[Josh Gates] On this episode of Expedition X...
-[Jessica Chobot gasps] -[Phil Torres] What?
[Jessica] Look it! Look it, look it, look it!
She's right there!
-And it's going off. -And it's going off.
[beeping]
[Josh] My team is facing off
against one of the most terrifying haunted hotspots in America...
[gasps]
[Josh] ...and I'm going with them.
Okay. I am now on the bar.
[grunts]
-What? -What was that?
-[Phil] What is going on here? -[dings]
It sounded like it came from right here.
[Josh] It's an all-hands event,
as we tackle the dark history of Eloise Asylum.
There's an entity that used to get pleasure out of torturing people here...
that's still here.
[Josh] A decaying mental hospital
where spirits reportedly threaten anyone
brave enough to walk its abandoned halls.
We have another entity here known as the Creeper.
It creeps on the ceiling, it runs up the walls.
-Oh, my God! Oh, my God! -What?
-Right there. Right there. Right there. -What? What? What?
-[thumps] -Whoa! What the hell was that?
[Jessica] Hello?
[Phil] Holy [bleep]
There are more than 7,000 bodies under our feet right now.
-[Jessica] Oh. -[Phil] Wow.
-[Josh] Look at this. -[Jessica] Oh.
What is that?
[dramatic music]
All right, guys. This may be our most terrifying case ever.
Are the two of you ready to meet the fearsome Eloise?
Who is Eloise?
Eloise is not a person.
Eloise is an abandoned asylum complex
on the outskirts of Detroit.
It was in operation for a century
but, these days, it is a paranormal destination
because almost everyone who goes there
claims to have some sort of supernatural encounter.
Well, it doesn't surprise me that people are getting scared there.
I mean, these asylums were disturbing places 100 years ago.
We're talking lobotomies, insulin therapy, primitive electroshock therapy,
all very gruesome and traumatic.
And all of those things happened at Eloise and more.
This was, at one point, the largest psychiatric facility in America.
And it stayed open until, get this, 1984,
leaving behind a long legacy of mistreatment and many unexplained deaths.
In fact, the local authorities were so eager to get rid of this place
that they actually sold it to an entrepreneur named John Hambrick for $1.
-One dollar? -What?
That is a hell of a deal.
Hell indeed, Jess, because what he saved in money,
he gained in headaches.
Ever since he bought this place, he has been overwhelmed by, what he says,
are increasingly violent paranormal attacks.
And, now, he's at a breaking point.
He says that, for the first time,
he himself was actually attacked by some sort of unseen force.
-Wow. -And he wants our help in determining
what's going on here and if Eloise is truly haunted.
And, if it is, there are plenty of reasons why.
1832.
Eloise Asylum begins as a so-called poor farm
where the destitute are given shelter,
but only in exchange for grueling physical labor.
Within seven years, the farm evolves into a hospital,
but one that doles out healing and punishment in equal measure.
At Eloise, unruly patients are kept chained to the walls.
Beyond the harsh conditions, there are even harsher treatments,
like electroshock therapy, insulin therapy, and lobotomies.
Things only get worse in the 1920s, when the asylum begins admitting convicts,
including a maximum security section for the criminally insane.
At its peak, Eloise houses 10,000 inmates,
but the staff are overworked and overwhelmed,
leading to widespread and extreme neglect.
As a result, death is rampant.
The countless tragedies even strike Eloise's youngest patients,
like ten-year-old Harmonia Kiossain
who drowns during an alleged hydrotherapy treatment.
Administrative records indicate that, during the 1940s alone,
over 8,000 people die, a rate of two per day.
Newspapers note that patients are so desperate to leave,
they even choose death as an escape,
with multiple inmates' suicides ranging from hangings
to jumps from upper floor windows.
Mercifully, Eloise closes in 1984 due to government budget cuts.
Much of the decaying complex is demolished,
but its main structure, the D-Building, remains.
It lays dormant for many years before John Hambrick buys it in 2018.
As soon as John opens up Eloise to the public,
he claims to encounter paranormal pushback.
John's visitors regularly report ghostly sounds like screaming in the hallways
and singing in empty rooms.
Photos taken in the building have been known to show strange mist
or outlines of figures.
Disturbingly, people also report their hair getting pulled
and even the sensation of being choked.
John is concerned that the trauma of Eloise's dark past
is forcing its way into our present.
So what do you think? Is Eloise haunted?
The way I see it, it may be more about the death of the building
than the death of people.
Any abandoned 100-year-old building
is sure to be full of all sorts of unsettling sights and sounds.
Is that a ghostly scream, or is that wind whipping through a crack in the wall?
Is that a ghost going bump in the night,
or is it just the place literally falling apart?
So I think we're dealing with more here than just an old building.
I mean, thousands died tragically and traumatically
in this area over the course of many years, right?
So I'm wondering, for myself, is this more of a case of
the living encroaching on the dead?
I mean, it's a pretty common theory amongst the paranormal circles
that, if you are invading a tragic space like this,
and you're doing things like giving tours and whatnot, it's gonna rile up the spirits
and they're gonna be angry.
So, from my perspective, if there's a scientific explanation here,
I'm all for it, right? I'm here for that.
But, I will say that, with so many occurrences and with such a dark history,
Eloise could be something really special.
I have investigated so many purportedly paranormal hotspots,
places like Waverly Hills, Eastern State Penitentiary, the Queen Mary,
all very spooky, right?
But it's just the frequency of the encounters at Eloise
has me wondering that, look, if there is a place
where you're going to find conclusive evidence of the paranormal,
maybe this is it, right?
