This place has taken a part of me.
It's just hard to watch this again.
-[Jay] You all right? -[Lauren speaking]
I felt like, at any time anybody could just attack anybody.
-[Zak] Were they devil worshipping? -Absolutely.
-They're cutting themselves. They're drawing blood. -Yeah.
Party's out of control.
We have seen things that defy explanation.
Experiencing the best--
-God, that was awesome, dude. That was so awesome. -Literally, man.
[Zak] ...and worst--
These dolls are gonna [bleep] take our souls.
...of the places between worlds.
I want the portals of this forest wide open.
Now it's time to look back.
One of my scariest nightmares we're about to relive.
For the first time ever, I'm inviting you, the audience into my inner sanctum.
Together we will pull back the curtain
on the biggest, scariest and funniest moments from our investigations.
I'm Zak Bagans.
And this is Ghost Adventures: Screaming Room.
We've done some investigations that have left some serious marks on ourselves.
This is one of the, um, top three investigations that I've ever done.
This made me question whether or not I wanted
to continue investigating the paranormal.
Is this worth the damage that I'm doing to myself?
Because of the sensitivities that I have,
I have those scratches. It takes time to heal 'em.
But there's times, when they are very open.
Very vulnerable to absorbing things that I can't block.
And sometimes when you watch this at home, you don't understand that.
And this is a good one to watch for that very reason.
Guys, part one of "Devil's Den."
Opened in 1957,
the Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall house some of Los Angeles' most dangerous youth.
Dangerous conditions and abuse led to the closing of Los Padrinos
on July 27th, 2019.
Who knows how many lost souls are still imprisoned within these walls.
This prison is... is abandoned but part of the reason why it's abandoned
-is because not just the inmates but also staff-- -Yeah.
-...guards were all equally terrified of this place-- -Yeah.
-[Jay] Yeah. -...because of the dark shadow man
that roamed the halls, attacked the inmates, terrorized the staff
and have possibly had an effect on death of staff.
I am sitting down with a former gang member.
Andy, what was it like, in a juvenile facility?
I mean, I've seen a whole lot of guards roughing... roughing us up.
-you know, in-- -In what way, just how physical they were?
Yeah, just, uh, pinning you down
and... and just putting their weight on you and twisted up.
[Zak] We asked Andy to show us his cell in the CD building.
This was the ward in which he was incarcerated.
-Would you be along to go in there? -[Andy] No.
[Zak] But Andy refuses. He's afraid of what lurks inside.
After much deliberation he relents.
These are the interviews I like, you know,
people you probably, normally wouldn't go out and have a chat with.
-You know? -[Jay] Exactly, yeah.
Especially you see, like, these tough guys and like just how,
you see 'em kind of break down a little bit.
Thy get emotional. They get upset.
And he has no reason to lie to you.
He has nothing to gain by telling you his story.
-This is where I slept. -[Zak] Is it just weird to visit now?
-Yeah. Yeah. -[Zak] Forty years later or whatever.
-Big time. Like, man-- -[Zak] Thirty years?
...just to know that--
I spent months here.
[eerie music playing]
[Andy] The hell. That chair has my name.
-[Zak] No way. -What a trip, huh?
[Zak] That's weird.
-What does that mean? Like, who would-- -[Andy] I don't know.
Like, it's already brutal enough,
and then you add in a demonic infestation, it's insane.
He got so freaked out by this chair that had his name on it.
-[Billy and Jay] Yeah. -Well, I mean, what are the odds in that?
-I remember. -Right?
[Zak] Although our mission has just begun,
already we are experiencing things we cannot explain.
I fear this maybe a message or worse.
A warning.
Zak, come here. Hey.
Your last interview,
-when you were just sitting right there? -[Zak] Yeah.
[Billy] Jeff comes up to me and says he saw someone walk
inside that building past that lit window.
It's completely locked up, there shouldn't be anybody in there,
-so he's kind of freaking out about it -[Zak] Where is Jeff?
-He's over here somewhere. -[Zak] Let's go.
-This completely shifted, it stopped our interview. -Yeah.
There should be nobody in any of these buildings.
A former guard leads us into the ward,
where the most troubled inmates were kept.
Yeah, he crossed right here. Totally blocked--
[Zak] Is this, this building's been locked up, right?
You just locked it up?
-[Jarett] Yeah. No. -[Zak] Nobody's in here.
And I could have swore it was a person.
I'm still looking at the building from the outside
waiting for that person to walk back by.
