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- Mayor? - We've got a real problem, guys.
- Morgan city p.D. - Morgan city 911.
The station's getting flooded with calls
About strange stuff going on.
We seen a guy near the park
Just vanish into thin air!
Looked like a priest, but he wasn't no real priest.
I feel this presence every time I sleep.
- You'll see a man in the window. - He could be a priest.
He went clean through the walls.
He was moving, straight off of my porch!
I have an officer en route.
♪♪
I've been workin' 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 lookin' 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! What the hell?!
♪♪
If this paranormal team can't figure out
What's goin' on down here,
we're in a lot of trouble.
♪♪
In the last 24 hours,
The number of ghost sightings in morgan city
Has actually increased.
People are so scared,
We set up an emergency town hall meeting.
♪♪
Been throughout this entire parish all my life,
And I've never seen this type of paranormal activity at all.
Right now, we have no answers,
But there's an awful lot of sightings.
But you would definitely say this is an older gentleman?
Please take your seats.
Concerning a recent uptick
In paranormal activity here in morgan city,
The morgan city police have been awful busy,
But they're working hand-in-hand with a paranormal team,
And part of that team is mr. Ben hansen.
I'd like to call you to the podium.
Thank you. Thank you, mayor.
Thank you, council.
I know it can be really scary.
These experiences can disrupt your family lives,
Your jobs, and then there's the part of not being believed.
No one is going to mock or disbelieve you here.
We'd like to kind of start out by just taking a survey.
How many of you have seen what you would consider
A ghost or an apparition?
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My goodness.
At least 75% of the people in the building raised their hand!
The sheer magnitude of what we're up against,
What we have to face to get rid of these hauntings
Is truly overwhelming.
I've been in the front lobby at city hall,
And there was a guy who came down the stairs,
Just went clean through the wall.
He had on, like, a black robe.
Maybe looked like a priest or something like that.
But I was just scared.
Now, you said specifically the clothing was a dark robe?
Dark robe. Yeah.
You said priest too, didn't...
I mean, it just kind of remind me of that.
Now, this is not the first time that we've dealt
With a priest or a minister.
I'd seen this guy... like, a priest or a minister-type guy.
And I'm willing to bet it's the same priest
That's been seen at the archive building
And the same priest that patrice seen.
Thank you very much.
The description of a mysterious person
Dressed in a black robe is puzzling us.
It would be easy for us to find that person
If he was real and arrest him, but we can't do that.
Jeannie, what experience did you have?
My dad texted me, and the strange thing about that
Is my dad died in 2008.
And his phone is, I'm assuming, not active?
There's not a phone connected to the number.
So, that was really, really strange.
Caller advised that they could hear a woman screaming.
When they got to the residence, it all stopped.
Couldn't find anything.
I have a friend who works in the old bank building,
And she says she sees an apparition of a man
In period dress like '20s or '30s style.
Okay. On that note...
Has anyone else seen an apparition
Of a man in black downtown?
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Wow. Okay.
I have never, in all of my years
Of being a paranormal investigator,
Seen so many people who have reported
Seeing not only an apparition,
But possibly the same apparition.
Wow. Okay.
If we could get your contact info, we'll follow up with you.
I know some of this is kind of a little private, too,
And you may not want to talk about it here.
We do believe that this man in black
May be linked to the overall spike in activity
Here in the community, and I can tell you this,
That we will do everything in our power
To solve this case.
A lot of people in town are genuinely scared,
But it has crossed my mind
That maybe there's an effect of kind of mass hysteria,
That people are thinking they're seeing things
Because it's being talked about.
But these are very detailed sightings,
And a lot of them are corroborating with each other.
We just have to figure out
Who exactly this man in black is.
♪♪
During last night's investigation
Of our own headquarters building,
We were definitely communicating with a spirit.
Careful, jereme.
I think you're talking to something else.
This doesn't feel the same.
Now, we think that this spirit, this male apparition
May be the same spirit everyone else is seeing.
Are we thinking that he might be the other figure
That's here in the archives building?
You know, when I felt two figures,
I felt one that was more prideful
And one that was much more solemn kind.
