1 00:00:02,467 --> 00:00:05,533 Is Lord Francis Dashwood here? 2 00:00:11,500 --> 00:00:13,233 Is Paul Whitehead here? 3 00:00:14,567 --> 00:00:18,000 [chiming] 4 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:20,033 Paul Whitehead, is that you? 5 00:00:21,166 --> 00:00:22,834 [chiming] 6 00:00:23,166 --> 00:00:24,367 Phil! 7 00:00:24,367 --> 00:00:27,367 [Josh] On this episode of Expedition X... 8 00:00:27,367 --> 00:00:28,767 -[horse whinnies] -[Jessica] Whoa! 9 00:00:28,767 --> 00:00:30,667 [Jessica] It looks like a place that Satan would hang out in. 10 00:00:30,667 --> 00:00:32,667 [Josh] ...my team heads to the British Isles... 11 00:00:32,667 --> 00:00:35,567 This is the most historic part of Dublin. 12 00:00:35,567 --> 00:00:38,100 [Josh] ...to investigate the Hellfire Club, 13 00:00:38,100 --> 00:00:40,266 a centuries-old secret society... 14 00:00:40,266 --> 00:00:44,100 [man] Where the most elite members of the club would've engaged in Satanic worship. 15 00:00:44,100 --> 00:00:46,066 [Josh] ...said to worship the Devil. 16 00:00:46,066 --> 00:00:47,367 -[Jessica] Phil! -Yeah? 17 00:00:47,367 --> 00:00:48,967 [Jessica] Something was throwing rocks over here. 18 00:00:48,967 --> 00:00:50,166 [Phil] Where are you? 19 00:00:50,166 --> 00:00:52,867 -[disembodied voice] Get out! -[Jessica shrieks] 20 00:00:52,867 --> 00:00:55,367 [Sinead] The rituals, the sacrifices, murders. 21 00:00:55,367 --> 00:00:56,767 [Phil] That's creepy. 22 00:00:56,767 --> 00:00:59,500 -[beeping] -Is that you making the REM-POD go off? 23 00:00:59,500 --> 00:01:01,166 [beeping] 24 00:01:01,166 --> 00:01:02,300 [clanging] 25 00:01:02,300 --> 00:01:03,567 [bleep] 26 00:01:03,567 --> 00:01:06,166 [suspenseful music playing] 27 00:01:06,166 --> 00:01:09,467 [theme music playing] 28 00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:17,800 Okay, who has heard of the Hellfire Club? 29 00:01:17,800 --> 00:01:20,166 I watched Stranger Things. I've seen the t-shirts. 30 00:01:20,166 --> 00:01:23,100 Not that one. Not the D&D club. Think older. 31 00:01:23,100 --> 00:01:25,567 X-Men villains, the Hellfire Club. 32 00:01:25,567 --> 00:01:27,200 A cabal of evil aristocrats. 33 00:01:27,200 --> 00:01:28,667 -Okay, so that is closer. -Mm! 34 00:01:28,667 --> 00:01:31,967 Because those super villains were based on a true story. 35 00:01:31,967 --> 00:01:34,967 The Hellfire Club was a real 36 00:01:34,967 --> 00:01:37,467 Satan-worshipping secret society 37 00:01:37,467 --> 00:01:41,200 that was popular in the UK and Ireland in the 18th century. 38 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:42,667 And here's the thing. 39 00:01:42,667 --> 00:01:44,500 I just got a lead from Dublin 40 00:01:44,500 --> 00:01:48,000 that the Hellfire Club may still be up to its evil ways. 41 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:49,934 But from beyond the grave. 42 00:01:54,667 --> 00:01:56,734 [eerie music playing] 43 00:01:57,667 --> 00:02:00,533 [Josh] In the early 1700s in the United Kingdom, 44 00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:03,533 secret societies are everywhere. 45 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:07,100 The most famous is the Freemasons 46 00:02:07,100 --> 00:02:09,233 founded in 1717. 47 00:02:10,567 --> 00:02:13,900 But the most infamous is founded two years later, 48 00:02:13,900 --> 00:02:15,533 the Hellfire Club. 49 00:02:16,567 --> 00:02:18,867 Alongside plenty of drinking and debauchery, 50 00:02:18,867 --> 00:02:21,567 the group's primary focus is blasphemy. 51 00:02:22,700 --> 00:02:25,266 They make it their mission to mock religion, 52 00:02:25,266 --> 00:02:27,734 even naming Satan as club president. 53 00:02:29,867 --> 00:02:32,867 But the sacrilegious party does not last long. 54 00:02:32,867 --> 00:02:35,467 In early spring, 1721, 55 00:02:35,467 --> 00:02:39,600 the king bans any such immoral and profane clubs. 56 00:02:39,600 --> 00:02:42,967 However, the dark days of Hellfire are just beginning. 57 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:46,400 The club escapes across the Irish sea, 58 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:48,166 reincorporating in Dublin, 59 00:02:49,867 --> 00:02:52,467 where they take Satanism even further, 60 00:02:52,467 --> 00:02:55,667 holding black masses, mock crucifixions, 61 00:02:55,667 --> 00:02:57,533 dabbling in dark magic. 62 00:02:57,800 --> 00:02:59,867 And in 1738, 63 00:03:00,967 --> 00:03:03,967 reportedly even sacrificing a maid 64 00:03:03,967 --> 00:03:06,367 in the name of the devil. 65 00:03:06,367 --> 00:03:09,467 The club first congregates at Dublin's Eagle Tavern. 66 00:03:09,467 --> 00:03:13,467 But when they need more secrecy to perform their sinister rituals, 67 00:03:13,467 --> 00:03:14,567 they ride south, 68 00:03:14,567 --> 00:03:17,734 to a remote hunting lodge atop Montpelier Hill. 69 00:03:18,700 --> 00:03:22,500 The group mysteriously disappears in 1745. 70 00:03:22,500 --> 00:03:25,934 But its legend only grows in the three centuries since. 71 00:03:27,667 --> 00:03:30,333 The club's former haunt outside Dublin 72 00:03:31,200 --> 00:03:34,233 is considered a hive of paranormal activity. 73 00:03:35,767 --> 00:03:39,367 And their purported spirits might be getting more aggressive. 74 00:03:39,367 --> 00:03:42,400 This electronic recording of a disembodied voice 75 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:46,166 was recently captured by historian Sinead Houlihan. 76 00:03:48,367 --> 00:03:49,533 [recording plays] 77 00:03:51,700 --> 00:03:53,367 [Josh] Could this once secretive site 78 00:03:53,367 --> 00:03:56,433 truly be damned due to a deal with the Devil? 79 00:04:00,900 --> 00:04:02,166 What do you think? 80 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:06,100 So if there were actual Satanic rituals going on 81 00:04:06,100 --> 00:04:08,867 or heaven forbid, human sacrifices, 82 00:04:08,867 --> 00:04:11,100 then that is very, very dangerous. 83 00:04:11,100 --> 00:04:15,000 We might actually be dealing with intelligent, malevolent energies. 84 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:16,500 Listen, I've been to Ireland a lot. 85 00:04:16,500 --> 00:04:18,100 And it is a magical place 86 00:04:18,100 --> 00:04:19,967 but I don't mean that literally. 87 00:04:19,967 --> 00:04:23,100 How much of this story's real and how much is just bravado? 88 00:04:23,100 --> 00:04:26,100 Hopefully, they've embellished the whole Satan-worshipping angle. 89 00:04:26,100 --> 00:04:28,600 I think the devil's in the details here. 90 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:29,600 Well put. 91 00:04:29,600 --> 00:04:31,867 So the mission is, get to Dublin, meet Sinead, 92 00:04:31,867 --> 00:04:34,266 and separate fact from fiction. 93 00:04:34,266 --> 00:04:35,867 Raise hell with Hellfire. 94 00:04:35,867 --> 00:04:37,433 -Hell yeah! -We're on it. 95 00:04:37,700 --> 00:04:39,367 Good luck. 96 00:04:39,367 --> 00:04:43,333 It's a six-and-a-half-hour flight from New York to Ireland's capital, Dublin. 97 00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:47,667 [Irish folk music playing] 98 00:04:49,100 --> 00:04:51,367 [Josh] Located on the banks of the river Liffey, 99 00:04:51,367 --> 00:04:54,667 people have been making their home here for thousands of years. 100 00:04:56,900 --> 00:04:58,100 [Phil] So have you been here before? 101 00:04:58,100 --> 00:05:00,367 [Jessica] I've not. I've always wanted to come. 102 00:05:01,500 --> 00:05:04,367 -So this where we are, right now... -Yeah? 103 00:05:04,367 --> 00:05:07,900 This is called Cork Hill. This is the most historic part of Dublin. 