Zak: Who was locked up inside of here?
I just felt that I shouldn't be there,
and I felt a presence.
O'ferral: He would hear voices,
and he would hear people walking around.
Is this the curse of jake bird?
Oh, ****!
Jake bird, I'm here to conjure your spirit.
- I feel uneasy. - Yeah, so do I.
- Is that you, jake bird? - Something's definitely here.
It's doing it. It's doing it! It's doing it!
It said, "bird." did you hear that?
Aaron: Oh, my god. It did!
♪♪
zak: There are things in this world
that we will never fully understand.
[ distorted ] understand.
[ echoing ] we want answers.
We have worked years to build our credibility, our reputation,
and in this four-part special event,
we will take an in-depth look at some of
the most twisted minds in history --
holmes, gacy,
bird, bundy.
♪♪
we are on their trail.
This is "ghost adventures: Serial killer spirits."
♪♪
we move from illinois to iowa as we continue our quest
to call forth the spirits of serial killers.
♪♪
it's giving me rage!
Despite the heavy toll of immersing ourselves
in the murky histories
of a murderous doctor who created a killing factory
in order to profit off his victims
and a clown who killed 33 young men and boys,
we must now take on another deranged murderer,
this time, one who killed with an ax
but also with just his words.
We're in council bluffs, iowa,
and we're here sitting in front of one of the most unique jails
that we've ever heard of.
The former pottawattamie county jail,
known as the squirrel cage jail,
was one of a handful of rotary jails
built in the midwestern united states
in the late 19th century.
The cells rotated inside a cylindrical cage
with only one opening.
Limbs could easily be destroyed by steel grinding against steel.
♪♪
local law enforcement tells us that one inmate
used the mechanism to end his own life.
He basically took a laundry rope,
tied it around his neck, tied it around the bars,
and as that inner cell rotated, he basically hung himself.
[ man gasping and choking ]
♪♪
zak: This hellish death trap was home
to a unique form of misery,
and now it's becoming a dangerous threat
to all who dare to enter.
♪♪
the real reason we're here
is not just because of how insanely haunted this place is,
but who was locked up inside of here --
a notorious serial killer.
He was known as the tacoma ax-killer, jake bird.
Jake bird was held here after he brutally assaulted
a young iowa couple with an ax in 1928.
♪♪
after his release, he continued his bloodthirsty ways.
By the time he was hanged for the ax murders
of a mother and daughter in tacoma, washington,
he had killed as many as 46 people.
This guy was unlike any other that I've ever heard of before.
He had a supernatural power.
He could curse anybody that was against him.
At his trial, jake bird predicted
that everyone involved in his case would die.
One year after his execution,
six men had succumbed to the jake bird hex.
[ rattling ]
and it just begs the question --
did he also curse the very jail that took away his freedom?
♪♪
come on, guys.
- Wow. - This is it.
We are inside the squirrel cage jail right now.
And here it is.
- Wow. - Look at this.
- Whoa. - Hold on. Hold on. Hold on.
Put your hand right there.
It's not cold but, like... Different.
- ...Tingly. - Yeah.
- Was it just me? - No. You're right.
- So... - Yeah. Right now, I'm, like...
- Yeah. - ...Sensations, like...
There's a, like, a static charge right here.
Ooh.
Where aaron is --
that right there is the cylinder,
the squirrel cage jail.
I've never seen anything like it before in my life.
♪♪
I'm excited for this.
I've been wanting to investigate this jail
for a very, very long time, and I don't know why.
I just can't get jake bird's face out of my mind,
and we're going to call upon his spirit,
and what happens when you call upon a spirit
that has cursed others where they've all died?
And these are people that are working for the law --
attorneys, judges.
Holy cow. Did you just feel that?
That was just a breeze -- a very strong breeze of air
that just went by me.
Zak: Billy begins taking readings with the geophone.
The blue lights indicate spikes in electromagnetic energy.
Hello! - Look at that.
Zak: Hello! We are getting emfs.
You can feel the charge, too.
It's right here in the threshold.
Look at that.
Whoa!
Zak: Then, as abruptly as they appeared, the emfs are gone.
You can see that there are no solid emfs
that are just nonstop that would be coming
from some kind of other source, man-made. Right.
