The Blackwell Ghost (2017) Movie Script
- [Host] My high
school journalism teacher
once told me, "A good
journalist could make
"the most boring subject entertaining."
That stuck with me.
But in the end, just
seemed like too much work.
My entire career is consisted of producing
and directing zombie movies,
an easy subject to make entertaining.
But now, I'm ready for a challenge.
A challenge that my
teacher would be proud of
and that is to prove that ghosts exist.
For those haters out there
that think this is fake,
I'll stop you right there.
I was the furthest thing from a believer
in the supernatural up
until about a year ago.
Since then, I found that if
you look in the right places,
the dark corners of your house,
the reflections of an off-television,
you can be amazed at what you will see.
- [Tommy] (mumbles) hear screaming
coming from that room.
- [John] Yeah, I hear it too.
(eerie music)
(cars honking)
(cars revving)
- Tell you what, it's
starting to get cold outside.
There's nothin' like a
cup of coffee in the cold.
Ooh, winter's coming.
(slurps) Ooh, fuck.
Kentucky's always been home to me.
I moved to California about 10 years ago,
shortly after high school.
Did the whole movie
thing, had a lot of fun,
but I just had to come back
because I missed the winter.
I miss Kentucky, it's a good state.
So now that I've been in Kentucky,
I've been tryin' to find out
what kind of project I'm gonna do.
I've been debating another zombie movie
or this intriguing ghost venture.
It's embarrassing when
I have to go downstairs
and tell my mom that I'm
a ghost hunter. (sighs)
Oh God, lemme get my phone here.
If you guys haven't seen this
video goin' around on YouTube,
you're probably one of the few people
who hasn't seen it.
The reason it's kinda intriguing me
is 'cause the guy that made the video
reached out to me just recently
and my first question was why?
But then I found out
we have a mutual friend
through Facebook, so I figured
out I would start there.
Hey, I'm gonna go.
- My stepbrother's (mumbles)
- Do you want a coffee
or is that all mine?
- It's all you.
- Well I just wanna take this moment
before I make this phone call
to apologize to my journalism teacher
because this is absolutely
the most embarrassing thing
I'm about to do.
I'm about to call this guy
and ask him if he thinks ghosts are real.
I don't know why this just
feels really embarrassing.
You know, you try to do
a fucking documentary
and your fucking piece of
shit tablet from ???
wants to poop the bed right
the fucking last second.
I'm gonna throw you down.
Settin' up camera angle two.
Alright, we're gonna call this guy.
Call check, audio check, good.
Got a fuckin' balding head, it's terrible.
(phone ringing)
- [John] Hello?
- Hey, is this John?
- [John] Oh hey, how's it goin'?
Tommy said you might call today.
- Yeah, I can't believe
you worked with Tommy.
So I didn't ask him, did he
work at the hotel with you
or where did you guys work together?
- [John] No, we used to work
at the restaurant together.
- So as you know, I'm doing
a documentary on ghosts,
as I told you on the internet.
I had no idea who you were
or that you were
responsible for that video,
but I actually saw the video organically
so I think it's pretty interesting
that now I'm talkin' to you,
the person that was in it.
Please don't take offense by this,
but I think that the video is fake.
I just wanted to hear
from the guy who posted it
because now that I'm
doin' this documentary,
it would save me a potential a lot of time
if the person in the
video just came forward
and told me no this is
fake, this never happened.
- [John] I totally understand
and everyone automatically thinks
someone put this video
together and that it's fake.
I mean, why would you think it's real?
It shows a ghost; there's no logic to it.
Well the truth (mumbles)
lies in the fact that
anybody who knows me could tell you
that I'm simply incapable of
pulling stuff like this off.
- It is funny you're sayin' that
'cause that was one of the first things
Tommy told me about you was that
you are technically not advanced
and probably couldn't pull
something like this off.
He said you could barely
turn on a computer
let alone post something
like this on a screen.
(chuckles) Sorry.
- [John] Unfortunately that's true.
(mumbles) a year ago, it's true.
I couldn't make this thing--
- Well it just seems like a
bunch of visual effects to me
and I would appreciate it if
you just told me straight up
no, this was somethin' me and
my friend did or whatever.
- [John] I don't know
what you want me to say,
all I can tell you is what I know.
I can totally understand that people
will do a video of a
ghost and automatically
they think it's fake
because they don't know
any other way to justify it.
This is a real video.
It came straight from our machine,
yet people still think it's fake.
The public is always gonna think it's fake
even if it's real.
- That makes sense actually.
Tell Tommy I said hello
and I appreciate your time.
You'll hear from me in
about a week, is that cool?
- [John] That's perfectly fine.
- Alright John, I appreciate it.
- Anytime.
- Alright, see ya.
- Bye bye.
- Bye.
(eerie music)
(hail crashing)
(car revving)
- [Voicemail] No one is
available to take your call,
please leave a message
after the tone. (beeps)
- I'm callin' you again, can
you just gimme a call back
whenever you get a chance please?
Thanks.
So I've left 10 messages with John.
Somethin's goin' on, I
don't know what it is
but it's not good for me
because I'm makin' a
documentary and I need him.
But apparently he's takin' a new job
and doesn't wanna mess that up,
so he doesn't wanna be in this documentary
which I understand but
the least you could do
is just tell me that.
So here I am stuck, tryin' to
produce this ghost documentary
and I have nothing.
I had this, now I have nothing.
(sighs) I don't know what to
do, I guess I'm gonna quit.
I hate quitin' but I
don't really have a choice
and probably go back to
makin' zombie movies, I guess.
I'm not even really good at that,
so I'm kinda screwed. (chuckles)
So I just found my camera,
it was in my basement.
You can see my basement back there.
I decided to turn this thing back on
because I got new interesting
lead for my documentary.
When I put myself on a forum
lookin' for ghost footage,
I was approached by a lot of
people that had ghost footage.
But as you would probably guess,
most of it was just complete bullshit.
One actually stuck out
to me enough to make me
turn the camera back on,
so that's what I'm doin'.
So I'm just gonna show you guys
a video that was sent to me
that got me so intrigued.
I'm gonna play it for you guys.
This is from a guy named Greg
up in Pennsylvania, South Lake.
(light clicking)
That's pretty much it.
Now I know a bunch of people
are sittin' there sayin'
you're kiddin', right?
I get it because you may not
have seen what I just saw.
That's why I'm here, gonna zoom in
and show you different things
that I noticed about this video.
First of all, you see a
lamp turn on by itself.
Here, I'll play it back for you.
So the lamp...
Oh, I need to put some time code on this
because this shows what time.
It's apparently 1:06 in the morning
when all of a sudden the
lamp turns on by itself.
Everyone out there is probably like
oh whoop-de-doo, that's not a big deal.
15 seconds later, the lamp turns off.
Big whoop, right?
See, there it goes.
So you watch it and you
don't think anything of it,
until I played it back and
looked a little bit closer.
Watch what happens right
after the lamp goes off.
Right there.
So I'm gonna rewind it
and I'm gonna zoom in.
Yeah, I gotta brighten this
up for y'all real quick.
You can definitely see whatever
is crossin' that thing.
I know you're probably sayin',
"Oh my God, this is just stupid."
But you gotta remember, I'm
just a real guy watching this.
You might be right, it
might not be anything
but I'm doin' a ghost documentary
and this is actually
pretty exciting. (pants)
I'm about to call this guy
and see if I can't come
up to his house maybe
as soon as today.
We'll see what happens,
probably a bunch of
bullshit but (chuckles).
I ain't got nothin' else better to do.
I was in Lexington, Kentucky.
We actually have a
plane and we can fly up.
There's a little airport
just up from your house.
Oh no, that'd be great if
you're not doing anything.
We could be up there in a few hours.
Alright, well thanks Greg.
Alright, bye.
I'm goin' to Pennsylvania today.
- [Terri] How far is that?
- Three hours.
- [Terri] Am I going?
Assuming I'm going.
- What are you doin' today?
Clear (mumbles).
(plane engine roaring)
(muffled radio chatter)
As soon as we takeoff, it's
gonna get a lot cooler here.
- Okay.
- (mumbles) Put on my flyin' hat.
How does that look?
(muffled radio chatter)
(plane engine roaring)
(mumbles) today and see if (mumbles).
See if this Greg guy
is full of shit or not,
which I think he is.
Regardless, it's a nice
day to take the plane out.
It's only a couple hours out of the way.
Thank you.
Here, will you take the camera?
Did I show you a picture of the house?
I didn't see it when we drove up.
It's that way.
