The Dead Files (2011) s02e12 Episode Script
Death Sentence
I mean, the whole place is haunted.
The strangest thing, for me, was seeing the shadows.
It can do anything from rape to killing someone.
To actually know what went on in this place, I have chills right now.
This is, like, his lair.
Probably the worst riot in the history of prisons in the country.
Beheadings.
.
I see somebody getting their head chopped off.
You could see blood up on the walls, blood on the floor.
Oh, God.
There's, like, a lot of blood in my mouth.
There's something down there.
My name is Amy Allan.
A lot of dead people are here.
I see dead people.
This is not good.
I speak to dead people.
.
He is very pissed off.
And they speak to me.
.
The house is angry.
But there's only one way to know if my findings are real.
He's killed people.
I rely on my partner.
I'm Steve Dischiavi.
I'm a retired New York City homicide Detective.
.
He got shot at his house? And I know every person, every house has secrets.
Aren't you terrified being here? It's my job to reveal them.
That sounds like something out of "The Exorcist.
" But Steve and I never speak.
.
We never communicate during an investigation.
.
Until the very end.
.
It's bad.
When we uncover if it's safe for you to stay.
.
I'd like some answers.
Or time to get out.
Amy and I conduct our investigation separately.
I dig deep into the property's history, uncovering dark secrets from its past.
Amy talks to the dead.
When we're done, we reveal our findings to our clients.
I'm headed to the old New Mexico State Penitentiary.
It was the scene of one of the bloodiest prison riots in U.
S.
history.
I'm meeting with a woman named Sandi who sounds terrified.
She had worked on a movie there for a couple of days and says that whatever she came in contact with was so awful it's destroying her life.
Before Amy enters a location, I have to clear the area of anything that could influence her findings.
This prison is very large.
.
So it's important that I take my time to cover or remove anything that could be leading information.
There was one event that happened and.
.
And the Earth absorbed it here.
It might've been two Native American tribes.
And it.
.
Hasn't been good since.
I really feel sick, like I'm gonna vomit.
Is it you or the location? It's the location.
So, Sandi, we're here at the prison.
Tell me what happened when you were here? Well, we filmed a movie here, and I actually played a prisoner.
There was a lot of real spooky things that happened, just hearing things, seeing things, feeling things.
So, Sandi, why'd you call Amy and I in? I need to know what's going on.
Everything that's happened since then has made me sick.
Like.
.
You know, I can't sleep half the time.
I ended up having to take medication for an ulcer because my stomach was so upset.
And I just have, like, this sense of doom.
And this all started after you filmed here? Yes.
I can't live like this.
Yesterday, I.
.
I started crying.
I was, like, talking to my friend.
.
"Please stay with me because I gotta go back there.
" You don't strike me as a woman that's really afraid.
I am not usually afraid of anything.
- Mm.
- And.
.
It really does creep me out to be in there.
You gonna be all right to show me some of these places? Yeah.
Come on.
A lot of people who stayed here have saw (Bleep).
People having all these weird experiences and, uh, physically weird (Bleep) Happening.
This entire prison feels cursed, from the land it sits on to the dead roaming its hallways.
It's, like, haunted.
The whole place is haunted.
When we were in this room, there was a lot of strange things happening, like noise.
What kind of things were you hearing? We heard, like, clanging.
Like, if somebody was kind of shaking metal.
But the fact that other people were there and they were hearing things, too, and seeing things, too.
.
- It validated it.
- Right.
The strangest thing, for me, was seeing the shadows.
It scared the heck out of me.
Now can you describe what the shadow looked like? It was quick but it.
.
It.
.
It looked like a.
.
Like somebody was running by.
One minute they're here, the next minute, you turn to see, and they're gone.
Almost as if something didn't want you to see it.
Oh, boy.
I don't.
.
Huh? My heart is jumping.
.
Because I'm nervous.
He's a shadow person.
Man, this thing's, like, a monster.
So, Sandi, what about any other place in the building? We were filming up in the cells, and then I got locked in the cell.
Oh.
Jeez.
Right as I was getting ready to leave, I heard a man's voice talking to me.
It was from behind me.
What'd he say? He said.
.
"Hey.
How ya doing?" I said, "fine.
How are you?" The response was.
.
"Fine now.
" I thought it was one of the crew, and, um, once I realized there was nobody standing behind me, I almost peed my pants.
This guy can do stuff.
He's, uh.
.
Very, very well-formed.
Very well-formed.
He's like, uh, advanced.
So what can it do to people? It can do anything from, like, rape to, like.
.
Killing someone.
Okay, Sandi, why'd you take me to this room? In between takes, we were down here, and I found this really neat hat.
And I thought, "oh, my boys would love this hat.
" So I grabbed it and I took it home with me.
All right, so let me get this straight.
You'd hear voices, locked in a cell, saw shadow people.
And at the end, you take something from here and bring it home? Yeah.
I mean, I'm no expert on the paranormal, but.
.
Probably wasn't a good idea.
No, I don't think it was a very good idea at all.
Some scary stuff started happening in my house, and.
.
I bet you wish you didn't take that hat now.
You got that right.
What'd you do with it? I burned it.
Where? In the fireplace.
Did the stuff at your house stop? No.
He's like a.
.
Maybe not a shadow person.
I think he's more than that.
Where does it come from? Uh, not from a good place.
It's, like, ancient and like.
.
I don't know.
Devil.
Shadow people are able.
.
