Ladies and gentlemen, we are back
in the Skid Row District of Downtown Los Angeles.
I thought that we investigated
the most haunted, iconic, evil hotel
in the entire United States,
and that is the Hotel Cecil.
But I have a surprise.
Something else popped up, something very mysterious
that I never knew about.
This hotel is the older, wicked brother
of the Hotel Cecil.
We have been called to investigate
the Hotel Barclay.
There are things in this world that we will never fully understand.
[voice echoes] Understand.
We want answers.
We have worked years to build our credibility,
our reputation...
...working alongside the most renowned professionals in the field,
capturing groundbreaking proof of the paranormal.
It's working!
I can't give you an explanation.
[Zak Bagans] This is our evidence.
OurGhost Adventures.
This hotel, originally named the Van Nuys,
was built in 1896.
It catered to Southern California's wealthy and elite.
In 1929, the name was changed to the Barclay,
signaling a new transient era at the hotel,
a dingier, darker era with deadly consequences.
Today, the structure sits nearly abandoned.
It is said that this place is haunted
by very dark, sinister, malevolent entities
that are a result of a serial killer,
another murderer that dismembered a woman
that is of the likes of the Black Dahlia murder.
But these are just 2 of the 13 confirmed deaths here,
not to mention countless suicide attempts,
along with many tragic events.
Ladies and gentlemen, we have discovered the Hotel Barclay.
In our investigations,
our most valuable information comes from witnesses
who have experienced terror firsthand.
Tonight, we had just such an interview.
Starr Garcia was scheduled to speak with us,
but apparently, she has become too frightened to return to the Barclay.
We've been sitting here for two hours now,
out in this parking lot,
and she's supposed to show up, and I hate when this happens.
We could go meet her somewhere else.
We'll go to her house. I just...
We have to have this interview.
Although we may never speak with Starr,
we do have a man who knows the dark history of the Barclay.
I'm sitting here with James,
author, historian, journalist.
James may have a familiar face,
because I met James
at one of our most iconic investigations ever
at the Hotel Cecil.
I compared this to kinda, like,
the Hotel Cecil's wicked, evil brother.
This area, I don't know what it is myself...
- [Zak] Yeah. - ...while there seems to be a particular preponderance
for exceptionally violent crimes.
But for the Cecil and for here,
there's two or three hotels almost in a triangle.
I actually call them a suicide triangle,
because there's so many suicides, as well.
[Zak] So this is kinda, we're dealing with, like,
almost the Bermuda Triangle
of evil, sadistic violence and killing.
What is it about this building
that compels so many to end their lives here?
One of the guys who committed suicide here,
there have been several suicides here,
actually left a very long note for his wife,
uh, who he'd just been divorced from,
saying that, uh, "I hope you think of me every day roasting in hell
because of what you've done."
- That was his suicide note? - [James] That was in his suicide note.
And he killed himself with cyanide?
[James] Yeah, took a dose of cyanide,
which you could get at pretty much any drugstore in those days.
I'm a sensitive.
I feel emotions, and sometimes,
people just don't understand that.
They think I'm just... [exclaims]
It's because I feel these emotions,
this residual energy at a very high level,
and I can't control that.
So, I need to know for my own safety,
for my crew's safety,
what are we dealing with here?
Well, you may not be too happy,
'cause there have been a couple of extremely horrific,
uh, Jack-the-Ripper-style killings here in the past.
Like, slicing and dismembering?
From, uh, from top to bottom,
and cutting off arms and legs.
[Zak] This is the tragic tale of Virgie Lee Griffin.
It was in 1944.
His name was Stephen Otto Wilson.
Uh, he'd been discharged from the army
for, uh, psychotic sexual practices
and beliefs in unnatural interests.
He went out, just locally, here to a bar,
uh, picked up a woman,
brought her back to the hotel room here,
and they had, uh, a number of drinks...
...and then, eventually, he attacked her.
[woman] Help me!
Someone![struggling] Someone!
He'd come prepared with a butcher knife and a razor.
And as I said, he, um, cut her open from top to bottom,
uh, cut off her arm, cut off her leg...
