Previously on "Ghost Mine"...
Fire in the hole!
What happens if it doesn't go off?
I have to go in and check it.
A spike in paranormal activity...
- [Boom] - [Yells]
- Oh! - Oh.
Precedes a mysterious and dangerous fuse failure
in the newly discovered ballroom.
[bleep] I'm out of here, Patrick.
And after a terrifying close encounter
with the paranormal...
Move, move, go!
Patrick and Kristen stumble upon strange clues
to the Crescent's past.
Patrick, look at this.
Looks like Chinese.
After research reveals
a connection to Sumpter's tragic, hidden history...
There were 2,000 to 3,000 Chinese miners around here,
but they were not counted on any census records,
so no one knows for sure.
Patrick and Kristen gather the miners
to share a strange-sounding EVP.
It's basically someone saying, "I'm lost" in Cantonese.
And the meeting is brought to a crashing halt.
[Bang] [Screams]
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♪ lord have mercy on a proud man's soul ♪
♪ blood so deep that it never runs cold ♪
♪ lord have mercy on a proud man's soul ♪
♪ devil's gonna fight you when you find that gold ♪
♪ lord have mercy on a proud man's soul ♪
As another work day
swings into full gear at the Crescent mine...
The crew deals with an increasingly dire situation.
The gold content of low-grade ore
the men were mining in the western tunnel
is beginning to dry up.
If we don't find another vein soon,
I don't know how we can continue.
If this season is going to be successful,
the attempt to dogleg around the cave-in
off the ballroom in the eastern tunnel
is of vital importance.
However, numerous blasts...
still have not broken through.
As the day comes to an end, the paranormal investigators
prepare to share their latest evidence,
a potential EVP that sounds as if
it could be in a foreign language.
That's a good way to put it.
So, what does it mean?
It's basically someone saying "I'm lost."
- [Bang] - [Screams]
- Oh! - Holy crap!
- Damn, go! - What the hell was that?
What the hell was that?
Here.
- Is that a rock? - See anyone down there?
Check the cars.
There's nobody over here!
- I didn't see nothing, man. - There's nobody.
I don't see nobody climbing up the ridge anywhere.
Find anyone?
I mean, there's no way
that something could have ran that fast, down or up.
We'd have seen the dust from it.
We ran outside and we couldn't find anything.
- I mean, we were right on it. - For weeks,
the crew has reported seeing a potential trespasser,
a shadowy figure that's been disrupting work at the camp.
But as with earlier encounters,
there are no easy answers to be found.
Yeah.
Maybe it wasn't a person.
This isn't the first time we've encountered a trespasser
that just vanishes, that isn't there.
Whatever it is, guys, it's trying to scare you.
He's not scaring us. We're getting pissed.
We're just gonna have to figure out
a new security system.
Or a better way to make a paycheck.
But hitting the cook shack has me kind of confused.
All the guys think it's this trespasser,
but we were out there pretty quick,
and again, there was nobody out there.
It's something that we really have to investigate
and figure out what it is.
As night falls on the Crescent,
Patrick and Kristen prepare to conduct
an investigation in hopes of finding some answers
as to who or what is disrupting their camp.
Want us to start with the debunk?
Yeah, let's do it.
Before we jump to any conclusions,
Patrick and I had an idea to set up an experiment
to see if someone could run away quickly enough
to avoid being seen.
I had Patrick go outside the cook shack and throw a rock.
I sat inside.
As soon as Patrick threw the rock,
he ran off, and I ran outside to see if I could find him.
I see you.
We tried this several different ways,
and each time I could see him.
It's possible that someone could have run off
without being seen, but it seems highly unlikely.
Looking to document anything out of the ordinary,
the paranormal investigators begin
sweeping the area around the cook shack.
I'm gonna start with a thermal sweep while you do baseline.
Okay.
The incident at the cook shack was very alarming.
Kristen and I decided to do an investigation of the shack
and the area around it to see if there could be
a paranormal explanation to what happened.
So, we're at 0.0 milligauss,
and we're around 57 degrees.
There's nothing up on the hill.
Is there anybody here with us?
Give us a sign that you're here.
Are you afraid of the miners?
If you're here, make a noise.