But this is like.
.
Ancient and like.
.
I don't know.
Devil.
This dark evil entity is incredible old.
It feeds on death and negativity.
.
So it makes sense to me that it would thrive in this prison.
This is a bad area.
This is, like.
.
A bad area.
Sandi seems pretty convinced that something evil is in this prison.
But I need to talk to someone who spent more than a couple of days in this place.
You are a former corrections officer here? Yeah, that's correct.
Okay, when was that? I started at the academy in 1990, and I was here working at the old main up until 1994.
What was it like when you were here? It was violent.
There was, um, stabbings that were happening.
There was a lot of gang activity at that time.
Did you ever hear stories about paranormal stuff going on here before you started working? They talked to us about some of the paranormal activity at the academy.
They just touched on it.
- But they did mention it? - They did mention it, yes.
And, uh.
.
And when you walked in here, you know, you talk to some of the senior guards that are around and lieutenants and captains, and.
.
And they've had experiences.
Department, and I never once met a cop who admitted to seeing something paranormal.
And the top brass including it as part of the training? Unheard of.
There's gotta be something weird going on here.
Did you ever experience any paranormal activity while you were working here? - I have.
- What can you tell me? There was this one time where I had three inmates that I was, uh, bringing down to get their linens.
And as we were leaving, we were walking down the corridor in the basement, we started to hear, uh, a rattling noise behind us.
I turned immediately and looked and I saw a shadow, and the inmates turned as well, that.
.
That I had with me.
And I had shined a flashlight and there was a shadow there, just.
.
It looked like the outline of a man.
And as my flashlight kind of glanced through him, it was v.
.
Invisible.
On top of dealing with the stress of being a prison guard, then you're dealing with paranormal.
To actually know what went on in this place, um, I get chills.
I have chills right now.
I don't know what this is.
It's not a shadow person.
It's like a devil thing.
Did people encounter this? I think that they see it.
- How? - It's.
.
Like.
.
Solid.
Is there a hole? There has to be a hole.
Where is the hole? Is it literally a hole? Yes.
He would.
.
Come.
.
From here.
This is, like, his.
.
His home area.
Like his lair.
- It doesn't wanna go back.
- Why not? Because it likes wreaking havoc.
It could follow the living out of this place.
Both Sandi and Anthony have seen a shadow figure wandering the halls of the prison.
So I'm going to meet with one more witness to see if he had similar encounters.
Leon, you were a corrections officer here? - Yes, Sir.
- How long? Uh, four years.
- How's it feel to be back here? - Don't wanna be here.
- You don't? - Not at night or nothing, no.
Very terrified.
Did you ever experience any paranormal.
.
Activity while you were working here? Yes.
Any particular spot in the prison? The one we're standing in now.
Okay.
What'd you experience in here? Uh, well, just, you know, the moans and the groans late at night, early in the mornings.
Uh, windows kinda, like, opening all of the sudden.
You know, no wind, no nothing outside and stuff.
Shadows and.
.
Can you describe what it looked like? Uh, just like a shadow that you would see like in a bright day, uh, someone walking by.
But there was nobody there to make a shadow? No.
No.
No.
Did any of the inmates ever tell you that they've heard or saw something? Yes.
Yes.
Aw, there's just nasty stuff down here.
Like what? There's, like, a lot of crazy people down here.
They don't even know who they are.
Really crazy.
There's, like, a lot of crazy people down here.
Like, really, really mentally ill.
Uh.
.
When I say "crazy," I mean like, um.
.
They don't even know who they are.
A lot of them are like, um.
.
Screaming people.
Like, um, when they're crazy, they look like voodoo dolls to me.
They climb on the ceilings.
Really bad.
The obvious place for me to start my investigation is with the 1980 prison riot.
I know it was one of the most violent in U.
S.
history and that 33 prisoners died there, but I need to know the full story of what happened here in Santa Fe.
So I'm driving down to Albuquerque to meet with a reporter who covered the riot when it happened.
I'm conducting an investigation at the New Mexico State Prison, uh, and I understand there was a riot there in 1980, but you covered it as a reporter.
You had probably the worst riot in the history of prisons in the country.
We had 33 inmates dead, more than 90 wounded.
Uh, the prison was gutted.
Literally, that prison blew up.
So, Mike, what were the conditions like? It was a very poorly run prison.
Very badly run.
We had dormitories that were grossly overcrowded.
They had, like, 3 guards for 200 inmates.
The guards were under trained.
.
Uh, and the overall atmosphere was one of coercion.
It was run as a snitch system.
Uh, basically, that set inmate upon inmate, inmate against guard.
And it was just a question of time before it blew up.
So, Mike, where did it start? It starts at a dormitory called E-1.
These inmates were not in cells.
They were on bunk beds.
And the guards came across some of the inmates drinking homemade hooch.
Riot starts.
Uh, the guards had no protection, had nowhere to run.
The inmates managed to get the keys from one of the guards.
.
And then all hell breaks loose.
Who the (Bleep) Is this? What? I'm trying to figure out who the (Bleep) It is.
Someone's.
.
"Jack.
" "Jack.
Jack.
" "Oh, no.
We've got a situation.
" I think he got killed.
Since I'm in a prison, I'm not surprised to be seeing flashes of violence.
But I'm starting to see and feel a horrific amount of bloodshed.
Oh, I'm seeing a throat being slashed.
There's blood.
Really fast and, uh.
.
Unexpected.
