♪♪
h. H. Holmes murdered a little boy in this house.
There was a dark presence making itself home here.
They found just pieces of his body buried
all over this property.
Howard is here in the house. I'll tell you that.
America's most notorious serial killer is still here.
Oh, can't breathe.
It's giving me rage!
Aah! Burning up!
♪♪
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're in a very old neighborhood in irvington, indiana,
just outside of indianapolis.
We're here to investigate a very haunted cottage.
Why is it haunted?
Because a little boy was murdered by a serial killer
by the name of h. H. Holmes.
H. H. Holmes is considered to be america's first serial killer.
In 1882, his taste for blood was cultivated in medical school,
where he gained access to cadavers for dissection.
His indifference towards life
led him to construct an apartment building
just outside of chicago designed specifically to conceal
the murders of countless victims.
This came to be known as the murder castle.
The complex included soundproof rooms
where lethal doses of gas would asphyxiate victims.
Chutes with trapdoors were installed so bodies
could be dropped to the basement without detection.
The flesh of his victims was removed in acid vats,
and the bones mounted so skeletons
could be sold to medical schools.
This was the beginning of the end for h. H. Holmes,
right where I'm standing.
This is where, in 1894,
it was also the end for little 8- year-old howard pitezel.
And we're going to go talk to the owner now.
She claims that something very dark, very evil
is inside her home.
Are we going to make contact with the spirit of h. H. Holmes?
♪♪
when did you find out
that h. H. Holmes murdered a little boy in this house?
I want to say about 2 years ago, maybe 21/2.
Samantha starbrite, who finds comfort
in a childlike lifestyle, has lived here for 5 years.
Is it true that you think
that there is something sinister here?
Yeah. I definitely think there's some kind of activity here.
Something's going on.
Do you think that because howard pitezel,
he was young, you know what I mean,
and he was murdered in this house.
Do you think that you're vulnerable for something dark?
I feel very vulnerable sometimes, you know?
It's sad what happened to him,
but I can't help but wonder if that --
you know, something might happen to me someday in this house.
It just has that sort of cloud.
♪♪
of all the holmes sites, this is the one that you can come to
that's still an active crime scene.
Zak: Alan hunter runs the irvington ghost tours.
So, is it true h. H. Holmes poisoned howard?
Absolutely.
On October 10th, 1894,
holmes murdered young howard pitezel.
♪♪
he cut the child's body into segments,
then attempted to burn the pieces in the stove.
When that proved too difficult, he took the remaining flesh
and buried it around the property.
These teeth were recovered in the flue of the chimney.
Not long after, the law caught up with holmes.
Just before his execution, he wrote,
"I was born with the devil in me.
I could not help the fact that I was a murderer,
no more than the poet can help the inspiration to song."
you're sitting in a crime scene. He's still here.
Howard pitezel?
Howard pitezel is still here.
They found just pieces of his body.
He's buried all over this property.
So, there's pieces of him still...
Absolutely.
...In the soil where we're at right now.
And your mother passed in the house.
She did. Okay.
Did she ever discuss any things with ghosts?
She gave me this funny look.
I said, "what's that?"
and she says, "I feel like the spirit
of h. H. Holmes just went inside of me,"
and it, like -- your mom said that?
Yeah, and then she said, "sweet dreams, howie," to me.
Yeah. I was terrified.
To hear samantha tell me her mother claims
she was possessed by the spirit of h. H. Holmes
and saw her daughter as the child
who holmes murdered in this house
makes me very concerned for samantha,
but we learn holmes' spirit has a much larger target.
What you'll find in this area
is that people don't work in their yards at night.
People don't cook out at night.
People don't party at night.
So, you and the neighbors
believe that the spirit of h. H. Holmes is still here.
He is outside.
Holmes, on most of these houses,
witnesses say he is trying to get in that house.
He's still looking for howard.
He rattles the windows.
He jars the doors.
Something's trying to get into these houses.
Uh-huh, and they and you believe
it is the spirit of h. H. Holmes.
They believe it's holmes. He's still here.
♪♪
samantha became so affected,
she recently attempted to make contact with the spirits
using a device that is commonly found in any toy store.
