Oh, my God, there's a voice that says, "Go home."
[man exclaiming]
[narrator] TAPS investigates a 19th century library...
You can tell it used to be a church.
[narrator] ...built on historic land.
It's called the Massacre of Wyoming.
There were, like, 400 people that were murdered there.
[narrator] And former Olympic skater Johnny Weir
pays an unexpected visit.
Oh, my God! Someone needs to come down.
[narrator] ...to help uncover
a haunting for the record books.
A book just slid out.
Holy [bleep] .
So, the Osterhout Free Library.
Yeah, in this part of Pennsylvania,
the Wyoming Valley,
lots have battled here from the Revolutionary War.
The place has seen its share of tragedy.
[narrator] TAPS has been called to Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania,
to investigate the Osterhout Free Library,
which was first built as a church in 1849.
Richard Miller, he's the Executive Director,
and he's calling us in because employees
and patrons coming in
have all had experiences there.
-Whew. -Yeah.
Has this place been investigated before?
No, it hasn't.
-So we're gonna be the first ones? -Yeah.
That's really cool!
You know what? I'll fill in Tango and Shari.
[radio crackling]
[Steve] They're claiming to hear voices
coming out of thin air.
Wow.
They're seeing shadow-like figures,
books flying off the shelves.
-I've always wanted to see a book flying off a shelf. -I know.
[Steve] They're claiming a male doppelganger
-has been seen. -Who?
A doppelganger!
So, they're seeing the ghost of somebody
who is actually still alive.
-Yeah, that's kinda creepy. -Yeah.
There are reports of the activity in the basement
being a little darker in nature,
a little more ominous.
So we'll have to see how we could help Richard,
the employees and, realistically, the whole community.
Yeah.
We'll help them.
It's right here on the left.
-Oh. -Oh!
Very Gothic looking.
[narrator] TAPS case:
Osterhout Free Library,
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
-Hey, Richard. -Hi.
I'm Jason. It's nice to meet you.
-Hey, I'm Steve. -Hey, Steve.
Thank you for coming into The Osterhout Free Library.
Thanks for having us. I mean, you could tell it used to be a church.
[Richard] Yes.
[narrator] This building was constructed in 1849
as the First Presbyterian Church.
When the congregation outgrew the premises,
it was converted into the Osterhout Free Library
at the recommendations of Melvil Dewey
creator of the Dewey Decimal System.
It opened to the public in 1889
as one of the first free libraries
in northeastern Pennsylvania.
Paid with funds bequeathed
by local couple Isaac and Elizabeth Osterhout.
The original founders, the Osterhouts,
they never had any children.
So in many respects, this library is their child.
Do you know if there are anybody throughout History
that may have died on the property, or...
[Richard] I can't say that for sure.
However, during the Revolutionary War,
the Native Americans in this area
sided with the British.
And now very far from here
is a monument to the Wyoming Massacre,
where several hundred local colonists
were scalped and murdered
for their support in the Revolution.
Wow.
And paranormal activity claims
have been going on for how long?
I've been here just over a decade.
As soon as I started,
I heard stories from long-time staff.
[Jason] And what have you experienced here?
One night, when I was here working alone,
I went to turn off the lights and lock up
and I heard whispers over my shoulder.
[creepy whispering]
[Patrick] But it was a very hurried, frantic sound.
And of course I turned around and nothing was there.
And I made my way out of the building pretty quickly.
Okay.
And that was here on the first floor?
Yes, absolutely.
So, where are people seeing
these shadow-type figures?
Typically, in the basement.
[woman] I was down in the basement.
I heard footsteps,
I saw a figure
from my peripheral vision enter the room.
I just said, "What's up?"
And then no one answered me.
When I saw this figure just disappear...
I immediately felt scared,
so I packed up my stuff and I left.
[narrator] A staff member also had their name called out
by an unseen entity in the basement.
And a menacing doppelganger has been experienced.
[woman] I was in the basement with one of my friends.
And we had a question for our friend
that was working here that evening.
I could see him moving a few rows away from us.
And as soon as I said his name,
I heard footsteps coming down the stairs behind us.
[footsteps]
And to our surprise,
it was the friend we were calling out to.
When I turned back around,
they were entirely gone.
The three of us were just in shock.
There was no explanation as to who was down there
or what was down there with us.
[narrator] A male apparition has also been encountered
on the first floor in the reading room.
On the second floor,
there are claims of another shadow figure.