I just heard people screaming, screaming.
You.
.
You had beheadings.
You had, uh, inmates who used, uh, acetylene torches on heads of other inmates.
Inmates were hung off the top tiers of the cell blocks.
Uh, inmates were beaten with pipes and then thrown, dead or alive, into, you know, burning fires inside the gymnasium.
It was brutal inmate-on-inmate violence.
There were, uh, guards that were.
.
Were just brutally and severely beaten, uh, and sexually assaulted.
I feel like my neck's breaking and.
.
Mm.
Everything, it hurts.
Ow, my head.
And.
.
It's, like, all right here.
Aw.
.
Mm.
Ugh.
Are you okay? Mm, what's wrong? Amy? Ow, my head.
And.
.
It's, like, all right here.
Mm.
Ugh.
Are you okay? Oh, God.
There's, like, a lot of blood in my mouth.
The shadow devil I encountered in this place is evil.
And I think it can leave here and attach itself to living people.
.
Maybe even kill them.
So I need to break the rules and meet with Steve to find out more about the person we're trying to help.
There is something very, very evil there, and things from that location could follow someone.
Oh, it's funny you say that because the client is having some issues at her place.
You wanna do a walk on her house? Yes, I think that would be a good idea.
Okay.
I'll set it up.
I don't like it in here at all.
I don't like it in here at all.
It's scary.
This is bad, bad.
I've managed to track down a former inmate who was at ground zero when the riot started.
He's never talked about what went down before, but he's agreed to tell me what he knows as long as I can keep his identity hidden.
This is the first time I've been back since the early '80s.
Well, you were here for the riot? I was here for the riot.
What do you know about it? People knew that something was gonna come down because there was too much tension in the institution.
There was too much talk about taking over and rioting and stuff already.
Did you see any of these guys get murdered? Yeah, I saw quite a few of them.
I saw killings.
The guards that got caught, taken as hostages, were all sodomized, every one of them.
One inmate got his head chopped off, you know.
Then all of a sudden, going down towards cell block 4, soon you could hear screaming and killing and everything.
Burning.
.
They torched some guy there with a welding torch.
And then the guy that got his head cut off in the hallway, they.
.
They paraded his head on a broomstick.
Mm, I see somebody getting their head chopped off.
I don't know.
It's like a flash of.
.
Some guy's head falling on the floor.
.
And rolling around.
It feels sacrificial.
.
In some way.
That (Bleep) Riot was like a Vietnam.
I mean, it was, like, crazy, you know? I gotta ask you a question.
During your time here, did you or any of your fellow inmates ever.
.
Come across something that you couldn't explain, that was maybe paranormal? Mm, there was a lot of strange things they would see.
They would say, "did you see that ghost did you see that?" Actually, if it was so quiet, you could actually almost hear the screams.
.
And the banging and shocking (Bleep).
Do you think it's because of what happened during the riot? Before and after the riot.
I think it's a devil shop.
It's the devil's house.
It needs to be destroyed.
There's, like, a.
.
Thing that came in from the.
.
Outside, and it's a dark.
.
Just mist.
Mist.
And it's going around up.
.
Up in the ceiling here.
.
Going around in circles and circles and circles.
It's kinda creepy.
It came out of the hole.
Right here.
- The hole in the tile? - Yeah.
Very, very, very bad.
The New Mexico State Penitentiary was built in the '50s, and the land has been filled with nothing but death and horror ever since.
But I need to know what happened on the sight before.
So I'm headed to the Santa Fe Public Library to see what I can dig up.
It didn't take long to discover that Santa Fe's past has more in common with the prison riot than I thought.
In 1680, there was a massive revolt between the Pueblo Indians and Spanish settlers, where over 400 Spaniards were humiliated, tortured, and killed.
I would like to sketch a room.
.
With a bunch of crazy men.
And then there's a doorway, and in that doorway is standing a man.
But you can't see him.
He's all shadow.
So, Amy, is this what you saw? Yes.
The severity of this case required Amy and I to meet midway through our investigation, which is highly unusual.
Now that we've investigated the prison, and Amy has walked Sandi's home.
.
We're ready to reveal our findings to each other and Sandi.
Sandi actually filmed a movie here and she's had some pretty wild experiences while she was here.
Uh, since then, though, she's been suffering from nightmares, she's had anxiety.
Her health has deteriorated.
And you've even developed some ulcers.
I did.
So that being said, maybe Amy could tell us about her walk.
When I first got here.
.
I saw two.
.
Tribes that were fighting over.
.
I think land.
And the land where we are is really, really bad.
It absorbed that residual experience.
So back in 1680, there was a revolt of the Native Americans that lived here against the Spanish settlers.
The Spanish used them as slaves.
And during that revolt, there was 400 Spanish settlers killed.
And when they captured the Spanish, they would humiliate them.
They would strip them naked, took all their clothes off.
They rode them like they were animals.
Well, that's interesting.
Why is that? The land has always been bad.
You know, as soon as.
.
As the.
.
Prison was built, it was haunted.
Prisoners were being tormented by entities and the dead.
The guards were having experiences.
Um, I did speak to a couple of prison guards that worked here.
.
And they all experienced something.
Corrections officers that went to the academy for this prison were taught about the paranormal.
And they actually put it in their training, uh, curriculum.
Maybe you could tell her about some of the stuff that happened to you when you were here for the two days.
As I was leaving here.
I went into this area, and it was completely black, and I hear.
.
