1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,000 Is Lord Francis Dashwood here? 2 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Is Paul Whitehead here? 3 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:20,000 Paul Whitehead, is that you? 4 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:24,000 Phil? 5 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:27,000 On this episode of Expedition X. 6 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:30,000 Whoa, it looks like a place that Satan would hang out in. 7 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:32,000 My team heads to the British Isles. 8 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:35,000 This is the most historic part of Dublin. 9 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:40,000 To investigate the Hellfire Club, a centuries-old secret society. 10 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:44,000 Where the most elite members of the club would have engaged in satanic worship. 11 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:46,000 Said to worship the devil. 12 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:47,000 Phil? 13 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:48,000 Yeah? 14 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:49,000 Something was throwing rocks over here. 15 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:52,000 Where are you? 16 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:55,000 The rituals of sacrifices, murders. 17 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:57,000 That's creepy. 18 00:00:57,000 --> 00:01:01,000 Is that you making the Rempod go off? 19 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:03,000 F***! 20 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:18,000 Okay, who has heard of the Hellfire Club? 21 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:20,000 I watched Stranger Things. I've seen the t-shirts. 22 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:23,000 Not that one, not the D&D Club. Think, think older. 23 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:27,000 X-Men villains, the Hellfire Club, a cabal of evil aristocrats. 24 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:32,000 Okay, so that is closer because those supervillains were based on a true story. 25 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:41,000 The Hellfire Club was a real, Satan-worshipping secret society that was popular in the UK and Ireland in the 18th century. 26 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:43,000 And here's the thing. 27 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:48,000 I just got a lead from Dublin, but the Hellfire Club may still be up to its evil ways. 28 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:52,000 But from beyond the grave. 29 00:01:54,000 --> 00:02:04,000 In the early 1700s in the United Kingdom, secret societies are everywhere. 30 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:10,000 The most famous is the Freemasons, founded in 1717. 31 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:16,000 But the most infamous is founded two years later, the Hellfire Club. 32 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:22,000 Alongside plenty of drinking and debauchery, the group's primary focus is blasphemy. 33 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:29,000 They make it their mission to mock religion, even naming Satan as club president. 34 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:33,000 But the Sac Religious Party does not last long. 35 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:40,000 In early spring 1721, the King bans any such immoral and profane clubs. 36 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:44,000 However, the dark days of Hellfire are just beginning. 37 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:52,000 The club escapes across the Irish Sea, reincorporating in Dublin, where they take Satanism even further. 38 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:58,000 Holding black masses, mock crucifixions, dabbling in dark magic. 39 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:06,000 And in 1738, reportedly even sacrificing a maid in the name of the devil. 40 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:13,000 The club first congregates at Dublin's Eagle Tavern, but when they need more secrecy to perform their sinister rituals, 41 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:18,000 they ride south to a remote hunting lodge atop Montpellier Hill. 42 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:27,000 The group mysteriously disappears in 1745, but its legend only grows in the three centuries since. 43 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:35,000 The club's former haunt outside Dublin is considered a hive of paranormal activity. 44 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:39,000 And their purported spirits might be getting more aggressive. 45 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:51,000 This electronic recording of a disembodied voice was recently captured by historian Sinead Hulahan. 46 00:03:51,000 --> 00:04:00,000 Could this once secretive sight truly be damned due to a deal with the devil? 47 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:02,000 What do you think? 48 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:11,000 So if there were actual Satanic rituals going on or heaven forbid human sacrifices, then that is very, very dangerous. 49 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:15,000 We might actually be dealing with intelligent, malevolent energies. 50 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:20,000 Listen, I've been to Ireland a lot and it is a magical place, but I don't mean that literally. 51 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:23,000 How much of this story is real and how much is just bravado? 52 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:26,000 Hopefully they've embellished the whole Satan worshipping angle. 53 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:29,000 I think the devil's in the details here. 54 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:34,000 Well put, so the mission is get to Dublin, meet Sinead and separate fact from fiction. 55 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:36,000 Raise hell with Hellfire. 56 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:37,000 Hell yeah. 57 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:38,000 We're on it. 58 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:39,000 Good luck. 59 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:44,000 It's a six and a half hour flight from New York to Ireland's capital Dublin. 60 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:55,000 Located on the banks of the River Liffey, people have been making their home here for thousands of years. 61 00:04:57,000 --> 00:04:58,000 So have you been here before? 62 00:04:58,000 --> 00:04:59,000 I have not. 63 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:01,000 I've always wanted to come. 64 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:05,000 So this where we are right now, this is called Cork Hill. 65 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:12,000 This is the most historic part of Dublin and I've definitely had a Guinness or four on the bars up and down around here. 66 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:14,000 How many bars around here? 67 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:16,000 A few and I can't exactly remember. 68 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:22,000 The reason I brought you here is because there was something very interesting on the side of one of these buildings. 69 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:24,000 I think you're gonna want to see it. 70 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:26,000 Check it out. 71 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:28,000 Oh no way the Eagle Tavern. 72 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:29,000 Yes, which is? 73 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:31,000 The Hellfire Club meeting place. 74 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:32,000 Okay. 75 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:36,000 So this is where they would come and do their debauchery. 76 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:44,000 While Hellfire's first meeting place sits prominently in the center of Dublin, it's where the society moved to next that's most infamous. 