[Jason] It's just a voice.
It sounded like a kid.
[Steve] Look, look, look at it.
[Jason] Oh, my God.
[narrator] A massive coliseum.
[Michelle] There was an orphanage here on these grounds.
I saw an apparition of a little girl.
She walked past me as close as you walk.
[narrator] Cemented in tragedy.
They poured concrete.
Really.
[Jason] Encasing the body.
[narrator] As the team and guest investigator Steve Shippy...
[Steve] Holy.
[narrator] ...are up against a storm of activity.
-[Steve] Well, I heard that. -[Jason] What the hell was that?
[Steve] What's going on in there?
Somebody moved down here, I swear.
Ooh! [bleep]
[Jason] So, I'm in the Mississippi Coast Coliseum and Convention Center.
This is a huge place.
[Jason] It's hosted people like Elton John, Taylor Swift, Aerosmith.
I think it is our first time doing a coliseum.
It's huge.
[narrator] The TAPS team is headed to the Mississippi
Coast Coliseum and Convention Center,
which was constructed in the 1970s.
Renowned for hosting events and concerts,
this structure also entertains a disconnected array
of terrifying and mysterious phenomenon.
[Jason] So we're being called in to this location,
because they've seen an increase in paranormal activity,
since they've started renovating.
It seems to be keeping the staff on edge.
[Steve] So, all kinds of different activity here.
Shadow and fog like figures.
Fog.
And a woman in black, they claim to see a little girl.
Oh, my God!
[Steve] They're also claiming to see a Confederate soldiers.
Hmm.
We're the first paranormal team
that they've allowed to investigate here.
So, hopefully we'll be able to figure out these things.
Absolutely.
[Jason] The property that's like 61 acres.
Ooh!
Luckily, Steve Shippy is able to join us
and I worked with him on a few different investigations
and he's investigated really large places before.
It'd be great to have him with us.
-That's awesome. -[Jason] All right.
Well, looking forward to getting over there and see how we can help.
Wow. It's insane.
[Jason] This place is huge.
[Steve] Goodness.
Wow.
[Dave] That's why they call it a coliseum.
[narrator] TAPS case, Mississippi Coast Coliseum
and Convention Center, Biloxi, Mississippi.
-Hey, Bryan. -Hey, Jason...
-Jason. -It's a pleasure, Steve.
-Steve, Michelle. -Thanks for having us.
Yeah. Absolutely.
[Steve] Look at the size of this place.
What's some of the history here.
We opened in November 1977.
[narrator] The Mississippi Coast Coliseum
and Convention Center took four years to build,
with major expansions being done over the decades.
It sits on land that is directly adjacent
to the retirement home of Jefferson Davis,
a leader in the Confederate Army.
After Davis' death in 1889,
his estate was converted into a veterans home and cemetery
for Confederate soldiers and their families.
Today, this Confederate graveyard
borders the Coliseum property.
Was this property anything else?
Um. There was an orphanage here on these grounds.
[narrator] In 1895, the Waifs Industrial Home for needy
and sick children opened on this property,
although there are few records of the children who lived and died here.
[Jason] All right.
So, we know that there's all different types of claims
throughout this whole property.
And why don't you fill us in on what's been going on?
Some of the claims we've had here in the arena is
apparitions of civil war soldiers.
On the south side of the stairs I saw a Confederate soldier.
So, as I walk toward him or it, he just stared me down.
And that was scary.
He didn't go away. I went away.
There's some things you just don't play with.
[narrator] Apparitions of Confederate soldiers
have also been seen next door in the arena's south lobby.
And nearby, under the stands, the VIP room has become
the center of unexplained occurrences.
What kind of activity has been being seen?
Lights going off and on.
-[Jason] Are the lights motion sensored? -No.
No, so it's an actual switch you gotta throw.
Yes.
[narrator] And the strangest activity affected Bryan, personally.
I was reviewing security camera footage and you see an orb
come from the ceiling.
And stops in front of me and goes into my body.
And then I felt dizzy.
Wow!
[narrator] Similar unexplained lights have been seen
in other parts of the building.
And other anomalies have also been seen in
the convention center.
One day, working back here, I've looked over in the corner and there was like a mist
and it was like trying to form.