...and then went to another bar
and met another woman.
And killed her?
- [James] And killed her somewhere else. - [Zak] What, what...
What is it about the Hotel Cecil
and now the Hotel Cecil's older brother?
What is it about this area
that is attracting these types of...
- I mean, we investigate hotels all over the country. - [James] Yeah.
But we don't run into this type of serial killers
and killers that are dismembering
and ritualistic killers.
But I also know there's a serial killer, the Skid Row Slasher,
- that killed here, right? - Yes, yes.
And he was into this ritualistic stuff.
[James] Yes, yes, he killed 11 victims, actually, overall.
Nine, he did in about a period of eight weeks.
[newscaster] Most residents are staying off the streets,
in fear of a killer known in the area as the Slasher.
[Zak] The victims were male, over 40,
and all had a background of heavy drinking.
The Slasher's seventh victim was found here at the Barclay.
A man with his throat slashed was found today in a low-rent hotel
on the edge of Downtown Los Angeles.
[Zak] The corpse was encircled with salt,
his shoes removed, left pointing toward his body.
There was evidence the killer may have even drank the blood of his victim.
[newscaster] All of the victims wound up in the county morgue.
But if the coroner has turned up any evidence,
he's not talking about it.
[Zak] Then, on February 3rd, 1975,
after an exhaustive manhunt,
Vaughn Orrin Greenwood is apprehended
for the killing of 11 men
and the attempted murder of another.
He is sentenced to life in prison.
Do we know where, what floor, or anything like that?
Sadly, we... [stammering]
We do know what floor.
We do know what room.
528.
[Zak] We have a room number.
Write that down, Aaron.
528.
We are just waiting for one of the previous residents,
and I think she just showed up.
Is that her?
Uh, we are just so grateful, because Starr just showed up.
Although she is three hours late,
we are so relieved Starr has decided to speak with us.
She lived with her boyfriend in room 320 of the Barclay.
Do you wanna go inside?
- Not a chance in hell. [chuckles] - [Zak] Okay.
Starr, when did you live here?
- 2017 is when I moved in. - [Zak] Pretty recently.
- Well, four years. - So, we moved out... Mmm-hmm.
When I moved in,
the building was pretty sparse.
There was, like, nobody in there.
On my level, which was on the third floor,
there was just me and my boyfriend on our side,
one couple on the very far end,
and that was it.
- [Zak] That's creepy already. - Correct.
So, we explore the building,
and most of it was completely empty.
It was ominous.
So, you were here
- and you witnessed two people dying on your floor. - I didn't...
- Not so much witnessed them. - Well, you didn't witness it,
- but on your floor. - But I experienced it.
I was walking out of our apartment one day,
and, like, the paramedics were there,
and they were like, "Oh, do you know this guy?"
"No. No idea."
He'd been dead for an entire week
- until somebody found him. - [Zak] On your same floor?
[Starr Garcia] Yeah, right next door to me, three feet away.
- [Zak] Oh, my. Three feet from where you live? - [Starr] Uh, yeah, correct.
And then, uh, somebody there...
Some of the floors didn't have bathrooms,
There was a bathroom at the end of the hall,
and before the guy even moved in,
he died in front of the bathroom.
[Zak] Rommel Carrillo, Starr's boyfriend,
lived at the Barclay for 14 years.
[Rommel Carrillo] I was walking past the Barclay Hotel,
like, three days ago,
and I remember looking at the building
and kinda feeling like the building was kinda staring at me,
telling me to come back in,
and I kinda felt that, I really did.
And I wanted to go back in,
and maybe that's what kept me there for so long.
But after I left, I could...
I kinda knew, like, I was like...
I was living in a weird, crazy building.
Between the suicides, the murders, and the energy,
something's going on in this building.
It's a creepy building. It's not fun.
And maybe I just got used to it,
and I didn't realize that until after I moved out.
We did have a ghost.
Uh, it threw our platters off the wall.
Every time we came home,
they were thrown all over the ground.
It's more, like, he didn't live with us. We lived with him.
[Zak] Was the building lashing out at Starr and the other residents?
This would not be the first time the Barclay showed its wrath.
