[Zak] The Hotel Congress,
it is known as one of the most haunted hotels
in the entire country.
Guests that check into Room 219,
get possessed.
Oh, absolutely.
This isn't friendly.
This is not welcoming.
Whatever you captured in the photo,
is the same thing that turned that light off.
I felt like I was just pushed.
This place is really affecting me.
-[unknown voice on recording]Leave. -[both] "Leave."
[Zak] Can you tell me what is going on
in this hotel?
[exhales sharply, yelling] Oh, my God!
-What was that, bro? -[man] I don't know, dude.
I was at this corner, and that turned on.
Bro, I don't feel good.
We ask you to join us.
-[man speaks indistinctly] -[door creaks and shuts]
What do you want me to do?
[whispering] Whoa! Shh!
You will not possess the living.
You have no place on this earth.
You're gonna help me.
Clear as day.
I demand you to reveal yourself now.
[man] What the hell is that?
This is your time to come out.
We're leaving this floor open for you.
[door creaking]
[muffled] What?
[Zak] There are things in this world
that we will never fully understand.
[distorted voice] Understand.
[Zak reading]
[distant echoing voice]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.
-[man 1] It's working! -[man 2] Whoa.
I can't give you an explanation.
[Zak] This is our evidence,
our Ghost Adventures.
Have you ever checked into a hotel?
And as you check in,
the hotel manager says,
"Look, I know I just gave you your key,
I know you're checking in, but there's something I need to tell you.
On your floor, there's a particular room
that we've had to make, uh, several 911 calls.
Because people that go into that room,
they get possessed
by an evil force, an evil entity."
That's the case
with the Hotel Congress.
It is known as one of the most haunted hotels in the entire country.
I've been trying to investigate here for years,
but... we have two days to film here.
The hotel is completely open.
And so, we're gonna walk in together,
and we don't know what to expect.
-Zak? -I am Zak.
-I'm such a huge fan, man. -Oh, cool.
[camera shutter clicks]
-[Zak] Cool. Thank you for that. -Thank you, guys.
Hi, guys! How's the tartar?
[laughter]
How's your supper?
-[investigation crew member laughs] -[Zak] Good.
-[raucous laughter] -[Zak] Really?
The hotel's completely open.
These are the conditions that we accepted
for the opportunity that we have,
to investigate something
of this caliber.
It is in its natural habitat
and all the energy of everybody's inner bodies,
everybody's emotions.
And this is why I really like this kind of take
on how we're doing this investigation,
at least for the first night.
The Hotel Congress, built in 1918.
Over the 100 years it's been open,
it's attracted some of the most violent gangsters,
one of them being John Dillinger and his gang.
who were arrested here in 1934,
six months before FBI the shot and killed him
in front of the Biograph Theater in Chicago.
-Additionally... -[gunshot]
...there is murder, multiple suicides,
and a number of tragic fires that this hotel calls its own.
Straight away, we're focused on Room 219,
where hotel bar manager, Patrick Cardenas, had to call 911.
There's a particular room here that caught my eye.
That would be the 219?
So, as a manager here,
you are legitimately telling me
that guests...
-Mmm-hmm. -...that check into Room 219,
-get possessed by something? -[Patrick] Yep.
A good example is, like, I had a couple that were from Sonora, Arizona,
that didn't really speak much English,
had the wife come to the front desk,
and was like, "Something's off with my husband."
And I asked her, you know, "What's... What's wrong?"
And she said, "He's speaking in a woman's voice,
but he's speaking in English.
-And he doesn't speak a word of English." -Wow,
that's creepy.
Patrick proceeds to tell me this wild story
that he called the police...
-[sirens blaring]-...and even they felt something
after dealing with this possessed man.
[Patrick]I actually had talked
to some of the cops that had come here and dealt with that.
-And one of them-- -In 219?
...Yeah, and he won't come back.
He was like, "Whatever happened
when I pulled her out of the room...
-This is the police officer saying this? -...the only..." Yeah.
-[Zak] You heard that from the police officer? -Oh, absolutely. Yep.
-[Zak] He told you that? -Yeah.
The thing I had witnessed is, when he got to our door at the front,
his hand was shaking.
His hands were shaking.
-[Zak] So, do you still rent that room out? -Yeah.