-This building was a straight up nightmare. -[Billy] Yep.
This is one building that I almost regret walking through that door.
Yeah, I don't care if I see that place ever again.
I have changed forever from my time inside of this building.
We've barely entered this building
and already we feel a dangerous presence.
-What do you-- You worked in this building here? -[Jarett] Yeah.
So this was my building from 2008 to 2016
I worked in this building. This is Special Handling Unit.
-[Zak] What does that mean? -[Jarett] Uh,
it's for kids that were actively suicidal.
If they were cutting, if they were trying to hang themselves--
I've saved many kids here on this by myself.
Kids would get sheets and I'd go down there and gotta cut it down.
-[Zak] And you would personally do that? -Yes.
Uh, my old boss that I worked with used to describe this place as the Devil's Den.
-I mean, this is a big, tough dude right here-- -[Billy] Mm-hmm.
...that worked as a corrections officer in the specially handling unit.
-Yeah. -This is a tough guy.
They would say that they saw different like, black shadows.
It's like a black silhouette. Somebody was in their room or somebody walked by.
Or somebody had touched them or sat on their bed.
-Um... Yes. -[Zak] They would see these black beings or entities
literally inside the rooms with them.
I was really careful of how I ask these questions
because this could have been very traumatizing but not just the inmates
who we're gonna interview soon, who had an emotional breakdown.
But also the guard.
You have to be very delicate in how you ask these questions.
He had a lot to share and like, his stor--
I just wanted to keep listening to everything he had to say.
Uh, my name is Walter Ortega.
I've been in the department for 15 years.
A kid would there would be laying down would think
that they saw me at a certain time.
When I know for a fact, that it wasn't me.
Again those were the kinds of things that make you wonder,
what, what is that they ran into at the time?
Sometimes the kids would say, "Garcia, last time I saw something in my room
and I can't explain what it is.
Do you believe in ghosts?"
And I'd say, "Well, I've seen them all my life
from the time I was a little kid.
I don't know if it's a blessing or a curse
but I've seen different things in my lifetime."
Well, the kids would say, "I hear voices. Somebody's telling me to do this."
They'd be talking in tongues, voices that I don't understand.
-And this is what they would tell mental health. -[door squeals, slams]
So that's an important thing he said.
The... he said the inmates said
the entities are telling us to do these things to ourselves.
People always ask me, "How'd you-- Why'd you get so affected
at Devil's Den?"
Listen to what this guy is saying.
-Listen to what they're all saying. -Yeah.
-Listen to what happened in this place. -Mmm.
That energy, that residual energy doesn't leave.
And those entities are bound to that residual energy.
Did you ever think that any of these juveniles in here
were like, possessed or anything?
I see-- I found a couple of kids that would cut themselves
make a pentagram with their blood or just, you know?
-[Zak] They were? They were doing that? -[Jarett] Yeah. Yeah.
He validated to us that,
yes, these inmates in here were possessed, they were speaking in tongues,
they were using their blood to worship the devil.
-This is hell in our material world, folks. -Yeah.
It's why it's Devil's Den.
[Zak] Jarett takes us to two of the cells,
where inmates were known to have performed rituals.
[Jarett] This was one of the rooms.
Then room 10 would be the two most prominent rooms
that I've seen kids trying to--
...communicate with, whoever they were trying to communicate with.
-[Zak] Were they devil worshipping? -Yes.
No way.
-I mean, if you-- -See if they were in there
just probably getting taught and fueled by something.
I mean, you're using your own blood
to make ritual markings to worship.
That's as bad as it can get, ladies and gentlemen.
-[Billy] Yeah. -That's as bad as it can get.
And to even walk into a place where that happened,
-it is dangerous. -[Jay] Yeah.
[Zak] As I begin an EVP session--
Is there anybody in here?
I quickly sensed something strange building in this hallway.
[Zak] Why is it doing that, dude?
I don't know I just had a spike, like, 17 just now.
17.5 millijoule spike is like, the elevator door just opened
-and the entity just arrived. -Yeah.
-Yeah. And then that happens. -That's what the spike means.
[Billy] Did you see that time?
[Zak] It seemed full and it's... it's not full.
Just... it's just gone.
-[flushing] -Whoa!
[Zak] What the [bleep] was that?
[Billy] Did that just [bleep] flush by itself?
[Zak] What was that dude?
-That just [bleep] flushed by itself, dude. -[Billy] Yeah, it did.