In the early hours of March 15th, 1972...
...a mysterious fire broke out
on the top floor of the Barclay.
Six residents were injured.
Three lost their lives.
Suspicious fires continue to this day.
After they started clearing out the building,
we had a lot of, uh, fires in front of, like,
the, uh, you know, our elevator door, stuff like that, or...
You know, making it harder for us to get out and stuff like that.
And it happened a couple times,
and I never, ever found out who that was.
But it would happen, it happened four times.
And every time the firefighters would come in,
like, they couldn't explain it.
But it was one of those things
where, like, it would always happen
at, like, around 2:00 in the morning,
4:00 in the morning,
even, like, 3:00.
You would never hear anything except smell the smoke,
and then eventually, you would see smoke.
[Zak] It seems odd that there are no witnesses to the origins of these fires.
Is it possible the building itself
is compelling others to start them
as a way of purging itself of the people who live there?
Shockingly, as we are conducting our interviews,
a massive fire breaks out just across the street.
- [sirens blaring] - We've got sirens going off.
I can't help but feel this is a warning to me, to the whole team.
- Are those people dressed as Ghostbusters? - Yeah.
We just have three people just dressed in Ghostbusterscostumes.
Hey, Ghostbusters!
Are you guys going into the Hotel Barclay?
Hey, guys, I hate to tell you,
but, uh, we're the ones who got the call, not you.
[all laughing]
All right? So, you're just gonna have to get the [bleep] out of here.
If we need reinforcements,
can you guys come back and help us?
[woman speaking]
Okay, you guys are in Ecto-1, or...
- You guys in Ecto-1? - [all laughing]
All right, guys. On the count of three, scream Ghost Adventures.
One, two, three!
- Ghostbusters! - [Zak] Ghost Adventures!
- No, no, no. - No?
- Adventures. - Ghost Adventures.
Oh, okay, I thought you said Ghostbusters.
- No, yeah, Ghost Adventures. - We got the call.
We got the call.
- [all laughing] - There's really a rivalry going on right now.
It's 11:00 p.m., and we are about to enter the Barclay for the first time.
My adrenaline is pumping
as we approach this menacing structure.
[whispers] This place is awesome.
[men chattering]
[Zak] Wait, shh. Roll, roll. Roll, roll.
Roll, roll, roll, roll.
Oh, man.
The energy in this building is so negative,
it's oppressive.
We've just stepped inside,
and immediately, we are confronted
with an agitated tenant.
Clearly, we are not welcome here.
We decide to begin our investigation upstairs,
so we head to the elevator.
[Aaron Goodwin] What's wrong?
[Zak] But clearly, it has other plans.
Hey, weird elevator things going on, Hotel Cecil?
- Oh, yeah. - Oh...
[Zak] Yet another parallel between the Cecil and the Barclay.
This elevator, much like the one at the Cecil,
has seen horrific tragedy.
1897.
The hotel had only been open two months
when waiter Charles Gamble was crushed
between the elevator and the third-floor landing.
His body dropped three stories to the basement.
September 20th, 1901.
Janitor Joe Kato decided to watch the elevator coming up the shaft.
He forgot as the elevator comes up,
the 4,800-pound weight comes down.
It crushed the upper half of his body.
I can tell you right now, uh,
everything that's happened since we've been here,
even in the parking lot,
has just been weird, strange, and...
I mean, the elevator just broke, so...
Elevator's out of the question.
And then,
we are gonna go investigate room 320,
and that's the only room that, for some reason,
they can't get open,
even though it's completely abandoned.
So, it's just like, "What's next?"
What's next?
It's like this building is telling us,
"Get the[bleep] out of here."
Okay, so now, we're trying to access the stairwell,
and now this is locked,
and we can't get in the stairwell.
- [Billy Tolley] Oh, my God. - It was just open.
And that's the only way up or down, right?
Yeah, and I'm telling you that this is no coincidence
- that these things are happening. - Doesn't want us up there.
The whole vibe in this place is, like,
worse than the Hotel Cecil times 20.
It takes close to an hour to get a worker to unlock the stairwell door.