It's like they're passing through this threshold.
They're transient, bill. They're passing through.
Right. That's what you felt. I felt it.
Zak: This transient cold energy appeared
as soon as I mentioned the hexed authority figures
that jake bird believed had done him wrong.
♪♪
ready? - Ready to roll.
- You guys ready? - Camera speeds.
Zak: Juli o'ferral's great-great-uncle
was the jailer here in the 1950s.
He and his family were disturbed enough
by the upstairs jailer's apartment
that they had to move out.
Tell me why he couldn't live up there.
He was just experiencing things.
He would hear voices, and he would hear people
walking around up in that apartment when no one was there,
and it was enough to kind of scare him
out of even wanting to live on that floor.
Zak: Another example of an authority figure under threat.
What is your experiences here?
My experience has been mostly on the second floor
where the noose is at.
There's a noose -- there's a noose?
Yes. There's a noose.
Why is there a noose up there?
It's on display,
and it was used to actually hang someone.
What?! Are you serious?
Yes.
Was that guy an inmate here?
Yes.
To have an item that was placed around...
Billy: Wait. Shh, shh, shh.
What was... Behind you, jay.
- What is that? I heard that. - I don't know.
Yeah. I hear it, too. Quiet.
Just don't do anything.
Be quiet.
To have an item...
To have an item that was placed around...
Billy: Wait. Shh, shh, shh.
I'm feeling a -- a... Something.
A little uneasy?
No, I'm feeling the same charge
I did when we first walked in here.
I'm -- it's -- I'm getting cold right here now.
Feel my back, billy.
Can you feel my back? - Yeah.
- Do you feel that? - Yeah.
Get up and just feel this
so I have somebody that I don't know.
- It does feel -- yeah. - It's cold.
- Do you feel that? - Ooh, right...
Yeah, right there. - Yeah.
- But it wasn't like this. - No.
Look. Ooh! Put your hand here.
Do you feel -- is it... - It does feel cold.
Oh, that's crazy.
♪♪
zak: The noises and this new cold energy
appeared the moment we mentioned the noose --
a tool used by the authorities to end jake bird's life.
♪♪
byron gamble had an experience that shook him to his core
in the same apartment that scared away the jailer.
Gamble: We walked through the whole prison.
Then jeremy, who was my friend --
he was like, "let's go up to the attic room,"
and so we went up there, and...
- That's the apartment, right? - The apartment, yes.
- Yeah. - Yeah, yeah, and he was like,
"byron, do you want to sit in the rocking chair
and, like, try to talk to someone?"
so I sit in the chair, and I said, "hello,"
three times, and on the third time,
a book behind me just, like, shot off the shelf.
♪♪
I just felt that I shouldn't be there,
and I felt a presence in the room.
I don't know what that presence was.
Like, all of a sudden, it went from,
"I feel nothing. I see nothing,"
to, "a third thing is in this room with me."
♪♪
did it mess with you after you left?
Yes. I would wake up to that same slamming noise
in my dreams, so something would start,
and then I remember being in that rocking chair,
and then, all of a sudden, it would slam,
and I would just jolt awake.
♪♪
was this a life-changing event for you?
Yeah. It made me rethink
every time that I step into a dark room
that something else could be there.
It made me believe in ghosts.
♪♪
if you go that way, this is a...
Zak: The jail's security-camera technician
tells me he and some friends
once felt the steel floor in the staircase
that leads to the jailer's apartment move on its own.
You felt this entire steel floor shaking?
Yes, we did.
- Did you feel it? - Yes.
- You felt it? - Yes. We felt it.
And you saw it? Was there an earthquake?
Nope. These are steel I-beams.
This is steel floor.
You're not gonna move that floor with a truck.
I mean, it's just not gonna move.
♪♪
zak: This event occurred after greg had installed a security camera
facing jake bird's cell.
♪♪
what did you do when you were feeling it shake?
I was out the door.
I immediately left.
I love this place.
I'm honored to be a part of it, but it also terrifies me, so...
♪♪
you know, the curse of jake bird doesn't stop at those people
that died that had something to do with his trial.
Jake bird's stint at the squirrel cage jail
was a result of his bloody ax attack
on harold and mary stribling in 1928.
