Are you inside with us right now?
[demonic whispers]
What's in the cellar?
[demonic whispers]
[Josh] On the season premiere of Expedition X.
There is like a dark splotch in the hallway.
I join my team in the field, to investigate arguably
the most haunted building in America.
[Josh] Oh, what's that?
It detected a person right here.
[Josh] But this year my team looks a little different.
[Phil] Little bit further.
-All right. -[engine spluttering]
-[Phil] Are you sure you want to go down there? -[Heather] Absolutely.
-[Phil] You're go in first. -See you at the bottom.
[Josh] Field biologist Phil Torres is joined by Heather Amaro.
A third generation paranormal researcher.
Who are you?
[huffing voice]
[Josh] Who's two decades spent investigating
the unexplained have made her a true believer.
We've got some big questions to answer
and a lot of digging to do.
[Josh] And their first stop,
is the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum.
Where reported paranormal activity is off the charts.
And as I head towards it,
the shadow swoops towards me.
[Josh] In life, This abandoned psychiatric hospital
was infamous for its cruel treatments.
Takes a ice-pick to work
-and performed that very first ice pick lobotomy. -[Josh] Wow.
[screaming]
-[Josh] Oh! -[whimpering]
[Josh] Now are its former patients trapped
in its horrifying halls in death.
-[imperceptible] -[exclaiming in fear]
All right. First things first.
Heather, welcome to Expedition headquarters
and more importantly, to the Expedition X family.
Great. Thank you so much.
-We're thrilled to have you. -Thanks.
Are you excited?
Uh, yeah! [chuckles] Are you joking?
I have been fascinated with the paranormal my entire life,
and I'm a third generation investigator.
So joining y'all is like a dream come true.
You know what you're getting yourself into?
-Maybe. -[Josh] You'll be fine.
In fact, to commemorate you joining our merry band of investigators,
I have arranged something truly special for you to investigate.
The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum.
Oh, heck, yeah.
I take it you know this place.
I wouldn't be a very good paranormal investigator if I didn't.
Trans-Allegheny is one of the most iconic
haunted locations in the world.
Arguably the most iconic.
This is a a former psychiatric hospital
whose terrible past is said to actively haunt its present.
And they've just reached out to us with exclusive access.
For us to investigate where no team has gone before.
[Josh] Deep in the wilderness of West Virginia,
the monstrous Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum
stands abandoned,
A horrifying reminder of the evils
of early American medicine.
Construction begins in 1858.
But as the Civil War inflames America,
the asylum's construction cools to a halt.
The building's half formed husk is battled over
by Union and Confederate forces.
When the dust settles,
the vast gothic asylum
begins admitting patients in 1864.
To this day, it is one of the largest
hand cut stone buildings in North America.
But by the 1950s, a place of healing and hope
becomes one of horror
due to its controversial and often deadly treatments.
Electroshock therapy, hydrotherapy,
insulin induced comas and lobotomies.
Dr. Walter Freeman,
armed with nothing more than an ice pick and a hammer.
Makes Trans-Allegheny his home.
The patients themselves also become more sinister.
As Trans-Allegheny begins admitting
criminally insane murderers.
[distant screaming]
[Josh] In 1994, the facility shuts its doors,
but not before an estimated 20,000 people die here.
After new owners purchased the asylum
in 2007, they reopened it as a museum.
But as soon as they do, visitors begin to see
and hear things that shake them to their core.
Witnesses have reported
-disembodied voices. -[sinister laugh]
[Josh] Doors slamming...
-objects thrown... -[crashing]
[Josh] ...and full body apparitions.
Today, the main building is a mecca
for paranormal investigators.
But there are many other recently
unsealed structures on the property.
Where activity is now said to be spiking,
including the criminally insane building,
and the medical center
Recent reports range from people
getting physically attacked by unseen forces
to sightings of mysterious shadow figures.
These buildings have never been fully
investigated by paranormal teams before.
Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum
has asked the Expedition X team for help.
Offering us unprecedented access
into these unexplored structures.
We will be the first investigators
to ever televise the activity in these terrifying buildings.
What fresh horrors hide in the unseen depths
of Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum.
So what do you think?
Could Trans-Allegheny be the real deal?
Absolutely.