Which is why I cannot stay behind the desk for this one.
I'm coming with you.
-Hey! All right. -Awesome!
This idea that almost everybody who visits this place
has a paranormal encounter,
-I wanna see if that's true for myself, right? Prove it. -Yeah.
So, are you guys ready to meet Eloise?
-Absolutely. -Let's go.
All right. Let's rock and roll.
It's a two-hour flight from New York City to Detroit, Michigan
and, then, a short drive out to the suburb of Westland.
All right. Here we are, guys.
So all farmland, all forests around here.
Yeah. Just, like, corn fields as far as the eye can see.
[Josh] We should be almost there.
Kind of an overcast, creepy day here.
[Jessica] I mean, this is standard Michigan weather for this time of year.
Look for a big, scary asylum.
[Jessica] Oh, there it is.
-There it is. -Ooh.
[Josh] Look at that place.
[Jessica] That does look creepy.
Wow.
All right, through the front gates.
-[Jessica] Gates through some gates? -[Josh chuckles]
[Jessica] Is that the first time that joke's been made?
-[Josh] No. -[Jessica] Oh, okay.
-[Josh] Guys, welcome to Eloise. -[Jessica] Ooh.
[Josh] Once considered the hospital of the future,
Eloise is now a relic of the past.
And the ominous facade of the sprawling main building
leaves an unsettling first impression.
-[Jessica] Ooh! -[Josh] I mean, it is imposing.
-Right? -[Phil] It's way bigger than I imagined.
-[Josh] They don't build hospitals like this anymore. -[Jessica] No.
[Phil] There's something about it, though, that is imposing.
-It just feels like it's leaning over you. -[Josh] Yeah.
And you half expect to see somebody looking at you.
-[Phil] Oh, yeah. -[Jessica] Yeah. Yeah, you do.
[Josh] Should we see what it looks like inside?
-[Jessica] Yeah, I wanna check it out. -[Phil] Let's go for it.
[Josh] We've arranged to meet with Eloise's owner, John Hambrick,
and his daughter, Yvonne, here in the main building.
Oh, wow. Oh, yeah.
Check it out, it says intake. This must be where the patients come in.
This is awesome. And the owner is here?
Hello?
-Hello? Hey! -Hello!
-Hey. -[Jessica] Hi!
-Welcome. -[Josh] Thank you.
Happy to be here, now that we know we're not alone.
-Yeah, right? -I'm Josh.
-John. Good to meet you. -Nice to meet you.
-Hello. -Good to meet you.
[Josh] John Hambrick is a real estate investor
who made local headlines five years ago
when he agreed to buy the shuttered Eloise Asylum from Wayne County.
This place is unbelievable.
I've only seen one room and I'm already in awe.
-This place is insane. -Yeah. Thank you.
How does one go about purchasing an old asylum?
-And why does one go about purchasing an old asylum? -[laughing]
I've had a long-standing relationship with Wayne County,
and I was approached by the second guy in charge in the county. He asked me,
"Hey, would you be interested in one of our properties
that we own that we're looking to get rid of?"
-Beautiful fixer-upper. -Yeah.
Once I found out how it's connected to the community here,
my grandmother worked here, my uncle worked here, my cousin was here,
my dad died here.
I mean, it just really started to register to me
why not preserve history and allow people to experience
something they weren't allowed to experience?
-Right. Because this place was really closed off. -[Hambrick] Absolutely.
Yeah, you could not get in here.
-This was the administration building. -[Josh] Right.
The back half was the asylum.
So this is where you came, stayed for a couple of weeks,
they qualified you and, then, then put you in the buildings
that were appropriate to treat whatever you had.
Right. We'd actually like to drop Jess off if that's possible.
-[Hambrick chuckling] Yeah. -Honestly, I would be completely fine staying here.
-To get away from the two of us? Yeah. -[Jessica] Mmm-hmm.
How large was this place originally?
Like, how many buildings were we talking about on here?
78 buildings, 900 acres.
-And how many buildings are left today? -Five.
And, Yvonne, how old were you when your dad bought this place?
-I was 13. -[Josh] 13?
-So this is every 13-year-old girl's dream? -Yeah.
-[Josh] To buy an insane asylum. -Right.
-Not a castle, an insane asylum. -[Josh] Right.
And what was your take on this at 13?
I was nervous.
First couple of times I came in here, I was pretty scared.
When you came to look at the property to buy it,
did you hear stories that it was haunted?
Did anybody... Did the realtor disclose that to you?
[laughing] No, they didn't. They just wanted me to take it.
-So you didn't know it was supposedly haunted? -[Hambrick] I didn't know.
I mean, when I got here the first time walking around,
I didn't wanna be in here alone.
-That's for sure. -[Jessica] Yeah.
So, scary, but you didn't have any backstory to it?
I knew nothing.
In my experience, there's an entity
that used to get pleasure out of torturing people here...
-that's still here. Right. -[Jessica] Who?
But there's also people that are stuck here.
There's children here.
I know there's kids here.
'Cause, remember, if you weren't welcome in society,
this is where you came.
If you had a child that had a birth defect,
this is where they put you.
Wow.
It also held the criminally insane.
[screams]
-So a lot of dark history here? -Lot of dark history.
Yeah. So, okay. Somebody comes in here, die-hard skeptic says to you,
"This is nonsense, John. No way. Ghosts aren't real."
What would you say to them?
Stay the night on the fifth floor by yourself,
and tell me that in the morning.
If you make it to the morning.
-What's going on on the fifth floor? -Let me show you.
-[Josh] Okay. -[Jessica] Yeah. All right.