The striblings somehow survived.
Many years later,
harold stribling shot his wife and himself in the head.
She survived. He did not.
Is this the curse? They lived through it.
Is this the curse of jake bird?
Do you hear that?
- Yeah. - It goes, "ha-ha, ha-ha, ha!"
this is leading to something very, very big.
♪♪
[ laughter ]
♪♪
[ laughter ]
♪♪
zak: Day 2 at the squirrel cage jail
in council bluffs, iowa.
The rain is falling... [ train whistle blows ]
...Train horn is blaring,
and the clouds are getting dark, and there's a storm moving in.
And we can't help but just look upstairs there
into the attic where this very mysterious apartment is.
That interview that we got from byron --
when I interview somebody,
and I know that something truly affected them,
I can see it in their eyes,
and I know that whatever he experienced
upstairs there in the attic
stayed with him and really affected him.
And if that jailer that used to live up there --
he couldn't even stay up there anymore,
something's up there.
♪♪
zak: To cover more ground, we decide to split up.
While I look into the noose that juli told me about
in her interview,
kat slaughter, manager of the jail museum,
shows aaron and billy a recently discovered secret room
in the jailer's apartment.
Aaron pulls out the spirit box
to see what might be lurking in this walled-off space.
[ spirit box crackling ]
[ indistinct voice ]
- "search the house." - yeah.
- Do you hear that? - Oh, yeah.
Search the house for what?
Does the word "jake bird" mean anything to you?
[ indistinct voice ]
- "yeah." - "yeah."
why should we not worry about that?
Is he here?
[ indistinct voice ]
zak: Aaron is now essentially carrying on a conversation
with something near this newly discovered secret room.
♪♪
I move towards the second-floor museum display
where the noose is kept.
♪♪
last night, I couldn't stop thinking
about this particular item,
and as somebody who collects haunted items,
cursed artifacts,
I feel as though connecting with those objects
will connect you on another level to the spirit
that it connected with in their life
and... During their painful death.
♪♪
aaron and billy are receiving more responses.
[ spirit box crackling ]
where can we find jake bird?
[ indistinct voice ]
later we will analyze this spirit response
and make a shocking discovery as to what it is saying.
♪♪
what was this room for?
[ indistinct voice ]
oh, ****! Did you hear that?
- Yeah. - It goes, "ha-ha, ha-ha, ha!"
- I heard that. That was... - What the ****?
That's evil laughter.
♪♪
zak: While he's there,
aaron, billy, and I sit down with kat
to review the audio evidence from the upstairs apartment.
These spirits are incredibly intelligent,
and they have the power to speak in full sentences
with total relevance of what this place is...
- Wow. - ...A jail.
Yep. I'll play just the spirit box voice.
Ready? Okay.
[ indistinct voice ]
this one was interesting.
Aaron, what did you hear in the moment on this one?
Aaron: "search the house."
zak: We didn't know what that meant --
search the house, search upstairs.
Does that have anything to do with the secret room?
Is there a secret in the room?
♪♪
okay, so let's go to the next one.
So right here...
Aaron: Why should we not worry about that?
Is he here?
[ indistinct voice ]
- did you hear that? - Yeah, I did.
"why should we not worry about that? Is he here?"
"he's hiding."
[ indistinct voice ]
that is too cool.
- Can you hear it? - Yeah.
That spirit responded to aaron's question, "where is he?"
aaron: That's intelligent.
Zak: That's what we look for in these locations --
can communication be established
between the living and the dead?
And we believe it is, but it's gonna get better.
Now, listen to this.
[ indistinct voice ]
this is amazing.
- Wow. - Play it again.
[ indistinct voice ]
- that is cool. - Can you hear?
Something about weapons, maybe?
- Yes! - Okay.
- Yes. - "need the weapons."
- "need weapons." - "need the weapons."
"need the weapons," or, "leave the weapons."
oh, definitely. That is so cool.
Now, who is this spirit talking to?
This next voice could have something to do with that.
[ indistinct voice ]
but we heard...
- "kill him with something." - ..."kill him with something."
it's two different voices that...
- Yeah. - Really low with "something."
he's like, "kill him with something."
- oh, that is creepy. - That's crazy.
And again, it's a full sentence.