I mean, are you kidding?
Look at the scale of everything.
A building that's 100 years old.
Thousands of people that lived,
died and suffered there, not to mention all the medical experiments that were done.
All that pain has to leave a serious spiritual imprint behind.
So, so that's a yes?
That's a big yes.
And if we really do have access
to places that have never been investigated before,
that's like walking on the moon
for a paranormal investigator.
Okay, well, then, "Houston, we have a problem."
-Here we go. -'Cause I got to call in some issues here.
Here it comes. Here it comes.
Listen. People say they see shadows.
They hear sounds.
There could be a simple solution.
This is an old building
that could be literally decaying
before people's eyes and yours.
Heather, you-- You will learn that Phil here is our resident buzzkill.
When it comes to the paranormal,
he always blames the buildings.
-Fun. -Which is why I want you both to listen to something.
This is a recording that was sent to me
by the staff over at Trans-Allegheny.
And it was captured in the old medical center.
Wait for it.
[scream]
[man] What that... [bleep]
That is a scream.
Could that just be the scream of another person?
An animal nearby?
This was recorded inside the medical building,
and they say nobody else was around.
But look, whatever this is, between the recording and the other recent reports.
I think we have to investigate.
This is a truly iconic location.
Last year, we investigated
another of these infamous asylums.
Eloise in Detroit.
And we came back with some astounding evidence.
That was a night I will never forget.
-[Phil] The place was wild. -[Josh] Crazy.
And yet Trans-Allegheny here is even larger.
And reportedly more active
and more terrifying than Eloise.
This is going to be an incredible place
for us to investigate.
Us.
Oh, I buried the lead.
I'm coming with you.
-All right. -Full team road trip.
Full team, road trip.
I could not pass this one up.
Are you guys ready?
We are about to investigate one
of the most haunted places.
In the world.
-Let's go. -Yes.
[Josh] It's about a 2-hour flight
from the Big Apple to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
From there, we pile into a Jeep
and make the two hour drive to Weston, West Virginia.
All right. Road trip trivia.
Best movie set in an insane asylum.
-Huh... -[Heather] I got one.
Have y'all ever seen Harvey?
Harvey?
-Classic film. -Sure. Yes.
-Jimmy Stewart -[Heather] Jimmy Stewart. Right.
So he sees an invisible spirit
-that takes the shape of... -A giant bunny.
Exactly.
But it's not set in an Asylum.
They're trying to commit him the whole time
-he goes several times. -[Josh] Oh, okay. Fair enough.
I was going to say, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, but I'll go Harvey.
Harvey is fantastic.
I don't know if I've ever seen a movie about an asylum guys.
-I spent my youth-- -What?
Watching nature documentaries.
-[Josh] On my word. -Of course, he did.
I don't know how much you know about bees, Heather,
but you're about to be a world class expert.
Oh, fantastic.
Did you guys know how many species
of native bees West Virginia has?
-No. -No, Phil.
-At least a100. -Wow.
-Cool. -You want me to list them all.
-[Heather] No. -Please don't.
There's leaf cutter bees.
-There's minor bees. -[Heather sighs]
Mason bees. There's even sweat bees here.
Of course, we've got bumble bees,
and those are just major families.
We have solitary bees.
Also known as Phil at his senior prom.
-[Phil] That is not nice. -[chuckles]
I had a prom date.
-Did you? Was it a Bee? -Did you?
Was it your best friend?
She was a good friend of mine.
[laughs hysterically]
[Josh] This place has a population of, like
-under 4000 people today. -[Phil] Wow.
[Josh] But my understanding is it pretty much grew up around the asylum.
And there it is.
Whoa!
Wow. Look at that place.
[Josh chuckles]
It is huge.
I mean, it's like, as far as you can see.
Let's check it out.
[Phil] 2 1/2 miles of hallway, right?
[Josh] We're gonna get our steps in for sure.
We're here to meet with our contacts.
Jess Bowers and Zachary Stevens.
We find them waiting in the asylum's impeccably restored front lobby.
Hi there,
-Hello. -Hello.
[Josh] Jess and Zachary have spent 17 years
at Trans-Allegheny between them.
They are two of the foremost authorities
on the location's dark past.
And paranormal present.
