I heard that there's
bodies down there. -Yeah.
[ gunshot ]
-explain that. -What is that?
There's no explanation on this earth.
-Something's hanging on me. -I just got real scared.
I have never seen that in my life. Here, here.
-Oh, god. -Whoa, whoa, whoa.
-Can you appear in front of us? -Say it!
♪♪
zak: There are things in this world
that we will never fully understand.
[ distorted ] understand.
[ echoing ] 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.
[ birds cawing ]
this is our evidence...
Our ghost adventures.
♪♪
[ laughter ]
we are at a very, very famous building,
many of you already know
where we're at just by seeing these signatures.
We are at the world famous comedy store in west hollywood.
This is where every comic that you've ever heard of,
a lot of famous actors,
they all got their start right here.
And a lot of them are still performing here to this day.
But interesting dynamic
and the reason why we're here is because this is also a place
where many of these famous comedians
have literally been traumatized,
and I mean that, by the ghosts that inhabit this building
that was once called ciro's nightclub.
Zak: In 1940, william wilkerson, with some financial help
from notorious mobster, bugsy siegel,
opened up ciro's, a high profile den of iniquity and office
for the violent and dark underworld.
Talks of murder, torture, and bodies buried in cement
was nothing new to the mob.
It closed its doors in 1957, and in 1972,
became the world famous the comedy store.
Imagine being in a extremely haunted building,
and you're performing to hundreds of people,
and you have an experience with a ghost on stage.
Well, that is exactly what my first interview,
this is what happened to him.
Actor and comedian jay mohr, most notably seen
in the academy award-nominated film "jerry maguire,"
as well as "suicide kings" and "the ghost whisperer,"
to name just a few, is joined by his son, mac.
So, listen, someone sent me this video
and there was this moment where you were on stage
and I didn't know if this was part of your routine
or you were telling the damn truth,
but you were saying you felt something up there.
-Oh, all the time. -Where was it?
It was in the main room. -Jay, jay's son mac, and myself
make our way into the building.
There is a dark heaviness, the opposite of what you
would think you would feel when entering a comedy club
where laughs have filled the space
in the greatest abundance for decades.
It's very odd and off-putting.
Were you in this room performing?
-I was on that stage, yes sir. -You were on this stage?
So I'm on stage. I'm not exaggerating.
It's about 4 minutes in,
I realized not only has no one laughed,
and they're not only not laughing,
they're actually frozen.
I'm talking like, hey, I'm talking to you,
like as a man, they were frozen like a painting.
♪♪
and I'm having this dialog with myself and I go,
"how long can I just sit here in this dimension?"
and I go, "get lost, ghost." and the crowd goes...
[ cheering ]
and I'm like, oh, you know, and they got more and more,
and I was getting sped up and my heart rate was getting sped up.
There's no explanation of this earth.
There's no scientific, metaphysic.
There's nothing you could possibly --
it could ever have been except what it was.
Zak: I'm immediately shocked by how affected jay still is
by what he experienced on this stage.
But what he tells me now
that apparently happened to the late comedy
legend sam kinison is absolutely terrifying.
Sam kinison, I think, was on stage, and he lifted up.
-Sam kinison was? -What I heard was carl la bove,
they were best friends, saw sam being picked up offstage.
Something picking his whole body up?
Yeah, he was, like, in air.
Zak: Jay mentions
that another comic saw an entity upstairs in the belly room
who he claims was the ghost of sam kinison.
Before we head up, it's important to note
that the second floor of the comedy store
is packed with strange stories and violent history.
Some of these stories
are detailed by employees of the comedy store
supplying us with the building blocks of a true haunting.
So right above us was mickey cohen's old office.
Zak: Mickey cohen,
a ruthless enforcer who worked for bugsy siegel,
was well known for using extremely violent methods
when dealing with anyone who crossed him.
If you ever had to go see mickey,
you'd go up these stairs, and, like,
going and seeing mickey in his office was bad news.
Right on the back of the wall here,
and the hole's still there, he would just look at you.