77 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:48,000 A hunting lodge seven miles south atop Montpellier Hill. 78 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:53,000 I think we got to go up through here. 79 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:59,000 So I figured if this is how they got to the hunting lodge back in the 1700s, we might as well ride in style. 80 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:04,000 Imagine doing this every day. 81 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:07,000 This is your only mode of transportation. 82 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:12,000 It really gives you a sense of how far away from the city you are. 83 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:20,000 Atop of this hill, be a good place to look over Dublin, but also get into some interesting business without being seen. 84 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:32,000 Look at that. 85 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:34,000 Hey, you're okay. You're okay. You're okay. 86 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:36,000 So this is where it all went down. 87 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:39,000 It looks like a place that's eight and one hundred. 88 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:43,000 Wow. So here's the hunting lodge. 89 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:50,000 As we finish our trek on horseback, we meet our eyewitness, Shanaid Hulahan. 90 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:51,000 Hi. 91 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:52,000 Hi. 92 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:53,000 Nice to meet you. 93 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:54,000 Hi. 94 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:55,000 I'm Phil. 95 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:56,000 Shanaid. 96 00:06:56,000 --> 00:07:03,000 Shanaid is a local historian who's been to this site several times and has experienced some terrible experiences. 97 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:06,000 This is quite the building. 98 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:07,000 It is. 99 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:14,000 It dates back to 1725, when it was first set up as a hunting lodge by William Connolly. 100 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:17,000 He died four years after building this lodge. 101 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:22,000 That was the Hellfire Club started in 1735 by Richard Parsons. 102 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:27,000 Upper class, the first building in the city of London. 103 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:32,000 It started in 1735 by Richard Parsons. 104 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:38,000 Upper class society used to congregate here. 105 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:47,000 The rituals, the sacrifices, murders, all the debauchery, all the misbehavior and a lot of evil. 106 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:53,000 Were Parsons and his group up here legitimately trying to bring up Satan? 107 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:56,000 Dabbling at the dark side was popular at the time. 108 00:07:56,000 --> 00:08:01,000 I think there were trying to invoke Satan or other dark entities that were here. 109 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:04,000 What kind of experiences have you had up here then? 110 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:09,000 I heard a woman wailing in the distance. 111 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:11,000 I went over to see what it was. 112 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:19,000 While I got there, the same exact sound switched to the other side. 113 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:25,000 And next thing, the sound changes again. 114 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:30,000 People come up here and they have had stones thrown at them from the second floor. 115 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:33,000 Did they just hear a stone fall or did they see? 116 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:36,000 She was actually thrown at them from one room to another. 117 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:44,000 Not only that, they have heard music and whispered voices coming through the building as well. 118 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:47,000 And there's like layers of paranormal activity occurring here. 119 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:51,000 Like a snowball effect over the years keeps building up and building up. 120 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:55,000 Especially from the EVP where you heard get out. 121 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:03,000 Something that's quite stern and it doesn't like anybody being here. 122 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:05,000 It's quite antagonistic. 123 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:11,000 I can only imagine how terrifying the specter of this lodge must have been for the locals 124 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:14,000 during its peak as the home base of the Hellfire Club. 125 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:16,000 Best of luck to you. 126 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:20,000 They definitely gave us a lot of intel to follow up on and as night falls, 127 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:23,000 we have the entire hunting lodge to ourselves. 128 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:28,000 Okay. 129 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:39,000 The lodge consists of two levels with the main entrance that was originally on the second floor. 130 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:41,000 A third story has since been destroyed. 131 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:46,000 The first floor housed a kitchen, servants quarters and adjacent stables. 132 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:51,000 The plan tonight is to do a paranormal sweep of this historic Hellfire site. 133 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:53,000 That goes all the way up. 134 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:54,000 Let me see. 135 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:55,000 Check it out. 136 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:59,000 And to try and find answers behind who or what might be haunting it. 137 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:07,000 Why do you think there's certain spots that are leaking water? 138 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:09,000 I think it must be the cracks. 139 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:12,000 I think that's been around for a long time. 140 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:16,000 Did you hear that? 141 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:17,000 That was me. 142 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:18,000 What did you do? 143 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:19,000 Wait, that you mean? 144 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:20,000 Yeah, that. 145 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:21,000 That's- 146 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:22,000 Wow. 147 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:23,000 That was my foot. 148 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:25,000 Do you know where that sound like it came from right above me? 149 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:28,000 It's definitely bouncing up and coming down. 150 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:30,000 Weird place. 151 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:43,000 So this is the floor where she needs it. 152 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:46,000 A lot of the activity happens. 153 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:48,000 Check it out. 154 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:50,000 View Dublin right out the window here. 155 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:52,000 That's cool. 156 00:10:58,000 --> 00:10:59,000 Oh, f***. 