-Jess, you can go first. -No, no, you can.
[Josh] Okay. Phil, you wanna come up front?
-[Phil] I'll take the caboose. -[Josh] Oh, boy.
[ominous music]
-[Josh chuckles nervously] -[Jessica] Oh, jeez!
[Josh] Oh, this is incredible.
Wow!
Okay.
[Hambrick] Welcome to the fifth floor.
This is the most active floor in Eloise.
[Jessica] Why is this one the most active?
This is maximum security. This is where the worst of the worst were kept.
-[Josh] You both have had experiences up here? -[Hambrick] Absolutely.
-When was your first experience here, Yvonne? -My first night here.
-I was giving a tour for about 15 people. -[Josh] Okay.
[Yvonne] And they were off doing their own thing,
and I was standing in this hallway right here
and I had radioed down to let my manager know that everybody was here.
I lifted off my radio,
and I fully felt, like, a hand go on the top of my head and break through.
[Hambrick] And, then, all of a sudden, over the radio, I hear,
"Dad! Dad! Dad! Dad!" Screaming hysterically.
And I'm, like, "What the hell is going on?"
-So you were freaked? -Yes. I was petrified.
-Crying? -[Yvonne] Yes.
A lot of women have had multiple encounters up here.
Really? So you think whatever's up here,
-you say it's targeting women? -[Yvonne] Yes.
[Josh] And have you had other experiences
on this or any other floor here?
Oh, yeah. For a while, when I used to come up here, I used to get choked.
-I'm sorry, choked? -Whoa!
Yeah.
Wow. Do you mean just, like, your breathing felt constricted,
or you felt hands around your neck?
I felt hands, actually.
This is something that happens up here?
Yeah, this is something that happens on the fifth floor,
typically, just to women.
And whatever's doing this has come to be known as the Choker.
-Wow. -What about you? Have you ever felt anything up here?
Every single time I come on the fifth floor, I feel a heaviness,
I get a headache, and I feel light-headed.
-And are you feeling that right now? -Absolutely.
-Huh. -I feel like your behavior has changed
since we were down on the first floor to now.
I particularly do not like being here.
[Josh] And are there other entities
that have been singled out here in the building besides this Choker?
Yes. So another ghost here is a ghost of a nurse.
She will peep her head out of the nurses' station window.
-[Josh] Which is where? -Right down the hall.
-This way? -Yup. Right over there.
Okay. And what happens?
If you peer down the hallway at night,
and watch the back window out of that room,
you can see a nurse pop her head in and out.
-Oh! -No, that's... I gotta... Guys, this has been great.
-I gotta take off. -[Jessica] That one gave me goosebumps.
Wait a minute, are you kidding me?
-No. -Have you seen this?
-[Yvonne] I have. -We have another entity here known as the Creeper.
It's very clawy.
It creeps on the ceiling, it runs up the walls.
It never just walks down the hallway.
-You talking about, like, a shadow? -Like a shadow.
And it scuffles to you.
And why do you call it the Creeper?
'Cause it just kinda lurks.
And have you actually seen the shadow figure?
-[Yvonne] Yes, I have. -Where?
On the fifth floor and in the basement.
[Hambrick] There's reports all over the building.
There's been shadow figures seen in the elevator shafts.
So even these elevators are active?
Even these elevators are active,
and they haven't been active for 15 years.
But people hear and see stuff all the time.
Well, it sounds like we've got our work cut out for us.
-[Jessica] Mmm-hmm. -Yeah. The building's yours.
You guys have access to every room in it.
Eloise never disappoints.
-Oh, okay. -Uh-huh.
You're talking a lot like two people
-who aren't going to be here much longer. -No. Uh-uh.
-[Josh] You're leaving? -Peace!
[all laughing]
[Josh] As John and Yvonne hightail it out of Eloise, our day is just beginning.
Or, rather, our night.
[Jessica] Oh, yeah, perfect. Here, we got some desks.
[Josh] Here we go. Perfect.
We unload our gear and devise a strategy
for our first investigation into this historic haunting.
John gave us these blueprints for every floor
We're currently down here on three.
So, cameras.
I'm thinking we should go to the fifth floor,
set up our cameras there and work our way down.
[Josh] Okay, so, fifth floor.
-This is where Yvonne had her hair pulled. -[Josh] Right.
[Jessica] Where was that nurses' room?
[Josh] That's these windows at the end of this hall.
So this nurse is supposed to poke her head out of these windows.
So, initially, it seems like we're gonna deploy all our cameras up on five
-but, in a way, that makes sense. -[Phil] Yeah.
[Josh] With a gameplan in place, we rig up our fleet of surveillance cameras
in the most active part of the building, the fifth floor.
-You going down there? -[Jessica] Yeah, sure.
[Josh] Okay.
Okay, Phil, I am in front of camera eight. Do you see me?
Yes, I see you, Josh.
[Josh] The areas we focus on include the spot where Yvonne was attacked,
the main corridor, and an old surgery room.
All the cameras feed down to a monitor in our command center
here on the third floor.
-I'm gonna set this to record. -[Jessica] Okay.
-Okay. We're live. -[Jessica] All right. We good?
So that fifth floor is totally covered. Anything happens,
-we got it. -[Phil] Oh, yeah.
-Time to head up? -Time to head up.
-Two floors up, yeah? -[Jessica exhales]
-[Phil] Yeah. -[Jessica] Yeah.
-[Phil] This place feels a lot different at night. -[Josh] Yeah.
Okay.
So this is Yvonne's spot right here.
-[Phil] Jess, how you feeling? -Creeped out, actually.
How are you feeling?