You'd go up the stairs and he'd put his gun
through the wall and just pop you on the staircase.
[ gunshot ]
this up and comer, he said that he was grabbed
and slammed against the ceiling
and was so freaked out that he's like, "I quit."
one day, I could hear somebody walking up the steps.
I look up and somebody turns the corner,
and he's wearing a cowboy jacket.
So when I'm getting ready to leave, I walk past the steps
and I look up for a second,
and I see that figure walking away,
just as I had seen hours prior. -A second sighting. Wow.
Zak: Having these compelling stories intensifies our journey
as we continue our ascension to the belly room upstairs.
And as we approach, it seems that jay is praying.
Mohr: You have no place for any negativity here, folks.
Y'all got to go.
So when we came up here,
I heard you start -- you're talking to somebody,
who you're talking to? -Any spirits,
I will say, like if I go in a room and I feel hinky,
I'll just say "I walk in the light of my lord."
I say it whenever I go in a weird place.
Without fear. It's just, my intentions are what they are.
Zak: It's like your natural instinct.
Just walking through here for the first time, like...
Mohr: It got cold right now where I am,
like, well, my arms are like ice cold.
But from the inside, really, it's interesting.
-Yeah, this is a weird room. -It's great.
-This is -- I know -- -but I love it like
it's like a roller coaster feeling. I feel like --
-this is a weird room. -I couldn't explain it.
It's like somebody's holding my elbows,
but my elbows got ice cold
and then somebody went like this to warm them for me.
Then my phone dropped out of my pocket.
It was a lot to get out all at once
without sounding like a maniac.
Do you see us here?
Just stand right here for me, buddy.
Why?
Because I don't want you to be where he's conjuring stuff.
♪♪
can you do something in here with us standing here?
Holy [bleep]
jay, feel this. There's like -- no, no, no no.
There's like cold wind. -I feel it.
-Is there a vent right here? -No, no, there's nothing.
There's that, but that's not on. -There's nothing coming out.
But I just felt cold wind right here.
-It's hot up here, too. -Hold on.
-Billy? -Yeah.
-Give me that trifield, please. -All right.
♪♪
-can you do more? -This is great.
Come on, guys. -Can you please move something?
Can you touch one of us? Can you turn a light on?
I know this isn't the first time you've done this.
-I heard something over there. -I just did, too.
Metal? -Yeah.
The first time you've done this.
-Heard something over there. -I just did, too.
Zak: There was a metal sound over there.
-I heard that. -Did you hear that?
-I heard that. -It was like a chair
or something like that. -Yeah, like something moving.
Yes, it was right there. You heard that, jay, right?
-I heard something. -You heard something, mac?
Zak: I'm gonna put this here near the microphone.
♪♪
do you want to say something into the microphone?
Can you speak into the microphone?
Can you come over near this table?
Zak: We start documenting some unexplained spikes
in the trifield meter.
Man: Can you knock that microphone off the table?
-Whoa. -Whoa, that was scary.
Did you see a big one, mac? We can feel you.
We have a lot of good energy up here.
What was that? What was that?
-That was like something -- -did you hear that [bleep]?
♪♪
it was right back here. Yeah.
Let's -- hey, everybody, please be silent just because
we are hearing some interesting things that I must say.
I feel like we're getting somewhere.
Okay, look, I have a really light bottle here.
Zak: All of a sudden, jay starts provoking the spirits.
You can't move it.
You're [bleep] you can't move it.
-Yeah, he is. -I am provoking.
It's a freaking comedy club. -Holy [bleep].
♪♪
-did it move again? -Oh, my god.
Billy: Yeah, it's like every time
you go away from it, it starts jumping.
Zak: So many events have occurred here,
creating a thick stew of paranormal activity.
One of the saddest and most disturbing
is that of comedian steve lubetkin.
While comics were on strike,
the stress that he was responsible for,
it got the best of him.
So he jumped off the roof of the hotel continental next door,
landing in the driveway of the comedy store,
leaving a dark shadow that will never fade.
Jeff scott. -Yes.
-Now, you are the piano player. -That's correct.
