[Jason] What the hell!
-Do you see someone? -[Steve] Yeah.
I told you. I told you.
[Jason] A prison turned distillery...
I've had staff members quit.
[Jason] ...with a tragic past...
The bullet went through the inmate
and struck the door.
[Dave] Prisoner took his own life.
[Jason] ...incarcerates soul in the afterlife.
[dog barking]
[Dave] This was a solid shadow.
[Jason] Hello?
That sounds like screeching in the distance.
[Shari] Oh, my God.
[Jason] Holy crap!
So, man, Southern Grace Distillery.
This is a cool case where at one point in time,
it was a prison.
[Jason] TAPS has been called to Mount Pleasant, North Caroli
to investigate the Southern Grace Distiller
which has a checkered past,
once housing thousands of convicts
over the eight decades it was an operation
with some never making it ou
With so many prisoners trapp in one space during this tim
there's bound to be lingering activity.
[Steve] Now, Emily Burkhart, she's the director of operations
and she has said that recently,
employees have been telling her about these hauntings.
What kind of experiences?
[Jason] They've been scratch and they've had their hair pulled.
Hmm.
Sound of a woman screaming.
Wow!
[Jason] Shadow figures bein seen through there.
[on radio] We need to get there and figure this out.
-[Jason] Check this out-- -[Steve] Oh, my gosh!
[Jason] Look at that.
-[Dave] Wow! -[Shari] Wow!
[voices echoing]
[Jason] TAPS case, Southern Grace Distillery,
Mount Pleasant, North Carolina.
Hello. I'm Jason.
-Nice to meet you. -Nice to meet you.
-Hi. -Thank you for having us.
Of course.
What's some of the history of Southern Grace Distillery?
It was a prison. It was built in 1929.
That's actually the building we're standing in, right now.
This building housed inmate right up until the prison shut down in 2011.
[Jason] Really? Okay.
Shortly after that, the army used it, for special forces training.
We moved out here in 2016.
-[Steve] Okay. -So, when it was a prison,
-I know it was a minimum security prison. -It was.
But was it a violent area?
So, minimum security doesn't necessarily mean low level offenders.
-Yeah. -We had people serving time here
from DUI right on up to murder.
-[Jason] Okay. -[Emily] Also on campus,
we have what was called a hot box.
Inmates were sentenced to up to 30 days solitary at a time in there.
You'll actually see chimney that were only lit during the summer.
It can easily get 95, 100 degrees outside
and then you add fire.
-It's just extra punishment. -It's just punishment.
-Hmm. -[both] Wow!
[Emily chuckles] We do have bourbon aging in there now.
So, were there any deaths that you know about the property?
There were deaths over the history of this place,
in particular, down on the solitary hall, cell number four,
an inmate hung himself.
Any other deaths that you know?
[Emily] We have another solitary confinement on campus
and there're stories of an inmate
that somehow broke loose from the restraints,
got hold of the guard's weap
and while they were fightin over it, the firearm went of
And the bullet killed the inmate,
but it went through the inmate and struck the door.
That indentation is still on that door from that incident.
And do you know that gentleman's name though?
-Ready Carter. -Ready Carter? Okay. All right.
And I know that there's a lot of different claims of activity
-that goes on. -Mmm-hmm. There are.
So, why don't you fill us in, a little on that.
I've had staff members quit in the middle of a shift.
-Really? -Because of the activity?
Because of activity.
So, this building that we're standing in, we'll hear loud bangs,
sounds like people walking on the barrels,
and our bathrooms in here,
whatever is in there really doesn't like one of my tour guides.
The first encounter that I had was actually very unnerving.
I was sweeping out the showe one day and I got hit in the top of the head.
I had a burning on my side.
There was another guy with me and I walked out.
I pull my shirt up and I said, "Is there something on me?"
and he said, "You have a scratch."
They're here.
Make no mistake.
[Jason] People also claim to see male shadow figures throughout the property.
We saw some footage, um, that was taken here
of what appears to be the silhouette of a person.
-Yes. -Where was that taken?
So, that was actually taken in the atrium part
of this building and I have that.
Would you like to see it?
-Yeah. -Yeah.
All right. So, it's very short but you can see that...
[Steve] Yeah.
[Emily] ...just disappear. And there's really nowhere
for someone to have disappeared, in that room.