I started using a ouija board.
I felt like there was a dark presence
that was just making itself home here, and --
were you doing this by yourself?
Yes. Yes, I was.
Would you say at first you were making contact
with what you believe to be a little boy,
and then something darker came through later on?
Yeah. I think that's exactly what happened.
Yeah. I burned that ouija board since, so --
did you? Yeah.
It was that bad? Yeah.
After opening herself up more to these spirits,
samantha began receiving unexplained marks
on her body while she slept.
I got a couple marks on my arm, like, red marks.
Like, I went to sleep, and I woke up, and they were there.
Okay, so, you would get marked while you sleep,
and you couldn't explain that.
Yeah.
Being marked is an extremely dangerous situation
for samantha, but the stakes are about to get even higher.
Alan has just informed me
that he is in possession of a once-forgotten chest
recently discovered by a local couple.
This chest contains personal items
that actually belonged to h. H. Holmes.
As we examine the contents, aaron and billy take cindy,
a psychic medium, down to the basement
to see what she can sense.
I'll let you go first. Okay.
Aaron: This is the first time you've been downstairs in the basement?
Adkins: Yeah, first time I've been downstairs in the basement, yes.
Are you sensing anything at all?
Um...Well, howard's here in the house.
I'll tell you that. [ chuckles ]
that's the boy. Yeah, the little boy.
And he's followed us down because he does know
I can see him,
and...He's just trying to get someone
to listen to him and talk to him.
He's lost.
I mean, he's just sad. He's lost.
He wants to be with his family,
and nobody's been able to help him do that.
Okay, so, this is the h. H. Holmes stash of stuff.
Yeah. Yeah.
This is an incredible moment right now. May I?
Sure.
Are these really the scalpels from the hands
of one of america's most notorious serial killers?
Yes.
Whoa. I just got dizzy.
You're not the first.
I just got a little dizzy spell right there.
If you're sensing him, then maybe you could ask
some questions and see if he comes through
because he might really want to talk to you.
[ oscillating static ]
howard?
Sweetheart?
Here is your chance to talk now if you want to.
So, al, this is what I wanted to see, okay?
This is a lock of hair,
presumably from h. H. Holmes' private collection,
as he was known to have a lot of different collections.
So, you think that I'm holding a lock of hair that h. H. Holmes
cut from one of his victims postmortem.
Yeah.
Could this be howard pitezel's?
It could. It could.
Howard?
Whoa.
That was creepy.
Spirit box: The haunting.
"the haunting"! Did it just say, "the haunting"?
Something like that. It sounded like a man.
That was a man's voice, though.
Ooh.
Zak: Is it possible the act of placing the lock of hair
back into the house
just triggered the voice aaron and billy just captured?
"the haunting"!
I don't know how much deeper
I can go into the investigation of h. H. Holmes
without talking to h. H. Holmes himself.
This investigation isn't over yet.
That just might happen.
I don't know if anybody else is,
but I'm having trouble breathing already.
H. H. Holmes, is there someone down there?
♪♪
zak: We have had an incredible breakthrough
in our investigation.
In our quest to connect with the spirit of h. H. Holmes,
we have tracked down an actual living relative
of america's first serial killer.
Jeff, you're sitting in a house right now
where your great-great-grandfather
committed one of the possibly hundreds of murders.
H. H. Holmes was born henry mudgett.
He used the holmes alias to evade authorities.
After inheriting holmes' personal diaries,
jeff mudgett has embarked on a journey
to uncover the evil in his own family tree.
What is it like to be inside this house?
Yeah, I was here once before, zak,
and I did feel a pressure on my chest.
I had a ringing in my ears.
I had somewhat of a voice talking, "mudgett,"
repeatedly raising the name mudgett.
When you were upstairs? Upstairs.
They had to help me out of the house.
I know that. And why I came back to be with you
and the team tonight was I was hoping
we could find closure with the little boy,
maybe beg for some forgiveness,
tell him that it's not me and my family.
We didn't have a choice in this,
and we wish him well in eternity,
and if you can help me with that here tonight,
I'd really appreciate it.