This hotel is known for having a lot of spirits
in a lot of different areas.
[Zak] Controlling entities, powerful enough to take someone over,
powerful enough to physically make themselves known,
like Room 219.
Other rooms are a capsule for concentrated energy to thrive.
David, the hotel director,
has insight on both important history
and a growing list of rooms,
as we continue to build our understanding of this complex haunting.
The second floor, would you say, is the most active?
Absolutely, it's the only floor we have left with rooms.
We used to have three floors,
but that went out in the fire in 1934,
the John Dillinger Gang and all that.
And this is where all the activities always happened,
even prior to the fire.
[Zak] Can you tell me about this... this fire?
[David] January 22nd, 1934,
wiped out the third floor.
The firefighters are trying to get everyone out,
and there's a group of guys there
who were very reluctant to leave.
-Mmm-hmm. -And so, finally,
the firefighters, "You've got to go." So, the guys handed him $13
and said, "Take care of these bags."
-[Zak] What? -And the firefighters go, "Okay."
And they take the bags downstairs,
open up the bags, and there is Tommy guns and $28,000 worth of cash.
Turns out that the John Dillinger Gang
was staying the very night we...
-Had the fire? -...had the fire.
[David] They were running from the law.
They were trying to stay in this little Podunk town,
which Tucson what most definitely was, in 1934.
Mmm. Is-- Is that not just a coincidence, though,
that John Dillinger's gang was here the night of the fire?
[David] It's a weird one, isn't it?
[Zak] Did they bring any people up here that they wanted killed?
-[gunshot] -Did they bring any bodies up here with them
that they may have killed previously,
and lit them on fire with the blaze?
Unknown.
[Zak] Adding the layers of career criminals like the John Dillinger Gang
to this hotel with an unknown answer to a question of,
"Did they start the fire to conceal something?"
Did they intentionally light a room on fire,
burning with it any victims?
Unknown.
It is the unknown that creates highly-charged paranormal activity.
So, let me ask you a question.
You've worked here for how long?
-Twenty seven years. -Twenty seven years?
What is the scariest, most active, feared room in the hotel?
No question, it's Room 242.
Room 242?
[dramatic music playing]
It was this interview which was supposed to cover the events
that occurred in Room 242,
that something very peculiar happens to me.
As soon as I sit down in this chair,
my whole demeanor changes immediately.
I suddenly start feeling confused as to where I am,
what I'm doing.
And I can't focus on what these two ladies are telling me.
I just... I felt, like, a presence,
mainly from the bathroom.
I did know, going in,
that the woman had shot herself in the bathroom.
And it just... creeped us out,
and we just kept the door open and kept the light on,
because it just freaked us out.
Later on, in the earlier evening,
we were trying to communicate.
At that time, I heard a scratch
right by my head.
[faint scratching on wall]
I looked over, and I saw nothing on the wall
that could have replicated it.
And so, I just let it be.
And later on in the evening,
I heard the scratch again.
And at that point, I jumped away.
I woke up in the middle of the night,
feeling like someone was watching me from that bathroom.
And I do feel like she didn't like us there.
The scratching,
it was happening when we were trying to communicate with her.
And it felt like she was, like, telling us,
"Don't... Don't communicate with me...
-[Zak] Yeah. -...I don't want to talk to you."
This isn't friendly.
This is not welcoming.
And so, we went to the bathroom...
[Zak] What happened?
[camerawoman] Turned itself off.
There's nobody near it.
How did that just happen?
What's the battery strength?
[camerawoman speaking]
Are you in here with us?
Wait a minute.
Uh... Okay.
It's another one.
You know what I mean?
[confused] Another one...
-[Zak chuckles nervously] -[chuckles softly]
Do you feel weird?
Very.
Like, I feel [bleep] weird.
Excuse me. I don't know.
I have to stand up.
My interviewees are uncomfortable.
I don't know what's happening.
[Zak] As soon as our light got shut off by something unexplainable,
it was then that everyone felt the shift in the environment.
Did whatever caused this, not want the story to be told
as to what occurred in Room 242?
Was this strange energy a direct influence
from the woman who used Room 242,
to violently end her life almost 30 years ago?
She locked herself in with a handgun.