- [Rustling] - Hear something over there?
Sounded like it.
Anything?
Not seeing anything.
Readings are the same.
0.0 milligauss, 57 degrees.
Nothing on thermal. Nothing on k-2.
Could have been a little critter.
Yeah.
Is there anything here with us?
Patrick, I'm not getting anything.
No. It's completely dead here.
Nothing thermal.
- Nothing on k-2. - Mm-mm.
Ending EVP session.
As the investigation winds down,
Patrick and Kristen call it a night.
Although our investigation
didn't turn up any obvious evidence,
we can't deny that something strange happened.
It's pretty clear that something or someone
is trying to get our attention.
Meanwhile, with the vein of low-grade ore
in the Western tunnel almost gone,
the miners gather around the campfire
to discuss their next move.
You guys know what you got to do,
and that's just dogleg around that cave.
We're breaking rock.
I mean, it shouldn't take us much longer
to get back to where we got to be.
Don't get down in the dumps that much, guys.
We're close to breaking through,
so let's just all keep our chins up and forge ahead.
That's all we can do.
If the dogleg in the eastern tunnel doesn't work,
the entire season could be in jeopardy.
With the dogleg, we've got to get it punched through.
We've got to get into that high-grade ore.
Our families are depending on us.
I mean, it's a make-it-or-break-it
situation right now.
Yeah, and it... I mean, it seems like
we're working completely off of a gamble, you know?
Well, sometimes that's what it's all about, Jay.
The next days, the miners implement their new plan.
Patrick and Kristen head nearby to Baker City
to further their research
on the connection between the Chinese miners
and the Crescent.
They found an authority on the subject,
author and historian Greg Nokes.
They're hoping he can shed more light
on this tragic piece of Sumpter's forgotten history
and how it may relate
to the paranormal activity they found at the mine.
Arriving at their meeting place, the Geiser Grand Hotel...
This is so beautiful, Patrick.
They're immediately struck
by the look of this massive victorian structure.
- Look at that tower. - That's pretty amazing.
The Geiser grand is a beautiful hotel,
and it seems very out of place
when you look at Baker city as a whole.
Wow, it's pretty amazing. This is beautiful.
You don't expect to see this amount of,
like, just beautiful woodwork and iron work and the...
The stained glass. It's a beautiful surprise.
- You must be Patrick. - Hey, there.
I'm Patrick. Nice to meet you.
- And you must be Kristen. - Hi.
I'm Greg Nokes.
While doing some research about the Chinese miners
who lived in this area, I came across Greg's book,
and I learned that he knows a lot
about the Chinese in this area.
So, Greg, we really just want to know how they were treated,
what happened to them, what they were doing up there.
The Chinese came to this area for two reasons.
One, to work on the rail road and then to mine gold.
But by the early 1870s,
the country went into a recession,
and so suddenly there were not enough jobs.
So whites began turning on the Chinese,
saying "you're taking our jobs. You're taking our jobs."
So there were a lot of crimes
committed against the Chinese throughout the American west.
But I think perhaps the greatest illustration of what...
how Chinese were treated
was a massacre that occurred in Hells Canyon in 1887,
in which nearly three dozen Chinese miners were massacred.
Some of the bodies were just found along the river.
It was a savage act of racial hatred.
This story was covered up for more than a century.
Wow.
- Coming up on Ghost Mine... - [boom]
The miners break through to the unknown.
What the hell is that?
And confronted by the past...
Were miners buried here?
Patrick and Kristen attempt communication
with the afterlife.
Do you know of the Crescent mine?
[Clattering]
- Did you hear that? - What was that?
While visiting with author Greg Nokes in Baker City,
Patrick and Kristen are told
the story of the gruesome fate encountered
by a group of hard-working Chinese miners
during the area's first gold rush.
In Hells Canyon in 1887,
nearly three dozen Chinese miners were massacred
by a gang of white horse thieves.
Some of the bodies were just found along the river.
It was a savage act of racial hatred.
This story was covered up for more than a century.
I had no idea how brutally the Chinese were treated.
It's horrible, and I don't think
a lot of other people know, either.