And then I made a noise
and it disappeared.
It left me really unnerved.
[Steve] This woman that has been seen in black.
Can you tell us a little bit about her?
A lot of the night security has seen her in our kitchen hallway,
which is part of the Convention Center.
[Laurence] I'm walking through the kitchen hallway,
and I seen a woman in all black, black hair,
long black dress.
She was walking away from me.
There's nowhere she can go. When I get there,
she was gone.
She wasn't a real person.
We also have video of kitchen dishes being thrown across the floor.
[narrator] Also in the hallways,
there are reports of shadow figures.
Nobody was back there but myself.
And I heard the door open.
I see something out of the corner of my eye, go past me.
I turned to look and there's nobody there.
And the way the walls are set up,
they couldn't get out without me seeing them.
I got a very eerie feeling.
It had to be a spirit.
Outside, anything out there?
One of the security guards had an interaction
with a little girl that came out to him then disappeared.
When I was outside doing my outside door checks,
I saw an apparition of a little girl,
maybe eight years old.
She walked past me as close as you walk.
I turned around.
She was gone.
-She was just vanished. -Yes.
My goodness.
[narrator] Similar accounts of seeing and hearing children
had been experienced across the entire property.
[Jason] What are you hoping that we're able to accomplish here?
Some validity to the claims, especially with the increased activity.
Are there actually staff members
that are scared to be here?
-Yeah. -[Bryan] Yes.
All right. Let's get to the bottom of this.
I think from here, we're going to go talk to the crew
and try to figure out how to cover this massive facility.
-Yeah. -Absolutely.
We'll... we'll talk to you guys soon.
-And work cut out for us. -[Michelle] Yeah.
[Dave] Hey, guys. It's as big as we thought.
-Yeah. -[Jason] Probably even bigger.
-Yeah. -Yeah.
-[Steve] Hey, what's up, guys? -[Dave] Hey, there he is.
[Jason] Steve Shippy. What's going on, man?
-How are you doing? -Good to see you.
I've been investigating the paranormal since I was about 18 years old.
I grew up in a house that was extremely haunted.
To me, it's more of a quest to figure out
what is on the other side.
-Good to see you. -You too.
[narrator] Steve Shippy has uncovered jaw dropping evidence
in some of the most grisly cases like Ed Gein:
The Real Psycho and The True Story Behind Scream.
[Jason] There's different claims everywhere.
Seeing Confederate soldiers.
A lady in black gown and outside a little girl
has disappeared in front of their eyes.
[Dave] Wow!
[Steve] They did say that there was an orphanage
-on the property at some point. -Really?
And I guess an old cemetery, too, right across the street.
-So, there's a lot to dig into. -Hmm.
All right. Well, we got a lot of ground to cover. You're ready?
-Start rolling some wires. -[Dave] I'm ready.
[Jason] Start cranking there.
So, this is a place where people come and have a great time,
but at night the staff is afraid in there.
So, we need to get some answers because
they are having an increase in activity.
Take these three in there.
They want to know that they're not crazy,
that these things are truly going on.
There's a lot of things that have us definitely concerned.
-[Jason] So, we're all set. -[Dave] It's perfect.
We have a camera in the convention hall areas.
We have them in a VIP room in the kitchen.
We have a camera there.
We also have the DVR cameras in the arena,
completely, completely 360 covered.
[Jason] North, south, east and west.
[Steve] It is a great idea.
[Dave] Everywhere that has an experience, it's all crystal clear.
-So we're good. -[Jason] Let's get the lights out.
-[Dave] Yeah. -[Jason] And get investigating.
-[Dave] All right. -All right, let's do it, man.
[Jason] Tonight, we'll investigate the Coliseum
and adjoining convention center.
Steve Shippy, Dave and Shari will start in the arena in the Coliseum.
[Dave] Okay. Here we are.
This is the main event. Entering the arena of doom.
[Jason] While Steve and I check out the kitchen in the convention center.
[Steve] All right, so we got Jay and Steve in the kitchen.
They are seeing a woman dressed in black,
and they do claim that the plates are flying off of the shelves.
[Jason] If they're on one of these trays,
like they're cleaning up after an event.
What's to say it wouldn't just come off or fall off this?