"need the weapons." "kill him with something."
this is leading to something very, very big.
Zak: I'm here to conjure your spirit.
- It's hard to breathe in here. - Who's here with us right now?
♪♪
[ laughter ]
♪♪
[ laughter ]
♪♪
okay, this is it. It's getting dark out.
We are in council bluffs, iowa,
and we are getting ready to be locked down
inside of one of the most unique jails
that I've ever been to,
not just because of the squirrel-cage cylinder
where these inmates would get locked down
but because of the serial killer that spent time here.
And upon researching about the jake bird hex,
we know that it was documented --
he put a curse on people who ended up dying
that were part of his punishment during his sentencing at trial.
But did he also put some kind of a curse on the very building
that took his freedom away?
The things that are going on inside,
the things that are going on with people who spend time here
and even go home indicates a strong yes.
So with that said, it has already set
a very, very intense, anxiety-driven stage,
and I'm excited. Where's kat?
You ready to lock us in? Okay.
Aaron, this is one place that you ain't gonna run out of.
I say that, and I ran the last time.
- Right? - Oh.
♪♪
okay, jay is at nerve center.
Aaron is over here.
Billy's right here.
I'm right here.
There's only four of us,
and we are truly locked inside of squirrel cage jail.
Because we got absolutely incredible evidence
with the sb7 spirit box, I want to use this method again,
but we have a brand-new piece of equipment
that we're field testing from engineer gary galka,
the inventor of the spirit box.
This is incredible.
This sb7 spirit box is attacked to this unit,
and what we are able to do now is,
when we are listening and doing a spirit box session,
we're able to capture that audio,
pause it, reverse it,
and we could even slow it down a second after we capture it.
That's what this unit allows us to do.
Zak: With this new invention, I decide to immediately conduct
our very first spirit box session
at the site of jake bird's cell.
♪♪
jake bird, I'm here to conjure your spirit.
You had these powers when you were alive --
evil powers.
You said that you were gonna put a hex on all the people
that were involved in your punishment for your sentence.
They all died -- all six of them.
[ thumping ]
the hell was that?
Aaron: That was like, "boom, boom, boom."
- yeah. It was loud. - It was in a cell.
Zak: Just as I am addressing jake bird,
the coincidence of us hearing these three loud booming sounds
is extremely compelling.
All six of them.
The hell was that?
Aaron: That was like, "boom, boom, boom."
- yeah. It was loud. - It was in a cell.
I think it's starting to stir up.
I think the spirits around here are actually feeling
whatever just happened with that boom, boom.
Zak: Yeah. The second...
And now it's like other spirits are interacting.
It's, like, I feel like there's, like...
It's an awakening, and they're all waking up.
And, dude, you can hear it audibly.
♪♪
jake bird...
[ indistinct voice ]
- "where are you?" - "where are you?"
- hit pause.
I'm gonna slow it down.
Each time you hit the button,
that's 5% that you slow it down,
so I'm gonna slow it down 20%.
I'm gonna rewind it 10 seconds.
I'm gonna play it again.
- "where are you?" - yeah.
- "where are you?" - that's a woman's voice, right?
- Yeah. - Listen to it again.
- "where are you?" - "where are you?"
it's so clear.
Zak: It's a female voice saying, "where are you?"
what I'm gonna do is, I'm gonna go back to live.
I'm gonna hit two buttons and resume live.
Jake bird, this is what you used --
an ax.
This was your weapon of choice.
Jake, do you remember you attacked two people,
but they survived?
That victim ended up shooting his wife in the head
and then shot himself.
Is that the hex?
How did you have the power to make this guy
then kill himself and try to kill his wife?
[ spirit box crackling ]
who's here with us right now?
♪♪
[ indistinct voice ]
- whoa. - I think it said...
- What was that? - I'm gonna slow it down 20%.
I'm gonna rewind it.
Zak: Now we receive a very distinct male voice,
and as I pause and slow it down,
can you make out what he's saying?
- Did he say, "exactly"? - "exactly"?
"exactly"?
Zak: What's interesting is that as we receive that voice,
who we believe to be jake bird, we also capture this unexplained
strobing-light anomaly on our full-spectrum camera
that appears to be coming out of jake bird's cell.
