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My belief is that all legends are based on some fact.
EBEY: And a little voice from the north end of the porch way
said, "Hello, there."
What would happen if we did a voodoo ritual?
The dead will harm the living.
Whoa!
ZAK: Shut the [bleep] up.
AARON: Oh, it's right behind the camera!
ZAK: There are things in this world
that we will never fully understand.
MAN: Understand.
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The Myrtles Plantation in St. Francisville, Louisiana,
makes everyone's top-10 list for renowned haunted places.
DAVID: We often get photos of a lady in white
looking out these upstairs windows.
We constantly hear from fans
that they want us to check out this 215-year-old home.
We heard you, and we're here.
One of the challenges
of investigating such a famous haunt
is that the stories have been told and retold so many times
that we really don't know what's real and what isn't.
We're not doubting the many eyewitnesses
who've had unexplained experiences
in and around this plantation over the years,
but we do want to know why
and maybe figure out who is haunting this place.
We are going to start off our tour
by talking with the general manager, Teresa.
It's about time.
It's about damn time.
It is.
Has it always been haunted?
As long as I have known about the Myrtles Plantation,
it has been known to be haunted.
It's known to be haunted. The big question -- Why?
Why?
And there are several legends,
mysteries, myths, and cold hard facts.
There's so many questions around the Chloe story.
Chloe.
Okay, now, Chloe is one of the famous female ghosts here.
Probably our most famous spirit
that was captured in a photo here.
This photo, taken of the back porch,
reveals what many believe to be an apparition
of a slave girl named Chloe,
who is said to have lived at the Myrtles in the early 1800s.
There are many variations of the Chloe legend.
The popular version of the legend says
that Chloe was Clarke Woodruff's mistress
and that he broke it off with her
and she was not happy about it, so to get back at him,
she decided to bake a birthday cake laced with oleander.
ZAK: Oleander is one of the most poisonous plants in the world.
Clarke Woodruff's children died.
The children are very, very active in showing themselves.
And manifesting?
Yeah.
This is where the two children that were poisoned in the house,
they died.
They brought them up here, and they died here.
One thing I want to clarify here at Myrtles Plantation
and the one thing that the "Ghost Adventures" crew
are very strict on
is separating what is a legend
and what is fact and what is a myth.
The two children that it is said that were poisoned,
Cornelia and James Woodruff, we know they died,
but as to whether or not they were poisoned
or they died of some other method,
we don't really know for sure.
The story ends with Chloe being hanged for ***
in front of the house for all to see.
But without proof of the children's cause of death,
we cannot be certain that the story is true
or that Chloe even existed.
THOMPSON: I believe that she existed.
My belief is that all legends are based on some fact.
ZAK: Without tangible, factual evidence,
we cannot say for sure if the Chloe legend is true,
or for that matter, untrue.
The same goes for the Myrtles' famed haunted mirror.
We're probably more skeptical than anybody
because we don't want to promote that false hype.
And there are marks on the mirror,
Could be matrixing.
There's a lot of smudges and whatnot on mirrors.
Dust collects on mirrors, and when you photograph it,
you also have reflections
bouncing off of all these windows, lights,
and the human mind wants to make faces and things.
This is it.
This is the haunted mirror.
Oh, it's full of smudges.
Yeah. See, this is what shows up all the time.
This does.
But we've had other things show up.
Up here and there.
How old is the mirror? Is it original to the home?
It is not original, but it has been resilvered.
Miss Hester can tell you all about --
She has been here through three owners,
so she's more of the historian.
Miss Hester Ebey has worked at the Myrtles Plantation
for over 20 years.
As the director of tours,
she shares with visitors not only the myths and legends,
but her personal experiences, as well.
Have you experienced ghosts here at Myrtles Plantation?
I have had a few experiences.
In fact, I saw the gentleman get out of his car,
his wife coming up the walkway a good distance behind him,
and her little girl.
I said, "Oh, your daughter looks very pretty."