And I also understand that you know a lot about this place.
-Yes, I do. -Ciro's nightclub --
mob or not mob? -Mob.
Ciro's nightclub --
murders or no murders? -Murders.
Comedy store --
haunted or not haunted? -Haunted.
We are hearing things about -- holy [bleep]
it just got cold right here.
Holy [bleep], social distancing, but would you get up
and just feel right here real quick, please, please.
Why did that just get cold? Sit in the chair
and then put your hands out.
It was enough to stop the interview.
I mean, that wasn't just a little cold spot.
It's really cold right here beside me.
I know. It was moving like as I was talking to you,
it came up and I was like, holy [bleep], this is like --
I have to -- I have to -- I have to mention this.
-Wow, that's creepy. -Isn't that weird?
Is the air conditioning off? -I just asked the house again.
Yeah, you would hear when the air comes on,
it turns on, and it's very loud.
Now I'm getting it over here.
But it feels like it's literally walking around the damn room.
Why are there just pockets of like --
yeah, freezer air like literally just moving around.
Okay, that's -- I've never experienced those cold spots.
That's -- I don't like that. -Yeah, it's weird.
-[ laughs ] that's creepy. -I know.
That's what I'm saying.
-Well, now it's gone. -But it's pretty cool.
Got all the hairs. Okay. [ laughs ]
see? I'm serious, dude.
This is like freaking weird. -That was weird.
Zak: Since our arrival,
it's simply incredible to see the affect the energy here
has had on so many notable people.
The feeling is undeniable.
Have you had personal experiences? I have.
The door that goes outside to the alley behind the building,
I saw somebody standing right on the other side.
I looked at it and realized it was smoke
in the outline of a human shape
that stopped about 8 inches above the ground.
And I looked, ran back in.
My friend tony hinchcliffe was coming out.
I literally knocked him over. He asked me, "what happened?"
I told him. He said, "I saw it upstairs today
while I was working on the phone."
zak: To hear people speak of seeing entities
multiple times proves number 1, their strength.
And number 2, that they want you to see them.
Zak: Where did the stories start coming in
about murders and things like that?
There was a mafia hitman by the name of francis,
and his nickname was gus.
Gus was one of the guys that, you know, had to rough people up
around here, and apparently, he also ended up
getting whacked on the property here.
So he's still here, and he stays here
and he feels very protective of the club.
Zak: Jeff scott now tells us
something that is extremely disturbing.
There was a woman that the mob hired.
Her name was ellen, and she did illegal abortions.
-She did them here? -Yes,
-where? -Down in the basement.
They did an abortion on a showgirl
that was dating one of the mobsters.
Her name was sharon. She passed away.
And for that, they killed ellen.
[ gunshot ]
there was something in the basement.
We believe that people may have been buried.
I heard that there is -- there's bodies down there.
Yeah.
Zak: As I stand in this basement for the first time,
it is apparent to me that the concentration is here.
The heaviness, the complexities,
and darkness are definitely all around us.
What happened to you here? Oh, god, I am getting [bleep].
Oh, god. That was a strong, strong feeling of something.
That was weird, you guys. Holy [bleep].
-What's it doing to you? -I don't know,
it just all clenched up and I'm not even realizing it.
No, I just got real scared.
Are you making me feel what you did?
What is this? Something bad happened.
Look, if you're here,
start telling us what happened. We know the history,
but we don't know about the actual murders and things.
Are you trying to reach out and send a message?
Do it now. I felt you.
There was something here that I felt,
that I feel the fear that you had
when you were being tortured or beaten or murdered.
I know what I felt.
Zak: I used two communication devices to see
if we can get any messages from what I'm feeling.
Whoa. What the [bleep]. Whoa. -What's it say?
-Baby? -What do you want, baby?
I beg for my baby.
-She did illegal abortions. -Where?
Down in the basement.
-That's what it says. -Daddy.
-Daddy. Really? -Oh, no.
Oh, a little bit of a spike when you walked by.
You all right? -No.
You look like you were dizzy.
I feel dizzy.