157 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:05,000 What was that? 158 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:10,000 It sounded like metal. 159 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:16,000 Check this out, Jess. 160 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:19,000 What'd you get? 161 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:20,000 Look at this rock. 162 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:23,000 Do you think that's what just fell? 163 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:26,000 No, that sounded like something going down the stairs. 164 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:28,000 Yeah, but it sounded like something could have been hitting this. 165 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:33,000 That is the exact noise. 166 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:34,000 What? 167 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:35,000 That high pitch? 168 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:36,000 100%. 169 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:37,000 What do you think it was this? 170 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:40,000 I don't know about that one. 171 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:52,000 What the f*** was that? 172 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:53,000 What was that? 173 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:04,000 Look at that pigeon nest right here. 174 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:07,000 Okay, well we know this place is alive. 175 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:14,000 Big space, you get up in a fireplace. 176 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:15,000 Yup. 177 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:24,000 This could be exactly the space where Parsons almost 300 years ago ran the rituals of the Hellfire. 178 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:30,000 So, what would you like to do? 179 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:35,000 So I'm really curious about how sound and wind pass through this place. 180 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:40,000 Because obviously there's big open windows everywhere, but some of them are more narrow. 181 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:45,000 We've already experienced how sound is bouncing around here in some interesting way. 182 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:52,000 So, to visualize the passage that went through here, I had to bring up a fog machine. 183 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:53,000 You found a fog machine? 184 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:55,000 It's not to party, Jess. 185 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:57,000 It still visualized the wind. 186 00:12:57,000 --> 00:12:59,000 So where do you want to set up your fog machine? 187 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:05,000 I think the bottom floor, because then I'll get a sense of if any air is lifting up or coming in and out of the windows down there. 188 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:06,000 Okay. 189 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:12,000 And then I can do, I are camera up here, and I can try and do some call and response. 190 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:13,000 Okay. 191 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:21,000 After our walk through, Phil heads back downstairs to prep the fog machine. 192 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:36,000 So, while the fog machine will help visualize the movement of the wind in here. 193 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:38,000 This is an animometer. 194 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:46,000 I'm going to set up several of them around, and that'll actually measure the velocity of the wind going through these different passages. 195 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:51,000 To see if we get any peaks that are strong enough to knock over something like a stone. 196 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:54,000 They can seem like a stone's been thrown at somebody. 197 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:56,000 Okay. 198 00:13:57,000 --> 00:14:04,000 I stay on the second floor and position an IR camera on one side of the floor and a run pod on the other. 199 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:12,000 I want to try to make contact with any of the intelligent entities believed to be here through a call and response session. 200 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:18,000 Accounts of the club's gatherings claim that members frequently drank scaletein. 201 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:20,000 Okay. 202 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:24,000 A mixture of Irish whiskey and hot butter with a dash of brinstone. 203 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:27,000 More commonly known as sulfur. 204 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:35,000 Cheers. 205 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:41,000 So I pour a glass as a trigger object to connect with any restless souls or satanic imprints that might be with us. 206 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:42,000 Oh my. 207 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:52,000 It's right now. 208 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:59,000 It's right now it's really clear that the wind is blowing towards me in this direction. 209 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:02,000 I can't even get any fog in this room. 210 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:08,000 So it's interesting to see where it actually flows to from here. 211 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:15,000 Oh, there we go. 212 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:27,000 If you're here, I've poured a glass in the other room. 213 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:30,000 Feel free to help yourself. 214 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:40,000 There's a device that I placed in the center of the room. 215 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:41,000 It's glowing red. 216 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:44,000 If you step near it, it will go off. 217 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:54,000 Is there anyone in this room with me? 218 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:05,000 It is ripping through here. 219 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:08,000 And then it just stops. 220 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:11,000 As we get these guts right now. 221 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:13,000 There it's going, it's going, it's going, it's going. 222 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:14,000 Look at that. 223 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:15,000 Look at that speed. 224 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:17,000 That is wild. 225 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:27,000 And relatively still over here. 226 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:32,000 And then it just line out this window. 227 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:38,000 But it comes and goes. 228 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:45,000 Which tells me that the air that passes through here is really volatile. 229 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:54,000 Were you a member of the Hellfire Club? 230 00:16:56,000 --> 00:16:58,000 There we go. 231 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:06,000 Did you conduct rituals here? 232 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:12,000 Is that you making the Rempod go off? 233 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:14,000 Is that you making the Rempod go off? 234 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:28,000 Something is throwing rocks in here. 235 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:36,000 Phil? 236 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:37,000 Phil! 237 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:38,000 Yeah? 238 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:39,000 Come upstairs. I heard something. 