[Zak] This button is the only way to activate this toilet.
So how is it possible that it flushed with no one in the room?
Is somebody in here?
Can you flush the toilet again?
This was weird 'cause the toilet flushed
and you have to physically touch that button.
-It's hard to push too. -Yeah.
Well, because of residual energy it is using the restroom.
-You know? And just probably, did. It pushed it. -[Zak] Yeah.
-And had enough strength to push it or-- -[Zak] Yeah.
-...or yet again, to make us not go down that hallway. -Right.
-It will herd us to another direction-- -It was a distraction.
-...but yet we still went. -Right.
[Zak] This is just the beginning of a series of events
that will become our downward spiral--
Huh?
...into total chaos.
-Walk back and find Jeff. -[Billy] What?
[Zak] When Jeff entered the SHU building earlier,
I told him to leave and for his own safety not to return.
-I told his ass not to go back in there. -Is he back in there?
-[Zak] They just said he walked back in. -What!
-You told him not to go. -[Zak] Jeff!
Jeff, why are you back in here?
[Zak] You can't do this, you can't come in here by yourself.
Incredibly we find our equipment tech, Jeff in the same room,
Jarett informed us was used for devil worshipping.
I told every member of our crew, you are not to go by yourself
inside the SHU building.
Like... like, why would he do that?
Because something lured him in there.
Sometimes you can't help it or you just have to know.
It's just some weird feeling you have.
[Zak] Although I don't want to admit it to my crew,
I too feel the weight of this room.
You... you better now breathing in [bleep] out of there?
[Jeff] Yeah.
I do not want you going back in there.
-Okay? -Yeah.
-[Zak] Don't go back in there. -Okay.
Jeff and I were both sensing room 20 very similarly.
Jeff had it worse.
Jeff's a great guy and I look after my guys.
I look after my team.
And everybody on the crew they respect my leadership
and they know that these commands are for their own good.
And he said, "Yes, I will not go back in there."
And I figured with 100% that Jeff would never go back in there inside.
And little did I know that I was wrong.
-You wanna know something interesting about this. -[Jay] Mm-hmm.
-This was supposed to be just a regular episode of GA. -Yeah.
-A regular, one hour episode of Ghost Adventures. -[Jay] Right.
-But after we got there, this first day... -Mm-hmm?
I immediately made the decision to turn this into a two hour special.
-It had to be. -There's just so much to cover.
Because of what was going on here.
Sadly, one of the buildings in this prison most known for healing
turned out to be one of the most deadly.
Actually, when I was still working here,
I can't remember exactly the year that happened.
Um, unfortunately, a kid committed suicide in the infirmary.
Just decided to end it all and he hanged himself.
Sadly, they're saying, like these kids just they're,
-like, at the end find no hope-- -[Aaron] Right.
...kind of giving up on life.
And they just get taken advantage
of by these spirits or these entities.
-Influenced. -[Jay] Yeah.
[Zak] Jarett told us room 20 saw most of the devil worshipping
amongst the inmates.
What is it about this room?
Is there anything that happened in this cell?
Can you... can you go in there? Can you...
[Billy] Oh!
When you said that-- Look, look. Can you see it? Can you see it?
[Jarett] I don't know but I got--
-[Billy] Look, it's going crazy. -[Jarett] ...pretty cold.
It's getting cold in here real quick as soon as I walked in.
-We're getting 36 millijoules readings. -That's insane.
And I was walking the hallways.
You know, how powerful that is?
That's dangerous levels.
So you see us reacting that's what we are reacting to, that energy.
-If it's a 35 you're gonna feel your hair standing up. -Oh, 100%.
Jarett also sensed--
-...what I did and I feel it. -He was all messed up.
[Zak] Out of nowhere I have a sudden fit of rage
at the same time Billy receives multiple spikes
of unexplained electromagnetic energy.
I know what is happening.
And I have to walk away before it gets worse.
This is really [bleep] weird. It's weird.
I hate that look.
-When you do that-- -Yeah. You can see it in your eyes.
...I know what that means.
-Yeah. -And I gotta really be careful.
It's at this moment that I started feeling uncontrollable urges
to deflect the energy in the SHU.
[spirit box thumping]
[Zak] This place is very strong.
It's very dangerous.
[Billy] Is there anything you wanna tell us?
-[voice from spirt box] -[Billy] Did it say "death"?
[Aaron] Death?