The perfect word's humble.
That sounds like a priest. Yeah, I was about to say
That definitely sounds like somebody in the clergy.
Oh, yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Which brings up the question...
Were you able to find a priest that died here
Traumatically in morgan city?
Here is why I'm so leery.
The black-and-white clothing that you describe
Matches multiple religions.
Prior to the mid-1900s,
There were no clergy that were residents of morgan city.
So, a large number of priests
Traveled here from other parishes,
Even from other states,
Especially during traumatic times like wars,
Epidemics, particularly the yellow fever epidemic.
That's interesting because I just kept hearing in my head,
"I'm sick. I'm sick. I'm sick." gosh.
Okay, well, I did find one priest
Who died here in morgan city in 1943,
A father louis ouellette.
He and two alter boys
Were on their way back to morgan city,
And they are hit by a train.
Whoa. Yeah.
Now, the question would be,
Does this tie into what we have seen thus far?
Why would a priest or a clergy man
Who's supposed to be helpful to the community...
Why is he running around scaring people,
Waking people up?
Well, we still have to figure out the motive.
What does this spirit want?
I mean, if it is the ghost of father ouellette
Who died tragically here in morgan city,
Why would a holy man want to disturb the dead?
I'd like to go talk to the townspeople.
Yeah, and what I think we should do is
We should show them the picture individually.
That way, we don't taint the whole process.
Absolutely.
So, now we're going to focus our investigation
On learning as much as possible
About this priest and what his intentions are.
I mean, is he good?
Or is he evil?
♪♪
Ben and I are starting at the fire station
In downtown morgan city
Because there were a couple of firemen
At the town hall meeting
Who had mentioned some unusual activity
That's been escalating the past few days.
I know I personally feel this presence
Every time I sleep.
Something happened to me that really freaked me out
When I was here on duty.
Middle of the night,
Probably 2:00, 3:00 in the morning...
♪♪
My sheets was violently torn off of me.
I felt a male presence standing by my bed,
And I felt a cold chill run through my body.
♪♪
I run out of the room, and I went into the front room,
And I just stayed up there.
Whoa! And that did not freak you out?
Oh, it freaked me out.
Have you ever seen this presence?
I have never seen anything.
So you wouldn't know if it was male or female?
I would tend to think more that it was a man,
Just the feeling that I had.
Did you get any sense of whether this presence was evil?
I couldn't say 100%,
But I just felt that somebody was with me here.
I've had the same kind of feeling,
Like somebody standing over me, like a presence.
Has anyone actually seen the presence
Or had any experience like you did?
Yeah. Across the street,
The beauty salon, cissy...
She says she's witnessed someone dressed in black,
Maybe a priest, like in the window.
Of your window? Of the fire station, yes.
♪♪
There's been a sudden influx of paranormal activity
Here in morgan city,
And we're trying to figure out why.
We've identified several clues
That connect all of our previous cases,
Including spirits that have died violent deaths...
Missy!
Whose bodies were buried in unusual places
And spirits who were wronged.
And now, many people are reporting
Seeing a man in black, resembling a priest.
He's become our prime suspect...
As the force that might be behind
All these spiritual awakenings in the parish.
So, it could mean that the activity is picking up
Because we're getting closer to the truth.
♪♪
We've had some weird things kind of go on
In the salon while we're working.
We have a man that haunts the salon
And then we've actually seen him in the window
At the fire station.
Would you mind showing me? Yeah, absolutely.
So, he is usually up there on the second floor.
A lot of times at night,
I will see a man in the window,
And he looks like he could be a priest.
Now, does this man seem scary to you?
Yeah, he's really scary.
Usually, if I have to come here at night
Or I'm working late, I don't look over there at all. Okay.
So, cissy, I have a photo here...
Okay... That I'd like for you to look at.
And could you please tell me if it looks like
The man that you saw?
No. That's interesting.
That's very interesting.
♪♪
Marcelle, thank you for meeting with me.
You know, I know when these things can happen,
It makes you uneasy.
It makes you uncomfortable. Yes.
