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I've been working
For the morgan city police department 34 years.
In recent weeks, my department has been overrun with reports
Of strange and unusual activity that we just can't explain.
The people down here are looking for answers,
So we're gonna try something that we've never tried before.
You heard a growl? There was a growl.
We've got a team of some of the best
Paranormal investigators in the country.
Is there a negative entity here?
Oh, my god!
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And if this paranormal team can't figure out
What's going on down here, we're in a lot of trouble.
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Last year, we had a very
Significant spike in unusual emergency calls.
So I brought a team in of top paranormal investigators,
And things have certainly died down in shepherdstown,
That's for sure.
But I get a lot of calls from police departments
All over the place,
'cause they're dealing with similar situations.
Morgan city reached out to me, and they're just really not sure
How to handle some of these unexplained calls
And things like that that they're getting.
Hey, is the chief back in his office?
Yes, sir. Thank you.
They're interested in suggestions and advice
Because we've been through it.
It's kind of ironic 'cause you know, they don't teach you
This kind of stuff in the police academy...
Uh, how to get rid of ghosts.
Chief, how are you? Hey, mike.
Mayor, how are you?
Welcome to morgan city. Thank you.
How's things going?
It's not really getting any better, I can tell you that.
We're getting periodic calls prior to the paranormal experts.
Now them calls seem to increase, not decrease.
Yeah. Sounds like maybe they're stirring things up a little bit.
Sounds like it. Sounds like it.
Yeah, but I think if yours is anything like ours,
You got to stir it up before you can get it to settle down.
I mean, people want answers and we don't know what to tell them.
Yeah. We want to ease their fears,
But we don't want to cause a panic either, so...
Right. I sat in that seat.
I know what you're talking about.
Yeah. We experienced that.
Things got worse before they got better.
How much do you convey to the public
Without causing a lot of fear?
Yeah. And from what...
Hey, guys.
Another phone call.
This one is strange.
Who was it? Who called?
The alarm was tripped over at the archives building.
That's the paranormal team's headquarters.
We used to get calls about that building all the time.
The officers have been there for alarms,
Activated alarms,
And they've seen shapes in the window,
Or the lights turning on and off, doors opening.
You ought to call the paranormal team out for this one.
Yeah. Let's get on it.
Let's do it. As soon as I find out more,
I'll let y'all know where we're headed.
Thanks.
See?
Looks like you guys are, uh...
Yeah. Kind of crazy busy.
I mean, this is becoming a regular thing with us right now.
It's just gonna take a little bit of time.
We're not working on our time.
We're working on theirs, so to speak,
And I'm not talking about the team.
I'm talking about what they're investigating.
Here we go, jer.
Oh, boy. Here we go.
So, we're on our way to headquarters right now.
Genie, who manages the building, just called us.
Said an alarm has gone off,
And then we got another call from chief bo
Because his guys didn't find anyone inside.
Apparently, one of the neighbors
Said there was a strange man in the window.
So it's definitely bizarre to think
That we could be investigating
Our own headquarters for paranormal activity.
There's genie.
There she is.
Looks like police are here.
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- What's going on? - Hey, guys.
Hey. We had an alarm go off.
They have an officer inside right now clearing the building.
It's... Okay.
Scary.
Sarah said that she beat us here.
So is she inside already with the officer?
Yes. Okay, good.
Yeah.
Ever since we came into town a few months ago,
We've been using the morgan city archives building
As our headquarters.
This is where all the records
Pretty much for the parish are stored.
And this is where we have our team meetings.
All of our equipment's stored there.
So the timing of this unusual activity is very suspicious.
Ben. Dustin.
Dustin, nice to meet you.
Everything's good.
All the doors are secure, windows are secure.
I'm not sure exactly what set the alarm off.
Okay. But nobody's definitely inside.
Well, that's good.
Do we know what kind of alarm it was?
A pan auto-set motion.
I did notice that when I walked in.
So this is a motion alarm, which is weird.
I understand this has happened before.
You know, to be honest with you, gentlemen,
I don't... I prefer not to come here.
Why?
You know, as a rookie cop, you get told these stories...
How they used to come here, and sure enough, when they get here,
They go in, clear the whole building, and nobody's in there.