So, that room, there's no exits?
There is an exit, generally kept locked.
But the way he's disappearing, he's almost disappearing into a wall.
[Jason] And there's one part of the building
-that an employee's dog refuses to go into... -[dog barks distantly]
-...as if it's sensing an unseen presence. -[dog whining]
We've heard that when women are in certain areas of the property,
the activity is different than if men are there.
Women tend to have more hair pulling.
[Jason] Women are also targeted in the cells,
where an entity has been fel sitting next to them.
Voices and stuff like that you guys are hearing as well,
-where are those happening? -So, that's our main production building.
[Sebastian] It's probably two weeks after we were here
It was me and another employee.
We were the only ones in the whole facility
and we actually heard a, what we thought was, a female screaming.
[woman screaming]
We looked around. We had found no one else here.
It spooked that employee so much that
pretty immediately after tha he quit.
There were never women that served time here.
-So, I have no idea who that would be. -[Jason] Right.
[Emily] And in our gift shop that was the original mess hall,
there's activity in there.
Things like knock hat off of the mannequin onto the floor.
So, what are you hoping that we're able to accomplish here?
I would like to be able to reassure guests and staff that it's safe here.
All right, I think from here, we can go talk to the rest of the crew,
start figuring out
-our game plan and set up and everything. -[Emily] Okay.
We've got all the information we need. Thank you.
Thank you all so much for coming out.
-Oh, thank you. -I really appreciate it.
-We'll talk soon. -Thank you so much.
Thank you.
All right.
-[Jason] Hey. -[Shari] Hi.
[Jason] All Right. So, we ended up talking with Emily
and she was telling us about all the activity here.
And she also brought up a name, too.
-Ready Carter. Yeah. -Ready Carter?
[Jason] He grabbed the gun of one of the officers and whatever
and there was a struggle and he ended up getting shot
and killed during the struggle.
[Dave] Oh, wow!
And it's true that the women are being interacted with a little bit differently.
That's crazy.
[Jason] Let's get everything set up and start checking it out.
It'll be dark soon.
This property has seen a lot of different eras.
It has been a prison. It's now a distillery
and who knows what else it may have been over time.
So, we're in a good place he to have some experiences
and document some evidence
and to get some good answers for Emily and the entire staff.
Can you pan left a little bit?
-[Jason] How is that? -Oh, yeah, that looks great.
-[Jason] Hey. -[Shari] Hello.
-All right. -[Dave] Okay.
I think we're good, man.
-[Dave] We're up. -[Shari] Yeah.
Yeah, we got cameras in the barrel house,
in the production building, gift shop,
I mean, cameras everywhere and getting every claim.
-Plus, we'll have handhelds with us as well. -Yes.
[Steve] Oh, yeah.
[Jason] Shari and I can head into production building
-where they claim to hear a women scream. -Mmm-hmm.
And you and Steve can take the Barrel House tonight.
-Cool. -I think from here, let's get the lights out
and start investigating.
-[Dave] Great -Yes.
[Shari] Okay, this is J and Shari in the production building.
Number three is where women feel like,
maybe there's like either somebody like with them, touching them in this cell.
And, then a number four, that is where a man took his life.
I'm gonna go in this room, for a little bit.
[Jason] Yeah. I wanna do that, honestly.
That's the one that females will get that feeling. Huh?
[beeps]
Looking to see if there's anybody that's in this cell
that does not want women in here.
I have this machine in front of me right here with blue.
This side is green.
And this side is red.
So, I can ask you, yes or no questions.
If the answer is yes, please light up the green
and if the answer is no, please light up the red.
Is there's somebody here that took their own life?
[indistinct noise]
[digital beeps]
[Emily] Oh! Green.
[Dave] Steve and Dave entering the barrel house.
They hear footsteps. They hear, you know, walking above.
Were you a prisoner here?
Were you a guard?
Could you show yourself to us please?
Steve, this can be a good time to do back-to-back.
-[Steve] Good idea. -[Dave] Yeah.
[Steve] If we're both looking forward,
we're missing everything that's happening behind us.
[indistinct noise]
-Ooh. -[Dave] What was that?
[Steve] I heard something. Any prisoners still in here?
[Dave] There was a cast shadow
but it was just like from right to left, like crazy.
