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Tonight, the conclusion of one of our biggest expeditions yet.

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My team is deep into an investigation of strange phenomena

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inside this crumbling fort.

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Oh, f***!

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On the storm-battered Gulf Coast.

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There's not a single spot in this entire fort

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that doesn't come with a story.

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Mounting evidence.

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All right, look at that.

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Looks like we might be right on top of it.

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Sends Phil and Jess on an epic search for answers.

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It's amazing how close that ship was to the god taken out.

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I call in reinforcements.

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World-class ghost hunters from Kindred Spirits,

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Amy Bruni and Adam Berry.

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I think we've got a lot of ground to cover.

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We have work to do.

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There's so many spiders here.

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Oh my god.

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Do you know what this round object is on the ground?

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That's crazy.

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Ooh, I've got goosebumps.

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It's an investigation that could end in disaster.

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Whoa, the car is too strong.

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We got the line!

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Can they exhume the secrets?

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Are there other people with you?

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Hundreds.

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Of the Civil War ghosts in the bay.

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My name is Josh Gates.

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In my travels, I've experienced strange things that defy logic

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and made me question everything.

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Oh my god.

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Now, I've put together a team to investigate the stranger side of the unknown.

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Let's go.

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Phil Torres is a scientist who hunts for rational explanations.

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This is the call for actually found snow.

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Jessica Chobot's paranormal research has made her a true believer.

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All right, we're going into IR mode. Let's go.

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Together, we're searching for answers to the world's most extraordinary mysteries.

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This is Expedition X.

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My team has been investigating historic Fort Morgan in coastal Alabama.

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A Civil War-era stronghold of brick and granite.

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Whoa, can't imagine what this would be like in the heat of battle.

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Nearly a thousand deaths have been documented within these walls.

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There have been reports of people saying they've hurt voices.

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Could there be discontented spirits still roaming this old battleground?

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I just thought I was crazy.

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What did you see?

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Our video cameras captured an eerie figure we can't explain.

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Oh, f***!

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And that's just the beginning.

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The memory of Lieutenant Colonel Charles S. Stewart.

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Charles, are you here? Is this where you were killed?

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What the f***? That just fell out of one of the ceilings?

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What the f***?

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Did you hear that bell?

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The boats I see all look like they're miles away.

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If the rainy bell was on those boolies, we would hear them, and I'm not hearing anything like that.

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So what are we just here?

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The wreck of the Tecumseh is right out there.

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Maybe this haunting extends past the fort.

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You think there's more work to do out at the fort and now out on the water?

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I would suggest expanding the investigation.

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You're talking about a lot of territory to cover here.

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You guys might need some backup.

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I have an idea.

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Okay.

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I know two great paranormal investigators on the east coast.

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You both know Amy and Adam from Kindred Spirits.

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I love them!

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This is right up their alley.

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Let me call them and see if I can get them to come down there and lend a hand.

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Perfect.

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In the meantime, Jess, I would dig into more of the history of the Tecumseh.

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See if you can learn more about who was on board.

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If you really think there's a connection to those bells, see what you can uncover.

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Sounds good. I'm on it.

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I'll look into the permissions for getting out to that wreck.

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Thanks, Josh. We'll get in the water.

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Bye.

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Good luck.

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We're widening our investigation to cover Mobile Bay, just offshore from Fort Morgan.

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It's the final resting place of the Tecumseh,

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the Union ship that went down in battle and took 93 sailors with her.

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So I'm taking to the skies to see if, from the air, we can get eyes on this infamous wreck,

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and it won't be easy.

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Ready to hit it?

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Let's go.

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All right. Let's go.

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There we go!

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The wreck lies only 30 feet below the surface,

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and to this day, it's the graveyard for the sailors who died when she went down.

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Oh, that's a low wind.

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The Tecumseh has wargrave status,

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which means the wreck can't be approached without permission from the secretary of the Navy.

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So only a handful of researchers have been allowed to dive over the past six decades.

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At the end of that peninsula, that's Fort Morgan, yes.

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In the waters directly below,

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on August 5, 1864, the Battle of Mobile Bay began.

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The USS Tecumseh is a 223-foot-long ironclad warship.