Hold on, no it's that way.
Let's go.
No, (chuckles) I'm sorry it's this way.
Do you see it?
Can you see it?
- Yeah.
- Okay.
(truck roaring)
It looks creepy, doesn't it?
A little bit.
I just wanna let him know that we're here.
(laughs) Hey.
- Well hello.
- We finally made it up here.
- I hope you had a good trip.
- Yeah, we did.
This is my wife, Terri.
She just gonna kinda film--
- Hi, it's nice to meet you.
- Good to meet you.
- [Host] She's gonna kinda
film us if you don't mind.
- Yeah come on in, that's
what you're here for.
- [Host] Cool, thank you.
- This is it, you may recognize it
from the video footage I sent to you.
- I do, so this is the
living room I'm guessing?
- Yes, this is the living room.
- Cool, is that the camera over there?
- Right there on the mantle, it sure is.
- That's a little bitty camera.
Is that a security camera?
- It is and it's got great quality.
It works well for all sorts of things.
- Yeah, this little thing
is what shot the video
that you sent me.
- It is.
- That right there?
- It sure is.
- That's pretty cool.
You have a nice house here.
- Well thanks very much,
I've really enjoyed living
here over the years.
- How long have you lived here?
- My dad bought the house
in 1965, I wanna say.
I guess about 50 years
I've been living here.
- So you claim that this house is haunted.
How often would you say that
you see activity if anything?
- I'd have to say every day
or at least every other day,
I've seen some activity.
- [Host] You see that much?
- Yeah, it's quite a bit.
- Well gimme an example.
Like when's the last time you saw 'em?
- A couple nights ago, I could hear
the kitchen cabinets opening and closing,
so I thought if there's
anybody in the house.
I come down here and
there was nobody here.
- That happens that often?
- Yeah, pretty much every day
or at least every other day.
- You think we'll see
somethin' while we're filming?
- I would not be surprised.
It's very, very possible.
- So Greg, do you know if
anybody's died in this house
since, I guess, maybe
before you lived here?
- While I was here, both my parents died.
- Oh really?
- Yeah.
- I'm sorry.
- It's been a while ago.
- At the same time?
- No, not at the same time.
My dad died when I was just a kid.
He fell down the stairs
and broke his neck.
He was just gone instantaneously.
- Down the main staircase?
- Yeah, the main staircase.
Then my mom died eight years ago
which was a little shocking to us.
- Why was it shocking, what happened?
- With my mom, she was so healthy.
In fact, she had just seen
the doctor the day before
and he had told her how
great her health was
and what good shape her heart was in.
Here she is one night
up in the guest bedroom
and it's a heart attack.
I just didn't know if
she had seen something
that scared her or--
- [Host] What do you mean, like a ghost?
- It could be that it was
trying to rationalize her death
by thinking something like that.
- What about your mom,
did she believe in ghosts?
Did she believe that
this house was haunted?
- Oh yeah, we all knew.
I remember one summer it was so hot,
we had all the doors in the house open.
I think there are like about 10.
(claps) Boom, all the
doors slammed shut at once.
There was no way that
could have been the wind
and they were all at different angles.
That scared the heck out of us.
- [Host] So you're saying every door
in the house slammed shut--
- Every door in the house slammed shut
at the same exact moment.
It was spooky.
Alright this was the
kitchen we were just in.
We started here in the living room
and this is the main
staircase, right here.
This is the master bedroom.
Sorry about the fumes I just painted it
a couple days ago.
- It's not that bad.
Well it's a nice bedroom.
- Well thanks.
This morning's ghostly activity,
not really much happens in here.
It's kind of a strange thing.
It seems like the entity
respects my privacy for some reason.
- (chuckles) Who would've thought that?
You're sayin' it doesn't come in here,
is that what you're sayin'?
- I don't think so.
However, that doesn't mean
it doesn't mess with me.
If you will come back out here,
I'll show you what it does.
- Okay, sure.
- Something you may have
noticed when we came up here
was how much noise the floor makes.
Did you notice that?
- I didn't, I wasn't
payin' attention, sorry.
- Alright, well let me show you.
- Okay.
(stairs creaking)
- Almost every night
when I'm trying to sleep,
I hear that very series of noises.
- Wow.
- And then,
it's as if the entity is
just stopping right here
and saying that it wants
to play or something.
Nothing happens after that,
but it's still darn frightening I tell ya.
- You never hear it walk away or anything,
it just stays there?
- No, it just stays there all night long.
- That is creepy.
- It still frightens me,
I have to say after all these years.
This one time I had
some out-of-town friends
spend the night here in the guestroom;
the next morning we were at breakfast
and they said, "Greg, why were you going
"up and down the stairs all night long?"
I didn't have the heart to tell them
that it wasn't me, it was the entity.
I couldn't tell them it
was a ghost, it wasn't me.
- [Host] So they heard it that clearly?
- Oh, they heard it.
- Really?
- They were (mumbles) a weekend
and a number of times
there in the evening.
- It's probably good you didn't tell 'em
what it actually was.
- Yeah they'd never be back.
I'd never see them again.
- It's like a music studio in here.
- Yeah I do a little bit of everything.
Alright now this room is very interesting
because a couple years ago I
was out of town on business,
as I often am, and my
neighbor across the street
over there, Ron, gives me a call and says,
"Hey Greg, I thought you were outta town."
I said, "Ron, what's up?"
He goes, "All the lights
in your house are on
"and there's somebody
standing by the window."
It actually so convinced
him that he calls the cops.
- Really?
- Yeah yeah yeah.
The cops show up and by
the time they get there,
everything's back to normal.
The lights are off and
nobody by the window.
Ron is really a straight shooter,
he's like a no bullshit kinda guy.
I take whatever he says as being truthful.
He would've not made that up.
What I'm about to show you may make you
wanna run under this house screaming.
You have to promise me, both of you,
that you're not gonna do that alright?
- Okay, I promise. (chuckles)
- Promise.
- Promise.
- Alright, off to the basement.
- Okay we'll follow you then.
- Okay here we go.
Watch your step.
(eerie music)
- [Host] This is kinda creepy.
- Yeah it is.
So as you can see, it's a
dark and scary basement.
Would you agree?
- I couldn't disagree with ya.
- (chuckles) Can you
tell me if either of you
have seen anything like this before?
- What's that?
- This.
Have you ever seen
something like this before?
- [Host] Well it says storm sewer on it.
- No it's not, it's actually a well.
It used to serve as the
houses' main source of water.
- You're kiddin' me.
- No.
This is not the kind of thing
you find in the basement of a home.
But yet, every home in
this neighborhood has one.
So this basement and this well
have a particular story both.
- Please, please tell
me what the story is.
- The house was built around 1930.
The gentleman who built the house
had a wife who was a
little on the psycho side.
To make a long story short,
children in the neighborhood
started going missing.
The neighbors suspected this woman
because she was so strange.
- Wow.
- When they investigated, they found that
the children had been chopped up
and their bodies disposed of in this well.
- In this thing?
- In this, right here in this basement.
- You're kiddin' me.
- No and the thing is
there's really been no evidence of that.
I can't really find any hard evidence,
but you have to wonder
how something like that
ever got started if there
wasn't some basis and truth.
- What is this thing, what is that?
- Well, that's our only
way to access this.
This thing weighs about
as much as a house.
If (mumbles) down, it'll take
a special tool to lift it.
We leave those pliers stuck in there
just to be able to take the lid off
if ever that were necessary.
Every house in the neighborhood has one,
but we did install the cap there
to keep odors and other
rodents, that sort of thing out.
- [Host] But you're saying
if we took that top off,
right there, you'd be
able to see well water?
- Yeah, it's quite deep;
probably 20 or 30 feet down in the ground.
- That is creepy.
- It's spooky.
- [Host] Well I appreciate
it, Greg I really do.
- Glad you guys could come here.
- I appreciate your help.
- I wish you all the luck on your project.
- Yeah, I guess we got a three
hour plane trip back home.
- Well, safe travels.
- Thanks again.
- Good to meet you both.
- Okay.
(eerie music)
Dear?
- What?
- [Host] Can I read you an email?
- Is this how you're going
to read me the email?
- So I got an email from Greg
and it involves us.
- Okay?
- You might not like this.
"Really nice meeting you and your wife.
"Glad you could make it down here
"and I really think it's
cool you flew your own plane.
"As I told you I'm
going out of the country
"for a couple months
and wanted to offer you
"the opportunity to stay
in my home while I'm away.