Like outside?
[Dave] No, it was in here.
[Steve] Inside?
[Dave] There was a shadow.
That's the light source.
That has to be it, right? The only light source.
This was literally like a solid shadow.
It was cast against the wall.
But what did it?
-Oh, I see what you're saying. -Yeah?
The actual shadow isn't the phenomena.
-We saw the shadow of the phenomena. -You're right.
-Ah! Oh! -'Cause it has its own mass.
[Steve] We came out with the thermal on purpose
-knowing that if there was somebody out here... -[Dave] Yeah.
-[Steve] ...a person, this would pick them up. -[Dave] Yes.
[Steve] And there's nobody out here.
[Dave] Mmm-mmm.
I mean it was clear as day.
Something blocked the light
and we went right out.
You go outside. Nobody.
That was crazy.
[Shari] I'm gonna ask you again.
Is there somebody here that took their own life?
Do you know a guy named Ready?
So, if there's anything else that you want,
you gotta tell me.
[Jason] I say we have to move on to this section now.
Okay, thank you.
[Jason] All right.
[Dave] Steve and Dave, solitary confinement.
[Steve] It definitely fits its name, huh?
[Dave] Yeah.
This is where people have spooky feelings.
[Steve] Yeah.
[Dave] This is where Ready Carter
tried to grab
the guard's gun.
They struggled. He got shot.
And supposedly, there's still a bullet...
-Right. -Somewhere.
[Steve] In a door, Emily said.
Hey, here it is.
Ready?
Ready Carter?
[Steve] We see a mark here on this door.
And we've been told that a bullet
hit right here.
[Dave] Do you remember any of that?
Let's see we got in here?
What can you tell us about spending time in here?
[indistinct noise]
-A voice? -Possible.
Wanna play it back now?
[indistinct noise]
[Dave] Mmm.
Mind you, it's low, but you do hear something.
[indistinct noise]
[Dave] It's there.
I almost hear like... [whispering] Yeah.
Wow, okay.
[Dave] Ready Carter, are you here?
[Shari] They say that they hear a woman screaming.
[Jason] Hello.
[indistinct noise]
Yeah.
We're looking to see if anybody wants to tell us your story.
[indistinct noise]
-There's a guy's voice. -Mmm-hmm.
[Shari] Are there any prisoners here with us?
Come a little closer. We think we heard you.
[indistinct noise]
Was that... footsteps?
[Shari] Yeah.
[indistinct noise]
Oh.
-[Jason] That sounded kinda like a-- -[Shari] A whistle.
[Jason] Or more like a screeching.
[indistinct noise]
Oh, there it is again.
Holy crap!
[Shari] Oh, my God!
That doesn't sound like a whistle. That sounds like a, like,
-somebody was screeching in the distance. -[indistinct noise]
[Shari] It happened again.
Are there any prisoners here with us?
[Jason] If you're here, can you tell us your name?
[Shari] Hello?
[Jason] All right, so there's some crazy activity going on.
[Shari] Absolutely.
[Jason] Hey Steve, it's J.
Let's regroup at command center.
[Steve] Copy that. Thank you
[Dave] Whew, hey.
[Jason] Hey, how'd it go in there?
[Steve] In the actual barrel room,
we saw something walking by.
[Shari] Oh.
[Steve] And then, in solitary,
maybe a voice.
Yeah, there's something there.
[Jason] We had success in the production building
like whistling, voices, footsteps.
[Steve] Huh, okay.
Dave and I can actually dig into some of the research tomorrow.
I'd love to see if we can figure out some of that history.
You guys run on that and we'll get back early and get investigating.
-All right. -Awesome! Love it.
So, check this out.
While, Shari and I review evidence from last night's investigation.
[Shari] Yeah, that's awesome.
[Jason] Steve and Dave have set up a meeting with a local historian
to find out more about the property
and who could be behind the claims of a woman screaming.
Hi Vickey, thanks for having us.
Welcome to Mount Pleasant.
Thanks for having us.
Vickey, you know, we're over on Southern Grace Distilleries
and we'd like to get some facts for them about the property
in terms of being a prison.
A few prisoners did pass on the property.
We know that at least two men took their own lives
-there in the cells. -Oh, wow!
