1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,200 One of this episode of Ghost Hunters, 2 00:00:02,200 --> 00:00:06,000 TAPS visits the oldest industrial site in the United States. 3 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:08,500 A lot of machines had to be operated by children, 4 00:00:08,500 --> 00:00:11,000 and oftentimes children weren't killed. 5 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:15,000 Jason and Grant have a talk with one of Slater Mill's old employees, 6 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:17,000 a nine-year-old boy. 7 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:21,000 Can you light this thing up and keep it lit for us? 8 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:23,000 That wasn't even possible. 9 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:24,000 What's that? 10 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:25,000 Hell is that? 11 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:26,500 It's just mirrors and cold. 12 00:00:26,500 --> 00:00:28,000 It's just at 2.1. 13 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:31,000 There's eight degrees difference than it was three minutes ago. 14 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:35,000 The team goes to Simsbury, Connecticut, 15 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:37,000 to investigate a fire-damaged landmark. 16 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:41,000 She was upstairs in her bedroom and beheaded with an axe. 17 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:43,000 At the Pettibone Tavern, 18 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:46,000 will tango and Chris get too close for comfort? 19 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:48,000 If you can't get out, he'll get stuck. 20 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:49,000 Are you kidding me? 21 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:51,000 Oh my God, you're right. 22 00:00:58,000 --> 00:00:59,000 All packed? 23 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:01,000 All right, guys. 24 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:03,000 So guys, Slater Mill and Batucket, 25 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:06,000 definitely an old Rhode Island landmark out here. 26 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:07,000 Nice short ride. 27 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:08,000 Good. 28 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:10,000 There's a lot of claims of activity. 29 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:12,000 I guess it just had a lot of gruesome accidents 30 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:14,000 during the years when it was open. 31 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:16,000 They used to hire kids to go in and repair the machinery 32 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:18,000 or work with it while it was still running 33 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:20,000 and they would lose fingers left and right. 34 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:22,000 Yeah, but a lot of them were still running. 35 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:23,000 They were still running. 36 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:24,000 They were still running. 37 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:25,000 They were still running. 38 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:26,000 They were still running. 39 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:27,000 They were still running. 40 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:29,000 Yeah, but a lot of reports of activity up there. 41 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:30,000 Interesting place. 42 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:31,000 Good size building. 43 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:33,000 We've got two different buildings as well. 44 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:34,000 Okay, very cool. 45 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:36,000 You guys ready for this nice local case? 46 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:37,000 Yeah, I'm psyched. 47 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:38,000 We're unpacked up. 48 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:39,000 Just gonna get it all in the van. 49 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:40,000 All right, let's do that. 50 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:44,000 First time I ever went to Slater Mill, 51 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:46,000 I believe I was in seventh grade. 52 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:48,000 We went up there to see how the old mills function. 53 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:50,000 It's amazing how integral Slater's mills 54 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:52,000 were to the whole Industrial Revolution. 55 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:54,000 He memorized the plans over in England 56 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:56,000 because it was illegal to transport building plans 57 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:58,000 for the mills so he would come back 58 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:00,000 and build it from memory. 59 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:02,000 There is a high potential for residual activity. 60 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:04,000 It's near water, it's an old building. 61 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:06,000 A lot of traumatic stuff went on there, I'm sure. 62 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:09,000 And I think the best part is when the investigation's over, 63 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:11,000 I'm going home to sleep with my own man. 64 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:13,000 Slater Mill, nice local investigation. 65 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:16,000 Well, this is great because I remember going here as a kid. 66 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:18,000 It's sort of a nice school trip. 67 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:19,000 Right. 68 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:32,000 MUSIC 69 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:33,000 Hi, how are you? 70 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:34,000 Hi, how are you? 71 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:35,000 Welcome to the Slater Mill. 72 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:36,000 I'm Grant. I'm James. 73 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:37,000 I'm Cheryl. 74 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:40,000 I am the Director of Operations here at the Old Slater Mill. 75 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:42,000 We're very pleased to have you here. 76 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:45,000 I don't want to say that I'm a skeptic, 77 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:47,000 but seeing is believing 78 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:50,000 and having taps here with their equipment 79 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:53,000 and seeing what they're able to get will make me believe. 80 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:55,000 So what can you tell us about this place? 81 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:58,000 Okay, the Slater Mill was actually the very first successful 82 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:00,000 water-pollock factory in the country. 83 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:02,000 Behind you was the Blackstone River. 84 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:04,000 It supplied the power for the waterwheel 85 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:06,000 that would have been located in the Slater Mill. 86 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:09,000 The factory opened in 1793. 87 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:11,000 It opened with nine children, 88 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:14,000 basically seven women and two boys. 89 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:17,000 Working conditions in Slater Mill were really difficult. 90 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:18,000 They were really dark. 91 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:20,000 The windows were small on purpose. 92 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:22,000 The machines were really loud. 93 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:25,000 And a lot of the machines had to be operated by children 94 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:27,000 because they were smaller, 95 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:29,000 and they could physically get into the machine 96 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:31,000 and change bobbins and make adjustments. 97 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:35,000 And oftentimes, children were injured or even killed. 98 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:38,000 It's here in the bell tower 99 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:41,000 that people feel that sense of being watched. 100 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:44,000 Is that on any floor in the tower or just here? 101 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:46,000 It's basically in this spot, 102 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:48,000 which would be closest to the door 103 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:50,000 and closest to the ringing of the bell. 104 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:52,000 Have you ever experienced that? 105 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:54,000 I've worked in here for 11 years. 106 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:57,000 Sometimes I do feel that this mill worker is still working in the mill. 107 00:03:57,000 --> 00:03:59,000 And that's because you hear something, 108 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:02,000 and you look, and there's no one there. 109 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:04,000 Okay, so what do you know? 110 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:08,000 This is one area in the mill that I wanted to show you. 111 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:11,000 This machine was very hazardous to run, 112 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:14,000 and because of that, we don't run it here at Slater Mill. 113 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:16,000 Though I did have interpreters report to me 114 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:19,000 that they swear this machine has been run. 115 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:22,000 So you think they've heard it or seen it, right? 116 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:24,000 They've actually heard it run. 117 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:25,000 Okay, so what do you know? 118 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:28,000 I'd love to show you the attic of this Slater Mill. 119 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:31,000 We were closing, and of course, when we leave the place, 120 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:33,000 we have to arm the building. 121 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:35,000 There's an alarm, a code, 122 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:38,000 and I could not get the code to go into the keyboard. 123 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:40,000 I called the security company, 124 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:43,000 and they said, according to their motion detector, 125 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:46,000 there are people walking around on the second floor. 126 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:48,000 So I proceeded to go upstairs, 127 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:50,000 and I also went up to the third floor, the attic. 128 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:52,000 Nothing. There was no one around. 129 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:54,000 There were no people moving around. 130 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:58,000 Interesting attic. 131 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:01,000 It will be cold up here in July. 132 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:02,000 It does not make sense. 133 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:05,000 In December and January, it's overly hot, 134 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:11,000 and my interpreters do not feel comfortable coming up here by themselves. 