He said, "We have no children.
Now, this was a cheer-up trip for my wife.
We just got a disappointment from the doctor."
I went outside to see where the little girl was,
but it was no one else on the grounds,
and I put my hands on the door to come in,
and a little voice from the north end of the porch way
said, "Hello, there."
YOUNG GIRL: Hello, there.
And when I kind of doubted myself,
it's almost as if she knew that,
'cause she said, "Hello, there," again.
Hello, there.
Miss Hester is not the only employee
who has had a profound paranormal experience here.
Mark Leonard, Myrtles tour guide and resident historian,
recounts his one frightful night.
LEONARD: The weather was perfect outside.
There was no wind, no disturbances.
I was reading a book, and, all of a sudden,
this bed started shaking
as if there was an earthquake going on.
While I'm lying here and the bed is shaking like crazy,
I'm looking at the chandelier.
It's dead still.
This is when I realized it's not an earthquake,
and believe me, I was absolutely terrified.
These things are going back and forth like this,
and look down on the floor.
These are scratches on the floor -- gouges.
ZAK: Wow. Look at this.
Look at this over here...
these marks.
What's interesting about Mark's experience
is that it happened in the same room
where he told us earlier two children had died.
It seems children are a common theme throughout the Myrtles,
both in the decor and the hauntings
of this 215-year-old plantation.
Most commonly, there are the children that are seen --
a little boy and a little girl.
Why are so many children seen here?
Are there other children's deaths here?
There are reported to be children's deaths,
but on the record, there's just not a lot of proof of that.
The one document we were able to uncover
is the announcement page from the Winter family Bible.
They lived here in the mid-1800s and had six children,
one of whom, Cate, died from yellow fever at the age of 3.
Her death is the centerpiece
for yet another famous Myrtles Plantation legend.
THOMPSON: The story says that the family had called upon a slave
from a neighboring plantation to try to come and heal her.
They say that she may have been involved
with voodoo or something to that effect.
The child died.
The legend is that they had that slave hung.
They call her Cleo.
Miss Hester, do you think Cleo's spirit's here at Myrtles?
Yeah.
Now, of course, I don't know anything about voodoo,
but I do know that it was a medicine,
so it wasn't the horror thing that people say voodoo is now.
But at the time, Mr. Winter thought
that he held Cleo responsible.
Oh, yeah, out of anger. Yes, sure.
And he killed her on the property.
Yes, she was hung. She was hung.
ZAK: Although lack of documentation
forces us to call the Cleo story legend,
we cannot say that it did not happen.
Interestingly, a closer look at the Winter family Bible
shows the entry for William Winter's death
just a few years later.
Further research reveals that his death was a violent one.
The night of the ***, he heard someone call from outside,
so he went outside, and he immediately was shot.
The fact is that he died that night.
Legend says that he was able
to make his way all the way through the house
and all the way up the stairs to the 17th step
and died in his wife, Sarah's, arms.
[ Cries ]
It's very interesting, because people do hear footsteps
coming up the steps and stop at the 17th step.
ZAK: The documented fact is that William Winter was murdered,
but the question is, "Why?"
Was his untimely and violent demise payback for hanging Cleo,
dictated by the angry spirit of the voodoo priestess?
For us, there is only one way to find out.
Because Cleo was a voodoo priestess
and she was killed here, as so we're being told,
what would happen if we did a voodoo ritual here
where Cleo haunts?
AARON: It's gonna trigger stuff. I mean, I'm spooked of voodoo.
I just think it's gonna open up another doorway
for something else.
What else -- Dude, I'm getting chills.
What else happened on this location?
[ Laughing ] Maybe it's not a good idea, dude.
Because what if we do bring it back
and then *** off the lady who got hung?
You like bad happening to you.
Well, I do, but not voodoo.
If I was a voodoo priestess and I got hung...
I would take hell on this place.
I know nothing about voodoo.
It doesn't make sense.
We brought somebody to do a voodoo ritual.