[Vickey] And then in 1989, a man by the name of Mr. Shackelford,
who was the inmate there
complained to his cellmates
of having trouble breathing and chest pains.
The guards took their time coming,
shined a flashlight over him and pronounced him all right.
Within minutes his cellmate said he had turned blue and could not breathe.
He died while waiting on the guards to come help him.
[Steve] Huh? Right. Wow!
Now, what can you tell us about the property before it being a prison?
Well, we know for a recorded fact that Matthias Barrier,
a German immigrant arrived here in 1830
and bought a 180 acre track
[Jason] Matthias' property included the site where the distillery now stands.
Matthias and his wife Margar had three sons,
two of whom tragically died young.
Rufus was their only surviving child.
We know from family letters that his father scolds him
-for his intemperate drinking and his bad temper. -[Dave] Hmm.
[Jason] Rufus inherited the property from his father in 1860,
and built a house just yard away from the future prison site.
But the home had a lot of tragedy there.
Rufus would die there in 1876,
at just 39 years of age.
[Dave] 39.
[Vickey] His mother, Margaret Mitchell Barrier,
never really recovered.
-Her name shows up... -Mmm-hmm.
...as being in and out of mental institutions and hospitals.
Wow!
All right, we have names, we have the stories.
[Steve] Thank you, Vickey.
-Really appreciate it. -Thank you.
[Jason] We now have the name of one of the original land owners
Rufus Barrier, who died on this property
and learned about his mother, Margaret,
who could be behind the clai of a woman screaming.
We also have the name of another prisoner whose life ended here.
There was a gentleman, Franklin Shackelford
and he was a prisoner here and he actually died here.
Staff didn't even pay any attention to him. They just let him die.
-Didn't want to give him any medical assistance. -Exactly.
-Let them go. -Yeah.
Let him go.
Man, all right, well, I mean that's some good info
and we got some names that we can use for tonight.
Shari and I, we're gonna be in the gift shop.
You and I can take the production building.
[Jason] Before we start our investigation tonight,
we're going to bring in a special guest.
Chewie, come on buddy. Come. Come pal.
[Jason] We need to check out the claims that Chewie, an employee's dog,
is scared of a particular ar in the Barrel house.
Look at him go.
[Jason] It is believed that dogs are able to see what is invisible
to the human eye
due to having sharper senses
-He doesn't seem to mind the building much. -[Chewie barking]
[Jason] Wow! Chewie, what do you see?
[Chewie barking and whining]
-[Chewie barking] -[Jason] Oh, seems jumpy
real quick.
-[Chewie barking] -[Jason] Come here, buddy.
[Chewie barking]
He does not wanna pass by this, Steve.
-So... -Yeah.
You're fine, buddy.
You're fine. All right.
We're gonna put this, over here.
Come on. Come on.
Come on.
-[Steve] That's exactly what it is, J. -Come on, Chewie.
-[Chewie barking] -[Steve] Now, he comes.
-[Steve] Yeah, now he's coming. -[Jason] Come on. Good boy.
Good boy.
[Steve] So, that's what he's afraid of.
He's afraid of the table and stuff, yeah.
[Jason] We were able to debu the claim with Chewie.
But there are still other paranormal reports to investigate.
[Dave] This is Shari And Dave in the gift shop.
This is where they've seen
a hat fly off of a mannequin head
like that one.
Well, if there's anybody in here,
can you take that hat,
and pick it up off the head and throw it somewhere?
Is there anybody here from the Barrier family?
[Dave] Rufus Barrier,
are you here with us?
[indistinct noise]
-[Dave] I heard that. -[Shari] Yeah.
It was like a "whoom".
-[Shari] Yeah. -Right? You heard it?
[Shari] Yeah. Yeah.
-[Dave] It was coming from here? -That section.
[Jason] Last night, we kept hearing
whistling and stuff in here.
[indistinct noise]
Oh.
That sounded kinda like a--
-[Shari] A whistle. -Or more like a screeching.
Franklin Shackelford.
We know that you were left here to die by the guards.
[indistinct noise]
Did you just tell me to "Shh?"
I didn't say anything.
You didn't?
I heard someone tell me "Shh."
[Steve] It's going down, J.
[indistinct noise on recording]
-Oh, yeah, it's there. -Really? [bleep]
[chuckles] Yeah, it's there.