"Hey.
How ya doing?" And I said.
.
"Fine.
How are you?" And he said.
.
"Fine now.
" Turned around to look, and there was nobody there.
Wow.
So anything else on your walk? Oh, yeah.
I ended up down by the laundry room.
And I saw.
.
All of these people who were severely mentally ill.
It was very unnerving, very strange, and very upsetting.
There's, like, a lot of crazy people down here.
Like, really, really mentally ill.
They don't even know who they are.
This prison was built in the '50s, and during the '60s and '70s, they really ran it pretty poorly.
I spoke to a reporter, and, uh, he basically said, uh, it was overcrowded.
When inmates went crazy, they just left them here.
So you had a lot of guys here that weren't getting proper medication.
And that were legitimately crazy.
Wow.
Okay.
So I see all of these insane people.
It almost looked like.
.
You know those voodoo dolls that have the twine? Mm-hmm.
So every once in a while, one of them would become that, and would, like, climb on the walls or the ceiling, and it seemed like something had taken over them.
And while I was down there seeing this.
.
I also saw the thing that made the Earth bad here.
There was, like, this gray mist.
Then I.
.
Saw.
.
This thing.
I mean, some people would say it's a devil.
And this thing is.
.
Far worse than any demon.
Very, uh.
.
Formidable, nasty.
And it, uh, it does change shape.
And it's very, very intelligent.
It likes this place a lot because it's scary.
And it was surrounded by these insane men.
So what I did was I sketched the scene that I saw.
Let's take a look at it.
I don't see Amy's sketch, so it's gonna be the first time I'm seeing it.
Jeez.
So that's what I saw down there.
And he's the really, really bad one.
He's, like, the devil thing.
All darkness.
He can make people sick.
He can rape.
He can murder.
Sandi, why don't you tell Amy about the shadow figure you had seen? I can't right now.
I can't even look at that right now.
Sandi, why don't you tell Amy about the shadow figure you had seen? I can't right now.
I can't even look at that right now.
It's okay.
I see that man a lot.
Why me? Have you had experiences before? - Yeah.
- Yeah.
They'll be attracted to us.
So you think she's maybe a sensitive? Mm-hmm.
Sensitives like Sandi are a magnet for the dead.
But when they attract something like this shadow devil, it can be extremely dangerous, even fatal.
He has never been human and.
.
He has grown.
.
To what he is by all of the horrors that have happened here.
Not just the prison, but before that.
So could this thing have even triggered the violence with the Native Americans? Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Anything else on your walk? I saw.
.
Some guy who worked here running around like a maniac.
I saw another guy getting his throat slashed.
I saw, um.
.
Guys throwing men over the.
.
You know, the top railing.
And there was, um, one guy who got bashed in the head, and I could, like.
.
I literally could taste all the blood in my mouth.
It was filled up in my mouth.
And, um, uh, violent.
.
Things, which I was like, well.
.
It's a prison.
Ya know.
.
Yeah, it is a prison but it's also.
.
The scene of probably one of the bloodiest prison riots in U.
S.
history.
In 1980, there was a riot here where 33 inmates were killed.
They raped these guys.
They beat them.
They set a couple guys on fire with an acetylene torch.
They cut another guy's head off.
They took they guy's head and they paraded it around like a trophy.
What's that look? During the walk of your house.
.
I saw a man getting his head cut off.
It was like a sacrifice.
Wow.
She did something when she was here filming, and she knows it was a mistake.
But if you could tell Amy about that.
.
I wanna see if there's maybe something going on with that.
I found a hat down there that I thought was cool.
And I thought, oh, my sons will love this, and so I took it.
.
And I brought it home.
I mean, I realized after I got it home it was probably a really bad idea because then things started happening in my house.
Mm, boy.
So I burned it, but I burned it in the fireplace.
- In the house.
- Oh, (Bleep).
Burning an object from a haunted location doesn't destroy the evil within in.
It actually makes it stronger, unleashing its power.
I mean, I figured the smoke would go out of the house.
I didn't know.
Oh, my gosh.
There was a, um, a little mist.
Like the mist that I saw come out of the ground here.
I saw this mist in the bathroom on the ceiling.
.
In that area.
And at this point, it's.
.
It's aware, it's conscious.
What I'm thinking possibly.
.
Is that, uh.
.
You brought a little piece of this negative.
.
To your home.
Now, Sandi, we're gonna answer your most pressing questions.
I mean, your house.
.
You're afraid to be in your house.
Your health is still bad.
Um, and you thought burning the hat was gonna change things.
Uh, but obviously it didn't.
No.
Uh, I mean, the question is, how are you gonna get your life back on track.
And make things better? Um, for that, I'm gonna turn it over to Amy, see if she can help you.
There's gonna be two parts to this.
What you need to have happen.
.
Is for a medicine man or a medicine woman.
To come to your house.
.
And do.
.
A.
.
Ritual cleansing.
I mean, from "A" to Z.
" A real cleansing.
You should not be there when this happens.
The other thing.
.
While that's happening.
.
Is that you need to be, like, in a hotel.
.
And with a healer who does a complete body cleanse on you.
Um, so a cleansing ritual of your body, because it does like to attach in a very physical way.
These two things need to be happening simultaneously.
Okay? You need to take care of yourself.
You need to get this done so that you can function because.
.
It's in you.
You gonna take her advice? Sandi should follow my advice precisely.
If she doesn't, I'm worried this evil shadow devil will grow.