This is one of our fully restored boards.
There's not much of that throughout here.
It doesn't all look like this.
-No, no. -[chuckles]
[Zachary] A lot of it is left in that decrepit state.
Okay, so easy simple question.
-Is it haunted? -Oh, yeah.
I mean, you didn't even hesitate.
[laughs] No.
-It's haunted. -Yes.
What kind of activity are we talking about?
[Jess] Shadow figures.
Disembodied voices.
[Zachary] Full body apparitions.
-E.V. P. -Doppelgangers.
Doppelgangers?
Yes.
Literally, what? You think you see yourself
or someone you know?
How does that work?
I've seen the other tour guides
that wasn't even around
even seen a guest that wasn't even there.
I've been seen twice in the past year.
In places that you were not.
I was not there at the time.
I was in a totally different building.
I've actually never ran into doppelganger,
so I'm pretty excited about that.
You want to meet yourself?
-I do. -[all chuckling]
[Josh] Give me a sense of the layout,
like how many buildings are here today.
[Zachary] So we still have 13 standing.
-Naturally. -Of course. 13 buildings
And would you say that those outlying buildings
have a lot of activity in them?
I believe so.
Yeah. We've just started exploring outbuildings
and us being out there so much more.
The activity is really starting to kick up.
Which buildings are we talking about?
-Why don't we go show you. -Please?
-Yeah. Come on. -[Heather] Okay.
[Jess] Follow us.
[Josh] To get a better sense of the hospital's sprawling campus.
Jess and Zachary lead us outside to a large lawn
surrounded on all sides
by additional asylum buildings.
It's incredible how many buildings
are hiding back here.
[Zachary] And behind these buildings.
That's where the farm was that we still own
over 300 acers of the original land.
All right. I got to say, that is not the prettiest building back there.
-[Phil] Yeah. -[Josh] But so start here. What is this?
The in criminally insane unit.
The worst of the worst
were housed within that building.
You're talking serial killers,
murders, rapists, all within that building.
Wow. So the most dangerous patients--
The most.
And what sort of activity is reported in there.
[Jess] We have footsteps.
-We have disembodied voices. -[woman laughing]
[Jess] Shadow figures.
Whenever you're going to unlock the building or lock up the building,
you'll hear banging from the windows
that somebody's trying to get out.
Wow. Okay, so where else don't you want to be alone in?
The medical center.
-[Josh] The building on the far end? -[Jess] Yes.
-[Josh] Okay. -Why?
[Zachary] So the medical building was built to pretty much
be the hospital for the hospital.
-[Josh] Hmm. -[Phil] What kind of procedures happened
in the medical center?
The insulin shock therapies, the lobotomies
would have been the main procedures there.
And there was a notorious
doctor here who did those lobotomies, right?
Yes. That would be Dr. Walter Freeman.
So his main room would have been within that first floor,
where he performed his ice pick lobotomies.
[Heather] Ice pick?
[Zachary] That's correct.
He went into his kitchen one day,
opened up a drawer,
takes an ice pick to work
and performed that very first ice pick lobotomy.
[Josh] What was the death rate
on those ice pick lobotomy here?
[Zachary] Fourteen percent I do believe.
[Josh exclaiming in horror]
And also, on that first floor is the morgue.
So if you died here,
you ended up on that first floor.
So thousands of bodies have passed through there.
[Josh] Wow.
Okay, so what kind of things are reported in there?
We have a shadow figure on the first floor
that we nicknamed "The Doctor."
Because he does pace back and forth
from where the procedure rooms is,
up and down the hallway.
People have seen this shadow?
-Mmm-hmm. Multiple times. -Okay.
We also have a spirit that we call "Joker."
He is mischievous.
He's known to make equipment malfunction.
Multiple people have seen him, like peeking his head around the door,
looking at you.
And have either of the two of you
-ever had experiences in there? -Yes
Probably the most terrifying encounters
that we have had on the property.
Would you mind showing us where it happened?
-Let's go. -Yeah. Come on.
Wow.
Welcome to the third floor.
This area would have been the patient rooms
for any patients that was in here for procedures.
This is where the scream happened.
The one you sent us?
Yes.
So take us through this event
because it is this, like, bloodcurdling noise.