Really?
It used to happen pretty regularly, and then it stopped.
It's been over 10 years now
Since we've had an alarm call here.
And here we are, starting all over again.
Okay.
It's almost like we've been chasing this paranormal activity
From town to town, but it's also been chasing us.
Something is drawing us back here.
The question becomes why is it drawing us here?
What is it trying to tell us?
If we figure this out, then we may be able to solve
This whole awakening of this paranormal activity.
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Do you feel it? It feels weird.
It feels different.
This building has always had a really unique energy signature.
And that's not that crazy considering the fact
That it's like a vault of all the town's historical records.
But right now, I'm tapping into something
I've never felt before here.
Whatever it is, it really feels intense.
And it feels very...
Powerful.
I am filled to my... Freaking to the bone,
Like I am freezing to death.
So weird.
I know I would've noticed this,
Spending this time at headquarters.
This is something totally different.
It feels like it just manifested.
It feels like it... It's, like, awoke.
I'm being drawn to the basement.
So, did they ever figure out what's actually
Triggering the alarms?
No, we've never figured out anything.
It's always been unfounded.
I can't put any type of conclusion to it
'cause I really don't know.
Back in the squad room, everybody talks about
How nobody wants to come into this building.
They tell you, "oh, that place is haunted,"
You know, "don't go in there.
You just do what you got to do and get out."
There's one place inside the building,
I made it to the threshold of the door,
And it's that little cellar, basement area.
So, like, that little narrow staircase...
I went down there.
I got to the threshold or the door, kind of stepped foot in,
And then just got this feeling that I needed to leave.
I needed to get out.
I don't know how to explain it.
That feeling is you're not by yourself.
Somebody's in there with you, and they don't want you here.
You just need to get out.
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The lights just flickered.
That's weird.
You know, there goes the pain in the head.
Okay. This could be interesting.
Yeah. So, I'm already starting to get
That physical manipulation as an empath.
So just coming downstairs, I'm already
Starting to feel pressure in the head
And weight in the shoulders.
Okay, so when you hit here, you're gonna notice
A complete difference.
Just feel your body.
That's crazy.
My body is completely tingling.
We're gonna go talk with the neighbor who called it in,
But is there anyone else you think we should talk to?
You know, y'all probably need to get with marc folse.
He was the police chief.
He got a pretty crazy little story
He can tell y'all of the last time he came here.
And I don't think he's been back since.
Okay. I'll track him down.
I'll... I'll put him in contact with you.
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It definitely feels dark in here.
Yeah, it does.
So I guess we should start with the alarm first
And see what we got.
A lot of times, ghosts will try to communicate
Through electronics like draining batteries,
Turning the light switches on or off.
So it's definitely possible that some type of spirit
Could've triggered this alarm.
No zone readings.
Does it say any particular area that went off, or...
It says the basement.
Dizzy.
Someone's gonna want to talk soon.
I think we have several energies here.
Who's here with me?
I feel like there is an energy here.
This energy has pride in who he was.
Like, some kind of politician, maybe.
Almost like a mayor, or someone who oversaw the area
'cause he's talking of the area.
He really found who he was as a man in the work that he did.
Almost to his demise, but...
It was a lot.
There was a lot going on when he was there.
And it tore him apart, but...
Huh.
Jereme?
Look at this.
What?
Move away just a little bit.
Who's here?
Okay, here it goes.
Here it goes, here it goes.
Something's here.
It stopped again.
Let me try something real quick.
You got a thermal there?
Yeah, I got it right here. Alright.
Let me know whenever it starts to spike.
Whoever is in here with us, the closer you get to me,
The more this needle moves.
There it goes. There it goes.
Holy
You just went from 34 celsius to 36, and it's rising.
Okay.
So, here's a headache.
I'm wondering... I feel like it's here.
Whoever is in here with us, the closer you get to me,
The more this needle moves.
We're trying to figure out what triggered the motion
Alarm this morning at our own headquarters building.
And it's a little bit spooky because it seems
Like whatever's stirring up all this paranormal activity
In this parish has found us here on our own home turf.
Who's here?
There it goes. There it goes.
I feel like it's getting really hot in here.