.
And her health could continue to deteriorate.
The strangest thing, for me, was seeing the shadows.
It can do anything from rape to killing someone.
To actually know what went on in this place, I have chills right now.
This is, like, his lair.
Probably the worst riot in the history of prisons in the country.
Beheadings.
.
I see somebody getting their head chopped off.
You could see blood up on the walls, blood on the floor.
Oh, God.
There's, like, a lot of blood in my mouth.
There's something down there.
My name is Amy Allan.
A lot of dead people are here.
I see dead people.
This is not good.
I speak to dead people.
.
He is very pissed off.
And they speak to me.
.
The house is angry.
But there's only one way to know if my findings are real.
He's killed people.
I rely on my partner.
I'm Steve Dischiavi.
I'm a retired New York City homicide Detective.
.
He got shot at his house? And I know every person, every house has secrets.
Aren't you terrified being here? It's my job to reveal them.
That sounds like something out of "The Exorcist.
" But Steve and I never speak.
.
We never communicate during an investigation.
.
Until the very end.
.
It's bad.
When we uncover if it's safe for you to stay.
.
I'd like some answers.
Or time to get out.
Amy and I conduct our investigation separately.
I dig deep into the property's history, uncovering dark secrets from its past.
Amy talks to the dead.
When we're done, we reveal our findings to our clients.
I'm headed to the old New Mexico State Penitentiary.
It was the scene of one of the bloodiest prison riots in U.
S.
history.
I'm meeting with a woman named Sandi who sounds terrified.
She had worked on a movie there for a couple of days and says that whatever she came in contact with was so awful it's destroying her life.
Before Amy enters a location, I have to clear the area of anything that could influence her findings.
This prison is very large.
.
So it's important that I take my time to cover or remove anything that could be leading information.
There was one event that happened and.
.
And the Earth absorbed it here.
It might've been two Native American tribes.
And it.
.
Hasn't been good since.
I really feel sick, like I'm gonna vomit.
Is it you or the location? It's the location.
So, Sandi, we're here at the prison.
Tell me what happened when you were here? Well, we filmed a movie here, and I actually played a prisoner.
There was a lot of real spooky things that happened, just hearing things, seeing things, feeling things.
So, Sandi, why'd you call Amy and I in? I need to know what's going on.
Everything that's happened since then has made me sick.
Like.
.
You know, I can't sleep half the time.
I ended up having to take medication for an ulcer because my stomach was so upset.
And I just have, like, this sense of doom.
And this all started after you filmed here? Yes.
I can't live like this.
Yesterday, I.
.
I started crying.
I was, like, talking to my friend.
.
"Please stay with me because I gotta go back there.
" You don't strike me as a woman that's really afraid.
I am not usually afraid of anything.
- Mm.
- And.
.
It really does creep me out to be in there.
You gonna be all right to show me some of these places? Yeah.
Come on.
A lot of people who stayed here have saw (Bleep).
People having all these weird experiences and, uh, physically weird (Bleep) Happening.
This entire prison feels cursed, from the land it sits on to the dead roaming its hallways.
It's, like, haunted.
The whole place is haunted.
When we were in this room, there was a lot of strange things happening, like noise.
What kind of things were you hearing? We heard, like, clanging.
Like, if somebody was kind of shaking metal.
But the fact that other people were there and they were hearing things, too, and seeing things, too.
.
- It validated it.
- Right.
The strangest thing, for me, was seeing the shadows.
It scared the heck out of me.
Now can you describe what the shadow looked like? It was quick but it.
.
It.
.
It looked like a.
.
Like somebody was running by.
One minute they're here, the next minute, you turn to see, and they're gone.
Almost as if something didn't want you to see it.
Oh, boy.
I don't.
.
Huh? My heart is jumping.
.
Because I'm nervous.
He's a shadow person.
Man, this thing's, like, a monster.
So, Sandi, what about any other place in the building? We were filming up in the cells, and then I got locked in the cell.
Oh.
Jeez.
Right as I was getting ready to leave, I heard a man's voice talking to me.
It was from behind me.
What'd he say? He said.
.
"Hey.
How ya doing?" I said, "fine.
How are you?" The response was.
.
"Fine now.
" I thought it was one of the crew, and, um, once I realized there was nobody standing behind me, I almost peed my pants.
This guy can do stuff.
He's, uh.
.
Very, very well-formed.
Very well-formed.
He's like, uh, advanced.
So what can it do to people? It can do anything from, like, rape to, like.
.
Killing someone.
Okay, Sandi, why'd you take me to this room? In between takes, we were down here, and I found this really neat hat.
And I thought, "oh, my boys would love this hat.
" So I grabbed it and I took it home with me.
All right, so let me get this straight.
You'd hear voices, locked in a cell, saw shadow people.
And at the end, you take something from here and bring it home? Yeah.
I mean, I'm no expert on the paranormal, but.
.
Probably wasn't a good idea.
No, I don't think it was a very good idea at all.
Some scary stuff started happening in my house, and.
.
I bet you wish you didn't take that hat now.
You got that right.
What'd you do with it? I burned it.
Where? In the fireplace.
Did the stuff at your house stop? No.
He's like a.
.
Maybe not a shadow person.
I think he's more than that.
Where does it come from? Uh, not from a good place.
It's, like, ancient and like.
.
I don't know.
Devil.
Shadow people are able.
.
But this is like.
.
Ancient and like.
.
I don't know.