The gang threw their bodies into the river
after they stole the gold, and the bodies floated,
some of them, all the way to Lewiston, Idaho,
65 miles to the north.
And when the bodies were pulled out the... of the river,
those that were found showed evidence
of having been mutilated.
- Wow. - That's horrible.
The rancher said that he'd found some of the bodies
along the riverbanks, buried them,
you know, where he found them.
The Chinese belief, as I understand it,
was that if you were not buried in your home village...
you were buried in foreign soil, for example...
that your spirit would wander aimlessly for eternity.
So we have souls that aren't at rest right now.
According to the Chinese tradition, yes.
Those souls are wandering aimlessly.
Do you know of any cemeteries
up in the mountains near Sumpter?
I know there's supposed to be one up there,
but I've not seen it myself.
Up at the Crescent, we found this stone structure,
and on one of the stones we found two Chinese characters.
They translated to "house of cremation."
Does that mean anything?
I do know that in all the Chinese cemeteries,
they have what is called a burner house,
and the burner house was used not to cremate bodies
but for prayer papers.
The Chinese had prayer papers
that they would use to honor the dead
and to protect them against evil spirits...
Mm-hmm.
And they burned these in the burner houses
at the time of the original burial.
If we have Chinese miners buried up at the Crescent,
this could explain some of the hauntings
that we're experiencing.
If you want to know more,
the Chinese have a cemetery in Baker city.
The Chinese weren't allowed to bury their remains
in Caucasian cemeteries.
Take the main road to the outskirts.
You'll know it when you see it.
- Both: All right. - We'll go do that now then.
- Thanks again. - Thank you.
Back up at the Crescent,
the majority of the crew is working in the western tunnel,
but after weeks of continuous mining,
the low-grade ore vein they were following to ensure a paycheck
is almost entirely mined out.
If the season is going to be a success,
the men need to find new ore veins,
and they need to do it quickly.
Outside the mine's entrance,
Eddie lays out the plan for Mikey and Jay.
What I want to do is I want to take
just half of that brow off of there.
Today, they'll be working in the ballroom
off the eastern tunnel.
They're attempting to create a dogleg around the cave-in
in order to reach the pay rock
they hope is on the other side.
You can set my hoses up, drag my machine in there.
But this time, Jay is looking
to change around the pecking order.
I'll tell you what.
Why don't you go set my drill up so I can get to work?
This guy's getting a little big for his britches over he.
He is getting good on that jackleg.
He ain't getting as good as me.
That drill's got maybe ten pounds on you.
How the heck do you expect to drill that round out
- as fast as I can? - First off, I don't let it
kick my ass all day. I mean, it's...
Well, I can't see either one of you
drilling around right now,
standing around there jackin' your jaws.
This one's already got a big head.
That one's getting a big head.
- [Laughs] - I know.
And they're discussing who's the faster hand on the jackleg.
Really? Well, I'll tell you guys what.
If you want a gentleman's competition,
we'll set that up for you.
I'm down for a little competition.
But in the meantime,
get your asses in there and get to work.
Come on, buddy.
[Drill whirring]
As the men get to work,
thoughts of the rivalry are temporarily forgotten.
If the season is going to be a profitable one,
success of this dogleg could be the key.
So Mikey and I were back there getting everything set up
so we can go ahead and blast
and have that all taken care of
and hopefully get back around that dogleg
and see if we can find anything back there.
That's something the team really needs right now.
We need to get some money.
Driving home from their meeting
with Greg Nokes, Kristen and Patrick,
eager to learn whatever they can about the paranormal activity
that plagues the Crescent mine...
Oh, my gosh, Patrick. I think that's it.
Yeah. Right there?
Follow Greg's lead and arrive
at Baker's small, historic Chinese cemetery.
Amazing. Look at that.
When we came upon the Chinese cemetery,
I was very curious to where this could be leading us.
Chinese prayer house.
So this is where they burned prayer papers and incense.
Seeing the burn house here at the Chinese cemetery,
the stones are very similar to what we found up at the Crescent.
"Grave depressions where bones removed for reburial in China."
So every depression is where a body was.
That is pretty amazing.
You just see depressions everywhere.
I honestly have never been in a cemetery
where the graves have been dug up.