-Okay, so far. -Yeah. Okay.
What's our move?
-Oh, my God! Oh, my God! Right there! Right there! -What?
-Right there! -What?
[Jessica] There was a woman right there.
-Where exactly? -Right here!
And it looked like a woman, it just went [whoops]
and then back.
Are you sure?
-It wasn't just a bright flash? -Yeah, I'm sure!
We have been here for five minutes.
-[Phil] Five seconds. -[Josh] No doubt?
-[Jessica] No doubts. -[Josh] No doubt you saw something?
No doubt I saw something.
Okay, so, I mean, I think...
-let's focus our attention here? -[Jessica] Yeah.
-Yeah? -Why don't we do the REM pods?
That way, if it's moving from this space into the nurses' office,
it will go off.
I mean, we could also do the SLS camera.
That way, it can pick up any figures that are walking around here in the hallway.
-That sound good? -[Josh] Sounds great to me.
[Jessica] Here we go.
-Want one of these? -[Josh] Yes.
Okay, so...
I think, we definitely set one of these right where she saw this figure.
-Right? -Absolutely.
And, then, maybe one in the nurses' station
where, supposedly, this nurse leans in.
There's a desk right there that can cover not only that window
-where she pops her head in, but also this entry point. -[Josh] For sure.
-Josh, did you just lose your voice? -[chuckles]
-I'm not kidding you, like... -You feeling okay?
The minute we got on this floor, my voice just, like, vanished.
-Yeah, you sound really sick. -[Josh] I'm, like, losing my voice.
-Listen to me. -[Jessica] Yeah.
John said, when he comes up here, he starts feeling sick.
-[Josh] That's true. -And he starts feeling weird.
And now it's happening to you.
Do you know where you can get some help?
-At a pharmacy? -There's a nurses' station right here.
[Josh] Oh.
[Phil] How about you be a trigger object?
-A little human bait? -[Phil] Yeah.
-[Jessica] Go see the nurse. -Okay, I will go see the nurse.
We'll set up the REM pods and see if she decides to show up to treat me.
-Either we find a ghost, or maybe we find your voice. -Yeah.
Okay.
[tense instrumental music]
Okay, so, this is the window where people say they see this nurse leaning out.
Anything moves in this area, temperature changes, electromagnetic changes,
this will set off an alarm.
[Jessica] All right. Here we go.
Install this camera.
With the REM pods in place, I fire up the SLS camera,
which has special software that can map out possible ghostly presences
that can't be seen with the naked eye.
Is there anybody here with us?
We have somebody that's sick. Could you come see them?
I am losing my voice, as you can hear.
Can you show yourself here in the nurses' station?
[beeping]
Okay, so we're getting an alarm from the REM pod in the doorway.
Nothing's showing up on the SLS, though.
-[Josh] Oh, my God. -[beeping intensifies]
-[Phil] That's going wild. -[Josh] Now they're both going off.
Okay, so, as you can hear, I am sick.
[clears throat]
If there's anything that you can do to treat me...
Can you make your presence known to us?
-[beeping] -Whoa! Whoa whoa!
What...
That's never happened before.
They both went off at the same time.
Is there a nurse here who can...
[beeping]
Both times I've said, "Is there a nurse here," that's gone off.
-And again. -[Jessica] And again.
Okay, here's what I wanna do.
Yvonne says that, often, the nurse pops her head out of this window
when somebody's down in the hallway
-and looking in towards this direction. -[Josh] Yes.
I want Phil and I to go down that hallway, point the SLS here.
-I want you to keep talking about being sick. -[Josh] Yes. I'm here.
-[Jessica] All right. Okay. -[Josh] Okay.
-[Jessica gasps] -[Phil] What?
[Jessica] Look it! Look it, look it, look it!
-She's right there! -Stop!
[Phil] It's right in the hallway
-[Jessica] Right in the hallway. -[Phil] Literally a figure.
-And it's going off. -And it's going off.
[Josh] The REM pod is completely freaking out.
[Jessica] And it's gone.
-And the REM pods stopped. -Yeah.
I'm going back down that hallway. Go with me?
-[Phil] Yeah, let's go. -I'm gonna stay here?
[Jessica] Yeah. You gotta stay here in the nurses' office.
Yeah, sure.
Yeah, great. I'll just be here.
What do you think, right here?
-Good? -Yeah.
I'm alone in the nurses' office...
in an abandoned asylum. This is...
This is just where I wanted my career to take me.
-Yeah, so we can clearly see Josh in the window. -[Jessica] Mmm-hmm.
[Phil] Let's hope if we see anything happen over there, it's not Josh.
Yeah.
-All right, Josh? -Okay.
If you are the nurse for this station,
can you show yourself?
-Which one is that? -Oh. Which one is that?
-Same two. -[Jessica] Same two?
[Josh] Same two. The one right here in the window,
-and the other one. -[Jessica] Okay.
-Do you know what I am seeing in the window? -What?
Jess's reflection.
And it does look...
[Phil] And it does look very ghostly from here.
[Jessica] Yeah.
[Phil] It looks like there's a ghost standing next to you.
-[Josh] Next to me? -[Jessica and Phil] Yes.
[Phil] But it's Jess.
If you walk there, it's like you just passed right through.
[Jessica] Yeah.
[Phil] And then come back.
[Jessica] I mean this was an old stage trick.
This is how they made ghosts appear on stage.
And possibly, it could be, helped people... to see ghosts
right here, in this window.
So I think... Okay, potential debunk for the window.
But what the heck is going on in the nurse's office?
And what did you see?
And why did Josh lose his voice
the second we got up here?
