Were you someone who worked here?
[machine buzzing]
-[machine beeping] -Whoa.
There it is. There it is.
-Check the... -[voice speaking through machine]
Jess, we have hotspots.
[Josh] Oh, my word.
[Jessica] That's on the... the syringe.
-[Josh] Like fingerprints, right? -[Jessica] Yeah.
Oh, I think just faded.
-[gasps] -[Jessica] Holy [bleep]
All right, hit it.
[Josh] On this episode of Expedition X...
Look behind you. There is a shadow.
[Josh] It's the continuation
of our extraordinary investigation
of the notoriously haunted Eloise Asylum.
[Jessica] Oh, my God!
-Are you okay? -[Phil speaking indistinctly]
[Josh] An abandoned psychiatric hospital
with a truly horrifying history.
Cause of death,
suicide by carbolic acid poisoning.
How many people were buried in this cemetery?
Over 7100.
-[Josh] This is an epicenter of tragedy. -[Ryan] Absolutely.
[man 1] Is it a stone?
-[man 2] Yeah. -[man 1] Unbelievable.
[Josh] Where present threats...
I experienced a distinct shoving sensation
in my back which propelled me forward.
[Josh] ...might just rival those from its dark past.
[Jessica] Oh, [bleep]!
Down there. Do you see that?
I swear i saw a shadow.
[whispers] Right there, see? On the right hand side.
[in normal voice] Hello?
[Phil] Holy [bleeping]!
[Josh] It's the dead of night
in the abandoned Eloise Asylum outside Detroit, Michigan.
And we're in the midst of an unforgettable investigation.
We came to probe reports
of escalating paranormal activity
inside this former psychiatric hospital.
If you weren't welcome in society,
this is where they put you.
[Josh] We learned Eloise's owner John Hambrick
and his daughter Ivan
believe they've been physically attacked
by malevolent entities.
When I used to come up here, I used to get choked.
-I'm sorry, choked? -Whoa.
This is something that happens on the fifth floor,
typically just to women.
We have another entity here known as the Creeper.
It creeps on the ceiling, it runs up the walls.
[Josh] And as soon as we began
our own investigation,
the activity was off the charts.
-Oh, my God. Right there, right there, right there. -What? What's... What's...
-What'd you see? -[Jessica] There was a woman right there.
[Josh] A mysterious noise...
-[loud bang] -[all gasping]
-[bleeping] -[Josh] ...led us into
-an abandoned elevator shaft. -The noise... It was down here.
[Josh] ...where more phantom sounds soon followed.
-What is going on here? -[elevator dings]
So I'm gonna keep him right here.
[Josh] But then, in an isolation session,
the investigation took a terrifying turn,
putting Jess in physical danger.
[Jessica] Oh, God.
[groans]
[coughs]
[man] Go, go, go.
-Jess, you good? -[Jessica] Something just [bleep] scratched
the [bleep] out of my [bleep] neck.
[man] Check this. It's really red.
[Josh] As we scour the halls
for an explanation for Jess' injury,
we continue to photograph every corner of Eloise.
Now, as we review the photos
we see that we've captured an astounding sight.
What the [bleep] is that?
-[Phil] Oh. -[Jessica] Oh.
[Josh] What is that?
-Oh, [bleep]. -[Josh] What is that?
That is a [bleep] figure.
That is insane.
I have never seen in my life a photo like this.
I mean, that is not somebody that was standing there
when we were in the room.
-[Jessica] That's weird. -Look at it.
[Phil] Where was this taken?
This is where Ivan claimed she was attacked.
-Right? It's over there. -[Jessica] Mmm-hmm.
This is in that long room back here
with all those windows.
-You can get to it from that door. -Oh, it's literally right...
-Right through here. -Yes.
-[Josh] This is... This is right here. -[Phil] Now... Not this...
-This is over here. Let's go and see. -[Phil] Got it.
[Josh] This is in this room.
[Phil] Okay, where was this photo taken?
-Over here in this corner. -Here.
-You sure it's this one? -Like, right here.
-Right here. Yeah. -All right. Jess stand there. Stand there.
Okay.
You would be, little bit this way, little bit this way.
-Right here? -[Josh] That's the spot.
[Phil] That is it.
-So behind you... -[Jessica] Yeah.
Is nothing.
-Okay. -[Phil] Yeah.
But already...
Look the way that my flashlight's creating
-a little shadow? And... -[Josh] Yeah.
[Phil] ...you stay there,
-let me back off. -Where am I looking?
-[Josh] Right here. -Okay.
Should I turn off my light?
[Phil] Yeah, turn off your light a little bit
so the shadow's...
-Okay. -All right. Jess, turn...
