[Josh] On this episode of Expedition X...
[Brian] Oh, something else in Phil's room.
[Phil] In this room, it's going off.
[Brian] It literally just went lights out at front right over the top.
[Jessica] Oh, the other room REM pod just went off.
[REM pod beeps]
What the heck?
[Josh] ...my team returns to the Great Lakes...
Brian, you're okay with us taking over this hotel for a few nights?
You can have the run of the inn.
[Josh] ...for a multi part investigation
to unravel the enduring mysteries
of Mackinac Island.
[Jessica] Did you see anything?
[machine]
-"Dead." -[Phil] No, it did not just say that.
[Jessica] It just absolutely did.
[Josh] And when this winter Ghost Town
pushes Jess and Phil to their physical limits...
[Jenn] A lot of spooky things that happened on board that vessel, so.
[Phil] Divers have died on this wreck?
[Brant] Yeah, they've died on this wreck.
[Phil]
[Jessica] Phil, are you okay?
[Josh] I call for some reinforcements.
One of the country's premier investigative teams,
the Ghost Brothers.
What the [bleep]
Yo, are you serious?
Something is coming out of there. That is crazy!
That is weird.
[theme music playing]
What if I were to tell you that there is a small island
where many people believe
there are more ghostly residents than living ones.
I would say sounds like the type of place
where we should test the drinking water.
[Josh] Maybe. Jess, what if I were to tell you
that it is in your backyard, your home state.
So, we're talking about Michigan.
-[Josh] We are. -Oh, that's gotta be Mackinac Island.
It is in fact Mackinac Island.
So, if you don't know Mackinac Island is this really popular
summer tourist destination.
Unfortunately, in the winter, all those people leave
and it's basically abandoned.
It's a ghost town.
And that's when folks say that this dark energy moves in.
I am completely unsurprised to hear this
because having lived around that area,
and gone to Mackinac a few times,
people there definitely think that it's haunted.
[Josh] Yeah.
And there are centuries of paranormal reports
associated with Mackinac.
We recently got a phone call from a hotel owner there.
He says he has a big problem.
[Jessica] Ghost problem?
[Josh] Ghosts, plural.
-Ooh. -Okay.
So, then what kind of paranormal activity are we talking about?
You name it.
Both him and guests at this hotel have reported seeing shadow figures,
hearing disembodied voices.
They claim to have seen furniture move in the hotel.
And the kicker, he even claims that he has video footage of a ghost.
Check this out.
Okay, so this is a view of the basement of the hotel.
This is shot from a fixed security camera.
Keep your eyes though on the left hand side of the frame.
Watch this.
-[Jessica] Oh! -[Josh] See that?
Yeah, I did see that.
It happens really quickly.
Wait for it.
[Jessica] That's weird.
What are we talking about? Is that just a person down there?
Nobody's in the basement.
Basement is locked up, this from a security camera,
nobody's down there.
And it vanishes.
In the next frame, it's gone.
So, it's not a living person.
I mean, the hotel owner has said
that he and his guests have seen shadow figures at the hotel.
This could be one of those shadow figures
Mackinac Island, the place is legendary.
Well, legendary is the right word.
You know, believers would say
that this hotel is just a small piece
of a much larger paranormal puzzle
because for as long as there have been people on Mackinac,
there's been bloodshed.
Mackinac is a tiny island
that occupies just four square miles of Lake Huron
in the far north of Michigan.
But this small piece of land
has a very big and very dark reputation.
For 3,000 years,
The Anishinaabek people revere the island
as a sacred place to fish, hunt and bury their dead.
The rival Iroquois thinks so, too.
And for centuries, these native tribes
wage bloody war for control of the island.
Then, in the early 1700's, the bloodshed continues
when French settlers see the value of the island
as part of the lucrative trade of furs to Europe
and drive the natives out.
And to add to the body count, the British are coming.
They want a piece of the fur trade, too.
Ousting the French in 1763.
But the bloodshed still isn't over.
In 1796,
the Americans take the island and the British fort
as part of the Revolutionary War.