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Just after the battle starts, the Tecumseh hits an underwater mine

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and sinks in less than 30 seconds,

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carrying 93 men to their watery graves.

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The Tecumseh is right down there in those waters.

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We're going to try to find it.

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While Phil tries to get a bird's-eye view of the Tecumseh,

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I want to find out a little more about the souls that were lost when she went down

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so that I can reach out to them during the investigation.

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I'm meeting with John Garner, a military historian specializing in Civil War-era combat.

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He tells me the Tecumseh went down when it hit a torpedo.

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The torpedo field is actually what we would consider a minefield today.

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Yes, underwater mines.

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Though now she's been hit, already listing a little bit to one side.

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She starts to go forward, down, and then starts to spiral,

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almost like she turns on that side and goes straight, and then just straight down.

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John gives me a list of the names of all 93 sailors that were lost,

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but he tells me that the Battle of Mobile Bay didn't end with the sinking of the Tecumseh.

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After the Tecumseh goes down, Admiral David G. Farragut starts giving the commands to move the ships.

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Someone asked about, sir, what about torpedoes?

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And he said, well, down the torpedo, full speed ahead.

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Or four bells.

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Four bells?

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Four bells.

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Did you hear that bell?

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I heard that bell.

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That's the command to make the ship maximum speed possible.

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There you go.

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Can you get a circle a little bit?

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Pilot Michael Pank specializes in aerial surveys of historic battle sites.

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He points out to Tecumseh's location, only about 300 yards offshore.

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He goes to leave the Tecumsehs right down there.

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It's amazing how close that ship was to the port itself.

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When it got taken out, the sandbar changes all the time.

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So there's a chance that the sandbar was closer or further from the port at the time?

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Depending on the time.

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Like after the hurricane, it moved that sandbar.

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Recent storms here have churned up the ocean floor.

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But unfortunately, the Tecumseh is still not visible from the air.

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She's likely buried under several feet of mud.

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To make matters worse, what I can see from up here is the condition of the water.

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Muddy, churning, terrible.

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If Josh pulls through with permission to dive the ship, I'll need Sonar to locate her.

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But for now, it's time to head back to Fort Morgan.

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Our reinforcements have arrived.

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Amy Bruni and Adam Berry are both highly respected paranormal investigators.

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Between them, they have over three decades of experience seeking spirits.

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I had the pleasure of working with them a couple of years ago when we investigated ghostly reports on the Queen Mary.

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If you just turn that flashlight on, we just need to turn it back off.

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Get out of here!

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Every time you ask it to turn on and off, it's turning on and off.

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Hello there.

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Hi guys.

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Hi.

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Welcome to Fort Morgan.

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Thank you.

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Thanks. You can see why you need our help.

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Yeah, this place is massive.

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There's not a single spot in this entire fort that doesn't come with a story.

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Adam and Amy are experts not just at determining whether a place is haunted,

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but also discovering why a spirit is lingering there.

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Adam asked our producer Brian to look for a relic from the fort that we can use as a trigger object during our investigation.

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What is that?

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This is a cannonball from a war.

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And what's this in way?

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32 pounds.

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We can use it as a trigger object.

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A trigger object is an item that's emotionally relevant to a place or an entity,

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and might encourage a response from a spirit.

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I got it.

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You're the one with the muscles, Phil.

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We'll begin tonight's investigation in Bastion 4,

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where last night we experienced a strange sequence of events while trying to reach out to Lieutenant Colonel Charles Stewart,

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the fort's commander during the Civil War.

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Stewart was tragically killed when a misloaded cannon exploded.

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We had some signs of contact with him the other night,

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so maybe now this Civil War-era cannonball will provoke him into speaking to us.

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I believe it's his spirit haunting this fort.

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Let's just see if anybody's here at all.

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We'll start by trying to record EVPs, which stands for electronic voice phenomena.

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Recording devices can capture sounds that are outside the range of human hearing.

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The nice thing about this recorder is it is voice activated,

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so it doesn't record unless it hears a voice.

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So if you get a response after a question,

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you know that there was some sort of sound that triggered it, even if you don't hear it.