"I know that you were doing
a documentary about ghosts
"and I just feel as though if
you were to spend one night,
"you would realize that I'm
being honest about everything.
"Either way, it's up to you.
"Please feel free to gimme
a call in the morning,
"it would be my pleasure."
It might be three nights.
- Okay.
- In a haunted house.
- Oh.
- Guess what?
He's even lettin' us use his car.
- Well that is very nice of him.
- [Host] It's a free vacation,
you can't get (mumbles).
You're always sayin' that--
- Woohoo, I always wanted to
go to Nowhere, Pennsylvania.
And when are we going?
- Tomorrow.
- Tomorrow?
Yeah, that's my extra coat.
- Okay.
Alright, let's go.
(plane engine roaring)
He says he put the keys
over by the window.
(birds chirping)
Alright, kinda weird isn't it?
- [Terri] What?
- That we're in somebody else's house.
Home sweet home.
This is weird.
Well, you wanna look around?
Did you get a good look last time we came?
- [Terri] Yeah.
- So we're in the kitchen.
This is the kitchen.
This is the dining room.
This is the living room.
This little camera right here filmed that
and got the ghost right there.
You wanna just stay down here?
- For what?
- Where are ya?
- I'm in the kitchen.
- Ooh okay.
We're gonna go upstairs.
Bathroom, this is the bathroom.
This is the guest bedroom here.
This is where his mom died.
You feel at home yet?
- I mean, it's nice.
- [Host] He's got a cool office.
Front window.
(sighs) And you know what
the weirdest part is?
- [Terri] What's that?
- The weirdest part for me
is gonna be sleepin'
in someone else's bed.
It's different from a hotel room
because you're sleepin' on somebody's
home bed.
- Mm-hmm.
So far, not much activity going on.
- What about that Jesus up there?
Let's go down to the basement.
Terri, will you go down with me?
- [Terri] Yeah.
- Thanks.
- Is it because you're scared?
- No!
Don't fuckin' lock me in here.
Dude, this place is creepy.
Yeah, this place is creepy.
They don't build foundations
like this anymore.
That is pure rock.
I don't think you heard what
he said about that, did you?
No he said that
somebody put bodies down that thing.
Do you believe him?
- I don't know.
People put bodies in weird
places, it's not abnormal.
They do!
- (chuckles) You've been
watchin' 24 Hour Mystery.
- Well, what are you watching,
Paranormal Activities?
- Yeah.
Well I'm gonna get some cameras set up.
- [Terri] Okay.
- Will you help me?
- Yup.
- I'm gonna get some cameras set up
in this creepy old house.
You gonna help?
- Yes.
- I love you.
There was somethin' else I was gonna say.
I think he--
(floor creaking)
That's weird.
Oh, would you turn that
light off real quick?
- [Terri] Yeah.
- Thing's behind that thing.
Thanks.
When you read about huntin' ghosts,
you figure out ways to capture 'em.
This probably won't work, but we'll see.
- [Terri] Does it have
to be one ply or two ply?
- Just, be quiet.
- [Terri] This is very fascinating.
Can you have it printed,
like colored toilet paper?
- Just stop.
So I'll take the ball and I'll put it
right in the middle, like that.
This camera
is gonna be positioned to get this.
The gist of it is if there
is a ghost in this room,
I read, on the internet,
that ghosts are kinda like boys
in the fact that if they see a ball,
they kinda wanna move it.
So that's what this is.
I would kick the shit outta that.
- Do you want to right now?
- I kinda do.
So I just downloaded and installed an app
that's in charge of this
house's security system.
It's also in charge of the camera
that's on the shelf over here.
So at any given time, we can see
a feed from this camera,
which will ultimately get
that view, if that makes sense.
It's pretty neat.
These are our night vision cameras.
So that's our night vision light.
That's a modified GoPro.
It's gettin' pretty late.
- [Terri] Hmm?
- I'm talkin' to the camera.
Gotta make sure all the cameras are on.
Here's the livin' room.
We got our X,
cameras are on over there.
Wow, it's so windy.
(wind howling)
It's crazy to think it's
like 40 degrees out here
and it could actually rain tonight.
What a weird State.
- Oh my God.
No, go away!
(Host laughing)
- Alright, we're goin' to bed.
It's about, what time is it?
- [Terri] I don't know, 10?
- 10, 11 o'clock.
It's pathetic I'm goin' to
bed that early. (chuckles)
This is the camera--
- Set it?
- I'm about to set it,
it records all night.
It's gonna get us in bed
and we got every camera
in the house out here
rollin' on continuous record,
so if we see anything,
if anything happens,
we're gonna capture it.
Goodnight, wish us luck.
Wish us luck, Terri.
- Oh, good luck.
- She doesn't care about this. (laughs)
(eerie music)
(light clicking)
(Host groaning)
- What?
- Will you make coffee?
- Mm-hmm.
- Please?
- Oh my God!
(Host laughing)
Hey, did you leave
the basement door open?
- What?
Well we made it through night one,
no apparent evidence that
this house is haunted.
As you can see the ball is
still right where we left it.
But there is an interesting detail
and that is when we woke up this mornin',
that door was wide open.
That's a little creepy and
I don't have a camera on it.
So shit.
I didn't even see if
it was shut last night.
Was it shut?
- [Terri] I don't know.
I have no idea.
- I wanna see if this latches real quick.
Yeah, I mean if it was cracked like
that, I could see it swinging open.
(wind howling)
Is that microphone on?
I gotta make sure the...
Will you stop movin'?
(Terri laughing)
(laughs) I gotta make
sure the light comes on.
Alright, come on into
here in the living room.
What we're gonna do is, this
is a 16 millimeter film camera.
I've read on the internet
if you start filmin' stuff
in low-light situations that
somethin' will possibly show up
when this thing is mailed off.
The film has to be mailed off.
From there, we'll analyze it
and see if we see anything
in the grainy film.
I haven't shot 16 mill
since I was in film school.
What, is that nerdy?
My wife's lookin' at me
like you're an idiot.
So we're gonna shoot 24 frames per second.
We're gonna start with
the angle from this thing.
Here, show 'em that view over there.
(eerie music)
(camera shuttering)
Shot a little film, we'll
see how that turns out later.
I'm gonna go ahead and film
some other stuff around the house.
- Stop!
(Host chuckling)
- What?
Huh?
- [Terri] Nothing.
(camera shuttering)
(eerie music)
(camera shuttering)
(camera shuttering)
- This isn't the night vision light.
No, it's not.
(camera shuttering)
I think that--
(floor creaking)
I keep on hearing things down here.
- [Terri] It's an old house.
- Yeah but you didn't
hear that, just then?
- [Terri] Old houses make noise.
Our house makes noises.
- I just wonder if that's my brain
playin' tricks on me or if
it's actually somethin'.
- [Terri] I wonder if
you're losing your mind.
- [Host] I'm gonna turn the lights on
before I have a heart attack.
- [Terri] Alright.
(feet stomping)
- You heard that, though.
Alright, we're comin'
to the end of night two.
I think we're gonna go to bed.
We didn't see as much
as we thought we would,
so it's kinda disappointing.
To say the least,
I think we're both kinda
happy to be goin' home.
Terri, are you ready to go home?
- [Terri] Yes.
- It looks like I failed
at yet another venture.
This documentary is probably gonna suck.
This house may be haunted,
but I don't think it is.
Nothin' can prove otherwise so far
because we have that much evidence.
I forgot I have to...
We have to set up the GoPros.
Not the GoPro, we have to set
up the night vision cameras.
- Uh huh.
- Will you help me with that?
It's our last night, it's
the least we can do, right?
- [Terri] Mmhmm.
- I'll go downstairs and get 'em.
(eerie music)
(stairs creaking)
(loud banging)
(smoke alarm beeping)
Stay here, alright?
Oh shit, oh shit.
Terri, call the fire department right now.
Call the fire department right now,
there's a fire downstairs.
Jesus.
- [Terri] My God, where
is that coming from?
- [Host] Oh shit.
(door banging)
Hey, turn the smoke alarm off.
- The smoke alarm?
- Yeah.
Can you turn it off with your phone?
Where are you?
- [Terri] I'm right here!
- [Host] Open up some windows,
there's smoke everywhere down here.
Shit.
Did you open up the window?
- [Terri] Yes.
(door slamming)
(eerie music)
- [Host] Oh shit.
- What was that?
- Oh shit. (panting)
- [Terri] What?
Can we stop--
- Did you come downstairs?
- [Terri] No, why are you still filming?
- [Host] Holy shit, dude.
- [Terri] What, what is going on?