Turn just a way a little bit more. Oh, yeah.
Look at that.
Look behind her right now.
There is a shadow.
-[Josh] At that? -[Phil] Yes.
That shadow matches...
It... It's a little bit wider.
-But still if that camera was exposed right, sure. -I think that shadow
is gonna look like this.
[Phil] This looks like a solid figure.
[Josh] I think if you take a photo
from right where you're standing,
that shadow will look just like that photo.
-No way. -[Phil] Yes.
-Let me grab that polaroid, yeah. -Grab the polaroid.
-[Josh] You're ready? -[Jessica] Yup.
[camera whirring]
-We'll do a few. -[Phil] Okay.
[camera whirring]
[Josh] Okay.
-Let's do one where you're not lighting here. -[Phil] Okay.
And then we should probably do one
where my light's actually on in case there's, like,
additional light bounce.
-[Josh] Okay, that's it. -That's it.
-Okay, let's let these develop. -Okay.
All right. Ugh, come on, come on.
Give me a show.
[Josh] Okay, this is starting to develop.
It seems like the flash from the camera
just obliterates that shadow.
-[Phil] Yeah. -[Jessica] Yeah.
Same thing here.
Same thing there. So this still does not make sense to me.
-[Phil] Yeah. -There would have to be somebody there
-to have that happen. -Oh, it...
[Josh] I mean, nothing even in the same realm as this.
-[Phil] Nothing. -[Jessica] No.
So what is that then?
I was convinced
we're gonna come in here and debunk that photo.
[Jessica] Nope.
We've got reports of this Creeper shadow...
and we're seeing something here that we cannot debunk.
-[Phil] Hmm. -[Josh] I mean, what is this?
[Josh] After a disturbing night, the next morning
we are on the hunt for answers
as to what or who we encountered at Eloise.
While Phil and Jess reach out
to another paranormal eyewitness,
I'm off to the Westland Historical Museum
to unearth the asylum's dark history.
Ryan?
[both] Hey.
-How you doing? -I'm Josh.
[both] Nice to you meet.
Welcome to the Westland Historic Village Park.
[Josh] Wow, this is incredible.
So this is an entire museum
-dedicated to Eloise? -[Ryan] Yes.
[Josh] And so these objects date back how far?
[Ryan] Some of 'em date back to the late 1800s.
[Josh] Wow.
So, like, these instruments right here, these would be...
These were actually used
-by physicians at Eloise? -[Ryan] Yes.
Uh, we have stethoscopes.
-We have this terrifying looking syringe. -[Ryan] Yes.
[Josh] I don't even wanna know what's that for.
How many objects total have been collected?
[Ryan] Including documents, photographs and the artefacts,
uh, it would be over 10,000.
Wow.
The mission for this particular museum
-is to tell the actual history of Eloise. -[Josh] Right.
Not the paranormal, even though...
we do like talking about it.
Because it's haunted?
-Because it is haunted. Yes. -Yeah.
-I think it might be. -Yeah.
And I've had a few personal experiences myself.
-You have? -Yes.
What... What have you experienced there?
We had a picture of some patients
watching a TV.
[voices speaking indistinctly]
[Ryan] One of the therapies was television therapy.
-I do a lot of that, actually. -[chuckles] Uh, so... So do I.
-Yeah. [chuckles] -[Ryan] Um...
But we were trying to figure out where the picture was taken...
and I took it upon myself
-to just go wandering around. -See that's when trouble starts, right?
Yes, it is.
[Ryan] I went down to the third floor
and I felt...
like, a finger in the middle of my back...
pointing me the way.
When I got to the room,
I looked and it matched where the picture was taken.
As soon as I left that floor, the sensation went away.
Wow.
This is one of the very particular things about Eloise
is that a lot of the paranormal reports
are physical.
-Yes. -There are all these reports of being touched
or suffocated or choked.
We experienced some of that ourselves
in the hospital last night.
So not every place that claims to be haunted
can say that. There is something very physical
-about the paranormal reports here. -Yes.
[Jessica] So where are we meeting now?
-[Phil] The basement. -[Jessica] Basement.
-So down here. -[Phil] I'm guessing down here.
[Jessica] Back at Eloise, John the owner has arranged
for us to meet with another witness
who reportedly had a serious paranormal scare
in the asylum's basement.
Jesse?
[Phil] Jesse?
-Hey. -[Jessica] Oh, hello.
-[Jesse] How you guys doing? -[chuckles] That's an entrance.
-Hi, nice to meet you. -Hey, I'm Phil.
Hey, I'm Jesse.
[Jessica] Jesse Kasom is a contractor
who's done a lot of maintenance work
at Eloise over the years.