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Jess, Amy, and Adam are hoping to pick up phantom voices,

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but I believe there's a more logical explanation for the sounds that have been reported.

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Just as face pareidolia fools our brain into seeing faces and random objects,

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auditory pareidolia tricks the mind into hearing words and random sounds.

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This fort, with its stone walls and odd angles, could amplify wind,

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dripping water, or crumbling rock.

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It's best to just be as silent as possible.

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If there's anyone here who is non-living,

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we'd love to speak with you.

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We're looking for somebody who is in charge.

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Is your name Charles?

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There is a message you're trying to get across.

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If there's someone you want us to contact for you, this is your chance.

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Do you know what this round object is on the ground?

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Do you recognize it? Can you tell me the name of it?

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Let's listen and see if anybody answered us.

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Is your name Charles?

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There is a message you're trying to get across.

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If there's someone you want us to contact for you, this is your chance.

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What was that?

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That's crazy.

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There is a message you're trying to get across.

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If there's someone you want us to contact for you, this is your chance.

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It sounds like Julia.

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Julia, listen.

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Do you hear the uh?

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You can hear the Julie.

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Deciphering voices from beyond is a special skill.

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Even though Phil and I had a tough time hearing it, Adam and Amy heard the name Julia.

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What's interesting is that that happens to be the name of Colonel Stewart's wife.

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But I hadn't told them that.

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I mean it matches slavically, like it's...

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But I'm not necessarily hearing Julia.

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We should keep going with it.

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What was that?

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I don't know.

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It's a response to the cannonball.

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Something like this took Charles' life.

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If that happened to him and he sees it in a space that he's in, it's not going to be a good reaction.

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It's going to be like...

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He wants to talk to Julia.

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Hates that thing.

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Hates that thing.

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Clearly.

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In odds are it could be Charles.

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The intelligent ones, there's usually a reason they're still here.

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Like they usually have that kind of classic unfinished business.

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And the fact that he may have said Julia, that could indicate that that is his unfinished business.

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That is why he's still roaming around here.

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It would be helpful if we found out what happened to Julia.

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Like literally you could come back here tomorrow and show him.

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That was very cool.

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Is there any other message you would like to leave us with?

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We continue to try and make contact for the next couple of hours.

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But Colonel Stewart has gone quiet.

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The next morning while Amy and Adam dig through military and historical archives looking for more information about Colonel Stewart and his wife Julia,

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we get amazing news from Josh.

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He came through with permission to dive on the Tecumseh.

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I believe it's possible the wreck is somehow connected to the four bells that we heard.

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Which I learned was the Navy signal for full speed ahead.

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Full speed ahead.

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That said to be the command given to the remaining Union fleet just after the Tecumseh went down.

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While Jess is here to talk with ghosts, I'm hoping to lay eyes on an incredible piece of history.

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We're using sonar to pinpoint the ship's exact location.

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We're getting some bumps.

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Yeah, it's getting higher. Look at that.

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Looks like we might be right on top of it.

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All right, drop it in.

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Our dive captain marks the spot based on the sonar reading.

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So Jim, as far as I know, this is the last well-documented photo of where the Tecumseh is.

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And this is from the 1960s.

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Correct.

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That was probably the last dive that was allowed before the Navy took control back of the Tecumseh.

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This whole area right now is a war grave.

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I believe there's 93 crew members that are still aboard.

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Has anyone dove on this since?

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This is protected site. You cannot dive to Tecumseh.

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If they see a boat here diving, they'll run them off.

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Please, right there, making sure that nobody else comes to join us.

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All right, let's get suited up.

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Our exclusive permission comes with restrictions.

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We can dive over the top, but we aren't allowed to dig here or disturb the wreck in any way out of respect for the sailors entombed inside.

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This is a notoriously dangerous place to dive.

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Salty ocean water is heavier than the freshwater that pours into the bay from multiple rivers.

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Those two shifting layers of water create currents that are strong and unpredictable.

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The visibility here will be practically zero.

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So to help us navigate, we drop guidelines from our boat to a safety boat and over the spot where the ship lies.

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Once Phil finds the Tecumseh, I want to try to communicate with the spirits of the lost sailors by using a hydrophone,

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a microphone designed to record sound underwater.