Look this is the video of how they're going...
I mean, they come down with force.
It's almost as if they get shoved off.
[Steve] Right.
It would seem peculiar that it would be one time,
one instance, unless it's like a fit of rage.
Like, come on, I'm a Confederate soldier.
[Jason] Yeah.
And this wasn't here when I was on this ground.
[distant clank]
[Steve] I heard that.
[Jason] Is there anyone here, who would like to talk with us?
-Can you make that sound again for us? -[distant clank]
[Jason] Loud like a sliding sound.
[Steve] It was coming from right over here.
[Jason] Oh, that's pretty damn close, Steve.
[Steve] Jay, that's almost exact.
Right, when we are about to discount paranormal activity,
it starts happening.
[Dave] Phew. Man.
[Dave] So, this is where they keep seeing Confederate soldiers.
-[Shari] All over the building. -[Dave] Yeah.
[Shari] Are there any Confederate soldiers here?
[soft tap]
-What was that? -[Shari] Yeah, I heard that.
-[Shippy] There was something here. -[Dave] Mm-hmm.
[Steve] Did you fight in a civil war?
Were you a soldier?
[soft tap]
That's the same sound.
[Dave] That is. Exactly.
[indistinct noise]
-[Shippy] Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. -[Dave] Whoa, I heard that.
[Shippy] What the hell was that?
[Dave] Was it coming from this direction?
-[Shari] Yeah. -Definitely.
I mean, it gave me chills.
Hello.
We're trying to find you so that we can help you.
Are there any Confederate soldiers in here?
There are a lot of people that have seen you.
[Dave] We're not here to hurt you.
-What? -Holy, [bleep].
Somebody moved down here. I swear to God.
[Shippy] There's a man down here that went this way.
[Dave] Get out of here, oh my God.
[Shippy] I swear to God.
[Dave] So anybody here?
[Shippy] Are you just having fun with us?
Having us look around for you?
[Dave] So, whatever you saw disappeared.
[Shari] Yeah.
[Dave] Want to head down this way and check out the convention hall?
[Shippy] Yeah.
There's been a woman dressed in all black,
seen in this very room.
Can you tell us your name?
What are you doing in the hallway?
[Jason] A woman dressed in black, is it period type clothing?
And if so, why?
Maybe when it was an orphanage,
say, maybe there could have been a woman in charge of the orphanage?
-[Jason] Yeah. -[Steve] I guess a housemother.
[indistinct noise]
[Jason] Do you hear that?
[Steve] That came from that same area.
Oh!
It sound like walking.
[mimics sound]
[indistinct noise]
-Oh! -What was that?
[Steve] Are you the woman that people have been seeing in black,
walking through the kitchen hallways?
When we did start talking about a possible orphanage,
it did seem to ramp up.
[Jason] Yeah. And it's like nothing right now.
[Steve] What would you think about checking out the perimeter?
I was thinking about that.
Because they said they saw that...
-[Steve] The little girl. -[Jason] Let's do it.
[Steve] Yeah.
[Dave] Shari, Dave and Steve Shippy.
We are entering the convention hall.
The claims here include a mist like apparition.
Also, they hear children's voices
and they see shadow figures here.
[Shari] If there are any children in here
and we brought some toys for you to play with.
And they light up.
All you got to do is play with them.
[indistinct noise]
[Shippy] What was that?
I mean, I feel like we've been hearing that sound
-everywhere we go. -[Dave] Yeah. Yeah.
Hello?
[indistinct noise]
[Shippy] Did that sound like a chair?
-[Dave] It did? -Yeah.
Almost like it hit the...
Yeah. More like that...
-[Dave] Together, yeah. -Together.
-Same direction. -Yeah, same spot.
[Dave] Can you do that again?
[Steve] Okay.
This thing have headlights?
This is our headlight.
Oh. All right.
[Jason] Since there are claims of an apparition of a young girl
seen on the grounds, Steve and I
are going to survey the property
with our thermal camera to see if we pick up anything.
[Steve] If anything is out here
that has a heat signature or we're lack of,
we'll find it.
[Jason] So, that's definitely a Confederate cemetery.
It does look kind of creepy.
-Do you get anything? -No.
