousands of his own cases,
but he's brought in paranormal expert and journalist Aaron Sagers
to witness the experiment and help set the protocols and methods of research.
[Aaron] When Tony called me about this, it was something I wanted to be a part of.
If we can prove the existence of this 28-day cycle, it'd be a game changer.
You simply could not conduct a paranormal investigation moving forward
without citing this experiment.
And it would have a profound impact on how we approach the paranormal.
[eerie music]
[Shane] Man.
[Amy] There's, like, a really heavy feeling.
It's pulling my stomach, which usually indicates that there's a male that's here.
So pulling from your stomach, it means male?
- What about female? - My head.
[Ray] It's definitely got a story to tell. I can feel that from out here.
[Shane] Yeah.
[ominous music]
Jereme, I think that we're in way more than what we bargained for.
I do feel like something very tragic has happened here. Yeah.
[Jereme] See, I was afraid of that.
[Brandy] I am definitely feeling a lot of energy right now.
- [Jereme] Yeah? - [Brandy] Yeah.
I keep getting a woman at the top of the stairs,
along with two little kids who keep giggling around the woman.
You've got to be kidding me right now.
- [Jereme] Oh, crap. - [Brandy] Oh, my God.
[Jereme] This is a dry goods store.
A lot of energy coming.
[eerie music]
[Sean] Wow.
The energy coming off this property is pretty intense.
There's an oppressive energy going on. I don't know what it is yet, but...
Whew!
[Nick] Lead the way.
Wow.
Immediate energy. Do you feel it? Yeah, I definitely feel it.
Oh, my gosh. That's heavy.
- Ooh, my heart just started. - Yep.
Yeah, mine too.
All right, let's go upstairs. Check that out.
- God, I feel like... - [Amy] It's really bad here.
[Ray] Soon as you get up the stairs, you feel it.
[Shane] I can't shake it.
[narrator] Paranormal investigators Shane Pittman and Ray Cozzi
have had decades of success connecting to spirits
using sensory deprivation equipment to mimic psychic abilities.
But Amy Parks is a natural sensitive.
She's helped thousands of families speak to their deceased loved ones,
and even aided in several police investigations.
My name is Shane Pittman. I'm a paranormal investigator.
I've been investigating strange and unusual claims for over 16 years.
Anything that cannot be readily explained with science, that's where I come in.
I left my wife and four kids in Georgia to be a part of this.
I've not been away from my family this long,
on top of not being able to communicate with them at all.
That is going to be very difficult.
But as a paranormal investigator, this is unprecedented.
Normally, you're invited to places, but it's for shorter periods of time.
But for 28 days, you never get an opportunity like this.
[Ray] You see that? Light's flickering here already.
- [Shane] Is it? - [Amy] Yup.
[Ray] My name is Ray Cozzi,
and I've been investigating professionally with Shane for over ten years.
Shane's a natural-born leader and a great wingman to have in any haunted location.
If I can survive this, it'd be the biggest accomplishment of my entire career.
I wanna prove to my wife and my five kids that this isn't just some hobby for me.
I take investigating the paranormal very seriously.
Look at that. It started flickering again.
- It's not flickering. - There's something about...
[Amy] There it goes again.
My name's Amy Parks. I am a sensitive and a paranormal investigator.
A sensitive covers a broad range of things.
It's not just, "I can see dead people," or "I can read your future."
Like, I consider a sensitive more of an energy reader.
With my abilities as a sensitive, I am much more prone to spiritual attacks.
Being here for, you know, such a long period of time
and having potentially dark forces trying to overtake me,
I mean, that can be really dangerous.
I have no idea if I'm going to be able to last 28 days.
- [thump] - [Shane] Wait, shh.
- Did you hear that thump? - I did.
It was like footsteps, wasn't it?
Yeah, but we were both doing this.
- But it wasn't here. - It was...
- [object thuds] - [Shane] Listen.
[footsteps thudding]
Come here.
Inside your room.
Holy shit. It's a "click, click."
Like just something being hit.
That's creepy as shit.
I'm definitely 100% sure something happened here.
- Like, right here? - [Amy] This area and over here,
because when I stand over here, the energy is heavier, so...
[Ray] Are you feeling that?
[Amy] I feel, like, something and like someone died here.
Like something traumatic happened here.
I'm getting a vision of a woman with blood dripping down her face.
As if she got hit but she had, like, blood coming down her face.
[narrator] Recent hauntings at Lumber Baron Inn
have been rapidly increasing.
The ghosts of several women, distressed or sometimes disfigured,
are seen roaming the hallways of the second floor.