I don't think I'm ever going to be in this house
with h. H. Holmes' great-great-grandson ever again.
Let's go do this. I'm ready.
Okay. Let's go.
It is terrifying to know that the great-great-grandson
of h. H. Holmes was so affected in this house,
he needed to be carried out of the building.
This information intensifies this moment
right here, right now.
This was an attic that was converted to a living quarters,
and to tell you the truth,
zak, I'm feeling this right here in this corner right now.
When h. H. Holmes attempted
to burn the pieces of howard's body,
the smoke traveled through this very opening.
Could his spirit still be bound to this passageway?
I don't know if anybody else is,
but I'm having trouble breathing already right now.
I'm dizzy. It's heavy in here.
I'm very dizzy.
It's really heavy right at my esophagus.
This is the second time I've been here,
and I'm feeling exactly the same way I did before.
What are you feeling?
A pressure on my chest.
I'm going to just roll on this session right here.
Actually, you know what? Can I have you hold this?
Yeah.
Can you...Come up here to us, howard?
The man that did this to you, this is his relative.
He wants to apologize on behalf
of what his great- great-grandfather did to you.
Do you want to say anything?
No, other than the reason I was just moving there was
I was having to hold on for my balance.
It was rough.
I was going to fall if I hadn't grabbed on to the bed here.
H. H. Holmes, your great-great-grandson is here.
[ creaking ] that's me walking back.
Is there somebody down there?
♪♪
is there someone down there?
I don't know. It sounded like a door squeak,
like it was squeaking open.
Almost heard a whispering, too.
Are you hearing that?
Zak: It's becoming clear we are not alone in this house.
What started out with jeff's chest pain
quickly progressed to his lack of balance
and now is manifesting in mysterious sounds
coming from the empty floor below us.
Stopping.
Billy: Just going to say, zak, it's burning up over here.
I don't know if you guys are hot,
but I'm burning up from standing in this corner.
[ indistinct playback ]
- you hear that? - Yeah, what is that? - It's like a whisper.
- "hear." - yeah, something.
He says, "hear me." "hear me."
zak: While we do capture a faint evp,
I am still not fully convinced
that I am speaking to h. H. Holmes or howard.
However, I am convinced
that jeff is indeed being affected by something.
Before we can formulate a plan for the lockdown,
we need to review the evidence captured
in the basement with cindy.
So, how many voices did you get in the basement?
Three that we want to show you.
All right. Okay?
We were down there with cindy.
I want to play this for you.
[ oscillating static ]
"you haunt me?"
[ indistinct voice ] what about, "you hunt me?"
let me hear.
[ indistinct voice ]
"you hunt me?"
like, we're going there to investigate.
He's like, "you're hunting me?"
oh, yeah! Yeah!
Like, "you're trying to catch me?"
oh, it sounds -- yeah, I can hear both. Yeah.
Could this kind of be like a challenge? Right.
Yeah, like, "you want to hunt me? You hunt me?"
let me hear the next one. Okay, the next one.
All right. Listen to this one.
[ oscillating static ]
let me hear it again. That was clear as could be.
"I hate." "I hate."
crystal clear. "I hate." "I hate."
zak: Of the entire 25 minutes of this spirit box session
in the basement with a witness,
we only caught these two male voices.
This makes a compelling case
that they are coming from a male spirit.
We must now dig deeper in order to prove we may be communicating
with america's very first serial killer.
♪♪
whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! I just got freezing.
Oh, yeah.
It's giving me rage!
♪♪
[ train horn blows ] this is it.
Can hear the train in the background.
It's a creepy little neighborhood,
and that historian named al said
that these neighbors lock their doors.
They close their windows and everything at night
because the spirit of h. H. Holmes haunts
this little block of houses,
and mostly tries to get into this one
where we're about to investigate where a historian
and even h. H. Holmes' great-great-grandson
says that the spirit of his little victim,
howard pitezel, is still haunting this house,
and h. H. Holmes, who we believe we got evidence of,
clear voices in the basement,
is still trying to confine and keep.
This is h. H. Holmes' murder house investigation.
This...Is historic.