Holy
You just went from 34 celsius to 36, and it's rising.
I would think that if this was the wiring,
It would be sort of a consistent fluctuation.
It's back down to zero.
There's nothing, absolutely nothing.
It just stopped again.
The temperature just dropped back down, too.
Maybe whatever used to trip the alarm years ago
Suddenly woke up again.
Or maybe we're dealing with something en...
Entirely new.
Feel, like, tight.
My skin is, like, hot, itchy.
Hey, guys.
I think something tripped that alarm on purpose.
Well, that's a little spooky.
It's like this energy feels like it's stalking us.
And I keep getting this feeling that the reason it's here
Is because we're here.
It really feels like it wants our attention.
Alright, let's split up.
Let's start talking to the witnesses.
Sounds good to me.
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Hello? How you doing?
I'm fine.
Hey, my name is jereme.
I'm patrice.
I'm working with the morgan city pd
About some unusual activity,
And I understand you called them earlier today
About an alarm next door.
Right.
And you saw somebody inside? Yeah.
Could you tell me some of the stuff you seen?
I seen this guy in the window, and his hair be like...
Like an older guy.
So whenever you saw this, could you tell me
Which floor it was and which window in particular?
The second floor. The second floor.
Mm-hmm. The fourth window.
Not the small window, but the big one.
Okay.
Do you remember what he was wearing?
The dude I saw had on a black jacket
And a white ruffled shirt, older guy,
Like a minister or a priest kind of like guy.
Okay.
Have you ever seen this man before?
Last night.
Wait, hold on.
You saw him this morning and last night?
Yeah. I was getting out of my car,
And I could see the same guy standing behind me.
And I turned back, and he was gone.
Really?
So patrice first saw this figure of a man last night
Outside the building,
And then she saw him again this morning
When the alarm was going off inside the building.
So if this is a spirit, maybe he's looking for someone.
Maybe he's lost.
Hell, maybe he's looking for us.
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So, can you take us step-by-step?
Actually, this was fourth call we had at this residence.
Marc was a patrol officer who responded
To several alarm calls here at the archives building,
But several years ago.
Apparently, he experienced something
Pretty disturbing that might shed some light
On the recent activity here in the building.
We had responded three times before, with finding nothing.
But on this... this fourth time, this was a routine call
That turned out to be not-so routine.
Okay. We came here and...
And it was myself and a shift of officers.
We made a search of the property.
This had always been an abandoned residence.
There was no electricity,
So we were unable to turn on any lights.
But everything was fine.
There was nothing suspicious.
So we finished clearing the residence, locking it back up,
And then when we noticed a single light on
In the lower section of the residence.
There was somebody in that room.
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It was myself and a shift of officers.
We noticed a single light
On in the lower section of the residence.
There was somebody in that room.
When we made our entry into the room,
We found out that there was no one there.
There was nothing but this single light bulb.
And we checked the whole property.
We didn't find anyone.
Could you tell if it was, like, a light
That was flickering like candlelight,
Now that you know there's no power to it?
No. This was clearly a lightbulb.
And that was kind of the perplexing part,
Because there was no power
Hooked up to the residence at all.
It was puzzling and kind of eerie.
As a police officer,
You're looking for a black-and-white explanation.
And this was one of the times that we were unable to come up
With a black-and-white explanation.
Till this day, I don't have an answer.
Officer marc's story about the alarm
Going off for no apparent reason,
Seeing this mysterious figure in the window
Sounds pretty similar to what happened this morning.
The truth is, we've been so busy with all of the activity
From one end of this parish to the other,
That we don't really know very much about the history
Of our own headquarters building.
So we're definitely gonna need some help from diane.
Okay, I think that I have some information in here
That's going to help us in this particular investigation.
And it begins with this piece of property.
In 1926, mr. M.E. Norman... The then-mayor of morgan city...
Built the house that we're sitting in now,
Our headquarters, the archive building.
I have to... I'm sorry but, like,
When I was doing my baseline sweep,
I kept saying, "well, like a mayor.
Well, I don't know. It feels like a mayor."
Wow. You are kidding me.
No, yeah.
Some kind of politician maybe, almost like a mayor.