104 00:05:07,900 --> 00:05:10,100 And I've definitely had a Guinness 105 00:05:10,100 --> 00:05:12,266 or four, in the bars up and down around here. 106 00:05:12,266 --> 00:05:13,567 How many bars around here? 107 00:05:13,567 --> 00:05:16,467 A few and I can't exactly remember. 108 00:05:16,467 --> 00:05:18,367 The reason I brought you here is because 109 00:05:18,367 --> 00:05:20,567 there was something very interesting 110 00:05:20,567 --> 00:05:22,567 on the side of one of these buildings. 111 00:05:22,567 --> 00:05:23,967 I think you're gonna want to see it. 112 00:05:24,567 --> 00:05:26,266 Check it out. 113 00:05:26,266 --> 00:05:29,066 -[Jessica] Oh, no way! The Eagle Tavern! -Yes! Which is? 114 00:05:29,066 --> 00:05:32,333 The Hellfire Club meeting place. Okay! 115 00:05:33,667 --> 00:05:36,467 So this is where they would come and do their debauchery. 116 00:05:36,467 --> 00:05:38,166 [Josh] While Hellfire's first meeting place 117 00:05:38,166 --> 00:05:40,467 sits prominently in the center of Dublin, 118 00:05:40,467 --> 00:05:44,567 it's where the society moved to next that's most infamous. 119 00:05:44,567 --> 00:05:48,266 A hunting lodge seven miles south atop Montpelier Hill. 120 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:53,667 [suspenseful music playing] 121 00:05:53,667 --> 00:05:55,333 [Phil] I think we gotta go up through here. 122 00:05:56,700 --> 00:05:58,767 So I figured if this is how they got to the hunting lodge 123 00:05:58,767 --> 00:06:00,166 back in the 1700s, 124 00:06:00,166 --> 00:06:01,834 we might as well ride in style. 125 00:06:02,467 --> 00:06:04,433 [horse whinnies] 126 00:06:05,400 --> 00:06:07,000 [Jessica] Imagine doing this everyday. 127 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:09,266 Like, this is your only mode of transportation. 128 00:06:10,467 --> 00:06:14,367 It really gives you a sense of how far away from the city you are. 129 00:06:15,900 --> 00:06:19,467 The top of this hill would be a good place to look over Dublin 130 00:06:19,467 --> 00:06:22,867 but also get into some interesting business 131 00:06:22,867 --> 00:06:24,033 -without being seen. -Yeah. 132 00:06:25,367 --> 00:06:28,166 [enthralling instrumental music playing] 133 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:32,333 [Jessica] Look at that! 134 00:06:33,700 --> 00:06:36,500 -[Phil] Hey! You're okay. You're okay. -[whinnies] 135 00:06:36,500 --> 00:06:38,066 You're okay. 136 00:06:38,066 --> 00:06:40,567 So this is where it all went down. 137 00:06:40,567 --> 00:06:42,734 And it looks like a place that Satan would hang out in. 138 00:06:43,500 --> 00:06:47,467 [suspenseful music playing] 139 00:06:50,700 --> 00:06:53,066 [Phil] Wow. So there's the hunting lodge. 140 00:06:53,066 --> 00:06:55,100 [neighs] 141 00:06:55,100 --> 00:06:57,400 [Phil] As we finish our trek on horseback, 142 00:06:57,400 --> 00:06:59,800 we meet our eyewitness, Sinead Houlihan. 143 00:06:59,800 --> 00:07:01,066 -Hi! -Hi. 144 00:07:01,066 --> 00:07:02,266 -Hi, I'm Phil. -Nice to meet you. 145 00:07:02,266 --> 00:07:03,767 Sinead. 146 00:07:03,767 --> 00:07:05,467 [Phil] Sinead is a local historian 147 00:07:05,467 --> 00:07:07,667 who's been to this site several times 148 00:07:07,667 --> 00:07:10,567 and has experienced some truly bizarre events. 149 00:07:10,567 --> 00:07:13,767 This is quite the building. 150 00:07:13,767 --> 00:07:17,867 It is. It dates back to 1725 151 00:07:17,867 --> 00:07:21,333 when it was first set up as a hunting lodge by Wiliam Conolly. 152 00:07:22,367 --> 00:07:25,600 He died four years after building this lodge. 153 00:07:25,600 --> 00:07:30,066 There was a Hellfire Club started in 1735 by Richard Parsons. 154 00:07:32,266 --> 00:07:35,133 Upper class society used to congregate here. 155 00:07:38,066 --> 00:07:40,834 The rituals, the sacrifices, murders, 156 00:07:41,667 --> 00:07:44,133 all the debauchery, all of the misbehavior 157 00:07:44,667 --> 00:07:46,767 and a lot of evil. 158 00:07:46,767 --> 00:07:48,867 [Jessica] Were Parsons and his group up here 159 00:07:48,867 --> 00:07:52,667 legitimately trying to bring up Satan? 160 00:07:52,667 --> 00:07:56,000 Dabbling in the dark side was popular at the time. 161 00:07:56,000 --> 00:08:01,066 I think they were trying to invoke Satan or other dark entities that were here. 162 00:08:01,066 --> 00:08:03,900 What kind of experiences have you had up here then? 163 00:08:03,900 --> 00:08:06,367 [Sinead] I heard a woman wailing in the distance. 164 00:08:06,367 --> 00:08:08,467 [woman wailing] 165 00:08:09,266 --> 00:08:11,367 Went over to see what it was. 166 00:08:11,367 --> 00:08:13,200 While I got there, 167 00:08:13,200 --> 00:08:16,166 um, the same exact sound switched to the other side. 168 00:08:16,166 --> 00:08:19,400 [woman wailing] 169 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:21,600 [Sinead] And next thing, the sound changed again. 170 00:08:21,600 --> 00:08:22,800 [woman wails] 171 00:08:24,767 --> 00:08:28,467 People come up here and they have had stones thrown at them 172 00:08:28,467 --> 00:08:29,900 from the second floor. 173 00:08:29,900 --> 00:08:32,066 [Phil] Did they just hear a stone fall? 174 00:08:32,066 --> 00:08:34,066 -Or did they see-- -It was actually thrown at them. 175 00:08:34,066 --> 00:08:35,834 From one room to another. 176 00:08:36,266 --> 00:08:38,000 Not only that. 177 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:40,967 They have heard music and whispered voices 178 00:08:40,967 --> 00:08:42,634 coming through the building as well. 179 00:08:43,767 --> 00:08:47,200 And there's like layers of paranormal activity occurring here. 180 00:08:47,200 --> 00:08:49,300 Like a snowball effect over the years, 181 00:08:49,300 --> 00:08:51,166 it keeps building up and building up. 182 00:08:51,166 --> 00:08:53,867 Especially from the EVP, where you heard "Get out." 183 00:08:56,467 --> 00:08:57,800 [recording plays] 184 00:08:59,700 --> 00:09:03,467 Something that's quite stern and it doesn't like anybody being here. 185 00:09:03,467 --> 00:09:04,934 It's quite antagonistic. 186 00:09:05,867 --> 00:09:08,600 [Jessica] I can only imagine how terrifying 187 00:09:08,600 --> 00:09:11,900 the specter of this lodge must have been for the locals during its peak 188 00:09:11,900 --> 00:09:14,367 as the home base of the Hellfire Club. 189 00:09:14,367 --> 00:09:15,767 [Sinead] Best of luck to you. 190 00:09:15,767 --> 00:09:18,600 [Jessica] Sinead definitely gave us a lot of intel to follow up on. 191 00:09:18,600 --> 00:09:22,867 And as night falls, we have the entire hunting lodge to ourselves. 192 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:27,867 [Phil] Okay. 193 00:09:33,500 --> 00:09:35,166 [Jessica] The lodge consists of two levels 194 00:09:35,166 --> 00:09:38,667 with a main entrance that was originally on the second floor. 195 00:09:38,667 --> 00:09:41,266 A third story has since been destroyed. 196 00:09:41,266 --> 00:09:45,333 The first floor housed a kitchen, servants' quarters and adjacent stables. 197 00:09:46,467 --> 00:09:48,867 The plan tonight is to do a paranormal sweep 198 00:09:48,867 --> 00:09:50,867 of this historic Hellfire site... 199 00:09:52,367 --> 00:09:53,400 [Phil] That goes all the way up. 200 00:09:53,400 --> 00:09:55,066 -[Jessica] Let me see. -Check it out. 201 00:09:55,066 --> 00:09:56,367 [Jessica] ...and to try and find answers 202 00:09:56,367 --> 00:09:58,934 behind who or what might be haunting it. 203 00:10:00,600 --> 00:10:01,567 Why do you think 204 00:10:02,967 --> 00:10:06,433 there's certain spots that are... leaking water? 