In 1812, the British capture it back.
Then in 1814, the US invades yet again,
and reclaims the fort in the bloody battle of Mackinac.
In both ancient and modern eras,
Mackinac has been stuck in a cycle of conflict and death.
This Dark Legacy
leads to reports of paranormal activity
all over the island.
Across Mackinac,
there are sightings of a spectrum of mysterious apparitions,
shadow entities, floating orbs,
and other sights and sounds
that seem impossible to explain.
So, what do you think?
I mean, I'm stoked.
I've always wanted to investigate Mackinac Island,
and you are definitely going to get some paranormal chills.
Chills? Yes, because it's winter.
Paranormal chills, maybe not so much.
You're not buying these stories yet though.
[Phil] I'm not buying them.
Okay, well, we're gonna put your enthusiasm
and your skepticism to the test
because I have arranged for the two of you
to be among the very last people on the island this winter.
-Oh, that's awesome. -Ooh.
Yes. And you're gonna have free run of the place,
not just the hotel, but the entire island.
-Can do. -All right, good luck.
-Don't miss the ferry. -You got it.
[Josh] I'm sending the team by plane to Detroit.
Then by car to the coastal town of St. Ignace,
where they'll catch the ferry to Mackinac Island.
Just look around, it's us and the crew.
We're the only ones getting on the ferry right now.
-[Jessica] We're not smart people. -[Phil] Mm-hmm.
Getting to Mackinac is an adventure in itself.
We're leaving the car because almost all vehicles
were banned on this island back in 1901.
It makes for really clean air,
but it's not the easiest thing for a comprehensive investigation.
On the plus side, the hotel owner
said he'd have a ride waiting for us when we land.
-[Jessica] Wait, is this it? -[Phil] No.
[Jessica] Yeah, it is! I think it is!
[Phil] That is a taxi in Mackinac?
-[Jessica] Yeah. -[Phil exclaims] Oh!
Phil, Jess, hop on in.
-[Phil] Okay. I was not expecting horse and buggy. -[Jessica] Hi!
[horse neighing]
[Jessica] I remember coming here in the summer as a kid,
and it was packed.
- I have never seen it so abandoned. -[Phil] Yeah.
What are some of the more hotspot haunted areas here on the island?
Well, Mackinac Island in general,
is pretty much one big Native American burial ground.
Wow.
[Jessica] Have you ever experienced anything?
[Joe] I have. Yeah, absolutely.
Late at night, dark out.
I was driving my taxi.
Swore I saw somebody, looked back and there was no one there,
but I could feel the hair on the back of my neck stand up.
[Jessica] Like a ghost passenger?
-Absolutely, yeah. -[Jessica] Oh, my God!
[Joe] This is a funeral coming right now.
What, really?
[Joe] That's our hearse. It's over 100-years-old.
-[Phil] Wow. -[Jessica] Oh, my gosh!
The timing of that is a little creepy.
What about the place we're headed to, Small Point?
[Joe] Small Point is supposed to be one of the most haunted places on Mackinac Island.
I am both excited and slightly terrified.
[Joe] All right, here we are, Small Point.
-[Jessica] Brian! -Hello!
Hello!
[Phil] Look at this place.
Hello.
[Findley] Hello.
-[Jessica] Oh, my God. Hello. -[Findley] Hey.
[Jessica] You scared me.
-I'm Brian. -[Jessica] Jessica. Nice to meet you.
-Jessica. -[Phil] Hey, Brian, I'm Phil.
Phil, welcome to Small Point.
We've been a B&B since 1974.
And we've had over 40,000 guests in this house.
And they'll come down in the morning and say, "Guess what happened?"
There's just something going on.
That's what we'd like you to help with.
A lot of folks will experience the sensation of someone
sitting on the end of their bed,
looking out the window, towards the lake.
Upstairs, there's a lot of activity
where you hear someone going up and down the steps.
Doors opening and close.
And chains move on the door locks.
The third floor used to be an apartment
for a caretaker.