It was really kind of spooky to see.
Is that a gravestone?
I thought they were all dug up.
That's odd.
That's really odd. Look.
A Chinese man.
Born 1882, died 1938.
And if you remember what Greg said,
about being buried in unclean soil,
his spirit's not at rest.
Knowing that there was a body left behind
makes me wonder if the man that is buried here
is still wandering and restless.
[Beep]
Is there anyone still buried here who has a message?
Let your presence be known.
Can you tell us why you were left here alone?
Were you a miner?
Give us a sign of your presence.
- Anybody he... - [rattling]
Did you hear that, Patrick?
Yeah. What is that?
Were you a miner?
While investigating an old Chinese cemetery
outside the nearby city of Baker,
Patrick and Kristen uncover clues
that may connect the ongoing
paranormal activity at the Crescent
to a grisly and long-buried past.
Give us a sign of your presence.
- Anybody he... - [rattling]
- Did you hear that, Patrick? - [Wind whistles]
Yeah. What is that?
There's a lot of wind out here.
[Wind whistles]
Yeah.
After speaking with Greg,
I assumed that all the Chinese miners' bodies
had been dug up and sent back home,
but we were surprised to find
just one grave in this Chinese cemetery.
This person, buried in foreign soil and not sent back home,
could be a lost soul.
I still can't get over, though, is...
there's only 67 grave sites.
I would think there would have to be another cemetery
somewhere that we don't know about.
Well, we found that structure similar
to that one up at the Crescent mine.
When Patrick and I saw the burn house,
it immediately reminded me of what we found up in the woods.
The proportions seemed to be very similar.
It seemed to be made out of the same rock.
There could be another grave site up there,
and none of these graves have markers.
Maybe they just didn't mark their graves.
Yeah, but if that's true then that means
none of them were dug up.
That would be a lot of restless spirits.
We've learned a lot just seeing this,
and it kind of opens up our eyes
to what could be up at the Crescent mine.
Are there bodies up there? We may never know,
but the possibility is there
and we have to keep that in mind
when we're doing our investigations.
And back at the Crescent,
the crew prepares to blast another heading
in the eastern tunnel,
despite indications that the paranormal activity
increases with each new detonation.
Fire in the hole!
And with gold content dropping in the western tunnel,
the men are resolved in their plan
to get through the barrier.
- Here we go! - [Laughs]
[Explosions]
As the dust settles,
Mikey and Buckett get to work barring down...
Oh, yeah, baby!
And immediately it becomes obvious...
this blast was successful.
The miners will finally see what is beyond the barrier.
Always the joker, Buckett uses the opportunity
to have some fun at Mikey's expense.
Looks like you could crawl in there, buddy.
Look, man. I got my head in here.
- Wow, Buckett. - What the hell is that?
What the hell is that?
[Yells] Hey, man, hey!
Buckett!
Get out here. Hey!
- [Laughs] - You!
Nuh... oh, [Bleep]!
- Really? - Yes, sir. [Laughs]
Dude.
- [Bleep], man. - [Laughs]
Sorry, dude. I couldn't resist, man.
- Sorry. [Laughs] - It's all good.
And while the breakthrough is reason to celebrate,
it's only the first step in the process.
The crew still needs to enlarge and muck out the opening
before they can get through to see what's on the other side.
- Here you go, grandpa. - Yeah.
In the past, a new opening in the mine
would be a perfect reason
to bring in Patrick's robotic probe.
But after her last ill-fated trip
into the ballroom...
[Boom]
R.I.P.A. 3 has been out of commission.
This is a mess in here.
Just for the heck of it, why don't you give it a try?
See if you can make the wheels turn.
[Beeping]
Well, that part's working.
This is the first time we've switched on R.I.P.A.
since the blast, and, um,
I was actually surprised that the, uh,
the wheels are still running.
Well, the good thing is the main motor...
the drive motor... works.
Mechanically, I think you're gonna be okay,
but it took a pretty healthy hit on electronics.
When the blast goes off and that creates
- a lot of static electricity... - Yeah.
I think it fried 'em.
I can send it to my buddy who helped me build it,
and he can rewire.
R.I.P.A. can be repaired.