135 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:13,000 They're, again, is that stuffiness, 136 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:16,000 that feeling that there's something that would happen up here. 137 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:18,000 Okay. So where to now? 138 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:20,000 I'd love to take you over to the Wilkinson Mill. 139 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:21,000 After you. 140 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:32,000 The Wilkinson Mill was built in 1810. 141 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:35,000 What's interesting about this spot is this water well. 142 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:40,000 It's activated by a gate on the other side of the wall that we just passed through. 143 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:43,000 The gate would be lifted, and the water well would turn. 144 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:47,000 What seems to strange part is that this well has been known to turn, 145 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:49,000 and that gate would be fully down. 146 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:52,000 So the wheel, it's not just the sound of the wheel turning, 147 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:53,000 the wheel's actually turned. 148 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:55,000 They've seen the wheel being turned. 149 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:57,000 Gotcha. Now is that the only thing that goes on in here? 150 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:01,000 When we get up to the machine shop, I have more to tell you. 151 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:03,000 Okay, well then, let's go there. 152 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:12,000 This is cool. Wow. It smells like high school. 153 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:14,000 Definitely a machine shop. 154 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:16,000 Alright, so what goes on here? 155 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:19,000 It was here that our CEO was coming through the Wilkinson Mill, 156 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:23,000 and as she got to this spot, felt that she was interrupting an argument. 157 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:28,000 I felt that I'd entered a really, really hostile space. 158 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:32,000 I had a feeling of two men intensely arguing, 159 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:37,000 and I remember feeling not so much pushed as a sensation of pressure, 160 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:39,000 like very hard pressure right on my chest. 161 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:41,000 And that happened right around here. 162 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:44,000 Alright, what we're going to do from here is we're going to talk with the rest of the team. 163 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:46,000 We're going to start setting up equipment throughout the two buildings, 164 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:49,000 try to cover it all, and get the investigation going. 165 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:53,000 A lot of the claims here fall under sounds. 166 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:55,000 People are hearing things. 167 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:58,000 Some people have had some feelings in different areas of the building, 168 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:01,000 and also this location being right near the water, 169 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:06,000 and part of the theory out there is water actually feeds energy for paranormal activity, 170 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:08,000 especially running water. 171 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:12,000 So it's another possibility that tonight might be a very active night. 172 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:15,000 Alright, so everything's all set, Steve? 173 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:18,000 Yeah, all the cameras are up, everything's ready to go. 174 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:21,000 Camera one is the water wheel, and that's of course the basement area. 175 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:24,000 Camera two is the same building, but the attic area. 176 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:25,000 Okay. 177 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:27,000 Camera three is the main building. 178 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:30,000 That's the top floor, we have all the machinery and all that stuff. 179 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:32,000 The ones that supposedly turn on by themselves. 180 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:33,000 Right, exactly. 181 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:36,000 Then we have the final, which is the top floor there, all the lathes, 182 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:37,000 and all the machinery there. 183 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:39,000 Alright, so let's go back up. 184 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:40,000 Alright guys, let's do this. Sounds good. 185 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:41,000 Let's jump. 186 00:07:58,000 --> 00:07:59,000 Are you ready for this? 187 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:00,000 Yep. 188 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:02,000 I'll head down the water wheel first. 189 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:05,000 This is the thing that opened to make it work, right? 190 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:06,000 Yeah. 191 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:09,000 You know there's got to be some bleed through on that thing. 192 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:13,000 I wonder, because the way that gate is, it's not very tall, 193 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:15,000 the water's right near the top of it. 194 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:18,000 So if there was an influx and if the river swelled, 195 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:21,000 I would come over that and direct it right into the wheel. 196 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:22,000 Yeah. 197 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:24,000 Because it's very easy for the water to go up and over that, 198 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:26,000 and if that was shooting right into the wheel, 199 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:27,000 then it would gain enough to turn. 200 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:28,000 That could be it. 201 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:30,000 Yeah, honestly, that's a good call. 202 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:32,000 Let's do some EMF work. 203 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:34,000 Alright, I'm going to put the K2 over here. 204 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:36,000 Put it over here where it's near water? 205 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:37,000 Yeah. 206 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:42,000 Like the theory says, the water actually fuels the paranormal activity. 207 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:44,000 If anyone's down here, my name is Jason. 208 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:46,000 This is Grant. 209 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:49,000 We've come to actually try to talk with you. 210 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:51,000 Now if you're curious about this, 211 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:53,000 there's a device right here on the chair. 212 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:58,000 The theory is that this device will light up the closer you get to it, 213 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:01,000 that you're actually able to communicate back and forth with us. 214 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:02,000 Please come and look at it. 215 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:04,000 It can't hurt you. It doesn't hurt you. 216 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:06,000 You're welcome to touch it. 217 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:08,000 Look at this. 218 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:14,000 You're welcome to come and play with it, pick it up, poke it. 219 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:15,000 Dang. 220 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:16,000 Boom. Holy crap. 221 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:18,000 Are you kidding me? Did that just go off? 222 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:20,000 It just went off. 223 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:28,000 There's a device right here on the chair. 224 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:32,000 The theory is that this device will light up the closer you get to it, 225 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:36,000 that you're actually able to communicate back and forth with us. 226 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:37,000 Please come and look at it. 227 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:39,000 Jay and I headed into the Wilkinson part of the mill. 228 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:43,000 By the water wheel, we had that K2 set up and just started really being bold 229 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:45,000 and inviting something to show up. 230 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:46,000 And something showed up. 231 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:49,000 Something illuminated the K2. 232 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:50,000 Dang. 233 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:51,000 Boom. Holy crap. 234 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:53,000 Are you kidding me? Did that just go off? 235 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:54,000 It just went off. 236 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:56,000 Are you a man? 237 00:09:58,000 --> 00:09:59,000 Okay. 238 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:01,000 He just said yes, it's a man, right? 239 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:03,000 Are you a woman? 240 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:10,000 Are you a boy? 241 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:12,000 It just lit up. 242 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:16,000 Jay and I have seen multiple times where the K2 is just uncanny. 243 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:19,000 And that's what we're looking for whenever we do a K2 session. 244 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:22,000 It's just that uncanny beyond coincidental interaction. 245 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:25,000 Are you a grown man? 246 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:27,000 Are you a young boy? 247 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:28,000 Dang. Boom. 248 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:30,000 Okay, young boy. 249 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:32,000 Let's see if we can zone in on the age. 250 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:35,000 Are you older than five? 251 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:38,000 Okay. 252 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:40,000 Are you older than eight? 253 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:43,000 Oh, s***. 254 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:48,000 Okay, so are you nine? 255 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:51,000 All right, dude. 256 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:52,000 But the heck? 257 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:53,000 Yeah, that's messed up. 258 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:56,000 Do you like to work in the mill? 259 00:10:57,000 --> 00:10:58,000 Yes. 260 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:01,000 Do you live here in Pawtucket? 261 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:04,000 Do you live in Providence? 262 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:06,000 What else is right around here? 263 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:08,000 Central Falls? 264 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:10,000 That's crazy. 