But other people are seeing what you're seeing.
Okay. Can you tell me what happened?
Okay. One night I'm working.
I heard the footsteps first...
Coming down the stairs.
I thought maybe it was one of the workers that was here.
The guy comes through, and he has on,
Like, a black, dark robe, like a priest,
And he just walked clean through the wall.
This here? Yes.
Clean through... so, he was headed out this way?
Yeah, he was headed out towards the buildings.
Did you feel at all threatened by this presence?
I really was afraid. I really was, you know.
Could I show you a photo
To see if you recognize the figure you saw?
Sure. That's fine.
No.
♪♪
I'm about to go meet with malik.
He was at the town hall meeting last night.
He's going to meet me at the corner of everett
And second street over here by the park.
So, I saw you last night
At the town hall meeting, right? Yeah.
You were setting towards the back there.
Yeah, that's right.
Is there something about this location?
Yeah, it is.
I was out for a jog early in the morning.
I was at the edge of the park, and I'd seen a figure.
He turned.
And he just looked at me.
He had, like, a long, black robe,
White ruffles around his neck.
And as I got a little closer,
He turned and he started walking
Toward the construction area.
As I got about maybe 30 yards away,
He just vanished into thin air.
I just got out of the park after that.
Yeah, I don't blame you.
So, you said he looked at you.
I don't know if you were close enough
That you're able to get any details,
But do you believe it was possibly this person?
No. Nope?
Is it just his face you don't recognize? Well, he kind of young.
The guy I seen was a little older.
Okay, a little older.
Okay.
♪♪
I was hoping we would have a positive identification,
This being father ouellette, and now that we don't,
It's still a success because it's a process of elimination.
So, malik pointed the direction where this figure went.
It's right over by the construction workers,
So I'm going to talk to them,
And maybe they can provide me some more details.
Hey, guys. How's it going?
Kill it. How you doing? How you doing?
My name's ben.
Alright, delmond. Nice to meet you.
Delmond? Yes, sir.
We've been working with the local p.D.
And helping them with some cases of paranormal activity.
Have you seen anything unusual?
Anything in the park or this downtown area?
As far as I go, I haven't seen anything irregular,
But there has been rumors that people have seen
Some pretty crazy things doing what we doing... excavate.
Like what? Like, they find bones.
Wait, wait.
Human r... Like skeletal human bones.
Yes, sir. That's right.
In the ground where you guys are digging?
Yes, sir.
Whoa.
There's a theory among paranormal researchers
That construction can stir up, amplify activity.
There's a reason we say on tombstones, "rest in peace."
You start moving things around,
The spirits are no longer at peace.
Do you know where they've actually found the bones?
Right on freret and second street,
All the way to greenwood.
Really? Yes.
This apparition has been seen frequently in the downtown area
Where the bones were found.
So my question is... Could these skeletal remains
Be somehow connected to this apparition of a priest
That everyone's seeing?
We definitely need more intel on the origin of these bones.
♪♪
Okay, ben.
I can confirm what was told to you
About the bones being found.
Really? Absolutely.
In my research, I found where in 1961,
They were laying new sewer lines there,
And they found all of these bones.
Now, remember the yellow fever epidemic in patterson?
The idlewild plantation.
That's right.
In 1878,
There was also a devastating yellow fever epidemic
In morgan city. Really?
So, they took all of the bodies,
And they buried them in the outskirts of morgan city.
Back then, it was the outskirts of town.
Now it's not. No.
It is right in the middle of town.
It is the heart of morgan city.
So, basically, this entire town
Is built on top of a graveyard.
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So, all the bones the construction workers found
Belonged to the victims
Of morgan city's yellow fever epidemic.
Gosh. Wow.
That would make sense why they're just bones
And no coffins.
Because they probably buried them all in mass graves.
Absolutely. It's unbelievable.
So, we've got construction going on in downtown morgan city
In the exact site where the victims
Of the yellow fever epidemic of 1978 were buried,
And there's a history of people
Finding human bones under the street there.
If you think about it, every building in morgan city
Where this apparition was seen...
From the fire house to city hall,
The hair salon, our headquarters, the park...