This thing hit a 3 1/2.
♪♪
oh, it just spiked up to a 5. -Same time I did that, right?
Yeah, at the same time you did that.
-I was feeling that. -Yeah.
I feel as though something is in me.
I don't know what, but I feel something.
A spirit is letting me feel its pain,
its anger, its emotions, or something.
Zak: Billy just captured me internally
charged up by the environment or spirit energy,
and then discharging it
in the form of an electromagnetic energy burst
as measured on the trifield device.
♪♪
oh, it just spiked up to a 5.
There is a famous comedian on the stage to surprise.
[ laughter ]
-explain that. -What is that?
♪♪
zak: This is it. This is the mecca of paranormal investigating.
The cecil hotel.
This place has seen serial killers,
devil worshiping, hauntings at a whole other level.
In 2013, something happened that has been called
the most mysterious death of the 21st century.
You've probably seen and have been haunted
by the elevator footage of elisa lam.
Could it be she was influenced by something conjured
by a previous guest? -Richard ramirez stayed here.
He was staying here when he killed.
Richard, go ahead, show yourself.
Richard is with me.
He said, "you got me." -are you kidding me?
Zak: The evil that is in this building,
it's staying in this building.
It does not get any bigger and more sinister than this.
♪♪
zak: As we fuel up for the lockdown,
I am told that there is a comedian who dropped by
to tell us something before we begin.
So what we're going to do right now to kick this off,
there is a famous comedian I was told to surprise.
Probably one that I'm a fan of, but there is one here,
and I don't know who I'm going to walk in on.
He is currently on the stage
preparing a quick little introduction to me,
and then we're going to talk to him
about some of his paranormal experiences here.
Alright, just straight back? -Yup, just keep going
straight back to the main room.
-Alright, this is the main room? -Yup, just go right on in there.
No, oh, my -- dude, no, [bleep] this.
-No, come on. -That's jeff ross.
Zak: Jeff ross, comedy titan, the roastmaster general.
Verbally pulverizing the biggest celebrities and legends on earth
to the thundering delight of millions.
This is gonna suck. -Check one, two, one, two.
Zak: I am not! I've watched his roasts on tv.
Take it like a man.
-You can't escape now. -Take it like a man!
Let me in. No, I'm not doing that.
-Face reality. -No. Open the door, aaron.
-Nope. -I'm getting ready
to get roasted by none other than jeff ross.
Oh, great. Hey, jeff. Great, great.
Zak, are you going to come in here?
And who's this guy behind you? Is this your plumber?
Who the [bleep] is this guy?
You get some [bleep] fashionable masks for the crew, bro.
Do you guys look for ghosts or work at hot topic?
[ laughter ]
what the [bleep], zak?
You never got haunted by a stylist or nothing?
A [bleep] sweatshirt. How do you become [bleep]
ghost hunters?
What community college do you have to flunk out of
where you're like, "let's start hunting ghosts."
look at those [bleep] glasses.
No wonder you think you see ghosts.
Those are [bleep] big glasses, dude.
[ laughter ]
listen, I have a lot of respect.
You guys are braver than me, that -- that's for sure.
Have you ever had experience here?
I feel like the spirit of comedy and the comedians,
that I definitely feel. -They did
so much [bleep] in the basement and things like that.
People say there's bodies down there still buried
and all this kind of stuff.
And then a comedy store comes in and completely is opposite.
It's like you got screams and [bleep]
and now you got just laughs.
Like, that's just the two polar opposites of energy
that you could combine under one roof,
as you can imagine.
But this place is just truly mysterious.
This place is a magnet for sometimes negative energy.
You know, one of our favorite comedians
in the world, rest his soul,
brody stevens passed away, and we had a memorial for him here.
And we -- do you see that? -Yeah, that was weird.
-What happened? -I've never seen that before.
-You mentioned his name. -Brody, he killed himself.
-What? -What was this?
Don't [bleep] with me.
We're doing [bleep]. This ain't our place.
Zak: Everyone is a bit on edge right now.