205 00:10:07,667 --> 00:10:09,467 I think it must be the cracks up here. 206 00:10:09,467 --> 00:10:11,867 After all, it's been around for a long time. 207 00:10:15,467 --> 00:10:16,900 Did you hear that? 208 00:10:16,900 --> 00:10:18,767 -That was me. -What'd you do? 209 00:10:18,767 --> 00:10:20,066 Wait, that you mean? 210 00:10:20,066 --> 00:10:21,200 -[Phil] Yeah, that. -That, that's... 211 00:10:21,200 --> 00:10:22,467 -Wow. -That was my foot. 212 00:10:22,467 --> 00:10:25,266 So you were there. Sounded like it came from right above me. 213 00:10:25,266 --> 00:10:27,834 It's definitely bouncing up and coming down. 214 00:10:28,367 --> 00:10:29,734 [softly] Weird place. 215 00:10:31,367 --> 00:10:35,467 [captivating instrumental music playing] 216 00:10:37,600 --> 00:10:38,834 [water drips] 217 00:10:40,900 --> 00:10:44,066 [Phil whispering] So this is the floor where Sinead said 218 00:10:44,700 --> 00:10:46,367 a lot of the activity happens. 219 00:10:47,266 --> 00:10:48,166 [in normal voice] Check it out. 220 00:10:48,166 --> 00:10:49,834 A view of Dublin right out the window here. 221 00:10:50,567 --> 00:10:51,734 [Jessica] That's cool. 222 00:10:55,767 --> 00:10:56,967 [clanging] 223 00:10:56,967 --> 00:10:59,166 -[suspenseful music playing] -[Jessica] The [bleep]! 224 00:11:03,667 --> 00:11:04,834 What was that? 225 00:11:08,200 --> 00:11:09,533 Sounded like metal. 226 00:11:14,100 --> 00:11:15,567 Check this out, Jess. 227 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:20,066 -[Jessica] What? What you got? -This rock. 228 00:11:21,467 --> 00:11:23,266 Do you think that's what Jess fell? 229 00:11:23,266 --> 00:11:25,400 [Jessica] No, that sounded like something going down the stairs. 230 00:11:25,400 --> 00:11:28,066 [Phil] Yeah, but it sounded like something could have been hitting this. 231 00:11:29,567 --> 00:11:30,667 [clanging] 232 00:11:30,667 --> 00:11:32,700 -[Jessica] Mm... -That's-- That is the exact noise. 233 00:11:32,700 --> 00:11:35,367 -What? -That high pitch, 100%. 234 00:11:35,367 --> 00:11:36,533 I'm not saying it was this. 235 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:39,066 [Jessica] I don't know about that one. 236 00:11:47,367 --> 00:11:48,667 [thump] 237 00:11:50,967 --> 00:11:52,867 -[Jessica] What the [bleep] was that? -What the hell was that? 238 00:11:53,667 --> 00:11:56,734 [intense music playing] 239 00:12:01,367 --> 00:12:03,867 [Phil] Oh, look at that pigeon nest. Right here. 240 00:12:03,867 --> 00:12:06,567 Okay. Well, we know this place is alive. 241 00:12:06,567 --> 00:12:09,533 [intense music playing] 242 00:12:11,967 --> 00:12:15,066 -Big space, you'd have a fire place. -Yeah. 243 00:12:16,367 --> 00:12:19,367 [Phi] This could be exactly the space 244 00:12:19,367 --> 00:12:22,367 where Parsons, almost 300 years ago, 245 00:12:22,367 --> 00:12:24,734 -ran the rituals of the Hellfire Club. -Yeah. 246 00:12:27,400 --> 00:12:30,667 [Jessica] So, what would you like to do? 247 00:12:30,667 --> 00:12:35,767 So I'm... really curious about how sound and wind pass through this place. 248 00:12:35,767 --> 00:12:38,700 'Cause obviously there's big, open windows everywhere. 249 00:12:38,700 --> 00:12:41,567 But some of them are more narrow. 250 00:12:41,567 --> 00:12:46,800 We've already experienced how sound is bouncing around here in some interesting ways. 251 00:12:46,800 --> 00:12:50,367 So to visualize the passage of the wind through here, 252 00:12:50,367 --> 00:12:52,667 I have the proof right now. A fog machine. 253 00:12:52,667 --> 00:12:55,266 -You brought a fog machine? -It's not to party, Jess. 254 00:12:55,266 --> 00:12:57,266 It's to visualize the wind. 255 00:12:57,266 --> 00:12:59,000 So where do you want to set up your fog machine? 256 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:02,767 I think the bottom floor because then I'll get a sense of if any air 257 00:13:02,767 --> 00:13:05,400 is lifting up or coming in and out of the windows down there. 258 00:13:05,400 --> 00:13:09,867 Okay. And then I can do IR camera up here. 259 00:13:09,867 --> 00:13:12,834 -Then I can try and do some call-and-response. -Okay. 260 00:13:13,767 --> 00:13:16,600 [enthralling instrumental music playing] 261 00:13:16,600 --> 00:13:17,767 [Jessica] After our walk-through, 262 00:13:17,767 --> 00:13:20,333 Phil heads back downstairs to prep the fog machine. 263 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:34,467 [Phil] So my fog machine will help me visualize 264 00:13:34,467 --> 00:13:35,834 the movement of the wind in here. 265 00:13:37,500 --> 00:13:38,900 This is an anemometer. 266 00:13:38,900 --> 00:13:41,567 I'm gonna set up several of them around. 267 00:13:41,567 --> 00:13:45,100 And that will actually measure the velocity of the wind 268 00:13:45,100 --> 00:13:46,667 going through these little passages. 269 00:13:46,667 --> 00:13:49,166 To see if we get any peaks that are strong enough 270 00:13:49,166 --> 00:13:51,266 to knock over something like a stone. 271 00:13:51,266 --> 00:13:53,567 Make it seem like a stone's been thrown at somebody. 272 00:13:55,100 --> 00:13:56,433 [Jessica] Okay. 273 00:13:58,000 --> 00:13:59,600 I stay on the second floor 274 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:02,200 and position an IR camera on one side of the floor 275 00:14:02,200 --> 00:14:03,867 and a REM-POD on the other. 276 00:14:03,867 --> 00:14:05,867 [chiming] 277 00:14:05,867 --> 00:14:09,266 I want to try to make contact with any of the intelligent entities 278 00:14:09,266 --> 00:14:11,834 believed to be here through a call-and-response session. 279 00:14:14,266 --> 00:14:16,667 Accounts of the club's gatherings claim that members 280 00:14:16,667 --> 00:14:18,367 frequently drank scailtin... 281 00:14:19,300 --> 00:14:20,266 Okay. 282 00:14:20,266 --> 00:14:22,500 ...a mixture of Irish whiskey and hot butter 283 00:14:22,500 --> 00:14:24,233 with a dash of brimstone, 284 00:14:25,367 --> 00:14:27,567 more commonly known as sulfur. 285 00:14:33,967 --> 00:14:35,066 Cheers. 286 00:14:35,066 --> 00:14:37,000 So I pour a glass as a trigger object 287 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:38,567 to connect with any restless souls 288 00:14:38,567 --> 00:14:40,900 or Satanic imprints that might be with us. 289 00:14:40,900 --> 00:14:43,433 [softly] Oh, my! [inhales] Ooh! 290 00:14:50,567 --> 00:14:51,967 So right now... 291 00:14:54,867 --> 00:14:57,467 So right now it's really clear that the wind 292 00:14:57,467 --> 00:14:59,467 is blowing towards me in this direction. 293 00:14:59,467 --> 00:15:01,667 I can't even get any fog in this room. 294 00:15:03,567 --> 00:15:07,533 So it's interesting to see where it actually flows to from here. 295 00:15:12,767 --> 00:15:14,934 Oh. There we go. 296 00:15:21,266 --> 00:15:22,533 [Jessica] If you're here, 297 00:15:24,100 --> 00:15:26,767 I've poured a glass in the other room. 298 00:15:27,767 --> 00:15:30,133 Feel free to help yourself. 299 00:15:37,467 --> 00:15:40,000 There's a device that I placed in the center of the room. 300 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:41,867 It's glowing red. 301 00:15:41,867 --> 00:15:44,266 If you step near it, it will go off. 302 00:15:51,567 --> 00:15:53,734 Is there anyone in this room with me? 303 00:16:03,400 --> 00:16:05,233 It is ripping through here. 304 00:16:06,700 --> 00:16:08,066 And then it just stops. 305 00:16:08,767 --> 00:16:10,900 So we get these gusts right now. 306 00:16:10,900 --> 00:16:13,300 There, it's going, it's going, it's going, it's going, it's going. 