I have no idea.
I would love a lozenge.
-I say we leave the REM pods here. -[Jessica] Mm-hmmm.
If they go off, we'll hear them.
We've got so much territory to cover on this fifth floor.
Before we go,
I did want to bring in some new high tech equipment.
Okay.
A new tool to add to the arsenal.
-Super state-of-the-art... -[Phil scoffs]
[Josh] Oh.
-...Polaroid camera. -[Phil] Wow.
I mean, do they make these anymore?
[Jessica] Yeah, of course they make them.
[Phil] So, what have you thought?
People say that when they come to Eloise,
weird stuff shows up on their photos.
So, if we're gonna do this sweep,
we might as well take photos throughout the whole building,
get instant gratification, and see what shows up in these photos.
Originally launched in 1948,
Polaroid cameras were popular for a large portion
of Eloise's operational history.
[whispering] Ah, memories.
[shutter clicks, film whirrs]
[Jessica] The theory is, entities might be inclined to interact with technology
that they were familiar with, in their living state.
[shutter clicks, film whirrs]
[Josh] Oh, this is the surgery room.
-[Phil whispering] Oh. -[Jessica] Ooh!
[eerie music playing]
[Josh whispering] Oh, like, look at this! Like, this is insane!
So this would be where they were doing the lobotomies potentially.
[shutter clicks, film whirrs]
And they probably had surgical tables right here.
Can you imagine all the procedures
and failed procedures
that probably happened in this room?
[Jessica shuddering] Oh.
There was probably a lot of death and suffering
like right here, you know?
-[loud thud] -[all] Whoa! [bleep]
What the hell was [bleep]
What, is that out here?
That was like from the corner here.
-[Jessica] Was that here? -Yes, it was from right here.
-What, is there a room?... -[Jessica] Careful!
Ooh! This is the elevator.
-[Phil] Is that open? -[Josh] Yes.
If you fall down there, you're dead.
[Josh] Whoa!
[Phil] Ooh!
Hello?
[Josh] Whatever we heard, came from here.
[Josh] I can see the bottom of the elevator shaft.
There's no elevator car.
Looks like it's either in the basement,
or it's been removed.
[Phil] Did anything fall?
[Josh] No, there's no debris. There's nothing down there.
Clean. Like, something did not fall down there.
Well, then, what made that noise?
[Josh] I don't know.
And I wanna see if the other doors are open. Hold on.
[Phil] Just be careful, Josh.
The doors on the other floors all look closed.
Like, I don't think something fell
-and it echoed from some other part of the building. -[Jessica] Okay.
Like that sounded like it came from this elevator shaft.
No, absolutely it did.
But John also said that the "creeper" uses this
-to get around, right? -[Josh] Right.
They said the shadow figure moves up and down through this elevator.
And this is the only real noise
that we've heard since we got in here.
Like, that was a loud, palpable noise.
And based on the reports,
I feel like we have to investigate
-this elevator shaft. -[Jessica sighs]
Well, how do you investigate inside the elevator shaft?
That's impossible.
I mean it's not impossible.
[suspenseful music playing]
-What do you mean by that? -[Phil] That look...
What do you... What?
[Josh] Do you have the climbing gear with you?
Yeah, it's in the jeep.
I mean, there's a lot of stuff we could tie off to up there.
This feels like a really bad idea.
Because it is!
Oh, come on. It'll be fun.
-Let's get the gear. -[Phil] Okay, let's do it.
Come on.
This is crazy.
Phil and I have notched a lot of repels over the years.
But this will be our first one in an elevator shaft.
On the other hand, I can finally live out my fantasy
of starring in Die Hard.
Jokes aside, the danger here is very real.
Do not try anything like this on your own.
Eloise asylum may only have five floors.
But a stairwell going up leads us to the roof.
Here, we find the elevator control room,
where we locate old motors and places to safely tie off our lines.
I'll use this as an anchor point.
[clicks]
And we're hoping it's a good anchor point.
Because, below it, is 60 feet of nothing.
Two, three, toss.
[rattling]
[thuds softly]
Okay, let's gear up. [whispering indistinctly]
The plan is for Phil and I to rappel down to investigate
the source of the loud noise we just heard,
and reports of this so-called "creeper"
travelling between floors.
-[Phil] Okay, good to go. -[Josh] I think so.
Jess will stay up on five, and use the thermal camera
to see if any heat signatures show up in the darkness during our descent.
[suspenseful music stops]
[Phil] Oh, boy.
[Josh] Okay, whose idea was this, again?
-[Phil] It was yours... -[Jessica] It was yours.
I don't remember it that way.
-[Jessica] I do! -[Phil] Yeah.
[Josh] Okay, I'm gonna step out on this pipe...
-[Jessica] All right, be careful. -[Josh] ...to start.
[suspenseful music playing]
[Josh whispering] Okay.
[exhales] Okay, I'm out.
Okay, I'm out on the bar.
Oh, boy!
[Phil] How's it feeling?
Uh, I'm feeling great. How do you feel?
Why don't you come out here and feel the same way?
Okay. You're gonna love it.
[Phil grunting]
Okay.
[grunting] So far so good.
-[Josh] Good. Just... -[Phil exhales]
[Josh] You good?
Okay, let's start heading down.
-Let's get down to the fourth floor. -[Phil] Got it.
[whispering] Looks like...
I'm headed down.
Okay, I can see the door for the fourth floor.
-[Phil] Yeah, I see it. Coming down. -Yeah.
All right, I'm on the support beam
for fourth floor. Jess, how are you looking up there?
-[Jessica] Looking good. -[Josh] Okay.