As jeff mentions brody, you can easily see the stage lights
unexplainably go on and off.
Something jeff has never seen happen here.
We don't have access to the audio/visual booth
right now, so aaron immediately locates and talks with richie,
the manager at the comedy store.
The guy who turns on the power.
Yeah, he turned the power off on the ring part of the stage.
In front of the stage, right, okay.
Okay, that goes off. It won't go back on, right?
-No. -He mentions brody's name --
brody, he killed himself.
-What? -Whoa.
The whole thing goes red real quick.
I can't explain.
Zak: It seems that jeff has a really good idea
of what may have caused this strange electrical behavior.
I think your hoodie is [bleep] with the electricity.
[ laughter ]
zak: Agreed.
Although the possibility that brody paid us a visit
while his good friend spoke of him
is still very much on the table. -Alright, man.
-That was great, man. -That was so much fun, you guys.
You were awesome. -That was [bleep] awesome.
Zak: After we investigated the basement yesterday,
some amazing evidence surfaced in aaron's polaroid collection.
-Zak, look at this. -Explain that.
What is that?
Zak: An unexplained white mist
appears next to me as I was getting affected.
This is not caused by a light or a flash.
You know what I think it is in the same exact moment...
-Yeah. -...Where I went like this
and I felt that. -Oh, god.
That was a strong, strong feeling of something.
Zak: We immediately show this to jeff,
which fuels his desire to join us
for a second investigation of the basement.
So, I don't know. It's definitely strange because
we can't explain it. Is that a ghost?
[bleep] but we can't explain it.
You know what I mean? -Yes, that's intense.
♪♪
ross: But don't scare me. I'm easily scared.
Zak: You go first. What you could feel is
is all the [bleep] memories and emotions
of what went down here.
It's just residual. It's just stuck in this rock,
in this concrete.
It feels like the most private room
in this entire gigantic building.
Like if some [bleep] was going to go down...
You'd run to this safe room.
Or if I was an energy or a spirit trying to lay low,
I'd be hanging here. Nobody's coming in here.
But you wonder what went down here.
I'm afraid to go even without the light.
You know what I mean?
You wonder what happened here when it was ciro's.
Like, this is a [bleep] butcher shop.
You know what I mean.
But you could feel [bleep] if you got any sensitivity,
that memory, that imprint, you'll pick it up.
♪♪
you alright? -Yeah. It just has like a...
♪♪
it just -- it has a heaviness in here that -- and it's not
just because it's... -Just heavy.
-There's a heaviness. -And like it's loud.
-Oh, yeah. -You know what I mean?
Just like it's vibrating.
It's hard to get out of here once you're in here.
You're, like, in a bunker. -Yeah.
♪♪
I mean, I don't know, the stories I've heard
is that the gangsters used to get -- settle
their [bleep] in this building... [ gunshot ]
...Long before it was a comedy store.
Zak: All of a sudden, jeff,
not knowing what we experienced down here last night,
starts getting affected in the same exact spot I did.
Suddenly I feel like I'm wearing a 30-pound backpack
and suddenly, like, something's hanging on me,
pulling at me.
-Feeling it here. -Hair on the back of my neck.
Like, my stomach hurts. Like...
♪♪
but you're standing -- I told you,
you're standing in the same [bleep] spot
where that happened to me. -Yeah.
Oh, god, that was a strong, strong feeling of something.
This is the spot.
But I also feel an energy of the actual place
and the stuff that's happened here
to the people that have actually been in here.
♪♪
did you feel that up top or just down here?
-Up top's a whole other thing. -I never expected a place
where you come to laugh at the funniest people alive
and dead would be haunted to this degree
and affect every single person that I interviewed,
including famous comedians.
This place vibrates residual emotions of its past,
both good and extremely bad. -With energy at this level...
He killed himself.
...I'm ready to try and make direct contact
with the entities that roam this dark and intimidating building.
-This door just rattled. -Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Billy: Did it say, "simply a portal"?
Oh, god. [bleep]
♪♪
all right, we are beginning our investigation right now,
and we just witnessed a famous comedian, jeff ross,
literally have an experience in the same exact spot
that I was at down here in the basement.