It'll take an electrician
to rewire and replace the transmitters and receivers.
Well, good thing is we don't have to lift her up on a truck.
We'll just drive her up since the wheels work.
While R.I.P.A. is sent out for repairs,
Kristen follows up on the team's ever-deepening investigation
into the history of the area's Chinese miners.
Looking to understand
the paranormal activity they've encountered at the mine,
the trail has led her
to the nearby mining city of granite
and the man-made formations known as the Chinese walls.
Today I'm heading to the Chinese walls.
Tony told me that this is where
the Chinese miners lived and worked,
so I really want to check it out.
With much of the tragic history
lost to prejudice, politics, and the passage of time,
the contribution of Chinese workers and miners
to the old west is easy to overlook.
But the strangely carved rock...
Looks like Chinese.
And the peculiar EVP recording
Patrick and Kristen found in their earlier investigations...
Turns out it was Chinese.
Indicate that some of those miners
may have made their way to the Crescent.
Arriving at the infamous Chinese walls,
Kristen is amazed by what she finds.
When I saw the Chinese walls, I was really awestruck.
It was just incredible,
and to think about the kind of hard labor
they went through to build those?
I was just astonished.
Prevented by law to work new claims,
the Chinese miners were forced to sift through
what was left behind by other miners.
Unbelievably, over 60 acres of hand-stacked walls
stretch as far as the eye can see.
I brought my full-spectrum camera
to take pictures of the walls.
As I was walking along the walls I kept hearing rocks falling,
which would be normal considering, you know,
they're unstable and they've been there for a very long time.
[Shutter clicking]
[Rocks shifting]
Surrounded by the heartrending history,
Kristen notices something unusual.
The odd thing was, is that I wasn't moving
and I could hear rocks falling.
[Rocks shifting]
[Clattering]
It would make sense to hear them falling by my feet,
but they sounded like they were falling
from either direction of me, at the same time.
[Rocks shifting]
[Clattering]
What is that?
Coming up on Ghost Mine...
We got a problem.
As the mine's gold content continues to drop...
Don't see any gold, do you?
A follow-up investigation at the Chinese walls
sees a surge of paranormal activity.
I'm getting some strange spikes.
[Rocks shifting]
What is that?
While exploring the infamous Chinese walls,
Kristen is surrounded by a series
of eerie and mysterious sounds.
It sounded as if rocks were being shifted and moved around,
and that seemed really odd to me,
so I think it's important for Patrick and I
to get back here and do a thorough investigation.
After an unsettling visit to the Chinese walls,
Kristen is eager to share the details of her experience.
Um, so... I didn't expect
the walls to be that long and that big.
I mean, it's just miles one way and miles another way,
and some places the rocks
were actually stacked up, like, eight feet.
And no mortar, nothing?
- Just stacked. - No, just stacked.
- That's amazing. - Yeah.
When I first got to the Chinese walls it was dead silent,
and then all of a sudden I kept hearing rocks falling,
and I'm standing on the rock wall,
and they're falling from either side.
More than just the shifting of the rocks?
Mm-hmm.
Kind of like the rocks falling in the mine
- that we heard the other day? - Mm-hmm.
- Just... something else? - I don't know.
It didn't feel natural to me.
Do you think it's good to go back there and investigate?
I think because of probably what took place there,
and I'm sure there were tragedies
and probably pretty high emotions,
I think it would be a good place to check out.
Determined to learn if the tragic story
of the area's immigrant Chinese
plays into the seemingly high levels of paranormal activity
plaguing the Crescent miners,
Patrick and Kristen quickly make plans
for a follow-up investigation.
In the mine, as the men work to clear away
and enlarge the newly-blasted dogleg
at the ballroom off the eastern tunnel,
the rest of the crew is busy sampling ore
from the Western tunnel.
Jay, would you please run over and grab me
some of that ore that he just dumped?
Yeah. You got it.
Be careful he doesn't run over you.
All right.
In a hard rock mine,
the search for new gold is an ongoing process.
Many veins can be located and mined out
in a single season.
Let's take a look at this. See what we got.
- [Hammer tapping] - Nothing is assured,
and there's always a chance the gold will simply run out.
