[Sarah] Be sure to secure the locks on the doors every hour.
Is that to keep our residents in
or the weird stuff out? [chuckles]
I was like, "Oh, this is going to be exciting."
It turned out to be anything but.
[door creaking]
I'm just freaked out.
This is pretty strange.
We travel a secluded road.
This woman appeared in front of my car.
[indistinct whispering]
I had to get out of there.
[whimpering]
[ghost whispering] Are you okay?
That's a image that's embedded in my brain.
[Leston] Something was up.
I was terrified.
Come on, come on.
[elevator dings]
I was terrified.
[screaming]
[opening theme music playing]
[screaming]
[shrieking]
[yelling]
[narrator] In an isolated group home on the outskirts of town,
D'Arcy has recently started a new job.
I work in group homes
for adults with developmental exceptionalities.
[narrator] Tonight is his first graveyard shift.
He will be on his own until dawn.
And he is well aware that the facility is believed to be haunted.
[D'Arcy] A lot of people kinda warned me before my first overnight
that stuff might happen in the night.
I was intrigued 'cause I've always been
so interested in the spirit realm.
And so I was like, "Oh, this is going to be exciting."
I thought this would be an exciting moment for me.
Hey, Sarah.
Hey.
And it turned out to be anything but.
It's about 10:00 p.m. You should get going.
So, be sure to do the bed checks
and secure the locks on the doors every hour.
Including the basement.
Super important.
Is that to keep our residents in
or the weird stuff out? [chuckles]
My coworker, she was a bit nervous,
which I found very odd.
- [doorbell buzzes] - [gasps]
All of a sudden, we hear the doorbell.
No one else should be coming into the house right now.
[doorbell buzzing]
[D'Arcy] You expecting anyone?
[doorbell buzzes]
It's a little late, don't you think?
[doorbell buzzes]
It's been happening all day, D'Arcy.
[doorbell buzzes]
My coworker got...
really freaked out by this.
I'll go check it out.
I peeked my head out...
and there's no one there.
I just got shivers and, like, goosebumps all up my body.
Hello?
Stop messing around. Is anyone there?
[doorknob rattling]
[gasps]
I've had enough of this day.
Good luck to you tonight, D'Arcy.
So, she grabbed her stuff and took off.
This had been happening to her all day.
She had enough.
[narrator] D'Arcy does his first round of the night,
to check if the building is secure.
And I was a kind of a little unnerved.
I'm sitting there. I'm writing out the nightly notes
that I have to do.
I hear our wheelchair button push.
[door creaking]
And it slowly swung open.
And then it swung slowly closed.
Like it normally does.
I would have tried to blame an electrical problem
if I hadn't heard the button being pushed.
First the doorbell, and now the door is opening by itself.
I start to get a bit nervous.
It felt like something was there.
I could not see it, but I could feel it.
[exhales]
[indistinct whispering]
[door slams]
No one knows specifically
how entities seem to be able to ring doorbells and open doors.
But we do know that
what seems to be happening is that the entities may have some kind of mass.
And that might be what's behind the ability to open up objects.
This is just a fantastic way to start my first overnight.
I'm kind of so taken back by what happened that I'm struggling.
I couldn't really think straight
based on those two events that just happened.
Was it two coincidences
or is something going on here?
I had to go down to the basement
to check the locks on the doors down there.
[door creaking]
I turn on the lights,
make sure the doors are locked.
I'm just nervous.
[distant thump]
I felt like something was there.
[distant thump]
D'Arcy reports experiencing this feeling of dread,
which is common in cases of negative experiences with hauntings,
and sometimes what this can be is simply our bodies and our instincts
telling us that something is wrong.
And when we don't pay attention to those instincts,
it can't end well for us.
[D'Arcy] I was really, really scared.
I had to get out of there.
[distant thump]
[indistinct whisper]
[loud banging]
[disembodied growling]
There was something running at me.
- [growling] - [D'Arcy screaming]
So I run up those stairs
as fast as I could.
I slam the door, I bolt-lock it shut.
[panting]
[door creaking]
[breath trembling]
[snarling]
[banging]
[D'Arcy] It was a very aggressive banging.
It was like two hands slamming against the door.