Zak: Just as I'm saying this, a strange shaped mist-like
anomaly appears to come up the stairs from the basement,
the same place where another mist was captured.
In the same exact moment where I felt that.
♪♪
I'm heading over to that spot, hey, gus? Is that you, gus?
♪♪
can you appear, gus?
We were feeling you.
Listen, if you were killed down here,
then that was all kept secret.
♪♪
did you cross the mob?
Is your body in these floors?
You back here?
Don't be afraid to show yourself.
We're just trying to understand.
-Whoa, whoa, whoa. -What was that?
That came out of that closet just now.
-This door just rattled. -Yeah. Oh, it's open.
Zak: We're just trying to understand
-whoa, whoa, whoa. -What was that?
It came out of that closet.
That definitely came out of this closet.
-Was that the door? -Yeah, that was the door.
-Aaron? -Yeah.
Watch out, I'm going to come over there real quick with sls.
-Okay. -This room is clear.
I'm going to the room where the door just vibrated or something
or just tried to open. -It sounded like knocking.
Zak: Yes, it did.
And I am gripping this so strong, you guys.
Zak: You trying to tell us you're in this room?
It might have been a tool or something in that room
that fell. -It sounded like the door.
Someone knocking on the door. Boom-boom.
Are you in this room?
Zak: We continue to investigate the basement,
and as we enter into this next room,
aaron and billy both feel ice cold air.
♪♪
-feels weird right here. -It does.
Right here in this little spot.
He said, "were you hurt down here?"
-it's cold right here. -Yeah, stand right there.
Does it feel funky right there?
Look it, the cold temperature
that air conditioning unit is on.
Do you see it on the wall? -Yeah. Debunk, debunk.
That's gonna blow out your cold air.
-There it is. -You feel cold air?
-Yeah. -Alright. That's debunked.
Cold air drafts down here are debunked.
That unit is on.
Zak: Billy now turns on the polterpod device
to see if we can communicate with any spirits down here
that may have shown themselves to us already.
♪♪
zak: And as he does, a figure on the sls camera
is seen manifesting above the device.
♪♪
whoa. I wasn't looking I was looking at you,
but out of my peripheral, I think a figure manifested
right on top of the polterpod. -Really?
Zak: A crystal clear voice now comes through and says my name...
...Which we believe
is the spirit we just captured on the sls camera.
Zak: Now watch as we document a free floating figure
standing in the back room doorway
with nothing behind it
that could cause a false positive.
-Whoa, whoa. Aaron? -What? What, what?
-Holy [bleep]. -What?
Oh, god. I got [bleep] I'm in that same spot.
Aaron: Oh, same spot [bleep]
-you are standing in it. -The same spot.
In the same spot. -What happened?
There was a figure standing right here in [bleep].
-Did you see that? -Yeah, I saw that.
I'm telling you, that is the only figure that I've gotten.
The back room.
-What did it say? -Did it say, "simply a portal?"
that was three three words in the same voice.
Zak: We capture a series of words in the same voice,
but can't make out what it's saying, can you?
I'm telling you, that's the only figure that I've gotten.
The back room.
-What? -"simply a portal!"
that was three -- three words with the same voice.
-Are you seeing this? -What is this [bleep]?
I've never seen it do that.
It's gonna affect you.
♪♪
zak: At the comedy store in west hollywood,
I detect a figure in the basement
where there is a chilling concentration of energy.
Zak: Go over there where that figure was.
I need a recorder with audio.
Go on. Take it.
Zak: As I send aaron to the back room
where the sls figure was just captured,
I start using a thermal device.
Thermal sensor -- it'll tell me
if a spirit basically walk in front of me.
You know, it'll be cold in temperature.
So you'll see blue.
The red is my heat. It's directional.
♪♪
can you appear in front of us?
Hello.
-Hello. -Hello.
Incredibly, a voice comes through and clearly says hello.
Can you appear in front of us?
-Hello. -Hello.