239 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:41,000 Who are you? 240 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:50,000 Who are you? 241 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:51,000 Right over here. 242 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:53,000 Sounded like something was throwing rocks in here. 243 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:56,000 Do you know? 244 00:17:56,000 --> 00:17:57,000 There's a lot of rocks on there. 245 00:17:57,000 --> 00:17:58,000 Do you have any idea what just happened? 246 00:17:58,000 --> 00:17:59,000 I have no idea. 247 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:11,000 You're sure it sound like it came from here? 248 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:14,000 Absolutely 100% no doubt in my mind it came from here. 249 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:19,000 So if there were some of these rocks up there, maybe the wind got strong enough? 250 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:20,000 The wind's not strong enough. 251 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:22,000 The wind is coming in gusts. 252 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:24,000 But you would be able to feel that in here. 253 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:27,000 If it was that strong to push rocks? 254 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:32,000 How is the fog experiment downstairs? 255 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:34,000 It's all over the place. 256 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:38,000 I think there's no area where it just settled and sat there. 257 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:40,000 It was constantly shifting from one room to another. 258 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:44,000 There were some rooms I couldn't blow fog into for a while because the wind was so strong. 259 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:47,000 And then 10 seconds later, the wind would take it all in. 260 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:53,000 So I definitely think that wind and just the strange openings in here, like one up there, 261 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:58,000 over here, plays a role in what people say to hear in here. 262 00:18:58,000 --> 00:19:01,000 And maybe even what's being tossed around like your pebbles. 263 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:05,000 Is there an entity in here with us? 264 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:13,000 Are you messing with us right now? 265 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:18,000 Go ahead and throw some stones. 266 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:23,000 The wind just picked up. 267 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:28,000 Last chance. 268 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:35,000 I don't think it's here. 269 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:38,000 Phil thinks nothing is in here with us. 270 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:42,000 But I definitely had a palpable experience with the REM pod. 271 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:45,000 Something appeared to interact with me intelligently through it. 272 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:48,000 But I have a lot of audio to review before I know for sure. 273 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:00,000 The next morning, we head back to Dublin. 274 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:02,000 To meet with a Hellfire historian. 275 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:03,000 Hey David. 276 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:04,000 Hi. 277 00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:07,000 To learn more about the club's satanic secrets. 278 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:11,000 When we're thinking about the Hellfire Club and why they did what they did, 279 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:13,000 we have to think about the time we're talking about. 280 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:15,000 The enlightenment is happening. 281 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:17,000 A lot of people have said, I'm a free thinker. 282 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:20,000 I don't believe in the biblical version of events. 283 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:24,000 There's a rational basis for existence, not a biblical or religious one. 284 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:27,000 The Hellfire Club took it one step further and they said, 285 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:30,000 we are going to actually do devil worship. 286 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:40,000 So whether the Hellfire Club members believed it or not, 287 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:44,000 they were still doing a lot of rituals to try to bring out the devil. 288 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:46,000 They certainly were. 289 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:50,000 What happened with the end of the Hellfire Club and where did everybody end up? 290 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:58,000 Members either died or were driven into exile between roughly 1738 and the early 1740s. 291 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:01,000 One of these people who left Sir Francis Dashwood, 292 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:04,000 he's known to have gone to England in West Wickham near London. 293 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:09,000 It seems at that time, you convened a group of men who were involved in quite provocative activity. 294 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:19,000 Particularly from a sexual perspective, but also very mocking of established religion. 295 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:25,000 Offering our prayers to the devil, drinking the devil's health, 296 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:29,000 a sustained train of horrific blasphemy. 297 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:31,000 Okay, interesting. 298 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:33,000 What sounds to me like we have to head to England. 299 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:34,000 Yeah. 300 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:36,000 Alright, well thank you very much. 301 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:37,000 Good luck. 302 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:38,000 Thank you. 303 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:39,000 You're very welcome. 304 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:47,000 If there was a darker and more disturbing Hellfire Club over in England, as David claims, 305 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:52,000 we need to reconnect with Josh about this new piece of intel. 306 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:53,000 Hey Josh. 307 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:54,000 Hey Josh. 308 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:57,000 Top of the morning guys, your Irish eyes seem to be smiling. 309 00:21:57,000 --> 00:21:59,000 Oh, well that's kind of you. 310 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:03,000 I got a little buzzed last night when I made this alcoholic offering, 311 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:06,000 but it was a productive investigation overall. 312 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:09,000 Listen Josh, she did it for the mission. 313 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:10,000 I did, I did. 314 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:11,000 Sure you did, yeah. 315 00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:13,000 So how's it going out there? 316 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:17,000 It sounds as if the Hellfire Club were probably doing satanic rituals. 317 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:22,000 I feel like there is definitely some activity out there that I cannot totally explain. 318 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:23,000 Okay. 319 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:26,000 Get this Josh, when the Hellfire Club here kind of died down, 320 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:31,000 there was another one that started up in England that was even more sinister. 