- Don't see any gold, do you? - Nope.
- I don't see nothing, Dick. - We're done on that heading.
Greybeard and Duck realize
the vein they've been following is tapped out.
Hey, Stan?
- We got a problem. - What?
That vein was running 22, 24 inches.
We're pinched down on it in that heading
- we're bucking now. - Yeah?
Go look at that last face they did,
and you can see where the vein is just pinched out.
[Sighs] Ah, great.
We really needed that vein.
It was making our bills, our costs.
With no gold coming in,
making progress in the new drift off the ballroom
becomes a matter of vital importance.
- What's up? - The vein pinched.
We're gonna have to find something else now.
I'll get Eddie over here and you guys go in
and just see if we can pick up that other one
that was going straight ahead on us.
Now we get back in there looking for another vein.
Try to get back into some money rock.
[Coughs] All right?
- All right, I'll park it. - All right.
But with the new day, Stan has a plan.
Sensing a drop in morale,
the Crescent's foreman has made an executive decision.
He gives the miners some time off
and invites their families in for a visit.
You know, on these camp jobs,
once you get the families here,
it relives a lot of stress and tension on them,
and come Monday they're happy to go back to work.
They're full of energy and hopes,
and it's great to get everybody together.
You look nice.
My mom showed up, so that's really good.
I'm really happy to see her. I'm kind of a mama's boy.
And for this mining season,
Jamol's wife and kids have also paid a visit.
- This is my wife, Sabrina. - Both: Hi.
My family finally got a chance to come here and meet everybody,
and... and it feels awesome.
One, two, three. Click.
It's been a while since I've seen my family,
so it's really great to have 'em back up here.
[Laughter]
It's great to see my wife and son.
And for the entertainment, a little contest.
Hey, everybody.
- [All responding] - You know, uh...
The rivalry between Jay and Mikey
over who's the better jacklegger
has finally come to a head.
We're gonna have a jackleg contest.
[Cheers and applause]
It's gonna be between Jay and Mikey.
[Applause] Griffith!
[Laughs]
The Verburgs! Go, team Verburgs!
The one that loses, what do they have to do?
Wash dishes for Jamol for two days.
- Whoo! - [Cheers and applause]
Hey, Mikey.
- Your mom can't drill for you. - [Laughter]
You know, I grew up around this business,
my whole entire life.
My grandpa, my dad, and myself,
we're all miners.
So if this computer guy thinks he can come up here
and try and take what's mine,
he's got a whole 'nother think coming to him.
Here's what we're gonna do.
Jackleg's set up on the rock.
Drill steel's beside it.
Your time starts as soon as you grab that jackleg.
Put your steel in, collar your hole
in the square that's been assigned to you,
and just go for it.
Now, once you're in far enough,
pull your drill steel out,
take it out of the machine,
put everything back like it was,
and that's the end of your time.
All right? Best man wins.
[Cheers and applause]
I am gonna cream Mikey.
He may have the years, but, you know, I've got the brawn.
He's a skinny little guy.
Ready, set, go!
- Both: Go, Jay! - Come on!
Whoo!
- Go, Jay, go! Whoo! - Go for it, Jay!
- Get your... - Yeah!
There we go!
Good job.
This will be the first time, you know, the crew as a whole
will see me drilling.
You know, I felt a little shaky on there.
I was a little nervous.
Come on, Jay!
As the clock begins,
- Jay quickly gets to work... - Come on!
And he has some surprising support in the crowd.
- Go, Jay, go! - I'm kind of rooting for Jay,
and I'll tell you why,
because if he beats Mikey, Mikey's gonna have a fit.
[Laughs]
Go, Jay, go!
- Good job, babe! - Whoo!
Whoo! Good job, good job!
[Cheers and applause]
Come on, yeah!
- Pull it out! - Hurry up!
With the steel removed, Stan calls out time.
Five minutes even.
- [Cheers and applause] - Yeah!
- Whoo! - Good job, Jay!
- Yeah! - You did great.
- Good job. - Good job, baby.
I don't know.
Hopefully something goes wrong with Mikey
so I don't know have to worry about it.
Come on, Mike!
- Give her hell. - Based on this performance,
I'm not impressed, and there's no way I could lose.