265 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:11,000 Hold on, let me try this again. 266 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:14,000 I'm going to ask you some of the same questions. 267 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:16,000 Do you live in Providence? 268 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:21,000 Are you nine years old? 269 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:22,000 That's creepy, man. 270 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:25,000 We then proceeded to ask the same questions differently 271 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:28,000 and got the same exact answers, 272 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:30,000 which I definitely think adds to the credibility 273 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:32,000 of what we caught. 274 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:35,000 Can you light this thing up and keep it lit for us? 275 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:40,000 Holy s***. 276 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:43,000 How is it even possible? 277 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:46,000 How do you, I mean, it's a little bit freaky 278 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:48,000 because you want to believe it, 279 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:50,000 but it's tough. 280 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:53,000 I mean, it blew my mind what was going on there, 281 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:56,000 but I'm not going to jump on board completely yet. 282 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:01,000 Is it just me or is it cold? 283 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:03,000 It's kind of hard to think about cold spots 284 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:05,000 when you're standing in a room in the river. 285 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:07,000 Yeah, tell me, because it's cold over here. 286 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:08,000 It really is. 287 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:10,000 There's a belief among investigators that cold spots 288 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:13,000 can mean that you're face-to-face with an entity. 289 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:15,000 Oftentimes, that can be taken to the extreme, 290 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:17,000 where people take any draft, anything like that, 291 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:19,000 and call it a ghost. 292 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:21,000 What specifically you're looking for 293 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:23,000 is a huge drop in temperature 294 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:25,000 with no air movement associated with it. 295 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:28,000 And even then, you've got to have the right equipment. 296 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:30,000 You've got to have an ambient thermometer 297 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:32,000 to measure its boundaries. 298 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:37,000 Right, so far 65.9 degrees, 66. 299 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:38,000 How cold is it right near me? 300 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:40,000 62.4. 301 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:42,000 Right here. It's cold. 302 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:45,000 61.9, steadily dropping. 303 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:46,000 Feel my hand. 304 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:48,000 68, 60 degrees. 305 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:50,000 It's like I'm holding a frickin' ice cube. 306 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:51,000 What the heck? 307 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:53,000 I have no idea. 308 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:54,000 I'm freezing. 309 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:58,000 It's eight degrees different than it was just three minutes ago. 310 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:00,000 Here we go, Tango. 311 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:02,000 Main building, Slater Mill. 312 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:05,000 Man, and they like kids' work here. 313 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:08,000 Somebody could be attached to this machinery. 314 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:11,000 Maybe this old equipment could hold energy 315 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:14,000 or hold a spear or harbor something. 316 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:15,000 But I asked the lady during the tour, 317 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:17,000 can they be turned on? 318 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:18,000 No, they could. 319 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:20,000 Look, start, stop. 320 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:21,000 Fire it up. 321 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:22,000 Just be careful, man. 322 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:24,000 Hold this. 323 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:29,000 What the f*** is this? 324 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:30,000 F***! 325 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:33,000 He's not... 326 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:37,000 He's... 327 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:41,000 He's scared the hell out of me, man. 328 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:45,000 This is Grant, Jason, main part of Slater Mill. 329 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:49,000 Wow. 330 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:51,000 Freaking mannequin. 331 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:54,000 I'm always trying to see if that boy's still there. 332 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:56,000 See if he follows us over here. 333 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:58,000 It's Jason and Grant again. 334 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:02,000 We were talking to a boy who was nine years old from Central Falls. 335 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:06,000 Are you the same person who was with us in the other place? 336 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:08,000 There he goes. 337 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:10,000 Thank you for following us over here. 338 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:13,000 Do you see four people here beside yourself? 339 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:16,000 You and I and the two crew. 340 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:19,000 Do you see four people here beside yourself? 341 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:22,000 I don't believe it. 342 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:26,000 Are you able to light the lights up and keep them lit 343 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:28,000 like you did for us in the other building? 344 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:30,000 Go ahead, let them all. 345 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:33,000 That... 346 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:36,000 What the heck? 347 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:38,000 All right. 348 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:40,000 There were four of us in the room 349 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:42,000 if you account the camera guy and the sound guy. 350 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:45,000 How many people in the room are bald? 351 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:49,000 And Jason is bald and the sound guy is bald. 352 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:52,000 Are there two people in the room who are bald? 353 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:55,000 Freak. 354 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:56,000 Hold on. 355 00:14:56,000 --> 00:14:58,000 Are there four people in the room who are bald? 356 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:00,000 No. 357 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:03,000 Now, not only was the spirit accurately able to identify 358 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:06,000 the number of people in the room, but how many of them were bald? 359 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:08,000 Okay, you see four people. 360 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:10,000 Two are bald, right? 361 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:11,000 Yes. 362 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:13,000 Two are not bald, right? 363 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:15,000 Oh, give me a break. 364 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:16,000 What the heck? 365 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:18,000 That type of communication is incredible. 366 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:20,000 Are you lonely here? 367 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:25,000 All right, thank you. 368 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:27,000 Thank you. 369 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:28,000 You can stop. 370 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:29,000 You can stop. 371 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:33,000 If you'd like to leave, 372 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:36,000 you can always come home with me. 373 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:38,000 We got five kids at home. 374 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:40,000 You're welcome in my house. 375 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:41,000 Okay? 376 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:43,000 Wow. 377 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:45,000 I'm gonna text the wife and just tell her 378 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:47,000 I might be bringing something home with me tonight. 379 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:53,000 They hear machines running and people talking. 380 00:15:56,000 --> 00:15:58,000 Do you want to go sit in that main room and do some EVP work? 381 00:15:58,000 --> 00:15:59,000 Sure. 382 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:04,000 It says Joan Criss in the machine shop area. 383 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:07,000 Can you tell us why you remain here? 384 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:10,000 We've heard about some of the horrible accidents 385 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:12,000 that happen here with the machines. 386 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:14,000 Did you ever see anybody get hurt? 387 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:18,000 Or was it you that got hurt by the machines? 388 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:23,000 You can do whatever you want to us or anything in this room. 389 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:26,000 We hear that sometimes you like to turn the machines on. 390 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:30,000 If you're able to do that, could you do it for us today? 391 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:35,000 You can do anything you can, whether it be answer a question, 392 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:37,000 knock something over, touch one of us, 393 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:39,000 anything you can do to get our attention. 394 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:45,000 What's that? 395 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:47,000 I don't know. 396 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:49,000 Kind of something like a machine. 397 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:50,000 I'm sorry. 398 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:07,000 Jo and I were on the first floor where they had the whole machine shop 399 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:10,000 where they had the kids working and they hear machines running. 400 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:13,000 What's that? 401 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:16,000 Kind of something like a machine. 402 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:28,000 When Jo and I were on the first floor, we did hear one machine kick on 403 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:30,000 and it was a compressor in the closet. 