321 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:32,000 Yes, I know about this place. 322 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:37,000 They had these infamous caves there that were used supposedly for Hellfire rituals. 323 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:42,000 Phil and I feel like the next step would be to head over to that Hellfire Club 324 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:44,000 and start exploring that space as well. 325 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:46,000 No objection here, sounds like a good plan. 326 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:49,000 Why don't you hop the next flight to London and check out the Hellfire Caves? 327 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:50,000 Sounds good. 328 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:51,000 Thanks Josh. 329 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:53,000 Alright, cheerio. 330 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:56,000 It's a 90 minute flight from Dublin to London. 331 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:04,000 And another half hour drive out to West Wickham, 332 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:09,000 the site of Dashwood's Hellfire Club that dates back to 1751. 333 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:17,000 On top of West Wickham Hill sits the majestic Dashwood Mausoleum, 334 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:22,000 where I've arranged for Phil and Jess to meet with eyewitness Ash Darkwood. 335 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:23,000 How you doing? 336 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:28,000 He's a local historian and experts on all things Hellfire on this side of the Irish Sea. 337 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:32,000 What can you tell us about where we're standing right now? 338 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:39,000 It was not until 1894 that the activities here were referred to as a Hellfire Club. 339 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:42,000 The members here referred to themselves as the Knights of St Francis. 340 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:45,000 St Francis being Sir Francis Dashwood. 341 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:50,000 Why did they get the moniker Hellfire? 342 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:53,000 Sir Francis Dashwood owned all this land, 343 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:57,000 so he could do with it pretty much whatever he wanted, and he did. 344 00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:01,000 For the most part, it was political meetings. 345 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:04,000 He's one of the people who ruled. 346 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:06,000 Benjamin Franklin was an honorary member. 347 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:07,000 Interesting. 348 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:10,000 The final cavern, known as the Inner Temple of the Caves, 349 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:13,000 that's where the most elite members of the club would meet. 350 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:17,000 Sir Francis Dashwood, Paul Whitehead, and maybe just a couple of others 351 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:21,000 engaged in occult practices, black magic, satanic worship. 352 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:28,000 What are some of the rumors of ghosts and Whitehead being seen here? 353 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:31,000 When Paul Whitehead died, his body was buried in London, 354 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:36,000 but in his will he left his heart to Sir Francis Dashwood 355 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:40,000 and requested it to be buried here in the Mausoleum. 356 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:44,000 And it was actually based up there. 357 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:49,000 In the Victorian period, an Australian soldier actually stole the heart, 358 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:55,000 and since then, people began to see the apparition of Whitehead inside the cave network. 359 00:24:56,000 --> 00:25:00,000 The legend says that he's in search of his heart, and that's why he returned. 360 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:02,000 This is insane. 361 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:05,000 And when the caves were refurbished, it was a famous story of a young child 362 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:10,000 becoming lost from her mother and becoming completely disorientated, started crying, 363 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:14,000 and she was rescued by a man who brought her back to the entrance of the caves. 364 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:16,000 When the adults looked around, the man was gone, 365 00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:21,000 but the child described a man who was believed to be Whitehead. 366 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:29,000 Have you had any personal experiences here? 367 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:30,000 I have, yes. 368 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:31,000 Really? 369 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:36,000 There was one occasion, I was just entering into the main banquet hall, 370 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:39,000 and I heard my name whispered into my ear. 371 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:42,000 Almost like a stage whisper. 372 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:45,000 It was a whisper, but it was quite loud, if you understand what I mean. 373 00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:46,000 Yeah. 374 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:48,000 So I was quite confused as to who that was. 375 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:51,000 There was another occasion when I had a stone actually hit my glasses. 376 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:53,000 Was there anyone else with you? 377 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:54,000 Not at that time, no. 378 00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:55,000 Huh. 379 00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:58,000 That connects to some of the reports at the Dublin Hellfire Club. 380 00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:05,000 My personal belief is that Whitehead's heart being taken just triggered that paranormal response. 381 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:07,000 You're a bit of a believer here? 382 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:08,000 Yes, absolutely. 383 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:10,000 And thank you so much. 384 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:11,000 Oh, nice to meet you. 385 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:12,000 Thank you, Josh. 386 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:13,000 Appreciate it. 387 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:18,000 Directly underneath all this stone flint that make up the Dashwood Mausoleum, 388 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:21,000 sit the infamous Hellfire Caves. 389 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:28,000 Where the satanic rituals of Sir Francis Dashwood took place. 390 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:39,000 Check that out. 391 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:43,000 We're here to place. 392 00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:45,000 Caves right down there. 393 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:46,000 That's creepy. 394 00:26:55,000 --> 00:27:00,000 The Hellfire Caves run a quarter of a mile under West Wickham Hill. 395 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:06,000 Large secluded alcoves connect a long labyrinth of chalky corridors. 396 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:07,000 Is that what I think it is? 397 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:08,000 Oh, yeah, it is. 398 00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:09,000 That's an urn? 399 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:10,000 That's an urn. 400 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:17,000 It almost looks like there's ash inside there. 