♪♪
not many paranormal investigators will ever get
the opportunity that we're having right now
to investigate one of the most notorious serial killers
in american history's murder house.
His murder castle, that was in chicago
where he murdered tons of people, is gone.
This is the only roof left in the united states where h. H.
Holmes stepped inside and murdered somebody.
Just as you said that, some black weird thing flew up
behind you in this corner.
Aaron: Serious?
It wasn't an anomaly, it was a black thing.
A black thing? A black thing.
Yeah. We got to retrace this. Stand where you were.
Can you stand right here where you were addressing aaron?
Whoa. Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!
Whoa! Come here and feel this. I just got freezing.
Oh, yeah!
I just got something freezing.
Ow! Aah!
Gosh, dude! It's in me. I'm feeling it.
It's giving me rage!
I was not expecting to have something affect me
the moment I walked through this door.
My whole body has gone cold as ice.
Feel this leg on the top of it.
It's ice cold. It's ice cold.
I am ice-cold frozen, like some superhero
blew that ice on me
and just turned me into an ice sculpture.
I cannot move, and I have rage, and that is evidence.
It was the second you walked in that corner, man.
Aaron: That's crazy. I know.
Let me take a polaroid.
You have the polaroid? Yeah, hold on.
As aaron takes a polaroid of me,
we will later discover that this particular photo
connects with the very spirit that was affecting me.
I'm sorry if I got -- yelled at you guys.
Something got in me.
H. H. Holmes, do something bigger than this!
Do something more than this!
I'm recording. Okay, done.
I want to record in this bathroom here
where I felt it come from.
Downstairs, you said that you hate.
"you going to hunt?" is what you said, as well.
Yeah, we're going to hunt you.
You hate that we brought your great-great-grandson here?
Do you hate that he hates you?
Do you hate that he hates what you did to howard?
We immediately begin live playback of this evp session.
[ indistinct playback ]
that's aaron.
[ indistinct voice ]
what is that?
♪♪
we do in fact capture a compelling voice
that appears to be saying multiple words, but it is faint.
Can you make out what this spirit is saying?
It's a full sentence.
As I grab the polaroid camera,
I take a photo shooting up the stairs,
and, again, we will make a shocking discovery
as to what appears in this photo.
Aaron? Yeah.
Because you're feeling this, I want you to lead up there,
but I want to take in consideration what I just felt.
If you're sensing it up here,
I want you to lead the way up there.
♪♪
did you not hear that? No, what'd you hear?
What you hear?
Are you up in the attic?
Is this h. H. Holmes that we're hearing in the basement,
that we're catching on the evp,
that I felt down here in the kitchen,
or is it just something darker?
Howard, are you upstairs?
I don't want you to be afraid of us howard, okay?
We're here to help you, howard.
♪♪
can you move something that's in that room for us?
There was just a crazy light anomaly on the pillow.
I don't know if it's them shining through the door or not,
but it was a crazy light anomaly right on the pillow
when zak asked to move a pillow.
Hey, zak.
Zak: As jay observes this light on the bed pillows,
we are able to quickly debunk it as being aaron's infrared light
shining through the old keyhole.
♪♪
coming in, howard.
- I feel like I'm being choked. - Serious?
Yes. Right on the bed.
Do you understand what this just **** said?!
♪♪
zak: After hearing strange noises,
we make our way upstairs in the hopes of connecting
with whatever is there.
Coming in, howard.
Zak: As we all enter the attic bedroom,
I place our paranormal puck device on the bed
while billy remains on the stairs
and begins asking questions.
Billy: You in here, howard?
Paranormal puck: Beside.
Zak? Yeah?
I just typed in, "hi, howard," and it says, "beside."
that's, like, the first thing it said is "beside."
who are you beside?
This right here, that is the piece of metal
that covers up where the flue for the stove used to go,
where pieces of howard's body were found.
[ coughing ]
I am choking, guys. [ clears throat ]
howard, if I roll this to you, will you roll it back?
What's wrong with your throat?
I don't know. I feel like I'm being choked.
Aaron: Serious? Yes.
Paranormal puck: Past.
What's wrong with you? Manor.