And we found an old beaver hat...
[Jessica] Wow.
[Findley] ...in the wall where he was using it as an office.
There's also a Bible.
-[Phil] Wow. -You can see their handwriting.
-Eighteen-eighty-seven. -[Phil] Pretty amazing.
[Jessica] The objects Brian found hidden in the walls of his inn
could make perfect trigger items.
Old objects that any intelligent spirits might be familiar with
from their past lives.
[Phil] That security camera footage,
can you show us where it happened?
Yes.
Basements are creepy.
[Findley] Here's the camera.
So, what you saw was coming this way,
moved into the screen, and then quickly moved out.
Can we do a little experiment while we're down here?
Do you have access to the live footage of that feed right now?
Mm-hmm.
I'm gonna try to be super quick.
Baah! Pop in and out.
[Jessica] Okay.
-[Phil] Ready? -Yeah.
Yeah, I see you.
[Phil] Did it look like me or did it look like a blur of me.
No, it looks like you.
[Phil] You could tell it was a person. It wasn't just like--
[Jessica] You can tell it was a person.
So, something moved down here.
It's just I was hoping that me moving in and out
would kind of replicate that general blur,
but you're saying it seemed clear.
It looked very clear.
Brian, you're okay with us taking over this hotel for a few nights?
We're closed for the season,
so you can have the run of the inn.
-Let's grab our gear, get going. -[Jessica] Yep.
[Phil] To minimize any cross contamination of possible evidence...
Some cameras.
...Brian agrees to leave us for the night.
We unload our gear and begin rigging the bed and breakfast
with surveillance cameras throughout its reported paranormal hotspots.
How's that?
[Phil] I think that looks great.
[Jessica] Coming down.
[Phil] The surveillance cameras feed to a monitor back at our command center
that our producer Brian will keep an eye on throughout the night.
-Let's get this going. -[Jessica] Yeah.
[Phil] Before we start with the investigation,
we decide to officially move into our rooms.
I pick the blue room.
This is the bed where they say
guests wake up with someone sitting right here
looking out at the water.
And Jess grabs the green room.
So, this room supposedly when you're sleeping,
the ghost comes and takes the covers off of you.
It should be...
a fun and interesting night.
Isolated on an empty Island,
and sleeping in an empty inn,
our plan for the night begins with Phil in the basement.
There, he'll who look for signs of rodents or other pests
that might help explain the ghostly image that was captured.
Oh, yeah, it's chilly.
I'm heading up to the attic
where I'll attempt to make contact with any paranormal entities
occupying the property.
In that little tiny closet
is where they found those personal objects.
So, it's a great place to search for any spirits
that could be connected to them.
There's a chair right here where I think we can set up one of the REM pods.
The REM pod monitors any kind of electromagnetic field
disturbance around it.
So, anytime the energy shifts in this general area,
it should set off the REM pod.
Okay.
Now, I'm going to look with infrared light
at the sphere that looks for heat.
If there's any animal down here calling this basement home,
it's going to show up as a heat signature
which could possibly help explain the video we saw.
See what we find.
I'm seeing nothing.
[Jessica] After setting up our equipment in the attic,
I decide to cover the remaining floors with additional REM pods.
It's way cold up here.
-[REM pod beeps] -Shh.
[beeping intensifies]
[Jessica] That is going off.
Hello?
[bleep]
Phil, you copy?
Yeah, go ahead, Jess.
REM pod in the pink room is going crazy.
It's red, which means it's very close.
The pink room.
[Jessica] Second floor,
furthest room on your left.
I'm gonna go get this really quick.
Copy that. Let me know if you get any updates.
[Jessica] Will do.
[Phil] Every time I see that video,
it looks like someone walked in and walked out really quickly.
The only issue is there's only two ways into this place.
One is straight ahead of me
which would have been caught on cameras,
while walking into that.
And the other is up the stairs from the inside from upstairs,
and they would have caught that on an upstairs camera,
so it kind of eliminates a person having caused that.