401 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:20,000 Can't tell if that's just a debris from the lid. 402 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:23,000 I mean, it is broken, so that couldn't just be dust. 403 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:27,000 Potentially in the presence of human remains, 404 00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:30,000 I start my digital recorder for a call and response session. 405 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:33,000 Whose urn is this? 406 00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:39,000 Hall Whitehead, is this where your heart was stored? 407 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:47,000 I say we just keep on walking. 408 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:48,000 Okay. 409 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:49,000 Yeah, I'm just gonna have it run. 410 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:50,000 Okay. 411 00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:58,000 Oh, look at that face. 412 00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:01,000 Oh, my gosh. 413 00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:02,000 Wow. 414 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:07,000 Who carved these faces on the wall? 415 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:13,000 I guess this goes in a loop. 416 00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:16,000 So researching the caves, this is where you would check in. 417 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:20,000 The men would go left, women would go right, meet on the other side, 418 00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:23,000 and that's who your sexual partner is for the rest of the night. 419 00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:24,000 Wow. 420 00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:26,000 Wow. 421 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:27,000 You're gonna go left? 422 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:28,000 Oh, I'll go left. 423 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:29,000 I'll go right. 424 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:40,000 Hello? 425 00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:41,000 Is that you? 426 00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:42,000 Hey, wow. 427 00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:44,000 Your voice carried weird in here. 428 00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:45,000 Really? 429 00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:46,000 Yeah. 430 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:47,000 Let me go back. 431 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:48,000 Let's do that again. 432 00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:49,000 Yeah, talking right there? 433 00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:50,000 Talk right here. 434 00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:52,000 Move a little bit forward. 435 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:53,000 Moving forward. 436 00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:55,000 La, la, la, la. 437 00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:56,000 Hello? 438 00:28:57,000 --> 00:28:59,000 Is there anybody else in here with us? 439 00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:04,000 Did you hear that little rumble? 440 00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:05,000 Yeah, I did. 441 00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:11,000 If there's anyone else here with us, can you please make that sound again? 442 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:17,000 Oh, that just gonna buzz me. 443 00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:18,000 Oh, my gosh. 444 00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:21,000 But that's not what made that rumble. 445 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:22,000 Oh, no. 446 00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:30,000 I definitely feel like something's watching us. 447 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:47,000 This is the banquet hall. 448 00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:49,000 Okay. 449 00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:52,000 Wow. 450 00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:57,000 Look at the size of this place. 451 00:29:57,000 --> 00:29:59,000 It's massive. 452 00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:02,000 Think of all the things that happened in this room, Jess. 453 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:03,000 Oh. 454 00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:05,000 Someone I don't want to think about. 455 00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:08,000 Oh, we got Venus over there. 456 00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:13,000 What'd you say? 457 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:14,000 I didn't say anything. 458 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:15,000 You didn't? 459 00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:16,000 Seriously? 460 00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:17,000 Seriously. 461 00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:19,000 What'd you hear? 462 00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:20,000 I don't know. 463 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:22,000 I thought I heard somebody just whisper. 464 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:25,000 It sounded like hello. 465 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:29,000 Hello? 466 00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:30,000 Yeah, like that. 467 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:31,000 That's how close it's in your ear? 468 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:33,000 Yeah, maybe even a little closer. 469 00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:39,000 Oh, that was weird. 470 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:42,000 This is the exact spot that Ash said he heard his voice. 471 00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:47,000 Dash, what are you here with us? 472 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:52,000 Was that you whispering hello to us? 473 00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:01,000 I definitely heard hello. 474 00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:05,000 The Hellfire banquet hall is reportedly the largest man-made 475 00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:07,000 chalk cavern in the world. 476 00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:10,000 And with its vaulted ceiling, the acoustics can really play 477 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:11,000 tricks on you. 478 00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:13,000 Why don't I set up a REM pod? 479 00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:17,000 Jess says she definitely heard a voice in here, so she sets up 480 00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:20,000 some REM pods for a call and response session. 481 00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:21,000 Okay. 482 00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:26,000 Are you here for any of the Hellfire club activities? 483 00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:30,000 Did you see anything down the hallway? 484 00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:32,000 Nothing over there. 485 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:39,000 At least we're getting some hits. 486 00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:41,000 Yeah, that's promising. 