[Zak] The things that are here,
I believe are causing some of these kids to try to take their lives.
It's a struggle.
-Because I don't want it to take full control of me. -Mm-hmm.
But in place like this, where you are getting 36 millijoule spikes--
-[Aaron] Yeah. -...in a place where inmates would cut themselves
and use their own blood to worship the devil,
and you're telling me that that's abnormal to feel these things.
It's not.
-That's why this place is vacant right now. -Yeah.
[Zak] And now, what I feared the most,
I hear Jeff Konkel. I told him not to return to this building.
And yet his voice sounds like it's coming from somewhere inside.
[Billy] Jeff!
[Zak] I am becoming extremely worried
he's falling under the influence of whatever controls this place.
We searched the entire building for Jeff but we can't find him--
-Jeff, are you okay? -[Jeff] Yeah.
[Zak] ...until now.
-[Billy] Where the hell is he? -[Zak] What are you doing, man?
The [bleep] are you doing?
The moment I open this door I sense something rotten. Something vile.
Do you fell that [bleep]
[Billy] Yeah, when you opened that door.
[Zak] Jeff looks like an animal suffocating in an unholy trap.
I opened that door. I am [bleep] charged.
[Jeff speaking]
-[Billy] 4.7. -[Zak] Look at this.
-[Jeff speaking] -It's 4.7.
It was just-- It's just hard to watch this again.
-'Cause this affected me so long after. -Mmm.
Now I don't know if you can see this at home,
but Jeff had tears strolling down his face.
-Oh, yeah. He was just all... -He was crying.
[Billy] Are you all right?
[Zak] You don't look good.
It's... it's--
-[Zak] You okay? -[Jeff speaking]
-[Billy] Oh, my God. -[Zak] Mmm. What?
[Billy] Look what room it is.
[Aaron] Oh, my God! It's room 20.
[Zak] Suddenly we realized Jeff has returned to the same room
we found him in earlier.
This is extremely troubling
considering this was the cell most linked to devil worshipping.
This is a good spot if scientists want to find out about energy.
-100%. 100% -This will be the [bleep]
I literally thought when I was gonna walk back into room 20
that I would see him laying on the floor.
Yeah, like, drawing pentagrams with his blood or something.
Dude, that's so weird he's in this room.
There were no number 20-- You said take notes Zak. What happened?
We took notes. What rooms did he say?
-Ten and 20, right? -[Billy] Yeah.
Look. Look where Jeff was. He didn't know.
Zak?
[Zak] Suddenly again outside of the same room
a negative energy grabs a hold of me the moment Jeff walks by.
Whatever has been sealed inside here has affected me,
Jeff and a former corrections officer.
Dude, look there, your eyes are totally different.
-Yeah. -You can see the difference
when you're being actively affected you're eyes actually change.
It's a struggle.
-Because I don't want it to take full control of me. -Mm-hmm.
[Zak] An overwhelming fight or flight instinct begins to consume me.
[Lauren gasps]
-[Jay] You all right? -[Lauren speaking]
[Zak] Lauren, a long time member
of our crew is very shaken up.
It's really hard to watch.
I felt like, at any time anybody could just attack anybody.
Oh, yeah. And it went that way almost.
None of us were safe.
I feel like, whatever that energy is,
knows that we are empathic and that we can
take on energy, so it focuses it on those people, you know.
Oh, she almost had a heart attack.
-[Lauren speaking] -Yeah.
[Lauren speaking]
[Zak] I am concerned for the safety of my crew--
[Lauren speaking]
[Zak] What?
...and for my own sanity.
[Lauren speaking]
[Aaron] Yeah.
-He's acting really weird. -[Lauren speaking]
[Zak] What exactly have we walked into?
I would have these panic attacks
because I would feel it and I would come back to the realization
that something was attaching itself to me.
And then I would panic, freak out
-and try to flee the area. -Yeah.
This place is terrifying.
Dude, I'm picking my nails.
-This episode makes me so nervous. -Oh, yeah.
-I have been like, digging in this chair -[Billy] Yeah.
'Cause it takes you right back there.
-You're there again as you're watching. -[Jay and Aaron] Yeah.
I mean, think about it. How long it took to shake off this energy?
I mean, I don't even know if we fully have.
I-- Honestly, I couldn't watch it.
This is the first time I've seen this episode.
We are walking in here, a place that has been undisturbed
since 2019.
But the day that it shutdown feels like it was yesterday.