Once open,
I send Billy and Aaron to the basement
while Jay and I head up to the third floor.
This is where Starr, who we interviewed,
this is where she lived.
She would refuse to step foot up here again.
We come in peace.
We're not here to piss you off.
We're not here to anger you.
We just wanna study you
in your existence after death.
I already know two of you died on this floor...
...and we met the woman who discovered your body, Starr.
This right here is a recording device.
We're going to leave this recording going here.
Hello?
- God, dude. - What is it?
[Aaron] Wait, Bill...
[Billy whispers] Dude, this basement is huge, bro.
[Aaron] Dude, if these could talk...
These mirrors, man. Look at this.
Uh, hey.
Look at that.
Think that's blood?
[Billy whispers] I don't like this space.
[Zak] As we walk these halls,
I think of the countless visitors
who stayed in these rooms.
Some transient, some full of hope,
others, down on their luck.
I can feel their presence
as I feel their pain,
their anger.
- [crashing] - Oh, [bleep]!
What the hell was that?
Is it [bleep]?
I have no idea.
Hello?
[inhales sharply]
Stopped my heart.
[Jay Wasley] See something moving in that window?
[Zak] Yes.
[Zak] While Jay and I continue to investigate the third floor,
Aaron and Billy head from the basement to the second floor.
[Billy] We're gonna take some TriField readings,
and we're gonna try and locate an area
with some activity.
[Zak] This is the floor where Virgie Lee Griffin was brutally murdered.
Virgie Griffin,
we're here to try to talk to you.
[Billy] Virgie, what happened to you was terrible...
...and we're just trying to get more information.
Maybe you have a message that you want to give to somebody.
Oh, it just spiked!
My stomach pain...
I have this pain right across here,
right under my ribs.
- [Aaron] For real? - Yeah, it hurts really bad right now.
I'm not [bleep] kidding.
[Aaron] Like you're getting cut open?
[Aaron groans]
Hurts, dude. It hurts.
[Zak] I saw a little white ball floating around here.
So, this is the bathroom they would've found that guy's body.
After feeling physically ill
while making contact with the spirit of Virgie,
Aaron and Billy exit the building.
At the same time, I too begin to feel sick.
The spirits here are clearly
taking a toll on us.
[Zak] Last night...
...after we left.
Uh, Jay, you and I,
uh, Billy, Aaron,
I told you guys to, um,
set up some motion-activated game cameras...
...uh, on floors...
- [Billy and Aaron] Two and three. - ...two and three.
[Billy] We also set a timelapse camera up,
- at a certain location on the second floor as well. - [Zak] Okay.
Where we think could possibly be where she got hacked up.
[Zak] It's interesting we know that,
um, Virgie Lee Griffin
was brutally murdered
and dismembered like you said, Aaron,
somewhere on the second floor.
- Yes. - We went into this area,
he asked about her, the meter spiked.
[Billy] Virgie.
Maybe you have a message that you want to give to somebody.
Oh, it just spiked!
There was a chain of events that made us put this
- camera in this spot. - Made us think it's there.
[Zak] Okay, so I'm looking at the timelapse
- infrared camera, right? - Yes.
[Zak] Okay. What did we capture?
- 3:24 AM, are you ready? - [Zak] Mmm-hmm. Yeah.
[Zak] Where am I looking--
[Zak and Aaron] Whoa!
[Billy] Yeah.
[Zak] What the [bleep] is that?
Not only what the [bleep] is that,
the next frame is this.
[Zak] Oh! What?
So it goes from bottom to top.
- [Zak] Play it again. - [Billy] It raises, it raises up. Ready?
- [Billy] From there... - [Zak] What?
[Zak] What?
And hey, and it's right where we had that moment.
- That's where the EMF went crazy. - That's where we think,
- we think that could be her. - [Zak] Wow.
[Zak] Again, this was captured
on our motion-activated IR game cams
at 3:24 AM.
We were all sound asleep at our hotel
11 miles away.
That's some scary stuff right there.
Well, we're still on visual.
When Aaron and I were in the basement,
we were taking, I don't know,
- hundreds of full spectrum photos. - [Aaron] Yeah.