404 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:34,000 Compressors are designed to turn on automatically so it was nothing paranormal. 405 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:39,000 Hi, is there anybody up here with us? 406 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:43,000 When Stephen and I were upstairs, we went to opposite directions and we all sat down. 407 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:46,000 Can you please make a loud noise for us? 408 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:51,000 To be honest, I keep feeling myself sway back and forth very lightly. 409 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:54,000 It's really, it's weird and it was disorienting. 410 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:56,000 It was a really weird feeling. I never felt that before. 411 00:17:56,000 --> 00:17:58,000 I'm going to come down there and sit. 412 00:17:58,000 --> 00:18:01,000 He asked me to come in and feel this same sensation. 413 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:04,000 So you were right next to the spinning wheel. 414 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:05,000 Yes. 415 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:09,000 I think that could possibly give him a slight fun house effect. 416 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:13,000 See, as I'm sitting here, every time I move, the spoke of the spinning wheel 417 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:18,000 moves past the window and gives me the effect of movement. 418 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:22,000 I think it's more the fun house effect and not anything paranormal. 419 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:28,000 Stephen Dave Tango, basement. This is the water river. 420 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:30,000 Oh, that guy's huge. 421 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:32,000 Don't talk to him. 422 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:35,000 Oh, look, a little fly just got out of his web. See? 423 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:36,000 Oh, let's see what he does. 424 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:37,000 No. 425 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:40,000 And you know if you've killed one of them, they'd all come for you. 426 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:41,000 Oh, yeah. 427 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:43,000 Oh! 428 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:45,000 You know, we're not getting much down here. I don't know about you. 429 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:47,000 Why don't we try the upstairs? 430 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:49,000 Yeah, let's go upstairs. 431 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:50,000 See you, Tango. 432 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:52,000 Hey, Jay. 433 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:53,000 What do you think? Late enough? 434 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:55,000 I think it's a good time to wrap for sure. 435 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:57,000 All right, guys. We'll just get these lights on. 436 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:02,000 I'm a type of person that has to see, to believe, 437 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:05,000 and I do hope they find something so it could address questions 438 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:07,000 that have been lingering here at Slavery. 439 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:13,000 All right, guys. 440 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:14,000 Hey. 441 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:15,000 We've got the Slater Mell. 442 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:16,000 Mm-hmm. 443 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:18,000 Jane Grant did have some pretty intense experiences 444 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:20,000 of the K2 meter right at the water wheel. 445 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:22,000 And, you know, they ask a question, you know, 446 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:24,000 were you here for X reasons or whatever, 447 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:26,000 they were asking and the K2 would react. 448 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:27,000 Cool. 449 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:29,000 As if this thing was answering its question. 450 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:31,000 I say we get into it. We've got a lot of stuff to watch. 451 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:32,000 All right, okay. 452 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:33,000 What, are you going goatee? 453 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:34,000 No. No. 454 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:35,000 I just didn't want to shave. 455 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:37,000 Look how I shaved over here. 456 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:38,000 Yeah, I did. 457 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:39,000 See? 458 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:40,000 You didn't want to shave. 459 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:42,000 I shaved just so that you shaved perfectly around. 460 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:44,000 Just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, 461 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:45,000 that means you're growing a goatee. 462 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:46,000 I'm not growing a goatee. 463 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:47,000 I hope not. 464 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:48,000 No, I'm not growing a goatee. 465 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:00,000 Hey, guys. 466 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:02,000 I got something interesting here in the audio. 467 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:04,000 Jane Grant are at the, at the water wheel 468 00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:07,000 and they're trying really hard to get whatever it is 469 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:08,000 that may be down there. 470 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:09,000 It's interact with them. 471 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:12,000 And you hear, I think it might be a name 472 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:14,000 or it's definitely a word, 473 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:15,000 but I'm not sure what it says. 474 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:17,000 I don't know. 475 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:18,000 I'll let you listen to it. 476 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:19,000 Let me know what you think. 477 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:24,000 Whoa, that's great. 478 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:31,000 Hey, guys. 479 00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:32,000 Hey, hey, hey. 480 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:33,000 All right, so Slater Milf. 481 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:34,000 Definitely, it was one of the most interesting 482 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:36,000 K2 sessions I've ever had. 483 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:39,000 But what were we able to back up on video or audio? 484 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:41,000 As far as the evidence goes, 485 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:43,000 we have some interesting audio we'll play. 486 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:45,000 You'll hear a voice sort of come up on a nowhere 487 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:47,000 that either sounds like a woman. 488 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:48,000 I'm not too sure. 489 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:49,000 Take a listen. 490 00:20:57,000 --> 00:20:58,000 I don't know what it's saying, 491 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:00,000 but I can, you can definitely hear it. 492 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:03,000 I'm pretty sure it's a voice other than a noise, 493 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:04,000 but I can't quite tell. 494 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:05,000 Well, it almost sounds like a cat. 495 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:07,000 It does, but I think we would have heard the cat 496 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:08,000 at the time. 497 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:09,000 I've hardly seen it. 498 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:10,000 Yeah, I love cats. 499 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:11,000 If I saw one, I would have definitely 500 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:13,000 pet it and made friends, 501 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:15,000 and I didn't see any cats. 502 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:18,000 One clip I'd like to play for you is an audio clip 503 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:20,000 when you guys were in the water wheel section. 504 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:24,000 Temperature is dropping. 505 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:30,000 I have no idea what to even say that sounds like. 506 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:32,000 Sounds like something right out of a cartoon. 507 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:38,000 Can you show how you've been? 508 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:39,000 Oh, nice to see you back. 509 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:40,000 Nice to see you again, man. 510 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:41,000 Nice to see you again, Jason. 511 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:42,000 Well, you know what we did? 512 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:44,000 We came in, you gave us a tour of the location, 513 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:46,000 filled us in on the hot spots where people have had 514 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:47,000 their personal experiences, 515 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:49,000 and from there we set up our equipment 516 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:51,000 and started doing an investigation. 517 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:52,000 I know one of the claims is the water wheel 518 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:54,000 has a tendency to turn itself. 519 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:56,000 One thing we did notice when we climbed off 520 00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:58,000 to the back of the system is the board 521 00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:01,000 that's blocking out the water that gets lifted up. 522 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:03,000 It actually allows the water to come in about 523 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:06,000 a half inch under the first paddles of the water wheel. 524 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:08,000 Should there be a significant amount of water 525 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:10,000 coming through the river would come up and over 526 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:12,000 and that would spill right into the wheel. 527 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:13,000 Based on what we saw, 528 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:15,000 that seemed like it would give it enough to start turning 529 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:16,000 slowly, like you had mentioned. 530 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:19,000 I think there's a lot of experiences that people have had 531 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:21,000 that we're able to figure out, 532 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:22,000 but there's a lot of other things 533 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:24,000 that left us really scratching our heads. 534 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:26,000 Yeah, two of our investigators, Chris and Joe, 535 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:28,000 caught a noise that we can't figure out what it is. 536 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:30,000 Maybe you'll recognize it, we can't figure it out. 537 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:32,000 You'll hear Chris talking, 538 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:34,000 and then there's another noise. 