And we have to stay on guard
because we are getting information
stating there was something else in here.
Not only did they fear the guards
and the other inmates that were affiliated,
but they were fearful of what we are starting to feel.
These buildings fed off of all of that violence, all of that pain.
The breeding ground for dark energy.
Right. But when you contain something
and it's used to feeding off of that day to day to day
and you take it away--
-All right. -[Zak] ...but that stays.
And you opened the doors to us.
-It's like a big crocodile. -[Zak] This place--
This place is very, very different.
This is a rare occasion, when our crew wanted to... wanted to stop.
Didn't wanna go into that building ever again.
-It's a true safety concern at this point. -[Aaron] Yeah.
I thought at this point like, is this gonna be,
the investigation that's too bad
that we can't go on for our own safety?
Ned, can you tell us real quick,
uh, when were you incarcerated here?
Uh, between the years of 2002 to 2007.
Can you tell us, what was it like here?
I mean, just, obviously it's jail
but there's just a lot that comes with being incarcerated.
There's not a manual or a book to prepare you mentally
for any of the stuff that you endure.
I mean, it's gotta be one of the top five
most emotionally disturbing interviews
I've ever conducted in my life.
By far.
But, I mean, he had, you know, there was mental abuse,
physical abuse, things like that.
The core of his trauma was from these entities.
For her safety, this former volunteer has asked that we hide her identity.
Her alleged stories and experiences
have caused her to believe that evil inside the building
not only possessed the inmates, but also the guards.
[growling]
[disguised voice] There was one group of girls that I was talking with once
and they were talking about a guard,
they pointed him out,
they said he watches us shower.
He comes in.
And they were clearly upset, very traumatized
and, you know, I said, "you should tell someone."
And they said, who you gonna tell? They don't care.
There was only a little bit of what we could show in this interview,
and I'm very sorry to hear about some of the things that happened to people
and some of it was very, um, a little too much.
[Billy] Mmm-hmm.
This place has taken a part of me.
And it's something that I can't get back.
And is it the things that you experienced here
from just jail in and of itself?
The atmosphere, the vibes.
Or is it... Is it the paranormal things?
It was, um, it's a mixture of both,
but for the most part it would be the paranormal things,
because again, it leaves you...
It leaves you with questions.
The pain that this guy felt
because of what these entities were doing to him,
this sealed the deal for all of us,
that what we just experienced in the SHU...
-[man] Was real. -...was 100% demonic, evil forces.
'Cause we have a former inmate that's literally sobbing
at the experiences that he experienced
and we only experienced, like, an hour two...
-I know. -...of what he experienced for years in this building.
When is the last time you stepped foot in this building?
[Ned] Uh, 2000 and uh, 2006.
-[Zak] Okay. -[Ned] 2006.
[Zak] And at that time you were an inmate?
-[Ned] Yes, sir. -[Zak] All right.
-This time you're a free man. -[Ned] Yes, sir.
[Zak] Seeing Ned relive so much pain
makes me nervous for not only Ned,
but also for my crew,
and what we've already exposed ourselves to.
Imagine being locked in a tiger cage, with an invisible tiger,
and you're locked in that cage for years.
You'll never be the same.
That's what this was. You're locked in a jail cell
with the most powerful forms of evil spirits
that could possess you, attack you, kill you even.
[Ned] I wanna go upstairs, I wanna go upstairs.
[Zak] Just as Ned was leading us upstairs,
we see him suddenly drawn to the other side of the building.
Where's he taking us?
How is this possible?
Of all the hundreds of cells in this facility,
Ned is drawn like a magnet to room 20.
Why'd you go in this cell?
I'm just drawn to the room.
I'm just drawn to the room, it's, uh...
What the... [bleep]
I got a lot of flashbacks just passing this room.
[Zak] It is becoming clear to me
that this cell is the epicenter
of all of the activity of this facility.
A place where souls are lost.
He gave us a condition for his interview
that he did not wanna go back into the SHU.
But in this moment I felt that he may need some closure.
-Yeah. -So he changed his tune,
and decided as long as we're with him
that he's gonna take us there
and show us his jail cell that was located on the second floor.
So we're planning on going to the staircase,
going up to the second floor and a whole other section of this huge building.
And look at where he goes in this massive building,
full of, like, hundreds of cells,
where does he take us?
Cell 20.
-That is the center focus of everything. -[Billy] Whoa, geez, man.
This is where the portal is.
Ned, I need to tell you something, okay?