Give me your first and last name.
[ indistinct voice ]
- "you got it." - "you got it."
watch. Do it again, and just --
it'll sound way better.
- "you got it." - it sounds clear.
- Yeah. He does. - It's the same voice.
Yeah. You're right.
[ indistinct voice ]
- whoa! See? - Whoa.
Same voice again.
Zak: After hearing three male voices
speaking in the same distinct tone,
all of us suddenly experience a strange feeling
of breathlessness.
I'm having trouble breathing, man. Hoo!
- Dude, it's right by there. - It's hard to breathe in here.
Aaron: Zak, it's right here.
♪♪
we saw lights on the second floor.
Bill, that was right here. I felt it.
What the hell was that?
- Whoa! There it is again! - Go, go, go!
♪♪
[ laughter ]
♪♪
[ laughter ]
♪♪
zak: The energy at squirrel cage jail
in council bluffs is affecting our respiration.
The heavy breathing between all of us becomes so severe
that we have to head back down to nerve center
to figure out why this is happening.
- I feel uneasy. - Yeah, so do I.
I feel really uneasy right now.
- You do feel it? - Yeah, actually.
It totally changed once that...
Something changed.
Zak: After we all take a moment to catch our breath and reset,
we wonder if the spirit of jake bird
was trying to incapacitate us by restricting our airflow,
and as I'm talking to the camera about this experience,
watch this very strange light anomaly manifest
and then disappear inside of me.
♪♪
energies seem to have gotten stronger after the spirit box.
- Yeah, yeah. - Do you agree?
Totally. And do you also agree that the only voice
that we heard coming through there --
we heard one female. Mm-hmm.
But every other voice sounded like...
- A man. - ...A man from...
- Louisiana. - ...Louisiana, down south.
- Yeah. - He has that accent.
Zak: Aaron, billy, and myself now decide
to make our way up into the attic apartment,
where the old jailer refused to live
because of the strong level of activity
he was being affected by.
Nothing's been touched in this apartment.
They literally just found a secret room in this apartment.
What the hell was that?
I just saw a fast flash of black right over there.
- For real? - Yeah. There it is again!
- Go, go, go! - Watch in that doorway.
It's the second time I saw it.
It was about 4 feet high...
It was a very fast, black, darting, like, shadow.
Zak: I immediately pursue this black mass
to see if I can capture it on camera.
We do have a time-lapse infrared camera
set up somewhere over here. Right, billy?
Yeah, right there in the corner.
Aaron's pointing at it.
So I want to see if it was captured in here.
Stay there, aaron. I'm gonna ambush this.
♪♪
[ camera whirring ]
- whoa, whoa, whoa! - What the...
That was right on me, bro. Bill, that was right here.
I felt it. - Yeah. What was that?
Zak: All right. Everybody calm down.
What was that? It was just --
something stepped right up on me,
and I felt this energy come at me.
It sounded like the floorboards moved or something, right?
Yeah. It, like, came up. It stopped.
It was like... You know what I'm saying?
- Yeah, yeah. - That's what I felt.
Zak: At the same exact moment aaron feels this bang near him,
we capture a light anomaly right beside him
on one of our motion-activated game cameras.
♪♪
whoa, whoa, whoa! Bill, that was right here.
I felt it. It was just --
something stepped right up on me,
and I felt this energy come at me.
Zak: To have this anomaly appear right in front of aaron,
then turn and shoot directly towards the floor
where he and billy hear the loud footstep,
and to even have aaron say
that he felt this energy come up on him
makes this visual anomaly absolutely fascinating evidence.
So what I want to do is, aaron...
- Yeah. - ...When we interviewed byron,
he said that he came up here,
and he was sitting in the chair,
and then a book fell off the case. Aaron: Yeah.
And he's been having that recurring dream... Right.
...Of what actually happened here
over and over and over and over and over.
I would wake up to that same slamming noise in my dreams,
and then I remember being in that rocking chair,
and then, all of a sudden, it would slam,
and I would just jolt awake.
- I'm gonna stand. - Do me a favor, guys.
- Yeah. - Go back down to nerve center.
Give me a moment by myself.
- Okay. - Go down.
- Okay. - You want anything?
Be ready.