307 00:16:13,300 --> 00:16:14,967 Look at that. Look at that speed. 308 00:16:15,700 --> 00:16:17,500 [softly] That is wild. 309 00:16:17,500 --> 00:16:21,166 [captivating music playing] 310 00:16:24,467 --> 00:16:27,667 [in normal voice] And... relatively still over here. 311 00:16:29,700 --> 00:16:31,767 And then it's just flying out this window. 312 00:16:36,900 --> 00:16:38,433 But it comes and goes. 313 00:16:39,467 --> 00:16:41,367 Which tells me that 314 00:16:41,367 --> 00:16:43,133 the air that passes through here 315 00:16:43,600 --> 00:16:44,834 is, is really volatile. 316 00:16:53,266 --> 00:16:55,634 Were you a member of the Hellfire Club? 317 00:16:57,567 --> 00:16:58,600 [beeping] 318 00:16:58,600 --> 00:16:59,834 There we go! 319 00:17:03,800 --> 00:17:07,233 Did you conduct rituals here? 320 00:17:10,767 --> 00:17:11,867 [beeping] 321 00:17:11,867 --> 00:17:14,200 Is that you making the REM-POD go off? 322 00:17:14,200 --> 00:17:17,233 [beeping] 323 00:17:18,667 --> 00:17:20,567 -[clanging] -[bleep] 324 00:17:20,567 --> 00:17:23,967 [suspenseful music playing] 325 00:17:26,100 --> 00:17:27,834 Something was throwing rocks in here. 326 00:17:34,967 --> 00:17:37,066 Phil? Phil! 327 00:17:37,066 --> 00:17:39,233 -Yeah? -Come upstairs! I heard something. 328 00:17:40,367 --> 00:17:42,734 -Where are you? -[suspenseful music playing] 329 00:17:45,567 --> 00:17:47,834 [instrumental music playing] 330 00:17:48,867 --> 00:17:49,867 -[Phil] Where are you? -Right over here. 331 00:17:51,166 --> 00:17:53,333 Sounded like something was throwing rocks in here. 332 00:17:54,867 --> 00:17:56,600 But you know, there's a lot of rocks over there. 333 00:17:56,600 --> 00:17:57,867 Do you have any idea which they were? 334 00:17:57,867 --> 00:17:59,166 [Jessica] I have no idea. 335 00:18:04,367 --> 00:18:08,667 [intense music playing] 336 00:18:08,667 --> 00:18:11,066 [Phil] You're sure it sounded like it came from here? 337 00:18:11,066 --> 00:18:13,967 Absolutely, 100%, no doubt in my mind it came from here. 338 00:18:13,967 --> 00:18:17,467 So if there were some of these rocks up there, 339 00:18:17,467 --> 00:18:20,667 -maybe the wind got strong enough. -The wind's not strong enough! 340 00:18:20,667 --> 00:18:22,367 The wind is coming in gusts. 341 00:18:22,367 --> 00:18:24,500 But you would be able to feel that in here 342 00:18:24,500 --> 00:18:26,834 if it was that strong to push rocks? 343 00:18:28,867 --> 00:18:31,834 How was the fog experiment downstairs? 344 00:18:32,567 --> 00:18:33,767 It's all over the place. 345 00:18:33,767 --> 00:18:37,467 I mean, there is no area where it just settled and sat there. 346 00:18:37,467 --> 00:18:39,867 It was constantly shifting from one room to another. 347 00:18:39,867 --> 00:18:42,367 There were some rooms I couldn't blow fog into for a while 348 00:18:42,367 --> 00:18:43,767 -'cause the wind was so strong. -Mm-hmm. 349 00:18:43,767 --> 00:18:47,066 And then 10 seconds later, the wind would take it all in. 350 00:18:47,066 --> 00:18:49,200 [softly] So I definitely think that 351 00:18:49,200 --> 00:18:54,166 wind in just the, the strange openings in here, like the one up there and here, 352 00:18:54,166 --> 00:18:57,467 plays a role in what people seem to hear in here. 353 00:18:57,467 --> 00:19:00,834 And maybe even what's being tossed around, like your pebbles. 354 00:19:02,767 --> 00:19:04,934 [Jessica] Is there an entity in here with us? 355 00:19:11,100 --> 00:19:13,133 Are you messing with us right now? 356 00:19:16,567 --> 00:19:18,433 Go ahead and throw some stones. 357 00:19:21,467 --> 00:19:23,066 [whispers] The wind just picked up. 358 00:19:26,567 --> 00:19:27,834 Last chance. 359 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:36,166 [Phil] I don't think it's here. 360 00:19:36,166 --> 00:19:38,266 [Jessica] Phil thinks nothing is in here with us. 361 00:19:38,266 --> 00:19:42,100 But I definitely had a palpable experience with the REM-POD. 362 00:19:42,100 --> 00:19:45,266 Something appeared to interact with me intelligently through it. 363 00:19:45,266 --> 00:19:48,333 But I had a lot of audio to review before I knew for sure. 364 00:19:52,266 --> 00:19:55,400 [pleasant music playing] 365 00:19:55,400 --> 00:19:57,767 [seagulls squawking] 366 00:19:57,767 --> 00:20:00,367 [Jessica] The next morning, we head back to Dublin 367 00:20:00,367 --> 00:20:02,166 to meet with a Hellfire historian... 368 00:20:02,166 --> 00:20:03,700 -[Phil] Hey, David. -[Jessica] Hi! 369 00:20:03,700 --> 00:20:06,433 [Jessica] ...to learn more about the club's Satanic secrets. 370 00:20:07,867 --> 00:20:09,400 When we're thinking about the Hellfire Club 371 00:20:09,400 --> 00:20:10,600 and why they did what they did, 372 00:20:10,600 --> 00:20:12,166 we have to think about the time we're talking about. 373 00:20:13,200 --> 00:20:15,000 The Enlightenment is happening. 374 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:16,000 A lot of people said, 375 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:17,700 "I'm a free thinker. I don't believe in 376 00:20:17,700 --> 00:20:19,667 the Biblical version of events. 377 00:20:19,667 --> 00:20:21,567 There's a rational basis for existence, 378 00:20:21,567 --> 00:20:23,700 not a Biblical or religious one." 379 00:20:23,700 --> 00:20:26,567 The Hellfire Club took it one step further and they said, 380 00:20:26,567 --> 00:20:29,166 "We are going to actually do devil worship." 381 00:20:29,667 --> 00:20:32,333 [eerie music playing] 382 00:20:37,266 --> 00:20:39,900 So whether the Hellfire Club members believed it or not, 383 00:20:39,900 --> 00:20:42,467 they were still doing a lot of rituals 384 00:20:42,467 --> 00:20:44,066 to try to bring out the devil. 385 00:20:44,066 --> 00:20:45,100 They certainly were. 386 00:20:46,266 --> 00:20:48,600 What happened with the end of the Hellfire Club 387 00:20:48,600 --> 00:20:50,867 and where did everybody end up? 388 00:20:50,867 --> 00:20:54,667 Members either died or were driven into exile 389 00:20:54,667 --> 00:20:57,867 between roughly 1738 and the early 1740s. 390 00:20:57,867 --> 00:21:01,567 One of these people who left, Sir Francis Dashwood, 391 00:21:01,567 --> 00:21:04,467 he's known to have gone to England, in West Wycombe, near London. 392 00:21:04,467 --> 00:21:06,967 It seems at that time, he convened a group of men 393 00:21:06,967 --> 00:21:09,367 who were involved in quite provocative activity. 394 00:21:09,367 --> 00:21:14,667 -[indistinct chanting] -[suspenseful music playing] 395 00:21:14,667 --> 00:21:17,600 Strictly from a sexual perspective, but also very mocking 396 00:21:17,600 --> 00:21:20,066 of established religion. 397 00:21:20,066 --> 00:21:23,100 -Offering up prayers to the Devil. -[suspenseful music playing] 398 00:21:23,100 --> 00:21:24,634 Drinking to the Devil's health. 399 00:21:25,567 --> 00:21:28,333 A sustained train of horrific blasphemy. 400 00:21:28,800 --> 00:21:31,100 Okay, interesting. 401 00:21:31,100 --> 00:21:34,066 -Well, it sounds to me like we have to head to England. -Yeah. 402 00:21:34,066 --> 00:21:36,266 -All right, well, thank you very much. -Good luck. 403 00:21:36,266 --> 00:21:38,266 -All right, thank you. -You're very welcome. 404 00:21:38,266 --> 00:21:40,600 [intense music playing] 405 00:21:40,600 --> 00:21:44,166 [Phil] If there was a darker and more disturbing Hellfire Club 406 00:21:44,166 --> 00:21:46,166 over in England, as David claims, 407 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:51,266 we need to reconnect with Josh about this new piece of intel. 