- [Host] Holy shit.
- [Terri] What?
- Dude, I am fucking freaking out.
Gimme the phone, we gotta
call the police back.
Fuck!
Hi, hello.
My wife just called, we're stayin' at...
Yeah, my wife just called.
Can you fuckin' hear me?
We gotta get a new fuckin' phone.
There's no fire, so you don't need to
necessarily send a fire truck.
Thank you, thank you so much.
Alright, bye.
You're not gonna believe...
Would you turn that off?
Shit.
(numbers dialing)
- [Librarian] Good morning.
- Good mornin', I had a question.
I'm looking for a...
This is a strange question.
I'm lookin' for an old newspaper
from approximately the
1940s and I just wanna see
who I would talk to about
gettin' a copy of that.
- [Librarian] That would be
a question for archiving.
I'll transfer you real quick, okay?
- So in case you guys don't
know what a microfilm is
back in the day, they used
to take every newspaper
and take a snapshot picture
of it then archive it.
- [Woman] They are
actually up in Google now
and the (mumbles) microfilms
are included as well.
- Oh really?
- [Woman] Was there a
specific day of the newspaper
you have to find?
- I'd like everything you
got from 1938 to 1942.
Let's say 1942, anything local would work.
You can just email those to me right now?
- [Woman] Yes I can.
- That is awesome.
365 times three equals 1,095 newspapers
per year times, what'd I say?
Four years, that's 4,380 newspapers.
(sighs) Well this is gonna be interesting.
I've been looking through
microfilm newspapers
for about almost three hours now
and I finally found it.
Imma have to do a split screen on this.
So here's the negative of the newspaper
dated March 21st, 1941.
You can see a picture
of a house right here.
When I first saw it I was like
that kinda looks like this
house, but I can't be certain.
So I brought it into Photoshop
and inverted it to make it look normal.
There is absolutely no denying
that the house in the picture
is the house I'm currently in right now.
Which is creepy when it's associated
with the article that's written about it.
(sighs) Oh God, I'm
just kinda freakin' out
because like I'm lookin'
at a photograph, 1941,
of this house, I point to this window
and that's the very window right here.
This is this window right here.
That's the same window.
Now, here's the interesting part.
This story is similar to what Greg said
and he said that there's a woman
that killed seven people in this house.
I was just like whatever at first,
but now this article's
like backin' that up.
It's truth.
So I read the whole article
and the scariest part for me
was comin' back and noticing
that there was a second picture
associated with the article.
Are you guys ready for this?
Meet Ruth Blackwell,
the crazy lady who killed seven kids
and disposed of their bodies.
Used to live in this house,
used to roam this same room I'm sure.
This documentary that I
thought was kind of a joke,
is actually taken a very interesting turn.
Terri's at the store right now.
She doesn't know that
I found this article,
so I'm kinda keepin' it a secret.
I told Terri we're gonna
stay one more night
and then we're goin'
home tomorrow mornin'.
I'm kinda scared to stay the night here.
For the documentary,
I'm gonna do it I guess.
(eerie music)
(wind howling)
God, this thing weighs a fuckin' ton.
(Host groaning)
(well lid grinding)
(Host coughing sickly)
Oh, this thing stinks.
Oh God! (breathes heavily)
I found the source of the bad smell.
Oh God, here.
That doesn't look like spring water to me.
I'm gonna take this string
and see how far it'll go.
If it'll even go down.
Then when I pull it all back
up, I'm gonna measure it.
See if I can't get a depth.
I could tell this thing goes pretty deep.
Let's see if I can't
show it to you on here.
I got that string, that string
musta gone down 60 feet.
But it's just creepy, it's creepy to think
this little hole right here
is where she dumped those...
(panting) I think this is a bad
idea 'cause I can't breathe.
I gotta go back up.
(Host panting and groaning)
(well lid grinding)
(well lid slamming)
(leaves rustling)
(wind howling)
(thunder rumbling)
This storm is brewin' outside.
I can hear the thunder
comin' from really far away.
It's pretty creepy.
See if I can't get some weather updates.
It's supposed to be a
pretty big storm tonight.
Possible tornado winds.
Just what we need on our last night
in this creepy old place.
I've been havin' some equipment issues.
I just need to clarify this,
been havin' some equipment issues.
For some reason I don't
know what is causin' it,
but all my cameras are dead
and the batteries won't charge.
I'm havin' a nightmare
for a documentarian.
I got these two cameras
here for the night vision
with extra batteries to get
us through 'til morning.
These things are both done.
I'm not gonna show you that
and the camera I'm shootin' on right now.
It's not great but I gotta make it work.
It's comin' into night three,
we're gonna say goodnight.
Still gotta set up the night
vision cameras that we got.
Did you hear all my cameras are dead?
- No, no.
- I've got two, so we gotta set up those.
- Okay.
- Let's go do that.
Alright, we're saying
goodnight for night three.
Say goodnight.
- Goodnight.
(eerie music)
(thunder rumbling)
(camera buzzing)
- Alright, well it's two in the mornin'.
I kinda expected somethin' would happen.
(Host groaning)
My phone just let me know that the power
to the entire house been shut down.
The security alarm is ringing downstairs.
- [Terri] What should we do?
- (sighs) Well I can see that the power on
at the neighbor's house. (sighs)
Well the power be on at neighbor's house
tells me that it's an issue here
and it's probably the breaker box.
God, I do not wanna go down there.
- [Terri] Why are you so scared?
It's just a storm.
Alright.
- Oh my God.
- [Terri] Do you want me
to go down and check it?
- No I'll do it, just stay here.
- [Terri] (chuckles) Okay.
- Gimme the camera.
(thunder rumbling)
(rain pattering)
Do you have your phone?
- Yes.
(water trickling)
- [Host] Do you hear that?
- [Terri] Yeah.
- The faucet's on.
(water trickling)
If you hear me scream, will
you call the police please?
- Okay.
- What?
- Okay.
- [Host] I'm serious,
I'm not kiddin' you.
- Why am I calling the police?
- [Host] You are kidding
me right now, right?
I'm serious.
(water trickling)
(thunder rumbling)
(water trickling)
(water trickling)
(water trickling)
(thunder rumbling)
Hey Terri?
- [Terri] What?
What?
- [Host] If you hear me
yell, call the police please?
- [Terri] What are you yelling about?
- [Host] Just, you know what?
Fuck it, call the cops right now.
- [Terri] And tell them what?
- [Host] Just tell them
to come here, please?
- [Terri] Why, what is so important?
- [Host] Just, Terri.
I gotta go down to the basement
and I really don't wanna go down there.
What I just saw is enough
to get the cops over here.
Please call them, will you call them?
- [Terri] Okay.
(stairs creaking)
(thunder rumbling)
(light switch clicking)
(water trickling)
- [Host] Hey Terri, is
there electricity back on?
- [Terri] No.
(eerie music)
(Host breathing heavily)
Oh shit, I can't see where I'm goin'.
I can't see where I'm goin'.
Holy shit, holy shit.
Oh my God, oh my God.
I can't fuckin' see.
Oh God, goddammit.
Oh God.
Oh, oh shit.
(door slamming)
(water trickling)
(feet on floor stomping)
(thunder rumbling)
(feet stomping)
(eerie music)
(Host panting)
Get in, get in, get in!
(door slamming)
(camera buzzing)
So we're about to leave the house here.
We're about to go to the airport
and get back on the plane.
I've been thinkin' about
last night and what I saw.
I'm just really startin' to wonder
what I should do with my footage.
It's like I just discovered
that leprechauns exist,
but as soon as I go out and tell somebody,
they're gonna wanna have me committed
so that's not gonna work.
I think that's where I
made a big mistake because
after what I've seen and experienced,
there's no way anyone's gonna believe me.
(sighs) I don't even care.
(wind howling)
(calming, serene music)
You know, looking back on it all,
I'm actually quite proud of myself.
I think I would've made my teacher proud.
But ironically I wish I had never started
this venture in the first place.
John said it best--
- [John] This is a real video.
It came straight from our machine,
yet people still think it's fake.
The public is always gonna think it's fake
even if it's real.
- [Host] No video will ever be enough
to make people believe
that ghosts are real.
I didn't realize at the
time how right he was.
So if you wanna challenge
yourself as I did,
do an experiment.
If you know of a room or
a place that scares you
and you don't know why, go there.
A cellar, a basement or
any other dark place.
Go there alone, sit in the darkness
and wait for your senses to adjust.
Then, begin talking to whatever
may or may not be listening.
Only then, you might believe me.