Her husband arrived with the police.
She told them that if they entered the room,
she would pull the trigger.
They didn't listen.
And she kept her promise.
The darkness that she left behind...
the sadness, the desperation,
the rage.
-[gunshot]-Is she transferring it to me?
During the interview, when you said something was affecting you,
or you felt something near you, right?
-[Zak] Yeah, I did. -I was sitting back behind the camera.
[Zak]When the light turned off,
that's when I started feeling weird.
[Jay] For some reason, I was like, I just want to take a picture.
I took three pictures.
That one,
this one,
that one.
Zoom in on there.
What is that on you?
What the [bleep]?
-[Jay] You're talking about... -Whoa.
...feeling things and experiencing things... Caught it.
It's there, on you.
Right after that moment when you felt something there.
Whatever you captured in the photo,
is the same thing that turned that... turned that light off.
Those lights just don't turn off like that.
No. And if it wasn't enough battery,
it wouldn't have turned back on for the rest.
What if it pulled the amount of energy it needed to manifest?
Like, you use that battery as a source.
-The fact that you felt it-- -Affected me,
-and then, "boom." -...and then, it...
Who knows where it went from there?
[Zak] To see this unexplained dark mass hovering over me
the second I started feeling affected,
is disturbing, but incredible.
[dramatic music playing]
We need to head to Room 242 immediately,
to see if the presence I was feeling, is connected.
We are going to now enter into Room 242.
-Are you guys ready? -Ready.
[man] Open the door.
[door opens]
-[Billy] Zak? -[Zak] Hmm?
[Billy] There's a pretty strong EMF.
It's... It's, like, a steady six.
And as I go in more, it gets higher.
So, there is high EMF in this room
-right here. -[Aaron] Then that... Yeah, that could be fee--
-[Zak grunts in pain] Oh! -...Whoa. Are you okay?
[Aaron] What happened?
-[Billy] Did you lose your-- -Dude, I felt like... No.
I felt like I was straight-up [bleep] pushed.
-[Billy] Seriously? -I swear to God,
I felt like I was just pushed.
I felt force.
[device buzzing]
-[Billy] Good God. -[device whirs]
That was awesome.
What are you?
Did you just push me?
I'm sorry you got to the point...
in your mind, to where you felt
you needed to end it.
[whispering]
-This place is really affecting me. -[indistinct talking]
-Yeah. You're getting it bad. -Yeah, I am.
[Zak] Guys, I'm gonna put this recorder
right there on the shelf
while we're in... while we're in here doing a quick thing.
Okay?
I just had to get out.
Rarely do I feel such a powerful and angry energy holding
onto me like this.
I'm literally leaving for my health, at this point.
-[static from device] -[Aaron] Did you push Zak
right here to get away from the bathroom?
[continuous static]
[unknown voice on REM pod]Don't want to talk about it.
[Aaron] "I don't want to talk about it!"
Can we come back and talk to you later?
-[unknown voice] No. -[Billy] "No"?
-[Aaron] "No," no. -[indistinct utterance and static from REM pod]
[static continues]
[Billy] What happened right here?
[continuous static from REM pod]
[static continues]
[unknown voice] Leave.
[both] "Leave."
-[growling] "Leave." -[Billy] Dude,
-that... -What the [bleep]?
[Zak]After a truly strange day one at the Hotel Congress,
I am extremely anxious to see and hear the evidence
from the mini-investigation In Room 242,
-where a woman tragically and violently... - [gunshot]
...took her life.
This is night 2 of our investigation.
The hotel and the staff is preparing for our lockdown,
and clearing everyone out.
But a lot of very intense
and very shocking things occurred during
our preliminary investigation last night.
-[man] Yeah. -And one of the main focal points
of this investigation,
was to try and determine what is causing guests
of the hotel to become possessed.
So, that's alarming,
especially when the hotel staff,
they've had to call 911,
because of these possessions.
Everybody at home,
you've got to understand that, when we come to these locations,
we not only open ourselves up
to whatever this negativity is,
but we also go through trying to come up with a plan
to expose them in the location where they're residing.
So, that makes us even more vulnerable to different effects.
So, during this,
I started blacking out,
and you saw me.
And it was very strange.
So, as I started having these very...