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We're going to record everything on an underwater EVP.

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Somebody was ringing a bell and I want to see if we can find out who.

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There were no ships or boats anywhere near us when we repeatedly heard bells ringing.

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Tresa Beach?

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I believe those sounds could have been an echo from the battle of Mobile Bay and the last moments of the Tecumseh.

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Once we're in the water, Jim will be my safety diver.

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We'll be tethered together as a buddy system to keep the currents from sweeping us away.

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Check, check, check Phil, can you hear me?

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Yes, you copy?

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We copy.

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I can barely see my hand in front of my face.

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Once I'm at the bottom, I'll use an underwater metal detector to locate the wreck.

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Okay, Jets, descending deeper.

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I'm following the line.

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Metal detector is on.

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Current is really strong down here.

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I got a hit.

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The ship is right below me.

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Now that Phil is close to the shipwreck, I lower the hydrophone.

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Ooh.

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Man, that current is strong.

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It feels like I actually have a fish on the line.

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I hear some clicking.

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I think that's probably Phil using the metal detector.

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Hey Phil, I want to try some underwater EVPs, so I need you to repeat after me, okay?

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Copy that.

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Is there anyone from the Tecumseh that would like to reach out to us?

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Is there anyone from the Tecumseh who would like to reach out to us?

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Did anyone from the Tecumseh create a bell sound from the other night?

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Did anyone from the Tecumseh ring a bell?

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Whoa, the current's too strong.

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I'll have to lie.

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Phil.

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Are you there?

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Whoa, the current's too strong.

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I'll have to lie.

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Phil.

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Are you there?

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Phil lost the line.

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Copy that, copy that.

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Phil, do you copy? Are you okay?

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Phil. Jim. Can you guys hear me?

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Yeah, this is stupid.

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In extremely low visibility like this, the guideline is a literal lifeline.

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It's the only way for a diver to know where they're going, so they don't get swept off course.

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Bubble's right there.

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I see Jim.

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Here you go, the line!

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Current, it's too strong. We have to try for the other boat.

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Hey, they're coming to you guys, they've got to come to you, so head on over there.

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I'm going to go get the boat.

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Absolutely insane.

335
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I pushed it 100 feet towards the gulf.

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Hey, you guys all good?

337
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We're all good over here.

338
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We're all good.

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Ready to get dry.

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Alright, see you at the dock.

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I'll analyze the hydrophone recordings later to see if we were able to capture any responses to my questions.

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Hopefully Phil's near-death experience was worth it.

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I heard, I've lost the line, then I heard nothing, and then I saw bubbles just all over the damn place.

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So I just thought you've been dying.

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You thought I'd become a ghost?

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Yeah, I, oh my god.

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Sorry, we're okay.

348
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You owe me a catrillion beers!

349
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Fine, fine.

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While we were busy with our offshore investigation, Amy and Adam tracked down a couple who say they witnessed first-hand some strange phenomena at Fort Morgan.

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Larry Conley spent five years in the Navy and has a passion for military history.

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His wife, Melinda, joined him on a visit to Fort Morgan.

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Together they experienced something disturbing inside this tunnel.

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The tunnel is the main entrance to the fort and hundreds of soldiers would have marched through here on their way to the battleground,

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including our primary paranormal suspect, Colonel Stewart.

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We heard that you guys have had some paranormal encounters in the fort, so can you kind of take us through what happened?

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Sure. When we first got to the fort, we were walking down this very tunnel, and we were about halfway through,

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and I hear, and she heard it too, someone say, hey.

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So I turned around, thought maybe we was in someone's way, or I dropped something, and there was no one around.

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Was it male or female?

361
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It was male, yes.

362
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Did it sound like it was right next to you?

363
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It was right behind us.

364
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Yes.

365
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Was it really crowded out front at the time?

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It was a rainy day, so there was people out there, but there's more out towards the bay here.

367
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So not really right here.

368
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Was there like water dripping, or was there water filling up in here, you think?

369
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No. No water.

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But that was not your only experience, so what else happened?

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Right. We'd gone inside, and I looked back here, and she had some scratches.

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Oh, so you got scratched.

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What did it feel like?

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It really didn't hurt.