539 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:42,000 See, not quite sure if it was a cat, 540 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:44,000 our investigators would have heard the cat. 541 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:45,000 No one even saw a cat. 542 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:46,000 We've seen it. 543 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:47,000 Something of that nature. 544 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:48,000 No. 545 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:50,000 Here it is again, I'll just play the just it. 546 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:55,000 Yeah, that's how I can get out of that. 547 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:57,000 Definitely a different tone than the investigators 548 00:22:57,000 --> 00:22:59,000 that were down there, their voices. 549 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:01,000 You ever heard a sound like that down there? 550 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:05,000 No, never heard a sound like that. 551 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:07,000 Now Grant and I in that same area 552 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:09,000 did get two different things 553 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:10,000 that we'd like you to listen to 554 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:11,000 and get your impression of. 555 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:13,000 There were two times we asked 556 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:16,000 whatever was there to please just yell 557 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:18,000 as loud as you can into the recorder. 558 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:20,000 And the second time we asked him to shout his name 559 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:21,000 as loud as he could, 560 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:23,000 hoping that we would be able to catch it. 561 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:25,000 And then only two times we asked that to happen, 562 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:27,000 and both times we got something we can't explain. 563 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:28,000 So you ready for this? 564 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:29,000 Yes, I am. 565 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:30,000 All right. 566 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:33,000 Strap it. 567 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:35,000 It's a 627. 568 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:39,000 Loud as you can, come on. 569 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:40,000 Did you hear that? 570 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:41,000 Yes. 571 00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:42,000 Here's a close up monitor. 572 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:45,000 Loud as you can. 573 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:48,000 Loud as you can. 574 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:52,000 I'm not sure if it's saying hello 575 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:54,000 or something of that nature. 576 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:55,000 I get like, hello? 577 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:57,000 Like he's yelling as loud as he can. 578 00:23:57,000 --> 00:23:59,000 You know, I can picture him doing this. 579 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:02,000 Now, also during that time Grant and I asked, 580 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:03,000 tell us your name. 581 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:05,000 Can you say it as loud as you can to us? 582 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:08,000 And we were able to catch a response to that too. 583 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:09,000 It says something early on, 584 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:11,000 and then it seems to repeat it louder. 585 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:12,000 I'll point it out. 586 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:14,000 We're going to need you to shout your full name 587 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:16,000 as loud as you can. 588 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:20,000 Can you do that for us, please? 589 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:22,000 Shout it right next to the green light. 590 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:25,000 There's another light stair that'll actually... 591 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:28,000 I'll highlight that louder one for you. 592 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:30,000 See if you can pull the name out. 593 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:31,000 That's great. 594 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:32,000 There's another. 595 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:33,000 That's great. 596 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:36,000 To us it sounds either like an Edward or an Edgar. 597 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:39,000 I really couldn't say what I think it is. 598 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:42,000 Yeah, so we spent quite a while trying to make contact 599 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:45,000 with anything that was there with a K2 meter. 600 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:47,000 So what we'd like to do is show you a short clip 601 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:48,000 of some of the interaction. 602 00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:50,000 Now, as you can see we're in the water wheel area 603 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:52,000 of the Wilkinson Mill. 604 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:54,000 Are you a man? 605 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:56,000 Are you a woman? 606 00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:57,000 The control question. 607 00:24:57,000 --> 00:24:58,000 Are you a boy? 608 00:24:58,000 --> 00:24:59,000 Much. 609 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:00,000 Speak. 610 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:01,000 I just let out a little. 611 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:03,000 Are you older than eight? 612 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:06,000 Oh, sh**, that goes. 613 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:08,000 Okay, so are you nine? 614 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:11,000 Yes, that's it. 615 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:12,000 All right, dude. 616 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:14,000 That's messed up. 617 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:17,000 And the thing was those questions we asked numerous times 618 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:19,000 in different ways, 619 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:22,000 sometimes we'd ask the same question ten minutes later 620 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:24,000 and we get the same exact response. 621 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:26,000 This thing was telling us it was a nine-year-old boy 622 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:29,000 and it was saying that it was from Central Falls area. 623 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:31,000 So we also were able to get him to do things like 624 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:33,000 approach the lights and keep them lit 625 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:35,000 and they would stay lit until we asked him to please stop 626 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:37,000 and they would go away. 627 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:38,000 I mean, it was just an amazing interaction. 628 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:40,000 It's very rare. 629 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:42,000 We don't catch that very often at all. 630 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:43,000 I'm amazed. 631 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:45,000 Cheryl, it was honestly, it was amazing. 632 00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:48,000 I mean, nine-year-old boy lived in Central Falls. 633 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:50,000 He didn't have any siblings in the mill. 634 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:51,000 Oh, you asked them. 635 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:53,000 Yeah, it was incredible. 636 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:56,000 So Slater Mill is definitely haunted. 637 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:05,000 Cheryl, it was honestly, it was amazing. 638 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:07,000 I mean, nine-year-old boy lived in Central Falls. 639 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:09,000 He didn't have any siblings in the mill. 640 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:12,000 So Slater Mill is definitely haunted. 641 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:15,000 I think Grant and I are in agreement from everything that happened 642 00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:17,000 over the investigation here 643 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:20,000 that there definitely seems to be something residing 644 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:23,000 at Slater Mill that still here hasn't left. 645 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:25,000 So really interesting. 646 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:26,000 Very interesting. 647 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:28,000 We really want to say thank you for having us out. 648 00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:30,000 Well, it was really a pleasure to have you, Jason. 649 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:33,000 Grant, I hope you can come back again. 650 00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:35,000 Love to. Come on, let's get out of here. 651 00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:38,000 I am fascinated by what TAPS has found here. 652 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:43,000 To have a nine-year-old boy entity be at Wilkinson Mill 653 00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:45,000 would be right on, because that's the age group 654 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:48,000 and the gender that would have worked here at Wilkinson Mill. 655 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:50,000 To have TAPS find what they found 656 00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:53,000 makes me go from a skeptic to a believer. 657 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:55,000 There's a lot of controversy about the K2. 658 00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:57,000 It's an experimental device. 659 00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:59,000 And honestly, this is why we use it, 660 00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:03,000 because every once in a while, it's the right tool at the right time. 661 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:05,000 And we came here with kids. 662 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:06,000 Yeah. 663 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:09,000 So any activity at home since you've ever fallen at home? 664 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:11,000 Then I got five kids. It's always activity. 665 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:12,000 You can't tell what's going on. 666 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:14,000 The thing that my little boys do is parallel. 667 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:17,000 They don't look good job. Let's get home. 668 00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:18,000 It's a good case. 669 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:20,000 We can, 15 to 20 minutes. 670 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:21,000 It's a good case. 671 00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:29,000 Hey, Steve. 672 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:30,000 Yeah? 673 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:33,000 So, interesting place, a petty bone tavern. 674 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:35,000 There's a lot of history behind this place. 