So, listen, John mentioned you have quite the story from down here.
Oh, yeah. I do.
Do you mind showing us where it happened?
Sure. Sure.
-Right this way, guys. -[Jessica] All right. Follow you.
-This is... very creepy. -Yeah, watch your step.
-[Phil] So what happened here? -[Jesse] I was coming in through this doorway.
I was coming through with a saw.
We're cutting some things loose in the back.
And as i got to this landing here,
I experienced a distinct shoving sensation in my back
which propelled me forward.
-[Phil] You felt like you got pushed down the stairs -[man groans]
-[Jesse] Yeah. Yeah. -[Phil] ...while carrying a saw.
There were no other people in here.
Could the door have closed on you
and... and hit you down?
No. Absolutely not.
I just landed right on the ground there,
-[Jessica] Huh. -...kinda saying a... a few words,
-yelling, like, "What the heck is going on." -[Jessica] Yeah.
Something just tried to hurt me.
-[Jessica] Yeah, for sure. -[Jesse] And that was the feeling.
A short time later I had a coworker
who came up to me with an almost identical story.
He was actually carrying a saw as well,
and, uh, was pushed down the same stairs.
-Weird. -What kind of saw?
Are you talking like a hacksaw?
[Jesse] Uh, like a cutoff saw.
-[Phil] Okay. -[Jesse] A steel cutoff saw.
So what do you think it is?
Legend has it that the spirit belongs
to the former boiler room caretaker.
Apparently he worked and lived down here
for decades in...
-in the underbelly of this asylum. -Hmm.
[Jesse] He was very hostile, very creepy.
So if you're saying that...
this is that maintenance worker's domain
and you come in here and your team comes in here
and starts to do some work in here,
do you think that's what may have triggered
this kind of reaction?
The action was clearly let me know
-that I was not welcome here. -Hmm.
-And, I mean, you see these steps and this fall... -Yeah.
-Yeah. Like it knew what it was doing. -After...
-[Jessica] It was trying to hurt you. -Yeah. I mean,
he could've broke my neck.
[Phil] An interesting detail of Jesse's story
is that he and his coworker were both carrying saws
at the time of their allegedly ghostly attacks.
His experience also tracks
with much of the reported paranormal experience
at Eloise involving physical touch.
So following our visit,
Jess and I stay down in the basement
and try to experience whatever they did
after I track down a saw of my own.
Well, Philip, I gotta tell ya, I'm really proud of you
for actually bringing a trigger object.
You know, if the two people
who felt they got pushed in here
-had a saw like this in their hand, -Uh-huh.
...better give it a shot.
So I'm thinking I will go down,
set myself up in an area
where I can watch you with the SLS
and see what happens.
So you'll have a really good angle on me
-if I get pushed down the stairs. -Exactly.
Awesome.
-Tell me when. -[Jessica] All right.
All right. You're good to go.
-Come all the way in acting as if you're gonna do some work. -[Phil] Okay.
Okay, I'm just gonna try a little call response too
-and see if we can get anything. -[Phil] Okay.
-Be careful walking back there. -Yeah.
Are you the maintenance man to Eloise?
Is this where you worked?
Are you the entity they call the Choker?
-[clattering] -[Jessica] Oh, my God!
-[Phil speaking indistinctly] -[Jessica] Are you okay?
[Phil groans] Okay.
I just need a light.
-Grab a flashlight. -[Jessica] Got it. Got it. Got it. Got it. Got it.
[Phil] Oh, my God.
-What the hell is this? -[Jessica] What did you do?
What is that?
-Help me out. Help me out. Help me out. -Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'm coming, coming. Hold on, let me get...
-Okay. -[Phil grunts] Okay.
-[Jessica] Get up. -[Phil grunting]
I thought that was the ground.
[breathing heavily]
-[Jessica sighs] -Wow.
[Jessica] Dude. Okay.
[Phil] Oh, my flashlight's floating.
-Look at all that water. -[Jessica] The flash-- Look at all that water.
Also, look at this.
It's got electrical wires in there.
-[Phil] Leading into the water? -[Jessica] Yeah.
-[Phil] Oh, that's comforting. -[Jessica] Oh, gross.
You're lucky you didn't get electrocuted.
So, Josh, I wanted to show you this model
-of the Eloise complex. -[Josh] Wow.
This is a model of a quarter of the property of Eloise.
Sorry, this is just 25 per cent of the original property?
Yes.
And this is as it appeared in what year?
This would be the early 1900s.
And today all that remains is what?
Our main building...
-[Ryan] Which is the building here. -[Phil] Right.
Seeing this puts it in a totally different perspective
-because this isn't just an asylum. -Correct.
Look at roads. Look at the sidewalks.