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But it left a mark.

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Yes, it left two marks.

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And what did it look like?

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Well, I've got a picture. She'd like to see it.

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Oh, yeah.

380
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She'd like to see it.

381
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Oh, I see. Right here.

382
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Here, there, and there.

383
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Oh, right there, too.

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The scratch is pretty wild.

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I believe it's possible that Melinda and Larry may have encountered the spirit of Colonel Stewart.

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If he has the ability to throw bricks...

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What the f***?

388
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...trip up our equipment...

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...maybe even appear on camera, then perhaps he could have taken a swipe at Melinda.

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We head back to the fort to meet up with Amy and Adam.

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They've been doing their own deep dive, looking into the personal history of the Colonel.

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He was commander of the fort when he was killed in a cannon accident...

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...while preparing for future battle with the Union naval fleet.

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We started digging into Charles to figure out what's going on with his family, right?

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We did find out that his wife was pregnant when he passed.

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Did he know that she was pregnant?

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Sure, because she had the baby two weeks later.

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And they named her Charlie.

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His only son passed away when he was eight. He fell out of a tree.

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That's a lot of heartbreak for one family.

401
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You know, we've encountered spirits who don't know they've passed away.

402
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So if there's anything that he's going to want to know, it's what happened to my family,

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what happened to my unborn daughter.

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It's just a matter of, I guess, telling him.

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And seeing if the activity picks up or changes or dissipates.

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We have work to do.

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We decide to split into two teams.

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Amy and I are heading to the entrance tunnel where Larry and Melinda say that they heard a disembodied voice.

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I want to check conditions to see if there's anything natural,

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like dripping water or animal activity, that could have caused those sounds.

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And since my EVP session at the Takumsa wreck was cut short,

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Adam and I want to try again to make contact with the sailors who died when it sank.

413
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The shipwreck is only 300 yards offshore.

414
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See that glowing spot right there?

415
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Yeah.

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That's the Takumsa.

417
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Okay.

418
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We've investigated along beach shores before.

419
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And obviously the, it's hard to hear because you have wind blowing.

420
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The contamination is high.

421
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So if we use the spirit box and headphones,

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that will be our best way to get information.

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Something a little bit more clear than we would normally.

424
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Yes.

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This is where we want to set up.

426
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A spirit box scans through hundreds of radio frequencies at high speed.

427
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Some believe that entities pull words through the device in order to communicate.

428
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While I'm asking questions, Adam wears the noise-canceling headphones and a blindfold,

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so he won't know what I'm saying or when.

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He'll call out any responses he hears.

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Adam and Amy have had years of success connecting with spirits using this technique.

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I'm excited to try it out with another paranormal expert.

433
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And without Phil here to roll his eyes.

434
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Adam, can you hear me?

435
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Okay, I'm going to get it started.

436
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Is anyone from the Takumsa with us right now?

437
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Was that you ringing the bell?

438
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Feel free to reach out to us.

439
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I'm here...

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to.

441
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When you say I'm here too, do you mean two people or is there two people here with us right now?

442
00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:14,000
We'd love to have a conversation with you.

443
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I have a list of names for our people that were stationed on the Takumsa.

444
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If this is you or if you know this person, feel free to reach out to us.

445
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George Work.

446
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Acting Master Thomas Youstik.

447
00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:34,000
Is James Dalton with you?

448
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Ah...

449
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Ah...

450
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Are you in pain? Are you screaming?

451
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Is that...

452
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Is that what you're trying to express?

453
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Are there other people with you?

454
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Hundreds.

455
00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:05,000
Are there other people with you?

456
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Hundreds.

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93 sailors went down with the Takumsa and nearly a thousand died over the course of the fort's history.

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We might be communicating with both sailors and soldiers from the fort.

459
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This could truly be the most tragic, most haunted place I've ever been.

460
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Did something happen to you?

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The

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This was where Melinda and Larry were walking and they heard a disembodied voice say, hey to them, like behind them.

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And they said that there was no one else around. It was raining. It wasn't a busy day at the fort, but this was where it all started for them.

464
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You'd also think with rain that would cause a lot of basically white noise. It would be harder to hear voices around.