We continue to investigate the basement
but capture no further evidence.
♪♪
we captured some really good evidence in this basement
with the polaroid photo that was captured right here,
that white mist.
That was incredible.
Captured a lot of messages...
...On different devices.
It is now time to head upstairs.
So we're gonna go upstairs.
This is a scary place up here.
All I can see is a stairway to complete darkness.
And this is the belly room.
And this is where earlier
we were with actor/comedian jay mohr.
And we were really having some experiences up here together.
And this is also -- they call it the belly room
because it's told that up here
they used to give illegal abortions.
It is also claimed that a showgirl from ciro's nightclub
got pregnant from a mobster
and died from a botched abortion.
The mobster then allegedly put a hit out
on the nurse who performed the job.
Comedian bobby lee also stated
he witnessed multiple people in hoods doing a séance up here.
♪♪
-hey, guys? -What?
What the [bleep] going on right now?
I've never seen this before ever.
-Whoa. -Whoa, yeah.
-You got it, bill? -Yeah, yeah. What is that?
As I'm measuring these extreme oscillating spikes of emf,
my phone captures this light anomaly shoot straight up
and appears to move around the trifield device.
I just got an anomaly on my phone
come out of the meter.
Jay then sees an anomaly above my head
that then travels over billy's head.
Yeah, when you were getting the readings, zak,
a light anomaly appeared right above you
and was floating around.
It was pretty crazy-looking.
And at the same time, billy can be seen feeling
a static-type charge of energy above his head.
This is a very compelling chain of events.
Right now what we're detecting on this trifield meter
is very, very abnormal for a place where people are.
We're just standing on the floor in this room.
And this is just a continuous oscillation
to about 15 to 20 milligauss reading.
That's very high even for the human body.
So, when we were up here with jay mohr,
we were all feeling some weird things
and high emfs, high electro--
high electro--
high -- ohh.
-I know, dude. -What is this [bleep]
if that is what is going on in this room,
it's gonna affect you.
It's gonna affect your brain.
It's gonna make you can't talk right.
High electromagnetic fields.
What the [bleep] wrong with me?
Man, I have never seen that in my life.
-Aaron, are you seeing this? -Yeah.
♪♪
the only thing that I can't figure out
is that emf detector is in the same exact spot
on the same exact table
that it was earlier with jay mohr,
and the emf detector was not doing that constantly
what it's doing now, the oscillation.
It was oscillating to a 20. Now it's what?
What is it peaking at now?
I've never seen that before.
I've never seen it do that.
I now try to debunk these emf readings
by taking the device near all visible electronic equipment
that's in this room and even outside the door.
Look, it's completely baseline.
It's completely baseline and still, 2 milligauss.
But I discover that none of this
seems to be affecting the abnormal spikes.
♪♪
can you move something in this room?
-Look at that. -Look at that, dude.
-Look at that. -You said his name.
Look, look, look.
♪♪
zak: While investigating a space next to the infamous belly room,
we're getting extremely compelling readings
on the trifield meter.
So with all of this energy,
can you move something in this room?
As I move further into this room,
I become locked onto this mirror
and begin seeing things with my own eyes.
I keep seeing these dark black masses move really quickly.
Through the mirror or in front of the mirror? I don't know.
Just in this -- whatever this reflection is.
♪♪
as I see these dark shadows move in the mirror,
I notice a secret peep window that overlooks the main room.
And as I bend over to look through it,
we capture this small anomaly come out of my back.
At the same time, another anomaly moves very erratically
in a very strange bouncing motion
that then disappears into my neck.
And as all of this happens,
watch how a dark mass appears to shroud my torso.
♪♪
we now decide to head to the main room,
where we will use multiple cameras and devices
to investigate.
Bill uses the paranormal puck 2
while placing the puck sensor on the bar stool onstage,
which is also being monitored by a thermal laser grid.
We also have a thermal imaging camera covering the stage
while I use the apf processor
in an attempt to capture spirit voices.
[ oscillating static ]
talking.
Billy: Brody.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Guys.