This entire building,
you said can we first go this way,
you walked into the same room where myself,
and Jeff, our team member,
this is where we both got affected.
Just gotta go.
[Zak] And you just walked in this room,
and you're feeling anxiety and agitation.
We did not tell you what happened.
We did not tell you what room and what cell we went in.
And you were guided here and you're having this reaction.
And he's got tears in his eyes,
I mean, he's been just spilling it to us,
telling his deepest emotions.
And it's dangerous for him to be doing that in this place.
-[Jay] Yeah. -You can't be in a weakened state here.
[Billy] No.
[Zak] And as if the devil himself was speaking to me,
I hear a voice from down the hall.
Somebody in here?
There was something down here too, on the ceiling.
There was a black thing on the ceiling here.
There's people standing everywhere looking at you.
I'm afraid this place might be driving me crazy.
I feel like I can't continue.
But I know I must.
Just as a doctor does, diagnosing illnesses,
you combine what patients are going through, their symptoms.
-Yeah. -This made me make diagnosis
-that cell 20 is the source of the entities. -Yeah.
They're protecting something in cell 20.
And those EMF spikes that, Billy, you were receiving outside cell 20,
prove that the portal is there.
That's the scary part when you start realizing, like,
are we losing our minds, like...
Well it's slowly feeding off of us.
Yeah, that's what it felt like.
Every moment just bam, bam, bam, bam,
-eventually... -[Zak] I was going mad.
There was no other way to put it.
I was losing myself, I was losing my [bleep] mind.
-Was this your cell? -Yeah.
They used to tell me I was gonna...
I wasn't gonna leave here.
They would always tell me that I was theirs.
[Zak] Who did?
I don't know.
Just think about how much fuel
these entities have been feeding off of all these inmates.
Literally, this food is locked in this cage for 'em.
-Yeah. -[Zak] And you gotta remember
we're with Ned who these entities victimized.
And we're with him, consoling him, and bringing him in.
And now these spirits are gonna recognize him.
Not only that, be attached to his weakened state with his tears.
And open all of us up now, to what's in there.
I would see shadows.
-[Zak] They would come into the room? -[Ned] Yeah.
I would always see movement
and it was on nights like that, that...
...just something about the room felt heavier
and I wouldn't wanna sleep.
[Zak] What do you think these things were?
You ask me, they were demons talking, man.
These... It was pure evil that I'm just...
...getting these feelings again, they're just...
[sighing]
They were just so vulnerable to them.
It's like an evil entities playground in that spot.
-They have everything they want. -Yeah.
They have all these guys, they're all in there for crimes,
so they're possessing them to do even more bad things in there.
Which fuels these demons even more,
they're cutting themselves, they're drawing blood.
These demons are feeing off of their blood.
-Yeah. -Party's out of control.
It is like invisible tigers in a cage
that you can't get out of, that's a great analogy.
[Ned] I did a lot of praying in these rooms.
But I remember when I would get hit with feelings and emotions
I would bang away at the door,
just bang and bang, ask for help and...
...I wouldn't get help but I was always drawn to this side of the building.
And I never realized why but I'm realizing now,
the church is on that side.
I was too young to know what it was then.
They used to tell me I was crazy or ask me if I was crazy.
I knew I wasn't crazy.
Unfortunate souls came up in here
and there was a lot of mental health issues,
and see a lot of kids like me got...
...kind of thrown a bit into the mix
and I didn't belong in here.
A lot of kids didn't belong in here.
Those tears right there is the catnip for these demons.
-Right. -Dang, that's just brutal.
Like, to be calling for help and not being able to get it.
[Ned] They took my peace from me, man, they took a lot.
And it dwells on...
On lost souls, on lost kids.
Kids that don't have a way,
kids that don't have anything to look forward to
besides being pushed off into the next [bleep] room
and given some medication and thrown out like they're crazy.
Well we needed help, we needed help.
You pass those rooms and you feel like there's...
...something in there, someone in there.
There's evil here.
We should've got him out of there.
I just thought we were doing this for closure for him
but then I was realizing, like, man...
-It opened up a wound. -We shouldn't have him opening himself up,
trying to make contact.
I mean, I hope in the end it did give him some closure
and he's doing all right now.
I mean, he wanted the closure,
so I was, like, what do I do here, you know?
-[Jay] Yeah, you can't really... -What do I do here?
Last night was one of the most disturbing...
...moments...
...that I have ever witnessed doing Ghost Adventures.