And just to give you a little history on him,
He was very well-liked, well-loved, well-respected.
- So this is him? - Yeah.
He did a heck of a lot for morgan city.
Okay.
Look at what he's wearing.
A black suit and a white undershirt.
Patrice thought he was a priest,
But maybe it was just a business suit.
One of the projects that he wants is a bridge
To connect the east end of saint mary parish
To the west end of saint mary parish.
So he goes and he sets up a meeting
With the governor, huey p. Long.
And that brings us to his death.
Allegedly, his chauffeur was driving him home
From baton rouge after meeting with governor huey p. Long.
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Norman suffered a massive stroke.
Many newspapers gave conflicting reports
Of the death of mr. Norman.
Many people believe, even today, that mr. Norman's
Death was a well-calculated murder.
A man in good health, as mr. Norman was,
Just doesn't drop dead like that.
What we know for sure is that the last person
Other than his chauffeur that he was with
Was governor huey p. Long.
Huey p. Long has close relationships,
It's reported, with who?
The mob. The mob.
We know that louisiana was very influenced by the mafia.
Yeah.
Now, here's something else that's very interesting.
Mr. Norman's business partner and bookkeeper
Both are found with bullet holes in their heads.
What? Really?
Yeah, it does sound quite suspicious.
Louisiana has a long history with the mafia dating
Back to the civil war.
When most people think about the mob,
They think of places like new york city.
But in fact, the mob found its first home in america
Here in new orleans.
Think about it. We're surrounded by wetlands.
If you're smuggling illegal goods,
What better place to do it than through the bayou?
We're speculating here, but if there was a mob connection...
If he died and untimely death,
It was foul play involved here,
Could norman be trying to uncover
That his death was not natural?
Yeah, you know, all these cases throughout the parish
Had people that had a wrongful death,
An untimely death, every single one of them.
Don't you think that there's maybe a connection there?
That's true.
We've had accidents, murder, executions, wars.
We have sickness.
And now, m.E. Norman, potentially murdered by the mob.
There's a pattern of spirits who have died violent deaths,
And who were buried in unusual places.
I'm sensing that morgan city, it's the epicenter.
I mean, think of how all the history
Of the whole parish is stored right here under our feet.
This building was once the home
Of the most beloved mayor of morgan city.
Is it possible that he's the one
Waking up all these other spirits,
Not just to avenge his own murder,
But to seek justice for all the other
Wronged spirits in the parish?
Could norman be the same person that officer marc folse saw,
That patrice saw?
There's unfinished business.
I guess the question is is he seeking revenge
Or is he trying to set the record straight?
I think we need to have a little talk with this man
In a night investigation.
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I never thought we'd be investigating
Our own headquarters.
Get the door.
Things are really starting to heat up.
There's a lot of activity down here.
And I'm a paranormal mad scientist,
So, you know, building things to get answers is what I do.
So let's start with a laser grid on this wall right here.
So, the idea of using this laser grid
Is to project a pattern on the wall.
And if anything does pass between this laser
And this wall,
We're gonna see it just like that.
That look good? Looks good to me.
Well, we're pretty well set up.
Awesome.
I brought a couple of really cool things to use tonight.
I brought some itc devices that are experimental.
I brought the scanning television,
And also I brought the van de graaff.
It's an energy pump.
The van de graaff is a great idea
'cause we can charge the air
Here to communicate with any spirits.
I agree, and also, I brought the necrokom
Because I believe if there's any way we're gonna find out
If this is norman that we're talking to tonight,
It's gonna be by using the necrokom.
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This building is way bigger than I imagined.
So ben and I are gonna start upstairs
So we can flush these spirits out
And figure out what they want.
This is the room that the officer
Saw the shadow move across the window.
It's so cold in here.
♪♪
Just gonna set the rem pod down really quick.
Is there a spirit in this room with me?
♪♪
I know you want to talk to me.
♪♪
What was that?
It came from the hallway.
There's movement.
♪♪
Who are you?
♪♪
You know, I know if I wanted to communicate with someone...
What the hell was that?
That was a flash!
Did you see that?
Sarah, you just had a flash down there.
I'm coming to you.
I don't like this.
Who's here with me?
♪♪
That was a flash!