-So... -Yes.
How many of you were here in the building that night?
There was a total of seven of us.
Six of us was down in the morgue.
On the first floor.
And one decided he wanted to walk all the floors by himself.
About three or four doors down
is whenever he heard this blood curling scream.
[screaming]
[man] What the... [bleep]
Did you hear the scream where you were?
[Jess] Yes. All six of us heard it.
While we were down on the first floor in the morgue.
I see him run down the hall and ran outside.
I went out to check on him.
I asked him what happened.
He was shaking so bad, I had to get the recorder
from him to play back what he just heard.
So he was terrified.
He was terrified.
And what about your experience, Zachary?
Where was that?
If it was up in the attic.
Let's see it.
[Zachary] I was up here exploring with another
tour guide from the asylum and a couple of his friends.
So we were all in this area.
First, it started with some noises,
so I heard a couple of footsteps.
As I hear these footsteps,
that's when I started seeing a shadow
blocking out the window at the end of the hall.
And as I head towards it,
the shadow swoops towards me.
[intense music playing]
And the shadow went over you, went into you?
What did it do?
It came up to me and then dissipated.
Did it make any noise?
-[Zachary] It did not. -Silent.
Silent.
What do you think it was?
[sighs] I would say that it was an intelligent style hunt
something that's here and able to interact with us.
[Josh] With two extraordinary eyewitness accounts
featuring a disembodied scream
and a mysterious shadow figure.
We're going to start our investigation
in the medical center.
[Phil] All right, we've got power.
So camera time.
We set up our command center on the first floor
and established surveillance on the reported hot spots.
Including the attic where the shadow figure was seen.
[Phil] Is that better?
[Josh] It looks good.
The third floor hallway where the scream was heard
and where people have reported a spirit
known as the Joker
and the surgical suite.
Where the ice pick lobotomies took place.
How about now?
[Josh] That looks perfect. Nailed it.
And where the ghost known as The Doctor
has been encountered.
All right, Josh. How is it looking?
Oh, it looks good.
Uh, come again?
I said it looks good.
Are you eating right now?
[Josh] You've gotta bank calories, Phil.
It's gonna be a long night.
Don't work too hard tonight, Josh.
[Josh] You got it, man.
Ooh, what's that?
Maybe see that?
Hey! Hey, Phil! Go back! Go back! Go back!
Phil, Come back! Come back!
I swear to you, I just saw something.
[over radio] Shine your light down the hall at that open door.
That one right there.
Is there someone down there?
[intense music playing]
That door right there.
Is there crew or anybody down there?
[Phil] All crew are behind me right now.
[Josh] For a split second,
I would swear I saw somebody down there.
Both of you guys, come here.
I can rerack this footage.
Come on down here, quick!
-What do you got? -Okay, so I'm re-racking the footage.
So this is camera 3.
There's you setting the camera.
Up on the third floor and then watch this.
So right there, we're already getting some weird IR change.
-Yes. -Mmm-hmm
Ooh, what is that?
[Heather] It looks like a figure crouching
There is like a dark splotch
in the hallway, some sort of mask.
And this is also right where that scream was recorded.
I mean, this is already a hot spot.
That's why we put a camera there.
[Phil] Mmm-hmm.
Did we just get messed with by the Joker.
Let's get up there and see what the hell this is.
-Okay. -Come on. Let's go.
[intense music playing]
[Josh] Okay, so 3rd floor.
-[Phil] Yeah. -[Josh] Wherever that dark shape was
somewhere right in here.
[Heather] We have to set up REM pods.
Absolutely.
[intense music playing]
[beeping]
Okay, so REM pods are set up.
Doors are all either open or closed.
We got a nice view down the hall.
Now we just need something to show up.
Is there anyone here with us right now?
[Josh] A scream was heard here.
Was that scream from you?
Can you scream for us now?
[Heather] Are you the Joker?
Are you the shadow that we saw on the camera?
-[beeps] -[Heather gasps]
Are you right here with us now?
[beeps]
[Heather gasps]
It this coming in here.
[Josh] One, two...
[all beeping]
[Josh] And then all of them ho!
Even closer, closer.
[Josh] Holy! [bleep]
Are you getting closer to us?