-[Josh] Right. -[Ryan] It's almost like a city.
It is. It's like its own city.
I mean, this wasn't designed to be a house of horrors.
-Correct. -Right? I mean, it was designed to be
a medical campus.
-Yes, it was a teaching hospital. -Right.
But at the same time we can't ignore
that there was lot of death and suffering here.
Absolutely. And we learn a lot about the death
-that happened in this complex from what's in our archives. -Okay.
-Would you like to take a look? -Yeah, I'd love to.
-[Ryan] Okay. -Yeah, I'll see it.
[Jessica] Back at Eloise, Phil and I venture deeper
into another section of the asylum's basement...
where the spirit of a former employee may still reside.
[Phil] Now, let's keep pushing.
Yeah... Oh, look.
[Jessica] Oh, there we go.
The owner's daughter Ivan also said
that an entity known as the Creeper
has been seen in the dark recesses of the basement.
As we search this underground maze,
it's hard not to feel
as if something is drawing us in deeper.
[Phil] Wow, just when I thought
this couldn't get any lower.
[Jessica] At least we can stand up in here.
-Oh, yeah... -Mmm-hmm.
Let's check down over here.
Is there anyone here with us?
Did you work and live in this spot?
The heck is that thing?
Oh, for sure, animals are here.
-Look at this pile of feathers. -[Phil] Ooh, feathers.
So either something flew down here and died
or something ate it and left the body.
[Jessica] If you're here could you make a sign?
Something that would let us know that you're here?
-Oh, Jess, Look at this. -What?
Dead bird.
-[Jessica] Ooh, yeah. -[Phil] A dead starling.
[Jessica] Pretty recent, too. 'Cause it doesn't look that decayed.
No, it does not.
So wonder if this vent goes all the way up to the roof and it fell in?
[Jessica] Must be.
[Phil breathing heavily]
[Jessica] Oh, man.
-[Phil] What, dead end? -[Jessica] Dead end again.
I was hoping that this would have a turn off.
[Phil] Yeah.
[exhales heavily]
Okay. Well...
[Jessica] Oh, [bleep].
Down there. Did you see that?
[Phil] What'd you see?
I swear I saw a shadow.
[Jessica] Do you see that down there?
Right there. See? On the right hand side?
[Phil] What is that?
[Jessica] Hello.
[Phil] Holy [bleeping]!
[whispering] Oh, my God.
Like, what [bleep] is that?
[Jessica] Is that...
[Phil shushing] Here we are.
[in normal voice] Hello.
[whispering] Get down here. Get down here.
[whispering] Yeah, go on. I don't see anything.
-[Phil] Okay. -I don't hear anything either.
No water moving.
Careful, careful, careful, careful
[Phil] [in normal voice] Hello?
[Phil shushing]
Hello?
[whispering] Careful, careful, careful, careful.
[Phil] Hello.
-There's nothing. -[Jessica] There's nothing here.
-[Phil] There's nothing here. -[Jessica] Nothing to see here.
-Was it ever was there? -Check the vents. Check the vents.
[Phil] I don't hear any footsteps or rustling at all.
[Jessica] Nothing.
I'm not crazy. When we called out to it,
that moved.
-Uh-huh. Yup, uh-huh. -[Phil] Right?
[whispers] What is that?
[Jessica] Hello.
We've flashlights on it, It just...
-Took off. Took off. -Took off. So...
-So the only thing I can think of... -From where we were...
[Jessica] ...is it either went up one of these vents...
Yeah.
[Jessica] ...or it disappeared.
[Ryan] These grey binders here
and the ones on the shelf behind me
are death certificates.
These are all death certificates?
Yes.
-All of those? -Yes.
[Josh] Okay. May... May I?
[Ryan] Yes, absolutely.
State of Michigan register of deaths.
Wow, look at this.
So these are all death certificates from Eloise.
'Cause of death, general paralysis insane.
Suicide by carbolic acid poisoning.
Self-inflicted wound. Suicidal.
Oof. Says this person cut their throat.
Pneumonia.
-Self-destruction by hanging. -Yes.
[Josh] I mean, it just goes on and on and on and on.
How many patients died at Eloise?
Over the course of a 150 years,
tens of 1000s.
-Tens of 1000s? -[Ryan] Yes.
[Josh] If you accept this premise that...
that hauntings occur in places of tragedy and suffering...
there couldn't be a more haunted place than Eloise, just on paper.
There is no better example...
-than Eloise. -Yeah.
On the certificates,
under place of burial, cremation or removal,
at lot of them say Detroit.
But then I notice, like, every once in a while,
they'll say Eloise cemetery.
Now, I did not see a cemetery over there.