But obviously, there's a lot of storage in here, a lot of things.
Something could have fallen. I just don't know.
Yeah.
Phil, did you just plug something in or mess with any of the electricity?
[Phil]
I just made my way into a crawlspace down here,
but I don't think I touched anything electrical.
The lights just flickered on and off.
Oh, that's bizarre. How's the screen looking?
Any loss of power?
Let me check.
Do you see that? It was, like, orby.
Orbs.
One just flew cross right there.
That's Phil's room.
Oh, did you see it again?
Hey, we're getting actual orbs in your room
headed in the direction of your bed.
We have it on camera right now.
But right now it's only showing up in your room.
Ah, should we go up there?
[Jessica]
[Phil] All right, Jess, I'm heading up.
[REM pod beeps]
[Phil] Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
[Jessica] Yeah. Go find out which one it is.
[Phil] Where is that coming from? Is that upstairs?
[Jessica] Nope, over here.
Pink room, Pink room is getting there all night.
-[Phil] What the... -[Jessica] Hello?
This whole room is going insane right now.
Brian, you see anything going on in the Pink room.
[Brian]
Oh, something else is in Phil's room.
This room is just going off.
[Brian] It literally just went lights out at front right over the top.
[Jessica] Oh, like the other room, REM pod just went off.
[beeping]
What the heck?
Okay, doors are still closed.
Windows are still closed.
REM pod is down in Yellow room.
[Phil] What's going on?
-[Jessica] This is not frozen. -[Phil] Wow.
[Jessica] EMF on the REM pod is picking up some kind of presence in here
besides us.
Do you know what was going on in there?
[Phil] Nothing as far as I could tell.
Every single one looked as I left it.
I need to go restart this.
-Stay up here. Okay? -[Phil] Okay.
I'm going to do a sweep with the thermal.
Maybe a rodent or something small
that could have conceivably set off the REM pod
pass through here without showing on the cameras.
So, the bed check, I'm gonna check.
Oh, right here.
I'm getting a heat signature right there.
That is really bizarre.
No one has sat on this bed
this entire time we've been here.
Yet, yet...
You see the rest, there's a pillow around here.
It's like someone was sitting on the edge of this bed
looking up that way.
It's bizarre.
[Brian] Lights just went super bright.
It went super dark.
And then, went bump.
It was, like, a big bump.
[Jessica] Phil and I are actually gonna head down towards you.
[Brian on radio] Copy that.
[Jessica] Hey.
[Phil] So, you didn't see any of that?
-[Jessica] No, we don't-- -[Brian] I said, it went dark, and like...
Like it went super bright,
and went super low.
-Huh! -So, you saw something and you heard something.
Yeah, it went...
[Phil] Maybe it's when we walked around upstairs.
Should I go stomp around up there,
-and see if we can get these lights to flicker? -Might as well go do it.
I'm gonna try to get to the bottom of this.
Whoa, okay.
Right before I walked into here,
the REM pod went off.
But yes, I think I'm directly above you right now.
Yeah, I noticed that with the REM pod.
Yep, you're right above us.
All right, I'm going to do some stomping.
[REM pod beeping]
The things you do
to try to prove the house is not haunted.
[Jessica] Okay, stop.
[Phil] How are we going?
[Jessica] They stayed.
Dang it!
Staying the same. Whoa!
Whoa, they just got really bright.
And staying bright.
I mean, we don't even have any of the other lights on in any of the rooms,
so there's nothing stopping any energy.
So, while you were stomping,
none of the lights changed.
-[Phil] Really? -Nothing.
It's just kind of stayed steady.
Then, right when you're like, "Okay, I'm done."
Poof, full blast,
and it's been like this ever since, it hasn't changed.
That's strange.
We're getting so much activity in that Pink room.
I actually want to move my stuff in the Pink room,
spent the night there.
Isolating ourselves in the rooms
could lead to whatever this is attempting to contact us even more.
All right, I'm gonna go move my stuff into the Pink room.
[Phil] All right, I'm gonna go change into my PJs.