They're all near the area where the bones were found.
So, there definitely seems to be a connection between
This priest and the bones of the yellow fever victims.
Why didn't they move the skeletal remains
When they found them?
According to the current mayor, boo grizzaffi,
He said that the powers that be
Decided to not disturb the bones,
To leave them as they were. Okay.
So, the bones remained at those particular sites.
The yellow fever was the biggest killer of people in louisiana.
At that time, the city did not have a cemetery,
So a lot of the people were buried in mass graves
Throughout downtown morgan city.
People were dying so quickly, that's where the phrase
"digging your own grave" came from.
And at that time, I guess they didn't have
The medical wherewithal to know what was causing it.
They subsequently discovered
It was caused by mosquito bites,
And then they were able to do something about it
Like getting rid of standing water and so forth.
And it also included the holy water in churches,
So the same water that these priests
And preachers and reverends were using to bless
The people that were sick
Was the same water that was probably killing them.
Can you guys imagine how many businesses and residences
Are built on top of these bones now?
What's interesting is that the construction workers told me
That they began repairs on the waterline
About the end of January.
Well, chief bo called us a couple of weeks after that,
So it is just a coincidence
Or could these two events be connected?
Could this construction be what stirred up this priest,
Possibly all the activity in the parish?
It seems like everybody here has seen this man
In some capacity, right?
But, for us, it's kind of been like a wild goose chase.
Yeah, at the same time, even though it's a wild goose chase,
It's almost like this priestly character
Is trying to give us some sort of clues.
Like he's been with us all along.
Well, I ran across something that I think
Is going to tie this together.
Remember we talked about clergymen
Who came through from different parishes,
From different cities, from different states?
One such minister was
A reverend charles m. Atkinson.
- You see the ruffles? - Ah!
Yeah, the ruffled collar.
This is him.
This is the face I keep seeing.
Whoa!
This particular minister was from massachusetts.
He had, as far as morgan city history is concerned,
A lot of prominence, and here's why.
During the yellow fever epidemic of 1878,
108 people died in less than four months.
The town was quarantined.
Bodies were quarantined.
Reverend atkinson was the only clergyman
Courageous enough to stay behind
To pray for the sick and bury the dead.
Sadly, atkinson's daughter lilly and his only son, william,
Succumbed to the yellow fever.
Atkinson was forced to bury his own children
In makeshift graves with others who had died from yellow fever.
Wow. So right after burying his own children,
Pretty much that same hour performs the ceremonies
And goes out to take care of the others.
He didn't have time to grieve over his own family.
And, as a father, I mean, I can understand that.
What if reverend atkinson was in such grief
Over losing his children while in service to others
That his spirit has turned into anguish and rage.
He's on some type of mission
To exact some kind of revenge over morgan city.
So my question is,
Why do I feel his energy here, though?
I mean, over and over again, I felt him here.
You know, we always established
That this particular place... Headquarters...
Was the home of the late mayor m.E. Norman.
But prior to that, on this land was the church
That reverend c.M. Atkinson ministered.
- No way! - Wow.
So if this spirit is indeed reverend atkinson,
Where are we going to find him?
We know he's been seen here.
He's been seen by two different people at the fire station.
He's been seen twice on second street,
Alright, and he's been seen on freret street.
And we pretty much have an entire downtown location,
So we better get started on this.
Good luck.
So, tonight, we're going to investigate
The entire downtown morgan city area to confront this spirit
Who we believe has been causing
This spike in paranormal activity.
We need to find out if it's reverend atkinson
Or something entirely different.
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And how does that look?
That's good right there, jereme.
So if the spirit who is stirring up
All the paranormal activity in town
Is indeed reverend atkinson,
Then we need to try and make contact with him
To figure out why.
Is he waking up all the other wronged spirits in the parish
Because he's seeking justice?
Or, you know, has his sorrow and anguish now turned into rage,
And he's trying to exact revenge on morgan city?
♪♪
You can feel the energy here.
It really feels like there's a lot of energy
Coming from over here.
We need to get started.