[banging]
- [D'Arcy gasping] - [doorknob rattling]
I was terrified.
[banging continues]
[panting]
I'm still out of breath,
just kind of flabbergasted at what just happened.
Can't call in sick for...
paranormal.
And I can't really call my supervisors about it,
'cause what are they going to do about it?
There's nothing there.
It's just an old building.
Didn't happen, but I knew deep down,
yeah, that, I just experienced that.
[sighs]
I just happened to glance over
at the other computer monitor that had the camera system...
and I see a man standing.
Instantly think, "Oh, the person that I'm supporting must be up."
But he's fast asleep.
So now my mind is racing.
Did someone break in?
It's my job to be responsible for all of these people
and make sure that they're safe.
All of a sudden, I just felt like
there was someone or something in the room, with me.
And it was not happy I was there.
And then he vanished.
I'm thinking this must be
the spirit that's causing everything to happen.
So, I go back into the office...
and I look back at the monitor...
and the man was still standing there.
And what really scared me is,
he's looking directly into the camera.
He's facing the camera.
It looks like there's horns slowly growing from his head.
[snarling]
[screaming]
I jumped out of my skin.
Was truly frightening.
[screaming]
[snarling]
[D'Arcy] The entity that was staring back at me,
it felt very evil.
Very, very sinister.
[snarling continues]
I was really, really scared.
But it's my job to make sure that they're safe.
[breathing heavily]
And there's no one there.
I'm just like, "This can't be happening.
This can't be happening."
Something was there. I could feel it.
And I just ran out.
This... scared me more than anything I've ever experienced.
[panting]
Nothing's ever happened to the people we support.
So it almost makes me think
that this entity has something against the actual staff.
And especially me.
My worst fear would be
that spirit somehow
coming into the locked office.
[shrieking]
I don't... I don't even wanna know what it would do to me.
I lock myself into that room and I just wait for morning.
[indistinct whispering]
I've always believed that spirits exist,
and I've always believed that negative energy has existed.
But now I can say I've experienced one.
I was just like, "This is not the place for me.
I cannot be here."
I decide never to return to that group home.
Just having something torment me...
[demon snarling]
[D'Arcy screaming]
...for just hours on hours.
I cannot put myself through that.
[screaming]
It was a night from hell.
[tires screeching]
[siren blaring]
[indistinct police radio chatter]
[narrator] It's 2014.
Police officer Ernie Atwell is working the night shift,
patrolling his regular beat around a hospital.
[Ernie] I'm in my 23rd year.
I've done just about everything you could think of
within the two departments I've been with.
I know this sounds kind of cliche,
but I like helping people.
Growing up, I didn't always have everything that I wanted,
and I could see the struggles
that my grandparents went through, raising me.
So, having the authority that the police have,
I love helping people.
The hospital has various parking lots,
but one to my liking was off of the main parking lot.
When you're a police officer, sometimes, when you have computer work to do,
or things along those lines,
you have to find areas that are safe, a little bit secluded,
and where you can keep your train of thought together.
One evening, I was sitting in one my normal spots.
It was about 2:30 in the morning.
It was a nice fall evening.
I had all the windows down.
That way I can observe, and I can hear and see everything.
I started to get a cold, cold feeling inside.
I just couldn't shake that dry burning in my chest
from being startled by something that I couldn't figure out.
[sighs]
I decided to go get some caffeine
to get me through the rest of the night.
[engine starts]
Behind the hospital is a shortcut
that we travel to get from one side of the city to the other.
It's a pretty much secluded road that's very windy.
It's trees on both sides,
and there's a bridge underpass.
There's nowhere for someone to walk.
It was very quiet that night.
No radio transmission,
there was no other cars on the road.
This woman appeared in front of my car.
[tires screeching]
It was a split second,
but it's an image that's just embedded in my brain.
[gasps in shock]
I couldn't make out facial features.
Just it was dark around her eyes
that gave the appearance that she was staring at me.
I was terrified.
She had long, dark hair.
And she had her head down, like almost as if she was sad.
I immediately jumped out
because I thought it was someone in distress.
[Ernie breathing heavily]
There was no one there.
But there was nowhere for her to go.
The only place she could have went
was straight through a wooded area,
but there was no footsteps,
no broken brush through the wood line.