(eerie music)
(calming, serene music)
(wind howling)
school journalism teacher
once told me, "A good
journalist could make
"the most boring subject entertaining."
That stuck with me.
But in the end, just
seemed like too much work.
My entire career is consisted of producing
and directing zombie movies,
an easy subject to make entertaining.
But now, I'm ready for a challenge.
A challenge that my
teacher would be proud of
and that is to prove that ghosts exist.
For those haters out there
that think this is fake,
I'll stop you right there.
I was the furthest thing from a believer
in the supernatural up
until about a year ago.
Since then, I found that if
you look in the right places,
the dark corners of your house,
the reflections of an off-television,
you can be amazed at what you will see.
- [Tommy] (mumbles) hear screaming
coming from that room.
- [John] Yeah, I hear it too.
(eerie music)
(cars honking)
(cars revving)
- Tell you what, it's
starting to get cold outside.
There's nothin' like a
cup of coffee in the cold.
Ooh, winter's coming.
(slurps) Ooh, fuck.
Kentucky's always been home to me.
I moved to California about 10 years ago,
shortly after high school.
Did the whole movie
thing, had a lot of fun,
but I just had to come back
because I missed the winter.
I miss Kentucky, it's a good state.
So now that I've been in Kentucky,
I've been tryin' to find out
what kind of project I'm gonna do.
I've been debating another zombie movie
or this intriguing ghost venture.
It's embarrassing when
I have to go downstairs
and tell my mom that I'm
a ghost hunter. (sighs)
Oh God, lemme get my phone here.
If you guys haven't seen this
video goin' around on YouTube,
you're probably one of the few people
who hasn't seen it.
The reason it's kinda intriguing me
is 'cause the guy that made the video
reached out to me just recently
and my first question was why?
But then I found out
we have a mutual friend
through Facebook, so I figured
out I would start there.
Hey, I'm gonna go.
- My stepbrother's (mumbles)
- Do you want a coffee
or is that all mine?
- It's all you.
- Well I just wanna take this moment
before I make this phone call
to apologize to my journalism teacher
because this is absolutely
the most embarrassing thing
I'm about to do.
I'm about to call this guy
and ask him if he thinks ghosts are real.
I don't know why this just
feels really embarrassing.
You know, you try to do
a fucking documentary
and your fucking piece of
shit tablet from ???
wants to poop the bed right
the fucking last second.
I'm gonna throw you down.
Settin' up camera angle two.
Alright, we're gonna call this guy.
Call check, audio check, good.
Got a fuckin' balding head, it's terrible.
(phone ringing)
- [John] Hello?
- Hey, is this John?
- [John] Oh hey, how's it goin'?
Tommy said you might call today.
- Yeah, I can't believe
you worked with Tommy.
So I didn't ask him, did he
work at the hotel with you
or where did you guys work together?
- [John] No, we used to work
at the restaurant together.
- So as you know, I'm doing
a documentary on ghosts,
as I told you on the internet.
I had no idea who you were
or that you were
responsible for that video,
but I actually saw the video organically
so I think it's pretty interesting
that now I'm talkin' to you,
the person that was in it.
Please don't take offense by this,
but I think that the video is fake.
I just wanted to hear
from the guy who posted it
because now that I'm
doin' this documentary,
it would save me a potential a lot of time
if the person in the
video just came forward
and told me no this is
fake, this never happened.
- [John] I totally understand
and everyone automatically thinks
someone put this video
together and that it's fake.
I mean, why would you think it's real?
It shows a ghost; there's no logic to it.
Well the truth (mumbles)
lies in the fact that
anybody who knows me could tell you
that I'm simply incapable of
pulling stuff like this off.
- It is funny you're sayin' that
'cause that was one of the first things
Tommy told me about you was that
you are technically not advanced
and probably couldn't pull
something like this off.
He said you could barely
turn on a computer
let alone post something
like this on a screen.
(chuckles) Sorry.
- [John] Unfortunately that's true.
(mumbles) a year ago, it's true.
I couldn't make this thing--
- Well it just seems like a
bunch of visual effects to me
and I would appreciate it if
you just told me straight up
no, this was somethin' me and
my friend did or whatever.
- [John] I don't know
what you want me to say,
all I can tell you is what I know.
I can totally understand that people
will do a video of a
ghost and automatically
they think it's fake
because they don't know
any other way to justify it.
This is a real video.
It came straight from our machine,
yet people still think it's fake.
The public is always gonna think it's fake
even if it's real.
- That makes sense actually.
Tell Tommy I said hello
and I appreciate your time.
You'll hear from me in
about a week, is that cool?
- [John] That's perfectly fine.
- Alright John, I appreciate it.
- Anytime.
- Alright, see ya.
- Bye bye.
- Bye.
(eerie music)
(hail crashing)
(car revving)
- [Voicemail] No one is
available to take your call,
please leave a message
after the tone. (beeps)
- I'm callin' you again, can
you just gimme a call back
whenever you get a chance please?
Thanks.
So I've left 10 messages with John.
Somethin's goin' on, I
don't know what it is
but it's not good for me
because I'm makin' a
documentary and I need him.
But apparently he's takin' a new job
and doesn't wanna mess that up,
so he doesn't wanna be in this documentary
which I understand but
the least you could do
is just tell me that.
So here I am stuck, tryin' to
produce this ghost documentary
and I have nothing.
I had this, now I have nothing.
(sighs) I don't know what to
do, I guess I'm gonna quit.
I hate quitin' but I
don't really have a choice
and probably go back to
makin' zombie movies, I guess.
I'm not even really good at that,
so I'm kinda screwed. (chuckles)
So I just found my camera,
it was in my basement.
You can see my basement back there.
I decided to turn this thing back on
because I got new interesting
lead for my documentary.
When I put myself on a forum
lookin' for ghost footage,
I was approached by a lot of
people that had ghost footage.
But as you would probably guess,
most of it was just complete bullshit.
One actually stuck out
to me enough to make me
turn the camera back on,
so that's what I'm doin'.
So I'm just gonna show you guys
a video that was sent to me
that got me so intrigued.
I'm gonna play it for you guys.
This is from a guy named Greg
up in Pennsylvania, South Lake.
(light clicking)
That's pretty much it.
Now I know a bunch of people
are sittin' there sayin'
you're kiddin', right?
I get it because you may not
have seen what I just saw.
That's why I'm here, gonna zoom in
and show you different things
that I noticed about this video.
First of all, you see a
lamp turn on by itself.
Here, I'll play it back for you.
So the lamp...
Oh, I need to put some time code on this
because this shows what time.
It's apparently 1:06 in the morning
when all of a sudden the
lamp turns on by itself.
Everyone out there is probably like
oh whoop-de-doo, that's not a big deal.
15 seconds later, the lamp turns off.
Big whoop, right?
See, there it goes.
So you watch it and you
don't think anything of it,
until I played it back and
looked a little bit closer.
Watch what happens right
after the lamp goes off.
Right there.
So I'm gonna rewind it
and I'm gonna zoom in.
Yeah, I gotta brighten this
up for y'all real quick.
You can definitely see whatever
is crossin' that thing.
I know you're probably sayin',
"Oh my God, this is just stupid."
But you gotta remember, I'm
just a real guy watching this.
You might be right, it
might not be anything
but I'm doin' a ghost documentary
and this is actually
pretty exciting. (pants)
I'm about to call this guy
and see if I can't come
up to his house maybe
as soon as today.
We'll see what happens,
probably a bunch of
bullshit but (chuckles).
I ain't got nothin' else better to do.
I was in Lexington, Kentucky.
We actually have a
plane and we can fly up.
There's a little airport
just up from your house.
Oh no, that'd be great if
you're not doing anything.
We could be up there in a few hours.
Alright, well thanks Greg.
Alright, bye.
I'm goin' to Pennsylvania today.
- [Terri] How far is that?
- Three hours.
- [Terri] Am I going?
Assuming I'm going.
- What are you doin' today?
Clear (mumbles).
(plane engine roaring)
(muffled radio chatter)
As soon as we takeoff, it's
gonna get a lot cooler here.
- Okay.
- (mumbles) Put on my flyin' hat.
How does that look?
(muffled radio chatter)
(plane engine roaring)
(mumbles) today and see if (mumbles).
See if this Greg guy
is full of shit or not,
which I think he is.
Regardless, it's a nice
day to take the plane out.
It's only a couple hours out of the way.
Thank you.
Here, will you take the camera?
Did I show you a picture of the house?
I didn't see it when we drove up.
It's that way.
Hold on, no it's that way.
Let's go.