With a time to beat,
Mikey gets ready to show what he can do...
- Whoo! - [Cheers and applause]
But he gets off to a rocky start.
Come on, Mikey!
Pick it up and go! Pick it up and go!
As I was drilling, that rock was pretty hard.
It took me a minute to get collared.
Throw your leg back!
- [Cheers and applause] - Okay, Mike!
- Come on, Mike! - Go, go!
I bounced out of the hole the second time.
It's kind of like, "whoa.
He might actually beat me right now."
[All cheering] Come on, Mike!
Come on, Mike!
Once I got collared in and ready to go,
it was on from there.
Just put my muscle into it and just gave her all she had.
- Down! - [Shouting and cheering]
A lifetime of experience earned
growing up in a mining family shows.
Come on! [Cheers and applause]
[Laughs] Four minutes and 45 seconds.
[Cheers and applause]
Whenever I heard my time, I was... phew, relieved.
Big time relieved, because it did get kind of close.
- Good job. - Good job!
- My man. - Ah!
So, now you got to do my dishes.
- Two out of three? - [Laughter]
[Bird twittering]
I want you to grab that string and pull really, really hard.
Are we lighting a fire with a fuse?
A stick of dynamite too, buddy.
- [Laughs] - After a carefree day,
the miners and their families settle in around the campfire.
That's a real mining fire right there.
This lens is seeing the light that our eyes cannot see.
It isn't long before Jay's son, Ashton,
an amateur investigator himself,
strikes up a conversation with Patrick.
- Wow. - It was really great
seeing Ashton all fired up
and interested in the work that Kristen and I do.
He kind of reminds me of myself
when I first started investigating.
I think we all get into this field
because of a personal experience.
Mine was at the age of seven when I saw a shadow figure,
and instead of being afraid of it,
I was curious, and I actually walked towards it.
And it just kind of built from there.
There is a possibility that if we have a case coming up,
maybe you could come along and we could actually show you
how this stuff works in the field.
- I'd love that. - Yeah.
My only reservation is is that it's someplace
that you guys feel is safe enough to take him.
Yeah, it definitely wouldn't be in the mine.
- Yeah. - 'Cause that'd be cool.
- You're next. - No!
[Laughter]
Coming up on Ghost Mine...
What have we got over there?
The miners finally witness
what's in the tunnel off the mysterious ballroom.
Why would they stop mining it?
They caved it in so nobody else could get in there to it.
As Patrick and Kristen encounter a powerful presence
at the Chinese walls.
I just saw something.
[Buzz] My camera just died.
There's something here with us.
With a new day, the crew begins the proccess
of mucking out the dogleg opening,
but Mikey's inexperience on the mucker becomes evident.
Keep an eye on this!
And despite his recent jackleg defeat,
Jay gets the last laugh.
- [Engine dies] - Oh, [Bleep]!
[Engine doesn't start]
- Oh, I'm getting furious. - [Engine starts]
We should probably put someone on this that knows how to muck.
Do you know what you're doing?
- [Bleep] you. - [Laughs]
With one last bucket of dirt,
the miners get the news they've been waiting for.
The dogleg opening off the ballroom in the eastern tunnel
may now be passable.
As Stan and Eddie head back
to explore the newly revealed drift,
Patrick, concerned about the high levels
of paranormal activity encountered in this area...
There's something in here with us.
Joins the miners.
There it is.
The other side of the cave.
I think we made the right decision
trying to dogleg around that cave,
because if we can find a really rich vein of quartz,
got a lot of gold in it.
I mean, that's a big payday for us.
So yeah, I think it was the right approach.
See if get some readings back here.
You getting anything?
Not a thing.
I did the sweep with the k2 on the other side of the cave-in
and got absolutely no readings off of it,
which is odd because I was getting readings
on the other side, where the chamber is.
- What we got over there? - Well, it just goes on back.
Guess we'll follow it and see where it ends up.
Huh.
It just dead ends, Ed.
- It's a dead end? - Yeah.
Half full of muck and dead ends.
So where we ended up after we doglegged around the cave
is not where I thought we were gonna end up.
We ended up in another drift, but it goes nowhere.