[Steve] That must have been coming from right here.
That's what it sounded like.
Franklin Shackelford.
How angry does it make you that you were left here to die?
[Jason] I'm gonna go this way.
Hello?
Is anyone here from the Barrier family?
[Steve] Rufus Barrier?
We know that you inherited this land.
Are you here with us?
[Jason] Is there a Margaret here?
[Steve] People hear a woman screaming.
Maybe, that's you.
[indistinct noise]
Is somebody outside?
[Steve] Do you see something?
[Jason] Yeah, it just looked like somebody walking right by that door.
Nobody's out there.
Nothing?
Nobody's out there.
It looked like somebody walking in.
[indistinct noise]
What the hell was that?
It sounded like someone walking.
It sounded like somebody walking with, like, boots on.
It does. It does.
[indistinct noise]
-That's a voice. That was a voice. -[Dave whispers] Yeah.
I can't tell where it's coming from though.
With my ears, it sounds like this way.
[indistinct noise]
[Jason] Yep. I heard that.
J, there's somebody else in here with us.
[Shari] We think we heard yo
[Dave] Rufus Barrier?
Are you here with us?
Is there anything you want to tell us?
I'm gonna put the GS2 on.
-[Shari] Okay. -[Dave] There's any movement,
this will get it and look at temperature
and if anything shows up, those lasers will magnify.
There we go.
I felt something.
I literally felt something pushed in a bit.
-[Shari] Yeah, I saw you look back. -[Dave] Yeah.
[Jason] Hello?
[indistinct noise]
Now it's that way.
[indistinct noise]
[Jason] I mean, that sounds like somebody's moving around.
[Steve] It sounds like, multiple people.
[Jason] There's nobody in here.
That just happened again, Steve.
Somebody's going by that door.
I told you. I told you.
[Steve] On the right hand side.
[Jason] Somebody's going by that door.
You wanna walk out there and I'll stand right here?
I do.
That's a good idea.
All right. You have a walkie?
Roger.
Copy, copy.
All right.
[Steve] All right, J.
Can you see my flashlight?
[Jason] Yes.
All right, you walk by that door.
No flashlight though.
That's it. That's exactly it.
You just walked exactly the path that this thing followed.
There is nobody out here, J.
Nobody.
All right.
[indistinct noise]
There was just a little loud snap sound that just happened right behind me.
[Steve] All right. Coming in
[Dave] I felt something in this part of my leg.
-There's nothing that level. -[Shari] No.
If somebody did touch his back leg,
please do it again.
Is there anybody here?
Rufus,
are you here?
We were told that you passed away on this property.
It was a noise that sounded just like...
[snaps] Like this, right behind me.
[Steve] Yep.
Whenever new people come in to a prison,
people clap.
They whistle at them.
-[Jason] Mmm-hmm. -[Steve] Maybe, we're the new guys.
-Like, fresh meat. -Yeah.
[indistinct noise]
I heard that.
-[Jason] There was a voice. -[Steve] Yeah.
[indistinct noise]
[Jason] Oh, yeah. It's a weird ass voice.
Almost sounds like saying, "Yes, sir."
[Steve] If a correction officer tells you to do something,
you're like, "Yes, sir."
Mr. Shackleford.
We're trying to find you.
We gotta have Dave and Shari come in here and see
if they're able to catch any of this stuff.
[Steve] And stir up some heckling, too.
-Hey, guys. -Right away
we're hearing those whistles,
-instantly, voices. -Really?
Footsteps. At one point, Steve was told to... [shushes]
-[laughs] -Someone shushed you?
-Something shushed me. Yeah. -Yeah.
At the end of the hall,
I saw somebody walk by.
That's a claim there.
That's what happens.
Three different times. Man, it was just nonstop.
-Wow! -There's no question. I mean, it was everywhere.
How'd the gift shop go?
Well, we both heard something that sounded possibly male, but it's hard to tell.
I wanna get you two in the production building
to see if you also get activity.
Steve and I will hit the gift shop.
[Dave] Awesome.
-[Jason] I'd also like to check out that hot box. -[Steve] Yeah.
This is Dave and Shari.
We are in the production building.
J and Steve saw shadow figures.
That just happened again, Steve.
Somebody's going by that door.
-[Dave] You hear a woman screaming? -Yes.