When I went home last night,
I was emotional.
When I woke up, I had marks here.
And I had a mark here.
This place not only marks the inmates for life.
From the deplorable conditions,
that this place was so notorious for,
but whatever is inhuman, marks you,
you won't ever be the same again.
I mean, at this point, I was overwhelmed
by what happened to me personally, what happened to Jeff.
The interview from Ned.
The information we got from the corrections officer.
I mean, I was overwhelmed at this point.
Like, how do we even start this lockdown?
-It's a long process. -Knowing that we're gonna be doomed.
I'm not really predict anything, any outcome of an investigation
but this one, it was pretty already stone-cold concrete.
-Yeah. -I almost felt like we did an investigation
-and it was, like... -Yeah.
Oh, I was drained after this.
I needed, like, you could've given me two days at a church...
-Right? -...to cleanse.
You know, there's always a little bit of a nervousness before any investigation
but this one was off the chart.
-[Zak] I know. -[Billy] Yeah.
I was not looking forward to this night at all.
Hey, you guys.
I just went through all of the audio from the digital recorder
Mmm-hmm.
You're not gonna believe the stuff that we captured.
[Zak] The following evidence was captured in the CD ward during Andy's interview.
[Andy] Hello? Hello?
[voice]
-Oh, my God. -[Aaron] Okay.
[voice recording plays]
-I hear that, Billy. -So, pain and misery.
[voice] It's pain and misery.
-It's pain and misery. -It was pain and misery.
You could hear it,
through the television I know it's a little harder to hear,
but in person right from the raw file.
-These are sentences. -And that's what the food is for the demons...
-Yeah. -... is the pain and the misery.
-He said not just a single word or a noise. -These are sentences.
Like, when you're talking in sentences
you're a smart entity.
-Well, not even just smart but powerful. -Powerful, yeah.
Okay, and here's the last one that's really [bleep] cool. Ready?
Another sentence.
[Billy] I want to show you something else we captured in the other building
-when Ned was there with us. -[Aaron] Yeah.
[Zak] This pair of photographs was taken by Jay
in the bathroom of the SHU building.
The first is a clean image of the showers.
The next, taken just moments later,
captures what appears to be a dark, unexplained mass.
Notice there are no clearly defined edges that would have been made
if this was a shadow.
Watch back here.
What the... [bleep]
[Jay] Like, what the [bleep] is that, right?
-This is a dark shadowy, like, free floating mist. -Yeah.
-You can see it's not captured on the bottom tile. -[Jay] Right.
It's contained within that chamber there.
Okay, right now, we are getting locked down inside of the Devil's Den,
inside Los Padrinos.
There is somebody behind this door that works here.
They cannot be on camera.
They are literally, as you can see right now,
closing these very heavy steel doors behind us,
and, ladies and gentlemen, there is no bigger, scarier, and more evil lockdown
than what is happening right now.
That lockdown, you're literally the gates of Hell right there.
-You got 40ft doors, 20ft doors... -[chuckling] Yeah. Yeah.
...and we're literally being locked in there by this security person.
-Dinosaurs couldn't get out of that. -No.
-[laughing] I mean... -No, that was definitely gates for Jurassic Park.
Maybe a Tetradactyl.
We're just getting set up.
As you can see, our nerve center is over here.
We haven't even turned our monitor on,
we haven't even turned the cameras on.
Jay and I were walking back here.
When I was walking towards here,
I saw through one of these windows,
we didn't have our cameras, a guy with a flashlight inside of this building,
and it pissed me off.
[Zak] We quickly roll on all of our X cameras
and immediately investigate what I just saw.
Is somebody in there?
[shouting] The building needs to be clear.
[banging]
-Seriously... -[Billy] Shh! Did you just hear that?
-Yeah, that's-- -[Billy] Did you hear that?
This was terrifying.
We see this flash, and then the door opens...
-...and we hear that bang in there. -Yeah.
In an empty building, when you hear a bang after you just saw a light,
you're freaked out.
[Zak] Because of what's happening in this building,
yes, I'm gonna go in there by myself with a XLS camera.
Aaron and Billy,
I need ya to go over to the C and D building.
That's where the former gang member, Andy, took us
-where the bathroom and the toilet came on... -[Aaron] The bathroom, yes.
-...we got all those EVPs? -Yeah.
Go over there right now and investigate a little.
You thought this place was scary with the lights on earlier?
Try it with the lights out and nobody's there with us...