I had absolutely no idea where this lady went.
So what was I gonna do? Call in?
Put a lookout for a lady that isn't there?
That only I saw?
I drove up and down that road about three more times,
hoping to get a glimpse,
not just of the lady,
but anything that was out of the ordinary.
Nothing happened.
So what I did till I received my next call for service,
I pulled my car underneath the bridge underpass.
I just kept staring down the road
hoping to catch a glimpse of this lady.
I come to the conclusion that that was a paranormal experience
that I just witnessed.
Spirits just want to be acknowledged,
so they might appear to the living in the way in which they died.
I think that this spirit
might be appearing to Ernie
in this hospital gown,
ashen-faced,
because she's trying
to tell her story.
[sighs]
At the end of my shift, after seeing the lady,
my cell phone rang.
I recognized the number as a number from the hospital.
The call was coming from the security office at the hospital.
Now, I've known this gentleman for quite a while.
He asked me if I worked that night,
and I could tell, there was something in his voice
that he needed to tell me.
So what happened last night?
Well, you know when you're sitting in your car to do your paperwork?
- Yeah? - Yeah, I do that, too.
[Ernie] He was sitting there with his windows down.
The weather was very nice.
-[ghost whispers] Are you okay? -[gasps]
- He heard someone speak to him. - Are you okay?
She asked if he was okay.
When he looked up, there was a lady
standing in front of his car.
He said, "I think the color of her skin"
was about as gray as the gown she was wearing.
"And she had long dark hair."
His words to me was,
"I don't know where she come from."
[gasps]
No sooner he jumped out of his car, she was gone.
I can't explain what happened.
The thing that hit me like a freight train,
is when he gave that description,
because I never told anyone.
That's not something
you normally run around
and tell people
that you're working with,
that you just saw someone that basically vanished in front of your eyes.
There have been similar reports.
Really?
[Ernie] I did try to comfort him a little bit,
but I didn't tell him what I experienced.
I decided to keep this to myself
until I got more, you know, evidence of something that I saw.
[siren blaring]
[narrator] Two days later,
Ernie has just delivered a patient to the hospital
when he is stopped by a familiar face.
Officer Atwell?
- Do you remember me? - Sure.
[Ernie] I remembered her from responding to her house.
Her mother was having issues with her heart.
- Officer, can I tell you something? - Mm-hmm.
Oh, you were so nice when you helped with my mother,
and I know that you won't make fun of me.
Okay, so I was just in the hospital parking lot...
[Ernie] Just the day prior,
she took her mother to a cardiovascular appointment.
She decided to catch up on some emails.
[ghost whispering] Are you okay?
There was a lady standing in front of her car.
The lady was gone.
Based on where her car was parked,
there's no human possible way
someone could exit that parking lot that quickly.
[woman] It was like she was...
[Ernie] This lady described, from head to toe,
what she was wearing,
the complexion of her skin, even the color of her hair.
Everything matched up
to exactly what I saw that night on that road.
- I know you probably think I'm crazy-- - [hesitates] No, no.
No, I believe you. I do.
And now I have two different people
that do not know each other,
but for some reason, they're coming to me with this.
Maybe this is just the way
the lady is trying to get in contact with me.
I was just so overwhelmed
that two people saw this lady that I saw.
The two people that saw her,
saw her at the same exact hospital parking lot.
The only difference was when I saw her, I saw her on the road.
But somehow I knew it centered around the hospital.
I wanted to know what she wanted.
So I had my digital camera
and I decided to go back to the bridge underpass.
As I passed where I originally saw this lady...
my flashlight sitting beside me
came on all by itself.
So I immediately stopped my car.
I took out my digital camera and I took a series of photos.
This smoky mist appeared.
It actually looked
as if someone took a puff of a cigar
and blew it in front of the lens of my camera.
Are you okay?
[Ernie] And it hit me like a freight train.
[gasping in shock]
I think I know who you are.
I remembered a few years prior,
a lady took her own life by jumping off that bridge
that I was backed up under.
Maybe she was the person that took her own life from that bridge.
The gray lady...
maybe was trying to let me see her again
to give me some sort of message.
Are you okay?
[ghost] Are you okay?