Are you guys seeing anything that made that noise?
[Josh] Nothing yet.
Though I have to say,
structurally, this elevator shaft
actually seems really sound.
I mean it looks like it's fallen apart,
but all the brick, all the actual structure looks really solid.
It does look like there's some kind of
HVAC system going along the back here.
-[Josh] Yeah. I feel just the hint of a breeze, I think, -[Phil] Yeah.
air coming in from the first floor.
But it is so subtle.
[Jessica] All right, well, on the flare, all I'm getting, is you two.
Even the heat signature is down there.
Let me check up top.
Yeah, looks fine.
Oh, my God. Here we go, Phil, are you ready?
-[Phil] Ready. -[Josh] Yeah.
[Josh] Okay. All right, we're at the third floor.
We're to stop here.
Take out the audio recorder.
See if we can get some EVPs.
All right. They've got kind of a pin place to stand here.
Is anybody here?
[whispering] Just that faint breeze
coming out from the first floor.
But that's it.
[high-pitched hooting]
-[Phil] What? -[Josh] What was that?
-[faint clattering] -[faint whisper]
[Jessica] Did you guys just whistle?
[Josh] No, but we heard it.
Is anybody here?
I'm not even scared about dangling on a rope anymore.
I'm just freaked out to be in here, dude!
-[exhales] -[Josh] Okay.
Is there anyone here on the third floor?
Anyone who's was patient here, a doctor here, a nurse.
People have seen shadows in this elevator.
Something they call "the creeper."
Is that you?
-Hey, Jess? -[Jessica] Yeah?
Do you wanna light up the spirit box?
Yeah, let me switch out equipment.
Who's here with us by the elevator?
[faint crackling]
Were you a doctor that worked here at the hospital?
[faint crackling]
Insane?
[distorted dialogue]
Are you a doctor that worked with the insane?
[distorted dialog]
-It said "insane?" -[Phil whispering] It said "insane."
[faint crackling, indistinct dialog]
Creeper?
-[Josh] Did that say "creeper?" -It said "creeper!"
It absolutely said "creeper."
Okay, kill the spirit box.
Killing.
Are you the creeper?
What is going on here?
[elevator dings]
-[Josh] Whoa. -[Jessica] I heard... Yeah.
That... that's like from the machine.
-[Phil] Was that your recorder? -[Josh] No!
Yeah, I heard that too. That "bing."
Sounded like it came from right here!
Like an elevator reached a floor, and the doors opened.
[eerie crescendo]
What?
[eerie music playing]
I think we've gotta check out the third floor.
[Phil] I think we do.
-Hey, Jess? -[Jessica] Yeah?
Why don't you meet us at the elevator door on three?
Okay, will do.
[Josh grunts]
All right.
Let's see if we can open this room?
[Phil] Go for it.
[Josh grunting]
It's jammed.
-[Phil] Yeah? -Yeah.
Is it busted?
Is that the lock?
[Josh] Yeah, push up on that.
-[Phil] Okay, ready? -[Josh] Yeah.
Okay, push up on that?
Okay. Watch your fingers.
[grunting] Okay.
[Josh] Ooh.
Get your hand on this door.
It's an average door...
[Josh] Ready? One, two, three...
-[grunting, yelling] -Oh!
-Okay, okay. -[Phil exhaling]
[Josh] I'm on.
-[Phil] Take me in? -[grunting]
-[Josh] Okay. Ooh! -[Phil exhaling]
[both chuckling triumphantly]
-Okay. -[Phil] All right.
Let's never do that again, huh?
-[Phil] Yeah. -Ever.
-[Phil] Next time, I'm taking the stairs. -[Josh] Yeah.
-[Jessica] Hey. -[Phil and Josh] Hey.
-You guys okay? -[Josh] Yeah.
-Okay, that was insane. -[Jessica] Whoa!
-Like, all of those voices. -[Jessica] That was...
[Jessica] I mean, the "ding" sounded exactly like
-an elevator door opening. -[Phil] Yeah!
It genuinely sounded like someone just clicked that button
-that does not exist. -[Jessica] Yeah.
And the spirit box as well.
Yeah! I mean we heard "creeper."
Right.
What are the chances of having that come through
the spirit box unless it's something specifically trying to respond to you?
So, those noises sound like they're coming from the third floor.
We haven't spent any time here yet.
-[Jessica] Yeah. -We gotta cover the third floor?
Yeah, we'll check it out.
-[Jessica] All right, works. Yeah. -[Josh] Ready? Let's go.
[Josh] The whistle and "ding" we heard in the elevators
sounded like they originated here, on the third floor.
This was also where the asylum's music therapy took place.
So, we're keeping our eyes and especially our ears open.
[whispering] It's pretty quiet right now.
I know, but that noise has to have come from this floor.
Any broken windows in there?
No broken windows or nothing in there.
-[Josh whispering] Oh, look at this! -[suspenseful music playing]
[Jessica and Phil] Ooh!
[Josh] What are these straps for?
[Jessica] For strapping your head down, maybe?
[Josh] Old medical chair, dental chair, something...
Jess, take a seat.
[Jessica] It's actually kinda comfortable.
Not when you think about what really happened in that chair.
Maybe it's a lobotomy chair.
[whispering] I don't even want to think about that.
[Jessica] You'd have to have your head strapped?
Oh, that chair is freaky.
[Jessica] Yeah.
[Phil] So freaky.
[eerie music playing]
[Josh] Let's take a look at these cameras.
Let's see how we're doing?
Cameras are all up and running.
[Phil] Yeah.
[Josh] No movement.