Ah, that's because it's hidden.
What do you mean it's hidden?
-There was a burial ground over there? -[Ryan] Yes.
It's a potter's field.
Potter's field is where the county would bury
someone who's family hasn't claimed their body.
This is a place that people know about?
This place was basically forgotten by the public.
The whole area just got overgrown
and we're just now rediscovering it.
Wow.
You'll notice a number...
next to some of these death certificates
that match a marker.
[Josh] Like here, Eloise Cemetery, 117.
Yes.
[Josh] Four-one-nine, 323.
-These are marker for individuals? -Yes.
And how many people do we think were buried in this cemetery?
Over 7,100.
There are over 7,000 people
-buried on the grounds of that asylum? -Yes.
Have you been able to actually match
any of these death certificates
to a stone that you found there?
So far we haven't, but we're just now uncovering the stones.
Our hope is to uncover as many markers as possible
and match names to numbers.
So, would it be possible for me to take a copy
of some of the pages from this ledger
-to see if we can find a match out there? -Yes.
That would help us out a lot
and that would be great for us.
[Josh] Still processing the revelation
that the remains of over 7,000 Eloise inmates are buried on the property,
I decide I need to see this abandoned cemetery for myself.
-[dramatic music playing] -That's a ringtone, Jess.
Oh, you know, you won't be able to hear it.
Oh, the boss man. Hey, what's up?
[Josh on phone] Hey, guys, can you hear me?
-Yeah, we got you. -Yeah.
I have got some amazing information at the Historic Society.
I'm gonna send a pin to your phone.
There is a place I want you to come meet me at.
It's on the property at Eloise,
but it's a little bit out in the sticks.
Can you guys get out there
and meet me as soon as you can?
Okay. Anything we should know about this place?
[Josh] I'll tell you when you get there. Just come and meet me.
-Okay, we're heading there now. -See ya.
All right, hit it.
This is crazy.
We have this, like, gigantic open field here with nothing in it.
And yet, we now know,
it's a graveyard.
There are thousands of dead bodies in this field.
Wow.
Okay, these must be the markers
that the Historical Society has uncovered.
There, look at that, 1166.
One-one-six-seven, 1168, and you can imagine,
this goes all the way down as far as the eye can see.
This is insane.
-[Phil] Here's Josh's jeep. -[Jessica] Here we go.
-[Josh] Hey. -[Jessica] Hey.
-So what's this? -So what's going on?
-[Josh] Do you know what you're standing on top of? -[Jessica] I mean, grass?
-Bodies. -What?
Yeah, these are the patients and the inmates of Eloise.
What are the patients and inmates of Eloise?
There are more than 7,000 bodies
-under our feet right now. -[Jessica] Oh.
This is a mass grave.
So they didn't put up any gravestones?
-I don't see-- -[Josh] No, they did.
They are underneath us, come here. Look at this.
I bring Phil and Jess over to the graves
that the Historical Society has already started to unearth.
-Look at this. -[Jessica] Oh, yeah, look at that.
[Josh] And I get them up to speed
on the records that I copied from the museum.
You see what's scribbled in there?
[Josh and Jessica] A number.
One-seventeen... Number 41...
So these are bodies of people that weren't claimed by the families?
That's right. Now, here's the crazy thing.
-So they just started excavating here. -[Jessica] Mm-hmm.
And they have, up to this point,
not been able to match any individual patients to a number.
The numbers they've uncovered,
which are all up in the 1100s, 1200s...
-[Jessica] Uh-huh. -[Josh] We don't have those records.
There are few of these graves listed in the 400s.
If we could find that stone, we could match it to a patient.
So we could be the first, essentially,
to give dignity to a body buried under here and give it its name.
-Yeah, a number to a name. -Yes.
That's right. Now, we have permission from the Historical Society
to probe and to carefully dig around these stones.
-[Phil] Wow. -Okay, so these are the 11s.
-Right? -The numbers are going higher that way.
-And so-- -So I think we gotta go back this way.
-Back in that direction. -I got tools in the car.
-You ready? -[both] Yeah.
-Let's do it, come on. -[Phil] Let's go.
[Josh] We have 6-8-6.
We need like 300s, 400s. 400s would be great.
I think we go down a couple of rows
and we should be exactly where we need to be.
Okay, let's see.
-Oh, yeah. -[Jessica] There you go.
-[Phil] We're in the fours, 4... -[Jessica] Four...
-[Phil] An eight, one. -[Jessica] Okay.
There's a record for 486.
Eight-six... And we're in the neighborhood.
[Phil] So we're five away.
[Josh] Only five graves away,
Phil comes up with a rather macabre but intuitive way
to estimate where grave 486 may rest.
Let's go on.