[faint footsteps]
What time is it?
All right, it's just after 03:00.
And I...
am telling you, I just heard footsteps
coming from upstairs.
Jess. Jess, can you wake up? Jess.
[Jessica] Yeah, what?
There's no one upstairs right now, right?
Brian is downstairs?
[Jessica] Yeah, Brian is downstairs sleeping.
Okay...
I just got woken up by footsteps.
Heard it twice, Jess. Get over here.
Wait, it happened again.
[creaking]
[Phil]
[creaking]
Oh, yeah. I hear it.
[Phil] Yeah.
[Jessica] As we head upstairs,
I wanna see if all the activity we are experiencing
could be coming from an intelligent presence.
In an attempt to communicate with it,
I'm using the spirit box.
This device can transmit possible otherworldly voices
by scanning radio frequencies and white noise
which in theory can be manipulated by paranormal entities.
[Phil] It's really cold up here.
[Jessica] Do you see anything?
[Phil] Nothing.
[Jessica] No, the other one.
-The REM pod. Oh, it's flickering. -[machine]
-[Phil] No, it did not just say that. -"Dead?"
It just absolutely did.
This just popped up...
-on the call and response box. -[dramatic music swells, fades]
So, tell me what this thing does. Haven't seen this one.
[Jessica] You can ask, like, yes or no based questions,
and it'll give you an answer.
It also has access to the alphabet.
So, you could potentially spell something out,
like someone's name.
[Phil] Okay.
[Jessica] Hello.
Are you here with us?
Was this your room?
[REM pod beeping]
[Jessica] Is that you making the REM pod go off?
[beeping continues]
[Jessica] Were you a guest here or have you ever stayed here?
Were you the inn's caretaker?
Are you still here with us?
It seems like whatever is causing this
has gone cold.
[Phil] We should definitely take a look at the footage from this room.
[Jessica] Check on it in the morning.
After a very sleepless night at the inn,
we decide to split up.
Phil is staying back to pour over the surveillance footage.
As for me, I can't help but sense with the flurry of activity
that we are dealing with much more than a solo entity.
I want to dig into just what other spirits could be triggering,
possible paranormal evidence at and around Small Point.
To do that, I'm heading to Fort Mackinac
to interview local historian, Phil Porter.
Like most things on the island,
the fort is shutting down for the winter.
Hi.
-Nice to meet you. -Nice to meet you.
[Jessica] But Phil agreed to give me the final tour of the season.
How did such a small island
become so important, it had so much conflict over the years.
It has to do with the geography.
Mackinac is in the Straits of Mackinac,
which connects Lake Huron and Michigan.
And before there were highways and railroads and trains,
all the traffic passed on the waterways.
So, this was right in the center of the water highway system.
It attracted first Native Americans
who came for centuries to Mackinac.
And then because the native people here had attracted Europeans,
and for a long time, for about 150 years,
the main industry of the upper Great Lakes,
and certainly the Straits of Mackinac
was the fur trade.
A very lucrative business, lots of money.
So, everybody wanted it.
[Phil] Yeah, whatever country had control of it,
it had control of a very busy industry.
And so, it was a place that countries thought
it was worth building forts and fighting over.
[Jessica] And then, for the people that did pass away here,
were they buried on the island or--
[Phil] They were always buried on the island.
Whenever people do archaeology
or do construction along the lower level,
in the area just inside the water around the bay,
inevitably we found human remains
that date back about thousand years.
And that's because this was a Native American burial ground.
-Interesting. -Yeah.
[Jessica] So, this whole shoreline,
and you're saying that's hiding thousands of years of native burials?
Yeah, they considered Mackinac a very, very sacred place,
and so they not only came here to fish in the summer,
they came here to worship,
and this is where they buried their dead.
[Jessica] Knowing now that we could be dealing with more than
just the lone spirit of a solo innkeeper,
I can't shake what Phil told me about the history of bodies
buried near the shoreline.
A witness has reached out to me
with an experience he had on that very same spot on the island
involving an unexplained orb.