What light was that?
[Zak] And just like yesterday, we lose our light again.
the moment we begin to speak
about the activity here.
[Billy] Wait till you get to the audio that we captured
when we went into Room 242.
You know, you place it
-inside the bathroom. -[Zak] You're right.
[Zak] Guys, I'm gonna put this recorder
right there on the shelf while we're in... while we're in here.
-So, no one was touching the recorder... -[Zak] No, no.
-...at all. -The room was empty in there.
And now, I've turned the volume up so we can hear this.
This is us talking.
[man on recording]...that is right here.
And that is why.
[recording continues playing]
It's like two people whispering to each other.
[Zak] Let me hear.
[recording plays]
[Zak] I hear, "I don't know."
-I hear, "I don't know." -At the end,
-[whispering] "I don't know." That's clear. -Clear. Very clear.
[recording plays]
-[whispering] "I don't know." -Yeah.
-It's a great EVP. -Okay. So, here's a...
-[Aaron] That's cool. -...a little bit later.
-The recorder is sitting by itself... -Yeah.
-...No one's touching it, and this comes through.
You can hear us,
and then you hear this voice. Ready?
[indistinct talking on recording]
-"Something's in here?" -Yes. "Something in here," right?
-Here. -He goes, "Something in here." "In here."
[unknown voice speaking]
-Wow. -[Aaron] Yeah, it does!
-[Billy] Do you hear it? -[both] Yeah.
[Billy] Then, we got out the Spirit Box.
Aaron was able to pick up on what it said.
-[Zak] Go ahead. -Because he repeats it.
-[continuous static] -[Aaron] Did you put Zak right here to get away
from the bathroom?
[static continues]
[unknown voice on REM pod]Don't want to talk about it.
"I don't want to talk about it!"
It's a guy going, "Don't talk about it."
[unknown voice speaking]
-[Aaron] Yeah. "Don't want to talk about it." -[Zak] ...about it.
-[Aaron] Yeah. -Something like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
-Okay. -Kind of sounds like the EVP
-we got... -[Billy] "Don't want to talk about it."
-[Zak] Okay. -[unknown voice speaking]
[Zak] Was something keeping the spirits in this room
from telling us who pushed me?
Further Polterpod evidence we captured
while investigating Room 242,
suggests an intelligence among these energies.
This is the next one.
[unknown male and female voice speaking indistinctly on recording]
-"Sitting on"? -"Sitting on."
[unknown female voice speaking]
[Zak] "Sitting on."
Ready?
[man on recording]What is he sitting on?
-[voice 1] Bed. -[voice 2] I'm sitting.
-"I'm sitting." -Whoa. Hold on, hold on,
-hold on, hold on. Hold on a sec. Don't... -Look at his face.
-Look at Aaron's face, because he just heard it... -...Dude, hold on, hold on.
-Hold on. -...for the first time. I know.
-Play that again. -[chuckles]
[man on recording]What is he sitting on?
-[voice 1] Bed. -[voice 2] I'm sitting...
-"What is he sitting on?" "Bed." -"Bed."
-"I'm sitting." -Yes.
-Okay. -[Aaron] Yeah.
[man on recording]What is he sitting on?
-[voice 1 speaking] -[voice 2 speaking]
-Yeah! -The man and the woman both say, "Sitting on."
[female voice speaking]
-[man on recording] What is he sitting on? -[male voice speaking]
-[laughs whimsically] -[Aaron] "I'm sitting."
-That is like intelligence right there, folks. -It's so quick.
That is... "What is... What is he sitting on?" "Bed."
[man on recording]What is he sitting on?
-[voice 1 speaking] -[voice 2 speaking]
-See? And they're like, they're all excited... -That's cool, dude.
...they're all chiming in,
because they're all so excited that we can hear them.
So, right after we get the response,
"What is he sitting on?" "Bed."
-And then another voice says, "I'm sitting." -[Aaron] Mmm-hmm.
-You have your thermal camera... -Right.
...and you pan over to the bed.
And you caught something on the bed and didn't realize it.
-[Zak] Are you serious? -Yes.
Watch this.
-That's the edge of the bed. -[Zak] Yeah.
You start panning.
-What is that? -[Aaron] Whoa! What is that?