[beeping stops]
-[beeping continues] -[Heather gasps]
[Josh] Oh! The one right in front of us.
And only the one right in front of us.
It's like it walked down the hall.
Do you have something that you want to tell us?
[muffled growl]
What the [bleep] was that?
[Phil] What was that noise?
[Josh] Hello.
[whispers] Jeez, that was loud.
[Phil] It's like a growl.
[Josh] Hello.
[Heather] There is no one else in here with us.
It was like whatever it was, it got closer and closer.
And then suddenly...
...It was behind us.
Behind us, like a noise.
-Guys, I don't like this. Okay? -[Heather shivering]
[Phil] You know, I got goose bumps.
Right?
[Phil] Oh, my God.
I don't like this.
Which end of the hallway are you at?
[whispering] Let's walk back down.
So okay, back to our REM pods here.
[Phil] Yeah.
[Heather] And because we've heard something
and because of the scream heard here,
we've got to do an audio recording.
For sure, we should leave equipment here for sure to record audio.
I've got something special.
Okay. What do you got?
This is a real vintage microphone.
[Josh] Wow.
[Heather] I brought with me an old mid-century microphone.
The kind that patients here might have been familiar with.
My hope is that it may help encourage
any lingering spirits to reach out and make contact.
[snaps fingers] Right.
Microphone is hot. Audio is recording.
[Josh] Okay, so maybe we hear that noise again.
In the meantime, we got a lot more building to investigate, yeah.
-Yeah. -Okay. Come on.
Here we go.
We head up to the attic where Zachary had his disturbing encounter
with what he believes was a ghostly shadow figure.
Okay, this is, uh,
-this is a lot scarier at night. -[Phil] Oh, yeah.
Look, now that we're up here in the dark,
you really can see where Zachary was talking about seeing the shadow.
It's just ink black down there. You can't see anything.
So on one hand, you can totally imagine
how somebody sees a shadow in all that murk.
On the other hand, how does he see anything at all?
[Phil] Yeah. I mean, there's a window down there. There's a window over here.
-Let's say it's a full moon that night. -[Josh] Right.
[Phil] Then, if something were down there,
then he would be able to see some sort of shadow.
-But it doesn't explain it moving towards him. -[Josh] And shadow of what?
That's the big question.
Even if there is ambient light, what's he seeing?
The Joker?
So if he did see something ghostly down there,
let's see if we can coax it out.
-I like that idea. With the SLS. -Yeah.
-[Phil] Okay. -Sure. SLS camera.
Let's see what it picks up down there.
[Heather] SLS is powered up.
[Josh] So let's see what it sees down here.
Let's shine that right down where Zachary was looking. [whispers] Right down there.
[in normal voice] And whatever is up here, some people have claimed,
is this entity known as the Joker, right?
This is the... This is the ghost
that's supposed to mess with your equipment in the building.
Oh! What's that?
-Did you see it? It detected a person right here. -Yes.
So we were just talking about the Joker.
We saw something on our camera here just a moment ago.
Was that you?
Did we just get messed with by the Joker?
[Heather] Is the Joker here with us?
[Josh] Nothing.
What do you think, Phil?
-[exhales sharply] -Evidence of the Joker?
It's not a pattern yet. It's a single device.
Well, that brings us back to our initial question.
What did this guy Zachary see?
I don't know, but... Come on, you know what I'm gonna say.
I... I don't. It's gonna be nerdy.
What is something that could make a dark shadow over there and fly right over you?
[together] Ghosts.
-[Phil] You guys. -Right? Is that... was that the right answer?
-Obviously. -[Josh] What... What are you gonna say?
I'm just saying there's... I've already seen some raccoon poop around here.
-It could be... -A flying raccoon?
-[Phil] No. It could be-- -Like Super Mario?
It could be a bird. It could be bats up here.
-[Josh] An animal? Okay. -An animal.
[Josh] We do see droppings up on the rafters.
But if some pigeon was up here, wouldn't you hear that flying toward you?
Yeah, I suppose you would.
But, you know, I'm gonna keep looking around
-for evidence of something. -[Josh] Okay.
[Phil whispering] All right. What do we got back here?
Yeah, it's open up there.
[in normal voice] Oh! I got something good.