[Dave] Let's go.
Hello?
Franklin Shackelford.
Are you the person, people hear and see in this building?
Are there any prisoners here with us right now?
Do you wanna leave?
[Shari] You can come out of your cell.
The cell doors are open.
[indistinct noise]
-Did you hear that? -Yeah.
It was right here.
[thud]
[Dave] We heard that a prisoner took his own life.
Can you speak to me, please?
[indistinct noise]
-[Dave] I heard that. -Yeah.
Where was that coming from?
I thought I heard it, from over here this time.
I'm gonna go in there.
If there's somebody that wants help, please come closer to us.
Hello?
[indistinct noise]
[Shari] Oh, my gosh.
[Dave] Are you kidding me?
What the hell is going on in there?
[Jason] So, this was the hotbox.
I couldn't imagine being stuck in this place, I mean, it is scary.
On top of it, they light a fire
-while you're in here. -[Steve] It is crazy.
[Jason] There has to be a ton of bad energy built up in here.
[Jason] J to Shari.
Go for Shari and Dave.
[Jason] How are you guys? Have anything going?
Any of the voices or anything?
[Shari] We heard a loud male voice and I just assumed it was you guys.
[Jason] Nobody's out there.
Okay, thanks.
Is there anybody who spent any time in here,
who'd like to tell us about their experiences?
Really, it's been quiet.
[Steve] All right, let's get out of here.
[Jason] Here we go. Gift Shop.
[indistinct noise]
There it is, again.
[Shari] I heard that.
[Dave] Is someone there?
[Jason] In here, there's claims of
the hat being thrown off the mannequin's head.
Hello?
Is there anyone here with us?
This land was given to Rufus,
who was known to be a heavy drinker.
[Steve] Rufus?
[Jason] He actually died before this prison ever even existed.
He was all over these grounds.
[Steve] We can pour a drink together.
[Jason] We're gonna have some drinks.
[Steve] There we are.
[Jason] Come on Rufus, we won't judge you.
[Steve] We'll join you.
Rufus, what's your favorite part about having a drink?
Rufus?
You can get a little closer to us.
[indistinct noise]
[Steve] Did you just hear that?
[Jason] That was a female voice.
[Dave] Is there a Franklin Shackleford here?
Are you mad that you were left to die?
This is the only time
that you'll be able to talk to anybody.
[Dave] Whatever might have been in here before,
-it's no longer. -[Shari] Yeah.
[Jason] All right, let's get out here.
[Steve] We're leaving all this for you, buddy.
Have at it.
[Jason] Hey, guys, let's wrap and go through our footage.
[Dave] Copy that.
-Hey, guys. -[Steve and Jason] Hey.
-[Shari] Hello. -What a case, huh?
And we were also able to all have experiences here.
-[Steve] Mmm-hmm. -[Dave] Yeah.
And it's the same sort of experiences they were claiming to have.
You know, a shadow-like figure.
-We saw that, we saw that. -[Dave] Yes, we did.
-You know. -[Dave] We both hear a male voice.
So, it's like something saying something.
So, I'm really interested to listen to what we've caught.
-At this point, get it wrapped up... -Yeah.
...and get back and start analyzing stuff, so we can come up with some answers.
Let's get the lights on.
All right. Good job, guys. Let's do this.
It has been quite the week.
We've all had a tremendous amount of experiences.
We saw the shadow of a free floating anomaly,
heard footsteps moving all around us.
As a paranormal investigator
I'm here for the ghosts
and I think that we came across a few here.
But we're still gonna go bac and finish reviewing the footage and the audio
and get back here with some solid answers for Emily and the staff.
[door closes]
I'm looking forward to getting over there and talking to Emily and hopefully,
the stuff that we show her will calm her down.
We had a lot of experiences.
We caught a lot of evidence
and some pretty intense stuff.
It was intense for us and we investigate the stuff all the time.
-So, let's get over there and do this. -All right.
[Jason] Hey Emily, thanks for entrusting us to come investigate.
[Emily] Thank you.
We met up with a historian and Rufus Barrier,
he actually inherited the property from his father
before it was a prison.
-Okay. -Rufus Barrier actually
-did pass away on the property. -Okay.
We did find out that there was another prisoner here named
Franklin Shackelford.