[Billy] What is that?
-Dark is cold. The... There's no... -What?
...there's no way that we could make that...
-[Zak] That's on the bed? -...and climb... That's on the bed.
That looks like somebody's butt
-sitting there. -Right.
If we... If we were sitting on this and got up,
-that dark blue-- -Would go red.
-It would be-- -It would be orange.
-Orange. Because it would be heat. -...bright yellow... heat.
-[imperceptible] -[Zak] There is clearly an ice-cold shape
of, what it looks like,
of someone's rare end...
-[Billy] And what are they doing? -...sitting on the bed.
What did that spirit tell us
-he's sitting? -"I'm sitting."
Where?
-On the bed. -On the bed.
[Zak, claps] Boom!
That's one of the craziest correlations of audio...
-Yeah. -...visual evidence in recent investigations...
-Absolutely. -...in recent time.
And that is the importance, ladies and gentlemen,
of instrumental transcommunication.
That is the importance of using these devices.
-Yeah. -Communication is where we need to be
with the other side.
We have to be careful that, as deep as we get with this,
that it doesn't lead us down a narrow, dark corridor
to something truly powerful and dark.
[Aaron] Yeah.
We gotta go back in there
and [bleep] do some serious investigation in that room.
Do you think that they're waiting up there right now
for us to go back in and communicate more with them?
-Absolutely. -[Billy] Probably, so...
But who's the spirit that said, "Leave"?
[static]
[unknown voice speaking]
[both] "Leave."
Now, it's time to go all lights out
and to push this even further,
trying to maybe get these spirits
to help us identify what is possessing people
in this hotel.
Before we begin our lockdown tonight,
there's something that I just wanted to do on camera. Um...
Jeff is our equipment tech.
Uh, he's been with us for four years.
And how we met Jeff, was from our friend, Scott Gruenwald.
And Scott just passed away a couple of days ago,
and he was a very good friend of ours.
The world is not gonna be the same without him.
All of us, we're gonna miss him...
a great deal.
And, uh, I always called him "Doctor."
Love you, Doctor.
I just wanted to dedicate this investigation
to our good friend, Scott Gruenwald.
[Zak] Okay, this is it.
It is officially time now to begin
our lockdown investigation
at one of the most iconic
and notoriously known haunted hotels
in the entire country, Hotel Congress.
For tonight's investigation,
we're gonna split up in teams of two.
Jay and I will investigate the second floor
while Aaron and Billy head down to the basement.
Okay. Right now, Jay and I are on the second floor.
We're gonna head out into the hallway here.
We're going to explore some of the different rooms,
and then, that will lead us to the possession room,
and we have to be very careful once we make it to that room
because we have not gone inside yet.
And I believe that the spirits here are already--
Not believe. I know the spirits here
already are aware of our presence,
and if there is something very dark
and dangerous and powerful in that room that is possessing these people,
it will be there, waiting for us.
Okay. Right now, Aaron and I are both in the basement. Top of the staircase.
We're gonna go down. We're gonna lead out with the XLS cam.
-It's completely different down here with the lights off. -[Jay] Yeah.
This is your time to come out. Come out of all your rooms.
Whoever spoke to us,
and was sitting on the bed last night and was talking to us,
we ask you to join us.
I want to talk to you some more.
If there's anything bad here, negative, that's possessing people,
I challenge you to even try that with us.
[dramatic music playing]
[whispering] This is the hallway that leads to 219, the possession room.
It's down at the end of the hallway, over here to my left.
We've not gone inside yet.
What I want to do is, just try to get some more information about it
from the other spirits that were talking to us last night.
So, I'm gonna go into this other room,
that one of the guys that works here
told us is another very haunted room.
So, we're gonna go in there and try to get some more information
from the spirits who were talking to us.
[speaking normally] Whatever's down there, waiting for us, we'll be there for you.
Can you hear me?
[Jay] Did it just respond?
-Did you just hear a "Yeah"? -Yeah. [chuckles]
[Jay] As if it was responding to you.
-Did you hear it go, "Yeah"? -I heard it. Yes.
-Absolutely. [chuckles] -[shushes]
Do you hear me?
[rattling nearby]
Holy [bleep] What the [bleep] was that?
Do you hear me?