I just asked, "where is h. H.?"
and it says, "past manor."
typically, the paranormal puck 2 only responds with one word,
so it's very interesting that this message to billy
is referencing a past house.
Could this be h. H. Holmes saying he is here in this one,
which he once rented out and is also where he killed howard?
As billy hands me the tablet,
before I could even type in a question,
we receive this response.
Who's here?
Paranormal puck: Seven. Girl.
That's weird. I didn't even ask a question on this.
I did out loud, and it says, "seven girls."
what?! What?!
How is that even possible?
"seven girls." there's no question.
He didn't even ask a question.
"seven girls"?
When researching victims of h. H. Holmes,
we discover that there are a total of seven young girls
mentioned -- two known girl victims,
alice and nellie in 1894,
three assumed girl victims,
pearl in 1891 and minnie and nannie in 1893,
and two possible girl victims, kate gorky's daughter and emily,
totaling seven girls.
Is this h. H. Holmes confessing to all of these murders?
What is happening?
Is someone choking me?
On god, dude. [ coughing ]
hey. What is happening to billy?
We need help.
Paranormal puck: Killed.
Oh, my god! What?
Look at this! What's it say?
"what is happening to billy?" "killed."
it's trying to kill you!
I'm being serious right now.
It feels like my throat has just been closing.
It feels like my esophagus is closing right now.
"what is happening to billy?" "killed."
doesn't want me to come in there.
I can't even talk, guys.
How are you killing billy?
[ clears throat, coughs ]
how are you killing billy?
How did he kill howard?
Paranormal puck: Cough.
Aah! Hurry up! **** film this!
Oh, my god! Film this!
Oh, my god! Oh, my god!
How are you killing billy?!
"cough." no way!
I don't feel like I can even breathe ****.
I said, "how are you killing billy?" and it says, "cough."
I can't believe that. Oh, my god.
And it's trying to kill me.
It just feels like my throat --
dude, like, it's right on.
It is intelligent as hell, and it's telling you.
Where is the puck at? Right on the bed.
Do you understand what this just **** said?!
Yes, it's doing exactly what's going on!
"how are you killing billy?" "cough"?
And he's coughing and choking!
What do you -- whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!
What? Stop!
Listen to that right there!
Listen!
Do you guys hear that?
It sounds exactly like a fire.
All of a sudden, we begin hearing what sounds like a fire
crackling in the corner right near
where the old stove flue came through the wooden floor
and where pieces of howard's bones were discovered.
In this same moment,
we also capture a very interesting anomaly.
"how are you killing billy?" "cough"?
I know.
What are the odds in that?
There's not -- I can't **** talk, dude.
What are the odds in that?
There's -- it's impossible.
As I try to review what just happened to billy,
he suddenly has to leave the room.
♪♪
okay.
What is... Killing...Billy?
♪♪
"they." "they"?
"they." no way.
"what is killing billy?" "they."
as billy returns to the room,
he starts to explain what exactly he's been feeling.
Honestly, I couldn't talk.
I was zoned out because I felt like my esophagus
was just being closed in.
Just when we're all feeling okay again,
and it seems like the dark presence has lifted,
the activity starts right back up again.
I said, "who is killing billy?" and it said, "they."
who's trying to hurt me? Who's they?
They won't answer, "who is they?"
"soldiers"?
What? "who is they?"
"soldiers."
aaron: Maybe it's part of his little army,
his little soldiers of demons,
that people follow this serial killer around.
"who is they?" "soldiers." hold on. Hold on. Hold on.
Hey, guys. Remember, h. H. Holmes said
that the devil was by his side since the day he was born.
Oh, that's right!
♪♪
- oh, god! - What happened?
Oh, I can't breathe.
I just saw this saw this guy standing there, dude.
♪♪
zak: We're here in irvington, indiana,
at the h. H. Holmes murder house,
and the paranormal puck may have just given us a clue
as to what is affecting billy.
Hold on. Hold on. Hold on.
Hey, guys. Remember, h. H. Holmes said
that the devil was by his side since the day he was born.
Oh, that's right!
I'm getting chills, guys. Whoa!