Most of the activity does occur
in the stacks area.
Just last week, I saw a shadow.
And when I walked down to the end of the aisle,
there was no one there.
[narrator] In the same area,
it's been reported that books
have mysteriously moved on their own.
A person was looking for a book in the stacks,
and it suddenly flew off the shelf
just a few rows down.
[book thudding]
And it was the exact book that they were looking for.
Wow.
[narrator] In addition to books moving and falling on the second floor...
[thudding]
...there have been other shocking reports.
A person that used to work here
would always get an electrical shock.
-Oh, the static shock? -Yes.
-So she would try to avoid going to that area. -Which area?
[Richard] It would be between
books that cover occult matters
and books that cover religion.
[Jason] Okay.
[narrator] Also, throughout the library, there are reports
of unexplained and strange voices
in conversations with each other.
[multiple voices whispering]
[Steve] Anything else we should know about?
[Richard] This past August,
we had a long-time head of our maintenance department,
David, pass away.
Sorry to hear that.
The weekend after he had passed,
there were little scraps of paper on the steps
outside of my office going to the basement.
And for three days in a row,
the gate at this hub was open,
and the door was slightly ajar
at the bottom of the steps.
I just had it cleaned up,
and it happened again.
So do you feel that was him trying to give you a sign?
His office was down there,
so I would not be surprised
if he was trying to get back to work.
So, what are you hoping that we're able to accomplish here for you?
People that use the library,
people that work at the library,
are curious to know
if this is a figment of their imagination.
And most importantly,
if there's anything threatening here.
All right, well, I think from here
we're gonna go talk to the rest of the crew
and start figuring out where to set up and get going there.
-Excellent. -Great.
Talk to you soon. Look forward to hearing more.
-Hey, hey. -Hey, guys.
Yeah! We just got done talking with Richard.
-Okay. -He was telling us about the history of the place.
-It started off as a church. -Right.
And Isaac and Elizabeth Osterhout,
they wanted to turn it into and free library.
And this was kind of the baby
for Elizabeth and Isaac.
They didn't have any children?
No, this was their baby.
Their legacy.
They also had an employee who passed away,
he spent, like, four years working here.
-His name is Dave. -This is recent?
-It was kinda recent. -Oh, it was?
[Jason] And they're saying that they can still feel
his presence in the library.
Wow. Oh, man.
[Jason] So, a lot of different claims.
Let's get cracking, figure out what's going on.
Let's do it.
[Steve] There've been a lot of battles in this area,
so there is a good chance
that there have been some deaths here on the property.
And it is way more likely to have a haunting
where somebody has passed away.
[Jason] It's a free library, it's for the community.
And there's definitely a lot of people
who don't feel safe.
To the right.
We're good.
So we need to really figure out what's going on.
-So, we're good to go? -Yeah.
We have cameras everywhere throughout the whole library,
in every spot that has a claim.
Well, I mean, the place is covered, top to bottom.
-[Dave] It is. -Let's get the lights out.
-Getting ready to investigate. -Okay.
[Jason] For tonight's investigation,
Shari and I will start in the basement.
This is where they've had the doppelganger.
[Shari] Yeah.
[Jason] While Steve and Tango head to the second floor book stacks.
[Dave] All right, let me get this rolling.
[Steve] Here we are, in the reading room.
All right.
They are seeing a full-bodied apparition of a male.
[low moaning sound]
What is that?
What?
It's like, [imitates moaning]
[Dave] Let me just play this back real quick.
You tell me what you think.
[low moaning sound]
Boo!
[Dave] It sounds more like a voice.
It sounds like a "Mmm-hmm."
Yeah, like it was agreeing.
Wow.
And we didn't even get in here yet.
[Dave] I know.
[Shari] There's many different claims down here.
People see shadow figures,
and there is a claim
that somebody heard their name be called out.
[Jason] Hello?
If there's anybody down here,
we'd just like to talk with you.
[Shari] Did you used to work here?
Oh, there's a basement inside a basement.
[Shari] Hello?
If you're here,
can you please make a really loud noise?
[indistinct noise]
[Jason] What is that?
That was like a male-female voice.
Back and forth.
[Shari whispering] That's crazy...
[Shari] We definitely heard you that time.
[Jason] Did you use to attend church here?
Are you upset that this place
was turned into a free library?
Is Elizabeth or Isaac Osterhout here?