In terms of those noises we heard in the elevator,
I mean we haven't found anything here
on the third floor.
That explains it.
I just... That bell to me, that was a distinctive bell.
And it was so elevator-y.
-It just sounds like an elevator. -[Josh] I know.
[Jessica] It really did.
Okay so, where do we go from here?
Well, I mean, when we went up to the fifth floor,
I immediately got distracted by what I saw...
-Right. -[Jessica] ...over by the nurse's station.
And I just don't feel like we've covered the fifth floor,
as far as what Ivaan said happened to her,
which was "the choker."
And so, I'm thinking this thing focuses on women.
I wanna go up there by myself,
and see if we can get it to make its presence known.
You think you could kinda draw it out?
[Jessica] I might as well try, yeah.
Maybe we can get it angry.
[sighs] Jess, if you go up this solo,
we'll at least be able to monitor you from here.
We have the entire floor covered.
[Josh] Right.
[Jessica] Okay. And also, I'm thinking I'm gonna bring that EMF trip wire with me,
and just make a little border around where I'm standing,
so that way, if anything crosses over,
-I'll get a bit of a pre-warning. -[Phil and Josh] Okay.
[Jessica] And we also have those REM pods that are still up and on,
over by the nurse's station.
-[Josh] Okay. -Get a little extra coverage.
I have your walkie on me.
You know?
And we're only two floors away if something happens.
Exactly.
-Are you ready? -[Jessica] Yeah. Okay.
-[Josh] Let's do it. Good luck. -[Jessica] All right.
-See you guys up there. -[Phil] Good luck.
[suspenseful music playing]
[beeps] All right, Jess, we see you.
[Jessica] Okay, I'm gonna lay out this EMF tripwire.
The EMF tripwire has ten microprocessor-controlled sensors
spaced 14 inches apart.
If anything approaches me,
it will disrupt the electromagnetic field,
and set off one of the sensors.
I should be covered from any direction.
[Jessica over radio] Okay, that should be it.
Hello?
Hey, Jess. Can we try something?
Listen, I know you're up there alone.
But, once you're up there alone,
and in the dark, can you kill your flashlight?
Okay.
[beeps] Just remember. We can still see you well.
We can see what's in front of you,
we can see what's behind you.
So, if anything does approach, we got you.
[Jessica] So, if the choker is here, I heard you have a problem with women.
I'm standing here by myself.
Do you pick on all the ladies that come through here,
or just on Ivaan?
REM pods are quiet.
Holy [bleep]
[eerie music playing]
EMF right in front of... Oh, God!
-The EMFs are turning blue. -Whoa!
Yeah, I'm starting to get EMF hits up here.
-She does not look like she's having a good time up there. -No.
She looks freaked.
She really does.
[beeps] Why did you turn, Jess?
Did you see something down there?
[Jessica over radio] Holy [bleep] okay.
No, I actually did just see a shadow cross down the hall.
[beeps] What do you mean you saw a shadow cross?
Like, you saw...
I saw a shadow cross the hall.
Because she's really vulnerable.
Is there anybody there?
If you've got a problem with me,
I don't know what we're gonna do about it,
'cause I'm not going anywhere.
[strenuously] Oh, God.
-[coughing] -[eerie crescendo playing]
[Josh] Let's go, let's go. Come on.
The most brutal medical procedure
practiced at Eloise Asylum was undoubtedly, the lobotomy.
At least 30 Eloise inmates received one.
They were amongst the 50,000 Americans who were lobotomized
mostly between 1949 and 1952.
In this operation, a sharp ice pick-like tool
is used to sever certain neural connections in the brain.
Surgeons at the time believed the brain would then reset itself,
and the patient would be cured of any mental health issues.
And while patients would certainly change
after the brutal procedure, it was rarely for the better.
They became emotionless, severely brain-damaged
and even in some cases, died.
About 60 per cent of lobotomies in America,
and the majority at Eloise, were performed on women,
even though the majority of patients were men.
This barbaric procedure was finally abandoned in the 1950s.
But many poor souls had their brain scrambled
in the name of experimental medicine.
-[Jessica groaning] Ow! -[Josh] Jess, you good?
[both panting]
-[Josh] What's the matter? -[Phil] You okay?
[Jessica] Something just [bleep] scratched [bleep]
out of my [bleep] neck.
[Josh] Let's look.
It is bright red.
-Your neck is bright. -[Phil] Ooh, my God.
Your neck looks burnt.
-[Josh] Can you get some water for her, somebody? -[Phil] Bring us some waters.
What just happened to you?
I saw what looked like a shadow figure
kinda flit across.
And so, I just kept yelling at it,
and you know, taunting it.
And bam!
And then it [bleep] It hurts!
[Josh] It's really red!
Oh, it goes all the way down there!
-It's like a rash -[Phil] Yeah!
[Josh] Okay, let's take a second here.
Let's just sit over here.
Things have suddenly taken a very scary turn.
And we press pause on our investigation,
to make sure Jess doesn't need medical attention.
[Josh] It's really red back there.
I mean, it is bright red.
Okay, put that on it. It's cold.
[blows]
[Josh] Jess, you're shaking.
Yeah.
[Josh] Jess is visibly in shock. We all are.
While we heard stories
about people having physical encounters here,
it's not the same as having it happen in person.
After taking a deep breath,
Jess, to her credit, isn't calling it quits.
-[Josh] You okay? -[Jessica] Yeah, I'm all right.
[Josh] Okay.
-[Josh] You okay? -[Jessica] Mm-hmm.
[Josh] Okay, we'll get back to it.