-...it's just us four. -[Billy] Yeah.
Why the [bleep] did I just volunteer
to go in this building by myself?
I was so terrified to go in there by myself
-with all the lights out. -Uh, yeah.
-Especially with the XLS -Yeah, dude.
-[Billy] Mmm-hmm. -to literally see them in front of me.
But just to be in there by myself, man, I was not liking that.
This investigation was just brutal,
but, honestly, I'm surprised that we got out as lucky as we did.
The one thing that made me feel better
is that we had Jesus Wasley with us.
-[laughs] -[Jay] Yeah, we did.
-Why'd you cut the hair? -It was get... we live in Vegas.
It's too hot.
Like, it's so hot to have that hair
covering your neck all the time.
You got to let it breathe.
That's what the man bun's for, bro.
-Just... [whistles] -[Jay] Eh, I don't know.
I was making Aaron too jealous.
-[Aaron laughs] -Yeah, you were, bro.
[Zak] We hear you,
and I'm all alone,
so whatever you are, whoever you are...
You got a can of soda right there.
Oh, oh, oh, oh.
[Zak] All of a sudden, I map in a small figure in the background
that appears to manifest in the doorway that leads upstairs.
I was fighting so hard to stay there
because, ladies and gentlemen, what you're looking at,
you can't see anything, there's no light.
There's a little light coming from the iPad
or whatever that, the monitor is, to see the XL.
Just a little bit of glow.
I was literally shaking,
and then this little figure appears
within the door that lead up the staircase where Ned's room is,
where Ned was in crying,
like, telling me, "Hey."
You can see his hand up. "Come over here, dude. Come here."
A little figure just appeared right in here.
Oh, my God.
This is the staircase that Jarett, the prison guard, said was the scariest.
It's sort of like a hidden stairway,
but I've always felt some type of presence in there also as well.
What most people don't know is that whoever's running the XLS,
and the tablet screen is white, it blinds you.
It's like having a flashlight in your face.
-Yeah, it's hard to see. -You can't really see.
You have to focus on, you know...
-[Jay] So... -...what the XLS is seeing.
[Zak] Aaron turns on his ITC communication device and he hears a faint "hello".
[voice]
[Aaron] Dude, it just goes, "Hello?"
[Aaron] Who are you?
We heard you on our recorder.
-[voice] Hello? -[Billy] Hello!
Hello!
[voice]
Now, this was crazy
because me and Bill split from you while you were alone.
And just walking in there was a whole different vibe,
but you could still have that territorial terror energy.
-It was, like, it was almost in every building -Yeah.
but just a little different in that one.
Why am I getting angry?
[Billy] Who flushed the toilet?
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
-[Billy] What happened? -Dude, something felt like it knocked my hood...
-...but see this hook? -Yeah.
-[Aaron] Where is it? -Yeah.
It felt like something was pulling my vest up.
I thought you were behind me
-No, no. -or someone was pulling my vest up.
[Billy] It's talking.
-[voice] Can't wait. -[Billy] Can't wait?
"Can't wait" or "You're right?"
[voice] Can't wait.
-[Billy] Can't wait? -"Can't wait" or "You're right?"
I couldn't imagine going back in there.
-This is not gonna be fun. -Yep.
What was that?
Jay, I just heard somebody talking in here.
[Zak] Jay immediately joins me
and operates our boom microphone.
-You ready? -Yeah.
[Zak] Right now, we're headed upstairs,
and this is where Ned, a former inmate,
this is where he was locked down,
and where he said that these black shadow men,
these black entities would come into his room, called them demons.
What do you think these things were?
If you ask me, they were demons talking, man. It, it's pure evil.
This is one of those investigations
that told me that we need to take a little bit,
a break from these demonic investigations for a little while.
-Yeah. -What followed was something that terrorized me at home
for, I would say, a good six weeks.
And, uh, I'll never stop investigating
these evil, demonic-natured investigations,
but this and what I went through
forced me to take a break from,
not Ghost Adventures and investigations...
-...but diving deep into -Extremely dark.
the most dark and evil locations
that are on the face of this Earth.
But it won't be the end of us
doing these demonic investigations...
-...you know what I mean? -[Aaron] Yeah.
I just need a break.
-I was relieved that we had a break from it. -Oh.
I'm honestly relieved we don't have to watch
the rest of this right now...
-...'cause... -[laughing] Yeah. It gets worse.
-Yeah. -Yeah.