[Jason] Steve and Tango are in the second floor,
where the book stacks are.
And they claim that books are moving on their own
and that they're also seeing shadow-like phenomena.
[Dave] Hello?
We've heard that you like to take books out for people.
Can you find me a book on magic?
Just pull it out, let it drop to the floor.
[Steve] So, right here might be a good spot
for the laser grid and the EM pump.
-[Dave] Ooh, right. Yeah. -You know?
[Steve] So that will introduce some extra energy
that can be used as fuel, possibly.
[beeping rapidly]
[whooshing]
-Oh, my God. -What?
Another voice.
[Steve] A voice?
There's a voice that says "Go home."
[Steve] No, no, no...
Just listen.
[sighing]
[Steve] No!
"Go home."
No way!
[Shari] This is where the guy, Dave, used to work,
who just recently passed away.
[Jason] Dave. Yeah.
[Shari] So, we have a machinery here
that's called the geophone.
And we can ask you 'yes or no' questions.
And for every yes
you can just tap on the table
to make that light go on.
Is there somebody here with us right now?
It's okay, we don't mean any harm.
We don't...
[Jason] Oh.
Can you come to that machine one more time
and just tap, like, three times in a row, please?
Wow.
[Shari] Did you use to work here?
Yes.
Dave, are you here with us?
[Jason] Isaac Osterhout,
are you here in the library?
I know it was your passion project.
[Shari whispering]
-[rustling] -Ooh.
Ooh? Who was that?
It was on the first floor.
[radio crackles] Jay to Steve.
[Steve] Go for Steve.
[Jason] Steve, is somebody on the first floor?
[Steve] Not at all, no.
Oh, wow. Okay. Thanks, man.
-[thudding] -Oh, [bleep] .
-Right there. -Holy crap.
It sounded like somebody running down the stairs.
[Dave] I heard you.
Telling me, or us, to go home.
We will go home
if you...
could pull a book out off the shelf
and drop it to the floor.
[Steve] Well, let's see if any book is out.
So, nothing in this aisle.
[Dave] Nothing here.
[Steve] Nothing in this aisle.
[Dave] Yeah, nothing.
[Steve] Nothing here, yeah, nothing.
[Dave] I'm gonna be walking down here again.
It's where I heard it.
Steve, there's a book that's dragged out.
[Steve] What?
[Shari] So, there's anybody here with us right now?
can you please tap on the table?
Are there any settlers here that died
in the Wyoming Massacre?
[exclaims]
-You just heard that? -That... yeah.
[whispering] What was that?
Is anybody from the...
[thudding]
-You okay? -It's not me.
What?
[Shari] That was loud!
Yeah, I don't know what that was.
It sounded like it happened from behind me, so...
[Shari] Oh...
[Jason] So, we'd like to talk with whoever is here.
[Steve] It's a book about the civil rights movement.
[Dave] Mmm-hmm. This book could have just not have been properly put away,
but we said, "If you want us to go home, we will go home if you can move a book."
[Steve] I don't know, you did say, "Put it on the floor".
[Dave] I mean, maybe it was in the process of doing that.
Mmm-hmm.
[Shari] Elizabeth?
Can you make a loud noise where you are?
[whispering] It got really quiet down here.
[Shari] Hmm...
-Why don't we head back? -[Shari] Okay.
[Jason over radio] Hey, Steve, it's Jay.
We're gonna be heading out.
Let's regroup at command center.
You copy that?
Hey, guys.
-Hey, hey. -Nice.
Incredible.
-[Shari] Yeah? -Really?
We got a male voice
that says, "Go home."
[gasps] Really?
And then Tango said,
"Move a book and we'll get out of here."
So now we go check,
one book is hanging out,
almost ready to fall on the ground.
-Really? -Yes.
Oh, my God.
What about you guys?
Voices, male, female.
Something fell or banged.
-Yeah. -It was one thing after another.
Oh, man.
Could be interesting just to get some more of the history.
I know Richard told us what he knew,
but just to figure out a little more of it.
[Shari] We can see if we can track someone down tomorrow.
-I'm game with that, yeah. -Yeah.
[Jason] Let's get wrapped.
All right, good job, guys.
-So, I'll play it for you. -Okay.
[Jason] Today, Dave and Steve
are going to spend time analyzing evidence
captured from last night's investigation.
[indistinct]
Kinda sounds like a deeper voice
and a higher pitched voice.