Let me get some gloves on.
-So... -[Josh] What'd you find?
...if this is what I think it is...
-Did you guys see it? -[Josh] I don't.
-I see a filthy fireplace. -[Phil] Exactly.
A filthy fireplace full of biological treasure. Look, look.
So do you see those? Those white spots.
-[Josh] This light stuff here? Yeah. -[Phil] Yep.
Those are mouse bones which means this is an owl pellet.
So this is what an owl regurgitates
-as it is digesting a mouse. -Right.
So this tells us for sure we've got owls up in here.
Oh, yeah. When owls fly, they fly silently.
So an owl coming at you under the right light
could seem like a shadow coming right at you.
[Josh] Okay, well,
-let's see what else is going on in this building. -[Phil] Okay.
[Josh] After Phil's possible debunk,
we make our way down to the first floor
to investigate the asylum's morgue and surgical suite.
In addition to the alleged Joker entity said to lurk here,
staff also report a shadow figure known as the Doctor.
In addition to the morgue, the first floor is also
where infamous doctor, Walter Freeman
brutally lobotomized countless patients with an ice pick.
The morgue is somewhere around here, right?
-[Heather] Morgue. -[Josh] This is the morgue. What is this?
-Oh, is this the body freezer? -[Heather] Yes.
[Josh] Look at this.
-[Phil speaks indistinctly] -[Heather] Try and pull it out. Yeah.
Oh, no. It still works?
[Josh] Oh, my word.
I mean, just think how many hundreds of bodies were on these slabs?
[Heather] Thousands.
[Josh] Wow.
The other thing is, it's so cold in here that literally...
-you can still keep people in here. -[Phil] You volunteering?
[Josh] No. No thanks. Not yet.
-Okay, let's keep looking around. -[Heather] Okay.
Looks like a ramp.
-This must be to bring patients up and down... -[Phil] Mmm-hmm.
...from the other floors.
Okay, so this is the surgical room.
So this is where those lobotomies happened. Right in here.
I mean, yeah, with an ice pick.
I think we should try to reconstruct the surgical suite.
14% of Dr. Freeman's patients died
-in this room. -[Josh] Yeah.
[Heather] Let's see if we can activate something.
-Like a trigger? -Exactly.
-And maybe we'll get something in response. -Let's see what it does.
-[Heather] All right, let's do it. -Come on.
So I know this isn't an operating table, but we can double as one.
[Josh] Yeah, close enough, right?
-I want to do a call and response. -For sure. Let's do it.
I think we should use this gurney, this surgical table,
because there may be some residual energy tied to these pieces.
-Let's see what it does. -[Heather] All right.
[machine beeps, makes static noises]
-[static intensifies] -[Phil] Ooh.
Is anyone here with us?
Is there anybody here with us?
-[on the spirit box] -Yes!
-Yes. That said yes.
It said yes.
Were you... Were you a patient here or a doctor?
-[on the spirit box] -[Heather] "Help."
[Josh] Are you saying help?
Did you have surgery in this room?
-[on the spirit box] -"Yes."
-Yes. -[Josh] Yes. Yes.
[woman shrieks]
-Oh! -[exclaims]
Turn it off, turn it off, turn it off. Shh, shh, shh.
[bleep]. That was a straight up scream.
What's outside this building? Let's... let's go outside.
[whispering] That was a scream, for sure. That was not in here.
That was outside.
Let's... let's go outside.
[in normal voice] Hello?
Came from right back here somewhere, yeah?
-There's woods here? -[Phil] Yeah.
And that... What is that? That's the criminally insane building.
-[Phil] That's the criminally insane building. -[Heather] Yes.
Shh, shh, shh, shh.
I mean, that was not something knocking over--
-[exclaims] -What? What? What? Oh, eyes!
-It's all deer. Oh, deer. Look at that. -[Phil] Deer!
-They're all just staring at us. -A dozen deer.
Look at that. Holy [bleep].
Yeah, but that could not have been a deer that made that noise.
-No. -No question, right?
-Absolutely not. -Deer can make some squeals,
-but nothing like that. That... -Oh, my God.
That was not an animal. That was a scream.
[Heather] That was a woman's scream.
[Phil] Yeah, well, we'll have to check the audio recorder later.