♪♪
okay, so right over here -- this is a music box
that plays by itself up here in the apartment,
so I'm going to set this camera right there.
♪♪
so I just want to slow everything down...
...No equipment...
No chaos...
Just my energy by myself.
♪♪
will you talk to me?
What is that? What is it?
It's on the second floor.
That looks like a flashlight with someone walking around.
I saw you twice over here with my own eyes.
Zak: Back at nerve center, the guys react to
suddenly seeing strange lights on the second level
near jake bird's cell that are captured on this x camera.
♪♪
billy: Why would you see the light that was just right there
- yeah. - ...On the second floor?
Billy: Zak, we need to tell you something.
What?
We saw lights on the second floor right by jake's cell.
What kind of light?
It's impossible, but there was some sort of light in --
yeah, like a flashlight.
Like a flashlight in the background.
There's no windows, but, like, someone's in there
with a flashlight on the second floor.
Zak: As the guys tell me about these lights,
which are right below me,
I tell them to continue watching the monitors
while I set up an additional full-spectrum camera
on the first floor,
and as I return back to the attic apartment,
I shut the door, and this x camera captures
an unexplained black mass underneath the stairs.
♪♪
billy: It's moving!
It's doing it. It's doing it! It's doing it!
Whoa. What was that?
Something just tapped me on the shoulder.
♪♪
[ laughter ]
♪♪
[ laughter ]
♪♪
zak: Unexplained things are happening at this iowa jail.
Hey, bill, bring me up a digital recorder and the sls.
Billy: I'm coming up.
Zak: After billy delivers me more equipment,
he and aaron decide to return to jake bird's cell.
Billy: Aaron just placed the geophone right here
at the threshold of jake bird's cell.
Right now it's calibrating,
and once it calibrates, it will be ready.
♪♪
aaron: What was that?
Oh! It's moving!
It just moved! - Did it?
Why is it moving? I saw it move.
Zak: Billy sees the geophone device move by itself.
However, aaron's camera doesn't capture this,
and we are unable to state
whether this is paranormal activity
or if the device is just sliding off of a ledge
that it's sitting on.
How is it turning sideways? I can't see it, but I can see
that it's not the way you laid it.
Yeah. It's -- laying it down was just on...
Are you moving that? I'm gonna ask him.
Jake, are you moving that?
Are you moving our device?
Are you moving our device, jake?
-Mostly. - Jake...
- "mostly." - "mostly"?
Yeah. Did...Wait.
Did you straighten it again?
- No. I haven't done anything. - Okay.
You can see it's crooked, right? Right.
Straighten it, and document -- yeah.
It's perfectly straight, right?
- That's it. - Okay.
It's doing it. It's doing it! It's doing it!
- And the light went off! - Yes!
Are you doing that?
Zak: Back up in the apartment by myself,
I decide to place a couple digital recorders on a chair
and this old organ.
Okay, I've got two recorders rolling up here,
and I'm up here by myself,
and it's extremely quiet.
♪♪
hello. Is there anybody here with me?
I have two recorders going on.
Please speak into those devices,
or you can communicate with me here on the ovilus.
Is anybody here to communicate with me?
"choose."
choose what?
What do you want me to choose?
Zak: Right after I asked the spirit
what it wants me to choose,
I receive two responses almost immediately --
two names.
"fay."
is anybody in this jail? "jackie"?
Zak: Are they telling me to choose which female spirit
I want to communicate with?
Aaron and billy now investigate the basement
of the squirrel cage jail,
and the chilling audio evidence which they are about to capture
is going to leave them both absolutely stunned.
Aaron: Ugh!
Oh. Billy: Is it safe?
- I don't know. - Whoa.
♪♪
[ buzzing ]
♪♪
whoa. What was that?
- I don't know. - It was knocking.
Boom, boom. Boom, boom.
[ buzzing ]
aaron: Do you hear the thumps?
Yeah. I heard the thumps.
♪♪
is there anyone down here?
♪♪
- you set this somewhere. - [ exhales ]
I got this new pod that I want to try.
Zak: Billy begins using this new
electromagnetic-communication pod
that sweeps about 10 times faster
than our standard sb7 spirit box.
Who's down here?
Something tapped -- something just tapped me
on the shoulder, right on my elbow.