-Yes. Two different people. -Yeah, two different people.
-Wow. -Yeah.
[Jason] While Shari and I meet with a local historian
as the Osterhout Library...
-Thanks for coming. -Sure.
[Jason] ...to see what we can uncover about this property.
Trying to get some information
on the land the library sits on.
I know it used to be a church.
What else can you tell us about the property?
Sure.
The very first European settlers
come here in 1762
and got into a scuffle right off the bat.
The Native tribes attacked the settlers.
Oh, wow.
So they were busy fighting with the Native Americans,
but then the American Revolution happened?
Right, so during the Revolution,
the allied Native Americans with the British
came down here and wiped out the entire community in 1778.
It's called the Battle and Massacre of Wyoming,
where about 400 people
were slaughtered by the Native tribes and the British.
Very tragic.
Jeez. Okay.
Do you know of any other deaths
besides the battles?
A terrible tragedy that happened.
The Slocum family had a log cabin
just a few blocks from here.
It was a Native raid
in November of 1778.
And they killed poor little Nathan Slocum at age 15.
And then a month after that,
the father, Jonathan Slocum,
and his father-in-law, Isaac Tripp,
were out tending to the cows,
it was right here on this property,
and they got ambushed by the Native tribes.
And they were scalped and just left to die.
-And that was actually right here? -Right.
All right, well, we definitely got a lot of good information here.
And thank you so much for taking the time out of your day.
Sure. Good luck with everything.
-Hey, how'd it go? -How are you guys?
-It went pretty well. -We're good.
You'll never guess who just called me.
-Who? -Johnny Weir.
-Really? -He wants to come by.
[Johnny] When I heard that the TAPS team
was gonna be in my neck of the woods,
in Pennsylvania,
I immediately jumped at the opportunity
to experience a ghost hunt.
[Jason] Johnny Weir is a figure skater
and television commentator,
having competed in two Olympics
and winning three U.S. Men's Figure Skating Championship titles.
he also had a paranormal experience as a child.
[all shouting excitedly]
Hi, everyone!
-Hey! -Hi!
-Good morning. -I'm Johnny!
[Johnny] I've always been interested in paranormal activity.
There have been experiences in my life
where I can feel something brush past you,
see something in the shadow out the corner of your eye.
So, I'm super excited to see
if all the things I think I believe in are real.
So, what have we got here?
This whole area was just riddled with brutal murders.
Oh, jeez.
They had the Massacre down here,
where the actual Native Americans
were working with the British.
There were, like, 400 people that were murdered here.
-[Dave gasps] -All in this area.
[Steve] That's terrible.
[Shari] And then there was a family that lived here,
the Slocum family.
And they were raided by the Native Americans.
The father, Jonathan Slocum,
he and his father-in-law, Isaac Tripp,
they both got scalped and left to die.
-Wow. -Jeez.
It was pretty much right here at the corner.
-That's where it happened. -[Dave] Oh, my God...
So, no matter where you are,
there's been death, there's been murder.
Wow...
Now, in a case where a spirit says, "Leave,"
do you actually do it?
We don't, we're there to help out the family, the people,
so we do what we need to
to try to document whatever we can.
So, I'm all in.
As long as nothing attaches itself to me when I leave.
-[all laughing] -Thanks for making the time. This is, like...
I'm so excited!
-Let's do this. -Yeah, come on.
Come on, let's get inside.
[Jason] We now have the names of possible suspects
that could be behind paranormal activity.
Both Jonathan Slocum and Isaac Tripp
were murdered in 1778
on land bordering this property.
Tonight, we'll try to reach them,
as well as others who may be haunting this library.
[Dave] Dave and Shari,
we're going up to the second floor.
This is where books move on their own,
which happened to Steve and I last night.
We hear voices
and shadow figures are seen.
[Jason] Jay, Johnny and Steve
heading to the basement.
Claims of shadow figures and the doppelganger.
[Johnny] Well, who wouldn't be scared down here?
[Jason] If there's anybody down here,
can you do anything to let us know you're here?
Are there any settlers here?
That were here during the time the town burnt to the ground in 1778?
[Steve] We know some terrible things
that have happened here on the property...
Some people lost their lives.
[Johnny] The Slocums, wasn't it?
[Jason] Yeah.
Jonathan Slocum, are you here?
[Steve] We heard you were murdered here?
Is that why you're still here?
[Jason] So, there's a device on this table here.