[Josh] So criminally insane building or the woods.
I say criminally insane building.
[Phil] You know, I'm gonna say woods.
-You wanna look in the woods? -I'll take the woods.
Okay, we'll take the building. You got a walkie?
-[Phil] Yeah, I got a walkie. -[Josh] Okay, we'll stay in touch.
Okay, go for it.
[crickets chirping]
-So, yeah, this all looks like high security. -[Heather] Yeah.
It would have, maybe, you know, orderlies, nurses behind bars here.
Look at this place.
[Heather] I mean, what was this?
I think, like, a big communal ward.
Like, they would've had beds in here.
-So all kept together? -[Josh] I think so, yeah.
-[Heather] I mean, that's a recipe for disaster, right? -[Josh] Totally.
Wow.
Okay, so, I mean, look...
whatever we heard
could have been coming from this building. It was that loud.
What if I try to scream and recreate it?
Sure. Knock yourself out.
[inhales]
[screams]
What the [bleep]?
That was a quick scream.
[Heather] I mean, that's loud, and that echoed a lot.
-[Josh] That's what it sounded like. -It did.
-This place just amplifies sound. -Yes.
So the question, then, is what could have been screaming in here?
Or who?
[Phil] There they go.
[exhales sharply]
At least we know where the deer are.
They definitely scared the daylights out of me earlier.
-[thuds] -[Heather and Josh exclaim]
-Bird. Bird, bird, bird. -[bird screeching]
-[Heather] Okay. -Oh, my word.
That scared the hell out of me.
-Okay, so... [chuckles softly] -Oh, my God, my heart is racing.
I just saw something move out of the corner of my eye.
It's okay. That's just a bird. That's a bird. We're fine.
[bird chirping]
[Josh] Okay. This keeps going up.
[bleep], it's freaky up here.
[Heather] It's solitary confinement.
Solitary rooms? Oh, yeah. Look at this.
[Heather] Oh, I do not like this.
[Josh] No, this place is terrifying.
Oh, look at these rooms.
-[Heather] Oh, my God, they're so tiny. -Can you imagine...
Can you imagine being shut in here?
[door squeaks, then thuds]
[Phil] It's awfully quiet in here.
This is thick. Most forests kind of come alive at night.
This one seems dead.
-It feels horrible in here. -Yeah.
-I think we need to try the Ovilus in here. -Okay. Sure.
Is anyone here with us right now?
[on the Ovilus]
-"Inside"? -"Inside."
Wait, are you inside with us right now?
[on the Ovilus]
"Cellar"?
In the cellar?
Is there a cellar in this building?
[on the Ovilus]
-"Find." -"Find"? Find the cellar?
Is that what you're saying?
What's in the cellar?
[on the Ovilus]
35 miles from Trans-Allegheny, is the town of Philippi,
home to a macabre display that's fascinated visitors for over a century.
Two perfectly preserved human mummies.
Were they found in an ancient Egyptian tomb?
Not quite.
Their story begins in 1888 with eccentric local farmer Graham Hamrick,
who claimed he was able to replicate ancient Egyptian mummification.
So where does this small-time farmer find cadavers to experiment with?
Well, for about $140 or 3,500 bucks today,
the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum was delighted
to sell him the bodies of two female patients
who'd gone unclaimed by their families.
Remarkably, Hamrick's technique worked.
He patented the process and soon caught the eye of P.T. Barnum,
whose traveling circus took the so-called Philippi mummies on tour for several years.
The pharaohs would be proud.
The rest of us can be rightly disturbed.
[Josh] What's in the cellar?
[on the Ovilus]
Okay. I think we're done in here.
We're leaving.
Okay, we're good in here.
-You ready? -Yeah. Yeah, let's get the hell out of here.
-[thuds] -[Josh] Ooh.
Okay, so...
Is there a cellar?
[Phil] Oh, look at that. We got structure back here.
Looks like an old barn. Must be part of the working farm that was here.
[groans softly]
[Josh] I don't know. I mean...
-I'm not sure if this place has a cellar. -[Heather] Nothing.
[Josh] It feels like we're on the lowest floor.
-What's that? -Oh, I don't know about that.
[Josh] Access closet?
Oh!