There's not anything above me, is there?
Aaron: There's nothing. No.
[ pod crackling ]
any cellmates, inmates, people who worked --
[ indistinct voice ]
"not in the basement." - whoa!
- Did you hear that? - Yes.
Zak: A crystal-clear four-word demand
spread out over multiple sweeps going at a high rate
tells them to get out of the basement.
Any cellmates, inmates, people who worked --
"not in the basement." - whoa!
- Did you hear that? - Yes.
Who are you?
[ indistinct voices ]
what?!
Zak: As billy asks the spirits who they are,
a voice quickly asks, "is there a name?"
then another voice answers that question by saying,
"I'm," and then a word we cannot make out.
Who are you?
What?!
I challenge you to come through this device.
[ indistinct voice ]
it said, "bird." did you hear that?
Oh, my god. It did!
Something's definitely here.
Is that you, jake bird?
Those are screams.
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[ laughter ]
♪♪
[ laughter ]
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zak: Aaron and billy may be communicating with
a serial killer in the iowa jail that held him.
[ indistinct voice ]
it said, "bird." did you hear that?
Aaron: Oh, my god. It did!
The guys now hear, "jake bird, fight."
I challenge you to come through this device.
It said --
it said, "bird." did you hear that?
Oh, my god. It did!
I don't know if that's a good thing.
Where's bird?
Let's see him.
[ indistinct voice ]
"is that a demand?"
zak: Just as a spirit demands jake bird to fight,
it seems another spirit questions that demand.
Where's bird?
Let's see him.
"is that a demand?"
now the question we have is,
does this device capture jake bird laughing
at the same time that an anomaly is seen?
I want to see the bird man...
[ pod crackling ]
...Jake bird.
Did you hear a laugh?
Yeah.
Jake bird.
[ squeak ]
did you hear a laugh?
Yeah.
Zak: Back up in the attic apartment,
I open the door where the top
of the squirrel-cage cylinder can be seen.
I believe all of the residual energy --
the deaths, the suicides --
is all channeled inside this small chamber,
and as I conduct an evp session, my live analysis captures
some disturbing validation of my theory.
Whoa. [ indistinct voice ]
I just heard a scream.
...In this apartment.
What secret is being kept hidden here?
[ squawk ]
is something wrong with me?
[ squawk ]
you hear this?
Hello. Did something follow that lady home?
There's multiple screams on this.
Are you serving your eternal sentence here?
[ speaks indistinctly ]
...In this apartment.
What secret is being kept hidden here?
Is something wrong with me?
Those are screams,
and it's right when I opened this up.
♪♪
were you screaming?
♪♪
is that you, jake bird?
[ indistinct voice ]
is that you, jake bird?
[ pod crackling ]
♪♪
all right. This is the first time
I'm actually feeling... Something right now.
♪♪
something's definitely here.
This is a lot like a spirit box, except for this dial.
How it spins allows you to make it go super, super fast.
You know how the spirit box goes, "chh, chh, chh, chh, chh"?
Well, this thing goes 10 times faster,
like, just zooms through the frequencies.
So those clear voices that we heard were over
maybe 15 or 20 different frequencies --
virtually impossible.
Pretty incredible.
Zak: I meet back up with the guys,
but something is bothering me
from what I encountered in the upstairs apartment,
and I am experiencing physical pain in a very sensitive spot.
I told aaron that my, uh...
Billy: What are you trying to say?
I'm trying to give the tv name for it.
All right? Thingamabobs.
My -- I went in there, and I told aaron my...
- Testicles? - Yeah.
Billy: I mean, that's the medical term, right?
Yeah, and I felt that earlier.
- Both of you? - I felt it earlier.
I felt like I got kicked in the nuts.
Billy: Where were you at when that happened?
I was just upstairs doing evp,
and somebody yelled in my recorder.
Is something wrong with me?
And as I was walking down, I felt that.
It's so weird.
Zak: On our quest to try to make contact
with serial killers' spirits,
jake bird might be one of the most dangerous
because of his alleged supernatural power
to curse anyone who disrespects him.
We ask ourselves,
if we made contact with his spirit in the afterlife,
did we anger him enough to leave here
and possibly suffer from the jake bird hex?
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