No, we can't have that.
ZAK: For 215 years,
the Myrtles Plantation in St. Francisville, Louisiana,
has generated its share of myths and legends,
including the *** of a voodoo priestess.
With no historical documentation of the event,
we are hoping to verify the story
by conducting our own voodoo ritual,
and we will need a little help.
Miss Hester, do you know anything about voodoo?
I know nothing about voodoo, and you know what?
Do you know anybody that we could talk to
that knows something about voodoo here locally?
No, unfortunately, I don't know anyone you can talk to
that know anything about voodoo locally.
No.
No, it's okay.
Knowing that it would not be too difficult
to find someone with knowledge of voodoo
in this part of Louisiana,
I call our "Ghost Adventures" researcher, Jeff Belanger.
Okay. Thanks.
[ Chuckles ]
NICK: Who were you talking to?
Jeff.
What did he say?
It doesn't make sense.
What did he say?
It doesn't make sense to me.
I asked him if he knew of any voodoo people around this area,
okay, to do a ritual.
And he goes, "Well, yeah.
Why didn't you just ask Miss Hester?"
And I said, "I did ask her."
And he goes, "Well, what are you talking about?"
She practically raised a guy
who's the most well-known voodoo guy, I guess, in this area."
I think it is unusual that she wouldn't just tell us
that this guy who was so close to her, almost family,
who is known for voodoo, she wouldn't tell us that.
I don't know anyone you can talk to
that know anything about voodoo locally.
It's weird.
Is there something more about this voodoo topic
Big time. And they're keeping it quiet.
I say we go talk to the owners and ask them that.
We're gonna go ask Teresa,
the general manager here at Myrtles,
if we are allowed to bring in somebody
to do a voodoo ritual on the property here.
Come on.
Teresa?
Hi. Can I ask you a quick question?
Okay, hold on.
Hi.
Would it be okay if we brought somebody on property
to do a voodoo ritual before our lockdown?
No, we can't have that. No.
The owners don't allow anything
related to voodoo rituals or séances.
We are very strict in that respect.
I apologize.
That's fine.
Okay, well, that's good news for Aaron, at least.
Yeah, it's good new for him.
No, it's good.
Well, we just wanted to ask before we did it.
Yeah, no problem.
Come here, guys.
Now I'm confused.
When we mentioned voodoo to Miss Hester,
she said voodoo is what?
Good.
You know, a lot of people think of voodoo as evil,
and it was not.
It could save lives.
If voodoo is good,
then why would Teresa say they don't want voodoo here?
AARON: Think about this.
If the voodoo priestess who got hung here, right,
Yeah, I think it has something to do with that.
...and if you brought voodoo back,
what if it amped her up and made her pissed?
Like, they might be worried about her.
It could curse the whole property.
Right, 'cause if I was a voodoo priestess and I got hung
and then, all of a sudden, I came back
and I had my juice back,
oh, dude, I would take hell on this place.
I think that they know that voodoo is powerful.
You're gonna conjure up what we all know too well.
I mean, we've been in voodoo. We know this.
Instead of doing the voodoo ritual,
we should bring a voodoo person in here as a trigger object,
like we were talking.
Miss Hester didn't even mention the guy who calls her "mom"
is one of the biggest voodoo guys around here,
and she didn't even tell me that
when I asked her if she knew anybody that did voodoo,
which, to me, was very strange.
She tells me voodoo's all good,
and here, we're not allowed to even do a voodoo ritual here
and bring that guy.
I think we should go talk to that guy.
Yeah. Let's go.
With the sun going down and our lockdown rapidly approaching,
we finally get a chance to meet Robbie Gilmore,
St. Francisville's resident voodoo practitioner.
Hi, Robbie. I'm Zak.
Nice to meet you, Zak.
Nice to meet you.
We wanted to know if we could just ask you
a couple questions about voodoo.
That's fine.
How long have you been practicing voodoo for?
I started at a young age --
probably around like 8 or 9 years old.