Devil.
This dark evil entity is incredible old.
It feeds on death and negativity.
.
So it makes sense to me that it would thrive in this prison.
This is a bad area.
This is, like.
.
A bad area.
Sandi seems pretty convinced that something evil is in this prison.
But I need to talk to someone who spent more than a couple of days in this place.
You are a former corrections officer here? Yeah, that's correct.
Okay, when was that? I started at the academy in 1990, and I was here working at the old main up until 1994.
What was it like when you were here? It was violent.
There was, um, stabbings that were happening.
There was a lot of gang activity at that time.
Did you ever hear stories about paranormal stuff going on here before you started working? They talked to us about some of the paranormal activity at the academy.
They just touched on it.
- But they did mention it? - They did mention it, yes.
And, uh.
.
And when you walked in here, you know, you talk to some of the senior guards that are around and lieutenants and captains, and.
.
And they've had experiences.
Department, and I never once met a cop who admitted to seeing something paranormal.
And the top brass including it as part of the training? Unheard of.
There's gotta be something weird going on here.
Did you ever experience any paranormal activity while you were working here? - I have.
- What can you tell me? There was this one time where I had three inmates that I was, uh, bringing down to get their linens.
And as we were leaving, we were walking down the corridor in the basement, we started to hear, uh, a rattling noise behind us.
I turned immediately and looked and I saw a shadow, and the inmates turned as well, that.
.
That I had with me.
And I had shined a flashlight and there was a shadow there, just.
.
It looked like the outline of a man.
And as my flashlight kind of glanced through him, it was v.
.
Invisible.
On top of dealing with the stress of being a prison guard, then you're dealing with paranormal.
To actually know what went on in this place, um, I get chills.
I have chills right now.
I don't know what this is.
It's not a shadow person.
It's like a devil thing.
Did people encounter this? I think that they see it.
- How? - It's.
.
Like.
.
Solid.
Is there a hole? There has to be a hole.
Where is the hole? Is it literally a hole? Yes.
He would.
.
Come.
.
From here.
This is, like, his.
.
His home area.
Like his lair.
- It doesn't wanna go back.
- Why not? Because it likes wreaking havoc.
It could follow the living out of this place.
Both Sandi and Anthony have seen a shadow figure wandering the halls of the prison.
So I'm going to meet with one more witness to see if he had similar encounters.
Leon, you were a corrections officer here? - Yes, Sir.
- How long? Uh, four years.
- How's it feel to be back here? - Don't wanna be here.
- You don't? - Not at night or nothing, no.
Very terrified.
Did you ever experience any paranormal.
.
Activity while you were working here? Yes.
Any particular spot in the prison? The one we're standing in now.
Okay.
What'd you experience in here? Uh, well, just, you know, the moans and the groans late at night, early in the mornings.
Uh, windows kinda, like, opening all of the sudden.
You know, no wind, no nothing outside and stuff.
Shadows and.
.
Can you describe what it looked like? Uh, just like a shadow that you would see like in a bright day, uh, someone walking by.
But there was nobody there to make a shadow? No.
No.
No.
Did any of the inmates ever tell you that they've heard or saw something? Yes.
Yes.
Aw, there's just nasty stuff down here.
Like what? There's, like, a lot of crazy people down here.
They don't even know who they are.
Really crazy.
There's, like, a lot of crazy people down here.
Like, really, really mentally ill.
Uh.
.
When I say "crazy," I mean like, um.
.
They don't even know who they are.
A lot of them are like, um.
.
Screaming people.
Like, um, when they're crazy, they look like voodoo dolls to me.
They climb on the ceilings.
Really bad.
The obvious place for me to start my investigation is with the 1980 prison riot.
I know it was one of the most violent in U.
S.
history and that 33 prisoners died there, but I need to know the full story of what happened here in Santa Fe.
So I'm driving down to Albuquerque to meet with a reporter who covered the riot when it happened.
I'm conducting an investigation at the New Mexico State Prison, uh, and I understand there was a riot there in 1980, but you covered it as a reporter.
You had probably the worst riot in the history of prisons in the country.
We had 33 inmates dead, more than 90 wounded.
Uh, the prison was gutted.
Literally, that prison blew up.
So, Mike, what were the conditions like? It was a very poorly run prison.
Very badly run.
We had dormitories that were grossly overcrowded.
They had, like, 3 guards for 200 inmates.
The guards were under trained.
.
Uh, and the overall atmosphere was one of coercion.
It was run as a snitch system.
Uh, basically, that set inmate upon inmate, inmate against guard.
And it was just a question of time before it blew up.
So, Mike, where did it start? It starts at a dormitory called E-1.
These inmates were not in cells.
They were on bunk beds.
And the guards came across some of the inmates drinking homemade hooch.
Riot starts.
Uh, the guards had no protection, had nowhere to run.
The inmates managed to get the keys from one of the guards.
.
And then all hell breaks loose.
Who the (Bleep) Is this? What? I'm trying to figure out who the (Bleep) It is.
Someone's.
.
"Jack.
" "Jack.
Jack.
" "Oh, no.
We've got a situation.
" I think he got killed.
Since I'm in a prison, I'm not surprised to be seeing flashes of violence.
But I'm starting to see and feel a horrific amount of bloodshed.
Oh, I'm seeing a throat being slashed.
There's blood.
Really fast and, uh.
.
Unexpected.
I just heard people screaming, screaming.
You.
.
You had beheadings.