487 00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:46,000 Is Lord Dashwood here? 488 00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:50,000 Yes. 489 00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:53,000 Is there any other Hellfire members here? 490 00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:54,000 Me. 491 00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:55,000 Me? 492 00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:56,000 Who's me? 493 00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:57,000 Me. 494 00:31:57,000 --> 00:31:58,000 What's your name? 495 00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:03,000 Ash? 496 00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:04,000 Ash? 497 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:05,000 Yeah. 498 00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:06,000 Phil. 499 00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:07,000 Phil? 500 00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:08,000 Oh my God, he said Phil. 501 00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:10,000 Sound like Phil. 502 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:16,000 Who else is down here? 503 00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:20,000 Why is that going off again? 504 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:24,000 These are the best hits we've had all night. 505 00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:29,000 My name, Ash's name, I mean the chances of those names coming out, 506 00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:31,000 that's a little weird. 507 00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:33,000 And all in the same spot. 508 00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:36,000 The same room. 509 00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:37,000 Whoa. 510 00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:40,000 What does that tell you? 511 00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:43,000 I guess it tells me like this place could be haunted. 512 00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:49,000 The Banquet Hall is one of the most sacred spots in Dashwood's Hellfire caves. 513 00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:52,000 Alright, we're moving along if you'd like to come with us. 514 00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:54,000 Second only to the inner temple, 515 00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:58,000 which lies at the very end of the meandering cave route. 516 00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:00,000 Oh, yeah. 517 00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:05,000 Wow. 518 00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:11,000 So aphrodite, huh? 519 00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:17,000 I was thinking I'd stay here by myself, 520 00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:20,000 sit in the dark, see if anybody crosses the threshold, 521 00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:23,000 and if I can see or feel anything. 522 00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:24,000 Okay. 523 00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:26,000 Or if it's just like my mind playing tricks with me. 524 00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:29,000 A bit of a sensory deprivation to the deepest part of the cave. 525 00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:30,000 Exactly. 526 00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:31,000 Okay. 527 00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:34,000 Well, I'm still really curious about the Banquet Hall, 528 00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:36,000 where Ash heard his name. 529 00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:38,000 You just heard someone whisper in your ear, 530 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:40,000 and I want to see if I can track down some bats, 531 00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:42,000 because I think there's quite a few flying around in here. 532 00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:43,000 Larry. 533 00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:45,000 Yeah, I would say radio me, 534 00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:47,000 but I don't think the radio signal's going to go through these walls, so... 535 00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:50,000 I think we'll just have to track back and forth and just check on each other. 536 00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:51,000 Okay. 537 00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:52,000 Sounds good? 538 00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:53,000 Good luck in the dark. 539 00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:54,000 Thank you. 540 00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:58,000 While Phil heads off to explore possible natural causes 541 00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:01,000 to the strange sounds and voices heard in these caves, 542 00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:05,000 I stay back to reach out to any of the reported spirits in here 543 00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:08,000 through a new type of call and response box. 544 00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:11,000 See. 545 00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:14,000 Right. 546 00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:19,000 Right, so there's a theory that older ghosts 547 00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:22,000 are more comfortable reaching out through mechanical devices 548 00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:24,000 rather than digital ones. 549 00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:29,000 It lights up and plays a music box anytime something passes in front of it. 550 00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:34,000 Alright, lights out. 551 00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:42,000 Is there anyone in the room with us? 552 00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:51,000 Odd acoustics might explain some of the strange noises heard around here, 553 00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:55,000 but another natural source could also be the bats that call these caves home. 554 00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:57,000 So, after my lidar scan, 555 00:34:57,000 --> 00:35:00,000 I do a walkthrough with the sounds of the bats 556 00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:04,000 and do a walkthrough with the ultrasonic bat detector that I have on my phone. 557 00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:06,000 It records echolocation signals from bats, 558 00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:09,000 which it compares to a catalog of known species in the area 559 00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:13,000 to help us identify who or what is flying around here. 560 00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:18,000 Oh, we got a hit. 561 00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:21,000 Got a bat hit. 562 00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:28,000 I think that unless here's a knock tool, 563 00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:31,000 I actually have never heard of that bat before. 564 00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:35,000 There's, I think, 19 species that can be found here in England. 565 00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:37,000 And we got one of them in here. 566 00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:39,000 So, I'm definitely going to do some more digging on, 567 00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:42,000 at least the size of them, the noises that they make. 568 00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:46,000 I could maybe explain a little bit of what people say the experience around here. 569 00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:55,000 Is Lord Francis Dashwood here? 570 00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:02,000 Is Paul Whitehead here? 571 00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:06,000 Oh, f***. 572 00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:12,000 Paul Whitehead, is that you? 573 00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:16,000 Hello? 574 00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:21,000 Phil? 575 00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:27,000 Well, the first rule of the Hellfire Club was don't talk about the Hellfire Club. 576 00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:29,000 But over its years of devilish deeds, 577 00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:33,000 the outrageous exploits of some members spilled into public view. 578 00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:37,000 The founder of Dublin's Hellfire Club was the Earl of Ross, 579 00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:41,000 notorious for playing so-called practical jokes on men of faith, 580 00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:44,000 infamously inviting a senior priest to his house 581 00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:47,000 only to greet him completely naked, as you do. 582 00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:50,000 Another Hellfire member was James Worsdale. 