408 00:21:52,166 --> 00:21:54,000 -Hey, Josh! -Hey, Josh! 409 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:57,000 Top of the morning, guys. Your Irish eyes seem to be smiling. 410 00:21:57,000 --> 00:21:59,667 -Oh. Well, that's kind of you. -Yeah. 411 00:21:59,667 --> 00:22:03,467 I got a little buzzed last night when I made this alcoholic offering. 412 00:22:03,467 --> 00:22:06,200 But it was a productive investigation overall. 413 00:22:06,200 --> 00:22:08,767 Listen, Josh, she did it for the mission. 414 00:22:08,767 --> 00:22:10,166 [Jessica] I did, I did. 415 00:22:10,166 --> 00:22:11,567 Sure, you did. Yeah. 416 00:22:11,567 --> 00:22:13,000 So how's it going out there? 417 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:15,000 It sounds as if the Hellfire Club 418 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:16,867 were probably doing Satanic rituals, 419 00:22:16,867 --> 00:22:18,800 I feel like there's definitely 420 00:22:18,800 --> 00:22:22,266 some activity out there that I cannot totally explain. 421 00:22:22,266 --> 00:22:24,400 -Okay. -Get this, Josh. 422 00:22:24,400 --> 00:22:26,467 When the Hellfire Club here kind of died down, 423 00:22:26,467 --> 00:22:28,400 there was another one that started up in England 424 00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:30,900 that was even more sinister. 425 00:22:30,900 --> 00:22:32,266 [Josh] Yes, I know about this place. 426 00:22:32,266 --> 00:22:34,166 They had these infamous caves there 427 00:22:34,166 --> 00:22:37,467 that were used, supposedly, for Hellfire rituals. 428 00:22:37,467 --> 00:22:39,667 Phil and I feel like the next step would be 429 00:22:39,667 --> 00:22:41,867 to head over to that Hellfire Club 430 00:22:41,867 --> 00:22:43,867 and start exploring that space as well. 431 00:22:43,867 --> 00:22:45,967 No objection here. Sounds like a good plan. 432 00:22:45,967 --> 00:22:47,800 Why don't you hop the next flight to London 433 00:22:47,800 --> 00:22:49,300 and check out the Hellfire caves? 434 00:22:49,300 --> 00:22:51,767 Sounds good. Thanks, Josh. 435 00:22:51,767 --> 00:22:53,500 All right, cheerio! 436 00:22:53,500 --> 00:22:56,567 [Josh] It's a 90-minute flight from Dublin to London. 437 00:22:56,567 --> 00:22:59,634 [band music playing] 438 00:23:01,467 --> 00:23:04,200 And another half-hour drive out to West Wycombe, 439 00:23:04,200 --> 00:23:06,467 the site of Dashwood's Hellfire Club 440 00:23:06,467 --> 00:23:09,166 that dates back to 1751. 441 00:23:09,166 --> 00:23:12,767 [suspenseful music playing] 442 00:23:12,767 --> 00:23:14,266 [Josh] On top of West Wycombe Hill 443 00:23:14,266 --> 00:23:18,000 sits the majestic Dashwood mausoleum 444 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:21,500 where I've arranged for Phil and Jess to meet with eyewitness Ash Darkwood. 445 00:23:21,500 --> 00:23:22,467 [Ash] How you doing? 446 00:23:22,467 --> 00:23:24,700 [Josh] He's a local historian and expert 447 00:23:24,700 --> 00:23:28,100 on all things Hellfire on this side of the Irish sea. 448 00:23:28,100 --> 00:23:31,367 What can you tell us about where we're standing right now? 449 00:23:33,166 --> 00:23:35,300 It was not until 1894 450 00:23:35,300 --> 00:23:38,600 that the activities here were referred to as a Hellfire Club. 451 00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:40,367 The members here referred to themselves 452 00:23:40,367 --> 00:23:42,266 as the Knights of Saint Francis. 453 00:23:42,266 --> 00:23:45,033 Saint Francis being Sir Francis Dashwood. 454 00:23:47,367 --> 00:23:50,600 [Jessica] Why did they get the moniker Hellfire? 455 00:23:50,600 --> 00:23:52,800 [Ash] Sir Francis Dashwood owned all this land. 456 00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:53,800 -[Jessica] Mm-hmm. -[Ash] And so he could 457 00:23:53,800 --> 00:23:55,700 do with it pretty much whatever he wanted. 458 00:23:55,700 --> 00:23:57,066 -[Jessica] Mm-hmm. -And he did. 459 00:23:58,467 --> 00:24:00,867 [Ash] For the most part, it was political meetings. 460 00:24:01,867 --> 00:24:04,066 These were the people he ruled. 461 00:24:04,066 --> 00:24:07,166 -Benjamin Franklin was an honorary member. -[Jessica] Interesting. 462 00:24:07,166 --> 00:24:10,500 The final cavern, known as the Inner Temple of the caves, 463 00:24:10,500 --> 00:24:13,600 that's where the most elite members of the club would meet. 464 00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:17,367 Sir Francis Dashwood, Paul Whitehead and maybe just a couple of others 465 00:24:17,367 --> 00:24:21,533 engaged in occult practices, black magic, Satanic worship. 466 00:24:24,767 --> 00:24:28,600 What are some of the rumors of ghosts and Whitehead being seen here. 467 00:24:28,600 --> 00:24:32,000 When Paul Whitehead died, his body was buried in London 468 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:34,567 -but in his will, he left his heart... -[Jessica] Mm-hmm. 469 00:24:34,567 --> 00:24:36,033 ...to Sir Francis Dashwood. 470 00:24:37,767 --> 00:24:40,667 And requested it to be buried here in the mausoleum. 471 00:24:42,266 --> 00:24:44,567 And it was actually based up there. 472 00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:46,700 In the Victorian period, 473 00:24:46,700 --> 00:24:49,467 an Australian soldier actually stole the heart. 474 00:24:49,467 --> 00:24:52,300 And since then, people began to see 475 00:24:52,300 --> 00:24:55,033 the apparition of Whitehead inside the cave network. 476 00:24:55,400 --> 00:24:56,700 [Phil] Huh. 477 00:24:56,700 --> 00:24:59,367 [Ash] Legend says that he's in search of his heart 478 00:24:59,367 --> 00:25:00,867 and that's why he returned. 479 00:25:00,867 --> 00:25:02,500 [Phil whispers] This is insane. 480 00:25:02,500 --> 00:25:05,100 And when the caves were refurbished, there's this famous story 481 00:25:05,100 --> 00:25:08,000 of a young child becoming lost from her mother and becoming 482 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:10,500 -completely disorientated, started crying. -[girl crying] 483 00:25:10,500 --> 00:25:14,166 And she was rescued by a man who brought her back to the entrance of the caves. 484 00:25:14,166 --> 00:25:15,266 [girl crying] 485 00:25:15,266 --> 00:25:17,166 When the adults looked around, the man was gone. 486 00:25:17,166 --> 00:25:18,266 But the child described 487 00:25:18,266 --> 00:25:22,266 a man who was believed to be Whitehead. 488 00:25:22,266 --> 00:25:27,800 [suspenseful music playing] 489 00:25:27,800 --> 00:25:29,767 [Phil in normal voice] Have you had any personal experiences here? 490 00:25:29,767 --> 00:25:30,867 I have, yes. 491 00:25:30,867 --> 00:25:32,834 -Really? -Um, there was one occasion 492 00:25:33,867 --> 00:25:37,066 I was just entering into the main banquet hall. 493 00:25:37,066 --> 00:25:40,100 And I heard my name whispered into my ear. 494 00:25:40,100 --> 00:25:41,467 [indistinct whisper] 495 00:25:41,467 --> 00:25:43,000 Almost like a stage whisper. 496 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:44,867 It was a whisper but it was quite loud, 497 00:25:44,867 --> 00:25:46,166 -if you understand what I mean. -[Jessica] Yeah. 498 00:25:46,166 --> 00:25:48,500 [Ash] So I was quite confused as to who that was. 499 00:25:48,500 --> 00:25:51,967 There was another occasion when I had a stone actually hit my glasses. 500 00:25:51,967 --> 00:25:53,500 [Phil] Was there anyone else with you? 501 00:25:53,500 --> 00:25:54,900 Not at that time, no. 502 00:25:54,900 --> 00:25:58,867 Huh. That connects to some of the reports at the Dublin Hellfire Club. 503 00:25:58,867 --> 00:26:01,467 [Ash] My personal belief is that Whitehead's heart 504 00:26:01,467 --> 00:26:03,567 by being taken, just triggered 505 00:26:03,567 --> 00:26:05,166 um, that paranormal response. 