465
00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:07,000
I will say, walking around this place, you hear sounds bounce around a lot.

466
00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:12,000
Yeah. Can we do, if I walk out there and just say hey and see if it sounds like it's in here?

467
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Here. I'll say it a few different ways.

468
00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:15,000
Okay.

469
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A few different spots.

470
00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:22,000
Alright, I'm gonna start right here.

471
00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:24,000
Hey!

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I can hear you clear, but I can also see you.

473
00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:30,000
Do you want to try to get out of sight, see how it bounces around here?

474
00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:32,000
Sure thing.

475
00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:36,000
I'll do one this way.

476
00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:43,000
Hey.

477
00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:44,000
Hey.

478
00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:48,000
That was a good one.

479
00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:50,000
Hey.

480
00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:51,000
Hey. How did that sound?

481
00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:54,000
I gotta say, I think that was a pretty successful experiment.

482
00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:59,000
There were some where when you said it, it almost sounded like the sound was just kind of bouncing above me.

483
00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:03,000
It was really hard to tell if it was in front of me or behind me.

484
00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:05,000
And I was way out in the parking lot.

485
00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:06,000
Really?

486
00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:07,000
Yeah.

487
00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:11,000
The key to this auditory illusion is the fort's unique architecture.

488
00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:17,000
The long, oddly angled walls bounce sound waves around in ways that our brains don't anticipate.

489
00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:27,000
When these echoes stack up just right, it can create a very convincing impression of noises coming from a different location, as Amy just demonstrated.

490
00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:32,000
But Melinda also believes that something or someone scratched her.

491
00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:36,000
And this is where the witness said she was scratched?

492
00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:37,000
Yeah.

493
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I'll say the walls here.

494
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There's not as many objects as sticking out or broken bricks that would explain someone getting scratched.

495
00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:47,000
No nails or anything.

496
00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:49,000
It's just flat concrete.

497
00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:50,000
Yeah.

498
00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:54,000
Oh my gosh, there's so many spiders here.

499
00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:56,000
Oh my god.

500
00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:57,000
Oh god.

501
00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:59,000
There's so many.

502
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:05,000
There are over 90 species of spiders in Alabama, most of which are harmless.

503
00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:08,000
Many of the ones I see here are funnel weavers.

504
00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:10,000
This place is amazing.

505
00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:13,000
You wanna see a trick?

506
00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:14,000
I don't wanna see a trick.

507
00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:15,000
Sometimes it brings them out.

508
00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:17,000
You do this on purpose for fun?

509
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:18,000
Yeah.

510
00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:20,000
Oh, that guy's eating right now.

511
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:26,000
They're like in every nook and cranny.

512
00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:30,000
Walking around a place like this, you're gonna be thinking there's something all over you.

513
00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:36,000
So she's probably hyper aware, like I am right now, of every little feeling.

514
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:40,000
Like easily, I don't know, I wonder if she...

515
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:50,000
Anytime he thinks something's going on, you're gonna scratch and so I think we should consider that as a possibility of how the scratch occurred.

516
00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:52,000
Yeah, I agree with you.

517
00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:56,000
Is there anything you feel we should know?

518
00:31:58,000 --> 00:31:59,000
Turned on its head.

519
00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:05,000
The Tecumseh flipped as it was thinking. Were you stuck on board?

520
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:09,000
Home?

521
00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:14,000
Can you tell us your name?

522
00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:20,000
Is there anyone else that would like to speak with us?

523
00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:29,000
After an hour, the responses seem to stop.

524
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:32,000
Oh my gosh.

525
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:33,000
That's wild.

526
00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:36,000
I got a little shocked.

527
00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:46,000
What it sounded like for me was that at first it sounded like there was like one or two voices and it wasn't, I mean like coming from somewhere.

528
00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:53,000
And then there was a concoffin of voices as if it felt like there were a lot of people trying to speak up.

529
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:56,000
It seemed like we were getting very specific responses.

530
00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:59,000
It's like a crowded room. Everybody's trying to get the attention.

531
00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:04,000
That's cool. So it's as if being here night after night after night sparks something?

532
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:11,000
I mean I just think there's a lot of people stuck here throughout history at different points of time.