[rattling nearby]
Holy [bleep] What the [bleep] was that?
We immediately run towards what sounds like a door rattling, to investigate.
[whispers] There's something down there.
[Billy] If you died down here and you were trying to let us know
that there's a body down here that needs to be removed,
come forward. Come, talk to us. You don't have to be afraid.
[Aaron] To the right's the boiler.
Yeah. Yeah. To the right's the boiler.
Should we take a peek in there?
Sure. Why don't you go and open the door?
All right. We're entering the boiler room right now.
There's a pit.
How many haunted places have something to do with a boiler room?
You know what I mean?
[Billy] Hold on. There's a little something right next to you.
It's weird. It's like a little creature thing that's on the rail.
Whoa, whoa, whoa. It's, like, attacking you.
-[Aaron] Are you serious? -It's a little-- like a little animal.
What the hell is that?
Oh, it's gone. Demonic...
Oh, my God! What was that, bro?
-[Billy] I don't know, dude. -Dude, what the [bleep] was that?
-[Billy] Aaron. Aaron. -Dude, why would it jump?
You said it's gone. That thing just slammed.
[Zak] Aaron has no idea that his backpack
accidentally hit these metal racks, causing the sound.
Oh, my God! What was that...
[Zak] Jay and I now enter Room 214, where we were told earlier,
is one of the several haunted rooms here.
[David] Okay. So, back here... Some people say it's 212.
So, I say it's 214 because it's always this corner.
This is the most historically haunted space,
going back as far as we've heard.
[Zak] All right, listen.
We're leaving the door open for you.
I can see 219 directly down the hall.
I'm looking at the door.
It's a direct path to this bed.
Do you want to do something?
Open the door to 219
and walk right down here to me.
[Zak] As I lay on the bed, Jay places a motion sensor ball next to me.
There was a man, there was a woman
that was speaking to us last night.
I appreciate you talking to us.
I enjoyed our conversation.
And you intelligently said that you were sitting on the bed,
and we saw you sitting on the bed.
We saw your butt print.
[whispers]
Hello?
As I say "Hello",
we capture a female voice, incredibly, saying it back to me.
Hello?
[woman's voice]
[Zak] As we look at the X cams during this moment,
there is nothing in the hallways that could explain this voice.
And as we leave Room 214 to investigate further, this happens.
-[Jay indistinctly whispering] Zak! -[audio bleeping]
Look, look!
What the [bleep]!
Dude, that just turned on. I swear to [bleep] God.
[normally] I was at this corner and that turned on.
That light turned on right after we heard, "Hello."
And this camera was shooting it.
[Jay] And the camera inside.
-So, do you have two cameras? -Yeah.
-Are you [bleep] -I swear, dude. Yeah.
[Zak] A truly amazing moment occurs
When Jay and I left Room 214,
the lamp on the nightstand turned on by itself.
-[Jay indistinctly whispering] Zak! -[audio bleeping]
Look, look!
What the [bleep]! What the [bleep]!
Honestly, dude, I'm not liking it.
I'm uncomfortable. I would like to-- I kind of wanna...
[Billy] At least do a lap around.
Yeah, go that way. I'm gonna follow you.
Bro, I feel, like, dizzy, like...
[exhales]
[Billy] But, hey, I--
-[Aaron speaking indistinctly] -I gotta shoot you... That thing--
That thing might attack you again.
-Stop. Stop. -I'm trying to tell you something.
-[Billy] Hold on. Stop, Aaron. -Bro, I don't feel good.
-[Billy] I hear you... -I'm trying to tell you something, man.
And you're just, like, calmly right now. I don't like this.
Okay, well, what's going on?
I don't know. I feel really scared of something.
After all this, and going back there, I just feel dizzy. I feel nervous.
I just wanna get out of this area, bro.
-[Billy] All right. -And you're like, "Oh, it's okay."
You're not understanding that it's not.
[Billy] Can you stand next to Aaron again?
Please show yourself.
Oh, bro, I'm feeling something's just all over me.
[Billy] Well, it might appear. Go ahead.
-[Aaron] Oh, my God. -Appear.
I feel like AC unit is just all around me.
-Dude. -All right, go ahead. I'll follow you out.
[Aaron] Dude. [grunts]
[whispering] Stop.