506 00:26:05,166 --> 00:26:06,567 You're a bit of a believer here. 507 00:26:06,900 --> 00:26:08,266 Yes, absolutely. 508 00:26:09,567 --> 00:26:11,467 -[Jessica] Well, thank you so much. -[Ash] Very nice to meet you. 509 00:26:11,467 --> 00:26:12,967 -[Jessica] Nice to meet you, too. -[Phil] Thank you, Ash. 510 00:26:14,700 --> 00:26:17,000 [Phil] Directly underneath all this stone and flint 511 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:18,867 that make up the Dashwood mausoleum 512 00:26:18,867 --> 00:26:21,533 sit the infamous Hellfire caves. 513 00:26:24,100 --> 00:26:27,734 Where the Satanic rituals of Sir Francis Dashwood took place. 514 00:26:28,266 --> 00:26:31,533 [suspenseful music playing] 515 00:26:33,700 --> 00:26:37,700 [enthralling instrumental music playing] 516 00:26:37,700 --> 00:26:39,166 [Jessica] Check that out. 517 00:26:41,166 --> 00:26:43,266 [Phil whispers] Weird place. 518 00:26:43,266 --> 00:26:44,867 [Jessica] Cave's right down there. 519 00:26:44,867 --> 00:26:46,233 [Phil in normal voice] That's creepy. 520 00:26:50,967 --> 00:26:56,467 [enthralling instrumental music playing] 521 00:26:56,467 --> 00:27:00,333 [Phil] The Hellfire caves run a quarter of a mile under West Wycombe Hill. 522 00:27:02,066 --> 00:27:04,867 Large, secluded alcoves connect a long labyrinth 523 00:27:04,867 --> 00:27:06,667 of chalky corridors. 524 00:27:06,667 --> 00:27:09,000 -Is that what I think it is? -Oh, yeah, it is. 525 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:10,500 -That an urn? -That's an urn. 526 00:27:10,500 --> 00:27:11,333 Whoa. 527 00:27:11,667 --> 00:27:13,166 [creaking] 528 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:18,367 It almost looks like there's ash inside there. 529 00:27:18,367 --> 00:27:20,467 Can't tell if that's just debris from the lid. 530 00:27:20,467 --> 00:27:23,066 I mean, it is broken, so that couldn't just be dust. 531 00:27:24,300 --> 00:27:26,700 [Jessica] Potentially in the presence of human remains, 532 00:27:26,700 --> 00:27:30,233 I start my digital recorder for a call-and-response session. 533 00:27:31,367 --> 00:27:32,667 Whose urn is this? 534 00:27:36,166 --> 00:27:39,166 Paul Whitehead, is this where your heart was stored? 535 00:27:44,567 --> 00:27:47,000 -I say we just keep on walking. -Okay. 536 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:49,166 -Yeah, I'm just gonna have it run. -Okay. 537 00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:57,634 [Jessica] Oh, look at that face! 538 00:27:59,266 --> 00:28:00,734 Oh, my gosh! 539 00:28:01,500 --> 00:28:02,834 [Phil] Wow. 540 00:28:05,166 --> 00:28:07,233 [Jessica] Who carved these faces on the wall? 541 00:28:09,767 --> 00:28:13,200 Ooh. Figure this just in a loop. 542 00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:16,667 So researching the cave, this is where you would check in. 543 00:28:16,667 --> 00:28:19,867 Men would go left. Women would go right. Meet on the other side. 544 00:28:19,867 --> 00:28:22,166 And that's who your sexual partner is for the rest of the night. 545 00:28:22,967 --> 00:28:26,200 Whoa. Well... 546 00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:28,500 -Gonna go left? -I'll go left. 547 00:28:28,500 --> 00:28:30,200 [Jessica] I'll go right. 548 00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:33,533 [suspenseful music playing] 549 00:28:39,467 --> 00:28:41,767 -[Jessica] Hello? Is that you-- -Hey, wow. 550 00:28:41,767 --> 00:28:43,667 [Phil] You voice carried weird in here. 551 00:28:43,667 --> 00:28:44,867 -[Jessica] Really? -Yeah. 552 00:28:44,867 --> 00:28:47,600 Let me go back, let's do that again. 553 00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:49,867 -[Phil] Yeah, talking right there. -Talk right here? 554 00:28:50,467 --> 00:28:51,767 Move a little bit forward. 555 00:28:51,767 --> 00:28:52,967 Moving forward. 556 00:28:52,967 --> 00:28:54,367 La-la-la-la-la. 557 00:28:55,066 --> 00:28:56,767 Hello? 558 00:28:56,767 --> 00:28:58,567 Is there anybody else here in with us? 559 00:28:59,567 --> 00:29:02,200 [low rumble] 560 00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:04,834 -Did you hear that low rumble? -[whispers] Yeah, I did. 561 00:29:07,066 --> 00:29:08,667 [in normal voice] If there's anyone else here with us, 562 00:29:08,667 --> 00:29:10,467 can you please make that sound again? 563 00:29:13,166 --> 00:29:14,567 [bats screeching] 564 00:29:14,567 --> 00:29:16,200 [Jessica] The bats just came buzz me. 565 00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:19,200 -[Phil whispering] Oh, my gosh. -[bats screeching] 566 00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:21,734 -[Jessica] But that's not what made that rumble. -Oh, no. 567 00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:30,400 I definitely feel like something's watching us. 568 00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:34,266 [suspenseful music playing] 569 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:46,867 [Jessica] This is the banquet hall. 570 00:29:46,867 --> 00:29:49,533 [Phil whispering indistinctly] Okay. 571 00:29:50,500 --> 00:29:52,533 [Jessica] Oh, wow! 572 00:29:54,367 --> 00:29:56,900 [Phil in normal voice] Look at the size of this place. 573 00:29:56,900 --> 00:29:58,700 [Jessica] It's massive. 574 00:29:58,700 --> 00:30:02,066 Think of all the things that happened in this room, Jess. 575 00:30:02,066 --> 00:30:05,166 -Oh! -Some pf them I don't wanna think about. 576 00:30:05,166 --> 00:30:07,233 [Jessica] Whoa, we got Venus over there. 577 00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:11,266 [indistinct whisper] 578 00:30:11,266 --> 00:30:14,100 -What'd you say? -I didn't say anything. 579 00:30:14,100 --> 00:30:16,367 -You-- Seriously? -Seriously. 580 00:30:16,367 --> 00:30:17,700 What'd you hear? 581 00:30:19,066 --> 00:30:21,767 I don't know, I just-- I thought I heard somebody just whisper. 582 00:30:22,367 --> 00:30:24,166 It sounded like "Hello." 583 00:30:24,967 --> 00:30:27,600 [suspenseful music playing] 584 00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:29,400 -[Phil whispering hoarsely] Hello? -Yeah, like that. 585 00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:32,533 -[in normal voice] That's how close you think you heard it? -Yeah, maybe even more closer. 586 00:30:37,266 --> 00:30:38,467 I don't know, it's weird. 587 00:30:38,467 --> 00:30:41,734 This is the exact spot that Ash said he heard his voice. 588 00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:46,133 Dashwood, are you here with us? 589 00:30:48,967 --> 00:30:52,066 Was that you whispering hello to us? 590 00:30:59,266 --> 00:31:01,266 I definitely heard "Hello." 591 00:31:01,266 --> 00:31:03,767 [Phil] The Hellfire banquet hall is reportedly 592 00:31:03,767 --> 00:31:07,066 the largest man-made chalk cavern in the world. 593 00:31:07,066 --> 00:31:08,767 And with its vaulted ceiling, 594 00:31:08,767 --> 00:31:11,000 the acoustics can really play tricks on you. 595 00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:12,634 [Jessica] Why don't I set up a REM-POD? 596 00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:16,767 [Phil] Jess says she definitely heard a voice in here. 597 00:31:16,767 --> 00:31:19,900 So she sets up some REM-PODs for a call-and response session. 598 00:31:19,900 --> 00:31:21,133 -[beeping] -[Jessica] Okay. 599 00:31:22,767 --> 00:31:25,400 [Jessica] Are you here for any of the Hellfire Club activities? 