-[Jessica] You okay? -[Phil] My body length here.
One body length. Give a little space for a headstone.
-[Josh] Yup. -[Jessica] Okay.
One more.
[Josh] He lays down five times.
Here...
-Nothing. -[Jessica] Nothing?
[both] Oh.
-That sounds good. -That's something.
-Is it a stone? -Yeah!
What number is that one? What number is that?
-So the final number is... -[Jessica] What you got? What you got?
[Phil] That's a six.
[Josh] We got 4-8-6.
-Yes! Nice. -We got it! Come on!
Four-eight-six. Nice.
-[Phil] Woo-hoo-hoo. -All right.
[Josh] Four-eight-six, here we go.
-So this is from 1920. -[Jessica] Mm-hmm.
And his name is Thomas Allgurt,
-and he was 63 years old. -[Jessica sighs]
[Josh] He was from Belgium,
and he was a butcher.
He died at the hospital from tuberculosis.
-[Jessica exhales] -Wow.
And he was unclaimed
and was buried out here in the cemetery.
And of the 7,000 people buried in this field,
this, right here, is the first one...
-[Phil] To have a name? -...to have a name.
Should we do an EVP and call out to him and see if we get a response?
We don't have specific paranormal reports from this field...
-[Jessica] Mm-hmm. -...but that might be because
almost nobody knows it's here.
-[EVP beeps] -Okay, EVP is rolling.
Thomas Allgurt, are you here with us?
We know that you were sick,
and came to get treatment at Eloise.
How long were you there for?
Are you one of the spirits that resides there?
Can you give us a sign of your presence if you're here with us now?
Nothing. Birds and frogs.
It's like the exact opposite
-of what we've experienced over at the asylum. -Yeah.
So we can go through this recorder later,
see if we got any EVP results.
But the fact that we now know that all these bodies are here,
we gotta get back to the asylum
and face off against Eloise one more time.
-Yeah, I agree. All right. -Okay.
Let's go.
[exhales]
-Look at this. -[Phil] Oh, yeah.
[Jessica sighs]
-[Phil] Ooh, we are high up. -[Jessica] Yup.
[Phil] Wow.
I wanted to start up here because this is
our last night here at Eloise.
Final investigation.
In terms of where we go...
It's gotta be on the fifth floor.
[Josh] I agree and I think we should go to that surgery room.
-[Jessica] Okay. -[Phil] Right.
[Josh] That room is so close to so much of the activity that we have experienced.
It's where we heard that loud noise
-that drove us to the elevator. -[Jessica] Mm-hmm.
[Josh] There was probably a lot of death
and suffering, like, right here.
-You know? -[loud bang]
-[all shriek] -[bleep].
-What the hell is that? -[bleep].
I cannot imagine how many horrifying procedures happened in that room.
Especially on the fifth floor, with the criminally insane.
-Right. -They would have done
-the worst of the worst to them. -[Jessica] Yeah.
Okay, so, for the last time, to the fifth floor?
-[Jessica] Fifth floor. -Let's go.
[Josh] Ryan from the museum let me borrow
some of the antique medical devices that were used at Eloise.
They might make effective trigger objects
for our final showdown with the asylum.
All right, so...
Couple of surprises here, you ready?
-[Jessica] Yeah. -First of all, we have...
-Whoo! -[Phil] Wow.
[Jessica] Let's open it up.
-Let's see what's in here. -In this bag you will find...
Ooh!
-Old syringe... -[Jessica] Look at that.
Got a couple of reflex hammers.
-[Josh] Yeah. -[Jessica] Great, put those down.
And...
-What is it? An otoscope? The ear examiner? -[Josh] Yeah.
-Okay, so we've got our tools there. -[Phil] Okay.
[EMF Quad beeps]
-[Josh] Okay. -This is an EMF Quad.
-Right now I have it set to vibration. -[EMF Quad beeps]
So that if anything touches the table...
-Let me try this. -[EMF Quad beeps]
-It will go off. -[Josh] Mm-hmm.
-And also as a proximity sensor. -[EMF Quad buzzes]
So if anything comes close to the table,
tries to touch the trigger items,
-it'll go off. -Great.
And you have the thermal imager.
[Phil] I got the thermal imager.
[Josh] And I have one very special surprise.
This is a custom-built...
-[Jessica] Oh, my God. [chuckles] -[Phil] Ooh.
-...GeoPort. -Oh, yeah, it's got the X and everything.
-[Josh] Expedition X-branded. -[Jessica] Fancy.
Very fancy. Nothing but the best.
And it is been designed to look like something
that would fit in here at Eloise, like an old radio.
This thing is scanning radio frequencies
and grabbing words from the ether
and as you talk to the other side...