And I immediately arranged for him to meet us.
-Hey, Todd. -Hey. How are you?
-[Jessica] Good, nice to see you. -[Phil] I'm Phil.
-Pleasure to meet you. -[Phil] Good to meet you.
[Jessica] Given the strange light activity
that we experienced at the bed and breakfast,
we are eager to investigate the lead.
Todd Clements is a longtime local
who has personally experienced multiple occurrences
of paranormal activity on the island.
As winter storms roll in,
Todd takes us to the place he can never forget.
[Todd] So, this is the area that I saw something.
It's a strange light.
It's a legend on the island. You hear about people who see these lights.
Yeah.
So, I'm walking home from work one night,
and I see a light right up here on the bluffs.
A little bit smaller than a basketball,
yellowy white light,
very fuzzy,
and it starts coming towards me.
And then, faster, and faster, and faster.
And it got as close as you are to me now.
Sixty-70 miles an hour,
straight out over the water.
Somewhere out there in the water, it disappeared.
-Weird. -[Todd] Really bright middle,
less bright towards the edges.
Did you hear anything?
[Todd] Nothing, completely silent.
Thing that gets me is it seems intelligent.
You gotta understand, it's a little hard to believe that story.
I was where you are before I saw it.
Well, I definitely think we should come here at night,
and see if we can see anything.
[Phil] The storm is rolling in.
The poor weather means a lack of shipping activity on the lake.
Combined with the island emptying out for the winter season,
the amount of light pollution that might affect
our investigation will be at a minimum.
Perfect for trying to isolate strange
or possibly inexplicable light sources.
I don't know how this rain is gonna affect the visibility at night.
But hopefully, we get something.
[Jessica] I've got the night vision goggles.
If something shows, we can catch it.
Do you wanna just walk the coast a little bit
with the night vision and see what we can find?
[Phil] Let's do it.
I mean, that's picking up...
-[Jessica] Everything. -[Phil] ...remarkable amount of light.
[Jessica] There's mainland.
Jesus! What the [bleep]
Did you see that?
Is it... fluctuating.
[Jessica] Jesus! What the [bleep]
Did you see that?
Is it... fluctuating.
[Phil] What do you think this is?
[Jessica] No clue.
We continue our hunt for the orb anomaly
into the early morning hours.
But whatever we saw over the Straits of Mackinac
vanished into the night as fast as it appeared.
The next morning, Josh gives us a call
with an exciting new lead for our investigation.
Hey, Josh is calling.
-Hey, Josh. -Hey.
Hey, hey. How goes it out on Mackinac Island?
The house was pretty intense.
Phil, at one point, heard footsteps above him.
It was the best sleepover I might have ever had.
[Josh] Sounds intense.
What about the outside of the hotel?
We have heard reports of these glowing floating orbs
that float around the island, and out over the water.
We went out there to try and get eyes on them ourselves at night.
And I saw something out over the straits.
It was fast, but definitely felt out of the ordinary.
We've seen and heard some things that we can't quite explain yet.
Really interesting that you saw something out over the straits.
That's one of the reasons I'm calling you, actually.
I was contacted by a local ship's captain out there.
A woman named Jenn Dowker.
And apparently, one of her divers had a terrifying experience
out on the straits just two days ago,
which is when you were there when you were on the island.
That might be paranormal activity.
Might be paranormal activity for sure.
This diver certainly thinks it's paranormal.
He is completely freaked out, apparently.
So, he was diving on a wreck called the SS Cedarville
just off of Mackinac,
and he experienced extreme disorientation
while inside the wreck.
He just got completely freaked.
And at the same time,
he experienced an equipment failure.
Captain Dowker tells me
that strange things like this
happen on the wreck of the Cedarville all the time.
It is considered the deadliest wreck in the straits.
It's apparently upside down under water,
terrible visibility.
And I think since this just happened,
we have got to go check out this report,
and see if it could be paranormal.
Jeez. Okay, I mean, that sounds like a really intense wreck to dive,
but I just wanted to make sure we can get to everything.