It's got a red light on it.
If you come near it,
it can light up,
allowing us a means to communicate back and forth.
Can you come near the device?
-[device beeping] -[Jason] Oh. Oh.
[Johnny] Oh, my God. There's something right there.
[device beeping]
What was that?
[Jason] The device is picking something up.
If there's somebody here,
can you do that again for us?
[Johnny] What if we got farther away from that device?
[Jason] We can certainly try that.
We're looking for any soldiers,
anybody that fought in a battle, on this land.
[rustling]
Did you just hear that?
-Movement? -Yeah.
[Jason] Walking right above us.
Also, there's a librarian who claims
she goes through a certain section
and she feels like she's getting zapped and shocked.
-[Shari] Yeah. -Happens over and over and over again.
[Shari] Hello?
People that come up here wanna know if there's somebody in here
that does not want them around.
I heard you last night, whoever you are.
Jonathan Slocum?
Isaac Tripp?
-[bleep] ! -[Shari exclaims]
-Damn it! -What?
I got shocked. [bleep]
[creaking]
[whispering] Nobody's out on the first floor, right?
Nobody.
So that walking isn't any of our people.
Since things are happening on separate floors,
we can do something where, like, one of us stays down here,
one or two of us goes to the first floor.
I'll sit down here solo for a few.
You and Johnny can go upstairs.
[Steve] All right.
And you just sit down here in the dark and chill?
You feel best on ice,
I feel best right here in the basement.
-[chuckling] -Says a lot.
[chuckling] Right? Yeah.
So, if there's anybody here who'd like to talk
or communicate,
I'm down here all alone.
[beeping]
Okay.
-[Dave] I got a zap. -[Shari] From what?
Just touching this metal.
[Shari] Ah...
[Dave] That's the claim, that I just did it.
Like, no one got me.
[rustling]
It's that one.
I'm hearing that.
It almost sounded like someone with, like, a candy wrapper.
-[Shari] Right, right. -Or like a [imitates rustling]
-Oh. Wait. -Oh!
[rustling]
[Dave] That sounds just like it, Shari.
Are you kidding me right now?
Like, something walking right next to us.
[Johnny] What are we looking for?
In here, they're seeing shadow figures
and a white, ghost-like male apparition.
Feels like this is the most beautiful room.
This is where they want to be.
[Steve loudly] Hello?
Is anyone here religious?
If you wanna say hello,
I've got this very strong microphone,
I could hear you
or whatever's happening on local news
in Jackson Hole.
[Steve] We know some terrible things
that have happened here on the property.
Is this your land?
Are you protecting your land?
Jonathan Slocum?
You were killed nearby...
Is that why you're still here?
[Johnny] Is there anyone here in the children's section?
[rattling]
[Steve] What did that sound like to you?
Like, it could have been a deep purr.
[Steve] Okay.
Is there anyone here who loves animals?
[Steve] A lot of times, we'd never know
what is going to get us an interaction.
Yeah, I mean, people have so many different personality traits,
why wouldn't ghosts be the same?
That's actually a very good point.
[Jason] Can you make some sort of sound
just to let me know that you're definitely here with me?
-[rustling] -[hooting]
Oh.
[indistinct noises]
[bleep]
Jay to Steve.
Go for Steve.
There are definitely voices down here.
That's great.
-What about Johnny can sit down here solo... -[Johnny] Yeah.
...so you and I can go upstairs.
[Steve] Copy that.
[Dave] Is there anything that you can do, whoever you are,
to let us know that you're here with us right now?
Let's go take a look down on the first floor and...
Tango to Jay and Steve.
[Jason over radio] Jay, over.
[Dave] I wanna go down on the first floor.
[Jason over radio]
If my job is to sit in the basement like bait,
I'm gonna do it.
This is a walkie-talkie for you here.
Okay.
If you don't hear from me
it's because I don't know how to work the walkie-talkie,
not that some demonic thing has killed me.
-[Steve laughs] -All right.
So, all you do, just so you know,
is you just push this button right here.
Just push that in.
And I can actually hang it right here
so you don't have to worry about it.
I've so many devices, I'm so high tech right now.
All right, we'll give you a few.
Enjoy upstairs.
[Jason] Let's head to the second floor.
Tango and Shari are on the first.
[Steve] Yeah.
Hello?
I'm from Pennsylvania.
So I thought I'd see what was going on over here.
[beep]
[beeping]
Hello?