[Jason] Being such a huge property,
anything could have happened on this property.
Maybe there was a battle out here that we don't know about.
[Steve] Absolutely.
Now, we can go back to center command.
[Shippy] Are you seated at one of these tables?
Can you make a knocking noise?
What table you're at?
[Dave] Let's head out back to the van.
[Shippy] Okay.
[Dave] I wouldn't mind going through this audio real quick that I marked.
-[Shari] Yeah, absolutely. -[Dave] Okay.
Let's check in with the rest of the team.
What an entrance.
[Steve] We went out onto the grounds.
-Yeah. -Yeah.
We went around to the old graveyard.
-Really? -Every grave has a Confederate flag.
[Dave] Hmm.
[Jason] And also we went down towards the kitchen. Four or five different times
-there were noises. -Okay.
Anything happened for you guys?
-[Dave] Oh, my God. -Were you?
Yeah. The arena we heard what sounded like a voice.
-Almost like a child. -Wow.
[Dave] And when we were in the south corridor,
-Steve saw what he thought was just a person. -Really?
So instantly, I just kind of break and start telling these guys,
you know, there's somebody. There's somebody.
We all ran down there and then there's nobody up there.
-[Shippy] Yeah. -Well.
[Jason] I think tomorrow, Shari,
you and I can try to make contact with the historian.
-Absolutely. -[Steve] That'll be awesome.
We could find some stuff for them, man.
All right. We can start it early in tomorrow then.
[Steve] Sounds good.
[Dave] I need to do a quick check on one of these cameras
and then I'll catch up with you guys.
-All right. Good job. -[Steve] This was awesome.
[Dave] [bleep] Oh, my God. Oh, [bleep]!
What the hell is going on, man?
We have our wireless cameras, it hopefully caught it.
I'm [bleep].
Holy [bleep].
I was walking out and I saw a shadow, an actual mass,
free floating, coming towards me.
Almost ran into me.
Oh [bleep]!
And it was gone.
And it scared a [bleep] out of me.
-[Dave] Hey, guys. -[Jason] Hey.
I wanted to tell you guys something happened to me last night.
-After we left? -[Dave] Yep.
I'm trailing behind you, and I'm walking out.
This is in the South Lobby where they've seen the Confederate soldier.
On the first landing... Yeah.
[Dave] And I literally see a black mass, solid,
a shadow figure, free floating.
It just looked like it was going to run right into me.
-And then it's gone. -[Shari] Oh, my God!
[Dave] My body shook, I screamed,
and it took me about an hour and a half to calm down from it.
-Oh, my God. -I saw it with my own eyes.
-It's amazing. -[Dave] Yeah.
[Jason] You know, were you able to see male figure? Anything no.
-No. -Wow.
So, no characteristics or definition?
No characteristics, it was shorter about here.
Any cameras that were set up on it?
Unfortunately not right where it happened.
They also have their own DVR system.
So there's still a chance we have a glimpse of something.
But there's no doubt in my mind that this happened
maybe two or three things in my whole life that were substantial.
-And this is one of them. -It's a life changing experience.
-It changed my life. -[Jason] That's awesome, man.
[Shari] That is awesome.
We'll have to check that out again tonight.
[Dave] Yeah.
Do you know approximately where in the video you saw that?
Yeah, pretty soon. Mmm-hmm.
[Jason] While Tango, Steve and Shippy review last night's evidence,
Shari and I are at the Biloxi Public Library
to meet with local historian Jane Shambra.
Thank you for taking the time out of your day to come sit down with us.
Thank you.
You know, we're looking into the history
of the Mississippi Coast Coliseum and Convention Center.
Sure.
And you don't know of any conflicts or anything on the property,
any battles or anything?
You know they didn't have anything like that in this area.
[Jason] What else can you tell us about the property?
[Jane] The first inhabitants of the Coliseum property
was Reverend William Thomas Leacock and his wife,
Eliza Lawrence Hilton.
[Jason] It's believed Reverend Leacock died on the property in 1885
and Eliza moved away.
The house was later sold to Dr. Alfred Clay.
I know on the property there's reports of there being an old orphanage.
[Jane] Right.
Dr. Clay opened up a waif home.
They didn't call them orphans.