We do agree that nobody should be left alone
on the fifth floor, and begin investigating
every room on this level, together.
[Jessica] Why don't you guys call a ghost out,
and I'll take your picture.
-[Phil] What? -[Jessica] Call a ghost out.
Stand there and just be like, "Hey, are there any ghosts here?"
-And I'll take a picture. -[Phil] Whoa.
-[bleep] Right behind you. -[Jessica] Put your...
[eerie music playing]
[Jessica] Wait did you see something?
[Phil] Something was moving out here.
I saw it move all the way across the window.
[Jessica] Did you see anything down below?
[Josh] There's a far jump down below.
[Jessica] Yeah, I forgot we're up on the fifth.
-[Josh] Okay. -[Jessica] All right. That's weird.
[Josh] Now, you were gonna take our picture.
[Jessica] Yeah, I want you guys
to call out a ghost, and I'm gonna take your photo.
[Josh] Okay.
If there are any ghosts here, feel free to show up on our photo.
[Jessica] Cheese.
[film whirrs]
-Okay, let's continue. -[Phil] Yeah...
All right.
[shutter clicks, film whirrs]
-Agitate him? -If you've got a problem with me being here,
you should come out and say something.
[shutter clicks, film whirrs]
[eerie music playing]
[shutter clicks, film whirrs]
[eerie music intensifying]
[Josh] All right, hand them over. Who's got what?
-[Jessica] Here we go. -[Josh] Okay, so.
Literally all of the photos
that we took over at that nurse's station?
-[Jessica] Oh, yeah. -[Josh] All blank.
-[Phil] All blank! -[Josh] All blank.
Basically, they didn't expose at all,
which is not the case, right,
-for all the other photos we took. -[Jessica] Yeah.
Yeah, that's weird.
[Josh] Phil, you're Mr. Science. What do you make of it?
-Jess, you changed the film cartridge, yeah? -[Jessica] Mm-hmmm, yeah.
So, maybe this was just a bad batch of film?
But it's not a full load. It's only five photos.
-[Phil] How many total is that? -[Jessica] Eight.
And the rest of the photos, once we leave that area... are fine!
That's where we saw that lady though, too.
We are essentially looking for anything out of the ordinary.
It's really hard though,
because the photos... Even the ones that do expose,
they're pretty murky.
Ooh, check this out!
-Look at that. -[Phil] Oh.
-[Josh] That shadow? -[Jessica] Yeah!
That looks like a person standing behind him.
-[Josh] Is that just his shadow, though? -[Jessica] No.
If that was Phil's shadow that was being cast,
you'd have to have the light source
coming from this direction.
Not from this direction.
[Josh] It doesn't look like any light's hitting him from this side.
[Jessica] No.
See where the highlight is, it's all concentrated from the front.
-[Phil] Weird. -[Josh] It doesn't look like his silhouette,
either because your collar's popped way up here,
-and we don't see that at all. -[Phil] Hmm.
What is that? That is in the perfect shape
of somebody standing behind you.
[Josh] This is going in our "weird" pile for sure.
[Jessica] Yeah, yes.
-This must've been taken right after this. -[Phil] Hmmm.
The same windows.
Yeah, and see, this makes more sense to me,
because that's the flash from the camera,
which is in line with what's--
[bleep]
-[Jessica] What? -[Phil] What?
What the [bleep] is that?
[Jessica and Phil] Oh!
[Josh] What is that?
Oh [bleep]
[Josh] What is that?
Is that a person?
[Josh] That is a [bleep] figure.
[Phil] Hang on. What?
[Jessica] Yeah.
-[Phil] It's not your shadow? -[Jessica] No, no.
'Cause look here, you can see my shadow.
It's like perfectly outlined right behind me.
I don't know what that is.
That's a shadow figure!
That is not me or Phil, right?
-I mean, no way that's me or Phil. -[Jessica] No!
There's nobody else in here with us.
[Josh] Yeah! The "creeper" is in there.
This is the craziest photo I have ever seen.
I mean, that is not somebody that was standing there,
when we were in the room.
-[Jessica speaking indistinctly] -Look at it!
[Phil] Where was this taken?
This is where Ivaan claimed she was attacked, right?
-It's over there. -[Jessica] Hmm.
This is in that long room back here,
with all those windows.
-You can get there through that door. -[Phil] Literally right here.
-[Josh] Yes! -[Phil] That is crazy!
-[Josh] This was in here. -[Jessica] All right, let's go.
[Josh] Next time on Expedition X...
[eerie music playing]
My team and I continue our fight against the darkness
of Eloise Asylum.
-[grunts] -[bleep]
Down there. Did you see that?
That's where I saw a shadow.
See? On the right hand side?
Hello?
[bleep]
[Josh] While Phil and Jess explore its sinister underbelly...
untouched for decades...
I experienced a distinct shoving sensation
in my back which propelled me forward.
[whispering] Careful, careful, careful.
[crashing, thudding]
-[Phil groans faintly] -[Jessica yelling] Are you okay?
[Josh] I unearth a shocking secret...
There are more than 7,000 bodies
-under our feet right now. -[Jessica] Oh.
This is a mass grave.
-Is this the stone? -[Josh] Yeah!
[Phil] Unbelievable.
...that may just be the key
to explaining the asylum's paranormal activity.
[indistinct dialog echoing]
Whoa!
[Jessica] There it is. Check the FLIR.
-Proximity. -Jess, we have hotspots.
[Josh] Oh, my word.
[Jessica] That's on the syringe.
-[Josh] Like fingerprints were on it. -[Jessica] Yeah!
Oh, they just faded!
[Jessica] Holy [bleep]