-[Billy] [whispering] Why? -Shoot me.
-[Billy] What is that? -[shushes, grunts softly]
-[normally] Okay, whoa. [hesitates] -[normally] Careful. Careful.
It's just... It's just ropes.
-[exhales] -I know.
You just don't really know what happened in there.
-Can you stand next to Aaron. -[Aaron breathing heavily]
Whoever's been touching Aaron, can you just stand next to him?
Jesus, dude. It's this one.
I'm in between two cords. Sorry.
-[Billy] We need-- -[shushes]
[Billy] What?
[clattering nearby]
[Billy] [whispers] What is that?
[Aaron] Shoot behind you.
Dude...
-What's that? -That [bleep] sounded like
-someone walking up with tennis shoes. -There's nobody there.
Dude, that was loud, bro. Dude--
-Well, the other... -[bleep]
[Billy] What's wrong?
Well, I just squeezed, and it's like I couldn't.
It felt like all my fingers are, like, been broken, and I'm trying to heal.
[Zak] While Aaron is being severely affected in the basement,
both he and Billy have no idea that a piece of evidence
will soon connect to what he's been experiencing.
[Zak] Jay and I are now back in Room 214,
trying to debunk the lamp that turned on by itself.
-I can see there's a switch on the table. -[Jay] A switch?
[Zak] So, that switch has to physically be turned on.
-Oh, my God. Look at this. -[laughs]
-[Jay] That's just a different light. -A different light.
-[laughing] Holy [bleep] -That has a switch, Jay,
that has to go on.
I immediately start using the APF-D Processor
with the P-SB7 Pro device to try to speak
to whoever turned the light on.
Can I turn this off now?
-Can you talk to me? -[gibberish audio on device]
[Zak] We receive a female unintelligible sentence
who we believe is the same spirit who said, "Hello," in the hallway.
-Can you talk to me? -[gibberish audio on device]
-...talk to me? -[gibberish audio on device]
We hear something like, "I don't want to say nothing."
-Can you talk to me? -[gibberish audio on device]
I want to talk to you.
We know you're here.
Is 219 scary?
[indistinct]
[Zak] What'd you say?
[indistinct]
[Zak] What'd you say?
Can you tell me what is going on in this hotel?
Can you come through again, who was just speaking, please?
-Do you know the lady that... -[indistinct]
Satan?
We now hear a voice clearly say, "Calling Satan."
-Do you know the lady that... -[indistinct]
Satan?
Now, listen to this.
As I ask, "What do you want me to do?"
a spirit demands my help.
What do you want me to do?
[indistinct]
"You're gonna help me"?
-[Jay] Yes. -Clear as day.
What do you want me to do?
"You're gonna help me"?
-[Jay] Yes. -Clear as day.
What do you want me to help you do?
[indistinct]
What was that?
We can't make any sense of what this means.
But after this, all of the voices suddenly stop.
What do you want me to help you do?
[indistinct]
What was that?
And as Jay and I are getting ready to leave the room,
something hits the floor in a very compelling moment.
-[thudding nearby] -What the [bleep]
-What was that? -[Jay] Zak, what was that?
-[Zak] What was that? -I have no clue.
Something just hit the floor.
-Oh, my God. -What?
-Jay, look. -What is that?
There's a roll of candy on the floor.
[Jay] Where the [bleep] did that come from?
-Is that from up here? -That's from up there.
-[Jay] In this basket. -Yes.
[Jay] So, how could it be in that basket,
and come out of that onto the floor?
And you know what's weird is the candy they have is, like, old-fashioned.
I just got chills-- Whoa. Jay, Jay, Jay, Jay, Jay...
Okay, we got a nice camera in the hallway.
-[Billy] Yes. Okay. -I'm gonna place these here.
Real quick.
[Billy] If you're trapped in this basement...
Maybe you were murdered in this basement.
Maybe you were tortured in this basement.
Can you please show yourself...
so that we can figure out what happened to you?
Whoa! What is that?
-[Aaron] What? -There's something on the floor.
-[Aaron] When I left? -Yeah. There's-- Wait, Aaron, stay there.
Hello? Sir.
Sir, it's on its knees, Aaron.
There's a figure on [bleep] knees.