The morgan city police department has been kind enough
To block off and lock down this area for us
So there's no interruptions.
Tonight, what we are about to do
Is one of the most important investigations yet.
Guys, this could be the culmination
Of a lot of things that could be answered tonight, right?
So, number-one priority is that we try
And establish communication with atkinson...
Okay... To find out why he's here.
Does it have something to do with
The bodies that were buried here in the yellow fever era?
You know, is he looking for his own two children that died?
Right. Relating that to the whole parish
And all of our cases,
Is that why he's here?
If this is reverend atkinson,
Then I think it's important that we hear his story,
But then, truly, help him find some peace in this.
And remember, guys.
This priest could be very angry and vengeful,
So we need to be very careful tonight.
Agreed. Well, I've brought out a piece of equipment tonight
That I've been working on.
- Wow. - Oh, awesome.
This is the ghost helmet.
The idea is that we use electromagnets,
Opposing fields to influence the way our brain works
Along with the leds that will sync us up
To a meditative state to allow us to see things
We can't normally see, such as ghosts.
Sarah is very, very gifted.
The rest of us don't have any of those gifts,
But if it's possible that we can sensitize ourselves,
That's the idea, right? - Right.
And it can also be some validation
For what you're seeing.
Yeah, absolutely.
Are you guys ready for this?
- Yeah. - Ready.
♪♪
The team has just now split up.
Started the night investigation.
I'm going to start heading west.
Ben's going to be sweeping this whole area
Towards front street, which includes city hall,
The fire department, and the salon.
Now, jereme and sarah...
They're heading east into the park.
They're gonna be sweeping that area
Looking for any anomalies that we can pinpoint a spot
Where we conduct some experiments.
We're going to check out
Where some of the bones have been found.
♪♪
There's a young man named malik on a jog,
And he saw somebody dressed all in black
With a white, ruffled shirt.
♪♪
Is that person here?
♪♪
Okay. Okay.
Something just spiked.
♪♪
Reverend atkinson, if you're here,
We'd really like to know about why you're here.
♪♪
What?
Okay, that was really weird.
I saw something just flash from right to left.
And it was like a shadow.
♪♪
Oh.
I'm getting, "keep going."
It's a male's voice.
It's very short and to the point.
♪♪
We got movement around us.
Do I have anybody here that wants to speak?
The camera just went down.
Hey, did anybody knock the camera over?
Camera four? The one looking at the back hoe
Where the pile of dirt is?
No.
Uh, no.
I need to know where the camera's at.
Across the street, sarah.
Do you guys see anything over there?
There's literally nobody out there.
I see it flipped over. Oh, my gosh.
There it is.
What the heck?
♪♪
I'm trying to figure out if someone had tripped
Over the cable, but look at this.
To trip over this, it shouldn't have fallen.
I'm looking back through the footage now.
I don't see anything that could have actually
Caused the camera to fall over.
It is weird because it kind of got knocked over
With some force.
It takes a lot of energy for a spirit to be able
To manipulate an object and knock down a camera.
And a lot of times, the more powerful an entity is,
The more evil it can be.
We need, whoever this is,
To settle down and be in one place
So that we can try and communicate.
I think it's time we used the ghost helmet,
And this thing can be really dangerous,
So I think I'm the one who should wear it.
K.D., as quick as you can, if you could come down
And meet us, bring the helmet.
Copy that.
It's go time.
♪♪
- Hey, k.D. - Hey.
Alright, jereme. You ready for the ghost helmet?
Now or never, I reckon.
The concept of the ghost helmet is
It's gonna heighten the part of my brain
That psychics use to communicate with the dead.
The ghost helmet, guys.
This thing is not only gonna be influencing
Jereme's mind.
So activity in this whole park can ramp up.
Okay.
I can honesty say I've never actually used the helmet
In an environment that's as active as this is.
So, what you're gonna do is you're gonna put this helmet on.
You're gonna flip this switch
And then close your eyes for about two minutes.
And then open your eyes, and we'll see what we see.
There are some dangers
That we're gonna have to look out for.
Vitals... we don't know what it's gonna cause
His heart rate to do.