600 00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:28,200 [beeping] 601 00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:29,834 [Jessica] Do you see anything down the hallway? 602 00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:32,033 [Phil] Nothing over there. 603 00:31:32,367 --> 00:31:37,100 [indistinct noise] 604 00:31:37,100 --> 00:31:39,233 -[Jessica] Okay, at least we're getting some hits. -Yeah? 605 00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:41,166 That's promising. 606 00:31:43,767 --> 00:31:46,367 Is Lord Dashwood here? 607 00:31:48,467 --> 00:31:49,834 -"Yes." -"Yes." 608 00:31:50,567 --> 00:31:52,934 Is there any other Hellfire members here? 609 00:31:54,300 --> 00:31:55,266 "Me." 610 00:31:55,266 --> 00:31:56,433 Who's "me"? 611 00:31:57,767 --> 00:31:58,667 What's your name? 612 00:31:59,367 --> 00:32:00,433 [beeping] 613 00:32:02,567 --> 00:32:03,367 "Ash." 614 00:32:04,100 --> 00:32:05,367 Ash... yeah! 615 00:32:06,300 --> 00:32:08,567 "Phil"? Oh, my God, he said Phil! 616 00:32:08,567 --> 00:32:10,200 Sounded like he said "Phil." 617 00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:14,066 [indistinct noise continues] 618 00:32:14,066 --> 00:32:15,634 [Jessica] Who else is down here? 619 00:32:16,700 --> 00:32:18,266 [beeping] 620 00:32:18,266 --> 00:32:19,934 [softly] Oh, wow, that is going off again. 621 00:32:21,767 --> 00:32:23,867 [in normal voice] These are the best hits we've had all night. 622 00:32:24,367 --> 00:32:26,867 My name, Ash's name, 623 00:32:26,867 --> 00:32:29,233 I mean the chances of those names coming out, 624 00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:31,567 that's a little weird. 625 00:32:31,567 --> 00:32:33,567 [Jessica] And all in the same spot. 626 00:32:34,667 --> 00:32:35,867 The same room. 627 00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:39,667 Whoa. So what does that tell you? 628 00:32:39,667 --> 00:32:44,000 I guess it tells me, like, this place could be haunted. 629 00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:48,700 [Phil] The banquet hall is one of the most sacred spots in Dashwood's Hellfire caves... 630 00:32:48,700 --> 00:32:51,767 [Jessica] All right, we're moving along if you'd like to come with us. 631 00:32:51,767 --> 00:32:53,900 [Phil] ...second only to the inner temple 632 00:32:53,900 --> 00:32:57,166 which lies at the very end of the meandering cave route. 633 00:32:58,100 --> 00:33:00,166 Ooh... [chuckling] yeah! 634 00:33:03,767 --> 00:33:05,967 -[Phil] Wow. -[Jessica exclaims] 635 00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:10,433 So, Aphrodite, huh? 636 00:33:14,367 --> 00:33:17,867 I was thinking I'd stay here by myself, sit in the dark, 637 00:33:17,867 --> 00:33:20,200 see if anybody crosses the threshold. 638 00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:22,667 And if I can see or feel anything. 639 00:33:22,667 --> 00:33:23,734 Okay. 640 00:33:23,734 --> 00:33:25,500 Or if it's just, like, my mind playing tricks on me. 641 00:33:25,500 --> 00:33:29,000 So a bit of sensory deprivation in the deepest part of the cave? 642 00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:31,200 -Exactly. -Okay. 643 00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:33,667 Well, I'm still really curious about the banquet hall. 644 00:33:33,667 --> 00:33:35,667 -Okay. -Where Ash heard his name. 645 00:33:35,667 --> 00:33:37,867 You just heard someone whisper in your ear. 646 00:33:37,867 --> 00:33:39,567 And I wanna see if I can track down some bats 647 00:33:39,567 --> 00:33:42,367 'cause I think there's quite a few flying around in here. 648 00:33:42,367 --> 00:33:43,600 -[Jessica] All right. -Yeah. 649 00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:46,000 I would say radio me but I don't think the radio signal's 650 00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:47,266 gonna go through these walls. So-- 651 00:33:47,266 --> 00:33:49,166 No, I think we'll just have to trek back and forth 652 00:33:49,166 --> 00:33:50,667 -and just check on each other. -Okay. 653 00:33:50,667 --> 00:33:52,467 -Sounds good? -Good luck in the dark. 654 00:33:52,467 --> 00:33:53,900 Thank you. 655 00:33:54,767 --> 00:33:57,867 [Jessica] While Phil heads off to explore possible natural causes 656 00:33:57,867 --> 00:34:01,667 to the strange sounds and voices heard in these caves, 657 00:34:01,667 --> 00:34:05,066 I stay back to reach out to any of the reported spirits in here 658 00:34:05,066 --> 00:34:07,567 through a new type of call-and-response box. 659 00:34:07,567 --> 00:34:09,500 [chiming] 660 00:34:09,500 --> 00:34:10,934 Okay. 661 00:34:12,867 --> 00:34:14,500 Lights. 662 00:34:16,500 --> 00:34:20,467 All right, so there's a theory that older ghosts are more comfortable reaching out 663 00:34:20,467 --> 00:34:23,500 through mechanical devices rather than digital ones. 664 00:34:23,500 --> 00:34:25,967 It lights up and plays a music box 665 00:34:25,967 --> 00:34:28,467 anytime something passes in front of it. 666 00:34:34,767 --> 00:34:36,667 All right, lights out. 667 00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:43,066 [intense music playing] 668 00:34:43,066 --> 00:34:44,767 Is there anyone in the room with us? 669 00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:50,767 [Phil] Odd acoustics might explain 670 00:34:50,767 --> 00:34:53,166 some of the strange noises heard around here. 671 00:34:53,166 --> 00:34:57,667 But another natural source could also be the bats that call these caves home. 672 00:34:57,667 --> 00:34:59,400 So after my LIDAR scan, 673 00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:03,100 I do a walk-through with the ultrasonic bat detector that I have on my phone. 674 00:35:03,100 --> 00:35:05,500 It records echo-location signals from bats 675 00:35:05,500 --> 00:35:08,767 which it compares to a catalog of known species in the area 676 00:35:08,767 --> 00:35:12,367 to help us identify who or what is flying around here. 677 00:35:13,900 --> 00:35:15,367 [bat wings flapping] 678 00:35:15,367 --> 00:35:16,767 Ooh, we got a hit. 679 00:35:16,767 --> 00:35:20,233 -[bats screeching] -A big bat hit. 680 00:35:25,100 --> 00:35:27,266 Check that out. Leisler's Noctule. 681 00:35:27,266 --> 00:35:29,900 I actually have never heard of that bat before. 682 00:35:29,900 --> 00:35:34,667 There's, I think, 19 species that can be found here in England. 683 00:35:34,667 --> 00:35:36,166 And we got one of them in here. 684 00:35:36,166 --> 00:35:39,400 So I'm definitely gonna do some more digging on at least the size of them, 685 00:35:39,400 --> 00:35:41,000 noises that they make 686 00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:43,166 that could maybe explain a little bit 687 00:35:43,166 --> 00:35:45,066 what people say they experienced around here. 688 00:35:50,900 --> 00:35:53,834 Is Lord Francis Dashwood here? 689 00:36:00,100 --> 00:36:01,734 Is Paul Whitehead here? 690 00:36:03,367 --> 00:36:06,266 -[chiming] -Oh [bleep]! 691 00:36:09,567 --> 00:36:11,433 Paul Whitehead, is that you? 692 00:36:13,867 --> 00:36:15,033 Hello? 693 00:36:16,266 --> 00:36:19,233 [chiming] 694 00:36:19,700 --> 00:36:21,033 [yelling] Phil! 695 00:36:25,767 --> 00:36:27,900 Well, the first rule of the Hellfire Club was 696 00:36:27,900 --> 00:36:29,767 "Don't talk about the Hellfire Club." 697 00:36:29,767 --> 00:36:31,900 But over its years of devilish deeds, 698 00:36:31,900 --> 00:36:36,266 the outrageous exploits of some members spilled into public view. 699 00:36:36,266 --> 00:36:39,667 The founder of Dublin's Hellfire Club was the Earl of Rosse, 700 00:36:39,667 --> 00:36:43,900 notorious for playing so-called practical jokes on men of faith, 701 00:36:43,900 --> 00:36:47,000 infamously inviting a senior priest to his house, 702 00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:50,300 only to greet him completely naked, as you do. 703 00:36:50,300 --> 00:36:53,467 Another Hellfire member was James Worsdale. 