[Billy] And we came to an area that had a bunch of dresser drawers
and old mirrors and stuff from out of the hotel.
I call it the artifact room.
- So, I took three photos, right? - [Aaron] One...
[Billy] One, two, three. One, two...
- [Billy] I don't know what that is in this mirror. - [Zak] Oh, wow.
[Zak] It's definitely not in the other ones.
It's cool. I like how it's sequential.
[Billy] Boom, boom, we only take three photos,
so we have something to compare it to.
- [Zak] Interesting. - [Billy] I don't know what that is,
- but it's in the mirror, so. - [Zak] Okay.
[Zak] Something definitely unexplained there.
It's a little blurry, so it's tough to tell, but...
This is the third floor.
The camera is set to record
five seconds every five minutes,
kinda like a time lapse.
So throughout the night,
it will trigger if something goes in front of it,
- [Zak] Okay. - but it will also randomly, you know, collect that.
[Billy] So this was captured.
It's probably two or three o'clock in the morning.
[Zak] What the[bleep]? What is he doing?
Is he peeping in people's windows?
Same guy,
camera pointed the other way.
Same floor.
- [Zak] Different... - [Billy] Guess what room this is.
- [Zak] Is that 320? - [Billy] 320.
[Zak] That's Starr's old room,
- Yes. - where all the poltergeist activity happened.
- Yup, same guy. - [Zak] That door is locked.
- [Zak] Why is he trying to get in there? - [Jay] Dude, what the...
- That's the only room he tried to get into, - He was trying to get in.
that's obviously not his room, so why did he do that?
Bizarre. And he's... it's like he's affected.
- [Zak] Yeah, very weird behaviors. - [Billy] Right?
And then he looks back like something's following him.
[Zak] This peculiar behavior appears eerily similar
to the disturbing footage of Elisa Lam,
moments before her death.
Yet another direct parallel from the Cecil,
to the Barclay.
And why did he go to room 320,
- to try and open it? That's not his room. - Right, out of all the rooms?
And coincidentally that's the,
that's the room that we're focusing on...
Yeah. Right.
...for our investigation on that floor.
As we begin preparing for our investigation,
one of the X-cameras rolling on the second floor
starts capturing our motion ball lighting up.
This means that something is physically touching the ball.
Whoa! Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
- [Zak] What's that? What's that? - [Billy] Look.
- Hey, look, look, look! - [Zak] What's wrong?
[Billy] [bleep] look at that.
- [Aaron] Whoa! - [Jay] Whoa!
What the hell?
What floor is that? What floor is that? That's two.
- That's motion. - That's a motion sensor?
[Billy] That's the ball. That's the little ball,
- and you have to move the ball. - Yeah!
[Billy] You have to actually touch it,
basically touch it to make--
Dude, hey, we're just now getting ready,
and you just pulled the cameras out.
- [Jay] My camera wasn't even rolling. - To physically do that.
- [Billy] Is that second floor or third floor? - That's second floor.
Really, that's crazy.
[Billy] Hey, you have to move it to make...
Go up there real quick, go up there real quick, go and run.
Go, go, go, go, go!
As Jay, Aaron, and Billy run up to the second floor,
all of them are in a panic and tell me
the temperature is ice cold.
Stay back, Aaron.
Don't move right up on it, observe it from a distance.
Don't go right up on it.
It's cold.
[Billy] Oh, it's freezing up here.
[Jay] Oh, it's really cold, Zak.
[Billy] It's ice-cold up here.
If you're up there on that floor,
I want you to make that ball light up again.
Make that ball go again.
[Billy] If you're responsible for doing this, light that ball up right now.
There it is! There it is!
I just told it to... oh, it's freezing cold.
Look, are you trying to show us
something with feelings? Stop showing us with feelings.
Move something, throw something,
knock something out of the way.
Then we'll pinpoint where you're at
and we can have a real conversation, okay?
Hey, is the spirit here?
Are you trying to claim that you're the one
responsible for a lot of these people doing what they're doing here
in the hotels around here?
[machine crackling]
[automated voice] Need to talk.