675 00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:37,000 It was built in 1780. 676 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:39,000 But people are seeing full-body apparitions. 677 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:41,000 They're hearing new names called... 678 00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:43,000 All different kinds of things going on. 679 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:45,000 But one challenge we're up against is, 680 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:47,000 I guess it just recently had fire. 681 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:49,000 And they're going to have us come in and investigate it 682 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:51,000 before they start renovating it. 683 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:52,000 The copy sounds good. 684 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:53,000 All right, let's do this. 685 00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:54,000 Well, here we go. 686 00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:56,000 Is it that one right there? 687 00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:58,000 Looks sort of old and dilapidated. 688 00:27:58,000 --> 00:27:59,000 Looks hard to... 689 00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:00,000 Jeez. 690 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:08,000 Hi, guys. 691 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:09,000 Hi. I'm Jason. 692 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:10,000 Hi, Jason. 693 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:11,000 Grant, how are you? 694 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:12,000 Grant. Steve. 695 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:13,000 Steve, hi. I'm Chris Giffley. 696 00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:15,000 Welcome to the Petty Bone Tavern. 697 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:17,000 We had a little bit of a fire, 698 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:20,000 and this is a result of the sprinklers working. 699 00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:23,000 Now, can you give us a little history of the place? 700 00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:26,000 The biggest legend that we have is of Abigail. 701 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:29,000 She was the youngest daughter of Captain Petty Bone. 702 00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:32,000 She got married off to the sea captain, 703 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:35,000 supposedly, who she didn't particularly care for. 704 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:39,000 She was upstairs in her bedroom with a local boy, 705 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:42,000 and they were caught by the captain. 706 00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:47,000 And both of them were supposedly beheaded with a broad ax. 707 00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:53,000 This is where the portrait had hung of Abigail and her mother. 708 00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:55,000 The story is that it's a picture of her and her mother 709 00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:56,000 when she was little, 710 00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:58,000 and when she was killed, 711 00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:02,000 they cut out the portion of her in the picture. 712 00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:04,000 It was then put into one of the walls 713 00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:06,000 and when the building was purchased, 714 00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:08,000 I think it was about 30 years ago, 715 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:09,000 they did some renovations, 716 00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:11,000 and they found the picture in the wall, 717 00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:13,000 and they packed it back together, 718 00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:15,000 and it's hung in the foyer ever since then. 719 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:17,000 You want to give us a tour around, show us the hotspots? 720 00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:18,000 Sure. 721 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:21,000 That's Abigail's room, 722 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:23,000 which has been the ladies' bathroom for a long time, 723 00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:25,000 once they got rid of a lot of the rooms up here. 724 00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:27,000 A lot of activity has happened in that room. 725 00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:31,000 Little kids have spotted females in the mirror 726 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:33,000 while they were waiting for their mother, 727 00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:35,000 or people feeling somebody's hand on their shoulder 728 00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:37,000 before they go into the room. 729 00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:39,000 I'd come out and they would say, 730 00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:41,000 I am, and they would say to me, 731 00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:43,000 you're not going to believe what I'm going to tell you. 732 00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:45,000 I would say to her, 733 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:48,000 let me guess, you were up near the ladies' room, 734 00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:51,000 and you either felt like there was a hand on your shoulder, 735 00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:53,000 or there was someone so close to you, you had to move aside, 736 00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:56,000 and these women were looking at me with a blank stare. 737 00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:58,000 How do you know that? How do you know that? 738 00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:01,000 And it's because I'd heard that story 739 00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:04,000 so many times before, exactly that way. 740 00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:05,000 So where'd you know? 741 00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:07,000 Let's head downstairs. 742 00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:11,000 This is kind of the main part of the restaurants. 743 00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:13,000 A couple of interesting things had happened. 744 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:16,000 We've always had candles on the table in the main dining room. 745 00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:18,000 And because it's an older building, 746 00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:20,000 it was something that as a manager, 747 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:22,000 you were always really particular about blowing out. 748 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:25,000 You'd walk by and they would be really in that room. 749 00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:29,000 I kind of want to stop on the way to the basement, 750 00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:30,000 kind of in this area. 751 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:33,000 There was this overpowering smell of barn, 752 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:35,000 like horse manure and hay and everything. 753 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:37,000 I stepped back about a foot, 754 00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:39,000 and you couldn't even smell the barn smell. 755 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:42,000 If you stepped like one foot back, you wouldn't smell it. 756 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:48,000 So what's going on down here? 757 00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:52,000 We've had several different sightings of black men 758 00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:55,000 slammed up against this corner right here. 759 00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:57,000 Several different people from different times 760 00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:59,000 had mentioned that same sighting. 761 00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:01,000 So is that pretty much it throughout the whole bunch? 762 00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:02,000 That's pretty much it. 763 00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:04,000 What we're going to do from here is try to start setting up 764 00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:05,000 our equipment car. 765 00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:08,000 We're in the entire building and start the investigation, 766 00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:09,000 see what turns up. 767 00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:10,000 Great. 768 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:13,000 I think it's fabulous that TAPS has the opportunity 769 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:16,000 to look into the pettibone and all of the history, 770 00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:21,000 as well as the sightings that the entire community has felt. 771 00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:22,000 Steve, you see me? 772 00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:23,000 Can I see you there? 773 00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:24,000 These claims are bold, 774 00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:26,000 and it's rare you find cases like that, 775 00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:28,000 so we're not going to let it pass us by. 776 00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:29,000 It's good. 777 00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:33,000 Well, I'd like to say, you know, let's go lights out, 778 00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:35,000 but seeing they had to fire, 779 00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:37,000 really, we don't have any light story about. 780 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:40,000 So let's just get digital records of each one of the cameras, 781 00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:41,000 and let's get going. 782 00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:45,000 Let's do this. 783 00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:48,000 Let me honest. 784 00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:50,000 It's a creepy-ass building. 785 00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:52,000 Watch your head, buddy. 786 00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:53,000 Jay and I headed down to the basement 787 00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:56,000 to investigate the reports of the man standing in the corner. 788 00:31:57,000 --> 00:32:01,000 Imagine moving a 300-pound road over the machine down those steps. 789 00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:04,000 Let's do some EMF work. 790 00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:13,000 Oh. 791 00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:15,000 Well, it's like we're just going forward. 792 00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:19,000 Not that. 793 00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:20,000 Yeah. 794 00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:24,000 EMFs are important to an investigator for two different reasons. 795 00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:25,000 That's it. 796 00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:29,000 Number one is a theory that you can actually detect the presence of an entity 797 00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:33,000 by finding an EMF field that you cannot find a source for. 798 00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:35,000 This whole place is humbling, don't it? 799 00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:39,000 Other than that, EMFs can create false claims of paranormal activity. 800 00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:44,000 They can make you feel paranoia, delusion, skin irritations, nausea, things like that. 801 00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:45,000 This is... 802 00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:46,000 Oh, yeah. 803 00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:47,000 All just crazy. 