No, (chuckles) I'm sorry it's this way.
Do you see it?
Can you see it?
- Yeah.
- Okay.
(truck roaring)
It looks creepy, doesn't it?
A little bit.
I just wanna let him know that we're here.
(laughs) Hey.
- Well hello.
- We finally made it up here.
- I hope you had a good trip.
- Yeah, we did.
This is my wife, Terri.
She just gonna kinda film--
- Hi, it's nice to meet you.
- Good to meet you.
- [Host] She's gonna kinda
film us if you don't mind.
- Yeah come on in, that's
what you're here for.
- [Host] Cool, thank you.
- This is it, you may recognize it
from the video footage I sent to you.
- I do, so this is the
living room I'm guessing?
- Yes, this is the living room.
- Cool, is that the camera over there?
- Right there on the mantle, it sure is.
- That's a little bitty camera.
Is that a security camera?
- It is and it's got great quality.
It works well for all sorts of things.
- Yeah, this little thing
is what shot the video
that you sent me.
- It is.
- That right there?
- It sure is.
- That's pretty cool.
You have a nice house here.
- Well thanks very much,
I've really enjoyed living
here over the years.
- How long have you lived here?
- My dad bought the house
in 1965, I wanna say.
I guess about 50 years
I've been living here.
- So you claim that this house is haunted.
How often would you say that
you see activity if anything?
- I'd have to say every day
or at least every other day,
I've seen some activity.
- [Host] You see that much?
- Yeah, it's quite a bit.
- Well gimme an example.
Like when's the last time you saw 'em?
- A couple nights ago, I could hear
the kitchen cabinets opening and closing,
so I thought if there's
anybody in the house.
I come down here and
there was nobody here.
- That happens that often?
- Yeah, pretty much every day
or at least every other day.
- You think we'll see
somethin' while we're filming?
- I would not be surprised.
It's very, very possible.
- So Greg, do you know if
anybody's died in this house
since, I guess, maybe
before you lived here?
- While I was here, both my parents died.
- Oh really?
- Yeah.
- I'm sorry.
- It's been a while ago.
- At the same time?
- No, not at the same time.
My dad died when I was just a kid.
He fell down the stairs
and broke his neck.
He was just gone instantaneously.
- Down the main staircase?
- Yeah, the main staircase.
Then my mom died eight years ago
which was a little shocking to us.
- Why was it shocking, what happened?
- With my mom, she was so healthy.
In fact, she had just seen
the doctor the day before
and he had told her how
great her health was
and what good shape her heart was in.
Here she is one night
up in the guest bedroom
and it's a heart attack.
I just didn't know if
she had seen something
that scared her or--
- [Host] What do you mean, like a ghost?
- It could be that it was
trying to rationalize her death
by thinking something like that.
- What about your mom,
did she believe in ghosts?
Did she believe that
this house was haunted?
- Oh yeah, we all knew.
I remember one summer it was so hot,
we had all the doors in the house open.
I think there are like about 10.
(claps) Boom, all the
doors slammed shut at once.
There was no way that
could have been the wind
and they were all at different angles.
That scared the heck out of us.
- [Host] So you're saying every door
in the house slammed shut--
- Every door in the house slammed shut
at the same exact moment.
It was spooky.
Alright this was the
kitchen we were just in.
We started here in the living room
and this is the main
staircase, right here.
This is the master bedroom.
Sorry about the fumes I just painted it
a couple days ago.
- It's not that bad.
Well it's a nice bedroom.
- Well thanks.
This morning's ghostly activity,
not really much happens in here.
It's kind of a strange thing.
It seems like the entity
respects my privacy for some reason.
- (chuckles) Who would've thought that?
You're sayin' it doesn't come in here,
is that what you're sayin'?
- I don't think so.
However, that doesn't mean
it doesn't mess with me.
If you will come back out here,
I'll show you what it does.
- Okay, sure.
- Something you may have
noticed when we came up here
was how much noise the floor makes.
Did you notice that?
- I didn't, I wasn't
payin' attention, sorry.
- Alright, well let me show you.
- Okay.
(stairs creaking)
- Almost every night
when I'm trying to sleep,
I hear that very series of noises.
- Wow.
- And then,
it's as if the entity is
just stopping right here
and saying that it wants
to play or something.
Nothing happens after that,
but it's still darn frightening I tell ya.
- You never hear it walk away or anything,
it just stays there?
- No, it just stays there all night long.
- That is creepy.
- It still frightens me,
I have to say after all these years.
This one time I had
some out-of-town friends
spend the night here in the guestroom;
the next morning we were at breakfast
and they said, "Greg, why were you going
"up and down the stairs all night long?"
I didn't have the heart to tell them
that it wasn't me, it was the entity.
I couldn't tell them it
was a ghost, it wasn't me.
- [Host] So they heard it that clearly?
- Oh, they heard it.
- Really?
- They were (mumbles) a weekend
and a number of times
there in the evening.
- It's probably good you didn't tell 'em
what it actually was.
- Yeah they'd never be back.
I'd never see them again.
- It's like a music studio in here.
- Yeah I do a little bit of everything.
Alright now this room is very interesting
because a couple years ago I
was out of town on business,
as I often am, and my
neighbor across the street
over there, Ron, gives me a call and says,
"Hey Greg, I thought you were outta town."
I said, "Ron, what's up?"
He goes, "All the lights
in your house are on
"and there's somebody
standing by the window."
It actually so convinced
him that he calls the cops.
- Really?
- Yeah yeah yeah.
The cops show up and by
the time they get there,
everything's back to normal.
The lights are off and
nobody by the window.
Ron is really a straight shooter,
he's like a no bullshit kinda guy.
I take whatever he says as being truthful.
He would've not made that up.
What I'm about to show you may make you
wanna run under this house screaming.
You have to promise me, both of you,
that you're not gonna do that alright?
- Okay, I promise. (chuckles)
- Promise.
- Promise.
- Alright, off to the basement.
- Okay we'll follow you then.
- Okay here we go.
Watch your step.
(eerie music)
- [Host] This is kinda creepy.
- Yeah it is.
So as you can see, it's a
dark and scary basement.
Would you agree?
- I couldn't disagree with ya.
- (chuckles) Can you
tell me if either of you
have seen anything like this before?
- What's that?
- This.
Have you ever seen
something like this before?
- [Host] Well it says storm sewer on it.
- No it's not, it's actually a well.
It used to serve as the
houses' main source of water.
- You're kiddin' me.
- No.
This is not the kind of thing
you find in the basement of a home.
But yet, every home in
this neighborhood has one.
So this basement and this well
have a particular story both.
- Please, please tell
me what the story is.
- The house was built around 1930.
The gentleman who built the house
had a wife who was a
little on the psycho side.
To make a long story short,
children in the neighborhood
started going missing.
The neighbors suspected this woman
because she was so strange.
- Wow.
- When they investigated, they found that
the children had been chopped up
and their bodies disposed of in this well.
- In this thing?
- In this, right here in this basement.
- You're kiddin' me.
- No and the thing is
there's really been no evidence of that.
I can't really find any hard evidence,
but you have to wonder
how something like that
ever got started if there
wasn't some basis and truth.
- What is this thing, what is that?
- Well, that's our only
way to access this.
This thing weighs about
as much as a house.
If (mumbles) down, it'll take
a special tool to lift it.
We leave those pliers stuck in there
just to be able to take the lid off
if ever that were necessary.
Every house in the neighborhood has one,
but we did install the cap there
to keep odors and other
rodents, that sort of thing out.
- [Host] But you're saying
if we took that top off,
right there, you'd be
able to see well water?
- Yeah, it's quite deep;
probably 20 or 30 feet down in the ground.
- That is creepy.
- It's spooky.
- [Host] Well I appreciate
it, Greg I really do.
- Glad you guys could come here.
- I appreciate your help.
- I wish you all the luck on your project.
- Yeah, I guess we got a three
hour plane trip back home.
- Well, safe travels.
- Thanks again.
- Good to meet you both.
- Okay.
(eerie music)
Dear?
- What?
- [Host] Can I read you an email?
- Is this how you're going
to read me the email?
- So I got an email from Greg
and it involves us.
- Okay?
- You might not like this.
"Really nice meeting you and your wife.
"Glad you could make it down here
"and I really think it's
cool you flew your own plane.
"As I told you I'm
going out of the country
"for a couple months
and wanted to offer you
"the opportunity to stay
in my home while I'm away.
"I know that you were doing
a documentary about ghosts
"and I just feel as though if
you were to spend one night,
"you would realize that I'm
being honest about everything.