These upstairs rooms are where we need to start tonight's investigation.
[ominous music]
- Oh, my God, you've got to be kidding me. - Holy shit. Are you shitting me right now?
[Brandy] Oh, my God. My heart just sank in my chest right now.
[Jereme] No way in hell.
[Brandy] Is this a funeral home?
They put us in a freaking funeral home.
[narrator] Sensitive Brandy Miller and demonologist Jereme Leonard
have been exploring Madison Dry Goods
and have come upon an unusual feature on the property on the second floor:
a small display, commemorating the store's history from nearly a century ago
when it was the town's funeral parlor.
[Brandy] You want to check downstairs and see what's there?
Yeah.
My name is Jereme Leonard, and by day, I'm a professional firefighter.
By night, I am a demonologist.
A demonologist is someone who studies religious texts and theology
on the works of demonic activity,
and how that relates into the physical world.
[Brandy] There's a lot of activity that happens in here.
I feel a lot of items that are moved, shifted.
My name is Brandy Marie. I am a fifth-generation psychic medium.
It does go with my mother, my grandmother, my great-grandmother,
and then my great-great-grandmother.
And then my daughter is also a psychic medium.
The woman at the top of the stairs, she's following us around right now.
Participating in this experiment is very important to me,
but I do have to admit I'm really scared that it could be too much.
Dark energies are typically not what I mess with.
Jereme's more experienced in it, so I'm gonna rely on him to protect me.
There's the little kids.
These are the kids I saw when I was outside.
Something very tragic happened to these kids.
I think they were murdered.
[Jereme] Tonight's gonna be entertaining.
[narrator] Brandy and Jereme are starting to plan
for their first night investigation.
The computers at the locations are only being used
to review investigative footage and synthesize data,
and do not have access to the internet.
So, tonight, Brandy, I'm going to put you in a coffin.
- Are you serious? - Oh, I am.
- You'll really gonna put me in there? - Oh yeah, I'm gonna put you in there.
And I'm actually gonna pretend like I'm doing your last rites.
Brandy believes something tragic occurred at Madison Dry Goods.
She sensed it from two young girls as she entered the building.
And Jereme thinks the display coffin may have something to do with,
or symbolize, that tragedy.
So he's proposed using the coffin to provoke or trigger the spirits.
I mean, if you're scared, I understand.
- I'll do it. - I won't blame you.
I mean, you're a trouper if you do.
It's a first, but I'll do it.
Kinda freaked out by it, to be honest with you.
[Jereme] I want to challenge these spirits immediately.
I want to stir up raw emotional, spiritual paranormal activity.
And if those caskets have anything to do with what happened at this location,
then putting Brandy in one will definitely invoke the spirits
and put them on notice real quick.
[dramatic music]
[Sean] Whatever spirits inhabit this house, we mean no harm,
and sympathize if you're trapped here.
And anything you can do to show us that you're here while we're living here,
we appreciate it and be glad to try and help you as well.
This is a strange wallpaper.
I don't like this hallway.
[narrator] Psychic medium Sean Austin
is teaming up with tech gurus Nick Simons and Aaron Thompson.
They did their walk-through of the first floor of Captain Grant's Inn,
but Sean is feeling more energy on the second floor and in the attic.
[Sean] My name is Sean Austin, and I am a psychic medium.
Since the beginning of my journey in the paranormal field,
it's been like a calling for me to not only help the living, but the dead,
these earthbound spirits,
to give them peace and to ultimately cross them over.
- These are the bedrooms up here, or...? - [Nick] Yeah. Look to be.
Bustin' in.
Dude, it's intense in here.
My name's Nick Simons.
I've been a paranormal investigator since 2009.
I'm a skeptic, but I'm also a tech and an audio guy.
I like to use technical devices on investigations
to kind of validate what psychics think they're hearing and seeing.
It's not that I don't believe, I just want to see it for myself.
Who knows? Maybe after 28 days I'll be a true believer myself.
[Aaron] There's a lot of stuff going on here. Ooh!
[Nick] Yeah, that's a hot attic.
Yeah, that's what I'm feelin'.
[Nick] There's definitely spirits that are dying for help here.
My name is Aaron G. Thompson. I've been a paranormal investigator for 22 years.
Nick and I, we have a lot of history together.
He's been with me for 12 years now.
This investigation is much different
than a normal investigation that Nick and I would do.
Oh.
Something just touched me right on my forehead.
Hmm, feels like I got punched in the gut and got chills at the same time.
[narrator] The owners of Captain Grant's
have seen evidence of hundreds of spirits on the property.