Well, the only thing I ask is that y'all do not pull me out
Unless I say take it off.
Okay. I don't care how high my pulse goes, okay?
If I don't say take it off, don't take it off.
Alright.
There's spiritual dangers, as well.
So, I mean, he might not be able to unsee some of the things
That he gets to see tonight,
And he might not be able to shut off that switch.
♪♪
There's a lot of energies here,
Getting really strong and really close.
♪♪
We've got movement around us.
♪♪
I see people everywhere.
Oh,
They're everywhere.
♪♪
There's a lot of energies here.
♪♪
They're everywhere. I know.
I'm feeling something, too.
Over there. Yep.
Yeah.
It's heavy. It's a lot.
It's a lot of energy.
Oh,
What do you see?
Okay, so I'm having flashes of all kinds of faces
Flashing right here in front of my face.
They all have blood coming out of them.
People that have yellow fever...
Do they bleed like from their eyes and their nose?
Yeah.
I'm starting to feel his energy, jereme.
He's coming.
He's getting closer.
♪♪
Let that energy in closer.
Speak to that energy.
Atkinson, if you're here...
Come to me so I can see you.
Step in the light.
♪♪
There's leaves crunching behind us. Sticks breaking.
And sounds like almost whispering.
♪♪
Is there somebody standing behind us?
There is.
It's atkinson.
Yeah.
Atkinson.
I want to know are you the one
That's behind all the activity that's going on?
Have you been following us?
♪♪
Watch his movements with his hands, jereme.
♪♪
He's pointing.
♪♪
Why? He's pointing on the ground.
Why have you been with us through all the cases?
His daughter is wearing a yellow dress.
White lace. Just got a spike in the emf.
It's going crazy.
And his son.
His children are buried right there where he's standing.
Right there.
That's what he's pointing at.
What would make you leave this place and pass on?
♪♪
"remember his kids.
Remember his kids."
That's what he wants?
"and remember all the lost souls
Who didn't have voices..."
♪♪
I'm starting to get really nauseous, buddy, okay?
So, to me, this feels like energy
Starting to build up around us.
♪♪
Whoa.
- What's going on? - Yep.
They're moving right behind him, jer.
He's over there now.
Stafford" that's exactly where someone was walking behind me.
♪♪
Energy's starting to build up around us.
♪♪
Whoa.
- What's going on? - Yep.
They're moving right behind him, jereme.
He's over there now.
Take it off. Are you done, baby?
Take it off. Sit down.
What's going on?
It's off.
Oh, god.
♪♪
Deep breaths. Try to ground down, okay?
I have such a headache.
Yes, please. It's a doozy.
How are you feeling?
I'm trying to make sense of everything.
It's very weird.
The shadow that we've been seeing...
Are the people that are buried here,
The yellow fever victims.
So, it's not just one person.
And you want to know what?
They are pissed
At the way they were treated.
Why are they agitated?
If you were treated like beyond a human being
When you were dying, and they isolated you
From everywhere else and basically sat there
And let you walk around in a confined area
Until you die, you would be pissed, too.
Cast aside.
Does this have anything to do with the way they were buried
And that they're... Of course it is.
And it's the way that they went out of this world
Treated like that, and then they just buried in a freaking pile.
That's how it connects to robert kipp
Because he was affected the same freaking way.
That's how it affects james
Because he was just thrown out in a freaking lake.
That's how it affects the berwick four
Because they were murdered and thrown into a pile.
That's the whole thing here. This is what it is.
It's all about being disregarded in life and in death.
They took his children, and they put them away,
And he couldn't see them again until after they were dead.
How does it feel to you guys now?
Does it feel like they're still here?
Well, they're here.
I feel like they're here but we're going to have to do
Something to honor them in order to help them move on.
Seems like that's what atkinson wanted for his own children.
I would suggest that's what he's wanted for every single person,
Every case that we've ever touched,
He's wanted that,
And that's why he's waking all these spirits us.
Reverend atkinson wasn't looking for revenge.
He was trying to help people.
He was trying to help those
That were mistreated and wrongly killed.