[beeping]
[Johnny] Hi.
Is that the Slocums there?
[beeping continues]
[beeping stops]
Hello?
It's Johnny.
Someone needs to come down.
[bleep] , I don't know how to use a walkie-talkie.
[Shari] All right, so,
I have this little gadget
and on the one side it's gonna be red light,
on the other side it's gonna be green.
When we ask you questions,
if the answer is 'no',
you're gonna go to the red side,
and if the answer is 'yes',
you're gonna go to the green side.
Is there somebody here with us?
[Dave] A voice saying, "Go home."
Like, something, you know, a librarian might say.
[beeping]
-[Shari] Oh. -[Dave] That's a yes.
[Shari] Did you used to work here?
Are we disturbing you?
[beeping]
-[Dave] Wow. -[Shari] Oh, my gosh.
-[radio crackling] -Hello?
[Jason] Hey, Johnny, you okay?
[Johnny] Yeah, everything started to go off
and I couldn't get my walkie-talkie to work.
[Jason] I don't want you to do anything that makes you feel uncomfortable.
[Johnny over radio]
[device ringing]
[Johnny] I'm still in danger.
[Jason] Hello?
If you're up here, maybe you can move some of the books
for us like you did the other day for my friends.
[Steve] But Jay, we went through
and made sure all the books were lined up.
[Jason] So they're already as far in as they could go.
[Steve] Exactly.
[Jason] Isaac Osterhout.
The library is named
after you and your wife, Elizabeth.
Is this library what you envisioned?
[Steve] Is that why you're still here?
Keep getting shocked every freaking time I move.
[Steve] She's experiencing that up here,
that one librarian.
It was mostly happening in the section about religion.
Steve, a book just slid out.
-What? -Holy [bleep] .
-That just slid out. -No way.
Did you see it move?
I did, when I turned around it was moving slightly.
-That's what I'm saying. -Oh, my God!
Jay, I thought I heard the sound of like a "Shh."
Wow.
-Wow, it's very cold, too. -Wow...
-It's cold. -It is?
It's cold, feel it.
[Steve] It is cold.
Holy [bleep] , yeah.
Mrs. Harris.
Now we gotta go and see if any other books are back out.
Okay.
You can keep moving these books.
[Johnny] Is there anyone here?
[Johnny laughing]
Hi, sorry, whoever's there.
I giggle when I'm nervous.
I'm just gonna stay here with the little dingy thing.
It's fine, I'm just sitting alone in the basement.
Elizabeth?
I think everything here's just picking up
on my positive energy.
And just, like, we're good for tonight.
[Jason] Who's here with us?
If you don't communicate with us soon,
we're gonna have to leave.
[Steve] Doesn't appear to be anything out here.
[Jason speaking]
Yeah, that's a great idea.
Jay to Dave, Shari and Johnny.
We have a lot of evidence to go through,
let's get the lights on and start wrapping up.
[Dave] Copy that.
All right. Too scary.
There's some incredible activity
that's going on here at the Osterhout Free Library.
This one's gonna go down in the books,
it's one of my favorites.
We've been on thousands of investigations.
It's such a rarity to actually hear something
and see something move.
It's been an honor to have Johnny Weir investigating with us as well.
-Thank you. -Good job.
Thank you, guys.
And you're always welcome back.
Johnny, thank you.
I've held the weight of my country on my shoulders,
I've skated in front of billions.
But it took sitting alone
in the dark
at the Osterhout Free Library
for me to lose my ish.
[Steve] Even though the field investigation is done here,
we need to analyze all of the audio and video footage
and hope that it gives us some more answers
that will take the fear out of it for Richard,
the staff, and for this whole community.
So, this will be interesting, getting over there and talking to Richard
about the activity that we were able to document.
I think he's gonna be blown away.
I think part of him is hoping
that we can dispel a lot of these reports,
but we couldn't.
No, we couldn't, no.
[Steve] Well, let's get over there and show him.
Well, Richard, thanks for having us out.
You told us about all the claims.
Everything from employees
seeing what appeared to be doppelgangers of other employees,
seeing shadows, books moving on their own,
hearing voices...
Right, right.
So, we spoke with Tony Brooks,
he's a very well-known historian in the area,
and he was just telling us about the brutal...
Absolutely.
...just what happened within literally just a rock throw from here.
Absolutely.
And not just the hundreds of deaths from the Wyoming Massacre.