You had, uh, inmates who used, uh, acetylene torches on heads of other inmates.
Inmates were hung off the top tiers of the cell blocks.
Uh, inmates were beaten with pipes and then thrown, dead or alive, into, you know, burning fires inside the gymnasium.
It was brutal inmate-on-inmate violence.
There were, uh, guards that were.
.
Were just brutally and severely beaten, uh, and sexually assaulted.
I feel like my neck's breaking and.
.
Mm.
Everything, it hurts.
Ow, my head.
And.
.
It's, like, all right here.
Aw.
.
Mm.
Ugh.
Are you okay? Mm, what's wrong? Amy? Ow, my head.
And.
.
It's, like, all right here.
Mm.
Ugh.
Are you okay? Oh, God.
There's, like, a lot of blood in my mouth.
The shadow devil I encountered in this place is evil.
And I think it can leave here and attach itself to living people.
.
Maybe even kill them.
So I need to break the rules and meet with Steve to find out more about the person we're trying to help.
There is something very, very evil there, and things from that location could follow someone.
Oh, it's funny you say that because the client is having some issues at her place.
You wanna do a walk on her house? Yes, I think that would be a good idea.
Okay.
I'll set it up.
I don't like it in here at all.
I don't like it in here at all.
It's scary.
This is bad, bad.
I've managed to track down a former inmate who was at ground zero when the riot started.
He's never talked about what went down before, but he's agreed to tell me what he knows as long as I can keep his identity hidden.
This is the first time I've been back since the early '80s.
Well, you were here for the riot? I was here for the riot.
What do you know about it? People knew that something was gonna come down because there was too much tension in the institution.
There was too much talk about taking over and rioting and stuff already.
Did you see any of these guys get murdered? Yeah, I saw quite a few of them.
I saw killings.
The guards that got caught, taken as hostages, were all sodomized, every one of them.
One inmate got his head chopped off, you know.
Then all of a sudden, going down towards cell block 4, soon you could hear screaming and killing and everything.
Burning.
.
They torched some guy there with a welding torch.
And then the guy that got his head cut off in the hallway, they.
.
They paraded his head on a broomstick.
Mm, I see somebody getting their head chopped off.
I don't know.
It's like a flash of.
.
Some guy's head falling on the floor.
.
And rolling around.
It feels sacrificial.
.
In some way.
That (Bleep) Riot was like a Vietnam.
I mean, it was, like, crazy, you know? I gotta ask you a question.
During your time here, did you or any of your fellow inmates ever.
.
Come across something that you couldn't explain, that was maybe paranormal? Mm, there was a lot of strange things they would see.
They would say, "did you see that ghost did you see that?" Actually, if it was so quiet, you could actually almost hear the screams.
.
And the banging and shocking (Bleep).
Do you think it's because of what happened during the riot? Before and after the riot.
I think it's a devil shop.
It's the devil's house.
It needs to be destroyed.
There's, like, a.
.
Thing that came in from the.
.
Outside, and it's a dark.
.
Just mist.
Mist.
And it's going around up.
.
Up in the ceiling here.
.
Going around in circles and circles and circles.
It's kinda creepy.
It came out of the hole.
Right here.
- The hole in the tile? - Yeah.
Very, very, very bad.
The New Mexico State Penitentiary was built in the '50s, and the land has been filled with nothing but death and horror ever since.
But I need to know what happened on the sight before.
So I'm headed to the Santa Fe Public Library to see what I can dig up.
It didn't take long to discover that Santa Fe's past has more in common with the prison riot than I thought.
In 1680, there was a massive revolt between the Pueblo Indians and Spanish settlers, where over 400 Spaniards were humiliated, tortured, and killed.
I would like to sketch a room.
.
With a bunch of crazy men.
And then there's a doorway, and in that doorway is standing a man.
But you can't see him.
He's all shadow.
So, Amy, is this what you saw? Yes.
The severity of this case required Amy and I to meet midway through our investigation, which is highly unusual.
Now that we've investigated the prison, and Amy has walked Sandi's home.
.
We're ready to reveal our findings to each other and Sandi.
Sandi actually filmed a movie here and she's had some pretty wild experiences while she was here.
Uh, since then, though, she's been suffering from nightmares, she's had anxiety.
Her health has deteriorated.
And you've even developed some ulcers.
I did.
So that being said, maybe Amy could tell us about her walk.
When I first got here.
.
I saw two.
.
Tribes that were fighting over.
.
I think land.
And the land where we are is really, really bad.
It absorbed that residual experience.
So back in 1680, there was a revolt of the Native Americans that lived here against the Spanish settlers.
The Spanish used them as slaves.
And during that revolt, there was 400 Spanish settlers killed.
And when they captured the Spanish, they would humiliate them.
They would strip them naked, took all their clothes off.
They rode them like they were animals.
Well, that's interesting.
Why is that? The land has always been bad.
You know, as soon as.
.
As the.
.
Prison was built, it was haunted.
Prisoners were being tormented by entities and the dead.
The guards were having experiences.
Um, I did speak to a couple of prison guards that worked here.
.
And they all experienced something.
Corrections officers that went to the academy for this prison were taught about the paranormal.
And they actually put it in their training, uh, curriculum.
Maybe you could tell her about some of the stuff that happened to you when you were here for the two days.
As I was leaving here.
I went into this area, and it was completely black, and I hear.
.
"Hey.
How ya doing?" And I said.
.