Any of this phenomena is gonna appear terrifying to us.
Uh, the spirit doesn't mean that.
It's just crying out for help.
It's crying out for someone to come and help them
to put them in a state of peace.
[Ernie] Now there's a lot of skeptics in the world,
and they will criticize you and they will deem that you're crazy
because you believe in ghosts.
But the one thing that I have on my side,
I'm the biggest skeptic.
You can be a skeptic and still believe.
Just like police work,
you have to have that evidence.
You have to have that beyond a reasonable doubt.
I still continue to try to research this,
and see if I can contact her again,
to see if there's some sort of help,
or some sort of message.
Not a message necessarily to me,
but I might be the one able to get her message to someone else.
To this day,
every time I need to travel
from one side of the city to the other,
I travel that same road,
hoping to catch a glimpse of her,
hoping to catch a glimpse of any type of evidence
that she may still be there.
And that's what I continue to do everyday
that I travel that road.
[siren wailing]
[indistinct PA announcement]
[groaning in pain]
[narrator] Seventeen-year-old high school basketball player
Leston Campbell,
has just been rushed to hospital by his mother.
I was at a practice, and all of a sudden,
I felt a strong chest pain.
And it lingered from my stomach, chest area,
and then all the way around to my back area.
I'm assuming that maybe it's just a injury,
maybe I probably got hit wrong playing basketball.
I was thinking that, you know,
"Oh, this could be the end of my basketball career."
[groaning in pain]
I'm young, and I was like, "I haven't done anything yet."
[Leston's mom] Hang on, baby.
I'm gonna get some help.
[Leston groaning]
As soon as we go straight into the doors,
I feel a breath of air just comes in
and chills crawl up me.
My mom didn't feel anything.
I'm thinking, "This is pretty strange.
This is not normal."
[exhaling in pain]
[man on PA] Dr. Lopez, please report to Cardiology. Dr. Lopez to Cardiology.
[narrator] Soon after his arrival,
Leston finds out the cause of his extreme pain.
[Leston] They said, "You have a air socket
behind your lung,
and that's pretty much
what's causing the sharp pain that you're feeling."
I need you to do me a favor.
Can you hold this on, please?
[Leston] They hooked me up to IV,
they actually put a oxygen mask over my face
to try to, uh, burst the air bubble.
If the bubble doesn't burst, it'll collapse the lung.
They wanted to keep me in the hospital for the night
to see if it would progress.
If it progressed,
then that's when they would have to the surgery.
[narrator] When visiting hours are over,
Leston's mom must leave for the night.
[indistinct conversation]
[Leston's mom] Love you.
I'm just laying there with the oxygen mask over my face,
and an IV stuck in my arm,
in the worst pain possible.
And the worst part was that I was completely alone.
[man coughing]
[Leston] The only person that was left in the room was my neighbor.
[coughing]
I would always hear him coughing.
[man coughing]
Later that night, my stomach started giving me issues.
It started irritating me.
My stomach is hurting so bad
that I might as well just go to the washroom
and see what's going on.
[static buzzing]
I did notice that my neighbor's TV was on.
So I said, "Well, let me do this guy a favor and just turn it off"
so that he doesn't wake up."
My neighbor wasn't there.
And his bed was made up.
I'm nervous. This is out of the ordinary.
This is pretty strange.
And I wanted to get out of this.
So I left my room in order to get to the washroom,
which is down the hallway.
[lights flickering, buzzing]
[Leston] When I did go into the washroom,
there were flickering-on lights.
And then there was definitely more cold air.
All of the hairs on my arms
and my back were just standing up.
[thumping on door]
I never shut the door, and the door was closed.
The door didn't open.
I'm just freaked out.
And it was very terrifying,
and I was very afraid.
Now I need to go find someone.
[Leston breathing heavily]
[Leston] There is no one at the nurse's station.
The TV monitors were pretty much black.
It's just, no one's around, no nurses,
and then, pretty much everything looked like
it never had been touched.
Is anybody here? [echoing]
I just start to get that feeling
of that cold air again.
[indistinct grumbling]
[Leston] And, like, it feels like someone's next to me.
[indistinct moaning]
[indistinct speech]
I'm just freaked out, and I'm scared and terrified.