-They called them waifs. -Okay.
60 to 100 kids living there, all different ages.
[Shari] Do you know of any children that passed away during the orphanage?
[Jane] There's no recordation of who passed away in the orphanage.
He may have taken a lot of kids in because they were really sick.
Right.
[Jane] So, we can imagine that there were a lot of kids that didn't survive.
[Jason] So, there's no reports of any like young females
or anything in the vicinity that that passed away?
We found the story of a little girl,
who was approximately nine,
and she was the daughter of a caretaker around 1902.
And she was out playing.
They said she was smothered under the sand.
While they're like digging, digging into the sand.
In those days it was actually like kind of a bluff.
So, she could have gotten playing...
-Digging at the wall. And top comes... Oh, Jeez. -You're right.
And so, she got, probably smothered by the sand.
Do you have the name of the little girl?
Margarita Delong.
The newspaper tells us that she was buried in the waif cemetery.
Now, she wasn't a waif, so that meant
that there was already a cemetery in place.
Where would the waif cemetery be?
Where the Coliseum is today.
The Coliseum, it was a cemetery.
They would have found something when they built it.
There's two stories in the newspaper that said
that the workers found some remains
when they were preparing the land for the Coliseum.
Then the next story is nobody wanted to say what happened to it.
[Jason] So what they end up doing then what the remains?
I just assume they left them where they were.
[Jason] So, they just filled it in with concrete.
-That's a scary thought. -Jeez.
Thank you so much for your time. It was a pleasure.
-Well, thank you. Good to see you. -Thank you.
-Very nice to meet you.
[Jason] We now have the name of Reverend Leacock
who could be behind some of the claims,
as well as our team's encounter with a shadow figure
and a possible male apparition.
We also learned about another possible connection to children's voices
and reports of a little girl apparition.
They did have a cemetery for the orphanage on the property.
On the property.
Where it gets really strange, when they built the Coliseum,
they were digging and they ended up
-finding human remains. -Huh!
They still poured concrete.
Really? God.
-They just covered it. -Oh, my God.
And then bodies were there still.
[Shippy] The saddest part to me is they were kind of forgotten in life
and then forgotten in death.
But we did find out there was, they believe, a nine year old.
She's the daughter of the caretaker.
We have the name Margarita DeLong.
-She died buried in the sand. -Oh.
[Shari] She was making like a little sand tunnel and that collapsed.
[Jason] And that was right here.
-Well. -[Steve] Okay.
[Jason] And then she was buried on the property as well.
-Right. In the waif cemetery. -[Dave] Hmm.
Is that nine year old girl that they see, Margarita?
That's crazy information.
-It'll be good to use tonight. -Yeah.
So, Dave, did you find out if any of the Coliseum security cameras
captured your experience last night?
So, there was a camera somewhat in that area of where I saw this.
But unfortunately, whatever I saw last night,
it didn't show up in that angle.
Okay.
[Jason] Well, we can get everything ready and start investigating.
It will be dark soon.
[Jason] All right, let's do it.
[Shippy] Freakin' tornado warnings right now.
We got to be paying attention.
[Jason] With a massive storm rolling in.
Holly [bleep]. Jeez.
This is bad.
[Jason] Tonight's investigation will start with Shippy and Steve
in the Coliseum arena.
To the Coliseum.
[Jason] Where they'll try to connect with the spirits
of Margarita and any orphans possibly buried
on the waif's gravesite that are believed
to have been cemented over during construction on this property.
[Shippy] Makes you wonder if all this
storm and electricity will kind of heighten something.
[Steve] Yes. All the lightning strikes really could.
Absolutely.
[Jason] In the South Lobby, Dave takes Shari and me
to the exact spot, where he experienced seeing a shadow figure
after our investigation last night.
-[Dave] I was about right here. -[Shari] Yeah.
And it literally came from my right over here.
It's a completely black mass.
I've never seen anything like it in my life.
Even just being here right now. Jay...
[Jason] Gives you, like, the hair on the back of your neck.
It's making me feel weird. Yeah.
[Steve] Okay.
[Shippy] This is Steve and Steve entering the Coliseum.
The claims of activity are disembodied voices.
Dave, Shari and I heard a sound.