533
00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:15,000
That are kind of talking over each other.

534
00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:24,000
A lot of souls reaching out and when somebody kind of turns the light on in that room, it's like you know, it's lost to a flame.

535
00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:25,000
Right.

536
00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:29,000
We head back to Bastion 4 to meet up with Phil and Amy.

537
00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:36,000
This might be where Colonel Stewart was killed in the cannon misfire and it's where we believe we made contact with his spirit last night.

538
00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:42,000
We're hoping our new information about what happened to his pregnant widow and children will earn us a response.

539
00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:43,000
Okay.

540
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:50,000
Adam has a camera ready to record any anomalies while Amy has her digital recorder to pick up EVPs.

541
00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:57,000
Charles Stewart, we're back. We have some information for you.

542
00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:10,000
Your wife gave birth to a beautiful daughter two weeks after your accident and they named her Charlie after you.

543
00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:24,000
Your son, Evander, did have an accident when he was eight.

544
00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:28,000
He fell out of a tree and passed away.

545
00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:35,000
Your son and his sister and your wife are all buried together.

546
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:41,000
But if you're here worried about them, you don't need to be. You can go be with them.

547
00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:47,000
We can listen to that and stay.

548
00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:53,000
Charles Stewart, we're back. We have some information for you.

549
00:34:53,000 --> 00:35:03,000
Your wife gave birth to a beautiful daughter two weeks after your accident and they named her Charlie after you.

550
00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:07,000
Did you guys see Charlie?

551
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:09,000
That was crazy.

552
00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:11,000
Ooh, I've got goosebumps.

553
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:38,000
On February 17th, 1864 in Charleston Harbor, the H.L. Hunley, a Confederate submarine, hits the Union blockade ship USS Housatonic with a torpedo, becoming the first sub ever to sink an enemy ship.

554
00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:44,000
Afterwards, eyewitnesses report seeing a signal light from the Hunley, confirming that their mission is complete.

555
00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:47,000
But the sub never makes it back to base.

556
00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:51,000
In 2000, the Hunley is recovered from the bottom of the harbor.

557
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:59,000
Forensic analysis indicates all eight crew members died suddenly at their stations, possibly from the shockwave of the torpedo blast.

558
00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:01,000
So who raised that signal light?

559
00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:06,000
To this day, some claim to see a ghostly light shining across Charleston Harbor.

560
00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:12,000
But skeptics say that's just the power of suggestion working on the subconscious mind.

561
00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:13,000
What?

562
00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:15,000
Did you guys see Charlie?

563
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:17,000
That was crazy.

564
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:19,000
Ooh, I've got goosebumps.

565
00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:20,000
Can you play it back again?

566
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:22,000
What?

567
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:23,000
Did you guys see Charlie?

568
00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:24,000
That was crazy.

569
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:26,000
Ooh, I've got goosebumps.

570
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:27,000
Can you play it back again?

571
00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:29,000
What?

572
00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:31,000
Did you guys see Charlie after you?

573
00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:34,000
Yeah.

574
00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:36,000
It says Charlie.

575
00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:40,000
I heard it from over here, like loud juice.

576
00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:41,000
Yeah, that is the thing.

577
00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:43,000
Wow, that was a good response.

578
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:50,000
So, sir, if there's anything else we can do for you, we're happy to do so, just say it.

579
00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:56,000
There we go.

580
00:36:57,000 --> 00:37:04,000
We continue calling out to Charles, but after that initial reaction to the name of his daughter, he seems to have gone quiet.

581
00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:08,000
Perhaps he's satisfied with the update we brought him about his family.

582
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:13,000
Hey, guys.

583
00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:14,000
Hey, Josh.

584
00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:17,000
So, how did it go in the Gulf? How are you doing?

585
00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:18,000
We're doing great.

586
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:20,000
Yeah, so Amy and Adam, that was a fantastic idea.

587
00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:23,000
Thank you so much for putting them in touch with us.

588
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:25,000
Sure, and how was that dive on the Tecumseh?

589
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:29,000
It was literally zero visibility, complete darkness.

590
00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:32,000
Had to use sonar and then the metal detector to find this wreck.

591
00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:33,000
Wow.