And guests even report being touched,
or seeing items move across rooms during their stays.
There's a lot of energy in this house,
but I'm sensing the most spiritual connection on the second floor
where all the bedrooms are.
That's where I want to start this investigation tonight.
[Aaron] Well, this is gonna be intense, guys.
So this first night, the investigators are figuring out the location,
and the ghosts are figuring out the investigators.
The first night of any investigation is one of the most important.
It sets the tone for what's to come,
and it also tells us a lot about the spirits inside.
It's also extremely unpredictable.
I've seen investigations where little to no activity takes place,
or ones where investigators can't even survive the entire night.
[ominous music]
- [Ray] You wanna hit your room? - [Shane] Yeah, we can.
[narrator] In night one of a paranormal investigation,
teams will utilize their high-tech equipment for the first time,
hoping to boost their chances of communicating with spirits.
Each of the teams will start their investigations
in the rooms where they felt the most energy in their first walk-throughs.
In the case of the Lumber Baron Inn,
Amy felt the most energy on the second floor of the property
in Shane's bedroom, and her own, called the Valentine Suite.
- [Ray] You wanna hit your room? - [Shane] Yeah, we can.
[Amy clears throat]
[narrator] Paranormal teams have many different pieces of equipment
they'll use during their investigations.
Shane and Ray have gotten strong results with something called the Estes method.
With the Estes method, Shane cannot see or hear anything going on in the room.
The headphones are connected to a device called a spirit box,
which scans through radio frequencies at a high rate.
It sounds like this to Shane...
[garbled, staticky audio]
It's believed that these frequencies are able to be manipulated
by spirits trying to communicate or speak,
so Shane will pick up words or voices from the other side.
The first time I do an Este session at a new location, I learn a lot.
I can tell how many spirits there are, whether they're good or evil,
whether they're wanting our help or just wanting us out.
"I'm dead. Help. Help me."
We want to help you. Please tell us how.
"I killed them."
Who did you kill?
- "Kill. They need help." - What did he do?
[Ray] Who? Who needs help?
[Shane] "Help us."
[Ray] If you need our help, tell us where you are.
[Shane] "Cara."
"The girl."
"Get out."
"Watch me do it again."
- What did you do? - I don't feel good, guys.
[Ray] Okay, we gotta get him out.
[Shane] I don't feel good.
[exhales]
I don't know, but it feels evil.
The session started with me connected to two women wanting help,
but as it progressed, something else started coming through.
Something more intense trying to harm me.
Now, I'm willing to battle a dark entity,
but doing it without knowing how powerful it is
or exactly what it is would just be foolish at this point.
[narrator] Earlier in the day,
Amy felt the presence of two dead women in her room, the Valentine Suite.
The team will repeat the Estes method there
to see if she can communicate with the same spirits as Shane,
or if new ones come through.
- [Shane] Amy, can you hear us? - [Amy exhales]
[Ray] She can't hear us.
All right, we're in the Valentine room. Estes method.
[garbled, staticky audio continuous]
"Quick. Move. He sees."
Who sees?
[Amy] "**** you."
**** who?
- "Go look. Two." - Is it...?
- Two? - "We are."
You are two? There's two of you?
[Amy] "Get out."
Okay, we will. We just want to help, though.
[door slams]
What the hell?
- Nope, nope, nope, nope. - Hold on.
- Hold on. What? - [Amy] Nope. I'm not doing that.
- What? - [Ray] What?
When I start seeing eyes, I'm not doing that.
You were seeing eyes?
It just was like blackness,
and then I see eyes opening, and I'm like, "Nope."
- You okay? - Yeah.
I'm just... That's where I stop.
- Okay, no... I respect that. - [Ray] Holy shit.
[Shane] I felt the same thing as you. That's why I had to stop.
[narrator] Shane and Amy were both connecting with two women
before another malevolent spirit forced its way into their Este sessions.
What the team doesn't know yet
is that in the 1970s, two women were brutally murdered
in what is now known as the Valentine Suite.
But the case was never solved, and the killer was never caught.
[crickets chirping]
[eerie music]
[thunder crashes]
[Sean clears throat]
[Sean] Someone was just saying...
something about a body and grave.
[narrator] The team at Captain Grant's
is starting their first night investigation in Nick's bedroom,
the spot where Sean felt the most spiritual connection.
I just heard someone say, "I'll rip your heart out." Lovely.
Who's this violent energy?
Who is this...
that's being so threatening?
That's what I'm trying to figure out.
Now I hear that... The name. That name Adelaide or something.