Yeah, if you have any backup you can send us
that would be greatly appreciated.
know there's so much to investigate there on the island.
And now, I'm sending you out to sea.
But you focus on the wreck,
-I'll see if I can get you some reinforcements out there. -Ooh.
-Heck, yeah. -[Jessica] Awesome, I'm into it.
All right. Happy hunting, guys.
-[Jessica] Bye. -[Phil] Bye, Josh. See you.
The next morning in Mackinac Harbor,
Captain Jenn and her boat
pull in to take us out to investigate the area's
most notorious shipwreck,
the SS Cedarville.
Captain Jenn.
-[Jenn] Welcome aboard. -[Jessica] Thanks for having us.
Hello.
All right, let's get fired up.
[ship siren blaring]
That was really loud.
I was not prepared mentally or emotionally for that. [laughs]
[Jenn] Sorry.
[Phil] The SS Cedarville went down on May 7th, 1965,
after colliding with another ship in a heavy fog
one mile east of Mackinac Bridge.
Although, the captain survived,
ten Cedarville crew men went down with the ship,
which now lies nearly upside down on its starboard side
on the Lake Huron floor,
about 20 minutes from shore.
[Jessica] So, how big is the wreck itself?
It's over 300 feet.
-[Phil] What? That is giant. -Yeah.
There's a lot of spooky things that happen aboard that vessel.
I had a diver just recently
had some really strange things happen down there,
equipment malfunction.
So, that seems to be a thing that happens often on the Cedarville.
There are a lot of people that go down
and they just feel spooked.
Like, they see things out of the corner of their eye,
gauges malfunctions down there.
Actually, Brant's father
is a dive instructor in the area,
and he had some major issues on the Cedarville,
and didn't want to come with us today for that purpose.
-[Jessica] No kidding. -Yeah.
Yeah, he was swimming along and all the sudden,
he thought he saw something off of the corner of his eye.
You know, it takes divers every year,
you know, at least one diver every year.
Wait, what do you mean, "Takes divers?"
Divers have died on this wreck?
Yeah, they've died on this wreck.
This shipwreck has actually taken as many divers,
as it has taken down actual crew that was on the ship initially.
-So, ten divers definitely have perished... -Ten divers.
...as well as the ten that were on the shipwreck in the first place.
That is such a large amount of death.
Do you think that the shipwreck is kind of cursed?
[Jenn] That's exactly what people say.
This is gonna be a fun dive.
There's a lot of diving accidents that happen out here,
and I don't wanna be another one.
So, we planned ahead.
Joining me on this dive will be our producer, Brian,
along with two safety divers
with decades of experience in these treacherous waters.
Comm check, Phil. Do you hear me?
[Phil]
With the dive buoy in place,
we use the anchor line as our guide to the lake floor.
The Cedarville wreckage sits at around a depth of 100 feet.
Can you see the wreck yet?
[Phil]
[Jessica] All right, so visibility is about ten feet.
That's what they were saying.
[Phil]
How is the wreck looking? What are you guys seeing down there?
[Phil]
Copy.
[Phil]
How's it looking?
[Phil]
[Jessica] What was that?
[man]
Yeah, that's what I thought I heard, too.
"Watch your [bleep] head."
[bleep]
Repeat.
Phil, comms, can you hear me?
I need a concise yes or no.
Can you hear me?
[bleep] Comms are down.
[Josh] The Straits of Mackinac
are known as one of the most dangerous waterways in America.
For hundreds of years, its rocky shoals
combined with punishing storms
have turned even the most experienced captain's knuckles white
as they grip the ship's wheel.
There are over two dozen recorded wrecks,
like the sailing vessel, Sandusky,
which tragically sank in 1856.
Its entire seven man crew going down with the ship.
The most recent is the Cedarville,
sinking in 1965.
To save his stricken craft,
the captain attempted to run the ship aground.
But before he could,
the Cedarville rolled on to its starboard side and sank.