[Dave] We'll check it back at the on the DVR.
-Just to make sure... -[Shippy] Whoa, whoa, whoa.
-[Dave] Whoa. I heard that. -What the hell was that?
Is anybody here with us?
We know that there have been people found buried here.
Margarita, are you here?
What happened to you?
Look, look.
[Shippy] What is moving up there, man?
[Steve] Look at it. It's illuminated.
-[Shippy] Yeah. -Wow.
[thunder rumbling]
-[Steve] It's pulsating. -[Shippy] Yeah.
[Steve] What's going on in there?
Wow.
Steve to Tango.
Tango for Steve.
[Steve] Can you check on the monitors
to confirm an anomalous light we're seeing in the arena?
On my way.
[Steve] You have to check it out right now.
We can't stay down there and just assume
it's something paranormal.
[Shippy] Absolutely.
[Dave] Tango for Steve.
Go for Steve.
Okay.
I see you guys walking up the stairs there.
[Steve] Thanks, man.
There are some windows up there.
[Dave] I see the windows on the top.
I'm seeing some light in that room.
Can you tell if it's coming from a source or if it's just an illumination of some sort?
I can't tell. It is pretty distant.
The camera is more of a glow.
-I'm gonna go check it out now. -Copy that.
Yeah, I mean, that's a claim there, too.
They say that they see lights.
[Steve] If it's something paranormal,
it would have to be energy.
So a glowing ball of light or an actual ethereal apparition.
-I don't know. -[thunder rumbling]
[Shari] This is where Dave saw a shadow person walking right up towards him.
This is a rem-pod.
You could just go near it.
-It's going to do all these pretty colors. -[beeping]
All right.
Jeez.
[Shari] There was somebody who walked up to our friend Dave last night.
Is that person here with us right now?
[beeping]
Oh.
[Jason] That was like right on cue.
Yeah. Okay.
Are you upset that they built on top of the cemetery?
[beeping]
[Jason] Can you step away from the device?
[beeping stops]
All right.
I mean, it's... it's going on only right after we ask questions.
Right? Were you buried here also?
[beeping]
[Shari] Oh, my God.
-[thunder rumbling] -[Steve] Okay.
A control room.
I really don't see anything in here that's going to explain that illumination.
There's no outside windows.
[Shippy] I don't see any fluctuation.
[Steve] If this wasn't a room full of electronics,
we could try to get some sensory equipment going, but...
[Shippy] Yeah, crazy readings.
[Steve] Right?
Is there anyone here with us?
[Shippy] This is wild, man.
I really don't know how to explain what we saw with the light.
Me neither.
[Shari] Are there any children in here?
[beeping]
Are you one of the children from the orphanage?
[thunder rumbling]
[Shari] Oh!
[Shari] Margarita, if you're here,
can you please come closer?
[Jason] I feel like we had some great activity going on.
It stopped.
[Jason] Hey, guys, let's switch up teams.
[Steve] Copy that.
[Jason] Steve and I are going to check out the VIP room.
This is the VIP section. Check this.
[Steve] Wow.
[Jason] Well, Dave, Shari and Steve Shippy head to the kitchen
where a woman in a black dress has been witnessed.
This is Dave, Shari and Steve Shippy.
Entering the kitchen area.
[Shari] We've come to see who it is that's walking around here
and who pushed over the dishes.
Can you tell us who did that?
[Dave] So, who do you think the woman in black would be?
[indistinct noise]
-[Shippy] Okay. What was that? -[Dave] Yeah.
Oh! It was right here.
Are you trying to get our attention?
[indistinct noise]
[Shippy] Yeah. That was footsteps.
[Dave] We think we hear you.
We want to know who the woman in black is.
Are you mourning a loss of someone?
Is that why you're wearing a black gown?
[indistinct noise]
That sounded like a footstep, guys.
I think I will get the GS2 here.
[Shippy] It's a great call.
[Dave] I wonder if this woman in black could be Eliza,
the wife of Reverend Leacock.
[Shari] Yeah.
[Dave] All right, so we have the GS2 laser grid.
We'll have motion direction, and we'll have temperature
and distance of whatever might get in front of this device.
Eliza,
we heard that your husband passed away on this property.