804 00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:50,000 Magnetic fields and everything coming off of this. 805 00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:53,000 And that main room is directly above this. 806 00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:56,000 I don't think they showed us this part of the basement. 807 00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:10,000 Holy Jesus. 808 00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:13,000 What the hell was that? 809 00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:14,000 What the hell was that? 810 00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:25,000 Jay and I headed down to the basement to investigate the reports of the man standing in the corner. 811 00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:26,000 Holy Jesus. 812 00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:28,000 What the hell was that? 813 00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:30,000 What did you catch in there? 814 00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:32,000 I don't know. 815 00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:37,000 I don't know if it's just reflections coming off those metal pipes, you know. 816 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:40,000 Yeah, that's definitely the pipes. 817 00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:44,000 All right, let's go up and see what's above this stuff. 818 00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:47,000 And that main room is directly above this. 819 00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:50,000 When we found the breaker box down the basement with the high EMF fields, 820 00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:55,000 our very next thought was to see if it actually penetrated through the ceiling of the basement to the floor above. 821 00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:02,000 Right here in the main area. 822 00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:03,000 Boom. 823 00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:04,000 That's neat. 824 00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:06,000 It's strong enough to come right through the floor. 825 00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:09,000 Yeah, look, right over here. 826 00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:10,000 I'm sure of it. 827 00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:12,000 Look at that. 828 00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:16,000 We could easily see that the fields were coming up through the floor from the basement, 829 00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:19,000 and now we have a potential reason for the activity in that area. 830 00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:21,000 All right, Tango. 831 00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:23,000 Let's start on this first floor. 832 00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:26,000 And the first thing we should do is maybe light these candles. 833 00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:27,000 Why? 834 00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:30,000 Supposedly, after they blow the candles out at night. 835 00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:31,000 Oh, I see. 836 00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:36,000 Supposedly, after they blow the candles out at night, something relights them. 837 00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:39,000 According to her, all like 25 or 30 of them relight. 838 00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:40,000 Really? 839 00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:41,000 All at once, yeah. 840 00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:43,000 That's right over here. 841 00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:49,000 Are these the candles, the exact candles? 842 00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:50,000 They claim to be. 843 00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:51,000 Oh, okay. 844 00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:52,000 But we have to blow them out. 845 00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:56,000 Supposedly, after they blow them out, they relight. 846 00:34:57,000 --> 00:34:58,000 Ooh. 847 00:34:58,000 --> 00:34:59,000 Smell. 848 00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:00,000 Is that that? 849 00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:01,000 I don't think so. 850 00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:03,000 Well, let's see if they relight. 851 00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:04,000 That'd be cool, man. 852 00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:11,000 While we were waiting for the candles to relight, I wanted to see if there's anything else on the first floor that I could debunk. 853 00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:12,000 I'm telling you, see these vents? 854 00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:13,000 Yeah. 855 00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:18,000 Right here, she claims that she smelled horse manure. 856 00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:22,000 All right, now take a look at this. 857 00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:25,000 Now, you see, this is not even a real shaft system. 858 00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:27,000 There's no duct work whatsoever. 859 00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:29,000 That's the basement, right? 860 00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:30,000 That's the basement. 861 00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:36,000 I think that the smell could easily be picked up from the basement or anywhere else and passed along these pipes. 862 00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:37,000 Yeah. 863 00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:41,000 So, it walks like a duck, talks like a duck, and sounds like a duck. 864 00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:42,000 It's a duck, right? 865 00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:43,000 Yeah. 866 00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:46,000 Tango, let's go check out the candies. 867 00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:51,000 Nope, they didn't relight. 868 00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:58,000 Let's head out and give someone else a chance to get in here. 869 00:35:58,000 --> 00:35:59,000 Cool. 870 00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:04,000 Jay over here, supposedly, people, get a hand on their shoulder when they try to go in the ladies' room. 871 00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:06,000 I'm game. 872 00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:12,000 Jay and I started our thermal sweep up on the second floor over near the ladies' room, which was supposedly Abigail's bedroom. 873 00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:14,000 Hello, Abigail. 874 00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:17,000 My name's Jason, this is Grant. 875 00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:19,000 Can you say hi to us? 876 00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:24,000 Can you show us that you are with us? 877 00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:33,000 Is that toilet a little, it's got wings. 878 00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:37,000 It's angelic, check it out. 879 00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:44,000 We were in there for a little while and we tried doing EVP work and thermal work, 880 00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:48,000 and to be honest with you, all we could come up with was an angelic toilet seat. 881 00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:49,000 Alright, let's get out of here. 882 00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:54,000 Looks like a phone booth. 883 00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:56,000 It is, it's like an old... 884 00:36:57,000 --> 00:36:58,000 Yeah! 885 00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:00,000 Tango, this is awesome. 886 00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:01,000 Let's both sit in it. 887 00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:02,000 Okay, I'll sit in it one time. 888 00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:03,000 I think we could fit. 889 00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:06,000 Okay. 890 00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:08,000 This reminds me of the Three Stooges Sitscape. 891 00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:09,000 This is pretty crazy. 892 00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:10,000 This is awesome. 893 00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:11,000 This is... 894 00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:13,000 Why do they still have a phone book in here? 895 00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:14,000 If you know what it is, I'll follow it. 896 00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:16,000 It's just in case of the science somewhere. 897 00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:18,000 Oh, we can't get out. 898 00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:19,000 No way. 899 00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:20,000 Don't say that. 900 00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:21,000 It's stuck. 901 00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:22,000 It's stuck. 902 00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:23,000 Is it really? 903 00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:24,000 Yeah. 904 00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:25,000 No way. 905 00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:27,000 At first it was pretty fun, 906 00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:29,000 but I started to get a little claustrophobic, 907 00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:32,000 so I have to admit I got a little nervous there. 908 00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:33,000 Are you kidding me? 909 00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:34,000 My foot's on it. 910 00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:35,000 Oh! 911 00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:37,000 They're still not coming out. 912 00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:40,000 Are you serious? 913 00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:41,000 Yeah. 914 00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:42,000 Which way did it go? 915 00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:43,000 I can't remember. 916 00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:44,000 I don't know. 917 00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:45,000 We gotta push in. 918 00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:46,000 I'm trying. 919 00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:50,000 That was a good idea. 920 00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:53,000 Hey man, it's getting late. 921 00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:54,000 Why don't we rabbit? 922 00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:56,000 Cover. 923 00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:58,000 Absolutely zero personal experiences. 924 00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:00,000 You know, I'm not quite sure what to make of it yet, 925 00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:02,000 but we know better than to give up on a place 926 00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:05,000 just based on what we experienced during the investigation. 927 00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:07,000 We still have the evidence to look over, 928 00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:10,000 and that may produce something amazing. 929 00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:11,000 Hey Chris. 930 00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:12,000 Hey. 931 00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:13,000 It's been a great night, 932 00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:14,000 but right now we're gonna come back 933 00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:15,000 and let you know we found it, okay? 934 00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:16,000 Great. 935 00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:18,000 I'm really hoping that their investigation tonight 936 00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:20,000 produces some solid evidence 937 00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:22,000 that shows us what we've known all along. 