[breeze howling]
[breathing heavily]
[static buzzing]
[muffled screaming]
[imperceptible]
[Chris] I think cold spots,
which have been reported throughout history
and associated with ghosts,
it is a spirit
trying to pull the energy out of the environment,
out of the living perhaps,
which usually gives off heat.
So when this energy is evaporating,
when it's disappearing,
when it's being pulled out of our cells,
we're just left with this cold feeling.
[Leston] I was just terrified,
like, "How do I get out of this place?"
[unearthly groaning]
My heart is pumping,
my adrenaline is rushing.
[heart thumping]
Maybe I can just get to another floor
that's just normal.
[heart thumping]
[Leston] Come on, come on.
[elevator dings]
[Leston] Someone should be down there that can help me.
There should be nurses, doctors,
someone should be on that bottom main floor.
[breathing heavily]
I was pretty much scared that I wouldn't make it out,
I wouldn't make it back safe.
[heart thumping]
That whole bottom floor
looked like it was just abandoned.
Everything was just gone.
Papers were just all over the floor.
It was just a creepy environment.
Something was up. Something was very up.
I'm thinking that, "Oh, well, maybe it could be a dream,"
but this dream is too vivid.
This is too vivid, too much has happened.
This is real.
And then a gurney brushes past,
and it's getting pushed without no one pushing it,
which makes it even more creepier.
[heart thumping, breathing heavily]
[repeatedly tapping buttons]
It's not just like a ghost.
It's like you're in a whole another dimension.
Like, it's a whole another world
where this is pretty much happening,
and then I'm able to see it, and I'm able to feel it.
Now I said, "I gotta get back to my room."
As I'm running to my room, it felt like I'm running slow.
I feel like it's pretty much slow motion.
And I'm just looking around, and no one's there.
I was pretty much scared that I wouldn't make it out.
I was scared that I wouldn't make it out of this world
or this dimension that I was in.
I was terrified.
I figured,
"Well, you know, no one can help me at this point.
No one."
[Chris] There might have been a spirit portal nearby,
allowing Leston to see the comings and goings
of our dimension to the other dimension.
There are reports of people who enter places
that are so saturated with electromagnetic energy
that they're able to see things
and perceive things that other people cannot.
Might have been able to see,
peer into the spirit world, peer through the veil.
He might have been seeing what they were seeing,
what their world looked like.
The comings and goings of these spirits between dimensions.
This world superimposed over our physical realm.
[breathing heavily]
[Leston] I actually get to my room.
[breathing heavily] Okay.
No one's there, it's just me,
and then my neighbor, of course, is still not there.
God, please. Please save me.
Please, please, please, please. Come on.
[breathing heavily]
Please.
I'm just holding my hands,
and I'm pretty much praying to myself
that, hopefully, this goes away.
Hopefully, you know,
this all would just be back normal again.
I just stayed like that, just sitting in my bed,
and just hoping nothing comes in,
and then nothing bothers me.
I eventually fell asleep.
[Leston's mom] Leston. Leston.
How's my brave man doing this morning?
[Leston] I woke up at about,
I wanna say, 7:30, eight o'clock in the morning,
and I look around, and of course,
the whole hospital was lit up.
[man coughing]
[Leston] I did hear my neighbor,
and, of course, he was coughing.
It was so crazy because after that night,
my main focus wasn't even the surgery.
My main focus was just wake up,
and to see that everything goes back to normal.
How did you sleep last night?
[Leston] I held it in and kept it a secret.
I wouldn't know how to explain it to anyone.
Um, because the whole night before
was just terrifying.
I slept fine.
Great news.
The air bubble has cleared up, your tests show that.
No need to have surgery anymore.
[both sigh in relief]
It felt like all the pain that was up here
just dropped down and went away.
I was relieved that everything was back normal.
[Leston] It changed my life because now it brings me with an open mindset.
Makes me understand
that a lot of things out there is unexplainable.
It's a whole another dimension, as far as paranormal world.
It's out there,
and I believe that it lives within our world as well.
It's a connection between the two.
If someone say they believe in something, you can't say,
"Oh, I don't believe in that."
There's gonna be instances
where you might have to see it,
and then you'll change your mind.
[closing theme music playing]