Yes, I do.
Okay. You very close with her?
I call her "mother." She's like a mother to me.
Yes.
Okay.
I asked Miss Hester if she knew anybody that knows voodoo,
and she said no to me.
I'm not very public with the practice.
It's not something that's really accepted.
Even my parents, they know of what I do.
I've told them numerous times,
and they even block it out themselves,
so, of course, naturally,
Miss Hester and anybody else you probably ask around here
Okay.
But there are some open-minded people around here
who would say yes.
Well, one of those open-minded people
was not the owner of this establishment.
We asked them if we could invite you to do a ritual with us here.
It was a very quick no.
They don't allow tarot cards.
They do not allow any kind of magical practice, séance.
Yes.
Only if that person does something to you first.
What would this home succumb to
after a voodoo priestess was murdered here?
I mean, is there something different
that this home would be experiencing today,
or the experiences people had with the alleged spirit of Cleo,
rather than somebody who doesn't practice voodoo?
Because, you know, she tried so hard to cure Cate's fever
and then eventually being murdered for that,
her spirit, if it's still here, which it is,
is still gonna be more strong than most other spirits
from other people that died here on the plantation.
Okay. Do you think the spirits of priest and priestesses
such as Cleo can still put spells on the living?
There's a saying that I've been living by for 25 years.
The dead cannot harm the living,
and the living cannot harm the dead,
but if the living tries to harm the dead,
the dead will harm the living.
Wow.
You can sense that we've had trouble
with people on the other side.
Very eerie.
Did you [bleep] hear that?
ZAK: Okay, we're getting ready
to start our investigation of Myrtles Plantation,
and there's another gift shop set up
just off the property from the house,
and that's where we're at right now,
and while we're investigating,
Bill Tolley, Jay Wasley, our audiovisual techs,
are watching a live video surveillance center,
along with live audio with a boom mike
that's being recorded in the main staircase.
So, I have a camera.
Nick has a camera. Aaron has a camera.
There are many legends, mysteries, and facts
about the dark history of Myrtles Plantation,
and right now, we're gonna go try
and communicate with the spirits themselves
to separate what's fact from fiction.
It's very eerie, all us alone here.
Let's go inside.
Right now, we're reaching the staircase
where it's said Mr. William Winter died
on the 17th step.
That would be 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,
7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17.
Right there.
It's an honor to be in one of the most iconic
supposedly haunted locations in America.
Hello, spirits.
I'd like to start off by...
Just felt a gust of wind right here, Nick.
In front of you?
Yeah.
Is there an air vent around here on the floor or something?
AARON: Dude, I'm right by the door,
and there's no air coming through this thing.
Whenever you feel a sudden draft of wind
when no windows or explainable sources are causing it,
this could be a spirit manifestation
or feeling the transference of energy within the environment,
but as investigators, always try to debunk the event
before tagging it as paranormal.
I just got that gust of wind you were talking about, Zak.
Yeah?
There's air on.
Yeah.
I think there is.
I can hear it and feel it. It's warm air, too.
There it is.
And that's exactly where we would have felt,
standing right here, so that's debunked.
We're moving.
I know you're trying to figure out who we are,
but you can sense that we talk to spirits.
You can sense that part of us is part of you.
You can sense
that we've had trouble with people on the other side.
Can you see me right now?
If you see me, can you give us a sign
by making a noise with your energy?
Can you give us a sign where you're at now?
Did you [bleep] hear that?
Right here.
No, I heard that right in there.
It was right here.
It was like a sound, like somebody hit something.
Right after I asked the spirits to make a noise,
on cue, a very loud unexplained sound is made in this room.
Our X camera rolling in there also captures this response.
Can you give us a sign where you're at now?
Did you [bleep] hear that?
Yeah.
Thank you very much for giving me that tap.
We've established that you can hear me.
Because we receive a direct response,
it is time to see if we can get verbal communication
through our SB7 Spirit Box.