- "Need to talk"! - "Need to talk".
[Aaron] It just said, "Need to talk."
[Zak] Holy [bleep].
That was so clear.
This is an incredible
three-word intelligent response
in the same woman's voice.
Are you trying to claim that you're the one
responsible for a lot of these people doing what they're doing here
in the hotels around here?
[machine crackling]
[automated voice speaking]
- "Need to talk"! - "Need to talk".
[Aaron] It just said, "Need to talk".
[Zak] Could this be the spirit of Virgie Lee Griffin,
who was brutally murdered and dismembered
in 1944, on this exact floor?
See if that's Virgie Lee Griffin.
[Aaron] That's definitely her.
[Zak] What's her name? What's her name?
What's your name, okay?
So we know who we're talking with.
[machine crackling]
[Aaron] Wow.
[automated voice] Those murders[indistinct].
I thought it said, "murders".
[Jay] Murders?
[Zak] From nerve center, I hear the spirit sing
something about "those murders",
and then another word that we cannot make out.
What's your name, okay?
So we know who we're talking with.
[machine crackling]
[Aaron] Wow.
[automated voice speaking]
[Zak] I thought it said "murders".
- [Jay] Murders? - Wait, it just said it's not.
It said, "It's not." A man.
You said, "Is it Virgie Lee?"
- Yeah. - [Billy] And that guy goes, "It's not."
[Zak] This is amazing.
As I radio the guys and say,
"I think the last voice said something about murders",
another voice reacts to me by saying,
"It's not."
- [Jay] Murders? - Wait, it just said, "it's not".
What does that mean?
Maybe not.
[automated voice] You're right.
[all shouting] "You're right"!
"You're right"!
I'm right, 'cause I just said she's not here and it's him!
[Zak] Listen now as Aaron says,
"Maybe it's not Virgie Lee",
and this spirit, incredibly, tells him he's right.
This is mind-blowing evidence of interaction
with an intelligent spirit.
Maybe not.
[all shouting] "You're right"!
Now, remember, guys, the guy's name that murdered her,
his name was Otto Wilson.
And he went on to murder somebody else that same day.
- Right. - You know, like something possessed this guy.
He started there, here, at this place.
So did something get him, someone, something possessed him,
He just took her there for sex.
And it was like something possessed this guy.
Aaron.
Take that to that room.
[Zak] Billy wants to take the Polterpod
to the room where we captured the black mass
last night on our timelapse camera
while we weren't even here.
What happened here?
[machine whirring]
[Billy] Speak. Please, Virgie.
[automated voice] [indistinct]
What?
[Billy] Speak. Please, Virgie.
What?
So, I think...
As I radio the guys to head back to nerve,
they all start leaving the area,
at which time I reposition
the remotely-controlled camera to follow them,
- when all of a sudden, we all hear a loud crash, - [crashing]
and discover it is a 2x4 piece of wood
that appears to have fallen or been thrown
from the room that they just walked out of.
She's making you feel that, dude.
[Aaron] Yeah, it's kinda holding me back.
What the [bleep] was that, dude?
[bleep], are you [bleep] kidding right now?
- [Billy] What was that, Jay? - [Aaron] Did that just get thrown at you?
[Jay] I have no clue, dude.
- [Billy] What even is it? - [Jay] I was walking...
[Billy] Is that a 2x4?
[Aaron] It's a 2x4. Where'd it come from?
Where the [bleep] did that come from?
- Wow. - Did you see that, Zak?
- [Billy] Zak, did you see it? - I see it, bro.
[Zak] The camera was over.
- The door's opening! - [Jay] What?
- [Billy] Get it, get it! - [Aaron] Look!
[Aaron] It just opened, dude.
Hang on.
[Billy] Bro, what the [bleep].
[Aaron] Bro, I just saw this crash open.
[Zak] As the guys are taking all of this in,
watch this strange anomaly appear to manifest
out of the wooden doorframe.
Could this have anything to do with the piece of wood
that just unexplainably moved?
- It wasn't here. - [Jay] No.
[Billy] It came from that room, 100%.
Could it be from the door opening?