When he was alive, reverend atkinson
Sacrificed everything for those around him, and now?
He's doing the same thing in death.
It's not very probable, guys,
That we would be able to dig up the remains
That are spread out through the city.
I think the most we can do
Is to maybe do some sort of a service to honor them
And let them know they're not forgotten.
And we've given them all voices.
They had more influence over us than we know.
Everything that happened throughout this journey here,
He was there.
The supernatural world has a way of drawing us in
To help them with their task.
I think it's time to call it a night.
- Yeah. - I have an idea
For how to release these spirits tomorrow.
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My team and I would like to thank you all for coming here!
Tonight, we are celebrating reverend atkinson,
And we would like to honor him
By doing a ceremony of the second line.
Now, this is my first time doing this.
You guys are going to have to teach me how to do it.
Are you guys ready?
A second line March is a southern tradition
Where we March down the streets to celebrate one's life
And their passing on to the afterlife.
♪♪
Why does it always have to be sad?
Why not have a party?
What better way to honor the life
And the death of someone, you know,
And help them transition into the afterlife?
♪ Oh, when the saints go marching in ♪
So, we went up to the top of the sea wall
To send off some lanterns into the sky
To represent the spirits of those who are trapped here.
Tonight, with these lanterns,
We are honoring the souls that passed
Due to the yellow fever.
Also, we are honoring reverend atkinson
Who worked extremely hard here in morgan city.
But we can't forgot the other souls
That have been wronged.
We hope that this helps lay them to rest.
May they find peace.
The sky lanterns... every one of those that we light,
Representing the victims of yellow fever
And all the other wronged spirits throughout the parish.
Oh, that is cool.
- We honor you. - We honor you, reverend.
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We honor you!
The whole symbolism of lighting the lanterns
And setting them free, to me, is basically releasing
The trapped souls, setting them free.
There you go.
It feels different here,
And I feel comfortable going to the city and telling them,
"you know what?
I think things are going to die down a little bit."
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Alright.
Jereme lets take our first load out.
It's actually going to be hard leaving the parish.
I've made so many friends
With people just in the stores where I go to eat lunch
And walk in and I know people's names,
And it's going to be hard to go back to california
Where they don't call you "honey" and "baby."
I'm going to miss that.
Ah, this is kind of bittersweet, taking this all down.
I mean, I remember each and every one of these cases.
All the people that we've helped.
Case by case, the entire investigation...
We've gone in and we've heard people's stories.
We have connected and shared things as a team.
We've all grown.
What, y'all packing up? Mr. Mayor.
There's our living legend.
How's it going?
Hello, chief.
Y'all ready to head out, huh? Yes.
It's really kind of sad, leaving this place, though.
Yeah. Well, good news.
We haven't received any complaints.
Nice! And that's a good thing.
We're keeping our fingers crossed.
Okay. For all the hard work y'all done, the team,
I'd like to present you with something
I very seldom hand out...
Key to the city of morgan city.
Oh, get out! Are you serious?
That is so cool.
I appreciate everything... Everything y'all done for us.
Thank you. That is quite an honor.
Thanks, mayor. Your team has done a tremendous job for us.
Couldn't have done it without you guys.
So cool.
Well, you guys, we're gonna miss you.
But we're not too far away. Yeah, chief.
Actually, I'm dropping them off at the airport,
And then I'll be back at the firehouse in my parish,
So you need me, I'll be here.
- Good deal. - Yeah.
Hopefully, I don't need you after this.
Well, it will only take him, like, eight days
To get here in this thing, so...
No speeding tickets.
Thank you, guys.
So cool.
So, jereme, I've been practicing a little something for you.
Well, I'll be doggone, ben. You did it.
I'm gonna make a cajun boy out of you if it kills me.
I like it.
Hey, chief. This is sergeant poole
Over here in thibodaux.
Look, we're getting some really weird calls.
We wanted to see if you can send your paranormal team over.
St. Martin parish, sheriff's office.
Hey, I'm not sure how to get
The paranormal team down here.
We are having people call in regarding apparitions.
Good morning, chief. This is sergeant rick.