Did you see that?
Sarah, you just had a flash down there.
I'm coming to you.
I don't like this.
We got a lot of activity going on
In the archives building right now.
We're having lights flashing on and off.
We're hearing disembodied sounds.
If this is, in fact, m.E. Norman,
We need to figure out what's making him so hostile.
Who's here with me?
Sarah, what the was that?
I don't know. Didn't you...
It was bright-ass flash. What?
I seen it out the corner of my eye.
I didn't see the flash
Because I heard something in the other room.
It was like somebody taking pictures.
This is actually where marc saw the shadow
Move across the windows. Right.
And the lights in this room have been known to flicker.
This is the room, absolutely.
Wow, that makes sense now.
So I seen it, and we got video proof to prove it.
Oh,
Norman, is that you?
♪♪
Let's try this real quick.
We got to rem.
Let's see if we can get it to interact with it.
Okay.
Are there any spirits here that could communicate with us?
Can you walk towards this device on the floor, please?
Did you set the motion alarm off?
Mr. Norman, is that you that's been doing this?
♪♪
Norman, I need to know if you're here, if that's you.
Alright, norman.
If you're trying to relay a message,
I can't hear you, okay?
But here's...
It's okay.
I'm calm, I'm calm.
It's okay. Alright.
I'm gonna ask you a simple yes-or-no question.
Norman, were you murdered?
Holy man. That's strong.
Alright. Goose bumps.
I got it on the side of my face.
Wow, it's totally colder by jereme.
Do you see it?
Yeah, and it feels weird.
Is my hair standing up?
Your hair's standing up.
Norman, what is it you want from me?
Never seen anybody get goose bumps on their face.
It's going on the other side? It's coming around this side.
He's walking all around me.
It... it literally... It feels like lightning.
It feels like electricity, like when your hair...
Goes up.
That's amazing.
A rem pod has five different lights
That indicate the strength of a disturbance.
Right now it's on yellow,
Which is the second-highest disturbance.
The temperature keeps getting hot and cold.
If you're in here with us,
I need you to go pulse that device one more time.
Thank you, norman.
I believe that you're here with us.
I believe you,
And I believe you have something you want to tell us.
What the hell is that?
Just let it go.
Sarah, something's happening to me.
I feel really angry.
Norman, I need for a minute for jereme, if that's you.
I'm sweating cold sweat.
Norman, no. Careful, jereme.
I think you're talking to something else.
I don't think you're talking to norman.
This doesn't feel the same.
Whatever you are in this room, if you're not norman,
I need you to make the big light light up.
Oh,
♪♪
Careful, jereme.
I think you're talking to something else.
I don't think you're talking to norman.
This doesn't feel the same.
I'm not entirely convinced that the spirit
That I'm feeling is m.E. Norman.
There might be something else.
And that's the energy I've been tapped into all along.
Whatever you are in this room, if you're not norman,
I need you to make the big light light up.
Oh,
It's not m.E. Norman.
Who are you, and why are you here?
Feels like it's slowly shifting out.
Yeah. It's slithering away.
That wasn't norman.
No.
Sarah to ben.
Go ahead, sarah.
There's a lot going on.
Can we just meet you at the living room?
There's something else.
Okay.
Oh, my gravy.
What's going on?
There's a secondary energy, and it's not m.E. Norman.
Are you serious?
You're sweating, man.
Dude, you have no idea what I just experienced.
I experienced some
I've never had no like that ever happen to me before.
So what's happening?
The freaking rem pod goes ape
It was screaming. It was...
Any kind of sound, squeal, calibration,
Every damn thing you could imagine on it...
That thing was going off. You're damn right it was.
And the more we talked, the more it responded.
Then the chills started.
You could literally feel it.
It felt like a lightning storm around him.
You could feel the electricity.
I could stick my hand in and out of it.
I feel like this might be the entity waking up
All the other spirits here.
Is he still here?
I don't think so.
Oh, I guess so.
I'll take that as a yes.
It's really cold.
Are you feeling alright?
Sarah? Yeah, I'm just really nauseous.
Like, I feel like it's right before an explosion.
This is really important.
We need to... we need to find out what this is.
If I wanted to try and talk to this, whatever it is...