-[Jessica] Mm-hmm. -...this is supposedly talking back,
a way to communicate.
-Okay, so it's like a amped-up spirit box. -That's right.
-All right, I'm firing it up. Are you ready? -Yeah.
-Okay. -Maybe stand back a couple of feet.
There we go. Thermal imager's up?
-Thermal imager is up and recording. -Thermal's up.
Okay, we are back at Eloise.
Is anybody here with us?
[GeoPort static]
-[thudding] -[voices murmuring indistinctly]
Can you tell us what this room was used for?
-[voice whispers] -"Death"?
-Death, I heard "death." -Sounded like "death."
-[Jessica] I heard "death." -[voices murmuring indistinctly]
-Are you a doctor? -[woman whispers]
-[voice murmuring] -[Jessica] "Worked here."
-I heard "worked here." -[voice murmurs] Personnel.
[Jessica] "Personnel."
[Josh] Literally said "personnel."
[Jessica] It said "personnel."
We have some medical instruments here on the surgery table.
If you want to walk over and check them out.
[voice speaking indistinctly]
[EMF Quad buzzing]
[Jessica] Whoa, there it is, there it is. Check the flare.
[Josh] What?
Jess, we have hotspots.
[Josh] Oh, my word. That's on the...
[Jessica] That's on the... the syringe.
-[Josh] Like fingerprints were on them. -[Jessica] Yeah.
Oh, they just faded.
[gasps] Holy [bleep].
One of the most tragic deaths recorded in Eloise's history
was that of 10-year-old Harmonia Kiossain,
dying in a hydrotherapy tub.
But what is hydrotherapy?
Introduced to the US in the 1880s,
hydrotherapy was said to shock out toxins
by plunging you into ice-cold water.
First used to treat people with typhoid fever,
it was seen to be so successful
that a dunk in icy water was soon prescribed
to treat everything from the common cold to alcoholism.
Anyone could use a cold bath, right?
What's the worst that could happen?
Well, you could drown.
Especially if you were an epileptic and left unattended,
as was tragically the case with Harmonia.
Today hydrotherapy is still used,
but, fortunately, more as a muscle relaxant and less as a wonder cure.
-[Josh] Like fingerprints were on them. -[Jessica] Yeah.
Oh, they just faded. Holy [bleep]!
It's like something touched that.
[Jessica] Oh, that is weird.
[Phil] How is that even possible?
[Jessica] It's possible because something touched it.
That's the only thing.
-The temperature hasn't changed in this room at all. -[EMF Quad buzzes]
Wow, you have to be really close to this
-to set her off. -[Jessica] Super-close.
-Okay. -[Phil exhales]
[Josh] Was that you who just touched the equipment?
[GeoPort static]
Are you at the table right now?
[metal thuds]
[Phil] Where's that coming from?
-[Josh] What is that noise? -[Jessica] What is that?
-That's not this. -[Jessica] That's... That's coming from the box.
-[Phil] Are you sure? -[Josh] No, it's coming--
[Josh] That's coming from outside.
[Jessica] You got the flare. Go check in the hallway and see.
-Ooh! -[Jessica] What? What did you see?
[Josh] I swear I just saw a shape.
Like, right where that door is, in there.
-[Phil] Okay. -[Jessica] Nothing?
[Phil] Look at that, there's a little bit of heat coming out of the side.
-[Jessica] Oh, yeah. -[Phil] What is that there?
[Jessica] I do see that.
Hello...
-Oh, my God. -What?
-[Jessica] Ooh. -[Josh] Look at this.
-[Jessica] Is this one of the hydrotherapy tubs? -[Josh] Yes.
This is one of the treatment rooms,
-where they would do hydrotherapy. -Ugh, okay.
-That's torture. -[Josh] Yes.
-Yeah, basically. -And we've heard this report
of this one little girl who died.
-[Phil] Harmonia. -Harmonia, right?
I don't understand how you leave a child unattended
during a hydrotherapy session
when you're holding them underwater.
-So you're saying they killed her? -They did kill her.
[Josh] This is potentially the place where it could have happened.
Is there anybody here with us?
-[Jessica] The [bleep]! -What?
Something just touched the back of my leg.
Right here, there's nothing here.
Something legitimately tickled the back of my leg.
Could you have bumped into this pipe?
-Or this? -No, not from here.
Is that Harmonia?
Are you the little girl
who passed away here during a treatment?
That was so weird.
[Josh] Okay, we are gonna make our way back to the surgery room.
It's gonna be safe there.
[Jessica] There's a device that you can talk to us through
and we'd be able to understand what you're saying.
[Josh] Okay, let's head back there.