-[Heather] What? What? -Goes down.
-[Heather] To a cellar? -[Josh] To something.
-[Heather] Can you open it up? -[Josh] Oh, my word, it goes down.
I think that's your cellar right there.
All right, let's see what's down here. Come on.
[Heather] Oh, my God.
That's good. Right in the middle.
Good, good, good.
-That's good? Couple more. -[Heather] Yeah.
-It's this way. -Okay.
[Phil] Oh, yeah. Look at that.
So it looks like they would've kept cattle or hogs back here.
Wow. Check it out. Goes up.
Seems to hold enough.
Oh, yeah.
[Heather] When it had told us to come down here, it said "us".
[Josh] "Us."
Who's "us"?
-[Heather] Oh, my God. -[Josh] Can you see where it goes?
[Heather] It opens up to a bigger room.
I mean, it's wide open.
Can you get in there?
[Heather] I think I might be able to.
-[Heather groaning] -[Josh coughs]
[Heather softly] Ow.
[Josh] Okay, I'm in.
Okay.
Look at the size of this space.
What is this?
This is creepy.
[Josh] I don't think anybody's been down here in decades.
Ugh, spider webs everywhere.
I mean, people were down here for sure.
I mean, God knows what's under this soil.
Maybe when they said "us,"
maybe there's patients down here?
Maybe they disposed people down here? I don't know.
[Heather] I don't feel good.
-Oh, my God, there's writing here. -Where?
Oh.
"Keep out".
Okay, that's ominous.
I feel absolutely horrible in here.
-I would love to get out of this room. -What are you feeling?
I mean, I just feel like I'm drained,
I feel nauseous now. Let's move.
Should we follow the keep out sign?
-Yeah. -Please.
Heather seems to be having a serious reaction to being in this space...
[Heather coughs]
...so we crawled back the way we came
to get her out of this basement as quickly as possible.
[woman] Hey, Phil!
Heather, up here.
Over here!
At the barn!
What the heck?
Heather. Come on.
Guys, I'm up here.
All right, let's go find them.
[groans]
[Phil] Hello?
Oh, my God, there are a lot of frogs.
Hello?
You, guys. What the heck?
She was just calling my name.
[Heather coughing]
-[Josh] You okay? -[Heather] Yeah.
-[Josh] Let me see. -[Heather] I'm okay.
[Heather coughing]
-[Josh] What's up? -[Heather] I'm okay. [sniffs]
-[Josh] You feel nauseous? -[Heather] Yeah.
[Josh] Heather, you are not okay.
Let's get you out of these tunnels, yeah?
[Heather coughs]
-You heard Heather, yeah? -[cameraman speaking]
-Yeah. -[cameraman] Where is she?
[Phil] Where the heck is she?
[Heather retching and coughing]
[Josh] Let's get you out in the fresh air. Come on.
-You're good. You're good. -[Heather coughs]
-[Josh] Take your time. You're good. -[Heather] Okay.
Up the ladder. All right, guys, come on.
We're getting out of here. Let's go.
[Phil] Heather?
[Josh] You're almost out.
[Heather retching and coughing]
[Josh] You're good. You're good.
Let's get her some water. She's not okay, guys.
[Heather coughing]
[Phil] Though she was just calling my name out here.
[Heather coughing]
[Josh] Next time on Expedition X...
[whispering] What was that?
It was like a scratching noise. Shh, shh, shh.
...we continue our terrifying investigation
into the paranormal madhouse of the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum.
-[thuds] -[Heather gasps]
-Josh? -[Phil] We hear you.
[Josh] I hear you. What was that noise?
[Josh narrating] We discover shocking secrets from its sinister past...
Then drove the bedpost through his skull.
It's about as vicious as it gets.
Something hit me square in the chest. This is a bad place.
...and battle frightening forces beyond our understanding...
Hello?
-[on the spirit box] -"Josh"?
-[on the spirit box] -[Heather] "Get out."
...in an unforgettable investigation
of arguably the most haunted building in America.
Is there anyone here from this picture?
[all exclaiming]
[Josh] Is that you?
[all exclaiming]
[Josh] Oh, my!
It's [bleep] moving. Look at it!
[Heather] Oh, my God!
What the [bleep]?