Beyond that, you have settlers Jonathan Slocum,
one of his sons, and his father-in-law, Isaac Tripp,
brutally murdered.
From there, we set up all the equipment
and we started investigating.
And even, at one point,
we had Olympian Johnny Weir
swing by and investigate with us.
-Great. -So...
We started having experiences from day one.
That's not surprising.
And we'd like to show you a bunch of stuff
and just get your take on it.
I'd love to see it...
You seem a little apprehensive.
-I work alone a lot. -Oh.
Well, so, this first piece of audio,
Shari and I were in the basement
and we hear what sounds like somebody walking. on this floor.
There's absolutely nobody in here.
So, take a listen.
[Shari] He's on the first floor.
[Jay] Jay to Steve.
[Steve] Go for Steve.
I saw you perk up when you heard the voice, so...
It sounded very much like a sing-songy kinda voice.
Now, but we didn't hear that voice
until later listening to the recorder.
Here, I've highlighted just that spot.
What's it sound like it's saying to you?
"What we have here."
Sounds to me like a librarian reading to a child.
That's true, it has an informational
-type of sound to it. -Right.
Tango and I, we were investigating
the second floor stacks, take a listen.
Hear that?
To us, it sounded like, "Go home."
Yeah, that's very discernible and really, uh, creepy.
Does that sound like what you've heard?
-Absolutely. -Okay.
We looked into the claims that people were being shocked.
-Yes. -It happened to Jay, it happened to Tango.
-[bleep] ! -[Shari gasps]
-[Dave] Damn it! -What?
I got shocked.
-It seemed to be just a static shock. -Sure.
Dependent on what we were wearing
and how much we were walking around.
Well, that's good.
Now, in this video, Steve and I
were investigating the second floor stacks.
We had had an experience where we saw a book
that seemed to already be sticking out.
We put all the books back in...
So, watch.
A book just slid out.
-What? -Holy [bleep] .
What was the name of the book?
It was Mrs. Harris.
Hmm.
I used to have a secretary, Margaret Harris,
her office mate passed away recently.
Yeah...
And she was another long-term employee
that absolutely loved being here.
Maybe she was thinking of her secretary
and needing something,
'cause that's right outside of the office.
-[Jason] Wow. -Oh, gosh.
Okay.
So, I'm gonna show you a video.
This is me downstairs in the basement alone.
There is a voice.
And then there's a weird giggle
that happens right after that, so...
You're gonna be going through headphones on this one.
Here you go.
[crackling]
-[hooting sound] -[Jason] Oh.
[Richard] Hm.
Can you hear the giggle after it, too?
[Richard] Yeah, absolutely.
David, whose office used to be down there
was known as the jokester,
so he loved jokes and laughing and...
Well, does that sound like David?
That's absolutely the way David would laugh.
Wow...
-That's in a different page of this book. -Yeah.
Oh, that's just... that... makes me feel good inside
to think that he might still be there.
-[hooting sound] -[Jason] Oh.
Now, I will say, all of the activity
that we experienced
seems to be based around the library,
more so than the grisly past here.
Absolutely.
Well, how do you feel about the stuff that we're showing you?
It is a little, uh, unsettling
but I feel like it's people that love this place.
It's something they took to their graves
and maybe it's drawing people back.
Okay.
That makes me feel better about working late at night.
This does seem to be
a haunting of love and devotion.
Well, it's good to hear.
[Jason] Well, thank you so much.
If you need anything, we're a call away.
-Thanks, I appreciate it. -Appreciate you.
-Thank you. Thank you. -Fantastic.
[Richard] I'm definitely happy with everything
that TAPS has been able to show us.
Confirming what we've seen, what we've heard, what we felt.
I was really pleased to learn that the findings
related back to the work of librarians
that have devoted their lives to the library.
And it wasn't a negative or malevolent force
that we were dealing with.
[Steve] That was one of the coolest things
we've experienced in a long time.
Well, because we're figuring that this might be
the voices from the 1700s.
And all of a sudden he's like,
"That sounded just like Dave, who passed away last year."
And Mrs. Harris, "Oh, here's a connection."
Wow!
Definitely within my top five favorite cases ever.
Yeah, absolutely.
-Having Johnny out was great. -Yeah!
And, his first investigation,
so we'll see if he wants to do some more in the future.
But you know what, brother?
-Great investigation. -Yeah.
-This was a lot of fun. -Onto the next.