[Jessica] When we get back in the surgery room,
since we could be dealing with the spirit of a child,
I remove all of the intimidating medical devices
in favor of a trigger object that's much more inviting,
a piece of gum.
[GeoPort static]
Harmonia, are you here with us?
[voice speaking]
[Jessica] Yes?
[voice talking indistinctly]
Would you like a piece of gum?
I left it over on the table for you, if you'd like to go get it.
[voice talking indistinctly]
Harmonia, how old are you?
-[voice speaks] -"Ten." Holy crap.
-She was 10. -[Phil] No.
-Are you sure? -[Josh] Yes. Yes.
Oh, my God.
[voices murmuring indistinctly]
Harmonia, was that you that touched my leg in the hydrotherapy room?
[voice murmurs]
[EMF Quad beeping]
-[Phil] That's a vibration. -That's vibration.
How is that going off? You'd have to be stomping to set that off.
-From here, you got to be stomping. -[Jessica] From here--
[Josh] What is it you wanna tell us?
[girl speaking]
"Help"?
That's... She said "help."
It did sound like "help".
It's just hard to argue having spent time here
with the power of Eloise.
-[Jessica] Mm-hmm. -[Josh] This place is emotional.
-[Jessica] Mm-hmm. -[Phil] Yeah.
And the sun's gonna be coming through those windows pretty soon.
-Yeah, it is. -[Josh] Should we start getting packed up?
-Let's get packed up. -All right.
When we first arrived here,
the owner, John Hambrick, bluntly challenged
those who are skeptical about Eloise's haunted halls.
Stay the night on the fifth floor by yourself
and tell me that in the morning,
if you may get to the morning.
-[loud bang] -[all scream]
[Josh] And whether you personally call yourself a believer,
Eloise's energy is hard to deny.
-[Jessica] Holy [bleep]. Look it! Look it! -[Phil] What?
[Jessica] Look at, look at, look at!
-[Josh] What? -[Jessica] She's right there.
[Josh] From the moment we started our investigation,
we were overwhelmed with activity
that corresponded with previous reports.
-Oh, my God. Right there, right there. -What? What?
[Josh] On the first night alone, we heard strange noises.
-What is going on here? -[elevator dings]
What?
Saw shadowy figures.
[Jessica] Holy [bleep], okay, no.
I actually did just see a shadow cross down the hall.
[Josh] And then, something truly horrifying.
While challenging an entity known as the choker,
Jess seemingly had a violent encounter in the darkness.
[Jessica] Oh, God.
[coughs]
-Let's go, let's go. -Okay.
[Josh] Disturbingly, Jess's neck exhibited redness and bruising
consistent with someone who had been physically choked.
-Oh, my God. -[Josh] I mean, that looks burnt.
And then we captured a shocking visual.
-What the [bleep] is that? -[Jessica and Phil] Oh.
[Josh] What is that?
-Oh, [bleep]. -[Josh] What is that?
Despite attempt to recreate the image, and digital enhancement,
the photograph that we took of what appears to be a shadow figure
could not be debunked.
-[Phil] Holy [bleep]. -[Jessica speaking]
[Phil] Oh, my God.
[Josh] Our second night brought even more extraordinary evidence.
Can you tell us what this room was used for?
[voice murmurs]
[Josh] In addition to the unnerving GeoPort responses
that seemed much more intelligent than random.
-How old are you? -[voice murmurs]
"Ten." Holy crap.
She was 10.
Jess analyzed the audio from our graveyard EVP session,
discovering this heartbreaking answer to one of her questions.
Are you one of the spirits that resides there?
[voice murmuring]
[Josh] Then in the hydrotherapy room,
one of our digital recorders picked up another chilling piece of audio.
[voice murmuring]
[Josh] Could this be a reference to the frigid waters
young Harmonia died in.
-[Jessica] The [bleep]. -What?
[Jessica] Something just touched the back of my leg.
[Josh] I always describe myself as an open-minded skeptic,
but our time inside the asylum
pushed me to the very limits of my rational belief.
So, is Eloise haunted?
-Like, fingerprints. -[Jessica] Oh, they just faded.
[Josh] The answer can be found here,
in the long-forgotten fields beside the hospital.
For the first time we matched a patient name
to an overgrown headstone.
But more than 7,000 souls remain unidentified.
There are thousands of dead bodies in this field.
Their lives and deaths hang over every room
inside this once-grand facade.
In years to come, the Historical Society hopes to uncover and preserve
more of the lost headstones of Eloise.
Perhaps then, the patients here will find something
that has long eluded them.
Harmonia, was that you that touched my leg in the hydrotherapy room?
[EMF Quad buzzing]
[Josh] The dignity of remembrance.