Of the 35 crew aboard, 25 were saved,
but two died of exposure to the icy waters and eight drowned.
All of the sailors' bodies were recovered
except for one.
Like many others,
the Straits of Mackinac remain his watery grave.
Comm check, Phil. Can you hear me?
So, we're having some technical issues.
Comms are down.
It's just really weird and scary
that all of this stuff just started happening
right when we got over the wreck.
-I mean-- -[Brian on radio] Hey!
Brian, is everything okay?
[Brian]
What's going on, is everybody all right?
[Phil]
[Jessica] See these bubbles right there?
Is that them right there?
They're here. They're here. They're here.
You okay?
-[Phil] Yeah. -[Jessica] Yeah?
Your lips are blue.
-Yeah? -[Jessica] Yeah.
I mean, it's huge.
It is a huge ship down there.
And it's just really, really hard to navigate around.
The visibility is completely shot.
-[Jessica] No kidding. -So...
Everything about it just felt
kind of not right.
-Air was going fast. -[Phil] Air was going fast.
Like, super-fast.
Do you think it was leaking?
Are you in the red, too?
[Jessica] You're in the red?
-[Phil] I'm currently in the red. -[Jessica] Holy [bleep]
-Right there. -[Brian] Yeah, I'm under red.
[Jessica] Oh, my God, you guys.
[Phil] Like, it disappeared.
[Jessica] That's an awful lot of bad luck...
And-or paranormal activity messing with you.
None of this surprises me at all.
We have these kinds of events all the time on the ship.
That's exactly why it's such a big deal to dive it.
-[Jessica] I'm glad you made it back. -Me, too.
I don't think you should dive again, but it's up to you.
To me, it feels like a one and done.
We saw it, we felt it, it messed with us.
I'm good.
[Jessica] Yeah.
Not particularly proud of that dive.
That was the most dangerous dive I've ever done.
After a dangerous day on and under the water,
we're no closer to solving Mackinac's mysteries.
But waiting for us back at our potentially haunted B&B
are the much needed reinforcements that Josh promised.
-[Jessica] Hello! -Hey, look over here.
[Jessica] Hi!
-Hello! -How are y'all doing?
[Jessica] Good, how are you?
[Phil] Thank you guys for making it.
-Yeah. -Thank you for having us.
[Dalen] We're part of the big guns.
-[Jessica laughs] -That's right, that's right.
Marcus, Juwan and Dalen make up the Ghost Brothers.
They have years of experience in the paranormal,
so we're excited that they've decided to come all the way from Atlanta
to help us out.
[Marcus]
[Phil] This island is big,
it's got a lot of history here.
[Juwan] We're ready to get to it.
We've actually got an activity out on the water.
We had activity here in the house,
both at night.
And we've actually been running the cameras
while we've been gone during the day.
If you guys want to check it out.
We call that game footage.
-[Jessica laughs] -[Marcus] Yes, let's go!
Go team, go!
Whoo!
So, what do we got here?
Ooh, this is the command center.
Okay.
[Jessica] Oh, look at.
Watch. Watch this.
Right there.
[Phil] A little flash?
With the light in that room and all.
-'Cause all the other lights were on. -[Dalen] Yeah.
And that's at 08:17 this morning,
so that's right after we left.
That's weird.
-I wanna see one more time. -All right, ready?
-[Dalen] Oh, wow! -[Jessica] What the--
[Marcus] Yo, something is coming out of there.
[Josh] Next time on Expedition X...
[Dalen] Oh, look, look, look, look, look.
[Josh] My team continues their investigation
of the strange phenomena on Mackinac Island.
-[Dalen] Did that door open? -[Marcus] That is crazy!
[Josh] And they quickly learned that the more investigators they have,
the more activity they encounter.
[REM pods beeping]
[Juwan] We have an intelligent spirit down here, man.
[Josh] Their search for answers leads them to the center of town
said to be filled with the remains of the dead.
Were you buried here?
[machine]
[Josh] And what they experience
shakes them to their core.
[machine]
"Run."
[Marcus] Are you serious?