Jay, look up soldiers and demons.
Whoa. Whoa. Something's just dark in that corner, bro.
I got chills, and this is --
oh, wow. "a soldier demon is a strong and aggressive demon,
one of the foot soldiers of hell.
Like all demons, they were once human
and either sold their soul or performed enough evil in life
to be sentenced to hell.
Those souls whose chief sins in life was wrath
will eventually be warped into soldier demons,"
so h. H. Holmes would be the perfect soldier demon.
And he even said when he got locked up
that his face started morphing into lucifer, into satan.
My throat feels normal again.
That was intense.
Here.
What the **** man?
What is your **** bro!
- What did you say to him? - Oh, my god!
It feels so negative around here.
Zak: Just as I subconsciously tell aaron
that I feel like he is going to get attacked,
our geophone begins to detect a rapid increase in temperature.
The hell?
You see those flashing lights? Yeah.
That means that the temperature is rising rapidly.
What's going on? What is it doing, dude?
What is going on?
Look at the temperature going up!
Look! Look! Look! Look! Look!
I just witnessed that go up 4 degrees!
It just went up 5 degrees.
Shh! Something's tapped, like --
yeah, I heard that. Three times.
Within seconds, the temperature increased 5 degrees.
The air vent you see near the device is turned off,
and as we are filming in June,
there is no need for the furnace to be on.
Aaron, I don't know why I want you to walk in there.
Whoa!
Did you just hiss? No.
You didn't just go, "rah!" or something like that?
No. No.
Oh, my god, bro.
Ohh.
Go back in there.
**** being manipulated.
♪♪
billy and I decide to leave aaron up here by himself
to see if his fear can induce deeper responses.
All right, after that hiss, I didn't leave.
You got enough power to talk to that thing and all this stuff,
make us feel, you can talk through this device in my hand.
All right?
[ oscillating static ]
[ indistinct voice ]
zak: This spirit comes through, and incredibly tells aaron,
"we're they," which directly relates to the response
we received on the paranormal puck 2,
and after this response, you can also hear
what sounds like a young child scream.
Could this be howard?
Getting really hot!
Whoa! That's going off!
What?! Oh, my god!
Whatever this is, it's getting hot in here!
Zak: The geophone was actually detecting
a strong presence of electromagnetic energy,
indicated by the blue lights during that last response,
as well as another sharp temperature increase,
which is incredible scientific evidence
in connection to the spirit box voice.
Whoa, dude, that -- oh, wow.
Whoa.
Oh, god.
[ indistinct voice ] ohh!
Oh, god.
[ indistinct voice ]
ohh!
Zak: Immediately after aaron receives this unexplained voice,
he drops to the ground and says he's blacking out.
Oh, god, I can't breathe.
♪♪
aah! Aah!
Oh, my god.
Aah!
Oh, my god.
Oh, god.
What's wrong, dude? You all right?
- Oh, god. - What happened?
Hang on. I can't breathe, dude.
♪♪
- you okay? - No.
Oh, I can't breathe.
Was it choking you? No.
Oh, god, emotions!
What's wrong?
Slow, deep breaths.
Oh, my god. Zak: What happened?
I'm a wreck.
I'm like --
all I remember is just, I started losing my words,
and I don't even know what I was asking.
Then all of a sudden, like, that thing just started going crazy.
That's going off!
Oh, my god!
It just started going crazy, lights.
I couldn't catch my breath, and I literally --
I thought I was out. I thought I was passing out,
and then something inside was just like, "okay, got to do it.
Stand up. Stand," and I was trying to get grip.
There was no grip, and then finally I kind of,
like, came to, and I just saw this guy standing there, dude.
Just standing there, and I just dropped everything and ran.
It almost looked like --
it looked like half of his hat was there,
and the rest wasn't. You know what I mean?
Like, it was a half a hat.
He was just standing right in front of me,
and I just dropped everything and ran.
Then I fell down the stairs 'cause I didn't even know.
This side was the hat, and then on the other side,
it was like **** there, but the side of his body
was kind of transparent,
but it was just so, like, visually there.
Like, he was looking right at me,
and, like, I swear to god,
we might have had a conversation,
and I don't even **** know it.