Are you the woman in the black gown that people see?
[indistinct noise]
[Shippy] Something is moving.
-[Shari] Footsteps right? -[Dave] Yeah.
That sounds like footsteps.
[Shari] We think we hear you.
Can you please come this way?
[Shippy] We're picking up something.
-Something cold. -[indistinct noise]
-[Dave] Yeah. -Oh, [bleep]!
-Oh, look at that. -[Dave] Yeah, it's going.
That's some pretty big readings, man.
[Dave] Yeah, it's getting closer.
[thunder rumbling]
[Steve] Look at that.
[Jason] Cher farewell tour in 2003 here.
And here is where they say the light turns on by itself.
And this is also where Bryan believes an orb entered his body.
Is there anyone here who would like to talk with us?
[Steve] We know that at one time
there was an orphanage here somewhere.
There's nobody here that wants you to leave.
[Jason] Reverend Leacock, we know your house was on this property.
Are you still here?
There's really nothing going on in there.
[Steve] Yeah.
Jay and Steve in the Coliseum.
[Steve] Here we are.
Jay, way up over here is where Steve Shippy and I saw that illumination.
Look at it. It's illuminating.
[Shippy] Yeah. It's illuminating. But there is also movement.
What is moving up there, man?
[Steve] I'm seeing something
in the thermal that's up in that window area.
[Jason] Ah, I'm going to go there.
[Steve] Oh, they're not windows.
Hotter than the rest and looked a little bit like a head.
[Jason] Oh, my God.
[thunder rumbling]
[Dave] Eliza, are you still here?
Looking for your husband?
[Shippy] Yeah, it's picking it up again.
We saw the dishes fall on the floor.
Is there a reason why you did that?
[Dave] Are you angry that your home that was once here
on this property was torn down?
-[Steve] Look. Oh, look at that. -[Dave] Yeah.
It's going, it's getting a bit more.
[Shari] Is there any way that you can move anything for us?
-Yeah. Oh! -Oh, [bleep]!
[Dave] Is there any way you can show yourself to us?
-[Shari] Holy [bleep]. -[Dave] Oh, my God!
[Jason] So, it's right in this vicinity.
[Steve] It's actually up one more whole level.
[Jason] Wait, so you're telling me what you are seeing
is even higher than I am now?
[Steve] Yeah.
[Jason] All right. I'm going up higher.
Are you looking for your home? Your family?
[Jason on radio] Oh! Guess where I am.
[thumping]
[Steve on radio] Are you on one of the catwalks?
[Jason exhales] It's even scarier in the dark.
[Dave] Gosh. There he is.
This is frickin' terrifying.
[Steve] I can see you moving.
[Jason] What?
[Steve] You can hear me from up there?
[Jason] Yep.
[indistinct noise]
There was just a voice.
There's just a voice.
Sounded like a kid.
[Steve] No way.
[Jason] Hello?
I think we heard you.
Are you one of the children from the orphanage?
Margarita.
We heard you died nearby.
Margarita, are you the one that people have been seeing?
[indistinct noise]
[Steve] What?
I just heard a voice.
[Jason] I heard that voice up here.
[Jason] It sounded like a kid cheering.
[Steve] Literally like somebody's having a good time.
-[Steve] Yeah. -[Jason] Wow.
[Jason] Margarita, are you still here?
I mean,
I'm just not hearing anything now.
[Steve] All right, let's head up.
All right.
[Jason] Hey, guys.
I think we got the answers we came for,
so let's wrap and go through some footage.
[Dave] Copy.
[Jason] So, we just wrapped the investigation here
at the Mississippi Coast Coliseum and Convention Center.
And the activity has been pretty profound here.
It drastically exceeded my expectations.
Once you find out the fast and dark history on this property,
it really does make sense why there is so much happening here.
[Jason] It's been awesome having Steve Shippy hanging out with us.
-We're gonna have you back. -It was exhilarating, man.
[Jason] Bottom line is we're here to help.
So, we're going to start analyzing the evidence,
figure out what's going on.
I'm looking forward to getting over there
-and talking to Michelle and Bryan. -Yeah.
This has been a case where we've been able to figure some things out.
And I know they also wanted some sort of validation.
It's definitely going to help them out.