938 00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:31,000 The stories of Pettibone Tavern and Abigail Pettibone 939 00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:34,000 are stories that described events from hundreds of years ago. 940 00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:37,000 So it's really hard to separate facts from fiction. 941 00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:41,000 So I started with Don Hutchins from the Simsbury Historical Society 942 00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:42,000 to try to get some answers. 943 00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:44,000 So basically I was just wondering if you could help me 944 00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:46,000 with the history of the Pettibone Tavern. 945 00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:49,000 There's this huge story about Abigail Pettibone 946 00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:52,000 being married to a sea captain 947 00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:54,000 and having this big affair with another guy. 948 00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:56,000 And her husband found out about it 949 00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:58,000 and killed them both with an axe. 950 00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:01,000 As best as we can determine from what we have in our archives, 951 00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:03,000 there were Abigail Pettibones. 952 00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:06,000 None of them meets the criteria 953 00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:09,000 to have been murdered by their husband. 954 00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:12,000 So where would a story like this come from? 955 00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:14,000 It starts to show up about 1970s, 956 00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:19,000 and that's when a national chain actually bought the building 957 00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:20,000 and started a restaurant there. 958 00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:23,000 But there was something at the Pettibone Tavern 959 00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:27,000 which we now have in our collections that speaks to this. 960 00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:31,000 This painting is a painting from the Pettibone Tavern. 961 00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:35,000 We had taken the painting to an art conservator. 962 00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:39,000 This is a photograph of a painting of Hannah Owen, 963 00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:42,000 who was married to Jonathan Pettibone. 964 00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:48,000 And we believe that this Hannah Owen is this woman in this painting. 965 00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:49,000 It does look a lot alike, yeah. 966 00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:51,000 Very much like her. 967 00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:55,000 In looking at the ages of her children and the age of the portrait, 968 00:39:55,000 --> 00:40:01,000 the only explanation is that this is probably her youngest child. 969 00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:04,000 Her youngest child was born in 1795, 970 00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:08,000 but her youngest child was the boy for Pettibone. 971 00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:16,000 Chris, how you been? 972 00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:17,000 Good. 973 00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:18,000 Good to see you again. 974 00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:19,000 Good to see you guys. 975 00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:20,000 I'm dying to hear what you guys found. 976 00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:21,000 Well, you know what we did? 977 00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:23,000 We came in, you gave us a tour of the location, 978 00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:26,000 you showed us the hotspots and filled us in on the claims 979 00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:28,000 that a lot of the people in the past have had here. 980 00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:31,000 From there, we decided to set up equipment throughout many different areas 981 00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:34,000 in the building, trying to cover it as well as we could. 982 00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:37,000 We just, we didn't have any personal experiences happen that night. 983 00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:41,000 We weren't able to back up anything or catch any evidence 984 00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:44,000 on cameras or audios or anything of that nature. 985 00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:49,000 But we did find a few things that could possibly be explanations for what's going on. 986 00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:52,000 One of the things we looked for are electromagnetic fields. 987 00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:55,000 The body has adverse reactions to them if they're really high. 988 00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:58,000 Now the whole place was pretty flat, except for down in the basement 989 00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:01,000 where there were some spots that just would bury our meters. 990 00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:04,000 It actually radiated through the ceiling up to the floor above. 991 00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:06,000 And in the spots where it was radiating through, 992 00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:08,000 it kind of matched up with some of the just the creepy areas. 993 00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:10,000 And that's the effect someone would have 994 00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:12,000 if they were standing in a high electromagnetic field for a while, 995 00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:14,000 just kind of the creepiness. 996 00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:16,000 As far, honestly, as far as the other claims, 997 00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:19,000 we couldn't come up with anything as far as alternate explanations. 998 00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:21,000 Why would a candle relight? No idea. 999 00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:23,000 It would blow out even if you did it. 1000 00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:24,000 Yeah, right. 1001 00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:26,000 We did a lot of research on the location. 1002 00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:28,000 We pulled up all the history. 1003 00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:33,000 So the legend of Abigail, you know, I think that the public is most interested in. 1004 00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:34,000 Sure. 1005 00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:35,000 In Abigail as in 15. 1006 00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:37,000 There were a few Abigail Petty Bones in the area, 1007 00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:42,000 but none of them would have fit the description or the time period or those conditions. 1008 00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:45,000 And we went through all the history of the location. 1009 00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:48,000 There was no evidence of any kind of murder in the house. 1010 00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:51,000 In fact, Chris Williams actually saw this painting, 1011 00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:53,000 and based on certain clues in the picture, 1012 00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:55,000 it's most likely a boy in the painting. 1013 00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:58,000 Kids back then, boys would dress in a dress, 1014 00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:00,000 but in the picture he's holding a book, 1015 00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:02,000 which is symbolic of it being a boy. 1016 00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:04,000 The legend states that after the scandal of the murders here, 1017 00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:08,000 Abigail's face was physically cut out of her portrait on her family. 1018 00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:09,000 And it's not cut out. 1019 00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:12,000 It's a heavy scratch on the face of the child. 1020 00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:14,000 And she even looked at the back of the painting, 1021 00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:16,000 and there was no cut out. 1022 00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:17,000 Now, what does that say? 1023 00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:19,000 Does that say that there's absolutely nothing here? 1024 00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:20,000 No, it doesn't. 1025 00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:22,000 This place is sat in dormant for a while now, 1026 00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:24,000 after the fire, after the damage. 1027 00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:29,000 And very possibly, the activity seems only present when there's people here. 1028 00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:32,000 And there's really been nobody here for quite a while. 1029 00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:35,000 So very possibly when somebody comes in and starts fixing up the place, 1030 00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:37,000 activity might spike at that point. 1031 00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:38,000 And if it does, please give us a call. 1032 00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:39,000 It will come right down. 1033 00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:40,000 Yeah. 1034 00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:42,000 Now that we've investigated it in this condition, 1035 00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:45,000 I mean, I see it coming back when it's actual functional. 1036 00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:48,000 And that may give us more things we can use to debunk some of the claims. 1037 00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:50,000 Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. 1038 00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:52,000 We do want to say thank you very much for having us out. 1039 00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:53,000 It was a great experience. 1040 00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:54,000 Thank you very much. 1041 00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:55,000 Yeah. 1042 00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:56,000 We look forward to coming back soon. 1043 00:42:56,000 --> 00:42:57,000 Please. 1044 00:42:57,000 --> 00:42:58,000 We'll look forward to it. 1045 00:42:58,000 --> 00:43:03,000 I myself had so many experiences that I'm still a firm believer. 1046 00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:07,000 I can't blame any entities for hitting the road, 1047 00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:09,000 because it's so quiet here. 1048 00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:12,000 I look forward to them coming back to prove me right. 1049 00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:13,000 So that seemed to go well. 1050 00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:15,000 Yeah, she was just as skeptical about the history as we were. 1051 00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:16,000 I like that. 1052 00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:19,000 I think it's great, because even though we weren't able to help them out 1053 00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:23,000 with the paranormal, we were able to help them out with the facts. 1054 00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:25,000 And that's really most important. 1055 00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:28,000 Yeah, any good investigation team should put truth as their goal, 1056 00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:30,000 not necessarily capturing paranormal activity. 1057 00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:31,000 Definitely a good job. 1058 00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:32,000 A good job. 1059 00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:33,000 Onto the next.