[ Static ]
Can you tell me the name of the voodoo priestess
that was killed out front?
Cleo, are you here?
You can see when we turn on the Spirit Box,
when there's no spirits present,
it'll just give us white noise like this.
Can you tell me what number step
did Mr. Winter die on on this staircase?
Behind you?
Yes. Right there.
Listen.
Aaron, get in the bed with me, man,
and we can feel the vibrations together.
Whoa. That was weird.
ZAK: Armed with the knowledge that the most active paranormal site
in Myrtles Plantation
is on the staircase where William Winter died,
we continue our Spirit Box session.
Can you tell me what number step
did Mr. Winter die on on this staircase?
Behind you?
NICK: Yeah?
You hear? She goes, "Behind you."
And then she goes, "Yeah."
Can you tell me what number step
did Mr. Winter die on on this staircase?
Behind you?
Behind you?
Did you hear? She goes, "Behind you."
And then she goes, "Yeah."
What's behind me?
It's a female. It said, "Behind you."
Who is the female behind me?
It sounded like it said, "Winters."
Who is the female behind me?
We have to go back and review that.
There was some really good stuff.
I got so, like...
I got real lightheaded on the stairs.
Yeah, I almost fell over over there in the corner.
Whoa. That was weird.
Is there someone in here?
Hey, man, just listen for a second.
Whoa.
Shh.
Yes.
Listen.
I heard a door open, close,
and then I heard footsteps moving through the downstairs.
Jay, did you hear that?
You did? You heard the footsteps?
See, that's what I heard.
I heard a door open, close, and then someone walking.
Hey, man, just listen for a second.
Whoa.
Shh.
Whoa.
Shh.
Yes. Right there.
Listen.
Zak, it looks like this door is moving.
What door?
It's moving back and forth.
Seriously?
I don't know. That's what I saw with my eyes.
It almost looks like someone's trying to push it.
Can you shut the door?
Close the door if you want us to leave.
Can I walk into your room?
As I drift away from Nick and Aaron,
I enter the notorious room
where this bed is said to violently shake so bad
that it actually marks the floor and terrified this man.
This bed started shaking.
I was absolutely terrified.
Can you shake this bed?
Hello.
My name is Zak. I'm from Las Vegas.
[ Tapping ]
What in the [bleep] was that?
I just heard two loud noises.
Billy and Jay, did you hear those two tapping noises?
Bro, I felt that vibrate on the bottom of my feet,
like somebody did something to the bed.
My name is Zak. I'm from Las Vegas.
What in the [bleep] was that?
Can you do it again?
Dude, listen to this.
It's cold in here.
Listen.
My name is Zak. I'm from Las Vegas.
That was loud.
That sounds like a bed moving.
Right, and it happened right here,
and I could feel it, Aaron, on the foot of my bed.
Here, get in the bed with me, man,
and we can feel the vibrations together.
Whoa!
[ Laughing ] No.
Do you hear what you said?
Dude, only you take it that way. It's the paranormal.
Got it.
This is the notorious moving bed,
and I just felt it move with noises.
Do you want to experience it with me or not?
That's a straight "Talk Soup" clip right there.
I'll get on.
Do you want to experience this or not?
Then get in bed with me.
Just get in.
This is the most uncomfortable question
I've ever asked, or been asked.
Get in.
Don't cuddle with me, man.
Well, scoot over a little.
Is there anybody in that back room over there?
[ Static ]
Nick?
NICK: Where's Aaron?
We're both in bed, man.
ZAK: Nick joins us in the bedroom,
but we feel the bed is a little too crowded at this point
for him to join us,
and it would be quite weird, so we all head back to base camp,
where Billy and Jay alert us to some startling audio evidence
we were unaware of.
We heard something that you didn't hear.
AARON: Oh, it's right behind the camera, and check it out!
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! That was serious.
Zak, come here quick.
ZAK: Oh.
ZAK: With evidence coming at us at a furious pace,
we head back to base camp to review and regroup.