"Fine.
How are you?" And he said.
.
"Fine now.
" Turned around to look, and there was nobody there.
Wow.
So anything else on your walk? Oh, yeah.
I ended up down by the laundry room.
And I saw.
.
All of these people who were severely mentally ill.
It was very unnerving, very strange, and very upsetting.
There's, like, a lot of crazy people down here.
Like, really, really mentally ill.
They don't even know who they are.
This prison was built in the '50s, and during the '60s and '70s, they really ran it pretty poorly.
I spoke to a reporter, and, uh, he basically said, uh, it was overcrowded.
When inmates went crazy, they just left them here.
So you had a lot of guys here that weren't getting proper medication.
And that were legitimately crazy.
Wow.
Okay.
So I see all of these insane people.
It almost looked like.
.
You know those voodoo dolls that have the twine? Mm-hmm.
So every once in a while, one of them would become that, and would, like, climb on the walls or the ceiling, and it seemed like something had taken over them.
And while I was down there seeing this.
.
I also saw the thing that made the Earth bad here.
There was, like, this gray mist.
Then I.
.
Saw.
.
This thing.
I mean, some people would say it's a devil.
And this thing is.
.
Far worse than any demon.
Very, uh.
.
Formidable, nasty.
And it, uh, it does change shape.
And it's very, very intelligent.
It likes this place a lot because it's scary.
And it was surrounded by these insane men.
So what I did was I sketched the scene that I saw.
Let's take a look at it.
I don't see Amy's sketch, so it's gonna be the first time I'm seeing it.
Jeez.
So that's what I saw down there.
And he's the really, really bad one.
He's, like, the devil thing.
All darkness.
He can make people sick.
He can rape.
He can murder.
Sandi, why don't you tell Amy about the shadow figure you had seen? I can't right now.
I can't even look at that right now.
Sandi, why don't you tell Amy about the shadow figure you had seen? I can't right now.
I can't even look at that right now.
It's okay.
I see that man a lot.
Why me? Have you had experiences before? - Yeah.
- Yeah.
They'll be attracted to us.
So you think she's maybe a sensitive? Mm-hmm.
Sensitives like Sandi are a magnet for the dead.
But when they attract something like this shadow devil, it can be extremely dangerous, even fatal.
He has never been human and.
.
He has grown.
.
To what he is by all of the horrors that have happened here.
Not just the prison, but before that.
So could this thing have even triggered the violence with the Native Americans? Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Anything else on your walk? I saw.
.
Some guy who worked here running around like a maniac.
I saw another guy getting his throat slashed.
I saw, um.
.
Guys throwing men over the.
.
You know, the top railing.
And there was, um, one guy who got bashed in the head, and I could, like.
.
I literally could taste all the blood in my mouth.
It was filled up in my mouth.
And, um, uh, violent.
.
Things, which I was like, well.
.
It's a prison.
Ya know.
.
Yeah, it is a prison but it's also.
.
The scene of probably one of the bloodiest prison riots in U.
S.
history.
In 1980, there was a riot here where 33 inmates were killed.
They raped these guys.
They beat them.
They set a couple guys on fire with an acetylene torch.
They cut another guy's head off.
They took they guy's head and they paraded it around like a trophy.
What's that look? During the walk of your house.
.
I saw a man getting his head cut off.
It was like a sacrifice.
Wow.
She did something when she was here filming, and she knows it was a mistake.
But if you could tell Amy about that.
.
I wanna see if there's maybe something going on with that.
I found a hat down there that I thought was cool.
And I thought, oh, my sons will love this, and so I took it.
.
And I brought it home.
I mean, I realized after I got it home it was probably a really bad idea because then things started happening in my house.
Mm, boy.
So I burned it, but I burned it in the fireplace.
- In the house.
- Oh, (Bleep).
Burning an object from a haunted location doesn't destroy the evil within in.
It actually makes it stronger, unleashing its power.
I mean, I figured the smoke would go out of the house.
I didn't know.
Oh, my gosh.
There was a, um, a little mist.
Like the mist that I saw come out of the ground here.
I saw this mist in the bathroom on the ceiling.
.
In that area.
And at this point, it's.
.
It's aware, it's conscious.
What I'm thinking possibly.
.
Is that, uh.
.
You brought a little piece of this negative.
.
To your home.
Now, Sandi, we're gonna answer your most pressing questions.
I mean, your house.
.
You're afraid to be in your house.
Your health is still bad.
Um, and you thought burning the hat was gonna change things.
Uh, but obviously it didn't.
No.
Uh, I mean, the question is, how are you gonna get your life back on track.
And make things better? Um, for that, I'm gonna turn it over to Amy, see if she can help you.
There's gonna be two parts to this.
What you need to have happen.
.
Is for a medicine man or a medicine woman.
To come to your house.
.
And do.
.
A.
.
Ritual cleansing.
I mean, from "A" to Z.
" A real cleansing.
You should not be there when this happens.
The other thing.
.
While that's happening.
.
Is that you need to be, like, in a hotel.
.
And with a healer who does a complete body cleanse on you.
Um, so a cleansing ritual of your body, because it does like to attach in a very physical way.
These two things need to be happening simultaneously.
Okay? You need to take care of yourself.
You need to get this done so that you can function because.
.
It's in you.
You gonna take her advice? Sandi should follow my advice precisely.
If she doesn't, I'm worried this evil shadow devil will grow.
.
And her health could continue to deteriorate.