Any of them given you a last name yet?
That's tough, to get last names psychically.
- [Nick] I heard a voice in the distance. - I heard that. Like, a female.
[Nick] Yeah.
I keep tapping into that woman, that desperate woman,
doing this with her hands.
I believe I've made contact with a spirit of a woman named Adelaide.
So now we're gonna use our equipment to try to communicate with her
and any other spirits that might be here.
[radio frequency dialing]
[garbled voice over spirit box]
[narrator] The investigators at Captain Grant's Inn
also use a spirit box to communicate with the dead.
But they're adding an electrostatic generator to amplify the signal
and give the ghosts an added boost of energy to communicate.
[Sean] There's something behind you, Nick. I just saw it.
- [garbled chatter over spirit box] - [Nick] Whoa.
[Sean] It's in front of you.
It's getting real cold over here. I got to get the digital recorder going.
Oh, my God. Whatever you were doing, it was totally reacting to it.
[Nick] It's working. It's working.
[garbled voices under static]
[loud thud]
- [Sean] I heard that. - [Aaron] I heard that too.
[clicking]
Give us some names of the spirits that are with us right now.
We need some names.
[garbled voice over spirit box]
That sounded like "Liam."
Who's that voice coming through? Was that Liam?
The right side of my head just started hurting.
When my head starts to hurt on an investigation,
it's telling me that
there could be a lot of spirits trying to communicate with me at once,
or there could be some sort of oppressive energy
that's coming into the environment that I'm starting to pick up on.
[Nick] All right.
[garbled voice over spirit box]
It just said "Adelaide."
[Sean] How many of you are with us right now?
[garbled voice]
[Nick] "To Mary."
- [static crackles] - "Adelaide."
[voice] Adelaide.
[Nick] "Adelaide," it just said.
What do you want?
[voice] Leave here.
[Sean] "Leave here."
[garbled audio]
We're picking up on a lot of spirits in this house,
and not just from the spirit box, but to me, psychically.
And it's pretty unusual.
I really do feel that there's many souls here
reaching out desperately, trying to get acknowledgement.
[voices whispering]
[whispering] "Shut up."
[Nick] I heard that.
[garbled voices]
[in normal voice] Dude, I'm getting constant chills.
[loud thud]
[garbled voices scream]
[garbled voices continuous]
[Sean] Oh my God, hear that woman. "Help, I want help."
The woman just screamed for help.
[Nick] Well, I just feel it's something really just not good.
[voice] Psychic.
- "He's psychic." - "He's psychic."
Right after I said that. Right after I said that.
It is in-freaking-sane.
Oh! Chills, man.
[voice] No escape.
[Nick] Oh, shit.
[voice] No escape.
[Nick] Holy shit.
"No escape."
What the hell?
Guys, this is going to get real, and this is only night one.
[ominous music]
I should not be preparing my own funeral.
I'm really nervous about the coffin experiment.
And, yes, it may give us answers quicker than normal, but at what cost?
What if an evil energy attacks me while I'm laying there?
[narrator] Jereme and Brandy are going to use
a piece of tech called a REM-POD
to aid their communication with the spirits.
The REM-POD creates an electromagnetic field around the antenna
and reacts to changes in ambient temperature.
If the ghosts are communicating with investigators,
they'll touch the device by breaking that electromagnetic field,
and the REM-POD will light up and beep.
[high-pitched beeping]
[Jereme] So, when you're ready...
[coughs]
As we gather here today to celebrate the life of Brandy,
we all are stricken with grief and anguish
for losing such a great person to the community.
There's kids by me right now.
- [beeping] - [Jereme] But as we sit here, fear not,
to know that although one life has ended,
she is now embarking on a new life.
Jereme, there's somebody standing at the head of me.
[garbled static]
There's energy above me right now.
It's a woman energy, younger female.
Something happened to her due to a male.
[REM-POD beeping]
Who are you?
I see a lot of blood.
By the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
I see a lot of blood on beds.
You see what?
But it's almost... There's multiple at the same time.
It's not just one person.
- Tell me what you're feeling. - Her face is in my face right now.
- Is she trying to tell you something? - She's not telling me anything.
She's just looking at me.
[REM-POD resumes beeping]
It's just something tragic happened with the family.
[static crackles]
Jereme, they're surrounding the casket right now.
I keep hearing, "Get out."
They want me to get out.
- You need to get out? - No.
Why do you want me out?
There's a male energy right now, standing at the head, like, right...
- Okay. - Something touched the top of my head.
[intense music]
[suspenseful music]