We heard something that you didn't hear.
Heard two things that were pretty awesome.
When you were on the stairs, a man goes, "Aah," like that,
and, you guys, none of you reacted to it.
Out loud.
You heard a man scream?
In agony, like "Aah!"
No.
And then, when he said, "Who's behind me?" I swear it said, "Winter."
A female voice said "Winter," like that.
Through the Spirit Box, right?
Yeah, wait till you hear the Spirit Box.
Play it again.
What number step did Mr. Winter die on?
Oh! That was awesome, dude. That was cool.
You know what's crazy? We didn't hear that.
And you know what?
It does, indeed, sound like an old man in agony or got shot,
and they say that Mr. Winter got shot on the porch
and he climbed up the stairs.
Yep.
And this may be a residual verbalization
from when he was hurt, you know?
This is the importance of having live audio monitoring
so Jay can also listen in and catch voices that we don't catch
and also voices from the Spirit Box
that, in the moment, we may not be able to make out.
And when we come back, we can do live in-the-moment analysis,
which will help us go back there
and continue conversating with this spirit.
Who is the female behind me?
"Winter." Holy [bleep]
NICK: Play it again.
She comes through and says, "Winter."
They say that Mr. Winters died in Mrs. Winter's arms
Oh [bleep]
Right.
So, she could be behind there, too, still kind of behind him.
Play that again.
ZAK: Who is the female behind me?
NICK: Winter.
Yeah, you can hear that really good.
Good job, man.
Good job, catching that, Bill.
Good job, buddy.
That's awesome.
Because of this female spirit
communicating with us on the stairs,
Nick and Aaron immediately return back there
to take full-spectrum still photos,
and they get hit with a sudden surge of heavy energy.
[ Breathes heavily ]
AARON: Think about it, man -- this stairwell.
You got a sick feeling, an angry feeling,
a sad feeling all because you died right here.
Wondering if maybe we ain't feeling something
that's the emotions that he felt climbing up the stairs.
What was that?
Is someone there?
Dude, everything's shaking.
Keep watching those monitors, guys.
Listen! Listen!
[ Window rattling ]
Uh...
Holy [bleep]
I'm filming.
That goes to the parlor.
Don't -- Just don't say anything.
I felt -- I heard it.
You saw it and heard it?
Zak, come here quick.
Oh.
What's wrong?
Quick, quick, quick.
Zak, do me a favor right now.
Yeah?
Go to the other side. You see where this door is?
Go on the opposite side. It's shaking.
Someone's moving it.
Someone's shaking the [bleep] out it, bro.
Oh, it's right behind the camera, and check it out!
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Look at what the camera says, dude.
Nick and Aaron hear this door rattling uncontrollably,
and the X camera set up on the opposite side of the door,
shooting into the parlor room, captures the rattling sounds
and then mysteriously malfunctions
and stops recording.
[ Window rattling ]
Uh...
We believe that whatever makes the door rattle
also causes the camera to malfunction,
and that's not all.
We also capture something unexplained
on the thermal-imaging camera that is actually shooting
back towards the X camera that malfunctions.
And this is the door that's rattling
with Nick and Aaron on the other side of this wall.
So, to add to this chain of events,
which involves the door rattling
at the same time that this camera malfunctions,
this unexplained dark mass manifests
on the other side of these chairs near the floor.
We are not saying this is a ghost or paranormal.
We just can't debunk it because, in our experience,
the thermal-imaging camera does not pick up on casted shadows.
And if anything was being cast through the chairs,
you would also see the legs darken at the same time,
but this dark mass manifests behind them.
On top of that,
this color depicts very icy-cold temperature.
We feel that this unexplained visual capture
has something to do with the rest of the chain of events.
That was serious.
NICK: Dude, someone was shaking the door.
Shaking the door.
Like, shaking it, like, "Let me out."
And right where the door is
is where this camera that just came this screen up.
First, I thought it was outside
and, like, some wind or something,
and then, when we looked down
and we really noticed it was inside --
There's no wind in here.
