1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,000 Here's a dungeon. 2 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:04,000 What's your head? 3 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:06,000 Yeah, I'm not that tall. 4 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:09,000 That's right, so I have to watch mine. 5 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:12,000 Alright, so, let's start here. 6 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:16,000 This is incredible, dude. 7 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:18,000 This is, this is wild. 8 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:21,000 So you said 20 to 30 deaths just in here, huh? 9 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:23,000 Just from poor conditions. 10 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:24,000 Oh, yeah. 11 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:29,000 You don't go really above a .3 on that EMF. 12 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:34,000 Come on, there's supposed to be a soldier in here, right? 13 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:36,000 A soldier sitting by the fire. 14 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:39,000 Show yourself, come on. 15 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:41,000 These beds. 16 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:44,000 Comfy, comfy. 17 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:46,000 I'm gonna fluff your plank before you go to sleep. 18 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:47,000 Addin' some hay? 19 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:49,000 You're golden, golden. 20 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:52,000 I'm not pickin' up anything in here. 21 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:57,000 I'm not gonna go to sleep. 22 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:12,000 EMF is flat. 23 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:14,000 Yeah. 24 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:22,000 If there's anybody here with us in this room, 25 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:24,000 can you please come and talk to us? 26 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:26,000 Can you make yourself known? 27 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:30,000 I wish we could call them on Q. 28 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:35,000 If you were supposedly psychic, you'd be able to, according to them. 29 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:36,000 That was true. 30 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:39,000 They were really psychic and you have so much footage. 31 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:43,000 I am so sick to my stomach, just thinking about the psychics. 32 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:47,000 The mediums and the scams that they are. 33 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:50,000 They're just, you know, at least when you use equipment, 34 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:54,000 you can give something to the client, something to the public, 35 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:55,000 something where someone can go, 36 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:57,000 wow, you know, that is a little more intriguing 37 00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:00,000 because it's not just somebody saying, oh, I feel this. 38 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:02,000 It's not just somebody's opinion saying, 39 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:05,000 I think this is the way it is, so this is the way it is. 40 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:06,000 Yeah. 41 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:15,000 We were actually in casemate 11. 42 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:17,000 Being this kid had the shock of his life. 43 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:19,000 I tell you, I haven't been shocked like this. 44 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:21,000 I haven't been shocked like that in a while. 45 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:23,000 I'm standing there and starting to get cold. 46 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:26,000 I'm going to shine my flashlight and in the lower right corner of that window, 47 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:29,000 there was a face, a solid face, looking right in my eyes. 48 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:31,000 I had a hard time standing. 49 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:32,000 I can still see the face. 50 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:33,000 Oh, yeah. 51 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:36,000 It's not right, so if you want to go down the tango and have an experience, 52 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:38,000 we'll make sure there's someone close by. 53 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:39,000 Thanks. 54 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:45,000 Grab a nervous wreck. 55 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:48,000 Oh, God, what am I doing? 56 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:51,000 I'm a friend. 57 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:53,000 I'm not going to harm anyone. 58 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:55,000 Please don't harm me. 59 00:02:55,000 --> 00:03:00,000 This is the first time I'm kind of chickening, like chickening. 60 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:06,000 My name is David Tango, and I'm a nice person. 61 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:08,000 Not here to harm. 62 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:12,000 Just want to communicate nicely. 63 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:17,000 This has to be the creepiest thing I've ever done. 64 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:20,000 I'm literally shaking. 65 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:28,000 I don't feel wanted down there. 66 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:30,000 I feel like I just had to get out. 67 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:34,000 I started to think where, I mean, people were down here for months and months at a time. 68 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:39,000 So if any place would be really haunted, it would be a place like a solitary confinement. 69 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:51,000 So how about during the Civil War, was there much? 70 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:54,000 I mean, you said it was used mainly as a prison. 71 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:57,000 Was there many deaths or fighting on the ground? 72 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:00,000 I felt it was best used as a prison for Confederate soldiers. 73 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:03,000 Many of them caught after the battle of Kettigsburg. 74 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:06,000 Some political prisoners, Union deserters. 75 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:10,000 So we had roughly about 110 to 140 prisoners here. 76 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:13,000 So now what's the story about William H. Howe? 77 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:16,000 He was a private in the Pennsylvania Army. 78 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:19,000 He went to the battle of Fredericksburg. 79 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:23,000 He got an illness that debilitated him, which was very common for that time. 80 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:26,000 He hadn't been paid in a couple of months. 81 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:28,000 Food was bad, he didn't feel well. 82 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:30,000 He just decided to walk home. 83 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:32,000 The Army didn't take very kindly to that. 84 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:34,000 It was a real problem with desertion. 85 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:36,000 They went after him. 86 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:38,000 Two men went to his house. 87 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:40,000 Shot rang out, killing one of the men. 88 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:44,000 Charged with that, he was kept at Easter State Penitentiary until early August. 89 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:45,000 Then brought here. 90 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:48,000 He was the only man executed in Philadelphia during the Civil War. 91 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:51,000 Do you know if there was any photographs of him? 92 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:54,000 We'd love to think there is, but we have not been able to find one yet. 93 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:58,000 There was a description of him that said he was a shortest man, 94 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:01,000 average build of German features. 95 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:02,000 That's all we had. 96 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:04,000 You've been here at the Fort for a while. 97 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:06,000 I mean, what's your take on the stories? 98 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:10,000 What I really like about them is they're historic based. 99 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:15,000 Factual people like Elizabeth Pratt, our screaming lady, who was here in the 1830s. 100 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:18,000 Her story is that she was here with her family. 101 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:19,000 She had a young daughter. 102 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:23,000 She was only about 19, fell in love with the officer that was here. 103 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:24,000 They got married. 104 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:32,000 The daughter about a year later died of the thiria that put Elizabeth into an incredible bout of depression. 105 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:34,000 She went on for a couple of weeks. 106 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:37,000 They found that she had hung herself from grief. 107 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:39,000 I want to thank you so much for your time. 108 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:41,000 I really, you know, got a lot out of this. 109 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:43,000 I appreciate you guys being here. 110 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:44,000 Thank you. 111 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:45,000 Thank you so much. 112 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:46,000 My pleasure.