Oh, my gosh, that's... That's like when you're executed by the mob, bro.
It's on its knees.
Who are you? Wait. Now, it's standing up.
-[Aaron] Whoa. -Aaron, don't come over here.
Aaron-- Oh, it's gone. It just disappeared.
[Aaron] Bro, it's probably in here with me. I'm coming back.
-[Billy] Come back. -Right over.
-[Billy] Hey, listen... -Honestly, dude, when you said that,
the [bleep] energy in the hallway got, like, dark.
Dude, you left.
I'm just shooting this whole area.
My back's against the corner.
A figure appears right there where you're standing,
on its knees, execution style.
And then, lays down on the ground,
and then, gets up and disappears.
What are we talking about?
The mob. We don't know who died in this basement.
I'm gonna be honest with you. [indistinct]
-[Billy] Hey, I'm telling you-- -I'm sorry, here's the thing--
[Billy] It was on its knees, Aaron,
-like it was being executed. -[speaks indistinctly]
[Billy] Do you understand?
-Huh? -Do you think it's gonna follow us out?
[Billy] Maybe. I don't--
[Aaron] Dude, it was like something came out of me.
[bleep]
Bro, I was just asking you what happened.
-[Billy] Yeah. -Bro. I feel I'm about to [bleep] bust out crying, bro.
That was a little too weird. [exhales]
[Billy] Bro, it must have jumped in you.
[Zak] As Billy just captured
what appeared to be the residual act of a person possibly being tortured,
then on his knees, and killed, execution style,
we believe Aaron has been connecting
to the emotions of that event ever since he came down here.
Remember when I was like, just something touched down and go?
-[Billy] Yeah. Yeah. -And I walked out and took that breath?
And then, you come screaming and yelling.
"Hey, something's there. Don't come back in here."
-Like, dude, I almost lost my [bleep] -You're right. 'Cause I did--
-[sputters] I'm sorry. My point is... -Yeah.
I think it's using you and showing you.
It showed me on XLS.
It made you feel what it was feeling.
If you're emotional... Imagine if you were
on your knees, about to die from the mob, how you would feel?
I think that, empathetically, it was making you feel what it was going through.
And I was watching it on XLS.
[Aaron] Yeah.
This is it.
We are getting ready to go inside
of the possession room here at the Hotel Congress
where guests check in and get so possessed
that the staff here at the hotel has to call 911.
And it's happened multiple times.
[door creaking]
As we enter Room 219,
Billy and Aaron enter 242, where the woman took her life.
Billy notices that Aaron is still badly affected,
and starts taking UV photos of him.
Notice, in this shot, there appears to be
a black, strange-shaped mass behind Aaron.
At first. we thought it may just be the loop from his vest.
But in the photo, he is still,
and this looks like a series of black, wavy masses,
not like his vest loop.
And as we cannot officially determine what this is,
we will keep it as inconclusive.
Also, here's the photo taken before,
and here is another photo of the curtain
that clearly shows there is nothing on it to explain this strange shape.
In the name of Jesus Christ, I demand you to reveal yourself now.
You will not possess the living.
You have no place on this earth.
You are casted out of this building.
You are removed.
As I use this crucifix to see if I can get a response
through religious provocation, I replay my recorder,
at which time, you can hear other voices
that seem to be speaking while I'm talking.
Jay has been completely silent during this entire session.
[Zak's voice] In the name of Jesus Christ, I demand you to reveal yourself now.
[indistinct]
[Zak's voice]You will not possess the living.
You have no place on this earth.
[indistinct]
[Zak's voice] You are casted out of this building. You are removed.
[Zak] Even though Jay and myself never got possessed while in this room,
these voices have no explanation
as they were captured in between my questions during complete silence.
[Zak's voice] ...I demand you to reveal yourself now.
[indistinct]
[Zak's voice]You will not possess the living.
You have no place on this earth.
[indistinct]
[Zak's voice] You are removed.
[Zak] We wrap up our investigation of Hotel Congress
with some intriguing evidence that we cannot explain.
[Zak] And that further validates beyond a reasonable doubt
that there are still intelligent spirits residing here amongst the living.
[indistinct]
"You're gonna help me"?
-[Jay] Yes. -Clear as day.