There's nothing that have made that happen except for a spirit.
Whoa.
ZAK: Shut the [bleep] up.
Dude, it was launched!
ZAK: The Myrtles Plantation
is certainly living up to its reputation
as one of the most haunted places in America.
Our infrared camera reveals an unexplained black mist
at the same time Nick and Aaron
hear the rattling of a set of doors
and our X Camera malfunctions.
We do not believe this chain of events to be a coincidence.
There's no wind in here.
There's nothing that could have made that happen
except for a spirit shaking the door.
You think whatever was shaking the door did this to the camera?
I'm guessing.
In the mid-1800s,
William Winter's daughter Cate died from yellow fever
at age 3 inside this house.
Her death was blamed on a voodoo priestess named Cleo,
who was brought in in an attempt to save the girl's life
by doing folk magic,
but Cate died right after the ritual.
We are using this ball as a trigger object
for the spirit of Cate or her mother, Sarah,
who we feel communicated with us earlier at this exact spot.
Behind you?
There's no camera up there.
Well, there is in that room.
You can just move it out there if you want.
Someone hit that ball off the stairs.
Oh [bleep] Zak!
Whoa!
It just did it!
It just did it!
The ball just flew down the stairs.
I just got the chills. I know. I know.
I go, "Can you hit the ball?"
And it just went [bleep] And it bounced.
Shut the [bleep] up, dude.
Dude, it was launched!
Yeah, I said, "Can you hit the ball?"
And I looked away, and I just heard it go, "bump, bump, bump."
I go, "Somebody hit the ball."
You guys saw that, right?
Yeah. It wasn't just a roll.
It was like it came down with force.
I can't even talk.
Oh, my God.
Cate, you did a good job.
I don't know where the ball went.
I'm sorry that we're reacting like that.
It's right under the camera.
Thank you for doing that.
Okay, right now, we just captured this awesome evidence,
and there's one other person here.
He's kind of the night watchman, security.
I just want somebody from Myrtles to see this
before we call it a wrap.
We put this ball up there.
It was about three inches off the edge, about that far off.
There's carpet up there, so it nestled nice in there.
Yeah. We walked upstairs right by it.
Didn't do anything.
So, Nick's got his light on it.
Watch when Nick turns away from it.
NICK: Someone hit that ball off the stairs.
Holy [bleep]
And it hits the camera. [ Chuckles ]
The kids?
The little children?
Does this happen a lot here?
What's weird is is it just starts rolling,
and when Nick walks up,
you see about three inches, right?
There was about three inches of clearance.
Let's go try and debunk it more.
We now return to the spot with a third-party witness
to help us try to debunk the ball going down the stairs.
So, the ball was exactly in this position right here,
exactly that far off the step.
We do have these lines running right here,
connected to our cameras, right?
But on that footage,
did you see the line go over and touch that ball?
Okay.
If an air gust would have rolled it off, right?
NICK: Anything. Yeah.
Should I just blow on it?
Yeah, try to blow on it really close.
[ Blows ]
AARON: Wow, that's...
I bet you can't blow it off of there.
[ Blows ]
That's more powerful than an air draft.
Right on it, too.
NICK: Exactly.
Exactly.
Nope.
Now I'm gonna push it over very gently
just to see how it goes down the stairs, okay?
Dude.
You know what I mean? That's what I'm talking about.
The speed of the ball prevented it from bouncing.
That ball bounced like a basketball was shot,
hitting the top of the rim -- real soft.
Right.
This shot down.
Yeah.
But here's the other thing.
Our camera was against the back wall there,
and it hit the camera so hard it caused the camera to jerk.
I want to say to the spirit that pushed that ball over the step,
thank you for showing us your power
and showing us that you can move things without a physical body.
Some of the best evidence ever captured with this ball,
so it's pretty amazing
that a spirit actually touched this ball.
I can't wrap my head around it.
Logically, I can't explain what we just captured.