"Either way, it's up to you.
"Please feel free to gimme
a call in the morning,
"it would be my pleasure."
It might be three nights.
- Okay.
- In a haunted house.
- Oh.
- Guess what?
He's even lettin' us use his car.
- Well that is very nice of him.
- [Host] It's a free vacation,
you can't get (mumbles).
You're always sayin' that--
- Woohoo, I always wanted to
go to Nowhere, Pennsylvania.
And when are we going?
- Tomorrow.
- Tomorrow?
Yeah, that's my extra coat.
- Okay.
Alright, let's go.
(plane engine roaring)
He says he put the keys
over by the window.
(birds chirping)
Alright, kinda weird isn't it?
- [Terri] What?
- That we're in somebody else's house.
Home sweet home.
This is weird.
Well, you wanna look around?
Did you get a good look last time we came?
- [Terri] Yeah.
- So we're in the kitchen.
This is the kitchen.
This is the dining room.
This is the living room.
This little camera right here filmed that
and got the ghost right there.
You wanna just stay down here?
- For what?
- Where are ya?
- I'm in the kitchen.
- Ooh okay.
We're gonna go upstairs.
Bathroom, this is the bathroom.
This is the guest bedroom here.
This is where his mom died.
You feel at home yet?
- I mean, it's nice.
- [Host] He's got a cool office.
Front window.
(sighs) And you know what
the weirdest part is?
- [Terri] What's that?
- The weirdest part for me
is gonna be sleepin'
in someone else's bed.
It's different from a hotel room
because you're sleepin' on somebody's
home bed.
- Mm-hmm.
So far, not much activity going on.
- What about that Jesus up there?
Let's go down to the basement.
Terri, will you go down with me?
- [Terri] Yeah.
- Thanks.
- Is it because you're scared?
- No!
Don't fuckin' lock me in here.
Dude, this place is creepy.
Yeah, this place is creepy.
They don't build foundations
like this anymore.
That is pure rock.
I don't think you heard what
he said about that, did you?
No he said that
somebody put bodies down that thing.
Do you believe him?
- I don't know.
People put bodies in weird
places, it's not abnormal.
They do!
- (chuckles) You've been
watchin' 24 Hour Mystery.
- Well, what are you watching,
Paranormal Activities?
- Yeah.
Well I'm gonna get some cameras set up.
- [Terri] Okay.
- Will you help me?
- Yup.
- I'm gonna get some cameras set up
in this creepy old house.
You gonna help?
- Yes.
- I love you.
There was somethin' else I was gonna say.
I think he--
(floor creaking)
That's weird.
Oh, would you turn that
light off real quick?
- [Terri] Yeah.
- Thing's behind that thing.
Thanks.
When you read about huntin' ghosts,
you figure out ways to capture 'em.
This probably won't work, but we'll see.
- [Terri] Does it have
to be one ply or two ply?
- Just, be quiet.
- [Terri] This is very fascinating.
Can you have it printed,
like colored toilet paper?
- Just stop.
So I'll take the ball and I'll put it
right in the middle, like that.
This camera
is gonna be positioned to get this.
The gist of it is if there
is a ghost in this room,
I read, on the internet,
that ghosts are kinda like boys
in the fact that if they see a ball,
they kinda wanna move it.
So that's what this is.
I would kick the shit outta that.
- Do you want to right now?
- I kinda do.
So I just downloaded and installed an app
that's in charge of this
house's security system.
It's also in charge of the camera
that's on the shelf over here.
So at any given time, we can see
a feed from this camera,
which will ultimately get
that view, if that makes sense.
It's pretty neat.
These are our night vision cameras.
So that's our night vision light.
That's a modified GoPro.
It's gettin' pretty late.
- [Terri] Hmm?
- I'm talkin' to the camera.
Gotta make sure all the cameras are on.
Here's the livin' room.
We got our X,
cameras are on over there.
Wow, it's so windy.
(wind howling)
It's crazy to think it's
like 40 degrees out here
and it could actually rain tonight.
What a weird State.
- Oh my God.
No, go away!
(Host laughing)
- Alright, we're goin' to bed.
It's about, what time is it?
- [Terri] I don't know, 10?
- 10, 11 o'clock.
It's pathetic I'm goin' to
bed that early. (chuckles)
This is the camera--
- Set it?
- I'm about to set it,
it records all night.
It's gonna get us in bed
and we got every camera
in the house out here
rollin' on continuous record,
so if we see anything,
if anything happens,
we're gonna capture it.
Goodnight, wish us luck.
Wish us luck, Terri.
- Oh, good luck.
- She doesn't care about this. (laughs)
(eerie music)
(light clicking)
(Host groaning)
- What?
- Will you make coffee?
- Mm-hmm.
- Please?
- Oh my God!
(Host laughing)
Hey, did you leave
the basement door open?
- What?
Well we made it through night one,
no apparent evidence that
this house is haunted.
As you can see the ball is
still right where we left it.
But there is an interesting detail
and that is when we woke up this mornin',
that door was wide open.
That's a little creepy and
I don't have a camera on it.
So shit.
I didn't even see if
it was shut last night.
Was it shut?
- [Terri] I don't know.
I have no idea.
- I wanna see if this latches real quick.
Yeah, I mean if it was cracked like
that, I could see it swinging open.
(wind howling)
Is that microphone on?
I gotta make sure the...
Will you stop movin'?
(Terri laughing)
(laughs) I gotta make
sure the light comes on.
Alright, come on into
here in the living room.
What we're gonna do is, this
is a 16 millimeter film camera.
I've read on the internet
if you start filmin' stuff
in low-light situations that
somethin' will possibly show up
when this thing is mailed off.
The film has to be mailed off.
From there, we'll analyze it
and see if we see anything
in the grainy film.
I haven't shot 16 mill
since I was in film school.
What, is that nerdy?
My wife's lookin' at me
like you're an idiot.
So we're gonna shoot 24 frames per second.
We're gonna start with
the angle from this thing.
Here, show 'em that view over there.
(eerie music)
(camera shuttering)
Shot a little film, we'll
see how that turns out later.
I'm gonna go ahead and film
some other stuff around the house.
- Stop!
(Host chuckling)
- What?
Huh?
- [Terri] Nothing.
(camera shuttering)
(eerie music)
(camera shuttering)
(camera shuttering)
- This isn't the night vision light.
No, it's not.
(camera shuttering)
I think that--
(floor creaking)
I keep on hearing things down here.
- [Terri] It's an old house.
- Yeah but you didn't
hear that, just then?
- [Terri] Old houses make noise.
Our house makes noises.
- I just wonder if that's my brain
playin' tricks on me or if
it's actually somethin'.
- [Terri] I wonder if
you're losing your mind.
- [Host] I'm gonna turn the lights on
before I have a heart attack.
- [Terri] Alright.
(feet stomping)
- You heard that, though.
Alright, we're comin'
to the end of night two.
I think we're gonna go to bed.
We didn't see as much
as we thought we would,
so it's kinda disappointing.
To say the least,
I think we're both kinda
happy to be goin' home.
Terri, are you ready to go home?
- [Terri] Yes.
- It looks like I failed
at yet another venture.
This documentary is probably gonna suck.
This house may be haunted,
but I don't think it is.
Nothin' can prove otherwise so far
because we have that much evidence.
I forgot I have to...
We have to set up the GoPros.
Not the GoPro, we have to set
up the night vision cameras.
- Uh huh.
- Will you help me with that?
It's our last night, it's
the least we can do, right?
- [Terri] Mmhmm.
- I'll go downstairs and get 'em.
(eerie music)
(stairs creaking)
(loud banging)
(smoke alarm beeping)
Stay here, alright?
Oh shit, oh shit.
Terri, call the fire department right now.
Call the fire department right now,
there's a fire downstairs.
Jesus.
- [Terri] My God, where
is that coming from?
- [Host] Oh shit.
(door banging)
Hey, turn the smoke alarm off.
- The smoke alarm?
- Yeah.
Can you turn it off with your phone?
Where are you?
- [Terri] I'm right here!
- [Host] Open up some windows,
there's smoke everywhere down here.
Shit.
Did you open up the window?
- [Terri] Yes.
(door slamming)
(eerie music)
- [Host] Oh shit.
- What was that?
- Oh shit. (panting)
- [Terri] What?
Can we stop--
- Did you come downstairs?
- [Terri] No, why are you still filming?
- [Host] Holy shit, dude.
- [Terri] What, what is going on?
- [Host] Holy shit.
- [Terri] What?