He was seen slumped in his holding cell
-by guards and they just let him die. -Okay.
So, I mean, we were able to document some of the history
but I have to say, every team
had experiences in different locations here.
Steve and I, we were in the production building at one point,
looking at the door in the back
and twice I saw somebody walk by the door.
Somebody's going by that door.
-I told you. I told you. -[Steve] On the right hand side.
-Steve went out. Absolutely nobody there. -Wow!
Tango also saw a shadow-like figure
at the end of this hall.
Oh, wow!
[Dave] This is a cast shadow
but it was just like from right to left, like crazy.
Steve and I spent some time in the production building
and the minute we got in there, it was active,
whether we're seeing shadows at the end, whether we're hearing voices,
and we're gonna play you some
and I want to get your take on what you might think they're saying.
Mmm-hmm.
This first one, Steve and I were near the cells.
[indistinct noise]
-Right there. -Yeah, that's a voice.
-Yeah. -It's like... [shushes]
[indistinct noise]
Did you just tell me to "Shh?"
I didn't say anything.
That's a voice. There's no question on that.
So, now from there, we'd had numerous other experiences.
I'm gonna play this audio for you and just get your take on this.
-It's looping on that exact part right there. -[Emily] Okay.
-[indistinct noise] -Oh, wow!
-[indistinct noise] -Can hear that whispering...
-Yeah. -...in the background there.
[indistinct noise]
To us, it almost sounds like you're saying, "Yes, sir."
-So-- -I can, yeah, I can hear that.
[Jason] It seems like something an inmate would say.
[indistinct noise]
[Jason] Steve and I spent sometime in the gift shop,
-which used to be the mess hall. -[Shari] Mmm-hmm.
And while we were in there, we were trying to make contact with Rufus
who is known to be a very big drinker.
His mother ended up in and out of a mental institution
before she passed away as well.
So, while we're in there, we caught
a voice, but it's a female voice
-just take a listen to it. Tell me what you think. -Okay.
[indistinct noise]
I can definitely hear somebody talking. Sounds like
heartbreak or something.
[indistinct noise]
Yeah, heartbreak is exactly what we heard as well.
So, is that Margaret we're hearing?
Is she saying heartbreak because we were talking about Rufus and his drinking issue?
I'm not sure, really, but I mean, it's definitely there.
And that's a female voice, and there were no females in there.
She could be the woman heard screaming here.
Because we always try to fit everything into the prison,
-not really thinking back further than that. -Exactly.
Sure.
So, two of our investigators Shari and Dave were in the cells
over at the production building.
And there's a voice that they hear.
Take a listen to it.
[indistinct noise]
-Yeah. -This sounds like a male voice.
-I can't understand what he's saying. -[Jason] Oh, we can't either.
[indistinct noise]
I'm not sure that anybody said that they've heard that voice.
Besides that, I mean, we heard whistles.
It literally sounded like we were surrounded.
-It kinda makes sense with the history of the place. -Right.
They would be all around you in cells.
So, that phenomena
could be from the era when it was a prison.
[Jason] I know there's concerns here from employees,
just nothing we had happen here seemed aggressive
-in that nature. -Nothing seemed violent?
No, it really didn't.
It just seemed like it was just doing its own thing
and we're all of the sudden a bunch of new people here.
I mean, if something was aggressive,
I would think that it would be aggressive towards us.
-Yeah. -I think as long as there's nothing violent,
nothing aggressive happening, I think being able to reassure people,
especially, the second shift employees,
you may hear some weird things happening,
but you'll be fine. Just keep making whiskey.
And we look forward to getting back here and checking out again.
We'd love to have you off whenever you wanna come.
Oh, thank you so much.
Such a pleasure.
Overall, I'm really happy with how the investigation went.
Rufus Barrier having owned this land was kinda cool to find out.
I'm happy to know that my staff are safe when they come out here.
That there's nothing angry or malevolent.
And that they're going to be safe when they come to work.
[Jason] This was a very successful case,
because there seems to be true activity going on there.
-Mmm-hmm. -But it doesn't seem to have any malicious intent.
I feel like we truly left them in a better position than when we got here.
-[Jason] Oh, 100 percent. -Yeah.
-You know what? Great job, man. -Thank you.
-On to the next. -[chuckles]