- [Billy] Maybe. - Dude, I'm telling you, it was standing here
- the door was like this. - [Billy] Listen.
This is important, Zak.
When Aaron and I first came up here,
we walked directly to right here,
I don't know why, any other place,
and we're just like, "Whoa, you feel that?"
And we went into this room,
and I opened the closet and I go,
"I wonder if this is where it happened."
- Hang on. We're just gonna try this, okay? Hang on. - [Jay] Yeah.
- [machine crackling] - Did you die in here?
[automated voice] Chopped liver.
[Zak] Listen to this,
as Aaron asks Virgie Lee,
who was chopped up after being murdered,
if she died here.
They receive a response saying, "chopped liver".
Did you die in here?
[Aaron] Who moved that board?
[Billy] Dude, that's [bleep] bizarre.
I wanna know where that came from.
[automated voice] You're in trouble.
[Billy] "You're in trouble".
Dude, that's [bleep] bizarre. I wanna know where that came from.
[Billy] "You're in trouble."
[hisses]
The [bleep] was that?
[Jay] There's nothing there.
[Aaron] All I said was--
I felt it, I felt that on my [bleep] hand just now!
- Oh, [bleep]. - Like, like that, swear to God.
- What the [bleep]? - [Jay] I was watching, there's nothing on you.
[Billy] Jay, that was someone [bleep] put their hand on my forearm like...
look at my arm hair, dude.
It's standing straight up.
Zak, something crazy just happened.
This is too many signs.
The light, the black mass, this 2x4,
this closet door opening.
That, something just touched me on my arm
while you were playing that.
[all screaming] Closet!
What the [bleep]?
"Closet"! It said "closet"!
What happened?
The 2x4 fell, the closet door opened,
Aaron goes in there, we hear voices coming through,
and then he pulls out the Ovilus,
and the first thing it says is "closet".
No [bleep] way, that's where she was dismembered.
All of a sudden, the guys hear
footsteps walking up on them.
[on radio] There's something in here,
I'm gonna need you to get out there.
[Aaron] What?
- [whispering] Upstairs? - [whispering] Yeah.
[in normal voice] I honestly... dude, I thought it
was someone walking up on me.
Hey, Aaron, you had a thing
disappear into your head 20 seconds ago
when you were over there, it's more to the right.
[both] That's twice.
[Zak] Watching all this activity from nerve center
has made me want to get inside the building immediately.
So I have Billy meet me at base camp
and I suit up with the SLS camera,
and I feel the need to do a quick robot walk on the sidewalk
before heading to the third floor.
[Billy chuckling] He's a robot.
[Zak] I send Aaron and Jay down to the basement.
So this is where we captured that footage last night
of that resident acting strangely right here.
He was trying to get inside of 320.
Gotta also remember that up here,
Starr, that lived right here, said that
two people died while she was living here.
One right down there in the bathroom,
one right next door to her.
Isn't that very strange that this whole side
is where all the activity and all the death were?
As we enter room 320, we are on high alert
for items moving by themselves,
because of how much poltergeist activity
Starr told us would occur while living here.
[Aaron] Were you moving stuff in here?
Can you show us how you do that?
[Zak] Down in the basement,
Jay introduces a new experiment.
This is an ARP 2600 synthesizer.
And my idea that I wanna try out
is this produces different frequencies,
kinda like what we do with infrasound.
And I can dial in three different frequencies at the same time,
so three different values of infrasound going at the same time,
plus white noise generation,
and I'm gonna run a spirit box through it.
- [humming] - This is just one of the frequencies
going right now.
So I'm gonna dial in a second frequency here.
- Feel that one change in the energy a little bit. - [Aaron] Yeah.
[Jay] If you're a spirit down here,
you can use this energy to show yourself,
to manifest or communicate.
Adding in more frequencies.
Bringing in the spirit box.
[machines whirring]
[Jay] Who runs this hotel?
What is the evil entity that's here?
[Zak] As I continue scanning room 320,
I capture a figure laying on the ground.
It then seems to burst with energy
as it shoots over to the right,
and as I try to find it again,
it appears across the room, crawling up the wall.