As aaron describes this evil half-faced man,
we make a shocking and disturbing discovery.
Remember that polaroid photo he took of me in the kitchen
when I first felt this dark spirit affect me?
When that photo develops,
it unexplainably only captures half of my face,
just like the man that aaron is describing he saw.
State your name!
The emf is spiking on the bed.
That is credible evidence!
♪♪
zak: It's nearly 3:00 a.M.
Here at the h. H. Holmes murder house,
and things are getting dangerous.
While aaron recovers at nerve center,
billy and I immediately head back up into the attic
with the sls camera so we can also retrieve
aaron's camera and the spirit box,
which is still running.
State your name!
[ indistinct voice ]
what was that? I don't know.
As I ask the spirit for its name,
he seems to indicate that he will tell us
once we pass through the bedroom.
State your name!
What was that? I don't know.
[ oscillating static ]
turn that thing off.
♪♪
whoa! Look at the lights light up.
Did you see that?
I got two soldiers here.
I don't know why I said soldiers.
On the sls? Two mapped figures.
Three. Three?
Three. Get out of here!
It's "they," dude.
This room is lit up.
It's "they." this isn't h. H. Holmes.
No. No. This is the soldiers.
The hair on my entire body is standing on end.
Are these three figures the demon soldiers
that identified themselves as "they" on two different devices?
All of a sudden, two of the figures disappear
while one of them remains.
At the same time,
we detect strong spikes of electromagnetic energy.
Zak, that thing is lighting up.
The emf is spiking on the bed,
and you have a figure on the sls.
That started spiking the same time.
The geophone is going off, zak, again.
Whoa!
Whoa, look at this figure.
It has not gone off this entire time!
You have to turn your head. Just turn your head!
I can't move. Please.
The figure just went on the other side of the thing,
and now it's gone. Look, figure is gone!
Where'd it go? It's gone.
Is that still spiking? Nope.
Okay, the figure is gone the same time the emf is gone?
Yeah. There you go!
That is credible evidence!
The figure is gone.
Those emf readings are gone.
Stopped. It stopped the second that --
that started the second that figure appeared.
Whoa.
Whoa! What just happened?
Whoa!
Hey, guys. Just lost the camera in the nursery.
We can't see you. We don't know what happened.
The cameras totally went dead.
What?! Billy: What?
You guys okay? We heard what happened,
and then the camera just shut off.
We can't see you.
We believe that the figures
we were just capturing disabled our camera
and completely drained the battery unexplainably.
Whoa!
Billy: What shut the camera off?
How about let's started there?
I know what turned off the camera.
♪♪
I don't feel good.
As I head to nerve center, I ask jay to immediately give me
a cleansing while billy stays in the attic
and sends this final message to the spirit of howard.
I want to speak to howard.
You can come here beside me.
You'll be safe.
"they" won't be able to hurt you.
There's a lot of darkness in here,
and it's more than one person. It's not just your killer.
It's not just the person that murdered you.
There's something far darker here,
and it's affected my friends, and I think you need to move on.
You need to be able to go with your mom
and your dad and your sisters.
Howard, I'm giving you permission to come with me,
and I'll try and do what I can to help you
leave this place forever.
There's a lot of sadness here.
You don't have to be sad anymore.
I want you to come with me, buddy.
Leave this place.
There's no reason to stay here anymore.
♪♪
this is weird.
There's two identical pictures in the same spot.
This one you can see -- can you see that, bill?
Yeah. There's nothing here,
just the stairs. Yeah.
Then you get to the second photo,
and there's this weird white orb or white ball of light.
You see this? It's, like, a dark center.
Side by side. That's incredible.
And it's in the photo. Yeah.
You can't -- you see it's in the photo,
and then zoom in on it. Look at this. What is that?
Aaron: Oh, it looks like a portrait of someone inside.
I know. That's what I said.
That looks like a head and a neck
and then, like, the shoulders.
♪♪
the evil deeds of h. H. Holmes will never be forgotten
in this quiet neighborhood.
This unassuming house clearly contains
the lasting residue of america's first serial killer.