They just quit mining it.
So right now, I am a little confused.
I have no idea where the hell we're at.
Is it caved or is it just solid right there?
No, it's just solid. They just stopped on it.
Well, we should have been into that other drift by now.
Yeah.
So, you guys don't know where we are?
Well, not really. Not this drift anyway.
Yeah, 'cause this is supposed to hit where
- we were last year, right? - Right.
Even Stan and Eddie can't explain
why it doesn't go anywhere.
- Hey, guys! - Yeah?
Come check this out.
What you got?
Look at this.
Whoa. Good-lookin' vein.
They did not reach
the rich face of gold they were hoping to find,
but the presence of the quartz vein
is promising and confusing at the same time.
Why would they stop mining it then?
That's a good question.
The only theory I can come up with offhand
is they caved it in so nobody else could get in here to it.
This serious of cave-ins makes me think
that this was done to keep something in.
That same force we encountered last year.
I know that Patrick and Stan are talking about theories
on why this vein wasn't mined out
or why it was caved in and left there, and personally
I don't care why it's there.
I'm just happy it's there. It's there, we're gonna mine it.
This is... [Laughs]
this is what we need to be on right here.
Yeah, I agree.
Let's get a jackleg in there and start doing it.
With the miner's plan in place,
day comes to an end.
That night, Patrick and Kristen decide
to do a follow-up investigation at the Chinese walls.
They're looking for new connections
between the paranormal activity they've encountered
at the Crescent and the tragic history
of the area's immigrant miners.
This is pretty incredible, Patrick.
Wow.
Through thermal, it looks like lava beds.
So, the Chinese miners actually stacked
every single one of these rocks by hand?
- Mm - hmm.
Just looking at the sheer size of this thing and the labor,
I'm guessing there was a lot of accidents.
Do we have any reports on people dying out here?
I'd have to imagine that they did.
And they treated the Chinese so badly
I'm sure they didn't keep any records at all.
Well, they weren't even counted in the census.
Just imagine all the... just the wide variety
of emotions happening in this one area.
So along here I was walking,
and that's when I just started hearing
all the rocks sliding off.
They sort of all came at once.
No animals?
I didn't see any.
Want to do an EVP session back here?
Yeah, let's do one.
This is Patrick and Kristen,
and the Chinese walls, EVP session.
Is there anyone here with us tonight?
Go over to Kristen there
and make that device in her hand
give us a reading of any kind.
Did people die here?
Did you build these walls?
Were you a miner?
Were you killed over gold?
Are you trapped in these rock walls?
We understand your suffering and your pain.
All we want to do is communicate.
We found something up in the woods,
near the Crescent mine. It had Chinese characters on it.
Do you know of this place?
I saw that jump. I'm getting 0.3.
Did you know of the Crescent mine?
I'm getting some strange spikes.
It's going from 0.1, 0.2 to 0.3, then back down to 0.0.
Did you work at the Crescent?
- [Rocks shifting] - Jeez! [Bleep]!
Oh, oh, oh!
That was right near me.
After an unnerving experience at the Chinese walls,
Kristen returns with Patrick to investigate
to see if they can find a connection
between the Chinese miners and the Crescent mine.
Did you know of the Crescent mine?
I'm getting some strange spikes.
It's going from 0.1, 0.2 to 0.3, then back down to 0.0.
Did you work at the Crescent?
- [Rocks shifting] - Jeez! [Bleep]!
Oh, oh, oh!
That was right near me.
Are you still here with us?
That was a weird noise.
Is that what you heard earlier?
Yeah.
We're here to learn more about you and this wall.
[Rocks shifting in distance]
- I heard it again. - Me too.
I'm gonna go up there.
If there are more of you here,
just come over and speak with us.
Yeah, I'm not seeing anything, Kristen.
I just thought I saw something pop over that Ridge.
Where your flashlight's pointing?
Yeah.
[Rocks shifting in distance]
- Did you hear that? - Right there.
I just heard something right where
your flashlight's pointing.
Is someone over there?
Wait. Point up there again.
You getting anything?
The camera just died. The battery's dead.
I thought you charged it.
Right before we came out here.
There's something here with us.
[Wind whistling]
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