- [Zak] Whoa, whoa. - [Billy] What do you got?
[Zak] Something just crawled up the wall right there.
- [Billy] Seriously? - Yeah, that was weird.
[Billy] Who are you?
No response.
Who are you?
- [automated voice] Begin. - [Billy] "Begin".
[Billy] Begin what?
[automated voice] Near.
- [Zak] Bill. - [Billy] Yeah?
[Billy] What's going on?
[Zak] Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
[Billy] Begin what? It says "near".
[Zak] Yes, it's near you.
This is shocking.
Just as the Paranormal Puck 2 says "near",
I capture a figure standing near Billy.
Put your right hand out.
Can you touch him?
Okay, it's touching your hand.
- [Billy] What are you... - I don't...
[Zak] It just disappeared. I just lost my breath.
[Zak] Watch now as I ask Billy to put his arm out,
then ask the figure to touch his hand.
And it does, before disappearing.
This is absolutely compelling evidence,
again, of an intelligent spirit.
Okay, it's touching your hand.
Just disappeared.
Yo, it just disappeared. I just lost all my breath.
- [Billy exhales] It's really [bleep]. - I know, dude.
[Billy] Oh... what's going on?
'Cause you saw it.
[Zak exhales]
- [exhales] - It was incredible?
[Zak] I was fine, but when it disappeared,
like, it shot through my chest.
Like, it collapsed my lungs, I swear to God.
Like it squeezed them.
[Zak] Back down in the basement,
Jay, all of a sudden, starts receiving responses.
[machine whirring]
Did you die in this hotel?
[voice on machine] Yeah.
Did you die in this hotel?
Can you tell us your name?
[voice on machine] [indistinct]
Can you tell us your name?
[Zak] As Aaron now operates this machine,
listen to the spirit ask him if he's ready.
- [voice] Ready? - "Ready".
- [Jay] Did it say "ready"? - Ready.
Yeah, ready. Go.
- [voice] Hate him. - "Him"?
[Zak] They now capture a very faint voice
saying, "hate him."
Yeah, ready. Go.
"Him"?
[Zak] Right after this spirit says, "Hate him",
Aaron immediately storms off
and starts having pains all over his body.
Oh, my God, my whole body hurts, dude.
I feel like an old, old, old, old, old, old man, dude.
I just wanna, like, lie down.
It's just, my bones won't stop hurting.
[Zak] Again, this is the room where
Starr told us that man died.
And then the other man died right around this corner.
What is it about this row right here?
You wanna come out?
This is your time now.
Sir, can we talk to you?
[knocking on door]
Did something in here cause you to die?
Is something here stealing souls?
I want everyone right now to turn the volume up
and listen to this Class-A EVP
of who we believe is the man
who died in this room.
[voice on EVP] [indistinct]
- [Zak] What, what is that? - What said that?
[voice on EVP] The door's not open.
[Zak] "Door's not open"? Say that again.
[voice on EVP] Door's not open.
[Zak] "The door's not open"!
[Billy] I have goosebumps the whole up my arm
after that man said, "The door's not open."
[Billy] This is the first thing you've said.
Sir, can we talk to you?
That's the first thing you said.
I was recording you. No one said,
"The door's not open."
[Zak] It's ironic that we capture a Class-A EVP
talking about how the door is not open,
and now we capture an unexplained light anomaly
disappearing into the door handle,
as if a spirit is trying to open it.
[Billy on recording] Sir, can we talk to you?
[voice on EVP speaking]
[Zak] This Class-A EVP
is most definitely one of the best
spirit voices we have ever captured.
We immediately try to call our contact at the hotel
to see if we can get the key to open the door,
where the spirit just told us the door won't open.
But we are unsuccessful trying to get an answer back.
We leave our investigation
with absolutely incredible evidence
of poltergeist activity...
[Aaron] What the [bleep] was that?
[Zak] ...intelligent communication of spirits that
needed to talk...
[voice on machine]
[all shouting] "You're right"!
[Zak] ...spirits telling us when they were near us...
[Billy] It says, "Near".
[Zak] Yes, it's near you.
...and disturbing, yet amazing proof
of a very dark entity.