592
00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:35,000
That sounds terrifying, actually.

593
00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:39,000
But hey, at least you were up close to this incredibly historic wreck.

594
00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:41,000
Jess, did you find the source of those bells?

595
00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:48,000
So while he was diving, I was using the hydrophone to do an EVP session and we got some amazing results.

596
00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:50,000
So I'm going to send them to you. Check these out.

597
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:52,000
Okay, what do we got?

598
00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:03,000
What is that? What am I hearing?

599
00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:06,000
At first, I thought it could have been the noise of us jumping into the water.

600
00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:08,000
But then it just keeps getting louder and louder.

601
00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:11,000
To me, it seems very obviously that it is cannon fire.

602
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:13,000
It does sound like that.

603
00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:17,000
And if you check the other file, there's what sounds like somebody's voice speaking under the water.

604
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:22,000
And this thing was so far down, it was definitely not picking up anybody talking on the boat.

605
00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:24,000
All right, let me give it a listen.

606
00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:31,000
There's something there, but that is really hard to make out.

607
00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:33,000
What do you think that is, Jess?

608
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:36,000
A little bit of what sounds like a hello.

609
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:40,000
There were dolphins around.

610
00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:43,000
It could have been a dolphin saying hello in dolphin voice.

611
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:45,000
Yeah, possible.

612
00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:46,000
It's not.

613
00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:48,000
But the loud explosion sound.

614
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:49,000
No clue.

615
00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:53,000
So in terms of the investigation in the bay, I would call the evidence here inconclusive.

616
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:58,000
You know, that first sound file is really intriguing, but let's talk about the fort itself.

617
00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:02,000
The question remains, is Fort Fort Fort really the sound file?

618
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:05,000
The answer remains, is Fort Morgan haunted?

619
00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:07,000
Oh, hell yeah.

620
00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:14,000
My team analyzed the more than 200 hours of audio and video data they collected.

621
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:20,000
In the end, Phil and Jess were able to find explanations for some of the phenomena around Fort Morgan.

622
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:23,000
Remember the ghost photo that triggered this investigation?

623
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:31,000
Phil was able to make a very similar image, suggesting it might be the result of atmospheric conditions.

624
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:41,000
When the disembodied voices reported there, Phil determined that the fort's distinct architecture and acoustics can create echoes seemingly from nowhere.

625
00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:49,000
The trailcams, Phil placed around the fort, did snap a few shots of wildlife, though not the bobcat whose eerie screech we captured.

626
00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:57,000
And when they analyzed all of Jess's recordings from inside the fort for any EVPs,

627
00:39:57,000 --> 00:39:58,000
Are you there? Hello?

628
00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:00,000
They got nothing but crickets.

629
00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:02,000
Literally.

630
00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:08,000
And the surveillance cameras they left running showed no further ghostly anomalies.

631
00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:14,000
But the team did gather other evidence that can't be easily explained.

632
00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:18,000
Jess and Adam called out to the lost souls of the Takumso.

633
00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:20,000
Are there other people with you?

634
00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:21,000
Hundreds.

635
00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:23,000
And got what could be answers.

636
00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:29,000
And our team's attempts to connect with Colonel Charles Stewart yielded intriguing results.

637
00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:30,000
Charles, are you here?

638
00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:32,000
The RemPod alerts.

639
00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:34,000
The brick that fell.

640
00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:36,000
What the f***?

641
00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:38,000
Did that just fall out of one of the ceilings?

642
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:41,000
And what seemed like intelligent responses.

643
00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:45,000
Did I say Charlie?

644
00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:51,000
All of those unexplained events happening around the same time begs the question,

645
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:54,000
What is really going on at Fort Morgan?

646
00:40:56,000 --> 00:41:01,000
Believers would argue that the pain and tragedy that occurred within these walls and just offshore

647
00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:04,000
is most certainly the cause of a haunting.

648
00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:10,000
More than a thousand lives were lost here over its 125 years as an active fort.

649
00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:13,000
Lives suddenly and brutally cut short.

650
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:17,000
And as the crumbling fort faces what may be its final days,

651
00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:22,000
even a hardened skeptic will find it difficult to explain this.