Without a doubt, you're gonna want to go down to the...
The laser-grid room.
The laser-grid room?
Right.
I'm sensing that norman is trying to give us a message.
But something much more aggressive and powerful
Is drowning him out.
So I'm hoping kd's equipment will help us figure out
What the message is.
Here we go, right here.
So that should...
Which is perfect, 'cause it's right next to the board.
I brought along the van de graaff machine,
Which pumps electricity into the air for a spirit
To use to manifest for us.
Alright, fire in the hole.
You can feel the static building up.
It's definitely charging the air.
Oh, yeah.
Okay.
Headed downstairs.
♪♪
It's real cold and heavy.
Oh, shoot, no.
Who's back there?
There's someone walking.
Is someone back here?
There's something walking over here.
You heard the walking?
There's a shuffling.
Oh, gosh.
I really don't want to go around the corner.
♪♪
Okay.
Oh, it's popping.
♪♪
The necrokom shuffles through radio frequencies, random audio.
If we hear anything that makes sense,
That could be spirits trying to communicate with us.
Okay. So, norman, can you talk to us?
This radio...
This device may be a better way for you to communicate with us.
All you have to do is talk.
What was that?
Could you make another noise for me?
Can you tell us, who are we speaking with?
M. Norman.
You heard it?
There's norman.
Norman, do you have a message for us?
♪♪
Okay, almost made it all the way around.
I was originally going to go to the room with the lasers,
But something is walking around here.
I hear my team upstairs on the hardwood floor.
That's not what I heard.
This is shuffling feet, scuffling, like,
Here on the cement, like this.
There's something walking around here.
It was clearly somebody dragging their feet.
Do you know... do you know how you were murdered?
Poison? You heard that!
It said poison! That is freaky.
Norman, I'm gonna straight-up and ask you this, buddy.
Do you know who murdered you?
♪♪
Holy
I think it said "the mafia."
♪♪
Norman, do you know who murdered you?
Holy
I think it said "the mafia."
♪♪
Okay, norman, do you know any of these other victims?
Everybody?
That's what it said, "everybody."
What's interesting, too, is he once was the mayor.
It makes sense that norman knows all of these victims.
He was the most well-loved mayor of this town.
And maybe he still feels responsible
For the spirits of this parish, even in death.
Norman, who are you protecting these spirits from?
♪♪
There's somebody walking down.
It's over here.
♪♪
What's the matter, dude? What's the matter?
♪♪
Did, like, someone breathe in your ear?
Oh! That's not cool, man.
Something breathed in your ear?
Yeah.
Okay.
Who's back there?
Norman, are you by any chance here to help us?
Holy that was a "yes."
That was definitely a "yes."
Norman, can you tell us who this other entity is?
♪♪
Are we close to finding out,
Or are the hauntings just gonna get worse and worse?
Keep going. That's it.
Keep going? He said, "I want you to keep going."
♪♪
Why are you doing this?
You know, this is an archives building now.
This is where they put all the history of the parish.
So if you have something to say about history,
I'm here to listen.
Emf meter's not indicating anything.
Whoever was walking down here, are you still here?
♪♪
Any last words for us?
♪♪
I think he's gone.
I don't think norman's here because he needs our help.
I think he was here to help us all along.
He knows we're doing everything we can
For the people of this parish, and he's on our side.
Whatever was downstairs wasn't norman,
But it's gone now.
Norman is gone now, too.
And we weren't able to contact anything secondary.
I'm a little unsatisfied that we weren't able to figure out
What this other thing is.
Who is it? What does it want?
We got a lot of work to do, guys.
We got a lot of answers that I think we got tonight,
But we still have a lot of questions
That needs to be answered.
Should we pack up?
Yeah.
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Mayor?
Okay. Uh-huh.
Alright, bye.
Oh,
Ben!
The mayor just called.
We got a crisis on our hands at the station.
You can feel the energy here.
Has anyone seen an apparition of a man in black?
The activity is picking up
Because we're getting closer to the truth.
They find bones.
Human bones?
The camera just went down.
The more powerful an entity is, the more evil it can be.
I see people everywhere.
Oh,
Take it off.
Take it off!
He's been with us all along.