704 00:36:53,467 --> 00:36:55,600 While visiting the Irish town of Mallow, 705 00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:59,667 Worsdale reportedly got too familiar with his landlady's daughter, 706 00:36:59,667 --> 00:37:00,967 causing the angry mother 707 00:37:00,967 --> 00:37:03,166 -to beat him with a chunk of mutton. -[Worsdale screaming] 708 00:37:04,300 --> 00:37:05,667 Mutton chop indeed. 709 00:37:05,667 --> 00:37:09,467 And most macabre of all is the story of club member Lord Santry 710 00:37:09,467 --> 00:37:11,967 who drenched his servant in brandy, 711 00:37:11,967 --> 00:37:14,967 tossed a match on him and burned him alive. 712 00:37:16,467 --> 00:37:20,433 Thank goodness these men of Hellfire are all consigned to history. 713 00:37:23,500 --> 00:37:25,734 [dramatic music playing] 714 00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:29,567 So I was in the room. 715 00:37:29,567 --> 00:37:31,266 Totally quiet, totally dark. 716 00:37:32,367 --> 00:37:34,400 I had that motion detector up. 717 00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:38,066 I'm like, "Who's here in the room?" "Is there anybody in the room with me?" 718 00:37:38,066 --> 00:37:40,000 "Is it Whitehead?" [imitates chiming] 719 00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:42,500 -What? -Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 720 00:37:42,500 --> 00:37:44,133 -Come with me. Yeah. -Okay. 721 00:37:51,867 --> 00:37:54,634 Right here. I was sitting on that bench. 722 00:37:55,200 --> 00:37:56,533 [Phil] Well... 723 00:37:58,000 --> 00:37:59,467 I have a question for you. 724 00:37:59,467 --> 00:38:01,800 Have you ever heard of the Leisler's Noctule? 725 00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:04,433 -Leisler's Noctule? -Yeah. 726 00:38:05,266 --> 00:38:08,000 That's the species name of a bat 727 00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:09,900 I ID'd flying around here. 728 00:38:09,900 --> 00:38:13,767 So I gotta wonder. What if there's a bat flying in and out of this part 729 00:38:13,767 --> 00:38:16,400 -that set this off at the right time? -[sighs wearily] 730 00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:19,367 -'Cause this is a motion detector, right? -Yeah, it is. 731 00:38:20,467 --> 00:38:23,567 You gotta wait till the light's on. Now try it. 732 00:38:24,166 --> 00:38:25,967 [chiming] 733 00:38:25,967 --> 00:38:28,433 Yeah, that's a motion detector, not EMF. 734 00:38:29,266 --> 00:38:33,200 Okay. So, I didn't detect 735 00:38:33,200 --> 00:38:35,066 any bats on this side of the cave. 736 00:38:35,066 --> 00:38:37,567 Only closer to the entrance. 737 00:38:37,567 --> 00:38:40,200 -That doesn't mean there aren't any bats around here. -Oh, really? 738 00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:43,100 -Especially with this-- -Wish this netting and stuff? 739 00:38:43,100 --> 00:38:45,266 [Phil] I bet they would love to live up there. 740 00:38:45,266 --> 00:38:47,767 [exclaiming] 741 00:38:47,767 --> 00:38:50,700 But why would a bat set off the motion detector 742 00:38:50,700 --> 00:38:54,767 right when I was going through the names? 743 00:38:54,767 --> 00:38:57,000 Maybe they finally felt comfortable in here. 744 00:38:57,000 --> 00:38:59,266 Because they didn't see lights going around. 745 00:38:59,266 --> 00:39:01,066 And so they said, "You know what? 746 00:39:01,066 --> 00:39:03,934 The coast is clear-ish." Take a fly around. 747 00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:09,567 -It's a theory. -Crap. Yeah... okay. 748 00:39:09,567 --> 00:39:12,467 I mean, I still think it's a little weird 749 00:39:12,467 --> 00:39:16,467 that it went off right when I said Whitehead's name. 750 00:39:16,467 --> 00:39:19,066 It is weird. 751 00:39:19,066 --> 00:39:22,467 I still have the recorder running. If I hear anything on there, 752 00:39:22,467 --> 00:39:25,000 if that matches up to what was going on over here, 753 00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:28,066 -then I say possibly paranormal. -Okay. 754 00:39:28,066 --> 00:39:31,166 But then if that comes up flat, then, okay, yeah, maybe it's a bat. 755 00:39:31,166 --> 00:39:33,634 -[Phil] Maybe it's a bat. -Maybe it's a bat. 756 00:39:37,600 --> 00:39:42,000 [dramatic music playing] 757 00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:46,367 [Josh] For 300 years, the sordid and Satanic Hellfire Club 758 00:39:46,367 --> 00:39:47,867 has been shrouded in mystery. 759 00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:51,467 [Phil] That's creepy. 760 00:39:51,467 --> 00:39:54,667 [Josh] My team set out to investigate the paranormal claims 761 00:39:54,667 --> 00:39:56,667 behind this secret society. 762 00:39:56,667 --> 00:39:58,100 [chiming] 763 00:39:58,100 --> 00:40:00,867 In addition to the inexplicable disturbing sounds... 764 00:40:00,867 --> 00:40:02,400 [Jessica] Oh, [bleep]! 765 00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:05,667 [Josh] ...and voices heard in real time during my team's investigations. 766 00:40:07,266 --> 00:40:08,600 -What'd you say? -[Josh] Jess conducted 767 00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:12,667 further analysis of more than 30 hours of their audio recordings 768 00:40:12,667 --> 00:40:14,433 from Ireland and England. 769 00:40:16,967 --> 00:40:21,000 She discovered a disturbing EVP from inside the haunting lodge. 770 00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:23,734 Did you conduct rituals here? 771 00:40:26,667 --> 00:40:31,133 [Josh] And another one from inside the Hellfire cave's inner temple. 772 00:40:33,900 --> 00:40:37,166 A review of the IR camera footage from this same room 773 00:40:37,166 --> 00:40:39,300 -yielded no rogue bat sightings... -[bats screeching] 774 00:40:39,300 --> 00:40:41,467 ...casting doubt on Phil's theory. 775 00:40:41,467 --> 00:40:44,166 Maybe they finally felt comfortable in here because 776 00:40:44,166 --> 00:40:45,767 they didn't see lights going around. 777 00:40:45,767 --> 00:40:48,567 [Josh] Meanwhile, we have no rational explanation 778 00:40:48,567 --> 00:40:50,266 for what triggered the sensor. 779 00:40:50,266 --> 00:40:53,033 [chiming] 780 00:40:54,066 --> 00:40:56,700 [Jessica] Paul Whitehead, is that you? 781 00:40:56,700 --> 00:41:01,000 [Josh] But Jess' favorite suspect remains the spirit of Paul Whitehead, 782 00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:03,033 still looking for his lost heart. 783 00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:07,500 Many have claimed that the hallowed halls of Hellfire 784 00:41:07,500 --> 00:41:10,900 are home to supernatural and Satanic spirits. 785 00:41:10,900 --> 00:41:14,200 The unsettling events Phil and Jess experienced, 786 00:41:14,200 --> 00:41:17,166 both in the hunting lodge and the Hellfire caves, 787 00:41:17,166 --> 00:41:21,567 do seem to suggest a darkness that defies explanation. 788 00:41:21,567 --> 00:41:24,767 One that certainly could be devilish. 789 00:41:24,767 --> 00:41:27,000 For more information on Expedition X, 790 00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:30,200 head to discovery.com/ExpeditionX.