- Dude, I am fucking freaking out.
Gimme the phone, we gotta
call the police back.
Fuck!
Hi, hello.
My wife just called, we're stayin' at...
Yeah, my wife just called.
Can you fuckin' hear me?
We gotta get a new fuckin' phone.
There's no fire, so you don't need to
necessarily send a fire truck.
Thank you, thank you so much.
Alright, bye.
You're not gonna believe...
Would you turn that off?
Shit.
(numbers dialing)
- [Librarian] Good morning.
- Good mornin', I had a question.
I'm looking for a...
This is a strange question.
I'm lookin' for an old newspaper
from approximately the
1940s and I just wanna see
who I would talk to about
gettin' a copy of that.
- [Librarian] That would be
a question for archiving.
I'll transfer you real quick, okay?
- So in case you guys don't
know what a microfilm is
back in the day, they used
to take every newspaper
and take a snapshot picture
of it then archive it.
- [Woman] They are
actually up in Google now
and the (mumbles) microfilms
are included as well.
- Oh really?
- [Woman] Was there a
specific day of the newspaper
you have to find?
- I'd like everything you
got from 1938 to 1942.
Let's say 1942, anything local would work.
You can just email those to me right now?
- [Woman] Yes I can.
- That is awesome.
365 times three equals 1,095 newspapers
per year times, what'd I say?
Four years, that's 4,380 newspapers.
(sighs) Well this is gonna be interesting.
I've been looking through
microfilm newspapers
for about almost three hours now
and I finally found it.
Imma have to do a split screen on this.
So here's the negative of the newspaper
dated March 21st, 1941.
You can see a picture
of a house right here.
When I first saw it I was like
that kinda looks like this
house, but I can't be certain.
So I brought it into Photoshop
and inverted it to make it look normal.
There is absolutely no denying
that the house in the picture
is the house I'm currently in right now.
Which is creepy when it's associated
with the article that's written about it.
(sighs) Oh God, I'm
just kinda freakin' out
because like I'm lookin'
at a photograph, 1941,
of this house, I point to this window
and that's the very window right here.
This is this window right here.
That's the same window.
Now, here's the interesting part.
This story is similar to what Greg said
and he said that there's a woman
that killed seven people in this house.
I was just like whatever at first,
but now this article's
like backin' that up.
It's truth.
So I read the whole article
and the scariest part for me
was comin' back and noticing
that there was a second picture
associated with the article.
Are you guys ready for this?
Meet Ruth Blackwell,
the crazy lady who killed seven kids
and disposed of their bodies.
Used to live in this house,
used to roam this same room I'm sure.
This documentary that I
thought was kind of a joke,
is actually taken a very interesting turn.
Terri's at the store right now.
She doesn't know that
I found this article,
so I'm kinda keepin' it a secret.
I told Terri we're gonna
stay one more night
and then we're goin'
home tomorrow mornin'.
I'm kinda scared to stay the night here.
For the documentary,
I'm gonna do it I guess.
(eerie music)
(wind howling)
God, this thing weighs a fuckin' ton.
(Host groaning)
(well lid grinding)
(Host coughing sickly)
Oh, this thing stinks.
Oh God! (breathes heavily)
I found the source of the bad smell.
Oh God, here.
That doesn't look like spring water to me.
I'm gonna take this string
and see how far it'll go.
If it'll even go down.
Then when I pull it all back
up, I'm gonna measure it.
See if I can't get a depth.
I could tell this thing goes pretty deep.
Let's see if I can't
show it to you on here.
I got that string, that string
musta gone down 60 feet.
But it's just creepy, it's creepy to think
this little hole right here
is where she dumped those...
(panting) I think this is a bad
idea 'cause I can't breathe.
I gotta go back up.
(Host panting and groaning)
(well lid grinding)
(well lid slamming)
(leaves rustling)
(wind howling)
(thunder rumbling)
This storm is brewin' outside.
I can hear the thunder
comin' from really far away.
It's pretty creepy.
See if I can't get some weather updates.
It's supposed to be a
pretty big storm tonight.
Possible tornado winds.
Just what we need on our last night
in this creepy old place.
I've been havin' some equipment issues.
I just need to clarify this,
been havin' some equipment issues.
For some reason I don't
know what is causin' it,
but all my cameras are dead
and the batteries won't charge.
I'm havin' a nightmare
for a documentarian.
I got these two cameras
here for the night vision
with extra batteries to get
us through 'til morning.
These things are both done.
I'm not gonna show you that
and the camera I'm shootin' on right now.
It's not great but I gotta make it work.
It's comin' into night three,
we're gonna say goodnight.
Still gotta set up the night
vision cameras that we got.
Did you hear all my cameras are dead?
- No, no.
- I've got two, so we gotta set up those.
- Okay.
- Let's go do that.
Alright, we're saying
goodnight for night three.
Say goodnight.
- Goodnight.
(eerie music)
(thunder rumbling)
(camera buzzing)
- Alright, well it's two in the mornin'.
I kinda expected somethin' would happen.
(Host groaning)
My phone just let me know that the power
to the entire house been shut down.
The security alarm is ringing downstairs.
- [Terri] What should we do?
- (sighs) Well I can see that the power on
at the neighbor's house. (sighs)
Well the power be on at neighbor's house
tells me that it's an issue here
and it's probably the breaker box.
God, I do not wanna go down there.
- [Terri] Why are you so scared?
It's just a storm.
Alright.
- Oh my God.
- [Terri] Do you want me
to go down and check it?
- No I'll do it, just stay here.
- [Terri] (chuckles) Okay.
- Gimme the camera.
(thunder rumbling)
(rain pattering)
Do you have your phone?
- Yes.
(water trickling)
- [Host] Do you hear that?
- [Terri] Yeah.
- The faucet's on.
(water trickling)
If you hear me scream, will
you call the police please?
- Okay.
- What?
- Okay.
- [Host] I'm serious,
I'm not kiddin' you.
- Why am I calling the police?
- [Host] You are kidding
me right now, right?
I'm serious.
(water trickling)
(thunder rumbling)
(water trickling)
(water trickling)
(water trickling)
(thunder rumbling)
Hey Terri?
- [Terri] What?
What?
- [Host] If you hear me
yell, call the police please?
- [Terri] What are you yelling about?
- [Host] Just, you know what?
Fuck it, call the cops right now.
- [Terri] And tell them what?
- [Host] Just tell them
to come here, please?
- [Terri] Why, what is so important?
- [Host] Just, Terri.
I gotta go down to the basement
and I really don't wanna go down there.
What I just saw is enough
to get the cops over here.
Please call them, will you call them?
- [Terri] Okay.
(stairs creaking)
(thunder rumbling)
(light switch clicking)
(water trickling)
- [Host] Hey Terri, is
there electricity back on?
- [Terri] No.
(eerie music)
(Host breathing heavily)
Oh shit, I can't see where I'm goin'.
I can't see where I'm goin'.
Holy shit, holy shit.
Oh my God, oh my God.
I can't fuckin' see.
Oh God, goddammit.
Oh God.
Oh, oh shit.
(door slamming)
(water trickling)
(feet on floor stomping)
(thunder rumbling)
(feet stomping)
(eerie music)
(Host panting)
Get in, get in, get in!
(door slamming)
(camera buzzing)
So we're about to leave the house here.
We're about to go to the airport
and get back on the plane.
I've been thinkin' about
last night and what I saw.
I'm just really startin' to wonder
what I should do with my footage.
It's like I just discovered
that leprechauns exist,
but as soon as I go out and tell somebody,
they're gonna wanna have me committed
so that's not gonna work.
I think that's where I
made a big mistake because
after what I've seen and experienced,
there's no way anyone's gonna believe me.
(sighs) I don't even care.
(wind howling)
(calming, serene music)
You know, looking back on it all,
I'm actually quite proud of myself.
I think I would've made my teacher proud.
But ironically I wish I had never started
this venture in the first place.
John said it best--
- [John] This is a real video.
It came straight from our machine,
yet people still think it's fake.
The public is always gonna think it's fake
even if it's real.
- [Host] No video will ever be enough
to make people believe
that ghosts are real.
I didn't realize at the
time how right he was.
So if you wanna challenge
yourself as I did,
do an experiment.
If you know of a room or
a place that scares you
and you don't know why, go there.
A cellar, a basement or
any other dark place.
Go there alone, sit in the darkness
and wait for your senses to adjust.
Then, begin talking to whatever
may or may not be listening.
Only then, you might believe me.
(eerie music)
(calming, serene music)
(wind howling)