Zak: As billy mentions brody stevens,
who was a famous actor and comedian
who tragically killed himself in 2019
and who did many stand-up performances on this very stage,
the thermal sensor documents
a cold air mass near the bar stool.
And remember, when comedian jeff ross was up here hours ago,
the lights on the stage unexplainably turned on and off
when he mentioned brody's name.
Ross: Brody, he killed himself.
-What? -Whoa.
Billy: Brody.
Aaron: There, see? Brody, are you up here?
Look at that! Look! You said his name.
Look, look, look.
Zak: What the [bleep]
-brody. -Are you serious?
Hang on. Hang on. Stop, guys. Listen.
Brody, I've seen you onstage here so many times.
You're, like, the funniest comedian.
Holy -- I got full-body chills, dude.
Brody, you are awesome.
That was insane, dude. Can you do that again, brody?
Can you light that whole thing up?
Can you sit in that chair?
You know everyone misses you, right?
Brody, there's so many of the comedians here
that just miss you and respect you.
You were such a good friend to them.
You were such an influence, and so everyone just loved you.
When ross was up there earlier,
those lights came on on the stage.
That was you, right?
'cause it did it twice when he mentioned your name,
right after each one of them.
-Look at that. -Look at that, dude.
-Look at that. -It's brody, guys.
Brody is so important here.
With this activity occurring,
I grab the apf processor and go to the stage.
And as I near the bar stool, we capture a voice saying,
"I understand."
[ oscillating static ]
brody, do you know why the comedy club is empty?
Do you know what's going on in the world right now, brody?
[ static continues ]
[ indistinct voice ]
how many ghosts does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Zak: Brody, is this you?
Say it! Say it!
♪♪
zak: With our focus on the main stage
at the world-famous comedy store,
we get a chilling response.
[ indistinct voice ]
-what was that? -It said, "I understand."
okay, hold on, hold on. I'm gonna play that back again.
[ oscillating static ]
-"I understand." -"I understand."
that's clear, dude.
-I know his voice. -"I understand."
-that's really clear. -"I understand."
and what did I ask before that, zak?
Do you know what's going on in the world right now?
[ oscillating static ]
♪♪
say it! Say it!
After I scream for no reason,
billy asks the paranormal puck 2 how many spirits are here,
and it answers with this.
Memories.
Ready?
♪♪
alright, now, a lot of times comedians will come up here,
they'll do a joke, the next one comes up,
so on and so on and so on.
So I'm just gonna tell a couple jokes here
and see if something can't come up here.
And it's almost like coming to the stage, okay?
Okay, so you're gonna your set.
Right.
How many ghosts does it take to screw in a light bulb?
How many?
None. A poltergeist does it.
Zak: Isn't a ghost a poltergeist?
Oh. Okay.
[bleep]
you all paid to come to the show tonight.
The joke's on you.
I don't get it.
I don't know.
Zak: Listen very closely
as the digital recorder on the stool captures an evp
that sounds like a woman laughing
at aaron's terrible joke.
How many ghosts does it take to screw in a light bulb?
-How many? -None.
A poltergeist does it.
...Does it.
It's a ghost a poltergeist?
Oh. Okay.
Zak: As I'm sitting in the booth,
I capture one last voice that we believe is saying,
"what's up, guys?"
[ oscillating static ]
what was that?
What was that?
At this same moment,
our camera captures something absolutely shocking.
[ oscillating static ]
brody, is this you?
♪♪
watch the right-hand side of your screen
as an unexplained dark shadow figure
that is free-floating moves right to left towards me.
After examining the wide shot, we can clearly see
that it is not any shadow being cast from the guys,
as we are all sitting down at this moment.
♪♪
we know now that between the laughter...
What community college do you have to flunk out of
where you're like, "let's start hunting ghosts"?
Zak: ...And the tears...
Brody, there's so many of the comedians here
that just miss you and respect you.
...Is chilling fear,
so many lost souls wandering this windowless building
that holds so much violent history
and yet brings joy to millions.
I hope that when I return, I experience the comedy,
as the tragedy will never fade.