Absolutely.
Thanks for having us out.
We set up cameras throughout the property just trying to cover
the hotspots that you guys told us about.
I know that there's been claims that people seeing everything
from apparitions of soldiers to a little girl to a lady in a black dress.
Shari and I went and sat down with a local historian,
and she was able to actually pull up
a ton of information from the past.
The original owner of the land was Reverend Leacock with his wife Eliza.
He died on the property and then the family ended up selling it.
And the property later on was owned by Dr. Alfred Clay.
He opened up the orphanage out here.
There was some sort of cemetery on the property.
And upon digging for the arena back in the 70s,
they came across human remains.
So, they ended up filling it with concrete and left the bodies there.
And that's on the footprint of where we exist today.
-Yeah. -[Michelle] Wow.
[Steve] So, it is possible that desecrating
that gravesite contributed to the activity.
And there's also documentation of a little girl
who died buried in the sand, laid to rest somewhere around here as well.
So, it makes you wonder if that could help fuel
some of this activity of them seeing these children.
[Steve] A few people have thought
they've seen Confederate soldiers on the property.
We didn't come across any reports of any battle being fought here,
but at one time there was a home
for Confederate soldiers bordering this property.
So, if you're looking at why there could be
a sighting of a Confederate soldier, perhaps it was somebody
that lost their life in that home.
But I will say, while we were here,
we didn't see any signs of such a haunting.
Okay.
A bunch of the team members had some wild things happen.
Steve Shippy, Dave and Shari, we're down in the kitchen
and there's a weird light anomaly, you'll see.
-[Shari] Holy [bleep]! -[Dave] Oh, my God!
Oh!
-Holy [bleep]! -Oh, my God!
You know, we're not big fans of orbs because most of the time
-they can be shot down as dust, insects... -Sure.
...moisture, anything else, but just something that seemed to be emitting
its own light. Even when we watch it frame by frame,
-it reflects off of this. -[Bryan] Wow.
That might alone, seeing that video...
-Wow. -[Jason] Yeah, definitely.
It was an interesting one.
Also, Steve Shippy and I did encounter some sort of light anomaly
in the arena area.
It was in the control room.
Oh, yeah.
[Steve] Look. Look.
[Shippy] What is moving up there, man.
[Steve] Look at it.
It's illuminating.
-And then disappeared. -[Bryan] Okay.
There are a lot of things that it could be in terms of natural phenomena,
but I'm not sure that we're able to disprove that.
So, Steve and I spent some time in the arena
and he thought he saw something towards one of the press boxes.
I headed up to the catwalk.
There was a strange voice that just happened.
I'll play it for you and just get your take on it.
Yeah, I heard it.
[Steve] What?
[Jason] Even Steve heard it and it sounds like a kid cheering.
-Yeah. -[Michelle] Like a woo.
Yeah.
And there was another experience that was had
and we don't have it because our camera wasn't in the right spot.
But one of our investigators, Dave Tango,
was walking towards the concession stand on the first floor area.
He saw somebody walking towards him, all of a sudden realized
it was a freestanding black mass.
[Dave] Oh [bleep]!
He screamed. He was sort of in shock.
He says it was a life changing experience for him.
Wow!
I mean, this is one of the claims that go on here.
But I can say that there seemed to be nothing malicious or negative.
I just think that you guys are going to probably experience
this stuff for a long time.
It seems that what is here is more just part of history.
And that's the thing. It's all about co-existing.
-Absolutely. -Well,
if anything kicks up, you have more activity, give us a shot.
We'd be happy to come back and check it out.
It was a pleasure having you guys.
One of a kind experience for sure.
Well, thank you so much for your time.
-Thank you. -It's been a pleasure. Really has.
Nice to see you.
What TAPS has uncovered validated things.
[Bryan] What they capture does tie into everything that's been experienced here.
I'm very thrilled that nothing here was found to be of negative energy.
[Bryan] And we would love to have them back again.
[Jason] Yeah, I think it was a great case.
This case was all about showing them that their employees aren't crazy.
There is some legitimate things happening,
showing them that there is nothing to fear and delivering them
some really good history.
And that's going to change everything for them.
Like always, great job.
-Thank you. -On to the next mess.