583 00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:52,000 While visiting the Irish town of Mallow, 584 00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:56,000 Worsdale reportedly got too familiar with his landlady's daughter, 585 00:36:56,000 --> 00:37:00,000 causing the angry mother to beat him with a chunk of mutton. 586 00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:02,000 Mutton chop indeed. 587 00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:06,000 And most macabre of all is the story of club member Lord Santry, 588 00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:08,000 who drenched his servant in brandy, 589 00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:12,000 tossed a match on him, and burned him alive. 590 00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:17,000 Thank goodness these men of Hellfire are all consigned to history. 591 00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:30,000 This one's in the room. 592 00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:32,000 Totally quiet, totally dark. 593 00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:35,000 I had that motion detector up. 594 00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:37,000 Like, who's here in the room? 595 00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:39,000 Is there anybody in the room with me? 596 00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:41,000 It's a whitehead. 597 00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:43,000 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 598 00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:44,000 Come with me. 599 00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:45,000 Okay. 600 00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:46,000 Yeah. 601 00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:53,000 Right here. 602 00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:55,000 I was sitting on that bench. 603 00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:59,000 Well, I have a question for you. 604 00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:02,000 Have you ever heard of the Leesler's Noctool? 605 00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:04,000 Leesler's Noctool? 606 00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:05,000 Yeah. 607 00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:10,000 That's the species name of a bat that I did flying around here. 608 00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:14,000 So I got to wonder, what if there's a bat flying in and out at this part 609 00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:16,000 that set this off at the right time? 610 00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:18,000 Because this is motion detector, right? 611 00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:20,000 Yeah, it is. 612 00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:22,000 You got to wait till the light's on. 613 00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:24,000 Now try it. 614 00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:29,000 Yeah, that's motion detector, not EMF. 615 00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:30,000 Okay. 616 00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:35,000 So I didn't detect any bats on this side of the cave 617 00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:37,000 only closer to the entrance. 618 00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:40,000 That doesn't mean there aren't any bats over here. 619 00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:42,000 Especially with this mesh. 620 00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:43,000 With this netting and stuff? 621 00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:45,000 I bet they would love to live up there. 622 00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:55,000 Well, why would a bat set off the motion detector right when I was going through the names? 623 00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:59,000 Maybe they finally felt comfortable in here because they didn't see lights going around. 624 00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:01,000 And so they said, you know what? 625 00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:03,000 The coast is clear-ish. 626 00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:05,000 They can fly around. 627 00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:08,000 It's a theory. 628 00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:10,000 Crap. Yeah, okay. 629 00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:17,000 I mean, I still think it's a little weird that it went off right when I said Whitehead's name. 630 00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:19,000 That is weird. 631 00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:21,000 I still had the recorder running. 632 00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:25,000 If I hear anything on there, if that matches up to what was going on over here, 633 00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:28,000 then I say possibly paranormal. 634 00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:29,000 Okay. 635 00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:32,000 But then if that comes up flat, then okay, yeah, maybe it's a bat. 636 00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:33,000 Maybe it's a bat? 637 00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:35,000 Maybe it's a bat. 638 00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:49,000 For 300 years, the Sorted and Satanic Hellfire Club has been shrouded in mystery. 639 00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:51,000 That's creepy. 640 00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:58,000 My team set out to investigate the paranormal claims behind this secret society. 641 00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:01,000 In addition to the inexplicable, disturbing sounds- 642 00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:02,000 Oh, f***! 643 00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:06,000 And voices heard in real time during my team's investigations. 644 00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:09,000 What'd you say? 645 00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:15,000 Jess conducted further analysis of more than 30 hours of their audio recordings from Ireland and England. 646 00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:22,000 She discovered a disturbing EVP from inside the hunting lodge. 647 00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:25,000 Did you conduct rituals here? 648 00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:31,000 And another one from inside the Hellfire Cave's inner temple. 649 00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:39,000 A review of the IR camera footage from this same room yielded no rogue bat sightings, 650 00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:41,000 casting doubt on Phil's theory. 651 00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:46,000 Maybe they finally felt comfortable in here because they didn't see lights going around. 652 00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:50,000 Meanwhile, we have no rational explanation for what triggered the sensor. 653 00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:52,000 Paul Whitehead is dead. 654 00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:59,000 But Jess's favorite suspect remains the spirit of Paul Whitehead, still looking for his lost heart. 655 00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:07,000 Many have claimed that the hallowed halls of Hellfire are home to supernatural and Satanic spirits. 656 00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:13,000 The unsettling events Phil and Jess experienced, both in the hunting lodge and the Hellfire Caves, 657 00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:16,000 do seem to suggest a darkness. 658 00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:21,000 One that certainly could be devilish.